Dear Readers, SARS Interim EMP501 Submission 2016 is now open. It's that time of the Year again to get your Company EMP501 Recon and Declarations Submitted. There have been many changes and SARS updates to get compliant with. I listed the SARS top tips on the current and recent changes.
Contact us on payrollsupport@e2e.co.za for any additional assistance.
Capturing of an EMP 201 return prior to 1999 will be allowed.
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Income Protection Policy Premiums (4018) is not allowed as a deduction from 1 March 2015. Some employers have taken this deduction into account for the 2016 PAYE calculations. This resulted in the under-deduction and payment of PAYE.These employers are requested to rectify such under-deductions and payments to SARS. Incorrect IRP5/IT3(a) certificates should be corrected, submitted to SARS and re-issued to affected employees. Employers are requested to make these corrections urgently to ensure that the correct details can be pre-populated by SARS on the employees' income tax returns (ITR12s).The 4018 deduction may still be reflected on the 2016 IRP5/IT3(a) certificate although it no longer qualifies as a deduction for tax purposes.
1 April 2016 – Employer Annual Reconciliation Employers are required to submit their Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) Employer Annual Reconciliations between 18 April and 31 May 2016 to SARS, confirming or correcting payroll tax amounts which were declared during the 2015/2016 tax period.This year, employers are urged to accurately verify and update each employee's personal and financial details before submitting their Annual Reconciliation Declaration (EMP501) and Employees Income Tax Certificates [IRP5/IT3(a)s] to SARS.Should these details be incorrect on an IRP5 certificate, the employee will be unable to file his/her Income Tax Return for Individuals (ITR12) during Tax Season. Individuals will no longer be allowed to make any corrections to pre-populated IRP5 details on their returns.In cases where details are incorrect, employees will have to revert to their respective employers who will need to make changes on the IRP5 and re-submit these to SARS. This process can be time consuming and it may become problematic for employees to file on time.
Labour Compliance Compulsory BCEA Office Posters! Very few Employers are actually aware of the fact that the Department of Labour has made it a mandatory requirement that the office or workplace has got specific posters visible to all Employees.
One of these being the BCEA Office Posters (Basic Conditions of Employment Act) Poster. Not to worry, we have got your back.
This notice as amended on 29 August 2014 must be displayed by all employers, in terms of Section 30 of the Act, in the official languages used at any place where employees work. This would include any branch operations, depots, shops etc.
They are available in all eleven official languages and at various different retails stores (online stores).
There is no specific amount of BCEA office Posters that should be displayed in a office, but you must display a summary of the Basic Conditions of Employment (BCEA) Act where all employees can see it.
The BCEA states that employee who works continuously for more than five hours must be given a meal interval of at least one continuous hour.
If agreed in writing a meal interval can also be reduced to not less than 30 minutes.
A meal interval can also be dispensed with if an employee works fewer than six hours a day.
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We are happy to inform that we have made provision to ensure that you as our valued clients, don't have to search all over to find these posters. For your convenience, these posters can be bought directly from our office.
Feel free to contact our office on 021 447 9565 or log a support request (by Clicking Here) if you are interested and I will personally contact you to ensure you receive your order in the timeliest manner possible.
There appears to be a Partner Payroll issue doing rounds on some of our clients systems, which affects their Employee count on the software.
In short, one might be registered for a 100 Employee Payroll, obviously allowing you to create a total of up to 100 Employee Masterfiles (combined between your different companies created on Payroll). What would then happen at some of our clients, is that the program will register/pick up the exact same company twice or even 3 times and thus doubling the actual Employee count and seeing e.g. a 45 Employee company as 135 Employees.
Below is a typical example of the problem. This screen can be accessed by opening Payroll and going to Help, About and then "Employee Count" at the bottom right. As you can see in the below example, the exact same company is "registered" 3 times. Therefor the software is now registering a 45 Employee company as 135 Employees.
If you have a network consisting of more than 1 PC using Payroll, make sure to close the program on each PC and go to the Payroll Server/Main Payroll PC.
Click on each company and select the option to "Remove Company" on the right hand side. Do this for each company until you are only left with the Server name right at the top.
Next you will re-register the software. This can be done by clicking on Help, Register your package. On the first screen click on next, single user/server, UN-TICK register online and then select 'next', 'next', etc, until you reach the summary screen.
Lastly, close and reopen Payroll. Go to File, Open, Manage and then add each of your companies again by clicking on "Add Company" on the right hand side.
Like mentioned, the above solution does work. Should you follow these steps and you still experience the same issue, you are more than welcome to contact us so that we can assist.
Alternatively, if you would like us to rather attend to it, please give us a call on 021 447 9565 or post a comment on this blog and I'll assist.


Musician Lauren Pelon holds one of 20 instruments she will use in her performance, "Music from the Backyard and Front Porch," at the Library Thursday.
Internationally acclaimed musician Lauren Pelon will appear in a unique concert at the Lewistown Public Library, on Thursday, July 14 at 6 p.m. Under the title, "Music from the Backyard and Front Porch," Lauren Pelon will perform on approximately 20 ancient and modern wind, string and free-reed instruments and voice.
Pelon plays an astonishing array of instruments. Among the instruments she will be using are Native American flute, concertina, pennywhistle, ocarina, eagle bone flute, guitar, recorder and psalmodikon, all prominent in American history. Other instruments (guitar-lute, archlute, bowed psaltery, lyre, hurdy-gurdy, gemshorns, cornamuse, krummhorn, schreierpfeife, shawm, electric wind instrument and pedal board) will be used to tell a story or illustrate an idea.
Lauren Pelon has performed throughout the U.S. and in China, Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, Russia, Kazakhstan, Australia, and New Zealand. She is noted for her versatile use of a diverse array of instruments, but Pelon has also won recognition for her lovely soprano voice, and for her compelling compositions and arrangements of music from many countries and cultures. Lauren has performed with symphony orchestras, The Philadelphia String Quartet, on Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion," and at the Russian Institute for the History of the Arts in St. Petersburg, Russia. Pelon was the recipient of the 2001 "Artist of the Year" award from The Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council. More recently, she received a 2010 Artist Initiative Award and 2014 Arts Tour Minnesota Grant Award from the Minnesota State Arts Board.
"We are so pleased to bring this program to Lewistown," says KellyAnne Terry, Director, Lewistown Public Library. For more information, please call 538-5212 or visit www.lewistownlibrary.org. This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Lewistown Public Library and is free and open to the public.


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Q: Expectation Value of a Dynamical Variable In quantum mechanics, we generally take about "expectation values of dynamical variables". However, by the postulates of quantum mechanics, every dynamical variable in quantum theory is represented by its corresponding operator.
Is it therefore, incorrect to talk about "expectation value of an operator" (rather than "expectation value a dynamical variable")? Is is just semantics or is something more going on here?
In other words is it incorrect to write:
$$<\widehat{A} > =\int  \psi \widehat{A}\psi^{*}\mathbf{ d^{3}r}$$
instead of
$$<A > =\int  \psi \widehat{A}\psi^{*}\mathbf{ d^{3}r}?$$

A: Remember, operators are nothing but maps. Expectation value of an operator is pretty much defined (I guess) in general operator theory. It just turns out that in QM (Hermitian) operators correspond to dynamical variables. In general you can also calculate expectation values of operators like $L_+$ and $a^{\dagger}$ etc., which don't have any dynamical variables associated !!
On a more general note, if you want to get a representation for the operator (given some basis, which could be the eigenset of an operator), the expectation values would be the diagonal elements of the representation.
It is related to Linear algebra, This might throw some light on Operator theory. Linear operators (bounded of course) are maps defined in LVS that take one vector to another vector in the same LVS.
$$ \hat O : V \rightarrow  V$$
$$  \hat O \left|\psi\right> = \left|\phi\right> $$
Then you have the inner product defined on the LVS, that takes two vectors to one complex number :
$$ \left<\psi|\phi\right> : V^* \times V \rightarrow \mathbb{C} $$
Using these two, one can define the expectation value of an operator to be,
$$ <\hat O>  = \left<\psi\right|\; \big(\hat O\left|\psi\right>\big) = \left<\psi|\phi\right> \in \mathbb{C} $$

A: Is it therefore, incorrect to talk about "expectation value of an operator"?
Yes, because when you write those integrals you're asking for the average of a dynamical variable $A$ whose associated operator is $\hat A$. The point is that you're asking for a number , e.g. the average position of the electron in a gaussian wavepaket. Then, when you want to calculate this expectation value $\langle x \rangle$, the associated operator shows up in the integrals. And it's not only semantics: what's the use of asking, let's say, "hey, what's the average of the Hamilton operator?" ?
This would mean that you had a bunch of Hamilton operators and you wanted to know the average of those operators ... This makes no sense. ^^
You could ask for the average energy of a system: then you would use the Hamilton operator in the integrals you wrote.
So the answer to your second question (Is it incorrect to write ...) is simply yes.
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(This stuff is confusing...)
I just opened my Shankar and came across this:

See equation 7.3.2.: he is looking for the mean energy $\langle E \rangle$. So according to my reasoning, he writes $\langle \Psi|H|\Psi \rangle$. But then he writes $...=\langle H \rangle$, which confused me a lot. After some thinking I came up with the solution: here, he treats $H$ as an observable. And the way he treats the Hamiltonian the next section proves this: the momentum and position are treated like normal observables and not like operators.
Then, the next page, he writes this:

So here he uses $\langle H \rangle$ as a synonym for the mean energy.

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Hey guys! How was your weekend? Ours was spent hashing out ideas, planning our week, working on orders, designing, and painting, and we squeezed in some Art Journaling! Isn't Aaron's page so cool? A little exercise in using negative space...and it is in it's early stages. He started to add some color and it looks awesome. I'll share it with you when it's finished.
I'm all for "pretty"...but sometimes it's about a vibe and a statement. And an Art Journal is the perfect place to play with you more visceral art ideas. I was in the middle of building a layout and really...the words: "Some Things Are Not Important", just appeared on the page in big, maybe a bit harsh lettering. Right over pretty papers, shapes and colors...but it feels totally right.
I'm always on the look out for alphabet stamps, and I found these on ebay for under 5.00! Couldn't pass them up! I love how big they are!
Yep...here is our to-do list for the day/week. More of a rough outline to keep us in check. We kind of jump around and pick away at things. When you see things as a list it actually makes things way less overwhelming. Even if the list is mega long...I actually say the longer the better. There are no surprises. Or as I put them "wildcards". You can see your "worst case scenario" as far as deadlines and tasks. You can always use different color pen or chalk to prioritize.
How do you tackle your tasks? I'd love to hear!
P.S. There's still time to enter this month's FABULOUS giveaway!!
Oh my gosh, I have lists everywhere. To do lists for work, blog, business, life... on my phone, a little notebook I keep in my purse, random pieces of paper... hehe. Same goes with ideas. I need to figure out a nice way to consolidate them!
I actually just read a post about whiteboard paint today (on Elycia of LoveElycia's blog)! In my future studio (which may be near future rather than far... eep!), that may be just what I need to help stay organized!
Both of your art journals are so cool, and I love the statements on them! Bold and beautiful. Love it!
Thanks bunches! I love Aaron's page..another original Aaron quote...he's full of them! Most of them are his song lyrics.
As always love reading your comments! :) They make my day!
Hello Miss Jenny! Love your journal page and those big stamps are great!! I think a giant chalkboard list would help me, too. Thanks for the idea!


Bacteria often attach to surfaces in the form of biofilms. Biofilms represent a problem in many medical and industrial settings as they are physically tough and hard to kill or remove from surfaces. However, these characteristics make biofilms a potentially very useful platform for biocatalysis, where bacteria are used to make chemicals for a variety of purposes. This project will focus on controlling the way in which bacteria attach to surfaces, so we can specify when and where biofilms form.
For further details about the project, please contact Dr Fernandez-Trillo ([Email Address Removed]).
The Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership (MIBTP) is a BBSRC-funded doctoral training partnership between the universities of Warwick, Birmingham and Leicester. It delivers innovative, world-class research training across the Life Sciences to boost the growing Bioeconomy across the UK.
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Yaqub al-Ghussein (, ) (1899-1948) was a Palestinian landowner from Ramla and founder of the Youth Congress Party. He graduated in law from the University of Cambridge. Ghussein was elected president of the first National Congress of Arab Youth, held in Jaffa in January 1932. He was a member and representative of his party in the Arab Higher Committee from its formation in 1936. In 1937 he was a member of the Supreme Muslim Council. On 1 October of the same year he was exiled by the British to the Seychelles Islands for being a member of the Arab Higher Committee, which was outlawed by the British on 27 September 1937, following the assassination of the Acting British District Commissioner of Galilee, Lewis Yelland Andrews.

He was a member of the Palestinian delegation to the London Conference at St. James's Palace in February 1939.

Ghussein reconstituted his faction in 1945. He died in Jerusalem on 27 December 1948.

References
Levenberg, Haim (1993). Military Preparations of the Arab Community in Palestine: 1945-1948. London: Routledge.

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Opinion / Columnist
Open letter to Julius Malema: Setting the record straight
by Tendai Chirau
It's unfortunate and an absurdity of the highest level of obstinacy that Malema has turned himself to be a paid willing implement of the of the fallen and discredited G40 clique whose majority of members are walloping in different countries dreading arrest for various crimes.
Contrary to what Mr Malema says, the wishes of the family are being esteemed by the leadership of the government and President ED is on record of confirming this. It was the family which suggested the idea of a mausoleum and the wish was granted.
The respect for the wishes of the family is indeed a new development, considering that RGM as a matter of not judging him did not respect the wishes of those families who did not want their relatives interred at the shrine. The following heroes come to mind, Cephas Msipa, Edgar Tekere just to mention just but a few.
This is highly important information that your G40 handlers hid from you. Indeed RGM was our leader of note whom we voted for several terms and the ideology which he nurtured was not his own individual ideology per se but that of the Party which shepherded him to office which is the gigantic ZANU PF.
This party is a product of a long-drawn-out liberation struggle whose accomplishment cannot be credited to an individual's effort but rather the imperturbable collective effort of the slogging sons and daughters of the land some fallen and some still living. President ED and many others are some of these living Cdes who are marshalling the legacy of the liberation struggle forward. The struggle transcends individuals.
We are cognizant of a group of the cabal who iniquitously attempted to skyjack the revolution by exploiting the advanced age of the RGM during his last days in office which led to the party structures to expel such characters.
Surprisingly it is the same characters that you are dining and wining with who are misinforming you so that they gain political capital. It was during the last days of RGM rule that the party followed due procedures by instituting the process of his recall in order to reinstate the legacy of the liberation struggle which was under threat. This is not tormenting as you allege, but putting the party's legacy on track and righting the wrongs.
Even after his resignation the ED led Government ensured that the former President is well looked after. His security was intact, and medical bills were paid by the state (refer to statements by his children). Even his extended relatives were taken care of (refer to Grace's mother assistance). During your days in the ANC and your new arrivarist party EFF you recalled Zuma and none said that it was excruciating since you were bringing normalcy. If it was a necessary thing to be done then your assertions which paint a gory picture of torment are uncalled for at a time when we are supposed to building the nation.
Tendai Chirau
National Secretary for Administration ZANU (PF) Youth League.
Source - Tendai Chirau
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Sonam Kapoor trains for visually-impaired girl's role in 'Blind'
Glasgow, Jan 12 (IANS) Sonam Kapoor Ahuja is going all out for her role of a blind person in the upcoming thriller, Blind. Apart from learning the nuances of body language for her role of a visually-impaired person, she has also taken to dietary regulations to look the role.
"Sonam has been on a healthy diet to maintain the required look in the film. She is expected to resume shoot post pandemic, and she has been involved in various discussions and researches with the film's director. She also has a coach to train her for the part of playing a visually impaired character," said a source in the unit of the film.
The actor is currently shooting in Glasgow for the film, directed by Shome Makhija and bankrolled by Sujoy Ghosh.
This is the first time that Sonam will be seen portraying a visually-impaired girl. The actress also spends considerable time regularly with director Shome to understand the role, so it is easy to get into the skin of her character.
Sonam's last starring role was in the 2019 release The Zoya Factor opposite Dulquer Salmaan. The film bombed on release. Recently she did a cameo as herself in Vikramaditya Motwane's thriller AK Vs AK.
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Worshipers at Sydney's St Mary's Cathedral who don't have any cash on them at Mass can now donate using their credit cards on a collection plate that has a 'Tap & Go' electronic device attached.
The electronic collection plates began taking $10 payments last weekend, announced on St Mary's Facebook page with this post that has since been deleted.
Morassut said the set price was based on donation history and 'could not be changed'.
The post received umpteen posts criticizing the plan.
'I'm Catholic but this is ludicrous… you shouldn't be told how much you put in if you opt for that option, it should be built better so that you decide how much,' one person said.
'It's not moving with the times, it's a cash grab,' said another.
'When they can't take criticism but still want to take your money,' another said.


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(56) Jesus said: He who has known the world has found a corpse; and he who has found a corpse, the world is not worthy of him.
(56) Jesus said, "Whoever has become acquainted with the world has found a corpse, and the world is not worthy of the one who has found the corpse."
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61 [56]. Jesus says: "He who has known the world has fallen into a corpse; and he who has fallen into a corpse, the world is not worthy of him!"
Scholarly Quotes
Robert M. Grant and David Noel Freedman write: "Knowing the world is equivalent to finding a corpse (or, in the parallel Saying 80, a body); this knowledge and this discovery are evidently regarded as good, for the world is not worthy of the discoverer (cf., Hebrews 11:38, and page 77). Knowing the world, then, must be truly knowing it for what it is. But we must also consider one more saying (109). The world is not worthy of the one 'who will find himself.' We conclude that Saying 57 [56], like these variants we have cited, is based on the verse which in Matthew (10:39; cf., Mark 8:34-35) follows the verses cited in Saying 56 [55]. 'He who finds his soul [life] will lose it, and he who loses his soul for my sake will find it.' Either Thomas simply mystifies his readers by speaking of a corpse or he uses 'corpse' as the equivalent for 'body' and hence for 'self.' The Naassenes used 'corpse' of the spiritual man (Hippolytus, Ref., 5, 8, 22)." (The Secret Sayings of Jesus, p. 164)F. F. Bruce writes: "To say that the world is not worthy of someone (cf. Hebrews 11.38) is to commend him; therefore (strange as it may seem) to find a corpse is praiseworthy. The Naassenes, according to Hippolytus, spoke of the spiritual body as a 'corpse'. [The reason for this strange use of 'corpse' was that the spiritual essence is 'buried' in the body as a corpse is buried in a tomb (Hippolytus, Refutation v.8.22).] But the analogy of Saying 111 ('as for him who finds himself, the world is not worthy of him') suggests that here 'corpse' means 'body' as used in the sense of 'self'. If so, we may have a cryptic parallel to the canonical saying about gaining the world and losing one's own self, or vice versa (Luke 9.24f.; Matthew 16.25f.), which follows a saying about denying self and taking up the cross (cf. Saying 55)." (Jesus and Christian Origins Outside the New Testament, p. 135)Stevan Davies writes: "Gos. Thom. 56 is a scribal alteration of saying 80, the word ptoma having been substituted for soma." (http://www.misericordia.edu/users/davies/thomas/jblprot.htm)Kurt Rudolph says of Saying 56: "in saying 80 the same is said, but instead of 'corpse' the reference is to the 'body' of the world)." (Gnosis, p. 264)Funk and Hoover write: "The fact that there are two versions suggests that some such saying might have circulated previously in an oral form. Yet both sayings deprecate the created world in a way that is typical of Thomas (27:1; 110; 111:3) and atypical of Jesus. Furthermore, the notion that the world is evil, or corrupt, and is to be shunned is common in other gnostic writings. The Fellows therefore concluded that this saying, in both its forms, originated in early Christian circles such as the one that produced the Gospel of Thomas. It represents gnostic tendencies of one branch of the Christian movement." (The Five Gospels, p. 505)Gerd Ludemann writes: "Thomas 80 corrsponds to Thomas 56, the ojly difference being that there we have 'body' instead of 'corpse'. For Thomas this world is a sphere opposed to God. So the commandment is to abstain from it (21.1). But the Gnostic must first recognize it as an anti-world in order to be able to turn tk the true life. Cf. Gospel of Philip 93: 'This world is an eater of life. Because of this, none of those who are nourished on the [truth] will die. Jesus came from that place and brought food from there. And to those who wished he gave [life, so that] they will not die.'" (Jesus After 2000 Years, p. 618)


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We introduce a model-checking tool intended specially for the analysis of quantum information protocols. The tool incorporates an efficient representation of a certain class of quantum circuits, namely those expressible in the so-called stabiliser formalism. Models of protocols are described using a simple, imperative style simulation language which includes commands for the unitary operators in the Clifford group as well as classical integer and boolean variables. Formulas for verification are expressed using a subset of exogenous quantum propositional logic (EQPL). The model-checking procedure treats quantum measurements as the source of non-determinism, leading to multiple protocol runs, one for each outcome. Verification is performed for each run.
QMC: A Model Checker for Quantum Systems (Simon Gay, Rajagopal Nagarajan and Nikolaos Papanikolaou), In Proceedings of Workshop on Quantum Cryptography and Security (Lisbon Quantum Computation, Information and Logic Meetings Series: LQCIL'07), 2007.


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2014 GBR Triathlon National Championships
Results: 2014 GBR Triathlon National Championships | Elite Men
Windsor, Great Britain • 15 Jun, 2014
Elite Men Elite Women
1 Mark Buckingham 1985 GBR 8 01:49:15 00:17:55 00:00:54 00:57:51 00:00:52 00:31:41
2 David Bishop 1991 GBR 2 01:49:40 00:18:00 00:00:51 00:57:55 00:00:55 00:31:58
3 Iestyn Harrett 1993 GBR 19 01:50:42 00:17:59 00:00:51 00:57:55 00:00:49 00:33:06
4 Alex Matchett 1993 GBR 27 01:50:57 00:17:54 00:01:07 00:57:40 00:00:49 00:33:25
5 Douglas Roberts 1991 GBR 37 01:51:10 00:17:57 00:00:58 00:57:52 00:00:57 00:33:25
6 Rory Atkins 1994 GBR 4 01:52:14 00:18:00 00:00:56 00:57:51 00:00:49 00:34:36
7 Philip Wolfe 1988 GBR 48 01:52:27 00:18:04 00:01:08 00:57:38 00:00:56 00:34:40
8 Neil Eddy 1986 GBR 43 01:52:39 00:18:07 00:01:01 00:57:36 00:00:48 00:35:05
9 Elliot Smales 1994 GBR 42 01:53:35 00:18:03 00:00:58 00:57:47 00:00:54 00:35:51
10 Richard Stannard 1974 GBR 3 01:54:02 00:17:09 00:01:01 00:58:38 00:00:53 00:36:20
11 Jon Fletcher 1980 GBR 15 01:54:13 00:19:52 00:01:03 00:59:21 00:01:00 00:32:55
12 Andrew Christy 1993 GBR 10 01:54:29 00:18:45 00:00:52 01:00:06 00:00:52 00:33:52
13 Alex Thorley 1993 GBR 44 01:54:40 00:18:08 00:01:05 00:57:40 00:01:00 00:36:45
14 David Bartlett 1984 GBR 5 01:54:54 00:17:55 00:01:02 00:57:56 00:00:55 00:37:04
15 Jack Hall 1994 GBR 18 01:55:21 00:18:07 00:00:59 00:57:42 00:00:54 00:37:38
16 Richard Horton 1993 GBR 22 01:55:30 00:19:52 00:00:59 00:59:20 00:00:53 00:34:24
17 Matthew Leeman 1991 GBR 24 01:55:34 00:18:23 00:00:57 01:00:23 00:00:53 00:34:58
18 Alastair Weymouth GBR 47 01:55:55 00:18:45 00:01:01 00:59:59 00:01:05 00:35:03
19 Thomas Perchard 1986 GBR 35 01:56:24 00:19:19 00:01:09 00:59:43 00:00:57 00:35:14
20 Greg Shrosbree GBR 40 01:56:36 00:18:30 00:01:11 01:00:04 00:00:52 00:35:56
21 Andrew Nash 1989 GBR 29 01:56:46 00:20:56 00:01:07 00:58:09 00:01:00 00:35:32
22 Pete Dyson 1989 GBR 12 01:56:53 00:21:07 00:01:06 00:57:55 00:01:06 00:35:36
23 Kieran John 1994 GBR 23 01:57:34 00:18:54 00:01:08 00:59:46 00:00:55 00:36:50
24 Samuel Wade 1991 GBR 46 01:58:35 00:18:52 00:01:04 01:00:14 00:00:50 00:37:33
25 Matthew Nelson 1992 GBR 30 01:58:42 00:18:25 00:00:59 01:00:23 00:00:52 00:38:00
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In a previous article I discussed the various methods available in SQL Server 2016 & 2017 to perform in-database analytics. In the article I used a model that was stored directly inside SQL Server to perform predictions. But what if your models are not stored inside SQL Server but are build inside Azure Machine Learning?
In this article I am going to show you how you could integrate the worlds of SQL Server and Azure Machine learning by performing model scoring on data that is stored in a SQL Server database through an AzureML web service directly in SQL Server!
We want to store the predicted value with the data we just inserted.
The predicted value is returned to the trigger which will then insert the new row inside the table together with the predicted value.
There are a couple of things to keep in mind when you run this scenario. First of all, your SQL Server Instance should be connected to the internet since that's the place our model is stored. Second of all, we are using a trigger to call the AzureML webservice, this means that the inserting or rows will have to wait till we have a predicted value returned by the webservice which can lead to blocking issues when many concurrent inserts occur. In situations where you have a high insert workload it would probably be better to move the predictions to a separate process instead of a trigger so the inserts are not slowed down.
To show you a working example of the scenario I described above I created an AzureML experiment based on the "Iris" dataset. The Iris dataset can be used to classify a plan species based on four features of a plant. The dataset is directly available in AzureML as an example dataset.
The AzureML training experiment I build is very simple and can be seen in the image below.
In this case I used a .csv file that contains the training data from the Iris dataset. Using the "Edit Metadata" module I convert the "Species" feature to a categorical feature. All the other features are left untouched. I then performed a split on the data, leaving 80% of the data to train the Multiclass Decision Forest and 20% to test the model.
From this training experiment I generated a predictive experiment which can be seen below.
I did move some things around and added two "Select Columns in Dataset" modules to configure what data goes into the model and what data is returned by the trained model. In the first "Select Columns in Dataset" I filtered out the "Species" feature since we will not specify it when we call upon the model to do a prediction. I connected the "Web service input" model directly to the "Score Model" module so it expects the same input features we configured in the "Select Columns in Dataset" module. The second "Select Columns in Dataset" module only selects the "Scored Labels" column. The reason for this is that I only want the predicted species returned by the predictive experiment. If you do not add this "Select Columns in Dataset" module everything, including the features we specified, will be returned by the experiment.
After saving and running the predictive experiment I generated an AzureML webservice that we will use to perform our predictions later on.
I removed the API key. If you plan on rebuilding this example make sure to save the key since we will need it later on.
Now that we have an predictive experiment and a webservice available to us in AzureML, let's take a look at the configuration we need inside SQL Server to use the AzureML webservice.
The first thing I would like to point out here is that you will need to run SQL Server 2016 or 2017 with in-database R services enabled if you plan to recreate the examples. The reason for this is that we will be using the sp_execute_external_script procedure to execute R code that will access the AzureML webservice.
Now that we have our table in place to hold our data it's time to look at the Stored Procedure we will use to perform the webservice request. The Stored Procedure contains the R code needed to call the webservice and will return the predicted species as an output parameter. We will call the Stored Procedure using an Insert trigger we will create later on.
api_key = "[API KEY HERE]"
There are a couple things to take note of in the code of the Stored Procedure. First of all, since we are calling sp_execute_external_script you will need to have installed R Services (In-Database) for SQL Server 2016, or Machine Learning Service (In-Database) for SQL Server 2017.
To perform the web-request you will need to install two additional R packages: RCurl and rjson. There are various methods you can use to add additional libraries to the in-database R installation and they are described in this article: //docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/advanced-analytics/r/install-additional-r-packages-on-sql-server.
From that page click on the "Consume" button at the top and the Request-Response URL should be in the list together with your primary and secondary API key's and the Batch Requests URL.
With all the information added to the create Stored Procedure script so it points to the correct AzureML webservice we created earlier, run the script to create the stored procedure.
With the AzureML webservice in place and the results table and stored procedure created we are ready to call the AzureML webservice to perform predictions!
If you do not see a result or get an error message, make sure that your API key and the request-response URL are filled in correctly in the Stored Procedure and you have a working internet connection so you can actually access the webservice.
If everything is working so far we can go to the last step and build the trigger that will execute the Stored Procedure and writes the features and predicted species into a table.
The trigger will fire as soon as we add a new record to the "iris" table. It will grab the values we supplied in the INSERT statement and pass them to the Stored Procedure that call the AzureML webservice. It will then grab the returned predicted species value and together with the insert values add them to the "iris" table.
In this article we used in-database R code call a webservice we created in AzureML. Through the webservice we were able to perform a prediction using the Iris dataset and return that information inside a SQL Server table with the use of a trigger mechanic.
Before we finish this article, there are some important things you might want to keep in the back of your head when building a solution like this.
While the scenario I describes works perfectly, it is far more efficient to build and store your model directly in SQL Server instead of AzureML. The simple reasoning here is that data has to travel to and from the AzureML webservice which can delay the prediction and requires an internet connection on the SQL Server machine.
Another important aspect is the use of a trigger. Using a trigger in situations where there is a big insert workload will probably result in quite some pain. Insert triggers are notorious for causing deadlocking and slowdown, especially now that we have to access a webservice on the internet.
A better alternative might be to not use a trigger to access the AzureML webservice but rather build an automated process that grabs the unscored data inside a table and pushes it to AzureML for scoring. That way insert statements will not be slowed down and you can avoid excessive locking. This does mean scoring does not directly occur when data is inserted inside a table though.


Recently I took a Saturday morning off (no training, slept in late) and met my friend Jaimie in downtown SD for the Little Itay Farmer's Market (Mercato). It's great to see so many farmer's markets (FM) popping up around the county. We've had Hillcrest, OB, etc for what seems like a while, but now I've noticed them in some more out-of-the-way locations (okay, I will not rant about how unhealthy 95% of the offerings are at the closest FM to me).
Happy Pantry is a SD company specializing in pickled and fermented products. They had a huge selection on hand, and I was most excited about their sauerkraut and kimchi!
Next, I hit up the Salt Farm, drawn over to their booth by their spread of beautiful finishing salt blends. So many flavors caught my eye (natural, infused, blended or smoked). They offer containers of a couple different sizes and combinations. I opted for the 3-pack of small vials and chose Smoke Paprika, Chipotle and Bonfire-7 wood smoked. So far, they've been a delicious addition to meats, eggs and vegetables.
Picked up a pound…more would have been too tempting!
Get out and hit up your local FM…go for in-season produce, fresh eggs, and quality sources of protein if you're lucky enough to have any participating meat CSAs. Try something new. Explore. Life's too short to only eat bananas and apples!
Those figs were my crack that day, fa sho!


One of the things I learned in my Economics of Regulation course in collage was that any time you get the opportunity to become regulated, you should jump on it. It give's you a form a security that no unregulated business can achieve. Sure you might not be able to increase your stock price 10 fold in 9 months but then, you don't have to struggle to be efficient, you don't have to worry about keeping stock holders and a board of directors happy, they know exactly what they're getting, because the government sets their rate of return. Think of it as a guaranteed rate of return that automatically adjusts for inflation and is not subject to the usual volatility of the free market. Easy money.
Were this usually goes bad is that the regulations create unintended consequences. Lack of innovation, slowed expansion, and sometimes serious market manipulations - Think ENRON. If you want regulated supply to work, you need to keep a direct connection between the supplier and consumer, if you allow middle men to lock up the supply in contracts and then resell it, you get all of the downsides and none of the upsides. Sadly, with our Crony Capitalist system, regulations are too often designed to achieve exactly that result.
The way I see it, the upgrades necessary to the Internet infrastructure necessary to allow millions of people to stream Hi-Def video will cost pretty much the same no matter who pays for them. The question becomes whether that cost should be borne by the entire Internet community or by those driving the increase in demand. It is somewhat naieve to think that the big Streaming services are going to eat the costs of any bandwith prioritization charges. Once their market share stabilizes, they are going to pass them along to their customers in the form of higher monthly fees. Instead of $60 to your ISP and $40 to Netflix, you're going to give $60 to Netflix and $40 to your ISP. you're still going to spend that same $100 a month as a consumer to get the ability to stream movies.
Regulation will probably force existing carriers to perform expensive upgrades while google is rolling out its initial service with no changes. If they have any problems they can just lobby for special treatment for themselves.
Regulation is a great way for a large company to crush smaller competition. The same thing is happening with e cigs: big tobacco is all over this "regulate ecigs!" and wants the most draconian regulation possible, at least equal to that of much more dangerous real tobacco cigs. Why? They're losing market share (which they've already been hedging against by buying ecig companies themselves) and now seek to destroy all other competition.
And the anti-ecig cargo cultists have no problem with playing right into it and thus supporting big tobacco.
Where I live, local municipalities have the power to grant a monopoly to a cable company the right to string its cables along telephone poles. In exchange, the municipality gets a fee from each cable customer. As I write this, I wonder about the perversity of this system, but I digress.
These fees show up in one's bill as franchise fees. Of course, many do not blame the municipal leaders, they complain about the cable company, the counterparty in this agreement. What a great way to levy a tax!
In my case, my sole cable choice is Comcast.
My only leverage is to threaten annually to switch my television service to DirectTV, which I do. This takes about two hours of wait time to get a live salesperson who has the authority to cut a deal.
North of me, another cable company dominates a large area, with the same arrangements of franchise fees.
Now, the argument is that no cable company would ever string cable unless it were guaranteed a monopoly franchise, guaranteeing a return on the investment of all that cable, back when cable was the only available technology.
My question is, why give the township, or the borough, or the city that power to grant the franchise? Why not let any cable company pay whoever owns the pole for the stringing the cable, bypassing the municipality altogether?
I know there are many other questions one might ask on the subject, but I would be interested if somebody could give a straight answer to that one.
Isn't it a bit redundant to invoke both Earthlink and Mindspring, which have been a single entity for many years?
The only problem I have with this post is the word "secretly" in the title. Often the support is not secret.
Who is your local phone company?
Verizon. DSL is unavailable; I happen to be at the end of a copper wire. Across the road, a quarter mile away, is a DSL connection. I have good wireless for my iPhone, but that's another story.
I wonder if people pay enough attention to the truth-filled quote from James Taranto, "To control against the risk of confiscatory rates, the Supreme Court also required the state regulator to allow each firm to obtain a market rate of return on its invested capital, taking into account the inherent riskiness of the venture."
Sometimes, businesses can have trouble in passing taxes onto customers, but that is never the problem in regulated businesses. Legally, the regulated rates need to be adjusted upwards when a regulated business is exposed to higher taxes.
I wasn't thinking of DSL. If your local phone company was AT&T I was going to suggest looking into Uverse.
Uverse is TV and Internet over two copper wire pairs. Internet connection speeds are well above standard DSL.
I guess. If you only see it is a zero sum game. With regulated ISP's it is a zero sum game because the technology will never change. New technologies will die before they can start. So yes, with regulation it is only a matter of how do you slice the apple pie and it is never a choice of what kind of pie.
My local phone company here in Tulsa, advertized a fantastic $29 a month rate for 10 mbs something or other (can't be called high speed any longer), but the state of OK forces them to offer phone service with that, and assesses all the special phone charges, so my Internet bill is huge. Cox the cable company doesn't have to do this.
But agree with you, half the problem we have is there is no competition. One cable company and one phone company for everyone - if you are lucky. There are towns in CA where DSL wasn't allowed because the Cable company bribed the city enough to ban it. There are other places where the phone company never installed DSL.
If the cities weren't allowed to grant monopoly access, we would have much more choice, and in the backend there would be more competition as well. Net neutrality wouldn't be a problem. Best way to increase internet speed is to increase local competition - not mandate it be called 25 mb/s, or demand net neutrality on behalf of Google.
Where there is a lack of competition in ISPs, pricing will provide incentive for competition so the providers won't be able to gouge forever. Where there is competition, greater government regulation guarantees that the price of service will go up, the quality of service will go down, and the variety of what you are able to access will be diminished. The first 2 are obvious since there is no natural monopoly on ISPs. Regulating content is really what this is all about and that is exactly what we will get and the "fairness doctrine" will re-emerge with a leftist/socialist slant on everything. Guaranteed.
Presumably you favor government intervention and are arguing that we should individually be indifferent because the outcome is the same to us - "same $100 a month".
But, that bypasses the whole point of the post ... answering why would the stock prices rise.
And, it only looks at it from the immediate term, conflating that as long term outcome.
We don't know where innovation will take us, but we do know that regulation does create obstacles to innovation / disruption.
This is something that is highly desirable to incumbent companies, particularly where technology is involved.
Regulation has the potential to create a zero sum outcome, in their favor. At the very least, it will significantly reduce their risk (lowering the "discount factor" on the future "cash flow" the companies are expected to earn = higher NPV = higher stock price).
Sort of a nit, as the point is that companies often don't openly advertize that they lobby for specific legislative outcomes, (but even if they do) nor do they specifically fully disclose / publicize **ALL** their rationale (real motives) for supporting the positions they do. We usually only hear the "customer consumable" rationale. Thus, we are often left guessing (even though it might be an obvious guess).
Dan, I think wireless will do it. There is an AT&T mounted on a water tower one mile from where I sit. The water tower, absent regulatory hurdles, has plenty of room for many companies who are willing to buy a high-capacity router, and buy the signal and give me the Comcast Triple Play without Comcast. The big disappointment will be to miss a few live Phillies and Flyers games.this should be doable at a subscription fee of, say $900 a year, even with the $700 per year franchise fees to pay for the township manager's $100,000 per year pay package.


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The work is stimulating and important, but not everyone lasts in this business.
Consulting is the business of providing advice to firms in trouble; firms on the move and firms which are trying to do what they do better, faster, and more cheaply. Consulting is about business. People who love business like consulting.
Consulting requires the ability to listen to your customer; it also requires the ability to explain to your customer. Consulting is about communication. Good communicators do well in consulting.
The business of consulting has been growing by leaps and bounds in the last decade. There is a lot of hiring going on and there is likely to be strong demand in the future.
You would usually start in an analyst position. To succeed in these positions you need to be extremely dedicated and be willing to travel. Many, but not all, positions are grueling because they require long hours and heavy travel.
It's important to have a good network of business contacts in consulting as you progress. New business development becomes part of your job. As your classmates rise in their respective business areas it is important to stay in touch with them as they may become your future customers.
A key to success in consulting is teamwork. Being able to pull together persons with large egos to get a presentation together for a client is a challenge and is likely to be rewarded highly. You will almost always work as part of a team.
At it's essence, consulting is using stretching and using your brain. A consultant sells ideas, smarts, brilliance (and, of course, talks a lot about transforming ideas into action). People with serious smarts and analytical firepower are in constant demand from the very best consulting firms.
Candidates with original perspective wanted. Consultants listen, analyze and solve. To put it all together you have to be able to look at things differently than the average manager out there. If you've lived in a different country, or have a strong background in a non-business area like literature, music or biology, you may have just the type of thought-process a consulting firm is looking for.
If you have serious experience working in a specific industry, be it utilities, paper, airlines, retail or financial services, there probably is a consulting firm looking for you. Firms want specialists with deep knowledge in specific industries who can understand the present and envision the future.
If you can understand a clients needs, help them formulate a solution and then present your findings effectively, whether it be one-on-one or in front of a crowd with the latest multimedia technology, you will be in demand. Ability to present well is something that takes hard work for almost everyone. Try to convey your commitment and ability in this area.
Similarly, the ability to make a good presentation is very important and some firms like Bain and McKinsey have taken Powerpoint presentations to a high art. Gary Zelazny, McKinsey's Director of Visual Communications, has written two books on good presentations and charts which are of nearly biblical importance for serious consultants.
There are plenty of time when the work is less than glamormous. Taking an idea you already understand and applying it to a new client. Or doing laborious industry research. Or using simple common sense on clients that don't need a Ph.D., just a kick in the pants. Be sure that you have realistic expectations about what the work is like day to day.


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Who was Mahatma Gandhi?
by adminPosted on May 14, 2019 May 14, 2019
Some world personalities, for the representativeness they have achieved in their time, are remembered to this day. This is the case of the Indian pacifist leader, Mahatma Gandhi . He was born in the year 1869 in the town of Porbandar, in western India, now state of Gujarat.
Throughout his life he fought for his ideals, so much that it became a reference until the day of his death, which happened on October 30, 1948. However, his contribution to humanity did not cease with his departure. His concepts ended up being eternal, being followed by many to this day.
The story of Mahatma Gandhi
One could say that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a privileged child. He was the son of a prime minister and a devout Vaisnava. By the age of 13, she had her marriage arranged with Kasturba Gandhi, aged 14. The agreement was made between the two families, as was customary in the culture of the time.
It was not part of Indian customs, especially for people of the caste to which Gandhi belonged, to leave the country to study abroad. However, he challenged these regulations to pursue the dream of studying law in London at the University of Oxford, England. In the year 1891, he returns to the country to pursue his profession.
Fight for ideals
In the year 1983, Gandhi arrives in South Africa, a British colony, where he initiated a pacifist movement. With the end of World War I, the bourgeoisie in India developed a strong nationalist movement, which gave rise to the formation of the Indian National Congress Party .
Among the leaders of this movement were Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nahru. Among the party's concepts were total independence from India; the formation of a democratic confederation; political equality for all races, religions and classes, socioeconomic and administrative reforms and the modernization of the state.
It was not long before Gandhi stood out as the main character in the fight. Unlike other revolutionaries, Gandhi did not use physical force to fight his enemies. He resorted to fasts, marches, and civil disobedience. Another weapon he used was to encourage people not to pay taxes and not to consume English products.
Gandhi's Prison
In the year 1919, one episode in particular caused that Gandhi began its fight for the independence of the country. British soldiers killed about 400 Indians. The leader felt that he should do something for the brothers who lost their lives. However, in the year 1922 his battle was halted, as he was arrested, tried and sentenced to six years in prison .
Upon his release in 1924, Gandhi was faced with a situation very different from the situation he had left behind when he was taken prisoner. With the same enthusiasm as before, the leader fought for the reunification of the Indian communities and also for the reordering of the Indian National Congress Party. This, in turn, had been divided between Hindus and Muslims.
It was in the year 1930 that the leader takes the edge of the march to the sea, gathering thousands to protest against salt taxes. The group walked more than 300 kilometers. Attending the Second Round Table Conference in London in 1931, Gandhi claimed the independence of his country.
Independence of India
The continuation of the struggle for the withdrawal of the British was only resumed by Gandhi with the beginning of World War II, which, in turn, extended until the year of 1947, when the English recognized the independence of India . The condition imposed was that the country be divided into two nations: the Indian Union and Pakistan .
Not content with the situation, the migration movement has grown dramatically, resulting in a series of conflicts. Contrary to the sentiment of the nationalists, Gandhi accepted the division.
Taken by the feeling of revolt, a Hindu rebel, he assassinated the Indian leader, one year after independence. Gandhi was in New Delhi, the Indian capital.
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When It Comes to Inclusion, Be The Tortoise
In the fable of the tortoise and the hare, we see the patient, consistent, tortoise wins a race against the faster hare. Literally, the tortoise caught the hare sleeping.
And while we can debate whether this fable could actually net out to be true in the real world (I'd argue yes — I present this one YouTube video above as proof), the power of the lesson can be applied to many aspects of our lives.
Consistency always wins in the end.
This is just as true for improving diversity and inclusion within organizations. Too often, we opt for expediency and sacrifice substance and longevity in the process. Either because there is a difficult decision to make between increasing capacity immediately and developing inclusion over time, or because all values are not treated equally.
Maybe you've heard or seen these sentiments expressed before...
We need to hire someone now and we don't have time to expand our search.
We have a number of qualified candidates already.
Diversity is one of our important values, and we must balance that with other equally important values (.i.e. speed, efficiency, culture fit).
Whether recruiting or retaining talent or having difficult conversations about developing policies or practices that address difficult and complex diversity challenges, it's easy to default to solutions that don't limit our sprint. If an idea to address workforce complaints about lack of diversity can be implemented with relatively few barriers, that becomes more attractive than slowing down or stopping to feel each bump in the road, because we aren't being forced to break our stride.
And it feels good. We see companies mistake their speed for progress, and like the hare, rest on the laurels of their accomplishments, while the real challenge laps them. But this shouldn't be about speed; building inclusion is about consistency.
Building inclusion is also about confronting difficult challenges. Realizing that a potential solution is complicated or not straightforward is not an excuse for inaction. Yet, it sometimes becomes one. Rather than seeing the finish line and figuring out how to get there and confront the obstacles on the way, we sometimes start running with no clear end in sight, and see obstacles as a sign to quit while we are ahead.
Except we aren't ahead. Inclusion suffers when we focus on fast and easy solutions to real concerns people have about diversity, inclusion, or culture. And when we do that, it sends the message that inclusion actually doesn't matter all that much.
How many times have we seen people, organizations, or companies confront seemingly intractable problems with fervor, passion, and resilience? I have no doubt that some of our widely celebrated innovations today began with someone saying "it can't be done" and still others never conceiving a world where that innovation could exist. When we see a tangible benefit or a clear value, we mobilize all our resources to realize the potential there. While speed can be a competitive advantage, it doesn't come at the expense of vision and commitment.
Think of building inclusion the same way — as a complex problem where the solution has tangible benefits and clear value. Over indexing on speed without a clear vision or commitment to the race to get there is not how we innovate and create the solution we want to see.
Before "hopping" in (see what I did there?) :
Identify where the finish line is. We can always improve, so I'm not advocating for a cliff where we stop addressing our gaps and working to address our blind spots. What I am advocating for is developing a clear goal you'd like to achieve. Something that feels tangible and concrete.
Know what victory looks like. There is finishing, and then there is the victory lap. For Olympic runners, they get to take a lap with their country's flag. For racecar drivers at the Indy500, it's a glass of milk. The vision of sharing in that tradition fuels the motivation to keep pushing when the race gets hard, or to not stop when it seems like victory is close at hand. Building inclusion requires that same vision. It's not enough to want to cross the finish line because it's there — without some vision of the future and real connection to it, any real commitment will fade when the task becomes hard or there is no one behind you pushing you to keep going.
Run a consistent race. The one sport I pretended I was committed to in middle and high school was track & field. I may have been mediocre at best at the running part, but conceptually, I understood what it took to win. We were always told by our coach to "run our race". It meant being really clear on what your pace was, what your plan for each 200m of that race would be, and not be easily deterred from executing that plan by other people doing different things around you. Start running too fast, too soon, and you will burn out. Run too slow in the beginning and try to catch up in the end, and you will lose a lot of momentum. Run your inclusion race, not someone else's. What does your organization need? What can you actually give in this race, and are you willing to provide it consistently?
What this is not is me advocating for moving slow. It is me advocating for moving purposefully. When we look at the fable of the tortoise and the hare, some may see the takeaway as "slow and steady wins the race." However, I believe that undercuts the powerful imagery of the tortoise and the race it ran. I believe the true takeaway should be amended to say "deliberate and steady wins the race".
In inclusion, we must not romanticize the value of speed in problem-solving when it's not paired with consistency and resilience.


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Q: images to open modal i have some images in rows and columns that i want to open a modal when they are clicked. so far only the first image will open the modal and i cant for the life of me figure out why it doesnt work for all of the others code below:
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modal_open.addEventListener('click', () => {
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A: Well its because getElementById returns only one element with the given id in your case only the first one. Maybe try the following.

const clicker = () => {

 //get htmlCollection of the img elements by class name
const imgs = document.getElementsByClassName('modal');

//iterate over the images and add an event listener
    for(let img of imgs){
        img.addEventListener('click', () => {
            alert("clicked!")
        });
    }
}

window.onload = () => {
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Ofc insted of alert('clicked') add
document.getElementById("my_modal").style.display = "block";


WINNIPEG - Alberta's Austin Cole, York's Peirce Lepage and Brittany Crew and Saskatchewan's Julianne Labach were honoured Thursday morning as the U SPORTS track and field Athletes of the Year, as the national season award winners were celebrated at the annual awards luncheon.
In men's competition, the recipients included Cole (Track MVP), Lepage (field MVP), Matthew MacNeill of Guelph (Rookie of the Year) and Alberta's Spencer Allen (Student-Athlete Community Service Award).
On the women's side, Labach was named the outstanding performer in track events, Crew captured field MVP honours, Regina's Joely Welburn earned the Rookie of the Year and Western's Shaelyn Laurie took home the Student-Athlete Community Service Award.
Early in his post-secondary journey Allen was diagnosed with testicular cancer. After initial surgery the cancer returned. He completed multiple rounds of chemotherapy in attempts to fight off the disease. He was diagnosed a third time and received surgery.
Without any signs of cancer returning over the last couple of years, it appears the disease is in remission. As a way to contribute back, Allen is very active in the Cross-Cancer Institute, giving back to the Behavioral Medicine lab that is conducting world leading research and work in the fight against cancer. It is important to Allen to help others, and he is doing so in a very impactful and exemplary way. Allen is active in all elements of the lab and often interacts with patients encouraging them and helping build exercise programs. He spends a majority of his day every week in that environment.
In addition to his broader community contributions he is quite active in supporting local track and field events at all levels, always willing to volunteer hours at the track through coaching, clinics or helping run competitive opportunities for kids.
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Euro High Yield Proves Resilient Against Pandemic Backdrop
High yield issuers are typically more dependent on growth, so a reflationary scenario makes the asset class relatively attractive. And while default risk remains a big fear, government support schemes and favourable financing conditions should help. Finally, as investors search for yield in 2021, high yield compares favourably to government bonds and investment grade credit.
The Backdrop for Euro High Yield
Markets have been volatile so far in 2021. Equities initially rallied to fresh highs before getting vertigo and retracing those gains. The creep of shutdowns, as a result of rising COVID-19 infections, has ensured weak economic growth to start the year; it is not quite the springboard that the market had anticipated. In addition, market volatility – largely a result of the GameStop shenanigans – has potentially caused some market participants to reduce their risk exposure.
Intermittent challenges to the orthodoxy that 2021 will be the year of the rebound are likely to continue to emerge, but the greater force is acting to support the economy. Growth should remain well underpinned by low central bank rates and ongoing asset purchases. Add to that substantial fiscal packages that have yet to feed through into demand. Furthermore, vaccine roll-outs should allow some reopening of the economy, which in turn would unleash pent-up consumer demand. While growth forecasts made in November 2020 may now appear optimistic, the most likely scenario remains a meaningful economic rebound in 2021.
In this context, we continue to favour European high yield bonds for three reasons:
High yield issuers are typically more dependent on growth, so this reflationary scenario makes the asset class relatively attractive. Of note during the January risk 'wobbles,' Euro high yield actually held up remarkably well. There was only one day during this period that the option-adjusted spread on the Bloomberg Barclays Liquidity Screened Euro High Yield Index moved wider than it had been at the end of 2020, despite sharp falls in equity markets. This hints at an underlying appetite to buy the asset class on any price weakness. This strategy could have served investors well in H2 2020, when spikes wider in spreads on the back of economic concerns typically proved short-lived.
Default risk remains the big fear for high yield investors. A slow start to 2021 presumably raises these risks but there are several reasons why this is not a normal credit cycle. The extension of government support schemes to help corporates through lockdown, in conjunction with favourable financing conditions, has bolstered corporate survival. It is notable that the pace of ratings downgrades has slowed significantly, with Moody's downgrading 15 European non-investment-grade issuers in January 2021 against an average of over 90 per month in Q2 2020.1 Gross issuance is also likely to be lower than in 2020, creating a more favourable supply-demand dynamic.
Investors are likely to reach for yielding assets in 2021. Government bond yields are negative in the euro area and offer little in the way of potential capital gains. Yields on investment grade credit are also low, with spreads close to their tightest levels over the past two years. High yield offers not only yield but also low duration risk relative to government bonds. The Bloomberg Barclays Liquidity Screened Euro High Yield Index yields around 2.5% for a duration of 3.25 years against the Bloomberg Barclays Euro-Aggregate: Treasury Index with a yield of -15bp but a duration of over 8.8 years.2
Now Nine and Feeling Fine
On 3 February 2021, the SPDR® Bloomberg Barclays Euro High Yield Bond UCITS ETF celebrated its nine-year anniversary. Since inception, the ETF has generated an annualised return of nearly 5.5%.3 The fund has continued to gather assets recently, with inflows of around $100 million year to date, lifting the AUM above $1.1 billion. This larger size, coupled with buoyant secondary market activity, has allowed the five-day average bid-ask spread on the ETF to compress to just 11bp.4 Given the constructive backdrop for risk assets and the ongoing investor search for yield, we expect the SPDR® Bloomberg Barclays Euro High Yield Bond UCITS ETF to remain a key building block in investor portfolios, enhancing overall yield and helping to limit duration risk.
How to play this theme:
Investors looking to access European high yield exposure can do so through a SPDR ETF. To learn more about the ETF, and to view full performance history, please follow the link below:
SPDR® Bloomberg Barclays Euro High Yield Bond UCITS ETF (Dist)
European-Domiciled ETP Segment Flows(Top/Bottom 5, $mn)
European-Domiciled ETP Asset Category($mn)
Sources: Bloomberg Finance L.P., for the period 28 January – 4 February 2021. Flows are as of date indicated and should not be relied upon as current thereafter. This information should not be considered a recommendation to invest in a particular sector or to buy or sell any security shown. It is not known whether the sectors or securities shown will be profitable in the future.
1Source: Moody's and Bloomberg. Data for Western Europe as of 3 February 2021
2Source: Bloomberg Finance L.P., as of 3 February 2021.
3Source: State Street Global Advisors, as of 3 February 2021.
4Source: State Street Global Advisors, Bloomberg Finance L.P., as of 3 February 2021.
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