The option at the end is new, but I like it.
Meanwhile, I don't think this one is anywhere near as good as Clifton Strengths, which is dead on.
The true friends of people with the Mediator personality type tend to be few and far between, but those that make the cut are often friends for life. The challenge is the many dualities that this type harbors when it comes to being sociable – Mediators crave the depth of mutual human understanding, but tire easily in social situations; they are excellent at reading into others' feelings and motivations, but are often unwilling to provide others the same insight into themselves – it's as though Mediators like the idea of human contact, but not the reality of social contact.
In a lot of ways, this limits the potential pool of friends to other types in the Diplomat Role group, who are able to pick up on the subtle clues left by their Mediator friends, and who are more likely than not to enjoy something of a human enigma. A friendship with a Turbulent Executive (ESTJ-T) on the other hand, governed by social conventions and community participation as they are, would almost be a non-sequitur – though Mediators may find the idea of being paired with their opposite fascinating enough to outweigh the practical challenges to such a friendship.
To top it all off, ideas like networking and "the friend of my friend is my friend" hold little weight with Mediators. Friendships are earned on their own merit, by dint of the intuitive respect Mediators have for those with similar principles and values, rather than more practical alignments like those of coworkers. Mediators' tendency to protect their sensitive inner cores and values from criticism, especially if they are on the more turbulent side of the spectrum, means that acquaintances will likely get nowhere near them without sustained and tactful effort.
But, if Mediators' shields are properly navigated and they decide to open up and trust another person, a strong, stable friendship will ensue, marked by passionate support and idealism, subtle poetic wit, and a level of emotional insight that is hard to match. Mediators' friends will be rewarded with calm, sensitivity and depth, and an ever-present desire to help, learn, and grow. But even the most confident and assertive Mediators will only be able to keep up this relaxed and present exterior for so long.
Even as friendships grow stronger and deeper, and friends are lulled into a sense of mutual understanding, Mediators' enigmatic qualities will never truly vanish.
People who share the Mediator personality type share a tendency to not only strive to learn and grow as principled, moral individuals, but to bring likeminded people on that journey with them. In their own subtle, often shy way, Mediators want to lead others forward, as kindred spirits – they will find no greater opportunity for this than in parenthood.
From the start, Mediator parents are warm, loving and supportive, and take immeasurable joy in the wide-eyed wonder of their children as they explore, learn, and grow. People with the Mediator personality type will give their children the freedom they need to do this, keeping an open mind and letting their children gain their own sense of understanding. At the same time, Mediator parents will try to provide a backdrop to this freedom and experience, establishing a set of morals and values that guide that liberty with a sense of personal responsibility.
Mediators never stop encouraging their children to learn and grow, and they consider it their duty to inspire and motivate them, both by using their sensitivity and intuition to speak in their children's language and by leading the way themselves.
However, this sense of responsibility has a harder side – if their children fall foul of their Mediator parents' values, it will not be taken lightly. People with the Mediator personality type take their responsibilities in parenthood seriously, and in this measure above all others.
In some ways, Mediators' tendency to hide their inner selves from view can be an advantage in parenting, as they are able to portray themselves as good role models on the outside, shielding their loved ones not just from their own occasional anger and depression, but from the broader evils in the world as well. This helps Mediators to demonstrate outwardly the moral lessons they want their children to adopt, and at the same time to establish a sense of harmony in the household.
The biggest challenge for Mediator parents, especially more Turbulent types who often have even more trouble with self-doubt than most, is to establish more practical and day-to-day structures and rules. Mediators may be able to convey the abstract value of honesty with remarkable skill, but it's not always easy to equate that idea with the practical reality of their children being home from the movies when they said they were going to be, and it's especially challenging when these misunderstandings result in conflict. In these situations, Mediator personalities do best with a partner who is able to play a stronger hand in more administrative tasks than they can, so they can focus on the underlying spirit of those rules.
Oftentimes, as with so many things, the answer lies somewhere in the middle, in a line of work that begins with passion and dedication, but which comes to require training so that the academia feels intimately linked to that passion. Too many Mediators drift in frustration, ultimately succumbing to the necessities of day-to-day life in a job that wasn't meant for them. But it turns out that, despite such exacting demands, modern economics places a premium on the very keys to Mediators' challenges: their creativity, independence, and need for meaningful relationships with individuals who need their help.
First and foremost is seemingly every Mediators' dream growing up – to become an author. While a novel is a classic choice, it is rarely an accessible one, and there are many viable options for freedom-loving Mediators. The internet brings to the world the opportunities of blogging and freelance work – as organizations expand their reach beyond their native tongues, they will come to depend on Mediator personality types, with their gift for language and written expression, to take their rougher translations and stale pitches and inject them with a sense of beauty and poetry. Smaller organizations will need more than ever to express with elegance the value they bring to local communities.
Most any cause, idea, or field can benefit from the artful and natural expression that Mediators bring to the table, and Mediators have their pick of the world in choosing who they work with.
The real beauty here is that it takes a core interest that people with the Mediator personality type share, while helping a cause they believe in, independently, through creative expression and personal growth, and makes it applicable to any interest there is. There will always be a need, and now more than ever, to win people's hearts and minds with the written word.
Some Mediators will prefer a still more personal touch, being able to work face-to-face with clients, seeing that their personal effort really impacts another's quality of life. Service careers such as massage therapy, physical rehabilitation, counselling, social work, psychology and even academic roles and retraining can be exceptionally rewarding for Mediators, who take pride in the progress and growth they help to foster. People with the Mediator personality type have a tendency to put others' interests ahead of their own, a mixed blessing by itself, but when a patient takes their first unaided step in the long road to recovery after an accident, nothing will feel more rewarding than that selflessness.
Where Mediators will not thrive is in a high-stress, team-heavy, busy environment that burdens them with bureaucracy and tedium. Mediators need to be able to work with creativity and consideration – high-pressure salespeople they are not. It can be a challenge to avoid these roles, as they are the basis for so much starting work, and it's often a risk to break away into something less dependable, but more rewarding. To find a career that resonates with Mediators' values though, that's more than just a job, sometimes it's just what needs to be done.
In the workplace, Mediators face the challenge of taking their work and their profession personally. To Mediators, if it isn't worth doing, it isn't really worth doing, and this sense of moral purpose in their work colors everything from how they respond to authority to how they express it. Though the way the Mediator personality type shows through depends on the position, there are a few basic truths about what Mediators seek in the workplace: they value harmony, need an emotional and moral connection to their work, and loathe bureaucratic tedium.
As subordinates, Mediators prefer latitude, and would much rather immerse themselves in a project, alone or with a close team, than simply be told what task to do and move on. People with the Mediator personality type aren't looking for easy, forgettable work that pays the bills, they're looking for meaningful work that they actually want to think about, and it helps for their managers to frame responsibilities in terms of emotional merit rather than cold rationalization or business for its own sake. Mediators would rather know that their work will help to deliver a service they believe in than to know that the bottom line has been boosted by 3%.
If these standards are met, managers will find an extremely dedicated and considerate employee in Mediators. As idealistic opportunity-seekers Mediators may not always work well in technical applications, where the facts and logic really matter and critique is often necessary, but they work beautifully in more human and creative endeavors. While some types, especially those in the Analyst Role group, respond favorably to negative feedback, taking criticism as an opportunity to not make the same mistake twice, people with the Mediator personality type would much rather hear what they did right and focus on what to do, rather than what not to.
Mediators feel most comfortable among colleagues – they aren't interested in controlling others, and have a similar distaste for being controlled. Among their colleagues, Mediators will feel freer to share their ideas, and while they may maintain some psychological distance, they will make every effort to be pleasant, friendly and supportive – so long as their coworkers reciprocate. Mediators don't like conflict or picking sides, and will do everything they can to maintain harmony and cooperation.
Most of this comes down to good communication, which Mediators prefer to conduct in person, for that personal touch, or in writing, where they can compose and perfect their statements. People with the Mediator personality type avoid using phones if they can, having the worst of both worlds, being both detached and uncomposed. Mediators also like to feel like their conversations are meaningful, and while they enjoy exploring philosophy more than most, their patience for arbitrary hypothetical brainstorming or dense technical discussions is limited.
As managers, Mediators are among the least likely to seem like managers – their egalitarian attitudes lend respect to every subordinate, preferring communication as human beings than as a boss/employee opposition. People with the Mediator personality type are flexible, open-minded and give their subordinates the tools they need, be they responsible delegation or an intuitive and receptive sounding board, to get the job done. Keeping their eyes on the horizon, Mediators set goals that achieve a desirable end, and help the people working under them to make that happen.
There is a downside to this style, as sometimes the boss just needs to be the boss. Mediators know how they feel about criticism, and are reluctant to subject others to that same experience, whether it's needed or even welcome. Further complicating this role, when Mediators are under stress, as when someone really does warrant criticism, they can become extremely emotional – they may not show it, but it can affect their judgment, or even cause them to withdraw inwards, in ways that can really hold back their team.
As friends, Campaigners are cheerful and supportive, always sharing and developing ideas, and staying open-minded, taking in others' thoughts and feelings. This warmth and sincerity makes people with the Campaigner personality type masters of drawing people out of their shells, and as a result they tend to have a huge circle of friends.
As with other relationships, Campaigners view their friendships as opportunities to experience another angle of the universe, and tend to imbue potential friendships with that weighty and idealistic quality.
More outgoing types will naturally gravitate towards them, but Campaigners will also go to great lengths and be surprisingly persistent in their efforts to get to know more reserved personalities. Their ability to tune into others and speak their language with that characteristic infectious enthusiasm helps them in this endeavor, and the allure of mystery that reserved types, especially Introverted Intuitives, bring to the table will keep Campaigners intrigued for years. These personality types may never be able to reciprocate the breadth of human interest that Campaigners present, but they do appreciate Campaigners' efforts.
But Campaigners' interest in others can be a double-edged sword – this pure idealism comes with certain expectations, and too often Campaigners hold their friends in an unrealistic light, expecting them to keep up with the constant flow of ideas and experiences that they consider integral to life. Campaigners put their whole hearts into their friendships, and it can come as a shock for them to find that their friends aren't the flawless Titans that they believed them to be. Whether it's simple social fatigue or a focus on the physical and the practical instead of the mystical, people with the Campaigner personality type can find themselves disappointed by what they see as a lack of substance beneath the surface.
Campaigners tend to get deeply involved in others' lives, going to great lengths and efforts to be the selfless, caring and supportive people they are, and all the while forget to take care of themselves. Both in terms of basic needs like financial stability and rest, as well as more emotional needs like mutual understanding and reciprocation, Campaigner personalities tend to give much more of themselves than most are even capable of giving back. This sort of imbalance isn't sustainable, as (seemingly) one-sided generosity often leads to criticism and resentment on both sides.
Luckily, Campaigners are open-minded and sincere enough in their friendships, and connect with and understand even their acquaintances well enough, that they recognize that not everyone expresses themselves in the same ways, and that that's okay. Their sensitivity may make it too challenging to play with more critical and argumentative personalities, such as strongly expressed Thinking (T) and Judging (J) types, but they do appreciate, even cherish, the company of most anyone who appreciates theirs, and the adventures and experiences they have together are the stuff a good life is made of.
If there is anything that makes Campaigners great parents, it's the sense of wonder they have for all things new and beautiful, a sense that they will be able to share with their children every day as they learn and grow. Throughout their children's lives, Campaigners provide a combination of almost overwhelming love and support, and an unstructured environment revolving around freedom and creativity. This in no way means that people with the Campaigner personality type will simply leave their children to their own devices without guidance – rather, Campaigner parents want to share in their children's perspective, share in a world without bounds.
Campaigner parents are playful and warm, and love to see their children excited, playing in and experimenting with the world around them. It is likely that Campaigner parents will encourage this play and growth by suggesting activities and lessons.
Campaigners will embrace and encourage productive interests as they arise, sweeping away dolls and dinosaurs when interests shift to the oceans, and sweeping away the fish when tastes change again, to the stars.
While they often enough recognize the value of structure and predictability, Campaigner parents are unlikely to have the heart (or as they may see it, the lack of heart) to establish these limitations themselves. They may need to depend on their partners to provide some necessary guidelines and discipline from time to time, but Campaigner parents will always have the advantage of their open-minded and empathetic nature, making them not just parents, but friends who their children feel comfortable confiding in. They needn't always depend on their children broaching the subject either, as Campaigners have a natural skill in spotting emotional disharmony or physical discomfort in others.
As their children approach the teenage years, all this emotion and attention can start to cloy, and their children may seek a more private independence. This can be a challenge for people with the Campaigner personality type – they have strong emotions, and invest those emotions heavily in the things and people they care about. While they may not be big on using proven ideas, Campaigners do like to see whether or not their ideas work, and this applies to their thoughts on parenting, too. As their adolescent children withdraw, they leave an unsolved mystery that can last for years, leaving their Campaigner parents wondering if their ideas on raising their children actually work, actually result in happy, independent and creative adults.
Luckily for them, so long as they raise their children with a sense of productive independence, rather than an aimless, against-the-grain antipathy, Campaigners will find that their children have developed a strong sense of self and self-worth, going confidently out into the big, wide world at their own pace and in their own style, knowing that they have both themselves and their Campaigner parents to depend on.
If there's a challenge Campaigners face when selecting a career, it isn't that they lack talent or options or drive, it's that there are so many things out there that are just cool.
Chief among Campaigners' talents is their people skills, a quality that is even more valuable now than ever. Even in traditional Analyst strongholds like engineering, systems analysis and the sciences, Campaigners' ability to network and match the communication styles of their audience means that even as they explore new challenges on their own, they will be able to work with others, explore others' perspectives and glean new insights into their projects. Much of modern progress stems from incorporating other studies into typically disassociated fields, and no one is better equipped to merge broad interests than talented, energetic and future-minded Campaigners.
And while Thinking types may be better at applying logic to systems and machines, people with the Campaigner personality type are able to apply that same logic to human interactions and networks, using their exceptional social perception to find out what makes people tick. This lends Campaigners a solid foothold in any human science or service, from psychology, counseling and teaching to politics, diplomacy and detective work. All of these fields have another important similarity: they are in constant development, shifting, presenting new angles and new approaches. It's simply not possible to be good in these fields and content with the way things are, and this is where Campaigners truly shine.
Many more career options satisfy these needs, and not just the scientific ones – writing, journalism, acting and TV reporting all give Campaigners a chance to explore something new every day and stir the pot a little while they're at it. It may come to pass though, that the best way forward for Campaigner personalities is to establish themselves as entrepreneurs and consultants, blazing their own trails and taking on whatever project is most fascinating. So long as they get to use their people skills, identify and achieve their own goals and inspire their colleagues and followers, Campaigners will be happy.
There are two basic things that Campaigners seek most in the workplace: The chance to explore new ideas, and the chance to conduct that exploration alongside other people who share their excitement. These qualities show through at all levels of hierarchy, though much like other Diplomat personality types, Campaigners would prefer that there be hardly a hierarchy at all. People with the Campaigner personality type possess warmth, creativity, and an open-mindedness that makes them excellent listeners. If these qualities are recognized by their employers, they will always be able to count on their Campaigner employees to innovate and boost morale.
Campaigners are growth-oriented, and as subordinates they'll impress their managers with their creativity and adaptability. People with the Campaigner personality type are excellent listeners, able to analyze and understand others' perspectives effortlessly. It's perhaps this quality that most makes Campaigners intolerant of micromanagement – the way they see it, they understand what's been asked of them, and all they require is the freedom to accomplish their task. If this need isn't met, managers may find a quickly stressed Campaigner subordinate.
To a certain extent though, some direct management is often necessary, as Campaigners are notorious for letting their attention slip from one project to the next before they've dotted their I's and crossed their T's. Campaigners love exploring new ideas and learning new things, and once something becomes familiar, its allure starts to fade. But, if managers are able to maintain a spirit of guidance and camaraderie instead of "bossiness", they will find loyal and devoted contributors in their Campaigner subordinates.
Campaigners are people-people, and as far as the workplace is concerned, this quality shows through best among colleagues. More than just coworkers, Campaigners view their colleagues as friends, people who they take a genuine interest in, providing support and cheer when they're down or stressed. People with the Campaigner personality type are warm and optimistic, always searching for and usually finding win-win situations for everyone.
Brainstorms among equals are Campaigners' forte, and they listen to different viewpoints and suggestions not just with tolerance, but genuine excitement. Their ability to relax and have fun will always make them popular around the water cooler, but what sets Campaigners apart is that they can transition that popularity into natural leadership, instinctively picking up on colleagues' motivations and pulling their teams together, pushing them forward towards whatever truth they've been tasked to find.
Campaigners are not great fans of heavy hierarchy and bureaucracy, and this is most evident when they take on the role of manager. As managers, Campaigner personalities behave much like they do as colleagues – they establish real friendships, and use their broad popularity to inspire and motivate, taking on the role of leader, working alongside their subordinates, rather than shouting from behind their desks. Campaigners will tend to believe in the concept of intrinsic motivation, the idea that things are worth doing for their own sake, not because of some convoluted system of punishments and rewards.
Unfortunately, not everyone buys into this philosophy – challenges arise when faced with subordinates who actually prefer to be closely directed, with clearly defined objectives and timetables, people who are just doing their jobs. More challenging still are those rare moments when a reprimand is simply necessary – while Campaigners prefer to meet dissent with an open ear, and to use their excellent capacity for sensing mood and morale to preempt such an act to begin with, sometimes the carrot and the stick are necessary, and using them is the biggest challenge for the Campaigner personality type. But Campaigners' capacity for adjusting their communication to most any style will always shine through, helping to smooth things over and adapt to the needs of their team.
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based on statistical arbitrage and reversion to mean. On the other hand, cointegration is a longer-term relationship with co-movements of prices, in which the prices move together yet within certain ranges or spreads, as if tethered together. The idea is to consider a pair of non-stationary time series, such as the random-walk mike maloney bitcoin like assets of MCD and BKW, and form a linear combination of each series to produce a stationary series, which has a fixed mean and variance. In Forex however, the story is a bit different because countries have a very hard time being so fundamentally similar. However pairs trading does not only require a linear correlation to exist but it also requires the instruments to be cointegrated, a fundamental property that ensures a fundamental connection between the instruments that diminishes the probability of the spread between both instruments blowing up (widening. As an example, if a currency pair plummets, then the trade will probably result in a loss on the long side and an offsetting gain on the short side. For this we will utilise techniques from time series analysis, continuing the usage of the R statistical language as in previous articles on the topic. XYt-1 ABt-1 describes the extent of the disequilibrium away from the long-run, while i is both the speed and direction at which the currency pairs time series corrects itself from the disequilibrium. I make sure that my inbound data feed is working appropriately, and I let my mechanical trading algorithms create the trading signals.
Thus in order to detect whether a time series is stationary or not we can construct a statistical hypothesis test for the presence of a unit root in a time series sample. The distance between them is fairly predictable, thus the pair are said to be can you mine litecoin with two graphics cards cointegrated. The third image shows you the spread of the eurusdchfusd pair as a function of time, it is no surprise that this is the exact same graph as the eurchf for the past year. This cointegrations all arise from the eurchf peg, something which is evident when you look at the spread value as a function of time between any of these pairs. For me, cointegration is the foundation for an excellent market-neutral mechanical trading strategy that allows me to profit in any economic environment. Therefore, there is no cointegration between their movements. Basic forex pairs trading strategies are very simple, especially when using mechanical trading systems: I choose two different currency pairs which tend to move similarly. Even though neither of these series stays at a constant value, if there is a linear combination of AB and XY that is stationary (described as I(0 then AB and XY are cointegrated. Although each of the two is still on an individual pathway over a short period of time, and even though either one of the pair may randomly lead or lag the other at any given point in time, still, they will always be found close. Test(cbind(2*x,-1.0*y) The output is as follows: Phillips-Ouliaris Cointegration Test data: cbind(2 * x, -1 * y) Phillips-Ouliaris demeaned -1023.784, Truncation lag parameter 9, p-value.01 Warning message:. Test(cbind(2 * x, -1 * y) : p-value smaller than printed p-value Yet again we see a small p-value indicating evidence to reject the null hypothesis. Difficulties with Unit Root Tests While the ADF and Phillips-Perron test are equivalent asymptotically they can produce very different answers in finite samples.


HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Additional legislation that could ultimately lead to legalized recreational marijuana in Connecticut advanced Monday, but it remains unclear if there's ultimately enough support to pass a bill.
Proponents expect those and several other bills moving through the General Assembly to eventually be included in one bill for the full Senate and House of Representatives to consider. Yet it's questionable whether there will ultimately be enough support to pass marijuana legalization this year. Republicans on Monday appeared unified in their opposition, and a handful of Democrats also voted against the bill or voiced concern with the language. Democrats hold the majority in the Legislature.
State Sen. Alex Bergstein of Greenwich was one of three Democrats to vote against the main legalization bill. The mother of three teens said she's worried about the message it sends.
"Our kids will say, 'If it's legal, how can it be bad?' Because when you legalize something, you normalize it," she said, adding how the science surrounding marijuana use and young people is "robust and alarming." She noted short-term memory impairment, lower IQs, seizures and psychotic episodes.
"These consequences alter the brain function and cannot be reversed," she said.
"We have to be real about where we're living today," he said.
Three New England states - Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine - have legalized recreational marijuana.


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Bandoneonist, composer and arranger Rodolfo Mederos is a natural musician in every sense of the word.
His forceful personality has produced a profound effect on Tango, developing a style fraught with popular essence and emotion, and drawing from every single note he strikes a myriad of deep roots and good taste.
He has never conceived Tango to be a mere local expression, unlike other genres of Folk compositions. Born in the Río de la Plata and imbued with central European traits, tango embodies the feelings of urban dwellers. In other words, Tango is not solely inherent to the city of Buenos Aires, but to other cities of the world as well.
As a composer, Rodolfo Mederos covers the gamut from popular to Symphonic pieces for different instrumental groups. As a performer, he expresses deep-felt musicality. In addition, it is worth mentioning that he has also carved out a career as a teacher and writer of both bandoneon-related matters as well as tango composition and orchestration.In the beginning, Mederos was spellbound by Astor Piazzolla and nevertheless wanted to escape that influence, wanted more. Despite have played with him. Piazzolla and integrated several years the orchestra of the other genius of Tango: Osvaldo Pugliese together with other young musicians of his generation who shared a similar musical-concept sought his own destiny.
The irruption with its group Generation Cero was unconventional and irreverent. Its sound tried a triple fusion between Jazz, Rock and the song of Buenos Aires. Looks fetched arrangements with impressionist reminiscences. It was an intentional rupture, a youthful search that wanted a new road in music.
The fact that the set counted on bandoneón does not mean that this rare and experimental music conform a variant of the tango genre, beyond that touched some Tango, because they had not "el yeite" (skill, virtuosity), and the pace and arrangements modified the melody, to the point of making it unrecognizable. However, they gradually gaining an intellectual sector, avid for news.
The first album "Fuera de broma ", which opens a whole series of this maverick exhultante bold style appears in 1976. Follow: De todas maneras" (1977), "Todo hoy" (1978), "Buenas noches, Paula" (1983), "Verdades y mentiras" (1984) and "Reencuentros" (1989).
However its features, its proposal was acquiring importance and its artistic personality was consolidated, achieving public recognition, especially abroad.
Its special ductility to fuse with different air of Tango rhythms and genres, has its most obvious manifestation, in the series of concerts that participated, invited by Folk, Pop and Rock musicians. It also highlights his contributions on albums by Mercedes Sosa and Luis Alberto Spinetta, and Joan Manuel Serrat in his disc entitled "Cansiones".


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Guilford assistant football coach secretly recorded in profanity-laced rant on students
by: Mario Boone
Posted: Dec 5, 2018 / 06:17 PM EST / Updated: Dec 5, 2018 / 06:35 PM EST
A secret recording of a profanity-laced rant just got an assistant football coach at Guilford High School kicked off the team.
Coach Nick D'Angelo, who also happens to be a Hamden police officer, was fired after an investigation by Superintendent Paul Freeman found the language "inappropriate and unacceptable."
We played the audio for Guilford High junior, Marly Carter. "A lot of anger. Why was he so angry?" she said.
Tyler Mclain also listened to the recording. "Very intense, especially at a school," said Mclain.
In a statement, Dr. Freeman said, "While it appears the incident on the recording did not occur during this past season or with Guilford athletes, the coach who has been associated with that recording will not be working for Guilford schools in the future."
"It's kind of unprofessional," Mclain suggested.
D'Angelo confirmed to News 8's Mario Boone he is the person heard repeatedly using profanity and screaming at a group of student-athletes. But, D'Angelo said he doesn't remember when or what school the recording is from. He declined an on-camera interview, but he did tell us by phone he feels bad for the players because they're good kids and he feels the recording distracted from the students' winning season.
He also made clear that he did not give permission to be recorded.
D'Angelo previously served as head coach at Coginchaug High School in Durham until he abruptly quit in 2015 with two games left in the season.
"Speaking like that to people is just not right," Carter concluded.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Former Walmart Inc. chief executive David Glass, who owned the Kansas City Royals for nearly two decades before selling the franchise last fall, died last week of complications from pneumonia. He was 84.
The Glass family said the businessman died Jan. 9. He had been dealing with health issues for some time.
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Warpstock is pleased to announce that we have afull slate of exciting presentations to offer this year.
Arca Noae will be making several presentations on the current state and future plans for ArcaOS as well as for OS/2 drivers. Useful tips and tricks, community awareness, and even how to build an RPM package.
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Q: Convert Pyspark Dataframe column from array to new columns I've a Pyspark Dataframe with this structure:
root
 |-- Id: string (nullable = true)
 |-- Q: array (nullable = true)
 |    |-- element: struct (containsNull = true)
 |    |    |-- pr: string (nullable = true)
 |    |    |-- qt: double (nullable = true)

Something similar to:
 +----+--------------------- ... --+
 | Id |           Q                |
 +----+---------------------- ... -+
 | 001| [ [pr1,1.9], [pr3,2.0]...] |
 | 002| [ [pr2,1.0], [pr9,3.9]...] |
 | 003| [ [pr2,9.0], ...         ] |
  ...

I wold like to convert Q array into columns (name pr  value qt).
Also I would like to avoid duplicated columns by merging (add) same columns.
 +----+-----+-----+------+ ... ----+
 | Id | pr1 | pr2 | pr3  | ... prn |
 +----+-----+-----+------+ ... ----+
 | 001| 1.9 | 0.0 | 2.0  | ...     |
 | 002| 0.0 | 1.0 | 0    | ...     |
 | 003| 0.0 | 9.0 | ...  | ...     |
  ...

How can I perform this transformation?.
Thakyou in advance!!.
Julián.

A: You can do this with a combination of explode and pivot:
import pyspark.sql.functions as F

# explode to get "long" format
df=df.withColumn('exploded', F.explode('Q'))

# get the name and the name in separate columns
df=df.withColumn('name', F.col('exploded').getItem(0))
df=df.withColumn('value', F.col('exploded').getItem(1))

# now pivot
df.groupby('Id').pivot('name').agg(F.max('value')).na.fill(0)

A: Very interesting question.   This is how I approached it.
test.csv
001,pr1:0.9,pr3:1.2,pr2:2.0
002,pr3:5.2,pr4:0.99

Pyspark
file = sc.textFile("file:///test2.csv")

//get it in (key,value)
//[(u'001', u'pr1:0.9')...]

//rdd1 = file.map(lambda r: r.replace(",","\t",1)).map(lambda r: r.split("\t")).map(lambda r: (r[0],r[1])).flatMapValues(lambda r: r.split(','))
rdd1 = file.map(lambda r: r.split(",")[0]).map(lambda r: (r[0],r[1])).flatMapValues(lambda r: r.split(','))

//create a DF with 3 columns
//[(u'001', u'pr1', u'0.9')...)]
+---+---+----+
| _1| _2|  _3|
+---+---+----+
|001|pr1| 0.9|
|001|pr3| 1.2|
|001|pr2| 2.0|
|002|pr3| 5.2|
|002|pr4|0.99|
+---+---+----+

rdd2 = rdd1.map(lambda r: (r[0],r[1].split(":"))).map(lambda r: (r[0],r[1][0],r[1][1]))
df = rdd2.toDF()

//Perform the magic
df.groupBy("_1").pivot("_2").agg(expr("coalesce(first(_3),0)"))

+---+---+---+---+----+
| _1|pr1|pr2|pr3| pr4|
+---+---+---+---+----+
|001|0.9|2.0|1.2|   0|
|002|  0|  0|5.2|0.99|
+---+---+---+---+----+

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Module 4.1.2 Primary Care, Services and Organization.
provides and then review the various types of organization of primary care.
Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, Physician's Assistant.
in bigger cities and typically, I want you to visualize a primary care clinic.
nurse practitioners, physician's assistants that have offices.
their nurse or medical assistant comes out, gets the patient, they go in.
either on paper but, more and more now, electronically.
referral to either specialty care or sometimes to a hospital.
So again, it's a very busy, dynamic place.
a hospital unit, but it is busy in different ways.
nurse practitioners running around between rooms.
other staff interacting inside the clinic.
improve, constantly the care of the community they are privileged to serve.
These visits are to diagnose and to treat conditions.
other typical visits are preventative visits at age milestones.
like removal of moles, or other small skin procedures, or other procedures.
that the patients can call in.
department, or needs to come into the office, or can be treated at home.
consultations to specialty care and also manage those referrals.
So, a patient that was sent to a specialist, what happened there?
Did the information come back?
And then connecting back with the patient to close the loop.
case management that a primary care physician and their clinic does.
advance practice nurses and physicians assistance.
the patients, do the blood pressure and other testing.
social workers and the like.
there's billing, coding, and management of the financials that happens.
There are many different types of Primary Care Physicians.
also called Family Physicians, or Internal Medicine physicians.
are the Geriatrics physicians, and I am one, off of a type of geriatric physician.
moms around the time of pregnancy and childbirth.
primary care provision are Information Technology.
So electronic health record has absolutely changed the delivery of primary care.
also increases the connectivity with other care team members.
might get connected to a specialist, might get connected to a hospital.
So again, increased coordination and increased connectivity.
kiosks for the patient to get registered, insurance get verified.
so the patient gets registered, goes and gets seen.
the patient if they need lab would go to a lab to get the lab tests.
the physician sees the patient and discusses the lab.
nurses, social workers, community health workers and many other types of services.
coding offices right here that deal with the financial management.
The type of primary care clinic might be inside a multi-specialty clinic.
So, this part of the clinic could be primary care physicians.
This might be another specialist for example heart care.
This might be another specialist.
have efficiencies and economies of scale and scope.
But this a multi-specialty clinic integrated with primary care.
health of the population and communities they serve.
as technology gets improved, year after year.
And so, this is leading to a revolution in how primary care is provided.


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Mars and Jupiter in the Morning
Mars and Jupiter are meeting up in the morning sky. Soon they'll be joined by the Moon.
Here's a heads up for one of the best planet conjunctions of the year. Mars and Jupiter are now close together in the dawn sky to the south, and getting closer!
Above is the actual view on the morning of January 4, with Jupiter the brightest of a trio of objects. Mars is reddish and in the middle. The object at right is the star Alpha Librae, also known as Zubenelgenubi in Libra.
Looking south-southeast on January 6
As shown in the simulation above, on the morning of January 6 Mars and Jupiter will be only 1/3rd of a degree apart (20 arc minutes), so close that dimmer Mars might not be obvious to the naked eye next to bright Jupiter. But use binoculars to show the planet pair.
The next morning, on January 7, they will appear almost as close, as Jupiter climbs higher past Mars.
Looking south-southeast on January 11
As shown here, on the morning of January 11 the waning crescent Moon will sit only 4 degrees from the planet pair, with all three worlds gathered close enough for binoculars to frame the scene.
With sunrise coming late on winter mornings, it doesn't take an early rise to take in the dawn scene. Make a note to take a look about 6:30 to 7:00 a.m. over the next week.
POSTSCRIPT added January 6:
Here's the real scene from the morning of January 6, with Mars and Jupiter just 16 arc minutes apart, very close but still easy to distinguish with the naked eye. Jupiter did not overwhelm Mars.
Thanks and Clear skies!
— Alan, January 4, 2018 / © 2018 Alan Dyer / amazingsky.com
The Moons of Lost Sleep
These are the Moons only insomniacs and night shift workers get to see. These are the waning Moons of morning.
For eight mornings I've been up at 4 a.m. each day to catch the early Moon and collect a series of images of its waning phases.
The result is above, a series that runs from right to left in time, from the 19-day-old waning gibbous Moon, to the 26-day-old thin crescent Moon.
I ordered them that way in the composite to reflect the direction the Moon moves across the sky. As it orbits Earth and wanes, the Moon moves from west to east, or right to left, in the sky from morning to morning, at least in the northern hemisphere.
A run of clear nights and mornings made the series possible. From Alberta, as dry as it is, too many cloudy nights make a consistent Moon phase series a challenge at best.
As it was I had to contend with smoke from forest fires in B.C. which reddened the Moon on the last few mornings, a tint I had to correct for the composite above. But here below, is what the Moon really looked like one morning.
The smoky orange Moon of July 17.
The last two Moons, at 25 and 26 days old (i.e. the number of days since the previous New Moon phase) exhibited the phenomenon known as Earthshine. You can see the night side of the Moon glowing gently with sunlight reflected first off the Earth.
Earthshine on the 25-day old Moon on July 20 at dawn.
Below, this was the Moon this morning, July 21, with it very low in the east amid the twilight sky.
Earthshine on the thin 26-day old Moon on July 21 at dawn.
This final morning was exceptional. The smoke had cleared off, and when I got up at 4 a.m. (reluctantly!) for the last shoot I was greeted with the best display of noctilucent clouds I had seen in many years. They covered the northeast and eastern skies in a rare "grand display."
Noctilucent clouds with the Moon and Venus in the dawn sky, from southern Alberta, July 21, 2017.
The thin crescent Moon is just rising at right, with Venus bright as a "morning star" at far right. This was a sky certainly worth losing sleep over.
— Alan, July 21, 2017 / © 2017 Alan Dyer / amazingsky.com
Planets in the January Dawn
The waning Moon joined Venus and Saturn on a cold winter dawn.
This was the scene this morning, January 6, as the waning crescent Moon met with Venus (bright, at centre) and Saturn (below and left of Venus) in the cold morning twilight.
The grouping appeared above the stars of Scorpius. Antares is just above the treetops.
The top image is with the Canon 60Da and 50mm lens.
The view below, with the 135mm telephoto and Canon 6D camera, is from a half hour earlier before the sky began to brighten with morning twilight.
The waning crescent Moon above Venus and Saturn (dimmer and below Venus) in the pre-dawn sky on January 6, 2016, taken from home on a cold winter morning at -20° C. This is a composite of a long exposure (8s) for the ground, a slightly shorter exposure (6s) for the sky, and shorter exposures for the Moon to avoid it being totally overexposed and to preserve the Earthshine. All with the 135mm lens and Canon 6D.
Venus passes very close to Saturn this weekend, with the two worlds appearing within a telescope field on the mornings of January 8 and 9. Get up early before sunrise and look southeast. Binoculars will provide a superb view.
Venus is hard to miss, but is now dropping lower each morning and will soon be gone from view as it ends its wonderful appearance as a morning star.
— Alan, January 6, 2016 / © 2016 Alan Dyer / www.amazingsky.com
Circles and Lines in the Dawn Sky
Cloud hid Comet Catalina but added a halo around the waning Moon, intersected by the line of the ecliptic.
I'm in Arizona, just inside the state line with New Mexico, on a quest to shoot Comet Catalina at dawn. Clouds prevented any view of the faint comet this morning but provided a fine consolation prize.
The waning crescent Moon was surrounded by an ice crystal halo, a rare sight around a thin Moon. The Moon was between Mars and Jupiter, heading toward a conjunction with Venus, below, on December 7.
The line of Venus, Mars, the Moon, and Jupiter, plus the stars Spica and Regulus defined the line of the ecliptic beautifully in the pre-dawn sky.
This is a stack of 4 exposures from long to short (8s to 1/2s) to encompass the great range in brightness and not overexpose the crescent Moon too much. Images were layered in Photoshop and masked with luminosity masks. Automatic HDR techniques did not work well as the shortest image was too dark for ACR to find content to register in Merge ot HDR, and in Photoshop the HDR Pro module left visible edge artifacts.
The camera was on the iOptron Sky Tracker to follow the sky and register the sky for all the exposures, thus the slightly blurred ground. Taken with the Canon 6D and 15mm full-frame fish-eye lens.
It was a show of circles and lines, real and imagined, in the morning sky.
With luck, clouds will clear to reveal Comet Catalina, which is likely fainter and less spectacular than hoped. But such is the way of comets. Regardless of what the comet does, it is a good time to be in the desert southwest, typing this blog on a sunny front porch under blue desert skies.
— Alan, December 5, 2015 / © 2015 Alan Dyer / www.amazingsky.com
Three Planets and the Moon in the Morning
The waning crescent Moon joined the planet trio this morning for a fine sight in the dawn.
This was the scene on November 6 with the waning crescent Moon just below Jupiter, and those two worlds just above the pairing of bright Venus with dim red Mars.
On Saturday, November 7, the waning Moon will sit beside Venus for an even more striking conjunction.
The waning crescent Moon below Jupiter, with that pair of worlds above the pairing of Venus (bright) and red Mars (just above Venus), all in the dawn sky in Leo, November 6, 2015. The stars of Leo are above, including Regulus.
This is a composite of 4 exposures: 15 seconds for the ground (to bring out detail there), 4 seconds for the sky (short enough to prevent star trailing), and 1 and 1/4 seconds for the Moon itself to prevent it from being totally blown out as a bright blob. All with the Nikon D750 at ISO 2000 and Sigma 24mm Art lens at f/4.5. Taken from home.
This meeting of the Moon with the planet trio more or less concludes the superb series of dawn sky conjunctions we've been enjoying over the last month.
The planets remain in the morning sky but now go their own ways as Mars and Jupiter climb higher, while Venus drops lower.
— Alan, November 6, 2015 / © 2015 Alan Dyer / www.amazingsky.com
The Moon and Four Planets
The Moon appeared along with four planets in the dawn sky.
The sky was filled with planets this morning, as all four of the closest planets to the Sun appeared along the ecliptic in the morning sky. Plus there's a fifth planet in the picture – Earth.
Here, the waning crescent Moon, lit by Earthshine, appears with four planets on the morning of October 9, 2015, with the planets from bottom left to top right:
• Mercury, just above the horizon between the low cloud bands, at lower left
• Jupiter, bright at centre
• Mars, reddish and above Jupiter
• Venus, brightest at upper right and in some thin cloud.
The bright star Regulus in Leo is above and to the left of Venus.
Above is an unlabeled version of the image.
It's a blend of four exposures: a long 4-second exposure for most of the sky and ground, plus shorter 2, 1, and 1/2 second exposures for the bright twilight area and around the Moon and Venus, to prevent those areas from being blown out. Blending is with masks, not HDR. All were shot with the Canon 6D at ISO 400 and 50mm Sigma lens at f/2.5.
– Alan, October 9, 2015 / © 2015 Alan Dyer / www.amazingsky.com
Dawn Sky Delight – the Real Scene
The Moon, planets and Northern lights provided a wonderful show in the dawn sky.
What a superb scene this was. On October 8 the waning crescent Moon shone near Venus (brightest) and Regulus, with red Mars and bright Jupiter paired below.
If that wasn't enough, as the wide-angle panorama below shows, the Northern Lights were also ending a night of performance, with an arc along the horizon and pulsing waves rising up the sky to the northeast near the planet grouping.
The panorama also sweeps right, to the south, to take in the winter Milky Way and constellations of Orion and Canis Major. Click on the image to bring it up full screen.
The Moon will appear near Mars and Jupiter on the morning of October 9, and then the three planets will begin to converge for a tight gathering for a few mornings around October 25.
Be sure to wake early for the dawn sky show that continues all this month!
– Alan, October 8, 2015 / © 2015 / www.amazingsky.com


Instagram recently announced it reached 700 million users!
Of those users, 100 million signed up in the last four months, marking the platform's fastest-ever growth rate.
It's currently the third most popular social networking site and has a commanding lead over Twitter.
This, of course, means there's a serious opportunity to build a following.
And the beautiful thing is Instagram doesn't discriminate.
If you know what you're doing, post epic content, and genuinely entertain your audience, your following will grow.
But in order to expedite this growth, I find it helpful to establish a regiment, a routine.
You need to be practical and tactical with your approach.
I'm a huge fan of routines—daily processes you can follow to achieve massive results.
Recently, I developed a focused strategy to help one of my clients—a B2C e-commerce brand—to curate a massive following (25,590 to be exact).
Here's the sequence of steps to follow daily that will help you build a 25,590-member following.
I'm not trying to bore you with trivialities, but the first two steps are an essential part of the routine.
The first order of business is to spend a few minutes engaging with your followers.
Identify all valuable comments and questions, and respond to them individually.
If you're just starting out and currently have a minimal following, you can do this in no time.
I like to be on the offense when building a following.
Unless you already have a built-in audience, it's up to you to make the first move.
Look through the photos of the people you follow, pick three photos, and leave comments.
Stay away from the generic comments like "nice pic!" and say something that stands out and shows you put some thought into it.
This will put you on people's radars and should eventually lead to return engagement.
One of the great social media debates is how frequently you should post.
This, of course, depends on the specific network in question, but the average Instagram account posts once per day.
However, profiles with larger followings usually post more often than that.
Notice that profiles with 10k-100k fans post 41 times per month, or 1.32 times per day.
However, those with over 10 million fans post 95 times per month, or 3.06 times per day.
By examining these findings, you can conclude you should post at least once a day.
But if you can post three times a day, you'll be in even better shape.
The bottom line is you need a steady flow of content.
Don't allow yourself to become complacent and have major gaps between posts.
Research proves that brands that post often tend to have bigger followings.
You may even want to batch your posting by auto-scheduling on a platform such as Hootsuite to save time.
You probably already know the timing of your posting is a major factor dictating how much visibility your content receives.
Instagram announced that they would be replacing the chronological feed with an algorithm that gives more priority to posts with higher engagement, which means the more likes and comments your post receives, the more people will see your post!
What are the implications of this algorithm?
It means if your content gets a lot of engagement shortly after being posted, this tells Instagram you're posting quality content.
In turn, your content will move toward the top of your followers' feeds.
You need to figure out the optimal time to post.
Numerous variables go into determining this factor, including where the majority of your audience is located, when they're most active on Instagram, etc.
Different studies suggest different optimal posting times.
For instance, one from HubSpot found that the best time to post on Instagram is anytime between Monday and Thursday, except between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m.
The point here is that there are different types of logic you can use when determining when to post.
I recommend doing some of your own experimentation to pinpoint the sweet spot for your brand.
The Later article I mentioned earlier offers some solid advice for doing your own testing.
For instance, you can start by posting at different hours Monday through Friday for week one and measuring engagement.
Week two, repeat the process, but switch the hours.
Keep repeating the process until you know for sure what the optimal posting time is.
Once you've figured it out, rinse and repeat.
Your engagement level should continue to increase, which will help your content rise to the top.
This ultimately translates into a bigger following.
Hashtags are a big deal, especially on Instagram.
Countless studies have attempted to figure out the ideal number of hashtags for each social network.
While some people may use only one or two hashtags on average, others may use as many as 30 (the maximum).
Although using "X" number of hashtags per post won't necessarily guarantee you a 25k+ following, it can definitely give you an edge.
To determine the ideal number of hashtags, let's look at the data.
A separate study from Max Woolf seems to concur.
This means the odds of engagement increase when you include 11 or more hashtags on an Instagram post.
Just be sure your hashtags are relevant to the content and not spammy, and you should be good to go.
My last point demonstrates that hashtags are a good thing on Instagram.
But how do you go about choosing hashtags to populate your posts with?
Should you just pick them at random, or is there more of a science to it?
Well, of course, each individual post will require certain hashtags to properly describe it.
But if you're consistently posting around a central theme, it's smart to do a little hashtag research to spot winners.
From there, you can make a list for quick reference.
One of the easiest ways to generate quality hashtags is to type a relevant keyword into the Instagram search box and see what pops up.
Just like that, you've got several ideas for hashtags.
Another approach is to use a tool called Hash At It.
It's really simple to use.
Scroll down, and you should be able to quickly generate some good ideas for hashtags.
I suggest making this part of your daily Instagram routine.
This way you'll always have a rock solid list of hashtags ready to go every time you post.
For more tools to help you research hashtags, check out this post from Kickstagram.
The way I look at it, captions can turn a great Instagram photo into an epic one.
Some people just have a knack for writing awesome captions that hit all the right notes.
I suggest spending some time looking through lists of captions and recording some you could use in the future.
and this one is from BloggerPunit.
Of course, originality is important, so try to tweak them whenever possible to fit your brand.
Finally, be sure you're continually following new brand-related accounts.
I recommend seeking out at least three or more each day and following them.
Ideally, they'll be major influencers because any engagement from them can quickly boost your following.
This will ensure you stay on the radars of others, which should bring additional exposure to your account.
As long as your content is high-quality and relevant, a sizable percentage of people should return the favor and follow you back.
A steady routine like this should help even the most obscure account build a 25,590-member following fairly quickly.
If you follow this routine daily, you'll gain followers steadily and consistently.
Having more Instagram followers provides a ton of benefits, including increased brand exposure, continual lead generation, networking opportunities, and ultimately increased sales.
How big of a role does Instagram play in your brand's overall marketing strategy?
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New Delhi: On the back of increased demand, Hyundai Motor India Ltd is considering ramping up its manufacturing capacity, two people familiar with the matter said on condition of anonymity.
The internal discussions, which are at a preliminary stage, would involve the company adding between 200,000 and 300,000 units by 2011-12 to serve both domestic and export markets.
Among the options being considered are an expansion at the company's factory in Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu or setting up a new factory.
The auto maker, India's second largest, last added capacity three years ago.
However, Rajiv Mitra, a spokesperson of the firm, said Hyundai India does not have any immediate plans to announce a capacity addition.
Hyundai, which has made India an export base for its i10 model, has been stretched by rising demand in both local and global markets. It has an installed capacity of manufacturing 600,000 units a year.
Incentives for small cars announced by European governments and rising Indian demand resulted in Hyundai producing 53,804 hatchbacks and sedans in September, at a capacity utilization rate of 107%.
Last month, it added a third shift, a step auto makers seldom undertake as that cuts down on the time required for shopfloor maintenance.
"Given Hyundai's rates of utilization, this is about the time they would be looking at capacity addition," said Rakesh Batra, a partner at the automotive practice at consultancy firm Ernst and Young. Capacity expansion typically takes a couple of years to execute and operate.
Batra expects the market for cars and sports utility vehicles in India to grow at an average of 10% for the next five years.
To be sure, Hyundai may still decide to go slow on capacity addition.
Demand for small cars in Europe may tank as governments withdraw incentives for them. Hyundai has already indicated that it plans to shift production of its i20 model to Turkey from the second half of 2010.
This would free up capacity for the Indian market. At present, Hyundai exports one in every two cars it makes in India.
In September, market leader Maruti Suzuki India Ltd had decided to go slow on capacity addition. Maruti, which is also producing at the upper end of its one million cars per year limit, said it would shift some capacity from Gurgaon to its plant at Manesar, both in Haryana.
Hyundai India has been contacted by governments in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana and Uttarakhand, said one of the people quoted earlier.
The company is keen to expand operations in Tamil Nadu but may decide against it as poor infrastructure and labour issues have plagued operations in recent months, he added.


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(http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/monsantos-droughtgard-corn-0391.html)
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), USA
MONSANTO'S "DROUGHTGARD" CORN BARELY A DROP IN THE BUCKET
Report Finds Limited Prospects for Genetically Engineered Crops to Combat Drought and Conserve Water
WASHINGTON (June 5, 2012) Monsanto's new drought tolerant corn, DroughtGard, reduces crop losses only modestly during moderate droughts, and will not reduce the crop's water requirements, according to a report released today by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). The report found that traditional breeding and improved farming practices have done more to increase drought tolerance, and that further improvements in genetic engineering are unlikely to solve the drought problem in coming years.
"Farmers are always looking to reduce losses from drought, but the biotechnology industry has made little real-world progress on this problem," said Doug Gurian-Sherman, a senior scientist with UCS's Food & Environment Program and author of the report. "Despite many years of research and millions of dollars in development costs, DroughtGard doesn't outperform the non-engineered alternatives."
Agriculture accounts for about 70 percent of all water extracted from rivers and wells, making drought a serious and costly problem for farmers. An extreme drought is still plaguing Texas, triggering a record $5.2 billion in agricultural losses in 2011 alone. Monsanto's new corn is not likely to provide any practical help under such conditions, even by the company's guarded claims.
The report, High and Dry: Why Genetic Engineering is Not Solving Agriculture's Drought Problem in a Thirsty World, found that during limited testing, DroughtGard – the only crop engineered for drought tolerance approved for commercial use – reduced crop losses by about 6 percent. By comparison, breeding and improved farming practices have increased drought tolerance by roughly 1 percent per year over the past several decades.
In terms of crop yields, DroughtGard will increase overall corn production by about 1 percent because it is likely to be of practical value on only about 15 percent of U.S. corn acreage. Breeding and improved farming practices increase corn production by about 1.5 to 2 percent annually.
"If we were to conduct an apples-to-apples comparison today, we'd find that breeding and improved farming practices have increased drought tolerance in corn about two to three times faster than DroughtGard," said Gurian-Sherman. "Classical and newer forms of breeding are also far cheaper."
DroughtGard is further handicapped by the fact that it will work well only under moderate drought conditions, and climate scientists predict that drought frequency and severity likely will increase in some regions as climate change worsens, Gurian-Sherman said. The fact that drought is not predicable also makes it difficult for farmers to decide whether it is worthwhile to buy DroughtGard seed prior to the growing season.
Finally, Monsanto's advertising campaigns touted its intention to develop seeds that yield "more crop per drop," but there is no evidence that DroughtGard will help the crops or farmers use water more efficiently. And the biotech industry's pipeline for other water-efficient crops is virtually dry.
Congress and the U.S. Department of Agriculture can help farmers address droughts by substantially increasing support for public crop-breeding programs in the Farm Bill, Gurian-Sherman said. The Farm Bill also should fund research and offer incentives for farmers to adopt practices that improve drought tolerance such, as organic farming and similar methods that improve the soil's ability to retain moisture.
"The fact that DroughtGard may provide modest drought tolerance is a small step forward for the industry, but it's being outpaced by other methods," said Gurian-Sherman. "More Farm Bill investments in public-sector classical breeding and water-saving farming practices would be more cost-effective for taxpayers and farmers, and as the scientific track record to date shows, will help farmers far more than genetic engineering."
The Union of Concerned Scientists is the leading U.S. science-based nonprofit organization working for a healthy environment and a safer world. Founded in 1969, UCS is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and also has offices in Berkeley, Chicago and Washington, D.C.
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High and Dry: Why Genetic Engineering Is Not Solving Agriculture's Drought Problem in a Thirsty World (2012)
High and Dry is the third in a series of reports highlighting genetic engineering's limitations and demonstrating the importance of increasing public investment in more effective–but often neglected–agricultural technologies. The first two reports in the series are Failure to Yield and No Sure Fix.
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Droughts can be devastating to farmers and to the people who depend on the food those farmers produce. The historic Texas drought of 2011 caused a record $5.2 billion in agricultural losses, making it the most costly drought on record.
While extreme droughts capture the most attention, mild and moderate droughts are more common and collectively cause extensive damage. Climate scientists expect the frequency and severity of such droughts to increase as the global climate heats up.
Furthermore, agriculture accounts for the lion's share of water extracted from rivers and wells, setting up conflicts between food production and other uses. Other important organisms, such as fish, also compete with humans for fresh water. So there is a vital need for crop improvements that will increase drought tolerance and water use efficiency (WUE).
Biotechnology companies such as Monsanto have held out the promise that genetic engineering can accomplish these goals, creating new crop varieties that can thrive under drought conditions and reduce water demand even under normal conditions. High and Dry offers an analysis of the prospects for delivering on that promise.
Extent and severity of drought conditions in the U.S. on August 30, 2011. The darker areas are regions of severe to exceptional drought where cspB corn would likely be of little use. (Click on map for larger version with legend.)
A Small Bang for Big Bucks
Though the mid-2000's saw a surge in field trials for crop varieties with engineered drought tolerance traits, as of 2012 only one such variety–Monsanto's DroughtGard, containing the engineered gene cspB–had been approved by the USDA.
The results so far paint a less than spectacular picture of DroughtGard's effectiveness: USDA analysis of data supplied by Monsanto show that DroughtGard produces only modest results, and only under moderate drought conditions at that. The report estimates that cspB corn would increase the overall productivity of the U.S. corn crop by only about one percent. And DroughtGard does not improve water use efficiency.
The evidence suggests that alternatives to GE–classical breeding, improved farming practices, or crops naturally more drought-tolerant than corn, such as sorghum and millet–can produce better results, often at lower cost. If we neglect these alternatives because of exaggerated expectations about the benefits of GE, we risk leaving farmers and the public high and dry when it comes to ensuring that we will have enough food and clean freshwater to meet everyone's needs.
Why Drought Tolerance Is So Challenging
There are several reasons why a GE magic bullet for drought tolerance may prove elusive. Drought tolerance is a complex trait that can involve many different genes, corresponding to different ways the plant can respond to drought; genetic engineering can manipulate only a few genes at a time. And in the real world, droughts vary widely in severity and duration, affecting the crop at different stages of its growth, so any engineered gene will be more successful under some drought conditions than others.
Genes that improve drought tolerance may have other effects on crop growth, some of which may be undesirable–a phenomenon known as pleiotropy. This has been commonly observed with many otherwise promising drought tolerance genes, and is likely a reflection of the interconnectedness of drought response with many other aspects of plant growth.
Molecular biologists try to reduce the negative effects of pleiotropy by ensuring that the engineered genes only become active under drought conditions, but if droughts are prolonged, the harmful effects may be hard to avoid.
Market Uncertainties
If Monsanto's cspB corn can meet these challenges, it will still face market hurdles. For starters, DroughtGard will have to compete in the marketplace with drought-tolerant varieties produced through less expensive breeding methods.
Another challenge for cspB corn is that farmers buy their seeds well before they plant. Because drought is not reliably predictable, many farmers may not want to pay the higher price of engineered drought tolerance just in case drought occurs. This may largely restrict planting of cspB corn mainly to areas where moderate drought is frequent, such as the western regions of the U.S. Corn Belt.
Other factors important for marketing seed include the overall quality of the corn varieties that the cspB is placed in and how these compare to competitors varieties.
Given the status of R&D on GE drought tolerance and water use efficiency and challenging questions about its prospects, UCS recommends that:
– Congress and the USDA should substantially increase support for public crop-breeding programs to improve drought tolerance.
– Congress and the USDA should use conservation programs funded under the federal Farm Bill to expand the use of available methods for improving drought tolerance and WUE.
– The USDA and public universities should increase research devoted to finding better ways to store and conserve soil water, groundwater, and surface water, and better farming methods to withstand drought.
– In particular, organic and similar methods that improve soil fertility simultaneously improve the capacity of soil to store water for crop use during drought, while mulches can reduce soil temperature and reduce evaporation. These methods should be encouraged through incentives.
– Public and private research institutions should devote more funding and effort to improve crops that are important in drought-prone regions in the Southern Hemisphere.
– Researchers at the USDA and public universities should carefully monitor the efficacy and possible undesirable effects of cspB corn. Such monitoring is important because this variety is the first GE commercial drought-tolerant crop, and the resulting information would enhance our understanding of GE drought tolerance.
– The USDA and public universities should expand their research on using plant breeding to improve water use efficiency–a vital concern that has not attracted major efforts from the biotechnology industry.
(http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/05/corn-monsanto-idUSL1E8H4JMW20120605)
SCIENCE GROUP FINDS DROUGHT-TOLERANT GMO CORN LACKING
By Carey Gillam, Thomson Reuters, USA
June 5 (Reuters) – New genetically altered corn aimed at helping farmers deal with drought offers more hype than help over the long term, according to a report issued on Tuesday by a science and environmental advocacy group.
The Union for Concerned Scientists (UCS) said the only genetically altered corn approved by regulators and undergoing field trials in the United States has no improved water efficiency, and provides only modest results in only moderate drought conditions.
"Farmers are always looking to reduce losses from drought, but the biotechnology industry has made little real-world progress on this problem," said Doug Gurian-Sherman, a plant pathologist and senior scientist for UCS. "Despite many years of research and millions of dollars in development costs, DroughtGard doesn't outperform the non-engineered alternatives."
UCS used data generated by Monsanto, the developer of biotech "DroughtGard" corn approved by regulators in December and an analysis by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). It said Monsanto's corn "does not appear to be superior to several recent classically bred varieties of drought-tolerant corn."
Conventional breeding techniques and improved farming practices have helped boost drought tolerance of corn planted in the United States by about 1 percent per year over the past several decades. The group calculated this was roughly equal to or better than what the new GMO corn has demonstrated.
Monsanto said its new drought-tolerant corn "can help farmers mitigate the risk of yield loss when experiencing drought stress, primarily in areas of annual drought stress, which in the U.S. historically has been the Western Great Plains region."
Monsanto spokesman Thomas Helscher said, "Specifically, these hybrids with the drought trait can use less water during severe drought stress and have more kernels per ear."
Monsanto's Drought Gard corn hybrids are in the final phase before commercialization in on-farm field trials. The company hopes to roll the product out commercially next year.
Drought is a significant problem for agriculture in the United States and globally. Last year, extreme drought in Texas and throughout the U.S. South wiped out crops and left livestock without pasture or hay, with damages to the agriculture industry calculated at more than $5 billion.
Monsanto, DuPont, and other biotech companies have touted crops that perform better in drought as a means to help farmers combat water shortages. The UCS report said that classical and other forms of breeding are more cost efficient and effective than genetic engineering.
"An exaggerated expectation about the capacity of genetic engineering at the expense of other approaches risks leaving farmers and the public high and dry when it comes to ensuring that the United States and other nations can produce enough food, and have enough clean freshwater, to meet everyone's needs," the report said.
UCS said that rather than relying on private industry research, Congress and the USDA should substantially increase support for public crop-breeding programs to improve drought tolerance, and should use conservation programs funded under the federal Farm Bill to expand the use of available methods for improving drought tolerance and water use efficiency.
A spokeswoman for the biotechnology industry said genetically modified drought-tolerant crops could still prove valuable.
"It's too early to make assumptions about drought tolerant technology, while it is still being tested," said Karen Batra, spokeswoman for the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO).
"It's absurd to assume it's an either/or debate. With growers all over the world dealing with climate change and increased demand due to overpopulation, we need to turn to all the means available – including improved seeds and biotechnology to address these challenges."
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During the planning and the analysis of previous accidents of civil aviation that followed, it soon became obvious that it would be impossible to deal with thousands of callers with the resources at that time and that the technical equipment had to be improved. The previous room could not be used for further expansion. It was substituted by a no longer fully-equipped air-raid shelter, which was transformed during the following months.
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