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Straight talk on joints
Posted by Hugh Copland | Aug 28, 2019 | Science & Technology | 0 |
Columnar joints, that is.
There is a geological feature that has caught human imagination for tens of thousands of years. It has been given names, where it has appeared in different parts of the world, including the Devils Postpile, Titan's Piazza, Los Organos and the Giant's Causeway. All are spectacular examples of what is called columnar jointing. We have our own here in the Yukon.
Columnar joints occur when volcanic basalt erupts to the surface and starts to cool. Under the right conditions, it fractures into a regular pattern of six-sided hexagonal shapes. Individual columns can range from less than 50 centimetres to more than three metres across.
Basalt is by far the most common volcanic rock to form columnar joints. When the basalts erupt to the surface, they can quickly form a pool of hot molten rock that measures many metres thick. This provides a large homogenous mass that contracts as it cools.
Scientists have collected cores of basalt from the Svartifoss (Black Falls) columnar basalt site in Iceland. In a lab, these cores were heated up to 1200 degrees Celsius, until the basalt melted, and then allowed to cool. Scientists found that around 870 degrees Celsius, the rock was solid enough to start fracturing. The slower the cooling, the larger the individual columns tended to be.
The chemistry of the basalt can have something to do with the formation of columns, but by far the major factor is the cooling rate. Cooling is controlled by the size and thickness of the molten rock. The pattern of fracturing is the most fascinating feature. Looking down from above, you see a series of three fractures forming from many points. The pattern is in the shape of a "Y." Under ideal conditions, all the angles would be 120 degrees apart, creating a perfect honeycomb. Irregularities commonly occur in the form of five and seven-sided polygons, or, more rarely, three and four-sided ones.
This pattern not only occurs in rocks, it also occurs in permafrost-influenced soils and in mud cracks on dry lake beds. Ice wedge polygons are common in the arctic where the active layer of the permafrost expands and contracts seasonally, fracturing the soil and forming hexagons. Ice wedge polygons can be several metres across.
Why these materials fracture in such a regular pattern is still not known for certain. The process can be described with complex mathematic formulas based on hexagonal patterns maximizing the area-to-fracture ratio. You can have more fun by making your own columnar joints though.
Someone discovered that corn starch will, under the right conditions, dry out and crack into perfect hexagonal columnar joints. Try it yourself by mixing corn starch and water in equal weights, then setting it aside to dry in a pan. I have tried it twice and have yet to be able to duplicate the exact conditions to develop perfect hexagons, but both times, definite regular fracture patterns formed.
Throughout a number of locations around the world, conditions have been ideal for the formation of stunning examples of columnar joints.
Giant's Causeway in County Antrium on the northern coast of Ireland is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Legend has it that the great warrior leader Fionn mac Cumhaill (Finn McCool) was starting to build a causeway across the water to Scotland. He wanted to get to his foe, the giant Benandonner, but turned back when he saw how big Benandonner was.
Giant's Causeway formed 60 million years ago when lava flowed down a valley until it dammed up and formed a molten lake 90 metres deep. There were several other eruptions that formed many other features you can see at the site. On the Isle of Staffa, on the Scottish side across from Giant's Causeway, is Fingal's Cave. Like Giant's Causeway, the columnar joints seem to form steps coming out of the sea. The two locations actually formed from the same geological event.
The unique feature at Staffa is a sea cave that is lined entirely with perfect columnar joints. The Celtic people named the location "Uamh-Binn" or Cave of Melody due to its unique acoustics. It has inspired songs from diverse artists such as Mendelssohn and Pink Floyd. Jules Verne visited the site in Victorian times. That visit inspired some of the fantastic settings that show up in many of Verne's novels.
At Devil's Postpile in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, basalt erupted around 100,000 years ago. The basalt formed a lake over 120 metres deep. It then solidified into a mass of columns up to 20 metres high and more than a metre across. The location is near the crest of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, near a low pass that has been used as a trading route since humans first came to the area. Indigenous artifacts found there have been dated at around 7,500 years old.
Devil's Tower in the Black Hills of Wyoming was originally named Bear Lodge, or Tree Rock, by the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Shoshone peoples who first inhabited the area. They all have fascinating legends on how the feature was formed. The area is considered a sacred site and is still used for traditional ceremonies. Even extraterrestrials are drawn to the mountain. The climax of the 1977 classic movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" occurred at Devil's Tower. The mountain is almost 400 metres tall and the size of a football field on top. Geologists have several different theories on how it formed. Rather than basalt, it is made of a rarer rock named phonolite. The rock sounds like a bell when struck with a hammer, thus its name.
Locally, we have our share of locations to see columnar jointing. The most accessible are the columnar basalts in Miles Canyon, right near the suspension bridge. In his 1883 expedition down the Yukon River, Frederick Schwatka described what he called the Grand Cañon of the Yukon. "The walls of the cañon are perpendicular columns of basalt not unlike the diminutive Fingal's Cave in appearance … " he wrote.
Geologists with the Yukon Geological Survey have dated the basalts at Miles Canyon at around eight to nine million years old. Similar (though younger) basalts of the same unit occur near Alligator Lake and Ibex Mountain. Near Alligator Lake, flows are up to 300 metres deep. The thickest flows exposed in the Miles Canyon area are on the river below the dam. They are 20 metres thick.
There are also good columnar joints visible from the Alaska Highway just west of Rancheria. Those flows are related to the columnar joints you can see high on the bluffs at the confluence of the Pelly and Yukon Rivers, across from Fort Selkirk. These basalts are known as the Selkirk Volcanics and are two to three million years old. One of the very best areas to see excellent columnar joints in our area is the road into Telegraph Creek, B.C. There will be a future Backyard Geology article on the amazing volcanic rocks in this area.
One of the most fascinating parts of geology is observing how nature can produce such beautiful symmetry. It is evident all the way from the microscopic beauty of crystal formation to the large-scale regularity and order of columnar jointing.
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Q: I have a large list of dataframes and need to extract multiple based on their names I have a large list called "all_input" that contains 13 data.frames as such:
Name                  Type                Value
all_input             list[13]            List of length 13
  113_red.csv         list[649 x 14]      A data.frame with # rows and # columns
  blue_123.csv        list[389 x 14]      A data.frame with # rows and # columns
  blue_4.csv          list[428 x 14]      A data.frame with # rows and # columns
  greenblue_123.csv   list[789 x 14]      A data.frame with # rows and # columns
  greenblue_4.csv     list[132 x 14]      A data.frame with # rows and # columns
  greenblue_5.csv     list[245 x 14]      A data.frame with # rows and # columns

I need to read just the files containing "blue" in the name, not "greenblue", just "blue".
I tried
blue <- grepl( "^blue", all_input$Name )

and this returns a value "blue" logical (empty). For context, after extracting the blue data.frames, I am going to select specific columns and rbind them into a new data.frame.
str(my data) returns:
> str(all_input)
List of 13
 $ 113_red.csv:'data.frame':    6490785 obs. of  14 variables:
  ..$ state_and_county_fips_code: int [1:6490785] 88180 88180 88180 88180 88181 88181 88181 88181 88182 88182 ...
  ..$ tribal_name               : Factor w/ 14 levels "","Coeur d'Alene Tribe of the Coeur d'Alene Reservation, Idaho",..: 12 12 12 12 2 2 2 2 6 6 ...
  ..$ st_usps_cd                : Factor w/ 55 levels "","AK","AL","AR",..: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
  ..$ county_name               : Factor w/ 1939 levels "","Abbeville",..: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
  ..$ data_category_cd          : Factor w/ 1 level "NP": 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
  ..$ scc                       : num [1:6490785] 2103008000 2302002100 2102008000 2302002200 2102008000 ...
  ..$ emissions_type_code       : Factor w/ 5 levels "","C","H","M",..: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
  ..$ aircraft_engine_type_cd   : logi [1:6490785] NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
  ..$ emissions_op_type_code    : logi [1:6490785] NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
  ..$ data_set_short_name       : Factor w/ 72 levels "2011ADEM","2011AKDEC",..: 51 51 51 51 52 52 52 52 53 53 ...
  ..$ pollutant_cd              : Factor w/ 198 levels "100027","100414",..: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
  ..$ description               : Factor w/ 198 levels "1-Methylphenanthrene",..: 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 ...
  ..$ total_emissions           : num [1:6490785] 0.000448 0.07679 0.006822 0.369756 0 ...
  ..$ uom                       : Factor w/ 2 levels "LB","TON": 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
 $ blue_123.csv    :'data.frame':   3985783 obs. of  14 variables:
  ..$ state_and_county_fips_code: int [1:3985783] 42097 42031 42031 36097 51540 23009 72103 54037 25013 36119 ...
  ..$ tribal_name               : logi [1:3985783] NA NA NA NA NA NA ...
  ..$ st_usps_cd                : Factor w/ 16 levels "CT","DC","DE",..: 10 10 10 9 13 6 11 16 4 9 ...
  ..$ county_name               : Factor w/ 431 levels "Accomack","Adams",..: 284 101 101 361 90 174 267 200 171 414 ...

and so on. 'Type' is a list, and 'Value' is a list of data.frames.

A: We can filter by the names of the 'all_input' using grep, loop over the list elements with map, and select the columns of interest
library(dplyr)
library(purrr)
map_dfr(all_input[grep("^blue", names(all_input))], ~
            .x %>%
                select( state_and_county_fips_code,  tribal_name ))

note: using grepl and "^blue" omit data.frames named "greenblue" from the selection.

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City Hall, home of the Greater London Council (GLA)
The Greater London Authority (GLA) is set to use residential backed mortgage securities (RMBS) as a means of diversifying its investments.
Speaking at a joint GLA/CIPFA seminar in London earlier this week, Luke Webster, chief investment officer at the GLA, said the body is intending to use the instruments subject to London mayor Boris Johnson accepting the recommendation in the authority's 2016-17 Treasury Strategy.
At the moment, there is relatively little direct investment in RMBS by local authority treasurers, but the GLA proposal looks set to change that.
Webster said: "Residential mortgage backed securities is an asset class that strikes us as a very attractive option with a credit risk profile distinct from the banks that represent about 93% of our current exposure.
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Can the episode review talkback threads get their own subforum?
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The Series Discussion subforum is pretty dead these days, with any actual discussion primarily in the episode review threads. Right now these threads are buried in the news talkback threads making them more difficult to find. Separating them would make things more convenient.
BodaciousSpacePirate
It's Over 9000!
My suggestion is that we simply have "episode review" threads redirect into their respective "series discussion" threads. That way, each show can have a single thread that serves as episode review talkback while the show is still airing, and then becomes a place for series discussion after the show ends.
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BodaciousSpacePirate wrote:
Honestly that would be my vote as well. I've been places with sub-forums and after time they often get forgotten about. That is doubtful to happen here with episode reviews, but at the very least a sub-forum I think is adding extra steps. Having 2 threads for honestly the same thing is getting a bit pointless as well. Especially when most of the discussion is coming in the episode review threads. I think 1 section period for Anime Series discussion would suffice. The episode review threads can simply be the "official" thread for that show from here on out. Obviously we would want to keep the "Series Discussion" threads for those without episode reviews, past, present, or future. From my small experience on the technical sides of forums I would think it would be easier to use the existing Series Discussion area (as opposed to making a new one and merging/moving that many discussions) and just have episode review threads re-direct there.
Straight up BR, or other physical media, reviews would certainly stay in the Talkback section.
From a moderator stand point it also gets frustrating at times remembering which discussion thread, be it Talkback/episode review or series discussion, is having trouble. Or which thread particular users are acting up in. Having simply one official series thread would negate that issue.
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Yes I agree that something like this would be a good idea. I definitely lament the effective death of the series discussion forum, which came about after the episode reviews were introduced, and would like to find some way to resurrect that general kind of thing, particularly to increase discussion of shows that have finished airing. Also, on other forums, when searching for information about some topic, I often find value in going back and reading old discussions, so I think it would be good if they were coherent and/or in one place on here.
Guess I should PM Dan to take a look here and see if it's even feasible or not.
When the subforum was first created, and the weekly reviews started, I brought up this same thing. While splitting the discussion is bad, here's the problem with combining both into one: Where is the gap between discussing the review and discussing the show?
I, personally, don't read the episode reviews. Therefore, I don't go into the episode review threads. Those times that I have, because there's no discussion in the subforum, I've been completely lost, because the thread is all people discussing the review. Yet there's no other discussion going on.
If the review thread links were to be forwarded to the series discussion threads, I'm sure I'm not the only one who would feel pressured into reading the reviews or being left behind.
Dessa wrote:
I wonder whether you would consider a significant increase in discussion (say, 3 pages of discussion versus 15 pages of discussion) to be worth the price of, say, 50% of the posts in every series discussion thread containing references to episode reviews that some participants have no interest in reading? I feel as though that's where I am now concerning the dilemma you bring up.
At the time, I agreed with this very strongly, and still do on a fundamental level. However, practically it turned out that in this new situation people did not end up discussing the show very much when compared to the review, and possibly combining it may be the only way to get that back, since I feel like the division itself is what killed it. I'm not sure if it will work, but I think it might be worth a try.
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This is definitely something worth considering.
On the plus side, it might revive the series discussion forum a bit. The episode review discussions are about 50% episode discussion and 50% review discussion. So the fact that there is that 50% episode discussion makes the series discussion forum a reasonable place to house the threads.
On the other hand,it would serve to push down recent series discussion thread that aren't super active. For example the discussion about Case Closed, which is still on the first page, but hasn't been discussed in over a month, would likely get pushed down to the 2nd or 3rd page.
I don't think we should merge the actual threads though. The nature of the episode review threads is very different from some of the series discussion threads. Merging would also have to be done manually, it wouldn't be possible to do it automatically.
The more I think about this, the more I think it's a good idea.
When Rebecca was still writing reviews for GeGeGe no Kitarou (2018), that thread was relatively lively while the official series discussion thread was not. The review thread continues on, while the series discussion thread has largely become postings by a single member. I worried about what would happen when the reviews ended. Luckily we've managed to keep the review thread alive, but I wonder how long that will persist. Kitarou has another 40+ episodes to go this season.
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When discussing the review it's still related to the show (the reviewer misinterpreting a plot point and such) and the comment being addressed is usually quoted. Nothing stopping some one who hasn't read the review from chiming in on it
As for pushing other threads, that's what the stickied index threads are for.
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Soil health is the basis of food production. Soil data can unlock key information to transition to a more efficient and sustainable system.
Collaboration between industry players and the adoption of digital tools can catalyse the changes needed to protect and restore our planet's food sources and help counteract the onset of climate change.
Human development in the last 50 years has taken giant steps in every sector, we're starting to have VR meetings, testing commercial space flights and "hacking" the human genome, but there is one element that keeps us 'rooted to the ground', and that is soil.
The food we consume draws its sustenance and quality from the world's soils. For this reason, discussing soil health and soil fertility is so important. During the latest World Economic Forum in Davos in May 2022, Yara International arranged the Yara Café, under the theme 'Restoring soil, restoring trust.' A place to discuss soil health and share valuable insights around regenerative agriculture and how digitalization can help us transition to a more sustainable food system.
We contributed to the Café's rich agenda by organising a panel discussion on the key role of technology in collecting data that can lead to better management of farmed land and the monitoring of regenerative practices. We invited experts from business and civil society to share their experiences and ongoing projects:
Morgan Gillespy, Director of the Food and Land Use Coalition at the World Resources Institute,
Daniel Vennard, Chief Sustainability Officer at Syngenta,
Vanessa Adams, Vice President, Strategic Partnerships & Chief of Party, AGRA, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa,
Kimberly Mathisen, Chief Executive Officer, Hub Ocean,
Simone Sala, Director of Soil and Ecosystems Solutions at Varda – Field Data Exchange.
Varda's CEO, Davide Ceper, opened the panel underscoring the urgency for change in the food industry:
''Life on land depends on a thin layer of soil that is also estimated to be degraded already by 1/3. It is therefore essential that we understand more about soils, to help drive policy and the transition to regenerative farming practices, to restore this key asset.''
Morgan Gillespy
Scaling collective action through Regen10
Morgan Gillespy, Director of the Food and Land Use Coalition at the World Resources Institute (WRI) explained a key project that the WRI is involved in, Regen10, a partnership aimed at scaling the adoption of regenerative practices in 10 years. At the core of this initiative is the search for a shared definition of regenerative agriculture, that was found to diverge from country to country.
Data is at the core of the infrastructure that they aim to build, creating a quantifiable and consistent model that can be used as an effective benchmark by governments and industries alike.
Daniel Vennard
Empowering Chinese farmers through MAP
Daniel Vennard, Chief Sustainability Officer at Syngenta, outlined the global challenge of increasing annual yields by more than 50 percent by 2050 while reducing carbon emissions drastically and preserving land resources. He shared Syngenta's Modern Agriculture Platform (MAP) initiative, that has established modern farm centers in China where farmers can get information on how to farm sustainably, and soil health is at the core of this offer.
Across over 500 projects in China, better soil quality has delivered business productivity and strengthened traceability by monitoring farmers' data.
Simone Sala
Unlocking the potential of soil data through the Global Soil Program
Collecting data, being able to access it and use it to make sustainably minded decisions is becoming extremely important in the agricultural sector. To this end, Varda has been working on making field-level data more accessible, globally. Simone Sala, Director of Global Soil and Ecosystems Solutions, presented Varda's prototype for a Global Soil Program, a tool that aims to enable the data discovery, comparison and the identification of gaps in global soil data availability. Varda plans to make this tool available on a not-for-profit basis.
''At Varda we focus on data. We found that soil data is siloed across public and private databases. If we unlock some of this data, the visibility of the local and regional datasets is going to increase, the time needed to market products and farmer advisory services will decrease, and farmers' livelihoods will be improved thanks to the access to tailor-made recommendations.'' – Simone Sala, Director of Global Soil and Ecosystem Solutions at Varda.
Varda's Global Soil Platform interface.
Through the Global Soil Program Varda wants to overcome the lack of soil data availability that is a problem shared and recognized from public and private organizations working across agriculture value chains. Managing to collect and aggregate agricultural data effectively, would bring multiple advantages to productivity and long-term resilience of agriculture. The cost of monitoring the impact of agricultural practices could be drastically reduced, thus making these practices more widely adopted by the industry and facilitating the design of green bonds.
Vanessa Adams
The need for digitalization in building resilience
The next panelist, Vanessa Adams, Vice President, Strategic Partnerships & Chief of Party, AGRA, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, spoke about the growing importance of technology for agricultural development by sharing her most recent work with smallholder farmers in Africa. Vanessa shared some examples proving that, also in developing countries, farmers are eager to adopt technologies to gain access to useful information.
Furthermore, with the rise in fertiliser prices, soil health has become even more critical for farming in Africa. Vanessa added that environmental conditions are constantly changing, and outdated information is ineffective when trying to address production and climate challenges in the African continent. There is the need for live data that can be used for timely decisions and to achieve this, digitalisation is imperative.
Kimberly Mathisen
Building sustainable business models to revitalize our oceans
Finally, Kimberly Mathisen, Chief Executive Officer at Hub Ocean, drew many similarities between oceans and land when it comes to the pressing need to avoid further degradation and restore life to such critical natural assets. Kimberly discussed the importance of creating sustainable business models that will make ocean data accessible and create a structure for businesses, governments and scientists to share knowledge, in order to make informed decisions for the benefit of productive and healthy oceans.
HUB Ocean has been particularly successful in drawing scientists to its platform, and through contextualization of multiple data sources, both private and public, it's been able to unlock significant impact in the understanding of KPIs affecting the oceans and climate, quickly becoming a reference point for the industry.
Addressing our shared challenge
It was really refreshing to receive further confirmation that data collection and data exchange are necessary to establish a monitoring infrastructure for natural assets through collaboration between the private sector and civil society organizations. Technology can enable data synchronization between industries, NGOs, governments and allow individual farmers to make optimal decisions, balancing short-term productivity with long-term resilience.
Our challenge is to make soil and field data collection scalable, monitor its availability, promote its accessibility, and find ways to interpret it for sustainable decision making.
The panel also agreed that data sharing is a complex endeavor as it prompts questions around data privacy and ownership. However, it's a challenge that we need to tackle, as the combination of multiple data sets can create new ideas and approaches to strengthen production, while still protecting our natural resources.
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(2) For the purpose of said coverage, if the policyholder or obligor elects to purchase the coverage described in this paragraph, the term ''uninsured motor vehicle'' shall also include protection of persons insured thereunder who are legally entitled to recover damages from owners or operators of insured motor vehicles, trailers or semitrailers, to which a bodily injury liability bond or policy applies at the time of the accident and its bodily injury liability bond amount or policy limit is less than the policy limit for uninsured motor vehicle coverage and is insufficient to satisfy the damages of persons insured thereunder and only to the extent that the uninsured motor vehicle coverage limits exceed said limits of bodily injury liability subject to the terms of the policy. The amounts recoverable hereunder shall not be affected by any statutory limits of liability applicable to the tortfeasor, including, but not limited to, amounts recoverable under section fifteen of chapter eighty-four, sections eighty-five G and eighty-five K of chapter two hundred and thirty-one, and section two of chapter two hundred and fifty-eight. The policyholder or obligor shall be notified that he may elect to purchase the said coverage, and such notification shall be at such times and in a manner prescribed by the commissioner of insurance.
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Tracking Back Through Randolph to the Clippers
By Steve Perrin Jul 28, 2009, 1:08am PDT
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When the Clippers first acquired Zach Randolph in November 2008, most of the Citizens of Clips Nation were initially aghast. After all, there are few players in the NBA with worse reputations, deserved or not. As irrational fans of a traditionally terrible team, some of us of course tried to warm up to the idea, or at least to the idea of Zach's scoring and rebounding. But injuries, followed by a punch and a DUI stop (the charges were later lowered) pushed the majority of the Citizens back over the edge on Z-Bo. The general consensus was that it was a bad idea to acquire him - that it was a bad trade.
I've tried to remind everyone all along that there are two sides to every trade. The simple fact is, the Clippers didn't give up much to get the guy. Here's a comment from March:
The main issue I have with those that dismiss the acquisition of Z-bo is that you have to look at the other side of the equation. Tim Thomas and a now retired Cat Mobley. On the basketball court, that's a complete no-brainer, especially when you consider that Thomas is no less of a screw up than Z-bo. The issue of course being that extra year in Zach's deal, but here's the thing people – WE'RE NOT THERE YET. It may be a monumentally bad trade when we get to 2011.... It's not a bad trade – not yet.
With Tim Thomas having recently been bought out by Bulls (and before that, traded for Larry Hughes in a swap of bad contracts) and Mobley retired, it's time to make a near-final assessment of this deal.
In the final analysis:
the Clippers lost Mobley (33) and Thomas (32) - and $2.7M of cap space in 2010 (Telfair's option);
the Clippers gained Mardy Collins (24), Craig Smith (25), Sebastian Telfair (24) and Mark Madsen (33) - and about $6.4M this year.
Now, we don't know how Collins, Smith and Telfair are going to do as Clippers - but they're young, and they could contribute nicely to the team's new youth movement. And we have a pretty definitive idea that there is no place for either Thomas or Mobley on this roster - not in the final year of their contracts.
I should point out that the $6.4M being saved this season doesn't do us, the Citizens of ClipsNation, any good if the Clippers sit on the money. Those savings almost never get passed on to the fans in the form of rebates, for instance. It would actually pay nicely for an MLE player - this year. But of course that money would be right back on the cap for 2010 in anything other than a one year deal, so we really don't want that either. So I'll admit that the $6.4M savings appears for the time being to be mostly a benefit to Donald T. Sterling.
There was also of course the question of opportunity cost. Expiring contracts are valuable - what could Mobley plus Thomas have fetched had they not been traded for Randolph?
Well, after shopping him around, the Bulls simply bought out Thomas, so apparently, he wasn't fetching much to Chicago. And of course Mobley is a medical retirement at this point - not that anyone knew about the severity of his heart condition back in November. Of course, given that the Clippers got Quentin Richardson for Randolph, and then flipped his expiring contract for the ClipperWolves, we don't have to speculate on what might have been done had they kept Mobley - Richardson's deal was almost as much. And on the court, as Citizen Zhiv has pointed out so many times, moving Mobley allowed Eric Gordon to thrive as the starting shooting guard, and moving Thomas was also beneficial - because it moved Thomas.
You can certainly go overboard revising history and re-examining stuff this way. The Kwame Brown for Caron Butler trade looked like an unmitigated disaster for the Lakers for two and a half seasons, as Butler matured into an All Star and Brown was dropping perfect passes. And of course that trade eventually led to the 2009 NBA Championship, since Brown's expiring contract enabled the Lakers to steal Pau Gasol. But clearly that was unforeseeable.
Was it foreseeable that the Grizzlies would help out the other LA team by taking on Z-Bo's deal? I'd argue that it was. Love him or (mostly) hate him, Zach Randolph averaged 20 points and 10 rebounds on the season - and out of 29 other teams, there were going to be some who wanted that production, despite the baggage.
This is not an apology for MDsr. You can't really say 'Look at the brilliant way he parlayed the dead wood of Tim Thomas and Cuttino Mobley into younger assets' without also acknowledging that he signed Thomas and Mobley as free agents in the first place. But given where the Clippers were last year compared to where they are now as regards those particular assets, I think they've done well, and I'm not sure they could have done a lot better. Of course, Smith, Telfair and Collins may yet have a major impact on this story, so stay tuned.
A few fun Tim Thomas footnotes for this story -
I think this may be a record - Thomas was bought out by Chicago TWICE in a little over three seasons. I have the amount that Chicago paid Thomas at something like $20M since 2006 - and he played 18 games for them.
When Thomas was traded for Hughes back in February, it was a trade of two players who were at one time supposed to be Robin to Allen Iverson's Batman in Philadelphia. Thomas was a lottery pick in 1997 (who wound up in Philly in a draft day trade); Hughes came from the 1998 lottery. But like all the other sidekick applicant's, it just didn't work out with AI. Artistic differences - they saw themselves getting the ball from time to time, and Iverson didn't see it that way.
Thomas is now rumored to be about to sign with Dallas - where they appear to just love Clipper forwards (James Singleton, Quinton Ross and now Thomas).


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UK-Leeds: Catering services.
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Tel. +44 1133433916, Email: j.c.jordan@adm.leeds.ac.uk
Contact: Joanne Jordan
Main Address: https://neupc.delta-esourcing.com/members/university-of-leeds/, Address of the buyer profile: https://neupc.delta-esourcing.com/members/university-of-leeds/
The contract involves joint procurement: No.
The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body: No.
The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at: http://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Leeds:-Catering-services./2U9QD23ZNW
II.1.1) Title: Provision of Supplementary Catering Services Framework
Reference Number: Z/2606
55520000 - Catering services.
II.1.3) Type of contract: SERVICES
II.1.4) Short description: The University of Leeds aims to establish a framework of suppliers who can offer catering services to complement our current-in-house provision. Providing a cold food and beverage delivery service on campus.
II.2.4) Description of procurement: The University of Leeds aims to establish a framework of suppliers who can offer catering services to complement our current-in-house provision. Providing a cold food and beverage delivery service on campus.
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
Description of renewals: The contract will be initially awarded for 2 years, extended annually for 2 further years subject to satisfactory performance (2 + 1 + 1).
Envisaged minimum number: 2
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Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates: After evaluating each SQ and subject to a satisfactory number of compliant responses being received, the University of Leeds intends to select at least 2 highest scoring suppliers but no more than 10, to go through to Audit stage. Successful tenderers through the audit stage will then be invited to ITT stage.
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Envisaged maximum number of participants to the framework agreement: 6
IV.2.3) Estimated date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates: 12/11/2018
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Which social media platform is right for your business?
We often hear about how important it is to have a social media presence. What's less clear is where and why, so we've put together this guide to the major social media platforms that could help your business.
Rebecca Milligan
Last Updated: Jun 2017
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Vimeo, Vine, Pinterest, SnapChat – the list is long and ever changing, as social networks come and go. Each platform is designed to help communicate, but in slightly different ways – with pictures, text, videos, instantly, in a group, one-to-one, within the workplace, informally – but which are the platforms that really work for your business?
Choosing a platform means answering three questions:
What do you want to say? Consider whether your want to communicate something about your brand, your business, the service you offer, a special event or something outside your usual business activities.
How can you best communicate that message? If you want to communicate detailed information, then Twitter is unlikely to be a good choice, unless you can link to further information elsewhere. But for a brief message it's ideal. Posts that include images or video are typically far more engaging than those with text alone, on any platform.
What audience do you want to reach? Your customers, potential customers, colleagues and others may be more likely to engage with particular platforms – we outline the demographics of some of the more popular ones below. Think about who you're talking to and which social media network they're most likely to use.
Unless you have a product you want to target to a particular niche market, it's best to stick to the biggest platforms, where you can reach the widest number of people. Smaller social networks, such as SnapChat, Vimeo, Vine and others are unlikely to be seen as a suitable platform for business communications, in any case as they're designed for use between friends.
Your choice of social media platform may reflect how much time you are willing to dedicate to social media activity. Building networks and keeping them engaged takes time and effort; it's much better to be actively engaged on one platform than to be half-hearted on three.
Our article on using social media to promote your business has tips from Which? Trusted traders who have successfully used Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Read on for a rundown of the major players that you should consider.
for engaging with local groups
sharing general information about your business
advertising to a wide range of potential customers
It isn't the coolest or the newest social media platform but, with more than 32m UK accounts, it's the biggest. Research suggests that 78% of over-18s use Facebook in the UK, many of whom log in daily on multiple occasions, which makes it a great way to reach a wide potential audience[1]. You can post pictures, videos and text, without a character limit.
More than 2m businesses use Facebook for advertising. You can create a business page with useful information about what you do, contact details and so on. You can get more people to 'like' your Facebook page by regularly posting engaging content, both on your own page and on local Facebook groups. However, Facebook does filter which posts appear on people's newsfeeds, so your posts won't necessarily reach all your friends or followers.
You can also pay for posts to appear on people's newsfeeds. You can target paid-for posts to age, gender and geographic area, allowing you to tightly focus any advertising spend.
Check the Which? Trusted Traders Facebook page to see our posts about the scheme, competitions, pictures and other ways we interact with our endorsed traders and consumers.
for immediate engagement with customers
promotion of events or competitions
getting your business name out there
Twitter has an estimated 15-20 million active users in the UK. It has a younger user profile than Facebook, with more than 65% of users aged under 34. Research shows that many younger Twitter users log in several times a day. It's also favoured by people on higher incomes, making it a good place to talk about your business. Twitter is a shorter form of communication than Facebook, with posts limited to 140 characters, so you need to be brief.
A business Twitter account allows you to engage directly with your customers. You can let them know about promotions, business development, charity activity, anything that's going on, and receive an instant response to that information. Bear in mind that Twitter filters which of your followed accounts you actually see, so you can't guarantee that all your followers will see your tweets.
Like Facebook, Twitter offers a paid-for option to increase the number of people seeing your posts. Paid-for tweets appear high on the timelines of people who haven't followed your business, making it a great way to advertise.
Download the Which? Trusted Traders guide to using Twitter for more tips.
for visual promotion of your business
sharing before / after photos
raising brand awareness
This picture-sharing platform is great for businesses whose product is particularly visual – restaurants can share pictures of food, for example, but it can work for trades too. Images of work you have done, before-and-after pictures of jobs, pictures of people at work and so on, may well be of interest to potential customers. Again, you need to post regularly to build a following in order to raise your business' profile.
It's not possible to embed links within images, and there's no comparable function to a retweet button, so you can't share images as easily as on other platforms. But Instagram is a growing platform, with an estimated 19 million UK users, so it can be very useful for raising brand awareness, if visual messaging works for your business.
for professional engagement
professional network building
Described as Facebook for professionals, LinkedIn is a professional networking platform. Your profile page is about your work history, showing a form of online CV. LinkedIn currently has around 21 million users in the UK. Some professionals use it regularly to share content or ideas with their professional network, but many people will log in only on an irregular basis – often when they're job hunting.
Larger businesses often have a presence on LinkedIn, but this is often more for recruitment purposes, rather than sales to consumers. You can follow businesses that interest you and some, like Which?, will post content on their LinkedIn page. It's probably not worth the effort for smaller companies unless you've reached the point of wanting to expand.
Ideas about how to use social media to promote your business
How to deal with negative feedback on social media
How to use Facebook and Twitter
[1] https://weareflint.co.uk/uk-social-media-demographics-2016
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