What are Cloud Connected Mobile Apps?
Why Cross-Platform Native Development is important?
Welcome to my first book. It's free, it's open source, and it's comprehensive. Those attributes also describe two of my favorite technologies, and I'm basing my first book on them. The first is Xamarin Forms , a technology that allows you to develop cross-platform mobile applications using C# and the .NET framework. The second is Azure Mobile Apps, a technology that allows you to connect your mobile app to resources that are important in cloud connected mobile applications such as table data, authentication, and push notifications.
This book does not tell you everything there is to know about either topic. It focuses on the topics necessary to get your mobile apps connected to the cloud.
I guess I should define some of the terminology that I am going to use. When I refer to a mobile application or mobile app, I mean every piece of software that is related to the application you want to use. This includes, for example, the mobile client. This is the piece of code you run on your iPhone or Android phone. It also includes the mobile backend which is the service that you run in the cloud to provide important services to your mobile client.
A cloud connected mobile application is a mobile client that connects to a mobile backend for shared services. Quite a few of the apps on your phone are cloud connected already. For example, Instagram uses the cloud for photo storage, and Facebook uses the cloud to store the news feeds of you and your friends.
It should come as no surprise that Apple and Google have pretty much won the mobile OS wars. Over 90% of the smart phones being sold today run either iOS or Android. However, these are two very different mobile operating systems, with different programming models. iOS is based on either Swift or Objective-C. Android is based on Java. If you want to develop for the 80% case (and you should), then you need to know both Swift and Java. That's a tall order even for the most dedicated mobile developer.
However, there are alternatives out there. Most notable, you can write your mobile application with one code-base and just write exceptions for when the platforms diverge. You have to pick a single language and a tool set that supports cross-platform development to do this. Not all cross-platform tool sets are created equal, however. Some do not compile your code to native binaries, which means that you do not get access to all the functionality of the mobile platforms you are targeting.
Xamarin, recently acquired by Microsoft, allows you to target all major platforms - iOS, Android and Windows - to gain greater than 95% coverage of the mobile smart phone market. It does this by leveraging the .NET framework and compiling your code to a native binary for each platform.
Xamarin.Forms is a cross-platform framework, based on XAML and .NET, that allows you to use common UI pages to develop your apps.
When you think about the major apps in the marketplace for each mobile platform, the thing that they have in common is that they have some sort of cloud infrastructure driving them. It might be as simple as storing your task list, or as complex as your Facebook news feed. It could be a gaming leader board, or the social sharing of your photos. Whatever it is, cloud connectivity is a must.
Not all clouds are created equal. There are some common features that you should think about including irrespective of the application. I like to use Azure Mobile Apps for these features because they are all included and you can get started with most of the features for zero cost. Even the features that cannot be obtained without spending a little money are relatively cheap.
Azure Mobile Apps is a feature of Azure App Service. Azure App Service is a collection of services that commonly are used together to develop modern Internet Apps. This includes web hosting, API hosting and Mobile SDKs.
I am going to cover each of these in great detail. In addition, I will also cover some common issues and solutions that developers run into while developing cloud connected mobile applications such as testing and going to production.
The point here is that my intent is to write a production quality application. I need to be able to deploy my site with confidence without resorting to jumping through hoops. I want to run multiple versions of the backend so that I can run a staging site for testing purposes. I want to be able to roll back my production site to a previous version at a moments notice. I want to be able to handle the load when my app is successful, and I want things to be backed up (since bad things inevitably happen when I am least prepared).
All of these features are available in Azure App Service, and the Mobile Apps SDK that I will use throughout the book is supported only on Azure App Service.
This book is for intermediate to experienced C# developers who have already built a mobile app with Xamarin and want to take their mobile apps to the next level by utilizing cloud services.
This book is not for the beginner. Explicitly, I already expect you to know how to develop mobile applications with C# and Xamarin technologies. If you are unfamiliar with the C# language, you can get started with a free course on the Internet. The basics of the language can be learned at www.learncs.org. Once you have the language basics under your belt, you can move on to building mobile applications with Xamarin. You can learn more about developing cross-platform mobile development with Xamarin at the Xamarin website. Although you do not need to understand ASP.NET to get value out of this book, be aware that the mobile back ends that I will be covering are written in C# and ASP.NET. A good understanding of ASP.NET will assist you.
Before you get started with development, spend some time learning the tools of the trade. The command prompt on the Mac is bash and the command prompt on the PC is PowerShell. You should be proficient in the shell on the platforms that you use.
Additionally, you should become familiar with the source code control system that you will use. For most, this means becoming familiar with git. Don't even think of developing without using source control.
The list of hardware and software for mobile development is longer than your typical development projects. It is still, thankfully, relatively short and easy to acquire.
You will want a computer on which to develop code. If you develop iOS applications, then you MUST have a Mac running the latest version of Mac OSX. If you develop Universal Windows applications, then you MUST have a PC running Windows 10. Android applications can be developed on either platform.
My own experience has taught me that the tooling for developing mobile backends in C# and ASP.NET (our primary languages during the course of this book) are better on a PC running Windows 10. Thus, my hardware choice is a rather beefy Windows 10 PC for my main development system. In addition, I have a Mac Mini underneath my desk that I use to build the iOS portions of the applications.
All of the following software are freely available. You should install each package and update it (if appropriate) so that it is fully patched.
You must run XCode at least once after installation so that you can accept the license agreement.
If you have already installed Visual Studio and did not install these components, run the installer again to add the components.
You can also use earlier versions of Visual Studio. If you do use an earlier version, then the screen shots I provide will not match up. You will also need the latest version of the Azure SDK installed.
Development Tools are big, multi-gigabyte installers. If you are on a slow or restricted link, you may want to download the installers onto a thumb drive for local installation.
You will need an Azure account to complete most of the tutorials in this book. In fact, you won't be able to get very far without one. If you have an MSDN account, you already have access to free Azure resources. You just need to log into your MSDN account and activate your Azure benefit. Students may be able to get access to Microsoft Imagine from school resources, but this is not suitable for developing mobile applications. This is because storage costs money. If you don't have MSDN, then there is a free trial available. Once the trial period ends, you can move to a Pay-As-You-Go account and continue to use free services without incurring a charge. I'll point out when you are going to incur charges on your Azure account, but I will be using free resources most of the time.
Aside from Azure resources, you will want some place to store your code. This doesn't have to be in the cloud. If you want to use the cloud, you can use GitHub or Visual Studio Team Services. Both are free to use. GitHub provides public repositories for free. Visual Studio Team Services provides private respositories for free. Visual Studio Team Services also includes other services that I will talk about during the course of the book, some of which may incur cost. I will be publishing all my samples and tutorial code on GitHub so that you can easily download it. You don't have to use one of these resources, but I won't be covering other service usage.
You will need a Developer Account for the appropriate app store if you intend to distribute your mobile clients or if you intend to use specific cloud services. Apple is specific - if you intend to use push notifications or distribute iOS apps, then you need an Apple Developer Account, Google Developer Account and/or Windows Store Developer Account. The terms of the accounts are changed constantly, so review the current terms when you sign up. My recommendation is to defer signing up for these programs until you need something they offer.
On a Mac, skip ahead to the Mac section.
On a PC, the next section covers Windows.


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Q: sqlite3.OperationalError: no such table I'm trying to create a sqlite3 table using python. My code is given below:
def initDb():
    database = 'index.db'
    conn = sqlite3.connect(database)

    cur = conn.cursor()

    # Initialize database
    cur.execute('PRAGMA foreign_keys = ON')

    cur.execute('DROP TABLE IF EXISTS modules')
    cur.execute('DROP TABLE IF EXISTS files')
    cur.execute('DROP TABLE IF EXISTS modulesfiles')

    cur.execute(
        '''CREATE TABLE modules (
            id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
            label TEXT UNIQUE NOT NULL
        )'''
    )
    cur.execute(
        '''CREATE TABLE files (
            id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
            filename TEXT UNIQUE NOT NULL
        )'''
    )
    cur.execute(
        '''CREATE TABLE modulesfiles (
        module INTEGER UNIQUE NOT NULL,
        file INTEGER UNIQUE NOT NULL,
        PRIMARY KEY (module,file),
        FOREIGN KEY (module) REFERENCES modules(id) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE,
        FOREIGN KEY (file) REFERENCES files(id) ON UPDATE CASCADE ON DELETE CASCADE
        )'''
    )

    cur.close()

    return conn

if __name__ == '__main__':
    conn = initDb()
    conn.commit()
    conn.close()

This code runs fine the first time I run it and my database is created. However, if I run it a second time, I get the following error:
    cur.execute('DROP TABLE IF EXISTS files')
sqlite3.OperationalError: no such table: main.modules

I have no idea what's going wrong. Can anybody help?

A: Dropping modules first makes the foreign key constraint in modulesfiles invalid.
Drop the child table first.

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Mastering the VC Game: A Venture Capital Insider Reveals How to Get from Start-up to IPO on Your Terms
by Jeffrey Bussgang
Through interviews with more than a dozen leading entrepreneurs, such as Twitter's Jack Dorsey, LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman and other successful venture capitalists, this book will be an invaluable guide for entrepreneurs looking to unlock the secrets of the VC world and get the support to finance and d... More
BabbaCo
by Jeffrey Bussgang • Gaurav Jain
case... More
by Jeffrey Bussgang • Julia Kelley
Delivering the Goods at Shippo
by Jeffrey J. Bussgang • Olivia Hull • Jeffrey Rayport
Laura Behrens Wu, CEO of software start-up Shippo, prepares her pitch for a Series A funding round following a successful seed round. Customer adoption of Shippo's e-commerce dashboard application, which allows small and medium retailers to compare delivery rates between shipping providers and print... More
Raising Startup Capital
by Jeffrey J. Bussgang
types of startup capital are equity funding and debt funding although there are a few hybrid flavors as well. Sources of funding. These include venture capital firms, angel investors, crowd-funding, and accelerators/incubators. What investors look for. Each source has a different funding pro... More
Yahoo: Both Sides of the Stamped Deal
by Lisa Mazzanti • Jeffrey J. Bussgang
In 2012, Marissa Mayer became the CEO of Yahoo!, a tech giant with a tumultuous past. When Mayer tries to reinvigorate the company, she hires Jacqueline Reses, who has a private equity background, to head both human resources and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). As part of Mayer's turnaround strategy... More
Growth Hacking at Bazaart (A)
by Matthew Preble • Jeffrey J. Bussgang
Growth Hacking at Bazaart (B)
Supplement... More
Codecademy: Monetizing a Movement?
Codecademy, an open-platform, online community for learning computer programming, launched in 2011. By 2014, the company had raised a total of $12.5 million in funding and was, on many fronts, an overwhelming success. However, there were still no revenues. The founders decided it was time to experim... More
Jibo: A Social Robot for the Home
by Christine Snively • Jeffrey J. Bussgang
In January 2015, Jibo Inc. had completed a raise of $25.3 million in Series A financing after a successful 2014 crowdfunding campaign for pre-orders of Jibo, the first social robot for the home. Over 4,800 Jibo units were pre-ordered, generating $2.6 million in sales. On one snowy morning in January... More
Mattermark
by Annelena Lobb • Jeffrey J. Bussgang
Mattermark, a software-as-a-service company that sold software allowing companies to access financial information about privately-held companies and startups, was at a turning point. CEO Danielle Morrill had to allocate investment funding from a Series A round. She needed to build up sales and marke... More
Open English
Open English, a Miami-based startup offering online English language learning services, had more than 30,000 active students across Latin America in 2012. The company had just closed a $43 million financing round in order to rapidly scale its service to the next level. Nicolette Moreno, Co-founder a... More
Classtivity: Payal's Pirouette
by Jeffrey J. Bussgang • Olivia Hull
A few months after launching a new fitness technology product, the small staff of New York startup Classtivity gathers on a Saturday in April 2013 to take stock. With one successful pivot under their belt, Classtivity is finally generating revenue and enthusiasm among customers. But cofounder and CE... More
ZappRx
In October 2015, ZappRx founder Zoe Barry is deciding between two business models for her health technology start-up. Her product, a software application which aims to expedite the prescription fulfillment process for patients with rare diseases, has attracted interest from specialty drug manufactur... More
C16 Biosciences: Lab-Grown Palm Oil
Synthetic biology start-up C16 Biosciences wants to solve a big problem: replace palm oil, a major contributor to deforestation and climate change, with a lab-grown substitute. CEO Shara Ticku has ambitious plans to supply her lab-grown palm oil to food manufacturers, who use palm oil liberally in a... More
The Growth Manager
by Jeffrey J. Bussgang • Nadav Benbarak
Industry and Background Note... More
Giving Birth to Ovia Health
by Jeffrey J. Bussgang • Julia Kelley
In late 2016, Paris Wallace, the CEO of Ovia Health, and the rest of the company's co-founders faced a difficult decision about the best way to grow Ovia Health's revenue. Founded in 2012, Ovia Health specialized in mobile and web applications in the women's health space. After building a strong use... More
COVID-19 Testing at Everlywell
In March 2020, as COVID-19 spreads rapidly across the U.S., Everlywell founder Julia Cheek considers how to respond as a small start-up specializing in at-home lab testing. After making dramatic budget cuts, she decides to pivot the organization to address the country's testing shortage. But after a... More
by Jeffrey J. Bussgang • Jeffrey F. Rayport • Olivia Hull
Curt Schilling's Next Pitch
by Noam Wasserman • Rachel Gordon • Jeffrey J. Bussgang
As his major-league pitching career was starting to wind down in 2006, baseball all-star Curt Schilling decided to become an entrepreneur. Looking to focus his tenacity and his passion for online role-playing games on a new challenge, he founded an online gaming venture, which later became known as ... More
Entrepreneurship Reading: Partnering with Venture Capitalists
by Michael J. Roberts • Jeffrey J. Bussgang
This Reading takes a deep look at the venture capital (VC) industry in the United States. VCs have a unique perspective on opportunity evaluation, deal structure, new venture support, and exit strategy. Their work at all stages of the entrepreneurial life cycle offers many lessons to company founder... More
Continuous Software Development: Agile's Successor
by Jeffrey J. Bussgang • Olivia Hull • Samuel Clemens
Senior Lecturer Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Entrepreneur-in-Residence Samuel Clemens, and Case Researcher Olivia Hull (Case Research & Writing Group) prepared this note as the basis for class discussion. Samuel Clemens is the founder and chief product officer of InsightSquared.... More
Continuous Software Development: Agile's Successor
In recent years, the twin software development methodologies of continuous delivery and continuous deployment have risen to prominence in the start-up world and beyond. These methods have enabled technology companies large and small to accelerate their product development pipelines and reshape their... More
Soofa: Displaying the Right Path?
by Amram Migdal • Jeffrey J. Bussgang • Amy Klopfenstein
In November 2019, Sandra Richter, co-founder and CEO of Soofa, a network of advertising-supported digital bulletin boards, must decide between two different fundraising and expansion plans for her company. One plan entails raising $15 million in a Series A round and pursuing an aggressive expansion ... More

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Based on Jo Nesbo's global bestseller, Universal Pictures' terrifying thriller The Snowman, starring Michael Fassbender and Rebecca Ferguson, will be shown exclusively at Ayala Malls Cinemas (Trinoma, Glorietta 4, Market! Market! and Fairview Terraces) starting November 22.
Also starring Charlotte Gainsbourg, Chloe Sevigny, Val Kilmer and Academy Award® winner J.K. Simmons, The Snowman is directed by Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy).
In the film, a sociopath who calls himself "The Snowman Killer" has targeted the one person for whom he wants to show off his methodical, unthinkable skills: the lead investigator of an elite crime squad. With cunningly simplistic baits such as "Mr. Policeman, I gave you all the clues…" he begs to have a worthy opponent to play his sick game.
For Detective Harry Hole (Fassbender), the murder of a young woman on the first snow of the winter feels like anything but a routine homicide case in his district. From the start of the investigation, The Snowman has personally targeted him with taunts—ones that continue to accompany each new vicious murder.
Fearing an elusive serial killer long-thought dead may be active again, the detective enlists brilliant recruit Katrine Bratt (Ferguson), to help him connect decades-old cold cases to the brutal new ones. Succeed, and they will lure out the psychopath that's been watching them from the shadows for who knows how long. Fail, and an unthinkable evil will strike once again during the very next snowfall.
The Snowman, the seventh book in Jo Nesbø's best-selling Harry Hole series, has enthralled global audiences since it was first published in 2007. The novel took the beleaguered detective and his creator to an entirely new level and readership, and it topped The New York Times Best-Seller list in U.S.—as well as marked Nesbø's first No.1 in the U.K. charts and firmly establishing his place as one of the elite international crime writers.
Director Tomas Alfredson discusses that his approach to filmmaking is to guide the audience through his work, but never decide what each individual should experience. This commitment to his craft leads the filmmaker to be quite selective in the stories he chooses to tell. Alfredson admits he found Nesbø's protagonist to be riveting.


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The long decline of Peru's fugitive ex-President Alejandro Toledo
Article Updated: February 13, 2017
Photo credit: El Comercio / Andres Edery
From an anti-corruption activist to a fugitive from justice, a look at the tragic trajectory of Peru's former President Alejandro Toledo.
A judge in Lima on Thursday ordered Toledo jailed for 18 months while he faces trial, a common practice for defendants who pose a flight risk, for money laundering and influence peddling. Toledo is accused of taking $20 million in bribes from Brazilian construction firm, Odebrecht. Peru has issued an international arrest warrant and is offering a $30,000 reward for information leading to Toledo's capture.
"I am not running. I will face these baseless accusations," Toledo tweeted last year in one of many proclamations that he would face justice in Peru.
Now that he has been charged, however, the man who rose from a life of poverty in Ancash to study at Stanford, work for the World Bank and ultimately be elected president of Peru has gone into hiding to avoid arrest. Israel, where Toledo's wife holds citizenship, has barred Toledo's entry. Officials believe he is in the United States after visiting France.
"I've never run from anything, but they call me a 'fugitive' – a Machiavellian political distortion that I reject," Toledo tweeted from hiding yesterday. He also posted a letter arguing that he was the victim of a "politically motivated" lack of due process.
Toledo's disgraceful situation marks the beginning of the end of what was once an inspiring Cinderella story. Born into a large Quechua family in Ancash, Toledo grew up with no electricity or running water. He impressed two Peace Corps volunteers on vacation in Chimbote, who paid for him to study in the United States. He ultimately earned postgraduate degrees from Stanford University.
Toledo worked at the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank and United Nations before entering politics in Peru. In 2000, Toledo ran for president promising "The second chapter of Fujimorism" against then-President Alberto Fujimori. Toledo lost the contested election and led large protests in downtown Lima calling for Fujimori to resign.
Fujimori's regime fell after the publication of videos showing his spy chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, bribing politicians and business leaders. Toledo positioned himself as an anti-corruption candidate to win special elections in 2001, becoming South America's first democratically elected President of indigenous descent.
Peru's economy continued to improve during Toledo's government. Most notably, Toledo orchestrated the conditions for foreign energy companies to develop the natural gas fields at Camisea. The massive reserves had been discovered in 1984, but global energy firms balked at developing them in the face of successive governments' refusal to allow the gas to be exported.
Production at Camisea has since paid over $8 billion in taxes to Peru's government and accounts for 0.8% of GDP growth each year.
Toledo also signed a key trade deal with the United States and helped diversify Peru's export portfolio. Inflation continued to decline as Toledo implemented more privatizations in following the market-reform policies of Fujimori.
While Toledo's economic performance was regarded as positive, his approval ratings sunk to single digits due to high-profile corruption scandals involving people in his administration, labor strikes and even his refusal to recognize a lovechild.
After his presidential term, Toledo returned to the United States to work in academia and public policy. He worked for Stanford, the United Nations and Brookings Institution.
In 2011, Toledo returned to Peru to run for a second term as president. He enjoyed frontrunner status in the late months just before the election, but his support plummeted after he voiced support for abortion, gay marriage and legalizing drugs in this deeply conservative and Catholic society.
Those comments came just as Correo published receipts from Toledo's government showing hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on alcohol. The receipts account for 1,753 bottles of Johnny Walker – almost a bottle per day – in addition to wine and other liquors.
Toledo ultimately won just 15% of the vote, placing fourth behind eventual winner Ollanta Humala, Keiko Fujimori and current President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. But his political future was rendered unviable with his new image as an alcoholic.
Toledo became the butt of a joke and subject of internet memes as a hard partying drunk. Pictures of him in dance clubs and with women often went viral. A few awkward and sometimes bizarre appearances on television or radio cemented the image.
In 2013, Peruvian investigators discovered Toledo's connection to Costa Rica-registered consulting firm Ecoteva, which they suspected was a shell used to launder and repatriate illicit money to Peru. Toledo's image morphed from being an alcoholic to a corrupt alcoholic.
Toledo made his situation worse with inconsistent explanations of how he purchased real estate in Lima's swankiest neighborhoods. In statements to investigators, he said he purchased a $3.8 million home in part with Holocaust reparations paid to his mother-in-law, Eva Fernenburg. El Comercio reports at least six times Toledo contradicted previous statements in regards to the purchase of the home.
Despite his image as a drunk and the suspicion of corruption, Toledo mounted an ill-advised campaign for president in 2016 elections.
"He has no chance in the 2016 elections," Carlos Bruce, a former Cabinet minister in Toledo's government, told RPP at the time. "And about convening a [protest march] because his [corruption] case is being delayed, I would suggest as a dear friend that he not do it because nobody is going to follow him. Nobody will get behind him."
Toledo peaked in the polls at fourth place with 7% of voter intentions a full year before the first round of voting, before most competitive candidates announced their candidacies. He gradually fell to eighth place with just 2% support by January 2016.
And despite two leading candidates being removed from the ballot for electoral violations, Toledo still placed eighth with just 1.3% of the vote. His party, Possible Peru, performed so badly that it lost its legal inscription for not meeting the 5% elections threshold. Carmen Omonte, one of the party's most visible politicians, publicly faulted Toledo before resigning from the party weeks later.
By refusing to withdraw from the ballot as leaders from the Peruvian Nationalist Party and National Solidarity did to avoid losing their inscription, Toledo has effectively run Possible Peru into the ground. The party must now obtain 500,000 signatures as its founder, on the run and facing jail, to earn its inscription.
"The moral damage is immeasurable because Toledo was the first president elected after the fall of the corrupt regime of Alberto Fujimori and Vladimiro Montesinos … and was chosen to be a morally exemplary leader, not only to recover public confidence in the democratic system, but because his humble beginnings and life story served as a model to follow for many Peruvians," Ipsos pollster Alfredo Torres writes in El Comercio.
"Disappointment (24%), indignation (22%), treachery (16%) and anger (8%) are some of the feelings aroused by the steady reports of corruption against somebody who was once the symbol of Peru's indigenous. The inevitable consequence is an increase in a public lack of trust. Today 87% of the population thinks that all or most politicians are corrupt and 60% think all or most Peruvians are corrupt."
Vino, venció y coimeó: un perfil de Alejandro Toledo (El Comercio)
Toledo hizo polémicas declaraciones sobre consumo de drogas y aborto (El Comercio)
Juez ordenó 18 meses de prisión preventiva para Toledo (El Comercio)
Lo bueno y lo malo del primer gobierno de Alejandro Toledo (El Comercio)
PUNTO POR PUNTO: las contradicciones de Alejandro Toledo en el Caso Ecoteva (El Comercio)
Parejas maléficas, por Alfredo Torres (El Comercio)
Facturas que confirman gastos excesivos de Toledo en licores (Correo)
Peru Elections: Toledo the epicurean (Living in Peru)
Second former Peru president faces inquiry before campaign (Reuters)
Elecciones Perú 2011: Análisis de campañas (El Comercio)
Peru's state oil firm looks to grow amid industry chaos
Odebrecht's Peru chief says he gave $3 million to ex-President Humala
Carwash corruption scandal
Ecoteva
If Toledo is indeed innocent, have him voluntarily return to Peru & face his accusers. I doubt the "voluntary" part will ever happen.
Alberto Fujimori to be tried for death-squad killings despite recent pardon
Just two months after being released from prison on a pardon, former Peru President Alberto Fujimori will be going back to trial, according to a Monday decision.…
Police foil assassination plot against Orellana prosecutor
Peruvian police have disrupted a plot to assassinate the prosecutor developing money laundering, racketeering and fraud charges against Rodolfo Orellana. Police…
Peru loses years of public contracts in database crash
Peru's state authority which oversees the government's hiring of contractors has lost almost 800,000 digital files from its server. The Supervising Body of…
Freezing temperatures kill 15 children in southern Peru
Peru's government is rushing to provide relief in the southern state of Puno, where a harsh winter has killed 21 people. After an avalanche buried six miners…
Peru: law prohibits members of Congress from switching parties
Peru's Congress on Thursday passed a law which punishes legislators who resign from the political party they were elected with during their term. Congress passed…


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Feds eye stricter rules for railroad rights of way
FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2011 file photo, Amtrak's Empire Builder rounds a turn near East Glacier Park, Mont. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management says it made a mistake giving active railroads too much discretion on what can ... more >
By KEITH RIDLER - Associated Press - Sunday, August 31, 2014
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Thousands of miles of active railroad tracks in 11 Western states cross public land on 200-foot-wide rights of way granted under an 1875 law intended to encourage westward expansion.
But the U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of the Solicitor determined it made a mistake 15 years ago by allowing too much discretion on what modern-day railroads can build or allow third parties to build on that land.
A proposed water pipeline in California having nothing to do with railroad operations prompted the agency to fix the 1989 error that could also be used to put in oil or natural gas pipelines.
In mid-August, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management issued a memorandum to field offices about the change that requires rights of way work to serve railroad operations only. The agency anticipates that up to 3,500 evaluations will be needed to determine if work done the last decade and a half meets the updated criteria.
"Given the linear nature of these rights of way, we would anticipate applications for comparable uses for such things as pipelines and fiber optics," said Bureau of Land Management spokeswoman Celia Boddington, who is based in Washington, D.C.
It's not clear what might already be in place in the rights of way, said Jennifer Whyte, a realty specialist for the bureau who is also based in Washington, D.C. "We don't' know exactly what's in those because we haven't been involved in any of that because of the 1989 solicitor's opinion," she said.
In a new opinion in 2011, the Solicitor's Office said the 1989 opinion's "interpretation of the 1875 Act is inconsistent with the Act itself." It's also not consistent with U.S. Supreme Court rulings, the 2011 opinion said.
The General Railroad Right-of-Way Act of 1875 replaced earlier rights of way acts that started in the 1850s and followed Congressional policy by providing grants of land from the public domain to spur railroads to build rail lines in the West.
But giving away land to railroads fell out of favor, causing lawmakers to create the more limited 1875 Act that kept the land under federal ownership but still encouraged westward expansion by granting rights of way.
Federal agencies aren't sure how many miles of rights of way remain in use today from the 1875 Act.
One of the rights of way belongs to the Arizona and California Railroad Company. In 2009, federal officials relying on the 1989 opinion determined the company didn't need federal authorization or analysis to put a water pipeline within the rights of way. A third-party company wants to bury the pipeline to move groundwater from under the Mojave Desert to southern California.
Several other railroad companies said they would need to review operations to get a better understanding on whether any of their projects could be affected by the change.
"We are in the process of analyzing the new guidelines now," said Aaron Hunt, a spokesman for Union Pacific Railroad.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe spokesman Gus Melonas said the part of the company that dealt with land issues would have to examine the change before commenting.
Boddington said the next step in the process is for the Bureau of Land Management to enter into the Federal Register, the repository for federal regulations, a notice of the change. "We're drafting the notice right now, which will likely be published next year after internal review," she said.
Once published, Boddington said, railroad companies will have 180 days to provide information to the Bureau of Land Management. If the work falls outside of normal railroad operations, the bureau will work with the railroads and third parties to determine what additional authorization, if any, is needed.
"It's all going to be on an individual, case-by-case evaluation and determination," Whyte said.


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Q: User_timing google analytics data not showing on analytics dashboard even if successfully fired from website I am working with angular and using the navigation_start and end events in app.component.ts to measure the timiing and then firing a simple page_view and timing event.Both data are sended to analytics as seen in network tab.Code is as follow:
app.component.ts
import { AuthService } from './core/services/auth.service';
import { Component, OnInit, Inject } from '@angular/core';
import { Router, NavigationEnd, NavigationStart } from '@angular/router';
import { HttpClient } from '@angular/common/http';
import { filter, map } from 'rxjs/operators';
import { BalakRoutes } from './core/constants/route.constant';
import { TimeTrackingService } from './shared/utils/time-tracking.service';

declare let gtag: Function;
@Component({
  // tslint:disable-next-line
  selector: 'body',
  template: '<router-outlet></router-outlet> <ngx-ui-loader></ngx-ui-loader>'
})
export class AppComponent implements OnInit {
  myAppUrl: string = '';
  private configLoadActionId: number;
  private navigationActionId: number;
  constructor(
    private router: Router,
    private authService: AuthService,
    private timingService: TimeTrackingService
  ) {
    this.myAppUrl = '/';
  }

  ngOnInit() {
    this.router.events.subscribe((evt) => {
      if (!(evt instanceof NavigationEnd)) {
        if (evt instanceof NavigationStart) {
          this.navigationActionId = this.timingService.startTracking(
            'navigation'
          );
        }

        return;
      } else {
        const result = this.timingService.stopTracking(this.navigationActionId);
        gtag('config', 'UA-176408533-1', {
          page_path: evt.urlAfterRedirects
        });
        gtag('event', 'timing_complete', {
          name: 'load',
          event_label: 'load : ' + evt.urlAfterRedirects,
          value: result.elapsed
        });
        window.scrollTo(0, 0);
      }
    });
  }
}

timingService works fine and returns proper values so I am not showing here.

Note: There is no issue that I am not able to see bcoz of some sampling issue.I can't see even after 48 hrs

A: Try to use 'event_category' parameter instead 'name':
gtag('event', <action>, {
  'event_category': <category>,
  'event_label': <label>,
  'value': <value>
});

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gtagjs/events


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NEW YORK, NY (Broadwayworld.com) – Dance/NY and its program partners Gibney and Spaceworks invite you to apply for the Disability. Dance. Artistry. Residency Program, made possible by the generous support of the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs CreateNYC Disability Forward Fund. Through the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation, Dance/NYC will award residences to up to six (6) dance artists with spinal cord injury (SCI) and/or dance ensembles working with artists with SCI.
CLEVELAND, OH (EurekAlert!) – Millions of people worldwide are living with chronic spinal cord injuries, with 250,000 to 500,000 new cases each year – most from vehicle crashes or falls. The most severe spinal cord injuries completely paralyze their victims and more than half impair a person's ability to breathe.
WASHINGTON, DC (EurekAlert) – An investigational brain-computer interface (BCI) can enable people with paralysis to directly operate an off-the-shelf tablet device by thinking about making cursor movements and clicks, according to a study published November 21, 2018 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Paul Nuyujukian, Jose Albites-Sanabria, and Jad Saab from the BrainGate consortium, USA, and colleagues.
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (Rapid Growth Media.com) – For the past 10 years or so, the rest of the state and country has begun taking notice of Grand Rapid's rapidly evolving healthcare ecosystem. By doubling down on home-grown talent and collecting doctors and researchers from across the country and the world, Grand rapids companies, nonprofits, and educational institutions are quickly creating a world-class center for medical knowledge.
PHILADELPHIA, PA (The Inquirer Daily News Philly.com) – Marion Murray, 81, of Wayne, a prominent spinal cord researcher who cofounded the Drexel University College of Medicine Spinal Cord Research Center, died Sunday, Sept 9, following complications of esophageal cancer. Dr. Murray led spinal cord research at Drexel for more than 30 years.
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH (Construction EquipmentGuide.com) – University of Utah Health is undergoing new expansions that will let it better serve the growing population of Utah and better train the next generation of health care professionals. The new buildings will improve science, training and care services to bring world-class health to more patients in Utah and beyond.


In the time of the British regime, the first train was introduced in India; in the year 1837, the Red Hill railway carried the first train which went from Red Hills to Chintadripet, Madras. From that day forward, India has seen many changes in its history of rail transport. The modern day Indians are very much accustomed to metro rails, electric trains and digital ticketing system.
The country is over populated and the huge amount of people needing transport can only be managed by a fully functional railway system.
Every day, more than 22 million passengers travel by the trains in India. According to the statistic report of 2015-2016, the IR has carried over 8 billion passengers. With the total of 119,630 kilometers of railway track, India has the fourth largest railway network in the world. But sheer length of the network is not enough; the trains have to run a staggering distance to meet the need of the people. For this reason, it is not surprising that some of the longest train routes in the world belong to this sub-continent.
We are going to talk about the 5 longest train routes in India according to recent study.
The Vivek express is a railway system in India which operates on various routes and with multiple trains. The train was first launched on the 150th birth anniversary of the famous Indian teacher and philosopher, Swami Vivekananda. The train was named after him.
The route between Dibrugarh and Kanyakumari is the longest stretch of railway track in India. The trip runs a course of 4,233 kilometers and with 55 scheduled stops, it takes four days to finish just one trip. This is caused by the very low speed of 50 kilometers per hour and frequent stops.
The passengers of this train are mostly the common people. The train provides them with cheap transportation; this is why the train cars are always jam packed. This is not a train for sightseers but for serious people with serious jobs.
The tickets are very cheap. They are usually sold at £6.50 and if a reserved cabin is required then it will cost £45.
The Himsagar Express started its journey in the year 1980. It runs through central India and goes from the southernmost region of Tamil Nadu to the northernmost state of Jammu Tawi. The journey covers the distance of 3709 kilometers in total; it holds the title of the second longest train route in India.
Sometimes the train is taken for a train of pilgrims. The last stoppage of the train at one end is the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra in Jammu and Kashmir. People from all over the country take this train to visit this holy shrine.
The train takes about 72 hours to make one trip. The journey has 67 scheduled stops along the way. The average speed of this train is 52 kilometers per hour. The fastest speed is achieved near Kila Raipur; 108 kilometers per hour and the slowest speeds on the Hazrat Nizamuddin to New Delhi; 24 kilometers per hour. It takes about three hours to clear the Delhi area. This train journey might be very enjoyable to the pilgrims but to the common passengers, it is very time consuming.
The train runs weekly, it starts from Kanyakumari every Friday at 2'o clock in the afternoon and returns at Kanyakumari on Thursday at 9'o clock in the evening.
This train is another weekly train of Indian railway. The train runs between Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu to Katra, Jammu and Kashmir. The journey covers a distance of 3631 kilometers in total, which marks the third position in our list of 5 longest train routes in India.
The long trip has 62 scheduled stops. For the high frequency of stops, the trip takes about 71 hours. Presently the train has two service days; Monday and Friday.
The name of the train has two part; Nav, means new and Yug, means era. The train has literally brought a new era for the rural people. The northernmost region of Jammu and Kashmir has always been deprived of proper transportation and connectivity with the rest of the country. The train has drastically changed the demographic picture. The Navyug Express, alongside others, has successfully established good communication facility for the poor.
This train runs weekly and passes through fifteen states of India at a time. The journey takes 68 hours from start to finish.
The Guwahati express connects the capitals of two major cities of India. The train goes from Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala to Guwahati, the capital of Assam. The train connects the east end of the country to the west end.
Like other long distance trains, this one also runs on a weekly basis. The winding trip through seven states of India takes about 65 hours to finish.
The list of longest train routes in India ends here but there are many more train routes under construction to meet ever increasing demand for reliable transportation. But, if someone is looking for a trip to experience the exquisite natural beauty of India, the long distance train like these will not satisfy him/her. The country has several luxurious train journeys for the elite class but the long and tiresome trains are for the rural people of India. The true beauty of a country which is always on the move can be experienced here. The unquenchable thirst for a better life is reflected upon the never ending railway routes of the sub-continent.


In episode 11, we're back with Dr. Thomas DiPasquale. In part 2, we talk specifically about the Wellspan York Hospital Orthopedic Surgery Residency philosophy and curriculum as well as veering off into one of my favorite topics, taking time to stop and smell the roses. Dr. DiPasquale also gives two versions of advice for medical students, including how to develop your "X factor." This was recorded last season but these tips will be relevant for a long time to come. We pick up where we left off last time. As a veteran of starting trauma fellowships, Dr. Tommy D tells the story of starting his first residency.
Our new interns reminisce about their application year and tell us how they approached away rotations and interviews. Lots of practical and actionable stuff in this episode!
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What not to say during an interview.


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Selling the big lie
Aided by a compliant media, the Obama administration and Pentagon officials are trying to spin a new crop of lies about the necessity of war to "liberate" the Afghan people.
AS MORE revelations about the brutality and barbarism of the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan emerge, the Obama administration and the Pentagon are countering the truth with more lies--and a shameful public relations offensive aimed at passing off endless war as "liberation."
Meanwhile, the voices of ordinary Afghans--and the toll of the U.S. war on their lives--are being ignored by politicians and the media alike.
The release of nearly 92,000 classified documents relating to the war by the WikiLeaks Web site has helped expose the facts about the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan.
For one thing, they reveal the extent to which Washington's war, now the longest ever fought by the U.S., has done what seemed impossible a few years ago--rehabilitate the image of the Taliban, the country's formerly despised ex-rulers. The WikiLeaks documents also reveal the terrible impact on ordinary Afghans--subjected to indiscriminate bombings, massacres by U.S. soldiers, and rampant corruption by U.S.-installed stooges.
But the Obama administration and the military is responding to these facts with lies.
First, they claimed that the documents didn't matter because they only covered the period up to December 2009--before Obama's "surge" strategy went into effect. Then, the line was that the WikiLeaks information was "old news" that didn't reveal anything new about the war.
When it became clear that those explanations were falling on deaf ears, the White House and Pentagon escalated. They now accuse those who leaked the documents of endangering the lives of both U.S. military personnel and Afghan civilians who may have worked with coalition forces. "The truth is [those who leaked the information] might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family," said Adm. Michael Mullen, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
In other words, accuse the messenger of murder.
France24, Aug. 1, 2010: Malalai Joya, a leading Afghan activist for women's rights and politican who featured among Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in 2010, spoke out against what she calls the manipulation of public opinion over the plight of Afghan women: There is no doubt that the Taliban are misogynist barbarians but the US can be a good match for them for the war crimes that it has committed in these nine years, killing around 8,000 civilians in their military operations.
Salon.com's Glenn Greenwald wasn't alone in pointing out that the WikiLeak documents weren't responsible for putting Afghans at risk, but rather "ten years of bombings, air raids, checkpoint shootings [and] drones." Add to that the Obama administration's green light to a new surge of combat forces and stepped-up "targeted assassinations."
The people with blood on their hands are the U.S. military and the politicians who continue to support and fund the war--and their cheerleaders in the mainstream media.
Just how craven has the media response been? On the Washington Post Web site, former Bush administration speechwriter and torture proponent Marc Thiessen called--literally--for war on WikiLeaks founder Julien Assange.
"Assange is a non-U.S. citizen operating outside the territory of the United States," Thiessen claimed. "This means the government has a wide range of options for dealing with him. It can employ not only law enforcement but also intelligence and military assets to bring Assange to justice and put his criminal syndicate out of business."
Thiessen went on to argue that the U.S. has the legal authority to kidnap "Assange or his co-conspirators anywhere in the world," even if such a kidnapping violates international law.
This begs the question: Does Thiessen think the U.S. ought to use Predator drones against Assange? Or perhaps a Navy SEALS assassination team?
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FOR THOSE who aren't convinced that Julian Assange is responsible for all war-related deaths in Afghanistan, the political-media establishment is sending another message--that the leakers are obstructing the U.S. from all the good it's doing in Afghanistan.
Time magazine made the point starkly on the cover of this week's edition--it features a photo of a young Afghan woman named Aisha whose nose and ears were cut off by her Taliban husband after she ran away from him. "What happens if we leave Afghanistan?" reads the headline.
There's something unspeakably cynical about Time's use of such a heart-wrenching image in a calculated attempt to gloss over the cold facts revealed by WikiLeaks and others about the violence and devastation that the U.S. occupation is inflicting in Afghanistan.
In fact, the young woman pictured on the Time cover was mutilated not in the "long ago" days of Taliban rule, but last year, when tens of thousands of U.S. "liberators" were occupying her country.
The U.S. has failed utterly to marginalize the Taliban since they were toppled at the end of 2001--on the contrary, support for the Taliban has only grown with the crisis of the occupation. What's more, the U.S.-backed regime in Kabul is dependent on support from warlords whose behavior toward women is every bit as savage as the Taliban, as even U.S. officials admit in their honest moments.
But all this seems to have escaped the U.S. media. On her first show as the new host of ABC's This Week, for example, Christiane Amanpour thrust the Time cover at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and demanded: "Look, Time magazine, this week, has this as its cover--a girl whose had her nose and ears cut off by the Taliban. You know, to put it right down to its basics, is America going to abandon the women of Afghanistan, the people of Afghanistan again?"
Pelosi responded: "Well, first of all, we're in Afghanistan because it's in our strategic national interests to be so, for our own national security, to stop terrorism, to increase global security. The women of Afghanistan have been a priority for many of the women in Congress--and men, too, but the women have taken a special interest."
It's true. The women of Afghanistan have been a "priority"--every time U.S. leaders need a rationale for staying in Afghanistan or a claim of what the war has accomplished to counter the overwhelming evidence of destruction suffered by ordinary Afghans.
But it is a false claim. Women in Afghanistan have not been liberated--on the contrary, they continue to suffer terrible oppression at the hands of the U.S.-backed regime and its warlord allies.
In fact, Pelosi's first sentence contained the truth of why the Obama administration remains committed to staying in Afghanistan--because it's "in our strategic national interest."
Time isn't alone in having suddenly "rediscovered" the question of women's rights at a moment of crisis for the occupation. It was a favorite topic for the right-wing, anti-women Bush administration in the early days of the war, and it has been a popular excuse for liberals to climb on the pro-war bandwagon.
And the same goes, apparently, for the CIA. As Luncinda Marshall of the Feminist Peace Network pointed out, one of the WikiLeaks documents is a CIA memo citing flagging support for the war among NATO allies, including Germany and France--and it includes a section titled "Appeals by President Obama and Afghan Women Might Gain Traction."
The memo states: "Afghan women could serve as ideal messengers in humanizing the [International Security Assistance Force] role in combating the Taliban because of women's ability to speak personally and credibly about their experiences under the Taliban, their aspirations for the future, and their fears of a Taliban victory."
As Marshall writes, "Whether it is possible that Time published this piece as a concerted part of a government public relations effort is not clear, and I'm not suggesting that it was, although it should certainly be investigated. But what is clear is that such a campaign exists with callous disregard of the human rights of Afghan women or respect for a free press."
FOR MORE than a century, every imperial conquest carried out by the U.S. has been cloaked in more noble and palatable terms. Political leaders talk about "justice" and "liberty" and "democracy," rather than the truth--conquest, colonization and exploitation.
The victims of the American empire don't have any difficulties seeing through the rhetoric. Like Samia, a 26-year-old woman who participated in a demonstration of hundreds of Afghans on August 1 in Kabul. The protesters directed their anger at both the Taliban and the U.S. In particular, they were demonstrating about a deadly traffic accident in late July involving an SUV driven by DynCorp International contractors that killed four Afghans.
As Samia told the Washington Post:
Many times, NATO troops and these cars have killed our innocent people. They never care whether we are Afghans or animals. We want NATO troops and American troops to leave Afghanistan. Even with their huge army, they couldn't do anything in the past 10 years. And in the future, they won't be able to do anything. The result will be just death and casualties, and our innocent Afghan women and children will die.
Samia is right. The U.S. war on Afghanistan won't bring "liberation"--not to women or anyone else--because it is fundamentally about ensuring and expanding U.S. power in the region, not delivering democracy to people who are seen as expendable by U.S. rulers.
As Malalai Joya, a former member of the Afghan parliament who was thrown out for challenging the U.S.-backed regime, said in a speech in New York City last year:
From the sky, the bombs of the occupation forces are falling, killing civilians. And on the ground, there is the Taliban, and also these warlords. So we have three kinds of enemies. But the withdrawal of one enemy--these U.S. occupation forces whose government sends them for war, and that also support the corrupt mafia system of Hamid Karzai with more money and guys--will make it much easier to fight the enemies that are left...
No nation can bring liberation to another nation. These are nations that can liberate themselves. The nations that pose themselves as liberators to others will lead them into slavery. What we have experienced in Afghanistan and in Iraq proves this point.
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27.03.2010: NATO Tries to Silence a Truth-Teller in Afghanistan After Killing Pregnant Women
25.03.2010: A Guantanamo Bay in Afghanistan?
25.03.2010: AFGHANISTAN: Human rights under pressure
25.03.2010: NATO mortar shell kills a couple and injures woman and children in Khost
14.03.2010: Nato 'covered up' botched night raid in Afghanistan that killed five
04.03.2010: Afghan survivors describe NATO helicopter assault
24.02.2010: UN: 346 Afghan children killed in 2009, more than half by NATO
23.02.2010: Afghans call for Nato to leave after airstrike kills 27 civilians
A new study by World Justice Project (WJP) illustrates Afghanistan is the second-worst country in rule of law after Venezuela topped the list of 102 countries ranked in the report.
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said the sea resort town of Digha is being developed as both a tourist destination and an industry hub to make it comparable to similar places in the country.
Speaking at an administrative meeting here in East Midnapore district, Banerjee called upon the local authorities to make it clean, decorated and attractive to tourists both from the country and abroad.
Growth of industry would spread from the port town of Haldia to Digha making the entire region more attractive and ideal for investment and tourism, she said.
The state has received investment proposals around Digha, around 100 km from business destination Haldia, and the initiatives would create more employments, Banerjee said.
"We have already received investment worth Rs 17,000 crore in this region. Proposals of nearly Rs 9,000 crore are also in the pipeline," the chief minister said.
Realising the growing importance of this beach town, she said her government has been developing an international standard convention centre, which would be commissioned by February 2019.
"Apart from trade and investment, investors can also utilise the privileges of this tourist destination giving a boost to both trade and tourism," Banerjee said.
The chief minister also asked Transport Minister and MLA of the district Suvendu Adhikari to organise an industry conclave at Haldia, which would help in giving a shape to plans for development in the entire area.
The chief minister said a small Jagannath temple in the area could be developed as a tourist site.
She also asked the district officials to identify more sites to be develop as tourist destinations and not to allow construction of hotels and shops in an unplanned manner.
On the plea of the local hoteliers' association, the chief minister asked nationalised banks to provide currency exchange facilities for the help of foreign tourists.
She also asked the local administration to make the town clean and green and set up a waste management programme in the area.


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Study: Science knowledge shifted along religious, political affiliations
November 26, 2018 · 3 min read
by Deann Gayman | University Communication and Marketing
The public's trust in, perception and understanding of science seems to be eroding, according to popular media and some recent studies, but little is known about what may be driving that change.
Sociology researchers at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln published research in the Sociological Quarterly that examined how science knowledge and curiosity are associated with both religious beliefs and political ideologies. They found neither religiosity nor political affiliation was related to overall scientific curiosity, but differences were found when looking at scientific knowledge.
Researchers culled data from 2011, 2014 and 2015 Nebraska Annual Social Indicators Surveys, which had asked questions relating to such topics as evolution, disease, microbes, vaccinations, science identity and scientific curiosity, among others.
Joseph Jochman, lead author of the paper and doctoral candidate in sociology, said the most salient effects of religious affiliation were found regarding scientific knowledge.
"In line with past studies, we found certain science knowledge questions have strong religious associations," Jochman said. "People of conservative Protestant faiths tend to answer questions such as humans and apes share a common ancestor or death is a part of the biology of life with less accuracy than people who identify as mainline Protestant, Catholic or other religious faiths or no religion."
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Luke Novack, a senior majoring in biology and sociology, and Joseph Jochman, a doctoral candidate in sociology, break down the findings in their latest research, published in the Sociological Quarterly.
Political affiliation associations with scientific knowledge were split on specific topics. For example, liberals in Nebraska were more than four times as likely to answer accurately how vaccinations work than conservatives, but those with other political ideologies were less likely to answer accurately that a vaccine helps rather than harms.
On the flip side, conservatives were more likely to answer accurately that disease can result from interactions between genes and environment.
"The results show a very complicated picture, but that's understandable because science is many different facets," Jochman said. "As do religion or politics."
Julia McQuillan, professor of sociology and co-author of the paper, said the results demonstrate that science has been politicized.
"Scientists hope that science is apolitical," she said. "But we take in and code information based on our perspectives – including political ideology and religious beliefs."
McQuillan said the communicating scientific knowledge to the public is increasingly important, but that this research demonstrates the need for scientists to be aware of predispositions and biases in the audiences with whom they are communicating.
"People do have these filters and if we want to share evidence-based information, we need to pay attention to those filters, often based in religion and politics," she said.
The study was also authored by Alexis Swendener, a recent doctorate in sociology, and Luke Novack, a senior majoring in sociology and biology.
Researcher profile: Joseph Jochman
Researcher profile: Julia McQuillan
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Someone knew someone — yeah — that's how it works. But in all fairness, that salesperson had to dig out with that someone what he or she wanted, and then show that s/he could deliver it better than alternatives.
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Advantages of C-Level Selling Sales Training.
Disadvantages of C-Level Selling Sales Training.
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Is it worth it? Perception of worth ties to the results. What are more sales worth? Can you really get them with current skill levels? If cost is stuck in your throat, tie the training costs to results. However, most will tell you it's not the material, it's the implementation of what was learned. This is why coaching, managing, and accountability training is critical. Did you learn to swim by jumping in the pool one or two times, or where you coached.
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