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Please don't politicise the police: Open letter to Priti Patel
More than 20 signatories representing race equality organisations have sent an open letter to Home Secretary Priti Patel.
Click here to download the full open letter to Home Secretary Priti Patel
The letter begins:
"We, the undersigned, wish to express our grave concerns regarding the recent announcements by Home Secretary Priti Patel on the 3rd and 11th August 2019, indicating the removal of the enhanced Section 60 authorisation conditions introduced by The Best Use of Stop and Search Scheme."
Rather than adopt an approach that embraces effective evidence-based policy, the Prime Minister and Home Secretary worryingly seem to be going in another direction."
The Coalition of Race Equality Organisations (CORE), which instigated the letter, comprises 15 charity and voluntary organisations working to end racial discrimination.
The joint letter goes on to say: "Whilst the use of Section 60 powers can be a useful policing tool when used sparingly as part of intelligence-led operations, it is largely ineffective for taking weapons off the street."
Data for the period April 2017 to March 2018 revealed that only 2% of stop and searches carried out under Section 60 led to an arrest for an offensive weapon. The Section 60 Stop and Search pilot study in seven areas of the UK started in April 2019 and was meant to have concluded and been independently assessed in September 2019. According to the Office of National Statistics, in the time of the pilot, stop and search increased from 19% - 22% but so too did knife crime and the number of homicides. Both the Home Secretary and the Prime Minister have rolled out this change of policy nationally, without awaiting the results of pilot study.
The letter continues:
"Home Secretary Patel's claims that 'stop and search' tactics are the foremost way to curtail serious youth violence are erroneous at best and disingenuous at worst. The Office of National Statistics recorded in 2016/17 that approximately two thirds of all stop and searches were targeted at drugs rather than possession of weapons.
"The latest announcements by the Home Secretary represent regressive and counterproductive policing policy and cheap political point scoring.
"Deliberately or not, the Section 60 proposals are too often discriminatory, inflammatory, ineffectual in reducing serious violent crime, and ultimately alienating to a generation of young children and adults that are from Black, Asian and ethnic minority (BME) heritage."
Katrina Ffrench of StopWatch UK, who was one of the letter's more than 20 signatories, said, "To ensure that policing is fair, effective and accountable it is essential that evidence-based policies are devised and adopted. Police forces and government departments must be held to account for promoting stop and search practices that are acknowledged as having a limited impact on violent crime."
Dr Zubaida Haque of The Runnymede Trust said, "It's particularly concerning that the government have rolled out S60 stop and search without waiting for the results of the pilot. If the evidence suggests that stop and search is not fit for purpose, and it doesn't have the consent of the many BME communities, then what makes the government and police forces think that removing 'reasonable suspicion' in stop and search powers will make it work better?"
For media enquiries call CORE communications officer, Lee Pinkerton: 07985 446 280
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The horrifying abuse of Child Q should catalyse the end of police in schools
Pontins and 'No Irish Need Apply': the prejudice that refuses to die
Amidst a backdrop of mobilisation against police institutional racism and misogyny in recent years, the case of Child Q sparked a reckoning with the harms of policing in schools.
Remi Joseph-Salisbury and Laura Connelly
Professor Louise Ryan and Professor Don MacRaild, of the Centre for Global Diversities and Inequalities at London Metropolitan University, explain how Pontins institutional discrimination links to Britain's long history of anti-Irish and anti-Traveller discrimination.
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This started as musings on where broadband connections enter buildings. It went further.
There's a few technical specifications that we've become very used to in our homes and offices for the last few decades, but they've not always been there. Their introduction to our lives has spurred changes in the construction of our dwellings, and our expectations of what we do in our lives. And another one is unfolding now.
Plumbing (Scheme Water, Sewerage), Electricity, and Broadcast TV have all had their impacts. Water in & out has remained largely unchanged in the last 50 years, having moved from outhouses to servicing dedicated 'wet' rooms in our buildings (kitchens, bathrooms, WCs). Electricity has crept from being provided for lighting purposes only, to additionally providing a single power socket per home, to multiple sockets per room at convenient places for us to leave devices semi-permanent plugged in. We've become accustomed to the 110v/60Hz and 230v/50Hz, and the sockets and plugs are generally down to several well known arrangements of pins and locking mechanisms.
With the dawn of broadcast TV (UK: 1936, US: 1948, Australia: 1965), and excluding set-top "rabbit ears", we've had antennas on roofs with coaxial cables leading to specific rooms: family rooms, bedrooms, etc. Using the superior reception of the roof-top antenna has meant that the placement of TVs was pretty much determined by the location of Co-Axial sockets in walls. Indeed, not just which rooms, but which corners and walls of specific rooms, close to these antenna sockets. While we've happily added multiple power sockets to rooms for future proofing our desire to rearrange our lives, co-axial cables suffered more loss with more joins to other sockets, so it was generally avoided.
Thus our layout of our homes has been throttled by the tether to the roof top antenna.
We are well into the next revolution delivery of our video feeds over a new carrier: IP and the Internet. The age of radio frequency broadcast is declining, and with it some of our cultural norms.
One impact is building design: a time will come when we'll no longer request TV broadcast antennas on buildings, and coaxial sockets on walls. This is replaced with either short range high speed WiFi such as 802.11ac, or wired Ethernet ports at gigabit speed (no less). Wireless has continued to increase in speed, but as with all broadcast spectrum, it is subject to interference from other wireless signals, which can impact throughput. A continual battle between ever faster wireless speeds, improved signal processing and interference handling, and cost considerations will play out to determine if our TVs will have a wired or wireless IP connection within the home.
Wireless has been through several generations, some of which are now well and truly dead. WEP encryption, once the critical protection for wireless networks, is known to be compromisable, and thus is abandoned today. Hardware devices that only implemented WEP are effectively junk. Devices with physical Ethernet socket have not suffered so – the trusty RJ45 100 base TX CSMACD works as well today as it did 20 years ago.
We'll see people opt to use wireless for video delivery within homes for short term savings, the aggressive rate of change on encryption and signalling standards for wireless networks will find many wireless-only devices become redundant before their time. We expect to get 10 – 20 years from a TV (its often an expensive item), but should WPA2 get compromised, then those hosts are vulnerable. We've already seen this with the KRACK vulnerability, and those vendors that did not patch their firmwares are probably vulnerable (both the Access Point and clients need patches to address KRACK for WPA2).
Of course, the interactions that your TV makes over whatever connection should indeed be over an encrypted transport, but even the encryption that uses – the key lengths, signature algorithms, all will be refreshed and strengthened over time. In the last 5 years we've seen web site certificates change in key length (1024 -> 2048 bit), signatures for asserting a chain-of-trust from a certificate authority move from what was MD5 to SHA1 to SHA256, the bulk encryption algorithms move from RC4 to AES128 to AES256 to Elliptical Curve algorithms, and message digest checksums from MD5 to SHA1, to SHA256, and not SHA384. Each of these changes needs to be applied to the software in your appliances for them to maintain the security you expect to be there.
Many manufacturers won't bother updating this on their already-shipped units; the disposable consumer sales cycle continues unabated and effectively is helped by these changes, and customers barely make any mention of the trouble of having to replace these items.
But as we move to IP delivery of video content, we also move to more of a video-on-demand world, and away from a time-of-broadcast (playout) world where all consumers – the audience in a broadcast area – would all get the same content at the same time.
30 years ago, when I was at school, the talk in the playground was of the latest episode of some show: MacGuyver, Airwolf, The A-Team, comedies like 'Allo 'Allo, The D-Generation, The Comedy Company, etc. With only a few select channels to choose from (3 where I was), your peers likely saw the same content at the same time, making for a shared experience that you wove into the daily fabric of society.
Shows with catch phrases became common place, and everyone knew them. Mark Mitchell gave Australia the "Couple o' days, Beautiful", and everyone knew the setting and connotation.
As we move to a VOD, subscription based scenarios, this disappears. Shows on one subscription service are not on others, or appear at different times. Subscription services cross local boundaries in a way that broadcast spectrum could never do with the limitation of transmitter power. People watch content at different times, in different months, from different countries (despite the continued attempt for geo-blocking). The social background noise of modern society is changed, disjointed.
I suspect that in the next decade, broadcast TV will disintegrate. Advertising spend will continue to shift to product placement in original content, and customised pre- and mid-roll ad insertion, customised to the view, tracked and targeted.
As broadcast TV declines, it heavily modifies the stalwart of most TV stations: TV news. While news has been available form multiple media sources, local broadcast TV news was always curated to somewhat balance local, national and global current affairs. If all journalism production costs the same, then stories filed that can be replayed in multiple territories have more value per second, and the decline of local stories.
I've watched local news for decades, paying attention to their mix of slow news days stories (car through a fence, cat up a tree) and more interesting ones (state general or by election results, perhaps investigative journalism – but that's on the decline). Its even interesting to sometimes see the format of content being padded out with in-content extended adverts for news clips that are scheduled later, the tweaks to the lower thirds straps, even the background animations that engage the reader in subtle ways. These things often annoy me at how much they con the audience's emotional engagement with a story. One local broadcast TV channel has a habit of applying a cinematic dust/sparkle video filter to most human-interest stories (cat up tree). They've played games with putting weather forecasts showing MIN (overnight) and MAX (daytime) temperatures on top of each other, and then sometimes MAX (daytime) on top of MIN.
One media that has withstood much change until now is broadcast radio. I suspect that because radio has had one place where its continued its existence without much challenge: vehicles. Vehicle manufacturers have been pretty slow at putting DAB radios into vehicles by default. AM and FM radios are still universal. I wrote in 1995 in the UWA student magazine Pelican about the dawn of MP3 as an audio format, and the start of Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB). The MP3 player was born – Apple seized on it with the iPod, and the Sony Walkman receded to the annals of history. And while DAB has been around for some time, the licensing and hardware has been at an expense that did not generally warrant the improvement in delivery, and clearly not supported by vehicle manufacturers.
But while broadcast radio has been compatible with what the listener is doing in vehicles: a threat is coming to the radio's last bastion. It's the same threat that is coming to organisations that live off driving license fees: self-driving cars. Drivers can then do other tasks: they can then look at screens. The radio will stop becoming an in-vehicle companion to millions of single-occupant cars, as those occupants will start viewing content instead of just listening to it. Eyes will come off the road.
By extension to this, the music industry relies on radio for socialising its content, encouraging people to either purchase content, or become customers to performers when they tour. With broadcast music no longer curated to seed the introduction of new content over time, artists will find it difficult to get established.
Coupled with the self-driving car is the move to electric vehicles, and the eventual drop in the petroleum fuel use, and the tax (excise) that is collected from this. Governments often use this as a source of funding road building. This model will have to change, probably to a tax-per-kilometer travelled on the owner of these vehicles.
And with self-driving cars, we can finally have some backward parts of the world switch to the metric system for units of distance and speed, without the risk of the human population getting it wrong and going too fast/slow/far.
Eventually, as my friend Paul Fenwick (PJF) has spoken of, the population will move to not owning vehicles, but calling them completely on demand – a la Uber/taxi, but without the human driver. These vehicles will get corporate ownership, and will all have live mobile broadband data links to each vehicle. They'll all have built-in dash cams, and logging of all activities in and out of the vehicles at all times. New advertising opportunities will rise up – screens in these vehicles will know the route you're about to take to advertise products and services on or near your route, so you can chose to stop off. They'll know your preferences, the environmental factors (warm, cold, sunny, rainy) and advertisers will bid to produce targeted advertising at you while you travel.
Next knock on effect from this is the car insurance industry. If the self-driving vehicle has less accidents, and the risk of death or major damage is less, then disruption will arrive here too. With only a few major self-driving-taxi companies that require insurance, the number of insurance companies will consolidate.
The self driving vehicle probably needs less street signs. It may require less street lighting. It may require less lane markings, cats eyes, number of lanes.
This probably sounds like a diatribe version of a Swardley map (hat tip to Simon). All these things are connected, generally by revenue streams or shared interests, and always by data and technology. As always, its all change, and resistance is futile.
I purchased my Pixel (in Australia) direct from Google about 12 months ago (as at December 2017). One of my primary reasons for purchasing a phone direct from the vendor is to explicitly avoid 3rd party (Tel co) pre-installed, forced additional 'value' software.
Telephone companies (collectively, Wireless Providers, Tel Co, Phone company, Mobile Company, Cell Provider or whatever your term is) seem to take vanilla smart phone firmware, and force-install their own additional software that they see as adding essential functionality. They also mark such software on Android as being not uninstallable, leaving the consumer with space consumed on their device for software they potentially don't want, or may want to free up later.
Telcos have a history of producing some fairly horrible 3rd Party software. Somehow they get the combination of inefficient software that drains battery life, causes system reboots, consumes inordinate amount of phone storage capacity for no obvious reason, and often has horrible security throughout, none of which is in the consumer's interest.
Given this software is not uninstallable, the consumer has two options over the life of the phone: either put up with the issues, or apply security updates for this bloat ware — if they are made available — which inevitable consumes more device storage space (apparently never less), and spin the wheel on changes around battery life, stability and security.
You'll note I say 'consumer' in the above, because if the Telcos treated the people paying them as customers, then perhaps they'd pay a bit more attention to customer experience and customer satisfaction, rather than forcing their own poorly implemented branded bloat ware on these devices. Even a boot logo — I'd rather have the default boot logo rather than have to fetch the animated loop for a Tel co to be displayed to me when I turn my phone on.
I had this with the original Google Nexus phone perhaps a decade ago, but phones I have used since then have suffered this bloat infestation. My wife has a Samsung Galaxy S4, with a combination of additional Optus and Samsung software crowding out the fixed-storage-space in the S4.
While Nexus returned with the 5P, it was the time that the Pixel launched that my S3 was on its last legs; and with an option of going direct to Google, I ordered one; a reasonably easy ordering process, good tracking for delivery.
The install looked great: just hook up a USB cable to the older Android phone, and everything should transfer — except it didn't work at all. The S3 (from Optus) was capped at Android 4.4, the Pixel shipped with Android 7, an the delta was too long a divide for a promised smooth transfer.
Oh well, looks likes this may be useful in future for easing the upgrade/transition/replacement path I thought.
Then the speaker started to play up.
Over the course of three months, the sound quality from the speakers (ie, when playing music, YouTube content, and phone Speakerphone mode) degraded (and eventually stopped, later). When the phone 'rang', it would be highly distorted audio. Speakerphone was not possible – you couldn't make out the words the caller was saying.
This is when I first contacted Google support.
Conveniently, Google support was contacted through a menu on the phone; either text chat, or a ring-back system that must have registered me into a queue, and called me when an agent was available. Neat.
After performing a few checks (ie, volume turned up), I was asked to firmware reset the phone. With MFA enabled on my phone for a few accounts (>30), I didn't want to loose those seeds; but would like to transfer them to a new handset, especially if the promised transfer experience was going to avoid me having to recover MFA set up. After explaining this, the call ended, but no replacement was forthcoming.
Fast forward until October, and the audio on speaker phone was completely dead, and I'd even tried the new Oreo release and any other software solution. So now another call with Google support; this time they confirmed on the phone they would send a replacement.
What they didn't say was that they would send a time sensitive email to my Gmail address (not my primary address) that Gmail would automatically filter into a folder called "updates" (ie, not my default view of my Gmail inbox) that required me to a lick a link to order a replacement model within 5 days.
So a week after the call, wondering where the process was up to, I discovered email (having not been told to click a link in an email); but the link had expired, so another call to get a fresh time based link generated.
Confusingly, while I was trying to replace a Pixel, support sent me a link that would only order a Pixel XL. I wasn't looking to change form factor (the Pixel fits nicely in my pocket). Another call – to sort this out, turned up that there were no Pixel replacements for RMA, and I would have to move to a larger handset.
The RMA procedure also required me to order a new one, a daunting process of having a UAD$1400 hold on my credit card, especially late in the pay cycle when there wasn't $1400 clear on my card to hold. A few days later, another support call, a fresh link to click and start the "order" (RMA) again.
Finally, it arrived. I connected the magic USB cable to initiate the transfer… hoping to keep copy media on the device, and the precious MFA seeds.
But it failed to start. Pixel 8.1 → Pixel XL 8.0 wouldn't connect over the USB cable, but after trying various options, and proceeding to join a common WiFi network, it did promise to copy over WiFi.
Sadly, account logins only for Gmail. No media, no seeds. Not even the set of applications installed on the old phone.
So the promise of a seamless upgrade over a back-to-back connection between handsets seems unfulfilled.
For my various work email addresses, I purchased and have been using Symantec Touchdown for about 6 years. Its a reasonable exchange client, and consisted of the Touchdown application, and the Touchdown License application (ie, two installations).
Now as stars align, Symatec have End-of-Lifed Touchdown. They did this by pulling the license installation from the Play store. So I am transferring my applications, and can no longer install the license I purchased from Symantec.
One of the nice points about the Pixel was that it charges quick., using a new USB connector. This rectangular connector is effectively symmetrical; it can be plugged in either way, and starts a very rapid charging process (like a percent per 30 seconds or so).
However, it appears to wear loose pretty quickly. Even on the Pixel XL (now two months old) the USB-C PD connector actually needs to be held in place to acquire a rapid charge. Numerous times I have connected it, seen the rapid charge begin, but returned to find that it had dislodged and not been charging at all!
So now I have to regularly check on a charging phone to ensure I don't need to grab-and-go and find its flat.
So some positives: the snapdragon processor seems pretty speedy; applications respond well.
The Chrome browser is regularly updated, and Security updates come through each month without delay (didn't get that with a Telco branded firmware).
The camera takes nice photos and videos, including some reasonable slow motion (either 120 or 240 fps) and nice panorama and photo-sphere pics (stitched on camera). The integration of photos.google.com into the phone to backup (and offload) media from the device works well.
The placement of the fingerprint sensor works well on the rear; with the same hand I am holing the phone I can unlock it. And unlike FaceID, it doesn't stink: I can register multiple fingers (ie, one from left hand, and one from right – H/A for my hands).
can I get my licence key or a refund?
stop forcing your software onto customers phones; make your 'essential' services available as web apps without requiring client side bloat, make them uninstallable, and ensure that Androind updates flow to customers as soon as possible (have you pushed WPA Krack updates yet?).


We're back in Ireland and unfortunately we weren't able to bring the Croatian weather back with us. So, on a rainy morning we headed down to our favourite farmers market to pick up some delicious food.
It was rather muddy so I had to tread very carefully to not ruin my new metalic runners! My warm, grey, drape front, Zara coat kept me warm and dry from the elements. I used my Parfois purse as a clutch, which meant I didn't have to carry round a big bag and had easy access to my phone and money while walking around the food stands. The heart shirt completed the casual look while injecting some fun!


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'High risk' social worker decision-making change in Working Together guidance questioned
Proposed change to working together guidance could remove the need for social workers to decide with managers when an assessment should be carried out
By Luke Stevenson on January 2, 2018 in Children, Workforce
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A proposed change to Working Together guidance which would see social workers not having to consult managers on certain assessment decisions is "vehemently opposed" by practitioners, a consultation response has said.
In its submission to the consultation on changes to working together guidance, which closed at the end of December, the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) said a there was "a lot of concern" among members about changes to social work assessments listed as a "minor" change in the document.
The government had proposed deleting the phrase "with their managers" from a section outlining how social workers should progress with assessments after a case is referred to children's social care.
At the time of the consultation being launched, BASW warned the omission could leave social workers "exposed".
Changes in full (emphasis added):
The current guidance says about timeliness: "The speed with which an assessment is carried out after a child's case has been referred into local authority children's social care should be determined by the needs of the individual child and the nature and level of any risk of harm faced by the child. This will require judgements to be made by the social worker in discussion with their manager on each individual case."
This will now read: "The speed with which an assessment is carried out after a child's case has been referred into local authority children's social care should be determined by the needs of the individual child and the nature and level of any risk of harm faced by the child. This will require judgements to be made by the social worker on each individual case."
In its full consultation response, it said members were "vehemently opposed" to the change given managers "are crucial in terms of accountability and shared responsibility".
BASW added the government had provided "no reason" for doing this, and that it would be a "high risk strategy" during a current climate of high turnover and an inexperienced workforce.
"When Working Together was revised in 2013 BASW England fought very hard for the inclusion of managers in the guidance as it was originally absent in the original draft consultation, so we are extremely disappointed by the omission."
The Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS), in its own response to the consultation, likewise said this change would be a "significant amendment".
"ADCS believes this warrants further discussion about the drivers for this change and the potential implications this may have, not least with the sector regulator," the response said.
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Harvey Campbell January 2, 2018 at 9:52 pm #
One wonders if this is driven by the commercial interests of the increasing number of private providers entering the children's social work market? if you place the risk and therefore any subsequent liability on individual practitioners you effectively reduce it for the company. Individual practitioners are then open to the litigation should mistakes arise rather than the organisation which employs them. Only saying!
leisa January 10, 2018 at 4:20 pm #
Dr Steve Rogowski January 4, 2018 at 3:10 pm #
If social work is a genuine profession, practitioners should be willing and able to make such decisions on a case by case basis, though this should not preclude consultations taking place with others as may be necessary.
An assessment in Safeguardng children and assessing risk is crucial to the ongoing decision making process for children, and the foundation of good practice. Lack of scrutiny over assessements for several years now has from my experience resulted in. Poor practice, Poor decision making, and poor outcomes for Children. (This is not saying there is not some excellent practice out there far from it) However removing a level of management accountability is decisive and unnecessary.
Removing that level of accountability can leave a SW vulnerable, and without appropriate support/backup. How easy it will be for managers to allow the SW to carry the responsibility. Outcome. More children and young people will be the removed from parents and placed into Local Authority care, This is not an assumption it is already happening. Its time to wake up. More children being received into care is not the answer. management distancing itself from accountability is not the answer. Responsibility is everybody business within the care system.
If social Workers can make these decisions without discussions with a manager, why do you need a manager? This protectionist behaviour is setting the SW up and protecting managers. Result more and more SW will be leaving the profession.
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Adam Jones: WHERE'S OUR SAY?
With Scotland due to hold a referendum to decide if they will remain part of the UK, I'm left wondering why the rest of us in the union don't get a say. After all, it's not just Scotland's future which is being decided, but the future of the UK as we know it.
I personally hold the view that we're stronger together than we would be alone, but polls suggest that most people in England would vote in favour of Scottish independence. And presumably, that's exactly what Alex Salmond wants; why else would he want 16 and 17 year-olds, amongst whom support for independence is greater, to vote in the referendum?
There is, of course, the argument that it's Scotland's future which will be decided by the referendum, so only Scots should have a say. But that's something I disagree with. Yes, Scots will have to live with their decision, but so will the rest of the UK. Everybody in the union will be affected, everybody pays taxes, so we should all have a say in the potential breakup of our union.
On the other hand, if all of the UK voted in a referendum, the views of Scots wouldn't be heard. What if Scots wanted to leave the union, but the majority of the UK voted for them to stay? We'd be forcing them to remain part of a union they don't want to be in. And what about the consequences for all of the citizens involved? Would trade be adversely affected? Would Scotland change its currency? Would we need a passport to enter Scotland? Clearly lots of questions need answering and people will need to be better informed before any referendum takes place.
Whatever the outcome, I believe we all need to have a say, but I do hope Scotland remains part of the UK.


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Q: Error when converting large .txt file to parquet format (apache-arrow) I'm working with a large .txt file and I'm trying to use arrow to process it. I opened the dataset, inspected it and it looks ok.
Next, I tried to partition it based on a column called COUNTY and convert it to parquet format. However, I'm getting this error:
    pq_path <- "ebird/files"
    data |>
     group_by(COUNTY)  |>
     write_dataset(path = pq_path, format = "parquet")

Error in env_bind0(env, data) : attempt to use zero-length variable name

What am I doing wrong?
Full code:
    data <- open_dataset(
      sources = "ebd_PT_prv_relDec-2022/ebd_PT_prv_relDec-2022.txt",
      format = "tsv"
    )

    data |> glimpse()

    FileSystemDataset with 1 csv file
    8,896,216 rows x 50 columns
    $ `GLOBAL UNIQUE IDENTIFIER`     <string> "URN:CornellLabOfOrnithology:EBIRD:OBS1533374605", "URN:CornellLabOfOrnithology:EB…
    $ `LAST EDITED DATE`      <timestamp[ns]> 2022-10-12 19:35:43, 2021-07-18 11:50:07, 2021-07-18 11:50:07, 2021-07-18 11:50:07…
    $ `TAXONOMIC ORDER`               <int64> 664, 6386, 6623, 6449, 444, 5689, 5433, 23729, 6469, 6563, 6973, 2033, 23151, 7125…
    $ CATEGORY                       <string> "species", "species", "species", "species", "species", "species", "species", "spec…
    $ `TAXON CONCEPT ID`             <string> "avibase-B77377EE", "avibase-FB02DD96", "avibase-4D2FF6F1", "avibase-E074D706", "a…
    $ `COMMON NAME`                  <string> "Common Eider", "Black-headed Gull", "Common Tern", "Yellow-legged Gull", "Gargane…
    $ `SCIENTIFIC NAME`              <string> "Somateria mollissima", "Chroicocephalus ridibundus", "Sterna hirundo", "Larus mic…
    $ `SUBSPECIES COMMON NAME`       <string> "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "Cory's Sh…
    $ `SUBSPECIES SCIENTIFIC NAME`   <string> "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "Calonectr…
    $ `EXOTIC CODE`                  <string> "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""…
    $ `OBSERVATION COUNT`            <string> "6", "X", "X", "X", "X", "3", "1", "X", "X", "X", "X", "X", "X", "X", "X", "X", "X…
    $ `BREEDING CODE`                <string> "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""…
    $ `BREEDING CATEGORY`            <string> "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""…
    $ `BEHAVIOR CODE`                <string> "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""…
    $ `AGE/SEX`                      <string> "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""…
    $ COUNTRY                        <string> "Portugal", "Portugal", "Portugal", "Portugal", "Portugal", "Portugal", "Portugal"…
    $ `COUNTRY CODE`                 <string> "PT", "PT", "PT", "PT", "PT", "PT", "PT", "PT", "PT", "PT", "PT", "PT", "PT", "PT"…
    $ STATE                          <string> "Lisboa", "Região Autónoma dos Açores", "Região Autónoma dos Açores", "Região Autó…
    $ `STATE CODE`                   <string> "PT-11", "PT-20", "PT-20", "PT-20", "PT-14", "PT-14", "PT-20", "PT-11", "PT-11", "…
    $ COUNTY                         <string> "Cascais", "Lagoa", "Lagoa", "Lagoa", "Abrantes", "Abrantes", "Ribeira Grande", "C…
    $ `COUNTY CODE`                  <string> "PT-11-CS", "PT-20-LG", "PT-20-LG", "PT-20-LG", "PT-14-AB", "PT-14-AB", "PT-20-RG"…
    $ `IBA CODE`                       <null> NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA…
    $ `BCR CODE`                       <null> NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA…
    $ `USFWS CODE`                     <null> NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA…
    $ `ATLAS BLOCK`                    <null> NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA…
    $ LOCALITY                       <string> "PN Sintra-Cascais--Cabo Raso", "St. Michaels, Azores", "St. Michaels, Azores", "S…
    $ `LOCALITY ID`                  <string> "L930224", "L15809663", "L15809663", "L15809663", "L22107968", "L2168609", "L29264…
    $ `LOCALITY TYPE`                <string> "H", "P", "P", "P", "P", "H", "P", "P", "P", "P", "H", "H", "H", "H", "H", "P", "P…
    $ LATITUDE                       <double> 38.70946, 37.75265, 37.75265, 37.75265, 39.40783, 39.31732, 37.77506, 38.70212, 38…
    $ LONGITUDE                      <double> -9.485836, -25.530767, -25.530767, -25.530767, -8.254034, -8.222752, -25.459442, -…
    $ `OBSERVATION DATE`        <date32[day]> 1891-10-01, 1900-10-01, 1900-10-01, 1900-10-01, 1939-01-03, 1944-04-09, 1957-11-26…
    $ `TIME OBSERVATIONS STARTED` <time32[s]> 09:00:00,       NA,       NA,       NA,       NA,       NA,       NA,       NA,   …
    $ `OBSERVER ID`                  <string> "obsr3419517", "obsr237338", "obsr237338", "obsr237338", "obsr3529974", "obsr35299…
    $ `SAMPLING EVENT IDENTIFIER`    <string> "S120076980", "S91932209", "S91932209", "S91932209", "S125612599", "S125610727", "…
    $ `PROTOCOL TYPE`                <string> "Incidental", "Historical", "Historical", "Historical", "Incidental", "Historical"…
    $ `PROTOCOL CODE`                <string> "P20", "P62", "P62", "P62", "P20", "P62", "P20", "P62", "P62", "P62", "P20", "P20"…
    $ `PROJECT CODE`                 <string> "EBIRD", "EBIRD", "EBIRD", "EBIRD", "EBIRD_POR", "EBIRD_POR", "EBIRD", "EBIRD", "E…
    $ `DURATION MINUTES`              <int64> NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA…
    $ `EFFORT DISTANCE KM`           <double> NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA…
    $ `EFFORT AREA HA`               <double> NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA…
    $ `NUMBER OBSERVERS`              <int64> 1, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, 1, NA, NA, NA, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 3, 3, 3,…
    $ `ALL SPECIES REPORTED`          <int64> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0…
    $ `GROUP IDENTIFIER`             <string> "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""…
    $ `HAS MEDIA`                     <int64> 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0…
    $ APPROVED                        <int64> 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1…
    $ REVIEWED                        <int64> 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0…
    $ REASON                           <null> NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA…
    $ `TRIP COMMENTS`                <string> "", "", "", "", "", "", "Purple Gallinule records uploaded by Marshall J. Iliff on…
    $ `SPECIES COMMENTS`             <string> "In Rei D. Carlos de Bragança. 2002. Inéditos - 1 das aves encontra-se taxidermada…
    $ ``                               <null> NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA, NA…
    >

    pq_path <- "ebird/files"
    data |>
     group_by(COUNTY)  |>
     write_dataset(path = pq_path, format = "parquet")

Error in env_bind0(env, data) : attempt to use zero-length variable name

A: You don't need to use group_by: if you want to partition the data, use the partitioning= (and optionally hive_style=) arguments:
pq_path <- "mtpq"
arrow::write_dataset(mtcars, pq_path, partitioning="cyl", format="parquet")
list.files("mtpq", recursive = TRUE, full.names = TRUE)
# [1] "mtpq/cyl=4/part-0.parquet" "mtpq/cyl=6/part-0.parquet" "mtpq/cyl=8/part-0.parquet"

If you want the subdirs to be just "4", etc, then add hive_style=FALSE.
I think for your data, you can simply use:
write_dataset(data, pq_path, partitioning = "COUNTY", format = "parquet")

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Q: cannot figure out how to get each answer in incremental loop I am coding a multiple choice quiz.
I have my questions as objects and each are contained in an array.
This is the code that I have.
Each object is names q1, q2 and so on.
for(int i = 0; i < questions.length; i++)
{
   System.out.println(questions[i]);
   choice = kb.nextLine();
   if(choice.equals(q1.getCorrectAns()))
   {
      correct++;
   }
}

The comparison works for the answer of question 1, but I don't know how to make the comparison change with each question.
Also I tried searching for how to ignore the case of user input, but the things I tried did not work. How can I achieve that?
Creation of the objects and the array
Question q1 = new Question("These are the rules that must be followed when writing a program.",
                                                                        "a. syntax", "b. punctuation", "c. key words", "d. operators", "a");
Question q2 = new Question("A group of statements are enclosed in __________.",
                                                                        "a. brackets []", "b. parenthesis ()", "c. braces {}", "d. any of these", "c");
Question q3 = new Question("This is an if statement that appears inside another if statement",
                                                                        "a. nested if statement", "b. structured if statement", "c. tiered if statement", "d. dislodged if statement", "a");

Question[] questions = new Question[3];

questions[0] = q1;
questions[1] = q2;
questions[2] = q3;

Here is the question object constructor
public Question(String question, String optionA, String optionB, String optionC, String optionD, String correctAns)
{
    this.question = question;
    this.optionA = optionA;
    this.optionB = optionB;
    this.optionC = optionC;
    this.optionD = optionD;
    this.correctAns = correctAns;
}

EDIT: My array only consists of the three questions. How can I print each one out, one time each, at random?

A: You're already iterating correctly over the questions when you do this: System.out.println(questions[i]); - you just need to do that for your answer comparison as well.
Specifically, instead of checking if(choice.equals(q1.getCorrectAns())), check for if(choice.equals(questions[i].getCorrectAns()))
As a note, you may want to consider changing your question output to do something like System.out.println(questions[i].getQuestion());, so you don't need to override Question.toString() to only output the question.


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LitStack Review: The Providence of Fire by Brian Staveley
Published on : 7 March, 2016 7 March, 2016 Published by : Sharon Browning
The Providence of Fire
Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, Book II
Brian Staveley
Brian Staveley seems like such a nice young man. Former teacher, editor at a small press specializing in poetry, he lives in Vermont and "divides his time between running trails, splitting wood, writing, and baby-wrangling."
It makes one wonder: just where does he come up with all the ideas to create such a massive, intricate, compelling, and yes, bloody epic fantasy tale as the "Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne"? The first of the series, 2014's The Emperor's Blades, clocked in at just under 500 pages; the second book in the series, The Providence of Fire, is over 600 pages. (The Last Mortal Bond, the third and final book, will be out later this month, and is purported to be over 650 pages.) And these pages – they are thick, full of intrigue and manipulation, loyalty and discipline, gods and monsters, brutality, betrayal, and sovereign responsibility. Sure, we've seen this before, but these books don't follow storylines across generations. They follow three siblings, and save for back story, barely span a year, let alone decades.
Fire-eyed Adare, Kaden and Valyn hui'Malkeenian are the children of Emperor Sanlitun. The siblings are now grown but separated, each training in their own way to be the pinnacle of service to the Empire of Annur. Eldest Adare, being female, will never inherit the throne, but her father keeps her close to his side, teaching her the business of running an empire. Kaden, the heir, has been sequestered for years with the Shin monks in their remote mountain compound, learning acute disciplines of mind and body. Valyn, the youngest, has become an elite warrior, leading a squadron of Kettral – fighters of legend who swoop in and attack from massive birds of prey.
In the first book, the three siblings' lives are thrown into turmoil when their powerful father is suddenly murdered. Adare staves off a religious uprising that she believes to be at the root of the treason, and Valyn and his "Wing", already investigating atrocities surrounding their own outfit, defy orders and set off to find Kaden, who, isolated in the remote mountains, is unaware that treachery is afoot. But Adare discovers that the emperor's murderer is someone much closer to the throne than was suspected, while Kaden barely escapes the guards he thought had come to escort him back to the Dawn Palace but who instead attempt a swift and brutal end to the Malkeenian line. Valyn, already declared a traitor to the Kettral, finds Kaden but not in time to do more than aid in his flight. But where do they go? Danger awaits at every turn.
In The Providence of Fire, the stakes get even higher. Each of the siblings must flee their circumstances, yet each does so with a vow to avenge their father, and to vouchsafe the legacy of the Unhewn Throne. Each believes they move in the best interests of their people, but separately they only see part of the ever-widening, complex puzzle of rule and conquest. It does not help that gods are masquerading as men, and that an ancient, powerful civilization, long thought to have been scattered, might again be exerting undue influence on the world. As Kaden, Adare and Valyn each move to keep their family and Empire from fragmenting – including staving off the threat of a horde of bloodthirsty barbarians, who for the first time in living memory have had their various tribes united under one brutal leader – they find that none of them are equipped to handle the powerful forces at play, or are even sure of whom to trust – including each other.
Be warned: The Providence of Fire is a bloody book, full of punishment meted out in pain, of unmitigated killing, of horrific actions of men during wartime, and of the callous mindset of those who torture, maim and kill in order to evoke terror and obedience. The narrative does not turn a blind eye to such things, but neither does it revel in it. While the novel's moral compass may of necessity waver, suffering is rarely, if ever, considered a solution to even the harshest of problems – and yet suffering abounds. Middle books in a trilogy often are mired in despair, meant to end in a bleak place so the audience is left to wonder if it is at all possible to triumph in the end, and this book certainly holds true to that ethos.
But oh, my… it is so full of beautiful writing, that one is compelled to keep reading, even when what looms promises horror. For example, here is a description of the cruel leader of the barbaric Urghul: "Unlike most extremely tall men, however, who tended to move in a series of gangly lurches, as though all their ligaments had gone slack, Long Fist carried himself with the languid grace of a cat, every motion of his approach a coiling or uncoiling, as though the deliberation with which he moved were a soft pelt sliding over sinew." Or this realization of Adare's, as she stands at the precipice of war: "She had had convictions once, beliefs about justice and honor, right and wrong, but the slow turning of the world, like a mill wheel over grain, had ground them down to flour so fine that it slipped softly and silently between her fingers."
Beautiful stuff, and worth reading. While the scope of author Brian Staveley's imagination might be alarming (in both good and terrifying ways), he certainly has a poetic way with words. Let's just hope he also believes in redemption, because by the end of The Providence of Fire, I was desperately hoping there would be some in his next book. But you better believe I'll be first in line to read it, regardless.
~ Sharon Browning
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Compensation for unfair dismissal is better than for redundancy and so redundancies can often result in unfair dismissal cases.
An employer does not have to be in a poor financial position to justify making redundancies.
Re-engagement following a redundancy can negate the redundancy entirely provided it is within a given time frame.


This is the tenth Christmas devotion of twenty-five Christmas countdown on-the-go, active, object lesson devotions with Bible verses to help us keep our focus on the true reason for the season! Each day snap a photo of each item for a visual and use as a photo challenge on Social Media, or with your family, small group, friends or just for yourself. It's a fun way to enjoy the presence of Christ each and every day as we look towards celebrating His birthday!
There is just something special about Christmas candy! The smiles and giggles its sweetness brings out in the young as well as the old is part of the joy of Christmas.
There is something else that brings a sweetness to the lives of others though and that is encouragement - "pleasant words."
Do our words build others up in their need of the moment and bring grace to those who hear? Both our words and actions affect those around us.
One of my sweet nieces participated in this Christmas Photo Countdown last year and posted her thoughts along with her photos to Instagram. On day 10 she shared the following story, and I was so touched by it, I asked if I could share it with all of you in this Christmas devotion!
She's a young mom with two young children. Remember the saying - "Mama said there'd be days like this!"? Well she was having one of those days, but the truth of Proverbs 16:24 turned her day around!
Just a few weeks ago I was in a long line to buy breakfast at the local grocery store. I was basically still in what I slept in with crazy hair!
A local police officer, whom I know from the kids' school, was eating breakfast with a friend, and I waved and smiled when I saw him.
It was one of those days. I was late getting the kids to school, I had a million things to do and I was not in the mood for any of it.
This officer walked up to the register, greeted me and proceeded to pay for my breakfast. You guys! I couldn't believe it! He made my day!
I walked to my car and just sat, thinking of what had just happened. And there, I decided that my life is good. Yes, I didn't feel like doing any of the tasks I needed to do, but at least I am able to when so many cannot. All it took was a sweet officer to show me that by his kind gesture.
The rest of my day I found myself being aware of people and smiling or saying hello to those I passed. Because, maybe, they were having a bad morning too and just needed a kind smile to turn it around.
Kindness...it is a strong and powerful gesture whether it is through "pleasant words" or kind actions. Today let's put this Christmas devotion into action and take the time to notice those around us and spread a little kindness. May God's Holy Spirit make this sweet fruit (Galatians 5:22-23) evident in our lives that it may have a ripple effect just like the policeman's act of kindness in my niece's story above.
May our words be sweet like candy and give grace to others.


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Our vision is to cultivate a reputation as a premiere resource for art and research with the highest standards of collection management and curation, establishing UART as a cultural destination accessible to all. In addition to becoming an essential visual arts partner for faculty and staff, UART aspires to provide welcoming spaces for reflection and inspiration where students and the local community are invested in our mission.


Abstract: We study theoretically and experimentally the transmission intensity of polarized light through the air-spaced Glan-type polarizing prsims. It is found that the variation of the transmitted intensity with the rotation angle deviates from Malus Law, exhibiting a cyclic fluctuation with the rotation angle. The occurrence of the disturbance is explained by the use of an argument based on the interference effect produced from the air-gap in the prisms. The theoretcal results are well agreed with the experimental ones. By selecting the proper cut angle of prism and reducing the thickness of air-gap in prism, the disturbance may be minimized.


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In the framework of the fifth edition of the Crans Montana Forum in Dakhla (Morocco), a special Programme, organised in cooperation with the New Leaders for Tomorrow and the African Women's Forum, will open an in-depth debate on Youth Entrepreneurship & Women's Leadership in Africa.
This Session will focus on the potential of young entrepreneurs and innovators to create skilled jobs and promote inclusive economic growth across the Continent.
The African economy is mainly based on Women, who play a crucial role in the emergence and Development of the African continent.
Nearly 25% of African Women are entrepreneurs. They have become the world champions of business creation.
In a context of Globalization, the emergence of a true modern African Women leadership, both in the private and public sectors, is a major necessity.
The time has come for the feminization of the economy and politics !
Supporting young Women entrepreneurs to become significant economic players on the Continent.
Fostering Women's and Young Entrepreneurs' access to finance in Africa : strengthening the role of International and Regional Organizations.


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Q: How to compare two columns with null values in different tables in Hive
We have two tables: TableA and TableB. TableA has null values. I want to compare the a.columnA with b.columnA
select count(*)
From tableA a
join tableB b
on a.ID=b.ID
and a.columnA!=B.columnA
The expect result should be 2, but the actual result is zero. This query does not compare the null value. How to compare a column with null value?

A: Use <=> (null-safe equality operator) negated comparison which returns FALSE in case one of the operands is null but TRUE when both are null and both operands have equal non-null values.
select sum(cast(not a.columnA <=> B.columnA) as int)
From tableA a
join tableB b on a.ID=b.ID

A: select count(*) From tableA a join tableB b on a.ID=b.ID and coalesce(a.columnA,'1')!=B.columnA
It works when I use coalesce


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Governor of the Federal Reserve (2008-2013)
Expert on Monetary Policy With Experience in Retail Banking and Business Lending
First Female Chairman of a Top U.S. Bank
Elizabeth "Betsy" Duke is central bank economist who got her start in retail banking and small business lending. As a result, her practical understanding of the retail banking industry shaped the decisions of the Fed during the crisis and the recovery, as she became the Fed's point person on housing, consumer and small business issues. Now the first female chairman of a top U.S. bank, Duke draws on her regulatory experience, bringing her understanding of the financial system, importance of safety and soundness, and risk management to her role at Wells Fargo. Audiences appreciate that Duke has walked down both Wall Street and Main Street, and her speeches highlight how governments can catalyze growth, protect investment and free access to capital for America's businesses.
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As a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from August 2008 to August 2013, Elizabeth "Betsy" Duke served as Chair of the Federal Reserve's Committee on Consumer and Community Affairs and as a member of its Committee on Bank Supervision and Regulation, Committee on Bank Affairs, and Committee on Board Affairs. With a straightforward style, Duke explains complex policy decisions in the language of the business leaders and bankers she has known her whole career. Her speeches shed light on the policies and decisions that have a rippling and profound impact on our economy, and she shares her insights for the economic future ahead.
Within a mere six weeks of her swearing in as a Fed Governor in 2008, crises brewed, with home lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac being taken into government conservatorship, Lehman failing and the Fed debating an $85 billion loan to AIG. The markets were bracing for a complete failure, and surely the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression. Many experts credit swift and bold actions by the Fed for stopping the tailspin. Duke's background in banking and lending proved invaluable for policy making during a financial crisis. Her working understanding of the retail banking industry shaped the decisions of the Fed during the crisis and the recovery as she became the Fed's point person on housing, consumer and small business issues.
Prior to her appointment to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, Ms. Duke was a community banker moving up from part time teller to community bank CEO. She was chief operating officer of TowneBank from 2005 to 2008, and was an executive vice president at Wachovia Bank, N.A., (2004 to 2005) and at SouthTrust Bank (2001 to 2004) which was acquired by Wachovia in 2004. Ms. Duke also served as chief executive officer of Bank of Tidewater, which was acquired by SouthTrust, and chief financial officer of Bank of Virginia Beach. She served on the board of directors of the American Bankers Association from 1999 to 2006, becoming the first woman to serve as chair of the ABA in 2004, and as a member of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
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Get Behind Me Satan é o quinto álbum de estúdio da banda americana The White Stripes, lançado em 7 de julho de 2005 pela gravadora V2 Recordings.

O álbum possui menor ênfase nas guitarras e mais participações do piano e do violão, além do uso de marimbas, como em "The Nurse" e "Forever For Her (Is Over For Me)". O guitarrista e vocalista Jack White apresenta uma técnica diferente de antes, sendo mais rítmico e fazendo uso menos constante de riffs agressivos. Outra novidade no álbum é Meg White cantando na faixa "Passive Manipulation".

Faixas
Todas as músicas escritas por Jack White.

 "Blue Orchid" – 2:37
 "The Nurse" – 3:47
 "My Doorbell" – 4:01
 "Forever for Her (Is Over for Me)" – 3:15
 "Little Ghost" – 2:18
 "The Denial Twist" – 2:35
 "White Moon" – 4:01
 "Instinct Blues" – 4:16
 "Passive Manipulation" – 0:35
 "Take, Take, Take" – 4:22
 "As Ugly as I Seem" – 4:10
 "Red Rain" – 3:52
 "I'm Lonely (But I Ain't That Lonely Yet)" – 4:19

Formação
 Jack White – guitarra, piano, vocais, marimba, tamborim
 Meg White – bateria, vocais, sinos, triângulo, percussão

Recepção da Crítica

A revista Rolling Stone considerou Get Behind Me Satan o 3° melhor do ano de 2005 e ele recebeu o Prêmio Grammy de Melhor Álbum de Música Alternativa de 2006. O álbum foi incluído no livro 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

O álbum chegou à 3ª colocação na parada The Billboard 200. Alguns singles também figuraram em diversas paradas: "Blue Orchid" (que chegou ao topo da Canadian Singles Chart), "My Doorbell" e "The Denial Twist".

Álbuns de The White Stripes
Álbuns de 2005
Álbuns vencedores do Grammy Awards

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When operating a centrifuge, there are things you can do to that will help ensure your success. Here is a guide to help you keep your centrifuge process on track.
Using the right size tube for the correct centrifuge is imperative for the success of your analysis. There are many different types of centrifuges out there and knowing which one you need is very important.
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These new centrifuge products are built with the end user in mind. The new innovative, ergonomic design makes these new models a great choice for any lab.
Choose from the new Z216 mk-2 microlitre centrifuge for compact, powerful centrifugation or check out our new versatile universal benchtop models.
We often receive call from potential customers that are in the market for a new centrifuge. More often than not, they are unaware of the many options and the pertinent information that is required to make an informed buying decision. I would like to provide you with some valuable information and important considerations that will hopefully make your job easier in the finding the right centrifuge for your lab.


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New Music – 2016
Khalid's Hit Single "Location" is the Most Played Song on Waffle House/TouchTones Jukeboxes for 2018
Khalid's "Location" Is the Most Played Song on Waffle House/TouchTunes Jukeboxes for 2018
Chris Stapleton, Imagine Dragons, Beyonce and Michael Jackson also take top honors in first-ever Tunie™ Awards Show
NORCROSS, Ga., Nov. 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Khalid and his hit "Location" scores the top song played on the TouchTunes Jukeboxes in 1,900+ Waffle House® restaurants as announced on the first-ever Tunie™ Awards show…
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WATCH NEW VIDEO! Singer/Songwriter Ola Onabulé Announces 3 East Coast Performance Dates for 2017
British-Nigerian Singer/Songwriter Ola Onabulé
to Make U.S. Performance Debut with Three East Coast Dates
Ola Onabulé, a charismatic and sophisticated British-Nigerian singer/songwriter who possesses emotional intensity and vocal virtuosity, is gearing up for his U.S. debut with performances in Washington DC, New York, NY, and Alpharetta, GA.
JaSupreme May 9, 2017 Concerts and Festivals, International, Jazz Vocals, New Jazz Releases, New Music Release, New R&B/Soul Releases, News-Update, Urban Jazz, Video, World Music Permalink
RCA Inspiration Celebrates Top Honors with 10 Wins at 32nd Annual Stellar Gospel Awards
RCA INSPIRATION TOPS HONORS WITH 10 WINS AT THE 2017 STELLAR AWARDS
Nashville, TN (March 27, 2017) – RCA Inspiration celebrated top honors this year on what's hailed as one of the biggest nights celebrating Gospel music, with 10 wins on the 32nd Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards.
JaSupreme March 27, 2017 Awards, Gospel, New Gospel Releases, New Music Release, News-Update, Special Events, Urban Gospel Permalink
Compilation/Greatest Hits Album WOW GOSPEL 2017 (2-CD/1 DVD) is Available NOW
HIT MUSIC SERIES WOW GOSPEL
CELEBRATES 20TH YEAR ON JANUARY 27, 2017
WOW GOSPEL 2017 CD and DVD Collection Features the Latest Hits from Kirk Franklin, Hezekiah Walker, Anthony Brown, Jekalyn Carr, Marvin Sapp, Shirley Caesar, Tamela Mann, Travis Greene, and More!
NASHVILLE, TN (January 27, 2017) – Today, the award-winning hit series WOW GOSPEL releases the latest must-have Gospel hits, with the new double-disc and DVD collection WOW GOSPEL 2017, available digitally and at all major retailers.
JaSupreme January 28, 2017 Compilations, Gospel, New Gospel Releases, New Music Release, News-Update, Urban Gospel, Video Permalink
Latice Crawford Receives 1st Stellar Gospel Music Award Nomination for Contemporary Female Vocalist of the Year
Gospel Recording Artist Latice Crawford
Receives Her First Stellar Gospel Music Award Nomination for Contemporary Female Vocalist of the Year
(New York, NY – January 17, 2016) — Gospel recording artist Latice Crawford receives her first Stellar Gospel Music Awards nomination for Contemporary Female Vocalist of the Year. "I am humbled and honored to receive this nomination," says Crawford.
JaSupreme January 18, 2017 Announcements, Awards, Gospel, New Gospel Releases, News-Update, Urban Gospel, Video Permalink
WATCH NEW VIDEO! Kirk Franklin Releases Lyric Video for "My World Needs You"
MUSIC ICON
UNVEILS NEW SINGLE
"MY WORLD NEEDS YOU"
Dallas, TX (January 9, 2017) – Today, 10-time GRAMMY® Award winning recording artist, songwriter and producer Kirk Franklin, has released his latest single, "My World Needs You" to radio stations. The heartfelt song speaks about the social injustices happening around the world today and calling upon God to bring strength in time of hardships.
JaSupreme January 15, 2017 Gospel, New Gospel Releases, New Music Release, New Singles, News-Update, Urban Gospel, Video Permalink
WATCH NEW VIDEO! R&B/Jazz Soul Vocalist Rob Clove Releases New Single "Timeless People"
R&B/Jazz Soul Vocalist Rob Clove Releases New Single "Timeless People" – LISTEN BELOW!
Rob Clove is a young international R&B/Jazz Soul vocalist, saxophonist and arranger from Fayetteville, North Carolina. Since commencing his career, he has had the privilege of studying and working with some of today's most respected artists in classical, jazz, and hip-hop.
JaSupreme January 1, 2017 Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Jazz Vocals, New Jazz Releases, New Music Release, New R&B/Soul Releases, New Singles, New Voices of Today, News-Update, Nu-Soul, Urban Jazz, Video Permalink
WATCH NEW VIDEO! Trombonist David L. Harris Drops New Single "Bein' Green" | New Album "Blues I Felt" Coming Feb. 2017
Trombonist and Vocalist
David L. Harris
"Bein' Green" Single Release Debut
December 2016 (New Orleans, LA) – After years of performing on stages around the world with artists and ensembles such as Dee Dee Bridgewater, Wynton Marsalis, Shannon Powell, Aaron Neville and The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, David L. Harris released his new single, "Bein' Green", on Sunday, December 11th.
JaSupreme January 1, 2017 Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Jazz Vocals, New Jazz Releases, New Music Release, New Singles, News-Update, Urban Jazz, Video Permalink
Jekalyn Carr Ends 2016 Spending 30 Consecutive Weeks in the Top 5 on Billboard's Gospel Airplay Chart with Single "You're Bigger"
GRAMMY NOMINATED TEEN SENSATION JEKALYN CARR SPENDS
30 CONSECUTIVE WEEKS IN THE TOP 5 ON BILLBOARD'S GOSPEL AIRPLAY CHART WITH HER #1 SINGLE "YOU'RE BIGGER"
ATLANTA, GA (Wednesday, December 28, 2016) – – Teen sensation Jekalyn Carr ends 2016 spending 30 consecutive weeks in the Top 5 on Billboard's Gospel Airplay chart with her #1 hit single "You're Bigger". The single debuted in the Top 5 on June 6th and landed at #1 on September 14th spending four non-consecutive weeks in that position.
JaSupreme December 28, 2016 Charts, Gospel, New Gospel Releases, New Singles, News-Update, Urban Gospel, Video Permalink
LISTEN TO NEW MUSIC! Jazz Artist OSARU Releases New Album "Stepping Up the B-Side"
Osaru has just released his fifth studio album titled 'Stepping up the B-side', available on CD baby and his website from 12/23/2016
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Dec. 23, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Osaru, a NC-based musician and physician, releases a surprise album just in time for the holiday season. His latest jazz release features lead soprano, and tenor saxophone sounds.
JaSupreme December 28, 2016 Jazz, New Jazz Releases, New Music Release, News-Update, Urban Jazz, Video Permalink
Eagle Vision to Release New Documentary "Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes" on Sept. 6th, 2019 | WATCH NEW VIDEO!


Interviews can be mobile as well.
Valicon implemented its first CAPI project in 2002, when we started implementing the "National Readership Survey". In 2006 the CAPI method was used for other projects as well. Today, practically all projects are implemented electronically – with laptops, tablets or smart phones.
Valicon developed its own software tools for interviewing and online panel management. The software for all types of data collection (CATI, CAPI, CAWI, CAMI) is called AI (Assisted Interviewing) and enables collection of survey data though different channels simultaneously. We have our own team of developers or programmers, who continuously add new functions to the tools, which allows us implementation and adjusting to more demanding projects or projects with special requirements.
Consumer data Interviewing and data collection with modern approaches Analytics and Prediction Turn your big data into competitive advantage. Custom made solutions Understand your customer and market. Strategic consulting Take the optimal path and reduce decision risk.


Communist Chinese controlled media vs Rupert Murdoch controlled media.
A great time for Julie Bishop to earn her keep.
Took him a few milli-seconds to decide to go to war.
"the miracle of parliamentary democracy"
Bring back Abbott, even without the blue tie.
Chaney Family values & Corporate Ethics, searching for the truth.
Don't touch negative gearing, no free market rubbish in housing market.


As mentioned briefly [below](http://blog.stanfordreview.org/2010/01/04/1-4-2010-the-day-in-review/), the local ABC affiliate [is reporting](http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/politics&id=7200476) that Stanford has been labeled an "enemy" of Iran. The exact details are unclear (the report focuses on commentary from [Abbas Milani](http://www.stanford.edu/~amilani/), who was already [labeled dangerous](http://www.stanforddaily.com/cgi-bin/?p=1032399) by Iran back in August and there's no particular citation of an announcement by Iran of Stanford University as an enemy), but if it's true it may be a real sign that the regime is in fact disintegrating. After all, I'm the last person to say that Stanford isn't important, but is it really worthy of being announced as an "enemy" organization by a state? If Khamenei sees this as his best move, he's really grasping at straws. Might we be seeing regime change in [some form](http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/06/18/opinion/main5095841.shtml) soon?


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Cophixalus timidus is a species of frog in the family Microhylidae. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea. It is threatened by frequent fires set in its habitat.

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Amphibians of Papua New Guinea
Amphibians described in 2006