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Must Read Of The Week: Dream And Achieve by Kola Olutimehin
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Dream and Achieve: Discover and Express Your Passion in Your Lifetime by 'Dream Driver' Kola Olutimehin is the perfect read to kick off 2022 with a bang, offering an instructional and motivational guide to reaching your true destiny.
By Gwyneth Rees
We all come into this world with dreams and ambitions that we would dearly like to achieve, to bring satisfaction and validation to our lives.
Yet, despite this, it seems that for the majority those sought-after goals remain just that, never transitioning from the mind to reality.
However, it doesn't have to be this way, as inspirational self-help guide Dream and Achieve: Discover and Express Your Passion in Your Lifetime is here to remind us.
Written by coach, public speaker and "Dream Driver" Kola Olutimehin, this book is the perfect read to kick off 2022, motivating readers to doggedly pursue their desires and discover their purpose in life.
And, in short, those dreams could be anything, for the same guidance and structure that Kola sets out so clearly in Dream and Achieve can be applied equally whatever your age, background or ambition. Whether you are an aspiring entrepreneur, a seasoned professional, student or housewife, you will find that the same mental framework is the essential element that turns aspirations into actualities.
In fact, the only prerequisite is to have a dream in the first place, or the enthusiasm to discover one. This is a central point for the author, who observes that having a dream brings meaning to life. At the start of the book, in the section titled 'Any Dream Will Do', he states:
I believe that everyone ought to have a dream, together with the intentions and plans to take relevant action steps towards the attainment of that dream. A dream elongates your life and gives you mastery over death, because death, which is a wicked angelic being, recognises and respects the practical dreamer!
When you lose your dreams, you risk death, not only physically but mentally as well! In my study of great achievers, I have discovered that when some of them gave up hoping after the attainment of their dreams, they soon died. They no longer had a dream to look forward to and live for.
However, as the above passages indicate, having a dream is nice but useless unless you also have a robust plan already in place to attain it.
In Dream and Achieve, Dream Driver Kola Olutimehin provides a hands-on guide to identifying and realising your ambitions.
In addition, you will also need to develop resilience because, as Kola makes clear—speaking as much from his own experience as wider insights—any journey to success is going to be paved with obstacles along the way.
You must be ready to tackle issues head on, learn from them, and be mentally equipped to dig deep in pursuit of your destination, banishing any hint of a quitter's mentality. In other words, and as more eloquently put by the great inventor Henry Ford—one of the author's personal heroes—"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently".
This, to me, is a key appeal of Dream and Achieve. It praises and encourages the daring to achieve your goals but at no point sugarcoats things. You must seek your dreams with your eyes open.
This key message is reinforced throughout the book. Don't abandon your dreams but, instead, have the courage to turn them into reality, being ready to get right up again when challenges knock you down.
The book is divided into seven easy-to-digest chapters that take the reader from finding and defining their dream to putting together the winning formula that will see them come true.
Powering this whole process is Kola's unique and supremely practical set of guiding principles: the Empowered Thought Pillars (ETPs).
Introduced in the second chapter, 'A Winning Formula That Never Fails', the ETPs consist of four key ethical pillars of thought that must be considered by every "practical dreamer".
These comprise 'giving back' (to your community), 'having a heart of kindness' (towards those less fortunate), 'using fair conduct' (only becoming involved in projects that benefit everyone within that project), and providing a 'beneficial service' (where the customer benefits).
Addressing each of these pillars, the author advises, will help transform your thought processes and empower your actions, helping focus the individual on lifting up others as they pursue their own goal.
At the same time, the practical dreamer must be wary of negative habits that could easily derail their plans, including greed, fear, and a lack of commitment to continued education.
Throughout the book, Kola highlights the common problems we face on the way to reaching our dreams, so we can avoid or conquer them as soon as they emerge.
He discusses, for instance, how dreams—which are not just fantasies, but the "seedlings of reality"—are so often wrongly knocked out of children by their well-meaning parents, and require intervention later on in life to resurrect them.
He warns, too, of the things that can stunt our vision for success attainment, such as fatigue, short-term thinking, narrow-mindedness, and fear of ridicule.
One of the most refreshing things about self-help guide Dream and Achieve is that author Kola Olutimehin is frank about the challenges that everyone will face in turning a dream into reality. However, he says that with the right attitude and preparation, all obstacles can be overcome.
What comes out most here is that it is often the case that the biggest hurdle to realising our dreams is us, with doubts such as the feeling of being too old, too behind others, or being too short on time dragging us down into inaction and defeat.
In answer to this, Kola shares a motto by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato: "The first and best victory is to conquer self; to be conquered by self is, of all things, shameful and vile."
You'll find a treasure trove of inspiring quotes peppered throughout Dream and Achieve, selected by Kola for their essential truth and value.
Some of my favourites include "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried something new" (Albert Einstein), and Anthony Robbins' pearl of wisdom, "Procrastination is the assassination of motivation and goals realisation".
At the close of each chapter, the author kindly provides a handy summary, 'Thought in Action', so the key points can be committed to memory and drawn upon when needed.
What really makes this book stand out from others is Kola, himself. He is the ever-present mentor you've already wished for, being there every step of the way to instruct and encourage.
Within a few pages you fully understand that he has lived, and lived by, every single snippet of advice he shares.
For not only does Kola write honestly of his own daily practices, which include visualisations and affirmations, but he also goes so far as to credit having a dream to thank for him surviving a car crash, and with only a few scratches to show for it.
Essentially, if Kola is anything to go by then this essential guide categorically proves that dreams can come true.
In describing his own story, and his own long-term dream, Kola explains how he began following the path of self-development at the start of the millennium.
Originally from Nigeria but a resident of the UK for many years, Kola has carved out a respected, multi-faceted career as a business consultant and coach, public speaker, serial author, corporate trainer, and Dream Driver.
In fact, he refers to himself as an "info-tycoon"—someone who provides information for the betterment of humankind, while still managing to earn a living from it.
In his consultancy role, he has spoken to thousands across a range of industries about the management of change and business process efficiency to enhance bottom-line results.
And known as "getKOLA" amongst his international speaking audiences, he has provided keynote addresses at major corporate events globally, with his audience including entrepreneurs and business owners, company executives, and management and staff.
If that wasn't enough, he is also the director of international publishing house MakeWay Publishing, and founder of MakeWay Global, an international management consultancy with clients including the African Development Bank.
Dream and Achieve: Discover and Express Your Passion in Your Lifetime by Kola Olutimehin is the essential guide to achieving ambitions and bringing true meaning to life.
It is not his link with publishing, however, that drove Kola to write Dream and Achieve. That, as he explains, came from his own journey towards success, beginning as an exercise to absorb and crystallise the teachings of other great self-help figures, such as his all-time hero, Napoleon Hill, author of the classic Think and Grow Rich.
It must, therefore, have been quite the honour for him to receive the blessing of the Napoleon Hill Foundation, with Don M. Green, executive director of the international non-profit educational institution, providing a stirring introduction.
Kola's strong Christian faith has also been a constant source of strength. He speaks, for instance, of boosting the chances of succeeding in reaching your life's destiny by growing your spiritual nature and being at one with your Creator.
In doing so, he says, you will be using your time wisely and developing your intellect. The author's premise is that, with God in our lives, we are more able to pursue our dreams and goals wisely and with resilience.
Wherever you sit on the spiritual spectrum, however, you will benefit from Kola's sage guidance, which is both instructional and a tonic to ward off those pesky self-limiting falsehoods we tend to tell ourselves. This passage, for instance, particularly resonated with me:
Believe in yourself and your capabilities to accomplish your desired goals. The lack of self-confidence and an inferiority complex keeps one bound in unbelief and results in a lack of activity. It is essential that one practices the art of believing. This means a mental and verbal rehearsal of reaffirming your belief on a particular subject or thing.
Using the well-known but effective tool of affirmations, Kola encourages us to use positive, self-reaffirming messages to tackle and extricate ourselves from mental setbacks.
Repeating simple affirmations such as "I am getting better every day", or taking other steps such as regularly reading a statement about your dream to build self-belief and resilience, are incredibly important to the process of meeting your dreams.
The act of visualisation is likewise of vital importance in creating an intended outcome in your thought processes.
As such, Kola urges us to see success in our mind's eye, talking about it with a firm belief and a deep personal conviction.
Fundamentally, Kola's message is joyful and positive: taking dreams seriously and proclaiming that we must not ignore our dreams, no matter how hard they are, because pursuing a destiny is a person's responsibility. To remain as you are is to deny who you can become.
Genuine and transformational, this is a compelling guide to turning your ambitions into reality and an invaluable resource for those who dare to achieve.
Dream and Achieve: Discover and Express Your Passion in Your Lifetime by Kola Olutimehin (MakeWay Publishing) is out now in paperback, eBook and audiobook priced at £7.50, £3.60 and £3.60 respectively. It is available from www.getkola.com, Amazon or www.makewaybooks.com.
Q&A INTERVIEW WITH DREAM DRIVER KOLA OLUTIMEHIN
We speak with Dream and Achieve author Kola Olutimehin to find out more about making your ambitions a reality, the obstacles that we must overcome to do this, and the dream that Kola has been pursuing, among many other things.
Q: Everybody has a dream, but most people never achieve it. Why is that?
A: One key reason is that they may not believe that the dream is possible. And where we have those that believe in the possibility of their dreams and dare to pursue it, they may notbe able to stay the course when disappointments and temporary defeats flood their paths. I have always said that going after one's dreams is never a 'stroll in the park'.
Q:What is your key piece of advice on how to tackle challenges?
A:Think through the steps you want to pursue (which may include consulting others whom you are associated with for their advice), and thenaction them. Be prepared to revise the steps if your thought-out plan does not work, so that you can take them again. As Henry Ford said, "Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently".
Q: What is the greatest challenge you have faced, and how did you overcome it?
A: My greatest challenge has been the financial losses that Iincurred in the UK and USA real-estate market, which took me very close to bankruptcy. In order to get moving to another phase of my life's journey, I was able to segregate the financial debt that had resulted and got it independently managed so that I could focus my attention on charting my new path subsequently. Those were a very tough few years indeed!
Q: You are a tireless 'Dream Driver', helping others to realise their ambitions. What drivers you?
A: I am driven by my sense of mission. It is a part of me to see people do well in their endeavours and I will feel incomplete if theyare not pursuing their life's call. This is what I was created for by the Almighty. Having said that, I am only interested in working with those who have proven that they are keen. I will not run after anyone; especially as there are lots of time-wasters.
Q: Tell us more about your own dream, and how it is progressing.
A: One of my dreams was community development forthe part of Africa that my parents come from. I had held onto this dream for almost 30 years before I began to set up businesses there. I have faced challenges associated with going to a new territory, but I am also seeing the development that I had dreamt of, which interestingly is happening more via others that had gone ahead of me. Whatever dreams we have must be capable of going beyond our capacities and reach. Purposeful steps are also being taken into developing my core business of consulting, training, and corporate coaching in the different countries and continents that I had envisaged.
In addition, I am still in conversations with how we can house vulnerable young children, primarily in the UK. Although I have contributed to the efforts of some that have been doing this in the UK and beyond, I am still sold to what I see myself doing in the UK. In terms of the progress, I have taken inch-by-inch steps as well as big leaps along the way.
Author, coach, public speaker, and publisher Kola Olutimehin shares his own success journey in inspirational self-help book Dream and Achieve, and the powerful, easy-to-follow tools he has relied upon to realise his dreams.
Q: What is your favourite motivational quote, and why?
A: My favourite inspirational quote is actually one of mine, and it is,"God does not give us dreams to tease our desires, but to see whether we can dare to believe them, and thereafter pursue the aspirations with vigour. Any dream will do!".
The reason why I have given such attention to this is that it helps one to stretch their capacities in spite of what pains we have to bear. No thought has accidentally come to anyone's mind; it depends on the attention you pay to it and the person's decision (measured by action steps) thereafter.
Q: The UK is going through many challenges at the moment, from the ongoing impact of Brexit to the Covid pandemic. How do you think this is affecting the nation in terms of pursuing their dreams, and what reassurance would you give to those concerned with the current state of things?
A: You know,no one ever prays for setbacks to come their way; however, we all have our share of this at different points of our life's story. In the UK, with the relative ease that we have had with living (in comparison to other climes), people have generally coasted with life. As the saying goes, 'Adversity (or necessity) is the mother of invention'. The lack of what one desires ought to ignite the 'sleeping' mental capacity of people such that it can be stretched to see what is not currently in the physical realm and so that people believe so much in its possibility that they dare to work towards it.
You will find that effects of Brexit and the Covid pandemic have caused many people to change the way they do things. Although a lot of people started from the complaining mode, it just shows how people experience some of the early phases you encounter in change. We have a mnemonic for the five phases; being 'SARAH', and it refers to,
Shock;
Anger;
Rejection;
Acceptance; and
Some people are in different phases of change. Now is the time for Dream Drivers to encourage people to find their inner voice and obey it. This will extricate those who are almost getting accustomed to the voice of doom and will call for a new rising with vision and purpose that ultimately drives hope.
Q: How do you think the British Government could help society become a nation of dream achievers?
A: I think the British Government can elicit the public's contribution to problem solving. This will cause great thinkers to come to the fore and give a feeling of ownership for the country to be engrained in the brains of people. A sense of liberty comes with this, which will help people to pursue what iswithin them and rekindle hope.
Q: Who is your biggest inspiration, and why?
A: Napoleon Hill—the author of the all-time classic bookThink and Grow Rich, which was published in 1937—is a person that I relate to. He spoke many times about the relatable setbacks he encountered along the way of his pursuit. He dealt with these setbacks by refusing to listen to so-called 'voice ofreason' from family and friends, and his life has continued to impact people positively, long after he has left the scene. I refer to these setbacks, as the 'Victor's Extinguishers' in my book, Dream and Achieve.
Q: What will readers benefit most from readingDream and Achieve?
A: An assured point will be that they will see themselves through other lenses and ignite their own capacities. More so, they will be able to relate to the stories adequately and enjoy the publication.
And, more importantly, some will take definite steps to pursue their dreams and hearts' desires without giving in to the fears of what may or may not happen. Dream and Achieve does address issues of fear—whether it be fear of success or fear of failure. Going after one's dreams results in unfathomable inner satisfaction and joy.


Zvonimir Boban described Milan as being "in total confusion" against Napoli on Saturday but focused his ire on striker Mario Balotelli.
The Rossoneri took an early lead at the San Paolo through debutant Adel Taraabt, but an equaliser from Gokhan Inler and a double from Gonzalo Higuain saw the hosts claim a 3-1 win.
Speaking after the game, Boban was dismayed by what he saw as a chaotic display from Milan and felt that Taraabt's debut represented the one positive for Clarence Seedorf's side.
"I saw a team in total confusion in the field who did not seem to understand anything," the former Rossoneri midfielder told Sky Italia.
"Errors may be here for a while as Seedorf develops the team but the only good thing was some impetus from Taraabt.
The retired Croatia international, who played 216 times and scored 25 for the Rossoneri after joining from Dinamo Zagreb in 1991, was particularly scathing in his assessment of Balotelli, who was in tears after being substituted at San Paolo.
"[Balotelli] has never gave the impression of being a champion," the 1994 Champions League winner added.
"His football does not make a difference. Both at Inter and Manchester City never did great things. He is not among the true champions.
Milan sit 10th in Serie A, with 29 points from 23 games.


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Equal Pay for Equal Work movement
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image by Eugene Ipavec, 25 June 2015
About the flag
About the movement
Flag with female sign
A flag enjoying wide use has a vertical white rectangle centered on a red field with the words "Equal Pay" in red placed over a black line and the word "day,-" in black underneath. A clear example can be seen on the Australian Human Rights Commission website.
Pete Loeser, 25 June 2015
When the United States Equal Pay Act, one of the first federal anti-discrimination laws that addressed wage differences based on gender, was signed into law by President John F. Kennedy on June 10, 1963, few thought that years later, a "second wave" feminist movement would still be fighting the gender pay gap. The Act had made it illegal to pay men and women working in the same place different salaries for similar work, but the gender pay gap still remained. Even with the passage of more laws to prevent discrimination in the US workplace – e.g., the Civil Rights Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act – the gender pay gap still seems an intractable problem. A "third-wave" feminist movement has now spread world-wide, but the gender gap still persists, and women are disproportionately more likely to face poverty and domestic violence than men. Demonstrations in European Union countries and as far away as Australia continue to indicate that the concept that individuals doing the same work should receive the same remuneration - a full range of payments and benefits, including basic pay, non-salary payments, bonuses and allowances - still seems elusive.
Several flags have made appearances at "Equal Pay" rallies, including a colorful flag with a female gender sign. At a rally in front of the Brandenburg Gate on 21 March 2013 in Berlin, Germany, German Family Minister Manuela Schwesig spoke to both men and women about equal pay for women that day.
Sources: http://www.examiner.com/article/hashtag-yes-all-women-blows-up-the-twitter-feed and http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/fynQrkpr12Q/Women+Rally+on+Equal+Pay+Day.

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"Direct-Dependency-based Software Compatibility Testing" by Il-Chul Yoon, Alan Sussman. Atif M. Memon, and Adam Porter, in ASE '07: Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE international conference on Automated software engineering, (Washington, DC, USA), 2007.
Software compatibility testing is an important quality assurance task aimed at ensuring that component-based software systems build and/or execute properly across a broad range of usage scenarios or configurations. Because each system configuration can involve different components, each component can have multiple versions, and because there are complex and changing interdependencies between components and their versions, it is generally infeasible to test all potential system configurations. Therefore, compatibility testing usually means examining only a handful of default or popular configurations to detect problems. This virtually guarantees that the system will be released with nearly all of its possible configurations untested. As a result costly errors can and do escape to the field. This paper presents an improved approach to compatibility testing called RACHET. This approach formally models the configuration space of component-based systems and then uses this model to generate efficient test plans for covering user-specified entities in the configuration space -- the example in this paper involves covering all direct dependencies between components. We then use an automated process to rapidly execute the test plan in parallel across a grid of computers, distributing work so as to best use grid resources. We have conducted experiments and simulation studies, applying our approach to a large data management middleware system. These results showed that for this system RACHET discovered incompatibilities at a small fraction of the cost exhaustive testing without compromising test quality. They also expose key tradeoffs in the RACHET process that can be leveraged in future work to improve the approach.


To solve this, you need to understand a little about how social media sites choose the image. It varies between sites, but the general process is to look for something called an "Open Graph" Image a.k.a. OG Image and if it doesn't find one of those, then it picks an image off the page at random or sometimes allow the user to select from a few off the page. If you haven't heard of an OG Image before, it's an image that can be flagged / pointed at via the Meta of a page (the bit humans don't see). This can be immensely powerful because you can tell social media sites to use a specific image which might not appear on your page at all! Good eh?
Sites I create allow the setting of OG Images, and on a page-by-page basis too, which is essential if you are publishing content marketing / news articles or running a blog. So let's say your site has this functionality too. Unfortunately this is where the fun starts.
Some sites take the OG Image and then make a decision based on size. What joy!! For example, if an OG Image isn't bigger than 1200×630, Facebook will only display the small square version with text next to it, rather than the nice big rectangle with the text underneath. This error is what has happened in the "infuse intelligence" example above.
See?!?! Square. Bah! Not only that, but the "reply" image on Facebook is tragically low quality (and quite small) in a sort of smearing vaseline on my eyes type way.
If only they could all get their acts together and just use a 4:3 ratio image everywhere we could all just get on with our lives, but since we have to use the hand we are dealt, here's what I've started doing. I don't think it covers every single type of image that appears in Facebook, but seems to work for the most common types of shares. Maybe there's a better / easier way. Please tell me in the comments. Please let there be a better way.
Start with an image that looks good at 1200×630 and increase the canvas to a 1200×1200 square afterwards. Or start with a 1200×1200 image but be certain the 1200×630 bit in the middle has the important info. Here's my 1200×1200 OG Image. You can see the important bit is in the middle, so I don't mind if the top and bottom get cropped.
I've also added a Call To Action. Just a simple Click Me. Maybe it looks a bit OTT, but it makes it obvious it's something that SHOULD be clicked if the other surrounding text on the social media post sounds appealing. I'd love to hear your thoughts on whether this approach is good or off-putting.
If you've already shared your website on Facebook or Twitter, they hang on to that initial data from the first time it was shared, including the image, unless you force them to check your site again. So if you assign an OG Image or change one, remember to go to the relevant developer pages and ask for an update. Currently, the links are here for Facebook and here for Twitter but searching for "Facebook sharing debug" or "Twitter card validator" should help if those change at some point.
If you don't know how to assign an OG image on your site's pages and would like to know, your website creator should be able to help, or send me a message.


Today in Barcelona Spain, Samsung broke the news on the new Samsung Galaxy S6 phone called the "Samsung Galaxy S6" at a Samsung Unpacked event at the Mobile World Congress. The Samsung Galaxy S6 is the successor to the Galaxy S5. Also, at the conference, Samsung introduce a variant called the "Galaxy S6 Edge" alongside the standard Galaxy S6 phone. The Galaxy S6 Edge has a curved screen for side view notifications. Do I think the design "curve" for the S6 Edge is useful? Maybe, but the S6 Edge "curve" debate is ongoing, since reports on the "curve" design are mixed.
For the record, I really love the name "Galaxy S6 Edge" and I must admit I like the curve design. The new sleek Galaxy S6 Edge variant curve design does look nice based on the images I seen. The Samsung has replaced the plastic back frame which was on the S5 phone with a new metal and glass frame for the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge devices. From the reports; it's no longer waterproof and the micro SD is gone. also, another new upgrade is the Galaxy S6 also has a non-removable battery compared to the removable battery for the older S5 phone.
The new S6 Galaxy specifications include a 64-bit Exynos 7420 chipset with 14nm architecture; octa-core CPU (quad 2.1GHz & quad 1.5GHz). This time around Samsung realize that mobile users wanted more than just functional phone but a phone that has a nice design. We did a post last week anticipating the news on the new Galaxy S6. I think Samsung did a great job with this new device and I'm working to get a S6 Galaxy phone to test. I hope to have a more detail review once we get a S6 to test in our geek hands!


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By Connie Moore
Best Practices: Eureka! Xerox discovers way to grow community knowledge. . And customer satisfaction
The competitive gestation period in today's environment is brief. The fleeting margins between losing, gaining and retaining a customer are measured in hours and minutes. The edge is defined by the ability to predetermine your customers' problems and be prepared to resolve them before they even exist.
But the challenges are great. Particularly in tech-heavy office equipment industries where the industry standard for turnover of product generations is down to about 18 months and shrinking. Selling "knowledge worker enhancement" tools in that atmosphere is hard enough; keeping up with support, service, maintenance and upgrade reports is practically impossible.
Or is it? One organization has learned to capture and distribute--efficiently, effectively and fast--the common knowledge that its field service force needs to provide the kind of satisfaction that keeps customers around for a while.
Connie Moore, an analyst with Giga Information Group (www.gigaweb.com), thought enough of this company's efforts to nominate it for our monthly Best Practices Award. Her nomination comments below describe an organization that faced a modern-day challenge with wisdom and authority. --the editors
Xerox (www.xerox.com) created a system now being used by more than 14,000 of its service technicians and support center representatives to share tips for fixing office equipment. Those technicians make approximately a million service calls per month to maintain printers, copiers, networks and other aspects of customer operations.
During those calls, the service technicians are constantly discovering new and innovative solutions to unique problems. Previously, the field-generated solutions were often shared in work group meetings in the form of stories, but under those conditions the solutions could only be shared among a few people at a time.
Complicating the problem, service manuals were out of date almost as soon as they were printed, and failed to include many of the creative, not-in-the-manual solutions that repair technicians had improvised in the field. Examples of that knowledge might include problems that result from aging machines, intermittent faults, different environments, network interaction or the quirks presented by new machines.
That often left technicians with no handy solution, requiring them to escalate the call to a technical hotline. Xerox is known for outstanding customer service, but to remain competitive it had to develop new ways of delivering service to customers.
Those environmental and social factors became the foundation for a remarkable new initiative. Xerox called it Eureka.
Authoring tips
Eureka allows Xerox's support organization to create and reuse intellectual capital on a wide scale throughout the world … and for a bonus, significantly improve service to customers and enhance the financial performance of the business. The system builds on the service technician's work practices by creating a knowledge-sharing environment that improves customer service.
Xerox recognized that the work environment (e.g. work practices, incentives) is critical to the success of knowledge management and is much more difficult than implementing the technical solution. That alone is noteworthy. But Xerox also took the essential step of implementing such a large-scale system for a mission-critical business process. As evidence of Eureka's measurable effect, in France, where Eureka was initially field-tested, of the 1,300 service engineers, more than 250 service technicians have authored tips. Xerox France has lowered its parts usage and labor costs by more than 5%.
Based on the success of Eureka in France, Xerox has now deployed it to more than 14,000 users in Canada, France, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Mexico. Users can submit tips in their native language, and, if validated, they go into the system in English. The system will soon have a translation tool to help users with difficult or unusual phrases.
Today, Xerox is expanding the system to all customer support centers and field analysts. It is also bringing the insights in a meaningful way to the groups that produce documentation, manufacture products and make engineering and design improvements. For some products, people are mining the databases to rewrite documentation and they are beginning to engage manufacturing.
For example, in Brazil a customer had problems with a Xerox DocuColor 40 production color copier/printer to the point where the technicians were going to replace the $40,000 machine. Using Eureka, the technicians in São Paolo discovered a tip from Canada that suggested replacing a 90-cent connector. The technicians replaced the connector and fixed machine. That tip was sent back to manufacturing and the problem could be remedied at the source. A little knowledge, insight and experience went a long way toward the bottom line and customer satisfaction.
Work involves sharing
In the Eureka project, Xerox social scientists and computer scientists teamed with the service technicians to create a system that would grow community knowledge through a knowledge-sharing process. Within each stage of the process, Xerox had to understand the community of practice and design a system that honors the practice and makes sharing knowledge an intuitive part of the normal work process.
Technicians frequently invent new solutions, write up cheat sheets, incorporate solutions into stories, and quiz each other about technical problems. Using Eureka, service technicians around the world enter their insights into a database, creating documents that include the author's name, the context of the problem, and the solution that was developed. Peers review and validate the insights that are then used as new knowledge in the field. As the solutions are used, a success rate is developed for each. The success rates can be used to help find the most common problems and solutions.
Eureka started as a grass roots effort in France. But once the power of the concept was proven, it became a global program under the guidance of Worldwide Customer Services and Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). A complete knowledge management strategy (Knowledge Link) was created for the global customer services community. That strategy consisted of several guiding principles for Xerox. In its words:
We should never create the same solution twice. If a solution already exists, it should be used rather than recreating a new solution. In addition, we should focus on continuously improving existing solutions.
We should make knowledge easily accessible in real time to our people, customers and partners. Solutions should be made available to everyone as soon as they are created.
We should create an environment where the organization highly values continuous learning and development for the future.
We should recognize and reward people who benefit the organization by creating, sharing and reusing knowledge rather than reinventing known solutions.
Recognition breeds success
Eureka was challenging from a work practices perspective, requiring a full year to identify the right social setting to encourage and facilitate knowledge sharing. At first, the team tried financial incentives, but found the best way to foster sharing is to recognize people who contribute and validate the knowledge. Individuals are recognized through recording the contributors and validating technicians' names with the proposed solutions. Xerox attributes the success of Eureka to an integrated project team involving such diverse roles as technologists, sociologists, industrial psychologists, program managers and service technicians. Techniques for changing work behavior included:
testimonials from colleagues,
mentoring by colleagues,
senior management buy-in.
The major impact of the Eureka program has been to create "virtual global work groups" where employees from different countries around the world can share their technical knowledge with each other. It has broken down the barriers between numerous technical communities who in the past only shared knowledge when it was requested from them. Eureka is creating a true feeling of "community" among the customer services employees.
Thousands of solutions
The success of Eureka is measured through many metrics, including the number of solutions available in the database, the number of field tips created, the time it takes to validate new solutions and the number of problems solved. The system currently holds more than 35,000 solutions representing more than 12 different countries, and the knowledgebases are growing at more than 400 tips per month. Each Eureka user averages 10 "solves" per year, which means the user went to Eureka, applied the solution they found and it fixed the problem. In total, Xerox estimates that 150,000 problems will be resolved this year using Eureka. However, the true measure of Eureka success will be determined by external customers and whether they feel that they receive an improved level of customer service due to increased reliability and reduce machine downtime.
Funding for Eureka has steadily increased over the last three years in the range of 60% year over year. The sources of funding have also increased as new communities have become involved in Eureka. Return on investment is in the range of tenfold, but most important is management support of the program at all levels of the organization. From the CEO to first-line managers, you can hear people singing the benefits of Eureka.
The technology piece
The umbrella project for automating field service incorporates remote diagnostics, service documentation and knowledge repositories. Key technologies include:
laptops for more than 90% of service technicians,
CD-ROMs of service manuals,
Xerox-developed software for electronic bulletin board with a repository and mechanisms for updating it and SearchLite search engine,
Xerox's own proprietary software SearchLite and the Eureka update mechanism that allows authors to search and author tips when they are not connected to the server.
All of those components were critical in creating a system that would operate with a mobile service work force.
Eureka was the first success story of knowledge sharing within Xerox. It has become the catalyst for creating a companywide knowledge sharing strategy and numerous knowledge sharing programs and tools. Eureka is viewed as a key project that will act as a role model for other such efforts. In fact the Eureka concept is now being expanded into manufacturing, supplies support and even sales.


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RECAP: Heat eliminated by Alberta in Canada West quarter finals
By graysonleahy on October 29, 2016
UBC Okanagan travelled to Alberta to take on the #2 Golden Bears in the first round of the Canada West postseason and fell (1-0) in a defensive match.
Men's Soccer (Canada West Quarter-finals)
Foote Field, Edmonton, AB
SCORING	                1	2	FINAL
UBC Okanagan (0-1-0)	0	0	0
Alberta (1-0-0)	        0	1	1
EDMONTON, AB - The UBC Okanagan Heat men's soccer team's season is over after a 1-0 loss to the University of Alberta Golden Bears at Foote Field in Edmonton on Saturday afternoon.
The Alberta side were in control much of the game, holding a sizeable advantage in time of possession, as well as in shots. The Bears finished the game with 14 shots and seven shots on goal, while the Heat finished with three shots, none of which were on goal.
Heat keeper Mitch McCaw made six saves in the match, the most impressive of which was made against a penalty kick taken by Canada West leading scorer Ajeej Sarkaria. Golden Bears keeper Connor James recorded no saves on the day.
UBC Okanagan recorded the first shot of the game early, with Luke Warkentin redirecting a Nikhil Reddy corner kick in the 10th minute. The shot went wide, and the only other shot for the Heat in the half would come nearly 20 minutes later, when Spencer Young put a shot high over the crossbar in the 28th.
The first real scoring opportunity of the game came in the 29th minute, when Alberta was awarded a penalty kick after Tolu Esan was taken down just inside the Heat 18-yard box. The kick was taken by the Bears' leading scorer Ajeej Sarkaria, who led all Canada West in the regular season with 19 goals and 25 points in 16 games. Sarkaria put his shot toward the bottom right corner of the Heat net, but Mitch McCaw made a diving save going to his left, keeping the game scoreless.
The first goal of the match came in the 65th minute. First year Golden Bears defender Noah Cunningham got his head on a corner kick from fifth year Bears defender Niko Saler and directed it into the near corner, giving Alberta the 1-0 lead.
First year Heat forward Zach Rachynski had an opportunity to tie the game up late, after controlling a ball off of a rebound from Bears keeper Connor James in the 81st minute. The ball bounced to Rachynski out of a scramble in the box, but he couldn't get a full boot on it and put it well high and over the crossbar.
The loss for the Heat means the end of their 2016 season, while the Golden Bears will move on to play in the Canada West Final Six on November 3-6.
~ Grayson Leahy, UBC Okanagan Heat
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Hi, this is Jamie from Body Works and I'm just following up with some of the videos that Taylor has done on ski conditioning.
What I want to talk about today is just a little bit of balance training that you can start before you get into the ski season. So there's a couple main things you want to think about when you're working on your balance; one thing is to let the area that you're trying to work, let it do the work so basically what you want to see when you're balancing is if you're doing a one foot balance you want to make sure the arms and the legs stay quiet and the ankle and the foot actually do the balancing for you, so that's one thing that you're going to try to carry through. The other thing is you don't want to stare at your feet while you're doing your balance, pick a spot further away, for skiing the further away you're looking the better off you're going to be and you can kind of try to transfer that into your balance work here. So I'll give you three progressions; the first one that you're going to do is a single foot stance with no surface to deal with, so the single foot stance what you're going to do is 3 repetitions, 30 second holds and once you get comfortable with that you can move on the next, the next exercise. So at the clinic here we have these soft foam pads but what I usually ask people to use at home is just couch cushions and you can pull them off the back of the couch and basically what that does is gives you an unstable surface to balance on, so you're going to use the same parameters 3 x 30 seconds and you'll just find when you balance on this you don't really get the foot to stay still and it makes you work a little bit more adjusting yourself. Once you're comfortable with that the most difficult of them will be doing the balance on the upside down Bosu ball and so in this one what most people find is it's got quite a bit of movement to it so when you stand on it you can actually wobble around quite a bit. When you first get on it what you normally notice is that it wobbles around side to side quite a bit, once you get comfortable with it will just kind of settle down and then you're in this position, so what you're going to try to do, same thing 3 x 30 seconds on the Bosu ball as long as you've mastered the other ones. So that's it for the balance stuff and the progressions.
If you have any questions or anything let us know at the clinic and that's it for now.


The YY technique begins in a hatchery, where young brook trout are exposed to low-doses of a naturally occurring female hormone, estradiol, which has no effect on female fish, but causes male fish to produce eggs when they mature. The egg-producing males are crossed with standard males, which produce about 25 percent YY-male offspring. Those offspring are used to produce another generation that will theoretically produce exclusively male offspring when bred with any other brook trout.
Q: How long would it take for the population to go all male?
Preliminarily, it looks like in the case of brook trout in streams, somewhere between four and 10 years will be the answer depending on number of fish stocked, etc. There are scenarios where it might take longer, but in those instances, it is unlikely that such an approach would be deployed. F&G biologists are in the process of submitting work on this exact question for publication in a fisheries journal where it will receive careful peer review.
Q: Why wouldn't you allow anglers to reduce unwanted fish populations?
A: We generally employ high bag limits (or remove bag limits all together) to encourage angler harvest on undesirable fish species. These new techniques won't replace that. Netting, trapping, and other fish removal methods can also be used to rid waters of unwanted fish, but those efforts are aren't silver bullets because a few fish can escape and spawn successfully. All those methods are time consuming, labor intensive, and may need to be repeated years later when unwanted fish populations rebuild. This new approach may make it impossible for populations to rebuild after they are suppressed.


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A Plymouth plumbing director has been fined for dumping a washing machine and an old shower tray on land near one of his properties.
Martyn Wooltorton, of Bowden Park Road pleaded guilty to depositing controlled waste including a washing machine and an old shower tray on land to the rear of Sydney Street between April and July 2017.
The 50-year-old, a director of Gastight Plumbing, was working at his property in Sydney Street when he left the waste in the communal ground of Claremont Flats.
He was ordered to pay £832 costs and £160 victim surcharge by Plymouth Magistrates.
Plymouth City Council is now warning residents to dispose of their waste responsibly.
The court heard that a Plymouth Community Homes ranger had discovered the waste in March 2017.
The ranger spoke to a man driving a Gastight van in April 2017 where the trader admitted the waste was his.
The rubbish remained at the location for several months, despite requests for it to be removed.
It was revealed in an interview that Mr Wooltorton had thought the items had been removed by a collector.
After questioning he went and removed the items immediately.
Magistrates said that Mr Wooltorton was 'reckless' in his actions and his disregard of requests to remove the rubbish.
Councillor David Downie, cabinet member for safer and stronger communities said: "There is absolutely no excuse for this.
"If you are clearing out a house you don't dump your rubbish on someone else's property.
The council requested that anyone who wishes to rid of rubbish responsibly, should do so by taking it to a waste disposal site or using an authorised waste carrier to get rid of it.


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Booster is a leading mobile energy delivery company founded in San Mateo, California. People-driven, tech-focused, and sustainability-obsessed, Booster delivers conventional and alternative fuels and energy directly to fleet vehicles, lowering carbon emissions, reducing costs, and expanding access to renewable fuels. The energy-as-a-service provider sources fuel from the terminal and delivers it directly to fleets during their non-operating hours.

Booster's service model takes an energy-agnostic approach  to meet the needs of a diverse range of fleets, recognizing that each client's progress in the energy transition looks different. The company provides a variety of fuels including traditional gas and diesel, renewable diesel and other sustainable fuels.

Booster currently offers services in hundreds of areas coast-to-coast through a robust distributed energy delivery service network. Using proprietary technology and integrated logistics, the company has reinvented the way fleets are fueled, helping companies save an average of $1600 and 587 lbs of CO2 annually per vehicle. In 2022, Booster was recognized as one of Inc.'s Best in Business in Logistics and Transportation.

History
Booster was founded in 2015 by Frank Mycroft, Diego Netto, and Tyler Raugh. The company's first product was an app-based on-demand fueling service for personal vehicles in corporate campus parking lots.

Within its first few years of business, Booster began to offer its fueling services to enterprise fleets. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit and personal vehicles no longer congregated in corporate parking lots, the company pivoted to servicing fleet vehicles during their non-operating hours. Between early 2020 and early 2021, the company doubled its fleet customer base as demand for last-mile delivery services spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In November 2021, Booster announced a partnership with Renewable Energy Group, a leading producer and supplier of biofuels. This was the company's first formal announcement of a renewable energy offering. By September 2022, the company had transitioned nearly all of its California-based fleets to renewable diesel, which offers up to 70% lower lifecycle GHG emissions compared to its petroleum counterpart.

Since its inception, Booster has seen steady growth across enterprise fleets, small- and medium business fleets, and last-mile delivery fleets.

Business
Booster meets fleets where they are, not just geographically, but also in their sustainability journey. The mobile fueler takes an energy agnostic approach, allowing Booster to adapt to each client's unique energy transition journey with its range of conventional and sustainable alternative solutions. Booster provides a range of fuels, including gasoline, diesel, renewable diesel, diesel exhaust fluid, biodiesel, synthetic blends and ethanol blends. The company has also piloted a mobile electric charging program that would provide an alternative to the cost and grid capacity barriers associated with fixed charging infrastructure.

A technology-driven company, Booster's service is enabled by the newest technologies in trucking, routing, and energy delivery. Its purple Smart Tankers are equipped with the latest technology and built-in safety features including IoT enablement, proprietary routing AI, and collision and overturn spill protection.

In addition to fueling services, the company offers a significant data dashboard service, which uses data collected during fuel deliveries to provide detailed insights to fleet owners and operators. Metrics include fuel consumption, spend, estimated cost savings, carbon emissions, and gallons pumped.

Booster has serviced clients including Amazon, Ferguson Enterprises, Zum, UPS and Imperfect Foods.

Funding
Booster Fuels received $3.1 million in a 2015 funding round which included Madrona Venture Group, Planetary Resources co-founder Eric Anderson and other angel investors. By 2016 the company raised $9 million Series A funding round from the likes of Maveron, Madrona Venture Group, Version One Ventures and RRE Ventures. The company's Series B funding round, conducted by Conversion Capital in August 2017, raised $20 million, bringing Booster's total capital raised at that time to $32 million.

In 2019, Booster completed its Series C funding, raising an additional $56 million. The company's Series D funding round was led by Rose Park Advisors in 2022, garnering more than $125 million with participation from new investors Chaac Ventures, Equinor Ventures, Mitsubishi Corporation, Thayer Ventures and Renewable Energy Group.

Policy and Advocacy Work
From inception, Booster's identity has been rooted in its ability to succeed in a harsh regulatory environment. As a result, the startup focused efforts on policy development to drive state and local regulation change, expanding opportunities for mobile fueling and supporting the communities Booster serves.

Booster is the only on-demand mobile fueling company holding an Executive Order from the California Air Resources Board (CARB). The Executive Order validates Booster's mobile fueling on-demand (MFOD) delivery vehicle gasoline dispensing system for on-board refueling vapor recovery (ORVR) vehicles. It found that Booster's MFOD tank vehicle conforms to all requirements set forth in CP-205, including compatibility when fueling vehicles equipped with ORVR systems and compliance with applicable performance standards or specifications listed in applicable CARB Certification Procedures.

Booster's policy team also advocated to pass bill HB 2873 in Washington state, streamlining the permitting process for mobile fueling within fire districts. The purpose of the bill, now signed into law, established a reciprocity system for fire permitting state-wide and streamlined the qualification and processes required for a permit.

Booster is a part of Coalition for Accessible Transportation, a disability-lead, grassroots coalition whose purpose is to educate on and advocate for mobile fueling. The Coalition includes Booster, United Spinal Association, Muscular Dystrophy Association, and Northern California Spinal Cord Injury Foundation. The Coalition also connects advocates with their local representatives to advocate for mobile-fueling-positive regulations.

ESG and Sustainability
Booster abides by a robust set of environmental, social and governance frameworks, which are each aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. In 2022, Booster released its inaugural ESG report, which details its sustainability commitments and strategies.

Booster's environmental policies begin with safety considerations. Company Service Professionals follow strict protocol to minimize risk of spillage and hazardous accidents. This includes the requirement of a CDL Class C permit with hazmat and tanker endorsements; adherence to the highest safety requirements set by the International Fire Code, the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Environmental Protection Agency, and more. The company has also created a three-stage spill prevention protocol with a zero-drip policy to ensure minimal spillage when vehicles are fueled.

Other environmental sustainability actions taken by Booster  include participation in the California Clean Air Day Pledge, the transition of all the company's diesel-fueled California-based fleets to renewable diesel (which offers up to 70% fewer lifecycle emissions than its petroleum counterpart), and the low-carbon status of Booster's fleet of renewable-diesel-powered Smart Tankers.

Booster's social action commitments include safety as well. The company focuses heavily on diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEI&B), and was named a 2022 "Top Company for Women to Work for in Transportation" by the Women in Trucking Association.  The startup also strengthens communities by providing emergency services in times of crisis, including supporting emergency response during and after hurricanes, tornadoes, blackouts and wildfires.

Booster's governance commitments center around the company's six core values: safety, customer, integrity,  excellence, bold, and stewardship. The  company's corporate governance, ethics, and conflict of interest guidelines include strict policies to protect against discrimination, an open door policy that encourages honest and direct communication, and a detailed whistleblower process that provides an anonymous reporting method for suspected violations.

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Apochthonius mysterius es una especie de arácnido  del orden Pseudoscorpionida de la familia Chthoniidae.

Distribución geográfica
Se encuentra en Misuri (Estados Unidos).

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Mysterius
Arácnidos de Estados Unidos


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Front Foot
Chris Groves
ARGYLE once again thrived on their travels with a 2-1 victory against Newport County – and a deserved victory at that, according to boss Derek Adams.
The Pilgrims went into the half-time break behind courtesy of Scott Boden finishing a route-one attack that cut Argyle wide open, lifting the ball over an on-rushing Luke McCormick after 24 minutes. Adams' men came upped the tempo and quality after the break, though, and pulled level just three minutes after the restart, as Jake Jervis peeled off of his marker to nod home a pinpoint cross from Ryan Brunt.
Brunt took on goal-scoring duties 20 minutes from time to give the Greens the win, swivelling with his back to goal to fire home the stunning winner that the team's efforts had warranted.
"To win away from home is never easy," said Derek, "but we've been able to do that. This is one of the most difficult venues to come to.
"If you look at the clubs this season, they've found it difficult coming here and getting a positive result, but we've come away with three points.
"There was nothing in the first half. They had one ball in and they got the goal. But over the 90 minutes, I thought we were the better team, and probably should've scored a few more goals. We knew in the first half it was going to be difficult.
"Over 90 minutes we had more possession, more chances on goal, we probably could've had a couple of penalty kicks in there as well that we didn't get, but to win the game is magnificent."
Adams had special praise for his two front-men on the day, who led the line in an Argyle set-up that showed discipline and versatility to fend off the Exiles in a number of different shapes.
"Great goals from Jake Jervis and Ryan Brunt," said Derek, "but today was about getting the result. It was never going to be easy under the circumstances, and we've been able to pick up six points in two games.
"He's a big honest lad," said Derek on the subject of Brunt, "and he puts himself about, and we thought that himself and Jervis, especially in the second half going down the hill, caused them all sorts of problems.
"We changed the formation about a wee bit. We started 4-2-3-1 and switched to a diamond formation at half time, and changed to a 3-5-2 later on in the game. We've got the fluidity to change formation; we've got the players who can do that, as well. It saw us to the end of the match.


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У інформатиці, дерево відрізків це деревоподібна структура даних яка застосовується для зберігання даних у відрізках, згрупованих так, що відомо, які з них містять дану точку.

Дерево відрізків для множини  з  відрізків використовує  пам'яті і його можна побудувати за  часу. Дерево забезпечує виконання операції зі знаходження усіх відрізків, що містять задану точку за час  де  — кількість отриманих відрізків.

Звернімо увагу, що для відповіді на запит про належність точки інтервалам із використанням дерева інтервалів потрібно так само  часу за умови лінійної кількості пам'яті, отже для цього завдання краще обирати дерево інтервалів. Коли ж ми бажаємо отримати відповідь на складніші запитання як-от вікнування відрізків тоді дерево відрізків потужніша структура. Причиною цього є те, що множина інтервалів, що включають запитану точку, є саме об'єднанням канонічних підмножин які ми вибираємо під час пошуку у дереві. У дереві інтервалів ми повинні додатково пройти декілька елементів з початку відсортованих списків, що зберігаються у вузлах дерева. Отже, для дерева відрізків, ми маємо можливість збереження канонічних підмножин у асоціативній структурі, що дає можливість виконання додаткових запитів уже у цій структурі.

Опис структури
Цей розділ описує структуру дерева відрізків в одновимірному просторі.

Нехай S буде набором інтервалів або відрізків. Нехай p1, p2, ..., pm буде списком відмінних кінців інтервалів, відсортованих зліва направо. Розглянемо розбиття дійсної лінії цими точками. Регіони такого розбиття називають елементарними інтервалами. Отже, елементарними інтервалами є, зліва направо:

Це є список елементарних інтервалів між послідовними кінцевими точками pi і pi+1, що перемежаються з закритими інтервалами, що складаються з однієї точки. Одна точка розглядається як інтервал, оскільки відповідь на запит не обов'язково однакова всередині елементарного інтервалу і на його границях.

Для заданої множини інтервалів або відрізків I, дерево відрізківT структуровано так:
 T — двійкове дерево.
 Його листові вузли відповідають елементарним інтервалам утвореним в I, впорядкованим способом: найлівіший лист відповідає найлівішому інтервалу і так далі. Елементарний інтервал, що відповідає листу v позначають Int(v).
 Внутрішній вузол T відповідає інтервалу який є об'єднанням елементарних інтервалів: інтервал Int(N) відповідний вузлу N є об'єднанням інтервалів відповідних листям дерева з коренем у N. Тобто, Int(N) є об'єднанням інтервалів своїх двох дочірніх вузлів.
 Кожен вузол або лист v у T зберігає інтервал Int(v) і множину інтервалів, у деякій структурі даних. Ця канонічна підмножина вузла v містить інтервали [x, x′] з I такі, що [x, x′] містить Int(v) і не містить Int(parent(v)). Тобто, кожен відрізок у I зберігає відрізки, що покривають цей інтервал, але не покривають інтервал батьківського вузла.

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Структури даних в комп'ютерній графіці


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LAUNCH LA will debut its upcoming exhibition "Without Design or Sketch: The Story of the Room" running...
Grammy Museum celebrates the Ramones
The Grammy Museum at L.A. LIVE and Delta Air Lines present "Hey! Ho! Let's Go: Ramones and the Birth...
See what's new at The Wallis during 'WelcomeFest'
The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts will welcome the community at "WelcomeFest" on Saturday,...
Enjoy traditional Korean music at KCCLA
The Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles (KCCLA) presents "Master Kim Hwasun's Gayageum & Chung...
Butterflies flutter by at NHM Pavilion
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM) will open its new outdoor Butterfly Pavilion exhibit...
Blue Ribbon members visit The Getty
The Blue Ribbon of the Music Center recently hosted members and guests at a dinner and private showing...
Join Beverly Hills Mayor Mirisch for a sing-along
The public is invited to a free concert and sing-along featuring Beverly Hills Mayor John Mirisch and the Legal...
Hollywood Pantages holds lottery for 'Newsies'
The Hollywood Pantages Theatre has announced that a day-of-performance digital lottery for a limited...
Paley Center presents 10th annual fall TV festival
The Paley Center for Media's 10th annual "PaleyFest Fall TV Previews" runs Thursday, Sept. 8 through...
Legendary composer Williams to lead orchestra on movie night
Composer and conductor John Williams returns to the Hollywood Bowl on Friday, Sept. 2 and Saturday, Sept....
'Beauty and the Beast' celebrates 25 years
The El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood presents a special engagement of Disney's "Beauty and the Beast"...
Zoo celebrates 'Fleet Week' and 'Vulture Awareness Day'
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The Greek Community of Melbourne (GCM) would like to express its disappointment and dismay at the overtly racist language and sentiment adopted by Australian Olympian Dawn Fraser on the Today Show earlier this morning.
Without questioning her right to comment on Australian tennis players Nick Kyrgio's and Bernard Tomic's performances at Wimbledon, we condemn Ms Fraser for her hurtful comments that demanded that Mr Kyrgios & Mr Tomic "go back to where their fathers or parents came from. We don't need them in this country if they act like that."
"Ms Fraser not only owes the tennis players in question an apology but also every person born of migrant parents to whom her insults apply to".


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Q: DataGridView stops working Probably (and hopefully) this is a very easy question, but yet I haven't been able to find an answer to it.
I am working on a Windows Forms application. I have created a database containing three tables. In the design mode I inserted a datagridview, chose which table I wanted to display and when I run the application all the stored data is shown in the grid, just like I want.
My problem is that whenever I touch the dataset or the database the connection to the datagridview stops working, it doesn't load any data. Even something as simple as doubleclicking on the data.sdf in the solution explorer makes the connection go away, the datagrid becomes empty.
And when the connection once have been broken I can never get it back in the same project so I have to go back to an old "not infected" version that I have saved.
I can't seem to find anything that has been changed in the code when I compare my old working version and the not working. I read through the DataSet code, the xsd-file, checked the settings for the datagrid but nothing. It looks exaclty alike from what I can see.
This wouldn't be that much of a problem if it weren't that I would like to edit one of the tables (not the one connected to the grid) and add an nvarchar that I forgot. But if I change anything, the connection is lost.
My question is therefor; exactly what part of the connection to the datagridview gets broken whenever I change anything in the database? And how do I do to fix this?
Short summary
I have a database. I added a datagridview via drag and drop and it displays the content from a table. It works perfectly.
But the connection stops working and the grid becomes empty whenever I:

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*Doubleclick the database file in the explorer to display its content

*Drop/Add/Edit any table in the database

*Run the DataSet Wizard again to include/exclude tables

*Press "Refresh" on the database, its tables or the dataset

What gets broken by doing this and how do I fix it?

A: I kept on struggling, trying to experiment what files that actually caused it to stop working.
After a while I found out that the difference between working or not was the database file itself. If I switched back to an old one, it started to work.
I don't really remember how I got to this conclusion but finally I realised that the only possible reason was that debug version of the database and the actual project version weren't "in sync". Don't ask me why or how, but after I deleted both the files and replaced them with the same file, all the problems went away. I can change tables and it never ever looses the connection.
From what I understand, this has to be some type of bug in Vegas. Doing clean rebuilds did nothing but after manually deleting and replacing files, it started to work again.

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The disgusting additives in your food
Sep 30th 2016 8:05AM
We frequently report on disgusting items found in food - everything from six-inch nails in a takeaway chicken meal to a dead worm in a can of sweetcorn.
Discovering something like this is, thankfully, pretty rare. But did you know that ingredients such as antifreeze are regularly included in your food - all perfectly legally?
In a study carried out for Privilege Insurance, the secrets behind food manufacturers' recipes are revealed.
They include the anti-freeze ingredient propylene glycol, which is used to stop fat clumping together in ready-made cake mix.
Meanwhile, L-Cysteine - extracted from barbershop clippings from China - is used to prolong the shelf-life of bread. And some chicken nuggets contain dimethylpolysiloxane, also used to make silicone breast implants.
And 'vanilla' flavouring in ice cream is still occasionally derived from the castor sacs of beavers - found near the animals' anus.
"Some of the findings are shocking, and more should be done to encourage labelling that doesn't insincerely disguise something as 'natural'," the head of Privilege Insurance, Dan Simson, tells the Daily Mail.
"It is paramount that the consumer has all the facts so they can make a logical and sensible choice about the products they are buying."
It's fairly widely known that many sweets, including fruit pastilles and marshmallows, aren't vegetarian as they contain gelatin. This is produced by boiling up animal bones.
But most people will be surprised to discover that bananas often aren't vegetarian either, as they are sprayed with a pesticide made from shrimp and crab shells.
Meanwhile, the clothes and bedlinen you buy might also not be quite what you think. Sheets labelled 'Egyptian cotton' can legally contain as little as 5% of the high-quality product; only 50% of so-called 'British wool' has to come from UK sheep.
Last year, food writer Joanna Blythman revealed some of the nastier ingredients lurking in supermarket ready meals.
In her book, Swallow This: Serving Up The Food Industry's Darkest Secrets, she says that the 'butter' in your croissant, for example, might actually be the yellow powder left behind when the water is removed from a mixture of butter, milk proteins and starch.
The answer - at least, until it comes to the bananas - is simply to cook all your meals from scratch.
Earlier this year, we reported on one family who switched from ready meals to healthier home-cooked foods - and even halved their food bill as a result.
Gross discoveries in food
In April last year, a couple from Preston were carving the chicken for their roast dinner, when they discovered it was green inside.
They returned it to Morrisons, which said it was green because of bile from the gall bladder, which hadn't been removed properly. The company apologised and offered him £15 to make up for the nasty surprise.
This October, 25-year-old Hasan Ali from West Yorkshire, broke open a Sainsbury's Mandarin orange, to discover a maggot and hundreds of eggs inside.
He Tweeted a picture to the store, and received an apology and a £10 gift card.
Last October, Eleri Adkins, a 29-year-old expectant mother, was shocked to discover a white object growing in her vinegar, which she told the press looked like it had a head.
She returned the bottle to Tesco, which said it was a harmless substance produced when the natural bacteria in the vinegar reacted with oxygen in the air. She received an apology and a bunch of flowers.
In January this year, Mollie Howe, an 11-year-old from Dagenham, discovered six inch-long nails in her takeaway chicken meal.
The owner of the takeaway said he didn't know how they had got there, as there were no nails of that type in the shop. However, he offered to replace the food.
Jason Damms, a 41-year-old warehouse manager from West Malling in Kent, was shocked when a centipede crawled out of the middle of a pile of rice in his Tesco curry ready meal last October.
He was particularly shocked, given that it had just been in the microwave.
Malika Carrington, a nine-year-old schoolgirl from Longsight in Greater Manchester, was horrified to discover a maggot in her bowl of of Asda chicken noodles.
Her mother returned it to the shop where she received a 25p refund, and a 25p goodwill payment. She wasn't impressed.


WIPR talks to MARQUES council chairman Guido Baumgartner about his aspirations for this year's conference and the challenges facing trademark practitioners worldwide.
What have been the major challenges for the association over the past year?
First, and every company has to deal with it at the moment, the financial world as it is. We are also affected by the different currencies—for invoicing, for example. So the financial side has really been watched carefully.
Going into the other more content-focused issues, we have our VIP programme. It's about visibility in the IP world. You can do a lot as an organisation internally and those who are members of that party know what's going on. But it must also be brought to the attention of others as well. Otherwise, you are not recognised. The press plays a part in that. We have great teams working on many issues in different areas, but if that's not broadcast, then people may not believe it or know about it, except the team members.


How can we ensure getting the best price when booking the holiday we work so hard for each year?
The 20th of March will mark the first day of Spring and many sun-seekers are starting to count down the weeks until their holiday away.
One of the biggest dilemmas of planning a trip with another person, or a group is agreeing on the date of booking. Some holiday-makers stick to the old fashioned rule of paying the deposit as early as possible. Others are adamant that booking last minute is a sure-way to save the pennies.
But which theory holds true?
Last year, Tripsta.com released their 2016 flight costs – many customers might be surprised to learn the airline's data illustrated that the first four months of the year offered the best deals. Many airline companies and hotels will increase costs as soon as school children down south start back at school.
'During high season hotels, most tour operators will put their prices up. Sometimes in Scotland if we go away the first two weeks of July we can get some good deals, as the English schools have not broken up yet. This can be a great time to go away'.
It all depends on what the Travel Agents, airlines and hotels have to offer and what is the best offer for you. Last minute deals are great for people who are not tied to any commitments and have the means to make that large one-off payment to finance a holiday.
EN4 News contacted Bryton Travel Consultants, a Merchiston based travel agents, to find out how holiday-goers can save money on their travels.
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Russell getting "conditional second chance" with Cubs
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Russell getting "conditional second chance" with CubsBy JAY COHEN
CHICAGO (AP) Addison Russell's future with the Chicago Cubs is a tentative proposition.
President of baseball operations Theo Epstein says Russell is getting a "conditional second chance" with the Cubs after he was suspended for 40 games last October for violating Major League Baseball's domestic violence policy. Even the slightest misstep likely would mean the end of his time with the team.
"We are going to take it one day at a time," Epstein said Friday on the first day of the Cubs' annual fan convention. "If he continues to meet the high standards we've laid out for him, put the work in, he will be eligible to return to the Cubs after serving his full suspension."
Russell, who turns 25 on Wednesday, isn't allowed to attend this weekend's festivities because of his punishment, but he is expected to be with the team for spring training. The troubled shortstop is eligible to return on May 3 against St. Louis, barring any postponements.
Russell was disciplined after his ex-wife Melisa Reidy published a blog post in September describing years of physical and emotional abuse. In November, on the same day the Cubs announced they had offered him a contract for 2019, Russell apologized to Reidy and his family for "my past behavior."
Epstein said the team's first inclination after Russell was suspended was "just to move on."
"The more we considered all perspectives and all factors, the more we dug in, once we were able to do our own research and investigation after MLB issued its discipline we started to consider some other arguments as well," Epstein said.
"First of all, that this happened on our watch. That Addison's been in our organization since he was 20 years old. That we were certainly quick to celebrate his triumphs, and that separating ourselves from him as quickly as possible at his lowest point was maybe not a comprehensive solution to the issue."
Russell was once considered one of the top young shortstops in baseball. He was selected by Oakland in the first round of the 2012 draft and traded to Chicago in the July 2014 deal that moved pitchers Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel to the Athletics.
Russell helped the Cubs win the World Series three years ago, batting .238 with 21 homers and 95 RBIs in 151 games.
Epstein said the team talked to several domestic violence experts and Reidy before deciding what it wanted to do.
"I was engaged with Melisa Russell, the victim, who deserves our support every bit as much if not more than Addison given the circumstances," Epstein said, "and she was supportive of our decision as long as it was truly a conditional second chance. She felt like this was Addison's best chance to get his life in order."
The Cubs also are hoping to learn from what happened.
"I think we saw it as an opportunity to try to improve the organization when it comes to domestic violence," Epstein said. "This happened here.
"We can do everything we can to try to make this the safest possible workplace, the healthiest possible workplace, so that it has as little chance as possible of ever happening again here."
Jay Cohen can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/jcohenap
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So I just went out and bought Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows today … along with about a trillion other people and although I am very excited to get reading it I am also a little scared as well. When I read the last book I cried when Dumbledore died … and when I say cry I mean tears streaming and sobbing involved. Apparently there is another important death in this final Harry Potter book which makes me a little reluctant to even open it. Do I want it to end this way? I was in shock at the end of the last book, do I want to feel the same way this time?
On the other hand I have faith that J.K. Rowling would have ended things well. After all, I'm sure she takes great pride in these incredibly successful pieces of work so she wouldn't just make some random awful ending to make us all hate her haha! I wonder if anyone else has the same sort of feelings I do. I've had the book sitting here beside me all day and I want to just dive in but I'm a little afraid of what I'll find out. I think I may jump in bed and start reading since my curiosity is starting to get the best of me!! I'll let you know how it goes!


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The exception that is thrown when binding to a member results in more than one member matching the binding criteria. This class cannot be inherited.
AmbiguousMatchException uses the HRESULT COR_E_AMBIGUOUSMATCH which has the value 0x8000211D.
An AmbiguousMatchException is thrown when a member is invoked late-bound and multiple overloads satisfy the binding criteria, or when more than one member matches the binding criteria passed to a reflection method that can return only a single result (for example, Type.GetMethod or Type.GetProperty).
Initializes a new instance of the AmbiguousMatchException class with an empty message string and the root cause exception set to null.
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Initializes a new instance of the AmbiguousMatchException class with a specified error message and a reference to the inner exception that is the cause of this exception.


A little adds up to a lot, and in the world of code, a tiny change in code performance can have a big impact on application performance overall.
So there are plenty of theories on how to test code performance, but this simple script below can trivially compare 2 blocks of code. Both blocks must be executed an equal number of times, with as little risk of other system interference as possible. This means you don't run one block of code 1000 times and then run another block 1000 times to compare them – this risks external influences affecting one of the execution cycles much more heavily than the other, tainting your results. So you run one, then the other, then repeat, capturing times for each execution as it happens.
So I'll be using this code to show how performance differs when writing your code slightly different ways. Sometimes the difference is very small, and you are welcome to reproduce these tests and come to your own conclusions, this blog contains only my professional opinions.
Sometimes the code set up cost should also be taken into account – if the code in question is called a small number of times in a single execution of your code then the set up cost of a block of code will have a bigger impact on performance. I will include the code I used to perform these tests below so you can see where I have included set up cost in the calculation.
Passing variables by reference is when you use the & prefixed to an argument in a function, so any changes made to that variable in the function will also affect the variable that was passed into the function.
These parameters are called references, passing 'By Reference' being the opposite of passing 'By Value' which is when you pass a variable without the '&' prefix.
So not a lot of difference there, but you can already see the funcB() function is very slightly faster.
It was ~45% faster to use a reference here.
So when working with large strings, it is a lot more performant to alter the existing string, than to copy the passed string and return it.
So we took ~32% off the processing time here by passing our variable by reference.
we can also use the reference operator & in a regular foreach loop.
$str[$k] .= 'a'; //<-- we have to look up the key every iteration!
Sooooo…. We nearly improve the performance of this code by ~54%, just by using a reference instead of modifying the array values by key.
This code sets $bar to null. The reference $foo is still pointed at $bar.
or you need to call unset($foo).
So all of these methods modify the given array in-situ, rather than returning a modified copy of it.
If you think about it, this makes a lot of sense, because if you want to retain the original array before you modify it, then it's just one line of code to copy the array; but if these functions always returned a copy of the given array, you would have to write your own function to modify the original array in-situ if you wanted the performance gain.
echo "count: $count"; //says "count: 3"
echo "Foo: ". $a->foo; // says "Foo: bar"
If you use a reference on the parameter here it doesn't give you any warning, because the parameter may accept primitive types as well as objects, which would otherwise be passed ByVal instead of ByRef.
But if you try to do this today, you get a Fatal error….
If you would like to pass argument by reference, modify the declaration of modifyMe().


The Deutsche Bank has assembled the world's biggest corporate art collection, which today constitutes 50,000 works of art, displayed in some 1,000 branches and exhibitions around the world.
My concept was to invite a head representative of the Deutsche Bank art collection to the annual showcase of the Academy of Media Arts, giving the Deutsche Bank Art an unrestricted opportunity to present their concept of collection. This presentation, on what so ever, would embody my contribution tho the showcase and is hence my artwork.
Eventually, after 3 years, Friedhelm Hütte, global head of Deutsche Bank Art, agreed to participate under the given premises, but could not take part himself, due to scheduling. Head representative Britta Faerber agreed to participate instead.
The event was scheduled on 17.07.08 3 pm & I arranged the event, promotion, as well as the train tickets.
On the morning of 17.07.08 Britta Faerber cancelled via email.
Afterwards Britta Faerber sent a hand written card to apologize, together with 2 books of the ongoing projects of the Deutsche Bank Art.


Halloween is right around the corner, and it seems as if many people are thinking spooky thoughts or at least pondering perfect costumes. We thought we would take a few minutes during this spookiest of weeks to highlight some thrilling books for you to read. As many are complete page-turners, and a few slightly haunting, you might want to find a nightlight to use as you enjoy them.