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Young people and mental health: shaping our research
Mental wellbeing makes headlines every day, with an estimated one in ten children and young people in the UK living with a mental health diagnosis.
**Waiting list only**
With Covid-19 creating an environment for heightened loneliness and isolation, there's a need for a stronger focus on the mental health of young people.
The Centre for Cultural Value is currently developing a research digest which centres on the question: what is the value of cultural experiences for young people's mental health, wellbeing and resilience? Our role is to review and summarise existing research and to share these summary findings in an accessible digest, to help inform future practice and policy.
Join us for an interactive workshop where we share the introductory stages of our research in this area and invite you to feed in your ideas to the development of this research review, so we can tailor the digest to be as useful as possible to the sector and policymakers.
Some areas of cultural practice focusing on mental health have strong evidence-based research demonstrating strengths, whereas other areas have been under-researched. Led by artist and facilitator Viv Gordon, you'll help shape the research digest and collectively identify the strengths, challenges and knowledge gaps in practice and research in the sector.
Also participating in the discussion are Dr Robyn Dowlen, Centre for Cultural Value who is writing the research digest, Dr Kat Taylor from Greater Manchester's Arts and Mental Health Innovation programme, Kevin Edward Turner, dancer and co-artistic director of Company Chameleon and Errol Francis, CEO at Culture&.
This event is also part of Beyond Measure, a collaboration between the Leeds Arts Health and Wellbeing Network, Cultural Institute and Centre for Cultural Value. Beyond Measure is a programme of digital engagement exploring research and evidence in culture and health.
Robyn Dowlen
Robyn synthesises and summarises relevant research and helps make it as accessible as possible to the cultural sector. Her current focus is an extensive review of research and practice relating to arts and health.
Robyn completed her PhD in 2019 which examined 'in the moment' benefits of music-making for people living with dementia. After her PhD Robyn spent time as a research associate at the University of Manchester on the Neighbourhoods and Dementia study before joining the Centre team as the Post-Doctoral Research Associate.
Errol Francis
Errol was appointed CEO of Culture& in 2016. He has substantial experience of community engagement around mental health and the arts with minority groups and was formerly Joint Programme Lead at the Sainsbury Centre of Mental Health and Programme Manager at the Department of Health Race for Health programme. He was programme manager at Arts Council England, Inspire Curatorial Fellowship Programme; Head of Arts at the Mental Health Foundation and artistic director of the highly acclaimed Anxiety Arts Festival London 2014, Acting Out Nottingham 2015 and Hysteria 2017-2018 public engagement programmes. He is currently director of the curatorial group PS/Y and Visiting Professor at the University of West London. Errol was awarded his PhD from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, where his research focused on postcolonial artistic responses to museums. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of West London in 2017.
Viv Gordon
Viv is a theatre maker and survivor activist, who writes and performs shows that creatively articulate trauma narratives based on her lived experience as a survivor activist. Viv sees her work as a campaign to forge survivor voice, visibility and community and agitate for change.
Alongside her creative work, Viv campaigns for access and inclusion for artists and audiences with mental health needs, offering mentoring, training and consultancy for projects and organisations including Salisbury International Arts Festival, Welsh National Opera, Graeae, Salisbury Cathedral and The Place.
Kevin Edward Turner
Kevin is an award-winning dance artist, who has performed with Rambert Dance Company, Scottish Dance Theatre, Phoenix Dance Theatre, CassaniDance, Rubberbandancegroup (Canada), Henri Oguike Dance Company, Company Decalage, Mad Dogs Dance Theatre, Finn Walker and Roda amongst others.
Kevin co-founded Company Chameleon in 2007 and has since created, performed, led, directed, produced, taught and facilitated performances, masterclasses, workshops, residences, interventions and participatory projects nationally and internationally. In 2017 the Company was commissioned by Manchester City Council and Library Live to create a significant site-specific work at Manchester Central Library. The Company's biggest commission to date, the production featured a cast of 65 multi-disciplinary artists. The work went on to be nominated and shortlisted at the Manchester Culture Awards 2018 for Best Performance.
By invitation, Kevin has featured in several television programmes and documentaries including BBC One's Going Back, Giving Back in 2016 and BBC Two's Dancing to Happiness with Darcey Bussell in 2018, which explored how dance can improve your mental health.
Kevin is a passionate advocate for the positive impact of dance on overall health and wellbeing.
Dr Kat Taylor
Kat is a senior clinical psychologist in NHS Children's services (CAMHS), and in 2018 was appointed to manage the innovative Arts, Culture and Mental Health Programme at GM i-THRIVE, part of the national THRIVE transformation of children's services. In 2017 Kat completed a Churchill Travelling Fellowship on the role of the arts in health, following a research role at Arts for Health, Manchester Metropolitan University. She has worked in several university psychology research departments including the Spectrum Centre for Mental Health Research at Lancaster University, notable for its service user involvement, and on the Dementia & Imagination research programme.
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Q: Identify VMWare Guest from within Linux Guest Is there somewhere from a Linux guest that will show me if the VM is running on VMWare's hypervisor?
Ideally a method that doesn't require vmware tools to be installed... maybe something in /proc or /sys?

A: Yes, The quickest approach is to use the virt-what command.
# rpm -qf /usr/sbin/virt-what
virt-what-1.11-1.2.el6.x86_64

Output:
# virt-what
vmware

But the utility also has facts for Xen, VirtualBox, KVM, Qemu, Parallels, etc.

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Die alte Wassermauer in Quirein ist ein mittelalterliches Bauwerk aus dem 14. oder 15. Jahrhundert im Stadtteil Quirein in Bozen. Seit 1995 steht die Mauer, die die Horaz-Straße ostseitig begrenzt, unter Denkmalschutz.

Einst hatte die Talfer einen anderen Verlauf als heute: Auf der Höhe zwischen Schloss Maretsch und der Talferbrücke bog der Fluss nach Südwesten ab und mündete erst ungefähr beim heutigen Don-Bosco-Platz in den Eisack. Nachdem Graf Meinhard II. von Tirol 1278 die Herrschaft über die ganze Stadt Bozen erlangt hatte, beschloss er, der Talfer einen kürzeren Verlauf zu geben. 1282 wurde dann das neue Bett gegraben, und seither fließt die Talfer geradeaus zum Eisack. Wo das neue Flussbett entstand, lagen fruchtbare Weingüter. Durch das immer wieder auftretende Talferhochwasser wurden diese ständig bedroht. Den Besitzern dieser Weingüter blieb deshalb nichts anderes übrig, als sich durch den Bau einer starken Mauer vor Überschwemmung zu schützen, vermutlich bald nach dem Jahr 1282 und spätestens nach 1442, als König Friedrich III. dem Bozner Stadtrat die Zuständigkeit für Wasserschutzbauten an Talfer und Eisack übertrug. Die ca. 350 Meter lange Mauer ist 1541 auf der Bozner Überschwemmungskarte von Bürgermeister Leonhard Hörtmair bildlich dargestellt. Heute ist sie nicht mehr zur Gänze erhalten.

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Baudenkmal in Bozen
Bauwerk in Bozen
Erbaut im 14. oder 15. Jahrhundert

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"It Stopped My Heart. I Landed on a Glass I Was Carrying. A Voice Told Me I Was Dying. Oh God No! I Didn't Want to Die."
An energy drink stopped my heart. I landed on a glass I was carrying, and a chunk of it punctured my jugular. My blood pressure was 70/40 when paramedics arrived and it kept dropping lower each time they raised my arm to take it, and I'd pass out. I fractured my cheek and jaw in that fall and got a traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a bonus.
I had an out of town funeral to attend the following day. The drive was going to take about [six] hours. I was gassing up my car, and at the last minute, I decided to get an energy drink because I was driving at night. I get sleepy, and I since I had our son Trevor with me, I wanted to be sure I'd stay awake. So I went in the store and got myself a drink. I remember having second thoughts as I grabbed the can from the cooler, like that deep gut 'oh I'm going to get busted' feeling, but I went against it and grabbed a biggie… the biggest mistake of my life.
I got to my friend's house and made myself at home while I waited for her to get home from work. I went out on the patio and suddenly began feeling a little nauseous, immediately feeling like something was seriously wrong. I didn't want to collapse on concrete, so I went inside. I had a glass of water in one hand and my big 'ol large diet coke, like 64 oz big, in the other. I had gotten it later on the drive. I had a lot of caffeine. I remember standing at the corner of the kitchen counter and the next memory is me opening my eyes and I'm lying on something red. My head was between the legs of a butcher block table and a vintage cast iron stove and my head was touching each of them — table on the left and stove on the right. I sat up and felt stuff falling on my chest from my face and something was in my mouth and on my lips. It was shattered glass. I started spitting it out and wiping my chin. As I continue to wipe it off, I ran my hand down my chin and under my jaw where I felt something snag my finger. I was so out of it, I grabbed around the glass and squeezed it out. I was an X-ray tech and medical assistant and I also taught CPR/First Aid. I know not to pull objects from the body, ESPECIALLY THE NECK!
I remember looking at the claw-shaped glass now in my palm and telling my friend's son I need to wash my neck. My friend's kids were home, and when I fell, they heard the glass shatter and came running. Her son [Colton] came up from behind me and saw the glass in my hand and blood running down my chest, and her daughter and son's friend came in from the other direction and saw me from the front. Between these three, one got me up, one called 911 and the other got towels. My head was starting to hurt and so was my face. I leaned over the sink to wash my neck, and everything goes white. No pain, no speech, no sight, and my legs buckled. I collapsed into Colton's arms and what I could hear sounded like kids playing at the end of the block. A male voice came to me and told me I was dying. Oh God no! I didn't want to die. Trevor was with me and I didn't want to tell him I loved him because I didn't want my last words to be in that moment, but I wanted him to know I loved him. And poor Trevor — he was in the next room listening to me moaning and repeating that I loved him when the paramedics were taking me. I don't remember that, but it has traumatized him. He has Autism. I remember thinking I was having this internal pull and a second man's voice came to me and told me to keep my eye open and if I closed them, I'd never wake up. So I began to fight.
When the emergency room doctor walked up to my gurney, I told him, 'Listen doc, I need to be out of here by 6:30 a.m. because I have a funeral to be at by 9.' He said, 'Just be glad it isn't yours.' He also said it would've happened while I was driving if I had further to go. I went down for a funeral. Oh, the irony. I was being wheeled in, and morphine was mentioned but I didn't know why. Apparently, I bounced off the butcher block table with my left cheek and hit the cast iron stove before my head got nestled between the two.
The ER doctor said the combo of the energy drink mixed with the extra fluid from the Diet Coke, and both being a diuretic, caused the problems in my heart, because of my having to use the restroom [six] times on the trip down there. Using the restroom caused me to lose critical electrolytes we need for our heart to function. He told me, 'Next time, leave earlier and drink coffee instead. No more energy drinks for you!' I received a couple more shots while there, and boy I was hurting, but I was eventually discharged.
I made it to the funeral after all, but ended up driving the wrong way on a one-way street in front of the cemetery. You're probably thinking I was determined to be buried that day. After that little fiasco, I was refused the right to drive home for [three] days. That drive home was difficult and long. I kept getting sleepy, and that kept up for quite a while. It's been [seven] years and I can just now drive [three] hours by myself without anyone else in the car. I suffered a traumatic brain injury with that concussion.
If I can change one person's energy drink habit, I'll be pleased. It would mean the world to me if I can save at least one person's life. Sadly, Colton lost his life a year after my accident as well. It was said he had [two] of those energy drink beers a few hours before his heart stopped. He died because his heart was enlarged, and it just wore out.
These drinks are like liquid heroin because of the addiction for the energy. One sip and you're hooked because the extra energy is easily accessible. These energy drinks don't have to be consumed on a regular basis to cause an injury. I drank maybe two energy drinks a year if that. I've probably had [eight] in total over a six-year period. I stopped [six] times to use the restroom on that drive and that caused me to lose critical electrolytes we need for our heart to function. I don't know if the rapid heart rate is worse than electrolyte depletion, but the combo can be dangerous. Our heart muscle is constructed like a net, unlike our long muscles. Each of those tiny branches [has] a lifespan, unlike the long muscles. They're like a rubber band and wear out like an overused rubber band does. That's what people don't understand.
My goals of becoming a sign language interpreter ended that day. I couldn't remember my signs and I struggled for [two] years until I resigned to the fact I couldn't do it. I call myself a housewife now, but my husband says I'm not, I'm the boss of our home. I like the ring of that. I now just dedicate myself to educating others about the energy drink dangers every opportunity I can. My husband and boys have been incredibly supportive… even sitting through the same movie for me. We just say I'm forgetful now. It's less hurtful.
**This story was written by Tara Mundorff and originally appeared on Love What Matters. Used with permission.


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package algorithms;

/**
 * Rank from Stream: Imagine you are reading in a stream of integers. Periodically, you wish
 * to be able to look up the rank of a number x (the number of values less than or equal to x).
 * Implement the data structures and algorithms to support these operations. That is, implement
 * the method track(int x), which is called when each number is generated, and the method
 * getRankOfNumber(int x), which returns the number of values less than or equal to x (not
 * including x itself).
 * EXAMPLE
 * Stream(in order of appearance):5, 1, 4, 4, 5, 9, 7, 13, 3
 * getRankOfNumber(l) 0
 * getRankOfNumber(3) 1
 * getRankOfNumber(4) 3
 *
 * @author Ajinkya Patil
 */
public class StreamRanker {
  public static class RankedNode {
    public int data;
    public int rankAsRoot;
    public RankedNode left;
    public RankedNode right;

    private RankedNode() {
    }

    public RankedNode(int value) {
      data = value;
      rankAsRoot = 0;
    }
  }

  private RankedNode root;

  public void track(int x) {
    if (root == null) {
      root = new RankedNode(x);
      return;
    }
    track(root, x);
  }

  private static void track(RankedNode root, int x) {
    if (root.data >= x) {
      root.rankAsRoot++;
      if (root.left == null) {
        root.left = new RankedNode(x);
      } else {
        track(root.left, x);
      }
    } else {
      if (root.right == null) {
        root.right = new RankedNode(x);
      } else {
        track(root.right, x);
      }
    }
  }

  public int getRankOfNumber(int x) {
    return getRankOfNumber(root, x, 0);
  }

  private static int getRankOfNumber(RankedNode root, int num, int rank) {
    if (root == null) {
      return 0;
    }
    if (root.data == num) {
      return rank + root.rankAsRoot;
    }
    if (root.data < num) {
      rank += root.rankAsRoot + 1;
      return getRankOfNumber(root.right, num, rank);
    }
    return getRankOfNumber(root.left, num, rank);
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    StreamRanker sr = new StreamRanker();
    sr.track(5);
    System.out.println(5 + " " + sr.getRankOfNumber(5));
    sr.track(1);
    sr.track(4);
    System.out.println(4 + " " + sr.getRankOfNumber(4));
    sr.track(4);
    System.out.println(4 + " " + sr.getRankOfNumber(4));
    sr.track(5);
    sr.track(9);
    sr.track(7);
    System.out.println(5 + " " + sr.getRankOfNumber(5));
    sr.track(13);
    System.out.println(13 + " " + sr.getRankOfNumber(13));
    sr.track(3);
    System.out.println(3 + " " + sr.getRankOfNumber(3));
  }
}

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Today, Mozilla has announced that it will launch a new browser dedicated to developers next week.
The company today only teased the launch, which is scheduled for November 10 — the same day Firefox celebrates its 10th anniversary.
Mozilla says, that the new browser is meant to allow developers to "debug the whole Web" without having to switch between tools.
Both Mozilla's WebIDE project and the Firefox Tools Adaptor for connecting the Firefox dev tools to other major browser engines will be part of this new browser. Otherwise, however, Mozilla remains mum on the details of what it is planning to announce next week.


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Q: Show that the series $\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{x\sin(n^2x)}{n^2}$ converges to a continuous function Show that the series $$\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{x\sin(n^2x)}{n^2}$$ converges pointwise to a continuous function on $\mathbb{R}$
Using the boundedness of $\sin(n^2 x)$ and the convergence of $\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{n^2}$, it was easy to show pointwise convergence.  Showing that the function is continuous is giving me a lot of trouble, however.

A: Well, first, note that you can write
$$
\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{x\sin(n^2x)}{n^2}=x\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{\sin(n^2x)}{n^2}.
$$
So, it is sufficient to show that the series on the RHS (without the $x$) converges to a continuous function.
Now, the functions $f_n(x):=\frac{\sin(n^2x)}{n^2}$ are continuous on $\mathbb{R}$; so, to show that the series is continuous, it is sufficient to show that convergence of the series is uniform on $\mathbb{R}$.  Can you see how to do that?


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Q: Prevent date overlap postgresql Is there a way to add a constraint to a postgresql table to prevent dates overlapping? For example, I have a table called workouts that has date columns week_start, week_end. I want to make sure that none of the week_start - week_end ranges overlaps with any existing ranges. HOWEVER, the end date of week_start can overlap with the start date of week_end.
Can someone help?
Thanks in advance!

A: You can do this with an exclusion constraint, using the overlap operator (&&) for the daterange type:
CREATE TABLE workouts (
  week_start DATE,
  week_end DATE,
  EXCLUDE USING gist (daterange(week_start, week_end) WITH &&)
)

A: You can add an EXCLUDE table constraint to your table definition and then work with ranges to detect overlaps. This would work really nice if you can change your table definition to turn columns week_start and week_end into a single range, say weeks.
CREATE TABLE workouts (
  ...
  weeks   intrange
  EXCLUDE USING gist (weeks WITH &&)
);


Abstract: Schools are changing in the information age to meet the challenge of preparing students for the workplace, citizenship and daily living. The process of learning from a variety of sources is an essential ability in the information age. Students need to learn to construct meaning from vast, disparate sources of information through an inquiry process approach to learning. The library is the inquiry center in the information age school. The library is the key to learning how to learn in information-rich technological environments. As they have in the past, librarians once again are taking the lead to foster new ways of thinking about school libraries by the entire school community. Librarians play a vital role in restructuring schools for the information age.
I am very pleased to be joining you at this IASL conference in beautiful New Zealand. I have been a member of IASL for many years, followed the activities in the newsletter, and published several articles in School LibrariesWorldwide, which I consider the premier research journal in the field, but this is the first conference I have attended. I was delighted when Penny Moore asked me to give a keynote presentation and am even more delighted to be here with you today.
My talk is about how schools are changing in the information age and the vital role that teacher-librarians have in that change. It is time for rethinking school libraries for restructuring the information age school.
Society is changing dramatically in the information age. Technology has brought about major changes in our everyday life experience. Around the world schools are striving to prepare students to meet these changes. However, in even the most technologically advanced countries, the efforts to prepare students for the information age have been only partially successful.
Let's think about some ways that technology changes schools. One of the profound ways that technology changes the learning environment is from a scarcity of resources to an abundance of resources. (McClintock, Columbia University). Resources that were developed to address a scarcity of resources have limited value today. The textbook with its selected, predigested information in a logical sequence was an ideal tool in time of limited resources. However the textbook is inadequate and out of date for preparing students for the information age. To prepare for the world outside of the school, students need to develop ability to learn from information as they will encounter it in real-life situations, information that is not predigested, carefully selected, or logically organized.
In a similar way the school library in pretechnology days of limited resources was a contained collection of carefully selected, organized materials. However, we have moved rapidly from dependence on a contained collection to direct access to a vast network of resources. The library as a collection is giving way to the teacher-librarian as an essential agent in the learning process, who provides access to a range of resources and collaborates with teachers in guiding students in using these resources for understanding and meaning.
The information age calls for rethinking the basic charges of education. Three charges of education in a free society are to prepare students for the workplace, citizenship and daily living. We need to rethink each of these for the information age school. To prepare for the workplace consideration must be given to the ways technology changes the nature of work and raises new questions about how we contribute and innovate productively in the global economy. To prepare for citizenship consideration must be given to the ways technology changes our sense of community and raises pressing questions about how we participate as an informed electorate in a democratic society. To prepare for daily living consideration must be given to the ways technology increases the complexity of everyday life and raises troubling questions about how we gain a sense of self in relation to others and experience creativity and joy in our personal lives.
Fundamental to meeting these three charges is developing students competence in finding meaning in vast array of sources of information. All three charges call for proficiency in information seeking and information use and competence in the research process, the process of inquiry. Inquiry underlies information literacy. Information literacy is the ability to use information meaningfully in all aspects of our lives. The challenge for the information age school is to educate children for living and learning in an information-rich technological world.
Basic literacy skills of reading, writing and calculating must be applied and adapted to information-rich environments and to new technologies. Memorizing simple right answers and reproducing texts are not enough to prepare students for the information literacy they will need to lead fulfilled, productive lives in the information society. Locating and interpreting information to construct a personal understanding is a basic literacy skill for the information age. These significant changes in the information age call for teachers and teacher-librarians who can guide students in the inquiry process – the process of learning from a variety of sources of information- and in learning how to construct meaning in technology-charged, information-rich environments.
Unfortunately, most school reform efforts have fallen far short of the goal of transforming schools for the information age. In fact school reform research has shown how difficult it is to change schools. For the most part reform initiatives have not taken full advantage of school libraries and have not seen the powerful potential of teacher-librarians in preparing students for the information age.
Learn in dynamic situations where information is constantly changing.
Manage information overload where determining what is enough information is as important as locating and selecting relevant information.
Find meaning in numerous and diverse messages that do not fit together neatly in a predigested, prepared text.
Construct a personal understanding from incompatible and inconsistent information.
Inquiry takes students out of the predigested format of the textbook and into the process of learning from a variety of sources to construct their own understandings. They learn to think through subject content apart from prescribed responses or preset solutions. They are guided through a process of intellectual construction that enables them to build on what they already know and come to a deeper understanding of the concepts and problems underlying the subject.
A constructivist approach to learning rather than transmission approach or skills approach is needed. Constructivist theory focuses on the process of thinking that builds understanding by engaging students in stimulating encounters with information and ideas. Students learn by constructing their own understandings of these experiences and by building on what they already know to form a personal perspective of the world. The process of construction is an active ongoing process of learning that continues throughout life.
Constructivist theory has been a particularly useful theoretical foundation for reforming schools. Over the past ten years constructivist theory has been developing as a fundamental theoretical foundation for restructuring the school library program to meet the challenges of the information age school. The framework for this theory incorporates some primary concepts drawn from educational research that are based on what we know about how children learn.
Unfortunately, many school library programs are more in line with a transmission approach to learning that emphasizes finding the right answer and reproducing information; or on skills approach that proposes a packet of skills that are rarely transferable to other situations of information seeking. Still others have not moved out of a narrow collection-providing role that does not address learning at all.
An Inquiry approach calls for guiding students in thinking and reflecting in the process of information seeking and use that leads to understanding, learning and to transferable information literacy.
Basic concepts from library and information science research offer insight into the process of information seeking that have important implications for students in the inquiry process.
People experience different stages in the process of information seeking. People have difficulty expressing what they need in the early stages of information seeking. People confronting complex tasks experience considerable uncertainty in the early stages of information seeking. Complex tasks lead to more innovative and value-added contribution to the work of the individual or organization (Taylor, Belkin, Bates, Vakkari, Kuhlthau and many others). My own research has centered on these concepts as described in my book Seeking Meaning (Kuhlthau, 93).
Teacher-librarians who have knowledge of the stages of the inquiry process and the use of sources and strategies for learning in each of the stages are prepared to make an essential contribution to providing inquiry based learning for the students in their schools. In a recent study the Library Power Initiative in schools in the United States, teacher- librarians' perceptions of learning were found to change in important ways over three years of involvement in the project. Library Power, funded by the Dewitt Wallace Readers' Digest Fund, provided 45 million dollars to improve libraries in 700 schools in 19 communities in the US. Each school was required to provide a full time teacher-librarian and professional development for the staff and administration. I was asked to conduct an impact study that looked at teacher-librarians' perceptions of student learning over three-year period of participation in Library Power. I developed a coding scheme to determine what the teacher-librarians emphasized when asked to describe incidents of learning that they had observed in their school libraries.
In each of the three years, 80% of the responses fell in the attitude, skills, and utilization levels. However there were important differences in what the librarians emphasized in each of the three years. The highest percentage of responses in Y1 were in attitude, in Y2 the highest percentage were in skills and in Y3 the highest percentage were in utilization for content learning. Through experience and professional development, many of the teacher-librarians had changed their emphasis to using resources for inquiry-based content learning.
Case studies of three schools offered a closer look at the situations underlying these changes. Although all three schools had similar input there were important differences in the professional development provided and in the prior reform efforts that lay foundation for Library Power.
School 1 – involved in a major reform effort that implemented inquiry-based learning through intensive onsite professional development.
School 2 – prior compatible reform efforts but not as concentrated on inquiry or as extensive professional development.
School 3 – prior reform efforts were scattered over a range of approaches and "good ideas".
School 1 – teachers and teacher-librarian were most advanced in understanding of inquiry-based learning and were providing numerous opportunities for students to learn through inquiry.
School 2 – teachers and teacher-librarian reached point of needing to know more about inquiry learning and requested professional development on research process.
School 3 – got off to a good start but had difficulty sustaining with major changes in personnel at school. The concept of learning through inquiry had not taken hold and they had difficulty identifying what went wrong and how to remedy.
The difference in the three case study schools related to an underlying philosophy of learning held by the personnel of the school. The concept of inquiry as a way to learn provided a rationale for using the library in the content areas of the curriculum.
Collaboration with teachers is essential – inquiry goes beyond providing resources and locating information. Collaboration in inquiry involves planning, teaching, and evaluating student learning across the curriculum. Providing an instructional team with the teacher as expert in the content and context and the teacher-librarian as expert in the resources and process.
These strategies prepare children from the youngest age to thoughtfully seek their own personal understandings.
The six C's for constructing a personal understanding in the process of information seeking are adapted from the writing process work of Emig and others.
A few years ago in a study of what constitutes effective implementation, I compared successful programs with those that were floundering and identified certain inhibitors and enablers. When the teacher-librarians were asked "What problems are you having?" there was a noticable difference in the responses of those with successful programs and those who were having difficulties. Teacher-librarians with successful inquiry programs responded with learning problems such as difficulty with getting their students to form a focus. Whereas, their less successful counterparts responded with logistical problems such as not enough time and support.
Successful programs required a mutually held constructivist view of learning as well as a team teaching approach that fosters collaboration between the teacher and teacher-librarian. In successful programs, the school library is recognized as the essential component in inquiry-based learning.
In closing, the challenge before us is none less than that of creating the Information Age School. Restructuring schools for the information age has not reached full potential in any country. It is time to put the expertise of teacher-librarians to work on the critical task of redesigning schools. Teacher- librarians play a vital role in creating inquiry learning that prepares student for work, citizenship and daily living in the information age. The challenge for every teacher-librarian is to take the lead to foster new ways of thinking about learning for the information age and the role of school libraries in the information age school. Today is none too soon to initiate an inquiry program for students in your school.


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I wrote for myself and a small group that read my blog. There was always hope that I'd eventually write and be read by more than just a few friends.
Tomorrow in the Sunday New York Times my book "If you love me: A Mother's Journey Through Her Daughter's Opioid Addiction" will be reviewed.
the opioid crisis rages on, grim stories of death and tragedy have become commonplace. (During the same four-year span between the development of Kaitlin's addiction and her arrest, opioid-related deaths tripled in the the U.S. They now rank higher than gunshot and automobile-related deaths. The problem is particularly grave in Massachusetts; in 2016, opioid deaths in the state rose by a steep 16 percent from 2015.) But the ripple effect on addicts' families gets lost in the headlines. For tens of thousands of parents, the opioid epidemic has impacted their lives in ways they could never imagine. As their children battle substance abuse disorders, many parents hand their own lives over to the rollercoaster of addiction. They throw their energy into finding treatment centers, attending court dates, agonizing over whether to support or cut off their children, and helping their children reintegrate into their normal lives during recovery. They take in and raise their grandchildren. And like Cavanagh, they're looking for a place to empathize with others who've been through similar experiences.


For today's post in the A-Z series, we're taking a step back from the guts of story and looking at something that gets in the way: crutch words.
I'm listing them under J for Just because "just" is one of my crutch words, AKA those words we authors get too comfortable with and overuse. They can be a problem because the reader notices them and that pulls them out of the story.
We don't want to pull readers out of the story. So identifying crutch words and removing them is super important.
Different authors have different crutch words, and if they're like me, old ones are eliminated only for new ones to take their place. As a new writer, I overused "moment". In an early draft of Drake and the Fliers, I had too many characters chuckling (a result of trying to eliminate my "laugh" crutch).
So how do you identify your crutch words? Two words: critique partners.
CPs are writers, and writers are aware of crutch words and are adept at finding them, even as we inadvertently develop new ones. My CPs found the chuckle crutch in Drake, and they always catch my "just" overuse. That one just (ha!) won't go away.
As I was searching for pics on this topic, I discovered something fun: a word cloud generator. I used it to create a cloud of some of my past crutch words.
I'm sure my CPs reading this will remind me of any I've forgotten. And since we're all in this together, consider this question and answer in the comments: What are/have been your crutch words?
Or for extra fun, click that word cloud link and create your own crutch word cloud! You can post it on your own blog or on another site like Twitter and share the link in the comments.
I've got a number of "crutch" words that I'll find when I read back over whatever I've written. I try to remove as many as makes sense and replace them with something more appropriate or I just leave them out entirely. I attempt not to repeat words in the same paragraph or even sentence if at all possible and it's almost always possible to do.
Good point – crutch words can often be cut altogether without being replaced. That's especially true for my "just" adverb. Thanks for reading and commenting!
Maybe I'll put together your list next time I'm screening a MS for you, the way I do for myself.
I literally put my list of overused words at the front of the document and when I'm finished writing, I do a search for each known crutch word, putting the number of occurrences next to each word on the list, and adding to the list as my CPs point out another crutch word.
And after taking out a lot – a LOT – of the crutch words through a very tedious operation of search and replace, we generate new ones. But after THAT, we are determined NEVER to use those words again.
The nice thing is, you can have a list of synonyms at the ready and with very little thought (because tedious task of crutch word removal = brain dead), get the crutch words out and probably not create a new overused word.
When I get a system that works and doesn't make me want to connect electrodes to my keyboard in such as to deliver an electric shock every time I start typing S-M-I-L… I'll let you know.
BTW, J is for Junk Food, as in: eat a lot of it because you're a writer and inspiration comes from it. Pretty sure that's true.
Also, I is for Internet, as in: where we go to learn about stuff because we don't leave the house.
I need one of those devices.
That's the invention that will make us rich. Dibs.
I've heard you can do a word search for a word and it will tell you how many times it appears in your document and highlight it as well. y good friend word. sigh.
I sigh, bob my head, laugh, grin, chortle (don't ask – it was one character and I swear I'll never do it again), moment, as though….
Once I know what my current crutches are, I do the search like you said. I'm usually amazed at how close together some are.
I know I know. The novel eventually denied.
It's just kind of funny that I just used the word "just" in my J entry title just now.
I did it deliberately because it was a J word, but it's interesting that you just wrote an article about the crutch word "just"! I added an honourable mention at the bottom with a link to this article. I just hope you don't mind.
I just simply lean on "just" and "simply".
It's just simply so easy to do that.
My characters do a lot of smiling and breathing!


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Linking big data to performance management and reward how is it done?
John McVeigh
23 Nov 2015 • by John McVeigh
To an alien, it could seem that these things are brand new concepts taking our world by storm. However that is not the case. For years, businesses, and in this context, human resources departments have been tasked with collecting, measuring and analysing data in order to track trends and anomalies relating to employee engagement, productivity and turnover; demonstrating the impact of each on the bottom-line.
The big buzz
So why is it now the subject of 'big data' seems to be front, right and centre of HR conversations? Parading itself as a new, game-changing approach; despite the idea behind big data first being described in the Oxford English Dictionary more than 70 years ago?
It comes down to a better understanding around the value technology can provide; combined with more reliable tools to help us analyse what's happening in our businesses. Traditionally data analysis has been very vertical and inward looking; exploring only at the information we held within our departmental silos. However thanks to significant advancements in technology, we are now able to connect horizontally – with our employees, customers and suppliers – to access information which allows us to effectively link what we see, hear, feel to what the data is showing us.
The ability to obtain really rich data about our people has meant we can now delve deeper than ever before; enabling leaders to take a far more strategic approach which can have a fundamental, and transformational, impact upon their organisation.
In short, we've been able to make our people processes not just an art, but also a science.
Human touch is dead: long live data?
When it comes to performance management, reward and recognition; data isn't, and mustn't be, the be all and end all. We can't look at a spreadsheet and take action based solely on the information in front of us. These elements will always require the human touch – honest and transparent conversations between managers and employees.
Instead, data must be used in a way which allows us to evolve our approaches and improve our conversations. As Steve Rockey, Head of People for restaurant brand, Big Easy, quite simply put it in his LinkedIn blog post: "You can't let the cart drive the horse."
His argument was clear – while data and analysis satisfies CEOs and Finance Directors; it shouldn't be used at the expense of really understanding what's happening to start with. Data is to performance management and reward what sound is to images in a film. They go hand in hand.
This is why, despite many larger companies removing the performance review, we can't just get rid of them. What we can do, however, is change the way we approach performance management, using data as a back-up, rather than the driving force.
In his Inc.com article, Dan Enthoven chief marketing officer for data intelligence provider, Enkata, says "As technology matures, [performance] reviews will evolve from drive-by evaluations and periodic check-ups to data-driven conversations about what's really happening, and what specific changes will make people more effective. When this happens, performance gaps will narrow as more people improve their skills and perform at their potential."
And in turn, productivity increases.
The same goes for reward. Access to real-time, reliable data enables us as leaders to not only identify great performance which warrants recognition; but allows us to watch and track the impact of that recognition and possible reward, on individuals' ongoing performance.
We can then measure the effect on areas such as loyalty, retention and engagement.
More than numbers
It's vital to remember that people are more than mere numbers. They are complicated and emotional, and so data shouldn't be used as a prescriptive strategy; creating a host of cloned managers and employees. A computer should never set the rules for people to adhere to. Instead it should enable us to think smarter, see our people as unique human beings and help us to tailor our approaches for different personalities.
As such businesses must find the perfect balance between data and real understanding. Moving away from the rigidity of big data and becoming more fluent in our understandings of what's happening around us.
Data is impersonal. In many ways it is the polar opposite of genuine recognition; which is personal, human and emotional.
By John McVeigh

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El príncipe imperial Andrés Aleksándrovich de Rusia (San Petersburgo, 24 de enero de 1897 - Faversham, 8 de mayo de 1981) fue un miembro de la Familia Imperial Rusa. Hijo del gran duque Alejandro Mijaílovich de Rusia y la gran duquesa Ksenia Aleksandrovna de Rusia, fue también el sobrino mayor del emperador Nicolás II de Rusia. Después de la Revolución Rusa, pasó mucho tiempo de su vida en el exilio en el Reino Unido y fue después promovido para reclamar el trono imperial.

Su vida en la Rusia Imperial

El príncipe Andrés Aleksándrovich nació en el Palacio de Invierno de San Petersburgo. Fue el segundo hijo y primer varón de los grandes duques Alejandro Mijaïlovich y Ksenia Aleksandrovna de Rusia. También nieto de Alejandro III a través de su madre, él no tenía derecho al título de Gran Duque de Rusia porque él sólo era bisnieto del zar Nicolás I por la línea patrilineal.
A pesar de sólo ser un príncipe de Rusia, él recibió una salutación de 21 tiros de salva (el cual solo estaba reservado para los grandes duques de Rusia, mientras que los príncipes de Rusia recibían 15) a instancias de su abuela la emperatriz-viuda María Fiodorovna.

En su juventud, antes de la I Guerra Mundial, el príncipe Andrés viajaba frecuentemente por Europa con sus padres. En Biarritz, Francia conoció a Eduardo VII del Reino Unido en el hotel del palacio. El príncipe Andrés se unió a las filas de la Marina de Rusia y sirvió bajo su padre el gran duque Alejandro Mijaílovich de Rusia. Luego llegó a ser teniente en la guardia montada, cuyo coronel en jefe fue su tío el emperador Nicolás II. Poco antes de la revolución fue el único miembro de su familia en acompañar a su tía, la emperatriz Alejandra, y sus cuatro primas a sus últimas visitas a las iglesias de Nóvgorod.

Revolución y Exilio

Durante la Revolución Rusa de 1917 el príncipe Andrés fue aprisionado junto a sus padres y su abuela la emperatriz-viuda en Dulber, un palacio en la villa de Koreiz en Crimea. Él escapó de la suerte que tuvieron sus primos, quienes fueron asesinados por los bolcheviques, cuando los soldados alemanes lo liberaron en 1918. En diciembre de 1918, abandonó Rusia con su padre a bordo de la nave HMS Marlborough, de la Marina Real Británica con el objetivo de asistir a la Conferencia de Paz de París.

Durante el exilio, vivió en Francia y en el Reino Unido. El príncipe Andrés fue también protector de la Orden de Malta, así también como miembro fundador de la Asociación de la Familia Románov.
En 1949, el príncipe se mudó a la Casa Provender, en Faversham, Kent que era propiedad de la familia de su segunda esposa.
Esa casa tuvo fama por ser un de pabellón de caza de Eduardo de Woodstock.

Sucesión Imperial

El príncipe Andrés fue promovido por algunas personas al considerarlo como el legítimo heredero al trono ruso, bajo la ley de sucesión británica al ser el pariente más cercano de su tío, el último emperador Nicolás II. De todos modos, en Rusia opera otra ley de sucesión.

Matrimonios e hijos

El príncipe Andrés casó con doña Elisaveta Ruffo (1886-1940) en Yalta, el 12 de junio de 1918. Ella era la hija de don Fabrizio Ruffo, duque de Sasso-Ruffo, y de la princesa Natalia Meshcherskaya, descendiente de los Stróganov. Tuvieron 3 hijos :

 Ksenia Andreyévna Románova (1919-2000)
 Miguel Andréyevich Románov (1920-2008)
 Andrés Andréyevich Románov (1923)

Después de que su esposa muriera a causa del cáncer durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, él se casó con Nadine Sylvia Ada McDougall (1908-2000) en Norton, Kent, el 21 de septiembre de 1942, matrimonio del que nació una hija :

 Olga Andreyévna Románova (1950)

Fallecimiento
El príncipe Andrés falleció en su casa en Faversham, el 8 de mayo de 1981 a los 84 años de edad. Fue sepultado en un cementerio local.

Títulos y Tratamientos

 Su Alteza Serenísima el Príncipe de Sangre Imperial, Andrés Aleksándrovich de Rusia.

Ancestros

Referencias

Romanov
Matrimonios morganáticos
Nacidos en San Petersburgo


This bridge may not be the most attractive bridge ever built, but it is a Depression-related structure, and is significant as a result. It also retains excellent historic integrity. The beams were painted fairly recently, suggesting that the county does not intend to replace this bridge any time soon. The bridge is two-span with a concrete pier and concrete abutments. Illinois steel stamps are visible on the bridge. MDOT mentions another bridge was built around the time of this bridge, the Comstock Road Bridge.
The Jeddo Road Bridge is eligible for the National Register as a well-documented example of Depression-era county bridge construction.
Plates on the southwest and northeast ends of the bridge list the members of the board of the St. Clair County Road Commission (John Watson, chair; F.W. Moore; F.W. Andreae), as well as the county engineer (Ken K. Goeltz) and the county bridge engineer (B.L. Parker). The plate identifies the bridge as "No. S-494-2-2.0," and indicates that the bridge was erected in 1939 by contractor Marshall Campbell of Port Huron, the county seat.
The bridge replaced "an old steel span having [a] 12-foot roadway, and about 5 tons carrying capacity," according to an article in Michigan Roads and Construction on the road commission's activities in 1939. The article also contained a photograph of the new bridge. An entry in the road commission's proceedings reports that Campbell was awarded the construction contract for $9,855 on 25 May 1939.
Plans and specifications for the structure were prepared "by our bridge engineer," Ben L. Parker. Parker was presumably also responsible for the design of a similar structure, the Comstock Road Bridge over Eves Drain, which was also built in 1939 but does not have as good integrity.


I am a born and bred Jozi girl! Johannesburg is the city that I have lived in my whole life and the city that I have fallen in love with.
Johannesburg is quite possibly one of the greatest examples of a multi-cultural, multilingual and mutli-racial societies in the world.
That's the smile which welcomes you in South Africa. Expect to find it everywhere, but we found it in Soweto, Johannesburg.


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The beginning of a rebellion? Virginia Tech swimmers say their final spot has been stolen
William "Leah" Thomas
Is this the beginning of rebellion?
Trans swimmer "Leah" Thomas became the NCAA champion in the women's 500 freestyle at the NCAA Swimming Championships this weekend.
William Thomas was a bad swimmer who never won a medal so he decided to play costume and introduce himself as a woman – and now he is a champion!
Female swimmers snap "Leah" Thomas on stage this weekend when she crushed the girls at the swimming pool.
The public was outraged by Leah Thomas' 'victory' and now it seems that a real revolt could be created among the female swimmers.
Virginia Tech swimmer Reka Giorgi says her final spot was stolen from her by transgender competitor William "Leah" Thomas because "the NCAA's decision is to allow someone who is not a biological woman to compete."
WOW: Virginia tech swimmer Reka Giorgi says Leah Thomas stole her final spot from her because " @NCAAThe decision to let someone who is not a biological woman compete. " pic.twitter.com/vrtEfqZ0LW
– Mary Margaret Olohan (aryMaryMargOlohan) March 20, 2022
Reka Georgie calls on NCAA to change its rules regarding transgender swimmers:
I am writing this letter at the moment in the hope that the NCAA will open their eyes and change these rules in the future. It doesn't promote our sport well and I think it's biologically disrespectful to women swimmers competing in the NCAA.
I know you can say that I got a chance to swim fast and get into the top 16, but this situation makes it a bit different and I can't help but be angry or sorry. It hurts me, my ears and the other women in the pool.
A place was snatched from the girl who got 9th out of 500 free and did not return to a final to prevent her from becoming an All-American. The transgender athletes who competed in each event were stripped of a place from the biological women throughout the meet.
I ask if NCAA takes the time to think about all the other biological women in swimming, try to think about how they would feel if they were in our shoes. Make the right changes for our sport and for a better future of swimming.
"I am writing this letter at the moment in the hope that the NCAA will open their eyes and change these rules in the future. It doesn't promote our sport well and I think it's biologically disrespectful to women swimmers competing in the NCAA. " pic.twitter.com/VfRweTJczL
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The Indian designers are gaining prominence with the rise of preferences of designer wear among the masses. Let us have a look at the franchising prospects in the growing designer wear industry.
The designer wear is one of the fastest changing industries in the world today. Designer wear has gained more acceptance in the Indian market in the recent years. Earlier its scope was limited to the rich and famous only but with the changing times, designer wear has found its acceptability in the escalating middle class also. Our society relies on fashion as a form of expression, which is why designer clothing is gaining so much of recognition nowadays.
The designer wear industry is expanding by leaps and bounds. Opening up of company owned stores all over the country and abroad is not possible as it requires massive investment and management. So keeping this in mind, designers are taking up franchising to expand their business. Franchising in designer wear business is proving fruitful as it is serving to increase the brand visibility along with the sales. Franchising offers designers with a cost effective and market friendly method to enter fresh territories. It also allows a company to expand the brand presence while retaining control over the business. As franchising opportunity helps to overcome the difficulties posed by the chain of company owned outlets thus, it is becoming more popular in geographically and culturally diverse locations like India. Likewise in the designer industry, franchising holds great opportunities and acceptance. Once a brand is built, the best way to reach out to the market is via franchising.
There has been an increasing awareness of designer wear among the middle class as they have become more brand conscious and are setting preferences for branded clothing. For this reason, fashion designers have realised that they not only have to cater to the elite clientele, but also to the masses belonging to the middle and upper middle class to be successful in India. For this they opted for clothing franchise option.
Brand conscious consumers: With the rise of designer labels, courtesy mass media and aggressive marketing campaigns initiated by many designer brands consumers are getting enthralled by the sheer spirit of such fashion houses.
Fashionable youth: Youth of today has become more fashion conscious and aware of the changing fashion trends. Additionally, there is a higher disposable income allowing the youth to drift from local market garments towards high street and designer brands.
Wearable fashion: Moreover, now the Indian consumers have realised that fashion is not limited only to fashion weeks and ramp shows, but it is something that can be incorporated into one's wardrobe.
Increase in designers: Till few years back designer wear was just for the elite class. The arrival of many designers with everyday wearable designs have made easier for the middle class to enjoy the designer wears also. Ritu Kumar, Ritu Beri, Rohit Bal, Rina Dhaka, Muzaffar Ali, Satya Paul, Abraham and Thakore, Tarun Tahiliani, JJ Valaya and Manish Malhotra are few of the well known fashion designers in India.
India's rich heritage: The strength of the Indian fashion industry rests on strong raw material availability. India is the third largest producer of cotton, the second largest producer of silk and the fifth largest producer of man-made fibres in the world. India also possesses large number of skilled human resources and has among the lowest labour costs in the world. All these factors have contributed to the development of the fashion industry.
To conclude, it can be aptly said that the designer wear industry in India is booming due to the rise of fashion conscious public. Thus, designer wear will constantly grow at this pace and soon will create a niche in clothing franchise and retail segment.
I have been involved with real estate as an individual for about one year. I am interested in associating with a franchisor. I have space in Gurgaon, Sector 23 A.
I am into fee based activities for last 10 years dealing in loans(auto,home,mortgages,business loan)lookng to enter real estate business and interested in associating with franchisor.Having space in karampura(new delhi), with all infrastructure(fax,computer,furniture etc.).
I am looking for real estate partner in chennai.
I am looking real state franchise in Asaam .
As in 2014, it is a reality that an Indian real estate market is at its peaks! Accountable reasons may vary from many important factors – including flourishing economy, an advent of FDI in Indian markets, national budget being introduced with favorable taxations and the hope of Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) to approach the market.Consequently, the real estate market is seeing much productive market to come! A huge development is clearly evident owing to industrialization, suburbanization and migrators approaching metro cities for betterment of lives – best time to invest in property market towards getting thriving benefits!
i am looking for real estate franchises in navsari,gujtat..


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Q: Check that gitlab branch has changes before running jobs In order to stop the current default Gitlab behaviour of starting pipelines on branch creation I am trying to add a check in each job so that only merge requests trigger jobs when they have changes.
This is what I got so far:
  rules:
    - if: '[$CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == "merge_request_event"] && [! git diff-index --quiet HEAD --]'

I am not quite familiar with bash which is surely the problem because I am currently encountering a 'yaml invalid' error :d
PS: Is there maybe a better way to do this instead of adding the check to each task?

A: i don't know if it can be useful, but Gitlab-ci provide the only job keyword that you can combine with changes and insert a path to files, in this way you can execute jobs only if there are changes on the code you are interested on.
Example
docker build:
  script: docker build -t my-image:$CI_COMMIT_REF_SLUG .
  only:
    refs:
      - branches
    changes:
      - Dockerfile
      - docker/scripts/*
      - dockerfiles/**/*
      - more_scripts/*.{rb,py,sh}
      - "**/*.json"

DOC: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#onlychanges--exceptchanges

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I am not quite familiar with bash which is surely the problem because
I am currently encountering a 'yaml invalid' error :d

The issue seems to be with
[! git diff-index --quiet HEAD --]

You can not use bash syntax in Gitlab rules but to script section you can, as the name implies

In order to stop the current default Gitlab behaviour of starting
pipelines on branch creation

If this is your goal I would recommend the following rules
workflow:
  rules:
    - if: $CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == "merge_request_event"
    - if: $CI_COMMIT_BEFORE_SHA == "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000"
      when: never
    - if: $CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == "push"

Let's break down the aforementioned rules
The following rule will be true for merge requests
if: $CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == "merge_request_event"

The predefined variable CI_COMMIT_BEFORE_SHA will be populated with this value 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000, when you create a new pipeline or a merge request
Therefore, the following rule will stop the execution of a new pipeline and of a merge request.
- if: $CI_COMMIT_BEFORE_SHA == "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000"
  when: never

BUT the merge requests are accepted from the previous rule, taking into account how gitlab evaluates them.
Quoting from https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/jobs/job_control.html#specify-when-jobs-run-with-rules
Rules are evaluated in order until the first match. When a match is
found, the job is either included or excluded from the pipeline

Finally, the following rule will be true for a new pushed commit
- if: $CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == "push"

PS: Is there maybe a better way to do this instead of adding the check
to each task?

The aforementioned rules dont have to be added for each job, but instead are configured once for each pipeline take a look
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/workflow.html
Basicaly, add the workflow rules statement at the start of your gitlab.yml and you are good to go


Recently DC revealed the latest costume for Batman, via Comicbookresources. Despite not being a huge fan of either DC Comics or the character, I really like it. The current iteration of Batman is caped, and while it sticks with tradition, these days it doesn't quite make sense.
The character was originally created in the 1940's with a design intended to strike fear into the hearts of criminals, with his cape being evocative of a bat's wings.
In movies the most recent version of the character continues that tradition, and that's the problem. When Zach Snyder–director of Man of Steel as well as the upcoming Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice rebooted Superman he removed his shorts (so to speak), which were originally inspired by circus strongmen.
Which was a pretty bold move, and d probably pissed off more than a few purists.
Though the character, visually speaking, was the better for it.
Isn't it time we did the same for the movie Batman, who's cape seems to exist more for theatrical purposes than anything else (though there were instances in both Tim Burton's and Christopher Nolan's movies when they acted as wings–and during Joel Schumacher's run it was used as a heat shield of sorts, though the less we talk about about that, the better–though for the most part it was exclusively ornamental.
In the context the character originally existed in, it made sense, though now it not only doesn't impart fear, but it the comics and the movies were remotely realistic there would be characters dragging him by it, and either tossing him around the room, or pummeling him senseless after having done so.
So, while the new look Batman may be a bit controversial, it's something that film makers need to start copying (it's worth mentioning that the future variant of Batman–from Batman Beyond, also lacked the cape).
Posted in DC Comics, Movies, My Two Cents, superheroes, upcoming.Tagged Batman, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Christopher Nolan, Joel Schumacher, Superman, Tim Burton, Zach Snyder.


Residing, working and renting out: It is all possible at Kaminda Lagun 50B. This multi-functional property has its main house at first floor with two covered terraces. At second floor, accessible using the outdoor stairs, one can currently find two office/educational spaces however with minor adjustments the second floor can be converted into two studio apartments. From the (semi) covered terrace, wide views open up over the hills in this part of rural Bonaire and even the Caribbean Sea is visible at the horizon. In the colorful garden, there is a built-up pool on concrete fundation and there is ample parking space within the garden.
Lot is fenced and has a walk-in and drive-in gate.
Main house at first floor: entrance using the covered terraces into living room with open concept kitchen. Hall with access to two bedrooms and a bathroom in the middle.
Living/Business area at second floor: entrance using outdoor stairs to (un)covered terraces all-around, into very spacious (living/bed)room with kitchnette and bathroom. Second (living/bed)room with bathroom.
separate electricity and water meters for ground floor and second floor.
Possibility to take over the homework institue. Please contact us in case you wish to receive further information.


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After Sharad Pawar's "Zamindar" Dig At Congress, Party Leader's Response
HomeIndia NewsAfter Sharad Pawar's "Zamindar" Dig At Congress, Party Leader's Response
This Article is From Sep 11, 2021
Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole made a veiled reference to Sharad Pawar's exit from Congress over two decades ago, and said the leaders who were entrusted with power by the Congress eventually betrayed it.
India NewsPress Trust of IndiaUpdated: September 11, 2021 6:48 am IST
Nana Patole said Congress gave its land to several leaders for upkeep but they stole it (File)
NCP chief Sharad Pawar's comment suggesting that Congress's situation was now like impoverished landlords who have no land and can not maintain their houses evoked a sharp reaction from Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole on Friday.
Speaking to reporters, Mr Patole also made a veiled reference to Mr Pawar's exit from the Congress over two decades ago.
"The leaders who were entrusted with power by the Congress eventually betrayed it," the state Congress chief said.
"Congress was never a party of zamindars...Congress gave its land to several leaders for upkeep but they stole it over the years," Mr Patole added.
There will be a Congress prime minister in the country in 2024, he said.
Speaking to Marathi news portal Mumbai Tak on Thursday, Mr Pawar had said that there was a time when Congress had presence from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. But the party should now accept that it was no longer the case, he had said.
"When it comes to leadership, my colleagues in the Congress are not in a mind to take a different point of view," Mr Pawar had added.
He also recounted that in the past he had spoken of Uttar Pradesh zamindars who lost land and were left with only their havelis (mansions) which they could not maintain or repair, suggesting that the Congress's situation was like that.
Elsewhere, commenting on Mr Pawar's statements, BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis told reporters that he had "shown mirror to the Congress".
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Q: Create a dataframe column from a lookup matrix I have the following df:

idx
value

0
1

1
2

2
3

I want to create a new column based on a looking up the value for a given row in conjunction with a constant value in the following matrix:

x
1
2
3

1
1
0.3
0.4

2
0.3
1
0.2

3
0.4
0.2
1

So if constant == 1 then the resulting dataframe would look like:

idx
value
lookup

0
1
1

1
2
0.3

2
3
0.4

Existing answers I've seen reference:

*

*pandas.lookup which is deprecated

*numpy.select or numpy.where which aren't really scalable if the lookup matrix gets large

I think there might be a solution around pandas.merge but I'm struggling to get my head around it. Would anyone have any suggestions?
I should probably mention that speed is really important so a vectorised solution would be preferable.
To replicate:
df = pd.DataFrame({"value": [1, 2, 3]})
df_lookup = pd.DataFrame(
    index=[1, 2, 3],
    data={1: [1, 0.3, 0.4], 2: [0.3, 1, 0.2], 3: [0.4, 0.2, 0.1]}
)

A: IIUC, you can directly map the row to value column
constant = 1
df['lookup'] = df['value'].map(df_lookup.loc[constant, :])

print(df)

   value  lookup
0      1     1.0
1      2     0.3
2      3     0.4

A: If you want to make your life easy and the value column in df is non-repeating, then you could set it as the index and simply use loc.
constant = 1
df['mapped'] = df_lookup.loc[df.index, constant]

Which gives me :
   value  lookup
1      1     1.0
2      2     0.3
3      3     0.4

However, if it is repeating, this would not work. Then you could use .merge such as :
constant = 1
df = df.merge(df_lookup[constant], left_on='value', right_index=True)


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Jodie Turner-Smith walks the catwalk at the Gucci Love Parade show at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Nov. 2, 2021.
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Oil sands environmental health risks underestimated: study
University of Toronto researchers say the oil sands needs to improve its accounting of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) emissions.
February 4, 2014 by The Canadian Press
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EDMONTON – A new study suggests the environmental health risks of oil sands operations in Alberta's Athabasca region have probably been underestimated.
Researchers say emissions of potentially hazardous air pollution that were used in environmental reviews done before approving some projects did not include evaporation from tailings ponds or other sources, such as dust from mining sites.
The study, by the University of Toronto's environmental chemistry research group, looked at reported levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) – chemicals which can be released into the air, water and soil when bitumen-rich oil sands are mined and processed.
"Our study shows that emissions of PAH estimated in environmental impact assessments conducted to approve developments in the Athabasca oil sands region are likely too low," reads the study published Monday in the US journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"The potential therefore exists that estimation of future risk to humans and wildlife because of surface mining in the Athabasca oil sands region has been underestimated."
Professor Frank Wania, one of the study's authors, said the results highlight the need for improved accounting of PAH emissions from oil sands operations, especially when more projects are being built or planned in the region.
Using computer models, researchers studied emissions estimates from environmental reports to predict chemical concentrations from direct oil sands industrial activity such as mining, processing and vehicle traffic.
They found the levels were lower than actually measured levels of chemicals in the air recorded in other scientific studies.
Researchers then modified the computer model to factor in estimates of evaporation from oil sands tailing ponds. Predicted concentrations were then much closer to the recorded levels.
They used a third model using concentrations of PAH levels measured by Environment Canada in the region between November 2010 and February 2011.
The results suggest emissions may be two to three times higher than the estimates recorded in project environmental reviews.
Wania said some chemicals pose a potential cancer risk, but nothing imminent.
The concentrations that have been measured in the air in the oil sands region are comparable to a big city such as Toronto.
"It is not that I am raising the red flag here, that we should be very concerned, because we live with these concentrations day in and day out," he said. "All we are saying is that the basis for the human health risk assessment is flawed."
Environment Canada officials were not immediately available for comment.
Simon Dyer of the Pembina Institute, an environmental policy think-tank, said the study raises questions about tailings ponds and oil sands monitoring.
He said industry has never demonstrated that it is able to effectively deal with tailings waste and the government is not enforcing existing cleanup rules.
"This study provides further evidence that rules need to be enforced and the growth of tailings waste halted," he wrote in an email.
Dyer said governments and regulators need to take the study's findings into account when determining if it is appropriate to approve new projects.
He also said oil sands monitoring needs to be expanded.
The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers said scientific monitoring, transparency and reporting processes are crucial to understanding industrial impacts and balancing the need for environmental protection, economic growth and secure reliable energy supplies.
Geraldine Anderson, an association spokeswoman, noted the federal and Alberta governments are working together to improve oilsands monitoring.
"This U of T study takes existing data and uses computer modeling to make suggestions," Anderson wrote in an email. "As the study notes, there are major efforts under way through JOSM (joint oil sands monitoring) to develop improved models, a better understanding of pathways, and a better understanding of the limits of existing data.
"Science-based research is in everybody's best interest because it helps achieve the goal of long-term, responsible resource development."
Wania said the team's research was funded by the university. He said Environment Canada is now providing money for more research to follow up on the findings.
A report published last year in the same journal found that oil sands development is polluting surrounding lakes in northern Alberta.
The federally funded research by some of Canada's top scientists found levels of toxic hydrocarbons in six lakes between 2 1/2 and 23 times what they were before the mines were built.
The paper said while overall toxin levels remain low, trends aren't good and some lakes are already approaching warning levels.
It said the timing of the contamination and its chemical makeup point to industrial sources.
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We at HomePlate hear a lot of really great and complex questions—and if you get involved you might hear these questions too. So here are a few (short) answers on some very big questions.
Oh, are there homeless youth in Washington County?
Yes, homelessness in Washington County looks very different than it does in downtown Portland. The homeless situations they are in span the spectrum: At one end there are youth who are homeless and are sleeping outside and at the other end there are youth who may still be with their family, but homeless with their family and moving around but the largest portion of the youth we serve are what we call "couch-surfing" which means they can stay with a friend for a week and when they out stay their welcome they move on to another friend's couch, maybe they can go home for a week but it is a very unstable moving around all the time not sure where they will sleep or how long they can stay. We served 452 last year and many more are not accessing our services or other programs. According to a statewide research study it is estimated that 1 in every 12 youth actually accesses services, with this estimation there are 24,000 homeless youth in Oregon - and Washington County has the second highest population of homeless youth in the state (Beaverton School District has the highest rate of all school districts in the state).
We serve youth ages 12 to 24. Many youth are still connected with their parents and/or families. For many of them "home" has not been a healthy or supportive place and they are trying to find other support systems. Oftentimes the parents of the youth are in unstable situations themselves and can no longer financially support their children after they turn 18.
Where do the youth go the other nights?
HomePlate is only a drop-in program on Monday & Thursday nights from 6-8pm, they cannot sleep here. The other nights of the week the youth are staying with friends or hanging out at transit centers and just looking for something to do.
There are a myriad of reasons that contribute to youth experiencing instability. From our experience we see that it usually comes from family homelessness or instability, no income and loss of employment, alcohol or drug abuse, or a situation that is not acceptable to the parents such as coming out as gay or lesbian or becoming pregnant.
Do youth "choose" to be homeless?
Youth have a vast array of experiences many of which involve trauma and abuse in numerous forms. Youth who leave a house and stay on the streets or with friends are often escaping a dangerous situation and making this choice for survival purposes. Whether it's emotional, physical or other forms of abuse, youth at HomePlate are resilient and we welcome and applaud them for reaching out to the community at HomePlate.
Are all youth who come homeless?
No, although our target population is youth in homeless situations, any youth who is hungry (for food, companionship or support) is welcome.
How many youth come to HomePlate?
Since opening in 2005 we've seen anywhere from 15-70 youth come per night—youth and average about 25 per night. Lately we've seen higher numbers at our new Beaverton location.
Do you see the same youth come back every week?
Yes, since the main way we are able to help so many youth take the next step is by building trusting relationships with them. This takes time. The majority of youth we see come back on a consistent basis. We have heard them say "HomePlate is my family." That said, almost every week we meet new youth.
What resources are available to youth?
Unfortunately there are many gaps in services in Washington County, however, some strong resource partners we work with are Boys and Girls Aid for shelter and transitional living, Community Action for family shelter and rent assistance. The Washington County Essential Health Clinic offers low-income residents free health care. We work closely with GED programs such as Miller Ed and for employment we look to the Work Source Center to aid in the job readiness and placement process. We also partner closely with the School District Homeless Liaisons, a federally mandated and funded position in each school.
Where are the youth from?
95% of the youth we serve are from Washington County. While services exist in downtown Portland it is important for us to serve the youth in their own community. For many youth going to downtown Portland has been an unhealthy and unsafe environment.


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Q: Vue JS - How to hide previous dropdown content I am creating a Dropdown the problem is that I cannot hide the dropdown content when clicking on another Dropdown
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{{ i.text }}

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</template>

Once again, when you click on the text, a drop-down menu opens, but when you click on another text, the old menu does not torture, I need the old menu to torture

A: It's a matter of hiding all other dropdowns in the same showContent() method. You can pass the current index instead of i into it, so that you have access to the index for comparison:

Then in your showContent method:
showContent(currentIndex) {
  this.contentInfo.forEach((entry, index) => {
    // Toggle current dropdown
    if (index === currentIndex) {
      entry.show = !entry.show;
    } else {
      // Hide all other dropdowns
      entry.show = false;
    }
  });
}

If you want to make it concise, it is a simple one-liner:
showContent(currentIndex) {
    this.contentInfo.forEach((entry, index) => entry.show = (index === currentIndex ? !entry.show : false));
}


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package com.github.zabbixjavaclient;

import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;

import org.slf4j.bridge.SLF4JBridgeHandler;
import org.testng.annotations.AfterClass;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass;

@Slf4j
public class StandardTestZabbixApi {

	protected ZabbixApi zapi;

	@BeforeClass
	public void setUp() {
		SLF4JBridgeHandler.install();
		Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger("");
		LOGGER.setLevel(Level.ALL);
		Logger logger2 = Logger.getLogger("sun.net.www");
		logger2.setLevel(Level.ALL);
		zapi = ZabbixApiFactory.getZabbixApi("http://localhost:8080/zabbix", "admin", "zabbix");
	}

	@AfterClass
	public void cleanUp() {
		zapi.logout();
	}

}


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Source Includes data from the 1880 Census Population Schedules, Town of San Antonio, ED 14, Bexar County, Texas, Series: T9, Roll: 1291, p. 127 (stamped), p. 20 (handwritten), entry 175.
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Consumers in the United States will soon have another incentive to buy an Xbox One. The Forza Motorsport 5 Xbox One Bundle will soon be available, and will essentially offer the new console with a pack-in game for the regular $499 price.
Similar to the offer that Microsoft recently announced for the Titanfall Bundle, this seems to be Microsoft's new strategy in selling the console.
Now for those that already plunked down their $500 on an Xbox One, and didn't get a free game, it's a bit of a slap in the face. Either the Titanfall or Forza 5 bundle would offer a considerable discount, assuming you were going to buy either game anyway.
While early adopters might be angered by these early discounts for the more patient consumers, Microsoft does have a chance to make it right. Perhaps we'll see Forza 5 as the first Games with Gold title for Xbox One? We'll have to wait and see.


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Location, Season 6, Jacques Cousteau vs Steve Irwin,
RV Calypso
Jacques Cousteau on the RV Calypso
Appeared in Jacques Cousteau vs Steve Irwin
Character(s) Jacques Cousteau
Release date August 18, 2019
The RV Calypso is where Jacques Cousteau and briefly Steve Irwin rapped in Jacques Cousteau vs Steve Irwin.
The RV Calypso is a former British Royal Navy minesweeper converted into a research vessel for the oceanographic researcher Jacques-Yves Cousteau, equipped with a mobile laboratory for underwater field research. It was severely damaged in 1996, and was planned to undergo a complete refurbishment in 2009–2011. The ship is named after the Greek mythological figure Calypso.
This is the location where Jacques Cousteau rapped. Steve Irwin also briefly rapped here in his first verse. At the beginning of Cousteau's first verse and the end of his second, the SP-350 Denise, his submarine, appeared briefly in the sea.
This is the twentieth location to be shared by all rappers during the battle.
The SP-350 Denise on the sea
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Jacques Cousteau vs Steve Irwin


Thursday evening, I went to the Preview opening for the NY Art Book Fair currently being held at MoMA PS1. The fair sponsored by Printed Matter Inc. is in its sixth year and features more then 200 exhibitors. Many various publishers are present as well as artists, contemporary art magazines and distributors alike. I made my first two purchases before even exiting the large white tent installed in the pebble filled courtyard of the museum.
I met J.Morrison last year after he curated a group exhibition at Splatterpool which I then wrote about. The exhibit titled My Spring Fling featured various artists including J who is an artist, curator and performer. I happened upon him sitting in a crowded room and couldn't help but notice he was covered in gold glitter dust. This immediately caught my attention and then I couldn't help but look at his product and glad I did! His art books are lovely. They are made with various papers and have screen printed drawings on each page. Flipping through, Hairy Amputee was my immediate favorite and I realized that even if a small contribution, the book had to be mine.
Sitting only two short tables away from J is artist Scott Hug. The last time I wrote about Scott here was when he curated the exhibition Take Out at Andrew Edlin Gallery this past July. He has currently embarked on an artist book project called T I D E (edit spelled backwards) The series consists of original collage from National Geographic magazine. Sans text, he specifically seeks out images that can be combined, abstractly forming compositional relationships. Each book is sealed in a plastic envelope and marked with the artists name and the number from the series.
My two small artist books in hand, I ventured into the museum and to the second and third floors consecutively. I spotted Greg Miller of Gregory Miller & Co. contemporary art publishers who released Lyle Ashton Harris' most recent monograph Excessive Exposure, featuring large-scale Polaroids of the artist's friends and acquaintances currently on-view at the Studio Museum Harlem. Passing their table after saying hello, I arrived at Electronic Arts Intermix and spotting a DVD of Whisper Pines Vol. 1 by Shana Moulton, I knew my night was complete. I saw Shana's work for the first time at Moving Image and then as part of Art21's artist talks via Cabinet Magazine, who are represented at the fair.
While on the 3rd floor I ran into art critic power couple Jerry Saltz and Roberta Smith and on the way downstairs I bumped into Paul Mpagi Sepuya who recently completed a residency at the Studio Museum Harlem. Finally in the museum lobby I introduced myself to AA Bronson who was director of Printed Matter Inc. from 2004-2010 as well founder of the NY Art Book Fair and then passed by MoMA PS1 director Klauss Biesenbach along with artist Terence Koh.
The NY Art Book Fair is on view only until Sunday October 2nd, 2011, 11Am-7PM. Take the time to head over to this great event to check out the scene and/or support artists and their publishers while they are all in one venue!


In Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte opened a new road for the English novel by making the heroine plain and penniless and by striking off the shackles of literary and moral convention relating to women's capacity for passionate experience. Though the book shocked some early readers, its union of the dramatic and commonplace, its deeply felt indignation, and its forceful presentation of reality tempered by imagination quickly established it among the masterpieces of fiction. As a social document it is outstanding among the purposive novels of the 1840's; as a sustained achievement in the art of storytelling it is timeless.


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If you're not physically able to bring it in, or you're just unsure of how to unplug your computer, we can help.
For a small pick up fee of $25, we'll come to your home or office and pick-up your PC or Mac and bring it back to our shop for the needed repairs. Includes the time to unplug it, pack it up and bring it back to our location.
If you'd like us to do an onsite diagnostics or configurations to see if we can fix it onsite, you will be charged at $99 per hour with a 1 hour minimum.
Not sure how to plug it back in?
Some customers aren't sure how to plug in all the cords for their computers when they get them back home.
For a small delivery fee of $25, we'll bring back your PC or Mac to your home or office and plug it in for you. Includes 10 minutes to plug it in and boot it up.
Extra setups and configurations like: Networking issues, printer setup, and email configuration, will be charged at $99 per hour with a 30 minute minimum.