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Location 403 N. Huron St., Cheboygan, MI 49721 Phone 231-627-5432 Hours Tue-Fri 9:30-12:00 pm
Cheboygan Area Arts Council
Home of the Opera House
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2020 Virtual Youth Arts Show
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October 21, 2019 November 11, 2019 operahousewebLeave a Comment on Homecoming For Madame Lyon
Homecoming For Madame Lyon
One of my favorite teachers was Madame Lyon, known to the rest of the world as Billy Lyon. She would click down the halls of old CHS in her heels and hose, looking entirely chic and tres francais. We only spoke French in the classroom and we all chose French names, mine Danielle, somehow devolved into Danielle De La Biere. Junior year, we ate only chocolate bars for lunch, not because they were good but because they paid for our French Club trip to Montreal.
Madame Lyon is returning to the Opera House, where she starred as the original Queen in "Once Upon a Mattress" 48 years ago. Other cast members from the 70s show are coming back including Ron Fought, Prince Dauntless the Drab, Nini Sherwood who played the bird, and Jeanette Bronson whose magic mirror mysteriously went up in smoke. Gerald Vilenski returns to Cheboygan to design sets after a 12 year hiatus. Midge Shaw is directing a Northland Players production for the first in five years.
"Once Upon a Mattress" was the first show Shaw directed for Northland Players 49 years ago. She is thrilled to do it again with new people, and at the same time bringing back some of the cast from the first play.
"It's more than a community," Shaw says. "Everybody gives up things to be in a show: family, work, free time. They bring joy when coming through the door. We meet people we would never know otherwise. Cast members spend four to six hours together almost every night for two months. This cast has people who have never acted on the stage, people who are acting regularly and some who are coming back after decades away. Each show forms its own unique family."
Cast and crew step up like family to help each other out. Joanie Reed took over the choreography when no one else could be found. JerryLou Kania interrupted a move to Florida to help the singers. Marshall Beck made a birdcage and Vince Lumetta made the bed.
"Once Upon a Mattress" is a spoof on the fairytale of "the Princess and the Pea." This cast, including an uncharacteristically silent Steve Brisson, is uproariously funny. You will need to see the play more than once because you will be laughing so hard you will miss some lines. Get tickets for two days!
Shaw is dedicating this show to all Northland Players over the years for all the love and energy they give to the community. And I can't wait to see Madame Lyon at the Opera House again.
Show dates are Oct. 24 to 27th. $15 adults, $11 children, $12 for Seniors on Sunday (no, that's not High School Seniors). Tickets are available at the Opera House 231-627-5841 or www.theoperahouse.org See you at the show!
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Initially there was going to be a different theme for the current rendition of Don't Enter. But seeing as I was supposed to be at the gym at the time of writing this entry – a plan that was foiled by a minor but lingering football injury – it seemed only appropriate to give you a few of my favourite albums to play while you're at the gym. Now I know there are people out there with very strict demands in regard to the tempo, timbre and whatnot of their gym soundtrack, but I just have one standard: if it makes me want to pump iron and spit fire, it is good.


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Q: Python app capturing with scaling monitor I'm trying to capture a window (in the example code I'll use firefox), I'm running 2 monitors the first one in 2736x1824 with 200% scaling and the second one in 1920x1080 with 100% scaling.
    from win32 import win32gui

    def enum_cb(hwnd, results):
       # CallBack function for enumeration
       winlist.append((hwnd, win32gui.GetWindowText(hwnd)))
    def get_screens():
        win32gui.EnumWindows(enum_cb, winlist)
        return [(hwnd, title) for hwnd, title in winlist if title]
    def get_screensbyname(screen_name):
       # Function who gets a screen by name
       winlist = get_screens()
       screens = [(hwnd, title) for hwnd, title in winlist if screen_name in title.lower()]
       while len(screens) <= 0:
           winlist = get_screens()
           screens = [(hwnd, title) for hwnd, title in winlist if screen_name in title.lower()]
       return screens
    winlist = []
    windows = get_screensbyname('firefox')
    window = windows[0][0]
    wRect = win32gui.GetWindowRect(window)
    cRect = win32gui.GetClientRect(window)
    print('GetWindowRect ', wRect)
    print('GetCLientRect ', cRect)

If the window is on the first screen it outputs
GetWindowRect (-7, -7, 1374, 878)
GetCLientRect (0, 0, 1368, 878)

If the window is on the second screen it outputs
GetWindowRect (2728, 345, 4664, 1401)
GetCLientRect (0, 0, 1920, 1048)

Now, to my understanding, it ignores the given scaling on the monitor. Since if I manually apply the scaling (using a calculator) the first output changes to
GetWindowRect (-14, -14, 2748, 1756)
GetCLientRect (0, 0, 2736, 1756)

How can I apply the scaling or the dpi awerness that is set on the monitor the window is on?
I need it to capture the inside area and stream it to a file or on the other screen

A: The solution is relatively simple add the following lines
import ctypes
ctypes.windll.shcore.SetProcessDpiAwareness(2)

It also works setting SetProcessDpiAwareness(1) don't know the difference between these two.
If anyone could explain it it would be nice.
NOTE: this answer will be set as solution tomorrow

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ILGA-Europe is the European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans & Intersex Association. It works for equality and human rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans & intersex (LGBTI) people at the European level.
ILGA-Europe is an international non-governmental umbrella organisation bringing together 408 organisations from 45 of the 49 countries in Europe. It was established as a separate region of ILGA and an independent legal entity in 1996.
ILGA-Europe advocates for human rights and equality for LGBTI people at the European level, before organisations such as the European Union (EU), the Council of Europe (CoE) and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
ILGA-Europe strengthens the European LGBTI movement by providing trainings and support to its member organisations and other LGBTI groups on lobbying, advocacy, fundraising, litigation, organisational development and communications.


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Production Partner ist ein zehnmal im Jahr erscheinendes, deutschsprachiges Fachmagazin für Veranstaltungstechnik. Es richtet sich seit seiner Erstausgabe im Jahr 1990 an Techniker in den Veranstaltungsfachrichtungen Beschallung, Lichttechnik, Bühnentechnik und Videotechnik. Production Partner entstand im MM Musik Media Verlag in Köln, der später mit weiter bestehender Niederlassung in Köln in der Ebner Media Group GmbH & Co. KG (Sitz in Ulm) aufging. Die aktuelle Verbreitung wird jeweils durch die Informationsgemeinschaft zur Feststellung der Verbreitung von Werbeträgern (IVW) geprüft und veröffentlicht.

Inhalte
Production Partner berichtet über die technische Planung und Realisation von Veranstaltungen, veröffentlicht Interviews mit den Planern und Technikern und führt unabhängige Produkttests durch. Im Mittelpunkt, insbesondere der Tests von Lautsprechern für Veranstaltungen und Großbeschallungen, steht die messtechnische Erfassung der Leistungsdaten, wie der maximal möglichen Pegel oder räumlichen Abstrahlcharakteristik. Im wachsenden Markt der veranstaltungsspezifischen Beleuchtungsindustrie beobachtet Production Partner den Markt und prüft Scheinwerfer, Lichtsteuerungen, Medienserver, Zuspielgeräte, Videotechnik, Zubehör uvm. auf deren Qualität und Einsatzmöglichkeiten.

Geschichte
Das ebenfalls bei Musik-Media erscheinende Magazin Gitarre & Bass (früher: Musiker) wurde 1989 um einen Sonderteil Licht & Ton erweitert, der mit den Redakteuren Detlef Hoepfner und Ebi Kothe ergänzend die Themen aus der Beschallungs- und Lichttechnik abdeckte. Das bis dahin im gleichen Verlag erscheinende dB Magazin für Studiotechnik wurde ab 1990 durch Production Partner unter der Leitung von Dr. Walter Wehrhan (Chefredaktion) und Detlef Hoepfner (Stellv. Chefredakteur) ersetzt und mit den Themen aus Licht & Ton ergänzt. 1999 wurde entsprechend der Marktentwicklung bei audiovisueller Medientechnik für Festinstallationen aus diesem neuen Themenkomplex zusätzlich die Schwesterzeitschrift Professional System entwickelt. Der Themenkomplex Event-Marketing wurde bereits ab 1996 in dem Titel Event Partner weitergeführt, der sich an Agenturen, Dienstleistungsunternehmen und Veranstalter richtet. Im März 2002 wurde das in der Verlagsgruppe Ebner Ulm erscheinende Audio Professional – Das Magazin für professionelle Audiotechnik ebenfalls in Production Partner integriert.

Ab 2006 gab es eine weitere thematische Fokussierung: Alle Themen aus der Tonstudio- und Aufnahmetechnik wurden an das ab 2006 erscheinende Magazin Sound & Recording übergeben, seitdem konzentriert sich Production Partner ausschließlich auf die Veranstaltungstechnik.

Zum 1. Februar 2018 übergab Dr. Walter Wehrhan die Chefredaktion an den langjährigen Online- und Print-Redakteur Marcel Courth. Seitdem bestand die Redaktion aus dem stellvertretenden Chefredakteur Detlef Hoepfner sowie der Redakteurin Lena Voss. Ab 2021 werden die Themenstränge Production Partner, Event Partner und Professional System unter der Chefredaktion von Detlef Hoepfner und Martina Courth geführt und gemeinsam mit der Dachmarke Leat (Eigenschreibweise: LEaT) für Weiterbildungs- und Eigenveranstaltungs-/Konferenzformate als "Unit Professional Technology & Live-Communication" von Marcel Courth innerhalb der Ebner Media Group verantwortet.

Medienfachzeitschrift (Deutschland)
Ersterscheinung 1990
Deutschsprachige Monatszeitschrift

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This is a Chakra Crystal Set for the Crown Chakra. It contains 4 stones in an organza pouch that can help you balance your Crown Chakra when used in crystal healing sessions, meditations or however you desire to use them.
The Crown Chakra is located at the top of the head. It's primary color is white or deep purple. This Chakra is associated with the transcendence of our limitations, whether they are personal or bound to space and time. It is where the paradox becomes norm, where seemingly opposites are one. The quality of awareness that comes with the crown chakra is universal, transcendent. As we are immersed in the energy of the crown chakra, we feel a state of blissful union with all that is, of spiritual ecstasy. This chakra allows access to the upmost clarity and enlightened wisdom. Some describe this chakra as the gateway to the cosmic self or the divine self, to universal consciousness. It's linked to the infinite, the universal.


Summary Adobe Flash Player before 9.0.280 and 10.x before 10.1.82.76, and Adobe AIR before 2.0.3, allows attackers to trick a user into (1) selecting a link or (2) completing a dialog, related to a "click-jacking" issue.
description An updated Adobe Flash Player package that fixes multiple security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 Extras. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. The flash-plugin package contains a Mozilla Firefox compatible Adobe Flash Player web browser plug-in. This update fixes multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player. These vulnerabilities are detailed on the Adobe security page APSB10-16, listed in the References section. Multiple security flaws were found in the way flash-plugin displayed certain SWF content. An attacker could use these flaws to create a specially crafted SWF file that would cause flash-plugin to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code when the victim loaded a page containing the specially crafted SWF content. (CVE-2010-0209, CVE-2010-2213, CVE-2010-2214, CVE-2010-2216) A clickjacking flaw was discovered in flash-plugin. A specially crafted SWF file could trick a user into unintentionally or mistakenly clicking a link or a dialog. (CVE-2010-2215) All users of Adobe Flash Player should install this updated package, which upgrades Flash Player to version 9.0.280.0.
description An updated Adobe Flash Player package that fixes multiple security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. The flash-plugin package contains a Mozilla Firefox compatible Adobe Flash Player web browser plug-in. This update fixes multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player. These vulnerabilities are detailed on the Adobe security page APSB10-16, listed in the References section. Multiple security flaws were found in the way flash-plugin displayed certain SWF content. An attacker could use these flaws to create a specially crafted SWF file that would cause flash-plugin to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code when the victim loaded a page containing the specially crafted SWF content. (CVE-2010-0209, CVE-2010-2213, CVE-2010-2214, CVE-2010-2216) A clickjacking flaw was discovered in flash-plugin. A specially crafted SWF file could trick a user into unintentionally or mistakenly clicking a link or a dialog. (CVE-2010-2215) All users of Adobe Flash Player should install this updated package, which upgrades Flash Player to version 10.1.82.76.
description Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team reports : Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Flash Player version 10.1.53.64 and earlier. These vulnerabilities could cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.
description The remote Windows host contains a version of Adobe Flash Player 9.x before 9.0.280 or 10.x before 10.1.82.76. Such versions are affected by multiple memory corruption issues and a click-jacking vulnerability.
description Updated acroread packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extras and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section. Adobe Reader allows users to view and print documents in Portable Document Format (PDF). This update fixes a vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This vulnerability is detailed on the Adobe security page APSB10-17, listed in the References section. A specially crafted PDF file could cause Adobe Reader to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Adobe Reader when opened. (CVE-2010-2862) Multiple security flaws were found in Adobe Flash Player embedded in Adobe Reader. These vulnerabilities are detailed on the Adobe security page APSB10-16, listed in the References section. A PDF file with embedded specially crafted SWF file could cause Adobe Reader to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code as the user running Adobe Reader when opened. (CVE-2010-0209, CVE-2010-2213, CVE-2010-2214, CVE-2010-2215, CVE-2010-2216) All Adobe Reader users should install these updated packages. They contain Adobe Reader version 9.3.4, which is not vulnerable to these issues. All running instances of Adobe Reader must be restarted for the update to take effect.
description The remote Windows host contains a version of Adobe AIR that is earlier than 2.0.3. Such versions are affected by multiple memory corruption issues and a click-jacking vulnerability.
description Adobe Flash Player before 9.0.280 and 10.x before 10.1.82.76, and Adobe AIR before 2.0.3, allows attackers to trick a user into (1) selecting a link or (2) completing a dialog, related to a "click-jacking" issue.


The Manor chair exudes style and grace. With an inviting domed seat and upholstered round chair back the added brass colour stud detail completes the look. Available in a classical grey linen with an antique grey washed oak leg this is the perfect chair to accompany a grand table or why not have it as an accent chair in a bedroom hallway or home study. Fully assembled. Sold in sets of two.
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Candor is essential to persuasion. A reader who doesn't trust you won't trust your argument. Nearly all legal writers sense the need for candor, but they deal with it in different ways. Some think they must include almost everything lest they be accused of hiding something. Though their concern is sound, their exhaustive approach may force the reader to wade through irrelevancies.
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The Users Guide can be viewed online at http://wec-sim.github.io/WEC-Sim/.

# How to edit and update the WEC-Sim Users Guide (for developers)
These instructions provide guidance on how to edit the WEC-Sim users-guide.

## Required packages
1. Python
1. Sphinx
  1. Install using ``pip install sphinx``
  1. Install the bibtex extension for sphinx using ``pip install sphinxcontrib-bibtex``
  1. Install the rtd theme for sphinx using ``pip install sphinx_rtd_theme``. You might have to manually move it to the ``sphinx/themes/`` directory.

## Edit WEC-Sim Users Guide
The users guide is developed using [Sphinx](http://sphinx-doc.org/). To edit or add to the users guide, modify source files located in the ``$WECSIM_SOURCE/doc/users-guide/source`` folder. If you add a new file, be sure to include it in the ``index.html`` file.

## Build the HTML users guide
in the ``$WECSIM_SOURCE/doc/users-guide/`` folder type ``make html`` from the command line.

## Update the WEC-Sim master branch
Insure your changes to the WEC-Sim Users Guide are saved by pushing them to the WEC-Sim GitHub Website
```
git add $WECSIM_SOURCE/doc/users-guide/source/*
git add $WECSIM_SOURCE/doc/users-guide/source/_static/*
git commit -m 'Descriptive commit message'
git push
```

Note that these commands will not push the HTML source to the WEC-Sim Online Users Guide. The procedure for how to do this is described in a later section.

## View the HTML users guide locally on your computer
After building the HTML users guide, you can view it on your computer by opening the ``$WECSIM_SOURCE/doc/users-guide/build/html/index.html`` file in a web browser.

## Update the documentation on the WEC-Sim Users Guide website
Unfortunately, this is a bit complicated. The general procedure is this.
1. **Check your WEC-Sim branch:** Insure you are in the WEC-Sim master branch by typing ``git status`` from within the $WECSIM_SOURCE folder.
1. **Build the WEC-Sim HTML Users Guide:** Rnun the following commands to make the HTML documentation on your system
```
cd $WECSIM_SOURCE/doc/users-guide
make html
```
1. **Push the documentation to gh-pages:** You must push the content in the  ``$WECSIM_SOURCE/doc/users-guide/build/html`` folder to the WEC-Sim GitHub gh-pages which is rendered on the WEC-Sim Users Guide website - http://wec-sim.github.io/WEC-Sim/. To do this you will make the ``$WECSIM_SOURCE/doc/users-guide/build/html`` folder a clone of the WEC-Sim gh-pages branch and push the html source code to gh-pages using the following steps:
  * Insure the `html` folder is listed in the `$WECSIM_SOURCE/doc/users-guide/build/.gitignore` file

  * Move to the `$WECSIM_SOURCE/doc/users-guide/build/html folder and clone the WEC-Sim gh-pages branch
  ```
  cd $WECSIM_SOURCE/doc/users-guide/build/html
  git clone --depth 1 -b gh-pages https://github.com/WEC-Sim/WEC-Sim.git
  ```
  This will create a folder called `WEC-Sim` in your `$WECSIM_SOURCE/doc/users-guide/build/html` directory that is a clone of gh-pages

  * Move the `$WECSIM_SOURCE/doc/users-guide/build/html/WEC-Sim/.git` and `$WECSIM_SOURCE/doc/users-guide/build/html/WEC-Sim/nojekyl` to the `$WECSIM_SOURCE/doc/users-guide/build/html` folder and then remove the `$WECSIM_SOURCE/doc/users-guide/build/html/WEC-Sim/` folder.
  ```
  cd $WECSIM_SOURCE/doc/users-guide/build/html
  mv WEC-Sim/.git ./
  mv WEC-Sim/.nojekyll ./
  rm -rf WEC-Sim/
  ```

  This effectively makes the html folder a clone of gh-pages.

1. Now that `$WECSIM_SOURCE/doc/users-guide/build/html` is a clone of gh-pages, you can update the WEC-Sim Users Guide website by performing the following commands:
```
cd $WECSIM_SOURCE/doc/users-guide/
make html
cd $WECSIM_SOURCE/doc/users-guide/build/html
git add -A
git commit -m 'Descriptive commit message'
git push
```

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Bring a pot of water to the boil. Add the whole wheat pasta and cook until al dente.
Heat a frying pan on a high heat and saute the onion and garlic until soft. Add the mushrooms and continue to saute. Add a dash of stock and stir to deglaze the pan. Add the vegetable stock and soy milk, then bring to the boil, stirring often. Add the cornstarch mixed in a little water and stir until thick. Add the asparagus and the nutritional yeast, simmer for a few minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste. Stir well, then serve with a sprinkle of fresh parsley on top.


Peter is now pursuing a portfolio of opportunities as an adviser and Board member. He is currently a Senior Consultant with Shinka Management, a group that advises on the application of Japanese productivity practices to clients in 26 countries.
Peter moved from executive life when he left Santos at the end of 2015. He held two key roles in the Senior Leadership Team at Santos first as Vice President Strategy and Corporate Development and finally as Vice President LNG Markets and Eastern Australia Commercial.
Prior to joining Santos in September 2010 Peter enjoyed a 24-year career with BP where he held senior management positions in Australia, Indonesia, Korea, Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi and the United Kingdom. Prior to joining Santos Peter was the President of North West Shelf Australia LNG, the LNG marketing company for the North West Shelf Venture.
Peter is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Australia Japan Business Co-operation Committee and the Australia Korea Business Council and a Board member of the Australia Japan Foundation. He previously held positions as a Board member of the Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association and the Australia China Council. He is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.


Home > News > Hot News > Gautham Menon – Arun Vijay film firmed up, will start soon!
After completing his web series Queen based on some episodes in the life of Jayalalithaa, Gautham Menon is set to start his next even though his two films in Enai Nokki Paayum Thotta and Dhruva Natchatiram are still held up. The director will be teaming up with Arun Vijay for an action thriller, with the actor undergoing a big physical transformation for the same.
Arun Vijay is fresh from the success of his Thadam, and is finishing off his portions for the action thriller Agni Siragugal. He is also about to start work on his other film Boxer, so it would be interesting to see how he spans out his call sheet for his packed slate.


Today I am pleased to announce the release of 123 Color Talking Coloring Book, version 1.3, a companion app to my top ranked math learning game for iPhone and iPod touch, KidCalc 7-in-1 Math Fun. 123 Color is a talking coloring book that teaches numbers, upper and lower case letters, shapes, and colors in English, Spanish, French and/or German as kids play.
In response to the most popular request by users, this third update to 123 Color Talking Coloring Book adds a gallery of drawings, displayed with cover-flow, just like the iPhone's and iPod touch's native iPod app uses to display album covers. This timely update to 123 Color also adds 10 new coloring book drawings including many for Easter, bringing the total number of drawings to 52.
123 Color is brought to you by the creator of KidCalc 7-in-1 Math Fun, the top selling math learning game which has been featured on Apple's What's Hot list and Apple's list of Apps for Valentines Day, and which is currently being feature on Apple's list of Apps for Kids.
123 Color not only engages and entertains children with beautiful artwork, fun sound effects, rich music and the challenge of painting now more than 50 pictures, but it also teaches language skills with the help of clear, crisp voice-overs by male and female adult native speakers of English, Spanish, German, and French. Parents can select the English, Spanish, German, or French alphabet to be displayed and spoken, and parents can opt for numbers to be spoken in up to two of the four languages included.
123 Color is also a powerful tool for introducing children to Spanish (or English) as a foreign language.
123 Color by KidCalc 1.1 is on sale now for $.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Education category.
123 Color is a coloring book with a unique twist – 123 Color teaches numbers, upper and lower case letters, shapes, and colors as kids play! 123 Color not only engages and entertains children with beautiful artwork, fun sound effects, rich music and a challenge to paint a picture, but it also teaches with the help of clear and crisp voice-overs in English, Spanish, or even English and Spanish together, spoken by male and female adult speakers speaking in their native language!
KidCalc's developer, Steve Glinberg, has created another app that like KidCalc perfectly balances entertainment value to capture and hold kids' attention with educational value. 123 Color excites and engages kids, it makes learning fun and easy, and it enables parents to feel great about the games their children want to play.


Update: A more current version of this article is available by visiting Java support in Google Chrome. macOS users please see Java support in Safari 12.
Java browser plug-in stalwarts know about Oracle's planned move to a plugin-free web. At least they should. Well, maybe they don't, which is what makes them stalwarts. Regardless, the Java browser plugin will essentially die when Oracle gives birth to JDK 9. It has become increasingly more difficult to access Java content in the browser year over year. No browser has pushed back against Java as hard as Google Chrome. In fact, the option to even enable Java in Chrome was nixed by Google in September 2015. Yet much Java content remains on the internet. Those who want to display it using the web's most popular web browser are at a loss. But not a complete loss. It is still possible to use Java in Chrome on Windows 10 with a free extension.
The IE Tab extension for Chrome is not only useful for displaying web pages with Java content, but also for Sharepoint, Silverlight and ActiveX content too. Until which time it becomes impossible to use these technologies, holdouts can still view Java content within the Chrome wrapper. IE Tab emulates Internet Explorer within a Chrome browser window. The extension uses the Internet Explorer rendering engine so you can view Java content. Caveat: IE Tab works on Windows only.
Launch Google Chrome. Next, visit the IE Tab page in the Chrome Web Store. Click the blue Add To Chrome button. A dialog will display asking you if you want to Add IE Tab, accompanied by a list of functions it can perform. Click the Add extension button.
Once installed, the IE Tab icon displays next to Chrome's address bar/omnibox. Click the icon to open an IE Tab. In the IE Tab, input the web address of the page that contains Java content. For example, run the Java detection applet on the Java.com site with Chrome using an IE Tab.
With Chrome but without IE Tab? Not so much.
For those who don't want to bother with adding an extension to Chrome, switch to another browser. Your choice on Windows 10 to view Java content is…(you guessed it) Internet Explorer.
Thank you for visiting Tech Help Knowledgebase to learn how to use Java in Chrome on Windows 10.


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With ever increasing regulatory pressure financial institutions are required to carefully monitor their liquidity risk. This Master thesis focuses on asserting the appropriateness of time series models for forecasting deposit volumes by using data from one undisclosed financial institution. Holt-Winters, Stochastic Factor, ARIMA and ARIMAX models are considered with the latter being the one with best out-of-sample performance. The ARIMAX model is appropriate for forecasting deposit volumes on a 3 to 6 month horizon with seasonality accounted for through monthly dummy variables. Explanatory variables such as market volatility and interest rates do improve model accuracy but vastly increases complexity due to the simulations needed for forecasting.
Using logistic regression, we aim to construct a model to examine the factors that are most influential in affecting user behavior on the flight comparison site flygresor.se. The factors examined were number of adults, number of children, number of stops on the inbound trip, number of stops on the outbound trip, number of days between the search date and the departure date and number of search results displayed for the user. The data sample, collected during a one-week period, was taken from Flygresor and consisted of trips to or from Sweden, made within Europe, excluding Nordic countries, and made more than six days before departure. To find the variables which best explain the user behavior, variable selection methods were used along with hypothesis testing. Also, multicollinearity analysis and residual analysis were performed to evaluate the final model. The result showed that the factor number of children had no significant impact on the conversion rate, while the remaining factors had a high impact. The final model has a high predictive ability on the user's propensity to select a certain flight.
The aim of this study is to investigate whether changes of the repo rate has diverse effects on apartments of different sizes, targeting specific areas in Stockholm. A conclusion, that the effect of the repo rate differs for apartments of different sizes, was made based on regression analysis and hypothesis testing. The housing market is characterized by vast shifts and the repo rate has reached a historical low-point of -0.25 per cent. It is reflected upon how the central bank's steering interest rate actually impacts the prices on the housing market and whether it has distinct effects on apartments of different sizes. Apartments sold between years 2005-2015 have been analyzed where the gravity of the repo rate has been taken into consideration and if its significance varies amongst apartments of different sizes. Important parameters concerning apartment prices have been utilized in the constructed model.
This study examines how well multinomial and ordinal logistic regressions predict the outcome of football games. The two models have been used for comparison, since the multinomial logistic model treats the outcome as nominal while the ordinal model treats the outcome as ordered variables, 1 > X > 2. The outcome of the game is affected by quantitative explanatory variables, based on data from Premier League 2015/2016, which describe the teams form and performance.
The multinomial model has a prediction measure of 53.4 % and the ordinal model has a prediction measure of 43.8 %. Furthermore, most of the explanatory variables have small and unexpected influence. The conclusion is that modeling with solely historical data is a good basis, but can be improved. In future research the number of observations should be increased and the model should be tested on data different from the one used to develop the model. Furthermore, the goal difference could be used as the response variable, to examine if the prediction measure improves.
The mathematical study is completed with an industrial management approach, which consists of an analysis of the betting industry with Porters Five Forces and suggestions of establishment strategies with focus on marketing. Because of the Swedish gambling monopoly, the competition from local operators is limited, but foreign network operators increase their market shares. A new foreign network operator must thus use digital distribution channels to reach the Swedish betting market. The Swedish consumer is price sensitive, why transaction marketing with focus on 4P, above all price, is preferable towards these.
This thesis consist of two parts. The first part of the thesis will conduct a multiple regression on a data-set obtained from the Ocean Tomo's auction results between 2006 to 2008 with the purpose to identify key value indicators and investigate to what extent it is possible to predict the value of a patent. The final regression model consist of the following covariates Average number of citings per year, share of active family members, age of the patent, average invested USD per year, and nine CPC's as dummy variables. The second part of the thesis will investigate why it is difficult to value a patent and the different factors and changes that have contributed to a growing importance of patent valuation by applying theories from knowledge-based economy and industrial change. This is done by conducting a literature review and interviews.
The results of this thesis states that it is only possible to construct a model that has an explanation degree of 50.21%. The complexity of a patents value derives from uncertainties about future context of the patent and non-quantifiable parameters of the patent. Furthermore we find evidence of a shift from tangible assets to intangible assets in industrial nations which motivates the growing importance of patent valuation.
We consider an insurer with purely domestic business whose liabilities towards its policy holders have long durations. The relative shortage of domestic government bonds with long maturities makes the insurer's net asset value sensitive to fluctuations in the zero rates used for liability valuation. Therefore, in order to increase the duration of the insurer's assets, it is common practice for insurers to take a position as the fixed-rate receiver in an interest-rate swap. We assume that this is not possible in the domestic currency but in a foreign currency supporting a larger market of interest-rate swaps. Monthly data over 16 years are used as the basis for investigating the risks to the future net asset value of the insurer from using foreign-currency interest-rate swaps as a proxy for domestic ones in asset–liability management. We find that although a suitable position in swaps may reduce the standard deviation of the future net asset value it may significantly increase the exposure to tail risk that has a substantial effect on the estimation of the solvency capital requirements.
Vattenfall Hydro AB has more than 50 large scale power plants. In these power plants there are over 130 power generating units. The planning of renewals of these units is important to minimize the risk of having big breakdowns which inflict long downtime. Because all power plants are different Vattenfall Hydro AB started using a self developed risk model in 2003 to improve the comparisons between power plants. Since then the model has been used without larger improvements or validation.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate and analyse how well the risk model has performed and is performing. This thesis is divided into five subsections where analyses are made on the input to the model, adverse events used in the model, the probabilities used in the model, risk forecasts from the model and finally trends for the periods the model has been used. In each subsection different statistical methods are used for the analyses.
From the analyses it is clear that the low number of adverse events in power plants makes the usage of statistical methods for evaluating performance of Vattenfall Hydro AB's risk model imprecise. Based on the results of this thesis the conclusion is made that if the risk model is to be used in the future it needs further improvements to generate more accurate results.
This thesis presents a multivariate Hawkes process approach to model flows of news data. The data is divided into classes based on the news' content and sentiment levels, such that each class contains a homogeneous type of observations. The arrival times of news in each class are related to a unique element in the multivariate Hawkes process. Given this framework, the massive and complex flow of information is given a more compact representation that describes the excitation connections between news classes, which in turn can be used to better predict the future flow of news data. Such a model has potential applications in areas such as finance and security. This thesis focuses especially on the different bucket sizes used in the discretization of the time scale as well as the differences in results that these imply. The study uses aggregated news data provided by RavenPack and software implementations are written in Python using the TensorFlow package.
For the cases with larger bucket sizes and datasets containing a larger number of observations, the results suggest that the Hawkes models give a better fit to training data than the Poisson model alternatives. The Poisson models tend to give better performance when models trained on historic data are tested on subsequent data flows. Moreover, the connections between news classes are given to vary significantly depending on the underlying datasets. The results indicate that lack of observations in certain news classes lead to over-fitting in the training of the Hawkes models and that the model ought to be extended to take into account the deterministic and periodic behaviors of the news data flows.
The need among investors to manage volatility has made itself painfully clear over the past century, particularly during sudden crashes and prolonged drawdowns in the global equity markets. This has given rise to a liquid portfolio insurance market in the form of options, as well as attracted the attention of many researchers. Previous literature has, in particular, studied the effectiveness of the widely known protective put strategy, which serially buys a put option to protect a long position in the underlying asset. The results are often uninspiring, pointing towards few, if any, protective benefits with high option premiums as a main concern. This raises the question if there are ways to improve the protective put strategy or if there are any cost-efficient alternatives that provide a relatively be.er protection. This study extends the previous literature by investigating potential improvements and alternatives to the protective put strategy. In particular, three alternative put spread strategies and one collar strategy are constructed. In addition, a modified protective put this introduced to mitigate the path dependency in a rolling protection strategy.
The results show that no option-based protection strategy can dominate the other in all market situations. Although reducing the equity position is generally more effective than buying options, we report that a collar strategy that buys 5% OTM put options and sells 5% OTM call options has an attractive risk-reward profile and protection against drawdowns. We also show that the protective put becomes more effective, both in terms of risk-adjusted return and tail protection, for longer maturities.
Partition directed acyclic graphs (PDAGs) is a model whereby the conditional probability tables (CPTs) are partitioned into parts with equal probability. In this way, the number of parameters that need to be learned can be significantly reduced so that some problems become more computationally feasible. PDAGs have been shown to be connected to labeled DAGs (LDAGs) and the connection is summarized here. Furthermore, a clustering algorithm is compared to an exact algorithm for determining a PDAG. To evaluate the algorithm, we use it on simulated data where the expected result is known.
This thesis examines the possibility to find a relationship between the Nasdaq Nordea Smart Beta Indices and a series of macroeconomic indicators. This relationship will be used as a signal-value and implemented in a portfolio consisting of all six smart beta indices. To investigate the impact of the signal-value on the portfolio performance, three portfolio strategies are examined with the equally weighted portfolio as a benchmark. The portfolio weights will be re-evaluated monthly and the portfolios examined are the mean-variance portfolio, the mean-variance portfolio based on the signal-value and the equally weighted portfolio based on the signal-value.
In order to forecast the performance of the portfolio, a multivariate GARCH model with time-varying correlations is fitted to the data and three different error-distributions are considered. The performances of the portfolios are studied both in- and out-of-sample and the analysis is based on the Sharpe ratio.
The results indicate that a mean-variance portfolio based on the relationship with the macroeconomic indicators outperforms the other portfolios for the in-sample period, with respect to the Sharpe ratio. In the out-of-sample period however, none of the portfolio strategies has Sharpe ratios that are statistically different from that of an equally weighted portfolio.
We study singular stochastic control of a two dimensional stochastic differential equation, where the first component is linear with random and unbounded coefficients. We derive existence of an optimal relaxed control and necessary conditions for optimality in the form of a mixed relaxed-singular maximum principle in a global form. A motivating example is given in the form of an optimal investment and consumption problem with transaction costs, where we consider a portfolio with a continuum of bonds and where the portfolio weights are modeled as measure-valued processes on the set of times to maturity.
In this paper we study optimality in stochastic control problems where the state process is a stochastic differential equation (SDE) and the control variable has two components, the first being absolutely continuous and the second singular. A control is defined as a solution to the corresponding martingale problem. To obtain existence of an optimal control Haussmann and Suo [U.G. Haussmann, W. Suo, Singular optimal stochastic controls I: Existence, SIAM J. Control Optim. 33 (3) (1995) 916-936] relaxed the martingale problem by extending the absolutely continuous control to the space of probability measures on the control set. Bahlali et al. [S. Bahlali, B. Djehiche, B. Mezerdi, The relaxed stochastic maximum principle in singular optimal control of diffusions, SIAM J. Control Optim. 46 (2) (2007) 427-444] established a maximum principle for relaxed singular control problems with uncontrolled diffusion coefficient. The main goal of this paper is to extend their results to the case where the control enters the diffusion coefficient. The proof is based on necessary conditions for near optimality of a sequence of ordinary controls which approximate the optimal relaxed control. The necessary conditions for near optimality are obtained by Ekeland's variational principle and the general maximum principle for (strict) singular control problems obtained in Bahlali and Mezerdi [S. Bahlali, B. Mezerdi, A general stochastic maximum principle for singular control problems, Electron J. Probab. 10 (2005) 988-1004. Paper no 30]. © 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
We study relaxed stochastic control problems where the state equation is a one dimensional linear stochastic differential equation with random and unbounded coefficients. The two main results are existence of an optimal relaxed control and necessary conditions for optimality in the form of a relaxed maximum principle. The main motivation is an optimal bond portfolio problem in a market where there exists a continuum of bonds and the portfolio weights are modeled as measure-valued processes on the set of times to maturity.
We study the optimal control of a stochastic differential equation (SDE) of mean-field type, where the coefficients are allowed to depend on some functional of the law as well as the state of the process. Moreover the cost functional is also of mean-field type, which makes the control problem time inconsistent in the sense that the Bellman optimality principle does not hold. Under the assumption of a convex action space a maximum principle of local form is derived, specifying the necessary conditions for optimality. These are also shown to be sufficient under additional assumptions. This maximum principle differs from the classical one, where the adjoint equation is a linear backward SDE, since here the adjoint equation turns out to be a linear mean-field backward SDE. As an illustration, we apply the result to the mean-variance portfolio selection problem.
Digitization has changed the way people access the internet. Smartphones is soon to be the preferred internet access device leading us into a new generation of e-commerce, namely mobile commerce or m-commerce. The on-going transition, from desktop to smartphone has led to an uprising problem for companies within the area of e-commerce. Visitors coming from a smartphone device tend to not go through with the purchase. With this transition in mind, the thesis aimed to identify the factors that affect the proportion of smartphone visitors on a website, more specifically at the flight comparison site Flygresor.se. The method used was multiple linear regression analysis. To see whether the chosen factors affected the proportion of smartphone transactions or just the proportion of smartphone sessions two regression were performed. One with response variable Sessions and one with response variable Transactions, where Sessions refer to the number of visitors on the website and Transactions refer to the number of visitors moving on to the final booking website. The explanatory variables used were divided into four categories; Marketing, Channels, Season and Other, where the category Other contained the variables Total number of visitors and Amount of MB used per smartphone subscription. The study showed that all categories contained variables with significant impact on both of the response variables. There was only one variable that had different impact on the models, namely the Total number of visitors. The result indicates that smartphone users tend to, in comparison with desktop users, to a less extent continue to the final booking website. Since there were no other variables that only had an impact on Transactions it was assumed that there exist other factors which have a greater impact on smartphone users tendency to finalize a booking.
A regression-based method is presented in order toregenerate missing data points in stock return time series. The method usesonly complete time series of assets in optimal portfolios, in which the returnsof the underlying tend to correlate inadequately with each other. The studyshows that the method is able to replicate empirical VaR-backtesting resultswhere all data are available, even when up to 90% of the time series in half ofthe assets in the portfolios have been removed.
The aim of this study is to find a method that is able to locate multiple change-points in a time series with unknown properties. The methods that are investigated are the CUSUM and CUSUM of squares test, the CUSUM test with OLS residuals, the Mann-Whitney test and Quandt's log likelihood ratio. Since all methods are detecting single change-points, the binary segmentation technique is used to find multiple change-points. The study shows that the CUSUM test with OLS residuals, Mann-Whitney test and Quandt's log likelihood ratio work well on most samples while the CUSUM and CUSUM of squares are not able to detect the location of the change-points. Furthermore the study shows that the binary segmentation technique works well with all methods and is able to detect multiple change-points in most circumstances. The study also shows that the results can, most of the time, be improved by using a combination of the methods.
The financial markets have a complex structure and the modelling techniques have recently been more and more complicated. So for a portfolio manager it is very important to find better and more sophisticated modelling techniques especially after the 2007-2008 banking crisis. The idea in this thesis is to find the connection between the components in macroeconomic environment and portfolios consisting of assets from OMX Stockholm 30 and use these relationships to perform Tactical Asset Allocation (TAA). The more specific aim of the project is to prove that dynamic modelling techniques outperform static models in portfolio theory.
more areas in order to ensure the result of higher significance.
be needed for a more rigorous study.
This paper examines the factors that affect volume of sparkling wine sold at licensed Swedish liquor stores. Regression analysis is used to model the relationship between the identified parameters believed to have an impact on the volume sold.
Social sustainability is also covered, and will be examined in the context of a deregulated alcohol market in the future. A 5C analysis and an analysis based on both WACOSS Social Sustainability framework and Social Life's framework have been conducted.
Results from the regression analysis show that the parameters which affected the volume sold fell into three categories: Country, what kind of grape, and price. Most parameters affected the volume sold in a positive way; except for wines from New Zealand and higher priced wine which reduce the volume sold.
This thesis arrives at the conclusion that a regulated alcohol market is favorable in Sweden since the aim is to keep the alcohol consumption low and the overall public health high.
This thesis deals with the new flow-based computation method used in the Central Western Europe Area. This is done on the financial side. The main aim is to produce some robust methods for predicting. Two approaches are used: the first one is based on a deterministic and algorithmic method involving the study of the interaction between the fundamentals and the prices. The other one is a more statistical approach based on a time series modeling of the French flow-based prices. Both approaches have advantages and disadvantages which will be discussed in the following. The work is mainly based on global simulated data provided by CASC in their implementation phase of the flow-base in Western Europe.
Undersökningen handlade om att ta fram en modell med variabler för att avgöra om det finns några variabler som påverkar inflyttningen till en kommun i Stockholmsområdet och i så fall vilka dessa är.
Undersökningen gjordes med hjälp av regressionsanalys av variablerna och metoden som användes var stepwise regression.
På så sätt erhölls koefficienterna till modellen och med hjälp utav dessa kunde man tolka om variablerna hade positiv eller negativ inverkan samt testa huruvida väntevärdet skulle kunna vara negativt eller positivt med hjälp av hypotestest med konfidensintervall.
Vid tolkning av variablerna så erhöll man att dem flesta variablerna betedde sig enligt dem hypoteserna man slagit fast vid tidigare.
Det visade sig att dem flesta utav variablernas väntevärde vid 95% konfidens intervall faktiskt låg inom ett område där det kunde anta både positivt och negativt tecken.
Dessutom gjordes residualplottar för att undersöka hur bra modellen var och om det förekom några mönster i variansen, det slogs fast vid observation att inga mönster förekom i plottarna.
Slutsatsen man kom fram till att även om vissa variabler betedde sig enligt dem uppskattade hypoteserna så tar modellen inte hänsyn till en del faktorer som kan ändra inflyttningen, samt att det finns fler variabler som kan ha större betydelse för hur folk väljer sin hemkommun.
In this study within quantitative portfolio optimization, stochastic programming is investigated as an investment decision tool. This research takes the direction of scenario based Mean-Absolute Deviation and is compared with the traditional Mean-Variance model and widely used Risk Parity portfolio. Furthermore, this thesis is done in collaboration with the First Swedish National Pension Fund, AP1, and the implemented multi-asset portfolios are thus tailored to match their investment style. The models are evaluated on two different fund management levels, in order to study if the portfolio performance benefits from a more restricted feasible domain. This research concludes that stochastic programming over the investigated time period is inferior to Risk Parity, but outperforms the Mean-Variance Model. The biggest aw of the model is its poor performance during periods of market stress. However, the model showed superior results during normal market conditions.
The purpose of this article is to show, empirically and theoretically, that performance evaluation by means of regenerative simulation often involves random variables with distributions that are heavy tailed and heavily skewed. This, in turn, leads to the variance of estimators being poorly estimated, and confidence intervals having actual coverage quite different from (typically lower than) the nominal one. We illustrate these general ideas by estimating the mean occupancy and tail probabilities in M/G/1 queues, comparing confidence intervals computed from batch means to various intervals computed from regenerative cycles. In addition, we provide theoretical results on skewness to support the empirical findings.
The SVI implied volatility model is a parametric model for stochastic implied volatility.The SVI is interesting because of the possibility to state explicit conditions on its parameters so that the model does not generate prices where static arbitrage opportunities can occur. Calibration of the SVI model to real market data requires non-linear optimization algorithms and can be quite time consuming. In recent years, methods to calibrate the SVI model that use its inherent structure to reduce the dimensions of the optimization problem have been invented in order to speed up the calibration. The ?first aim of this thesis is to justify the use of the model and the no static arbitrage conditions from a theoretic point of view. Important theorems by Kellerer and Lee and their proofs are discussed in detail and the conditions are carefully derived. The second aim is to implement the model so that it can be calibrated to real market implied volatility data. A calibration method is presented and the outcome of two numerical experiments validate it. The performance of the calibration method introduced in this thesis is measured in how big a fraction of the total market volume the method manages to ?t within the market spread. Tests show that the model manages to ?t most of the market volume inside the spread, even for options with short time to maturity. Further tests show that the model is capable to recalibrate an SVI parameter set that allows for static arbitrage opportunities into an SVI parameter set that does not.
We extend the class of pedestrian crowd models introduced by Lachapelle and Wolfram [Transp. Res. B: Methodol., 45 (2011), pp. 1572–1589] to allow for nonlocal crowd aversion and arbitrarily but finitely many interacting crowds. The new crowd aversion feature grants pedestrians a "personal space" where crowding is undesirable. We derive the model from a particle picture and treat it as a mean-field type game. Solutions to the mean-field type game are characterized via a Pontryagin-type maximum principle. The behavior of pedestrians acting under nonlocal crowd aversion is illustrated by a numerical simulation.
This paper suggests a model for the motion of tagged pedestrians: Pedestrians moving towards a specified targeted destination, which they are forced to reach. It aims to be a decision-making tool for the positioning of fire fighters, security personnel and other services in a pedestrian environment. Taking interaction with the surrounding crowd into account leads to a differential nonzero-sum game model where the tagged pedestrians compete with the surrounding crowd of ordinary pedestrians. When deciding how to act, pedestrians consider crowd distribution-dependent effects, like congestion and crowd aversion. Including such effects in the parameters of the game, makes it a mean-field type game. The equilibrium control is characterized, and special cases are discussed. Behavior in the model is studied by numerical simulations.
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI), Mathematics (Dept.), Mathematical Statistics. KTH, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI), Mathematics (Dept.), Optimization and Systems Theory.
Responsible investing consists of buying more sustainable stocks, or green stocks, and selling the controversial ones. As a pension fund, and with the current climate regulations, it is a concern for Första AP-fonden to know if responsible investing is a plus value for financial aspects. Since our commissioner also has interests in factor strategies, rule-based systematic investment strategies, and possesses some, we will study and explain what are factor strategies. Financial benefits from responsible investing could be explained by savings made on carbon taxes, if a company has a strong environmental policy. On the other hand, factor strategies have proven to work well historically, like the Fama-French value strategy which performed more than decently during the 80s, growing up to around 10 times the initial budget. By using an optimization approach, that maximizes ESG and factor scores with equal importance, we observed that half of the factors had lower performance when combined with ESG. Moreover, the factor portfolios lost their initial characteristics after ESG integration. We concluded that quality was the most promising candidate for a potential new systematic strategy.
This thesis combines mathematical statistics with industrial economics and management to examine the profitability of the fitness industry in Sweden. The study was conducted with a dozen fitness businesses and the data mainly consisted of the companies' annual reports from 2009 to 2014. The operating margin is the measure for profitability used in the calculations. A survey was conducted with multiple linear regressions to identify explanatory variables that affect the profitability and the extent of influence by these variables. The results of the regression analysis are discussed from economic aspects. This thesis contributes with strategic conclusions to the development of a business model for new and existing fitness businesses that aim to maximize profitability. The thesis can also be used as a tool in strategic development and give insight to how companies should approach the market. It includes an analysis of the competitive forces and external factors that may affect companies in the industry. Risk factors and growth opportunities are taken into account in the discussion about how companies can finance their operations. The regression analysis concludes that it is primarily the factors that affect the companies' revenues and costs that have a significant impact on profitability. However, the results of the thesis also indicate that qualitative factors have a major impact on profitability.
Contingent convertible bonds are hybrid capital instruments, contingent on some form of indicator of financial distress of the issuing bank. Following the financial crisis, these instruments are proposed as a solution to the moral hazard issue of banks too big to fail. With the increased capital requirements of the Basel III directive, contingent capital enables banks to increase their capitalization without issuing expensive equity. Also, in times of historically low interest rates, these instruments might be interesting for investors in search of higher yields, as well as long term investors wanting to implement countercyclical investment strategies. However, due to the high complexity of these instruments, valuation has proven diffcult. The purpose of this thesis is to value instruments contingent on the bank's common equity tier 1 to risk-weighted assets ratio. We build our model upon the work of Glasserman & Nouri (2012), and extend it to include contingency on risk-weighted assets, instant non-continuous conversion to equity, and a combination of fixed imposed loss and fixed conversion price as terms of conversion. We use a capital structure model in continuous time to define asset dynamics, asset claims and the event of conversion and liquidation of the bank. Thereafter we use two important results from Glasserman & Nouri (2012) to value the discounted cash flows to holders of debt and contingent debt. From this, we arrive at closed form solutions for the coupon rates of these securities.
This thesis is set in the intersection between separate types of financial markets, with emphasis on joint risk modelling. Relying on empirical findings pointing toward the ex- istence of dependence across equity and corporate debt markets, a simulation framework intended to capture this property is developed. A few different types of models form building blocks of the framework, including stochastic processes describing the evolution of equity and credit risk factors in continuous time, as well as a credit rating based model, providing a mechanism for imposing dependent credit migrations and defaults for firms participating in the market. A flexible modelling framework results, proving capable of generating dependence of varying strength and shape, across as well as within studied markets. Particular focus is given to the way markets interact in the tails of the distributions. By means of simulation, it is highlighted that dependence as produced by the model tends to spread asymmetrically with simultaneously extreme outcomes occurring more frequently in lower than in upper tails. Attempts to fit the model to observed market data featuring historical stock index and corporate bond index values are promising as both marginal distributions and dependence connecting the investigated asset types appear largely replicable, although we conclude further validation remains.
The present paper studies the stochastic maximum principle in singular optimal control, where the state is governed by a stochastic differential equation With nonsmooth coefficients, allowing both classical control and singular control. The proof of the main result is based oil the approximation of the initial problem, by a sequence of control problems with smooth coefficients. We, then apply Ekeland's variational principle for this approximating sequence of control problems, in order to establish necessary conditions satisfied by a sequence of near optimal controls. Finally, we prove the convergence of the scheme, using Krylov's inequality in the nondegenerate case and the Bouleau-Hirsch now property in the degenerate one. The adjoint process obtained is given by means of distributional derivatives of the coefficients.
This paper studies optimal control of systems driven by stochastic differential equations, where the control variable has two components, the first being absolutely continuous and the second singular. Our main result is a stochastic maximum principle for relaxed controls, where the first part of the control is a measure valued process. To achieve this result, we establish first order optimality necessary conditions for strict controls by using strong perturbation on the absolutely continuous component of the control and a convex perturbation on the singular one. The proof of the main result is based on the strict maximum principle, Ekeland's variational principle, and some stability properties of the trajectories and adjoint processes with respect to the control variable.
The eigenvalue distribution of the sum of two large Hermitian matrices, when one of them is conjugated by a Haar distributed unitary matrix, is asymptotically given by the free convolution of their spectral distributions. We prove that this convergence also holds locally in the bulk of the spectrum, down to the optimal scales larger than the eigenvalue spacing. The corresponding eigenvectors are fully delocalized. Similar results hold for the sum of two real symmetric matrices, when one is conjugated by Haar orthogonal matrix.
One of today's financial trends is securitization. Evaluating Securitization risk requires some strong quantitative skills and a deep understanding of both credit and market risk. For international securitization programs it is mandatory to take into account the exchange-rates-related risks. We will see the di˙erent methods to evaluate extreme variations of the exchange rates using the Extreme Value Theory and Monte Carlo simulations.
This bachelor thesis within the field of mathematical statistics aims to study the possibility of predicting specifically large claims from non-life insurance policies with commercial policyholders. This is done through regression analysis, where we seek to develop and evaluate a generalized linear model, GLM. The project is carried out in collaboration with the insurance company If P&C Insurance and most of the research is conducted at their headquarters in Stockholm. The explanatory variables of interest are characteristics associated with the policyholders. Due to the scarcity of large claims in the data set, the prediction is done in two steps. Firstly, logistic regression is used to model the probability of a large claim occurring. Secondly, the magnitude of the large claims is modelled using a generalized linear model with a gamma distribution. Two full models with all characteristics included are constructed and then reduced with computer intensive algorithms. This results in two reduced models, one with two characteristics excluded and one with one characteristic excluded.


For those whose lives have never been touched by dementia, it's not always easy to recognize the positive impact a class in crafts for dementia patients can have, especially since some of the participants of an art and crafts class don't remember what they've done minutes later. People who haven't seen what dementia is like up close don't know the downsides. They also don't realize how important it is to create as many good moments in the dementia patient's life as possible.
Dementia is a progressive disease that affects memory. The longer the person has it, the less they remember. They begin to forget how to do things and people they knew. Simple tasks become more difficult and more dangerous. But it isn't until the end stages of the disease that the person loses their own identity. During the earlier stages, they still need something that gives their day meaning. Sometimes completing a craft and producing a finished product is all it takes to instill a sense of pride.
Diminished cognitive function is also a part of dementia. Although a dementia patient's ability to reason continues to diminish with progression of the disease, 'exercising' their brain can slow that process down. Not only are crafts beneficial to dementia patients, many experts say they're essential to their health and well-being. That isn't just a fact that comes from research, either. It's something that caregivers of dementia patients know from their years of experience.
The best crafts for dementia patients are those that offer physical, emotional, and cognitive stimulation. The craft also needs to meet the level of challenge that is right for the person. Two types of activities are used to meet this goal; person-centered and stage-specific.
Person-centered activities are based on what the patient likes and doesn't like. The caregiver looks for topics of inspiration that will get the patient's interest. Stage-specific activities differ in that they are based on the patient's cognitive abilities and the stage at which their disease has progressed to. Whether the patient lives in their own home with a caregiver or in a living environment that specializes in dementia care, each individual needs to have activities that are tailored to them. To be effective, patients in groups need to share common interests and abilities.
Dementia patients gain even more benefit from socializing with others while doing their crafts. It's a chance to share similar interests with another person.
Some of the easiest crafts are drawing and painting. People at various stages of dementia and with various skill levels can all benefit from these activities. It is important to provide the right materials and tools to create a safe environment. Don't allow anyone to use sharp scissors or toxic glue or paint. Take similar precautions that you would with a child, starting with constant supervision. Something as simple as forgetting that there's paint in a cup and not soda can quickly turn into a dangerous situation.
If they can't draw their own pictures, try coloring instead. There are some creative adult-level coloring books on the market these days that are more interesting than those made for children. A more cost-effective option is to print pages out for free from any of the many websites available online.
Scrapbooking is a fun hobby that dementia patients find entertaining. All it takes is an inexpensive notebook, a glue stick, safety scissors, and some old magazines and catalogs. It's a great way for them to create a scrapbook filled with things they like or that fit with their interests. For example, a patient who enjoys gardening might like collecting pictures of flowers.
Many dementia patients enjoy making paper flowers. Not only do they have the fun of being creative and making all kinds of blooms in beautiful colors, but they're also making something they can share with others.
Food activities often invoke fond memories while allowing the dementia patient to engage in an activity they've performed for most of their lives. Simple recipes like no-bake cookies, chocolate covered strawberries, or chocolate spoons are a great choice. You can microwave the chocolate to ensure it isn't hot enough to burn. Guide them through the remaining steps and they have a tasty treat to eat or share with others.
Knowing the patient and their capabilities allows you to choose crafts that are suitable for them. One reason you need easy crafts for dementia patients is to help ensure their success. Another reason is that they can complete easy crafts in a shorter period of time. Consider how long it will take to complete the chosen task. A patient with a shortened attention span could get frustrated before they finish the project if it's too complex.
Making arts and crafts a regular part of their routine will help. A routine helps them focus on what they are doing without forgetting and getting frustrated.
If possible, link crafts time with something else in their daily routine. For example, right after their morning walk or after lunch. Even though their sense of time has changed, following a routine helps them keep track of what they're doing.
If you have trouble thinking of something new to do, there are always lots of new ideas online. No matter what you choose to do, always put safety first. Consider the types of tools and materials required, and whether they pose any risk.
Most importantly, provide lots of praise for everyone who participates. Remember, the main idea behind doing crafts for dementia patients is to help them enjoy a sense of accomplishment.
Caring for a dementia patient at home is challenging. Establishing a routine complete with the activities they need for optimal health is nearly impossible for one person. Contact Lakeside Manor to schedule a tour of our facilities. We offer a range of activities that are proven to help dementia patients enjoy a better quality of life and health!
Remember, it isn't about creating a perfect piece of art. Never criticize or correct the patient's choices or mistakes. Help them stay focused when noises or other interruptions get their attention. If you work with dementia patients regularly, you know that their abilities change from day to day. As the leader, you need to adjust what you're doing to fit the needs of the day.


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Allergens still dominate but recalls drop in Australia
A recent article in Food Safety News reports that undeclared allergens accounted for almost half of Australian food recalls in 2021, according to FSANZ data. Figures from Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) show 38 of the 80 recalls were because of allergens. Twenty were prompted by a consumer complaint and eight by routine government testing.
Interestingly between 2012 and 2021 most food recalls were because of undeclared allergens and microbial contamination. Recalls for undeclared allergens, microbial contamination and chemical/contaminant show an increasing trend while those for foreign matter seem to be going down.
There were 335 food recalls because of undeclared allergens over this timeframe. The most common were milk, multiple allergens, and peanut. The top food type associated with such recalls was mixed and/or processed food such as snack foods, custard powders and frozen meals. Second was confectionery, followed by breads and bakery products."
It would seem that there is still much to be done in supporting industry to reduce recalls. The Allergen Bureau is here to help. Did you know that the Allergen Risk Review website (ARRW) is a freely available interactive factory map designed to assist the food industry with understanding the allergen status of its products. Here you can find detailed information about assessing allergen risk at every stage of the process to make food. We also have a dedicated FREE helpline aimed to support industry in allergen management and labelling. For any queries contact us at info@allergenbureau.net.
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The COPE charity has been carrying out this vital work for 25 years, ever since being set up by Gail and Harry Moore in 1988 following the death of their daughter Laura to leukaemia.
This work led directly to the creation of the COPE children's oncology unit (ward 27) at the Leicester Royal Infirmary, as well as the creation and funding of two children's community COPE Macmillan paediatric nurses and contributing to haematological research.
The work initiated by COPE contributed to a significant shift in awareness of families' needs and most of these services are now funded by the NHS. Gail and Harry went on to start a separate charity that created Rainbows children's hospice.
They opened The Laura Centre in October 1991 to provide therapeutic support to anyone bereaved of a child or young person. In 1994 their service was extended to include support for children bereaved of a parent or carer. 75% of the people referred will have experienced death of a sudden, traumatic and unexpected nature.
The centre is a professional bereavement service that believes in providing a safe, friendly and inclusive environment. It has a mixture of qualified counsellors and trained visiting counsellors and they follow the Code of Ethics of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BCAP).
In the first year it opened The Laura Centre saw 80 people and that number has grown steadily ever since, with the charity now supporting more than 500 people every year.
A quarter of a century on from losing Laura, the Moore's and the charity they founded has helped many people come to terms with their loss.
"Although we live in a protected society in the sense that childhood death is no longer a common occurrence, the fact still remains that some children do die," say the charity.
Supporting them also means raising funds to carry on and develop that work, which is what the Run the Rainbow event in Victoria Park Leicester was all about.
Gail Moore said 'The Laura Centre 5k colour race went amazingly well with a fantastic turn out. Colour splashing fun was had by all, with everyone having a great time and lots of money raised to support The Laura Centre's future. Look out for The Laura Centre colour event in 2014!


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Three ways a Kenyan union used social media in campaign against government
How social media was used by a Kenyan doctors union that had little public support when first facing off against a government with huge media influence.
Phil Wilmot
Activist, trainer, writer and director of Solidarity Uganda
A Kenyan doctors union used social media to create public empathy and give supporters greater control over campaign messaging that would typically be filtered through government-friendly media.
The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Doctors Union (KMPDU) had little public support when it began its 5,000-member strike on December 5, 2016. The government opposing union demands had been framing public messaging and had extensive influence over traditional media.
Many Kenyans saw KMPDU's bargaining for higher salaries as greedy. Union members have jobs that pay better than most in Kenya. The union's social media campaign soon brought millions of Kenyans to its side. Two months after the strike began, it basically morphed into an anti-corruption movement.
Three years ago, KMPDU had signed an agreement with the government to raise salaries. Despite the long wait, this collective bargaining agreement had never been implemented by the state.
This drove weary and overworked medical professionals across every county of Kenya to withhold their services.
The state swiftly demonised the union by framing them as the enemies of public health.
"Most of our local channels are owned by some politicians," explained Elijah Kanyi, a journalist with Africa Uncensored. "When doctors take their issues on social media, it trends, and this forces the mainstream media to report [doctors'] issues even if they don't feel like they have to do it."
KMPDU was able to turn government propaganda on its head through Twitter and other online spaces. We can learn a lot from their efforts.
Lesson 1: If social media works against you, align with shared rhetoric and values.
Kenya has a history of resistance. The Mau Mau fought the British colonialists. Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai popularised environmental rights and secured the release of political prisoners. The women by her side helped topple Daniel arap Moi's longstanding regime. While there is always more to be done in the way of raising awareness, Kenyans are alert to the prevalence of corruption and its consequences on their lives.
KMPDU was able to capitalise on the anti-corruption rhetoric held dear by Kenyans. They turned the state's anti-doctor crusade against itself through the ironic hashtag #GreedyDoctors.
In 2015, President Uhuru Kenyatta's government hired the notorious 36 bloggers to control online messaging over issues pertinent to Kenya. This cost about $200,000.
On January 13, KMPDU Secretary General Dr. Ouma Oluga Tweeted, "#GreedyDoctors sponsored at Kshs 20 million to 36 bloggers vs 5000 doctors promised Kshs 11 million a year for Research. Priorities please!"
He signed and shared this document:
'Our Greed' as Doctors of Kenya is to make your Healthcare system BETTER. We are very proud of that kind of 'Greed' pic.twitter.com/9PvjZbHC66
— Dr. Ouma Oluga (@fnoluga) 13 de enero de 2017
"In most labor disputes, the government uses…the media to dominate the narrative," wrote George Gathigi. "Through social media, medical workers have found a way around this…. By popularising and using the symbolism Kenyans have adopted against corruption, health workers have located their industrial action within a broader national debate."
Lesson 2: Create stories, photos and video of people (not policy) that are easier to share on social media.
Labour Court judge Hellen Wasilwa, who described KMPDU members as "stinking sewage," threatened the medical professionals on January 12 with a month in prison should they fail to end their strike within two weeks.
Hundreds of doctors promptly took to the streets in their hospital attire, singing and dancing in protest of Wasilwa's unjust decision, but they realised they would need to build more public support for those facing a sentence.
By January 22, KMPDU began releasing photographs of its leaders and members, including their stories and motivations for the strike, under the hashtag #healthontrial.
12. #healthontrial pic.twitter.com/pqTpqwM6FB
— KMPDU (@kmpdu) 22 de enero de 2017
These posts garnered much sympathy and public support. Allies emerged with determination to block the imprisonment of their public caretakers. Sympathisers planned protests, should the strikers be jailed.
"To make sure we reach the whole population, our information has been packaged in a myriad of forms running the whole gamut from articles and blog posts to pictorials," said medical officer intern Robert Tabu. "We have garnered support and goodwill from Kenyans. Propaganda is now being debunked. We are not relenting on this front."
Increased exposure of the looming jail sentence of blameless health workers put the labour court in a tricky position. On multiple occasions since the original verdict, KMPDU members who have vowed to suffer criminalisation for their belief in a functional health system went to court and enjoyed a postponement of their sentence, allowing talks between the union and the government to continue.
Lesson 3: Expand the focus–a campaign is easier to talk about if it's about everyone, not just those striking.
KMPDU did not merely aim to triple the salaries of its members, which had been as low as $400 a month. It also advocated for better service delivery in the health sector by telling stories of the decrepit conditions in Kenya's medical facilities.
One hashtag that centralised such stories is #DoctorsAreHumanToo. KMPDU and its supporters circulated images in December of health workers trying to navigate deplorable conditions in an effort to deliver services to Kenyans.
Dr. Kisiangani pondering his next move after he was told the hemogram machine had broken down #doctorsarehumantoo pic.twitter.com/gt926nu2nx
— KMPDU (@kmpdu) 24 de diciembre de 2016
One particular photo of a doctor carrying a baby while performing an operation received over 300 retweets and was included in a BBC story about the doctors strike.
A photo of a surgeon operating with her baby on her back was widely shared on social media.
#MyBadDoctorExperience eventually made its mark as well. Patients and health workers shared stories ranging from frequent power outages during surgeries to deaths resulting from the absence of ambulances simply because a health executive was using it for personal business. Across East Africa, almost everyone knows someone who has died due to lack of oxygen, blood or other commonly needed medical supplies.
Doctors win strike–but can campaign change Kenyan health care?
The 100-day strike came to a close on March 14 when the government offered increased allowances while negotiations on other grievances would continue. Oluga said, "The strike may be over, but the industrial dispute is not yet."
Photos of awful hospital conditions helped doctors show people the problem in the face of government media. But the union campaign is just the beginning of efforts to organise in support of desperately needed medical facility funding.
Moses Masika, a fellow at the University of Nairobi School of Medicine, isn't optimistic about the prospects for a larger campaign but strategies and values of the campaign for doctors to a campaign for Kenyan health care but there is an opportunity to learn from the doctors' struggle. "We Kenyans who get the horror that is awaiting us if we give up," wrote blogger Wandiya Njoya, "are in this struggle for the long haul."
narrative, framing and storytellingtech, tools and tactics
Phil Wilmot is Founder of Solidarity Uganda Correspondent, and Editor of Waging Nonviolence and Beautiful Trouble.
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UK Government to Invest £21m in NHS Cybersecurity
The UK government is to invest £21m in a bid to beef up cybersecurity within the NHS in the wake of the devastating WannaCry cyber-attack that took many of the organization's services offline and had a detrimental effect on patient-care.
Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, wants the additional money to be used to thwart future malware attacks to ensure operations and appointments are not disrupted in major medical centers.
The £21m will be shared between 27 major trauma centers across England. Hospitals including King's College, St Mary's , Royal London and the Manchester Royal Infirmary will all receive funding to update IT systems, improve staff training and raise awareness of how to deal with cyber-threats.
"Better use of information and data has the potential to transform health and care for everyone. However, organizations' resilience to cyber threats and the unimpeded, safe and secure flow of appropriate information and data across the health and social care system are critical to improving outcomes for all," said Health Minister Lord O'Shaughnessy.
"People must be confident that systems are secure and robust. Recent incidents, including the May 2017 ransomware attack, which affected many other countries' services as well as our own health and care system, have shown that the NHS can protect essential services in the face of a cyber-attack, but they have also underlined the need for organizations to implement essential, strong data security standard," he added.
The investment comes as part of the government's response to the UK's National Data Guardian Dame Fiona Caldicott's review of data security, consent and opt-outs, as well as the subsequent consultation with the public on these issues.
In the report Your Data: Better Security, Better Choice, Better Care document, the Department of Health and its partners outline the commitments it has made to ensure data is shared in a safe, secure and legal way.
As well as the £21m of funding towards trauma centers, the commitments include putting the National Data Guardian's position on a statutory footing, and implementing the UK data protection legislation in May 2018 which will provide a framework to protect personal data and impose more severe penalties for data breaches and reckless or deliberate misuse of information.
The government said it would also aim to determine the fastest and most cost-effective way to support the NHS to move away from unsupported operating systems such as Windows XP. It said it would boost investment in data and cybersecurity above the earmarked £50m identified in the Spending Review to address key structural weaknesses, such as unsupported systems, and increase NHS Digital's national monitoring and response capabilities.
In addition, the department will enable what it called 'informed individual choice on opt-outs' – an area in which it has been embroiled in controversy because of its failed Care.data program which was criticized for aiming to exploit patient data without consent. It said that NHS Digital would develop and implement a mechanism to de-identify data on collection from GP practices by September 2019, and that by 2018, people should be able to access a digital services to understand who has accessed their summary care record.


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We customized the floor plan of the apartment during construction.
After conclusion, we were able to implement the solutions of lighting, finishing and joinery.
Our customers asked for a rustic look with sustainable solutions, so we proposed using scavenged wood from demolitions on the TV panel, the social door and the mantel finish.
Formica was applied on the existing tiles.
We integrated the flooring of the living and balcony with new tiles.


Week one of the AY winter core course (Art and Politics in Renaissance Florence) was dedicated to giving students an introduction to art history as well as helping them to understand and begin to practice visual analysis of a work of art. The theoretical knowledge that was gained during the week was put into practice on a visit to the Bode Museum led by Professor Aya Soika. Students tried as much as possible to "read" a particular work of art. Using the information that they managed to draw from a work of art by perceiving it as an object which incorporates characteristics and symbols typical for a certain period of time, students tried to identify the variations of style and the changes that occurred over the course of approximately 100 years.
The first object of our interest was a wooden sculpture, The Virgin with the Dead Christ, dating from 1435—which had been made in Germany. The sculpture is not as elaborate and refined as sculptures produced in Italy in the first half of the fifteenth century – the bodies of the Virgin and Christ were represented in a rather clumsy way. Nevertheless, The Virgin with the Dead Christ bears a striking resemblance to Michelangelo's Pieta, made in 1499. Michelangelo's work is made of marble and is much more advanced when it comes to depicting a natural posture in the body of both the Virgin and of Christ. The position of the bodies is the same in both sculptures, and it could be claimed that Michelangelo took a step further in perfecting the already practiced depiction of this scene of lamentation.
Virgin and Child by Giovanni Pisano, made in the second half of the thirteenth century, was the next important sculpture we looked at. It had been commissioned for a cathedral in Pisa. The clear progress in sculpturing is obvious in the careful depiction of the physiognomy of the faces of both Mary and the Christ Child. Pisano emphasized the importance of Christ by "dressing" Him in the robes of a Roman monarch – a symbolic reference to Him as future King of the people.
The urge of the artists to explore new horizons and use their gifts to experiment with representations of reality (in particular perspective), is shown in the Choir Stalls by Bartolomeo de Polli, made around 1500. At first sight there is nothing that would make these choir stalls stand out from other works originating from that period, referred to as "early Renaissance". However, the scenes chosen to decorate these stalls are not just portraits of saints, as one would expect. The usual portraits of saints alternate with images of everyday life. The reason for this was the artist's attempt to work with perspective; he chose buildings and scenes that do not strike us as particularly unique to serve his purpose, that is, in order to practice the different techniques of depicting three-dimensional images on a flat surface.
Putto with Tambourine by Donatello is noted for the interesting story behind its journey to the Bode Museum. Originally used as a statuette decorating a Baptismal Font in Siena, it was sold to Wilhelm von Bode as an eighteenth century forgery. Later it was discovered that it is actually an authentic Donatello statuette. It proves the artist's mastery in depicting a child's body; the movement of the dancing "Putto" is perfectly captured in bronze. Pazzi Madonna was the next piece by Donatello that was discussed; interesting for the fact that the technique of presenting perspective on a relief was applied to human bodies, i.e. the bodies of Mary and Christ.
The tour continued with a brief reflection on works by Tiepolo and Pacetti. It ended with an observation of wooden carvings dating from the fifteenth century, which are some of the most difficult art objects to preserve.
By visiting the Bode Museum the AY students took their first steps in the realm of visual analysis of art works, beginning the acquisition of a skill that will continue to be practiced during the entire second term.


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package org.finos.waltz.model.database_usage;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.annotation.JsonDeserialize;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.annotation.JsonSerialize;
import org.finos.waltz.model.EntityReference;
import org.finos.waltz.model.LastUpdatedProvider;
import org.finos.waltz.model.ProvenanceProvider;
import org.immutables.value.Value;

@Value.Immutable
@JsonSerialize(as = ImmutableDatabaseUsage.class)
@JsonDeserialize(as = ImmutableDatabaseUsage.class)
public abstract class DatabaseUsage implements
        LastUpdatedProvider,
        ProvenanceProvider {

    public abstract long id();
    public abstract long databaseId();
    public abstract String environment();
    public abstract EntityReference entityReference();
}