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6.2.10 Portals
A portal is a website which collects catalogues and characterises a huge amount of information. By displaying a large number of hyperlinks such sites provide an entrance (or portal) to the World Wide Web. Search engines originally provided fairly basic searching facilities; however, the past two years has seen them evolve Portals on the nncmci into portals. Portals are categorised as either horizontal portals or vertical portals. A vertical portal offers an entrance to large am
The range of work with young people
This free course, The range of work with young people, identifies some features that we might use to describe the various settings where work with young people takes place. This encourages us to identify similarities and differences between settings. It then introduces some theoretical perspectives to help us review these settings and thus understand more about the experience for young people and workers. Finally, it uses these perspectives to analyse examples of different settings, relating the
The 'why' and 'what' of educational leadership and management
This free course, The 'why' and 'what' of educational leadership and management, introduces you to researching educational leadership and management and how undertaking research can contribute to both good practice and the building of leadership capacity. First published on Wed, 17 Feb 2016 as Author(s): Creator not set
Teaching citizenship: Work and the economy
The issue of 'citizenship, work and the economy' is often neglected in everyday discussions of citizenship. But a moment's reflection should demonstrate how important it is. The vast majority of us will spend the bulk of our adult lives working in some context or another, and our engagement with economic activity more generally is obvious (and not just as consumers). Many young people are also intimately tied up with work. School children often have part-time evening, weekend or holiday jobs of
Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?
This free course, Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?, starts a debate to support the decision-making process around openness and the different preferences we each have. First published on Tue, 10 Apr 2018 as Author(s): Creator not set
Advanced German: Regional landscapes
German regions and landscapes, local traditions and the notion of Heimat are at the centre of this free course, Advanced German: Regional landscapes. You will describe images, make notes from a variety of sources, and write a short piece about the three-nations region around Lake Constance. First published on Tue, 16 Oct 2018 as Author(s): Creator not set
This course introduces you to the concepts of:
issues involved in the creation, use and re-use, and pedagogy of OERs
a range of tools and media to support you in developing your own teaching and learning practices.
It will provide you with the skills and confidence to engage in further OER work as both creator and user.
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5.2.2 The emergency stop technique
This exercise is an emergency relaxation technique to counteract panic and the build up of tension.
Say sharply to yourself STOP! (aloud if the situation permits).
Breathe in and hold your breath for a moment before slowly exhaling. As you do so, relax your shoulders and hands.
Pause for a moment, then breathe in slowly again and hold. This time, as you breathe out relax your forehead and jaw.
Stay qu
3.2 Stage 1: Finding out about the exam paper
As a first step, it is a good idea to find out as much as you can about the exam paper for your course. Find out how your exam paper is set out, the way the questions are organised, and what weight each question carries in terms of marks. Different papers adopt different formats. Some require multiple-choice answers. Others ask for essay or short paragraph answers. Some require technical or numerical answers. Reading the instructions on the exam paper is particularly important, as the followi
3.1 What is revision?
Revision is not, as the word suggests, simply 'looking again' at the material covered in a course - it is a more active task. It involves organising material and finding ways of remembering it, that suit your own particular learning style. Although the time you set aside for revision is important, the approach you adopt and the techniques you use to revise are more vital. Sometimes the thought of having to revise can seem daunting, but be reassured, revision skills and techniques can be learn
1 Revision and exams
Most likely, you are reading this course because you feel unsure about your ability to do yourself justice in exams. You may never have taken an exam and are wondering how to prepare yourself. It may have been a long time since you took an exam, and you feel a need to refresh your technique. You may be looking for reassurance and advice because you may have had a bad exam experience in the past. Whatever your reason, we hope that this course will help.
This course is a practical one, an
After studying this course, you should be able to:
manage time more effectively when revising and in the exam itself
learn, or brush up on, revision and exam skills
feel equipped to approach exams with less anxiety and stress.
6.2.3 Precise reference to 'linear' texts
You may find it more difficult to provide evidence from texts in which sounds, words or images follow on from one another over time (such as music and videos, plays and novels). Music is perhaps particularly hard to pin down. Sounds weave in and out of each other so that at first you may experience the music as seamless. But there are different 'movements' or 'passages' in music; moments at which a 'melody' is first introduced and later passages when it is repeated, for example. Y
3.2 Tables: Activities
Imagine that you have been asked to investigate population growth in the EU. You might be considering the details of population growth or you may be thinking about representing the reasons for population gro
reflect on the reasons for needing to improve skills in using charts, graphs and tables
understand the following mathematical concepts and how to use them, through instruction, worked examples and practice activities: reflecting on mathematics; tables; line graphs; bar charts and histograms; pie charts; analysis
draw on a technical glossary, plus a a list of references to further reading and sources
7 Further reading and sources of help
Where to get more help with using and interpreting tables, graphs, percentages, and with other aspects of numerical work.
4.8.2 Median
The median is the middle value of a set of numbers arranged in ascending (or descending) order. If the set has an even number of values then the median is the mean of the two middle numbers. For example:
1, 1, 2, 5, 8, 10, 12, 15, 24 This set of nine values is arranged in ascending order and the median is 8.
32, 25, 20, 1
1.3.3 Stage 1: Preparation
The task here is very different from our task when faced with numbers, where we need to deal with a high level of abstraction. Writing is often dense and multi-layered, and usually gives us, if anything, too much surface information about our subject. We need to make a mental effort this time in selecting and abstracting information ourselves. In order to do this effectively we need to be aware of the context of the writing. We need to check if we can, for instance, the political and s
8.5 Constructing bibliographies
At the end of your assignments you need to include a bibliography or list of references. This is an alphabetical list of all the sources that you have used – each chapter, book and article that you refer to in the main body of your discussion. Bibliographies take a particular form and usually involve listing the:
author's name,
date of publication,
title of the piece, and
details of the publisher.
This course is about the very basic study skills of reading and taking notes. You will be asked to think about how you currently read and then be introduced to a some techniques that may help you to alter the way you read according to the material you are studying. In the second section you will be asked to look at some useful techniques for note taking and how you may apply them to the notes you make.
This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 1 study in Author(s): The Open University
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Latest Bears Ears planning meeting convenes without indigenous voices
From the Wire February 27, 2020 Leave a comment
"Am I the only Indigenous person in the room right now?" asked Angelo Baca, a Navajo and Hopi resident of San Juan County and member of Utah Diné Bikeyah who attended the meeting as an observer. "That's unacceptable."
House on Fire is an ancestral Puebloan ruin located on Cedar Mesa. It is one of the most-visited sites in Bears Ears National Monument, according to BLM officials.
KATE GROETZINGER / KUER
By Kate Grotzinger KUER
Monticello, UT — Planning for the shrunken Bears Ears National Monument is moving forward, despite protests from the tribes involved in the monument's designation.
Charged with making recommendations to the Bureau of Land Management, the Monument Advisory Committee met over two days this week to discuss recreation in Bears Ears. But the committee's homogenous makeup raised questions about who the BLM is listening to as it proceeds with plans for the monument.
The group, which consists of 15 stakeholders, was appointed last year by the Trump Administration, with input from the BLM, Forest Service and Gov. Gary Herbert. It includes two Navajo members, neither of whom was present at the meeting this week. One, Ryan Benally, cited a work conflict; KUER couldn't reach the other, Alfred Ben, for comment.
Angelo Baca at United Nations
Concerns about the lack of Indigenous representation on the committee and in the management planning process surfaced throughout the meetings. Committee members also discussed appropriate concepts to include in educational messaging about the monument, planning for signage and development at cultural sites designated for public use in the monument management plan released last month.
The BLM presented various themes to the committee, including cultural landscapes, responsible use and stewardship and science and research. After some discussion of pioneers and cattle ranchers, Bruce Adams, the committee chairman and a San Juan County commissioner, suggested a new theme.
"I'm going to offend somebody, but there needs to be a theme up there just titled 'Tough Guys,'" Adams said, mentioning early pioneers by name. "There's a mountain of stories about people like that that permeate this county."
The committee did not come to a consensus on the topic, but did pass motions on cultural sites. They recommended developing parking and more signage to make it easier to find an ancestral Puebloan ruin called House on Fire, which the BLM listed as a potential "public use site" in the recently-approved monument management plan. The committee asked the BLM not to develop or promote the hike to Shay Canyon, which contains petroglyph panels, after hearing from conservationists in public comment.
"There are a couple of sites that are wildly inappropriate to encourage people to visit," said Tim Peterson, Cultural Landscapes program director at Grand Canyon Trust. "Shay Canyon is one of them."
He added that the monument is not supposed to be a "recreation monument," citing former President Barack Obama's monument designation, which calls for collaborative management and knowledge-sharing between the federal and tribal governments.
One way to increase Indigenous involvement in the planning process, Peterson said, is to appoint new Native American members to the Monument Advisory Committee. Five seats are set to expire in April, at which point the Trump Administration will fill them through an appointment process.
The BLM said it plans to seek Indigenous input in other ways, too. One avenue is the Shash Jaa Commission, which includes the five tribes involved in the monument designation. Since the monument reduction, the commission has refused to participate in consultation with the BLM, citing the ongoing legal battle over Trump's reduction of the monument.
In an interview with KUER, Gary Torres, acting BLM Eastern States director, said the agency has invited tribes to participate "at every point along this path" and expressed frustration over the tribes' refusal to participate in the monument management planning process.
"I think when people make that criticism — 'Oh, the tribes haven't been involved' — That's not true," he said. "We've made efforts. We can't force people to come to the table."
But Jake Palma, who recently came on as the Bears Ears monument manager, said he will seek Indigenous input on an unofficial level. He said his team will visit tribal elders and elected officials in order to rebuild trust with them.
"We'll do whatever we can to get engagement and input from tribal partners," he said.
Original story can be found here…
Kate Groetzinger is a Report for America corps member who reports from KUER's Southeast Bureau in San Juan County. Follow Kate on Twitter @kgroetzi
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They'll pay you cash and all you have to do is share your opinions on food, cars, etc.
The Pine Cone Panel is run by the folks over at the Nielsen company (the same people who track TV ratings). It's one of my favorite panels, because they offer a flat rate every time you take a short survey – $3.
This one is only open to Hispanic, US residents.
MobileXpression is a research company that studies internet trends and reports to their clients about the popularity of different mobile phone websites. They are currently looking for a few thousand cell phone users to share the sites you are browsing. All of the sharing is done with a special software that is installed on your phone and it doesn't require any real work from you. You can also uninstall the software at any time if you decide you no longer want to participate.
This one can be downloaded on most smartphones/tablet. For example, this one can only be downloaded on Android 5.0 or below. After you've installed it for one week, you get to play an instant rewards game for a prize (everyone wins something). I won a $25 gift card to Amazon, but some of the other prizes include iPads & Samsung TVs.
1. Sign up at MobileXpressions here – You'll need to share a little bit of information about your demographic which is similar to signing up as a Nielsen household. You'll also need to tell them what kind of cell phone you have, because their software is only compatible with certain types of phones.
2. Download their software – It seems to be pretty easy and it runs in the background of your phone just like any other cell phone app. The site says it will have no affect on your mobile phone performance.
3. Send your data – This step doesn't really require any work from you as the software automatically send the relevant data to MobileXpression. They don't monitor your phone calls or personal information but they do check out the web pages you view, the links you access, and the usage times for certain device activities (e.g., text messaging, call lengths, and web browsing).
4. Collect your rewards – After it's been installed for seven days, you can play their instant rewards game where you are guaranteed to win something.
The Ipsos company is a pretty well-known panel and right now they are paying Hispanics to give their opinions on a variety of topics.
As part of the Ipsos Panel, they will reward you with points for every question that you answer and you can later redeem them for cash or gift cards. Plus, once you join the site, you'll be entered to win a $1,000 and can earn additional entries for each survey you complete.
1. Sign up here. (You cannot directly download this from the app store). You have to have an iPhone or an iPad to participate with this one.
2. Once you've registered they will send you instructions on how to install the app. After completing the installation, you'll be asked to restart your phone.
Your Turn: Have you ever been on a panel before? What was your experience like?


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Focus Feature: Cancer Immunotherapy
During Cancer Immunotherapy Month, this special report highlights the potential impact of focused ultrasound in the field of cancer immunotherapy. Researchers are assessing its ability to enhance the immune system on its own and in combination with other therapies to fight cancer. Can FUS be a player in this exciting field?
Focused Ultrasound and Immunotherapy
Immunotherapy 101
Partnership with CRI
Profile - Chandan Guha
Foundation Working Group
White Out Cancer
Can Focused Ultrasound Assist Cancer Immunotherapy?
Cancer immunotherapies are agents that harness the power of the immune system to fight cancer. Unlike traditional cancer treatments that directly kill tumor cells (such as chemotherapy and radiation), immunotherapy operates through the intermediary of the immune system. Immunotherapies empower the immune system to specifically seek out and destroy cancer cells. Because of the immune system's extraordinary power to selectively target cancer antigens and adapt to a changing landscape of antigens, this approach has the potential to greatly improve cancer treatment, providing durable, long-term responses in many cases. Focused ultrasound may also have an impact on this burgeoning field.
The Foundation recently hosted UVA professor Tim Bullock to teach the staff and members of the focused ultrasound community the basics about cancer immunotherapy.
"Cancer immunotherapy... continues to surge as clinical researchers amass evidence that the immune system can be a powerful ally against tumors. One big focus now is mixing and matching treatments: combining two novel immunotherapies."
– Science Magazine, Areas to Watch 2015
FUS Induces an Immune Response
Many preclinical and clinical studies have demonstrated that FUS can elicit an immune response (see more). One type of immune response to FUS is the stimulation of tumor cells to release antigens and danger signals that alert the body to use its natural ability to fight the cancer. Since 1992, studies have shown that FUS alone produces immunological effects. Its role in cancer immunotherapy began with preclinical studies that verified its ability to elicit a measurable immune response, to enhance overall survival, and to prevent tumor regrowth. A list of these studies and their immunological effects is available on our website. Learn More >
Low and High Intensity FUS
Chandan Guha at Montefiore Medical Center has been using low intensity FUS (LOFU) prior to high intensity FUS thermal ablation to give the tumors a "sonic shock," boosting the immune response. Read about his results >
FUS in Combination with Other Therapies
Some studies are already showing that FUS may also improve the effectiveness of chemotherapy and radiation. Another idea is to combine FUS with immunotherapy drugs.
This Focus Feature serves as an introduction and brief glimpse into the role of FUS in this exciting, complex, and promising new field of research. Watch the newsletter for reporting on future immunotherapy milestones, and stay informed on the Foundation's Immunomodulation page, which includes resources and further describes FUS's role in immunotherapy.
Join us on June 12 for White Out Cancer Day!
The Foundation staff is supporting the Cancer Research Institute's White Out Cancer movement on June 12! Follow the Foundation on facebook and twitter to see more of our white out antics, and learn how you can participate!
The field of cancer immunotherapy is progressing rapidly, with several new agents approved by the FDA just this year. Most exciting are so-called checkpoint inhibitors that "take the brakes off" the immune response and enable a stronger immune attack against cancer. Despite their demonstrated benefits of tumor regression and increased overall survival, these therapies are effective in only 20-40% of patients.
Focused ultrasound may play a role in improving the effectiveness of immunotherapy to fight cancer. On March 18th, the Foundation hosted "Cancer Immunotherapy - Opportunities and Barriers," a 90-minute webinar featuring Tim Bullock, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of Virginia. Dr. Bullock presented an introduction to cancer immunotherapy and discussed opportunities for focused ultrasound to make an impact in this burgeoning field.
"I ended up with several new ideas for my own research and hope to contribute some data to this exciting field in the near future. These small and focused meetings are very helpful for advancing cancer research."
– Workshop participant, Elizabeth Repasky, PhD
Partnership with CRI Assesses the Potential for FUS and Immunotherapy
In February, the Foundation partnered with the Cancer Research Institute (CRI) to convene scientists and clinicians to discuss the current status and future directions of focused ultrasound research as it relates to cancer immunotherapy. The workshop brought nearly 30 investigators together in New York for a meeting, which was summarized in the February Newsletter. Highlighted presentations and outcomes can be found in the Workshop Summary. The meeting's success laid the groundwork for future collaboration between the Foundation and CRI.
READ MORE ABOUT CRI AND WORKSHOP OUTPUTS >
Chandan Guha
Investigator Profile: Chandan Guha
At February's Cancer Immunotherapy workshop, Chandan Guha, MBBS, PhD, presented his preclinical work using focused ultrasound (FUS) to create a "tumor vaccine." To achieve this, he used low intensity FUS (LOFU) to give the tumor a sonic shock prior to applying high intensity FUS (HIFU) thermal ablation. The sequential application of LOFU and then HIFU induced a significant tumor-specific T cell immune response in preclinical mouse models of solid cancer. Dr. Guha hypothesized that the LOFU treatment caused cellular stress and protein misfolding, which increased the immunogenicity of the tumor and enabled the HIFU to be more effective in not only ablating the tumor but inducing strong anti-tumoral immunity.
READ MORE ABOUT HIS LABORATORY & WORK >
Worldwide FUS + Immunotherapy Research
The February 2015 State of the Field for Immunotherapy report includes a list of 23 published preclinical and clinical studies that report immunologic effects of focused ultrasound. The papers, from 1992 through 2013, address metastatic brain tumors, colorectal cancer, prostate cancer, liver cancer, melanoma, breast cancer, sarcoma, pancreatic cancer, and neuroblastoma.
An immunotherapy panel and five research presentations were included in the Foundation's October 2014 International Symposium.
Other organizations working in the field of cancer immunotherapy include those devoted to specific types of cancer and several, like the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC), that support this work on a global scale.
Join the Foundation's Immunotherapy Working Group
To encourage discussion and collaboration among those active in the field of immunotherapy or among those with an expressed interest in this potentially game changing field, the Foundation has formed an Immunotherapy Working Group. Join us! Interested clinicians and researchers should contact Jessica Foley, PhD, the Foundation's Chief Scientific Officer.
Join us Tomorrow to White Out Cancer
June is Cancer Immunotherapy Awareness Month, so the Cancer Research Institute created White Out Cancer Day, symbolizing the colors of all the cancer support ribbons rolled into one - white!
We got in on the fun a little early, but tomorrow is the day to wear white and show your support.
Participate in three easy steps:
Wear white tomorrow, June 12
Take a selfie - be sure to get your family, friends, or coworkers in on it!
Share it on social media with the hashtag #WhiteOutCancer
Follow the Foundation on facebook and twitter to see more of our white out antics!
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In this post, we take a look at some of the best programming languages for each situation. Do you agree with this list? Join the conversation in the comments!
While there is innovation, there is also a proper way of doing things and there must be a good reason to change. By industry-minded academia, we mean academia that is linked directly with real products and businesses. For instance, when we talked about parsing in Java we found out that many of the best tools came directly from academia. Indeed, research in all fields of academia may end up in real products, but usually, the path is more circuitous.
It could be argued that C# is a slightly better language than Java and the CLI is more flexible than the JVM. But Java is a good language and the JVM is a good platform. More importantly, everybody else uses it, so you should do that too. In other words, Java is good enough and it is very popular which is especially relevant in the enterprise world. Java is also taught in many computer science courses, but the enterprise presence is the reason it is used in industry-minded academia.
In the enterprise world, changing a platform does not just mean changing the codebase, but finding a whole new set of experts and solutions for all the technical, regulatory, and business problems. It is frequently not worth the effort. And for Java, there are many libraries and products already available which are non-existent for everything else. There are even special Java platforms for the enterprise that add new features specifically for that world.
If you are in a Java company, the only way to get partially out of Java might be Kotlin. Kotlin is a language designed to be safer and more productive than Java while being easy to use and 100% compatible with Java. It is developed by the famous software development company JetBrains. Recently it became the second language (after Java) to be supported by Android. It is also used by Corda, a distributed ledger developed by a consortium of well-known banks.
C++ was born as an improvement of C and it largely succeeded, at least in the eyes of the public. Linus Torvalds might not like it, but most people do. If your company needs a language with great performance and closeness to the hardware, it is a great choice. Although compatibility with C is still important, it is not easily obtained now. If nothing else because both languages have kept evolving.
This long history has given similar advantages to Java for the enterprise, namely that there is a lot of code already written in it. It has also great performance. One reason is that the language is lower level than Java and most languages used by the average programmer. Another reason is that some of the best programmers in the world have dedicated their life to optimize its compilers. They have not just worked on the code for the compiler themselves, but they have studied and developed many techniques to improve them.
The history has also given some disadvantages: there are some many features that there is not really a standard way of using C++. You will probably have to enforce your way of using it, to avoid many maintenance problems down the line.
A good example of what we mean by theoretical academia is artificial intelligence. And in fact, Python is very popular in several areas of artificial intelligence: from machine learning, with libraries like scikit-learn and TensorFlow, to natural language processing, with NLTK. Python also has great support for scientific computing, with SciPy, and a whole lot of mathematical needs, with NumPy.
Unfortunately, there are downsides to the use of Python: many practical aspects are not taken care of. For one, being an interpreted language, its performance is not great compared to C++, although it is not terrible either. This is one of the factors that has lead to the creation of several different implementations. There are also implementations made to support JVM or .NET or even make Python run on microcontrollers.
Julia is a language that is made to address the needs of high-performance scientific computing, although it can also be used for more mundane web development. In very short terms: it is a higher performing and less popular version of Python. Indeed, it also has other technical advantages, like good support for concurrency and parallelism and the ability to call directly C, Fortran, and Python code. Given the respective communities and intended usage, it is often used together with Python.
MATLAB is both a language and a computing environment. Which means that it can be readily and easily used by people that are not programmers by trade. This category includes most scientists. It is greatly used for technical computing in industry and academia. Being a proprietary software, it literally has a price tag. A famous competitor of MATLAB is Wolfram Mathematica, which is behind the notable Wolfram Alpha, a computational knowledge engine.
Both R and MATLAB are technically programming languages, but for the most part, they are not used as such or by programmers. They are used by scientistist and industry experts for research and development.
The fundamental issues related to concurrency affect any software. For example, how to coordinate the access to shared resources is a problem that could affect any program. In practical terms, though, most developers tend to ignore it. This is because the basic solutions provided by most programming languages are good enough. Where it could really start affecting them, like web development and access to databases, very smart people have done a lot of work for them.
However, if your business depends on it, you want something more. You want a language that is explicitly geared to develop highly reliable concurrent applications.
When you absolutely need to develop distributed, fault-tolerant, reliable, soft real-time, concurrent applications, you choose Erlang. It is an open-source language developed by Ericsson, a telecommunications company, for just such a need. The language itself obviously has proper technical features, like being a functional programming language and implementing an Actor model.
However, the real advantage of Erlang it is that the whole ecosystem is developed with that objective in mind. For instance, it has some interesting features relative to the supervision of the processes and their organization. In fact, Erlang it is not just a language, but a runtime system with some ready-to-use components like a distributed database. It has tools to check the quality of the code or the execution of the program. The whole system is called Open Telecom Platform (OTP).
Erlang has been developed for the enterprise which means that it might be technically flawless, but not that pretty or very productive. To address this, José Valim created Elixir, a language built on top of the Erlang platform. For instance, Elixir added support for extensibility. You could think of Elixir as Erlang for people that are used to Ruby or Python.
It is gaining popularity and is used by companies like Pinterest and Moz, but it has yet to garner a large number of users.
Another company that has a need to develop concurrent applications is Google. Because of that, it is not surprising that people that work there created Go. It started as an experiment by some engineers, to develop a language that improved on C++ and Java. More than an evolution, it is a re-imagination of these languages, with some added benefits.
It was designed to be scalable to large systems and usable without an IDE, but also productive and especially good at networking and concurrency. Other than a well-thought out design, it has some specific features for concurrency like a type of light-weight processes called goroutines.
All its authors expressed a dislike for the complexity of C++. So, in some way, it is a language designed to persuade C people to enter the new century.
While being developed at Google, it would be incorrect to say that is backed by Google in the same way Microsoft backed C#. People working at Google have developed other languages, too. So it is more a language that many people like, including some people that work at Google. In fact, it is also used by Docker and Dropbox.
C++ is also widely used for system programming. It has the advantage of being better at supporting large applications, for instance with object-oriented programming. But some people find this and other additions simply unnecessary for system programming.
Rust is a new language sponsored by Mozilla for system programming. It is open-source and thus open to the contributions of the community. But the design of the language evolved with the development of Servo, an experimental layout engine for a browser. It is loved by many of its users, and in fact is the most loved programming language according to a survey of developers conducted by StackOverlow.
Rust is designed to also have great support for concurrency, memory safety, and large scale applications. For instance, you cannot have null or dangling pointers, which can cause memory-related bugs in C or C++. It has classes and a performance comparable to C++.
It is much less popular than C or C++ and it has not been used in widespread applications. Mozilla plans to eventually use it for Firefox (although not directly with Servo). At the moment, the most important software that uses it is probably Tor, an anonymity network for which security is literally the raison d'etre.
Game development might seem like the most orthogonal thing to system programming since you really do not want software that plays games. Nonetheless, there is a similar need for performance. This is useful for some demanding games, but it is mandatory for building a game engine, a software that will be used to simplify the development of games.
Game development also has a diametrical need: productivity. This is a requested feature for many businesses, but it is a life-or-death reality in game development. No other software industry is so dependent on a good launch for its revenue. A game developer could simply fail before even launching the game.
The combinations of these requirements leads to an industry that is heavily reliant on specific libraries, game engines, SDKs, and tools.


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Q: how to create two columns with div and CSS I realize that this topic was discussed many many times. However, none seem to apply to me. I am generating HTML page using ASP.NET MVC construct HTML.DisplayFor() which generates
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Looks close to what I want; however, some fields have NULL value, in which case generated HTML is

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I tried clear and display in various combinations - but none of them shows a label, a value and an empty block if the value is missing (for example, clear shifts all values up).
I am sure I am not the first one trying to solve this problem. But I couldn't find anything relevant; and my CSS skills are clearly insufficient. And yes, I know that I can write a custom DisplayFor template; but I was hoping that it wouldn't be necessary!

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Автоматичні ваги типу ЛТМ — ваги, що призначені для безперервного зважування і підсумовування маси матеріалу, який переміщується стрічкою конвеєра. Маса матеріалу, що знаходиться на конвеєрній стрічці, сприймається підвісками, які закріплені на платформі з двома роликовими опорами. Через систему важелів і шестерень результати зважування матеріалу безперервно підсумовуються і виводяться на табло лічильника. Похибка зважування ваг типу ЛТМ становить ± 1% маси вантажу.

Оцінка продуктивності конвеєра заснована на зважуванні певної ділянки навантаженої матеріалом стрічки при постійній швидкості її руху. Вертикальне переміщення вагової платформи (2), встановленої на пружних зв'язках, викликане масою матеріалу на стрічці, передається на плунжер індукційно-трансформаторного перетворювача (ІТП), який формує інфор-мацію на вторинний прилад (Uвих).

На початку XXI ст. випускаються електронно-гідравлічні ваги типу ЕГВ, які дають похибку зважування ± 1% маси вантажу.

Конвеєрні електронно-тензометрічні ваги (576Д200 — 580Д1600) вбудовуються в конвеєр. Маса матеріалу, що знаходиться на конвеєрній стрічці, сприймається хитною роликовою опорою і зусилля передаються через тяги на силовимірювальні елементи тензодатчиків. Сигнал після посилення подається на привод двигуна реохорда, рушій якого переміщує стрілку покажчика.

Гама-електронні конвеєрні ваги ГКВ-1 призначені для безперервного безконтактного зважування маси матеріалу. Миттєве значення маси матеріалу вимірюється за допомогою джерела гама-випромінювання детектора. Крім того, вимірюється також швидкість руху матеріалу (тахогенератором). Обидва сигнали надходять на помножувач і потім за допомогою фотореле на інтегратор. Маса вантажу фіксується з наростаючим підсумком. Похибка зважування ваг типу ГКВ-1 становить ± 1% маси вантажу.

Див. також
 Ваги

Джерела
 Смирнов В. О., Сергєєв П.В., Білецький В.С. Технологія збагачення вугілля. Навчальний посібник. — Донецьк: Східний видавничий дім, — 2011. — 476 с.

Вимірювальні прилади
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The April Paradox
Recent Interview
I was interviewed by Brian Malizia, President of Chicago based Lakeshore Capital Group this week to talk markets and answer some tough questions. We recorded and transcribed the conversation.
What would you say is the biggest controversy facing investors right now?
What I'm calling the "April paradox." Take this week as an example. Gross Domestic Product is a measure of economic activity. On Wednesday, we learned that it shrank by 4.8% in the first quarter1. This is the largest decline since 2008. Considering the economy was doing fine in January and February, March so much of a disaster that it pulled the entire quarter down. Yet despite this print, the S&P 500 soared higher to end the day up 2.7%1. That's a paradox.
This wasn't an isolated event either. It's been a pattern since late March. Think about where we stand as a country today:
Air travel is down 96%2
Hotel occupancy is down 68%2
Box office receipts are down 100%2
New home sales are down 15%1
Gasoline consumption is down 44%3
Durable goods down 14% in March1
Over 28 million Americans filed for jobless claims in the last 6 weeks1
April will go down as one of the worst months ever for economic activity. But it will also be remembered as one of the best months for stocks. The S&P 500 posted its biggest monthly gain since 1987, climbing 13%4. It had its best April in 82 years7. That's simply amazing. The two extremes create the paradox, and it's one that appears to be fueling a lot of disbelief.
Some would argue this was more ignorance than paradox. Why did this happen?
The source of the paradox is a directional mismatch. Economic data tells us what has already happened, but the stock market is anticipatory – it looks ahead and then prices in future expectations today.
Let's go back to Wednesday. A scary GDP number leads to a great day for stocks. But we already knew it was going to be awful. That was baked in long ago, so whether the final number is 4.8% or 10% or whatever, it's in the past.
I've talked extensively about how we need to see a light at the end of the tunnel before this rally can stick. Therefore, anytime the market rises on days like these, I look for something that would indicate a brighter light. That day, it was a press release from a biotech company called Gilead. A study had shown that one of its experimental drugs had reduced the time it took for patients with Covid-19 to get better5.
There may also have been a cumulative effect. On its own, positive data for a drug is flimsy. But combine this with news that some U.S. states and European countries are reopening, and that light gets brighter.
Brian Wesbury at First Trust had a great quote recently that went something like this – "Investors need to keep in mind that when they invest in stocks, they're not buying shares of GDP. They're buying shares of specific companies that offer an always changing flow of goods and services."
The point here is that there can be an ugly past and a bright future at the same time. This was April in a nutshell. When it comes to investing, the future is all that matters.
But wouldn't you agree there is a lot of uncertainty looking forward?
No question. I don't think I've seen more uncertainty in my career. Think about it this way – to be buying right now means that you should expect the government to provide enough stimulus, open the economy very soon, get people to then go out into the economy, and do so in a way that is safe while they develop a vaccine.
Of these, I'm least concerned about the science. I know nothing about vaccines and even less about viral replication, but the brainpower that is on this one and the money backing it are powerful forces. My bet is they figure this out and very soon.
The real uncertainty lies in the government. This whole situation has become political, and that increases uncertainty because we must factor in the incentives of those who are making the decisions. Rarely do these coincide with logic and reasoning.
You mention stimulus. How can we pay for all of this? Doesn't this just create more uncertainty and problems down the road?
Couple things here. First, let's not put the cart before the horse. The government shut down the economy, so they have to do this.
Second, we will pay for it with lots of debt. Trillions of it. Before the CARES act was passed, I guessed that the total stimulus could come in as high as $3.5-$4 trillion. But that assumed the economy would reopen by end of April. Who knows now? It could easily double, but that's ok.
Government debt doesn't work like personal and corporate debt. It almost never gets paid back. It just gets "rolled" – old debt gets serviced by creating new debt. Most of the time, this is a perfectly fine way to run a country. Several companies even do it.
In fact, U.S. debt has risen pretty much every year since 1950. It hasn't been a problem yet because nominal GDP has grown faster than the annual budget deficit. More importantly, compare interest payment to GDP, and less than 2% of the country's income services debt. This hasn't changed much in the last 80 years. So no, our grandkids won't have to pay all of this off.
There will be side effects, but I'm going to worry about those later. For now, I'm grateful that I live in a country that can do what most cannot – print huge amounts of a currency the entire world wants (particularly during a crisis like this). Our ability to instantaneously create "rainy day funds" is a powerful weapon, not a problem (yet). It's also one that we will likely see more of.
Won't one of those side effects be inflation? Didn't we learn that from the 1970s?
The money supply has surged. No doubt. But this is not the 1970s. Not even close. There are a lot of fearmongers out there who are oversimplifying what happened back so they can compare it to today. In addition to oil and other commodity prices crashing, which is a pretty big deflationary force, cash is king right now. If demand for money rises alongside supply, the effect should be less severe.
However, I can't say definitively that inflation will remain under control two years from now. The reason why we never saw inflation from all the money printing after the financial crisis was because that money never made it out into the economy. The government printed it, gave it to big banks, and they then deposited it with the Fed. That's like creating a lot of inventory, giving it to your distributors, but not allowing them to sell any of it. This round of printing is already out there, so it's something I plan to watch closely because demand could change.
If inflation does rise any higher than what we've seen over the last several years, then stocks could become even more attractive. They can act as a hedge against inflation because companies are able to pass along their costs to customers. But that only works so long until valuations explode.
Well then who is buying right now?
Large institutional buyers. Money managers who either see perceived deals they can't pass on or can't stay in cash for too long. Most mandates restrict it. Also, we talked about incentives. If the market moves higher and a manager is in cash for too long, they risk underperforming for the year. If so, say goodbye to their bonus.
For individuals, those who own stocks tend to be wealthy and educated, and they work in service-based industries that can be done from home. Many of these paychecks are still getting cashed.
Take this cohort and then consider the Pavlovian response that has developed over the last decade to "buy the dip." This strategy is literally batting a thousand. Every time the market has tanked, it's surged back within weeks. So, there are those who have made money buying the dip and those who have not but watched their neighbors make money buying the dip.
How will the world change after this?
Go back to 9-11. That changed us in so many ways. Thousands died and it took years to move on. But in the process, our country became safer and stronger. Try to name a single hijacking that lasted for more than 90 seconds since then. They don't happen anymore in developed countries. The mistakes made over the last two months will make our society stronger the next time one of these viruses pops up.
Furthermore, how many board room discussions are currently underway about adjusting their supply chains? How much of this economic activity could come back home to the U.S.? What breakthroughs will take place as we search for therapies and vaccines to bat-borne viruses?
The pandemic has also created the urgency to try out new ideas. Overnight, we built another infrastructure – a digital one - to support distributed workforces and remote work. How will this impact large cities and productivity now that the pipes have been laid for people to work from anywhere?
So, while there are questions that we may not want to know the answer to - like how bad the economic data will get, there are probably just as many that we do. As an investor, I'm focusing a lot of time here. I must assume others are as well, given what we saw the stock market do in April.
It's been a month since you suggested the panic had subsided. How could it return?
If we see a second wave that causes another lockdown, expect the panic to return. But it would have to be a serious round two, and that seems unlikely.
We talked about how the world may change, but so much has already - human behavior especially. We won't be shaking hands in business meetings for some time. Social distancing will remain. We will wash our hands more than ever before, so Covid-19 is going to have to overcome all of this to cause this much chaos again.
Antibodies could also help with herd immunity. A recent study was published on the prevalence of coronavirus antibodies in Santa Clara County. Based on blood tests of 3,300 volunteers during the first week of April, they estimated that between 2.5% and 4.2% of the county population had been infected. That's 50 to 85 times the number of confirmed cases6. There are several other studies that confirm this trend. This could help because that means more people probably won't get sick again.
Also, the Department of Homeland Security just released a report concluding heat and humidity kill it faster8. Apparently, it can't survive longer than half an hour versus several hours in cold, dry weather. Never have I been more excited to feel humidity.
Last question. Do you still think we see a V-shaped economic recovery?
When I made that call back in late March, it was predicated on the government reopening by the end of April. Now that so much of the country appears to remain locked down through the end of May, that V will probably now look more like a U.
But the good news is that it will still recover. It may just take longer. And it doesn't really do much to my investment plan. I try to avoid any strategy that is overly dependent upon our government to act.
Brian Malizia
The biggest controversy right now is this "April paradox."
The amount of uncertainty is almost impossible to quantify.
Yet there are still buyers out there who appear to be looking beyond 2020.
2 https://www.ftportfolios.com/blogs/EconBlog/2020/4/23/coronavirus-high-frequency-data
3 https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/weekly/gasoline.php
4 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-29/asia-stocks-set-to-track-u-s-gains-dollar-drops-markets-wrap
5 https://www.gilead.com/news-and-press/press-room/press-releases/2020/4/gilead-announces-results-from-phase-3-trial-of-investigational-antiviral-remdesivir-in-patients-with-severe-covid-19
6 https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/17/santa-clara-covid-19-antibody-study-suggests-broad-asymptomatic-spread.html
7 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/after-a-blockbuster-april-for-the-dow-and-sp-500-is-sell-in-may-in-the-coronavirus-era-a-smart-strategy-2020-04-30
8 https://nypost.com/2020/04/23/top-dhs-scientists-says-heat-humidity-slow-coronavirus/


Security researchers are highlighting a more powerful breed of attack that is specifically targeting users of the open source Mozilla Firefox web browser.
Long touted for its improved security over rival browsers including Microsoft IE, Firefox has been mined for dozens of vulnerabilities over the last few years, but the application hasn't ever faced the same level of attacks as Explorer.
However, experts are charting the emergence of a new, sophisticated breed of Firefox threat that packs a significantly more potent punch than its predecessors.
Posting to the Webroot Threat Blog, security researcher Andrew Brandt describes several newly discovered pieces of badware in circulation that he cites as "raising the bar" for Firefox attacks.
"In the past few weeks, we've seen malware writers up the ante in their bets against Firefox. Two new spies came across the transom in the past week, and easily managed to load themselves into a freshly installed copy of Firefox 3.0.7. I should note that this isn't due to any problem or negligence on Mozilla's part; once you execute malicious code on your PC, any application is vulnerable. Firefox just happens to be a big target," Brandt notes.
The first piece of malware Brandt points to is a malicious plugin that appears to be a new variant of a known spyware attack, DNSChanger. Framed as a browser hijacking ploy, the installer drops a DLL payload into the Firefox components folder, and then runs in the background from thereon.
The threat, also ID'd as "Firesox" then injects ads or modified results when it detects certain search query strings sent to engines including Google, Yahoo, MSN, Altavista, Teoma, Ask, Pricegrabber, Brandt reports.
"In the past, we saw DNSChanger used to help fraudulent advertising affiliates boost their numbers, and to direct unsuspecting users to rogue antimalware tools by generating bogus results. It remains to be seen whether this new variant will be as prolific as the old version," he writes.
The second attack highlighted in the researcher's blog post is a piece of adware that only installs correctly with Firefox versions 3.x or later. Parceled together with other programs and a too-long-to-read EULA, the threat, dubbed Foxicle, appears after users attempt to opt-out of another adware toolbar, Mirar.
Whether they agree to keep Mirar or end up saddled with Foxicle, users unlucky enough to stumble onto the programs appear destined to stare at some unwanted ads when they're browsing.
In both cases, the attacks represent a new generation of Firefox threats in their ability to cloak themselves from discovery, Brandt contends.
"Neither Firesox, the DNSChanger clone, or Foxicle put an obvious entry in Firefox's plugins dialog that signal their presence. While not widely distributed, I suspect we'll be seeing more of them," he said.


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Georgia Dem Raphael Warnock wins runoff election, bringing midterm cycle to an end
Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock defeated Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a Georgia runoff election Tuesday, ensuring Democrats an outright majority in the Senate for the rest of President Joe Biden's current term and capping the midterm cycle in the last major vote of the year.
With Warnock's second runoff victory in as many years, Democrats will have a 51-49 Senate majority, gaining a seat from the current 50-50 split with John Fetterman's victory in Pennsylvania. There will be divided government, however, with Republicans having flipped House control.
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"After a hard-fought campaign — or, should I say, campaigns — it is my honor to utter the four most powerful words ever spoken in a democracy: The people have spoken," Warnock, 53, told jubilant supporters who packed a downtown Atlanta hotel ballroom.
"I often say that a vote is a kind of prayer for the world we desire for ourselves and for our children," declared Warnock, a Baptist pastor. "Georgia, you have been praying with your lips and your legs, your hands and your feet, your heads and your hearts. You have put in the hard work, and here we are standing together."
In last month's election, Warnock led Walker by 37,000 votes out of almost 4 million cast, but fell short of the 50% threshold needed to avoid a runoff. The senator appeared to be headed for a wider final margin in Tuesday's runoff, with Walker, a football legend at the University of Georgia and in the NFL, unable to overcome a bevy of scandals.
"The numbers look like they're not going to add up," Walker, an ally and friend of former President Donald Trump, told supporters late Tuesday at the College Football Hall of Fame in downtown Atlanta. "There's no excuses in life, and I'm not going to make any excuses now because we put up one heck of a fight."
Democrats' Georgia victory solidifies the state's place as a Deep South battleground two years after Warnock and fellow Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff won January 2021 runoffs that gave the party Senate control just months after Biden became the first Democratic presidential candidate in 30 years to win Georgia. Voters returned Warnock to the Senate in the same cycle they reelected Republican Gov. Brian Kemp by a comfortable margin and chose an all-GOP slate of statewide constitutional officers.
Democrats' new outright majority in the Senate means the party will no longer have to negotiate a power-sharing deal with Republicans and won't have to rely on Vice President Kamala Harris to break as many tie votes.
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National Democrats celebrated Tuesday, with Biden tweeting a photo of his congratulatory phone call to the senator. "Georgia voters stood up for our democracy, rejected Ultra MAGAism, and … sent a good man back to the Senate," Biden tweeted, referencing Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan.
About 1.9 million runoff votes were cast in Georgia by mail and during early voting. A robust Election Day turnout added about 1.4 million more, slightly more than the Election Day totals in November and in 2020.
Total turnout still trailed the 2021 runoff turnout of about 4.5 million. Last year, Georgia shortened the period for runoffs from nine weeks to four.
Just called @SenatorWarnock to congratulate him on his win.
Tonight Georgia voters stood up for our democracy, rejected Ultra MAGAism, and most importantly: sent a good man back to the Senate. Here's to six more years. pic.twitter.com/ibx5aprVs3
— President Biden (@POTUS) December 7, 2022


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I miss the Medic kit's iron sight on the M16A4! Y U NO Iron sight anymore?!
Midnight Sun + Street 2 *only v0.95 kids will remember.
Really hard to get a vehicle eh? My friend, its called Project Reality for a reason. Sometimes, I had to walk the entire map, its no big deal.
Well, they just gotta learn and appreciate the game just for what it is. It's the inside that matters (by which I do not mean that I love being inside an upside down Huey. I get airsick).


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Q: In Eclipse, How to sort methods by class during auto-complete? In Eclipse, you can press period after an object to see its methods and the methods it inherited from its super-classes. Is there a way, (keyboard shortcut during auto-complete or otherwise) that allows you to organize the methods by class, (this, super, super's super)? This would help find methods specific to this subclass much faster.

A: Not that i know.
Go to Window -> Preferences -> Java -> Editor -> Content Assist.
There you should see an option "Sort proposals" where the only options are "by relevance" and "alphabetically".
You may use the Type Hierarchy. Not a real solution to what you'd like to have but the closest approach I could tell.

A: It's impossible :(


Turn west (left) onto SR 309. Take the I-75 entrance ramp (north) and travel to the SR 81 exit. Take the west exit (Exit 127) and remain on SR 81 until Sugar Street. Turn north (right) onto Sugar Street at the railroad tracks and remain on Sugar Street to Bible Road (there is a traffic light at this intersection). Turn west (left) at the light. The ODOT office is at the corner of Bible Road and McCullough Street.
Heading north, follow the directions outlined above from I-75.
Heading west, follow the directions outlined above from SR 309.
Heading west, follow the directions outlined above from SR 81.
Heading south on I-75 get off at Exit 130 (Bluelick Road) and turn west (right) on Bluelick Road. Continue on Bluelick Road until Sugar Street (a "T" road left with a traffic signal, just before railroad tracks) and turn south (left) on Sugar Street. At the first intersection (Bible Road) turn west (right) onto Bible Road. The ODOT office is at the corner of Bible Road and McCullough Street.


The two brothers are in 5th and 6th grade respectively. They have three older siblings, one in 12th grade and two in 9th grades (not twins) in their hometown in Gui Zhou Province. Their parents immigrated from rural area in Gui Zhou to Shanghai and then to Ningguo to seeking better life for their kids and themselves with hard labor work. They rent a two room rundown apartments to live to save money. The oldest sister not only takes care of her own extremely busy high school study but also take care of the 2nd and 3rd siblings in 9th grade. The family look happy and positive---really nice to see.
This boy is a 5th grader living with her grandparents and his grandpa's deaf and dumb older brother. His parents were divorced and his father does odd jobs in Zheng Zhou (coming home once a year). He is excellent in school and likes badminton. Since the school is far away (common now in rural area), he and his grandma renta small room near school to stay there during school year ($130 a year).
This girl is a first grader living with her grandgrand mother (sick in bed), grandparents, and her deaf and dumb parents (both). She is a very cute girl and was born almost deaf too. Noice the red `decoration' at her shouder? That was part of her cheaper version of `miracle' ear (the other part is surgically installed in her brain) to help her hear (needs battery). It costs the family over $30K (over 200K Yuan RMB) for the surgery and the equipment when she was 14 month old. She still needs to replace special battery (not cheap) to keep it working. She is excellent in school and at home.
This girl is a 5th grader living with her grandparents. Her parents divorced and her father does odd jobs in Hai Ning, Zhe Jiang province and comes home only a couple of times a year. She and her grandma rent a small room near school (too far) for her study while her grandpa works in farm to help the family. She is outstanding in school with a lot of awards. She also likes drawing. Her family house is at a very isolated area (walking to her house is an interesting experience---picture like but also a little dangerous during raining days like the day we visited her). She was sponsored by a student in UK (from Ninngguo).
This girl (also in the above photo) is also a 5th grader living with her grandparents and her father. Her mother left when she was 4 and has been remarried. Her father does odd jobs at Ningguo City to support the family and has often headache. She and her grandma rent a small room near school (too far) during school year. I really like her smile. She likes English, drawing, and jump ropes. She is talented and has a very strong mind. We encourage her to tone down her temper a little when having conflict with her teacher and schoolmates. She and the other girl in the photo are very close friends and not far from each other.
This boy is a 4th grader living with her grandparents and her father. Her parents were divorced. Her father does odd jobs in Ningguo City and was remarried with another young kid---not supporting the family. When talking about it, the boy tried very hard to keep himself from crying. Her grandpa had a stroke 12 years ago and still has some side effect. Her grandma and he rent a small room (too far) near school, and also helps a couple of other kids (to earn a little money). His aunt helps the family a little. The family is extremely poor. He likes Chinese and drawing.


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CHARLOTTETOWN — The family of a girl who was sexually abused by a Prince Edward Island actor involved in a theatre production in Charlottetown has filed a civil lawsuit against the perpetrator and two arts organizations on the Island.
Updated Jan 13, 2021 3:05 PM
It also alleges that Webster and Jankov knew or ought to have known that Crane's inappropriate behaviour had at one point "intensified in plain view" of those involved with the Guild, and there was commentary circulating "that Crane was a 'pedophile.'"
"Inappropriate touching occurred openly on the premises,'" the statement of claim says.
More than 100 people have tested positive in Richmond's 2 care home outbreaks


The flying experience is worse than it was five years ago, and the worst time of the year to fly is now, according to a new survey.
But you probably didn't need a survey to tell you that. And yet, here we are with a new Morning Consult research, commissioned by the U.S. Travel Association, a trade association that almost never says a bad word about airlines.
These travelers say they were involuntarily denied boarding. Were they?
Posted in Case Dismissed Tagged AIR CANADA, AIRLINE, AIRPORT, BOARDING, COMPENSATION, DENIED BOARDING, FLIGHT DELAY, REBOOKING, TRAVEL21 Comments on These travelers say they were involuntarily denied boarding. Were they?
It's the complainers that make travelers such as Randall Kessler complain — specifically, the folks who shuffle around the airport waiting area, griping about something over which neither they nor their airline has any control.


Welcome to the chilliest Intersect News for 2016 as we take a peek at what's happening this winter across your eResearch neighbourhood.
This bulletin highlights innovative research projects that we're proud to be associated with from researchers Professor Chris Petit of the University of New South Wales and Clare Collins of the University of Newcastle. We check in with Richard Berry, eResearch Analyst at UoN, find out about exciting new training courses in MATLAB, regex and python, and hear about the Digital Humanities Australasia conference. We've released some important tools to understand cross-border health data security and privacy issues via med.data.edu.au, and we explain some changes made to sustain the NecTAR Research Cloud in NSW.
We welcome Craig Hamilton as our new Engineering Manager, replacing Rod Harrison who we thank sincerely for six years of code, people and project management. Craig and Rod have had a month of transition time and orderly arrangements for handover for all in-flight projects are in place. Finally, we acknowledge the contribution of founding CEO Mike Briers and congratulate him on his appointment as Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia.
Enjoy… and if you like what you read, please drop us a line to explore how we can help increase research productivity in your world.