On April 13, the Organizing Committee of 2019 Beijing International Horticultural Exhibition (hereinafter referred respectively to as "the Organizing Committee" and "Beijing Expo 2019") held a briefing meeting at the Beijing Hall of Beijing Hotel with diplomatic envoys from more than 80 countries and international organizations.
Vice-President of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) and member of the Organizing Committee of Beijing Expo 2019 Wang Jinzhen, also acting as the representative of the government, stated that the Exhibition, with no less than 100 official exhibitors and 100 non-official exhibitors, as well as more than 16 million visitors, would be a gigantic arena of exhibition, exchange and trade for new varieties and new technologies in international horticulture with profound and far-reaching influence.
According to the introduction, World Horticultural Exhibition Hall will be divided into European area, Asian area, American area, Oceanian area and international organizational area. Outdoor exhibition zones, with an area of 1000 to 3000 square meters each, and indoor exhibition stands, with an area of 50 to 200 square meters each, are available to international exhibitors. Each country can hold various activities during the Exhibition, such as national festivals, featured cultural shows, business matchmaking, professional forums, etc. to promote ideas, products and technology, to attain more opportunities for cooperation, and to expand the market space.
It was learned from Ye Dahua, Deputy Director-General of BIHECB, that the planning of World Horticultural Exhibition Hall has already been completed and furthermore, the architectural scheme "Flowery Sea, Flowery Umbrella" of International Pavilion for indoor exhibition has \ been determined. In regard to the content of exhibition, focusing on its theme of "Fusion and Bloom", International Pavilion will display international horticulture by exploiting the strategic meaning of One Belt, One Road, reveal the accomplishments and contributions of different countries, international organizations and relevant international organizations in the horticulture, and hold the international horticultural contests to promote innovation and development in horticultural sector.
According to Zhou Jianping, Executive Deputy Director-General of BIHECB, since the beginning of the comprehensive underground pipe corridor construction on Feb. 20, the infrastructural construction in the Expo Park has been in full swing and the planning of the Park and supporting infrastructure are now almost complete.
80% of the public landscape in the Park is about to be finished and the construction of outdoor exhibition zones is going to initiate soon. Meanwhile, Beijing Expo 2019 will strive to complete 80% international exhibitor recruitment, to increase the awareness, attention and participation of Chinese and foreigners, and to proactively attract the participation of various famous companies both at home and abroad to take part in this event.


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Shift4 Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary of Tokenization; Surpassing Six Billion Tokenized Transactions
Original, Most Reliable and Secure Tokenization Solution Showcased at HITEC 2015
AUSTIN, Texas – June 17, 2015 – (PRNewswire) –
Shift4 Corporation today announced the 10-year anniversary of TrueTokenization®, the first tokenization solution for payment card data on the market. TrueTokenization, which continues to be the most reliable and secure method for protecting cardholder data, has successfully surpassed more than six billion transactions since 2005.
As hospitality industry professionals convene at HITEC in Austin, TX, from June 15-18, many are searching for a method to secure cardholder data to prevent breaches and protect their brand and customers. Shift4 answers this calling with highlights such as:
Experience since day one – the first tokenization solution: Shift4 coined the term and announced the formal concept of payment data tokenization to the public in September 2005 to improve security practices throughout the industry. At the time, no other solution addressed the vulnerability issues associated with handling sensitive cardholder data while resolving the complexity, high cost and limitations of encryption.
Securing sensitive cardholder data in any merchant environment: With TrueTokenization, sensitive cardholder data is replaced with a randomized, alphanumeric representation of credit or debit card information that does not have a mathematical or one-to-one relationship to an actual card. This ensures that each TrueToken®, a non-decryptable ID that references an individual transaction, functions just as cardholder data would in the merchant environment without being traced back to a card. Shift4 has adapted the technology to create a wide breadth of tokenized payment solutions, replacing cardholder data from every possible touchpoint to improve security and simplify PCI assessments for merchants in every industry.
Supporting merchants' day-to-day business: Unlike payment tokens, which offer a level of protection for a mobile device or card that points to a consumer's credit or bank account, TrueTokenization secures the merchant's environment and systems while supporting their business not only from a risk-management perspective, but also from the outlook of finance and operations. Merchants can use TrueTokens for analytics purposes and to retrieve transaction information for chargeback defense, credits, recurring billing, incremental authorizations and other uses. Also, because TrueTokenization is bank and processor neutral, merchants can make changes as needed without losing their access to data.
Compatibility with point-to-point encryption (P2PE) and EMV: TrueTokenization works hand-in-hand with Shift4's True P2PE™, which encrypts credit and debit card information at the point a card interacts with a payment terminal. Together, TrueTokenization and True P2PE eliminate cardholder data from the merchant environment in both traditional and omni-channel merchant settings. This greatly reduces a merchant's breach profile and PCI DSS scope while providing the data security merchants need to protect their environment when accepting magnetic stripe, EMV, NFC and even gift card payments at traditional, e-commerce and mobile points of sale.
J.D. Oder II, CTO, Shift4, said: "While the tendrils of tokenization extend back to the early 1980s, the concept was formalized out of Shift4's commitment to answer a merchant need as expressed to us at HITEC in 2005. We wanted to relieve merchants of their reliance on sensitive cardholder data, so we designed tokenization as a simple and organic way to replace it."
Dave Oder, CEO, Shift4, said: "With over six billion tokenized transactions over the past 10 years, Shift4 has empowered thousands of merchants to process payments in the most efficient and secure way possible. No other company has created more tokenization methodologies than Shift4 and we're proud of its incredible success."
Attendees at HITEC are invited to learn more about TrueTokenization and join the anniversary celebration in booth #1623. For more information about TrueTokenization, visit www.shift4.com/tokenization or call 800.265.5795.
About Shift4 Corporation
Shift4 Corporation makes it simple for merchants across all industries to securely process credit, debit, and gift card transactions. With connections to nearly every bank and processor in North America and integrations to hundreds of PMS and POS systems, Shift4's DOLLARS ON THE NET® is the world's largest independent payment gateway. Shift4 provides pre- and post-settlement auditing capabilities, fraud prevention tools, support for emerging technologies like EMV and mobile payments, and security solutions such as TrueTokenization® and True P2PE™, which drastically simplify PCI compliance. Shift4 is a proud merchant advocate, maintaining complete bank and processor neutrality to ensure that their customers have the freedom to switch banks and processors as needed. For more information, visit www.shift4.com.
Gianna Vivo
Shift4 Corporation
702.597.2480, ext. 43300
Published June 17, 2015 By Remigijus Pavydis
Shift4 to Celebrate 10th Anniversary of First Payment Data Tokenization at HITEC 2015
Shift4's VT4 Mobile Point-of-Sale Solution Enables Secure Transactions Anywhere, Anytime

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I read an interesting book last year called FYI: For Your Improvement, courtesy of my long lost Sri Lankan brother Udhara and his experience of a lifetime working at Apple.
Not just interesting, mind blowing. It completely changed my perception of myself and the world around me. I suddenly felt a much smaller man.
But I think I needed it.
My whole life I've existed as a self-professed perfectionist; embracing the psychology of perfectionism in everything I do.
I can happily spend hours shifting words around on a page, fiddling with colours and formatting in spreadsheets. Meticulously making sure every pixel is in its place.
I've always felt perfection is something to embrace, something to strive for. It produces wonder and beauty in all facets of life – from art to business and everything between. One of the finest qualities of all, perfectionism is a well-honed skill to take pride in.
But actually, as this book from Udhara made me realise, perfectionism can be a wolf in sheep's clothing. An excuse born from fear. The scapegoat that saves you from facing up to the possibility of failure, to stick with the farmyard animal references.
Perfectionism helps to justify why it took so long to finish this blog post, why I spent so long building that pitch deck. It's the reason I read and re-read one unimportant email I was drafting 12 times in a row, just to make sure.
It's why I spent 3 months holed up in my studio producing a single song.
The truth is, maybe I wasn't quite as concerned with creating a perfect product as I was with ensuring I wouldn't be judged for my mistakes.
By hiding behind my perfectionism I would be safe from others' shrewdness. No-one could call me out for being slow to finish; for spending way too much time on something relatively inconsequential.
I certainly wasn't prepared for such a realisation. This was an attack on one of the fundamental building blocks of my life, and it caught me off guard.
Let me take a slight detour now to tell you another story.
For as long as I can remember I've found comfort and pleasure in creating.
Starting with literature and music, this passion fatefully dragged me all the way from art into the realm of business – morphing itself into the form of marketing, which in turn demanded for a whole different kind of creation. The creation of process, structure and methodology.
When I first stepped into the business arena, everything my partners and I did was about tapping our unique yet complementary skills to create products and services that solved problems and filled particular gaps in the market.
Our daily objective was to convert our time into something not just valuable, but very much tangible.
But as time went on a funny thing happened. Our outputs became less and less quantifiable, and the time we once spent as designers & copywriters, data analysts & social media strategists washed way out to sea, far from the shores of feasibility.
For me, creating under pressure can be incredibly difficult; for years I lived as a free-spirited musician with time on his side.
And now, to suddenly be thrust into a world governed by tight deadlines and endless responsibilities, I was served a rude shock and a harsh reminder me about the true scarcity of time in this life.
Tasks I would normally take an hour to do had to be done in 10 minutes. Instead of investing 110% I had to settle for 90, 75, and even 50 percent.
The perfectionist within was mortified.
Each time I sent off work filled with tiny imperfections like misaligned layouts and spelling mistakes, I felt a little piece of me wither away and die.
I know that might sound a bit melodramatic, but I can assure you this obsession with perfection can become all-consuming.
What we visualise in our minds is often far away from any attainable reality. Like the Penrose staircase, imagination can lead you on an endless journey which seemingly transcends the impossible.
But back here on planet Earth we remain caged in by the constraints of reality; with limited amounts of time, energy and skill at our disposal.
When you set out to recreate that perfect world you've dreamed up, or to find the Prince (or Princess) Charming you've constructed in your mind, the real thing will likely never stack up; leaving you the lone guest of a banquet you unwittingly prepared in honour of your own self-perpetuating standards.
With every ounce of strength I resisted the need for change, holding onto the inner perfectionist for dear life.
But soon enough I realised the struggles were in vain – there was no way to maintain this lifelong habit and still achieve what we'd set out to do with The Jaden Group.
Like the phoenix, parts of you must sometimes die a fiery death before they too can be reborn.
I took a couple of big steps back to reassess some things I once knew with such certainty.
It was time to get comfortable with failure. Or perhaps more accurately, lots of little failures. The miniature failings of words and sentences, contexts and concepts, design and aesthetics.
But more importantly than getting comfortable with failure, it was time to redefine 'failure' in my vocabulary.
Beyond a slight bruising of the ego, none of these little imperfections were on the list of things likely to bankrupt, or worse yet, kill me.
I'm from Australia, so trust me when I say we have one long deadly list. But thankfully I didn't see 'typos' on there.
I began to feel like a little part of me had been liberated; released from the cruel and unforgiving grasp of perfectionism. I was opening myself up to things I'd spent a lifetime dodging and despising.
And it actually felt good.
Now I'd be lying if I said it's been easy learning to settle for less than perfection. I'm still served up my daily dishful of challenges, garnished with a few sprigs of humility.
But even if only in some small way, I believe this entire experience has enabled (read: forced) me to grow as a person.
And even though I'm learning to find the beauty in imperfection, I still take the occasional hour to lock myself away with a few spreadsheets and explore the Excel colour palette every so often.
Because after all, there's nothing wrong with a little recreational perfectionism, right?
Had challenges of your own with perfectionism? Would love to hear about them in the comments below!
Nic J Robertson Musician. Producer. Writer. Dreamer.
Great post as always, Nick. I had just finished reading a draft email several times over prior to reading this! FYI: For your improvement looks like a good read.


I am chopping off my hair to raise funds for a community dialysis unit on Bute.
Thank you for visiting my fundraising page. I have been growing my hair so that I can sell it to a wig maker to raise money for charity. It's now 76cm long, or waist length. To maximise the amount raised, I am also seeking sponsors.
On Saturday 26th August I will be cutting off my hair to raise funds for charity. I will be splitting my fundraising between local charity Bute Kidney Patients Support Group (BKPSG), and Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders). Come along to Dunoon Burgh Hall for tea, cakes, kids' games and to laugh at me !
The Bute Kidney Patients' Support Group is trying to raise £300,000 to bring a community kidney dialysis facility to Bute. The satellite unit would save island residents having to travel to Greenock three days a week for treatment.


Retell: James has always wanted to play basketball on the main court. Knowing that he's too young and too small, he practices on the side court. One day a player gets injured and he volunteers to play. Though he misses shots and fouls other players, he gains his courage and ends up winning the game.
My Thoughts: This book was hiding on my read aloud shelf in my classroom. I forgot all about it and now I'm kicking myself for not reading it to my class during our recent Realistic Fiction unit. This is a fantastic small moment mentor text. The events of the story are few: a boy practices, enters a game, struggles, and wins. However through a balance of internal thinking, small action and dialogue, the author creates a suspenseful, meaningful story.
Retell: Lily spends each Wednesday at the neighborhood pool. She has decided that Tamika will be her best friend. Tamika however does not seem interested in being Lily's friend. Lily tries many things to win over Tamika. She tries to dress the same and she shares her popsicles with her but to no avail. Lily eventually becomes friends with Keesha who doesn't need to be impressed.
My Thoughts: This book does a great job of addressing the issue of popularity. Every year I see students going out of their way to impress others who don't give them the time of day. It could be an interesting book to use when discussing the 'right to pass'. Though Tamika should have been nicer to Lily, she has the right to pass on her offer of friendship.
Thanks again Beth for another great read aloud.
Retell: Joe is always lagging behind the class. His teacher and his classmates are always telling him to hurry up. It's not until a classmate stops to tie his shoes that he realizes why Joe keeps falling behind.
My Thoughts: The main character in this book reminds me of my sweetheart. When we're on route somewhere he always stops to smell the flowers on butterfly bushes or picks fruit from trees. If I'm in a hurry it can be frustrating at first, but most of the time it's worth it to be a few minutes late. I appreciate how he makes me slow down and notice the world around me. What Joe Saw is a good book to read when you want your class to discuss the importance of paying attention to small details. However, you may not want to read this book to your class just before going on a field trip. It may be good to read during an interpretation unit. I can imagine having interesting discussions about the individual vs. the group.
Retell: After a fire-breathing dragon destroys her castle, Elizabeth dons a paper bag and goes off to rescue the 'charming' Prince Ronald. Through cunning wit she tricks the dragon and frees the prince only to realize that perhaps he wasn't worth saving after all.
My Thoughts: This is a TC read aloud classic that I have seen used in several workshops on planning effective interactive read alouds. For such a short book, there are many ways you could teach with it. It's a great book for discussing gender issues during the Social Issues unit. After rereading this book for the 20th time I just realized what a great text it is for teaching the Habits of Mind. Elizabeth uses a lot of them! For example, her entire castle burns down but she persists and goes to save Prince Ronald. She has no clothes but thinks flexibly and fashions a dress out of a paper bag. After competely exhausting the dragon she strives for accuracy and manages impulsivity by checking to make sure the dragon is truly knocked out.
Retell: A young boy loses confidence on his artwork after his brother insults his work.
My Thoughts: A friend of mine who is an art teacher once told me that between the ages of 8 and 10 many kids give up artistic pursuits. Apparently this age group becomes obsessed with making their art look realistic. Many people, myself included, stopped drawing and painting at this age because they lost confidence in their artistic ability. Ish is a story that addresses this issue in an adorable way. During read aloud students can analzye the role of the narrator's sister who helps encourage him to recognize the beauty in his work. This book lends itself well to a discussion on personal best. Later in the book, the young artist starts a writers notebook making this a great book to launch classroom writers notebooks.


Two of the victims ran inside the hotel and security called police.
CHICAGO — A shooting inside a car on South Michigan Avenue left two people dead, three wounded and a car on a roof outside the Congress Plaza Hotel.
It's not clear why someone began shooting inside the car, or if more than one person fired the shots. Two guns were found, police said.
At 11:59 p.m., five men were inside a car in the 500 block of South Michigan Avenue when they got into a fight inside the car and someone fired shots, police said. The driver was hit in his shoulder and crashed into a pole, flipping the car.
Two people got out of the car and ran into a hotel, and the hotel's security called officers, police said.
The shooting took place outside the Congress Plaza Hotel, according to ABC7.
• A 31-year-old man was shot in his face and was taken to Northwestern Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
• A man, whose age was not immediately available, was hit in his head and was pronounced dead at Northwestern Hospital.
• A 29-year-old man was hit in his shoulder and he was taken to Northwestern Hospital.
• A 29-year-old man was hit in his shoulder and he was taken to Stroger Hospital.
• A 39-year-old man had back and neck pain from the car crash and was taken to Stroger Hospital.
Conditions for the three victims who survived were not available, but they were listed as "stable," police said.
The shooting was an "isolated incident," police said, but officers said it was currently undetermined who fired shots because the victims gave different stories about what happened.
Two weapons were found at the scene, police said. No one was in custody and an investigation was ongoing.


When nothing else seems to be going your way, remember what God did for you. If no one else loves you, God love you that much. If another person never cares about you, the Lord cares about you more than you could imagine. If you never receive a gift from anyone else, if you are a child of God then you have the greatest gist of all. God loves you and He proved that through the gift of His Son. Be blessed!


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An example of the data format is below. Here the many nested arrays and structs can be seen.
Since Matillion ETL for Amazon Redshift is purpose-built for Amazon Redshift, it can leverage native Spectrum functionality for handling the nested JSON. Further details on Amazon Redshift Spectrum are here.
Matillion can take advantage of this functionality by defining the external table to match the nested JSON and then using the Nested Data Load component to reference the external nested data and load it into an internal table.
This allows each element in each struct or array to be individually referenced.
The Nested Data Load component can be used to flatten this out to a non-Spectrum table. In this component, select the columns required in the output table, the name of the new table to create, and the join conditions. Joins are required to capture all of the array elements against the corresponding parent values.
Note: this will mean the number of rows of data will increase by the number of array elements in each original row.
Here we looked at how to use the power of Amazon Redshift Spectrum to handle nested data from a MongoDB.
Learn more about Amazon Redshift Spectrum in our ebook.


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Chris Stucchio
Talks/Papers
Attribution Theory is Misguided
Wed 17 September 2014 statistics / marginal thinking / advertising / attribution
My business partner likes to tell me a story about a pair of shoes she purchased. First she saw the shoes in a TV commercial. Then one of her friends bought the shoes and showed her a picture on Facebook. She then browsed to the online store selling the shoes, but did not purchase. She was retargeted for a few days, with the tagline "you know you want them". Eventually she went directly back to the store and purchased the shoes.
Attribution theory is the process of asking the following question - who gets credit for the sale? The TV commercial, social media, "direct", or the retargeter? There are a variety of fairly standard models for this.
Last Click Attribution. This says that the last advertiser to touch the customer is the one who deserves 100% of the credit for the sale. This model is surprisingly popular.
First Click Attribution. This says that the first advertiser is the one who deserves 100% of the credit. This model is unpopular, but exists out in the world.
Linear Attribution. This allocates credit for the sale to all advertisers equally. This model, while simple, is a-priori one of the better ones in my opinion. That's not to say it's a great model, but there are mathematical reasons to believe that it's not a terrible approximation.
Temporal attribution. This is a scheme along the lines of 50% for the last ad, 25% for the second to last, 12.5% for the third to last, etc. It's also a pretty good scheme, and I suspect it might be a better approximation to reality than linear attribution.
The core problem with all attribution models is that they are attempting to guide decisions about where to spend advertising. But an attribution model asks the wrong question - it's asking how to give credit for your existing sales. The right question to ask is where your next sale will come from.
A Motivating Example
Suppose we know concretely how our sales respond to advertising dollars. Specifically, suppose we know the exact relation between sales and advertising. Let $@ x $@ represent the money spent on TV and $@ y $@ represent the money spent on radio. Then suppose sales are given by:
$$ S(x,y) = 100 \cdot \ln(1+x) \ln(1+y) $$
In real life we'll never know this, of course. But it's illustrative to have a fully explicit mathematical model to explore the concept.
Now suppose that we've currently devoted $10 to TV advertising and $0.5 to radio advertising. What can we deduce? First of all, sales will be 97.
For simplicity we'll assume all sales are due to advertising. We'll assume 92 people saw TV ads only, 2 people saw a TV ad then a radio ad, and 3 people saw radio ads only. With last touch modelling, we might discover that 5 sales were due to radio ads (2 of those customers also saw a TV ad) and 92 are due to TV. With linear attribution, we'd attribute 93 sales to TV and 4 to radio.
With linear attribution it looks like radio accounts for 5.1% of sales and 4.7% of advertising spend. Good deal! In contrast, with linear attribution, it looks as if radio accounts for only 4% of sales but costs 4.7% of ad spend. So in either case, it looks like sales are roughly proportional to ad spend, but we can tweak things a little bit around the margin.
Surprise - you've just discovered another $1 for the advertising budget. Where should you spend it?
Put it all into radio. Sales will go up from 97 to 220!
That's not really clear from attribution models. The attribution models suggest that either TV or radio is marginally better than the other, depending on which you choose.
The power of marginal thinking
Instead of thinking in terms of giving credit for sales we've already achieved, we need to think on the relevant margin. The relevant margin is the next sale. The right question to answer is "how do I maximize sales right now?"
We define the Marginal Return on Advertising or MRA as the allocation which will maximize future sales. So given that we've already spend $10 on TV and $0.5 on radio, the question is how to allocate that last $1 in order to increase sales the most?
There are a couple of ways to answer this quesiton.
Given that we have an explicit form for our return on advertising, we can simply brute force it, just make a table of possible allocations:
TV gets an extra $1, radio gets an extra $0: $@ S(11, 0.5) = 100 \cdot \ln(1+11)\ln(1+0.5) = 100.7 $@
TV gets an extra $0.5, radio gets an extra $0.5: $@ S(10.5, 1.0) = 100 \cdot \ln(1+10.5)\ln(1+1.0) = 169 $@
TV gets an extra $0.0, radio gets an extra $1.0: $@ S(10, 1.5) = 100 \cdot \ln(1+10)\ln(1+1.5) = 219 $@
A picture
So now I'll draw a picture. A point on the graph represents an allocation of capital into different advertising channels - for example, the point \(@(2,3)\)@ represents 2 dollars in television and 3 dollars in radio. The color represents how many sales we'd receieve with that allocation. More red means more sales.
The red arrow represents our original spend - $10 on TV and $0.5 on radio. Now we've got an additional $1 - what to spend it on? The yellow arrow represents throwing money in the direction of attribution theory. This will increase sales, but not by a lot.
In contrast, the black arrow represents the direction maximizing the Marginal Return on Advertising - throwing that additional $1 into radio. And that shifts us from the dark blue to the light blue region of the picture.
In short, attribution theory measures how you got to where you are, where as Marginal Return on Advertising measures where you should go next.
To use calculus, we compute the gradient of our sales function:
$$\nabla S(x,y) = \left[\frac{100 \ln(1+y)}{1+x}, \frac{100 \ln(1+x)}{1+y} \right] $$
We then evaluate this at \(@(x,y)=(10,0.5)\)@. The answer is: $@ \nabla S(x,y) |_{(10,0.5)} = [0.037, 1.60] \approx [0,1.6] $@. Looks like increasing radio spend will get a much bigger bang for buck than TV spend.
Let me call this quantity the marginal return on advertising or MRA. More precisely, for TV, the MRA is
$$ \textrm{MRA}_{TV} = \frac{dS}{dx} $$
and for radio is
$$ \textrm{MRA}_{Radio} = \frac{dS}{dy}.$$
The advertising channel that works the best for our current sales is not necessarily the advertising channel which is the best use of additional dollars. Attributing credit for past sales is not the same thing as determining how to allocate/reallocate future advertising spend. The right concept is Marginal Return on Advertising or MRA, which is the amount by which sales will increase if your pour additional money into some particular channel.
See also: The concept of marginal return on advertising is also the big idea behind Gabriel Weinberg's Traction Book. Weinberg's framework essentially consists of running experiments that increment x to see if it increases sales/traction, and if that fails increasing y, and repeating until a direction of rapid growth has been found.
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Q: R : Function doesn't work when I change the parameters order I'm using the nls.lm function from the minpack.lm package and something "weird" happens when I change the order of the parameters in the residual function
This code works :
install.packages('minpack.lm')
library(minpack.lm)
## values over which to simulate data
x <- seq(0,100,length=100)
## model based on a list of parameters
getPrediction <- function(parameters, x)
  parameters$A*exp(-parameters$alpha*x) + parameters$B*exp(-parameters$beta*x)
## parameter values used to simulate data
pp <- list(A = 2, B = 0.8, alpha = 0.6, beta = 0.01)
## simulated data, with noise
simDNoisy <- getPrediction(pp,x) + rnorm(length(x),sd=.01)
#simDNoisy[seq(1,10)] = rep(10,11)
simDNoisy[1] = 4
## plot data
plot(x,simDNoisy, main="data")

## residual function
residFun <- function(parameters, observed, xx)
  sqrt(abs(observed - getPrediction(parameters, xx)))

## starting values for parameters
parStart <- list(Ar = 3, Br = 2, alphar = 1, betar = 0.05)

## perform fit
rm(nls.out)
nls.out <- nls.lm(par=parStart,
                  fn = residFun,
                  observed = simDNoisy,
                  xx = x,
                  control = nls.lm.control(nprint=1))
nls.out

It doesn't work if I replace the residual function by this (just change parameters order)
residFun <- function(xx, parameters, observed )
  sqrt(abs(observed - getPrediction(xx, parameters)))

Error in parameters$A : $ operator is invalid for atomic vectors

Why does it cause this error ?

A: Parameters should match the order of the parameters as defined in the function. The only exception you should use is if you explicitly name them out of order. Consider this example of what the function thinks are two parameters
theParameters=function(X,Y){
  print(paste("I think X is",X))
  print(paste("I think Y is",Y))
}

theParameters(X=2,Y=10)
theParameters(Y=10,X=2)
 #you can change the parameter order if you identify them with parameter=...

#but if you don't, it assumes it's in the order of how the function is defined.
# which of these is X and which is Y?
theParameters(10,2)

It's preferable to always identify the parameters, but nececessary if it's out of order. (Other languages don't even let you change the order of parameters when you call them).
  getPrediction(xx=xx,parameters=parameters)

In this case the reason is the function treats xx and parameters as if it had created its own local copy. Without the identification this line
  getPrediction(xx,parameters)

means this to R
  getPrediction(parameters=xx,xx=parameters)

because that matches the original signature of the function.
So the function's version of parameters is what you pass in as xx, and so on.
Because you called the parameters the same thing as variable names, it can be confusing. It works easier if you vary the dummy version of variable names slightly. Alternatively if scopes of variables allow it, you don't even have to  pass in the parameters, but be careful with that practice because it can cause tracing headaches.

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Since wormholes are still experimental, perhaps the developers can use these as examples and/or sources of inspiration?
EDIT: I particularly like the second link, where the wormhole is like a "spherical portal", that is, without a "tunnel". You can move sideways, be partially in one place, and partially in another.
Wow! I've seen the renditions of wormholes based on the appropriate general relativistic formulas, but never ones you could explore like that. Those are really cool, thanks for sharing them!
The wormholes in SpaceEngine are fairly accurate, but the hard part is programming the link.
You can make a wormhole from a black hole by simply editing its type from X to Z in the editor (shift-F2).
Source of the post You can make a wormhole from a black hole by simply editing its type from X to Z in the editor (shift-F2).
And that method will never work, even when bridging is possible. Wormholes were added for setting up presentations and for mod systems.
maybe the supposed dark matter filaments are possible intergalactic highways, stabilizing wormhole, einstein rosenberg, bridges. someone must have posted that somewhere. i remember seeing a part of a semi educational video that mentioned how something like filaments could, in theory, have been created during the big bang and could be natural wormhole routes.
so if the simulator included known and procedural galaxy filaments, then maybe wormholes could be made along them somehow, but realistically, i don't know how to survive it, if the gravitational forces would crush and rip people, unless a shield of dark energy or something could nullify the effects on the traveler like a bubble shield and use the transmuted energy of the gravity from the wormhole as a power source to do it.
Source of the post maybe the supposed dark matter filaments are possible intergalactic highways, stabilizing wormhole, einstein rosenberg, bridges. someone must have posted that somewhere. i remember seeing a part of a semi educational video that mentioned how something like filaments could, in theory, have been created during the big bang and could be natural wormhole routes.
No, this confuses dark matter with some hypothetical (probably impossible) form of exotic matter necessary to keep a wormhole open. In terms of gravitational effects dark matter is just like regular matter and can't do that. The filaments also did not form in the Big Bang, but later as a consequence of denser than average regions collapsing gravitationally to produce the cosmic web.
Source of the post this confuses dark matter with some hypothetical (probably impossible) form of exotic matter necessary to keep a wormhole open.
is that the negative mass or something else. also, how does dark energy compare to that idea. all i could get so far is that is pushes things apart.
Watsisname:Source of the post denser than average regions collapsing gravitationally to produce the cosmic web.
if it is dense, how does it collapse?
P.S.: @darkenergywarpdrive - keep in mind that this is on a cosmic scale. A "dense" region is denser than its surroundings, meaning it contains more matter, but that doesn't mean it's rigid or under any significant pressure - it's still very much outer space. Since matter attracts other matter gravitationally, anywhere matter is built up it will draw itself closer together. Over time any slightly denser region of space tends to contract into a clump, or if matter is in between two or more clumps, it will collect into a filament or sheet. This will continue until something happens to create outward pressure, such as a star or quasar forming - hence today we find galaxies in clusters, filaments, and sheets.
wow these are some nice wormholes, thanks for sharing!
I wouldn't say no to stable wormholes, especially if sterile neutrinos (which may be able to travel through time since they do not respond to any force but gravity) are found one day.
Then again... the fact there is a Z class suggests that wormholes might be coming soon!
Source of the post If you just took a homogeneous gas or material with a high density and encased a localized region of spacetime, then leave a void in the middle, you should essentially have a region of negative curvature when compared to the shell.
Assuming spherical symmetry to this setup, then the space-time geometry of the void will be flat (described exactly by special relativity), and the region outside it will obey the Schwarzschild metric. Unfortunately, no part of this looks like a wormhole metric. Otherwise we could build wormholes quite easily.
To make a wormhole, the popular description is to connect the singularities of two Schwarzschild metrics to each other (how to achieve that is an exercise left for the forum). But this connection is violently unstable. It requires something which is gravitationally repulsive to keep it open, which means a negative energy density in a manner which violates the energy conditions -- and this is very likely an unphysical solution to the equations.
Another form of wormhole that can appear in the mathematics is for a charged or rotating black hole. Either effect (or both) generates a region of space-time where space flows back outwards -- into a new universe, perhaps. However, there are again clues that such solutions are unphysical.
There's nothing inherently wrong about putting wormholes in SE -- the mathematics describing such a thing exists. It's just a question of programming feasibility and one's stance on including speculative / sci-fi realms of physics. Alcubierre drives are already in Space Engine and those are just as unphysical as wormholes.
Newton's shell theorem for the rescue!!


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Gilbert Gottfried, who many fans will recognize as the voice of Mxyzptlk in "Superman: The Animated Series" and "Justice League Action", has posted the latest episode of his "Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast" in which he interviews "Superman: The Movie" director Richard Donner.
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BSCG and co-appellants have halted the legal challenge to the Cairngorms national Park's 1st Local Plan. This is because the Supreme Court refused to cap the costs that we would have paid to the CNPA should our case fail. Regrettably we have been forced into this position before our case about the correct interpretation of European law could be heard by the court. In pursuing the case that started in 2010 we have adhered to the proper processes following professional legal advice. Our case would have never been taken had the CNPA followed more closely the findings of the 2009 local inquiry into the plan. Our costs have been met entirely through donations and we are very grateful to all those without whose support the legal challenge would have been impossible.
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Gus Jones, Convener of the Badenoch & Strathspey Conservation Group said, "The reason for our challenge terminating at this stage is because the Supreme Court refused to limit our liability to the CNPA's legal costs. No charity could proceed on the basis of unknown costs.
The incredible level of public support we have received demonstrates the deep and far-reaching public concern that exists about the Park Authority's unsustainable and developer-driven approach to planning taken in their Local Plan, which threatens the natural heritage that the Park was set up to protect."
Ian Lawson, founding Convener and long serving Director of the Cairngorms Campaign and former member of the Cairngorms Partnership commented, "That we have been able to take this case so far is testimony to the ground swell of support for what we were trying to do. Many people feel outraged about excessive development in the National Park that includes an entire new town.
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There is 1 reply in this Thread. The last Post ( Jan 20th 2019 ) by Martind Forlon.
The movie industry is as much controversial has the game industry.
I get it why the creator of this fan project was not allowed to monetize it.
It is based on work of other people. I agree with that part.
But at the same time I dont get how Disney is able to monetize that same movie now. It is not their work.
Disney always has been a greedy company. That reaches back to the very first movies and series. The people doing the work never really got the money.
But the company better should learn from talented creators than to steal from them.
The last two Star Wars movies were terrible while multiple fan films meanwhile showed how to do it right.
This video looks really good! For this second part ... I really would like to know whether that Disney acting is corresponding with law. It may look clearly like unfair acting, but companies like they are don't care (they start care only when taken into court and lose dispute), and this is applied also in many other situations.
And for this topic ... similar to gaming industry, these people care only about money, they do not care about fans or support "soul" of star wars. Because they do not live with Star-wars dream, and want only make money out of it, the result is like is ... fan made film is more interesting as these multimiliion made official films.
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In the eighteenth century what dictated how people lived and interacted with one another was their place in society, both economically and socially, and this was greatly dependent on what they wore. Starting at about the mid 1800's, fashion and clothing were not the primary ways to define oneself. People's identity and role in life were mainly based on their personal beliefs. For men, clothing was not of any significance and certainly didn't occupy their minds or passions.


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In a pot with hot water, cook the cauliflower until soft.
In and other pot, boil the heavy cream, add the butter and red miso paste and when the butter is melted and the miso dissolved, turn off the heat and let it cool.
When cool blend with the cauliflower until you have a nice smooth purée.
In a pan sauté the garlic and ginger in the olive oil until golden.
Mix the rest of the ingredients together and bring to the boil. Set aside.
In a hot pan add a 1 Tbs. of vegetable oil and sear the tuna on each side for 1 minute.
Cut the tuna in half diagonally.
Put the cauliflour purée on to the plate making a line on the bottom.
Add the garnish, and put 2 pieces of tuna on top.
Add a little dash of the Sichuan sauce.
Chef Note: The freshness of the fresh fruits, and citrus aromas of this rosé wine, match the spiciness of the S'chuan sauce and the creamy texture of the purée.
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Hi Leandro, can you change the topic title to English please?
Looking at the diagnostic file, it shows that you've installed the LibreOffice.flatpak (from upstream LibreOffice I assume) but you also still have the pre-installed version of LibreOffice on Endless OS. There are user processes fr the pre-installed version currently running on your system, I wonder if the flatpak version sees those and exits thinking it's already running.
@Nick_Richards is the pre-isntalled LibreOffice in /usr/lib/libreoffice/ supposed to be removed when upgrading to 3.3?
@mhall119 We have not switched to the flatpak version yet. We intend to do so in a future release, but we are unable to complete the move to flatpak for Endless OS 3.3.0. We have, however, updated the pre-installed Libre Office to a modern version, so it hopefully will meet user's needs in the meantime. There is no option to remove the pre-installed version, as it is part of the core OSTree. Once we are ready to switch to the flatpak version, we will automatically remove the older version. (That is the easy part – the difficult part is automatically installing the flatpak version on upgrade once we have removed it from the core OSTree.) It would be interesting to confirm if the problem is a conflict between the flatpak version and the core OSTree version.
Thanks, @LeandroStanger. We are going to stay with version 5.4.1 for the Endless OS 3.3 release, but hope to switch to the flatpak version sometime in the next couple months, at which point we would start tracking the upstream version more closely.
@LeandroStanger We just pushed a fix to the flatpak runtime that fixes the Resume/Curriculum and Finance/My Budget apps. If you update the Endless Platform in the app center, those two apps should work again.


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A: Here is a working example: https://jsfiddle.net/Twisty/e7bp5ty7/
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This nation also has a colourful history of scavenging pirates who would brave the jungles to seek fortune in California. The extensive jungle remains today and consists of part of the Soberanía National Park, which is home to hundreds of different species of bird.
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Discussion in 'Web & Email' started by rchristie, Jan 28, 2005.
Hi Im not sure whether this is a Firefox problem (probably not) or a website problem (probably yes) so anyone who can give me an idea of why this is happening, it would be appreciated.
Basically Im helping to integrate a website, I dont have full control (it's a government thing), but I do have some. Anyway when I visit the site using Firefox instead of displaying the page in the content window it tries to download the page to the computer like a file. This doesnt happen in IE. This is a recent problem as it was working fine in Firefox just yesterday. Can someone point me in the right direction here, why is this happening?
If it helps here's the address. As you can see seems to work fine in IE but not Firefox.
I just navigated to that site (via your posted link), and it displayed fine for me. I am running Firefox v1.0, the latest release version.
When you go to options and downloads do you have any file-type specifc rules?
Whats the extension of the file it downloads?
Works fine for me on FC Linux running Opera.
FF ver 1.0, works ok for me too. As was suggested earlier, have you got any download extensions or accelerators?


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Spring is here, and that means the smell of corn, hot dogs, funnel cakes and ribs will soon waft from more than 400 festivals throughout Chicago. The city's streets come alive as the weather warms, and street fairs bring neighbors together for food, dancing, art, music, garden walks and more.
Each neighborhood in Chicago has its own flavor, and each festival gives you a small taste. Be sure to mark your calendars for these five Chicago festivals, and visit the City of Chicago's site for more.
Behold 50,000 pounds of pork sizzling on grills at the intersection of Lincoln Avenue, Damen Avenue and Irving Park Road. Ribfest is one of the first food fests of the season, and Chicagoans come out in force to visit the North Center neighborhood and devour the ribs by the rack. With live music on two stages, kids' activities and even an incredibly messy amateur rib-eating contest, Ribfest is a great way to kick off the summer.
Old Town Art Fair, June 14-15.
Nearly 40,000 people head to Chicago's stately Old Town neighborhood every year to take in this outdoor, juried fine arts show. This year marks the 65th anniversary of the beloved festival, and art lovers will stream in from across town to browse the wares of more than 250 painters, sculptors, jewelry designers and artisans. (Main gate: Lincoln Ave. and Wisconsin St.). Aside from art, there's food to sample, a garden walk, kids' activities and more.
Hungry for even more art? Check out the nearby "rival" art fest, Wells Street Art Festival, on Wells Street between North and Division, which has a history of more than 40 years. Between shows, take a walk around the beautiful million-dollar brownstones of Old Town, one of the city's toniest neighborhoods.
Chicago Pride, June 21-22 and 29.
The word "Pride" actually seems like an understatement, if you've ever been to this Chicago festival. More than 750,000 people converge on Boystown to celebrate with Chicago's LGBT community during this two-day festival (June 21-22), which culminates the following week, June 29, with a four-mile parade. Expect a wild ride, particularly on parade day. Chicago's Pride event is one of the largest of its kind in the world. The main thoroughfares get really packed for this one, so the crowd-shy may want to stick to the side streets. The parade kicks off at Montrose and Broadway avenues, heading south to Diversey Parkway and Sheridan Road.
Square Roots Music Festival, July 11-13.
This fun-for-the-whole-family fest gives neighbors a chance to check out the latest acts from the beloved Old Town School of Folk Music, located in the heart of the Lincoln Square neighborhood (Lincoln Ave. between Montrose and Wilson). The style of music, which fills two stages with more than 60 acts, ranges from indie to world, and vendors peddle dozens of regional craft brews. Art and musical activities for the kiddos ensure entertainment for all.
Sheffield Garden Walk and Music Festival, July 19-20.
It's not every day you're invited into the backyards of some of the city's most beautiful homes. The Sheffield Garden Walk (at Sheffield and Webster avenues), now in its 46th year, is your passport behind the walls of more than 100 urban landscapes in the well-heeled Lincoln Park neighborhood. A vibrant street festival has grown around the event, and you'll find live music, food vendors, a kids' corner and more as you stroll through the lush landscapes.


1. YOUR GUESTS WANT TO KNOW WHY THEY'RE THERE.
You may think that your guests have simply resigned themselves to sitting through a ceremony so they can hit the open bar and dance the evening away. But the truth is that we all hunger for the meaning behind important milestones. Weddings deeply symbolize hope, the future – and love. Is there anyone who doesn't need to hear that?
2. IT'S YOUR WEDDING DAY – NOT YOUR MOM'S OR YOUR DAD'S OR ANYONE ELSE'S.
I can't tell you how many times I've had to convince younger couples (and sometimes even remind more mature ones) that this is their day to celebrate their bond, their relationship, and that it can be exactly what they want it to be – and doesn't have to be anything that they don't want it to be.
3. THINK 20 YEARS BEYOND YOUR WEDDING DAY.
What do you think will be remembered and talked about? The sundae buffet? The photo booth? Doubtful. People will remember your Love Story, what was expressed in words, symbols, and rituals, all the elements that reflect the authenticity of who you are as unique individuals and as a unique couple. These are the things that resonate with people.
4. EVEN IF YOU'RE NOT RELIGIOUS, YOUR WEDDING CAN AND SHOULD BE PROFOUND AND MOVING.
Love is transcendent. It is a spiritual condition, and set apart from other human experiences. Your wedding is an opportunity to honor it as such, and to remind everyone present that Love is a force of nature, a force to be reckoned with. Love matters, and we all need to hear that.
Two hundred guests at a huge banquet hall or twenty guests in your backyard, your wedding is still a deeply meaningful milestone event – for you and your community. It isn't a competition.
6. REFLECT ON AND BE CLEAR ABOUT YOUR VALUES AND BELIEFS.
This is an extension of #2: the things that you consider important in life as individuals and as a couple – your core values and beliefs – should be woven throughout the ceremony. You are completely unique and have deeply held convictions. Express them.


Good morning! Saturday here! Had a nice little sleep last night. Maisy tried to wake me up at 2 and 4 but has learned to go back to sleep. Slept til 6. To me that is sleeping late.
We have storms on the way and I think they will be here most all day. I've not really had time to pay much attention to the forecast. Just the email that showed we've have storms today and a post on facebook saying they would be here in the overnight and this morning around 4. But they are not here yet but close and they said will last most all day with storms and/or heavy rain. I thought they would just come thru and be gone. Oh well. I think we are planning to stay here all day and I have a lot of laundry to do.
Work went by fast. I've been hyper busy and have had to hurry to get things done to meet all the needs. By 3:30 I think my mind was just weary and was beginning to just feel mentally and physically exhausted. But have done a lot this week - amazingly a lot - trying to compile two weeks of work in one since I was gone most of last week. Prioritization and focus have been key and staying late and eating lunch at desk and little to no breaks except for heating up food, or mixing up the shake. My assistant and I did walk around our complex Thurs and Friday though - getting some walking in - which I guess is about a 20 minute walk. The walking felt good.
So yesterday I was to meet my neighbor at 6:30 at Lifeway to pick a Bible study that we are going to start doing on Wednesday night. George was eating a big lunch out with a friend, and had suggested we'd snack for dinner and I said I'd grab something out b/w 5:30 and 6:30. So I left about 4:45 yesterday and met Katy at 5:15 for a gluten free Burger at Burger Republic. We ate on their patio which was very pleasant. I had a salad for my side, but was able to get a couple of fries from Katy. ha.
So I met my friend and neighbor at Lifeway and we both immediately went toward Beth Moore and a new study of "Entrusted". It's more about sharing the Gospel and that we are entrusted to do so. My father had a compassion for this. I have not and will admit, that I do not have a passion for sharing God's word. That sounds horrible. It's not that I don't want to share it. I think it's just that I am more of an introvert, I'm not a religious freak, and I just keep it real. I share things that I'm in awe of that God does. I share things as it relates to me. I share things easily when others around me are in distress or in need of prayer, or needs a friend, or an answer. It's easy for me to share when people are at their bottom. I guess I feel like no one is listening otherwise. People often have to be broken or at least tender hearted to open the window of conversation. So this is a lesson I think I need. My perception that others are selfish, doing their own agenda, and not really interested (which I do feel is mostly true) keep me from having a passion of sharing the gospel and the fact that I'm basically an introvert. So I'm really anxious to see what this lesson will teach us. I prayed that we would find the lesson we needed. While I would not normally pick that lesson out of a list - somehow we BOTH walked right toward it. I will take a pic of the cover. We had said how the cover pulls us in.
So I will be doing the first lesson this weekend.
Last night George and Katy and I watched "The Terminal".
Well, I guess I will go fix a shake. Or perhaps some eggs. Not sure which. Haven't decided. I guess since I have time I should fix eggs. I WILL say that I'm happy to hear that the podcasts are saying "Go ahead and eat that butter". lol No vegetable oils. Coconut oil ok and olive oil only if it is the true imported kind and not a blend.
Well, George bought two books for me yesterday. I'll take a pic of these two. One is a book Terri Irwin wrote about Steve Irwin. Also bought me a book about the restaurant business called Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain. I need to get some reading in. I think I'll focus on reading in the next few weeks. Plus the Bible Study.
We are planning on going to church tomorrow and I've requested to eat at Ruby Tuesday getting a salad afterward. I love their salad bar.
I better go get another load going in the washer and get a 2nd cup of coffee and also get breakfast figured out. I'm getting hungry. Maybe I'll have my shake mid day.
Oh, I meant to say that George has an interview next week but it's really far away from the house. It's on the way to Shelbyville, TN and in Cristiana. It would be a horribly long commute for him. Life as he knows it would be very different. He has some big decisions to make if offered the job that could change a lot of things. So pray for us that the right job, the right location, the right deal comes along.
Well, ya'll have a great weekend!
I've done many Beth Moore Bible studies and have never been disappointed. So I'm sure you'll enjoy the one you picked out. Having someone to do it with is good too. Hope you have a great Saturday !
getting out to walk about was good for you for sure. hope the storms don't disrupt your day too much.
The bible study sounds wonderful.


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No more 'roti canai' roads under Pakatan Harapan
By Editor , in Local Nation Politics on December 31, 2018 . Tagged width: barisan nasional , BN , by election , cameron highlands , DAP , GE14 , Lim Kit Siang , MIC , Orang Asli , pakatan harapan , PH , pos sinderut , roti cani roads , Sinarraajh
DAP's Lim Kit Siang speaking to the Orang Asli in Pos Sinderut, in Cameron Highlands yesterday. (@limkitsiang Twitter pic)
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 31 – The roti canai, a staple diet for all Malaysians anytime of the day, will never sound the same again with DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang revealing how it has come to represent the corrupt former Barisan Nasional government among the Orang Asli folk in Cameron Highlands.
In a speech following the opening of the Pakatan Harapan Cameron Highlands by-election ops room at Pos Sinderut, Cameron Highlands, Lim spoke of the feedback he had received from the locals during an earlier visit last July.
"I received an education on corruption during my dialogue with the Orang Aslis in Pos Sinderut from 14 villages in Sinderut as well as Pos Manson when I visited the area in July, for it was then that I first heard of 'roti canai' roads.
"They were referring to the substandard roads that had resulted from poor workmanship and corruption. These new roads rapidly deteriorate as there was only a thin film of cement on top to hide the shoddy work.
"There must be no more 'roti canai' roads in Cameron Highlands or anywhere else under a New Malaysia which is being built by Pakatan Harapan after the 14th General Election," the Iskandar Puteri MP said.
Orang Asli, still forgotten in a New Malaysia?
Lim said the Orang Aslis should cease to be a neglected and forgotten community in Malaysia.
"What all Orang Asli communities throughout Malaysia need are proper roads, water and electricity, schools and easy access to medical care, housing as well as decent jobs and protection of their customary land rights.
"It is time for the Orang Asli community to take their place in the national mainstream of Malaysian development and stop being the forgotten or downtrodden community," Lim said.
He, however, did not provide any details on what measures the Pakatan Harapan government has already taken for the Orang Asli community since taking over Putrajaya following the 14th General Election (GE14) more than seven months ago.
The Cameron Highlands parliamentary constituency will see a by-election take place on January 26, with the nomination day set for January 12.
The seat became vacant after the Election Court ruled on November 30 that vote-buying had led to the Barisan Nasional candidate, MIC vice-president C Sivarraajh's win in GE14.
Sivarraajh won the seat in a five-cornered fight getting 10,307 votes. However, his majority against his closest challenger, DAP's M. Manogran was only 597 votes.
Manogaran, Deputy Minister for Water, Land and Natural Resources Tengku Zulpuri Shah Raja Puri, Bentong MP Wong Tack and Pahang State Assemblyman for Tanah Rata Chiong Yoke Kong and State Assemblyman for Tras Chow Yu Hui were also present at the PH election operations centre opening.
Orang Asli, the first inhabitants, deserve better
Referring to Cameron Highlands having the highest ratio of Orang Asli voters – 20% – of any constituency in the peninsula, Lim called for them to reject BN now, after years of neglect.
"For six decades, the Umno and Barisan Nasional government had failed the Orang Asli communities, for they are left far behind in the mainstream of national development, remaining forgotten and downtrodden after more than six decades of Merdeka.
"It is time for the Orang Asli, who are the first inhabitants of this country, to 'come in from the cold' and take their place in the national mainstream of Malaysian development to demand justice, freedom, integrity and democracy," he said.
Orang Asli conference during PH by-election campaign
In what could be seen as part of the Pakatan Harapan by-election campaign in the constituency, Lim said that a National Orang Asli Conference should be held in Cameron Highlands next month.
"The conference should discuss and formulate a blueprint for Orang Asli upliftment in the New Malaysia of Pakatan Harapan.
"If such a National Orang Asli Conference could be held in Cameron Highlands next month, it would also be a most appropriate occasion to honour the score of Orang Asli in Cameron Highlands who had bravely stood up for the country by being witnesses of truth, justice and democracy to speak up against bribery, money-politics and voter-threatening in the Cameron Highlands election case," Lim said.
However, the holding of such a conference using government funds, that is timed to coincide with a by-election where 20% of the voters are Orang Asli could also be seen as an abuse of power akin to the tactics used by the previous BN regime, especially if the resulting blueprint promises many benefits for the Orang Asli.
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When you know that you have to make that big choice and bugout.
members to get back to the house.
Family already at home should prepare to bugout*1.
Give everyone in your family an extra day, maybe two, to make it home before bugging out.
Key items to take: Guns, cash and coins, important papers and prescriptions for family members.
Got bicycles? Use them, load them up.
Enough food for trip to redoubt, plus one extra day.
As much water as you can carry.
Cart, wheel barrow, or wagon pulled? Just depends, gives up a lot of mobility and your ability to stay hidden.
Carry light rifle/shotgun in hand while walking at the ready.
No bright color clothing, good boots waterproof, clothing appropriate for weather.
Everyone has gathered, head out with maximum loads one can carry on person.
If you have enough in your group, have someone walk point and use radios.
Take the small and back roads to your redoubt.
Try to make 10 miles a day if possible.
Walk a steady pace for slowest person, and take breaks with feet up.
Someone always on watch, possibly two.
fine, yes it too could pull another car loaded with supplies as well.
If a tractor, take enough fuel to get there. Its slow, but faster and easier than walking and you can take a lot more supplies.
You would be surprised just how much a small garden tractor can pull.
Make sure you have your run bags ready to jump and run while in transport.
brakes as well. Know how to pull another vehicle** so you do not break straps and chains.
Huge amount of supplies can be packed in a vehicle and that ole tractor will pull it.
Food: Dry, canned, spices and grains as much as you can pack.
out of the way before the vehicle with trailers arrive.
not make it in time to leave with the main group. This then could be used to resupply them before bugging out.
Hand tools: hoes, shovels, saws, mechanically tools, etc.
with it, plus if you get separated, each vehicle has full range of supplies.
handle a weapon is a team member now and is going to have to grow up fast!
Have radios in each vehicle with backups.
If a large group, have scout and someone bringing up the rear, half-mile ahead and a quarter-mile behind.
Bugout*1 - Items to be prepared at house before you abandoned it.
showing up at your redoubt that you have to shoot.
from entering. On that note, do not lock the house, what's the purpose for doing so?
Unless your electronics were protected, they are now worthless, no value other than paperweights and boat anchors. Leave them!
A simple working flashlight has now become more valuable than your phone.
brakes both vehicles. Snapping or breaking your tow rope could ruin your entire escape plan.


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Babycakes: Tales of the City 4
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Babycakes: Tales of the City 4 quantity
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____________________Soon to be a Netflix series starring Ellen Page and Laura Linney . . .'As engaging a read as you are likely to encounter in many moons' The Times __________________The characters that filled the pages of the three earlier Tales of the City books with love and laughter are at it again.An ordinary house-husband and his ambitious wife discover there's more to making a baby than meets the eye. Unexpected help arrives in the form of a British monarch, a grieving gay neighbour, and an international ring of mail-order brides. Armistead Maupin has written a comedy of manners for our times.
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The Protectorate Government and the `Jewish Question,' 1939-1941
General Alois Eliáš headed the government of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia as of April 27, 1939. A leading member of the secret military organization "ON," he maintained contact with the Czechoslovak National Committee formed abroad and, later, with Dr. Eduard Beneš's government-in-exile in London. Eliáš's policy of retarding the implementation of Nazi policies and his "double game," as well as his tragic fate have no analogy: he was the only Prime Minister tried and executed by the Nazis for high treason (June 19, 1942). The article examines the stance of Eliáš's government against the background of the promulgation of the anti-Jewish laws in the years 1939-1941 and his intention to prevent the transfer of Jewish property to German hands in order to safeguard Czech national interests. While Eliáš's draft proposal, defining Jews by religion, was still being examined by the German authorities, the Reich Protector surprised the Czech government on June 21, 1939, by issuing his own comprehensive decree on Jewish property, based on the racial criteria of the Nuremberg Laws. Simultaneously the Reich Protector retained full authority and jurisdiction over the Jewish community. Eliáš's government also failed in its efforts to exempt a certain category of Jews and some privileged individuals from the law. He can, nevertheless, be credited with a meaningful symbolic act – refusing to be lured by the Germans into becoming the avant-garde of racism and accepting the New Order in Europe.
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The Law Commission's 2019/20 work programme
The Minister Responsible for the Law Commission, Hon Andrew Little, has recently requested that the Commission commence work on a review of succession law and a review of laws related to adults with impaired decision-making capacity in the 2019/20 year. The succession law project follows the completion of the review of the Property (Relationships) Act 1976 while the review of laws relating to adults with impaired decision-making capacity will follow the completion of the review of the Criminal Investigations (Bodily Samples) Act 1995. The Commission's work on class actions and litigation funding continues, having been reactivated earlier this year following the completion of the second review of the Evidence Act 2006. Terms of reference are being prepared for this project.


In 1989, when the Tolomeo Reading Floor Lamp by Artemide was given the Compasso d'Oro award for Italian industrial design it was credited with having achieved the perfect marriage between design and engineering that works together in total "sync" to materialize an idea and create the perfect object for industrial production.
Fixture: Height 65.75" , Extension Adjustable to 39.38"
Lower Arm plus Base: Height 38.13"
Upper Arm plus Shade: Length 29"
This is the perfect floor lamp to place on the side arm of our sectional, it's functional and stylish The LED light is great for reading in the evening. The best possible choice for us. Well packaged and simple to assemble.


Open only to NYU College of Arts and Science students, this accelerated dual-degree program allows you to complete your BA in English and MA in Teaching English in only five years. You'll receive a broad liberal arts education at the undergraduate level and a professional education at the graduate level.
Starting your junior or senior year as an undergraduate, you'll complete fieldwork at a New York City school and take coursework toward your master's degree, reducing the number of credits needed to complete the MA and saving both time and money. Graduates of this dual-degree program are eligible for New York State initial teaching certification for grades 7-12.
You will complete 100 hours of school-based fieldwork prior to student teaching, enabling you to become familiar with urban educational environments and develop classroom strategies that are innovative and appropriate for teaching today's students. You will complete a portion of the fieldwork during your junior or senior year.
The pivotal field experience of the program consists of two semesters of student teaching, one at the middle and one at the high school level. As a student teacher, you will be mentored by the cooperating teacher and NYU field supervisors, and gain increasing responsibility for teaching in a New York City public school.
College of Arts and Science students majoring in English are eligible for this dual-degree program. You will complete the first 6 credits of the 36-credit MA while you are still an undergraduate. These 6 credits are specified below.
During your junior or senior year, CAS English Majors complete 6 credits in education in place of other electives. These 6 credits count toward the BA degree in English from CAS.
Special note: Students must complete at least one semester of a foreign language at the college level prior to graduation from the MA program in Teaching English, Grades 7-12, Initial Certification.


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The changing skillsets and backgrounds of CEOs around the world have been highlighted in an analysis of more than 900 chief executives of major companies across 16 nations.
Conducted by global executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles, the new 'Route to the Top' report says that today's CEO is a different creature from the ones being appointed a decade ago.The analysis found that, among chief executives appointed over the course of last year, 78 per cent had previous C-suite experience, 73 per cent were appointed to the role internally, 64 per cent held advanced degrees, and the average age was 52.By comparison, among CEOs with 15 years or more in the role, 51 per cent had previous C-suite experience, 47 per cent were appointed internally, 46 per cent held advanced degrees and they were, on average, only 39 at the time of their appointments.
A changing CEO skillset
"The job of the CEO continues to expand and the skills required for the role today are quite different than a decade ago," says Jeff Sanders, co-managing partner of the global CEO and board practice at Heidrick & Struggles' Chicago HQ. "CEOs today continue to execute the managerial role of yesterday, maintaining day-to-day operations and obligations to shareholders."At the same time, they have to lead through constant digital and business disruption, serve as inspirational leaders, foster a diverse and inclusive workplace culture, maintain good relationships with multiple stakeholder groups and, increasingly, focus on long-term sustainability; in other words, today's CEOs have to accomplish everything their predecessors did, and much more."
Men still dominate the boardroom
One thing that has changed little, however, is gender parity with women CEOs remaining significantly under-represented and comprising only 5 per cent of CEOs globally, said the report.Women made up on 9 per cent of the CEOs appointed last year despite achieving higher education levels than their male counterparts, with 71 per cent of women chief executives holding advanced degrees compared to 58 per cent of male CEOs."Over the past several years, we have seen minimal change in the number of women represented in CEO positions globally," says Bonnie Gwin, co-managing partner of global CEO and board practice at Heidrick & Struggles."
What will the CEO of the future look like?
UK CEO pay in the spotlight as new law takes effect
Think Women: encouraging a workforce where women thrive
Ms Gwin adds, "As the CEO profile changes and more is expected from the role to meet future demands, so too must the face of the CEO. The pool for diverse CEO candidates – women, people of colour and individuals from under-represented backgrounds – remains small and more needs to be done to develop the pipeline of the future generation of CEOs."* The report examined 906 current chief executives of companies listed on leading share indexes in Australia, Belgium, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Read more news and articles by David Sapsted.


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