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Christoffer Lisson (born 28 November 1995) is a Danish cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team .

Major results

2013
 1st  Overall GP Général Patton
 2nd Overall Tour du Pays de Vaud
 3rd Overall Aubel–Thimister–La Gleize
2017
 2nd Chrono des Nations U23
 6th Memorial Philippe Van Coningsloo
 9th Kalmar Grand Prix
2018
 3rd Skive–Løbet
 National Road Championships
8th Road race
9th Time trial
 8th Overall Paris–Arras Tour
 8th Ringerike GP
2019
 3rd Skive–Løbet
 National Road Championships
5th Road race
8th Time trial
 5th Duo Normand
 5th Chrono Champenois
 9th Overall Tour of Denmark
 9th Kalmar Grand Prix

References

External links

1995 births
Living people
Danish male cyclists
People from Kalundborg
Sportspeople from Region Zealand

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Bobby Lea
Published at 6:19 pm on July 19, 2016
Sport: Cycling Track
First Olympics: 2016, Rio
Bobby Lea heads to Rio looking for his first medal in his third Olympic appearance.
Lea entered his first competitive cycling race when he was four years old and won his first national title at age 13. Since then, he has accumulated more than 40 national wins.
A Maryland native and a graduate of Gunston Day School in Centreville, Maryland, Lea earned an automatic bid to the 2016 Olympics with his third place finish at the 2015 world championships.
Hailing from a cycling family, Lea's parents have been cycling for more than three decades and his brother Syd is a five-time Special Olympics gold medalist. He will compete in the track cycling event.
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7-minute feature on Morning Express (晨光第一线), a documentary and current affairs programme produced by Mediacorp Channel 8
Composting demonstration 'live' on television
Composting In Singapore (CIS) is an environmental social network founded and operated by Kainosis Sustainability Development Consultancy (Kainosis) since 2009. Established in the nascent stage of social media, CIS grew swiftly, contributing novel composting ideas to the community.
Focused on delivering user-centric and practical solutions for composting, CIS successfully carved itself a niche space in the sustainability arena. Dedicated content on turning wastes into fertiliser along with clear, relatable communications established CIS as an authoritative source on DIY (do-it-yourself) waste management. It is also one of few organisations in Singapore that has documented composting in tropical environments.
Within a short span of two years, CIS workshops and online content established Kainosis as a thought leader within the sustainability industry. Kainosis has worked with various organisations (ranging from government-linked entities to non-profits) on agriculture, food waste management, energy efficiency, and sustainable research-management.
CIS Portfolio And Experiences:
Pioneer in documenting first-hand composting experience in high-rise apartment setting.
Top SEO (search engine optimisation) composting blog within 3 months of inception.
Conducted workshops and lively, educational booths for a wide range of demographic and communities.
People's Association
Schools (including preschools and special needs)
Corporates and MNCs (including UBS AG, Johnson and Johnson)
Invited speaker for various events
7-minute feature on Morning Express (晨光第一线), a documentary and current affairs programme produced by Mediacorp Channel 8.
'Live' broadcast on Hello Singapore (狮城有约), a Mediacorp Channel 8 programme that combines news, current affairs and live discussions with invited experts and guests.
Designed and conducted feasibility study of starting a composting programme in Cambodia for Singapore International Foundation.
Designed, handbuilt, operated and maintained a backyard aquaponics farm for 1.5 years.
Agriculture consultant for SG Enable.
1 of 3 consultants appointed by the Ministry of National Development (MND) to manage the Land and Liveability National Innovation Challenge (L2NIC) and Sustainable Urban Living (SUL) research grants.
Identified and documented replicable energy efficiency solutions in the United World College of South East Asia (UWCSEA), a multi award-winning EE campus.
Conducted a detailed investment assessment of ORIGIN Holding's intent to expand into high-tech agriculture. Procured a lease agreement for 3Ha of agriculture-zoned land in Singapore and successfully negotiated for technology transfers, licensing, and key advisory functions for the agriculture value chain.
Performed early-stage business consulting, communications and marketing for startups—Terracycle Singapore and BoP Hub.
"There is no such thing as 'away'. When we throw anything away it must go somewhere."
Annie Leonard
Proponent of Sustainability


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Compassion is Key When Talking to Aging Parents
Being a caregiver is one of the most difficult (and rewarding) jobs on the planet; but sometimes when it comes to strong-willed aging parents, getting them to admit they might need a caregiver is more difficult than the caregiving itself. Take the story of David Solie, published recently in the Los Angeles Times; "David Solie thought he was being a good son and a competent manager. But his strong-willed mother was having none of it."
According to the article, Mr. Solie (who "had cared for hundreds of elderly patients as a physician's assistant" ) and his mother did not speak for almost three years after he tried to convince her that she "should move someplace easier to navigate — an assisted living complex, perhaps." Mr. Solie also expressed that his mother "should relinquish her role as chief caregiver to Roger [Solie's brother], who could be placed in a group home."
These kinds of suggestions are often very difficult for independent and strong-minded seniors to hear, and with good reason; after having taken care of themselves, their children, and in some cases taken care of their own parents as well, in their time—it's not easy to have someone come along and say they can't do it anymore.
The key, says Mr. Solie, is to recognize and respect a parent's psychological needs as well as their physical limitations. Once they were on speaking terms again, Mr. Solie started "asking his mom questions about her life and listening intently to her stories. Acknowledging to his mother that there were no longer easy ways to reconcile her safety and her desire to stay put, he asked what would work for her. Then mother and son struck compromises that built a network of support around her and Roger in their home."
The process of transitioning elderly parents from independent lifestyles they may not be able to handle anymore will be made much easier if you begin the process by asking and listening, instead of simply telling. If the ultimate goal is to increase ease and avoid frustration, shouldn't that be the goal of each conversation along the way as well?
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It came out this week that March marked a 17-year low in migrant arrests at the border: 17,000 people were arrested.
Mexico is curtailing migration at their southern border reducing the flow of Central Americans to the U.S. southern border.
I could continue, but I think these illustrate why some would argue this news is purely, 100 percent good news.
But last week I sat across a Tijuana dinner table and looked into the eyes of three of those 17,000 people who were arrested trying to cross the border in March. One of them was a father named Ricardo with children the same age as mine. Before his deportation, he lived in Salinas, Calif., my home town, and worked two jobs — one in the fields and another as a mechanic. We talked about our favorite restaurants.
He was desperate to reunite with his family, hold his children, and provide for their future. As a poor man without "high-skilled" expertise, there is no legal pathway for him to pursue citizenship. He will try to cross again. He'll likely get arrested or detained or imprisoned or deported or die in the desert on the journey north.
Do my national values conflict with my kingdom values?
The day after meeting Ricardo, I met with a family from Guatemala that has been fleeing gang violence for five years. Their husband and father had been executed and his three kids had a $50,000 bounty on their lives. I actually met them two months ago when they first made it to the U.S. border seeking asylum only to be rejected and sent away. Their 30-day Mexican visas have now expired, meaning they'll likely be deported back into Guatemala toward their potential execution if not allowed into the United States.
With the reduced movement across the border, am I celebrating what I perceive is best for my country or what is best for my human family? Do my national values conflict with my kingdom values?
Are the migrants fleeing violence in Central America staying in their home country because things are improving for them or because they know they won't make it into Mexico or the United States? If it is the latter, how many people will die who could have survived if we offered assistance?
How can we not just turn people away at our borders, but offer support to local communities in Central America as a way to improve their infrastructure and reduce forced migration?
How many children will grow up without a father or mother (like Ricardo) in their lives because they couldn't be reunited? What are ways we can reform our laws and systems to create more legal pathways toward citizenship that reflect our "family values"?
One of the recent strategies used reduce illegal migration is to intentionally separate children from their parents after being detained and arrested in the U.S. Do the means morally justify the ends?
What is one way I can both understand the perspective of those celebrating these statistics and continue to accompany and stand with and for my migrant sisters and brothers experiencing so much pain?
Will you join me in asking these questions and consider ways we can best reflect the heart and life of Jesus amid these complexities?


I was actually looking for the space between thumbs, and for some reason the <div> is "dbx-content"
This makes the main gallery look good, but in the widget I'm using larger thumbnails. So, with this CSS in place the widget thumbs overlap the titles.
Any ideas on how to play with thumbnail alignment so it only affects the intended gallery? As it stands either the widget looks good, OR, the main gallery looks good..
Basically, it would be nice if we could have container size added to the shortcode options.
I'm working local (site isn't live) so I don't currently have a link to share.
The sidebar for the TubePress Gadget is within a <div> with class "tubepress_sidebar".
to "force" the widget to follow a different set of rules than the rest of the galleries.


Samuel Finley Breese Morse (Aprile 27, 1791 – Aprile 2, 1872) wis an American penter an inventor. Efter havin established his reputation as a portrait penter, in his middle age Morse contreibuted tae the invention o a single-wire telegraph seestem based on European telegraphs. He wis a co-developer o the Morse code, an helped tae develop the commercial uise o telegrafie.
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• Right now supports protocol Shadowsocks(r), HTTP, HTTP over TLS, SOCKS5 and SOCKS5 over TLS, VMess.
• The filter has a few types to match. For TCP traffic that has the upper layer protocol HTTP(S), 'HOST', 'HOST-SUFFIX', 'HOST-KEYWORD', 'USER-AGENT', 'GEOIP' and 'IP-CIDR' are all supported. For the other TCP traffic, 'GEOIP' and 'IP-CIDR' are supported. Especially, when deal with HTTP(S) traffic, Quantumult has another function called Rejection, it matchs the whole URL of the HTTP(S) request.
• After match, the filter has a lot of actions to deal with the request, built-in policy 'DIRECT', 'REJECT', 'PROXY', all your servers and your customized policies. Actually you can see all the actions as a lot of paths and you can decide which request goes through which path by using filter function.
• About the customized policy, there are 3 different types of customized policy, 'SSID', 'Latency' and 'Static'. The 'SSID' policy depends on your network enviroment, Wi-Fi, Cellular or specific Wi-Fi with the SSID your provided. The 'Latency' policy is based on the latencies of all the servers of the policy settings, the result is the shortest(The test interval has the option of 600 or 1200 seconds). The 'Static' policy is based on your manual selection of servers or other polices from the policy settings. Sure you are right, some of polices can wrap other polices, convinent, right ?
About working state, Quantumult can work in 3 state, 'GLOBAL', 'DIRECT' AND 'AUTO'.
• About the location on the map of home view. It is not the real location in the real world, it's just the IP location and might not be correct.


[java] What can you do with Java2D?
I haven''t seen many things that would encourage me to use it. Do you have any demos or anything good looking done with it? All I have seen can be done with AWT with little bit better experience. Also, my second question is, when making custom graphical buttons should I extend it from AWT''s button and then call custombutton cb; -- init(); -- cb=new custombutton(mypicture, width, height, and so on); or create new one from Canvas and then code all needed stuff for it? Time comes, time goes and I only am.
When you installed your JDK there should have been a directory ''demo/jdc/j2d'' created as well. In that directory there is a file named ''Java2Demo.jar''. It pretty well hightlights J2D features. I think you will see that J2D offers several performance and feature advantages.
Of course, even on my relatively fast system performance wasn''t great. I don''t know if that''s just how the demo was written (it displays several features on each page) or if the performance of Java 2D was just being maxed out.
try looking at the javadocs and see what java.awt.button extends (or implements) ... it''s something like abstractButton class. If you just want a picture for a button you might want to look at imageIcon class, that''s what they use in the tool bars, so it might work.
and in the main class just called setImage and then the paint for this class. It worked for me.
Yeah, I know, but is it faster than extending from normal button? It has serveral good things like ready made animation. I don''t want use swing, because A) It''s slow B) It doesn''t support gif''s natural transparency so I have to use slow swing features to do that because AWT way did not work.
Does anyone know where to get BMP file format extension/usage class?
If you want to see some neat things you can do with java, go to this site. Check out the raycast engine especially.


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using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
using Newtonsoft.Json;
using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;

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namespace BusinessForms.Controllers
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        {
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Redevelopment in Ogden, Utah: What the City's Doing to Preserve Its History
Ogden is on a mission to revive its rich past. The city has identified several buildings for improvement in a bid to redevelop communities to what they once were: vibrant and economically prosperous. The massive plan was inspired by the revival of 25th Street, which the city redeveloped in the late '70s, putting many general contractors in Ogden, Utah to work and turning the location into the ideal address for residents and businesses.
As such, Ogden hopes to replicate its triumphant revitalization with several historic buildings that have fallen into disrepair.
Transforming Old Buildings for Today's Use
Ogden Mayor Mike Caldwell believes that preserving the city's historic structures also preserves the city's character. He jumpstarted the redevelopment and restoration process to keep the city's eclectic past alive. Individual developers, entrepreneurs, and the local city government collaborated in the restoration of selecting these historic buildings to restore and upgrade.
The Monarch Building- Built in 1927, this building used to be a parking garage for Bigelow Hotel. It was vacant for more than a decade before a local, private developer gained ownership over it. The current plan for this building includes making it into an events space. This project is pertinent to two different city initiatives: the Adams community reinvestment area plan and the nine rails creative district.
Argo Building- Built in 1900, this infrastructure last served as a sober living house. Located east of the Washington Boulevard on 25th Street, this building is also a key component to the Adams community reinvestment area and the nine rails creative district. These two renovation plans seek to create a centralized hub for the culture and the arts near downtown Ogden and its east-central neighborhood.
Kiesel/Hurst/Thornstensen buildings- Built in 1910, these buildings housed different government offices and the Standard-Examiner, the town newspaper at the time. All three buildings are set for an upgrade into commercial spaces.
Ogden Exchange Building– This building served as the administrative headquarters of the Ogden Union Stockyards, a large livestock market, which was also the city's biggest economic driver at the time. It is also on the National Register of Historic Places. This infrastructure is included in the city's track line redevelopment district, transforming the place into a hub for commercial and industrial businesses, though the building itself will receive a full historic renovation.
How Ogden Came About
Ogden originally began as Fort Buenaventura, the first permanent Anglo settlement in Utah. Mormon pioneers didn't enter Ogden until 1847, eventually purchasing the place and renaming it Ogden in 1850.
The historic 25th Street in Ogden became the site for the transcontinental railroad, which people used a primary mode of transportation in the Intermountain West. The railroad then turned the town into a major passenger junction, with its convenient location near north-south routes and along major east-west routes. Travelers, traders, tourists, and commerce all converged in the northern city in Utah, positively impacting its economy. The area became a hub for excitement and variety, businesses thrived alongside bordellos and saloons. This all led to the construction of many buildings, some of which still stand to this today.
A bump in the city's economy in the '70s, '80s, and '90s, however, prevented it from preserving its historic structures. The older buildings became empty and fell into disrepair.
But with the local government's efforts to restore some of the historic architecture, there is hope for these rundown buildings. From restoration to an upgrade, the old structures gain a new lease on life. As a result, so do the communities that live around them.


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Valeria Alessandrini (born 26 August 1975) is an Italian politician.

Political career
Alessandrini was elected in 2020 in a by-election to succeed Donatella Tesei.

References

Living people
1975 births
Senators of Legislature XVIII of Italy
Lega Nord politicians
People from Terni
21st-century Italian politicians
21st-century Italian women politicians
20th-century Italian women
Women members of the Senate of the Republic (Italy)


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Q: Latin hypercube sampling with python I would like to sample a distribution defined by a function in multiple dimensions (2,3,4):
f(x, y, ...) = ...

The distributions might be ugly, non standard (like a 3D spline on data, sum of gaussians ect.). To this end I would like to uniformly sample the 2..4 dimensional space, and than with an additional random number accept or reject the given point of the space into my sample.

*

*Is there a ready to use python lib for this purpose?

*Is there python lib for generating the points in this 2..4 dimensional space with latin hypercube sampling, or with other uniform sampling method? Bruteforce sampling with independent random numbers usually results in more and less dense regimes of the space.

*if 1) and 2) doesn't exist, is there anybody who is kind enough to share his implementation for the same or similar problem.
I'll use it in a python code, but links to other solutions are also acknowledged.

A: Now the pyDOE library provides a tool to generate Latin-hypercube-based samples.
https://pythonhosted.org/pyDOE/randomized.html
to generate samples over n dimensions:
lhs(n, [samples, criterion, iterations])

where n is the number of dimensions, samples as the total number of the sample space.

A: Here is an update of Sahil M's answer for Python 3 (update from Python 2 to Python 3 and some minor code changes to match code and figure):
import lhsmdu
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy

l = lhsmdu.sample(2,10) # Latin Hypercube Sampling of two variables, and 10 samples each.
k = lhsmdu.createRandomStandardUniformMatrix(2,10) # Monte Carlo Sampling

fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.gca()
ax.set_xticks(numpy.arange(0,1,0.1))
ax.set_yticks(numpy.arange(0,1,0.1))
plt.scatter([k[0]], [k[1]], color="r", label="MC")
plt.scatter([l[0]], [l[1]], color="b", label="LHS-MDU")
plt.legend()
plt.grid()
plt.show()

I once encountered a Python memory error running this script. Any suggestions why this could happen or how to changes the script so it doesn't happen anymore in the future?

A: Latin Hypercube sampling is now part of SciPy since version 1.7. See the doc.
from scipy.stats.qmc import LatinHypercube

engine = LatinHypercube(d=2)
sample = engine.random(n=100)

It support centering, strength and optimization.

A: I guess this is a late answer, but this is also for future visitors. I have just put up an implementation of multi-dimensional uniform Latin Hypercube sampling on git. It is minimal, but very easy to use. You can generate uniform random variables sampled in n dimensions using Latin Hypercube Sampling, if your variables are independent. Below is an example plot comparing Monte Carlo and Latin Hypercube Sampling with Multi-dimensional Uniformity (LHS-MDU) in two dimensions with zero correlation.
import lhsmdu
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy

l = lhsmdu.sample(2,10) # Latin Hypercube Sampling of two variables, and 10 samples each.
k = lhsmdu.createRandomStandardUniformMatrix(2,10) # Monte Carlo Sampling

fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.gca()
ax.set_xticks(numpy.arange(0,1,0.1))
ax.set_yticks(numpy.arange(0,1,0.1))
plt.scatter(k[0], k[1], color="b", label="LHS-MDU")
plt.scatter(l[0], l[1], color="r", label="MC")
plt.grid()
plt.show()

A: This 2-D example samples uniformly on two dimensions, chooses each point with constant probability (thus keeping a binomially distributed number of points), selects randomly and without replacement those points from the sample space,  and generates a pair of vectors which you can then pass through to your function f:
import numpy as np
import random
resolution = 10
keepprob = 0.5
min1, max1 = 0., 1.
min2, max2 = 3., 11.
keepnumber = np.random.binomial(resolution * resolution, keepprob,1)
array1,array2  = np.meshgrid(np.linspace(min1,max1,resolution),np.linspace(min2,max2,resolution))
randominixes  = random.sample(list(range(resolution * resolution)), int(keepnumber))
randominixes.sort()
vec1Sampled,vec2Sampled  = array1.flatten()[randominixes],array2.flatten()[randominixes]

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Watt, Ernest Alexander (1874–1954)
by Martha Rutledge
This article was published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 12, (MUP), 1990
Ernest Alexander Stuart Watt (1874-1954), shipowner, pastoralist and patron of the arts, was born on 8 December 1874 in Sydney, third son of Scottish-born John Brown Watt, merchant, and his native-born wife Mary Jane, daughter of George Holden. Educated in England at Clifton College, Bristol, Ernest took the history tripos at King's College, Cambridge (B.A., 1896; M.A., 1901).
Coming home on his father's death in 1897, Watt inherited a share in Llanillo station, Walgett. He married Annie Elizabeth Caroline Weston on 3 April 1900 at St Mark's Anglican Church, Darling Point, and took her to London; they had two daughters before being divorced. Called to the Bar at the Inner Temple on 26 January 1905, Watt read for a year with the eminent counsel Frank Newbolt, then joined David L. Thompson & Co., stockbrokers. He published Love Letters of a Genius (1905) which he had translated from the French of Prosper Mérimée, Pauline's Book of Poetry (1911) and an anthology, A Diary and Other Indiscretions (1914).
On 22 February 1912 at the register office, Hanover Square, Watt married Marie Margeurite Beerbohm, a 22-year-old niece of Max Beerbohm. Rejected for active service, Watt taught at Boxgrove School, Guildford, Surrey. His marriage soon ended in divorce. On 23 June 1917 at the Guildford register office he married Bertha Marion Ada Campbell, daughter of Dr A. J. Brady of Sydney and widow of Captain Prowse, R.N.; they were to have a daughter. To Bertha and Other Verses appeared in 1919.
Back in Sydney by 1920, Watt was a director of the family shipping firm, Gilchrist, Watt & Sanderson Ltd, the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Co. Ltd, Wallarah Coal Co. Ltd, Sayers, Allport Pty Ltd and Koitaki Para Rubber Estates Ltd (New Guinea); he was also founding chairman of the New South Wales Cremation Co. Ltd. He extended his pastoral interests to Kurrabooma, Moree, and cattle stations in Queensland (Strathmore, Bowen, and Glen Prairie, Rockhampton). While supporting the Empire and the Church of England, he was not politically-minded, though he described himself as a 'Democrat'.
His tribute to his brother, Oswald Watt (1921), brought Ernest into close contact with his co-editors Sydney Ure Smith and Bertram Stevens. In 1922 Watt became a director of Ure Smith's Art in Australia Ltd and took a great interest in the Home, swamping the office with glamorous and giggling misses, eager to be photographed. In 1927 he bought, and with Hugh McCrae edited, the short-lived magazine, New Triad. Watt was a generous supporter of Australian artists and writers, especially the Lindsay brothers, and collected good paintings. (Sir) Charles Lloyd Jones became his close friend.
A popular man about town, Watt belonged to the Union and Australian clubs in Sydney and to the Melbourne Club. He loved the theatre and acted in amateur productions, once playing the title role in The Importance of Being Earnest. He had played cricket at Cambridge; later he took up bridge and was a member of Royal Sydney Golf Club; a racehorse owner, he belonged to the Australian Jockey and Rosehill Racing clubs and had a seat in the private stand at Newmarket, England.
Again divorced, on 2 September 1929 Watt married 23-year-old Ruth Edmunds Massey in the registry office, Sydney. They lived with their daughter at Darling Point and later at Point Piper. About 5 ft 10 ins (178 cm) tall, with light brown hair and blue eyes, Watt 'spoke with a quiet, pleasant drawl and moved with a leisurely gait as though time were no object. He was immensely vague, pre-occupied and unpredictable … capable of flashes of anger'. His personality baffled Leon Gellert, who was 'very, very fond of him'. Survived by his wife and by his four daughters, Watt died at Paddington on 18 February 1954 and was cremated with Anglican rites. His estate was sworn for probate at £117,265.
Daily Telegraph (Sydney), 19 Feb 1954
Sydney Morning Herald, 19 Feb 1954
Sunday Telegraph (Sydney), 15 Jan 1967
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Watt, John Brown (father)
Watt, Walter Oswald (brother)
Williams, Muriel Maud (sister-in-law)
Holden, George Kenyon (grandfather)
Watt, James Oswald (nephew)
Martha Rutledge, 'Watt, Ernest Alexander (1874–1954)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/watt-ernest-alexander-9009/text15861, published first in hardcopy 1990, accessed online 19 January 2020.
This article was first published in hardcopy in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 12, (MUP), 1990
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The Closings
Here's what the $10M-$20M NYC investment sales market looked like last week
An East Village office building trades for $18M, an athletic center in Bayside goes for $12M
By Mary Diduch |
Research by Nicholas Severin
June 05, 2019 01:30PM
From left: 137 2nd Avenue, Joel Schreiber, and 51-55 East 125th Street (Credit: Google Maps)
New York City's mid-market investment sales ran the gamut last week, from an athletic center in Bayside to a three-story office building in the East Village. Here are some of the sales made public from May 28 to 31.
1.) The Cofinance Group picked up 137 Second Avenue in the East Village for $18 million, said Bunny Escava of KSR NY, who brokered the sale with KSR's Jeffrey Znaty and Ally Dayon for both parties. The former owners, which included Joel Schreiber, bought the three-story, 22,000-square-foot office building in 2007 for $9 million. The Real Deal reported in January that the Wing, the women-focused co-working company, was moving its headquarters to the building.
2.) Barberry Rose Management sold a mixed-use building with 44 apartments and nine retail stores at 1588-1600 Amsterdam Avenue in Hamilton Heights for $16.8 million, said Meridian Investment Sales announced. The buyer was David Eshaghoff of Eshco Realty, and Meridian's Amit Doshi and Shallini Mehra represented both parties in the transaction. The property, which sits across the street from the City College of New York, measures just over 38,000 square feet, pricing the deal at roughly $435 per square foot. The deal also saw a 4.6 capitalization rate, according to Meridian. Both brokers previously sold the five-story building in 2014 to Barberry from Canadian private equity firm Onex Real Estate Partners for $9.3 million.
3.) A three-story commercial building at 51-55 East 125th Street in Harlem traded for $12.95 million. The seller, an LLC that lists Robert Nass as member, bought the property for $6.25 million in 2010. The new owner is 125th Street Bapaz LLC, tied to a post office box in Great Neck, N.Y.
4.) The North Shore Tennis & Racquet Club in Bayside has closed on the sale of its property in the Queens neighborhood for $12.25 million. The buyer was 6118 Bayside LLC, and the deed was signed by Jiaqi Kwon as authorized signatory. QNS last year reported that the athletic club, located at 34-28 214th Place, was reportedly sold to developers who plan to raze the site and build a new center there. Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller.
Eddie Small contributed reporting.
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Business information provider ZoomInfo has spun off its advertising business units in a new company, Bizo, offering a targeted B2B advertising platform, or what it calls "bizographic" advertising.
Bizographic advertising, as ZoomInfo explains it, provides highly targeted demographic and behavioral advertising, allowing marketers to target their online advertising based on the audience of a site instead of the content.
For example, if a company wants to reach technology decision makers for an IT product offering or high-income individuals for a platinum credit card offer, it could use bizographic advertising to target directors of IT or CEOs respectively.
The field has heated up recently as CBS intends to acquire CNET (parent company of this blog's host, ZDNet) and it's BNET division, which also slices and dices audiences by work and functional definitions for the benefit of advertising targeting. Could Bizo also be on the block?
According to ZoomInfo officials, Bizo will continue to leverage the company's understanding of business people and companies to allow marketers to target business users based on thousands of segmenting possibilities, including combinations of title, company, industry, functional area, company size, education, location, etc. The company expects over 20 million targetable business users in its network, when it launches.
"While B2B advertising is complimentary to ZoomInfo's business, the market has been starved for the ability to target business professionals online. Creating a new business in order to meet that need was an ideal solution for us."
ZoomInfo is but scratching the surface of what can be an auspicious third (but robust) leg on the B2B web knowledge access stool. By satisfying both seekers and providers of B2B information on business needs, ZoomInfo can generate web page real estate that is sold at the high premiums we used to see in the magazine controlled circulation days. Occupational-based searches for goods, information, insights and ongoing buying activities is creating the new B2B controlled circulation model.
ZoomInfo, a business information search engine, finds information about industries, companies, people, products and services. The company's semantic search engine continually crawls millions of company Websites, news feeds and other online sources to identify company and people information, which is then organized into profiles.
ZoomInfo currently has profiles on nearly 40 million people and over 4 million companies, and its search engine adds more than 20,000 new profiles every day.


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BigData@Heart project delivers framework to boost quality of research using real world data
The project hopes the CODE-EHR framework will boost confidence in the results of studies using real world data, and so trigger improvements in patient care.
Electronic healthcare records are increasingly common. Image by Ivan Samkov via Pexels.
The last decade has seen an explosion in the volume and types of health data. Electronic healthcare record systems, with structured codes and labels for different diseases and events, are now commonplace. Yet concerns remain about the quality, data privacy and transparency of these systems. Furthermore, there is still no consensus on how to apply the 'FAIR' (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) principles to structured healthcare data. And while checklists to address some of these issues do exist, they do not set minimum standards and are often used as a box ticking exercise to facilitate publication in journals.
The COVID-19 pandemic illustrated how powerful healthcare data can be; information on the relationship between COVID-19 and cardiovascular disease came from research that combined primary care data, hospital data, death records, and COVID-19 testing in over 54 million people. However, the pandemic also highlighted the challenges to sharing data in close to real time that could have directed care and helped design clinical trials.
To address these issues, Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) project BigData@Heart teamed up with the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) to develop 'pragmatic advice' on the use of structured healthcare data in clinical trials and observational research. The goal was to deliver something that would be applicable across different disease areas, and meet the needs and expectations of all stakeholders, including the general public.
To do this, they first held meetings involving all key stakeholders, including regulators, government agencies, medical journals, patient organisations, the pharmaceutical industry, payers, academic institutions, and professional societies. Consensus positions were further developed and agreed on via virtual work, and another meeting was held to finalise the outputs.
The result, dubbed the CODE-EHR framework, aims to improve the quality of studies using structured healthcare data, and provide confidence in the results of these studies for use in clinical decision-making.
The framework is published via open access papers in the European Heart Journal, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and the Lancet Digital Health, and it was presented at this year's ESC Congress.
The framework focuses on five key areas:
Dataset construction and linkage (to provide an understanding of how the data were identified and used);
Data fit for purpose (to ensure transparency on the coding systems used);
Disease outcomes and definitions (detailing how conditions and outcome events were defined);
Analysis (detailing how outcome events were analysed);
Ethics and governance (covering processes for consent, privacy, and patient and public involvement).
For each area, the framework sets out both minimum and preferred standards, and details the information that researchers should provide when writing up their study.
'With the support of patients and the public, routinely collected healthcare information provides an exciting opportunity to answer important clinical questions in populations representative of our communities,' said author Professor Dipak Kotecha of the University of Birmingham and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, UK. 'Our ability to apply findings from studies that use these data sources is critically dependent on transparency at every stage. This international framework will enable robust and effective use of healthcare data for clinical research and provide those working in this field with guidance on how to design better studies for maximal benefit to patient care.'
Looking to the future, the group plans to evaluate the framework in two years' time, and adapt it as needed to any new developments in this rapidly-evolving field.
BigData@Heart is supported by the Innovative Medicines Initiative, a partnership between the European Union and the European pharmaceutical industry.
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Constance Scalia
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Port Charlotte - Constance Scalia, 85, of Port Charlotte, FL, formerly of Lakewood, NJ, passed away at Fawcett Medical Center, Port Charlotte, FL. She was born September 7, 1932, in Lakewood, NJ, to Frank and Jean Vasapoli. Connie was an alumni of Lakewood High School, class of 1950. After high school and during summers, she attended Eastern School of Physicians Aides graduating as a Medical Assistant. After achieving that, she attended college for a dietician license and worked at Beth Israel Hospital for a short time before her marriage. She was in who's who of American Women, worked 20 + years in automotive as a business manager. Connie retired in 2000 and moved to Florida. After Hurricane Charlie destroyed her home, she moved to Palm Springs, CA in 2005 where her daughter and son in law had a winter home. She volunteered for 7 years at the Tennis Garden in Indian Wells. She moved back to Florida in 2012. She was a member of the Sons of Italy, Port Charlotte Lodge 2507; Women of the Moose, Port Charlotte Chapter 1613 and the Elks, Punta Gorda Lodge #2606.
Connie is survived by her daughter Jeanne Jannicelli, son in law Alex Jannicelli, son Joseph Scalia, daughter in law Jane Scalia, five grandchildren Alex, Michael, Vincent Amy and Joseph, nieces, nephews and family. She was preceded in death by her parents and one sister.
Visitation will be held from 5-8 pm on Monday December 4, 2017, at the Anderson & Campbell Funeral Home, 3010 Ridgeway Road, Manchester, NJ 08759. A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered on Tuesday December 5, 2017 at 12 pm at Saint Mary of the Lake RC Church, 43 Madison Avenue, Lakewood, NJ, 08701, with interment to follow at Saint Mary of the Lake Cemetery, Lakewood, NJ


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Q: Youtube API returning unlisted videos In my app I use the YouTube API. I got the "uploads" related playlist of a channel resource, and then list all videos.
This worked fine for some time, but now, this playlist is returning 'unlisted' videos like this:
"status": {
  "privacyStatus": "unlisted"
}

Is there a way to filter these videos? I thought they were 'hidden', but they do show up...
Edit: It is even returning private videos:
"status": {
  "privacyStatus": "private"
}

A: Since you are the owner of that channel it returns all the videos available. IF you were trying to see someone else's uploads, it would show only public ones.
Look at my open source project: Android Direct Lite to see, how I show only public ones.


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Q: MAAS can't apt update I'm setting up MAAS for our workstations and it's going great! I've deployed a test VM with it. The only thing that doesn't work is apt.
I can't perform an apt update.  It looks for 172-16-0-0--16.maas-internal and I have no idea where it's getting it from.
This is the full output:
~# apt update
Err:1 http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable InRelease
  Could not resolve '172-16-0-0--16.maas-internal'
Err:2 http://aptly bionic InRelease
  Could not resolve '172-16-0-0--16.maas-internal'
Err:3 http://aptly bionic-updates InRelease
  Could not resolve '172-16-0-0--16.maas-internal'
Err:4 http://aptly bionic-security InRelease
  Could not resolve '172-16-0-0--16.maas-internal'
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
1 package can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see it.
W: Failed to fetch http://aptly/dists/bionic/InRelease  Could not resolve '172-16-0-0--16.maas-internal'
W: Failed to fetch http://aptly/dists/bionic-updates/InRelease  Could not resolve '172-16-0-0--16.maas-internal'
W: Failed to fetch http://aptly/dists/bionic-security/InRelease  Could not resolve '172-16-0-0--16.maas-internal'
W: Failed to fetch http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode/dists/stable/InRelease  Could not resolve '172-16-0-0--16.maas-internal'
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

This is my /etc/apt/sources.list file:
# Aptly
deb [trusted=yes arch=amd64] http://aptly/ bionic main universe
deb [trusted=yes arch=amd64] http://aptly/ bionic-updates main universe
deb [trusted=yes arch=amd64] http://aptly/ bionic-security main universe

I also tried it with the default sources.list but it had the same error.
The /etc/resolv.conf file just points to my DNS server.
No matter what I put in my sources.list file it keeps complaining about 172-16-0-0--16.maas-internal. Why is it looking for 172-16-0-0--16.maas-internal?  What is it? Can i go around it? Do I have to setup a new DNS record? How can I have apt working?
Huge thanks ahead!

A: had to delete /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/90curtin-aptproxy

A: It looks like you have edited your network configs. If you have edited please try these steps:

*

*You need to set MAAS IP address as the DNS of all your node you are trying to apt update.

Example
    enp3:
      match:
        macaddress: 62:34:0f:91:1b:e2
      addresses:
       - 172.168.0.12/24
      gateway4: 172.168.0.10
      mtu: 1500
      nameservers:
        addresses:
          - 172.168.0.16 #<<<< IP OF THE MAAS INTERFACE #
      set-name: enp3

*Go to the MAAS Subnet and set the correct DNS Names. See attached screenshot.

*Lastly, for the changes to take place, restart your maas network sudo systemctl restart systemd-networkd and your node or reboot.


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Q: Cassandra data modeling timeseries data I have this data about visited users for an app/service:
contentId (assume uuid),
platform (eg. website, mobile etc),
softwareVersion (eg. sw1.1, sw2.5, ..etc),
regionId (eg. us144, uk123, etc..)
....

I have modeled it very simply like
id(String)               time(Date)       count(int)
contentid1-sw1.1         Feb06            30
contentid1-sw2.1         Feb06            20
contentid1-sw1.1         Feb07            10
contentid1-sw2.1         Feb07            10
contentid1-us144         Feb06            23
contentid1-sw1.1-us144   Feb06            10
....
Reason is because there's a popular query where someone can ask for contentId=foo,platform=bar,regionId=baz or any combination of those for a range of time (say between Jan 01 - Feb 05).
But another query that's not easily answerable is:
Return top K 'platform' for contentId=foo between Jan01 - Feb05. By top it means to be sorted by 'count's in that range. So for above data, query for top 2 platforms for contentId=contentId1 between Feb6-Feb8 must return:
sw1.1   40
sw2.1   30

Not sure how to model that in C* to get answers for top K queries, anyone has any ideas?
PS: there are 1billion+ entries for each day.
Also I am open to using Spark or any other frameworks along with C* to get these answers.


Recently we had the opportunity to interview Jason Hirschhorn, President, Sling Media Entertainment Group.
For those of you who are not familiar with Sling, Jason's interview goes into great detail. We thought the name is original and wanted to learn what it means. We were told that the name Sling Media comes from "The idea that their Slingbox product and their technology is "slinging" content over the internet from a home video source (TV, DVD player, video camera, etc.) to other displays (computers, phones, handhelds, etc.) that aren't TVs."
Its raison d'tre is its ability to bring that familiar living room television experience to those other displays due to the fact that more and more of our time is spent in front of displays that aren't TVs. Little argument there!
The Editors were very impressed with both Mr. Hirschhorn and what they heard about Sling Media itself. They informed me of their belief that Sling may be one of the most innovative companies to be represented at the conference.
Therefore, I suggest you check out the Keynote Roundtable Panel: Content Is King! (Again?), April 25, 09:30AM-10:30AM to hear and meet Jason in person.
For those who won't be attending and/or those who don't want to wait, without further adieu, here's a transcript of that interview so you can see if Sling does have as good a shot at success as our editors think!
Journal: Thanks for meeting with us. Let's begin by asking you to tell us a little about Sling Media.
Jason:	Sure. Sling Media is what we call a digital lifestyle company. We've built a unit that we've called the Slingbox. What it's done is introduced a genre of entertainment called "playshifting" where you could watch your favorite TV shows at any time you want. The whole idea that you have to go and watch your television at home is antiquated. The Slingbox attaches to your television and allows you to watch and control your TV from anywhere in the world via your Mac, your PC, your laptop or a phone. It replicates the exact experience that you expect from your television, the user interface, the remote virtually. It's an amazing product.
Journal:	When you say a remote are you saying that you can just flick your keys and be able to change the channels wherever you are?
Jason:	When you log into your television, your laptop will have an image of the remote that you have at home.
Jason:	You can check out some of these images on Slingmedia.com.
Jason:	Fantastic. We've sold a little over 400,000 boxes, pretty phenomenal and continue to build on our numbers every day. We're in 4,000 stores right now – Best Buy, Circuit City, Comp USA, Amazon, you name it really, fully distributed but we also have direct sales as a feature of our website.
Journal:	Can you make them faster than they're selling?
Jason:	We've had some issues on some of the more expensive boxes, specifically the pro HD version. It wasn't an issue of actually making it. It was an issue of we miscalculated how popular it was going to be and ordered too few but we are caught up now.
Journal:	Are you showcasing any new advancements at ad:tech?
Jason:	I've still got to figure out what my setting is there but I did debut a technology when I was at CES and I announced a partnership with CBS. One of the other things we'll be talking about what Slingbox does is that it allows you to take a clip from a TV show that your watching and then send it in the form of an email to a friend so they can see it just like you did.
Jason: Yes. For example, let's say your watching an episode from The Office and there's a scene you think is hysterical which you would like to show to your friends. Well, now you can have Slingbox clip the scene and have it send it to people in your life so they can see the scene just like you did. You no longer have to rely on just describing it to them like you had to do before.
Jason:	Yes, like a Snag-It for images but it's really tied into the software and it identifies the program and uploads it to the Internet and sends a link to whoever you want to go watch this clip. It takes the whole water cooler conversation that's around media and TV - from watching it - to sending it - to uploading it - to watching it again. It's the ultimate social networking tool or social networking catalyst because much of what people talk about are their favorite shows and things that they see on TV.
Journal:	Is it in a linked form that a person receives one?
Jason:	Yes. You receive it in linked form and then you can click on the link and you watch it on a site, which will be opening by the end of the year.
Journal:	We have to believe the file size is going to really add up quickly.
Jason:	Yes. It will be a good video signal quality but not HD quality. We are going to release our own site in the second half of the year and we'll be a big aggregation hub for our customer's clips of video.
Journal:	Yes. Now is CBS your primary content partner?
Journal:	Is your site going to be accepting advertising?
Jason:	Yes. The advertising is the big model. Not only video advertising but display advertising and the inventory will be controlled by the media companies who license the content.
Journal:	A hardware company selling advertising!
Jason: Well, I come from running MTV Networks' digital business for many years so I'm about personalization, I'm about branded opportunities. The future of television or video in general is really about personal experiences. The shows that I want to watch are here. The shows that you think I should watch are there. Brands like MTV or A&E say, "Here's what we think you should be watching" because you are a part of a certain group. Clearly ROI does come into play as a filter but we want to be more personal about that. The more personal you can get with learning about people's needs and wants respective to their video tastes, the more you'll be able to target ads more.
Journal:	How is Nielsen going to measure users using content in this new way? How are they going to track viewing outside the home if you will?
Jason:	They have an initiative, called Anywhere Anytime that they are working on. I've had brief meetings with them but we don't think we're in the television business, just like NBC doesn't think they're in the television business. They're in the audience business, which they reach through media and entertainment and it doesn't matter what screen it's on. So a lot of these things are going to be cobbled together but we're a unique situation because we are attached to the television. We know when you're watching, and it's really an extension of your viewing of your television at home from a remote place that we can work with a company like Nielsen. We can report that the shows being watched through a Slingbox are getting the Nielsen credit.
Journal:	So can that can be a revenue stream?
Jason:	Sure. Other competitors to Nielsen have approached us. We have hundreds of thousands of boxes out there. It's a very interesting concept.
Journal: Tell me about how you think Sling Media is improving lives?
Jason:	We are all about solving consumer problems through technology. Sling feels that video is very varied on your TV, on your computer, on your cell phone. The experiences are different, the offerings are different, the user interfaces are different, and the one experience that all of America is comfortable with is their television. They know how to work it, they're comfortable with it. With the remote they can handle it like a marksman handles a gun. What we wanted to do was bring that familiarity and that ease of use of your television to the Internet and to your phone and we've done that with the Slingbox. For me I am a media junkie. I love television. I get a lot out of it. I think television is at a high that it's never been at right now thanks to things like HBO and Showtime raising the bar on what production could be and there's so much good TV on, and before play shifting and time shifting it was basically an appointment-based environment. I had to be there or else I couldn't watch it. Now with my DVR and my ability to hook it up to a Slingbox I can watch when I want, when I want to watch it, where I want to watch it and that allows me to take my time to do other things and it improves my life.
Journal:	You may have touched upon this but are you going to be building a DVR into your system?
Jason:	We've thought about the functionality, it's not hard to do. It's all about priority in our business and picking things at a rate in which the users can digest them and right now they like their DVRs at home and we can control them. We're always revisiting that.
Journal:	Okay, is the issue of improving people's lives different than a desire to make money?
Jason:	The founders of the company wanted to watch a program that they couldn't get access to because they weren't home. So like any good entrepreneurs usually money is not the first idea. It's "can you come up with a really cool idea"? One you would like and you think others would like, and you largely find the business model after the fact. They certainly do cross but I don't know that I've ever been in business – and I've built companies and sold them and ran big companies and now at Sling – it's always creative and audience first and business second. We've never backed into a development decision for business reasons. It's always been the other way around.
Journal:	On a macro level how does our industry technology change, improve, affect people's lives?
Jason: It allows them to either do more of what they like or carve out time to do other things because they have the ability to access and control what they want. If you think about certain mediums like a record, years ago you'd buy your CD, you'd buy an album, and largely you were buying an album for one or two songs and you got a product that you did not want to get. You did not want all those songs because you were buying something that was completely untested and unheard. What technology has done with mp3s and the inventions of itunes is allow you to really get at the music that you want to get and the idea of having to buy a product that you don't want is a wonderful thing.
Jason:	There are also times where technology is not great on a personal level. I see me and many like us on our Blackberry's constantly and what that's done is it's made the work clock longer. Regardless of whether you're at work or not you're always on and it has a positive and negative effect. I think everybody should unplug once in a while and walk away from it, but technology has been enlightening from an educational standpoint. You can go on the Internet and if you have a question about something you can likely find the answer or a definition of something. If you have views about political issues or creative issues or you're into sports you can find like minds to argue with and that's all for technological purposes. I am a gadget fanatic and I love media and entertainment and the new experience has largely been driven by technology, the creative always being a constant.
Journal: Is this the first time Sling has exhibited at ad:tech?
Jason:	I've been to ad:tech before. I've just done it as an attendee more than anything else. I don't think Sling has been at ad:tech. The division that we're creating, the entertainment group, is very much a media and advertising business.
Journal:	What is your specific job function there? What are you managing?
Jason:	I'm the president of the Entertainment Group and we are building out a video destination built off of the ability to take clips off of live television that thus creates inventory online for the media companies to sell so from a consumer standpoint it's a video entertainment destination and from a business standpoint it is an advertising model.
Journal:	When does it launch?
Jason:	Second half of this year.
Journal:	That's very exciting. Are you getting any base deals where companies are committing up front?
Jason:	I'm shown potential clients the technology. They absolutely love this because they want to put their ads against high value content and not necessarily user generated content. II imagine when we're ready to go we will get commitments and certainly we'll participate in the up front season in 2008. .
Journal:	Okay, next year, not this year.
Jason:	We really have to wait and see. We'll have many of our media deals done and I think that those companies that are licensing content will probably commit some of our inventory up front.
Journal:	Interesting. What's your advice on how technology companies should illuminate the personal side of what they're offering?
Jason: At the end of the day every action the user takes is a piece of data that lends to learning something about them. Ultimately if you work with companies like Sling who are taking in an infinite amount of information and activity through our user base and put that into a palatable form, then done correctly, the advertising will be more like programming. As a marketer, I don't want to show an advertisement to someone who is probably not interested in that product and depending on the medium it's very different.
Journal:	No one does but 95% of the media companies who rely on advertising would go bankrupt if they were only paid on targeted consumers. Inefficiency is the main way they make profits.
Jason:	I don't think that they would go bankrupt. I think that they would do smaller buys for bigger money and ultimately have more clients. What I'm concerned about is the cost per click, the cost per action . That is not a model I would move to and the reason being is if you don't control the creative, you should not be penalized for it.
Journal:	Are you going to see data mining and e-mail based vendors at ad:tech. Do those kinds of companies have partnership opportunities for Sling?
Jason:	Absolutely. Not only is it from a programming perspective, the question is, "How do we deliver content to users in a fashion that is more likely to be the thing that they use?" Data for data's safety is nothing. We want to know what to do with it and how it can help enhance and target our ads, and how it can help enhance and target our programming.
Journal:	Is there a permission element that you guys have to be aware of?
Jason:	Yes, as it relates to certain things there are laws around permission and target ability. It's more about the information that you give away. We don't need to have permission to necessarily watch what you're doing on the site and then push you other kinds of advertising and programming.
Journal:	Right, just make it contextual.
Journal:	Last question, how long have you been involved in the industry? Tell me about your career to some degree.
Jason:	I started building websites when I was 21-years-old in college and continued to build them just as a hobby and then turned it into a little bit of a business. One day I received a call from Sony who wanted to buy my company. I hired a lawyer and it went into play and I was one of the lucky guys that got bid up and Viacom ended up buying my business in March of 2000. I was 28 years old and I went on to a long career at MTV Networks.
Journal:	What are you most excited about out at ad:tech?
Jason:	I want to see technologies that allow me to really put ads in front of people that they're more likely to want to see and will use and even how do we use that technology to target them with programming, and I personally am looking for serving and infrastructure solutions for ad sales and sales solutions.
Journal:	What do you mean by infrastructure?
Jason:	Meaning I need a serving technology to serve our ads, not only displaying video or Double Click or Microsoft or Google.
Journal:	So you're going to be looking at it as a shopper to some degree?
Journal:	That's great. No doubt many of our readers who provide those services will be very excited about that! Thanks for chatting with us.


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Anne	Bartee – In honor of the Nevin Ryan family who adopted a sweet, sweet girl named Molly in about 2011. Molly has since died, but her memory will remain for the rest of our lives.
Roger &	JoAnn	Amidon –	In honor of our 50th wedding anniversary and the dear hounds we have gotten from CBHR.
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Nicole Pullen – In honor of Archie whom we adopted from CBHR February 2014 and has been giving us love and joy ever since.
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Andrews & Emily Browne – In honor of our adopted Basset, Bosley.
Jean & Roger Sankey – Thank you to all of our volunteers in CBHR. We do make a difference !!
Elsa & Charles Grossman – for Quick in loving memory of Norman Monroe, who showed us the amazing value of an older, rescued basset.
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Ashley Bailes – In memory of Emma Stewart, my first friend!
Michelle & Douglas Chaffin For the little guy with the ear infection.
Sarah DeRemer & Chris Benner – In honor of Willie & Dixie.
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Patricia Linn – For the old guy with the ear infection. Please help him!
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Maxinne Ocampo – In honor of My two pups, Enzo and Desmo.
Jean & Roger Sankey – In memory of Cade, our tiny Basset pup, the wiggleworm, so healthy and strong. Lived 9 days–affected Jean, Roger and Becky Gering's family–be at Peace, tiny boy.
Mary Ann Thomas – In memory of Loose Lips Lucille ATB 2009.
Sonya Bergschneider – In honor of all the wonderful bassets who have passed on before and to those who give us unconditional love on a daily basis. Also for our 25th wedding anniversary.
Patricia Boggs – In honor of Lucy.
Stephanie & Josh Caddell – In honor of Bo, Daisey, and Rosco. May all pups be as lucky as they are!
Amy Glenn-Vega – In memory of my basset Snoopy Vega. Not a CBHR hound, but he was the rescued basset who made me fall in love with the breed!
Scott Padgett – In honor of Awesome Jake!
Stanley Pelz – In honor of Howie (Karen Sadler's Basset). Saying prayers for a speedy recover for Howie.
Elizabeth Sewell – In honor of Lola Belle, who looks just like an older Miss Betsy!
Jacob Smith – In honor of the good folks at CBHR – I wish and hope I can do more.
Jennifer & Cory Smith – In memory of Flash, our sweet basset girl we miss so much.
David Foster – In memory of Rocky the dog Bullard!
Sonya Bergschneider – I have to donate to a fellow Beauregard. Hope he feels better and finds his forever home soon.
Matthew & Jennifer Honaker – In memory of our Basset and CBHR Alum Danny who passed. We miss him dearly.
Jennie Malcolm & Epi Pazienza – Here's to a speedy recovery, buddy.
Wiliam Stricklin – In honor of our two best friends Lilly and Gus. Without them Rachel and I would be missing something. We couldn't imagine life with out them and this little basset should get the same love.
Andrew Weaver & Heather Jones – In memory of CBHR hound Flash- He passed away peacefully September 9th.
Don & Jonnie Adee – We love our Cricket!
Bobby Saunders – Golden Tag – In memory of Rosie and in honor of Heidi, our one eared wonder!
Jacob Smith – In memory of my first Basset Klapa – but also in love for my current bassets Cassie and Ezekial, and all the other bassets in the world that just need a home.
Donna Hagerty – in memory of Tina and Bill Morrisse's A.J.


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Manila—(PHStocks)—Philippine stocks extended their gains Thursday, 9 May, on sustained optimism in the US market and strong 1Q performance of local firms.
The benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) index grew by 0.18% or 13.13 points to close the trading day at 7,194.43.
Most sectors posted gains, led by the Holding Firms index, which gained 0.38%%. The Services sector gained 0.28%, while the Property index added 0.22%. Overall, the wider All Shares index grew by 0.18%.
Trading was moderate. Value turnover reached PhP6.68 billion on 1.85 billion shares traded. There were 83 gainers against 66 losers, while 71 stocks were flat.
The top most active stocks in terms of value are Metropolitan Bank & Trust Company (Metrobank, PSE: MBT), Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT, PSE: TEL), GT Capital Holdings Inc. (PSE: GTCAP), SM Investments Corporation (SMIC, PSE: SM), LT Group Inc. (PSE: LTG), Ayala Land Inc. (PSE: ALI), Melco Crown (Philippines) Resorts Corporation (PSE: MCP), Metro Pacific Investments Corporation (MPIC, PSE: MPI), Universal Robina Corporation (PSE: URC), and Alliance Global Group Inc. (PSE: AGI).


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Q: How to format a CSV file in python I am trying to create a CSV file in python that looks something like this:
Person A    Class 1
            Class 2
            Class 3
Person B    Class 1
            Class 2
            Class 3
            Class 4
Person C    Class 1
Person D    Class 1
            Class 2

I have a dictionary where dict[person A] = [class 1, class 2, class 3], but it's easy to mess around with the data structure. How would I go about doing this?

A: That's not how you would use a CSV file. The correct way to structure your data would be to have a header
Person,Class

and under that rows in the form
A,1
A,2
A,3
B,1
B,2
B,3
B,4
C,1
D,1
D,2

You would simply need to iterate through your dict and within each person's entry, iterate through their classes and do something loke csvfile.writerow([person, class]) for each pair.

A: Getting exactly the format you are showing you can do by:
data = dict()

data['Person A'] = ['Class 1', 'Class 2', 'Class 3']
data['Person B'] = ['Class 1', 'Class 2']

outstr = ''
for key, value in data.items():
    left = key
    for line in value:
        outstr += left + '\t' + line + '\n'
        left = ' '*len(key)

print(outstr)

But as gboffi has commented, if the csv format is not written in stone, you might have better luck using a variable length records format.


Speed booster apps have always been a popular section of apps for Android, and are only becoming more so due to the fact that devices get older and slower with newer versions of the Android operating system.
Any device you get, even the latest and fastest phones and tablets, will eventually get bogged down by a combination of the OS, lack of memory and bigger and more resource intensive apps.
So, speed boosters are pretty essential for many users, but they do have their problems. A personal gripe is that I find that many of them are bereft of usability and lacking polish, but many users find them utterly baffling.
DU Speed Booster is a little bit different.
It combines a gorgeous user interface, one of the best of any class of app on Android, with a raft of features that, crucially, makes sense to the average user.
You are not going to need a rooted device or need to know what a kernel is to use this app effectively, and it is also completely free, and for the gamers out there, it is particularly effective.
There is a specific 'game booster' tool built in that recognises that a game is running and automatically concentrates the system to get that app running as smoothly as possible. Don't panic, this isn't hard to do it is just a button press and the app does its magic. If a game goes unrecognised by the app (I couldn't actually get it to miss one) you can also manually select a game.
There is also a more general optimiser that will get your phone running very smoothly indeed with a button press, which can also be achieved with a tap of the included widget.
In addition to the speed boosting and system management, the app includes a trash cleaner to keep your memory as clear as possible and superbly, a complete App Manager that allows you to transfer apps between your main memory and SD card and batch install and uninstall apps and data. Seriously, there are apps that charge a lot for these features alone, as well as the included permission manager and call and SMS blocker functions.
Really though, most users just want an free app to speed up their phone with the minimum of fuss, and DU Speed Booster does this, in an attractive and easy to use style, whilst also having the extra functions sitting there, ready to use when you need them.
In fact, this could easily replace three or four other paid apps on your phone – for free.
For the ease of use, good looks and effective operation, this would be highly recommended, but with all the extras and free price point, this is an essential app.


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Ibisodziób (Ibidorhyncha struthersii) – gatunek średniej wielkości ptaka będący jedynym przedstawicielem podrodziny ibisodziobów (Ibidorhynchinae) w rodzinie ostrygojadów (Haematopodidae).

 Zasięg występowania Ibisodzioby występują od południowo-wschodniego Kazachstanu na południe po Kaszmir i na wschód przez północno-zachodnie Chiny, Tybet i północno-wschodnie Indie po wschodnio-centralne i północno-wschodnie Chiny.

 Taksonomia Gatunek monotypowy.
 Nazwa rodzajowa:  ibis, ιβιδος ibidos – ibis; ῥυγχος rhunkhos – dziób. Epitet gatunkowy honoruje dr. Johna Struthersa (żyjącego w XIX wieku), szkockiego lekarza, kolekcjonera.

 Morfologia Długość ciała wynosi 39–41 cm; masa ciała 270–320 g; długość dzioba 68–82 mm; rozpiętość skrzydeł ok. 74 cm. Jest ptakiem smukłym o długich nogach i zakrzywionym dziobie przystosowanym do wydobywania pokarmu spod kamieni. Ubarwiony jest z wierzchu na szaro, brzuch jest biały, nogi i dziób są czerwone, przy czym nogi są znacznie bardziej jaskrawe.

 Ekologia Ibisodzioby zamieszkują okolice górskich rzek. Gniazdo ma postać niewielkiego wgłębienia na plaży. Samice składają zawsze cztery jaja.

 Status IUCN uznaje ibisodzioba za gatunek najmniejszej troski (LC, Least Concern). Liczebność światowej populacji nie została oszacowana. Globalny trend liczebności nie jest znany.

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There are fewer new wild flowers appearing in July than in June, but there are still a large number and they form the bulk of the summer and late summer flowers.
Mostly, they are in the open. In woodlands, wild flowers are limited to the margins, clearings, paths and rides.


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Home	Children and Young People	It's a great start of the year for Liverpool Elite
It's a great start of the year for Liverpool Elite
by Laura Johnston February 5, 2018
Liverpool Elite, the Huyton-based Taekwondo club, is no stranger to success; the team won five trophies in the Ultimate 1-1, four medals at the Yorkshire Open Championships and three medals in the International Hanguk Kids Cup last year. Now it seems that this year is going just as well with the team winning big in their first competition of the year.
It was nine-year-old Alan Whithead and 10-year-old Finn Labong's very first competition but they didn't allow it to make a difference and they both achieved an impressive gold. There's no doubt that the little stars will be going onto to achieve more in the future with the team. Watch this space!
10-year-old Lincoln Littler is becoming known for coming away from competitions victorious, with this one being no exception. Lincoln gave a great performance once again and earned gold.
It was gold all around with Jack Waddicar also using his talent to win a gold medal.
What a great start to the year. Good luck to Liverpool Elite for other competitions coming up in 2018.
Liverpool EliteTakewondo
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How to Use a Paintbrush
© 2007 Publications International, Ltd. Grasp sash and trim brushes as you would a pencil (top). Hold a wall brush with your entire hand (bottom).
When you embark on an interior painting job, you'll soon discover how easy it is to use brushes competently. Even so, there are a few techniques that will help postpone fatigue and provide a neater job.
The grip you use depends on the brush you've chosen. Trim and sash brushes with pencil handles are grasped much as you would a pencil, with the thumb and the first two fingers of the hand. This technique gives you excellent control for intricate painting. With beaver-tail handles on larger brushes, you'll need a stronger grip because the brushes are wider and heavier. Hold the handle with the entire hand, letting the handle span the width of your palm as you would hold a tennis racket. This technique works best when you're painting large, flat surfaces.
The goal of loading a brush is to get as much paint on the wall as possible without dribbling it all over the floor and yourself in the process. It will take you only a few minutes to be able to gauge accurately how much paint your brush will hold along the way. Meanwhile, start the job by dampening the bristles of the brush (with water for latex or the appropriate thinner for other types of paint) to condition them and make them more efficient. Remove excess moisture by gently striking the metal band around the handle's base against the edge of your palm and into a sink or bucket.
© 2007 Publications International, Ltd. Never dip a brush more than about one-third the length of the bristles into the paint. If you do, the brush will become next to impossible to clean.
With the first dip, move the brush around a bit in the paint to open the bristles and let the brush fill completely. It will be easier to pick up a full load if you jab the brush gently into the paint with each dip. With most latex paints, you can simply dip the brush and let the excess drip off for a few seconds before moving the brush to the wall. With thinner coatings, however, you may have to gently slap the brush against the inside of the paint can or lightly drag it across the inside edge of the lip to remove excess paint.
To neatly paint up to a line where two edges or colors meet, called "cutting in," use a trim brush with beveled bristles (the end of the brush resembles a chisel). Paint five or six strokes perpendicular to the edge of the ceiling or the wall. Next, smooth over these strokes with a single, long stroke, painting out from the corner first, then vertically. Where the wall and ceiling come together, use downward strokes on the wall first followed by smooth horizontal strokes.
On the ceiling itself, cut in strokes toward the center of the room, away from the wall. Then paint a smooth horizontal stroke on the ceiling that follows the direction of the wall. Even if you're using the same color of paint on adjoining surfaces, follow this method of cutting in with 2-inch-wide borders rather than just plopping a loaded brush directly into a corner. This will prevent drips, sags, and runs.
© 2007 Publications International, Ltd. To cut in at a corner, paint out from the corner for five or six strokes, then smooth over them with a single, long, smooth stroke.
Another cutting-in approach, beading, can practically eliminate the need to use masking tape to protect one painted area from another. Use a beveled trim brush with nice long bristles. Hold the brush so that your thumb is on one side of the metal ferrule and your fingers on the other. Press the brush lightly against the surface, then, as you move the brush, add just enough pressure to make the bristles bend away from the direction of your brushstroke. Keep the brush about 1/16 inch away from the other colored surface. The bent bristles and the pressure will release a fine bead of paint that will spread into the gap.
With both methods of cutting in, but especially when you're dealing with two colors, it's better to have a brush that's too dry than one that's too wet. This is detail work. To do it effectively, go slowly and cut in 4 or 5 inches at a time. It will seem tedious at first, but your speed and accuracy will improve with practice, and even one ordinary-size room will give you lots of practice.
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Social balance in signed networks
Xiaolong Zheng, Daniel Zeng, Fei Yue Wang
The theory of social balance, also called structural balance, is first proposed by Heider in 1940s, which is utilized to describe the potential social dynamics process. This theory is of great importance in sociology, computer science, psychology and other disciplines where social systems can be represented as signed networks. The social balance problem is hard but very interesting. It has attracted many researchers from various fields working on it over the past few years. Many significant theories and approaches have been developed and now exhibit tremendous potential for future applications. A comprehensive review of these existing studies can provide us significant insights into understanding the dynamic patterns of social systems. Yet to our investigation, existing studies have not done this, especially from a dynamical perspective. In this paper, we make an attempt towards conducting a brief survey of these scientific activities on social balance. Our efforts aim to review what has been done so far in this evolving area. We firstly introduce the fundamental concepts and significant properties of social balance. Then we summarize the existing balance measures and present detecting/partitioning algorithms, as well as important empirical investigations in both physical world and cyberspace. We next mainly focus on describing and comparing the fundamental mechanisms of the dynamics models. Several existing problems not yet satisfactorily solved in this area are also discussed.
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Zheng, X., Zeng, D., & Wang, F. Y. (2015). Social balance in signed networks. Information Systems Frontiers, 17(5), 1077-1095. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-014-9483-8
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AU - Wang, Fei Yue
N2 - The theory of social balance, also called structural balance, is first proposed by Heider in 1940s, which is utilized to describe the potential social dynamics process. This theory is of great importance in sociology, computer science, psychology and other disciplines where social systems can be represented as signed networks. The social balance problem is hard but very interesting. It has attracted many researchers from various fields working on it over the past few years. Many significant theories and approaches have been developed and now exhibit tremendous potential for future applications. A comprehensive review of these existing studies can provide us significant insights into understanding the dynamic patterns of social systems. Yet to our investigation, existing studies have not done this, especially from a dynamical perspective. In this paper, we make an attempt towards conducting a brief survey of these scientific activities on social balance. Our efforts aim to review what has been done so far in this evolving area. We firstly introduce the fundamental concepts and significant properties of social balance. Then we summarize the existing balance measures and present detecting/partitioning algorithms, as well as important empirical investigations in both physical world and cyberspace. We next mainly focus on describing and comparing the fundamental mechanisms of the dynamics models. Several existing problems not yet satisfactorily solved in this area are also discussed.
AB - The theory of social balance, also called structural balance, is first proposed by Heider in 1940s, which is utilized to describe the potential social dynamics process. This theory is of great importance in sociology, computer science, psychology and other disciplines where social systems can be represented as signed networks. The social balance problem is hard but very interesting. It has attracted many researchers from various fields working on it over the past few years. Many significant theories and approaches have been developed and now exhibit tremendous potential for future applications. A comprehensive review of these existing studies can provide us significant insights into understanding the dynamic patterns of social systems. Yet to our investigation, existing studies have not done this, especially from a dynamical perspective. In this paper, we make an attempt towards conducting a brief survey of these scientific activities on social balance. Our efforts aim to review what has been done so far in this evolving area. We firstly introduce the fundamental concepts and significant properties of social balance. Then we summarize the existing balance measures and present detecting/partitioning algorithms, as well as important empirical investigations in both physical world and cyberspace. We next mainly focus on describing and comparing the fundamental mechanisms of the dynamics models. Several existing problems not yet satisfactorily solved in this area are also discussed.
KW - Dynamics model
KW - Empirical study
KW - Signed networks
KW - Social balance
JO - Information Systems Frontiers
JF - Information Systems Frontiers