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Learning Objectives: Learn why machine learning is needed, different Machine Learning techniques/algorithms, and SparK MLlib.
Learning Objectives: Understand Kafka and its Architecture. Also, learn about Kafka Cluster, how to configure different types of Kafka Clusters. Get introduced to Apache Flume, its architecture and how it is integrated with Apache Kafka for event processing. At the end, learn how to ingest streaming data using flume.
Learning Objectives: Learn about the different streaming data sources such as Kafka and Flume. Also learn to create a spark streaming application.
Learning Objectives: Learn the key concepts of Spark GraphX programming and operations along with different GraphX algorithms and their implementations.
Adobe Analytics processes billions of transactions a day across major web and mobile properties. In recent years they have modernised their batch processing stack by adopting new technologies like Hadoop, MapReduce, Spark etc. In this project we will see how Spark and Scala are useful in refactoring process. Spark allows you to define arbitrarily complex processing pipelines without the need for external coordination. It also has support for stateful streaming aggregations and we could reduce our latency using micro-batches of seconds instead of minutes. With help of Scala and Spark we are able to perform a wide range of operations like batch, streaming, stateful aggregations and analytics, and ETL jobs, just to name a few.
Apache Spark has many features like, Fog computing, IOT and MLib, GraphX etc. Among the most notable features of Apache Spark is its ability to support interactive analysis. Unlike MapReduce that supports batch processing, Apache Spark processes data faster because of which it can process exploratory queries without sampling. Spark provides an easy way to study API and also it is a strong tool for interactive data analysis. It is available in Scala. MapReduce is made to handle batch processing and SQl on Hadoop engines which are usually slow. Hence it is fast to perform any identification queries against live data without sampling and is highly interactive. Structured streaming is also a new feature that helps in web analytics by allowing customers run user-friendly query with web visitors.
Various Spark projects are running in Yahoo for different applications. For personalizing news pages, Yahoo uses ML algorithms which runs on Spark to figure out what individual users are interested in, and also to categorize news stories as they arise to figure out what types of users would be interested in reading them. To do this, Yahoo wrote a Spark ML algorithm 120 lines of Scala. (Previously, its ML algorithm for news personalization was written in 15,000 lines of C++.) With just 30 minutes of training on a large, hundred million record data set, the Scala ML algorithm was ready for business.
Apache Spark is one of the 'trending' courses right now. Its myriad advantages including fast data processing, cheaper costs at adoption, and easy compatibility with other platforms have made it among the fastest technologies to be adopted for Big Data analytics. And considering that the demand for Data Analysts is hitting the roof, pursuing a course in Apache Scala and making a career in Data Analytics will be a most lucrative career decision for you. We bring you a well-rounded Apache Spark and Scala online tutorial that will hand hold you through the fundamentals of this technology and its use in Big Data Analytics. Through loads of exercises and hands on tutorials, we'll ensure that you are well versed with Spark and Scala.
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Roncador Cay is a small island of the Roncador Bank, located in the west Caribbean Sea, off the coast of Central America,  east-northeast of Providencia Island.

History
The USS Kearsarge ran aground on a reef off the cay on February 2, 1894, and, being deemed unsalvageable, was declared lost by the United States Navy.

Colombia and the United States have claimed the cay but the United States abandoned its claim in a 1972 treaty.

References

CIA World Factbook on Colombia
 1972 Treaty
 Luis Angel Arango Library; Tratado con Estados Unidos (Treaty with the United States)

Caribbean islands of Colombia
Islands of the West Caribbean
Islands of the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina
Atolls of Colombia
Caribbean islands claimed under the Guano Islands Act
Former disputed islands

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Die Lokomotiven mit den Bahnnummern 27 und 28 der Lokalbahn AG (LAG) waren Nassdampflokomotiven. Die 1892 von Krauss gelieferten Maschinen entsprachen weitgehend den Lokomotiven mit den Nummern 17 bis 49, hatten jedoch ein Zwillingstriebwerk.

Eingesetzt wurden die Fahrzeuge vor allem auf der Isartalbahn und gelegentlich auch auf der Ammergaubahn.

Die beiden Lokomotiven wurden 1938 von der Reichsbahn als Baureihe 98.72 übernommen. Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg gelangten sie zur Deutschen Bundesbahn, wo sie 1950 ausgemustert wurden.

Literatur
 Weisbrod, Bäzold, Obermayer: Das große Typenbuch deutscher Dampflokomotiven. Transpress Verlag, ISBN 3-344-70751-5

Tenderlokomotive Achsfolge 1C
LAG Nr. 027
Schienenfahrzeug (Krauss)


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Exploring 17th Century Medicine with Holly Tucker
April 27, 2011 / Ginger Campbell, MD
This month's Books and Ideas podcast (#41) is an interview with Holly Tucker, author of Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution. Dr. Tucker's book is about the first blood transfusions—which, surprisingly, occurred way back in the 1660's; 150 years before the first successful human-to-human transfusions.
The thing that makes Blood Work compelling is that Dr. Tucker puts these early efforts into the context of their time, and she helps us to consider how these events could be relevant to the medical controversies of our own time. And, as we will allude to during our conversation, the story includes a fascinating murder mystery.
Listen to Episode 41 of Books and Ideas
Episode Transcript (Download PDF)
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Links of Interest:
Holly Tucker: author website
History of Science and Medicine group on GoodReads.com
For links to the people discussed in the interview, download the episode transcript.
Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution by Holly Tucker
Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine by Roy Porter
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity by Roy Porter
Transcript of 2006 State of the Union Address by George W Bush
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Blood Work, Holly Tucker, history of medicine, transfusion


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I have an admission to make: This was not my original idea for my last blog of the year. Recent events, however, have put my situation as an author in a whole new light, almost certainly setting the tone and focus for my writing in 2023 and beyond. As you read on, I think you'll see why.
Science fiction has long been my "home" genre, the one in which I feel like I have something to say. This is especially true of military sci-fi. I love stories that feature new classes of starship, starfighters engaged with other starfighters in deadly dogfights in space, dropships carrying determined Marines in power armor into battle, pretty much all the tropes of the genre. Heinlein was a big influence on me early on, and my first published novel, The Backwards Mask, was steeped in all of that.
Unfortunately, the market for military sci-fi right now is pretty tough, especially for authors who do not already have an established readership. I had several conversations with literary agents, editors, and industry professionals recently about why this is.
I don't pretend to know all of the internal workings of the industry, but from what I gather it's like this: The pandemic really messed up the supply chain, including production of the book-weight paper that publishers use to print (you guessed it) books. Since there will be fewer books printed, publishers want to go with the books that they know will be a sure thing. They are less inclined to take chances when they have fewer resources to go around. The supply chain has improved somewhat since then, but the inertia of the industry still remains.
This has made midlist genres like science fiction instantly harder to break into since publishers aren't putting as much resources towards them. The midlist genres are those that have an established readership, but don't have the broad commercial appeal of, say, a mystery or romance novel. You are unlikely to get an international bestseller of the scope of The DaVinci Code or The Bridges of Madison County out of science fiction.
After much soul-searching, I have come to the conclusion that I need to put science fiction down for the foreseeable future. I'm still trying to break into the industry, and it just doesn't look like my path forward for traditional publishing has science fiction in it. At least for now. This is not to say that there isn't a great demand for science fiction from book readers — there certainly is — but if publishers aren't terribly interested in military sci-fi at the moment, agents won't be either. Books have to have somewhere to go.
That means that the sci-fi series I've been developing, that already has two finished novels to its name, one that I've worked on for many years, needs to be shelved, possibly indefinitely. It's hard to say what publishers may want six months, a year, or five years down the line, but it's been made pretty clear to me what they don't want right now. So, as much as it breaks my heart, I'm leaving science fiction behind. I hope to return to it one day, I honestly do.
Does this mean I'm going to stop writing? No, not at all. It just means that I need to change my angle of approach. I've decided to hang up my power armor and gauss rifle in favor of a well-worn travelling cloak (that may at one time have been green) and strap on my storied, ancestral sword. That's right, I'm switching over to fantasy as my main genre.
So, why do I think fantasy might work if sci-fi can't or won't?
Well, I used to see the two genres as close family, walking essentially hand in hand. They are usually found in bookstores together. Depending on the store, they might even be lumped together into one section. We often see "SF/F" as a signifier for the two genres in concert. More and more, though, there are literary agents who represent fantasy but not science fiction. A recent convention I attended had only about three agents present who would consider sci-fi. For fantasy? Double that or more. Fantasy and sci-fi are no longer equals. Fantasy dropped a haste spell and raced ahead, leaving sci-fi behind in its wake.
Whether you attribute it to the long-standing popularity of Harry Potter, the Game of Thrones show on HBO, or immensely popular authors like Brandon Sanderson, people who wouldn't have been readers of fantasy ten or twelve years ago are reading it now. Fantasy is the closest thing to mainstream that it has ever been, and publishers are looking for more.
Truth be told, I avoided the fantasy genre for the longest time. I didn't feel like I had much to say that hadn't already been said by much better authors than myself. Also, Tolkien's effect on the genre can't really be overstated, like the moon's pull on the tides. It's exceedingly difficult not to be influenced by his work in some way or another, if you trace it back far enough.
Conversely, it's almost too easy to find yourself walking along some of the paths that he first blazed. I didn't want to be just another author rearranging the furniture in his house and trying to file off the serial numbers, nor did I want to chase the trend of grimdark fantasy when it became popular in recent years. So, what's an author to do?
Little by little, one idea that I'd had in the back of my mind for a while fused with another. I started making connections in my head. New concepts and old designs began to temper each other. Not long after I had an outline and a map. Then I started writing what was essentially an experiment. I don't want to give away the name, but the initials for that manuscript are "DMM." I was happy with the result, and I found my voice in the genre, opening the door for more.
When it came time to choose my next novel, I wrote another experimental manuscript, very different in tone and execution, but tangentially set in the same world, as well as on the same continent (though separated by vast distances and set in another age.) This one's initials are "AOTO." While the book is finished, and I believe it's the best plotted and paced book I've written so far, it still needs a lot of polishing before it's ready for the querying process. That's on my to-do list for the near future.
Both DMM and AOTO are each meant to be the first volumes in their respective series. Without spoiling anything, one story is a meditation on war, society, and coming to know yourself when everything else has been taken away. The other is about an outsider finding a place to belong and coming to understand why the cause he follows is the right one for him, while also discovering the strength to stand up for what he believes in, no matter the odds. I'll leave you to decide which one is which.
I pitched these ideas to some industry professionals, and their feedback was that these two books might be able to land in the current publishing environment where my sci-fi series couldn't. So, starting next year, both DMM and AOTO will be entering the query trenches, likely in that order. Let us hope that the light of Paladine, Crom, UL, Primus and/or Eru Illúvatar can shine down upon them as they seek to find their way into the light of day. It won't be easy. Then again, nothing worth doing ever is.
So, that's where I am at the moment. The New Year will see me switching gears and continuing to push forward. I hope that you will continue to join me on this journey, albeit along a path I had not intended.
I wish you and your families a happy and safe holiday season! I will be back on Friday, January 6 with the State of the Sector Address. We'll talk about what worked, and what didn't, for 2022 and set out our goals and aspirations for 2023. I hope that you will join me for this.
Until we meet again.
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Woot now people in raids will be telling me when playing my hunter to chicken it lol.. Really useful I just hope it does have a good % I hate be a chicken all the time.
Mob can still melee attack you but not cast spells and range, better than nothing.
What's the cooldown on this again? 5 min?
I heard it can't be used in the Arena, can this be confimed?
Anyone know if it shares a cool-down with itself? Meaning if you had two, since they're not unique, would they share the cool-down or could you use one right after another?
Just double checking; can a mage have a target polymorphed and use this trinket on a second target? Effectively can a mage have 2 targets CC'd at once with this item?
This trinket now seems to not only turn them into a small white chicken that will break when hit, it now can turn them into a larger grey chicken that DOESN'T break when hit.
How often does it backfire? As a mage i am too weak for melee attacking, so i dont want to jump around as chicken in an instance.
Been using this trinket for awhile and have never had it backfire. Then again, the use is not that great. Keep the trinket around for it's ridiculous stamina bonus, however if I had a mind to re-level engineering I would spec goblin for the rocket launcher. Rather disappointing this trinket was.
Transmogrification: Turning people into chickens, and bows into guns.


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Key negotiations
Doctors' pay
BMA demands DDRB recognises the value of doctors
With a real term loss of up to 30% in pay over the last decade, reform of the DDRB is crucial. Read the BMA's 2019 submission to the DDRB.
BMA 2019 submission of evidence to DDRB
Our submission outlines the key points the DDRB and Governments must understand before taking any decisions which would perpetuate further cuts to doctors' pay.
Read our submission
Letter to Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Dr Chaand Nagpaul has written to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care calling for Government to issue a fair pay award.
Read the letter
BMA statement on the submission of evidence to the DDRB
For several years, the medical profession has been let down by both the DDRB and Governments. Despite ever growing evidence of the impact pay cuts are having on doctors' morale and the consequent impact this has on the NHS, no attempt has been made to stop the decline in doctors' living standards.
Ordinarily, the Association spends considerable time and resource producing very detailed evidence to the DDRB. The repeated failure of the DDRB to adhere to its original principles to defend the profession against arbitrary action from Governments – and the continued interference of the Review Body in contractual issues in 2015 during the junior doctor contract negotiations and its more recent recommendations to instigate a new Flexible Pay Premium – have brought us to a situation where there seems to be little point in engaging in the process as we usually do.
This year we have submitted very brief evidence which highlights the key points the DDRB and Governments must understand before taking any decisions which would perpetuate further cuts to doctors' pay. The NHS is a revered institution and it is entirely reliant on its staff. With unsustainable workloads, the growing demands of an elderly population more likely to suffer from multiple long term health conditions, and resources spread more thinly, reliance on staff is increasing daily. Before the service collapses, we must give its staff a reason to stay. Recognising their efforts through pay is an essential part of that.
Since 2008, doctors have experienced the largest drop in earnings of all professions subject to a pay review body, with some groups having seen their pay fall by up to 30 per cent against RPI.
When taken together with multiple other financial changes such as increasing tax on pensions as a result of the annual allowance, increased pension contributions, and the soaring mandatory costs of training, the stark nature of the reduction in doctors' income becomes all too apparent.
Insufficient budgeting and a growing elderly population with complex co-morbidities is leading to doctors being asked to work longer hours and more intensely than ever. This would be a stern test under ordinary circumstances, but when coupled with real terms pay cuts, there is likely to be a significant impact on recruitment and retention.
Many doctors are on the brink of a breaking point. It is unsurprising that they report low levels of morale and plans to retire early, or give up medicine altogether. The GMC training surveys demonstrate that burnout rates are increasing and that more trainees take time out of training due to the strain of this service provision. This trend has an impact on the current service and is a risk to the recruitment and retention of the future workforce.
The DDRB and the Governments must act now if they want to avert this medical workforce crisis, by recognising the value of doctors with an uplift that is at least in line with RPI for 2019, plus a mechanism to start addressing the up to 30 per cent real terms pay cut doctors have experienced since 2008.
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Doctors at breaking point statement
Graph for showing cash vs real pay uplift
Graph for showing GP pay erosion
Graph showing hospital doctor pay erosion
Call for DDRB reform
BDA and BMA position statement on reform of the DDRB
The Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration (DDRB) advises governments in Westminster, Cardiff, Belfast and Edinburgh on rates of pay for doctors and dentists.
The British Dental Association (BDA) is the trade union and professional association for dentists. The British Medical Association (BMA) is the trade union and professional association for doctors.
The DDRB was established following the recommendation of the Royal Commission on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration in 1960. The commission stated that such a body was necessary in order to give the medical and dental professions "some assurance that their standards of living will not be depressed by arbitrary Government action", as well as achieving "the settlement of remuneration without public dispute". The view expressed by the Royal Commission was that this "procedure will in fact, therefore, give the professions a valuable safeguard. Their remuneration will be determined, in practice, by a group of independent persons of standing and authority not committed to the Government's point of view."
Each year both the BDA and BMA provide evidence to the DDRB as part of the process for determining the annual pay uplift for dentists and doctors.
However, the view of the BMA and BDA is that the DDRB process has been modified beyond recognition from its original purpose. This has been developing over a number of years, but is now clearly no longer acceptable to the medical and dental professions.
The BMA and BDA believes it is now time for fundamental reform of the pay review process for doctors and dentists, on the basis of the following principles:
Restitution of the DDRB's independence and return to its original purpose.
Revision of its terms of reference to narrow the DDRB's focus purely on pay uplifts rather than making recommendations on wider contractual matters.
Clear timetables for submission of evidence and publications of the report, and an undertaking that government(s) must not fetter the parameters of the DDRB's recommendations.
Re-establishment of the undertaking that government(s) will respect and implement the DDRB's recommendations.
Annual pay review briefings 2018/19
Read our briefings which give an overview of the input we have into the DDRB process.
Junior doctors briefing
SAS doctors briefing
General practitioners briefing
Consultants briefing
Government pay review for England 2018/19
On 24 July the Government announced its pay deal for doctors in Engand and, in doing so, ignored recommendations from the DDRB:
Junior doctors will receive just 2% increase
SAS doctors will receive just 3% increase
Consultants will receive just 1.5% increase, plus 0.5% related to clinical excellence awards
GPs will receive just 2%, plus potentially a further 1% related to contract negotiations
These increases come into effect in October 2018 (with the exception of the GP increase) and will not be backdated to April 2018.
Read our letter
Results of DDRB survey
Following the Government announcement on 24 July 2018 on the annual pay review for England, we surveyed our members.
The survey was sent by email on Monday 30 July and closed on Saturday 4 August. The overall response number was 12,717.
Read more about the results
What the BMA thinks
Anthea Mowat, BMA representative body chair, said: "It is truly astonishing that the UK Government has chosen to ignore the already insufficient recommendations of its own independent pay review body and to then compound the misery that this will cause for thousands of our hard-working members and their families by refusing to backdate what will be an inadequate pay uplift.
"Just last week the new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care talked about how 'heart-breaking' it was to see how 'under-valued' NHS staff feel. Considering those words, doctors in England will rightly feel both anger and disappointment that sentiment has not been matched with action.
"While the long overdue recognition of SAS doctors is positive, it is unacceptable that the policy of inflicting a real-terms pay cut on the majority of doctors will continue. Since 2008, doctors have experienced the largest drop in earnings of all professions subject to pay review bodies, with consultants seeing a 19 per cent fall in pay, junior doctors 21 per cent and GPs 20 per cent. The effective pay uplift this year for some doctors will be as little as 0.75%, which will be widely seen as derisory.
"At a time when the NHS faces severe shortages of doctors across all specialties, it beggars belief that the ministers have failed to recognise the contribution declining pay has had on the ability to recruit and retain doctors and the significant damage to morale.
"Today's announcement, coming at a time when understaffed and under-resourced hospitals and primary care services are having to manage unprecedented levels of patient demand, will only make a bad situation much worse and the BMA will be considering its next steps in response."
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Government pay review for Scotland and Wales 2018/19
Government pay review for Scotland 2018/19
The Scottish Government announced its pay award for doctors in Scotland at the following rates:
3% increase to the national salary scales for all doctors who earn below £80,000 (full-time equivalent)
3% increase to medical practice staff pay and an uplift of 3% for non-staff expenses
£1,600 for medical staff earning above £80,000 (full-time equivalent)
3% for all junior doctors
3% for all Specialty Doctors and Associate Specialists who earn below £80,000 (full-time equivalent)
3% for all salaried General Medical Practitioners who earn below £80,000 (full-time equivalent)
Distinction Awards and Discretionary Points remain frozen
These changes will be backdated to 1 April 2018.
Government pay review for Wales 2018/19
The Welsh Government announced its pay award for doctors in Wales at the following rates:
A two per cent base increase for salaried doctors (including Clinical Excellence Awards) and dentists, salaried General Medical Practitioners (GMPs) and independent contractor GMPs (net of expenses)
An increase in the GMPs trainers' grant and rate for GMP appraisers of two per cent
An additional two per cent for independent contractor GMPs (net of expenses), salaried GMPs and to the GMP trainers' grant and the GMP appraisers' rate
An additional 1.5% for SAS doctors
BMA evidence for 2018/19 pay review
Key points from the 2018/19 BMA submission of evidence to the DDRB
The main recommendations from our submission include:
The BMA is very concerned about the ability of the DDRB to serve its original purpose. We urge the DDRB to reassert its independence and not be constrained by the Government's continuing reluctance to properly fund the NHS. It is vital that the DDRB's recommendations are made on the basis of the evidence considered, otherwise the confidence of the profession in the process may be irrevocably broken.
Year after year of below inflation increases have equated to significant real terms cuts in doctors' pay and the decrease in the value of sterling in the aftermath of the UK's referendum decision to leave the European Union has increased these inflationary pressures, accelerating the decline in doctors' living standards.
In addition, doctors' capped pay awards of 1 per cent were about 60 per cent less than in the wider economy. Out of the 10 pay review body occupations, doctors have seen the biggest fall (-22.5 per cent) in median real gross hourly earnings, confirming that the pay awards recommended by the DDRB over the past decade have led to significant real terms reductions in doctors' earnings, with the resultant negative implications on morale and living standards. We believe that doctors should be treated in line with the wider economy and we therefore ask for a recommendation to uplift the pay of all doctors across the UK in line with the Retail Price Index (RPI), plus £800 or 2 per cent (whichever is greater).
Further financial changes, such as reduction in CEA spending, increased cost of training, rise in indemnity fees, tax on pensions, GP expenses not rising with inflation and increased pensions contributions, deepen the impact on doctors remuneration. We therefore ask for the DDRB to explore a mechanism to address the real terms cuts in doctors' pay over the long term.
The decline in doctors pay had a damaging impact on the morale of frontline NHS staff at a time when understaffed and under-resourced hospitals and primary care services are having to manage unprecedent levels of patient demand. This has contributed to a workforce crisis in the NHS and has had a detrimental effect on its ability to recruit and retain doctors.
Data on the current state of recruitment into pre and post graduate medical education and training show a further worsening of an ongoing, established trend of fewer people choosing medicine as a career and many more leaving the health service.
Our position is that the ongoing recruitment crisis can only be addressed through comprehensive workforce planning and appropriate remuneration across the board. We do not support targeted recommendations to address location or specialty recruitment issues and we do not want the DDRB to consider developing a new mechanism for enabling targeted pay solutions.
We have consistently highlighted the shortfall in NHS funding across all four nation of the UK, which has come at the expense of patient care and doctors' wellbeing, with sustained cuts over the best part of the decade exhausting genuine efficiencies. The UK has been spending less on health as a proportion of GDP than the average of the 10 leading European countries. This difference in the proportion of the national income committed to spending on health, demonstrates that the sharp decline in doctors' pay and the resources available to the NHS is not a necessity based on the size of the economy but a political choice and we are calling on the UK and devolved governments to match or exceed the average spend of other comparable European countries on health and social scare.
We reiterate that it is very challenging to measure productivity in the NHS. The BMA has looked at methods by which productivity for doctors could be measured, but there are some serious problems with potentials ways of measuring productivity that we think make them inappropriate as a basis for pay.
We ask the DDRB to note and raise with national governments the lack of comparable earnings data for the devolved nations and we express our dissatisfaction with the lack of reliable and comprehensive evidence on rota gaps and vacancies across four nations.
We ask the DDRB to make a recommendation on GP expenses in England as outlined in the GP expenses in England section. We do not ask for a recommendation on GP expenses in the devolved nations; these will be negotiated directly with the devolved governments.
Read our full submission report (PDF)
DDRB and junior doctors
With regards to junior doctors, the DDRB asked for and discussed our views on a number of issues. The oral evidence for junior doctors was delivered by Jeeves Wijesuriya, chair of the junior doctors committee.
Read the oral evidence for junior doctors
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The BMA also submits evidence to the AFPRB (Armed Forces Pay Review Body).
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[Dave Birch] We're about to begin another fantastic new experiment to push the Digital Money Forum blog in newer territory. As many of you will know, we've been collecting the more useful blog posts together and publishing them as a blook. The blook has proved rather popular (we're got advance orders for 800 copies for next year's blook already) and so it set me thinking. If a blook, why not a blovel (another of blogmeister Jane's experimental ideas). After all, as a technologist I've always been aware that it sometimes takes an artist to bring the real insight and understanding. The canonical example in our space has to be William Gibson's Neuromancer. Despite working in computing and communications and being deeply versed in the merging technology, when I got half-a-dozen pages into Neuromancer and I got an understanding of now and the future that I could never have obtained from specifications and manuals. Jane's experiment and the memory of Neuromancer led to me to think about how Charles Dickens (OK, we're setting the bar a little high, but you've got have goals) used to publish his books a chapter at a time in magazines? It occurred to me that we could do the same. That is, why not publish fiction in parts on the blog and then, if it's any good and people like it, collect the parts together and edit them into a blovel to give out to the forward-thinking individuals who come to the Digital Money Forum? So, a plan began to form, but then quickly went on to the shelf. There's an obvious problem, of course: I'm not a novelist, so where am I going to find someone who wants to write a novel with a digital money theme and write it well enough that digital money denizens will actually want to read it? Step forward Steve Taylor who — knowing nothing of blogmeister Jane's experiment — happened to call me and invite me over for a coffee because he was writing a novel with a digital money theme and wanted to bounce some ideas around. Synchronicity! Steve is an advertising and marketing guy of long standing and good company, and I immediately realised that we could experiment together. Hence, the new new thing. Steve is writing a series of business scenarios (called "68", see below) that use his novel "Pointless" illustrate some thinking about the future. Over the coming year, we'll publish some chapters of 68 — and see if art can help to illuminate thinking. With a bit of luck, the feedback and discussion will help Steve to drive along both 68 and the accompanying novel and we'll find some way to connect them and publish perhaps "68" or "Pointless" or both in physical form for the 2009 forum. So welcome to the world of "68: First Hand Reports from the Future of Communications". Venga!
[Steve Taylor] 68, unlike the London bus route after which it is named and on which it is being written, started in two different places. It began as a reasonably straightforward business book, a series of descriptive 'Extreme Scenarios' (to adopt the name of a technique commonly used in Idea Generation) with the aim of helping people involved in the media and communications industries to think the unthinkable.
But the scenarios were too dry, too functional: they needed bringing to life. So I turned to a satirical futuristic novel that I had started and abandoned, a third of the way through, a couple of years ago. 'Pointless' (I know: tempting fate, or what?) is an action adventure set in a futuristic society where private currencies, in the shape of rewards points schemes, have replaced money. (Not the only novel based on this premise: see 'Jennifer Government' by Max Barry). The concept is usually attributed to the right-wing Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek.
I became aware of the notion of private currencies several years ago when working with Dave Birch on a project that ended up with the idea being proposed to Virgin: they didn't get it.
Remedies (often shortened, conversationally, to Rems) are smart pharmaceuticals that successfully tackle many of the diseases that are killers today: their cumulative effect is to prolong life well beyond its current span.
Points and Remedies are inextricably linked: in an exclusively mercantile society, if you have none of the former you cannot get any of the latter. This can lead to a sudden, dramatic reversal of the Remedies' anti-ageing effects, decades lost in days. Some retro-culturally aware wag termed these unfortunates 'Dorians'.
Google ('The Big G') has blasted its servers into orbit around the Earth – oodles of solar power and zero cooling problems.
Only ten 2007-style TV commercials are made a year and they are known as Big Clips. They are an ostentatious indulgence by the few brands so flush that they can afford advertising that has no directly attributable ROI.
Mobile devices are known as Companions: they're the way you get everything.
Finally, the term Pointless describes exactly what it says – people with no Points, who live an outlaw existence beyond society.
he could have been writing specifically about the media business. The ability to imagine a visionary, disruptive future is as rare as it is necessary. Which is why I began writing 68: to utilise storytelling techniques to help people think about the unthinkable.
The first installment of 68, "Mudge's Story", will be published on the Digital Money Forum blog next week.
The blog book is very interesting, I have a copy of the last year … and I'm watching the experiment with interest.
There's also a question of effort & reward: what incentive is there for someone like myself to spend my valuable Sunday afternoon to write a good comment to a good post, when all the popularity is captured entirely by the blog owner?
The point about comments is very well made. I am toying with the idea of beginning to include comments but there are a couple of problems that I think need to be thought through. Assuming that I change the blog page to somewhere say "All comments are concerned to be licenced blah blah" and that people are still happy to post, I would want to be able to edit comments just as I edit the post when making the printed version. And I don't want to deal with e-mails of the kind "why did you include comment X but not my comment", that sort of thing. But thanks for raising the idea.
It's too late for this year's blook (because almost three-quarters of it is already edited), but when I close off the 2008 version (end of February) I will consider the issue again. In the meantime, I'll start a thread later in the week to gather comments.


We look forward to seeing this outdoorsman work toward all things good for wildlife, habitat, outdoorsmen, and our country.
President Donald Trump has selected acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt as a permanent replacement for former Secretary Ryan Zinke.
"It's a humbling privilege to be nominated to lead a Department whose mission I love, to accomplish the balanced, common sense vision of our President," Bernhardt said in a statement.
Support for Bernhardt has poured in from key Congressional leaders and outside groups that have worked with Bernhardt during both his stint at Interior and throughout his career.
Bernhardt is an avid outdoorsman with years of experience managing fish and wildlife resources.


Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed the "Father of Rock 'n' Roll."
Bert the Turtle from the Civil Defense film "Duck and Cover."
Artist Saul Bass was influential in a new style for movie posters such as this one for "The Man with the golden Arm" (1955).
One of the most iconic images in the history of Hollywood, Marilyn Monroe in "The Seven Year Itch."
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright unveils his design for the Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
Marlon Brando in "The Wild One."


Bill Bernbach famously said, "the best advertising is word-of-mouth", and this was from the best advertising creative guru in the country at the time.
Word-of-mouth is the best, true, but it isn't the only. Otherwise ad agencies wouldn't exist. Nor would most mainstream media.
But for some businesses, word of mouth is the Big Kahuna. In this case, without that you don't really have a business, you just have a lot of hundred-dollar bills flying out the window.
Good examples of that would be a local hipster restaurant, or the people who mow your lawn. If your neighbors aren't singing their praises to everybody around, they won't be around for long.
So now the next thing you need to ask is, is your business in a similar situation? And if it is, then you need to get your people to focus on that, and worry less about PR, advertising, direct mail and all the other stuff.
It's much harder than it looks.


I once had a chat with a taxi driver that totally changed my mind about something. No, he wasn't ranting about politics; he was waxing lyrical about beach huts.
Up to that point I'd felt brightly coloured rows of huts were cute for a photo but otherwise the preserve of elderly people with tartan blankets over their laps. He, however, described a halcyon scene with his family gathered round, cooking fry-ups as the sun went down. I was sold. The thought off food often does that to me.
So some years back, after that conversation, I researched renting a beach hut and discovered to my disappointment that most were owned, or available on yearly rentals only, and they exchanged money for eye-watering sums. I gave up.
Then, just this month, my friend said she'd found a hut to rent for a week on a site that had several short term rentals and what's more it was at West Wittering – Sussex's answer to The Hamptons.
Luckily I had caffeine and this view to soothe my traffic-frazzled mood.
Ahh the Witterings. West Wittering is often named the county's best beach. It has actual sand – and miles of it, when the tide is out – and tempting smart cafes lining the approach.
We'd brought our own picnic, so tucked into smoked salmon, avocado and sourdough bread in the hut, which sounds a lot better than it looked, as having forgotten to bring a sharp knife of any kind we sort of mauled things apart.
We'd both pledged to work on location for the day and after the obligatory gossip, some writing did actually get done. The hut was so roomy we could both have a table, chair and laptop side by side, me attempting the perfect laptop in shade, legs in sun position.
The hut was surprisingly well-stocked however with deckchairs, recliners, windbreaks, buckets and spades, even boogie boards and sun hats, for proper beach fun.
There aren't many short-term rentals in Sussex but my friend found hers through beachhuts4hire.co.uk for a reasonable £120 a week. There are also a few huts on the site for weekly rentals in Worthing, Goring-on-sea, Brighton and Hove and Bexhill-on-Sea, some with stoves and beach toys, one with a vintage rug. A few, like the ones in Goring, even allow rentals as short as two days.
You do have to factor in the parking – at West Wittering there's no hourly rate and in high season it's a flat £6.50 a day on weekdays or £8 at weekends (£4.50/£6.50 after 3.00pm) so it really isn't a place you want to dip into for a couple of hours.
The car park and loos are very handy from the beach huts however. There are also often events like walks and crabbing competitions going on at the beach.
For families and friends a hut allows you to keep your paraphernalia in one place, have an easy pit stop for food, a cuppa, shelter from rain and wind and make an evening of it with a meal on a stove or, where allowed, a barbecue. I've thrown many an envious look as groups of friends cracking out the sundowners clustered in deckchairs round a beach hut.
For my friend and I getting all writing retreat we reckoned off-season when the beach was quieter would be better as the hut felt like it would be pleasant and roomy enough for a bit of autumn or spring weather with the doors open or shut (there were windows in the inner doors) as the weather dictated.
And next time, I'm doing that fry up.


Going into the final round of the season, there are still five teams who could be relegated to Serie B, so Ramez Nathan analyses the situation.
After only one season, Benevento and Hellas Verona have already lost their status in the top flight, and in the past two weeks the fate of who will join them in Serie B has been twisting and turning dramatically.
For a long while Chievo and Udinese seemed to be the worst sides in Serie A. Rolando Maran grabbed only two wins in his last 22 games in charge of the Flying Donkeys, while Massimo Oddo lost 11 a club record consecutive matches before getting the sack.
However, the two clubs changed their Coaches, Lorenzo D'Anna grabbing all six points from his two games at the helm of Chievo and Igor Tudor collecting four points in his three games.
It is hard to see one of the two teams descending to Serie B, as the last fixture for the Zebrette will be against a Bologna side that failed to win any of their last five matches and a Coach that has one foot out the club. Meanwhile Chievo will be against the team tailing the league, with the worst defence in the competition, Benevento. Even if one of them suffered defeat, it will need the other four to win their ties for Udinese or Chievo to be relegated.
On the other hand, last season's miracle makers Crotone and newcomers SPAL have enjoyed flashes of magic throughout this campaign, earning draws with Juventus and Inter, yet are the closest to the bottom with tough games lying ahead of them.
The Pitagorici will travel to the Stadio San Paolo to face Napoli and the Biancazzurri are up against one of the best Sampdoria sides since Antonio Cassano and Giampaolo Pazzini left the club.
The two teams could still survive even if they did not win their last game of the season, as a draw for each side could see Cagliari fall down the pecking order.
Last week's triumph over Fiorentina was shocking and vital for the Sardinians, putting them one point ahead of Crotone and SPAL, but they are facing the toughest final fixture. Atalanta need the points to secure their Europa League status.
Cagliari hold the third worst front-line with 32 goals and the last time they achieved two wins in a row was back in November.
Neutrals will feel rather sad to see Benevento go, as they may have been appalling at times, but were rarely dull. SPAL and Crotone brought some sparkle to the relegation battle and it'd be disappointing to see them go while Chievo, Udinese and Bologna can coast to safety doing the bare minimum.
If a team can lose 11 rounds in a row and still not go down, it doesn't say much for the competitiveness of the league.
not just tv money stadium ticket sales merchandising fees sponsorship a range of extra income generated by having a 20 team league. I think you would serious issues as well in structuring relegation and promotion initially. I would also question the tv deal sky seems to operating a unfair advantage in this market i will never understand why a company which comes along and bids more for the rights is turned away. I would question with advantage how you will get a better deal.
the tv money might be down 10% due to less games, but then it'll also be shared between 18 teams, so the net impact for clubs will be minimal. They can even negotiate the same or a higher price, since quality of games should be better.
I'm for 18 teams rather than 20. It will tighten up competition relegation battles will be even more intense. Better transfers in windows cuz of better players. The seasons are overbooked, too many games.europa and CL games will matter more to teams. Nothing will change in Serie B. Make it 22 teams look at poor Benevento started 1st season ever in A,was in last place entire season from 1st game to last. Media set wants to show only good games. 34 games is still alot.and there's Coppa Italia.
Based on the list I just provided, Serie A should take a bigger step and reduce the number of teams to 16, with one or two relegated each year. Given the number of games and traveling players have in a calendar year, less is more in terms of football quality. This will also allow teams to spend more time practicing and put more emphasis on every week. People would probably watch more of each game given its added importance and the limited amount of games.
I say that Serie A should take a big step and downsize the league to 16 teams. With the number of games that players have in a single year, less would be more in terms of football quality. Further, each game would mean a lot more and teams would be able to spend more time practicing.
I am not sure Serie A as a whole would miss the majority of these teams.
if you reduce the amount of teams you reduce the amount of games which reduces the amount of money needed to buy the tv rights.
I suppose so but lets be fair here in order for chievo or udinese to be dragged into crotone has to beat napoli and spal has to beat sampdoria. Calgari in particular have a real tough game against atalanta who are fighting for 6th. I would bet on calgari to get a draw spal because they are at home might get a draw crotone away at napoli who knows should lose to be honest.
We really need to have 18 teams in Serie A. So many advantages!
1. More competitive league as the best players are spread out between 18 clubs rather than 20. So quality of football improves.
2. 4 less games for teams. Helpful for the teams in Europe to manage their workloads & be more competitive. Allows an extra week of winter break.
3. Closer relegation fight, occasionally including a big team. 16th place can have a playoff with 3rd ranked Serie B team.
4. Reduces number of one-sided games.


Popular as pets, bearded dragons or "beardies" are moderately sized lizards native to Australia.
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Q: How do I change styles to an already created list control? I have created
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On some tabs the list will only allow single select like the above code, but on some tabs it will not have LVS_SINGLESEL to allow for multiple item selections.
The list is created with a default tab that doesn't allow for multiple selection.
Can I change the style, without having to create a new listcntrl depending on my tab selection? Is there a method for this?

A: You can use the CWnd::ModifyStyle() method, eg:
// turn on single selection
pMyListControl->ModifyStyle(0, LVS_SINGLESEL);

// turn off single selection
pMyListControl->ModifyStyle(LVS_SINGLESEL, 0);


Do You Know This Robber Dressed As Construction Worker?
A reward is being offered to find an armed robber, who dressed as a construction worker.
San Diego Police say the guy robbed a Game Stop Store on Murphy Canyon road on December 19th, but when he went into a game stop on University on the 23rd, the clerk recognized him and told another employee to call security, and the suspect ran away.
But later that day, he robbed a Subway shop on Clairmont Mesa Boulevard.
In both cases, he lifted up his shirt to show the clerk a silver revolver tucked in his waistband.
In one robbery, he was wearing an orange construction vest and hard hat, glasses and a bandana. Underneath the hat, black "Dickie" style pants, and black tennis shoes with white soles.
He's described as Hispanic, 30 to 35, 5'7 to 5'9 and up to 200 pounds.
Anyone with information on the identity or location of the suspect is asked to call the SDPD's Robbery Unit at (619) 531-2299 or the Crime Stoppers anonymous tip line at (888) 580-8477.
Visit the Crime Stoppers website at www.sdcrimestoppers.org for more information on how to send anonymous web and mobile app tips.


A few years ago, a cluster of celebrity divorces gave rise to the idea that divorce could be contagious. It was thought that seeing high-profile couples calling it quits was having a ripple effect on people in general deciding to separate. Yet, there are still many people who stay in an unhappy marriage for decades before deciding they are done. It seems like a simple question but it's one worth asking: Why do people divorce?
Disillusionment — People don't always choose the most compatible person to marry, and love often blinds couples to each other's faults — until it's too late. When time passes and expectations of closeness, companionship or shared experience are not met, the light goes out, and reality sets in.
Infidelity — Even when marital infidelity is forgiven, no marriage affected by adultery is ever quite the same.
Economics — Money and how it is earned, spent and saved plays a significant factor in whether you're living in wedded bliss or bickering over finances. Couples frequently fail to understand that love does not pay the bills. A financially cautious spouse paired with one who spends easily and freely eventually leads to trouble.
Addictions, violence, instability — When the personal life of one spouse falls apart, the marriage also tends to fall apart.
As to the contagious nature of divorce, there may be something to it. A study headed by a Brown University researcher found that the breakup of the marriage of a close friend can increase the likelihood of divorce by up to 75 percent. Whatever your reasons for considering divorce, Bryan L. Salamone and Associates, P.C, offers trusted legal guidance.


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Celebrated annually on the second Sunday in October falls a nonofficial holiday called Pastor Appreciation Day. Sometimes called Clergy Appreciation Day. On this day efforts of ministers, priests and pastors are honoured in Unites States of America. Clergy Appreciation Day 2018 in United States of America will be observed on 14th October. Make it a beautiful day with Pastor Appreciation short quotes. Send across Pastor Appreciation greeting card messages to loved ones. You can even send Thank You message for pastor.
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6. On the occasion of Pastor Appreciation Day, I am sending you a big thank you for your spiritual guidance and support to help us have a better life…. Happy Clergy Appreciation Day to you.
7. With a warm heart, we highly appreciate you the inspiring and significant role that you play in our lives and help us become good people…. Happy Pastor Appreciation Day to you.
8. You are the reason we connect with God…. You are the reason we find light in darkness…. Thanks for being the guiding force…. Best wishes on Clergy Appreciation Day.
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9. A heart felt thanks to you for making a significant different to the world…. Happy Pastor Appreciation Day.
10. The service of the priest is invaluable and service of a pastor is selfless…. Thanks for making world a better place.
11. When God wants to connect with us, he connects us through parents and pastors… Happy Pastor Appreciation Day.
12. You are an amazing pastor and we highly appreciate your work.
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Towns of Mexico > Zacatecas > Apulco > Los Aguilera
Los Aguilera (Apulco, Zacatecas)
Maps, photos and statistics of Los Aguilera, a beautiful small village of 12 inhabitants of the State of Zacatecas
The town of Los Aguilera is located in the Municipality of Apulco (in the State of Zacatecas). There are 12 inhabitants. Of all the towns in the municipality, it occupies the number #35 in terms of number of inhabitants. Los Aguilera is at 1,790 meters of altitude.
The community's inhabitants joined those of Huegolita in the year 2010.
Map. How to get to Los Aguilera?
Photos of Los Aguilera
The town of Los Aguilera is located at 6.5 kilometers from Tenayuca, which is the most populated locality in the municipality, in the South direction. In addition, it is located at 6.9 kilometers from Apulco, which is the capital of the municipality, in the North direction. If you browse our webpage, you will also find a map with the location of Los Aguilera.
Where is Los Aguilera? How to get there? Map
Map to know how to get to Los Aguilera (Zacatecas) by road and with geographical references of the surrounding towns. With the controls you can zoom in and out to the position of Los Aguilera, which has the following symbol
Need to locate a certain Los Aguilera building on a satellite photo? In this link we have an updated image, where you can see the streets and houses of the village..
The population of Los Aguilera (Zacatecas) is 12 inhabitants
Population data in Los Aguilera (Apulco, Zacatecas)
Evolution of the population in Los Aguilera: Total Men Women
Satellite photo of Los Aguilera
Amazing satellite GPS maps of Los Aguilera, to see from space this beautiful village, as well as the surroundings of the municipality of Apulco. You can search free satellite map (2023) of Los Aguilera.
Population pyramid of Los Aguilera (Zacatecas)
We have compiled data on number of inhabitants of Los Aguilera by age and sex, to show you the following population pyramid of the town, from the year 2005. You can check how the percentages of children and adults are distributed, in addition to women and men. With this data you can analyze the demographic structure, and know if in Los Aguilera there is a generational replacement.
Would you like to see what this town looks like and enjoy landscape photos of Los Aguilera? We have located on the Internet several beautiful images of places and locations nearby, so you can see the beauty of this Mexican town. Some are artistic photos and others are simply panoramic photos taken by amateurs and friends who simply like Los Aguilera.
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Rancho Apulco (112 inhabitants)
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Why streaming bundled services drive customer loyalty
POSTED : January 4, 2021
BY : Rebecca Lucash
Categories: Articles,Improve Customer Loyalty,Strategy and Design,Telecom and Media
In streaming, giving consumers a reason to stick around is critical to remaining relevant. This is true of just about any category, but particularly for the OTT world because streaming services have such low barriers to entry and exit. We know from our own research that 62% of people have signed up for a service with the specific intention of canceling after they have watched the content they came for.
One solution that major players are turning to is the rundle.
The recurring revenue bundle, or "rundle" as coined by Professor Scott Galloway of NYU Stern, is a collection of bundled services, products, and/or discounts offered as a subscription. And they're storming the world of retail as brands like Wayfair, AMC, and even Wal-Mart launch rundles of their own.
Rundles don't just bring additional value to customers; they also incentivize them to return to your brand over and over. The bundled services you offer don't have to be limited to the core capabilities of your company—you can use a rundle to branch out into new areas (like Amazon has done recently with the launch of their Halo fitness band), or to enhance a customer experience (like Wayfair offering furniture assembly).
Amazon was one of the first companies to launch a premium loyalty program back in 2005. Amazon Prime Video was an early addition to the lineup, launching in 2006. And there can be no arguing with the success of Prime. But until the launch of Apple One in Fall 2020, no other player in the streaming market had ventured into this potentially lucrative space.
Why do bundled services make sense in streaming?
Well, for one thing—unless you're a powerhouse player, loyalty in streaming is currently low. As we found in our MDX research, streaming subscribers pay for or have access to over 4 streaming services, but regularly use fewer than 3 of them. And among the brands we looked at, the ratio of those who no longer have a service to those who still do is approximately 1:3. That ratio changes to 1:5 only for Netflix and Amazon Prime.
There's little question as to why consumers are loyal to Netflix. When we look at our overall Index scores, Netflix is the all-around leader. But according to our metrics, Amazon Prime ranks 6th —behind Netflix, YouTubeTV, HBOMax, Disney+, and Hulu. And of the consumers we surveyed who pay for Prime themselves, 20% report that they do not watch the service regularly (1x per month or more). By comparison, just 12% of paying Netflix subscribers say the same.
The differentiating factor? Amazon is a rundle. Consumers are sticking around for more than just video content. If they aren't finding a show or movie to watch, they might be getting value from free shipping, or enjoying access to Amazon's music library. The average Amazon Prime member spends over 2x as much on goods and services from Amazon each year as a non-member.
This is not to say that every streaming bundled service needs to go out and launch an e-commerce site, theme park, or retail line. But rather that in the brave new world of streaming media, brands must fully leverage all their services and goods to remain relevant to the consumer.
In the MDX Index, we discuss opportunities in community-building and transmedia that can expand the walls of the streaming category and help streaming brands stay relevant across a broader customer journey. These same opportunities can be leveraged to build a streaming bundled service that keeps consumers coming back again and again. Apple is making the first move…it may be time for other companies to take notice before it's too late.
Rebecca Lucash is a senior insights consultant at PK specializing in research and insights-driven strategy. She is passionate about customer-centric marketing—learning what drives customer behavior and leveraging those insights to create value and more meaningful experiences. Prior to joining PK, Rebecca worked in the consumer-packaged goods and publishing industries.


Discovery and adventure await you! The Florida Museum is the state natural history museum and one of the largest collections-based museums in the Southeast. Explore a tropical oasis of flowers and waterfalls with hundreds of living butterflies from around the world in Florida Museum's Butterfly Rainforest permanent exhibit. The Rainforest houses tropical plants and trees, including nectar flowers to support many different species of Lepidoptera. Guests can stroll along the winding path and relax to the sounds of cascading waterfalls year-round. Step back in time 290 million years when distinctive creatures dominated life on land and sea, and learn about the greatest extinction the world has ever seen. This unique exhibition brings the past to life with fossilized skeletons and full-sized replicas of the animals that ruled the world before the age of dinosaurs, in a time known as the Permian. Gain a glimpse into the period with paintings from award-winning paleo-artist Julius Csotonyi. See models of giant insects, bizarre-looking sharks and strange reptiles with mammal-like characteristics. Meet the top predator of the time, the giant saber-toothed Gorgonopsid, and sift through interactive dig pits.
One Day General admission to the Permian Monsters exhibit for 4 Adults.
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France-based OneAccess Networks today unveiled an array of virtual network functions (VNFs) for service providers to supply to their enterprise customers. The VNFs are offered on a new range of white-box hardware, also from OneAccess.
The 16-year-old company's core business has been designing and selling routers to telcos. It counts about 110 telcos as customers, mostly in Europe. But with this new network functions virtualization (NFV) offering, OneAccess is setting its sights on North American service providers, too.
OneAccess competes against router manufacturers such as Cisco and Juniper, but for this new NFV offering, the company sees Juniper as more of a direct competitor.
But he notes that Juniper has been willing to work with white-box hardware.
In late 2014, Juniper said it would offer its own white-box switch, built around Open Compute Project specs and running its Junos operating system. And in 2015, Juniper rolled out its NFX250 that can run VNFs from Juniper and third parties, simultaneously.
When he announced the NFX250, Juniper's CEO Rami Rahim said he wanted to "transform the economics of networking," and he talked about licensing flexibility.
Mirchandani says OneAccess has created push reporting for its VNF licensing so that operators are free to move their VNFs around as they like. For instance, if an operator wants to replicate a VNF in additional data centers, the VNF reports its own licensing event, and the operator doesn't experience any delays.
OneAccess intends to target more the small to midsized business segment, while it sees Juniper as more of a VNF and hardware provider to very large enterprises.
The Open Virtualization Platform (OVP), which lays the foundation for hosting, chaining, and managing OneAccess and other VNFs. OVP combines white-box hardware with the management and programmability afforded by Netconf.
A catalogue of VNFs that includes a vRouter as well as VNFs for a session border controller, a WAN optimization controller, and VPN services. All OneAccess VNFs can be run in a virtualized data center, can be composed into specific service bundles, and can be run in combination with other vendors' VNFs.
A range of white-box customer premises equipment (CPE) that can run OneAccess and other vendors' VNFs, where both the platform and the VNFs can be directly integrated into service providers' management systems using Netconf and YANG.


This realistic looking fused glass snowflake is sure to amaze with it's simple beauty. It is unique and delicate just like a real snowflake, but so much better because it won't melt.
The possible uses are nearly endless!
Add a little ribbon and use them to decorate your tree for the holidays.
This listing is for a single glass snowflake. Please allow for slight variation as each is hand made.
I make these by hand and kiln anneal them for over 5 hours, yet they are still delicate. They are glass and they will break if your drop them. Treat them gently and they will bring you joy for many years to come!


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Paulette Rowe
CEO, Integrated & Ecommerce Solutions
Paulette joined Paysafe in January 2020 and leads Paysafe's Integrated and Ecommerce Solutions division. Her appointment into this newly created executive role reflects the company's appetite to accelerate its global integrated payment offerings and cement Paysafe as a leading provider of ecommerce solutions. Within this remit, she leads the strategy around Paysafe's Netbanx gateway offering, EU Acquiring and ISV relationships.
A high-profile leader in the payments industry, Paulette brings over 20 years' international experience and deep knowledge of the payments eco-system and payments technology to Paysafe.
Before joining Paysafe she was Head of Payments and Financial Services Partnerships for Facebook where she was tasked with enabling Facebook to accept payments across nearly 200 markets and supporting the build of new commerce and payment propositions across Facebook's family of apps, including WhatsApp and Instagram. In this role she also led the global business development effort which selected and signed payment partners in the U.S. and other markets.
Prior to joining Facebook, she ran Barclaycard Payment Solutions, Europe's second largest merchant payment processor. Before Barclaycard, she held roles at GE Capital, the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Tesco Personal Finance (now Tesco Bank) and NBNK Investments.
Paulette is also currently a Non-Executive Director of the FTSE 100-listed United Utilities Group plc. Paulette was recently named one of the most influential women in payments by PaymentsSource (March 2020). She was also named as one of the UK's top 10 most influential people of African or African Caribbean heritage in the 2019 and 2020 Power List and is also listed in the Digital Banking Club's Power 50 – a list of the most influential thought leaders in European financial services.
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The Leaning Tower of Pisa: Fast Track & Walking Audio Tour on Mobile App - with unbiased reviews
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The Leaning Tower of Pisa: Fast Track & Walking Audio Tour on Mobile App
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Explore the best sights and Leaning Tower of Pisa with a private audio tour available on WeGoTrip App (included).
You will explore this unpretentious university city and learn more about its history and monuments. You'll get to know more about everyday life in the small and lively Medieval Tuscan town, discover hidden lanes and take photos from unusual places.
You'll have a chance to marvel at Keith Haring's largest mural and stroll around the busy Corso Italia.
Then the mobile app will go you to the Piazza dei Miracoli and you will discover monuments known as "miracles" because of their incredible beauty and uniqueness. The audio tour finishes at the famous Leaning Tower, so don't forget to purchase the tickets in advance if you want to see its interior and climb to the top.
⚠ Kids under 8 and visitors with reduced mobility and/or heart disease can't climb the tower.
⚠ Please be there 20 minutes before your reserved timeslot.
⚠ Shoulders and knees must be covered.
Stop At: Leaning Tower of Pisa, Piazza del Duomo Piazza dei Miracoli, 56126, Pisa Italy
Stroll through the narrow streets of Pisa, visit its most unusual places and walk to see one of the most popular towers in the world — Leaning Tower of Pisa. Try to come up with the most unusual pose for a picture!
Pass By: Piazza dei Miracoli, Piazza del Duomo, 56126, Pisa Italy
Visit the beautiful square of miracles just nearby the tower and get to know the unusual facts about the place.
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Leaning Tower of Pisa, Piazza del Duomo, 56126 Pisa PI, Italy
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Peri Naua Association
Peri Naua, French association subsidizes, since 5 years, nursery school Ondundu near Tsumeb and created with the assistance of the Embassy of France, a nursery school Orwetoweni which opened its doors in January 2009. Both structures allow the education of disadvantaged children by giving them a broader social openness.
Peri Naua is an association founded by people directly on site development activities, it is by living there and making their individual actions by what came after the need is established in order Association improve and enrich the content of their actions. Today their work is focused around disadvantaged children providing them education and family support by involving families in the project. For more details you can visit their site http://perinaua.free.fr/
The geographical and cultural.
Ondundu is a small village a few kilometers from the town of Tsumeb. The villagers are mostly from the tribe known to us no longer known as "Bushmen" but this designation should be avoided because it is pejorative for Namibia, "Bushmen" meaning those who live in the bush, that is to say the "hick".
The San tribe is the poorer section of Namibia: its know-how (hunting, gathering, making ostrich shell jewelry …) have virtually disappeared. Their lands are increasingly invaded by the Herero tribe of farmers whose cattle destroy the bushes and eat the fruit once used by the Sans for food and medicine.
In addition, the territory of the No is very remote, north east (Tsumkwe) and few tourists go that far, because of the remoteness of course, but also the bad reputation that no other Namibians to make.
Besides Sans, some families also live in Ovambo Ondundu but most are unemployed since the Tsumeb copper mine has considerably reduced its staff.
For the villagers of Ondundu, living conditions are difficult and the future of their children based on education and thus the school.
The schooling of Ondundu children.
The kindergarten as we know it in France does not exist in Namibia.
The village has a Ondundu primary school with children from six years on the basis of a small entrance examination, as is done throughout Namibia.
This entrance examination is essentially whether the child has the necessary prerequisites to attending class: Fundamentals of English (which is the national language required), ability to sit, listen, wear shoes , to hold a pencil …
All these conditions exclude most black children to school if behavioral skills were not previously acquired.
This is the reason that led Jacky KONJORE, arrive Ondundu few years ago by the transfer of her husband teacher, create a kindergarten HELP THE Helpless Kindergarten "first for his own children (she has three) and then also for its "community", she likes to say.
In 2005, this garden hosts:
30 pups aged 2 to 6, from 7 pm to 13 pm 00; a lunch of maize meal being served at 9 am 00.
Thirty children of primary school from 13 am to 00 tutoring and a meal is served on arrival.
Kindergartens in Namibia receive no public subsidy, only primary schools are funded by the state of Namibia. PERI is therefore NAUA which subsidizes the operation of the kindergarten Ondundu.
The needs of the kindergarten "HELP THE Helpless Kindergarten" and support PERI NAUA.
The kindergarten HELP THE Helpless Kindergarten ", a literal translation to the way Anglo-Saxon" Help the kindergarten in need "was created in January 2002 under the leadership of Jacky KONJORE who welcomed so children in the dining room of his house!
A few months later, the kindergarten moved in the old refectory of minors in the middle of homes in the San population, which quickly created problems because the children were constantly challenged by members of their family and evil to concentrate.
In 2003, Jacky has contacted the director of the Tsumeb mine, which has provided a small plot of land opposite the school Ondundu: the parents have been contributing to the construction of a building sheet and a few benches and wooden tables.
In 2004, PERI NAUA funded the creation of toilets and purchase of tables and chairs.
In 2005, "HELP THE Helpless Kindergarten" bought with money sent by Peri Naua the same ground at the mine in order to consider building a permanent building.
In late 2007 the school building and the offices will be fully renovated (investment, which represents € 6,500 for Peri Naua).
PERI NAUA support is financial :
Staff salaries : four people working for the kindergarten: a gardener / caretaker and three teachers. Ms. KONJORE could not initially provide a regular payment of wages (about 60 € a month per person), which has resulted in a turnover very important until 2003. Indeed, only six families can now pay the 15 Namibian dollars (about 3 €) per month charged by the kindergarten. With the help of Peri Naua, wages may now be assured and loyal staff.
Financial assistance (seeds for the garden, food, educational materials, training teachers, school fees for the poorest families …) through sending the profits from sales of Namibian crafts also and not least , the product produced by the parents.
The involvement of parents avoids assistantship which we know the devastating effects on the San tribe, and finally allows them to retain their cultural know-how (basketry, necklaces of ostrich eggs …)
Upcoming projects :
From January 2008, Peri Naua committed to managing the costs of operating a second kindergarten located in the former 'township' of the town of Otjiwarongo, in the center of the country. The building was built with funds from the Embassy of France in 2008 and the first intake will be in January 2009.
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The Diamondbacks appear to be on the verge of some much-needed good news, as manager Chip Hale suggested today that center fielder A.J. Pollock will likely be activated from the DL later this week. Nick Piecoro of the Arizona Republic tweeted Hale's comments.
Pollock's season debut will come too late to help reverse a forgettable 2016 campaign. But it's an enormous step for the organization, which entered the year with exceedingly high hopes only to fall into last place in the NL West.
For all the attention that has been paid to some questionable offseason decisions by the Arizona front office, there's no doubt that the organization was trying to push its chips in to create a winner. The view was that a talented young core was worthy of supplementation.
Apart from star slugger Paul Goldschmidt, Pollock was the most important element in that assessment. He entered spring camp fresh off of a gem of a campaign in which he hit .315/.367/.498, popped twenty long balls and swiped 39 bags, and drew rave reviews with his glove in center. That not only made him one of the game's best overall performers in 2015, but pushed his earning power up (resulting in a two-year, $10.25MM deal to buy out two of his three arbitration seasons) and created hopes of a sustained breakout for the season yet to come.
While the D-Backs' chances at the postseason were more average than great to begin with, Pollock's fractured elbow — which occurred just before the start of the season — dealt them a severe blow. Making things even worse, the team had dealt away its best remaining outfield defender (Ender Inciarte) in the deal to acquire Shelby Miller, stripping the team of a clear replacement up the middle.
The injury came with greater-than-usual long-term complications, too. Pollock previously missed an entire season of minor league action after fracturing his growth plate in the same elbow, and initial reports of his new injury suggested there was no known timeline for his return.
As it turns out, Pollock has seemingly fared somewhat better than might have been feared. He will be able to return for about five weeks of action and, so long as all goes well, enter spring at full speed. If his .433/.541/.733 slash line on his rehab assignment is any indication, Pollock will have no trouble picking up where he left off, though it remains to be seen whether the injury will have lasting effects.
Glad to hear he had a smooth rehab. Good luck!
They project to be outstanding together. The team as (currently) constructed still projects to be poor moving forward.
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