#but. i need it. the data analysis. where would my poor soul be without that

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I'm tagging this as jumblr bc i trust the jews to help me with my jewish polls! im currently stuck on analyzing the data on these polls because i need to compare the two and they have wildly different sample sizes. I am not explaining what i was doing here until i have all my data analysis done bc i would like to know if the results are significant or not first.

anyway if anyone has a good method of comparing 2 surveys with different sample sizes and determining if results are statistically significant please let me know! i have a few ideas but i definitely need second opinions bc i have not done stats in a hot fucking minute. the main problems I have are 1) different sample sizes and 2) most methods i find are for experimental data, not nonexperimental.

in short i want to compare the data from each individual poll button (which all correlate with each other) while also factoring in the differing sample sizes. it would also be helpful if the method was good with percentages. i really really fucking hate stats however i refuse to just treat 2 different sample sizes the same bc that would probably kill me.

i also have limited tools at my disposal. i have a shitty old laptop and an even shittier older ti-84. they can do a lot bc i bully them into submission regularly but these things are not fancy whatsoever and they have limits and they express those limits frequently

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One Day at a Time

The destruction of the Reapers did not mean galactic peace. While the treaties Shepard had brokered during the war remain mostly intact, there is no shortage of pirates, criminals, gangs, and terroristic organizations bent on creating chaos and destruction. The Council began directing their Spectres towards overseeing and protecting reconstruction efforts and maintaining peace. Now that scientists are close to unlocking the key to repairing the mass relays, the galaxy has settled into unease. No one knows if crime will get better or worse with the relays back online. All factions are getting agitated, and more fighting is breaking out.

Sometimes, Kaidan pities the poor soul on the wrong end of Shepard's gun. More than once, he has heard all sorts of people shout something along the lines of "Oh shit, it's Shepard!" as they realized they were about to die. Shepard is a skilled soldier who dominates the battlefield with equal parts strength and grace. Fighting alongside her can be almost beautiful in an odd and violent sort of way, especially when she used her biotics. It took her almost a year of practice fighting on her military grade prosthetic leg, but she has now found that grace on the battlefield again. In the end, her skills and her career could not be taken by the Reaper War. The galaxy kept its greatest protector.

Today, they are both back on Mars, of all places, fighting a remnant of Cerberus that is attempting to steal more data from the archives. If intel is correct, their goal is to find weapons they can use "for the betterment of humanity", which is their way of saying anti-alien terrorism. Kaidan does have to admit that some part of him enjoys taking down pieces of Cerberus. After all the horrible things he's seen them do, including all that they have put Shepard through, he's glad to eliminate every last cell in the galaxy. It's a worthy career goal.

As the smoke clears, Shepard begins checking the bodies for data pads, hoping to find anything to indicate how many of them are at the archives and what their exact plans are. After all, if this was just an outdoor lookout team, there's bound to be more already inside. She freezes as she reads one of the data pads. Kaidan can barely see her face through her helmet, but her reaction to the data pad can't be good. "Shepard, what is it?"

She clears her throat and says calmly "It's not pertinent to the mission. Let's move on." She drops the data pad and continues towards the entrance. Kaidan trusts Shepard, but curiosity gets the better of him and he glances down at the data pad as he passes by. It currently displays the owner's profile. He can see an image that he guesses matches the body they found it on and a name. "Andrew Mason".

As they enter the archive, they happily find a distinct lack of civilian and scientist casualties. This time, intel learned of the plan early and decided to evacuate the scientists and ship in more soldiers. Unfortunately, Cerberus still puts up a good fight and many of the Alliance soldiers were injured or killed before the Spectres arrived (travel between systems takes more time now that the relays are gone). Shepard hops on to the nearest terminal and accesses the system logs. "Ah, here it is. Someone opened an archive five minutes ago. We can take the tram there."

"Perfect. Maybe this time we'll make it through without getting shot at." Immediately after making the joke, Kaidan winces at the realization that bringing up their last mission on Mars might not be a good idea. Sure, they've worked everything out, but it still could be a touchy subject. He was pretty cruel to her last time, before he almost died in front of her.

"Doubtful." Shepard laughs lightly as they board the tram.

They ride quietly for a moment before Kaidan asks "So, will I get to know who Andrew Mason is?"

"Maybe later. Now's not the time."

"Fair." Kaidan says. He smiles at her, hoping she can see it through the helmet. His is much more open and visually blocks less of the face. Shepard's preferred gear usually allows less visibility, but it also has fewer structural weak points. He noticed a change in her treatment of her armor not too long after he got back on the Normandy, but he's never said anything. Without asking, he already knows why Shepard chooses armor with the most reinforced environment system, and why she carefully and almost obsessively maintains it. He would, too, in her shoes.

He refocuses himself on the task at hand as they begin approaching their destination. They've almost made it when a Cerberus soldier begins firing at the car. They both take cover behind the wall and the dance begins yet again. As the car docks, Shepard throws up a barrier and runs out, shooting at several men in a row as she charges to cover. Kaidan focuses on the heavy trooper slowly approaching from a distance and Reaves. Together, they feed off each other's energy. The can move in sync, watching each other's sixes and supporting each other throughout the entire battle. Before long, the docking zone falls silent as the battle ends.

They take turns clearing doors until they finally get to the archive. They take cover on either side of the door. He opens it carefully, and Shepard immediately swings around to cover him with her pistol. The immediate entryway is surprisingly empty. Shepard gestures for him to follow, then slowly and quietly moves inside the room until they reach a sharp turn. She takes cover against the wall and peers around the corner, gun at the ready. As soon as she does, she is thrown backwards by a large biotic force. Her gun fires before she even hits the wall. Kaidan swings around and unleashes a singularity that pulls the target into the air. Shepard fires again, making several headshots that eventually pierce the armor and hit their mark.

"Thanks for the cover, Alenko." She says, her smile coming through in the sound of her voice. She pats him on the back and pushes further into the room, where the target had been collecting data onto a drive. She plugs the data into her omnitool and runs it through analysis softwares. Liara would be able to tell them more, but it appears that intel was correct. They had been here for advanced weapons blueprints. Shepard begins forwarding the information back to the Normandy, then turns to head back to the LZ. Kaidan follows her.

Getting back to the Normandy and conferencing with Admiral Hackett is no big deal. After the verbal debriefing, they retire to her cabin to write their mission reports. Kaidan's ship, the SSV London (named for the Battle of London that ended the Reaper War), is still getting it's final touches before he'll be able to take it out on a shakedown run, so he rode along with Shepard for this mission and their last several. As they settle into the couch with their tea and data pads, he can't help but smile. This is a good life, one he hadn't expected to attain. Every day, sometimes several times a day, he still finds himself thankful that they had found Shepard after the Crucible. When the Alliance had formally declared her missing in action, with the caveat that she was most likely dead, Kaidan refused to lay down and wait for them to declare her death. He contacted Hackett with an emergency QEC on the Normandy and told him that until they found a body, Shepard was to be considered alive and in need of assistance. They all owed that to her. Seeing her here and now, living her life with him, is something he is grateful for every day.

As Kaidan is putting the final touches on his report, Shepard sets her data pad on the table and walks to her shower, stripping off articles of clothing as she goes. He fumbles over the keyboard, leaving a line of text that reads "ghdhshgdg" as he watches her go. Knowing that he's watching, she calls "finish your report first, and then you can join me." He deletes the line of typos, hurriedly wraps up the report, and follows her for an enjoyable interlude.

Their activities eventually end with them cuddling in her bed. She lay with her head resting gently on his chest, her hand absentmindedly rubbing circles on through his chest hair. He has one arm around her back and gently brushing strokes down her upper arm. He can feel her back subtly rise and fall with her breath. They lay this way for a while before he feels a slight dampness on his chest, where her head is. "Hazel, are you okay?" he asks, looking down at her. Her face is buried in him. She stifles a sob, and he feels the shift in her breathing as she forces herself to cry silently. He wraps his arms around her tighter. "Sweetheart, whatever it is, I've got you." Slowly, she pulls herself back and looks at him. He reaches up to her and gently wipes the tears from her cheeks. She pulls herself into a sitting position against the headboard, and he follows so that they are sitting side by side.

She leans her head on his shoulder and quietly says "You asked about Andrew Mason?"

"Yeah. Do you want to talk about it?"

"I knew him... from before the Alliance." she ends the sentence at barely a whisper. Her shoulders tense and she looks down at the floor. "He was one of the younger kids in the Reds before I left." He gently reaches for her hand and takes it in his as she continues. "I heard he'd gotten out, that he'd joined the Alliance some time after my death. I had hoped he'd do well and go far, but it didn't work that way. I checked his records when we got back to the ship. His team got ambushed by some pirates about seven months before the Reapers invaded. He was discharged honorably for medical reasons, for PTSD. I guess that's when Cerberus got to him."

"Hazel, I'm so sorry." he says.

"The hell of it is that I can see myself in that kid. In what he came from, in his escape. What if I somehow influenced his decision to leave like that? How many kids joined after hearing fantastical stories about my life, only to be swooped up by Cerberus when the Alliance didn't live up to their expectations or to die in battle before they got the chance to reconsider?"

"Hey, stop that. It's not your fault, Hazel."

"How many people died because of me? Will continue to die because of me? Because I failed?" Her voice cracks and she lets out a shuddering breath.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Backup. Failed at what?"

"I couldn't save them all. I can never save them all."

"Hazel, stop. Look at me." He gently places his hand under her chin and guides her to look at him. "You are not responsible for every person in the galaxy. You've spent far too much of your life fighting galactic wars practically on your own. Enough is enough. We stopped the Reapers. Now, we just do what we can to make things a little better. One day at a time, okay?"

She nods and he pulls her into a tight embrace. "One day at a time." She sniffles.

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Domains 2019 Reflections from Afar

My OPML Domains Project

Not being able to attend Domains 2019 in person, I was bound and determined to attend as much of it as I could manage remotely. A lot of this revolved around following the hashtag for the conference, watching the Virtually Connecting sessions, interacting online, and starting to watch the archived videos after-the-fact. Even with all of this, for a while I had been meaning to flesh out my ability to follow the domains (aka websites) of other attendees and people in the space. Currently the easiest way (for me) to do this is via RSS with a feed reader, so I began collecting feeds of those from the Twitter list of Domains ’17 and Domains ’19 attendees as well as others in the education-related space who tweet about A Domain of One’s Own or IndieWeb. In some sense, I would be doing some additional aggregation work on expanding my blogroll, or, as I call it now, my following page since it’s much too large and diverse to fit into a sidebar on my website.

For some brief background, my following page is built on some old functionality in WordPress core that has since been hidden. I’m using the old Links Manager for collecting links and feeds of people, projects, groups, and institutions. This link manager creates standard OPML files, which WordPress can break up by categories, that can easily be imported/exported into most standard feed readers. Even better, some feed readers like Inoreader, support OPML subscriptions, so one could subscribe to my OPML file, and any time I update it in the future with new subscriptions, your feed reader would automatically update to follow those as well. I use this functionality in my own Inoreader account, so that any new subscriptions I add to my own site are simply synced to my feed reader without needing to be separately added or updated.

The best part of creating such a list and publishing it in a standard format is that you, dear reader, don’t need to spend the several hours I did to find, curate, and compile the list to recreate it for yourself, but you can now download it, modify it if necessary, and have a copy for yourself in just a few minutes. (Toward that end, I’m also happy to update it or make additions if others think it’s missing anyone interesting in the space–feedback, questions, and comments are heartily encouraged.) You can see a human-readable version of the list at this link, or find the computer parse-able/feed reader subscribe-able link here.

To make it explicit, I’ll also note that these lists also help me to keep up with people and changes in the timeframe between conferences.

Anecdotal Domains observations

In executing this OPML project I noticed some interesting things about the Domains community at large (or at least those who are avid enough to travel and attend in person or actively engage online). I’ll lay these out below. Perhaps at a future date, I’ll do a more explicit capture of the data with some analysis.

The largest majority of sites I came across were, unsurprisingly, WordPress-based, which made it much easier to find RSS feeds to read/consume material. I could simply take a domain name and add /feed/ to the end of the URL, and voilà, a relatively quick follow!

There are a lot of people whose sites didn’t have obvious links to their feeds. To me this is a desperate tragedy for the open web. We’re already behind the eight ball compared to social media and corporate controlled sites, why make it harder for people to read/consume our content from our own domains? And as if to add insult to injury, the places on one’s website where an RSS feed link/icon would typically live were instead populated by links to corporate social media like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. In a few cases I also saw legacy links to Google+ which ended service and disappeared from the web along with a tremendous number of online identities and personal data on April 2, 2019. (Here’s a reminder to remove those if you’ve forgotten.) For those who are also facing this problem, there’s a fantastic service called SubToMe that has a universal follow button that can be installed or which works well with a browser bookmarklet and a wide variety of feed readers.

I was thrilled to see a few people were using interesting alternate content management systems/site generators like WithKnown and Grav. There were  also several people who had branched out to static site generators (sites without a database). This sort of plurality is a great thing for the community and competition in the space for sites, design, user experience, etc. is awesome. It’s thrilling to see people in the Domains space taking advantage of alternate options, experimenting with them, and using them in the wild.

lol, I agree #domains19 pic.twitter.com/aMdwJlhogr

— Lauren Brumfield (@brumface) June 10, 2019

I’ll note that I did see a few poor souls who were using Wix. I know there was at least one warning about Wix at the conference, but in case it wasn’t stated explicitly, Wix does not support exporting data, which makes any potential future migration of sites difficult. Definitely don’t use it for any extended writing, as cutting and pasting more than a few simple static pages becomes onerous. To make matters worse, Wix doesn’t offer any sort of back up service, so if they chose to shut your site off for any reason, you’d be completely out of luck. No back up + no export = I couldn’t recommend using.

If your account or any of your services are cancelled, it may result in loss of content and data. You are responsible to back up your data and materials. —Wix Terms of Use

I also noticed a few people had generic domain names that they didn’t really own (and not even in the sense of rental ownership). Here I’m talking about domain names of the form username.domainsproject.com. While I’m glad that they have a domain that they can use and generally control, it’s not one that they can truly exert full ownership over. (They just can’t pick it up and take it with them.) Even if they could export/import their data to another service or even a different content management system, all their old links would immediately disappear from the web. In the case of students, while it’s nice that their school may provide this space, it is more problematic for data portability and longevity on the web that they’ll eventually lose that institutional domain name when they graduate. On the other hand, if you have something like yourname.com as your digital home, you can export/import, change content management services, hosting companies, etc. and all your content will still resolve and you’ll be imminently more find-able by your friends and colleagues. This choice is essentially the internet equivalent of changing cellular providers from Sprint to AT&T but taking your phone number with you–you may change providers, but people will still know where to find you without being any the wiser about your service provider changes. I think that for allowing students and faculty the ability to more easily move their content and their sites, Domains projects should require individual custom domains.

If you don’t own/control your physical domain name, you’re prone to lose a lot of value built up in your permalinks. I’m also reminded of here of the situation encountered by faculty who move from one university to another. (Congratulations by the way to Martha Burtis on the pending move to Plymouth State. You’ll notice she won’t face this problem.)  There’s also the situation of Matthew Green, a security researcher at Johns Hopkins whose institutional website was taken down by his university when the National Security Agency flagged an apparent issue. Fortunately in his case, he had his own separate domain name and content on an external server and his institutional account was just a mirrored copy of his own domain.

If you’ve got it, flaunt it. —Mel Brooks from The Producers (1968), obviously with the it being a referent to A Domain of One’s Own.

Also during my project, I noted that quite a lot of people don’t list their own personal/professional domains within their Twitter or other social media profiles. This seems a glaring omission particularly for at least one whose Twitter bio creatively and proactively claims that they’re an avid proponent of A Domain of One’s Own.

And finally there were a small–but still reasonable–number of people within the community for whom I couldn’t find their domain at all! A small number assuredly are new to the space or exploring it, and so I’d give a pass, but I was honestly shocked that some just didn’t.

(Caveat: I’ll freely admit that the value of Domains is that one has ultimate control including the right not to have or use one or even to have a private, hidden, and completely locked down one, just the way that Dalton chose not to walk in the conformity scene in The Dead Poet’s Society. But even with this in mind, how can we ethically recommend this pathway to students, friends, and colleagues if we’re not willing to participate ourselves?)

Too much Twitter & a challenge for the next Domains Conference

One of the things that shocked me most at a working conference about the idea of A Domain of One’s Own within education where there was more than significant time given to the ideas of privacy, tracking, and surveillance, was the extent that nearly everyone present gave up their identity, authority, and digital autonomy to Twitter, a company which actively represents almost every version of the poor ethics, surveillance, tracking, and design choices we all abhor within the edtech space.

Why weren’t people proactively using their own domains to communicate instead? Why weren’t their notes, observations, highlights, bookmarks, likes, reposts, etc. posted to their own websites? Isn’t that part of what we’re in all this for?!

One of the shining examples from Domains 2019 that I caught as it was occurring was John Stewart’s site where he was aggregating talk titles, abstracts, notes, and other details relevant to himself and his practice. He then published them in the open and syndicated the copies to Twitter where the rest of the conversation seemed to be happening. His living notebook– or digital commmonplace book if you will–is of immense value not only to him, but to all who are able to access it. But you may ask, “Chris, didn’t you notice them on Twitter first?” In fact, I did not! I caught them because I was following the live feed of some of the researchers, educators, and technologists I follow in my feed reader using the OPML files mentioned above. I would submit, especially as a remote participant/follower of the conversation, that his individual posts were worth 50 or more individual tweets. Just the additional context they contained made them proverbially worth their weight in gold.

Perhaps for the next conference, we might build a planet or site that could aggregate all the feeds of people’s domains using their categories/tags or other means to create our own version of the Twitter stream? Alternately, by that time, I suspect that work on some of the new IndieWeb readers will have solidified to allow people to read feeds and interact with that content directly and immediately in much the way Twitter works now except that all the interaction will occur on our own domains.

Seeing good examples of existing domains is crucial for showing students what is possible in creating their own domain, says @CassieNooyen #domains19

— Mo Pelzel (@MorrisPelzel) June 10, 2019

As educators, one of the most valuable things we can and should do is model appropriate behavior for students. I think it’s high time that when attending a professional conference about A Domain of One’s Own that we all ought to be actively doing it using our own domains. Maybe we could even quit putting our Twitter handles on our slides, and just put our domain names on them instead?

Of course, I wouldn’t and couldn’t suggest or even ask others to do this if I weren’t willing and able to do it myself.  So as a trial and proof of concept, I’ve actively posted all my interactions related to Domains 2019 that I was interested in to my own website using the tag Domains 2019.  At that URL, you’ll find all the things I liked and bookmarked, as well as the bits of conversation on Twitter and others’ sites that I’ve commented on or replied to. All of it originated on my own domain, and, when it appeared on Twitter, it was syndicated only secondarily so that others would see it since that was where the conversation was generally being aggregated. You can almost go back and recreate my entire Domains 2019 experience in real time by following my posts, notes, and details on my personal website.

So, next time around can we make an attempt to dump Twitter!? The technology for pulling it off certainly already exists, and is reasonably well-supported by WordPress, WithKnown, Grav, and even some of the static site generators I noticed in my brief survey above. (Wix obviously doesn’t even come close…)

I’m more than happy to help people build and flesh out the infrastructure necessary to try to make the jump. Even if just a few of us began doing it, we could serve as that all-important model for others as well as for our students and other constituencies. With a bit of help and effort before the next Domains Conference, I’ll bet we could collectively pull it off. I think many of us are either well- or even over-versed in the toxicities and surveillance underpinnings of social media, learning management systems, and other digital products in the edtech space, but now we ought to attempt a move away from it with an infrastructure that is our own–our Domains.

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Meet India’s First Woman Geo-Carte Radar Technology Specialist

Silky Agrawal who studied Master in Technology in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar graduated in 2015 and launched her start-up GeoCarte Radar Technology Private Limited and incubated at IIT Gandhinagar.

Since 2015, Silky has worked on number of prestigious projects using IIT Gandhinagar’s network that includes working for Shree Somnath Trust, railway station in Gandhinagar and CST in Mumbai along with Ahmedabad Metro Rail project. Here are some excerpts from his interview with Metro Rail News:

Can you please introduce yourself and also explain more about GeoCarte Radar Technology Pvt. Ltd. presence in Metro and Railway construction industry in India?

I am a former master’s student of Civil engineering at IIT Gandhinagar. With the soul of an engineer and heart of an entrepreneur, I have initiated a start-up “GeoCarte Radar Technology Private Limited”, working in the field of non-destructive geo-exploration using Ground Penetrating Radar. We are currently incubated at IIT Gandhinagar under the mentorship of Prof. Amit Prashant and Prof. Sudhir K. Jain, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Gandhinagar.

We at Geo-Carte provide comprehensive professional services for all kind of non-destructive geo-explorations ranging from utility mapping to archaeological investigations and in many more domains using GPR.  With our advanced technology we can map the underground utility services without digging and hence it can be of great use to several agencies in optimising the need of the new network, preventing the damage to the pre-existing utilities while installing the new ones, detecting leaks in existing pipes and in preparing the database of the same. This can save huge amount of money and time and can considerably reduce the undesirable delays in the projects. Adding to it, we have successfully completed several projects for utility mapping, road inspection, railway ballast investigation and archaeological investigation. We have worked with Larsen & Toubro on Ahmedabad Metro Rail Project to map the underground utilities to plan utility shifting at the location of proposed underground station and area besides where probably the utilities can be shifted. We have also worked with Indian Railways to explore the application of GPR for ballast investigation to improve the output efficiency of Ballast Cleaning Machine during the maintenance work. We have worked with many such esteemed clients on prestigious projects including Chennai Smart City Project.

Please could you give us some background as to your own career and what attracted you towards incorporation of GeoCarte Radar Technology Pvt. Ltd.?

During my master’s, I was working on a project, Archaeological Investigation using GPR at Dholavira. During initial stages, while calibrating the machine, we realised the machine is not good to work in all situations and there are few limitations to its performance, like poor quality data in high moisture soil content. Therefore, we tried several other methods to develop a tool which can analyse this weak signal data. After so many trials and error methods, we developed the advance analysis tool which can provide satisfactory solution in all soil conditions. Also, coming from business background family, never wanted to go for job, and my mentor Prof. Amit Prashant motivated to for start-up and supported me. And that’s how i ended up initiating GeoCarte.

Tell us a little bit more about your company and how it would typically be better for projects than more traditional methods?

GeoCarte is company fully focus for underground infrastructure mapping. Traditionally people go for trenching to get an idea about underground utilities or any features, however, it leads to damage of the pre-existing assets, its dis-continuous data, very time consuming, inconvenient and costly method. GeoCarte’s services provides the map of all the underground assets just by scanning and enables a company to plan any new project execution efficiently and reduces the chances of undesired delays in the projects due to scarcity of knowledge about subsurface features.

What is GeoCarte Radar Technology and how it works?

GeoCarte is a consulting organisation providing comprehensive professional consultancy services for all kind of geo-explorations ranging from archaeological investigations to utility mapping, ground water table investigation and assessing the condition or health monitoring of concrete structures. We at GeoCarte intends to serve our clients with our best approach to deliver outputs on time and guarantees that our services will exceed our fees.  We provide services right from data collection on site, to data analysis, data interpretation and report preparation. We provide the output results in form of plan and sectional view which can be easily used and implemented in further processing by any engineer at site.

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)

As we know that your company use Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) technology, Utility Mapping and Transportation Inspection services to infrastructure and construction industry. Please enlighten our readers more about your specialized product, technology & services and their salient features.

We have developed an advance analysis tool which can be used in difficult site conditions where the conventional tools fail to perform. We can provide satisfactory output result even in high moisture condition, high clayey content soil where GPR data contains weak signal and conventional methods cannot provide efficient output results. Moreover, we provide tailored and customised solutions to our customers for their specific requirements and purposes.

How were projects undertaken before GeoCarte Radar Technology Pvt. Ltd. became so prominent and what changes have been made?

Mostly people are unaware of these available technology and therefore they use traditional and conventional methods like, trenching, excavations, etc. which leads to damage of underground assets and cause undesired delays in the project leading to loss of time and resources. There are couple of companies in India providing services for subsurface utility mapping, however, they use conventional method which is not good enough for all site conditions.

What are the other kinds of players and how do you differentiate yourselves from them? 

There are very few companies who provide similar services, however, the conventional commercial available technology alone is not good enough to perform in all site conditions. With our advanced analysis tool, we can provide enhanced subsurface profile. Also, we do provide services in different domains other than utility mapping and exploring new avenues of its application. We have worked on several archaeological projects, Indian railway project and many such challenging projects. We intend to provide superior quality services with more efficient technology and approach.  8. What are the measures you take with regards to quality control? With regards to quality control, specially for underground utility mapping we follow American standard codes ASCE-38-02 to maintain the quality of our output drawings.

Tell us about major metro & railway and infra projects undertaken by you and what are the challenges you face when it comes to catering to the Indian market?

We have successfully completed the underground utility mapping for a proposed underground metro station for Ahmedabad Metro Rail Project with L&T for the purpose of planning of pre-existing underground utilities. We are currently working on Chennai Smart City Project with Tamil Nadu Water Investment Company. We are going to execute several metro and smart city projects in coming months in several cities of India. The biggest challenge we face is to convince the government officials to adopt new technology. Also, Government corporations outsource everything to contractors, though they need to understand that the main client has the responsibility to know at first place about the existing assets before proposing or awarding any new project to the contractors.

What do you think about metro railway, rapid rail transit and high-speed rail revolution in the major metropolitan cities in the India?

It is the must required things in the big cities with very high population for convenience. Now a days it has become a great issue, by road due to heavy traffic, it is very difficult to reach to your places on time. And therefore, having public transport, like metros, rapid rail transits is a need of the hour.

Any other information, you want to share with us in respect to technology development in metro & railway, infrastructure and construction industries and how your company is well placed to capitalize on this or has capitalized on it.

Currently, in India during the smart city mission, there is a boom in infrastructure domain, and its a very good opportunity for any upcoming new technology in the country. Our technology bring the revolution in this smart city projects where, the existing cities are getting updated to smart cities, and there is so much unrecorded underground infrastructure unknown to anybody. Thus we have a great opportunity to work.

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DS: Aftermath - Day at the Office with Ruby

Words: 1,464 Spoiler Warning:  Takes place after Job & Family.

This is gonna be the first of three little deleted/future scenes that include some requested content.  I’m hoping to post all three within a few days.

Ruby walked down the hallway of the Citadel’s prison flanked by four Knights of Hell.  When they reached the end of the hall, one of the Knights opened the door to the last cell, then two of Knights entered.  She gave them a moment to react to any potential threats, then followed them in, leaving the other two Knights to stand guard at the cell door.

She had gotten used to having an entourage of at least two bodyguards while outside of camp.  At seven months pregnant, with Sam & her second child, she was a very real target for anyone with anti-Hell sensibilities.  For the most part she only left the camp to visit the Citadel for her work, but no one was taking chances, even in the very heart of Hell.

The prisoner was an angel that was affiliated with the Order of the Morningstar.  He had joined the group of Lucifer loyalists after the revolt in Heaven.  Four hours ago he'd been picked up by one of Hell’s task forces that was tracking the source of an effort to breach Hell’s barriers that limit interplanar communication.  It wasn't clear whether the attempt to open a direct line to Hell was for recruitment, contacting an ally on the inside, or something else.  Before starting, Ruby double checked to make sure the angel's warded handcuffs were secure.

“We are going to discuss fifteen topics.”  Ruby informed him.  “That's how long you have to convince me not to have my people torture you to death.”

The prisoner stared at her belly in a way that was both annoying & unsettling.  It was a common frustration that people meeting her for the first time to fixate on the pregnancy.  But more than that, as a member of the Order, the angel was probably painfully aware that the child was a vessel for Lucifer.  She snapped her fingers and one of the Knights hit the prisoner.

“Look me in the eyes when I'm speaking to you.”  Her voice was cold & commanding.

“I serve your true king.”  The angel stated.  She didn't want to engage in some non-sequitur, but she could at least take a shot at his reverence for Lucifer.

“Your brother, he made a little mistake when he was designing this place- it's toxic to angels.  You see, you're slowly dying just sitting here.”  Ruby shrugged.  “I guess maybe it wasn't a mistake, maybe he just didn't want to share his toys.  Either way, the longer you stay down here the weaker you’ll become.  We're gonna have our nice long chat, just you, me, & my enforcers.”

“I won't tell you anything.”

“Maybe you won't, but I'm also interested in speaking with your vessel’s soul, once we kill you both.”  Ruby pulled a scroll from the pocket of her robe.  “Interesting fact, your vessel abused a disabled classmate in high school.  He's our property and I'm guessing he’ll happily strike a deal.”

“You wouldn't-”  Ruby snapped her fingers again resulting in another punch to the angel’s face.

“Topic one of fifteen: What are the names & species of every member of the Order that you've worked with directly?”

The interrogation lasted seven hours before she had to stop it.  As predicted the prisoner started faltering five hours in.  She got what she could while he was in reasonable shape, but when he lost his focus she handed him off to her subordinates.  Honestly she was glad to be out of there, for the last hour the prisoner had gone back to staring blankly at her belly.

Walking through the hallways of the Citadel’s administrative offices she relished the peace & near isolation.  She didn't stop moving, but she rested her hand on her belly as the baby shifted & kicked a few times.  Despite her preference for being hands on, she conceded to herself that it'd probably be a good idea to let her underlings handle interrogations for the next two months.  The poor kid was probably coming down off of her stress induced adrenaline high.  She was almost back to her office when Morrison hurried over to walk with her.

“How’s our little prince doing?”  The Archdemon nearly had a spring in his step.

“He'd be doing a lot better if he didn't already have a job title.”  Ruby replied without bothering to slow down.  

Three months earlier Kay had told Ruby that she was secretly trying to get pregnant, but until that actually happened Ruby's children were either first or second tier heirs to Hell’s thrown.  No one was really clear where Sam fell in the chain of succession, having been forced to disassociate with Hell’s governmental activities.  Though, if something did happen to Kay while their children were still young, Ruby was convinced that Sam would breach the agreement with Heaven in order to insulate his kids from the threats of the throne.  But hopefully, the whole thing would remain moot.

“It's time for another check up.”  Morrison reminded her.

“Can we do it at my desk?  In the interest of efficiency.”

“Of course, whatever makes you comfortable.”

When they got back to her office, Ruby took off her traditional Maji robe, leaving her just in a pair of maternity pants & a bra.  She sat down at her desk and began making notes on her current investigation while Morrison examined her belly.  He touched her, painted sigils on her belly, took different measurements, & more.  She was used to it by then, during the first two months after her pregnancy had become public knowledge Morrison was checking on the baby almost every hour.

“He's doing quite well.”  Morrison commented after several minutes of analysis.  He disappeared for a moment, then returned with a jar of powder & a folder.  “I'd like you to start taking another supplement.”

“Give me the recipe & full report for it.”  She refused to take any potions Morrison prescribed without carefully studying them.  He handed her the folder, which she started flipping through.  “What's it for?”

“It enhances the pons & thalamus portions of the brain.  I've observed that a weakness in those regions is responsible for Sam & Kay’s migraines when their powers become exhausted.  This should significantly reduce the child's risk of cognitive impairment from overuse of powers.”

Ruby reviewed the report’s findings carefully, then added the powder to her collection of prenatal nutritional supplements.

“During the next pregnancy I'd like to start that treatment at week 18, but as with so many things we have to refine with each version.”

“You're talking about my kids, not prototypes.”  Ruby put her hand on her belly and subtly narrowed her eyes at him.

“I have the utmost respect & concern for each of our royal children.”  Morrison assured her.  “I'm just trying to ensure that future children receive the best start possible.”

“You sound like Crowley.”

“The whole realm is excited for his arrival.”  He stated the painfully obvious fact that she wasn't thrilled about.  There was no doubt in her mind that the constant badgering about prenatal exams would soon be replaced by constant badgering to bring him down to Hell.  The requests for Kaylee to visit were more than enough.  “And the data that I've been provided is invaluable.  At this rate we may only need to study another two or three pregnancies before we can begin trials with other demons.”

“Sam & I are not on the hook to have three more kids.”  She reminded him.

“Well, with hope Kay will provide us with at least one or two children.”

“You’re doing that thing where you devalue people again.”  Ruby observed, but he didn't acknowledge the comment.

“I think it would be best if you didn't travel between planes during the last few days before the birth.  I know you require sleep, we could set up a bedroom for you-”

“I'm giving birth on Earth.”  

“I think it would be best to have the child here.”

“I'm not gonna make Sam miss his son’s birth.”  She was unwavering on the issue.  “If you insist on being there to study the birth you can come, but you aren't interfering.”

“I wouldn't dream of interfering.”  Morrison said a bit taken aback.

“Not just with the labor, I also mean no pestering Sam.”

“I've never pestered him.”

“You asked him if you could watch him masterbate and then keep the sample.”  Ruby scowled at the memory in order to keep herself from snickering.  “He understands that you're trying to figure this out, but you're more invasive than humans are used to and it can be disturbing.”

“I'll try to be attentive to him.”  Morrison agreed.  “His well being is just as important as any other specimen of our breeding program.”

“I appreciate the sentiment, but I think you really need to practice your phrasing before I go into labor.”

[autolovecraft]

For this reserve or melancholy no cause could be heard.

There had been taken by something of stolid resignation about them, in which the dark its luminosity was very little to examine.

And at twilight, dreading to re-closing vapors they followed the great outside; that lone, weird message from other universes and other things which cannot be mentioned, and sometimes with only a fine gray dust that no axe has ever cut. Not long after this the professors stayed away in contempt. What presence had his cry and entry started up? It was, indeed, was sorely needed; since the water from that stone poisoned the soil, but the death had been, must have brushed the coping and knocked in a glass beaker. But the terrible thing about the stone wall on the telescopes and photographic plates of our observatories. Nahum to deal with now; he must inevitably have turned a total maniac. But he did. That July and August were hot; and hunters cannot depend on their dogs too near the place on the floor without meeting any solid obstruction.

The sounds, the host shouted huskily to Zenas. It shied, balked, and in such abundance that extra barrels were ordered to handle the future crop. Do not ask me for my opinion.

Then there burst up from that doomed and accursed farm a gleamingly eruptive cataclysm of unnatural light, like the way back from his all-night search of the same time the professors had trooped out again the hapless beast lay huddled inert on the dark ancient valleys through which he had seen that no axe has ever cut. It was the next day returned to Boston to give simple orders to Zenas.

Something was creeping and creeping and creeping and waiting to be no use, and toward the end of the few who have ever dared glimpse it in a constant state of nervous tension. I thought as I had to be the outcome of a spacious valley; for not even mention for many years to come—the professors stayed away in contempt. Nahum had dug a grave in the railed family plot behind the farm with its collegiate sponsoring, and was very plain that healthy living things must leave that house.

On an anvil it appeared to stir furtively in the attic and under the red checked tablecloth on the way the sunlight. There was a crushed and apparently somewhat melted mass of iron which had stood where the two phials of dust for analysis in a locked and undisturbed barn.

Ammi laid a red checked tablecloth over what was left behind a hollow spherical space about three inches across, and as they ought not to do but go back to the attic room, and was developing a highly singular quality of brittleness. In terms of matter, force, and their neighing and pawing frantically.

He was a general cry; muffled with awe, but shuddered as they detached another and larger piece with hammer and found it was much more recent than I had been a face.

But he could be no use, and Nahum worked hard at his gleaning of the same color just the same color just the same monstrous fire were creeping about the sensation I derived from my one lone walk before Ammi told me this in Arkham. When they looked back an instant at the end of May the milk began to point shakily and impressively. Presently Nahum asked him if the poet had coined the phrase from having seen this one particular region. There could be cared for. It was still alive after a fashion. One must have had some peculiar electrical property; for Arkham people will not talk about the trees in the dim alleys between them, in truth, so he busied himself in obtaining them—and its colored globule are dead.

Slowly nerving himself, he heard still further sounds below. He whispered, and then quickly followed his own kitchen, instead of keeping straight on to town to tell on him. And all the mystery was much breathless talk of new elements, bizarre optical properties, and a clammy and hateful current of vapor. It was a thunderstorm, and sent reporters to talk with Nahum Gardner house amidst its fertile gardens and orchards. There's more to this nor what we know.

By September all the woodwork in sight, and Nahum's place became a kind of growth or nourishment even now. That July and August were hot; and he thought a momentary cloud eclipsed the window, and over all the queer color of that party agreed in whispering later on, that string of explosions in the substance.

This was no longer good.

Nahum plowed and sowed the ten-acre pasture and stumbled home by the law. Only with persistent knocking could I rouse the aged man, and only the foreigners would not have gone the front yard were such blasphemous-looking things that Nahum's oldest boy Zenas cut them down. No one could explain. As was natural, the testing was carried on in glass; and after some fumbling Ammi threw open the low white door. The room was deadly cold; and as the light from the slimy depths in front. Weeds and briers reigned, and their nocturnal habits contradicted all former experience.

Six times within an hour the farmer saw the tumbled bricks and stones. Each minute saw it, but the wise men answered that stones do not know—that is imagined. But whatever daemon hatchling is there, and had noticed the glow about the same time the professors stayed away in air, and for a moment the visitor was apprehensive of the same impression from a nocturnal exhalation seen as a moving object. Familiarity had dulled them, and sent reporters to talk with Nahum Gardner and his wife consoled the stricken man as best they could not believe I would like to visit that country by night all Arkham had heard the story, and the special signs of purpose it was, indeed, rather a product of moments when consciousness seemed half to slip away. What was it, and Ammi's grip tightened on a heavy stick he had seen that color sometimes towards night an' it burns and sucks it come from some subtle change in the chill wind that came down the well at the window, and when upon heating before the father could get no clear data at all and showing no occluded gases when heated on charcoal, being wholly negative in the acid solvents there seemed to be.

The pears and apples had crept into my soul. The ooze and bubbles and the next morning to see the abnormal growth, and malignly bubbling in its cosmic and unrecognizable chromaticism. That afternoon several persons drove past Nahum's house in his front yard, and the gambrel roof no later than 1730. The six men drove out in a clutching fright. So the men who had eaten nothing grown in that grotesque country; and Nahum declared it had done with poor Nahum had come to recognize and dread. But he did enter he saw something dark in the attic.

He could not help glancing nervously at the various social events of the tests the college dug out of everything in that aerolite two summers ago, had seen upstairs. It was not glad to see me. Nahum had come to meet him, and something terrible—though I know there was no time to mourn, for almost anything now, and then Merwin’s screams were answered faintly from the well. In the twilight he hastened home, the seven shaking men trudged back toward the end of which nothing of Nahum and Nabby, Ammi could not go into that dim chaos of old forest and slope again, or face another time that gray blasted heath seemed to me very odd and theatrical, and some of the trees in the corner does not bring restful dreams at night.

There seemed virtually nothing to do to calm them, and upon tapping it appeared to shoot up from the well immediately, so Ammi had nothing but drive it into the well. The way they screamed at each other from behind their locked doors was very terrible, especially to little Merwin, who first realized that the strange days. He was never specific, but before the spectroscope it displayed shining bands unlike any known colors of the buggy which they could not stay, for all the abhorrent grounds seemed faintly luminous with more than it did anywhere else, and was developing a highly singular quality of brittleness.