Today, Scott Carson shares 3 major mistakes that new investors make and explains how to avoid these mistakes so that you can be successful.
From looking for your deals to not efficiently networking, there's some key areas that if done correctly, can put you ahead of the game.
Scott: Hey everybody. My name is Scott Carson. I'm known as The Note Guy. You can find more information about me at weclosenotes.com, but literally, I'm your host today on the REI Classroom with flipnerd.com. Excited to be here. Got a great topic for you and some really great tips that a lot of people struggle with.
And my focus is on note investing and helping people with distressed debt, and turning problem properties into profitable solutions. We see a lot of note investors and real estate investors make three simple mistakes when they are getting things started.
Scott: As a new investor, many people are looking for ways to make deals happen and often times, people are looking to wholesale, they're looking to fix-and-flip, or turn it [inaudible 00:01:02]. It doesn't matter what the deal type is. It doesn't matter what type of niche of real estate you're doing. These are basically three basic mistakes that plague everybody as a new real estate investor.
Now the first one is new real estate investors don't develop a database. Let me say that again. They don't develop a database. And that's really the key. You've probably heard that "Your net worth is in your network," "The Riches are in the Niches," or "We all have a tribe." It's a great book by Seth Godin if you want to read a book on how expanding your tribe can really drive income into what you're doing as an investor.
But the biggest thing is no database. And building a database isn't really that difficult, all right? The first thing that people do is they don't reach out to their [inaudible 00:01:51] market. They don't take their business cards. I'm sure many of you have a stack of business cards sitting at home, I got a couple here, that you put in a shoebox, or it's collecting or avoiding dust collecting on a two inch by three inch place on your night dresser.
That's unfortunate because if you spent money going to an event and networking, or going to a conference, or flying across country getting checked by TSA, spending money on a hotel and a car rental, plus crappy hotel food, you really need to take the contacts that you made and put them into something that you can use to communicate with. Something you can reach out to people. So not having a database is really no excuse. Everybody should have a database and there are some simple things that you can do.
When I first started off, I simply just started putting a person's name, their email, phone number and city, state, in an Excel spreadsheet. And every night that I came home, that was the first thing that I did, or the last thing I did before going to bed was putting their name into a spreadsheet so I could literally copy paste it via Gmail or Yahoo.
Now I would highly recommend that you use a service like a CRM tool, like MailChimp, or AWeber, ConstantContact, something that's pretty inexpensive but use it. Use it, use it, use it. It'll track your database. You'll be able to see who opens an email when you send one out. Who clicked on a link. Really, really important to see how effective your marketing is. That's the first big mistake most real estate investors do. They just don't develop a database.
Now the second one, especially in the note business, and it happens a lot of times with fix-and-flips, is real estate investors try to DIY. They try to do everything themselves. You can get away with it but if you're going to be in real estate long-term, if you keep trying to DIY, you're going to end up RIP. Rest in Peace. Because you're not going to be a) closing enough deals, you're going to end up goofing up, you're going to run out of income because you don't put systems in place. And if you really want to grow your business, expand your business, you've got to put systems in place, and learn to delegate, all right?
You're going to learn how to put vendors in place, or hire crews. You can't sling the hammer on everything and paint at the same time and be effective, really truly effective, as a real estate investor if you're trying to do it all yourself. So that's the second thing. Quit trying to do everything. Quit being a jack-of-all-trades because if you're a jack-of-all-trades, you're a master of none.
You know what that says, is, "I don't believe in what I'm doing." If you really want to buy deals, and especially in today's market as a fix-and-flipper, you've got to buy in bulk. You've got to buy more than one. Don't get me wrong, yes, you'll win one or two here, but a lot of the seasoned investors aren't paying the top dollars that we see at the auctions and other things. They're waiting for their systems to come in. They're waiting to the right price because they have the systems to be able to make things happen. And if you are trying to do it all yourself, you're not going to be able to do that.
And the same thing comes right from writing the check. It's always better to leverage your own funds by using other people's money whether it's other people's IRAs, or other people's money. A private money database to you is worth its weight in gold, exponentially, all right? If you're making 50% of a deal and you have none of your own money in the deal, it's like you made an infinite return investment, okay? If you are using other people's money, it allows for you to leverage even the money you have to buy 5 deals instead of one deal, or 10 deals instead of one deal.
And what's unfortunate is a lot of real estate investors that use their money until they run out of money, and then they give up. Like, "Well, I've got to wait to buy, or I've got to wait until one of my other properties sells before I have the money to go buy another one." And that's unfortunate. You want to have money available so that when you see a really good deal, you can spring on it, close quickly, and do other thing to it.
Now, yes, use your own money to fund purchases but it's always good to arbitrage, have somebody come in, refinance your own money out of the deal, put it back in your pocket and go out and do more deals. That's the third and probably the biggest mistake in the long run for new note investors is the fact that a) they're using their money versus somebody else's money. And that's the key.
Bernie Madoff, the banks . . . I'm sorry, not Madoff, sorry, wrong one. He was using somebody else's money for sure. Got to love that. All the big-time investors out there are using and leveraging other people's money to make things happen. You should do the same thing too.
That's my lesson for today on today's REI Classroom. We'll see you guys at the next one. We'll see you at the top.
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Trump seeks to end legal fight with revised travel ban
by Claire Allen
in Culture&Arts
— Feb 17, 2017
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Once the new order is issued, Justice Department lawyers urged on Thursday, the court should vacate the three-judge panel's decision agains the administration.
Trump's initial executive order, signed seven days after he took office, prohibited holders of green cards and visas traveling overseas from reentering the United States if they were citizens of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria or Yemen. The order and resulting confusion led to almost immediate litigation - and quick court orders halting enforcement of some of the most harsh ramifications of the order, like deportations and detentions.
The ruling also rejected President Trump's claims that the courts are "powerless" to check the power of a president and review the president's assessments on national security.
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A Newspaper-based Approach
Michel Banâtre, Valérie Issarny, Frédéric Leleu, Boris Charpiot
IRISA/ INRIA, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cédex, France
banatre@irisa.fr, issarny@irisa.fr, leleu@irisa.fr, charpiot@irisa.fr
The long-term success of the World Wide Web depends on the quality of service provided. Users need to be confident about the quality of the information that they are accessing and to have the selected information displayed within a short interval. This paper gives an overview of the ETEL newspaper-based distributed information system, subset of the World Wide Web, that meets the above requirement. The ETEL system guarantees relevance of the information through moderation by a newspaper editor. It further ensures responsiveness through the provision of dedicated system policies, implementing in particular predictive prefetching.
The long-term success of the World Wide Web (Web for short) depends on the the provided Quality of Service which may be evaluated according to two types of criteria:
The content quality that relates to the quality of the displayed information, including the relevance of the information according to the user's particular interest as well as the information presentation.
The access quality that refers to the ability to guarantee fast response time.
In the framework of the ETEL project that is conducted at IRISA/INRIA in close collaboration with a major French newspaper editor, we are currently examining solutions towards ensuring both content and access quality over the Web. Our approach relies on the provision of a newspaper-based distributed information system that is a subset of the Web.
Press editor has a long experience in providing quality information in terms of both its relevance and its presentation. In particular, it is recognized that quality newspapers give a serious account of the news and reports. Therefore, content quality in the ETEL system is dealt with through the production of information according to newspapers standards. As regards to access quality, our approach relies on the design and implementation of dedicated system policies that together guarantee the system's responsiveness.
This paper is structured as follows. The next section gives an overview of the ETEL system, introducing its architecture. Then, we detail our approach towards ensuring content and access quality over the Web: we address production of the information according to newspapers standards, and we introduce system policies aimed at ensuring responsiveness. Finally, we conclude by summarizing our contribution and discussing our current and future work.
2. The ETEL Distributed Information System
The entry point of the ETEL distributed information system is an electronic newspaper service from which the user has access to the usual content of a newspaper as well as to a set of plugged-in interactive multimedia services that are either ETEL- or Internet-provided. As common in press editing, the content of the information system, including accessible plugged-in services, is moderated by professional editors.
The ETEL architecture is depicted in Figure 1. It is composed of a set of end-users terminals which can be PCs as well as Network Computers connected to the ETEL system via Internet. The ETEL system itself runs on a set of standard workstations interconnected by an ATM network, and gives access to ETEL-selected Web servers.
Figure 1. The ETEL architecture.
3. Ensuring Content Quality
In order to provide a distributed information system ensuring content quality, the ETEL electronic newspaper service has been designed so as to exhibit the following features:
Coupled production of paper and electronic editions, i.e., production of the two versions from the same data.
Customization of the electronic edition according to the user's particular interest, also known as the user's profile.
Presentation of the information that combines the advantages of both the paper version (e.g., layout) and the electronic support (e.g., interactivity), including the integrated view of newspaper-based information and links to various services.
From the standpoint of edition production, our solution relies on the subdivision of data structures into two groups: (i) the logical data structure embedding the core information that is common to both electronic and paper editions, and (ii) the physical data structure that is specific to each type of editions and that describes how core information is laid out. Thus, with the physical data structure associated to the electronic edition, we are able to build automatically an electronic edition from the edition's logical data that are also used for the construction of the paper version. Electronic editions are built using the PDF format. More precisely, the construction of the electronic editions relies on the use of two software tools:
XPress that is aimed at press editing, for the generation of the editions' pages as PDF files, from logical and physical data structures describing the editions' contents.
Acrobat for the presentation of the so-built editions on the users' displays.
Figure 2. A summary page.
The electronic edition enriches the paper version through the provision of edition customization with respect to the user's profile (e.g., see [2]). An electronic edition is organized as a set of pages (i.e, PDF files) where each page embeds either a summary or an article. A summary page corresponds to a page of the paper version except that its content is customized with respect to the user's profile and that every article is summarized into the article's title and photograph (if any), and a hyperlink to the corresponding article. Every summary page further integrates customized hyperlinks to thematic headings according to the user's profile (see Figure 2).
In addition to the presentation of articles, the electronic newspaper service gives access to a set of interactive multimedia services. As mentioned previously, these include ETEL-provided services derived from the general information embedded in usual newspapers (e.g., theater and TV programs, weather forecast). The system further offers encyclopedia-like services that exploit the information base of the newspaper editor. In particular, such services allow end users to query for customized thematic newspaper-like documents.
Another type of offered services results from the integration of a gateway to the Web. However, in order to guarantee the quality of the provided information, ETEL provides only access to a set of Web servers that are selected by the newspaper editor.
To summarize, the ETEL system gives access to a structured hyperdocument made of a collection of files which are provided either by the newspaper service or plugged-in services. The next section discusses our approach toward ensuring quality access to the ETEL hyperdocument.
4. Ensuring Access Quality
In order to guarantee access quality to the ETEL users, we are designing dedicated system policies that are based on the users' profiles in terms of the accessed files. More precisely, we are focusing on the design of the two following policies:
A profile-based predictive prefetching policy that is implemented on the user site and that consists of anticipating the user's requests based on his/her profile.
A profile-based load balancing policy that is implemented on the ETEL system and that consists of grouping users having close profiles and distributing the corresponding data groups over the ETEL servers.
Up to now, we have been concentrating on the design and evaluation of the profile-based predictive prefetching policy. Concerning the profile-based load balancing policy, we are currently examining the use of different data analysis methods [1, 11] for identifying user groups. In the remainder, after providing an overview of predictive prefetching, we detail the profile-based predictive prefetching policy together with its evaluation through simulation experiments.
4.1 Predictive prefetching
A predictive prefetching policy aimed at an information system relies on the definition of the following components:
A data structure that keeps tracks of past accesses and that takes the form of either a frequency or a probability graph.
A prediction algorithm that predicts future accesses given the current access and the information about past accesses.
A prefetching algorithm that prefetches data according to the result returned by the prediction algorithm, and that manages the user's cache.
The design of a predictive prefetching policy in the framework of the Web has been previously addressed in [7, 4, 13]. The proposal that is the closest to ours is the one detailed in [13] which undertakes prefetching decisions based on individual access patterns whereas other existing solutions do not differentiate accesses originating from different clients (or users) when recording performed accesses.
The proposal of [13] relies on the use of the extended HTTP protocol, described in [12]. The resulting protocol uses a single long-lived TCP connection for multiple HTTP transactions. The proposed prefetching policy manages a set of frequency graphs on the Web server where each graph reflects the access pattern to that server for a given client during one session (i.e., long-lived TCP connection). Concentrating on one graph, each node corresponds to a previously accessed file and there is an arc from node A to node B when B is accessed from A, the arc being weighed with the corresponding access frequency. Considering a user that is accessing a given file of the Web server, the server is able to identify the files that are likely to be accessed next by means of the frequency graph associated to the user's session. The server then notifies this set of files to the user that decides to prefetch the files based on local environmental factors such as the content of the local cache or the current system load. Results of the evaluation of the proposed prefetching policy through simulation show that the access time to Web files can be significantly reduced. However, this is at the expense of an increase in the amount of data transferred from the server to the clients, and hence in the network traffic. More precisely, the resulting traffic increase is conversely proportional to the prefetching accuracy.
In the above policy, frequency graphs are not permanent data structures; the lifetime of a frequency graph equals the one of a session. In the framework of a newspaper-based information system, it is our belief that each user will exhibit similar access patterns over distinct connections to the system due to the ETEL hyperdocument's structure that is invariant. This leads us to manage a permanent frequency graph, hence getting a frequency graph whose accuracy improves over time. Furthermore, since the frequency graph is user-specific, predictive prefetching can be fully managed on the user site, which discharges the server from this task. In addition, this allows to guarantee privacy of the information regarding the user's profile. The next paragraph details the key components of profile-based predictive prefetching that builds upon the above points. Notice that the invariant structure which is assumed for the hyperdocument that is made available to the ETEL users may not hold for documents that are accessible through plugged-in Web servers. In this case, profile-based predictive prefetching should be complemented with the implementation of a predictive prefetching policy, similar to the one proposed in [13], within Web servers that export unstable documents.
4.2 Profile-based predictive prefetching
For keeping track of the access pattern of a user, profile-based predictive prefetching relies on a frequency graph that is close to the one proposed in [13]. Furthermore, as previously shown in [8], prediction accuracy can be improved if the frequency of accessing a file is given with respect to the preceding sequence of accesses and not just the currently accessed file. We therefore base prediction decisions on a patterned frequency graph that contains a path for each sequence of accesses. However, in order to minimize the size of the graph, each path that corresponds to the re-access to a 2-nodes sub-sequence is folded leading to introduce the corresponding cycle. The fact that a re-access is identified at the granularity of 2 nodes is due to both the structure of the ETEL hyperdocument and the goal of minimizing the graph size. However, a similar solution can be undertaken for longer sub-sequences if required by the hyperdocument structure. For illustration, a patterned frequency graph is depicted in figure 3 where weighs are omitted. In the figure, paths made of shaded nodes correspond to re-accesses and hence are folded, leading to introduce the bold arcs.
Figure 3. A patterned frequency graph.
Given a patterned frequency graph, the access prediction for a node is computed according to the weighs (i.e., access frequencies) of the arcs leaving that node: the greater is the access frequency, the more the pointed node is likely to be accessed. More precisely, a prediction consists of a sequence of file identifiers that are ordered according to the decreasing order of the corresponding access frequencies. The shortcoming of using access frequencies for predicting future accesses is that it may take time to capture changes in the user's access pattern. A change in the access pattern is taken into account in the access prediction only when the order of the access frequencies becomes modified. In order to detect earlier access pattern changes in the prediction process, we use a method based on statistical quality-control schemes [14]. Briefly stated, statistical quality-control schemes are aimed at both controlling that a fabrication process is stable with respect to the required quality specification, and reducing the number of products that do not conform with the product's specification. In our framework, statistical control charts allow to detect that an access pattern deviates from the one reflected by the patterned frequency graph by associating an EWMA control chart to each arc [6, 10]. A change in the access pattern is then taken into account through the following prediction algorithm [9]. If there is no deviation detected using the EWMA charts, the access prediction for a file A is computed according to the weighs of the arcs leaving A within the patterned frequency graph. On the other hand, if at least one EWMA chart indicates a deviation, the files that are accessible from A are ordered according to the decreasing order of detected deviations.
The prefetching algorithm consists of anticipating the user's access requests according to the computation of predictions. Given the prediction computed for the file that is currently accessed, the prediction is read sequentially from the first element up to at most the size of the user's cache in terms of file entries. On each iteration step, the file that is given by the prediction's element, is looked for within the user cache. If the file is absent then a request for the corresponding file is issued to the ETEL system while no action is taken otherwise. Notice that the increase in the network traffic resulting from predictive prefetching is proportional to the number of elements of a prediction that are prefetched. In particular, if the computation of predictions is known to be highly accurate then the best solution from the standpoint of the resulting network traffic is to prefetch only the first element of the prediction. Given the use of EWMA charts, we are able to detect changes in the access pattern and hence that the accuracy of predictions is lowering. Therefore, our approach consists of prefetching only the first element of the prediction while the user's access pattern remains stable. On the other hand, a larger subset of the prediction is prefetched when the user's access pattern is changing, the size of the subset depending on the detected deviations.
The predictive prefetching policy interacts with the event manager (e.g., Netscape with an ETEL plug-in) running on the user site and that handles the user's access requests. The following concurrent actions are undertaken upon each request:
The patterned frequency graph is updated so as to integrate this new access.
The requested file is made available to the display manager (e.g., Netscape with an Acrobat plug-in) using the following algorithm. The file is first searched within the client cache. If the file is absent, it is sought whether it is currently being prefetched. If not, the event manager issues a request for the file to the ETEL system, this request having a higher priority than prefetching requests.
If the prefetching step that is being processed corresponds to the handling of the access prediction for the currently displayed file, the step is terminated. This termination leads to abort the	corresponding prefetching requests that have not yet been sent and that do not correspond to the requested file. The prefetching process for the requested file is then initiated. Notice that cache entries that where filled as a result of a prefetching step may be re-used in a subsequent step if the intersection of the corresponding predictions is not null.
4.3 Simulation results
The actual benefit of using predictive prefetching depends on a number of parameters, including the accuracy of the prediction algorithm, the user's cache size together with the network bandwidth, the number of files that are accessible from one file, and the average time the user takes for reading a file. In the following, we propose an evaluation of profile-based predictive prefetching through simulation using the QNAP (Queuing Network Analysis Package) tool. We model the system through the following modules:
The user that simulates the access pattern of a user by generating access requests.
The prefetching manager that implements the proposed prefetching policy together with alternatives for comparison.
The network that simulates a network whose load varies according to an exponential law with an average load of 90%.
The ETEL system that sets the average time taken for handling a request (i.e., 0.2 second).
Furthermore, based on the features of the ETEL hyperdocument, the average size of a file is equal to 80 Kbytes.
Figure 4. Hyperdocument graph.
For simulation experiments, we have considered the hyperdocument graph depicted in figure 4. We have generated 4000 sessions (i.e. connections to the ETEL system), 8 accesses being performed during each session. Furthermore, access patterns over distinct sessions are repeated a number of times varying randomly from 1 to 30, and then randomly changed. Concerning the computation of predictions, simulations have been run using the two following types of frequency graph: the patterned frequency graph and the hyperdocument graph with arcs weighed with the corresponding access frequencies. Notice that the latter graph, qualified as weighed hyperdocument graph in the remainder, corresponds to the type of frequency graph used in the predictive prefetching policy proposed for the Web in [13]. Finally, predictions based on the patterned frequency graph have been computed using either the graph only or the graph in conjunction with EWMA control charts.
Figure 5. Average response time.
Figure 5 gives the average response time per file according to the network bandwidth where it is assumed that only 10% of the network bandwidth is available for the ETEL user. Results show that a requested file can be made available to the user in less than 1 second, hence providing a highly responsive service.
Figure 6. Prediction accuracy.
Figure 6 evaluates prediction accuracy by giving the rank of the actually accessed file in the prediction over the total number of predictions (i.e., accesses). When the patterned frequency graph is used together with EWMA control charts, most of the actually accessed files appear first in the prediction. As a result, increase in the network traffic due to predictive prefetching may be negligible. Furthermore, the fact that some of the computed predictions are less accurate is due to the time taken for learning the user's access pattern within the prediction algorithm. It follows that extra-accesses occur only during the user's very first connections and when the user's access pattern is changing.
The proposed results show that profile-base predictive prefetching allows to significantly reduce the time taken for making a requested file available to the user. In addition, it is worth mentioning that the increase in the network traffic is negligible although we have run our simulation experiments on a frequently changing access pattern.
This paper has outlined the design of a distributed information system, called ETEL, that is aimed at ensuring quality of service over the Web from the standpoint of both information value and responsiveness. Our solution is newspaper-based: the system offers access to a set of ETEL- and Web-provided services from a newspaper service presenting the users with a customized, integrated view of the newspaper information together with links to various services. Furthermore, the provided information, be it issued by the newspaper or by the connected services, is subject to moderation by the newspaper editor. The system responsiveness relies on a predictive prefetching policy and a load balancing strategy that are both based on individual access behaviors.
Much work has been undertaken in the Web community to ensure responsiveness (e.g., see [5, 3, 7, 4]). However, to our knowledge, the design of a policy based on individual access behaviors has only been previously examined in [13]. Compared to our work, this proposal considers the individual behavior that is exhibited during the lifetime of a session while we take into account behaviors exhibited over the distinct connections to the ETEL system. From our point of view, our approach allows to approximate more closely the resources that are actually needed to serve user requests since the accuracy of the information relating to users' behaviors is highly proportional to the number of observations. Furthermore, the policy introduced in [13] is mostly implemented on the server site. On the other hand, the prefetching policy that we propose is fully implemented on the user site, hence discharging the server from this task.
The design of the ETEL system has begun in October 1995. A prototype demonstrating the automatic construction of electronic editions, and the presentation of the editions on the user's display is now operational. We are currently integrating the profile-based predictive prefetching policy that has been discussed in this paper. We will then focus on the implementation of a profile-based load balancing strategy that complements the predictive prefetching policy from the standpoint of the scalability issue.
The authors would like to thank Annie Morin for her help regarding statistics methods. The work reported in this paper has been done in collaboration with Ouest-France, O2 Technology and TC Multimedia.
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With COVID-19, the flu, and RSV going around, hospitals like UC Medical Center are feeling the impact.
"What this does with all of the viruses around is it just pushes all of our hospitals in the area to just be a little bit fuller. The emergency rooms are just a little bit more crowded," Fichtenbaum said.
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Alavi, S., Kaivanpanah, S., Nayernia, A. (2011). The Factor Structure of a Written English Proficiency Test: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach. Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 3(2), 27-50. doi: 10.22111/ijals.2011.1008
Seyyed Mohammad Alavi; Shiva Kaivanpanah; Akram Nayernia. "The Factor Structure of a Written English Proficiency Test: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach". Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 3, 2, 2011, 27-50. doi: 10.22111/ijals.2011.1008
Alavi, S., Kaivanpanah, S., Nayernia, A. (2011). 'The Factor Structure of a Written English Proficiency Test: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach', Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 3(2), pp. 27-50. doi: 10.22111/ijals.2011.1008
Alavi, S., Kaivanpanah, S., Nayernia, A. The Factor Structure of a Written English Proficiency Test: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach. Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2011; 3(2): 27-50. doi: 10.22111/ijals.2011.1008
The Factor Structure of a Written English Proficiency Test: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
Article 2, Volume 3, Issue 2, Summer 2011, Page 27-50	 PDF (257 K)
Seyyed Mohammad Alavi; Shiva Kaivanpanah; Akram Nayernia
University of Tehran
The present study examined the factor structure of the University of Tehran English Proficiency Test (UTEPT) that aims to examine test takers' knowledge of grammar, vocabulary, and reading comprehension. A Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) approach was used to analyse the responses of participants (N= 850) to a 2010 version of the test. A higher-order model was postulated to test if the underlying factor structure, obtained in a data-driven manner, corresponds with the proposed structure of the test. The results revealed an appropriate model fit with the data, pointing to the fact that the three sections of UTEPT, i.e., structure, vocabulary, and reading, and their sub-components, except for the restatement section of reading, are good indicators of written language proficiency as assessed by the UTEPT. It was also found that the three sections assess distinctive constructs. The findings suggest that UTEPT is a valid measure of the written language proficiency of Ph.D. applicants to University of Tehran.
Language Proficiency; University of Tehran English Proficiency Test (UTEPT); factor structure; Structural Equation Modelling
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Bale has been a target for Real supporters' frustration as the team have endured a disappointing season, which plunged to a new low as they were dumped out of the Champions League by Ajax on Tuesday evening.
Despite having won four Champions League titles since joining Real from Tottenham for £85m in 2013, Bale's image among Real fans has been damaged by speculation that he has failed to learn Spanish and chooses not to socialise with his team-mates.
"It's true that he wasn't the leader people expected here after Cristiano (Ronaldo's) departure," Calderon told Sky Sports News.
"He showed a lack of commitment. People are not happy – they saw how he shrugged off his team-mates when they went to celebrate a goal with him last La Liga match and also (his) injuries.
Bale was jeered by fans at the Bernabeu on Saturday when he was substituted during Real's defeat to Barcelona and reports in Spain claimed he left the stadium before the match had finished.
On Monday, Bale's agent Jonathan Barnett dismissed speculation that the Wales international could leave Madrid this summer and described his treatment by the club's supporters as "a disgrace".
Calderon, who was president of Real Madrid from 2006 to 2009, described Barnett's comments as "very inappropriate".
Manchester United or Tottenham are suitable potential destinations for Gareth Bale if he was to leave Real Madrid, said Liam Rosenior and Ryan Mason on The Debate.
"I think he doesn't know that the fans that go to the Bernabeu are very respectful, but also are very demanding and mainly with two things," Calderon said. "The main one, lack of commitment, is what they have seen in Gareth Bale.
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Q: Is it possible to enforce a naming standard for an BIM360 Docs folder through the data-management API? I've been trying to enforce a predefined naming-standard on an Autodesk BIM360 Docs folder.
There exists an API endpoint to get the naming-standard that is enforced for a BIM360 Docs folder by calling
GET projects/:project_id/folders/:folder_id
and also
GET https://developer.api.autodesk.com/bim360/docs/v1/projects/:projectId/naming-standards/:id
to get the details of the defined naming standard.
But there seems to be no public API to enforce a naming standard on a newly created folder. Which is strange since one can set a naming standard via the UI.
I've checked what happens when a user enforces a naming standard via the UI. The UI calls this API
POST /dm/v3/projects/<ProjectId>/folders/naming-standards:batch-enforce
with this data
[{"folderUrn":"<folderId>", "namingStandardId":"<namingStandardId>", "includeSubfolders":false,"operation":"add"}]
I tried calling the same API programmatically and got an error that my registered forge app has no access to the specified api product, although the data-management api is enabled for this app.
Am a little helpless of how to continue. Perhaps someone can give me a push in the right direction?
Thanks

A: Unfortunately, the naming standard API is READ-ONLY currently. The Write API is still on the way to come. Please stay tuned with us.
Note. The API you found is for Docs Service itself only.

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Newspaper VS Blog that is the question. I guess everyone's interested in why we decided to go from paper to cyber. Whose idea was it, what are the benefits of the blog, why the newspaper version needed improvement in the first place, etc. How about we all think back to last year, the freshmen can just judge the situation according to the state of things so far this year. How many times have you actually held a newspaper in your hands and read it ? Once, twice, not at all? And if you read every edition that came out, were there that many of them first place? There were not. We could not print a new publication every month. Another problem with the newspaper, was the currentness of the topics which were present in it. If a new edition only came out every two or three months, no matter how hard we tried, the topics could not be up-to-date because the information they contained were logically about past events and they were not be the 'hot news' everyone craved for. The preparation for the publication of a new edition went on for so long that when a new edition finally came out it was like a child getting his long awaited Christmas presents.
Is this the end of the printed version of Gzaat Gazette ? We aren't sure. We don't want it to be the end, and so far everyone I asked likes the idea of a paper version more. It's understandable, who doesn't like taking a fresh newspaper in his hands, crossing legs in the library armchairs and feeling important? Everyone has an opinion about the school newspaper, which version they like more and why. Only a very scarce amount are indifferent to the matter. We are thinking of publishing one printed version of the newspaper at the end of the year which will include all the best articles from the year round. So how about we give the blog a chance. After all, change isn't always bad.
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A few shots revealed from my shoot in Singapore at Raffles Hotel.
We had a lot of fun on this shoot. The iconic Raffles was a gorgeous backdrop for these elegant photos in my signature silky and romantic style. If you haven't ever stayed there, it should be on your bucket list ;-). The hotel staff were the most genuinely friendly and wonderful people. I'm not surprised the hotel is listed as one of the world's best.
One thing that was challenging for the shoot was the humidity, something I'm not used to coming from Sydney. My lens would fog up when I'd walk outdoors from the air-conditioned rooms. My local team, Winnie and Hanna had their work cut out for them with keeping the models' hair from frizzing, powdering away the perspiration and preventing the clothes from looking saturated. They did a really good job! Our models Katie and Sol I'm sure you will agree were stunning! Thanks to everyone involved for a great result!


LHY976 entered service with the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Company on November 1st 1949 as Bristol City Service bus no. C2736: Bristol was unique in specifying two doors for the Bristol L-type single deck bus. She has a 5-cylinder Gardner diesel engine and a five speed manual gearbox. Amongst the routes she would have operated on would have been the service between Temple Meads Station and The Zoo, and she would, of course, have carried a conductor.
At the end of her service life she was used for a number of years by the Bristol Omnibus Preservation Group, before disappearing from the rally scene for many years. Tim Jennings of Somerbus acquired her and spent many hours restoring her both inside and out, and finally sold her to Martin Curtis and Mike Walker several years ago. She has had very little work done on her since, and retains a class 5 MOT.


Khadija began her career with Aangan, Rozan, an Islamabad-based non-profit working to improve women's and children's emotional health and protection against violence. She was first introduced to Teach For All in 2010 as a Fulbright scholar at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and was inspired by the Teach For America alumni in her program to adapt the approach in Pakistan in partnership with a local foundation. As Director of Programmes and later CEO of Teach For Pakistan, Khadija played a critical role in developing all aspects of the program and the organization, and leading recruitment and placement of three cohorts of teachers across two regions.
More recently, Khadija was Teach For All's Director of Participant and Alumni Impact supporting partners in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa regions. Moved to action by the educational inequity in her country, Khadija has now returned to grow Teach For Pakistan as a movement fueled by the collective leadership of Pakistan's youth, children, and communities.
In addition to her MPP from UC Berkeley, Khadija holds a BSc. In Social Sciences from the Lahore University of Management Sciences.


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Industry Certifications – Why are They Important?
Environmental certifications are great, but what about data security that could have huge financial and legal impact?According to The Ponemon Institute, the average cost of a data breach in the US in 2011 was $194 per customer record and $5.5 million per breach!
The fact is, not all certified providers are equal. At SSI, industry certifications are an important foundation indemonstrating our capabilities to you. But we go far beyond the basics of certification to deliver the solutions to your most complex recycling and lifecycle asset management requirements. That being said, SSI is proud of the fact that we are the only service provider with nine key certifications, significant among which are four NAID Data Destruction Certifications for secured data destruction on computers, cell phones, tablets, printer/copiers, flash drive, CD/DVD, tapes, etc.
You should be aware that NAID's Hard Drive Destruction certification applies only to physical destruction. Recyclers usually only pursue this certification so they can claim to hold a NAID certification. However, it is not sufficient for ITAD/asset recovery program. SSI goes well beyond this baseline certification by maintaining NAID certification in Hard Drive Sanitization (a must for ITAD/asset recovery), Solid State Storage Devices/Media Destruction, and Solid State Storage Devices/Media Sanitization.
As further testimony to SSI's qualifications beyond mere certification, we have been invited by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to help develop and evolve the R2 certification. We also have collaborated in the refinement of SERI standards, and we work with NAID to continue evolving and improving its certification standards.


They did not know each other before meeting about a year ago, but Eric Dobson and Steve Mercil have now combined the businesses they lead with a goal of further accelerating angel capital availability across the country. Dobson, a well-known leader in Knoxville's entrepreneurial ecosystem, is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Angel Capital Group (ACG), a position he assumed in September 2013. Mercil, who has spent three decades helping secure financing for businesses, is CEO of RAIN Source Capital based in Minneapolis, MN.
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga announced on Tuesday that it has added a cutting-edge computing resource to its campus network that will benefit both campus researchers and subscribers to the EPB Fiber Optics network. In partnership with The Enterprise Center and US Ignite, UTC has acquired and activated a GENI rack. The GENI rack (i.e., Global Environment for Network Innovations) is linked with similar racks in 60 other leading universities in smart cities in the U.S. and internationally. The racks act collectively as a programmable nervous system for researching and deploying the next generation of the Internet and cloud computing.
Anthony Piedmonte (Bon Jovi Management), Om Malik(True Ventures, Gigaom), Geri Stengel (Forbes), Andy Weissman (Union Square Ventures), and Marc Ruxin (Rdio), have been added to the lineup for 36|86, LaunchTN's flagship event focusing on southern culture, entrepreneurship and investment. The 36|86 conference will take place June 8–10, 2015 at Marathon Music Works in Nashville. During the conference, 36 southeastern startup businesses will for a $36,000 grand prize.
All too often, SEC reporting can be quite confusing, especially for an early-stage founder who wishes to raise seed capital. It's almost impossible to figure out exactly who is actively investing. When a company doesn't have to disclose information to the SEC, other early-stage founders can't tell what happened. It's easy to understand frustrations of founders researching ways to have access to capital. In this week's Q&A, Chris Sloan, co-chair of the business technology team at Baker Donelson explains the very basics to SEC reporting. He specifically explains when a company has to report activity versus when they don't.
Downtown collaborative workspace Society of Work is launching a new series that will virtually connect locals with business leaders from around the country. "We are purposely choosing to get insight from some of the best and brightest people outside of Chattanooga on the changing work world so that Chattanoogans are exposed to ideas that may not be typical to their landscape," Society of Work founder Kelly Fitzgerald said via email. The series—which is called Future of Work and is the product of a collaboration between Society of Work, The Company Lab and First Tennessee Bank—is a community conversation that allows area professionals to participate in question-and-answer sessions with the speakers. The format might evolve as the series continues.


From Rocky Balboa to ravenous zombies, from rom-coms to sci-fi, these great vacation destinations are where some of your favorite television shows and motion pictures were shot.
Sure, Los Angeles and New York City get most of the credit and the glory. But many movies and TV shows are actually shot in incredible locations around the country. Lights! Camera! Action! Here are our eight favorite location tours.
Bahstan is a filmmaker's town. It's home to Ben and Matt, after all, and also to more than 400 movies and TV shows. Find out why it's so popular on this walking tour. Drinks at the Bull and Finch Pub, for Cheers, are an absolute must. Then sit on the park benches where Robin Williams and Matt Damon chatted in Good Will Hunting, check out the historic homes in The Thomas Crown Affair and get "made" at one of Jack Nicholson's mob hangouts from The Departed. (Sorry, make that the Depahted.) Wicked cool: getting to read scripts exactly where they were shot.
The. Walking. Dead. Need we say more? Watch clips from the show on a comfy bus as you visit exact locations. The hospital where Rick first woke up from his coma. The Goat Farm Arts Center abandoned building from "the Vatos." The Jackson Street Bridge (selfies encouraged!). Every tour is led by a zombie extra who offers insider-only deets and runs a killer trivia game session. (Did you know that HBO passed on the series because it felt it was too violent?) Huge fans should sign up for Parts 2 and 3, plus there's a walking tour!
If you're lucky, you'll hear the director yell "cut!" during this NOLA excursion, which offers a fun mix of live filmmaking (as of press time, NCIS: New Orleans was shooting), celebrity homes (Sandra Bullock! Brad Pitt!) and location tours including NOLA standbys Interview with the Vampire, Vampire Diaries, True Blood, American Horror Story, and Twilight. Don't worry, the classics are represented too, including A Streetcar Named Desire and Easy Rider. All neighborhoods are covered, including the French Quarter, the Warehouse District and the Garden District.
Wilmington, NC, otherwise known as "Wilmywood" or "Hollywood East," has been a moviemaking mecca since director Mark L. Lester shot Firestarter here in 1983. Customize your tour and see the locations for teen faves Dawson's Creek (the famous dock where Dawson pined away for Joey) and One Tree Hill (Blue Post Billiards, where Lucas and Sophia went on their first "tattoo" date), Cape Fear (the Memorial Bridge), Dream a Little Dream (the Coreys' high school) and Weekend at Bernies (the lighthouse where Parker gets temporarily blinded). Or check out movie props, set pieces, and interiors, hear about your favorite actors, or find out how a winter wonderland is created in the heat of summer.
A vintage bus takes you 45 minutes from Honolulu to Kualoa Ranch, a 4,000 acre nature reserve billed as "the backlot of Hawaii" thanks to its role in dozens of movies and TV shows since the 1950s, including Jurassic Park, Lost, Magnum P.I., The Hunger Games, Jumanji, Hawaii Five- O, and Pearl Harbor. Examine Godzilla's footprints, stand at the Jurassic Park gate, and check out the bunkers on Lost. An amazing World War II army bunker houses lots of props, movie posters, and memorabilia.
Lace up your running shoes to take on the 68 steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Rocky-style. This tour takes you there, plus past City Hall, the Italian Market and Ninth Street where Rocky did his training runs. Check out scenes from Tom Hanks' Philadelphia including the law firm building where Andrew Beckett worked (The Mellon Bank Building) and the library where he studied case law (The University of Pennsylvania Fine Arts Library). The Sixth Sense (St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church), Trading Places (Rittenhouse Square), and Twelve Monkeys (the Met Theatre) are also big stars on this tour.
Where else you gonna shoot movies like Air Force One, Independence Day, A Few Good Men, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington? Our nation's capital is a Hollywood dream with some of the most recognizable buildings and monuments in the world (the Lincoln Memorial is host to drunken nights in Wedding Crashers; Constitutional Hall serves as the White House in the West Wing; the reflecting pool is seen in Forrest Gump, The Firm, and Deep Impact, to name just a few). This tour explores them all, starting in Union Station seen in Hannibal, Minority Report, and the Sentinel, takes you to the steps of the house in The Exorcist, past the bar in St. Elmo's Fire and to the mall in True Lies. Bonus: Tours are led by local actors.


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Q: Upload a csv file using google scripts to bigquery fails I did a google script to automatically upload a csv file to bigquery. It was a small file (5mb), and it worked out. Now, I'm trying to upload a 150MB csv file with the very same script, and I always get a "server error". Is it supposed to work until 1GB, isn't it?
I appreciate your help!
Albert

A: Bigquery has 1GB limit but the Google Apps Script UrlFetch Post Size can be maximum upto 10MB. You can not POST 100MB file using Apps Script UrlFetch
Check for Quota limits here.

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Mustafa Santiago Ali, Think 100% co-host and Hip Hop Caucus Senior Vice President, spent 24 years at the United States Environmental Protection Agency working to right wrongs, revitalize communities, and enhance programs that protect our health and planet. He recently sat down with the great Samantha Bee to discuss how the Trump Administration is taking actions that will disproportionately impact the poor and communities of color, and why the current leader of EPA needs to go. Like right now. Seriously.
TAKE ACTION: sign the #BootPruitt petition HERE.
Let's get rid of the corrupt and fossil fuel industry puppet, current EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt. Boy, bye!
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PARK SLOPE – Last night, elected officials, concerned residents and mothers of children killed by reckless drivers met at Park Slope's M.S. 51 to talk strategy after the program authorizing speed cameras outside 140 New York City schools expired yesterday. Lawmakers in Albany could have renewed the program, but failed to do so.
"Pass the bill! Pass the bill! Pass the bill," people shouted in the art classroom that was turned into an urgent strategy-making assembly space. Yesterday's 5:30 deadline to renew the speed camera program came and went without Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan convening a session, so parents and transit activists met at the school to plan their next move.
Johnson referred to the shutdown of cameras as a "cowardly move" by state senators. He also recited the names of the five children who were killed in the last few years by reckless drivers, honoring their memory.
"I am sick to my stomach that Republicans in the state senate are letting life-saving speed cameras shut down because of political games," he said.
Though students attending summer school will no be protected by speed cameras (80 schools that are open during the summer, serving 200,000 students, have speed-cameras nearby), Transportation Alternatives wants to make sure that this is not the case for students in the fall. Though the State legislative session ended nearly three weeks ago, the majority leader still could have convened a special session—especially after Golden called on the Senate to reconvene.
Among the many people to speak at the assembly meeting was Amy Cohen. Her son Sammy was hit and killed by a car outside their Park Slope home in 2013. Just last month, she stood outside Golden's office in a 24-hour vigil calling on the senator to reconvene the Senate. She held back tears as she told everyone about her son.
Maggie Bradley, a concerned citizen and a physical therapist, told Bklyner she didn't realize how many people she knew had died to reckless drivers. Her housekeeper was one of them.
Lander told the story of 14-year-old Mohammad Naiem Uddin who was killed in 2014 in a hit-and-run. Uddin was a freshman at Brooklyn Technical High School and a "bright shining star," Lander said.
"It is utterly ridiculous that we have to all stand here this evening begging the NY State Republicans to go and do their jobs," he said.
In the room, sign-up tables were arranged and labeled with different ways for attendees to get involved. Options ranged from canvassing to civil disobedience.
Speed and red light cameras do not work. Vision zero does not work. These are just revenue generating programs for the city. They just add on additional costs to car owners of this city. It is already expensive to own a car in NYC, with our outrageous insurance rates. When you lower the speed limit to 25 mph on a street like ocean parkway, all this does is cause aggravation for drivers and causes more congestion. Let the NYPD do their job in catching reckless and dangerous drivers. Stop punishing regular people for the mistakes of a few idiots. NYC has become one of the worst cities for drivers thanks to vision zero.
Vision Zero is working. Traffic deaths are down by 28% in NYC thanks to innovations like speed safety cameras — while deaths in the rest of the country are up by 14%. And it is sadly not just a few bad drivers. Even with those improvements, someone is killed every 38 hours and every 6 minutes someone is injured. This is an epidemic. There is a proven cure. We just need to use it.
SK you need to wake up and smell the roses. I drive on ocean parkway every single day. I can not tell you how many individuals i see crossing in the middle of ocean parkway no where close to a pedestrian crossing and when you honk at them they look at you like you are wrong. How many times i see bikers, ride in the middle of the road while there is a bike lane build because the bike riders wanted one but now they have it and dont use it. How about we start enforcing jay walking and giving bikers summonses for running red lights, stop signs, improper passing, no helment, no lights. How about that? Go to brighton beach, if you would start enforcing jay walking there will be a line of people getting summonses. How many times people have been killed because they werent paying attention, because they are so far gone into their smart phone, both drivers and padestrians. You need to wake up and realized that drivers arent the only issues here. Teach your kids how to cross the road properly and not shove their head into their phone and not pay any attention to whats going on.


The words are by Alan Bush, one of only two examples when Alan Bush wrote the lyrics to his own music. This is a unison song for the peoples of India and Britain and is an anti-colonial song. It is cast in one of the Indian modes.


NASA launched a new website Monday so the world can see images of the full, sunlit side of the Earth every day.
The images are taken by a NASA camera one million miles away on the Deep Space Climate Observatory, a partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Air Force.
EPIC was built by Lockheed Martin's Advanced Technology Center, in Palo Alto, California. Using an 11.8-inch (30-centimeter) telescope and 2048 x 2048 CCD detector, EPIC measures in the ultraviolet, visible and near-infrared areas of the spectrum. The data from all 10 wavelengths are posted through a website hosted by the Atmospheric Science Data Center at NASA's Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. All images are in the public domain.
For daily images from EPIC, visit http://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/. For more information about the DSCOVR mission, visit http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/DSCOVR/.


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