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BARC Bags the Dr. Lalit Kanodia Laureate Award for Technological Excellence in Market Research
Mumbai, February 16, 2016: At the third edition of the Dr. Lalit Kanodia Laureate Award for Technological Excellence in Market Research, Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) received the top honours. BARC team was declared the winner for an end-to-end solution comprising two core technologies - Audio Watermarking Technology and Bar-o-Meter. Bar-o-Meter was recently also felicitated with the Make in India award.
This award was presented by Datamatics in association with the Market Research Society of India (MRSI) and global MR associationESOMAR. This award has been instituted to acknowledge the effective integration of technology in Market Research processes to bring about a transformational difference in the pre and post workflow and output. The nominations were judged by an independent jury comprising industry experts. This year the jury received extra-ordinary quality nominations which led them to announce more than one winner. Abacus Team from IMRB International was declared the First Runner Up while the Input Operations Team of Nielsen India was named the Second Runner Up. Abacus Team from IMRB was recognized for developing and executing Abacus Online; an end-to-end Field Management and Control system. The Input operations team from Nielsen was recognized for their application 'Map on Device' which is a user-friendly offline technology that can be accessed by interviewers on the field through their tab. Congratulating the winners, Rahul Kanodia, Vice- Chairman & CEO at Datamatics said, "We believe that innovation is the key to success. It has been indeed an honour to present award to the winners, who have created such unique and transformational solutions leveraging technology in the Market Research space".
The nominations were evaluated on the basis of uniqueness, relevance, quality of solution, potential applicability to other areas and overall cost of implementation, with the most important criteria being that the solution should already be functional and running.
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Forbes: The U.S. Soybean Industry Is Being Transformed by Digital
U.S. soybean farmers are embracing digital transformation. Polly Ruhland, CEO of the United Soybean Board, and Meagan Kaiser, USB Vice Chair, talk to Forbes about the changing landscape for technology in the soybean industry.
Ruhland says tools such as moisture sensors, smart irrigation, autonomous and GPS-enabled tractors, drones and satellite imagery help produce more soy from the same amount of land.
"Farmers who I work with every day tell me how the use of precision agriculture allows them to improve the efficiency, quality and consistency of their crops," says Ruhland.
Kaiser says that as a fifth-generation family farmer, adopting digital technologies was never a question for them.
"We're thinking about future generations with every decision we make. You can't attract smart young people to come back and farm if you don't have the connectivity we've all gotten used to," says Kaiser.
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Life is unpredictable, and unfortunately, catastrophes happen without prior notice, so it's always better to be safe than sorry. Many people suffer great financial losses that they cannot quickly recover from when a catastrophe strikes, and as a tenant, you might be thinking that these things would be covered by your landlord's insurance.
However, this is not the case, and you can lose a great deal of money because of this common misconception. So, let's take a look at how renters' insurance can help you save your hard-earned dollars.
The average cost of renters' insurance is about $20 a month, and for this price, your main question will probably be about its coverage. Does rental insurance cover fire? How about burglary? What happens if I need to be relocated? Well, you can rest easy knowing the answers to your questions will be satisfactory.
Your standard renters' insurance policies will help you cover the expenses in case of fire, windstorm, vandalism, theft, and more. And in case you want to ensure your more valuable things like expensive jewelry or electronics, you can add it to your insurance policy at an additional cost.
In case of greater damage to the property, you might need to relocate temporarily, and depending on the state where you live, this might not be covered by your landlord. In the middle of such a crisis, renters' insurance might prove to be your best friend. It covers the relocation costs, and some policies even cover your food and laundry expenses.
Different insurance companies will offer you different rates for your monthly insurance fee. It's in your best interest to do your research and find the most affordable solution for yourself.
The coverage amount for renters' insurance depends on the value of your personal property, and of course, if you have items of great value like fine art or expensive jewelry, your monthly fee will increase.
A typical renter has about $25,000 in personal belongings, but you might want to go a bit above this amount so that you can protect your future purchases as well. If you want to save money, you need to do your research and get quotes from your local insurance companies before you make your choice.
Choosing the right deductible is one of the most important decisions you'll have to make when choosing your renters' insurance policy. In case you don't know, a deductible is the amount of money that you pay out of your own pocket when you make a claim on your insurance policy.
Basically, the idea behind this is that when you choose a deductible, you tell your insurance company how much of a risk you're willing to cover yourself, and they give you a quote based on that. If you opt for a lower deductible, your monthly insurance fee will be higher.
Your best bet, therefore, would be to opt for a higher deductible. It is a larger investment on your part in case of catastrophe, but your monthly renters' insurance fees will be much lower.
Renter's liability coverage can help you cover legal costs and associated damages in case a claim is made against you, or you are sued as a result of a covered occurrence. It can help you deal with damages to other people and their property if you're found legally responsible.
Most common situations where your renter's liability coverage can help you are if you accidentally start a fire in your apartment or house, if your house guest gets injured on the premises, or if your child accidentally breaks the neighbor's window.
Liability coverage usually starts at around $100,000, but you should always check with your insurance company.
Many things affect the fee of your renters' insurance, including your previous claims history, location, and maybe surprisingly, your credit score. The reason they use information about your credit score is so that they could make predictions about possible claims and prevent insurance fraud.
It's your best bet to always be informed about your own credit score so that you can ensure that there are no errors on your credit reports that can work against you when you're applying for renters' insurance, and so that you can predict the possible insurance quotes you'd be offered.
Renters' insurance is a small investment that allows you to keep a peace of mind knowing you are protected in unforeseen circumstances, and in the long run, it can help you save a ton of money.


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Giving without frontiers
Cathy Pharoah
Article featured in the December 1999 issue of Alliance magazine
Global markets bring individuals from different nation states into ever closer economic, social and political relationships with each other. The creation of a global civil society is an integral part of these burgeoning, if as yet embryonic, new relationships. How ready are individual citizens to support a global civil society?
The concept of a global civil society involves considerably more than aggregating the activities of individual organizations in different countries. It involves a recognition that many issues such as poverty, peace and environmental sustainability can be tackled only at an international level. Civil society is likely to have a central role in fostering mutual awareness and promoting understanding at a global level.
Total cross-border philanthropic flows
Recent research commissioned by CAF from the Johns Hopkins Institute provides some estimates on total philanthropic funds (government, corporate, foundation and individual) flowing from one country to another for four major donor countries: US, UK, Japan and Germany.
Total outflows from major donor countries
Country US$ billion
Germany 2.5
Japan 1.3
UK 1 (approx)*
* British figures would be boosted if the £375 million grants from the British Council and university grants (fees and grants for British researchers and students in other countries) were included.
Within these broad figures, the private support element of cross-border flows is quite small. Figures available for Japan indicate that about 2.2 per cent of all outflows came from private individuals and about 25 per cent from foundations. In the US about 6 per cent came from foundations and as much as 10 per cent from private individuals, largely collected by philanthropic intermediary organizations, particularly of the 'Friends of' type.[1]
Individual support through international non-profits
A slighlty different picture emerges if you look at individual support for international organizations. UK international fundraising charities get a substantial 33 per cent of their income from private giving, about £380 million. New research from CAF will show that private UK trusts and foundations make about £98 million of grants to overseas causes, 6 per cent of their overall grantmaking. International organizations raise large amounts from private contributions in the various countries in which they operate. UNICEF, for example, raises US$56 million in Germany, $23.4 million in Italy and in Luxembourg, and $2.1 million in Spain. Greenpeace has a similar range, from $37.8 million in Germany to $9 million in the UK.
Evidence of country variations in levels of international activity comes from other sources. The JHI international comparative research, for example, shows international activity among NPOs ranging from 0.3 per cent of all activities in the US to 2.6 per cent in Spain.
Public attitudes
Recent evidence from the Eurobarometer (1998)[2] shows considerable variation in the extent to which humanitarian aid is seen as the responsibility of associations (NPOs), ranging from 35 per cent in Germany to only 5 per cent in Ireland. There was a similar range of views on whether responsibility for the disadvantaged and excluded lies with governments, associations or corporates. Only 4 per cent of the population in Portugal see it as an association responsibility, compared to 11 per cent in Spain, 24 per cent in Italy and 25 per cent in Luxembourg.
There also seems to be considerable variation in views on what are appropriate activities for the non-profit sector. Strikingly, within Europe as a whole culture and leisure activities appear most likely to be regarded as suitable areas for non-profit activity. Over two-fifths (42 per cent) of a 15-country sample said culture and leisure activities should be carried out by 'associations'. The next largest category was the care of children or the elderly, favoured by an average of 14 per cent. Environment scored even lower at 8 per cent, with health at a mere 4 per cent. These findings suggest that culture and leisure activities would be most likely to attract pan-European support, but this does not sit well with the main activities of the non-profit sector in many countries, where NPOs are largely concerned with social care, education or health activity. Would it be difficult to develop a pan-European consensus for support for such social welfare activities?
Domestic concerns tend to take precedence in people's minds, and the public does not identify its own, for example, unemployment problems with those of nearby similarly placed neighbours. But a fundraising survey carried out by WW Rapp in five European countries found that at most 40 per cent of people were willing to fund needs in other countries but this figure rises dramatically if other was not seen as 'Europe' but as the third world.
The 'implicit' global civil society
It is also worth noting the high, if implicit, acceptance within our multicultural societies that donations to charities are for the benefit of all clients. In many countries donors are well aware that when they give to needs such as poverty, education, health and social care they are giving to many people who have come from other countries as refugees or recent immigrants and whose rights are often poorly established. Many donors themselves come from non-indigenous or mixed race backgrounds. Many governments and other funders now insist that the organizations they fund have equal opportunities policies towards staff and clients — and many of these organizations also attract substantial individual support.
In this sense, people are already giving without frontiers and accepting that need does not fit into national boundaries. To this extent civil society is already global — although individual supporters may not see it this way. Sadly, organizations that do explicitly support minority ethnic communities often find it hard to attract funding. Civil society organizations need to raise these debates.
The challenge for civil society
Turning the small but not insignificant trickle of private support for global needs and causes into a flood of support presents a huge challenge. It is unlikely to happen without some strong proactive effort. There are clearly wide variations between countries both in public attitudes towards international causes and in levels of support for international activities. Some comfort can perhaps be drawn from the very fact of this variation: to some extent it is likely to be ad hoc, and the evidence of success in international fundraising by some organizations in some places suggests that there is scope for considerably more activity.
However, NPOs themselves will need to begin to set the agenda, to raise public awareness of the ways in which needs and people themselves cross frontiers, and of the way in which solving problems in one country has an impact on others. Organizations in different countries need to develop joint programmes for which they can approach private funders, both institutional and individual.
Awareness, however, is only one side of the coin. The other is mechanisms for collecting and handling transactions at a global level. The fundraising success of the big international organizations shows the value of the intermediary role in raising funds for activity in other countries, as does the evidence from the Johns Hopkins Institute research. For individuals to get involved in global civil society involves a leap of faith and a step into the unknown. It is unlikely to happen without the development of a stronger global non-profit sector infrastructure.
Cathy Pharoah is Head of Research at CAF. She can be contacted via email at cpharoah@caf.charitynet.org
1 'Friends of' organizations are organizations set up specifically as intermediaries to collect funds from a variety of sources for a particular cause or interest, eg Jewish people living in Israel.
2 The Eurobarometer is a survey commissioned by the European Commission to track a number of cross-European attitudes to European issues and citizenship.
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Dr. Michael J. Corso is currently the Chief Academic Officer at the Quaglia Institute for Student Aspirations. He earned his doctorate in education from Boston College and has been an educator for over twenty-five years and has taught at every grade level, kindergarten through graduate school. He is deeply committed to the belief that students are the agents of their own learning. This passion makes him a natural fit for work in the area of student aspirations. Dr. Corso has worked throughout his career to improve teaching and learning through teacher training and education. His doctoral study grounds his work as a researcher and field specialist in a contemporary philosophy of education and human knowing. In his role at the Quaglia Institute, Dr. Corso combines research on student perceptions of schools with educational theory and the living, breathing practice of students, teachers and administrators.
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prepare students for the 21st Century through progressive language and culture programs that develop high levels of 'global competence'." Over the course of her career, Ms. Ladas has obtained over 4.2 million dollars in grant money for educational programs.
Patricia Weitzel-O'Neill, Ph. D., joined the Barbara and Patrick Roche Center for Catholic Education after serving as Superintendent of Schools for the Archdiocese of Washington and the Vice President for Academic Affairs at Trinity Washington University in Washington, DC. As the Executive Director, she is responsible for the management and leadership of Center personnel, professional development for leadership teams in Catholic education, advocacy work, and facilitating a number of projects focused on applied research with the Lynch School of Education and the School of Theology and Ministry on behalf of the Catholic school community, both locally and nationally.
Dr. Weitzel-O'Neill is the co-author of the National Standards and Benchmarks for Effective Catholic Elementary and Secondary Schools (NSBECS) and continues her work with co-author Dr. Lorraine Ozar, Loyola University Chicago advancing new resources and the national survey on the implementation and adoption of NSBECS. She is working closely with Dr. Hosffman Ospino, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, as they conduct research based on the first National Survey of Catholic Schools Serving Hispanic Families. An advocate for Catholic schools, she advises and presents regularly at workshops and conferences and also serves on several boards and councils, including the Governing Board for the Journal of Catholic Education. Dr. Weitzel-O'Neill continues to serve on the design team for the Two-Way Immersion Network for Catholic Schools (TWIN-CS) located and hosted in the Center.
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Q: Alternative method to TextView.getMaxLines() for Android 4.0.3 (API 15) and below I am getting below crash logs while using getMaxLines() method of Texview on Ice Cream Sandwich Android 4.0.3 version,
So I got the real issue is, that my application is running lower sdk which does not have this getMaxLines() method.
How can remove this crash. I didn't find any alternatives method
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: android.widget.TextView.getMaxLines
            at com.text.mobile.new.adapters.ServiceListAdapter.onBindViewHolder(ServiceListAdapter.java:232)
            at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView$Adapter.onBindViewHolder(RecyclerView.java:5277)
            at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView$Adapter.bindViewHolder(RecyclerView.java:5310)
            at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView$Recycler.getViewForPosition(RecyclerView.java:4568)
            at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView$Recycler.getViewForPosition(RecyclerView.java:4461)
            at android.support.v7.widget.LinearLayoutManager$LayoutState.next(LinearLayoutManager.java:1962)
            at android.support.v7.widget.GridLayoutManager.layoutChunk(GridLayoutManager.java:438)
            at android.support.v7.widget.LinearLayoutManager.fill(LinearLayoutManager.java:1334)
            at android.support.v7.widget.LinearLayoutManager.onLayoutChildren(LinearLayoutManager.java:563)
            at android.support.v7.widget.GridLayoutManager.onLayoutChildren(GridLayoutManager.java:171)
            at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView.dispatchLayout(RecyclerView.java:2847)
            at android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView.onLayout(RecyclerView.java:3145)
            at android.view.View.layout(View.java:11278)
            at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4224)
            at android.widget.RelativeLayout.onLayout(RelativeLayout.java:925)
            at android.view.View.layout(View.java:11278)
            at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4224)
            at android.widget.RelativeLayout.onLayout(RelativeLayout.java:925)
            at android.view.View.layout(View.java:11278)
            at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4224)
            at android.widget.LinearLayout.setChildFrame(LinearLayout.java:1628)
            at android.widget.LinearLayout.layoutVertical(LinearLayout.java:1486)
            at android.widget.LinearLayout.onLayout(LinearLayout.java:1399)
            at android.view.View.layout(View.java:11278)
            at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4224)
            at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:431)
            at android.view.View.layout(View.java:11278)
            at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4224)
            at android.widget.LinearLayout.setChildFrame(LinearLayout.java:1628)
            at android.widget.LinearLayout.layoutVertical(LinearLayout.java:1486)
            at android.widget.LinearLayout.onLayout(LinearLayout.java:1399)
            at android.view.View.layout(View.java:11278)
            at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4224)
            at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:431)
            at android.view.View.layout(View.java:11278)
            at android.view.ViewGroup.layout(ViewGroup.java:4224)
            at android.view.ViewRootImpl.performTraversals(ViewRootImpl.java:1489)
            at android.view.ViewRootImpl.handleMessage(ViewRootImpl.java:2442)
            at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
            at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
            at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4424)
            at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
            at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
            at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:784)
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A: The getMaxLines() of  TextViewCompat looks like the appropriate solution for this.
You can also take a look in the SourceCode of TextViewCompat, and copy the functions you need.
Code:
int maxLines = TextViewCompat.getMaxLines(yourtextView);

instead of:
int maxLines = yourtextView.getMaxLines();

I highly recommend using the support lib and TextViewCompat.
But just for completeness, here is also the (current)  source of TextViewCompatDonut 's getMaxLines :
static int getMaxLines(TextView textView) {
        if (!sMaxModeFieldFetched) {
            sMaxModeField = retrieveField("mMaxMode");
            sMaxModeFieldFetched = true;
        }
        if (sMaxModeField != null && retrieveIntFromField(sMaxModeField, textView) == LINES) {
            // If the max mode is using lines, we can grab the maximum value
            if (!sMaximumFieldFetched) {
                sMaximumField = retrieveField("mMaximum");
                sMaximumFieldFetched = true;
            }
            if (sMaximumField != null) {
                return retrieveIntFromField(sMaximumField, textView);
            }
        }
        return -1;
    }

A: Try this,it may help,
      TextView t1 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.txt1);

        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN) {
           int no= t1.getMaxLines();
            Log.e("No of Lines: ", String.valueOf(no));
        }

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Q: Chi-squared test when two vectors have different lengths I want to compare two groups (vectors) having different lengths to see if their distributions differ considerably. However, when I use chisq.test, I get an error due to inequalities of lengths:
> chisq.test(factor(Group1), factor(Group2))

results in:
Error in chisq.test(factor(Group1[, col]), factor(Group2[, col])) :
'x' and 'y' must have the same length

Could someone help me with this? Thanks.

A: I think (as mentioned in comments) that a hypothesis test doesn't really answer the question you say you're interested in. (It also lacks power if any of the factors are ordered).
The thing is, 'not so much different' relates to a question about effect size (how different are they?) not a hypothesis test ("is our sample large enough to pick up even unimportant differences?").
You say you have very large sample sizes. This will cause you to reject as different distributions that are quite similar (since you'll have enough power to pick up tiny differences). Is that really what you mean to do? Or would you rather be able to say 'actually, they're fairly similarly distributed' when that's the case?

The direct answer to the question is you use table on the pair of factors you want to test (e.g. Group and race) and then use that as input to chisq.test e.g.
# make up some data
set.seed(32892917)
mydata <- data.frame(group=as.factor(sample(1:5,199,replace=TRUE)),
                     race=as.factor(sample(1:3,199,replace=TRUE)))

# look at the table:
 (mytab <- with(mydata,table(group,race)) )
     race
group  1  2  3
    1 16 19 11
    2 14 15 13
    3  9 14 20
    4 12 13 11
    5 11 11 10

(you'll note that each group is a different size - e.g. group 1 has 46 people, group 5 has 32)
 # do the chi-square
 chisq.test(mytab)

    Pearson's Chi-squared test

data:  mytab
X-squared = 6.0928, df = 8, p-value = 0.6368


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Dear Friends in Christ:Rabbi Rick Jacobs, President of the Union for Reform Judaism, recently said that this executive order "will be remembered by history together with the Dred Scott decision and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II as governmental actions most antithetical to American values. We will resist its implementation by any means available to us."To which I say, Amen. And in my judgment it is antithetical to Christian values also.
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Luke T. Pepper represents people who have been severely harmed due the negligence of others, unsafe drugs and toxic substances such as benzene, diesel exhaust, TCE and asbestos. His clients are from all over the country. His practice involves complex litigation including class actions, mass torts, toxic torts on behalf of consumers, railroad workers and those injured by OTC or prescription drugs and medical devices.
Mr. Pepper graduated from Temple University School of Law in 2000 and King's College in 1997
Throughout his career, Mr. Pepper has been involved in a wide range of diverse and complex litigation. The following are representative of the types of matters in which he has been involved:
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For Antioch pizza delivery that's sure to please, choose Domino's. When you order Domino's you're not ordering an ordinary, "so-so" pizza. You're ordering a pizza with a golden-brown crust baked just for you, a zesty marinara sauce made from only the best tomatoes, and a yummy collection of toppings that'll please both veggie addicts and pepperoni lovers alike! Satisfy your hunger with Domino's pizza.
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The first activities of Terre des hommes
By the end of 1960, Edmond Kaiser's vision to save children's lives became a reality: Terre des hommes brought seven children from Sicily and, two months later, 20 children from so-called regroupment camps in war-torn Algeria to Switzerland to be cared for. What started with the intention of saving hungry, sick, injured or abandoned children turned into a programme that we now call specialised care. A look back in the mirror.
After having created Terre des hommes in 1960, Edmond Kaiser used his network and connections to save "those suffering the most amongst all those suffering." Seven children from Sicily, with health problems such as tuberculosis, were the first to be brought to Switzerland for treatment.
Being particularly aware of the misery of children in Algerian camps during the war, he called on the services of a friend living in Algeria to bring, on 28th February 1961, a first convoy with 20 Algerian children from the regroupment camps to Switzerland. Others followed.
Read our first article on the creation of Terre des hommes
From this moment, Tdh began to register all arrivals in a document known as "The Bible." It is still used today to register the names, country of origin as well as date of arrival of all children brought to Switzerland. In the beginning, most of them were taken into care because of malnutrition or illnesses such as polio and tuberculosis. In the years that followed, Tdh expanded its activities and network to other countries to include heart and orthopaedic surgery to correct physical deformations.
The so-called "bible" with the first registered children's names and dates of arrival.
All this was made possible thanks to the generosity of the general public who, thanks to the media, were made aware of the deplorable conditions in which these children found themselves, and through the personal network of Edmond Kaiser that included hospitals and airlines who offered their services free of charge.
In 1970, a group of volunteers inaugurated the newly created recovery home, "La Maison", in Massongex. Today, it allows children with complex heart defects, who cannot be treated in their home country and are brought to Switzerland for surgery to be accompanied until they recover.
This is all made possible thanks the following solidarity chain:
Since 2011, the Swiss University Hospitals we work with do not only carry out complex heart surgery on children brought to Switzerland, but also go on surgical missions to countries in West Africa with the aim of training local staff in more complex medical operations.
Read also: "Sharing know-how forms part of a doctor's job"
In 2019, 242 children, most of them with complex heart defects, were successfully operated on in Europe and 86 children were operated on in their home country during the surgical missions. Our long-term goal is for children to be cared for locally.
A look into the past: this is the second article of 10 about the history of Terre des hommes on the occasion of our 60th anniversary.
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In an interview with RTS on 13th February 1968, on his return from Vietnam, Edmond Kaiser declared: "[...] we would no longer have the right to call ourselves humans or responsible adults if we allow ourselves to become complicit and deliberately decide to do nothing, despite being aware of this infinite pain."
While an increasing number of children now live in better conditions, several million of them still need support and protection. To mark our 60th anniversary, we launched a campaign on MyTdh, our online fundraising platform. The aim is to collect 60,000 francs in one year. We can do it together, thanks to your generosity and loyal commitment!
Join our "Child Fund" campaign now by using your network and support our programmes for helping children around the world. Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts!
Photo source: © Tdh. The originals of the archive photos are kept in the Archives cantonales vaudoises, Fonds ACV PP 1053, Terre des hommes Foundation.
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We all come across an argument or two every day. Be it at school, home, work, office, college, on a busy road while stuck in traffic, the list goes on. Developing skills to tackle arguments effectively is very vital to ensure we stay on top. Have a look at a few of these courses and tutorials, you're sure to learn a whole bunch of new stuff.
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A complete guide on negotiation from a business point of view, you learn dealing with customers, dealers, suppliers and a lot more. How you can avoid bad situations, making the most of what you can deal with and a lot more. Furthermore at the end of the tutorial there are other related links which complement negotiation skills indirectly and are worth a read.
In this course you'll learn about the framework related to negotiations, how it can be used in different situations, how to maintain healthy business relationships and get the best in each deal. You discover the ethical and moral obligations and how to have the best conduct.
A negotiation skills course, primarily from a business point of view but sharing the essence with all mediums. You learn how to make the best of each deal, covering point of views of both/all parties, how to leverage for the best, being tough, the signals to look for and a lot more.
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MIT's Management section is offering quite a few courses on negotiation, ranging from beginners to advanced user compatibility. You will have to search in the list for 'negotiation skills' specifically because the list is huge. Simply press "CTRL+F" and type in 'nego' in find box, the view will come to the negotiation related courses easily.
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How to make cooking for one fun – The Guardian
Cooking for one can often feel a bit sad. How do I make it more fun?
Dave, Brighton
Writers lead pretty solitary lives – working alone more or less comes with the turf – and those who write about their, and our, tea are no exception. According to Diana Henry, a leading light of the modern genre, perhaps the single most important aspect of cooking for one is to view it as an opportunity: "You don't have to please anyone but yourself," she says, "and that's a real bonus. And plan your meals for the week, so you have things to look forward to." In that respect, at least, solo cooking isn't that much different from any other kind. "Some food writers, notably Nigel Slater, are very good at dishes for one or two," Henry adds, "so go through your cookbooks marking up dishes you love the look of but have never made. This is your chance to try them."
Henry, who now has all of 12 recipe books under her belt – the latest is the current bestseller From The Oven to the Table – says Dave also has to accept that there's no overnight cure. "It'll take a while to shift from the baked potato or ready-meal mindset. I've cooked just for myself for periods of time, when the kids have been away, and grew to love it. Eventually." Her eureka moment came when she started buying ingredients she'd never have considered had she been cooking for a crowd. "I'd only ever looked on them as luxurious or expensive," she says, "but supper suddenly looks a lot more enticing when you know you're having wild mushrooms or scallops. Once you see cooking for yourself as a chance to have a treat, you start both to cook better and to look forward to it."
Valentine Warner, whose new book, The Consolation of Food, is an intriguing collection of culinary reflections and recipes, says the key is to look on it much as you might solo dining out. "Many people, myself included, can think of nothing better than eating alone in a restaurant with only a book for company, and similar principles apply at home." Take cheese on toast, he says: even an apparently minor upgrade such as going to the effort of making a proper rarebit instead can lift the spirits hugely. "In fact, toast is a generally underrated vehicle for all manner of delicious passengers. I'm so obsessed with putting good things on toast that it's now an all-consuming passion in my kitchen."
On a practical level, of course, some dishes should be left well alone. "Any kind of braise or a big roast is way too much for one person to work through," Henry says, "but pasta, risotto, fillets of fish, or even a small whole fish – red mullet, bream, mackerel – are perfect." And if you really can't do without poultry, she says, cook chicken thighs or a small whole bird. "You do need a plan for the leftovers, though." Duck breasts, pork escalopes and lamb fillets are other good options, she says. "And if you're having eggs, don't stick just to scrambled – bake them with a little cream, say, or make an omelette and fill it with smoked haddock, leeks and cheddar."
It may be stating the bleeding obvious, Warner says, but as with any meal, it's not all about the food, either; the atmosphere in which you eat it is almost as significant. "Solo cooking is an ideal opportunity to roll out the red carpet every now and then." Once or twice a week, he says, make sure you lay the table properly, uncork a good bottle of wine, light a candle, fold a proper napkin. "And for heaven's sake don't eat in the middle of whatever mess you've got piled up on the kitchen table," Henry adds. "That's just bloody sad, and will only dampen the mood."
Failing all that, Warner says, there is one guaranteed way to bring a buzz to the solo meal. "Cook naked!" he says. "If nothing else, it adds a certain frisson to otherwise mundane tasks such as peeling spuds or grating cheese." Just be extra-careful, though: the potential repercussions don't bear thinking about.
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Source: Thanks https://www.theguardian.com/food/2020/feb/18/how-to-make-cooking-for-one-fun
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We believe that we can make the world a better place by making thoughtful and meaningful choices about what we buy. When it comes to gifting, both gift giver and gift receiver benefit from also giving back to our community in some way. It's why we've chosen to partner with women's shelters and artists to bring you our tea.
Women's Community Shelters
Up until late 2019 our hand folded tags were made in Sydney, employing the services of homeless women at shelters run by Women's Community Shelters (WCS). Our Tea Yarning Circles were a great way to connect and empower women through working together. Read about the Tanya's Tea Yarning experiences in her blog here.
Our Tea Yarning Circles have been put on hold, so we currently donate $1 from every retail pack sold of 10pk Pyramid teabags with hand folded tags to WCS.
WCS works with communities to provide short term emergency accommodation and support in a safe, comfortable and secure environment that enables homeless women to rebuild self esteem and achieve control and fulfilment in their lives.
To learn more about the work WCS does, or to make a donation go to www.womenscommunityshelters.org.au.
Vanessa wrote the haiku poetry on our Love and New Parent pyramid teabags with hand folded tags.
Vanessa is a Sydney-based haiku and free verse poet. Her work has been published widely both in Australia and overseas and she has won numerous awards. One of her haiku can be found carved in stone on the Katikati Haiku Pathway in New Zealand. Recently retired from spending four years as President of the Australian Haiku Society, Vanessa wrote in 2017 about what haiku means to her. Enjoy it here.
Gregory Piko
Greg wrote the haiku poetry on our Love and New Parent pyramid teabags with hand folded tags.
Gregory is an award winning poet who lives in Yass, New South Wales. His haiku and longer form poems have been published in Australia and overseas, receiving a Touchstone Award from The Haiku Foundation (USA) and joint First Place in the WB Yeats Poetry Prize for Australia.
www.gregorypiko.com
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Artwork by Tatiana features on our Pyramid Teabags with Hand Folded tags 10pks. We used four different prints in the Booklovers, Inspiration, Love and New Parent themes.
Tatiana was born in 1979 in Minsk, Belarus and moved to Australia in 2006. Having worked as a graphic artist/ illustrator and art director for 11 years, she decided to become a full time artist, occasionally weaving tapestries. Since then over 100 unique artworks found their new homes in private collections in USA, Canada, Mexico, Italy, UK, Belarus, Hong Kong and Australia.
Her artworks are an echo of the eternal connection with landscape and nature. Bringing bright colours and organic forms together she creates vibrant positive energy on the canvas, so it tranfers in a space where it's going to live. Being in constant experiment with colour combinations and texture, often you will see her artworks evolve slightly from one style to another, rarely by accident but rather driven by the desire to express the emotions deeper.
www.tatgeorgieva.com
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Erica Walt illustrated and designed our Hug in a Mug Gift Boxes.
Erica is an illustrator and designer based in Sydney, Australia. She creates uplifting and colourful content and solutions for companies and individuals to foster meaningful relationships with the world around them.
Erica and Tanya met through a women's networking group called Lady Startups, and they worked together on the design. Look closely at how Erica has used colour and small details to create the warm and whimsical print that we love.
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Q: Como faço para chamar uma função no swift xcode Boa noite, tenho uma função que esta atrelada a um botão, gostaria de chama-la diretamente sem a necessidade do botão, o que faço?
A função...
static func goToTutorialOrTo(market: Market, from viewController: UIViewController) {

    BusinessesContainer.selectedMarket = market

    AnswersHelper.sendAccessMarketTracker()

    if UserDefaultManager.didSawTutorial() {
        let rootMarketViewController = StoryBoard.rootMarketViewController()
        viewController.present(rootMarketViewController, animated: false, completion: nil)
    } else {
        let tutorialViewController = StoryBoard.main().instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "tutorial")
        viewController.present(tutorialViewController, animated: true, completion: nil)
    }
}

A função chamada pelo botão...
extension SupermercadosZonaViewController: UITableViewDelegate {
    func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
        StoryBoard.goToTutorialOrTo(market: selectedMarketsToShowInTableView[indexPath.row], from: self)
    }

    func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, heightForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> CGFloat {
        return StoryBoard.isIpad ? 175 : 110
    }
}

Minha tentativa de chama-la diretamente
Primeira...
StoryBoard.goToTutorialOrTo(market: Market.init(json: <#T##JSON#>)!, from: self as! UIViewController)

Segunda...
SupermercadosZonaViewController()

Em nenhuma das duas tive sucesso.

A: A função que você quer chamar é a goToTutorialOrTo certo? Pelo código que você compartilhou, esta é uma função estática, ou seja, pertence à classe onde foi definida.
Para chamá-la, você pode fazer assim:
Classe.goToTutorialOrTo(market: nil, from: nil)

Onde Classe é o nome da classe onde esta função está definida. Não esqueça também de passar os parâmetros market e from.


The EDP Rock 'n' Roll Madrid Marathon & ½ Training Plans are back with Tigers Running Club!
After the success of the last edition, the Official Training Plans of the EDP Rock 'n' Roll Madrid Marathon & ½ have returned, led by the famous running club Tigers Running Club.
From 1st February, all those runners who want to train for the EDP Rock 'n' Roll Madrid Marathon & ½ both physically and mentally, can do it through a complete 12-week plan developed by the best professionals.
Each runner will choose a training group based on their race pace and availability. They will also receive a training plan adapted to their needs and goals. All this will be complemented with nutritional recommendations and audiovisual material with strength exercises. The preparation will start with some tests to determine the potential and to have a periodically view of the of health and performance.
The marathon training method of Tigers Running Club is based on a scientific basis, always prioritizing health above all without losing sight of the goals.
Its success is validated by more than 1000 marathon runners. From people preparing their first marathon to experienced marathoners. Quality vs. quantity as a rule. Enjoy and have fun it's their motto!
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Bank of Botetourt promotes Anderson to senior management
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Bank of Botetourt has promoted Barbara G. Anderson to Senior Vice President – Chief Risk and Compliance Officer.
Anderson has been with the bank for 22 years and for the past two years, in addition to her job as Chief Compliance Officer, she assumed the role of Chief Risk Officer, which is responsible for the oversight of outsourced internal audit, regulatory oversight, risk management, risk oversight, and numerous compliance areas within the bank. She will continue to work from the bank's Care Center Office in Buchanan.
With more than 32 years in banking, Anderson was previously with Central Fidelity Bank and Wachovia. She is a 2001 graduate from the Virginia Bankers School of Bank Management, which is held at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business and is facilitated by the Virginia Bankers Association. She also received her certification as a Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager (CRCM) in 2015.
Bank President and CEO G. Lyn Hayth III said, "We are looking forward to having Barbara join our senior management team. She has performed at the highest level for Bank of Botetourt throughout her time here and brings strong energy and guidance to our bank as we grow and continue to operate in a high regulatory environment."
Anderson grew up in Botetourt County and is active with the Lord Botetourt High School's Sports Booster program. She also serves as a member of the Virginia Bankers Association's Security and Enterprise Risk Management Committee. She and her husband Stephen currently reside in the Cloverdale area and have three children.
Bank of Botetourt was chartered in 1899 and operates 12 retail offices in Botetourt, Rockbridge, Roanoke, and Franklin counties and the City of Salem. Bank of Botetourt also operates a mortgage division, Virginia Mountain Mortgage, and a financial services division, Botetourt Wealth Management.
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Photos: Dogpile! Colleyville Heritage hoists 5A state baseball trophy for first time in school history
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Steve Hamm/Special Contributor. Colleyville Heritage players celebrate their 14-2 victory in 6 innings over Georgetown to capture the state championship trophy. The two teams played in the Class 5A state championship baseball game at Dell Diamond in Round Rock on June 8, 2019. (Steve Hamm/ Special Contributor)
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Steve Hamm/Special Contributor. Members of the Colleyville Heritage baseball team celebrate their 14-2 victory over Georgetown in 6 innings to claim Class 5A's top prize, the state championship trophy. The two teams played in the Class 5A state championship baseball game at Dell Diamond in Round Rock on June 8, 2019. (Steve Hamm/ Special Contributor)
Steve Hamm/Special Contributor. Colleyville Heritage shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. (17) raises his hand as he leaps onto a stack of celebrating teammates following their 14-2 victory over Georgetown to claim the state championship trophy. The two teams played in the Class 5A state championship baseball game at Dell Diamond in Round Rock on June 8, 2019. (Steve Hamm/ Special Contributor)
Steve Hamm/Special Contributor. Colleyville Heritage head coach Alan McDougal had a Texas-sized hug for shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. (17) following the team's 14-2 victory over Georgetown in 6 innings to capture the state championship trophy. The two teams played in the Class 5A state championship baseball game at Dell Diamond in Round Rock on June 8, 2019. (Steve Hamm/ Special Contributor)
Steve Hamm/Special Contributor. Colleyville Heritage baserunner Joey Koetting (2) scampers home to score from a hit by teammate Logan Britt (12) during the top of the 2nd inning of play against Georgetown. The two teams played in the Class 5A state championship baseball game at Dell Diamond in Round Rock on June 8, 2019. (Steve Hamm/ Special Contributor)
Steve Hamm/Special Contributor. Colleyville Heritage 2nd baseman Joey Koetting (2), center, was all smiles as he emerges from supportive teammates after he was announced as the Class 5A championship game MVP. Colleyville Heritage defeated Georgetown 14-2 in 6 innings. The two teams played in the Class 5A state championship baseball game at Dell Diamond in Round Rock on June 8, 2019. (Steve Hamm/ Special Contributor)
Steve Hamm/Special Contributor. Colleyville Heritage center fielder Logan Britt (12) powers through a swing for a hit that scored baserunner Joey Koetting (2) during the top of the 2nd inning of play against Georgetown. The two teams played in the Class 5A state championship baseball game at Dell Diamond in Round Rock on June 8, 2019. (Steve Hamm/ Special Contributor)
Steve Hamm/Special Contributor. Colleyville Heritage shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. (17), right, looks back to the umpire after a collision with sliding Ty Tilson (10). Witt made the tag thwarting the attempted stolen base during the bottom of the 3rd inning of play. The two teams played in the Class 5A state championship baseball game at Dell Diamond in Round Rock on June 8, 2019. (Steve Hamm/ Special Contributor)
Steve Hamm/Special Contributor. Colleyville Heritage 2nd baseman Joey Koetting (2) made a long run combined with a diving catch of a fly ball behind 1st base to end the 3rd inning of play against Georgetown. The two teams played in the Class 5A state championship baseball game at Dell Diamond in Round Rock on June 8, 2019. (Steve Hamm/ Special Contributor)
Steve Hamm/Special Contributor. Colleyville Heritage 2nd baseman Joey Koetting (2) attempts to infuse energy into the fans in attendance following his 3-RBI double in the top of the 2nd inning of play against Georgetown. The two teams played in the Class 5A state championship baseball game at Dell Diamond in Round Rock on June 8, 2019. (Steve Hamm/ Special Contributor)
Steve Hamm/Special Contributor. Colleyville Heritage pitcher Aidan Caputi (13) delivers a pitch during 3rd inning play against Georgetown. The two teams played in the Class 5A state championship baseball game at Dell Diamond in Round Rock on June 8, 2019. (Steve Hamm/ Special Contributor)
Steve Hamm/Special Contributor. Colleyville Heritage right fielder Jakob Berger (22), left, leaps in celebration as 2nd baseman Joey Koetting (2), right, gets to his feet after making a diving catch of a fly ball to end the 3rd inning of play against Georgetown. Also pictured is 1st baseman Chandler Freeman (19), center. The two teams played in the Class 5A state championship baseball game at Dell Diamond in Round Rock on June 8, 2019. (Steve Hamm/ Special Contributor)


Amaechi approached popular pastor to beg me to stop releasing his tapes.
Former presidential aide, Reno Omokri has claimed that the Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, approached a prominent pastor over the release of his tapes.
Omokri said that the minister, who is also the Director General of the Buhari Campaign Organisation, urged the pastor to plead with him to stop releasing the tapes.
So far, Omokri has released four of the tapes in which Amaechi purportedly criticised President Muhammadu Buhari's economic policies, called Nigerians "cowards", and complained about his meagre salaries and allowances.
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I find it astounding that so many music buffs do not realize the extent of the role that the listening room plays in modifying the sound from the time it leaves the speakers to the time it reaches our ears. It would not be an overstatement to say that your listening room is one of the most important components of your audio system.
It is therefore a pity that so many passionate music fans spend a big chunk of their hard earned money on high-end audio gear and on periodically upgrading components and still, frustratingly, do not obtain the sound quality they seek only because the less than ideal acoustics of their listening room keep defeating all their attempts to optimize the performance potential of their audio system.
Look at it this way; most of the sound generated by our speakers, bounces off our listening room walls, floor and ceiling as well as the furniture and fixtures in it, before it reaches our ears. When this happens, depending on the nature of the surface, the sound is subjected to varying degrees of absorption, reflection and diffusion. This means that you can have a truly splendid audio system, which achieves just a fraction of its true potential because of less than ideal room acoustics.
Listening rooms can vary from almost totally dead because of too much of absorption, to too bright because of an abundance of reflective surfaces, and everything in between. The size, shape and dimensions of the listening room also play a significant part in influencing the sound that we hear. A room that is perfectly square can be a nightmare because of its potential to generate standing waves, which are the nemesis of good acoustics. Ceilings that are too high can rob you of deep and tuneful bass. Too many glass dominated windows and doors and a hardwood, laminated or ceramic tile floor can result in too much of reflected sound and artificial brightness.
Not all music listeners can afford to have a dedicated listening room and so have to make do with having to use their living room, family room or den double up as the listening room. This is where the spouse acceptance factor kicks in with a vengeance because the furnishings in the room that make it aesthetically pleasing may not always make for good room acoustical properties and the spouse will usually not hear of removing or moving anything just to get better sound quality.
Another disadvantage of not having a dedicated listening room is that it restricts speaker placement. Most speakers sound best and produce the deepest soundstage when they are placed five to seven feet from the back wall and the sidewalls, which is not always possible in a living room or family room setting. Another hurdle is the wiring, especially speaker cables, which may look unsightly and could also be a tripping hazard.
One of my audiophile friends was so frustrated with the restrictions on tweaking his living room for better acoustics, he actually converted his double garage into a dedicated listening room and took a no holds barred approach to adopting the best acoustical tweaks that his budget would allow and to heck with the aesthetics. He even reconciled to leaving his beloved Porsche 911 exposed to the elements, treating it as a reasonable trade-off to optimize the potential of his audio system.
In reality, some effective tweaks that you could use to improve the acoustics of your listening room cost little to nothing. Ironically, some very expensive devices that claim to make a huge difference to the acoustics of your listening room are little more than snake oil, peddled by unscrupulous vendors preying on the gullible.
Before we get into cost effective ways to improve the acoustics of your listening room, it would help to understand the nature of sound waves. Sound travels at around 345 meters per second so in a typical listening room sound directly from the speakers should reach the listener's ears in around 0.01 to 0.2 seconds. This is followed by a series of sound waves reflected off the walls, ceiling, floors, furniture and fixtures of the listening room which reach the listener's ears around 50 to 80 milliseconds later and at a lower amplitude. All these reflected sound waves merge into reverberant sound, which builds up till it reaches an equilibrium level and when intercepted by our eardrums, is detected as distortion. If there is too much of reverberant sound we detect it as a loss of clarity. Air in the listening room also absorbs some of the high frequency sound waves and the degree of absorption varies with the frequency, the humidity level and the air temperature.
The key to attaining good room acoustics is to achieve the right balance between short reverberation time so that clarity is not compromised and long reverberation time to maintain the 'liveness' of the room. It should also minimize echoes and background noise. This will result in totally immersing the listener in the music while still allowing easy localization of the sound source. This should contribute to a well-defined, solid and stable sonic image.
One of the simple and affordable ways to get an immediate improvement in sound quality is to reduce or eliminate primary (or early) reflections. These are the sound waves generated by your speakers that bounce off your sidewalls, floor and ceiling before reaching your ears.
Locating the sources of these primary reflections is quick, easy, painless and best of all, free. All you need is a mirror of around 12" X 12" and a friend. You sit in your listening spot while your friend slides the mirror along each of the sidewalls, and the back wall – at the height of the tweeter. When you can see the tweeter in the mirror, your friend marks the spot with a post it note. If your listening room is carpeted you need not bother, but if it is hardwood, laminate, ceramic tile or other reflecting surfaces then repeat the exercise with the floor as well.
You now need to place absorptive material at the marked spots. The material on the walls and ceiling should be around 18 inches square. On the side walls it should be placed so that the top of the panel is at or higher than the height of your speakers to be effective. A good option is to use 2-inch fiberglass panels covered by fabric. If that does not pass the wife acceptance factor test then you could use decorative wall hanging and floor rugs, which may not be as effective as fiberglass but will make a positive difference. Wool carpets tend to do a better job at absorbing sound waves than synthetic carpets. Another simple and affordable tweak is to place a relatively thick curtain with a lot of gathers behind the speakers on the back wall. You can use matching curtains or fabric covered blinds to cover any glass windows and doors of the room as well. Blinds have the added advantage of allowing you to adjust the amount of absorption by manipulating the angle of the blind slats. If you would rather purchase acoustic panels for your room, there are numerous specialist companies in the market that will be glad to sell you acoustic panels of various designs and sizes.
Diffusion is your strong ally when improving room acoustics because it scatters the sound waves that it encounters. The advantage here is that since the sound waves are scattered rather than absorbed, the diffused waves do not rob the room of its 'live' nature the way overdone absorption treatments will do. Some of the best live performance venues in the world use diffusion very effectively. In fact many concert halls of the last century have incredible acoustics because of all the ornate work on their walls, which act as great diffusers. You can benefit from diffusion by placing items like bookshelves fully stacked with different sized books around the room. I have a friend who has a collection of over 9,000 vinyl records and since almost every inch of the side and back walls of his listening room are covered with shelves stacked with these albums, he has all the diffusion he requires to achieve excellent room acoustics. To achieve diffusion, you need to present the sound waves reaching the back wall with an uneven surface that is not totally absorbent. A book rack or shelving containing vinyl records or other items with uneven surfaces will serve quite nicely. You can also use dedicated diffusion panels, available from various manufacturers, which can be hung on the back wall. Some of these diffusion panels are available in attractive shapes, sizes and colours that enhance the aesthetics of the room.
As a general rule, the right amount of absorption on the side and front walls, as well as diffusion on the back wall of your listening room should work well.
Another ugly dragon to slay when improving room acoustics are standing waves, which usually occur at frequencies below 300Hz. These are caused by some sound waves colliding in the room resulting in some frequencies being reinforcement and others cancelled out. This results in hot and cold spots in your listening room. If you walk along the walls of your listening room while bass heavy music is playing, you can easily detect spots where the bass is artificially strong and other spots where the bass is thin. Typically, the corners of your listening room are hot in this regard. These are often referred to as room resonance modes. A cost effective way to tame the hot spots is to install bass traps in the corners of your listening room. These come in various degrees of effectiveness so ideally you should buy them from dealers who allow you to try them out before you finalize your purchase.
Another nemesis of good room acoustics is known as flutter echo. This usually occurs in a room with parallel reflective wall surfaces that result in the frequencies above 500Hz generating ringing reverberations that can be detected even after the direct sound has stopped. A good way to test for flutter echo is to stand in the middle of the listening room and clap your hand as loud as you can. If you can hear the sound of the clap reflecting back and forth between the walls you have a flutter echo problem. If you do not address the flutter echo problem, it will result in transients (fast musical attacks) getting blurry and the midrange and treble part of the music sounding harsh and unpleasant. To resolve your flutter echo problem you will need to control the reflections of your walls by either absorbing or diffusing the sound waves with strategically placed sound absorbing panels or items like bookshelves that will diffuse the sound.
If your listening room is part of an open concept house, it will make it significantly more difficult to achieve a good, solid, well defined soundstage, because, ideally your speakers should be placed equidistant from the side walls but if you spend enough time experimenting with different speaker placements, you will probably be rewarded with a reasonably satisfactory soundstage.
If you are lucky enough to be able to build your listening room from scratch as in constructing a custom built home, then the height to width to length ratios you should aim for are 1 : 1.4 : 1.9. For example if the height is the typical 8 feet, then the width should be 11.2 feet and the length should be 15.2 feet.
If on the other hand, like the majority of us, you have to tweak a room with less than ideal acoustics, how do you tell if you have been successful? You could use a relatively simple test. Just play music that you are very familiar with which has a wide soundstage. Start from your sweet spot and listen carefully for a minute. Then walk very slowly towards the spot between the speakers. If the soundstage stays focussed and you can easily tell where each musician and singer is on the stage, it indicates that you have done a good job. If it sounds like you are walking closer to the stage with the sonic focus intact, you have done a great job. However, the acid test is listening while standing near the entrance/exit door of the room. If, in this position, you can still easily locate the soundstage aurally, then you can pop the champagne to celebrate the fact that you have done a truly outstanding job!
Editior's note: Do you have questions specific to the acoustics of your room? Please join Malcolm on the CANADA HiFi (novo.press/forum) and he will be glad to help you.


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Collaborative wilding pine operation to benefit Benmore Peninsula
Posted on August 21, 2020 by ECAN
Work will begin shortly to remove invasive wilding pine infestations on the Benmore Peninsula. The work is funded by the National Wilding Conifer Control Programme (NWCCP).
Meridian Energy and Land Information New Zealand separately own and manage adjoining areas of land on the peninsula. We will be overseeing the work on their behalf, which will be carried out by forestry company, PF Olsen.
The aim is to harvest the pines for timber, which in turn reduces the cost of control.
Work will begin late August 2020 and is expected to finish in February 2021.
Removal of wilding pines essential to protecting the land
Regional Leader of Biosecurity, Graham Sullivan, describes the importance of addressing the scourge of wilding pines:
"Canterbury is badly affected by the spread of wilding pines throughout alpine catchments and foothills; currently, they represent our most serious pest threat," he said.
Meridian's Renewable Development Programme Manager, Mark Harris, says removing the pines is a first step towards returning the ecosystem to its natural state.
"At the beginning of September, we'll start replanting the area on our land with a mix of trial plots of eco-sourced tōtara and sterile pinus attenuate, so unlike wilding pines, there will be no risk of seed spread.
"This is better for the environment, and in the long term it will leave a lasting legacy for future generations," Harris said.
The removal of wilding pines is essential to protect native biodiversity, land value and iconic landscapes, including the Mackenzie Basin.
Why are wilding pines a problem?
Without attention, wilding pines can overwhelm native landscapes, resulting in a crushing loss of biodiversity and the change from a complex ecosystem to a monoculture.
Around 1.8 million hectares of New Zealand's unique natural environment is known to be infested with wilding pines.
The key problematic factors are:
Dense growth: they take the sun, water and nutrients that other plants need, forcing native plants and animals out. Unlike native New Zealand bush – where a wide variety of species exist together – wilding pines produce forests which largely support only other wilding pines.
Easily spread: once wilding pines start to produce cones, the seeds within them are quickly and effectively spread by the wind.
Economic damage: wilding pines cost New Zealand millions of dollars every year in losses to primary production, resources spent on control and environmental costs.
National Wilding Conifer Control Programme
The National Wilding Conifer Control Programme was established in 2016, to deliver a 15-year strategy to reduce wilding pine infestations to a locally-manageable level.
Over the programme's first three years, Biosecurity New Zealand and its partners (including Department of Conservation, LINZ, the Defence Force, and regional and local councils) have completed $22 million of work, searched and controlled more than 1.6 million hectares of land, and protected 3 million hectares of our most at-risk landscape from invasion.
It recently received $100 million in the 2020 budget towards its work.
Visit the Prevent the spread website to find out more about controlling wilding pines.
Watch this video on why the removal of wildings is important.


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Digital Humanities 2016, Kraków
Fraser Dallachy
DH, Digital Humanities, diversity, stylometrics, topic modelling, visualisation
Conference reflections jointly written with Justyna Robinson
Four members of the LDNA team—Marc Alexander, Justyna Robinson, Brian Aitken, and Fraser Dallachy—attended this year's Digital Humanities (DH) conference in Kraków, Poland. With over 800 attendees, the conference is an excellent opportunity to exchange ideas, learn of new areas of potential interest, and network with academics from around the world. The team presented a version of the project's poster at the event (attached to this post), giving an overview of the project, the technical steps which have been taken so far, and introducing the research themes.
Digital methods of textual analysis are an important subject for the DH attendees, and there were several papers outlining approaches and results from such research. One of the most relevant of these for us was the paper by Glenn Roe et al. on identification of re-used text in Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). After eliminating re-printings of texts, this project used a specially developed tool which found repeated passages, indicating where an author had re-used their own or another's words. The results are available and searchable on their website. In the same session, a team led by Monica Berti at Leipzig described a method of identifying and labelling fragments of text quoted from ancient Greek authors. These projects represent something like a parallel research track to ours, tracing the history of ideas through replication of passages rather than through more abstract word clusters. Early English Books Online (EEBO) also received some attention, with Daniel James Powell giving an overview of its history and importance to digital research on historical texts.
Discussion with other attendees at the poster session was especially productive, and resulted in several strong leads for the team to follow up. A subject which was mentioned to us repeatedly was that of topic modelling. Multiple panels were dedicated to the use of these methods to extract information about the contents of texts, an approach which LDNA has considered employing. The team at Saarland studying the Royal Society Corpus (with whom LDNA is already in contact) use topic modelling to study the development of scientific concepts and terminology. Their results were encouraging, allowing them to identify word groupings which represent scientific disciplines such as physiology, mechanical engineering, and metallurgy. Following these topics through time showed that the number of topics increases whilst their vocabulary becomes more specialised. Although LDNA has reservations about how useful topic modelling is for our purposes, the work being conducted at Saarland refines and implements its methodology in a way which we would seek to learn from if we do choose to pursue it further.
At the poster session
Visualising big data is of central interest to the LDNA project, especially in the context of the upcoming LDNA Visualisation Workshop. With this view in mind, we paid particular attention to projects that presented new and interesting ways of seeing large data. A number of presentations focused on network visualisations. These often link metadata, e.g. around social networks of royal societies or academies as based on letter correspondence. An interesting visualisation that present unstructured linguistic data was presented by the EPFL team. Vincent Buntinx, Cyril Bornet, and Frédéric Kaplan visualised lexical usage in 200 years of newspapers on a circle with the radial dimension representing the number of years a word has been in use, and the circumferential dimension showing a period of use of words. [1]
Stylometrics, with its interest in being able to identify and measure aspects of language which contribute to the impression of authorial style, produced some interesting papers. One of the common themes for stylometrics and other DH strands of research is the way concepts are operationalised. The varied approaches to concepts taken by DH researchers were noticeable, for example, whether each noun can be considered to be a concept, or a concept can be defined as "a functional thing". This suggests that the work on concept identification undertaken by the LDNA team will be of interest to the wider DH community. Also amongst the stylometric papers was a look at historical language change by Maciej Eder and Rafal Górski which used bootstrap consensus network analysis on part of speech (POS) tagged texts to contrast syntax and sentence structure between time periods. The paper used multidimensional scaling (MDS) to reduce POS tagged texts to a single value which could then be plotted against time, allowing them to show that a gradual change in the MDS results can be discerned between the earliest and latest texts. The paper both highlighted how useful a visualisation can be for identifying a change, and how difficult it can be to quantify exactly what the visualisation shows.
However, on a different but very important note, a strong theme of the conference was that of diversity, with a thread of panels discussing the different ways in which this subject is applicable to the digital humanities. From a personal point of view, I think LDNA has a strong awareness of both the scope and the limitations of our interests and approaches, (although we can never afford to be complacent). We've considered what our textual resources represent, and the RAs are soon to explore this subject from different angles in future blog posts. EEBO and other text collections are more expansive, inclusive, and diverse than prior research has been able to access, and this feels like a part of an enormously positive movement in academia to open up more and more data for new kinds of study. As extensive as our resources are, however, they still have limitations reflecting the (mostly Western, mostly white, mostly male, mostly middle-to-upper class) societal groups who were able to read, write, and print the words which ended up in these collections. The resources open to academia are continually growing, and hopefully this expanding diversity will open up ever more of the world's knowledge to ever more of its population. Whilst the discussions at this conference have made clear that there is a long way to go in fully embracing diversity in the digital humanities, there are indications that the situation is improving, and it is incumbent upon us all to ensure that this continues.
For another view of the conference, Brian Aitken, Digital Humanities Research Officer at Glasgow, has written about his own experience on his blog.
1. Studying Linguistic Changes on 200 Years of Newspapers, Vincent Buntinx, Cyril Bornet, Frédéric Kaplan (EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), Switzerland)
Text Analytics at Sheffield DH Congress
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10 frozen food safety myths, debunked
From pasta sauce to poultry, here's how to keep frozen food safe to eat and delicious.
Make sure that frozen foods are wrapped well or in a tightly sealed container.Brian Klutch / Getty Images
Oct. 4, 2017, 8:14 PM UTC / Updated Oct. 8, 2020, 12:06 PM UTC / Source: TODAY
By Megan O. Steintrager
You've probably heard a lot of so-called rules when it comes to frozen food.
For example, maybe you've been told that ice cream has gone bad once you see those crystals form or that you should never thaw and then refreeze meat.
But do you know which of those facts are true and which ones you can toss out ... along with that mystery meat that's been in the back of your freezer for five years?
Cook like a pro with these simple tips and tricks
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For definitive answers to some common questions about keeping frozen food healthy and tasty, TODAY Food consulted two experts: chef Jennifer Stack, RDN, who teaches nutrition and food safety at the Culinary Institute of America, and Lauren Sucher, a press officer for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Together, they've got answers to some of your most burning questions about everything frozen.
1. Is it OK to defrost food on my counter?
"Never thaw food at room temperature, such as on the counter top," advised Sucher. "Food must be kept at a safe temperature during thawing. That means leaving any raw poultry, raw beef or any other food you wouldn't leave sitting out on the counter is a bad idea.
"There are three safe ways to defrost food: in the refrigerator, in cold water and in the microwave. Food thawed in cold water or in the microwave should be cooked immediately."
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2. How soon do I need to cook frozen food once I defrost it?
If you thawed the food in the refrigerator, you generally have between one to five days to cook it. "Once ground meat, stew meat, poultry or fish are thawed, cook them within a day or two," said Stack. "Red meat roasts and steaks can stay in your refrigerator for three to five days before you need to cook them."
3. Is it true that you shouldn't refreeze thawed food?
This is a common misconception, but the experts say that if you're still in the safe window for cooking and eating meat, poultry or fish, it's perfectly safe to refreeze them, provided that the foods were thawed in the refrigerator and kept cold (40°F or below). "Refreezing the food might result in undesirable changes in texture and some loss of flavor but it will be safe to eat," said Stack.
Siri Daly's Smashed Pea and Ricotta Crostini
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4. Does food keep indefinitely in the freezer?
Yes, but mostly no. "Frozen foods can be kept in your freezer indefinitely and still be safe to eat ... assuming they stayed frozen solid the whole time," said Stack. "However, they might not taste very good or have a strange texture that makes them unappealing." She said that fresh, whole roasts, steaks and whole chickens will keep their quality for up to a year, but once meats are cut into pieces, their quality freezer life drops to four to six months. Other meats, such as sausage, lose quality after just two months.
The FoodKeeper app is a super handy tool that gives timelines for freshness and quality for foods stored in the refrigerator and freezer. TODAY Health also has guidelines for how long you can freeze different foods.
5. What's the deal with those crystals on my ice cream?
Ice crystals form on food after that food has gotten warm and begun to defrost; then gets refrozen. "Once they get cold again, ice crystals start to form and the food (like ice cream) gets that off flavor and icy texture," explained Stack.
When you buy frozen food, choose packages that do not obviously have ice crystals, since this may indicate that the food has partially defrosted and then refrozen. For bagged frozen foods, give the bag a squeeze to test for freshness. "Frozen peas, corn, beans, berries and small pieces of fish like shrimp and scallops should not be a solid block of food," said Stack. "This may also be a sign of defrosting and refreezing for these foods."
Peanut Butter Ice Cream Cake
6. How can I keep frozen foods at their best?
Make sure that frozen foods are wrapped well or in a tightly sealed container. And make sure to keep them cold. "Your frozen foods will keep their quality longer if they are kept in the coldest part of the freezer, such as the bottom or the back of the freezer," said Stack. "The side door storage areas usually get a little warmer so the food might soften or start to defrost."
7. What foods should I never freeze?
While you can safely freeze any food, some foods just don't freeze well. Stack's "don't freeze" list includes salad greens, meat salads made with mayonnaise (e.g. chicken salad), whole eggs and egg yolks and custard pies. So you're gonna have to eat that whole custard pie (or keep it in your fridge for up to five days). While you can freeze milk and cheese, "they may have some changes in their texture," said Stack.
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8. Does freezing kill bacteria and other pathogens?
Sorry, nope. "Freezing food will not kill germs, but rather slow the growth," Sucher said. "If a food product is about to expire and you decide to freeze it, the day that you pull it out of the freezer for thawing will restart the clock where you stopped it upon freezing the food. Refrigerate or freeze perishables, prepared food, and leftovers within two hours."
9. If I lose power, should I toss all the food in my freezer?
Good news! The experts say "no" with some caveats. "If the power in your home goes out, keep the freezer door closed so the inside of the freezer stays as cold as possible," said Stack. Thawed or partially thawed foods that were in your freezer can be safely refrozen if the food has not gone above 40°F. You may see some changes in the quality of the food but it will still be safe to eat. Any food that has thawed and was above 40°F for more than two hours should be thrown out.
Green Chile Hushpuppies
10. Is frozen food less nutritious than fresh food?
Nope, not at all! "The good news about frozen foods is they retain their nutritional value and may be higher in some vitamins than foods like vegetables that were harvested many days before you but them and eat them," said Stack.


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One of the most important things that a court will consider is the financial security of each parent who wants custody. You might not yet know how much money you will be getting or paying in alimony or child support, but you can you can start working toward a strong financial position right now. Re-evaluate your current job and salary and think about whether you might need to find a new job or seek a new career. Start pricing apartments, cars, and other expenses so you know what you'll be responsible for, and then get serious about how you're going to be able to make ends meet.
If you're one of those parents who is always working, you may reconsider whether you really want sole custody or whether you can work out a joint custody agreement with your spouse. If you're committed to sole custody, you might have to make some work adjustments so that you will be home more often for your children when they need you. You may have to cut back your hours at work or turn down overtime and travel opportunities that would mean too much time away.
Another thing you can begin doing is to track your activities and spending regarding the kids. If you're always the one loading the kids into the van and taking them to clubs, schools, friends' homes, and doctor appointments, that is important and the court will want to know that. If you are always purchasing food, clothing and other things for your children, tracking this can show that you're currently acting as a primary parent and have the standing for sole custody.
If you don't start keeping track of these things, you might have a tougher time disproving your spouse's claims that they help out and provide as much as you do.
These ideas can assist you in starting to plan for your custody goals before your divorce. Family divorce attorneys can walk you through each step so you can dissolve your marriage in a fair way and secure the custody you're hoping for.


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