Its been twelve months since I've wrote a personal blog. I have a few decorating-related draft articles that will eventually make an appearance on the site, but here I'd like to expand upon my personal journey that began in 2016.
Following on from my ordeal of December 2017, and my subsequent recovery during January 2018, my new pacemaker was working well. It was more advanced than its predecessor and the hospital could even monitor my progress by the magic of the interweb.
I was back at work in February, ready to tackle a few interesting projects, including a ten foot by twelve foot digital mural installation. More on that in another post, though; the most important point here is that things were going well.
My daughter began looking at universities in July, and it was just before one of these visits that I noticed my pacemaker scar appeared to have a little hole in it. Conveniently, as the University visit happened to be Newcastle, I thought I might just be able to pop into the hospital to get it checked.
So, as my daughter was in a taster lecture session, we called the pacemaker consultant who, thanks to my colourful medical history, we reached instantly. We explained the situation and, although he was very sympathetic, he said all appointments had been taken that day and asked if I could come back the following week. We agreed, promising to send a picture of my scar so the the consultant could see it.
Ten minutes after emailing the hospital a picture of my right collarbone, the phone rang. The consultant's secretary was on the other end, asking me to be in the hospital within the next two hours. After our daughter had seen everything she needed to, we headed over to Newcastle's cardiology wing for an appointment with two consultants. Right away they broke the news that my body had rejected the pacemaker and it would have to be removed again. To say it was a shock was an understatement.
I was then told to contact the hospital immediately if I saw the silver of the pacemaker appearing through my skin. We returned home, and I cautiously continued working. I think the physical aspects of the job accelerated my pacemakers escape.
Approximately four weeks later, on Sunday night, I sent a message to the hospital informing them that the pacemaker was clearly visible. On Monday morning, I received a telephone call, asking me to be in Newcastle hospital for 4pm.
So again we set of to Newcastle, with a hotel booked for my wife. Both of us were clueless as to how long I'd stay on this occasion. The surgeon spoke with me that night and said I was due in theater the following morning for my pacemaker removal operation.
Once I came around from the anesthetic, I expected to find a temporary pacemaker on my neck as had happened previously. To my surprise, I had nothing. It wasn't long until the surgeon visited again and informed me the device had been removed successfully, and no infection was present. He then said something which really surprised me considering my last twelve months of hospital visits: I was being allowed to return home the following day.
They wanted to give my body time to recover, and they were not planning on fitting another pacemaker as my body was managing by itself. Again I was shocked. Since then, I've done some research and found that, in some cases (especially for those with a long history of cardiac conditions), a heart can partly "rewire" or repair itself if the fault is electrical rather than mechanical.
So that's where we are at present. I've been released back into the wild, un- tethered from any devices or medication. Yes, I will get regular check-ups, and probably at some point in the future they will need to think of a way to give my heart a bit of support. Technology is also moving forward, so who knows what I may end up with.
Work is still progressing. All through these years I've even resorted to arranging jobs from my hospital bed, in an effort to maintain what my business does best; upholding a high standard of customer service and delivering quality professional decorating.
Thanks to my family as always, and to Mark who carries on regardless on the occasions I've had to disappear from the tools.
After my previous post about the misguided organisation, wanting to encourage apprentices by thanking teachers, I thought I try and explain my reasoning behind it.
I have quite a bit of respect for teachers theses days, its not an easy job and they have varied difficulties to deal with, often problem pupils, pressure to meet grading targets and restructuring of learning to name a few.
So I do understand that actually encouraging a pupil towards the lower end of the job market probably is not highest priority in their mind.
Strangely enough once again it all returns back to the correct training, lets think about this shall we. A higher percentage of school leavers attend a university or higher education course after leaving school than ever before. Many of these stay on these graduate courses for up to five years and amass over £35,000 of student debts.
If these students are lucky once they leave university they will land a junior position in the profession they have studied so hard to enter, only then with work, determination and a little good fortune will they rise up the wages ladder.
Hmmmm lets compare, say average school leaver who becomes an apprentice painter and decorator. Leaves school and attends a college course to gain manual skills, usually after failing entrance criteria for plumbing or electrical courses, get steered towards painter and decorating, if they are lucky they also get a placement with an actual firm.
At current rates of apprentice pay in 2018 anyone under 18 years old or a 19 year old in their first year will get a minimum of £7500 / year, providing they gain experience and improve skills over the next few years that should rise so by the time they are actually proficient, they should be on a reasonable wage not too dissimilar to someone having gone through university starting out in a junior position in a company if they are lucky. So food for thought perhaps.
I am also happy to report locally at least there is a move towards bringing tradespeople into schools to mentor pupils on their future prospects, hopefully it might open their minds than if done correctly manual labour can be rewarding.
I'm trying to educate away from the grey economy, where jobs often get carried out to a low standard for below minimum wage. We really do need to build value into all our manual trades, both as skills not to be lost and to ensure once these skills have been learned professionally they are rewarded with the correct rates of pay.
On the left you see the original Church door, it was in a bit of a sorry state as its many old coatings weren't adhering correctly due to previous poor preparation!
Mark my right hand man set about the transformation task, there was only one real course of action to bring this old door back to life, he first removed all previous coatings manually, it was an arduous task using paint stripper, glass and sharp scraper blades. Using a blow torch wasn't an option as our plan was to end up with a door we could stain, hence couldn't risk scorch marks. After eight hours work the door had been fully stripped. abraded and cleaned as in the middle picture.
Finally to create the correct look we ended up hand mixing stains to get the right colour before finishing with wood oil and then highlighting the ironwork with black.
Now it looks like a Church door should do.
My customer had seen this effect in a design magazine and wanted it recreated on her living room wall. So after stripping the existing wallpaper off and preparing the surface to accept a lining paper as a base.
When painting my furniture, like anything most surfaces can be painted, the key is always good preparation and the use of the correct products. I'm sorry I'm not a fan of the "shabby chic" look in my opinion its just a poor excuse to half paint something and get away with it when it wears off quickly.
Yes I'm aware that done correctly, with a base colour, followed contrasting top colour systematically "worn back" to create the desired effect you can seal the whole thing in with either a wax coat or simply varnish, but it still doesn't impress me sorry.
We have done several items of furniture over the years both for customers and some more adventurous items for Ideal home shows or Grand Design live exhibitions, the process is basically the same. Wash of any contaminates, abrade surface to remove defects, old runs or sags wont look good on your newly painted chair legs.
Do any minor repairs, tighten legs or table tops fill any minor holes or cracks that have appeared with age. At this point it depends on the item your painting, some may require a good adhesion promoting primer to allow your paint to adhere properly. If its a factory finished item or laminated surface I would recommend this certainly.
Then finish with two or three coats of your favorite paint, current trends go towards various chalk paints at the moment such as Annie Sloan or Rustolem. Which these can create a pleasing finish to the eye and occasional touch, if used for higher traffic items I'd recommend a finishing wax on top at least. Or perhaps paint the item in a modern water based eggshell finish which will give you more durability providing your substrate has been prepared correctly.
Naturally the term Free estimates can be used in many context's, it could just be a verbal agreement between two people, or a fully written specification itemized and priced to customers requirements.
There is a broad difference in the customer service you may receive. If you accept a free estimate usually verbal or via a text message format, which is woefully cheap I do not imagine much customer service will be given.
From experience these are usually people who price things well below the minimum wage as often its a supplementary form of income, either from their primary job, or more than likely the benefit system. Their expectations in this scenario is usually limited to turning up and applying whatever materials you have spent your spare time sourcing. Sadly more often than not because this is operating within the grey areas, once they have money in their hands they will disappear and if faults occur you'll have very little comeback.
I am not suggesting that legitimate businesses wont offer estimates via text or messages, but more often than not its backed up with some form of paperwork. The important factor here is to explain why there is a price difference between the two.
Even a lone owner operator trades-person will command a living wage, enough to cover the cost of living, insurances, taxes and minor business expenses. Although that is only half the story, any half decent trades person will advise on best products for the specific job. Most will source the products on your behalf and ensure they are delivered to your job on time.
Admittedly this is viewed as trades persons buying cheaper "trade" products and placing a huge mark up, which once again I can refute as predominately "trade" products are made to a superior quality than retail ones. What I will say is the added value of customer service that is gained from employing a professional trades person far outweighs the minor mark up the trades person would gain on material costs, considering all the work of actually sourcing materials and getting them to your property would eat into your valuable free time it makes sense.
If choosing a trades-person to work in you Home, or premises first point of call is word of mouth or personal recommendation, if a business has built a good reputation over a few years it will wish to maintain it, so repeat customers are a good starting point.
Also do a little research, if your trades-person is visible in your local area, they may have social media presence or a website. Another good research tool is "TrustMark" one of the government endorsed schemes .
There are various other schemes around where tradesmen have to "bid" to provide quotes, while these schemes still offer a customer voice in terms of feed back, still be wary choosing the cheapest quote via this route and I would always recommend never just choosing solely from that route, without knowing exactly who your getting.
I hope this has enlightened readers that entrusting your home to the cheapest option isn't always the best as customer service doesn't usually come as standard at bargain basement prices.
Should I PVA new plaster before painting?
Sadly despite what many DIY books suggest this is never the correct system. PVA is essentially a bonding coat prior to applying plaster, cement or any two porous surfaces together. I think this fad of applying PVA was imported from our cousins across the pond in USA as they term their emulsion paints as Latex, which gets mistaken for PVA over here .
Best practice for most new or well prepared plaster surfaces being made ready to accept Emulsion paint is to apply a 'mist coat' or thinned coat 15% – 25% water of the same Emulsion you're going to finish with. You can purchase Contract emulsions for new plaster with less Vinyl content to allow the plaster to breathe more, but the process is still the same as you want that first coat to bond with the surface of your wall or ceiling.
At times being self employed can be a roller coaster ride, this last 18 months has been an emotional journey for me in many ways with some real low times and some memorable events as well. Hopefully these little blogs will help others see whatever life throws at us, we can be resilient.
Following on from my previous blogs http://v-wilkinsonandson.co.uk/thoughts/ here is my, fingers crossed, some closure to this current journey then I can get back to posting about decorating things. So after July's surprise hospitalization once again I was recovering, this time only four to five weeks as instructed and I was soon back on the tools.
I was even more determined to make 2017 a special year in many ways, first of all it was my wife and I's 50th, secondly our son graduated from Glasgow university, our daughter had her prom and the dance school she attends had been invited to dance on Broadway in New York.
Things were going good, daughters prom went well, despite initial reservations I had ordered a new van for work, we attended sons graduation and then I noticed a small lump on my pacemaker scar.
Sadly after several courses of antibiotics, no improvements had occurred even when we went away whilst travelling home from New York unaware to me the lump had actually burst at some point, I only realized once we were home and went to change my shirt. Misguided treatment by a locum GP didn't help and once a pacemaker nurse seen me on a regular check up I was admitted immediately back into Carlisle hospital.
Stronger intravenous antibiotics where given and doctors discussed with me the need to remove and replace the pacemaker due to the fact infection can easily travel down its wires to my heart, or infect my blood system. At this point I had not felt ill, I had assumed the infection was only surface based, my wife and family have since told me I was a different person, short tempered, no patience and quite nasty, for which I'm truly sorry.
I was allowed home for a few weeks until appointments were arranged at Freeman's in Newcastle where my surgery would take place. I'm ashamed to say my temperament didn't improve, plus I was frightened of going through surgery so soon again afterwards.
Thank heavens for the close family ties we have and good friends I have around me, my wife and family took everything I threw at them and gave me so much support, Mark who has been with me 14 years kept the work going and always remained in touch with bit of light hearted banter to try and boost my grey mood, I am grateful to Riah from the Dulux Select office for her much needed assistance when I was in incapacitated.
I had my first operation, or procedure the day after I was admitted into Freeman's early December, then I had to wait for blood results to be all clear, after 10 days there was hope the second operation would be following day, only to be told they had ran out of theater time and couldn't guarantee when time was available over the coming days.
My wife was there as I underwent both operations, she stayed over in Newcastle as much as she could, returning home at weekends, she would let me know about messages from friends that had heard about me in hospital and I always felt humbled, I don't think I could have went through this without her.
I cant explain the feeling I had after the operation, one of the nurses brought toast and tea, my wife was there and I felt a huge weight had been lifted off me. I was told after a few tests I would be discharged the next day. The next day after X-Ray, ECG and Pacemaker checks had been done, we waited for a course of antibiotics to be made up and my son had traveled over to drive us home.
Anything at all like this is emotionally and mentally draining, financially difficult especially if your self employed. I would suggest definitely speaking with your suppliers, explain the situation, pay what you can when you can until you get back on your feet. Yes you can have personal sickness policies and if your lucky money for a rainy day, there is government assistance for being temporary unemployed or off work through illness, although you need to have patience to negotiate through the paperwork and bureaucracy. It might take me a few months to get my business back on level footings, but without being too dramatic at least I'm here to do so.
The most important lessons learnt is no matter what life throws at us, although work is an important part of our lives, don't let it over shadow the bond between your family, friends and those who you cherish. I've said it before I was truly humbled by the support I received, not just from family and local friends but from friends made via my trade from all across the country, customers, suppliers, fellow tradespeople too numerous to mention but they know who they are.
2018 is another big year not only is V. Wilkinson and Son celebrating 50 years in business, but my good lady and I will have been married 25 years also, so I'm now looking forward to getting back to my old-self and continuing delivering Quality Professional Decorating to our customers and maintaining a good work/life balance.


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Emilio Conesa was an Argentine military figure who was notable for his service being described as outstanding in the Argentine Civil Wars and in the Paraguayan War.

Biography
Conesa was the son of José Antonio Conesa and Eustaquia de Casas, a couple that had recently arrived in Buenos Aires from Spain, fleeing the disorders of the Trienio Liberal.

He participated in the campaign of Juan Lavalle against Juan Manuel de Rosas in 1840 and made the campaign to the north of his country under his command, participating in the battles of Quebracho Herrado and Rodeo del Medio. After fleeing to Chile, he went into exile in Montevideo. He was an officer of the Argentine forces in the Uruguayan Civil War and for a short time he fought in Corrientes under General José María Paz.

He fought under the orders of Justo José de Urquiza in the Battle of Caseros. He supported the revolution of September 11, 1852 that separated the State of Buenos Aires from the Argentine Confederation. During the Siege of Buenos Aires that year and the next he commanded some battalions and briefly was commander of Martín García Island.

In 1856 he was commissioned to repel the federal invasion of Jerónimo Costa, who had been sentenced to death beforehand by a decree of the Governor Pastor Obligado. He defeated the Federalists in the Battle of Villamayor, and denied the surrender to the officers and soldiers who surrendered. The next day he shot the few prisoners he took, including General Costa himself, a hero of the defense of the island Martín García years ago.

He participated in an expedition to the southern borders in 1857, and participated in the battles of Sol de Mayo, Cristiano Muerto and Pigüé.

He was considered to be a hero during the Battle of Cepeda as he managed to successfully retreat to the front of the infantry and artillery after the defeat, saving the life and prestige of his boss, Bartolomé Miter, which earned him promotion to the rank of colonel. He met with Urquiza preparing the future Pact of San José de Flores.

He was appointed controller of the San Juan Province along with General Juan Saá, dedicating himself to hinder their task; but he could not prevent it from invading the province. He was in charge of the army in the capital during the campaign of the Battle of Pavón and the following campaigns against the interior. Was devoted to the war against the Indian a few months, until he was elected national deputy in 1862.

He was promoted to general in 1863, and directed the installation of a line of forts in the Chaco Province, in the north of what is now the Santa Fe Province. At the beginning of the Paraguayan War, he was in charge of embarking the troops to Paraguayan territory. He played a prominent role in refusing to withdraw his troops at the Battle of Pehuajó, which did not prevent his defeat, and instead caused an excessive number of casualties among his own forces. In any case, he was charged with organizing the Army's crossing into Paraguayan territory through , an action that he successfully achieved. Conesa then participated in the Battle of Boquerón before requesting his release and returning to Buenos Aires for health reasons.

Partially recovered from his ailments, he took charge of the southern border of the Buenos Aires Province. He was in the south of the Córdoba Province, reorganizing the frontier against the natives, when the  broke out in Cuyo at the end of 1866. Conesa then organized the formation of armies in the south of Córdoba, gathering successive contingents sent by Miter from Paraguay, and his second, General José Miguel Arredondo, defeated them in the decisive Battle of San Ignacio. Some time later he expelled the caudillo Simón Luengo from the city of Córdoba , who had overthrown federal governor Mateo Luque and reinstated him in government. But he limited his political action in every possible way, prevented him from making any decisions, and arrested several of his collaborators. His performance caused Luque to resign shortly after, and he lobbied for him to be replaced by a liberal governor, Félix de la Peña.

In 1868 he mobilized the Army from the interior to the province of Santa Fe, with the intention of replacing the overthrown Mitrista governor Nicasio Oroño, but the attempt failed. That same year he was elected national deputy for Buenos Aires.

When the  broke out in Entre Ríos Province led by the federal leader Ricardo López Jordán, he was the head of one of the great columns mobilized against him, and achieved the first important victory against the federalists, in the Battle of Puntas del Sauce. But he soon returned to Buenos Aires, with his very poor health and visibly aged. In 1870 he was again elected national deputy and the following year he presided over the Argentine Committee, the basis of what would gradually become the National Autonomist Party.

He died in Buenos Aires on September 3, 1873.

Legacy
He has the curious privilege of having three towns with his name in Argentina: General Conesa, Buenos Aires, General Conesa, Río Negro, and Conesa, Buenos Aires. He has a street in Buenos Aires, along the Saavedra, Núñez, Belgrano and Colegiales neighborhoods. There are also streets with the name of Conesa in other localities, such as in the district of Lomas de Zamora, Province of Buenos Aires, Córdoba and Rosario.

References

1821 births
1873 deaths
Argentine military personnel of the Paraguayan War
19th-century Argentine military personnel
Military personnel from Buenos Aires

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LIE 1: Australian lambs are well cared for.
The Australian sheep and lamb industry slaughters more than 30 million animals each year, but an additional 10 to 15 million lambs die – shivering and hungry – in icy winter fields.
Many sheep on farms are forcibly impregnated so that they give birth during the winter months and their babies can be weaned in the spring when the fields are the most fertile. Meanwhile, farmers have also selectively bred sheep over time in order to increase instances of multiple births.
Because of this combination, many lambs are simply born too small and weak to survive the chilly temperatures and are abandoned, while others are orphaned when their mums die after being sick or don't survive the birth. Ewes carrying twins or multiple babies can develop pregnancy toxaemia, also known as "lambing sickness" or "twin lamb disease".
The industry estimates that one quarter of lambs born in Australia – up to 15 million– die from exposure or malnutrition or are killed by predators within 48 hours of birth.
LIE 2: Lambs are slaughtered humanely. They never see it coming.
Recently leaked CCTV footage from Gathercole's Carrum Downs abattoir, south-east of Melbourne, proves that what happens inside such facilities is anything but humane.
The footage shows gentle sheep being punched and roughly handled before their throats were slit while they were still fully conscious. Workers sometimes cut through sheep's necks entirely, throwing around their bleeding, severed heads or drop-kicking them like footballs. Sheep were dragged through blood and left to endure slow, lingering deaths in front of other frightened members of their flock.
Gathercole is one of the largest suppliers of animal flesh in Australia.
LIE 3: Australian sheep live happy lives.
You're thinking lambs hopping around in green pastures, right? Think again.
Life for lambs in Australia might sometimes start out that way, but every year, around 1.8 million sheep bred for meat and wool end up on live-export ships heading to the Middle East.
The latest heartbreaking exposé of this industry by our friends at Animals Australia shows the horrifying conditions endured by sheep on board these ships. Often being shipped for weeks on end in the searing heat, many animals die from dehydration, starvation, or disease, whereas others are trampled to death.
Those who survive the journey are often subjected to abuse and methods of slaughter that would be illegal in Australia. Investigators have seen animals being roughly dragged from ships and thrown into trucks and cars, and most often, their throats are slit while they're still conscious.
LIE 4: Lamb flesh is healthy for you.
Lamb flesh is considered a red meat, so it's been classified as a probable carcinogen by the World Health Organisation, meaning there's evidence for a positive correlation between eating red meat and developing colorectal cancer.
Meanwhile, there's no shortage of studies demonstrating the link between eating fatty animal flesh and an increased risk of developing heart disease and diabetes.
On the other hand, eating vegan foods such as whole grains, beans, fruits, and vegetables can actually help stave off and even combat those diseases. In addition, vegans are a whopping nine times less likely to be obese than meat-eaters.
LIE 5: It's an Australian tradition to eat lamb.
Meat Livestock Australia first began promoting lamb as the meat of choice on Australia Day in 2005, and since then, the nation has been inundated with annual advertisements encouraging consumers to eat these playful, curious, and sensitive babies on 26 January.
It's much less about tradition and much more about a cruel industry trying to protect its bottom line.
It's so easy to find delicious flesh-free foods to put on your barbie on Australia Day or any other time. Let 2019 be the year in which you choose compassion and keep your mates off your plate.


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Should You Follow Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life on FOX?
by Jason the TVaholic on December 27, 2015
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James Earl, Justin Bartha, Charlie Saxton and Jack Cutmore-Scott in Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life – (CR: Joe Viles/FOX)
On this episode we preview FOX's new comedy Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life. It stars Jack Cutmore-Scott (Kingsman: The Secret Service movie), Meaghan Rath (Being Human U.S.), James Earl (Ground Floor), Charlie Saxton (Betas), Justin Bartha (The Hangover movies) and Liza Lapira (Battle Creek).
Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life posits the idea that it would be great to have a friend that has already made all the mistakes there are to make in life and then have them tell you exactly where they went wrong, so you can avoid doing the same things. Each episode covers some type of problem, like losing your wallet or traveling, and shows you where Cooper and his pals went wrong.
While I really like the idea of the show, the execution wasn't quite there. I've seen the first three episodes and it wants to be like a Ferris Bueller's Day Off or a Parker Lewis Can't Lose. But, in this case the twist is that Cooper Barrett can't win. It breaks the fourth wall like those do and has Cooper talking directly to you, as he and/or his buddies have gotten themselves in a jam. Then it jumps back to when things started to go wrong and shows you the story leading up to the point where the episode started and then goes past and shows you the resolution. If it had just been funnier, I might have been able to look past how annoying the Cooper character is. Even though I did kind of like the rapport between Cutmore-Scott's Cooper and Rath's Kelly. But, if we could chop Cooper and his pals out of the story and just follow Bartha's Josh and Lapira's Leslie and make Kelly their neighbor, that might be a fun show.
Watch the Trailer for Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life
Will you be checking out FOX's Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life when it premieres on Sunday, January 3rd after The Simpsons? Or, you can watch it out now at FOX.com or via Amazon Video , Hulu, iTunes or YouTube.
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product management, entrepreneurship, and stuff I like
Mitchapalooza
Performance-Based Acquisition Marketing
I recently completed a year-long period managing acquisition marketing for online brokerage firm Zecco.com. One of the most important changes that I brought about during that tenure was to transition our markting focus from being purely CPA-based to consider not just cost of an account, but also its resulting quality. Recognizing that different channels, and even specific partners within a channel, could yield dramatically different kinds of accounts was an important insight that led me to drive for this change. Additionally, I recognized that a multi-year focus on getting as many, cheap accounts as possible had yielded an unbalanced, unscalable marketing machine.
In order to justify spending in more expensive channels like online banner display advertising, we had to be able to prove that the resulting accounts were "worth it" and generated sufficient revenue to justify the acquisition cost. In order to do this, we had to overcome a lack of tracking and reporting tools to evaluate new account value based on acquisition source. We had to solve this on two fronts: First, through the development of a reasonably comprehensive data warehouse which brought together account-level trading details to the website user-level at which we could track the original source of a new account. Second, through the adoption of tracking technologies that enabled us to more definitively attribute a specific new account to one of our multiple marketing channels.
Once we had established a way to track performance, we had to settle on standardized measures of account quality. With input from our Finance team, we settled on using the average of an account's first three months of account activity, extrapolating that average out to a year, and dividing that annualized revenue figure by our cost of acquisition. If the average "payback period" on the accounts from a particular channel (ultimately, we got this down to the publisher and affiliate level), was less than one year, we considered that a success since the average customer lifetime of new accounts was a multiple of that.
While we only had a short period of time running this new approach at full-speed prior to Zecco's acquisition by TradeKing (I apologize I can't therefore share robust figures to demonstrate the impact), it proved to be an exceedingly valuable marketing management tool. We could quickly evaluate a new display advertising partner's promise, and re-allocate spend to the partners that were outperforming the others. We were also able to identify specific affiliate partners were substantially under-delivering on account quality and remove them from our network.
I'd be happy to get into more detail to help other online marketers understand this methodology and approach. Get in touch!
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About Mitch
Mitchell W. Fox is the VP of Product Management at Couchsurfing International. He was Co-Founder of GoodApril, an online tax planning service that was acquired by Intuit TurboTax, where he served as Director of Product Management. A graduate of Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, Mitch previously worked as a product and marketing leader at Funding Circle USA and Zecco.
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Corporate America grows a conscience: ex: Homeaway warning Hosts about upcoming rallies in San Francisco… twitter.com/i/web/status/8… 1 year ago
Fascinating. Taxes=2% of GDP, Healthcare=17%. "Forget Taxes, Warren Buffett Says. The Real Problem Is Health Care." nytimes.com/2017/05/08/bus… 2 years ago
Surprised to see this NYT coverage of Shift nytimes.com/2017/04/13/aut…. Rumor was they were dead/dying. Hope they aren't, I love the idea! 2 years ago
I hope SF considers congestion-based pricing again. "Self-Driving Cars Can't Cure Traffic, but Economics Can" nyti.ms/2mEG09L 2 years ago
Wow - science! IBM has developed a method of storing data with each atom representing one bit goo.gl/utbjnA 2 years ago


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How to watch all Manchester United games online: Stream Man Utd v Arsenal
By David Last updated Apr 23, 2018 1
You can stream every Manchester United match live online using just a VPN and a cheap subscription to an overseas TV channel. Here we show you how to watch all Manchester United games online.
If you live in anywhere in the world, apart from Great Britain, you can watch every Manchester United game on your local rights-holding sports channel. Now, thanks to VPNs, users in the UK can watch all of Manchester United's games online too.
In this article, we'll explain how users in the UK (or anywhere in the world) can take advantage of the EPL's global TV deals and watch all Manchester United games.
Steam Man Utd online: How it works
VPNs use a combination of military-grade encryption and a global network of servers to keep your data safe online. VPNs offer users an additional level of online security and privacy. Another popular feature VPN's facilitate is the ability to spoof a location. What this allows, for example, is VPN users from anywhere in the world to connect to a VPN server based in the UK and watch BBC iPlayer online for free.
The flipside, for example, is that VPN users in the UK can connect to a server based in the US and watch US TV from outside the US.
By using this technique, users can take advantage of the Premier League's global broadcasting deals that sees the EPL broadcast to 156 countries around the world. Customers who want to watch all Manchester United games online can subscribe to any of these international TV broadcasters and use a VPN to spoof their location and stream every Man Utd match live online.
How to watch all Manchester United games online
Get a VPN
Subscribe to a daily/monthly/annual pass from an overseas sports broadcaster (see below)
Connect your VPN to the relevant country and watch ALL of Manchester United's games live online
Below you'll see a list of overseas sports packages you can buy online to watch every Machester United game live. However, to watch these streams online, you need a good VPN to let your spoof your location.
See also: BBC iPlayer not working with VPN: Here's how to fix that!
Best VPNs to watch ALL Man Utd games live
Price: $3.24/Month*
PureVPN is a fast and reliable VPN provider with multiple servers in the US, Canada, UK and NZ. It also has official apps for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android and Amazon Fire TV Stick. It's easy-to-use and works perfectly with all the providers mentioned below.
The reason we've ranked PureVPN as the best way to watch all Manchester United games online due to its dedicated IP option. Broadcasters are beginning to get stricter with VPNs who let thousands of customers access its content via a shared IP address.
To futureproof yourself, we suggest spending an extra $1.99/month and buying a dedicated IP from PureVPN. This will guarantee that your VPN connection will never get blacklisted.
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*Buy with "Dedicated IP" for guaranteed access.
NordVPN represents a great way to watch all Manchester United games online. It has the most servers of any VPN provider, meaning you're guaranteed a fast connection.
However, the one downside is that TV providers such as Netflix, and BBC iPlayer in the UK, have started blocking its servers. NordVPN is almost a victim of its own success. Because so many people use its servers to watch content in different locations, it makes its servers easy to spot and blacklist.
NordVPN combats this with Cat and Mouse tactics. When one of its IPs is blacklisted it opens a new one. The result is effective, but it does mean you sometimes have to cycle through several different servers before you find one that works.
If you're willing to do this. NordVPN is a great all-round VPN provider. It offers fast speeds and a massive range of servers in other countries.
Get NordVPN from$4.34/Month*
3. IPVanish
Price: £3.73/Month
IP Vanish is similar to NordVPN. It used to regularly rank in the Top 3 VPNs for a number of different purposes. Its popularity has meant it's also been one of the first VPNs to be blacklisted.
Fast forward to today, and IPVanish is on the right track. We've been in contact with the press team and they assured us a long-term fix is being worked on. In the meantime, IPVanish is playing the same game of Cat and Mouse with the broadcasters as NordVPN.
The kicker for IPVanish is that it offers a dedicated Amazon Fire Stick app.
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Best Overseas Sports Packages (to watch Man Utd online)
How to Steam Man Utd online: US
(Best overall)
If you want the most comprehensive sports package, we suggest subscribing to Fubo.tv. Fubu.TV's standard package costs USD $44.99 a month, with a one-month introductory rate of $19.99 and a seven-day free trial. This subscription gives you access to US cable, including all major US TV networks, and will allow you to watch every Manchester United game live online.
Get Fubo.TV
Note: You'll need a VPN (connected to a US server) to sign up.
Steam Man Utd online: Canada
(Best of both)
If you don't want to spend USD $44.99/month on a full cable package from the US, then we suggest subscribing to SportsNet in Canada instead.
Sportsnet Now gives you 24/7 access to live stream your favourite sports in glorious and reliable HD. Watch the EPL, Champions League, FA Cup, NHL, MLB, NBA and much more!
Get SportsNet
Note: You'll need a VPN (connected to a Canadian server) to sign up.
Steam Man Utd online: New Zealand
(Cheapest)
Watching NZ's Bein Sports is the cheapest way to watch all of Manchester United's games in a season. It costs as little as NZ$19.78 for a monthly subscription or NZ$197.80 for an annual pass. This works out at roughly £10/month or £100/year for UK users.
Bein Sports NZ holds the rights to; Premier League, Champions League, Europa League, La Liga, Ligue 1 and heaps of other sports too.
While Bein Sports NZ is the cheapest way to watch all of Manchester United's games live online, we don't recommend it over Fubo.tv in the US. The reason for this is to do with VPNs. Every VPN provider has a lot more servers in the US than it does in New Zealand. This, and the geography, of New Zealand being so far away from the UK means you're more likely to encounter streaming issues with a New Zealand sports channel.
Get Bein Sports NZ
Note: You'll need a VPN (connected to an NZ server) to sign up.
How to watch all Manchester United games online: 3pm Saturday kick-offs in the UK
It is impossible for UK-based Manchester United fans to watch every game live. This is due to an FA (Football Association) rule that forbids any live football being broadcast between the hours of 2.45pm – 5.15pm on a Saturday. This rule has since been expanded to include Ireland (due to Satellite reception overlapping into Northern Ireland and parts of Great Britain).
When Manchester United have a fixture that kicks off at this time, customers in the UK who subscribe to both rights-holding broadcasters – Sky Sports and BT Sport – are still unavailable to watch Man Utd live.
See also: How to watch (3 pm) Premier League matches online.
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Halcyon Calc - Working With Statistics
Halcyon Calc can do statistical calculations data. This document has the following sections to help you work with statistics on the calculator:
Entering Statistical Data
Modifying Statistical Data
Summarizing Statistical Data
Comparing Statistical Data
Calculating Probabilities
More Info about Stats
Entering Statisical Data:
Statistics data is stored in a variable called ∑DAT stored in the current directory. The contents of this variable should be a real matrix. Every row in the matrix represents a different sample. Every column in the matrix represents a different value being tracked.
For example, imagine we were gathering statistical information about 5 people's weight over time. If we weighed everyone once a week for ten weeks, then we would end up with a real matrix with 5 columns (one for each person) and 10 rows (one for each week).
To analyze the data, you need to get it into a variable called ∑DAT. You can use the standard STO and RCL operations to do so. But, there are more convenient operations for entering statistical data.
If you have your real matrix of stats data on the stack, you can just execute STO∑. It will take the item from the top of the stack and store it into ∑DAT. Make sure that item on the top of the stack is a real matrix or you will get errors when you try to analyze the data in ∑DAT.
Alternatively, you can use the ∑+ operation to add a new sample to your statistics data. The top of the stack should be a real number if you only have a single value per sample. If you have multiple values per sample (like the 5 weights of the different people in the example above), then you can have a real vector on the top of the stack. If the ∑DAT variable does not exist, it will be created and the stat(s) from the top of the stack will be stored in it. If the ∑DAT variable exists, you must make sure that the number of columns in the existing data matches the number of columns in the data you are adding. If it matches, the new sample data will be added at the end of the real matrix in ∑DAT. You can add multiple samples in a single operation if the top of the stack is a real matrix. Again, the number of columns must match existing data but each row in the matrix from the top of the stack will be added at the end of ∑DAT.
Modifying Statistical Data:
If you have stats data in a ∑DAT variable, you can modify that data. You can remove a the last sample from the ∑DAT variable by using the ∑- operation. The last sample in the ∑DAT variable will be pushed onto the stack as either a real number or a real vector and the sample will be removed from the real matrix found in ∑DAT. If no samples are left, the ∑DAT variable is removed entirely.
Another way to modify stats data is to use RCL∑ operation to put the real matrix containing all data on the stack. Then, you can use any means to modify that real matrix. Once you have the matrix changed, you can use STO∑ operation to put it back into ∑DAT.
Finally, you can quickly delete all of your statistical data by using the
Summarizing Statistical Data:
Once you have your stats data stored in ∑DAT, you can use a series of operations to summarize that data. These operations perform operations on each column of the data in the real matrix in ∑DAT:
TOT Calculate the total of each column in the stats data.
MEAN Calculate the mean of each column in the stats data.
SDEV Calculate the standard deviation of each column in the stats data.
VAR Calculate the variance of each column in the stats data.
MAX∑ Calculate the maximum of each column in the stats data.
MIN∑ Calculate the minimum of each column in the stats data.
Comparing Statistical Data:
If your data has two or more values per sample, you can do comparisons between these values. In the example above where we had 5 people's weight over time, we can look at the relationship, if any, between any pair of people's weight.
To do these comparisons, you must use the COL∑ operation to specify the two columns you wish to compare. Push two real numbers on the stack for the two column numbers containing the data you are comparing and execute this operation. This will store the column numbers into a new variable called ∑PAR (short for stats parameters) in the current directory. The following operations use this variable and the ∑DAT variable to calculate their results:
CORR Calculate the correlation between the values in the two columns.
COV Calculate the covariance between the values in the two columns.
LR Perform a linear regression of the data and describe a line with an intercept and slope which best approximates the relationship between the columns.
The LR operation is special because it also stores the intercept and slope it calculates into the ∑PAR variable. Once you have done a linear regression, you can then use the PREDV operation to make a prediction. Given an input value from one data set, it predicts what the value would be for the other. If you performed a linear regression of two people's weight from the previous example, you could then answer a question like "if person X's weight was Y, what would we predict person Z's weight to be". Of course this is only meaningful if the data is likely correlated in a way that a straight line makes sense (and people's weight is probably not correlated that way).
Calculating Probabilities:
There are some operations which do not directly work with statistics data but can be helpful for calculating the probabilities of a random variable that you know or expect has a particular distribution. These operations do not operate on ∑DAT data but can be useful for analyzing the probability of observing the values that you have obtained:
UTPC Calculate the probability of a random variable exceeding X given a chi-square distribution.
UTPF Calculate the probability of a random variable exceeding X given a F distribution.
UTPN Calculate the probability of a random variable exceeding X given a normal distribution.
UTPT Calculate the probability of a random variable exceeding X given a t distribution.
COMB Calculate the number of combinations.
PERM Calculate the number of permutations.
More Info about Stats:
There are many operations which you can use when working with statistics. The stats menu is an obvious place to look but since the stats data is stored in a real matrix, operations which take or return arrays may also be useful in some cases. Here are some links to reference material which are relevant for statistics:
The Stats Menu is where you will find most of the key statistics operations..
A list of operations which take arrays can be found here.
A list of operations which produce arrays can be found here.
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Denis Napthine's greatest fight
Standard - by admin - November 21, 2014 - No Comments
Herald Sun Editorial: Denis Napthine's greatest fight. 21 November
Denis Napthine faces the fight of his political life over the next week.
Despite throwing everything but the kitchen sink at the Labor Party, with a negative advertising campaign and highlighting its own infrastructure agenda, expanded hospitals in Ballarat and Monash and more trains, the Liberals have failed to gain traction in the past fortnight.
Today's Herald Sun/Galaxy opinion poll shows the two-party-preferred vote has stayed marooned at 52-48 in favour of the Daniel Andrews-led Labor.
The Liberal primary vote has also remained shackled at 35 per cent while Labor's primary vote has picked up 1 per cent to 39 since the last poll was conducted almost a month ago.
Dr Napthine remains the preferred premier but, significantly, his lead over Mr Andrews has suffered a telling cut.
A month ago the Premier had a 16-percentage-point lead over his rival, now it's 12.
Mr Andrews' solid campaign performance has seen him reel in the numbers as voters focus their intent and his personal profile has risen.
Today's poll result suggests Victorians are ready to elect a new government.
A forecast tightening of the race as election day neared has, to date, not materialised.
Despite being three weeks into the campaign, and with just eight days to go, the poll shows voter movement has stagnated.
The combined Liberal-Nationals Coalition remains on 40 per cent of the primary vote, compared with Labor's 39.
But the Greens, tracking on 13 per cent, with independents and others on 8 per cent, will take preferences to help run Labor over the top of the incumbent government.
If that translates on November 29 Daniel Andrews will be premier.
While the campaigning from both sides has not exactly captured the imagination of the electorate, the numbers do show that Victorians are not engaging with the Liberals' message.
The negative ad blitz partnering Labor with the CFMEU and accusations they would be a bad-for-business government willing to shred East West Link contracts is not working.
Polling has for three months placed Labor ahead, at levels similar to that which saw the Baillieu government elected in 2010.
But a week can be a long time in politics and an Andrews victory is not assured.
Hark back to 1999, when the polls had Jeff Kennett's government on track to be returned, only to be proven wrong come election day.
Just a week ago a Sunday Herald Sun poll showed Liberal gains, including in the crucial sandbelt seat of Bentleigh.
Wednesday night's Herald Sun/Sky News People's forum in Frankston also indicated a tight fight.
It may well play out that while Labor makes statewide inroads in overall support, the election is won or lost in key marginals.
There is another full week of campaigning but time is running out for the Coalition. Both Liberal and Labor parties have held back any police recruitment policies and other surprises for the last quarter.
The coming days will either see Napthine and his team pull a political rabbit out of their hat or Labor consolidate its lead.
And, as the politicians themselves like to say, the only poll that counts in the end is polling day.
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Previous Victorian Treasurer Michael O'Brien says Labor election pledges at $33bn, and counting


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Teaching for Transfer Reproducibles
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A Guide for Designing Learning With Real-World Application
Empower students to become creative, well-rounded citizens who are prepared to meet and overcome real-world challenges. With Teaching for Transfer, you'll discover a road map for reconfiguring K–12 classroom instruction to ensure learners can expertly apply their knowledge and skills to new contexts. The resource includes ample practices and protocols you can begin using today to cultivate essential transfer-level skills in students.
Study the three levels of complexity: (1) surface, (2) deep, and (3) transfer.
Understand how foundational knowledge and skills can be leveraged to create transfer-level learning experiences and increase student engagement and problem-solving skills.
Learn specific teaching strategies and protocols for incorporating perspective and perplexity in the classroom to mimic real-world challenges.
Use end-of-chapter reflection questions individually and collaboratively, with other teachers, to build students' transferable skills.
Introduction: Finding Our Focus
Chapter 1: Laying Foundations—Building Surface-and-Deep Networks
Chapter 2: Moving Beyond Foundations—Building Transfer Networks
Chapter 3: Introducing Change in the Learning Experience—Leveraging Perspective and Perplexity
Chapter 4: Engaging Students in Transfer-Level Learning
Chapter 5: Integrating Transfer Into Our Teaching and Learning Practices
Appendix A: Resources for Foundational Learning
Appendix B: Resources for Transfer-Network Development
Appendix C: Resources for Engagement in Transfer-Level Work
REPRODUCIBLES
Figure I.5: Student and Teacher Success Criteria for the Six Goals of Teaching for Transfer
Figure 1.5: Generating Success Criteria
Figure 2.2: Transfer-Level Success-Criteria Template
Figure 3.1: Change-in-the-Learning-Experience Success Criteria
Figure 3.8: Incorporating Perspective and Perplexity Into Units of Study
Online Appendices
Guskey, T. R. (Ed.). (2009). The Teacher as Assessment Leader. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
Heflebower, T., Hoegh, J. K., & Warrick, P. B. (2014). A School Leader's Guide to Standards-Based Grading. Bloomington, IN: Marzano Resources.
Heflebower, T., Hoegh, J. K., Warrick, P. B., & Flygare, J. (2019). A Teacher's Guide to Standards-Based Learning. Bloomington, IN: Marzano Resources.
Marzano, R. J. (2009). Designing and Teaching Learning Goals and Objectives. Bloomington, IN: Marzano Resources.
Marzano, R. J. (2010). Formative Assessment and Standards-Based Grading. Bloomington, IN: Marzano Resources.
Marzano, R. J. (2017). The New Art and Science of Teaching. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
Marzano, R. J., & Heflebower, T. (2012). Teaching and Assessing 21st Century Skills. Bloomington, IN: Marzano Resources.
Marzano, R. J., Warrick, P. B., Rains, C. L., & DuFour, R. (2018). Leading a High Reliability School. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
Marzano, R. J., & Waters, T. (2009). District Leadership That Works: Striking the Right Balance. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
Wiliam, D. (2018). Embedded Formative Assessment (2nd ed.). Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
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Q: How many possible arrangements for a round robin tournament? How many arrangements are possible for a round robin tournament over an even number of players $n$?
A round robin tournament is a competition where $n = 2k$ players play each other once in a heads-up match (like the group stage of a FIFA World Cup). To accommodate this, there are $n-1$ rounds with $\frac{n}{2}$ games in each round. For an arrangement of a tournament, let's say that the matches within an individual round are unordered, but the rounds in the tournament are ordered. For $n$ players, how many possible arrangements of the tournament can there be?
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I don't know if a formal statement is needed, but hey ...

Let $P = \{ p_1, \ldots, p_n \}$ be a set of an even $n$ players. Let $R$ denote a round consisting of a set of pairs $(p_i,p_j)$ (denoting a match), such that $0<i<j\leq n$, and such that each player in $P$ is mentioned precisely once in $R$. Let $T$ be a tournament consisting of a tuple of $n-1$ valid rounds $(R_1, \ldots, R_{n-1})$, such that all rounds in $T$ are pair-wise disjoint (no round shares a match).
How many valid constructions of $T$ are there for $n$ input players?

The answer for 2 players is trivially 1. The answer for 4 players is 6. I believe the answer for 6 players to be 320. But how can this be solved in the general case?

A: This is almost the definition of a "$1$-factorization of $K_{2k}$", except that a $1$-factorization has an unordered set of matchings instead of a sequence of rounds.  Since there are $2k-1$ rounds, this means that there are $(2k-1)!$ times as many tournaments, according to the definition above, as there are $1$-factorizations.
Counting $1$-factorizations of $K_{2k}$ seems to be a nontrival problem; see the Encyclopedia of Mathematics entry.  The number of $1$-factorizations of $K_{2k}$ is OEIS sequence A000438.  Also, see this paper (also here) for a count in the $k=7$ case.

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Launch of Report on Attitudes to Domestic Abuse in Ireland 2009
On January 13th 2009 the Minister for Justice and Equality, Mr. Dermot Ahern T.D., launched a major new report on public attitudes to domestic abuse. The report, "Attitudes to Domestic Abuse in Ireland ", is the first of its kind in this country and was commissioned by Cosc, the National Office for the Prevention of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence.
The survey examined people's attitudes and beliefs including their understanding of what domestic abuse is; how common people think it is; any differences in how domestic abuse affects men versus women; and what people would do if they suspect someone is a victim.
Speaking at the launch, the Minister said "It is important to understand the need for, and significance of, this study. There is very little research on domestic, sexual and gender-based violence in Ireland. The research which had been done shows a consistent prevalence of this abuse, with very low levels of reporting.
We know that domestic abuse is a serious, hidden and tragic issue. It affects people of all ages in all areas of Ireland, whether they are witnesses or direct victims of the abuse. We already have a broad range of organisations in Ireland working very hard to prevent and respond to these crimes yet despite their actions, this kind of criminal behaviour is constant."
The key findings of the survey include almost half (44%) of all Irish people know someone who has experienced domestic abuse, but when people were asked about their willingness to intervene where they encountered domestic abuse, most were only willing to intervene in certain circumstances.
In response to the results of the survey launched, Cosc ran a national public awareness campaign 'Your Silence Feeds the Violence' aimed at strongly encouraging the public to take an active role in supporting people who are experiencing domestic abuse. The campaign message illustrates that we are all complicit if we allow domestic violence to continue unchallenged.
Minister Ahern continued: "We can see from this study that the public appear to have a reasonably good understanding of the nature and extent of domestic abuse. The good news is that it is widely regarded as unacceptable. However having a good understanding and awareness of the issue is only one piece of the jigsaw.
Each one of us has a role to play in supporting victims to recover their lives. Where we know of, or suspect, a case of domestic abuse we have a responsibility to understand, to be informed and to know where to go to get expert help. I would encourage people to visit www.cosc.ie for more information if they are worried about someone they know."
Other survey findings include:
· Just over 70% of those surveyed said they consider domestic abuse against women to be a common problem. This view was reported more often by women (81%) than men (60%), by younger than older age groups and by groups with lower education.
· Far fewer people consider domestic abuse against men to be common (42%) than consider domestic abuse against women to be common (70%). In fact a greater share felt that it was not a common occurrence (54%). More women (50%) than men (34%) and groups with lower education regard domestic abuse against men as common.
· Three out of ten (32%) women were worried that they or somebody close to them might become affected by domestic abuse.
· Men (64%) were less inclined to agree that calling hurtful names was a form of domestic abuse under all circumstances than women (71%).
· 74% of those surveyed thought that other people would be unlikely to report domestic abuse incidents to An Garda Síochána.
· In terms of reasons given for others not reporting, the greatest concern was the feeling they should not get involved in other people's business (88%), followed by fearing they might make matters even worse (75%), that it might result in the removal of children from the family (73%), that it would not improve the safety of those involved (70%). 52% per cent said that people feel An Garda Síochána would not treat the problem seriously enough.
The launch presentation by Dr Justine Horgan is availabe to view or download by clicking on the following link:
Launch Presentation by Dr Justine Horgan
The Executive Summary and the full report itself are available from our "Cosc Publications" page.


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Q: Displaying another ListView when a row element of a ListView is clicked I have a ListView in which each row has a associated set of items. So when a row of first ListView is clicked, items associated with this row should rearranges into a ListView and this ListView should take the place of first ListView, i.e. the first ListView should be replaced by second listView.
Please suggest me a good way to do this?
Also suggest me a solution if there are more than one level, i.e. second listview also has a associated items and they should also rearranges itself into listView.

A: Why don't you use an ExpandableListView ?
For deeper levels, you should adopt a different strategy. Among them :

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*each list view should be displayed in its own activity (phone) / fragment (tablet) with some scrolling/page viewing for even deeper levels.

*you could use a breadcrumb like in OI FileManager

A: Have two ListFragment for First and Second List.
Attached the First fragment list to the activity. When an item(row) is clicked , replace the first fragment with second one.
Now you will see the second attached fragment list.

A: So Basically you wanted a ListView in which if you clicked On the Item of a ListView previous listView should be replaced with newer one?
This is possible by FrameLayout and Fragments.
read docs here
http://developer.android.com/guide/components/fragments.html
and
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/FrameLayout.html
ASSUMING YOU HAVE CUSTOM LISTVIEW ADAPTER
now suppose you have listView say lv;
firstsetup Listner Method
lv.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {

@Override
public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> arg0, View parent, int position,long id)

     {

    displayAnotherListView(position);

     }
  });

Now you need to create this Method called displayAnotherListView(int position)
You can do that By
private void displaynAotherListView(int position) {

        Fragment fragment=null;
        switch (position)
        {
        case 0:
            {
                fragment=new NewListFragments();
                break;
            }
        case 1:
            {
                fragment=new OtherFragment();
            }
        default:
                   {
                            break;
                    }

                    if (fragment != null) {
                FragmentManager fragmentManager = getFragmentManager();
                fragmentManager.beginTransaction()
                        .replace(R.id.frame_container, fragment).commit();

              // Details about your fragments list here
            } else {
                // error in creating fragment
                Log.e("MainActivity", "Error in creating fragment");
            }

   }

Again You need to know about fragments.
I would rather suggest you to use activities for juming from one listview to another.


Guidelines for the treatment of asthma recommend that patients be educated about their condition, obtain regular medical review, monitor their condition at home with either peak flow or symptoms and use a written action plan. The results of trials comparing asthma self-management education to usual care were combined. These results showed that asthma sufferers who were educated about their asthma, visited the doctor regularly and who used a written action plan had fewer visits to the emergency room; less hospital admissions; better lung function; improvement in peak expiratory flow; fewer symptoms; and used less rescue medication.
Education in asthma self-management which involves self-monitoring by either peak expiratory flow or symptoms, coupled with regular medical review and a written action plan improves health outcomes for adults with asthma. Training programmes that enable people to adjust their medication using a written action plan appear to be more effective than other forms of asthma self-management.
A key component of many asthma management guidelines is the recommendation for patient education and regular medical review. A number of controlled trials have been conducted to measure the effectiveness of asthma education programmes. These programmes improve patient knowledge, but their impact on health outcomes is less well established. This review was conducted to examine the strength of evidence supporting Step 6 of the Australian Asthma Management Plan: "Educate and Review Regularly"; to test whether health outcomes are influenced by education and self-management programmes.
The objective of this review was to assess the effects of asthma self-management programmes, when coupled with regular health practitioner review, on health outcomes in adults with asthma.
Randomised trials of self-management education in adults over 16 years of age with asthma.
Two reviewers assessed trial quality and extracted data independently. We contacted study authors for confirmation.
We included thirty six trials, which compared self-management education with usual care. Self-management education reduced hospitalisations (relative risk (RR) 0.64, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.50 to 0.82); emergency room visits (RR 0.82, 95% CI 0.73 to 0.94); unscheduled visits to the doctor (RR 0.68, 95% CI 0.56 to 0.81); days off work or school (RR 0.79, 95% CI 0.67 to 0.93); nocturnal asthma (RR 0.67, 95% CI 0.0.56 to 0.79); and quality of life (standard mean difference 0.29,CI 0.11 to 0.47). Measures of lung function were little changed.


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>>These implementations aren't "broken", so much as "limited".
>64 connection limit. No matter.
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perspective of docs or code, would of course be appreciated.
>>if iocpreactor has higher performance and is more scalable.
>to call MsgWait... rather than GetQueuedCompletionStatus?
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probably why we aren't doing it.
>implementations for POSIX, rather than use libevent or libev?
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rather than writing a whole new library.
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Cell phone use can damage DNA, studies reveal
While cell phones certainly make it easier to keep in touch with friends and family, to look up the nearest 4-star restaurant, and to navigate your way to new destinations, this seemingly benign technology isn't quite as benign as you might think.
The general public has NOT been properly informed about cell phone dangers
While most people don't think twice about using devices that expose their bodies to radiation in the form of radiofrequency waves or RFR, a spate of recent studies suggest that the widespread use of wireless technology presents a range of severe health risks. From increased incidents of malignant brain tumors to nervous system damage, DNA toxicity to compromised immune function – more than 1,800 studies indicate that wireless technology poses many threats to users, leading the BioInitiative Working Group to describe wireless as "an unregulated experiment … on health and learning".
Here's what every consumer needs to know about the hidden dangers of wireless technology
Wireless technology sends messages through RFR or a band of radiation ranging from 3 kHz to 300,000 MHz. While people have regularly been exposed to RFR for more than a century, in the past decade, the amount of exposure has grown exponentially – thanks to the proliferation of cell phones, cell towers, and a variety of wireless devices.
Anytime someone uses a cell phone, laptop, tablet, or another device that utilizes Wi-Fi, they're exposed to RFR. But it's not just users that are exposed; with about 5 million cell towers worldwide and growing, according to Scientific American, and smart-grids, Wi-Fi, Wi-Max and a vast array of commercial uses across sectors – it's almost impossible to avoid exposure to the electromagnetic fields created by these devices.
What are the health effects of wireless exposure?
As exposure levels reach new highs and continue to increase, health organizations and researchers worldwide are paying attention. For example, a meta-report from the BioInitiative Working Group, a group of 29 independent scientists, reviewed the content and implication of about 1,800 scientific studies on the health effects of RFR exposure.
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68% of RFR studies indicate nervous system effects, an increase of 5% from just two years ago.
90% of extremely low-frequency radiation (ELFR) studies – generated by electronic equipment – show nervous system effects.
65% of RFR studies show DNA damage.
83% of ELFR studies show DNA damage.
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Decreased immune function
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Low sperm count and motility
Poor cognition and memory
Hyperactivity in children
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How can consumers avoid these health effects?
The race for wireless coverage may provide convenience, but detrimental health effects are too high of a cost. Seeking out wired alternatives, limiting phone call length, keeping devices off the lap, limiting wireless tech device use – especially amongst children – and using speaker options rather than holding phones up to the head offer some protection.
In addition, the World Health Organization recommends keeping wireless devices at least 30 to 40 cm away from the body at all times during use to minimize RFR and ELFR exposure. If you have a cordless phone, at home, replace it with a corded telephone – it's much better.
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The director went on and shared a brief summary of the plot, stating that the film will "revolve around a pre-teen boy who has drifted apart from his father.
We lead such busy lives in Hollywood, always running and hustling, but children tend to slow you down a bit and reconnect you with that inner world.
Initially, the order is for 52 three-minute animated and live-action shorts, which will be developed and produced by Mattel's global preschool content development division, HIT Entertainment. In development for more than a year, the new mobile app (for iOS and Android) is focused on distributing age-appropriate content in an environment that's controlled and safe. The son is introduced into this world of Sodor, a place his father visited as a child but can't remember. Conductor in the first season of the 1990s TV series Shining Time Station, which included episodes Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends. Under a train's body shell lies the mechanism for moving the engine's eyes -- up, down, sideways, or 'round and 'round -- by radio control.
Thomas alone has more than 40 faces cast for him, while the other engines have five or six each.
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While that visually-stylish effort failed to make a huge dent at the box office, it did establish Acker as an animation talent to be reckoned with – and now, has paved the way for him to portray one of Mattel Entertainment's most kid-friendly creations in a (odd though it may sound) more stylized fashion.Acker certainly seems like an odd candidate to helm a Thomas the Tank Engine movie – especially when you consider that his previous film was about homunculi made out of burlap bags and a post-apocalyptic world where soul-sucking machines dominate the ruined landscape. Because very small model trains are filmed moving in real time, it is a complex production that requires a great deal of intense focus.
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Each replica is reworked into different expressions, from which a final silicone casting is taken. Yes, the same Shane Acker responsible for that potentially-great-but-actually-horrible movie 9, a film about a rag doll in a post-apocalyptic world. The son is introduced into this world of Sodor, a place his father visited as a child but can't remember. The son is introduced into this world of Sodor, a place his father visited as a child but can't remember.
There is a bonding experience."With Acker calling the shots and WETA working on the production design, there's no reason to doubt that this Thomas the Tank Engine movie won't be a visually-pleasing interpretation of the character and his world.
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Titanichthys is an extinct genus of giant, aberrant marine placoderm from shallow seas of the Late Devonian of Morocco, Eastern North America, and possibly Europe.<ref name=Denison1>{{cite book|last=Denison|first=Robert|title=Placodermi Volume 2 of Handbook of Paleoichthyology|year=1978|publisher=Gustav Fischer Verlag|location=Stuttgart New York|isbn=978-0-89574-027-4|pages=100}}</ref>  Many of the species approached Dunkleosteus in size and build.  Unlike its relative, however, the various species of Titanichthys had small, ineffective-looking mouth-plates that lacked a sharp cutting edge.  It is assumed that Titanichthys was a filter feeder that used its capacious mouth to swallow or inhale schools of small, anchovy-like fish, or possibly krill-like zooplankton, and that the mouth-plates retained the prey while allowing the water to escape as it closed its mouth. A study has since confirmed this assumption as its jaws are functionally closer to that of filter feeders like baleen whales and basking sharks, and it appears to have developed from benthic durophagists that became pelagic suspension feeders. This would make it the first (known) large-sized vertebrate filter feeder. Titanichthys was estimated to have reached a length of , but Engelman (2023) suggested that Titanichthys was comparable in size to Dunkleosteus, likely measuring about or just over  in length.

 Phylogeny
Titanichthys is thought to have been a basal aspinothoracid, closest related to Bungartius and Tafilalichthys.

Species
The genus shows a great diversity in the Famennian-aged Cleveland Shale, though species are also found in similarly aged strata in Morocco and possibly the Holy Cross Mountains in Poland.

T. agassizi
This is the type species, from the Cleveland Shale. Its infrognathals are strongly recurved medially, and is elongated with a spatula-like process at the anterior end. The headshield averages about  in length.

T. attenuatus
This Cleveland Shale species is based on an infragnathal bone more than  in length. May possibly be a synonym of T. agassizi.<ref name=Denison2>{{cite book|last=Denison|first=Robert|title=Placodermi Volume 2 of Handbook of Paleoichthyology'''|year=1978|publisher=Gustav Fischer Verlag|location=Stuttgart New York|isbn=978-0-89574-027-4|pages=101}}</ref>

T. clarkii
This Cleveland Shale species has infragnathals that are not as recurved as T. agassizis.  The cranial roof is comparatively narrower and more rounded.  It is the largest known species in the genus, and possibly one of the largest Devonian vertebrates known.  The head is about  in length.

T. hussakofi
This Cleveland Shale species is known from a badly preserved, incomplete infragnathal.  It was originally described by Claypole as "Brontichthys clarki" in 1894.  As "Brontichthys" is a junior synonym of Titanichthys, it should not be confused with another, similarly-named arthrodire, Bruntonichthys of Dunkleosteidae.

T. rectus
This Cleveland Shale species has an infragnathal as large as that of T. clarkii, though T. rectus' infragnathal is much straighter, and does not have a spatula-like process on its anterior end.

T. kozlowskii
This species placement within the genus is in doubt.  It is based on incomplete nuchal and central plates found in Upper Famennian-aged marine strata of the Holy Cross Mountains in Poland.
T. termieri
This species is found in Lower Famennian-aged marine strata of Tafilalet, Southern Morocco.  The fossil material of this species strongly suggests it is as large as the Cleveland Shale' T. clarkii.  The average combined length of the head and trunk shields for T. termieri is estimated to be   When the first fossils of T. termieri were found by geologist Henri Termier, the specimens were originally placed within the genus Gorgonichthys - that is, after Termier was able to convince his colleagues that the bone scraps were of a placoderm, and not a dinosaur.

 References

 Bibliography
  (1998): Early Vertebrates. Oxford University Press,  Oxford, New York.

 Further reading
  (2018) "New information on Titanichthys (Placodermi, Arthrodira) from the Cleveland Shale (Upper Devonian) of Ohio, USA"
  (1996): The Rise of Fishes: 500 Million Years of Evolution''. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.

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Arthrodire genera
Placoderms of North America
Paleontology in Ohio
Placoderms of Africa
Fossils of Morocco
Famennian life
Famennian genus first appearances
Famennian genus extinctions
Fossil taxa described in 1885


Join us as we welcome visiting poet Claudia Keelan, with special guest Chris Santiago! ALSO join us for a pre-reading reception celebrating the release of our Spring 2019 Print Issue — you'll be the first to get a copy, AND we're giving away a $30 gift card to Common Good Books to one lucky attendee, it could be you! The opening festivities start at 6:30, and the reading starts at 7 — we hope to see you there!
Keelan will read from her new book We Step into the Sea: New and Selected Poems (Barrow Street, 2018). A literary scholar and translator as well, Keelan's other recent work includes Ecstatic Émigré, a book of essays in the Poets on Poetry Series from University of Michigan Press (2018), and Truth of My Songs: Poems of the Trobairitz (Omnidawn, 2015), which collects her translations of works by women troubadours.
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"We Step into the Sea collects over three decades of work by one of the most singular voices in contemporary American poetry. It tells the story of a lyric poet who both probes and sheds the self in search of a "we," not to belong to, but rather, to care for, to serve: "I will hold us safely together, / we will consider the falling whole." In these poems of passive resistance and active celebration, we are given a panoramic view of a poet who insists that experimentation is an ethical imperative, one that will help us forge a kingdom of compassion that runs counter to empire."
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Monday 13th December, 2021 - 1:52am
Max Verstappen crosses the line to win the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
Mercedes-bound George Russell has branded the climax to the Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix as "unacceptable".
Russell was a retirement from the race, and was able to watch on as his Williams team-mate Nicholas Latifi crashed to draw a late Safety Car.
Lapped runners were then controversially cleared from between second-placed Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton, opening the door for the former to steal victory on the final lap.
"Max is an absolutely fantastic driver who has had an incredible season and I have nothing but huge respect for him, but what just happened is absolutely unacceptable," he wrote on Twitter.
"I cannot believe what we've just seen."
In another Tweet, he wrote simply "THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE!!!!"
The decision to clear the lapped runners between the top two was controversial, but allowed for a single racing lap at the climax of the race.
To that point, Hamilton looked in control, only for Red Bull to pit Verstappen and fit a set of soft compound tyres under the Safety Car for Latifi.
It was a free stop, one which afforded the Dutchman an opportunity to attack and pass the leading Mercedes.
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