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Q: How can I allow all subroutines within my program to access a certain variable? In the code below, I want to be able to access the enteredusername and enteredpassword variables from any sub routine. How would I accomplish this?
 Using rdr As New FileIO.TextFieldParser("f:\Computing\Spelling Bee\stdnt&staffdtls.csv")
         rdr.TextFieldType = FieldType.Delimited
        rdr.Delimiters = New String() {","c}
        item = rdr.ReadFields()
    End Using
    Console.Write("Username: ")
    enteredusername = Console.ReadLine
    Console.Write("Password: ")
    Dim info As ConsoleKeyInfo
    Do
        info = Console.ReadKey(True)
        If info.Key = ConsoleKey.Enter Then
            Exit Do
        End If
        If info.Key = ConsoleKey.Backspace AndAlso enteredpassword.Length > 0 Then
            enteredpassword = enteredpassword.Substring(0, enteredpassword.Length - 1)
            Console.Write(vbBack & " ")
            Console.CursorLeft -= 1
        Else
            enteredpassword &= info.KeyChar
            Console.Write("*"c)
        End If
    Loop
    Dim foundItem() As String = Nothing
    For Each line As String In File.ReadAllLines("f:\Computing\Spelling Bee\stdnt&staffdtls.csv")
        Dim item() As String = line.Split(","c)
        If (enteredusername = item(0)) And (enteredpassword = item(1)) Then
            foundItem = item
            Exit For
        End If
    Next

A: To allow ALL classes within your program access the variable, you need to make it class-level and define it with Public and Shared.
Demonstration:
Public Class MainClass

    Public Shared enteredusername As String
    Public Shared enteredpassword As String

    Private Sub SomeSub()
        ' Some Code ...

        ' You can access it here:
        enteredusername = "something"
        enteredpassword = "something else"

        ' ... More Code ...
    End Sub
End Class

Public Class AnotherClass
    'Also, please note, that this class can also be in another file.

    Private Sub AnotherSub()
        ' Some Code ...

        ' You can also access the variable here, but you need to specify what class it is from, like so:
        Console.WriteLine(MainClass.enteredusername)
        Console.WriteLine(MainClass.enteredpassword)

        ' ... More Code ...
    End Sub
End Class

Also, on a separate note, the Public and Shared modifiers can also be used on methods. If you make a method Private or don't specify anything, the method will only be accessible from methods in the same class. If you use only Public, other classes can access the method, but they will need to create a instance of the class, like so:
Dim AC As New AnotherClass
AC.AnotherSub()

If you use both the Public and the Shared modifiers, other classes will be able to access the method directly, without creating a new instance. But, you must note, that Shared methods cannot access  non-Shared methods or variables. Other classes can access Public Shared methods like so:
AnotherClass.AnotherSub()

A: It depends on the scope.  If you want all of the subroutines in the current class to be able to access them then make them a field of the class
Class TheClassName
  Dim enteredusername As String
  Dim enteredpassword As String
  ...
End Class

If you want all subroutines in all classes and modules to be able to access them then make them a module level field
Module TheModuleName
  Dim enteredusername As String
  Dim enteredpassword As String
  ...
End Module

I recommend against this approach though. Sure it's easier in the short term because it requires less ceremony and thought on the uses of the values.  But long term it serves to reduce the maintainability of your code base


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The Portuguese version of the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale -- I. Linguistic adaptation, semantic validation, and reliability study.
R Verissimo Serviço de Psicologia Médica, Faculdade de Medicina do Porto, Porto.
The Toronto Alexithymia Scale, namely in its revised version (TAS-20), is nowadays widely used and certainly the most well validated measure of alexithymia; allowing to recognize three distinct aspects of the construct.The aim of the present study is to assess reliability and validity of a Portuguese translation; proceeding in this first part, to the semantic validation and confirmatory structural analysis of the questionnaire, as well as to the analysis of the internal coherence of this structure, and of its reliability in what concerns time stability. Just to later examine validity related aspects as described in a second paper.Fist of all translation and substantiation were properly made as described according with commonly used procedures. Thus resulting in a questionnaire subsequently applied to three distinct populations: university students (N = 468), outpatients attending a routine general practice consultation (N = 50), and patients with inflammatory bowel disease (N = 74).Despite some traceable instability while replicating the original model, confirmatory factorial analysis somehow allowed disclosing the three originally described factors. Nevertheless also resulted some differences susceptible to later being discerned among the factors in what concerns their internal coherence: the questionnaire as a whole is highly reliable, and the same goes for factor 1, in any of the studied samples; less steady results among different groups were found regarding factors 2 and 3. However the test-retest stability brought to evidence, in any of the considered groups, an excellent reliability in all aspects: global score and integrating factors.With these sound psychometric properties of the instrument under scrutiny, the observed cross-cultural variations result as minor, while also considering the aimed comparability in the context of a vast amount of alexithymia studies carried out all over the world.
Verissimo R. The Portuguese version of the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale -- I. Linguistic adaptation, semantic validation, and reliability study. Acta Med Port [Internet]. 2001 Dec. 31 [cited 2023 Feb. 1];14(5-6):529-36. Available from: https://www.actamedicaportuguesa.com/revista/index.php/amp/article/view/1884

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Visualization in two and three dimensions of the Jacobi elliptic sine along straight lines in the complex plane:

The two-dimensional parametrization combines the real and imaginary parts of the elliptic sine:

\[ [ ~ \operatorname{Re} \operatorname{sn}[ (a+ib)x, m ] ~ ,
     ~ \operatorname{Im} \operatorname{sn}[ (a+ib)x, m ] ~ ] \]

The three-dimensional version adds an extra vertical parameter to make the periodic nature of the curves explicit.

This example requires the higher-level mathematics of Math. What appear at first to be errors in calculation are in fact not. Large absolute values are reported in the JavaScript console as Mathematica strings that can be copied and evaluated in that program. Being able to step through a variety of input parameters indicates that these curves are not nearly as pretty as expected.

Complete code for this example:

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Tag Archives: medical cosmology
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Its pretty difficult to get a GP appointment nowadays, certainly for hay fever. I read in The Times that some GPs are averaging 66 consultations per day. If so, the situation is crying out for a production line system like they use in car factories, where patients move slowly along a conveyor belt in a giant shed.
In fact I see no reason why hospitals shouldn't operate like this, making so called 'care pathways' something of a reality. There would be a faster track through the A and E department, in the same way as East Coast trains fly past First Capital Connect at Potters Bar.
If we have a track for Depression though, lets not make it a tunnel.
Recently I made a GP appointment – I couldn't really say it was urgently needed, since, like most doctors in fact, I am a bit of a hypochondriac.
Also I made the big mistake of saying 'its probably nothing' to the receptionist.
I got an appointment more than 3 weeks later. Of course, like most self-limiting conditions, which is most conditions, it had already got better by the time I got to see the GP. I went in with a grovelling apology and came out in less than a minute. I felt I had blown a bit of credibility though, in case I get a genuine illness one day. Several Cry Wolf points thrown away.
Perhaps there should be a special 'disloyalty card' where persistently not attending earns you extra points. Every now and again these could be traded for a free consultation without prejudice.
This set me wondering whether anyone knows how to use the health care system properly. And if so, how can we learn how to do it?
After all, most illness behaviour is determined by social learning. But no-one ever properly teaches us how to 'do healthcare'.
We all have a huge stake in the NHS, but, amazingly, the NHS comes with no instruction manual.
Its the kind of thing Michael Gove definitely hasn't put on the schools' national curriculum, revealed today. But should he?
At the end of every human interest piece on the news, such as spontaneous combustion in sheep, the damage done by carrier bags or how yogurt can become dangerous under certain circumstances, the answer is always a call for 'better education'.
This must be hugely irritating to teachers, whose curriculum is already big enough and struggling to cope with constant tinkering.
But along these lines, instead of say, History, or Geography, why not some basic Medical Sociology?
We could learn about the pernicious effects of the private sector, the inverse care law that affects poor people, how health care systems struggle to constrain costs and how it took the French Revolution to smash the four humour system.
We could learn the difference between Disease, Illness and Sickness, and how the sick-man has disappeared from Medical Cosmology*. Perhaps he will turn up in the cafeteria or X Ray.
We could learn about the sick role and how to play it. We could have a field trip to the Broad Street Pump, where Snow discovered how cholera got transmitted.
Maybe answer the question, why isn't holistic spelled 'wholistic'?
We could look at screening programs and learn – very quickly – which ones are worthwhile. Borrowing a few sessions from Science we could look at Causation versus Association and show improving movies like Moneyball. (Subtitle: the art of winning an unfair game.)
If that's not better than learning the details of World War One peace treaties, I don't know what is.
We seem to have an insoluble problem in the UK. It is free to go the doctor or see a specialist. Although if we need to get medication it costs £7.85 per item, plus 90p to park. If it involves driving into Nottingham then there's a £30 charge for getting in the tram lane by accident, and by accident I mean by being careless.
If we try and impose any charge, it looks as though we will discourage the very people who need to see the doctor most often, and the people who most need to drive over tramways. A number of famous studies suggest the most deprived people are those who have the highest rates of illness and shortest life spans.
But being free, the NHS system seems to attract a large number of people whom car dealers would call tyre – kickers.
Perhaps the fairest and most effective way to ration health care would be to create a giant lottery for appointments, or to make them transferable, so that slots could be traded on the open market.
In the GP waiting room, as I cowered in my corner, peering over a 1998 edition of Auto Express magazine, it looked as though the other aspiring patients needed a bit of weeding out, or triage, as it's called in health care.
With images of Taksim Square in mind, I imagined a military type person coming out with a loud hailer every few minutes:
Anyone whose temperature is 37 or less, please leave.
Anyone with a bad cold or flu, out!.
Anyone with backache, headache, neckache, tennis elbow, golfers' elbow, or any other kind of elbow – out!.
Anyone with a twinge.
Anyone with insomnia.
Anyone with indigestion.
Out, out, out!
Anyone here for a screening test not based on sound epidemiological evidence?
(Pauses for a moment) It's 95% certain you should leave.
Now we are seeing a definite thinning in the crowd and a line of people heading for the Cooperative Pharmacy or the alternative practitioners ghetto. No need for the water cannon and rubber bullets after all.
The military style triage is unlikely to prove acceptable in the era of consumerism. Tesco don't use it, even for the people who turn up at 9pm to get the reduced loaves and then ride around the car park in trolleys.
Instead we have had NHS Direct and 111 – who tend to 'direct' you to A and E.
The A and E department have their own filtering system, using time and, to a lesser extent, squalor. More recently they have taken a lead from Heathrow and created a stacking system for ambulances, which circle the hospital, waiting for a landing slot.
I made the mistake of trying to reach Leicester Royal Infirmary by car recently. Like the health care system in microcosm, there is no way in and no way out. I felt like an Apollo space capsule, orbiting the moon, but I had no lunar module to send down.
Those with self limiting conditions have probably got better by the time they are seen. Even those people who are seeking healthcare mainly to meet other people who are seeking healthcare and chat to them, have had enough social contact after 3 hours in a hot little waiting area with a very expensive Coke machine and a silent, armoured television showing volleyball from Belgrade.
Using time as a subtle disincentive is an example of the 'British' way of filtering access to healthcare, which is called 'implicit' or 'covert' rationing. For example, many people who are referred to primary care mental health or substance misuse services receive a letter asking the prospective patient to ring up and make an appointment. Sometimes this also involves filling in some forms and rating scales. A really off-putting one is asking an open question like, 'what would you say are the aims of this appointment?'
This little change in the Choice Architecture reduces the number of people given appointments significantly. Perhaps these not-very-motivated patients are the right ones to weed out. Or perhaps not. Maybe those who are least forthcoming are most in need.
Because mental health services are very limited, and mental health problems are very common, there is a massive amount of covert rationing for psychological treatments. Which brings us to the pressing issue. If it's that difficult to get an appointment for something concrete and medical, like muscle cramps and twitching, oops I gave it away, how much more difficult must it be for a depressed person to enter the system?
Most people with Depression have reduced energy and motivation. Often they are ashamed of seeming weak or useless. Studies have shown that it takes most people a long time to get round to making an appointment. Often it takes a crisis of some kind to bring people into contact with services.
Recently I've seen people turned away from blood-doning sessions because they had not made an appointment, even O negative donors, like myself, who should be given the red carpet and chocolate digestives.
I heard would- be donors say things like, 'I just like to come down here when I'm able to, I just can't plan that far ahead'. The person in charge assured them that the new appointments system was much more efficient.The Times (10.06.13) reports that the number of blood donors has fallen by 23% in the last ten years.
NHS blood and transport are apparently looking to attract young donors, so perhaps this should also be included in the national curriculum. I'd have given more blood if doning had been offered as an alternative to PE.
It would perhaps make sense to abandon or reduce the system of making appointments in favour of just turning up. We seem to like walk in centres and A and E, where we go when we need to.
In fact I seem to remember GP surgeries used to be like this, before appointments took over. I am sure GPs can produce evidence supporting the idea of appointment systems. And further evidence to support their recent system of the mad telephone rush for slots, jamming the lines at 8.30 am.
But there has been a massive change recently in the number of things you can do while you wait. This has transformed public transport and it could transform access to healthcare.
If you have a tablet computer, or smart-phone even, you can listen to music, read a book or two, watch a movie and play a few games.
You can skype your relatives and buy a new cardigan online.
This is quite different from even 10 years ago, when you had to be content with old copies of Golf Monthly, collections of curling pucks and a fish tank.
Somehow we have created a system where people's time is felt to be incredibly important and they can't be released from work. Did planners fondly imagine that people would pop out of work during their lunch break to have a quick endoscopy?
It looks as though ill people will seek help, providing they know which queue to join and where it starts. All they need is a sign saying, 'Stagger this Way'.
The biggest crime in the NHS is to make covert rationing 'explicit'. It's a bit like a magician showing how the tricks are done.
Perhaps there's something more honest and straightforward about a queue. A bit like Stargate, we'd call it a 'Portal into Care'.
Take your iphone. And the charger. Food and drink also. And if you see the sick-man, please send him back to Medical Cosmology*.
*The disappearance of the sickman from medical cosmology, by Nick Jewson, Sociology May 1976 vol. 10 no. 2 225-244
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Today's question comes from Corey, a young actor I met several weeks ago when I gave a talk about Small Screen, Big Picture
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Given that heavily serialized TV shows like "Lost" and "Battlestar Galactica" aren't profitable because they don't play well in syndication, how do these shows get made at all? Is it the advent of DVD sales, and the popularity of box sets in particular? Are the DVD profits great enough that a series can make its money back even without much syndication? Or do you think we're about to see tightly serialized shows start to vanish again?
Well, Corey-- DVD sales and box sets certainly help make up for the costs of funding a serialized TV show, but DVD sales rarely come close to syndication money. True Blood's first season, for instance, is this year's top-sellng TV show on DVD, bringing in over $57 million. And while that seems like a hefty chunk of change, it's peanuts compared to syndication money. A couple years ago, NBC sold "The Office" into syndication (a shared window with FOX and TBS) for over $130 million... which isn't even a huge syndication deal! Some shows, like "Friends," "Seinfeld," and "King of Queens," have become multi-billion dollar franchises thanks to their syndication afterlives. (Also, DVD sales tend to decrease over time, while shows can be sold into syndication over and over again. Syndication numbers may decrease, but they're still substantially larger than shrinking DVD numbers.)
Many shows have also started landing syndication deals even before becoming bona fide hits on network television. CBS's new "NCIS: Los Angeles" was sold to USA for $1.9 million per episode... after only 7 weeks on the air! "CSI: NY" and "CSI: Miami" were also sold (to Spike and A&E) during their first seasons. These deals aren't necessarily as lucrative as syndication deals to local broadcast stations or station groups (like "The Office" deal with FOX and TBS), but they're advantageous because they usually don't rule out broadcast syndication deals, and they're up-front money.
Of course, if you look at syndication numbers, you'll notice they're not only usually bigger deals than DVD sales, they're going to standalone shows-- comedies, procedurals, etc.-- not serialized shows like "Lost" and "BSG." So back to your original question...
If DVD sales don't equal syndication sales, how do these serialized shows even get made? Why would a network or studio take a chance on something that has such a small chance of making a profit... or even breaking even?
The truth is: a lot of them don't. Sure, a handful like "V" and "Flash Forward" are still popping up, but they're much rarer than they were back in the days when everyone was trying to find a serialized hit... remember "Surface," "Threshold," "Invasion," "Reunion," etc.? Even "V" and "Flash Forward" are far from being hits... they're floundering in the ratings, and each has had its share of tribulations. ("V" had its showrunner replaced; "Fast Forward" has had production shut down.") So the networks are still learning the same lessons they always learn: when these shows are good they're good, but these shows are hard to make work.
So there are a couple reasons these shows get on the air at all:
1) They're based on pre-existing properties, like "V" or "Battlestar Galactica," that lead execs to believe they'll be successful again. They figure either there's a built-in fan base, or the concept has already proven itself attractive to audience... and will again.
Or 2) There's a major showrunner/writer/producer attached, someone trustworthy that the networks believe will be bankable. "Flash Forward," for example, came from Brannon Braga (Star Trek, 24) and David S. Goyer (Blade, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight), both heavy-hitters in the world of sci-fi TV and movies. The original "Lost," in fact, wasn't developed by Damon Lindelof and J.J. Abrams. It was written and developed by Jeffrey Lieber (a relatively unknown screenwriter) as a serialized soap set on an island... but Lieber was eventually fired and replaced by Abrams and Lindelof, who gave the show it's sci-fi bent. What's this tell us?... Networks are always nervous about highly serialized shows, but when J.J. Abrams says, "Trust me-- I can pull off this high-concept serial," they listen more closely.
In short, these serialized shows are ALWAYS huge gambles... so networks only pick them up (and studios only develop them) when there's a powerful element involved-- either a popular pre-existing property or a strong showrunner/producer.
Jane Friedman is a full-time entrepreneur (since 2014) and has 20 years of experience in the publishing industry. She is the co-founder of The Hot Sheet, the essential publishing industry newsletter for authors, and is the former publisher of Writer's Digest. In addition to being a columnist with Publishers Weekly and a professor with The Great Courses, Jane maintains an award-winning blog for writers at JaneFriedman.com. Jane's newest book is The Business of Being a Writer (University of Chicago Press, 2018).


Overall, our club came in at 12th place (tied with Art Photo Club) out of 29 clubs. Our club was awarded 209 points out of a possible 270 points. The two 1st place clubs (Shuswap and Lions Gate) received 226 points.
This page shows our 10 submissions, listed in order from highest score to lowest score. The 3 individual scores from each judge are shown on the right of the total score. Congratulations to Dan Moore on receiving an Honourable Mention, and many thanks to everyone who participated.


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Indianapolis 500 Field Is Set
Chad Smith / May 19, 2013
The field is set for the 97th running of the Indianapolis 500 next Sunday.
Bump Day at Indianapolis used to be about multiple teams going home, and last minute deals being put together. In recent years, it became a glorified practice day, with only 33 drivers competing for the 33 spots. While it was nothing like what we've seen in the past few decades, we still had some bumping to do — sort of. With the official announcement yesterday of Katherine Legge's signing for Sam Schmidt, we had ten drivers gunning for nine positions in the biggest race in the world.
The morning started out with a fog and cool temperatures. Before practice, the cars of Ed Carpenter, Carlos Munoz, and Marco Andretti were taken down to turn 1 where the official front row pictures were taken. Carpenter then had his pictures taken for capturing the pole for next Sunday's 500-mile race.
The one-hour practice session that began at 9 AM saw some drivers putting up some decent speeds. One of those drivers was Legge, who made it onto the track for the first time this year. She was consistently turning laps at over 223 mph during the practice. She spoke with AJ Allmendinger when practice concluded, and said she felt comfortable inside the car.
Qualifying began at Noon, with all the cars lined up except for RLL driver Michel Jourdain Jr who still hadn't gone through tech inspection. Everyone else made their qualifying run, filling the field with 33 cars. Josef Newgarden was fastest, with Graham Rahal and Sebastian Saavedra just behind him. Rahal took Jourdain's car out for some practice laps to try to give the team an idea of what they needed to do to get it up to speed.
Both Newgarden and Rahal had a four-lap qualifying average speed above 225 mph. Both of those cars were powered by new engines though. They, along with Ganassi teammates Dario Franchitti and Charlie Kimball, will serve a 10-spot grid penalty for the first doubleheader race in Detroit because of their unapproved engine changes.
We expected to have some bumping, but it never materialized. There were question marks surrounding the RLL camp as they couldn't find the speed for Jourdain's car. Graham couldn't figure it out, and the team was left scratching their heads. They were about 7 mph slower than Legge's qualifying speed. With about 15 minutes left before the gun fired to signal the end of qualifying, Jourdain climbed out of his car and did not make a qualifying attempt.
So the field is set for next Sunday's race, and Jourdain is headed home. I suspect Las Vegas will put Marco Andretti as the favorite to win, but we know this race is wide open. The talent is deep, and there are about 14 or 15 drivers I could see winning this race. Most of them are capable of doing it, but at the end of the day, only one driver can drink the milk on Sunday.
After nine straight days of activity, the Speedway will finally get a rest until later next week. Final Practice for the IZOD INDYCAR Series is scheduled for 11 AM on Friday, which is Carb Day at the track. The public gates will open at 5:33 AM on Sunday, with driver introductions set for 11:33 AM. The green flag will wave at 12:12 PM for the Greatest Spectacle in Racing.
Here is the starting lineup for the 2013 Indianapolis 500:
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Home » Son took his mother's hand when the favorite song started playing – now watch the dance that conquered the Internet by storm
Son took his mother's hand when the favorite song started playing – now watch the dance that conquered the Internet by storm
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Most of us have sleep problems at one point in life but how we deal with them is the really important thing. Some people read, others listen to music, and others take pills if things are very difficult.
But one mother and her son have a much better way to beat insomnia and they make millions of people joyful with it.
Lance began dancing with his mother Lucy from the moment he started walking, and she definitely passed her dance to him.
So when Lucy said one night that she wasn't tired, Lance knew exactly what to do to help her sleep.
Megan Traynor's son "Dear Husband" began to play, and Lance, now a husband with two children, was ready to take his sweetheart mother in his hand and start dancing.
The two danced admirably together and Lance's daughter cheered from the side while the rest of the family was filming the cute moment.
Not only do they dance wonderfully, but their facial expressions are so entertaining themselves.
Midway through the song, Lucy turns to the camera and says that's what happend to people who can't fall asleep in Louisiana.
Within minutes after the video went online, it was viewed millions of times and shared by tens of thousands of people.It is clear that Lucy is happy to dance with her son and Lance is happy to collaborate with her.
The end of the dance, Lucy says something that makes the whole family tear up with laughter and Lance finishes on the floor as he can't stop the laughter. These two are so much fun together!
Watch the sweet moment of mom and son in the video below:
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Vybz Kartel And Shorty Break Up?
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Did Vybz Kartel and his common-law wife Shorty really break up? Find out what actually happened!
Dancehall superstar Vybz Kartel is allegedly single following reports that the "Love Dem" deejay has split from his common-law wife, Shorty.
Dancehall fans were left baffled after the verified Instagram account of Kartel shared an image of Shorty, whose real name is Tanesha Johnson, and the incarcerated artiste, with a puzzling message on Saturday (October 29).
"It no work out," the post read.
To stir more controversy, Kartel's Instagram bio also divulged shocking details.
"ME AND MI BABY MOTHER ( SHORTY) NO LONGER TOGETHER.
Social media users immediately concluded that the Jamaican celebrity couple has officially called it quits with their relationship.
Shortly after, Kartel's Instagram account posted another photo of himself, Shorty and their three sons, with a curbed caption.
The previous photograph and bio have since then been removed.
The so-called breakup comes after Shorty made a public announcement back in 2014 that she would wait 35-years on the "Champagne Bubble" deejay, who is currently serving a life sentence for murder.


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<?php
namespace Elastica\Test;

use Elastica\Aggregation\Terms as TermsAggregation;
use Elastica\Document;
use Elastica\Exception\InvalidException;
use Elastica\Query;
use Elastica\Query\Term;
use Elastica\Query\Terms;
use Elastica\Query\Text;
use Elastica\Rescore\Query as RescoreQuery;
use Elastica\Script\Script;
use Elastica\Script\ScriptFields;
use Elastica\Suggest;
use Elastica\Test\Base as BaseTest;
use Elastica\Type;
use Elastica\Type\Mapping;

class QueryTest extends BaseTest
{
    /**
     * @group unit
     */
    public function testRawQuery()
    {
        $textQuery = new Term(['title' => 'test']);

        $query1 = Query::create($textQuery);

        $query2 = new Query();
        $query2->setRawQuery(['query' => ['term' => ['title' => 'test']]]);

        $this->assertEquals($query1->toArray(), $query2->toArray());
    }

    /**
     * @group unit
     */
    public function testSuggestShouldNotRemoveOtherParameters()
    {
        $query1 = new Query();
        $query2 = new Query();

        $suggest = new Suggest();
        $suggest->setGlobalText('test');

        $query1->setSize(40);
        $query1->setSuggest($suggest);

        $query2->setSuggest($suggest);
        $query2->setSize(40);

        $this->assertEquals($query1->toArray(), $query2->toArray());
    }

    /**
     * @group unit
     */
    public function testSetSuggestMustReturnQueryInstance()
    {
        $query = new Query();
        $suggest = new Suggest();
        $this->assertInstanceOf(Query::class, $query->setSuggest($suggest));
    }

    /**
     * @group unit
     */
    public function testArrayQuery()
    {
        $query = [
            'query' => [
                'text' => [
                    'title' => 'test',
                ],
            ],
        ];

        $query1 = Query::create($query);

        $query2 = new Query();
        $query2->setRawQuery(['query' => ['text' => ['title' => 'test']]]);

        $this->assertEquals($query1->toArray(), $query2->toArray());
    }

    /**
     * @group functional
     */
    public function testSetSort()
    {
        $index = $this->_createIndex();
        $type = $index->getType('test');

        $mapping = new Mapping($type,
            [
                'firstname' => ['type' => 'text', 'fielddata' => true],
                'lastname' => ['type' => 'text', 'fielddata' => true],
            ]
        );
        $type->setMapping($mapping);

        $type->addDocuments([
            new Document(1, ['name' => 'hello world']),
            new Document(2, ['firstname' => 'guschti', 'lastname' => 'ruflin']),
            new Document(3, ['firstname' => 'nicolas', 'lastname' => 'ruflin']),
        ]);

        $queryTerm = new Term();
        $queryTerm->setTerm('lastname', 'ruflin');

        $index->refresh();

        $query = Query::create($queryTerm);

        // ASC order
        $query->setSort([['firstname' => ['order' => 'asc']]]);
        $resultSet = $type->search($query);
        $this->assertEquals(2, $resultSet->count());

        $first = $resultSet->current()->getData();
        $second = $resultSet->next()->getData();

        $this->assertEquals('guschti', $first['firstname']);
        $this->assertEquals('nicolas', $second['firstname']);

        // DESC order
        $query->setSort(['firstname' => ['order' => 'desc']]);
        $resultSet = $type->search($query);
        $this->assertEquals(2, $resultSet->count());

        $first = $resultSet->current()->getData();
        $second = $resultSet->next()->getData();

        $this->assertEquals('nicolas', $first['firstname']);
        $this->assertEquals('guschti', $second['firstname']);
    }

    /**
     * @group unit
     */
    public function testAddSort()
    {
        $query = new Query();
        $sortParam = ['firstname' => ['order' => 'asc']];
        $query->addSort($sortParam);

        $this->assertEquals($query->getParam('sort'), [$sortParam]);
    }

    /**
     * @group unit
     */
    public function testSetTrackScores()
    {
        $query = new Query();
        $param = false;
        $query->setTrackScores($param);

        $this->assertEquals($param, $query->getParam('track_scores'));
    }

    /**
     * @group unit
     */
    public function testSetRawQuery()
    {
        $query = new Query();

        $params = ['query' => 'test'];
        $query->setRawQuery($params);

        $this->assertEquals($params, $query->toArray());
    }

    /**
     * @group unit
     */
    public function testSetStoredFields()
    {
        $query = new Query();

        $params = ['query' => 'test'];

        $query->setStoredFields(['firstname', 'lastname']);

        $data = $query->toArray();

        $this->assertContains('firstname', $data['stored_fields']);
        $this->assertContains('lastname', $data['stored_fields']);
        $this->assertCount(2, $data['stored_fields']);
    }

    /**
     * @group unit
     */
    public function testGetQuery()
    {
        $query = new Query();

        try {
            $query->getQuery();
            $this->fail('should throw exception because query does not exist');
        } catch (InvalidException $e) {
            $this->assertTrue(true);
        }

        $termQuery = new Term();
        $termQuery->setTerm('text', 'value');
        $query->setQuery($termQuery);

        $this->assertSame($termQuery, $query->getQuery());
    }

    /**
     * @group unit
     */
    public function testSetQueryToArrayCast()
    {
        $query = new Query();
        $termQuery = new Term();
        $termQuery->setTerm('text', 'value');
        $query->setQuery($termQuery);

        $termQuery->setTerm('text', 'another value');

        $anotherQuery = new Query();
        $anotherQuery->setQuery($termQuery);

        $this->assertEquals($query->toArray(), $anotherQuery->toArray());
    }

    /**
     * @group unit
     */
    public function testNotCloneInnerObjects()
    {
        $query = new Query();
        $termQuery = new Term();
        $termQuery->setTerm('text', 'value');
        $query->setQuery($termQuery);

        $anotherQuery = clone $query;

        $termQuery->setTerm('text', 'another value');

        $this->assertEquals($query->toArray(), $anotherQuery->toArray());
    }

    /**
     * @group unit
     */
    public function testSetQueryToArrayChangeQuery()
    {
        $query = new Query();
        $termQuery = new Term();
        $termQuery->setTerm('text', 'value');
        $query->setQuery($termQuery);

        $queryArray = $query->toArray();

        $termQuery = $query->getQuery();
        $termQuery->setTerm('text', 'another value');

        $this->assertNotEquals($queryArray, $query->toArray());
    }

    /**
     * @group unit
     */
    public function testSetScriptFieldsToArrayCast()
    {
        $query = new Query();
        $scriptFields = new ScriptFields();
        $scriptFields->addScript('script',  new Script('script'));

        $query->setScriptFields($scriptFields);

        $scriptFields->addScript('another script',  new Script('another script'));

        $anotherQuery = new Query();
        $anotherQuery->setScriptFields($scriptFields);

        $this->assertEquals($query->toArray(), $anotherQuery->toArray());
    }

    /**
     * @group unit
     */
    public function testAddScriptFieldsToArrayCast()
    {
        $query = new Query();
        $scriptField = new Script('script');

        $query->addScriptField('script', $scriptField);

        $scriptField->setScript('another script');

        $anotherQuery = new Query();
        $anotherQuery->addScriptField('script', $scriptField);

        $this->assertEquals($query->toArray(), $anotherQuery->toArray());
    }

    /**
     * @group unit
     */
    public function testAddScriptFieldToExistingScriptFields()
    {
        $script1 = new Script('s1');
        $script2 = new Script('s2');

        // add script1, then add script2
        $query = new Query();
        $scriptFields1 = new ScriptFields();
        $scriptFields1->addScript('script1', $script1);
        $query->setScriptFields($scriptFields1);
        $query->addScriptField('script2', $script2);

        // add script1 and script2 at once
        $anotherQuery = new Query();
        $scriptFields2 = new ScriptFields();
        $scriptFields2->addScript('script1', $script1);
        $scriptFields2->addScript('script2', $script2);
        $anotherQuery->setScriptFields($scriptFields2);

        $this->assertEquals($query->toArray(), $anotherQuery->toArray());
    }

    /**
     * @group unit
     */
    public function testAddAggregationToArrayCast()
    {
        $query = new Query();
        $aggregation = new TermsAggregation('text');
        $aggregation->setField('field');

        $query->addAggregation($aggregation);

        $aggregation->setName('another text');

        $anotherQuery = new Query();
        $anotherQuery->addAggregation($aggregation);

        $this->assertEquals($query->toArray(), $anotherQuery->toArray());
    }

    /**
     * @group unit
     */
    public function testSetSuggestToArrayCast()
    {
        $query = new Query();
        $suggest = new Suggest();
        $suggest->setGlobalText('text');

        $query->setSuggest($suggest);

        $suggest->setGlobalText('another text');

        $anotherQuery = new Query();
        $anotherQuery->setSuggest($suggest);

        $this->assertEquals($query->toArray(), $anotherQuery->toArray());
    }

    /**
     * @group unit
     */
    public function testSetRescoreToArrayCast()
    {
        $query = new Query();
        $rescore = new RescoreQuery();
        $rescore->setQueryWeight(1);

        $query->setRescore($rescore);

        $rescore->setQueryWeight(2);

        $anotherQuery = new Query();
        $anotherQuery->setRescore($rescore);

        $this->assertEquals($query->toArray(), $anotherQuery->toArray());
    }

    /**
     * @group unit
     */
    public function testSetPostFilterToArrayCast()
    {
        $query = new Query();
        $postFilter = new Terms();
        $postFilter->setTerms('key', ['term']);
        $query->setPostFilter($postFilter);

        $postFilter->setTerms('another key', ['another term']);

        $anotherQuery = new Query();
        $anotherQuery->setPostFilter($postFilter);

        $this->assertEquals($query->toArray(), $anotherQuery->toArray());
    }

    /**
     * @group functional
     */
    public function testNoSource()
    {
        $index = $this->_createIndex();

        $type = new Type($index, 'user');

        // Adds 1 document to the index
        $doc1 = new Document(1,
            ['username' => 'ruflin', 'test' => ['2', '3', '5']]
        );
        $type->addDocument($doc1);

        // To update index
        $index->refresh();

        $query = Query::create('ruflin');
        $resultSet = $type->search($query);

        // Disable source
        $query->setSource(false);

        $resultSetNoSource = $type->search($query);

        $this->assertEquals(1, $resultSet->count());
        $this->assertEquals(1, $resultSetNoSource->count());

        // Tests if no source is in response except id
        $result = $resultSetNoSource->current();
        $this->assertEquals(1, $result->getId());
        $this->assertEmpty($result->getData());

        // Tests if source is in response except id
        $result = $resultSet->current();
        $this->assertEquals(1, $result->getId());
        $this->assertNotEmpty($result->getData());
    }
}


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Herd Immunity and Community Health
Immunization protects community health in two ways. The more obvious is through protecting individuals from communicable diseases. The second is the promotion of herd immunity. If an immunization were 100 percent effective (an immunized person had a zero probability of becoming infected with the target disease), then immunizing every person in a community would eradicate the target disease in that community. In this situation, personal protection and community protection are the same.
If everyone in the community were immunized save one, that one unimmunized person would also be protected from infection. Assuming that the community is isolated from other, unimmunized communities, the single unimmunized individual is protected because the disease has been eradicated. The problem is that immunizations have risks, so every person wants to be the one unimmunized individual protected by the herd.
Herd immunity is critical to the control of immunizable diseases. It is difficult, however, to predict the precise level of community immunity that is necessary to prevent the spread of a disease. Herd immunity is dependent on the communicability of the disease, the nature of transmission, the effectiveness of the immunization, the duration of period that an infected person may communicate the disease, whether the disease is treatable, whether the disease has a silent period when it is communicable, the general health of the community, and the health of the infected individuals.
Herd immunity is also dependent on the dynamics of a given epidemic. What might be an acceptable level of immunity to prevent spread from random, single cases of the disease could be insufficient to stop a major inoculation such as the arrival of a planeload of infected refugees. Most critically, herd immunity depends on the unimmunized individuals' being randomly distributed in the community. If unimmunized persons cluster, then it is the percentage of immunization in the cluster that determines the spread of the disease. This is frequently the case with religious groups that refuse immunization. One hundred unimmunized persons in a large city will not be a problem until they all meet at church.
The inherent uncertainty in herd immunity limits its use as an explicit disease control strategy. A community must attempt to immunize every susceptible individual. Herd immunity will then cover the small number of susceptible persons who are inadvertently missed or who are not candidates for immunization. (Herd immunity is the only realistic defense for many immunocompromised individuals.) A community immunization plan must target the two main groups of individuals who are weak links in a herd immunity system. The largest group is the poor, especially the medically indigent. These individuals are both less likely to be immunized and more susceptible to infection.


This episode of The Learning FM Podcast covers the Project Contract Types!
As you know by now, being a facility manager, means you are often a project manager. In order to be an effective project manager, you must understand the types of contract you are likely to see. From there, you will know when you should use each contract and what the pros and cons are between them. There are key differences, which will dictate what contract types to use in certain circumstances. As you progress through your career, you will inevitably move into contracting outside services for your own projects. Once you hit that point, this knowledge will become invaluable.
By understanding these project contract types, you will be much better adept at managing all projects.
Please join me every Tuesday on The Learning FM Podcast for new information on Facility Management and the four knowledge domains. If you enjoyed this episode, check out the article I wrote about the Types of Contracts in Facilities Management.


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Congress, Paul Ryan Condemn Turkish Embassy Clashes
FILE - House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., departs after speaking to the media after a Republican caucus meeting on Capitol Hill.
The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee Thursday officially condemned the violent crackdown on protests outside the Turkish embassy in Washington last week.
"This timely resolution sends a clear signal to the Turkish government that we will not allow any foreign government to stifle the rights of our citizens," the committee said in a statement following the passage of House Resolution 354, which condemned the violence against what it deemed peaceful protests.
U.S. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan thanked the committee, echoing concerns over the incident that have been expressed by U.S. lawmakers and diplomats for days.
FILE - Demonstrators lie on the ground following a
Demonstrators lie on the ground following a brawl with Turkish security personnel near the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington, May 17, 2017. (screengrab from VOA Turkish video)
"The violent crackdown on peaceful protesters by Turkish security forces was completely indefensible, and the [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan government's response was wholly inadequate," he said in a statement. "I want to thank Chairman [Ed] Royce, Ranking Member [Eliot] Engel, and all members of the Foreign Affairs Committee for taking swift action on this issue."
The committee was expected to hold a hearing discussing the right to peaceful protest later Thursday.
The clash broke out between Turkish security personnel and protesters outside the Turkish ambassador's residence during Erdogan's visit to Washington.
Protesters say they were attacked by Turkish security forces as they demonstrated peacefully. Turkey blamed the clash on the demonstrators, claiming they aggressively provoked people who had gathered to see Erdogan.
Victim of Turkish Embassy Brawl: White House Inaction Sign of 'Weakness'
A demonstrator involved in the last week's violent clash with guards of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan tells VOA a lawsuit will be filed over injuries sustained during the May 16 melee outside the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington.Armenia-born Lucy Usoyan, an ethnic-Yazidi who became a U.S. citizen after moving here with family at age 3, sustained a traumatic brain injury during last week's brawl. In
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1.1 hp @4000 rpm Serial number 303456 I believe this is the smallest Johnson ever produced. Its advertised weight is 17 lbs. The fuel tank is unusual in that it is a U-shaped brass tube. I acquired enough parts to put this motor together from several collectors in 1978. I first ran it at an antique meet in 1984. I have continued to run it at meets occasionally ever since.
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Family commitments and career breaks are consistently reported as one of the three most significant barriers to career opportunities and progression across the APS.
However these barriers have not yet received due attention – and they continue to act as a deterrent to many talented women (and increasingly, men). Research through The May Group's cultural audits shows that across many agencies, certain key factors are needed to ensure that the impact of family commitments is not detrimental to career progression and satisfaction, with those working part time and flexibly duly accommodated.
In parallel, many prominent private consulting firms have committed to and begun to successfully implement flexible working programs supported by leadership with the same goal in mind, which over the past two years I was able to experience myself.
Although the nature of consultancy naturally lends to a more flexible working practice, many prominent private consulting firms, with the notable examples of Accenture, EY and Deloitte; have committed to and successfully implemented flexible working programs that are readily accessed from leadership through to new graduate hires. Accenture CEO and Chairman Pierre Nanterme is vocal about the company's commitment to diversity, inclusivity and gender equality, and actively promotes all Accenture leadership to access flexible working arrangements to set an example for employees.
During my own time at Accenture, I knew of more male leaders to take the full three months parental leave offered than I did female. It was particularly heartening to see these men move completely offline and immerse themselves in the full time experience of parenting, and then come back to work with newfound respect and appreciation for full-time parents, eager to discuss their experience with their teams.
When it came to flexible working options for all staff and not just parents, what I witnessed in the private sector was largely encouraging as well. Although working with public sector clients in Canberra meant that we were a little more restricted in our options than our peers in other cities and clients, the greater majority of my managers and the leadership I interacted with would work condensed weeks, or split their working week between locations in order to accommodate family. As they set this example I also found during my two years at Accenture that as long as the client allowed, management was always happy for me to arrange to work from home or another location if needed.
Comparatively, EY has recently made the noteworthy change of making coming into the office at all optional through their 'Workplace's of the Future' program. EY Oceania talent leader McGregor Dixon: "There is nothing that holds you coming into the office…We are outcomes-focused as opposed to presenteeism-focused. There has been some need to have older managers change their mindset, but we have made it clear senior management needs to lead by example." As flexible work arrangements become the default, Mr Dixon notes 'there has been a significant mindset change; so that staff feel comfortable not having to be there every part of the day or week'.
In order to implement the broad cultural shift that is needed within the public sector to better accommodate flexibility, part-time and parental leave; leadership and the most senior positions must set a strong example, as I witnessed in private consulting firms. Ingrained mindsets across the public and private sectors will only shift with this leadership, so that this cultural change has a lasting and powerful effect, embedded within organisations.
It IS a competition and women are losing. By default.
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A few more Windows patches for GCC provide libatomic, gnatdll, and a bunch of GCC upstream improvements.
TDM-GCC 4.9.2, the first TDM release in the GCC 4.9 series, is now available for download. As always, I've tested it on wxWidgets (2.8.12) and Code::Blocks SVN (10050) to ensure good compatibility. When building wxWidgets as a MONOLITHIC DLL, you will probably need to use the "-fno-keep-inline-dllexport" flag (mingw32-make ... CXXFLAGS="-fno-keep-inline-dllexport").
With thanks to the MinGW-Builds maintainers at MinGW-w64, libatomic now works on MinGW targets.
With thanks to the same guys, the GNATDLL tool is now distributed with the Ada package.
You can choose between the classic TDM 32-bit edition and the TDM64 edition. The TDM64 edition is based on the MinGW-w64 runtime API and the x86_64-w64-mingw32 GCC target, and can create both 32-bit and 64-bit code, with the "-m32"/"-m64" compiler flags. Please never mix 32-bit object files (.o), libraries (.a), DLLs, or EXEs with 64-bit versions, and don't report it as a bug if you inadvertently do.
More information and downloads are available at <http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/>. TDM-GCC includes support for C, C++, Fortran, Objective-C/C++, and Ada, as well as support for the OpenMP multithreading extensions, packaged in a simple Windows installer.
TDM-GCC is not formally affiliated with or endorsed by the MinGW project.
No level of support for TDM-GCC is in any way guaranteed (although a best effort is made to fix bugs as they are found or forward them to GCC Bugzilla).
I tried to compile and link C::B with this new TDM version on windows 7 pro (64 bits), but I don't really success.
5) Run this CB with the new dlls : freeze : splash screen not displayed. codeblocks *32 must be killed in task manager.
Trying the same thing but in 64 bits.
step 4 : Not OK : splash screen not displayed. To be honest, I was suprised that it worked in 32 bits !
step 5 : here, splash screen is displayed but C::B freezes after.
I have used the same procedures than with tdm 4.8.1 which worked perfectly.
So, I missed something or there is a problem with this new version.
Do somebody succeeded to compile and run both C::B and wxWidgets 2.8.12 under Windows 7 with this TDM 4.9.2 version ?
Yes, I successfully compiled and ran Code::Blocks 10050 with wxWidgets 2.8.12, both compiled from scratch with TDM-GCC 4.9.2.
Did you remember to run update.bat?
What are all the places you had to put "-m32" in building wxWidgets and Code::Blocks?
In the CB Global compiler settings I added "-m32" to Compiler Settings/Other Options and to Linker Settings/Other linker options.
I changed the resource compiler to "windres.exe -F pe-i386" in hope it fixes the build error.
Still waiting on wxWidgets 2.8.12 to finish building so no idea if I did those options right or if the CB Options are right.
That seems right, but I haven't built Code::Blocks with the TDM64 edition recently; only the TDM32 edition (MinGW-based).
Yes, I ran update.bat. So, if it works for you and not for me, it's because I missed something, but I don't know what ?
For the 32 bits version, I use the TDM 32 bits version, so no need to add -m32.
I can obtain the same screen capture as you, but with wxwidgets dll compiled with tdm 4.8.1 !
I have to search what's wrong on my config !
Good work, only one comment: the installer icon is black on transparent, so it dissapears on my black desktop.
Hm, I think the effect looks cool. Let's pretend I did it on purpose.
Like that, it's OK for C::B compiled in 32 bits, using the 32 bits wxwidgets version (2.8.12), both compiled with TDM 4.9.2.
Yesterday, there was probably something, may be an old dll or a library (.a), which was in conflict.
Suggestion : as zip.exe is needed to build Codeblocks, it could be nice to add it in TDM distribution (as it is in C::B with mingw).
Nevertheless, when I compile C::B and wxwidgets 2.8.12 in 64 bits, I have still the same problem, even on a fresh 64 bits installation : C::B freezes after displaying the splash screen.
No problems when everything is compiled with Tdm 4.8.1 64 bits.
If I try to debug a simple C hello program, it's OK with Tdm 4.8.1 64 bit, but not OK with Tdm 4.9.2 64 bit (error displayed at gdb.exe startup : code 0xc000007b).
If I copy inside my bin folder, gdb.exe, gdbserver.exe and python27.dll from version Tdm 4.8.1 to tdm 4.9.2 folder, it's OK : debug works.
I was able to successfully build and run C::B 10050 with wxWidgets 2.8.12 using 4.9.2-tdm64-1 and -m32/-F pe-i386. I also had to manually specify which manifest file was used in C::B's resource.rc - without this, it would crash on startup with a 0x7b error due to using the AMD64 manifest instead of the x86.
I can reproduce the GDB 0x7b crash - that is due to a bad libiconv-2.dll linkage in my GDB binaries. I will need to release a new GDB package to fix that problem.
New GDB package released (gdb-7.8.1-tdm64-3). SourceForge has been having some outages today, hopefully they are resolved soon.
Thanks, I'll have a look on monday.
you compile a 32 bit version of C::B with tdm 64.
This is not exactly my problem. I'd like to compile a 64 bit version of C::B, of course with tdm 64.
On windows, wxWidgets does NOT officially support 2.8 as being 64 bit compatible.
I have heard it is possible to get it built; but, it could easily have bugs in it.
I have already seen this information. Nevetheless, I have myself compiled wxwidgets 2.8.12 in 64 bits (adding a cxxflag as suggested by killerbot), and it works well with C::B compiled in 64 bits too, but with TDM 64 4.8.1 version.
All the test cases in wxwidgets 2.8.12 worked as expected if they are compiled with tdm 64 version 4.8.1 and 4.9.2.
May be it's better with wxwidgets 3.x (better 64 bits support), but C::B on Windows has still problems with this version : some assert messages for example.


We live in a very exciting time, more innovations, social change, and technology wizardry per month then ever chronicled by mankind. Case in point: the world is witnessing another major paradigm shift where technology and IT organization will drive business value through innovations. This is a significant change; as for five decades the IT organization was the steward of the data, applications, and infrastructure and was perceived as a Data Center, and sometimes an investment black hole by the corporate boardroom. The role of the IT organization was to develop applications for business transaction processing, run them, and make sure the systems were up. For five decades technology advances were at an acceptable pace of adoption by organizations, society, and individuals.
In the San Francisco Bay, where I live, you cannot walk the streets without tripping over a start up. Start up mania is the norm here. The entrepreneur and product development spirit and practices being used are incubating, improving, and becoming universal. The new stimulating products and services approach is transferrable to the large corporation, thus creating an intrapreneurial culture. The promising approach is called Design Thinking and product teams are starting to use these practices across the globe.
The market is evolving new business models, different than our current product and service business models. Design Thinking coupled with the new Creative Economy is helping develop these new business models. Technology is enabling these new business models. Technology solutions and platforms, like Cloud, Mobility, Internet of Things or Machine- to -Machine, Cognitive Computing, Big Data, and other more emerging technologies, are requiring new and expanding application architectures, enterprise architectures and infrastructures. New technology will appear relentlessly and quickly; public, private, and non-profit organizations will always need to adapt to create the appropriate nexus of business and technology so they can drive their unique innovations.
Most industries and companies are recognizing the need to move to a more Digital Enterprise. The customer and public demands are driving the journey, as we all move to the new digital ecosystems. However, all of the research firms (in 2015) indicate that all of our public institutions, non-profit organizations, and private businesses need to move faster to meet the demand or face extinction. All of us depend on these products and services. According to all of the research firms and major consulting companies, the major challenges for transforming to the Digital Enterprise is delivery and culture. The Digital Enterprise requires a new application delivery approach and framework that is agile, lean, and disciplined. The Impavid Agile TM is a comprehensive set of key leading practices from proven transformation and application delivery disciplines.


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Professor Peter Virdee @ Asian Stars Latest Event hosted by Sporting Equals
Prof. Peter Virdee @ Asian Stars Latest Event hosted by Sporting Equals
Professor Peter Virdee & Al Pacino
Prof. Peter Virdee & Al Pacino
Professor Peter Virdee at Milan Fashion Week
PV at Milan Fashion Week with RG
PV and Guests at Milan Fashion Week
Professor Peter Virdee with Lang Lang at Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S
En Route Strasbourg!
Prof. Peter Virdee with Lang Lang
Prof. Peter Virdee outside Chateau Saint Jean in Molsheim with the Bugatti Royale
The Jean Bugatti
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Why so few Asians in football?
Professor Peter Attends the Novak Djokovic Foundation Dinner
Djokovic Srdjan and Prof. Peter Virdee
Professor Peter Virdee presenting guest of honour speech at the IES Seminar on Indo-UK Economic Cooperation, New Delhi
IES Seminar, New Delhi
Prof. Peter Virdee Guest of Honour at IES Seminar, New Delhi
In its never ending quest to discuss and strengthen various facets of the economic development of our country, Institute of Economic Studies (IES), organised a seminar on Indo-UK Economic Cooperation.The agenda of the seminar was to assess the Indo-UK relationship vis-à-vis bilateral trade and investment and discuss various strategies to further enhance it. India and the UK today share a very strong and deep relationship, which is formed on broad spectrum ofmutual interests. The UK Prime Minister David Cameron's two visits to India since 2010 bear testimony to the fact. UK continues to be among India's major trading partners.
In the field of investment, UK maintained its position as India's third largest FDI investor country, while India was the fifth largest investor in the UK in 2012. About 700 Indian companies have operations in the UK, with The Tata group being the largest private sector employer in the UK. With the joint statement on the India-UK Summit 2013 envisaging a stronger, wider and deeper partnership between the two countries vis-à-vis facilitation of trade and investment, infrastructure, healthcare, education, research, skills and training, exchange of information for tax matters and strategic and security issues, IES brought forth through this seminar a non-partisan, solution-oriented research and racial equity lens on issues being debated on both sides of the turf.Presenting the vote of thanks, Virender Singh, Executive Director, IES said, "India-UK Trade and Economic Relations has always been an important topic of discussion for both sides. As a responsible industry spokesperson keeping a bird's eye view on & Indian economy, IES has conducted this seminar to provide evidence-based information andbuild a platform for our members to assess the present situation of Indo-UK relations."
The seminar was inaugurated by Sekhar Dutt, Governor of Chhattisgarh. Bhisma Narayan Singh, former Governor of Tamil Nadu along with Prof. Peter Virdee, Partner, B & S Property UK, were the guests of honour for the evening.
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/holding-hands/article4785959.ece
IES Press Release
Professor Peter Virdee Backs Asian Star Working In Partnership With Chelsea FC
Prof. Peter VIRDEE BACKS ASIAN STAR
Prof. Peter Virdee, one of the country's leading businessmen and philanthropists, has added his support to Chelsea Football Club's ground-breaking Asian Star project.
As an ambassador for Sporting Equals, Virdee acknowledged the great work the Asian Star programme undertakes to combat low participation levels of British Asians in football.
Since Chelsea FC launched the initiative in 2009, more than 1400 young British Asians have taken part in the Asian Star programme and five previous winners have gone on to represent professional club academies.
This year, Chelsea FC has teamed up with Sporting Equals to help create the best Asian Star event yet. Sporting Equals is an organisation that works to promote the inclusion of under-represented communities in sport and physical activity.
I am extremely delighted to be supporting this year's Asian Star campaign alongside Sporting Equals and Chelsea FC,' said Virdee. 'Initiatives like Asian Star is a positive step in the right direction in highlighting exciting times ahead and more importantly that football is open to the Asian community.'
Over the years, he has supported a number of charities, including The Prince's Trust, Mencap, British Red Cross, Marie Curie Cancer Care and the Jaralam Trust as well as the Tsunami disaster relief fund. He is also the first Sikh patron on the board of the English National Opera and sits on the UK philanthropy board of Coutts & Co Private Bank UK. In recent times he has been invited to St James' Palace to meet the Queen and was part of a select Sikh Delegation to welcome HRH The Prince of Wales at the Indian war memorial in Neuve-Chapelle in France.
Over the years, he has supported a number of charities, including The Prince's Trust, Mencap, British Red Cross, Marie Curie Cancer Care and the Jaralam Trust as well as the Tsunami disaster relief fund.
He is also the first Sikh patron on the board of the English National Opera and sits on the UK philanthropy board of Coutts & Co Private Bank UK. In recent times he has been invited to St James' Palace to meet the Queen and was part of a select Sikh Delegation to welcome HRH The Prince of Wales at the Indian war memorial in Neuve-Chapelle in France.
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Professor Peter Virdee attends Commonwealth Day at Marlborough House with Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Kamalesh Sharma & Prof. Peter Virdee
His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh & Prof. Peter Virdee
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The Virdee Foundation & Prof. Peter Virdee Proud to Support the Mane Chance Sanctuary.
I was delighted to attend and support the Mane Chance Sanctuary on Monday 25th February 2012. A star packed gala dinner for a fantastic cause.
http://manechancesanctuary.org/
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Following a network bidding war over her sitcom, Sarah Silverman announced yet another new show on Friday.
A show that we're guessing Rick Perry is not planning to watch.
Silverman is rallying comedians to join her for "Live From N*****head: Stripping The Paint Off Of Good Ol' Fashioned Racism," a fundraiser that will benefit the NAACP.
The show's title is a reference to recent controversy over a hunting camp frequented by the Texas Governor and his family, which bears the mind-bogglingly racist name "N****head."
A controversy that the Perry campaign immediately worked to kill.
The positive thing about N-head and other outwardly racist actions — like trying to put the Confederate f—ing flag on Texas license plates — is that it's no longer just a gas in the air. It's something you can point to. It's something you can fight against and expose. So I see this as an opportunity that should be taken."
The show will be held at the Paramount Theater in Austin on November 1.