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A global, fast growing enterprise is on the hunt for a Tax accountant. Introduction - Are you an Accountant with experience in International Tax? This role requires someone that has a minimum of 3 years of experience dealing with international tax and a completed degree pertaining to finance. Understanding and experience with tax rules and regulations - Then this position could be for you! Description - This company offers an opportunity that will allow international exposure as well as stability. Job Experience & Skills Required - Completed Degree pertaining to finance - Exposure to Xero (Advantageous) Immediately available (Advantageous) If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply directly [URL Disabled]. For more finance jobs please visit [URL Disabled]. If you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider the vacancy application unsuccessful. A global, fast growing enterprise is on the hunt for a Tax accountant. Introduction - Are you an Accountant with experience in International Tax? This role requires someone that has a minimum of 3 years of experience dealing with international tax and a completed degree pertaining to finance. Understanding and experience with tax rules and regulations - Then this position could be for you! Description - This company offers an opportunity that will allow international exposure as well as stability. Job Experience & Skills Required - Completed Degree pertaining to finance - Exposure to Xero (Advantageous) Immediately available (Advantageous) If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply directly [URL Disabled]. For more finance jobs please visit [URL Disabled]. If you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider the vacancy application unsuccessful.
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Q: tensordot on 3-dim x 2-dim I have tensor_A with shape (batch_size, x_1, x_2) and tensor_B with shape (x_2, x_3). I would like to dot multiply each element of tensor_A with tensor_B. An example of this not using tensordot is like this:
product_tensor = np.zeros((batch_size, x_1, x_3))
for i in range(batch_size):
    product_tensor[i] = np.dot(tensor_A[i], tensor_B)

I am having trouble figuring out what the arguments for the axes parameter should be. From what I have read, axes=1 means dot product, but I can't tell whether it's multiplying the first 2 axes of A with B or the last 2 axes of A with B.
I have tried tf.tensordot(tensor_A, tensor_B[None, :, :, :], axes=1) with no success as it seemed to reshape tensor_A into shape (batch_size * x_1, x_2) and tensor_B into shape (1, x_2 * x_3.
Help would be greatly appreciated!

A: This should give you the desired result:
import numpy  as np

a = np.array([
    [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]],
    [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]],
    [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]],
    [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]],
    [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]],
    [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6]],
])
b = np.array([[1,2,3,4], [5,6,7,8], [9,10,11,12]])
print('a.shape = ', a.shape)
print('b.shape = ', b.shape)

# tensordot
c_tensordot = np.tensordot(a, b, axes=(1))

# loop method with dot
c_loop = np.empty([a.shape[0], a.shape[1], b.shape[1]])
for i in range(0,a.shape[0]):
    c_loop[i] = np.dot(a[i], b)

print('c_tensordot = ', c_tensordot)
print('c_loop      = ', c_loop)

print('c_tensordot.shape = ', c_tensordot.shape)
print('c_loop.shape      = ', c_loop.shape)

print('\nAre arrays equal: ', np.array_equal(c_tensordot, c_loop))

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Maine Sports Media: It's Official, Big Al Is Big Ow!
It's Official, Big Al Is Big Ow!
According to Jerry Zgoda from the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, Al Jefferson was diagnosed with a Torn ACL today. You can watch the injury below.


Frances Eleanor was born on April 13th, 1917.1 Frances Eleanor's father was John Robert Shannon and her mother is Laura Elizabeth Abrahamson. Her paternal grandfather is Thomas M., Dr. Shannon and her paternal grandmother was Frances Indiana Keahey. She has a brother and a sister, named Harold Robert and Marquerite Elizabeth.
Frances Eleanor and Barney Wesner were married in a religious ceremony on November 28th, 1943.1 They have four daughters named Living, Living, Living and Living.


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Netanyahu reveals existence of Iranian nuclear testing site
By Jay Jackson, The US News
According to Israel, Iran until recently had a secret nuclear site in addition to others that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had previously claimed existed
Mr Netanyahu revealed the existence of the second site in a statement he released at the Israeli foreign ministry in Jerusalem on Monday night
He did not explain why the site was not disclosed when he made the original announcement of Israel's previous discovery of documents 18 months ago
JERUSALEM, Israel - According to Israel, Iran until recently had a secret nuclear site in addition to others Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had previously claimed to exist.
Mr Netanyahu revealed the existence of the second site in a statement he released at the Israeli foreign ministry in Jerusalem on Monday night.
He did not explain why the site was not disclosed when he made the original announcement of Israel's previous discovery of documents 18 months ago. He did however claim that Iran, since that time, having become aware that Israel was aware of the existence of the site, had destroyed it.
"A year and a half ago, we exposed Iran's secret nuclear archive which revealed that Iran was developing five nuclear warheads as early as 2003. Last year, we exposed Iran's secret nuclear warehouse in Turquzabad which Iran used for storing materials and equipment for its secret nuclear program," the Israeli prime minister said in Monday night's statement.
"Even before that, Iran knew that we were on to them so they cleared the site. They cleared it of these capacities, they cleared them, and then they actually covered up the site. This is an actual cover-up. They put gravel on it to try and hide their traces. But they didn't. The IAEA found traces of uranium that Iran hid in these sites. That's a direct violation of the NPT, the Non-Proliferation Treaty."
"Earlier today, the IAEA demanded that Iran answer its questions regarding these violations and Iran refused," said Mr Netanyahu.
"Today, we reveal that yet another secret nuclear site was exposed in the archives that we brought from Tehran. In this site, Iran conducted experiments to develop nuclear weapons. This is the site near Abadeh, south of Isfahan. When Iran realized that we uncovered the site here's what they did: they destroyed the site. They just wiped it out. They wiped out the site. Here they conducted nuclear experiments for nuclear weapons. This is the site after they understood that we were on to them. They destroyed the evidence or at least tried to destroy the evidence."
"This is what I have to say to the tyrants of Tehran: Israel knows what you're doing, Israel knows when you're doing it and Israel knows where you're doing it. We will continue to expose your lies. What we see is a consistent pattern of Iranian lies, deception and violations," said Mr Netanyahu.
"I call on the international community to wake up, to realize that Iran is systematically lying, and I call on the international community to join President Trump's sanctions to exert more pressure on Iran. The only way to stop Iran's march to the bomb, and its aggression in the region, is pressure, pressure and more pressure," he said.
Iran has been subjected to UN weapons inspectors inspections since 2015. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has not responded to Mr Netanyahu's allegation but earlier Monday was reminding Iran of its obligations.
"Iran needs to cooperate with the IAEA fully and in a timely fashion," IAEA Acting Director General Cornel Feruta told the Agency's Board of Governors Monday. Mr Feruta, who held talks with senior Iranian officials in Tehran on Sunday, said: "It is important to advance our interactions and, therefore, I also stressed the need for Iran to respond promptly to Agency questions related to the completeness of Iran's safeguards declarations."
"The Agency will continue its efforts and will remain actively engaged. Time is of the essence," he added.
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Exact and peculiar aspects of time-dependent density-functional theory
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Functional Gain and Change Mechanisms in Post-Production Complex Systems
by Cox, Amy M., Ph.D. The George Washington University. 2017: 231 pages; 10254316.
Magnetic Alignment and Charge Transport Improvement in Functional Soft Materials
by Majewski, Pawel W., Ph.D. Yale University. 2013: 228 pages; 3578414.
Steps on vicinal surfaces: Density-functional theory calculations and transcending minimal statistical-mechanical models
by Sathiyanarayanan, Rajesh, Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park. 2009: 151 pages; 3391388.
BinK Domain Functional Characterization in the Regulation of Bioluminescence in Vibrio Fischeri
by Ster, Ian M., M.S. University of New Hampshire. 2017: 79 pages; 10688468.
Functional Conservation of Interferon Antagonism among Flaviviruses: Zika Virus Targets Human STAT2
by Grant, Alesha, Ph.D. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. 2017: 95 pages; 10270604.
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There's a powerful secret hiding out in the Sahara Desert and it belongs to Morocco! On February 4th, Morocco revealed the world's largest concentrated solar power plant (CSP) that's been sleeping in the Sahara for quite some time. In the plant's first phase 'Noor I (noor means light in Arabic)', it already covers thousands of acres of desert and can even be seen from space!
This plant, in particular, is located near the small Moroccan town of Ouarzazate and it is capable of generating 160 megawatts of power. It is just the first phase of the world's largest solar thermal power plant project that will soon include Noor II and Noor III. According to The Guardian, upon the completion of these power plants, this project will be the single largest solar power production facility in the world! This tri-plant Noor-Ouarzazate (CSP), expects to achieve over 500 megawatts (MW) installed capacity, supplying power to 1.1 million Moroccans by 2018, according to the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) finance group.
Solar power depends on the sun, right? So what happens when the sun goes down? Contrary to what you may assume, the plant's 500,000 crescent-shaped solar mirrors actually absorb the energy in order to heat the fluid, which then creates energy using the heat from the fluid. So, there are storage tanks that absorb heat energy to use for the next three hours of night. When the whole project is completed, it will be able to produce electricity for 20 hours a day. Moroccans won't have to worry about solar energy running out with the sunshine!
This project will provide a source of renewable energy to a country that otherwise depends on importing 98% of its energy. That's an impressive way to deal with that issue.
Noor I has brought new meaning to 'party till the sun don't shine', and if you agree, don't forget to leave a smile!


Google is updating the Play Store again and there's much that users will likely notice including some visual changes and a few functional tweaks that will likely come in handy. This bumps the Play Store up to version 5.3.5 and has started rolling out as of now, although not everyone will have the update immediately, and in that case we have the updated apk down below if you wish to download it instead of waiting for it to hit your device on its own. Visually users will notice some subtle changes like the landscape view for certain content. Prior to this update the panels with the content description used to go from edge to edge, and with the update the panel is now shorter and cuts off away from the sides a little bit.
This isn't the only new visual touch though. Goggle has also altered the action bar up top a little bit. Prior to this update the action bar would always be there, and would shift from a banner image of the app you were looking at to a green bar with the name of the app listed in it. Now after the update the action bar hides itself after you scroll to a certain point down the app's page, and will then pop back up when you begin scrolling back up again and reach the point where it auto-hides.
As far as visual changes go, that seems to be it with this latest update to the app. This is where the functional tweaks come in. Users will now have a little more option with the notification settings, and can choose to have notifications come in for when apps are available for update and if notifications come in at all if an app has already auto updated. This isn't a ton more control but it is probably just enough as some will likely feel there's no reason to get a notification about an app that has updated already on its own. In addition, users now will be able to update an app or update all apps if there are multiple app updates available, straight from the update notification that comes in, which should make things more convenient. Users now also have to exit the "read more" section on an app page by either hitting the back button on the navigation bar or by hitting the x button up at the top of the screen. The update should be going live now for some users, if you aren't keen on waiting you can download the apk through the link.


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Ultimate lists; ultimate time-waster
This looks like fun, if you have the time: 125 writers are asked to name their top 10 books. It's a Web site and a book, created by fellow National Book Critics Circle member J. Peder Zane, the Book Review Editor and Books Columnist for the News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C.
Here's a blurb from the Web site:
What if you asked 125 top writers to pick their favorite books? Which titles would come out on top?
You'll find the answer in "The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books." Edited by J. Peder Zane and published by W.W. Norton, "The Top Ten" is the ultimate guide to the world's greatest books. As writers such as Norman Mailer, Annie Proulx, Stephen King, Jonathan Franzen, Claire Messud, Margaret Drabble, Michael Chabon and Peter Carey name the 10 books that have meant the most to them, you'll be reminded of books you have always loved and introduced to works awaiting your discovery.


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Graduate research project attempts to address adaptive grazing management
January 30th, 2016 by Wyoming Livestock Roundup
How do ranchers make decisions? This is a question researchers all over the world want answered, so with the help of 17 family ranches in southeastern Wyoming and northeastern Colorado, Hailey Wilmer is attempting to address it.
Wilmer, who is a graduate research assistant for rangeland social-ecological systems at Colorado State University (CSU), is working on a research project that evaluates how ranchers make decisions and adapt grazing management.
Evaluating decision-making
"My project is focused on listening to ranchers," Wilmer said.
During this three-year study, Wilmer is following family ranches and monitoring their ecological outcomes based on how they make decisions. She has evaluated how their grazing and social systems work and how that influences the plant habitat and what's happening on the ground.
"I'm focusing on adaptation – what the rancher is doing and why it is or isn't working," she said.
The goal of the project is to eventually develop decision-support tools and ways to connect with mentors who have already dealt with a problem another rancher may be facing.
"Researchers around the world are starting to recognize the importance of the ecological component of rangeland and how it relates to the social component. We are trying to do a better job of linking the two because usually one gets selected before the other," she added.
The study basically comes down to animals, plants, soil and their relationships to one another and the ecosystem, Wilmer said.
"We recognize that people who have lived off the land for a long time can teach us a lot about the ecology and central systems because they know a lot more about that land," she commented.
Wilmer wants to develop a working rangelands concept.
"The idea is to have thriving social communities that care about rangeland and extensive systems. They can produce high-quality protein for human consumption while maintaining ecosystems that are connected and supported by biodiversity and cultural heritage that support a sense of place and spiritual connection but also provide food," she explained.
Two-pronged approach
The research is two-fold. Wilmer is also looking at what approaches to grazing management ranchers in Colorado and Wyoming are using to adapt. If they are complex systems, what ecological differences might be correlated with these approaches?
"The goal is to link these two systems," she said. "There are all sorts of drivers of change in ranching that we have to wake up and deal with each day. The question is, what can we do to improve our ecology and maintain our social system?"
Wilmer conducts interviews with each of these ranches on an annual basis and gathers information on the decisions they made, how those decisions changed and what happened as a result of these decisions.
"We have seen some changes," Wilmer said. "We started in Wyoming in 2012 when they went through the drought. We saw some interesting reorganization of these places. Drought is devastating to people psychologically and socially, but it can also be an opportunity for people to reorganize."
"I have seen several cases where who's running the ranch and how the ranch operates is completely different when going through drought," she said.
During this research, Wilmer has also realized that women play an important role in maintaining cultural and technical knowledge of ranching, as well as helping people decide if they want to stay in ranching.
"I think women play an important role in mentoring and training the next generation of ranchers," she said.
Using the results
As a result of this research, Wilmer has found that these communities have really strong ways of planning and training the next generation.
"We just need to make it financially possible for them," she stated.
"People are starting to recognize the role of ranchers in conservation and beef production," Wilmer continued. "Don't be surprised if there is more interest from the public in the future about how something is done and why it is done this way."
Wilmer transcribed the interviews and, using that information, tried to write them into management approaches.
"I didn't ask them what their stocking rate is or how often they move the cattle. What I wanted was to get a general feel for the differences in management approaches on a broad scale," she said.
The ranches were basically sorted into three groups.
The first group uses an open-range approach where their management system is based on topography and the weather.
"Where the cattle are what time of year is dependent on the weather and topography," she explained. "These ranchers are not what we call rotational grazers."
The second group of ranchers has a less-intense rotational grazing system. The cattle are moved about every 30 days. These ranchers focus on a timeline for their grazing that helps them be more resilient in drought and also get better distribution.
"These are people that may have five sections, and each pasture is a section," she said.
The final group is the holistic grazers that rotate their cattle frequently and are intent on infrastructure.
System ecology
In evaluating these different management techniques, Wilmer looked at the ecology of each system.
"I was interested in what's covering the ground," she said. "It helps us to know what is happening to the trajectory of the plant community by actually measuring the base of the plant."
On each ranch, Wilmer measured three plots. She evaluated the most productive and least productive pastures and then a random pasture on the ranch.
"I wanted to evaluate if there are differences in basal cover between these groups of ranchers across their regions," she said.
"I was looking for patterns between those productivity categories in each plot and also those management approaches," she continued.
She also looked at the environmental variables.
"I calculated the difference between plots in terms of species composition, and then I laid vectors over the top to see if environmental or management variables have anything to do with what's different," she said.
As a result of this research, Wilmer found groups one and two to be similar, but the third group was different mainly because of rainfall.
"Rainfall is more important than management," she said.
Other differences she noticed were litter on the soil, the presence of blue grama and whether the management was first generation or multi-generational.
Gayle Smith is a correspondent for the Wyoming Livestock Roundup. Send comments on this article to roundup@wylr.net.
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With the growing appeal of smart speakers and voice input, consumers are going to increasingly expect audio content. That's why there's a budding competition between Google and Amazon to turn text into spoken words. Companies and brands will need to adapt to the spoken-word web.
The Third Wave Of Personal Computing
We are in the midst of the third wave of personal computing innovation.
First was the introduction of the personal computer itself, with it's keystroke-driven command line interface,
Then the graphical user interface and the mouse were introduced,
We are now living through the age of camera capture and voice activation.
Voice activation, at it's most challenging, requires the push of a button as in the case of smartphone apps but in the case of smart speakers, merely a wake word. Unlike camera capture, voice activation is by far the more natural method of communicating via technology.
The Present Is Voice Activation
The demand for voice activated devices has already been demonstrated and it's growing.
Consumers like the ease of use and access to information smart speakers provide:
Why People Want Smart Speakers [INFOGRAPHIC]
One in six Americans now own a smart speaker.
Smart Speaker Ownership [INFOGRAPHIC]
As is typical for the adoption of new technologies, younger people are more likely to adopt them than older people:
Voice-Activated Digital Assistant Adoption [CHART]
Nearly half of American smart phone owners use a voice activated app at least once a week:
Frequency Of Smartphone Voice Input Use [CHART]
Smart speaker owners are using voice commands in place of typing or swiping and that behavior is prompting them to use voice activated apps more often on their smart phones:
Voice Trends Among Smart Speaker Owners [CHART]
The top use for 60% of smart speaker owners is to answer general question:
Top Reasons To Use Smart Speakers [CHART]
And they are asking for specific types of information depending upon the time of the day:
Voice Assistant Use By Daypart [TABLE]
Two thirds of Amazon Echo owners have asked Alexa to read them the news:
Top Amazon Skills Consumers Have Used [CHART]
Amazon has got a jump start on the competition, so it currently dominates market share but Google Home owns a sizable chunk and Apple recently released its HomePod speaker:
Voice-Enabled Speaker Market Share [CHART]
Smart Speaker Ecosystems
Science fiction writer William Gibson once observed that the future is here, it's just unevenly distributed.
If the future is the spoken word, then it is imperative for those producing content to understand how it is distributed; turns out, it's distributed unevenly.
Let's take a look at the ecosystems of each major smart speaker platform.
Apple HomePod Ecosystem
While late to the game, Apple has significant assets to apply to its new smart speaker product.
With Apple, you start with music. The company is boasting about the HomePod's high-fidelity sound. With iTunes, HomePod owners can stream their personal music libraries to the speakers. And then there's Apple Music, the company's streaming service.
Finally, via iTunes, HomePod owners have access to the largest podcast directory on the planet.
We can expect right integration with Apple's other product, of course.
And then there's Siri, the personal digital assistant that is practically synonymous with voice activation. Unfortunately, Apple's voice technology seriously lags behind Amazon and Google. Walt Mossberg summed up my experiences with Siri for The Verge in 2016:
On too many occasions, Siri either gets things wrong, doesn't know the answer, or can't verbalize it. Instead, it shows you a web search result, even when you're not in a position to read it.
As a smart speaker, HomePod answered 52.3% of queries correctly compared to recent tests of Google Home at 81%, Alexa at 64%, and Cortana at 57%.
Smart Speaker Answer Accuracy By Category [CHART]
Siri can always serve up search results, as it often does, but on a smart speaker that's not merely useless, it's practically insulting.
Google Home Ecosystem
Google, conversely, can read search results…aloud. The company has 20 years worth of content it has indexed for its search engine.
The company has been collecting and analyzing voice data since at least 2008, when it introduced voice search capabilities to its iPhone app. The New York Times reported at the time:
Users of the free application, which Apple is expected to make available as soon as Friday through its iTunes store, can place the phone to their ear and ask virtually any question, like "Where's the nearest Starbucks?" or "How tall is Mount Everest?" The sound is converted to a digital file and sent to Google's servers, which try to determine the words spoken and pass them along to the Google search engine.
Throw on top of voice recognition, language recognition. In 2015, TechCrunch reported that Google added voice capabilities to Translate to offer real-time voice translation. The Google Translate app for Android and iOS supports more than 100 languages and can translate 37 languages via photo, 32 via voice in "conversation mode", and 27 via real-time video in "augmented reality mode."
So, Google's got real cred in the areas of voice recognition and analysis. Take that technical acumen and apply it to its database of basically the whole web, and you've got a vast ecosystem of answers to an infinite number of questions. The Guardian's Samuel Gibbs illustrates:
Home really shines when you ask it something obscure or out of the ordinary.
For instance, did you know foxes mate in January and give birth 53 days later? And that urban fox cubs venture out into the open from about April? Neither did I, until Assistant read out the information from Dartford.gov.uk, an answer that was apparently trustworthy and from a site that's relatively local to where I live.
Assistant is capable of answering questions directly from Google's built-in encyclopedia, but it's also capable of performing web searches to find the answer to the question you asked. It's incredibly powerful
Google Home's ability to find the correct answer to the question posed and read it back arguably makes it the most versatile and valuable of the smart speakers on the market.
Amazon Echo Ecosystem
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As the unquestioned leader in the smart speaker market, Amazon is no slouch when it comes to voice recognition and analysis.
In addition to the data set it has already accumulated through its line of Echo speakers, Amazon has the eCommerce dimension that no one else really has. Amazon has my credit card number, it knows where I live, and it has my purchase history since I became a customer. It also has the largest database of commerce-related search queries conducted within its store. It perfected frictionless commerce on the Web and now it is working to perfect voice commerce.
Where Apple has iTunes/Apple Music and Google has YouTube/Google Play, Amazon has its own Prime Music. Check on the music side of the ledger.
Aside from Music, though, Amazon's biggest content assets are the Washington Post and Audible.com. Developers can build apps (or Skills, as Amazon calls them) for its speakers but users have to install them, so that's a barrier to getting third party content into the system.
It is that content deficit Amazon appears to be addressing with the release of the Amazon Polly WordPress plugin.
Polly is a text-t0-speech component of Amazon Web Services that uses advanced deep learning technologies to synthesize speech that sounds like a human voice.
Sarah Perez reports for TechCrunch:
Polly uses machine learning technologies under the hood to deliver more life-like speech. For example, Polly understands that the word "live" would be pronounced differently based on its usage. In the phrases "I live in Seattle" and "Live from New York," the word is spelled the same but is not spoken in the same way. That means the voices sound more natural than some other, more basic voice-to-text engines.
The Polly speech engine launched with 47 male and female voice and support for 24 languages.
The technology's capabilities have also evolved, with added support for things like whispering, speech marks, a timbre effect, and dynamic range compression. These sorts of voice technology advancements are also things that make Alexa sound more natural, too.
The plugin is free but Amazon Polly is not.
The Amazon Polly free tier includes 5 million characters per month for speech or Speech Marks requests, for the first 12 months, starting from the first request for speech. The pay-as-you-go option is $4.00 per 1 million characters for speech requests (when outside the free tier).
By creating a WordPress plugin that taps into this service, the plugin's "Pollycast" feature gives bloggers the ability to essentially turn their text-based posts into podcast episodes with a feed customized for iTunes. That's a massive benefit for content creators at a very low price point.
It has the added allure of opening up a massive new audience to bloggers via iTunes and other audio aggregators.
The benefit to Amazon, however, is substantial. Not only does it provide a massive data set upon which to train and refine its text-to-speech technology, it also provides a massive new source of audio content to pipe into the Echo, providing a bulwark against Google's current advantage.
How are you planning for the spoken-word Web?
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Nagarkot, Feb. 12: Music concert are to be organised in 40 countries around the world on February 13 to generate public awareness on HIV/AIDS, coinciding with the International Condom Day.
An organisation called 'Suruwat' is going to organise a concert at the premises of the Padma Secondary School, Bhaktapur Durbar Area in Bhaktapur on Tuesday.
The concert will feature a special performance by well-known artist Adrian Pradhan along with other local musical bands.
Suruwat's president Rajendra Puri said the concert aims to create public awareness among the youth to promote the use of condom and stay away from HIV/AIDS and STDs.
A condom rally would also be organised from Taumadhi to Durbar Area in Bhaktapur on the occasion. Free HIV tests would also be provided to that connection, said Rajesh Didiya, Suruwat's Director.


During my "day job", I lead a team of data analysts and use earthquake data as an example in some of our discussions with new employees. There has not been a huge jump in the number of major earthquakes.
The World Net Daily article includes a chart that shows a huge increase in magnitude 6+ quakes since 2000 so I set out to examine the data for myself. The chart referenced the US Geological Survey (USGS) website so I went there and retrieved a fresh copy of the the data.
If we pare the data down to the "big quakes" that are 7.0 and greater we find a completely different picture. Based upon a 10-year average going back to 1900, it seems like the number of big quakes has decreased over the past century. It seems like the 10-year average for big quakes was about the same in 1978, 1954, 1937, 1923, and 1911.
So no... we aren't having more big quakes than normal.
I changed my approach to the data in order to consider the severity and found that, too, was not the case. Earthquakes aren't getting more severe.
On that particular point, it appears that World Net Daily and the good pastor miss the mark. What about all the other factors? Well... those are a topic for a different article.


Anyone have an opinion on 6dollarshirts?
The other day, I discovered 6dollarshirts.com. Has anyone ever purchased from them? According to their ordering page, they use a bunch of different blanks (including AA?). So for someone like me who has a super awkward body, T-shirts can be hit or miss. I like a lot of the designs they have to offer. Many of them are ones that are sold on other sites for way more money.
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I bought one shirt. I've washed it twice (cold, general wash, tumble dry) and the print looks fine. No choice for a premium tee. I ripped the tag out because I can't stand them. The cloth is thin, but not rough.
I can take measurements or compare it to some AS, or other tees later. I believe i ordered a xxl, but might have gone with a 3xl because I'd rather a tee be baggy than tight.
@Willijs3 On their onset, I was unimpressed. I think they used AA for one shirt, just so they can advertise that aspect. The shirts were standard carded open-end cotton, not the much softer combed ring-spun, and print quality was uneven.
But that was several years back, and I haven't been back since. From what I've heard, their print quality/durability has improved.
The majority of my purchases still come from shirt.woot and TeeTurtle these days years.
Just wait until you see the quality of Mediocritee shirts.
@narfcake Thanks for the info! For $6 I might as well just snag one or two. I cover most of my tees with a hoodie, anyway.
@PlacidPenguin I was told there'd be catshirts.
Pass. I don't need anymore.
I've used 6DS a couple of times - both times ordering the 10 for $50 to get the discount. I'd say 80% of the tees were AA in my experience, though the others have never been shoddy. I don't wear t-shirts out, typically - only around the house, but after years and years (and years) of owning them, not a single one has broken down yet. I do have a dark gray one with a (very large) screen print that the print has started coming off. None of the others have any issues at all, however.
$6 can buy you one shirt, or 6 dollars.
I have bought 10-for-50 a few times. Simple one color printing on decent blanks. I have not had one fall apart yet. I bought 10 for my 15yr old and he has yet to destroy one.
I've bought a few shirts from them and they seem to be holding up pretty well. However, they don't have the best selection of gamer shirts. I just discovered Rareloots and they look like they're pretty good with gaming stuff.


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How are you configuring your scanner? Mine has a crazy amount of options.
How many bars we should expect for before we enter a trade? I looked these charts you posted and I found no fixed/defined number of bars for the set up...are these fully discretionary?
Anyway, thanks for this thread, I like this 'simple' approach.
Firstly ATR will give you a good idea how much a stock moves within a given candle.
If you are trading on 3 min candles for example then you certainly don't want to have the same position size on a stock with an ATR of 60 as you would on a stock with an ATR of 15 as it tends to move more suddenly and violently and your risk is greater.
Always bear in mind that the intra-candle range can suddenly explode. By that I mean that the ATR might be say 12, but the next candle might range through 30.
The second way is actually quite simple but sounds complex. It depends on level 2 movement, T&S and buy/sell pressures, (what I call "Micro-Analysis"). As I've said before in this thread I am NOT going to go into how I use them in detail.
The nearest analogy I can think of is driving when you need steering and two or three pedals, some skills and knowledge and the skill to anticipate road conditions ahead. You obviously also improve with experience and practice. With time these become integrated.
By the way, all the old fashioned follow the market maker techniques are much less significant than they used to be, though still matter sometimes in some circumstances.
However, many stocks at many times are readable - not all of them - not all the time - on micro-analysis. If you can see the steady progression of price and can read its continuity on level 2, see the roadblocks and whether they remain under pressure, and several other factors, than you can gain a huge edge and sometimes see things which may be about to happen BEFORE they appear on a chart.
In this type of situation then the ATR comments earlier in this thread are trumped.
Of course most people can't be bothered with level 2 and some denigrate it without understanding exactly how and when to use it. They think that because old techniques no longer work so well then it' all useless - throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
It's not a be all and end all technique, it's a precision approach some of the time, not all, but my goodness, when it does come into play, it's a huge help and very profitable.
Scanners vary hugely. Some days are relatively low volume days. Some stocks have a sudden expansion in volume, often triggered by news. I use different scans at different times.
No hard and fast rule as you have discovered for yourself. As in the last example I found it later than would have been ideal - an earlier entry would have been better. As long as the momentum is there on the chart and on the level 2 screen, that's fine. The key is the exit rule and appropriate position size to limit any losses on the ones that reverse on you, though as I've said, if level 2 is warning me of a possible imminent reversal I won't wait for the candle signal. No point in waiting to lose money or earn less if you can see the wind is blowing against you.
It's below freezing here in the UK, goodness knows how cold it is in Ontario - nice state, btw, we drove through it on an Atlantic to Pacific drive in 2007.
You don't need a scanner per se. If you can get access to sector data then unless you are completely blind you will soon be able to find out which sectors you should be trading if that is you are looking for volatility. Likewise if you are looking for a trade that moves then look at those stocks that are taking up a technical position that will support a sudden move.
I don't do US stocks ,but here in the UK you'd have been very happy just trolling the mining sector of late...likewise if you had seen Standard Life hitting a range support bottom on narrow price you would have set up for it today and so forth.
I will have to become more acquainted with ATR, since I have never used it.
I will make this information you gave me very useful.
I don't really want to get into this in too much detail, but there are basically two approaches, top down, bottom up. Neither is "right" or "wrong". Both are fine.
For quickly finding opportunities intra-day, a scanner is, imho, extremely useful. Although finding clearly trending stocks is possible with multi-day sector movements, you can find a much larger number of good opportunities with a scanner which searches through 16000 stocks individually in seconds; faster if you narrow the parameters.
In fact I sometimes use a hot sectors scan which does what it says, then zero in on the individual stocks.
It's what works which matters, top down or bottom up.
US stocks do tend to be different to UK stocks for various reasons, not least the number of day traders and their activities sometimes creating clearer and more reliable moves. Also US movements tend to influence UK from mid day onwards.
Thank you for your on going posts and advice. I have been using level 2 and attempting to learn some of your "micro-analysis" techniques. I have had some really positive initial success. I have been quite conservative, and had limited profits, but have made very few bad trades (and per your advice, got out of those quickly as well). So net I am up and doing well.
This is slightly different as I took the break out on a strongly trending stock which was on my hot list.
+49c per share on this one so $490 for a 1000 shares,$245 for 500 shares etc.
Your timing and entry in this trade is perfect. I was wondering: If you missed this entry and the price was already trending upwards, would you still consider entering this trade?
I also found ACN in my scanner. I didn't trade ACN, because it already broke out of the base.


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