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<?php

				switch ($info[$consecutivo]['type_level_1']) {
					case 1:
						$type1 = 'Fleet';
						break;
					case 2:
						$type1 = 'Rental';
						break;
					case 99:
						$type1 = 'Other';
						break;
				}

				// create some HTML content
				$html = '
HYDRO-VAC INSPECTION REPORT

								Type:
' . $type1 . ' - Special Equipment
								Make:
' . $info[$consecutivo]['make'] . '
								Model:
' . $info[$consecutivo]['model'] . '
								Unit Number:
' . $info[$consecutivo]['unit_number'] . '
								Date:
' . $info[$consecutivo]['date_issue'] . '

';

				$html.= '

								Items to Check
								Pass
								Fail
								Items to Check
								Pass
								Fail

';

					$html.='

								ENGINE VEHICLE
								SERVICE

';

						$html.='

								Belts/Hoses	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["belt"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["belt"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}

						$html.='Brake pedal	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["brake"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["brake"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}
						$html.='
';

						$html.='

								Power Steering Fluid	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["power_steering"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["power_steering"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}

						$html.='Emergency brake	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["emergency_brake"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["emergency_brake"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}
						$html.='
';

						$html.='

								Oil Level	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["oil_level"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["oil_level"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}

						$html.='Gauges: Volt / Fuel / Temp / Oil	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["gauges"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["gauges"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}
						$html.='
';

						$html.='

								Coolant Level	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["coolant_level"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["coolant_level"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}

						$html.='Electrical Horn	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["horn"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["horn"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}
						$html.='
';

						$html.='

								Coolant/Oil Leaks	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["coolant_leaks"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["coolant_leaks"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}

						$html.='Seatbelt 	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["seatbelt"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["seatbelt"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}
						$html.='
';

						$html.='

								LIGHTS	';

						$html.='Drivers & Passenger Seat	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["seat"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["seat"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}
						$html.='
';

						$html.='

								Head Lamps	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["head_lamps"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["head_lamps"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}

						$html.='Insurance information	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["insurance"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["insurance"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}
						$html.='
';

						$html.='

								Hazard lights	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["hazard_lights"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["hazard_lights"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}

						$html.='Registration	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["registration"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["registration"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}
						$html.='
';

						$html.='

								Clearance Lights	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["clearance_lights"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["clearance_lights"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}

						$html.='Clean Interior  	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["clean_interior"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["clean_interior"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}
						$html.='
';

						$html.='

								Tail Lights	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["tail_lights"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["tail_lights"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}

						$html.='SAFETY 	';
						$html.='
';

						$html.='

								Work & Boom Lights	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["work_lights"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["work_lights"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}

						$html.='Fire Extinguisher	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["fire_extinguisher"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["fire_extinguisher"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}
						$html.='
';

						$html.='

								Turn signal lights	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["turn_signals"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["turn_signals"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}

						$html.='First Aid	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["first_aid"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["first_aid"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}
						$html.='
';

						$html.='

								Beacon Light:	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["beacon_lights"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["beacon_lights"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}

						$html.='Emergency Kit	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["emergency_kit"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["emergency_kit"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}
						$html.='
';

						$html.='

								EXTERIOR  	';

						$html.='Two Spill Kit 	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["spill_kit"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["spill_kit"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}
						$html.='
';

						$html.='

								Tires/Lug Nuts/Pressure	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["tires"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["tires"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}
						$html.='VAC SYSTEM  	';
						$html.='
';

						$html.='

								Glass (All) & Mirror(s) 	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["windows"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["windows"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}

						$html.='Inspect Main cartige left side	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["cartige"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["cartige"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}
						$html.='
';

						$html.='

								Clean Exterior	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["clean_exterior"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["clean_exterior"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}

						$html.='Pump diesel to lubricate blower	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["pump"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["pump"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}
						$html.='
';

						$html.='

								Wipers / Washers	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["wipers"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["wipers"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}

						$html.='Inspect wash hose	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["wash_hose"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["wash_hose"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}
						$html.='
';

						$html.='

								Backup Beeper	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["backup_beeper"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["backup_beeper"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}

						$html.='Pressure hose 	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["pressure_hose"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["pressure_hose"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}
						$html.='
';

						$html.='

								Driver and Passenger Door	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["door"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["door"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}

						$html.='	';

						$html.='
';

						$html.='

								Decals 	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["decals"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["decals"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}

						$html.='	';

						$html.='
';

					$html.='

								GREASING
								EXTRAS

';

						$html.='

								Stering Axle	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["stering_wheels"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["stering_wheels"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}

						$html.='Wash pump Oil	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["pump_oil"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["pump_oil"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}
						$html.='
';

						$html.='

								Drives Axle	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["drives"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["drives"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}

						$html.='Hydraulic oil cooler	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["hydraulic_oil"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["hydraulic_oil"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}
						$html.='
';

						$html.='

								Front drive shaft 	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["front_drive"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["front_drive"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}

						$html.='Oil level on lower gear case	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["gear_case"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["gear_case"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}
						$html.='
';

						$html.='

								Middle drive shaft	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["middle_drive"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["middle_drive"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}

						$html.='Hydraulic Levels	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["hydraulic"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["hydraulic"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}
						$html.='
';

						$html.='

								Back drive shaft	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["back_drive"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["back_drive"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}

						$html.='Wireless Remote Control	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["control"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["control"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}
						$html.='
';

						$html.='

								Transfer box shaft	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["transfer"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["transfer"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}

						$html.='Electrical Panel	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["panel"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["panel"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}
						$html.='
';

						$html.='

								Tail Gate	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["tail_gate"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["tail_gate"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}

						$html.='Foam Container	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["foam"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["foam"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}
						$html.='
';

						$html.='

								Boom (12 Greasers) Driver side	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["boom"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["boom"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}

						$html.='Heater	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["heater"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["heater"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}
						$html.='
';

						$html.='

								Lock bar tail gate	';
							if($info[$consecutivo]["lock_bar"] == 1){
								$html.= 'Y
										 	';
							}elseif($info[$consecutivo]["lock_bar"] == 0){
								$html.='
										 X	';
							}else{
								$html.='N/A
										 N/A	';
							}

						$html.='	';

						$html.='
';

						$html.='
';
						$html.= 'Comments
' . $info[$consecutivo]["comments"] . '	';
						$html.='
';

						$html.='
';

				if($info[$consecutivo]['signature']){
					//$urlSignature = base_url($info[$consecutivo]['signature']);
					$signature = '';
				}else{
					$signature = '-- There is no signature --';
				}
				$html.= '

';
				$html.= '

							Driver Name
							Signature

' . $info[$consecutivo]['name']. '
							' . $signature . '

';

echo $html;

?>


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This paper deals with a statistical model to define warning thresholds for shallow and deep-seated landslides in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. The study was performed in the framework of a joint research project between the Earth Sciences Department of Florence University and Emilia-Romagna Regional Meteorological Survey (ARPA-Meteo), with the aim of implementing a warning system for prediction of landslide risk in real time. The implemented model compares historical rainfall series with landslide mobilization, and has been tested in the Reno valley, Northern Apennines. The landslide typology in the study area includes earth slides caused by prolonged rainfall, usually consisting of reactivations of pre-existing dormant landslides (Bertolini & Pellegrini, 2001), as well as less frequent shallow landslides and earth flows. A careful analysis of the relationship between lithology and landslides has shown that the mobilizations take place prevalently in clayey soils (Benedetti, 2003). A broad and accurate database on landslide occurrence and daily rainfall was available for the investigated area. The rain gauge of Porretta Terme (mean annual rainfall slightly higher than 1200 mm per year) was selected as the representative rain gauge for the analysis because of both its central location and long series of daily rainfall data; furthermore, that station is able to transmit data in real time. Using landslide archives and rainfall data dating back to 1950, it is shown that landslide behaviour more or less corresponds to the periodic pattern of precipitation with a lag of approximately six months, which is considered to be related to the time required for the ground water level to reach a critical point for failure. The analysis was then continued with a statistical model concentrating on the pluviometric thresholds for landslides. The rainfall series were statistically analysed in order to find the limit between ordinary and anomalous events. The implemented model was based on cumulative daily rainfall with windows of variable length (from 1 to 365 days) sliding with daily steps from 1950 to 1996. For each cumulative length, the original cumulated values were transformed into the standard normal distribution, checking the fit with the original data (Goovaerts, 1997). Then, a standard deviation figure was associated with a corresponding value of the actual cumulative rainfall. Values were then selected to represent the probable thresholds between ordinary and anomalous conditions upon which alert curves were built. An alert system scheme was built by trial and error technique, using for calibration the 1950-1996 datasets of rainfall and landslides. The approach used for the definition of the warning procedure accounted for the typology and different behaviour of landslides. Regarding shallow landslides, cumulated rainfall from 1 to 10 days are analysed and compared with two alert curves, indicating a situation of medium and high risk in cases of exceeding the 1,5sigma and 2sigma curves, respectively. For deep-seated landslides, since they are affected by prolonged rainfall and eventually by a trigger event occurring usually at the end of rainy periods, the model takes into account both long and short period cumulated rainfall. Cumulated rainfall from 10 to 360 days is first examined. In cases of no overcoming of the 1,5sigma alert curve, the risk is considered at the ordinary level. Otherwise, the cumulated rainfall from 1 to 5 days before the date of analysis was considered. In case of overcoming of the 1sigma alert curve, the model indicates a high-risk situation; otherwise, a condition of medium risk is issued. Preliminary results obtained for the calibration period (1950-1996) indicated that in 81% of days with landslides the antecedent rainfall curve exceeded one of the warning threshold curves: for most of them (43%) the model prompted a high level of risk, whereas in 38% of cases a condition of medium risk was pointed out. The model was only unable to predict less than 19% of the mobilizations. The model was successively tested on an independent dataset, constituted by rainfall data and landslide mobilizations recorded in a 3-month period (September-December 2002) within the study area. Results of this validation phase indicated a similar model performance, in terms of relationship between warning level and landslide occurrence, but highlighted also a high number of false alarms, thus limiting its applicability for civil protection purposes.


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Red Dwarf X Now Filming, More Set Video And Live Audience Reports
By Josh Tyler | 9 years ago
As we told you a few weeks ago here, Red Dwarf is coming back to television. New episodes will air in the UK on Dave in 2012 and they actually started shooting them shortly before the Christmas holidays.
That's right in late December audiences lined up to watch the first live recordings of Red Dwarf episodes in a whopping 13 years. It's been a long time. Here's what the scene was like that night on December 16th…
Obviously the praise from this particular crowd isn't exactly unbiased, but their enthusiasm for what they saw is encouraging.
A report from the set filed by the Red Dwarf official site was similarly effusive in its praise, while offering a few hints as to what we might expect from the show after it's been gone this long. They claim from what they saw, "Red Dwarf X is a series refreshed and revitalised, looking with trademark sharpness and depth to the future as much as to the past."
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Q: Perturbation theory in math and quantum mechanics This question is about my lets say lack of understanding. I can not make the connection between what i study and what i saw in lectures.
For example in our QM lectures we saw perturbation theory like this
$$ H_0 |n_0\rangle=E_0^{(n)}|n_0\rangle $$
where $E_0^{(n)}$ are eigenvalues and $|n_0\rangle$ are eigenvectors of operator $H_0$.(Of course there are some other conditions like non-degeneracy etc but it doesn't matter for my question.) then we perturb it like this
$$ (H_0+ \lambda V) |n\rangle=E_n|n\rangle$$
This is just standart perturbation theory in any physics book or (first) quantum mechanics lecture.
But i study quantum mechanics and related mathematical topics in more rigorous manner as much as i can. Actually from these two books "Teschl G. - Mathematical methods in quantum mechanics" and "Konrad Schmüdgen (auth.) - Unbounded Self-adjoint Operators on Hilbert Space".
In these books they talk about Kato-Rellich theorem, Weyl theorem, KLMN theorem, Aronszajn–Donoghue Theory of Rank One Perturbations etc. but i cannot connect my knowledge from these "perturbation theory" to other "perturbation theory". I just cannot connect them i tried to look at some other books (Of course i just skim over them) but cannot find the connection. If someone is able to share or point me to this wonderful knowledge i would be very grateful.
Thanks in advance for your answers

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My experiences conducting interviews with the media pale in comparison with "big name" academics. For those of you who are just beginning to promote materials in the popular press, however, my experiences may be practical and applicable. What follows are a few things I have learned about working with the media.
The posting below is a look at do's and don'ts for faculty who participate radio and television interviews. The article by Tim Delaney* appears in the September/October, 2010, Volume 96, Number 5, Online Only issue of Academe, a publication of the American Association of University Professors http://www.aaup.org/aaup American Association of University Professors, 1133 Nineteenth Street, NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20036. ©2010 AAUP. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission.
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Many faculty members who read Academe have no doubt conducted interviews with the media, sharing their expertise on a variety of topics. Early in my academic career, I appeared occasionally on local TV and radio programs and was interviewed in a few dozen newspapers on a variety of topics.
During the past four years my visibility has increased: I have conducted numerous radio interviews nationwide and throughout Canada, appeared on television a little more frequently, and now have book signings.
What changed? I started writing trade books instead of textbooks or academic books.
Textbooks rarely appeal to a mass audience. So why would the media want to interview an author of a "typical" textbook? Sure, textbooks are informative and serve their purpose—in the academic world. But morning radio hosts are unlikely to invite you on their show to discuss theories and concepts. And Oprah is unlikely to have the author of an introductory textbook in sociology on her show.
The publication in 2006 of my book on the TV show Seinfeld is what grabbed the media's attention. I was now a part of popular culture. My book on The Simpsons followed in 2008. By this time I had a number of radio stations that regularly interviewed me and looked forward to talking to me about future projects. I have since published two other trade books: Shameful Behaviors, which argues that there is a growing culture of shamelessness in society, and Sports: Why People Love Them! (co-authored with Tim Madigan), which discusses the positive side of sports.
My experiences conducting interviews with the media pale in comparison with "big name" academics. For those of you who are just beginning to promote materials in the popular press, however, my experiences may be practical and applicable. What follows are a few things I have learned about working with the media.
Do be prepared for bad phone connections and not being able to hear some of the radio hosts (and their questions). Don't yell into the phone to compensate. I have conducted numerous interviews with a radio station in Geneva, New York, and I can never hear the host. When the interview is finished, my ear hurts from pressing the receiver so hard against it.
If you are doing a radio or television interview by phone, don't use a cell phone. Use a land line. The latter are less prone to static and to dropping the connection.
Although newspaper reporters want an immediate interview, don't be surprised that radio interviews may be scheduled weeks in advance. Do keep track of your scheduled interviews. Bear in mind that DJs and TV anchors begin promoting their scheduled interviews on the air before their guests go on. If you are not there to take the call, or do not show up in the studio on time, you may be subject to their on-air disdain. And they will hesitate to contact you in the future.
Don't get into a heated battle with TV and radio hosts, as they can keep slamming you on the air after the interview. Maintain your integrity, of course, but do so politely. The hosts control nearly everything during the interview process. They can put you on "delay" or turn off your feed. About the only thing you can control is walking off the set or hanging up the phone. But again, the hosts can slam you for doing that.
Don't correct the host. Do politely state the correct name of your book sometime shortly afterward by incorporating it into your answer to their next question.
Do talk energetically. Radio and TV hosts want you to entertain, inform, and hold the attention of the audience. Don't use the monotone voice that some professors unwisely adopt in the classroom.
Be prepared for late calls from hosts. Be patient. A 7:00 a.m. scheduled call may not arrive until 7:10 a.m. or 7:14 a.m. Don't blow off the interview because the journalist or radio host called late. If you are doing multiple interviews in one day, be sure to schedule them far enough apart to allow for a tardy early interview. You may be helping hosts out by serving as a guest on their show, but they are promoting your book or your cause.
Do have your own Web site or Twitter account. Hosts will want to direct members of their audience to your site so they can learn more about you and even buy your book. You can use your Web site or a Twitter account to post your scheduled upcoming interviews. Don't be shy about briefly plugging your site at the end of the interview.
Do be prepared to have scheduled interviews cancelled or postponed. The host may call in sick that day, or something unexpected may occur, such as a local disaster or emergency, that changes the focus of that media outlet for the day.
If you are being interviewed by a "morning team" radio show, do be prepared for numerous people speaking at the same time and being confused as to when you are expected to respond. Be prepared for shallow conversations. Don't be surprised if they seem to forget about you. If you are being interviewed by one host, especially on a news show, you can expect a more in-depth analysis and discussion of your book.
Do your homework. Find out something about the host and the show you are going to be on. This can be invaluable. Don't be afraid to adjust some of your comments based on the audience.
Do thank the host for having you as a guest. And be sure to send a follow-up "thank you" message to your interviewer. It makes a difference for future interviews.
This list of "do's" and "don'ts" represents a sampling of my past experiences as an interview subject of the mass media. I hope this list helps my fellow academics with little or no experience being interviewed on live TV or radio. Like teaching and every new class, each interview has its own unique flavor. Not everyone is comfortable doing media interviews. If you choose to put yourself "out there" and become a part of the popular culture, make sure you are up to the task. Teaching in class and talking on live radio and television are two entirely different things. If you have a certain personality, however, and you are trying to promote your discipline, school, department, or self, try it. You may have as much fun with it as I do.
* Tim Delaney is an associate professor and chair of sociology at the State University of New York at Oswego. He has published numerous books, including Seinology: The Sociology of Seinfeld (2006). A new work, Connecting Sociology to Our Lives, is forthcoming in 2011. His e-mail is tim.delaney@oswego.edu.


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UK Mail makes a one-in-a-billion delivery
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UK Mail, a part of the Business Post Group, has delivered its one billionth mail item.
UK Mail began trading in May 2004, with its first customer Powergen. Subsequently the billionth letter was presented to Powergen's Graham Hunt, by UK Mail's managing director, Steve Patrick.
UK Mail has been expanding its unsorted mail services in the last nine months with the latest letter sorting equipment in sites at; Runcorn, Edinburgh, Leeds, Birmingham, Greenford and Croydon.
Patrick said: "UK Mail's continued and rising investment in new sort centres has extended postal choice to thousands and thousands of businesses of varying sizes across the UK. UK Mail intends to continue this programme of expansion over the next twelve months. Based on current volumes, which equate to well over one billion a year, UK's Mail celebration of its second billion is fast approaching."
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Afghanistan > Stunted development
Stunted development
The only ones that seem convinced of the efficacy of international aid to Afghanistan are the aid agencies themselves.
Ahmed Dawi | Apr 01, 2009
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During the last seven years, the US and the international donor community have spent some USD 15 to 31 billion on rebuilding, development and democratisation activities in Afghanistan. Today, the tangible result of this work seems to be the population of some nine million citizens suffering acute food insecurity, and millions of others facing widespread violence, endemic corruption and political anarchy. When asked about the progress made in the past several years, President Hamid Karzai and his Western backers revert to what seems to be a pre-recorded mantra: five million refugees have returned home; over five million children now go to school; an enlightened constitution has been enacted; and elections have taken place, allowing democracy to take root. Meanwhile, few politicians, if any, like to talk about the significant problems that have cropped up in the disbursement of international aid, nor about the widespread corruption and misuse of these funds.
The NGO business has boomed in post-Taliban Afghanistan, greased by the significant inflow of aid money. Hundreds of Afghan and international organisations currently operate in the country, with most of the latter restricting their work to the north and central regions due to the lack of security elsewhere. Yet for all of these eyes ostensibly on the ground, there remain large gaps in basic knowledge. To begin with, neither Kabul nor any one of the Western capitals has a very good idea of how many people actually live in Afghanistan. The lack of a reliable census – due to insecurity and deficiency in funding and other technical support – has not only adversely impacted on development policies (particularly in the planning phases), but also creates confusion in implementation and uncertainty at the national and local levels. Yet the government and the aid agencies nonetheless continue to claim to have improved living conditions for all. Such self-congratulation seems inappropriate because incomplete data makes it impossible to judge the scope and depth of the impact of aid money.
Particularly disturbing of late has been the trend of bringing more international workers to the already inflated donor-agency circuit in Kabul, even as these very organisations have lost access to almost half of the country. For instance, in 2009 the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) is set to hire 2000 additional well-paid international staffers, which is a massive number by any measure. In December of last year, this writer asked Kai Eide, special representative of the UN secretary-general for Afghanistan, about the benefit of employing so many more non-Afghans to work from fortified compounds in Kabul. His response – that it is Afghan staffers, not internationals, that constitute a "tremendous asset" – does not explain his own organisation's habits.
Inequality between local and international staffers is inherent in the UN system. Apart from the massive security expenditure needed for foreign workers (armoured vehicles, armed escorts), an 'international' earns an average of ten times more than does a locally national worker. And the problem is far from limited to the UN system. From 2002 to 2007, more than USD 380 million was spent on technical-assistance activities, meaning the recruitment of advisors to build the capacity of Afghans in various areas. During that period, donors have also paid more than USD 150 million to the United Nations Human Air Service (UNHAS), a private air-service provider that flies international staffers from the UN and other organisations in and out of Afghanistan, most to Islamabad for international connections. Tellingly, none of these funders has offered support to protect Ariana, Afghanistan's only national airline, from economic collapse.
The parallels with other local aid organisations are not only striking, but dangerous. The Afghan Red Crescent Society and the National Disasters Management Authority – two national institutions responsible for disaster and emergency management – have almost no budget with which either to build capacity or deliver services (USD 2 million and less than USD 1 million annually, respectively). The dozens of foreign humanitarian agencies based in Kabul, meanwhile, have a kitty of more than USD 2 billion for 2009, but very little of this money actually stays in the country. If last year is any indicator, according to the Kabul-based Integrity Watch Afghanistan (IWA), up to 90 percent of these funds will be spent on imported products and services, bypassing equivalent local options. IWA notes that the vast majority of this aid dispersed in the country flows directly back to foreign companies, governments and individuals. Donors, including the UN and the US, have conceded to huge shortcomings in the Afghan aid efforts, with officials admitting to inefficiency, mismanagement, corruption and lack of coordination among the numerous aid actors.
Outside the realm of international aid, too, corruption levels remain extremely high, particularly within the government itself. It is well-known that the Karzai government is mired in malfeasance, even while failing to create meaningful institutional instruments with which to monitor aid delivery. As a result, the poor performance of aid agencies, including the pervasive mismanagement and corruption, elicits next to no response from the national authorities. To date, no international aid organisation has been held accountable by the administration – including the many UN agencies operating in the country, which have piped in over USD 3 billion since 2003. Integrity Watch Afghanistan estimates that, ultimately, some 30 to 50 percent of aid money in Afghanistan has simply been wasted.
There appears to be more than inefficiency at work, however. In the experiences of this writer, the foreign development and humanitarian workers that have descended on Kabul and elsewhere since 2002 bear uncomfortable similarities to greedy entrepreneurs in search of a quick buck. Truth be told, and exceptions excluded, they demonstrate little desire to make fundamental, positive changes for Afghans and the country. A visitor at a UN 'heads of agencies' weekly meeting will hear little more than heated debates on rest-and-recuperation packages for international staffers and discussions on importing armoured vehicles. Any talk on actual work will be peppered with institutional jargon of those who see Afghanistan as a career and income opportunity more than anything else. Then again, attend the weekly meeting of the council of ministers, and you will hear President Karzai fighting his vice-presidents and ministers over who is and who is not to be considered a foreign stooge.
Loss of neutrality
In recent times, diplomats have boasted about NATO's 'new warfare' modality, which has turned soldiers into diplomats and development experts in addition to their primary role as fighters. While this may sound good on paper, this practice has in fact proved disastrous in Afghanistan. The space in which humanitarian workers are able to freely operate and assist vulnerable communities has been virtually lost, and international humanitarian laws have been put on hold. The UN and other international aid agencies have faced increasing setbacks in their ability to reach and assist vulnerable communities across the impoverished country, particularly in the volatile southern, eastern and central provinces.
Indeed, there is a strong causality between soldiers performing development works and aid workers losing access. The fact is, US and NATO forces are currently running over two dozen so-called Provincial Reconstruction Teams, which undertake a significant amount of development and humanitarian activities, in addition to their military activities. Most of this engagement is part of the foreign forces' agenda to 'win hearts and minds'. Yet this work has been widely criticised by independent aid agencies as disorganised, biased and politically motivated. For the past several decades, in Afghanistan more than anywhere else, the general consensus has held that humanitarian assistance must be neutral and be seen to be neutral. According to international humanitarian practice, the military should only be used in humanitarian operations as a last resort, and when there is no civilian alternative. In Afghanistan, that is hardly the case, and the foreign militaries should have stayed out of development to allow developmental institutions to grow.
Simultaneous with the increase in military involvement in aid delivery, levels of violence in the country have spiked. Throughout all the decades of turmoil and conflict, aid workers in Afghanistan were nearly always able to access needy people. Against such a backdrop, the statistics for 2008 alone are as depressing as they are angering: dozens of aid workers killed and abducted, and hundreds of tonnes of food aid looted by insurgent groups. In a country in which women were traditionally immune from physical violence, three Afghan female staff members from the International Rescue Committee were assassinated in broad daylight in central Logar province in August 2008. Meanwhile, the UN World Food Programme, which feeds millions of hungry people, lost over 1200 tonnes of food aid in attacks on clearly marked convoys.
Civil-military lines have clearly become dangerously blurred. The neutrality of humanitarian work has been lost due to the barbarism of the Taliban, and by the intentional intrusion of NATO and US forces. What should instead be happening is for the armed forces to actively work to create conducive grounds for civilian aid workers to reach out to vulnerable communities. When militaries step into civilian aid work and marginalise the humanitarian and development agencies, the independence and neutrality of the aid action comes under question. Armed opposition groups that fail to distinguish between independent aid workers and military actors – both of whom work in the same terrain – have taken to indiscriminatingly attacking both. This is what is happening in Afghanistan today.
Even the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, which coordinates the activities of all 17 UN agencies, has become a highly biased body. It has acted more as a US/NATO political mission, and served its purpose and bidding to legitimise the Karzai government's ineptitude. Examples abound to prove the point. UNAMA should have strived against the odds to criticise atrocities committed by US/NATO forces against Afghan civilians. It has often issued statements offering rigid support to the policies adopted by the Karzai government and his allies, in which it has gambled with its neutrality. UNAMA has repeatedly labelled the insurgents as 'terrorists', and refused to engage in meaningful negotiation with them to end the conflict. And it has tacitly approved of President Karzai's unwillingness to put on trial and punish perpetrators of past crimes against humanity.
It is always easy to highlight shortcomings, and it is undeniable that President Karzai has been the global scapegoat for Afghanistan's failure in the post-2002 period. His failings as a leader are real, and he shares in the blame for much of the country's ills. However, there is also the reality that the president is only a nominal national leader; it would be more accurate to describe him as the isolated, weak and inexperienced mayor of Kabul. President Karzai is certainly responsible for the current chaos in Afghanistan, but so too are the UN, the US, NATO and other international military and civilian actors, in addition to the insurgents, warlords, criminal actors and other members of the government itself – in Afghanistan, the list of the culpable seems to be only getting longer.
As Washington, DC and the European capitals, along with the Afghan people, ponder a replacement for President Hamid Karzai, they must also rectify their own mistakes and work out a new comprehensive approach. Afghanistan's requirements for success are relatively simple: a strong and representative leader, unwavering and unconditional US commitment, more development aid and efficient governance, in which the government uses force and reward as needed. For the sake of Afghanistan's future, the foreign military must get out of development.
Ahmed Dawi
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If the black smoke over the Paris skyline and charred cars and buildings along the Champs-Elysees which have become characteristic of France's increasingly violent Yellow Vest protests over the past months weren't alarming enough, things look to get much worse as the government prepares to escalate.
In an effort to clamp down on the unraveling security situation, which has lately seen banks and residential buildings torched, and luxury stores and restaurants vandalized and destroyed, the French authorities have announced the deployment of anti-terrorism military forces in order to protect and secure public buildings.
Following the worsening protest situation of the past weekend (after a brief lull at the end of President Macron's failed 'great debate' initiative which pushed town halls to air grievances), which nearly turned deadly for random civilians caught in the mayhem of rioters clashing with police, the government will redirect counter-terror troops from Opération Sentinelle to focus on Yellow Vest related threats.
Opération Sentinelle began after the January 2015 Île-de-France attacks (the series of al-Qaeda linked terrorist acts that began with the Charlie Hebdo shooting) and resulted in some 10,000 soldiers and 4,700 police and gendarmes deployed at sensitive sites and public buildings across the country.
According to Bloomberg, French authorities have sought to calm the obvious and immediate fears raised that the move constitutes the government taking a full martial law approach of sending the military against its own people.
Following a weekly cabinet meeting on Wednesday, government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux pointed to the "new forms of violence" Saturday which he said justifies deploying the counter-terror forces.
"After seeing the new forms of violence Saturday, emergency measures will be taken to reinforce the reaction of the security forces," Griveaux said. He added this is to include "the reinforced mobilization of Sentinelle to protect official building and other fixed positions in the capital."
"Individuals have decided to attack democracy and its symbols," Griveaux said further.
#Paris Scenes of chaos on the #ChampsElysées with fires in progress, several shops completely destroyed, … #GiletsJaunes #Acte18 #ActeXVIII #Yellowvests #France #Macron pic.twitter.com/oS7x8Rx5GR
— nonouzi (@Gerrrty) 16 March 2019
And noting the different nature of the latest unrest compared to that of months ago when the demonstrations first began in November, he asserted:
These are not demonstrators but rioters, and the distinction is very different. Demonstrations are protected by the law; rioting is not.
Regular police forces will still "concentrate on crowd control, along with maintaining law and order," Griveaux said, which presumably means the Sentinelle could respond to more extreme situations that unfold like acts of rioting, burning, and vandalism.
Macron's government has lately appeared powerless as shocking and embarrassing (for security forces) images of the iconic Champs-Elysees looking like a bombed out war zone have been beamed around the world.
The deployment of troops is intended to allow riot police to engage more aggressively with the far-left and far-right groups as well as anarchists who have been blamed for much of the violence.
But some police unions have warned that maintaining law and order was not the role of a soldier.
"I'm worried about how they'll respond in case of attack," said Philippe Capon of the Unsa-Police union. — AFP
But it now appears Macron is ever more ready to try a "gloves off" approach in his deploying counter-terror military forces against what Paris officials have described as far-left "black bloc" activists or ultra-radicals and anarchists who merely seek as much destruction as possible.
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Rapid7 on Friday announced the release of Metasploit 5.0. The latest major version of the popular penetration testing framework introduces several new important features, improved performance, and its developers say it should be easier to use.
According to Rapid7, Metasploit 5.0 brings significant changes in terms of database and automation APIs, improving the way the platform interacts with data and other tools. Metasploit has been using the PostgreSQL database system, but the latest version also allows users to run the database as a RESTful service, enabling interaction with Metasploit consoles and external tools.
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Another significant improvement in Metasploit 5.0 is related to evasion modules and libraries. Penetration testers can now generate their own evasion modules more easily using the C programming language.
The latest version also enables the execution of an exploit module against multiple targets at a time.
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"Nous" is the Greek word for mind, or intellect. It also puns nicely with the French for "us." As in, come eat with us—food cooked from the heart, with the spirit of rigorous inquiry.
Nous is the Greek word for mind, or intellect. It also puns nicely with the French for "us". As in, come eat with us—food cooked from the heart, with the spirit of rigorous inquiry.
This year, Nous is taking Hyde Park apartment cooking to its limit. We've experimented heavily with fermenting, pickling, and aging foods—techniques that, outside of initial prep work, require very little labor. We aim to maximize convenience without sacrificing quality.
We'll walk you through the fruits of our November 5 pop-up dinner, specifically our kimchi and pork belly. It's a combination familiar to Korean culture, and with good reason: The tart, funky kimchi cuts the richness of the pork belly, while the savory-sweet meat mellows out the heat of the kimchi.
The goal with the following recipes is for you to develop comfort and intuition with food over time. Ingredient amounts are left ambiguous as the recipes are flexible: As you prepare them (hopefully over and over!) you'll develop a sense for what the dish should look, smell, and even sound like at each stage. We think of home cooking as a self-guided process of discovery—an approach far more versatile and useful than religiously following cookbooks.
Cooking by the season means affordability. Kale is in season, and similar to other tough greens (think mustard greens, collard greens, and the like); its fibers need to be broken down, either through prolonged heating or—as we explore here—fermentation. The key here is to salt the kale after briefly boiling it, so that the excess water may be drained off. Don't be impatient, or else you'll get a soupy, sriracha-y, veggie mess.
Only two elements of this recipe require work: blanching the kale and preparing the fermentation paste. Blanching is briefly submerging your produce into boiling water to break down fibers and kill any bacteria that washing under cold water did not rinse away. We recommend a minimum of five seconds and a maximum of 30 seconds to blanch. Transfer the blanched kale onto ice to stop the residual heat from overcooking. Heavily salt the kale and set aside for anywhere from thirty minutes to a few hours—you'll want to wring out much of the excess water so that the finished kimchi is crisp. Rinse off the excess salt and give the leaves one last squeeze.
Tip: the longer the blanch, the more tender the kale.
Using a large bowl, mix sriracha, fish sauce, sugar, and salt until it forms a paste. Taste often, adjusting according to preference. You should have enough to generously cover the kale. We also added minced garlic, black radish, and green onions (cut into thin slices) for added flavor and crunch.
Tip: Sriracha and fish sauce kickstart the fermentation: The more you add, the faster the kimchi will pickle. Adding sugar will also accelerate the fermentation process.
Tip: Black radish and green onions release water, which helps thin out the fermentation paste. Add sparingly (or not)!
Tightly pack the solids into airtight jars. You want to leave as little air in the container as possible—add brine from the bottom of the bowl that you vigorously mixed the kale with the fermentation paste in, if needed. Be careful if you're using a glass container: Fermentation creates carbon dioxide gas thanks to the *lactobacillus* bacteria. Open the container every other day to release built-up gases. Let sit in the fridge for at least a week.
Tip: Fermentation produces the sour, funky taste of a pickle. Keeping the kimchi fermenting for longer accentuates those flavors.
When I heard that pork belly was high in supply and only $3.99 to $4.99 a pound, I jumped on the opportunity. It is tricky to cook, with alternating layers of tough flesh and fat. We want to a) render out as much fat as possible and b) keep the flesh tender, but supple. The key here is to cook the pork twice: first at a lower temperature to render the fat, then at a higher temperature to crisp the skin. We also used hoisin sauce to flavor the pork, although any other sweet sauce works just as well (sorry not sorry, ranch).
This recipe leaves most of the heavy lifting to the oven, so focus on preparing the skin and adjusting the temperature. Score the skin of the belly with a knife, cutting to just above the flesh so the fat has more surface area to render. Cut across the entire surface of the pork belly in one direction, then repeat at a perpendicular angle: Your pork should have a nice, even surface grid. Salt generously.
Tip: Salting the skin releases water, which helps the belly crisp up better in the oven. For best results, leave pork in fridge—uncovered—overnight after salting and patting dry with paper towel.
Bake the pork belly skin-side up at 250–300F for two hours first. (Remember to preheat the oven!) Then, crank up the temperature to 450–500F to crisp and color the skin.
Cut the pork belly into half-inch slices. Coat slices thinly in sauce, shaking off the excess. In a very hot pan, flash sear both sides of the pork belly in oil, 15–30 seconds each. You should hear an immediate, aggressive sizzle: The goal is to caramelize the sugar in the sauce and brown the inside of the meat.
Tip: Cutting the pork belly against the grain yields a tender cut of meat that doesn't fall apart.
Tip: Add a spritz of lime juice or ponzu sauce in the pan while searing to add a refreshing, acidic note—this cuts down the richness of the pork.


Writing for business is truly an art form if the reader is able to understand and act upon what is being communicated. This course will develop the participant's business writing skills within the parameters of well researched communication theory.
An essential part of communication is being able to report on what you observed or researched while putting it into a practical readable format for the targeted audience to understand and act on. While going back to the core of written communication we take the participants through the report writing process from concept to presentation while keeping in mind the 5 Ways of good business writing.
Anyone who needs to write reports for work.
This course is designed for people who want to polish their skills and improve their professional image. Information is presented in a humorous, relaxed style that cuts to the heart of today's eti- quette concerns. Hands-on activities will be used to reinforce learning points and represent diverse workplace cultures.
Professionals from any discipline or level.
The basis of this personal development course is to show techniques that connect us to our conscious and subconscious minds more easily; resulting in improved brain function, memory retention and retrieval while at the same time enriching our human potential.
In this course participants will aim to unearth their key talents that can turn into new strengths or enhance existing ones with the theory that anyone can work around their 'weakness' by playing to their strengths, while enriching their lives in interpersonal and professional relationships.
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Finally the most awaited Express Entry Draw for the month of October is complete. This draw has seen a dramatic increase in the number of Invitations issued by CIC. Canada have issued a total of 1518 ITA's for this draw, however the CRS score increased when compared to the previous draw.
When compared with the last draw, the CRS has been increased to 484, as the earlier draw picked applicants with the score of 483 and above. But the change is the number of invitations issued is a big relief for the aspirants looking to migrate Canada. Invitations issued for the last draw was 1288, this draw even the score increased the number of Invitations issued are 1518.
This draw shows the increasing requirement of foreign employees in Canada. If this trend continues then it not so long that we see the CRS coming down drastically and increase in ITA's issued to apply for Permanent Residency visa's, as this is the highest number of invitations issued by Canada from past 10 months. Good news can be expected in the coming days from Canada for all around the globe aspiring to migrate to Canada.


Voting on stuff online is so much fun. I decided to do my own little poll right here.
Which H bird is your favorite?
So, I have to know why it is called the H Bird. I was looking for a hidden H but I couldn't find it.
Um, I feel kind of stupid. I saw the H when I looked again. I miss my brain cells.
April- you're not alone! Josh didn't see it either.


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Q: Does this circuit work to switch a load with a microcontroller? I want to create a circuit to switch loads (e.g.: led lights).
Following requirements have to be met:

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*the load should keep it's state when the microcontroller goes to sleep/powers off

*the load could have a different power source (e.g.: 12V)

*the circuit should draw as less power as possible because it is powered by battery

I came up with following idea:

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*use a 555 timer in bistable mode to keep the state in deep sleep

*use a irlz44n mosfet to switch the load

This is how my circuit looks right now:

Explanation of pins:

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*VCC will be 3.3V of my microcontroller (esp32)

*GND is shared between 3.3V and GND of Load

*TRG is connected to microcontroller GPIO to switch power on

*RST is connected to microcontroller GPIO to switch power off

*Load is connected to Power Source and load-components (e.g. LEDs)

Questions:

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*does this circuit work as expected

*do i need a gate resistor?

*do i need a gate source resistor? when i tired the mosfet standalone the output toggled when small voltages where applied (e.g. touching the pins) but i switched it with the timer this did not happen anymore

*are the components chosen wisely?

*how could i modify this to replace the LOAD pin with VIN and VOUT which is then connected to the load components?

A: Your circuit isn't great. You need gate drive resistors, and mostly, the 555 is not the right chip if you want a latch, and it's painful when you need many.
So, instead, you could, if you have basic logic gates lying around, use a buffer¹  with its output fed back through a large resistor to its input, and the same input is connected to your microcontroller pin.
This assumes your microcontroller lets its outputs float when off. Pay attention to not accidentally back-feed the microcontroller this way!
You can, however, just buy Latches or Flipflops, depending on whether you want to have a clock input at which the output changes (ff) or not (latch).
For 0.40€ apiece for an octal latch, your 555 solution is way more complex and expensive - not only do you need the 555, you also need two MCU outputs per output; with an octal D-latch, you can work with 1 MCU GPIO per output, and one "latch enable" for all outputs combined. Other options involve a serial-in, parallel-out shift register (which means you can have as many outputs you want with 3 GPIOs), or, honestly:
Don't use an external latch at all. Your microcontroller has that integrated.
Simply never shut off your microcontroller, as if you're switching any significant load, then the current consumption of an idling or sleeping (fix your sleep mode, your MCU can do that, "I haven't found the way to use it properly" is not a good excuse!) MCU will not matter at all. E.g. your LED uses 50 mA. Your ESP32 in "light sleep mode" preserves its output states and uses 0.8 mA (datasheet, Table 6 on page 31), so 1.6% of the overall power. Forget about using external latching! You'll never notice the difference in battery lifetime!
You can even go to ESP32's deep sleep mode (espressif idf's gpio_hold_en(YOUR_GPIO); gpio_deep_sleep_hold_en(); allows you to do retain state, according to documentation), and then you're down in the microampere range – i.e. you could operate from a coin cell for years. So, seriously, you need none of this, but to figure out your software!
Overall recommendation

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*Add the ability to go into deep sleep mode to your firmware. The ESP framework by espressif does make that possible, and it allows the outputs to hold state while the microcontroller consumes < 100 µA.

*Use logic-level MOSFETs. Your choice of MOSFET isn't great, you need something that fully turns on at 3.3 V.

*Connect the gate of your MOSFET directly to your ESP32, through a gate resistor (quite possibly in the kΩ range)

*Add a linear regulator to 3.3V (and Schottky diodes to avoid backfeeding, to both your battery and the regulators output) from your LED power source. So, as long as your LEDs have power, you don't need to worry about the MCU not having power to remain in a light or deep sleep mode.

*Since you say this is battery-powered, review your overall power system design. Chances are you really only need one power source – for your LEDs, since they are the dominant consumer of power. If you've got a battery that powers these, chances are you have a switch-mode power supply already; make sure you're not doing something "interesting" like stepping up voltages (e.g. to 5V) to then linearly waste a lot of power again – the ESP32 needs no more than 3.3 V of VCC; every voltage above that just gets converted to heat internally.
Maybe you can even just completely shut down everything while that power source is not available – after all, nothing to light up without! In that case, store the output state you have in nonvolatile memory (the ESP32 comes with some) and restore on power-on; the user will never even know the ESP32 reset in between!

¹ alternatively: an AND where you tied one input to VCC, or an OR or XNOR where you tied one input to GND


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Political Op-Eds Social Commentary
Bush's war on terror is over
Peter Bergen, CNN National Security Analyst
Updated 2:05 PM EDT, Sun May 26, 2013
Terrorism has been in the news with Boston bombing and killing of UK soldier in the street
Peter Bergen says despite recent acts, the enemy behind 9/11 has been defeated
He says President Obama signaled he wants Bush's endless war on terror to end
Bergen: Key part of Obama speech was idea that America's perpetual war footing should end
Editor's Note: Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst, a director at the New America Foundation and the author of "Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for bin Laden – From 9/11 to Abbottabad," the basis for the HBO documentary "Manhunt" that will be shown on CNN at 9 p.m. ET Monday.
In the past few weeks, we've seen a British soldier hacked to death with a meat cleaver on the streets of London and bombers blowing up spectators at the Boston Marathon.
On the surface, terrorism is alive and well.
So how should the United States react to these continuing threats?
PHOTO: Tim Hetherington for CNN
For the first time on Thursday, President Obama laid out the full scope of his proposed counterterrorism strategy, and it boiled down to this: George W. Bush's endless war on terror is over.
And that's appropriate, since the enemy Bush went to war with after September 11 has largely been defeated.
Obama's speech at the National Defense University in Washington was designed to lay the political groundwork to wind down America's longest war, the war that began when al Qaeda destroyed the World Trade Center and a wing of the Pentagon 12 years ago.
Thursday's speech was the first time Obama had delivered an overarching framework for how to conceptualize the conflict that has defined U.S. national security policy since 9/11.
Other speeches by Obama have focused on aspects of that conflict, such as Guantanamo and the Afghan war. But no speech has made such an expansive examination of the war against al Qaeda and its allies in all its manifestations, from drone strikes to detention policies to a clear-eyed assessment of the scope of the threats posed by al Qaeda and its affiliates, as well as by those "homegrown" extremists who attacked the Boston Marathon in April.
Obama defends secret drone program
King: Obama's tone was wrong
President Obama interrupted by heckler
CNN Explains: Drones
Much of the coverage of the speech has centered on the measures the president outlined to impose greater constraints on CIA drone strikes and to try to hasten the eventual closing of Guantanamo.
But the most significant aspect of the speech was the president's case that the "perpetual wartime footing" and "boundless war on terror" that has permeated so much of American life since 9/11 should come to an end.
Obama argued that the time has come to redefine the kind of conflict that the United States is engaged in: "We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us."
This is why the president focused part of his speech on a discussion of the seemingly arcane Authorization for the Use of Military Force that Congress passed days after 9/11 and that gave Bush the authority to go to war in Afghanistan against al Qaeda and its Taliban allies.
Few, if any, in Congress who voted for the authorization understood at the time that they were voting for a virtual blank check that has provided the legal basis for more than a decade of war. It is a war that has expanded in recent years to other countries in the Middle East and Africa, such as Yemen and Somalia, where the U.S. has engaged in covert military operations against al Qaeda-affiliated groups.
Theoretically, when U.S. combat troops finally withdraw from Afghanistan in December 2014, the authorization should simply expire, and the nation will no longer be at war. After all, once combat operations are over in Afghanistan, why would you want to keep in place an authorization for a permanent war?
However, there are now some in Congress who would like to expand the scope of the Authorization for the Use of Military Force beyond its present parameters to include military operations against terrorist groups that were not involved in the 9/11 attacks, which could prolong America's wars indefinitely and add additional terrorist groups to the United States' list of enemies it is at war with.
U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tennessee, ranking member of the influential Senate Foreign Relations Committee, for instance, last month called for an expansion of the scope of the authorization.
Obama made it quite clear in his Thursday speech that he would oppose such an expansion, saying he hopes instead to "ultimately repeal the AUMF's mandate. And I will not sign laws designed to expand this mandate further."
In short, Obama intends to end a seemingly endless war.
That's because, according to Obama, "the core of al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan is on the path to defeat. Their remaining operatives spend more time thinking about their own safety than plotting against us."
On Thursday, Obama asserted (in my view, correctly) that what remains of the terrorist threat, while significant and persistent, is nothing on the scale of the al Qaeda organization that launched the 9/11 operation and instead consists of "less capable al Qaeda affiliates, threats to diplomatic facilities and businesses abroad, homegrown extremists."
These threats, the president further asserted, can be managed by carefully targeted drone strikes overseas and efforts to counter extremist ideology at home and do not require some kind of broader war.
Obama is also looking to his legacy and the presidents who will follow him and is trying to begin to create the public consensus and legal framework that will help to ensure that the United States isn't "drawn into more wars we don't need to fight, or continue to grant presidents unbound powers more suited for traditional armed conflicts between nation states."
Obama clearly hopes to leave office in 2016 as the commander in chief who finally ended America's longest war.
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Is a writer named Lisa Holst responsible for the belief that everyone eats eight spiders a year?
If you're reading this there's a good chance you're fan of Snopes.com, and I certainly count myself as the same. However, an issue recently came up a with particular Snopes article that was invoked on this very site to explain where the belief that everyone eats eight spiders a year comes from.
Snopes' explanation is as follows:
Fear not. This "statistic" was not only made up out of whole cloth, it was invented as an example of the absurd things people will believe simply because they come across them on the Internet.
In a 1993 PC Professional article, columnist Lisa Holst wrote about the ubiquitous lists of "facts" that were circulating via e-mail and how readily they were accepted as truthful by gullible recipients. To demonstrate her point, Holst offered her own made-up list of equally ridiculous "facts," among which was the statistic cited above about the average person's swallowing eight spiders per year, which she took from a collection of common misbeliefs printed in a 1954 book on insect folklore. In a delicious irony, Holst's propagation of this false "fact" has spurred it into becoming one of the most widely-circulated bits of misinformation to be found on the Internet.
That sounds credible, but Lisa Holst, the magazine (or newsletter?) PC Professional, and the text of the article are nowhere to be found on the web. At all. Other than links and references to the Snopes article there's just nothing. It's proving hard to verify that the author or the magazine existed at all! This seems to contradict Snopes' entire thesis that the Holst column was the source of the spider belief in the internet age. How could something so influential disappear without a trace?
The full citation given by Snopes is:
Holst, Lisa Birgit. "Reading is Believing" PC Professional 7th January 1993 (p71.)
The other two citations given in the article do seem to be real, though the Chicago Sun-Times story has the wrong author attributed. I checked it out to see if it was the source of the Lisa Holst information, and it isn't. The other citation is for a book that pre-dates email, so it can't have anything to do with Lisa Holst.
So what's going on here? I see three possibilities
Snopes had in their possession the Lisa Holst column when they wrote their article and had a good reason to believe it was so influential, but somehow every trace of it has disappeared from the internet.
Snopes made some mistake in the citation, as with the Chicago Sun-Times article, and that's making finding the Holst column darned near impossible.
Snopes made up the Holst column out of whole cloth, perhaps as their own version of a "trap street," the fake streets map makers supposedly put on maps to catch other companies copying their material.
So, can anyone find evidence that Lisa Holst and PC Professional existed, outside of the Snopes article? Or that a column by Holst was source for the internet belief in spider consumption?
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Scott HamiltonScott Hamilton
Just to be clear, I'm not posting this to slag on Snopes or suggest the site can't be trusted. But checking primary sources is an important habit for skeptics to cultivate, and in this case the sources just didn't check out.
– Scott Hamilton
Thanks for fixing that. As to the German magazine, I guess my problem with that is that I don't see how Snopes could state so authoritatively that such a magazine was the online source of 8 spiders belief if the magazine wasn't even an English one! At this point I'm leaning towards the Holst reference being a copyright trap. The whole Snopes article is a sort of oddly written and short, so perhaps no one was supposed to examine it as closely as we are.
There was also an ask metafilter thread that came up with nothing (new to us).
– John Lyon
Interesting to see this comment from 2001, long before the Snopes article, which blames a female US Newspaper columnist.
– going
I live in Berlin, Germany and I think the magazine "PC Professionell" is in the city archive, so if people are interested I could go there and try to find it. This magazine ran from 1991 to 2007. German Wikipedia Article You can look it up here, too.
It turns out that there's a nice chap who already investigated this, and found no evidence of the matter:
I first did a Google search for PC Professional Magazine. No such magazine.
Google turns up a fair number of hits for Lisa Holst; none of them is a columnist for computer magazines.
There is a British magazine called PC Pro. I called them. They've never changed their name and they've also never heard of Lisa Holst or PC Professional Magazine.
A quick email to the contact form on Snopes asking them where they found the magazine and whether they have a copy of it I can have a look at receives an automated response suggesting I use their search function.
A call to the Library of Congress confirms that they do not have, in their records, any magazines with the title "PC Professional" They don't even have anything close.
—Why eight spiders?
A big troll?
User Avery points out that Lisa Birgit Holst is an anagram for This Is A Big Troll. Hmmm.
The facts on this matter are:
one resource cites a name and a magazine
nobody seems to be able to confirm the existence of this person or magazine
the name of the author can be anagrammed to a clue
The only possible conclusion is "there is no evidence that Snopes is correct", and there is something suggesting it is a fake.
SklivvzSklivvz
As a side note, I've contacted snopes to get some light on the matter.
– Sklivvz
The magazin existed, just the spelling differs - probably a transfer error, since "Professionell" and "Professional" and "Magazin" and "Magazine" are very close. See links in my comments here
– user unknown
The claim "nobody seems to be able to confirm the existence of this person or magazine" is wrong. I claim that the existence of the magazine isn't an illusion. You can find it at ebay, you can find references to it, at surely you can prove it if you visit an archive.
@xiaohouzi79 There is no magazine called "PC Professional Magazine". Fact. There is no record of a writer call "Lisa Hoist". Fact. It could be a German magazine with a similar name. Speculation.
Lisa Birgit Holst is an anagram for THIS IS A BIG TROLL.
– Avery
As of roughly August 2021, per a note on Lemmino's video investigating the origins of Lisa Holst, Snopes founder David Mikkelson has admitted to fabricating the PC Professional article and the writer. Avery's anagram was correct.
Chris AkridgeChris Akridge
"This 'easter egg' was created over 20 years ago in April of 2001 as wink to our long-time readers who were familiar with trolling we engaged in during the early days of the internet." Who? I feel more like this is Mikkelson's private joke with himself. Anyway, this is the correct "solution" to this riddle so thank you for posting
@Avery "We" presumably means David and his (then-)wife Barbara. They were active on alt.folklore.urban before starting the web site.
– benrg
No, an earlier list was published by Margot Anne-Stephanie Vigeant as author of the article Things to Stress Over in Cornell Engineer April 1992, volume 56, number 2, pages 24 and 25, (alternative link to full text):
My first topic for this issue is worries. I've decided that there are just too many well adjusted, un-paranoid people in this school (NOT), so I've decided to wreck their peace of mind by sharing a list of my favorite worries with them. These are the kind of things that just jump into your mind right before you're about to fall asleep - horrible little night gremlins whose goal it is to keep you up just a little bit longer. So here they are, hope you can sleep after this:
The average person swallows eight spiders while sleeping, in their lifetime. What if all eight show up tonight?
Also from 1992, the book Basic Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences Student Workbook and Study Guide says:
Foofy read in the newspaper that there is a .05% chance of swallowing a spider while you sleep. She subsequently developed insomnia.
a. What is the probablility of swallowing a spider?
b. Why isn't Foofy's insomnia justified on the basis of this probability?
c. Why is Foofy's insomnia justified on the basis of this probability.
4.a. p = .05%/100 = .0005.
b. This is a very low p, indicating that, over the long run, we can expect to swallow spiders only 5 out of every 10,000 times we sleep.
c. Since p is not zero, we do expect to swallow spiders sometimes, and we don't know when it will happen.
Regarding the 1954 book Insect Fact and Folklore mentioned by snopes, search in snippet views in Google Books (which has multiple copies of the book) for words like "spiders", "swallow" and "sleep" shows nothing related to the myth, and as pointed out in the video posted in Michael's answer, a hardcopy of the book does not have such a myth.
DavePhDDavePhD
This is an interesting find, and predates the supposed 1993 article, but not the supposed 1954 book. Is there any way to get a full copy of this article to understand the context better? For instance, does the author admit to fabricating this fact, or claim an earlier source? The other scary thoughts visible in Google's snippet are all hypothetical, so why is this part presented as fact? It's a tantalising clue, but doesn't feel like concrete evidence that this is the source, rather than an early instance quoting something earlier.
– IMSoP
Jul 22, 2018 at 2:55
@IMSoP I added a second link to the full text. It's a humor article, no admission of fabricating, no sources. I would just say this is the oldest printed version of the eight-spiders-swallowed- in-sleep concept that I could find. She could have heard it from someone verbally or through email or some early online forum. We could ask her I suppose.
– DavePhD
Thanks. It certainly seems from context that she believed it, rather than invented it - it's necessary background for the next "what if", and if it wasn't already an established myth, why not just say "What if you swallow a spider in your sleep?" My guess is that the myth was doing the rounds at Cornell at the time.
@IMSoP I searched google groups, and the oldest there is 20 July 1992 groups.google.com/forum/#!search/… and second oldest, but more extensive discussion, is 9 August 1993 groups.google.com/forum/#!search/…
@IMSoP in 1977 there was a legend that a girl feel asleep with Bubble Yum in her mouth and woke up with spider webs on her face, because spider eggs in the gum hatched. books.google.com/…
Youtuber Lemmino actually located the only possible magazine that matched the description and got a copy of the article sent to him and translated. It contained nothing relevant to the spider story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjlKIjLWq-Y
[Summary of video: youtuber purchases a hardcopy of the 1954 book Insect Fact and Folklore by Lucy W. Clausen, which is paged through on video, and he says that no information related to the eight spiders myth is contained in the book. Youtuber then unsuccessfully attempts to locate 1993 magazine articles corresponding the 1993 article cited by Snopes.]
DavePhD
MichaelMichael
Two points:
The publication of The Pedant's Revolt by Andrea Barham took place after the original Snopes article, not before. The first edition of the book was in 2005. The Snopes article first appeared before then--I haven't found the original article, but there are forum comments from 2002 and 2004 which refer to it. So it was the book that referenced the article, not the other way around.
I can confirm the YouTuber research into the 1954 book, as I have a copy as well. There is no reference to any myth about swallowing spiders.
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Regarding the date of the article, although the visible text indicates only "Last Updated: 28 April 2014", comments in the page source list "23 April 2001 - original; 21 July 2007 - reformatted; 28 April 2014 - relisted". So it's not clear when the reference to Barham's book was added, but it does appear to post-date the original article.
It makes sense entirely that the Snopes article is the source of this, as they have some kind of trickster streak and used to have an entire section of their website with nothing but fake debunkings (not sure if it is still there).
Do you eat a certain number of spiders whilst you sleep?
Did Martin Luther King Jr. say "Do you know that Negroes are 10 percent of the population of St. Louis and are responsible for 58% of its crimes?"