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A Pair of Virtuosos Dazzle in MYAC's Winter Concert
Midwest Young Artists Conservatory Winter Concert
Fresh off its remarkable 25th anniversary concert in Orchestra Hall this past December, where 300 or so current and former students celebrated in high style, the MYAC Symphony Orchestra was back to its normal routine, presenting its annual winter concert at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall in Evanston. But with appearances by two extraordinary young winners of the 2017 Walgreens Concerto Competition, there was nothing remotely routine about the affair.
The first of the two winners to take the stage was 14-year-old pianist Joshua Mhoon, the overall winner of the open senior division of the competition. The Hyde Park native has made a name for himself in short order, with an earlier win in the 2015 Walgreens Competition, a guest spot with the Chicago Sinfonietta, and appearances at the Ravinia Festival, United Center, Pritzker Pavilion, Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and many other notable venues in Europe.
Mhoon's winning piece was Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto no. 2, of which he treated the audience to a riveting account of the third movement. After Dennis led the orchestra in the delicate opening bars, Mhoon ripped into the opening piano bursts with bravura and panache, traversing much of the keyboard in a flash with fluid accuracy and an assertive sound. He didn't appear to have particularly large hands, yet he seemed to have little problem spanning the composer's notoriously wide chords. Of the Russian composer's many famously memorable tunes, none are more beloved than the long winded melody that appears a few minutes before the end of the concerto. The pianist had the full measure of it, sculpting the theme with a maturity rarely encountered in someone of such tender years. The following section again showed remarkable prestidigitation, the bulky chordal work not only rendered accurately, but with keen attention to voicing. The final statement of the melody was beautifully drawn by Dennis and his forces, and Mhoon brought the movement home with the appropriate swagger.
Cellist Adam Lee is no stranger to Midwest Young Artist Conservatory, being a student there himself. A native of South Korea, he studies with legendary pedagogue Hans Jansen and is currently a senior at Vernon Hills High Schools. He has excelled as a chamber musician, appearing most notably in the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. But on this night he took center stage as soloist in the first cello concerto of Dmitri Shostakovich.
The third movement is in the unconventional form of an extended unaccompanied cadenza. One might expect impatience from a young player like Lee when unimpeded by a conductor and orchestra. But his strategically deliberate pacing worked wonders, drawing attention to a wide range of color and dynamics. Lee's technique was masterful throughout the range of the instrument, whether sustaining a singing tone or traversing the composer's full range of chords and double stops.
The transition into the finale steadily gained in intensity, and the opening bars were shot through with sardonic ferocity. Balance inequities are hard to tame e in this movement, but Dr. Dennis kept the textures sufficiently transparent for all voices to come through. The concluding pages were an exercise in controlled fervor, and the audience leapt to its feet at the bristling conclusion.
Like most American orchestras, Dennis chose to honor the 100th birthday of Leonard Bernstein with his most beloved short work, the overture to Candide. Like their performance in Symphony Center in December, it was a sparkling rendition, with piccolo player Meredith Golding one of the many in the woodwind section contributing some of the more memorable passages.
Woodwinds were at the forefront of the concluding work in the program, excerpts from Ravel's ballet Daphnis et Chloe, Suite No. 2. The long crescendo in the opening movement, Lever de jour, ("daybreak") was beautifully paced by Dennis and his forces, and the gurgling of the superb woodwinds (led by principal flutist Jonathan Wu and principal clarinetist Samuel Perlman) brought Ravel's technicolor score to life in vivid hues.
Oboist Chloe Cardanas spun lovely lyrical phrases in Pantomime, and Wu excelled with exquisite tone color and breath control in the extended flute solo. The orchestra's violins sounded as polished as ever in the shimmering chords and darting motivic jabs. The orchestra was joined by the fine singing of three of MYAC's choral groups, Voices Rising, VocalPoint, and VX Ensemble, and their expressive voices soared from the rear balcony through the orchestral textures. Lower strings, and percussion, and percussion brought the luminous score to a grand finale.
Gil Shaham at Orchestra Hall
(reprinted from Chicago Classical Review)
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Symphony Center subscribers were no doubt crestfallen when the megastar duo of violinist Itzhak Perlman and pianist Martha Argerich cancelled their spring American tour. Even though Perlman's best years are well behind him, the match offered intriguing intriguing possibilities for musical fireworks.
Judging by the reaction to their replacements, the audience felt they got their money's worth with a varied program offered up by violinist and Illinois native Gil Shaham and pianist Akira Eguchi. The performances were well-executed and thoughtfully realized, and Shaham deserves credit for mixing some modern curveballs in with a healthy dose of standard repertoire.
Legendary violinist Fritz Kreisler's Praeludium and Allegro ("In the Style of Paganini") is meat and potatoes repertoire in violin pedagogy, but these days few big league violinists dust it off for the concert stage. It's a beguiling work, and Shaham seemed to channel the playing of the master with the lush tone and sensuous portamentos of a by-gone era.
Kudos to the duo for thinking outside the box with the inclusion of two substantial works by contemporary American composers. The subtitles suggest the presence of musical references from Turkey and the middle east, but Scott Wheeler's "The Singing Turk" (Sonata No. 2) from 2017 took inspiration instead from Larry Wolf's book of the same title. The author muses on the the fascination for Turkish characters in European operas, and each movement of the sonata is based on specific personalities.
The first movement, "Su la sponda", includes a quotation from Handel's Tamerlano in which an imprisoned Turkish ruler sings to his daughter before committing suicide. Pointillistic gestures and single note ostinatos open the movement before neo-baroque harmonies mark the appearance of the theme.
The second draws on the 1761 opera The Three Sultanas by Paul-César Gibert in which Roxelana implores Suleiman the Magnificent to "defend yourself from becoming the slave of two beautiful eyes." A passacaglia opens the movement, eventually sharing space with variations on Gibert's aria.
If the first two movements meander unconvincingly, the tightly constructed perpetual motion finale (drawn from Rossini's Il Turco in Italia) hits its mark with Eguchi and Shaham opening in muted colors before surging ahead with ever more virtuosic dialogue.
Avner Dorman's "Nigunim" (Sonata No. 3) explicitly draws on non-Western elements, fusing material from various sacred and secular Jewish traditions with non-Jewish components from the same regions.
The most well-known reference to the nigum tradition in the violin repertoire comes from Bloch's Baal Shem, and Dorman's musical idiom can be heard as a modern extension of that composer's evocations of Jewish musical traditions. The redolent opening movement unfolded with sustained drones, piquant dissonances, and impassioned outbursts from both players.
Georgian folk music was the impetus for the second movement, a scherzo of sorts, and the duo had great fun with the metric incongruities and flights of virtuosic fantasy. The muted opening of the third movement briefly suggests the listless phrase structures of Morton Feldman before submitting to more conventional lyrical impulses.
Moto perpetuo is again the preferred texture of this finale, with Shaham's perfectly executed rapid-fire double stops and Eguchi's disjunct chordal outbursts combining for an explosive realization. Inspired by Macedonian dances, echoes of Prokofiev and early Stravinsky pepper the score, and all of the cliches of middle eastern traditions are eagerly harvested. But for all of these references, Dorman has crafted a distinct personal style, and his idiomatic way with both instruments make for an easily accessible concert duo.
Bach's E major Partita for solo violin was effectively dispatched by Shaham, and he mined his trademark tonal polish and effortless virtuosity to good effect in the opening prelude. But the remaining dance movements were a decidedly mixed bag, his penchant for nearly uninterrupted legato and unvaried articulations obscuring Bach's clearly delineated architecture. He occasionally employed hushed dynamics to good effect, and his tasteful ornamentation in the Gavotte was artfully applied. But run-on sentences were the norm, lending his account an air of impatience that was exacerbated by the absence of even the smallest pauses between movements.
There is no more standard concert fare than Franck's Sonata in A major, but Shaham and Eguchi managed to bring a freshness and vigor to the oft-trodden score. The understated opening bars in the first movement were vividly contrasted by the lyrical eruptions that followed, while the second unfolded with barely concealed fury.
There was a distinct operatic intensity to the third movement Recitativo-Fantasia, and the finale's outpouring of sunny melodic gestures in canon lead to heroic final pages. Their partnership throughout was seamless and soulful, though there were occasions when Shaham remained in the foreground when the primary material was assigned to the piano.
"The Graceful Ghost Rag" by William Bolcom was the pleasant if mildly lethargic encore.
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Wick ward had a total population of 11,027, increasing to 11,734 at the 2011 Census.  This compares with the average ward population within the borough of 10,674.

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Maya Adachi and Kota Kimura are members of the Toronto-based Japanese Canadians for Social Justice. Scott Neigh interviews them about the group's origins, its expansive vision of solidarity, and its involvement in struggles on the ground.
In 2018, famous Japanese-Canadian poet and novelist Joy Kogawa brought together a number of people that she knew in Toronto to found Japanese Canadians for Social Justice. Originally an informal group comprised largely of other older Japanese-Canadian women with long histories of involvement in social justice issues, in the years since its membership has broadened and it has become more of a formal organization.
Maya Adachi is a second-generation Japanese-Canadian. She was a high school student when the Black Lives Matter movement first erupted, and that was what prompted her to begin learning about systemic oppressions and getting involved in struggles for social justice. Today, she is an undergraduate university student in environmental studies, and she is committed to work related to the interconnection between social justice and the environment. She had not been particularly involved in the Japanese community, but was drawn towards the combination of values, politics, and culture represented by Japanese Canadians for Social Justice.
Kota Kimura moved to Canada from Japan in 2003. As a student at the University of Western Ontario, he was involved in Palestinian solidarity organizing, and then in climate justice work and various anarchist-inspired groups. He was living in Saskatoon by the time he got involved in the Occupy movement that erupted in 2011. Since then, he has been more drawn to grassroots political work that builds formal organizations and to community-based organizing, and has been involved in anti-racism, opposing police violence, and standing up against the far right. He moved to Toronto in 2018, and got involved in Japanese Canadians for Social Justice. He is also an education officer for the Canada Philippines Solidarity Organization.
The simple but powerful mandate of Japanese Canadians for Social Justice is "to support the struggle for justice, not just for Japanese Canadians, but for all who suffer and call our name." In opposing violence, exploitation, and injustice by and in the Canadian state, they draw from the long history of people of Japanese descent in Canada struggling against many forms of racism and exploitation, including the anti-Asian riots of the early 20th century and the internment of Japanese and Japanese-Canadian people during the Second World War.
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867 Юлия Белова Анатольевна Отдел 1 / Отдел в котором человек
867 Юлия Белова Анатольевна Отдел 2 / Отдел в котором человек

а хотелось бы получать
867   Юлия Белова Анатольевна Главный отдел / Отдел 1 / Отдел 2 / Отдел в котором человек
Весь код:
   <?

        $result = \Bitrix\Main\UserTable::getList(array(

            'select' => array('ID','NAME','LAST_NAME','SECOND_NAME','UF_DEPARTMENT'), // выберем идентификатор и генерируемое (expression) поле SHORT_NAME

            'order' => array('LAST_LOGIN'=>'DESC'), // все группы, кроме основной группы администраторов,

        ));
        ?>

ID	Имя Фамилия	Отдел

        <?

        while ($arUser = $result->fetch()) {
     foreach ($arUser['UF_DEPARTMENT'] as $key => $value) {

       }

    $arFilter = array("IBLOCK_ID"=>5, "ID" => $value);
    //какие свойства хотим получить, в данном случае нам надо название, описание и пользовательское свойство раздела (создается в меню редактирования раздела в админке)
    $arSelect =  array("NAME", "DESCRIPTION", "UF_PRE");
    $rsResult = CIBlockSection::GetList(array("SORT"=>"ASC"), $arFilter, false, $arSelect);
    while($ob = $rsResult->GetNext()) {
         $sectionName = $ob["NAME"]; // наше имя

    }
    //пример выборки дерева подразделов для раздела
    $rsParentSection = CIBlockSection::GetByID($value);
    if ($thisSection = $rsParentSection->GetNext())
    {
       $arFilter = array('IBLOCK_ID' => 5,        "<=LEFT_BORDER" => $thisSection["LEFT_MARGIN"],
          ">=RIGHT_BORDER" => $thisSection["RIGHT_MARGIN"],
          "<DEPTH_LEVEL" => $thisSection["DEPTH_LEVEL"]); // выберет потомков без учета активности
       $rsSect = CIBlockSection::GetList(array('left_margin' => 'asc'),$arFilter);
       while ($arSect = $rsSect->GetNext())
       {
        $sectionNames = $arSect["NAME"]; // наше имя

     echo "
".$arUser['ID']."	".$arUser['NAME']."&nbsp".$arUser['LAST_NAME']."&nbsp".$arUser['SECOND_NAME']."	".$sectionNames." / ".$sectionName."
";
       }
    }
        }

        ?>

A: вот это:
while ($arSect = $rsSect->GetNext())
       {
        $sectionNames = $arSect["NAME"]; // наше имя

     echo "
".$arUser['ID']."	".$arUser['NAME']."&nbsp".$arUser['LAST_NAME']."&nbsp".$arUser['SECOND_NAME']."	".$sectionNames." / ".$sectionName."
";
       }

замените на это:
while ($arSect = $rsSect->GetNext()){
  $section = (isset($tab_info[$arUser['ID']]['section']))? $tab_info[$arUser['ID']]['section'] : '';
  $tab_info[$arUser['ID']] = [
      'id' => "".$arUser['ID']."	",
      'fio' =>"".$arUser['NAME']."&nbsp".$arUser['LAST_NAME']."&nbsp".$arUser['SECOND_NAME']."	",
      'section' => $section.' / '.$arSect["NAME"],
      'personalSection' => $sectionName,

  ];
}
$table = '';
foreach ($tab_info as $row) {
    $table .= "
$row[id] $row[fio]$row[section] / $row[personalSection]
";
}
echo $table;

вместо этого:
foreach ($arUser['UF_DEPARTMENT'] as $key => $value) {

       }

правильнее использовать это:
$value = end($arUser['UF_DEPARTMENT']);

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Q: Load only files required for runtime When you load libraries with composer require  you get the full package:
vendor/
    autoload.php
    example-author/
        example-library/
            docs/
                (5 MB of HTML and pictures)
            samples/
                (10 MB of sample data)
            test/
                (150 files)
            src/
                Foo.php (20 KB)
                Exception.php (1 KB)

If you only want to use the library (versus contributing to its codebase) that means deploying complete directory trees you don't need at all.
Is that the way it's meant to be?
I'd prefer a set-up that's closer to pre-composer age, e.g.:
vendor/
    autoload.php
    example-author/
        example-library/
            Foo.php
            Exception.php

... as long as it's a supported scenario.

A: Make sure you download from dist and not from source.

Dist: The dist is a packaged version of the package data. Usually a released version, usually a stable release.
Source: The source is used for development. This will usually originate from a source code repository, such as git. You can fetch
  this when you want to modify the downloaded package.
Packages can supply either of these, or even both. Depending on
  certain factors, such as user-supplied options and stability of the
  package, one will be preferred.

If the packages are configured properly then they should not have the tests and docs included in the dist. You can easily check this in the sources of the packages at github. There should be a .gitattributes file where some files are excluded for the dist archive like this one:
/tests export-ignore
/docs export-ignore
.gitattributes export-ignore
.gitignore export-ignore
.gitmodules export-ignore
.travis.yml export-ignore
build.properties export-ignore
build.xml export-ignore
phpunit.xml.dist export-ignore
run-all.sh export-ignore
composer.lock export-ignore

This is explained in the Exporting Your Repository chapter of the Git documentation.
If there is no .gitattributes in the sources then you will have to ask the author of that package to include one or make a pull request yourself.
Composer's default
When your composer is in default configuration to use stable packages and the preferred install is dist.
"config": {
    "preferred-install": "dist"
},
"minimum-stability": "stable"

Then composer downloads a zip file from github, which was created with the filters defined in .gitattributes.
Make composer download from dist
If you like to have the dist archive you have two options.

*

*Make the "preferred-install": "dist"

*Use the --prefer-dist option on composer update
Both of them make composer to use dist for all packages.
If you like to have only the sources of example-author/example-library instead of the dist of all packages then use:
composer update example-author/example-library --prefer-dist

Note
You will have to delete the package folder (you like to update from dist) in your /vendor folder if it already exists to get it reinstalled. Otherwise it will stick to the already downloaded version.


President Trump and First Lady Melania traveled to Houston, Texas on Saturday to visit people affected by Hurricane Harvey. POTUS and FLOTUS also greeted children at NRG stadium in Houston. POTUS hugged, kissed and even "played toys" with children impacted by the storm. It's a side Trump voters know exists of the President, but so seldom hear about from the mainstream media.
First Lady Melania was hammered by fake news bullies last week after she was photographed wearing high heels on her way to Texas. She wore heels walking onto Marine One knowing she would be photographed and later changed into tennis shoes, but that didn't stop the liberal hysteria. She showed that she will absolutely not back down to the hateful liberals and chose to wear high heels on her way to Texas–again.
Of course the First Lady changed into tennis shoes and a baseball hat once she arrived in Texas just like she did during her first trip to survey the damage in Texas.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, this is the creature at Vogue who tried to shame First Lady Melania for wearing high heels walking onto the aircraft.
Vogue contributor Lynn Yaeger wrote "No, Melania Trump, You Cannot Wear Those Shoes to a Flood Zone".
This clown actually thinks she has more fashion sense than Melania Trump.


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A tale of two labs: Rethinking urban living labs for advancing citizen engagement in food system transformations
Curated on Posted on January 19, 2022 January 19, 2022 by Stefaan Verhulst
Paper by Anke Brons et al: "Citizen engagement is heralded as essential for food democracy and equality, yet the implementation of inclusive citizen engagement mechanisms in urban food systems governance has lagged behind. This paper aims to further the agenda of citizen engagement in the transformation towards healthy and sustainable urban food systems by offering a conceptual reflection on urban living labs (ULLs) as a methodological platform. Over the past decades, ULLs have become increasingly popular to actively engage citizens in methodological testbeds for innovations within real-world settings. The paper proposes that ULLs as a tool for inclusive citizen engagement can be utilized in two ways: (i) the ULL as the daily life of which citizens are the experts, aimed at uncovering the unreflexive agency of a highly diverse population in co-shaping the food system and (ii) the ULL as a break with daily life aimed at facilitating reflexive agency in (re)shaping food futures. We argue that both ULL approaches have the potential to facilitate inclusive citizen engagement in different ways by strengthening the breadth and the depth of citizen engagement respectively. The paper concludes by proposing a sequential implementation of the two types of ULL, paying attention to spatial configurations and the short-termed nature of ULLs….(More)".
How digital transformation is driving economic change
Blog (and book) by Zia Qureshi: "We are living in a time of exciting technological innovations. Digital technologies are driving transformative change. Economic paradigms are shifting. The new technologies are reshaping product and factor markets and profoundly altering business and work. The latest advances in artificial intelligence and related innovations are expanding the frontiers of the digital revolution. Digital transformation is accelerating in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The future is arriving faster than expected.
A recently published book, "Shifting Paradigms: Growth, Finance, Jobs, and Inequality in the Digital Economy," examines the implications of the unfolding digital metamorphosis for economies and public policy agendas….
Firms at the technological frontier have broken away from the rest, acquiring dominance in increasingly concentrated markets and capturing the lion's share of the returns from the new technologies. While productivity growth in these firms has been strong, it has stagnated or slowed in other firms, depressing aggregate productivity growth. Increasing automation of low- to middle-skill tasks has shifted labor demand toward higher-level skills, hurting wages and jobs at the lower end of the skill spectrum. With the new technologies favoring capital, winner-take-all business outcomes, and higher-level skills, the distribution of both capital and labor income has tended to become more unequal, and income has been shifting from labor to capital.
One important reason for these outcomes is that policies and institutions have been slow to adjust to the unfolding transformations. To realize the promise of today's smart machines, policies need to be smarter too. They must be more responsive to change to fully capture potential gains in productivity and economic growth and address rising inequality as technological disruptions create winners and losers.
As technology reshapes markets and alters growth and distributional dynamics, policies must ensure that markets remain inclusive and support wide access to the new opportunities for firms and workers. The digital economy must be broadened to disseminate new technologies and opportunities to smaller firms and wider segments of the labor force…(More)".
Tech is finally killing long lines
Erica Pandey at Axios: "Startups and big corporations alike are releasing technology to put long lines online.
Why it matters: Standing in lines has always been a hassle, but the pandemic has made lines longer, slower and even dangerous. Now many of those lines are going virtual.
What's happening: Physical lines are disappearing at theme parks, doctor's offices, clothing stores and elsewhere, replaced by systems that let you book a slot online and then wait to be notified that it's your turn.
Whyline, an Argentinian company that was just acquired by the biometric ID company CLEAR, is an app that lets users do just that — it will keep you up to date on your wait time and let you know when you need to show up.
Whyline's list of clients — mostly in Latin America — includes banks, retail stores, the city of Lincoln, Nebraska, and Los Angeles International Airport.
"The same way you make a reservation at a restaurant, Whyline software does the waiting for you in banks, in DMVs, in airports," CLEAR CEO Caryn Seidman-Becker said on CNBC.
Another app called Safe Queue was born from the pandemic and aims to make in-store shopping safer for customers and workers by spacing out shoppers' visits.
The app uses GPS technology to detect when you're within 1,000 feet of a participating store and automatically puts you in a virtual line. Then you can wait in your car or somewhere nearby until it's your turn to shop.
Many health clinics around the country are also putting their COVID test lines online..
The rub: While virtual queuing tech may be gaining ground, lines are still more common than not. And in the age of social distancing, expect wait times to remain high and lines to remain long…(More)".
Why people believe misinformation and resist correction
Curated on Posted on January 19, 2022 by Stefaan Verhulst
TechPolicyPress: "…In Nature, a team of nine researchers from the fields of psychology, mass media & communication have published a review of available research on the factors that lead people to "form or endorse misinformed views, and the psychological barriers" to changing their minds….
The authors summarize what is known about a variety of drivers of false beliefs, noting that they "generally arise through the same mechanisms that establish accurate beliefs" and the human weakness for trusting the "gut". For a variety of reasons, people develop shortcuts when processing information, often defaulting to conclusions rather than evaluating new information critically. A complex set of variables related to information sources, emotional factors and a variety of other cues can lead to the formation of false beliefs. And, people often share information with little focus on its veracity, but rather to accomplish other goals- from self-promotion to signaling group membership to simply sating a desire to 'watch the world burn'.
Source: Nature Reviews: Psychology, Volume 1, January 022
Barriers to belief revision are also complex, since "the original information is not simply erased or replaced" once corrective information is introduced. There is evidence that misinformation can be "reactivated and retrieved" even after an individual receives accurate information that contradicts it. A variety of factors affect whether correct information can win out. One theory looks at how information is integrated in a person's "memory network". Another complementary theory looks at "selective retrieval" and is backed up by neuro-imaging evidence…(More)".
The Attack of Zombie Science
Article by Natalia Pasternak, Carlos Orsi, Aaron F. Mertz, & Stuart Firestein: "When we think about how science is distorted, we usually think about concepts that have ample currency in public discourse, such as pseudoscience and junk science. Practices like astrology and homeopathy come wrapped in scientific concepts and jargon that can't meet the methodological requirements of actual sciences. During the COVID-19 pandemic, pseudoscience has had a field day. Bleach, anyone? Bear bile? Yet the pandemic has brought a newer, more subtle form of distortion to light. To the philosophy of science, we humbly submit a new concept: "zombie science."
We think of zombie science as mindless science. It goes through the motions of scientific research without a real research question to answer, it follows all the correct methodology, but it doesn't aspire to contribute to advance knowledge in the field. Practically all the information about hydroxychloroquine during the pandemic falls into that category, including not just the living dead found in preprint repositories, but also papers published in journals that ought to have been caught by a more discerning eye. Journals, after all, invest their reputation in every piece they choose to publish. And every investment in useless science is a net loss.
From a social and historical stance, it seems almost inevitable that the penchant for productivism in the academic and scientific world would end up encouraging zombie science. If those who do not publish perish, then publishing—even nonsense or irrelevancies—is a matter of life or death. The peer-review process and the criteria for editorial importance are filters, for sure, but they are limited. Not only do they get clogged and overwhelmed due to excess submissions, they have to deal with the weaknesses of the human condition, including feelings of personal loyalty, prejudice, and vanity. Additionally, these filters fail, as the proliferation of predatory journals shows us all too well…(More)".
The Digital Continent: Placing Africa in Planetary Networks of Work
Open Access Book by Mohammad Amir Anwar and Mark Graham: "As recently as the early 2010s, there were more internet users in countries like France or Germany than in all of Africa put together. But much changed in that decade, and 2018 marked the first year in human history in which a majority of the world's population is now connected to the internet. This mass connectivity means that we have an internet that no longer connects only the world's wealthy. Workers from Lagos to Johannesburg to Nairobi, and everywhere in between, can now apply for and carry out jobs coming from clients who themselves can be located anywhere in the world. Digital outsourcing firms can now also set up operations in the most unlikely of places in order to tap into hitherto disconnected labour forces. With CEOs in the Global North proclaiming that location is a concern of the past, and governments and civil society in Africa promising to create millions of jobs on the continent, The Digital Continent investigates what this new world of digital work means to the lives of African workers. Anwar and Graham draw on a five-year-long field study in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, and Uganda, and over 200 interviews conducted with participants including gig workers, call and contact centre workers, small self-employed freelancers, business owners, government officials, labour union officials, and industry experts. Focusing on both platform-based remote work and call and contact centre work, the book examines the job quality implications of digital work for the lives and livelihoods of African workers…(More)".
Making data for good better
Article by Caroline Buckee, Satchit Balsari, and Andrew Schroeder: "…Despite the long standing excitement about the potential for digital tools, Big Data and AI to transform our lives, these innovations–with some exceptions–have so far had little impact on the greatest public health emergency of our time.
Attempts to use digital data streams to rapidly produce public health insights that were not only relevant for local contexts in cities and countries around the world, but also available to decision makers who needed them, exposed enormous gaps across the translational pipeline. The insights from novel data streams which could help drive precise, impactful health programs, and bring effective aid to communities, found limited use among public health and emergency response systems. We share here our experience from the COVID-19 Mobility Data Network (CMDN), now Crisis Ready (crisisready.io), a global collaboration of researchers, mostly infectious disease epidemiologists and data scientists, who served as trusted intermediaries between technology companies willing to share vast amounts of digital data, and policy makers, struggling to incorporate insights from these novel data streams into their decision making. Through our experience with the Network, and using human mobility data as an illustrative example, we recognize three sets of barriers to the successful application of large digital datasets for public good.
First, in the absence of pre-established working relationships with technology companies and data brokers, the data remain primarily confined within private circuits of ownership and control. During the pandemic, data sharing agreements between large technology companies and researchers were hastily cobbled together, often without the right kind of domain expertise in the mix. Second, the lack of standardization, interoperability and information on the uncertainty and biases associated with these data, necessitated complex analytical processing by highly specialized domain experts. And finally, local public health departments, understandably unfamiliar with these novel data streams, had neither the bandwidth nor the expertise to sift noise from signal. Ultimately, most efforts did not yield consistently useful information for decision making, particularly in low resource settings, where capacity limitations in the public sector are most acute…(More)".
'Sharing Is Caring': Creative Commons, Transformative Culture, and Moral Rights Protection
Paper by Alexandra Giannopoulou: "The practice of sharing works free from traditional legal reservations, aims to mark both ideological and systemic distance from the exclusive proprietary regime of copyright. The positive involvement of the public in creativity acts is a defining feature of transformative culture in the digital sphere, which encourages creative collaborations between several people, without any limitation in space or time. Moral rights regimes are antithetical to these practices. This chapter will explore the moral rights challenges emerging from transformative culture. We will take the example of Creative Commons licenses and their interaction with internationally recognized moral rights. We conclude that the chilling effects of this legal uncertainty linked to moral rights enforcement could hurt copyright as a whole, but that moral rights can still constitute a strong defence mechanism against modern risks related to digital transformative creativity…(More)".
The 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer
Edelman: "The world is failing to meet the unprecedented challenges of our time because it is ensnared in a vicious cycle of distrust. Four interlocking forces drive this cycle, thwarting progress on climate change, global pandemic management, racism and mounting tensions between China and the U.S. Left unchecked, the following four forces, evident in the 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer, will undermine institutions and further destabilize society:
Government-media distrust spiral. Two institutions people rely on for truth are doing a dangerous tango of short-term mutual advantage, with exaggeration and division to gain clicks and votes.
Excessive reliance on business. Government failure has created an over-reliance on business to fill the void, a job that private enterprise was not designed to deliver.
Mass-class divide. The global pandemic has widened the fissure that surfaced in the wake of the Great Recession. High-income earners have become more trusting of institutions, while lower-income earners remain wary.
Failure of leadership. Classic societal leaders in government, the media and business have been discredited. Trust, once hierarchical, has become local and dispersed as people rely on my employer, my colleagues, my family. Coinciding with this upheaval is a collapse of trust within democracies and a trust surge within autocracies.
The media business model has become dependent on generating partisan outrage, while the political model has become dependent on exploiting it. Whatever short-term benefits either institution derives, it is a long-term catastrophe for society. Distrust is now society's default emotion, with nearly 60 percent inclined to distrust…(More)".
From Poisons to Antidotes: Algorithms as Democracy Boosters
Paper by Paolo Cavaliere and Graziella Romeo: "Under what conditions can artificial intelligence contribute to political processes without undermining their legitimacy? Thanks to the ever-growing availability of data and the increasing power of decision-making algorithms, the future of political institutions is unlikely to be anything similar to what we have known throughout the last century, possibly with Parliaments deprived of their traditional authority and public decision-making processes largely unaccountable. This paper discusses and challenges these concerns by suggesting a theoretical framework under which algorithmic decision-making is compatible with democracy and, most relevantly, can offer a viable solution to counter the rise of populist rhetoric in the governance arena. Such a framework is based on three pillars: a. understanding the civic issues that are subjected to automated decision-making; b. controlling the issues that are assigned to AI; and c. evaluating and challenging the outputs of algorithmic decision-making….(More)".


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INSPIRE School Programs is committed to offering quality Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) programs to empower middle and high school students to reach their potential and achieve academic success. INSPIRE mentoring programs encourages self-esteem, healthy relationships, respect, positive choices, mental wellness, resilience, mindfulness and leadership.
Anthony Guadalupe is the Northeast Florida Director of INSPIRE School Programs. Anthony holds his Ministerial Credentials with the Assemblies of God. He is happily married to his wife, Jessica for 18 years and they have a wonderful son.
A native from Brooklyn, New York, Anthony is no stranger to being raised with the struggles of a single parent, low-self esteem, identity issues and peer pressures. However, with his faith, perseverance & determination, Anthony chose to not be a part of the status quo and fought to not succumb to the pressures of life but turned his life around to become the agent of change that he is. Things turned around for him later in his teen years. He developed a passion for empowering youth at the age of 19. Since Anthony didn't personally have a mentor or a present dad in his upbringing, he wanted to change that for future generations. Along with his wife, they founded an organization in Brooklyn, N.Y., that was tailored in inspiring and igniting youth to fight for their purpose, through events called "Fight or Die". His time in New York City, through the organization touched and impacted more than 6000 young people.
Anthony believes the next level in being a mentor and helping (High School) students is through classroom mentoring programs. In adopting the program from the National Director of INSPIRE school programs, Tara Bollinger, she has trained Anthony in the art of winning students for a greater tomorrow. Since the program has begun, he has noticed it has helped students with issues like overcoming bullying and low-self esteem. In addition, students have achieved academic success, managed certain feelings and are making positive choices!
Anthony Guadalupe
SCHOOLS INVOLVED
SINCE JANUARY 2018
SINCE SEPTEMBER 2018
Director of NEF - Anthony Guadalupe
Assistant Director of NEF - Margie Santiago
info@inspirefloridaschools.org | Tel: 904-878-8232
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In this post I am sharing about awesome windows run command shortcuts. Using shortcuts save your time, rather then doing clicking clicking clicking kind of work.
After a gap of nearly 5-6 years, today I login in Windows 8 system. I tried my hands on forgotten run commands shortcuts, which I used to apply on Windows XP systems. Glad to see some of these tricks still working and rocking. I am always a command line lover and today sharing my oldies tricks with you.
You may be surprised to see my this post on Windows. I believe this is my first post on Windows also. Our blog is grown and already reach to some user expectation . Hence, I decided to write something useful for Windows users also (some of you may be thinking to migrate to Linux O.S). I hope some of them liked it and at the end share your tips as well.
To open run on Windows system use the combination of Windows key along with R key from your keyword.


Entity (usually an importer) who applies to a bank to establish a letter of credit (L/C) in favor of another entity (the 'accredited party' or 'beneficiary,' usually an exporter). However, where a finance company applies for a L/C on behalf of an importer, the finance company is usually called the 'applicant' and the importer is called the 'account party.' Also called accountee or applicant.


Are you planning to start a mentoring program to improve employee engagement? That's great! Whatever might be the reason, mentoring is a great way to support, develop and grow your employee in a much more impactful way for your business.
Another important aspect is employee retention. as per 2016 Deloitte Millennial Survey, 60-70% of your Millennials workforce will leave your organization by the year 2020. This is a cause of grave concern.
If we look at what Millennials are looking for, Harvard Business Review has put it well very in this compact infographic below. To summarize, they are looking for a constant dialogue for meaningful conversations and feedback. Mentoring can be great tool to support that need.
Is your organization ready for Mentoring?
Most of the companies are still led by Boomers and Gen X people. For them to understand the need of a Millennial can sometimes be difficult. The whole concept of social, collaborative work environment is very new for them. Boomers, grew up in an environment of societal upheaval where challenging authority and the status quo were the norm. They come to the workplace confident, prepared to work hard, and expecting to be rewarded for their efforts. On the other hand, Millennials grew up in an environment of adult attention where monitoring, recognition, and support were the norm. This difference keeps creating a conflict in the organization and relationship between Boomers and Millennials.
That said it's not impossible to put an end to this. Given the right training and setting expectations, we can have a very committed and successful relationship. So before you start make sure you are doing the due diligence to find out the pain points and addressing the issues.
Have you defined a Process for Mentoring?
Adhoc attempts without proper planning and process to support your program can definitely cost you. Process always helps you keep focused on the tasks in hand and guide you on the next steps. There are also great tools available for you to retrospect if you feel something went wrong. You may want to read this blog post which explains the D.E.L.T.A. process of NxtSpark which aids and guides your internal Mentoring program.
Figured out a way to Mentee Mentor Matching?
Getting paired with the right mentor is crucial, this will probably define whether you will be able to sustain the momentum of the program and have a ROI of the significant time and investment you have made. Read this blog to understand more on how to get it right.
Are you tracking the progess?
Most of the companies, who have successfully implemented mentoring, had a strong tracking system to measure the pulse of the program. Getting insights into whether employees are realizing the value or if the Mentoring pairs is spending enough time with each other is very important for the success of the program.
However, there's an important aspect to bear in mind. The specific details about a Mentoring relationship are supposed to be confidential to enable them to open up. Crossing that line can result in breach of trust of your employees, which can cause a monumental issue and can cause more damage.
To conclude, Employee engagement is one of the hardest issues corporates are facing today. Mentoring/Coaching, Peer mentoring, mentoring 2.0 are different names and ways to solve the problem. But at the end of the day we are talking about human relationship. If solutions are used as a checklist item, they are bound to fail. Make sure you are reading the pulse of the employees well and you are prepared to take on the problem head on. Most of organization need help, so don't think twice if you feel help is required.


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Main › News › Ukraine increased the turnover of agricultural products with EU countries
Ukraine increased the turnover of agricultural products with EU countries
The press service of the Institute of Agrarian Economics released information that from January to June 2017 the turnover of agricultural products between Ukraine and the EU countries amounted to more than $ 4 billion. The positive balance for our state exceeded 1.7 billion dollars. August 10, these data confirmed and deputy. director of the Institute, N. Pugachev.He also said that the main partners are the six EU countries: Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, France, Italy and Poland. Their share in the trade turnover is 74%.Great demand in the EU is enjoyed by grain and oilseeds, especially flour, corn, ready-made vegetable oil, cake and meal.Experts argue that Ukraine has already fully exhausted duty-free quotas for the export of wheat, sugar, corn, barley. The quota for malt is used at 98%, and for butter and meat products by 50%.Nikolai Pugachev added that negotiations are underway to increase quotas for the sale of domestic agricultural products. In July this year, an agreement was reached on additional benefits from the EU for three years. The treaty must enter into force from the autumn of this year or the maximum from the winter of the next 2018.
The Cabinet of Ministers has taken care of preserving the fertility of the Ukrainian land
The government finally paid attention and made adjustments to the Model Document on the lease of Ukrainian land. Experts from the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food released information that officials took care of protection, restoration of fertility and soil conservation. The report noted that t...
In 2018 Chernigov region will increase the area under corn, rape and sunflower
The structural subdivisions of the district administration of Chernihiv and the oblast on issues of agro-industrial development presented forecasts for the area under the harvest this year, in almost all categories of farms. According to actual data, it is planned to use 1.24 million hectares. This ...
In Ukraine, the harvest of rapeseed is completed and accepted for sunflower seeds
Ukrainian farm workers reported that rape harvesting was almost completed. According to data for 22.08.2017, all processed 777 thousand ha, which was 99% of the planted area of 787 thousand Ha. According to official data, 2146 thousand tons of rape, and the average yield in tonnes per hectare was ...
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Amazon forests failing to keep up with climate change
Faculty of Environment news Thursday 8 November 2018
A team of more than 100 scientists has assessed the impact of global warming on thousands of tree species across the Amazon to discover the winners and losers from 30 years of climate change.
Their analysis found the effects of climate change are altering the rainforest's composition of tree species but not quickly enough to keep up with the changing environment.
The team, led by University of Leeds in collaboration with more than 30 institutions around the world, used long-term records from more than a hundred plots as part of the Amazon Forest Inventory Network (RAINFOR) to track the lives of individual trees across the Amazon region. Their results found that since the 1980s, the effects of global environmental change – stronger droughts, increased temperatures and higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere – has slowly impacted specific tree species' growth and mortality.
In particular, the study found the most moisture-loving tree species are dying more frequently than other species and those suited to drier climates were unable to replace them.
The increase in some pioneer trees, such as the extremely fast growing Cecropia, is consistent with the observed changes in forest dynamics, which may also ultimately be driven by increased carbon dioxide levels.
Lead author Dr Adriane Esquivel Muelbert, from the School of Geography at Leeds, said: "The ecosystem's response is lagging behind the rate of climate change. The data showed us that the droughts that hit the Amazon basin in the last decades had serious consequences for the make-up of the forest, with higher mortality in tree species most vulnerable to droughts and not enough compensatory growth in species better equipped to survive drier conditions."
The team also found that bigger trees – predominantly canopy species in the upper levels of the forests – are outcompeting smaller plants. The team's observations confirms the belief that canopy species would be climate change "winners" as they benefit from increased carbon dioxide, which can allow them to grow more quickly. This further suggests that higher carbon dioxide concentrations also have a direct impact on rainforest composition and forest dynamics – the way forests grow, die and change.
In addition, the study shows that pioneer trees – trees that quickly spring up and grow in gaps left behind when trees die – are benefiting from the acceleration of forest dynamics.
Study co-author Oliver Phillips, Professor of Tropical Ecology at Leeds and founder of the RAINFOR network said: "The increase in some pioneer trees, such as the extremely fast growing Cecropia, is consistent with the observed changes in forest dynamics, which may also ultimately be driven by increased carbon dioxide levels."
Co-author Dr Kyle Dexter, from the University of Edinburgh, said: "The impact of climate change on forest communities has important consequences for rain forest biodiversity. The species most vulnerable to droughts are doubly at risk, as they are typically the ones restricted to fewer locations in the heart of the Amazon, which make them more likely to be extinct if this process continues.
"Our findings highlight the need for strict measures to protect existing intact rainforests. Deforestation for agriculture and livestock is known to intensify the droughts in this region, which is exacerbating the effects already being caused by global climate change."
The paper Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change is published in Global Change Biology 8 November 2018 (DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14413)
RAINFOR website: http://www.rainfor.org/
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2.	When cleaning the male organ, be sure to get into every nook and cranny. If uncircumcised, be sure to pull back the foreskin and gently clean thoroughly to prevent smegma buildup.
3.	Keep the pubic hair neatly trimmed. Long pubic hair can hold in funky smells from moisture, bacteria, and dirt.
4.	Wear loose cotton underwear so the private area isn't compressed and has room to breathe.
5.	Always have an open dialogue with intimate partners about reproductive health. Do not have relations with a person suspected of having a PTI as evidenced by a rash, discharge, or other symptoms.
6.	When having relations, use latex barriers and a water-based creme to prevent infection and bacteria.
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We had an early start this morning – we met our tour guide, Elisabeth, at 7 a.m. and rode the bus to St. Peter's Basilica. The Right Rev. Joel P. Garner, O.Praem., led a private mass in one of the chapels, along with Fr. Jay Fostner and Fr. Dane Radecki. Due to a very unfortunate shortage of vestments, Fr. Sal Cuccia was unable to participate, and graciously joined the rest of the group in the pews. Following the service, Elisabeth led us in a very thorough tour of the basilica. We then broke for lunch, and returned for tours of the Scavi, the necropolis beneath the basilica where St. Peter is buried. After all groups had completed their tours, we boarded the bus for a visit to the Norbertine Generalate, the international headquarters of the Norbertine Order. We enjoyed drinks and a light snack, along with a tour of the building.
The Holy Doors were a gift in the 1950s, and the other 5 doors are from the 60s.
We were allowed to take photos because there is only one painting in the basilica. The images are all beautiful mosaics.
Heading to the chapel for our private mass.
Bert Liebmann performed the first reading.
Diane Liebmann performed the second reading.
Preparing for the Papal Audience.
You can see through this seal to the level below.
Seating for the Papal Audience tomorrow.
Views from the Generalate rooftop.


The Apple Core's Jason D. O'Grady notes that the biggest news item in the news these days is the outbreak of the Influenza A(H1N1) virus, and that there's an interesting technology story about the virus that caught my eye about how the outbreak is being tracked in the US using Macs.
"As the H1N1 virus continues to spread across the globe, scientists are working to stay one step ahead of it. Hoping to predict where it might turn up next, researchers are looking to the sky.
"From their laboratories at the Ohio State University Medical Center, over fifty scientists work on treatments for the next major outbreak - and while they never know if it will be tuberculosis, malaria or swine flu, they will know where to find it."
Macworld's Ted Landau observes that most of us would rather fix a problem ourselves than hassle with driving to an Apple Store - providing there's even one within driving distance of where you live.
Macworld's Dan Moren says that a frequent complaint he hears from his Windows-refugee friends when they switch to the Mac is about that little green Zoom button in the top left of OS X application and document windows. Even some veteran Mac users find the Mac OS Finder Zoom function obtuse.
For relief, Moren recommends a handy little freeware utility Right Zoom, which transforms the green Zoom button function to a more Windows-esque window maximization function and includes a handful of other customization options.
Overclockers Club's Ediseye says the scuttlebutt is that sometime this June, Nvidia will be releasing the GeForce GTX 285 for Macintosh users, presumably featuring similar specs to the PC version, such as the 648 MHz core clock speed, as well as the 240 processor cores that are used on the Nvidia GPU.
"One of the best-known makers of battery backups is American Power Conversion (APC). However, if you own an Intel Mac and are using a recent version of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), you may want to look elsewhere for a UPS. APC devices are likely to give you grief . . . APC units don't work with Intel Macs above Mac OS X 10.5.4."
Cnet's Jon Oltsik predicts that within the next 18 months, Apple will begin recommending that Mac users install Internet security software on all systems, basing his prognostication on a hunch is that Mac attacks will increase precipitously over the next year.
Oltsik reasons that Mac users tend to be more affluent than the median, thus juicy targets for identity theft with fast broadband connections to the Web to hack into for increasingly diversified and sophisticated cyber-criminals, and the Mac's presence in the enterprise is growing as well, raising its profile as a target, plus, depressingly, he says that Macs are fairly easy to hack.
I hope he's mistaken, but it's a caveat worth keeping in mind. Oltsik compares the status quo up to now in the Mac orbit with the days "senior citizens" recall nostalgically when they could leave their houses unlocked and car keys in the ignition switch. I actually still live in a small rural community where one can do both with relative impunity, and the freedom from the hassle of installing and updating antivirus software has been one of the great joys of Mac computing for me, and will be saddened if Oltsik is right and those days are numbered.
"Disk Utility is an excellent OS X utility for managing hard drives and removable storage. If you've ever installed OS X, wiped a hard drive clean, or needed to re-format a USB stick, there's a good chance that you'll be familiar with the app. Whilst managing disk images is undoubtedly Disk Utility's forté, it can also be used to good effect for creating images.
"This how-to will walk you through how simple this process is. We'll illustrate how to create a simple disk image for storing files, a few of the uses that images can have, and also investigate how images can be encrypted to keep your files secure."
"Newer Technology designed its Voyager Q ('Quad') drive dock, distributed by Other World Computing, to accept laptop (2.5-inch) and desktop (3.5-inch) SATA drives that then connect to your computer via any of its four different storage interfaces: external SATA (eSATA), FireWire 800, FireWire 400 and USB 2.0."
Editor's note: The graphs show the real world difference between eSATA, FireWire 800, FireWire 400, and USB 2.0, which top out at 86.9, 62.1, 35.4, and 33.6 MB/sec. read throughput on Intel Macs. FireWire 400 has a big edge over USB 2.0 with files smaller than 16 KB and shows better write times than read times, while USB 2.0 writes slower than it reads, making FireWire a better backup choice.
PR: Jimdo's developers got to work right away when the news hit - figuring out some way to rescue GeoCities sites. They've launched the Jimdo Lifeboat to let users know they have somewhere to go. Over the past few days, they've finished a migration tool for GeoCities: site owners can just enter their old site URL, and the old content is imported to a Jimdo account.
This isn't just GeoCities 2.0, and it's not a static archive of the site: all the pages and content can be edited and managed using Jimdo's WYSIWYG interface. There's only one side-effect . . . the sites might not look exactly the same. Some might even be prettier. The developers did did all they could, but some things just aren't transferable.
While the work is only partly done, the Jimdo folks are trying to get the word out to as many GeoCities users as possible that there's a new home waiting. They've also thrown together an entertaining video.
Jimdo is also working on The Jimdo Lifeboat for Google Page Creator for those using Google Page Creator, which is also shutting down in June.
PR: The most advanced Online Backup Service to hit the market raises the bar for data security. BackUpMax Secure Online Backup for Mac and Windows possess an impressive and unusual feature set developed with the mobile laptop user in mind.
BackUpMax backs up and restores files, but so do other services.
BackUpMax Personal Edition takes a step further by allowing users to erase sensitive data remotely from lost or stolen computers and can actually help you to recover a lost or stolen computer.
More than 637,000 laptops are lost each year at US airports alone according to a survey by the Ponemon Institute.
A laptop is stolen every 53 seconds and, according to the FBI, 97% are never recovered.
"BackUpMax Personal Edition will actually snap pictures and movies of the thief using a computer's built-in camera. It can listen to sounds in the room. It can even discover its location," explained software developer Rob Cosgrove, the founder of the Online Backup industry, "It sends all this information silently to your BackUpMax account where you can view it."
Users can log into their BackUpMax accounts on the web. From there they can order their lost computers to shred files using Military-grade DoD 5220.22-M protocol. Users can also locate their computers on a map using an innovative process that does not require a GPS or other special hardware or software on the lost computer.
Users can view video and snapshots, listen to room sounds, query the wireless network card and system information - all of which can help locate the computer and prosecute the thief.
Of course, BackUpMax has all the normal online backup features, plus some including web-based restore, cross-platform backups and restores, user-defined backup sets, configurable file retention policy, user-defined private keys, and very high security.
BackUpMax Personal Edition is for laptops and personal computers. Subscriptions start at $9.95/month for 10 GB. BackUpMax Business Edition is for Servers, and starts at $89.95/month. Only the Personal Edition contains the Remote Security Suite.
PR: The Evoluent VerticalMouse 3 Wireless is an advanced third generation of the revolutionary mouse from the inventor of the handshake grip. Some users say using the VerticalMouse has relieved their wrist and arm pain.
The ergonomically contoured shape supports your hand in a natural handshake position that eliminates forearm twisting. You use the same familiar grip as with an ordinary mouse, but in a vertical orientation, so almost no retraining is needed. Clicking the mouse buttons does not result in unwanted movement because your thumb naturally opposes your finger movements.
The contoured black portion of the body where you hold the mouse has a polyurethane coating, allowing you to have complete control of the mouse just by resting your hand on it practically eliminating the need to grip the mouse.
The buttons on the VerticalMouse take about half the force of traditional mice to click, so your fingers won't get tired with all the clicking required in today's computer applications. The button force is light for easy clicking, but still firm enough to avoid accidental actuation.
The vertical scroll wheel is optical, providing improved reliability and quiet, smooth operation. Detents provide useful tactile feedback when scrolling.
The VerticalMouse provides a total of 5 buttons. A thumb operated button and 3 finger operated buttons are provided. Also, the scroll wheel provides a fourth button at your fingertips.
With an optical sensor at this resolution, the amount of movement required for cursor control is reduced without any loss in precision or accuracy making it perfect for AutoCAD, photo editing, web surfing or playing your favourite game. The Avago 3080 gaming grade infrared optical sensor tracks more accurately than most laser sensors on the majority of surfaces.
A button and indicator light on the bottom of the mouse allows you to set the resolution to 2600, 1800, 1300, or 800 DPI.
A small ledge along the bottom right edge of the mouse prevents your little finger from dragging on the work surface.
Cycle through as many as 3 pointer speed settings with a keyboard shortcut or mouse button. For example, use a high speed for moving between monitors, a medium speed for ordinary tasks and a slow speed for graphics work.
Automatically perform a single or double click by pausing the pointer. The time delay before activation is adjustable.
Press and hold a button momentarily to simulate continued pressing without holding down the button. The time delay before activation is adjustable.
Set up visual and/or audio alerts to remind you to take a break.
The patented shape supports your hand in a fully upright handshake position that eliminates forearm twisting. Many users said earlier models relieved their hand, wrist, or arm pain. See these actual user comments. An ordinary horizontal mouse requires your forearm to twist away from its natural position.
The grip is the same as on an ordinary mouse, just turned sideways into a handshake position. Many users said they got used to it very quickly.
The compact USB receiver is slim enough to avoid blocking adjacent ports.
3 month estimated battery life under typical use with non-chargeable AA batteries. The sensor never sleeps so pointer response is always instantaneous.
Resolution: 1200 dpi true optical hardware resolution.
Dimensions: L 4.45" (113 mm), W 3.15" (80 mm), H 3.03" (77 mm).
Weight: 6.7 oz (189 g) with 2 AA alkaline batteries.
PR: The VerticalMouse 3 is the third generation wired version of the popular Evoluent mouse. A small flange was added along the bottom right edge to prevent the user's little finger from dragging on the desk. Also, the scroll wheel now has tactile detent positions. A new feature added to Revision 2 of this mouse allows the user to set the resolution to 2600, 1800, 1300 or 800 DPI using a button and indicator light on the underside of the mouse. This makes adjusting pointer speed easier and further improves tracking - note the mouse is shipped with the resolution at 2600 DPI.
Features similar to those described above for the wireless version.
The VerticalMouse 3 is currently available in a right-handed model only, with a black housing and silver buttons.
Dimensions: 4.45" x 3.03" x 3.15"
PR: The Evoluent VerticalMouse 2's patented shape supports your hand in a relaxed handshake position that eliminates forearm twisting. The mouse remains stable when pressing buttons because the thumb naturally opposes the finger movements.
More intuitive/less of a learning curve than central pointing devices or touchpads.
An ordinary horizontal mouse causes your forearm to twist away from its natural position, which can reduce blood flow, put muscles in awkward positions and increase the rate of fatigue. For many, this can result in discomfort and pain while mousing.
The design of the Evoluent VerticalMouse improves comfort and control when mousing, with a patented shape that supports your hand in a relaxed handshake position, and provides a notch for your thumb to rest in. This innovative design eliminates forearm twisting and minimizes the effort required to use the mouse.
You use the same familiar grip as with an ordinary mouse, just turned sideways, and the buttons are operated by the same fingers. That's why there is virtually no retraining necessary.
The mouse does not unintentionally move sideways when clicking with normal force because the thumb naturally opposes the finger movements. Pointer control is as accurate as any other high-quality mouse.
The vertical scroll wheel is optical, providing improved reliability and quiet, smooth operation. The wheel is smooth scrolling with no detent positions.
With an optical sensor at this resolution, the amount of movement required for cursor control is reduced without any loss in precision or accuracy making it perfect for AutoCAD, photo editing, web surfing or playing your favourite game.
This mouse is available in a left-handed model with a black housing and silver buttons, and a small quantity of right-handed mice are still available with a black housing and black buttons.


Only 51% of those who voted Liberal Democrat in 2010 did so again yesterday. They were heavily supported by 2010 Labour voters, 23% of whom voted for Mike Thornton. Only half of 2010 Labour voters turned out for John O'Farrell.
The Conservatives turned out a higher proportion of their own 2010 voters (59%) than Labour or the Lib Dems. Just over a fifth (22%) of those who voted Tory at the last general election voted for Diane James; perhaps more surprisingly, just under a fifth (19%) of 2010 Liberal Democrats did so too.
UKIP's claim towards the end of the campaign that they were enjoying a late surge is borne out by the fact that nearly a third of their voters (31%) made up their minds in the last week – indeed nearly a fifth (18%) decided on the day. This also helps to explain the bump in their support since my final pre-election poll, taken last weekend.
Our question on why people voted as they did suggests a high proportion of the UKIP voters wished a plague upon all parties' houses: 83% of them said they were sending a message that they were "unhappy with the party I usually support nationally", and three quarters wanted to show they were "unhappy with all the main parties at the moment". Notably, the proportion saying they voted UKIP "tactically to try and prevent another party from winning" (40%) was nearly as high as the proportion among those who voted Lib Dem (43%).
While the great majority of those who voted Tory said they had done so because the party had the best candidate locally, the best leader nationally, and were the party they wanted to win the next election, for Lib Dem voters having the "best candidate locally" was by far the most important factor.
The single most important issue for Lib Dem voters was local services. 26% of them said this unprompted (which is exactly 26 times the proportion of UKIP voters who said the same). Housing and planning issues were next for Lib Dems. Conservatives were more motivated by the economy, with housing and planning also second. For UKIP voters, immigration and the EU were the only issues to register.
As people ought to know by now, a by-election is not necessarily a good guide to the next general election. Only 43% of Lib Dem by-election voters said they expected to vote for the party again in 2015. 13% would go back to Labour, 7% would move to the Tories and a third didn't know.
Ten per cent of those who voted UKIP yesterday said they would probably vote Conservative in 2015. And to look at it from a different angle, ten per cent of those who told us they would vote Tory in 2015 also told us they had voted UKIP yesterday. One third of UKIP by-election voters said they did not yet know how they would vote at the general election. As with the Lib Dems, only 43% of UKIP by-election voters said they would probably stay with the party.
Last night's result was a dramatic event but it does not change the fundamental strategic challenge facing the Conservative Party. We must look at the evidence and resist learning the wrong lessons. My study at the end of last year, They're Thinking What We're Thinking, shows the attraction is not mainly about policy. It reflects a frustration with the political class and with the way they think things are going in Britain. Our task is not to become more like UKIP, the party of easy answers, but to be the party of government that people want to vote for. Let's hope there's still time.


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Stephen R. C. Hicks is professor of philosophy at Rockford University, senior scholar at The Atlas Society, executive director of the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship, and the author of two books in philosophy and intellectual history: Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault and Nietzsche and the Nazis.
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