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Similarly, decisions about behaviors such as smoking and drinkingare influenced by whether the people we spend time with engage in these activities.Psychologists refer to this widespread tendency to act and think like the people around us asconformity.
I would always think this was peer pressure people doing the things that there peers do around them but I have gotten a better understanding on conformity you have a choice you decide rather or not to partaken in your peers influences versus peer pressure you are pressured into your peers influences. Conformity and peer pressure does seem to get mixed up some time especially if a person is in a sticky situation there more like to say they were peer pressured into influences instead of admitting they conformed with the influences. I think a lot of students usually go through this phase during high school maybe earlier but definitely in high school. I think it's cause they want to fit in and not be rejected.
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In the United States and much ofEurope, by contrast, the right way to measure timeis assumed to be by the clock. This is especially truewhen it comes to work hours. Time is money, andany time not focused on-task is seen as wastedtime
According to the reading it says time is money, and any time not focused on-task is seen as wasted time. I agree with that when your at work you don't want to waste time even if you have finish your task before hand. You will try to find something else to do just to keep you busy. At my old job in high school my supervisor would send people home if they were just standing around wasting time on the clock.
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In East Asian contexts, not only would studentsbe more thoughtful of the overall group's success, but they would also be more comfortableacknowledging both the positive (their own success on the test) and the negative (theirclassmates' lower grades)
The reading says that in East Asian countries people over there are more thoughtful of the overall group's success. Which I find very interesting because in American it's more so all for yourselves, our county is more so selfish. I think sometimes we'd rather see ourselves be successful than the next person or the next. We see the "I" in team.
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Individualists are more likely to define themselves interms of an independent self. This means that people see themselves as A) being a uniqueindividual with a stable collection of personal traits, and B) that these traits drive behavior.
According to the article Independent self are individuals are more likely to define themselves in terms of independent self. this means that people see themselves as being unique individual with a stable collection of personal traits, and that these traits drive behavior. I think that a lot of people think that they know who they really are but in reality they're confused inside. Some people put on fronts for society because of what they say and for their parents because their parents "knew what was best for them". Not knowing or understanding who you really are may (or can) cause confusion or depression or other serious issues. We can try to stop this types of issues by letting children explore and have autonomy at an early age letting them make decisions on there on.
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This modulefocuses on biases against social groups,which social psychologists sort intoemotional prejudices, mental stereotypes,and behavioral discrimination. Thesethree aspects of bias are related, but theyeach can occur separately from the others(Dovidio & Gaertner, 2010; Fiske, 1998). Forexample, sometimes people have anegative, emotional reaction to a socialgroup (prejudice) without knowing even themost superficial reasons to dislike them(stereotypes).
The article talks about how prejudice, stereotypes, and discrimination has a correlation, but can happen separately. I do believe that this is true. You can be prejudice, stereotypical and discriminate towards others and not be aware. You see this happen a lot in this society. This are the people that see no wrong in there behavior and thinks society is suppose to keep accepting there behavior. Times have change from the 70's to now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewE2K8A7Ddw video on prejudice. stereotypes
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gender stereotypes, or thebeliefs and expectations people holdabout the typical characteristics, preferences,and behaviors of men and women. Aperson's gender identity refers to theirpsychological sense of being male orfemale.
I think in today's society a lot of people struggle with gender stereotypes and their identity. Society is set up to believe that the man is masculine and the women is feminine, and that if those traits are switched, then it's wrong. It's hard teaching a child about gender stereotypes because you don't want your child to feel as though he or she can not do certain things, but it happens which "may or may not" cause a crisis with their gender identity. You want the child to explore their options but in this case a lot of parents may not agree because they don't want to cause confusion. According to the article gender stereotypes, or the beliefs and expectations people hold about the typical characteristics, preferences,and behaviors of men and women. A person's gender identity refers to their psychological sense of being male or female.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1OvzMS-sag Thoughts on gender being taught to kindergarten children
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Thoughts on gender being taught to kindergarten children
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Researchers and laypeople also differ in their use of the term violence. A meteorologist mightcall a storm "violent" if it has intense winds, rain, thunder, lightning, or hail. Researchers defineviolence as aggression intended to cause extreme physical harm (e.g., injury, death). Thus,all violent acts are aggressive, but not all aggressive acts are violent. For example, screamingand swearing at another person is aggressive, but not violent
The article says "thus, all violent acts are aggressive, but not all aggressive acts are violent." I definitely agree with this you can be upset with some one until your blue in the face but if you have not physically harmed them then your just expressing your aggressiveness towards that person. You will see this a lot in relationship, friendships, or any time of companionship. But, you do have to be careful with your choice of words with aggression but with that can come violence. you tend to see this more in a domestic relationship. I feel as though violence/aggression comes in many forms physically, mentally and emotionally.
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But those others are looking around too,also trying to figure out what to do. Everyone is looking, but no one is acting! Relying on othersto define the situation and to then erroneously conclude that no intervention is necessarywhen help is actually needed is called pluralistic ignorance
According the the text Pluralistic Ignorance is when everyone is looking, but no one is acting. relying on others to define the situation ans to then erroneously conclude that no intervention is necessary when help is actually needed. Why is that? I will never understand. Do people get nervous in a serious situation to the point where they just stop and look or is it just people being noisy and don't want to help? There has been many criminal situations where bystanders just stop and recorded the situation instead of getting help. I honestly think it has a lot to do with the generation. This generation is so built around technology it's as if we actually lost touch with reality, versus back in the day people were all for helping others.
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According to the article rational self-interest predict 100% defection in cooperative tasks. That is,if people were only interested in benefiting themselves, we would always expect to see selfish cooperation behavior. As a college student I have experienced this in group work I feel like this related to social loafing were there is that one person in the group would isn't pulling there weight. That person either doesn't care or doesn't understand the material and refuses to ask their group for help. You will also see this in a classroom setting when a student refuses to complete his or her work because he/she doesn't see how it will benefit them.
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The diagnostic process involves a combination of parental reportand clinical observation. Children withsignificant impairments across thesocial/communication domain who alsoexhibit repetitive behaviors can qualifyfor the ASD diagnosis. There is widevariability in the precise symptom profilean individual may exhibit.
This article is very informative. I learned to much in such little time. Growing up, having a cousin that battled with autism was hard because he was different and other people labeled him as different. He didn't interact much with people because he was scared of rejection. My cousin's conditions controlled him. Growing up I knew something wasn't right but I never knew how serious he's condition was. I figured because he was a kid, that he was going through a phase, but that wasn't the case. The article says that "Children with significant impairments across the social/communication domain who also exhibit repetitive behaviors qualify for the ASD disorder. It took my cousin a while to learn how to fight his battles but he overcame them. With the support of family and physicians he managed to learn to fit in with society.
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People who are accepted membersof a group tend to feel happier and more satisfied. But should they be rejected by a group,they feel unhappy, helpless, and depressed. Studies of ostracism—the deliberate exclusionfrom groups—indicate this experience is highly stressful and can lead to depression, confusedthinking, and even aggression
The article says that people being accepted into a group will made a person feel happier and satisfied, but somethings that's not always the case. Most first time college students experience this they often feel homesick or alone until they find that group of friends to hang with (Buote et al., 2007). It's either you'll make the cut for the group or not. As a college student I have experienced this first hand. At first it can be hard because you think that the group shares so many similarities like you and yet you're still rejected by one's kind. It was hard of course but I did not like it get to me, but for others that can be a very painful situation. According to the article ostracism the exclusion from groups- indicate this experience is highly stressful and can lead to depression. confused thinking, and even aggression. In my opinion I agree but it just depends on the person. Making new friends in a new environment is not easy.
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This interaction can be observed in the development of the earliest relationships betweeninfants and their parents in the first year. Virtually all infants living in normal circumstancesdevelop strong emotional attachments to those who care for them. Psychologists believe thatthe development of these attachments is as biologically natural as learning to walk and notsimply a byproduct of the parents' provision of food or warmth.
I totally agree with this. We talked about this in Dr. Snyder's Developmental Psych class. I learned that if a child is cared in the way there suppose to be cared for then their attachment will be a lot stronger to their parents then those who aren't cared for properly. The child who has a higher attachment level are more likely to regret someone else who isn't there caregiver. We see this a lot in more higher SES families vs lower SES families were the parents have multiple children and both parents have jobs.
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We stock a full line of accessories, hydraulic hoses and parts. Because of our long standing relationship with our manufacturers we are able to locate parts quickly if we don't have what you need. We also can special order a part for you with overnight or 2 day delivery.
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The GloomyFurniture Mod comes with a pack of new old style furniture.
JukeBox (It plays new country songs and let's you pause/resume the background music).
The jukebox is only available for purchase via the exotic merchant ships. You can add your own custom songs into the jukebox by adding them into the songs folder that you will find inside the mod files: GloomyFurniture > Sounds > Songs. Warning! Don't add songs while the game is running!
It is recommended to place the GloomyFurniture Mod as low as possible in the mod list.
Additional credits: Gloomylynx (art) and NukaFrog (programming).
The GloomyFurniture Mod adds new old style furniture to give a whole new look to your bases. These lovely furnishings are great for medieval colonies, but they also come with electricity variations for more advanced civilizations. The textures are just over the top!


Bar Rescue host Jon Taffer announced today that the crew will be shooting at RJ Replays tonight.
They will be shooting tonight at 6:30pm tonight. Redhouse Painting also announced that they will be painting the building tomorrow as part of the renovation.
Guests who come tonight are encouraged to come back when they reopen the bar on Saturday night around 8:30pm.


Earlier today I received a memorandum from the Social Justice Coalition, Reclaim the City, the District Six Working Committee, and others.
I have had numerous engagements with those who are fighting for better housing and the redress of our historical spatial injustice. My most recent engagement was with Reclaim the City about two weeks ago when they arrived at my home at 05:00 in the morning to protest, and to engage with me on housing matters. I sat down with them in my street and we spoke. I remain willing to engage with any organisation in an effort to address what I regard as one of our greatest challenges – our housing deficit.
During that engagement I reiterated our commitment to a more equitable geographical distribution of emergency or transitional housing options; using well-located City-owned land to address the housing deficit; to improve the locality of housing opportunities; and to address the policy vacuum on inclusionary housing so that our planning regime is more predictable and provides clarity on the role of the private developer to contribute to the deficit of affordable housing.
I repeated what I have said before: that where people live matters.The restitution and redevelopment of District Six is the responsibility of the National Department of Rural Development and Land Affairs who have taken on the role of the developer. That said, the restitution of this area, where thousands of residents were forcefully removed during apartheid, has immense potential to spatially transform our city.
It is quite shameful that 24 years after democracy, and on the day we celebrate the rights enshrined in our Constitution, those forcefully evicted from their homes by the apartheid government are still waiting for justice and for their promised restitution. I accept their grievance as legitimate and I stand in solidarity with their frustration. I will approach the new Minister of Rural Development and Land Affairs to look into the District Six process as a matter of urgency.
On Monday morning, 19 March 2018, I was present at a ceremonial handing over of land to Rondebosch East claimants. I was deeply moved by what I saw and heard.
At that ceremony I stated that land restitution is a powerful reminder of our brutal and cruel apartheid history, and the injustices suffered by so many people. At a time when land ownership is prominent in our country's conversation it is shocking and true that the restitution process is taking far too long in this country. It is unacceptable that, in many cases, land restitution drags on for decades and that some of the claimants die before they can return to the land they were forcefully removed from.
In addition, I am fully aware of the fears and frustrations of those in need of housing opportunities in Cape Town – be it for transitional housing in times of emergencies and private evictions, for affordable rental units, or state-subsidised Breaking New Ground houses.
The stark reality is that it will take time to address this need by adding additional housing opportunities that are geographically better located to assist residents in emergencies, and those in need of affordable housing.
I have stated before that the dire need for housing and security of tenure, including for those who are in informal settlements, count among the biggest challenges that South Africa is facing at this moment. Furthermore, this challenge cannot be addressed simply by focussing on the numbers of housing units delivered without also considering where we are providing public housing. We must ensure that public housing, no matter its typology in terms of the national housing policy, is better located. I reiterate that where people live matters.
The irony is that while we rely on, and are constrained by, the National Government's policy decisions and funding, those who make these decisions are often far removed from the coalface of service delivery and the harsh realities of poverty and displacement.
Local governments bear the brunt of the pressure as more people are moving to cities in search of better lives and job opportunities. Cape Town is no exception.
We have 343 537 residents registered on our database who are in need of and qualify for a housing opportunity. We also project that at least 650 000 families will qualify for and require some form of state-subsidised housing in Cape Town over the next 20 years.
This is a massive challenge and one that will not be resolved overnight. Neither will it be resolved by government alone – we need civil society organisations like the Social Justice Coalition, the private sector, and our residents to work with us.
Workers and the poor are evicted and displaced all over the city, not in Cape Town's inner city alone.
Those on the City's housing database are from areas all over Cape Town – they are patiently awaiting their turn for a house in Khayelitsha, Philippi, Gugulethu, Nomzamo, Langa, Ottery, Hangberg, Bonteheuwel, Belhar, Macassar, Imizamo Yethu, Atlantis, Masiphumelele – the list goes on and on. Some of these beneficiaries are 60 years and older, others have dependents with special needs.
The purpose of the City's housing database is to ensure that housing opportunities are made available in a fair, transparent, systematic, and equitable manner, and in accordance with our housing allocation policy to ensure that no one jumps the queue. We cannot allow a situation where certain residents get access to housing opportunities at the cost of those who have been waiting for years for the very same housing opportunity.
All of us must respect the City's housing database and housing allocation policy, and acknowledge its role as the foundation of a fair and equitable housing allocation regime.
In the meantime, we are working as hard and as fast as we can within the regulatory constraints, and we are doing the most with the funds that we are receiving from National Government.
I want to reiterate that everything that we are doing is geared towards reversing the legacy of apartheid spatial planning and the transformation of Cape Town's spatial form; to promoting transit-oriented development; and to providing affordable housing on well-located land close to public transport and job opportunities.
We have a team of officials tasked with identifying land for housing projects and the evaluation of land for future housing projects. We are doing so on a continuous basis.
We are assessing City-owned land to determine whether some of these properties could be developed for housing opportunities – be it for transitional, affordable, social housing, or state-subsidised Breaking New Ground housing. We are also identifying suitable buildings within CBDs across Cape Town that can be developed or converted into affordable rental accommodation.
The development and availability of affordable rental accommodation in central areas of the city must play a key role in the future development of Cape Town.
On this point, I want to mention that the prospectus and request for proposals for the development of affordable and inclusionary housing opportunities on five well-located City-owned sites in Salt River, Woodstock, and the inner city was issued on 29 September 2017. We have commenced with the preliminary screening of the proposals received and, as promised, will share those that are responsive with the public in the next two months.
This inner-city affordable housing precinct is not the first and last of it. This precinct approach will be replicated in other parts of the city using well located City-owned land, and land and buildings we will acquire, and we will soon be in a position to call for proposals for the next precinct.
In addition, in 2017 we initiated a request for proposal process to interested social housing institutions (SHIs) to partner with the City in the development of the Salt River Market site for the provision of social housing. The site is approximately 1,4 hectares. Communicare's submission of an affordable housing, high density development was the preferred submission.
The proposed development will provide approximately 850 residential rental units (inclusive of the market-related and social housing units) and about 2 000 m² of retail space. Thus, the Salt River Market site in Albert Road will be a mixed-use development with a combination of affordable housing opportunities – from social housing (subsidised rental units for households with a monthly income of less than R15 000) to GAP rental housing (for households with a monthly income of between R3 500 and R20 000) to retail and office space.
Information about the proposed development will be exhibited in the vicinity of the site so that the residents can see what is being proposed and to enable them to comment and make proposals.
In addition, two erven along Pine Road and six erven along Dillon Lane were allocated to the Social Housing Company (SOHCO), a registered SHI, in July last year for the development of social housing opportunities. The statutory land-use applications, among which building plans and rezoning applications, are under way and we expect construction to commence once these processes have been finalised. This development is likely to provide about 250 social housing units in Woodstock.
The Salt River Market site and the erven along Pine Road and Dillon Lane are well-located City-owned land. These sites are less than 5 km away from the Cape Town CBD. Apart from the proximity to the CBD, the sites are also within walking distance of public transport, social amenities, schools, hospitals, and job opportunities.
Furthermore, the sites are located within the Voortrekker Road Corridor Integration Zone (VRCIZ) – one of three integration zones where the City will, during the current term of office, spend the bulk of its capital budget on infrastructure aimed to transform Cape Town's spatial reality.
The significance of the location of the sites resonates when one bears in mind that the VRCIZ will link the Bellville, Maitland, Parow, Goodwood and Salt River CBDs with the Cape Town CBD via Voortrekker Road. By prioritising dense, transit-oriented growth and development in this integration zone, the City seeks to create more inclusive communities with access to improved services, job opportunities, and affordable housing and public transport.
We also want to develop more transitional housing sites across the city in the long term so that we can assist those residents who are facing emergency situations with temporary accommodation while they are looking for permanent housing.


It's common knowledge that amenity is all important in attracting and retaining visitors at your caravan park. Landscaping also plays a role along with recreational facilities and site size. View and pedestrial corridors are now an integral part of contemporary holiday park design.
Some caravan park design concepts have moved away from regimented grid site layouts, which often made caravan parks looking like high-density residential subdivisions.
While many caravan park designers like to show their artistic flair in providing different styles of holiday park layouts, some have little awareness of the important parameters that keep development costs to a reasonable level.
Development costs impact on your return on investment. High site development costs can make your site tariffs uncompetitive through the pricing necessary to maintain viability.
Therefore, it is critical that holiday park design takes into account important design criteria, which, helps avoid unnecessary capital cost.
One simple rule is to keep caravan sites in clusters or rows that allow for four sites to have a common services point.
This rule does not generally inhibit design and site and road layout but means that a single water, sullage, lighting and power connection point services four sites, rather than two.
Consider the cost of a combined power outlet, light and sullage point and water connections is around $1,500 plus termination of services cost - say $500 each for plumber and electrical contractor. This cost of $2,500 can be shared between one, two or four sites, depending on the particular holiday park's site design.
Where a power/water/sullage outlet services a single site the cost is $2,500. For one outlet shared between two sites the cost reduces to $1,250 per site or for four sites sharing an outlet the cost becomes $625 per site.
The difference in capital cost between designing sites in clusters of 4, rather than clusters of 2 sites, for a 100 site holiday park is calculated at $62,500.
That's a significant added cost and one of the many that could be alleviated by engaging a specialist caravan park consultant.
Brighthouse - Strategic consultants for sustainable accommodation projects including caravan parks, eco-tourism accommodation, worker's camps and lifestyle villages.


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Q: Rails 3: Why `errors` Hash is empty for nested model (all errors are in the parent model) I'm using Devise and have models set up like this:
User
    has_one :profile
Profile
    belongs_to :user
    has_one :address
Address
    belongs_to :profile

For testing, I caused errors on the form (it's a nested form, using all 3 models). This is the resulting errors hash (@user.errors hash):
{
:email=>["can't be blank"],
:password_confirmation=>[],
:password=>["can't be blank"],
:"profile.first_name"=>["can't be blank","is too short (minimum is 1 characters)"]
:"profile.address.street"=>["can't be blank"],
}

All the errors are expected, but the hash's key format is unexpected (:"profile.address.street") - I would have thought each nested model's errors hash would contain the errors for that model ?
I checked inside the @user.profile.errors hash, and that is empty!
How do I get the nested-model specific errors into the relevant errors hash in the nested model?
UPDATE
I hacked out a solution here. Had a question on that too, so the solution isn't posted as an answer to this question :)

A: Ran into this not too long ago and had to cook up some code to pluck these out myself. It isn't supported by default in Rails - Ryan Daigle touches on it here a bit.

A: Try this:
@user.profile.valid?
@user.profile.errors

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Q: What AC Adapter should I use to replace 2 AAA batteries on my razor? My razor works on batteries (2 AAA batteries to be exact, 1.2V and 600mAh each).
The batteries after 3 years of quite a lot of shaving are almost completely dead, but I am used to this razor, can't say goodbye yet!
So, I know the procedure replacing the batteries with the adapter, but I'm not sure what AC Adapter I should look for. and preferably with no soldering involved. Any help?
EDIT: By no soldering involved I mean no use of capacitors, resistors, regulators etc.

A: BEWARE that replacing independent internal batteries with a mains-connected power supply is a SIGNIFICANT AND POSSIBLY FATAL SHOCK HAZARD!  Quite apart (and in addition to) all the concerns about voltage and current and soldering, etc.
Are the batteries user-replacable (friction-fit into a battery compartment)?  Or are they hard-wired inside the shaver?  If they are hard-wired, a "solderless" solution would appear impossible.
We don't understand the part about "... always completely drain the batteries before recharging it".  WHY? How long does it take you to shave? Is it more than 35~45 minutes?  Is it not possible to just leave it charging overnight? Your description makes it sound like you are creating your own problem.

A: Can you replace batteries?  cut & solder
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/2PCS-BT-1011-800mAh-2-4V-Rechargeable-Ni-MH-Battery-for-Wireless-Telephone-/311660454016?hash=item4890692080:g:kEAAAOSwtnpXj2uF

or
these
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/4-Pcs-Ni-MH-AA-3000mAh-1-2V-Rechargeable-Batteries-Ultra-cell-Battery-Red-/231981108714?hash=item360326cdea:g:KrAAAOSwM4xXYnlL

This may not last as long as the batteries, but its 2.4Vdc


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Perception Point: Protecting communication and collaboration apps from cyber attacks
Why we invested in the Israeli cybersecurity company
Data & Research, Insights, Intelligent Enterprise
Why a new breed of cybersecurity solutions is needed for securing enterprise communication and collaboration. And why we invested in the Israeli cybersecurity company Perception Point.
As COVID-19 unfolded in the first half of 2020, we set out to explore its long-term ramifications and imagine what the 'New Normal' could look like. Not only that, we also wanted to understand the non-obvious: what would be the second- or third-order effects of remote working and accelerated digitalization? Cybersecurity became one of the key areas of focus: as companies go through the cycle of upgrading their applications and architectures, security would have to follow in close sync. This opportunity was validated by hackers themselves: in the first few months of COVID-19, phishing attacks increased by more than 600% in under a month (Infosecurity Magazine, Jun-20).
The work led us to re-engage with Yoram Salinger, the CEO of Perception Point, whom we had originally met back in 2019 when they had just started commercializing the product. Perception Point is an Israeli cybersecurity company focusing on protecting communication and collaboration channels such as Outlook, Gmail, Teams, Dropbox, and Google Drive. We were impressed by the strong technology talent in the team, the broad vision of the company, and the simple, yet sophisticated, product. And now we are excited to announce our investment in their $28M Series B round, led by Red Dot Capital Partners and joined by existing investors Pitango Ventures and State of Mind Ventures.
Two trends are particularly relevant for understanding the background for our investment: 1) the proliferation of enterprise communication and collaboration tools, and 2) the 'API-fication' of software.
The proliferation of enterprise communication and collaboration tools calls for new security solutions
The role of email as the sole communication and collaboration tool for enterprises is long gone. Even before COVID-19 hit, an average enterprise used more than 6 different enterprise communication and collaboration (EC&C) applications (Perception Point study, 2019). The prevalence of these applications has since exploded, and usage has expanded from internal collaboration to include customers, partners, and subcontractors.
From the hacker's perspective, EC&C apps are a dream: they are used for sharing content (i.e., text, files, and URLs), are perceived as safe by the users (unlike email), and typically have little to no built-in or even 3rd-party security. Platforms such as Dropbox are the perfect distribution channels for malicious files or URLs since any uploaded content is instantly propagated to all members of a shared folder.
The 'API-fication' of software will produce the next generation of significant software companies
Shifts in technology paradigms often disrupt existing, mature industries, and produce higher quality products and services at cheaper prices. When that disruption fuses with an opportunity to serve entirely new markets, it becomes particularly interesting.
We believe the next generation of significant software companies will be created through the 'API-fication' of software, where APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are used for integrating pieces of software to others. APIs have existed for decades, but we believe their impact on the broader economy is still in the early days (for an in-depth analysis, see our Executive in Residence Markus Suomi's article here).
API-fication impacts both the development and consumption of software. On the development side, APIs allow the software to be built modularly by stitching together both internally and externally built components. This leverages the comparative advantage of each company – why build a global telecommunications infrastructure yourself when you can integrate with Twilio? On the consumption side, API-based SaaS companies create value by abstracting a business capability, such as document data extraction, and provisioning it over an API, rather than providing a UI for a human to interface with.
API-based approaches have not yet been widely adopted in the cybersecurity industry – it is an industry that is dominated by incumbents with broad end-to-end platforms. In email security, for instance, Secure Email Gateways from the likes of Proofpoint and Cisco have been the gold standard. The issue is that these platforms are based on an old architecture – they struggle with detecting advanced attacks, they operate at the perimeter without any visibility into internal traffic, and typically, they can protect only email. Sophisticated attackers know how to use social engineering or other means to circumvent these incumbent security solutions.
Perception Point is bringing the power of APIs to securing communication and collaboration channels
This brings us to Perception Point. Perception Point is an API-based SaaS for securing any communication and collaboration channel against any type of attack, including phishing, malware, or business email compromise. The technology is based on 7 security layers for detecting malicious content, even in situations where the malicious payload is hidden deep behind a URL.
Perception Point's cloud-native and API-based approach provide several key advantages. First, the beauty of the solution is in its simplicity for customers and end-users. The product can be deployed in a matter of minutes and there is no disruption to existing workflows or the end-user experience. Second, 100% of traffic is analyzed, and the analysis happens in seconds rather than minutes. Speed is particularly important in messaging applications, which are, by nature, real-time. Third, Perception Point covers any EC&C channel, from well-known software vendors such as Dropbox and Microsoft Teams to the proprietary applications of customers. Fourth, and most importantly, Perception Point provides a single pane of glass across all EC&C channels and offers detection as a service, where technology is complemented by human analysts.
SE Labs, an independent security analysis company, has validated Perception Point's detection capabilities, scoring them at #1 in a test that included incumbents such as Mimecast, Microsoft, and Google. Ultimately, though, the proof is with customers, and after hearing their rave reviews, we were convinced that Perception Point had created something unique.
Over the years, NGP Capital has backed many Israeli entrepreneurs either directly or through fund investments, such as with Team8. We typically find that the entrepreneurs in Israel possess a deep technology background and a great urgency to scale. We've been fortunate enough to be part of the journeys with companies such as Moovit (acquired by Intel for $900M in 2020) and Kaltura (filed S-1 in Mar-21).
We look forward to supporting Yoram, Michael, Shlomi, and the entire Perception Point team in their efforts to make communication and collaboration more secure.
Please feel free to reach out at ossi@ngpcap.com in case you have feedback on the post or wish to exchange thoughts on the industry.
Article published Apr 21, 2021, written by
Ossi Tiainen
Principal, NGP Capital
Ossi focuses on investment opportunities around the connected enterprise and keeps himself updated on the latest developments in science and technology.
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Demografiska föreningen i Finland (), med säte i Helsingfors, utgör den finländska avdelningen av Nordisk demografisk förening. Den instiftades 1973.

Föreningen har till ändamål att främja forskningen om befolkningsfrågor och interaktionen mellan forskarna bland annat genom att arrangera seminarier, upprätthålla kontakter med andra inhemska och utländska samfund på området samt att utge publikationer. Föreningen hade 2001 drygt 120 medlemmar.

Demografiska föreningen i Finland är medlemsorganisation i Vetenskapliga samfundens delegation.

Källor

Organisationer bildade 1973
Finländska vetenskapsorganisationer
Demografi

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Waste Management Phoenix Open 'as cool as it gets in golf,' PGA Tour should learn from it
By John Strege
Stories of interest you might have missed…
Rickie Fowler's popularity among the younger demographic is a start, "but there is a real fear that golf needs a lot more to regenerate its core audience," Arizona Republic columnist Dan Bickley writes in making the case that the PGA Tour could benefit from the example the Waste Management Phoenix Open sets. "For a non-major, the Phoenix Open is as cool as it gets in professional golf. The numbers don't lie. And maybe this tournament can teach the PGA Tour a thing or two about the future."
Bubba Watson ran afoul of Waste Management Phoenix Open fans for his criticism of the course earlier in the week. But at the end of the week, reconciliation was the goal. "At 9:25 a.m., they gathered near the 10th tee, nearly 60 men in blue tunics and long medallions standing in a show of solidarity," Paola Bovin of the Arizona Republic writes of the Phoenix Thunderbirds, the civic organization that operates the tournament. "They were there to tell Bubba Watson they had moved on. The rest of you should, too."
Rory McIlroy failed to win a third straight Dubai Desert Classic, but he "is far from being in the doldrums as he heads to America to start the build up for this year's Masters," Martim Dempster of the Scotsman writes. "In eight rounds in the Middle East, McIlroy broke par seven times and was a combined 29-under-par. Even the odd round out - the second circuit here - was a level-par effort."


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Никола́й Дми́триевич Алекса́ндров (4 февраля 1961, Москва) — советский и российский , , телеведущий и радиоведущий.

Биография
Окончил филологический факультет МГУ,  (1991, диссертация о прозаике Александре Эртеле). С 1986 года сотрудник Музея Пушкина в Москве, затем заведующий Музеем-квартирой Андрея Белого на Арбате.

С 1990 по 2022 гг. — книжный обозреватель радио «Эхо Москвы» (программа «Книжечки»), соведущий программы «Радиодетали».

Одновременно ведущий программ телеканала «Культура»: «Порядок слов» (2002—2008) и «Разночтения» (2004—2010). Публиковался в ряде периодических изданий, среди которых «Независимая газета», «Итоги» (1997—2000), «Газета» (2002—2004), «Известия» (2004—2006, 2008, 2010—2011), «Дружба народов», «Вопросы литературы», «Литературное обозрение».

Автор сборника литературно-исторических очерков Силуэты пушкинской эпохи (М.: Аграф, 1999. — 320 с. — ISBN 5-7784-0081-0) и книги Тет-а-тет. Беседы с европейскими писателями (Б. С. Г.-Пресс, 2010. — 416 с. — ISBN 978-5-93381-300-2).

С апреля 2010 по 9 января 2014 года вёл единственную на тот момент передачу о литературе — «Книги» на телеканале «Дождь». С 20 мая 2013 по 21 апреля 2022 года вёл книжные новости «Порядок слов» и еженедельное интервью «Фигура речи» на «Общественном телевидении России».

В 2003—2004 гг. преподавал на кафедре литературной критики факультета журналистики РГГУ. С 2011 года — доцент кафедры литературной критики.

Общественная деятельность
В 1999 году Николай Дмитриевич участвовал в «круглом столе» журнала «Дружба Народов», № 11 за 1999 г. «О прозе реальной и виртуальной». Подготовка к публикации Н. Игруновой. В мероприятии участвовали:

 Николай Александров,
 А. Архангельский,
 В. Березин,

 М. Бутов,
 А. Гаврилов,
 А. Гостева,

 А. Дмитриев,
 А. Немзер,
 А. Слаповский.

В марте 2014 года Николай Александров подписал Антивоенное заявление российской интеллигенции «против войны, реставрации тоталитаризма и лжи в государственных СМИ» относительно украинского кризиса и присоединения Крыма к России.

В мае 2018 г. присоединился к заявлению российских литераторов и ученых в защиту осужденного в России украинского режиссера Олега Сенцова.

Семья
 Женат. Двое детей:
 Дочь — Мария (род. 1995)
 Сын — Василий (род. 1998).

Примечания

Ссылки
 Журнальный зал
 Телеканал «Культура»
 Сотрудники: Николай Александров

Выпускники филологического факультета МГУ
Преподаватели Российского государственного гуманитарного университета
Телеведущие канала «Россия-Культура»
Телеведущие канала «Дождь»
Журналисты газеты «Известия»


SXSW started as a music festival and the films came later. One of the joys of the current SXSW Conference, which took place in Austin, TX, from March 8-17, is the film series called "24 Beats Per Second". The series explores music through film. Two highlights in the series this year, which included 18 films, were The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash and Bluebird.
Before seeing these films, I thought I knew all about Johnny Cash. I was wrong. And, I knew nothing about the Bluebird Cafe, and that made me sad.
The Gift in the title of the Johnny Cash biopic refers to a comment made by his mother. When Cash's body was crashing into puberty and his voice changed from little boy to deep baritone, his mother called his voice "a gift". It turned out she was right.
That voice fills this film due to a discovery of cassette tapes that Cash recorded while on the tour bus between shows. It is a unique circumstance when a new film can be narrated by its subject, gone so many years ago.
This and other new material found their way into the film due to a discovery of previously unknown archival material and the efforts of filmmaker Thom Zimny, helped by the Cash estate.
Zimny, who previously created films about Elvis Presley and Bruce Springsteen, chose to make the recording of the concert at Folsom Prison the pivot point of the story. From there he went forward and backward in time, to Cash's first marriage, his guilt over his older brother's accidental death, his spiritual longings, and his battles with addiction.
I thought I knew all about Johnny Cash from the film Walk the Line, but that only scratched the surface. The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash is a trip worth taking.
Although I once spent a week in Nashville, trying to hit every iconic country music spot I could, I missed the Bluebird Cafe. It's no wonder. It isn't near the Grand Ole Opry or downtown. It sits in a strip mall between a barber shop and a beauty parlor.
So, why is it important? It altered the course of country music history, launching the careers of megastars such as Garth Brooks, Faith Hill, Kacey Musgraves, Taylor Swift and more.
Director Brian Loschiavo, born in Philadelphia, spent a decade in LA, eventually becoming a producer for Disney/ABC. But his love of Music City caused him to relocate there and found Riverside Entertainment. He searched for the magic of the Bluebird in this film.
The Bluebird Cafe started as just that: a 100-seat cafe. In 1982, Amy Kurland, a recent graduate from culinary school, followed her dream and opened her eatery. Someone suggested they invite some bands to play there on the weekends. The Bluebird was small, so having a band set up in one end of the restaurant didn't work well. They decided to go with a less complicated format and move singers to the middle of the room.
That made it the cool spot for singer/songwriters including Keith Urban, Dierks Bentley and Vince Gill. They could see the people listening to their songs and gauge their reactions.
When the TV series Nashville began in 2012, they decided to make the Bluebird part of the story. Rather than film in the tiny site, they built an exact replica. Now, 70,000 people per year visit the Bluebird Cafe.
The documentary Bluebird was, of course all filmed in the real location, for which Director of Photography Jeff Molyneaux deserves laurels. In a small crowded location, it is hard for a film crew to fade into the background. Molyneaux did an amazing job of remaining unobtrusive, while capturing the mood and spirit of the visitors.
My favorite segment was when Taylor Swift dropped in unannounced. One of her fan-girls was in the audience. The girl's melt-down defines what it means to be a totally devoted fan. Other country stars who appear in the film include Trisha Yearwood, Pam Tillis, Steve Earle, and Maren Morris.
The SXSW audience for Bluebird was treated with a serenade on stage after the film by songwriters who have played at the Bluebird, including Nashville star Charles Estan.
To find out when you can see the film, check the film website or if you want to visit the Bluebird Cafe for real, check here.


Finding and retaining the right talent is especially difficult in today's tight labor market. A recent report from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) noted that late 2015 was the most difficult hiring period in four years. As organizations try to differentiate themselves, there is a greater focus on employer brand.
So, what exactly is an employer brand? Well, it's not a foosball table in the lunch room or yoga classes before work. It's also not a one-off recruiting campaign or employee-generated video. Check out Twitter's spoof for a chuckle. An employer brand is the unique experience of working for an organization – its culture, benefits, leadership, typical employee attributes and various intangibles, all rolled into one.
And here's the thing. Every organization has an employer brand. Your employees know it. The candidates you are recruiting are researching it. But does your organization know what it is?
1. Review existing communications materials for both recruiting and internal communications,including print, online and in-person.
What are the key messages? What do the materials look like? Do they change once a candidate has been hired?
2. Review existing data from recruiting interviews, employee engagement and communications surveys, exit interviews, etc.
What are the common themes? Are there any big differences?
3. Check out your company's Glassdoor site and other social networking sites.
What are current and prospective employees saying? How have reviews and comments changed over time? Do any big issues emerge?
4. Connect with HR and marketing.
How do they view your organization's employer brand, and how does that tie in with the overall brand? Employer branding requires a cross-functional team, so getting these folks on board early will be important.
5. Compare current state with future state.
Organizations constantly evolve, and it's important to think about what your organization is headed and what you may need from employees in the future. How does your current employer brand fare against a potential future employer brand? Should you make your employer brand more forward thinking?
A few words of advice before you begin: As you move through the process, think about your employer brand from every aspect of the "employee life cycle." What do potential candidates experience as they start their search? Then consider a candidate who is actively interviewing for a specific role, a newly hired employee, an employee with a few years of experience and your seasoned veterans who have been with the company for the long haul.
I'll post another blog soon about how to effectively articulate your organization's employer brand. In the meantime, please send me an email if you have questions or comments on this employer brand topic.


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From AbundantHope.net
How Covid Catastrophizing & a Colossal Crimewave Are Causing America's Second Great Retail Panic
By Helen Buyniski
Oct 14, 2021 - 12:08:04 AM
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/537385-retail-shortages-shoplifting-nyc-panic/
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Follow RT on The supply of food, drugs and other necessities is running out, and the labor needed to fill empty shelves can't be found, Americans are told. But we've heard this before - is it really time to panic, or for a voice of sanity?
Veteran media fearmongers have spent the last two years predicting the imminent doom of a society deprived of hairspray and baked beans in some sort of great retail apocalypse, the likes of which our materialistic society hasn't seen since the Great Depression. But according to these chroniclers of collapse, this latest promise of famine is no mere Toilet Paper Shortage of 2020.
According to CNN business writer Nathaniel Meyersohn, the coming wave of retail doom will make all previous shortages (real and imagined) look like child's play. The would-be anthropologist has divided our lives into a pre-pandemic "Before Times" and the current New Normal, while reassuring the virus worshipers that Covid-19 and the disruptions it brought aren't going away any time soon.
ALSO ON RT.COMGlobal food prices reach record high in September amid harvest issues and rising demand for vegetable oils, sugar & cereals
However, Americans have been hearing Chicken-Little-esque stories of food shortages since the pandemic began, which has not exactly inspired confidence in the words of the authorities any more than the predictions of millions of Covid-19 deaths within the first few months of the virus - calculations based on a faulty model.
This time, however, the sky may actually be falling. While some aspects of the prophecies shared by Meyersohn and his ilk are self-fulfilling - stores putting up Christmas displays earlier than ever are signaling to customers that they'd better do their shopping now, triggering dozens of stories about how festive goods are flying off the shelves at an unheard-of rate and sending shoppers into a panic - others are not so easily put to bed. Suspicious toilet paper shortages can be triggered at the drop of a hat, even though it's one of the easiest and quickest consumer products to manufacture, and the onset of another TP Tsunami can be reliably interpreted as a signal that a country is to begin panicking immediately.
The problem this time around, however, appears to go deeper than neurotic marketing fails and cheap appeals to the fight-or-flight response. Despite throwing up industrial-strength information blockades, narrative managers are no longer capable of covering up logistical snarls like truckers' strikes, both in the US and in its Five Eyes allies.
ALSO ON RT.COMHow to kill a thriving metropolis in 7 months: NYC's Covid-19 failure is a vicious spiral directed by a sadistic political regime
Some drivers' unions oppose the mandatory vaccination regime imposed upon them by President Joe Biden, on top of the usual list of grievances, and they are joined by factory workers like those at the Kellogg Company in demanding better working conditions. With both corporate and rank-and-file workers convinced they have leverage against the other, the power struggle is likely to continue for months, to the disadvantage of the American people.
While it's tempting to write off these manmade "shortages" as part of the seemingly endless array of pandemic-related fictional catastrophizing, they are very real. Photos of empty shelves at Walgreens, Rite Aid, Stop & Shop and other American drugstore and grocery chains are all over the internet, depicting sometimes puzzling absences - do potato chips really have such a high resale value? - and giving rise to a multitude of theories.
Not all the absences are silly, of course - the vitamin aisle is frequently picked clean for reasons that should be obvious during a disease outbreak - but the disappearance of kids' toys from Walgreens shelves in Brooklyn, along with similar runs on non-perishable goods like bug spray and Ensure shakes, indicates there's more at hand than needy locals stuffing their pockets out of desperation.
© Helen Buyniski
Many, particularly on the right, have blamed a 'shoplifting pandemic' for the supply shortages, arguing New York is going the way of San Francisco - where a lenient justice system and a massive drug epidemic have collided to produce a sprawling quasi-organized criminal underclass. Retail executives in New York have told The Wall Street Journal that these crime rings boost merchandise by day and sell it via e-tailing megacorporation Amazon by night, sparking the worst level of retail theft since records began in 1995 - a crime spree that has generated as much as $45 billion.
Certainly, the Cuomo and now Hochul administrations have created problems for themselves with virtue-signaling "catch and release" programs that incentivize shoplifting by allowing offenders to return to society the day of their arrest, often without paying a penny in bail. And it's hard to teach repeat offenders that "stealing is wrong" when everyone from the lowest junkie to the highest central banker is lining their pockets with ill-gotten gains with no tangible adverse consequences. Nine of the inmates Hochul freed from the city's Rikers Island prison with great fanfare last month have already been re-arrested, and many of those who are finally picked up for shoplifting are found to have dozens of arrests on their records already - and are soon released to steal again.
ALSO ON RT.COMFrom 'healthcare heroes' to 2nd-class zeroes: New York hospitals sack their unvaxxed employees as police state's jaws snap shut
Authorities who might otherwise be prepared to help store owners in need have their hands full enforcing idiotic rules like Mayor Bill de Blasio's recently amped-up mask mandate, slapping restaurants with killer fines for not demanding patrons' Papers, PleaseTM upon entry, or babysitting the mayor's Fifth Avenue Black Lives Matter mural.
And law enforcement is engaged in its own semi-involuntary stand-down as many police unions draw the line at mandatory jabs. Even the most egregious bootlickers are forced to choose where to place their loyalty - the (corrupt) government or the (corrupt) corporations that call upon the New York Police Department to do their dirty work? And even if cops desperately want to enforce anti-shoplifting laws, the New York state government has made that a lot more difficult, forbidding prosecutors from setting bail in petty larceny cases. What constitutes "petty" depends on the jurisdiction, but in San Francisco, anyone walking out of a store with $999 worth of goodies is permitted to go on their merry way.
New York's supply chain issues, along with those of the rest of the country, are unlikely to go away anytime soon. Meanwhile, the government would be wise to stop shooting itself in the foot by demanding those workers who do show up with a willingness to work aren't chased out with pitchforks and red tape for refusing the vaccine. While the ruling class may think it has control of the situation, there are more truckers, more nurses, more drugstore cashiers and more angry working-class Americans than there ever will be of their ruling class counterparts. The fallout will be less Chicken Little than game of chicken, and no matter who flinches first, the American public ultimately loses.
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After Democrats Barge Into Migrant Centers, Migrant Melania Unloads On Them
By Ben Dutka|June 18, 2018
Democrats aren't interested in following laws.
The word "illegal" means absolutely nothing to them, especially when it comes to immigration.
So, it should come as no surprise to anyone that seven Democratic leaders forced their way into an immigration detention center in New Jersey on Sunday.
After arguing with police, they were "literally banging on the door," according to one of the congressmen involved. These are supposed to be duly elected officials and lawmakers.
And yet, they're acting like nothing more than thugs.
This attempted raid on a detention center is only the latest in a series of attacks by Democratic lawmakers on detention centers, in fact.
They're trying to bring attention to children being separated from their illegal immigrant parents after they jump the border, a narrative the left has been running with for months.
But First Lady Melania Trump – a legal immigrant, by the way – quickly weighed in with an absolutely perfect statement. Via Fox News:
"Mrs. Trump hates to see children separated from their families & hopes both sides of the aisle can finally come together to achieve successful immigration reform.
She believes we need to be a country that follows all laws but also a country that governs w/heart."
Democrats actually forced the door open at the Elizabeth, NJ ICE detention center, demanding access to the detainees inside.
The funniest part is what congressman Rep. Bill Pascrell of New Jersey complained about on Twitter:
"Now they're asking us to empty our pockets like we're common criminals?
We are duly elected Members of Congress — and we want access."
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— (((Rep. Nadler))) (@RepJerryNadler) June 17, 2018
Oh yes, duly elected … and yes, acting like common criminals. That's exactly how you should be treated for breaking the law and forcing your way into a restricted building.
But once again, Democrats have proven that they're clearly not interested in law and order.
In times like these, it's nice to have a First Lady who says what needs to be said, and in the classiest, most effective manner possible.


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Lecithocera fuscedinella is een vlinder uit de familie van de Lecithoceridae. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1901 door Snellen.

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AUSTIN, Mary. THE LAND OF LITTLE RAIN. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. The Riverside Press, Cambridge. 1903. First edition. Four plates and numerous marginal illustrations by E. Boyd Smith, 8vo. xvi,281 pp. Olive green cloth with gilt-stamped title to upper board and spine, printed decoration to upper board, t.e.g. Ink gift inscription to ffep. Spine is slightly skewed and gently bumped at crown; cloth shows just a touch of wear at heel, crown and corners. This is a clean and fresh copy of a beautifully designed book. Near fine.


SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwire - January 19, 2011) - The cover story of Business Review Canada's January issue profiles the five richest Canadian billionaires and the companies they control. Not surprisingly, the unfathomably wealthy billionaires influence Canadians' everyday lives, from the foods people eat to the news people read and even the energy people rely on.
Number five on the list may have been an heir to a fortune, but he has also contributed to the success by doubling revenue. His name is never far from the tip of the tongue.
Number four is an eccentric entrepreneur who dabbles in a little bit of everything. Believe it not, he owns the third largest company in Canada.
Number three rescued his family-owned chain from bankruptcy.
Number two is a triumvirate.
And number one is a business recluse.
There's only one way to find out exactly who these individuals are.


* 1. What ideas and concepts would you like girls' movies to instill and inspire?
* 2. What obstacles and threats to childhood do you think girls' movies could help tackle?
* 3. Do you have any specific changes or recommendations for how Girls' movies could be changed or improved?
* 4. What is your age?
* 5. What is your gender?
* 6. What is your occupation?
* 7. Which country are your thought contributions coming from?


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Q: WeakReference equality How can I compare ref.WeakReference instance with another ref.WeakReference instance?
The built-in equals method fails trivial check:
import ref.WeakReference
val st : String = "qwerty"
val r1 : WeakReference[String] = new WeakReference(st)
val r2 : WeakReference[String] = new WeakReference(st)
r1 == r2
res1: Boolean = false

It's possible to use r1.get == r2.get but this method is unusable for comparing references to disposed objects: in both cases I'll get None and None equals for None
Is it possible to actually compare weakreference?

A: The problem is that there is no safe default behaviour when the object has been dereferenced; consequently, WeakReference doesn't pretend to provide one. Wrapping it in an object that does implement the appropriate behaviour is trivial. If you like, you can even provide an implicit and let the type system ensure your reference is wrapped by the correct equals behaviour as required.
So the short answer is: This is not provided to protect you from not thinking about it.
EDIT (in response to comment):
You are building an identity service. This maintains a mapping of entity<->identifier which must persist for the lifetime of all references to the entity. Most of the time the entity and the object representing the entity are the same thing, for these occasions use a WeakHashMap[Entity,Identifier] for the entity->identifier mapping and a WeakHashMap[Identifier,WeakReference[Entity]] for the identifier->entity mapping (if and only if required).
If you really need the entity to live as long as references to its identifier, you can do this by maintaining a shadow identifier that can reincarnate the identifier when required, so using: WeakHashMap[Entity,Shadow[Identifier] and WeakHashMap[Identifier, Tuple2[Shadow[Identifier],Entity]] wrapped with appropriate reincarnation logic in Shadow watching the ReferenceQueues.
Most of the time however, if the simple approach is inadequate, you have a need to track externalised identifiers, at that point things are both extremely tricky and extremely sensitive to the exact problem you are trying to solve.


I have to admit I was a little surprised at all the films and TV shows where actor Reggie Lee has appeared.
Before his current run in the limited NBC Saturday night series "Persons Unknown," the-born Lee was a regular on Fox's "Prison Break." He also appeared in J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" reboot, Sam Raimi's horror film Drag Me to Hell, in the second and third Pirates of the Caribbean films, and with Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder.
And that's just the tip of the Reggie Lee iceberg.


It is one year today from when we first set foot in Athens!! which makes it less than 6 months until our release date. Today is the beginning of the Greece Athens Mission Couples' Conference - which also takes in the Cyprus couples (four couples, three of which we have never met, only talk to on the phone). Bent went to the airport with the van, and President went with the "7-seater" to pick up the Cyprus couples. We were all to meet at the Mission Home for lunch and our contribution was, deviled eggs, carrot and cucumber sticks, little dill pickles and pickled beets - this was to accompany buns and cold cuts and a salad. It was great fun to meet the Cyprus couples and after lunch, we had an introductory time where each person was given a few minutes to tell about themselves - it was interesting and fun. Following that, there were four presentation - two of them were on the serious side and very interesting and the other two were also interesting, but very entertaining and fun. Then we went to "3 Pigs" in the rain!! and a good time was had by all there.


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The 2019 GLAS traditional Farm buildings grant scheme has been launched today by Minister Creed, with farmers now allowed to apply for grants of up to €25,000.
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Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed T.D., has today (January 21st) announced the opening of the Traditional Farm Buildings scheme as part of GLAS 2019.
The scheme funds the restoration and preservation of traditional farm buildings and structures which hold significant heritage value and are conserved for agricultural use. The scheme is administered by the Heritage Council on behalf of the Department of Agriculture.
The main aim of the scheme is to support the restoration of traditional farm buildings and related structures, whilst also allowing them to have a renewed practical use on the farm. Other related structures which can be restored as part of the scheme include historic farmyards, walls, gate pillars, gates and more.
The scheme is open to any existing participant in the Department's principal agri-environment scheme of which there are just under 50,000. The total allocation for the scheme for 2019 is set at €6million and it was funded by the Department under Ireland's Rural Development Programme 2014-2020.
Grants of between €4,000 to €25,000 can now be applied for under the scheme, covering up to 75% of the cost of works.
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The Supreme Court has been considering cases involving the right to practice one's religion freely and has upheld those rights.
Before a game, a school coach prayed with his team.
The school district informed coach Joseph Kennedy that he could pray apart from the pupils after learning that he was praying with the team.
Kennedy refused to alter his method, claiming that some children joined him in prayer on their own initiative and that they weren't coerced into doing so.
The district put him on paid leave, which prompted a First Amendment lawsuit.
Lower courts sided with the Bremerton School District the previous year.
In April, the Supreme Court heard the case; by a vote of 6-3, it decided in his favor.
The former high school football coach from Washington State who was dismissed for praying on the field after games received support from the full Supreme Court in June.
The Supreme Court of the United States has now rendered a decision in another case concerning Yeshiva University, a private, orthodox Jewish research university with many campuses in New York.
One of the earliest Orthodox Jewish universities in the US, the university first welcomed students in 1886.
The Yeshiva Pride Alliance, an LGBTQ organization, requested recognition from the university.
Last month, attorneys for the Yeshiva Pride Alliance argued that the institution should be compelled to accept the group.
"While Yeshiva University can espouse its Torah values without interference, it may not deny certain students access to the non-religious resources it offers the entire student community on the basis of sexual orientation," the lawyers stated in court documents last month.
According to The Daily Wire, the university filed an emergency appeal on August 29 to protest the "unprecedented intrusion" of the school's religious convictions.
Regarding the school's guiding principles, this situation calls into doubt the school's right to religious freedom.
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For more than a year, Yeshiva University has fought to protect its religious character in New York courts. In YU Pride Alliance v. Yeshiva University, lower courts in New York sided with the plaintiffs to compel Yeshiva to recognize an LGBTQ group on campus, despite the fact that doing so would go against the school's commitment to Torah values.
The university said in an urgent appeal before the Supreme Court that "As a deeply religious Jewish university, Yeshiva cannot comply with that [state court] order because doing so would violate its sincere religious beliefs about how to form its undergraduate students in Torah values."
However, the campus wished to alter these fundamental ideas, and one judge agreed.
Justice Lynn Kotler of the New York Supreme Court had already mandated that Yeshiva University acknowledge the LGBTQ community.
"Even if the court were to adopt Yeshiva's religious function test, the court would reach the same result," according to Kotler's decision.
The Court further stated that "Plaintiffs' counsel correctly characterizes defendants' argument on this point: defendants want this court to find that Yeshiva is a religious corporation in the same manner an ordinary person would describe themselves as a religious person."
"There is no doubt that Yeshiva has an inherent and integral religious character which defines it and sets it apart from other schools and universities of higher education. However, Yeshiva must fit within the term 'religious corporation' as the legislature intended the term to mean in the [New York City Human Rights Law]," as stated in the statement.
The U.S. is now. Regarding the dispute between the LGBTQ community and the Orthodox university, the Supreme Court has made a different decision.
The Orthodox university was represented by Becket Law Firm.
A non-profit, non-partisan law company, Becket describes itself as "protecting the free expression of all religious traditions."
Despite the lower court's earlier decision, liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor ordered its temporary suspension on Friday to allow the institution's religious freedom case to be resolved.
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Sotomayor signed off on the ruling because she is the circuit justice overseeing the Second District, which includes the state of New York. The Daily Wire reported that there were no dissents, Conservative Brief reports.
"Yeshiva shouldn't have been forced to go all the way to the Supreme Court to receive such a commonsense ruling in favor of its First Amendment rights," Eric Baxter, vice president and senior counsel of the Becket law firm, noted in a statement to The Daily Wire after Sotomayor's ruling. CONTINUE READING…
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China's obsession with looking good is filtering into facial-recognition payments
If you don't look good, we don't look good.
New technology is upending everything in finance, from saving to trading to making payments.
By Jane Li
China tech reporter
China, the world's third-largest consumer of plastic surgery and an avid user of beauty filters on photo and video apps, is bringing self-enhancement into the financial domain.
Alipay, the mobile payment arm of fintech giant Ant Financial, said on Tuesday (July 2) that, by popular demand, it would soon adopt beautifying filters (in Chinese) in its facial-recognition payment systems at retail locations across the nation. The announcement comes after a recent poll (in Chinese) held by tech news portal Sina Technology that asked people whether scanning their faces when making payments made them feel ugly. Over 60% of the more than 40,000 respondents said "yes."
"I have noticed you guys think I made you look ugly. Alipay will roll out beautifying filters for all of its offline facial-recognition payment systems within a week's time: be ware you'll then look even better than in a beauty camera!" the official account of Alipay said on social media platform Weibo, part of Sina. The system will still use unretouched images of users for processing, according to the company, but customers will see a beautified version of themselves at the digital till for the brief seconds when they scan their faces. It also said it has already incorporated such filters in its mobile phone app.
The announcement is a reflection of the widespread beauty-filter culture in China, where many young people's sense of self has been shaped by selfie and live-streaming apps such as HK-listed Meitu (which is now segueing into beauty care). As a result, they can feel a disconnect from untouched images of themselves—a situation that's not unique to China. There's even a label for the digitally enhanced look, which can take as much time as an offline makeover: "internet celebrity face."
Created in 2004 to provide a payment service for the Amazon-like giant Alibaba, and later spunoff into the company that became Ant, Alipay launched offline mobile payments via barcodes in 2011. Retail payments using facial-recognition technology arrived in 2017, at a KFC outlet. The company, along with its local e-wallet partners, says it now has around 1 billion active users. Its biggest rival, WeChat Pay, the payment system of Tencent's ubiquitous messaging app WeChat, had around 1 billion active monthly users as of May last year. Tens of thousands of merchants now use an Alipay plug-and play device called "Dragon Fly" to take face payments.
China has been far quicker than other countries to adopt facial-recognition for public and commercial use. It's been used for everything from identifying jaywalkers to dispensing toilet paper. However, the technology is also posing privacy concerns and ethical challenges, as China shifts to using it to profile groups such as the country's persecuted largely Muslim Uyghur ethnic minority.
Update: This story was updated with the latest user numbers for Alipay and its partners.


In various trips to the Strand Centre in the last 12 months I have yet to see more than one or two customers in there at any one time. Usually outnumbered by sales assistants.
ETA. Including a couple of days before Xmas just past.
That was another classic MF thread with posters trying to justify the Flannels IOM business plan. As you say the shop almost always has more staff than customers in it when you go past.
How much do they pay for black kid's trainers ?
(c) the aforementioned D of E was paying them cash for some strange reason, just like all the other strange reasons it hands out money.
I did wonder if it could be a front for selling drugs (the prices would make sense if they came with a free 'gift''), but obviously it would be much busier if that were the case.
Makes me wonder what'll happen to the now vacated ex-Shoprite premises under Chester St carpark. Now that is one big, empty cave of a place.
A big nightclub would be what is very much needed. Not for me I might add, but there is nothing now like what we used to have with the Cave, Lido etc.
Anything that will suit our youngsters is what it has to become.
Not often I agree with Dilli.
Isn't the Outback a big nightclub?
It was bigger when it was the Tardis.


This cake is based on one that 2 special friends have given me over the years (Hi Elena and Mary!). One of them lived in India, the other in Nepal, and at times, both struggled to get 'normal' cake ingredients, like butter and eggs, so it is made from super simple pantry staples.
There are a lot of versions around. I've seen them called Wacky cake, 3 Hole Cake or Depression Cake (as in, from the era of the Great Depression …. eating it will not make you feel sad!). This is my version.
See below the recipe for cupcake details and also a vanilla version.
Cook in a pre-heated, moderate oven for about 30-35 mins, or until a skewer comes out clean.
We also make this cake into cup cakes – makes about 12 and they take about 17-20 minutes to bake.
We also make a vanilla version of this cake by omitting the cocoa, then adding 2 extra tbsp of flour and 1 tbsp more of almond meal, plus 1 more tsp of vanilla bean paste. If you want them to be whiter cupcakes, use white sugar instead of the coconut sugar, as it gives a caramel colour.
I have even seen recipes for this kind of cake made without cocoa and some oil removed, added mashed banana and half of the water replaced with coffee, but I'm yet to give that one a go!