IBM THINK — About 20 percent of the world's data is searchable. The other 80 percent of data is owned by businesses — customer data, underwriting data, financials and so on. Because of that fact, many can win —not just a few companies. Data is everyone's opportunity.
IBM is "trying to make the world of business work smarter" at its Think conference this week in Las Vegas. Almost 40,000 attendees are in Sin City for the event.
This is what happens, at a unique moment in time, about every 25 years, when both business and technology architecture change at the same time. It has the potential to change everything. Think about AI, machine learning and Watson, the era of man and machine.
Per IBM research, it's worth about $2 trillion if we could make better decisions. But how to get there?
Start with a platform. Rometty noted that companies will use a lot of platforms — their digital intelligence. Many of these will be other companies' platforms, such as Salesforce.
Throw in some learning to get cognitive processes. Processes ripe today for AI are human resources (HR), customer service, risk and compliance, and knowledge workers.
Go on the offensive and empower people.
"We've done lots of studies, and man and machine always get a better answer than man alone or machine alone," Rometty said.
While platforms, intelligent processes and empowering people will be an inflection-point business, it will also be an inflection point for society.
Addressing data and the potential it has to be the greatest opportunity of our time is easy. More difficult is that it also has the potential to be the greatest concern.
"We all have to work on data trust and responsibility, jobs and skills, and inclusion," Rometty said.
It is bringing mainframe-level data protection to the IBM Cloud, with the IBM Cloud Hyper Protect family. IBM Cloud Hyper Protect family includes four services: Protect Crypto Services; IBM Cloud Hyper Protect DBaaS; IBM Cloud Hyper Protect Containers; and IBM Cloud Hyper Protect Developer Starter Kits.
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IBM Watson is joining forces with Apple Core ML, the smartphone giant's machine-learning framework. The combination will result in the next level of apps for the mobile enterprise, such as getting real-time insights, the ability to analyze images, classify visual content and train models using Watson.
Also new is Watson Data Kits, designed to accelerate the development of AI applications. The kits will provide companies across vertical industries with pre-enriched, machine-readable, industry-specific data that can help them scale AI across their businesses. Watson Data Kits will serve vertical industries beginning with travel, transportation and food beginning in the second quarter.
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Q: .net mvc select list handle on selected item event I am quite new to this net mvc thing. to understand what I am trying to do I will put an example.
Example
I have a list of clients that contains data and in my view I used a <select> with a foreach that goes through all the clients to show the data. What I am trying to do is, when a user selects a client name he would be redirected to another page where that page would get the client name as a parameter & do stuff with that.
I tried this but I am stuck in a part
<select>
    @foreach (var item in Model.clients)
    {
        <option>
            @Html.Encode(item.name)
        </option>
    }
</select>

I know how to redirect from page A to page B like this RedirectToAction(...)  what I want to do is handle that select action to call the method in my controller & use that method to send a parameter to page B

UPDATE
<script type="text/javascript">
    function Fct() {
        var v = arguments[0]; //get The ID in the parameter
        window.location.href = "@Url.Action("Index", "PageB")?client_id=" + v;
    }
</script>

I tried both lists and the one proposed by @Shyui is easier but i wanted to try something with this one
<select id="clients_list" onchange="Fct(this.value)">
    <option class="placeholder" selected disabled value="-1">Select Name</option> <!-- Can't be selected -->
    @foreach (var item in Model.clients)
    {
        <option value="@item.ID">
            @Html.Encode(item.name)
        </option>
    }
    <option value="0">New Client</option>
</select>

A: Listen to the change event of the dropdown, get the selected option and redirect the user to the next action.
<select id="Clients">
    @foreach (var item in Model.clients)
    {
       <option value="@item.name">@Html.Encode(item.name)</option>
    }
</select>

Here is the javascript(using jQuery) to handle the change event
$(function(){
   $("#Clients").change(function(){
     var v=$(this).val();
     window.location.href="@Url.Action("Details","Clients")?clientName="+v;
   });
});

I am using the Url.Action helper method to generate the correct relative path to the action method. This will work if your code is inside a razor view. But if it is inside an external js file, try the solution explained in this answer.
Assuming your Details action method in ClientsController accepts a client name
public ActionResult Details(string clientName)
{
  // to do : Return something
}

You might also consider using the html helper methods like Html.DropdownList to generate the dropdown element instead of doing a foreach.
@Html.DropDownList("Clients",new SelectList(Model.clients, "name", "name"))

Also you might consider passing the unique client Id(numeric) instead of the client name. There are limitations of query string value length in some browsers.

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It's the middle of Zero Waste Week, and we're very excited to introduce you to a new brand at Babipur; the fabulous Bee Bee Wraps.
They are made from organic cotton which means they're breathable, so they'll keep your food fresh for longer. These are a great alternative to single use plastic cling film, and are a great reusable for your kitchen.
They come in a variety of sizes to suit your needs and 2 beautiful bright prints. The multi pack is a brilliant option if you've not used them before, and we also think it would make a lovely eco gift.
They are really easy to use, the warmth from your hands is all that is needed to create a breathable seal. With simple hand washing in cold water and a gentle soap the wraps should last you for over a year. You can even "recharge" with an iron if you need to.
They cannot be used in microwaves and they are not to be used with raw meat and fish.
The wraps are made in right here in the UK and packaged in fully recyclable cardboard pouches. They really are the perfect zero waste swap.


The second in a two-part series on email newsletters. Read the first article, The best email marketing service for authors.
The most important thing about writing a newsletter is ensuring that your content is relevant to the people you're targeting.
If you answer these questions BEFORE you write your newsletter, you'll find people opening your emails.
Even better, you can design an email newsletter template that ensures you tackle these questions before you send them off to your subscribers.
The template we use abidemi.tv has subscriber profiles and insightful metadata to ensure our newsletter remains relevant and on-target to our subscribers, and profitable for the business (you can order your own here).
You're an author, so it's more than likely than your subscribers are fans of your work. I know some people will be uncomfortable with this, but readers like to engage on a personal level with authors. But you don't have to overshare. You could send what are called 'Seinfeld' emails, which are based on the show that's famously about nothing.
For an author, Seinfeld emails could be about your writing process, what you're working on, or even, a day in the life of a part-time author (you'll be surprised by just how many people find this fascinating).
And if you're working on a book you can make those Seinfeld emails work for you by asking your subscribers to pre-order it.
If anything, it will incentivise you to finish the book (nothing like paying customers to keep you on your toes).
They might be a pain to plan in the beginning, but your life will be so much easier when it's done. That way, you know exactly what you're writing in every newsletter.
Ideally, your content schedule should cover everything from your blog posts and social media, to your email newsletter.
Every piece of content (videos, blogs, emails, social media) that we produce goes into that schedule.
(By the way, this is just a 1/3 of the schedule. The full screen version is pretty detailed, because it needs to be for our needs).
The great thing about such a schedule is that it's a live document, so we can adapt it as necessary, so it's totally flexible.
You could also save time and energy by killing two birds with one stone. Set up a blog-to-email service via your email newsletter provider, and they'll get your blog posts in your subscribers' inbox every time you update your blog.
In most cases, they'll get an excerpt in their inbox with a link back to your website, so you effectively kill two birds with one stone: traffic to your website and content for your newsletter.
Find out what's trending on the news and social media, give your own take on this, and boom, you're done.
This also helps to reveal more of the person behind the 'author'.
One of the things I like to do is ask questions from my subscribers and answer those questions in my newsletter.
Chances are that, if someone asks you a question, others have probably wondered the same thing.
Rather, steer your subscribers towards questions that will help you create better email content, or even, help you build a credible author business.
For example, you could ask if they would be interested in paid, 'exclusive' author events and what activities would make these events memorable and worth their while.
For those who don't know what clickbait is, it's subject lines like; "You won't believe what this woman did to get people to respond to her emails", and then people open the email, only to close it down and report you to your email service provider for sending spam to their inbox, three seconds later.
The result? A warning from your provider, and in a worse case scenario, suspension or deletion of your account.
It sounds extreme, but you have to remember that your email provider also runs a business, and it's in their interest to keep their reputation intact. The last thing they want is to be reported to their regulator for supporting and enabling spammers.
So, that's the lecture over. Back to clickable subject lines.
human e.g., Has this ever happened to you?
personal, by using personalisation tags. Most email providers provide short codes for this, eg, *FNAME* or %FIRSTNAME%, which is replaced with the subscriber's first name when it's sent out.
Sometimes offered as a premium service by some email newsletter providers, it's a great way to find out the type of subject headings respond to.
Essentially, you send out your email with different subject headers to a certain number of people (or percentage of subscribers) on your list.
After a short testing period (usually 24 hours), the email with the subject header that gets the most clicks is then sent to the rest of your list.
This is great for one-off emails, but might be a bit tricky to pull off if you're doing blog-to-emails, in which case, I would advise you to go through your email reports. They should show you the deliverability rate for each email newsletter you send and the percentage of people that click through to open it.
The reports should also give you a sense of the type of subject headings that people like; these are the emails that they open.
It is more than likely that your subscribers will be reading your newsletter on their smartphone, so they'll be scanning your email.
Make it easy for them to read by using short paragraphs and sentences. Remember, nobody has the time or inclination to wade through 4-line deep sentence, even if the writer is Shakespeare.
8. How often should I send my newsletter?
The answer: it's entirely up to you. Consistency, not frequency, is what matters. If all you can manage is a monthly newsletter, then start with that, before moving on to bi-weekly or weekly sends.
A newsletter is a great way to keep in touch with your readers and also build your author platform. Hopefully, these tips have given you lots of ideas on what to write and how to keep your subscribers engaged.
Get the same email newsletter template we use at abidemi.tv.
Its email metadata helps to keep our newsletters focused and relevant to our target audience, and the business profitable. And it can do the same for you.


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Toptable Group Appoints Lynn Gervais as Communications Director
Vancouver, B.C. (November 21st, 2013) – Lynn Gervais commenced her role as communications director for Toptable Group on November 15th. In her new capacity, she oversees the media relations strategy, social media activities, e-marketing initiatives, advertising, collateral and website content, community programs, and brand messaging for the hospitality group and it's four elegant, yet approachable, restaurants in Vancouver and Whistler: Araxi, CinCin, Blue Water Cafe and West, as well as the chocolaterie, pâtisserie and café, Thierry.
"I am thrilled to have Lynn leading our communications team," stated Jack Evrensel, Toptable Group proprietor. "Her wealth of experience, both locally and internationally, will ensure our restaurants remain positioned at the forefront of the evolving culinary landscape as we continue our pursuit of excellence."
Lynn was most recently the director of public relations for The Ritz-Carlton Abu Dhabi, Grand Canal where she oversaw media relations, marketing, advertising, and social media for the opening of the 57-acre waterfront resort, including 10 restaurants, in the United Arab Emirates capital. Prior to this, she was in the same capacity at The Ritz-Carlton, Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), a property that she joined in 2010 as part of the opening team.
Before moving to the UAE, Ms Gervais successfully managed the media relations department at The Fairmont Chateau Whistler, particularly during the 2010 Olympics and Paralympic Winter Games. Prior to that, she worked in a regional role overseeing the public relations functions of five Fairmont properties in Vancouver.
Ms Gervais, who began her public relations career in the Canadian Rockies, holds a Business Management Diploma from Grant MacEwan University. She is an avid yoga enthusiast and loves all adrenalin sports from snowboarding to skydiving.
Lynn Gervais
lynn@toptable.ca
April Penney
april@toptable.ca


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Having truble with the charging port. at first i would move it around and it would charge but now it stop. i looked around to see if i find any videos on this but haven't found any. Please Help!
tioiggy, here is my answer from a similar question "You will of course have to totally disassemble the iPod. The dock connector is solder onto the board. You will have to do lots of soldering. You will have to un-solder two anchors and about 30 connections, they are very small and close to each other. So you have to take extra care not to shorten the pins out. After that you will have to resolder all those connections and the two anchors. Not an easy task, unless you are used to soldering small pieces. This video will give you an idea what you are up against. Hope this helps, good luck.


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Home / HEADLINES / INDIA / Farmer's daughter Anjali Verma tops UP class 10 board exams, wants to become an engineer
Farmer's daughter Anjali Verma tops UP class 10 board exams, wants to become an engineer
The Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad (UPMSP)/Board of High School and Intermediate Education Uttar Pradesh (BHSIEUP) on Sunday declared the results of class 10 UP board examination. The topper of the year is Anjali Verma, who secured 578 out of 600 marks in the exams.
Reacting to the exam results, Anjali Verma said that she was very happy to top the exam, adding that she was always confident of scoring good marks. Daughter of a farmer, Anjali Verma said that she wants to become an engineer.
I am very happy to top the exam. I was confident of scoring good marks. Our school teachers helped us to prepare well. I want to become an engineer. My father is farmer who has always supported me: Anjali Verma, Class 10th topper (UP Board) pic.twitter.com/8ezYSxtJX9
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) April 29, 2018
"I am very happy to top the exam. I was confident of scoring good marks. Our school teachers helped us to prepare well. I want to become an engineer. My father is farmer who has always supported me," she told news agency ANI.
Another top ranker, Utkarsh who hails from Kanpur, said that he wants to become an IAS officer. Utkarsh, who secured sixth rank, said, "I am really happy that I have secured 6th rank in UP Board 10th exams. My father is a teacher at a government school. I want to become an IAS officer."
I am really happy that I have secured 6th rank in UP Board 10th exams. My father is a teacher at a government school. I want to become an IAS officer: Utkarsh from Kanpur pic.twitter.com/QNJCUe7DFv
Yashasvi has bagged the number 2 spot with 94.50 per cent marks. Yashaswi is a student of BMIC Fatehpur. The third spot on the chart is shared by Vinay Kumar Verma from Sitapur and Sunny Verma from Gonda. Both the third position holders secured the 94.17 per cent marks.
Over 37 lakh students had appeared for the class 10 matric examination conducted by the Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad (UPMSP)/Board of High School and Intermediate Education Uttar Pradesh (BHSIEUP). The board results were declared on its official website upmsp.edu.in and upresults.nic.in at 1 pm on Sunday.
Congratulating the students, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said: "I am really happy that such a good result has come. I want to congratulate everyone who has passed in these examinations. This time all the exams were held without any complaints of cheating coming from anywhere."
The UP 10th board matric examinations were held from February 6, 2018 to February 22, 2018. Over 37 lakh students took the examination. At present, there are more than 22,000 secondary schools recognised by the UP Board of High School and Intermediate Education. Thousands of students had either failed to appear for the examination or dropped out midway after the BHSIEUP strict checking to stop cheating and impersonation.
The results for class 12th UP Board exams was also declared on Sunday where girls outperformed boys. With a pass percentage of 78.81, girls did better than the boys who scored a pass percentage of 72.27 per cent. "Rajneesh Shukla and Akash Maurya topped with 466 marks each," Board of High School and Intermediate Education Uttar Pradesh official Awadh Naresh Sharma said after the results were announced.
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Too soon to celebrate
The odds of a momentous agreement have shortened, but it is no dead cert
Middle East and AfricaApr 11th 2015 edition
IT IS not yet a done deal. Hardliners on both sides will do their best to sabotage it in the coming weeks. Yet the odds on Iran and six world powers striking a big nuclear deal have shortened dramatically. The announcement on April 2nd of the parameters for an agreement to limit Iran's nuclear programme (claimed by the Iranians to be peaceful), in exchange for lifting sanctions, was more detailed than expected. But several unresolved issues mean there will be much hard negotiating to be done if a deal is to be signed by the June 30th deadline.
Still, experts who had previously been sceptical about the prospect of an agreement think it is within reach. They include Gary Samore, Barack Obama's senior adviser on arms control for four years (now at the Belfer Centre at Harvard University), and Mark Fitzpatrick, a former State Department official (currently at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London). France's foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, who had rejected an earlier version cooked up by the Americans and the Iranians (he was easily the toughest of the negotiators at the recent Lausanne talks), describes the accord as "an important first step, even very important".
So far the reaction from the Arab world's Sunni powers has been measured, even welcoming, including from Saudi Arabia, Iran's rival for regional hegemony. Even the Israeli government is now talking about how to make the deal better rather than merely denouncing it—the default position of the prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu—although the improvements it demands would still destroy the talks.
True, the level of detail in the "fact sheet" about the deal's parameters that was released by the State Department has not been matched by Iranian statements. But then nor has it, in the main, been contradicted. On the crucial issues to do with curbing Iran's ability to produce fissile material for bomb-making, the differences are more spin than substance. The Americans note the constraints: the removal and mothballing of centrifuges from Natanz; the transformation of the Fordow enrichment facility into a research centre; the conversion or export of Iran's low-enriched uranium stockpile; and the destruction of the core of the plutonium-producing reactor at Arak. The Iranians, in turn, insist that nothing has been surrendered. "None of the nuclear facilities or related activities will be stopped, shut down, or suspended," says an Iranian summary. Elsewhere, though, the divisions are real enough.
On the lifting of sanctions imposed in response to Iran's nuclear programme—which have halved Iran's export earnings (even before the fall in oil price) and crippled the economy in other ways—the Iranians have done pretty well, albeit not as well as they claim. America's initial position had been that sanctions would come off only in stages, and would depend on Iran establishing a record of strict compliance. It now seems likely that American and European sanctions will be suspended at roughly the same time, not least because extraterritorial provisions in the American measures would otherwise expose European firms to lawsuits.
The Iranians say that "at the same time as the start of Iran's nuclear-related implementation work, all of the sanctions will be annulled on a single specified day". In other words, all sanctions would go within days of the signing of the final agreement. By contrast, America and its European co-negotiators (France, Britain and Germany) are insisting that sanctions will only be suspended after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) "has verified that Iran has taken all of its key nuclear-related steps"—ie, at the end of the first stage of implementation, not at the beginning. Lifting sanctions could take between six months and a year, according to John Kerry, America's secretary of state.
A further disagreement is over reimposing sanctions should Iran violate the terms of the accord. The Iranians bridle at the mention of it, but the principle of sanctions "snapback" is key for the West and is reflected in the careful wording of the undertakings. The EU will "terminate the implementation" of nuclear-related sanctions; America will cease their "application". While Iran can rejoice that sanctions have gone, the reality is that their architecture will remain in place. The UN sanctions are less painful in economic terms (they deal mainly with arms and technology transfers, and target individual people and firms), but trickier politically. Once lifted through a new Security Council resolution they may be well-nigh impossible to slap back on unless the Iranian violation is both severe and flagrant enough even for Russia to refrain from using its veto.
An interactive guide to the Middle East's tangled conflicts
Lastly, some of the (mainly American) sanctions on Iran have nothing to do with its nuclear activities, but have accumulated over the past four decades in response to abuses of human rights, the promotion of terrorism and the country's threatening missile programme. If ordinary Iranians think that all these will disappear too, they are in for a disappointment.
On inspection arrangements, the Iranian fact-sheet is silent, beyond the commitment voluntarily to implement the "additional protocol" of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty's system of safeguards. Yet for the agreement to be credible, Iran must be willing to go even further and allow international inspectors to visit any sites deemed "suspicious", while answering the many questions the agency has asked about past and possibly continuing research on nuclear weapons.
Disagreements over verification give opponents of the deal on both sides their best chance of undermining it. If leaders of Iran's Revolutionary Guard block access to some military sites, or if there is a refusal to engage with the IAEA on the "possible military dimensions" of the programme, Mr Obama might lose the votes he needs to head off critics in Congress who want the right both to review the deal and to introduce new sanctions should agreement on all issues not be reached by the deadline of June 30th. A lot has gone right, but there is plenty that could still go wrong.
This article appeared in the Middle East and Africa section of the print edition under the headline "Too soon to celebrate"
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From the Newsroom: Our readers weigh in on 'Clark Asks'
By	Craig Brown, Columbian Editor
Published: October 13, 2018, 6:00am
Craig Brown is The Columbian's editor. Contact him at 360-735-4514 or craig.brown@columbian.com Photo
Did you see our story this week on the "zombie" apartment complex near Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center that has been under construction for several years, yet has never been completed? What happened, and will the apartments ever be finished?
It was what we call a "Clark Asks" story, which is our name for reader-suggested stories that we are curating and reporting with the help of a software product called Hearken.
We've been using Hearken, with our "Clark Asks" branding, since June 2017. The goal of the project is to better connect us with our readers, and to prompt you to ask questions and suggest stories that will be of interest to a lot of people, yet somehow never seem to end up in print. We've answered more than a dozen questions so far.
A lot of the questions have tended to be about history, including our first-ever Clark Asks story, which explained how Mill Plain, Fourth Plain and the other plains got their names.
Before the apartments story, our previous Clark Asks offering was Katy Sword's Oct. 3 Neighbors piece about the salmon story that plays at the glockenspiel in the Esther Short Park clock tower. Our next story, we hope, will be about a large partially finished yacht that has sat, apparently abandoned, in a storage yard at the Columbia Business Center for decades. (This is turning out to be a tough subject. If you know anything about it, please email reporter Calley Hair, calley.hair@columbian.com.)
The stories start with reader suggestions, which you can submit via a link on our home page, www.columbian.com. Look for it in the "must clicks" banner toward the top of the page.
Our web editor, Amy Libby, collects the questions. She throws out the specious ones, like "Why are all politicians corrupt?" and puts together a list of questions that appears to be the kind we can answer. The next step is to submit them to readers for a vote. We print the list in the paper, but the voting takes place online. To boost reader interest in voting, we try to have a voting round occur at the same time a Clark Asks story appears.
This week, readers are being asked to decide if we should answer a question about new pavement markings at some pedestrian crossings, or a question about why Clark County doesn't use red-light cameras, or a question about whether people find native artifacts in their yard, and, if so, what happens to them. If you want to vote, the polls are open on our Clark Asks page for a few more days.
After the poll closes, we'll assign the top vote-getting question to the beat reporter. Transportation reporter Dameon Pesanti will likely get the pedestrian crossing or red-light stories, and neighborhoods reporter Adam Littman probably will get the story about the artifacts. We hope that they'll find an interesting story.
That's what happened to Anthony Macuk, our newest reporter. One of his first assignments was to find out what was holding up construction of that apartment complex, which is called the 134th Street Lofts. It turns out that a dispute had erupted between the project manager and the investor that landed in court. As a result, nothing has happened at the site for several months. Apparently the dispute has been at least somewhat resolved; an attorney for the investor told Macuk that construction was going to resume this week.
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U.S. News ranks Georgia Tech graduate programs among the best
The Georgia Institute of Technology's graduate programs were once again among the highest ranked in the nation by U.S. News and World Report.
The publication released its annual graduate school rankings for 2020 on March 12, 2019, and Georgia Tech continues to be ranked in the top 10 for the College of Engineering and each of its specialties.
The College of Engineering ranked No. 7 (No. 3 among public universities), and all 11 of the programs within the college are ranked in the top 10 for the seventh year in a row, including:
Industrial Engineering (No. 1)
Biomedical and Bioengineering (No. 3)
Civil Engineering (No. 3)
Aerospace Engineering (No. 4)
Environmental Engineering (No. 4)
Computer Engineering (No. 5)
Mechanical Engineering (No. 5)
Electrical Engineering (No. 6)
Chemical Engineering (No. 7)
Materials Engineering (No. 7)
Nuclear Engineering (No. 9)
The Scheller College of Business was ranked No. 29 overall, and its part-time MBA moved up eight positions to No. 17. Scheller was also ranked in the following specialties: Production/Operations (No. 7), Supply Chain/Logistics (No. 11, up six positions), and Information Systems (No. 8, up four positions).
In the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, the Public Policy program moved up four to No. 39 overall with the Information and Technology Management specialty at No. 2, the Environmental Policy and Management specialty up one to No. 11, and Public Policy Analysis at No. 20.
Not all disciplines are ranked annually. Computer science (No. 8), chemistry (No. 20), mathematics (No. 26), physics (No. 28), earth sciences (No. 38), and biology (No. 54) were ranked in 2018.
Source: https://www.news.gatech.edu/2019/03/12/us-news-ranks-georgia-tech-graduate-programs-among-best
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Honey, we're home! And it feels so odd to be back in England. It's really damn cold, for one. And it's pretty damn festive absolutely everywhere except our home. After three weeks away in Asia, everything British feels a bit strange and oddly comforting. I think I'm still jetlagged and I've definitely picked up some sort of bug on the way home because I've been drinking Lemsip on tap all day.
I'm not even sure where to begin with this update post.
I didn't take many photos whilst we were away – in fact, I didn't even take my DSLR! This was the first holiday that I've done sans cameras since starting this blog and it felt pretty good to be disconnected and to remove the unspoken pressure of 'creating content' out of downtime. Truth be told, I was pretty damn burnt out right before we flew. Running a business and launching a new one is actually pretty exhausting! Who would've thunk it? So, yeah, I've a few post ideas lined up with holiday photos but they won't be of the quality that I usually share.
Just in case you hadn't heard, I've opened my own shop! The newest venture in my business is my baby Honey + Chai and I've been totally blown away by your support so far. The shop has been more than a year in the making and it's been the toughest yet most worthwhile thing I've ever done. I've got big plans for H+C but for now, please do take a little time to visit our website, browse our collections and have a little shop, it'd mean the absolute world to me.
On my flight to Bali, I spent a little time outlining plans for my blog next year. I've always maintained that my blog is sadly not my job but I'm determined to put even more time and energy into this space in 2017 and to finally get back onto YouTube! I pretty much stagnated on all of my channels after my Granny sadly passed away but I think I'm ready to get back into things at full force. I've pencilled in some exciting new content and series ideas for both my blog and channel, but please do let me know if there are things you've always wanted to see me do or that you'd like me to bring back.
Well! That's me done for a little blog-admin update on here! Normal service will resume this week with plenty of travel posts, festive ideas and a handful of other things. My gosh, it's kinda good to be back.


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ANA Asks Feds To Declare Nurse Shortage a National Crisis
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The American Nurses Association (ANA), representing the interests of the nation's 4.2 million nurses, urges the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to declare the current and unsustainable nurse staffing shortage facing our country a national crisis. In a letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, ANA calls for the Administration to acknowledge and take concrete action to address the current crisis-level nurse staffing shortage that puts nurses' ability to care for patients in jeopardy.
"The nation's health care delivery systems are overwhelmed, and nurses are tired and frustrated as this persistent pandemic rages on with no end in sight. Nurses alone cannot solve this longstanding issue and it is not our burden to carry," said ANA President Ernest Grant, PhD, RN, FAAN. "If we truly value the immeasurable contributions of the nursing workforce, then it is imperative that HHS utilize all available authorities to address this issue."
ANA calls on the Administration to deploy these policy solutions to address the dire nurse staffing shortage crisis. HHS must:
Convene stakeholders to identify short- and long-term solutions to staffing challenges to face the demand of the COVID-19 pandemic response, ensure the nation's health care delivery system is best equipped to provide quality care for patients, and prepared for the future challenges.
Work with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on methodologies and approaches to promote payment equity for nursing services and remove unnecessary regulatory barriers to APRN practice.
Educate the nation on the importance of the COVID-19 vaccine to provide resources for widespread administration of the COVID-19 vaccine and any subsequent boosters.
Sustain a nursing workforce that meets current and future staffing demands to ensure access to care for patients and prioritize the mental health of nurses and other health professionals.
Provide additional resources including recruitment and retention incentives that will attract students to the nursing profession and retain skilled nurses to the demands of patient care.
"ANA stands ready to work with HHS and other stakeholders on a whole of government approach to ensure we have a strong nursing workforce today and in the future," said Dr. Grant. "Our nation must have a robust nursing workforce at peak health and wellness to administer COVID-19 vaccines, educate communities, and provide safe patient care for millions of Americans. We cannot be a healthy nation until we commit to address underlying, chronic nursing workforce challenges that have persisted for decades."
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"We are working hard on the redistributable, but we do not have a timeframe to communicate at this point."
It was also announced that Windows Installer 3.1 will be part of the Windows Server 2003 SP1 release and one of its features will be the Intel x64 and AMD64 support.
Thanks for the info. Stefan. Good to know even if the release date is still vague at this point.


Add to the excitement of the races by getting a head start with your Punchestown Festival betting! With a total prize fund at just over €2.5 million euros and 11 National Hunt Grade 1 races, the 2009 Punchestown Festival will be attracting the best horses from Ireland and the UK – as well as some top French horses.
2007 saw record Punchestown Festival betting, with a turnover of almost €18 million. Total bookmaker turnover was up by 11% and tote turnover went up by 7%. The 2008 festival also saw record attendance – a total of 106,000 spectators turned out to watch the races over five days. With another five days of top-class racing scheduled for 2009, organisers are expecting even bigger betting and bigger crowds.
The 2009 National Hunt Festival at Punchestown is due to run from Tuesday, 28 April to Sunday, 2 May. Chief among the draws of the festival will be the Kerrygold Champion Chase on Tuesday, the Punchestown Guinness Gold Cup on Wednesday, the Champion Stayers' Hurdle on Thursday and the ACC Bank Champion Hurdle on Friday.
Excellent horse racing betting odds may be tempting, but it's also a good idea to keep a few other factors in mind when placing bets.
Previous Punchestown Festival winners know the Punchestown Racecourse and have proved they have what it takes to stay the course and come out ahead. 2008 winners of the Punchestown Festival feature races were Neptune Collonges, Blazing Bailey, Twist Magic and Punjabi.
Because the Punchestown Festival occurs in April – right at the end of the National Hunt season and just two weeks after the Irish Grand National – you can base your bets on the performance of horses at other top racing events. Any horse with a winning streak at the Irish Grand National, Cheltenham and Aintree is an obvious horseracing betting choice.
For a win with the best-paying odds, look for potential champion horses that underperform in races prior to the one on which you plan to bet.
Recent good form doesn't always indicate a likely position or win. Some horses may do better at particular distances or on certain courses – and of course, a surprise is always possible!
When focusing on Punchestown Festival betting, look out for horses with top Punchestown jockeys, as well as top Punchestown trainers. With the best jockeys and trainers go the top-notch horses and the best chances of a win.


Which is more important the technology or the customer?
The one thing about the online world you can be sure of is change. It seems like every day there is a new technology being added which will make the internet more accessible. As online marketers, we strive to keep up with all these trends and incorporate them into our marketing arsenals.
Going back to when the internet started, it was a bit of a nerdy place to be, with lots of people communicating in text only. Some savvy individuals saw how this growing community could be exploited and used to advertise their wares, and with all the hyperlinking joining them to other sites they could be easily found.
Then the world wide web evolved from the basic internet adding pictures and multimedia and eventually adding videos too, and it became even more useful to marketing. Added in with email which made it possible to reach a large audience at low cost the web became irresistable to businesses.
Each step forward brings with it even more opportunities for us online entrepreneurs to get our messages seen.
But as it marches on into new technologies are we all missing the point somewhat?
We all need our ads to be seen, but often we seem to be spending more time wrestling with new technology than actually working. Everyone is jumping on the blogging bandwagon at the moment and offering xml and rss feeds to get their messages out.
Flash video, along with audio, and video streams is also being used extensively, and often unneccessarily to market products.
But even more alarming is the reliance some people are placing on this new technology, to the point of abandoning traditional email and websites.
Let me relate this recent story which actually happened.
I received a newsletter which I read regularly, and like many others the owner was having problems with getting his email newsletter through spam filters. Like many newsletter publishers he had decided to publish his newsletter as a webpage. He started sending out regular emails when the newsletter was available, and including the link to read it. All ok so far.
It was shortly afterwards I received an update from this newsletter telling me that it would no longer be available as a web page, but would now be an rss feed only. And telling me if I wanted to carry on reading I should download some software to do so.
Your subscribers can only read your newsletter if they download some extra software and learn how to use it?
I emailed the owner to point out that I thought it was a bad idea. You want your subscribers to stick with you, make it easy for them, the reply I got was that I should join the 21st century, if I wanted to read his newsletter he would tell me how I should do it.
No I don't want to read it that bad thanks anyway.
So before you go running headlong into the latest technological marvels of the internet, think about what your customers need. Do they have the latest greatest browser to view your latest greatest multimedia masterpiece? Will they need to download some extra software just to view your newsletter?
Subscribers are humans too you know, and as humans they are fickle creatures. They will stick with you while the goings good and easy but make them work to stay with your newsletter and you're history as there are plenty more good newsletters they can get free.
Flashy animations, and new technology can be impressive, but put your customers first, and use the technology only if it helps them.


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BBC announces its 2019 plans
The BBC has today announced details of its coverage for Glastonbury 2019.
Whether at home or out and about, viewers and listeners will be able to watch Glastonbury coverage on BBC iPlayer and listen on BBC Sounds. Audiences can also personalise their Glastonbury experience more than ever before as BBC Music presents the very best of the Festival across TV, radio, BBC Sounds, BBC iPlayer and online – from headline shows on the Pyramid Stage to emerging artists on the BBC Music Introducing stage.
For the first time ever, BBC Sounds will be the ultimate destination for audio from the Festival this year, as listeners will be able to access all broadcasts on BBC Radio Glastonbury, at the touch of a single button.
From Thursday 26 June until Monday 1 July, BBC Sounds will be home to BBC Radio Glastonbury. Listeners can simply select BBC Radio Glastonbury on BBC Sounds to hear live programmes from Radio 1, 1Xtra, Radio 2, 5 live and 6 Music on site at Worthy Farm, as well as live performances, iconic archive content and special Glastonbury editions of BBC Sounds music mixes. Music fans can download the BBC Sounds app to listen to BBC Radio Glastonbury.
On air, BBC One, BBC Two and BBC Four will broadcast over 30 hours of coverage this year. BBC One will broadcast from Worthy Farm on Sunday, bringing viewers Kylie Minogue's performance in the Festival's famous legends slot. BBC Two will be broadcasting headline sets from Stormzy, The Killers and The Cure and there will be highlights and live coverage from key sets across the weekend on BBC Four. Radio 1, Radio 1Xtra, Radio 2, Radio 5 live and 6 Music will also be live from Worthy Farm, with broadcasts available on BBC Sounds, bringing listeners a mix of interviews with the biggest stars at Glastonbury this year, live shows, headline sets and backstage moments.
Over 100 performances from across the main stages at Glastonbury will be available on BBC iPlayer. Audiences can join the action live, or whenever they like, throughout the weekend and beyond.
The BBC's TV and radio coverage of the festival will be brought to audiences at home by some of the BBC's best-loved presenters. Annie Mac, Clara Amfo, DJ Target, Edith Bowman, Gemma Cairney, Huw Stephens, Jack Saunders, James Ballardie, Jo Whiley, Laura Whitmore, Lauren Laverne, Mark Radcliffe, Sir Spyro, Steve Lamacq, Yasser and Zoe Ball and more will be broadcasting from Worthy Farm, guiding viewers and listeners through the highlights from all six stages at the Festival.
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Last night, Turner Classic Movies (TCM) had an hour documentary about the 1950's sci-fi movies.
One of the partcipants was Steven Spielberg. Included in the show were clips from both the 1953 and 2005 War of the Worlds.
Spielberg touched on a few issues of his WOTW and I was suprised to learn that the aliens coming out of the ground was his tribute to Invaders from Mars. He said that this movie really scared him when he saw it in Winslow, Arizona when he was a kid.
He also stated that if his film would have been made before 9/11, he would have made it somewhat differently.
Ops - I forgot to mention the name of the show.
It was entitled "Watch the Skies" - taken from the original - "The Thing from Another World."
I'd love to see that docu.


Most expectant parents look forward to being able to get a glimpse of their baby inside the womb at the ultrasound appointment. These allow the doctors to check on the baby's health and growth as well as provide opportunities to see the young one through a screen. You can't expect to see the baby do much though, their often idle and motionless.
TV host Jimmy Kimmel wanted to give his Aunt Chippy a surprise when she went with her daughter Micki to see her grandson in the first ever sonogram she has even seen. Micki is expectant very soon and it made perfect send to set up a light hearted prank on Aunt Chippy, organised by the rest of the family.
Jimmy and the rest of the crew came up with some fake footage of a sonogram that shows a baby doing unusual and outrageous gestures and acts and it took Aunt Chippy quite some time to realize it was all fake.
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As far as I know, there's no way out of this problem, else I would like to do it myself; but it is simply the British way of printing I suppose.
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Submitted "The Castle of Adventure"
I noticed that the database wanted to leave out the "the"
bet I could have missed that in "The Island of Adventure"
but all these in the series should have the article.
anyhow the book's ready, so thanks and enjoy.


Tracy Chapman's first album, also known as the "Debut Album" was released on April 5, 1988 and published by Elektra Records.
The Album won the Best Contemporary Folk Album Grammy Awards and the Rock Album 1988 SKC Boston Music Awards.
The Single "Fast Car" won the Best Female Pop Vocal Performance Grammy Awards.
The Single "Talkin'Bout A Revolution" won the Top song 1988 SKC Boston Music Awards.
Tracy Chapman won the Best New Artist Annual Grammy Awards.
This album is dedicated to Aneta.
Thanks to my Mother, Rev. Tate, Jackie Green, Mark Fisher, Brian Koppleman, Charles Koppleman, Bob Krasnow, and everyone at SBK and Elektra.
Produced by David Kershenbaum for SBK Record Productions Inc.
This album was made for the right reasons," says David Kershenbaum, who produced Tracy Chapman's debut album.
"There was a set of ideas that we wanted to communicate, and we felt if we were truthful and loyal to those ideas, then people would pick up on the emotion and the lyrical content that was there." The stark realism of Chapman's songwriting, combined with her warm, richly textured vocals, brought a refreshing integrity to the airwaves.
Koppelman approached Chapman after the performance and said, "I don't normally do this, but I think my father could help you a lot." (Charles Koppelman, his father, was then co-owner of SBK Publishing, one of the largest independent song publishers in the world.) Chapman listened politely but didn't say much and went on her way.
Undaunted, Koppelman continued attending her shows, sitting in the front row. Although Chapman finally agreed to talk, she declined to cut any demos for him. Then Koppelman found out that Chapman had already recorded some demos at the Tufts radio station, WMFO, for copyright purposes. (In exchange, the station got to broadcast her songs.) Koppelman went to the station, and while a friend distracted the DJ, he lifted one of the tapes. It had one song, "Talkin' Bout a Revolution," on it. He made a copy and took it to his father. "He immediately got the picture and flew up to see her," Koppelman says.
Tracy Chapman was recorded over an eight-week period at Powertrax, Kershenbaum's Hollywood studio. As many as thirty different bass players and drummers were invited to come in to play with her. "Mountains o' Things" was the hardest track to cut. "Tracy was so used to just singing and playing that when she got into the slight rhythm changes a band might add, it was somewhat disorienting for her," Kershenbaum says. "We had [percussionist]Paulinho Da Costa in one day, and we tried it with just Tracy and him." That wound up being the version used, with other instruments added later. In a similar way, "Behind the Wall" was recorded a cappella — and left as is.
The album opens with "Talkin' Bout a Revolution," which is "a good introduction to who she is and what she's saying," says Kershenbaum. The running order of the other ten songs on Tracy Chapman was determined by writing song titles out on three-by-five cards and shuffling them around in different sequences.


To find out more information about a particular nightclub just click on a logo below. Drink prices in Benidorm nightclubs are more expensive than the bars. Most of the clubs provide top class entertainment this therefore reflects in the drink prices. Probably about the same price as a nightclub in the UK.
Normally there is no entrance fee unless they are putting something really special on.
Benidorm is host to some of the best entertainers in the world and if you don't like a particular act just go next door or a few yards up the road to see something different.
Please remember some people make a special journey to see an act, if your not happy, just leave quietly and let others enjoy.


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Neil Young Is Coming! This Is His Best Album Ever
Kai Flanders February 24, 2014
[Editor's Note: Neil Young just announced three shows at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, March 29 and 30, April 1, and April 2. Tickets go on-sale today at 10 am. To celebrate, as part of our Best Album Ever series, critic Kai Flanders talks about his favorite Neil Young album.]
When we were good and drunk, we would put Neil Young's American Stars 'n Bars on the record player.
It was the fall of 2011 and I was living with two of my best friends in a dilapidated cottage with a huge ranch-style yard in the middle of Los Angeles. Most of the place was outside – the doors of my bedroom opened out to a big gravel-covered yard full of overgrown trees and beer cans shot to pieces by our pellet gun. The landlady was an elderly German woman who used to be an avant-garde filmmaker in Berlin. To retain the place she kept the "services" of a wet-eyed, weather-faced old man with a long gray beard, whose idea of maintenance was to aimlessly wander around our orange-less orange tree.
The only reason my friends (let's call them Jack and Nick) and I could afford the place, which we affectionately deemed "The Ranch," was that it hung directly over the 101 freeway and there was always a steady drone of cars going by. We would sit and get piss drunk on whatever was cheap and pretend the sound was a river. After a couple months of living at The Ranch there was a nearly equal mix of broken beer-bottle glass and gravel in our yard.
Often, the melancholy waltz of American Stars 'n Bars would soundtrack our drinking sessions. Stars is Young's eighth studio album, which came out in 1977 on the heels of Zuma and the Ditch Trilogy. Upon its release Rolling Stone declared, "Right now … it would be just about impossible to overrate Neil Young." The storied guitar work on "Like A Hurricane" is balanced by the earnest yearning of "Hey Babe."
The album's cover art is last call imagined with glass floor: an up-skirt shot of a woman holding a handle of Canadian Whiskey above an obliterated Young. His eyes are barely open, capturing those brutal last moments of consciousness before passing out. It was like looking into an aquarium displaying the state I was in.
It's a lovelorn album – on the album's opener "Old Country Waltz" you enter a kingdom of booze soaked self-pity. (You can hear the entire album below.) Each of the three of us living at The Ranch was lovelorn in his own way. Nick had recently split with a beautiful drummer who immediately moved on to dating a woman. Her new girlfriend had a terrific haircut. Jack had been in that endlessly frustrating up in the air period with a girl for months. As Young remarks on "Saddle Up the Palomino": It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down.
I was in a floundering relationship, which has since drowned. Daytimes Jack and Nick would get up and go to work, but I – when I was bored or lonely – would start drinking. I didn't really have to go to work: I had this incredible gig that required little more than updating a couple of social media pages. Every time a check came in the mail, I would stare down at it in disbelief, astonished someone was paying me for what I wasn't doing.
I wore out the needle on American Stars 'n Bars on those drinking days. John Rockwell of the New York Times said Young was engaging in "hermetic self-indulgence" during this period, and I was doing my best to recreate that. What actually happened was that I entered a sustained period complete non-movement, spinning my wheels to no good end.
In the winter of that year, Jack and I heard about this town called Williston, North Dakota, that was knee-deep in a massive oil boom. We loaded up my Toyota Highlander with cigarettes, cameras, and Coors and headed north. The only CDs we brought were American Stars 'n Bars and a Townes Van Zandt compilation that turned out to be too scratched to play. So all through Utah and Idaho all we had was Neil.
Williston was a strange and disconcerting place. Men with high-school educations were making six-figures working on rigs – the girls working the strip-clubs the righeads frequented took those paychecks right out of their pockets. The town's small government was trying to deal with the influx of population, crime, violence and, ironically, unemployment that the boom had brought. I was supposed to research a novel while I was there, but spent the majority of my time getting drunk at bowling alleys.
On the way back to Los Angeles, driving through Montana, Jack and I hit a snowstorm. As a powerful flurry rocked the car, Young's voice rang out from the car's stereo: That perfect feeling when time just slips/ Away between us and our foggy trip. It was at this moment I realized I needed some force of change in my life. I was losing time, and fast.
After 65 years of hard living, Young got sober in 2011. Since The Ranch days, I've moved to New York City, I've begun a master's degree, and drink a fraction of what I did in 2011. I remember those times with a foggy fondness, but am glad they are finished. Movement, progress, whatever you want to call it, is crucial in life – you can only romance the gutter for so long before you wake up in one. But when you're in it, all you can really hope for is a record that helps get you through it.
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Kamala Harris To Travel To Germany As Ukraine-Russia Tensions Continue To Escalate
Vice President Kamala Harris will head to Germany next week to meet with U. S. allies and partners as tensions between Russia and Ukraine continue to build.
The White House confirmed the trip, which will occur from Feb. 18-20, on Wednesday. Harris will attend the Munich Security Conference and plans to deliver a speech during the event, an administration official told Reuters.
"Building on the Biden-Harris Administration's intensive engagement with European allies and partners, the Vice President's engagements in Munich will demonstrate our ironclad commitment to our NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization] Allies, reaffirm our shared interest in upholding the principles that have underpinned European peace and security since World War II, and underscore our commitment to Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity," White House deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh said in a statement detailing Harris' trip.
While the vice president does not plan to meet with Russian or Chinese leaders, the heads of Germany, the EU and NATO will attend the conference, according to Reuters.
Harris's upcoming trip will be a big test following a series of missteps throughout her time in … (Read more)


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DCIA Message to the Workforce: New Chief Operating Officer
It is with great pleasure that Vaughn and I would like to announce that we have selected Andrew (Andy) Makridis to be CIA's next Chief Operating Officer (COO). Many of you either know Andy or have worked with him during his 32-year CIA career. He has raised his hand countless times for the tough jobs and has always set the highest leadership standards. Andy has a reputation for creating empowered teams that drive the Agency mission forward. We think he is a great addition to our leadership team.
Andy entered on duty in 1986, after spending two summers with CIA as a graduate fellow. He joined the Directorate of Intelligence in 1989, where he served in a number of expert-level analytic roles and management positions. Andy served as an executive assistant for DDCIA John McLaughlin before becoming President George W. Bush's intelligence briefer, a position he held from December 2001 to February 2004. Director John Brennan asked Andy to stand up the Weapons and Counter Proliferation Mission Center and serve as its first Assistant Director (AD).
Andy has a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Buffalo and did his master's work in computer science at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Andy brings a wealth and breadth of experience from across the Agency. He's worked both as an AD and at the Directorate level, and has a deep understanding of how the place works. Those of you who know him know how committed he is to the success of the CIA mission; you also know that he is the ultimate team player. Vaughn and I couldn't be more pleased that Andy has agreed to fill the COO position.
– Gina Haspel, Director, Central Intelligence Agency
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