Develop your dynamic and engaging website in a fraction of the time using MoST's CMS – the preferred content management choice for responsive, search engine optimised and long-lasting websites.
MoST CMS is available to you on its own, or in conjunction with any other MoST component.
Build your resource-rich website by adding, managing and setting automated page publishing times in MoST CMS's user friendly interface.
The WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor gives every user the freedom to upload dynamic content including text, images, galleries, multimedia, links, feeds, email forms and downloadable files. Similar to Microsoft Word layout, you can easily navigate the system to add to your existing website. You can also access your site's HTML and style guide - ideal for all you budding designers and developers!
MoST CMS gives you the flexibility to store as many or as little design templates as you like, making it easy to define special areas of your site. Your custom style guides and templates are added during the initial website build to ensure that website design remains consistent as new content is added.
With automatically updating sitemap capabilities, site search functionality and mediated page commenting features, your website from front-end to back-end is easy to navigate, on brand, and user friendly.
With MoST's permissions and accessibility settings, you decide who can access and edit what. The back-end user log also allows you to keep a clear record of any changes made to your site. This can be helpful if any mistakes are made or you need to refer back to older content.
Store more than one website under a single MoST account. Each site can hold a completely different domain name, design and content. The CMS also supports multi-lingual websites with its automatic language presentation, based off of user browser settings. For example, a speaker of Mandarin will see the Mandarin version of the site, and a speaker of English will see the English version of the site. Simple and straightforward, you can expand your products reach and globalise your brand.
Easily add meta descriptions, meta tags, alt text and dynamic URL names in order to develop your site's Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). You can grow engagement across your marketing channels using social media share, RSS feeds and social media feed integration. From here, you can track and trace your click-through rate, understand which pages your target audience are clicking on, and add social media feeds directly onto your website.
Streamline your Membership and CRM processes today!
Grow your engagement with members, customer and staff networks using smart membership management and database management tools. This software is great for NFP (Not for Profit) and Membership Associations.
MoST CRM & Membership Management can integrate with MoST CMS, Events, Email Marketing and E-Commerce components.
Import, store and sort your comprehensive data in MoST's centralised & cloud-based CRM database. Create segmented groups and specific user identifications in order to refine and separate your target audiences.
You determine the details you collect by creating unique data fields with MoST's unlimited customisable database fields. Members fill in their details on a website form and voila - you have all of the details that you need.
Manage the professional career development of members, stakeholders or employees. You can assign and track professional development points for online and real-life training events via MoST.
The professional development reporting feature effectively encourages users to interactively monitor their points & attend regular training session in order to keep their point levels up.
Add searchable directories to your website. These directories are automatically generated lists based off of your database, which feed through to your website and can be filtered based on your preferences e.g. location, service type, keyword etc.
Established secure password protected areas of your MoST site. Here you have the ability to store privy information such as updateable member profiles, private member information, member only events, invoices, discussion forums and a different design look and feel to the rest of your site.
You can assign different levels of access to password holders, limiting access to irrelevant or private web pages.
Specify your membership structure with unique codes, permission levels, fee differences and annual rates. MoST supports tiered membership structures.
Add custom online subscription and renewal forms to your website, and proactively distribute subscription and automatic renewal reminders to your database of members.
Create, distribute and store mass email notifications, E-Newsletters and text messages to your members.
You can also save notes against database profiles and set personal reminders for future contact.
Automatically generate and distribute your invoices for all member transactions, and seamlessly consolidate generated invoices with your accounting software. MoST currently interfaces with Xero and MYOB.
Use real-time payment gateways to collect fees and donations via your website.
The online donation facility is particularly useful for NFP and Charity Organisations. You can accept donations and communicate with contributors with ease and efficiency.
The CRM & Membership Management package comes complete with MoST CMS component.
You can confidently manage events of all shapes and sizes - from local seminars to national conferences.
MoST Event Management can seamlessly integrate with MoST CRM & Membership, CMS, Email Marketing and E-Commerce components.
Create and manage all of your events and collect relevant information about your attendees, defining different levels of rates and charges when applicable.
Set automated email & SMS confirmations and reminder notifications for simplified communication with registrants.
Allocate seating/table arrangements, name badges and ticketing with a user-friendly interface.
Set minimum and maximum attendee numbers to ensure you're not under-prepared for your next event. Export attendee registration list to support your ordering processes before, during and after the event.
MoST integrates with real-time payment gateways such as, DPS, PayPal and Charge IT, as well as invoicing systems such as Xero and MYOB.
MoST has the ability to integrate with other APIs and gateways too.
Record and store attendance history against attendee profiles and notify them about related events in the future using MoST's mass email distribution tool.
You can pair your event management with MoST's CRM & Membership Management component to strengthen your tracking, automated invoicing practices and to set special member rates.
Analyse event data and gain insights in order to optimise future events.
Enter event details in the admin area of your site to feed through to your site's calendar.
The Events Management package comes complete with MoST CMS component.
Your E-Commerce website will be responsive, automated and secure.
You can pair your E-Commerce website with other MoST components and approved APIs.
Seamlessly upload singular and bulk products to your website and manage your stock levels with automated email reports and reminders.
Offer refunds, notify when products are out of stock, generate sales reports and apply QR codes (Quick response codes) to verify product authenticity.
Website visitors can add multiple items to their shopping cart before checking out and completing their purchase. Shopping cart contents will store in cart for next time the potential customer visits your site.
Store client data, distribute emails to your client database and create a login interface that lets customers access their transaction history.
Advanced freight settings let you set postage pricing and auto-calculations for international shipping.
Real-time payment gateways seamlessly integrate into MoST. Payment gateways include DPS Payment Express, Charge IT and PayPal.
Automatically generate, store and distribute invoices for all transactions, and seamlessly sync with your account software. Currently syncs with Xero and MYOB.
Define product prices based on your preferences and apply discounts, GST and tax rates, member prices or wholesale prices to relevant products.
MoST's automated discount features also let you set auto-dates for when discount periods begin and end.
Not only can you upload and manage inventory images and order forms in MoST, you can also easily manage your entire E-Commerce website.
Engage, grow and convert your networks into sales with MoST Email Marketing.
MoST Email Marketing component comes free when you sign up to MoST CRM & Membership Management.
Create and distribute E-Newsletters and mass email notifications to your database, archiving them once they've sent.
Your E-Newsletter can hold a look and feel that echoes your website, or its own unique design template. There is no limit to the number of email templates you can have stored in MoST.
Your audience can subscribe or unsubscribe to your database with one simple click.
Manage email content adding new content including text, images, multimedia, links, and downloadable files using MoST's WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Editor. You can also access email HTML.
Understand audience engagement by generating and exporting dynamic reports. MoST reporting provides you with insights into how many people have received, opened, read and clicked on particular links.
One of the greatest aspects of MoST is that it's totally extensible, meaning that you can have custom applications built and added to your system at any time. You can speak face-to-face with the creators of MoST to develop the perfect solution for you.
Expanding on MoST's capability is achieved effectively due to the supported environment it's hosted in. This includes robust disaster recovery and secure server space for all of your data.


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PCMag UK | Reviews | Consumer Electronics | Wearables | Slideshow
LG G Watch LG G Watch : Angle
The LG G Watch is one of the first ways to get Android Wear, but it costs more and does less than the Samsung Gear Live.
By PCMag UK PCMag UK
13 Jun 2018, 10:39 a.m.
LG G Watch : Angle
At a glance, the LG G Watch looks more than a little similar to the Pebble, thanks to its rectangular, plastic design.
LG G Watch : Screen
The G Watch has a slightly lower resolution than the Samsung Gear Live, so it displays slightly larger text, which makes it easier to read and tap on.
LG G Watch : Comparison
Even though it costs more than the Gear Live (left), the G Watch (right) has a significantly lower-end feel.
LG G Watch : Back
Unlike the Gear Live, the G Watch lacks a heart rate monitor.
LG G Watch : Left
The G Watch measures 1.49 by 1.83 by 0.39 inches (HWD) and weighs 2.22 ounces. You can definitely feel it on your wrist.
The G Watch has no physical buttons. This becomes annoying, since the only way to turn the watch on is to connect it to a power source.
The G Watch is rated IP 67 for dust and water resistance, and can safely be immersed in water up to three feet deep.
LG G Watch : Right
The G Watch is powered by a 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and 512MB RAM, along with 4GB of internal storage, the same as the Gear Live. So far, speed doesn't seem to be a problem for Android Wear, as both watches feel fast and responsive.
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Oracle Ignores Judge's Advice in Push for Google Damages
Caleb Garling
In the ongoing legal battle with Google, Oracle has said that it wants to proceed with a third phase of the trial where it will seek extensive damages over Google's use of the Java programming language on its Android mobile operating system. On Friday, Oracle said it would not settle for "statutory damages"-- i.e. a standard amount -- indicating it would push for more. The day before, Judge William Alsup indicated that the damages phase -- the third and final phase of the trial -- should be eliminated, but by Friday, he changed his tune -- at least slightly.
In the ongoing legal battle with Google, Oracle has said that it wants to proceed with a third phase of the trial where it will seek extensive damages over Google's use of the Java programming language on its Android mobile operating system.
On Friday, Oracle said it would not settle for "statutory damages"-- i.e., a standard amount -- indicating it would push for more. The day before, Judge William Alsup indicated that the damages phase -- the third and final phase of the trial -- should be eliminated, but by Friday, he changed his tune -- at least slightly.
He said that Oracle has every right to push for additional damages, but he called the company's case an "extremely weak proposition."
On Monday, the jury returned a partial verdict on claims that Google violated Oracle's copyrights in building Android, and the only definitive decision was that Google had lifted nine lines of software code. The trial is now addressing claims that Google violated Oracle's patents, but with only two patent claims in play, this in unlikely to yield a big pay day for Oracle either.
"It would be the height of ridiculousness, if for those nine lines you get hundreds of millions of dollars of profits," Alsup said. "The law can't operate that way."
Judge Alsup said that Oracle has not produced a damages report to back up the claim that it's owed a significant amount of money for Google's use of those nine lines of code.
The heart of Oracle's copyright infringement claims -- that Google infringed on Oracle copyrights in mimicking the overall structure and organization of 37 Java application program interfaces -- still hangs in the balance. The jury was unable to reach a decision on this, and the question will likely be decided with an appeal or a retrial.
Oracle sued Google in August of 2010, claiming the Dalvik virtual machine -- which runs applications in the Android operating system -- violated both copyrights and patents related to the Java programming language. Oracle acquired the rights to Java's copyrights and patents when it bought Sun Microsystems earlier that same year.
Although the jury agreed that Google infringed the overall structure, sequence, and organization of 37 Java application program interfaces (APIs) -- software that Java programs use to talk to the Java platform that runs on machines -- it was unable to decide whether Google's use of copyrighted material constituted fair use under the law, which would let Google off the hook. Google believes that the incomplete verdict entitles it to a retrial, citing the Reexamination Clause of the Seventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
While Judge Alsup has hinted that he agrees, he has yet to rule on the matter. As it stands now, the trial will push forward through the current phase, where sides are arguing over two Java-related patents, and into a damages phase. Google has indicated it may file a motion to have the judge rule on damages, rather than the jury, but it has yet to do so.
"Right now we're going to have a jury for phase three unless I see something signed by both sides," Judge Alsup said.
Oracle's celebrity attorney, David Boies, said Oracle is not asking for all of Google's Android profits or even most of them. He said the company is only looking for a portion of the "infringed profits." Both Oracle and Google have to agree on what defines "willful infringement" of the copyrighted works, before Judge Alsup will make an official ruling on the third phase.
Caleb Garling is a San Francisco-based writer who covers tech culture, music, science and sports. He wrote The St George's Angling Club, available at calebgarling.com.
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As the niche, decentralized social networking platform rises in popularity, it faces rising costs, culture shifts—and potential legal risks.
We're in Denial About the True Cost of a Twitter Implosion
Elon Musk's platform may be hell, but it's also where huge amounts of reputational and social wealth are invested. All of that is in peril.
Eve Fairbanks
Big Tech Laid Off Thousands. Here's Who Wants Them Next
Governments, nonprofits, and small startups hope to scoop up people let go by the likes of Meta and Amazon. It's their big chance to lure top-tier talent.
Welcome to Digital Nomadland
A Portuguese island created a village for remote workers, promising community to the newcomers and prosperity to the locals—then delivered on neither.
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A confluence of factors is leading people in the nation to gravitate toward extremist views.
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package org.simpleflatmapper.map.mapper;

import org.simpleflatmapper.map.FieldKey;
import org.simpleflatmapper.map.MappingContext;
import org.simpleflatmapper.map.context.MappingContextFactoryBuilder;
import org.simpleflatmapper.map.getter.ContextualGetter;
import org.simpleflatmapper.map.getter.ContextualGetterBiFunction;
import org.simpleflatmapper.map.getter.ContextualGetterBiInstantiator;
import org.simpleflatmapper.map.getter.ContextualGetterFactory;
import org.simpleflatmapper.reflect.BiInstantiator;
import org.simpleflatmapper.reflect.InstantiatorDefinition;
import org.simpleflatmapper.reflect.InstantiatorFactory;
import org.simpleflatmapper.reflect.Parameter;
import org.simpleflatmapper.util.BiFunction;
import org.simpleflatmapper.util.ForEachCallBack;
import org.simpleflatmapper.util.TypeHelper;

import java.lang.reflect.Type;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

public class MapperBiInstantiatorFactory {

    private final InstantiatorFactory instantiatorFactory;

    public MapperBiInstantiatorFactory(InstantiatorFactory instantiatorFactory) {
        this.instantiatorFactory = instantiatorFactory;
    }

    public <S, T, K extends FieldKey<K>> BiInstantiator<S, MappingContext<?>, T> getBiInstantiator(Type source, Type target, PropertyMappingsBuilder<T, K> propertyMappingsBuilder, Map<Parameter, ContextualGetter<? super S, ?>> constructorParameterGetterMap, ContextualGetterFactory<? super S, K> getterFactory, boolean builderIgnoresNullValues, MappingContextFactoryBuilder<? super S, K> mappingContextFactoryBuilder) throws NoSuchMethodException {
        return  getBiInstantiator(source, target, propertyMappingsBuilder, constructorParameterGetterMap, getterFactory, true, builderIgnoresNullValues, mappingContextFactoryBuilder);
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public <S, T, K extends FieldKey<K>> BiInstantiator<S, MappingContext<?>, T> getBiInstantiator(final Type source, final Type target, final PropertyMappingsBuilder<T, K> propertyMappingsBuilder, final Map<Parameter, ContextualGetter<? super S, ?>> constructorParameterGetterMap, final ContextualGetterFactory<? super S, K> getterFactory, final boolean useAsmIfEnabled, final boolean builderIgnoresNullValues, final MappingContextFactoryBuilder<? super S, K> mappingContextFactoryBuilder) throws NoSuchMethodException {

        if (propertyMappingsBuilder.isSelfProperty()) {
            ContextualGetter getter = propertyMappingsBuilder.forEachProperties(new ForEachCallBack<PropertyMapping<T, ?, K>>() {
                public ContextualGetter getter;
                @Override
                public void handle(PropertyMapping<T, ?, K> propertyMapping) {
                    getter = getterFactory.newGetter(propertyMapping.getPropertyMeta().getPropertyType(), propertyMapping.getColumnKey(), mappingContextFactoryBuilder, propertyMapping.getColumnDefinition().properties());
                }
            }).getter;
            return new ContextualGetterBiInstantiator<S, T>(getter);
        }

        if (TypeHelper.isArray(target)) {
            return instantiatorFactory.<S, MappingContext<?>, T>getArrayBiInstantiator(TypeHelper.toClass(TypeHelper.getComponentTypeOfListOrArray(target)), propertyMappingsBuilder.forEachProperties(new CalculateMaxIndex<T, K>()).maxIndex + 1);
        } else {
            List<InstantiatorDefinition> instantiatorDefinitions = propertyMappingsBuilder.getPropertyFinder().getEligibleInstantiatorDefinitions();
            return
                    instantiatorFactory.
                            <S, MappingContext<?>, T>
                                    getBiInstantiator(
                                            target,
                                            TypeHelper.<S>toClass(source),
                                            MappingContext.class,
                                            instantiatorDefinitions,
                                            convertToBiInstantiator(constructorParameterGetterMap),
                                            useAsmIfEnabled, builderIgnoresNullValues);
        }
    }

    public static <S> Map<Parameter, BiFunction<? super S, ? super MappingContext<?>, ?>> convertToBiInstantiator(Map<Parameter, ContextualGetter<? super S, ?>> constructorParameterGetterMap) {
        Map<Parameter, BiFunction<? super S, ? super MappingContext<?>, ?>> newMap = new HashMap<Parameter, BiFunction<? super S, ? super MappingContext<?>, ?>>(constructorParameterGetterMap.size());

        for(Map.Entry<Parameter, ContextualGetter<? super S, ?>> e : constructorParameterGetterMap.entrySet()) {
            newMap.put(e.getKey(), ContextualGetterBiFunction.of(e.getKey().getType(), e.getValue()));
        }

        return newMap;
    }

}

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West Coast Workforce Development
A crew practice closed loop communication in one BC Ferries' three Simulation Training Centers. Photo courtesy of BC Ferries.
Training the next generation of mariners and marine company employees is an ever-evolving process as technologies and training regimens grow and change.
BC Ferries (BCF) hires approximately 400 positions each year for seasonal work. Recruitment takes place every spring. Potential employees are given a self-study exam – part of the company's Standardized Education and Assessment (SEA) program – to complete as a pre-screening tool. "We include this exam in our pre-hire for entry level positions like deckhand, terminal attendant and engine room assistant," says Captain Jamie Marshall, Vice President of Fleet Operations.
If a potential employee passes the test with an 80 percent or higher mark, he will move into phase two of a four-phase training process. BCF initiated the SEA program about nine years ago in an effort to achieve more consistent levels of knowledge across the operation by taking a Blended Learning approach to training. A major benefit of the SEA program is that it is entirely web-based so trainees can access materials day or night at work or at home.
"It's also modularized so if you're on a specific vessel or a specific route or terminal, there are different modules you have to complete," explains Capt. Marshall. "For example, if a candidate is cleared to work as a deckhand on the Spirit of Vancouver Island but will be doing SEA training on the Coastal Celebration, he would only do the modules relevant to that particular ship and its routines and equipment."
Another benefit of the SEA program is that the trainers are "detached", meaning they are not part of the normal crew complement, which keeps, for instance, the bridge team focused on their jobs instead of simultaneously training while executing their duties. "Out of 4,500 employees, we have almost 500 part-time trainers now," says Capt. Marshall. The ratio of trainer-to-trainee is set, but somewhat flexible depending on requirements.
In phase two, students are provided training by expert trainers using a Learning Management System (LMS) generated agenda and associated materials. Also, a practical consolidation phase is included, where the trainee takes on the actual work duties under the supervision of the employee who is cleared in the position.
In phase three, the student is required to pass various assessments, including a written exam, an oral exam and practical demonstrations of his competence. These assessments are managed by a different SEA Trainer than the one who delivered the SEA material. This is done to eliminate any trainer bias and thereby maximize objectivity.
Career Progression is the fourth and final phase of SEA and includes skill enhancement activities in the newly cleared position, followed by career advancement learning objectives for the next step up the ladder. The Career Navigator is new software custom built to manage this phase and enables collaboration and transparency between employee and supervisor. Big Data is a huge piece of the Career Navigator as it will enable various levels within BC Ferries to run reports and enable appropriate resourcing, as well as assist in Succession Management.
The key pieces to the Learning Management System are accessibility as well as sustainability. The SEA program is hosted on the Internet and is available on the BCF Academy intranet site. Employees can access the system from anywhere and trainers can continuously improve the training material as the vessel comes out of a refit or major modification.
In 2008, Vigor partnered with Portland Community College to open a training center at Vigor's Swan Island Shipyard in order to create a pipeline of workers with the right welding skills for Shipyard work. The company provides space and donates materials, while the college administers the course, including admissions and issues certificates. Vigor provided input to help adapt the college's existing welding curriculum for Shipyard work.
In 2013, Vigor partnered with South Seattle Community College (SSCC) to open a training center at its Harbor Island Shipyard in Seattle, and in 2014, the company began working with the Alaska Workforce Investment Board and the University of Alaska Southeast Ketchikan Campus to create an industry-led training program tied into its Ketchikan yard. All three programs provide the specific training necessary to help students land family-wage jobs at Vigor shipyards or other area employers.
Sue Haley, Executive Vice President of Human Resources, reports there has been good feedback from community workforce development groups. Vigor built the SSCC training center and the two entities worked on the curriculum together. "There is broad-based training, such as using a forklift and basic shop math," says Haley. "In addition to being trained as welders, students are drug screened before they go into the program. They have to pass an assessment to get in, then they attend a six-month program. The placement rate is 88 percent. And that's with Vigor and other companies."
Instructors at each of Vigor's training centers were originally Vigor employees. The company also hosts job fairs for maritime and non-maritime employers. Each program, however, is set up differently as relevant to the population it serves. For instance, in Ketchikan, the full-time population is about 8,000 people, and the only way to access the region is by boat or plane. "We have to do a lot of building of non-skilled workers in that community and train in conjunction with the University of Alaska," says Haley.
The SSCC sees a lot of unemployed people, some with only high school diplomas. After students finish the course, they are deemed highly employable and are followed by staff at the Center as they make the transition to the workplace. "I find people are motivated and grateful to have good paying jobs and benefits," says Haley.
Vigor also hosts tours for high school students at all its yards, and accepts interns each year from high school vocational programs. An example is the Pathways to Manufacturing program provided by the nonprofit group Impact Northwest. Interns are also placed at formal maritime academies such as the US Merchant Marine Academy and the California Maritime Academy. "We're also working with Portland public schools to start an additional technical education program with Roosevelt High School and anticipate we'll have a connection to an intern program there," adds Haley.
Nichols Brothers Boat Builders' (NBBB) long-time skilled tradesmen have been teaching the next generation of boat builders for the company for the past 52 years.
Three years ago, the company's in-house training program became a Washington State recognized apprenticeship program that ensures NBBB employees will meet and exceed NBBB's expectations and regulatory demands. "When these guys finish this three-year program, they could probably go anywhere in the world and get a first-class job," says Matt Nichols, Executive Vice President. "It's a lot of testing, a lot of on-the-job training and classroom training we do every Tuesday and Thursday night."
Practical instruction is supported with information on a wide variety of topics that include learning about the maritime industry as well as all parts of a vessel, marine terminology and trade-specific components. "It has been extremely effective," says Nichols. "I never have to worry about the quality of the vessels. We have generations of great craftsmen. I'm very proud of them."
Seattle's Western Towboat develops its new staff from within by first identifying people who align with the company culture and who are interested in working at the company long term. Qualified trainees go through the two-year Workboat Mate program at Seattle's Pacific Maritime Institute (PMI), spending half their time training on Western Towboat vessels and the other half in class at PMI. Upon successful graduation, students achieve a Mate's license and will have the chance to further advance through the company.
Western Towboat also has a tuition reimbursement program for employee professional development. If an employee stays with the company for at least three years after he obtains his license, the loan is forgiven. In 2015, Western Towboat paid out more than $35,000 in tuition loans. "Our best people come up through that pathway," says Jeff Slesinger, Safety & Training director for Western Towboat and owner of Delphi Maritime, a marine training consultancy. "We build our own boats and maintain them. They see value in the state of the equipment here and take pride in it."
Slesinger observes that training the millennial generation has its challenges, for all marine companies. "We're in such a different knowledge context with the Internet and other modes of learning," he says. "The generation coming up now is used to instant access to knowledge. Mentors have to understand you can't hang onto knowledge like the peers in my generation did. There is a lot of train-the-trainer training, especially to make it effective for onboard training from the trainer's side."
Slesinger has incorporated this dynamic approach into all of his training programs. He has also consulted with various marine company human resources departments about how to recruit, retain and train the millennial generation who prefer a work/life balance approach to their jobs.
He believes that apprentice-style training – which is a hybrid of classroom and on-the-job training – offers the most effective outcomes. This allows trainees to feel more confident about their skills. But it's also necessary for companies to invest in several workforce development pathways, as one will not supply all needs.
Marine company trainers also have to distinguish between content (training materials) and methodology (training instruction delivery), Slesinger asserts. Content might change slightly between companies but the methodologies can be vastly different. "To make an effective transfer of knowledge, you have to find some kind of learning context where it can be delivered, received and understood," says Slesinger. "For instance, millennials are much more visually oriented. They expect knowledge to be delivered quickly and in bit sized pieces."
A new marine engineering apprenticeship program has received a $5 million American Apprenticeship Innovation Grant from the US Department of Labor. Foss Maritime recently announced a partnership to establish the curriculum, and to sponsor several applicants each year. The Grant has been awarded to Seattle Central College, Seattle Maritime Academy, the Maritime Institute of Technology & Graduate Studies-Pacific Maritime Institute and the Workboat Academy.
It's expected that over the next five years, more than 150 engineers will be trained in Seattle and Baltimore. The engineering program will mirror Workboat Academy's deck apprenticeship. Engineering cadets will blend time in the classroom with simulation, and apply what they learn to work aboard vessels. The candidate's license will depend on the type of partner company vessels and the routes where cadets gain sea time as an apprentice.
"Working together, we aim to train hundreds, if not thousands, of new apprentices in the maritime and advanced manufacturing fields," said Scott Merritt, Senior Vice President, Harbor Services, in a statement.


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Recently I read an article in a FLM magazine by Errol Morris called "13 Questions and Answers on the Filmmaking of Errol Morris". For years I've been intrigued by the amazing footage that Morris captures using his own custom way of filming interviews. He calls it the Interrotron and it's a technique that I've spoken to many of my film-school friends about.
In "The Fog of War", "Fast, Cheap and Out of Control" and many other Morris' movies, the interview subjects stare straight into the camera while responding to a voice interviewing them from off screen.
Here is the interview as lifted from the magazine's website. I have attempted to maintain the design and layout. I did add the picture of the Interrotron from another source.
Q: Is it true that you interview people using a machine?
A: Yes, the (patent pending) Interrotron. It's a machine that uses existing technology in a new and novel way. When I made my first film, Gates of Heaven, I interviewed people by putting my head right up against the lens of the camera. I would be talking to them, and it seemed as though they were looking directly into the lens of the camera, but not really. Almost, but not quite. Of course, they were looking a little bit off to the side.
Q: Why? What's the point?
A: To create the first person. When someone watches my films, it is as though the characters are talking directly to them…There is no third party. On television we're used to seeing people interviewed 60 Minutes style. There is Mike Wallace or Larry King, and the camera is off to the side. Hence, we, the audience, are also off to the side. We're the fly-on-the-wall, so to speak, watching two people talking. But we've lost something.
A: Uh huh. We all know when someone makes eye contact with us. It is a moment of drama. Perhaps it's a serial killer telling us that he's about to kill us; or a loved one acknowledging a moment of affection. Regardless, it's a moment with dramatic value. We know when people make eye contact with us, look away and then make eye contact again. It's an essential part of communication. And yet, it is lost in standard interviews on film. That is, until the Interrotron.
Q: I don't get it.
A: I got tired of sitting so close to the camera. (In my early films, my cameraman would grab the back of my head and pull me back because you could see the side of my head in the lens. When he yanked me back, it often hurt.) And I started to wonder, what if I could become one with the camera. What if the camera and myself could become one and the same?
A: Well, not literally. Are you familiar with Teleprompters?
A: Well, Teleprompters are used to project an image on a two-way mirror. Politicians and newscasters use them so that they can read text and look into the lens of the camera at the same time. What interests me is that nobody thought of using them for anything other than to display text: read a speech or read the news and look into the lens of the camera.
A: I changed that. I put my face on the Teleprompter or, strictly speaking, my live video image. For the first time, I could be talking to someone, and they could be talking to me and at the same time looking directly into the lens of the camera. Now, there was no looking off slightly to the side. No more faux first person. This was the true first person.
Q: It sounds like Buck Rogers. Were people willing to tolerate this?
A: I worried at first. Would it frighten people? Would they run out of the studio screaming? Who could say? I used it for the first time in Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. And it worked like a charm. People loved the Interrotron.
Q: The Interrotron? Did you make up the name?
A: No, it was named by my wife, Julia Sheehan. She liked the name because it combined two important concepts — terror and interview.
Q: But doesn't the device intimidate people?
A: Oddly enough, no. It doesn't. People, if anything, feel more relaxed when talking to a live video image. My production designer, Ted Bafaloukos, said, "The beauty of this thing is that it allows people to do what they do best. Watch television…" We often think of technology as working against the possibility of intimacy. But there are so many counter-examples. The telephone is a good counter-example. There are things we can say to each other on the phone that we would never say if we were in the same room. You know, "Being there is the next best thing to using the phone…" The Interrotron is like that. It creates greater distance and greater intimacy. And it also creates the true first person. Now, when people make eye contact with me, it can be preserved on film.
Q: Have you used it much?
A: Whenever I need to. I used it in a film that introduced the Academy Awards® in 2002. Gorbachev, Laura Bush, Iggy Pop, Al Sharpton and Walter Cronkite have all been on the Interrotron.
Q: Did Robert McNamara like it?
A: Well, you have to remember that we are talking about someone who has been interviewed a thousand times. He walked into the studio and said, "What is that?" I smiled and said, "The Interrotron." He said, "Well, whatever it is, I don't like it." But then he sat down, and we proceeded to record over twenty hours of interviews. I guess he came to like it, too.
Morris used the interrotron to make the Academy Awards Movie. Imagine, a special screen that displays the live, disembodied image of Morris as he shouts out questions, makes funny faces and orders his subjects to repeat things.
And just who are some of the 98 people who appear in the Academy Awards Movie? Well, if you look closely you'll see: Jerry Brown (then the Mayor of Oakland, CA), Martin L. Perl (1995 Nobel Laureate in Physics), Alice Waters (Chef, Chez Panisse, Berkeley CA), the late Susan Sontag (writer), William L. Brown, Jr. (then the Mayor of San Francisco), Carolina Herrera (New York fashion designer), Iggy Pop (musician), Donald Trump (entrepreneur), Sidney Coleman (Professor of Quantum Field Theory, Harvard University), Laura Bush (First Lady of the United States), Jello Biafra (former lead singer of The Dead Kennedys), Philip Glass (avant-garde musician and composer), Fran Lebowitz (writer), Lou Reed (musician), Rev. Al Sharpton (President, National Action Network), Mikhail Gorbachev (Former President of the Soviet Union), Walter Cronkite (retired journalist), Laurie Anderson (musician and performance artist), Kenneth J. Arrow (1972 Nobel Laureate in Economics), Urvahi Vaid (gay rights activist) and Eric Lander (Director, Center for Genome Research at MIT) among many others.
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At the NY Times, One Wall Reportedly to Come Tumblin' Down
Filed under: Business Moves,MSM Biz/Other Bias,MSM Biz/Other Ignorance,Taxes & Government — Tom @ 2:03 pm
That would be the TimeSelect firewall at the contracting New York Times, according to a report by its growing rival, the New York Post:
The New York Times is poised to stop charging readers for online access to its Op-Ed columnists and other content, The Post has learned.
….. The number of Web-only subscribers who pay $7.95 a month or $49.95 a year fell to just over 221,000 in June, down from more than 224,000 in April.
Not that it was a particularly insightful prediction, but yours truly wrote the following in November 2005 (first item at link), when the Times announced it had reached 135,000 online TimeSelect subscribers (current print subscribers get TimeSelect access free of charge):
I don't see TimesSelect getting past double the current paid level, even over the long haul, because I expect drop-offs to about equal add-ons after the first-year buildup.
That post also linked to and excerpted a now-unavailable story at Editor & Publisher that, two years, later, makes it very clear that the Times has not accomplished the goals it set for itself with TimeSelect:
….. NYTimes.com has offered a number of piecemeal premium services in the past, but in aggregate they only brought in a couple million dollars a year. The ambition is to have a much larger revenue stream.
He's looking for significant numbers. The goal won't be met with TimesSelect subscription numbers in the tens of thousands, (NY Times Digital President) Nisenholtz says; it needs to be in the hundreds of thousands in the early years, and even more over the long term.
The Times didn't even get close to double what they had in late 2005. The drop-off reported in the Post indicates that whatever growth was going to occur is over. Further, there is reason to believe that students and others entitled to deeply discounted rates may make up a more-than-minor large percentage of the current 221,000-plus subscribers, meaning that the Times is in all likelihood getting no more than, and probably quite a bit less than, $10 million a year from TimeSelect (if everyone was paying $50, it would be just over $11 million). That's a relative pittance.
Times columnists were among those who, according to the Post, agitated for the change. I don't blame them — Seriously, has anyone missed the ability to read Mo Dowd and Paul Krugman for free during the past almost-two years? Times writers were deliberately taken out of the national conversation by their short-sighted management. It must be difficult to see your relevance diminish with each passing column.
I suppose the Times walled-off columnists believe they believe they'll have more influence on the upcoming presidential election attempt to coronate Hillary Clinton once the TimeSelect firewall is gone. They're probably right, but it may backfire: I'd say it's just as likely that the more ordinary readers are re-exposed to the dreck emanating from the likes of Dowd, Krugman, Frank Rich, et al, the more turned off they'll be towards anyone they (the columnists) have favorable opinions of.
Cross-posted at NewsBusters.org.
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Filed under: Business Moves,Economy,MSM Biz/Other Bias,Taxes & Government,US & Allied Military — Tom @ 9:07 am
Without citing specifics, because there are too many examples, it's amazing how lenders are catching all of the blame for subprime loans going bad, when, as noted here back in February, it's "government sponsored enterprises" (GSEs) like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that lowered the bar on what they were willing to buy and securitize. Specifically, quoting that post (first bullet near the end):
Those two GSEs lowered the credit scores and relaxing related documentation standards for "conventional" and sub-prime mortgages to the point where clearly unqualified borrowers were getting "conventional" treatment and borrowers who barely had a pulse credit-wise were getting sub-prime applications approved. A contact of mine in the lending industry told me in mid-2005 that the threshold for conventional approval was lowered from a credit score of about 670 to about 630, and for sub-primes dropped from about 630 to 590.
"590″ is a credit score that, when translated, means "accident waiting to happen."
Though lenders aren't blameless, I don't doubt for a minute that there was a mentality that said, "If we don't approve this loan, we know that the guy down the street will, and it's Fan's or Fred's problem after we sell it." Fan and Fred are getting no grief for having relaxed standards too much. They deserve lots of it.
Deposed Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli's appointment to head Chrysler by its new private owners may not be the disaster it appears to be. In theory at least, a private-company board of owner-directors should ensure that there isn't a misalignment between shareholder and management interests. But if everyone's in it to gut the company (not inconceivable, given Nardelli's appointment and well-known history), look out below.
The (New York) Times, it is a-shrinking. So are the company's ad revenues.
A boo-boo by BOOHOO (Barack Overseas "O-bomba" Hussein "Obambi" Obama) has consequences (HT Michelle Malkin). Of course, stories about the protests in Pakistan are almost non-existent in the US press (rare exceptions here and here).
Speaking of boo-boos, this is a really bad ad move by Intel (HT Plunderbund), which it has apologized for. It looked to me like a white guy enjoying his dominance over 6 slumped-over, exhausted black men, almost as if a slave master. Believe it or not, they're supposed to be sprinters posting in starting-line position, which I didn't "get" until I read it.
Japan Today reports that a "Nissan car catches drunk drivers through sweaty palms."
A JT commenter wryly observes, "Nice try — The theory is that drunks will be too drunk to remember to wear their drinking gloves."
Positivity: Police praise hero for saving toddler's life
Filed under: Positivity — Tom @ 7:06 am
From Christchurch, New Zealand:
Christchurch police are describing the actions of a man who saved a toddler from the jaws of a staffordshire-cross dog and then gave her first aid as nothing short of heroic.
Two-year-old Aotea was playing at Jellie Park, in the suburb of Burnside, with three other children, all aged between four and nine when the dog began to maul her, about 11am.
Golf course superintendent Peter Macintosh was with his eight-year-old son and 14-year-old daughter at the park when he heard some screaming from the other side of the park.
" I then heard my daughter scream – a scream you never want to hear – and she just said ?run dad run'," he said today.
Mr Macintosh sprinted 200m towards the noise, still unaware of what he was running towards when he saw the dog with Aotea in it's mouth, shaking her "like a ragdoll".
"I realised what type of dog it was – I jumped straight on top of it. It was too strong for me to praise it's jaws open so I didn't, I just went straight for the windpipe of the dog and tried to choke it."
The dog's neck was too thick for Mr Macintosh to get his hands around properly, so he dug his fingers into the dog's windpipe in an effort to get it to drop the girl.
Mr Macintosh said he did not have a clue why he took that particular action.
"Obviously something I had seen or heard somewhere, but it eventually worked and the dog let her go and the sister of the wee girl pulled her out and took her up to a park bench while I held the dog down."
The dog, a Staffordshire cross, is believed to have escaped from its nearby property when it attacked the girl.
Another person then arrived on the scene and took over holding the dog down while Mr Macintosh applied first aid to the toddler and comforted her until an ambulance arrived. …..
Go here for the rest of the story.


I remember the days my children were born clearly…well, kind of. Some moments are crystal clear and will be etched in my memory till the end of time "Your baby boy has red hair!" "It's a girl!" In contrast; many of the details were a complete blur — countless nurses, doctors, aides, monitors and medications. There were informational videos to watch, and tearful meetings with lactation consultants. The constant hum of activity allowed for very little sleep.
As an audiologist, I know the importance of identifying hearing loss in children as early as possible. However, because my children were born in Ohio before 2004, only my son who was born with Down syndrome received a hearing screening. My other two children had no risk factors and, thus, did not warrant a screening. Fortunately, this has changed. Today, Universal Newborn Hearing Screenings (UNHS) ensure that all children receive a hearing screening before they are discharged from the hospital. Fifty percent of children born with hearing loss have no risk factors. We are fortunate now to be able to identify children who may have otherwise not been diagnosed until developmental delays associated with hearing loss (like speech and language concerns) emerge.
The Early Hearing Loss Detection and Intervention (EHDI) program has a clear goal of having every child receive a hearing screening by 1 month of age, a diagnostic hearing test (if the baby did not pass the hospital screening) by 3 months of age, and enrollment in early intervention (if hearing loss is identified) by 6 months of age. These 1/3/6 month standards are nationwide. There also is a strong movement to meet these markers by a 1/2/3 month standard, as we know the earlier a child receives intervention for hearing loss, the better the outcome.
Apparently, my son Jamie, who has Down syndrome, received a hearing screening in the days after his birth. I have no idea when (so much was a blur at that time). But, I do clearly recall talking with the nurse because he did not pass the screening. This meant we needed to bring him back for further testing. Given my profession, I was fortunate to understand that time was of the essence. The Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) testing that they needed to complete to know how well my son was hearing required Jamie to be fully asleep. A newborn will sleep naturally and the testing can usually be completed quickly in the audiologist's office. However, if we waited months to go back, there was a high likelihood that he would have to be sedated to get an accurate test. I definitely would have sedated had it been necessary, but was glad that was not the case. I knew that I needed to be sure that my son could hear, or if not, how much hearing loss there was and how to arrange to get help for him. How could I expect he would learn to talk if he could not hear?
Like every mother, I wanted to do everything possible to help my baby. I quickly scheduled a follow up hearing test. When he was just a few weeks old, my husband and I brought Jamie back to the hospital for the diagnostic ABR testing. He slept in my arms as the audiologist taped wires (electrodes) to his forehead and behind his ears. Then the audiologist put little headphones on him that made noises and watched his brain's response to those sounds. Jamie slept the entire time! It was easy, and I was thankful to learn that Jamie had normal hearing. However, given his diagnosis of Down syndrome, the audiologist suggested frequent (every 6 month) tests to monitor his hearing.
Jamie also enrolled in early intervention through Help Me Grow. Jamie was eligible due to his Down syndrome diagnosis, however, this is the same program for which children who are identified with hearing loss are eligible. It was wonderful! We had a specialist who came to our home and helped our family work with Jamie to meet the goals we decided were important to us. The best part was that it was absolutely free. It did not matter what insurance (if any) we had. It is free to everyone.
Cleveland Hearing & Speech Center has early interventionists that specialize in hearing loss. We work as part of the Help Me Grow team and go to a family's home to help them understand their child's hearing loss and how it may impact their child's development. We help families identify outcomes important to them and help them achieve those outcomes. Every family is unique and has their own strengths and own dreams. Some families want to learn sign language and meet members of the deaf community. Some families need more information about technology such as hearing aids or cochlear implants. Some families want strategies on how to encourage language within their home. We know that babies and toddlers learn best in their natural environment so our goal is not to teach the baby, but to coach the parents so that they may be their child's best teacher. Learning happens in every day routines and situations. We help families recognize and maximize those opportunities.
Cleveland Hearing & Speech Center also has a team of audiologists. We conduct hearing testing at all three of our locations (University Circle, Broadview Heights, South Euclid), although we do not have the equipment to test a newborn. It is typically the large hospital systems that have the ABR equipment. However, our audiologists can test children from 9 months of age and up and we also fit hearing aids on people of all ages, including infants. If a child has a hearing loss, we hope to have hearing aids fit by 3 months of age. Access to sound is important as children are learning language. Children are like sponges and they spend the better part of the first year listening and taking it all in, and it is not typically until the second year of life that the words they heard begin to come back out. It is important that all babies have the opportunity to develop language.
Every baby's journey is unique; however, all parents need to know how well their baby hears in order to provide him/her with a language rich environment. If you have questions about your child's hearing or about hearing loss, please contact Cleveland Hearing & Speech Center at 216-231-8787.


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Blur: The Magic Whip Review
By Nina Corcoran | April 28, 2015 | 5:08pm
Promises of a new Blur album have been making headlines for years. Damon Albarn is quick to run his mouth, suggesting new material is in the future one week and then completely shutting down the possibility of a Blur reunion the next. So when the Britpop group announced they would be releasing their first new album in 12 years, The Magic Whip, fans were genuinely surprised. Frankly, so was Blur.
Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree were touring Asia in the spring of 2013 when music festival Tokyo Rock was abruptly called off due to disorganized management. With a five-day break in their schedule and no dates to attend to, they took shelter in a tiny recording studio in Hong Kong, jamming with no goal in mind. The 15 songs they drafted up were set aside once they got back on tour. Almost a year later, Coxon revisited the tracks and, after roping in Blur's early producer Stephen Street, presented the material to the band. There was no denying it. They had made an album, and it happened to be their first in 16 years with the original four-piece lineup.
With a lack of intent comes the ultimate creative freedom. The Magic Whip outlines a Westerner's lonely wandering through the daily mannerisms and unintelligible characters of a country to which he is foreign, in this case China. The sense of detachment that unfamiliarity provides can be simultaneously unnerving and encouraging, offering a new opportunity to find yourself while still facing isolation in a crowd. Coxon bailed in 2002 to pursue a solo route. Albarn did the same once 2003's Think Tank wrapped, trying his hand at film scores, operas and trip-hop rock via Gorillaz. Once reunited on tour, Blur were no longer thinking through their own individual mindsets. They thought as a unit, and that's what they needed. A decade apart allowed them to look with new eyes while simultaneously being forced to feel out of place in Asia, the kind of creativity gap that allows for paintbrushes and crayons to hold the same excited possibility that they did when you were three.
The Magic Whip begins with that giddy, childish excitement. The chipper flash of "Lonesome Street" hits like a media-curated image of Hong Kong, full of neon lights and petite lanterns. Coxon's guitar splashes back into Blur's sound with off-kilter riffs while bubblegum backing vocals echo Parklife material. "New World Towers" seems tied to Albarn's melancholic drawl on last year's Everyday Robots. Lead single "Go Out" stomps with prodding bass and eerie, sinister vocals that harken back to their Great Escape days. After Coxon and Street's tinkering, the band found themselves cradling an infant, and that new member of their discography's family has undeniable blood ties to their past work. Put simply, The Magic Whip belongs.
As reminiscent as the album is, it never once sacrifices surprises. They test dub-reggae on "Ghost Ship," Gorillaz-style sing-alongs on "Ong Ong," and experimental jams on "Thought I Was A Spaceman." Even "Pyongyang" sees Albarn singing about the capital of North Korea as a disgruntled outsider, his words masked by a surf guitar line, wood block strikes and a cold drum machine. It's a courageous move, reinforced by the album's other midtempo ballads. Even the essential Blur stylings of "I Broadcast" ride on peculiar electronic beeps. Blur have always been on the fringe of Britpop, staying just shy enough of cliché riffs and feel-good choruses to rope in enough absurdities to set them on their own path, but The Magic Whip pushes them deeper into that realm.
Throughout it all, Albarn tackles political commentary and weary cultural digestion with vague lyrics. When that initial detachment is revisited on electronic suite "There Are Too Many of Us," it becomes frightening. "For a moment I was dislocated by terror on the loop elsewhere," he sings, recounting an Australian hostage crisis which he watched through the screen of his hotel room television. The flooding of people, the enormity of our species, and the statistical impossibility of registering each human as a breathing, thinking, complicated individual slaps him hard across the face. No one can fix your problems for you, and no one would bother to do so even if they could. We compete for the top seat, climbing our way up, away from murders and disease and crises, clawing at one another until a small faction reach the top and lay back flat, breathing in the crisp air of safety. It repeats day after day, and, as Albarn outlines, we're quick to feel disconnected from it.
Still, the lyrics take second place on the album's emotional peak, "My Terracotta Heart," with Coxon's riffs zipping ahead, undeniably claiming the spotlight. It's as much his return as it is the band's. The song's ballooning goes head-to-head in a backseat battle of a glissful, melancholic melody versus hurried percussion. Once greeted by the finale, "Mirrorball," all four members hold back in restraint, resulting in an inexplicable tension towards life itself instead of one another. As Albarn laments "Before you log out, hold close to me," we're left musing on the band's middleground sound—but only momentarily. The silence that follows makes the 12 tracks before it glisten. Britpop's giants are back, and they sound surprisingly the way we had hoped they would: melodic, contemplative and content as a single unit.
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Danish electropop singer MØ continued her 21 stop tour this past Sunday, bringing Djs Darius and Cashmere Cat to Vancouver's Vogue Theater.
After a brief moment with Cashmere Cat earlier in the evening and a few minutes resetting the staggering amount of lights used on stage throughout the night, MØ played through an increasingly robust set list to an enthusiastic crowd pressed body to body from the door all the way down the stairs to the stage.
Known for engaging the crowd, MØ continually came down into the pit, singing and taking selfies with everyone in the front row.
Enjoy some photos of MØ singing all her best tracks, including recent hits written with Diplo, Major Lazer and DJ Snake!
Jason Martin is a semi-professional semi-enthusiast (enthusiastic?) Canadian photographer who prefers Nikon, artists who perform under more than a single, purple (or blue/green/red) LED light on stage, and wishes you the best of luck looking for his social media accounts.


A police officer stops traffic in front of Chamblee Charter High School after a youth was arrested for carrying loaded guns, according to authorities, on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014, in Chamblee, Ga.
The school district's police chief, Terry Enoch, said officials have heard from parents and others in the school community about the need for mental health support.
"They want more training for our educators so they can identify warning signs when kids are in trouble and have resources available to help treat issues when they arise," he said.
Similar grants will go to schools in Ben Hill, Coffee, Dade, DeKalb, Fulton, and Richmond Counties.


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Thought you might appreciate this item(s) I saw at Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology.
The Effect of Second-Generation Antidepressant Treatment on the Memory of Patients With Major Depressive Disorder
A Meta-analysis Study With Structural Equation Models
Gudayol-Ferré, Esteve PhD*; Duarte-Rosas, Patricia MSC†; Peró-Cebollero, Maribel PhD‡; Guàrdia-Olmos, Joan PhD‡
From the *Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Michoacana San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Mexico
†Doctorado de Psicología Clínica y de la Salud, Facultat de Psicologia
‡Facultat de Psicologia, Institut de Neurociències, UB Institute of Complex Systems, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Received November 19, 2018; accepted after revision October 21, 2019.
Reprints: Esteve Gudayol-Ferré, PhD, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Gral, Francisco Villa 450, 58110 Morelia, México (e-mail: ferre@umich.mx).
Online date: December 11, 2019
Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology: January/February 2020 - Volume 40 - Issue 1 - p 54–62
doi: 10.1097/JCP.0000000000001150
Major depressive disorder (MDD) has been linked to episodic memory deficits that may be improved after pharmacological treatment, but it is unclear whether there is a class of antidepressants that is more effective than others to ameliorate these deficits in MDD. In addition, the possible effects of clinical and sociodemographic variables on the improvement of MDD memory deficits after pharmacological treatment are currently unknown. Our aims are to study the possible neuropsychological effects of second-generation antidepressant classes on the episodic memory of MDD patients and to study the potential effects of clinical and demographic variables as moderators of the effects of antidepressants on the memory of depressed patients through a meta-analysis approach.
Nine articles were included in our study. A structural equation model meta-analysis was performed.
Our results suggest that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and serotonine-noradrenaline reuptake inhibitors would bring about a substantial improvement in the memory of depressed patients, whereas other antidepressant classes would cause rather modest effects. Our results also suggest that clinical and demographic variables play a very important role as mediators of memory improvement after MDD treatment. Thus, a relatively low level of symptom severity, a high degree of clinical improvement, a younger age, and more years of education were positively related to memory improvement after MDD treatment.
Although antidepressant class is an important variable linked to memory improvement in MDD, overall, the degree of memory amelioration in depression is very closely related to clinical and demographic variables of patients with depression.
The Effect of Second-Generation Antidepressant Treatment on the Memory of Patients With Major Depressive Disorder: A Meta-analysis Study With Structural Equation Models
Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology40(1):54-62, January/February 2020.
meta-analysis, major depressive disorder, antidepressants, memory, MASEM (structural equation models)
Articles in PubMed by Esteve Gudayol-Ferré, PhD
Articles in Google Scholar by Esteve Gudayol-Ferré, PhD
Other articles in this journal by Esteve Gudayol-Ferré, PhD
Long-Term Effect of Haloperidol, Olanzapine, and Risperidone on Plasma Prolactin Levels in Patients With First-Episode Psychosis
Atypical Antipsychotics and Pituitary Tumors
The 7 Sins of Psychopharmacology
A Case of Milnacipran-Related Sweating Alleviated by Duloxetine Substitution
Atypical Antipsychotics, Neurocognitive Deficits, and Aggression in Schizophrenic Patients


In 2012-16, 64% of Asian, 35% of white, 18% of African American, and 20% of Hispanic residents in Dutchess County had a bachelor's degree or higher. These figures were very similar to the statewide (excluding NYC) and regional rates. From 2000 through 2012-16, the rate of individuals with a bachelor's degree or higher increased the most among African American and white residents of Dutchess County, both by 6 points. Hispanic and Asian residents also saw their rates rise from 2000 to 2012-16.
Local areas with a high share of white residents with a bachelor's degree or higher was the Village of Rhinebeck, at 52% and the Town of Rhinebeck at 47%. The populations in most other local areas, when broken down by race and ethnicity, were too small to yield reliable survey results.


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Trindtjärnen är en sjö i Skellefteå kommun i Västerbotten och ingår i . Sjön har en area på  kvadratkilometer och ligger  meter över havet. Trindtjärnen ligger i  Natura 2000-område.

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Chamusca e Pinheiro Grande is a civil parish in the municipality of Chamusca, Portugal. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former parishes Chamusca and Pinheiro Grande. The population in 2011 was 4,299, in an area of 67.10 km².

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The company's chief privacy officer mentioned it during a Senate hearing.
Representatives from a number of major tech companies appeared before the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Energy and Transportation today, discussing data privacy and concerns over consumer protection. Google sent its new chief privacy officer, Keith Enright, to the hearing, who was questioned multiple times over rumors that Google is working on a censored search engine for China. VentureBeat reports that Enright confirmed a project codenamed Dragonfly, though he stopped short of discussing what that project entailed. "I am not clear on the contours of what is in scope or out of scope for that project," Enright told Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX).
Reports of Dragonfly surfaced last month and a number of Google's employees pushed back on the plan when it came to light. Subsequent reports have provided details on how the search engine might work. Among those expressing concerns over Dragonfly are six US Senators, who sent a letter to Google in August, seeking additional information about the rumored project and calling the move "deeply troubling" if it was in fact in the works.
Throughout today's hearing, Enright claimed that the company was "not close to launching a search engine in China" and a spokesperson told VentureBeat that the company's "work on search has been exploratory." So while details about the project are still in the wind, these statements suggest that Google is at least considering bringing search back to China.


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Toshiba TSV Technology Increases NAND Flash Efficiency
By Chris Ramseyer
Earlier this month, Toshiba announced a new technology used in conjunction with stacking components in a package, Through Silicon Via (TSV). The press release focused heavily on stacking up to 16 NAND flash die, something we've already seen in retail SSDs from Samsung. The new method releases the die from wire bonding and ports channels through the silicon to transfer data and provide power.
TSV is not new to Toshiba. We found documents dating back to 2007 on the company's website and even some detailed information on the stack. When it comes to SSDs, companies stack die in packages that we often look at and call NAND flash. Most products use four to eight die per package, but some take the stack all the way up to 16 die.
Companies don't like to push stacks to the upper levels for a few reasons. The first has to do with failures. If something goes wrong in the packaging process, then the entire stack is destroyed, an expensive mistake considering NAND flash is the most expensive component in an SSD. The second issue revolves around impedance. The longer the wire bond, the more resistance encountered. The bottom die use shorter bonding wires back to the BGA or TSOP pads, but the die at the top have higher resistance, and in some cases the flash has to clock down to lower speeds to keep signal integrity. Because controllers can't compensate for the lower speeds needed at the top, the entire die stack has to run at a lower speed.
TSV technology removed the wire bonding from the edges of the die. Instead, the signal is passed through the entire stack vertically. Vertical NAND, often referred to as V-NAND or 3D NAND, differs from TSV, though. Nothing leads us to believe that the two technologies can't work together, but at this time we are unaware of any designs that merge the two technologies.
As previously mentioned, the new product was just announced less than 10 days ago, but it appears that partners have been playing with TSV flash for some time now. PMC Sierra had a working demo at FMS 2015. Stephen Bates walked us through many of the details with an enthusiastic tone.
Toshiba's partners are excited about this product for two reasons: The first is performance. PMC Sierra makes very high-performing NVMe SSDs that move the bottleneck from the PCIe interface to the flash itself. The Princeton controller uses 32 channels to address a large number of flash die and is a very expensive controller to manufacture. If the company is able to reach the same performance level with just 16 channels, the overall cost will drop. The capacity can remain the same because TSV allows Toshiba to stack twice the number of die in each package.
Performance is only one aspect of the overall datacenter equation, though. The upfront costs are minimal compared to the long term costs due to power consumption. PMC Sierra demonstrated a very wide gap in power efficiency between non-TSV Toggle mode flash and new TSV Toggle mode flash.
What is great for the datacenter today will eventually trickle down to client products. Improving power efficiency at the SSD level always increases notebook battery life when away from a charging location. Less power drain also affects a normally overlooked factor, which is notebook battery endurance. When you discharge a notebook battery, it wears the power cells. Less cycles, especially very low states to fully charged, increases the actual battery life. TSV is just another piece in the notebook puzzle that is consistently changing to improve the user experience and in making a more robust product.
At this time we are not sure when we will see NAND flash with TSV technology, but we suspect Toshiba's 3D BiCS flash could come to market in 2016 with more vertical features than we previously expected.
Chris Ramseyer is a Contributing Editor for Tom's Hardware, covering Storage. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. Follow Tom's Hardware on Twitter, Facebook and Google+.
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« Is Your Stepfamily in a Season of Challenge?
I assume it's a new stepmom who's questioning what she's walked into. I've been there, haven't you?
How would you answer her question? Perhaps it depends on what kind of interaction you recently had with your stepchild.
Some days, it doesn't seem like it, does it? Other days, maybe?
Step-couple marriage is hard. I know. I've written about it repeatedly in this blog. But if you're married, you must have believed enough in the marital relationship to take a chance on the stepparenting relationship.
Sometimes I wonder why we think life should be easy. If we never experienced pain or heartache, we wouldn't know to appreciate the good days. If we never saw rain, we wouldn't appreciate sunshine.
When you walk through the challenges of stepparenting, and get to the other side, you cherish the place you arrive at. It won't be perfect, but it will have meaning. The marital bonds will be strong because they've withstood the pressure of trials. The stepparent/stepchild relationships will be special because they've persisted through good times and bad. The stepfamily as a unit will be a safe place – a place of peace and comfort for those who have walked the journey together.
Is it worth is? Yes!
You know the price, don't you? Heartache. Pain. Doubt. Confusion. The list could go on and on.
So when do you get to the rewards? Unfortunately, there are no pat answers to some of those rewards. The stepparent and stepfamily rewards I mentioned may not come as soon as you want. They may take many more years than you'd hoped. But–the reward of strong marital bonds can happen today.
You see, the beauty of stepfamily life is it offers a bond in marriage you may have never had. The challenges of stepparenting can bind a marriage closer through constant communication, learning to manage conflict effectively, practicing a united front as a parental unit, and other team building interactions.
The beauty of a strong marriage can outweigh the heartache of stepparenting. It can make the heartache worth it.
But it requires work. It requires intentional effort. It requires two people making a commitment to a marriage that will go the distance, even when there's pain.
Are you up for the challenge? I hope so.
Because some day… your stepchildren will leave home. And you'll have the rest of your life to enjoy with your spouse…if you didn't quit.
How do you answer that question? Is the heartache of stepparenting worth it?
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This question passes through my head often. Thankfully, there are enough blessings in my marriage and with new children that I don't let that thought linger. Still, step parenting is hard. Sometimes the thought is phrased more like couldn't we just give up on THESE kids? I know its not fair and I am not suggesting it's right. There is little in life that is as difficult as step parenting has been for me, and my life has never been a rose strewn path by any means. Actually I think it would be easier if we had my step kids with us 100% of the time, as opposed to 50-50. The 50-50 split creates such chaos and disorder and allows a lot of manipulation and ugly behavior to arise. Step parenting is hard. Period. It's almost always consequence of divorce, after all. But sometimes under certain circumstances, it sure does feel like (even if just for a moment) that it may not be worth it. My marriage is worth it though.
I keep learning how important it is to maintain a sense of the big picture and not get my boat rocked by things that happen on a given day. Being a blended family–and part of that for me is being a stepmom–is often rewarding and also challenging. I do think it si worth it, because it presents me with an opportunity to give love unconditionally. What better task is there in life?
You have a great perspective Sarah – it is so important to keep the big picture in mind and not focus on the day-to-day things that can send you reeling. God bless you on your stepmom journey. Thank you for your comment.


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Q: Current in AC circuit
The problem is to find the current on the capacitor. $I''$ should be correct, but I don't know how to construct the formula for $I'$.
I managed to get the value for $I_c$ using Thevenin and Norton equivalents, and they're the same, so that should be correct.

A: Studying the problem some, I think what your showing is superposition of a voltage source and a current source.  In the first circuit, you've zeroed the current source (making it an open circuit), and in the second circuit, you've zeroed the voltage source (making it a short circuit).
In both cases, you appear to be trying to solve for the current through the capacitor and then summing the two results to find the total.
IF the sources are sinusoidal with angular frequency $\omega$, then this is a very easy problem to solve.
For the first circuit, the capacitor and resistor are in parallel.  Find the source current and then use current division to find the capacitor current:
$I'_c = \dfrac{U_s}{(R||-jX_C) + jX_L} \dfrac{R}{R -jX_C}$
For the second circuit, you've used current division correctly.
However, it's not clear that AC analysis is appropriate since the sources are shown as functions of time.  Since AC analysis is done in the phasor domain, the sources are not shown as time dependent but, rather, as a complex constant.

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Putting diamonds on someone's skin is definitely not an easy job, it took time and patience. Minki, the model in the photo, had to endure over eight intense hours of diamond placement or "tattooing" as artists carefully placed each stone onto her skin with a water based adhesive. 612 stones had to be attached onto her skin one by one. Water adhesive was chosen for the world's most expensive tattoo to ensure that the diamonds didn't fall off but also didn't get permanently attached to her skin. She certainly wasn't going for a jog or taking a shower before her photo shoot.
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Officials from Guinness World Records have recognized DARPA's Terahertz Electronics program for creating the fastest solid-state amplifier integrated circuit ever measured: one terahertz (1012 Hz), or one trillion cycles per second — 150 billion cycles faster than the existing world record set in 2012.
"This breakthrough could lead to revolutionary technologies such as high-resolution security imaging systems, improved collision-avoidance radar, communications networks with many times the capacity of current systems, and spectrometers that could detect potentially dangerous chemicals and explosives with much greater sensitivity," said Dev Palmer, DARPA program manager.
Developed by Northrop Grumman Corporation, the Terahertz Monolithic Integrated Circuit (TMIC) exhibits power gains (amplification) several orders of magnitude beyond the current state of the art by using a super-scaled 25 nanometer gate-length indium phosphide high electron mobility transistor.
By contrast, current smartphone technology operates at one to two gigahertz and wireless networks at 5.7 gigahertz.
For years, researchers have been looking to exploit the high-frequency sub-millimeter-wave spectrum beginning above 300 gigahertz. Current electronics using solid-state technologies have largely been unable to access the sub-millimeter band of the electromagnetic spectrum due to insufficient transistor performance.
To address the "terahertz gap," engineers have traditionally used frequency conversion—converting alternating current at one frequency to alternating current at another frequency—to multiply circuit operating frequencies up from millimeter-wave frequencies.
This approach, however, restricts the output power of electrical devices and adversely affects signal-to-noise ratio. Frequency conversion also increases device size, weight and power supply requirements.


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Food Bank of P.R. distributes $815K to 64 entities fighting hunger
From left: Food Bank Chair Edwin Javier Pérez and Food Bank President Denise L. Santos bestow the donations.
The Food Bank of Puerto Rico, the nonprofit organization that supplies more than 125 organizations affiliated with its programs and is dedicated to mitigating hunger in Puerto Rico, reached three decades serving the island by distributing $815,000 among 64 of its partner organizations.
The disbursements were possible thanks to a donation from the David Tepper Charitable Foundation — Appaloosa LP, private organizations committed to fighting hunger through food banks located in the eastern United States and to contribute financially in areas affected by natural disasters.
After a rigorous process by an evaluation committee, the Food Bank of Puerto Rico received the donation that was split among 64 local affiliated entities. The Food Bank seeks to strengthen the nonprofits, so they continue to mitigate hunger in Puerto Rico among the needy, the sick, the elderly and families with children living in poverty, executives said.
"Last year, the Bank helped distribute more than 18 million pounds of food, 12 million meals served, impacting 2 million people," said Denise L. Santos, president of the Food Bank of Puerto Rico.
"We have fed vulnerable communities during three catastrophic hurricanes that have hit our island in the last three decades: Hugo, Georges and María. But hunger is not limited to atmospheric phenomena; It's an everyday problem."
A fundamental part of the nonprofit's 30-year celebration is to generate awareness about hunger and how it affects Puerto Rico.
"More than half of Puerto Ricans live under poverty levels in a spectrum that ranges from the elderly to students and children," Santos said. "This irrefutable reality is very difficult to accept for many sectors that live clinging to the idea that 'nobody in Puerto Rico is hungry.' Well, we say yes, there are thousands who go hungry, and that is why our mission is so firm and crucial for our island."
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Q: child resources in nested resource in Bicep I am looking for solution where I can create multiple storage accounts and create child resources like blob for each storage accounts using loops in Bicep.I was able to deploy multiple storage accounts but not getting good examples or documentation on how to create child resources for iterated resources in bicep
@allowed([
  'CACN'
  'CAEA'
  'USE2'
  'USCN'
])
param regionCode string
param mandatoryTags object
param sku object = {
  name: 'Standard_LRS'
  tier: 'Standard'
}
param identity object = {
  type: 'SystemAssigned'
}
@allowed([
  'None'
  'Logging'
  'Metrics'
  'AzureServices'
])
param bypass string = 'AzureServices'

// array of storage account names
param storageAccounts array

// variables
var kind = 'StorageV2'
var varHTTPSOnly = true
var varEnableNFSv3 = false
var varAllowBlobPublicAccess = false
var tlsVersion = 'TLS1_2'
var enableADLSgen2 = false

resource storageAccountResources 'Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts@2021-02-01' = [for storageName in storageAccounts: {
  name: storageName
  location: resourceGroup().location
  kind: kind
  sku: sku
  tags: mandatoryTags
  identity: identity
  properties: {
    accessTier: 'Hot'
    supportsHttpsTrafficOnly: varHTTPSOnly
    isHnsEnabled: enableADLSgen2
    minimumTlsVersion: tlsVersion
    isNfsV3Enabled: varEnableNFSv3
    allowBlobPublicAccess: varAllowBlobPublicAccess
    // network security controls
    networkAcls: {
      bypass: bypass
      defaultAction: 'Deny'
      resourceAccessRules: []
      virtualNetworkRules: []
      ipRules: []
    }
    routingPreference: {
      routingChoice: 'MicrosoftRouting'
      publishMicrosoftEndpoints: false
      publishInternetEndpoints: false
    }
    encryption: {
      services: {
        blob: {
          enabled: true
          keyType: 'Account'
        }
        file: {
          enabled: true
          keyType: 'Account'
        }
        table: {
          enabled: true
          keyType: 'Account'
        }
        queue: {
          enabled: true
          keyType: 'Account'
        }
      }
      keySource: 'Microsoft.Storage'
  }
  }
}]
output stgOutput array = [for (name, i) in storageAccounts: {
  name: storageAccounts[i].name
}]

resource ${storageName}_default 'Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/blobServices@2021-04-01' = {
    name: 'default'
    properties: {
      changeFeed: {
        enabled: false
      }
      restorePolicy : {
        enabled: false
      }
      containerDeleteRetentionPolicy: {
        enabled: true
        days: 7
      }
      cors: {
        corsRules: []
      }
      deleteRetentionPolicy: {
        enabled: true
        days: 7
      }
      isVersioningEnabled: true
    }
  }

A: Looking at the documentation (Iteration for a child resource), you should be able to use an iterator :
resource blobServices 'Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/blobServices@2021-04-01' = [for i in range(0, length(storageAccounts)): {
  name: '${storageAccountResources[i].name}/default'
  properties: {
    changeFeed: {
      enabled: false
    }
    restorePolicy: {
      enabled: false
    }
    containerDeleteRetentionPolicy: {
      enabled: true
      days: 7
    }
    cors: {
      corsRules: []
    }
    deleteRetentionPolicy: {
      enabled: true
      days: 7
    }
    isVersioningEnabled: true
  }
}]

For complex arrays, you can use this syntax as well:
resource blobServices 'Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/blobServices@2021-04-01' = [for (storageAccount, i) in storageAccounts: {
  name: '${storageAccountResources[i].name}/default'
  properties: {
    changeFeed: {
      enabled: storageAccount.changeFeed
    }
    restorePolicy: {
      enabled: storageAccount.restorePolicy
    }
    ...
  }
}]


of Savannah, Georgia, this popular museum attracts thousands of visitors each year.
and twentieth century, which is prominently displayed in each of their galleries.
sculptures, but some of the mansion's original furnishings from the Telfair family.
of the most popular tourist cities in Georgia, and is definitely a "must see"


Long Lake integrated oil sands facility located 40 km southeast of Fort McMurray in the Athabasca oil sands.
Kuwait's state-owned petroleum company has signed a preliminary deal to invest as much as $4-billion in a joint venture with Athabasca Oil Corp. to develop some of its oil sands properties in northern Alberta.
Kuwait's Ambassador to Canada, Ali al-Sammak, confirmed in an interview that senior Kuwait Petroleum Corp. officials signed a memorandum of understanding earlier this month. A final agreement is expected in October.
"It's a plus-or-minus $4-billion deal and in October they'll be coming back to follow up what has been signed," Mr. al-Sammak said i n a telephone interview. "So we're doing very good – this proves that we're good close friends."
He said Kuwait Petroleum is seeking to diversify its operations beyond the Middle East and to improve its access to oil sand extraction technology, which could be used in its own heavy oil fields.
The proposed investment highlights the rising interest from state-controlled enterprises in the Middle East and Asia in capturing a piece of the oil sands boom – and the political challenge facing the Harper government in deciding how to deal with them. If the deal is completed, Kuwait Petroleum would join a growing list of state-owned oil companies targeting Canadian oil and natural gas assets. Two proposed takeovers are now before Investment Canada for review: CNOOC Ltd.'s $15-billion offer for Nexen Inc. and the $6-billion bid by Malaysia's Petronas for Progress Energy Resources Corp., which was approved by shareholders this week.
Half an hour before Friday's market opening, the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada announced that trading in Athabasca's stock was halted because of pending news.
Athabasca signalled last month in a conference call with financial analysts that it was in the final stages of negotiating a joint venture with an unidentified investor.
Industry sources say the recent deals could mark the beginning of a large wave of foreign investments and acquisitions in the Canadian energy sector. These sources said that state-owned or private companies from South Korea, Russia, China and emerging Asian nations are currently in discussions with a number of Calgary-based companies.
"It is very, very busy right now. There is a lot of intensity on the acquisition front," said Brock Gibson, Calgary-based chairman of Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP. Mr. Gibson declined to discuss specific transactions, but said his law firm has not seen so much deal activity since the mid-2000s. The increased interest puts pressure on the Harper government to clarify its stance on foreign investment in the energy sector.
The government is currently grappling with a host of issues raised by the CNOOC-Nexen deal that go beyond the benefits of the specific transaction, sources said Thursday. They include how much offshore presence they should encourage in key sectors such as the oil sands and B.C.'s booming gas fields.
Ottawa is also reviewing its policies toward state-owned acquirers, amid questions about whether companies from interventionist, emerging-market countries like China, Malaysia and Kuwait should be treated differently from Norway's Statoil, a government-owned but commercially-run company whose investments the government has welcomed.
Some critics within the Conservative Party – led by Immigration Minister Jason Kenney – are skeptical of Chinese companies' claims to be following market principles.
An Athabasca spokeswoman said there is "no news yet" about a potential joint venture and said the company's CEO was unavailable to comment.
It's unclear whether a deal between Kuwait and Athabasca would require federal approval; it would depend on how it is structured. Foreign acquirers are targeting Canada because of its huge oil and gas reserves and relatively open door to foreign investment. Low valuations in the energy sector are also burnishing the appeal of prospective investments.
Some of these potential acquirers are being actively courted by Calgary companies such as Athabasca because they lack the capital to finance expensive oil sands projects.
Athabasca has aggressively acquired oil properties since it was founded in 2006, but it does not have the financial heft to develop on its own the 1.6 million acres of property in the oil sands. It was able finance the development of its Dover and MacKay River properties only after it raised $1.9-billion in 2010 by selling a 60 per cent stake in each of these two properties to state-owned PetroChina International Investment Co.
The enormous cost of developing the vast oil sands is an industry-wide problem. Alberta's Energy Resources Conservation Board estimates the oil sands host 170 billion barrels of recoverable reserves, making them one of the largest crude deposits in the world. The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers expects it will cost energy companies $23-billion in 2012 to produce oil from the tar sands. The cost of producing expected increases in oil sands output could add up to more than $100-billion by 2020.
"Canada is a small country with a relatively small capital market. There is no way Canada can finance the development of the oil sands," said John Brussa, a Calgary lawyer and chairman of Penn West Petroleum Ltd.
"We need foreign capital and foreign buyers."
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