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Chief Minister Andrew Barr's statement that "the immediate focus should be on making the train faster and not on developing a high speed network" in reference to the future of the Canberra-Sydney rail link ("Canberra fast rail route gaining steam", November 28, p3) is superficially promising but in reality profoundly disappointing. Mr Barr's comment "Let's bring our current 19th century service into the 20th century" shows he is aware that the present rail service is hopelessly outdated, but it should be transformed into the 21st century, not the 20th. Even more disappointing is Mr Barr's comment that the NSW trains, along with "a range of sensible and affordable signalling and track improvements" (such as the tortuous section along the Molonglo Gorge) will in the medium term "help to develop a more favourable environment for the consideration (my emphasis) of high-speed rail". With the road transport connection between Canberra and Sydney becoming ever more congested, emissions from both road and air transport being large and growing problems, NSW, ACT and federal government coffers in healthy states, and interest rates at record lows, now is not the time for "consideration". It is the time for acting. As the Inspector of Correctional Services I wish to address an issue raised in your editorial titled "No pass marks for AMC from inspector" (November 27, p18). The view expressed in the editorial that the report on the Alexander Maconochie Centre demonstrated a level of "cognitive dissonance" between the tone of some sections and the report's actual recommendations and substance is unhelpful. This comment seems to be directed at the report's statement that "the AMC management unit appears to be running well and good practices were observed" and the fact we made 73 recommendations for improvements at the AMC. The management unit is a specific area within the AMC; it is a maximum security unit where detainees on segregation or separation orders reside. The comment was not directed at the overall management on the AMC. On the contrary, a number of recommendations are directed at improving management practices. There is no dissonance between identifying good practice in some areas, and identifying room for improvement in other areas. Where the review notes a number of areas of operational practice that were running well, no recommendations were required. In a review of this magnitude there will always be areas of operations that align with best practice and other areas that do not. As such, in the interests of fairness and completeness, the report highlights both but the recommendations only target areas warranting change or improvement. I am both a Westpac shareholder and customer. Recently I was unfortunate in having one of my credit cards scammed. Attempted use of the card took place in the United States less than four hours after I had last used it in Canberra. Thankfully the bank stopped the transaction as it was "out of character" and I was very grateful. The amount involved was less than $70. I was advised by the bank that scammers initially try to use the card using small transactions to see if they are successful and, if they are, they then proceed to larger amounts. Using this as background criteria, how can more than 23 million alleged transactions, yes, 23 million transactions slip through Westpac's system? Was it staff error, complacency or did the system and protocols fail? Whichever, both the system and protocols are in need of urgent updating as is the board. Shareholders should not have to wear the cost of any fines imposed on the bank and receive less than expected in their dividend payments. To self-funded retirees these expected funds are money to live on and are critical to their financial management. The CEO, the Board and management team all have both a responsibility and accountability to their shareholders, their staff, as well as to their own consciences. I believe they should all be personally and directly responsible for any fines imposed on the bank as they should have put insurance cover in place to cover any such eventualities. These people have been paid the "big bucks" to look after Westpac. They should all be replaced immediately with no payments made in cash or shares pending the results of the independent inquiry. December's AGM should be interesting. I'm rather confused by the proposition put forward by Peter Carden (Letters, November 25) who began by stating that Australia's emissions in a global context are so insignificant as to make any reductions we might make irrelevant. He says we'll still have the same droughts and the same fires. I understand that. But then he proposes that we take a moral stand and cease exporting fossil fuels altogether. Given that this won't reduce global emissions at all, and will even likely increase them as our current customers simply switch to other (and potentially dirtier) coal suppliers, this seems a strange proposal. Those same droughts and fires will continue but apparently Mr Carden thinks we'll all feel so much better about it as we fight those disasters. We'll also have $25 billion less of funds each year to support the firies, farmers and out of work miners. But they'll all be able to take comfort in the fact that although nothing has changed, and those fires and droughts get even worse, that at least we have moral correctness on our side. I'm all for taking action, but can't we at least have solutions that will actually reduce the global impact of change without sacrificing our nation for a pointless gesture which the rest of the world will ignore. The Federal government appears to have been successful in forcing Westpac's chief executive to step down over alleged breaches of money laundering laws. Why couldn't Westpac have told the government to hit the road? In a word: fear. Business can no longer risk taking these cases to trial. Australian political culture has created a third and far more insidious type of property. It is called commercial property. It includes all private and public property used for exchange in a free market. This form of property is subject to a variety of civil, criminal, national security, banking, privacy, employment and discrimination laws. Business must carry out the government's edicts, regulations and laws. The enforcers are not concerned about child exploitation, terrorism, social justice, privacy or victims' rights. Their goal is to increase government revenue and remove capital and property owners' legal rights, replacing them with civil rights which trump all considerations of private property. Our advanced technological age provides opportunities for spying and surveillance that even the most enthusiastic East German intelligence operative could not of dreamed of. We are witnessing the creation of a new class system comprised of the watched (law abiding Australian citizens) and the watchers (government officials and interests connected to the national security state). Tuesday's report (Algae poisoning sparks warning to territory pet owners", November 26, p3) of dog poisoning from the animal swimming in Lake Ginninderra is a salutary reminder of the dangers from toxic blue-green algae in our recreational lakes. These organisms can be poisonous to people as well as to pets. The dog injury showed neurotoxin in the water from a blue-green alga which can mix into the surface waters-causing the green tinge to Lake Ginninderra seen this week. Others prefer warmer water, some form scums which we can expect later in the summer. These form liver poisons, and are possibly carcinogenic. Both groups of blue-green algae depend on nutrients for growth. At the water entry to Lake Ginninderra from Eastern Valley Way the water is black. This shows that it lacks oxygen, which allows phosphorus and ammonia to be released, both stimulating blue-green algal growth. This can be prevented. The aeration of the black water with fountains, cascades, or air diffusers under the pond will prevent nutrient release. Under the road the gross pollution trap feeding this pond needs cleaning. Similar issues occur in Lake Tuggeranong and Lake Burley Griffin due to nutrients flowing into these lakes from creeks and the Molonglo River. We treasure our lakes, let us keep them fit for our use. Will anyone tell us how much of the billions of dollars the Federal government had crowed about claiming back (from Robodebt) will now have to be repaid? Blind Freddy could have told them averaging annual income over fortnightly periods was not only "ill-advised" but would obviously give false figures on which to base so-called debt. It's another government fiasco. How good is that? Not good enough. The PM's contact with the NSW Police Commissioner for a quick chat is only marginally better than calling Brian Houston for clues about how to keep Angus Taylor anointed and cemented in his job ("PM says nothing wrong in calling the cops", canberratimes.com.au, November 28). A few years ago we were told it was necessary to pay vast salaries so we could attract top management talent from overseas. In the years since then I've noticed that many of the disgraced CEOs of banks and telecommunication companies have had American or New Zealand accents. Do we really want to attract such people? Finally, a PM who honours his election promises. They were, in case you've forgotten: climate change inaction and denial; support for coal fired electricity generation and the mocking of alternatives, plus no policy to decarbonise the transport sector. Other pledges included to underfund the NDIS, continue to roll out the dumbed down NBN, no increases for Newstart, the repeal of medevac laws and good old fashioned union bashing. We've got just what we voted for. Better times ahead. Recently I received a call from the tax office. The conversation ranged beyond their immediate issue and into the realm of fantasy jargon. It finished with the comment. "Sir, In 2002 you did not submit a taxation return" My thoughtless response may have included the words. "Send me to jail". I may have been a bit hasty. "Robotax" could be coming for those who have recycled their paperwork. As Christmas approaches Australians should feel safe in the able hands of our leader Scott Morrison. The Victorian Labor government will soon announce its decision on the future of duck shooting in Victoria. The time of allocating a "season" for killing water birds for fun, has passed. Now is the age of ecology and respect. Carpe diem, Dan. Carpe diem. Alex Mattea (Letters, November 25) asks whether there will be a discount on our parking and speeding fines in future, as is expected to be given to Westpac for it's money-laundering offences? Good try, but the difference is the public actually know when they exceed parking or speeding limits, whereas Westpac wouldn't have a clue that they were offending. If, as is apparently the case, it is easy to get drugs into the AMC simply by tossing them over the fence, that clearly indicates that the design and or operation of perimeter security is inadequate. Simple. Email: letters.editor@canberratimes.com.au. Send from the message field, not as an attachment. Fax: 6280 2282. Mail: Letters to the Editor, The Canberra Times, PO Box 7155, Canberra Mail Centre, ACT 2610. Keep your letter to 250 or fewer words. References to Canberra Times reports should include date and page number. Letters may be edited. Provide phone number and full home address (suburb only published). To send a letter via the online form, click or touch here.
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It's time to act on fast rail
Chief Minister Andrew Barr's statement that "the immediate focus should be on making the train faster and not on developing a high speed network" in reference to the future of the Canberra-Sydney rail link ("Canberra fast rail route gaining steam", November 28, p3) is superficially promising but in reality profoundly disappointing.
Mr Barr's comment "Let's bring our current 19th century service into the 20th century" shows he is aware that the present rail service is hopelessly outdated, but it should be transformed into the 21st century, not the 20th.
Chief minister Andrew Barr speaks at the launch of the ACT Infrastructure Plan. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos.
Even more disappointing is Mr Barr's comment that the NSW trains, along with "a range of sensible and affordable signalling and track improvements" (such as the tortuous section along the Molonglo Gorge) will in the medium term "help to develop a more favourable environment for the consideration (my emphasis) of high-speed rail".
With the road transport connection between Canberra and Sydney becoming ever more congested, emissions from both road and air transport being large and growing problems, NSW, ACT and federal government coffers in healthy states, and interest rates at record lows, now is not the time for "consideration". It is the time for acting.
Douglas Mackenzie, Deakin
Comments unhelpful
As the Inspector of Correctional Services I wish to address an issue raised in your editorial titled "No pass marks for AMC from inspector" (November 27, p18).
The view expressed in the editorial that the report on the Alexander Maconochie Centre demonstrated a level of "cognitive dissonance" between the tone of some sections and the report's actual recommendations and substance is unhelpful.
This comment seems to be directed at the report's statement that "the AMC management unit appears to be running well and good practices were observed" and the fact we made 73 recommendations for improvements at the AMC.
The management unit is a specific area within the AMC; it is a maximum security unit where detainees on segregation or separation orders reside.
The comment was not directed at the overall management on the AMC. On the contrary, a number of recommendations are directed at improving management practices. There is no dissonance between identifying good practice in some areas, and identifying room for improvement in other areas.
Where the review notes a number of areas of operational practice that were running well, no recommendations were required.
In a review of this magnitude there will always be areas of operations that align with best practice and other areas that do not. As such, in the interests of fairness and completeness, the report highlights both but the recommendations only target areas warranting change or improvement.
Neil McAllister, ACT
Inspector of Correctional
Services, Canberra
Westpac concerns
I am both a Westpac shareholder and customer.
Recently I was unfortunate in having one of my credit cards scammed. Attempted use of the card took place in the United States less than four hours after I had last used it in Canberra.
Thankfully the bank stopped the transaction as it was "out of character" and I was very grateful.
The amount involved was less than $70. I was advised by the bank that scammers initially try to use the card using small transactions to see if they are successful and, if they are, they then proceed to larger amounts.
Thankfully the bank stopped the transaction as it was "out of character".
Chris Parks, Torrens
Using this as background criteria, how can more than 23 million alleged transactions, yes, 23 million transactions slip through Westpac's system?
Was it staff error, complacency or did the system and protocols fail?
Whichever, both the system and protocols are in need of urgent updating as is the board.
Shareholders should not have to wear the cost of any fines imposed on the bank and receive less than expected in their dividend payments.
To self-funded retirees these expected funds are money to live on and are critical to their financial management.
The CEO, the Board and management team all have both a responsibility and accountability to their shareholders, their staff, as well as to their own consciences.
I believe they should all be personally and directly responsible for any fines imposed on the bank as they should have put insurance cover in place to cover any such eventualities.
These people have been paid the "big bucks" to look after Westpac. They should all be replaced immediately with no payments made in cash or shares pending the results of the independent inquiry.
December's AGM should be interesting.
Mixed up confusion
I'm rather confused by the proposition put forward by Peter Carden (Letters, November 25) who began by stating that Australia's emissions in a global context are so insignificant as to make any reductions we might make irrelevant. He says we'll still have the same droughts and the same fires. I understand that.
But then he proposes that we take a moral stand and cease exporting fossil fuels altogether.
Given that this won't reduce global emissions at all, and will even likely increase them as our current customers simply switch to other (and potentially dirtier) coal suppliers, this seems a strange proposal.
Those same droughts and fires will continue but apparently Mr Carden thinks we'll all feel so much better about it as we fight those disasters.
We'll also have $25 billion less of funds each year to support the firies, farmers and out of work miners. But they'll all be able to take comfort in the fact that although nothing has changed, and those fires and droughts get even worse, that at least we have moral correctness on our side.
I'm all for taking action, but can't we at least have solutions that will actually reduce the global impact of change without sacrificing our nation for a pointless gesture which the rest of the world will ignore.
Kym MacMillan, O'Malley
To what end Josh?
The Federal government appears to have been successful in forcing Westpac's chief executive to step down over alleged breaches of money laundering laws.
Why couldn't Westpac have told the government to hit the road? In a word: fear. Business can no longer risk taking these cases to trial.
Australian political culture has created a third and far more insidious type of property. It is called commercial property. It includes all private and public property used for exchange in a free market.
This form of property is subject to a variety of civil, criminal, national security, banking, privacy, employment and discrimination laws. Business must carry out the government's edicts, regulations and laws.
The enforcers are not concerned about child exploitation, terrorism, social justice, privacy or victims' rights. Their goal is to increase government revenue and remove capital and property owners' legal rights, replacing them with civil rights which trump all considerations of private property.
Our advanced technological age provides opportunities for spying and surveillance that even the most enthusiastic East German intelligence operative could not of dreamed of.
We are witnessing the creation of a new class system comprised of the watched (law abiding Australian citizens) and the watchers (government officials and interests connected to the national security state).
Victor Diskordia, McKellar
A timely warning
Tuesday's report (Algae poisoning sparks warning to territory pet owners", November 26, p3) of dog poisoning from the animal swimming in Lake Ginninderra is a salutary reminder of the dangers from toxic blue-green algae in our recreational lakes.
These organisms can be poisonous to people as well as to pets.
The dog injury showed neurotoxin in the water from a blue-green alga which can mix into the surface waters-causing the green tinge to Lake Ginninderra seen this week.
Others prefer warmer water, some form scums which we can expect later in the summer.
These form liver poisons, and are possibly carcinogenic.
Both groups of blue-green algae depend on nutrients for growth.
At the water entry to Lake Ginninderra from Eastern Valley Way the water is black.
This shows that it lacks oxygen, which allows phosphorus and ammonia to be released, both stimulating blue-green algal growth.
This can be prevented. The aeration of the black water with fountains, cascades, or air diffusers under the pond will prevent nutrient release.
Under the road the gross pollution trap feeding this pond needs cleaning.
Similar issues occur in Lake Tuggeranong and Lake Burley Griffin due to nutrients flowing into these lakes from creeks and the Molonglo River.
We treasure our lakes, let us keep them fit for our use.
Ian Falconer, Aranda
ANSWERS PLEASE
Will anyone tell us how much of the billions of dollars the Federal government had crowed about claiming back (from Robodebt) will now have to be repaid? Blind Freddy could have told them averaging annual income over fortnightly periods was not only "ill-advised" but would obviously give false figures on which to base so-called debt. It's another government fiasco. How good is that? Not good enough.
Peter Dahler, Calwell
NOT APPROPRIATE
The PM's contact with the NSW Police Commissioner for a quick chat is only marginally better than calling Brian Houston for clues about how to keep Angus Taylor anointed and cemented in his job ("PM says nothing wrong in calling the cops", canberratimes.com.au, November 28).
Sue Dyer, Downer
A few years ago we were told it was necessary to pay vast salaries so we could attract top management talent from overseas. In the years since then I've noticed that many of the disgraced CEOs of banks and telecommunication companies have had American or New Zealand accents. Do we really want to attract such people?
John May, Lyneham
HONEST POLITICIAN
Finally, a PM who honours his election promises. They were, in case you've forgotten: climate change inaction and denial; support for coal fired electricity generation and the mocking of alternatives, plus no policy to decarbonise the transport sector. Other pledges included to underfund the NDIS, continue to roll out the dumbed down NBN, no increases for Newstart, the repeal of medevac laws and good old fashioned union bashing. We've got just what we voted for. Better times ahead.
Roger Bollen, Torrens
TAKE HIM AWAY
Recently I received a call from the tax office. The conversation ranged beyond their immediate issue and into the realm of fantasy jargon. It finished with the comment. "Sir, In 2002 you did not submit a taxation return" My thoughtless response may have included the words. "Send me to jail". I may have been a bit hasty. "Robotax" could be coming for those who have recycled their paperwork.
Howard Ubey, Kingston
NO CHRISTMAS BILL
As Christmas approaches Australians should feel safe in the able hands of our leader Scott Morrison.
D Fraser, Currumbin, Qld
END THE BARBARITY
The Victorian Labor government will soon announce its decision on the future of duck shooting in Victoria. The time of allocating a "season" for killing water birds for fun, has passed. Now is the age of ecology and respect. Carpe diem, Dan. Carpe diem.
Lawrence Pope,
Victorian Advocates for Animals,
North Carlton, Victoria
NO CHANCE ALEX
Alex Mattea (Letters, November 25) asks whether there will be a discount on our parking and speeding fines in future, as is expected to be given to Westpac for it's money-laundering offences? Good try, but the difference is the public actually know when they exceed parking or speeding limits, whereas Westpac wouldn't have a clue that they were offending.
Peter Baskett, Murrumbateman, NSW
BETTER FENCES
If, as is apparently the case, it is easy to get drugs into the AMC simply by tossing them over the fence, that clearly indicates that the design and or operation of perimeter security is inadequate. Simple.
Roger Quarterman, Campbell
Email: letters.editor@canberratimes.com.au. Send from the message field, not as an attachment. Fax: 6280 2282. Mail: Letters to the Editor, The Canberra Times, PO Box 7155, Canberra Mail Centre, ACT 2610.
Keep your letter to 250 or fewer words. References to Canberra Times reports should include date and page number. Letters may be edited. Provide phone number and full home address (suburb only published).
To send a letter via the online form, click or touch here.
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Q: Cakephp switch database connection for the entire project How can I switch the database for the entire project like this example:
User 1 uses database test1
User 2 uses database test2
User 3 uses database test3
Like this above... Those ID from User, will come from the default database ( Login page )
PS: Sorry for my bad english, I need some more information, please tell me.

A: Create multiple database configurations in database.php
Let say we have default, test1, test2, test3 configurations.
As you said user data is in default db config and I consider that you are using AUTH COMPONENT for authorization.
Now add following function in AppController

    public function beforeFilter() {
        //call change db config function on user login and pass which config need to use
        if( $this->Auth->loggedIn() ) {
            //user login
            ///Some logic to select db config according login user.
            $dbConfig = "result of logic which return db config name";
            $this->_userSpecificDbConfig($dbConfig);
            }
    }

    private function _userSpecificDbConfig($dbConfig) {
        //get model name
        $model =  $this->name;
        //set db configuration for user
        switch($dbConfig) {
            case 'test1':
                $this->{$model}->useDbConfig = "test1";
                break;
            case 'test2':
                $this->{$model}->useDbConfig = "test2";
                break;
            case 'test3':
                $this->{$model}->useDbConfig = "test3";
                break;
            default:
                $this->{$model}->useDbConfig = "default";
        }
    }

Try this code.

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Tim Mayer of Heddle Media gives the opening keynote to a full house of search marketers at SearchFest 2015.
At the end of every February, hundreds digital marketers from around the United States and the world converge on Portland for SearchFest. This one-day-a-year search marketing extravaganza put on by the good folks at SEMpdx is always jampacked with presentations given by a collection of the digital marketing industry's brightest minds.
2015 marked my fourth consecutive year attending the conference. With my esteemed colleague and fellow Search Engine Marketer, Chris Miller in tow, we set out to pin down this year's overarching themes and bring you the top takeaways, tips and tools.
But first let's look back at the predominant themes that emerged from the last four SearchFests.
2012: #RCS. Wil Reynolds at SEER spanked us all for treating SEO like a beaver-pelt top hat full of 'tricks and spam'…and not the stuff that cartoon rabbits and Hawaiians like to eat, but the stuff that Google likes to spit out.
2014: Content (Freakin') Marketing, people!!! We did all that other hard #RCS stuff, now we have to be writers too?! And what we write has to be worth reading?! Worth sharing?! Sweet mercy. There has to be another way to make customers.
2015: Non-Technical SEO is like a clown passed out on our lawn that we occasionally poke with a stick to see if it'll move. Organic keywords are already dead in the minds of some. Even PPC keywords are slowly being disappeared like Marty in Back to the Future. Of course, SEO isn't really dead, nor was Krusty, but the point being this year was that we're all just marketers now.
…but the ones who do the work too. As Mr. Reynolds put it so eloquently back in 2012, we do the Real Company S***.
So, let's come back to 2015. We're still taking our lumps and learning our lessons – putting it all together – in an industry that changes quicker than my 6-year old's self-imposed dietary restrictions. This is what motivated the Digital Marketing Team at Edge to sit down and identify the broader themes rather than highlight the get-rich-quick tips from this year's conference, and really the state of search engine marketing as a whole.
After all, what makes us rich today can often just be a hole in our pocket tomorrow.
As we swam through our pages of notes looking for possible themes for this year's SearchFest, the one that kept rising to the surface was digital marketers as translators. We translate data into compelling stories. We comb, we scrape, we sift and we sort data to make things easier and to craft solutions for our clients.
In his opening keynote, Tim Mayer said that marketers need to go beyond relevance and use data to promote resonance within their content marketing strategies. If relevance is how we target and match our messaging to find new customers then resonance is how we get our customers to stick around.
Another way of looking at this is from a PPC perspective. Relevance attracts Clickers, while resonance builds a base around Converters, and, as Mayer puts it, "Clickers are not your converters in many cases." So if your strategy focuses on optimizing for Clickers then you're headed in the wrong direction. Use what you know about your audience to anticipate their needs and serve them content that eases their pain points.
The shift towards people-based marketing is liberating to those search marketers who for years mistakenly thought their client was a cold, mother-in-law of an algorithm that either gives them a SERP thumbs up or a SERP thumbs down. In the past we measured devices as if they were people. Nowadays and going forward we are seeing more solutions to track people (individuals) as they move across devices.
This simultaneously creepy and heartwarming development is freeing us digital marketers so that we know longer have to write "SEO Content" that was more machine code than interpersonal communication. We could always craft content that resonated on a personal level, but we had no mandate to do so. Now we are being told (and in some cases reprimanded) by the search engines that this is what we should do. More and more brands will be able to deliver that individualized content to members of their audience.
In a beautiful sort of ironic twist it will likely be through machines and automation that we can achieve and deliver this personalized, human touch within our content marketing.
Imitation is the sincerest form flattery, but don't flatter your competitors by copying their marketing and digital strategies. Your impersonations aren't terribly great and you're kind of embarrassing yourself out there. Even when copying a successful marketing strategy, there is no guarantee that what once worked will work again. Successful marketing is strongly driven by its uniqueness, as soon as that's gone, it loses its power quickly.
You need to trust your own strengths and focus on what makes your business desirable over your competitors. What your business offers is unique and that needs to show through in your marketing. Showcasing your unique strengths and offerings will lead to creating unique marketing and digital strategies.
"I have a hunch" doesn't really cut it these days. When you have an idea for something new, you need to test these ideas before committing 100%. With the myriad of ways to test your ideas in the digital spectrum there is no excuse for not making a reasonable effort to test your marketing hypotheses.
Don't be afraid of coming to a conclusion that your new idea will be unsuccessful. It is not a bad thing for a test to show that an idea wouldn't work. It is much worse to go all in on a new idea that turns out to be unsuccessful knowing you could have saved yourself the trouble by just spending a little time and money in testing.
Remember that perfect is a progress-killing myth. In its place we should foster cultures that are not afraid to experiment in order to get to what's better. Test those big ideas and let the data decide the path forward.
Encourage your team to think big, support them and make them feel comfortable to take risks.
Frances Donegan-Ryan and Anna Hughes from Bing Ads and Microsoft explain why phone calls might just be the highest quality leads out there. Larry Kim from Wordstream went as far as to say that in the future mobile optimization will look more like how well you set up and train your call center staff.
Mobile search is expected to surpass desktop by 2016, if not sooner. There are more smartphone owners on the planet than there are folks who own toothbrushes. The very catchy and minutely terrifying 'Mobilegeddon'. You've heard all the mobile superlatives. Across all verticals the mobile averages 30% of total organic traffic and is rising steadily as desktop trails off.
Yet, more than losing traction in the mobile SERPs, businesses that continue to persist with a desktop-only web presence may find their diminishing relevance to their audience a tougher pill to get down. Effective Mobile and Local SEO strategies mean existing where and when your customers are.
Check your analytics. How much of your organic traffic originates from mobile devices? How many goals does that segment convert each month? What would it mean to your business if you lost just 3%, 5%, 10% of your mobile traffic?
As we reflected on all the information that stood out the most to us this year, we saw that while our titles may change so fast that we can't always agree on what to call ourselves, the essence of what the best of us do doesn't.
We help your customers find you on the web (relevance). We help you keep the customers you have (resonance). And we help to make sure your websites and strategies don't run afoul of search authorities (best practices). We use what we know and what can be measured (data) to help your business be compelling (content).
In a candy-coated nutshell, we are the creators, caretakers and advocates for your digital strategy.
Want to stay relevant in the rapidly changing digital landscape? Get in contact with us and talk with our experts about how we can develop a winning digital strategy for your business.
This article was written with significant contributions from fellow Edger, Chris Miller.


Powerful frontline business support for SMEs and social economy entreprises to help you innovate, grow and prosper.
Le CLD contributes to the realization of structuring economic projects in the region, all within a sustainable development perspective. Its primary developmental axes are: commerce and industry, agro-business, tourism, training and employability, the environment and the community sector.
The COOP Racines (Coopérative de solidarité R.A.C.I.N.E.S. – Ressource d'Accompagnement Coopérative d'Intégration à l'Environnement Social) has a two-part mission: The first is the accompaniment of local youth so as to promote social integration by way of work opportunities and internships. The second is the operation of an agribusiness enterprise which provide work for its worker-members, while bringing together people and enterprises who share similar economic, social or cultural interests, in allowing the organization to achieve its objectives.
Sale of second hand clothing and household articles, social and occupational integration program, as well as workplace learning programs. Follow us on our Facebook page!
Support for developers, independent of the GRTSO, in the development and implementation of cooperative or non-profit housing.
The one and only Farmers' Market in the Haut-Saint-Laurent – visit our website to see our activities.
Offers multiple services to businesses and associations (monthly activities, business training workshops, and information sessions).
Offers social housing to individuals facing specific problems in order to help them stabilize their situation and improve their living conditions. We also rent our community hall and our meeting room at low cost to the community and community-based organizations.


'sir_a_ris' wrote:"This is Mr. Roger. I met him over Christmas break one morning on my way to work when he fell over and could not get up. After helping him up he talked for me while I waited for my bus. See, the thing about Mr. Roger is that he's homeless at age 69, has a pacemaker, and no family. He's been homeless for about 4 years. Despite his homelessness, while we were sitting he offered me food and some water as thanks. Never has a homeless person actually offered me anything.


Unbelievable! I just wrote my title « Hot trend and cream blushes" together; 2 months ago, somebody would have asked me what was the beauty product that I hated the most and it probably would have been : CREAM BLUSHES !!!
The last time I really tried them, it must have been 10 years ago, and it looked so greasy, so patchy … I looked like a cartoon caractere for Pete sake. What have change you'll ask me? Well for one, the formulas are not the same at all and I discovered a 4$CND brush from e.l.f. that change everything for me … I'm now obsess, yes OBSESS !!!
♥ I used to apply cream blushes with my fingers and let's face it, it looked very patchy and uneven.
One day, I bought the small e.l.f. staple brush and there it was: the end of my misery with the infamous cream blushes. Just a little dipping in the product and you swirl it over your cream foundation (I don't think it would look nice over powder foundation – powder with powder and cream with cream- !!!)…. As a rule of thumbs, it's better to build the intensity you want by adding some more product, a little goes such a long way! I swear, it does make my face glow like crazy (I told you I'm obsess)!!! I definitely play with them even by adding powder blush on top, for an added pizzazz!
I've been cursed by my Stila Convertible Color dual lip and cheek cream in peony; what a fabulous product. It's not oily nor sticky… It's perfect! The only problem is that I now need every single shades in the collection!!!
I've never ever been disappointed by any Becca product that I have used and their cream blush (mine in Terracotta) is no different; it's the most buttery cream blush I have tried. Simply Amazing!!!
I have their multiple in South Beach and this one too is stunning. The formula is unbelievable since it dries almost instantly like a powder.
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i love cream blushes, i definitely should pick out that elf stippling brush!
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Q: TypeError: '<' not supported between instances of 'int' and 'list' in numpy intersect1d I want to apply intersect between two list,phone & phone_office.So I wrote following code
phone=df_final_naFill.iloc[0,4]
type(phone) # List
s=pd.Series(phone)
type(s) #pandas.core.series.Series
a=pd.Series(s.apply(pd.Series).stack().astype(int).groupby(level=0).apply(list))
phone_office=df_final_naFill.iloc[0,6]
# type(phone_office) #List
h=pd.Series(phone_office)
phone_comb=np.intersect1d(a,h)

But after running the code, I'm getting following error message
  File "<ipython-input-206-3512341621de>", line 1, in <module>
    phone_comb=np.intersect1d(a,h)

  File "C:\ProgramData\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\numpy\lib\arraysetops.py", line 337, in intersect1d
    aux.sort()

TypeError: '<' not supported between instances of 'int' and 'list'

The first 5 rows of phone looks like
0    [735015372, 72151508105, 7217511580, 721150431...
1                                                   []
2    [735152771, 7351515043, 7115380870, 7115427...
3    [7111332015, 73140214, 737443075, 7110815115...
4    [718218718, 718221342, 73551401, 71811507...

my h looks like
      1541291
      1011248
      1015925
      1013535
      1093131
      1125310
      1154955
      1158590
      1103552
      1121881

and a looks like
[92972897]
[92020181]
[92038083]
[92083771]
[92611383]
[93290963]
[93262309]
[92966917]
[93181110]
[93396990]
[93186911]
[92011329]

although type of a & h are showing as pandas.core.series.Series. I'm guessing this type of format for a is coming in some iterations.Most of the time my code is running without any error.
Can you suggest me what changes I need to do in python 3.x?

A: If both lists are not nested you can simplify your code a lot:
phone_comb=np.intersect1d(phone, phone_office)

And if need compare each row in original DataFrame:
f = lambda x: np.intersect1d(x.iat[4], x.iat[6])
df_final_naFill['inter'] = df_final_naFill.apply(f, axis=1).values.tolist()


In 1959, British exchange student Michael Bourdeaux received a note from Russian Christians asking for help. There, he learned of religious atrocities. After a divine meeting with the women who penned the letter, he took up their call to be the voice of the voiceless and in 1969 established the Keston Institute to document the fight for religious freedom by believers behind the Iron Curtain. A vast library and unique archive formed Keston's core. In 2007, the Institute passed its collection to the newly created Keston Center for Religion, Politics, and Society at Baylor University to preserve the resources and promote research on religion in totalitarian societies.


Chartered Physiotherapists with a special interest in musculo-skeletal are highly trained to assess and diagnose muscular, fascial, nervous, ligamentous and skeletal systems. Soft tissues in the body are vunerable to injury including trauma from accidents, postural problems and repetitive activities. Injured tissues will result in muscle spasm and/or inflammation which ultimately causes aches and pain.
Physiotherapists use thorough assessment of the musculo-skeletal system to locate the source of the injury which may not always be at the site of the pain but referred from elsewhere i.e. sciatica which is referred pain from the back.
Physiotherapists have many skills to treat dysfunction in the body including specific mobilising and manipulative techniques. They also look at the muscle balance of the body, stability and areas of movement dysfunction. In this way they address problems of impairment and help manage recovering, stable and deteriorating conditions.
The main emphasis is on early intervention to maximise recovery and minimise dysfunction ensuring a prompt return to fitness.
Treatment may also include a specific programme of exercises designed to correct postural alignment to help prevent further injuries and recurrent pains and aches. Strengthening core stability muscles helps maintain good posture and relieve spinal related problems.
Chartered physiotherapists are governed by a professional body; this ensures that high standards of practice are maintained.


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Reconstructions show how some of the earliest animals lived -- and died
New three-dimensional reconstructions show how some of the earliest animals on Earth developed, and provide some answers as to why they went extinct
VIDEO: This is an animation of the growth and development of the extinct rangeomorph species Beothukis mistakenis, which lived during the Ediacaran Period from approximately 575 to 555 million years ago.... view more
Credit: Video courtesy of Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill (University of Cambridge).
A bizarre group of uniquely shaped organisms known as rangeomorphs may have been some of the earliest animals to appear on Earth, uniquely suited to ocean conditions 575 million years ago. A new model devised by researchers at the University of Cambridge has resolved many of the mysteries around the structure, evolution and extinction of these 'proto animals.' The findings are reported today in the journal PNAS.
Rangeomorphs were some of the earliest large organisms on Earth, existing during a time when most other forms of life were microscopic in size. Most rangeomorphs were about 10 centimetres high, although some were up to two metres in height.
These creatures were ocean dwellers which lived during the Ediacaran period, between 635 and 541 million years ago. Their bodies were made up of soft branches, each with many smaller side branches, forming a geometric shape known as a fractal, which can be seen in many familiar branching shapes such as fern leaves and even river networks.
Rangeomorphs were unlike any modern organism, which has made it difficult to determine how they fed, grew or reproduced, and therefore difficult to link them to any particular modern group. However, despite the fact that they looked like plants, evidence points to the fact that rangeomorphs were actually some of the earliest animals.
"We know that rangeomorphs lived too deep in the ocean for them to get their energy through photosynthesis as plants do," said Dr Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill of Cambridge's Department of Earth Sciences, who led the research. "It's more likely that they absorbed nutrients directly from the sea water through the surface of their body. It would be difficult in the modern world for such large animals to survive only on dissolved nutrients."
"The oceans during the Ediacaran period were more like a weak soup - full of nutrients such as organic carbon, whereas today suspended food particles are swiftly harvested by a myriad of animals," said co-author Professor Simon Conway Morris.
Starting 541 million years ago, the conditions in the oceans changed quickly with the start of the Cambrian Explosion - a period of rapid evolution when most major animal groups first emerge in the fossil record and competition for nutrients increased dramatically.
Rangeomorphs have often been considered a 'failed experiment' of evolution as they died out so quickly once the Cambrian Explosion began in earnest, but this new analysis shows just how successful they once were.
Rangeomorphs almost completely filled the space surrounding them, with a massive total surface area. This made them very efficient feeders that were able to extract the maximum amount of nutrients from the ocean water.
"These creatures were remarkably well-adapted to their environment, as the oceans at the time were high in nutrients and low in competition," said Dr Hoyal Cuthill. "Mathematically speaking, they filled their space in a nearly perfect way."
Dr Hoyal Cuthill examined rangeomorph fossils from a number of locations worldwide, and used them to make the first computer reconstructions of the development and three-dimensional structure of these organisms, showing just how well-suited they were to their Ediacaran environment.
As the Cambrian Explosion began however, the rangeomorphs became 'sitting ducks', as they had no known means of defence from predators which were starting to evolve, and the changing chemical composition of the ocean meant that they could no longer get the nutrients they required to feed.
"As the Cambrian began, these Ediacaran specialists could no longer survive, and nothing quite like them has been seen again," said Dr Hoyal Cuthill.
Craig Brierley
craig.brierley@admin.cam.ac.uk
@Cambridge_Uni
http://www.cam.ac.uk
Templeton World Charity Foundation
Paleontological Reconstruction of Rangeomorph Fronds (1 of 2) (IMAGE)
Animation of the Growth and Development of the Extinct Rangeomorph (VIDEO)

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Q: couldn't get output from Netmiko Script I am a little bit new in python programing i have a task to get info from a lot of Cisco Devices , According to the below Script i am trying to SSH or telnet to the devices but i cannot get any code output , i have testing the code with file containing 4 IP addresses only.
Seems there is a problem in accessing the devices
from netmiko import ConnectHandler
import telnetlib
import os

cwd = os.getcwd()  # Get the current working directory (cwd)
files = os.listdir(cwd)  # Get all the files in that directory
print("Files in %r: %s" % (cwd, files))

with open ('/home/user1/Ahmed_Yousry/telnet_ip.txt') as f:
    Devices= f.read().splitlines()

username=[]
password=[]

for device in Devices:
    print('connecting to device ' + device)
    IP_Address_of_device= device
    HOST = device
####### Try Different Username and Password
    try:
        username="xxx"
        password="xxx"
    except:
        try:
            username="xxx"
            password="xxx"
        except:
            try:
                username="xxx"
                password="xxx"
            except:
                try:
                    username="xxx"
                    password="xxx"
                except:
                    try:
                        username="xxx"
                        password="xxx"
                    except:
                        try:
                            username="xxx"
                            password="xxx"
                        except:
                            try:
                                username="xxx"
                                password="xxx"
                            except:
                                try:
                                    username="xxx"
                                    password="xxx"
                                except:
                                    try:
                                        username="xxx"
                                        password="xxx"
                                    except:
                                        try:
                                            username="xxx"
                                            passwo="xxx"
                                        except:
                                            try:
                                                username="xxx"
                                                password="xxx"
                                            except:
                                                print('Unable to connect!' + device)
                                            continue

    try:
#### Connection to ssh
        IOS_device= {
                     'device_type':'cisco_ios_ssh',
                     'host':IP_Address_of_device,
                     'username':username,
                     'password':password,
                     'global_delay_factor':30}
        net_connect = ConnectHandler(**IOS_device)
        output = net_connect.send_command('show run | i username','show privilege')
        Hostname= net_connect.send_command ('show run | i hostname')
        security_Check= print ('output' + 'Hostname')
    except:
            try:
###### Connection to telnet
                    tn = telnetlib.Telnet(HOST)
                    tn.read_until("username: ")
                    tn.write(username + "\n")
                    if password:
                        tn.read_until("Password: ")
                        tn.write(password + "\n")
                    tn.write(b"show run | i hostname\n")
                    tn.write(b"show run | i username\n")
                    tn.write(b"show privilege\n")
                    security_Check= tn.read_all()
            except:
                    print('Unable to telnet or ssh ')
            continue
    file = open ("security_Check.txt", 'w')
    file.write (str(security_Check))
    file.close ()

** code Output :**
connecting to device x.x.x.x
Unable to telnet or ssh
connecting to device x.x.x.x
Unable to telnet or ssh
connecting to device x.x.x.x
Unable to telnet or ssh
connecting to device x.x.x.x
Unable to telnet or ssh


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TrainingOpeningFritztrainer
Squashing counterplay is a favourite pastime of strong chess players and in meeting the Gambits Vol 2 we see plenty of that.
Level: Advanced, Tournament player
01: Intro [03:26]
Chapter 1: Benko Gambit
01: Introduction Benko [07:35]
02: Game 1 - 4.cxb5 a6 5.bxa6 g6 6.Nc3 Bxa6 7.e4 Bxf1 8.Kxf1 d6 9.Nf3 Bg7 10.g3 0-0 11.Kg2 Nbd7 12.Re1 Ng4 - Kosic,D - Ratkovic,M [10:08]
03: Game 2 - 4.cxb5 a6 5.bxa6 g6 6.Nc3 Bxa6 7.e4 Bxf1 8.Kxf1 d6 9.Nf3 Bg7 10.g3 0-0 11.Kg2 Nbd7 12.Re1 Qa5 - Sevdimaliyev,U - Rukhaia,K [09:19]
04: Game 3 - 4.cxb5 a6 5.bxa6 g6 6.Nc3 Bxa6 7.e4 Bxf1 8.Kxf1 d6 9.Nf3 Bg7 10.g3 0-0 11.Kg2 Nbd7 12.Re1 Ng4 - Huss,A - Vaisser,A [09:40]
05: Game 4 - 4.cxb5 a6 5.bxa6 g6 6.Nc3 Bxa6 7.e4 Bxf1 8.Kxf1 d6 9.Nf3 Bg7 10.g3 0-0 11.Kg2 Nbd7 12.a4 Ra6 13.Re1 Qa8 - Batchuluun,T - Andriasian,Z [11:23]
06: Game 5 - 4.cxb5 a6 5.bxa6 g6 6.Nc3 Bxa6 7.e4 Bxf1 8.Kxf1 d6 9.Nf3 Bg7 10.g3 0-0 11.Kg2 Nbd7 12.Re1 Qb6 - Makovsky,P - Soederberg,P [07:43]
07: Game 6 - 4.cxb5 a6 5.bxa6 g6 6.Nc3 Bxa6 7.e4 Bxf1 8.Kxf1 d6 9.Nf3 Bg7 10.g3 0-0 11.Kg2 Nbd7 12.Qe2 Qb6 - Carlsen,M - Bologan,V [06:16]
08: Game 7 - 4.cxb5 a6 5.bxa6 g6 6.Nc3 Bxa6 7.e4 Bxf1 8.Kxf1 d6 9.Nf3 Bg7 10.g3 0-0 11.Kg2 Nbd7 12.Qe2 Qa5 - Eljanov,P - Iturrizaga Bonelli,E [07:02]
Chapter 2: Budapest Gambit
01: Intro Budapest Gambit [02:35]
02: Game 1 - 4.e3 Nxe5 5.Nh3 g6 6.Nf4 Bg7 - Aleksandrov,A - Gorbatov,A [08:55]
03: Game 2 - 4.e3 Nxe5 5.Nc3 g6 6.Nh3 Bg7 7.Nf4 0-0 - Pelletier,Y - Hug,W [15:04]
04: Game 3 - 4.e3 Nxe5 5.Nh3 Nbc6 6.Nf4 Bb4+ - Kazhgaleyev,M - Loh,Z [06:24]
05: Game 4 - 4.e3 Nxe5 5.Nh3 d5 6.cxd5 Bxh3/Bb4+ - Maiorov,N - Kukov,V [08:24]
06: Game 5 - 4.e3 Nxe5 5.Nh3 Bb4+ 6.Bd2 Bxd2+ 7.Qxd2 d6 - Hoffman,A - Garcia Martin,J [04:58]
07: Game 6 - 4.e3 d6 5.exd6 Bxd6 - Agrest,E - Gothnier,B [06:10]
08: Game 7 - 3...Ne4 4.a3 b6 - Postny,E - Herges,U [06:04]
09: Game 8 - 3...Ne4 4.a3 Nc6/Qh4 - Mamedyarov,S - Lux,G [07:39]
10: Game 9 - 3...Ne4 4.Nf3 Nc6 5.a3 d6 - Harikrishna,P - Ahmedov,Z [06:45]
11: Game 10 - 3...Ne4 4.a3 a5 5.Nf3 Nc6 - Grabarczyk,M - Vospernik,A [09:38]
Chapter 3: Albin Countergambit
01: Intro Albin Countergambit [03:30]
02: Game 1 - 4...Nc6 5.e3 dxe3 6.Qxd8 Kxd8 7.Bxe3 Nxe5 - Aleksandrov,A - Rzayev,B [07:33]
03: Game 2 - 4...Nc6 5.e3 Nge7 6.f4 Nf5 - Aleksandrov,A - Zablotsky,S [07:18]
04: Game 3 - 4...Nc6 5.e3 f6 6.exf6 Nxf6 - Aleksandrov,A - Kobalia,M [06:00]
05: Game 4 - 4...Nc6 5.e3 f6 6.exf6 Qxf6 - Frolik,M - Chetverik,M [09:09]
06: Game 5 - 4...Nc6 5.e3 a5 6.Nf3 Bg4 - Tate,E - Miesen,F [05:48]
07: Game 6 - 4...Nc6 5.e3 a5 6.Nf3 Bc5 - Aleksandrov,A - Philippe,C [09:12]
Chapter 4: Von Hennig-Schara Gambit
01: Intro Von Hennig-Schara Gambit [02:48]
02: Game 1 - 5.Qa4+ b5 6.Nxb5 Bd7 - Baginskaite,C - Nakamura,H [08:25]
03: Game 2 - 5.Qa4+ Bd7 6.Qxd4 exd5 7.Qxd5 Nc6 8.Nf3 Nf6 9.Qb3 Bb4 - Dreev,A - Grishchenko,S [06:12]
04: Game 3 - 5.Qa4+ Bd7 6.Qxd4 exd5 7.Qxd5 Nc6 8.Nf3 Nf6 9.Qb3 Bc5 10.Bg5 Ng4 - Sakaev,K - Nordenbaek,J [05:23]
05: Game 4 - 5.Qa4+ Bd7 6.Qxd4 exd5 7.Qxd5 Nc6 8.Nf3 Nf6 9.Qb3 Bc5 10.Bg5 h6 - Malakhatko,V - Parginos,V [03:39]
06: Game 5 - 5.Qxd4 Nc6 6.Qd1 exd5 7.Qxd5 Bd7 8.Nf3 Nf6 9.Qb3 Be6 10.Qa4 Bc5 - Hort,V - Cuartas,C [06:21]
Chapter 5: Queen's Gambit
01: Intro Queen's Gambit [07:18]
02: Game 1 - 4...Be7 5.Nf3 Nbd7 6.e3 h6 7.Bh4 0-0 8.Rc1 a6 9.Bd3 dxc4 - Roussel Roozmon,T - Legky,N [07:40]
03: Game 2 - 4...Be7 5.Nf3 Nbd7 6.e3 h6 7.Bh4 0-0 8.Rc1 a6 9.c5 c6 - Lintchevski,D - Mastrovasilis,A [06:56]
04: Game 3 - 4...Be7 5.Nf3 Nbd7 6.e3 h6 7.Bh4 0-0 8.Bd3 dxc4 9.Bxc4 a6 10.a4 c5 11.0-0 cxd4 12.exd4 Nb6 13.Bd3 Nbd5 - Naiditsch,A - Adams,M [04:56]
05: Game 4 - 4...Be7 5.Nf3 Nbd7 6.e3 h6 7.Bh4 0-0 8.Bd3 dxc4 9.Bxc4 a6 10.a4 c5 11.0-0 cxd4 12.exd4 Nb6 13.Bb3 Bd7 - Bernal Moro,L - Illescas Cordoba,M [05:17]
06: Game 5 - 4.Nf3 Nbd7 5.Bf4 dxc4 6.e3 Nb6 7.Bxc4 Nxc4 8.Qa4+ c6 9.Qxc4 Nd5 - Szabo,B - Mastrovasilis,A [07:51]
07: Game 6 - 4.Nf3 Nbd7 5.cxd5 exd5 6.Bg5 Be7 7.e3 0-0 8.Bd3 Re8 - Kallai,G - Jussupow,A [12:23]
08: Game 7 - 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Bg5 c6 6.Qc2 Be7 7.e3 Nbd7 8.Bd3 0-0 - Jones,G - Bruzon Batista,L [09:32]
Chapter 6: Test Section
01: Test 1 [06:45]
06: Outro [00:17]
Minimum: Dual Core, 2 GB RAM, Windows 7 or 8.1, DirectX11, graphics card with 256 MB RAM, DVD-ROM drive, Windows Media Player 9, ChessBase 14/Fritz 16 or included Reader and internet access for program activation. Recommended: PC Intel i5 (Quadcore), 4 GB RAM, Windows 10, DirectX11, graphics card with 512 MB RAM or more, 100% DirectX10-compatible sound card, Windows Media Player 11, DVD-ROM drive and internet access for program activation.
Advice and suggestions are given against:
The Benko Gambit - 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5
The Budapest Gambit (including the Fajarowicz Gambit) - 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5
The Albin Counter-Gambit - 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e5
The Von Hennig-Schara Gambit - 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5 4.cxd5 cxd4
The Queen's Gambit (a little-known system for Black) - 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6
When facing gambits the most important thing is not to panic, a feeling usually induced by lack of knowledge. Keep calm, learn the antidotes and face the aggression with renewed confidence. This DVD, ideal for players up to 2200 level, will help you to do just that.
• Video running time: 5 h 49 min(English)
• With interactive training incuding video feedback
• Extra: Database with more than 50 model games
• Including CB Reader
The Vienna Variation
The Vienna Variation is a particular and independent system of the Queen's Gambit. It arises after 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 dxc4, when black's capture on move 4 is strongly reminiscent of the Queen's Gambi
On this DVD GM Yannick Pelletier offers Black a repertoire against the London System that you can employ no matter which opening (Systems with d5, systems with g6, Queen's Indian, Queen's Gambit, Benoni, Benko, Dutch) you usually play against 1.d4 followe
How Bobby Fischer battled the Sicilian
Fischer liked to play aggressive but basically sound lines against the Sicilian and many of his variations are still very much alive and a good choice for players of all levels.
Winning with the King's Indian Attack
The King's Indian Attack is full of positional and tactical ideas and often an unpleasant surprise for the opponent.
The Tarrasch Defence
Are you looking for an active defence against 1.d4? Look no further! The Tarrasch Defence (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5) is one of Black's most ambitious ways to meet 1.d4.
The Baffling 2.b3 Sicilian
Make life difficult for the Sicilian! 2.b3 is a thoroughly venomous but still solid kind of "Anti-Sicilian". No matter what setup black chooses, the bishop on b2 will always be unpleasant for him.
The Open Games - A detailed overview
On this DVD the International Master Georgios Souleidis presents these and all other relevant openings arising after 1.e4 e5 in 36 videos.
The Aggressive Classical Dutch for Black
The Dutch (1.d4 f5) is known as a very aggressive and unbalanced opening. After watching this DVD players should feel confident to play the exciting, attacking Classical Dutch against 1.d4, 1.c4 and 1. Nf3.


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Ministry of Defence and Cabinet Office: Central Intelligence Machinery: Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee Later Committee: Minutes (JIC Series). Joint Intelligence Committee. Meetings 63 (0)-142 > 1. Strategic Photographic Intelligence Requirments; 2. Intelligence Brief for U.K. Delegation to the Military Committee of the Western Union Chiefs of Staff Committee; 3. Demolition Policy in Germany; 4. Review of Intelligence Organisation in the Middle East
Document Title 1. Strategic Photographic Intelligence Requirments; 2. Intelligence Brief for U.K. Delegation to the Military Committee of the Western Union Chiefs of Staff Committee; 3. Demolition Policy in Germany; 4. Review of Intelligence Organisation in the Middle East
Reference CAB 159/4
Document Date 20 October 1948
Conflicts Cold War
Themes Intelligence Gathering and Surveillance, Military Intelligence and Operations, Intelligence Organisation and Administration
Regions Africa, East Asia, Europe, Middle East, North America, South Asia
Countries Belgium, Ceylon, France, Germany, India, Netherlands, Pakistan, Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia, United Kingdom, United States of America
Organisations Chiefs of Staff, Commonwealth Relations Office, Foreign Office, Joint Intelligence Bureau, Joint Intelligence Committee (Middle East), Joint Planning Staff, Ministry of Defence, Security Service, Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee
People Valentine Boucher, Alan Crick, John Gardiner, William Hayter, Stewart Menzies, Percy Sillitoe, Kenneth Strong
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photographic reconnaissance, aerial reconnaissance, reconnaissance aircraft, mapping, geographic intelligence, topographical intelligence, intelligence gathering, intelligence requirements, intelligence services responsibilities, Treaty of Brussels, treaties, British intelligence organisation, information sharing, diplomacy, allies, alliances, demolitions, war preparations, contingency planning, Arab world, secrecy, security, Anglo-American relations, American intelligence services, release of information, military intelligence, predicting enemy intentions, assessing enemy strength, Soviet army, military strength
1. Western Union - Provision of Intelligence; 2. Evidence of Contravention of the Potsdam Agreement; 3. Civil Defence - Intelligence Liaison; 4. AIP Survey of Turkey; 5. Photographic Reconnaissance over Russian-Controlled Territory; 6. Indications of a Certain Power's Intention to Make War
1. Meeting with the Joint Intelligence Staff; 2. Photographic Intelligence and Survey Requirements in the Middle East; 3. Scale and Nature of Initial Air Attack on the United Kingdom - 1957; 4. Intelligence Brief for the United Kingdom Delegation to the Five Power Military Committee; 5. Political Activities in South East Asia with Special Reference to Communism; 6. Russian Preparedness for War; 7. Visit of the Chairman to the Middle East and Far East; 8. Evidence of Certain Soviet Activities
1. Western Union - Intelligence Organisation; 2. Yugoslav -Cominform Dispute; 3. Matters Arising from the Minutes of the Joint Intelligence Committee - Far East; 4. Appointment of Director of Joint Counter Intelligence Bureau in Pakistan; 5. Russian Preparedness for War; 6. Threat to Security of Scientific Information; 7. Warning of Impending Hostilities to Joint Intelligence Committees Overseas; 8. Defectors; 9. Visit to London of the Head of the Central Intelligence Agency; 10. The Forthcoming Combined Meeting of Directors of Plans
1. The Use of Atomic Bombs in a War Against the Soviet Union; 2. Review of Intelligence; 3. Future Organisation of the Intelligence Division, Control Commission for Germany; 4. Allied Strategy and Deployment of Forces in 1951; 5. Anglo-u.S. Intelligence Meeting; 6. August Bank Holiday 1949 Committee Arrangements; 7. Visit of the Chief of General Staff, Union Defence Forces, to the Middle East; 8. Passing of Intelligence to India, Pakistan and Ceylon.
1. Title of Intelligence Division, Germany; 2. Intelligence for S.H.A.P.E.; 3. Training of Observers Proceeding to Communist Countries; 4. Permanent Committee on Geographical Names; 5. Joint Air Photographic Intelligence Centre (U.K.) - Accommodation; 6. Organisation and Functions of the Joint Air Photographic Intelligence Centre (U.K.); 7. Restrictions on Soviet and Satellite Missions in the United Kingdom; 8. Request from S.H.A.P.E. For Information on the Organisation of Intelligence Staffs in the Forces Assigned to S.A.C.E.U.R.; 9. Rumanian Military Attache, London
1. Possibility of War between India and Pakistan; 2. Intelligence for Western Europe Commanders-in-Chief Committee; 3. Chairman, Joint Scientific and Joint Technical Intelligence Committees; 4. Russian Preparedness for War; 5. Scale and Nature of Initial Air Attack on the British Isles; 6. Yugoslavia; 7. Reciprocity Towards Russian Naval Attache and Staff; 8. Intelligence Division, Control Commission for Germany; 9. Disclosure of British Military Information to Commonwealth and Western Union Countries; 10. Procedure for Handling Certain Foreign Nationals
1. Operation "Mincemeat"; 2. The Vulnerability of the United Kingdom to a Knock-Out Blow by the Soviet Union; 3. Professor Pontecorvo; 4. Scientific and Technical Intelligence Branch, Germany; 5. Air Survey in Indo-China; 6. Soviet Intentions and Capabilities - 1950/54; 7. Attendance at Social Functions by Service Attaches in Sweden; 8. Soviet Preparedness for War; 9. Scale and Nature of Initial Air Attack on the United Kingdom; 10. Present State of Intelligence and Measures to Improve It
1. Soviet Intentions and Capabilities; 2. Monthly Meeting with the Joint Intelligence Staff; 3. Formosa - Chinese Communist Intentions and Capabilities; 4. Periodical Reports on the Threat to Hong- Kong; 5. Russian Preparedness for War; 6. Possibility of Russian Armed Action Against Yugoslavia; 7. Scientific and Technical Intelligence.
1. The Chinese Communist Threat in the Far East and South-East Asia; 2. Threat to Indo-China; 3. Communist Influence in the African Continent (Excluding Egypt); 4. Soviet Long Term Preparations for War - Review of Major Developments During the Year Ending 31st December 1949; 5. Periodic Intelligence Summaries for the Western Europe Commanders-in-Chief Committee; 6. Basic Intelligence Appreciations for the United Kingdom Delegations to the Brussels Treaty Military Committee and to N.A.T.O. Regional Planning Groups; 7. Exchange of Information with the Americans on Arms Traffic; 8. Communist Influence in the Middle East
1. Signatures on Reports by the Committee; 2. Release of Information on Soviet Aircraft Developments to Western Union; 3. Tass Monitoring Station in the United Kingdom; 4. German Civil Photographic Reconnaissance Agencies; 5. Military and Air Attache, China; 6. Intelligence Liaison with the Americans in the Far East; 7. Situation Reports on Korea; 8. Soviet Manoeuvres in the Black Sea; 9. Soviet Intentions and Capabilities - Long Term Appreciation; 10. Soviet Preparedness for War; 11.; 12. Visit to the United States and Canada by the Director of Military Intelligence; 13. Factual Paper on Korea


1 Land area nearly double the size of Cyprus, with a 499km coastline.
2 Nearly 40 per cent of the population is under the age of 25.
3 The national symbol is a golden falcon.
4 Has the third lowest death rate in the entire world.
5 The name is derived from the capital city, which translates as 'fortress'.


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The Celestial Knowledge of Ayurveda
It is not possible to say as to who was the founder of Science of Ayurveda. According to all authentic classic texts, the creator of Universe Lord Brahma first conceptualized Ayurveda. Lord Brahma looked into the agonies of human beings as well as the other animals and decided to cure them by the means and measure available on the earth.
This Knowledge of Curing the Illnesses or the Science of Life is Reported to have Passed Down the Line to Four Celestial Personalities in Following Order:
From Lord Brahma - To Preservator	Lord DakshaPrajapati
From DakshaPrajapati - To Celestial Physicians	Lord Ashwinou
From Ashwinou - To Celestial king of clouds and heaven	Lord Indra
From Lord Indra - To human prodigies saintly physicians
Until the level of Lord Indra, there appears to be an agreement in the opinions of all major textbooks. Hereafter, Ayurveda appears to have descended through saintly physicians who disseminated the knowledge of their specialty subjects in their own ways for the welfare of humanity.
The reason to accept this theory is that the writers of all the three major textbooks write that their preceptors obtained the lessons of Ayurveda directly from Lord Indra. This makes us to infer that Lord Indra who could have been a great physician with divine powers and must have passed on the knowledge of different branches of Ayurveda on different occasions to different scholars. These scholars must have established their specialised schools of learning and in turn taught the same to their disciples.
Close Looks into the Revelations Made in Major Treatises are as Follows:
AUTHOR / PRECEPTOR
CharakSamhita
1500 B.C
Agnivesha/ PunarvasuAtreya
SushrutaSamhita
1500 B.C.
Surgery and ENT eye
Sushruta / DivodasDhanvantari
KashyapSamhita
Obstetrics., Gynaecology and Pediatrics
VruddhaVaghbhata / MarichiKashyap
Ayurveda holds the view that 'Health' is the foundation of all wisdom and the source of all the supreme objectives (Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha); apart from his body there is nothing that is of help to man here or hereafter. Ayurveda describes that one should follow the rules of good conduct and gives in detail the diet, activities behaviour and other means by which one can promote positive mental health. It is stated by Charak that following the path of Yoga and acquiring the true knowledge are the only ways of getting rid of all the pain, sorrows, and miseries i.e. attaining the state of Moksha, which is the ultimate aim of Ayurveda. It is also stated that the aim of Ayurveda is to see, that the man enjoys all the worldly pleasure i.e. Artha and Kama, by following the rules
One can get rid of the cycles of life and death and attain "Moksha" i.e. a state of eternal happiness and supreme knowledge by getting rid of all the desires, not expecting any fruits of action and acquiring true knowledge of self. At this particular stage, the individual realises that he is not represented by the body, sensory organ or mind, but by the soul principle i.e. Brahma, the trinity of eternity, knowledge and happiness. In other words after attaining Moksha, one gets rid of all the ignorance i.e. Avidya, which masks the true nature of Brahma.
LITERATURE OF AYURVEDA
BruhatTrayi
To impart Ayurvedic knowledge, many books came into existence, but out of these books, the main books fall into BruhatTrayi i.e. set of three major treatises of Ayurveda and LaghuTrayi i.e. set of three minor treatises of Ayurveda.
BruhatTrayi Comprises of the Following Treatises
1.	CharakSamhita, which mainly deals with the medical part of Ayurveda
2.	SushrutSamhita, which mainly deals with the surgical part of Ayurveda
3.	AshtangSamgraha and AshtangHruday, which are basically compilation of the above two treatises.
One significant point, which needs a mention out here is that one very important treatise, named KashyapSamhita, which deals with the gynaecological and paediatric part of Ayurvedic medicine is not included under the above heading of Bruhattrayi.
Kashyap-Samhita
This work, which is ascribed by Kashyap, resembles CharakSamhitain style, divisions, and approach.
It is in eight divisions and has two hundred chapters. This work is also known as Vruddha-JeevakeeyaTantra. The work mainly deals with midwifery, gynaecology, and diseases of children. It is said here that of eight divisions of Ayurveda, paediatrics is the best Rickets is dealt with in some detail, and is explained as caused by drinking the mother's milk which is vitiated by Kapha. The welfare of the newborn child is said to be secured by worshipping Shashti (the six-faced divinity of the sixth day of lunar month, presiding over the health of infants.)
1) CharakSamhita (1500-1000 B.C.)
It is considered to be the earliest medical treatise in India. It deals with different aspects of disease and treatments. It has served as the foundational work for all subsequent medical literature and practice.
This work is composed by Agnivesha based on the teachings of the sage Punarvasu, as Tantra redacted by Charak and Drudhabala. Atreya had six students, among whom Agnivesha was one. Each of these six wrote a treatise, but Agnivesha's work served as the source book for this Samhita.
CharakSamhita is in eight divisions or Sthanas and each bears a descriptive title. It is an extensive work, and its volume exceeds that of its celebrated companion, SushrutSamhita, although the surgical matter is entirely left out in the former.
The Eight Divisions are:
Sutra Sthana - This is the most important Sthana of all the divisions, and deals with the entire subject -matter in a synoptically manner.
NidanaSthana - deals with general pathology of eight major diseases. Each chapter furnishes details concerning the disease - types, causation and manifestation of diseases and diagnostic aids.
Vimana-Sthana - deals with miscellaneous matter; chemistry and physiology of Rasa, and matters pertaining to medical education.
Shareer-Sthana - deals with general human constitutions progeny, pregnancy, foetal development, growth, physiological framework, life and death. It also enumerates the anatomical parts of the body, and in the last chapter we find an account of midwifery.
Indriya-Sthana - deals mainly with symptomatological diagnosis and prognosis. The ascertainment of the approach of death by various signs and symptoms is described.
Chikitsa-Sthana - is the most valuable division for the practising physician as it contains numerous drug formulae and prescriptions for long and healthy life, details concerning rejuvenation and virilification.
Kalpa-Sthana - is the division that deals with the formulae (especially for emesis and purgation), and pharmacy.
Siddhi-Sthana - deals with the methods of effective treatment, especially, with the classical Panchkarma.
The work elaborately discusses the physiology of the three Doshas, human anatomy, diagnosis, and prognosis of diseases, foetal growth during the months, and medical education.
2) SushrutSamhita (1000 B.C.)
It was one of the four treatises regarded as the source books for the branch of surgery and for all the later surgical work in India. The extant SushrutSamhita has three layers, the original treatise by the 'elder' Sushrut, the later recasting Sushrut, and still later additions and amendments by Nagarjuna.
While the first five books deal almost extensively with surgery, the last book (supplementary) is designed to deal briefly with the other six branches of Ayurveda leaving out toxicology. Interesting aspects of this book which can be called the 'First Principles' are the introduction to Medical science (especially surgery), medical education and training, the theory of therapeutic substances and dietetics.
An interesting and intriguing detail to be found in this book is the suggestion that loud sounds of the drum smeared with antidotes are capable of destroying poisonous germs that float in air.
3) AshtangaSamgraha (100 A.D.)
This is a voluminous and comprehensive medical treatise, included in the 'Big Three' of Indian medicine, the other two being CharakSamhita and SushrutSamhita. It is prepared by Vagbhata, reffered to as Vruddha -Vagbhata on this account. The work which proposes to deal with the eight divisions of Medicine is in six books and one hundred and fifty chapters.
The work of this book is a compilation (Samgraha) of information, explanations, and prescriptions to be found in CharakSamhita and SushrutSamhita. There is little that can be described as original. But the value of the work is undoubtedly great, for it has neatly collected the essential details from the two classics, which are too extent, rambling and discursive.
The work has prose passages interspersed with verses, the latter to be met with also in AstangHrudayaalmost in exact correspondence.
LaghuTrayi
It comprises of following treatises :
1)	BhavaPrakash, which deals with the matter concerned with the medicine and also with the drugs.
2)	MadhavNidan, which deals mainly with the diagnosis of the diseases.
3)	SharangdharSamhita which deals mainly with medicine information and formulae. The treatises which are included under this heading has a great educational value, but since they are not as big or not as elaborate as the three treatises falling under the heading of BruhatTrayi, they are termed as LaghuTrayi.
1) BhavaPrakash (14th Century A.D.)
This is a standard medical textbook written by Bhava-Mishra. It is an elaborate treatise in three books (Khandas) dealing with all matters pertaining to medicine, on the triple basis of causes, symptoms and cure (Hetu-linga-Aushadha).
Book I (Purva -Khanda) is in two parts (Bhaga) and six sections (Prakarana). The first part, which is extensive, encompasses the origin of medicine creation and evolution, embryology, paediatrics, anatomy and physiology (following CS and SS), dietetics and pharmacology. It also deals with the practice of healthy habits during the day and in different seasons. A glossary of drugs is included here. The second part describes the medical terminology and measures, the five treatment procedures (Pancha Karma), cleaning and other methods relating to metals.
Book II (Madhya-Khanda) is in four parts, dealing with cures of specific diseases. An excellent account of pathology and therapeutics is to be found here.
Book III (UttaraKhanda) is exceedingly short. It deals with elixirs and restoration of youth.
Largely it repeats earlier accounts and formulae but the lists of diseases and cures have been updated. For instance, there is mention of 'Phiranga' (a Sanskrit term referring to a foreigner), or syphilis, which spread in India owing to veneral contact with Portuguese adventurers likewise Soma-roga, a disease of women, not mentioned by Madhava, has been described with its psychosomatic involvements.
The pharmacological supplement to Bhav-Mishra's celebrated work BhavaPrakash, has been counted among the 'minor three classics' of Indian medicine (the other two being Chakradatta or Madhav-nidana andSharangdhar-Samhita). While the main text BhavaPrakash follows Sharangdhar-Samhita, the 'Nighantu' - portion follows Madan-vinod.
2)	Madhava-Nidana (15th Century A.D.)
This is a popular and comprehensive work on pathology. It has been an indispensable aid to physicians for over a thousand years. There is a saying that this work is supreme in the field of pathology. The real title of work is Roga-vinischaya.
The work is an elaborate consideration of causes, symptoms, complications and treatments in seventy three sections.
It can be seen that the work draws heavily from CharakSamhita and SushrutSamhita.
3) SharangdharSamhita (14th, 15th century A.D.)
The topics covered are general considerations of health, illness and treatment, anatomy and embryology, terminology, treatment procedures like oleation, sudation, emesis, purgation and so on, preparation of food, articles of food, cooks and kitchen; proper conduct during day and night and in seasons; materiamedica; medical uses of metals and mercury ; clinical examination, curability or otherwise of diseases; manner of taking medicine; diagnosis , symptoms and treatment of specific diseases; and the treatment of diseases in general. Many Unani prescriptions are included in this book.
This is a short but solid textbook of medical information and formulae, much relied upon by later physicians. The text deals with terminology, weights and measures, time for taking medicine, pulse examination, anatomy, physiology, preparation of medicines, curative procedures etc.
The use of pulse-examination in diagnosis appears here for the first time in medical literature. This is the oldest work in which metallurgical techniques are dealt with.
Other Authentic Works
Along with the above treatises, some other books also came into existence, which are equally important for a physician to treat the diseases. These are as follows:
BruhadyogaTarangini (16th century)
Chakradatta
DravyaGunaSamgraha
GadaNigraha
HaritaSamhita
Jalpa-Kalpa-Taru
Rasa- HrudayaTantra
Rasa-RatnaSamucchaya
Rasa-Ratnakara
RasendraChudamani
Rasendra-Mangala
Yoga Ratnakara
"NIGHANTU" Ayurvedic Pharmacology Special Texts
Indispensable equipment for the practicing physician is an intimate acquaintance with the Nighantu. Nighantu is vocabulary, glossary, and a collection of names. Many great Acharyas contributed to the formation of various Nighantus. These are:
Madana Pala Nighantu
Raja-Nighantu
ShodhalaNighantu
Bruhat-Nighantu-Ratnakara
DhanvantariNighantu
Bhava -PrakashNighantu
KaiyadevNighantu


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St Oran's Chapel – Iona
This chapel stands in its own burial ground, Reilig Orain, just south west if Iona Abbey. It derives its name from Oran, a relative and follower of St Columba.
The chapel is a plain, oblong building measuring 9.14 m by 4.88 m internally. The body of the chapel may belong to the 9th or 10th centuries, but the west doorway is an insertion dating from no earlier than the mid-12th century. None of these dates supports the tradition that Queen Margaret (d. 1093) built the chapel. An elaborate monument, probably of late date, has been inserted in the south wall of the interior, and a number of monumental slabs are preserved in the chapel, the roof of which has been restored.
Kenneth MacAlpin was buried in the Reilig Orain in the mid-9th century, as, it is said, were succeeding Scottish kings until Macbeth (d. 1057) and, traditionally, kings of Ireland, Norway and France. None of the monuments of the kings remain and modern scholars are sceptical of such claims, suspecting that they might have been invented to enhance Iona's image. The island is the resting place of numerous leading Hebrideans, such as various Lords of the Isles and other prominent members of West Highland clans, including several early MacLeod chiefs. Many of the monuments of medieval clan chiefs survive. The politician John Smith, Leader of the Labour Party. who greatly loved Iona, was buried here after his sudden death in 1994.
The probable original wall of the graveyard is now below ground level, but has been found by excavation. Two railed enclosures – 'The Ridge or Tombs of the Kings' and, to the east of it, that of the Chiefs – have existed only since 1868 when the Iona Club collected the monuments and enclosed them for protection.
The oldest stone now surviving in the graveyard protrudes eastward from the row of slabs in the Ridge of the Kings. It is a pink granite slab bearing a simple, incised, Celtic cross of the 8th or 9th centuries. Two posts of a corner-post shrine were found in 1957.
Grid Reference NM 286 245
Church History in Brief
Baptist Church – Tobermory
Bunessan Parish Church
Catholic Church – Tobermory
Catholic House of Prayer – Iona
Cill an Ailean – Glen Aros
Inch Kenneth
Iona Parish Church
Kilcolmkill (Kilmore)
Kilfinichen
Killean
Kilmore Parish Church
Kilninian
Kilvickeon
Kinlochspelve
Lochdon
Michael Chapel – Iona
Mull Baptist Church
Nun's Cave – Carsaig
Nunnery Church – Iona
Pennygown
Rock Carvings – Scoor
St Columba Episcopal Church – Gruline
St Ernan's Church – Creich
St Kilda's – Lochbuie
St Ronan's Chapel – Iona
The Abbey – Iona
The Gallery, former Free Church – Tobermory
Tobermory Parish Church
Torosay Parish Church
Ulva
Ulva Church
United Free Church (former) – Tobermory
Current Places of Worship
Parishes and Ministers


The meeting would be the first of many. I eventually emulated his steps with a degree in developmental psychology and created Blue's Clues, Super Why, and now Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood.
I was a devoted fan of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, and his comforting voice and his ability to help me understand confusing feelings and make me feel special were a wonderful foundation—and the spark of a future career.
In creating Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, I set out to honor Fred Rogers' legacy by bringing it forward via a new generation of viewers. My vision was to focus on prosocial development using Fred's 40- year-old curriculum as the foundation for the series. More specifically, in working with the Fred Rogers Company, we wanted to tell stories that had characters express their feelings in a way that hadn't been done on television for preschoolers.
In each episode of Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, we are on an emotional journey with our 4 -year-old main character, Daniel Tiger. When Daniel feels mad, we show it on his face with scrunched up eyes, clenched fists, some stomping feet. We also label the feeling as mad and how he just wants to ROAR!!
Mom helps him out by giving him a strategy to use when he is feeling mad. "When you feel so mad you want to ROAR, take a deep breath and count to four. 1, 2, 3, 4." Mom makes sure to tell Daniel that it is okay to feel mad and it's okay to get the mad out by roaring. But then he needs to calm down by taking a deep breath and counting to four. Daniel may still feel angry, but by being calm, he can ask for help to solve his problem.
In creating these episodes, we paid special attention to show many different characters in situations that made them feel angry, including the adults, and then show them use the strategy to calm down. We also honor Fred's iconic song, "What do you do with the mad that you feel?" that was, of course, the inspiration for the episode!
Throughout the 40-episode series, we tackle serious feelings such as disappointment, sadness, fear, jealousy, and frustration. We have carefully crafted and researched strategies for life's little lessons as we hope to give preschoolers and parents tools to talk about such feelings. The physical and emotional benefits of such are immeasurable. Talk about such a good feeling to know you're alive!
You can watch Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood on your local PBS station and online. The accompanying website also features interactive content for preschoolers, like games that help kids build skills covered in the series, along with online resources for parents, caregivers, and teachers.


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Name:Abdullah Telmesani
Position: Board Member KEC
Organization:Knowledge Economic City
With a BA in Architecture from KAAU, Dr.Abdullah Telmesani continued with an MA from Harvard University in Urban Design & Planning, during which, he studied 3rd World Economic Development at MIT. He then joined U.C. Berkeley to earn a Doctorate in Urban & Regional Planning.
Dr. Telmesani worked as a professor, teaching architecture and professional practice at KAAU's School of Environmental Design, and as a freelance consultant. He then worked as a deputy managing director of real estate development enterprises in Egypt, and then as a general manager in the Mecca Society for Development & Social Services.
Dr.Telmesani was a board member in The Savola Group, and a board member of the Jeddah Development and Urban Regeneration Company. Dr.Telmesani is currently a board member in Knowledge Economic City, Saudi Arabia.
Building on his personal experience and extensive readings in the subject of personal development, Dr.Telmesani wrote three books (in Arabic about the subject). His latest book (in English and Arabic) is titled "THE BALANCED WAY: The Path to Excellence and Contentment"


the NAT configuered in S3640 router ,and network protocol used is frame relay protocol .
alrme describe link up/down and lost of 40% packet when perform ping command.
-when using frame relay protocol and we use more the than one E1 connection we should bundle all the link using MFR(multilinks fame relay) in order to bind all the E1s link s together in one bandwith according to standard and technical manual of datacom product .
1-check the S3640 configuration (serial interface, FRAME relay parameters ,route)all is correspand to the isp lucent server(next hope).
2-check the E1s transsmission and link using romote loop back and local loop back, and try to ping the next hope and see the delay: we found one E1 link bad because of the bad connection of DDF witch cause the packet lost.
3-we check DNS 10.10.1.202 by ping command ,test ok.
4-monitor the total bandwith in isp lucent server (we found 2M but it should be 8M because we are using 4E1s).
1-if we cant' use MFR(multilink FR) because ISP can't support thus feautur or havent licence is better to change the protocol to PPP protocol also but you should also bundle all the E1 in one groupe.
2-the engineer should always check carrefully and refere to the technical manual for protocol and datacom product not only troubleshooting manual .


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Why AT&T-Backed AppNexus Is Making A Move On Connected TV
by James Hercher // Thursday, July 19th, 2018 – 12:04 am
AppNexus launched the first video advertising product for its demand-side platform (DSP) in late 2015. Over the next two years it built out its video offering to include a supply-side platform (SSP) solution, a video ad server, a video header bidding product and a connected-TV marketplace.
With its acquisition by AT&T expected to close later this year, AppNexus will take a more prominent role in converging online video and TV advertising, with a chance to blaze a new trail for programmatic.
For more than 10 years tech companies have tried to converge online video and TV advertising, but it wasn't until the past year that broadcasters and the programmatic industry could really seize the opportunity, said Eric Hoffert, AppNexus' senior VP of video technology.
"The TV industry especially, if you look at what they're doing around advanced targeting and introducing KPIs, are taking this platform approach now," he said, where buyers can view inventory across suppliers and incorporate data for targeting and attribution.
AdExchanger spoke with Hoffert about AppNexus' video advertising plans and its opportunity as a part of AT&T's Advertising and Analytics group.
AdExchanger: What's the state of connected TV (CTV) supply?
ERIC HOFFERT: CTV supply is an interesting position right now because ad-free networks like Netflix, Amazon Prime and HBO have so much of the attention time there. For us the category falls into three kinds of supply.
The first category is streaming TV services – think DirecTV Now, Sling or Hulu TV – which probably form a large chunk of the scale. If you add those up, you start to get into the 5 million- to 10 million-subscriber range.
Then there are direct broadcaster apps like A+E, CBS, CNN, etc.
And third is a new class of CTV apps that are potentially disruptive. That would be a Tubi or Pluto TV, which are interesting because they're services that are free, ad-supported streaming TV.
We're now seeing 20 billion CTV impressions per month, so it's starting to achieve meaningful scale. And it's still early innings of the connected TV world.
How do you think about bridging the programmatic world with broadcasters and TV advertisers who have very different mindsets and standards?
My sense is programmatic is starting to look like television, and TV is starting to look more like programmatic. What I mean is TV stands out for brand-safe, quality content viewed to completion. And programmatic has been working toward those things.
If you consider the progress with Ads.txt and blacklisting or partnerships like we have with White Ops to evaluate every unit of inventory we look at, the industry as a whole has made great strides on quality. We see a lot more direct relationships with publishers, for video campaigns in particular. Essentially all of our CTV deals are through private marketplaces.
And the flip side of this in the TV industry isn't real-time bidding environments. Being able to layer on first-party and third-party data is at the core of programmatic, and you see that with the OpenAP initiative with broadcasters like Fox, Viacom and NBC layering in that data and collaborating with more of an open ecosystem mentality.
OpenAP in and of itself isn't a big change for AppNexus, but the ability to add data and targeting to TV is critical development for AppNexus.
How strong is CTV traction on the buy side? And what kinds of advertisers are driving adoption?
The first wave of adoption is programmatic video buyers who are active across mobile and desktop and want to move into connected TV.
Following them are the large brands who have done enormous amounts of television and realize they need this to get truly unduplicated reach.
For the big CPG types, a meaningful portion of the demographic doesn't watch pay TV anymore. It's incremental audience that just isn't watching content where those ads are showing, so if you're a brand that wants all age ranges, then connected TV is getting to an inflection point where it has to be in your media mix.
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HomeDESIGN AREASArchitectureM.T.A. Approves a New Deal to Build at West Side Yards – NYTimes.com
M.T.A. Approves a New Deal to Build at West Side Yards – NYTimes.com
May 24, 2008 Damian Holmes Architecture, Landscape Architecture, North America, Urban Planning
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority unanimously approved a tentative billion-dollar deal with the Related Companies on Thursday to build a 26-acre, $15 billion enclave of office towers, residential buildings and parks over the West Side railyards.
As a result, the transportation authority will negotiate a formal contract with Related, and its partner, Goldman Sachs, over the next five months and deposit an $11 million check from the developer for fees related to the massive project. The yards sit on both sides of 11th Avenue between 30th and 33rd Streets, near the city's convention center.
The deal sets the stage for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's long-running campaign to transform the once-industrial neighborhood into the city's next major business district. Still, it could be years before the first building is erected over the windswept yards and the transportation authority begins to get a steady rent stream from the developer.
Read more @ the SOURCE: NYTimes.com – M.T.A. Approves a New Deal to Build at West Side Yards
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ICO rules out regulatory action over NHS Digital data opt out concerns
lucbouchard 10 February 2017
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has decided not to take regulatory action against NHS Digital after being satisfied with its work to ensure the rights of patients wishing to opt out from sharing their personal data were met following a previous failure.
A spokesperson for the UK data regulator said it acknowledged that NHS Digital had made progress to ensure patients that had chosen to not share data for purposes other than direct care, identified as a 'type 2' objection, were being honoured.
NHS Digital signed an undertaking in April last year to take actions to remedy a failure to honour an estimated 700,000 type 2 opt outs, which was linked to "legal and technological reasons".
As the national provider of information, data and IT systems for the NHS, the organisation – previously known as the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) – was also required to make affected patients aware of a failure to prevent their information being shared since early in 2014 despite the opt out.
The ICO performed a follow up in December on the undertaking, requiring some additional work from NHS Digital around its previous failure to correctly implement opt outs that had been received.
"A formal assessment by ICO good practice auditors in December identified a small amount of work to do, but the team was satisfied that the requirements of the undertaking were being met," said the ICO. "NHS Digital has agreed to the ICO's final recommendations and, as a result, the ICO is satisfied that regulatory action will not be necessary at this stage."
The commitments in the undertaking included amending published material to make it clear that objections received prior to April 29, 2016 were not honoured. The ICO also called for a means of assessing the effectiveness of efforts to ensure awareness at GP offices and other organisations about the failure to enforce the opt outs.
"If NHS Digital confirms its agreement to take the recommended steps, the ICO is satisfied that regulatory action will not be necessary at this stage," said the data regulator in a notice published earlier this year.
Wider questions still remain over future models of consent for how patients can choose to opt out of sharing their health information, with NHS England considering hundreds of responses to a consultation held on the issue.
It is understood that among the key privacy considerations facing NHS England, a decision needs to be taken on whether patients should be provided with either one or two questions concerning how they would wish to share personal information for purposes other than direct care.
The consultation over a new consent model was launched last year as NHS England announced it would be scrapping its previous flagship care.data project, designed to make use of patient data extracted from GP records with the aim of informing clinical planning.
The decision to abandon care.data was taken based on recommendations by National Data Guardian Dame Fiona Caldicott over concerns about privacy and how patients were informed of their rights to withhold or control personal data.
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