This shot doesn't do justice to the beauty of the sky in our area the other day, but I still wanted to share it.
Today Photos – Happy Spring!
I'm bound and determined to celebrate the first day of spring today, despite some very uncooperative weather! The local trees are ready and waiting (except the last tree, which must not have gotten the memo).
These photos were taken at a local park in fall, just before the boats were stowed for the winter. This weekend, they will be out on the water again! And for an added attraction, the swans will be woken up again, too.
'Tis still a bit too cold for me, though.


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Blind Image To Rock Dubai
mihir.sinha
Chennai's metal protégés, Blind Image, will continue spreading their musical tentacles far and wide in the New Year too, with planned co-headlining performances at Saarang 2012 and at Metal Asylum Dubai.
Blind Image made the proverbial step-up last year in November, when they flew out to play a series of gigs on the Australian eastern seaboard, rocking out in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Shepparton, besides also headlining Festival Whiplash in Canberra.
That was a start, and their appearance alongside Vildhjarta and Scribe as co-headliners at Saarang 2012 should be the right building blocks. Their show at Metal Asylum Dubai is, of course, the coup de grace, as Blind Image will be able to take Indian metal to a part of the world which isn't a traditional stronghold of the genre.
The show was conceived by Metality UAE, an organization given to changing the Arab indifference to metal – at least within the more cosmopolitan realms of Dubai.
On the day – 24th of February, to be precise – Blind Image will be sharing the spotlight with the band REMA from Georgia and other local Dubai bands.
Krish, our man from the band, has even promised to carry along CDs of other Indian metal artists to distribute at the show. Like true envoys of our culture, because this be some metal that is totally Indian m/
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Q: Given a lowercase string, 's', return the index of the first character that appears just once in the string """    If every character appears more than once, return -1. Example input: s: "Who wants hot watermelon?. output: 8."""
def findLastIndex(str, x):
    index = -1
    for i in range(0, len(str)):
        if str[i] == x:
            index = i
    return index

# String in which char is to be found
str = "Who wants hot watermelon"

# char whose index is to be found
x = 's'

index = findLastIndex(str, x)

if index == -1:
    print("Character not found")
else:
    print(index)

A: Try this:
def func(s):
    for i in range(len(s)):
        if s.count(s[i]) == 1:
            return i
    return -1

A: I think this is a simple way to do it:
def f(s):
    for i,c in enumerate(s):
        if s.count(c) == 1:
            return i
    return -1

assert f("who wants hot watermelon?") ==  8
assert f("aa") == -1

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Did you know that around 12 million Americans today are affected by sleep apnea? This common disorder can wreak havoc on your health and your quality of life over time, which is why intervention from a trusted professional as early as possible is so vital. If you've been diagnosed with mild to moderate obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), Dr. Ronan Freyne can provide relief in the form of a custom oral appliance! All you have to do is give our Chevy Chase, MD office a call. Our team looks forward to helping you feel warmly welcomed and right at home.
Obstructive sleep apnea occurs when the patient experiences a physical blockage in their airway as they rest. This is typically caused by a collapse of the soft tissue in their throat. As a result, the brain is deprived of oxygen and must force the patient to awake and correct the problem. Many sleep apnea patients don't even realize the constant disruption during the course of their sleeping, but this cycle deprives the body and mind of the deep sleep it needs.
How Do You Treat Sleep Apnea?
Traditionally, a CPAP machine is still the most common form of sleep apnea treatment. While effective, this technique has its problems, though. The bulky machinery and loud noises are difficult for many patients to handle, not to mention how challenging it is to travel with and partners to live with. For this reason, many people prefer to go without the CPAP, leaving them at risk for future systemic problems. Thankfully, oral appliance therapy provides a more convenient and comfortable form of relief for sufferers of mild to moderate sleep apnea. Your "snore guard" is worn comfortably throughout the night, and it's designed to reposition the jaw and/or tongue so that the airway no longer becomes blocked. This means that you're able to enjoy quality, uninterrupted sleep once more.


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>February
>UNM nuclear engineers part of national consortium to strengthen nuclear security
UNM nuclear engineers part of national consortium to strengthen nuclear security
February 7, 2019 - By Kim Delker
Researchers from The University of New Mexico Department of Nuclear Engineering are part of a 14-university team that will seek to improve capabilities to monitor the global nuclear fuel cycle, with the overall charge of boosting nuclear safety.
UNM is part of the Consortium for Monitoring, Technology and Verification, which will focus on nuclear and particle physics, signals and source terms, and the physics of monitoring nuclear materials. The science generated will advance the national capability to detect and characterize foreign nuclear weapons development programs and detect activities not in compliance with current treaty obligations.
UNM's share of the five-year award from the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA) is $1.5 million. The UNM team is led by Anil K. Prinja, Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Nuclear Engineering. Also on the UNM team are Adam Hecht and Christopher Perfetti, both faculty members in nuclear engineering.
Universities partnering with UNM on the team include the University of Michigan (lead), Princeton University, Columbia University, the University of California, Berkeley, as well as several national laboratories, including Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
A second consortium, called the Consortium for Enabling Technologies and Innovation, led by Georgia Institute of Technology and includes 12 universities working to develop and refine technologies supporting the nonproliferation mission to detect and characterize the production of nuclear materials.
Together, the two projects total $50 million, with the overarching goal of bolstering nuclear security.
"These grants will foster development of concepts and technologies that keep the United States at the forefront of nuclear monitoring and verification capabilities and allow us to nurture tomorrow's nonproliferation experts," Brent K. Park, NNSA deputy administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, said in a statement.


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package OptimizationTests.ShortLeafMethodsInlining.InvokeDirect_div_float_001;
class Main {
    final static int iterations = 10;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Test test = new Test();
        float workJ = 10.0f;
        float workK = 15.0f;

        System.out.println("Initial workJ value is " + workJ);

        for(float i = 0.0f; i < iterations; i++) {
            workJ = test.shim(workJ, workK) + i;
        }

        System.out.println("Final workJ value is " + workJ);
    }
}

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Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2017-05-20, good fight between Kosei Tanaka and Angel Acosta: it gets three stars.
Both undefeated, the 21-year-old world champion in two different weight classes Kosei Tanaka entered this fight with a perfect boxing record of 8-0-0 (5 knockouts) and he is ranked as the No.3 light flyweight in the world while his opponent, the 26-year-old Angel Acosta, has a record of 16-0-0 (16 KOs=100%) and he entered as the No.10 in the same weight class (currently the #1 in this division is Ganigan Lopez). Tanaka fought twice last year winning over Rene Patilano (=Tanaka vs Patilano) and Moises Fuentes (=Fuentes vs Tanaka) while 'Tito' Acosta fought three times defeating Erickson Martell, Juan Guzman and Luis Ceja; Acosta has also fought once in 2017 beating Japhet Uutoni. Kosei Tanaka vs Angel Acosta is valid for the WBO World light flyweight title (Tanaka's first defense). Watch the video and rate this fight!


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HONOR 70 Review: Beauty in Symmetry
HONOR has made a successful comeback in the Philippines, bringing a plethora of new devices to compete against regular gamers. The most attractive product may be the HONOR 70the latest in the company's line of mid-to-high range smartphones.
From the first moment, it can be said that the HONOR 70 is a magnificent piece of technology. Symmetry is the theme of its design, and HONOR didn't skimp on the internal specs either. It's fair to rate this phone top to bottom and inside out.
A perfect fit for any hand.
On paper, the HONOR 70's 6.67-inch 1080p display looks overwhelming for small hands. However, once you get the hang of it, you'll be amazed at how manageable it actually is. The front and back panels are perfectly curved to fit any hand size. Although the screen is tall, it is a pleasure to slide the sides with its gradual inclination.
We must also commend the overall symmetrical look. The perforated camera is located in the upper center and the chin is almost as thin as the forehead. Looking from the side reveals how even the leading and trailing edges are. The two large circles at the rear contain the three camera modules and the LED flash in an equally nice way.
Our Midnight Black unit
Check out the Crystal Silver color variant here
Practicality extends to weight and dimensions. With a total weight of just 178g and a thickness of 7.9mm, the HONOR 70 is easy to carry despite its premium appearance. It certainly beats its price class in terms of design; even those who don't like curved screens would appreciate the feel of this smartphone.
We only have two complaints about the design. One, there is significant wobble on a flat surface, even with the included clear case equipped. We would have preferred to add thickness to the plastic case to avoid this. Two, there's only one speaker on board and it's pretty weak. A phone that big could have placed a second speaker in the earpiece or on the top edge. We assume this was another weight reduction decision by HONOR.
Sharpness and clarity above all
As attractive as the HONOR 70 is, the highlight is its cameras. They all do a fantastic job of capturing scenes quickly and in high quality. While it seems like vloggers are the target market, its photographic performance is up there with the best in this price range.
The 54-megapixel main camera does most of the legwork. Its sharpness and dynamic range can rival the image sensors in high-end smartphones. The photos always came out stunning with lots of detail and consistency from scene to scene. Processing was fast, even in portrait mode or during night photography. Output is 12.6 megapixels by default for better noise suppression and smaller file sizes.
The 50-megapixel ultra-wide camera was equally impressive. Despite having an f/2.4 aperture compared to the main camera's brighter f/1.9 aperture, photos from the ultrawide sensor were just as sharp, and colors weren't too far off from the main camera's output. The ultrawide module also acts as a macro camera. The results are impressive for a secondary feature. Close-up shots were very easy to take and always on point of focus. We wish we could give the same praise to the 2-megapixel depth camera, which felt like a useless addition to the package.
sample shots
Finally, the 32-megapixel front camera gave mixed results. On the one hand, selfies were excellent, giving us solid photos and the option to reduce beauty and background blur settings when needed. On the other hand, he had difficulty with skin tone and exposure with a face mask on. We tried different scenarios and environments, but there was often a tone that was too warm no matter what type of mask we wore.
As for the software, the most interesting feature is the Solo Cut mode. Produces a secondary vertical video of your chosen subject when recording videos. The camera app tracks the person in the frame and highlights them in a picture-in-picture style video. It didn't always work, but when it did, the effect was fun to watch. Multi-video is another notable feature. You could record two videos at the same time using two different cameras. It can be a combination of front and rear cameras, or two rear cameras at the same time. Again, it's nice to have in the few instances you would need it.
cutting mode only
The fan-favorite Snapdragon is here
The agility of the HONOR 70 is attributed to its Snapdragon 778G Plus chipset. It's Qualcomm's top mid-range processor with a balanced blend of power and efficiency. As we've experienced in similarly equipped devices, this chipset boasts strong real-world performance and benchmark numbers across the board. In terms of gaming, it can handle a graphics-heavy title like Genshin Impact on medium settings at 30fps or low settings at 60fps. It also stays cool for long periods, protecting our hands from excessive heat.
Some landmarks
Looking at the PCMark battery life score, 11 hours and 31 minutes seems lackluster, especially when compared to the lower-end smartphones we've previously reviewed. However, that's at the dynamic refresh rate setting which prioritizes 120Hz over the standard 60Hz, and actual use paints a different picture. Our on-screen screen time hovered around seven hours on a single charge in daily use at the same dynamic refresh rate. That's above average for the 4,800mAh battery. Plus, it only takes 50 minutes to fully charge the HONOR 70 with the included 66-watt charger.
It takes only 50 minutes to fully charge the HONOR 70 with the included 66-watt charger.
The HONOR 70's operating system is less impressive. Although it arrives with Android 12, Magic UI 6.1 seems outdated at this point. There haven't been many visual changes since Huawei and HONOR's Android 10 and 11-based UIs. Many deeper features of Android 12, such as notification control and launcher customization, are noticeably absent. On the plus side, it has Google Play services unlike recent Huawei phones, so you can download your regular Android apps without a hitch. Bloatware is abundant but manageable. You can uninstall everything except the HONOR App Market and My HONOR apps, the latter of which is not even supported in the Philippines.
It's hard to find any weaknesses in the HONOR 70. It does everything well, it even excels in some, and it looks great while doing it. If we had to be picky, we'd deduct points for the poor speaker and dated interface. They hinder a smooth user experience.
The unit we tested has 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, and is priced at P26,990 (around $458). If you can settle for a slightly stripped-down chipset, the Xiaomi 12Lite it is a more affordable alternative. If you want the same processor at a much lower price, there's the Live T1 5G. If you don't mind switching to a MediaTek chipset and a more gamer-focused aesthetic, the Realme GT Neo 3 is a compelling competitor.
"It's hard to find any weaknesses in the HONOR 70. It does everything well, even stands out on some, and looks great doing it."
—Marvin Velasco
HONOR 70 specifications
6.67-inch 1080p OLED, 120Hz refresh rate
Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G Plus 5G processor
54 megapixel main camera, 50 megapixel ultra wide angle and 2 megapixel depth camera
32 megapixel front camera
Under-display fingerprint reader
66W fast charge
Magic UI 6.1, based on Android 12
Colors: Crystal Silver, Midnight Black (only colors available in the Philippines)
You can buy the HONOR 70 from lacing or any of the stores here.
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Marvin Velasco is a former technology editor who continues to read and write about the latest trends. He also dabbles in old-school technology like film photography, but don't call him a hipster!
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Greetings, marketers! We're here to give you the most succinct and straightforward primer for success with branding on LinkedIn.
To help you along your learning journey, we'll include plenty of links to guides and content with additional information. Ready? Let's get started.
LinkedIn hosts an ever-expanding member base of more than 590 million professionals who use the platform to network, research, and grow their careers. This mindset and intent makes LinkedIn a uniquely powerful social media channel for B2B marketers.
Offering a full suite of products to help companies gain relevant visibility and recognition with their most valuable audiences, LinkedIn has proven a sound branding investment, which is why 97% of B2B marketers utilize it for their content marketing efforts.
Growing the exposure of your content is a primary goal of brand awareness campaigns.
Increasing your follower count helps build a foundation for sustained, organic reach.
Getting members to interact with your content will help increase the stickiness of your messages.
LinkedIn helps marketers achieve these objectives through organic and paid content with sophisticated targeting to ensure you're gaining awareness with the right people. In-depth analytics tools allow you to meaningfully report on results and prove the impact of your digital branding campaigns.
Without awareness, there can be no lead. There is a very real interplay between these two tactics, with one feeding into the next.
Generating familiarity with your target audience is critical. Well executed brand awareness campaigns help foster consistent growth for lead generation initiatives.
Today's buying committees are larger and more distributed than ever. In the ideal scenario, an influential decision maker will encounter the exact piece of content they need from your company at the perfect moment, but a more realistic and sustainable model involves cultivating a positive and memorable impression so your brand comes to mind when purchase discussions take place.
Thought leadership represents the intersection between B2B brand awareness and lead generation, helping to frame your company and its leaders as trustworthy, authoritative sources.
75% of would-be buyers say thought leadership helps them determine which vendor to put on their short list.
79% of would-be buyers point to thought leadership as critical for determining which providers they want to learn more about.
Nine out of 10 B2B decision makers find thought leadership important, and nearly half of all C-suite executives spend at least an hour engaging with this content weekly.
So we know it's important to build brand awareness and establish thought leadership. But with whom? Understanding your target audience and how they operate is essential to effective marketing. One of the biggest strengths of leveraging LinkedIn lies in the ability to access rich member profile data and utilize precise targeting filters.
What is our current position in the market, relative to competitors?
How do our customers view us, and how do we want to be viewed?
What is our desired audience generally interested in? How can we align with it?
If you aren't sure, don't worry: there are tools that can help surface these insights.
Oftentimes, marketers rely on guesswork and assumptions when analyzing audience traits. At least, they used to. Today you can become more sophisticated and purposeful in this process.
At LinkedIn, we offer a tool called Website Demographics, which enables you to learn about the people who visit your site, helpfully informing future campaigns. By adding an Insight Tag to your website, you can collect aggregate data around professional attributes of your visitors — job title, seniority, function, company, industry, location, etc. You can then use this information to set targeting parameters for future campaigns.
At a high level, there are two targeting approaches marketers tend to deploy for brand awareness campaigns on LinkedIn.
The first is a broader and more general scope (though still refined by the practices we just covered). The second is an account-based marketing (ABM) model, which involves identifying and zeroing in on high-value prospective accounts, then placing them at the center of your brand awareness efforts.
Why Target an Account List for Branding?
One reason ABM is fast gaining popularity is because it's more conducive to the current B2B environment, where buying committees are growing larger and more distributed; this model emphasizes building deeper awareness throughout an organization rather than only at the surface level. ABM also, vitally, brings together marketing and sales with a shared focus and shared knowledge.
When it comes to understanding and engaging your audience, partnering with sales is critical. Sellers on the frontlines know better than anyone what kind of messaging resonates and converts with your best customers.
What Does a Successful Account Based Marketing Strategy Look Like?
The most crucial step in launching an ABM approach is putting together the right list of target accounts. This is where a partnership with sales becomes extremely valuable. Reps know who the buyers are and how their functions connect to the decision process. With this information, you can build lookalikes and start developing a collection of accounts that profile similarly and offer serious potential.
Once you've created your contact list, you can upload it into Campaign Manager using the Account Targeting feature, which cross-references against 8 million Company Pages on LinkedIn and automatically generates a targeted segment.
As mentioned earlier, one of the key benefits of account-based marketing is the way it's designed to establish deeper influence in buying committees. By studying target accounts and the content they share, you can learn what resonates with them and tailor your own marketing content accordingly. Take advantage of mutual connections to create new links to expand your brand's presence within the organization.
ABM challenges marketers to think differently about their messaging because it must reach both far and wide within a single account. You'll want to first create broader awareness across the company, because you probably don't initially know exactly who will influence a deal. Then, as you gain more visibility and insight, you can put more resources behind tactics to specifically zero in on key people with later-stage messaging.
When one member of a committee reaches out to another and says, "Hey, should we take a look at this solution from Company X?" and the other responds, "Oh yeah, I know them, they share a lot of great content on LinkedIn," that's a sign you're getting it right with brand awareness.
Even if you're not adopting an ABM model, you'll still want to set up strategic targeting for any brand awareness campaign.
It's not about getting in front of professionals, it's about getting in front of the right professionals. Within Campaign Manager, you'll be able to tweak a multitude of different filters to refine your scope.
If your aim is to raise brand awareness at scale, then define your relevant audience in the broadest terms possible. LinkedIn targeting parameters like industry, job function or broad-ranging skills are ideal for this. When you use LinkedIn Campaign Manager to set the targeting parameters for your campaign, you'll be given an estimate of your likely audience size. For building brand awareness, you should define an audience of at least 300,000 LinkedIn members, to enable you to reach your objectives cost-effectively. This will usually involve using a maximum of two targeting parameters, and the broad scope will often lead to lower competing bids.
As a marketer, these engagement rates and a low CPM provide you with valuable metrics to feed back to the business to show how your brand awareness campaign is performing. They may not track the impact of your activity all the way through to leads and conversions – but they give a useful indication of how efficiently you are filling the top of the demand generation funnel.
One powerful and easy way to qualify your audience for brand awareness campaigns is by taking advantage of LinkedIn's Website Retargeting function. With the same Insight Tag used to set up Website Demographics, you can track visitors to your site and then later serve them ads on LinkedIn. Statistics show that the average click-through rate on retargeted ads is 10 times higher than a standard display ad. This intuitively makes sense; familiarity matters, and past engagements with your company's site signal some level of interest or intent.
What kind of content should you create and share for branding campaigns on LinkedIn? Obviously the answer will vary depending on your company, industry, and audience. But one efficiency we generally advise is repurposing existing assets. Audit your content mix to determine what's connecting, and then adapt it for LinkedIn's professional audience.
Which of your posts are performing best? You could promote one via LinkedIn to give it more juice, or flip it into a self-published post on the platform with a byline from a company leader. Additionally, you might pull compelling excerpts from blog content and build Sponsored Content with it.
If you have a series of Instagram ads that are doing well, turn them into a Carousel Ad. Turn copy from AdWords campaigns into LinkedIn Text Ads. Or quickly rework Facebook Ads into Sponsored Content (no need to even change the image size).
Use video assets created for YouTube or other channels and run them as Sponsored Content on LinkedIn. If they have longer runtimes, it's wise to create a condensed version for improved engagement on busy feeds. The most effective videos on LinkedIn tend to be 15 seconds or shorter. Find more LinkedIn video tips.
Need specifications for the various ad types on LinkedIn? Find them all covered in our Ad Specs & Guidelines.
As we've seen, if you already have a solid content strategy in place, it won't necessarily take too much extra work to produce a sizable slate of usable assets for LinkedIn. Once you've got your content lined up, it's time to get it out there. Let's dig into the fundamentals.
Your LinkedIn Page (and related Showcase Pages) are your most important destinations for branding on LinkedIn. When someone is struck by an ad or piece of content you share on the platform, they're likely to click on your business name and take a closer look. Additionally, LinkedIn Pages are easily discovered through search.
Your LinkedIn Page is basically your brand hub on LinkedIn. This will include a wealth of information about your core business. Showcase Pages are distinct offshoots that can be used to highlight key sub-brands or business initiatives. You can share company updates and Sponsored Content directly from these pages.
You can best leverage LinkedIn Pages and Showcase Pages for branding by maintaining an active posting cadence, delivering useful content for your audience, activating employee advocates, and mixing in the right amount of paid amplification. With this approach you can seek to drive engagement metrics such as clicks and comments, and even more importantly, you can increase the follower counts for these pages, building up your future audience.
You can find an in-depth collection of best practices and recommended time allotment for brand-building via LinkedIn Pages and Showcase Pages in our LinkedIn Content Marketing Tactical Plan guide.
Campaigns are time-bound marketing programs with limited durations. These are core staples of the discipline. But these days, an always-on approach is becoming more prevalent. This is a customer-centric mindset that involves making your brand discoverable and reachable at all times, throughout a buyer's journey.
We find that the most effective approach for branding is a combination of the campaign and always-on methodologies. Fill your marketing funnel by running ad campaigns to promote webinars, ebooks, and infographics. Meanwhile, keep a steady flow of organic thought leadership content and make sure your company is interacting with members who engage with anything you publish.
Create visibility for your brand while inspiring trust and confidence through targeted top-of-funnel content.
A structured program for activating your employees to authentically advocate and spread the word.
Control your spend and targeting while building your brand in a premium context.
For always-on marketing, a consistent daily allotment might be best. Make a small proportion of your budget available for brand-building each month. You can spread this budget over a range of different brand assets, picking your top-performing organic posts to use as Sponsored Content, for example. Bidding on a cost per impressions (CPM) basis, where your competing bids will be lower, will help extend the reach of your budget as well.
Always keep a close eye on analytics. If the results aren't where you want them, you may want to recalibrate your bidding, targeting or content.
Measuring Thought Leadership on LinkedIn: Why and How?
By now we've established the importance of thought leadership as a B2B brand-building tool. But how do we assess the efficacy of our thought leadership content?
Before you launch thought leadership campaigns, it is important to determine what you hope to get out of them. Marketers typically gauge thought leadership impact across three categories: reputation, relationships, and revenue.
Much of what passes for so-called Thought Leadership isn't Thought Leadership. It's Thought Followership.
The key to being a Thought Leader is to... well, lead. What does that mean for you? Have an undiluted point of view - don't just tell me what's going on, tell me how you feel about it, and why I should care.
Thought Leaders sift through content mess to give context and perspective; because we don't need more content, but we do need more true insight.
Numbers of any kind don't mean much on their own. You'll need to establish who or what you are benchmarking against to provide context for your analytics.
Which metrics will you be measuring specifically? Where thought leadership is concerned, you'll likely want to track things like total impressions, clicks, and other engagements.
The extensive reporting tools in LinkedIn will make it easy to see who's interacting with specific content. Make sure to set up distinct thought leadership campaigns so you can measure these types of posts and ads on their own.
This ties back to the qualitative elements. Numbers can only tell us so much about the intangible impact of thought leadership content. Check in with key figures in your niche to learn how much your brand's voice is penetrating and gaining traction.
The best metrics for brand awareness depend on which product or tactic you're looking at. Here's a high level view of associated metrics for various brand-building tools on LinkedIn.
With longform posts from company leaders, or content shared by employee advocates, it's all about reach and engagement. Dig into analytics to see what kinds of professionals are interacting.
Naturally, you want to increase the followings for these pages, but quality definitely matters. Keep a close eye on the types of followers you're attracting to gauge whether your content is speaking to the right people.
Again, it's not just about quantity but quality. A close look at reporting will determine whether your ads are hitting home with the right audience. If not, you'll want to consider tweaking your creative or targeting.
How do we go beyond these surface-level metrics to get a clearer look at bottom-line impact from branding efforts centered on thought leadership?
From audience targeting to creative direction to distribution and measurement, we've covered the ins and outs of branding on LinkedIn. If you're interested in learning more, we encourage you to explore some of the links shared above.
B2B marketers invest in brand awareness on LinkedIn to reach targeted professional segments in a business mindset.
Thought leadership is proven to be one of the best branding tactics for B2B companies, improving buyer trust and confidence.
You can use LinkedIn Website Demographics as well as platform analytics to learn about your audience and tailor your branding content accordingly.
Account-based marketing, which involves the focused pursuit of select accounts, is rapidly gaining traction as a B2B strategy, and is well suited for LinkedIn.
You can efficiently produce branding content for LinkedIn by repurposing other assets and optimizing them for the network's professional context.
Always run multiple pieces of content simultaneously and use A/B testing to gauge what's working.
Measure thought leadership content based on quality more than quantity (i.e., who is seeing and engaging with this content, not just how many).


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Q: Máscara de campos de texto não funciona no ambiente mobile Utilizei o seguinte código em jQuery para mascarar o campo telefone por exemplo.
jQuery(document).ready(function () {
    $("#telefone").mask("(99)9999.9999");
});

Este código funciona perfeitamente no computador, porém no celular, só aparece a formatação esperando ser digitado algo, mas quando é digitado alguma coisa, a mascara não é aplicada, misturando assim, os números com os outros caracteres.
Exemplo do que acontece:

jQuery(function($){
$("#telefone").mask("(99) 9999-9999");
});

No desktop:
<input type="text" id="telefone">

No celular:
<input type="text" value="(__)____.____">

Alguém tem ideia de como corrigir isso?
Observação: Se você digitar a quantidade de números correta do telefone, mesmo que tenha outros caracteres no campo, ele aplica o filtro ao pressionar enter, ou clicar fora do campo.

A: Uma opção é usar uma mascara em puro javascript. Usando regex pode ser algo como:

document.getElementById('telefone').addEventListener('input', function (e) {
  var aux = e.target.value.replace(/\D/g, '').match(/(\d{0,2})(\d{0,4})(\d{0,4})/);
  e.target.value = !aux[2] ? aux[1] : '(' + aux[1] + ') ' + aux[2] + (aux[3] ? '-' + aux[3] : '');
});
<input type="text" id="telefone" placeholder="(99) 9999.9999"/>


Raw-Riffic Food: It's Easy To Be Green!
Kermit the frog once said, "It's not easy being green." Well, I don't exactly agree.
We can all agree that an overall healthy diet is a diet rich in fresh vegetables and fruits. By eating a plant rich diet the likeliness of disease and illness can be greatly reduced.
One of the most potent plant foods on the planet is the dark leafy green. Leafy greens include kale, spinach, chard, collards, dandelion, most lettuces, and other greens. Although dark leafy greens have been proven to be one of the best Superfoods to consume, it's one of the least consumed by most. Leafy greens are extremely powerful foods, rich in vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and phytonutrients. They have more nutrition per calorie than any other plant-based food. Leafy greens are also rich in fiber, low in fat and carbohydrates, and are an excellent source of protein. Dark leafy greens are most likely the most concentrated source of nutrition of any food you can consume.
"If dark leafy greens are that nutritionally power-packed, then why don't we consume more on a daily basis?" Good question! It's probably because the amount of greens that would need to be consumed to get the required calories needed to feel full is so great, that the average person may find it difficult to digest. Plus many greens may have a bitter taste, which isn't as palatable for most.
Green smoothies are easy to make, easy to clean up, easy to store (although fresh is always best), and can be inexpensive too. There are a variety of combinations you can prepare, the list is endless. You can make them with just a few ingredients, or add Superfoods to super-charge it's power. You can consume green smoothies for break, lunch, dinner, as a snack, and even as a dessert. It's easy to make smoothies when you travel too. Green smoothies are enjoyed by young and old. Have a green smoothie or two a day can provide you with most of your vitamins for the day. No more manufactured vitamin pills to take. Drink your nutrition instead!
Now that you are well informed about the importance and ease of consuming dark leafy greens, go get your "green on"! Like I said, "it's easy to be green!" Cheers!
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Why green roofs are good for wellbeing and have a proven benefit for cities
Words by Siobhan Morrin
anxiety, cities, environment, green wall, sustainability, wellbeing
Green roofs benefit cities – helping to improve air quality – and the people who use them, with recent studies showing the benefits on physical and mental health of getting into green spaces. Michael Hardman and Nick Davies from the University of Salford make the case for a green roof revolution
Rooftops covered with grass, vegetable gardens and lush foliage are now a common sight in many cities around the world. More and more private companies and city authorities are investing in green roofs, drawn to their wide-ranging benefits which include savings on energy costs, mitigating the risk from floods, creating habitats for urban wildlife, tackling air pollution and urban heat and even producing food.
A recent report in the UK suggested that the green roof market there is expanding at a rate of 17% each year. The world's largest rooftop farm will open in Paris in 2020, superseding similar schemes in New York City and Chicago. Stuttgart, in Germany, is thought of as "the green roof capital of Europe", while Singapore is even installing green roofs on buses.
These increasingly radical urban designs can help cities adapt to the monumental challenges they face, such as access to resources and a lack of green space due to development. But buy-in from city authorities, businesses and other institutions is crucial to ensuring their success – as is research investigating different options to suit the variety of rooftop spaces found in cities.
The UK is relatively new to developing green roofs, and governments and institutions are playing a major role in spreading the practice. London is home to much of the UK's green roof market, mainly due to forward-thinking policies such as the 2008 London Plan, which paved the way to more than double the area of green roofs in the capital.
Although London has led the way, there are now "living labs" at the Universities of Sheffield and Salford which are helping to establish the precedent elsewhere. The IGNITION project – led by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority – involves the development of a living lab at the University of Salford, with the aim of uncovering ways to convince developers and investors to adopt green roofs.
Ongoing research is showcasing how green roofs can integrate with living walls and sustainable drainage systems on the ground, such as street trees, to better manage water and make the built environment more sustainable.
Research is also demonstrating the social value of green roofs. Doctors are increasingly prescribing time spent gardening outdoors for patients dealing with anxiety and depression. And research has found that access to even the most basic green spaces can provide a better quality of life for dementia sufferers and help prevent obesity.
In North America, green roofs have become mainstream, with a wide array of expansive, accessible and food-producing roofs installed in buildings. Again, city leaders and authorities have helped push the movement forward – only recently, San Francisco created a policy requiring new buildings to have green roofs. Toronto has policies dating from the 1990s, encouraging the development of urban farms on rooftops.
These countries also benefit from having newer buildings, which make it easier to install green roofs. Being able to store and distribute water right across the rooftop is crucial to maintaining the plants on any green roof – especially on "edible roofs" which farm fruit and vegetables. And it's much easier to create this capacity in newer buildings, which can typically hold greater weight, than retro-fit old ones. Having a stronger roof also makes it easier to grow a greater variety of plants, since the soil can be deeper.
The new normal?
For green roofs to become the norm for new developments, there needs to be buy-in from public authorities and private actors. Those responsible for maintaining buildings may have to acquire new skills, such as landscaping, and in some cases volunteers may be needed to help out. Other considerations include installing drainage paths, meeting health and safety requirements and perhaps allowing access for the public, as well as planning restrictions and disruption from regular ativities in and around the buildings during installation.
To convince investors and developers that installing green roofs is worthwhile, economic arguments are still the most important. The term "natural capital" has been developed to explain the economic value of nature; for example, measuring the money saved by installing natural solutions to protect against flood damage, adapt to climate change or help people lead healthier and happier lives.
As the expertise about green roofs grows, official standards have been developed to ensure that they are designed, built and maintained properly, and function well. Improvements in the science and technology underpinning green roof development have also led to new variations on the concept.
For example, "blue roofs" increase the capacity of buildings to hold water over longer periods of time, rather than drain away quickly – crucial in times of heavier rainfall. There are also combinations of green roofs with solar panels, and "brown roofs" which are wilder in nature and maximise biodiversity.
If the trend continues, it could create new jobs and a more vibrant and sustainable local food economy – alongside many other benefits. There are still barriers to overcome, but the evidence so far indicates that green roofs have the potential to transform cities and help them function sustainably long into the future. The success stories need to be studied and replicated elsewhere, to make green, blue, brown and food-producing roofs the norm in cities around the world.
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Cubbie Hole
The first time that the Mets and Cubs convened in 1969 came at the end of April and didn't exactly serve as a foreshadowing for what was to come that season. The Mets opened the weekend four-game series with a pedestrian 6-8 mark, while the Cubs held first place with a surprising 11-5 start.
The Cubs won the first two games of the series as Ferguson Jenkins edged Tom Seaver, 3-1, and Bill Hands followed by going the distance in a 9-3 pasting of Don Cardwell.
A Sunday doubleheader concluded the matchup and in the first game, the Mets got off to a quick start and led 6-3 in the 8th inning. Chicago scored once in the 8th and with the aid of two errors and a subsequent Randy Hundley home run, struck four times in what the Chicago Tribune described as the "ludicrous" 9th. The Mets went down rather meekly in their half as Phil Regan struck out the side, including Cleon Jones to end the game.
So through three of the four games in this series, we knew this much: The Cubs were both good and lucky. The way that things broke, it looked like this was going to be a special year in Chicago. There was no reason to believe that anything special was going to happen for the floundering Mets.
Game 2 of this double dip pitted two pitchers who didn't start too often- Jim McAndrew for the hosts and Rich Nye for the guests. Through five innings, this unlikely duo provided a nice pitchers duel, with neither yielding an inch (or a run).
The Cubs threatened immediately in the 6th as Nye reached on an error and went to third on a Don Kessinger single. Kessinger than went to second base on a passed ball. With the count 3-2 on Glenn Beckert, a rather serendepitous stroke of luck occurred. A blister on McAndrew's finger necessitated his departure and the appearance of Tug McGraw in relief.
McGraw coaxed a comebacker from Beckert and the runners held. He then induced a shallow flyout by Billy Williams and got Ron Santo to strike out, ending the Cubs best threat of the nightcap by retiring their best hitters.
McGraw stayed in all the way through the 9th, dancing through trouble twice more to keep the game tied.
In the final frame of regulation, the Mets basically pulled a reversal of what the Cubs did in Game 1 (similar in nature to the reversal over fortunes in the last 2 days of this Mets-Astros series). Williams muffed Rod Gaspar's line drive to open the inning, giving the Mets a leadoff baserunner in scoring position, 180 feet from home. Nye had pitched valiantly to that point, so Cubs manager Leo Durocher left him in to work through the trouble and after intentionally walking Ken Boswell, Nye got Ed Charles to pop out.
This brought up Jones, whose whiff concluded Game 1, but whose torrid start made him a feared hitter at this juncture of the season. He finished off this contest as well, only in a much more positive manner, with a 3-run walk-off home run that raised his batting average to .443.
The win gave the Mets a little bit of satisfaction, though the Cubs still left Flushing smiling, with a 14-6 mark. It didn't strike anyone at the time that Chicago had just beaten the rival who would become most important to them within a few short months.
True Metbleheaders know...This is the only time in Mets history that the Met who ended Game 1 of a doubleheader by making the final out, got the walk-off hit that ended Game 2 of the doubleheader.
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CHAPTER XXXI.
DOWN THE YUKON AND HOME.
Foster Portney knew that the regular terminus of travel on the Yukon steamboats was Fort Cudahy, which was situated forty-eight miles below Dawson City. But owing to the rush to the new gold fields, which was now stronger than ever, two small boats were making regular trips between these two points.
When the party reached Dawson City, now the scene of great activity, it was found they would have to wait a week before they could secure passage to Fort Cudahy, as the tickets for the two following trips were all sold. This wait, when they were impatient to get home, was not an agreeable one, yet it gave them a chance to look around the settlement and become better acquainted with the various persons who were there.
"Dawson is bound to grow," said the doctor, who had hired a room at the so-called hotel and hung out his sign on the day he arrived.
"See, there are actually three streets already, two stores, three saloons, a barber shop, and a reading and pool room; and I understand that a fellow has just arrived who is going to open a clothing store, and another is on his way with medicines for a drug store. We are bound to boom!"
"'We' is good!" said Earl, with a laugh. "I guess you had better strike up a partnership with that druggist when he arrives."
"Not much. Earl! I'll put him in the way of getting the gold fever, and when he is ready to strike out, I'll buy his outfit and run the whole thing myself. I'm bound to make money." And it looked as if the doctor was right, for during their stay in Dawson City he had eleven calls for his services, for which he charged the fee of five dollars per call, which was moderate for that place.
At last came the day to part, and with a hearty hand-shake from the doctor the Portneys and Fred boarded the little side-wheeler Alice, and the long homeward trip was begun. The boat was crowded with returning miners, and as nearly all of them had struck gold, it was a happy congregation which spent the time in eating, drinking, smoking, playing cards, and "swapping yarns." "Swapping yarns" went on continually, and many were the wonderful stories told of great finds, perilous climbs, and escapes from starvation during the awful winter.
"I've made seventy thousand dollars, boys," said one elderly miner. "But I never did so much starving in my life, an' ten hosses couldn't drag me back to put in another such winter—hear me!"
"I'm with ye," said another; "leas'wise, I think I am. But thar's no tellin' wot I might do ef the gold fever struck me ag'in," be added reflectively.
Fort Cudaby was a small settlement on the Yukon, at the mouth of Clinton Creek. Just above the creek was another settlement, called Forty Mile. Between the stores in the two settlements there was a fierce rivalry, and consequently prices here were more reasonable than at Dawson City.
The party was fortunate in obtaining immediate passage to Fort Get There, on St. Michael's Island, which is situated sixty miles above the entrance to the Yukon. An offer was also made by the agent of the transportation company to take charge of their gold from there right on through to San Francisco, but as the commission for doing this would be fifteen per cent, this offer was declined.
"I think we can get it through," said Foster Portney. "At any rate, I am willing to risk it." And the boys agreed with him.
The next stop of importance was Circle City, of which the boys had heard through Mr. Portney. In former days Circle City had been the banner mining town on the upper Yukon, but now its glory was departed, for over three-quarters of its inhabitants had pulled up stakes and moved on to the Klondike district.
From Circle City the river, already broad, widened out to such an extent that it looked more like a lake than anything else. It was dotted with numerous islands, and the pilot of the boat had his head full with keeping track of the proper channel to pursue. The run was north to the ruins of Fort Yukon, the highest point gained by the mighty river upon which they were sailing.
From Fort Yukon the run was mostly to the southwestward, past the settlements of Shaman's, We Are, Nulato, and a dozen similar places, Indian villages, the home of fur traders, missionaries, and of fishers. At many of the places the main things to be seen were the totem poles stuck up in front of the Indian huts—poles of wood, curiously carved with hideous-looking images and undecipherable hieroglyphics.
At last St. Michael's Island was gained, and here they found themselves again in luck, for an ocean steamer was in waiting to take the passengers from the river boat. The transfer was made before nightfall, and at dawn of the day following the steamer started on her long voyage down Norton Sound, Bering Sea, and the Pacific Ocean to Seattle. But one stop was made, that at Dutch Harbor, on one of the Aleutian Islands, and then one glorious afternoon early in the fall they steamed through the Straits of San Juan de Fuca and swept into the grand harbor at Seattle.
"The United States at last!" cried Randy. "Oh my, how good civilization does look!"
"We don't know what we have at home until we miss it," said Fred, but in such a low tone that nobody heard him.
They stopped in Seattle two days, and then took steamer direct for San Francisco. The trip down the coast was an uneventful one. They were impatient to finish it, and a glad cry rang everywhere through the vessel when land was sighted and they ran through the Golden Gate.
A crowd was at the wharf to receive the latest news from the gold fields. "How are the diggings up there?" "Is there any show for a fellow staking a good claim?" "How much did you bring along?" "Is it true about provisions being scarce?" These and a hundred other questions went the rounds, as the fortunate ones came ashore. Foster Portney managed to keep the boys together and get them through the jam, and quarter of an hour later found them on the way to the mint with their precious burdens. Here they were given receipts for their nuggets and dust, and then they turned away with a big load lifted off their minds, for they knew that their fortunes were now safe.
And here properly ends the tale of the fortune hunters of the Yukon. How Fred Dobson returned home a penitent runaway, and how he was readily forgiven and later on allowed to study for college, I will leave my readers to imagine. As for Earl and Randy, there was nothing which called for their return to Basco, and they remained with their uncle in San Francisco until their gold was reduced to coin and they received a check on the treasurer of the United States for its value. Then they paid a visit to Colorado, remaining there until the following spring. During the winter a company was organized to work their claims by machinery, and early spring found them again in the land of gold. And there we will leave them, wishing them all the success that their pluck and industry deserve.
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Seeing as this has been getting alot of attention in the other discussion, I thought I would creat the new topic here.
On Vashj EU where I play it has everyone has been needing on the Frozen Orbs for the last month or two. Don't know why or when it started really. I just noticed that everyone was needing and not greeding any more. When I asked why they told me it's to stop people from Ninjaing Frozen Orbs.
I used to wait and see how people rolled when the need thing just started, but now everyone just needs. It's standard to need roll it seems.
From what i have heard is that frozen orbs are needed in the upcoming expansion (Cataaclysm). For what i have no idea, but somewhere it's needed. So get as much as you can.
I usually tell the group at the start too all need on Orbs so no one can steal them.
Thankfully the common roll for orbs is still greed in most of the runs I have done in the blackout battlegroup. However, I do wait until the end to roll to make sure no-one does a sly need after everone else has rolled greed. I have, on occasion, won the need roll from someone trying to ninja it and had those who greeded do /roll and traded to the winner just to spike the one who has tried to take the orb unfairly.
Last night I noticed that the cost to buy on the AH has gone up to 20-30G, which is very nearly where it was six months ago (on my server anyway), so I'm thinking... Sell now, wait a few weeks, or wait for the expansion?
Having suffered a couple of times at the hands of ninja's i agree that everyone should need the orbs. It's a totally fair system.
As for needing them in the expansion, that isn't news that i've seen. It would seem unusual to me as that would mean to get them you'd either need to run 80 heroics at 85 to get them or the lvl 85 dungeons would drop them. I would expect the new dungeons to drop something new - "Earthen Core" or something similar.
The reason is in the new expansion or big patch you will be able to change the Frozen Orbs for Frost Lotus/Gems/more stuff, but the most important is the Frost Lotus.
In my server the Frost Lotus sell over 35~40 Golds.
Did about a dozen Heroic runs last night. Nobody rolled Need on the Orb. It was nice. On the Cyclone Battlegroup the "loot rule" is to roll Greed on the Orb. It doesn't matter if a few people think it should be a Need roll. It doesn't change the fact that it's been long established as a Greed roll. I wish it was universal to just Need the damn thing but it's not. Once a trend has been established it's hard to break. If the trend was working fine (let's not forget this IS a MMORPG and we are gaming within a community) then why break it? So far it seems most of the problems come from the little brats and immature jackasses. Those types are welcome on my Blacklist.
Bloodlust battlegroup on USservers.. half the time someone will need it and then leave party before anyone gets to say anything to him/her; just because the other people aren't on their server they think they can just leave party and win loot roll. Frustrates me a tad bit. BUT then again a game is a game, not worth crying over spilt milk.
Now I usually run random heroics with my guildies and we all just put the orbs in the guild bank. When a guildy needs something I'll take it out for them. We are a small mature based guild that get along really well.
Same here we put them in the guild bank. Lately I have been running with a couple guildies doing the daily's.
Our tank has made a game of it. He waits until everyone rolls, if one rolls need he yells NINJA then waits about 10min while dancing then rolls need. If someone in the guild gets it he still yells NINJA even if it goes in the guild bank.
I spend half the runs with tears running down my face from laughing so hard.
I greed because I don't really care unless of coarse I am running with our guild tank then I try to mess with him.
I am kindof upset about the Frozen Orbs going to be a really valuable item from the next patch. I had 30 of them. Then sold them all like a day before the news of their need coming out.
I never used the things for anything, so I thought to myself: "Sell them and atleast you will get some gold you can use for gemming or enchants."
Needless to say I was really pissed about my choice of getting rid of them the next day after I got the news of their new use.
Orbs sell for like 10g on my server so I couldn;t care less really.
Blizzard anounced that with Patch 3.3.3 all rolls for frozen orbs will be automatically greed to prevent anti-social behaviour.
Screw the Hilt. I've given up on it. The wife and I and a couple friends were farming for it for over a month. TWICE it went to the 5th Random PuG player. After that we started 4-man raiding all 3 ICC runs. Nothing nothing nothing. Forget it. We give up.


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If the health-care experiment fails in Vermont, it would send shock waves nationwide.
As Obamacare, beset with calamities, enters its fourth year, the cerulean-blue state of Vermont is well into its fourth year of preparing to astonish America by installing Canadian-style single-payer health care. To understand the political dynamics of this plan, it's necessary to go back to the 2010 election for governor.
After eight able years at the helm, much of it spent deflecting left-wing (known locally as "Sanderista," after socialist senator Bernie Sanders) legislative initiatives, popular Republican governor Jim Douglas stepped down. Five Democrats leaped into the race to succeed him.
To win a contested Democratic primary in Vermont, a candidate must assemble a coalition of labor unions, environmentalists, anti-nukies, welfare advocates, feminists, global-warmists, land-use controllers, anti-gunners, and other Sanderista life forms. A strong component is the single-payer health-care advocates, who have labored for over two decades to propel Vermont into the kind of government-controlled health-care system that has been operating since 1984 in Quebec, just across the border.
During the 2010 Democratic primary run-up, the Sanderista forces — many active in Vermont's Progressive party — summoned the five Democratic hopefuls to a public commitment session. (The Progs enthusiastically vote in the open Democratic primary.) There all five swore allegiance to the shining dream of single-payer health care.
State senator Peter Shumlin won the primary with a plurality — he won by 197 votes over the second-place finisher. (Vermont does not have a runoff.) He went on to best Republican lieutenant governor Brian Dubie in the general election with 50.9 percent of the two-party vote.
Shumlin kept faith with his single-payer supporters. He persuaded the heavily Democratic legislature to pass Act 48, the blueprint for single-payer, taxpayer-financed, government-controlled health care. The Act declares that Vermont shall have a fully government-controlled and taxpayer-financed "health delivery system." This was formerly promoted as "single-payer," until that term became a political liability as more and more Vermonters discovered what it stood for.
Now it's called a "public-private universal health-care program" making "single payments" and enforcing its "global budgets" on health-care providers. Even Shumlin has retired "single-payer," partly because it suggests the Quebec system that is not working so well, and partly because when "Green Mountain Care" is realized in 2017, there are likely to be at least five payers: Green Mountain Care, Medicare, Tricare, self-insured ("ERISA") companies, and federal employees.
The key to passing Act 48 was the Hsiao report. This was a comprehensive plan presented in 2011 by consultant William Hsiao of the Harvard School of Public Health. Hsiao is noted for devising the Resource Based Relative Value System that has bedeviled the Medicare system since 1993.
Hsiao told the legislature that his single-payer plan would result in $580 million in first-year health-cost savings. These enormous savings in a small state (it will have a projected $6 billion in total health-care costs in 2017) were to flow from eliminating insurance companies with their advertising, administrative costs, and profits. This would allow the powerful Green Mountain Care Board to ensure to everyone "affordable and appropriate health care at the appropriate time in the appropriate setting" as determined, of course, by the board, always in light of available resources. Wow! What could be better?
One crucial key to instituting GMC is obtaining an Obamacare waiver from the Department of Health and Human Services in 2017. The waiver would allow Vermont to substitute single-payer for the Obamacare insurance regime. The waiver would also provide that an amount equal to the total tax credits handed out in the final year of the state's Obamacare exchange ("Vermont Health Connect") would be collected into one large bag and delivered to the state to finance single-payer each year.
When that day arrives, Vermont's two surviving health-insurance carriers — Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont and Albany, N.Y.–based MVP Health — will cease to exist, except possibly to offer Medigap-style coverage for some as-yet-undefined form of patient cost-sharing.
Some serious missteps occurred on the way to Vermont's implementation of the Hsiao report. First, the legislature's veteran Joint Fiscal Office director, Steve Klein, informed the solons that, while their single-payer plan would produce cost savings for the first two years, over the longer term health-care costs would rise faster than revenues. "It's not going to be a pretty picture," Klein said. Their enthusiasm remained undimmed.
Then medical-malpractice reform, which Hsiao said would produce a fifth of the spectacular savings, disappeared into a study committee and was predictably crushed by the personal-injury plaintiff's bar.
A few brave souls in the legislature wanted to know — before the 2012 election — just where the governor was going to get the money to pay for whatever the Green Mountain Care Board thought was "appropriate etc." The Shumlin forces set the report date two months after the election, and a Republican effort to make the governor tell the voters in October was hammered down on party lines.
When the statutory January 2013 report date arrived, the governor refused to produce the mandated report. It's now the summer of 2014, and Shumlin, having forsworn deadlines, now says the citizens will get the news in 2015, after another election.
The news, incidentally, will be frightening. Two independent analyses of the likely cost of Green Mountain Care, above and beyond federal subventions, found that it will likely require a $2 billion tax hike. This, in a state whose general-fund budget is $1.44 billion.
Democratic state senator Peter Galbraith (son of the famous economist) helpfully reported in May that the Shumlin administration had decided to propose an income-based "premium" (i.e., tax) of up to 9 percent on incomes of $50,000 or more, plus a 2 percent gross-receipts tax and a 5 percent employer payroll tax.
This particular menu remains unconfirmed. The governor has now hired yet another expert to come up with some combination of revenues to fill the gap. Meanwhile, the newly appointed Shumlin health-care czar, Lawrence Miller, is vigorously promoting the argument that the termination of premiums will leave plenty of loose change about to cover the new tax requirements (at least for some of those who were already paying premiums).
Until single-payer becomes a reality, Vermont will need to operate an Obamacare exchange. In October 2013, the Obama administration earmarked $170 million for the state to create this electronic wonder. This is in a state with 621,000 people, an estimated 65,000 (exclusive of Medicaid enrollees) of whom are expected to buy insurance coverage.
Vermont has only two surviving health-insurance carriers. The others fled into exile 20 years ago when the legislature imposed the nation's strictest community-rating and guaranteed-issue laws (to save the imperiled solvency of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont).
In the run-up to the exchange, Shumlin got the legislature to prohibit residents from purchasing individual and small-business plans directly — i.e., from the two carriers outside the exchange. Vermont was the only state to adopt such a restrictive requirement. The reason is that Shumlin needs to maximize the value of Obamacare tax credits claimed through the exchange so that he can collect the total in 2017 to defray the cost of Green Mountain Care.
What is puzzling about the exchange episode is that the entire enterprise will wink out in 2017, when Green Mountain Care replaces health insurance. The $170 million, plus on the order of $30 million paid by the state to maintain the exchange for three years, will simply have gone down the drain.
Meanwhile, the state wangled another $45 million grant from Washington to design "payment reform." When the Hsiao report appeared in 2011, single-payer backers were elated that $580 million in health-care savings would suddenly appear from this concept, which focuses on converting "fee for service" medicine (as in Medicare and Medicaid) into capitated payments — where medical providers, organized into Accountable Care Organizations, are paid a fixed sum per patient, depending on the covered group's medical profile.
It turns out this is far from easy. Integrated providers such as Kaiser Permanente (California) and Intermountain Health Care (Utah) have had considerable success with this model — but they own their own hospitals and employ their own doctors. Making it work with many independent physician groups, 39 nursing homes, and 14 hospitals — 15 if the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in nearby New Hampshire is included — will be challenging, to say the least.
Any number of developments could afford Shumlin the opportunity to walk away from single-payer. One, obviously, would be a legislature unwilling to saddle taxpayers with that enormous tax bill. Another would be the inability of the state to levy payroll taxes on hundreds of self-insured ("ERISA") companies (IBM, GE, General Dynamics, etc.), who assuredly will wage a furious legal battle to escape the tax.
Another would be the refusal of Washington to agree to deliver the exchange tax credits for 2017. Yet another would be growing acceptance within the state of the view of John Brumsted, the highly respected CEO of Vermont's largest hospital complex, Fletcher Allen (Burlington). He was quoted June 9 as saying, "It is, in my view, difficult to see a publicly financed system where there isn't so much pressure on the flow of money into the system that it becomes increasingly more difficult to provide care." Ouch!
The failure of single-payer in Vermont would be an enormous disaster for the Left, which has enthusiastically embraced the Vermont single-payer petri-dish experiment. Senator Bernie Sanders, who has supported socializing everything at one time or another, said on May 21, "Our effort in Vermont could start the same kind of chain reaction that Canada saw throughout the mid 20th century. As the U.S. has observed throughout history, with the abolition of slavery and current efforts over the right to marry, sometimes all it takes is one domino to fall before the rest come tumbling down." The unspoken flip side: If Green Mountain Care collapses in deep-blue Vermont, the single-payer dominoes are likely to tumble down in every state where the Left is promoting that concept (notably California).
If Shumlin can find somebody or something to credibly blame for thwarting his grand plan, especially if it happens to be a Republican Congress and president, he might, in his words, have to take his marbles and go home. Then he could leave Vermont's health-care petri dish behind and concentrate his efforts on its energy petri dish — making sure that Vermont gets 90 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2050, no matter what it costs.
— John McClaughry is a former state senator and founder of the Ethan Allen Institute.
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Visitors from outer space – or military aircraft made on Earth ?
The United States Navy will develop guidelines for pilots to report unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) — previously called unidentified flying objects (UFOs) — which enter into military-controlled air space, according to revelations from media company Politico, and The New York Times and The Washington Post.
In a statement issued to Politico, the navy acknowledged that "there have been enough strange aerial sightings by credible and highly trained military personnel that need to be recorded in the official record and studied". On December 16 2017, the US department of defence confirmed that it operated an advanced aerospace threat identification programme (Aatip), from 2007 to 2012, and its former director, Luis Elizondo, revealed that unidentified aircraft without any visible sign of propulsion mechanisms and capable of achieving hypersonic speeds had been seen.
Two prevailing theories have gained currency about who these interstellar aviators could be. The first and more plausible suggestion is that one of the rivals to the US for global power, namely China or Russia, have developed aerial technology that far surpasses anything that is "openly" known to existing military forces.
It could simply be the case that the world's advanced militaries will be soon revealing that they have successfully tested anti-gravity aircraft, based on technology that is now routinely being tested in experimental laboratories in different parts of the world.
A number of cutting-edge technologies have been introduced progressively into human consciousness, such as autonomous drones that are capable of wreaking havoc from the sky; similarly, the radar-defying stealth bomber was also introduced gradually into our awareness. Historically, we can recall how atomic and nuclear bombs were introduced to the world by the tragic bombing of the twin cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, killing people in the order of hundreds of thousands in each explosion.
The second theory is that there is an interstellar civilisation in close proximity to Earth that has achieved interplanetary travel capability and is now reaching out to humanity to gradually make themselves known to us, so that we can begin open interaction.
As far as UFO fly-bys are concerned, a supplementary suggestion is that the Earth has been under some form of inter-planetary quarantine until now, and that there is an increased effort by our interstellar visitors to re-engage with human civilisation. Alternatively, other explanations could be based on the realisation, from the perspective of the interstellar aviators, that Earth's civilisation has created an environmental catastrophe that threatens the solar system, and that these UFO fly-overs are an attempt to warn humanity of an impending crisis.
Whatever the reason for this emerging phenomenon, the US Navy is taking the issue seriously by confirming that it "is updating and formalising the process by which reports of any such suspected incursions can be made to the cognisant authorities". In addition, on August 9 last year, US Vice-president Mike Pence announced that his government would take the extraordinary step of announcing the formal creation of a department of the space force in 2020, as the sixth branch of the armed forces, and legislation has been sent to Congress for consideration.
Pence said the objective of this space force will be to "develop the space war-fighting doctrine, tactics, techniques, and procedures for the future". On February 19 this year, the White House press secretary issued a "space policy directive", which stipulated that the space force's priorities would include "deterring aggression and defending the nation, United States allies, and United States's interests from hostile acts in and from space". The notion that there are prospective actors who will perpetuate hostile acts "in" and "from" space, could be a recognition that there is a need to adopt a military posture against the UFOs that the navy will now formally identify and categorise. But, in the absence of sufficient information as to what exactly these UFOs are, it might be foolhardy for the US government to approach them with an aggressive posture.
Specifically, if the UFOs have demonstrated that they are in possession of advanced aerial aircraft technology, it is logical to assume that they equally possess weaponry that far outstrips our own. A far more conciliatory posture is necessary to first determine what in fact we are dealing with; it could ultimately emerge that the civilisations from where these UFOs originate could instead contribute to assisting us with addressing our multiple environmental and societal problems.
Daniel Drezner, professor of international politics at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, suggests "that the real reason UFOs have been dismissed is because of the existential challenge that they pose for a world view, in which human beings are the most technologically advanced life-forms". Consequently, it is unacceptable in polite society to speak about UFOs with a degree of seriousness, because of the stigma and ridicule that still persists around acknowledging the phenomena. The US Navy's decision to implement a formal process to report and categorise UFOs will contribute towards the gradual process of disclosing what is out there, and may help shift our mindset to accepting that we are not alone in this vast universe.
Professor Tim Murithi is head of Peacebuilding Interventions at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in Cape Town, extraordinary professor of African studies at the University of Free State and editor of Routledge's Handbook for Africa's International Relations
Published by Mail & Guardian
By Samantha Kambule|2019-06-24T15:01:17+02:00Jun 24th, 2019|Categories: News|


One in four people who compromised on location when buying their home say they regret doing so, according to a new study.
Which? Mortgage Advisers surveyed more than 1,200 homebuyers and found one in five had compromised on location.
Of those, 25% said they later regretted the decision.
People living in London were most likely to have sacrificed the ideal location.
Families with children were also more likely to regret choosing a different location for their home than they had originally planned.
The survey found people also made concessions on price (26%), decor (23%), and the size of the rooms (20%).
The most common regret among homeowners in the survey was compromising on the structural condition of the property, with three in 10 of those doing so later coming to regret it.
Use a house viewing checklist as a reminder of the issues that matter the most to you to help keep you on track.
Try to keep your emotions at bay and approach any viewings with a level head. Don't get too attached early on or your heart might rule your head and cause you to overlook any problems or make allowances over matters that are important to you.
Think ahead to the future, for example, changing jobs or starting a family – and how your new home will support these.
Consider how the location might develop. Regeneration projects could transform an area in a few years, meaning an initial compromise may pay off in the long run.
Always consider all your options together, creating a list of pros and cons to help assess what the best decision is for you.


accumulate when they are able to take up a sufficient amount of moisture beforehand.
back up to approx 0° C in the stratosphere. The result of the low temperature at the border to the stratosphere is that the air there is very dry. That is why one rarely finds clouds in the stratosphere.
temperature is so low that ice has already formed. Then the deposited water freezes, the ice kernel becomes larger and ultimately falls to the ground as hail. That is why hail is larger than water drops.
Clouds are not only the point of origin for precipitation. They also are important in that they determine the amount of sun rays that reach the earth. Clouds also block radiation from the earth, for instance during the summer, when it is less hot when there are clouds in the sky than when there are no clouds and it is clear. They also have an impact on light; it can become as dark as night when there are thunder clouds at noon.


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