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Networking as a concept has acquired what is in all truth an unjustified air of modernity. It is considered in the corporate world as an essential tool for the modern businessperson, as they trot round the globe drumming up business for themselves or a corporation. The concept is worn like a badge of distinction, and not just in the business world.
People can be divided basically into those who keep knowledge and their personal contacts to themselves, and those who are prepared to share what they know and indeed their friends with others. A person who is insecure, for example someone who finds it difficult to share information with others and who is unable to bring people, including friends, together does not make a good networker. The classic networker is someone who is strong enough within themselves to connect different people including close friends with each other. For example, a businessman or an academic may meet someone who is likely to be a valuable contact in the future, but at the moment that person may benefit from meeting another associate or friend.
It takes quite a secure person to bring these people together and allow a relationship to develop independently of himself. From the non-networker's point of view such a development may be intolerable, especially if it is happening outside their control. The unfortunate thing here is that the initiator of the contact, if he did but know it, would be the one to benefit most. And why?
Because all things being equal, people move within circles and that person has the potential of being sucked into ever growing spheres of new contacts. It is said that, if you know eight people, you are in touch with everyone in the world. It does not take much common sense to realize the potential for any kind of venture as one is able to draw on the experience of more and more people.
Unfortunately, making new contacts, business or otherwise, while it brings success, does cause problems. It enlarges the individual's world. This is in truth not altogether a bad thing, but it puts more pressure on the networker through his having to maintain an ever larger circle of people. The most convenient way out is, perhaps, to cull old contacts, but this would be anathema to our networker as it would defeat the whole purpose of networking. Another problem is the reaction of friends and associates. Spreading oneself thinly gives one less time for others who were perhaps closer to one in the past. In the workplace, this can cause tension with jealous colleagues, and even with superiors who might be tempted to rein in a more successful inferior. Jealousy and envy can prove to be very detrimental if one is faced with a very insecure manager, as this person may seek to stifle someone's career or even block it completely.
The answer here is to let one's superiors share in the glory; to throw them a few crumbs of comfort. It is called leadership from the bottom. In the present business climate, companies and enterprises need to co-operate with each other in order to expand. As globalization grows apace, companies need to be able to span not just countries but continents. Whilst people may rail against this development it is for the moment here to stay. Without co-operation and contacts, specialist companies will not survive for long. Computer components, for example, need to be compatible with the various machines on the market and to achieve this, firms need to work in conjunction with others. No business or institution can afford to be an island in today's environment. In the not very distant past, it was possible for companies to go it alone, but it is now more difficult to do so.
The same applies in the academic world, where ideas have been jealously guarded. The opening-up of universities and colleges to the outside world in recent years has been of enormous benefit to industry and educational institutions. The stereotypical academic is one who moves in a rarefied atmosphere living a life of sometimes splendid isolation, a prisoner of their own genius. This sort of person does not fit easily into the mould of the modern networker. Yet even this insular world is changing. The ivory towers are being left ever more frequently as educational experts forge links with other bodies; sometimes to stunning effect as in Silicon Valley in America and around Cambridge in England, which now has one of the most concentrated clusters of high tech companies in Europe.
It is the networkers, the wheeler-dealers, the movers and shakers, call them what you will, that carry the world along. The world of the Neanderthals was shaken between 35,000 and 40,000 BC; they were superseded by Homo Sapiens with the very 'networking' skills that separate us from other animals: understanding, thought abstraction and culture, which are inextricably linked to planning survival and productivity in humans. It is said the meek will inherit the earth. But will they?
Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 1?
In boxes 11-13 on your answer sheet, write
1 Networking is not a modern idea.
2 Networking is worn like a badge exclusively in the business world.
3 People fall into two basic categories.
4 A person who shares knowledge and friends makes a better networker than one who does not.
5 The classic networker is physically strong and generally in good health.
Using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage, complete the sentences below.
6 Making new acquaintances …………………………………. but also has its disadvantages.
7 At work, problems can be caused if the manager is …………………………………. .
8 A manager can suppress, or even totally …………………………………. the career of an employee.
9 In business today, working together is necessary in order for …………………………………. to grow.
10 Businesses that specialize will not last for long without …………………………………. .
11 In which sphere of life have ideas been protected jealously? ………………………………….
12 Which type of individual does not easily become a modern networker? ………………………………….
13 Where is one of the greatest concentrations of high tech companies in Europe? ………………………………….
14 Who replaced the Neanderthals? ………………………………….
15 What, as well as understanding and thought abstraction, sets us apart from other animals? ………………………………….
Cambridge IELTS Tests 1 to 13
A SILENT FORCE
A There is a legend that St Augustine in the fourth century AD was the first individual to be seen reading silently rather than aloud, or semi-aloud, as had been the practice hitherto. Reading has come a long way since Augustine's day. There was a time when it was a menial job of scribes and priests, not the mark of civilization it became in Europe during the Renaissance when it was seen as one of the attributes of the civilized individual.
B Modern nations are now seriously affected by their levels of literacy. While the Western world has seen a noticeable decline in these areas, other less developed countries have advanced and, in some cases, overtaken the West. India, for example, now has a large pool of educated workers. So European countries can no longer rest on their laurels as they have done for far too long; otherwise, they are in danger of falling even further behind economically.
C It is difficult in the modern world to do anything other than a basic job without being able to read. Reading as a skill is the key to an educated workforce, which in turn is the bedrock of economic advancement, particularly in the present technological age. Studies have shown that by increasing the literacy and numeracy skills of primary school children in the UK, the benefit to the economy generally is in billions of pounds. The skill of reading is now no more just an intellectual or leisure activity, but rather a fully-fledged economic force.
D Part of the problem with reading is that it is a skill which is not appreciated in most developed societies. This is an attitude that has condemned large swathes of the population in most Western nations to illiteracy. It might surprise people in countries outside the West to learn that in the United Kingdom, and indeed in some other European countries, the literacy rate has fallen to below that of so-called less developed countries.
E There are also forces conspiring against reading in our modern society. It is not seen as cool among a younger generation more at home with computer screens or a Walkman. The solitude of reading is not very appealing. Students at school, college or university who read a lot are called bookworms. The term indicates the contempt in which reading and learning are held in certain circles or subcultures. It is a criticism, like all such attacks, driven by the insecurity of those who are not literate or are semi-literate. Criticism is also a means, like all bullying, of keeping peers in place so that they do not step out of line. Peer pressure among young people is so powerful that it often kills any attempts to change attitudes to habits like reading.
F But the negative connotations apart, is modern Western society standing Canute-like against an uncontrollable spiral of decline? I think not.
G How should people be encouraged to read more? It can easily be done by increasing basic reading skills at an early age and encouraging young people to borrow books from schools. Some schools have classroom libraries as well as school libraries. It is no good waiting until pupils are in their secondary school to encourage an interest in books; it needs to be pushed at an early age. Reading comics, magazines and low brow publications like Mills and Boon is frowned upon. But surely what people, whether they be adults or children, read is of little import. What is significant is the fact that they are reading. Someone who reads a comic today may have the courage to pick up a more substantial tome later on.
H But perhaps the best idea would be to stop the negative attitudes to reading from forming in the first place. Taking children to local libraries brings them into contact with an environment where they can become relaxed among books. If primary school children were also taken in groups into bookshops, this might also entice them to want their own books. A local bookshop, like some local libraries, could perhaps arrange book readings for children which, being away from the classroom, would make the reading activity more of an adventure. On a more general note, most countries have writers of national importance. By increasing the standing of national writers in the eyes of the public, through local and national writing competitions, people would be drawn more to the printed word. Catch them young and, perhaps, they just might then all become bookworms.
Reading Passage 2 has eight paragraphs labelled A-H.
Choose the most suitable heading for each paragraph from the list of headings below.
Write the appropriate numbers (i-xii) in boxes 16-22 on your answer sheet.
i Reading not taken for granted
ii Taking children to libraries
iii Reading: the mark of civilization
iv Reading in St Augustine's day
v A large pool of educated workers in India
vi Literacy rates in developed countries have declined because of people's attitude
vii Persuading people to read
viii Literacy influences the economies of countries in today's world
xi Reading benefits the economy by billions of pounds
x The attitude to reading amongst the young
xi Reading becomes an economic force
xii The writer's attitude to the decline in reading
16 Paragraph A
17 Paragraph B
18 Paragraph C
19 Paragraph D
20 Paragraph E
21 Paragraph F
22 Paragraph G
23 European countries have been satisfied with past achievements for too long and have allowed other countries to overtake them in certain areas.
24 Reading is an economic force.
25 The literacy rate in less developed nations is considerably higher than in all European countries.
26 If you encourage children to read when they are young the negative attitude to reading that grows in some subcultures will be eliminated.
27 People should be discouraged from reading comics and magazines.
Variations on a theme: the sonnet form in English poetry
A The form of lyric poetry known as 'the sonnet', or 'little song', was introduced into the English poetic corpus by Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder and his contemporary Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, during the first half of the sixteenth century. It originated, however, in Italy three centuries earlier, with the earliest examples known being those of Giacomo da Lentini, 'The Notary' in the Sicilian court of the Emperor Frederick II, dating from the third decade of the thirteenth century. The Sicilian sonneteers are relatively obscure, but the form was taken up by the two most famous poets of the Italian Renaissance, Dante and Petrarch, and indeed the latter is regarded as the master of the form.
B The Petrarchan sonnet form, the first to be introduced into English poetry, is a complex poetic structure. It comprises fourteen lines written in a rhyming metrical pattern of iambic pentameter, that is to say each line is ten syllables long, divided into five 'feet' or pairs of syllables (hence 'pentameter'), with a stress pattern where the first syllable of each foot is unstressed and the second stressed (an iambic foot). This can be seen if we look at the first line of one of Wordsworth's sonnets, 'After- Thought': 'I thought of thee my partner and my guide'. If we break down this line into its constituent syllabic parts, we can see the five feet and the stress pattern (in this example each stressed syllable is underlined), thus: 'I thought/ of thee/ my part/ner and/ my guide'.
C The rhyme scheme for the Petrarchan sonnet is equally as rigid. The poem is generally divided into two parts, the octave (8 lines) and the sestet (6 lines), which is demonstrated through rhyme rather than an actual space between each section. The octave is usually rhymed abbaabba with the first, fourth, fifth and eighth lines rhyming with each other, and the second, third, sixth and seventh also rhyming. The sestet is more varied: it can follow the patterns cdecde, cdccdc,or cdedce. Perhaps the best interpretation of this division in the Petrarchan sonnet is by Charles Gayley, who wrote: 'The octave bears the burden; a doubt, a problem, a reflection, a query, an historical statement, a cry of indignation or desire, a vision of the ideal. The sestet eases the load, resolves the problem or doubt, answers the query or doubt, solaces the yearning, realizes the vision'. Thus, we can see that the rhyme scheme demonstrates a twofold division in the poem, providing a structure for development of themes and ideas.
D Early on, however, English poets began to vary and experiment with this structure. The first major development was made by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, altogether an indifferent poet, but was taken up and perfected by William Shakespeare, and is named after him. The Shakespearean sonnet also has fourteen lines in iambic pentameter, but rather than the division into octave and sestet, the poem is divided into four parts: three quatrains and a final rhyming couplet. Each quatrain has its own internal rhyme scheme, thus a typical Shakespearean sonnet would rhyme abab cdcd efef gg. Such a structure naturally allows greater flexibility for the author and it would be hard, if not impossible, to enumerate the different ways in which it has been employed, by Shakespeare and others. For example, an idea might be introduced in the first quatrain, complicated in the second, further complicated in the third, and resolved in the final couplet – indeed, the couplet is almost always used as a resolution to the poem, though often in a surprising way.
E These, then, are the two standard forms of the sonnet in English poetry, but it should be recognized that poets rarely follow rules precisely and a number of other sonnet types have been developed, playing with the structural elements. Edmund Spenser, for example, more famous for his verse epic 'The Faerie Queene', invented a variation on the Shakespearean form by interlocking the rhyme schemes between the quatrains, thus: abab bcbc cdcd ee, while in the twentieth century Rupert Brooke reversed his sonnet, beginning with the couplet. John Milton, the seventeenth-century poet, was unsatisfied with the fourteen-line format and wrote a number of 'Caudate' sonnets, or sonnets with the regular fourteen lines (on the Petrarchan model) with a 'coda' or 'tail' of a further six lines. A similar notion informs George Meredith's sonnet sequence 'Modern Love', where most sonnets in the cycle have sixteen lines.
F Perhaps the most radical of innovators, however, has been Gerard Manley Hopkins, who developed what he called the 'Curtal' sonnet. This form varies the length of the poem, reducing it in effect to eleven and a half lines, the rhyme scheme and the number of feet per line. Modulating the Petrarchan form, instead of two quatrains in the octave, he has two tercets rhyming abc abc, and in place of the sestet he has four and a half lines, with a rhyme scheme dcbdc. As if this is not enough, the tercets are no longer in iambic pentameter, but have six stresses instead of five, as does the final quatrain, with the exception of the last line, which has three. Many critics, however, are sceptical as to whether such a major variation can indeed be classified as a sonnet, but as verse forms and structures become freer, and poets less satisfied with convention, it is likely that even more experimental forms will out.
Write the appropriate numbers (i-xiii) in boxes 28-32 on your answer sheet.
i Octave develops sestet
ii The Faerie Queene and Modern Love
iii The origins of the sonnet
iv The Shakespearean sonnet form
v The structure of the Petrarchan sonnet form
vi A real sonnet?
vii Rhyme scheme provides structure developing themes and ideas
viii Dissatisfaction with format
xi The Sicilian sonneteers
x Howard v. Shakespeare
xi Wordsworth's sonnet form
xii Future breaks with convention
xiii The sonnet form: variations and additions
Example Paragraph A iii
33 Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder and Henry Howard were …………………………………. .
34 It was in the third decade of the thirteenth century that the …………………………………. was introduced.
35 Among poets of the Italian Renaissance …………………………………. was considered to be the better sonneteer.
36 The Petrarchan sonnet form consists of …………………………………. .
37 In comparison with the octave, the rhyming scheme of the sestet is …………………………………. varied.
Choose the correct letters A-D and write them in boxes 38-40 on your answer sheet.
38 According to Charles Gayley,
A the octave is longer than the sestet.
B the octave develops themes and ideas.
C the sestet provides answers and solutions.
D the sestet demonstrates a twofold division.
39 The Shakespearean sonnet is
A an indifferent development.
B more developed than the Petrarchan sonnet.
C more flexible than the Petrarchan sonnet.
D enumerated in different ways.
40 According to the passage, whose sonnet types are similar?
A Spenser and Brooke
B Brooke and Milton
C Hopkins and Spenser
D Milton and Meredith
6. bring success
7. insecure/ jealous
8. block
9. companies and enterprises
10. cooperation and contacts
11. academic world
12. stereotypical academic
14. homo sapiens
17. viii
18. xi
19. vi
22. vii
30. iv
31. xiii
33. contemporaries
34. sonnet/ little song
35. petrarch
36. fourteen lines
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The N-ICE Trial will determine whether this potential to reduce craving for methamphetamine can translate into a meaningful reduction in methamphetamine use.
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A team of Malaysian experts is on its way to Maldives to inspect the debris found by the islanders to determine if the objects have any connection to the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
The Malaysian investigators will conduct a preliminary inspection to verify the items, which washed up ashore in the archipelago, but authorities have advised caution against speculation.
"We will be despatching a team to the Maldives to view the debris as well as conduct preliminary verification of the debris. Once it is determined to be aircraft debris, discussions will be held to determine next steps in terms of the process of analysis," said Malaysia's Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai.
The statement from the ministry's office added: "At this stage, it is highly premature to speculate on whether this debris is in any way connected to MH370."
"Undue speculation will only stress the families and loved ones (of those on board MH370) who are anxiously awaiting news on this matter."
The Maldivian government decided to join the ongoing multinational search operation for the wreckage of the missing Malaysian airliner after some plane debris washed up ashore on its islands.
The biggest of the debris was an eight by two feet long panel, which reached the shores a few weeks earlier, is also thought to have been discovered.
Local reports have attempted to play down the latest sightings and said some of the materials are likely to have been used in construction of resorts.
Maldivian authorities are working closely with their Malaysian counterparts in handling the sightings. The search for the elusive passenger jet was intensified after the discovery of a flaperon in the French Indian Ocean territory of Reunion Island.
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Q: ManagementEventWatcher есть метод Dispose(), можно ли сделать класс, где он находится IDisposable? Есть следующий код:
 public class CustomMEW : IDisposable
{
    private  ManagementEventWatcher _managementEventWatcher;

    private bool _disposed;
    public CustomMEW(EventArrivedEventHandler handler)
    {
        _managementEventWatcher =
            new ManagementEventWatcher(new WqlEventQuery("some query"));

        _managementEventWatcher.EventArrived += handler;
    }

    ~CustomMEW()
    {
         Dispose(false);
    }

    public void Stop()
    {
        _managementEventWatcher.Stop();
    }

    public void Start()
    {
        _managementEventWatcher.Start();
    }

    public void Dispose()
    {
        Dispose(true);
        GC.SuppressFinalize(this);
    }

    protected virtual void Dispose(bool disposing)
    {
        if (_disposed)
            return;

        if (disposing)
        {
            if (_managementEventWatcher != null)
            {
                _managementEventWatcher.Dispose();
                _managementEventWatcher = null;
            }

            _disposed = true;
        }
    }

Нужно ли так реализовывать Dispose для класса, даже если ManagementEventWatcher не имплементирует IDisposable?

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Нужно ли так реализовывать Dispose для класса, даже если
  ManagementEventWatcher не имплементирует IDisposable?

Нужно. ManagementEventWatcher на самом деле имплементирует IDisposable: он наследуется от Component, который, в свою очередь, имплементирует IDisposable.
И еще одно дополнение: финализатор вам не нужен, поскольку в классе нет неуправляемых ресурсов. Если они будут в наследниках, то наследники должны будут сами определять финализатор. Если же вы не планируете создавать наследников вашего класса, то реализацию IDisposable можно упростить. В таком случае вызовы GC.SuppressFinalize(this);, а также protected virtual метода, вам не нужны.
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This week I shall highlight some kid friendly lunch box ideas.
When I run out of ideas, my kids are a great source of ideas. In this digital age, kids are so aware of possibilities and ideas mostly gathered from social media. So inspiration for this recipe is my little one.
I asked her what she new thing she would like to see in her lunch box and she suddenly jumped up and said if I could make Zoodles. I told her that we were yet to invest in the Spiralizer but I could make them as ribbons. She loved the idea and was willing to give it a shot.
My older one was a little skeptical as she doesn't like to experiment in her lunch box. She would first try it at home. If she likes, then the recipe is approved for lunch box. But thanks to the tons of recipes on her social media feed, she grudgingly agreed to experiment this for her lunch box.
I just seasoned based on what my kids like. Please feel free to play around with seasonings for a variation. I found making ribbons was very easy. It took me about 5 minutes for the 2 medium zucchini I used.
For ease of use I sliced them into half vertically. Sprinkle some salt and leave it in a colander for a few minutes.
In a heated pan, add oil and saute grated garlic until translucent. Sprinkle lime zest, pepper, lime juice and add the zucchini ribbons.
Add the drained spaghetti, toss them well and let them absorb the flavors for a minute and remove from heat.
In a serving plate, arrange the spaghetti along with the zucchini ribbons, top it with the pasta sauce and grate some cheese. Serve warm.
Sending this to Srivalli's Kid's Delight event, guest hosted by Bhawana themed on Lunch Box Dishes In 30 Minutes.
I am glad your experiment with the ribbons worked out. Nice recipe for a lunch box.
What a fantastic idea ! Zucchini ribbons must have tasted awesome , must try this . Btw I have a spiralizer so let me try with that !
I have made zucchini noodles and loved it so kuch. This dish paired up with spaghetti looks fantastic Harini.
Those zucchini noodles looks incredible and one of the fabulous way to enjoy zucchini. Love the crunchiness.
I am still yet to wrap my head over the fact that kids give us so many options themselves..these ribbons look fantastic, very nicely done!
Wow, such a healthy and low carb pasta. Kids these days amaze us each and every moment.
I agree with your kid about not experimenting on a recipe for lunch box. This looks so delicious!
ribbons are a great alternative when you don't have a spiralizer and what a healthy lunch!


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If the Sunset Inn looks familiar to you, it may be because it has been the subject of many renown artists who have painted the building. Most famous is the painting by Edward Hopper titled "Rooms for Tourists" painted in 1945 and exhibited in the Yale University Art Gallery. According to local historians the house was used in World War II as a military hospital for soldiers returning from battle. The newer part of the house began as stand alone cottages and were rented to seasonal fishermen during the summer months. The house as it is structured today was completed sometime in the late 1940's to early 1950's
The Sunset Inn has 3 sundecks a back patio area and a back yard. The house was originally built in 1860 and additional sections were added in the early 1940's. Rooms in the original part of the house are larger and have more of the old world charm. Rooms in the additional structure are somewhat smaller and more modern in design and tend to be smaller. Rooms on the third floor (Shared Bath area) are basic and are available for the thrifty travelers. Smoking is not allowed in or around the house or on sundecks and back patio. There is an area in the back yard where cigarette smoking is allowed. No cigar or pipe smoking is allowed. We offer a pet free environment for our guest so no animals are allowed on the property at any time.
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Why are we back to not using the Halo twitch channel that's going to seriously hurt viewership..all events should be on that channel even if they aren't HCS events.
Also are we still having pool play on Friday because I really hope so nobody wants to watch no name open bracket teams play when we could be seeing top teams playing.
At this point with Halo Esports being more irrelevant than it almost ever has been (pre Halo 4 / AGL comparable), streaming on the Halo Channel really doesn't matter at this very second. This concept changes when the franchise actually has generated substantial interest (this will be whenever they release a brand new game title) paired with an official league backed by the publisher - that's when you want to be on the official twitch outlet (IMO).
Building your own channels is important, but it's always a process.
So i tried to play halo 5 forge on pc... Not even including all the problems with the port itself, sprint just does not work well on pc. Hope they notice that for infinite.
Hope that sprint isn't in Infinite so it's a non issue.
And the Halo channel could host the main stream for the event.
Its actually pretty interesting looking at top PC fps games. Most if not all of them sprint isnt a thing or it is a small thing like a specific character trait in overwatch.
I don't think the fact there are more Sprint games detracts from the fact that non-Sprint shooters can be and are currently successful at the top end of gaming / esports.
New HCS Invitational announced for Austin, Texas, March 15-17. Top 6 teams from UGC STL will be flown out.
Also announced that H3 will be played at Dreamhack Dallas at the end of May.
So an HCS invitational on Match 15th, and a Halo 3 4v4 at Dreamhack Dallas on May 31st. Plus the possibility of competitive CE and H2 tournaments on top of that. Merry belated Christmas boys.
Glad you're as hyped as we are. To clarify that section - the mention of other Halo titles is in the context of show matches at the HCS Invitational.
Got upset that the first big Halo event in Texas since I've become a completely independent adult was an invitational, then saw that there's an open event in Texas a couple of months later and got excited, then realized that I have a wedding to go to on the weekend of Dreamhack Dallas and got a bit bummed again. Well, I'll still try my best to get that March weekend off (it'll be a busy weekend at work, hopefully our staffing will be in a good place) and go to Austin to spectate. Thanks for coming down, 343!
If we can get more Grassroots events later on to round out the 343 events this could build us a pretty good competitive community foundation to continue to grow on, especially if multiple Halo games get tournaments.
Gandhi v T2 1v1 BRs on Midship confirmed?
Yooo Dallas let's goooo. Who's gaming?
This is what ive been waiting for. Lets go.
Chances we get other Halo tournaments for CE/H2? Even alongside H3 would be sweet.
Well, this sort of answers my worries I had about the whole thing, would personally like to see more TO's getting into the program, but that might be an "if you build it, they will come" sort of thing.
Always a chance - up to the Grassroots partners really. I think it's likely H3 will remain the main focus for MCC tournaments for this year with potential for side tournaments in other games.
I would kill for an east coast event. Seems like most open events (CoD, Halo) these days are central and west coast.


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The Anglican church and poverty in Tanzania : a review of development programmes in the diocese of Morogoro.
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Chinyong'ole, Johnson J.
Tanzania is one of the poorest countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Since independence Tanzania has implemented different development policies, but the gap between the rich and the poor has increased despite the government's and NGOs' efforts of development programmes for poverty reduction being implemented. This research has analysed the approach of the Anglican Church to development programmes for poverty reduction in the Diocese of Morogoro. It has defined poverty as a lack access to resources, together with a lack of power, dignity and vocation. Because of this challenge of poverty, the Church has been involved in community development programmes for poverty reduction. These programmes have sought to empower the poor, offering dignity and enabling them to realise their God-given vocations in their communities. The aim of these programmes is to improve the living standard of poor people and to raise their social and economic welfare regardless of their religious beliefs. The research has identified the two main weaknesses in these church programmes as (1) a lack of a theoretical vision, and (2) a lack of strategic vision. Because of the first weakness it has consolidated a theoretical vision for development programmes focusing on theology of development, the definition of development and community development, and Asset Based Community Development as an approach to community development in connection with Ujamaa, and particularly Kujitegemea. In tackling the second weakness it has consolidated a strategic vision for the diocese making use of such as PRA/PLA, ADPs to take forward the theoretical vision for development programmes in the diocese of Morogoro. The thesis concludes by recommending that the relevant diocesan leaders engage with this research and proposals, so as to provide a way forward.
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It def the place with the most delicious options!
Great post! We made the mistake of visiting Reading Market on a Saturday at lunchtime, and it was PACKED! We still enjoyed a meal there but would enjoy going back some other time to peruse the place a little slower when it's not quite as busy.
I would recommend going when the market first opens, definitely a lot easier to explore the place without being packed!
I absolutely LOVE markets like this and I have visited a number of them around Europe and in the States. Looks like a great place and I would love to come back to Philadelphia one day - this would definitely be on my list!
I love a good day at the markets and would totally go there just for that canoli and them cookies! Im a sweet tooth as you can probably tell haha! Thanks for sharing!


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I have been in the sales industry for 22 years. I decided on a change from one position and went to work in a place that sells farming and mower supplies. I had a customer come in to work chasing a part for a ride on lawn mower and I had to look it up using schematics. I had never done anything like it before and I could not believe how much I enjoyed it. From that day I have been in the sales/parts industry and grown to where I am today.
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AMD Beema/Mullins Architecture & Performance Preview
by Anand Lal Shimpi on April 29, 2014 12:00 AM EST
Beema
Introduction New Turbo Boost, The Lineup & TrustZone The Discovery Tablet & Performance Final Words
The Discovery Tablet
AMD is in a difficult position these days. Traditionally it was the cheaper alternative to Intel, but with Bay Trail Intel made a serious push into segments where OEMs would traditionally use lower cost AMD silicon. In an attempt to be more than a lower cost Intel alternative, AMD is throwing its hat into the form factor reference design race and offering OEMs an example of a full, ideal, high performance implementation of its silicon. One such example is AMD's Discovery Tablet, an 11.6-inch 1080p Windows 8.1 tablet design that features AMD's highest end A10 Micro-6700T Mullins silicon. The tablet is a bit larger and heavier than I'd like. If AMD is going to build a reference platform I'd prefer it to be a form factor I'd actually use, which in a tablet is going to be something smaller than 11.6-inches. If you are trying to cover both tablet and 2-in-1 form factors however, the Discovery Tablet makes sense.
I was allowed to spend a few hours benchmarking AMD's Discovery Tablet. Unfortunately the device wasn't instrumented for power testing, nor was there enough time to run any battery life tests on it, so the usefulness of these numbers is limited. We already know that AMD's idle power isn't as good as smartphone silicon, but for some of these value Windows 8.1 devices it may still be good enough.
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Tablet JS/Web Browser Tests
We'll start with our usual set of JavaScript tests. Here we see AMD's A10 Micro-6700T outperform everything on the list. Whether we're talking about Bay Trail or Apple's A7, the 6700T pulls ahead by a decent margin. Once again the big question is how much power is being drawn to deliver this performance. Unlike Intel's Bay Trail preview, AMD didn't have any instrumented Discovery tablets setup for us to monitor power consumption. I suspect AMD's power consumption is competitive, but my guess is it isn't similarly class leading.
CPU Performance
For these next tests I turned to some of our more traditional Windows PC benchmarks. I looked at Cinebench 11.5 to get an idea for how single and multithreaded performance have changed since last year.
Looking at single threaded performance we immediately see the benefits of AMD's new boosting capabilities. The Puma+ cores are 35% faster than Intel's Silvermont cores, and can deliver nearly 80% of the performance of AMD's Piledriver cores found in Trinity. I threw some Llano results in here as well - Mullins offers around 85% of the performance of Llano.
Multithreaded performance is pretty evenly matched between Bay Trail and Mullins here. Note that Mullins manages to deliver very similar performance to Kabini, despite coming in at substantially less power. The comparison to Brazos (E-350) is laughable, Mullins is substantially faster.
PCMark 7 gives us a better look at the overall performance of the Discovery tablet hardware. Here we do see it lose ground to the Kabini notebook (A4-5000) as well as the Bay Trail devices. It's unclear to me if we are seeing the thermal limits of the hardware (this is a longer test) or if there are other elements at work here (e.g. storage performance limits).
GPU Performance
We don't actually have any Bay Trail devices in our Laptop 2013 bench, they are all in our Tablet 2013 category, which unfortunately uses different benchmarks. To make a long story short, we have Bay Trail vs. Kabini data, and Kabini vs. Mullins data. Thankfully the comparison between Bay Trail and Mullins is pretty easy to make.
AMD's 4.5W TDP A10 Micro-6700T delivers roughly the same GPU performance as a 15W A4-5000. The A4-5000 also ends up being anywhere from 50% to over 2x the speed of Bay Trail when it comes to GPU performance, so you can expect Mullins to hold roughly the same advantage.
Compared to the old 35W Trinity, Mullins still has a ways to go. Trinity delivers roughly 2x the performance of Mullins, although at nearly 10x the TDP.
New Turbo Boost, The Lineup & TrustZone Final Words Introduction New Turbo Boost, The Lineup & TrustZone The Discovery Tablet & Performance Final Words
superunknown98 - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - link
Although I don't think it would happen, or at least be publicly announced, Microsoft could use these new cores in Xbox One but could only enable turbo for the two cores that run the virtualization and Xbox OS. They would also benefit from the reduced TDP, which is something that eventually happens at some point anyway.
lmcd - Thursday, May 1, 2014 - link
Now that comment on the OS and virtualization cores was quite interesting. I now thing that a Puma-edition is likely (though I think a GPU switch-up is more likely if more efficient GCN variants occur.
MikeMurphy - Monday, May 26, 2014 - link
No sense revising an entire chip to save a few watts of power. They might revise it later provided that substantial power savings are attainable, otherwise will implement the usual die shrinks. Minor performance increases shouldn't be ruled out although focus will be on power reduction while maintaining similar performance.
Rockmandash12 - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - link
And this is what happens when AMD gets into gear and makes a new architecture. Real improvement that's competitive with rivals. Common.... new Desktop flagship architecture that's faster and more efficient? please?
Samus - Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - link
This is pretty impressive. And honestly, out of nowhere. They all the sudden have an amazing tablet/uSFF SoC.
silverblue - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - link
Didn't Kaveri launch with a fully enabled PSP as well?
Judging by the performance story thus far, I think it will put to bed the calls for cat cores to replace AMD's higher powered offerings. Yes, we're past K8 performance levels now, but Llano and Trinity (let alone Richland/Kaveri) still have it beat. You'd need some serious clock speeds to get decent performance and it's the wrong silicon for that.
I was disappointed to see that it's practically the same uarch as Jaguar, meaning we're still going to have a single channel memory controller, however the performance and power improvements are substantial, and the memory controller has been improved anyway which should reduce the need for said controller.
ET - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - link
I think it's hard to draw conclusions of core performance when the RAM is a limitation. It's entirely possible that these cores are still pretty far from the big cores, but on the other hand it's possible that more bandwidth could up performance by quite a few percent.
ssnitrousoxide - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - link
AMD has always done some impressive work to squeeze every bit of performance from an inferior node. How they managed to improve energy efficiency so much is beyond me.
mfoley93 - Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - link
It seems that most of the power reduction is at the manufacturing level; maybe it's more accurate to engineering tolerances or perhaps a more pure silicon, either way I don't think TSMC will be telling us what it is. The rest comes from eliminating circuitry that provides some more flexibility to OEMs, something nVIDIA has been doing for a couple years now, and while it doesn't really
count, it's something Apple does very well.
yannigr - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - link
Any idea if Beema will be compatible with existing AM1 motherboards?
(with only a BIOS update of course)


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Social Media Success Stories from Sri Lanka?
Few weeks back, @Chamara posted a Facebook status asking for 'Social Media Success Stories' from Sri Lanka. My instantaneous response (which I posted as a comment) was 'it depends'.
'Success' is a relative word, as it depends on how you define your desired outcomes. What brand 'A' expects to see as social media results may totally be different from what the brand 'B' defines as success. Without knowing what you want to achieve from your social media campaign, it is impossible to define whether your campaign had been successful or not.
Unfortunately, in Sri Lanka most social media marketing campaigns start off with no proper objective in mind. Let me guess how you started your social media efforts! A top executive in your company read something online about the 'Facebook phoenomena' and told his immediate subordinates (the middle managers), "Hey, Facebook is becoming really cool. Let's do something there".
The middle managers (who are most of the time middle aged as well, and are not really fans of Facebook), will turn to the IT manager of the company and ask 'Errrr.... why don't you look into this? After all, it's something to do with the Internet, so why don't you give it a try?". The IT manager walks into his department, and picks up the guy who he most frequently noted browsing Facebook while at work (a junior IT executive, in most of the cases).
From that point onwards, that guy will be in charge of the entire social media presence of the brand. This is how, most of the Facebook pages of local brands ends up in the hands of the IT department, instead of the marketing or corporate communications department where it should ideally belongs.
Sadly enough, this is the true status of how Social Media Marketing is done in Sri Lanka. May be this is not a problem unique only to Sri Lanka, as there is no proper set of commonly agreed global standards for managing social media. As a result, most companies blindly run after the 'likes' and 'followers' count on Facebook and Twitter as measures of 'success'. This false sense of success, paves the way for publishing false case studies as 'success stories'.
A true success story should clearly answer the question 'how social media helped to solve a business problem for your company, or how it helped to take your brand to a different level?'. A true succes story should have a clear set of defined social media goals in the begining, and sound evidence to show that, you have achieved those goals. It may need not to be a huge achievement but the most important thing is, there need to be a positive 'impact' from the social media campaign, on your business. In other words, the 'status quo' of your business should be different when you compare 'before' and 'after' the social media campaign.
Now, back to @Chamara's question "are there any Social Media Success stories in Sri Lanka?". @Udara said, 'yes' and we are eagerly awaiting his story to be published :-). I've done a video blog sometime back (with poor audio quality, I know!) about our friendly neighbor Coco Veranda's social media success. Facebook has published this case study, about "Gonuts With Donuts" as one of the best Sri Lankan success stories with Facebook marketing. These are only a few published, Sri Lankan success stories on Social Media. I'm sure that, there are many more SME sector companies like Coco and Gonuts, who are having their own story to tell. Do you have a story? Tell us, we'd love to hear!
Hi Amitha, Super Post and Very True . it is indeed difficult to find social media success stories in Sri Lanka. As you said correctly any brands are chasing after likes , followers and circles ( in google plus) to gain more attention and the brands with the most likes, followers and circles always seem to be end up on top.
Somehow i feel that it is not a bad thing since in social media that is how you can show the results , that is how you get customers to visit your brand page and check it out. ( it is the mindset of the customer and as a brand u need to target their mindset to get their attention).
But to show be a "Successful" Brand in social media, you need to check the offline behaviors of the customer too. How many are buying the actual product and using it? is that particular brands sales rising due to its social media campaign ? those questions need to be answered too. Seems like the example you have given " Go nuts " are getting both those things correct. That is how you can call them a successful brand who succeeds in social media.
Sadly, many doesn't seem to understand theory and just stick to the likes and the followers and say to the rest that they are successful. I guess it is important to educate them about the real meaning of social media and how to use it more tactically in order to be a successful brand.
Yes, educating the market is the key to solving this issue. The problem is, we Sri Lankans are very reluctant to do detailed research and studies, before executing something. We always do things randomly. How many of our brand managers are open to learn these things? How many of our agencies are willing to think long-term, rather than focusing on short-term like counts?
If this continue like this, Social Media in Sri Lanka will face the same fate as what happened to web development in Sri Lanka. People who barely know how to set up a web page, went to clients and charged big money to do a simple website. In few months, client realize the website doesn't serve any purpose and they concluded "having a website is useless".
Same thing will happen, if this madness for attracting more 'likes' continue like this.
What's so cool about the page? How do you conclude it's a 'success story'? How good does Rainco do on other social platforms?
But I believe, Dialog may have a bigger story to tell as a 'success story', if at all if the company is willing to publish it. It may be a story about how the company reversed some negative sentiments about the company published by bloggers, forum posters, Tweeps, etc by using Social Media as a platform. How the brand managed to increase the "likeability" (rather than the 'likes') among social media users in SL etc.


Tarmo attempts to sneak up behind the ruffian, but the man spies him!
[roll=15] .....and cleaves him in two!
Tarmo and Thorhall search the bodies...Tarmo also tracks down the wounded man he first encounter. The man died of his injuries.
All of the men are poorly dressed. They look as if they've been living in the wild for some time. You believe they might be scavengers, subsisting on the edges of civilization, looking for any food they can get. No doubt, both Tarmo and Thorhall would've gone into their stewpots.
The only valuable item is a standard sword. It has a "W" stamped on the blade. It does not appear to be well made, but may fetch a few silver pieces in the town.
"Well met, barbarian, I am Tarmo. I am not sure my help was needed, you wield that sword with skill." Tarmo looks up at the giant man as he speaks, something he is not used to, being taller than most.
He searches the bodies and tries to recover his arrows before fetching his horse. He examines the ruffian's sword, and deciding he cannot make use of it, hands it to Thorhall.
"I am headed to Wickersham to sell these grouse, if we travel together we shall have no more trouble this day, of that I am sure."
Tarmo has no trouble finding the two arrows he shot, for both are stuck in the bodies of his foes. Unfortunately, the shaft of one arrow is cracked. Nevertheless, he retrieves the iron arrowhead for the new arrow he will make.
Thorhall looks around him, his horse seems to have run off during the ambush!
Alexander holds his breath to not miss a single word being said. Does it sound like Kellan has wicked intentions? Is he speaking in a threatening way? If Alexander senses ill motive, he will quietly reach for his dagger, kept on him at all times, and get ready to jump from his bed and overpower the wizard's apprentice.
Milton's croaking voice begins to repeat the urgent demands of Kellan, "...must bring you enchanted items....defense of Wickersham...safety of the townspeople..."
The Rana then coughs loudly and from your half closed eyes you see him shaking his head and mumble, "No...I have nothing to give your master."
Kellan abruptly stops, stands up gathering his robes and swiftly retreats from the room.
Milton's pissed and looses two arrows at the apprentice, looking to shoot his legs out so he can't run anymore (the arrow version of the flat of the blade, I suppose).
greyarea wrote: Milton's pissed and looses two arrows at the apprentice, looking to shoot his legs out so he can't run anymore (the arrow version of the flat of the blade, I suppose).
Milton fumbles around in the hospital infirmary looking for his weapons...apparently Claire has moved his weapons to a safer location. She has even taken your clothes to have them properly laundered.
By the time Milton finds something (a chamber pot) to heave at the retreating figure, he has gone through the doorway...too bad!
If you wish to chase him down, please let me know your plans.
"Greetings archer. I appreciate the help. As payment I will split whatever coin I get from this bandits sword with you."
Thorhall looks around to see if he can spot his horse somewhere in the distance.
"It appears my horse has left me. I would gladly accompany you into town. I fear that one of the cowards got past my armor with his club and I feel the pain still. I may not be as effective in battle should we come across more of those bandits."
Thorhall wipes the blood off his sword on the upper half of the severed bandit and then sheathes his blade.
Thorhall reasons that his horse shouldn't be too far, having run off during the fight. It takes but a short walk up the road to find the horse nibbling on some vegetation.
Grabbing the reins, the giant man swings himself up onto his mount. Tarmo joins him in the ride back to Wickersham.
A farmer stops by the side of the road as they near the town. He looks at the horses both men ride and calls some of the other field hands.
Tarmo had been to Wickersham in the past and knows that in this part of Cormandy horses are very scarce and a prized item to hold onto.
The walls of the town of Wickersham loom ahead. The castle with its high battlements look mighty, yet on closer inspection, the whole of the town seems crumbling and broken.


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Mohamadou Lamin Hydara ist ein gambischer Politiker.

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Lamin Hydara trat bei der Wahl zum Parlament 2012 als Kandidat der Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction (APRC) im Wahlkreis Jarra Central in der Mansa Konko Administrative Area an. Da es von der Opposition keinen Gegenkandidaten gab, konnte er den Wahlkreis für sich gewinnen. Zu der Wahl zum Parlament 2017 trat Hydara nicht als Kandidat an.

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Mitglied der National Assembly (Gambia)
Politiker (21. Jahrhundert)
Mitglied der Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction
Person (Lower River Region)
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Geboren im 20. Jahrhundert
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Arsenal and German sides to fight over £7m bargain
Date: 26th January 2017 at 6:00pm
Written by: David Tully
Sport Bild (via Ligainsider.de) are reporting that Bayer Leverkusen and Arsenal are lining up bids for former Gunner Serge Gnabry.
The Werder Bremen winger only left the Emirates last summer to return to Germany but Arsene Wenger only reluctantly allowed the 21-year-old to leave after the player opted to switch clubs to get more first-team football.
His performances for Werder Bremen and for Germany however, could mean that Wenger is keen to re-sign the player to become a regular starter for the Gunners. In 16 matches this season, Gnabry has scored seven goals and provided one assist.
The performances have also led to interest from Bayern Munich. Bild say they have it on good authority that Gnabry has a clause in his contract that would allow him to leave for just €8 million (just under £7 million), and that Bayern are aware that they can get the German international on the cheap.
Whether Gnabry would be interested in a return to England after only recently leaving, it remains to be seen.


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ASIAN AMERIAN VOTERS SUPPORT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BUT UNDECIDED ON CALIFORNIA'S PROP 16
by Sunita Sohrabji | Sep 24, 2020 | Politics
From left to right: Vincent Pan, Executive Director, Chinese for Affirmative Action, a community based social justice organization in San Francisco; Eva Paterson, President and Founder of The Equal Justice Society, a national legal organization focused on civil rights and anti-discrimination; Thomas Saenz, President and Genral Counsel of Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
By SUNITA SOHRABJI/EMS Contributing Editor
Despite overwhelming support for affirmative action, a large percentage of Asian Americans in California remain undecided on Proposition 16, a Nov. 3 ballot measure that would reinstate affirmative action in education, government hiring, and public contracting.
The measure is sputtering with voters in the state: a poll released Sept. 16 by the Public Policy Institute of California found that only 31 percent of California voters said they would vote for the measure, while 47 percent said they were against it. 22 percent remained undecided.
62 percent of Asian American voters in California support affirmative action, according to an AAPI Data survey released Sept. 15. Asian Indians and Vietnamese Americans overwhelmingly supported affirmative action, while more than half of Chinese, Japanese and Korean Americans also supported the concept.
But, when asked how they would vote on Prop. 16 this November, more than one third of Asian American voters in California said they were undecided, according to the AAPI Data survey. The largest group of undecideds were Vietnamese Americans: more than half of those surveyed said they did not know how the would vote.
Eight percent of all Asian Americans surveyed said they did not know about the measure.
Prop. 16 enjoys the highest amount of support from Asian Indians: 58 percent said they would vote for the ballot measure. Only one-third of Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese voters said they would vote for the measure; 38 percent of Chinese Americans said they planned to vote against it.
If it passes, Prop. 16 would repeal the 1996 ballot measure Prop. 209, which banned the state from considering race, sex, and ethnicity in college admissions, and government hiring and contracts. Asian Americans have traditionally been against affirmative action used in college admissions, saying that the policy discriminates against students with greater levels of achievement. In February, a federal court judge ruled against a group of Asian American students who had been denied admission to Harvard. The group has appealed; analysts predict the case will eventually make its way to the Supreme Court, which has previously issued rulings on affirmative action.
Karthick Ramakrishnan, founder of AAPI Data, said the prospects for the measure's passage "don't look good." Ballot propositions in general are difficult, while the language of Prop. 16 makes it especially troublesome for voters to understand. "A massive voter education campaign over the next few weeks could make a difference," he said.
At a Sept. 18 briefing with reporters, organized by Ethnic Media Services, Eva Patterson, president and founder of the Equal Justice Society, concurred that the language of Prop. 16 was onerous for voters, and not the language she would have used. But since the ballot measure aims to repeal Prop. 209, which did not use the phrase affirmative action, writers of Prop. 16 were also stymied in how they could phrase their measure, she explained.
The Equal Justice Society has raised $15 million to support Prop. 16. Patterson said the organization will air television ads in October, and will also soon have digital ads out.
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Last year we learned that Warner Bros. was developing a new Matrix film. That news included rumors of Michael B. Jordan starring in the film. and that it would possibly focus on a young version of Morpheus. One thing that screenwriter Zak Penn (Ready Player One) previously made clear is that this is not a reboot. This will be more of a revival.
During an interview with ScreenRant, Zak Penn offered an update on The Matrix, which is a passion project for him. He also once again explains that the movie will not be a reboot and teases the possibility of an expanded universe.
"I've been working on Matrix right now. Which is in…a phase right now. That's a franchise I desperately want to see brought back and, I can't go in to too much detail, but I've been harassing Warner Bros. for years to try to get it going again so that's one thing I'm working on and I've been working on a bunch of other things too."
He then goes on to address the similarities between The Matrix and the OASIS in Ready Player One, and he also mentions the "brilliant ideas for universes."
"I think OASIS (the virtual space in Ready Player One) is similar. Both the Matrix and OASIS are similar in that they are brilliant ideas for universes… When it came out about Matrix, people were like 'Oh no, there going to reboot Matrix' I was like, Why, I'm not insane. I mean, The Matrix is still one of my favorite…they'd re-release The Matrix and people would go see it."
The Matrix is such a huge universe and there are so many different ideas to play with in that universe. I like the idea of expanding on the universe that the Wachowskis set up. It'll be interesting to see what he has in mind, but I could see it being similar to what Lucasfilm has been doing with the Star Wars wars franchise as they are developing stories not only attached to the cornerstone of the franchise but also expanding and exploring different corners of the universe.
I'm curious to see what ends up happening with this. Whatever it turns out to be, I hope it's good! Also, I wouldn't mind seeing the return of Keanu Reeves as Neo.
What are your thoughts on this Matrix movie revival?


Students in the M.S. program emphasize one or more parts of the geographic discipline that are considered science because of their subject matter, or are using the scientific method, typically with quantitative techniques, to study geographic problems that might be approachable from more than one perspective.
Students specializing in the physical geography subfields or the geographical techniques typically pursue the M.S. degree, as do students focusing on the natural or social science aspects of environmental geography.
With regard to the M.S., the department has particular strengths in biogeography, geomorphology, climatology, meteorology, environmental geography, environmental planning, GIS, remote sensing, and cartography.
Thesis: The thesis requires coursework, mostly in the first year, culminating in the defense of the thesis proposal at the end of the second semester. Any remaining courses are taken in the second year along with research credit hours for completing the research and writing of the thesis. The thesis defense and the advisory committee's final approval of the thesis typically occur in the student's fourth semester.
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40 credit hours (minimum) consisting of at least 28 hours of coursework (count includes required courses) and 12 hours of thesis research; a maximum of two courses from outside the department may count toward the degree.
The M.S. degree in Geography prepares students who are emphasizing the physical geographic subfields, the scientific method, and/or the geographical techniques for professional positions in government, nonprofit organizations, or the private sector, or for further studies toward a Ph.D.


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Senior CBRE promotions build advantage for Pacific clients
Sublease deals herald success for Arndell Park industrial market
Secondary assets attracting offshore investment
Melbourne | 10 August 2016
The Melbourne industrial market is continuing to generate strong interest from local and overseas investors, according to the latest research from CBRE.
CBRE's Q2 2016 Industrial MarketView reveals the June quarter saw an increase over the March quarter of 76% across the Victorian market. A total of $500 million + transacted including 810-848 Koorait Creek Road in Altona North for $40 million, 26-38 Harcourt Road in Altona for $27.5 million and the Alex Fraser Portfolio for circa $44 million.
CBRE Regional Director, Industrial & Logistics - Capital Markets, Chris O'Brien said there are a number of larger assets on the market which are receiving interest from several offshore groups, with volumes forecast to increase over Q3.
"We are also seeing increased activity in secondary assets, which offer more attractive returns, notwithstanding banks tightening lending criteria," Mr O'Brien said.
Prime yields remain unchanged over the quarter, suggesting that they are nearing the peak of the cycle.
In the leasing market, activity across Victoria has been consistent with 2015, with the volume of YTD leasing transactions at a comparable level with 2015 and well above transaction volumes of 2014.
CBRE Victorian Director, Industrial & Logistics, Dean Hunt, said that just over 166,000sqm of leasing transactions was recorded in Q2, up 99% from Q1.
"The highest turnover has been in the 6,000 - 12,000 sqm category, with reasonable demand for 14,000+ sqm buildings, particularly in the western market," Mr Hunt said.
"Demand for serviced land allotments has been strong, impacting availability of suitable serviced land parcels. Significant un-serviced, and in some cases un-zoned land, exists within the urban growth boundary across the northern and western markets to manage future supply and demand."
According to the report, after two years of high levels of industrial supply, which has placed downward pressure on rents, 2016 will see a reduction in total new floorspace on the market.
"The pre-lease market continues to be aggressive, along with the reduction of historical vacancy, which are strong fundamentals for the leasing market. We have experienced a reduction in the volume of speculative developments, which is assisting in managing vacancy along with natural expiry. Of the current vacancy, the majority of the buildings (425,000 sqm) would be classified as secondary, with the average size vacancy being in the 6,000 – 10,000 sqm size range," Mr Hunt concluded.
CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBG), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company headquartered in Los Angeles, is the world's largest commercial real estate services and investment firm (based on 2015 revenue). The Company has more than 70,000 employees (excluding affiliates), and serves real estate investors and occupiers through more than 400 offices (excluding affiliates) worldwide. CBRE offers a broad range of integrated services, including facilities, transaction and project management; property management; investment management; appraisal and valuation; property leasing; strategic consulting; property sales; mortgage services and development services. Please visit our website at www.cbre.com.
Jane Stevenson


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I used to run a Donaldson air cleaner on my baja for the beach for many years and reallly happy with it.
Just completing a new baja build and wondering if anyone has good experience with other air cleaners that mount directly on the 34 pict carby for the beach. eg the louvered air cleaners (pictured below)? or other offroad air cleaners available in australia?
Stick with the Donaldson mate. Or run an airbox with a prefilter on the inlet.
The airbox I put on mine starts on page 27, about halfway down.
But I will be changing it back to a single out from the airbox and teeing off afterwards. I've been having some troubles with the airbox cracking where I plastic welded it.