Depending on the character of your house undertaking you might want to find out a cost schedule with your contractor. Unlicensed Contractor – Somebody who thinks they can save their buyer money by scamming the system with supposedly lower overhead than likened contractors. A sound contractor will welcome the opportunity to look at your website, ask questions and note any potential areas of concern.
Remember to ask for referrals and references and know the relationship of these referring events to the contractor. We elaborate six very important steps that have to be considered when you are planning to rent a professional contractor. Most contractors are moral, trustworthy people and businesses.
Require that your contractor presents a certificates of insurance coverage previous to signing any contracts, and call the agent to confirm that the policy really exists and what it covers. Ask concerning the high quality of the work, and if the contractor stayed on price range and finished in a timely method.


Visit the Adler Suprema prototype on the New River, downtown Fort Lauderdale.
The first yacht ever built with a HMS (Hybrid Marine Solutions) hybrid engine.
The first yacht in its category ever to be made of carbon fiber.
The first hybrid yacht ever built by a team of automotive, aviation and marine specialists.
Simply the first yacht of its kind.
Let us take you on a journey of discovery – a new world of yachting – far away from traditional design and technology.
The ADLER SUPREMA is an extraordinary yacht that combines Italian design with Austrian and German engineering – a truly European masterpiece that will make you feel at home wherever you are around the world. Generous living spaces, one of the largest flybridges in its class and luxurious comfort down to the last detail ensure that your stay will remain the most memorable of experiences, while the powerful and yet efficient HMS hybrid engine prompts you to exhaust its range of over 3,500 NM provided by a 5,200 liter fuel tank. Truly the best way to explore the seven seas. However you choose to spend your day – enjoying an adventure cruise or silently entering a lonesome bay to relax – you will appreciate the unique atmosphere aboard, in your private living room at sea.
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Travelling without noticing a sound, unparalleled fuel efficiency with a transatlantic range and yet enough power to outpace the majority of all the other yachts – that was what we had in mind, when building the ADLER SUPREMA. Its unique Hybrid Marine Solutions (HMS) hybrid system combines the power of two Caterpillar diesel engines, each with 1,150 hp and two ATE high efficiency 100 kW e-units – for an emission and vibration free propulsion of up to 11 knots and a maximum speed of up to 30 knots.
In case you are getting worried about the fuel consumption: relax. The hybrid engine saves up to 50% over a conventional system, resulting in a maximum range of over 3,500 NM. So you might even forget where the fuel tank cap is located or what a petrol station looks like. Due to its variable controllability the e-units allow gentle docking maneuvers at any speed, which makes docking as easy as parking your car. Hence you can easily move on to your next destination without waking up your family – and surprise them with a breathtaking view in another gorgeous bay.
Those who are used to making things happen by just snapping their fingers will love the ADLER SUPREMA and its control and automation system. It includes 6 large LCD touchscreens from Boening, capable of controlling the whole boat including air-condition, heating, lights and curtains. Alternatively, all systems can also be controlled and supervised via iPad®. That way you can ensure a pleasant atmosphere on board, while you're still enjoying a fine glass of wine in the port restaurant. With a touch of your finger you can even activate the privacy glass, assuring utmost intimacy in an instant.
This yacht delivers what its creators' names promise: Italian style at its best. Designed by Carlo Nuvolari and Dan Lenard, the ADLER SUPREMA leaves a lasting impression at first sight. The intelligent design lets you enjoy a feeling of freedom like no other ship: By opening all side panels on the main deck the boundaries between inside and outside merge together leaving you speechless.
Generous and perfectly equipped relaxation areas invite you to sit back and indulge in the comfort on board. For your convenience we installed additional head facilities on the main deck, which also ensures the privacy of your cabin in case you receive guests. By the way, each deck is barrier-free, so you can move around without a single obstacle or having to take a flight of stairs. Needless to say, the ADLER SUPREMA has been awarded the CE certificate in design category "A".
When it comes to means of transport – be it at sea, on land or in the air – the most important factor is the safety of everyone involved. We are equipped with extensive experience in the automotive, marine and aviation industry and hence combined state-of-the-art security measures from all three worlds for your well-being aboard the ADLER SUPREMA. As a result you can rest assured, that the batteries also fulfill and exceed all automotive and marine safety standards. Besides the usual safety features like life raft, buoys and jackets, we have installed a sophisticated fire awareness and suppression system including ship wide smoke and fire detectors, as well as a fire suppression system for the batteries. We have further designed the yacht with high sides and railings to keep your loved ones safe.
A CCTV system, an infrared and several underwater cameras continuously monitor the area around the yacht and display the images on the control panel screens, in order to ensure that you are always aware of everything that is going on around (or under) you. The SUPREMA's alarm system even allows you to control the anchor and check whether all portholes and doors are closed.


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Q: tfs2010 automatically set build quality we use TFS 2010 and have configured our build system to compile test and deploy our projects on a CI policy.
One thing that I would also like to be able to do is automatically set the "Build Quality" at the end of the build process that is either "Released" or Rejected"
I have customised out build template to allow automatic deployment base on where ALL projects compiled and ALL unit tests passed.
I also added what I though would set the build quality but no matter which outcome the quality is never updated. Looking at the build log it actually is hitting the SetBuildProperties action but that doesn't appear to "save" it.
I am doing this in the xaml designer in vs2010 if that helps.
Has anyone experienced anything like this when attempting to set a build property while it is still in progress?

A: OK it appears that I missed a special box at the top of the properties page that actually determines which properties are to be set:
PropertiesToSet: Quality, ....

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Your little superhero is hoping right out of the Fantastic Four and into your Halloween this year! Our Marvel's Captain America: Civil War Kids Black Panther Deluxe Muscle Chest Costume is going to hoist your little boy's super-powers into ultimate awesomeness! He will love the sculpted jumpsuit which highlights the Black Panther's ridiculously muscular physic. Black Panther is nothing without his mask which comes included with this costume set. The helmet/mask will conceal your little one's identity while allowing comfort for all night wear. Our Marvel's Captain America: Civil War Kids Black Panther Deluxe Muscle Chest Costume is ready to fight with Sigma and defeat all evil!


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Q: Ban a specific site from showing up in Firefox Top sites, in a New Tab Using FF 75 under Ubuntu 20.04.
Can I ban a specific site from ever showing in the Top Sites, whenever I open a New Tab?

A: This is apparently possible.
In the New Tab, point to the top right corner of the icon that one means to ban from the New Tab page. Three dots will show up. Click to Open menu -> Dismiss.
This adds the URL to be banned to a browser.newtabpage.blocked preference in the about:config page.


From playing a flirtatious college professor Mrs. Braganza in 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai' to a vamp in the 'Raja Hindustani', actress Archana Puran Singh, who is also judging comedy shows on the small screen, said she has more to offer as an artiste.
Archana made her acting debut in 1987. She was later seen in 'Jalwa' opposite Naseeruddin Shah. She then went on to work in films such as 'Agneepath', 'Saudagar', 'Shola aur Shabnam' and 'Aashiq Awara' among many others.
In a telephonic interview , Archana talked about her journey in Indian cinema and why she feels she has not explored much into the acting world.
"Sometimes I feel that being an artiste I could have explored more in the industry. In my career I have mostly got comic roles...I did not get much chance to experiment different roles. It is very important to be a versatile actor and I believe I have that potential in myself," she said.
However, she has no regrets.
"I am happy and satisfied with whatever God has given me. I did not even imagine that I would be able to cover such a long path in showbiz. Whatever I am today is because of God's grace and my fans love. I am grateful to them.
"Many actors get categorised according to the roles they do. I am also known for my comedy, it does not mean I should feel bad about it. I am proud of it. Many people have told me that if you get categorised, you should be happy about it because then you started knowing as a specialised artiste in that particular area/genre," added the 'Mohabbatein' actress.


R705-1 Purpose: To comply with statute requiring the Board of Regents to establish written policies governing leasing for higher education institutions and to provide procedures for the approval of new leased space and for the annual reporting of leased space to the Board of Regents.
3.4. Will include instructional space located outside of the service area designated by Regent Policy R315, Service Area Designations and Coordination of Off-Campus Courses and Programs.
R705-4. Leasing State-Owned Property to Outside Entities: The Board of Regents shall review and approve institutional requests to lease state-owned institutional property to non-institutional entities if the lease will exceed $250,000 or extend for more than 10 years for the University of Utah or exceed $100,000 per year or extend for more than 10 years for all other USHE institutions other than the University of Utah.
4.1. Approval of nontraditional arrangements for the use of institutional-owned facilities is subject to the provisions of Regent Policy R712, Nontraditional Arrangements for Development of Facilities on Campuses.
5.2 Leases under $100,000 of state-appropriated funds and less than 10-years in duration for all other USHE institutions other than the University of Utah.
R705-6. Delegation of Authority to the University of Utah Board of Trustees for University Health Care System Leases: In accordance with Regents Policy R220, Delegation of Responsibilities to the President and Board of Trustees, the University of Utah Board of Trustees may review and approve all property leases for the University of Utah Health Care System.
R705-7. Annual Report to the Board of Regents: The Commissioner shall report annually to the Board of Regents all space leased by the institutions in the System of Higher Education, including space leased for off-campus continuing education programs and space leased in research parks.
7.1. Institution Lease Information: In accordance with procedures and forms developed by the Commissioner's Office, institutions shall annually submit information for all space leased by the institution.
7.2. Submission to the State Building Board: After review by the Board of Regents, the Commissioner shall forward the report to the State Building Board for possible inclusion its comprehensive 5-year building plan.


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Q: How to add the timestamp as a part of the generated image file name in ffmpeg I am trying to extract png images from a video using ffmpeg and add the timestamp as a part of the generated image file name.
Please see the below command I am using for the same
ffmpeg -vcodec mpeg2video -f mpegts -i test_movie.ts -f image2 -vf "drawtext=fontfile=/Library/Fonts/Tahoma.ttf: timecode='$(date +%H\\:%M\\:%S).00': r=30: x=(w-tw)/2: y=h-(2*lh): fontcolor=white: box=1: boxcolor=0x00000000@1" -vsync vfr -pattern_type glob ./compare_multiple_$(gdate +%H\_%M\_%S_%3N).png

But this is not appending the filename properly. It gives an error as shown below:

[image2 @ 0x7ff01301f600] Could not get frame filename number 2 from
  pattern './compare_multiple_10_09_58_490.png' (either set updatefirst
  or use a pattern like %03d within the filename pattern)
  av_interleaved_write_frame(): Invalid argument frame=   10 fps=0.0
  q=-0.0 Lsize=N/A time=00:00:00.12 bitrate=N/A video:1047kB audio:0kB
  subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead:
  unknown Conversion failed!

A: You were close, but the problem is pointed to right from the error message: Your pattern ./compare_multiple_$(gdate +%H\_%M\_%S_%3N).png is incorrect.
In the documenation, when they use "N" in the pattern, "N" is symbolic for the 'integer of your choosing', and in your case, it looks like you want that to be 3. So use %3d instead of %3N and you should be good to go.


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Google: We Could 'Easily' Run 5 per cent Of The World's Computers
Owen Thomas
We just caught up with Urs Hölzle, who was one of Google's first 10 employees and today is a senior vice president in charge of Google's vast technical infrastructure—the data centres and networks on which Google's services run.
Today at the I/O conference in San Francisco, Hölzle unveiled Google Compute Engine, a service which gives third-party developers much more direct access to that infrastructure.
We asked him how Compute Engine stacked up against competitive offerings, like Amazon's EC2.
He told us he thought the real opportunity was what he estimated as the 99% of computing power that doesn't run on the cloud today—for example, in proprietary supercomputing clusters, a big potential target for the high-performance computation service he showed off today.
We also asked if he thought Google's infrastructure could evolve to serve primarily outside customers. Today, Google infrastructure overwhelmingly runs its own services. But Amazon, because of the growth of Amazon Web Services, now devotes a majority of its computing resources to external customers.
Could Google get there? Hölzle cited a recent Stanford University study which reported that Google has about 1 per cent of the world's servers.
"If we can do 1 per cent, can we get to 5 per cent? Easily," Hölzle said.
We're inclined to believe him: Hölzle is the one who's built Google's infrastructure going back to the company's earliest days.
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Motorway services: helping road users travel with confidence
Travel restrictions have been lifted just in time for summer and many are looking to make the most of this and take a well-deserved break away from home.
For those considering travelling abroad, the risk of imposed quarantine could make a UK staycation a more attractive option. We've already seen thousands of sun-seekers descend on our beaches during recent hot weather.
As more people head off on longer trips in their cars, they'll want to know where they can grab a bite to eat or nip to the toilet. Our previous research highlighted concerns over stopping at services, so visitors will want reassurance about what to expect from their visit.
Transport Focus has been working with motorway service operators to ensure their websites are clear on the points we know are important to road users. Operators have worked hard putting measures in place to make visitors feel safe, but it's important that these are communicated. In our final assessment all operators received a full set of green ticks.
Absolutely brilliant measures in place @glouc_services ?? staff are all doing an amazing job at clearing and serving efficiently and safely, so impressed and felt so safe! Well done team ❤ (brilliant breakfast too) pic.twitter.com/SWHX3Nbs7I
— Steph Chadwick (@xstephchad) July 20, 2020
Easy to find website information
Visitors often recall where a service station is but not necessarily who operates it. So, whilst it's important to communicate changes on the main operator web page, this information also needs to be clear on the individual site pages like Extra has done below for the Beaconsfield services on the M40.
How busy a site is
With more people travelling to UK hotspots, some service areas may get particularly busy with large queues. We discussed with operators how they might alert customers to this, as we know from our panel that visitors would like to know if there are queues so they can plan ahead. As one responder said about the availability of information on toilet, fuel and eating place problems at services:
"Am I looking too far forward into the future at the moment, but when I am driving down the M1 it would be great to know a service station ahead has no queues or other problems."
Roadchef provides live tracking of how busy each of its sites are. For example, you can find out how busy the UK's oldest services is at Watford Gap.
Face coverings are mandatory (with exemptions) in shops and transport hubs, which includes motorway service areas. It is important this is made clear on websites so that visitors know what to take with them. The image below is a good example from Welcome Break. Moto is also offering free disposable masks for those who aren't so prepared.
What to expect/how things have changed
Social distancing measures have resulted in a number of changes being made at services. Some operators have recorded videos to show passengers what to expect. One great example of this is Moto's video below.
If you're travelling on the motorway, we want you to know that we're here to keep you safe, refreshed and rested. All of our sites are open, and we've taken measures to make sure you're safe whilst you're here.
For more information, please see https://t.co/TOSv8MR0h2 pic.twitter.com/HsEMdIjyHO
— Moto Services (@motoway) July 22, 2020
Accessibility of websites
We have also seen operators make improvements to the accessibility of their websites specifically for those with visual impairments. On several web pages there was text contained within an image, which won't get picked up by screen readers. Westmorland made amendments to some of its web pages by adding a text description to accompany the image. It was great to see some improvements in this area and perhaps the sector should review the accessibility of their websites as a whole.
This work with motorway services is part of a wider initiative Transport Focus and London TravelWatch are working on to ensure people travelling by road, train and bus - possibly for the first time since lockdown - have the information they need. Read our earlier blogs about train, bus and transport authority websites.


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Many Mountains
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Many Mountains is a Folk-Rock Duo from Colorado. Katie Rose Nelson and Dustin Moran like to make songwriting the focus of their music. The combination of their writing styles and unique song arrangements, bring a fresh sound to the Folk-Rock scene. A kaleidoscope of sound, songs are interlaced with vocal harmonies and leads that alternate between the two songwriters. Each with perspectives on the relationships we have with ourselves and with others - bringing truths to the table, facing who we are, and the constant state of becoming. Dustin adds textured and ambient electric guitar, often improvising with a jazzy temperance, over Katie Rose's rhythmic acoustic. Having shared the bill with acts like Valley Queen, Gin Blossoms, Liz Cooper & The Stampede, Paul Cauthen, and Michigan Rattlers, their sound transcends ordinary genre limitations. Supported by the sonic landscape they create, you'll be on a journey with Many Mountains.
On May 1st, 2018 we released our first full length album, Never Looking Back. It is now available on all major streaming services and cd's are available for purchase on our Bandcamp and at our live shows.
Thank you for following us and for the support you've shown us over the years!
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There are lots of different ways to organise your finances as a couple and everyone has their own method for going about it. Perhaps you have a joint account as well as your own personal accounts, maybe one partner pays the other when bills arrive, perhaps you just have joint accounts and share everything.
If you are a young couple (as in, you are just starting to think seriously about a joint future) you will need to think about how you will organise your finances. As with many important issues, this could lead to a slightly uncomfortable conversation, but knowing where you are up to and creating a joint plan to fulfil financial goals is an important first step. Combining your resources in some way is a natural step but there are a few things you do need to consider before you jump straight in.
It makes a lot of sense for a couple to have a joint account, even if you both still have your own personal accounts too. This is because you will often incur costs that affect both of you and it is a lot easier to pay with one account than be constantly figuring out who owes who what.
Before you go straight to only joint accounts, take things slowly and agree on a single joint account that you both pay in a percentage of your monthly income. This will make joint payments easier but will also protect you in these early stages of your relationship should things turn sour or your partner take advantage. Around 10% to 40% is recommended for a joint account like this, and you should discuss what you are both willing to put in together.
If you choose to, you could switch to completely joint accounts, however, there are no set rules here and you should do what is right for you as a couple. Don't feel pressured to manage your money in a certain way. Do what you are most comfortable with as a pair.
Just as any two people can take out a joint account, any two people can also take out a loan. Joint loans work in a similar fashion to personal loans except that you both take responsibility for paying back the debt.
Like a joint account, a joint loan does present some risks. If one partner decides to stop making payments, the other partner is responsible for fulfilling the debt repayments themselves. This could mean that should your relationship go sour, you could end up saddled with a large debt.
There are benefits though. A joint loan will allow you to borrow more money than a personal loan exactly because there are two people taking responsibility. This means that if you are a strong, trusting couple a joint loan could be a better idea than a personal loan.
Before you take out any loan, make sure that you are confident you can make the repayments and you are making a sensible financial decision.
A step up from the joint loan, a joint mortgage is a huge debt but also signifies a new stage in your relationship. Living together and having joint ownership of a house is certainly a sign of strength in your union.
A joint mortgage is a good way to go about buying a house. For one thing, you are more likely to get a good deal on your mortgage and be able to borrow more using both of your incomes. Even if one of you has a larger income than the other, getting a mortgage deal together is usually the best option.
One disadvantage of a mortgage returns us to the possibility of a break up. Because a mortgage is a loan secured by the value of your house, if you do decide to break up, it is very likely that you will have to sell the house in order to pay off the mortgage. This is especially problematic as the house market does fluctuate and you could end up selling at a lower price than you bought it for.
As a couple, negotiating your way through shared financial arrangements is a step towards building a long term future for yourselves. It is also a way of demonstrating your trust in each other and relieving yourselves of the constant who owes who scenario.
Though there are no real set rules about what you should and shouldn't be doing with your finances, the most important thing is that you are both happy with the arrangement you come to and feel that it is fair to both of you. This is especially important where one partner earns more than the other, causing a financial imbalance. It doesn't mean your relationship won't work, just that you both need to agree on your financial roles.
If you are planning to have children later down the line, sharing finances now will also help to prepare you for family life. Kids cost a fortune to raise from babies to adults so learning how to manage your money together now is vital for managing it later on when the stakes are higher. In fact, you should make a point of discussing your financial future fairly regularly so that you are both aware of the implications of how you use your funds and what your financial goals are.
Though figuring out your finances will be a game of negotiation, reconfiguration and compromise throughout your relationship, it will become easier to trust each other and to live happily together once you have your finances under control. Money has a way of distorting even the simplest things and it is really fundamental to a strong foundation for life. You might not like to think of it that way, but you really do stand the best chance if you are both fully informed about your situation, are agreed on what you can do with your finances (whether that is taking out a loan or moving money into savings) and act sensibly with your joint finances.
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The Pine Bluff Regional Chamber of Commerce offers a variety of programs to help develop leadership skills and provide networking opportunities throughout our community. Scroll down to learn more about our three primary programs listed below. Contact us for additional details or applications.
Leadership Pine Bluff
How to make a difference in nine easy lessons…
The Leadership Pine Bluff program, which graduated its inaugural class in 1982, is for individuals who want to make a difference in the community. This issues-oriented program broadens participants' perspectives, examines community issues, expands opportunities to develop friendships from all segments of the community and strengthens leadership skills. Selected participants have a unique opportunity to work with area CEOs, professionals, elected officials and other fellow leaders as they study leadership techniques and community issues.
The course consists of nine, monthly day-long sessions. These session offer solid, first-hand information on community issues including a history of area leadership, local government, law enforcement, economic development, health and human services, state government and education. Leaders in their fields conduct the sessions. These facilitators address major issues in a unique and exciting format. Dialogue in the sessions is encouraged.
To get participants started on the same page for the course, the first session emphasizes business etiquette, team building, communications, problem solving and conflict resolution.
Leadership Pine Bluff class schedule
September — Opening session
October — History and diversity
November — Economic development
December — Culture, recreation, and tourism
January — Law enforcement and safety
February — Education and technology
March — State and local government
April — Health and human services
May — NCTR and Pine Bluff Arsenal
May — Graduation Dinner
Leadership applicants wanted
Leadership Pine Bluff welcomes and encourages applications from all walks of life. Participants will ideally represent businesses, professions, organizations, government, education and geographic areas. Applicants must live or work in Jefferson County and must attend all sessions. Enrollment is open every June and July for a new year's class that starts in the fall.
Junior Leadership Pine Bluff
Nurturing future leaders
It is never too early to develop leadership skills. Based on that theory, the Chamber's Junior Leadership Pine Bluff is for local young people who aspire to make a difference in our community. It is an issues-oriented program that broadens participants' perspectives, examines community issues, expands opportunities to develop friendships from area schools, strengthens leadership skills, and motivates the students to excel in their academic studies.
The Junior Leadership Pine Bluff program focuses on key community issues and leadership skills. Five monthly two-hour sessions scheduled from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. on the third Thursday, January – May. These sessions offer solid, firsthand information and provide opportunities for dialogue about community issues. Leaders in these fields of endeavor conduct the sessions. Each session approaches the subject issues in a unique and exciting format.
The Participants
In December of each year, the Leadership Pine Bluff Alumni Association—working directly with our schools—selects a class of 25 sophomores representing the four public school districts and private schools in the Pine Bluff area. The procedure for selecting the class is identical to that used in selecting the adult Leadership Pine Bluff class.
Junior Leadership Pine Bluff students are selected on the basis of demonstrated leadership interest as well as evidence of community interest and commitment. Successful candidates will exhibit the following characteristics:
Enrolled in The Chamber's Arkansas Scholars Program
Demonstrated leadership potential as well evidence of community interest
Potential for advancement to leadership roles in school and community
The Tuition
Tuition for the Junior Leadership Pine Bluff program is $50. Tuition is payable by the participant or a sponsoring organization prior to the January orientation. Tuition is applied to the cost of meals and program materials.
Participants in Junior Leadership Pine Bluff must make a commitment of time, energy, and money. Nominees must have full support and written approval of parents and schools they represent. Attendance at all sessions is required; students may miss no more than one session to graduate from the program. Professional conduct is expected of all Junior Leadership Pine Bluff participants during the training sessions.
JCYPN (Jefferson County Young Professionals Network)
Jefferson County Young Professionals Network, a program of the Pine Bluff Regional Chamber of Commerce, is a dynamic group of individuals under age 45 who are dedicated to civic participation, professional and personal growth, and have a shared interest in making Jefferson County a more attractive place for young professionals to live and work.
Contribute to projects that have an impact in Jefferson County
Receive invitations to Business After Hours events
Have access to members-only events
Have access to career-building workshops
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A collective voice for young professionals
Name printed in online Chamber Membership Directory
Have a great time while making a difference
Simply fill out the JCYPN Brochure and drop off or mail it to the Chamber office. Call 870-535-0110 for more details.
JCYPN Membership is $35 per year and includes:
Unique events that appeal to members' interests
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February 25, 2019 | PacBio has developed a protocol based on single-molecule, circular consensus sequencing (CCS) to generate accurate long read sequences. The company hopes this approach will provide an alternative to the limited read lengths of short read sequencing and the limited read accuracy of long read sequencing.
The company's research was recently posted on bioRxiv (DOI:https://doi.org/10.1101/519025).
The study was conducted in mid-2018, Aaron Wenger, a principal scientist in bioinformatics at PacBio and lead author of the study, told Bio-IT World. The initial thought was to develop a way to improve reads, but Wenger and his colleagues didn't know exactly how they would integrate the disparate uses of long and short read sequencing.
"We initially had this idea where we'd just make the long reads accurate, and then they'll be just like short reads, so that you can take the software people wrote for short reads and use it on these longer, accurate reads," Wenger said. That was true to an extent, but not as much as Wenger expected.
"Although the error rates of the long, accurate reads and the short reads were similar, the types of errors that were remaining were different enough between the two datatypes that the software had to be aware of it," said Wenger.
The errors in short reads tend to be that you call a letter in the DNA wrong—maybe you'll mistake an A for a T—while the errors in long accurate reads that you miss or add a letter entirely.
"The way people have viewed sequencing in the market today is that there're short read sequencing instruments that give observations of a small segment of DNA but that are extremely accurate, and then there's long read sequencing which gives you observations that are tens of thousands of base pairs, but there's a mistake in one of every ten bases," said Wenger. Wenger and his colleagues managed to produce reads that are both long and accurate.
This was accomplished by using CCS, a form of sequencing developed at PacBio over fifteen years ago that makes DNA topologically circular, meaning that researchers can sequence the DNA multiple times in order to create a consensus for what the correct sequence is.
However, research advances in PacBio chemistry in 2018 provided very long reads, allowing the team to get multiple observations from relatively long pieces of DNA.
The results were long reads with 99.8% accuracy. PacBio applied this technology to reference genomes within the Genome in a Bottle Consortium, which Wenger said was able to estimate over two thousand correctable mistakes within the standard.
Shortly after collecting initial data, PacBio shared their results with Google in order to apply Google's DeepVariant software to call variants from the long read data. This was after initially applying the data to the Broad Institute's GATK software. Wenger says the results with GATK were good, but they weren't as strong as they would be for short reads.
After Google handled the data, other institutes were brought in to analyze the results and use it to improve workflows, including Johns Hopkins, the National Human Genome Research Institute, and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Wenger says there's plenty of work to be done with the data. Currently, PacBio is working to produce this data in an easier, less expensive way.


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Lorenzo Di Michele (PI) [CV]
Lorenzo completed his undergraduate and master degrees in Physics at the University of L'Aquila (Abruzzo, Italy) in 2010, before moving to the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge to start his PhD in Soft Condensed Matter Physics. After graduating in 2013, Lorenzo took up an Oppenheimer Early Career Research Fellowship, followed by a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowship in 2016 and a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (URF). In August 2019 Lorenzo moved to the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London. As of 2021 he's a URF and (proleptic) Senior Lecturer.
Josh Johnson (PDRA, 2020 - ongoing)
Josh completed his BS and MS in Applied Physics at the Colorado School of Mines. Josh then completed his PhD in Biophysics in the Nanoengineering and Biodesign laboratory at The Ohio State University. During this time Josh conducted research focusing on control over DNA origami nanomachines both in regards to directing the self-assembly of DNA nanostructures and in regards to control over the configuration of nanomechanisms. Josh currently uses his expertise in the design of DNA nanostructures to help develop artificial cells with advanced capabilities.
Will Kaufhold (PhD student, 2017 - ongoing)
Will completed his BA and MSci in Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory with a year at MIT, also working in the DiMicheleLAB for his final project in 2017. He started his PhD in October 2017, working towards the development of DNA-nanotechnology tools for bottom-up synthetic biological systems, in particular artificial cells. Will's research combines experiments and computer simulations.
Roger Rubio Sanchez (PhD student, 2018 - ongoing)
Roger joined DiMicheleLAB in 2018 as a CDT project student, and later as PhD student. Roger completed his undergraduate degree in Biotechnology Engineering at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education in Mexico City, before joining the EPSRC CDT in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in 2017. Roger's project focuses on the development of a biomimetic DNA-nanotechnology platform for environmental sensing in artificial cells.
Adrian Leathers (PhD student, 2018 - ongoing)
Adrian joined the group in October 2018 after completing his undergraduate studies in Physics at EPFL Lausanne and his master at ETH Zurich. Adrian also worked for his master thesis in the group of Ulrich Keyser (Cambridge). Adrian's PhD work focuses on new DNA-nanotechnology-based biomimetic systems.
Michal Walczak (PhD student, 2018 - ongoing)
Michal Walczak joined the group in October 2018 to work on the structural and dynamic properties of DNA-based materials. Michal completed his undergraduates and master studies at Poznan University of Technology spending also substantial time at CERN.
Giacomo Fabrini (PhD student, 2019 - ongoing)
Giacomo joined the group in November 2019 to work on responsive DNA hydrogels featuring non-canonical motifs. Giacomo is an electronic engineer, having graduated for both his bachelor and master degree at La Sapienza University of Rome.
Hannah Sleath (PhD student, 2019 - ongoing)
Hannah is co-supervised by Lorenzo and Yuval Elani and has joined the groups in October 2019. Her PhD work focuses in motility and chemotaxis in artificial cellular systems. Earlier she studied Natural Sciences (Physics) at Cambridge and worked with Ulrich Keyser for her master project.
Layla Malouf (PhD student, 2020 - ongoing)
Layla completed her undergraduate and MSci degree in Chemistry at Imperial College London. Following this, she worked at the Home Office and later as a stealth and novel materials scientist at QinetiQ, where she secured >£100k in internal and external research funding to work on novel materials projects. She joined the Di Michele group in January 2020, where she is a postgraduate researcher on the ERC-funded NANOCELL project, working on developing a DNA nanotechology toolkit for artificial cell design.
Diana Tanase (MSc + PhD student, 2019 - ongoing)
Diana complete here MSc in Chemistry with Molecular Physics at Imperial, and joined the group for her MSC research project on the applications of DNA nanotech to bottom-up synthetic biology. She then continued as a PhD student on the ERC-funded NANOCELL project on the development of a DNA nanotechnology toolkit for bottom-up synthetic biology.
Federica Raguseo (PhD student, 2020 - ongoing)
Is a PhD student in the Leverhulme Doctoral Centre for Cellular Bionics, co-supervised with Marco Di Antonio and Yuval Elani. Her work focuses on developing an artificial system to study phase separation phenomenon of genetic material in cells. She graduated with an Msci in Chemistry from Imperial College London in 2020.
Aileen Cooney (PhD student, 2020 - ongoing)
Aileen began her PhD studies under the joint supervision of Lorenzo, Yuval Elani and Pietro Cicuta in October 2020. She is part of the Leverhulme Doctoral Centre for Cellular Bionics and focuses on applying DNA nanotechnology to engineer motile artificial cells. She completed her UG & MSci (under Professor Sophia Yaliraki) in Chemistry at Imperial College London, with a year in industry spent at GlaxoSmithKline. She then lived in Tokyo as a Scholar of the Daiwa Foundation, where she conducted research into nanopore time series data in the lab of Professor Kawano at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology.
Ryan Brady: CDT project student (2015), then PhD student (2015-2018), then postdoc (2018-2019). Now postdoc at King's College London
Omar Amjad: CDT project student (2015), then PhD student (2015-2019). Also with Pietro Cicuta. Now working in consultancy
Roberta Lanfranco: Postdoc (2018-2019). Now working in consultancy
Edo Vreeker: Visiting master student from the University of Amsterdam. Also with Pietro Cicuta
Barbara Falcao: Visiting master student from the University of Lisbon. Also with Pietro Cicuta
Lucia Tunesi: Visiting master student from University of Milan (2018).
Jeff Jin Rong Quach: Visiting master student from University of Copenhagen (2018)
Jedrzej Morzy: CDT project student (2018). Now PhD student in Materials (Cambridge)
Josh Tuffnell: CDT project student (2017-2018). Now PhD student in Materials (Cambridge)
Peter Gerlagh: MSc project student (2018)
Aleksandra Bartosik: Visiting master student from University of Copenhagen (2017)
Bruno Luigi Carlo Borro: Visiting master student from University of Copenhagen (2016). Now PhD students in Copenhagen.
Shruti Sharma: CDT project student (2016). Now PhD student in Physics (Cambridge)
Leonardo Pierobon: MSc project student (2016). Now PhD student at ETH Zurich
Guoshuai (Daniel) Cao: MSc project student (2016)
Yucel Serar Gul: Visiting master student from Bilkent University
Sifan Sun: MSc project student (2015)
Michal Bogdan: MSc project student (2015). Now PhD student in Engineering (Cambridge)
Matthew Houlden: MSc project student (2014)


An arthroscopy involves the use of a device called an arthroscope to examine the joints. This is a thin, metal tube about the length and width of a drinking straw that contains a light source and a camera. Images are sent from the arthroscope to a video screen or an eyepiece, so the surgeon is able to see inside the joint.


"Laura, I'm a stepmom who doesn't have biological children. Mother's Day is extremely hard for me. Would it be okay if I just stay home, eat nachos, watch movies, and sleep through the entire day?" Tasha inquired.
"Sweet Sister, if that's what works for you—do it," I replied.
Many women struggle with the Sunday designed to honor motherhood. For each lady the triggers are unique. There are various reasons why Mother's Day can be difficult such as; death, infertility, singleness, abortion, miscarriage, illness, divorce, widowhood, mental illness and prodigal children.
And then there is another category, the one familiar to me. It's women who serve in a mom-like role to their husband's children. I'm a stepmom. Thirty-two years ago, I married a man with two sons.
For some stepmoms, especially those who have biological children, Mother's Day is full of great memories and fun times.
But for other stepmoms the day can be extremely awkward, perplexing, embarrassing, disappointing and/or depressing. This blog is designed to encourage and provide insight for any woman dating, engaged, or married to a man with kids who needs a, "What-Do-I-Do" survival guide for making it through Mother's Day.
Before reading further I encourage you to take a minute and pause. Is what you are currently doing working? If not, are you ready to hear suggestions that might make things better, even if they aren't what you desire?
Here are practical tips. Some will be easier than others.
1. Prepare Beforehand. Do not wait until Sunday morning to discuss the day's activities with your spouse or fiancé. Share with him your desires for the day. Remember this is about your husband honoring YOU for being a mom to his kids. It's not about the kids.
2. Connect the Dots. For the first few years of our marriage I expected Steve to "know" that I wanted him to honor me on Mother's Day for the role I play in the lives of his kids. Big Mistake. I never expected his kids to honor me, because they have a mom. I grew up in a stepfamily and I knew my mother would be furious if I honored my stepmom. I never wanted to do that to my stepkids. But I did expect my husband to do it. He needed for me to explain this to him. If your husband refuses to hear your heart on this subject then you have a marriage problem, that needs to be addressed asap, not a Mother's Day problem.
3. The School Made Gift. It's not uncommon for younger kids to make mom a present at school. This can be painful if the child shows or tells you about it, not realizing it might be hurtful. Some contemporary schools recognize that there might be more than one mother figure in the child's life. But many do not. Remember the child isn't intentionally shunning you.
4. Have a Plan. If your husband is unavailable, or unwilling, to plan something fun—YOU do it. And make sure it's something you love. For me gathering with a few girlfriends is often a catalyst for laughter and de-stressing. Go to a movie, go shopping, visit a botanical garden, get a massage, do something that will allow you to relax and enjoy the day.
5. Grieve. It's ok to be sad on Mother's Day. For many it's a loss. Go ahead and cry, God understands. Often there is the death of the dream of what you thought being a stepmom would be, compared with the reality. However, be careful not to get stuck there allowing resentment, anger, and revenge build within.
6. Resist the Urge to Dwell on What You Don't Have. If your stepkids do not feel in a position, or a desire, to honor you on Mother's Day, let it go. Children in stepfamilies are grieving too. They feel loyal to their mom, even if she is dead. I see many stepmoms accuse the kids of being immature, bratty, nasty, or rude. When in fact the truth is they just hate being from a divorced family and wish they didn't have two homes. The situation is completely out of their control, and this is they only way they have to respond to the pain. Period.
7. But Why? Because so many stepmoms do all the work of a mom, and often much of the work of a dad too, they have a very difficult time understanding why the kid doesn't want to at least say thank you. A child's brain doesn't fully develop until they are in their early twenties. When a child has experienced a trauma, such as a divorce, death of a parent, or the breakup of the family unit its very common for the brain to stop growing. The brain becomes paralyzed in that stage of trauma. Therefore, this explains why so many kids in stepfamily homes have emotional and mental issues. When we expect kids to rationalize, process, appreciate the very thing that has caused them trauma it is an unrealistic expectation. It's RARELY because they hate the stepmom. It's USUALLY because they hate the situation.
8. Honor A Mom. Look around you. Is there someone you know who will be alone, or lonely, on Mother's Day? Perhaps a single parent, a daughter who just lost her mom, a woman who can't get pregnant, an elderly lady, etc. who could use a friend. And you might be the perfect person to help her through this day. God always provides an opportunity to help others if we seek it. And this is often how He heals our pain.
9. Honor THE Mom? Many stepmoms ask me if they should do something for the stepchild's mother. Children LONG for their parents, stepparents and the two homes to live in harmony. Unfortunately, it's extremely rare. If that gesture would help to ease tension between the homes, or even if you think it might, my advice is to do it. Just don't expect anything in return, or appreciation. Do it as an act of kindness for the love of your spouse, stepkids, and the compassion of Christ. If you do it for any other reason, you may be disappointed. Helping the child buy a gift for the mom is a HUGE way to show the child that you are allowing them to love the other parent. This is one of the greatest gifts you can give your stepchild, and it will build a bridge in the long run.
10. Unselfie. This one is going to sting, and I'm going to get nasty responses, but I must do it. So, here goes. Take a deep breath. Don't guilt or badger your husband into making his kids honor you on Mother's Day. Hear me clearly: In my opinion hubby should be jumping through hoops and trying to walk on water to show his wife how appreciative he is of her hard work. Being a stepmom is one of the hardest, thankless and most self-sacrificing jobs–EVER. Dad should treat his wife like, "Queen for a Day." Where wisdom must prevail is when it comes to forcing stepkids to bestow gifts on stepmom if they do not feel the need or desire to do so, or if they feel it is disloyal to their mother.
Kids are fiercely loyal to a parent, even if he/she isn't a good parent. When dad manipulates, compels or induces guilt on them to honor a stepmom it frequently backfires. A child who is forced to love on "dad's wife" frequently resents her in the long run. The opposite is also true. If the kid is allowed to build that relationship over time, in a way where they feel comfortable, when they get older they often begin to view the stepparent as a positive.
12. Avoid Church. Yes, I said it. In some churches Mother's Day is exceedingly focused on biological moms. It's ok for one day to dodge a place that triggers more pain.
13. Brunch is Bad. If your husband is treating you to lunch or dinner, it's a good idea to evade places that hand out a pink carnation to every woman who walks through the door. Choose something fun or different this year. It will be hard to avoid the standard, "Happy Mother's Day" wherever you go. Just smile, nod, tip well and be nice to the waitress. She must work on one of the busiest days of the year.
14. Gather SM Girlfriends. If you are part of a stepmom group this could be a great time to spend the day together. If you are not—why not? if there isn't one near you–start one.
Without a doubt one of the BEST ways to cope with all the challenges of being a stepmom is to attend an event designed for stepmoms. Here's the link to one on 1/19/19 that I know you will love.
Currently, I'm working on hosting a retreat solely for childless stepmoms. I don't have a location yet, but as soon as I do it will be on my website and The Smart Stepmom FB page. For now, here is a podcast I did on the subject with Restored and Remarried.
Here is what I want stepmoms everywhere to understand. I GET IT. I'm a childless stepmom. Because I understand the uniqueness of being a stepmom without biological kids, I included an entire chapter on this subject in my book 101 Tips for The Smart Stepmom.
But I'm so much more than a stepmom. And it's ONE DAY of the year.
Ask God for wisdom and insight on what will help lighten the ache. If Tasha's plan of staying in PJs, watching movies, and munching nachos is what works for you—do it! And don't beat yourself up over it. Communicate with your spouse that stepfamily living (and whatever else may be discouraging such as infertility) is complicated, and that you just don't have the emotional energy to do anything else.
Do what you sense God is calling you to do, and what your soul, spirit, heart and body need.
And remember Jesus knows precisely how it feels to be rejected and overlooked. You have a Lover of your Soul who is eager, and capable, of comforting any sorrow and wiping every tear.
He loves you, sister stepmom. He is the God of all comfort. He cares.


In your own organization, whatever it may be, there will be people who rarely talk negatively about the organization and seek to contribute to it in an ongoing, positive way. These individuals will have kindred spirits and followers. Conversely, most organizations have people who are constantly dissatisfied with the organization and their jobs and share their feelings with anyone who will choose to listen. These people will also have kindred spirits and followers. Such groups are readily identifiable in most companies.
I am sure you can find many other reasons why people may join a particular organization. There are certainly just as many reasons why people leave organizations as reasons they join them. When you join an organization, you will generally have several reasons for doing so, many of which you will share with others inside the organization. The reasons you choose and give for joining a particular organization are generally reasons that are particular to you.
Life is quite confusing, and because of this confusion, people generally adopt certain rationales to justify everything they do and their outlooks towards the world. Certain people simply justify their interactions with the world based upon their ways of seeing things. When you join any organization, you are going to have a certain rationale for doing so that makes you comfortable and feel good about what you are doing.
In order for a company or any other organization to succeed, the destroyers cannot outnumber those who truly believe in the organization. For example, a good argument can be made that most failed law firms failed because they had too many destroyers. For example, firms like Finley Kumble and others ran into serious trouble when they began hiring partners aggressively at the lateral level. Because most of these partners [presumably] were unhappy with their existing organizations when they moved to these firms, a good argument can be made that the law firms hired too many "destroyers." The ongoing success of firms like Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, Latham & Watkins, and others, it can be argued, is a result of not hiring destroyers at an aggressive level laterally. Similarly, the problems of some firms can be attributed to the merger of a firm of unhappy destroyer lawyers with another.
Healthy organizations do their best not to hire destroyers in the first place and to recognize destroyers for what they are. Nevertheless, because destroyers are often difficult to recognize-and their methods may be subtle-they inevitably become part of any organization. The job of any healthy organization is to flush out destroyers so that the organization can function effectively and the people working there will be happy. Once a destroyer is identified, a good organization will try to change the views of a destroyer. If the organization cannot change the views of a destroyer, it will do its best to ensure that he/she leaves.
What a destroyer inevitably leaves behind are other people who have been persuaded to adopt a similar destructive point of view and outlook towards the organization. Good organizations are not stupid. They will remember whom the destroyer associated with closely and watch these people. If the organization believes they are also destroyers, that organization will do its best to rid itself of them as well. The organization has to do this because its very well-being depends upon doing so.


Going back to school is an exciting and busy time for parents and kids. But with great Back to School sales blooming in August, you'll be able to find everything you need at an affordable price! You can never have too many sales, so take advantage of the great deals that we've found for you. Here are some of the best deals from top retailers to help you save a little extra cash!
Don't miss out on other Back to School sales this year!


Image by Flickr user Virtual Learning Center Image by 20090727-smart-board.jpg One of the key new technologies is the SMART Board, an interactive computer projector.
Seeking increased involvement and focus by students, area school districts are spending tens of millions of dollars on new presentation technology.
The Post and Courier has a story that explains the how, what, and why.
Sometimes organizations get mislead by a technology's wow factor and mistake it for results, let's hope that's not happening here. But on the flip side, I can see where not having to learn via overhead slides has real appeal to students.


A POPULAR shopping centre is facing the challenges in the retail sector and winning.
Market Place won the Retailer of the Year Award, sponsored by Farnell Jaguar Land Rover Bolton.
Nikki Wilson-Cook, centre manager, said: "I am very humbled by it to be honest, it's such a fantastic recognition for the work the team have done and absolutely delighted and ecstatic about it.
Market Place, Bolton's premier shopping, dining and leisure venue, strength lies in its ability to adapt to the changing face of town centres.
Acquired in 2013 by Inception Holdings, the centre has undergone a spectacular transformation over recent years.
It had been in decline for a number of years before it was taken over.
The centre then enjoyed £20 million investment to create a vibrant, modern retail and leisure destination in the centre of Bolton.
The Victorian Market Hall has enjoyed a sympathetic restoration to transform it for contemporary retail, while The Vaults have been exposed to create a stylish and popular social spot for dining and leisure that reflects the site's rich heritage.
The award is the latest in a number won by the Market Place.
Moorgarth is a Tradehold company.


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package org.apache.arrow.flight.example;

import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.UUID;
import java.util.function.Consumer;

import org.apache.arrow.flight.FlightProducer.ServerStreamListener;
import org.apache.arrow.memory.ArrowBuf;
import org.apache.arrow.memory.BufferAllocator;
import org.apache.arrow.util.AutoCloseables;
import org.apache.arrow.vector.VectorLoader;
import org.apache.arrow.vector.VectorSchemaRoot;
import org.apache.arrow.vector.dictionary.DictionaryProvider;
import org.apache.arrow.vector.ipc.message.ArrowRecordBatch;
import org.apache.arrow.vector.types.pojo.Schema;

import com.google.common.base.Throwables;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;

/**
 * A collection of Arrow record batches.
 */
public class Stream implements AutoCloseable, Iterable<ArrowRecordBatch> {

  private final String uuid = UUID.randomUUID().toString();
  private final DictionaryProvider dictionaryProvider;
  private final List<ArrowRecordBatch> batches;
  private final Schema schema;
  private final long recordCount;

  /**
   * Create a new instance.
   *
   * @param schema The schema for the record batches.
   * @param batches The data associated with the stream.
   * @param recordCount The total record count across all batches.
   */
  public Stream(
      final Schema schema,
      final DictionaryProvider dictionaryProvider,
      List<ArrowRecordBatch> batches,
      long recordCount) {
    this.schema = schema;
    this.dictionaryProvider = dictionaryProvider;
    this.batches = ImmutableList.copyOf(batches);
    this.recordCount = recordCount;
  }

  public Schema getSchema() {
    return schema;
  }

  @Override
  public Iterator<ArrowRecordBatch> iterator() {
    return batches.iterator();
  }

  public long getRecordCount() {
    return recordCount;
  }

  public String getUuid() {
    return uuid;
  }

  /**
   * Sends that data from this object to the given listener.
   */
  public void sendTo(BufferAllocator allocator, ServerStreamListener listener) {
    try (VectorSchemaRoot root = VectorSchemaRoot.create(schema, allocator)) {
      listener.start(root, dictionaryProvider);
      final VectorLoader loader = new VectorLoader(root);
      int counter = 0;
      for (ArrowRecordBatch batch : batches) {
        final byte[] rawMetadata = Integer.toString(counter).getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
        final ArrowBuf metadata = allocator.buffer(rawMetadata.length);
        metadata.writeBytes(rawMetadata);
        loader.load(batch);
        // Transfers ownership of the buffer - do not free buffer ourselves
        listener.putNext(metadata);
        counter++;
      }
      listener.completed();
    } catch (Exception ex) {
      listener.error(ex);
    }
  }

  /**
   * Throws an IllegalStateException if the given ticket doesn't correspond to this stream.
   */
  public void verify(ExampleTicket ticket) {
    if (!uuid.equals(ticket.getUuid())) {
      throw new IllegalStateException("Ticket doesn't match.");
    }
  }

  @Override
  public void close() throws Exception {
    AutoCloseables.close(batches);
  }

  /**
   * Provides the functionality to create a new stream by adding batches serially.
   */
  public static class StreamCreator {

    private final Schema schema;
    private final BufferAllocator allocator;
    private final List<ArrowRecordBatch> batches = new ArrayList<>();
    private final Consumer<Stream> committer;
    private long recordCount = 0;
    private DictionaryProvider dictionaryProvider;

    /**
     * Creates a new instance.
     *
     * @param schema The schema for batches in the stream.
     * @param dictionaryProvider The dictionary provider for the stream.
     * @param allocator  The allocator used to copy data permanently into the stream.
     * @param committer A callback for when the stream is ready to be finalized (no more batches).
     */
    public StreamCreator(Schema schema, DictionaryProvider dictionaryProvider,
        BufferAllocator allocator, Consumer<Stream> committer) {
      this.allocator = allocator;
      this.committer = committer;
      this.schema = schema;
      this.dictionaryProvider = dictionaryProvider;
    }

    /**
     * Abandon creation of the stream.
     */
    public void drop() {
      try {
        AutoCloseables.close(batches);
      } catch (Exception ex) {
        throw Throwables.propagate(ex);
      }
    }

    public void add(ArrowRecordBatch batch) {
      batches.add(batch.cloneWithTransfer(allocator));
      recordCount += batch.getLength();
    }

    /**
     * Complete building the stream (no more batches can be added).
     */
    public void complete() {
      Stream stream = new Stream(schema, dictionaryProvider, batches, recordCount);
      committer.accept(stream);
    }

  }

}

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syria chemical weapons inspectors damascus
Arabi Souri- August 16, 2013 - Syria- 2 Comments
United Nations: Ake Sellstrom & Angela Kane may arrive in Damascus today.
According to the U.N. deputy spokesperson, Farhan Hak, the both UN experts Angela Kane and Ake Sellstrom may arrive in the Syrian capital Damascus already today and this implies that the investigation whether chemical weapons were already used in the Syrian conflict seem to begin even earlier than is was already expected.
Angela Kane and Ake Sellstrom are the heads of the UN experts' team to Syria in order to probe and investigate the claims about the use of chemical weapons (e.g. sarin nerve gas) in the Syrian conflict. Angela Kane is the UN disarmament chief and Ake Sellstrom is a known Swedish arms experts and has many experiences in terms of traces of the use of chemical weapons.
The U.N. deputy spokesperson, Farhan Hak, explained that the UN inspectors are able to act independently from the United Nations Secretariat and it seems that the deputy spokesperson of the United Nations (UN) had to explain this matter after the Russian government already stated that they hope for an objective and balanced investigation without double-standards.
Of course, just because the UN deputy spokesperson, Farhan Hak, said that the inspectors would act independently from the United Nations Secretariat this means nothing. However, one can just hope that Ake Sellstrom and Angela Kane are more objective and balanced than other UN personnel.
However, it is already clear that the UN experts will investigate the area of Khan al-Assal near the Syrian city of Aleppo. In addition, the experts of the United Nations (UN) are allowed to investigate three locations (including Khan al-Assal / Khan al-Asal) in Syria.
The mission might be expanded but this depends on the results of the initial investigations whether chemical weapons were already used on Syrian soil in the recent two years and also on the decisions of the Syrian government in the capital, Damascus. However, the United Nations (UN) and the Syrian government have already shown signs of willingness to eventually extend this investigation by Ake Sellstrom and Angela Kane in Syria.
The United Nations Secretariat announced the agreement with the Syrian government in Damascus about the mission on last Wednesday. Followed by statements of Ban Ki-moon and the Syrian government that both sides have agreed on the important modalities of this mission in Syria and that the negotiations between Damascus and the UN officials were very positive.
The chemical weapons inspectors of the United Nations (UN) will investigate the alleged use of chemical weapons during the Syrian war and conflict. The UN experts will stay in Syria for about two weeks and according to the recent statements, the heads of the mission may arrive in the Syrian capital Damascus already today (as mentioned).
The UN experts and heads of this mission will study three locations where it is assumed that chemical weapons have been used in attacks. This includes the chemical attack in Khan al-Assal (Khan al-Asal), which is an outskirt of the strategically important Syrian city of Aleppo (Halab).
However, the Russian investigation of this attack by foreign-supported terrorists in Khan al-Assal against Syrian soldiers and civilians on March 19 (2013) has already shown that sarin nerve gas was used by the terrorist group in their attack. The attack has caused the death of over 30 Syrians.
The United Nations (UN) is in possession of the documents and details about the Russian investigation of samples from the place of attack in Khan al-Assal. While the investigation by Russian experts have triggered statements of Russian ministers that they found "first-hand evidence" for the use of sarin nerve gas by terrorists in their attack against Syrians in Khan al-Assal, the United Nations (UN) is still very quiet after UN officials have received the detailed information of the investigation of the samples from Khan al-Asal by Moscow.
The UN experts in Syria are allowed to talk with Syrian doctors, chemical attack victims and witnesses. However, there are less eye witnesses in Khan al-Assal since the last perpetrated massacre against over 100 Syrian civilians by the foreign-supported terrorists.
The UN experts will submit a final report on their chemical weapons investigation in Syria to the United Nations (UN). The first detailed report is to expect in about two weeks. However, the statements by the UN experts in Syria will be very interesting in the upcoming days.
Tagged Ake Sellstrom, Angela Kane, Chemical Weapons, Damascus, investigation, Khan al-Assal, Syria, UN
M. Klostermayr
Moscow: The US is changing facts by saying Syria has no desire to participate in the international conference
http://sana.sy/eng/22/2013/08/16/497524.htm
Lyin' sacks of sh*t.
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Yes we love the double cab, works well with the kids, the seats are waaay comfy too.
Lovely ride though good spring and damper mix, was worried about that.
too obstructive visually and too high to drive into the workshop.
Not sure about the future of that.
I think it will be going into the body shop very soon.
not really been welded before I think, but too valuable to let it rot.
Thanks to Dan Hotpod for going to pick it up for me.
I think he rather enjoyed the drive. Good man!
what are we using now and will it be future proof?
Woohooo anyway, back in a syncro, great!
its the "tilt", the pickup cover, quite a big sturdy affair, metal frame, tall roughly cube shape.
Could be useful to me in the future if I re-made it to suit me, but not at the moment.
Glad you're happy with it we ended up with another rhd doka !!
Are you keeping the van too?
Do you still use the little cara van?
Yes, they're all keepers. Saw an offroad Eriba towed by a sorted Landy the other day, got me thinking !!!
His and hers now, one each.
The camper has been spending some time at the welders and is happier now.
Ordered some paint, will be hand painting it ongoingly.
Its the same pastel white as the Tristar so thats handy.
I had heard that JX was underpowered, and with the big wheels on..
but just back from diesel specialist and its actually nippy.
holds fourth up a fair hill now!
to free up the stiff difflocks.
Not being used for a few years so the diff and gearbox has to come out.
electrics, swivel seats, upholstery, fridge ...creature comforts.


This new series of paintings, prints and magnetic cards are tea leaves in the human endeavor to find signs, interpret symbols, count the numbers, spin the wheel, read the cards while being sucked into the vortex of the epic struggle to find balance. My work is a conversation between the personal and the political in the context of empire and the media spectacle that entangles our daily lives. In the carnival of our times we are trapped in the technologies of our own invention and lured into the razzle of the gamble, prediction and punditry. Fascinated by the unexpected overlap of the analytical and mystical arts of forecasting this body of work invites the viewer to turn the wheel, meditate in the vertigo of multiple positions, arrange the cards and consider the commentary.
In my 2015 exhibition at SOMArts Glamorgeddon: The Spectacle, I explored how the social, political and mystical qualities of glamour have both colonized and empowered us. Positional Vertigo experiments with visual concepts that question how we perceive the way images are positioned and ideas shaped in an environment spinning with mediated content and absurd choices.


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Antinomy
A situation in which two mutual contradictory statements are demonstrated, each one having been deduced by means that are convincing from the point of view of the same theory.
As distinct from a sophism, which is a deliberately presented erroneous conclusion containing a masked error, an antinomy is usually an indication of deeper deficiencies of the theory in question. The discovery of an antinomy often leads to a thorough revision of the theory as a whole, attracts attention to new effects, and ultimately stimulates further studies. This feature of antinomies attracted the interest of philosophers ever since ancient times. One may recall, for example, the important role played by antinomies in the philosophy of E. Kant. A number of antinomies were studied in antiquity under the name aporium. Here, two famous antinomies named after Zeno of Elea (5th century B.C.) will be quoted.
"Achilles and the tortoise" . This aporium deals with the contradiction involved in certain attributes of motion, and may be stated as follows. A runner (Achilles) is standing at a point $A$, and a tortoise is standing at a point $B$, 100 meters away from $A$. At the same moment of time Achilles begins to run from $A$ towards $B$, while the tortoise begins to move away from $B$ in the direction away from $A$ at a speed which is, say, 100 times less than that of Achilles. Experience teaches us that in such a situation Achilles will overtake the tortoise after a fairly short period of time. On the other hand, it is also possible to conclude that Achilles will never overtake the tortoise, and will not even reach the point $B$. In fact, at the moment when Achilles has reached the midpoint $C_1$ of the distance $AB$, the tortoise will have moved away from $B$, though only by a short distance. Next, Achilles will reach the midpoint $C_2$ of $C_1B$, then the midpoint $C_3$ of $C_2B$, etc. Throughout that time the tortoise keeps moving away from $B$. In order to reach $B$, Achilles must have been present at each point in the infinite sequence of points $C_1,C_2,\ldots$. However, it is impossible to be present at an infinite number of points in a finite period of time; therefore, Achilles will never arrive at the point $B$ and will never overtake the tortoise.
Paradoxes of this type are easily solved by methods of the modern mathematical theory of motion. A detailed analysis shows that such solutions materially depend on the truth of the so-called Archimedean axiom in the field of real numbers: For any real numbers $a,b>0$ there exists a natural number $n$ such that $an>b$. Nevertheless, the problem illustrated by the paradox is very real. It is possible to deny the convenience or the adequacy of the ordinary mathematical model as a description of real motion. In order to describe the concepts of infinitely small and infinitely large physical magnitudes, it was repeatedly attempted to construct a theory of real numbers in which the Archimedean axiom would not be valid. In any case, the theory of non-Archimedean ordered fields forms an essential part of modern algebra. Such non-Archimedean ordered fields — the non-standard real straight line — play a determining role in non-standard analysis.
The "sandpile paradox" may be stated as follows. Clearly, one grain of sand does not form a sandpile. If $n$ grains of sand still do not form a sandpile, it follows that they will not form a pile after another grain of sand has been added. Accordingly, no number of grains of sand can form a sandpile.
This paradox can be solved in modern terms by saying that the method of complete mathematical induction cannot be applied to undefined volumes such as a "pile of sand grains" . In modern mathematics (second half of the 20th century) indefinite volumes are employed in the foundations of mathematics to establish the consistency of classical theories, and the properties of such concepts are studied by exact methods. It is possible to use methods of mathematical logic to realize a situation in which mathematical induction in its general form is not applicable to any natural series, even though very many ordinary properties of natural numbers remain valid in the process (the so-called non-standard model of arithmetic).
However, it is the antinomies involving unusual formulations of concepts which are undoubtedly of greatest interest to mathematics. These are the so-called logical and semantic antinomies (see also Skolem paradox).
Below three examples of logical antinomies are presented.
Russell's paradox (B. Russell, 1902), also independently discovered by E. Zermelo. Consider the following property $D$ of sets. Assume that a set $X$ has the property $D$ if and only if it is not an element of itself. Property $D$ is valid for a very large majority of specific sets used in mathematical considerations. E.g., neither the set of natural numbers nor the set of all real numbers are elements of themselves. Consider the set $T$ such that its elements are exactly those sets $X$ that have the property $D$. Now consider whether $T\in T$ or $T\not\in T$ is true. If $T\in T$ then, by definition, $T$ has the property $D$, i.e. $T\not\in T$. Thus, one must postulate $T\not\in T$. But this again results in a contradiction, since if $T\not\in T$, $T$ has the property $D$, so that $T\in T$.
The paradox can be avoided by postulating that all that has been proved in this way is that there is no such set $T$, i.e. that the property $D$ does not characterize any set at all. However, this cannot be accepted, since it is natural to suppose, from the point of view of "naive" set theory, that any exactly-described property $B$ of objects defines a set $C$ of objects which possess this property. Russell's paradox is a strong blow to this natural concept. One must conclude that certain very simple properties must either be considered as imprecisely described, or else that there exist exactly-described properties which do not define a set. This in turn gives rise to several difficult questions. What are "exactly" and what are "inexactly" described properties? Which properties define a set and which do not? May not other properties which are extensively used in set theory also lead to contradictions and have to be discarded? Is it at least possible to reliably specify a domain which is adequately protected from paradoxes, and which is nevertheless sufficiently large to include conventional mathematical practice?
With the construction of exact logico-mathematical languages, the problem of the exact description of properties may be considered as being satisfactory solved. However, the problem of description of criteria establishing the class of properties defining a set is still a question that is far from solved. Even worse, modern results in axiomatic set theory indicate that there is no final solution to this problem. Russell's paradox made a great impression on his contemporaries since it concerned the very first stage in the study of set theory. Nevertheless, there exist various ways of avoiding paradoxes which, though hardly ultimate or natural, are very convenient in practice and throw light both on the nature of the paradox itself and on logical connections of other principles of set theory. The axiomatic approach to the fundamental principles of set theory (cf. Axiomatic set theory) proved particularly successful. Thus, the formal axiomatic system of Zermelo–Fraenkel is at the time of writing (1970's) a most useful axiomatic theory, which gives the most adequate description of the "non-paradoxical" part of the practice of classical set theory.
The paradox of the "village barber paradox" . This is a variant of Russell's paradox, formulated in the guise of an everyday-life situation. (A slightly-different form of this paradox is known as the Gonseth paradox.) It is the case of a village barber who shaves those and only those inhabitants of his village who do not shave themselves. Does the barber shave himself? A reasoning similar to that given in the context of Russell's paradox shows that he both shaves and does not shave himself. This difficulty is easily overcome if one concludes that there cannot be such a barber. The condition to be satisfied by the barber is self-contradictory and therefore cannot be satisfied. Admittedly, the problem raises the question of criteria of self-consistent properties but, unlike in Russell's paradox, this is by no means a burning problem. It refers to a real-life situation, and most such situations are never exactly formulated or reliably defined. Moreover, self-consistency is not the only criterion (nor probably even the most important one) of acceptability of real-life reasoning. The situation is altogether different in mathematical reasoning, which is supposed to be much more precisely defined and more reliable; self-consistency forms an important part of such a reasoning.
Cantor's paradox (G. Cantor, 1899). Let $M$ be the set of all sets and let $P(M)$ be the set of all its subsets. It is clear from the definition of $M$ that $P(M)$ is included in $M$. On the other hand, in accordance with a well-known theorem of Cantor, the cardinality of $P(M)$ is larger than that of $M$, and for this reason $P(M)$ cannot be a subset of $M$. The conclusions which follow from Cantor's paradox are roughly the same as those following from Russell's paradox. In particular, it may be thought that Cantor's paradox proves that the set $M$ of all sets does not exist. It is interesting to note in this connection that there exist axiomatic systems of set theory, such as the well-known "New Foundations" system of W. Quine, which establish the existence of $M$. Cantor's paradox can be avoided in the "New Foundations" owing to the fact that Cantor's cardinality theorem can be proved in this system only in a specific form, which is insufficient to "prove" the paradox. In general, the concepts of set theory required to construct Cantor's paradox are much more involved than those needed to construct Russell's paradox (such as the concept of a subset, the idea of a one-to-one correspondence, etc.).
A paradox which resembles Cantor's paradox is the so-called Burali–Forti paradox, which deals with the class of all ordinal numbers. The order type of this class must be larger than all the ordinals contained in it.
Antinomies of a somewhat different type, the so-called semantic antinomies, are also of major interest. As distinct from logical antinomies, semantic antinomies include terms such as "truth" , "falsehood" , "denotes" , "defines" and others. Otherwise, the difference between the two types of paradoxes, which was proposed by F. Ramsey in 1926, is largely arbitrary. Many semantic antinomies may be stated in a logical form and vice versa. It was noted by Ramsey that semantic antinomies cannot be constructed in ordinary logico-mathematical theories for the simple reason that such theories do not contain the semantic concepts which are required in the formulation of semantic antinomies. In this sense, semantic antinomies are "safer" than logical antinomies. It should be noted, however, that there are modern theories containing concepts for the formulation of certain semantic paradoxes, in particular Richard's paradoxes (but such paradoxes can always be avoided by using special devices). Below two well-known semantic paradoxes are stated.
Richard's paradox in the formulation of G.D.W. Berry (1906). Consider the set of natural numbers each one of which can be uniquely defined by a meaningful text containing not more than 1000 syllables. Obviously, the number of such texts is finite, since the collection of all texts with 1000 syllables is finite. Consider the smallest natural number that is not a member of the set defined above.
The above paragraph is a meaningful text, containing not more than 1000 syllables, which uniquely determines some natural number which, by definition, cannot be characterized by a set of this type. Obviously, this paradox can be avoided if this text is declared to be not meaningful (or to be a text which does not define a natural number), but in such a case, as before, there arise difficult problems concerning the criteria for a text to be meaningful, etc.
Eubulides' paradox (4th century B.C.). A person says: "What I am saying now is a lie" . Is this statement true or not? If it is true, its very meaning indicates that it is false. If it is false, it immediately follows that it is true. Many variants of this paradox are known — the liar's paradox, Epimenides' paradox, etc. The idea of this paradox forms the base of the proof of the well-known Gödel incompleteness theorem of formal axiomatic theories.
In general, analysis of such paradoxes stimulated a fundamental review of the views on the foundations of mathematics and the development of many modern ideas and methods of mathematical logic.
[1] A.A. Fraenkel, Y. Bar-Hillel, "Foundations of set theory" , North-Holland (1958)
[2] S.C. Kleene, "Introduction to metamathematics" , North-Holland (1951)
Antinomy. Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Antinomy&oldid=50988
This article was adapted from an original article by A.G. Dragalin (originator), which appeared in Encyclopedia of Mathematics - ISBN 1402006098. See original article
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Directions of the relationship between substance use and depressive symptoms from adolescence to young adulthood
By Higher Education Center - September 16, 2016
Because both depression and substance use are prevalent among adolescents and are often comorbid, researchers explored the longitudinal relationship between the two from adolescence into young adulthood. A total of 12,288 adolescents in grades 7-12 were sampled in 1994 and were interviewed in waves until 2009. The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale (CES-D) was used at each interview wave to capture depressive symptoms and frequency. Substance use and frequency of alcohol binge drinking, cigarettes, and marijuana were also assessed at each interview. Increases on the CES-D predicted an average increase in male monthly marijuana use by 1 day, and an increase in monthly cigarette smoking frequency by 2 days for females. In other words, depressive symptoms were associated with later increases in smoking frequency for females and marijuana use frequency for males. Smoking was also associated with later increases in depressive symptoms for both males and females. These findings support the self-medication hypothesis that individuals are self-medicating depressive symptoms with the use of marijuana and cigarettes. However, there is also a reverse pathway that indicates an increase in smoking frequency is significantly associated with later increases in depressive symptoms among both genders. Interestingly, this study found no evidence supporting the idea that individuals self-medicated with binge drinking, which could be a function of the measures used.
Take away: The findings of this study indicate a bidirectional relationship between depressive symptoms and substance use among adolescents. This research shows that screening for both depression and substance use in this population is important. Interventions and prevention strategies involving depression could benefit from having a substance use component, and vice versa.
Wilkinson, A.L., Halpern, C.T., & Herring, A.H. (2016) Directions of the relationship between substance use and depressive symptoms from adolescence to young adulthood. Addictive Behaviors, 60, 64-70.


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There will be a memorial service for Hardy that is open to the public.
Adults and older children, please.
Below are the details.
Saturday, February 11th @ 1pm
Garden House @ Shoup Park
Hardy Jones Memorial Fund
In honor of Hardy's volunteer work and ongoing support of the students at Alta Vista High School in the Mountain View Los Altos School District, we have established the Hardy Jones Memorial Fund at Alta Vista.
The fund will help support scholarships for students who embody the iron-like spirit of Hardy's sculpture "Aztec Warrior."
Jones' on-campus "Aztec Warrior" sculpture is a striking reminder and reinforcement of the strength of Alta Vista's campus culture. The Principal will make decisions as to the most impactful use of funds for student educational, technical and creative development.
All donations are tax deductable.
There are two ways to donate.
1. Online using the button below:
Aztec Warrior by Hardy Jones (Photo by Cyndy Patrick)
You can contribute by sending a check made out to "MVLA" and designate in the comments section that the contribution is for the "Hardy Jones Memorial Fund at Alta Vista".
You can mail your check (made out to MVLA) to:
c/o Sam Harding
22 Doud Drive
Los Altos, California 94022
More about Hardy Jones
There are some great articles about Hardy, including the 2017 feature in the Town Crier, a great letter to the editor from his neighbor Ellen Clark, his feature article in the Harvard Medical Review, as well as other great articles on his website.


All of the artwork is in. It'll still be a little bit (smart enough to not give any definite timeframe these days) before the module comes out because I have to raise the money to pay the artists (I was smart enough to make the agreement to pay upon publication) and get the darn thing printed up (no cheapiecrap printing for this!). The money for the pre-orders that were taken some time back went into replacing my computer when the old one died (seemed to be a legitimate expense, seeing as without a computer nothing would have ever happened with the project anyway).
So I'm one step closer to changing Insect Shrine of Goblin Hill from the shameful monkey eating my legs to the awesome gaming experience at your table.
There's a really obscure movie called Event Horizon. It's nothing of note in terms of plot or acting, but the DVD actually had something of value. In several sequences that were meant to flicker by faster than the brain could really fully process the images, there are some horrific scenes of torture. I remember struggling with the video tape when this thing first came out, because I *had* to see. Now that I have the DVD, I have the sequences timed so that I can pull them up and get ideas. I thought of this because of your torture chamber - the horror of these sequences might be worth looking at for future torture chambers.
I think the movie illustrates Warhammer's warp quite well, don't you?
As far as the pictures... the cover is my favorite. I really hadn't effectively pictured the shrine entrance in my head, so seeing something so effective based on my written description blew me away.
Berger's piece was originally to be the cover, but then again I had originally commissioned it in 2003 as the cover for the LotFP: RPG that never got past playtesting. I have a room in the module specifically to make use of the pic.
The detail im the last two completed pieces, the Bone Hall and Engineer's Workshop, impress me as well. Can't wait to see what the fine details look like (Jalo's pics there have been taken with a digital camera, not yet scanned and I haven't seen the originals).
James, this looks to be a most promising product! I'm really looking forward to being blown away by your module masterpiece.
James, that's a movie that influences not a little bit of how I want to play demons and devils, as well as dark/higher magicks. There's just a level that humans wouldn't understand. I'm one of those that thoroughly enjoy EH and I watch it on occasion.
I'm really looking forward to seeing this module.
You've linked to Laura Jalo's DeviantArt page before. Amazing stuff. The goblin butcher shop scenes are downright eerie. I love it.


Broadly, this research examines a student's likelihood to withdraw from a university based on the relationship between motivations, financial orientation, and identity salience. Specifically, this study empirically examines the relationship between extrinsic motivation, intrinsic motivation, and apathetic motivation, perceived opportunity loss and lifestyle activities related to financial orientation, and satisfaction and reciprocity related to identity salience, as predictors of a student's likelihood of withdrawing from a university.
A questionnaire was designed by extending scale items related to the constructs of interest. First-year students at a private university located in the upper Midwest were sampled. A hypothesized model was tested using partial least squares regression. Consistent with theory, four of the eight hypothesized paths are statistically significant.
Four research questions were analyzed using multigroup analysis. Differences in relationships are shown for gender, major, college GPA and ACT score.
Conclusions provide more insight on understanding what drives undergraduate students' likelihood to withdraw. Higher education administrators could create different programs, services, or strategies that accommodate to the needs of students' at various levels of motivation, financial orientation, and identity salience. Limitations of this research include measuring a student's likelihood to withdraw rather than a student actually withdrawing. Additionally, an R2 value of 50% which means the model is missing variables. With this said, directions for future research should involve tracking who changes in motivations, financials, and identity salience as well as analyzing who actually withdrew versus the likelihood that they would withdraw.
Quinn, Matthew I., "A Verification and Extension of Students' Motivations, Financial Orientation, and Identity Salience as Predictors of Likelihood to Withdraw from a University" (2015). Distinction Papers. 10.


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Q: Deploying a JSR 286 portlet on Liferay Is it possible to deploy any JSR 286 complaint portlet and not specifically Liferay portlet (created using eclipse plugin etc) without any changes in project files or directory structure?
If it is not possible, are there any step by step procedure to convert any portlet to a Liferay compatible portlet?

A: Yes, it is possible: you just need to deploy the WAR file in your Liferay deployment dir or through the interface. Some time ago I wrote a tutorial about portlets, created some JSR 286-compatible ones and deployed them. Maybe they can help you. (Note, however, that for exploring some properties of Liferay these portlets has no web.xml descriptor - they will work in Liferay, but not elsewhere. Just add the descriptor if needed).

A: Mind you, due to bug LPS-60897  in Liferay's resources importer module, this will not work as advertised (at least in Liferay 6.2).
See also the forum thread that led to the bug report.


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Parallel Lines è il terzo album del gruppo musicale statunitense Blondie pubblicato nel 1978. È stato inserito alla 140ª posizione nella Lista dei 500 migliori album secondo Rolling Stone.
L'album ha raggiunto la prima posizione nella classifica Official Albums Chart, la seconda nella Billboard Canadian Albums e la sesta nella US Top LPs.

Tracce
Lato A

Lato B

Bonus track della riedizione su CD del 2001

Bonus track dell'edizione deluxe per collezionisti del 2008

Formazione
 Deborah Harry - voce
 Chris Stein - chitarra
 Frank Infante - chitarra
 Nigel Harrison - basso
 Jimmy Destri - tastiere, pianoforte, sintetizzatore, cori
 Clem Burke - batteria

Classifiche

Note

Collegamenti esterni


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Ермегияев:
 Ермегияев, Амангельди Динович — казахстанский политический деятель.
 Ермегияев, Талгат Амангельдиевич

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This Changes Everything
Gender inequality: And the best way to fight this is? Of all the voices I appreciated in this documentary, it was Mel Brooks' "This is their time (meaning women's)!" It's long past time, but this documentary shows that the battle is far from won. It traces the inching progress that women have made in finding a voice in film, whether it's acting, directing, or producing. It's not as if women have advocated decimating males; they have simply wanted an equalplace at the table. 1918 statistics show that of the top grossing films, 85% of the writers were males; of domestic releases, 92% of the 250 domestically released films were male-directed.
There are many discouraging/heartbreaking stories here about the struggle for women simply trying to get a seat at the table. Women haven't been asking for any favors—or even decimating the men in the privileged seat—they're just asking for equality, just as the American soccer players of today are advocating equal pay for their achievements—which have been considerably more than their male counterparts'.
It's hard to believe how long this struggle has been going on, considering that when films started being made, there were far more female filmmakers than male. This documentary shows that this began to change when sound was introduced—which required funding—and which brought in banks, an already established male hierarchy and consolidation of power, and also when unions fought to keep women out. Around this time, the Directors Guild of America was founded—by all males.
A no-holds-barred look at women's roles in film and the consistent discounting of them.
Subsequent attempts to stem the tide legally were met with discouragement. When Title VII (the Civil Rights Act forbidding hiring on the basis of race, color, or national origin) was invoked in 1969, charging discrimination in the film industry, the Federal Government intervened, disallowing the claims, and allowing gender inequality to continue in Hollywood for decades.
Despite Geena Davis' efforts to advocate for equality—even in children's films—today, only 15.6% of directors in the Directors Guild are women. When the Directors Guild filed a lawsuit against studios about the issue in 1983, the female judge threw out the lawsuit on the grounds that directors themselves were not hiring women. Even an ACLU suit in 2013 didn't bring much success.
What will it take? I've said that it was easier to elect a black President than it would be a woman, just as blacks gained the right to vote before women did. The apparently deep-seated antagonism toward women is hard for me to comprehend.
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