In most cases the field definitions are self-evident, based on the fields of the user interface. Additional descriptions are provided as needed.
See Merge Fields Supported in IF Fields on Invoice Templates for information about which merge fields can be used in Conditional Logic (IF Fields).
The unique account number assigned to the account being created.
This field cannot be translated.
Indicates if future payments are automatically collected when they're due during a Payment Run.
Zuora recommends that you use the Previous Balance and New Balance instead of this field.
Previous account balance at time of invoice generation. Does not include any charges from this invoice as this invoice is in draft mode.
Indicates the account's billing cycle day (BCD), which is when the bill runs generate invoices for the account.
A batch organizes your customer accounts into groups to optimize your billing and payment operations.
Values: any system-defined batch (Batch1 - Batch50 or by name).
Unique code that identifies a company account in Avalara.
Credit balance of the customer account.
This functionality is permission-controlled. Contact Zuora for more information about enabling credit balance features.
The CRM account ID for the account. A CRM is a customer relationship management system, such as Salesforce.com.
The currency that invoices associated with the account are paid with.
The name of the account's customer service representative, if applicable.
The ID of the default payment method for the account. This field is required if the AutoPay field is set to true.
This is the Monthly Recurring Revenue for the Account. This value is the sum of all subscription MRRs.
The name of the account. The account name displays on lists of accounts in the web-based UI.
This field is the <<Account.PreviousBalance>> merge field from the invoice tenant plus the invoice balance. This field is needed for some invoice presentation rules as the Account Balance field on the customer account does not include draft invoices.
Use this field to record comments about the account.
The parent account name of the current account. You can specify the parent account name in the account detail page.
This merge field correlates with the Customer Hierarchy feature. The Customer Hierarchy feature is in Limited Availability. If you wish to have access to the feature, submit a request at Zuora Global Support.
Indicates when the customer pays for subscriptions.
The ID of the mandate. A mandate is a signed authorization for UK and NL customers. This field is used only for the direct debit payment method.
The previous account balance is a dynamic field that is the account balance for draft invoices or the current account balance less the invoice balance when the invoice is posted. This field is needed for some invoice presentation rules as the Account Balance field on the customer account does not include draft invoices.
The sum of all rows that appear in the Previous Transactions table based on specific table filters, such as LastInvoice or UptoDaysOld.
The Starting Balance with respect to the Previous Transaction table. The difference of Account.PreviousBalance - Account.PreviousTransactionImpactTotal.
The number of the purchase order associated with this account. Purchase order information generally comes from customers.
The name of the sales representative associated with this account, if applicable.
The status of the account's tax exemption.
You must use this field if you use Zuora Tax. This field is unavailable if you don't use Zuora Tax.
The ID of your customer's tax exemption certificate.
The type of the tax exemption certificate that your customer holds.
A description of the tax exemption certificate that your customer holds.
Date when the the customer's tax exemption starts.
Corresponds to the TaxExemptEffectiveDate field on the Account SOAP API object.
Date when the customer's tax exemption ends.
Corresponds to the TaxExemptExpirationDate field on the Account SOAP API object.
Indicates the jurisdiction in which the customer's tax exemption certificate was issued.
Customer's Value Added Tax (VAT) ID.
The Bill To Contact is the person that you would like to bill or send the invoice to.
Only available to users of Zuora Tax.
The Sold To Contact is person that you have sold your product or services to. This person can be the same as the Bill To Contact.
Total of all Invoice Adjustments for this invoice. This does not include Invoice Item or Credit Balance Adjustments.
Note: Invoice Adjustment is deprecated on Production. Zuora recommends that you use the Invoice Item Adjustment to adjust invoices.
Subtotal of all charges without any taxes.
Invoice Balance as of invoice generation.
Example: Thank you for your business! Please contact us if you have any questions about your invoice!
Total amount of discount charges.
Invoice PDF file version number.
This field is available for new PDF files generated in R186 or later.
Total of charge gross amount that is pre-discount and pre-tax.
Total payments associated with the invoice.
Total of all taxes for this invoice.
Total charges and taxes for this invoice.
Total refunds for this invoice.
Subtotal of Invoice Items that were generated from One Time charges. This value does not include any associated discounts or any associated taxes.
This value includes any associated discounts, but does not include any associated taxes.
This value includes any associated discounts and also includes any associated taxes.
Subtotal of Invoice Items that were generated from Recurring charges. This value does not include any associated discounts or any associated taxes.
Subtotal of Invoice Items that were generated from Usage charges. This value does not include any associated discounts or any associated taxes.
Net Payments associated to this invoice (Payments - Refunds).
The sum of all invoice item adjustments that were associated to taxation items.
The sum of all invoice item adjustments that were associated to charges.
The sum of all invoice item adjustments that were associated to this invoice (includes both charge and tax).
This is the sum of all Credit Balance Adjustments associated to this invoice. These can be applied to the invoice and/or transferred from the invoice.
Sum of invoice adjustments and invoice item adjustments.
Sum of invoice adjustments and invoice item adjustments and credit balance adjustments.
Total credit balance adjustment increases.
Total credit balance adjustment decreases.
The invoice number excluding the prefix.
Zuora supports multi-level nested tables within the invoice items table.
You can customize your invoice templates to display invoice items in nested tables. In nested tables, you can group and subtotal complex invoice items by any custom fields from the associated product rate plan charge or rate plan charge. For more information, see Grouping and Subtotal Functions in Nested Tables.
The quantity of the units that the customer consumed during the billing period.
Note: Extra invoice items might be generated in the invoice to display the overage information. In such cases, this field returns the value, 0.
$50 per month includes up to 500 minutes free talk each month.
If the usage exceeds 500 minutes in a month period, pay overage $0.1 per minute.
The InvoiceItem.ActualQuantity field returned 400.
No extra invoice item is generated because the usage does not exceed the included minutes.
The InvoiceItem.ActualQuantity field returned 1000.
An extra invoice item is generated to return the overage. The InvoiceItem.ActualQuantity field returned 0.
Total item charge including taxes.
Indicates whether the invoice item charges are displayed in the most recently posted invoice.
true: The charge is not displayed in the most recently posted invoice.
false: The charge is displayed in the most recently posted invoice.
List price base of the charge.
The item description in the product catalog.
The custom field of the product rate plan charge associated with this invoice item.
The quantity of units that the customer consumed during the billing period.
If the customer consumed less than the included units of the charge during the billing periods, this field returns the actual quantity of the units that the customer consumed.
If the customer consumed more than the included units of the charge during the billing periods, this field returns the included units of the charge.
Extra invoice items might be generated in the invoice to display the overage information. In such cases, this field returns the overage quantity that the customer consumed.
If the usage exceeds 500 minutes in a month, pay overage $0.1 per minute.
The InvoiceItem.Quantity field returned 400.
The InvoiceItem.Quantity field returned 500.
An extra invoice item is generated to return the overage. The InvoiceItem.Quantity field returned 500.
The custom field of the rate plan charge associated with this invoice item.
Subtotal of taxes associated with the invoice item. Only available to users of Zuora Tax.
The tax code name that is mapped to the product charge.
Subscription.TaxAmount Subtotal of taxes associated with the Subscription or Rateplan.
Only available with Zuora Tax Engine.
Usage charge data such as units consumed, price per unit and the total charge amount. The format depends on the pricing charge model of the usage charge.
Subtotal of taxes associated with the usage summary.
If you are using the individual usage rating feature, use this optional field to display the usage rating amount on a line-by-line basis in the Usage Details section of the Invoice PDF.
These fields are available only if you have enabled one of the tax automation options in Zuora.
Summary of all taxes by unique combination of Tax Name, Tax Rate and Tax Rate Type.
The name of the tax rate, such as sales tax or GST. This name is displayed on invoices.
The tax rate applied to the charge.
The type of the tax rate applied to the charge.
The description of the charge (in the Product Catalog) that is related to the taxation.
The name of the charge (in the Product Catalog) that is related to the taxation.
The period of the charge (in the Product Catalog) that is related to the taxation.
The description of the product (in the Product Catalog) that is related to the taxation.
The product name related to the taxation.
The product SKU number (in the Product Catalog) that is related to the taxation.
The description of the product rate plan (in the Product Catalog) that is related to taxation.
The pricing plan (in the Product Catalog) related to the taxation.
The notes of the subscription that is related to the taxation.
The subscription number that is related to the taxation.
This accounting code is associated to the taxes in the Invoice Details Export.
The amount of the tax applied to the charge.
The tax code identifies which tax rules and tax rates to apply to a specific charge. See Set Up Taxation Codes.
The date that the tax is applied to the charge.
The jurisdiction that applies the tax or VAT. This value is typically a state, province, county, or city.
The identifier for the location based on the value of the TaxCode field.
The description of the tax rate.
Refunds, Payments, Adjustments and Credit Balance Adjustments are displayed in the transaction table. These are transactions that are associated only to this invoice.
Refunds, Payments, Adjustments, and Invoices are displayed in the transaction table currently. These transactions are associated to the Account and not associated to this invoice.
This field is the balance impact of the transaction. For example, a payment amount may be 50, but its balance impact is -50.
All Open Invoices associated to this Account. An open invoice is any invoice where the balance is not equal to 0.
In order to have a barcode on your invoice, you need to use a barcode merge field in your template. Currently, Zuora supports up to five Code 128 barcodes per invoice template.
Zuora also supports barcodes generated by Australia Post. See Using Barcodes on Invoice Templates.
Zuora recommends that you use Transaction Table instead of the Payments and Invoice Adjustment fields.
The accounting code for the invoice item. Accounting codes group transactions that contain similar accounting attributes.
The amount of the invoice item adjustment.
The date when the invoice item adjustment is applied. This date must be the same as the invoice's date or later.
A description of the invoice adjustment.
A unique string to identify an individual invoice item adjustment.
The type of invoice adjustment.


We've heard a lot about the dissatisfaction of progressives. Obama has betrayed them. They thought he was their man, but he was not their man. They thought he was going to sock it to Republicans and stage a revolution. He didn't. But this perception on the left wasn't based on anything Obama actually said. It didn't need to be. It seemed obvious: he was against the Iraq war, he used to be a community organizer, he was black—how could he not be one of them?
In fact, yes, he was against the Iraq war, but he was also for the Afghanistan war. On health care, he ran to the right of Clinton and Edwards. And, most importantly, during the campaign he spoke over and over again about changing the corrosive political culture in Washington. He wanted an end to partisan bickering, he wanted politicians to come together for the sake of the country. He said this a lot. He spoke about it, it seemed to me at the time, as much as any other issue—as much as health care, as much as Iraq.
In the primaries, the contrast with Hillary Clinton could not have been starker. While she talked the traditional Democratic talk about fighting greedy corporations and battling the right, Obama tended to avoid blaming Bush and the Republicans. He preferred to talk about America's problems as "ours," and how "we"—a nonpartisan we—might begin solving them. And he has always done this. In the most famous passage of his 2004 Convention speech, he rebuked pundits for slicing and dicing the country into red states and blue states. When Obama talked about change and hope during his campaign, in other words, he was talking as much about changing Washington and hoping for a new kind of politics as he was about anything else. But for some reason, this simply didn't register. People just didn't hear it. Or they heard it but didn't believe he was serious. It would seem to be evident that a guy who was running on a promise of patriotic bipartisanship was not going to be the guy to crush Republicans and try to make real the most ambitious hopes of the left. But, somehow, it wasn't.
It's now clear that there's a reason for that. In his attempt to change Washington, Obama has failed. For the most part this failure should be blamed on Republicans, but it has also become clear that one of Obama's crucial flaws is his overestimation of his ability to bring people together. But are we worse off for him trying? I suspect that even though a more conventional Democrat might also have won in 2008, she would not have inspired so much cross-over voting, or so much idealistic passion, and would not have carried with her so many House and Senate victories. Would the economy be doing better, or would health care be in better shape, if Obama had not even tried to get the Republicans on board? It's hard to say.
In his second book, "The Audacity of Hope," Obama wrote: "We must talk and reach for common understandings, precisely because all of us are imperfect and can never act with the certainty that God is on our side." It's rare for any sort of person to think this way, and for a politician it is radical. Maybe it's politically stupid. It certainly hasn't worked out too well during this past twelve months. But it's a profound creed and a noble hope. And don't say he didn't tell you.


OneStopPlus.com recently did a survey of shoppers shopping for plus size clothes to find out what women find it most difficult to shop for when it comes to their own body shape. To be honest the results were not all that surprising with trousers the most difficult (42% of women), followed by bras (37% of women) and then dresses, plus size swimwear and boots next (14% of women).
Nancy LeWinter who is Editorial Director for OneStopPlus.com, says, "Shopping can be difficult for women of all sizes, but specifically when it comes to busts and butts. We work to build confidence in these women who find it difficult to purchase the most appropriate fashion for their bodies, by offering the largest selection of styles and advice on what looks best on them".
Remember ladies, be proud of your bodies, how boring would it be if we were all the same. So grab that swimwear and hit the beach in style.


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Q: How to adjust the x-axis width to fit and display each string of the words in the plot? I am trying to set the width to be automatically adjusted to fit each string of words in the x-axis. The words are "Fleet", "Services", "Information Technology" ... etc (about 10 in total)
x = df.Category.astype(str)
y = df.Amount
plt.scatter(x,np.e**y,label ="$ Amount", color = "k", marker = "*", s = 3)

See the red box on x-axis. Need those words spread out clearly.

A: My advice would be (as commented above) to simply swap x and y to have readable category names on the y-axis:

# Code to reproduce image above:

# import numpy as np
# import pandas as pd
# import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# np.random.seed(42)
# cats = ['Facility', 'Fleet', 'Services', 'Information Technology', 'Facility2', 'Fleet2', 'Services2', 'Information Technology2']
# df = pd.DataFrame({'Category': np.random.choice(cats, 100000), 'Amount': np.random.random(100000)*750})
# x = df.Category.astype(str)
# y = df.Amount
plt.scatter(np.e**y, x, label ="$ Amount", color = "k", marker = "*", s = 3)
# plt.tight_layout()

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Early reports indicate we may have detected a black hole and neutron star collision
It looks like we've bagged another win for gravitational wave astronomy. A new gravitational wave detection is the best candidate yet for a type of cosmic collision never seen – the elusive merger between a black hole and a neutron star.
The event, called S190814bv, was detected by the LIGO and Virgo interferometers at 11 minutes past 9 pm UTC on 14 August. And, based on initial analysis, there's a 99 percent chance that it's a neutron star-black hole kaboom.
Even as you read this, scientists are poring over data and staring hard at the sky, looking for the light that may have been left behind by the neutron star as it is absorbed into the black hole.
"It's like the night before Christmas," astronomer Ryan Foley of the University of California, Santa Cruz told ScienceAlert. "I'm just waiting to see what's under the tree."
Since that amazing first gravitational wave detection – a collision between two stellar mass black holes – was announced in February 2016, the field has been only growing stronger. The technology is so sophisticated it can detect collisions between two neutron stars – objects much less massive than black holes.
Both neutron stars and black holes are the ultradense remains of a dead star, but we've never seen a black hole smaller than 5 times the mass of the Sun, or a neutron star larger than around 2.5 times the mass of the Sun.
But a collision between a black hole and a neutron star has evaded us, since they wouldn't produce strong gravitational waves.
One detection looked like it might have been such an event, earlier this year, but the odds were just 13 percent. And the signal to noise ratio was so low, astronomers didn't follow it up.
That's not the case with S190814bv. The signal is really strong, and astronomers are excited – if it really is a collision between a neutron star and a black hole, it will be the first time such a binary system has ever been seen.
This would mean that such binary systems, hypothetical until now, are indeed possible. We could even get clues as to their formation – did they form as a binary, living, growing and dying together? Or did the black hole capture a passing neutron star into its orbit?
Believe it or not, we can learn that from the gravitational wave signal – ripples in spacetime caused by a massive collision, like a rock dropped in a pond – if it's strong enough. Clues to the formation of the binary are encoded in the waveform, along with the masses of the individual objects, their velocity and acceleration.
"From the gravitational wave signal, one can get information about the spins of the individual objects and their orientation compared with the spin of the axis to the orbit," physicist Peter Veitch from the University of Adelaide in Australia and OzGrav (the Australian branch of the LIGO collaboration) told ScienceAlert.
"[We're] looking to see whether the rotational spin of the individual objects are aligned with each other, which might suggest that they were initially in a binary system. Whereas if one compact object was captured by another as galaxies merged, for example, then you might expect these objects have different spins pointing in different directions."
Foley and his colleagues are currently using the Keck Observatory to study a galaxy around 900 million light-years away. That's where they think the signal might have originated. They're looking for electromagnetic radiation that might result from the collision involving a neutron star.
And, of course, there's the burning question: what do neutron star guts look like?
"We would love to observe a black hole ripping a neutron star apart as they come together," says theoretical physicist Susan Scott of the Australian National University and OzGrav.
"This would give us vital information about the material which makes up the densest stars in the Universe – neutron stars – which remains a very big open question in the field."
If there's no electromagnetic radiation detected, that could mean astronomers are simply looking in the wrong place. Or it could mean that the electromagnetic radiation is too weak to be detected.
It could also mean a neutron star isn't involved – which would be very interesting, because the signal suggests that the smaller object is less than three times the mass of the Sun. If it's not a neutron star, it might instead be the smallest black hole we've ever detected.
Or it could mean that the dynamics between a neutron star and a black hole as they smoosh together into a slightly bigger black hole are even weirder than we knew.
"My favourite way to think about it (for the moment) is that if a black hole is much more massive than a neutron star, then when they merge, the neutron star will be torn apart inside the event horizon of the black hole! In that case, even if there's plenty of light generated, none will escape the black hole for us to see," Foley told ScienceAlert.
"That is about as close to science fiction as you get."
This article was originally published by Sciencealert.com. Read the original article here.
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Mario Diaz, Reporter
Tags: Harris County, African artwork, Commissioner Rodney Ellis, DA Kim Ogg, money, investigates
Investigation ramps up into African art stashed in tax-payer funded shed in Harris County
HOUSTON – Law enforcement officials are ramping up their investigation into a stash of African artwork that is being stored on the Harris County taxpayers' dime.
"Who has the keys to all this," KPRC 2 asked Harris County Precinct 1 Commissioner Rodney Ellis's team earlier this year. The shed is in Ellis' precinct but he wasn't talking.
"The buck stops with you, sir? What do you have to say to Harris County taxpayers about this?" asked KPRC 2 investigator Mario Diaz.
Since then, Ellis has spoken out, claiming it's a simple misunderstanding involving a small amount of art.
"We got a few pieces," explained Ellis during a Truth2Power Facebook Live in April. "We worked up an agreement with him. We didn't dot all of the I's and cross all of the T's but sometimes that happens."
However, Ellis did dot all the I's and cross all the T's in a 2018 Commissioner's Court contract. The contract KPRC 2 dug up was only for 14 pieces of art from a man with ties to Ellis' family. There are thousands of pieces of artwork in the shed.
"My sister told me, sister-in-law he has a great collection of African art," explained Ellis during his interview with Dr. Candice Matthews.
However, no mention has been made anywhere of the plans for a costly makeover at the shed, fumigation of the massive art stash or even the cost of warehousing it.
County investigation?
"We have to get rid of special treatments for special groups," said Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg on July 31. Her comments came minutes after she announced the indictments of former HPD officers embroiled in the botched Harding Street raid.
County officials told KPRC 2 that grand jury subpoenas for information and testimony tied to the findings at the shed have been sent out by the DA's Public Corruption Unit. Ogg did not confirm or deny the investigation.
"I assure you that the District Attorney's Office is as interested in public corruption in elected office as it is in the police department as it is in any private industry where it might exist," said Ogg.
The FBI has also requested information into the artwork as well. Meanwhile, Ellis' team is not providing the identities of the people Ellis personally brought into the shed.
Attorney hired
Ellis has hired attorney Chris Feldman to help sort everything out.
"I've gotten Chris Feldman, an attorney, to go review it to see what recommendations he can put in place," Ellis told KPRC 2.
Feldman confirms he was retained to work solely on the art shed situation. Yet Ellis appears to be paying for Feldman's services through his campaign according to the commissioner's latest finance report.
About $45,000 has been paid to Feldman since March 10, for what is described as, "legal services to the campaign."
Feldman confirmed to KPRC 2 that his work surrounding the art shed is being paid with campaign dollars secured by Ellis from donors. Feldman said his work is considered an "officeholder expenditure," even though it is listed as "legal services to the campaign" in the report.
Mario Diaz


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Following her performances in MsLabelled, Houdini and Doyle and the upcoming Alias Grace, Sarah Polley, Christina Jennings and Mary Harron on why the 26-year-old is a star in the making.
By Marc Glassman
People may not know Rebecca Liddiard now, but that will change this fall. The 26-year-old Toronto-based actress has the kind of presence that can make a good scene memorable through her ability to play off other actors, transforming a banal moment into something striking.
She plays Mary Whitney, the (spoiler!) doomed best friend of Grace Marks in the anticipated adaptation of Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace, which makes its world premiere in TIFF's Primetime TV program today (Sept. 14) and its broadcast premiere on CBC on Sept. 25. Written and produced by Sarah Polley, directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol, American Psycho), and starring Sarah Gadon in the titular role, the six-part series is bound to attract critical and popular attention.
A lot of that attention will centre on Liddiard, the chambermaid who befriends Grace when she arrives to take on domestic duties in Toronto. It's Liddiard's Mary, whose impassioned speech about the failed rebellion of 1837, gives Grace, an Irish immigrant, her first glimpse at a Canadian identity. And it's Mary – funny, open and warm – who sets Gadon's Grace straight about men and the aristocratic ways that still dominated the very British Ontario of 1840s.
To say that Polley is impressed by Liddiard is an understatement. "She has a magic to her that I haven't seen before," she says. "When she first auditioned, she left the room and I literally let out a shriek. It was so astonishing to be in the presence of someone you had never seen before, and who was that massive a talent. She is arrestingly smart, full of life, and brave, and you can see all of that in her eyes."
Harron chimes in: "Although she's wonderful in the character of Mary Whitney, I think that Rebecca's actually a really great comic actress."
Liddiard transitions quickly from her role as the tragic Mary Whitney to Morality Mary, a zany character in Shaftesbury's new CBC series Frankie Drake Mysteries. "The character I play is really off the wall, and there's a real physicality to her that I've never had the opportunity to explore – at least in film and TV," says Liddiard.
Although Liddiard's resume isn't extensive, she's delighted the people who have worked with her. Christina Jennings, chair and CEO of Shaftesbury, has been there the longest since Liddiard was cast in the 2015 Smokebomb webseries MsLabelled as a young fashionista. "I said right away, 'She's going to be a star,'" says Jennings. "She's got great comedy chops; there is real heart and she has a great look." Soon after, Liddiard was cast as Adelaide Stratton, the female lead in Shaftesbury's international coproduction, Houdini and Doyle.
"She is extraordinary. I imagine Rebecca will be whisked away to Los Angeles and that will be the end of her in Canada," says Jennings. "But she's young; it's all about the work right now, it's not about the money."
All the praise hasn't gone to Liddiard's head. A Ryerson theatre grad, who was raised in London, ON, she's remarkably level headed. "It's wonderful to hear," she allows, "but I think I'll just keep trying to work really hard and keep learning and doing better."
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What does the MAC report mean for employers?
The Migration Advisory Committee ('MAC') finally published its long-awaited report this week, after it was commissioned by the Government to assess the impact of EEA migration on the UK's economy and society, as well as to consider recommendations for the UK's future immigration system. But what does the report say and what are its implications for employers?
The real headliner from the MAC report is its recommendation that there should be no preferential access to the UK for EEA citizens in the future and that the MAC sees no need for a new immigration scheme for low skilled workers.
This conclusion is perhaps more surprising given that the report also concluded that EEA migrants actually make a positive net contribution to public finances, paying more in taxes than they receive in benefits.
The MAC sees no need for a separate low-skilled worker scheme, with the possible exception of a seasonal agricultural workers scheme.
The MAC suggests that any gap in lower skilled workers would be filled by family migration to the UK or, if necessary, by expanding the Youth Mobility scheme, which allows young people from certain countries to come to the UK for up to two years to work.
It admits that some sectors will lobby intensely against this proposal. There is also surprisingly no economic analysis as to how likely it is that UK workers or family migrants would in reality be able to fill these low-skilled roles in the future.
This conclusion will be extremely disappointing to many employers who rely heavily on EEA labour to fill low-skilled positions, especially in the social care, hospitality, construction and retail sectors.
Sourcing sufficient workers for these types of roles from the UK workforce is likely to be a real struggle for many employers, especially given historic low unemployment rates.
• allowing Tier 2 migrants to switch employers more easily.
The MAC's figures appear to indicate that, even if the above changes are made, far less than half all roles would be eligible for sponsorship under Tier 2 (General), meaning more than half of all new vacancies could only be filled by UK nationals (or migrants who qualify under other very limited immigration routes).
Furthermore, those UK employers who already sponsor non-EEA migrants under the Tier 2 route will know how bureaucratic and expensive the process is.
The additional costs and administration involved mean that any extension of the Tier 2 sponsored regime to EEA nationals will result in higher costs for employers and a greater administrative burden. The MAC report acknowledges these criticisms and recommends that the government tries to reduce the bureaucracy.
If the government adopts the MAC's proposals, even if highly skilled EEA nationals are able to come to the UK in the future, this would inevitably involve additional red tape, which could deter individuals from coming to take up roles, given they could travel more freely to another EEA country.
There is very little in the report in relation to self-employed individuals. It simply recommends that the current categories of Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) and Tier 1 (Exceptional Talent) should be evaluated by the government to clarify how they may apply to EEA nationals.
The lack of recommendations is disappointing given that a significant number of EEA nationals come to the UK to work on a self-employed basis, especially in the construction sector, and the current immigration routes available to non-EEA nationals to come to the UK on a self-employed basis are particularly restrictive.
Clearly employers need to await the outcome of the Brexit negotiations and the Brexit White Paper (due to be published later this autumn) to fully understand the future of EEA migration to the UK.
It's also possible that the UK government may have to agree to some preferential treatment for EEA nationals as part of Brexit negotiations, particularly if the UK wants its own citizens to be able to work in EEA member states.
It also seems likely that the proposed transition period until 31 December 2020 (during which free movement will largely continue) will be unaffected as this has already been agreed in principle and the MAC acknowledges that an implementation period is likely to be needed.
That said, this long-awaited MAC report is not promising reading for any employers relying on an EEA workforce after the implementation period.


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Q: Trigger event on mouseup instead of continuosly with panel slider widget How can a function watch for value changes of a panel.widgets.IntSlider, but only trigger when the mouse is released rather than continuously as the slider is dragged around?
I have tried callback_policy='mouseup' and decorated the function with @panel.depends(panel.widgets.IntSlider, watch=True), but the function is executed continuously when the slider is pulled around an not only when the mouse button is released. This is the full code:
import panel as pn

pn.extension()
int_slider = pn.widgets.IntSlider(
    name='Integer Slider', end=5, callback_policy='mouseup')

@pn.depends(int_slider.param.value, watch=True)
def print_slider_value(slider_value):
    return slider_value

pn.Column(int_slider, print_slider_value) #.app('localhost:8888')

I have tried both with and without .app() in the end and with 'throttle' instead of 'mouseup', same result. I am trying this in the JupyterLab notebook and I have the PyViz extension installed.
bokeh       1.2.0
panel       0.6.0
IPython     6.5.0
jupyter_client  5.2.3
jupyter_core    4.4.0
jupyterlab  1.0.2
notebook    5.6.0

A: I checked the source code of panel and found that it didn't define the value_throttled property.
To solve the problem, you need to create a class that inheritance from IntSlider and add the value_throttled property.
Then you can watch on value_throttled.
import panel as pn
import param

class IntThrottledSlider(pn.widgets.IntSlider):
    value_throttled = param.Integer(default=0)

int_slider = IntThrottledSlider(
    name='Integer Slider', end=5, callback_policy='mouseup')

@pn.depends(int_slider.param.value_throttled, watch=True)
def print_slider_value(slider_value):
    return slider_value

pn.Column(int_slider, print_slider_value)


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A: solved! I have just changed windows scheme.


1. Whisk together all sauce ingredients in a small bowl. Refrigerate until ready to use.
2. Toss chicken with lemon juice, oregano, coriander, salt, pepper, garlic and olive oil. Marinade at least 15 minutes, an hour is ideal.
3. Heat a large pot over high heat and add enough oil to coat the bottom lightly.
4. In a large saucepan, cook the chicken in batches until done. Remove from pan, set aside and keep warm.
5. In the same pot you cooked the chicken, add the butter, rice, turmeric and cumin. Stir to coat, cook about 1-2 minutes.
6. Add chicken stock and salt and bring to a boil.
7. Turn heat down to low, cover and cook 15 minutes. Fluff with a fork when finished and remove from heat.
8. When everything is done, dice the chicken.
9. Serve chicken pieces on top of rice, drizzle with the white sauce and add hot sauce if desired.


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from Carl Zimmer: What It Means to Be Alive held on March 10, 2021
Carl Zimmer: What It Means to be Alive
Life is everywhere. From birds in the sky to bushes on the ground to the humans who surround our everyday lives. We assume life is easily identifiable, yet as scientists learn more about the living world, they find life to be a difficult word to define. In his new book Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive, acclaimed scientific author Carl Zimmer seeks to answer one of biology's greatest questions: What is life? The question hangs over some of society's most charged conflicts—whether a fertilized egg is a living person, for example, and when we ought to declare a person legally dead.
Life's Edge explores lab experiments attempting to create life, poses questions of what life is like in our grand universe, and offers insight into scientific developments shaping the way we understand living beings. Charting the obsession with Dr. Frankenstein's monster and how Coleridge came to believe the whole universe was alive, Zimmer leads us all the way into the labs and minds of researchers working on engineering life from the ground up.
Join us as Carl Zimmer explores life and investigates why scientists have struggled to define the boundaries of the word.
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Today we bring you an initial batch of spy images depicting Infiniti's upcoming minor facelift for the QX60.
Already confirmed to debut in January at NAIAS, Infiniti's facelifted QX60 has been spotted by our spy photographers in Detroit and as you can see it has disguise on both the front and rear ends, along with some makeup on the side mirror caps. The extensive amount of disguise might trick you into believing that changes are going to be substantial, but in reality the cosmetic tweaks will be on a subtle level and these will bring the QX60 more in line with the company's recently updated crossovers/SUVs.
The prototype spotted here had the same 3.5-liter V6 engine which in the current model is good enough for 265 bhp (198 kW) at 6,400 rpm and 248 lb-ft (336 Nm) at 4,400 rpm channeled to either the front wheels or to an optional AWD setup through a continuously variable transmission (CVT). It's not known at this point whether Infiniti will fiddle around with the engine to increase power or boost economy beyond the current 21 mpg city / 27 mpg highway of the FWD model and 19 mpg city / 26 mpg highway of the all-paw version.
Taking into account the Nissan Pathfinder-based QX60 facelift will show up in Detroit early next year, maybe Infiniti will reveal the model online before the year's end.


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(ca) [Canadá] Festival de Cine Anarquista de Montreal... Deba	jo de la Luna!
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Cuba Havana, a dance club in Havana, the Tropical
In this programme devoted to Cuban music, Joël Pierre Dupuis speaks about two famous public establishments in Havana where people come to dance salsa: The "Castillito" and "Tropical".
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Latin dances > Salsa
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When it comes to Salsa, there is a great paradox: in the minds of any novice, this music is spontaneously identified with Cuba, even though, since its emergence during the late 1960s in New York's Puerto Rican districts, it spent the first twenty-five years of its existence developing completely separate of Cuba.
Fabrice Hatem
Where can you really dance in Havana, Joel-Pierre?
Joël-Pierre
Well, you can really dance in the clubs of major hotels when you have dollars, otherwise, people dance in public places designed for the purpose- at least they are quite cheap. There are two places, especially, that are absolutely heavenly. Firstly, el Castillito, which belongs to the Communist Youth Union, is a good place for dancing, which is located on the Malecòn, i.e. on the coast. And there is another place that is just absolutely fabulous, which is open from Thursday to Sunday, called Tropical. It used to be a brewery, it can sometimes get unbearably hot. There you see what it really means to 'mover el pudin', when your hips are just dead afterwards.
There are two major genres which actually correspond to two influences, to two Cuban sources, an African source, and a European source via Haiti. There are above all some very, very good musicians, so there are a lot of very good salsa players. Two groups are currently at the top of the list, there is NG La Banda, the new generation, and then there is Van Van, which is very in vogue at the moment, they are the two leading groups of salsa musicians, and they are fantastic.
The contribution made by such groups as NG la Banda and Van Van was to introduce completely modern elements of musical culture into a completely renewed salsa beat.
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The Red Raiders recorded pins in each of the final six bouts en route to a 51-16 victory over Hunterdon Central.
PAULSBORO – The packed gymnasium inside Paulsboro High School was just waiting for the opportunity to explode.
Shawn Williams gladly provided the spark.
The sophomore delivered a clutch fall against a 23-match winner, starting a pin party that saw the Red Raiders finish the meet with six straight pins en route to a 51-16 laugher over previously undefeated Hunterdon Central Thursday in a showdown of two powerhouses in the state.
Paulsboro's Brandon Green also provided a pin during the remarkable stretch for his 100th career victory.
Paulsboro (17-0), ranked No. 2 in the state by the New Jersey Wrestling Writers Association, won't get to savor the victory for long though. The Red Raiders host a tri-meet on Friday before much-anticipated showdown with top-ranked Bergen Catholic on Saturday at The Palestra on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. Match time is 3:30.
Fourth-ranked Hunterdon Central (19-1) won four of the first five bouts, jumping out to a 16-3 lead.
The Paulsboro faithful squirmed in their seats anxious for something to cheer about. When the Red Raiders finally got rolling, the fans didn't spend much time in their seats the rest of the night.
After Gabe Onorato (145 pounds) earned a 6-4 tiebreaker win, George Worthy accepted a forfeit win as Hunterdon Central tried to gain extra points by bumping senior Vincent Romaniello (23-5) up to 160.
Williams scuffled through the first period and trailed 3-0 when he turned the momentum completely in Paulsboro's favor with a simple underhook, decking Romaniello in 2 minutes, 42 seconds.
The crowd went from near silence to pandemonium, reaching decibel levels that haven't been heard in the Paulsboro gymnasium in recent years.
"The place just went crazy," Green said. "We just wanted him to go out there and get a win," Green said. "When we saw (Romaniello) go on his back, we just went insane obviously.
It might not have been louder after that, but the cheers kept coming as quickly as the pins.
Green - pin in 51 seconds. Santino Morina - pin in 50 seconds. Anthony Morina - pin in 3:15. Flynn Leaf - pin in 1:59. Austin Mooney pin in 4:21.
Even as the wrestlers broke down the mat afterwards, there was still a buzz in the air about what had just transpired as well as the anticipation of Saturday's showdown.
Paulsboro celebrated Green's milestone by giving him a banner, but the junior has bigger plans.
"(One-hundred wins) means a lot, but I want to break Joe Duca's career record (155)," Green said. "Ever since I heard that number earlier in the season, and I think was at 86 wins at the time, that's been on my mind.
The way he's wrestling this season, Duca should be concerned about his mark. Green looks like he's on a journey to a high step on the state podium in Atlantic City come March. He improved to 25-2, with 18 pins, including a four-second fall earlier in the season.
Paul Morina knows what it's feels like to wrestle in the center of the famed gymnasium – The Palestra.
Morina went on to have a great collegiate career, wrestling two years at Temple before transfering to James Madison. He won 108 matches at the college level.
Morina said preparing for this week has been "nerve-racking" at times - making sure the kids stay on weight (106-pounder DJ Hainey missed weight Thursday night) while keeping them focused and not letting them get too cocky.
The meet will have its benefits though.
Penn, which is boasting a "Red Out" on Saturday, will open its Ivy League dual-meet season with Brown at 1 p.m. and Harvard at 6 p.m. Paulsboro-Bergen Catholic will start approximately at 3:30.
106: Brett Ungar, HC, tf. Jackson Sichelsteil, 17-1, 5:28; 113: Georgio Mazzeo, P, d. Nick Canonica, 3-1 (SV); 120: Colton Washleski, HC, d. Matt Marcucci, 7-0; 126: Jack Bauer, HC, tf. Quason Winstead, 17-2, 6:00; 132: Tanner Peake, HC, d. Geno Duca, 9-6; 138: Jacob Perez-Eli, P, d. Anthony Romaniello, 8-5; 145: Gabe Onorato, P, d. Pasquale Vizzoni, 6-4 (TB-2); 152: George Worthy, P, forfeit; 160: Shawn Williams, P, p. Vincent Romaniello, 2:42; 170: Brandon Green, P, p. Vincent Brito, 1:01; 182: Santino Morina, P, p. Kyle Barrett, 0:50; 195: Anthony Morina, P, p. Brandon Donoghue, 3:15; 220: Flynn Leaf, P, p. Sal Brito, 1:50; 285: Austin Mooney, P, p. Ryan Joyce, 4:21.


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11W Holiday Weekend Update: Sponsored by Gravy
By Luke Zimmermann on November 25, 2009 at 2:00 pm
(Thankful for) * Infinity
Thanksgiving is upon us, and in accordance, it's time to list the many things we have to be thankful for.
For starters, I'm thankful that Tim Tebow's play thi s season means any chances he has to match Archie Griffin with two Heisman Trophies are distant at best, and that his being invited to the fraternity would come almost entirely out of left field. Look, it's nothing against Tebow (though he is painfully fun to root against), but until Terrelle Pryor shocks everyone by coming back after next year's win and wins his second, I selfishly don't like the idea of anyone who would've been nicknamed All-Day had that sort of thing been en vogue in the time sharing the honor.
I'm also thankful for James Patrick Tressel. While far too many have embarassingly called for job (or worse) in moments of frustration, The Vest quietly wheeled off the best coaching job in his 9 years in Columbus. Despite a ridiculously young offense, a defense in transition, and an inconsistent special teams core, Tress managed to dig deep and not only win the conference outright, but beat Michigan a sixth season consecutively. If you're still complaining that he's not Urban Meyer or Pete Carroll (HA!), please talk to me in 2 years. If you'd still prefer Urbz over Tress, I'll gladly buy you a high quality premium adult marketed beverage of your choosing (age permitting, of course). Perhaps if you buy me a dozen or more, I'll finally be in a state where I'd be inclined to agree.
Lastly, I'm thankful that my short lived magical gambling powers have exited my extermities as quickly as they came (if John Travolta in "Phenomenon" is any indicator, I probably have an inoperable brain tumor and will be gone shortly). In an abbreviated slate a week back, my mad skills evaporated into chimpanzee picking labeled playing cards from a hat level impressive. My 3-3 showing has my season total now at 44-17-1. Respectable? Totally. Frightening? Not so much. This season's Turkey Day Thursday and Black Friday (not so much because of the sales, but the absence of sunlight on some of these awful, awful games) slate should give me the further opportunity to embarass myself. Let's take a look at what this extended weekend has in store:
Thursday - #2 Texas at Texas A&M (+22.5) - 8:00 p.m. (ESPN) The first of six Thanksgiving weekend games that have a rivalry tinge to them, the Longhorns travel to Bryan-College Station to take on their country cousins, Texas A&M. National sack leader Von Miller will look to add to the notches on his belt against Heisman front runner Colt McCoy and the Longhorns explosive offense. For the second straight year, this game takes place on Thanksgiving night itself, and given the Broncos sudden freefall, don't pretend it won't be occupying your attention span regardless of the closeness. Despite the relative anything goes nature of rivalry games in general, Texas A&M won't have enough to ruin Texas' march towards perfection though will play spoilers in the gambling department falling 20-41.
Friday - #1 Alabama at Auburn (+12.5) - 2:30 p.m. (CBS) A game compared favorably by some as Ohio State-Michigan but even wilder (likely by someone who's name rhymes with Keg Boil), the Crimson Tide of Alabama take on the Tigers of Auburn to kick off the watchable portion of Black Friday. While I will concede this is The Game plus grain alcohol, this year's may not have the luster of some from year's past as Auburn limps into the showdown with 'Bama just two victories away from their first title game berth in the BCS area. Mark Ingram's Heisman candidacy could very well come down to how the running back takes on the traps concocted for him by first time headman in the Bama-Auburn rivalry, Gene Chizik. Should War Eagle have any hope of springing the upset, Kodi Burns will have to repossess the alien symbiote that's been inhabiting Jonathan Crompton these past 4 weeks to go along with the Chizik-Ted Roof 1.somefraction of defensive guru brain trust. While covering on the day after Thanksgiving has a certain luster to it, Auburn is left with little more than gambling and moral victories as they fall to the Tide 10-21.
Friday - #8 Pittsburgh at West Virginia (EVEN) - 7:00 p.m. (ESPN2) The Backyard Brawl reemerges on the Friday after Thanksgiving, with PItt's BCS livelihood at stake and West Virginia looking to play their way into a possible Gator Bowl berth. Jarrett Brown and Noel Devine will need to be executing at the highest level for the 'Neers to keep on pace with O'Brien award candidate Bill Stull and the Pitt offense. Despite the distinction of being the first "pick-em" game of the 2009 season we've followed, no contest involving the Wandstache can really ever truly take on the qualities of a pick 'em. While Pitt looks feisty on paper, you gotta go with the home team. Bill Stewart's WFVU takes this one 34-30.
#18 Clemson at South Carolina (+2.5) - 12:00 p.m. (ESPN) DABO! DABO! DABO! The suddenly red hot Clemson Tigers stroll into Columbia to take on Head Baw Coach and the Gamecocks in this interstate hate fest. Anytime you have the prospects for a Stephen Garcia v. Willy Korn encounter, the odds of sheer awesomeness breaking out is painfully high, though with boring QB Kyle Parker firmly entrenched as the Tigers' signal caller, expect no such shenanigans. While we've been spared the usual Clemson late season free fall that'd become so customary under the Tommy Bowden regime, this one has all the makings of an OBC win out of absolutely nowhere that gives the 'Cocks false momentum going into a bowl disappointment. Despite little to suggest it, the Gamecocks take the upset 21-17.
#12 Oklahoma State at Oklahoma (-8.5) - 12:30 p.m. (FSN) Leave it to the Sooners to twice this season go into a game against a Top-20 ranked opponent while being unranked and emerge as near double digit Vegas favorites. It's difficult to fault the powers that be for the logic, as despite the absolute egg laid by OU a week prior and the 10,000,000 injuries they've been forced to deal with, the Sooners are still one of the most stocked, talented ballclubs out there. With Zac Robinson set to reemerge from injury, it's not as though the Pokes have been injury/controversy (see: White, Dez) in their own right. With OU hungry and Bedlam a foot, look for the Sooners to kill the insane momentum that's been the Cowboys as an at-large BCS choice to the tune of 27-13.
Florida State at #3 Florida (-21.5) - 3:30 p.m. (CBS) The last Florida game in the storied career of defensive coordinator Mickey Andrews (and potentially that of the recently embattled legend Bobby Bowden?) comes conveniently in-time for the final homegame in the Tebow child's journey before he ascends to be home with his father, Danny Wuerffel. While a certain head coach is sure to need several extra bottles of No More Tears to make it through senior day, the real tears will come from the 'Noles faithful. Sans Christian Ponder, Florida State won't have the convenience of a Terrapin defense to play guess-and-check against, and while the Addazio play called Gators haven't exact lit the world on fire, expect the Tebow parting to cover to the sweet tune of 27-3.
#20 Miami at South Florida (+1) - 3:30 p.m. (ABC/ESPN Regional) An interesting matchup that while surely would've looked sexier 4 weeks back, still has major recruiting ramifications in the power struggle that is football in the state of Florida. B.J. Daniels continues to exhibit growing pains as he adjusts to being the unquestioned man in the Bulls' huddle, while former buzz Heisman prospect Jacory Harris has been waking up crying in the middle of the night some too lately. Despite the possibility for the seventh by my count program defining victory for Jim Leavitt, Randy Shannon and Mark Whipple find the right buttons to push to get The U's 2010 momentum back up and running as the Canes take this one 21-17.
Big Ten Games
Friday - Illinois at #5 Cincinnati (-20.5) - 12:00 p.m. (ABC) One truly is the loneliest number as the last of an endangered species, the Big Ten's Fightin' Illini (endangered as in the conference is done playing games; I would stoop to a number of lows, but a Native American joke on Turkey Day is below even me, y'all) travel to Cincy to square off with the still unscathed Bearcats. Despite the media whispering sweet nothing into UC headman Brian Kelly's ear all week about the ND job, it will be up to the veteran task master to find a way to get the 'Cats focused on the task at hand, as the Zookster's bunch seem suddenly keen about their new role as spoilers. While like all good things, the storied career of Isiah "Juice" Williams must come to an end, the two headed Optimus Prime that is CollarosPike under center for UC will be all Cincinnati needs to counter the assault. The Illini will show just enough fight to give annoyed, displaced Buckeye alum living in the greater Cincinnati area false hope, but the Bearcats march on undefeated towards their game with Pitt 20-35.


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CalCCA Proposes Policy Changes to Improve Reliability of California's Electric System
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 9.9.2020
Contact: Leora Broydo Vestel
(415) 999-4757 | leora@cal-cca.org
CCA Association Calls for Immediate Action in Regulatory, Legislative, and Federal Arenas
Concord, Calif. – With record-breaking heat and rampant wildfires threatening the stability of California's power grid, the California Community Choice Association (CalCCA) is calling for immediate policy action to improve the reliability of the state's electric system. In a letter sent today to Governor Gavin Newsom, CalCCA provides a series of recommendations that, if implemented, would help to avert future grid emergencies.
California power supplies were exceptionally tight during extreme heat storms that engulfed the state over the Labor Day weekend and in mid-August, and out-of-control wildfires have knocked out critical generation and transmission facilities. The emergency conditions, fueled by climate change, reveal an urgent need to reform the existing resource adequacy rules administered by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and California Independent System Operator (CAISO), and focus the state's integrated resource planning (IRP) process more rigorously on supply reliability.
"As the root causes of the extreme emergency events are revealed, they may point directly to solutions necessary to mitigate the risk of repeating similar events in the future," CalCCA Executive Director Beth Vaughan noted in the letter to the Governor. "Even without certainty regarding those causes, however, California can begin now to take steps to increase reliability through action in the regulatory, legislative, and federal arenas."
CalCCA recommends the following near-term actions to improve the reliability of California's electric system:
1. The CPUC should continue to ensure adequate supplies will be in place for summer 2021 requirements and beyond through the procurement track of the IRP process, and review its import restrictions in the context of the lessons learned during the extreme emergency events.
2. The Legislature should enact AB 3014 (Muratsuchi) to establish a Central Reliability Authority (CRA) responsible for planning and coordinating the state's resource adequacy with the CAISO and, where necessary, procuring backstop supply.
3. California should support the expansion of the federal Investment Tax Credit (ITC) to standalone energy storage resources and the removal of charging restrictions currently limiting the flexibility of battery energy storage to support the state's ramping and peak needs.
CalCCA also recommends the Governor appoint an Independent Review Panel to consider the results of a root-cause investigation of the strained grid conditions that led the CAISO to initiate rotating outages on August 14 and 15, leaving thousands of Californians without power. CAISO, the CPUC, and California Energy Commission (the Joint Agencies) are investigating the August events and will issue a report with their findings. A review panel, CalCCA asserts, should consist of former agency experts, non-market participants representing each of the three categories of load serving entities (IOUs, CCAs, and ESPs), and other key stakeholders.
"While the Joint Agencies are no doubt motivated to prevent future shortages, an objective eye will ensure that natural biases do not affect the characterization of the root cause or proposed mitigation measures," CalCCA notes.
CCAs share the state's strong interest in ensuring reliable energy supply and grid operations and have actively engaged in regulatory efforts to boost reliability. Collectively, CCAs have executed almost 5,000 MW (5GW) of long-term power purchase agreements for new-build solar, wind, geothermal, and energy storage projects. Additionally, CalCCA members have taken the following actions to bolster reliability and prepare for future grid emergencies:
Expanding the use of critical peak pricing and TOU pricing that maximizes incentives for shifting demand away from periods of high stress on the grid.
Exceeding their share of the three-year 3,300 MW resource adequacy procurement ordered in October 2019 (to be installed between 2021 and 2023).
Taking steps to form a Joint Powers Authority to enable cooperative procurement of large-scale resources (e.g., long duration storage projects).
Installing hybrid generation and storage solutions to enhance the reliability of new solar resources and to reduce emissions from existing resources.
Facilitating the installation of clean energy backup power systems at local critical facilities used by the community for disaster preparedness.
CCAs are prepared to do more and are committed to working with the Joint Agencies and the investor-owned utilities (IOUs) to support reliable energy service and ensure sufficient in-state renewable integration supply.
About CalCCA: Launched in 2016, the California Community Choice Association (CalCCA) represents California's community choice electricity providers before the state Legislature and at regulatory agencies, advocating for a level playing field and opposing policies that unfairly discriminate against CCAs and their customers. There are currently 21 operational CCA programs in California serving approximately 10 million customers.
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The name dopiaza literally means onions twice. This recipe calls for onions, to be used in large quantities and in two batches. It is really easy to cook but tastes like you spent hours, lovingly preparing it! What more can you ask for? Serve gosht dopiaza with hot chapatis and a green salad.
Heat a griddle or small, flat pan on a medium flame and gently roast the coriander and cumin seeds till aromatic. Remove from fire and grind into a coarse powder in a clean, dry coffee grinder. Keep aside for later.
Heat the oil in a large pan over a medium flame and add the first lot of onions - the 2/3 portion. Fry till golden.
Add the meat and fry till browned.
Add all the powdered spices, ginger and garlic pastes, and tomatoes and fry for until the oil begins to separate from the mixture. Add salt to taste.
Add the remaining 1/3 portion of chopped onion and mix well with other ingredients. Sauté until this batch of onions is soft and translucent for 3 to 5 minutes approximately.
Reduce flame to a simmer and cook till the meat is tender. This dish, when cooked, requires that the gravy only be enough to coat the meat thickly. If it is not so, cook to reduce the gravy to required consistency.


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HomeYour future with aerospace
The aerospace industry is huge and requires numerous professionals every year. Plenty of job opportunities are available in Aircraft Engineering field: from design, production, testing, maintenance engineers to numeric control tool programmers, aircraft avionics technicians, electronics and telecommunications technicians, information technology experts and others.
Aerospace engineers hold about 67,200 jobs. The largest employers of aerospace engineers are as follows:
Aerospace product and parts manufacturing - 35%;
Federal government, excluding postal service - 15%;
Engineering services and maintenance -15%;
Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing -10%;
Research and development in the physical, engineering, and life sciences - 9%.
Aerospace engineers are design or build aircraft, missiles, systems for national defense, or spacecraft. They work primarily for firms that engage in manufacturing, analysis and design, research and development, and for the federal government. Aerospace engineers now spend more of their time in an office environment than they have in the past, because modern aircraft design requires the use of sophisticated computer equipment and software design tools, modeling, and simulations for tests, evaluation, and training.
The median annual wages for aerospace engineers in the top industries in which they work are as follows:
Research and development in the physical, engineering, and life sciences - $124,430;
Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing - $119,970;
Federal government, excluding postal service - $119,640;
Aerospace product and parts manufacturing - $113,840;
Engineering services - $110,200.
Aircraft are being redesigned to cause less noise pollution and have better fuel efficiency, which will help sustain demand for research and development. Employment of aerospace engineers is projected to grow 2 percent over the last ten years, slower than the average for all occupations, so KhAI graduates have huge career opportunities all over the word. During the period of its existence the University has trained about 80 ths engineers. More than 80% of the experts with higher education who work in Ukrainian aerospace area are the graduates of KhAI. Our alumni occupy leading positions at more than 50 world-famous enterprises, such as Antonov Company, Motor Sich, Yuzhnoye Design Bureau, SE «Ivchenko-Progress Machine Building Design Bureau», Malyshev Plant, Turboatom, JSC FED, Design Bureau "Luch", Artema Plant, Progresstech Ukraine, Southern Machine-Building Plant (Yuzhmash) and others. Our graduates successfully work for Boing, Airbus, General Electric, EASA and NASA.
Among the most famous graduates of KhAI are:
Igor F. Kravchenko – Director of Enterprise and General Designer of SE «Ivchenko-Progress;
Fedor M. Muravchenko - General Designer of SE «Ivchenko-Progress;
Vladimir A. Lotarev - General Designer of SE «Ivchenko-Progress Machine Building Design Bureau»;
Vladimir T. Shirkov - Marketing Director of Motor Sich JSC;
Dmitriy V. Krikunov - Senior electric power plant engineer, customer service and technical support department of "General Electric";
Vyacheslav A. Filjaev - Senior engineer of "Bombardier";
Petro V. Balabuyev - chief designer of the Antonov Design Bureau;
Sergii A. Bychkov - General Engineer of Antonov State Enterprise;
Anatolij K. Mjalycia - Director of Enterprise of Kharkiv State Aircraft Manufacturing Company;
Ivan D. Kravchenko - General Designer of Kharkiv State Aircraft Manufacturing Company;
Viktor Tolmachev - chief designer of the Antonov An-124 Ruslan and An-225 Mriya transport aircrafts;
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Half my life ago, I took a leave of absence from graduate work and traveled to East Africa. There I joined a human rights project investigating the interconnections between famine, warfare, and environmental degradation. I began my research along the Blue Nile River in a downstream refugee camp, where I interviewed refugees from the mountainous communities upstream.
One afternoon, an elderly farmer arrived in the camp. He was said to have witnessed a hillside slide into one of the Nile's tributaries—after the army had built a road for tanks. According to rumor, the resulting siltation had forced the population of an entire village to flee. Their fish all died, my translator supposed.
I went looking for this man and asked if he would grant me an interview. He said yes, but on one condition. He wished also to interview me. Laughing, I agreed. So, after he had described for me the destruction of a river that had made him an environmental refugee, he turned the tables.
Tell now about the rivers in your homeland, he asked.
I was happy to oblige. My father built the house I grew up in on the east bluff of the Illinois River. I described this river to my interviewer—its barges, bridges, and sandy banks—and told him that it was my most beloved landscape. Just like his river was for him.
Tell now about the fish in your American river. How do they taste to you?
This was a question I could not answer. In all the years I lived in Illinois, the fish were so contaminated that government advisories warned us against eating them. I turned my thoughts to other rivers I had lived near—the Mackinaw River, the Huron River, the upper stretches of the Mississippi—and realized that they too carried fish advisories. In fact, I had never eaten fish from any river. Ever.
So why are you here in Africa?
The truth was that I had just passed the five-year mark of my diagnosis with bladder cancer, a disease with known links to the environment. Untethered from hospitals at last, I didn't want to think about cancer anymore. I was eager to travel abroad and do field research on—well—ecology and human health.
The irony was not lost on my new friend. He explained that he and his people were already organizing against the men who had poisoned their river—and were planning to return home as soon as possible and drive out the army.
You must go home, too, he said solemnly, and confront the ones poisoning your river. Go talk to your fish.
I like to think that I did. Living Downstream, the book and the film, is the result. The very words living downstream are intended as a statement of gratitude to that anonymous Ethiopian farmer who first encouraged me to go home and confront sources of pollution in my own community. And since the release of the first edition of the book in 1997, I've had the chance to travel with Living Downstream to many other communities. From my conversations in auditoriums and church basements across several time zones, I've made three observations.
The first observation is that science and citizen activism can work hand in hand. Throughout the 1990s, for example, women with breast cancer asked the research community important questions about the possible role of environmental pollutants in cancer causation—and insisted on answers. Scientific research was redirected by these questions and funding was channeled down new lines of inquiry.
My second observation is that most people are intensely curious about the ecology of their own community—especially if they perceive that its integrity is threatened. In my Illinois hometown, public hearings on the proposed expansion of a hazardous waste site drew a standing-room-only crowd. When residents learned that the dump was located overtop the drinking water aquifer, they became deeply interested in learning about the geological deposits of sand and quartz that make up that aquifer.
My third observation is this: what too often dampens all this cooperation and natural curiosity is a paralyzing blanket of fatalism. Fearful of despair, many people decide to not investigate environmental contaminants. That attitude runs counter to the fighting spirit that cancer patients bring to their medical lives. They have convinced themselves that these problems are intractable and unsolvable, so why learn about them? Instead of defeatism, why not bring that same bravery and hopeful determination to the circumstances of our environmental lives?
When caring for the critically injured, emergency responders are trained to say, I'm not giving up on you. That's the same message an Ethiopian farmer encouraged me to carry back to the place where I grew up. Surely it's a phrase that applies to all the communities where we live. Our fish. Our rivers. Our homes.
Ecologist, author, and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber is an internationally recognized authority on the environmental links to human health. She is the author of Living Downstream, published in second edition by Da Capo Press to coincide with the release of the documentary film adaptation.
NOTE: In 2010, Canadian filmmaker Chanda Chevannes released a documentary adaptation of Sandra Steingraber's book, Living Downstream. Since then, the film has won multiple awards and has had over 200 public screenings. It is currently available on Educational DVD for use by educational institutions and nonprofit organizations (and will be available as a Home Video DVD release soon). As an accompaniment to the Living Downstream Educational DVD, Sandra and Chanda have just released Living Downstream ~ In the Community, a 200-page guide for nonprofit organizations and grassroots activists who are using the film to inspire change in their communities. The essay above appears as a foreword in that guide and has been made available for reproduction by the author.


Look, Ma, I always told you playing games wasn't a waste of time. This one is actually good for me.
You see, I'm playing this new Nintendo DS game, Brain Training, and it's actually reversing the effects of age, diet, booze, poor sleep patterns and general laziness on my tired old noggin. That nice Dr. Kawashima tells me so, and he should know, being one of Japan's top experts on brain analysis and imaging, and the author of a range of best-selling brain training books. The good Doctor has established ways of testing the current state of my brain, and exercises to put it back in working order. And because it's a game, it doesn't feel like any work at all.
Ingenuously, Brain Training treats your DS like an interactive, electronic book; you tilt your DS on the side, use the left page to read questions, comments and analysis, and the right to write in answers using the touchscreen as a basic text recognition system. It feels so natural that you wonder why nobody thought of this before.
Now you can just try out some of the exercises, just for fun, but don't be timid, don't you want to know how dull and muddled your poor brain has become? Start a daily training regime and your first task is to find your brain age, which may be anywhere between the ideal 20 and a not so ideal 80. The game features a range of simple tests that use either text or voice recognition. You may be asked to say the colour of a word onscreen, making sure to say red when the word is coloured red, rather than being 'red' if you get my drift. You might also be asked to count all the moving black numbers, the rotating yellow numbers or some other seemingly easy but actually mildly confusing task. At the end of three of these, the game hits you with your current brain age.
Hang tough – it's likely to be bad news. I blame the effects of an eight-week old daughter on my sleep, but I only managed a pitiful eighty on my first effort, meaning my mind was only fit to be pensioned off or put to sleep. The trick to getting that brain age down is to come back every day for a training session. A session takes the form of one or more exercises, which might be simple timed arithmetic challenges, reading aloud, or memorising then selecting numbers in a group from the lowest to the highest. Complete one exercise per day and you can stamp the date on the calendar and go away feeling good about yourself. Complete three or more, and you get a larger stamp.


Hypertension is a persistent (long run) medical situation which is characterised by a persistent enhance within the blood stress in our arteries. Because of this additionally it is referred to as Excessive Blood Stress (HBP). We might have come throughout it in lots of literatures being known as a silent killer! Sure. It positive is one. No person needs to succeed in the tip of the time of life, not less than not at an age when a lot work remains to be left undone, phrases left unsaid, and particular individuals left unloved. That is the place it will get a bit dicey. Greater than 50% of these with hypertension don't even know that they've it! Extra like an insecure king wining and eating with a traitor and a variety of occasions many extra traitors as we'll come to appreciate in prospect.
Hypertension is usually of two sorts. A main sort and naturally a secondary sort. The first sort is brought on by non-specific elements involving one's way of life or genetic predisposition. These elements embody however will not be restricted to smoking, weight problems, excessive salt consumption, sedentary way of life, despair and it accounts for over 95% of the entire hypertensive people. The remaining 5% or thereabout have the secondary sort of hypertension which is because of or secondary to recognized pre-existing causes corresponding to persistent kidney illness, hormonal abnormalities, use of contraception tablets, being pregnant, coarctation of the most important artery within the physique, the aorta and stenosis of 1 or each renal arteries.
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Why should I look at my way of life?
I might begin with those that love salt a lot that we even salt our tender drinks, ingesting water and bathing water. I must deliver our minds again to the Ebola virus outbreak in Nigeria some years in the past the place completely different sacrilegious concepts got here up from nowhere advising individuals to chew kolanut with salt water and to have their bathtub with salt water. I hope we all know that many individuals supposedly died of this act than from the illness outbreak itself.
The conventional and most hanging attribute of salt within the physique system is to drag together with it as a lot water as it may possibly. Right here, engorging the blood vessels and making them overloaded with fluid. The guts in response to this begins to overwork itself in order to compensate for the pointless enhance in quantity it has to pump per cycle. Earlier than you already know what is occurring, the center begins to fail till it ever offers approach to stress.
Subsequent is smoking. This one may be very unhealthy and its medical sign goes past hypertension. It's the single most necessary issue for creating coronary artery illness. Smoking grossly will increase the prospect of getting down with hypertension in the long term. Its shut relative, Alcohol can be a significant stakeholder on the planet of way of life illnesses. Hypertension gotten by way of considered one of these is just not good not to mention combining each alcohol and smoking. I can think about the good wall of Jericho falling flat as soon as extra.
Worthy of point out is also a quite common considered one of which principally everyone seems to be a wrongdoer. That is train. The usual strategy about that is that one ought to have not less than 30 minutes of train every day for not less than Three days in per week. That is the minimal you might be allowed to go. Train merely helps your coronary heart to enhance in its operate and allow it to deal with elevated workload barring any case, you may need gotten engaged with a lot salt or different substance that overloads your blood quantity. Additionally, your heartbeat is elevated and blood flows sooner. These and plenty of extra are the great results of train in your physique.
There's a severe relationship between hypertension and weight problems. Overweight people usually have impaired carbohydrate, protein and lipid metabolisms. As such, they often have a powerful tendency to have Diabetes Mellitus and under-utilized excessive degree of glucose within the blood is simply as dangerous as salt within the blood. Dangerous lipids are sometimes occasions deposited on the partitions of their arteries thusby lowering their diameters and proscribing the movement of blood in it. This is among the causes of hypertension within the overweight; elevated peripheral resistance of the blood vessels.
Lastly, on this episode of your Well being column, it will suffice to say that what we see is what you eat. A lot needn't be stated about this. Eat properly, eat good and eat proper!


Oyster bags, oyster tags, what a drag!
Not only do the oyster farmers of Tomales Bay leave the tools of their trade all over the environment, they leave the tags from the bags shipped here from Washington State.
90 days from May 21st would be August 21st. Yet, I found these tags littering the shore (along with hundreds of grow out bags) in June, July and August. Does keeping tags on file in the oyster business mean scattering them to the winds to be deposited on the shores of Tomales Bay and Point Reyes Seashore?
There is so much to learn about this local, sustainable, easy on the land business of growing, er shipping from Washington, oysters.
Do you know your oyster farmer? Call them, all the Washington numbers are there on those tags you can see better below.
Does it make sense to ship oysters so far to sell them? Maybe farming what local, non-protected waters can support is the wiser course in the long run. If the local waters can only support X pounds of oysters per year, harvest X pounds.
Either way, picking up after yourself is a given. Why is it accepted that these mariculture operations can leave such a mess in the waters and on the shore? The Leysan Albatross and other pelagic birds that scoop up all the plastic garbage humans dump in the sea, and feed it to their chicks who then die, they have no seat at the table where decisions are made by those in power, those extracting a profit. Who speaks for the animals of the sea?
West Marin oyster farmers want to greatly expand the number of acres in Tomales Bay where they can practice their trade.
From what I have seen so far in my many days on the water and along the shore picking up after them, they don't deserve to farm the acres they mis-use now. If these farmers sent two people out one day each week, or even every other week to clean up THEIR mess, I'd have nothing to write about. More importantly, the animals of the sea would be less likely to die by ingesting our waste.
This farming can be done responsibly if the farmers are willing to act in a manner many talk about. Are short-term profits going to fog the eyes of these business people such that they are blind to the damage being done?
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Electronic Epistemologies
Thursday Aug 16 10:00 AM to 11:15 AM (1 hour 15 minutes)
In this collaborative paper we will explore the haptic onto-epistem-ologies at work within Pry, the interactive novella designed for multi-touch interfaces created by Samantha Gorman and Danny Cannizarro. In particular, we are interested in investigating the ways in which multitouch gesture serves as an iterative and dynamic material metaphor through which Pry both engages in the history of the book and explores issues of perception, memory, and trauma.
Pry invites readers to enter the unconscious of James, a Gulf War veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress and gradual optical degeneration. The multimedia work is game-like in both its use of interface and its narrative structure: readers must take an active, haptic role in uncovering the mysteries at the heart of the story. In chapter one, an extratextual didactic prompts us to use the spread and pinch gestures to access James' waking present on the one hand and his interior thoughts, memories and unconscious on the other. Reading between the lines and beneath the surface, the text implies, will allow us to understand his situation more deeply and, perhaps, uncover the mysteries that drive James' actions and haunt his dreams. But how we pry into James' unconscious, and what, exactly, prying means, varies over the course of the work's seven chapters and appendix. From unfolding an accordion of virtual text to running our fingers along biblical verses written in braille, each chapter iterates on the material metaphor of the multitouch gesture as a way into James' story, constructing an elaborate, multivalent and richly layered work that brings together personal and geopolitical histories.
Each of these interfaces draws on both the affordances of the touchscreen and the history of the book to raise questions about memory and experience that are at the heart of the text. Much as James grapples with his loss of sight within the narrative's "present" and the visions from his past that surface unbidden, as readers we must use our hands to navigate between the two. In doing so, we must consider our cultural definitions of reading, seeing, and knowing—particularly how those have been indelibly shaped by the object we think of as a book.
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
Abraham Avnisan
University of Washington Bothell
Ali Pearl
Haptic Onto-Epistem-Ologies in Tender Claw's Pry
Abraham Avnisan (University of Washington Bothell)
1 hour | 10:00 AM -11:00 AM Part of: Electronic Epistemologies
NOOB: ENTRY/ACCESS TO PRODUCING DIGITAL LITERATURE & POETRY
WRITING THE FUTURE
Ali Pearl (University of Southern California)