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Angelique X. Irvin, CEO of Clear Align, stated, "These acquisitions are part of an overall strategy to expand our international presence and enable quick turn in house prototypes to customers. irZoom and Computer Optics strengthen our portfolio of offerings and discriminators in the tactical intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance market and expand our market to serve commercial and medical customers. The complementary irZoom brand has a respected international presence that we plan to support. We will further invest in expanded optical component manufacturing allowing us to provide more diverse quick-turn optics to better serve an increasingly demanding optics marketplace. We look forward to maintaining and strengthening the relationships that Computer Optics enjoys with its existing customers, and collaborating to jointly expand into new products and markets."
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German vaccine manufacturer BioNTech reported total revenues for the three months ended September 30, 2022 of €3,461.2 million (-43% yoy) while for the nine months total revenues were €13,032.3 million1 (9M 2021: €13,444.2 million1). As expected, the course of the pandemic remained volatile and led to fluctuations in quarterly revenues.
During the third quarter, BioNTech's commercial revenues included €2,554.2 million gross profit share (Q3 2021: €4,358.5 million1) based on the collaboration partners' gross profit on COVID-19 vaccine sales in Pfizer's and Fosun Pharma's territories and represents a net figure.
In addition, BioNTech recognized €564.5 million of direct COVID-19 vaccine sales to customers in BioNTech's territory, Germany and Turkey, as well as €259.4 million from sales of products manufactured by BioNTech for its collaboration partners.
Cost of sales were €752.8 million and resulted mainly from the recognition of costs related to BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine revenues which included the share of gross profit owed to the Company's collaboration partner Pfizer. In addition, cost of sales were impacted by expenses arising from inventory write-offs and expenses for production capacities derived from contracts with contract manufacturing organizations.
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Nvidia in 2018 – controversial marketing, pricey GPUs, and a hell of a mining hangover
After seeing half of the value of the business sliced off its 2018 highs, it's not been a great year for Nvidia
The tale of Nvidia's 2018 could probably be told in pure pictographic form by simply putting up a 12 month snapshot of the company's share price. It looks kind of like that classic Windows XP background: a rolling green hillock, but one with rather steep drops on either side. Yes, it's been a trying year for team green, despite things looking unbelievably rosy for much of the year.
Jen-Hsun's gang was selling all the old graphics cards it could make, cashing in on the fact the mining gold rush was seemingly going on indefinitely. Because of that it was holding back its next generation of GPUs, waiting to drop the new Turing generation with a resounding thud on both the professional and gaming sides of the market once nobody was buying Pascal cards anymore.
And then the bottom dropped out of the mining market, like the morning after a bad curry, arguably leaving much the same general soreness around the Santa Clara HQ. Nvidia has subsequently been left with a whole heap of old cards, and a bunch of expensive new ones that people aren't neccessarily 100% convinced about.
So, stock-wise, technologically, and then also from a marketing standpoint, 2018 has been a tricksy ol' 12 months for the GeForce faithful. And we haven't even spoken of the whole GPP furore yet either…
Nvidia 2018 review: January – March
As every year in the PC market starts, 2018 was born in the glitz and faded glamour of Las Vegas at CES. All Nvidia really had to show off at the event was the brand new Big Format Gaming Displays. These were 50 or 60-inch panels, with built in Shield TV boxes, 4K G-Sync HDR capabilities, and the ability to refresh at 120Hz.
Sadly the panels seemed a little ropey when I had a chance to play with them at the show, and that was likely part of why everyone concerned has since gone back to the drawing board…
In graphics card terms this was right in the midst of the GPU mining good times, with Nvidia making some noises about doing right by gamers and making sure they could still buy graphics cards. It started talking about an ineffectual one-card-per-person limit… which retailers had already mostly implemented themselves to little or no success.
February was when we heard the first rumours of a Q3 2018 release for Nvidia's new range of GPUs, though at that point we still didn't know if it would be Volta-based or something else.
But people stopped caring as soon as Nvidia launched its GeForce Partner Program and AMD went on the offensive encouraging writers to question its ethics. It was suggested that some of the wording of GPP meant manufacturers, such as MSI and Asus, weren't going to be allowed to sell AMD cards as well as keep on selling Nvidia GPUs.
There was a huge outcry from the industry and the general public, mostly because of a misinterpretation of a pretty standard marketing partnership which aimed at stopping manufacturing partners using Nvidia marketing money to promote the competition alongside its cards.
But never let facts get in the way of a good controversy. Realistically Nvidia's partners didn't want to have separate brands for their GeForce and Radeon cards as that would have meant spending their own money marketing the AMD brands rather than use Nvidia's. And so they kicked up a fuss.
Away from the GPP furore, Nvidia once more tried to help funnel gaming GPUs away from miners by producing specific mining SKUs of its cards. And they just bought all those up as well.
But at least March also brought us the first peak at real-time ray tracing, with Microsoft and Nvidia announcing the DXR/RTX goodness at the Game Developers Conference. Then Nvidia went on to show how good hybrid ray tracing could look with an incredible Star Wars ray tracing demo… though it needed a $122K PC to run in real time.
However the Titan V was the only released desktop GPU capable of real time ray tracing, but it was also found to be a little dyscalculic, getting its maths wrong in actual professional scientific tasks. You could maybe forgive it getting a few rays traced incorrectly, but actual scientific maths?
Nvidia 2018 review: April – June
It was very much a case of 'out with the old and wait for the new' in the middle of this year for Nvidia. First off it killed driver support for the old 400 and 500-series Fermi cards, and for any 32-bit operating systems, then summarily executed its unpopular GeForce Partner Program, "rather than battle misinformation" about it.
Though I kinda feel if Nvidia had been a bit more vocal about battling that misinformation it wouldn't have come off looking so Machiavellian in its proposed partner dealings. But by that point it was too late to win back the partners or the public.
In another bid to help boost the lack of graphics cards in the market Nvidia publicised a 'supply run' signalling the company working to get more GPUs onto the shelves and into the PCs of gamers. Though that quickly backfired…
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The cryptocurrency mining market's demand for GPUs quickly dropped off a cliff, with Nvidia announcing that it was expecting a huge drop off in revenue from that sector, to the tune of around $190m, later in the year. And then acted surprised when that actually happened…
With reports that an unnamed Taiwanese graphics card manufacturer had sent back 300,000 unwanted GPUs to Nvidia, there was also evidence of a huge number of Pascal chips just sat in the channel. The miners didn't want them anymore and gamers were holding out hope for a price drop as the next-gen cards were expected at any time. Nvidia tried to encourage more sales by dropping 27,648 GPUs into the Summit supercomputer, the fastest in the world, but even that wasn't enough.
Nvidia 2018 review: July – September
To compound Nvidia's growing concerns over the number of its GPUs still languishing in the channel, AMD released an independent report into driver stability suggesting the red team's software was far more reliable than team green.
But Nvidia still resisted the urge to try and force down the pricing of its old Pascal GPUs, only trying to boost sales by packaging weak SSDs with aging graphics cards. Even after announcing the next generation of GPU, Turing, at SIGGRAPH in August prices remained artificially high for Pascal.
Though that announcement started the 20-series ball rolling, as quickly a video teaser was released which made the RTX 2080 naming scheme obvious for its new range. Then, at Gamescom in Cologne it officially unveiled the RTX 2080 along with the RTX 2080 Ti and RTX 2070, the first time a new generation was set out with three distinct GPUs.
Oh yeah, and ray tracing.
Nvidia spent much of its 20-series energies talking about real-time ray tracing, showing Battlefield V and Shadow of the Tomb Raider using the technologies, to greater or lesser effect. There was some consternation that a $1,200 GPU was only just capable of gaming at 60fps at 1080p with ray tracing enabled, and that set the tone for the new generation.
With everyone talking about the 20-series GPUs, about how expensive they were, how they weren't really offering a huge amount of extra traditional gaming performance despite that extra cost, people missed Nvidia delaying the Big F***** Gaming Displays it first crowed about at CES in January. They're meant to be released in 2019, though I've got a sneaky feeling we'll still be missing them this time next year.
The general ill-feeling towards the 20-series cards followed when the RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti were actually released in September. The RTX 2080 was a little pricier at launch than a GTX 1080 Ti, and just about beat it in standard gaming performance, while the RTX 2080 Ti was more expensive than any standard GeForce card ever released, but with higher performance.
But neither had any access to ray traced games as Microsoft was still working to get its October Update for Windows 10 and DirectX 12 ready for the public. And that wait went on, and on.
Nvidia 2018 review: October – December
Finally, in October, Microsoft released its ray tracing enabling update… and pretty quickly removed it as it seemed to be randomly deleting peoples' data. It briefly came back to life, before the company discovered some more bugs and found it had more work to do before it could have a full, uninhibited debut.
That left the Turing cards twiddling their thumbs, and meant the RTX 2070 release was a bit of a damp squib from a ray tracing point of view.
At least it wasn't self-immolating like some Founders Edition RTX 2080 Ti cards reportedly were, however. Initially Nvidia said it didn't see any issues with the cards after these quality concerns came to fiery light, but later released a fix aimed at solving at least some of the GPU errors.
Microsoft did eventually get its October, sorry, November Update released, which meant DICE could release its Battlefield V update and Nvidia could finally start the real-time ray tracing era for gaming in earnest. And it looks fantastic. I'm a big fan of the BF V ray tracing update, and Nvidia and DICE worked together to improve performance and fidelity with an update a few weeks later too. And they're still going, having only scratched the surface so far. Sadly, it's still the only ray tracing capable game available this year.
That was the only late 2018 bright spot for Nvidia as the Q3 earnings call signalled a massive drop in confidence and in its share price. From a high of $293 earlier in the year the share price is now around half that, wiping a huge amount off the value of the company. This was all blamed on the collapse of cryptocurrency mining, the fact that Nvidia had produced a huge number of GPUs which over-saturated the channel, and could find no way to get the prices down and stock shifted.
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Later in December it was rumoured that one of Nvidia's biggest shareholders, SoftBank, was set to sell off $3bn worth of stock in the new year because of it. It's tough as all the analysts who were still screaming 'BUY!' even at the top of its share price are the same ones yelling 'SELL!' now that things are looking as tricky.
Never mind. Nvidia figured that launching the Titan RTX, a $2,500 ultra-ultra-enthusiast card was the way to salve its woes. It's not, but fingers crossed the rumours of the first genuinely affordable (hopefully) 20-series GPU, the RTX 2060, launching early in 2019 are true, because mainstream gamers need something to look forward to.
Though there is a very good chance that 'mainstream' is now going to mean a $400 GPU. Happy new year indeed…
But as 2018 breathed its last, Nvidia had one more surprise for us. In using some super-smart deep learning machines the company's researchers have been able to teach a computer to create whole new human beings. Well, pictures of humans anyway. The photorealistic images are like the deep fakes of your nightmares, creating believable people who have never existed.
It's okay though, because the AI is unable to create perfect replicas of cats. So, in the future, if you need to make sure an image is real you need to make sure that it has an accurate image of a cat in it. Not the nightmarish beings the AI spits out. Seriously, click on the image and check out the full-scale picture. It's seriously creepy.
Well, that's been 2018, so what does 2019 hold for us and Nvidia? Hopefully less of the controversial, fewer GPU explosions, no more terrifying cats, and just more great graphics cards. We're expecting the RTX 2060 to drop early in the new year, and the actual mainstream Turing GPU to land a little later in the year, potentially when AMD's Navi arrives.
Beyond that… those Big F***** Gaming Displays might finally appear, or be nixxed for good, and the mobile versions of the 20-series GPUs will arrive in a whole slew of laptops too.
And there will be surprises, we're sure of that. But just what form they'll take right now is anyone's guess.
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Victoria becomes first state to legalise euthanasia
After a long and gruelling debate, Victoria has offically passed law allowing for euthanasia of fatally ill patients.
Victoria allows for assited dying for fatally ill patients with 68 safeguards against coercion. Photo: Kasia Bialasiewicz, Bigstock
Concluding after over 100 hours of heavy debate and overnight sittings, the Australian state of Victoria has officially passed legislation allowing for assisted dying.
Being the first state in the nation to legalise the controversial medical practise, supporters hope this decision will lead the rest of the nation in the right direction.
The law means that patients over 18 with less than 6 months life expectancy will be eligible for a lethal injection. The law will come into effect from mid-2019.
The debate over assisted dying, also commonly known as euthanasia, has been fierce in recent months. Supporters believe that adults with fatal medical conditions and no hope of improvement should have the right to end their life rather than go through months of suffering.
Those against the legislation argued that there was an ethical issue with taking someone's life and that it is hard to determine if the person really wants to die or feels pressured by family members. Many argued that there is an implied burden on families when someone suffers a slow death and this may influence their decision to ask for assisted dying.
Many doctors also came out against the legislation stating that they did not want assisted dying to become part of their responsibilities and that it was against medical ethics.
The debate has been useful in shaping the 68 safeguards against coercion included in the legislation. These safeguards included that a patient must request assisted dying 3 different times, their request must be viewed by a board and that they are proven to be of sound mind.
The patient must also have lived in Victoria for a minimum of a year and any coercion of patients to end their lives will be considered a serious crime.
Patients with degenerative conditions such as multiple sclerosis and motor neurone disease will be eligible once they are considered to have a 12 month life expectancy.
In 1995 a similar law was passed in the Northern territory but overturned by the federal government 8 months later. The federal government cannot overturn Victoria's law as it is a state and not a territory.
While some believe this legislation will enable abuse of elders and the chronically ill, others believe it is a humane move that will allow fatally ill patients to die on their own terms. Many supporters are people who have had family members endure long period of prolonged suffering before dying and hope this legislation will prevent what they consider an unnecessary hardship.
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Just for fun (before you say it, I know I need to get out more) I decided to do a little number crunching with the statistics for the ability to speak Welsh fluently, speak Welsh but not fluently, and not speak Welsh at all in primary and secondary schools. The raw data can be found here and here.
The figures come with a huge health warning. They are based on parents' assessment of their children's ability. This is therefore quite subjective and, in particular, will vary from area to area. That should be obvious by comparing Sir Gâr with Monmouthshire: only 6.8% of Monmouthshire parents think their secondary school age children cannot speak Welsh, whereas 36.4% of Sir Gâr parents think the same thing. This is probably because so few parents in Monmouthshire speak Welsh that they are quite likely to think speaking only a few words equates with an ability to speak the language. That would seem to be confirmed in the Language Use Surveys, as mentioned here. The second complication is that the figures are only available back to 2004/05 so it's not yet possible to compare the same set of children as they progress from primary to secondary school.
However, I think it is possible to draw a few general conclusions from the differences between the primary and secondary figures in the same local authority. I would highlight a couple of things that stood out to me:
• In only two authorities do children make significant progress from being able to speak Welsh to being able to speak Welsh fluently: Ynys Môn and Ceredigion. Torfaen and RCT also put in good performances, but Torfaen's figures are distorted by Gwynllyw being the only WM secondary for neighbouring authorities.
• A good number of authorities show a significant improvement in ability to speak Welsh, though not necesarily fluently. Conwy, Vale of Glamorgan and Blaenau Gwent are in the top bracket (greater than 30% improvement) with Ynys Môn, Denbighshire, Swansea, Caerffili and Torfaen in the next bracket.
The implication would seem to be that the other authorities are not teaching Welsh in their secondary schools anywhere near as well as they could or should. Powys, Newport and Wrexham are particularly disappointing. RCT is strange in that it seems to make a good job of getting children that can already speak Welsh to progress towards fluency, but manages to leave those who cannot speak Welsh at all no better off than they were in primary school.
I'd emphasize that I'm not presenting these figures as proof of anything. At most they indicate trends that might help us to gain a better insight into what is happening in different parts of Wales.
Hogyn o Rachub said...
As much as these figures don't 'prove' anything, I think it's extremely worrying that only in one local authority in these figures contains a majority who are considered fluent in primary school. The 'not at all fluent' figures for Carmarthenshire, primary and secondary, are also pretty disappointing.
I agree with the above, but would use the word 'disgraceful' rather than 'worrying' when describing Carmarthenshire. This is the result of lazy Welsh speaking parents in Carmarthen and Llanelli not passing the language on in part, but mainly in the failed policies of Labour controlled Carmarthenshire council, who have squandered the solid base of Welsh speakers that existed 20 years ago and perpetuated the same lack of confidence and self denigrating that practically wiped the language out in the central valleys of rhondda, Cynon etc
MH said...
I'm probably more concerned about Carmarthenshire's policies and performance on WM education than anywhere else. Most primary education is WM, and there is a large parental demand for more WM education in the pocket around Llanelli that is finally being addressed, though much too slowly.
And Carmarthenshire is particularly bad the in transfer from primary to secondary education, which is mainly EM.
But I would never try and put any of the blame for the decline on the "laziness" of Welsh speaking parents, Anon. A generation or two ago it was true that Welsh speaking parents didn't pass on the language when they could have, but I would say it was nearly always done in the sincere belief that the choice not to do so was in the best interests of their children. There was a general sense of hopelessness about Welsh and the prospects for Wales a few decades ago resulting in the feeling that the only way for children to get on was to get out.
That has now changed. The parental will for their children to regain what they themselves had lost for a generation is most certainly there. Let's build on that, rather than recriminate.


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Катерина Володимирівна Мальшина ( 19 травня 1963, Красноярськ) — українська вчена, історик, археолог, перекладачка, фахівець з етнології, історії первісних суспільств, історії цивілізації мая, історії південно-західних слов'ян, історії Словенії.

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У 1981—1986 рр. навчалася на історичному факультеті Дніпропетровського держуніверситету. У 1989—1993 рр. навчалася в аспірантурі Інституту археології Академії Наук СРСР/РАН. У 2000 р. захистила кандидатську дисертацію: «Соціально-економічний та політичний розвиток міст-держав майя пост-класичного періоду (X—XVI ст.)». У 1986—2013 рр. працювала на історичному факультеті Запорізького національного університету; з вересня 1988 р. — на кафедрі всесвітньої історії. 3 вересня 2001 р. доцент кафедри всесвітньої історії та міжнародних відносин ЗНУ. У 2010—2013 рр. навчалася в докторантурі Інституту української археографії та джерелознавства ім. М. С. Грушевського.
У 2013—2017 р. — доцент кафедри дипломатичної та консульської служби Дипломатичної Академії України. З вересня 2017 р. — співробітник Інституту української археографії та джерелознавства ім. М. С. Грушевського.

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 The Social-Economic and Political Development of the Mayan Postclassic city-states (X—XVI centuries)=Социально-экономическое и политическое развитие городов-государств майя постклассического периода (X—XVI вв.)
 «It is necessary to rewrite history»: the Teaching of the History of Southern and Western Slavs of the XX Century, Abstracts of VI ICCEES World Congress, Tampere, Finland, 29.07-3.08.2000. Tampere, 2000. pp. 459–460.
 The Subject of the Pro-State Ideology in Ukraine, Abstracts of VII ICCEES World Congress, Berlin, Germany, 30.07-6.08.2005. Berlin, 2005. pp. 459–460.
 Europe: The Return to the Ochlocracy, Abstracts of III ICCEES Regional European Congress, Berlin, Germany, 2-4.08.2007. Berlin, 2007. pp. 481–482.
 The Experience of Zaporozhye Ethnographic Expedition, 2003—2008: Gathering, Analysing and Presentation of Folk Narratives in Post-Soviet Space, Abstracts of 15th Congress of the International Society For Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR), Athenes, Greece, 21-27.06.2009. Athenes, 2009. P.164.
 Ukraine-NATO: Etatist Games of Contemporaneity, Abstracts of VIII ICCEES World Congress, Stockholm, Sweden, 26.07-1.08.2010. Stockholm, 2010. P.384.
 Ukraine-NATO: The Dissonance Of Expectations, EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES: Journal on European Perspectives of the Western Balkans Vol. 4. No. 1. April 2012. pp. 57–77.
 Trnova pot razvoja narodne ideje v 20. stoletju: probleme oblikovanja naroda na Slovenskem in v Ukrajini skozi oči ukrajinskega zgodovinarja, Prispevki za novejšo zgodovino. Ljubljana: INZ SAZU, 2016. Letnik LVI. Št. 1. Str. 126—144.
 Diplomacy and Colour Psychology: the Tie Case Study EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES: Journal on European Perspectives of the Western Balkans. Vol. 8. No. 1. April 2016. pp 167—193.
 Мальшина К. В. Тернистий шлях словенського державотворення (1918—1941): монографія. Київ: ІУАД НАНУ, 2018. 565 с.
 Мальшина К. В. Процес відновлення словенського державотворення 1918—1941 рр.: докт. діс. Київ: ІУАД НАНУ, 2019. 548 с.

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2000 WT173 (asteroide 34663) é um asteroide da cintura principal. Possui uma excentricidade de 0.07352780 e uma inclinação de 12.95566º.

Este asteroide foi descoberto no dia 26 de novembro de 2000 por LINEAR em Socorro.

Ver também

 Lista de asteroides
 Asteroide da cintura principal

Ligações externas

Asteroides da cintura principal
Objetos astronômicos descobertos em 2000


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Australia's APSA to host Iranian 'Beloved'
The 13th Asia Pacific Screen Awards in Australia is to screen Iranian doc 'Beloved'.
The 13th edition of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) in Australia has set to host acclaimed Iranian documentary 'Beloved'.
The Iranian documentary is named as one of the titles vying for best prize at the 2019 edition of the APSA.
Directed by Yasser Talebi, the documentary is about the difficult but favorable life of an 83-year-old mother named Firouzeh who runs a unique life in the Alborz Mountains in north Iran.
Firouzeh hikes across the rugged landscape carrying bundles of wood. When she was a young girl, a marriage was arranged for her with an older man, with whom she had 11 children. Now, none of her children come to visit her and her attempts to get closer to them remain futile.
The 63-minute documentary has attended many global events, including the 2018 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in the Netherlands, the 16th Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in the US, the 69th Berlin International Film Festival in Germany, the 37th Fajr Film Festival in Iran, the 38th International Istanbul Film Festival in Turkey, the 16th Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival in Armenia, and the 67th Trento International Film Festival in Italy where it won the jury special mention and a UNESCO honorable mention.
Most recently it received the best feature documentary award and a diploma at the 15th Kazan International Muslim Film Festival in the Republic of Tatarstan, a special mention at the 25th Shanghai TV Festival in China, and a nomination at the 33rd Pärnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival in Estonia.
'Beloved' has also taken the first place among the top five mid-length films selected by the Canadian audience at the 26th Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto and received the best photography award and the High School Students Award at the Journey Section of The 14th Sole Luna Doc Film Festival in Italy.
The 13th APSA will be held on November 21 in Brisbane. According to the event's official website the nominees will be announced in mid-October.
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Last year, Iranian titles, including 'Bomb, a Love Story', 'Tale of the Sea', and 'Ava' won three awards at the 12th APSA.
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Anti-Semitism the hot topic at WH meeting with Jewish leaders
Top administration officials vow to do everything they can to combat anti-Semitism.
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Apr 18, 2019, 9:23 AM (GMT+3)
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Just days before Pesach, dozens of Jewish community leaders from across the United States converged upon the White House for a special meeting with high ranking administration officials – which was arranged upon the White House's initiative.
On Tuesday evening, the leaders – who are affiliated with a spectrum of organizations and institutions – discussed various pertinent issues on the minds of members of their respective communities. The Pesach atmosphere was palpable, with guests given Matzah and other Yom Tov related gifts.
One of the attendees, Duvi Honig, Founder and CEO of the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce, relates that the hottest topic of discussion was anti-Semitism. Elan Carr, Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combatting Anti-Semitism and other high ranking officials addressed the gathering and listened intently to the community's concerns. They vowed to do everything they could to combat anti-Semitism.
In an extensive one-on-one discussion, Mr. Honig and Mr. Carr delved into the threat of the BDS movement. Mr. Carr spoke of how nefarious this contemporary form of anti-Semitism is, relating that he recently faced an avalanche of criticism after publicly calling the movement anti-Semitic. The BDS threat is a particular concern for Mr. Honig and the Chamber, as it threatens businesses around the world owned by or targeted to Jews. Other developments of concern include the haters who are using the recent measles outbreaks to spread anti-Semitism; anti-Semitism in Ocean County and other regions with growing Jewish communities; as well the waves of anti-Semitism in countries around the world.
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A search that runs as often as I want that consumes the produced summary data.
I have devised the search that I want to use to populate my summary index. I've tested this with the collect command to make sure the data comes in correctly, using different marker values for test data. Now I want to schedule this search to run every day, to populate data from the previous 24 hour day.
But the way Splunk Reports work, I can't seem to define the Report without executing the report - the Save button is not available until you've executed the search (or if you have an existing Report, it isn't available until you change the definition of the original report and then execute it). And from basic testing, it looks like the collect command will partially populate results even if you terminate the job half-way through.
So what is the way to solve this? Ideally, something like the Dashboard's source editor for Reports would be available, where I can alter the Report's commands without actually executing them.
"prd-safe" env="prd-safe" dbCapable query eventtype="unicorn_jira"
| ... | collect index=summary_team marker="report=jvs_migration_daily"
While saving the search as Scheduled Search take out the collect piece i.e. | collect index=summary_team marker="report=jvs_migration_daily"
Then, to edit the Saved Search without running it, you can open the same from Settings --> Searches, reports, and alerts (this would be similar to editing dashboard source code as you need). In the edit mode add the collect command in the end.
No you need not enable summary indexing for that scheduled Search, collect command itself is doing this for you. If you do not want to use collect and want Splunk to take care of Summaries, then you choose the other Summary Indexing option.
Collect will give more control to your summary in terms of defining your own index (Summaries enabled through acceleration go to index="summary") and also dummy sourcetype field like orig_sourcetype=<My_Original_Sourcetype> etc (Sourcetype for summarized events is by default always stash).
In the search and alerts menu, you just need to define Schedule for your Scheduled Report.
Thank you! I didn't know about this alternative editor for Reports (Saved Searches).
So if I add the | collect ... command to the end of my search, do I also need to enable Summary Indexing at the bottom of the form? Or is it one or the other (i.e. they both do the same thing)?


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