Searching and classifying exoplanets
Searching and Characterizing Exoplanets with CHEOPS, ARIEL, and PLATO
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Debian Academy
As I have started on my Paignton Code Club blog I am now part of the Debian Academy team.
I have been working on some presentations to help promote this.
Please join the team mailing list to ask questions and find out more. I am also on the team IRC channel on oftc.
Please see the Wiki page for details.
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Saracens vs Exeter
Rugby Fixture
The next Exeter Chiefs game is on Sunday 13th September @ away to Saracens kick off 16:30.
Live coverage here
Scores
Saracens 40 Exeter 17 Full time Saracens 15 Exeter 5 (½ time)
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Chiefs vs Gloucester
Rugby Fixture
The next Exeter Chiefs game is on Wednesday 9th September @ home to Gloucester kick off 17:30.
Scores
- Exeter 35 Gloucester 22 Full time
- Exeter 14 Gloucester 8 (½ time)
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Universal Basic Income (UBI)
There has been calls recently for the introduction of Universal Basic Income or UBI for short.
This partly provides a safety net, esp in uncertain times, it also means those who are working in the 'GIG economy' without fixed hours or income at least get some sort safety net.
I have included a link to UK population data below [2].
This has been tried out in Finland and a report in New Scientist is presented below.
- Ted Article – Could universal basic income end inequality? Maybe. added 8/9/2020
- UBI Experiment in Finland
- https://www.newscientist.com, Lu,Donna, 6 May 2020.
- Overview of the UK population: August 2019
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Basic IT course update 6
Earlier this year (March to May), I was undertaking a Level 1 Basic IT course. It is now, at least 4 months, since completing the course and I am STILL waiting for my certificate. Have been advised 16 weeks which to me is far too long.
So this course was undertaken via an old fashioned brick college offering distance learning.
This is another good reason to promote courses through other online providers. You get generally a certificate quickly (or can download an electronic version) on completion.
This is essential, if you need one for work, for example. At least with FutureLearn, it is a few days to deliver a nice paper certificate I suspect EdX, Free Code Camp send them out quickly too. OpenLearn issue certificates of completion within a few hours.
Parts of the UK system, are so old and antiquated, it is laughable, this is 2020. Just look at the mess the exam system was in this year. This HAS to change.
The narrative has to change, so eventually the old exam boards, with any luck with fade in to oblivion.
To be fair, there is a global pandemic. That however does not stop other providers, providing evidence of study quickly. I ended up making my own certificate in an attempt to evidence what is on my CV.
With code club I have made Free Code Camp certificates for each module. Code Club, has its own certificates anyway.
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Update w/c: 7/9/2020
This week is going to continue as normal. I am still looking for employment. In the meantime, I am cranking up the Paignton Code Club and running a virtual session via Jitsi on Saturday 12/9/2020. Partly, as it could be a long time before we are back normally, so doing this for the current attendees. Given the lack of new engagement there is very little interest locally anyway.
I am keen to work and collaborate with others, it seems this is an alien concept in Torbay.
In the meantime, many other online activities are starting up. Tonight PrimaryRocks then tomorrow the Computing at School sessions start up again.
Both of these offer the chance for some good quality networking, promotion of what I am doing, which is more about getting some more support. Today I have been trying to reach out to the cyber security community on both Twitter and LinkedIn with the view to promoting this subject area. We need more cybersecurity expertise in the community.
Wednesday sees the next fixture for the Exeter Chiefs vs Gloucester.
I am still working through Responsive Web Design with FreeCodeCamp so getting back to this, as I need to to support CodeClub.
Still looking for partners, but getting more and more disillusioned with Torbay, so am looking further afield, help those locally who want the help but those who clearly don't want
Happy to connect via LinkedIn and work with people to build skills and help make a good future for everyone.
What I am doing with code club does prove I am committed to this and can also problem solve, so for example fixing an issue with my blog using css media queries.
Next week is National coding week so I am also trying to promote this and see if I can find out if anyone locally is interested.
Also looking at platform cooperatives at the moment for potential help and leads.
Just a case of keeping going, making connections and eventually this will lead to something, People need to be given a chance.
Until next time keep well.
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Chiefs vs Northampton
Rugby Fixture
The next Exeter Chiefs game is on Friday 4th September @ Northampton kick off 19.45 vs 6th place Northampton. Exeter are at the Top of the Premiership having won their last three fixtures.
Live coverage here
Scores
- Exeter 22 Northampton 19 Full time
- Exeter 14 Worcester 12 (½ time)
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Troubleshooting WriteFreely Blogs
I have recently been on the forums for WriteAs asking about ironing out a few issues with my blog.
First issue that I asked about was the pinned entries being being split over 2 lines. this can be fixed with no wrap :
Reference this thread in the WriteAs forum.
.pinned{
color: #0000ff;
background-color: #ffffff;
font-size: 10px;
font-weight: 900;
text-decoration: bold;
white-space: nowrap;
}
However, this then throws up another issue on my netbook, which has a smaller screen in that, the line of entries causes the page width to expand to allow for a long line of entries.
So a way round this could be to use a media query. to change the property back to normal on smaller screens. A quick look at W3Schools has the following example.
@media only screen and (max-width: 600px) {
body {
background-color: lightblue;
}
}
So to adapt this we need to apply the rule to .pinned so at present we have:
white-space: nowrap;
So using a media query we change this to normal
@media only screen and (max-width: 600px) {
.pinned {
white-space: normal;
}
}
So after some experimentation to get the max-width set properly.
@media only screen and (max-width: 1024px) {
.pinned {
white-space: normal;
background-color:red;
}
}
I just added the **background color** property for testing purposes. So have removed this from the custom css for my blog.
So adding the media query then makes the site menu appear wrapped if the screen size is at or below 102px (pixels)
So this needs a little refinement but it fixes the initial problem, that cropped up after fixing another issue.
I now appreciate the life of a web builder is never done, but the learning experience is invaluable.
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Sailing across the Local Universe with ULLYSES
2nd September
http://www.stsci.edu/public-lectures
Added 15/9/2020
This lecture is really interesting and especially if you are studying science, even at GSCE level the explanation(s) around the electromagnetic spectrum, absorption and emission lines are really good and the lecture is a good way to see the context on how this is used.
You can find more public lectures here
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