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101-year-old veteran credits Coors Light for long life; gets surprised with fridge full of beer, trip to Golden, CO brewery
After a 101-year-old World War II Air Force veteran credited his longevity to cracking open a Coors Light every day, the company gave him a birthday beer bash. When the company heard about his daily ritual, they flew out to Pennsylvania to deliver a belated birthday present – a Coors Light branded fridge fully stocked with his favorite beer.
Andrew E. Slavonic, whose birthday was last week, has been drinking a Coors Light every day at 4 p.m. for the past 15 years, according to his son, Bob Slavonic. "We got to have the one at 4 o'clock. That's the most important one," Andrew Slavonic told news outlets.
"On behalf of the entire Coors Light family, we wanted to wish you a Happy 101st Birthday. We wanted to personally thank you for your years of service and being a lifelong fan of Coors Light. We completely agree with your son's statement – 'The bluer the mountains are on the can, the better,'" a letter from the company read, according to Fox News.
The best part? The party didn't just stop with the custom stocked fridge, MillerCoors also invited the Slavonic's out to Golden where they will get to see the headquarters.
"On behalf of the entire Coors Family, we would like to fly you and your son Bob out to our hometown Golden, Colorado, to take a tour of our brewery. We will see you in the Rockies!"
We have to say that Andrew looks and sounds damn good for 101 and this seriously brightens our spirits as we try to abide by a pretty similar regimine!
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A call for UK Government action to prioritise brain tumour awareness and research funding will be debated in the House of Commons on April 18.
The debate will centre on a report, Funding for research into brain tumours, which was produced by the House of Commons Petitions Committee in response to a petition by Maria Realf, who lost her younger brother Stephen to a brain tumour.
The Petitions Committee report says that brain tumour patients are being 'failed repeatedly' and calls for measures including:
* Increased investment into research
* Greater awareness of brain tumours to help reduce diagnosis delays;
* A review of the guidelines for GPs on referral of children with suspected cancer
The debate in Westminster Hall at 4.30pm on April 18 will provide an opportunity to raise awareness of these issues among MPs and to highlight the need for policy changes.
It will not end in a vote on any of the report's recommendations but we hope the UK Government will acknowledge the Petitions Committee's findings and show willingness to act and in turn the States of Jersey and the islands Health officials.
We will keep you posted.
JBTC

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I have about 2 years experience with both technologies, although I am making a living mainly as a VBA developer in the last 3-4 years. Anyhow, I am always willing to open my views and to see what other technologies have to offer.
The book is written for programmers, who have already some experience. Once you know what is a if-clause, array or how to make a simple HTML page, you are on the level of the book and you would be really happy to see what it has to offer.
And it has to offer a lot! Within 365 pages, it explains you at first what is jQuery and what can you do with it. Then it switches to Object Oriented PHP with some easily digestible examples. After this, in chapter 4 it starts building a calendar application with PHP, jQuery, Ajax, HTML, CSS and mySQL. The approach is quite ok and I liked it – the authors mix code with explanations, making clear what you are doing and how is it going to impact your app. The application, that is built is a nice functional calendar, where you may implement the standard CRUD (create, read, update, delete) actions. And it really looks and runs great, after all jQuery, Ajax and CSS can do magic in the front end when they are used wisely.
Long story short – the book is 10 chapters, in the first 3 chapters you learn PHP and jQuery, later you build and upgrade a calendar app. The code is well explained. There is an appendix for PHP basics, for those, who have no experience on the language. (Although, if you read the book and write the code you would have).
One example over which the book is building its knowledge – it could be that someone is not a huge fan of calendars and to-do lists.


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Besides cheap prices, hostels offer the chance to interact with other people, which can be handy if you're traveling solo as you get to meet new people. Of course, there's a risk you can meet a bunch of idiots too!
Nowadays I rarely stay in hostels. I like having privacy and peace so I usually opt for hotels, private rooms or a private apartment. If you don't mind the lack of privacy, hostels are a great way to save money on accommodation in Europe. Make sure that the hostel will provide a locker for your valuables and I highly recommend bringing earplugs and a sleeping mask. I like the SleepMaster mask.
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Families as terrorist units: Surabaya
The 'Islamic State' is defeated in Iraq and Syria. About 500 of its fighters have returned to Indonesia. Their major leader is Aman Abdurrahman (now in prison as head of JAD, Jamaah Ansharut Daulah). Last week activists of JAD killed in a Densus 88 (special police) prison in Jakarta five police officers (cutting throats) in an effort to have a personal meeting with Abdurrahman.
Last Sunday, 13 May, a family with four children carried out a brutal attack on three churches in Subaraya: the Catholic Church in Ngagel (Santa Maria tak Bernoda), a GKI and a Pentecostal Church. The father, Dota Upriarto brough his wife and two daughters to the GKI church, his two boys of 16 and 18 went to the Catholic church. He went himself to the Pentecostal church. All bombs exploded and the six members of the family died in the attacks. The mother and daughters arrived in burka at the church, but their bombs exploded before they could be stopped by the security officers.
This picture was sent to me by Lies Marcoes Mustafsira, feminist Muslim theologian but not happy with this kind of 'emancipation'!
That same day a bomb exploded in an apartment in Sidoardjo, a small town close to Surabaya, killing husband, wife and a son of 17, busy preparing a bomb. Or was it their strategy to become 'marturs' on the spot? Three other children in another room survived the explosion. The following day, 14 May, a family of five arrived at the police station of Surabaya and their bombs exploded: only a girl of 8 years survived.
Newspapers speculate about the strategy: sleaping cells of IS, activated throug telephone calls from the Middle East with this new 'family strategy' of making/becoming martyrs?
Lambertus Hurek, a retired journalist and active blogger in Surabaya went to the Catholic church and asked the priest whether he had already forgiven the terrorists? 'They are all victims as well', was the answer of the priest. They leave us in disarray. (see: Hurek.blogspot.com)
Rahima Allahu anhu: Mas Dawan Rahardjo, rest in peace
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Q: How to get information about a different java process (another JVM instance running different processes) from one JVM process? I'm writing unit tests to find just how much memory instances of MyClass take up.
I can't seem to do anything about the random chaotic garbage collector that tells me my MyClass[] myinstances=new MyClass[10000]; takes up negative memory, so i decided to just start up 2 new JVM processes which simply start a class containing a main method, that instantiates a huge arry and hangs.
I know i can start up a new JVM with Runtime.getRuntime.exec("java my.package.SomeClassWithMainMethod");
So my question is: how do i get the info about the ammount of memory taken up by the JVM i started?
Thx, you guys rule.

A: I think you are better off using a profiler, jvisualvm is probably good enough and comes with your Java distribution. See this question: How to determine the actual memory usage of a data structure

A: You can use JVisualVM  or JConsole , they are included in the JDK since 1.6

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152-мм гаубиця зразка 1909/30 року — польова гаубиця періоду Другої світової війни виробництва СРСР. Впродовж 1931—1945 років була на озброєнні Червоної армії, після 1941 — Вермахту та армії Фінляндії (у Фінській армії — до 1980-тих років).

Опис конструкції
Гаубиця є результатом модернізації російської 152-мм гаубиці зразка 1909 року часів Першої світової війни, спочатку розробленої французькою збройовою фірмою «Шнейдер». Це була класична короткоствольна гаубиця, призначена для ведення вогню з підвищенням під кутами від +20° до +41° пострілом з роздільним заряджанням. Гаубиця оснащувалася затвором поршневого типу (відкривання і закривання затвору проводилося поворотом руків'я в один прийом), гідравлічним компресором веретенного типу та гідропневматичним накатником. Противідкочувальні пристрої зібрані у полозки під стволом і відкочувалися разом з ним. Дульне гальмо відсутнє.

Підйомний механізм секторного типу (у гаубиць ранніх випусків — два сектори, пізніх випусків — один сектор). Стволльна група монтується на однобрусному лафеті без підресорювання колісного ходу. Колеса дерев'яні, але з 1937 року частина гаубиць отримала металеві колеса з гумовою грузошиною. Передок безкоробковий, колеса передка дерев'яні або металеві.

Історія створення
В кінці 1920-тих років радянське військове керівництво вирішило модернізувати артилерію, що стояла на озброєнні з часів Першої світової війни. Основною метою модернізації було збільшення дальності стрільби. Модернізація заторкнула зокрема і достатньо численну 152-мм гаубицю зразка 1909 року. Було проведено ряд дослідів, спрямованих з'ясувати його модернізаційний потенціал. Зокрема, було встановлено, що початкова швидкість снаряду гаубиці може бути збільшено до 395 м/с (при більших значеннях може виникнути ризик пошкодження лафету). Також в 1930 році на заводі «Більшовик» проводилися досліди по встановленню на гаубицю дульного гальма. Проект модернізації було розроблено в 1930-1931 роках на Пермському (Мотовіліхінському) заводі. Початково модернізація полягала у подовженні зарядної камори до 340 мм (при цьому на казенний зріз та кожух наносився напис «подовжена камора»). На гаубицях наступних випусків впроваджувалися такі зміни:
 на затворі введена окрема бойова втулка;
 у люльці змінено упор штоків
 підйомний механізм зроблено односекторним.
Модернізована гаубиця була прийнята на озброєння під офіційною назвою 152-мм гаубиця зразка 1909/30 року

Виробництво
Виробництво гаубиці проводилося на Мотовіліхінському (Пермському) заводі з 1931 по 1941 рік. Усього було вироблено 2188 гаубиць.

 Табличні данні з книги Широкорада А. Б. «Энциклопедия отечественной артиллерии»

Крім нового виробництва, у гаубиці зразка 1909/30 року були перероблені 362 зразка 1909 року. Переробкою гаубиць займався київський завод «Арсенал» (можливо, кількість перероблених гаубиць була більшою, оскільки, згідно деяких джерел, кількість вироблених та перероблених гармат менше фактичної кількості гаубиць цього типу, наявних у військах на червень 1941). З 1940 року гаубиця замінюється у виробництві новою 152-мм гаубицею зразка 1938 року (М-10).

Організаційно-штатна струткура

За штатом 1939 року, у стрілецькій дивізії Червоної армії був гаубичний полк з дивізіоном 152-мм гаубиць (12 одиниць). В липні 1941 року габичний полк зі штату дивізії був виключений. Також дивізіон 152-мм гаубиць був у моторізованій та танковій дивізіях до літа 1941. У корпусній артилерії у 1941 році 152-мм гаубиць зразка 1909/30 років не було (їх заміняли на 152-мм гаубиці-гармати зразка 1937 року (МЛ-20)). З кінця 1943 року, з відновленням корпусного звена, в склад корпусної артилерії було включено артилерійський полк п'ятибатарейного складу (20 гармат/гаубиць), в склад якого входили зокрема і 152-мм гаубиці зразка 1909/30 років. На перше червня 1944 року корпусна артилерія нараховувала 192 152-мм гаубиці цього чи близьких типів.
В складі артилерії резерву головного командування протягом всієї війни були наявні гаубичні полки (48 гаубиць) та з 1943 року гаубичні бригади (32 гаубиці). Полки і бригади об'єднувалися в артилерійські дивізії.

Служба та бойове застосування
152-мм гаубиця зразка 1909/30 років довгий час була найбільш численною губицею у Червоній армії. Гаубиця брала участь у боях на Халхин-Голі (при цьому 6 гаубиць було втрачено) та Радянсько-фінській війні (1939—1940). На перше червня 1941 були наявні, за різними джерелами, 2432, або 2607, або 2611 цих гаубиць. 152-мм гаубиця зразка 1909/30 років активно використовувалася у бойових діях, але гаубиці цього типу несли великі втрати у 1941—1942 роках. Це, разом з припиненням випуску гаубиць М-10 та дрібносерійним випуском нових гаубиць Д-1, призвело до гострого дефіциту 152-мм гаубиць в кінці війни. 152-мм гаубиці зразка 1909/30 років, що збереглися, використовувалися до кінця війни.

152-мм гаубиця зразка 1909/30 років в інших арміях

У 1941—1942 роках німецькою армією було захоплено деяку кількість цих гаубиць, надалі прийнятих на озброєння Вермахту під індексом 15,2 cm s.F.H.445(r). Для трофейних гармат німці навіть налагодили виробництво осколково-фугасних снарядів масою 46 кг. Більша частина цих гармат використовувалися у береговій обороні.
Фінська армія захопила 14 таких гаубиць у Зимовій війні (1939—1940) та ще 85 в початковому періоді війни-продовження (1941—1944). Гаубиці активно використовувалися у бойових діях (втрати склали 14 гаубиць в 1944 році). Фінські солдати високо цінували простоту, зручність і надійність гаубиці, проте зауважували, що для кінної тяги вона є надто важкою, а механічна тяга, через відсутність підресорювання, обмежується невеликою швидкістю. На озброєнні фінської армії (в навчалних частинах) гаубиця була до 1980-тих років.

Оцінка проекту
Гаубиця була влаштована нескладно, що дозволяло добре опановувати її в стройових частинах, де воно користувалося великою популярністю. Проте максимальна дальність стрільби 9,85 км для корпусної гармати була недостатньою навіть по міркам міжвоєнного часу. Під час модернізації не було усунуто малу швидкість транспортування та недостатні кути обстрілу (як по горизонталі так і по вертикалі). Це призвело до поступової заміни гаубиць зразка 1909/30 років на більш сучасні гаубиці того ж калібру і призначення 152-мм гаубиці зразка 1938 року (М-10).
Проте гаубиця М-10 була набагато складнішою за конструкцією та його виробництво розгорталось з великим труднощами (а в другій половині 1941 року його випуск взагалі припинився). Тому, на початок Радянсько-німецької війни 152-мм гаубиці зразка 1909/30 років разом з 152-мм гаубицями зразка 1910/37 років були найбільш розповсюдженими серед гаубиць шестидюймового калібру в Червоній армії. Вони використовувалися протягом всієї війни і тільки з 1943 почали замінюватися більш сучасними 152-мм гаубицями зразка 1943 року (Д-1).

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Just installed the kit yesterday, and it seems to be working so far. My worry was that I had extra pads left which I believe are the dvd drive pads and the spare drive belt. Are those needed? Or is it only if you have the sticky drive issue? Also, is there instructions on installation for that? They didn't seem to be part of the general instructions posted.
Also, I found that i didn't need to bake after installation. I wasn't sure if that was a concern or not or if that was a normal thing. Thanks in advance.


Students respect and care for classroom environment and materials.They control small hand muscles. Students coordinate eye-hand movement while participating in a creative project.
Students create art projects both representational and nonrepresentational. They examine a well known piece of art and discuss the feelings that the art evokes.
Multimedia lesson plans are a way for students to explore language arts in a creative way.
Third graders review the importance of using a sketchbook in art. Using materials found in the classroom, they create their own sketchbook. They share their creation with the class and start sketching in their book.
In this science worksheet, students look for the causes and effects of pollination through doing some arts and crafts projects that includes a collage.
Students create a collage using magazine photos and words printed in computer lab to express a particular emotion.
Students are to research a specific disaster after seeing the Challenger explosion. They are to create a collage for the disaster they are choosing to show.
Students consider "The Gates" and other environmental art projects, and create an original public art project for their local community. They draw sketches and write proposals outlining their ideas.
Students exchange information with students from various geographic biomes. They explore the unique ecologically significant features of the biomes and share with other students.
Students demonstrate appreciation for volunteer workers. In this philanthropy lesson, students create a card, picture, or poem for a school volunteer. Students use a variety of art supplies to create the appreciation gift.
Students create calendars. In this technology skills lesson, students collaborate to prepare calendars that include special days of the year as well as digital photograph collages.
In this student information worksheet, students create a poster using the worksheet to write about themselves and their interests. Teachers are provided with a two page lesson plan to use with the worksheet.
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Every student has a programme that is built just for them. They concentrate on coming to grips with topics that they are covering at school whilst also working on a parallel thread that is put together to fill any gaps that may exist in their core skills.
We also help with NAPLAN preparation and students are able to stay for an extra session to complete the MagiKats homework we provide them with.
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Tudor, the Leicester based specialist bookbinders, are celebrating 25 years of print finishing, bookbinding and book restoration.
The company began in 1992 on Avenue Road Extension in the centre of Leicester, with a staff of four. Director Ian Chamberlain and Works Manager Michael Weston, have been ever-present.
Tudor moved to its' present location in Wigston as the company expanded, currently employing 18 staff.
To mark the occasion Ian Chamberlain presented Mick with a specially produced mounted vinyl record of the single that was number 1 in the singles charts on the 10th February 1992 – "Goodnight Girl" by Wet, Wet, Wet. The company have also booked hospitality tickets at Leicester City Football Club for Mick and his wife, Julie, who also works at Tudor.


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Intel Announces Expanded Paid Leave Benefits
Business Wire December 17, 2019
What's New: Beginning Jan. 1, 2020, Intel is expanding U.S. paid leave benefits to better support employees during life's critical moments. These changes are part of Intel's holistic, comprehensive and inclusive benefit offerings.
"When our employees and their families are supported, they perform at their best. We strive to care for our employees and their families through every stage of life, whether they are caring for small children, aging parents or anyone in between. We want our employees to know we are here to support them through all the situations they and their families may encounter."
–Julie Ann Overcash, Intel vice president of Human Resources and global director of Compensation and Benefits
What Expanded Benefits will Include:
New paid family leave: Paid leave for up to eight weeks to care for a seriously ill family member.
Expanded paid bonding leave: Bonding leave for new parents expanded from eight to 12 weeks.
New parent reintegration program: New parents may work a part-time schedule (up to four weeks) with full-time pay. Parents who opt-in will also receive a gift in celebration of the event. Intel will also provide breast milk shipping at no cost.
Expanded bereavement time: Paid time off for bereavement expands to up to two weeks.
Short-term disability coverage: The benefit, which includes pregnancy, approximates regular pay for up to 52 weeks and will be provided at no cost.
Why It Matters: These enhancements are part of Intel's continued investment in benefits to support employee well-being. By enhancing its paid leave benefits, Intel allows employees to focus on their families and loved ones in times of need so they can return to work with the proper support. This makes Intel a better place to work for everyone.
Patricia Oliverio-Lauderdale
patricia.oliverio-lauderdale@intel.com
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Can you believe 2018 is over? It didn't end up going quite like I thought I did and I definitely fell short on my reading goals for this year. I did learn a lot that I plan to put into work next year and I read a lot of books I really enjoyed so I'm still calling this year a reading win.
Create some kind of system for incoming books - I actually did this and for the most part it's working really well. I cleared out a small bookshelf that is only for incoming books and worked out a fairly simple filing system. My usual problem is that I try to over organize and end up with an overly complicated system which of course fails. I'm pretty proud of myself for keeping it simple and workable.
Complete the Modern Mrs. Darcy 2018 Reading Challenge -I completed 8 out of 12 so could be worse could be better. I'm going to do this again in 2019 but focus a little more on the harder for me categories.
Read 200 Books - Nope. I was really sick this fall and that seriously impacted my reading especially combined with a few low reading spots earlier in the year. I made it to 146.
Focus on reading my own books - . I started out okay on this but got overwhelmed fairly quickly. When I wasn't reading review books I was more tempted by library books than my own books which probably means I need to go through my books and clean out my inventory a bit.
Participate in at least one readathon - Giant fail here. I still love the idea of doing this but this year just didn't quite work out for me. I do have a few ideas of making it happen in 2019 though.
Keep an eye out for independent bookstores - We ended up not traveling nearly as much in 2018 as we did in past years so I wasn't able to make much progress on this. I do plan to continue this for next year and really just in general.
Make progress on a series I've neglected - Yes and no. I've read more books from series that I started years ago but I haven't caught up on any series.
Spend some time using a coloring book while listening to an audio book - I only did this a few times but I really enjoyed it when I did. I'd like to make this more of a habit in 2019 because it is so relaxing and I spend far too much time watching TV when I could be making progress on my TBR.
A Brush With Shadows by Anna Lee Huber - I heard great things about this series so I wasn't surprised that I enjoyed it but I was thrilled with just how much I loved it.
Caroline: Little House Revisited by Sarah Miller - I was nervous going into this one. I loved the Little House books so I was a bit afraid to see the story through the POV of an adult but I loved it and it really brought the peril of living on the frontier home to me.
As You Wish by Cary Elwes - I love the movie and I love the book. If you can get it on audio. You won't regret it.
Honestly I enjoyed most of the books I read this year but these are a few I enjoyed less than the rest.
Queen Anne's Lace by Susan Wittig Albert - I loved the ghost aspect and was disappointed it wasn't explored more than it was. As well there was a LOT going on and the mystery felt a bit lost at times.
Say No Moor by Maddy Hunter - I love the idea of a cozy set around travel to exotic locations but the characters drove me crazy and the situation they got themselves into was so past realistic that it was just too much and my standards are pretty low.
The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher - I wanted to love this - I really did. And I did enjoy parts of it but I think I was expecting the Star Wars version of As You Wish and it just wasn't.
I was disappointed by all the Carrie Fisher books which I read in January. I only reached my Goodreads total because of all the very short stories and novellas I read which bumped up the numbers so I'm disappointed with my reading total. Considering the slumps and illness, you did well to get to 146 I think. Here's to a good reading year next year! Happy New Year!
I think you did really well with your goals. I have a shelf and a spreadsheet for my incoming books. That helps me not feel completely overwhelmed by them. Happy 2019!
146 books is great! I had a pretty good reading year too but readathons were definitely hit or miss for me too!
I really need to read (or listen) to As You Wish.
Getting sick can play havoc with goals but you did well. I like your idea of colouring while listening to an audio, would be very relaxing. I usually sew and that combines well if the sewing is not complicated. I didn't read all the MMD reading challenge but I don't mind, its the journey that counts!
Your organizing system is something I plan to try as well. I want a shelf for tbr reads and library books next year so I know where to go if I'm ever looking to read something new.
I finished only two series but they were older series so it's something.
That's a great idea to color and listen to an audiobook. I need to either focus solely on the audiobook or be doing something I don't need to focus on too much or I'll miss everything.
My year was meh. I did read a few great books and lots of picture books. I think I'm saying it was meh because I read so many bad books in December but it was actually pretty good but not the reading year I was expecting.
Your year was impressive! Mine was challenging outside of reading (death of my dad in Feb and then caring for my mom who has dementia). Reading was truly an escape!
I wish I was more organized like you are! I also had some down spots this year where I was beyond busy or feeling ill and couldn't keep up. I read 102 instead of 100, so I'm happy (numbers don't matter to me but I like to push myself in competitions). I am going to be more thoughtful in my choices this year. I need to slow down my impulsivity so I have less DNFs.
Congratulations on completing some of your goals! I always set too many for myself and never follow through. I really like the sound of your simple incoming book organization. I need to get better at that myself! Happy 2019!
I'm glad you're focusing on the positive & calling 2018 a reading win of a year, because to me it sounds like you did really well with your goals!
Enjoyed hearing about your yearly reflections, Katherine. I'd say you did very well in your reading. Over 140 is a wonderful number, one that I didn't make this year. Ah well. Some years more, some less. I always enjoy hearing about what's going on with you and my hope is that 2019 will be wonderful for you in the reading department and also in the health department. Take care. The coloring idea is a great one. I need to try that.
I also planned to read 200 books and ended up in the 140s. Oh well. We can try again this year! Good luck to us both.
146 books is fantastic! I only read 92!
146 books is a great reading year! It looks like you did pretty good with a lot of your goals this year. I like the sound of your system for new books. Happy 2019!
I started and really enjoyed Huber's series as well! I'm looking forward to reading more in2019 from it!
My reading (and blogging) didn't go quite as planned this year either, but, like you, I feel good about the way things turned out. You had so much going on this year, Katherine, you really did amazing. I look forward to reading A Brush With Shadows. I just read Huber's This Side of Murder and am in love. It was so good. I hope you have a great 2019, Katherine, in books and in life. Happy Reading!
I like how you color while listening to an audiobook. My mum's into adult coloring books. I hope to get started on cross stitching; it'd be great to do that with an audiobook.


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On the Front Line of Child Protection
November 24, 2014 By Toby Owens , Jamie Saunders , and Craig Baker
Social disadvantage is extremely hard to overcome. In the UK, for example, children who have spent time in protective care are 9 times more likely to be expelled from school, 6 times less likely to attend university, 40 times more likely to be imprisoned before reaching the age of 21, and 50 times more likely to be homeless later in life. And the number of UK children in care is growing, rising 12 percent in the last five years. The numbers are depressingly similar in other countries around the world.
Yet child protection agencies often face enormous hurdles: tight budgets, large workloads, inadequately trained workers, lax supervision, and a culture of box-ticking compliance rather than the use of professional judgment. Although not all agencies have these problems, those that do are subject to consequences that can be fatal. High-profile cases of heartbreaking abuse and neglect make the headlines all too often.
In the past, reform efforts have focused on structural solutions such as new legislation, agency reorganization, and national oversight reforms rather than initiatives that address a greater underlying problem: inadequate workforce quality.
An outstanding social worker can transform the lives of disadvantaged children and help them reach their full potential. But attracting high-caliber job candidates is not easy. Child-welfare social work is often perceived as a low-prestige profession among top-university graduates, and recruiting is difficult. In the UK, less than 0.2 percent of the 2,765 students starting master's level courses in social work in 2011 went to the University of Cambridge or the University of Oxford as undergraduates, and only 5.4 percent attended one of Britain's other 22 top universities (the so-called Russell Group). While having attended a top university is a very narrow measure of one's potential to be a great social worker, it at least highlights the sector's recruiting challenge. In comparison, Oxford and Cambridge undergraduates alone made up almost 10 percent of the applicants to the 2009 Teach First teacher-training program.
Poor and uneven training exacerbates the problem, leaving social workers unprepared for the front line. In a 2012 survey, 70 percent of 600 industry professionals reported that newly qualified social workers were entering the profession with insufficient skills and experience to begin practicing.
Frontline: Focusing on the Workforce
Frontline was founded almost two years ago, in 2013, to tackle these problems by improving the quality of new child-welfare social workers. Supported by The Boston Consulting Group and jointly funded by the UK government and philanthropic donations, Frontline runs a two-year training and development program that leads to a master's degree in social work. The program was inspired by the success of Teach First, which increased the number of top graduates working in inner-city schools and boosted the prestige of teaching as a profession.
Delivered in partnership with the University of Bedfordshire, The Institute for Family Therapy, and the King's College London Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, Frontline's program combines an innovative curriculum, a five-week summer institute, 12 months of supervised on-the-job training, and an ongoing leadership-development course.
To ensure strong support and supervision—critical components missing from many existing social-work training programs—first-year participants join a working unit that provides an unprecedented level of intensive support. Each unit has four participants and is led by a senior experienced practitioner called a consultant social worker (CSW). With Frontline's dedicated training and support, the CSWs closely coordinate their work with the participants' academic training. This innovative model is unique to Frontline and draws heavily on the experiences of a small number of experimental local authorities and other professions such as medicine. By the end of their first year, participants have completed more than 200 days of on-the-job training—more than is offered as part of any other route to social work—and almost 50 full classroom days.
Upon completion of the program's first year, participants are qualified social workers, ready to take statutory responsibility for their own work on the front line. In their second year, they join an existing social-work team in the region in which they trained, where they continue to work under supervision and their performance is assessed. This transition allows them to work within the same local-government jurisdictions and with the same colleagues.
Rebranding Social Work as a Compelling Career Choice
Frontline runs the only nationally coordinated recruiting campaign for social work in England. To make sure that it attracts high-quality applicants, Frontline targeted the country's top graduates and people looking for new careers and applied a rigorous selection process comparable to that used by leading corporations and public-sector programs.
To compete for top talent in the highly competitive national labor market, Frontline had to reposition social work as the rewarding career choice it truly is. Using a mix of marketing and educational efforts, Frontline explained to potential recruits what the role actually entails and outlined a compelling value proposition: an opportunity to take on responsibilities quickly, develop leadership skills, gain experience outside the academic environment, and make a real difference in the lives of vulnerable young people.
Working with leading design and marketing agencies from the corporate world, Frontline produced a branded campaign with slogans such as "Get the Right Work-Life Balance: Their Life, Your Work," as well as videos and extensive media coverage. Frontline's first campaign was recognized by the recruiting industry, winning the "best attraction strategy" award at the Association of Graduate Recruiters annual ceremony and ranking highest (seventy-sixth) among new entrants in The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers list.
More important, Frontline's first recruitment campaign to fill 100 positions attracted more than 2,500 high-quality applicants. More than 70 percent of the chosen candidates had graduated from one of the UK's leading universities—far more than the scant 6 percent that began master's degree studies in social work in 2011. (See the exhibit below.)
The Frontline Difference
Launched just 15 months ago, Frontline's early success and positive press have generated interest both locally and internationally. The UK government is now looking for ways to apply similar models to other troubled professions such as adult-welfare social services and police work. Given the likely launch of such programs, it is worth noting some of the factors that figure in Frontline's success, including the following:
Independence. Frontline's outsider status allowed it to take risks and challenge the status quo. Particularly in its earliest phase, Frontline faced stiff resistance from a variety of stakeholders. Although the program leadership had respect for their views, Frontline challenged them and adopted an innovative approach—a task that would have been far harder had the charge been led by insiders deeply embedded in the sector.
Focus. As an outsider with a clear mission, Frontline was able to act with a singular focus that insider initiatives often struggle to achieve given the inherent distractions that originate in the environment from which they have grown.
A Coalition of Supporters and Leaders. Frontline built a coalition of leaders and supporters who fully believed in the program's value. This coalition included politicians from all parties, academics, employers, charitable organizations, and—unique for British child-welfare social services—private businesses.
A Balance of Boldness and Consensus. Frontline had to deal with vested interests, political issues, and industry concerns while building cross-party support. To avoid undue risk, Frontline focused its innovations on a small number of very high-value areas—but only after detailed research and extensive consultation with all stakeholders.
Scale. Too often, new social initiatives succeed in solving a local problem but struggle when they apply the same solutions on a larger scale. From the start, Frontline was designed to be scalable. The recruitment campaign is already national, and the program's design can be readily replicated in other regions.
Value for Money. In an era of tight fiscal budgets, Frontline has been careful to focus on low-cost, high-value innovations. In addition to ensuring the workforce readiness of its graduates, Frontline aims to keep its costs per qualified social worker at levels that are broadly comparable with those of other social-work entry programs (as well as Teach First). From the UK government's perspective, Frontline's ability to draw on the support of charitable organizations and private business has further enhanced its value proposition.
Strong Leadership. Building a disruptive business model in any sector is not for the fainthearted. Seeing it through to fruition requires a clear vision and strong leadership, as well as personal resilience, determination, and sheer grit. Both Josh MacAlister, Frontline's founder and CEO, and Lord Adonis, Frontline's chairman and an early champion, embody these characteristics.
By focusing on one of the underlying causes of poor child-protection outcomes—inadequate workforce quality—Frontline was able to approach the problem in an innovative way and transformed the way child-welfare social workers are recruited and developed. Now, the program is well on the path to improving the future of society's most vulnerable children.
Academics who taught at this past summer's institute—including former skeptics—expressed their positive impressions of the high-caliber participants and the intensity and focus of the training delivered. The program has received extensive positive news coverage and has been endorsed by all three of the UK's major political parties, as well as by Prime Minister David Cameron, who recorded a supportive video message for the opening day of the summer institute.
Jamie Saunders


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Janata Dal Secular
Political party in India
Indian political party
JD(S)
Lok Sabha leader
Prajwal Revanna
Rajya Sabha leader
D. Kupendra Reddy
Janata Dal
JP Bhavan, 19/1, Platform Road, Seshadripuram, Bengaluru, Karnataka-560020
Student wing
Student Janata Dal
Yuva Janata Dal
Karmikara Janata Dal
Secularism[1]
ECI Status
State Party[2]
National convener
Seats in Lok Sabha
Seats in Rajya Sabha
Seats in Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Seats in Kerala Legislative Assembly
Number of states and union territories in government
Election symbol
jds.ind.in
The Janata Dal (Secular) is an Indian political party[3] led by former Prime Minister of India, H. D. Deve Gowda. The party is recognized as a State Party in the states of Karnataka, Kerala and Arunachal Pradesh. It was formed in July 1999 by the split of Janata Dal party.[4][5] It has a political presence mainly in Karnataka. In Kerala, the party is part of the Left Democratic Front.
JD(S) promotion art-work in Bangalore.
The Janata Dal (Secular), formed in 1999, had its origins in the Janata Party, founded in 1977 as a coalition of several smaller parties that combined forces to oppose the Indian National Congress.[6] In 1988 the Janata Party and other smaller parties merged to form the Janata Dal.[7][8][9] In 1996, Janata Dal reached its pinnacle when H. D. Deve Gowda became Prime Minister of India, heading the United Front (UF) coalition government.[10][11]
The Janata Dal split in 1999, when a faction led by Chief Minister J. H. Patel lent support to the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance leading to the formation of Janata Dal (Secular) under H. D. Deve Gowda and Siddaramaiah. The Sharad Yadav faction of the Janata Dal, the Lok Shakti and the Samata Party merged as the Janata Dal (United).[12][13] Even though the premise for the split was its opposition to allying with the National Democratic Alliance, H. D. Deve Gowda stayed equally away from the Indian National Congress from the outset.[14]
JD(S) in Karnataka state for a time governed in a coalition with the Indian National Congress (INC) party, the first coalition government in Karnataka. There was much controversy over the JD(S) allying with the INC in Bangalore as the INC formerly had an outright majority and was diminished to second place with the BJP having a plurality. However, the JD(S) considered INC to be the lesser of the two evils on account of its erstwhile secular and center-left credentials.
The 2004 Karnataka Assembly election witnessed the revival of the party's fortunes with JD(S) becoming part of the ruling coalition in the state.
On 14 April 2015, the JD(S), Janata Dal (United), Rashtriya Janata Dal, the Indian National Lok Dal, Samajwadi Party, and Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) announced that they would merge into a new national Janata Parivar alliance in order to oppose the BJP, thus leaving the UPA.[15]
H. D. Deve Gowda, President of Janata Dal (Secular), former Prime Minister of India and Former Chief Minister of Karnataka.
H. D. Kumaraswamy, former Chief Minister of Karnataka, son of former Prime Minister of India H. D. Deve Gowda and Former Karnataka State President of Janata Dal (Secular).
Nikhil Gowda, State President, Yuva Janata Dal (Secular).
Prajwal Revanna, MP of Hassan, Lok Sabha leader of Janata Dal (Secular).
B. M. Farooq, Current MLC of Karnataka Legislative Council, Current National General Secretary Of Janata Dal (Secular).
Sarekoppa Bangarappa, Former Chief Minister of Karnataka.[16]
N. M. Joseph, Vice President of Janata Dal (Secular).
H. D. Revanna, former Cabinet Minister, Present MLA, Karnataka (Son of H. D. Deve Gowda).
D. Kupendra Reddy, MP of Rajya Sabha[17][18]
Mathew T. Thomas, former Kerala State President of Janata Dal (Secular) and former Kerala State Minister.
Madhu Bangarappa, former MLA of Karnataka Legislative Assembly.
Jose Thettayil, Vice President of Janata Dal (Secular), former minister Govt. of Kerala.
C. K. Nanu, State President of JD(S) Kerala, former minister Govt. of Kerala and MLA.
Neelalohithadasan Nadar, former Kerala State President of Janata Dal (Secular) (former Minister Govt. of Kerala; former Member of Parliament, Govt. of India).
Mohamed Zafrulla Khan National General Secretary, former Chairman KMDC
K. Krishnankutty, Kerala State President and current Kerala State Minister for Water Resources.
Gegong Apang, former Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh
Tanveer Ahmed, National Spokesperson, Janata Dal (Secular).
H. D. Kumaraswamy - 3 February 2006 to 9 October 2007, 23 May 2018 to 23 July 2019.
Assembly election history in Karnataka
Assembly Election
Seats Contested
Seats Won
Votes Secured
Percentage Of Votes
1999 11th Assembly 203 10 23,16,885 10.42%[19]
2013 14th Assembly 222 40 63,29,864 20.09%
Lok Sabha election history in Karnataka
2004 14th Lok Sabha 28 2 51,35,205 20.45%[22]
2009 15th Lok Sabha 21 3 33,35,530 13.58%
2019 17th Lok Sabha 8 1 33,97,229 9.67%
List of political parties in India
^ "Official website ideology section". Jds.ind.in. 26 October 2014. Retrieved 2017.
^ "List of Political Parties and Election Symbols main Notification Dated 18.01.2013" (PDF). India: Election Commission of India. 2013. Retrieved 2013.
^ "History of Janata Dal (Secular) according to its website". Retrieved 2007.
^ "EC to hear Janata Dal symbol dispute". Archived from the original on 1 February 2009. Retrieved 2007.
^ "The Nation:Janata Dal:Divided Gains (India Today article)". Retrieved 2007.
^ "britannica.com : Janata Dal (Secular)".
^ "article on Chandrashekar". Retrieved 2007.
^ "Bouquet of ideologies - article in the Hindu". Retrieved 2007.
^ "Janata Dal". Retrieved 2007.
^ "Profile of Deve Gowda on PMO website". Archived from the original on 10 October 2007. Retrieved 2007.
^ History « Welcome to Janata Dal (Secular) Official Website. Jds.ind.in. Retrieved on 2014-05-21.
^ "Janata.in". www.janata.in.
^ [1] Archived 3 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine
^ ""Gowda rules out tieup with Congress " - Tribune India article". Retrieved 2007.
^ "'Janata Parivar' formalised, Mulayam Singh named chief of new party | Zee News". Zeenews.india.com. 15 April 2015. Retrieved 2017.
^ D A I J I W O R L D. D A I J I W O R L D (2011-08-10). Retrieved on 2014-05-21.
^ "Kupendra Reddy files papers as JD(S) candidate for RS polls". The Hindu. Special Correspondent. 8 June 2014. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2019. CS1 maint: others (link)
^ "D. Kupendra Reddy". PRSIndia. 25 October 2016. Retrieved 2019.
^ List Of Political Parties. (PDF) . Retrieved on 2014-05-21.
^ "Partywise Trends & Result". 21 May 2014. Archived from the original on 21 May 2014.
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Q: Bitshifting QBytearray? I'm looking for a way to sbitshift a QByteArray.
QByteArray statusByte = QByteArray::fromHex("40");  // 0100 0000

What i need to achieve is to get statusByte to 0x20 by bit shifting. Since I can't directly bit shift the QByteArray, what is the simplest method for achieving the shift?

A: You don't really need a byte array if you only want to get a single numeric (byte) value from a hexadecimal representation of one byte, not multiple bytes.
#if 1
  // Qt 5, C++11 compilers
  quint8 byte = QStringLiteral("40").toInt(nullptr, 16);
#endif
#if 0
  // Qt 5, pre-C++11 compilers
  quint8 byte = QStringLiteral("40").toInt(NULL, 16);
#endif
#if 0
  // Qt 4
  quint8 byte = QByteArray("40").toInt(NULL, 16);
#endif
byte >>= 1;
Q_ASSERT(byte == 0x20); // this is for demonstration only

If you need to bit-shift multiple bytes at once, of course it's also possible - please amend your question to make that clear.

A: Bit shifting is not a problem when you are talking about single byte, this is trivial (I don't know why you claim it is impossible).
QByteArray statusByte = QByteArray::fromHex("40");
statusByte[0] = statusByte[0]>>1;
statusByte[0]>>=1; // this should also work

if you have multiple bytes then it is more complicated!

*

*endian! How do you define shift where the oldest bit should go, to next byte or to previos byte?

*what should happen when array ends? loose data, or extend array?


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using DotVVM.Samples.Tests.Base;
using DotVVM.Testing.Abstractions;
using Riganti.Selenium.Core;
using Riganti.Selenium.Core.Abstractions;
using Riganti.Selenium.Core.Abstractions.Exceptions;
using Riganti.Selenium.DotVVM;
using Xunit;
using Xunit.Abstractions;

namespace DotVVM.Samples.Tests.Complex
{
    public class RedirectAndUrlTests : AppSeleniumTest
    {
        [Fact]
        [SampleReference(nameof(SamplesRouteUrls.ComplexSamples_RedirectAndUrl_ScrollingPage))]
        public void Complex_RedirectAndUrl_PostbackInterruption()
        {
            //When redirecting to fragment e.g. /uri#element-id postback gets interrupted and the page does not reload
            //Expected: Page reloads and scrolls to element-id

            RunInAllBrowsers(browser => {
                //Postback with no redirect sets message
                browser.NavigateToUrl(SamplesRouteUrls.ComplexSamples_RedirectAndUrl_ScrollingPage);
                browser.First("a[data-ui=test-link]").Click();
                AssertUI.InnerTextEquals(browser.First("span[data-ui='message1']"), "TestMessage");

                //used RedirectToUrl to redirect to page with Id, however the redirect made page reload and discarted the viewmodel
                //therefore  message1 should be blank
                //view should scroll to #paragraph2
                browser.First("a[data-ui='go-to-2-url-link']").Click();
                // message 2 should be scrolled to message 1 should not, both should be blank
                var message2element = browser.First("span[data-ui='message2']");
                message2element.IsDisplayed();
                message2element.CheckIfIsElementInView();           // TODO: Doesn't work in IE

                var message1element = browser.First("span[data-ui='message1']");
                message1element.IsDisplayed();
                message1element.CheckIfIsElementNotInView();

                AssertUI.InnerTextEquals(message1element, "TestMessage");
                AssertUI.InnerTextEquals(message2element, "TestMessage");
            });
        }

        [Fact]
        public void Complex_RedirectAndUrl_ScrollingPage()
        {
            //There I am testing that scrolling to element using Context.ResultIdFragment works correctly
            //It should scroll to element without interrupting the postback

            RunInAllBrowsers(browser => {
                //Postback with no redirect sets message to 'TestMessage'
                browser.NavigateToUrl(SamplesRouteUrls.ComplexSamples_RedirectAndUrl_ScrollingPage);
                browser.First("a[data-ui=test-link]").Click();
                AssertUI.InnerText(browser.First("span[data-ui='message1']"), s => s.Equals("TestMessage"));

                //Postback should run and view should scroll, page should not reload therefore messeges remain.
                browser.First("a[data-ui='go-to-2-link']").Click();

                var message2element = browser.First("span[data-ui='message2']");
                var message1element = browser.First("span[data-ui='message1']");

                //Message 2 should be scrolled to while message 1 should not, and both should have their texts set from the postback.
                message1element.IsDisplayed();
                message2element.IsDisplayed();

                message1element.CheckIfIsElementNotInView();
                message2element.CheckIfIsElementInView();

                AssertUI.InnerText(message1element, s => s.Equals("ToParagraph2"));
                AssertUI.InnerText(message2element, s => s.Equals("ToParagraph2"));

                //basically the same just clicking on link to do postback and scroll back to paragraph1 after
                browser.First("a[data-ui='go-to-1-link']").Click();
                // message 2 should be scrolled to message 1 should not, both should be blank

                message2element.IsDisplayed();
                message1element.IsDisplayed();

                message1element.CheckIfIsElementInView();
                message2element.CheckIfIsElementNotInView();

                AssertUI.InnerText(message1element, s => s.Equals("ToParagraph1"));
                AssertUI.InnerText(message2element, s => s.Equals("ToParagraph1"));

                //Now test that the scrolling works 2 times in row with same link
                var goTo1Link = browser.First("a[data-ui='go-to-1-link']");
                goTo1Link.ScrollTo();
                goTo1Link.CheckIfIsElementInView();
                message1element.CheckIfIsElementNotInView();
                message2element.CheckIfIsElementInView();

                goTo1Link.Click();
                browser.WaitForPostback();
                message1element.CheckIfIsElementInView();
                message2element.CheckIfIsElementNotInView();
            });
        }

        public RedirectAndUrlTests(ITestOutputHelper output) : base(output)
        {
        }
    }

    public static class ElementWrapperIsInViewExtensions
    {
        public static IElementWrapper ScrollTo(this IElementWrapper element)
        {
            var javascript = @"
            function findPosition(element) {
                var curtop = 0;
                if (element.offsetParent) {
                    do {
                        curtop += element.offsetTop;
                    } while (element = element.offsetParent);
                return [curtop];
                }
            }

            window.scroll(0,findPosition(arguments[0]));
        ";
            var executor = element.BrowserWrapper.GetJavaScriptExecutor();
            executor.ExecuteScript(javascript, element.WebElement);
            return element;
        }

        public static void CheckIfIsElementInView(this IElementWrapper element)
        {
            if (!IsElementInView(element))
            {
                throw new UnexpectedElementStateException($"Element is not in browser view. {element.ToString()}");
            }
        }

        public static void CheckIfIsElementNotInView(this IElementWrapper element)
        {
            if (IsElementInView(element))
            {
                throw new UnexpectedElementStateException($"Element is in browser view. {element.ToString()}");
            }
        }

        public static bool IsElementInView(this IElementWrapper element)
        {
            var executor = element.BrowserWrapper.GetJavaScriptExecutor();

            var result = executor.ExecuteScript(@"
function elementInViewport2(el) {
  var top = el.offsetTop;
  var left = el.offsetLeft;
  var width = el.offsetWidth;
  var height = el.offsetHeight;

  while(el.offsetParent) {
    el = el.offsetParent;
    top += el.offsetTop;
    left += el.offsetLeft;
  }

  return (
    top < (window.pageYOffset + window.innerHeight) &&
    left < (window.pageXOffset + window.innerWidth) &&
    (top + height) > window.pageYOffset &&
    (left + width) > window.pageXOffset
  );
}

return elementInViewport2(arguments[0]);
                ", element.WebElement);

            return (bool)result;
        }
    }
}


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Today the Social Computing group at Qatar Computing Research Institute had the pleasure of listening to the presentation of Luis Fernandez Luque about social media marketing for researchers. Luis talked about how to promote your publications and personal brand, as well as how to reach the right people on social media with your research.
Luis is one of the most talented researchers I know, and a very good friend. He has two amazing girls and a great wife. You can follow Luis' research on health informatics on Slideshare, Twitter, and of course connect with him on LinkedIn.
In this post, I'll summarize some points of his presentation (if you want the full thing, you need to ask him :), and reflect them on my own experiences as a digital marketer.
Without further ado, here are 7 social media tips for researchers.
You should post your papers on each of these platforms to get extra visibility. According to Luis, the point is to disseminate content in existing platforms because they have the critical mass of audience readily available. This is preferable to starting your own website from scratch and trying to attract visitors.
However, I recommend doing both. In addition to sharing your research on social media, you can have a separate websites for yourself and dedicated websites for your research projects. Having dedicated websites with a relevant domain provides search-engine optimization (SEO) benefits. In particular, websites are indexed better than social media sites which means you have a better chance of being found. Your papers will get indexed by search engines and therefore will attract occasional hits, depending on your chosen keywords and competition for them (see point number 4).
For the same reason you want to effectively cross-link and cross-post your content. For example, 1) publish the post in your own website, 2) re-publish it on LinkedIn, and 3) share on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+ (as well as researcher social networks, if it's academic content, but here I'm referring to idea posts or popularized articles). Don't forget Google+, because occasionally those posts show up in search results. Sharing can be repeated and schedule by using BufferApp. For example, I have all my LinkedIn articles mirrored at jonisalminen.com.
Finally, besides your research papers, consider sharing your dissertation as well as Bachelor/Master theses. Those are often easier to read and reach a wider audience.
Luis mentioned he was able to increase the popularity of one of his papers by creating a Slideshare presentation about it. This principle is more commonly known as content tree in inbound marketing. I completely agree with Luis' advice – it is often straight-forward and fast to create a presentation based on your existing paper, because you already know what you want to say.
If you have conference presentations or teaching material readily available, even better. For example, I've shared all my digital marketing lectures and teaching material at Slideshare, and they steadily attract views (tens of thousands in total so far). Here is an example of a presentation I made based on the post you're reading. As you can see, it has an interesting title that aims to be "search-engine optimized". By scrolling down, you also notice that Slideshare converts the presentation also into pure text. This is good for search-engine visibility, and one reason why Slideshare presentations rank well in Google. The picture from my Slideshare Analytics shows many people find the presentations through Google.
Figure 1 Slideshare Analytics showing large share of search traffic.
Luis also mentioned including the name of your publication in the title slide which is a good idea if you want to catch more citations from interested readers.
The point is to share knowledge and at the same time mention your own research. I think Luis mentioned he had at some point 4,000 participants for his course which is a very large audience and shows the power of online courses compared to traditional classrooms (I think I had maximum 100 students in my course, so you can see how big the difference in reach is).
This is like copywriting for researchers. The title plays an important role for two reasons: 1) it determines whether people become interested and click forward to reading your paper, and 2) it can increase or decrease your chances of being found in Google. A straight analogy is journalism: you want some degree of click-bait in your title, because you are competing against all other papers for attention. However, in my experience many scholars pay little attention to the attractiveness of the title of their paper from the clicker's perspective, and even fewer perform keyword research (the post in Finnish) to find out about popularity of related keywords.
So, how to choose the title of a research paper?
The title should be catchy (=attractive) and include keywords people are using when they are searching information on the topic, be it research papers or just general knowledge. Luis' tip was to include the problem (e.g., diabetes) in the title to get more downloads. Moreover, when sharing your papers, use relevant hashtags. In the academia, the natural way is to identify conference hashtags relating to your topic — as long as it's relevant, using conference hashtags to promote your research is okay.
You can use tools such as Google Keyword Planner and Google Trends for keyword research. To research hashtags, Twitter's recommendation feature is an easy approach (e.g., in TweetDeck you get recommendations when you start writing a hashtag). You can also use tools such as Hashtagify and Keyhole to research relevant hashtags. Finally, also include the proper keywords in your abstract. While full papers are often hidden behind gateways, abstracts are indexed by search engines.
Instead of trying to make a go with your own website (which is admittedly tough!), Luis recommended to write guest posts in a popular blogs. The rationale is the same as in the case of social media platforms: these venues already have an audience. As long as the blog deals with your vertical, the audience is likely to be interested in what you say. For content marketers, getting quality content is also a consistent source of concern, so it is easy to see a win-win here.
For example, you can write to research foundation blog. In case they gave you money, this also serves to show you are actively trying to popularize your research, and they get something in return for their money! Consider also industry associations (e.g., I haven't come around to it yet, but I would like to write to IAB Finland's blog since they have a large audience interested in digital marketing).
Tag them to posts of both platforms.
The last point doesn't always yield results, but I've also had some good experiences by including the Twitter handle of a person I know is working on the topic I'm writing about. Remember, you are not spamming but asking for their opinion. That is perfectly fine.
How to measure social media impact?
For example, you could have reads/downloads as the main KPI. Then, you could have the goal of increasing that metric +30% in the next six months. Then, you would track the results and act accordingly. The good thing about numbers and small successes is that you become addicted. Well, this is mostly a good thing because in the end you also want to get some research done! But as you see that your posts get some coverage, it encourages to carry on. And gradually you are able to uplift your social media impact.
A research group could do this as a whole by giving somebody the task to summarize social media reach of individuals + the group as a whole. It would be fairly easy to incentivize good performance, and encourage knowledge sharing on what works. By sharing best practices, the whole group could benefit. Besides disseminating your research, social media activity can increase your citations, as well as improve chances for receiving funding (as you can show "real impact" through numbers).
The tool recommended by Luis is called Altmetric which is specifically tailored for research analytics. I haven't used it before, but will give it a go.
The common theme is sharing your knowledge. In addition to just posting, you can also ask and answer questions on social media sites (e.g., on ResearchGate) and practitioner forums (e.g., Quora). I was able to beat my nemesis Mr. Valtteri Kaartemo in our Great Dissertation Downloads Competition by being active on Quora for a few weeks. Answering Quora questions and including a link in the signature got my dissertation over 1,000 downloads quickly, and since some question remain relevant over time, it still helps. But this is not only about competitions and your own "brand" but about using your knowledge to help others. Think of yourself as an asset – the society has invested tremendous amounts of time, effort and money into your education, and you owe it to the society to pay some of it back. One way to do that is sharing your knowledge on social media.
I still remember one professor saying a few years ago she doesn't put her presentations on Slideshare because "somebody might steal the ideas". But as far as I'm concerned, a much bigger problem is that nobody cares about her ideas. We live in a world where researchers compete against all sources of information – and we must adapt to this game. In my experience, the ratio of effort put in conducting research and communicating it is totally twisted, as most researchers lack the basic skills for social media marketing and hardly do any content marketing at all.
This is not only harmful for their careers, but also to various stakeholder groups that miss the important insights of their research. And I'm not only talking about popularization, but also other researchers increasingly rely on social media and search engines for finding relevant papers in their field. Producing high-quality content is not enough, but you also need to market your papers on social media. By doing so, you are making a service to the community.
Hi Joni. I'm Jonah from Hashtagify.me. Thanks very much for the mention:) Have a nice day!


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The Ongoing Saga of the Priest Sex Abuse Scandal
In October 2001, crisis Magazine published an article, titled "The High Price of Priestly Pederasty," by Dan Michalski. Reporting on publicly known cases of sex abuse by priests, Michalski summarized his findings:
So far, more than 3,000 Catholic priests in America have been accused of sexual misconduct with minors, and nearly 2,000 insurance claims have been paid… [E]very one of the 188 dioceses in the American Catholic Church has faced or is facing claims… [T]he total payout has climbed past $1 billion, with another half-billion pending.
The crisis article was published three months before the first Boston Globe article on sex abuse by priests in the Archdiocese of Boston. The Globe's extensive coverage led to Bernard Cardinal Law's resignation in December 2002 and their winning a Pulitzer Prize in 2003.
Meanwhile, the reaction to the crisis article on "priestly pederasty" was nearly complete silence. I did receive one e-mail from a bishop who was a friend of mine asking angrily, "Why did you publish an article about that scandal?"
"So it will stop," I replied.
I had been talking with the crisis staff for more than a year about finding a writer who could summarize the dimensions of sexual abuse by priests. I was turned down by a number of Catholic journalists before finding Michalski. No one wanted to talk about it or acknowledge it, even after we published the hard evidence of its pervasive and persistent presence throughout the Church.
It took the constant hammering of the Boston Globe series, along with reports from other major newspapers, for Church leadership to admit they had a problem needing a solution other than sending priests for a "cure" that did not exist.
At their June 2002 meeting, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops established the National Review Board for the purpose of collaborating "with the USCCB in preventing the sexual abuse of minors in the United States by persons in the service of the Church." Under the leadership of former Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating, the NRB hired the John Jay School of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York to conduct a survey of all the dioceses in the United States. The John Jay report, covering a period from 1950 to 2002, was presented two years later.
The report indicated that dioceses found credible allegations against "4,392 priests in the USA, about 4 percent of all 109,694 priests who served during the time covered by the study."
In a period of two years, the bishops, in a complete turnaround of institutional behavior, made transparent what had been shielded in secrecy for decades. They also implemented a Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People intended to create uniform procedures for the handling of sex-abuse allegations.
With this decisive action by the bishops, the priest sex-abuse crisis in the United States slowly quieted down, although the debate over the role of active homosexuals in the priesthood continues to be debated to this day. (See my newsletter from the time, "Ten Myths About Priestly Pedophilia.")
The issue of improper sexual behavior by Catholic priests was brought back into the headlines by the publication of official reports of sexual abuse by priests in Ireland, especially the Murphy Report, and now in Germany and Austria.
For Catholics in America, the intensity of the media coverage, particularly its personal attacks on Pope Benedict XVI, brings a reprise of the highly charged emotions of the 2002-2004 period when the bishops were finally facing the problem.
But these reports from abroad have opened old wounds and given Catholic-bashers new life, as seen in the efforts by Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins to have the Holy Father arrested when he arrives in the UK in September.
Eight years ago, when the U.S. bishops began their work with the National Review Board, no one anticipated that the same scenario was going to repeat itself in countries around the world.
If similar procedures had been mandated by the Vatican throughout the Church, then all the bad news would have largely been known by now. Instead, the stories of sexual abuse by priests will be forthcoming from different countries around the globe for years – perhaps decades – to come. The wound is going to be kept open for a long time if the Vatican does not act decisively, as the U.S. bishops did in 2002.
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From our people to our places, our cultures and our landscapes the rich tapestry or our lives is foraged from far and wide.
Just as our communities are formed, through the integration and celebration of people from other places, so too are our landscapes.
The idea for Forage came from Henna's own experience of arriving in the North East of England from Finland and the rootedness she first began to feel when she had access to the countryside.
Forage is a participatory commission with refugees and asylum seekers now living in Newcastle and Gateshead. It is a series of walks and conversations in landscapes that are both strange and familiar. It provides the opportunity to discover and recover what it means to belong to a place when displaced from home and to experience the most 'English' of our landscapes at National Trust sites across Northumberland and Tyne and Wear. Using foraged plants, stories old and new are interwoven into new experiences for participants, and form the basis of a series public artworks and interventions.
So often newly arrived people who have been radically displaced from their home communities find themselves confined to an unknown and sometimes unfriendly cityscape, with no ready means to access the rich natural and cultural environment of the region.
Through a series of curated 'foraging' walks through iconic historic landscapes at the National Trust sites of Seaton Delaval, Cherryburn and Gibside, the project introduces participants to the environment beyond the urban spaces they are made to inhabit, giving them an opportunity to explore and develop a deeper understanding of the natural, social and historical context in which they have found themselves.
Foragers
From food to friendship, from experiences to things, we all forage to make this place we call home and this life we call ours.
As migrants have arrived on our shores from near and far, so too have our plants. This is particularly evident in the managed landscapes of our country houses laid out during the 18th and 19th centuries; often using exotic plant specimens foraged from the colonies and beyond.
Walking and foraging together has brought us a deeper understanding of the complex, sometimes conflicting, but more often rewarding relationships we hold with the world we inhabit and those we inhabit it with.
Henna Asikainen
Forage emerged from artist Henna Asikainen's own experience of migration and her exploration of the spectacular landscape and cultural environments that surround the city that she has made her home.
As an artist, Henna's principal interests are the questions surrounding the human relationship with nature and the complex social and ecological issues that emerge from this relationship. Not all human experiences of nature are equivalent or shared and in response her practice tends to be collaborative in nature and emerges from specific sites and communities.
Henna's recent work has been created with migrant and refugee communities through a process of engagement facilitated within natural landscapes. As a migrant artist herself who has lived in Newcastle for 20 years these projects are grounded in a desire to explore, to engage with, and share the fruits of the great affection that has developed over that time for her new home.
Those who foraged together built new bonds and experiences…
'Me and my children love the walks, and I would like to do more.'
'So wonderful trips! This was my best experience in the last ten years in Newcastle and I would love to see more places.'
'Taking part has made me feel happier and better!'
'One thing that struck me was the noise! Although it was said that it was lovely to be out in the quiet of the countryside, I was happy to hear lots of chatter and laughter. An uplifting experience.'
'Meeting new people. Coming out of my shell. Building strength and confidence. Going somewhere new and just talking and supporting each other.'
Forage was created by Henna Asikainen and was commissioned and produced by ISIS Arts.
Forage has been kindly supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, Newcastle Culture Investment Fund, The Heritage Lottery Fund, Counterpoints Arts, The National Trust, The Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, Muckles LLP, and New Writing North.
Forage was made possible by the suport of our local partners the Angelou Centre, Crossings Community Group, the English Language Conversation Group, Red Rope Socialist Walking Group, and Samosa Sisters Women's Empowerment.