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Dear Subscribers,
An April shower of cyber lotus petals upon you! This past couple of months, my writing assistants, U. Quetzalpugtl, and his little sister, W. Quetzalpugalotl, have been keeping me busy with all sorts of fantastical things, mainly walks. In between, I've managed to work on reading about Far West Texas, blogging about Far West Texas and yonder, and churn out a number of podcast transcripts.
In this newsletter: oodles of new podcast transcripts, a literary travel writing workshop, more about the new book, Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution and its Spanish translation, plus the best from the blog, "Madam Mayo."
The Marfa Mondays Podcasting Project, exploring Marfa, Texas and the greater Big Bend region, continues at a renewed chug-along pace. A crunchy interview with Texas historian Lonn Taylor has been recorded in Fort Davis, but I'm still ironing out the edits. In the meantime, I've been preparing the transcripts of previous podcasts.
Transcripts available to date:
Tremendous Forms:
Paul V. Chaplo on Finding Composition on the Landscape
Podomatic + iTunes + Transcript
"on list of the world's largest super volcanoes, the Chinati caldera is near the top of the list, and when the Chinati erupted about 32 million years ago, the force of the eruption was greater than Vesuvius and greater than Krakatoa. To think that that happened just southwest of Marfa is mindboggling...." [READ MORE]
Gifts of the Ancient Ones:
Greg Williams on the Rock Art of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands
"When I drive out here from San Antonio… I love rock and roll. I love old rock and roll music, it's playing all the way. When I hit the Pecos River, I turn the music off and I usually roll the windows down. I don't care how hot it is. I turn the air conditioner off and I usually drive way under the speed limit and then I become… at that point it's not about me. At that point I become the smallest thing here and everything out there is bigger than me, everything out there has something to teach me or to show me..." [READ MORE]
Looking at Mexico in New Ways:
An Interview with Historian John Tutino
"I got to the point where I said, "The whole basic big picture of where we thought Mexico fit in the world is somewhere between wrong and mythical." And you can't change that by chipping away at the edges and saying, "look at this little piece." [READ MORE]
Dallas Baxter: "This Precious Place"
"I really love this place out here, and I love the way it looks. I like the way it smells. I like to go outside at night and just look at the sky and feel the wind, and I think it's a really precious place, and I think it's a precious place because of what has come before and because of what's here now." [READ MORE]
Cowboy Songs by Cowboys and an Interview with Michael Stevens
"They love the job they do. They love their animals. They appreciate the land. Have you driven around the country and seen cowboy churches? Have you ever seen a farmer church? I never saw anybody sing about their tractor! You know, the sailors sing about their ships, but the cowboys, they love that." [READ MORE]
Listen in anytime to all my podcasts on podomatic or iTunes.
Plus, two new transcripts for the Conversations with Other Writers occasional series:
Mexican writer and editor Rose Mary Salum:
Marking Connections with Literature and Art
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"While I was studying my master's degree and while I was taking my literature classes, I remember and it was one of the moments also that made me start the magazine, while we were studying the Latin American literature. We were studying people from the boom. Vargas Llosa, Gabriel García Márquez, and they didn't even go to Octavio Paz, for example. I mean they stopped at the boom. Like, after the boom nobody was writing anything. You know, I remember asking one of the professors, is this all we are studying? Aren't we reading the contemporary writers? She said, "No." And I mean, this is it. I was really shocked by that..." [READ MORE]
Novelist and Essayist Sergio Troncoso,
Author of This Wicked Patch of Dust and Crossing Borders
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"I'm writing stories. I just finished a story on a Mexican-American in Iraq. I interviewed Marines to understand their life in Iraq. You know, what is the smell of the desert like in Iraq that's different from the smell of the desert in El Paso? The sand has a different consistency in Iraq than it does in El Paso. It's not the same kind of sand. It's more of a clay sand. These incredible, riveting stories. One of the largest segments of the military are these Latino soldiers that rarely get any kind of press, and what's going on in their minds... [READ MORE]
April 18, 2015 Bethesda MD
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Take your travel writing to another level: the literary, which is to say, giving the reader the novelistic experience of actually traveling there with you. For both beginning and advanced writers, this workshop covers the techniques from fiction and poetry that you can apply to this specialized form of creative nonfiction for deliciously vivid effects.
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THE BEST FROM THE
"MADAM MAYO" BLOG
What Happened to Thelma: A Story of the Far Future by C.M. Mayo
Sarah Cortez, ed. Goodbye, Mexico: Poems of Remembrance (which includes my translation of a poem by Agustín Cadena)
Amanda Palmer's The Art of Asking: A Beyond Glowing Review
Cyberflanerie: Rock, Mural, Street and Bathroom Wall Edition d'Not Art
Ignacio Solares' short story "Victoriano's Deliriums" Translated by Yours Truly in the Lampeter Review
A Shout-out for the Authors Guild
The StandStand: One Highly Recommended Way to Keep on Writing While Standing
Lone Star Nation: How Texas Will Transform America by Richard Parker
Some felicitous recycling going on:
Literary translator Lisa Carter's excellent Intralingo newsletter featured my blog post, "It's Not Like Making a Peanut Butter-and-Jelly Sandwich but It's Not Rocket Science Either or, How I Made my PODs (And You Can, Too)" and Mexico-based editor Mikel Miller's also excellent Egret Books newsletter featured by blog post, my talk for the Associated Writers Association Conference of 2014, "Writers' Blogs: Eight Reflections After 8 Years of Blogging".
Interested in posting one of these or any other of my blog posts on your blog or newsletter? Ask me! I'll probably say yes.
NEWS ABOUT THE NEW BOOK
In case you're new to this newsletter, my latest book is Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual. It's available on Kindle and in paperback, it's gotten some great reviews, and I have presented it at Rice University, the UCSD Center for US-Mexico Studies and, most recently, at Stanford Unversity's Center for Latin American Studies. I invite you to visit the website for this book, which offers excerpts, articles, reviews, Q & A, resources for researchers, podcasts and links to order, here.
The Spanish translation by Mexican poet and novelist Agustín Cadena, with the title Odisea metafísica hacia la Revolución Mexicana: Francisco I. Madero y su libro secreto, Manual espírita, has been doing well in Mexico. Most recently, it was presented at the Centro de Estudios de la Historia de México—home of Madero's personal library— with historians Javier Garciadiego, Manuel Guerra de Luna, Luis Cerda and Yolia Tortolero Cervantes, and in Querétaro, with Araceli Ardón, Dra Lucia Beltrán, Dr Andrés Garrido del Toral, the cronista de la ciudad, and historian Dra Guadalupe Zárate. Yes, it will be presented at the Feria de Libros in Guadalara this December. Stay tuned for details. Please be sure to send me an email or Twitter @cmmayo1 if you will be attending the FIL.
More podcasts to come. This book is available from Literal Publishing in the US and in Mexico, and from Dancng Chiva in Kindle and paperback outside of Mexico.Visit this book's website here.
Article in Spanish in Milenio 3-8-2015
"Los espíritus de Francisco I. Madero"
por Vianey Fernández
Review in La Jornada
¨Mayo y el espiritismo de Francisco I. Madero: Sin maniqueísmos" por Andrew Paxman
Philip Garrison, author of The Permit That Never Expires and Because I Don't Have Wings, reviews Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution:
One look at the subtitle— Francisco I. Madero and his Secret Book, Spiritist Manual— is enough to tell you her work is both demanding and ambitious. It is demanding in part because it begins by summarizing a century of fine-print esoteric thinking in little more than 100 pages. It is ambitious because of its goal: it wants to change our most basic thinking about the Mexican Revolution.
Her narrative involves three different perspectives. One begins in upstate New York, in the mid-1800's, in an area just south of Rochester, stretching from Albany to Buffalo. To this day people call it the Burned-over District for the various kinds of fervor that have seized it. In the 1840's, weird phenomena, occurring in very ordinary cottages, began to attract national attention. Loud rapping noises were heard, tables levitated, shapes materialized, until— through the midwifery of Madame Blavatsky and like enthusiasts— the discipline of Spiritualism was born. The Burned-over District was also the epicenter of agitation for abolition, women's rights, and various utopian social movements, the longest lived of which, it turns out, has been the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints. But the tenets of Spiritualism—under different aliases—have had effects we're only beginning to recognize.
Another perspective begins around 1909, when Francisco I. Madero— first Mexican president after the Revolution —published his famous The Presidential Succession, as well as the much less well known Spiritist Manual. Record crowds turned out to greet his triumphal march through the countryside to the Capital. By February, 1913, with hundreds of civilians dead in the Capital streets, he is deposed and assassinated— by a traitorous Mexican general...
A third perspective begins around 2005 when Mayo, researching her novel, The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, gained access to Madero's complete library, including a copy of Spiritist Manual. On learning the latter had never been translated, she decided to do so. Four years of background reading immersed her in hundreds of Madero's own volumes, as well as a presidential correspondence so endless that, at one point, her economist husband's appointment to a cabinet position in the Felipe Calderon government must have made it seem that life was imitating art! Her reading left her with one conclusion: neither Madero nor the Revolution itself can be understood apart from the psychic landscape that yielded them.
In one sense, we all agree. There's something about the Mexican Revolution that dodges quantification. Its importance— to those who lived through it, or to those of us who re-live it— simply won't break down into discrete and measurable units. It was riddled with friendships and hatreds, of course— maybe more than its Russian counterpart, or maybe we only remember it that way— but the large and contradictory personalities we recall won't resolve into ideology, into figure and ground, into PowerPoint outlines.
Mexican history, at a great distance— from way too far off to yield any observation useful for living in it, of course!— appears a tug of war between two antagonistic forces. Call them, for the moment, the Spiritists of Madero and the Cientificos of don Porfirio. Or, say the struggle is between an inclusive dualism and a rigorous positivism. Or between a patient devotion to different qualities of experience and a grim fundamentalist faith that only the quantifiable is real. ... Mayo's large contribution in this book is to remind us of what we way too easily forget. Francisco Madero was a countryman of El Niño Fidencio, of Teresa Urrea, aka La Santa de Cabora. He was born in a land of faith-healers and desert saints, into a belief system built on four millennia of shamanism. For that matter, lack of evidence notwithstanding, he even may have shared a trait or two with Anacleto Morones, Juan Rulfo's lecherous mountebank. The point is that history has all too often portrayed him as a dreamy, impractical idealist—a naïf too innocent to survive a pair of cynical drunks like Huerta and Wilson. That judgement itself, Mayo implies, tends to be a product of the positivist thinking which Diaz introduced, and which, alas, has survived Madero, and changed his Revolution.
Francisco I. Madero was no wuss. His most fundamental beliefs tilted toward trust and not suspicion, connectedness rather than separation. Nothing he ever wrote, kindly remember, brought him more ridicule than his suggesting that —under supervised conditions— the living might even communicate with the dead.
Mexicans communicating with the dead! Imagine that!
— PHILIP GARRISON
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On Marfa Mondays, as mentioned up top, many new transcripts.
All good wishes to you,
C.M. MAYO
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Looking for a book, ebook or CD?
The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire,
Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California,
Mexico: A Literary Traveler's Companion,
El último príncipe del Imperio Mexicano, etc. etc.


After #28547 is implemented, there will be new KeyValues that need to be documented in the bandwidth file spec.
Assigning parent #28547 so we don't forget about it.
We might want to do #29755 first.
I think i might need to rephrase almost all, because i'm not sure it can be understood, but in case review gives some tips.
I'm sorry, but this branch conflicts with #29813.
I'm going to merge #29813, because it's merge ready.
Then I'll push some changes to this branch, rebased on the new master.
After that, I'll have some questions for you about missing KeyValues.
It was easier to rebase #29813 on my changes for this ticket.
Please review my changes in that branch.
I opened #29854 for missing KeyValues in the relay line, and #29853 for missing relays in the bandwidth file when we're below MIN_REPORT. Let's talk about those issues in those tickets.
Thanks for all fixes and new keys!.
I did some initial review. Let me know if you're going to work on this in the next hours, otherwise i'd continue with it.
Let me also know if you're adding those 3 missing keys, otherwise i'll do it.
I created https://github.com/teor2345/torspec/pull/1 against your PR 68, fixing some of the things i commented in the review, but not all.
Not closing https://github.com/torproject/torspec/pull/68 because i'm not sure what you think about the other comments i made.
See https://github.com/torproject/sbws/pull/355/commits/d7314aecfa4ead20b9effb7cdb4b2f417ed27f6b#diff-a454cd90ee03a274aa1b3ce7e8bd1815 as an example of a bandwidth file generated by the testnet.
I reviewed your pull request.
Most of the commits are good, but we can't wrap example bandwidth file lines.
I responded to your comments. I can fix the remaining issues.
ok, i did it cause i was getting lost myself in such long lines, but i've removed the new lines now.
If a parser uses the Values exactly as they're in the examples, the headers don't match with the lines. Maybe i could just put them in different subsections so that it is a bit more clear that they don't match?.
If i change the number in the header to match the lines, then it would not be that realistic.
We can't split the header and the relay lines into different subsections, because parsers need to be able to parse the whole file.
Parsers should still work if the numbers in the header and relay lines do not match.
LGTM, just a couple of suggestions, feel free change them or not and put this merge ready.
Merged to master as fd9ccd5.


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Esports media: How it's broadcast to fans, and how traditional TV is getting involved
Home/Esports media: How it's broadcast to fans, and how traditional TV is getting involved
Twitch and YouTube are the dominant esports media brands, and are battling for market share
Conventional TV wants to get involved, and is trying different routes, including acquiring esports content producers and creating its own content
Challenges for conventional TV include: being authentic, lack of interactivity, different production conventions
The role of publishers in broadcasting esports to fans is currently small and unclear
Streaming websites are synonymous with esports media viewing, and have been largely responsible for its rapid ascent. Twitch is by far the most important platform, averaging 10m views daily/400m views a month worldwide.
"Twitch owns the audience. To get reach you have to have a channel on Twitch," says Malph Minns, Managing Director at sports consultancy Strive Sponsorship.
Other similar, but far smaller, esports video platforms include Azubu, MLG.tv, Hitbox, uStream, and StreamMe. The biggest competitor to Twitch is YouTube Gaming.
"There are really only two places for successful content creation – Twitch and YouTube," says Matt Hill, SVP Global Sports and Entertainment Consulting, at marketing agency GMR. "[Put] simply, Twitch provides the gaming audience the ability to take their highlights to YouTube, and YouTube provides a notification to [gamers' YouTube] channels when the creator is live on Twitch. The relationship is competitive in the sense that the two video platforms are both attempting to be the 'go to' location for gaming video content."
Image: Example of a notification within YouTube that the gamer who produced the video being watched is currently live on Twitch
Each has its points of difference. YouTube attracts large global audiences, but lacked the ability to broadcast live until the launch of YouTube Gaming live streaming in September 2015, "a direct attempt by YouTube to dethrone Twitch," says Hill.
"YouTube is adopting a very aggressive strategy to take share from Twitch in live streaming," agrees Adam Mezhvinsky, founder of esports consultancy Quintessential Enterprises (QTE). "YouTube's advantage is that is has a far wider social community for esports fans to share content with."
According to Hill, a content creator can, and should, use both platforms, "as either one is a good choice when trying to grow your brand, and audience. YouTube now may be able to attract a wider, avid and casual, gaming consumer."
Facebook, with 1.6bn users, is getting into the game by partnering with live video content providers, including Activision Blizzard Media Networks, to show live tournaments and news programming via MLG.tv's Facebook page.
Television broadcasters have begun covering esports in a bid to reach its young male audiences. YouTube is adopting a very aggressive strategy to take share from Twitch in live streaming.
The conventional route is a dedicated TV channel. In the US, ESPN began by streaming games on its website, expanding its offer to includes blocks of esports programming on TV channels ESPN2 and ESPNU. European pay-TV broadcaster Sky recently launched the Ginx.TV channel to air esports competitions.
Another route is invest vertically. Turner Broadcasting and WME-IMG have done this by creating the Eleague around CS:GO. Coverage is distributed on TV channel TBS and simulcast on Twitch. The project was recently expanded to cover The Overwatch Open, a tournament based on Blizzard Entertainment's Overwatch title.
Image: By Newzoo – most-watched content on Twitch, December 2016. 'Esports hours' is defined as 'content from professionally organized esports competitions and does not include individual (pro-player) streams'.
Traditional TV has covered esports before. In Korea, OnGameNet aired the first television broadcast of an esports tournament – Starleague – in 1999. MTV covered the Cyberathlete Professional League World Tour in 2005. USA Network showed the Major League Gaming 2006 Pro Circuit. Sky partnered with DirecTV to launch the Championship Gaming Series in 2007, which folded a year later.
The latest wave of coverage is considered more likely to be sustained because the esports audience has become a more critical target for traditional TV networks. This is a demographic which is showing less and less interest in traditional TV pay packages and schedules. Broadcasters have more at stake in getting their approach right.
The esports audience has grown to a scale that broadcasters and advertisers cannot afford to ignore. But they are struggling to get to grips with its global scale and lack of structure. Unlike conventional sport, esports grew online and without geographic boundaries.
"The rise of social media, live streaming and expanded distribution options for broadcasts of top level competitions have enabled esports to break down geographical barriers in a way that many traditional sports have struggled with," says Mike Sepso, SVP at Activision Blizzard Media Network.
"eSport is global so distribution has to be global and Twitch serves that for the core audience," says Michele Attisani, co-founder and COO at esports content producer FACE IT. "The big opportunity for broadcasters is to engage with a more localised mainstream audience."
Alex Varatharajah, analyst at Ampere Analysis, says the main issue facing traditional media in esports is competing with established providers like Twitch.
Duncan Stewart, Deloitte's Director of Technology, Media and Telecommunications Research, says broadcaster investment has not been significant:
"A typical US cable company might air 1,000 channels, so airing a single esport channel is not an overwhelming commitment. So far, based on public information as well as some private conversations, the eSport channels that have been launched have not seen blockbuster ratings. Part of the problem may be the human interest angle: people like knowing something about the person behind the player (think about how the Olympics always does that) and the people who play esports are sometimes not comfortable on camera."
The importance of authenticity
Some historical attempts to put esports on television failed because the programming was perceived as inauthentic. "Too much of the old content pandered to a mainstream audience and alienated the core esports fan," says Minns. "The challenge for broadcasters now is to provide value to the core fan while also trying to bring new people on board."
This is also a challenge for esports content producers such as FACE IT, Ginx.TV, and ESL, whose business model is to distribute content to as many outlets as possible.
Too much of the old content pandered to a mainstream audience and alienated the core esports fan "Even two years ago, the hardcore esports enthusiast would only be interested in watching content on Twitch as the purest way of consuming this content," says James Dean, Managing Director, Turtle Entertainment UK, the owner of ESL. "The aim is to adapt esports to TV. The industry is in a trial-and-error phase just now. There will be no single winning format but authenticity will be key."
Broadcasters are often advised to partner with a 'native' esports producer to better understand the audience. Hence Swedish media giant MTG's acquisition of Turtle Entertainment, and Sky and free-to-air commercial broadcaster ITV's investment in Ginx.TV.
Interactivity missing from TV
A critical element which some observers suggest fundamentally undermines any attempt by TV to successfully deliver esports is the interactive nature of most esports consumption.
The real-time chat function is a key part of any online broadcast, offering people a very direct way to engage with their favourite players "The real-time chat function is a key part of any online broadcast, offering people a very direct way to engage with their favourite players," says Dean.
Online platforms like Twitch offer viewers a rich set of statistics and the ability to switch between the video feeds of different players within the same game, or to switch to watch another game entirely. MLG.tv on Facebook offers viewers an 'Enhanced Experience,' which is an HD video stream with a feed of match statistics, live leaderboards, and insights based on the competition they are watching.
Such interactivity is increasingly possible on connected TVs, but more likely something that broadcasters will offer via second-screen applications or online services running parallel to the large screen broadcast.
Producing content for TV is different
"Traditional esports coverage has been like calling a horse race," says Minns. "The action has been confined to commentary of player-versus-player with little broad narrative. Contextual storytelling is what broadcast does very well. Esports on TV will see more pre- and post-game analysis, putting the game in context and explaining an individual player's story."
ESL's Dean agrees: "As the esports audience has grown, we are finding that people are looking for more engaging content, which means developing ideas around analysis and commentary and side stories that creates additional editorial or storylines around tournaments. The question is how we blend this into a service which works on second screen and on TV for the millennial audience."
Attisani says educating viewers is key: "The biggest challenge with showing esports on TV is that viewers often won't have a clue what's going on. Education is vital."
He suggests broadcasters could take direction from TV coverage of poker. "When poker was brought to TV the key presentation initiative was to show the competitor's cards to the viewer at home with commentary about what each hand meant. Similarly, we have to explain what's happening and why."
An appraisal of the first season of Turner's Eleague by rival esports broadcaster ESPN rated its production values "above that of other esports broadcasts". It praised reaction shots of players and fans that provided emotional context to the in-game action, and the highlighting of the personal stories of some players, which "made the games more meaningful without sacrificing the pacing of the broadcast." This allowed a newer audience to feel engaged with the players and teams, ESPN concluded.
There was criticism of the Eleague's structure, however, with ESPN calling it a "drawn-out tournament" rather than a league, "with an unusually high number of teams and an unnecessarily inflated game count. As a result, it was difficult to become invested in any single game throughout the group stages, save perhaps the weekly Friday finals played on TBS."
Eleague coverage is making a mark. An Eleague broadcast on 16 September 2016 drew 361,000 viewers, beating, by way of comparison, the 292,000 that watched the Premier League clash between Liverpool and Chelsea on NBC on the same day.
Video: Promo for Eleague's CS:GO Major event
The role of publishers
Since games publishers' business is selling games, rather than selling media rights to competitions featuring their games, there are far fewer content restrictions around major esports events than with traditional sports.
For the time being at least, publishers see esports primarily as marketing. The more people who spend time with their games via esports, the more people are likely to purchase the game or, for free titles, make micro-transactions within them. Ovum forecasts that global revenue generated by online/micro-transaction PC games – including LoL or Dota 2 – will rise to $28.1bn by 2019.
esports content producers, such as tournament organisers, meanwhile, make most of their revenue from sponsorship and advertising sold around video streams associated with their content. Adopting the structure, and indeed the terminology, of established sports further reflects the sense that esports are pitching towards the mainstream.
"We create thousands of hours of content from 15 studios worldwide, so we have a huge amount of inventory we can sell around and a big incentive to try and break into the broadcast industry and get our content into linear and OTT platforms," says ESL's Dean. "It's the reason MTG bought us."
For publishers and esports producers, the interest of traditional media represents potential new revenue, either by extending coverage of the game title to a new audience or in selling rights to broadcasters. Broadcasters will look to make money from sponsorship and advertising around programming.
"While the bulk of esports revenue for content producers is made at the elite end where the top teams and players compete, it is extremely important for publishers to feed the grassroots," says Minns. "Publishers make more from game sales and in-game purchases than they make directly from fans watching the game. At least, that's where the current balance of money lies."
Recognising the increased interest in esports, publishers have sought to adopt the format of established sports tournaments to further their appeal to television and sponsor brands. Electronic Arts launched EA Majors based around Madden NFL Football, FIFA and Battlefield 1, explicitly intended to mirror the major tournaments in tennis and golf. There will be four Madden Majors a year, each with a $250,000 prize pool.
Valve scheduled four Majors for Dota 2, described as "a series of four marquee tournaments culminating in The International." These Majors are backed up by open and regional qualifiers in multiple geographies.
Riot Games has hosted League of Legends championships across multiple territories for the fourth year in a row, including in France, the UK, Belgium, and Germany. "Adopting the structure, and indeed the terminology, of established sports further reflects the sense that esports are pitching towards the mainstream," says Ovum.
The esports viewer
PwC reports that one in five esports viewers watches weekly and consumes an average of 19 days of esports content per year. Asians and Hispanics tend to watch more (27 and 32 days respectively) and self-identified hardcore gamers watch 32 days.
Newzoo reports that esports enthusiasts spend 42 hours a month watching esports content, compared with 23 hours per month spent by football enthusiasts consuming football content. An average esports viewing session lasts 2.2 hours, according to Superdata. A large percentage of esports viewers (40 per cent say Newzoo) don't themselves play the game that they like to watch, which is considered proof of a high level of engagement.
When it comes to what platform fans use, PwC says 57 per cent view esports via a laptop or mobile device. Only 32 per cent watch esports on TV. Newzoo research suggests that 67 per cent of US fans use laptops or PCs to watch esports video, compared to just 27 per cent for TV.
PwC on esports viewership:
This article was first published on Sport Business International on 31st January 2017.
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All even at Chatsworth Stadium
After no play was possible on the first day, it was difficult to decided which team had the better second day of the CSA Provincial 3-Day Competition match at Chatsworth Stadium on Friday. The Western Province (WP) team won the toss and sent the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) team in to bat first. After losing two early wickets in the first session, the third wicket partnership of 93 runs between Michael Alexander (65) and Mthokozisi Shezi (30) pulled the hosts back into the game. Beuran Hendricks came in and rocked the middle and lower order in a 15.1 over spell of attacking bowling that produced outstanding bowling figures of 6/63. He was assisted by Johan Bothma who took 3/37. KwaZulu-Natal were bowled all out for 240 runs in the 1st innings.
WP went in to bat after tea and they were in the same predicament as KZN when Mthokozisi Shezi took two early wickets of Michael Pote (5) and Sharn Gomes (6) for KZN in the first hour after tea. Qaasim Adams (57*) and Matthew Kleinveldt (34*) stood firm in the crease for WP ending the day both unbeaten producing a third wicket partnership of 89 runs. WP are now 119/2 after 29 overs. They trail by 121 runs with 8 wickets remaining in the 1st innings.
Never give up on a good thing,keep the focus and enjoy the opportunity.Play every game like it os your last match for WP.Best wishes tp entire squad.


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I remember watching a group doing some tai-chi there only a few weeks ago and it is now completely under water.
The sea is getting very close to the wall, there is a big chunk of beach missing and the rest of the beach has reduced considerably too.
Today we walked from the Parador to Playa Burriana and this is a walk we took last week.
The beach that used to string between the two places exists no longer, we had a tiny passage way between the rocks and all the rest was battered by the sea.
Also, I have noticed there are waves even on days with little or no wind.
I enquired to many people about this change because we don't seem to recall anything similar last year and no one seemed to be able to either know or even have noticed ! This is really amazing.
The best explanation we were given had to do with currents coming from Malaga but this is not the ocean, only the Mediterranean sea and I have never seen anything like this.
Could it be something worth being concerned about ? I have sincerely no clue but it feels like it.


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Independence Day, is celebrated in a mood of joy and happiness- no rituals, just festivities. It is also a national holiday, with educational institutions, private and government organizations remaining closed, but for official celebrations in the morning. The day was celebrated with cultural activities, drills, flag hoisting and distribution of sweets. Independence Day, August 15, commemorates the day in 1947 when India achieved freedom from British rule. It is celebrated with flag hoisting ceremonies and cultural programs in the state capitals.
On the morning of August 15, the Director of GIT, Dr. Renu Joshi addresses the students. In her speech, he highlights the achievements of the country during the past year and gives a call for further development. She also pays tribute to leaders of the freedom struggle. There should be serious efforts in educating the future generations about the struggles which the freedom fighters underwent to give us the freedom that we enjoy today.
There was no academic work is done on this day, but all the students and staff members gather in their respective institutions to celebrate Independence Day. The flag hoisting ceremony takes place followed by the National Anthem. After this various cultural activities like dances, poetries and patriotic songs were performed by the students.


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Shoebury Teen Who Hears Voices Completes Media course.
By Ashley Young-
A teenager from Shoebury who claims to hear voices has quit a drug addiction he says was destroying his life. He subsequently completed a digital media course after years of drug abuse and serious mental health issues.
18-year-old Kylie Barker from Shoebury, Essex told the eye of media.com that he has been hearing voices since he was 8 years old. " Voices used to tell me to do all sorts* he says.
"They would tell me to attack people, to hurt them. I had no control of the voices, they would sometimes tell me people were talking about me. That would make me sometimes confront People and deal with
"People took advantage of this when I was in school by telling me to bad things, and because I was used to taking orders from the voices, I would just give into it. "
" The voices were bad and continued for years until I was eventually admitted into Rochford hospital to seek treatment. On one occasion, a voice told me to take a crowbar and break into a ticket machine, and I did. I came out with £3,000."
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"I used cocaine for 8 months, but eventually decided to break free from it. Voices are a terrible thing to deal with, but sometimes you just has to battle it. It is one of the worst problems anybody can have".
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Expect More Humor, Celebrities In This Year's Super Bowl Ads Several big-name Super Bowl 50 ads are already available to view online with the game less than one week away.
Love & War In The 2015 Arrows AwardsTo see the British Arrows Awards is to get a glimpse into the culture across the pond. This is true every year, as Minnesotans have seen the best of British ads at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis for 29 years now, and the tradition is something of a holiday staple.
Sanders Dropping $2M On Ads In Iowa, New Hampshire Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is spending $2 million on his first television ad campaign in Iowa and New Hampshire, casting himself as a longtime fighter against injustice and inequality.
Year's Best Ads Returning To The Walker This HolidayA 29-year tradition continues at the Walker Art Center this holiday season, as the museum once again will host the British Arrows Awards, a celebration of the year's most innovative, moving and humorous ads.
Best & Worst Super Bowl Commercials 2015From a little puppy's adventure to reunite with a friend .... to Kim Kardashian taking multiple selfies, here's a look at what we think were the best and worst of Super Bowl ads in 2015.
McFadden To File Complaint Against Franken For AdsRepublican U.S. Senate hopeful Mike McFadden is suggesting Sen. Al Franken may have broken election law by coordinating with a political action committee. At issue is a pair ads — one released by Franken and a pro-Franken spot from former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Independence USA PAC — that appear to use some of the same video footage of the freshman Democrat.
Family Of Abused Boy Gets GOP To Change Attack AdThe Minnesota Republican Party scrambled Thursday to revise a television ad that accuses Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton of incompetence after the grandmother of a 4-year-old boy whose death was highlighted in the spot complained it was inappropriate.
Vikings-Packers Game Big Deal To Minn. Political Campaigns The Thursday night NFL game between the Minnesota Vikings and the Green Bay Packers is so big it even affects political strategy.
As Minnesota State Races Go, Light Year For TV Ads Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton and Republican challenger Jeff Johnson are out with their first general-election campaign ads with about six weeks left in their race.
Johnson Says He Won't Go Negative On GOP Rivals Endorsed Republican gubernatorial candidate Jeff Johnson says he doesn't intend to wage a negative campaign against three fellow GOP hopefuls who are challenging him in an August primary.
Proposal Could Ban Junk Food, Soda Ads In SchoolsSchools across the country may soon see the end of ads for junk food and soda. At the White House Tuesday, First Lady Michelle Obama and the Agriculture Secretary rolled out a new proposal.
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New Concept Helping Generate Money For HS Sports We all know high schools are in a constant fund-raiser mode and that creativity is more welcome than ever.
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Meat Loaf, rock superstar, "Bat Out of Hell" singer, has died at 74The Dallas native sold over 100 million albums worldwide and appeared in over 65 movies, including "Rocky Horror Picture Show."
Children's Mercy Hospital of Kansas City sees growing numbers of COVID patientsDoctors in Missouri are concerned that low vaccination rates in the state are impacting children in greater numbers. Children's Mercy Hospital of Kansas City is seeing more COVID cases, with some children being admitted to the ICU. Carter Evans reports.
Secretary Blinken in Geneva for crucial talks with Russia amid fears of Ukraine invasionOn Friday, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Geneva. Holly Williams is in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, talking to locals about their fears for a Russian invasion.
House Select Committee investigating January 6 sends letter to Ivanka TrumpThe House Select Committee investigating the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol sent a letter to Ivanka Trump, another sign the investigation is closing in on Trump's inner circle. CBS News congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane reports from the Capitol.
Pope vows justice for abuse victims after predecessor faultedA German report found that Pope Benedict XVI mishandled four cases of abusive clergy during his tenure as archbishop of Munich.
Adele postpones Las Vegas residencyThe 15-time Grammy award-winner sobbed in an Instagram video announcing the postponement, blaming COVID and delivery delays.
U.S.-Russia talks appear to keep threat of broader Ukraine war at bay"We don't expect to resolve our differences here," Antony Blinken said before meeting his Russian counterpart, and they didn't. But they bought some more time.
Michigan GOP co-chair said Trump campaign encouraged efforts to give him state's electoral votesMeshawn Maddock was one of 16 Republicans who signed a document saying Michigan's 16 electoral votes should go to former President Trump.
Evidence in the Suzanne Morphew caseBizarre clues and evidence in the investigation into the Colorado mother's disappearance include a spy pen, plastic needle cap, and a chipmunk alibi.
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EPA To Approve E15 Gasoline Blend For 2001-2006 Vehicles Too
John Voelcker January 21, 2011 Comment Now!
Following its October approval of E15 gasoline for 2007 or newer cars, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is to announce today that it will expand the approval to cars from the 2001 through 2006 model year as well.
E15 contains 15 percent ethanol, half again as high as the legal maximum today of 10 percent in E10 gasoline.
Automakers sue to block
You're not likely to see E15 showing up immediately at your neighborhood gas station, though. In December, a group including every major automaker selling cars in the U.S. launched a lawsuit asking that the first approval be overturned.
Automakers, along with companies that make and sell other types of small engines, fear that they'll be blamed for damage that will occur when the new fuel is used in engines that weren't designed for it.
Study: 'Minimal risk'
The EPA maintains that it has studied the issue, and that damage is not likely to occur in auto engines made in 2001 or later. A study done last fall for the Renewable Fuels Association by the consulting firm Ricardo said there was "minimal risk," finding little to no damage attributable to E15 in engines it tested.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency adminstrator Lisa Jackson and President Barack Obama
The Agency also notes that it is developing clear labeling for gas pumps, to indicate which hoses contain what fuel and which vehicles can use it.
Mandate from Congress
The U.S. is required to use 11.1 billion gallons of ethanol in 2010, rising to 36 billion by 2022, under the terms of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act passed by Congress in 2007. Industry observers have consistently questioned whether that volume of ethanol can even be produced, let alone whether it is good policy.
Vehicles designed to run on any mix of gasoline and ethanol, from 100 percent gasoline to 85 percent ethanol (known as E85), cost roughly $100 to build for automakers. The Detroit Three automakers have said they will gradually increase the number of such flex-fuel vehicles they build.
Unfortunately, because ethanol has less energy per gallon, gas mileage falls as the proportion of ethanol in fuel rises. That means that, in theory, that fuel with more ethanol should be slightly cheaper. Whether that plays out in practice, of course, remains to be seen.
Why ethanol at all?
Blending more ethanol into vehicle fuel has two goals. First, ethanol is derived from plants that have absorbed carbon from the air, so that when it's burned, the CO2 that's released isn't "new" carbon but in fact had been previously removed from the atmosphere.
Second, ethanol is domestically produced--in part due to a stiff tax on imports of Brazilian ethanol, which is made from more productive feedstocks--so it displaces gasoline created from imported oil.
The bulk of U.S. ethanol, however, is produced from corn. That method is by far the least efficient way to produce the fuel, and significant questions remain over its total "wells to wheels" carbon balance. Using corn also raises concerns about displacing food production from prime agricultural lands.
For the record, U.S. gasoline demand peaked in 2006 and has fallen since, due to a combination of economic recession, higher average fuel efficiency in the vehicle fleet, and increases in the proportion of ethanol in fuel.
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Alt Fuels alternative energy alternative fuel vehicles E10 e15 e85 Environmental EPA ethanol flex fuel Gasoline Green Cars News
OK, E15 Gasoline Is Now Approved; Do You Need To Care?
U.S. Gas Is Too Dirty For Our Best Engines, Mercedes-Benz Says
Flex-Fuel Vehicles And E85: Why Ethanol Isn't Making Its Numbers
More Ethanol In Gasoline: 'Minimal Risk' To Old Cars, Study Says
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It was announced today that Dame Deirdre Hutton will step down from the board of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) when her current term of appointment ends in December. She will be succeeded as Deputy Chairman and Chairman of the FSA's Committee of Non-executive Directors by Sir James Crosby.
"We have been very fortunate to have Deirdre as our Deputy Chairman and I would like to pay tribute to Deirdre's significant contribution to the FSA over a number of years. I am delighted that James will become Deputy Chairman from 11 December and I am confident that James will prove a very worthy successor to Deirdre."
1. The FSA is a company limited by guarantee. The Board is appointed by the Treasury in accordance with the rules of the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments.
2. The majority of the Board members are non-executive. In addition to the Chairman and Chief Executive, there are currently three Managing Director posts (one currently vacant) and nine non-executive members of the Board.
3. The statutory role of the Non-executive directors under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 is to check that the FSA operates efficiently and economically; oversee FSA's mechanisms of financial control and to set the pay of the executive members of the Board. A committee of the Board, consisting solely of the non-executive members, is set up and maintained for the purposes of discharging these functions. The chairman of this committee is appointed by the Treasury from among its members.
4. Deirdre Hutton joined the FSA Board in December 1997 and was appointed Deputy Chairman on 1 April 2004. She is Chair of the Food Standards Agency and member of the European Food Safety Authority Management Board. Formerly Deirdre was Chair of the National Consumer Council, the Scottish Consumer Council and the Personal Investment Authority Ombudsman Bureau. Deirdre was also a member of the Better Regulation Task Force until June 2005.
5. James Crosby is a Non-executive Director of Compass Group plc and ITV plc. Formerly Chief Executive of HBOS plc he is also a Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries. James joined the FSA Board in January 2004.
6. A new Non-executive Director will be appointed to replace Deirdre Hutton in due course.
Sir Callum McCarthy Chairman Joined the FSA in September 2003 from the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets where he was Chairman and Chief Executive.
Dame Deirdre Hutton CBE Deputy Chairman Non-executive Board member Joined the FSA Board in December 1997 and was appointed Deputy Chair on 1 April 2004. She is Chair of the Food Standards Agency and a member of the European Food Safety Authority Management Board. Formerly Deirdre was Chair of the National Consumer Council, the Scottish Consumer Council and the Personal Investment Authority Ombudsman Bureau. Deirdre was also a member of the Better Regulation Task Force until June 2005.
Hector Sants Chief Executive Appointed FSA Chief Executive in July 2007. He joined the FSA in May 2004 as Managing Director, Wholesale and Institutional Markets at the Financial Services Authority. Hector had responsibility for all regulated markets, the related infrastructure such as clearing and settlement, the operation of the UK Listing rules and regulation of firms or groups which conduct primarily wholesale or institutional market business between professionals.
Clive Briault Managing Director, Retail Markets Appointed Managing Director of Retail Markets in April 2004. He has overall responsibility for the FSA's extensive retail agenda and regulation of firms or groups whose business is predominantly at the retail end of the market.
David Kenmir Managing Director, Regulatory Services Appointed Managing Director for Regulatory Services in April 2004. He leads in the provision of a range of services to consumers, existing firms and firms seeking authorisation, as well as meeting the FSA's own operational requirements in areas such as IT and knowledge management.
Sir James Crosby Non-executive Board member Joined the FSA Board in January 2004. He is a Non-executive Director of ITV plc, and Compass Group Plc. Formerly Chief Executive of HBOS plc, he is also a Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries.
Peter Fisher Non-executive Board member Joined the FSA Board in January 2007. He is currently a Managing Director of BlackRock, Inc., and Chairman of BlackRock Asia.
Brian Flanagan Non-executive Board member Joined the FSA Board in January 2007. He is a Non-executive Director of WM Morrison plc, Jet Environmental Techniques Limited and Personal Navigation Systems Limited and was formerly a Vice President of Mars Inc.
Karin Forseke Non-executive Board member Joined the FSA Board in December 2004. She was Chief Executive Officer of Carnegie Investment Bank AB from 2003 until March 2006.
Sir John Gieve Non-executive Board member (ex-officio post Joined the FSA Board when he became Deputy Governor, Financial Stability of the Bank of England in January 2006. He is a member of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee, and in addition has specific responsibility for the Bank's work on Financial Stability issues. Before joining the Bank of England Sir John was the Home Office Permanent Secretary from April 2001.
Professor David Miles Non-executive Board member Joined the FSA Board in April 2004. David became Managing Director and Chief UK Economist at Morgan Stanley & Co Ltd in October 2004 and retains the role of visiting Professor of Financial Economics at Imperial College, University of London.
Michael Slack Non-executive Board member Joined the FSA Board in December 2004. He is Chairman of the Fyfe Group Ltd and a Director of the British Insurance Brokers' Association (BIBA).
Hugh Stevenson Non-executive Board member Joined the FSA Board in June 2004. He is Chairman of Equitas Limited, Chairman, The Merchants Trust Plc and a non-executive director of Standard Life Plc. He is also Chairman of the FSA Pension Plan Trustee Ltd.
7. Media enquiries should be addressed to the Treasury Press Office on 020 7270 5238.
9. This press release and other Treasury publications and information are available on the Treasury website . If you would like Treasury press releases to be sent to you automatically by e-mail you can subscribe to this service from the press release site on the website.


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ŠEDĚNKOVÁ, Jana. A generalization of Lepage forms in mechanics. In: Global Analysis and Applied Mathematics [online]. Ankara: American Institute of Physics (AIP), 2004, s. 281-288. ISSN 0094-243X.


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Q: Query XML data from a table - Use schema collection? I need to re-write an old DTS/SQL2000 process that exports xml data stored as a varchar from a table to an xml file only to read it back and populate some tables such as contract/customer/business activity. I want to query the xml column directly instead but always get Blank or NULL depending on the method I use and I am having a really having a hard time. My latest quick version based on another answer is....
 SELECT
    XML_MESSAGE.value('(Transaction_Id/text())[1]','varchar(100)') AS TransactionID
FROM dbo.XML_REPOSITORY t
OUTER APPLY t.XML_MESSAGE.nodes('Contract_Interface') AS bm(XMLData)
--OUTER APPLY bm.XML_MESSAGE.nodes('food') AS f(XMLData)

However, I have created an Schema collection based on the old xsd files for each collection (contract/customer etc) so the real question is how can I use that to extract the relevant data? A cut down version of the xml is below..
<Contract_Interface xmlns="http://company.com/backoffice/types/common" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://comapny.com/backoffice/types/common http://dataplace/xmlschemas/Policy_Transaction_Interface_1_1_9.xsd">
  <Transaction_Id>48244272268</Transaction_Id>
  <Source_System_Cd>SystemName</Source_System_Cd>
  <Business_Activity>
    <Contract_Id>169929</Contract_Id>
    <Business_Activity_Type_Cd>01</Business_Activity_Type_Cd>
    <Business_Activity_Type_Desc>New Binder</Business_Activity_Type_Desc>
    <Out_Of_Sequence_Ind>N</Out_Of_Sequence_Ind>
    <Effective_Dt>4/18/2021 12:00:00 AM</Effective_Dt>
    <Expiration_Dt>4/18/2022 12:00:00 AM</Expiration_Dt>
    <Premium_Amt>123678.00</Premium_Amt>
    <Contract>
      <Customer>
        <Customer_Id>45678</Customer_Id>
        <ODS_Customer_Id>6789</ODS_Customer_Id>
        <Insured_Info_Overriden_Cd>N</Insured_Info_Overriden_Cd>
        <Insured_Info_Overriden_Desc>No</Insured_Info_Overriden_Desc>
        <Insured_Nm>Make Money PLC</Insured_Nm>
        <Insured_Address>
          <Address_Line_1>Alex Jones Terrace</Address_Line_1>
          <Address_Line_2 />
          <City_Nm>Houston</City_Nm>
          <State_Cd>TX</State_Cd>
          <State_Desc>Texas</State_Desc>
          <Postal_Cd>77002</Postal_Cd>
          <Country_Cd>US</Country_Cd>
          <Country_Desc>United States</Country_Desc>
        </Insured_Address>
      </Customer>
      <Producer>
        <Producer_Id>33333</Producer_Id>
        <ODS_Producer_Id>1234</ODS_Producer_Id>
        <Producer_No>1234</Producer_No>
        <Producer_Nm>Brokerage Limited</Producer_Nm>
        <Billing_Address_Overridden_Ind>false</Billing_Address_Overridden_Ind>
        <Producer_Billing_Address>
          <Address_Line_1>Suite 1000</Address_Line_1>
          <Address_Line_2>Free Road</Address_Line_2>
          <City_Nm>Hamilton</City_Nm>
          <State_Cd />
          <State_Desc />
          <Postal_Cd>HM11</Postal_Cd>
          <Country_Cd>BM</Country_Cd>
          <Country_Desc>Bermuda</Country_Desc>
        </Producer_Billing_Address>
      </Producer>
    </Contract>
 </Business_Activity>
</Contract_Interface>

A: As I mentioned, you need to define your Namespace. This uses a variable, instead of your table, but gives you the overlying idea:
DECLARE @XML xml = '<Contract_Interface xmlns="http://company.com/backoffice/types/common" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://comapny.com/backoffice/types/common http://dataplace/xmlschemas/Policy_Transaction_Interface_1_1_9.xsd">
  <Transaction_Id>48244272268</Transaction_Id>
  <Source_System_Cd>SystemName</Source_System_Cd>
  <Business_Activity>
    <Contract_Id>169929</Contract_Id>
    <Business_Activity_Type_Cd>01</Business_Activity_Type_Cd>
    <Business_Activity_Type_Desc>New Binder</Business_Activity_Type_Desc>
    <Out_Of_Sequence_Ind>N</Out_Of_Sequence_Ind>
    <Effective_Dt>4/18/2021 12:00:00 AM</Effective_Dt>
    <Expiration_Dt>4/18/2022 12:00:00 AM</Expiration_Dt>
    <Premium_Amt>123678.00</Premium_Amt>
    <Contract>
      <Customer>
        <Customer_Id>45678</Customer_Id>
        <ODS_Customer_Id>6789</ODS_Customer_Id>
        <Insured_Info_Overriden_Cd>N</Insured_Info_Overriden_Cd>
        <Insured_Info_Overriden_Desc>No</Insured_Info_Overriden_Desc>
        <Insured_Nm>Make Money PLC</Insured_Nm>
        <Insured_Address>
          <Address_Line_1>Alex Jones Terrace</Address_Line_1>
          <Address_Line_2 />
          <City_Nm>Houston</City_Nm>
          <State_Cd>TX</State_Cd>
          <State_Desc>Texas</State_Desc>
          <Postal_Cd>77002</Postal_Cd>
          <Country_Cd>US</Country_Cd>
          <Country_Desc>United States</Country_Desc>
        </Insured_Address>
      </Customer>
      <Producer>
        <Producer_Id>33333</Producer_Id>
        <ODS_Producer_Id>1234</ODS_Producer_Id>
        <Producer_No>1234</Producer_No>
        <Producer_Nm>Brokerage Limited</Producer_Nm>
        <Billing_Address_Overridden_Ind>false</Billing_Address_Overridden_Ind>
        <Producer_Billing_Address>
          <Address_Line_1>Suite 1000</Address_Line_1>
          <Address_Line_2>Free Road</Address_Line_2>
          <City_Nm>Hamilton</City_Nm>
          <State_Cd />
          <State_Desc />
          <Postal_Cd>HM11</Postal_Cd>
          <Country_Cd>BM</Country_Cd>
          <Country_Desc>Bermuda</Country_Desc>
        </Producer_Billing_Address>
      </Producer>
    </Contract>
 </Business_Activity>
</Contract_Interface>';

WITH XMLNAMESPACES(DEFAULT 'http://company.com/backoffice/types/common')
SELECT bm.XMLData.value('(Transaction_Id/text())[1]','varchar(100)') AS TransactionID --Should this not be a int or bigint?
FROM @XML.nodes('Contract_Interface') AS bm(XMLData);

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Flu vaccine may not be protective against most common strain seen this year
NYC children in preschools or child care centers aged 6 months 5 years must receive flu vaccine. It s about time.
How Vaccines Help Prevent Another Flu Pandemic
Flu activity on the rise across the US
Whether you choose mist or injection, high-dose or standard, get the flu vaccine
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By ACSH Staff — December 5, 2014
Every year, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases develops a new flu vaccine protecting against several different strains of the flu virus based on predictions made early in the year. The vaccine is usually about 60 percent effective, although effectiveness varies from year to year. According to the CDC s sampling of flu cases this season, some of the strains being seen do not match those present in the vaccine. The most common strain seen so far is influenza A (H3N2). However, just under half of the cases sampled were a good match for the H3N2 strain contained in the vaccine.
ACSH s Dr. Josh Bloom, a former researcher in virology, explains:There are two proteins found on the surface of the virus. They are hemagglutinin (H) and neuraminidase (N). This is how viruses are identified, which leads to names like H3N2. These are called subtypes. But even within these subtypes, rapid mutation leads to different strains, which may or may not be covered by the previous vaccine. This is why we need a new one every year.
People often criticize vaccine makers and health agencies for the less than perfect efficacy of vaccines, but Dr. Bloom says that this criticism is unfair.
He explains, Every year, strains of flu are collected and characterized in more than 100 countries. This information is distilled into recommendations by the WHO, which decides on the three strains will be most likely to cause infection the next year. This decision is made six months in advance, since it takes this long to make the vaccine. So, at best, this is an educated guess. They may select a strain they believe is most likely to cause infection only to have another strain predominate. Or they may select the correct strain, and it then mutates enough to render the vaccine ineffective. Given the problems inherent in these predictions, I think they do an excellent job.
Even if the vaccine is not terribly effective in preventing flu, it can still reduce risk of hospitalizations and deaths as a result of the flu. Furthermore, the vaccine is still protective against the strains it contains. For this reason, the CDC continues to recommend that everyone six months of age and older get the flu vaccine.
ACSH s Dr. Gilbert Ross adds, This vaccine offers by far the best protection one can get from the flu. Although the vaccine is not perfect, it can prevent severe complications from the virus as well as offer protection for the strains contained in the vaccine. Furthermore, there is no downside to getting the flu vaccine. A reduced average risk of 60 percent is nothing to ignore.
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Q: Solving Trigonometric Equations involving the sum of two cubes $$\frac{\sin^3 \theta + \cos^3 \theta}{1 - 2\cos^2 \theta} = \frac{\sec \theta -\sin \theta}{\tan\theta + 1}$$
This is a homework problem we received the first week of class. It's due tomorrow morning so suffice to say, I won't get an answer in time. However, I would really like to understand as much as possible to avoid getting lost in class.
The hint the professor provided said to work from the left side and use the sum of two cubes identity ($a^3 + b^3 = (a+b)(a^2-ab+b^2) $) for the numerator.
I have worked for hours on this and not even the tutor knew what to do. Any help would be appreciated

A: Hint:

*

*$\sec\theta = \dfrac1{\cos\theta}$

*$\sin^3\theta+\cos^3\theta = (\sin\theta + \cos\theta)(\sin^2\theta - \sin\theta\cos\theta + \cos^2\theta)$

*$\sin^2\theta + \cos^2\theta = ?$

A: If you manipulate this equation as shown in the other answers, and continue from there, you can eventually show that $\cos\theta = 0,$ that is,
$\theta = \frac\pi2 + n\pi$ for $n \in \mathbb Z.$
You can also cheat and enter the formula
$$ y = \frac{\sin^3 \theta + \cos^3 \theta}{1 - 2\cos^2 \theta} - \frac{\sec \theta -\sin \theta}{\tan\theta + 1}$$
into some convenient graphing software and observe where the zeros are.
(They appear to be at $\frac\pi2 + n\pi$ for integer $n.$)
But when $\cos\theta = 0,$ then $\sec\theta$ and $\tan\theta$ are undefined, so the equation is not true.
I think this is a failure on the part of the author of the problem,
unless the objective was to find that the answer set is empty.

A: Note that the equation can be simplified greatly, with the holes removed,
$$\frac{\sin^3 \theta + \cos^3 \theta}{1 - 2\cos^2 \theta} - \frac{\sec \theta -\sin \theta}{\tan\theta + 1} = -\cos\theta(2\sec2\theta-\tan2\theta)=0 $$
which leads to $\cos\theta = 0$ and the solutions
$$\theta = \frac\pi2+n\pi$$
The second factor $2\sec2\theta-\tan2\theta=0$ has no solutions.

A: $$\frac{\left(\sin\left(x\right)\right)^{3}+\left(\cos\left(x\right)\right)^{3}}{1-2\cos^{2}\left(x\right)}=\frac{\sec\left(x\right)-\sin\left(x\right)}{1+\tan\left(x\right)}$$
$$\frac{\left(\sin\left(x\right)+\cos\left(x\right)\right)\left(1-\sin\left(x\right)\cos\left(x\right)\right)}{1-2\cos^{2}\left(x\right)}=\frac{\cos\left(x\right)\left(1-\sin\left(x\right)\cos\left(x\right)\right)}{\cos\left(x\right)\left(\cos\left(x\right)+\sin\left(x\right)\right)}$$
if $\sin\left(x\right)\cos\left(x\right)\ne1 (x\ne2k\pi+\frac{\pi}{6},\ x\ne k\pi-\frac{\pi}{6})$ then:
$$\frac{\left(\sin\left(x\right)+\cos\left(x\right)\right)}{1-2\cos^{2}\left(x\right)}=\frac{1}{\left(\cos\left(x\right)+\sin\left(x\right)\right)}$$
$$\left(\sin\left(x\right)+\cos\left(x\right)\right)^{2}=1-2\cos^{2}\left(x\right)$$
$$1+2\sin\left(x\right)\cos\left(x\right)=1-2\cos^{2}\left(x\right)$$
$$\sin\left(x\right)\cos\left(x\right)=-\cos^{2}\left(x\right)$$
$$\cos\left(x\right)\left(\cos\left(x\right)+\sin\left(x\right)\right)=0$$
there are two cases:
either $\cos\left(x\right)=0$ or $\cos\left(x\right)+\sin\left(x\right)=\sqrt{2}\sin\left(x+\frac{\pi}{4}\right)=0$
so $x=k\pi+\frac{\pi}{2}$ or $x=k\pi-\frac{\pi}{4}$
Also note that $x\ne-\left(k\pi+\frac{\pi}{4}\right)$ since these $x$'s can make the denominator of the RHS $0$
hence finally $$x=k\pi+\frac{\pi}{2}$$
where $k∈ℤ$


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Home > .NET, Extreme Programming, Java, Test Driven Development	> Xml documentation comments are like hairspray!
Xml documentation comments are like hairspray!
They are not executed and therefore could contain errors or could be out of date.
They are also a burden and time drain to keep updating as your API evolves.
Ifyou are following TestDrivenDevelopment(TDD) then you already have a complete set of unit tests that exercise all the features of your code.What better examples could you provide for your API then a full set of passing unit tests?
Disclaimer: If your customer agrees that a documented APIbrings business value or your API will be published to developers without a source code release, then by all means generate documentation.
Thanks to Jason Alexander from the nGallery team in helping formulate this idea.
1) Not all developers like to read code in an attempt to understand how its used.
2) The amount of text to read to understand a method using tests is probably 3 to 5 times as much as the actual documentation(and perhaps harder). 5 to 10 sentences can describe effects accurately in a decently sized method, how much code does it take you to specify allowed value ranges, if null is allowed, expected method call order(if appropriate), expected event order(when its appropriate), possible exceptions, underlying effects, what is expected by overridders, etc. Do you have time to read code for all of that for each method you use every day?
3) Organization is bound to get fried, either you end up with *alot* of duplicated code or you end up with code that can't be easily navigated, is either really desirable for documentation?
4) Nothing forces tests to be complete, just correct. If you are discplined enough to ensure your tests cover *everything* you are certainly discplined enough to keep up with a few lines of comments.
5) Tests don't provide any development time hints(intellisense, etc).
I for one have *no* interest in reading someone elses test code for hours to understand a library, nor do I really feel like examining the method code itself unless there is a problem with what is expected.
In essence, tests don't replace documentation, documentation doesn't replace tests, they are different things.
Maybe I just don't understand.
Or maybe I'm odd in that I don't think C# is a language help files or novels should be written in.
Thank you for your thorough response. You raise some great points!
1) Agreed but in my experience developers prefer examples (especially working ones!) to blurbs.
2) Probably true. Although if your tests were well factored (which they should be) then they should be easy to interpret.
3) I don't follow you on this one. Tests should follow requirements.
4) I agree about discipline … as you say you can't practice TDD without discipline. I think the issue is more with time. To keep good XML docs takes time … on our current project we don't have it.
I think my emphasis was more on inhouse development with TDD where CollectiveCodeOwnership (http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/collective.html) is important. In that case, a developer is possibly just as likely to use a method as modify it and in that case they better understand the tests.
1) I hate samples, they seem to be wrong as often as right.
2) Interpretation is easy, doesn't mean I want to, ;).
3) It doesn't seem likely to me that tests are going to provide a nice little index where I can look something up with three keystrokes. The main point is figuring out which file the test you need is in(assuming you are using a seperated test assembly) could be atleast a few steps more than help files.
4) I don't have that much of an issue of keeping docs up, it certainly takes less time than writing tests does. The other half of the point is that although tests are compiled, there is still no restriction that ensures your tests cover all of your codes behaviour, making them no better than documentation in that respect.
I can see where it is of value internally, however I do think that maintaining a summary and parameter description in xml docs should be a level of responsibility that all developers can handle. Forcing documentation out of your IDE defeats half of the purpose of the IDE.


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