On July 24, 2009, CQ Weekly published an article by Maura Reynolds that looks at the Obama Administration's progress on transparency in its first six months in office. The article, "Open Government – or 'Transparency Theater'?" highlights some of the White House's positive steps, such as the Memorandum on Transparency and Open Government that Obama issued on his first full day in office. Reynolds also looks at some areas where the Administration has not lived up to its promise of greater openness, such as the Administration's decision to reject requests to release White House visitor logs to the public.
AALL is closely following the Administration's progress on transparency, and we will continue to work to ensure that President Obama meets his promise to create a more transparent and accountable government.
The 102nd Annual Meeting has come to a close, but here in D.C. we're still buzzing with excitement and we hope you are too! This year's meeting was a great success, thanks in large part to all of you who attended the Day on the Hill, the policy track programs, and our policy committee meetings. The July edition of the Washington E-Bulletin will include some of the highlights from the meeting, so stay tuned for that update.
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Thanks again to all of you who helped make the 2009 Annual Meeting a success. It was exciting to see many of you here in Washington, D.C. and we look forward to seeing you again next year in Denver, Colorado!
2008 Public Access to Government Information (PAGI) Award winner OMB Watch released a new report this week, "Controlled Unclassified Information: Recommendations for Information Control Reform." In the report, OMB Watch explains terms such as sensitive but unclassified (SBU) information and controlled unclassified information (CUI) and examines the myriad of security markings used to keep unclassified information out of the public's reach.
AALL supports two bills in the House that would rein in CUI control markings. The first, the Reducing Over-Classification Act of 2009 (H.R. 553), would require the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop a strategy to prevent over-classification and promote the sharing of unclassified information at the Department of Homeland Security. H.R. 553 passed the House on February 3, 2009. The second bill, the Over-Classification Reduction Act (H.R. 854) would require increased oversight and training to reduce over-classification across the federal government as a whole. It was ordered to be reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of February 4, 2009.
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It comes as a surprise to many people, but the sea off the south east of England is a perfectly decent temperature for swimming for at least two months of the year - from mid July to mid September. This section describes all the swimmable beaches within a day's rail trip from London, as well as the walks on this website that lead to them.
Some general tips are given below. For individual beaches, see the area menu at the top of this page.
Alternatively you can use the interactive map to find a beach in your area - just click on any beach symbol on the map to get more information on that location.
When is it warm enough?
Sea warms up more slowly than air or land, and the best time for swimming lags a bit behind the best temperatures of summer. On a hot sunny day in June (yes, they do happen sometimes), the sea can look awfully enticing, but if you plunge in, you will find the water is icy cold - around 12-14 degrees. By early July the temperature is usually bearable, however, and by late August the sea can feel quite balmy, with temperatures as high as 19 degrees.
In September temperatures start to slide, but it is more lower air temperatures that put people off swimming at this time than colder seas. By the end of the month, water temperatures are a little nippy at 16 degrees, but that is only the same as they are in mid July. Temperatures dip sharply from then on, however, and by mid October they are back to where they were in mid June. The sea is actually at its coldest (7-8 degrees) at the end of February.
It is important to note that the sea temperature is not influenced by the weather day to day. It is as warm on a grey overcast day as on the following day when the sun is hot, and should be as warm in the early morning as in the late afternoon. However on shallow beaches the sand or shingle heats the incoming tide on a hot day, and strong sunshine also warms the surface water, as well as warming your body as you swim. This effect can be reversed if there is a strong offshore wind - that is, the wind blows the warmer surface water out to sea and it is replaced with colder water from the deeps. An influx of fresh water - from heavy rain or a river outlet - can raise sea temperatures locally.
A (very rare) exception to all this is after really heavy rain: sometimes this overwhelms sewage treatment plants, meaning raw sewage ends up in the sea. An example came in 2008, when heavy rains caused the Marine Conservation Society to downgrade their assessments of some English beaches, and advise swimmers not to use them after heavy rain: but even then nearly all South Coast beaches got at least a basic pass for cleanliness. You can see the MCS's latest recommendations on http://www.goodbeachguide.co.uk/.
If sediment in the water bothers you particularly, try and swim at high tide, when fresh clean water has flowed in from the open sea. By contrast, just after low tide, the water can be positively brown (due to stirred up sediments) on beaches with a long, flat bottom. In general, the water gets clearer the further out you swim.
Though rich in marine life (see the enormous cuttlefish bones that sometimes wash up on beaches) the sea off the south coast seems relatively free of any creatures that bother humans. You get the occasional story in the newspapers about exotic foreign jellyfish being seen off the coast of Devon, but the author has been swimming in the Channel for years and has never heard of anyone being bitten, stung or stabbed by anything. If you are worried about this, however, wearing swimming shoes (see below) offers some reassurance.
South coast beaches are - with a few exceptions - shingle (ie pebble) beaches, so walking down to the water's edge - or more to the point, getting out of the sea - can be a painful business if you are barefoot. A pair of rubber-soled swimming shoes is the easy solution, available for around £5-6 from beach shops, sports shops, or anywhere that sells diving equipment.
It is useful to know the state of the tide before you swim, especially on beaches with long flat sections where the sea can come in or go out rapidly. Information on high and low tides up to six days ahead can be found on the BBC website. Confusingly, the times given here are in GMT: add an hour to get the time in British Summer Time.


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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE MASNAVI OF RUMI
Maulana Jalalu-'d-din Muhammad Rumi (rh) was a great Muslim poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic from the 13th century. Born in Balkh, Afghanistan, died and buried in Konya, Turkey. A key figure who flourished in the Sultanate of Rum, where he produced his works and his followers founded the Mevlevi Sufi Order.
His works are written in Persian and reinforced the language as the preferred literary and cultural language in the Persian Islamic world. Rumi's importance is considered to transcend national and ethnic borders, influencing many languages with his poems, widely translated and transposed into various formats. After more than 700 years, he was described as the "most popular poet in America!
The "Masnavi" is Rumi's greatest poetic work, composed during the last years of his life. The Masnavi is divided into six books, and Rumi wrote prefaces for each book. It contains thousands of rhyming couplets (a type of poetry called, in Arabic, "mathnawî") with stories, ethical teachings, and deeply spiritual teachings. It is deeply permeated with Qur'anic meanings and references, which is why it has been so famous and well-loved for so many centuries all across the Muslim and non Muslim world.
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February 16, 2017 by Graeme MacKay
Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Friday February 17, 2017
Limited supply, high demand in hot Hamilton housing market 'without precedent'
Warning bells are being sounded in some quarters about an overheated housing market that is trending toward fewer listings, higher prices and yet increased sales, at least locally.
But the president of the Realtors Association of Hamilton and Burlington suggests the situation is neither worrisome nor difficult to understand.
"It's Economics 101," said Lou Piriano. "There is less supply, and more and constant demand."
A report released Wednesday by the Canadian Real Estate Association describes a "severe" shortage of homes available for sale "particularly in and around Toronto and in parts of B.C."
The report said "the imbalance between limited housing supply and robust demand in Ontario's Greater Golden Horseshoe region is without precedent."
And an economist was quoted in the Toronto Star saying that the housing market in Toronto "and any city remotely within commuting distance is overheating, and perhaps dangerously so."
In Hamilton-Burlington, the number of properties listed in January was 1,139, down 9.7 per cent from January of last year — but sales of all properties were up 17.4 per cent.
"There is less product and just as many people want it," Piriano said.
That influenced the average home price rising 12.8 per cent over this time last year.
Piriano said it's problematic to focus on national figures when just one housing market can distort the numbers but said the GTA continues to exert tremendous influence on Hamilton's market. Fifteen per cent of all home sales in this area are done by Toronto realtors.
How hot is the market?
It's just one house, but anecdotally it perhaps represents stories that area home buyers and sellers have been telling of their experiences: A central Mountain home on Desoto Drive, near Upper Wellington Street and just north of Stone Church Road, listed Feb.6 for $599,500 and received 18 offers, according to Mississauga-based ReMax realtor Carl Schuy. It sold Monday, a week later, for $740,000. (Source: Hamilton Spectator)
Posted in: Canada, Hamilton Tagged: bubble, Canada, cemetery, grave, grave yard, Hamilton, housing, market, Ontario, real estate
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May 7, 2014 by Graeme MacKay
By Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Wednesday May 7, 2014
Average price of single home in Toronto shoots up 13% to $965,000
It's a record likely to be shattered by summer: The average sale price of a detached home in the City of Toronto hit $965,670 in April.
That number is expected to exceed $1 million over the coming weeks as the GTA continues to feel the effects of a shortage of new listings that helped drive up the average price of detached homes in the 416 region by 13.2 per cent from April of 2013.
The average sale price of home in the GTA — taking into account everything from detached homes to semis, townhouses and condos — hit $577,898 last month, according to figures released Tuesday by the Toronto Real Estate Board.
Sales were up just 1.8 per cent, year over year.
Leading the real estate pack in terms of price growth were semi-detached houses. The average sale price across the GTA was up 11.6 per cent over April 2013. The 18 per cent jump in prices just in the City of Toronto sent the average sale price of a semi to $702,332, according to the TREB figures.
Next in line were detached homes, where prices were up 11.3 per cent across the GTA — 9.6 per cent in the 905, where the average sale price was $645,179 in April.
Active listings, however, even for the first month of peak spring market, were down 8.4 per cent, a persistent problem that has been driving intense competition and significant price growth, largely in 416 neighbourhoods close to the core and transit lines.
TREB president Dianne Usher blamed Toronto's double land transfer tax for the fact that more folks are choosing to stay put and renovate rather than sell.
As well, "above-trend home sales in the years leading up to the recession have meant that many households who purchased during this period simply aren't ready to move again."
But also skewing the numbers is the desperation of buyers, frantic to get into the Toronto market before prices shoot further out of sight.
One house, in North Toronto, reached a ludicrous new level in late April when 72 people — double the previous record for a bidding war for a house in the 416 region — registered offers on a Glencairn Ave. fixer-upper. (Source: Toronto Star)
Posted in: Hamilton, Ontario Tagged: bubble, Economy, Editorial Cartoon, home sales, housing, property, real estate, Toronto
McGuinty asks reporters to keep away five feet
It's not you, it's me.
That popular break-up refrain appeared to be Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty's explanation Thursday as he defended his need for some "breathing space" — namely that reporters stand at least five feet away when posing questions.
In his first availability with the media since his office instituted the rule, McGuinty spoke of his "love" for the press gallery, called them "wonderful," but asked for a little room to breathe all the same.
"I love them like my brothers and sisters, but not even my brothers and sisters want to stand as close to me as they do," McGuinty said as he attempted to make light of the situation.
"What I've asked of my friends in the gallery is that I have a little bit more breathing space."
The premier tried to claim that he was "fully supported in this by all the people who operate cameras here" until a veteran Queen's Park cameraman loudly voiced his objection to the premier's statement.
"There's a bit of a divide and conquer tactic here," said McGuinty, "which is obviously failing."
The opposition parties wondered what McGuinty was "afraid of," and suggested his new objection to the same close proximity question and answer sessions — called scrums — that he's participated in for the past five years has more to do with the recession than anything else. (Source: CTV News)
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Debunking the low-cost nuclear myth
An article published in the FT this week was right to point out that pricing new energy capacity involves more than just comparing strike prices, but if you are in the business of calculating real costs, do it properly. For nuclear in particular, that's a case of 'in for a penny, in for (several) pounds'.
January 31, 2019 Max Hall, pv magazine editor
Markets & Policy
Utility Scale Storage
You want to discuss the real costs of nuclear?
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As environmental groups the world over agonize about whether to dance with the devil and embrace the undoubted low-carbon claims of nuclear power generation – at least as a bridging solution to a renewable-powered world – familiar arguments in favor of nuclear are once again emerging.
An article by Jonathan Ford in U.K. business newspaper the Financial Times yesterday appeared to outline the persuasive economic case for new nuclear.
The author argued, contrasting figures about the huge cost of building new nuclear facilities with the low energy strike price that can be generated by renewable energy projects is misleading.
Ford considered the hypothetical need to provide 1 GW of energy, with nuclear and offshore wind as the competing options. The writer started by pointing out a nuclear reactor generates energy at around 90% efficiency, twice the level achieved by offshore wind – and way beyond what PV can boast, but let's stick to the hypothetical scenario for now. That means, said Ford, approximately twice as much generation capacity needs to be constructed for the renewable project.
Why did Toshiba and Hitachi give up?
Nuclear of course, has no intermittency concerns – or at least, we had all better pray it doesn't – so the imagined offshore wind plant project also needs to factor in an hugely expensive, near-1 GW of battery storage too, to be ready for periods of low wind.
That would still leave the renewables project cheaper to construct than the nuclear option – for want of a better phrase – an outcome that somewhat undermines the writer's economic claims for the latter. However, Ford then delivers his coup de grace, the fact nuclear reactors last at least twice as long as renewables projects. Which means, of course, the money spent on the hypothetical wind power installation has to be doubled, finally making it notably more expensive than a new reactor.
Which begs the question, why did Toshiba and Hitachi run for the hills when they contemplated the costs of bringing Britain's next generation of nuclear plants to fruition, as Ford readily acknowledged at the top of his article.
As an exercise in persuading readers to dig below the headlines, the piece is a partial success. Simply comparing the strike price – in online auction site terminology the 'Buy it Now' guaranteed purchase price – of two energy sources is oversimplistic.
Who cleans up the mess?
However the writer is guilty, as so many before him have been, of ignoring the elephant in the room with nuclear. If an offshore wind farm – or a PV project, for that matter – fails, the cost is borne largely by commercial insurance providers through a policy the developer holds. It's certainly true that the cost of such an event is not entirely contained, as there will be a minimal knock-on effect on future insurance premiums.
What nuclear proponents consistently fail to mention is the economic cost when a nuclear reactor fails. It is impossible to purchase a corporate insurance policy that will comprehensively guarantee to cover the costs incurred in the event of a reactor meltdown, or other failure that releases significant amounts of radiation into the environment. Who foots the bill? You and I, as taxpayers, via the government – often governments –affected.
Factor in the costs of a clean-up after a catastrophe such as Chernobyl or Fukushima, and there is no energy source that even comes close to the financial costs of nuclear, and that is not to consider the measures needed to deal safely with nuclear waste.
It may be unrealistic to argue the world will be able to run entirely on renewables without a single penny being spent on nuclear generation from today onwards, especially if we also want to keep other fossil fuels in the ground. Nuclear is a low carbon option and, it could be argued, may be a necessary evil until every roof in the world has solar on it – but don't try and persuade us it is a cost-competitive option.
And when Mr Ford implies that the long life of nuclear facilities means they can be left to run and run at minimal cost, it is tempting to wonder which option he would prefer living downwind of – a 60-year-old nuclear facility or a wind or PV installation of the same vintage.
The views and opinions expressed in this article are the author's own, and do not necessarily reflect those held by pv magazine.
Alex T says:
Nuclear reactors are insured, up to a certain amount, which would more than cover the cost of any failure at a modern plant such as Hinkley C. Bringing Chernobyl into the argument is about as meaningful as bringing atomic bombs into it – it's too different to compare.
If you want to compare the 1GW supply of nuclear, then for a wind based scenario you'd need:
About 2GW of wind
About 1GW and 2GWh of storage
About 900 MW of gas fired power
If in a warm sunny climate, with peak demands in the summer, then adding in solar will significantly improve the above mix.
The gas would probably provide about 20% of the energy, with the wind supplying about 80%. Emissions would be about 100g/KWh, which is good, but not as near nuclear's 14g.
Left out seems to be that it takes ~10 years to put in the 1GW nuclear plant and about a year for the wind+storage or wind+solar+storage.
Paul J says:
Mr. Hall you left out a few costs on the nuclear side. Solar panels will decay in efficiency and someday will pass beyond economic practicality. Then even if all you do is leave them standing they will continue to make SOME electricity.
A nuclear plant will take 5 – 10 years to construct and will create lots of carbon in the form of diesel exhaust, special alloy steel creation, cement creation, etc,etc. In short, a nuclear plant will be carbon free only as long as it is running and even then employees will still be driving gas/diesel cars to and from work for the 50 years it is running. A well managed commercial size solar installation can go from ground breaking to producing power in 18 months. And you don't need to have highly skilled employees and a massive security presence on site 24/7/365 for as long as the plant is standing or there is radioactive material in storage.
A solar plant can be taken down as easily as it was up. If you do it correctly a 18% solar panel nearing the end of it's effective life span can be replaced with a much higher efficiency panel (solar cell efficiency will only improve as time goes on) and the old panel shipped to a recycler for overhaul and reuse.
A nuclear plant will have to be torn down someday as well, but where do you put the radioactive steel and cement? No landfill in the world wants that stuff in their landfill and I guarantee that (NIMBY) will still be a thing in the year 2100. And that doesn't even take into account the forever costs of protecting the high level nuclear waste that will be deadly for 50,000 + years. Short of some brilliant scientist solving the nuclear waste problem it will cost the power company more over time than it ever took in when the plant was operating. But the electric company will be long gone and all the costs will fall on the taxpayers and government.
Here's the thing, when the nuclear plant is operating and money is coming in there will be many hands in the till. As soon as the money has to flow out of shareholder pockets back into the till to pay for decommissioning costs the shareholders will dump their stock, the company will tank and the taxpayer will foot the bill for a massive, eternal money pit. All you need to do is look at the radioactive cleanup of Enewetak (start by looking up "Cactus Dome) in the late 70's or the ongoing cleanup of the radioactive mess at Hanford, Washington to see how bad the government is at cleaning up radioactive messes. In reality, the only real cleanup is done by mother nature over 100,000 years of radioactive decay.
Mr. Hall add these costs into you article and see what happens. I predict that if you do your equations will prove that it is impossible for any nuclear plant to return a profit when you factor in the entirety of its life. And who can say what the energy mix will look like even 10 years from now, it is entirely probable that taxpayers (through subsidies to the energy company) will be stuck with an enormous white elephant that produces electricity that cannot compete with already cheaper renewable energy.
P.S. For anybody with some scientific knowledge and some business acumen there will be literally millions of solar panels reaching the end of their effective life in the next 10 years and the number of aging out panels will explode exponentially after that. Figure out a way to get the valuable materials out of the cells or a way to overhaul and re-use the aged out panels and you and your partners will be trillionaires. Your great, great, great, great grandchildren will still find it impossible to spend all the money your inventions will generate.
James Wimberley says:
Alex T is double counting. Either you firm your wind with storage or with gas. If it's storage you need to up the nominal wind capacity, say by another GW. BTW, the cheapest storage by far today is pumped hydro, but let that pass. If you are using gas, there's no need for batteries.
Not BTW, nuclear needs firming too, as does coal. The early pumped storage plants in OECD countries were built precisely as backup for nuclear plants. One technical problem and the grid loses over a GW of output. With wind and solar, the large number of independent generators means that mechanical failure is an insignificant risk to the system. Weather-based fluctuations can be predicted accurately, so your reserve can be cold not spinning.
Andrew Blakers' simple 100% renewable scenario for Australian electricity uses only wind, solar, HVDC transmission, and pumped storage. The firming adds about 50% to the raw cost of wind and solar supply. It still works out cheaper than today's thermal supply, a fortiori than a wholly hypothetical nuclear option. Add some expectations of progress in other but less proven technologies, and the cost can probably be lowered some more: P2X, V2G, demand response, CSP, grid batteries, biomass, geothermal … But the case is made just with the proven shortlist.
PS. The 90% CF of nuclear assumes that it runs as baseload. That is, the nuclear total is less than trough demand (summer nights in the UK and Germany, winter nights in Texas.) Meeting peak demand (say 2x trough demand) entirely with nuclear implies much lower CFs, and proportionately higher unit costs. Any sensible nuclear-heavy grid requires a lot of despatchable gas or storage – just like a wind- heavy grid. You either compare raw LCOEs or do a full system analysis.
BTW, let me retract the suggestion that you need a third GW of wind to match a GW of nuclear. The LCOE is calculated for the same total in annual Gwh, just correcting the nominal installation capacity for the capacity factors (2x). You need backup for both. More for wind than nuclear? Not obviously. The flat output of nuclear is a worse match to cycling demand than wind as between seasons, and a worse match than solar to daily cycles. Again, you really have to run the numbers. The equation is complicated by the fact that it is very cheap to overbuild wind and (in sunnier countries) solar to reduce the residual demand for firming.
Gaston says:
Old world thinking. Like we will still have only centralized production fullfilling traditional demand variations.
In the new world the demand will become flexible as well, absorbing most of the renewable production fluctuations. With each million EV's there will be distributed storage an order of magnitute larger (more than 25GWh storage on an average daily consumption of 5GWh). The main driver should be demand-supply driven price variations. In times of wind and sun the energy will be dirt cheap, on cold calm nights the energy will be more expensive than nowadays.
Stop comparing renewables and nuclear on old world scenarios. Nuclear is dead.
The other cost not mentioned is the cost of decommissioning at the end of the nuclear plants life. To say this cost is significant is a massive understatement. It is yet another case of our generation handing a massive problem to successive generations.
Nick Rouse says:
The claim that nuclear energy is 90% efficient is preposterous. With a planned thermal capacity of 9048 MW and a planned electrical capacity of 3260 MW, that is a thermal efficiency of 36%. This is worse than coal and much worse than gas.
Alexander Dewhirst says:
I didn't see any mention of the running costs (including nuclear fuel) for both scenarios. Doesn't the fluctuating cost of uranium and the disposal of the waste and the end of the process make nuclear more expensive?
Todd Jonsef says:
I would like to introduce all of you to Thorium and the LFTR technology for Nuclear with a Molten Salt Reactor. It is not a solid fuel reactor but a liquid fuel reactor and does not have it's system under pressure. Please look up the various videos with Kirk Sorensen and allow yourself to be re-educated in the possibilities of Nuclear.
Ah, future tech. But in the future we will have fusion as we were taught 40 years ago.
Another elephant in the room, in my opinion, is that nuclear is the least suitable bedfellow for renewable generators. It may not be intermittent but it is also non-dispatchable, making it much less useful in the energy mix than renewables combined with storage.
Also, please fill me in here, does the cost of nuclear include the FULL cost of decommissioning, including safe and permanent disposal of all of the waste, also including the contaminated buildings and surroundings to the nuclear reactor?
Maury Markowitz says:
"The writer started by pointing out a nuclear reactor generates energy at around 90% efficiency, twice the level achieved by offshore wind"
I don't have access to the original, but I strongly suspect he is referring to the capacity factor, not the efficiency. In efficiency terms, a nuclear reactor is somewhere between 35 and 40%, whereas a wind turbine is well over 95%. In capacity factor terms, nuclear is around 92% and offshore wind somewhere in the 60 to 70% range depending on siting.
He is apparently using outdated figures for the wind CF, as they are subject to rapid change and its quite common for nuclear proponents to use outdated figures either knowingly or not.
"the fact nuclear reactors last at least twice as long as renewables projects. Which means, of course, the money spent on the hypothetical wind power installation has to be doubled"
Either Mr. Ford has absolutely no idea what he's talking about when it comes to the economics, or he is being deliberately misleading.
The actual *financial value* of cash flows in the future is subject to the change in value of money. If someone offered you $100 per week income in the 1950s you'd be rich… for a while, and by the late 1970s you'd be doing quite poorly indeed. Likewise, the value of the future cash flows from the generator decrease over time. That means the value of the "second half of the life" he's referring to are largely worthless.
One can see this easily by using an LCOE calculator like the one found here:
https://www.nrel.gov/analysis/tech-lcoe.html
If you enter the page (scroll down a bit) it should be set to 20 years. Click in that field and press return to force an update. Scroll down and note the "Simple Levelized Cost of Renewable Energy (cents/kWh): " is 10.7 (the label is a bit confusing as this is actually set up for a gas plant). Now go back to the top of the form and change the period to 40 years, and you'll find the price has decreased to 10.0.
In other words, doubling the lifetime of the generator does not double its economic performance, it increases it by about 7%. This is not true of the nuclear case as the fuel costs are vanishing in comparison to the values in the default, but if one changes the inputs properly (capital ~7000, heat numbers to 0, capacity factor 90) you'll find the best-case scenario is about 50%.
In other words, applying the same math your bank teller will when applying for a loan, Mr. Ford's own numbers demonstrate precisely the opposite of what he claims. This sort of sophomoric economic practice is precisely how the industry ended up where it is today.
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Get savvy, and make money with these 5 totally digital ways to generate more customers for your restaurant.
Start taking advantage of user-generated content, or UGC for short. The reason why user-generated content is such an effective form of digital content to leverage, is because it takes content created out of passion for a restaurant, and repurposes it as an effective marketing tool. People respond to passion because it's infectious. Not only that, but it's inherently trustworthy. In fact, according to Business Insider, user-generated content is more trusted than traditional advertising by a striking 92% of social media users!
Market with mobile in mind. I could harp on the benefits of mobile for ages just because it's so important for the modern restaurant. Mobile is where a massive amount of conversions happen for restaurants. According to the National Restaurant Association, a whopping 83% of consumers use either mobile phones or tablets to search for restaurant locations, directions, and hours of operation. More specifically, half of the same group surveyed use mobile phones and tablets for rewards and special deals. So what should you do? Every aspect of your digital footprint needs to be designed with mobile in mind. Your social media and your website should be optimized for mobile usage.
Implement a digital loyalty program. When it comes to implementing a digital loyalty program, you won't just find yourself getting more customers. You'll start converting your current customers into repeat customers. Digitizing your loyalty program amplifies its effectiveness, providing you with an avenue to instantly communicate and incentivize your customers to return to eat at your restaurant.
Integrate your in-restaurant and out-of-restaurant promotion. There's a lot of easy ways to do this. For instance, one of the things you can do is produce in-restaurant marketing that encourages customers to follow your page on social media. It's a simple way to get an uptick in your digital presence.
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Using our advanced WiFi, SMS, and Email solutions, we set your restaurant up for success. Our SMS-based digital loyalty programs simplify loyalty down to a text message, providing a direct link between the restaurant brand, and the customer. With WiFi, customers login to your HotSpot via Facebook, Email, or phone number from a custom landing page, designed for your restaurant. Customers can then be enticed to Like or check-in to your business in exchange for a deal. We even develop fully realized customer profiles to help keep your restaurant fully optimized for the digital experience!
What has your restaurant done to adapt to the digital landscape? Let us know in the comments!


I get an error message that says I cannot post a question.
Sorry to hear you're having trouble posting a question. The most common reason is you need to choose a "place" when posting your question, such as in The specified item was not found. or The specified item was not found.. This is discussed in more detail in another post: Instructions for posting?


Blockchain nodes-as-a-service startup Blockdaemon announced Thursday that the company closed a seed round for $3.275 million led by telecommunications giant Comcast Ventures.
This round was joined by a number of enterprise venture capital outfits, including Boldstart Ventures, MState (backed by IBM Corp. and Comcast) and Plug and Play as well as a number of Silicon Valley angel investors.
The company uses cloud-based infrastructure to implement and deploy distributed ledger blockchain nodes rapidly for companies looking to run their own private and public blockchains. The technology allows businesses to build their own multichain and multicloud networks with faster deployment times and lower costs.
Unlike many other blockchain startups in the industry, Blockdaemon went with venture capital instead of a crowdsale or initial coin offering.
"We chose a VC round, over a crowdsale, to ensure we have investors with real enterprise chops on deck that can help us run a focused agile development process," said Konstantin Richter, chief executive of Blockdaemon.
Initial coin offering crowdsales for funding blockchain ventures boomed in 2017, according to a report from CB Insights. The glut of crowdfunding capital led to an estimate in excess of $5 billion in funds raised. Venture capital did not falter either, even with the abundance of crowdfunding opportunities, with an estimate of $1 billion raised, up from $545 in 2016.
This is not the first time that Comcast has dipped its toes into the blockchain ecosystem with funding. In January, Comcast joined IBM in backing MState, a blockchain startup fund that's also funding Blockdaemon, with the intent to seed the blockchain industry with funds to accelerate growth. The telecommunications company also partnered with NBCUniversal and Walt Disney Co. as part of a project to build out a blockchain-based TV ad platform with the Blockchain Insights Platform.
The concept behind Blockdaemon's service is simple: provide the infrastructure and the back end to allow businesses to deploy blockchain nodes connected to private — self-owned and managed — or public blockchains quickly with little or no effort.
Richter said companies looking to deploy their own blockchains could be looking at months of work, outside research and planning, to get infrastructure up and running. With the Blockdaemon platform, a company can launch a private blockchain in the cloud in minutes rather than weeks, giving more developers the opportunity to rapidly prototype projects against their preferred blockchain network.
Currently, Blockdaemon provides support for deploying public nodes that can connect to both the bitcoin blockchain and the Ethereum blockchain with the click of a few buttons. As for private nodes, business and enterprise developers can choose between platforms built on Ethereum, JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s Quorum or the Linux Foundation's Hyperledger.
To make things even easier for blockchain-hungry business, developers can pay for their nodes in the traditional way – with terrestrial money and credit cards – or they can pay with blockchain-based cryptocurrency, including bitcoin. Ethereum and Zcash.


If digital marketing is a toolbox, AdWords is the adjustable wrench – capable of basic tasks as well as far more precise and targeted ones. And both AdWords and the adjustable wrench can be confusing and overwhelming at first glance.
Marketers aren't missing out on the robust capabilities of this search marketing platform because they lack skills; many just don't have the time to stop, do the extra research on advanced features, and implement slightly more intricate techniques into their workday.
One of the most overlooked features of Google AdWords – and one of the most useful – is the household income tier targeting option. Hidden inside a few drop-down menus, this campaign targeting technique isn't challenging to test and integrate into existing campaigns and can yield insights that are far more useful than "people are clicking our ads." Not to mention that it cuts advertising costs due to enhanced targeting.
Thanks to Google making AdWords accessible to marketers at every level, it's not too scary to jump in and set up campaigns. But as the complexity of a campaign and the number of campaigns managed increases, most digital marketers simply won't have the time to investigate the platform to find hidden gems. Google has a track record of releasing new features or changing its location without giving any notice. Remember when Google Buzz appeared in your Gmail?
The most common reason marketers overlook advanced features on AdWords is inherited accounts. Whether they are fearful of fixing what isn't broken or are just sticking with the status quo, many agencies and in-house marketers don't feel the need to adjust accounts that are already delivering an acceptable cost per acquisition.
Staying up to date with AdWords' new features and updates can be exhausting and, frankly, nearly impossible – unless you consistently follow Google's updates and blogs by AdWords experts.
With the abundance of new features released on the search marketing platform, staying up-to-date on new features and how to use them just isn't feasible. The basics get the job done, so why invest time in discovering and testing new techniques?
This commitment to basics can keep marketers stuck on the targets that work, regardless of the industry vertical or the campaign optimization options out there. Why differentiate a campaign's consumers when you can simply use broad targeting options to expose your brand to them all? It's not hard to understand why the proverbial adjustable wrench isn't always used to its fullest capacity.
For many marketers, focusing on the health of the account comes first. Testing new features, while useful in the long run, can reflect poorly on a team in the short term because testing tends to make an account run inefficiently while it learns. Overwhelmed by the sheer mass of options, many marketers stick to what they know to avoid trekking through unknown territory and risking their livelihood.
With more than 200 product updates launching a year, marketers are understandably hesitant to invest the time and money into investigating and testing their application value – especially those working with a limited budget.
Search marketers may have felt limited by AdWords' targeting capabilities compared to other channels like display networks or social platforms. But with household income tiers, they have the ability to create better customer segmentation and home in on their true audience.
Previously, workarounds involved using geotargeting in AdWords and overlapping U.S. Census data on a case-by-case basis. Basically, it was like using your hand instead of a wrench to tighten a leaky pipe. But Google has done the work for you, saving you time, energy and hand cramps.
With household income tiers, marketers can create more precise and effective campaigns without exerting significant amounts of time or money.
Not sold yet? I'll break it down into five easy steps to prove that it's not as complicated as you may fear.
Step 1: Go to your AdWords dashboard, choose a campaign, and click Settings>All Settings.
Step 2: In the Locations section, click Edit>Advanced Search.
Step 3: Select Location Groups. Then, select Demographics from the Choose Location Group Type drop-down menu.
Step 4: Select your geographic location, and expand the Select Household Income Tier drop-down menu. From there, you can focus your targeting by applying negative or positive increments to the average household income data. There will be six options with 10 percent increments; the exception is the lower 50 percent, which is bucketed into one tier.
Step 5: Click the Add button.
After you've added household income tier targeting to your campaign, you can revisit the targeting options by navigating back to Settings>All Settings.
I recommend testing by running this feature without any increments and then applying a multiplier based on the performance of the campaign. To do this, select your campaign and then click Set Bid Adjustment.
Strategy 1: Start on an even playing field.
As with any kind of testing, you should start out with a fraction of your traffic to test the waters while limiting the risks. But it's vital to establish a baseline for comparison. Start all household income tier targeting at the same spot – with bid multipliers at 0 percent. Once data starts coming in through clicks and conversions, you'll have a better idea of how to optimize this targeting feature for each tier.
I recommend increasing an individual tier weekly and monitoring results. After a few weeks, set that tier back to 0 percent and test another tier. When all applicable tiers have been exhausted, compare results and weed out the true underperformers. Then, you can retest the tiers using a slightly higher bid multiplier and repeat the process.
Let's say you're running paid search for a credit card company with a key performance indicator of approved credit card applications. Testing out campaigns segmented by household income tier would be easy and insightful. Simply select a location, choose a household income tier to test, and determine whether the cost per approved application is significantly lower than your account average.
Once you identify which tiers are excelling or failing dismally, apply multipliers on those tiers or stop targeting them altogether. A multiplier will tell Google to increase or decrease your regular bid based on the tier's performance. Worst-case scenario, you discover that all tiers are performing similarly. Minimal time lost; useful information acquired. On to the next test.
Strategy 2: Bring in the customer experts.
Your CRM data will help you understand your customers better than Google ever can, so leverage that information. Talk to your customer insights team, CRM team, or business strategy team. If you don't have any of those, dig up anything you can about who your customers are by conducting surveys, looking at zip codes and analyzing the products they purchase.
Once you have a better idea of who your customers are and what their household incomes typically are, you can apply this to your testing strategy to reduce the time it takes for the program to get up to speed. When incorporated into the first strategy, this technique could reveal the lowest-hanging fruit.
Strategy 3: Fine-tune according to the problems at hand.
Testing by income tiers may sound easy enough, but it's mostly overlooked by marketers. I suggest running different targeting tests by campaign rather than applying to your entire account. Your customers most likely fall in multiple buckets anyway.
For instance, maybe one set of your customers is more affluent and more likely to book luxury lodging, while a different set of your customers is more budget-conscious and doesn't typically book five-star hotels. In this case, structure your campaigns by hotel property rating and apply different multipliers to different household income tiers. This campaign setup will speed up your testing and keep things neat and tidy.
Your basic marketing toolbox is useful but truly can't compare to the features AdWords has to offer. Don't let the sophisticated options deter you from creating high-performing search ads. Targeting options and techniques can be learned over time without much risk, so stay tuned for more in-depth AdWords advice.
Have you considered household income tiers as part of your AdWords strategy? Let's talk about it in the comments.
Randy Antin is VP of marketing for Jumpshot, a marketing analytics solution that provides behavioral trend insights of its 100 million-user panel by analyzing their clickstream activity. He has previously held roles at numerous startups and more established companies, including The Gap Inc. and Travelocity. His digital marketing experience includes everything from search to affiliates to structured feeds to retargeting. He has been attracted to big data and behavioral trends ever since he came in seventh place in a fantasy baseball league 15 years ago. Connect with him on LinkedIn.
Thanks for the article, Randy! I use Targeting by income a lot for my clients , as I've expressed in our blog: https://supermetrics.com/blog/6-hidden-features-adwords/. Would love to see another article on recent AdWords' features, especially Demographic Targeting and Ad customizers.


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13 questions with Julie Brøgger
Brøgger's signature aesthetic mixes a muted Scandi colour palette with an injection of print and colour for a serious style statement, and the brand presented its ready-to-wear show at Copenhagen Fashion Week SS20 yesterday. Here, Global Blue digital editor Kirsty Welsh chats to Danish-born co-founder Julie Brøgger
Julie Brøgger
Brøgger SS20 Show
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You started the brand in 2016 after working for names such as Preen by Thornton Bregazzi and Erdem. What made you want to start your own brand and what drew you to live in London?
I learned so much working for other brands and with brilliant creative directors, I felt it was time to apply my experience and skills to my own visual context.
I love the grittiness of London and how much contrast there is to my native Denmark. I find the diversity very inspiring.
How would you describeBrøgger?
Bold, colourful and with a touch of Scandi sensibilities
Can you describe a typical day?
I always start with a coffee and walk with my dog, Preben, to the studio. I normally have an hour by myself before everyone else comes in. I gather my thoughts and ideas in that hour. During the day I get pulled in so many directions, so the hour of focus is always very productive. I spend my day working very hands-on with my small team. There are constantly so many balls in the air, with overlapping seasons as well as both production and designing, and sampling new collections.
What is your bestselling collection?
We keep growing at the moment, so the latest one, at present.
Who is the Brøgger woman?
She likes to stand out and appreciates quality. She'll keep favourite items in her wardrobe, not for months but for years.
Which Brøgger piece should every woman should have in her wardrobe?
Our Gurli blazer is so versatile, it works for day or night, work and formal. Paired with a dress it adds a masculine element to a feminine evening look, and with jeans it's perfect workwear.
Where are your favourite places to shop in London?
I go to Portobello Road Market almost every Friday morning. I find great inspiration there. I also like a walk through Kensington Gardens, followed by a stop at Harvey Nichols in Knightsbridge, which is one of our London-based stockists. There is a nice friendly atmosphere there that is not like most department stores.
What's your most treasured Brøgger creation?
The SS19 show collection is very special to me, as it was inspired by my late mother and the Queen of Denmark. The show during Copenhagen Fashion Week was only a few months after my mother passed, so it was very special and emotional for me and my family.
The Brøgger spring/summer collection took inspiration from Queen Margrethe of Denmark. What is it about her that inspired you?
I'm slightly obsessed with her. She is this bold woman in a very unusual role. She is like no other European royal in her bold fashion choices, she loves colour and dramatic shapes and works closely with the dressmakers and couturiers who create her ball gowns. She designs theatre costumes herself so she has a keen eye for how her appearance can be part of orchestrating momentum and a story around her personally, her role as a queen and her family's history as a monarchy.
What makes Brøgger stand out from other fashion brands?
It is always difficult to look at your own work in that way but I think the dualistic approach and influences result in collections that offer a different take on modern dressing.
Who would you like to see wearing your designs?
I'm always really grateful when celebrities and stylists choose Brøgger, and it can change a lot for a brand, but, not to sound cheesy, I actually get more excited when I see people on the street that I don't know in Brøgger. That woman didn't just choose the piece, she spent money on it. Cardi B falls into both categories, she just wore a Brøgger suit and she bought it from one of our US stockists – Barneys.
What is the inspiration behind the Brøgger spring/summer 2020 collection?
I continue a nostalgic view of the fashion of my childhood, this time without the royal inspiration but still with my mum in mind. It's a bit like a collection that, if I squint my eyes, I can picture on my mum and all her loud and powerful girlfriends. Career women in suits but with glamour and boldness.
What's next for Brøgger?
We are nominated for the Magasin du Nord Fashion Prize which takes place in November, and are very excited and honoured to be part of it. And we have also started designing the next collection.
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Q: Segmentation fault - invalid memory reference problem in fortran I'm trying to use fortran to calculate a value from a data.
program signifikansi
implicit none
integer :: N_energi, N_sudut, i, N
double precision,allocatable :: theta1(:), theta_lab1(:), dsig1(:), dsig_lab1(:), pol1(:), dpolxx1(:), dpolxz1(:), phase1(:), t1(:)
double precision,allocatable :: theta2(:), theta_lab2(:), dsig2(:), dsig_lab2(:), pol2(:), dpolxx2(:), dpolxz2(:), phase2(:), t2(:)
double precision,allocatable :: signif(:)
double precision :: signif_total,signif2

    write(*,*)"Masukkan jumlah energi"
    read(*,*)N_energi

    write(*,*)"Masukkan jumlah sudut pada setiap energi"
    read(*,*)N_sudut

N=N_sudut*N_energi

    write(*,*)"Total data adalah",N

open(unit=10, file='kminpobs.dat', status="old", action="read")
allocate(theta1(N))
allocate(theta_lab1(N))
allocate(dsig1(N))
allocate(dsig_lab1(N))
allocate(pol1(N))
allocate(dpolxx1(N))
allocate(dpolxz1(N))
allocate(phase1(N))
allocate(t1(N))

do i=1,N
read(10,*) theta1(i), theta_lab1(i), dsig1(i), dsig_lab1(i), pol1(i), dpolxx1(i), dpolxz1(i), phase1(i), t1(i)
end do
close(10)

open(unit=10, file='kminpnoscalar.dat', status="old", action="read")
allocate(theta2(N))
allocate(theta_lab2(N))
allocate(dsig2(N))
allocate(dsig_lab2(N))
allocate(pol2(N))
allocate(dpolxx2(N))
allocate(dpolxz2(N))
allocate(phase2(N))
allocate(t2(N))

do i=1,N
read(10,*) theta2(i), theta_lab2(i), dsig2(i), dsig_lab2(i), pol2(i), dpolxx2(i), dpolxz2(i), phase2(i), t2(i)
end do
close(10)

do i=1,N
signif(i) = (ABS(dsig2(i)-dsig1(i)))/dsig1(i)
end do

signif_total = SUM(signif)

signif2 = signif_total/N

write(*,*)"Hasil signifikansi untuk partikel tersebut adalah",signif2

deallocate(theta1)
deallocate(theta_lab1)
deallocate(dsig1)
deallocate(dsig_lab1)
deallocate(pol1)
deallocate(dpolxx1)
deallocate(dpolxz1)
deallocate(phase1)
deallocate(t1)
deallocate(theta2)
deallocate(theta_lab2)
deallocate(dsig2)
deallocate(dsig_lab2)
deallocate(pol2)
deallocate(dpolxx2)
deallocate(dpolxz2)
deallocate(phase2)
deallocate(t2)

end program signifikansi

here is my code but all i get is an error massage like this
Program received signal SIGSEGV: Segmentation fault - invalid memory reference.

Backtrace for this error:
#0  0x7F0C2BFC2777
#1  0x7F0C2BFC2D7E
#2  0x7F0C2BC1AD3F
#3  0x403034 in MAIN__ at signifikansi1.f90:?
Segmentation fault

The N_energi for the input is 39, and the N_sudut is 120.
I got the N value at the output but my code can not calculate further result.
Can anyone help me with this? Thank you.
My guessing is the array size i used is too big.

A: I have taken your code and loaded it into my Eclipse IDE, using the free GNU Fortran.
I have run Project - Build All. The way it compiles the code is to use flag -WAll which shows all warnings, and this is always a good idea. Your Fortran compiler may have a different set of flags to choose from.

13:26:49 **** Build of configuration Debug for project TestFortran2 ****
make all
Building file: ../TestFortran2.f90
Invoking: GNU Fortran Compiler
gfortran -funderscoring -O0 -g -Wall -c -fmessage-length=0 -o "TestFortran2.o" "../TestFortran2.f90"
../TestFortran2.f90:52:0:

 signif(i) = (ABS(dsig2(i)-dsig1(i)))/dsig1(i)

Warning: 'signif.offset' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
../TestFortran2.f90:55:0:

 signif_total = SUM(signif)

Warning: 'signif.offset' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
../TestFortran2.f90:55:0: Warning: 'signif.dim[0].lbound' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
../TestFortran2.f90:55:0: Warning: 'signif.dim[0].ubound' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
Finished building: ../TestFortran2.f90

Building target: TestFortran2
Invoking: GNU Fortran Linker
gfortran  -o "TestFortran2"  ./TestFortran2.o
Finished building target: TestFortran2

13:26:53 Build Finished. 0 errors, 4 warnings. (took 4s.364ms)

These are the lines which show warnings in the code editor, on lines 51 through 55:

do i=1,N
    signif(i) = (ABS(dsig2(i)-dsig1(i)))/dsig1(i)
end do

signif_total = SUM(signif)

As Ian Bush has already commented above, it looks like you haven't allocated the signif array. It seems to need to be of size N. So, I added it to the code, allocated at the end of the other allocations, and added it also to the list of deallocations.
I then cleaned the build, and rebuilt it all. Result is no errors or warnings.
As already noted, we cannot do more without an input file, but since N is, in your example, only of size 39 x 120 = 5,000 elements it is unlikely to cause a problem for allocations.
You can always check for the success of an allocation, using the Stat keyword:
Allocate(Array(Size),Stat=SuccessCode)

A couple of other things. It's worth getting a good IDE as this will make coding much easier. Also, when you code, it's not essential that you indent your code, but it does make it much easier to read it later.

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What's next when I get time I want to add a history feature so that every time you run the Gui it will record the result to an XML file so that the next time you run it in a week or months time it can then show you how much each mailbox has grown since. Also I'd like to come up with a cmd-line version that will output the result to a HTML Email with all the same functions. If anyone has any other idea's they would like to see please let me know and I'll see what I can do.
I've put a download of the new version here.
Thanks for this script. Do I have to do any type of impersonation for this script to be fully functional?
No it uses the Get-MailboxFolderStatistics cmdlet which only requires that you have some form of delegated Exchange Admin rights.
program, or script file. Verify the term and try again.
If I try to run this cmdlet I get an error that it isn't digitally signed and therefore can't be run. What am I doing wrong?
If you right click the file in Windows explorer select properties. Then down the bottom of the properties dialouge there is a section called Security. Select Unblock.
Lots of "You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression.
At C:\mbsizereportv4.ps1:84 char:97" and the "Get folder size" button stops working.
It's still very useful, but I thought I would mention it.
Thanks Matt appreciate the bug reports i'll look into that problem and see if i can reproduce and fix it.
How to run at all? .ps1 not recognized, try to click/run with powershell it flashes open an closes.
I just wanted to say thanks for your work on this script. This help me very much!
Thanks for the bug fix! Now the "quota errors" are gone.
It's not related to a certain user, sometimes it works for user X, sometimes not.
i cant get the folder size cuz i am using aliases instead of the nt user ids for mailbox names. so while it gives me the sizes in full i cant see the individual sizes in detail.
any help with this pls?
A great feature would be a way to click one button and dump the store details to a separate file for each user so that we could demonstrate to each user how much space all of those joke folders that they have really waste.
Keep up the great coding and thanks!
Just a quick question: is it really MB in DelItems row?
It shows, for example, John Smith , #items 5044, MB Size 436MB, DelItems 90315 Mb.
If not, can you fix this?
Yeah sounds like another bug to me it sounds like its returning KB instead of MB for some reason. I'll have a look when i get a chance and post a fix.
I'm not a big script/coder person, but I'd like to modify the script to allow me to specify a target domain controller. We have mailbox users in multiple subdomains and the get folder statistics fails because it can't find the user on whatever parent domain controller the powershell console chose at launch. I was thinking a variable $targetdc, but I can't tell where I should plug it in.
Great script. Do you know of a way to view the sub-folders of a specific mailbox (inbox), and possibly the number of items or any other details about it?
I have answered my own question. It appears that if the mailbox has sub-folders they do indeed show up.
Thanks for your work on the script - excellent tool.
I haven't used the script as yet but I gather that it works as advertised. Your hard work is appreciated. Although the commercial reporting tools for Exchange do much more, this script addresses a crucial need. This script will produce the data that I need to charge back to our departments fairly. Your script may also save me tens of thousands of dollars in licenses for software packages that could provide mailbox-usage data, but deliver many features I don't need.
This is a great tool. Would it be possible to add the mail database that the user is a part of to the export file?
All quotas are listed as 0... but every one of our users have quotas. One in particular is on the "warning" status but again that quot number is 0... any ideas?
a command line email output would be awesome, this is what I was looking for. Nonetheless, it seems like a great program!
ForEach-Object : Cannot convert argument "0", with value: "0 B (0 bytes)", for "Round" to type "System.Decimal": "Cannot convert the "0 B (0 bytes)" value of type "Microsoft.Exchange.Data.ByteQuantifiedSize" to type "System.Decimal"."
When I run the Script I am getting errors on Exchange 2010, is this the case?


Joseph Bellows Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of photographs by Beth Dow. The exhibition will feature a selection of Dow's photographs from her series, In the Garden. The exhibition will be on view from January 23rd through March 7th, 2009. An opening reception will be held on Friday, January 23rd (5-8 pm).
Interested in garden history and historical concepts of paradise, Beth Dow photographed formal English and Italian gardens in her most recent series, In the Garden. For Dow, the shape and mystery of these places not only offer glimpses of the rich traditions of garden making, but also reveal attempts to control and dominate nature. Dow aims for pictures that have a meditative quality to reflect the spiritual urges that inspired the earliest gardens centuries ago.
Dow's photographs describe both the appearance and the experience of these spaces. Carefully placed classical statuary, urns, and pillars stand still in these intricately planned, perfectly manicured gardens. The viewer can sense that all is quiet in these spaces but for the hum of insects and rustling of leaves. Dow's photographs are imbued with the sense of stillness and timelessness these gardens' visitors must experience.
Dow's precise compositions and the richness of her platinum-palladium prints, compliment the texture and precision of the landscapes she photographs. As her camera explores the shapes and corners of these spaces, Dow guides the viewer's eye through her pictures, and she too becomes a gardener in a sense.
Beth Dow grew up in Minneapolis. She later moved to London, where she developed her eye for unusual landscapes and became interested in the ways we interact with our environment. Her pictures are shot with hand-held medium format rangefinder and 35mm SLR cameras and printed in platinum-palladium. She has received several awards, including a fellowship from the McKnight Foundation and an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Minnesota State Arts Board. Dow's photographs are included in the permanent collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, and the Portland Art Museum. She currently lives in Minneapolis.


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Gilles Villeneuve: A Photographic Portrait
The outstanding images in this book chronicle the career of one of the most admired Grand Prix drivers in living memory - and surely the most loved in all of F1 history. Gilles Villeneuve's career statistics cannot even begin to explain the mystique. It was created over only four full seasons with Ferrari in F1, three of these with uncompetitive cars. He achieved only six victories from 67 starts, two pole positions, eight fastest laps and 107 championship points. He was one of the finest racing drivers never to become World Champion. He possessed miraculous car control and frightening courage that could often overcome the flaws in his equipment. He thrilled spectators because he made them fear for his safety. He raced to win and, if that meant taking risks, so be it. He crashed often, and occasionally he broke his cars in his frustration, but he could wring from them performances far beyond their capabilities. Sometimes his starts almost defined belief, and always he was magnificent on a wet track. He never, ever, gave up. He treated his racing cars with uncompromising brutality. Yet he was soft-natured, and emotional and devoted family man, loyal to his friends, charming to strangers. He was unwavering in his commitment to sportsmanship, to his inborn sense of right and wrong. One dreadful day, incensed by an injustice, he took a risk too many. The memories he left us will stay with us always. There has never been a racing driver like Gilles Villeneuve. It is impossible to believe there ever will be.
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Hot Wheels Variations: The Ultimate Guide (3rd Edition)
Hot Wheels Variations, even with minute differences, can be double the value of a collectible die-cast car. It's all in the details when you're dealing with Hot Wheels, and nothing is more detail driven than variations. Whether it's a slightly different shade of paint, a different wheel, interior or window, owning a variation can mean the difference between a $10 collector die-cast car and a rare find worth $500. This new edition of the ultimate guide to Hot Wheels variations features 4,000+ car listings, plus 2,200 large colour photos to help you make smart investments and savvy assessment of your Hot Wheels collection.
How To Build a Cheap Hot Rod
The ever-escalating cost of building or buying a hot rod is leaving more and more would-be hot rodders behind. This book will get those hopefuls off the sidelines by showing how a hot rod can be built for less than the cost of, say, a new Hyundai. Author Dennis Parks documents his own project--building a quintessentially cool Model T roadster from a "Track-T" kit--showing in step-by-step detail how to turn a pile of parts into a rockin hot rod. He provides a detailed, easy-to-follow guide for building a car of your own. The advice and instructions cover every aspect of an affordable hot rod build, from establishing the target vehicle and budget, to finding parts, building the car, and fine tuning the finished vehicle on the road. With Parks' money-saving tips and photo-supported how-to sequences, virtually anyone with minimal mechanical skills and the will to use them can be sure of building their hot rod right, and for the right price. The book also includes a full resource guide and recommendations for further reading.
How to Keep Your SUV Alive!: User Friendly Automotive Tips and Techniques for Driving, Maintaining, and Extending the Overall Life of Your Sport Utility Vehicle
A user-friendly manual written with the layperson in mind, this guide provides tips, techniques, and trade secrets to help the owners best maintain their minivans. Includes chapters on buying a new minivan, add-ons, engine options, paint options, breaking in the minivan, oil changes, light maintenance, maintaining chassis, suspension, brakes, tires, wheels, paint, exterior and interior. It also provides miscellaneous information covering everything from air conditioner repair to driving tips.
How to Modify Your Metric Cruiser
Cruisers account for more than 60 percent of the street bike market in the United States. Each year metric cruisers — cruisers built by company's other than Harley-Davidson — account for an increasing portion of the cruiser market. Cruisers are about style, and the booming aftermarket is as focused on appearance as it is on performance. Every cruiser sold is modified, period. The changes might be purely cosmetic (such as the addition of chrome, custom paint, and touring equipment), or they might improve performance (aftermarket exhaust, engine mods, brake upgrades).
How to Ride to Save Your Hide: Street Biking
Supplies information on motorcycle selection, safety, touring accessories, cafe racer construction, maintenance and troubleshooting, and state requirements.
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Hugo Wilson's Hot Bikes
Packed with more than 300 motorcycles, from vintage cycles to the latest BMW, Yamaha, and Honda superbikes, Hot Bikes is a revved-up collection that will delight bikers and motorbike enthusiasts alike. Author Hugo Wilson has handpicked the most exceptional motorcycles ever to rule the roads, and added a selection of 21st-century machines to bring the book up to date. Superb photography and a classic DK layout showcase the bikes, with specs and text that celebrate the appeal of each brilliant machine.
I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford
Growing up as a Michigan farm boy with a bone-deep loathing of farming, Ford intuitively saw the advantages of internal combustion. Resourceful and fearless, he built his first gasoline engine out of scavenged industrial scraps. It was the size of a sewing machine. From there, scene by scene, Richard Snow vividly shows Ford using his innate mechanical abilities, hard work, and radical imagination as he transformed American industry.
Kyle at 200 M.P.H.: A Sizzling Season in the Petty/Nascar Dynasty
A behind-the-scenes look at the stock car racing circuit through the eyes of a NASCAR racer interweaves descriptions of the daily goings-on in the pit and on the track with a history of the Petty racing dynasty.
Little Book of Aston Martin
The Little Book of Aston Martin gives a concise illustrated history of the marque.
Little Book of Canal Boats
Britain's waterways have been used as a source of transport ever since man needed to convey large quantities of minerals, raw material and mass produced commodities. The Romans introduced canals to these islands as early as 120AD and by the late 1700s, a network of man-made arteries linked major rivers and sea ports to land-locked industrialised cities and towns across the country. Initially barges were pulled by horse but as steam and then internal combustion engines were developed during the 19th Century, they were introduced into the narrow boat. The advent of rail travel and improvements to roads, however, saw the decline of this slow and leisurely form of transport and canals gradually fell into disrepair. After World War II, it was realised that much of Britain's social and industrial heritage was disappearing and there emerged an enthusiasm to preserve our past as much as possible. 1946 saw the founding of the Inland Waterways Association who initially set about reopening parts of the system. Now there are more than 4,000 miles of navigable waterways with many more earmarked for restoration. They include some of Britain's greatest engineering feats such as tunnels, aqueducts and flights of locks, today numbering amongst our most popular tourist attractions.
Little Book of Concorde
Concorde, arguably one of the most elegant airliners ever produced, was known as the peoples' aircraft. From the early planning stages, to its withdrawal from service and subsequent display as a museum exhibit, this book tells the story of an iconic aircraft that was the result of a unique collaboration between the aviation industries of Britain and France. Illustrated with stunning images, it tells how the aviation industries of the two countries united to produce the world's first successful supersonic airliner.
Little Book of Ferrari
The Little Book of Ferrari provides a concise history of the car.
Little Book of Porsche
The Little Book of Porsche gives a concise illustrated history of the marque.
Little Book of Spitfire
Little book of Spitfire provides a concise history of one of the great fighter planes of WW2.
Little Book of the Beetle
Little Book of Beetle is a 128-page hardback book written by Jon Stroud, which charts the history of this motoring icon.
Lords of the Sky: Fighter Pilots and Air Combat
The New York Times bestselling author of Viper Pilot and retired USAF F-16 legend Dan Hampton offers the first comprehensive popular history of combat aviation-a unique, entertaining, and action-packed look at the aces of the air and their machines, from the trailblazing aviators of World War I to today's technologically expert warriors flying supersonic jets.One of the most decorated fighter pilots in history, U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Dan Hampton goes back 100 years to tell the extraordinary stories of the most famous fighter planes and the brave and daring heroes who made them legend. Told in his acclaimed high-octane style, Lords of the Sky is a fresh and exhilarating look at the development of aviation for history and military buffs alike.
Lusitania: Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age
On the 100th Anniversary of its sinking, King and Wilson tell the story of the Lusitania's glamorous passengers and the torpedo that ended an era and prompted the US entry into World War I. Lusitania: She was a ship of dreams, carrying millionaires and aristocrats, actresses and impresarios, writers and suffragettes, a microcosm of the last years of the waning Edwardian Era and the coming influences of the Twentieth Century. When she left New York on her final voyage, she sailed from the New World to the Old; yet an encounter with the machinery of the New World, in the form of a primitive German U-Boat, sent her and her gilded passengers, to their tragic deaths and opened up a new era of indiscriminate warfare. A hundred years after her sinking, Lusitania remains an evocative ship of mystery. Was she carrying munitions that exploded? Did Winston Churchill engineer a conspiracy that doomed the liner? Lost amid these tangled skeins is the romantic, vibrant, and finally heartrending tale of the passengers who sailed aboard her. Lives, relationships, and marriages ended in the icy waters off the Irish Sea; those who survived were left haunted and plagued with guilt. Now, authors Greg King and Penny Wilson resurrect this lost, glittering world to show the golden age of travel and illuminate the most prominent of Lusitania's passengers. Rarely was an era so glamorous; rarely was a ship so magnificent; and rarely was the human element of tragedy so quickly lost to diplomatic maneuvers and militaristic threats.
Model T (DVD: History Channel)
The Model T occupies a unique place in history. The first car to be built on a production line the Model T transformed automobiles from a plaything of the rich to a transportation tool available to the average man. The world has never been the same. Model T traces the complete story of the "Tin Lizzie" from the very first production cars in 1908 to the end of the line - 15 million cars later - in the late '20s. See extensive footage of the world's first automobile plant where Henry Ford's vision of a car for the masses became a reality. Vintage shots of Ts in action nationwide show the remarkable influence the car had on the nation while aficionados of this all-time classic show off their prized possessions and take them out for a spin. Hold on tight - the "Tin Lizzie" can reach a blistering 40 miles an hour!


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Q: Set and get the timestamp manually using appsrc/appsink in Gstreamer gstreamer developpers.
At sender,I use appsrc for abtaining outer YUV data,and then encode and
transmit via rtph265pay and udpsink.
At receiver,I use udpsrc and rtph265depay to receive H265 bitstream,and then
I use appsink to extract YUV data.
In appsrc, I set timestamp like this:
GST_BUFFER_PTS(buffer)=100;
In appsink,I get the timestamp like this:
timestamp=GST_BUFFER_PTS(buffer);
But it comes the problem:the value of timestamp don't equal to 100(I set in
appsrc). Why???
Actually,I just want to achieve this:
At sender, First,I obtain YUV data via appsrc. I want to write an ID into
each frame of YUV(before encoding), and then I encode,and then I transmit
them into Local Area Network via rtph265pay and udpsink.
At receiver, I receive them via udpsrc and rtph265depay,then I decode and
get YUV data via appsink.
My main purpose is: At receiver,I can get the ID of each YUV data so that I
can have the knowledge that if there exists a phenomenon of lossing data
when transmitting by checking the continuous ID numbers.
Then I thought of  a method: Using timestamp maybe can achieve my purpose.So
I tried.
Now, I set "do-timestamp" as FALSE in appsrc, and I found that udpsrc also
has the "do-timestamp" property,so I also set "do-timestamp" as FALSE in
udpsrc.
Then I set the rest properties of appsrc like this:
g_object_set(G_OBJECT(appsrc),
           "stream-type",0,
           "is-live",TRUE,
           "format",GST_FORMAT_TIME,
           "max-bytes",FRAME_W*FRAME_H*3/2*100,
           "block",TRUE,
           "min-percent",50,
            NULL);
Then I output the timestamp in appsink,but it doesn't equal to 100 which I
set in appsrc.
Is there something else I don't realize? Please help me find the problem.
Or if I set the timestamp in GstRtpBuffer(in this way,I can set timestamp as
frame ID and I can get this timestamp before decoding.),how can I do?
static int cb_need_data (App * app,int num){
static GstClockTime timestamp = 0;
GstBuffer *buffer;
guint buffersize;
GstFlowReturn ret;
GstMapInfo info;

buffersize = FRAME_H * FRAME_W * 3/2;
m.lock();
buffer = gst_buffer_new_allocate(nullptr,buffersize,nullptr);
m.unlock();

gst_buffer_fill(buffer,0,Q3.DeQueue().data,buffersize);

//buffer = gst_buffer_copy(buffer);
GST_BUFFER_PTS(buffer) = 100;
//GST_BUFFER_DTS(buffer) = 100;

cout << endl << "GST_BUFFER_PTS_IS_VALID(buffer) is: " << GST_BUFFER_PTS_IS_VALID(buffer) << endl;

// Push the buffer into the appsrc
g_signal_emit_by_name (app->videosrc, "push-buffer", buffer, &ret);
//gst_app_src_push_buffer(GST_APP_SRC(app->videosrc),buffer);

}

gst_buffer_unref (buffer);
return 0;

}
static GstFlowReturn on_new_sample_from_sink (GstElement * pipeline, guint size, App * app)
{
GstSample *sample;
GstBuffer *app_buffer, *buffer;
GstMapInfo map;
GstFlowReturn ret;
gboolean res;
guint buffersize;
GstClockTime timestamp;

buffersize = FRAME_H * FRAME_W * 3/2;
buffer = gst_buffer_new_and_alloc(buffersize);
gst_buffer_make_writable(buffer);

g_signal_emit_by_name (GST_APP_SINK (pipeline), "pull-sample", &sample, NULL);
if (sample){
    GstCaps *caps;
GstStructure *s;

caps = gst_sample_get_caps(sample);
if (!caps){
    g_print("could not get snapshot format.***\n");
    exit(-1);
}
s = gst_caps_get_structure(caps,0);

// we need to get the final caps on the buffer to get the size
res = gst_structure_get_int(s,"width",&width);
res |= gst_structure_get_int (s, "height", &height);
if (!res){
    g_print("could not get snapshot dimension.***\n");
    exit(-1);
}else{
    g_print("1:width=%d,height=%d\n",width,height);
}
}else{
g_print("Failed in if(sample).***\n");
}

buffer = gst_sample_get_buffer (sample);

timestamp = GST_BUFFER_PTS(buffer);
cout << "\n===timestamp is: " << timestamp << endl;
cout << endl << "GST_BUFFER_PTS_IS_VALID(buffer) is: " << GST_BUFFER_PTS_IS_VALID(buffer) << endl;

// Mapping a buffer
if (gst_buffer_map(buffer,&map,GST_MAP_READ)){
Q1.EnQueue(map.data);
++numOfEnqueue;
g_print("---numOfQueue is: %d.---\n\n\n",numOfEnqueue);

} else g_print("failed in gst_buffer_map.***\n");

//we don't need the appsink sample anymore
gst_sample_unref (sample);

return GST_FLOW_OK;

}

A: You probably solved that problem in the meantime, but just out of curiosity, would setting timestamp like the following help?
GST_BUFFER_TIMESTAMP(buffer) = 100;


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