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Young adults struggle, succeed with financial intelligence
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Anjali Noel Ramesh
In a secluded hallway on the North side of the school, surrounded by art and language classes, lies the two finance and economics classrooms. Teachers Susan Lidholm and Stacy Elsbury educate their students on both individual and global economic principles.
Personal Finance, one of the business classes RBHS offers, is a required credit by the state of Missouri for all high schoolers to complete before they graduate; however, students can test out of the class by taking Advanced Placement Economics. The personal finance class became mandated in 2006, when the State Board of Education deemed it necessary to prepare students to make informed decisions in their future work and family life. The class focuses on educating students on how to manage their expenses, income and how to invest their time to create a profitable future for themselves.
20% of young millennials expect to rely financially on parents into their 30s. [Source: Bizjournals.com]
Lidholm teaches the class through simulations such as controlled spending through a budget wheel tracker, and giving the students practice dividing an assigned net income among necessary day-to-day expenses. The simulator also provides "chance" cards that throw in possible, random scenarios, such as a speeding ticket or a small sum of money from a lottery win, for students to deal with when completing the activity. She also said she believes the best way to tell students about budgeting is through hands-on, real world practice rather than lectures.
"The cardinal rule in Personal Finance is to put money in savings before you even actually start to spend," Lidholm said. "It's always easy to overspend, and we want you to know that you have a budget and this is your requirement."
One of Lidholm's hopes for the future is to be able to invite outside business managers, such as car salespeople and bankers, to come to events at RBHS like the course fair and career fair. She said professionals in these fields would help educate students on insurance maintenance. Additionally, from their experience in the world outside of school, they would provide opportunities to practice budgeting for novice high schoolers.
"We do [simulations] on a smaller level in class, and it works out really well," Lidholm said. "So, [it would be helpful] to be able to make [the project] broader and more hands on with real-life situations."
Parents, work experience influence financial decision-making
Senior Jordan Kuhnert enrolled in an online, condensed version of Personal Finance during the summer before her junior year. While she said taking the class was useful to an extent, currently she is turning to her parents to answer more detailed questions about finances. This includes how to manage her insurance for the future, both with living arrangements and automobile maintenance. Kuhnert knows how to complete basic tasks for independent living, like doing laundry and changing a tire, but she said she would rather have help from her parents when tackling tougher financial issues, such as managing insurance and doing taxes.
"I have a job, so I've had to do taxes, but my dad definitely helped me with them," Kuhnert said. "And I've had practice budgeting my money because my parents made sure that was a big part of what they taught me."
In terms of controlling how much she spends on food, Kuhnert said she maintains a healthy lifestyle for the most part. She avoids eating out at fast food restaurants for lunch and packs her own food daily. Kuhnert also tries to exercise through activities she enjoys, such as hiking.
Exercising regularly helps reduce the cost of healthcare bills because it lowers the risk in medical issues, such as heart attack and stroke, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. With these practices, Kuhnert said she is ready to live independently beyond high school.
"My parents have played a pretty big role in teaching me how to live on my own," Kuhnert said. "It'll be an adjustment, but I think I'll be OK [after I graduate]."
Though Kuhnert said she is conscientious of how much she spends on meals, Lidholm said having a financial plan when it comes to food is often the major struggle for high schoolers. Students pay large costs for food from off-campus fast-food restaurants, according to a survey by Piper Jaffray, a branch of the financial services business Piper Sandler Companies. In spring, 2019, the average amount of money teenagers spent in total, including on clothes, cosmetics, technology and food, was $2,600 per year. After responses from 8,000 adolescents, the survey revealed food was the number one spending priority for males and the number two for females.
Lidholm said paying for lunch or a snack is not inherently careless because food is an essential part of everyday life. She did highlight, however, the importance of allocating a cap on food finances.
"Since we have such an open campus at [RBHS], just be aware of how much you're spending, particularly [on] food," Lidholm said. "And not that spending on food is a bad idea, but think about if you budgeted that money and whether you're spending within your budget."
Food is only one of the priorities for junior Quinn Tyler. To pay for her vehicle's expenses, such as gas, she has worked at Addison's American Grill as a waitress since March 2019. What she does not spend on her car goes into her savings account and helps pay for any educational programs she wants to take over the summer. Tyler, who took Personal Finance online during the summer before her junior year, said working during high school has not only helped her improve her budgeting skills, but it has also increased her awareness when considering how much she spends.
"I realized that what you may think is a lot of money runs out really quickly," Tyler said. "Spending your own money completely changes your perspective about money, what necessary expenses are and the value of hard work."
Tyler and Kuhnert both said their previous experiences — from parents and employers alike — helped improve their financial abilities more than the ideas they studied in school. Though Missouri educators impart the importance of financial management on students, Tyler and Kuhnert said exposure to real-life situations is the best way to practice economic skills.
By age 35 the average American has already had 11 jobs. [Source: Businessinsider.com]
"School hasn't really taught me any skills that will directly impact my ability to live independently," Tyler said. "Most of what I've learned in school is really just preparing me for more school, which is applicable to what I want to do with my life, but the same doesn't apply to everyone."
While Kuhnert said the required Personal Finance course hasn't given her much insight directly into her future, she said a combination of the class and her parents' lessons supply her with the confidence to take her next step, college, after high school. With more practice handling economic issues through trial and error, as well as performing individual, daily tasks, Kuhnert said she will become self-sufficient financially and feel ready for adulthood.
"I'm probably not as aware of my spending as I could be, but if I make a budget, I usually stick to it," Kuhnert said. " I feel like I'd adapt [to living independently] and that in the long run I'd be OK."
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Q: Java abstract class constructor I'm wondering what is happening here:
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And subclass
public class Subclass extends Superclass{
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When I make
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I don't know why first I get x=0 (why not x=10 from the start?) and then x=10?

A: The constructor of the super-class is executed before the isntance initializer expressions of the sub-class, which is why x still has the default value of 0 in the first call to doSth(). The second call x.doSth() takes places after the Subclass instance is fully initialized, so x contains 10.
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When you call the constrcutor of Subclass, first it calls the constructor of Superclass which calls the constructor of Object. Then the body of the Superclass constructor is executed, so doSth() is executed. Only after the Superclass constructor is done, the instance initialization expressions of Subclass (in your case, the assignment x = 10; are evaluated. Before they are evaluated, x still contains the default value - 0, which is the value you see printed by the first call to doSth().

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'I completely disagree with and condemn this language. It is unacceptable.'
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has condemned the "unacceptable" language that Archbishop of Nigeria Henry Ndukuba recently used to describe gay people.
In response to a statement on the pastoral care of gay people issued by the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) in January, Archbishop Ndukuba wrote last week: "The deadly 'virus' of homosexuality has infiltrated ACNA. This is likened to a Yeast that should be urgently and radically expunged and excised lest it affects the whole dough (Luke 13:20-21; Gal. 5:9)."
In a statement issued on Friday, Archbishop Welby says: "I completely disagree with and condemn this language. It is unacceptable. It dehumanises those human beings of whom the statement speaks.
"I have written privately to His Grace The Archbishop to make clear that this language is incompatible with the agreed teaching of the Anglican Communion (expressed most clearly, albeit in unsuitable language for today, in paragraphs c and d of resolution I.10 of the Lambeth Conference 1998).
"This resolution both restated a traditional view of Christian marriage and was clear in its condemnation of homophobic actions or words. It affirmed that 'all baptised, believing and faithful persons, regardless of sexual orientation, are full members of the Body of Christ.'"
Archbishop of Nigeria Henry Ndukuba
The statement concludes: "The Anglican Communion continues to seek to walk together amidst much difference and through many struggles. I urge all Christians to join me in continuing prayer for the people and churches of Nigeria as they face economic hardship, terrorist attacks, religious-based violence and insecurity.
"The mission of the Church is the same in every culture and country: to demonstrate, through its actions and words, that God's offer of unconditional love to every human being through Jesus Christ calls us to holiness and hope."
Archbishop Welby's episcopal colleagues have expressed support for the statement.
The Archbishop of York, the Most Revd Stephen Cottrell, posted on Twitter: "I welcome and support @JustinWelby's clear condemnation of the language used by Archbishop Ndukuba in his recent statement. I share his sorrow that LGBTI+ people across the world will feel less safe as a result."
The Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Sarah Mullally, posted: "I support the Archbishop's comments and share his condemnation of the language used."
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Cloud service providers like Microsoft Azure and AWS have more in common with superheroes than one might think. Cloud storage companies touch the lives of millions; often making the world a better place.
In the battle of AWS vs Azure, Azure and AWS are superheroes in their own rights—but, who is on the top of the cloud?
A superficial glance might lead you to believe that AWS has an unprecedented edge over Azure, but a deeper look will prove the decision isn't that easy. To determine the best cloud service provider, one needs to take multiple factors into consideration, such as cloud storage pricing, data transfer loss rate, and rates of data availability, among others.
From elementary schools to NASA, clouds have touched every sphere of our lives. Who said superheroes are just found in comic books?
Let us begin with to know the winner of the AWS vs Azure battle.
AWS vs Azure: The Origins of AWS
In the early 2000s, Amazon was forced to re-examine its development platforms as they catered to their third-party clients. Over the years, they had created a jumbled mess of IT infrastructure where multiple teams worked in silos—often performing the same tasks—with no thought given to efficiency. In an effort to improvise, Amazon's software team detangled the mess that was their infrastructure and replaced it with well-documented APIs. All was quiet until 2003 when, during a retreat, Amazon executives realized that they had the skills necessary to operate and execute scalable, effective data centers. The rest is history.
AWS is the world's leading provider of cloud solutions, providing IT infrastructure solutions on an as-needed basis for companies of all sizes. Prominent companies that utilize AWS include Netflix, Expedia, Hulu, Spotify, and Ubisoft. AWS is a complex and highly customizable platform that works best for companies that run non-Windows services.
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Why Do We Fall? AWS and Cloud Domination
In the AWS vs Azure battle, AWS had an unprecedented upper hand. AWS was first launched in 2002 and its earliest competitor, Google, didn't arrive until 2009. Microsoft didn't step into the cloud market until 2010. Microsoft believed that the cloud infrastructure was just a trend that was soon going to fade away. However, after Amazon's success, Microsoft had to play catch up.
When Azure first launched, it was not received well and faced many challenges, especially when compared to AWS. AWS had been running for almost 7 years and as a result, they had more capital, more infrastructure, and better and more scalable services than Azure did. More importantly, Amazon could add more servers to its cloud infrastructure and make better use of economies of scale—something that Azure was scrambling to do. This was a setback for Microsoft—not only was Microsoft dethroned as the leader in software infrastructure, but it was now being shown the door by a non-IT newbie.
Mind If I Cut In? Azure's Redemption
The tide soon changed for Azure. Microsoft quickly revamped its cloud offering and added support to a variety of programming languages and operating systems. They made their systems more scalable and made peace with Linux. Today, Azure is one of the leading cloud providers in the world.
AWS vs Azure: Making the World a Better Place
Both Amazon and AWS technologies have, in their own way, contributed to the welfare of society.
For example, NASA has used the AWS platform to make its huge repository of pictures, videos, and audio files easily discoverable in one centralized location, giving people access to images of galaxies far away.
Similarly, People in Need, a nonprofit organization, uses AWS to scale an early warning system that alerts about 400,000 people in Cambodia when floods threaten. This technology has not only helped save hundreds of lives but has also made available a cost-effective method that can be replicated by other at-risk regions.
The Azure IoT Suite was used to create the Weka Smart Fridge, which keeps vaccinations properly stored. This has helped nonprofit medical agencies ensure that their vaccinations reach people who otherwise don't have access to these facilities.
Azure is also used to find solutions to the world's looming freshwater crisis. By working with Microsoft Azure, Nalco Water, the main water operational unit within Ecolab, uses cloud computing and advanced analytics to create solutions to help organizations reuse and recycle water.
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Aggressive Expansions - AWS vs Azure: Which is Better?
Azure and AWS are both well-respected members of the cloud domain. They fight for a larger piece of the cloud pie and take the world by storm while doing so. Azure holds about 29.4% of all installed application workloads while AWS stands at 41.5 percent and Google holds just 3 percent of all installed application workloads.
In 2017, AWS's market share featured at 47.1 percent with Q4 revenue of $3.66 billion, while Azure's market share didn't rise above 10 percent with a revenue of $6.9 billion (of course, Microsoft's revenue figures are higher because their cloud division includes both Azure and Office 365).
However, in its recent Q1 FY 2018 earnings report, Microsoft's revenue from Azure grew over 90% this year, doubling the growth rate of AWS.
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The Game Has Changed - The Cloud is the Future: Are You Ready?
Cloud computing allows companies to get new products on the market faster, increase efficiency, lower operational costs, improve interdepartmental collaboration, reduce capital expenditures, and increase innovation.
Companies that are ill-equipped to handle these changes could run the risk of falling behind.
However, to make the move to the cloud, organizations must have trained professionals on the job who are certified in cloud computing. Certified professionals can easily address the concerns that may arise during the transition to the cloud and are familiar with the nuances of cloud-based computing.
Due to this need for certified professionals, a huge demand for skilled employees has been largely unmet. LinkedIn reports that cloud and distributed computing topped the list of sought-after skills in both 2016 and 2017. Dice reports that job listings for the AWS cloud platform increased by 76 percent between 2015 and 2016. In 2015, 3.9 million jobs were affiliated with cloud computing Bootcamp in the United States and over 18 million worldwide. For qualified professionals, salaries are very high and competitive. According to Forbes, jobs in cloud computing are well compensated with an average salary of $125,591 for AWS certified professionals.
With the onset of cloud computing, several major cloud providers quickly rose to dominance but today, AWS and Azure lead the industry. These two cloud hosting platforms drive much of the job growth in the cloud computing space which leads to a dilemma for job seekers. With both AWS and Azure as dominant players in the market, which cloud certification makes the most sense for your career path? Should you pursue AWS certification or Azure certification? There are benefits and drawbacks to each certification which should be considered before choosing which one to pursue.
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The Awakening - AWS vs Azure: The Certification Game
When it comes to the differences between AWS vs Azure, there are plenty. Both come with their own advantages and disadvantages. AWS and Azure are the two top players in the cloud technology space because both are very good at what they provide in different ways. In order to narrow down which platform is the right one to become certified in, an evaluation of the benefits of each certification is warranted.
The Benefits of AWS Certification: Although Azure is rapidly gaining market share, AWS is still by far the largest cloud computing service provider in the world today. AWS certification carries extra weight because of additional marketability due to the number of companies utilizing the platform. In addition, AWS certification grants access to the AWS Certified LinkedIn Community and other AWS certified professionals.
There are several AWS certifications for Developers and professionals to choose from, including AWS SysOps Associate, AWS Developer Associate, gcp certification, and Cloud Architect Certification.
The Benefits of Azure Certification: An Azure certification is backed by the Microsoft brand, giving the added benefit to candidates familiar with the in-house data platforms. Azure is used by over 55 percent of all Fortune 500 companies and gaining Azure certification increases the possibility of candidates finding a job in one of these companies. In addition, about 365,000 new companies adopt Azure every year, regularly increasing the need for Azure-certified professionals. Several Azure certifications are available to choose from, including Cloud Solution Architect, Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions, Architect Microsoft Azure, Implementing Microsoft Azure, and Cloud Architect.
Both AWS and Azure are considered to be adaptable, reliable, and resolute—much like the superheroes, we all admire. They help us solve global problems and make our lives easy. They adapt to the needs of their customers and lend a hand to governments and companies in solving various social and logistical issues. Sure, superheroes have helped their citizens and kept them safe, but cloud service providers like AWS and Azure have helped professionals revolutionize their industries without having to break the bank. Cloud systems have made it possible for companies like Uber, Salesforce, and Facebook to exist—all services we take for granted today.
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Comparison of AWS vs. Azure
Pricing - Azure and AWS cater service and pricing based on requirements. However, AWS is rated on an hourly basis and Azure on a minute basis. Azure offers higher flexibility in short-term subscriptions.
Compute and computation services - With so much data being generated these days, there is always a demand for speedier processing methods. Compute services ensure that instances can be spawned in minutes and scaled up instantaneously if necessary. Both AWS and Azure deliver services to meet these requirements.
Development tools - AWS includes two serverless tools, AWS Fargate and Lambda. Azure Function is a serverless platform that, when combined with Azure DevOps pipelines, allows you to streamline and manage complicated workflows. Azure Bot Service, Time Series Insights, IoT Edge, Stream Analytics, and more IoT and AI capabilities are available.
Storage services - Long-lasting and reliable storage services are offered by both AWS and Azure. Moreover, Azure caters to storage services such as Blob Storage, Disk Storage, and Standard Archive, whereas AWS caters to services such as AWS S3, EBS, and Glacier.
Database services - Nowadays, data is created in a variety of formats, therefore the databases that store data must remain updated. AWS and Azure offer different database services to manage both structured and unstructured data. Azure has Azure SQL Server Database, and AWS has Amazon RDS.
Networking services - The Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) makes it possible to build private networks within the Cloud. Similar to VPC, Microsoft Azure Virtual Network enables you to do all of VPC's functions. Both clouds offer firewall options as well as options to expand the on-premise data center into the cloud.
Container and Orchestration Support - AWS offers Big Data and analytics solutions that are more advanced. Depending on requirements, it can offer a wide range of services in the areas of IoT, mobile app development, or building a computing environment. They also provide Docker support. Microsoft competes in this space and may go a step further by providing Hadoop support through services such as Azure HDInsight.
Compliance - Amazon has excellent relationships with government agencies, resulting in enhanced government cloud offerings. They also give excellent security features to ensure that individual users have proper access. Microsoft provides over 50 compatible products.
Security Features - AWS caters a brilliant job of selecting secure alternatives and default settings to provide enhanced privacy. Azure relies on Microsoft's Cloud Defender service for security and data privacy, which is powered by artificial intelligence and safeguards against new and existing threats.
Machine Learning - AWS and Azure both feature machine learning studios for developing machine learning models. Unlike Amazon SageMaker, Azure's studio does not necessitate a thorough understanding of data engineering, Python coding, and open-source libraries.
Job Opportunities and Salary - AWS experts make an average of 6.3 lakhs per year, whereas Azure professionals earn approximately 6.1 lakhs per year. These being the two most common clouds, there is a plethora of job opportunities for AWS and Azure professionals.
Market Share - Amazon reported revenue of $13.5 billion in the first quarter of 2021, exceeding analyst projections of $13.1 billion. When Amazon reveals AWS revenue, Microsoft discloses Azure growth rate. This resulted in a 50% increase in revenue over the preceding quarter in Q2 of 2021, exceeding the 46% growth projected by analysts.
Establishment - AWS launched public in 2006, offering services such as Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Microsoft Azure, formerly known as Azure, was founded in 2010 to provide businesses with a reliable Cloud Computing platform. Azure was rebranded 'Microsoft Azure' in 2014, however, the term 'Azure' is still frequently used.
Availability Zones - The supported regions and availability are the first things to consider when choosing a cloud space provider. Amazon Web Services is organized into 22 geographical areas and 14 data centers. Over 114 edge sites and 12 Regional Edge Caches are available. Microsoft Azure is divided into 54 regions, each of which has at least three availability zones and 116 edge locations.
Who Uses Them?
Azure and AWS provide users with similar capabilities, and both cloud systems are extremely comprehensive. The availability of the greater Microsoft ecosystem, including numerous productivity tools, business apps, and, of course, Windows, influences the majority of Azure adopters. AWS, on the other hand, can be less expensive and is frequently the preferred choice for first-time adopters.
Key Differences Between AWS and Azure
Customers of AWS EC2 can configure their VMS or pre-configured images, whereas Azure users must select a virtual hard disc to construct a VM that has been pre-configured by a third party.
AWS provides temporary storage that is assigned when an instance is launched and destroyed when it is terminated. In contrast, Azure provides temporary storage via block storage with page Blobs for VMs and Block Blobs for object storage.
Azure accepts hybrid cloud systems, however, AWS does not accept private or third-party cloud providers.
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Enhanced security and reliability with more computational capacity.
They provide premium services for major software providers.
Overwhelming for first-time adopters.
Integration and migration of existing Microsoft services are uncomplicated.
The majority of services are affordable and support hybrid services.
Fewer service options than AWS.
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1. Why is AWS popular than Azure?
Microsoft Azure and AWS both offer comparable services, but both are trying to take the top spot. It is clear from the AWS vs. Azure comparison that AWS is more well-known than Azure, yet the market share and revenue growth figures show that Microsoft Azure entered the market more quickly.
Due to its almost 7-year operating history, AWS has greater resources, infrastructure, and superior, scalable services than Azure. More significantly, while Azure was attempting to catch up, Amazon could expand its cloud infrastructure by adding more servers and utilizing economies of scale more effectively.
2. What is the difference between Azure and AWS?
Azure is regarded as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) as well as an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider. Because of its parent business, Azure is a very potent offering. Microsoft offers an infrastructure support level that is comparable to a few other businesses. On the other hand, AWS has a big toolkit that is expanding exponentially, much like Amazon itself. AWS has more than 10 years of experience in the cloud computing sector, making it the market leader and has been for some time. Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Software as a Service are the three categories under which AWS services fall (Saas).
3. Is Azure the same as AWS?
No, AWS cloud platform was introduced by Amazon in 2006, whereas Azure cloud platform was launched by Microsoft in 2010. Despite having similar use cases and being widely used in the Big Data community, both platforms are owned by different companies.
4. Is Azure easier than AWS?
Both Azure and AWS may be difficult to learn if you don't know what you're doing, or they can be quite simple if you're well instructed. Many IT experts, however, argue that AWS is far easier to learn and obtain certification in. Again, more AWS learning materials (blogs, eBooks, video lessons) are available online.
5. Is AWS better than Azure?
Pay-as-you-go pricing is available from both Azure and AWS. Azure is billed per minute, whereas Amazon Web Services is billed hourly. Azure provides greater flexibility in short-term subscription arrangements. When the two are compared, Azure is more costly. Azure is the finest alternative for a robust Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider and even a Windows integration. If a company needs infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) or a wide range of tools, AWS may be the ideal option. It will be determined by the needs of the users.
6. Is AWS bigger than Azure?
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon.com's cloud computing business, is the world's largest cloud service provider. The company offers over 200 fully featured services from its data centers, including computing, storage, and database. Azure's income has increased by 50%, but the figures are not public. AWS now has a 40% market share, whereas Azure has a 30% market share. AWS looks to be the market leader in terms of market share and revenue.
7. How do I choose between AWS and Azure?
Ask yourself the following five questions to find out: What kind of computing power will I require?, How Much Storage Do I Need for My Company's Infrastructure?, What Kind of Database do I Require?, What Network Capabilities Does My Business Require? And What Am I Able to Afford?
8. What pays better, Azure or AWS?
When comparing the incomes of AWS and Azure certified experts, we can observe that AWS certified professionals are more likely to be paid than Azure certified professionals.
9. AWS vs Azure - Which is better for your career?
Amazon Web Services certainly wins the popularity game. Despite having nearly a third of the market, AWS is still ahead by more than 10%. According to market data, more than 41.5% of apps and services are used by Amazon Web Services.
10. What are the advantages of Microsoft Azure?
Microsoft Azure's notion of speed is altogether different, although they do place a focus on locating data centers across the world to provide consumers the best chance of receiving their data when they need it. One of the primary advantages of adopting Azure is how flexible it is due to its easier scaling. It merely takes a single click to increase service levels, and businesses are free to drop these higher service levels when they no longer want the extra storage, computation, or support. Microsoft Azure has thought of almost everything, including a whole end-to-end array of services.
11. Is Azure easier than AWS?
Both Azure and AWS may be difficult to learn if you don't know what you're doing, or they can be quite simple if you're well instructed. Many IT experts, however, argue that AWS is far easier to learn and obtain certification in.
12. AWS vs. Azure: which certification should you choose?
Finally, the decision is yours. If you want to get certified in the most popular cloud technology today, choose AWS. It has a larger market share than any other cloud service provider and will most likely continue to do so.
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Q: Проблемы с val(): как добавить значение к полю по нажатию на кнопку вместо его перезаписи
Есть вот такая форма, нужно сделать чтобы при нажатии на цифры справа они добавлялись в поле "Ваши доли", я написал скрипт но при нажатии допустим на число "5" в поле пишет "5", при нажатии еще на одно число например "34" оно ту цифру "5" перезаписывает на "34", а нужно чтобы оно добавлялось через запятую например "5,34". Как такое сделать ?

A: В чём проблема к старому val прибавить ещё текст?
var val = $('#elem').val();
var new_val = 34;
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package org.broad.igv.feature.genome.fasta;

import org.broad.igv.AbstractHeadlessTest;
import org.broad.igv.exceptions.DataLoadException;
import org.broad.igv.feature.genome.Genome;
import org.broad.igv.feature.genome.GenomeManager;
import org.broad.igv.feature.genome.fasta.FastaIndex;
import org.broad.igv.feature.genome.fasta.FastaUtils;
import org.broad.igv.util.TestUtils;
import org.junit.Ignore;
import org.junit.Test;

import java.io.File;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import static junit.framework.Assert.assertEquals;
import static junit.framework.Assert.assertNotNull;

/**
 * User: jacob
 * Date: 2013-Mar-01
 */
public class FastaUtilsTest extends AbstractHeadlessTest {

    @Test
    public void testCreateIndex_01() throws Exception {
        String inPath = TestUtils.DATA_DIR + "fasta/ecoli_out.padded2.fasta";
        String outPath = tstCreateIndex(inPath);

        FastaIndex index = new FastaIndex(outPath);
        assertEquals(1, index.getSequenceNames().size());
        String contig = "NC_000913_bb";
        assertNotNull(index.getIndexEntry(contig));
    }

    public void tstCreateIndex_02(String inPath) throws Exception {
        String outPath = tstCreateIndex(inPath);

        FastaIndex index = new FastaIndex(outPath);
        assertEquals(2, index.getSequenceNames().size());
        String tA = "my:testA";
        String tG = "my:testG";
        String[] contigs = {tA, tG};
        for (String contig : contigs) {
            assertNotNull(index.getIndexEntry(contig));
        }

        FastaIndex.FastaSequenceIndexEntry entry = index.getIndexEntry(tA);
        int tAbasesPL = 58;

        //We assume that the test file will have LF line endings
        //regardless of the platform it's on. May change this in the future.
        //git default checkouts may change line endings
        int bytesAtEnd = TestUtils.getBytesAtEnd(inPath);

        int tAbytesPL = tAbasesPL + bytesAtEnd;

        assertEquals(tAbasesPL, entry.getBasesPerLine());
        assertEquals(tAbytesPL, entry.getBytesPerLine());
        assertEquals(9 + bytesAtEnd, entry.getPosition());
        int tAsize = 7 * tAbasesPL + 29;
        assertEquals(tAsize, entry.getSize());
        assertEquals(tA, entry.getContig());

        entry = index.getIndexEntry(tG);

        int tGbasesPL = 56;
        int tGbytesPL = tGbasesPL + bytesAtEnd;
        assertEquals(tGbasesPL, entry.getBasesPerLine());
        assertEquals(tGbytesPL, entry.getBytesPerLine());
        //Starting position is from tA start + tA length + length of header line
        //Since "size" is number of bases, and "position" is bytes, this
        //may look weird
        long tGpos = tAsize + 8*bytesAtEnd + index.getIndexEntry(tA).getPosition() + 9 + bytesAtEnd;
        assertEquals(tGpos, entry.getPosition());
        int tGsize = 5 * tGbasesPL + 26;
        assertEquals(tGsize, entry.getSize());
        assertEquals(tG, entry.getContig());

        GenomeManager manager = GenomeManager.getInstance();
        Genome genome = manager.loadGenome(inPath, null);
        String tAseq = new String(genome.getSequence(tA, 0, tAsize));
        assertEquals(tAsize, tAseq.length());
        String remmed = tAseq.replaceAll("A", "");
        assertEquals(0, remmed.length());

        String tGseq = new String(genome.getSequence(tG, 0, tGsize));
        assertEquals(tGsize, tGseq.length());
        remmed = tGseq.replaceAll("G", "");
        assertEquals(0, remmed.length());
    }

    @Test
    public void testCreateIndexUncompressed() throws Exception {
        String inPath = TestUtils.DATA_DIR + "fasta/fasta_2contigs.fa";
        tstCreateIndex_02(inPath);
    }

    @Test(expected = DataLoadException.class)
    public void testCreateIndexUneven() throws Exception {
        String inPath = TestUtils.DATA_DIR + "fasta/fasta_uneven.fa";
        tstCreateIndex(inPath);
    }

    @Test(expected = DataLoadException.class)
    public void testCreateIndexBlankLines() throws Exception {
        String inPath = TestUtils.DATA_DIR + "fasta/blank_lines.fas";
        tstCreateIndex(inPath);
    }

    @Test @Ignore("Requires largedata bundle")
    public void testCreateIndexEcoli() throws Exception {
        String inPath = TestUtils.LARGE_DATA_DIR + "ecoli.fasta";
        String outPath = tstCreateIndex(inPath);

        GenomeManager manager = GenomeManager.getInstance();
        Genome genome = manager.loadGenome(inPath, null);
        String chr = "gi|110640213|ref|NC_008253.1|";
        assertNotNull(genome.getChromosome(chr));
        //See http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/110640213
        assertEquals(4938920, genome.getTotalLength());

        String beg = "ATGTCTCTGTGTGGATTAAAAAAAGAGTGTCTGATAGCAG";
        int begloc = 30 - 1;
        int endloc = begloc + beg.length();

        byte[] seq = genome.getSequence(chr, begloc, endloc);
        String sseq = new String(seq);
        assertEquals(beg, sseq);
    }

    static Map<String, Integer> testFastaBlanks;

    static {
        testFastaBlanks = new HashMap<String, Integer>(3);
        testFastaBlanks.put("Chrom1", 632);
        testFastaBlanks.put("Chrom2", 284);
        testFastaBlanks.put("Chrom3", 287);
    }

    @Test
    public void testCreateIndexTrailingBlank() throws Exception {
        String inPath = TestUtils.DATA_DIR + "fasta/trailing_line.fas";
        tstCreateIndexGoodBlanks(inPath, testFastaBlanks);
    }

    @Test
    public void testCreateIndexBlankBetweenContigs() throws Exception {
        String inPath = TestUtils.DATA_DIR + "fasta/blank_lines_betweencontigs.fas";
        tstCreateIndexGoodBlanks(inPath, testFastaBlanks);
    }

    private String tstCreateIndex(String inPath) throws Exception{
        String outPath = inPath + ".fai";
        File outFile = new File(outPath);
        outFile.delete();
        outFile.deleteOnExit();

        FastaUtils.createIndexFile(inPath, outPath);
        return outPath;
    }
    public void tstCreateIndexGoodBlanks(String inPath, Map<String, Integer> expectedSizes) throws Exception {
        String outPath = tstCreateIndex(inPath);

        FastaIndex seq = new FastaIndex(outPath);
        assertEquals(expectedSizes.size(), seq.getSequenceNames().size());
        for (String chrom : expectedSizes.keySet()) {
            assertEquals((int) expectedSizes.get(chrom), seq.getSequenceSize(chrom));
        }
    }

    @Test(expected = DataLoadException.class)
    public void testCreateIndexDuplicateContigs() throws Exception{
        String inPath = TestUtils.DATA_DIR + "fasta/dup_contigs.fas";
        String outPath = TestUtils.TMP_OUTPUT_DIR + "tmp.fai";
        File outFile = new File(outPath);
        outFile.delete();
        outFile.deleteOnExit();

        FastaUtils.createIndexFile(inPath, outPath);

    }

}

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It's almost about 9 months ago since Samsung released some new colors for the Galaxy S III Mini hers. At that time, Samsung issued 4 colors at once, ie, Garnet Red, Titan Gray, Amber Brown, and the last is the color of Onyx Black.
It seems that Samsung began to feel that the potential buyers of the Galaxy S III Mini necessary to'' called'' re-think his interest by way of releasing a new color, which is blue. Twitter account @ evleaks have leaked the appearance of the phone that has lower specs in a smaller size than the Galaxy S III is wrapped in a bright blue color.
Unfortunately, there is no further news about the planned release date of Galaxy S III Mini is colored blue. We look forward to it presence.


As a member of the Insight Redefini Group, Insight Publicis congratulates Dr Ken Onyeali Ikpe on his appointment as its Group Managing Director/CEO.
Dr Ikpe will take charge of the Insight Redefini Group (the Troyka/Publicis partnership) which is the holding company for Insight Publicis, Leo Burnett, Starcom Media Perspectives, All Seasons Zenith, Quadrant MSL and TCC Nigeria.
Our Founder and Chairman of the Board, Mr Biodun Shobanjo said "to further fortify Insight Redefini, this appointment coincides with the critical transformation stage of the group in its disruptive leadership, irrefutable excellence, the dominance of the integrated marketing communication value chain with enterprise transforming deep hindsight, clear insights and AI-like actionable foresight".
Dr Ken Onyeali Ikpe started his journey with us at Insight in 1995 as an Account Manager and became an Account Director before he was appointed as the COO of All Seasons Mediacom in 2001. During his time as COO and later CEO, he transformed All Seasons Mediacom to become one of Nigeria's foremost media independent companies. He was then promoted to be the first Group COO upon the formation of Insight Redefini in 2016.
Dr Ken Onyeali Ikpe is a passionate, effective and disciplined leader who is a highly recognized and respected figure in the marketing communications industry, including in the use of digital services such as Link Fire SEO and others marketing services online. He has a doctorate in Development Economics, is an Alumni of Advanced Management Programme (AMP) Lagos Business School and also trained at the prestigious IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain. He is a fellow of Nigeria Institute of Marketing and President of Media Independent Practitioners Association of Nigeria (MIPAN).
He leads by deepening what works, embracing well-researched truth and inspiring other to search for new knowledge. He also has the unique talent of building capacity for loyalty amongst his constituents and is absolutely committed to the increasing success of his team and clients.


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These delicious little gooey pieces of deliciousness are made from raw ingredients and I promise you that you won't want to go back once you've tasted these. With a smooth cashew base and a gooey date middle, topped with a rich dark chocolate, it's like tasting raw gold.
These little treats really are just pure delight! They have everything you want from a sweet treat.
Thanks to them being made with all natural, whole ingredients such as nuts, dates and coconut oil they are also better for you.
Ground the oats and cashew together until fine and then mix in 3 tbsp of melted coconut oil.
Combine well until it is paste like.
Place into the bottom of a 9x9 tin/silicone.
Blend together the dates and 2-3 tbsp of coconut oil until it is a smooth caramel like texture. Add in a couple of tbsp of honey or agave nectar and mix well.
Take the base out of the freezer and add on the date mixture. Press down with the back of a spoon and smooth over.
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Melt together until runny. Mix well.
Take the base back out of the freezer and top with the cacao mixture.


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Lawyers one of the most right-swiped professions on Tinder
By Katie King on Feb 26 2016 10:08am
Tinderellas ❤ male lawyers
Single lawyers fear not — new research has revealed that lawyers are amongst the most likely professions to bag themselves a match on Tinder.
For the past three months, users of the hook-up app have been able to add their education and job title to their profile. Tinder has been analysing the data to find out which professions are the most right-swiped, and it's good news for male lawyers.
In the men's ranks, lawyers came in as the 11th most popular profession. Though some way behind pilots, entrepreneurs and firefighters — who came in at first, second and third place respectively — lawyers did come in higher than the likes of personal trainers and police officers, typically attractive job titles.
Female lawyers didn't do so well however, failing to feature in the top 15 (which was topped by physical therapists). They were pipped to the post by the likes of speech language pathologists and real estate agents.
The data does come from across the pond, so has to be taken with a pinch of salt. But we reckon UK lawyers are just as irresistible. Just take a look at these barristers and solicitors.
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TVdirekt ist eine 14-täglich erscheinende Programmzeitschrift, die seit 1998 vom Gong Verlag herausgegeben wird, der zur Funke Mediengruppe (ehemals WAZ-Mediengruppe) gehört.

Nach eigenen Angaben ist die Zielgruppe eine "junge, dynamische Leserschaft mit höherem Männeranteil". Das Alter der Zielgruppe ist zwischen 14 und 49 Jahren. Das Durchschnittsalter der Leserschaft liegt bei 43,6 Jahren, davon sind 52 % Männer und 48 % Frauen.
Der Schwerpunkt der TV-Zeitschrift liegt auf Spielfilmen. Die Spielfilm-Highlights werden von der eigenen Programmredaktion bewertet und als täglicher "Top-Tipp" dargestellt. Der Mantelteil befasst sich vorwiegend mit Kino, DVD, Internet, Reisen, Lifestyle, Fitness und Finanzen.

TVdirekt steht im Bereich der Niedrigpreis-Programmzeitschriften in Konkurrenz zu tv14. Die aktuelle Auflage liegt bei  Exemplaren. Davon werden 1.039.357 im Zeitschriftenhandel verkauft und 106.556 per Abo (Stand: IVW 3/2012).

Die Zeitschrift wird zu einem höheren Preis auch mit einer DVD-Beilage angeboten. Jedoch erscheint die TVdirekt mit DVD nur in unregelmäßigen Abständen.

Seit 2012 gibt es TVdirekt als App für das iPad und Android-Tablets sowie für den PC.

Weblinks
 Website der TVdirekt
 Übersicht aller DVD-Beilagen in der TVdirekt

Einzelnachweise

Programmzeitschrift
Publikumszeitschrift (Deutschland)
Ersterscheinung 1998
Funke Mediengruppe

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Rhodri Mabon ap Gwynfor is a Welsh Plaid Cymru politician who has been Member of the Senedd (MS) for Dwyfor Meirionnydd since 2021.

Career
Ap Gwynfor was elected as a town councillor in Aberystwyth Town Council in 2004. He was later elected as a Denbighshire county Councillor for Llandrillo in 2017, before resigning in August 2021. In his resignation letter, he said it was impossible to "effectively" fulfil roles as a councillor and Senedd Member.

He previously stood for Parliament and the Senedd several times: Brecon and Radnor (2005), Clwyd South (2011, 2015 and 2016). He unsuccessfully fought the nomination for Ceredigion ahead of the 2010 General election and Dwyfor Meirionnydd in 2015.

Personal life
He is the grandson of Plaid Cymru's first Member of Parliament and former president, Gwynfor Evans.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Plaid Cymru members of the Senedd
Wales MSs 2021–2026
Plaid Cymru councillors
Welsh-speaking politicians


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Sweet Loren's
Loren Brill
She makes vegan cookie dough that's safe for most consumers with food sensitivities.
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When Loren Brill was 22, she learned she had Stage II cancer, and started monitoring how certain foods made her feel. Heavily processed ones zapped her energy. She was able to find healthy alternatives to most--except for her favorite baked goods. So in 2011, she began making cookie dough without ingredients like refined sugar and flour, and consumers' growing appetites for healthier alternatives helped Sweet Loren's take off. In 2018, Brill released a vegan, kosher, non-GMO, gluten- and nut-free version; sales boomed. That August, she discontinued her original recipe to focus on the one that the greatest number of people could enjoy. Sweet Loren's, which is on the shelves in more than 10,000 supermarkets, booked $6.4 million in revenue last year and clocked in at No. 114 on this year's Inc. 5000. "I can turn this negative thing that happened to me into a positive," says Brill. "Nothing feels better than reaching millions of people and making them happy." --Emily Canal
Data as of Publication on Sep 16, 2019
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Julia Collins
Zume Pizza's co-founder aims to produce snack food using regenerative-farming techniques.
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Julia Collins's understanding of food took a great leap forward in 2009, when she spent six months living on a farm in southern Italy. "I learned the importance of these whole food systems that are integrated and diverse," she says. "I looked at the people who lived there. There was zero incidence of diabetes and obesity. Well into their 80s, people were eating with joy and pleasure." In 2015, she co-founded Zume Pizza, which ran an automated food delivery platform and has raised $423 million. Collins's next venture combines that experience with her agricultural awakening to produce foods using so-called regenerative farming techniques. Her startup, Planet FWD, aims to reverse climate change by using agricultural practices that sequester carbon, de-acidify the ocean, encourage healthy soil biology, use less water, and produce less waste. The company's first products—healthy snack foods and noodles—will hit the market in early 2020. --Kimberly Weisul
Wes Wang
Ariane Daguin
Her 35-year-old gourmet meat company anticipated--and shaped--the sustainable, locavore trends today.
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In 1985, a young Frenchwoman living in New York City cofounded a small operation to sell duck livers and other exotic proteins to gourmet restaurants. Thirty-five years later, Ariane Daguin still entirely owns that business, D'Artagnan, which she has built into a profitable, $132 million organic-meat distributor with a near-national network of small farmers and artisanal suppliers. D'Artagnan was one of the first companies to introduce organic free-range chickens to American chefs and home cooks. It also anticipated, and shaped, the locavore movement now sweeping through our food system. "My animals have one bad day," is how Daguin, now 61, sums up the philosophy of humane, sustainable farming underlying her business. Along the way, she overcame a wrenching breakup with her co-founder and ongoing regulatory battles over foie gras, the controversial and luxurious duck livers with which she launched her company. But neither challenge has stopped Daguin from building her revenue, which she's aiming to double in the next five years, or her business operations, which she has expanded to Denver and soon, she hopes, to California. "I'm going into totally unknown territory," says Daguin of her company's recent growth. "It's new, but it's very exciting." --Maria Aspan
Union, New Jersey
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Nomiku Meals
Lisa Q. Fetterman
After copycats moved in on her sous-vide machines, she began selling fancy frozen meals to cook in them.
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From the first, Nomiku—Lisa Fetterman's home sous-vide maker business—earned love from Kickstarter, Shark Tank, and food nerds. Then came the imitators. "We got copied up the yang," says Fetterman. "If you Google 'sous-vide,' there are now like one bajillion machines." Seeking inspiration, Fetterman embarked on field research, observing 25 of her customers using Nomiku machines in their homes and then—as a thank you—sous-viding meals for them. "Everyone was like, 'Couldn't this be your product--that you come chef for us?'" she says. So last year Fetterman started selling 30 frozen sous-vide meals, with recipes devised by herself and chefs from three Michelin-starred restaurants. Her machines now come with RFID readers that can recognize each meal, ensuring that it's perfectly cooked. The renamed Nomiku Meals sells machines at cost and makes all its money on repeat purchases of the food. So far the strategy is working. Revenue doubled in 2018 and Fetterman anticipates a repeat performance this year. --Leigh Buchanan
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Mercaris
Kellee James
Farmers, bankers, and food companies rely on her agricultural data and analysis.
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How do you assign a financial value to sustainable agriculture? For Kellee James, who co-founded the market intelligence startup Mercaris in 2013, answering that question has become a true calling. "It's one thing if you're paying $9 for a bushel of corn and you want to incentivize organic production practices," explains the former White House Fellow, who was selected by President Obama. "It's another if you're a farmer or food company losing money because you don't know what's going on in the market." Like a Bloomberg Terminal for organic and non-GMO agriculture, Mercaris provides data and analysis on economic fundamentals like market prices, supply estimates, and projected demand. These are helpful to everyone along the supply chain, including farmers and consumer food companies like General Mills, as well as financial institutions like Rabobank. Up next: risk-management tools and some fine-tuning of its organic dairy platform, which launched earlier this year. --Jill Krasny
Silver Spring, Maryland
Chris Duesing
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Whitehouse Native, Kansas City Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes ESPY Win
Patrick Mahomes blew away the NFL in his first full season as a starter last year. In just his second year, he won NFL MVP honors. During last night's (July 10) ESPY awards on ABC, Mahomes took home another trophy.
Patrick Mahomes Will be a Part of NFL Draft Broadcast
Whitehouse's own Patrick Mahomes will help cover the 2019 NFL draft with ABC and ESPN next month.
ESPN Featured Pat Mahomes with Tons of Whitehouse Highlights
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Cotoroanța (rusă: ведьма, maghiară: banya) este o făptură slută, ursuză și grozavă din mitologia românească. Plăsmuire a imaginarului colectiv popular, se întrupa într-un personaj negativ de care eroii și eroinele miturilor transformate, odată cu trecerea mileniilor, în basme trebuiau să se ferească cu orice preț. Acestea erau, de asemenea, moașe pricepute, doftoroaie vestite, sfătuitoare prețioase, dar și vrăjitoare redutabile cu care nu era bine să ai de-a face.

Un basm românesc cules de Petre Ispirescu relatează că, la un moment dat, Diavolul se certă zgomotos cu o babă, cele două personaje făcând o larmă atât de mare încât l-au trezit din somn pe Sfântul Petru, care mânios fiind, puse mâna pe o sabie și le tăie capetele celor doi zurbagii. După sângeroasa pedeapsă și plecarea Sfântului, trupurile decapitate s-au apucat să-și caute capetele prin țărână. Diavolul a găsit capul babei pe care și l-a însușit, iar baba pe cel al Diavolului, care fără prea multă mirare, i s-a potrivit de minune cotoroanței.

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The New Family Home Allowance: 6 Things You Need to Know
Many will have read about a new Inheritance Tax (IHT) allowance that was announced in the Chancellor's Summer Budget. This is the Family Home Allowance ("FHA"), designed to allow more people to pass on their family home to their descendants without paying IHT. Though the main impetus seems to have been to lessen the disproportionate IHT strain on the south east of England caused by rises in house prices, it will also take a large number of families in Scotland outside of the reach of IHT.
The new allowance will come into effect from April 2016 and rules, procedures and guidance will emerge nearer the time. However, the headline provisions are already with us, and it is important for practitioners and tax payers alike to prepare for the new rules. There have been misconceptions about what the new FHA is. So here are six things that you should know:
1. It is NOT a change to the default IHT allowance for individuals
This allowance, known as the "nil rate band", has been fixed at £325,000 since 2009/10, and will remain frozen at that level until at least 2019. It remains the case that married couples and civil partners can 'double up' this allowance to give a total of up to £650,000 to be used on the second death.
2. It is NOT an exemption from IHT for houses worth up to £1M, however…
The figure of £1M is significant here, but not for that reason. Rather, providing certain conditions are met, it will give estates a further allowance to set against the value of the deceased's family home. The new allowance will be worth £100,000 in 2016/17, growing each year until reaching £175,000 in 2020/21. Allowance that is not used when one spouse or civil partner dies can be carried forward to the second partner's estate when they die. Accordingly, once the full £175,000 is in place, spouses or civil partners will potentially receive an aggregate £1M in IHT allowance to set against their combined estate (i.e. £325,000 + £325,000 + £175,000 + £175,000 = £1M). The level of available FHA will be tapered off for estates worth more than £2m.
3. It cannot be used against assets other than the family home
If the family home is worth less than the available FHA, then the 'excess' allowance will be lost and cannot be used against other assets such as cash or investments. That means, for a married couple with an estate of up to £1M, it will still be possible to pay IHT: it all depends on the makeup of the estate.
4. It will only be available where passing the family home to "direct descendants"
This will include children and grandchildren etc., and also adopted children, stepchildren and foster children. Property passing to e.g. nieces, nephews or other relatives would not receive benefit from the FHA.
5. It will only be available where the deceased owned a share in the family home
Accordingly, while unused FHA will be transferred between spouses / civil partners, it will generally be necessary for the first spouse to have held an interest in the property in order to qualify. If the first spouse had no share in the property, then he or she would not qualify for FHA, and so the second spouse will only receive one lot of FHA (e.g. between £100,000 and £175,000). Some will see this as incentive to transfer houses into joint names.
6. The rules do allow for downsizing
Even if you had sold your family home before your death, whether to go into a smaller property or into sheltered housing or nursing care, the FHA will still be available to give relief against the full value of the main family home as long as assets of an equivalent value are passed to "direct descendants". This may prove an interesting rule for HMRC to try and administer, but the policy reason is clear enough: the Government do not want older people holding on to large houses for fear of losing tax benefit during times of housing shortages.
IHT has long been an area where there is a lot of scope for productive planning to be done. The new allowance will give comfort to a great number of families, but it is not a cure-all. Some will not benefit from the FHA at all, and so will need to take other measures to reduce their exposure to IHT, while others will need to take careful steps to ensure that they maximise the benefit from FHA. The most effective IHT planning tends to be a combination of different approaches – so the existing principles should not be forgotten about.
The Trusts, Tax and Care team at Blackadders are experienced in these matters and are ready to assist with anything from small queries to more bespoke planning packages.
Stewart Dunbar
Senior Solicitor – Tax, Trusts & Care
@LawyerStewartD


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Saturday evening report
I took a break from blogging today in hopes of getting a life. That turned out to be much more difficult than I had anticipated, so I have returned with more news from Tanzania. It is a commentary on the state of the Communion that on this day, when the Primates focused some of their attention on the essential work of the Church–theological education, caring for the poor–people are saying that "not much happened."
That isn't quite the case. Here's ENS's story on the day's proceedings. And here's another one from Matthew Davies which points out that contrary to the wishes of Peter and the Akinolytes, the Episcopal Church continues to do important work in Africa.
Even bloggers have been quieter. Colin Coward checks in with this report, and Caroline Hall with this one.
She writes:
"Hellen Wangusa, the new Anglican UN Observer gave a stirring talk on her role as UN Observer and the importance of the Millennium Development Goals. These are intended to reduce by one half the number of people living in poverty by 2015. But she said, our Biblical mandate is greater than that. We know that 'when one half of the world is sick, the world is sick'.
Chris Sugden of the conservative UK organization, Anglican Mainstream, hasn't been getting enough sleep. He rose to ask how our faith in Jesus as Savior and Lord who forgives our sin was involved in this. How, he enquired, did what we were talking about differ from what a governmental agency might do? He hadn't heard that explained. Mrs. Wangusa did not miss a beat, responding 'I am really surprised, I am really surprised, because I already said…' that our Biblical mandate is to go beyond the 50% threshold. When Jesus saw the people were hungry he looked at what he had and then he fed all of them, not half."
Sugden is slow to learn his lesson. This is the second time he has attempted to embarrass a female speaker at a major Anglican gathering, and the second time the presenter has embarrassed him instead. He tried it with Bishop Jefferts Schori just after she was elected at our General Convention.
Here's the relevant paragraph from a story I wrote at the time:
When the Rev. Chris Sugden of the conservative British advocacy group Anglican Mainstream asked her how she thought average Anglicans, whom he described as predominantly young, poor, African and evangelical, would respond to the news that she had voted to confirm the election of the Rt. Rev. Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire in 2003, Jefferts Schori said she thought if Sugden's description were correct, the average Anglican was probably more interested in issues including hunger, inadequate housing, unclean water and limited access to education.
By the way, why does anyone entertain the fiction that Chris Sugden is a journalist who ought to have access to press conferences anyway? He's in closed meeting with Peter Akinola one minute and then lobbing questions at Akinola's targets the next. It's like letting a lobbyist come to a news conference.


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Scientific ArticleLegal Applications
Revolutionizing Legal Access
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Reading Time 7 Min.
Author: Thomas P. Barnett, Jr
Student, University of Delaware
Technology has the potential to reshape the legal-landscape so that average wageearners can access legal advice using a smart-phone application. Access solutions in other industries, such as ride-hailing, can serve as precedent to develop new legal technology. Nevertheless, this is an exciting opportunity for lawyers and technologist alike.
1. Introduction: Problems in Accessing Legal Advice
2. Exploring the gap – Who does this phenomenon affect?
3. The first half of the gap - licensed attorney
4. The other half of the gap – The Lawyers
5. Conclusion: Technology's future, despite Adversity
Introduction: Problems in Accessing Legal Advice
Access to legal advice, for example in the U.S., is unbalanced, and disadvantages many middle and low income persons. Those who can afford to access legal advice have the best opportunities to exercise their rights successfully. Legal technology can bridge this gap by providing access to legal advice to more people at an affordable rate, while at the same time producing more jobs for attorneys that utilize this technology.
Exploring the gap – Who does this phenomenon affect?
For the middle-class, legal advice is costly and often only an option as a last resort. The American Bar Association reported that the United States ranks 65th out of 100 countries in the Project Rule of Law index for access to and affordability of civil legal services. [1] Of the industrialized nations surveyed, the U.S. was ranked last. Accessibility problems disadvantage many and mostly for one reason: lack of funds.
Thus, the judicial system advantages those with the capital to fund a legal team. The top-paid legal teams typically have an advantage to mitigate potential harms or expedite problem resolution, in effect tilting the scales toward those who can afford it. The average wage-earner can not afford to pay costly retainers and expensive hourly fees that today's law firms demand. In the U.S, it is typical for general practitioners or less experienced lawyers to bill $200-400 per hour and more prestigious corporate level firms to bill $400-$1000.
Perhaps there is a way to even the playing field; or at least, build easier access for those who can not afford it currently. Upon observation of this expensive phenomenon, a self-help model for legal advice has arisen through services such as Legal-Zoom and Rocket Lawyer. This model can also be observed in other professions such as real-estate, accounting, and travel-booking. New technology in the last decade revolutionized do it yourself services that make services such as self-accounting or travel-booking possible. Websites and applications compete for users by claiming that their self-service provides cost efficiency and user friendliness. However, legal advice is different and more comparable to medical advice.
Legal advice and medical advice both require a standard of representation/care to be met; also why malpractice insurance is important. Moreover, being treated by a doctor in person allows the doctor to see and hear the pains of the patient to properly diagnosis and treat the patient with a strong degree of certainty. Legal advice requires the same professional due diligence to provide an accurate issue-based diagnosis and a treatment plan to either mitigate or resolve the issue.
The first half of the gap - licensed attorney
The self-help model does not require a bar exam or assurance like that of a licensed attorney. There are already non-attorney legal advice groups on the market, but we know they are not the most effective substitution for the legal knowledge of a licensed and practicing attorney. A lawyer, unlike a website manufactured program, offers the additional guarantee that would otherwise be absent from online advice.
Legal advice websites are thus significantly limited without a connection to a real attorney. Successful lawyers use emotional intelligence to advocate for their clients, conscious of the ethical and legal duties to the justice system. This aspect of lawyering is unlikely to be replaced by a computer any time soon. Nevertheless, legal technology can still prevail without actually reinventing an attorney's virtual role, which is discussed further below.
The other half of the gap – The Lawyers
The next half of the gap is surprising for most because this group is partially responsible for the first group's placement. This group is the attorneys who are not able find experience and competitive-pay. The legal market advantages the top lawyers mostly graduating from top law schools. U.S. News reported this chart below, shedding light on the financial commitment law students in America make. [2] American law students attend law school for three years paying the annually listed medians three times accumulating tremendous debt. These students aspire to land six-figure salaries or student loan forgiveness deals, unfortunately however, not all will earn those opportunities.
The problem is that few students earn positions in the top paying law firms and law schools are not affordable. Below, in the U.S. News data chart, notice that of the starting salaries that earn over $100,000, those students graduated from only 35 law schools. However, the cost difference between the top 35 schools and the rest are not far apart. Thus, the gap becomes larger and as a result many law school graduates do not earn enough to comfortably live and cover the cost of their law school debt; not to mention existing undergraduate university debt.
The gap consisting of both middle-class wage earners and middle-class lawyers reveals the hierarchical structure of American lawyering. Lawyers struggle to find jobs because the system of schooling and hiring advantages top graduates mostly from those top 35 law schools. Secondly, there is limited internship and clerkship experience available for law students that are not in the top of the class or attending top schools. To further this point, the composition of the Supreme Court in America is the quintessential example of this hierarchical structured system.
Just 2 of 206 American Bar Association accredited law schools, Harvard and Yale, are responsible for educating all the Supreme Court Justices (there are nine), except for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who transferred from Harvard to Columbia where she received her diploma. The American legal system is tiered affecting both middle-class lawyers and clients, seemingly as an aggregate group. Both groups need each other and could succeed if they could somehow access each other. But the current legal-landscape is unwilling to reduce fees because profits would suffer; and frankly top competing law firms do not need to change because their clients like the current process. Wealthy clients win often and can afford it. Regardless, new legal technology is on the horizon, and looks to re-shape the market incorporating both vastly more clients and more attorneys.
The hope is for technology to react to the current design to provide a solution. Technology is viable for middle-class Americans as phones and computers are sophisticated devices that are already accessible. If everyone could access legal advice from a live lawyer over the phone, it is believed there would be a greater demand for legal advice in everyday situations. Ultimately, this means there would be a great demand for more licensed lawyers. Now, here are the questions posed: What type of technology can bridge this gap? And, would bridging the gap with legal technology change the landscape of lawyering altogether. If so, the current system of lawyering could be under attack by legal technology. In fact, lawyers may be required to adapt to new technological trends.
Legal Technology and potential solutions: Access to the law at your fingertips
First, it is important to know the advantage for legal technology is its ability to analyze statistics. Not just statistics relevant to the law, but also correspondence data necessary for creating a client to attorney relationship. This information recorded for analysis is called Big Data, "a term that describes the large volume of data – both structured and unstructured – that inundates a business on a day-to-day basis. But it is not the amount of data that is important. It is what organizations do with the data that matters.
Big data can be analyzed for insights that lead to better decisions and strategic business moves. [3]" Take for example ride-hailing and the evolution of its popular application (app) based technology. Fewer people today on the streets of large cities flag-down taxis thanks to the successful app based platform Uber, and its more recent competitor Lyft (unfortunately both are not in Germany due to an issue with the driving license "Füherschein" requirements for taxidrivers). These companies offer a driving service using a smart-phone app bringing drivers and riders together for business.
This concept has disrupted established transportation business models in America. Ride sharing apps created a direct 6% reduction rate in public transportation use. Most interesting, is that ride sharing has been around for over fifteen years but was never successful until brought to the app based technology platform. [4] Since 2009 now, the applications have brought easy, accessible ride sharing to fruition; and ironically without owning a single car. Maybe, an app could provide a similar service for lawyers and clients? But what makes Uber's technology so appealing to the employees (drivers) and consumers (riders)? Interviewed individuals from a University of California Davis's study reported that above all else, Uber offers instantaneous access that is reliable, citing the main issue with public transportation is it is often too slow and unreliable. [5] Likewise for drivers, the job revolves around the app.
Flexibility gives the driver freedom to decide, like when and where he or she would like to work. Ride-hailing's business model did not reinvent transportation or the use of cars, rather the app revolutionized the communication process between two groups that could serve each others interest. The paradigm in transportation was not changed, hence we will still use cars to get from A to B, (side note: they actually increased car use in cities), but the technology surrounding access to transportation has changed. Ride-hailing is an access solution that is precedent for the development of new accessible legal technology. For now, legal technology is still awaiting this solution.
Conclusion: Technology's future, despite Adversity
With legal technology on the rise, it is important to keep in mind the sociological malfeasances while also understanding policy motives. I predict the United States and other nations will encounter opposition against legal technology entrepreneurs offering unorthodox legal access. Some lobbying groups and lawyers representing corporations will most likely oppose this market interruption. New competition could bring legal claims against corporations in brute force at rates corporations can not manage or afford.
On the other hand, law firms may see this technological transformation as an opportunity to expand and adapt. And accessible and affordable technology might encourage larger case loads and broader requirements for hiring new attorneys. There is one last caveat, issues such as the attorney client privilege and conflict checking will present challenges in complying with laws that regulate lawyering. These issues do not compromise the future for accessible legal technology. However, they are important to consider during platform development.
The legal industry has a duty to subscribe to technology for these reasons: Access to legal advice through technology will expand the market to middle-class persons and create a more equitable legal system for all to be represented; and, lawyers will benefit from this new alternative business structure, creating more jobs and diluting the hierarchical legal-landscape. This exciting time for lawyers and technologists will hopefully address these challenges looking not just at potential earnings, but into the future of equitable legal access. The new business environment will require a great collaboration effort between lawyers and technologist together, nonetheless, the opportunity to bridge the gap is endless.
[1] Brooke Moore, The Middle Class, an Untapped Work Place, 2016 Arkansas Virtual Lawyer, http://www.lawpracticetoday.org/article/middle-class-untapped-legal-marketplace/.
[2] Llana Kowarski, Law School Costs, Salary Prospects, 2017 U.S. News Data: https://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/articles/201703-15/us-news-data-law-school-costs-salary-prospects.
[3] SAS Institute Inc., https://www.sas.com/en_us/insights/big-data/what-is-big-data.html.
[4] Regina R. Clewlow Gouri Shankar Mishra, University of California Davis, Disruptive Transportation: The Adoption, Utilization, and Impacts of Ride-Hailing in the United States (2017), available at https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/16/upshot/is-uber-helping-orhurting-mass-transit.html.
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Lifestyle | Arts and Entertainment
Lakes Area Music Festival finale is this weekend
The final concerts of the Lakes Area Music Festival will be at 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 15, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 16, at Tornstrom Auditorium in Brainerd.
Conductor Andrew Altenbach will give a pre-concert lecture a half-hour before each performance, and audience members are invited to an "After Glow" gathering to meet musicians after Saturday's concert at Prairie Bay restaurant in Baxter.
The concerts are free, but donations to help support the festival are welcome.
Percussionist Kevin Watkins, who is featured in "Bolero," will lead a discussion prior to a rehearsal that is open to the public at 1 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13, also at Tornstrom Auditorium.
The Lakes Area Music Festival is an annual summer series attracting some of the country's leading orchestral and vocal performers. About 140 musicians and vocalists were in the Brainerd lakes area as guest artists.
For more information, visit www.lakesareamusic.org .
Audubon to sponsor program on how landowners can improve property
Free event Jan. 25 will be at the Northland Arboretum in Brainerd
Singer-songwriter David Crosby dead at 81
Crosby, one of the most influential rock singers of the 1960s and '70s but whose voracious drug habit landed him in prison, has died
By Diane Bartz / Reuters
Calendar: Jan. 19-28, 2023, Brainerd lakes area events
Snowmobile rendezvous, performing arts, theatre events are on tap


Emiliano Viviano's agent says he's been speaking with North London outfit since July.
Arsenal deadline day signing Emiliano Viviano has been in talks with the club since 1 July, according to the goalkeeper's agent.
The arrival of the 27-year-old Italian on a season-long loan deal slipped under the radar with fans and media alike focussed on the Gunners' £42.4m signing of Mesut Ozil but Viviano is expected to challenge current number one Wojciech Szczesny for a spot in Arsene Wenger's first team.
Wenger was heavily criticised for his hesitation in the transfer market, with only youngster Yaya Sanogo arriving before late August, when Ozil and Viviano were joined by Mathieu Flamini.
But Viviano's agent Claudio Vigorelli has revealed Arsenal have been interested in his client since the beginning of July and also had an interest in other goalkeepers, including QPR's Julio Cesar.
"We knew that the Arsenal were looking for a goalkeeper, since July 1st I was talking with the London club that also had other names on the list, for example Julio Cesar," Vigorelli told Calciomercato.
"The Arsenal manager Wenger considered Viviano a reliable goalkeeper. Wenger has used beautiful words for Emilaino and, in the end, it is better that Fiorentina made other choices since Viviano now plays with one of the most prestigious clubs in the world and in the most important league in Europe in my optinion.


Filmed across the UK by Chris and his son James, wildfowling the whole story takes you on a magical tour of a very seldom seen sport. Featuring the fascinating history of British wildfowling over the last 200 years, it also includes footage of "Triple Thunder" rarely seen footage of a punt gun in action.
Narrated by Chris "The Cornish Countryman" Green, its ideal for those wintry nights in front of the fire.