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What Is B2C Distribution?
Home » What Is B2C Distribution?
B2C distribution is a type of business model that focuses on the sale of products and services to consumers. It is one of the most common types of business models, and it can be used in a number of different industries. There are a number of benefits to using B2C distribution, including reach and economies of scale. In addition, B2C distribution can help businesses tap into new markets and grow their customer base.
In this article, we will be discussing the types of distribution channels mainly focusing on B2C Distribution.
B2C As A Macro-Level Distribution Channel
At the macro level or the industry level, there are basically two types of distribution channels. The first is called the B2B Distribution channel, and the second is the B2C Distribution Channel.
In a B2B Distribution channel, businesses sell and market their products to other businesses. An excellent example of this would be computer manufacturers who sell their wares to computer stores which then resell them to consumers. To understand more about B2B distribution channels, read here B2B Channels
In contrast, a B2C Distribution channel directly markets and sells to the end consumer. A good example of this would be Coca-Cola which sells its drinks to corner stores and supermarkets which then sell them to customers.
B2C channels — As the name implies, B2C channels are distribution channels that involve the delivery of goods from a manufacturer to a client. The customer in this scenario is an individual rather than a company. The B2C channel is used by any FMCG, Consumer Durables, or product-driven organization.
Because of the large number of participants involved, the B2C channel is usually the most extensive distribution channel. Despite the fact that some businesses have launched their own E-commerce portals to facilitate the movement of goods, the majority of businesses still rely on distribution channels to ensure that goods are moved and available to end customers.
For more discussions about these two models, read here: What Is B2B And B2C In eCommerce?
Types Of B2C Distribution Channels
There are basically four types of B2C Distribution channels, and they are as follows:
Direct Selling: In this type of distribution channel, the company sells its products directly to the consumer without going through any middlemen. The most common examples of direct selling are door-to-door sales, trade shows, and telemarketing.
Indirect Selling: In this type of distribution channel, the company sells its products to the consumer through a middleman such as a retailer or a wholesaler. The most common examples of indirect selling are brick-and-mortar stores, e-commerce platforms, and catalogs.
Online Selling: In this type of distribution channel, the company sells its products online through its own website or through a third-party platform such as Amazon or eBay.
Sell through Intermediaries: In this type of distribution channel, the company sells its products to an intermediary such as a distributor who then sells them to the consumer. The most common examples of this are distributors, wholesalers, and retailers.
The best type of B2C Distribution channel for your business will depend on a number of factors such as the type of product you are selling, your target market, your budget, and your resources.
In addition, communication is very essential in these channels. For more ideas on how to improve your communication with the consumers, read here B2C Communications: Improving Your Customer Service
Factors To Consider When Choosing A B2C Distribution Channel
There are a few factors that you should consider when choosing a B2C Distribution channel for your business. They are as follows:
The type of product you are selling: The type of product you are selling will have a big impact on the type of distribution channel you choose. For example, if you are selling a physical product, then you will need to choose a distribution channel that will allow you to get your product into the hands of your target market. On the other hand, if you are selling a digital product, then you will have more options when it comes to choosing a distribution channel as you can sell your products online.
Your target market: Another factor to consider is your target market. You need to choose a distribution channel that will allow you to reach your target market. For example, if your target market is located in a specific region, then you will need to choose a distribution channel that will allow you to reach them such as brick and mortar stores or online selling platforms.
Your budget: Your budget is also an important factor to consider when choosing a distribution channel. You need to choose a channel that is within your budget and that will allow you to reach your target market. For example, if you are on a tight budget, then selling through intermediaries may be the best option for you.
Your resources: Last but not least, you need to consider your resources when choosing a distribution channel. You need to choose a channel that you have the resources to support such as a website or an e-commerce platform.
For more understanding about the B2C model, read here How To Build A B2C Model In Ecommerce
B2C As A Direct Distribution Channel
A direct-distribution channel is one in which a corporation sells a product directly to the end client at any given time. Direct-distribution channels are most frequent in B2B organizations and are less common in B2C companies. The volume of sales in B2B companies is lower, but the value of sales and margins are substantially larger. As a result, B2B enterprises may try to sell directly to customers in order to maintain margins.
DELL, a B2C corporation, is an outstanding example of direct distribution. Dell revolutionized the distribution sector when it began selling customized Dell laptops to its clients in the early 2000s. You could go to the DELL website and configure your laptop (bigger hard drive, more RAM) before ordering it. It will be delivered in 45 days to you. Dell was able to entirely circumvent the traditional distribution chain and deal directly with the final client as a result.
Levels Of Distribution Channels
There are four levels of distribution in general. Read this article on industrial and customer channels to learn more about them. I've included a quick synopsis below.
A zero-level channel is one in which the distribution occurs directly from the corporation to the end client.
One-level channel — Distribution is handled by a single agent. From manufacturers to e-commerce businesses, for example. And from customer to E-commerce.
Two-level channel — Distribution occurs between two business entities. Goods move from the manufacturer to the distributor, then from the distributor to the retailer, and finally from the retailer to the customer.
Three-level channel — Distribution occurs between three business entities. Goods go from the manufacturer to the C&F, then to the distributor, then to the retailer, and finally to the client.
To understand more about these 4 levels of distribution channels read this article on industrial and customer channels.

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Q: How to get message count from Mosquitto broker How to get message count from Mosquitto broker which is installed in windows or can we access and query on the broker database?

A: Have a look under the section broker status in the manual, as there are a number of topics that you can check depending on what you are after, for example...

$SYS/broker/load/messages/received/+ The moving average of the number
  of all types of MQTT messages received by the broker over different
  time intervals. The final "+" of the hierarchy can be 1min, 5min or
  15min. The value returned represents the number of messages received
  in 1 minute, averaged over 1, 5 or 15 minutes.
$SYS/broker/load/messages/sent/+ The moving average of the number of
  all types of MQTT messages sent by the broker over different time
  intervals. The final "+" of the hierarchy can be 1min, 5min or 15min.
  The value returned rep resents the number of messages send in 1 minute, averaged over 1, 5 or 15 minutes.

A: This should also work in windows, I just checked in mac:
mosquitto_sub -v -h mosquitto -p 1883 -t '$SYS/broker/messages/received' -C 1 | awk '{print $2}'

Probably you just need to replace mosquitto_sub with mosquitto_sub.exe or the equivalent you may have installed.
From the manual:

-CDisconnect and exit the program immediately after the given count of messages have been received. This may be useful in shell scripts where on a single status value is required, for example.

Combine with -R to print only the first set of fresh messages (i.e. that does not have the retained flag set), or with -T to filter which topics are processed.

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How the Hula Girl Sings: by Joe Meno, 209 pgs. By Sean Carswell
Punk Planet columnist Joe Meno hit it kind of big with his latest novel, Hairstyles of the Damned. It was picked for the Barnes & Noble Discovery Series, it's sold tens of thousands of copies, Focus Features optioned the movie rights, and Meno was on NPR stations from coast to coast. It's one of the rare cases in which someone who deserves recognition actually gets it. Meno is a hell of a writer. He's earned all the accolades showered on him. In the aftermath of all of this, Akashic Books has re-released Meno's second novel (the one that he wrote prior to Hairstyles), How the Hula Girl Sings. It's essentially a crime novel, but it starts well after the crime, with the protagonist, Luce, getting out of jail. The crime is three years old and now Luce is heading back to his hometown to try to put his life back together. Waiting for Luce is his friend, a gentle giant named Junior. Junior has done time for murder. He and Luce became friends in prison. Also waiting for him is the woman who drove him to crime, Dahlia, and the latest temptress in his life, Charlene. Luce juggles the women, the temptation, and the demons haunting both him and Junior. Throughout the novel, there is forever the threat of slipping. Luce is exactly the kind of guy who wants so badly to not fuck up and land back in prison that it seems almost inevitable that he will. It's a tender story about a young, fucked up kid. Hula Girl borrows a lot from Jim Thompson's novels in the sense that, like Thompson, Meno wraps deeper social themes up in a noir thriller. Meno hasn't mastered the hardboiled perfection that Thompson has. Meno's characters are more vulnerable, more openly seeking acceptance and love, whereas Thompson's characters seem to embrace their doom. Ultimately, this embraced doom makes hardboiled novels so satisfying, and no one does it like Thompson. Still, Hula Girl is a solid, enjoyable novel. Meno has a way of opening up the raw nerves of his characters and laying them out on the table for anyone to take a look at. Honesty like this is rare in books. And while Hula Girl isn't as accomplished of a novel as Hairstyles, it's still a good read and more than worth picking up. –Sean Carswell (Akashic Books, PO Box 1456, NY, NY 10009)


Amazon is an American e-commerce and cloud computing company based in Seattle, Washington. It is the biggest e-commerce website with a large number of customers. Recently, they came up with a quirky and engaging campaign which was carried by Times OOH and Wizcraft International Entertainment.
The campaign included a festive band which entertained people at various places such as airports and metro stations with lyrics highlighting promising deals for the festive sale. The marketing gimmick saw people participating enthusiastically.
The festival band was also seen on the streets of India which has been spotted at unique places playing tunes of famous songs with a festive flavor in lyrics.
The event was managed by Times OOH and Wizcraft International Entertainment. The band played songs spontaneously and helped people get entertained with lyrics with an agenda of selling exciting deals which are set to popular '90s music for the festive sale in the month of October.
The band surprised onlookers at busy locations such as airports and metro stations where the band played songs spontaneously and encouraged travelers to join in the song and dance with the Amazon Festival Band.
Moreover, a band like that mostly reflects celebrations across India, which is why they were spread across different consumer touch-points on TV, digital, radio to spread awareness about the Amazon Great Indian Festival.
The quirky and cheeky initiative left the correct impact. Right from identifying locations and getting permissions, to booking the bands, making the costumes and learning the lyrics were challenges that the team faced but the success of activations across the cities was witnessed with the participation of the people wholeheartedly.


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Bristol, VA 24201 276.669.4084
About Electro-Mechanical Corporation
Headquartered in Bristol, Virginia, Electro-Mechanical Corporation (EMC) is one of America's largest privately held, family-owned manufacturers of electrical apparatus.
Our family of company divisions, which include Line Power and Federal Pacific, is recognized throughout the U.S. and around the world for the supply of high-quality power distribution components, the design and construction of innovative mining systems, and our unparalleled industry knowledge and customer support.
With five manufacturing companies and two repair and service companies, the Electrical Group has nearly one million square feet of modern manufacturing facilities, located in Virginia, Tennessee and Mexico.
1958-1969 – The Beginning
The business that would one day become Electro-Mechanical Corporation (EMC) began on September 8, 1958.
After serving in the Navy during the Korean War, Frank Leonard went to work for General Electric. Two years later, with scarce equipment and meager funds borrowed from Mrs. Leonard's credit union, Electric Motor Repair and Sales was born.
The small building on Williams Street in Bristol, Virginia began life as an electrical apparatus repair shop. It was the first business of its kind in the region to offer 7 days a week, around-the-clock service to its customers. There was only enough room on the first floor of the original facility for the tear down and the reassembly of the motors.
By the mid 1960's, Electric Motor Repair and Sales had grown to fifteen associates, while primarily serving the region's textile industry. In 1967, their largest textile customer went out of business. This, along with the trend of other textile customers suffering hard times, prompted Electric Motor Repair and Sales to redirect its energies toward serving the region's mining industry under the motto "Into the Mine on Time".
1971 – Into The Mine
As Electric Motor Repair and Sales accelerated its path of growth into new markets and acquisitions, it became incorporated under the new name of Electro-Mechanical Corporation in 1971. The same year, operating division Line Power Manufacturing was incorporated. As the mining motor business grew, several coal customers requested that EMC manufacture underground power centers. Line Power Manufacturing Corporation was created to meet the demand for those requests. As its power distribution business grew rapidly throughout the 1970's and 1980's, Line Power became a leader in its markets.
1970s – 1980s – Growth & Acquisitions
Through acquisitions of various companies and overall growth of the changes in the mid 70's, continuing on throughout the 1980's.
Electrical Apparatus Service, Inc. (EASI), an electric motor repair facility in Birmingham, Alabama, was acquired in 1976 as an extension of the original Electric Motor Repair and Sales business in Bristol, Virginia.
Respected coil winding equipment manufacturers – Potter Rayfield in Atlanta and James Equipment in Ohio – were acquired in 1983 and later conjoined to form the present PRJ Equipment Company.
Metal Castings Company, an aluminum foundry division, was acquired from Alcoa and moved from New York to its present location in Washington County Industrial Park in early 1986. Metal Castings was divested in 2018.
Federal Pacific Transformer Company was purchased in 1986 and moved from Chicago to its current site at 601 Old Airport Rd. in Bristol, VA. While supplying mining transformers to meet Line Power's needs, Federal Pacific also rapidly became a major contender in national and international dry-type transformer markets.
Electrical Equipment, Inc., (EEI) a leading manufacturer of pad-mounted switchgear, was acquired in 1987. It continued to operate for a number of years at its former location in Birmingham, Alabama. In early 1993, EEI was relocated to the Line Power site in Bristol, Virginia.
1990s – Product & Facility Growth
The 1990's were a time of growth in both products and facilities for EMC as a whole.
As Electro-Mechanical Corporation continued to expand and flourish, additions were made to the plant facilities at Line Power, Federal Pacific Transformer and at Metal Castings to accommodate increasing business and new product development and manufacturing.
During this time, the switchgear and transformer product lines were combined under one name – Federal Pacific.
2000s – Expansion & Continued Growth
Continued growth and expansion of EMC defined the decade of the 2000's.
An increase in space at the Line Power plant gave expansion room for manufacturing new product lines, such as electrical distribution equipment for solar, data center and other mission-critical applications.
As the mining business continued to evolve, the pad-mounted switchgear line was moved to the transformer plant. This was done in order to make manufacturing space available for a continued increase of mining and custom
product production.
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Trains from Worcester to University (Birmingham)
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There are up to 23 trains per day that travel from Worcester to University (Birmingham).
If you're travelling outside of the commuter rush hours to University (Birmingham), you can save money on fares and enjoy quieter trains by purchasing Super Off-Peak and Off-Peak tickets.
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How much is a train ticket from Worcester to University (Birmingham) by train?
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A meeting between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators on carrying out their latest accord ended in a dispute today over Israel's insistence on freeing common criminals as part of the prisoner releases required by the agreement.
Under the Israeli-Palestinian accord reached last month with American mediation at Wye River, Md., Israel agreed to a phased release of 750 Palestinian prisoners. But of 250 prisoners released this month, 150 were common criminals and other offenders, including car thieves and laborers caught in Israel without permits.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asserted today that he had ''not the slightest intention of freeing murderers or Hamas men.'' The release of prisoners has drawn criticism in Israel from the political right, including some relatives of victims of terrorist attacks.
The issue is also an emotional one among Palestinians because nearly every family has a relative in Israeli jails. The failure to secure the release of more prisoners deemed political has set off a hunger strike in some jails and a wave of protests by relatives of inmates, who accuse the Palestinian leadership of selling them out.
In East Jerusalem on Saturday, dozens of Palestinian demonstrators were injured when Israeli riot police fired rubber bullets to disperse a crowd that attacked them with stones. Relatives of prisoners also demonstrated at the inauguration of the new Palestinian airport in the Gaza Strip last Tuesday, waving black flags.
Hisham Abdul Razek, a Palestinian cabinet member who is responsible for the prisoners issue, said prisoner releases, especially of people jailed before the Israeli-Palestinian accords, were supposed to have been part of the process of mutual reconciliation.
The disagreement over the prisoners and the disputes over Israeli settlement expansion and the seizure of West Bank land by Israel for bypass roads led to a walkout by one Palestinian negotiator, Hassan Asfour, at today's meeting in Jericho.
There was more trouble between Israelis and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, where Palestinian police officers blocked trucks carrying building supplies from reaching the Israeli settlement of Netzarim.
The Palestinians maintained that building at the settlement violates the Israeli-Palestinian accords. The Israelis countered by blocking the V.I.P. entrance to the Gaza Strip to Palestinian officials, while settlers from Netzarim blocked a road near their settlement to Palestinian traffic.


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The Dystonia Society is a charity (registered charity no. 1062595) that provides mutual support for those affected by dystonia and to raise awareness of the condition, particularly among the medical profession, through education and the promotion of research.
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Picture a diner walking into your restaurant on a Saturday night. It's busy, and they approach the host stand, where they are told it will be a 30-minute wait. They're happy with that and add their name to the wait list before taking their place in the lobby with other customers also waiting to enjoy a delicious meal.
Thirty minutes comes and goes before they check in and are told they are next. Then, a large party is seated before them. They check back, and are told it'll only be a few minutes more. At the 60-minute mark, they decide to leave.
The immediate lost revenue from the guest leaving is only part of the fallout. They will likely tell others—maybe on social media or by word of mouth—that this restaurant over-promises a shorter wait time than they are able to deliver. That's a way to lose customers before they even walk into the restaurant.
No restaurant wants that kind of press.
If your restaurant is using notebooks or a laminated table map with a grease pencil, you're not alone. But, the risk of misquoting a wait time can be pretty high if these are your guest management tools. That's where a guest management platform comes in. These solutions provide a suite of tools that can be customized to fit the needs of any type of table service restaurant.
A guest management platform does a lot of things for your restaurant—wait times are only a piece of the puzzle. They allow you to manage wait lists online and text your guests about their places in line. You can also provide a place for guests to check their places in line and make reservations for a return visit.
Since a guest management platform is always gathering data, many restaurants use this data to build their guests books, create a more personalized experience for their guests, and take a look at any operational inefficiencies in their front of house.
If you want to learn more about what a guest management system can do for your restaurant, visit our DineTime guest management system page.


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Q: Calculating the Thévenin Voltage (Vt) and Thévenin Resistance (Rt) equivalent of the circuit below
How would one calculate the Thévenin voltage and Thévenin resistance for the circuit above?

A: Thevenin Voltage

The Thevenin voltage e used in Thevenin's Theorem is an ideal voltage source equal to the open circuit voltage at the terminals.

The 2 Ohm resistor is "open" and the 4 and 6 Ohm resistors form a voltage divider, therefore:
Vt = (50V * 6 Ohm) / ( 4 Ohm + 6 Ohm) =
300 / 10 = 30V
Explanation: The voltage at the node between the 3 resistors is the same proportion between the 6 Ohm resistor (which is the one attached to 0V) and the total resistance presented by the voltage divider (6 + 4 Ohm), so 6/10, 60%. 60% of 50V = 30V.
This can be better visualized this way:

simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
Thevenin Resistance

The Thevenin resistance r used in Thevenin's Theorem is the resistance measured at terminals AB with all voltage sources replaced by short circuits and all current sources replaced by open circuits.

So:
Rt =
(6 Ohm in parallel with 4 Ohm) + 2 Ohm =
(6 * 4)/(6 + 4) + 2 = 24/10 + 2 = 4.4 Ohm
This can be better visualized this way:

simulate this circuit
Therefore:

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All the info I used can be found here. The calculator on the website gives the same results.

A: I think they wanted you to first convert your voltage source and series resistance (Thevenin voltage source) into a Norton current source equivalent. Then perform the merge of the two resulting parallel resistors. Then convert that back to a Thevenin voltage source. Then combine the remaining resistors ... and you are done. So:

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Which then becomes:

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Which then becomes:

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And then you get back your Thevenin as:

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And now for the final result:

simulate this circuit
I believe those are the steps you are supposed to have performed, and in that order. Note that I'm assuming you know how to convert between Thevenin and Norton. If you don't, you need to first acquire that. But I think it is reasonable you know these things already, given the type of problem you were given and the goal you were asked to achieve. Usually, you are exposed to both Thevenin and Norton equivalents first.


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The Cape Cod Open was a golf event in the early 1930s. The tournament was held at Eastward Ho! Country Club in Chatham, Massachusetts on the Cape Cod Peninsula. The event was generally known for its strong fields and windy weather. The first event, won by English golfer Jim Barnes in 1930, was later deemed to be an official PGA Tour win.

History
The first event was held in 1930. It was held at Eastward Ho! Country Club in Chatham, Massachusetts. The Boston Globe featured a full-length preview of the inaugural event. The journalist W.A. Whitcomb deemed that the amateur Jess Sweetser and professional Joe Turnesa were the favorites because they had the two lowest scores of all-time at the course. Other notable golfers scheduled to play were Francis Ouimet and Johnny Farrell. The event was sanctioned by the Massachusetts Golf Association. It was intended to be 72-holes-long and held over two days, on Friday August 22 and Saturday August 23. The purse was $900. There were more than 60 players at the event. Late in the week, it was announced that Jim Barnes and Bobby Cruickshank were "among the late entries" for the tournament. On Friday, the tournament began. It was reported by the Associated Press that a "strong northeast wind raised havoc with the scores." Barnes and Turnesa held the first round lead at 76. After a second round 73, Barnes was the solo leader. He held a seven-stroke lead over Silas Newton. Turnesa, Jack Curley, and Sweetser followed them respectively. In the third round, Barnes shot an 80 but playing against a "fierce northeast wind and rainstorm" it was enough to maintain the lead. In the final round, he shot a 76, the second best round of the day, to finish at 305 to defeat Sweetser by 12 shots. Curley finished at 319, in solo third place.

The second Cape Cod Open was held the following August. According to the Associated Press, there was again a "strong field" as well as challenging, "wind-swept" weather. Jess Sweetser opened the tournament with a "brilliant" 33. In the first round's homeward half, he closed with a 39. He recorded a second round 78 to win. He defeated Charles McAndrew of Quincy, Massachusetts by one shot.

The third and final event was played at Eastward Ho! in August 1932. There were 77 players in the field. Defending champion Jess Sweetser "was unable to play because of illness." Conditions were relatively similar as previous years with "heavy showers" and "gale swept" winds. Roland Hancock, a club pro from Unicorn Club in Stoneham, Massachusetts, shot a one-over-par 73 to take the solo lead. He led by one over Jim Shephard, Joe Turnesa, and Tom Kerrigan. Other notable names near the lead included Ted Bishop, Mike Turnesa, Jack Curley, Leo Diegel, and Johnny Farrell. In the second and final round, Curley shot a 71 (−1) to defeat Hancock by one shot. Farrell and Kerrigan finished another shot back at 149.

This event is different from the modern Cape Cod Open founded in 1992. That event is now entitled the Jim & Lois Gaquin Memorial Cape Cod Open.

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What Do Toucans Eat?
By Staff WriterLast Updated Apr 6, 2020 9:36:48 AM ET
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Toucan birds eat primarily fruits and insects, but some varieties like the Toco are known to eat younger birds, lizards and eggs. The birds are omnivores, which means that they eat many different kinds of food.
Toucans enjoy eating fruit. Their long bills are adapted to cracking open the hard shells of tropical fruits. When eating fruit, the toucan pulls it off the branch with its bill and then tosses the fruit up in the air before swallowing it whole. One of the toucan's favorite fruits is the banana passion fruit. Toucans are particularly fond of fruit that is brightly colored because this type of fruit is easier for them to locate.
If toucans fail to find fruit, they look for smaller prey such as juicy insects, tree frogs, snakes and lizards. In particular, toucans tend to hunt for the nests of other birds to prey on the chicks and eggs found there. This is a habit many toucans adopt especially when they need to feed their own young birds. This is because younger birds tend to have a larger protein requirement.
The fruit eating habits of toucans are often important to local trees that depend on them to scatter around seeds.


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The Cupertino company unveiled an improved family of Xserves, based on the Intel "Nehalem" Xeon processors.
"The Xserve is the best workgroup server for our education, business and creative customers," said David Moody, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Mac Product Marketing. "With up to twice the performance, better power efficiency and an innovative SSD drive option, this is the best Xserve we've ever made."
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Q: In Sympy, how to set assumptions so the simplify() function will work on this piecewise function? I am manually computing a Fourier transform and sympy is returning a piecewise function based on conditions for n. The code I am using is:
from sympy import *

n, p, x = symbols('n p x')

def F(x):
    return (2/pi)*(pi**2 - x**2)

A = F(x).integrate((x, 0, pi))

def F(x):
    return (2/pi)*(pi**2 - x**2)*cos(n*x)

A1 = F(x).integrate((x, 0, pi)).simplify()

display(A1)

The output I am getting is:

How would I set the assumptions of n to be between negative and positive infinity and also not zero? Additionally, this ought to simplify to (4*(-1)**(n+1))/n**2.

A: You currently have this:
In [21]: (2*(-x**2 + pi**2)*cos(n*x)/pi).integrate((x, 0, pi)).simplify()
Out[21]:
⎧4⋅(-π⋅n⋅cos(π⋅n) + sin(π⋅n))
⎪────────────────────────────  for n > -∞ ∧ n < ∞ ∧ n ≠ 0
⎪               3
⎪            π⋅n
⎨
⎪               2
⎪            4⋅π
⎪            ────                      otherwise
⎩             3

The condition in the piecewise is that n is (real) finite and nonzero.
I'm not sure what it is you want but here are some possibilities:
In [14]: n = Symbol('n', nonzero=True)

In [15]: (2*(-x**2 + pi**2)*cos(n*x)/pi).integrate((x, 0, pi)).simplify()
Out[15]:
4⋅(-π⋅n⋅cos(π⋅n) + sin(π⋅n))
────────────────────────────
               3
            π⋅n

In [16]: n = Symbol('n', integer=True)

In [17]: (2*(-x**2 + pi**2)*cos(n*x)/pi).integrate((x, 0, pi)).simplify()
Out[17]:
⎧       n
⎪-4⋅(-1)
⎪─────────  for n ≠ 0
⎪     2
⎪    n
⎨
⎪     2
⎪  4⋅π
⎪  ────     otherwise
⎪   3
⎩

In [18]: n = Symbol('n', integer=True, nonzero=True)

In [19]: (2*(-x**2 + pi**2)*cos(n*x)/pi).integrate((x, 0, pi)).simplify()
Out[19]:
       n
-4⋅(-1)
─────────
     2
    n


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Q: PyQt: How to convert from Python to QDate style QtCore.QDate accepts three integers as arguments: year first, then month, then date. Example:
myDateEdit.setMaximumDate(QtCore.QDate(2015, 12, 28))

In order to "convert" QDate 'style' to Python use:
myPythonicDate=myDateEdit.date().toPyDate()
print myPythonicDate
'2014-04-17'

The question is:
# With a variable:

myPythonicDate='2014-04-17'

what syntax is used to declare QDate object... the following won't work:
myDateEdit.setDate(QtCore.QDate(myPythonicDate))

A: The fromString method of QDate will do the conversion for you:
myPythonicDate='2014-04-17'
qtDate = QtCore.QDate.fromString(myPythonicDate, 'yyyy-MM-dd')
print qtDate.year(), qtDate.month(), qtDate.day()
2014 4 17

yyyy-MM-dd is the format of your date; yyyy indicates a four digit year while MM and dd indicate month/date are two characters.  See the fromString documentation for a list of additional field options.


The horses competing in the equestrian at the Beijing Olympics have become embroiled in a drug scandal.
Four horses have tested positive for the illegal drug capsaicin. Coster from Germany, Chupa Cup from Brazil, Camiro from Norway and Latinus from Ireland were the horses named in the scandal.
Spain has the dubious honor of having the first athlete to fail a doping test.
Reuters reports that Greek Olympic sprinter Tassos Gousis has tested positive for drugs.
Gousis was planning to compete in the 200 meter sprint at the Beijing Olympics. The test was taken by the Greek anti-doping agency, before he left for Japan for a training session.
Jessica Hardy has withdrawn from the Beijing Olympics after testing positive for the stimulant clenbuterol at the U.S. swimming trials last month.
"As a result of Jessica Hardy's withdrawal from the U.S. Olympic Team, USA Swimming will follow the published U.S. Olympic Team selection procedures," said USA Swimming Executive Director Chuck Wielgus in a statement.
Seven Russian middle distance runners, including five athletes who had qualified for the Olympics, have been suspended by the IAAF with just one week to go before the start of the Beijing Olympics. The athletes have been accused of submitting somebody else's urine.
The International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge has said that he is hoping for the cleanest, most drug-free Olympics ever.
Bulgarian shooter Antoaneta Boneva tested positive for cocaine and will be banned for competing at the Beijing Olympics.


Pro_cee'd with caution: Introducing the GT moniker on Kia's European-sourced hot hatch does not necessarily pave the way for similarly sporting versions of other models.
KIA Motors Australia (KMAu) is unlikely to use the European Pro_cee'd GT hot hatch to kick off a range of with further sub-branded sports variants as sister company Hyundai is about to.
The company will wait until sales volumes across the board reach a level that can make such niche variants sustainable.
KMAu public relations general manager Kevin Hepworth told GoAuto that despite breaching a record 30,000 sales last year following two years of growth exceeding 20 per cent, volumes are "still at a level where we can't do everything".
Hyundai introduced the SR sports sub-brand with the Veloster SR Turbo and has since moved closer to introducing racy SR-badged versions of the i30 small hatch and Accent light sedan inspired by concepts shown at last year's Sydney motor show.
As Kia has used the GT moniker for the hot turbocharged Pro_cee'd, the designation would make sense for other sporty models – such as turbo'd versions of the Sportage SUV, Optima mid-size sedan and Cerato Koup, all of which are under consideration for Australia.
But Mr Hepworth insisted Kia will tread carefully.
"Pro_cee'd GT is going to be our performance edge to start with," he said.
"We'll keep taking small steps Hyundai are doing 90,000 a year so they have a bit more room to play with." Mr Hepworth explained that if SR variants (to use Hyundai's example) account for five per cent of each model's volume, it still represents a number of cars that starts to offer the company return on investment.
However with Kia sales at around a third of Hyundai's, the numbers it stands to sell of these potentially niche variants starts to look too small to bother.
"It is not something we can amortise it is something we consider but not now," said Mr Hepworth.
The Pro_cee'd GT is powered by a 150kW/265Nm turbo-petrol engine and will arrive in Australia early next year.


They do a good job explaining that binary options are really just a form of gambling.
You can make a bet that a stock will go up or down for a very short time period. For example you buy a $100 option that it will go up. 5 minutes later if you are right you get $170. If you are wrong you get $15. Do that 1000 times spending $100 x 1000 or $100,000 and get it right 50% and you make $92,500 and you lose $7500. The allure here I think is that people think they can make informed guesses about what a stock or commodity will do. But you can't.
Avoid binary options. Its just gambling and the odds are stacked against you. Plus its unregulated and prone to fraud.


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12th Man Report: Lions don't live and die with Reggie
by Michael Laurila
The Lions offense used to be a two-man show.
The Stafford-to-Johnson connection became so customary we started to take the duo — and their success — for granted. This year, they've added another act: newly acquired Reggie Bush.
Bush has made all kinds of noise in the football and fantasy football worlds so far this season, but is doubtful this week after injuring his knee in last week's loss to the Arizona Cardinals. Though the initial thought was he'd be good to go, it looks less and less likely.
A common response to an injury in the backfield used to be something along the lines of, "Oh, the Lions running back is injured. Didn't even know they used one of those."
Not anymore. The offense isn't just, "Stafford drops back, and Stafford throws deep to Megatron." Bush gives the Lions a completely different offensive dynamic.
And we got a taste of what a Reggie-less Lions offense looks like last week after his injury; it wasn't pretty.
Without Bush in the lineup, the Cardinals focused much more energy on Johnson, and the offense sputtered. Unfortunately, Joique Bell doesn't quite have the same skill set as Bush at tailback. Don't get me wrong — Bell is a very solid back to pair with Bush, but that's the case because Reggie does one thing and Bell does the other.
Everyone who's concerned over the possible absence of Bush this weekend is justified in doing so. The difference in the offense with him versus when he wasn't in was very noticeable last week. However, I'd like to think the Lions offense is more than "The Reggie Bush" show.
Matt Stafford is a pretty good quarterback. Calvin Johnson; he's not too shabby either. Last week when the Lions lost the game in the second half, it wasn't a result of Bush being out. His injury just masked the bigger problems the Lions have.
Passes were dropped, too many stupid penalties were taken, and there was just an overall failure to make a big play late in the game. Bush's absence didn't help, but it was a small factor in a big problem.
So this Sunday, don't worry about Bush's status — that is unless he's on your fantasy team. If the Lions are going to win, they'll do so with Bush or without him. Yeah, he helps the offense. But the team's success won't be decided by him in or out of the lineup. It will come from a more disciplined team that shows up when the game is on the line.
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Coronavirus: EU says it struck deal with Sanofi for 300 million doses of potential COVID-19 vaccine
The European Commission announced on Friday that it has struck a deal with French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi to reserve 300 million doses of a possible future COVID-19 vaccine.
The agreement would provide an option for all EU Member States to purchase the vaccine.
President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said: "While we do not know today which vaccine will work best in the end, Europe is investing in a diversified portfolio of promising vaccines, based on various types of technologies.
"This increases our chances to obtain rapidly an effective remedy against the virus."
The vaccine candidate, developed by Sanofi in partnership with GSK, is based on the recombinant protein technology that Sanofi used to produce an influenza vaccine and on the adjuvant for pandemic use developed by GSK. The doses would be produced in European countries and in particular in France, Belgium, Germany and Italy.
Sanofi is leading clinical development and vaccine registration procedures and plans to begin a Phase I / II study in September, followed by a Phase III study by the end of 2020. If the data is positive, regulatory approval for this vaccine could be obtained in the first half of 2021.
At the same time, Sanofi and GSK are increasing their antigen and adjuvant production capacities to be able to manufacture up to one billion doses per year in total.
The Commission is currently negotiating with several vaccine developers to strike similar deals, it stated, adding that it is ready to team up with international partners if a "significant number of countries would agree to pool resources for jointly reserving future vaccines from companies for themselves" and for low and middle-income countries at the same time.
It further states, "the high-income countries could act as an inclusive international buyers' group, thus accelerating the development of safe and effective vaccines and maximise access to them for all who need it across the world."
Thomas Triomphe, Executive Vice President and Global Head. by Sanofi Pasteur welcomed the agreement with the European Union, saying: "We have always been committed to providing an affordable vaccine that is accessible to all and are grateful to the European Commission for its continued commitment to our side and its support."
A few hours before the European announcement, Sanofi and the British laboratory GSK announced that they would receive up to $ 2.1 billion for the development of their potential anti-COVID-19 vaccine, after being selected to deliver 100 million doses to Americans.
The French government welcomed the Commission's announcement, which "will allow each member state of the European Union to order the vaccine on favourable terms, once it has provided sufficient evidence of its efficacy and 'absence of side effects ".
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JUDY PUTNAM
Die-hard farmer markets offer winter oasis in Capital region
Allen Street Farmers Market is open Wednesdays, one of three with weekly hours throughout the winter
Lansing State Journal
LANSING - The farmer had me at baby lettuce.
Most of the 26 farmers markets in the area have packed up their tents and tables for the winter but a few winter-hardy ones persist.
Joan Nelson, Allen Neighborhood Center executive director, a nonprofit community organization on the eastside, called me to enthusiastically describe the Allen Street Farmers Market's winter market. For the third year, it's open all winter on Wednesdays from 3 to 6:30 p.m.
Though the indoor winter market is a scaled-back version of its popular outdoor summer market, winter attendance has grown like a weed at Allen Street: 100 people on Wednesday afternoon in 2013; 200 people in 2014; and more than 300 each Wednesday since the market went inside in October, Nelson said.
I was a bit skeptical that Michigan with its harsh winters could offer much beyond potatoes during the winter months. But I agreed to check it out.
When I walked in on Wednesday, I was warmly greeted and offered a sample of a tasty beet salad. (And I noted the dinner destination aspect: Three vendors offer ready-to-eat food — Ethiopian, barbecue or Mexican — and you can get a brew to-go from Sleepwalker Spirits & Ale, which has a tasting taproom at the market.)
The brightly painted space and the array of fruits and vegetables was a feast for the eye.
Vendor Mark Kastner, owner of Hillcrest Farms in Eaton Rapids, said he will offer winter spinach, two kinds of kale, young Swiss chard, turnips and radishes throughout the winter using his four hoophouses. He will also have stored vegetables for sale including potatoes, onions, squash, beets and carrots.
But it's his array of baby lettuce that he will produce all winter that caught my attention. The tender mix sells for $3.50 for about a half pound of the mix.
The idea of fresh lettuce, grown in the dead of winter by the farmer standing in front of me, is quite appealing.
I'm a big fan of fruits and vegetables and always have been but in an effort to reduce my weight, I've recently given them a starring role on the dinner plate rather than a supporting part.
The proliferation of hoophouses in the last few years is making all of this possible, Nelson said, dramatically expanding the Mitten State's growing season. The houses are tunnels generally made from metal hoops and covered with plastic. They are unheated. Kastner began using hoophouses about seven years ago.
Besides Allen Street, the Holt Farmers Market is open on Saturdays through the winter, the Bath Farmers Market is open on Thursdays, and the Meridian Township Farmers Market is the first and third Saturdays where you can buy direct from farmers.
Cindy Drier of Holt said she doesn't miss a Wednesday at Allen Street.
"I like fresh, local produce and organic produce. It tastes better and it's prettier," she said.
The Allen Street Farmers Market is open from 3-6:30 p.m. on Wednesdays at Allen Market Place, 1629 E. Kalamazoo St. in Lansing. It will be open the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Sleepwalker Spirits and Ale is open 4-7 p.m. Wednesdays and 5-7 p.m. Fridays.
Judy Putnam is a columnist with the Lansing State Journal. Contact her at (517) 267-1304 or at jputnam@lsj.com. Write to her at 120 E. Lenawee St., Lansing, MI, 48919. Follow her on Twitter @JudyPutnam.


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History, Architecture, Sculpture and Garden Tours at Morris Arboretum
Grab Your Mobile Device and Awaken Your Senses with New Online Tours at Morris Arboretum
What brings you to the garden? A love of plants? Learning about the historic landscape? Spending time with family and friends? Morris Arboretum now offers opportunities to enhance your visit through a series of new web-based tools.
Then and Now Tour for History Buffs
History buffs may enjoy looking back in time through Morris Arboretum's Then and Now online experience. This tool invites visitors to see select garden locations as captured in history, contrasted with contemporary images of the same spot. Each featured location has an accompanying audio recording which places the location in historical context. See Lydia Morris (circa 1920) at the spot called Lydia's seat today. Watch the blue pool fill with azure water as you pull the contemporary image over the black and white past, all while learning about the importance of the siting of this special spot in the garden.
Architecture, Sculpture, Garden Tours, and More
Familiarize yourself with the Arboretum's architecture or sculptures through a tour that guides you around the garden pointing out these historic features. You can also explore the Gardens. Or learn more about Morris Arboretum's Great Trees or Native Trees. If you're in the mood for creativity, take the Creative Expressions Tour, which takes you to different areas of the garden where you can experience original music, art, and dance performances that were inspired by the garden.
These experiences will all be accessible from the Arboretum's mobile site on your smartphone or tablet. Guests are invited to take advantage of the newly installed Wi-Fi hotspots to access these opportunities. You can also make use of these tools when planning your visit by checking them out on the Arboretum's website beforehand from a desktop computer, or just visit and explore while you're here.
Awakening the Senses is supported by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Morris Arboretum is a place that prompts visitors to look anew, breathe deeply, listen closely, and feel a sense of peace while exploring the grounds. Through this project Morris Arboretum aims to explore the potential for personal mobile devices to serve as an interpretive tool in the garden by calling attention to and enhancing our sensory experiences.
The Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania is located at 100 East Northwestern Avenue in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia. The 92-acre horticulture display garden features a spectacular collection of mature trees in a beautiful and colorful landscape. The Arboretum includes numerous picturesque spots such as a formal rose garden, historic water features, a swan pond, and the only remaining freestanding fernery in North America. A permanent nationally award-winning exhibit, Out on a Limb – a Tree Adventure Exhibit adds to Morris Arboretum's allure by transporting visitors 50 feet up into the treetops on a canopy walk that requires no climbing. Open weekdays 10am-4pm and weekends 10am-5pm. Open late on Wednesdays in June, July, and August until 8:00pm. For more information, visit www.morrisarboretum.org.
Photo Credit: Courtesy, Morris Arboretum
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This Thursday Oct. 24, Chicago's Pumping Station:One will host a demonstration of the new Shapeoko 2 CNC mill, which went on on sale yesterday. It's a sweet, $299 desktop CNC mill that improves on the original Shapeoko with a larger work area, easy-to-expand axes, and dual-Y steppers. The Shapeoko's parent company Inventables will be giving away a free milling bit starter kit to one lucky attendee, though you have to sign up through Meetup to be eligible.
L.A.'s Crash Space is offering a coding class for girls ages 7-13.
This is an informal, free event to encourage little girls to explore programming. We will be using Processing to make simple animations, and going over resources for families to use to continue exploring programming on their own at home.
-No prior programming exposure required.
-Bring a laptop with Processing installed (https://processing.org/download/) to participate, or email Michelle to find you a spare laptop ([email protected]).
-All children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian at all times.
We built a Pop Up Hackerspace in a container as part of the Make+ for accelerating Makers' project through Art. This is first to be host at the Creative Carnival in Shanghai. It's done and opened over the weekend! It has been a success attracting a lot of visitors interested in 3D printing, robotics and Maker Culture! People come to see projects by the local makers, take workshop on Arduino and 3D printing and having fun talking to the makers. The pop up hackerspace will start its journey around China after the Shanghai Maker Carnival on Oct. 19-20.
Making It in Memphis is a nice cover story about MidSouth Makers, Memphis' hackerspace.
"It's a gym for geeks," said Brett Henley of the MidSouth Makers, describing the three-year-old group's community workshop (or "maker space") tucked away in the light-industrial south end of Bartlett's historic district. The facility is bristling with tools and technology ranging from a glass kiln to a sandblasting booth to cutting-edge 3D printers that Henley's colleagues built from parts they made on other 3D printers.
The folks from HackMiami have announced the 2013 Winter Hacker Festival on Dec. 5-7, 2013.
The Winter Hacker Festival 2013 features two days of training hosted by Sumit Siddharth on "The Art of SQL Injection." Mr. Siddharth is a world renowned digital security attack methodology instructor who has presented on the topic of database attacks at some of the most prestigious hacking conferences around the world. Attendants of this class can expect to gain a comprehensive overview of SQL injection attack methodologies, the theory behind attack different vectors, and the tools used to take advantage of the inherent flaw.
The event with end with an all-day capture the flag (CTF) hacking tournament and nerdcore hip-hop concert. The CTF hacking tournament will be part of the Kommand && Kontroll series, developed by Rod Soto. The Kommand && Kontroll capture the flag series has been described as one of the most realistic hacking simulations ever designed. The competition includes an array of exploitable hardware/software vulnerabilities that mimic real world scenarios, ranging from basic web application attacks to simulated SCADA based critical infrastructure takeovers.
Six of us got together and spent months planning and searching for a new makerspace to call our own. Our mission was simple: we wanted to have a space that had pre- mium, top of the line equipment, but the whole operation had to be sustainable and profitable from day one.
NEM is looking for new members who want a smaller hackerspace with equipment that's always up and running.
Running a Hackerspace is a tumblr devoted to the truisms and foibles of hackerspace life, with topics as noobs using tools, noobs asking questions, donations, open houses, insurance, mailing lists, and more. Check it out! They also have a Twitter feed.


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Amazon Go opens first Chicago location of its cashierless convenience store
The Amazon Go store, which opened on Sept. 17, 2018, in Chicago's Loop neighborhood, is the company's first store outside of Seattle. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)
By Lauren Zumbach
'Just walk out shopping': Amazon Go opens first Chicago location of its cashierless convenience store
Amazon's cashierless stores are designed to spare time-crunched shoppers from waiting in the checkout line.
But when Chicago's first Amazon Go store opened Monday morning, most shoppers were taking their time to browse the selection of grab-and-go food items and get used to the idea of picking up their purchases and leaving without formally paying.
"It felt a little weird, but I like the concept," Bill Termunde, 32, of Chicago's Beverly neighborhood, said between bites of a breakfast sandwich he'd bought, along with three Clif bars.
The e-commerce giant spent more than a year testing the cashierless convenience store concept with employees near company headquarters before opening the first Amazon Go to the public in January in Seattle. The 2,000-square-foot Chicago store — the company's fourth and the first outside its hometown — will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays at 113 S. Franklin St., on the first floor of the complex where Amazon's Chicago office is located.
Customers must scan an app on their smartphone on the way in to let the store know they've arrived. Cameras and other sensors track shoppers as they browse and add items to a virtual cart as customers take them off shelves.
Amazon automatically charges customers' accounts when they leave. A sign on the wall calls it "just walk out shopping."
Critics fear the technology is an attempt to run stores with fewer employees. Gianna Puerini, vice president of Amazon Go, said getting rid of traditional checkout wasn't about eliminating workers, but rather getting rid of part of the bricks-and-mortar shopping experience most customers wouldn't miss — particularly the busy professionals working near its store in the Loop.
"I don't know a ton of people who say, 'I love the part where I wait in line and they ring up all my stuff,' " she said.
READ MORE: Amazon Go has shown us the future of retail — and in it, we're broke and unhealthy. Here's the fix. »
While there are no checkout lines at the store, there was a line of customers out the door and down the block waiting to get in Monday during the lunch rush.
Puerini declined to say how many people the store employs, but she said Amazon Go still needs workers to take deliveries, stock shelves and help customers.
On Monday morning, orange-shirted Amazon Go employees at times outnumbered customers. Several stationed near the door helped shoppers download the store's app, reassured those who hesitated before leaving that they really could just walk out and showed customers where to find their receipts to verify they had been charged for the right items.
Amazon Go carries the kinds of pre-made sandwiches, salads and snacks you might find at a grocery store, along with packaged convenience store fare. Some fresh items, delivered daily, are made by Amazon off-site and some are prepared by local companies like Fairgrounds, Farmer's Fridge and I Love Sweets.
There is no hot prepared food, in part because of the focus on eliminating lines, but there are ready-to-heat items and two microwaves on-site. There's also a section with two-person meal kits designed to be prepared in about 30 minutes, aimed at people who want to pick up dinner on the way home from the office.
Branden Laxner, 31, of River North, said he liked the focus on keeping trips quick. Laxner, who works in the building where the Amazon Go store is located, said he usually isn't looking to browse and knows what he wants in advance. On Monday, that was a bottle of cold-brew coffee and a protein bar.
"I know there's implications on the labor side, but sometimes you just want to get in and get out without having someone looking over your shoulder," he said.
But to eliminate the checkout line, the store does rely on a network of cameras keeping an eye on customers and store shelves. The cameras, in black boxes along the ceiling, work with sensors on the shelves to determine which items belong in which shoppers' carts.


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Marc Maron is "a master of spinning humor out of anguish" (Bookforum), even when that anguish is pretty clearly self-inflicted. In Attempting Normal, he threads together twenty-five stories from his life and near-death, from his first comedy road trips (with a fugitive junkie comic with a missing tooth) to his love affair with feral animals (his cat rescues are bloody epics) to his surprisingly moving tales of lust, heartbreak, and hope. The stories are united by Maron's thrilling storytelling style--intensely smart, disarmingly honest, and explosively funny. Together, they add up to a hilarious and moving tale of failing, flailing, and finding a way.
Praise for Attempting Normal
"I laughed so hard reading this book."--David Sedaris
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"The stuff of comedy legend."--Rolling Stone
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Gli Oretani furono un popolo pre-romano, iberico o celtico, stanziato nella penisola iberica (la romana Hispania), in Estremadura, La Mancia, Andalusia orientale e Murcia. Alcuni credono che siano stati di lingua iberica, altri che fossero Celti, simili ai Celtiberi.

Storia
I loro principali siti archeologici sono quelli di Oreto e Zuqueca e di Cerro de las Cabezas.

L'Oretania, il territorio degli Oretani, si trovava nella parte orientale della Sierra Morena, che comprendeva buona parte della provincia di Ciudad Real tranne l'estremo occidentale, la parte settentrionale della provincia di Jaén, la metà occidentale della provincia di Albacete e l'anello meridionale della provincia di Cuenca. Le città principali della zona sono Linares, Úbeda/Baeza, La Carolina, Montiel, Valdepeñas ed Almagro.

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Open peer review is a welcome step towards transparency, but heightened visibility may also mean vulnerability
Open peer review is an unfamiliar experience for many academics, with the added transparency acting as something of a shock to the system. Cristina Costa argues that the change could facilitate a welcome shift away from 'peer view as monologue' towards a more dialogical approach.
A couple of months ago David Walker asked me to review a paper for a new Academic Journal of which he is one of the editors. He told me it was an open access journal focused on practice and I immediately said yes! I just cannot say no to open access or perspectives on practice. I just can't! So I became a reviewer of the Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice.
As I started going through the first paper I had to review, I noticed that the author's name was disclosed. There was even a short biography about his academic career. I was intrigued, almost shocked, I must confess. I immediately emailed David reporting the "tragedy" of having learnt the name and background of the author whose article I was about to review. David's answer was something like this:
You didn't read the guidelines, did you?!
Cough… well, actually I did, but I went directly to "conducting the review" section, ignoring the opening paragraph of the Reviewers Guidelines. How scholastic of me. So here it is:
Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice (JPAAP) journal uses open peer review process, meaning that the identities of the authors and those of the reviewers will be made known to each other during the review process in the following way: the reviewers will be fully aware of the name, position and institution of the authors of the manuscript they currently review, and the authors will be given a signed review with the name, position and institution of the reviewer.
I got the shock of my life at first, but then I decided to give it a go. This was the first time I'd been involved in open peer reviewing and, as I think it's important to put into practice what we preach, I went for it. Here are some reflective points about the process of conducting an open peer review. I aimed to:
be on my best behaviour – I made sure I allocated plenty of time to read and digest the paper. I read it several times. I tried to understand and deconstruct it the best way I could, before I submitted the review
give thorough feedback – I tried to justify every point I made (I think I achieved that better in the second paper I reviewed)
provide constructive and also friendly feedback – Nothing annoys me more than reviews that are dry and harsh in their comments. I tried to use language that aimed to provide suggestions and stimulate new thinking. I think I still have some work to do in this area, but I hope I'm getting there
read the paper as it is written, not as I would write it – I think that's a crucial point in any type of review, but one that is often forgotten. I have felt many times that reviews were made on the assumption that the article should be written in the style and perspective of the reviewer rather than that of the author's
You may think that this doesn't differ at all from any review process, and in fact it should not. But the feelings and the thoughts that go through your mind as you disclose your identity to the author are both of vulnerability and commitment to do a good job. [Not much different from the feelings of the author of the article who submits his/her work to you, hey?! So we are on the same boat!]
There is something about the open peer review process. With transparency comes visibility, a more acute sense of responsibility of your role as reviewer and maybe the fact that your reputation is on the line matters too! And that can only be good.
However, I still have unanswered questions that in a sense do show my vulnerability as a reviewer.
would I feel the same if I knew/have worked with the author whose paper I was reviewing?
Would I feel comfortable giving them my feedback?
Would I be influenced or even intimidated by my knowledge of their practice/research
Would I be too tough, or too soft, on them?
I guess you can always refuse to review someone's paper if those feelings arise and you are not comfortable with it… but these questions did come to mind.
As we move towards more open peer reviewing processes, and I hope more initiatives like this start to emerge, I'd like to see more dialogue between the reviewer and the author. So far it's still a monologue, and since we disclosed identities, could we also open up the discussion? ~ just a thought.
This was originally posted on Cristina's personal blog and is reposted with permission.
Cristina Costa is a Lecturer in Lifelong Learning (TEL) at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland.
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Pandelis Perakakis says:
Thank you Cristina for sharing your positive experience on such a difference peer review model. Personally, I have been advocating open peer review for many years and have been receiving enthusiastic feedback by most of my colleagues from the areas of physics and biology, but also from less applied sciences. This motivated me to collaborate with other similar-minded scholars to develop an open peer review platform that is author-guided and journal-independent. This means that, more than opening the peer review process in the way you describe, we empower authors to choose their reviewers themselves and to even do this before they submit their manuscript to a specific academic journal. Interested readers can learn more about this particular review process here, watch our brief introductory video, and read a recent article of mine for the benefits of changing the scientific evaluation process, posted here on the LSE blog.
From this perspective, I would like to share my thoughts on your "unanswered questions".
First, I believe that open peer review should be accompanied by a second iterative step where the community openly rates and comments on the reviews themselves. This is very important to ensure that favorable or biased reviews will be noticed and potentially "punished" by expert readers. This will make reviewers think twice before making unsubstantiated comments or favour certain work due to a personal relationship with the author(s). It certainly makes accepting to review a paper more hard as you are no longer protected by anonymity, but, as you have experienced, improves the quality of the reviews, fosters collaboration between authors and reviewers for the benefit of science, and avoids unethical conduct permitted by the current system. On the other hand, our proposed system may also make reviews easier as specific scholars can be asked to comment on a concrete part of the paper within their area of expertise, instead of deciding on the fate of the entire work. Practically, it allows authors to collect an infinite number of brief reports from specific experts to cover all different areas treated in the manuscript, which especially relevant in multidisciplinary research —I don't understand how we expect two anonymous reviewers to assess a paper co-authored by a multidisciplinary team of ten or more authors!
Reagarding your other questions, I think we cannot give definite answers at the moment. Open peer review needs to be tried to prove its efficiency and most importantly its capacity for developing a new culture of collaboration and ethical conduct among scholars. For the moment it is an experiment, but a worthy one for our academic community to perform with seriousness and with a sense of responsibility before science and society.
Jack Dougherty says:
A thoughtful piece on open peer review guidlines, with excellent timing, as it's informed our discussion at Web Writing, a book in-progress which launched its six-week window for commentary yesterday. http://webwriting.trincoll.edu/how-this-book-evolved/process/#comment-7386
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Cristina Costa says:
Thanks for your comments Panderis,
Indeed, conducting open review was *an experience*.  I can see the benefits and I am also aware of the implications.
For instance, I am not totally convinced of the "neutrality" and "efficacy" of the "community" in providing feedback, just because they "are" in an open environment. This because we would need to define who the community would be. Independently of interacting online or face to face, people tend to gravitate towards those with whom they agree and/or those with whom they feel "comfortable". I've seen examples of "community review" that are also biased…maybe not by "punishing" the author, but rather by providing rosy comments that do not take the debate of a paper forward either. So, I guess what I am trying to say is that power structures are always present. How we solve such conflict of interests… that's the key. And that, for me, has to do with individual integrity and the values people share.
Having said that, I think openness can be (is) good. It does make us accountable in more visible ways. Yet, the quality of a paper review is only as good as its reviewers.
I'm not totally sure of the value of having someone only reviewing a given section of a paper though, as it is the sums of all parts – the paper as a whole – that will have merit or not. Maybe what we need in such cases is reviewers who are versed in multidisciplinary research.
As a final comment, I'd like to say that I do appreciate that open peer review is still at its inception stage. And I agree that it is an experiment that needs to be conducted so that we can advance our thinking and develop alternatives ways as to how research is assessed in a world where knowledge networks are more open and visible than ever. However, I want to believe that the academic community already performs in a serious and responsible fashion. What I think the open peer review brings is a new, different layer of reading and commenting on someone else's work. And I hope that this "experiment" can take the practice of research reviewing to a new level; one of dialogue and discussion about a paper submitted for publication. This would be beneficial to all, and particularly to early career researchers, at whom the Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice (JPAAP) is aimed.
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Time at WikiSym is precious: so many people focused intently on such a broad array of issues. You can't see everyone, so how do you choose?
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