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Limbaugh: GOP Wants to Lose With Cruz
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More this year than any other, conservative legend Rush Limbaugh has studiously avoided picking a favorite in the Republican primaries. While Limbaugh has made no secret of how much he admires Texas Senator Ted Cruz ideologically, he has devoted much of the last year to defending Donald Trump. The way Limbaugh sees it, one of these men will likely be the nominee and it doesn't make sense to help the Democrats tear down that candidate before the general.
He hasn't only defended Trump, however. Over the last month, Limbaugh has also defended Cruz. He has repeatedly explained the delegate process, dismissing allegations of fraud. At the same time, he has been pragmatic about all of this, recognizing that when it comes to some of these machinations, perception is as important as reality.
All of that preamble is simply to put Limbaugh's latest comments in context. On Monday, El Rushbo said that the Republican establishment was only supporting Ted Cruz because they want to see him lose to Hillary Clinton.
"The bosses of the GOP do indeed, if they had a preference, there's no doubt in my mind it would be Cruz," he said. "The GOP Establishment would rather Ted Cruz be the nominee and lose the race for the White House. They figure that there's only one Donald Trump. There's not going be another guy like Trump coming along, but there's all kinds of potential Ted Cruzes in the Tea Party, and they don't want guys like Ted Cruz coming back."
For years, Limbaugh has tried to dispel the notion that the Republican Party is interested in furthering conservatism. While he reserves his most damning criticism for the Democrats, he has often warned listeners of the anti-conservative bias inside the GOP establishment.
"They think they're going to lose either way," Limbaugh said. "Therefore, the way they're thinking is it's better to lose with Cruz, because that would say forever, 'No conservative should ever get the nomination and lose in a landslide.' They'll be done with it."
That sentiment should not surprise anyone. We can see it in the candidates. Romney, McCain, Bush, Dole, Bush – these men were not exactly icons of conservatism. Bush 43 was closest, and hey, he won two elections straight. Imagine that. And then you go back to the last real conservative nominee – Reagan – and it becomes impossible to understand why the GOP sees conservatism as a losing effort.
This is the kind of thing that Cruz has been fighting against since he first went to Washington.
Sadly, Cruz no longer has anything other than a longshot chance at the nomination. In fact, it's possible that he will have dropped out by the time many of you read this. But regardless of how his story plays out, we should go forward understanding the basic truth about the Republican Party. Without a conservative foundation, they cannot be an effective opposition party. And, quite obviously, they haven't been.


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WHRY funds study to enable early detection, treatment of ovarian cancer
by Rick Harrison
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Dr. Ryan Jensen
Women's Health Research at Yale (WHRY) is funding a study to explain how well-known genetic mutations can lead to ovarian cancer.
"Ovarian cancer is of particular importance for women's health as it is often diagnosed too late for effective therapeutic intervention," said Ryan Jensen, the study's lead researcher. "By identifying the molecular circuitry disrupted by loss of the tumor-suppressing protein known as BRCA2, we have the opportunity to expose vulnerabilities that can be selectively targeted or lead to novel biological clues to aid detection and vastly improve the standard of care for this unique population of women."
As the recipient of this year's Wendy U. and Thomas C. Naratil Pioneer Award, Jensen, associate professor of therapeutic radiology, is determining the molecular drivers that lead to ovarian tumors in women who have mutations in the gene that produces BRCA2. BRCA2 is a protein that repairs errors in the human genome ultimately responsible for preventing the development of cancer cells.
"The BRCA1 and BRCA2 proteins function like an auto-correct function in text messaging," Jensen said. "When the genes that code for BRCA1/2 are mutated and fail to correct DNA damage, tumor-promoting genes can become permanently altered and genetic mistakes accumulate, eventually leading a cell down a path to becoming a cancer cell."
Jensen will manipulate fallopian tube cells and cells from the surface of ovaries that have been identified as the potential origin of ovarian tumors to determine how the loss of BRCA2 proteins can influence this process. BRCA1/2 gene mutations also carry increased risk for cancer of the breast, pancreas, and prostate.
"The American Cancer Society estimates that 22,440 women in the United States will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer this year, and 14,080 women will die of the disease," said Dr. Carolyn M. Mazure, director of WHRY. "This study will advance our understanding of how ovarian cancer develops and offer hope for the many women born with genetic mutations that carry an extremely high risk for this disease."
Jensen has already created fallopian and ovarian surface cells in which he can turn the BRCA2 protein "on" and "off" like a switch. This experimental system will provide a powerful model to test his hypothesis that cells without the BRCA2 protein experience profound genomic instability, a cellular state in which mutations begin to accumulate throughout a person's genome at an alarming rate.
In the absence of the BRCA2 protein, these mutations usually end up killing the cell. But in rare cases and possibly in specific cell types, such as fallopian cells, the cells somehow manage to survive. Jensen's study is designed to understand at the molecular level how this could happen.
In 2010, Jensen was the lead author of a study published in the journal Nature announcing the successful purification of the BRCA2 gene's protein, the culmination of a 15-year effort that provided the critical groundwork for understanding the effect of these mutations.
WHRY funded a two-year study in 2013 in which Jensen's laboratory began purifying 10 of the most common BRCA2 mutations and conducting experiments to determine if the mutations affect the function of a purified, intact BRCA2 protein sample. As not all mutations lead to cancer, Jensen's goal is to develop a test that can quickly and accurately determine whether particular mutations are harmful or not.
Since its inception, WHRY has awarded $5 million in annual seed grants that have gone on to generate more than $95 million in external funding.
For more news from Women's Health Research at Yale, visit its website or connect with the program on Facebook or Twitter.
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Therapeutic Radiology
Ryan B. Jensen, PhD
Associate Professor of Therapeutic Radiology and Pathology
Carolyn M Mazure, PhD
Norma Weinberg Spungen and Joan Lebson Bildner Professor in Women's Health Research and Professor of Psychiatry and of Psychology; Director, Women's Health Research at Yale

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The Canterbury Bight is a large bight on the eastern side of New Zealand's South Island. The bight runs for approximately  from the southern end of Banks Peninsula to the settlement of Timaru and faces southeast, exposing it to high-energy storm waves originating in the Pacific Ocean. The bight is known for rough conditions as a result, with wave heights of over  common. Much of the bight's geography is shaped by this high-energy environment interacting with multiple large rivers which enter the Pacific in the bight, such as the Rakaia, Ashburton / Hakatere, and Rangitata Rivers. Sediment from these rivers, predominantly Greywacke, is deposited along the coast and extends up to  out to sea from the current shoreline. Multiple hapua, or river-mouth lagoons, can be found along the length of the bight where waves have deposited sufficient sediment to form a barrier across a river mouth, including most notably Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora and Washdyke Lagoon

Zones of the Canterbury Bight
The Canterbury Bight can be split into three distinct regions: the Southern Zone, Central Zone and Northern Zone.

Southern Zone

The Southern Zone runs from Dashing Rocks at Timaru in the south to the Rangitata River mouth in the north. Features include the Washdyke Barrier and Washdyke Lagoon.

Central Zone

The Central Zone is the largest and runs between the Rangitata River mouth and Taumutu on the southern end of Kaitorete Spit. Unconsolidated alluvial cliffs interbedded with sands and silts, which back steep, narrow, mixed sand and gravel beaches, unify this zone. The cliffs are the result of erosion of the Rangitata River, Ashburton River / Hakatere and Rakaia River alluvial fans, whose mouths are all encompassed by this region. Continued cliff erosion contributes around 70% of the coarse material supplied to the mixed sand and gravel beaches of the Canterbury Bight.

Northern Zone

The Northern Zone runs from Taumutu to Banks Peninsula and represents the 'down-drift' end of the bight. This zone is dominated by the Kaitorete Spit (actually a barrier) and is backed extensively by dune systems. Kaitorete 'Spit' encloses Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora, the fourth largest lake in New Zealand. This is the only zone that is not in a long-term erosional state.

Sediment inputs
Generally speaking, there are six potential sediment sources for beach environments. These are longshore transport, onshore transport, wind transport, river transport (and alluvial cliffs for the Canterbury Bight), biogenous (mainly in shell form) deposition and hydrogenous deposition. In the Canterbury Bight system, wind transport and biogenous and hydrogenous deposition can be excluded as agents of sediment inputs. Wind can be excluded as it acts to remove sediment from the beach although this is not a significant amount. Biogenous deposition can be excluded as the high-energy environment and coarse sediment deter shelled animals from occupying the area. Lastly, hydrogenous deposition is not considered important to the Canterbury Bight system.  This means that rivers, longshore transport and onshore transport are the main sediment sources for the Canterbury Bight.

Rivers
Erosion of the alluvial cliffs (and subsequent longshore transport) through the Central Zone of the Canterbury Bight is believed to provide the majority of coarse material to the beach system.  This creates a conundrum, as rivers are generally accepted to be the main source of sediment to coasts and three large rivers (Rangitata, Ashburton and Rakaia) discharge into the Canterbury Bight. Furthermore, the total amount of sediment that the rivers transport to the coast is proportional to other rivers worldwide. The first reason the rivers do not provide a significant amount of sediment to the coast is that the coarse sediment (i.e. gravels) are transported offshore during floods where waves are unable to return it to the coast and/or it is deposited further inland within the river channel. The second reason is that the material capable of nourishing the coastline (i.e. coarse material like gravels) provided by rivers is estimated to only be around 176,700m3/yr although this value is very speculative. This estimate of coarse sediment supply only equates for less than 10% (by weight) of sediment supplied by the river systems. The remaining 90% (by weight) is fine material, which is unable to nourish the Canterbury Bight and is transported offshore.

Alluvial cliffs
The erosion of alluvial cliffs found in the central zone is predominantly caused by sub-aerial processes followed by marine processes removing the eroded material. This eroded material is then subjected to longshore transport, which in the case of the Canterbury Bight is predominantly from south to north. Estimates for the rate of erosion vary along the coast but are averaged at about 8m/yr (landward retreat), although high erosion levels at one site may influence this value. The marine processes include swash and backwash, with the larger storm induced waves creating stronger swash/backwash, which removes more eroded material. The amount of gravel provided to the coast from the cliffs is estimated at around 666,400m3/yr although this value is also speculative.

Onshore transport
Onshore transport of sediment is considered a secondary sediment source for the Canterbury Bight. In the offshore zone, sediment movement is unimpeded as the local bathymetry of the continental shelf is relatively flat with no major obstructions. Because of this storm waves are thought to be capable of moving sediment onshore (by increasing water velocity near the bed) although due to the highly turbulent swash/backwash zone, only a small portion of sediment will remain onshore.

Sediment outputs
Evidence for longshore transport is readily apparent on the Canterbury Bight. These include the formation of the Kaitorete Barrier, a landform associated with longshore sediment transport. The Canterbury Bight is not eroding due to net longshore transport exceeding sediment inputs however as firstly, Banks Peninsula and the basalt cliffs at Dashing Rocks prevent significant longshore transport out of the Canterbury Bight system by obstructing further transport. Secondly, longshore transport appears to have abated as little sediment has accumulated at the down-drift end of the bight since the 1950s suggesting sediment is lost from beaches before reaching Banks Peninsula. This has been attributed to sediment becoming finer after undergoing abrasion, which allows it to be winnowed from the beach. To further this conclusion, backwash is significantly weaker than swash as there is a lot of percolation through the coarse beach material. Weaker backwash means that sediment must be smaller in order for it to be removed from the beach. Estimations for the amount of sediment losses due to abrasion differ greatly with studies giving figures of 76%, 9-98% and 5-65%.

Sediment transport mechanisms

Longshore transport

Sediment removed from the cliffs, brought onshore from offshore and the sediment supplied by rivers that remains in the lower foreshore zone undergoes longshore transport. The main agents are swash and backwash, which act to move the material up and down the beach in a zigzag fashion. Almost all of the changes in beach morphology and sediment distribution observed are produced by swash and backwash. The direction and rate of longshore sediment transport is a function of the angle of wave approach, wave strength and the time between successive waves. The end result of this is a net northward migration of coarse sediment, predominantly in the swash zone.  This is because only swell/waves moving from south to north are generally strong enough to move large sediment.  Sediment removed from the backshore is predominantly moved offshore rather than along shore as only large southerly storm waves and their subsequent swash, which usually flow perpendicular to the beach are able to reach this area.  The direction of wave approach is often relatively perpendicular due to wave refraction. This means that longshore transport mainly occurs in the nearshore swash zone.

Wind
Wind also plays a part in the transportation of sediment. The most frequent velocities reached by winds on the Canterbury Bight are capable of moving medium to coarse sized sand particles. These winds are attributed with the movement of sand from the beach towards the dunes including the extensive dune ridges along the Kaitorete Barrier.  Wind also has a secondary effect of sediment transport, especially strong winds following southerly swell. These winds force the wave crests of the southerly storm waves to spill (spilling breakers). Spilling breakers produce a longer and stronger swash.  Given that swash is a component of longshore drift on the Canterbury Bight, it is easy to assume that these waves will inherently cause an increase in sediment transport, particularly from south to north. But as discussed earlier, storm waves act more to remove sediment offshore than along it.

Coastal management

Current erosion conditions

Erosion is occurring along 75% of the Canterbury Bight.  In the long term, most mixed sand and gravel beaches are in an erosional state due to the lack of available coarse sediment needed to withstand the high-energy environments they reside in..  In the Northern Zone however, from Taumutu to Birdlings Flat/Banks Peninsula conditions are relatively stable as longshore transport into the zone is small, but sufficient to maintain a relative equilibrium.  The Central Zone, from the Rangitata River mouth to Taumutu is experiencing the worst erosion along the Bight. Estimates vary on the rate of erosion but an average of 8m/yr is given, however this value may be influenced by high erosion levels at one site.  The height of the cliffs characterizing this zone and the size of the beach in front of them are a controlling factor for erosion rates. The Southern Zone, from Dashing Rocks Timaru to the Rangitata river mouth is also undergoing erosion although at rates not as severe as seen along the Central Zone. The Washdyke Barrier is the major concern in this zone.

Management of the Canterbury Bight is controlled and regulated by Environment Canterbury (Ecan). Ecan believes that in many instances, the increased risk of erosion and seawater inundation are caused by the inappropriate location of assets and activities and by a reliance on inadequate works to protect from the ocean.  To investigate coastal hazards, Ecan; establish and maintain co-operation with weather and tsunami forecasting agencies in the issuing of warnings about potentially damaging natural events, assess the effect of hazards on the coast and regularly collect data on sea/shoreline conditions to determine any changes in occurrence of hazards and the physical nature of the coast as well as determine areas requiring hazard mitigation.

Current coastal management initiatives
Erosion, and subsequent sea water inundation poses a serious threat along the length of the Canterbury Bight. To date, erosion has led to the loss of agricultural land, threatened valuable infrastructure and some holiday settlements, and reduced coastal lagoons and wetlands. One of the main areas of concern is the Washdyke barrier. The shoreline at Washdyke was naturally eroding before construction of the Timaru harbour commenced in 1879. The harbour has prevented sediment being transported from the south meaning that no coarse sediment is able to nourish the Washdyke beach/barrier. The material that is currently on the beach is undergoing abrasion (discussed above), which has reduced grain sizes and lowered the berm heights increasing the amount of washover, which further increases erosion.

This process has created a significant hazard, as the Washdyke barrier is the only line of protection between the high-energy ocean and valuable infrastructure including State Highway 1, an important railway and a large industrial area. Additionally, the barrier protects the Washdyke Lagoon, which is a valued wildlife area.

In 1980, to manage the erosion hazard of the Washdyke barrier beach crest heights were raised 2.0–2.5m to minimise washover, washover sediment was used to fill the body of the beach and river gravels were used to cap the beach crest. This programme was monitored over five years and showed that erosion was decreased by 55%, with no retreat or washover. Untreated adjacent beaches experienced significant retreat over the five-year period showing the programme was very successful.

Recommendations for coastal management
There is a clear need for further mitigation to coastal erosion hazards along the bight through coastal management. The Washdyke barrier re-nourishment has proved a successful venture for that area although it has only lessened the threat, rather than completely removed it. The success of the re-nourishment programme means it should be used again for this area. Along the Central Zone of the Canterbury Bight, different mitigation methods are needed in order to decrease erosion risks. A huge dilemma is created, as sediment is needed from this area to nourish the Northern Zone, which without it would itself begin to erode. Given this, only three options are left, either do nothing, retreat from the coast or constantly re-nourish the area with large sediment. Doing nothing is an option for some areas where there is no economic or cultural significance and erosion poses no risk to anything valuable. Objects that can be moved landward, without incurring significant losses should be moved in a managed retreat. Lastly, re-nourishment could be used sparingly in areas where objects cannot be moved or have some form of value. Re-nourishment would be the ideal method used for the entire coastline but this is not plausible due to the size of the area and the cost of re-nourishment.

References

Coastline of New Zealand
Bays of Canterbury, New Zealand
Bights (geography)

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Michael W. Kirst (born August 1, 1939) is Professor Emeritus of Education (and Business Administration by courtesy) at Stanford University and the longest serving President of California's State Board of Education.

Kirst served as President of the California State Board of Education for four terms, serving from 1975 to 1982, and again from 2011 until 2019.

Kirst has advised Jerry Brown on education since 1974, including during Brown's two terms as Mayor of Oakland, California. He has served as a policymaker on education for 20 years, working for the federal government for several years in the 1960s and served on the Stanford faculty for 37 years (1969-2006).

He co-founded in 1983 the Policy Analysis Center for California Education (PACE) think tank. Kirst has written, co-authored, or edited fifteen books and nearly 230 articles, monographs, and working papers on school finance politics, curriculum politics, intergovernmental relations, as well as education reform policies.

Biography

Michael Kirst was born on August 1, 1939 in West Reading, Pennsylvania, and received his bachelor's degree in Economics from Dartmouth College in 1961 and his M.P.A. in Government and Economics from Harvard University in 1963. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government from Harvard in 1964. His bachelor, M.P.A. and Ph.D studies were funded primarily through merit scholarships.

Kirst worked for the federal government before joining the faculty at Stanford. He held several positions, including Staff Director of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Manpower, Employment and Poverty, and Director of Program Planning and Evaluation for the Bureau of Elementary and Secondary Education in the U.S. Department of Education. He also held positions in the federal Office of Management and Budget, the White House Fellows, and worked as a program analyst for the Title I Elementary and Secondary Education Act Program since it began in 1965.

Kirst is the Co-Founder of the Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE), an independent, non-partisan research center led by faculty directors at Stanford University, the University of Southern California, the University of California Davis, the University of California Los Angeles, and the University of California Berkeley.

University positions
Kirst has held a variety of university positions throughout his career. At Stanford University, he has served as:
 Chair, Administration and Policy Analysis, 1984-1992
 Coordinator, Joint Degrees with Graduate School of Business and School of Education, 1969-2002
 University Fellow, 1986-1988
 Chair, Public Service Center Faculty Board, 1989-1991
 Academic Senate, 1995-1998; 2004-2006

Publications
Kirst is the author of a variety of literature regarding school finance, curriculum politics, intergovernmental relations, and education reform policies.

Books:
 Higher Education and Silicon Valley (Johns Hopkins University Press: Scott, W. Richard, 2017)
 Remaking College (Stanford: Stevens, Mitchell, 2015)
 The Political Dynamics of American Education (Richmond, Ca.:McCutchan, 2009) with Fred Wirt
 From High School to College: Improving Opportunities for Success in Postsecondary Education  (Jossey Bass/Wiley, 2004) with Andrea Venezia.
 Schools in Conflict:  Political Turbulence in American Education (Berkeley:  McCutchan, 1992, 3rd edition), with Frederick Wirt.  First edition published in 1982.
 Who Controls Our Schools:  American Values in Conflict (New York:  W.H. Freeman, 1984).
 Contemporary Issues in Education:  Perspectives from Australia and U.S.A.  (Berkeley:  McCutchan, 1983), with Greg Hancock and David Grossman.
 State School Finance Alternatives (Eugene, Oregon:  University of Oregon, 1975), with L. Pierce, W. Garms, and J. Guthrie.
 Revising School Finance in Florida (Tallahassee:  Florida Governor's Office, 1973), with W. Garms.
 Federal Aid to Education:  Who Governs, Who Benefits (Lexington, Ma.: D.C. Heath, 1972), with Joel Berke.
 State, School and Politics, Editor (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1972).
 The Political Web of American Schools (Boston:  Little, Brown, 1972), with Frederick Wirt.  Revised in 1975 and republished as Political and Social Foundations of Education (Berkeley:  McCutchan).
 The Politics of Education at the Local, State, and Federal Levels, Editor (Berkeley:  McCutchan, 1970).
 Government Without Passing Laws (University of North Carolina Press, 1969).

Kirst has also written and contributed to 24 monographs, 177 essays, 54 newspaper and magazine articles, and 54 web-based and working papers.

References

Stanford University faculty
Living people
1939 births
People from Berks County, Pennsylvania
Dartmouth College alumni
Harvard Kennedy School alumni


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Satellites Could Be Used to Detect Nuclear Tests
TOPICS:IonosphereNuclearSatelliteWeapons
By SciTechDaily December 5, 2012
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory lower equipment underground for the September 1992 "Divider" nuclear test, the last such test that the United States conducted. Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Underground nuclear tests can be detected in the skies and as a result, global satellite networks could become a powerful tool in order to detect clandestine underground nuclear explosions (UNE).
The scientists presented their findings at the American Geophysical Union conference. The International Monitoring System (IMS) was established by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty and has seismic detectors for terrestrial shock waves, hydroacoustic networks that scan the ocean for sound waves, and radionuclide networks to detect radioactive particles produced by nuclear explosions. Jihye Park, a postdoctoral researcher at Ohio State University, and her colleagues think that the ionosphere could also help in detecting nuclear explosions.
Every nuclear explosion sends up an electromagnetic pulse that ripples through the ionosphere. This traveling ionospheric disturbance (TID) should be detectable by the technologies sensitive to the changes in the ionosphere, like global satellite networks and radio telescopes. In fact, there have been proposals to leverage GPS in detonation detection since 1979.
However, earthquakes and storms can also produce TIDs. So researchers need to be able to uniquely identify an underground nuclear explosion. In this study, the team analyzed signals that GPS stations received after two 20-kiloton UNE tests the USA conducted in 1992. These two tests were part of a series of 8 UNEs conducted from 1991 to 1992 at a Department of Energy reservation, 100 km northwest from Las Vegas, Nevada. Researchers had been testing nuclear devices at the Nevada Test Site since 1951. These were the last tests the USA conducted before President George Bush signed a law imposing a moratorium on all nuclear weapons testing on October 2, 1992.
The team developed an algorithm to find the signal within the noise detected by the GPS stations. The effect of distortions from changes to the diurnal cycle and from the changing geometry of the satellites themselves was removed. The ionospheric delay between the satellites and stations was converted into "total electron content" in the TIDs. This generated a unique profile for the TIDs. This same profile appeared in multiple stations, and allowed the team to pinpoint the original signal.
The Very Large Array (VLA) of radio telescopes, near Socorro, New Mexico, used a similar algorithm to come up with a similar result. The advantage of using GPS detection is that the infrastructure is already in place and available globally at no cost. The team still needs to iron out some kinks before this method can become fully operational.
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The financial services and insurance industry has had a rocky ride over the past years. Organizations have been faced with numerous challenges, including the continuous string of new and revised regulations; the increased use of technology for both in- and outward facing processes; a large number of M&As; and the need to win back the trust of the public. Fortunately, for the most part, the organizations that survived the Great Recession are still standing today. But are they equipped to handle the challenge currently facing them—the rise of the gig economy?
According to the HR.com article "Contingent workforce: Six factors that drive them," experts predict that on average by 2020, 40 percent of an organization's workforce will consist of contingent workers. Interestingly, Millennials and Baby Boomers are demonstrating a strong gravitational pull towards contingent work—not because they don't have any other option, but because they want to work on a project-by-project basis. This fact, combined with employers' post-recession preference for agile, scalable workforces that allow them to respond quickly to in- and external pressures is the driving force behind the continuing rise of the gig economy.
How can financial services and insurance companies restructure work into gigs? The logical consequence of more and more workers choosing free agency is a restructuring of work into projects to which talent can contribute a pre-determined amount of work. But many employers are debating whether this is a viable option, and if so, to what extent. Does all the work need to be restructured, from IT security to mortgage financing to bank tellers? Will the linear career path as we know it disappear? Is this even a possibility across the board?
How can employers attract and retain top talent? The truth is that organizations are already losing workers to free agency at two critical career stages: high-potential mid-career professionals and mature workers with decades of industry- and company specific knowledge. It's only logical for employers to ask what exactly they need to do to attract and retain top talent if having a salary, benefits, and a career path within an organization aren't enough anymore. What's so attractive about the gig economy—which doesn't guarantee steady work—that makes people leave stable positions? What aspects of the gig economy can employers realistically incorporate into their own organizations to make them more attractive to top talent?
How can financial services and insurance companies compete with other industries like high tech? In the gig economy, workers can (if their skills allow) easily move across a range of industries—industries that might have more interesting and better paying opportunities for free agents. Financial services and insurance employers are rightfully concerned that they're in competition with sectors with an extensive legacy of using gig workers—for example, the IT and high tech world. The question then becomes not only how to be a more attractive prospect than other employers in their own industry, but also than employers in other industries.
In all honesty, there are no set answers to these questions, but I believe that's precisely why they're worth exploring. So stay tuned as we look more in-depth at the gig economy in the upcoming months. In the meantime, I'm curious to hear your thoughts on the matter.


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What Is "Antimalware Service Executable" and Why Is It Running on My PC?
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Windows 10 includes built-in Microsoft Defender Antivirus, formerly known as Windows Defender. The "Antimalware Service Executable" process is Microsoft Defender's background process. This program is also known as MsMpEng.exe, and is part of the Windows operating system.
RELATED: What Is This Process and Why Is It Running on My PC?
This article is part of our ongoing series explaining various processes found in Task Manager, like Runtime Broker, svchost.exe, dwm.exe, ctfmon.exe, rundll32.exe, Adobe_Updater.exe, and many others. Don't know what those services are? Better start reading!
What Is Antimalware Service Executable?
Microsoft Defender, formerly known as Windows Defender, is part of Windows 10 and is the successor to the free Microsoft Security Essentials antivirus for Windows 7. This ensures that all Windows 10 users always have an antivirus program installed and running, even if they haven't chosen to install one. If you have an out-of-date antivirus application installed, Windows 10 will deactivate it and activate Microsoft Defender for you. Windows 11 includes the same Microsoft Defender antivirus software, too.
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The Antimalware Service Executable process is Microsoft Defender's background service, and it always remains running in the background. It's responsible for checking files for malware when you access them, performing background system scans to check for dangerous software, installing antivirus definition updates, and anything else a security application like Defender needs to do.
While the process is named Antimalware Service Executable on the Processes tab in Task Manager, its file name is MsMpEng.exe, and you'll see this on the Details tab.
You can configure Microsoft Defender, perform scans, and check its scan history from the Windows Security application included with Windows 10 and Windows 11. This application was formerly named the "Windows Defender Security Center."
To launch it, use the "Windows Security" shortcut in the Start menu. You can also right-click the shield icon in the notification area on your taskbar and select "View Security Dashboard," or head to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Security > Open Windows Security.
RELATED: How to Use the Built-in Windows Defender Antivirus on Windows 10
Why Is It Using So Much CPU?
If you see the Antimalware Service Executable process using a large amount of CPU or disk resources, it's likely scanning your computer for malware. Like other antivirus tools, Microsoft Defender performs regular background scans of the files on your computer.
It also scans files when you open them, and regularly installs updates with information about new malware. This CPU usage could also indicate that it's installing an update, or that you just opened a particularly large file Microsoft Defender needs some extra time to analyze.
Microsoft Defender generally performs background scans only when your computer is idle and isn't being used. However, it may still use CPU resources performing updates or scanning files as you open them, even while you use your computer. But the background scans shouldn't run while you're using your PC.
This is all normal with any antivirus program, all of which need to use some system resources to check your PC and keep you protected.
Can I Disable It?
We do not recommend disabling the Microsoft Defender antivirus tool if you don't have any other antivirus software installed. In fact, you can't disable it permanently. You can open the Windows Security application from your Start menu, select "Virus & Threat Protection," click "Manage Settings" under Virus & Threat protection settings, and disable "Real-Time Protection." However, this is just temporary, and Microsoft Defender will re-enable itself after a short period of time if it doesn't detect other antivirus apps installed.
Despite some misleading advice you'll see online, Defender performs its scans as a system maintenance task you can't disable. Disabling its tasks in the Task Scheduler won't help. It will only permanently stop if you install another antivirus program to take its place.
If you do have another antivirus program installed (like Avira or BitDefender), Microsoft Defender will automatically disable itself and get out of your way. If you head to Windows Security > Virus & threat protection, you'll see a message saying "You're using other antivirus providers" if you have another antivirus program installed and activated. This means that Windows Defender is disabled. The process may run in the background, but it shouldn't use CPU or disk resources attempting to scan your system.
RELATED: How to Periodically Scan Your Computer With Windows Defender While Using Another Antivirus
However, there is a way to use both your antivirus program of choice and Microsoft Defender. On this same screen, you can expand "Microsoft Defender Antivirus options" and enable "Periodic scanning." Defender will then perform regular background scans even while you're using another antivirus program, providing a second opinion and potentially catching things your main antivirus might miss.
If you see Microsoft Defender using CPU even while you have other antivirus tools installed and want to stop it, head here and ensure the Periodic scanning feature is set to "Off." If it doesn't bother you, feel free to enable Periodic scanning—it's another layer of protection and additional security. However, this feature is off by default.
Is It a Virus?
We haven't seen any reports of viruses pretending to imitate the Antimalware Service Executable process. Microsoft Defender is itself an antivirus, so it should ideally stop any malware attempting to do this in its tracks. As long as you're using Windows and have Microsoft Defender enabled, it's normal for it to be running.
If you're really concerned, you can always run a scan with another antivirus application to confirm nothing malicious is running on your PC.
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I have a court order and there is a child support case open, where do I send my payment?
You must include your social security number or your member (MCI) number from your billing statement with the payment for proper crediting.
Under Minnesota law, employers are allowed to deduct child support payments during the employer's pay periods. Payroll may be done once a week, every other week, twice a month, or once a month. The support amount will be divided between the pay periods.
The employer has 7 days to send the payment to the Child Support Payment Center after taking the money from the payroll check.
What if the person that pays support is required to pay support for more than 1 family?
Federal and state law requires that the money will be divided between the families.
When will the custodial parent get the payment?
Forms to sign up to have your child support payments automatically withdrawn from your account can be found at the Minnesota Child Support Division website.
Tax refund payments received by the Child Support office are held for 30 days if the person filed tax return as single or 6 months if married filing jointly.
What happens when my child turns 18 or has emancipated?
After a child emancipates, our office will stop charging current support but will continue collection efforts on past-due child support. If there is no past due child support owed, the case will close.


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This Sunday the Lectionary gives us another of Mark's splendid "sandwiches." The story opens and closes with the resurrection of Jairus' daughter. In the middle is the story of the woman with a hemmorhage. Together, they show the many working of Jesus, the wideness of his mercy.
At the heart of our Epistle, our second-to-last Sunday reading Second Corinthians, is the curious word "equality": "As a matter of equality your abundance at the present time should supply their needs." The word means "likeness," or "matching up." "Though he was rich, for your sake he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich": his poverty somehow matches up with our poverty so that he can match us up with his riches. He does "gracious acts" so that we can do the same.
The reading brilliantly pairs with our reading from Wisdom. "God did not make death." He doesn't want us to suffer, that isn't the point of death—but there is some kind of "match up." On the one hand, a match between the "imperishability" and "image of his own nature" that he gives us, so that we can match up with his richness. On the other hand, a kind of match-up—not yet quite in sight in the Old Testament—between our death and Christ's, his resurrection and ours.
The Gospel is exquisite. Mark is short; scholars claim it must have been written first because it is primitive. But there is nothing primitive about this passage. Here, Mark is longer and more detailed—and richer—than either Matthew or Luke.
The sandwich encourages us to see the two stories together. Two sick girls. The woman has been bleeding "for twelve years." We later learn (Matthew doesn't have this detail) that the girl was "a child of twelve." Jesus calls her "Little girl" and her father (in a detail our translation leaves out) calls her his "daughterling," his little girl, but that signifies more about her station than her age.
The woman hasn't died, but the language is dramatic. When it says she had a "flow" of blood, the Greek word doesn't mean "trickle," it's the word you use for a current in a river. She has "suffered" from the doctors. But when he heals her, it says her "fountain" of blood becomes "arid," like scorched earth. At the end he calls it her "scourge," the thing you get beaten with. She does not rise from the dead, but her situation is awful, humiliating, and dramatic.
The ways of approach are opposite. The woman approaches for herself, the child's father approaches for her. The woman is in a crowd "pressing on" Jesus, so that her touch is only one among many; the child is in a house, where Jesus keeps the "commotion" outside. He "looked around to see who had" touched him; he was the only one who touched the little girl, and the small crowd in the house—only the father and mother and three disciples—were watching closely. The father orders Jesus to come with him to his home, the woman tries to touch him without being noticed—but the story ends with Jesus giving the father a command ("give her something to eat"), but only generosity to the woman ("go in peace, and be healed").
The scene in the house is parallel to the Transfiguration, where again Jesus will take just Peter, James, and John to see his glory. This is the only time Jesus raises the dead in Matthew and Mark (though Luke has a mother's son to parallel the father's daughter). Mark and Peter use the Aramaic to indicate the intimacy of the scene: I was there, I remember the words he said.
Taken together, these scenes show the universality of Jesus's mercy. In intimate silence and in the crowd, in our youth and our old age, in death and in humiliation, when we call out in strength and when we fall on our knees in fear—Jesus is there.
Where don't you seek the Lord?
But our reading last week—and we could quote endlessly from the Gospels—reminds us that the power of the fruit is in the seed, which bears fruit "we know not how" and springs up far beyond what we would expect. The key to fruitfulness is not activism, but letting Jesus work in us.
This week our Ordinary Sunday gets trumped by the Birthday of John the Baptist. John is the ultimate missionary, the greatest of the prophets. But in celebrating his Birthday, we celebrate God's work in John before John worked for God.
Thus our first reading, from Isaiah, a prophet like John, says first, "The LORD called me from birth," then "He made of me a sharp-edged sword." The point is: He did it, my effectiveness is from Him.
And John always points beyond himself. Our reading from Acts reminds us that he was always herald of the King: "What do you suppose that I am? I am not he." His strength comes from beyond him, and so it points beyond him.
Our Gospel, of course, is the story of John's birth, from the first chapter of Luke.
The center of the story is the naming of John. Yochanan or Yehochanan (whence the Greek Ioannes) is a semi-common name in the Old Testament, meaning God (YHWH) has bent down, or had mercy.
There are some nice themes. One is relatives. The same word is used in the earlier story when the angel tells Mary, "Your relative Elizabeth in her age old has has also conceived." Then in our story, "Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown great mercy to her" (had Yochanan-ed). And then, "None of your relatives is called by this name." Nature does not produce John. God's mercy does. Mary and Elizabeth are deeper sisters by grace than by nature.
"The Lord had shown his great mercy toward her." He had "megalune-d" his mercy, just as Mary had just told Elizabeth, "My soul magnifies [megalune-s] the Lord . . . for he who is mighty has done great things [megalune-d] for me . . . And his mercy is on them that fear him, from generation to generation." Mary makes God great, because God has made her great.
So too Zechariah "blesses" God, because God has blessed him. Our work is always in response to his mercy in our lives.
And, like the mustard seed, it bears fruit faster than we would think. Here are two more echoes from what Luke has just said about Mary.
In our context, let us just say: they realize that God is powerful. That's not everything, but it's a huge thing. Fear of the Lord means knowing that we are lost without him, and that we will be changed by him. There's an awful lot in modern Christianity, especially modern Catholicism, that seems to say, "He is weak and we are strong"—I heard again recently the very lame line, "We are his hands, Jesus cannot reach out without us." Balderdash.
He created the universe. He doesn't need you, you need him—and the amazing thing about our taking part in his work is that he chooses to share his life with us, to let us participate in his mercy toward others. I am weak and he is strong!
That's what fear of the Lord means. That's what Mary proclaims, and what Elizabeth's neighbors discover in God's mercy to her, his Yochanan, YHWH bending down to her.
Second, "All who heard these things took them to heart, saying, 'What, then, will this child be?'" Twice in Luke 2 we hear that Mary "treasures" the mysteries of the child Jesus in her heart. It's an echo, too, of Psalm 119, "Thy word I have hid within my heart." Here they only "place it" in their hearts—but the point is, everything begins with us pondering the unfathomable works of God.
How do we bear fruit? Not by setting aside God or the duties he puts on us, but by letting him work his miracles in us, letting him make of us a marvel that makes people wonder what's going on.
What miracles does God want to show to the world through his work in your heart?
This Sunday our Gospel plunges us into Jesus's teaching, with the parables of the seed that grows "he knows not how" and the mustard seed.
The first thing to notice—in continuity with last week's struggles about the "house" and the "kingdom," is that Jesus's teaching focuses on "the kingdom of God." "Thy will be done" can sometimes, by itself, give us an individualistic idea of our relationship with God, but "thy kingdom come" situates us within a people and a greater project of renewal. Christian salvation is social.
Our reading concludes, "Without parables he did not speak to them, but to his own disciples he explained everything in private." This passage summarizes a half chapter which this year's Lectionary skipped—though we read about the parable, and I commented on it, last year (Fifteenth Sunday), in Matthew.
That story is about the seed that falls on different kinds of ground, and in both Matthew's and Mark's accounts, Jesus ties that parable to the claim, "To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables." Sometimes people say Jesus's uses quaint parables to make himself accessible to quaint country people. But Jesus says just the opposite: he uses parables in part to hide his teaching.
Or rather, Jesus is the key to the teaching. The teachings are all from Jesus and about Jesus, he is the way, the truth, and the life. If we stay close to him, the teachings are luminous; without him, we can do, and understand, nothing.
Also in the half-chapter we're skipping, Mark spins two other sayings in this direction. Matthew says we are the light of the world, and a lamp is not supposed to be put under a bushel basket. But here in Mark, it's Jesus's teaching, and his kingdom, which are meant to be revealed and revealing.
So too with the line, "With the measure you use, it will be measured to you." For Matthew and Luke, this is about treating others right. But for Mark, here in chapter four, it is about understanding the words of Jesus: live by the sword, die by the sword; live by the word of Jesus, and his word will reveal everything to you, but live by another word, and all is darkness.
As I've said before, Mark is Peter's Gospel, and Peter wants us to keep our eye fixed on Jesus.
The kingdom of God depends not on our strength, not on our plans, but on the power of Jesus, and of his seed, the Word. We cover it with the bushel basket of our human calculations, measure it by human prudence—but he can do immeasurably more than we ask or imagine.
Jesus adds the picturesque detail that first the blade comes, then the ear, then the full grain. Sometimes all we see is a tiny little plant sticking up, and we don't even know if it's the Kingdom or not, or if it can possibly survive. But he is working, and we must pray, "Thy Kingdom come!" and give ourselves over to that divine work.
Other times we see the Kingdom at work, but it doesn't yet bear fruit that we can receive. No matter, Thy Kingdom come!
Our second parable is the mustard seed. The simple point is, we think Jesus can't possibly win. But he can. He's more powerful than you think. Jesus, I trust in you.
My Bible dictionary says the thing about Middle Eastern "Sinapis" is that it grows fast.
Our first reading, from Ezekiel, reminds us that this parable has a background—Jesus is often quoting the Old Testament (maybe we should read it). Ezekiel even has the detail of the birds dwelling in the shade of its boughs. Ezekiel, too, underlines the power of God: it is not we who make the kingdom strong, it is the Lord.
The reading from Second Corinthians is dizzying. We are at home in the body, we would rather leave the body, we are judged by what we do in the body. We are at home (literally, among our people), away from home, we want to go home, we should please the Lord at home or away from home, we're going home. There's a lot to pray about here.
But one point for us: we will appear at the foot of Christ. (Our translation says "judgment seat," but that adds a detail that only distracts.) We must live all our life in the light of this final encounter: love what he loves, share in his work, live by his word, and let him be our all in all.
That's the meaning of the Kingdom: not that Jesus has some project he wants done, but that he wants our whole life to be united to him, for our every moment to be hallowing his name, calling out for his kingdom and his will, living by his bread, dwelling in the mercy of his forgiveness, letting him be our leader and deliverer.
What does Jesus's kingdom mean in your daily life?
An amazing essay, by one of the best bishops in the American Church, from what I can see.
"Polarization in the Church happens when we lose sight of the luminous Center from which all Catholic life and teaching flows. We are often speaking at each other from points of reference that emanate from the Center but, like different points on different spokes on a wheel, we appear frustratingly distant from one another. The luminous Center is the person and then the teaching of Christ himself. Our conversations and even our arguments, especially as they address the Social Teaching of the Church, are helpful in the Church only if we are all looking at the Center when we speak. . . .
Now, there are two houses here. Jesus is casting out demons and "preaching the Gospel of the kingdom of God" (Mk 1:15): he is entering Satan the strong man's house and seizing his goods (that is, us, those the strong man has bound). And Satan has entered the house of Jesus the strong man to seize his goods. It all depends on who is stronger, who can bind the strong man.
That's what Jesus means when he says next, "Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven (sent away) for the sons of men,and whatever blasphemies they utter." Jesus is the stronger man. No matter how Satan has bound us, no matter how we have fallen prey to his lies, Jesus is stronger. He can cast out those demons because he is the stronger one.
"But," he immediately adds, "whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty—no, held in—with eternal sin." "For they were saying, 'He has an unclean spirit,'" and casts out the unclean spirits by an unclean spirit.
The only sin we cannot escape is the sin of denying that Jesus is our liberator. That is the logic of the strong man: we are bound by Satan the strong man, and no one can enter that strong man's house and seize his goods unless he first bind the strong man. We are not strong enough to bind that strong man, we need someone stronger. If we reject him—if we reject his Holy Spirit, if we turn against Jesus the liberator—then we are stuck.
It's not that he won't forgive us. That's not the problem. The problem is that we are bound and we need someone to set us free. We need to call on Jesus.
Of course, it's worth noting that all this language of "binding" and "forgiving" points right to Jesus' mandate to the apostles: "I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven," he tells Peter, "and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven" (Mt 16). He extends it more broadly two chapters later.
In John he breathes on the Apostles and says, "Receive the Holy Spirit"—just as Mark is talking about the sin against the Holy Spirit—"if you forgive (send away) the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from (actually, it's a different version of, 'use strength on') any, it is withheld" (Jn 20).
But Mark doesn't make that connection, he sticks with Jesus the strong man. And this is an important point, one our devotion needs to discover. It is not the sacrament that frees us from our sins. It is Jesus. We approach Jesus through the sacrament; the sacrament is the structure he has established by which we say, "Oh Jesus, the strong man, bind Satan the strong man and set me free from his possession"; but it is Jesus, working through that sacramental ritual, who sets us free.
Never forget it is Jesus, Jesus alone, who frees us from our sins. If we are not his kingdom and his house, we are lost.
We finally return to Ordinary Time—and I return to writing these reflections. I have finally emerged from a very busy Spring—but I confess, I've fallen more and more in love with Ordinary Time, and I had more trouble motivating myself to write on the more scattered readings of Easter. I missed Mark. Easter is great, and Pentecost, and Trinity, and Corpus Christi! But Ordinary Time, just praying through the Gospels: what a great gift to us. It is one of the greatest gifts of Vatican II, to restore to us this orderly reading of Scripture.
Genesis 3 tells us about the breakdown of human relationships. "She gave me fruit from the tree, and so I ate it." Adam reduces their relationship to externals, first, by just relating to "her," without consideration for God and the good, and second by choosing what food over higher goods. It is in this way that they discover nakedness: "what is seen" in absence from "the eternal." This is the way of the serpent, always crawling on his belly and eating the dust, and it will always be the enemy of the woman.
And that is the theme of our Gospel. We have what scholars have given the ugly name, "a Markan sandwich": Mark likes to put two connected pieces around a central piece. The "bread" of this week's sandwich is about Jesus's family according to the flesh. The "filling" is about a "house divided against itself" and the "everlasting sin" against the Holy Spirit.
The two outside pieces are magnificent, but they require a closer look than it is easy to get just hearing the Gospel read at Mass. They are full of parallels and contrasts that are easy to miss so far apart, and in a translation that ignores them. The great contrast is those who are "around him" (in spirit) and those who are only "near him" (by the flesh).
Then in the second half of the sandwich, after the business about a house divided, "The brothers and the mother came and stood outside." Hmm, it's the same word. But notice that he is inside the house but somehow outside of the family circle.
Colorful details paint the picture. In the first, the crowd are so tight that they "couldn't even eat bread." In the second, his family "sends out toward him, "bellowing to him"—those who are "near him" by the flesh are not so near after all.
The crowd "sits around him"—so close—and says, "behold your mother and your brothers stand outside." Again the standing outside, same words.
But it is worth adding here that those who do his will can be seen—he "looks around at them, sitting in a circle." We're not supposed to escape from the flesh. We are supposed to love Jesus in the flesh. That's the point of the Incarnation, and of Mary. But it has to be more than just flesh. More than just receiving the Eucharist, for example, we need to sit at his feet and truly receive him. The readings are part of true Eucharistic devotion . . . .
In the long middle section Satan is divided against himself, and cannot stand. But so too Jesus speaks of a "house" divided—alluding to the familiarity of his family and his disciples, two kinds of "houses"—and of a divided "kingdom," which is the theme of much of his teaching. To follow Jesus means being a united house and kingdom: united with Christ, and with one another.
Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is not some special sin that Jesus can't forgive. It means "all sins and all blasphemies will be forgiven"—but only if are united to Jesus. To separate ourselves from him, and from his spirit—"For they had said, 'he has an unclean spirit'"—is death. Let us sit around him, in a circle, at his feet.
How do you practice really sitting at the feet of Jesus?


How long has it been since you've heard designers argue about which method is better: sketches, wireframes, mock-ups, or HTML prototypes?
One designer will claim that you shouldn't do anything without sketching it out while another claims that doing anything less than full-on HTML prototypes is a waste of time. All of these tools have a special purpose so there's no point in discussing which one is better. That would be a lot like an electrician saying his wire-cutters are better than the plumber's pipe-cutters. Within the context of cutting wires it makes sense, but everywhere else it's just silly.
There is one thing all these tools have in common: they help remove layers of ambiguity within a project. Think of them more as communication tools that help you clarify and demonstrate your intentions to other designers and to your clients. Occasionally they become deliverables, but it's important to remember they can never provide the final answer.
This piece is about bringing clarity to this discussion. It will help you decide which tool to use without worrying what other designers are arguing about.
Sketches are usually hand-drawn graphics that contain screen ideas or explanatory graphics outlining the high-level problem or solution. They are the most valuable when the idea hasn't been fully formed, explored, or realized in any way. Sketches will help you understand what general pieces are needed to accomplish your goals.
Wire-frames tend to be computer generated graphics illustrating the organization of content, features and functionality. Prioritizing the elements of a design and determining general page layout can be a very messy part of any project. A well built wire-frame will help you pull apart the individual pieces and make sure they are appropriate to the goal of the page.
Mock-ups are rich graphics intended to simulate the look and feel of a project so you can understand the impact visual elements have on the brand. A mock-up can set the right impression and communicate emotions and personality. Without actually building the website (which a lot of people do), there really isn't any other way to concretely define what a website should look like.
HTML Prototypes are partially-complete versions of a website used to understand how pages interact with each other and flow from one area to another. More complicated interactions between sophisticated components might require a fully functional prototype to actually understand. When there are a lot of moving parts and goals have multiple steps involved, HTML prototypes can really help you find the gaps in your plans.
You're building a Basic Marketing Website and you already know the website's goal, are confident in the assumed layout, and understand how the pages interact. Jumping directly into the mock-ups will be the best use of your time. That way you can get as close to the final result as possible in the least amount of time.
It's the ninth time you've built a Well Understood Application and you deeply understand the goal and know how all the pages interact, but want to make it fit perfectly with your client's team. This is where wireframes really make a difference. They can help you communicate how the application is organized and identify potential ways to make the interface more intuitive.
You're starting a Brand New Idea, and the hardest parts are grasping the concept and determining how the pages will work together. For this to happen, you'll probably need to jump back and forth between sketching and HTML prototypes until you're confident the core purpose is captured. These initial HTML prototypes can also become great tools to illicit feedback from your team or potential customers (alpha/beta testers).
Every project may need one or all of these tools in various order depending on the challenges you're confronted with. So the discussion shouldn't be about which tool is better or how to align them into a formal and rigid process. It should be about which one, at any given time, can give the most clarity and boost productivity.


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Colva Beach stretches for around 2.4 kilometres (1.5 mi), part of a beach consisting of about 25 kilometres (16 mi) of powder white sand, lined along its shore by coconut palms and extending from Bogmalo in the north to Cabo de Rama in the south. COVID-19 Travel restrictions may apply in India. The best way to get from Patna to Goa without a car is to train which takes 40h 10m and costs 12€ - 14€. Alternatively, you can train, which costs 12€ - 14€ and takes 40h 10m. National Institute of Technology to Goa India, There is a social distancing requirement of 1 metre. Varca is a census town in South Goa district in the Indian state of Goa. etrain.info is a private site and has no connection or affiliation with Indian Railways, Government of India or Government Railway sites in any way. Alternatively, Indian Railways operates a train from Patna Jn to Thivim once a week. Advance Reservation Period (ARP) has been increased to 120 Days w.e.f. Shortest Rail Distance: 1689 km. Rome2rio displays up to date schedules, route maps, journey times and estimated fares from relevant transport operators, ensuring you can make an informed decision about which option will suit you best. Exceptions may apply, for full details: Indian Bureau of immigration. - Wikipedia. There are 4 ways to get from Patna to Goa by plane, taxi, train or car. The quickest flight takes 4h 40m and has one stopover. There are 0 direct trains from PATNA JN (PNBE) to GOHAD ROAD (GOA) Railway Station. Find all the transport options for your trip from Patna to Goa right here. If you don't already have an account, click the button below to create one. Colvá is a coastal village in Salcete, south Goa, on the west coast of India. Am I allowed to travel from Patna to Goa? Tiswadi (; Ilhas de Goa ), also known as Ilhas, is a taluka of the district of North Goa, Goa state, India. 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Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2rio's travel planner. The distance between Patna and Goa is 1622 km. Get information on One way , Round trip Distance & time of all domestic airlines with flight number for Patna Goa route.
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