"We need to measure our impact". This sentiment is shared so often in meetings, pitches, and at campaign launches. But very seldom do we ask the most basic question – why should communicators measure impact? And even less frequently – why do we evaluate communications activity?
I see the relationship between measurement and evaluation in communications as a true love-hate. On one hand, measuring impact and providing hard numbers helps to satisfy internal stakeholders. It also helps show value and, bluntly, ensures financing of subsequent communications campaigns and activities. It also helps us adjust and assign resources to the most effective quarter.
On the other hand, some claim that measurement kills creativity, or that it simply impossible to measure communications. It is intangible. Almost artistic.
This way of thinking is one of the reasons why communications can struggle to make its way into board rooms. Yet it is a corporate function that shapes the most precious if intangible, asset – reputation.
This love-hate relationship between communications professionals and measurement has led to some very disappointing results. For years, companies and organizations measured their communications effectiveness using Advertisement Value Equivalents (AVEs) – literally measuring how much space an article about an organisation took up in a newspaper, and working out how much the same space would cost in advertising.
It is clear why that is a bad metric, since recognised as such by the Association for Measurement and Evaluation of Communications (AMEC). Thankfully AMEC came up a new set of principles to guide the measurement of communication activities, known as the Barcelona 2.0 Principles.
What do we want to achieve from an organisational / business perspective? Yes we want to increase sales, donations etc., but across which demographic, and in which portfolio?
What is the best communications strategy to deliver on this objective?
How do our target audiences perceive us, and our strategy?
What are the best tactics to improve our image and reputation within target groups? What do they care about? How do they like to communicate?
What emotions do we want and need to steer? Which behaviors do we lead our audience on, in relation to our brand?
What is the final impact for our company or organisation?
Always coming back to the objectives closes the measurement and evaluation loop. It also grounds measurement and evaluation in a clear context that is relevant for organizational performance.
Leidar is an Associate Member of AMEC.


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Proposals on Clinical Research
Rationale: The APEX system has been promoted to the faculty as providing a new and extremely valuable means of doing clinical research, especially for discovering previously unappreciated clinical associations such as the relationship of kidney stone and myocardial infarction, etc.. Such associations would be very valuable in discovering underlying mechanisms of disease. However, the APEX system falls very short of fulfilling this promise, because it has been primarily designed for maintaining information for medical practice, and for billing. The problem is that it forc
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A Digital Clinical Research Center (dCRC) for Translation of Digital Health Interventions
Rationale: The confluence of online social media, smart phones, and sensor technology is giving rise to a tidal wave of digital health interventions that have vast potential for improving health at low cost. As with consumer software, digital interventions are more likely to be effective if user feedback and determination of effectiveness is sought early and often. At present, however, researchers face high costs and difficulty in developing app ideas into prototypes, testing prototypes on real users, and validating the intervention.
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Rationale: The rapidly evolving field of digital health has great potential to enhance biomedical research, education and clinical care. Development in this new space is largely being driven by the tech sector, where projects may lack proper clinical focus or scientific rigor and generally do not include health outcome measures to assess effectiveness or impact.
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Mobile Study Support Pilot Project
Submitted by Mario Moreno on February 27, 2012 - 4:52pm Last revised by Anonymous on May 2, 2014 - 12:08pm.
Rationale: UCSF and the Benioff Children's Hospital have been selected by the national Children's Oncology Group Consortium (COG) of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to conduct new Phase I Pediatric Oncology studies. Patients enrolled in these studies who are not admitted to the Pediatric Clinical Research Center (PCRC) Inpatient Unit, will require evening and weekend support for study procedures, including timed blood draws, sample processing and EKGs.
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Column kit for analytical method development
Submitted by Liusheng Huang on February 27, 2012 - 4:30pm Last revised by Anonymous on May 2, 2014 - 12:08pm.
As a core pharmacology laboratory for Center for AIDS Research at UCSF, the Drug Research Unit (DRU) often encounters problems regarding column selection during memthod development. Here I propose to seek for funding to buy 25-50 analytical columns as a column kit for method development.
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Data Management for Research Community
Submitted by Jennifer Creasman on February 27, 2012 - 11:18am Last revised by Anonymous on May 2, 2014 - 12:08pm.
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CTSI's Consultation Services Data Management Unit (DMU) is just one of the successful research resources available on campus to help UCSF faculty and staff with his/her research. Along with many other data management services, the DMU also provides consultation in data processing to help transform research data into a statistically analyzable format. In our efforts to provide consultation to the UCSF research community, we have realized that some trainees and faculty do not have the programming skills or resources to perform data processing tasks that are necessary to keep their research moving forward. Complicated data merges and transformations require specific programming expertise to ensure that it is performed correctly. Data management programmers, who can devote more time and effort to small projects, are needed. The DMU's ability to provide these services is very limited. As a result, we have identified a gap in services that the Data Management Unit is currently able to provide.
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Translating Research into Law and Policy
Submitted by Dennis Hsieh on February 27, 2012 - 9:33am Last revised by Anonymous on May 2, 2014 - 12:08pm.
Community Policies & Practices
Rationale: Currently, there is no direct pathway for health sciences research to move from scholarly publications into policy and law. Although some evidence is cherry-picked by advocates and policymakers, legislation often reflects rhetoric rather than evidence. While some translational researchers study the effects of laws or write white papers summarizing the state of the evidence, we know of none who take the approach of working with investigators to leverage their research and write model legislation.
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Evidence-based Inputs for Sample Size Calculations: A Web-based Application
Submitted by Joan Hilton on February 24, 2012 - 6:56pm Last revised by Anonymous on May 2, 2014 - 12:08pm.
Rationale: Inaccurate sample size estimation leads to research studies that enroll too few or too many study participants. The former can result in failure to demonstrate anticipated effects and the latter to excessive costs, due to overuse of research participants and personnel time. While there are several important components of a good sample size calculation – including a compelling research question, an appropriate outcome variable, and an efficient study design – here we focus on improving the accuracy of the quantitative inputs.
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"Expedited" Expedited CHR submission and approval for Chart Review Research (Category 5)
Submitted by Amy Gelfand on February 24, 2012 - 2:47pm Last revised by Anonymous on May 2, 2014 - 12:08pm.
Title: "Expedited" Expedited CHR submission and approval for Chart Review Research (Category 5)
Rationale: Clinical researchers often perform retrospective, chart-review studies as a relatively inexpensive and quick way of determining which clinical questions are worth pursuing before engaging in more expensive, time-consuming prospective studies.
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A Clinical Research Toolkit for Surgeons in Low Resource Environments
Submitted by Jesse Shantz on February 22, 2012 - 1:53pm Last revised by Anonymous on May 2, 2014 - 12:08pm.
Less than 8% of orthopaedic research originates in low and middle income countries (LMICs), despite the fact that 95% of deaths from road traffic accidents occur in these countries. Global partners of the Institute for Global Orthopaedics and Traumatology (IGOT) have asked for assistance in building the capacity to perform clinical research. This is important because:
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Geneva and the educated
Apparently there are only three countries that will have to face substantive resolutions in Geneva in March, and all of them Sri Lanka, Myanmar and North Korea happen to be Buddhist countries of one yana (vehicle) or the other. Of the three countries Myanmar has been "disciplined" after continuous application of pressure including economic sanctions and the country has agreed for a so called consensual resolution. In the exercise of "disciplining" Myanmar the western Christian countries had Aung San Suu Kyi as their agent, but in Sri Lanka and North Korea they do not have such a leader who could effectively challenge the relevant "regime" and the west has to depend on so called international pressure. As we have said often what we experience today is a clash between the Judaic Christian culture and the Islamic and Buddhist cultures. The Islamic culture is more powerful as a military power and also as a political force and the Judaic Christian cultural hegemony has concentrated on two Buddhist countries this year.
It is very likely that in Sri Lanka the west can depend on a more westernized elite group especially in education than in North Korea, and that in the latter there is not so much of a discussion on the impending resolution in the media. The Sri Lankan educated people are obsessed with Geneva and most of them seem to believe that their future would be decided in March in Geneva. It is unfortunate that free education in Sri Lanka has produced a western educated group irrespective of the medium of instruction, which depend on so called analysis of western intellectuals echoed by the local pundits. If not for the so called uneducated people in the country, Sri Lanka would have agreed to any suggestion by the Judaic Christian west without even critically thinking of what is taking place.
This is one of the reasons why we have to defeat the hegemony of the Judaic Christian Culture especially in the sphere of knowledge. Edward Said in his Orientalism published in 1978 concentrated on what is known as post colonialism by the western intellectuals, described how an Eurocentric view of the Islamic world and the orient in general misrepresented oriental culture. The Orient of the westerners was something that the western intellectuals created and not the orient of the people living in that part of the world. Said was a Professor in English at an American university and he was accepted by the western intellectuals in general. Said also described a relativity of knowledge, his emphasis being on how the west, meaning of course the western intellectuals, saw the orient. It is nothing but the Orient relative to the western intellectuals, and we could say that it was the Orient created relative to the Judaic Christian culture based on the Greek Judaic Christian (GJC) Chinthanaya.
Said was accepted by the western intellectuals in general for the simple reason that in spite of his criticism he was also a western intellectual. Said accepted the GJC Chinthanaya and also the so called methodologies adopted in the western intellectual world, which included the western scientific method and the Aristotelian logic. The term post colonialism, a creation of the western intellectuals hide the fact that western Judaic Christian colonialism has not ended. The present day western intellectuals very often use the prefix post in describing phenomena, as for example in the case of post colonialism and post modernism, and by that usage one is assured that colonialism and modernism and other such phenomena have ended though it is not the case.
Said described one form of relativism of western knowledge, without challenging the basis of such knowledge. The sociologists in the west have come out with theories on relativity of knowledge without going into the foundations of western knowledge. It was a relativity of "sociology" based on the GJC Chinthanaya and the western intellectuals had no problem with the relativities of Said or others. Except in the case of Feyerabend who challenged the so called scientific method in his book "Against method", and who was not recognized by the western intellectuals, the others including Kuhn who wrote "The structure of scientific revolutions" were content with the methods in western science. Kuhn was interested in describing how western science progressed through so called revolutions and he only challenged Popper's view of western science where science advanced as a result of scientists attempting to falsify the existing theories.
Even Feyerabend did not say that western science is "pattapal boru" (blatant lies) and the moment one came out with the view that western scientific theories and other abstract western knowledge are mere stories (pattapal boru) concocted by western intellectuals relative to Judaic Christian culture based on GJC Chinthanaya the whole hell broke lose. It is interesting to note that the greatest opposition came from Sinhala nationalists who defend western science without any understanding of western Physics that is at the pinnacle of western knowledge. People who have read on Physics from popular books but who have never studied that subject after the GCE (Advanced Level) formally with the Mathematics involved, very often failing in the subject at the examination, are the most ardent followers of western science. Incidentally the most attentive of the "pattapal boru" kathava are the students of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Moratuwa who very often get very good marks in Physics and Mathematics at the GCE (Advanced Level) examination.
Now what is the relevance of all these stories to Geneva? The Geneva circus is managed by western intellectuals with the assistance of people such as Navi Pillai who are very often educated people in the western tradition whatever their nationality, ethnicity, religion may be. To begin with, we are given the impression that Geneva is an international forum. It may be the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) that meets in Geneva every March but the stage is managed by the western countries that pretend to be the international. The west represents a bogus international but the hegemony of the Judaic Christian culture is such that the bogus international is projected as the international, of course, with the assistance of the products of western education found in media, universities, NGOs, parliament, judiciary, officialdom and other such places. The media discusses Geneva and project it to be a life and death experience of the ordinary people.
Even if the resolution against Sri Lanka instigated by England and presented by USA is carried through what can the so called international do? The UNHRC in Geneva cannot impose economic sanctions but as we have been telling for more than four years there can be economic sanctions imposed by individual countries or group of countries on their own, to punish us for defeating the LTTE, the agent of the west not only against Sinhala Buddhist culture but the Tamil Hindu culture as well. The so called educated people are sacred at the outcome and they think that would have to starve to death if "unofficial" economic sanctions are imposed. The irony is that some of these educated people or at least their parents were not opposed to eating "bajiri" during the so called second world war (the computer insists that I begin these words with capital letters) which was a war of the west and not a world war, in order to safeguard and protect the interests of the English colonials. The elite schools were shifted to places such as Bandarawela during this time forcing the offspring of the privileged to stay away from home. The educated went through all these difficulties to protect not the sovereignty of the nation but the interests of the English colonials. For the educated, whether they were educated in English or Sinhala (Educated Tamils are outside the equation as their problem is formulated in a different way by the western intellectuals) safeguarding the interests of the English colonials appear to be more important than protecting the sovereignty of the nation, and they are prepared to sacrifice for the former purpose and not for the latter. Such is the power of the western education we receive at schools and universities. Let us feed the educated with some "bajiri" if the need arises.
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Do not betray the Sinhala opinion
බටහිර විද්‍යාව පට්ටපල් බොරු
මහාචාර්යතුමාගේ මනසක් නැති ආනුභවික ක්‍රියාකාරකම්
The Mahavamsa myth
උපාධිදාරීන් රකින සංස්කෘතිය
ජෙනීවා පරදවමු -3
Who won the "war"
ගෙදර යෑම, හඳට යෑම හා පරළොව යෑම
ඇමරිකන් බිය
Cameron, de facto Sri Lanka's leader of oppositio...
වචන හා වචන
Defeat the defeatist attitude
නිවුටන්ට හා අයින්ස්ටයින්ට අනුව වැටීම
Who rules the world?
උතුරු පළාත් සභාව හා ජෙනීවා


Promising defender Tom Day came through the Barnet youth system after departing Crystal Palace in 2015. The centre-back, who is only 19 years old, has made steady progress since joining The Bees, singing his first professional contract with the club in April 2016.
Making his debut off the bench against Crawley Town in July 2016 as a substitute, he was soon loaned out to Staines Town in a successful spell at the club. After 26 appearances for The Swans, he returned to Barnet, hoping his non-league venture can help him gain a spot in the Barnet back line.
With plenty of knowledge and experience already at the club, Day will be looking to harness this to aid his development and flourish into the dominant defensive player we know he can become.
Darnell Smith played 90 minutes for Hungerford Town in a 1-0 defeat by Truro City, while Tom Day played 85 minutes in Hemel Hempstead Town's 2-2 draw with Welling United.
Dan Sweeney had an eventful debut as his Hampton & Richmond Borough side lost 2-0 at home to Truro City in the Fourth FA Cup Qualifying Round.


Is that contempt in your eyes as you're looking at me?
Do I make you feel guilty for making my stand?
Why do you turn from me as I hold out my hand?
Is it because you believe all I do is criticize?
As you eat your beef burger and turn from my eyes.
It may change your life in every way!


Statistics on the economic status of households in the UK and the people living in them. Taken from the Labour Force Survey (LFS), covering January to March 2018, and only includes households where at least one person is aged 16 to 64 years.
Of the 20.9 million households (where at least one member is aged 16 to 64 years) in the UK, 12.2 million (58.6%) had all household members aged 16 years and over in employment, up 315,000 or 1.1 percentage points over the past year.
There were 5.7 million households (27.1%) with a mix of at least one working and one workless adult, down 60,000 or 0.5 percentage points over the year.
There were 3.0 million households (14.3%) where no member of the household was in employment, down 99,000 or 0.6 percentage points over the last year.
This bulletin provides statistics on the economic status of households in the UK and the people living in them. These statistics are from the Labour Force Survey (LFS), covering the period January to March 2018 unless otherwise stated and only include households where at least one person is aged 16 to 64 years.
All estimates are not seasonally adjusted and all comparisons are made on an annual basis, comparing January to March 2018 with January to March 2017.
Due to the greater sample size at local level in the Annual Population Survey (APS), the highest-quality statistics for the economic status of households at a local level within England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are available, up to January to December 2016 in the bulletin Workless households for regions across the UK: 2016.
This statistical bulletin uses a number of main definitions.
This refers to households that contain at least one dependent child under the age of 19 years. There may be other non-dependent children present, that is, those aged 18 years or over.
All estimates in this release are not seasonally adjusted and all comparisons should be carried out on an annual basis, for example, comparing April to June periods with April to June periods, or October to December periods with October to December periods. Comparisons made in this release are between the latest available period, January to March 2018 and January to March 2017.
Users of the data in this statistical bulletin include government departments, devolved administrations, independent research organisations and members of the media and general public. These data are used to understand how the economic status of households in the UK, countries of the UK and regions within England are changing. Time series are available between April to June 1996 and January to March 2018.
A more detailed breakdown of data at the local level within the countries of the UK is available later in the year. Workless households for regions across the UK: 2016 uses the Annual Population Survey (APS), which has a larger sample size than the Labour Force Survey. This allows labour market analysis to be carried out on families and households at local-area levels and for small sub-groups of the population across the UK.
Out of the 20.9 million households in the UK in January to March 2018, there were 12.2 million (58.6%) classed as working, a further 5.7 million (27.1%) were classed as mixed and 3.0 million (14.3%) were classed as workless (Table 2). Within the 14.3% of workless households, 83.3% of those were economically inactive (with no-one in the household participating in the labour market).
Excluding student households, which are more likely to be workless than the rest of the population, there were 20.6 million households. Of these, 12.2 million (59.1%) were classed as working households, 5.6 million (27.0%) as mixed and 2.9 million (13.9%) as workless households (Table 2). Student households are more likely to be economically inactive households; as a result, the percentage of households that were economically inactive was lower, at 11.5%, when excluding students compared with 11.9% for all households.
Working households increased by 315,000 or 1.1 percentage points compared with the same period a year ago, to stand at 12.2 million or 58.6% of all households for the period January to March 2018.
The proportion of workless households has been generally falling since comparable records began. Over the past year this has decreased by 0.6 percentage points to 14.3% of all households.
The number of households in which no adult has ever worked was up 32,000 over the year and now stands at 323,000. In relation to all households in the UK containing at least one person aged 16 to 64 years, the percentage of households containing only people who have never worked was 1.5%, up 0.1% over the year.
In January to March 2018, the percentage of all households with dependent children, that were workless, was 8.8% (703,000), down 0.3 percentage points on the same period a year ago.
For the period January to March 2018, there were 22.6 million people aged 16 to 64 years (54.9%) living in working households, up 1.0 percentage point over the year. A further 14.5 million people (35.1%) were living in mixed households, down 0.6 percentage points and 4.1 million people (10.0%) were living in workless households, down 0.4 percentage points (Table 3).
Excluding student households, which are more likely to be workless than the rest of the population, there were 22.6 million people (55.7%) living in working households, 14.1 million people (34.8%) living in households classed as mixed and 3.8 million people (9.5%) living in workless households (Table 3).
The number of people living in households where all members had never worked increased by 44,000 over the last year and now stands at 513,000. Excluding student households, the number of people living in households where all members had never worked increased by 60,000 and now stands at 349,000.
In January to March 2018, of those people aged 16 to 64 years living in households with dependent children, 6.3% were living in workless households, down 0.2 percentage points on the year. This compares with 12.7% of people aged 16 to 64 years living in households without dependent children who were in workless households.
Of those people aged 16 to 64 years living in households with dependent children, the percentage living in working households increased by 0.6 percentage points over the past year to 51.7%. This compares with 57.3% for people living in households without dependent children who were in working households.
The percentage of people aged 65 years and over living in working households increased by 0.8 percentage points over the year to stand at 12.3%. There was a decrease of 1.2 percentage points in the proportion of people in this age group living in mixed households.
For the period January to March 2018, there were 7.4 million children (59.2%) living in working households, a further 3.8 million children (30.6%) living in mixed households and 1.3 million children (10.2%) living in workless households in the UK (Table 4).
The number of children living in workless households decreased by 44,000 or 0.5 percentage points compared with the previous year to 1.3 million or 10.2% of all children, the lowest level since comparable records began. The number of children living in working households increased by 145,000 or 0.6 percentage points compared with the previous year to 7.4 million or 59.2% of all children.
Children in lone-parent families were more likely to be living in workless households (35.3%) than children living in couple households (4.0%) or other households (7.8%). Lone-parent families accounted for 67.8% of all children in workless households.
The percentage of children in lone-parent families living in working households increased by 0.2 percentage points over the last year to 52.4%. Although lone-parent and one-person households have a higher proportion of workless households, these household types are more likely to be workless households as there is often only one person in the household that could be in work.
The number of children living in households where all members had never worked increased by 2,000 over the year to 193,000, which accounted for 1.5% of all children.
In January to March 2018, there were 1.2 million lone parents in employment in the UK, or 4.0% of all people in employment, aged 16 to 64 years, up 19,000 on January to March 2017. This percentage has remained relatively constant since rising to this level in late 2009.
In the UK, the employment rate for men with dependent children has been consistently higher than for those without dependent children, since comparable records began in 1996, and currently stands at 92.7% and 73.4% respectively, for the period January to March 2018, a difference of 19.3 percentage points.
For women, the employment rate has only been consistently higher for women with dependent children since 2008 and now stands at 74.2% compared with 69.4% for those without dependent children, for the period January to March 2018, a difference of 4.8 percentage points. Prior to 2008, the employment rate was generally higher for women without dependent children than those with dependent children.
In the latest period, January to March 2018, the employment rate for women increases as the age of the youngest dependent child increases, from 65.3% where the youngest dependent child is aged 0 to 2 years, to 82.8% where the youngest dependent child is aged 16 to 18 years (Figure 1). The majority of those women in employment also work part-time until the youngest dependent child is aged 11 to 15 years. For men the employment rate remains relatively constant, regardless of the age of the youngest child.
Conversely, the economic inactivity rate for women decreases as the age of the youngest dependent child increases. Those stating that they are looking after family or home decreases from 28.5% where the youngest dependent child is aged 0 to 2 years to 6.7% where the youngest dependent child is aged 16 to 18 years.
For details on working and workless households for local authorities, please see Workless households for regions across the UK statistical bulletins.
Further information on how the employment of men and women aged 16 to 64 years with children has changed in England over the past two decades is available in Families and the Labour Market, England: 2017.
Estimates in this statistical bulletin go back to 1996, which is the first year a consistent time series, on a calendar quarter basis, is available.
The Labour Force Survey (LFS) is the source for each estimate within this statistical bulletin. The LFS is a sample survey; all estimates from it are subject to sampling variability. Sampling variability is dependent on several factors, including the size of the sample, the size of the estimate as a proportion of the population, and the effect of the design of the sample on the variable of interest. Therefore, it is subject to a margin of uncertainty, as different samples give different results. For example, if the estimate for the percentage of children in workless households is 10.2%, with a sampling variability of plus or minus 0.7%. This variability gives a confidence interval, which is such that there is 95% certainty that the percentage of children in workless households lies between 9.5% and 10.9%.
The data in this statistical bulletin cannot be seasonally adjusted at the present time because the Labour Force Survey household datasets were only produced for Quarter 2 (Apr to June) and Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) prior to 2014. More years' estimates will be required from Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) and Quarter 3 (July to Sept) before the series can be assessed to see if it exhibits any seasonal patterns.


This is a tutorial on linking your Mimir Classroom course to your Moodle course. First, log into an instructor account on Moodle and your instructor account on the Mimir Classroom. Using Moodle, your students will never have to go through the Mimir registration process; they can simply click a button on your class' Moodle page and they will automatically login to Mimir through a linked account.
You should only have to perform this setup once per course.
For Tool Name and Tool Description you can fill out whatever you want to indicate to the students that the tool will allow them to log into Mimir and submit their assignments. For Tool URL, copy and paste this link: "https://class.mimir.io/users/lti_login".
Additionally, select "New Window" for "Default launch container" and check "Force SSL" for security. For the privacy drop downs, we recommend switching to "Always" for all three. The first two will make it so when your student first clicks the link, it will automatically create their account for them, since your LMS will tell us their name and save us the trouble of having to ask for it. The last one will allow us to update grades with Moodle.
Once that's done, click save changes, and you should return to the Create External Tool page. For "Activity Name", pick a name that your students will help your students understand that clicking this link will take them to the place where they can submit their Assignments. For preconfigured tool, select the tool you just finished creating, and for Tool URL, paste this URL once again "https://class.mimir.io/users/lti_login". Note that the Tool URL box may gray itself out after you've selected your preconfigured tool, which is just fine, and means that Moodle has auto-filled that box for you.
After that, click "Save and return to course". You should now see your One-Click login link on your course dashboard. You can move it into different topics, and adjust whether or not students can see it as you please. When students login to your campus Moodle, they should be able to click the link to login to Mimir instantly.
If you have had any trouble at all during this tutorial, feel free to click the button in the bottom right corner of Mimir Classroom to message us, or send an email to support@mimirhq.com; we'll usually get back to you within a few minutes. We'd love to hear your feedback and improve our documentation.


The Commonwealth of Dominica, an eastern Caribbean island nation, stages the World Creole Music Festival (WCMF) annually in its main town, Roseau. This year marks the festival's 16th time it will showcase Dominica, other Creole nations, and indigenous music to tourists from all over the world. Over the years, the festival has grown in size and stature, attracting world renowned artists from musical genres like Zouk, Cadence-lypso, Haitian Compas, Soca, Zydeco and Bouyon, and fusion forms like reggae, which were all created from Creole music.
When the Dominica Festivals Commission first introduced the festival, its vision was that the WCMF would be one of the biggest and best cultural festivals in the Caribbean. That recognition has been achieved, with critics and fans acknowledging that it is one of the few great festivals to celebrate true indigenous Creole music and culture. The growing number of festival patrons every year has encouraged the nation to expand its vision to promote the island in an even bigger way. In addition to the main music festival, other events, like "Creole in the Park" and "Zouk on the River", were added recently to encourage local small businesses and corporate sponsors to get involved so that the growth of the festival can be sustained. These events are billed as family friendly and give locals and tourists a chance to indulge in local cuisine and experience an additional local music line up. Since the festival ushers in Independence Day celebrations, there is a perfect synergy among all facets of the country's heritage.
The Dominica Festivals Commission launched the World Creole Music Festival (WCMF) in 1997 as a way to promote tourism and help increase visibility of Creole music, its sub-genres, and the region's musicians. Since then, the festival has drawn diverse acts from Africa, Haiti, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and US and European Creole Diaspora. Dominicans embrace the joyful atmosphere of the festival and celebrate their island's rich cultural heritage every year.
Well known artists who have performed at the WCMF include the Dominican creators of Cadence-lypso, Exile One, the French West Indian Zouk band, Kassav, and several Haitian bands, like T-Vice, Magnum Band and Tabou Combo. Several African artists, like Diblo Dibala, Machacha and Sakis, and Soka artists, like Bunji Garlin and Machel Montano, have also performed here. Famous reggae names include Shaggy, The Wailers, Sean Paul and Wyclef Jean.
The WCMF is greatly significant to Dominica's economy, particularly its tourism sector. Over the years, hotel occupancy has gone up and restaurants, shops and transportation operators have seen an increase in business. The increase in consumer spending during the festival is believed to be almost ten times the amount spent to hold the event.
Shortly after he performed at the 2011 festival, famous Dominican Cadence-lypso star, Jeff Joseph passed away. The 2012 festival is being held in honor of him and will take place over "Three Nights of Pulsating Rhythms".
Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley, son of Bob Marley, is a Grammy winning reggae artist and the best known current musician in the Caribbean. His charismatic presence and delivery of roots-rock reggae style of music makes his appearance highly anticipated.
Ophelia Marie is Dominica's "Lady of Song" and "First Lady of Creole" and has made a name for herself in all Francophone countries. She has won numerous international awards, including the Maracas d'Or Award, a Lifetime Award and Dominica's Sisserou Award of Honour. Her career in music started when she was a young girl and later became a symbol of Cadence-lypso, while singing about women's issues at a time when it was unheard of in the region.
One of Creole's most talented stars, Michele Henderson of Dominica has played at the WCMF twice before. She sings in French, English and Creole, plays the flute, and tries her hand at R&B, Retro Soul, Jazz, Reggae and Zouk.
Making their WCMF debuts are Dominica's newest stars, Asa Banton and Fanatik. The former is popular for his own hits as well as covers, while the latter is known for being a versatile band. Fanatik will play back up for three veteran artists, Derek 'Rah' Peters, Fredo and Antigua's Onyan.
Zouk performers, Tanya St. Val, Zouk Machine and Luc Leandre.
Haitian Compas performers, T-vice, Kreyola and Disip Gazzman.
Soca musicians from Barbados, Krosfyah and Edwin Yearwood.
Crowd favorites and one of the earliest Cadence-lypso artists, Chubby and the Midnight Groovers.
In addition to the above headliners, there will be many more up-and-coming artists from all corners of the Creole world, as patrons of the festival join in on the celebrations.


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Activision announced today that Treyarch's Call of Duty: Black Ops has shattered theatrical box office, book and video game sales records for five-day worldwide sell through in dollars. The game established an all-new five-day worldwide sell-through record of more than $650 million, exceeding Activision's previous five-day worldwide record of $550 million set by last year's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, according to internal Activision estimates.
"Call of Duty has become the first entertainment property in history to set five-day launch records for two consecutive years across all forms of entertainment," said Robert Kotick, CEO, Activision Blizzard. "The title's success illustrates the mass appeal of interactive entertainment as millions of consumers are choosing to play Call of Duty: Black Ops at unprecedented levels rather than engage in other forms of media."
In addition to beating all previous first-and five-day box office, book and video game sell-through records, Call of Duty: Black Ops set two new records on Xbox LIVE. "With a record breaking performance on Xbox LIVE, Call of Duty: Black Ops has already carved out its legacy as one of the biggest video games in history," said Don Mattrick, president of the interactive entertainment business at Microsoft. "We congratulate our partners at Activision and Treyarch and are proud to continue offering the best Call of Duty experience to our 25 million global Xbox LIVE members by launching all Call of Duty map packs first on Xbox 360."
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The Gostiny Dvor cottage is located in a picturesque place in the village of Shatsk, next to a pine forest, 300 meters from Lake Svityaz. "Gostiny Dvor" is a wooden cottage for 15 people, there are separate rooms with a refrigerator, TV (satellite TV), shower, toilet, hot and cold water around the clock, a fan, comfortable wide beds and all the necessary furniture. Rooms are cleaned and bed linen is changed every 3 days. On the territory of the cottage "Gostiny Dvor" there are: a brazier, gazebos, parking, catering is available for a fee. The distance to Lutsk is 154 km, to Svityaz - 6.6 km.
Description of the room: Cozy double room with a large double bed.
Description of the room: Separate cottage for 15 people with access to the balcony. There is all the necessary furniture for a comfortable stay.
In the courtyard there is a fully equipped kitchen for self-cooking.
The cottage is located on the outskirts of the village, on the shore of the picturesque lake Svityaz.
By train to Kovel from the station square ride taxis to the village. Shatsk.


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Humans of Covid-19 AU: Jemma Katz
"In November, I was diagnosed with a cancer of the immune system. I've been undergoing chemo ever since. I finished three weeks ago, but the chemo is really intense and makes you very vulnerable to catching everything, so I can't leave the house at all. My sister caught a tiny cold and it gave me a really intense chest infection. I have nothing in my body to fight off infection. My life was meant to go back to normal after chemo, but it hasn't. Very much the opposite. The whole experience of cancer and then corona all around has made me realise how much I took for granted in my life, like being independent. I pretty much can't do anything alone. I'm 23, and not really living the life of a 23 year old. I've found it helpful to establish a routine. I'm looking forward to being able to do the simple things once this is over, like going for a drive or a walk alone, being able to look after myself." Instagram post on Jemma, a university student, and her experience during the pandemic, which was created by a psychology student living in Melbourne who was interested to hear about how COVID-19 was impacting on different peoples' lives.
Humans of Covid-19 AU: Ani Jordens
"I've been feeling fully immobilized by this pandemic. I've noticed many people jumping into new interests and hobbies, and I'm just struggling to work out: who am I outside of work? What hobbies do I have? What are my interests? I just don't know! I've been observing my friends and family who have lost the jobs and livelihoods that gave them a sense of purpose. An important part of self-esteem is drawing it from multiple sources. If all of your eggs are in one basket and it gets taken away, then you will have a massive drop in self-esteem. But right now, people have lost multiple sources of self-esteem, which puts intense strain on mental health. Perhaps we need new structures and more supportive systems. The working-at-home thing has revolutionized able-bodied peoples' lives, and could be used in a really productive way post-pandemic to make careers more accessible to people with a disability. Hopefully we learn something from this." Instagram post on Ani Jordens, a university student, and her experience during the pandemic, which was created by a psychology student living in Melbourne who was interested to hear about how COVID-19 was impacting on different peoples' lives.
Zoom Fatigue
With the pandemic came online learning and being forced into a class room situation where everything was mediated through our screens. I found this learning style to be mentally draining and had felt that I was alone in my experience when all I saw online was people celebrating the wonders of connecting through zoom. Seeing this infographic which acknowledges zoom exhaustion and breaks down why it happens and ways to overcome it was really nice. It shows that my experience is felt by many and while technology has allowed many of us to stay connected it isn't with negatives. HUM402
I am including this selection of two photos of my bedroom window, as this has been the dominant view and my sole saving grace throughout lockdown. The photo on the left was taken in my first week of lockdown on the twenty third of March, which was the first week that I began to stay at home as I am asthmatic and was very concerned about my own health making me more vulnerable. The second photo was taken on the first of June, and marks ten weeks since my own 'lockdown' began, I have somewhat lost track of the various stages of lightening of restrictions as I was still mostly avoiding going out up until the point when the second photo was taken. In many ways my asthma and anxiety made this experience pretty traumatising, I stopped walking my dog because I people kept patting her and I had too much anxiety about the conflict of constantly asking people not too, and I was worried about the contact risk to myself from people touching my dog. After the rate of community transmission stabilised, I felt safer going out to places, but then I found the secondary anxiety of people behaving in rude and hostile ways towards me in public due to my obvious coughing or wheezing from asthma after I had an obvious asthma attack in Officeworks. My isolation has thus been pretty intense and long lasting compared to some others and combined with anxiety has induced an intense sensation of feeling trapped in my bedroom. The access to sunlight and fresh air through this window, as well as my beautiful view has been a literal visual lifeline, I found myself taking lots of photos of the window and my view. In many ways I feel like this has made me far more attentive than I have ever had the opportunity to be to the changes between night and day, and the slow seasonal change into winter.
#Keepourmobsafe
HUM402 The Australian Government has launched a campaign to #keepourmobsafe. This image is of a screenshot of an ad for the campaign, which the government is using to educate Indigenous Australians regarding the risk of COVID-19. The ads appear to be targeting Indigenous Australians living in remote communities, giving them tips on how to stop the spread of COVID-19 and utilising indigenous artwork and slang to appear 'relatable'.
Andante: Short Story on this pandemic
I have written this short story around the circumstances in which we found ourselves in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Short story based on actual events in the current health crisis.
Australian school library COVID-19 information desk
Mentone Girls' Grammar School Kerferd Library information desk during the COVID-19 return to campus (Phase 1) 26 May 2020. For student and staff safety the library stopped lending headphones and chess sets. In phase 1 junior school students in Prep to year 2, as well as senior school students in years 10, 11 and 12, returned to campus. Students in years 3 to 9 remained off campus and continued with online learning until phase 2 which commenced on 9 June 2020.
Kangaroo-themed social distancing guidance at a supermarket in Bondi, New South Wales, Australia
How will this moment be seen in the Future?
This is a tweet reflecting on what it may be like explaining to people in the future what it was like living through Covid-19. The tweet also wonders what impacts this event will have on us. #HUM402
Take what you need
This shelf was placed at the local community house where people could take what they needed or indeed leave what they did not need. As there was no toilet paper on the shelves of the supermarket just a few 100 metres away, I thought the toilet rolls would be snapped up pretty quickly, but to my surprise they stayed for some days.
Sewing fabric masks
This is a photo of my wife making a set of fabric masks for the family as no masks have been available to purchase. There were many patterns available to download online or instructional youtube videos. This design allows for one to insert a disposable tissue or paper wipe for additional protection. My wife wore her mask once or twice to the supermarket, other than that we have not had cause to use them.
Covid-19 Safe App
HUM402 The Australian Government has created an app that allows people to see if they have come into contact with a Covid-19 positive case. This is an advertisement on Facebook raising awareness of the app and encouraging people to download it.
Social distancing sign at a sheepskin products shop
A handwritten sign at a shop specialising in sheepskin products in Woollahra, New South Wales, Australia indicating that social distancing will be enforced within.
Social Distancing at the Supermarket
This photo depicts a supermarket in Tasmania, Australia, where social distancing measures are being enforced. Red tape is used to create a line where customers have to queue prior to entering the store. The staff member to the left of the image is counting the customers as they enter the store to enforce the customer limit.
Play School COVID-19 Special
Play School has been the leading early childhood education television program for over 50 years in Australia. This special episode communicates the changes happening, empathises with the children as well as telling them what they can do to help.
James Boag's poignant press ad
I saw this ad in our local paper on the first Saturday after the toughest social distancing restrictions were announced with gatherings in public of more than two people prohibited. I felt this was a very poignant press ad placed by a well-known, sturdy, enduring, local brand. It empathised with the public as well as encouraging support for the distancing measures.
Curve almost flattened. Australian Department of Health graph showing number of COVID-19 cases up until 29/4/20
Graph showing the new daily cases reported in Australia, showing peak cases and a flattening of the curve.
Pedestrian crossings on Macquarie St, Sydney automated to discourage transmission of COVID-19.
This photograph shows measures taken by a local authority to slow the spread of the virus.
Handmade 'glove' using crocheted wrist band with recycled plastic bags.
I didn't want to waste gloves that Health workers might need. We were all getting inventive about protective gear.
Sharing herbs with neighbours
In Young Street Annerley we started a Facebook group 'They Young Ones' and shared garden edibles, books and art materials.
Socially distanced family meetings
HUM402 The new measures my parents and I take to see and provide my sister with the supplies she has been unable to source herself for her own home. My sister is a nurse and alike many others, is working extra hours to keep hospitals safe and functioning for our community. Our brick fence now acts as our divide, to keep us physically apart but still able to see and support each other.
"Eyes in the Sky"
The Mercury (online) published on its daily coronavirus blog an article entitled, "'Eyes in the sky' to monitor travellers." The article informed the public that helicopters would be used over the coming Easter long weekend to ensure Tasmanians were adhering to social distancing and lockdown laws. HUM402
The Tasmania Project
Project to gather information during and beyond the pandemic.
Email to all UTas students regarding online lecture delivery due to COVID-19.
HUM402 On March 19, this email was sent to all UTas students in response to the outbreak of COVID-19 and its impact on the delivery of lectures. For thousands of students, this meant that the academic year was significantly going to change.
Notice on front of St Vincent de Paul's op shop, closed during lockdown, Ballarat, Australia.
Another image of a closed down business in regional Australia
Notice on the front of the Savoy Cafe, Ballarat, Australia, during lockdown.
An image of a closed business in my home town during the lockdown.
Salvation Army Op Shop, Ballarat, closed
Shows a notice on the front of a closed down business, Ballarat, Australia
Closed business in Ballarat, Metro Hair Design
A picture of a closed business in Ballarat during lockdown.
Closed shop in Ballarat Linen and Living Homewares
Image of notice on closed business
Ballarat 3 21 April 2020 Being Sick In This Time - But Not With The Virus
An account of how lockdown has affected delivery of some medical services
Kimberley Bulletin: Covid-19 (Coronavirus) Responses
A regular Covid-19 bulletin issued to local indigenous community members and health providers describing hygiene practices, local travel and safe distancing restrictions, background information on covid-19 and available social support using terminology and cultural examples specific to the region. For example, a 'sorry camp' is special area where visiting relatives would stay when attending a funeral in a community, as communities can be extremely far apart. These are subject to the country-wide limit of a maximum 10 people at funerals current at the time of publication. Remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander communities are considered to be at higher risk of severe impacts from Covid-19 than the wider population due to their higher level of chronic health issues, frequently crowded households, and long distance from healthcare. The Kimberley region of Western Australia has unique travel restrictions in place to limit movement between the four Shires, in addition to restrictions on movement across different regions of Western Australia and lockdowns of individual indigenous communities.
Victorian State Government "Novel coronavirus confirmed case" fact sheet
Government advice to people who have "2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)".
Australian Government Isolation Guidance
Australian Government fact sheet with guidance on self-isolation, Version 14 Isolation guidance If you have returned to Australia from overseas, or been in close contact with a confirmed case of coronavirus, special restrictions apply. Who needs to isolate? All people who arrive in Australia, or think they may have been in close contact with a person diagnosed with coronavirus, are required to self-isolate for 14 days. Stay at home or in your hotel When travelling home or to your hotel to start isolation use personal transport, such as a car, to minimise exposure to others. If you need to use public transport (e.g. taxis, ride-hail services, trains, buses and trams), reduce the spread of germs through good hand hygiene and avoiding physical contact. During the 14 days of isolation, you must stay at home or in your hotel and don't go to public places including work, school, childcare, university or public gatherings. Only people who usually live with you should be in the home. Do not see visitors. If you are in a hotel, avoid contact with other guests or staff. If you are well, there is no need to wear surgical masks at home. Ask others who are not in isolation to get food and necessities for you. If you must leave home, such as to seek medical care, wear a surgical mask. If you don't have a mask, take care to not cough or sneeze on others. Monitor symptoms When in isolation, monitor yourself for symptoms including fever, cough, sore throat, tiredness or shortness of breath. Other possible symptoms include chills, body aches, runny nose and muscle pain. What do I do if I get sick? If you develop symptoms (fever, a cough, sore throat, tiredness or shortness of breath) within 14 days of returning to Australia, or within 14 days of last contact of a confirmed case, you should arrange to see a doctor for urgent assessment. You should telephone the health clinic or hospital before you arrive and tell them your travel history or that you have been in contact with a confirmed case of coronavirus. You must remain isolated either in your home, hotel or a healthcare setting until public health authorities inform you it is safe for you to return to your usual activities. How can I prevent the spread of coronavirus? Practising good hand and sneeze/cough hygiene and keeping your distance from others when you are sick is the best defence against most viruses. You should: • wash your hands frequently with soap and water, including before and after eating, and after going to the toilet • cover your cough and sneeze, dispose of tissues, and wash your hands • avoid contact with others (stay more than 1.5 metres from people) • stay at home if unwell. Going outside If you live in a private house, it is safe for you to go into your garden or courtyard. If you live in an apartment or are staying in a hotel, it is also safe for you to go into the garden but you should wear a surgical mask to minimise risk to others and move quickly through any common areas. Advice for others living with you Others that live with you are not required to be isolated unless they meet one of the isolation criteria outlined above. If you develop symptoms and are confirmed to have coronavirus, they will be classified as close contacts and will need to be isolated. Cleaning To minimise the spread of any germs you should regularly clean surfaces that are frequently touched such as door handles, light switches, kitchen and bathroom areas. Clean with household detergent or disinfectant. Managing the 14 day isolation Being in isolation can be stressful and boring. Suggestions include: • Keep in touch with family members and friends via telephone, email or social media. • Learn about coronavirus and talk with others. • Reassure young children using age-appropriate language. • Where possible, keep up normal daily routines, such as eating and exercise. • Arrange to work from home. • Ask your child's school to supply assignments or homework by post or email. • Do things that help you relax and use isolation as an opportunity to do activities you don't usually have time for. More information For the latest advice, information and resources, go to www.health.gov.au Call the National Coronavirus Helpline on 1800 020 080. It operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If you require translating or interpreting services, call 131 450. The phone number of your state or territory public health agency is available at www.health.gov.au/state-territory-contacts If you have concerns about your health, speak to your doctor.
If you can stay home, you must stay home. If you don't, people will die.
I have the VicEmergency app on my phone to warn for bushfires. Around mid March, I started getting daily warning alerts from the app, initially for contagious disease in my area, and then for pandemic in my area. The alerts usually come between 5-6pm and provide information on the latest public health advice and restrictions. On Friday 27 March the alert from the app was particularly striking. One of the instructions, highlighted in bold, told people "If you can stay home, you must stay home. If you don't, people will die." This felt like very dire warning from what is otherwise rather a dry app with very practical instructions.
New park rules appeared today
We are going for a walk every day for exercise, noting as the days go by new signs and information about social distancing. These signs were not there yesterday, and the teenagers playing basketball at the hoop and the kids playing on the playground have now disappeared. Just groups of two, or families with a few more, walking slightly furtively past one another. And many more bicyclists whizzing past on the shared paths — have already seen a bingle or two.
Sign in bottleshop 'please do not use vodka as a sanitiser'
A sign in a bottleshop, Liquorland, advising customers that vodka doesn't work as a hand sanitiser. Shows the scarcity of hand sanitiser at this time!
Solo bike ride lunch in Kinglake, Victoria, Australia
Instead of organised rides in groups and having lunch etc at a cafe, most road cyclists are riding alone. This photo shows a lunch of muesli bars etc on a solo ride. Not shown is the hand sanitiser used to disinfect the tap used to fill water bottles.
The optimism of children
Schools have closed for an interim period (maybe) — the kids down the street send messages of encouragement for all the people in the neighbourhood who are out taking a daily constitutional.
Chalk messages on the footpath from neighbourhood kids
Schools have closed for an interim period (maybe) — the kids down the street have chalked messages of encouragement on the footpath for all the people in the neighbourhood who are out taking a daily constitutional.
COVID-19 Alarming Times
A piece of prose that highlights global opinions and assertions that were made in March of 2020. The author notes the state of Australian citizens and how people in general there, and worldwide, are being affected, either in a positive manner, negative manner or somewhere in between those two extremes . (Added by curator)
Our family home schooling schedule.
My son's school closed on Monday. He is a high energy kid and copes better when he knows what the day holds. So I devised a schedule for us where he can continue to learn whilst school is closed. We are finding that having a schedule is really helping with our daily life. It is meant to be flexible and serves more of a touchstone for when things get difficult throughout the day. Many people are saying that time in isolation is a great opportunity to learn an instrument or language, master a hobby or really relax - but those of us with children don't have that luxury.
Almost three years old Roger, socially isolated in a playground.
A young child not yet three years old plays alone in a playground inside a park; usually there are several children with their carers playing here at any given time of the day, one day into lock down here and the park and playground is deserted.
Navigating COVID-19 and Chest-Binding
8 tips to look after your respiratory health for trans and non binary people who bind their chest .I am a member of a secret online group for transgender men. A member of the group from the US shared this resource, on how to look after your respiratory health for trans and non binary people who bind their chest. I realised that it was written by a member of the Australian trans community, someone I have connections with in my own city. It felt good to know that resources developed by someone in my own backyard are having a global reach and that the transgender community around the world are pulling together to support one another at this time.
My new coworker is a bit of a bitch.
The challenges of working from home.
Single toilet paper roll sells for $1000 as coronavirus panic-buying reaches new level
A commercial news website reports on the panic buying of toilet paper. URL for full article here: https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/health-wellbeing/single-toilet-paper-roll-sells-for-1000-as-coronavirus-panic-buying-reaches-new-level-c-729542 In Australia, supermarket shelves were stripped of many essential items once people understood how serious the pandemic was, but the one that became a national obsession was toilet paper. People were filling trolleys with packs of toilet paper as soon as they realised lockdowns might be ordered. Major supermarkets eventually instituted 2 packs per person limits. A black market emerged online. There were many many memes, videos, articles, as well as serious analysis of this phenomenon. The irony is that toilet paper is in fact produced in Australia, so it was never going to run out. So this was an opportunity for us to think about human irrationality and panic; local and global manufacturing (and ignorance of this); enjoy humour as a response... and so much more. Also an opportunity to think about what people used before toilet paper was the norm - squares of newspaper, leaves etc! Suddenly ads for bidets appeared in our newsfeeds as well!
Self-isolation desk
As an Australian who has just arrived back from overseas (Thailand) on 20 March 2020, I am required to self-isolate for 14 days. As I am sharing a small one-bedroom inner urban apartment. I need to stick to my own room, while my fellow inhabitant lives in the lounge room. I'm also a PhD student in the final throes of trying to get my thesis done and do various casual research jobs at two different universities. This is my makeshift desk set up at the side of the bed to enable me to hopefully get some work done throughout this uncertain period. I also have a tiny 1.5mx2m space set up on the other side of the bed to try to do some yoga during the isolation period.
Leisure centre closure
Announcement of leisure centre closure in line with Government requirements
Trolley wipes
We can wipe our trollies, but no toilet paper.
The social distancing line
The Australian Government has recommended social distancing of at least 1.5 metres. This pharmacist has taped a line on the ground in front of their counters — it makes trying to reach forward to pay for goods a bit like a fairground game of "tap the card reader with your bankcard".


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Q: 0.1 + 0.7 != 0.8 Why in some programming languages the expression in title evaluates to true? I've tried it in php, ruby and python.

A: double TOLERANCE < 1.0E-10;
if(fabs(0.1+0.7-0.8)< TOLERANCE)
{
    std::cout << "0.1 + 0.7 == 0.8" << std::endl;
}
else
{
    std::cout << "0.1 + 0.7 != 0.8" << std::endl;
}

A: Please read What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic .

A: Because of internal interpretation of floating-point numbers, they do not exactly equal to what you have wrote.

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Q: Silverlight as an editor in an ASP.NET MVC site I'm considering the scenario where an MVC view would pass the model to a Silverlight application (to display preferably as a modal form), which in turn would send back the updated model to the view before submitting. Is this at all possible?

A: This is not a common supported scenario with ASP.NET MVC. Silverlight applications are not intended to be used as views. You could have normal views embedding a Silverlight application and setting properties based on the passed model, but posting values back to the controller wouldn't be easy. You will need to use a WebClient in the Silverlight application to talk to the server. Not as easy as a plain html form with input fields and a submit button.

A: To talk from Asp.net to silverlight you can use params:
See this or this
I don't think the Silverlight control/app should be posting the page (causing a refresh/reload) Silverlight is perfect for a nice async experience. But anyway, you could maybe invoke a Javascript function from silverlight and then in your JS do a postback. See this
I would recommend something like WCF Data Services, It allows you to expose any IQueryable objects through a service, then you can use Linq to consume it and entity objects are automatically created in visual studio so that you can update or delete objects if you're exposing a database.
You could maybe send something like user ID (model Id) from asp.net to silverlight with a param, then silverlight can call a wcf data service to pull the actual user. After processing it can then push/edit/delete that object again through the WCF data service. You can get up to speed with WCF quickly.
Hope that was helpful!?


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George Habash ou George Habache (Lida, 2 de agosto de 1926 - Amã, 26 de Janeiro de 2008) foi o fundador e líder até ao ano de 2000 da organização marxista-leninista Frente Popular para a Libertação da Palestina, conhecida pelo sequestro de aviões durante a década de 70 como forma de atrair atenção para a causa palestiniana. Depois de Yasser Arafat, Habash, conhecido também pelo nome de guerrilha Al-Hakim, é provavelmente o líder político palestiniano mais conhecido internacionalmente.

Habash dizia não haver contradições dentro de si: "Sou marxista, esquerdista por cultura, a herança islâmica é uma parte essencial da minha estrutura de pensamento, o islamismo é o componente mais importante do nacionalismo árabe e o nacionalismo árabe é uma parte essencial do meu ser. "

Biografia
George Habash nasceu em 1926, na cidade de Lydda na Palestina, atual Lida em Israel. Vinha de uma família rica, que possuía terras agrícolas e comércios, e eram cristãos ortodoxos. Era filho de um grande e conhecido empresário: Nicholas Habash e possuía 6 irmãos. Mudou-se para Jaffa a fim de dar sequência a seus estudos secundários; estudou também em Jerusalém, no Terra Sancta College, e aos 16 anos regressou à Jaffa onde passou a trabalhar como professor.

Em 1944, com 18 anos, entrou na faculdade de medicina em Beirute, em meio ao crescimento de terror e tensão em toda Palestina, causados pelos projetos britânicos sionistas e pela atuação das facções sionistas Haganah, Irgun e Stern. Sua militância, seus pensamentos e sua posição política foram fortemente influenciados pelo contato que Habash teve com o Dr. Constantine Zurayk, um sindicalista árabe, nacionalista e pensador liberal; a partir de então passou a frequentar os encontros universitários que aconteciam na sociedade estudantil cultural al-Urwa al-Wuthqa, da qual Zurayk era o "pai espiritual" e Habash se tornou o secretário geral em 1949.

Mas o verdadeiro ponto de virada na vida de Habash, que o conduziu à militância pela questão palestina, foi o Nakba em 1948. Em junho de 1948 George interrompe seus estudos e parte de volta à Lydda, lá atua como assistente de um cirurgião que cuidava dos civis feridos pelos ataques sionistas. Sua cidade e a cidade vizinha caíram em 11 de julho de 1948, e toda a população da região foi expulsa e obrigada a seguir em marcha ao interior do país, Habash ia cuidando dos que caíam feridos e doentes pelo caminho.

Em outubro de 1948 ele regressa à Beirute com o fito de terminar seus estudos, se forma em medicina em 1951, mas a profissão já não o atrai mais, estava fortemente ligado à militância palestina; passa então à organizar protestos e manifestações estudantis de rua, e por causa disso acaba preso várias vezes, e cria uma organização estudantil juvenil nacionalista e progressista. Em meio às reações nacionais à investida sionista contra a Palestina surgem, na Grande Síria, o partido árabe Ba'th e o Movimento Nacionalista Árabe (MNA), liderado e anunciado por Habash em 1956. Dando sequência em sua militância, em dezembro de 1967 ele funda uma nova organização de caráter marxista-leninista, para substituir o MNA- a Frente Popular pela Libertação da Palestina (FPLP).

Líder do MNA
Habash fundou o Movimento Nacionalista Árabe em 1956 junto com Wadi Haddad, Salih Shibl, Hamid Jabburi, Ahmad al-Khatib e Hani al-Hindi. A ideologia do movimento era marcada pela laicidade e pelo sindicalismo, inspirada essencialmente nos ensinamentos de Constantine Zurayk e Sati al-Husari, adotaram o lema "União, Libertação e Vingança": pela união dos países árabes lutariam pela libertação do imperialismo ocidental como primeiro passo para alcançar a recuperação da Palestina; em suas ações distinguiam o judaísmo do sionismo.

Em paralelo, no Egito, se desenvolvia o movimento de reação à Nakba baseado na abolição da realeza e instituição de uma república sob comando dos Oficiais Livres, liderados por Gamal Abdel Nasser. Por lutarem contra o imperialismo ocidental e contra Israel, logo Nasser e Habash criaram fortes laços de afinidade entre os dois movimentos que culminou na união Síria-Egito de 1958, que durou até 1961. Esta união  foi muito benéfica ao MNA já que, a partir dessa união com o Nasserismo, o Movimento Nacional Árabe alcançou a Jordânia, Síria, países do Golfo Pérsico, Líbia, norte da África e Iêmen. Durante a união o maior foco de atuação do MNA foi no sul do Iêmen, lá atuaram reforçando os movimentos de resistência À presença militar britânica na região.

A dissolução da união se deu em 1961 e caracterizou um período muito difícil para Habash: ele e seus companheiros militantes foram perseguidos e detidos, os nacionalistas de Ba'th, que assumiram o poder na Síria em 1963 por meio de um golpe de Estado, perseguiram e reprimiram Habash por causa das discordâncias entre o nasseristas e os ba'thistas. Os nasseristas tentaram um golpe em 1963 para assumir o poder, mas o golpe fracassou e em resposta o governo Ba'th perseguiu e prendeu diversos militantes, entre eles Habash, condenado à morte.

Habash e a FLPL
Em 1964 ascendia a Organização pela Libertação da Palestina, Habash assistia o surgimento desse grupo com cautela, e viu de longe o momento mais traumático da OLP: as perdas de junho de 1967, onde os militantes palestinos perderam o que restava da Palestina a oeste do Jordão, que incluía Jerusalém Oriental, as Colinas de Golã (Síria), e o Monte Sinai (Egito). Essa derrota configuro-se como o terceiro momento de viragem na vida de Habash (sendo o primeiro a Nakba de 1948, e o segundo o fim da união Síria-Egito, em 1961), momento no qual ele reavaliou o MNA e decidiu guinar à um caráter marxista-leninista.

Sendo assim, em dezembro de 1967, Habash achou por bem criar uma nova organização para substituir o Movimento Nacionalista Árabe, e assim surge a Frente Popular pela Libertação da Palestina- FLPL, que tinha como objetivo principal a libertação da Palestina através da luta armada. Em 1968 George recebe um convite de autoridades Sírias, que depois se mostra como sendo uma armadilha para capturá-lo, Habash era acusado de formar células paramilitares; passou 10 meses encarcerado na pior prisão da Síria- Shaykh Hasan, sofrendo tortura mental; enquanto estava preso Habash usava seu tempo para ler Marx, Engels, Lenin, Ho Chi Minh e Mao Tsé-Tung, se aprofundando mais no marxismo. Foi libertado por Wadi Haddad que elaborou um plano de fuga.

Em 1969 mudou-se secretamente para a Jordânia onde passou a apoiar os grupos de resistência das bases guerrilheiras. Sob a tutela de Haddad, a FLPL adotou a tática da luta armada e se tornou mundialmente conhecida pela estratégia de captura de aviões israelenses e ocidentais, tentando sempre não ferir nenhum passageiro. A ideia desses sequestros de aviões era chamar a atenção do mundo para os acontecimentos de 1948 e 1967 e colocar o sofrimento palestino na pauta dos ocidentais pró-Israel. Em 1970 Wadi organizou o sequestro de três aviões a jato ocidentais, eles pousaram no deserto da Jordânia, foram evacuados e explodiram, esse evento causou a reação das forças jordanianas, que culminou nos conflitos entre os militares jordanianos, as forças de segurança e os guerrilheiros palestinos, os embates permaneceram até 1971, quando a FLPL e a OLP foram expulsas do Reino da Jordânia e partiram para o Líbano.

Habash passou a maior parte da década de 1970 no Líbano, essa fase foi consideravelmente traumatizante para George, que além de sofrer um ataque cardíaco quase fatal em 1972, sofreu uma hemorragia cerebral em 1980, e somado à isso, ele viu seu colega da FLPL, Ghassan Kanafani, ser assassinado pelo Mossad israelense, pela explosão de seu carro causada por uma bomba colocada embaixo de seu assento, e o assassinato de Wadi Haddad, também pelo Mossad, que envenenou Wadi; o próprio Habash escapou por muito pouco de ser assassinado pelo Mossad, em 1973, o serviço secreto sequestrou o avião Middle East Airlines no qual George iria embarcar mas acabou mudando de voo por questões de segurança.

Em 1972 a FLPL anunciou que havia abandonado a prática de sequestro de aviões, em 1975 o Líbano enfrentou uma guerra civil intensa, na qual Israel aproveitou a oportunidade do seu acordo provisório com o Egito (acordo do Sinai II) para intensificar a tensão da guerra. As relações egípcio-israelenses conseguiram remover o poder árabe militar mais forte da relação árabe-israelense; essa relação com o Egito contribuiu para a decisão israelense de invadir o Líbano e sitiar Beirute durante 88 dias, com a cidade sendo bombardeada por terra, água e ar, a situação terminou apenas com a intervenção da comunidade internacional.

Habash deixou o Líbano com a OLP liderada por Yasser Arafat, e dirigiu-se à Síria convencido de que precisava dar seguimento à luta contra os invasores israelenses, do porto sírio partiu para Damasco e escolheu a região para ser a sede da FLPL ao longo da década de 1980. Durante esse período ele participou das reuniões do Conselho Nacional da Palestina que aconteceram em Argel. Nessa década, Habash foi alvo novamente de um sequestro israelense, em 1986 a força aérea de Israel interceptou um jato particular que tinha como destino Trípoli, George, que iria embarcar nesse avião, resolveu cancelar sua viagem de última hora. Em 1990 a FLPL declarou seu apoio à Saddam Hussein.

A FLPL se separou da OLP quando esta entrou na fase da guinada diplomática de Arafat que passou a considerar a possibilidade de acordos com Israel e com a criação da Palestina na região da faixa de Gaza, seus ideais radicais não combinavam mais com essa diplomacia da OLP. Atualmente a FLPL luta para que os palestinos refugiados voltem ao território que consideram como sendo a Palestina e assim possam reconstruir o estado palestino.

Após sua atuação na FLPL, Habash ainda militou na Segunda Intifada, de 2000, e dedicou seus últimos anos de vida à fundação do Centro al-Ghad de Estudos Estratégicos.

Referências
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Charles Payne Lands New Show on Fox Business Network
by Richard Spiropoulos June 2, 2014 September 27, 2017 1330
Charles Payne lands own show at Fox Business network Courtesy: Fox Business Network
"Making Money with Charles Payne" to debut June 2nd at 6 PM ET
On Monday, June 2, 6 p.m. (EST), the Fox Business Network will launch a new show that adds a little more color to the network's weekday prime-time lineup.
"Making Money with Charles Payne" is being hosted by Wall Street veteran analyst Charles Payne.
He becomes the first African American lead anchor with a prime-time show on the Fox Business Network.
According to Fox, his program will explore investment avenues based on the day's top stories.
Payne had already forged a reputation within the network doing regular hits and segments about investment sectors and investment avenues in the market based on the news of the day.
His segment "Making Money with Charles Payne" started building a lot of positive feedback and soon became so popular, the network spun it off into its own show.
It's been a long journey. Payne has more than 30 years experience as a broker and analyst. He believes the American dream has been lost and says he wants to help viewers out there realize their financial goals. He says the greater overarching message of the show is self-improvement and self empowerment toward a better life down the road.
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In an interview with Black Enterprise Payne says "There's all kinds of shows and they tout stocks and all that stuff. For me, it's a lot more critical and important than that. One of the problems really in this country and the fact that not a lot of people are in the stock market is that they don't believe. They kind of lost faith about the future. We don't save for college like we used to, we don't save for retirement like we used to, we don't save for another house or our first house like we used to."
He adds, "You know the top 100 metropolitan areas in the country, it's much cheaper to own than to rent but people choose to rent. They don't wanna be bothered. Kids aren't getting married, we're not having babies and we're were not starting businesses."
Payne also says, "My main goal is to break through this malaise – remind people to re-embrace the American dream because it's not dead — this is the greatest economy ever created. The greatest country ever created and we are in a rough patch. I don't like the idea of tossing in the towel and too many people have done it."
Payne says with his show as a platform, he wants to rekindle that lost spirit of entrepreneurship.
He tells BE, "I am a big believer in an ownership society so if you can't go out tomorrow and start a Starbucks or something — how about you just take a piece out of one that already exists — especially if you go there everyday."
On the show, he will be joined daily by a panel of business experts who discuss the news of the day with a focus on how to read the news of the day in order to profit from it and to utilize it to make smart investment choices for tomorrow. They will also take a look at tomorrow's money makers. Another segment shines a spotlight on America's heroes in business and talks about business success stories.
Part of the show's focus will also center around retirement investing.
"Everyone knows instinctively that what they have saved now is not going to be enough money to get them where they want to go. So where do they turn to? For the most part, when you turn on financial TV it's about the recession — better trading — or watch out the crash is tomorrow. We need to look beyond that. To understand that crashes will happen – that the economy is cyclical, but through all of it we are on an all-time high right now."
He also discusses the trust issues between "Main Street" and Wall Street.
"What I do for a living is I look under the hood. I try to see what's really going on. People don't trust Wall Street and I don't blame them. Wall Street has a well-earned reputation but don't confuse  Wall Street, that physical place in lower Manhattan where these guys come in on helicopters then fly out to the Hamptons over the weekend with owning a great piece of an American company. Don't confuse the two."
He says he's still amazed at the voice and opportunity he now has,"I'm really thrilled and grateful and I just want to make this thing a big hit."
Payne will have competition from CNBC and Bloomberg TV.
According to Foxbusiness.com, "Payne joined FBN as a contributor in 2007 and frequently appears across the network and FOX News Channel. He began his career on Wall Street as an analyst in 1985. In 1991, he founded Wall Street Strategies, an independent stock market research firm where he serves as chief executive officer and principal analyst."
His first book entitled Be Smart, Act Fast, Get Rich was published in 2007.
Richard Spiropoulos