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It's the final countdown – Mercedes-Benz C-Class Cabriolet shows taillight from under wraps
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Elena Luchian, February 18, 2016
Home Mercedes Benz C-Class It's the final countdown – Mercedes-Benz C-Class Cabriolet shows taillight from under wraps
The game is on again! The Mercedes-Benz C-Class Cabriolet is posted on the internet once more, but this time, it is all wrapped up in grey cloth. The Stuttgart grand brand will be taking the wraps down on March 1st, in Geneva.
Only one taillight is out from beneath the cloth that stretches on its elegant lines in the pictures that shows the cabriolets that the brand is taking to the year's second auto show, the one in Switzerland.
On the 86th edition of the Geneva Motor Show, Mercedes-Benz is displaying the Dream Car collection in all its glory.
This comes 5 days after the Cabriolet was sent online in the shape of a sketch. The convertible is set to join an exclusive entourage made up by the smart fortwo cabriolet, the SL, the SLC and the AMG S 65 Cabriolet.
A C 300 version will likely be revealed first, sporting a 2.0-liter 4-cylinder engine developing 245 HP. But the brand is saving the best for last. The Mercedes-AMG C 43 and C 63 versions will follow shortly with a power boost under the hood: the 3.0-liter V6 roaring out no less than 367 HP and upgraded chassis performance for the mid-level C 43 and the 4.0-liter biturbo V8 boasting roughly 510 HP for the performance-oriented C 63. A C 350 Plug-In version is also expected to show up later on.
The C-Class Cabriolet comes with a soft top, unlike its convertible rival, the BMW 4 Series, but similar to the open-air Audi A5.
The first ever convertible set to bear the C-Class badge will have its world premiere on the 1st of March in Geneva and is going to hit the showrooms next autumn.
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Technology Q&A
BY STANLEY ZAROWIN
Browser navigation: Although you can surf Web pages with your mouse by clicking on the Forward and Back buttons, you also can give your mouse a rest and accomplish the same actions on the keyboard. To move back, hold down the Alt key and press the left arrow key; to go forward, press the right arrow key.
Excel: Once you've worked hard to create a formula in Excel, wouldn't it be nice if you could save it in a convenient workbook? Unfortunately, Excel lacks that ability. But you can copy formulas into a text file and then store the file on your desktop for instant reference.
Internet Explorer: Instead of using your mouse to move your cursor to the address bar to enter a URL, press Alt+D.
Windows: To quickly minimize several open files, click on the Show Desktop on the desktop toolbar or press the Windows key+D. Likewise, the fastest and easiest way to get to your desktop is to click on the Desktop icon, which looks like this:
If the icon is not in your taskbar, you can put it there by right-clicking on an empty space in the taskbar and then clicking on Toolbars and placing a check next to Quick Launch .
Word: To return immediately to the place in your text where you ended up during your last editing session, press Shift+F5 after you open the document.
STANLEY ZAROWIN, a former JofA senior editor, is now a contributing editor to the magazine. His e-mail address is zarowin@mindspring.com .
Do you have technology questions for this column? Or, after reading an answer, do you have a better solution? Send them to contributing editor Stanley Zarowin via e-mail at zarowin@mindspring.com or regular mail at the Journal of Accountancy, 201 Plaza Three, Harborside Financial Center, Jersey City, NJ 07311-3881.
Because of the volume of mail, we regret we cannot individually answer submitted questions. However, if a reader's question has broad interest, we will answer it in a forthcoming Technology Q&A column.
On occasion you may find you cannot implement a function I describe in this column. More often than not it's because not all functions work in every operating system or application. I try to test everything in the 2000 and XP editions of Windows and Office. It's virtually impossible to test them in all editions and it's equally difficult to find out which editions are incompatible with a function. I apologize for the inconvenience.

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Amongst one of the most prevalent electrical wiring issues is regarding how to wire a swap. Even though working with switches in your own home is fairly quick, wiring just one may not be that uncomplicated for everybody. An ON-OFF switch is definitely quite simple to wire. You can find different kinds of switches, but for this example, let us say you are setting up a single-pole toggle switch, an exceedingly frequent change (along with the simplest).
You'll find three colours of wires in the standard single-pole toggle switch: black, white, and eco-friendly. Splice the black wire in two and connect them around the terminal screws - just one on best and also the other to the bottom screw with the swap. The white wire serves to be a resource of uninterrupted power which is commonly linked into a light colored terminal screw (e.g., silver). Link the eco-friendly wire to your ground screw of one's switch.
These measures would frequently be adequate for making a standard switch operate and not using a trouble. Nevertheless, for those who are certainly not self-confident you can accomplish the job properly and safely and securely you improved enable the pros do it as a substitute. Just after all, there's a purpose why this process is without doubt one of the most typical electrical wiring questions questioned by the majority of people.
For a few purpose, how you can wire a ceiling fan is also certainly one of by far the most widespread electrical wiring queries. To simplify this process, you can use a single switch for the single ceiling fan. To wire the supporter, it is really merely a issue of connecting the black wire in the ceiling fan to the black wire with the change. If there is a light, the blue wire must be related on the black wire with the change likewise.
There are actually explanations why these are by far the most commonly requested electrical wiring inquiries. 1, lots of consider it truly is simple to carry out, and two, they're the frequent electrical jobs in the home. But then you definitely must not set your protection at risk in the goal to save cash. The stakes could even be considerably larger should you seek to lower your expenses and do an electrical wiring career devoid of sufficient information or practical experience.


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RICHARD J. CASSIDY, Four Times Peter: Portrayals of Peter in the Four Gospels and at Philippi (Interfaces; Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2006). Pp. xiv + 154. Paper. $US15.95.
This study of the apostle Peter appears within the fourth set of Interfaces volumes edited by Barbara Green, OP. Designed to make biblical studies engaging as well as instructive at college level, the series focuses upon a single biblical character (or pair of characters) and aims to introduce students to new methodologies current in biblical studies.
In this study, Richard Cassidy, well known from a series of works relating the Gospels and Acts to the Roman world, adopts the methodology of narrative criticism, the chief aspects of which he sets out in an opening chapter. In strict adherence to the narrative approach Cassidy takes each Gospel as a finished whole, eschewing any consideration of sources or of relationships between the Gospels themselves. Thus, the main body of the work consists of distinct and independent considerations of the figure of Peter in each of the four Gospels. A concluding chapter imaginatively reconstructs the reception of the portrayal of Peter in each of the four Gospels as they arrived one by one at Philippi.
A major thesis is that, in writing principally about Jesus, each evangelist presents a fundamentally positive evaluation of Peter, an evaluation that first-century readers/auditors at Philippi would have themselves endorsed. Each chapter concludes with a chart plotting the evaluative 'trajectory' of Peter as this emerges from the narrative, including the external predictive prolepsis of his post-Easter career, as chief pastor of the church and martyr.
The contribution of narrative criticism with respect to story time in this way is perhaps the most interesting feature of the work. In other respects, though clearly based on wide reading, it adds little to the scholarly literature on Peter—which, admittedly, within the ambit of the series, it was hardly called upon to do. The separate trawl through each of the Gospels, focusing first upon the figure of Jesus, then of the disciples in general, then upon Peter, while possibly enlivening in lecture presentation, becomes tediously repetitive as a written text.
The concluding study of the reception of the four Gospels at Philippi is at once the work's most creative and most problematic feature. Cassidy's previous research has equipped him well to present a convincing portrayal of the highly Romanised colony of Philippi and of the community of believers there. One wonders, however, whether this is not where the narrative critical and the historical critical approach come crashing into conflict. Cassidy speculates whether "paradigm readers" of each Gospel were to be found in Philippi or would eventually evolve there through re-reading of the narratives and further information. He opines that the Philippians' image of Peter would already have been informed by their reading of two letters of Paul, 1 Corinthians and Galatians. He then surveys the likely reception of each Gospel as it arrived in Philippi. But all this is done without any reference to possible times or dates of the arrival of these documents in Philippi. Yet we simply do not know when any of these works arrived in the community; the time-range could be from as early as the late 50s to 120 C.E. Moreover, if the impact of the presentation of Peter in Luke's Gospel is considered, why is the witness of Acts, where Peter also bulks large, simply not mentioned? Did Acts not reach Philippi? And, if it had, what would the Philippians have made of the very different presentations of the relationship between Peter and Paul in Acts and in Galatians? In short, there is so much conjecture and speculation in this attempted reconstruction of readers' reception of the texts in question that one wonders about the pedagogical usefulness or even validity of this final exercise.
The material collected in this work overall would doubtless have made for a stimulating lecture series or intensive workshop. As a written text, it is less successful.
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The area has a long and interesting history, including some fascinating shipwrecks, which you can discover on a series of shorewalks. SSCP is a great place to explore on foot, by bicycle or by canoe, particularly along the spectacular meanders of the Cuckmere River.
The Visitor Centre is situated in an 18th century barn, and provides useful information on the Park with displays and exhibitions. There is also a shop with leaflets, maps and souvenirs on sale.
Exceat Farmhouse Restaurant provides home baked fare of traditional and continental cuisine. The restaurant is open daily throughout the year and caters for individuals, groups, functions or business conferences. It has a beautiful walled garden that is ideal for wedding parties for up to 60 guests, telephone 01323 870218 for further details.
Seven Sisters Country Park is situated at Exceat in East Sussex, just off the A259 between Eastbourne and Seaford. It is easily accessible from anywhere in the South East but to preserve the unspoilt beauty of the South Downs we'd prefer you to leave your car at home.
The park is well served by public transport.
Buses 13 & 12 from Brighton/Eastbourne, and from further along the coast, stop at the Park entrance.


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The UNJABBED are Now Being Branded, Shamed and Punished
1 The UNJABBED are Now Being Branded, Shamed and Punished Sun Jun 13, 2021 10:50 am
Video: Police in Rural India Force Unvaccinated to Wear Skull and Crossbones Signs
Date: June 12, 2021Author: Nwo Report
Source: Breitbart
Police in rural central India forced local residents who were not vaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus to wear placards bearing a skull and crossbones — a universal symbol of danger — this week, Reuters reported Thursday.
Police officers in the Niwari district of Madhya Pradesh state decided to enforce the sign-wearing as a way to encourage local villagers to receive a Chinese coronavirus vaccination. Officers learned which villagers were not vaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus and assigned them skull and crossbones signs to wear on their person. The signs included additional text reading, "Do not come near me, I am not vaccinated. Please stay away from me."
Madhya Pradesh cops are FORCING anyone who hasn't been vaccinated to wear skull and crossbone sing, and a warning for others to AVOID them.
Conversely, they are rewarding those who do get a jab with colourful badges with text reading "I'm a patriot as I'm vaccinated". pic.twitter.com/6RgCvkTdFM
— Jason Noble (@one_jason) June 10, 2021
Video footage from Niwari district now viral online shows some people wearing the large skull and crossbones signs across their chests.
"Watching the low vaccination rate in our district we decided to honor the people who got vaccinated, but then we also found a large number of people who were not vaccinated," Santosh Patel, a sub-divisional police officer assigned to the Prithvipur block of Niwari district, told Reuters on June 10. "So to teach them a lesson and encourage them to get vaccinated, we administrated an oath to get them inoculated as soon as possible."
https://nworeport.me/2021/06/12/video-police-in-rural-india-force-unvaccinated-to-wear-skull-and-crossbones-signs/
No jab, no phone: Unvaccinated to have SIM cards blocked, Pakistan's Punjab govt says
Source: RT
Punjab's provincial government is turning to coercive measures to increase participation in its Covid-19 vaccination program, after unveiling plans to disable the SIM cards of people who decline to get jabbed.
The extreme decision was made during a meeting of high-ranking civil and military officials chaired by Punjab Health Minister Yasmin Rashid.
Rashid said that the policy would disable SIM cards belonging to those who fail to get vaccinated "beyond a certain time."
"We are doing all we can to compel people to get vaccinated… The government cannot allow individuals, who do not want to get vaccinated, to risk lives of those who are already vaccinated," the health minister told Pakistan's Express Tribune. She said that the provincial government would devise a timeline for the policy's implementation once it received formal approval from the National Command and Operation Center, which coordinates Pakistan's national response to Covid-19.
Punjab's Primary and Secondary Health Department announced the measure on Thursday in a tweet detailing the outcome of the meeting.
"Mobile SIMS of people not getting vaccinated may be blocked," the department wrote.
Officials later signaled that the plan was moving forward.
"[A] final decision has been taken to block the mobile SIM cards of people not getting vaccinated," Punjab Specialized Healthcare Department spokesman Syed Hammad Raza told Dawn, a Pakistani daily.
Citing a senior health department official, the paper said that the Punjab government will seek help from the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) in order to implement the policy.
The measure is designed to counter "negative propaganda" about the jab and ensure that vaccination targets are met, Dawn reported, citing the official. The provincial government is aiming to vaccinate 40 million residents by November.
After over a year of refusing to take the COVID vaccine and warning others about the potential dangers, Alex Jones finally plunges the needle into his arm, but the question remains- what's in it?
In addition to the SIM card restrictions, authorities might also ban unvaccinated people from going to parks, restaurants and malls, according to media reports.
Punjab is the most populous province of Pakistan, containing more than half the country's total population, as well as the country's second-largest city, Lahore. The regional government began its vaccination drive in March, but has struggled to drum up enthusiasm for the public health initiative. Mobile vaccination camps are being deployed near religious shrines across the province in an effort to make the jab more accessible.
Governments around the world have adopted a range of measures to promote vaccination efforts, but some policies have been criticized as gimmicky or heavy-handed.
In the US state of Washington, legal marijuana retailers are giving free joints to those who've taken at least one dose of the Covid vaccine. Restrictions have also been used to compel people to get the shot. In some countries, such as Israel, unvaccinated citizens are barred from entering certain venues.
Punjab isn't the only region in Pakistan to take a more extreme approach to vaccination. In Sindh province, plans have been announced to stop the salaries of government employees who refuse to receive the jab.
https://nworeport.me/2021/06/12/no-jab-no-phone-unvaccinated-to-have-sim-cards-blocked-pakistans-punjab-govt-says/
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It was an exciting 2 days of competitive swimming at the Good Hope Pool in St Paul's where just over 300 registered swimmers from primary schools throughout the island participated in the CIBC-FCIB Inter-Primary Schools swim competition.
From novice swimmers to more competitive swimmers the 2-day event augured well for the development of the sport in Grenada.
The event was coordinated primarily by the Ministry of Sports with support from the Grenada Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) and the meet's sponsor, CIBC First Caribbean International Bank. It provided an avenue for the development of competitive swimming in our nation's schools. With 28 schools registered in the 2017 meet, it was heartening to welcome the return participation of Carriacou and Petite Martinique, which have been absent since 2012.
The descent of 300 swimmers on Grenada's lone 4 lane swimming facility has further highlighted the desperate need for new facilities to support the development of swimming in Grenada. The inadequate shelter, toilet and change facilities posed particular challenges to the staging of this growing primary school event. Despite these challenges, the 2017 Inter-Primary School Swim meet can certainly be hailed as a success.
Emerging from the competition several records was broken, and a new champion was crowned for 2017. In the Girls' competition, Westmorland Junior School placed 1st with 189 points, followed by Alpha Junior with 133.5 points and the 2016 defending champion, St Mary's Junior School, finished 3rd with 115 points.
In the Boys' division, Alpha Junior dominated to take home the championship with a total of 212 points, dethroning Westmorland Junior School, the 2016 champion, who placed 2nd this year with 169 points, while St Mary's Junior School placed 3rd with 129 points.


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My Spy Family for Kindle Entertainment
My Spy Family revolves around the adventures of the Bannon family who seem, at first glance, to be a normal family but are deeply involved in various forms of espionage. The Bannon parents are both ex-spies – one Russian, one British.
The brief called for the spying heritage of the family to be explained in a fun and exciting way and to include a logo suitable for use across all media, merchandising and the web. Bottletop's answer to the brief was to create a continuous 'story' illustrating each individual character and their relationships to each other. The overall design was deliberately retro and light-hearted with a strong, punchy logo reminiscent of James Bond.
Using a combination of hand drawn backgrounds and a live action green screen shoot at ITV's Leeds Studios Bottletop composited the sequence in After Effects. End credits for the series were created in the same style for each episode and delivered digitally via ftp to the series editor in Leeds. My Spy Family has since completed a second series for Boomerang with graphics provided by Bottletop.
Kindle Entertainment asked Bottletop to design and produce the titles for My Spy Family, a new children's series for Boomerang, transmitted on Cartoon Network.


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Gillingham 1 Charlton Athletic 0
by ChicagoAddick on September 17, 2017
Is it too early to be cynical?..
Our first defeat at The Priestfield in 88 years. Robinson is big on records, and it doesn't get much bigger than that. Mind you we haven't had the misfortune to play our Kent neighbours that many times over the decades but in recent years we have not played well there. Yesterday was no different.
We lost to a 2nd half goal from Tom Eaves, similar to one we conceded at home to Wigan in the week and we had no answer save for loads of balls pumped into the box. We huffed and puffed against a team that specialise in huffing and puffing, and we weren't good enough. Sure we had hundreds of shots at goal, and apparently their 'keeper was man of the match, but he hardly put in a Nick Pope type performance.
Holmes, the one player who looked like he could turn the key, was booked stupidly, even though the ref apologized after. He will now miss Saturday. They had a goal disallowed, we should have had a penalty, Addicks fans threw smoke bombs on the pitch. End of report.
So, 8 games down. After 6 we were getting a little excited. It was too early then, and it is too early now, but worrying signs are there for Robinson, ones that we are all too familiar with. Yes the first XI is very decent, but players such as Magennis, Holmes, Solly, Kashi, JFC, Fosu cannot be expected to perform every week, or stay 100% fit.
Gillingham, like Wigan, found a way to beat us. Robinson is not only wedded to his system, but doesn't have the resources to change it. He also doesn't have the personnel to rest players from the arduous Tuesday, Saturday, Tuesday slog. He talks about Reeves' fitness, but why the club waited until the last minute to sign him showed again a lack of orderliness and ambition, even though we know full well that Robinson pushed and pushed.
1-0 down, and with 10 minutes to go we bring on Ahearne-Grant and Konsa, one league goal between them since they broke into the first team. Robinson was very critical of the lack of impact his subs have had this season, but as he said himself "it's the way we've gone." The Duchatelet way. Just enough. But as we have seen since the Belgian took over, not enough.
Quote: "They should be coming on with the talent that they've got and doing something different."
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Q: Controlling for covariates in R ggplot2 My goal is to plot a geom_smooth (in the first instance) based on a linear model controlling (or centering) for covariates. I can easily produce a chart that plots the IV (x) and the DV (y), but I can't seem to figure out how to adjust the DV for covariates.
Variables:
"Age" = as stated (covariate to be controlled for)

"Gender" = as stated (covariate to be controlled for)

"O" = Openness (non-mean-centred personality trait - see "Omc")

"E" = Extraversion (the non-mean-centred independent variable to be plotted)

"Professionals" = Occupation (the non-mean-centred moderator variable to be plotted)

"Omc" = Mean-centred Openness (covariate to be controlled for in the lm model)

"Emc" = Mean-centred Extraversion (independent variable in the lm model)

"Pmc" = Mean-centred Professionals (moderator variable in the lm model)

"OxP" = Openness x Professionals interaction term (controlled for in the lm model)

"ExP" = Extraversion x Professionals interaction term (of primary interest in the lm model and serves as the justification for the ggplot)

Here is the code I have for the model and the associated chart:
lm.js <- lm(Job_Very_Stressful ~ Age + Gender + Omc + Emc + Pmc + OxP + ExP, data = df.eg)
summary(lm.js)

ggplot(df.eg, aes(x = E, y = Job_Very_Stressful, col = Professionals)) + geom_smooth(method = "lm", alpha = 0.25) + labs(x = "Extraversion", y = "Job Stress") + theme(legend.title=element_blank(), legend.position = "top", text = element_text(size=13), axis.text = element_text(size=10), panel.grid.major = element_line(colour = "grey", size = 0.5, 3)) + coord_cartesian(ylim = c(1.00, 10.00), xlim = c(1.00, 7.00)) + scale_y_continuous(breaks = seq(1.00, 10.00, 0.50)) + scale_x_continuous(breaks = seq(1.00, 7.00, 1.00))

Sample data using dput(head(df.eg, 50)) (these data will not produce a significant lm result, but it doesn't matter for this purpose):
structure(list(Age = c(37L, 66L, 33L, 55L, 60L, 61L, 27L, 54L,
55L, 33L, 33L, 27L, 20L, 25L, 18L, 38L, 36L, 41L, 38L, 58L, 37L,
32L, 45L, 24L, 51L, 37L, 15L, 48L, 43L, 19L, 49L, 39L, 38L, 28L,
42L, 26L, 37L, 58L, 55L, 46L, 57L, 45L, 16L, 27L, 33L, 58L, 23L,
60L, 30L, 24L), Gender = c(1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L,
2L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 1L,
1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 1L, 2L,
2L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 2L, 1L, 1L, 2L), O = c(6.16666666666667,
4.16666666666667, 5.16666666666667, 4.66666666666667, 6.5, 4.66666666666667,
3, 4.5, 5, 4.16666666666667, 3.5, 3.5, 4.66666666666667, 4.33333333333333,
4.83333333333333, 3.66666666666667, 6, 5.5, 2, 4.66666666666667,
3.16666666666667, 3.33333333333333, 3.66666666666667, 2.5, 4.33333333333333,
6.83333333333333, 5, 4.16666666666667, 4.66666666666667, 5.5,
4.33333333333333, 5.16666666666667, 3.5, 2.66666666666667, 5.33333333333333,
2.16666666666667, 4, 4.16666666666667, 4.16666666666667, 3.83333333333333,
2.83333333333333, 5.5, 3.33333333333333, 5.83333333333333, 4,
2.83333333333333, 5, 3.83333333333333, 4.83333333333333, 5.83333333333333
), E = c(5.33333333333333, 5.16666666666667, 5.83333333333333,
5.5, 5.33333333333333, 6.83333333333333, 4.5, 5, 6.83333333333333,
4.66666666666667, 3, 4.5, 5.33333333333333, 6.16666666666667,
5.16666666666667, 5.66666666666667, 6.5, 2, 3.16666666666667,
3.16666666666667, 2.83333333333333, 4, 3.66666666666667, 3.16666666666667,
4.16666666666667, 3.33333333333333, 6.5, 3.83333333333333, 4.33333333333333,
2.83333333333333, 4, 4, 3, 5.33333333333333, 3.83333333333333,
3.83333333333333, 4.33333333333333, 5.66666666666667, 4.33333333333333,
5.83333333333333, 3.83333333333333, 2.66666666666667, 4.16666666666667,
4.66666666666667, 4.5, 3.83333333333333, 6.5, 3.5, 4.33333333333333,
5.5), Professionals = c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L,
1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L,
0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L,
0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L), Job_Very_Stressful = c(1L, 1L,
5L, 7L, 1L, 3L, 5L, 5L, 4L, 6L, 4L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 4L, 2L, 1L,
1L, 2L, 5L, 5L, 2L, 6L, 5L, 5L, 2L, 5L, 3L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 7L, 1L,
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"Job_Very_Stressful", "Omc", "Emc", "Pmc", "OxP", "ExP"), row.names = 2275:2324, class = "data.frame")

A: The jtools package has recently been released and has an option to center plots for the mean of covariates.

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Gareth Evans is this generation's go-to action film auteur. With just four feature films under his belt, it seems the Indonesia-based director is gunning for a spot alongside James Cameron, John Woo or even Sam Peckinpah. The Raid 2 suggests that perhaps Evans might not be confined to the action genre exclusively. This is a sprawling crime drama punctuated by increasingly visceral and inventive sequences of violence and action. That said, despite its ambitions, the sequel to the 2011 low-budget martial arts brawler The Raid does not quite meet those ambitions. This is a flawed and messy film for sure, but it gets by on defying sequel conventions and creating a completely different film than what came before even if it does not quite carry the assuredness and efficiency of its predecessor.


After the coolest month of April since 1908, weather is not supposed to get back to normal before mid-may, on time for the Lotus Lantern Festival.
Let's hope this year's Lantern Parade won't be spoiled by rain or wind : two years ago, the atmosphere was almost magical. As usual, the spectacular procession will walk along Jongro, between Dongdaemun and Jogyesa. That shall be on Sunday (the 16th), between 7 and 9:30 pm*.
This year, Buddah birthday is May the 21st. To be celebrated in every temple, sometimes in surprising ways : back in 2002, the paper lanterns covering Jogyesa were painted as soccer balls.
* check the program of festivities on LLF's website : llf.org.


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Best Universities for Master's Programs in Chemical Engineering in the USA
The United States of America is consistently ranked #1 among global destinations for higher education. Medicine, Management, Law, Social Sciences, STEM courses are the most sought-after fields of study. Amongst other Engineering courses, the study of Chemical Engineering in the USA has seen unprecedented growth in recent years. US universities reportedly awarded 13,000 plus graduate degrees in Chemical Engineering in 2019-2020. Currently, the USA has an estimated 30,000 plus jobs for Chemical Engineers, which is projected to grow by 8-9% in the coming decade.
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Chemical Engineers are responsible for designing, manufacturing and testing chemical processes for large-scale production of antibiotics, drugs, plastics, agricultural chemicals, biomedical devices, petrochemicals, agrochemicals, raw materials for commercial use, food products, machinery for industrial units, etc. Chemical Engineering is a popular field of study in the US, with top universities offering several degree programs in this domain. The programs teach fundamentals and advanced principles of Chemical Engineering, preparing the students for an uplifting career in industry, research and academia. Leading companies like PepsiCo, Micron Technology, Jacobs, Abbott Laboratories, GE Corporate, etc., offer internship and job opportunities for Chemical Engineers. Students graduating in Chemical Engineering in the USA can find employment in corporate sectors, public sectors or academic institutes.
Let us look at the top 10 universities for Master's and PhD programs in Chemical Engineering in the USA.
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is an eminent private research university established in 1861 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The university has played an integral role in accelerating the country's industrial revolution through education, innovation and research. MIT has five schools of study, including Science, Engineering, Management, Architecture and Planning, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. The university is responsible for developing fundamental technologies, launching new industries and creating millions of jobs in the USA. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology stands tall at number 1 ranking according to QS World Rankings of 2021 for its unparalleled contribution to science, technology and education. MIT's alumni include 96 Nobel laureates, 59 National Medal of Science winners and hundreds of other distinguished scholars.
The Department of Chemical Engineering at the MIT (ChemE) is ranked 1 in the world (QS University Rankings) for its graduate programs in Chemical Engineering. The department includes 40 laboratories working towards new discoveries, innovations in energy and sustainability, biotechnology, materials, polymers and manufacturing. MIT's Chemistry Department offers various graduate degree programs in Chemical Engineering. The program curriculum is designed to provide a solid foundation in principles of Chemical Engineering with a unique opportunity to do vital, cutting-edge research work with world-renowned faculty.
Program List :
Master of Science in Chemical Engineering Practice (M.S. CEP)
The Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Engineering (Ph.D.)
Doctor of Science degrees in Chemical Engineering (Sc.D.)
The Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Engineering (Ph.D.CEP)
Course Details :
Program Duration: 5 to 6 years
Admission Semester: Fall
2. Stanford University
Stanford University is a prestigious private research university in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Founded in 1885, the university is ranked number 3 globally (QS World Rankings of 2021) and is regarded as one of the elite academic institutes in the world. Stanford University's mission is to encourage learning, discovery, expression and innovation. The university is well known for its interdisciplinary work and excellence in academics. Stanford encompasses seven schools and research institutes in Law, Medicine, Business, Sciences, Education, Engineering, Humanities. The alumni of Stanford University include 84 Nobel laureates, 8 Fields Medallists and many other accomplished personalities.
The Department of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University (ChemE) comprises a unique research environment with numerous experimental facilities and training opportunities. Stanford's ChemE Department offers graduate programs leading to a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Honors Cooperative Program (HCP) Master's Program and Non-Degree Option (NDO) Online Graduate Certificate in Chemical Engineering. The programs provide in-depth knowledge of technologies to create useful products and materials and develop chemical transformations and processes that improve society. Students are encouraged to excel in Applied Mathematics, Biochemistry, Biochemical Engineering and other core subjects.
The Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Chemical Engineering
Honors Cooperative Program (HCP) Master's Program in Chemical Engineering
Non-Degree Option (NDO) Online Graduate Certificate in Chemical Engineering
Admission Semester: Autumn
3. University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
The University of California, Berkeley (UCB) is a prestigious public land-grant research university established in 1868 in Berkeley, California. UC Berkeley is highly sought-after for its programs in Engineering, Social Science, Law, Education and Natural Sciences. UCB's 14 schools and colleges have over 40,000 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in 350 programs offered by 184 academic departments. The university's campus spreads across 1,232 acres of beautiful landscapes, historic architecture, a sylvan and stone complex surrounded by redwood forests. The alumni of UCB include 110 Nobel laureates, 103 MacArthur Genius Grant recipients, 14 Fields Medalists, 30 Pulitzer Prize awardees, 19 Academy Award winners and other eminent personalities.
The Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Berkeley College of Chemistry (CBE) offers graduate programs in Chemical Engineering leading to a Master of Science (MS), Professional Master of Science Product Development Program (PDP) and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Chemical Engineering. The graduate programs are designed to enhance the breadth of knowledge and professional training in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, focusing on advanced coursework and intensive research work.
Master of Science (M.S.) in Chemical Engineering
Professional Master of Science – Product Development Program (PDP) in Chemical Engineering
Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Engineering (PhD)
Program Duration: 1 to 5.5 years
4. California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
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Established in 1891, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is a prestigious private research university with a 124-acre campus in Pasadena, California. Caltech is world-renowned for its academic excellence in Science and Engineering, predominantly devoted to Pure and Applied Sciences. According to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, Caltech has consistently ranked among the top 5 universities globally. Caltech outranks all other universities in the USA for bestowing unparalleled learning experiences for its students.
The Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Caltech offers graduate programs leading to Master of Science (MS) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees in Chemical Engineering. There is no formal MS program in Chemical Engineering Department. However, students pursuing a PhD can apply for an MS degree by submitting a thesis approved by a student adviser and Option Representative. The main objective of the graduate program in Chemical Engineering is to produce independent and creative individuals with applicable skills in core concepts of Chemical Engineering.
Master of Science in Chemical Engineering (MS)
Program Duration: 2 – 5 years
5. Princeton University
Princeton University is a distinguished Ivy League research university established in 1746 in Princeton, New Jersey. It is one of the oldest educational institutions in the USA. Princeton was chartered before the American Revolution and officially became a university in 1896 and was renamed Princeton University. Princeton is well-known for its world-class academics, variety of courses, expert faculty and students with intellectual curiosity. The university offers undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs in Arts, Humanities, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering, Economics, Biological and Biomedical Sciences, and other vital fields.
The Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University offers graduate programs leading to a Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Chemical Engineering, Master of Science in Engineering (MSE) and Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Engineering (PhD). MSE is a research-based Master's program, the requirements for which can be completed in 21 months. M.Eng. is a coursework-based Master's degree. The requirements for MEng are eight graduate courses (six technical), to be completed in two years. The PhD program is designed to prepare the students for an enriching career in research, industry or academia and typically takes five years to complete.
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Chemical Engineering
Master of Science in Engineering (MSE)
6. University of Wisconsin-Madison
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is an eminent public land-grant research university founded in 1848 in Madison, Wisconsin. UW Wisconsin is the first public research university established in Wisconsin and remains the largest and oldest institute in the state. Being a prolific research centre, the university has distinguished itself for its contribution to research, world-class education and commitment to inclusivity in society. The main campus is spread across 938 acres of land, comprising 13 schools and colleges offering degree programs for over 45,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional students. UW Wisconsin prides itself on producing 459,324 living alumni residing around the globe.
The Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison offers a Master of Science (MS) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Chemical Engineering. The department does not accept applications for a terminal MS program; students are only admitted to the PhD program. The MS degree is awarded post-admission for the work that leads to a PhD. The graduate program aims at training exceptional students for advanced research and development work. The students are encouraged to partake in international research studies, industry internships and entrepreneurial activities.
Admission Semester: Fall & Spring
7. Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)
The Georgia Institute of Technology (also known as Georgia Tech) is a world-renowned public research university and an institute of technology established in 1885 in Atlanta, Georgia. As the name suggests, Georgia Tech is a technology-focused institute of higher learning and one of the best research universities in the USA. The university has satellite campuses in Savannah (Georgia), Metz (France), Athlone (Ireland), Shenzhen (China) and Singapore. Georgia Tech is committed to improving human life through science and technological advancements. The university has six colleges under its wing encompassing 31 departments, predominantly focusing on science and technology. The institute is recognised for degree programs in Computer Science and Engineering.
The Georgia Tech School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE) offers graduate degrees leading to Master of Science (MS) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Chemical Engineering. The MS degree is a non-thesis coursework-based program designed for students who wish to gain in-depth knowledge of the fundamentals and a deeper understanding of emerging applications. MS degree prepares the students for a career in the industry. PhD is a research-intensive program that prepares the students for a career in research, industry and academia and generally takes five years to complete.
8. University of Minnesota Twin Cities
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, is one of the most esteemed public research universities in the USA and Minnesota's only land-grant university. The university was established in 1851 near Saint Anthony Falls, on the banks of the Mississippi River. The institute is one among the five universities in the USA, with all schools on one campus, including the Engineering School, Law School, Medical School, Veterinary Medicine School, and Agricultural School. The university has earned its reputation for its world-class education, community involvement and groundbreaking research.
The Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota confers graduate degrees leading to a Master of Science, a Professional Master of Engineering and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Chemical Engineering. Students are only admitted to a full-time PhD program. MS program has two plans - coursework and thesis-based, and students can complete the requirements for a Master's degree in two years. The PhD is a full-time research degree guided by an adviser, can take up to five years to complete.
Professional Maser of Engineering in Chemical Engineering
Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Engineering
9. Yale University
Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, Yale University (Yale) is a highly prestigious private Ivy League research university located in New Haven, Connecticut. Yale is the third oldest academic institution in the USA and among the most reputed in the world. Since its inception, Yale has been dedicated to inspiring innovation, expanding and sharing knowledge and preserving cultural and scientific information for the new generations to come. Yale is one of the largest research universities with a wide range of programs, fourteen schools, several departments, museums, centres and affiliated organizations.
Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science confers graduate degrees leading to a Master of Science (MS) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Chemical and Environmental Engineering. The graduate study in Chemical Engineering provides the students with a unique opportunity to learn from 15 core faculty members who actively engage in teaching and research. Students get to do exciting work on externally-funded internationally-recognized projects in areas of modern Chemical Engineering, including biomolecular engineering, biomaterials, bio-interfaces, complex fluids, catalysis, electrochemistry, fluid mechanics, environmental engineering, etc. The duration to complete Master's degree requirements is two years and up to five years for a PhD.
Master of Science in Chemical & Environmental Engineering (MS)
Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical & Environmental Engineering (PhD)
10. University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin (UT or UT Austin) is a reputed public research university established in 1883 in Austin, Texas. UT Austin ranks among the 40 top universities in the world. The university comprises 18 colleges and schools that offer undergraduate, graduate and professional programs for more than 51,000 diverse students. UT is considered a leading research university in Texas, attracting a staggering $650 million funds for research and discovery. The core values of the University of Texas at Austin are learning, discovery, freedom, leadership, individual opportunity and responsibility.
The McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin offers a graduate program leading to a PhD in Chemical Engineering. The students can earn a Master's degree while pursuing a PhD but the department does not admit students to earn a terminal Master's degree as it is a PhD-only program. All PhD students receive 100% funding at UT Austin. The research-intensive PhD program encourages students to conduct groundbreaking research in areas of human health, energy, sustainability and others. The program prepares the students to choose a wide array of career paths, including academia, research, consulting, industry, public sectors, entrepreneurship, etc.
Chemical Engineering in the USA is one of the most popular fields of study as it opens doors to a wide array of career opportunities. The graduate programs offered by the top universities in the USA are designed to enhance the fundamental and advanced knowledge of Chemical Engineering, preparing the students for a prosperous career in several areas. Students can immerse themselves in revolutionary research work, find top positions in corporate sectors, work in essential roles in public sectors, establish Startups and prosper in business. In this blog, we have provided details of the top 10 universities that offer Master's and Doctoral programs in Chemical Engineering in the USA with all the essential information. We hope that you succeed in finding the right program of your choice.
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'Panic' Review: Teens Face Deadly Dares in a Bizarrely Tangled Amazon Drama
A sloppy mix of love triangles and dangerous challenges, this 10-episode season constantly wants to feel more dangerous than it actually is.
Steve Greene
@stevebruin
The hard thing about town-wide conspiracies is that you need buy-in from a lot of people. To keep one going like the one in the new Amazon Prime Video series "Panic" means an impossibly concentrated effort on the part of just about everyone involved. In "Panic," the high schoolers in a small Texas town called Carp hold an annual secret contest where players endure a series of dangerous tasks. The reward — enough cash to fund a move to a new job or fall tuition or a life outside the city — is enough to entice dozens of players.
But maybe the hardest thing for "Panic" to center is the idea of just how many people are willing to risk anything short of (and maybe even including) potential manslaughter charges in order for the premise of this show to work. With all 10 episodes written by Lauren Oliver (who wrote the book the series is based on), each episode becomes like one of the Panic challenges: a tricky psychological balancing act that means far more to the people involved than the people watching.
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It doesn't help that "Panic" is juggling an entire graduating class worth of potential winners, from Heather (Olivia Welch) trying to break free from a difficult home situation to Dodge (Mike Faist) the mysterious newcomer who tends to keep to himself to Ray (Ray Nicholson) the mop-topped, open-shirted permaflirt always bent on trying to cause a ruckus. It's Heather who eventually becomes the main conduit for the story, as she tries to deal with multiple crushes, shifting friendships, a manipulative mother, and a part-time job on a nearby ranch. This, all on top of engaging in semi-periodic ill-advised feats of athleticism for a crowd of morbidly curious peers.
Of those people who float into her life both inside and out of Panic, Ray seems to be one of the only characters to get out from under the weight of the show's self-seriousness. While most of the members of this show are burdened with a perpetual skeptical scowl, Montgomery at least brings "Panic" some emotional peaks and valleys. Even when his smile is masking something decidedly more sinister underneath, at least it's some kind of a counterbalance.
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There's such a pattern of distrust that runs through the nature of Panic as an enterprise that it seeps into the show itself. Past a certain point, it's almost impossible to take everything at face value, so the show's 10 episodes become a waiting game to see what's left when the conspiratorial dust settles. That spells particular doom for the various "Panic" attempts at romance. Would-be flings and tenuous love triangles flit by, mostly as means to add wrinkles into how these contests unfold. Part of the show's implicit argument for the continued existence of Panic is that Carp doesn't offer much else to do as the school year winds down. The same seems to be true for making out with someone every once in a while.
On some level, it's understandable that a show built around teenagers' lives flipped upside down by a vindictive game would throw its own set of structural curveballs. But the mishmash of backstory narration — mostly coming from Heather, but passed like a relay baton to open one episode — and conscious withholding of key information from both viewer and various characters is so often in service of fashioning a mystery rather than living inside one.
The challenges themselves feel like something lost in translation between page and screen. The internal parsing out of clues to the location of the next stage in the contest is all transformed into out-loud puzzle solving. For an institution built on secrecy, a lot of these clues are dropped right in the open and are seemingly simple enough to solve after little more than a glance. "Panic" wants its namesake to be both so ominous so as to strike fear into every age-eligible Carp resident but so traceable that one police officer with a hunch can put the pieces together quicker than they're being laid out. (There's one villain reveal, coupled with their flagrant disregard for covering the tracks of a very important personal detail, that's especially egregious.)
Adding to that, every new challenge feels like something from a moral panic fever dream, the kind of "you'll never guess what teens in your area are doing" local news story that ends up debunked under the tiniest bit of scrutiny. Yet "Panic" doesn't have anything lying under the surface of Kids in Danger. Call it "Saw"-like, call it the world's most sadistic escape room, but these challenges aren't meant to do anything but inflict psychological terror on the Carp teens.
Without invoking too much of a direct comparison to an existing show, it's hard not to watch "Panic" and think of last year's Netflix summer surprise "Outer Banks." Where that show fully embraced the playfulness of its "what if 'Goonies' but high school seniors" DNA, "Panic" never seems to fully square itself with the level of danger it wants to mine for tension and drama. It's something that could kill you, but the people who run it assign arbitrary point values. There's a version of this show that uses the fickleness of this game to say something about how teens treat each other and what's expected from them by their elders. But all the inconsistencies and jagged pacing and disjointed plot threads are more an indication of a show spreading itself too thin for any of it matter.
It's not to say that "Panic" is devoid of specific charms. Heather's eventual employer Anne (Bonnie Bedelia) is a rare adult in this series to make an impression beyond connecting families together for plot reasons. Much like Ray, when she enters the story, there's at least some sense of an individual breaking through the sameness. For as careless as those challenge announcements are, the design of some of them are legitimately striking. Director Ry Russo-Young brings the necessary amount of scale to the challenge that makes up much of Episode 2, and there's a surprising amount of anxiety that comes from one room late in the season filled with countless numbers of the same object dangling from the ceiling.
By the time the show arrives at its final obstacle, it's entirely valid to ask (as precious few Carp teenagers seem to do) if all of this is worth it. Given the way this season resolves and the parting image it cues up for a possible continuation, "Panic" seems to be saying "yes." Not everyone will agree.
"Panic" is now available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.
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SAGE HAS DATA BREACH FROM THE INSIDE
SAGE DATA BREACH
Sage, a company not the herb, is one of the UK's largest technology companies and provides payroll and accounting software and services. It released a statement in August 2015 that some 280 companies, their employees and all of their data including salaries, had been breached using an internal login. They said in a statement:
"We are investigating unauthorised access to customer information using an internal login. We cannot comment further whilst we work with the authorities to investigate but our customers remain our first priority and we are speaking directly with those affected."
Sage, has claimed it has well over 6 million SMEs using it worldwide across 23 countries, however it seems that this data breach has only affected those within the UK. Since the breach, Sage immediately contacted the ICO and the City of London police to further use their powers to investigate this matter.
A FEW DAYS AFTER THE SAGE DATA LEAK
A few days after Sage released their statement about a data breach, a 32 year old woman, under the employ of the company was arrested at Heathrow for Conspiracy to Defraud The Company. She has since been released on bail. This has brought forward the question of people's passwords being changed after they leave and how much remote access they should have. Additionally, some have said that companies need to be far more proactive, spend more on security infrastructure and attempt to be notified before hacks even start.
If we were to guess, as gutted as Sage must be feeling, some part of me thinks they're going to be relieved that this cyber attack came from within the company and not from outsiders. The Sage hack has come after a long summer of cyber attacks and is being contrasted by many to the hack that happened to Talk Talk in October of 2015, where over 100,000 customer details were leaked. This led to a massive apology by the CEO of Talk Talk and a cringeworthy appearance below on Newsnight:
Sage Has A Data Breach
Sage, a UK based payroll and accounting company has a data breach which stemmed from the bad intentions of an INTERNAL staff member. Staff salaries and other details of over 280 UK companies that use Sage were hacked.
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The key objective of the South Caucasus Office of Heinrich Böll Foundation`s Climate Change Program is to formulate practical goals for renewable energy and energy efficiency in the region with inclusion of all key actors in the fields. Through conducting the comprehensive analysis of the national energy systems and challenges posed by Climate Change experience and by applying the strong expertise accumulated over these issues in Germany, the program will trigger public interest, form the healthy environment for the public debates on: climate change, sustainable energy system, benefits which renewable energy and energy efficiency can offer to the region. Consequently the program shall enhance their development at regional and national levels. The program will be implemented through applying the following principal instruments: energy and climate change analysis, workshops and symposia for experts, public informational and discussion events, promoting energy efficiency and renewables through printed and electronic media, support of advocacy measures, funding of pilot projects and organizing study trips to Germany to equip the relevant entities with better knowledge on benefits of sustainable energy systems.


Doing a professional job search takes time: most professionals in the field say students must spend six to eight hours a day working on their job search. This includes using social networking like LinkedIn or professional organizations in your career field, all of your professional contacts, and the Career Services and Professional Development office. Only 20% of the jobs in the marketplace are posted. It is up to you to find the other 80%, found through the sources just listed.
Whatever your Job Search strategy, Career Services & Professional Development has resources that are easily accessible on our site. Presented below is a job search checklist designed to help Miami University Regionals students organize and conduct an effective job search. For December graduates, the amount of time allotted to job search activities will be compressed. August graduates may expand the timetable. Used in conjunction with our online resources, workshops, individual career appointments, and other services, this checklist will help you plan and conduct an effective job search.
Review and update your resume.
Attend a Basic Interviewing Skills Workshop. Anyone who intends to interview on campus or participate in a mock interview must attend one of these programs during your time at Miami. Contact a Career Services & Professional Development staff for dates and times of these workshops.
Use Optimal Resume as a tool for improving your interviewing skills.
Develop and finalize a resume and basic cover letter for use in your job search. Bring these marketing tools into our Hamilton or Middletown offices, or email them to smithkl@miamioh.edu or reichedc@miamioh.edu for review.
Begin your job search utilizing Handshake, see a member of our office for help navigating the site.
Develop a list of professional references, confirm their willingness to serve as references, and provide them with a copy of your resume, and, if appropriate, a copy of your customized cover letter and a job description.
Schedule an appointment to review your resume and cover letter and to discuss and plan your job search.
Review the Telling Your Story workbook in order to practice articulating your skills, abilities and knowledge.
Attend Career Fair at Millett Hall in Oxford, OH, held annually in September. Research the employers attending, the jobs they offer, and the majors they recruit. Many recruit all majors.
Use social networking as a part of your overall job search strategies. Learn how to leverage LinkedIn and other online networking tools as resources for managing and expanding your network.
Research potential employers specific to your area(s) of interest. Speak to Career Services & Professional Development staff for tips on how to research employers.
In addition to networking via social media, network using your faculty, family, former employers and friends to inform them of your career interests and gain valuable career and job search advice.
Begin making direct contact with potential employers. Send customized cover letters and resumes to the appropriate hiring managers. Use names received from your network, LinkedIn, or online resources.
Follow up with potential employers to discuss your interest in the position and a possible interview.
Send email thank you notes and/or handwritten thank you notes immediately following each interview.
Regularly check Handshake for available opportunities.
Continue to research, network and inform contacts of your job search plans.
Continue to set up informational interviews.
Revise your resume if necessary.
Continue to interview on- and off-campus and contact Career Services & Professional Development for workshops, programs, and other job search materials.
Attend the annual Job Fair in spring on the Hamilton campus and Spring Internship & Career Expo (Spring ICE) in February, on the Oxford campus.
Follow up with contacts made at the above Job/Career Fairs and request interviews when appropriate.
Maintain contact with your network for possible job leads and continue to make direct contact with additional employers.
Arrange an advising appointment to discuss additional job search strategies and questions.
TIP: Spring Break is a good time to schedule off-campus interviews.
Continue to review major/field specific websites for potential job openings.
Once you have accepted a job, thank and inform your references, support network, and any employers who may have extended a job offer.
If still available for employment upon graduation: our career counseling and advising appointments are open to alumni who have graduated from Miami University within the last 12 months. For those who are further along in their career and searching for employment or contemplating a career change, our Online Career Resources are available to assist you in your search.
Continue to network and make direct contact with employers.


apply numerical skills in a range of business contexts In addition to this, students will take part in a wide range of enterprise activity across the academy. Enterprise education is a key part of The Whitehaven Academy offer and will support every subject, enabling you to develop your skills in teamwork, leadership, communication and creativity.
This qualification provides entry into a wide range of progression routes including university and apprenticeships as well as a wide range of careers such as: business management, human resources, marketing, finance and accounting, and project management.


Ensure you brush your teeth twice daily, and as you do so, don't rush. Take sufficient time to be able to do a thorough job.
Ensure that you always use a fluoride toothpaste, alongside a soft-bristled toothbrush which fits your mouth comfortably.
You should hold your brush at a slight angle, aiming its bristles in the direction of the region where your gum meets your tooth. Then, brush gently with short back and forth motions. Also remember to brush the inside, outside and chewing surfaces of your teeth and tongue for proper dental health care. .
After brushing, always rinse the toothbrush with water and store it in an upright position. It's also important that you don't store it in a closed container, or cover it, as this encourages bacterial growth. Therefore, place it in an open space where it can air- dry till it's next use.
Every 3 to 4 months, invest in a new brush, or replace the head of your battery-operated or electric toothbrush.
Avoid snapping the floss into your gums; instead guide it between your teeth in a rubbing motion.
Break off approximately 18 inches of the dental floss. Wind most of it around your middle finger on one hand, and the rest of the floss around the middle finger of the other hand, and then tightly hold the floss between your forefingers and thumbs for optimal dental health care.
Slide the floss into the space between your tooth and gum, gently rubbing the side of your tooth upwards and downwards. Unwind clean floss as you continue cleaning the rest of your teeth.
It doesn't matter whether you floss first before brushing or vice versa, as long as you do a thorough job daily, your oral health will be protected, and you'll be able to keep tooth decay and gum disease at bay while maintaining the best dental health care.


Turf may seem to get all the attention, but a wide variety of effective products is available to treat pest problems of ornamentals. Good thing, too. The wider range of plant material compared to turf necessitates a wider range of controls. This is our annual Chemical Update dedicated to pest controls for landscape ornamentals.
Insecticides. This table shows you active ingredients that have registration for insects, mites and other categories of landscape pests. It includes basic product characteristics such as form of application (spray, granular, trunk injection, etc.), mode of action, chemical family and systemic properties. The table also shows the chemicals that are registered to control the listed pests.
Herbicides. This table lists herbicides — both pre-emergents and post-emergents — with registration for use in landscape ornamentals. Due to space limitations, we do not list individual weed species. (See our Turfgrass Update: Herbicides, published annually in January's Grounds Maintenance and also available on our website, for weed-specific cross-referencing.) With post-emergents, we show which weed types — broadleaves, grasses or sedges — selective chemicals control, or if the chemical is non-selective. For each category, a separate table shows you available brands and suppliers for each active ingredient.
Fungicides. The fungicide table shows similar information, including categories for the major fungal pests of ornamentals.
This Update does not cover registrations for greenhouse, container or field-grown ornamentals, nor does it include products specifically for household, nuisance or structural pests. Pests controlled are grouped together due to space limitations. However, you must identify the specific pest you wish to control and then ensure that the labeling of the product you wish to use allows that use. These tables are not recommendations or substitutes for label information. They are for preliminary planning only.
Although many of the products listed here possess registration for turf in addition to ornamentals, many do not. Therefore, it is not safe to assume that products you see listed here are suitable for use on turfgrass.


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Black Art Matters showcase in downtown Lansing
By Jalen Couch | March 26, 2018
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Liberation, freedom, beautiful and immaculate are just a just some of the words used to describe black art at the second annual Black Arts Matter Celebration, an event that took place Feb. 16, 2018, at the Robin Theater in downtown Lansing. This celebration was orchestrated to showcase the black talent in the city and highlight some people who have contributed to the advancements of arts for the black community in Lansing.
Mikeyy Austin, 21, the coordinator of the event said it is important for black artists to have a space to do what they love.
There was no charge, but donations could be made for the Arts Matter Scholarship Found that allows kids to be creative without worrying about financial resources for school.
Austin said the event can grow bigger by incorporating all form of art because when we talk about art it's not just music, it's not just dance, it's all form.
"Last year was predominantly music this year we were able to incorporate dance, we had comedy, poetry and we had music," he said. "As we continue to grow and highlight more vendors like Curlitude who is a black-owned business and really just highlight all forms of the art in a central location, I really think it's going to grow."
Amongst some of the performers was Mikeyy Austin and his band Happy Medium.
"My biggest motivation is to continue to make platforms that I didn't have growing up for youth," said Austin.
Many people came out in support of this event from all age groups.
"It's a nice way to meet new people who are like-minded," spectator Karyn Moore, 24, said.
When the event was over and it was time to go home, many people lingered back to fellowship with one another.
"We really come for this part right here (the end) to network and catch up with people," Moore said.
Hakeem Weatherspoon, 21, said a lot of his motivation comes from his upbringing.
"Never believe the sky's the limit, one thing we learned is that science tells us there's space, there's galaxies, there's stars, and that's space for you to literally dream bigger," Hakeem said.
He also said that he believes if you can breathe, move ligaments, anything, then you have talent.
To find out more information about upcoming events you can visit Reo Town Sessions.


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Q: ADX export creating multiple small files I am using ADX V3 engine.
I have the following external table definition that I am exporting data to:-
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field1:string,
field2:dynamic,
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kind=adl
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dataformat=parquet
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The export command goes as:-
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It's creating multiple (21) small files, total size of all the files is hardly 1MB. All the files belong to the same hourly window , so they are going to the same directory , then why is there need for export to create so many small files? I would ideally like to have it create a single file unless the single file reaches certain threshold (e.g. 100MB which is default as per the documentation). Why it's not following the default 100MB threshold rule? I even tried exporting without specifying useNativeParquetWriter=true (i.e. defaulting it to false) , but there is no change in this behavior, it produces same number of files.

A: .export commands, by default, export the data in distributed manner - so that there are N different files being written to concurrently.
Depending on how many nodes/cores/shards participate in the query part of the .export command:

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*On one hand, this can significantly improve the throughput of writing the data to the destination.

*On the other hand, this can result with more smaller files.

If you want to have fewer & larger files, at the potential cost of much worse throughput), you can specify distribution = single (or distributed = false).
See documentation:

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*https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/kusto/management/data-export/export-data-to-an-external-table (specifically: the section named "Number of files")

*https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/kusto/management/data-export/export-data-to-storage


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Connect, BTS art projects in London, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Seoul, New York
by Events Editor posted 19 Jan 2020
in Events | Arts. 5 minute read
The CONNECT, BTS project launch at Chucs Serpentine on 14 January 2020. L to R: artist Thomas Saraceno, artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Gropius Bau director Stephanie Rosenthal, curator Lee Dae-hyung, Serpentines Gallery director Hans-Ulich Obrist, artist Antony Gormley, Serpentine Galleries CTO Ben Vickers and artist Yiyun Kang. And BTS attending via live stream. Image: Korea JoongAng Daily / Moon So-young
For full details of the projects organised under the CONNECT, BTS umbrella visit the official website, www.connect-bts.com, which explains that:
CONNECT, BTS is a global project to connect five cities and twenty-two artists, each of whom contributes their unique philosophy and imagination to it. This project aims to redefine the relationships between art and music, the material and immaterial, artists and their audiences, artists and artists, theory and practice. CONNECT, BTS may be described in terms of a collective curatorial practice by curators around the world who resonated with BTS' philosophy.
You will not see art by BTS at any of the venues; instead, you will see art inspired by BTS's philosophy. Probably the project most connected with BTS themselves is the work by London-based Korean artist Yiyun Kang, who will be projecting onto the walls of the Dongdaemun Design Plaza a piece described as "a re-imagining of BTS' signature dance movements". As part of developing the projection mapping piece, Kang interviewed ARMYs and, of course, immersed herself in BTS videos. But do not expect to see you favourite dance moves replicated:
"Just copying the choreography doesn't make sense," she said. "The essence of the BTS phenomenon is that you have to be more inclusive, to be more sustainable so we can live together."
The various parts of the project start in January and end mainly in March as follows:
London: 14 Jan – 15 March | Berlin: 15 Jan – 2 Feb | Buenos Aires: 21 Jan – 22 Mar | Seoul: 28 Jan – 20 Mar | New York: 5 Feb – 27 Mar
Given the remit of this site, we'll just cover the London and Seoul parts of the project (though we might also show a passing interest in the New York piece as it involves the major British artist Sir Antony Gormley). At the time of writing, only the London and Berlin elements have been included on the CONNECT, BTS website and the details are reproduced below. We'll update this post when the Seoul element is announced in full.
By a nice coincidence, both the London and Seoul locations were designed by Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid.
Jakob Kudsk Steensen: Catharsis
Chucs Serpentine | Serpentine Sackler Gallery | West Carriage Drive | London W2 2AR
14 January 2020 to 15 March 2020
Closed every Monday. Also closed 16, 20, 27 January and 1, 16 February.
Still from Jakob Kudsk Steensen's Catharsis (2019-20). Courtesy the Gallery and Artist
The Serpentine presents Catharsis by Danish artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen as part of global public art project, CONNECT, BTS, a series of major art projects open free to the public in five cities on four continents initiated by South Korean pop group BTS.
From 14 January, audiences can experience Catharsis anywhere in the world via a dedicated website catharsis.live. From 28 January, there will be a major outdoor installation on the grounds of the Serpentine Galleries' Zaha Hadid-designed extension, set against the beautiful green spaces of Kensington Gardens. A smaller preview of the work is on view at Chucs Restaurant (at the Serpentine Galleries) from 1pm, 14 January to 26 January.
Catharsis immerses audiences within a digital simulation of a re-imagined old-growth forest, a forest that has developed undisturbed over hundreds of years. Based on field work undertaken by Jakob Kudsk Steensen and his primary collaborator Matt McCorkle, the work's virtual ecosystem and synchronised audio comprise 3D textures and sounds gathered from several North American forests.
Set up as a single continuous shot that moves from the watery underground roots to the surveying viewpoint of the canopy, Catharsis draws on Steensen's conception of 'slow media' whereby digital technologies can foster attention to the natural world and create new narratives about our ecological futures. Catharsis becomes a digital portal, a simulated journey that offers audiences access to past and present natural environments, slowed down and up close.
Catharsis follows Steensen's previous work for the Serpentine, The Deep Listener (2019), an augmented reality app for mobile devices that offered an audio-visual ecological trail through Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, to both see and hear five of London's species: London plane trees, bats, parakeets, azure blue damselflies and reedbeds. The Deep Listener is the first Augmented Architecture commission, in collaboration with Google Arts and Culture and Sir David Adjaye OBE. These works demonstrate the Serpentine's commitment to new experiments in art and technology that has included an augmented reality tool for visualising the UK's extreme inequality by Hito Steyerl and a weather prediction model that correlates historic weather data with polling data from major political events such as Brexit by James Bridle.
Catharsis is part of global public art project Connect BTS, a series of major art projects in five cities on four continents by South Korean superstars BTS. First version originally commissioned by PinchukArtCentre.
Jakob Kudsk Steensen
Jakob Kudsk Steensen (b. 1987) is a Danish artist based in New York concerned with how imagination, technology and ecology intertwine. His works range from immersive VR ecosystems to mixed reality installations bridging physical and digital worlds, which invite audiences to enter new ecological realities.
Kudsk Steensen collaborates with NGO's, residencies, scientists and artists from different fields and ventures on excursions where he collects organic material, which is digitised and converted into digital worlds with 3D scanners, photogrammetry, satellite data and computer game software. Inspired by ecology-oriented science fiction and conversations with biologists and ethnographers, his projects are ultimately virtual simulations populated by mythical beings existing in radical ecological scenarios.
Kudsk Steensen has exhibited internationally at the 5th Trondheim Biennale for Art and Technology, the Carnegie Museum of Art, GUEST, GHOST, HOST: MACHINE! Marathon, Serpentine Galleries, Jepson Center for the Arts, Time Square Midnight Moment, MAXXI Rome, FRIEZE London, Podium, and Ok Corral. He was shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize 2019, and he has received awards from the Danish Arts Foundation, The Augustinus Foundation, and the Lumen Arts Prize. His work has shown at Sundance, TriBeCa and Cannes among other film festivals. Steensen is an alumni of NEW INC, a technology and culture incubator by The NEW MUSEUM, in NYC.
Matt McCorkle
Matt McCorkle (b.1987) is an American sound artist working at the intersection of technology, the natural world and space. Using augmented audio, audio scripting, ambisonics and field recordings, his work seeks to help people experience the world in new ways. McCorkle's work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including the American Museum of Natural History, Serpentine Galleries, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Center of Science and Industry, Mystetskyi Arsenal Museum, and Google Zeitgeist, among others. Matt also collaborated with Jakob to produce the sound elements for The Deep Listener which included bats, damselflies, parakeets, planetrees and reedbeds, and is the sound composer for Catharsis.
www.connect-bts.com
Notice of the Serpentine exhibition on the Serpentine website
Global CONNECT, BTS art project launched at Serpentine – where you can find links to coverage of the launch event in London
Filed in: Event Notices | Exhibition news | Sculpture and Installation art | Video art
Musicians: BTS
Artists: Kang Yiyun
Organisations and venues: Dongdaemun Design Plaza | Serpentine Gallery
Companies: Big Hit Entertainment
Adidas Originals by Ji Won Choi in Designs of the Year exhibitionTwo days total immersion in BTS at Kingston: a report from the Global Interdisciplinary Conference Project


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Dialogue between cultures at the national museum.
16-20 Nov 2009. Fifty of the most renowned Nigerian artists show their work on the theme Dialogue between Cultures. Participants include Dare Lawson, Ekeyfrey, Ojeikere, Onobrakpeya, Oshinowo, Soronke and Fiofori. The exhibition has been organised by the Alliance Franciase in Lagos in conjunction with the Nigerian Society of Artists.
Address National Museum, Onikan, Lagos. For information contact events@alliancefrancaise-lagos.fr.
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Ahh Nintendo, rarely an innovator, often an imitator. At least that can be said about the company's next online "innovative" venture. The company is looking to various media service providers in order to kick off the Wii U release later this year with a bang. Like the Xbox 360, Nintendo has every intention of collecting as many service providers as it can in order to try to replace your cable or satellite box with the console. Nintendo is currently in talks with several 'top content' companies, possibly including Comcast, to become a cable TV provider alongside or after the Wii U launch.
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By Tom Gascoyne
Last week the state Assembly voted 46-32 to pass state Sen. John Burton's, D-San Francisco, legislation aimed at reducing the number of working Californians and their families who have no health insurance. The bill had earlier passed through the Senate 25-15. Now it waits to be signed by the governor. Not everyone is happy with the new bill, which will require that all medium-sized (20 to 49 employees) and large businesses (50 or more employees) provide their workers with health insurance, picking up at least 80 percent of the tab. Workers whose wages are less than 200 percent of the federal poverty guidelines would pay no more than 5 percent of the health coverage. The act will go into effect beginning in 2006 for large companies and in 2007 for the medium-sized businesses.
There are more than 6 million Californians without health insurance, 80 percent of whom are workers and their families. The medical bills of those without insurance are ultimately picked up by the taxpayers—via state-funded programs like Medi-Cal and the Healthy Families Program—and through increased health insurance rates. Our local state representatives, Assemblymembers Rick Keene, R-Chico, and Doug LaMalfa, R-Richvale, and Sen. Sam Aanestad, R-Grass Valley, all voted against Burton's legislation. "Socialist mandates," cried Sen. Rico Oller, R-San Andreas. Aanestad, an oral surgeon, told the Enterprise-Record he couldn't understand why employers should have to pay for insurance that covers their workers 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Good question. But then why should the government (taxpayers) pay for round-the-clock insurance to cover Keene, LaMalfa, Oller and Aanestad and their families?
The state legislators are offered a choice of health care plans—various HMOs and the Public Employees Retirement System indemnity plans—for which the taxpayers pony up $226 a month for each individual legislator, $450 for the legislator and his or her significant other and $589 to cover the legislator's family. Those contributions pay the entire premium for most plans; with the more extensive plans, the legislators must pay (with pre-tax dollars) the differences themselves. For dental coverage, the legislators get a choice of two dental plans—standard and enhanced—offered by the Delta Dental Plan of California. The standard plan is fully covered for legislators and their families and pays benefits starting at 70 percent and reach a full 100 percent in the fourth year—which means members of the Assembly have to be re-elected at least once to get family dental work for free. Orthodontics—braces for the kids—are covered up to 70 percent, with an upper limit of $2,500. The enhanced plan, for which the legislators must kick in a bit of their own money, pays 100 percent for most dental services and 80 percent for orthodontics with a $3,000 lifetime maximum. The Assembly and Senate members get a choice of two plans for their vision coverage, and as with dental, the state (you and I) pays for the entire cost of the standard plan, which provides one pair of glasses with a $130 frame allowance, an annual eye examination and $105 contact lens benefit. The enhanced plan covers two pairs of glasses and offers a $260 frame allowance.
Both Assembly and Senate members receive group term life insurance, paid by the state, offering death and dismemberment coverage up to $250,000 until age 75. After that senators get $162,000 and assemblymembers $125,000. That's not all. Legislators in both houses get three fully (state) paid counseling sessions per year for alcohol and drug abuse problems, marital and family issues, emotional, personal and stress concerns, legal matters, financial and credit difficulties and child and elder care troubles. Sweet.
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