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HazCom Program Manager™ Terms of Use

J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc. (“J. J. Keller,” “we”) appreciates your interest in our website. By using our Site you agree to abide by the terms of use set forth hereafter (“Terms”). If you do not agree to abide by these Terms, do not use our Site. These terms supersede the terms of use on jjkeller.com. PLEASE CAREFULLY REVIEW THIS ENTIRE AGREEMENT BEFORE USING THE SITE.

If J. J. Keller and you or your employer have manually executed a Commercial Use License Agreement governing use of HazCom Program Manager™, the terms herein are to be considered altered as set forth in that Agreement.

1. Definitions
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(c) License means the license granted in Section 2.
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2. License
Subject to the compliance with all of the terms and conditions of these Terms, J. J. Keller grants you a nonexclusive, nontransferable limited license to access and use HazCom Program Manager™.
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This License is meant to provide one user, you, with access to HazCom Program Manager™ content for your use within your organization. It is solely for use by the individual user identified in the Registration Information. Use is subject to that restriction, and as noted under Section 8 Guidelines for Use of the Content below.
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This License is solely for use by the individual identified in the Registration Information.
Authorized Use of HazCom Program Manager™ Content:
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This Site, the contents, and referral sites and the products and services described therein are designed to provide reasonably accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is made available with the understanding that J. J. Keller is not engaged in rendering legal, accounting or other professional service. If legal advice or other expert service is required, the services of a competent professional should be sought.
Due to the constantly changing nature of government regulations, it is impossible to guarantee the total and absolute accuracy of the material contained herein. J. J. Keller cannot and does not assume any responsibility for omissions, errors, misprinting or ambiguity contained on this Site, the products and services described herein, Member File Exchange content, or the content of referral sites or the products and services which may be offered on referral sites.
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About Us

‘What keeps in-house counsel awake at night?’ is one way to summarise our editorial focus. We aim to track the strategies of in-house IP counsel within companies, big and small, by speaking directly to them about the day-to-day issues they face. Law firms need practical information that they can apply when advising their clients, and companies find value in benchmarking their strategies with those of their peers. This is why we have adopted this approach in our subscription-based service. Our content is not reactionary or news-focused, but informed and actionable.

In this pursuit of in-house intelligence, we also publish several surveys each year that include exclusive data focusing on specific industry issues. These polls allow us to provide an accurate snapshot of how in-house counsel perceive and act on a given issue.

Our other core objective is interviewing senior judges, whose insight is valuable for many IP stakeholders. We find that the judiciary are vital for giving counsel, private and in-house, highly useful information for when they are locked in litigation. We continue to speak regularly with IP offices too.

Regardless of its specific intent, our coverage is global and encompasses (but is not limited to) the following areas:

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Italian Culture

With 1 Euro, You Can Buy A House in Italy

Do you dream of owning a pretty home in a rustic Italian village?

You can now make those dreams come true! Located in the mountain region of Barbagia on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, Ollolai is a small Italian village that is selling hundreds of abandoned homes for just €1.

Though it isn’t the first Italian town to try the gimmick, it definitely is the first to live up to the promise.

And the best part – It’s also got that beauty and history that travelers associate the country of Italy with, something that is needed to draw people in.

However, it all comes with a catch – This real estate bonanza of over 200 stone-built dwellings are in poor condition and buyers are required to commit to a refurbishment within three years, which, in turn, will easily cost about $25,000.

The Reason For The Sell-Off Plan

A destination lost in time, Ollolai is at a risk of becoming a ghost town.

The plan was initiated to revive the community, repopulate the town, and preserve their culture. In the past 50 years, Ollolai’s population has shrunk from 2,250 to 1,300, with very few babies being born each year.

Once buzzing with activity, this untouched part of Sardinia now lies silent, as its younger residents have moved away to bigger cities for prospects of better jobs and better lives.

Covered in cobwebs, Ollolai’s stone dwellings, maze of alleys, and mural-covered piazzas now lie in ruins.

“We boast prehistoric origins. My crusade is to rescue our unique traditions from falling into oblivion,” said Efisio Arbau, Ollolai’s mayor when asked about the rejuvenation plan. “Pride in our past is our strength. We’ve always been tough people and won’t allow our town to die. We once had a fiery king, Dux Ospitone, who united all heathen tribes in a league,” he added, stressing on how this city, named out of an ancient battle cry of “alalé”, is fighting once again. “These hills are Italy’s ‘Highlands’ and we are sons of ‘Bravehearts’.”

He hopes the refurbishment plan, if successful, will help create new jobs and revive the local economy, other than breathing life back into this currently solemn town.

The remaining residents, too, haven’t lost hope of retaining the town to its former glory.

Traditional ways of life still survive.

Local shepherds still make the exquisite premium sheep cheese – Casu Fiore Sardo, and artisans still weave fine baskets.

In a bid to breathe new life into this once frivolous town, Arbau had taken some major steps:

  • He contacted Ollolai’s former house owners, which included shepherds, farmers and craftsmen, asking them to sign their homes over to town authorities.
  • He approved a special decree and put the properties on the market at bargain prices.
  • He has put 200 homes on the market for just one euro.

Three houses have already been sold despite the poor conditions and Arbau has received purchase requests from more than 100 interested parties from across the world, including Russia and Australia.

One of the buyers, Vito Casula, a retired builder, has already snapped up here a two-story house for less than the cost of a cappuccino. He has transformed his new home only by using environmentally friendly materials and recycling old furniture, while keeping the original decor intact at the same time.

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COVID Closes Playgrounds

COVID Closes Playgrounds

WINNIPEG - Playgrounds in Manitoba's biggest school division will be closed outside of regular hours during this period of remote learning.

Even though outdoor play is one of the few pleasures families have during the pandemic, the Winnipeg School Division says people have been congregating on the grounds at all hours which defeats the purpose of trying to limit the spread of the virus.

Signs will be installed so people in the community are aware.

Remote learning in Winnipeg and Brandon is in effect until at least May 30th.

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Home Page

Non Uniform Day - Friday 14th February

Non Uniform DayFriday 14th February

Our school council vote each half term for a charity to donate non uniform day
money to. This half term they have chosen to support the WWF Koala Protector
The bushfires in Australia have destroyed 10 million hectares to date and an
estimated 30% of the wild Koala population have been killed and there is a serious
risk of extinction.
Our children were touched by their plight and are keen to show their support.

Caring Learning Achieving
Mansel Park Primary School, Culver Close, Southampton, Hampshire, SO16 9HZ, 02380 776162


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Mansel's New Logo - September 2019

As previously mentioned through letters home and on the school website, our children have voted for a new school logo and uniform colour. The children worked really hard on their designs and should be very proud of their efforts!

The new school logo (below) epitomizes our culture at Mansel Park and celebrates our ethos, local community and values. We think you will agree, it is a fantastic design and captures the Mansel Park spirit perfectly!

The new uniform is now available through our school website and a letter went home this week with information about a free new jumper or cardigan provided by the school. This uniform will be in place from September. Please remember that the red uniform can still be worn but will no longer be sold.

A reminder with effect from September 2018 we will be going online for our school uniform.

To purchase uniform, a link can be located on our main page which will take you straight to our suppliers website. All purchases will be delivered to your home address.

Any queries with your order will be dealt with directly through the supplier and not the school.

Please note, we will be stocking P. E kits only at school.

Well done to all of the children who designed their version of our new school badge! The ideas behind the logos and some of the quotes used sum up our school ethos beautifully!

Please take some time to read the attachment below 'Uniform 2019' which reflects how the new version of badge was created...

Caring Learning Achieving
Mansel Park Primary School, Culver Close, Southampton, Hampshire, SO16 9HZ, 02380 776162


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Social work

It takes a special kind of person to work with people.

Now more than ever, our communities need social workers and support workers.

Get the special skills you need to help people of all ages and cultures, from individuals to families and whānau. Learn specialist techniques in communication, dealing with challenging situations through self-awareness and self-insight, and gain the tools to safely work with a diverse range of clients in a social services environment.

Our classrooms are supportive learning environments that promote independence and confidence.

Be the change you want to see in your community.

Other healthcare-related study areas you may be interested in:
Potential jobs
Job Average salary>>
Case manager $50K - $65K per year
Community worker  $40K - $75K per year
Social worker  $44K - $66K per year
Youth worker $16 - $35 per hour

»Sourced from March 2018

Why choose MIT?

Our social work programmes, offered under the school of social work and sport give you all the tools and skills you need to become a safe, competent and effective community worker, and to help individuals and their supports to reach their potential. You will also gain practical experience in work-based situations, and benefit from our bi-cultural approach.

Whatever your education or work history, you can enter at a level that suits your personal needs. You can choose from certificate or degree programmes, with both part-time and full-time study options that can fit around your work or family commitments.


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Permanent Collection

Josep Guinovart

Barcelona, 1927–2007
Homenatge a Zurbarán, 1964Homenatge a Zurbarán, 1964

Trained in the 1950s, during the final phase of surrealism, with the artists of Barcelona's Dau al Set group, Guinovart was an empirical painter who evolved from a restrained figuration to a material-based abstraction in which he made free use of the widest range of materials and discarded objects as visual elements for the creation of compositions characterized by their large format and notable complexity.

These characteristics are evident in Homenatge a Zurbarán, a painting of emphatic presence that combines a series of elements that are characteristic of this phase of Guinovart's work. These elements include the canvas stretchers or wooden structures, which confer a material reality to the painting; the pieces of cloth that are torn in order to reveal what lies behind them; and the paint itself. In the case of the latter, while contributing to the work in a physical sense, as matter, it also justifies the status of this assembly as a painting, in other words, as a work of art.

The use of humble materials, in contrast to the so-called "nobility," or even opulence, of traditional media used in the creation of works of art, acquired an aesthetic and critical sense with the emergence of Arte Povera. Thus, the low value of the employed materials was seen as a way to reveal the creative capacities of the artist who was capable of producing works charged with visual tension using the most seemingly inappropriate and insignificant media. This aim is confirmed in the present painting by its dedication to Francisco de Zurbarán. The compositional austerity and sobriety of color that characterized the work of this Spanish seventeenth-century artist are also suggested in Guinovart's work by the verticality of the elements and the reduction of the palette to just two tones: black and white.

Javier Maderuelo, en Catalog Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, Cuenca, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, 2016


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Advance reviewers have already praised Margaret Fuller: A New American Life as “a magnificent biography,” “spectacularly detailed” and written with a “unique intimacy.”  Emerson’s biographer Robert D. Richardson writes, “this is the book Margaret Fuller would have wanted.”

Marshall tells the story of Fuller’s rise to prominence among the Transcendentalists, her vexed relationship with Ralph Waldo Emerson, the flowering of her feminism in New England and her departure for New York to write for Horace Greeley’s Tribune “at home and abroad,” leading to her love affair with Giovanni Ossoli—all with fresh insight and uncommon pathos. Synthesizing the scholarship of recent decades and drawing on her own research finds—a new record of Fuller’s famous Conversations for women, an Emerson letter describing Thoreau’s findings at the site of the fatal shipwreck, an engraving of Rome belonging to Fuller that survived the wreck—Marshall brings our great American heroine to new and vivid life.  If you loved The Peabody Sisters, Marshall’s first award-winning biography, you will love Margaret Fuller.

Click here to enter to win a book club visit from Megan Marshall!

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March 21, 12:00 pm
Slide talk on archival discoveries, Margaret Fuller’s co-ed Conversations
Boston Athenaeum
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April 4, 7:00 pm
Celebrate Margaret Fuller and Giovanni Ossoli’s anniversary!
Porter Square Books
25 White St., Cambridge

April 5, 7:00 pm
“Margaret Fuller in Love”
Concord Free Public Library
129 Main St., Concord MA
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April 25, 7:30 pm
Belmont Library
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April 29, 6:00 pm
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American Meteorological Society, 45 Beacon Street, Boston
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May 7, 7:30-9:00 pm
Teresa Hanafin interviews Megan Marshall, Arlington High School Media Center
($10 admission, register at Arlington Community Education or by calling 781-316-3568)

July 8, 4:00 pm
The Mount Summer Lecture Series
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July 14, 4:00 pm
Nantucket Atheneum
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Porsche Centre Doha, Al Boraq Automobiles Co WLL continues to roll out electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, this time in partnership with leading international communications company Ooredoo, in keeping with Qatar’s mandate to reduce CO2 emissions and push for sustainability.

Two 11 kW AC chargers have been installed at the Ooredoo main office – the HQ1 Tower in West Bay with three more additional locations set to follow at their branches in Wadi al Sail, Al Waab and Abu Hamour.

Porsche 3

According to Porsche Centre Doha Chairman and CEO Salman Jassem Al Darwish, the strategic partnership with Ooredoo is in line with Porsche’s commitment to the future of electromobility and CO2 reduction.

With the new, all-electric Taycan 4S, Turbo and Turbo S models that are now available to order, Porsche is heavily investing in its E-Performance portfolio and an integral part of that is ensuring our Destination Chargers are accessible to not only owners of Porsche electric and hybrid vehicles, but also to visitors and employees of Ooredoo.

When equipped with the optional Performance Battery Plus with a capacity of 93.4 kWh, the Taycan 4S offers a range of up to 463 km and delivers 571 PS of power. The flagship Turbo S matches the 911 GT2 RS in acceleration to 100 km/h, taking just 2.8 seconds from its 761 PS. All models can be charged on either side using alternating current (AC) or by using direct current (DC) on the right side.

An official inauguration of the charger took place recently at the Ooredoo HQ1 Tower. The partnership includes the opportunity for customers and potential EV owners to take a Taycan for a test drive and inspect the new charging facility located in the upgraded parking area of the company headquarters.

Ooredoo CEO Yousuf Abdulla Al Kubaisi said the collaboration with Porsche Centre Doha is in line with the company’s corporate social responsibility strategy and commitment to the UN Sustainability Goals.

Given (that) this commitment to sustainability is at the core of our operations, it makes sense for us to give our colleagues every opportunity to share this obligation. Helping them travel to and from their workplace via sustainable transport demonstrates our pledge, while being able to offer our customers this charging facility when they visit our premises also adds value.

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M&S hails early success of Ocado tie-up despite major group loss

M&S recorded a £201.2m loss for the last year, but with Ocado’s strong performance and a shift in marketing strategy, CEO Steve Rowe believes the retailer’s transformation strategy is at an “inflection point”.

M&SMarks & Spencer may have recorded a £201.2m group loss during the pandemic, but the retailer is celebrating an “exceptional” period for its new partnership with online supermarket Ocado.

M&S bought half of Ocado’s retail business in 2019 for £750m, replacing Waitrose on the delivery service in September last year. The full M&S Food range of 6,000 products is available on the platform, as well as 800 M&S everyday clothing and home lines.

“[The partnership with Ocado] has extended penetration of the M&S Food brands substantially,” CEO Steve Rowe said on a call with press today (26 May). “For the first time ever, the full range of M&S Food is online and the customer reaction has been phenomenal.”

Over the year ending 28 February, Ocado Retail delivered revenue growth of 43.7%, contributing £78.4m in net income towards M&S, which claims a 50% share of profits in the venture.

Since the switchover, M&S’s share of basket has exceeded the Waitrose level, the business claims. M&S lines consistently make up over 25% of the Ocado basket.

For the first time in three and a half years, we can say there is a lot to feel confident about.

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Rowe added that migration of customers away from Ocado has been “minimal” since the switch, while the partnership has seen new customers shop M&S for the first time.

In particular, Ocado is driving an increase in M&S’s market share in London, where around 60% of Ocado’s sales are based. M&S itself lacks market share in London and has a stronger presence in the north of England, Rowe said.

Over the next 18 months, Ocado Retail is investing in increasing its peak day capacity by approximately 50% – an increase of around 200,000 orders a week – to help meet unfulfilled demand.

However, M&S noted that it expects to see demand slow and a reduction in average order value over the coming year, as Covid restrictions ease and consumer behaviours stabilise.

Not including Ocado, the supermarket’s like-for-like food revenue increased by 1.3% over the year. That figure rises to 6.9% when removing hospitality and franchise sales.

Meanwhile, revenue for the brand’s clothing and home business declined significantly as non-essential retail remained closed for the majority of the pandemic. Revenue plummeted by -31.5%, with online growth of 53.9% only partially offsetting a -56.2% decline in-store.

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The retailer attempted to mitigate the impact of Covid-19 on the business by reducing marketing spend over the year and cutting promotional activity “substantially”.

M&S cut spend on clothing and home by £50m, while making cuts to above-the-line advertising and shifting spend into social media and digital, typically viewed as performance marketing channels.

The business made a similar shift in strategy for its food business, claiming to have shifted focus away from “conventional activity” and towards high impact brand building and increased social media engagement. The business increased social and digital spend by approximately 35% year on year.

Nevertheless, M&S recorded a statutory loss of £201.2m over the 2020 financial year, as group revenue fell -11.9% to £9bn.

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Despite its dismal performance over the year, M&S remains positive about its progress against its transformation strategy, ‘Never the Same Again’. The retailer launched the strategy last year to drive transformation across both its food, clothing and home businesses in response to the impact of Covid-19 on consumer behaviour.

On top of the Ocado partnership, the strategy has included a shift towards prioritising the brand’s value perception, broadening the appeal of its ranges and further investing in online and digital capability.

To broaden the appeal of its food business with families, M&S launched an affordable ‘Remarksable Value’ food range last August, including more than 340 competitively priced products. The range now represents approximately 10% of sales.

As a result, M&S claims to have recorded its highest net promoter score (NPS) in almost three years, at more than 65%.

However, according to YouGov’s brand health tracker BrandIndex, M&S still has one of the lowest scores for value among the UK’s major supermarkets, with a score of just one in February this year. While representing a year on year increase of 2.8 points, only Waitrose ranks worse with a score of -8.2.

Regardless, Rowe said M&S has “plenty of headroom” and “plenty of opportunity” to grow its food estate. At present, the food business only claims a 4% share of market in the UK.

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The brand also relaunched its loyalty scheme, Sparks, in July last year, shifting from a points-based plan delivered through a physical card to a “more customer friendly” digital experience via the M&S app.

The digital shift allows the retailer to create a more personalised relationship with members, M&S claims, and since relaunch its total membership has grown to over 10 million customers.

Meanwhile, in clothing and home M&S is expanding its online capability, and is hoping to bring in over 40% of its revenue through online within three years. The retailer has also begun to offer third-party brands through its stores and online platform for the first time. M&S strategy to sell rival brands marks the end of an era

“It feels like we’ve got to a point of inflection,” Rowe said. “We can see the results coming through in terms of trading performance and the customer sentiment is moving forward positively. It’s time to move forward to the next stage.”

M&S chairman, Archie Norman, added that the brand is moving into a “new phase” as it emerges from the “chrysalis” of Covid-19 as a reshaped business.

“For the first time in three and a half years, we can say there is a lot to feel confident about and there are enough green shoots and points of light to believe that M&S is on the verge of becoming a growing business again,” he said.

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Bias in facial recognition isn’t hard to discover, but it’s hard to get rid of

Joy Buolamwini of the MIT Media Lab created a mirror that would project aspirational images onto her face, but the software didn't recognize her until she wore a white mask.

This episode originally aired on March 22, 2021.

Joy Buolamwini is a researcher at the MIT Media Lab who pioneered research into bias that’s built into artificial intelligence and facial recognition. And the way she came to this work is almost a little too on the nose. As a graduate student at MIT, she created a mirror that would project aspirational images onto her face, like a lion or tennis star Serena Williams.

But the facial-recognition software she installed wouldn’t work on her Black face, until she literally put on a white mask. Buolamwini is featured in a documentary called “Coded Bias,” now streaming on Netflix. She told me about one scene in which facial-recognition tech was installed at an apartment complex in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. The following is an edited transcript of our conversation.

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Joy Buolamwini: We actually had a tenants association reach out to us to say, “Look, there’s this landlord, they’re installing the system using facial recognition as an entry mechanism. The tenants do not want this. Can you support us? Can you help us understand a bit of the technology and also its limitations?” And what I found was that the tenants, they already had [the data we wanted]. And it was a question not just about the performance of these technologies — it seemed like every group where we’ve seen struggle, that was the group that was predominant in that building. But it was also a question of agency and control to actually even have a voice and a choice to say, “Is this a system that we want?”

Molly Wood: You know, I feel like there’s this kind of double whammy with this technology, which is that there’s bias built in. And because it is fundamentally good for use in surveillance and punishment, it feels like it’s almost disproportionately being used in communities where it is least likely to be effective, or to cause the most problems, frankly.

Buolamwini: Absolutely, and here we’re seeing that if it doesn’t work, in terms of the technical aspect, you get misidentifications, you get false arrest and so forth. But even if it does work, you can still optimize these systems as tools of oppression. So putting surveillance tools into the hands of police departments, where we see time and time again the overcriminalization of communities of color, is not going to improve the situation, it just automates what has already been going on.

Wood: There is now this industry of algorithm auditors being brought in to tell companies if there is bias in their work. Can that be a solution, or are these problems too fundamental?

Buolamwini: I think there is absolutely a role for algorithmic auditing to play in the ecosystem when it comes to accountability and understanding the capabilities and limitations of AI systems. But what I often see when it comes to algorithmic auditing, is it’s done without context. So if you just audit an algorithm in isolation, or a product that’s using machine learning in isolation, you don’t necessarily understand how it will impact people in the real world. And so it’s a bit of a Catch-22 insomuch as “Well, if we don’t know how it’s going to work on people in the real world, should we deploy it?” But this is why you want to have systems like algorithmic impact assessment because it’s a question of looking at the entire design — is this even a technology we want?

If it has some benefits, what are the risks? And importantly, are we including the “excoded,” the people most likely to be harmed if the systems that are deployed go wrong? And I think that is an important place to include people. And beyond algorithmic auditing, we really have to think about redress. So you can audit the systems, you can do your best to try to minimize the bias, try to minimize the harms. But we have to also keep in mind that the systems are fallible, there will be mistakes in the real world. And so what happens when somebody is harmed? And this is part of ongoing work we’re doing with the Algorithmic Justice League to look at: What does harms redress look like in the context of an AI-powered world? Where do you go when you’re harmed? And we want that place to be the Algorithmic Justice League.

Wood: Tell me more about that phrase, the “excoded.” I have not heard that before.

Buolamwini: The excoded is a term I came up with as I was seeing the people who suffer most at the hands of algorithms of oppression or exploitation or discrimination. And so it’s a way of describing those who are already marginalized in society. And no one is immune, but the people who are already most marginalized bear the brunt of the failures of these systems.

Wood: We’re at a moment where companies who are attempting to improve ethics in AI or, at least, have the burden of improving ethics in AI are in some cases firing the prominent people of color that they hire to work on these problems. Are we moving backwards?

Buolamwini: What we’re seeing is change can’t come from the inside alone because the work that you’re doing will fundamentally challenge the power of these companies, and it will also fundamentally challenge the bottom line. If you find that there are harmful effects or harmful bias in the systems that they’re creating, or even impacts on climate change, this then forces companies to reckon with those externalities and those impacts. And so it can be easier to try to get rid of the researchers who are pointing out these problems for which you hired them in the first place, instead of actually addressing those problems head on.

And in some ways, it does seem as though companies want it both ways. They want to be able to say, “We have a team. We’re looking at issues of AI, ethics, and we’re concerned.” But when it really comes to looking at issues of justice, issues of who has power, issues of actually redistributing that power and having the ability to say no to harmful products, or harmful uses of AI, even if it means less profit, companies are not incentivized to do so by construction, nor should we expect them to do so. So when I see the firing of Dr. Timnit Gebru, for example, or then subsequently, Meg Mitchell — pioneers in this space when it comes to looking at the harms of algorithmic systems — it’s a major wake-up call that we cannot rely on change from within alone. We need the laws, we need the regulations, we need an external pressure, and that’s when companies respond. But the change will not come from within alone because the incentives are not aligned.

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Oil Higher on Weather Related Supply Disruptions

Oil prices edged higher on Friday and were on track for a weekly gain as U.S. oil producers in the Gulf of Mexico cut more than half their output because of a tropical storm and as tensions continued to simmer in the Middle East.

However, an International Energy Agency (IEA) forecast for a global oil surplus capped the gains. The agency on Friday predicted that surging U.S. oil output will outpace sluggish global demand and lead to a large stocks build around the world in the next nine months.

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OPEC also predicted on Thursday the return of a surplus next year despite an OPEC-led pact to restrain supplies.

Brent crude futures were up 36 cents at $66.88 a barrel by 1315 GMT after hitting a session high of $67.29.

U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were up 6 cents at $60.26 after touching a high of $60.74.

Brent prices have climbed 4.1% this week while WTI has gained 4.9%. Both registered declines last week.

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French IT services company Capgemini (CAP.FR) reported a 31% jump in first-half net profit to 176 million euros ($232.59 million) from EUR134 million a year ago, lifted by its Asia Pacific and Latin American businesses.

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"This is nothing new," said David Holway, national president of NAGE, the National Association of Government Employees. "It's to be expected, and we feel very strongly that the Legislature will stick with its original appropriation."

As part of the governor's budget vetoes, he struck out language that would have prohibited the administration from increasing state employees' contributions to their health insurance. Secretary of Administration and Finance Kristen Lepore said the administration plans to save $30 million by requiring some employees to pay more.

Currently, active state employees who were hired before July 1, 2003 pay 20 percent of their health insurance costs through the Group Insurance Commission, which provides health benefits to state workers. State employees hired after that date pay 25 percent.

During a briefing when Baker released his budget vetoes, Lepore said it is a matter of fairness for all employees to pay the same amount. The 20 percent is also less than the average employees pay in the private sector.

According to 2014 data from the non-partisan Center for Health Information and Analysis, average private sector employees pay 28 percent of their health insurance costs for an individual plan and 31 percent for a family plan -- an increase from 20 percent and 25 percent in 2003.

State employees paying 20 percent of their health insurance costs in 2014 paid $514 less for an individual plan and $1,956 less for a family plan than the average private sector employee. At a 25 percent contribution rate, state workers would still be paying 3 to 6 percent less than the average private sector employee.

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Baker tried making the same change last year through the state budget process, but lawmakers rejected it. Unions have typically said these benefits were negotiated, and state workers gave up other benefits, such as higher salaries, in exchange for low health insurance premiums.

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Chaotic Systems Toolbox

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Analysis of chaotic systems.

Updated 26 Aug 2004

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This toolbox contains a set of functions which can be used to simulate some of the most known chaotic systems, such as:

- The Henon map
- The Ikeda map
- The Logistic map
- The quadratic map
- The Lorentz flow
- The Mackey-Glass flow
- The Rossler flow

The user may add normal white noise to the systems, change their parameters, or try different initial conditions.

Additional functions provided for phase space reconstruction, surrogate data (simulation of the linear characteristics of a time series), dimension and noise estimation, and noise reduction.

Cite As

Alexandros Leontitsis (2021). Chaotic Systems Toolbox (, MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

Comments and Ratings (63)

Kiana Maillet

cool thanks!

Birmohan Singh

Anyone can help regarding memory based selection with multiple choas

lue mark

Arya Muraleedharan

Hi, Could you please help me to prepare MATLAB code for Differential chaos shift keying modulation?

Cuijiao Liao

In the gencorint() function there is an error on line 176.
The error states "line 176: this expression cannot be assigned to multiple values"
How do you fix this?

indhu mathi

zaid haitham

thank you

This code has solved my problem but I also want to plot the phase space. Help me, please!

Sofia Alves

Hi! I don´t know how to use the toolbox. Please can teach me. Give me an example

yang yu

I'm really heppy that you could provide the codes for us to study,snd i have a question that when i change the data to the future's closeprice ,the result become i don't like ,do sb. have good method to solve it?,thank you all the same

Mohamed Parvees M.Y.

How can I use this toolbox for clustering purpose? Please teach me.

i am requested to all the users please help me finding any simulation or function related to chaotic lasers.

Wang Star

Sibu shri

i dont know how to use the toolbox

pls some one help me

Thanks a lot!

maha hussein

thanx a lot

really great work

abed hosseini

haythem chatta

thanks a lot !!!

Deniz Guler

Really liked it, thanks a lot!

lyviawaty dahlan

at noiseest i think command for sigma is incorrect. out of sigma cannot appear. could u make some checking and correction on it. email me as soon as possible.

Hasan Patil

how we use this toolbox in matlab ?

David Perrone

Fabiano Lima

Ash Suji

jian wang

yasaman zandi

Ajeesh K

Hello there,
I tried the noise removal function noisergeo(x,dim,tau,r,q,p,theta). It requires the function quality() which is not there in the bundle. Any suggestions?

Yongjun Shen

I have not use this packet, so that I could not present any opinion. But I am very thankful to the authors' presentation.

hanbd sder

voir detail sur la fonction

Jinzhu zhou

BinBin Sun

Thank you for your help,i was meant to program them by myself.

nicholas melnicov

Wang Jian

very good!

qiao xiaofeng

li xf

h gholizade

I need to chaos and time series analysis with matlab

Farhad Timuri

Great job

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i want to get the toolbox as soon as possible can you deliver it for me E-mail:

Wang Linghuan

dipanjan roy

yes it's excellent as good as tisean package for nonlinear time series analysis

soso soso

im an electrical engineering student
how can i get a matlab code for one of the cheotic circuits?
plz if someone can help me then plz send me on

Sumit Mahajan

Great tool for analyzing chaotic systems

deepak Mishra

It's very helpful for studying and analyzing the chaotic attractors.

Isaac MM

tina ross

s. chiewchanwattana

Ana María López

Very good

ziya koksal

thanks for it i really need that.

Windhi Putranto

Good job, thanks

skyhawk wei

Great one

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estudar matlab

li leon

Excellent toolbox

Costas Vorlow

Excellent toolbox

Shine Lu

A wonderful work! Keep forward.

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To keep our rules simple (and to keep noses out of rulebooks), we’ve implemented a series of special maneuvers to replace the special attack actions experienced players knew how to do, but newer players did not.  Replacing them also cut down on complex rules, and made them simple and quick to calculate.

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