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Modelling PACER Costs: a Technical Review
crozolisnu December 21, 2020
PACER is a black box when it comes to how exactly it generates its revenues. The system has received criticism from journalists, researchers, and even recently congresspeople. The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed H.R. 8235, an Open Courts Act aimed at making access to PACER more affordable. Given that push, we set out to build an analytical model to estimate the cost of PACER's contents in 2016 with its current pricing.
From the user side, it is prohibitively expensive to compile large amounts of case data. We estimated it would take somewhere between $5.5 million and $5.75 million to access and download all case data for Civil and Criminal cases filed in 2016 in the 94 district courts. Although we were modelling a black box, our approach lends itself to full transparency. In this post we outline the methodology we employed in building our estimates of the scale of PACER data costs.
Working with panel data
A lot of work on our data involved joining events, dockets, and documents together with the added complexity of time. Because of this complexity, we found it important to ground our analysis in the concept of panel data. A panel of data is a set of observations that tracks individual entities over some period.
A docket sheet is quite literally the panel of a court case, tracking entries over time. In our cost modelling effort, our data corresponded to the 2016 Cohort (C-2016) of panel data. C-2016 contains any docket sheet that was filed in 2016. Importantly, this means our panel of documents corresponding to these cases could have been filed in 2016 or any year after. Case activity might largely occur in the original filing year or it is possible motions, documents, petitions, judicial orders etc. are continually added over the years until a case terminates. Below is a plot of our panel of sample documents from 2016 dockets in the Northern District of Illinois (NDIL) and when they were filed.
You might be wondering about that tall outlier that shows up in August 2018. Digging through our metadata, we found a multi-district-litigation (MDL) responsible for 755 documents filed on a single day. If you look closely you can also see federal holidays contribute to "outlier pits" in our distribution – Christmas 2016 and Independence Day 2017 are good examples where filings drop significantly for a day or two.
What exactly is cost?
When aiming to download data from PACER, there are two unique components for the cost of a case: (A) the cost of the docket sheet and (B) the cost of the documents attached to the docket. We used two separate methodologies to estimate the unique cost components for the 94 courts. There are many possible ways to model costs, including predicting net case costs without splitting component A from component B. We felt given the nature of our disparate data sources that independently modelling the components would be our best approach.
Docket Sheet Cost
In 2016, roughly 350,000 Civil and Criminal dockets were filed across the 94 district courts. We acquired all 350,000 case IDs by building a dataset from both PACER and CourtListener (RECAP). We purchased roughly 45% of those docket sheets directly from PACER, with the other 55% coming through RECAP. Because of the nature in which RECAP crowdsources data from users, those docket sheets did not come with a clear PACER cost value associated with them.
Fortunately, we saved our PACER bill from the docket sheets we did purchase – sometimes we look at it and cry. We used these real cost values to validate our models to estimate the cost of the RECAP dockets. PACER caps their charges at $3.00 for docket sheets, so keep in mind, we are dealing with a tight range of predictive values for the cost of a docket sheet– $0.10 at minimum, and $3.00 at maximum. This range of values also comes with a downside– any dockets that are 30 pages or more are all grouped together at $3.00 – an imbalanced class at the top end of the range.
We began by considering what makes up a docket sheet: text blocks for lawyers, defendants, plaintiffs; docket entries of variable text length; court information; etc. If you have two lawyers representing you, that is twice as many lines in the representation block compared to somebody with one lawyer. If you have 100 docket entries, that is roughly 10 times as much text as 10 docket entries. At this point you should be picking up the trend here: linearity.
Above is a graph of docket length (number of entries) compared to the total billable pages PACER charged for it, broken down by nature of suit subtype. There is clearly some form of linearity at play in this relationship, the challenge for us was using this information to break out of our class imbalance problem. There is a distinct vertical wall of costs locked in at $3.00 that prevents us from extracting an otherwise linear pattern between docket sheet length and docket pages. This led us to attempt a two-pronged model approach. We ensembled the two methods below:
A logistic regression model to predict if a docket sheet is more than 30 billable pages (the PACER billing cap at $3.00)
A multiple linear regression model to predict the number of pages a docket contains if it was classified as "under 30 pages"
In a world of advanced models and methods, we settled for Occam's Razor… er Occam's Regressions that is. Intuitively, our data has simple linear relationships that are easily captured by these simple regression models. The model features were explainable: the more people or entries there are in a case, the more newlines there will be. Treating the nature of suit types as categorical enabled us to capture any idiosyncrasies with entry lengths. The logistic model for classification was 95% accurate when validated with the real costs of docket reports in our holdout set. Our misclassifications happened more frequently with small dockets being predicted as large – ultimately this means we were probably overestimating their docket costs by 10 or 20 cents.
Once we had a functioning classification model, we trained a multiple linear regression model to predict the number of billable pages on a docket. The training data were dockets with known billed pages up to 29 pages. Again, we validated our model with a holdout set and produced an R2 value of 0.897. While we would hope for a better value, we feel it is still a strong coefficient of determination given our target values were discrete (ten cent intervals) while our model produced continuous value predictions. That is, a 5.5-page predicted value for a 5-page actual value is a 10% error, with a practical difference being 5 cents of cost. Knowing our final range of estimates was likely to be in the hundreds of thousands, we did not think it was prudent to tune and chip away at an R2 value for a minimal impact on our overall estimates.
The results of our approach led us to a mean predicted cost of roughly $238,000 to access and download every docket sheet filed in 2016. This value includes the known costs of the 45% of dockets we had already purchased at just over $100,000. We built an 80% confidence prediction interval on top of this value for the total predicted docket costs. The interval for total docket sheet costs is between $228,000 and $255,000.
Document Costs
With the smaller portion of costs (docket sheets) out of the way, we set our sights on modelling the bulk of PACER costs: documents. Using our sample of 350,000 docket sheets, we ran a parser through the docket entries and identified roughly 11 million documents attached to the 2016 cases. We certainly did not want to download or even attempt to access that many attachments via PACER, so we chose to use the Northern District of Illinois (NDIL) as a document sample. We generated roughly half a million document links and used the document landing page on PACER to extract information.
Our final sample of accessible documents metadata was just over 435,000, and we tried accessing nearly 515,000 webpages. The roughly 80,000 documents we could not get metadata for were inaccessible due to sensitive information, sealing restrictions, or other PACER-determined document restrictions. We felt confident 435,000 was plenty of documents to work with.
The panel of document data covered 4.5 years of document filings (2016 to 2020) and was stratified by nature of suit subtypes. For each of the nearly 13,000 cases in NDIL, we were able to aggregate total pages, total documents, and total case costs. We chose to group Civil Detainee, Federal Tax Suits, Forfeiture/Penalty, with Unknown natures of suit into a "Miscellaneous" category due to their relative infrequency. We found a lot of variability between natures of suit, but also within them. For example, some Labor suits might end in 60 days and cost only $8.00 in total while others last 300 days and cost $40.00. This realization of non-uniformity caused us to rule out any sort of simple flat rate cost extrapolations from NDIL to the other 93 courts.
One option we entertained briefly with simulation was distribution fitting by nature of suit. What we mean by this is identifying the document page frequencies by nature of suit and mapping it to a distribution. From that mapped distribution, we could run simulations of document samples. For example, the number of pages for all documents filed in Civil Rights cases looks to be close to a tuned Negative Binomial distribution, and we could probably simulate Civil Rights cases using the Negative Binomial Distribution.
Distribution fitting however is time-intensive and hedges on many assumptions, so we decided to sample using raw data distributions. With over 400,000 documents across 14 nature of suit subtypes, we had plenty of data to run stratified sampling with replacement using the real document information. Below is a visual representation of how this sampling method works at the case level. If for example, Eastern District of Texas (EDTX) has 100 Civil Rights Cases, we can sample 100 random Civil Rights cases out of NDIL and use their total document costs as an estimate for the 100 cases in the Eastern District of Texas. We can then repeat this approach hundreds or thousands of times to build a range of estimates.
When sampling, we computed costs a few ways. We tried four cost formulas to identify which would be most effective for each nature of suit (validating against NDIL). Using the same example as above, let's say we are trying to model 100 Civil Rights cases in the Eastern District of Texas. We would know there are 100 cases of this type by parsing the docket sheets, and we would know how many documents each of those 100 cases has attached to it as well.
For each of those 100 cases, we will sample a random NDIL Civil Rights case. The NDIL case will have three features of interest:
Document Accessibility Rate
Net Document Costs
Document Cost per Day Case is Open
Using these features, we calculate a cost estimate in four ways:
Take the NDIL case Document Accessibility Rate and multiply it by the EDTX case's known number of documents (ex. 80% rate x 100 documents = 80 documents). Sample that many times (ex. 80) from the NDIL Civil Rights document page lengths distribution, and apply the $0.10 per page rate to those samples, summing the costs to make one case document cost estimate
Take the NDIL case Document Accessibility Rate and multiply it by the EDTX case's known number of documents (ex. 80% rate x 100 documents = 80 documents). Sample that many times (ex. 80) from the NDIL Civil Rights document cost distribution, summing the costs to make one case document cost estimate
Take the NDIL case's net document cost as the EDTX case's modelled net document cost
Take the NDIL case's Document Cost per Day Case is Open value and multiply it by the duration of the EDTX case to get an estimated EDTX case document cost estimate
We then run this sampling of 100 cases hundreds of times (simulations). We ran this methodology against the Northern District of Illinois and chose the best performing method for each nature of suit in terms of accuracy compared to real costs incurred. The various calculation approaches enable us to be flexible across suit types, especially if some subtypes have extremely variable number of documents or costs. Using multiple methods also allowed us to fine tune and find effective estimators for Social Security and Immigration subtypes given their high rate of document restrictions.
Below are the Mean Absolute Percent Errors (MAPEs) for the cost method selection from 500 random simulations. The MAPEs for the Cost Per Day method (CC4) indicate that for most suit types the duration of the suit plays almost no significant role in the total costs of a case; however, it is oddly an effective approach for the Social Security cases given their document restrictions.
The optimized cost method selection resulted in predictive accuracy within 1% for the Northern District of Illinois document costs. Given that this result held over 100, 500 and 1,000 simulations we felt confident in our approach and applied it across all 94 district courts. We make a general assumption that most nature of suit subtypes operate similarly regardless of the district they are in. This assumption does overlook some case nuances by district (such as national security cases in Virginia's Eastern District or patent cases in the Eastern District of Texas), but our chosen number of simulations allows us to confidently capture those nuances if some of our assumptions were too loose. Our final modelled document cost was on average somewhere between $5.3 million and $5.5 million.
While PACER is a challenge to navigate we plan to get access to more data in the future to validate our analysis. It would be naïve to think this approach is bulletproof without more nuanced district data or case data beyond 2016. Nevertheless, given the constraints we're confident in our estimate of the 2016 costs and believe that we could do the proximate years with the same data.
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Q: Using ipython engine in knitr I am trying to use ipython using knitr using the knitron package. I have python, IPython, knitron installed on a windows machine.
However, executing this line does not find the ipython engine.
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and I get the following error, "Error in in_dir(opts_knit$get("root.dir") %n% input_dir(), (knit_engines$get(options$engine))(options)) :
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Has anybody got this working?

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in order to register the engine? Knitron is not officialy part of knitr, it just registers as engine when being loaded.
Please also use the most recent version of knitron from GitHub.

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Imaging in Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias, An Issue of Neuroimaging Clinics
By Alison D. Murray, MBchB (Hons), FRCP, FRCR
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By Alison D. Murray, MBchB (Hons), FRCP, FRCR, University of Aberdeen, Scotland

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A deeper epigenomic understanding of spatial organization of cells in human tissues is an important challenge. Here we report the first combined positional analysis of transcriptomes and methylomes across three micro-dissected zones (pericentral, intermediate and periportal) of human liver. We identify pronounced anti-correlated transcriptional and methylation gradients including a core of 271 genes controlling zonated metabolic and morphogen networks and observe a prominent porto-central gradient of DNA methylation at binding sites of 46 transcription factors. The gradient includes an epigenetic and transcriptional Wnt signature supporting the concept of a pericentral hepatocyte regeneration pathway under steady-state conditions. While donors with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease show consistent gene expression differences corresponding to the severity of the disease across all zones, the relative zonated gene expression and DNA methylation patterns remain unchanged. Overall our data provide a wealth of new positional insights into zonal networks controlled by epigenetic and transcriptional gradients in human liver.


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Anna van Hannover (kasteel Herrenhausen bij Hannover, 2 november 1709 – Den Haag, 12 januari 1759) was een Engelse prinses en regentes van de Nederlanden. Zij werd vooral bekend als vrouw van prins Willem IV, erfstadhouder van de Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden.

In het Engels wordt zij als dochter van de koning aangeduid met Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange. De titel Princess Royal voerde zij ook in Nederland nadat ze daarheen was verhuisd.

Biografie

Jeugd
Anna werd geboren als tweede kind en oudste dochter van de latere Britse koning George II en koningin Caroline van Brandenburg-Ansbach.

Omdat haar vader zich misdroeg nam Anna's grootvader, Georg Ludwig (1660-1727), keurvorst van Brunswijk-Lüneburg, vanaf 1714 ook koning George I van Groot-Brittannië en Ierland, de opvoeding van zijn kleinkinderen op zich. Haar moeder mocht haar kinderen slechts beperkt bezoeken. Jane Temple werd aangesteld als gouvernante. Anna kreeg een brede intellectuele en kunstzinnige opleiding. Ze ging ook ivoorsnijden en barnsteen bewerken. Ze leerde klavecimbel spelen van Georg Friedrich Händel. Het is bekend dat zij in 1734 de beroemde castraat Farinelli begeleidde toen deze twee liederen van Händel uitvoerde op een avond voor het hof.

Na het overlijden van haar grootvader werd Anna's vader in 1727 als George II koning van Engeland en kreeg Anna de titel princess royal.

Huwelijk
In 1734 trad Anna van Hannover in het huwelijk met de latere Willem IV van Oranje-Nassau. De onderhandelingen voor dit huwelijk hadden zes of twaalf jaar geduurd. De oorzaak hiervan lag grotendeels op het internationale politieke vlak.Na de dood van koning-stadhouder William/Willem III, tijdens het Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk, waren Pruisische en ook Engelse diplomaten en juristen druk doende om voor hun vorst aanspraak te maken op de begerenswaardige titel Prins van Oranje, met alle hierbij behorende emolumenten en bezittingen. Toen stadhouder Willem Karel Hendrik Friso door de Pruisische koning uiteindelijk als prins van Oranje werd erkend, steeg zijn positie op de adellijke huwelijksmarkt in Europa aanzienlijk.

Staatsgezinde regenten in met name Holland vreesden dat het in Holland (en ook in Zeeland) volledig in 'dynastieke' rechten hersteld worden van de Friese, Groningse, Drentse en Gelderse stadhouder, en het sluiten van het huwelijk van hem met een telg van het regerend Huis Hannover van het machtige Koninkrijk Groot-Brittannië, uiteindelijk ten koste zou gaan van hun eigen macht.

Anna, die niet als een uitgesproken schoonheid bekendstond, was wel bereid om haar bruidegom ongezien te accepteren. De Engelse ambassadeur had haar ingefluisterd dat Willem niet zo onaantrekkelijk was als zij had gehoord. Haar toekomstige gemaal was echter ook geen schoonheid. Tijdens een feestconcert op 13 maart 1734, twaalf dagen voor de huwelijkssluiting werd een muzikaal cadeau voor het koppel ten gehore gebracht, gecomponeerd door de gevierde componist Händel: De Serenata Parnasso in festa (HWV 73).

Op 25 maart 1734 trouwde Anna in de Franse kapel van St. James's Palace in Londen met Willem Karel Hendrik Friso, prins van Oranje, graaf van Nassau-Dietz etc. - de latere (erf)stadhouder prins Willem IV van Oranje-Nassau. Bij het huwelijk werd opnieuw een compositie van Händel ten gehore gebracht, het speciaal voor deze gelegenheid gecomponeerde anthem This is the day which the Lord hath made (HWV 262).

Vertrek naar Nederland
Na de huwelijkssluiting reisde zij met haar echtgenoot vanuit Londen over de Noordzee naar Nederland. De ontvangst was kil, want de regenten die aan de macht waren tijdens het Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk zagen weinig heil in het versterken van de band met Engeland. Het paar reisde via Amsterdam per jacht over de Zuiderzee, om via Harlingen in Leeuwarden te belanden waar Anna het onderkomen van vele generaties Friese stadhouders uit het Huis Nassau-Dietz betrok: Het Stadhouderlijk Hof, vlak bij het oude stadhuis van de Friese hoofdstad.

In 1747 kwam er een eind aan het Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk en werd haar echtgenoot benoemd tot erfstadhouder en tot kapitein-generaal en admiraal van de Unie werd benoemd - dus van de gehele Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden. De stadhouderlijke familie verhuisde met vrijwel de gehele hofhouding (ca. 120 personen) van Leeuwarden naar Den Haag, naar paleis Huis ten Bosch. De stadhouderlijke kwartieren aan het Binnenhof functioneerden als representatieve ambtswoning.

Gezin
Uit bewaard gebleven correspondentie blijkt dat prins Willem en prinses Anna elkaar als echtelieden warm en open bejegenden. Zij was geen schoonheid, maar hij ook niet. Hij was 'hoog in de schouders' en Anna's zusters spraken over hem als le monstre. Anna gaf haar man de koosnaam Pépin of Pip.

Uit het huwelijk van Anne en Willem werden de volgende kinderen geboren:
 een doodgeboren dochter (19-12-1736), zij is bijgezet in Delft
 een doodgeboren dochter (1739)
 Carolina van Oranje-Nassau (1743-1787), gehuwd met Karel Christiaan van Nassau-Weilburg
 Anna van Oranje-Nassau (15 november - 29 december 1746)
 Willem Batavus van Oranje-Nassau  (1748-1806), de latere erfstadhouder Willem V, gehuwd met Wilhelmina van Pruisen (1751-1820)
Anna gaf haar kinderen een muzikale opvoeding en liet ze inenten tegen de pokken, destijds een nieuwigheid. Anna van Hannover zette in 1751 een naturaliënkabinet op voor haar vierjarige zoon Willem Batavus. Het kabinet verkreeg grote bekendheid en werd bezocht door diverse geleerden uit binnen- en buitenland.

De prinses was scherpzinnig, doortastend en ook een harde werker. Zij was de belangrijkste politiek adviseur van haar man en overlegde met Daniël Raap, een van de doelisten, en nam zelfs politieke beslissingen voor haar later door ziekten ernstig verzwakte echtgenoot. Zij was contactpersoon voor de orangisten en voor Engelse gezanten.

Regentes / "gouvernante"
Bij de dood van Willem IV in 1751 was diens opvolger Willem Batavus nog te jong, zodat Anna tot 1759 regentes werd namens de nieuwe erfstadhouder met als wat vreemde titel gouvernante.

Zij kreeg alle functies die bij het stadhouderschap hoorden op zich, met uitzondering van de militaire. Deze werden waargenomen door haar oom hertog Lodewijk Ernst van Brunswijk. De regenten van de steden in Holland wilden terug naar een Stadhouderloos Tijdperk, waardoor Anna veel tegenwerking kreeg. Zij voerde een jarenlange strijd met de stad Haarlem over de burgemeestersbenoemingen. Ook met de Staten-Generaal kreeg zij diverse conflicten, onder andere over de militaire modernisering en versterking van de Republiek, die zij voorstond. Ook was er een conflict over het huwelijk van haar dochter Carolina met de lutheraanse Karel Christiaan van Nassau-Weilburg.

Anna leunde tot 1759 sterk op opperstalmeester  Douwe Sirtema van Grovestins. Anna kon niet goed overweg met haar vader George II van Groot-Brittannië en schoonmoeder Maria Louise van Hessen-Kassel, en ze had zo haar twijfels bij de aanstelling van haar oom hertog Lodewijk Ernst van Brunswijk. Ze zocht daarom bescherming bij genoemde Douwe Sirtema van Grovestins, die haar dagelijks bezocht.

De prinses werd omschreven als grillig, vreemd, heftig, trots, heerszuchtig, vals, dwaas en ijdel en er werden pogingen ondernomen de hertog als stadhouder te benoemen want prinses Anna, die als absolutistisch en willekeurig bekendstond, zou beïnvloed worden door de Friese 'cabaal'.

Overlijden
Anna van Hannover stierf in 's-Gravenhage op 12 januari 1759 en werd op 23 februari 1759 op grootse wijze bijgezet in de Grafkelder van Oranje-Nassau in de Nieuwe Kerk te Delft. Hertog Lodewijk Ernst van Brunswijk nam de opvoeding van erfstadhouder Willem V op zich tot zijn meerderjarigheid in 1766.

Muziek

Anna had in Londen vele jaren muziekles gehad van Händel (zang, klavecimbel en theorie) en is, naar Händels eigen zeggen, zijn meest veelbelovende leerling geweest. Zij was betrokken in een heftig conflict met haar broer kroonprins Frederik over haar steun vanuit Nederland aan Händels opera-ondernemingen ('Academies').

In 1734, niet lang na haar vertrek naar Nederland ging zij terug naar Londen om onder andere drie keer een uitvoering van G.F. Händels opera Il pastor fido (HWV 8a) bij te wonen. De opvoering van Poro (HWV 28) werd afgelast, toen in Londen bekend werd dat zij een miskraam had gehad.

Vanaf haar vestiging in Nederland – aanvankelijk in Leeuwarden, later in Den Haag – ontplooide de prinses veel, in sommige perioden zelfs uitzonderlijk veel muzikale activiteiten. Volgens de Groningse musicus Jacob Wilhelm Lustig waren er perioden waarin de prinses elke avond concerten liet geven, waarin minstens twee uur muziek werd gemaakt door de hofmusici. Het waren gelegenheden waaraan zij soms zelf deelnam o.a. als klaveciniste.

Ook bekostigde ze uit eigen middelen een nieuw orgel voor de Waalse kerk van Leeuwarden (1740) dat daarin tot op de dag van vandaag prijkt.

In 1750 nodigde ze Händel uit om naar de Republiek te komen.

Prinses Anna beschikte over grote kunstzinnige talenten, zij zong en speelde niet alleen op klavecimbel en op dwarsfluit maar heeft vermoedelijk ook gecomponeerd. Zij moet over een enorme muziekbibliotheek hebben beschikt, waarvan echter maar twee boeken bewaard zijn gebleven; een handgeschreven bundel met instrumentale bewerkingen van aria's uit opera's van Händel en een gedrukt luitboek.

Schilderkunst
Anna van Hannover beschikte ze over een opvallend schilderstalent. Een zelfportret bleef bewaard en hangt in het Koninklijk Huisarchief in Den Haag. Een aantal kopieën van schilderijen van Nederlandse Oranjes worden aan haar toegeschreven.

Correspondentie
Anna schreef vele brieven. Met de Pruisische kroonprins, de latere koning Frederik de Grote, die haar en haar echtgenoot in 1738 bezocht in zomerresidentie Paleis Soestdijk, onderhield zij een levendige correspondentie voornamelijk over muzikale onderwerpen. In een brief aan Voltaire, volgend op het zomerse bezoek aan het echtpaar, roemde Frederik de Grote de levensbeschouwelijke en filosofische diepzinnigheid van de prinses en haar man.

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I am faced with a difficult challenge. I have very strong views on what constitutes a well written set of code, those views are almost always different from what people I work with believe.
While I acknowledge that many people here have as much or more experience, and that are as convinced of their own correctness as much as I - I wish to share different interpretations to what many consider "the right way".
The right way – just the implications are arrogant. Who is to say what the right way is? How would anyone even discuss such a thing? Is the right thing the approach that works for you? If you meet someone with different, contrasting experiences - but just as successful, which one of you is "more right"?
The truth is not comfortable - since the truth is that in most cases, both are wrong. Why? Because for years, we as programmers tend to work in confined environments and gain an understanding of the best way to solve a narrow set of problems. This leads to people to be convinced in their correctness in all things software, but yet still saying things like "well we agree to disagree", or "there is more than one way to solve the problem". The last sentence is true - there is the right way, and there is everything else.
So how would anyone recognize the right way when faced with their own personal biases?
The reason I started this blog is to write about my discoveries, share some insights, and with luck, even gain some refinements into my day to day processes through the comments and feedback of others. The challenge is to not be relegated to being the crazy person that mutters to himself as he wanders around the blogosphere.


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Q: jquery, work on a control after finding it by id i found a required control with jquery like below...
the control source:
ویرایش

the jquery code:

alert($('a[id$="lbEdit"]'));

i want to know what is the difference between
ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_rlvImages_ctrl0_ctrl3_lbEdit

and
ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$rlvImages$ctrl0$ctrl3$lbEdit

and how can i get
ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$rlvImages$ctrl0$ctrl3$lbEdit

with jquery?
mean i need to check the upper id or whatever in a condition and i think hardcode the upper id is not the correct way ...

A: ASP.Net uses those convoluted naming patterns to generate html element ids when they're runat="server" that make it difficult to use to find a control by id on the page.
Try using this server-tagged selector using the Controls ClientID instead:
$('#<%=lbEdit.ClientID %>");

A: Use .NET 4.0 and set your CliendIDMode to Static.
http://weblogs.asp.net/asptest/archive/2009/01/06/asp-net-4-0-clientid-overview.aspx
It'll make your IDs a lot easier to reference from JavaScript.

A: Firstly, ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_rlvImages_ctrl0_ctrl3_lbEdit is the HTML Id attribute of the element.
ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$rlvImages$ctrl0$ctrl3$lbEdit is the internal ASP.Net reference of the element. It has no use to the front-end of the site.
In your example, to get the text of that element using a jQuery selector, you would use:
$("#ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_rlvImages_ctrl0_ctrl3_lbEdit").text();

It's also worth noting that using ASP.Net webforms will mean that you cannot rely on the ID of that element being that same forever. You would have to pinpoint that specific element via it's class (which you can set reliably in ASP.Net) and it's parent(s).

A: I think you may want to do this instead.
    javascript:__doPostBack('<%= lbEdit.ClientID %>','')


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Home Cannabis Health Steve Bannon setting Suzanna Reid straight, joins with Piers Morgan. Good Interview!
Tommy loves Steve Bannon! This country is calling out for a populist party who actually listens to the people and implements policies that the people want. We need to drain the swamp in Westminster. Suzanna Reid is supposed to be a balanced journalist but just can't control her far left views.
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McKinsey: Power consumption to double by 2050 as COVID-19 helps pull back fossil fuel peak
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Alice Grundy
Reporter, Current±
Power consumption is set to more than double by 2050 as electrification increases, according to new research from McKinsey.
The consultancy found that the share of electricity in energy consumption will grow to 30% by 2050, up from 19% today. Renewables will be dominating this from 2030, with cost reductions over the next decade resulting in the technology becoming cheaper than existing fossil fuel plants.
This is to trigger a sharp uptake in the installed capacity of solar and onshore and offshore wind, with 5TW of new solar and wind capacity installed by 2035 and over 50% of global power power generation coming from renewables the same year.
The consultancy is also predicting that the aggregate fossil fuel demand peak will be brought forward to 2027 partially as a result of COVID-19's impact on energy demand.
It found that while global coal demand has already peaked, oil and gas are now not far behind, falling in 2029 and 2037 respectively.
In McKinsey's report The Global Energy Perspective 2021, it discusses how the pandemic has resulted in a significant reduction in energy demand, which it will likely take between one and four years to recover from. Additionally, the company expects that electricity and gas demand will bounce back quicker than demand for oil, and that demand for fossil fuels overall will never return to its pre-pandemic growth curve.
However, McKinsey did state that over the long-term, the impacts of behavioural shifts due to COVID-19 are minor compared to more known long-term shifts such as decreasing car ownership, growing fuel efficiencies and a trend towards electric vehicles, whose impact is estimated to be three-to-nine times higher than the pandemic's by 2050.
Despite the earlier peak of hydrocarbon demand resulting in a substantial reduction in forecast carbon emissions, the report continues to state that the world remains significantly off of the 1.5ºC pathway.
This is detailed in particular in the Reference Case scenario, one of four modelled by McKinsey, which saw more than half of all global energy demand continuing to be met by fossil fuels by 2050. This scenario is McKinsey's outlook on the continuation of existing trends, examining its expectations of how current technologies can evolve, and is compared against a 1.5 ºC pathway, a delayed transition where the societal focus is on economic recovery post-COVID-19 and an accelerated transition.
Christer Tryggestad, senior partner at McKinsey, said that there is still "a long way to go" to avert substantial global climate change, with annual emissions needing to be around 50% lower in 2030 and 85% lower by 2050 than current trends predict.
Tryggestad added that many governments need to translate "ambitious targets into specific actions", with the focus of stimulus packages for COVID-19 to "play a key role in shaping energy systems in the decades to come".
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Q: After installation NodeJS, my system can't run node command help me please install NodeJs on my Ubuntu. I do
Using Ubuntu
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

and after installation, I do:
node -v

and get message like
"Programm node isn't installed yet, you can install it by doing `sudo apt install nodejs-legacy`"

I already installed and removed nodejs-legacy, but still, when I try to run nodejs -v, I get 4.2.6
And sorry for not perfect English, please help me.

A: The installation for Ubuntu and derivatives is very simple. Before installing be sure to uninstall the old nodeJS
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

Check if in some of the commands you do not get an error.
To remove the nodeJS please see the following post : How to remove nodejs from Ubuntu 16.04?


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Weinstein est un nom de famille germanique dithématique dont l'étymologie rappelle le "vin" (Wein) et la matière solide ou la "pierre" (Stein), et lié particulièrement au monde culturel yiddish.

Patronyme

 Alan Weinstein (1943-), mathématicien américain, à qui l'on doit la conjecture de Weinstein et le théorème de Weinstein ;
 Allen Weinstein (1937-2015), homme politique américain ;
 Bernard Weinstein, (1952-1995) criminel français en Belgique ;
 Bret Weinstein, biologiste américain (1969 -) qui avait été au centre des évènements de mai 2017 à l'Evergreen State College ;
 Charles Weinstein (1933-), traducteur et linguiste français ;
 Daniel Weinstein (1981-), patineur de vitesse sur piste courte américain ;
 Eliyahu Weinstein, homme d'affaires américain ;
 Garry Kasparov, (1963-), né Garry Weinstein, champion du monde d'échecs et homme politique soviétique puis russe ;
 Georges Weinstein, dit Georges Bernard et Georges Adlin (1907-1959), artiste peintre français ;
 Harvey Weinstein (1952-), producteur de cinéma américain, frère de Robert Weinstein ;
 Josh Weinstein (1966-), scénariste américain ;
 José Weinstein (Cayuela) (1959-), homme politique chilien ;
 Marc Weinstein (1957-), universitaire français ;
 Nathan Wallenstein Weinstein (1903-1940) ;
 Paul Weinstein (1878-1965), athlète allemand spécialiste du saut ;
 Robert Weinstein (1954-), producteur américain, frère de Harvey Weinstein ;
 Tilla Weinstein (1934-2002), mathématicienne américaine.

Homophones
 Romāns Vainšteins (1973-), coureur cycliste letton
 Jacques Wajnsztejn (1949-), écrivain français

Divers
 The Weinstein Company, compagnie de production créée par Harvey et Bob Weinstein
 Affaire Harvey Weinstein, révélation publique de harcèlements et d'agressions sexuelles commises par Harvey Weinstein, personnalité influente de l'industrie du cinéma américain ;
 Effet Weinstein, conséquences de l'affaire Harvey Weinstein sur la prise de parole des femmes, en ce qui concerne les agressions sexuelles dont elles sont victimes.

Voir aussi

Homonymie de patronyme germanique
Patronyme juif


Problem Management can have immediate benefits throughout the service and support organization, yet many organizations still struggle with creating / maintaining an effective Problem Management process and group.
3. Integrating Problem management to execute the recommendation / long-term solution.


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Netflix, Disney a big deal for MVPDs
by Jim Barthold |
Dec 5, 2012 9:38am
Netflix's (Nasdaq: NFLX) blockbuster three-year deal with Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) will probably change the way multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs) approach their premium content delivery and the over-the-top space. From a content provider perspective, Starz--one of the big three premium channels, along with HBO and Showtime--will certainly feel the heat as it loses its rights to Disney content.
According to a Netflix news release, the deal starts in 2016 and gives the online video company "exclusive U.S. subscription television service" rights to first run live action and animated feature films from Disney studios, including Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Marvel Studios and Disnature titles. It also shuts out the traditional pay TV provider Starz and adds to the competitive element with HBO and Showtime.
"For Starz, losing the Disney movies means the channel will have to create more original content to fill the void," a story in the Los Angeles Times said.
Starz tried to put a positive spin on the news by issuing a statement carried by the newspaper that "Starz will continue to be the exclusive home of all Disney movies, including the Lucasfilm, Marvel and Pixar releases, and their accompanying digital streaming rights, into 2017."
On the other hand, the company's "decision not to extend the agreement for Disney output past that time allows us the opportunity to implement our plan to dramatically ramp up our investment in exclusive, premium-quality original series which will best meet the needs of our distributors and subscribers."
Netflix had no need to put any spin at all on the news, although it couldn't resist a bit of hyperbole in its news release.
"It's a bold leap forward for Internet television and we are incredibly pleased and proud this iconic family brand is teaming with Netflix to make it happen," said Ted Sarandos, chief content officer at Netflix, in the company's news release.
Financial terms of the deal were not released.
With Netflix apparently cementing a spot as a serious player in the premium pay TV space, MVPDs--particularly those with IPTV capabilities and TV Everywhere platforms--will be forced to look more closely at how they incorporate over-the-top video services into their channel offerings.
- Netflix issued this press release
- the Los Angeles Times had this story
Netflix, Walt Disney Corp. ink licensing deal for streaming rights
Disney to discontinue online streaming service
HBO's Zitter says linear television here to stay
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Padres News: Expanded rosters good news for MacKenzie Gore
By Ryan Sikes
PEORIA, ARIZONA - MARCH 05: Pitcher MacKenzie Gore #89 of the San Diego Padres throws against the Seattle Mariners during a Cactus League spring training baseball game at Peoria Stadium on March 05, 2020 in Peoria, Arizona. (Photo by Ralph Freso/Getty Images) /
As part of MLB's proposal for the 2020 season, the Padres would be able to expand their roster to 30 players. How does MacKenzie Gore fit in?
While MLB owners and the MLBPA continue their discussions regarding player safety, testing, and eventually, the economics of a 2020 season, the Padres will need to determine who may fit on the expanded roster.
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred outlined the league's testing plan in an interview on CNN.
- Testing multiple times a week for players using a facility in Utah that MLB helped convert to a COVID-testing lab. Return time on tests is 24 hours
- Instant testing for symptomatic players
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) May 15, 2020
As part of MLB's proposal, rosters will reportedly expand to 30 active players with a taxi squad of 50 players that can be with the club. And while MacKenzie Gore was expected to make his major league debut at some point, he is virtually a lock to make the expanded roster if the season begins around July 4.
Gore was named the 2019 Minor League Pitcher of the Year after posting a combined 1.69 ERA between High-A Lake Elsinore and Double-A Amarillo. The former third overall pick of the 2017 MLB Draft recently turned 21, but he has all the makings of a future ace in the Padres rotation.
Does the question then shift to how does he fit into an already crowded rotation? We know that Chris Paddack, Dinelson Lamet, and Garrett Richards will fill in the top three slots. Zach Davies is expected to be named the fourth starter after being acquired in the offseason.
The battle for the fifth spot in the rotation was becoming must-watch tv in spring training before the shutdown, as Cal Quantrill had the edge on Joey Lucchesi.
Obviously, an injury in the rotation would provide clarity to Gore's path, but in a make-shift season, the Padres may have to get creative. One option is to have a six-man rotation. Typically, at least one team rolls out this alternative every year for whatever reason; injuries, playing time, etc.
There is a strong chance that Quantrill or Lucchesi ends up moving to the bullpen anyway, but opportunities will be limited there as well. It's a good problem to have, especially considering that Luis Patino is coming, too.
Next. Universal DH is in play for 2020 season. dark
If the MLBPA can agree to the monetary aspect for the risk they are taking, Jayce Tingler would have to get creative to carve out regular starts for Gore.


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Florida limits dosages for medical marijuana, supply
Author: Claire Farrow Published: 11:31 AM EDT August 30, 2022 Updated: 6:42 PM EDT August 31, 2022
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla — Florida is setting limits on how much marijuana you can consume a day, how much your doctor can prescribe you at one time, and how often they can do it.
The Florida Department of Health issued a new emergency rule which took effect Monday that applies to how much medical marijuana a person can have daily and how much can be dispensed to them over a 70-day period.
The emergency rule lists these limits according to different forms of marijuana. Here's how it breaks down:
Edibles — 60 mg THC
Inhalation (vape) — 350 mg THC
Oral (capsules, tinctures) — 200 mg THC
Sublingual (sublingual tinctures) — 190 mg THC
Suppository — 195 mg THC
Topical (creams) — 150 mg THC
Smokable marijuana — 2.025 grams
70-day supply limit
Edibles — 4,200 mg THC
Inhalation (vape) — 24,500 mg THC
Oral (capsules, tinctures) — 14,000 mg THC
Sublingual (sublingual tinctures) — 13,300 mg THC
Suppository — 13,650 mg THC
Topical (creams) — 10,500 mg THC
Smokable marijuana — N/A
For smokable marijuana, you can't exceed more than 2.5 ounces every 35 days, according to the emergency order. Smokable marijuana also must be dispensed by a medical marijuana treatment clinic (MMTC) as a usable whole flower, ground usable whole flower or prerolled marijuana cigarettes, the emergency order stated.
The emergency order does have an exception to allow up to a 4-ounce possession limit of smokable marijuana, but you do have to request that exception online.
Dr. David Berger with Wholistic Pediatrics and Family Care said his office is still unsure how these new rules will be regulated. He also said he is concerned for some of his patients who rely on medical marijuana for certain health issues.
"The challenge is some people need more than the state is allowing for," he said.
Moriah Barnhart, who works in the medical marijuana field in Florida, said her daughter was diagnosed with brain cancer when she was two years old and that medical marijuana has helped her daughter immensely.
Now, she works with others around the state who use it to help with different health issues.
"Many of the children I have worked with in the state of Florida use higher doses than are now allowed through that daily allotment," Barnhart said.
Legalizing marijuana in Florida has gained some traction in recent years, but the last time a proposed constitutional amendment to allow it to be recreational was struck down by the state Supreme Court and wasn't allowed on the 2022 ballot. That's because the language was deemed to be misleading.
Back in 2016, the Sunshine State Florida voters chose to legalize medical marijuana. And, in 2019, added smokable marijuana to that list.
There is the possibility a constitutional amendment could make it on the 2024 Florida ballot, but nothing has been approved or finalized.
https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/health/florida-medical-marijuana-limits-dosage-prescription/67-5f2c62d0-93a7-4998-8a67-12eea1ea5ece
Doctors urge parents to be careful with melatonin as new report finds melatonin poisonings are increasing
Health experts recommend outdoor activities for families as summer approaches


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So basically I just want Bastille to win as many awards as they can tonight, not only are they one of the most original bands around at the moment but they are just so down to earth.
Their album Bad Blood is a must have – seriously.
I am very biased, but please if you have never checked this out – PLEASE PLEASE do!!!
I hope to God that the One Direction Fans have not gone on a voting frenzy and voted for them to win Best Single……. just no.


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KAIST shocks the world with its creativity
View : 6902 Date : 2012-11-29 Writer : ed_news
Researchers at KAIST yielded great results at the world's leading international Human Computer Interaction Society.
Professor Lee Gi Hyuk's (Department of Computer Sciences) and Professor Bae Seok Hyung' (Department of Industrial Design) respective teams received awards in two criteria in student innovation contest and was the only domestic university that presented their thesis at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software.
The ACM UIST holds a student innovation contest prior to its opening. This year's topic was the pressure sensing multi touch pad of Synaptics and involved 27 prestigious universities including MIT and CMU.
The KAIST team (Ki Son Joon Ph.D. candidate, Son Jeong Min M.A. candidate of Department of Computer Sciences and Woo Soo Jin M.A. candidate of Department of Industrial Design) designed a system that allows modulated control by attaching a simple structure to the pressure sensing multi touch pad.
The second KAIST team (Huh Seong Guk Ph.D. candidate, Han Jae Hyun Ph.D. candidate, Koo Ji Sung Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Computer Sciences, and Choi Ha Yan M.A. candidate at Department of Industrial Design) designed a system that utilizes a highly elastic fiber to allow the sensing of lateral forces. They also created a slingshot game application which was the second most popular system.
In the thesis session Professor Bae's team (Lee DaWhee Ph.D. candidate, Son Kyung Hee Ph.D. candidate, Lee Joon Hyup M.A. candidate at Department of Industrial Design) presented a thesis that dealt with the technology that innovated the table pen for displays.
The new 'phantom pen' solved the issue arising from the hiding effect of the pen's contact point and the display error due to the thickness of the display. In addition the 'phantom pen' has the ability to show the same effects as crayons or markers in a digital environment.
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The president of the Pan African Women's Organisation (PAWO), Assetou Koite, says Africa must recognise and honour the contribution of women to the decolonisation of the continent and take action to advance gender equality.
Our continent historically has been blessed with numerous female revolutionaries. Moreover, what is evident is that PAWO has become a transnational feminist movement. This movement has been instrumental in forging international consensus on a rights-based approach to women's rights," Koite said on Tuesday, 31 July.
She was speaking at the 2018 Pan African Women's Day held at the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) in Tshwane. The event was hosted by DIRCO in collaboration with PAWO under the theme 'Celebrating a Legacy of Liberation by the Pan African Women: Taking forward the Struggle for Gender Equality'.
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For the first time on our flights, you can stay connected while travelling. Now you can use our Wi-Fi portal to go to our partners' websites, catch up on news around the globe with our satellite TV or access the internet for work or leisure and keep in touch with family and friends, when you're on the go.
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Trump's EPA makes 'sneaky' move to hamstring its children's health office
Head of Children's Health Protection Office put on administrative leave without explanation.
Joe Romm Sep 26, 2018, 12:08 pm
Cardboard cutouts of children wearing surgical masks are seen during a protest outside EPA headquarters on August 2, 2018 in Washington, DC. CREDIT: Alex Wong/Getty Images.
Acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Andrew Wheeler isn't going to end Trump's war on children's health.
But the former coal lobbyist does have sneakier tactics than his much-investigated predecessor Scott Pruitt.
Wheeler has put the Director of the Office of Children's Health Protection (OCHP), Dr. Ruth Etzel, on administrative leave without explanation. Etzel, as the EPA's website notes, is an award-winning pediatrician and public health expert whose career "to protect children from hazards in the environment" spans three decades.
"This seems like a sneaky way for the E.P.A. to get rid of this program and not be upfront about it," as Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha told the New York Times. Dr. Hanna-Attisha is the pediatrician whose tests of children's blood revealed elevated lead levels in Flint Michigan's water. And a former EPA official called the move "highly unusual."
The Trump EPA has been working to undermine the children's health office for a while, according to several people in and out of the agency who spoke to the Times. For instance, the paper reports that since July, the EPA has stalled a year-long effort by the OCHP to develop an inter-agency strategy to cut children's lead exposure.
What's especially worrisome with this is that children are much more vulnerable to pollution and toxins than adults because key organs are still developing, they put things in their mouth (like lead paint), and "they eat more, drink more, and breathe more in proportion to their body size," as the OCHP website explains.
This special vulnerability is why President Bill Clinton and then EPA-Chief Carol Browner created the office in the first place in 1997. It was given an explicit mission "to make the protection of children's health a fundamental goal of public health and environmental protection in the United States."
Trump's border policies aren't the only ones 'cruel' and 'toxic ' to children
His toxic EPA policies will mean more kids with brain damage and asthma attacks.
But under Trump, this goal appears to no longer be a priority.
In 2017, for example, Pruitt rejected a ban on the organophospate pesticide chlorpyrifos, which paralyzes the nervous system of insects — and which has been linked directly to fetal brain damage. Indeed, one study found that "US children born in 2010 lost 1.8 million IQ points and 7,500 children had their IQs shifted into the intellectual disability range as a result of prenatal organophosphate exposures."
And in August, Trumps' own EPA conceded that replacing President Obama's climate plan for electric utilities with his new plan would lead to as many as 120,000 more cases of worsened asthma a year. Sicker kids also mean up to 140,000 more school absence days each year.
EPA admits Trump would sacrifice thousands of U.S. lives to save a few coal plants
Trump's own EPA says his climate plan will worsen health of millions of kids, cost $50 billion
Let's remember that Trump's efforts to undermine global climate action is literally stealing our children's future livable climate to enrich fossil fuel companies.
But it's not just climate policy he's targeting. As ThinkProgress reported in June, Trump also wants to fix the deficit, caused by his tax cuts, by cutting billions from children's health care.
So, that's what makes the Trump administration's war on children's health so dangerous. And putting the head of the program on leave is simply the latest example.
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National Impact Investment Practitioners Table applauds Canada's commitment to invest $805 million in a new Social Finance Fund over the next decade
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VANCOUVER, Nov. 26, 2018 /CNW/ - The National Impact Investment Practitioners Table (NIIPt) applauds the Government of Canada's commitment to invest $805 million in a new Social Finance Fund over the next decade, including $50 million in investment readiness measures in the first two years.
By leveraging the long history of co-operative and community enterprise in this country, the Social Finance Fund will support collaboration across the social finance sector and help meet the rapidly-expanding demand among investors to simultaneously achieve social, environmental and financial goals.
Members of the pan-Canadian National Impact Investment Practitioners Table represent 20 established funds which have raised $520 million, now being deployed in communities across Canada, and 7 new funds actively raising another $1.2 billion. This new Federal support for social finance is warmly welcomed by a robust network of impact investors able to effectively amplify and accelerate new capital into social finance initiatives from coast to coast to coast. The Federal Social Finance Fund will support and strengthen a thriving ecosystem of intermediaries and entrepreneurs who are developing new business models to create jobs delivering positive social and environmental outcomes.
With our colleagues across the social finance ecosystem, we look forward to leveraging the Social Finance Fund to continue building more affordable housing, reducing our carbon footprint, employing vulnerable people and creating a more equal, generous and sustainable Canada. In mobilizing the commitment and capital of public, private and philanthropic capital in support of triple bottom-line outcomes, Canada has an extraordinary and unparalleled opportunity to model an inclusive economy to the world – mobilizing its strong foundations and very good fortune to be among the first countries to meet the Sustainable Development Goals.
About the National Impact Investment Practitioners Table
The National Impact Investment Practitioners Table was established in 2014. It is a pan-Canadian, mission-driven, bilingual and practitioner-led community of practice. Its members are Canadian-based and Canadian-owned; have an established capital base, provide capital to generate financial and social and/or environmental returns; invest primarily in non-publicly traded Canadian enterprises; and provide publicly accessible reports on their activities.
The Table brings together a wide range of Canadian expertise and works collaboratively to share best practices, identify shared policy priorities and speak as a single voice in shaping a strong, enabling environment for social finance in Canada and around the world. The NIIPT currently represents 20 social finance funds valued at $522 million. Individual funds range in size from $300,000 to $140 million with a median fund size of $17.3 million. The Table also includes 7 new funds under development valued at $1.2 billion.
A complete list of NIIPt member fund mandates can be found here. Reports published by the NIIPt in support of the Social Finance Fund include: Leveraging Canada's Social Impact Funds (October 2018) and Eight Tracks: Impact Investing in Canadian Communities (May 2014).
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Q: Comparing Efficiency of Algorithms So I was trying to develop a tool for comparing the efficiency of two algorithms for solving a particular problem. Ideally I wanted my tool to produce a constant that represented the effectiveness of one algorithm over another.
Let the two algorithms have time complexities of $f(n)$ and $g(n)$ Where $n \in \Bbb N$, and $f(n), g(n)$ are functions with coefficients of $n$ as 1. Say $g(n)$ is the more efficient function. I.e $g(n) =  o(f(n))$
We want to find the efficiency function of $g(n)$ w.r.t $f(n)$.
A basic way of comparing $f(n)$ and $g(n)$ is finding their ratio.
The basic ratio function $r(n) = f(n)/g(n)$.
Express $r(n)$ as a polynomial of the form $n^v$ where $v: v \ge 0, v \in \Bbb R$
The Limit ratio function of $g(n)$ w.r.t $f(n)
R(n) = m$-th derivative of $r(n)$. Where $m = \lceil v\rceil$
It follows that $R(n)$ is a constant.
What do you guys think on my method?


I am speaking at Social Media Camp 2013, May 6-8, in Victoria, B.C. This will be my fourth year in a row as a featured speaker.
I LOVE this conference and the quality of education and speakers, as well as the great friends I have made, who are with me still. I offer a BIG Thank You to the brains and talent behind instigating this conference, Paul Holmes and Chris Burdge. Thank you both for believing in me, and for giving me this opportunity to share what I LOVE to do, one more time.
What am I speaking on? My favorite topic! iPhone photography and iPhoneography of course, relate to the Apple iPhone camera. Cell phone photography, smart phone photography, and mobile photography are related, and sometimes the terms are used interchangeably, but it really boils down to the same thing. You are using a mobile device (your individual choice for a technology brand) to create photo-art on the fly, while making an impact and communicating a message and/or story.
Personally, I create photo-art on the fly using an iPhone. I've chosen to make my photographs with an iPhone camera since 2008, and can't believe that it's now been almost 5 years!
Here is the official conference session blurb, and I do hope to see you at this stellar social media conference, right in the heart of beautiful Victoria, B.C., Canada.
Session Extract: Mobile Photography : WOW Yourself! Turn Blah cell phone photos into WOW images with impact. Your OWN mobile photography and visual social media can transform lives, make business more fun, and make a lasting impact through social sharing.
The only one thing you can really count on is your own inherent creativity. With mobile technology changing at rapid speeds, those who embrace change and their own creativity will lead the way. Cell phone cameras have put creativity in our pockets, always accessible. Mobile photography is a brilliant creative tool for marketing, advertising, real time news and for personal artistic expression. The images we make are permanent memories online and in print. What are you communicating?
Think about it, everything we purchase, has been touched by a creative, in order to market it, whether it be a photographer, visual artist, designer, writer, dancer, actor, videographer or singer. The arts are crucial not only to life, but to every business. Add now to this list, iPhoneography and mobile photography, it's crucial.
Brenda Johima joins us for her fourth year in a row as a featured speaker at Social Media Camp. Impressive!
A passionate speaker, artist and prolific iPhoneographer, Brenda Johima IS Art, Creativity, Design and Social Media combined under one roof. Her own roof.
In 2002 Brenda Johima started her home based business, JOHIMA Designs, which provided graphic design for print and web. In order to provide clients with a one-stop shop for success, she later jumped into SEO, Internet Marketing, and Social Media and rebranded as simply, JOHIMA. During the entire time Brenda has also been very active as an visual artist (painter) and photographer creating images for personal and artistic expression.
Always remaining nimble to change with the times, Brenda has been making mobile phone art (iPhoneography) with her iPhone almost on a daily basis since 2008, and after literally thousands of images, is excited to share her expertise, tips, tricks and enthusiasm with you.
Brenda's Twitter profile says it all; a Multi-Talented-Creative-Type, Designer, Visual Artist, Photographer: phoDOGrapher: Creativity Consultant for Business. And for Social Media Camp, we add iPhoneographer!
I will see you at Social Media Camp 2013, and there is still time to REGISTER HERE.
P.S. All of my image samples and apps at the conference for demonstration purposes will be for iPhone, however, the session is applicable to anyone, due to the crucial elements of fine art and design that are also covered. And, nowadays, more and more apps are available that are compatible with Android as well.


Entry to the 2019 US Outstanding Security Performance Awards (OSPAs) is now open through to 1st July 2019. Anyone working in (or from) the US can enter. For the fourth consecutive year, the OSPAs have partnered with ASIS International to deliver the US Awards. Winners will be announced on Monday, 9th September 2019 at Global Security Exchange (GSX)… Read the full article.
The winners of the US Outstanding Security Performance Awards (OSPAs) were honoured at a networking lunch where 3,000 security professionals gathered to celebrate outstanding performance. The awards were presented at Global Security Exchange (GSX) in Las Vegas on Monday 24th September 2018. Founder of the OSPAs Professor Martin Gill said "The security sector plays a… Read the full article.
The finalists of the 2018 US Outstanding Security Performance Awards have been announced. Now in their third year, the US OSPAs are part of a global awards scheme to recognise and reward companies, teams and individuals who have performed at an exceptional level within the security sector. "These awards are a fantastic way to showcase… Read the full article.


This was our best opportunity for a road sweep. I don't see that happening in the Oregon road trip. Best chance for any 2 game sweep will be against Stanford and Cal. Even that is not a given. The headline that ASU was upset is amusing. Both teams now have identical records overall. Dawgs are trying to get to position to be a bubble team. Saw some strange calls by the refs. We were fouled on shooting plays a couple of times and the refs called a floor foul. Another one they overturned a shooting foul with a foul called somewhere else on the floor that was no where near the action. Now moving closer to the bubble. Win over the cougs is a must. Then next week we get #2 in conference, U$C. At least it is at home. So there is a chance even though it is the dreaded Thursday game.
: This was our best opportunity for a road sweep. I don't see that happening in the Oregon road trip. Best chance for any 2 game sweep will be against Stanford and Cal. Even that is not a given. The headline that ASU was upset is amusing. Both teams now have identical records overall. Dawgs are trying to get to position to be a bubble team. Saw some strange calls by the refs. We were fouled on shooting plays a couple of times and the refs called a floor foul. Another one they overturned a shooting foul with a foul called somewhere else on the floor that was no where near the action. Now moving closer to the bubble. Win over the cougs is a must. Then next week we get #2 in conference, U$C. At least it is at home. So there is a chance even though it is the dreaded Thursday game.