#filev

[cristianoronaldo1]

Zencoder just launched an AI that can replace days of QA work in two hours

[ad_1] Join the event that trusts business leaders for almost two decades. VB Transform brings together people who build a real business AI strategy. Learn more ZencoderThe artificial intelligence coding startup founded by serial entrepreneur Andrew Filev, announced today the public beta launch of AmountAn agent powered by AI designed to automate end -to -end software tests. This critical but…

[crazevil]

"Zen Agents: AI로 혁신하는 소프트웨어 개발의 새로운 시대"

들어가며

안녕하세요, 여러분! 오늘은 Zencoder라는 혁신적인 기술 기업이 새롭게 출시한 Zen Agents에 대해 소개해 드리려고 합니다. 이 플랫폼은 소프트웨어 개발팀이 AI 도구를 조직 전반에 걸쳐 공유하고 창출할 수 있도록 지원하며, 특히 협업 중심의 AI 활용 시대를 열었습니다. 그럼 Zen Agents가 어떻게 소프트웨어 개발의 게임체인저로 자리 잡는지 함께 알아볼까요?

Zen Agents, 소프트웨어 개발의 새로운 패러다임

기존 AI 코딩 보조도구들이 주로 개별 개발자의 생산성 향상에 집중했다면, Zencoder의 Zen Agents는 개발팀 전체의 협력성과 효율성을 높이는 데 중점을 두고 있습니다. Andrew Filev Zencoder CEO는 인터뷰에서 "개발은 팀 단위로 이루어지며, 개발자들은 혼자 일하는 것이 아니다"고 강조했습니다. 이는 Zen Agents가 단순한 코딩 속도 향상이 아니라 전체적인 개발 주기 단축과 효율성 향상에 초점을 맞추고 있음을 보여줍니다.

Zen Agents는 기업이 맞춤형 에이전트를 생성하고 배포할 수 있게 하며, 이러한 에이전트들은 반복적인 작업을 자동화하여 시간을 절감해 줍니다. 특히, OpenAI와 Anthropic의 모델 컨텍스트 프로토콜(MCP)을 도입함으로써 AI 모델과 외부 도구 간 상호작용을 가능하게 하였습니다. Zen Agents는 이를 통해 코드 검토부터 테스트에 이르기까지 개발 주기의 다양한 부분을 자동화할 수 있게 합니다.

오픈소스 마켓플레이스로 확장되는 지능

Zen Agents의 가장 두드러진 특징 중 하나는 오픈소스 마켓플레이스입니다. 개발자 커뮤니티는 여기서 자신의 에이전트를 기여함으로써, Zencoder가 제공할 수 있는 범위를 넘어선 무궁무진한 가능성을 현실로 만들 수 있습니다. 이는 Visual Studio Code의 확장 프로그램이나 npm 패키지의 성공적인 오픈소스 생태계를 연상케 합니다.

특히, Adrian은 Figma에서 와이어프레임을 가져와 자동으로 코드를 생성하고 이를 활용해 풀 리퀘스트를 제출할 수 있는 에이전트 등 실제 사용 사례들을 언급하며 Zen Agents의 가치를 강조했습니다. 이와 같은 접근 방식은 실제로 개발자들이 그동안 해결하지 못했던 문제들을 개선하는 데 기여하고 있습니다.

Zen의 길을 향해

Zencoder의 목표는 단순히 AI로 개발자를 대체하는 것이 아니라, 그들의 생산성을 비약적으로 향상시키는 것입니다. 이는 코드 작성뿐만 아니라 개발자들이 높은 집중력을 유지할 수 있도록 돕는 데에도 그 목적이 있습니다. Filev는 "우리는 개발자들이 작업에 몰입할 수 있는 '플로우 상태'를 유지할 수 있도록 지원하고자 한다"고 밝혔습니다.

Zencoder는 소프트웨어 엔지니어링을 위한 이 기술을 시작으로 더 넓은 역할을 모색하고 있습니다. 벌써부터 여러 기술회사들이 Zen Agents를 비엔지니어링 용도로 활용하기 시작했으며, 향후 마케팅 자동화나 개인 비서 기능으로의 확장 가능성도 엿보고 있습니다.

앞으로도 Zen Agents와 Zencoder가 만들어낼 혁신적인 변화가 기대됩니다. 지속적인 기술 발전과 협력이 이끌어갈 AI의 미래, 바로 그 중심에 우리가 있습니다.

끝맺으며

오늘 소개해드린 Zen Agents는 협력적 AI 환경의 선두주자로 자리잡으며 소프트웨어 개발의 패러다임을 변화시키고 있습니다. 이런 혁신적인 도구들이 일상의 생산성을 재정의하고 있다는 점, 기대되지 않나요?

앞으로도 N 업데이트와 인사이트를 놓치지 않고 받아보시길 바랍니다. Zen Agents 및 Zencoder의 여정에 많은 관심 부탁드립니다!

[stoweboyd]

2019-01-27 Daybook

I bumped into John Battelle in a Chelsea Japanese restaurant (Ju Bon very great) last night. I have to track him down, and catch up. He moved to NYC recently.

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Why Are Young People Pretending to Love Work? | Erin Smith

“The current state of entrepreneurship is bigger than career,” reads the One37pm “About Us” page. “It’s ambition, grit and hustle. It’s a live performance that lights up your creativity … a sweat session that sends your endorphins coursing ... a visionary who expands your way of thinking.” From this point of view, not only does one never stop hustling — one never exits a kind of work rapture, in which the chief purpose of exercising or attending a concert is to get inspiration that leads back to the desk.

Ryan Harwood, the chief executive of One37pm’s parent company, told me that the site’s content is aimed at a younger generation of people who are seeking permission to follow their dreams. “They want to know how to own their moment, at any given moment,” he said.

“Owning one’s moment” is a clever way to rebrand “surviving the rat race.” In the new work culture, enduring or even merely liking one’s job is not enough. Workers should love what they do, and then promote that love on social media, thus fusing their identities to that of their employers. Why else would LinkedIn build its own version of Snapchat Stories?

This is toil glamour, and it is going mainstream.

[...]

It’s not difficult to view hustle culture as a swindle. After all, convincing a generation of workers to beaver away is convenient for those at the top.

“The vast majority of people beating the drums of hustle-mania are not the people doing the actual work. They’re the managers, financiers and owners,” said David Heinemeier Hansson, the co-founder of Basecamp, a software company. We spoke in October, as he was promoting his new book, “It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work,” about creating healthy company cultures.

Mr. Heinemeier Hansson said that despite data showing long hours improve neither productivity nor creativity, myths about overwork persist because they justify the extreme wealth created for a small group of elite techies. “It’s grim and exploitative,” he said.

[...]

In San Francisco, where I live, I’ve noticed that the concept of productivity has taken on an almost spiritual dimension. Techies here have internalized the idea — rooted in the Protestant work ethic — that work is not something you do to get what you want; the work itself is all. Therefore any life hack or company perk that optimizes their day, allowing them to fit in even more work, is not just desirable but inherently good.

Aidan Harper, who created a European workweek-shrinkage campaign called 4 Day Week, argues that this is dehumanizing and toxic. “It creates the assumption that the only value we have as human beings is our productivity capability — our ability to work, rather than our humanity,” he told me.

It’s cultist, Mr. Harper added, to convince workers to buy into their own exploitation with a change-the-world message. “It’s creating the idea that Elon Musk is your high priest,” he said. “You’re going into your church every day and worshiping at the altar of work.”

[...]

The logical endpoint of excessively avid work, of course, is burnout. That is the subject of a recent viral essay by the BuzzFeed cultural critic Anne Helen Petersen, which thoughtfully addresses one of the incongruities of hustle-mania in the young. Namely: If Millennials are supposedly lazy and entitled, how can they also be obsessed with killing it at their jobs?

[see [How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation](

Millennials, Ms. Petersen argues, are just desperately striving to meet their own high expectations. An entire generation was raised to expect that good grades and extracurricular overachievement would reward them with fulfilling jobs that feed their passions. Instead, they wound up with precarious, meaningless work and a mountain of student loan debt. And so posing as a rise-and-grinder, lusty for Monday mornings, starts to make sense as a defense mechanism.

#wfd #toil glamour #anne helen petersen #performative workaholism

#erin smith

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How automation can change the average workplace | Andrew Filev

#readlater

#wfd

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[davidstanleytravel]

The production of Ohrid pearls made from the scales of lake fish was begun by Mihajlo Filev in 1928. Today the Filevi Pearl Shop in Ohrid, North Macedonia, continues to sell these unique souvenirs.

[edsonjnovaes]

Maconha, o prozac dos pobres?!?

Maconha, o prozac dos pobres?!?

O vício na maconha é uma questão bastante relativa até mesmo para os cientistas. Segundo o biomédico Renato Filev, pesquisador do Núcleo de Neurobiologia e Transtornos Psiquiátricos da USP, o vício na cannabis, de fato, não existe, mas sim um hábito de fumá-la. João R. e Natália Eiras – SUPERINTERESSANTE

O fato do conceito de dependência ter ganhado outras facetas também dificulta dizer se há…

[oberlincollegelibraries]

Weekend Edition: Short Stories, Part 1

It’s the homestretch, Obies! We’ll keep this short, because we know you’re busy with exams. Below are some new collections of short stories. See here to learn how to check them out!

Contemporary Macedonian Fiction translated and edited by Paul Filev

The stories that Paul Filev has collected in this anthology of Macedonian fiction introduce English-language readers to a literature that has long been overlooked. Ranging from melancholy realism, such as Rumena Bužarovska's "Lily," to surreal fantasias, such as Tomislav Osmanli's "Strained," in which a stressed-out businessman eats his own computer, these texts provide a portrait of a country in constant transformation, still haunted by the Yugoslav past but quickly hurtling into the technocratic future. Comic and tragic, po-faced and hysterical, Contemporary Macedonian Fiction allows us to discover some of the most exciting young writers at work today. 

Going for a Beer: Selected Short Fictions by Robert Coover; introduction by T.C. Boyle. 

A collection of the best short fictions from the grandmaster of postmodernism. Robert Coover has been playing by his own rules for more than half a century, earning the 1987 Rea Award for the Short Story as "a writer who has managed, willfully and even perversely, to remain his own man while offering his generous vision and versions of America." Coover finds inspiration in everything from painting, cinema, theater, and dance to slapstick, magic acts, puzzles, and riddles. His 1969 story "The Babysitter" has alone inspired generations of innovative young writers. Here, in this selection of his best stories, spanning more than half a century, you will find an invisible man tragically obsessed by an invisible woman; a cartoon man in a cartoon car who runs over a real man who is arrested by a real policeman with cartoon eyes; a stick man who reinvents the universe. While invading the dreams and nightmares of others, long dead, disrupting them from within, Coover cuts to the core of how realism works. He uses metafiction as a means of "interrogating the fiction making process," at least insofar as that process, when unexamined, has a way of entrapping us in false and destructive stories, myths, and belief systems. These stories are riven with paradox, ambivalence, strangeness, unrealized ambitions and desires, uncertainty, complexity, always seeking the potential for insight, for comedy. Through their celebration of the improbable and unexpected, and their distinctive but complementary grammars of text and film, Coover's selected short fictions entertain by engaging with the tribal myths that surround us--religious, patriotic, literary, erotic, popular--often satirizing the mindsets that, out of some obscure primitive need, perpetuate them. The thirty stories in Going for a Beer confirm Coover's reputation as "one of America's greatest literary geniuses" (Alan Moore).

The Future is Female!: 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin edited by Lisa Yaszek

"Bending and stretching its conventions to imagine new, more feminist futures and new ways of experiencing gender, visionary women writers have been from the beginning an essential if often overlooked force in American science fiction. Two hundred years after Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, SF-expert Lisa Yaszek presents the best of this female tradition, from the pioneers of the Pulp Era to the radical innovators of the 1960s New Wave, in a landmark anthology that upends the common notion that SF was conceived by and for men. Here are 25 mind-blowing SF classics that still shock and inspire: Judith Merril and Wilmar H. Shiras's startling near-future stories of the children of the new atomic age; Carol Emshwiller and Sonya Dorman's haunting explorations of alien otherness; dystopian fables of consumerism and overpopulation by Elizabeth Mann Borgese and Alice Glaser; evocations of cosmic horror from Margaret St. Clair and Andrew North (Andre Norton); and much more. Other writers here take on some of SF's sexist clichés and boldly rethink sex and gender from the ground up. C. L. Moore and Leslie Perri introduce courageous, unforgettable "sheroes"; Alice Eleanor Jones sounds a housewife's note of protest against the conformities of life in a postapocalyptic suburb; Leslie F. Stone envisions an interplanetary battle of the sexes, in which the matriarchs of Venus ward off unprovoked attacks by barbaric spacemen from Earth; John Jay Wells and Marion Zimmer Bradley wonder how future military men will feel about their pregnancies. The Future Is Female! is a star-spanning, soul-stirring, multidimensional voyage of literary-feminist exploration and recovery that will permanently alter your perceptions of American SF."--Publisher's website

The Handsome Monk and Other Stories by Tsering Dondrup

Tsering Döndrup is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed authors writing in Tibetan today. In a distinct voice rich in black humor and irony, he describes the lives of Tibetans in contemporary China with wit, empathy, and a passionate sense of justice. The Handsome Monk and Other Stories brings together short stories from across Tsering Döndrup's career to create a panorama of Tibetan society.With a love for the sparse yet vivid language of traditional Tibetan life, Tsering Döndrup tells tales of hypocritical lamas, crooked officials, violent conflicts, and loyal yaks. His nomad characters find themselves in scenarios that are at once strange and familiar, satirical yet poignant. The stories are set in the fictional county of Tsezhung, where Tsering Döndrup's characters live their lives against the striking backdrop of Tibet's natural landscape and go about their daily business to the ever-present rhythms of Tibetan religious life. Tsering Döndrup confronts pressing issues: the corruption of religious institutions; the indignities and injustices of Chinese rule; poverty and social ills such as gambling and alcoholism; and the hardships of a minority group struggling to maintain its identity in the face of overwhelming odds. Ranging in style from playful updates of traditional storytelling techniques to narrative experimentation, Tsering Döndrup's tales pay tribute to the resilience of Tibetan culture

[spaceexp]

Russian S7 space firm to cancel deal with Ukraine's rocket maker

Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 26, 2019 Russia's privately-owned S7 Space company will scrap a contract it has with a Ukrainian state rocket maker, Yuzhmash, on the production of 12 Zenit launch vehicles, the Russian firm's co-owner told Sputnik. "Yes, we are going to," Natalya Fileva, who owns the company together with her husband, Vladislav Filev, said, adding she could not name the exact date of the cancellation. Sputni Full article

[thebigloading56]

Vu Meter For Windows

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Vu Meter For Windows Media Player

Free Vu Meter For Windows

Plugins > General

Description Finally a VU/Peak meter that you can use to display volume levels of any compatible sound card input. It also allows you to monitor the Main Mix/Loopback ('what you hear'). Jul 25, 2021 Lastly, mvMeter2 VU meter plugin is free of charge. For most beginner beatmakers and music producers, this is crucial, as they don’t feel like paying $50+ for a VU meter plugin that they may not like or utilize to its full potential. MvMeter2 free VU meter plugin works with both Windows and Mac OS and is available in VST, AU, AAX, and RTAS to. Jul 18, 2001 Version 1.51 - Now with option to make your own BMP panel and style! Professional analog volume unit meter. DSP & Math algorythm to emulate a real VU meter. Logaritnic scale. Applicatiom use: to control and tune PREAMP volume in Winamp EQUALIZER. Now with option to make your own VU skin or panel! Download plugin. July 18, 2001 by Boris Ribov.

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Version 1.51 - Now with option to make your own BMP panel and style!

Professional analog volume unit meter. DSP & Math algorythm to emulate a real VU meter. Logaritnic scale. Applicatiom use: to control and tune PREAMP volume in Winamp EQUALIZER. Now with option to make your own VU skin or panel!

July 18, 2001 by Boris Ribov211519 downloads

Staff review

Vu Meter for Winamp

Classic analog style... cool VU meter readout. Pretty straightforward. New version that is skinnable. -dg

Comments

Since 2001 not updated - Since 2001 not updatedBut it's nice vu-meter parameterizable - August 6, 2009 by accbster

Just what I needed - I was looking for a VU meter to complement Nucleo_Nlog_v102_ skin and found this. Then I made a skin for it using art from Nucleo. Have a look:http://i680.photobucket.com/albums/vv161/el_dino/NUCLEO%20VU%20meter/VUNucleo.jpg - March 17, 2009 by eldino 1

very nice, now better then Aimp2 - the only bad thing is the development is freezed and so you can't change Needlecolour, NeedleWidth, and so on. Would be nice for better self made VU-Meter skins ;-) - December 8, 2008 by ALEX Vercetti

doesn't work - Can't get it to display...when loading the plugin the window just flashes on and then disappears. How are you guys getting this to work? Tried multiple times uninstalling and reinstalling. - December 1, 2008 by Michael Ludwig

similar to what I am looking for - What will make it cool is to make it look like a McIntosh power amp Blue meterhttp://www.mcintoshlabs.com/http://www.mcintoshlabs.com/products/mcintosh-mc12kw-1200-watt-power-amplifier.aspThanksRick - April 24, 2008 by Rick Cheng

WOW! nice - pefert - April 20, 2008 by soon peng

nice - this is verry cool. looks nice near my equalizer. still... one question: can i configurate this so it can start when i start winamp? not when i press play, not when i press start plug-in! i want it to start when i start winamp! thanksps: i made 2 compatible skins for the vu.. compatible with 2 classic winamp skins... how can i post them? - April 20, 2008 by a b

???????? - This plug-in just seems to be a bunch of HTML, JPG and GIF files. I can't find a DLL file for it anywhere and so of course a bunch of pix of VU meters isn't gonna magically turn into a viz in Winamp. What am I doing wrong. - April 7, 2008 by Daniel Rueben

vu - nice plug.... - November 25, 2007 by tony argy

Nice Try but only basic - i cannot place the window anywhere else, it has to be displayed on top, left, right or bottom of the main WinAmp-Window. No support for docking on other Windows (Playlist or Equalizer). The Main function does it work good and it is the first Visual that allows me to see the parts of a mp3 that are too loud. - November 8, 2007 by Richard Wroblewski

Not bad but take care - This is not a bad little plugin with a good pleasant meter. however remember when you right click on the face of the meter, don;t mess around with 'panel', cos it crashed my winamp. - May 4, 2007 by Edmund Tan

Super - Alt und gut! - January 4, 2006 by Juergen wickert

GOOD but still have to work on it... - good job, keep up the good work and make this work along with winamp5 (current vers works only with big panels). I highly appreciate the precision and I sugest to make a modern skin (I have in mind reel to reel ZDL analog studio) to fit with the plugin or viceversa whatever you like it:) - September 27, 2005 by Firekeeper 1

VU accuracy - As an old radio guy I really appreciate these meters. Well done.GOOOD, Good good. I sit and stare at the screen watching the meters.Thank you.www.deantiernan.com - March 6, 2005 by Dean Tiernan

Wow - I have always been a fan of VU meters, one of the reasons why I like Modern Skins. However, some of the Modern skins with Vu's are just ugly, and the VU meters are not too accurate. I have always like the way that Classic skins look and I have wished that there was a VU meter on them. This plug-in fulfills that request - September 14, 2004 by the bonehead

Best help for recording - It was not until this analog VU meter that I noticed the 10 dB difference in output level between CD's. The VU are a bit nervous compared to the real (yes, still have them) ones. But, over all, this plugin is for me the reason to go back to Winamp 2. Skins are thrilling. Hope you can make more and bigger ones.. - August 10, 2003 by Joop van Steijn

GREAT AND ACCURATE .!!!. - IT IS A GREAT PLUG IN. IT INTEGRATES PERFECTLY WITH NUCLEO_NLOG_V102 SKIN AND IT IS VERY ACCURATE TOO. A TRULLY FINE JOB. - April 22, 2003 by Lorien King

New WEB site with many skins and panels... - http://www.qsl.net/lz1bjr/vu/index.htmHere you can find more skins and panels for VU meter!Regards,Boris - February 28, 2003 by Boris Ribov

Best VU Meter I've ever used - Man, this is the best VU meter out there. It would be nice if it could capture the elements from the Winamp skin the user is currently using, but I kinda like it the way it is. Excellent!!!! - February 25, 2003 by Professor Tom

Skins and Winamp 3! - May be you can do this great thing for Winamp 3! That would be great!And maybe you could make a skin, that is styled more independant, so that it doesn't *grmpf* with any other WA Skinz - December 8, 2002 by Marcel Schroeter

Skins - Internal skin is best but want more - June 6, 2002 by Antony Smith

Not under XP - Doesn't work under Xp - but it's my favorite! Hope it can be made to work...Thanks! - May 16, 2002 by Dennis Hill

WOW! - What can I say?!! - March 7, 2002 by Ani Savage

TNX - It gave to me not only good memories, but more good feelings. TNX - November 25, 2001 by Toni Angelov

Best - Best that I ever seen, but I want more VU designs, like reversed ones, verticale ones and more. - November 25, 2001 by Marian Johnes

Hey, Great! - Gread old style. It gaves to me good memories.... - November 23, 2001 by Dimo Filev

Good... - Good work my friend. I'll be waiting for a new version. - November 23, 2001 by Danny Morati

Hey... - ...it's cool! - April 7, 2001 by Anders Str�m

Great Plug-in for WinAmp! - That looks veri nice and it moves exactly with the rhythm. Very good work BoardMan!!! - April 5, 2001 by J T

Great, Simply The Best!!! - That's fantastic plugin for my favourite mp3 player WinAmp!!! It looks like the old analog stereo meters and that's why it's so cool!!! I like it very much and i hope so that the author will continue to invent other plugins like that!!! Good Luck, BoardMan!!! - April 1, 2001 by Krasi Makaveev

Super realistik - I`m very surprised that there is a fans for analog (clasic) gadget - April 1, 2001 by Dimitar Kolev

VU meters are crucial during mixing and mastering sessions, coming as both hardware and software units.

Every professional studio has a VU meter among their studio equipment.

Most upcoming producers don’t have such a tool in their recording studio and use VU meter plugins instead.

And this is the list of 3 best free VU meter plugins on the market.

But first, let’s quickly look into what VU meter is and why you need to use one when mastering a track.

VU Meters In Recording Studios

Before we go over the 3 best free VU meter plugins every producer should use during the mixing and mastering stages, let’s find out what VU meters are, where they are coming from, and why you need one in your music studio.

What Are VU Meters?

VU meter is a measuring tool that indicates the average level of audio signals.

Mainly, you need VU meters or VU meter software for two reasons.

Firstly, they have the ability to hear the loudness just like our ears do.

Secondly, they’ll make you leave some space in your track.

It’s called headroom, and it’s crucial to leave for the mastering stage (if you are mixing at the moment).

Vu Meter For Windows Media Player

If you don’t have any headroom, you’ll likely mess up the mastering track and eventually the entire track.

Therefore, make sure to use VU meters or VU meter plugins in your DAW.

If you’d like to go all-in, here is the best VU meter on the market!

If you can’t afford one, you can always use the free VU meter plugins below!

What Does “VU” Mean In Audio?

“VU” stands for volume units. It’s been with radio broadcast equipment since the early 1940s.

You’ve probably seen it a million times in the movies and TV shows but didn’t know that was the hardware VU meter.

Why Use VU Meter and VU Meter Plugins?

A lot of the time music producers will only monitor the audio peaks to prevent listeners from flinching.

What they forget about is that humans are not computers and we hear loudness differently.

For instance, our ears only feel the average sound level, not the peaks.

And unlike a peak meter that monitors for top volume spikes, VU meter and VU meter plugins show you the so-called average volume.

What Does RMS Stand For in Music?

RMS in music stands for Root-Mean-Square.

In math, It’s the effective value of the complete waveform, also known as average from the square root of the signal voltage over time.

Free Vu Meter For Windows

RMS is the music power that the amplifier can deliver in a continuous manner, more generally known as “average level.”

VU Meter or PPM for Mastering?

Of course, it would’ve been a lot nicer to focus on one of the two – either VU or PPM.

However, both are significant when it comes to mastering, and you can’t do one without another.

Peak meters (PPM) and peak meter plugins (PPM plugins) will prevent any sorts of digital distortion which can ruin your track if you aren’t careful.

What will happen if I don’t use VU meter and PPM?

You can get clicks here and there, but once the volume is above the hard limit, the distortion will become horrible.

The meters are easy to use because the concept is straightforward – once your meter is in the “red” zone, lower the volume until it gets back into the green area.

This can’t be simpler.

VU meters (RMS) and VU meter plugins (RMS plugins) indicate how loud a sound feels in real life.

As a result, you’ll be able to tell how much space a sound takes in the mix.

If mixing two tracks, the VU meter plugin can be really helpful to determine how loud they are relative to each other.

If you were only to use a peak meter, you could have noticed some differences between the two but wouldn’t be able to see the bigger picture.

Example of VU meter vs Peak meter

If you look at the lower end of the frequencies range, you may notice your drums and bassline peaking at a similar volume of X dB.

Therefore, peak meter will only show the moments of the track when the drums and bassline get over the peak volume into the “red” zone.

What escapes your sight is the fact that the waveforms of the two are different.

Drums peak for short periods of time and the average loudness of the drum kit is a lot lower than its peaks.

The bassline is entirely consistent, with low transients that peak close to the average volume levels.

As a result, you’ll only be able to hear loud bass and maybe some quiet drums in the back, instead of having them equal.

VU meter will show you the actual picture of what’s going on with the track.

You’ll be able to see the loudness of the sound continuously.

Therefore, you’ll notice how the loudness of the bassline is consistently higher and fix it.

In order to do that, you set them at X db with VU meter or RMS, so they sound well-balanced to a listener’s ear.

Why use a VU Meter Plugin?

Clearly, you’ll need to monitor average volume level to prevent your track from sounding muddy and avoid distortion.

And using VU meter VST plugin can save you a lot of time and fixing things during mastering stages.

Waves Free VU Meter Plugin

Every DAW usually has a peak meter on each mixer slot, which helps a ton to see whether some elements of the track are too loud and peak to avoid distortion.

Well, Waves has released a free VU meter plugin that replicates the hardware VU meter unit.

VU meters have been around for decades and used to set proper recording levels, achieve well-balanced mix, and leave sufficient headroom.

The goal of Waves VU meter plugin is to assist you in achieving optimal sound levels, enough headroom, and a cleaner mix.

As mentioned earlier in the article, Waves VU meter helps you to not only monitor the loudest moments of your track a.k.a. peaks, but also average out the overall audio levels by imitating the way our ears work.

You can expect smooth performance and fantastic response from this free Waves VU meter that was designed to clean your mixes up from the muddiness and congestion.

As you already know, the VU meter VST can be used on individual tracks and master busses.

Everything depends on which stage of the mixing session you are at right now.

Does Waves VU meter plugin works on both Mac and PC?

Yes, Waves VU meter works on PC and Mac and comes in VST, AU, and AAX formats.

mvMeter2 Free VU Meter Plugin

This free VU meter plugin offers outstanding performance. The mvMeter2 VU meter is nothing more than a small window in the corner of your workstation monitor to look at it once in a while or with your peripheral vision.

It includes RMS, EBUR128, VU, and PPM, so you don’t even need to look at the peak meter in your mixer tab.

It imitates the analog VU meter and PPM meter.

You can switch between various measuring tools with a simple arrow in the corner of mvMeter2 free VST.

You can also adjust the display to show either one or two meters, up to your liking.

TBProAudio mvMeter2 free VU meter plugin lets you change meter delay and reference levels, which can come in handy at times depending on the goals of your mixing session.

What’s mvMeter2 VU meter capable of?

The signal is being processed in 64-bit, and GUI can expand up to 400%, so even music producers with 4k displays won’t have issues with the image clarity.

If you care about the aesthetics of your DAW interface, you are free to choose from 5 different themes.

Lastly, mvMeter2 VU meter plugin is free of charge.

For most beginner beatmakers and music producers, this is crucial, as they don’t feel like paying $50+ for a VU meter plugin that they may not like or utilize to its full potential.

mvMeter2 free VU meter plugin works with both Windows and Mac OS and is available in VST, AU, AAX, and RTAS to suit everyone’s needs.

LVLMeter Free VU Meter Plugin

This Free VU meter plugin imitates vintage VU meters that were used back in the late 1970s.

That’s where the design is coming from.

If you’ve ever seen an old movie where the action took place at a radio station or a studio, you must’ve seen the VU meters.

The signal of the samples can be processed in both 32 and 64 bits.

LVLMeter free VU meter plugin works on both PC and Mac computers, and with VST, AU, and RTAS hosts.

Klanghelm VU Meter Plugin (Honorable Mention)

Klanghelm VUMT which is also known as VU meter plugin is fantastic to use on separate tracks, mix busses, or during the mastering stage.

Similar to the free VU meter plugins above, Klanghelm VUMT emulates analog VU and PPM meters.

You can calibrate ballistics and meters up to your liking or use the developers presets.

The best way to use the Klanghelm VU meter plugin is to set peak meters for drums and acoustic guitars and VU meter to synths, electric guitars, and bass.

The first category is transient rich instruments, and the second one is the ones with a sufficient amount of sustain.

Its metering modes include essentials such as RMS, VU, and PPM.

There is a lot of tweaking you can do with this VU meter plugin.

The ballistics, for example, are fully customizable.

You also get trim control, so gain staging gets easier.

GUI setting is also customizable, and you can make it look the way you want it, up to your aesthetic preferences, with 8 skins included.

Klanghelm VU Meter Plugin works on both Windows and Mac OS and comes in VST, AAX, AU, and even Standalone formats.

I put Klanghelm VU meter plugin under the “honourable mentions” tag because it’s not actually free – it costs 12 Euro.

It’s nothing for most producers, but if you don’t feel like buying a plugin today, keep Klanghelm VUMT in mind.

Commonly Asked Questions About VU Meter Plugins

To make sure you’ll leave with as few question as possible, here are a few common questions upcoming beatmakers, artists, and producers ask about VU meters

Don’t most DAWs like Ableton, Logic and FL Studio have VU meter VST Plugin Built-in?

I am not quite sure about Ableton, but FL Studio does have a plugin called Wave Candy that can somewhat compare to a VU meter plugin.

However, the free VU meter plugins on this list were explicitly made to monitor the average loudness levels (RMS).

But you can definitely use the built-in Wave Candy free digital VU meter plugin wannabe if you don’t want to install more plugins.

Will the free VU Meter plugins work with Windows?

Yes, the free VU meter plugins on the list are all supported by all primary digital audio workstations and will work with Windows.

Will the free VU Meter plugins work with my Mac?

All free VU meter VSTs support AU format that will work on Mac-based DAWs such as Logic and Pro Tools.

Conclusion: Free Vu Meter Plugins

Hopefully, this list of best free VU meter plugins helped you to learn more about what VU meters are and why they are crucial for every beatmaker and music producer.

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Vem aí a Cannabis medicinal

Mara Gabrilli tinha 26 anos quando sofreu o acidente que a deixou tetraplégica. No dia 20 de agosto de 1994, ela voltava de Paraty (RJ) quando, subindo a serra de Taubaté (SP), o namorado perdeu o controle do carro, que despencou de uma altura de 15 metros. Mara quebrou a coluna numa das capotagens. Dois meses depois, fazia fisioterapia nos Estados Unidos quando ouviu falar, pela primeira vez, de remédios feitos de Cannabis sativa — o nome científico da maconha. Naquela época, pacientes com lesão medular já a usavam para reduzir contrações musculares involuntárias. “Não consigo imaginar minha vida sem esse medicamento. Ele me ajuda a ter menos espasmos, a dormir melhor e, principalmente, alivia minhas dores”, avalia a senadora de 53 anos.

Mara faz uso do Mevatyl, o primeiro fármaco derivado da maconha a ter registro aprovado pela Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária (Anvisa), em 2017. Indicado para adultos com rigidez muscular relacionada à esclerose múltipla, ele é importado da Inglaterra e vendido a 3 mil reais. “A maioria dos brasileiros não tem condições de comprá-lo e aí precisa recorrer à Justiça”, lamenta a senadora. O alívio da rigidez e de espasmos é uma das muitas indicações já atestadas da cannabis medicinal. O neurocientista Renato Malcher-Lopes aponta outras: dor crônica, insônia, autismo, epilepsia, depressão e náuseas e vômitos provocados pela quimioterapia. “O uso da cannabis como fitoterápico é tido como seguro para a maioria dos adultos. Não temos relatos de uma única morte ou efeitos severos associados”, afirma o professor da Universidade de Brasília (UnB).

Um experimento coordenado pelo cientista com 18 pacientes autistas de 6 a 17 anos apontou melhoras significativas na qualidade do sono e na interação social em 14 deles. Os participantes fizeram uso de um extrato rico em canabidiol (CBD), um dos princípios ativos da maconha. Os resultados desse e de outros estudos não chegam a surpreender o historiador Jean Marcel Carvalho França. Autor de História da Maconha no Brasil, da Editora Três Estrelas (clique aqui para comprar), ele explica que os primeiros registros sobre o uso medicinal do cânhamo, um dos nomes da erva, remontam à China do século 1 a.C. “No primeiro século da era cristã, Hua Tuo, o pioneiro da cirurgia chinesa, utilizou um composto da planta, misturado ao vinho, para anestesiar pacientes”, conta. Na mesma época, os indianos já a empregavam no combate a diversas moléstias. E, da Índia, as receitas migraram para o resto do mundo.

“Que o cânhamo continha potencialidades terapêuticas não é e nunca foi motivo de discórdia. Os conflitos começaram, pelo menos no Ocidente, quando as discussões sobre os eventuais problemas causados pelo consumo recreativo puseram em dúvida seus benefícios para a sociedade”, elucida França, que é professor da Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Durante décadas, a política global de recriminação às drogas também coibiu o estudo e o uso medicinal dos derivados da planta.

Renascimento e avanço das pesquisas

A primeira vez que Cassiano Teixeira ouviu falar do potencial terapêutico da cannabis foi em 2001, quando morava nos EUA. Em 2014, ele já era dono de uma loja e trabalhava na prefeitura de João Pessoa quando a mãe adoeceu. Vítima de bronquiectasia (um alargamento dos brônquios), ela não dormia nem se alimentava direito. Foi quando seu filho decidiu fazer algo inesperado: comprou 50 gramas da erva e, na cozinha de casa, preparou um óleo e deu à mãe.

Uma hora depois, ela se levantou — o que não fazia havia um mês — e começou a lavar louça. “Em pouco tempo, se livrou da tosse e, ainda, ganhou 5 quilos. Aos 84 anos, hoje esbanja saúde e dirige o próprio carro”, relata. Apesar do medo de ser preso, Cassiano passou a ajudar outras famílias e chegou a fabricar mais de 30 garrafas por dia. Atualmente é o diretor da Associação Brasileira de Apoio Cannabis Esperança (Abrace), a única que, desde 2017, tem autorização judicial para o cultivo da maconha para fins medicinais. A Abrace produz óleo, spray e pomada e atende 12 mil famílias, que pagam uma anuidade de 350 reais e cerca de 250 por 100 mililitros do óleo. De quebra, fornece o óleo gratuitamente a 3 mil famílias de baixa renda.

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A exemplo da Associação Brasileira de Pacientes de Cannabis Medicinal (Ama+me), parceira da UnB no estudo sobre autismo, a Abrace firmou convênio com a Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC). Juntas, elas estudam os efeitos da cannabis na saúde mental de 300 médicos e enfermeiros na linha de frente da Covid-19. O objetivo é avaliar o impacto do uso controlado sobre estresse, ansiedade e depressão. “Como em qualquer tratamento, há vantagens e desvantagens. As vantagens são a segurança e a eficácia diante de condições que não têm suas necessidades atendidas pelos remédios disponíveis nas farmácias. A principal desvantagem é a falta de conhecimento dos médicos. Muitos ainda desconhecem suas aplicações clínicas e, por essa razão, não a prescrevem”, analisa a médica Carolina Nocetti, uma das integrantes da pesquisa da UFSC e cofundadora da Academia Internacional de Cannabis.

Nenhuma outra instituição do planeta publica tantos artigos sobre o canabidiol (CBD) quanto a Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto da USP. Com 1,1 mil estudos no currículo, ela tem mais que o dobro do King’s College London, na Inglaterra, o segundo colocado. Em maio do ano passado, a USP lançou, em parceria com o laboratório Prati-Donaduzzi, o primeiro extrato da planta desenvolvido no Brasil. Diferentemente do Mevatyl, indicado para pacientes com esclerose múltipla, o fitofármaco brasileiro tem incontáveis aplicações. “Produtos à base de cannabis não curam doenças, mas minimizam seus sintomas. Além disso, potencializam os efeitos dos remédios de referência e não colocam em risco a vida do paciente”, afirma o neurocientista Renato Filev, pesquisador do Centro Brasileiro de Informação sobre Drogas Psicotrópicas (Cebrid).

Não são apenas as universidades que testam a segurança e a eficácia dos derivados da maconha. Uma das mais atuantes startups do mercado canabinoide é a Entourage Phytolab, de Valinhos (SP). Seu fundador é o advogado Caio Santos Abreu. O projeto surgiu em 2008, quando sua mãe foi diagnosticada com câncer e, por causa da quimioterapia, passou a se queixar de dores e perda de apetite — para aliviar o sofrimento dela, Abreu teve de recorrer ao mercado ilegal. Atualmente, a startup desenvolve fármacos para cinco condições, como dor neuropática, distúrbios do sono e doenças inflamatórias crônicas. Os resultados da fase 1 dos estudos para a epilepsia foram, segundo o CEO da companhia, “bastante animadores”. “Comparada à geração atual, aumentamos em até duas vezes a concentração de CBD que chega ao sangue. Na prática, esse ganho de eficiência pode baratear os tratamentos em até 60%. Além disso, a variação dos efeitos é três vezes menor que a dos produtos no mercado”, detalha.

No panorama das experiências aqui e lá fora, só se alarga a lista de doenças que podem ser amenizadas pela cannabis: Alzheimer, fibromialgia, paralisia cerebral… O que não significa que os compostos sejam isentos de efeitos colaterais e contraindicações — nenhum remédio é. “Os derivados da maconha devem ser evitados por mulheres grávidas ou que estão amamentando. Os reflexos da planta no bebê ainda são desconhecidos. Pessoas com histórico pessoal ou familiar de psicose, esquizofrenia e transtorno bipolar também podem ter restrições”, nota Roberto Araújo, autor de Cannabis Medicinal no Combate à Dor Crônica, Editora Europa (clique aqui para comprar).

Da mesma forma que é preciso debelar o preconceito contra a cannabis medicinal, devemos ter em mente que a planta não é milagrosa. É o que pontua a bioquímica Adriana Farias da Silva, da Unifesp. Como qualquer fármaco, ela pode ter reações adversas, como náusea, tontura e alucinação. “Daí a importância de consultar o médico e, junto com ele, chegar à dose ideal para cada caso”, defende. Mas e o Conselho Federal de Medicina (CFM), o que pensa do assunto?

O psiquiatra Salomão Rodrigues, da entidade, argumenta que dois dos princípios ativos da Cannabis sativa, o CBD e o THC (tetra-hidrocanabinol), podem ser isolados e sintetizados por métodos laboratoriais seguros e confiáveis, mas, até o momento, seus efeitos não estão bem estabelecidos. “Nada justifica voltarmos ao tempo dos extratos vegetais, em que não se sabe quais substâncias e em que quantidade estão sendo ingeridas. O CFM é contra esse tipo de uso”, diz. A exceção seria o emprego compassivo do canabidiol para o tratamento da epilepsia em crianças e adolescentes refratários às terapias convencionais. E, ainda assim, o CBD deveria ser prescrito em associação com outras medicações anticonvulsivantes.

Transformações na lei

Com apenas 40 dias de vida, Anny Fischer teve sua primeira convulsão. Seus pais, Norberto e Katiele, de Brasília, a levaram a muitos médicos e lhe deram todos os remédios. De nada adiantou. O diagnóstico só veio em 2012, quando já tinha 4 anos: um distúrbio neurológico raro que provoca até 80 convulsões por semana, algumas com até dez minutos de duração. Como nenhuma das drogas receitadas fazia efeito, resolveram arriscar. No dia 3 de abril de 2014, Anny Fischer tornou-se a primeira pessoa no Brasil a conseguir autorização da Justiça para importar um derivado da maconha para fins medicinais. Depois de nove semanas de uso, as dores diminuíram e as convulsões cessaram.

“Antes de fazer uso do canabidiol, Anny tinha uma crise convulsiva a cada duas horas. Quando completou 4 anos, as crises se tornaram tão intensas e frequentes que, em apenas quatro meses, ela já não se mexia mais. Então, surgiu o CBD e a nossa vida mudou completamente”, descreve Norberto Fischer, o pai da menina, hoje com 12 anos. Não muito distante dali, o casal Marcos e Margarete, do Rio de Janeiro, viveu drama semelhante. Sofia, a filha deles, foi diagnosticada como portadora da mesma síndrome. Os pais também foram a diversos médicos e tentaram praticamente de tudo. Nada feito. O passo seguinte, depois de ouvir a história de uma família americana que usava um composto da maconha para tratar o filho, foi importar o CBD.

O alto custo — dependendo da marca e da quantidade, pode chegar a 8 mil reais mensais — e o processo burocrático, porém, os encorajaram a plantar a erva em casa. Para não serem presos, entraram com habeas corpus preventivo. Em 17 de novembro de 2016, conquistaram o direito de cultivar maconha em casa para fins medicinais. “Ainda não realizei meu sonho de, um dia, controlar as crises convulsivas da minha filha. Sofia ainda tem crise quase todo dia. Mesmo assim, não consigo imaginar sua vida sem o CBD. Seria bem pior”, avalia Margarete Brito, fundadora da Associação de Apoio à Pesquisa e a Pacientes de Cannabis Medicinal (Apepi).

No momento, Mara, Cassiano, Norberto e Margarete estão com as atenções voltadas para o Projeto de Lei 399/2015, que propõe legalizar o cultivo da maconha para uso medicinal no país. Além do plantio, o texto prevê a redução no preço dos remédios e sua distribuição pelo SUS. Segundo a proposta, só empresas e associações poderão fazer o plantio, que será liberado mediante autorização do governo. Para controlar a produção, cada empresa ou associação terá uma cota de cultivo, além de produção rastreada e com aval de um responsável técnico.

A proposta permite, ainda, que instituições de pesquisa plantem, cultivem, transportem e armazenem a cannabis, desde que autorizadas. A lei só não regularizaria o cultivo individual. “Boa parte dos parlamentares ainda desconhece o tema. Sabem que existe cannabis medicinal, mas não conhecem os efeitos positivos que cada substância pode gerar em cada paciente”, afirma a senadora Mara Gabrilli. “O que precisamos é fazer uma discussão baseada em ciência, e não em ideologia. Se isso acontecer, tenho certeza de que conseguiremos avançar e levar mais saúde a todas as pessoas que precisam desses medicamentos”, diz.

O acesso hoje

Legislação facilitou uso medicinal, mas ainda há entraves à produção e à aquisição no país:

Modo de usar

O principal meio de utilização dos derivados da planta é o óleo. A via de administração mais comum é a sublingual (de ação imediata), mas também há a oral (cujo efeito demora mais tempo), a nasal, a tópica e por vaporizador. O óleo importado é autorizado no Brasil desde 2015. Requer laudo, prescrição médica e termo de responsabilidade, entre outros documentos.

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Importado e artesanal

O processo de aquisição do óleo de fora (a maioria vem dos EUA) costuma ser demorado e caro. A versão artesanal é feita por associações ou pacientes mediante habeas corpus preventivo. No momento, apenas uma, a Abrace, em João Pessoa, tem autorização judicial para cultivar e produzir o óleo para associados. A instituição atende 12 mil famílias, que pagam uma anuidade e pelos frascos do produto.

Nas farmácias

Estão à venda em drogarias brasileiras apenas dois produtos certificados: um nacional, o Canabidiol, produzido pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP) de Ribeirão Preto em parceria com o laboratório Prati-Donaduzzi, do Paraná, e outro importado, o Mevatyl (ou Sativex, como é conhecido no resto do mundo), desenvolvido pela britânica GW Pharma. Os preços variam de 2,5 mil a 3 mil reais.

A cannabis pelo mundo

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1- Estados Unidos Hoje, 35 dos 50 estados, mais a capital, regulamentaram a cannabis. Para fins recreativos, seu uso é liberado em apenas 15.

2- Canadá Autoriza o uso terapêutico para 39 situações. Quem quiser cultivar para consumo deve pedir aval do governo. O uso recreativo também é liberado.

3- Chile Pacientes com receita adquirem produtos à base de cannabis em associações e farmácias. Abriga a maior fazenda de cultivo da América Latina.

4- Holanda Com autorização do governo, a iniciativa privada produz remédios e os vende em drogarias. O uso recreativo ocorre em coffee-shops.

5- Israel Médicos credenciados avaliam os pedidos e orientam os pacientes sobre o tipo e a dosagem a ser consumidos. É usada para câncer e doenças nervosas.

6- Uruguai Primeiro país do mundo a liberar o uso recreativo, permite a compra de produtos em farmácias autorizadas e o plantio da erva a cidadãos adultos.

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O CBD…

O canabidiol é uma das 113 substâncias químicas que compõem a cannabis — e uma das mais estudadas. O médico Ricardo Ferreira, da Sociedade Brasileira para Estudo da Dor, explica que o êxito da terapia, a despeito da substância, é encontrar a proporção capaz de produzir alívio dos sintomas com o mínimo de efeito colateral.

…E o THC

O tetra-hidrocanabinol é a molécula associada ao “barato” do uso recreativo, mas também tem potencial terapêutico. O neurocientista Renato Filev conta que a dosagem faz toda a diferença: “Em baixas doses, o THC tem efeito ansiolítico e anticonvulsivante. Em altas doses, por mais paradoxal que seja, pode deflagrar ansiedade e convulsão”.

Para que ela serve e é estudada

Mapeamos a produção científica sobre cannabis medicinal e resumimos o grau de evidências sobre alguns usos

Evidências avançadas Existe um bom número de estudos clínicos, com achados sólidos.

* Epilepsia refratária * Dores crônicas de origem neuropática * Parkinson * Esclerose múltipla * Autismo * Náuseas e vômitos desencadeados por quimioterapia

Evidências promissoras Cresce o volume de trabalhos científicos, mas ainda faltam provas.

* Fibromialgia * Depressão * Transtorno de ansiedade * Síndromes genéticas * Alzheimer

Evidências iniciais Há indícios instigantes que precisam ser avaliados em maior escala.

* Anorexia * Esquizofrenia * Câncer * Paralisia cerebral * Distúrbios do sono

E o uso recreativo?

Muita controvérsia ainda gira em torno de seus efeitos na saúde. O psicólogo Lauro Rodriguez de Pontes, autor do livro Maconha Terapêutica, da Gramma Editora (clique aqui para comprar), afirma que, em quantidades não abusivas, ele é seguro. Mas ressalva: o cigarro de maconha, o popular baseado, agride o corpo porque a queima da erva gera gás carbônico. “A forma mais segura seria a vaporização, que consiste em aquecer a erva e aspirar os gases liberados”, explica. Para o neurocientista Renato Filev, há risco de eventos adversos. Nove em cada 100 usuários apresentam quadros de dependência. E, a longo prazo, podem ter crises de ansiedade e surtos psicóticos. Nesse sentido, o maior cuidado deve ser direcionado aos adolescentes.

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The hidden psychology of failure

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Words of wisdom heralded throughout our upbringing, to be sure. But is there any scientific proof that successive failure is positive and propels innovation forwards?

“A lot of people still think of failure as a sign of personal incompetence and try to avoid it at all cost,” said Andrew Filev, CEO and founder of Wrike, a software firm in Mountain View, California. “But when you view building a business as a series of experiments, you start to see failure as an inevitable step in the process.”

(via BBC - Capital - The hidden psychology of failure)

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“5 Dos and Dont’s Lessons From My Bootstrapping Days” Wrike Founder and CEO Andrew Filev (Video + Transcript) https://www.saastr.com/5-dos-and-donts-lessons/

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7 must-have project management skills

Just because someone has the title of project manager doesn't mean he or she knows how to effectively manage projects, as many CIOs and other IT executives have learned the hard way.

To be an effective project manager, one who can keep projects and the team on track, takes more than technical know-how. It also requires a number of non-technical skills, and it is these softer skills that often determine whether a project manager — and the project — will be a success.

So how can you tell a good project manager from a bad one? CIO.com surveyed project management experts and executives to learn what skills are required to successfully manage projects — that is, to ensure that projects are kept on track and stay on budget.

Following are seven of the most important non-technical skills for project managers.

Seven key project management skills

Leadership

Motivation

Communication

Organization

Prioritization

Problem solving

Adaptability

Leadership

"Being a good leader means that you do not only oversee and coordinate tasks and processes as a manager, but also outline the vision and define the road map, motivate and encourage," says Tatiana Danielyan, deputy director of R&D at ABBYY, which provides document recognition, data capture and language processing software.

It is also critical that the project manager has the ability to quickly analyze data – or a given situation –  and make good decisions because, she adds, "at the end of the day, you are the one who has the final call – and the final responsibility for whether the project is successful or not."

Motivation

“A great project manager is able to keep their team happy during the tough times,” says Kofi Senaya, director of Product at Clearbridge Mobile, a mobile app developer. “Projects can get very difficult and stressful, typically when deadlines sneak up. As a project manager, your job is to ensure everyone stays motivated. Ultimately, this will improve efficiency and quality of work,” he says.

“Some tactics project managers can use is to praise good work, take team members out for a team building activity and cultivating a fun and collaborative environment.”

Communication

“Project managers must speak the same language as their clients,” as well as their team members, says Mike Mills, project manager at Sagefrog Marketing Group, a B2B marketing agency. “It’s somewhat of a cliché, but this phrase really does describe one of the most important skills that can make or break client relationships. Project managers are the sole translators, sharing information, updates and next steps from client to internal team and back again.”

“Communication skills are the core part of a project manager’s skill set,” says Danielyan. A project manager who is “a good communicator can resolve or prevent almost any issue by being clear [and] encouraging an unhindered flow of information, which means [getting] the right information to the right person through the right channel exactly when it is needed.”

Organization

A stereotypical image of a project manager is someone who is the consummate multitasker, but the ability to “multitask alone won’t help project managers meet all of the demands they face in their role; organization is key,” says Mills. “This means prioritizing tasks, compartmentalizing projects to avoid confusion, and neatly documenting anything and everything for future reference and easy access. Part of the organization process also involves envisioning all steps throughout the life of the project and predicting problems that might arise.

“As a PM, your task is to make sure processes run smoothly and are in line with the common goals,” says Danielyan. Therefore, “the ability to organize multiple complicated processes in uncertain conditions is essential – [and] prioritizing, planning and scheduling skills are critical. You need to always be ten steps ahead to quickly and efficiently achieve the desired outcome – or deal with a challenge if needed."

Prioritization

“Information overload is a very real phenomenon, especially in the modern workplace,” notes Andrew Filev, CEO of Wrike, the developer of project management software. “There is a limit to the amount of stuff our minds can process, a.k.a. our cognitive load.” So “to succeed in the next decade, [project managers] must be able to manage this deluge of data and extract the useful bits from the noise.

“They need to be masters at prioritizing [and] time management if they intend to be successful,” he continues. And they have to stay focused and “be strategic despite all the pings and notifications that will have them running to put out fires.”

Problem solving

Much of problem solving in a project management context revolves around being able to identify and manage risk. “Many projects miss their scope, budget or delivery timeline due to unexpected surprises,” notes Tim Platt, vice president, IT Business Services, Virtual Operations, an IT support and managed services company. “The great PM is always on the lookout for risk – and how to mitigate that risk.  He or she knows how to ask the hard questions of the team and continuously confirms decisions, timelines and dependencies. In a well-run project, there shouldn’t be a surprise. There should be a risk log and mitigation plans for all items, and the PM is in the best position to ensure that’s covered.”

“Dealing with obstacles is without a doubt an essential skill for a PM,” agrees Danielyan. “A good project manager [can] identify risk early, find the cause(s) of the problem, weigh different options [and] define and implement the best solution possible.”

Adaptability

“In a fast-paced environment, particularly in the tech industry, changes — whether that's new processes, standards or technologies — happen fast,” explains Senaya. “Planning is vital, but the ability to adapt to changes and work with your team to overcome challenges is just as important.” That ability to quickly come up with a workaround or change course is absolutely “necessary to be successful in a fast-paced environment.”

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Major S7 shareholder Fileva killed in German air crash

One of Russian carrier S7 Airlines’ key shareholders, Nataliya Fileva, has been killed in a light aircraft accident in Germany. Fileva is the wife of Vladislav Filev, the former chief executive of S7 Airlines. S7 states that she had been an occupant in a single-engined Epic LT private aircraft involved in an accident during landing […] Source: http://www.ncairways.co/aviation/major-s7-shareholder-fileva-killed-in-german-air-crash/

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Illustration Photo: Central Pivot, Ebro Valley, Spain (credits: François Molle / Water Alternatives / Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0))

Smart Water Management Platform: IoT-Based Precision Irrigation for Agriculture

Authors: Carlos Kamienski, Juha-Pekka Soininen, Markus Taumberger, Ramide Dantas, Attilio Toscano, Tullio Salmon Cinotti, Rodrigo Filev Maia and André Torre Neto

Journal: Sensors 2019, 19(2), 276;

Publisher: MDPI

The smart management of freshwater for precision irrigation in agriculture is essential for increasing crop yield and decreasing costs, while contributing to environmental sustainability. The intense use of technologies offers a means for providing the exact amount of water needed by plants. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the natural choice for smart water management applications, even though the integration of different technologies required for making it work seamlessly in practice is still not fully accomplished. The SWAMP project develops an IoT-based smart water management platform for precision irrigation in agriculture with a hands-on approach based on four pilots in Brazil and Europe. This paper presents the SWAMP architecture, platform, and system deployments that highlight the replicability of the platform, and, as scalability is a major concern for IoT applications, it includes a performance analysis of FIWARE components used in the Platform. Results show that it is able to provide adequate performance for the SWAMP pilots, but requires specially designed configurations and the re-engineering of some components to provide higher scalability using less computational resources.

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