Watches.InfoNIAC.com presents TOP TEN Bestseller Women's Watches 2012 as Christmas Gifts for Her.
The Edox women's watch demonstrates a stainless steel case decorated with 18 icy white diamonds. The case is presented on a classic white leather strap fitted with a steel tang buckle. It provides supreme comfort of wearing. Its face is shielded by a mineral crystal.
The elegant silvery dial shows the time with help of rose gold-tone Arabic numerals and hour markers and two small rose gold-tone hands.
The heart of the lady's watch is a Swiss quartz Ronda movement. It is 50-meter water-resistant.
The Edox watch is a nice Christmas gift idea for her as it will easily charm any lady.
2. The Alfex Ladies Watch New Structures 5564.196 is one of the latest additions to the brand's popular New Structures collection.
Available at an affordable price, the lady's watch demonstrates the highly-respected Swiss quality.
The Alfex lady's watch is created not simply as a timepiece but as an elegant female accessory.
The stainless steel gold-plated case (30mm x 26mm) is presented on a fine bracelet. The refined dial pleases the eye by its supreme clarity. It is protected by a mineral crystal.
The lady's watch is 30-meter water-resistant. It is animated by a reliable quartz movement.
A great Christmas gift for her!
3. The Longines Ladies DolceVita Watch L5.155.4.71.6 will win the heart of any lady due to its timeless appeal. The DolceVita watch is the choice of such internationally famous ladies as Kate Winslet, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Chi Ling Lin who wear Longines on screen and in their everyday life.
The Longines women's watch demonstrates a timeless style for modern women of today. It catches the glance by its appealing look created with help of graceful, sophisticated lines.
The slender rectangular stainless steel case is coupled with a polished steel link bracelet. The clear white dial shines with silvery baton hands and black Roman numerals. You will notice the small seconds sub-dial at 6 o'clock. The watch's face is protected by a curved scratch-resistant sapphire crystal. The octagonal crown represents one more original detail.
The timepiece is 30-meter water-resistant. The elegant bracelet is fitted with an invisible, double locking clasp for extra security.
The women's watch provides precision timekeeping, being animated by a reliable Swiss quartz movement.
A fine Christmas gift idea for her from a highly-prestigious Swiss brand!
4. The Hamilton Women's Marylin Watch 634713 is best described as a sophisticated and quietly glamorous female accessory. The timepiece demonstrates a sculpted oval steel case in stainless steel on a slender and shiny leather strap.
The layered white dial shows the time with help of baton-shaped hands and large Roman numerals at 12 and 6 o'clock and original circle-shaped indicators. One more original touch is a fluted crown positioned at 12 o'clock inspired by classic pocket watches and adding vintage elegance to the lady's watch.
The heart of the Hamilton lady's watch is a Swiss quartz precision movement. It is 50-meter water-resistant.
Watches produced by the Hamilton brand, with the history dating back to 1892, are often sported in movies, including A Space Odyssey, Men In Black and Lethal Weapon. Elvis Presley was wearing a Hamilton Ventura in his movie Blue Hawaii.
The Hamilton Women's Marylin Watch is a charming Christmas gift for a lady!
5. The TechnoMarine Women's 108038 Cruise Britto 3-Hand Pink Polyurethane Watch is a nice Christmas gift for women who enjoy artistic freedom in every aspect of their life.
The TechnoMarine women's watch is a one-of-a-kind mixture of Art, Innovation, Colors and Fun. The timepiece was created in cooperation with pop culture artist Romero Britto. The youngest and most famous Pop Artist of the modern generation, he creates contemporary masterpieces that make one feel hope and warmth. The timepiece has been inspired by the artist's masterpiece called 'Afrika Safari'.
The 40 mm case construction demonstrates a stainless steel coin-edged rotating bezel, a screw-down crown and case-back, also in stainless steel. The face of the lady's watch is shielded by a mineral crystal. The timepiece is 200-meter water-resistant.
The Britto 'Afrika Safari' dial shows the time with help of blue numerals and polished silver-tone hands with luminous accents for perfect visibility under any light conditions. The date function is presented via a window at 3 o'clock.
The women's watch is fitted with an accurate Japanese Miyota 2305 quartz movement.
6. The Tissot T-Trend Glam Ladies Watch T043.210.11.117.00 is the most elegant Christmas gift for her. It demonstrates clean lines and modern style that make it a fine accessory for any occasion. It is ready to accompany its female owner to the office or to some festive event.
The stainless steel case of the Tissot women's watch measures 32mm in diameter. It is presented on a stainless steel bracelet.
The mother-of-pearl dial is completed with simple, silver-tone indexes and Arabic numerals, and matching luminous silver-tone hands. The date function is presented via a small window at 3 o'clock. The face of the watch is shielded by a scratch-resistant sapphire crystal. The timepiece is 30-meter water-resistant.
The women's watch gladdens the eye by its clarity and classic style.
It guarantees reliable timekeeping due to a Swiss quartz movement.
7. The GUCCI Women's YA116502 Signoria Watch is created for ladies who like to express their femininity in everything they do and by everything they wear. The gentle watch is presented on a bracelet that elegantly embraces a lady's wrist.
The 20 mm square case is sculptured in stainless steel. The grey mother-of-pearl dial is completed with silvery hands and hour markers. It is protected by a scratch-resistant-sapphire crystal.
The case construction is 30-meter water-resistant.
The timepiece provides reliable timekeeping, being equipped with a precise Swiss quartz movement.
The Gucci lady's watch is a beautiful Christmas gift for her! She will surely fall in love with the timepiece the moment she puts it on her wrist.
8. The Breil Milano Women's Logo Time Leather Watch belongs to the brand's highly-successful Logo collection. The timepieces from the collection stand out due to their unique multi-layer structure. The eye-catching asymmetric case demonstrates unusual, contemporary shapes.
The Breil Milano lady's watch is the best Christmas gift for a lady who appreciates originally styled top-quality accessories. Breil Milano timekeeping accessories represent the choice of Charlize Theron.
The brushed stainless steel case, 41mm in diameter, is presented on a beige leather strap. It is built with a screw-down crown. The case-back is secured with four screws. The timepiece is 100-meter water-resistant.
The elegant white mother-of-pearl dial is completed with Arabic numeral markers, as well as three sub-dials for 60 seconds, 30 minutes, and 12 hours. The time is indicated by rose gold-tone luminous hands. The date is featured in a window at 4 o'clock. The dial is protected by a sapphire-coated mineral crystal.
The heart of the women's watch is a Swiss-made Ronda 5030D quartz chronograph movement.
9. The Bvlgari Bvlgari-Bvlgari Black Guilloche Leather Ladies Watch, created in the classic Italian style, demonstrates the distinctive characteristics of a real trendsetter. As every Bvlgari watch, the timepiece reveals meticulous attention paid to every detail.
The perfectly round stainless steel case of the watch is presented on a black leather strap. The black dial is completed with thin silver hour markers and thin silver hands. You will notice a tiny date window at 3 o'clock. The signature bezel of the Bvlgari-Bvlgari collection features the double Bvlgari logo. The case construction is 30-meter water resistant.
The Bvlgari timepiece, characterized by supreme quality and elegant style, is an ideal timekeeping companion for any occasion. It will nicely match any lady's lifestyle due to its timeless design.
The precision timekeeping is guaranteed by the fact that the movement of the Bvlgari watch has been tested according to the strictest quality control standards.
The Bvlgari Bvlgari-Bvlgari Black Guilloche Leather Ladies Watch is destined for self-assured ladies who prefer top quality accessories to match their elegantly bold style.
10. The Christian Dior Ladies Watch Chris 47 is a luxurious timekeeping companion conceived by the most experienced Swiss watchmakers. The name of Christian Dior will make any lady's heart beat stronger.
The exclusive watch radiates with timeless femininity, being a clear reflection of its female owner's personality.
The originally-shaped stainless steel case is coupled with an elegant black satin strap. The silvery dial of the watch strikes by its unbounded clearness and refinement. Any lady will highly appreciate the precious bezel of the watch accentuated with diamonds.
The timepiece accommodates a precise quartz movement and boasts 30-meter water-resistance.
The Christian Dior Ladies Watch Chris 47 is a great gift for an elegant lady who adores luxurious accessories underlining her female charm and beauty. The timepiece will perfectly match her evening gown or business costume.


A feminine take on our iconic silhouette, the Bailey Bow Tall II is crafted with plush sheepskin and finished with silky bows up the back. This versatile boot now features two new updates: a pretreated exterior for stain-and-water resistance and a lightweight sole to increase cushioning, durability, and traction. Pair with practically anything, from athleisure wear and jeans to flowy dresses.


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Maria Theresia Carolina Josepha (Napels, 6 juni 1772 – Wenen, 13 april 1807), was een prinses der Beide Siciliën. Ze was de dochter van Ferdinand I der Beide Siciliën. Ze trouwde met keizer Frans II en werd zo keizerin van het Heilige Roomse Rijk en van Oostenrijk.

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Maria Theresia werd in 1772 geboren als het oudste kind van Ferdinand I der Beide Siciliën en Maria Carolina van Oostenrijk. Na haar volgden nog zestien broertjes en zusjes, van wie een aantal in de hoogste adel trouwden; haar zusje Louisa Maria van Bourbon-Sicilië trad in het huwelijk met Ferdinand III van Toscane; zus Marie Amélie trad in het huwelijk met Lodewijk Filips I van Frankrijk en zus Maria Antonia trad in het huwelijk met Ferdinand VII van Spanje en werd daarmee kroonprinses van Spanje.

Zelf trouwde Maria Theresia op 19 september 1790 met haar neef Frans van Habsburg, de latere keizer van het Heilige Roomse Rijk, keizer van Oostenrijk, koning van Bohemen, koning van Hongarije, aartshertog van Oostenrijk, hertog van Luxemburg, hertog van Brabant en graaf van Vlaanderen. Ze waren beiden kleinkinderen van keizer Frans I Stefanus en keizerin Maria Theresia. Twee jaar na de huwelijksvoltrekking werd haar gemaal keizer en zij werd aldus keizerin. In 1806 veranderde haar titel van keizerin van het Heilige Roomse Rijk in keizerin van Oostenrijk. Deze titel droeg ze maar 1 jaar, want ze stierf in 1807, enkele dagen na de geboorte van haar twaalfde kind. Ze was 34 jaar oud.

Uit het huwelijk werden twaalf kinderen geboren. Vanwege hun verwantschap hadden een groot deel van hun kinderen een slechte gezondheid. Ook hadden een paar kinderen geestelijke beperkingen: Maria Anna was zwakzinnig en had haar hele leven lang verzorging nodig, en bij de geestelijke gezondheid van Ferdinand I van Oostenrijk werden ook veel vraagtekens geplaatst.

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Uit het huwelijk met Frans II van het Heilige Roomse Rijk werden twaalf kinderen geboren:
 Marie Louise (7 december 1791 - 17 december 1847), gehuwd met keizer Napoleon Bonaparte
 Ferdinand (19 april 1793 - 29 juni 1875), keizer van Oostenrijk en koning van Hongarije
 Marie Caroline (8 juni 1794 - 17 maart 1795)
 Caroline Ludovika (4 december 1795 - 30 juni 1799)
 Leopoldine (22 januari 1797 - 11 december 1826), gehuwd met keizer Peter I van Brazilië
 Marie Clementine (1 maart 1798 - 1881), gehuwd met haar oom Leopold van Bourbon-Sicilië (zoon van koning Ferdinand I der Beide Siciliën)
 Josef Frans (9 april 1799 - 30 juni 1807)
 Maria Carolina (8 april 1801 - 22 mei 1832), gehuwd met kroonprins Frederik August van Saksen
 Frans Karel (7 december 1802 - 8 maart 1878), vader van keizer Frans Jozef I van Oostenrijk en keizer Maximiliaan van Mexico
 Maria Anna (8 juni 1804 - 28 december 1858), was zwakzinnig
 Johan Nepomuk (30 augustus 1805 - 19 februari 1809)
 Amalie Theresia (6 april - 7 april 1807)

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Partner van de koning van Bohemen
Partner van de koning van Hongarije
Partner van de hertog van Brabant
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Gravin en hertogin van Luxemburg
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On the 10th of May 2010, at around 6.00 am, we (Sameerdada and I) returned to Happy Home from our Kankavali tour. As usual, Sameerdada proceeded to meet Param Poojya Bapu on the 6th floor. Param Poojya Bapu was having coffee in the living room. Vaibhavsinh Karnik was sitting with him. Vaibhavsinh said, "In fact, today Bapu was going to sleep early at around 4.30 am. But then, Param Poojya Nandai woke up due to some reason and Bapu had to spend about an hour speaking with her." Sameerdada narrated in brief regarding the tour and how it had gone off well after which Bapu retired to his room and we also left.
The next day, our routine commenced at 11.30 a.m. After completing his work, Sameerdada went home for lunch at around 4.45 pm. Mr. Avinash Ajgaonkar (works as a driver in Happy Home) called me up sometime between 5.30 - 5.45 pm. He was sounding a bit scared. He told me that the building where Dhrutiveera (Sameerdada's daughter) attends her coaching class is on fire. No sooner he finished narrating thus, than Sameerdada returned to Happy Home and stood in front of me. I related the information to Sameerdada immediately following which he called up Dhrutiveera calmly and inquired about the actual facts. She replied "There is a fire on the 1 st floor of the building and we are stuck in our classroom on the 2nd floor for the past 30 minutes.


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Digital disconnect in innovation can be traced to complex legacy IT issues, says expert Digital disconnect in innovation can be traced to complex legacy IT issues, says expert
Digital disconnect in innovation can be traced to complex legacy IT issues, says expert
Out-Law News | 29 Oct 2014 | 5:25 pm | 3 min. read
Existing legacy arrangements underpinned by a complex web of contracts may be slowing down the adoption of new digital technology by some businesses, an expert has said.
IT contracts specialist Clive Seddon of Pinsent Masons, said that legacy IT arrangements, together with uncertainty over how best to harness the potential of 'big data', may be the explanation for some inertia in adopting new digital technology.
Seddon was commenting after a new report by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) (28-page / 793KB PDF) found that innovating is a top-three priority for 75% of businesses and that 61% of businesses are increasing their spending on innovation schemes.
BGC said that it would expect to see "the most intensive innovation focus in big data, given all the attention that has been devoted to the ability of digital data and advanced analytics to generate new products, markets and revenue streams". However, it said that three quarters of the business executives it surveyed had said that their business is "not targeting big data in their innovation programs".
BCG said it had identified a similar reluctance by some businesses to embrace new mobile technologies.
"Most businesses that are assessing how to embrace digital technology are not starting with a clean slate when it comes to their IT and telecoms infrastructure," Seddon said. "They rely on an existing estate that serves existing operating models and processes. Adopting new digital technology can be a substantial financial commitment and force businesses to realign their operating models to be more customer-facing and further necessitate a change in organisational culture."
"In addition, businesses' legacy IT arrangements are often governed by a matrix of long term relationships and contracts with existing suppliers that can make it difficult for those companies to introduce new digital technology to their business," Seddon said. "To realise the cost and functional advantages of digital technology, most businesses need to somehow re-engineer their legacy systems and operations or run a separate and parallel stream of activity which is costly."
"Many businesses, despite recognising the need to gather large volumes of data and the potential of the latest data analytics tools, still lack an understanding of how best to harness the data they have access to and act on any insights they can glean," Seddon said. "This may also explain the reluctance of some businesses to invest in big data solutions."
"We are still at the early stages of the big data revolution," he said. "Data has already been dubbed 'the new oil' and everyone understands there are huge amounts of data being generated. Where there is work to be done, however, is in how to analyse and make best use of that data. This is a part-technology, part-cultural and organisational change issue."
The business models of many businesses in a number of sectors, from the financial services market to the retail industry, have been disrupted as a result of new technology in recent years and this will continue, Seddon said.
"The BCG report identifies that many of the most innovative companies in the world operate in the technology sector," Seddon said. "That is not surprising given the competitive environment in their own sector. However, companies cannot afford to be complacent about what competing businesses are doing in their own sector as the danger for all sectors is new entrants. New entrants can be innovate start ups, like the challenger banks, or large companies who see an opportunity in a different sector – this is the power of technology."
The BCG report drew a distinction between businesses that are 'strong innovators' and businesses that deliver genuinely breakthrough innovation. It said that just 13% of businesses told it they have "a significant ambition to deliver radical innovation". However, many of those respondents, more than 40%, described their businesses' innovation capabilities as "average at best".
"Breakthrough innovators are especially effective at bringing together the pieces required for radical innovation and organising them for high impact", the BCG report said. "There are at least a dozen factors related to management, governance and organisation design that can have a major impact on any company's innovation program. Breakthrough innovators corral them all."
"Structures and processes are often designed to sidestep the big-organisation pressures that can bury a new product or idea before it has the chance to demonstrate its value," it said. "Bureaucracy, cost consciousness, and caution come to define the way many companies operate. Strong and breakthrough innovators combat the creep of such characteristics every day."
BCG said that businesses need a "dedicated environment" to support risk taking and breakthrough innovation. More than 70% of businesses identified as 'breakthrough innovators' "have a different organisational entity for managing radical innovation", it said. BCG said that there is also a growing trend for companies to develop ideas in corporate incubators or accelerators. It said it was important that innovation was a centralised function within any corporate structure.
"Decentralised organisations tend to dilute the risk-taking authority, allocating smaller budgets and not providing the risk takers with top management backing or the time they need to succeed," BCG said.
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Bush says that 30,000 Iraqis have died as a result of our invasion. Who is the source for this information?
The White House later said that Bush, by using the 30,000 number, was repeating the casualty count mentioned in the media and by independent groups. The Web site Iraqbodycount.org estimates the number of Iraqis killed at a low of 27,383 and a high of 30,892, based on online media and eyewitness accounts.
Does anyone else find this a bit unbelievable? Does he really expect me to believe that the US intelligence community relies on paparazzi for the inside scoop on Iraq?
I'm sure Tommy Franks was telling the truth when he said "we don't do body counts," but I have to believe that the Pentagon has its own internal estimates. Why not just use that number?
The idea that this figure came from the media strikes me as extremely disingenuous. Clearly, the motive here is to set up the media as a) the messenger that we should now shoot and, if you're Rush Limbaugh, b) authors of an inherently biased report that can be ignored at will.
"No way that many died. Just not possible. Did I mention that Iraqbodycount.org is funded by George Soros?"


There are more than 30 Haven holiday parks in the UK but we've picked 10 which we think are the best. We looked at various factors including hundreds of visitor reviews from different websites, as well as facilities and location.
In my view, Haven Holiday Parks are better than most of the big chains of caravan site, although the quality does vary. As a general rule you'll find they aren't the cheapest, but they work out as good value if you fill up a caravan or if you can avoid the busiest weeks. They are ideal for families who want plenty to do, but are generally less suited for romantic couples looking for silence.
For our price comparison we looked at one week in August 2019 and have given awards for the cheapest in our top 10 and for the best value Haven holiday park in Britain.
Hopton Holiday Village is one of the highest-rated Haven holiday parks in the whole country, with an average score of 4.5/5 on Trip Advisor or 8.3/10 on Hoseasons.
It's a short drive to Great Yarmouth in Norfolk or Lowestoft in Suffolk so there are lots of family friendly attractions nearby.
Hopton is right by a sandy beach and the park itself is well equipped with indoor and outdoor swimming pools, minigolf, tennis courts, fencing and a bowling green.
The other Haven park in Norfolk worth considering is Wild Duck Holiday Park which also gets rave reviews. Both of them are dog friendly holiday parks.
Lydstep Beach Holiday Park is probably Haven's best holiday park in Wales (there are seven in total) with average reviews of 4.5/5 on TripAdvisor. You'll find it gets booked up quicker than most.
It's not huge but it's got an indoor swimming pool, which is essential for dreary days. There is also kayaking on the nearby beach, a climbing wall, fencing and a few other things to do.
It's right by the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path which is a real bonus, unless your children are of an age where they will complain relentlessly about walking.
Haven has got two holiday parks in Cornwall - Perran Sands and Riviere Sands - and to be honest, there's not a great deal between them. They both get similar reviews (4 out of 5), they're both by the seaside and they've both got indoor and outdoor swimming pools. They both have places to eat and surf lessons, as well as various sports on site.
My advice for a Cornwall holiday is to think carefully about location. Cornwall's roads are often slow and blocked by tractors so you are unlikely to be able to explore the whole county if you decide to stay in the remote (but very pretty) southern tip (Lizard Peninsula) or the northern end near the Devon border. A round trip from Bude to Lands End will take you more than four hours – my children get bored of car journeys after about 15 minutes.
For that reason, I'd pick Perran Sands which is fairly central to the county without being in touristy Newquay itself. You could just about visit any part of the county in a day (at a stretch) and you've got a load of family friendly attractions in Newquay, which is only a short drive away.
Riviere Sands doesn't allow dogs, so that might be the clincher for some people.
Price comparison: £1137 for a family of four for a week in August 2019 in a standard caravan.
Besides the usual indoor and outdoor swimming pool there's also a high ropes course and a segway course (two wheeled balance thingys). It's also near to the descriptive Sandy Bay and you can do watersports on the beach.
The location is convenient, in that it is only a short drive from the M5 and is near to Exeter, Sidmouth and Seaton which all have plenty of touristy things for a day out.
As you expect from Haven, there's a good range of accommodation, including caravans which are 'standard', 'deluxe', 'prestige' and 'platinum'. Personally I find bronze, silver and gold a bit simpler you can tell from the descriptions and prices what you are getting for your money.
Doniford Bay gets much better reviews than Haven's other Somerset holiday park at Burnham on Sea. TripAdvisor reviewers gave it an average of 4.5, putting it in the top 4 Haven parks at the time of writing (Lydstep Beach Holiday Park in South Wales and Norfolk's Wild Duck Holiday Park and Hopton Holiday Village also averaged 4.5 out of 5).
It's got an indoor and outdoor swimming pool (the outdoor one was refurbished in 2017, the indoor one has a slide). It's also got a zip wire and climbing wall, crazy golf and a sports court.
As the name suggest, it is right on the beach.
Price comparison: £771 for a week for a family of four in August 2019 in a standard caravan (arriving on a Friday instead of Saturday, as Saturday arrival wasn't available).
There are four Haven holiday parks fighting for attention in Dorset. Rockley Park, Littlesea Holiday Park, Seaview Holiday Park and Weymouth Bay Caravan Holiday Park get similar reviews and all have indoor swimming pools and entertainments. They're all in the bucket-and-spade town of Weymouth, except for Rockley Park which is nearer to Bournemouth.
Littlesea just about edges it on the reviews (average of 8.5/10 on Hoseasons compared to about 8 for the others) which is why we've included it in this list. Personally, I prefer Bournemouth to Weymouth (or Wey-biza as we used to call it) but Weymouth has loads for families to do and it's also centrally located for exploring West Dorset which is lovely (around where Broadchurch was filmed).
Littlesea has got tennis courts, adventure golf and a sports court as well as places to eat and drink. It also has glamping options, such as yurts and safari tents for those who like the feel of a chill wind blowing up your trouser leg.
Reviews of Greenacres Holiday Park aren't quite as good as Lydstep Beach Holiday Park in South Wales (see #2 on this guide), but they are a solid 4 out of 5 on TripAdvisor or 8.8/10 on Hoseasons when we checked.
It's certainly one to consider if you want to explore Snowdonia. If you'd rather stay onsite, there are indoor and outdoor swimming pools, something called a 'splash zone', adventure golf and other sporty things.
The beach is popular and it's good for walking with the coastal path nearby.
Our only Scottish entry into this Haven top 10 holiday parks guide is Seton Sands which is on the east coast, about half an hour from Edinburgh. It averages 4 out 5 on TripAdvisor or 8.4/10 on Hoseasons when we checked, which is above average for Haven parks.
There's a 9 hole golf course at Seton Sands (most holiday parks just have crazy golf) as well as an indoor swimming pool and an adventure trail. Other activities include fishing, golf, archery and soft play.
If you want to explore, it's a couple of hours to Scotland's main national parks, such as Loch Lomond or the Trossachs. On the plus side, it's very near to the beach on the East Lothian coast.
Haven's only Cumbrian holiday park isn't right in the heart of the Lake District, but it's only a 20 minute drive to Windermere or half an hour to Coniston.
Reviews of Lakeland are solid, if not spectacular (4 out of 5 or something similar on most sites) but it's certainly a decent base for exploring one of the nicest parts of England.
The park itself has indoor and outdoor swimming pools, a 9 hole golf course and an 'aerial adventure' course as well as bowling, tennis courts and an adventure trail. Other activities include a football academy and pottery painting, though you do pay extra for some things.
Thornwick Bay in East Yorkshire is a new holiday park, which gets an average score of 4 out of 5 on TripAdvisor or 8.8/10 on Hoseasons.
It's got an indoor swimming pool, although it doesn't have an outdoor pool (let's be honest though, Britain's weather is not ideal for outdoor swimming pools). There are loads of things to do onsite, including archery, fencing, painting and sand art. Some of the activities cost extra, but you can get bundles which make it a bit cheaper.
Our price comparison looked at the cheapest caravan available for a week in August 2019 for a family of four. We searched in December 2018.


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Phidippus boei är en spindelart som beskrevs av Edwards 2004. Phidippus boei ingår i släktet Phidippus och familjen hoppspindlar. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Energy Systems Integration Laboratory
The Energy Systems Integration Laboratory
The Energy Systems Integration Laboratory is part of the Birmingham Centre for Rail Research and Education. The centre comprises of a multidisciplinary team from across the University of Birmingham to tackle fundamental railway engineering problems.
The facility is part of the Energy Efficiency and Demand Reduction work package, part of the Birmingham Science City initiative. This project involves a £9.5m capital investment in research relating to the development and demonstration of energy efficient technologies.
The project comprises 10 work streams spanning the Universities for Warwick and Birmingham. The investment offers much potential for collaboration between the work streams and other complementary R&D activities across the Universities. The potential for collaboration with business and other stakeholders is also significant - at regional, national and international scales.
The team actively engages with industry and other universities through Rail Research UK, and international partners and also delivers the MSc postgraduate programme in Railway Systems Engineering and Integration.
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SUMMERFIELD NC, WONDERFUL CUSTOM HOMES!
Location, Location, Location! Summerfield, NC home owners will tell you there is no place like Summerfield. Large wooded protected areas, Greenways and great parks are abundant. Some may argue the best schools in the county. I will leave that up to you to decide. The town offers a laid back style but just a short drive to the city.
You may see some "horsing around" in Summerfield.
If you like English Style or Western, we have you covered. The area is known for its gentleman horse farms and estate lots. You will find more ten and fifteen acre horse farms in Summerfield than just about anywhere in the Triad. Saturday and Sunday it is common to see a horse trailer or ten passing through town. You will also find a new kind of horse on the road in Summerfield. Cyclist from all over the Triad head to Summerfiled to tackle it's hilly back roads and mountain bike through some of the best trails in the area.


2 In what year was Nickel and Dimed first published?
3 Which of the following states does Ehrenreich NOT visit in the book?
4 Who is the franchise owner of The Maids?
5 What is the name of the residential facility at which Ehrenreich works?
6 What year was Ehrenreich born?
7 Where was Ehrenreich born?
8 What was the profession of Ehrenreich's father when she was born?
9 "The idea that led to this book arose in comparatively _____ circumstances."
10 Which of the following jobs does Ehrenreich NOT work?
11 Where does Ehrenreich begin her first low-wage job of the book?
12 Which locales does Ehrenreich decide to avoid?
13 How much does Ehrenreich's first "efficiency" cost?
A firm that demolishes abandoned homes.
A service that provides cheap cars for rental.
15 What is an "efficiency"?
A form of cheap temporary housing.
16 Who is the maid who trips in the hole?
17 How old is she?
18 What is the name of the dishwasher Ehrenreich tries to teach English?
20 Where is he from?
21 What is he accused of?
22 To whose maid team is Ehrenreich repeatedly assigned?
23 What is the name of the woman Ehrenreich visits, because she lived a real-life version of what Ehrenreich is trying out as a reporter?
24 What does Ehrenreich dub the cockatiel?
25 Where does Ehrenreich work as a maid?
Chazelle, Damien. Chainani, Soman ed. "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America Quizzes". GradeSaver, 28 July 2009 Web.


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Sour Diesel meets an original Afghani or Hawaiian strain in this sativa-dominant hybrid (60:40 sativa/indica ratio). NYC Diesel carries strong sativa genes from its Sour Diesel mother, while the father plant was either indica- or sativa-dominant. This strain is a good choice for busy days and social occasions, as it provides a peppy cerebral high with strong energy. THC levels can exceed 21%, making this a particularly potent medical option. CBD concentration, on the other hand, is very low, typical for a sativa. The high comes with a strong shot of euphoria, a mood boost, and a spark of creativity. It's most useful when treating anxiety, chronic pain, and depression. It can also be an effective appetite stimulant. Negative effects are limited, especially paranoia, and that makes this an ideal choice for patients suffering from chronic anxiety. A strong, pungent fuel flavor predominates in this Diesel descendant, along with additional chemical notes. NYC Diesel should be relatively easy to find in New York State, though it's probably more popular on the West Coast, especially in California, Oregon, and Washington State. It is also sold in Nevada and Michigan.


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import java.util.List;

import org.flowable.engine.common.impl.Page;
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import org.flowable.engine.impl.interceptor.CommandContext;
import org.flowable.engine.impl.persistence.entity.JobInfoEntity;
import org.flowable.engine.impl.persistence.entity.JobInfoEntityManager;

/**
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    protected int pageSize;
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    public FindExpiredJobsCmd(int pageSize, JobInfoEntityManager<? extends JobInfoEntity> jobEntityManager) {
        this.pageSize = pageSize;
        this.jobEntityManager = jobEntityManager;
    }

    @Override
    public List<? extends JobInfoEntity> execute(CommandContext commandContext) {
        return jobEntityManager.findExpiredJobs(new Page(0, pageSize));
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A brief history of the 'ism' in art criticism
Behind the scenes at The Art Museum – a series of stories inspired by the greatest art book ever published
Tracey Emin and Billy Childish, photographed by Eugene Doyen for 'Alive and Well and Dying in Chatham' (1982 - 1986)
One notorious feature of the world of art historians is the fatal 'ism' - that process of compartmentalising the Western canon into easy-to-swallow packets. Surprisingly often, these 'isms' evolve out of what is originally a criticism of a particular period. For example, 'Mannerism' (rooms 188, 189 of The Art Museum) was coined while the 16th century Italian habit of drawing 'mannered' distorted forms fell out of fashion. Likewise, pre-Renaissance architecture began to be described as 'Gothic' in comparison to the intellectual beauty of Classical architectural forms.
Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise (1872)
In the later 19th century, artistic movements beginning with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, became self-conscious and defined their own 'isms', although these were still frequently adapted from disparaging remarks. 'Impressionism' was coined after a scathing attack on Monet's Impression, Sunrise (Room 297 of The Art Museum) by critic Louis Leroy who dismissed the work as mere "impressions", not finished pieces. 'Fauvism' (Room 332) was unintentionally coined by the critic Albert Marque's dismissal of the group as 'fauves': wild beasts. Another art critic, Louis Vauxcelles, laughed Braque's early work (Room 335 of The Art Museum) off as "full of little cubes", giving rise to the term 'Cubism'.
Georges Braque, The Portuguese (1911)
The most recent known example of this strange effect is Stuckism, coined in response to a poem by group co-founder Billy Childish's ex-girlfriend Tracey Emin: "...you are stuck! Stuck! Stuck! Stuck!" The stated principles of Stuckism are a reaction against conceptual art and a return to the communicative value and artistic integrity of traditional media. Deriving their name from an attempt to disparage them is just one of the ways they're standing in a long artistic tradition.
Blowing apart the idea of an art museum
10 years in the making, The Art Museum will redefine how you look at art


Keys. We all have them. We have keys to our vehicle, keys to our home, keys to our lock box, keys to work – essentially we have keys to just about everything. In fact, some would even say that there are some that hold the key to your heart.
But what good is a key if it is not used? Really? No good at all.
Keys are used to safeguard something. We obviously want to protect something or someone if we have a key.
Every once in a while, however, we want to use that key to unlock and free something. We want to take a look at that social security card we keep locked away. We want to try on that beautiful piece of jewelry hidden away in a lock box somewhere. We want to go home, so we use our key to get in the door. We need to go somewhere, so we turn the key in the ignition.
I have a super cute key ring that I got in Hawaii. Great memories are associated with that key ring. But the most important thing about this item is the fact that it holds all the keys that I need in my life. I panic when I can't find my keys. My biggest fear is being away from my husband and locking myself out of my car. That happened before – when the car was running. Bad day. Really cold. Don't want to remember that day – moving on….
Jesus left us His keys. He has given us power and authority to do His will on this earth. We have a great responsibility associated with these keys. Perhaps that's the reason we don't use them very often. People might get offended if we use the keys. The power these keys have might be more than we want to face. See a trend here? Fear. Fear keeps us from using those keys. Fear keeps us from receiving the blessings from those keys. Oh, we like to jingle them around from time to time but do we really want to use them?
Maybe it's high time we did. Maybe we need to go out on a limb and shake up the tree a bit. Whatever you'd feel the Lord leading you to do about the keys, do it. I promise His blessings will be worth it.


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import { getLines } from '../../system/string';
import { GitDiff, GitDiffHunk, GitDiffHunkLine, GitDiffLine, GitDiffShortStat } from '../models/diff';
import { GitFile, GitFileStatus } from '../models/file';

const nameStatusDiffRegex = /^(.*?)\t(.*?)(?:\t(.*?))?$/gm;
const shortStatDiffRegex =
	/^\s*(\d+)\sfiles? changed(?:,\s+(\d+)\s+insertions?\(\+\))?(?:,\s+(\d+)\s+deletions?\(-\))?/;
const unifiedDiffRegex = /^@@ -([\d]+)(?:,([\d]+))? \+([\d]+)(?:,([\d]+))? @@(?:.*?)\n([\s\S]*?)(?=^@@)/gm;

export class GitDiffParser {
	@debug({ args: false, singleLine: true })
	static parse(data: string, debug: boolean = false): GitDiff | undefined {
		if (!data) return undefined;

		const hunks: GitDiffHunk[] = [];

		let previousStart;
		let previousCount;
		let currentStart;
		let currentCount;
		let hunk;

		let match;
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			match = unifiedDiffRegex.exec(`${data}\n@@`);
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			[, previousStart, previousCount, currentStart, currentCount, hunk] = match;

			previousCount = Number(previousCount) || 0;
			previousStart = Number(previousStart) || 0;
			currentCount = Number(currentCount) || 0;
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			hunks.push(
				new GitDiffHunk(
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					{
						count: currentCount === 0 ? 1 : currentCount,
						position: {
							start: currentStart,
							end: currentStart + (currentCount > 0 ? currentCount - 1 : 0),
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					{
						count: previousCount === 0 ? 1 : previousCount,
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							end: previousStart + (previousCount > 0 ? previousCount - 1 : 0),
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				),
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		if (!hunks.length) return undefined;

		const diff: GitDiff = {
			diff: debug ? data : undefined,
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		const currentLines: (GitDiffLine | undefined)[] =
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					currentLines.push({ line: l, state: 'unchanged' });
					previousLines.push({ line: l, state: 'unchanged' });

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		while (removed > 0) {
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		const hunkLines: GitDiffHunkLine[] = [];

		for (let i = 0; i < Math.max(currentLines.length, previousLines.length); i++) {
			hunkLines.push({
				hunk: hunk,
				current: currentLines[i],
				previous: previousLines[i],
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		return {
			lines: hunkLines,
			state: hasAddedOrChanged && hasRemoved ? 'changed' : hasAddedOrChanged ? 'added' : 'removed',
		};
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	@debug({ args: false, singleLine: true })
	static parseNameStatus(data: string, repoPath: string): GitFile[] | undefined {
		if (!data) return undefined;

		const files: GitFile[] = [];

		let status: string;
		let fileName: string;
		let originalFileName: string;

		let match: RegExpExecArray | null;
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			[, status, fileName, originalFileName] = match;

			files.push({
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				status: (!status.startsWith('.') ? status[0].trim() : '?') as GitFileStatus,
				conflictStatus: undefined,
				indexStatus: undefined,
				workingTreeStatus: undefined,
				// Stops excessive memory usage -- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2869
				path: ` ${fileName}`.substr(1),
				// Stops excessive memory usage -- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2869
				originalPath:
					originalFileName == null || originalFileName.length === 0
						? undefined
						: ` ${originalFileName}`.substr(1),
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		} while (true);

		return files;
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	@debug({ args: false, singleLine: true })
	static parseShortStat(data: string): GitDiffShortStat | undefined {
		if (!data) return undefined;

		const match = shortStatDiffRegex.exec(data);
		if (match == null) return undefined;

		const [, files, insertions, deletions] = match;

		const diffShortStat: GitDiffShortStat = {
			changedFiles: files == null ? 0 : parseInt(files, 10),
			additions: insertions == null ? 0 : parseInt(insertions, 10),
			deletions: deletions == null ? 0 : parseInt(deletions, 10),
		};

		return diffShortStat;
	}
}


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A Brief History of Automatic Photo Tagging, Pt 2
Visual Search and AI
Ofer Fryman | June 18, 2018
In part two of A Brief History of Automatic Photo Tagging, we're exploring automatic photo tagging of today and tomorrow in an area that early forays seemed to ignore: ecommerce.
The early stages of consumers interacting with automatic photo tagging and photo recognition features seemed underwhelming. An incredible piece of technology was put in play, but the real experiences with it were nowhere near as spectacular or as dystopian as they seemed.
This was about to change. Where companies before focused on helping people tag and sort their own personal photos for their private use, they would now shift their focus to a more commercial use.
And these shifts are just beginning. Companies are seeing early success with automatic photo tagging and associated technologies — and consumers are excited about this tech again — but many possibilities haven't made it to market. Yet.
Automatic photo tagging makes a move
In 2015, the most common uses of automatic photo tagging were personal photos, as on Facebook and personal photo collections. As 2016 and 2017 unfolded, these features became more prominent. Facebook rebranded their automatic tagging feature as a way not just to remove the hassle of individually tagging photos in a mass upload but also to manage a user's identity.
"Powered by the same technology we've used to suggest friends you may want to tag in photos or videos, these new [automatic tagging] features help you find photos that you're not tagged in and help you detect when others might be attempting to use your image as their profile picture," they wrote in a 2017 update.
A photo accompanying Facebook's 2017 report shows that users can now be notified of pictures of them uploaded by other users.
Google, now deep into Google Photos, began offering more types of auto-tagging and auto-sorting as well. By 2017, you could sort not just by date or the place the photo was taken, but by features as nebulous as "skylines":
They also allowed you to group by faces but, unlike Facebook, Google Photo users manually controlled who was automatically tagged and under what title. This was perhaps a nod to their early failures at tagging where they mistook black people for gorillas, which obviously called for changes.
But it also could have been in response to user outrage at Flicker and subsequent research at Cornell that showed that users have a definitive preference over which tags are used for what photos, and what order those tags are presented in. Giving users more power over the naming, ordering and categorization spoke directly to users' desires to better organize their photos.
This is an easy example that shows the widespread commercial uses for automatic photo tagging and facial recognition. In an era where more and more people have years — sometimes even decades — of photos online, keeping track of them and managing how they're used would be a challenging task for users from the '00s on. Automatic photo tagging was and will be a critical tool for finding, gathering and sorting your digital likeness for the foreseeable future.
Personal photo organization wasn't just limited to social providers either. Apple included variations on this theme in their iOS 10, grouping photos by who appears in them:
This is a move that keeps Apple's internal photo ecosystem on par with competitors and encourages users to keep their photos exclusively within the Apple sphere. These updates showcased that more sophisticated technology was ready to be brought consumer-side.
That's important given the size and growth of the photo-sharing industry. In 2016, Deloitte reported that there was a 15% increase in photos shared or stored online, bringing with it a 20% greater network impact. The proliferation of (cheap) digital cameras, photo-sharing sites and social connection through photos, they say, led to users sharing, in one year, 31X the photos taken in an average year of the '90s.
Personal photo tagging and storage have gotten a pretty big boost since 2015. But it's another space that's had arguably more movement: ecommerce.
2016 and 2017 were big years for automatic photo tagging for ecommerce use as well. A paper out of the Indian Institute of Technology in January of 2016 bluntly stated that it was one of the biggest use cases that automatic photo tagging could help:
"The explosive growth of e-commerce products being sold online has made manual annotation infeasible. Without such [automatic] tags it's impossible for customers to be able to find these products. Hence a scalable approach catering to such large number of product images and allocating meaningful tags is essential and could be used to make an efficient tag based product retrieval system."
Categorizing items based on tags generated from images alone had arrived.
The same year, Pinterest rolled out automatic object detection to their visual search after launching a visual search in 2015. Pinterest's visual search was a huge hit — no surprise, given the visual nature of the platform — and the automatic tagging of items was designed to complement it.
"We wanted to make it as simple as possible to start a discovery experience from any [visual search]," they wrote in their announcement. "…[A]utomatic object detection makes visual search a more seamless experience…"
This sentiment is echoed at more traditional ecommerce retailers, like intu, a UK retailer. "It is a new way for consumers to discover products," says Karen Harris, Managing Director of intu Digital. "We wanted to create better discoverability on our site for our consumers, because we have 500+ retailers integrated with us and over 4 million products."
Deep tagging for ecommerce has started to take over the digital commerce space in the last few years. And even where it isn't directly implemented, we're seeing that consumers want to be able to interact with images to get to where they want to go more quickly. Take Instagram's "shoppable posts." Users see a picture with a tag of an item that gives more information and makes for easy purchasing:
This is the same idea as using automatic tagging to create shoppability on Pinterest or even on content sites, like Fashion Lover:
Consumers aren't the only ones who benefit from this trend. Automatic photo tagging is also a great tool for retailers, as it allows them to more easily categorize items for customers without spending the resources to manually tag items. This makes consumer discovery easier and will continue to create a better shopping experience as the AI gets better.
Imagining the horizon
The development of automatic photo tagging has been steady but somewhat slow. Don't expect that to last much longer. Retailers, especially in the ecommerce space, are now releasing features that have fleshed out automatic photo tagging capabilities or other variants, like reverse-image search.
The truth is, there's a lot more going on today. Especially for deep learning services, automatic tagging is getting very good and is ready to be deployed. Deep tagging can pull fabric type, colors, faces, objects, texts, species and composition; it can suggest keywords and localize objects.
In some sense, this is still raw power that has yet to be focused for consumers. There's a lot on the table that hasn't been shaped into features for ecommerce consumers or even widespread back-end features for retailers. But it's coming up, and fast.
We've already seen companies pushing out tools, features and internal processes that rely on sophisticated image technology. Whether it's saving time internally by categorizing items or allowing customers to take furniture measurements via an app, we're finally on the edge of visual technology revolutionizing the way consumers shop.
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Ofer Fryman
Ofer is the CEO and one of the co-founders of Syte. He brings in 22 years of expertise in machine learning and deep learning.
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Apartment Moving Tips To Simplify A Stressful Move!
Every year, people leave their homes and move to New York. Whether you are headed to New York City or different part of New York, you'll have a lot of planning ahead of you. Moving can be expensive, and it can take a lot of work. With that said, there are some things you can do that will help your move to go more smoothly. If you're thinking about a move, take a look at these moving tips. 1.


Landry Arena, Fitchburg, MA to receive a club pass and then submit a consent and release form to Fitchburg State University on their first visit.
The Winter Walking and Jogging Club runs from Oct. 15, 2018 through April 1, 2019.
**I am not a Fitchburg resident, can i use the track?
Strollers ARE allowed, but they ask that the wheels be cleaned off before they use them. Children are allowed, but parents need to fill out a consent and release form, and the children must be with the parent at all times.
** Where can I park?
As far as parking is concerned, you either have to be a student, staff or alumni to obtain a parking permit and they are obtainable from Housing and Residential Services (located in in Aubuchon Hall) between the 8am & 5pm. However, if you are not affiliated with FSU you will have to park on the street.
**What type of track is this?
This is a suspended, 2 lane cement track.


An Italian Restaurant In Hollywood FL Has Updated The Restaurant Menu!
Imagine coming home from a long day of work and not having dinner made. It is too late to start cooking and you are very tired, so what do you do? Luckily, there are plenty of options when you are looking for food, especially when you search for an Italian restaurant near me. Whether you are looking for a restaurant to try with friends, your significant other, or you are just looking for a meal to enjoy by yourself, you have to try Sebastiano's Italian Restaurant in Hollywood FL. It can be hard to decide exactly what you want, especially if you read through menus online before making a decision. With so many great options for Italian food in South Florida, why should you choose Sebastiano's? We are a family oriented business and serve only the freshest ingredients in our dishes. If you have been here before but you are looking for something a little different, do not count us out yet! We have updated our restaurant menu and trust me, this is a menu you don't want to overlook.
These are just the categories of food we offer on our menu. Throughout these mouth watering food categories, we have plenty of options for you to choose from so everyone can find something they love.
Why Did We Update Our Menu?
It is important to us that we keep our customers happy at all times and with so many restaurants in Hollywood FL, we make sure to stand out because it is not just about the food to us, but rather bringing people together over delicious meals. We are committed to all of our consumers and want to make sure we offer up to date information and menu items that they are sure to love. Our restaurant menu is the focal point of our business and we want to always provide you with the freshest, and most comforting Italian meals. Updating our menu is just one way we are dedicated to our consumers. You talked, and we listened.
Published by Sebastiano's Italian Restaurant, on August 3rd, 2017 at 3:46 pm. Filled under: Italian Restaurant Hollywood FL • Comments Off on We have Updated Our Menu!


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Time of Day Benchmark
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A tiny Time of Day service/benchmark

## Prerequisites

 - Ruby
 - Bundler
 - Go
 - NodeJs
 - R

## Usage

```
./benchmark.sh
```


Our mission is to advise the City Council concerning the development and use of parks and recreational facilities.
The board was created by ordinance on January 21, 1992.
The seven board members are appointed by the City Council to serve two-year staggered terms.


This festival is an event that will gather international productions, both 2D and 3D, in the Immersive Cinema field. It is an open invitation to this community, from producers, to students, and planetarium professionals.
To attend is rather easy. Espinho is located close to the Oporto International Airport, served by major international airlines and by a large number of low cost carriers.
Submitting your work is also very easy. This year there is a new content online submission format, simple and fast, no shipping required. We remind you that submissions are opened until the 15th November 2017.
The Immersive Film Festival competitive section will award the best in Fulldome productions, in two categories: Short Pieces (from 1 up to 15 minutes), and complete Fulldome Shows.
Hope to see you all at IFF'17.


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Q: Can you use Azure AD with SharePoint 2010? I will have SharePoint 2010 running in Azure (moving it from another environment).  I'd like to use Azure AD instead of having to stand up domain controllers within Azure.  I have seen articles on doing this with SharePoint 2013, but not SharePoint 2010.
In my case, SharePoint 2010 will run in Azure VMs.  I will use Azure AD Connect (DirSync) to keep our identities synced with the environment.  I believe this will allow the current SharePoint 2010 on-prem connection to seamlessly work after moving SharePoint to Azure, but want to check with others first.

A: You must have Active Directory, thus Domain Controllers, for SharePoint. It's just part of the requirements. Since you mentioned DirSync (or the replacement, AAD Connect), this means you already have Active Directory in place.
What you can do is run SharePoint 2010 on Azure VMs but have a VPN/ExpressRoute connection back to your internal network where your DCs reside. This way your SharePoint/SQL Servers would be joined to Active Directory and you could just use standard AD accounts, no Azure AD complication required.

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STAR: Eight-pointed silver and gold star. The diagonal rays are gold tipped while the vertical & horizontal ones are of silver.The center silver medallion is black enamel and portrays a gold cross with the initials of C.P.K.B. for Saint Prince Vladimir Apostle. Surrounding the center medallion on a red enamel band is the Inscription, USEFULNESS, HONOR, GLORY.
Russian Imperial Standard, and made by EDUARD.
Size: 85 mm in diameter. Weight: 73 gr.
Great condition, original, and very rare.


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A raft plunges into Husum Falls on the White Salmon River.
Culture / Outdoors
Whitewater Rafting Near Portland
Paddle through rushing rapids on these scenic Oregon rivers.
Updated Dec. 9, 2019 4 min read
Whether you're a lifelong rafter or have yet to touch an oar, Oregon's rivers offer plenty of whitewater adventures. You'll conquer rapids, spot wildlife and experience nature in a new way at these spots for whitewater rafting near Portland.
19 miles (30 km) from Portland
The mighty Clackamas River is the largest river on the west side of the Oregon Cascade Range. Offering 47 miles (76 km) of federally protected Wild & Scenic waterway, it flows through the Mt. Hood National Forest. Only an hour from downtown Portland, it also has some of the closest whitewater to the city. Highly popular for half- and full-day excursions, the river is packed with class III+ rapids and wildlife sightings.
March through June for larger rapids; July through August for more technical runs
Blue Sky Rafting
Northwest Whitewater Adventures
Oregon River Experiences
River Drifters
Sandy River
The 55-mile (89 km) Sandy River is navigable all the way from its headwaters on Mount Hood to its entry into the Columbia River. The best rafting experience, however, awaits in the Sandy River Gorge. The gorge features 70 foot (21 m) walls dotted with waterfalls and hanging moss. Located an hour east of Portland, this rushing stretch of river is full of challenging class III and IV rapids.
March through June
Swimming Holes Near Portland
Stay cool all summer long at these serene swimming spots, surrounded by the stunning natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest — and all less than an hour away from Portland.
North Santiam River
70 miles (113 km) from Portland
Located 23 miles (37 km) from the state capital of Salem, the North Santiam River offers a full day of rafting and relaxation. Families will want to visit in August when the river is relatively calm. For a more intense experience, visit in September or October, when spillover from the Detroit Dam increases the river's water levels.
August through October
White Salmon River
Formed by old lava tubes, the 44-mile (71 km) White Salmon River flows from the glaciers of Washington's Mount Adams into the lush Columbia Gorge. Unlike many nearby rivers, the White Salmon is navigable almost year-round, making it a popular destination for autumn adventures. A typical half-day trip beings in BZ Corner, Washington, located 90 minutes northeast of Portland. The trip ends at the 12-foot (4 m) Husum Falls, one of the tallest commercially raftable waterfalls in the country. Don't worry, though — you can skip the plunge if you prefer.
All Adventures Rafting
100 miles (161 km) from Portland
At 252 miles (405 km), the mighty Deschutes River offers plenty of options for visitors of all ages and abilities. First-timers will want to start with a half- or full-day trip down the Wild & Scenic Lower Deschutes. Meanwhile, more dedicated rafters can spend two to five days vacationing on the river. The most popular starting spot, Maupin, is located 100 miles (161 km) southeast of Portland.
May through October
Ouzel Outfitters
Kayaking in and Around Portland
When the weather heats up, folks flock to the water. For paddlers, that typically means hitting one the many rivers in and near Portland.
More Oregon Whitewater Rafting Destinations
A great choice for beginners, the McKenzie River flows west from Central Oregon toward the city of Eugene. Located two hours south of Portland, the half-day trip is perfect for kids. Gear up for long stretches of placid water peppered with class II and III rapids.
North Umpqua River
Visitors to famous Crater Lake National Park can make a slight detour to the North Umpqua. This boulder-strewn river features more rapids per mile than most other waterways. Expect an exciting day of class II and III rapids. More experienced rafters can try the class IV "Pinball" (named for its tendency to make rafts ricochet around).
May through July
256 (412 km) from Portland
One of the country's most celebrated rafting destinations is the Wild & Scenic section of the Rogue River. It offers 40 miles (64 km) of floating, hiking, bird-watching, wildlife spotting and sightseeing of historic lodges and cabins. A typical trip spans three to five days, starting in the Southern Oregon town, Merlin (four hours south of Portland).
June through September
Upper Klamath River
Skilled rafters love the thrill of navigating 30 major class III to IV+ rapids on the Upper Klamath River. A one or two-day trip typically starts in Ashland, a vibrant Southern Oregon town near the California border.
May through September
Enjoying the Outdoors
Camping Near Portland
To truly appreciate the wilds of the Pacific Northwest, spend a memorable night under the stars at these scenic campsites located within an easy drive from the city.
Favorite Hiking Spots in Portland
Put on some comfortable shoes and start walking — you'll be surprised how easy Portland makes it.
Famous for its abundance of picturesque waterfalls, Silver Falls State Park is the largest state park in Oregon at 9,200 acres (3723 hectares) and one of the most popular.


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I can get a bit defensive about the UK sometimes (in the same way that I can get a bit defensive about the US, despite everything!) but lol the queen stuff is out of control:
Two football teams who played the weekend after the Queen died are being investigated and will be "dealt with in the strongest possible terms" https://t.co/i4lFrLOTIC
— Sky News (@SkyNews) September 14, 2022
Football (soccer, in the local lingo) was singled out for enforced cancellation because it was believed that, unlike the fans of other sports, the football fans would fail to be respectful enough.


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Montagne Alavaise (Montaña Alavesa en espagnol ou Arabako Mendialdea en basque) est une comarque dans la province d'Alava, dans la Communauté autonome basque en Espagne.

Le nom officiel de la comarque est Arabako Mendialdea / Montaña Alavesa et la capitale de la comarque est Campezo.

Géographie

Histoire

Communes

(*) Ne sont pas des municipalités

Références

Voir aussi
 Liste des comarques de la communauté autonome du Pays basque

Comarque en Alava


At some point in the mid 1990s, and inspired by my readings in postcolonial literary theory, I came up with the idea of "decolonizing the classroom." In teaching literature, I wanted some overarching and guiding theory towards giving students a greater sense of autonomy over and responsibility for their own learning, and this seemed like an apt metaphor for the kind of processes that I wanted to encourage. I developed the concept of the Interpretive Problem (IP). I defined it as a question that we might wrestle with or disagree about as readers; to that extent, puzzling out the solution to an IP might enhance the aesthetic experience of reading that text and open up new insights.


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LIVE – NRJ Music Awards 2018: DJ Snid called DJ of the Year
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For their 20th edition, NRJ Music Awards have seen a lot. Transmitted live at TF1, the ceremony offers a red carpet of choice, with performances expected from international stars such as Muse, Black Eyes Peas, Shawn Mendes and Dua Lipa. And the best of the French pop of the moment. Christine and the Queen, Gims teacher and Vianney, Eddy of Pretto, Jain, Patrick Bruel, Orelsan or Jenifer … It's hard to be more eclectic!
The most anticipated event is apparently the performance of David Hallyday, Johnny's son, who will perform my "Last Letter", a song written in the memory of his father. While the legal battle around the rocker's legacy could soon begin again, the feeling – and the words – of his older one should not fail to challenge fans, a few weeks after the triumphant release of the album "My Country it is love".
The ATV driver was seriously injured by a deliberately stretched cable between two trees – 7sur7
These very big gifts he can not enjoy …
Ledger, a bored safe for your bitcoins – The French king of Bitcoin is the victim of a new hack!
Lior Refaelov elected 67th Golden Shoe, ending 54 years of waiting for Antwerp
The Spanish streamer launches a record for simultaneous viewers
At 27 and 82 they fight with fists and snow shovels in Raeren


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Ellen comes out as mean
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August 1, 2020 by Anders Yates(@AndersYates)
HOLLYWOOD, CA – Following a long period of open rumours, clear public hints and confirmed direct accounts, popular daytime talk show host Ellen DeGeneres has officially come out as mean.
The announcement was yelled into the face of her publicist earlier today.
Ellen's big coming out as mean had originally been planned to be part of a very special episode of the Ellen DeGeneres Show later this season. The character played by Ellen DeGeneres on her daytime talk show was originally written to be nice, but Ellen felt that it was time for her to allow her true personality to shine through on air. Plans were made to stage an episode of the Ellen DeGeneres Show where she would come out as mean by telling the studio audience what she really thought of them, but those plans were interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The future of Ellen DeGeneres' daytime television career has been cast in doubt, as many in Hollywood believe that America is simply not ready to embrace a talk show host who is openly mean. Insiders claim that her meanness was easier for America to digest when it was only hinted at by hanging around with war criminals, and that daytime viewers are not ready to have Ellen's meanness broadcast so flagrantly.
Members of the mean community have embraced Ellen's announcement: "On behalf of all parking enforcement officers, piano teachers, and insurance company lawyers, we welcome Ellen as a proud member of our community," stated the president of the advocacy group MEAN (Mission to Embrace Assholes Now).
Following her announcement, several journalists asked Ellen what her next steps would be as an openly mean person, but instead of a response they were all told "you need to chew some gum because your breath is disgusting and you should be embarrassed."
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Combine all ingredients to form a meatloaf-type consistency. Place in ring (gelatin mold) which has been coated with non-stick cooking spray. Cover and refrigerate overnight. Before cooking, remove the mold and place the sausage on a baking rack in a shallow pan or on a broiler pan. Cook for 45 minutes uncovered, the final 10 to 15 minutes, cover with foil. Bake at 325 to 350 degrees. Your guests will love it!


When dealing with SEO ambiguity, it's important first to note that the human brain is predisposed to seeking out meaningful and meaningless patterns. This concept, defined as "patternicity" by Skeptic Magazine founder, Michael Shermer, potentially creates two types of cognitive errors: we believe a pattern is real when it is not (Type 1), or we don't believe a pattern is real when it is (Type 2).
As a survival mechanism, our brains have steadily evolved to embrace Type 1 errors, assuming that all patterns are real and meaningful. In SEO language, this means that overall, we are prone to creating data correlations where none exist.
In a recent Moz blog, Rand Fishkin pointed out that data correlations do not always give way to causation, and I tend to agree. Imagine you notice a data spike and need to determine whether it reflects a reporting error or is related to a specific change you made. Your pattern-detecting brain is inherently wired to associate the mystery with similar past experiences. This leaves you vulnerable to making a cognitive Type 1 or Type 2 error.
But if you take a moment and opt for a different route, such as using social data correlations (as Brian Massey did) to rule out a reporting error, you may have better results. When faced with ambiguous situations like this, just asking yourself whether you are inching toward a Type 1 or Type 2 error can help avoid false data correlations.
Patternicity also primes us to see the same pattern over and over again. The decision to change title tags is a great example of SEO ambiguity that can easily fall into this category. For example, perhaps you changed title tags in the past and witnessed an impact on rankings of those pages. But will changing the home page title tag impact rankings on other pages at risk as well?
If you assume a home page title tag change will not impact rankings on other pages, the potential risk of this decision may result in a Type 2 error. Making a decision based on the belief that the change will impact rankings avoids risk, but may result in a Type 1 error. Right or wrong, you are hard-wired to potentially make either a Type 1 or Type 2 cognitive error. And in true patternicity form, the more out of control we feel, the more patterns we find. Knowing this and arming yourself with more data will allow you to consciously avoid this type of SEO ambiguity.
Although pattern recognition certainly has its flaws, technology has made tremendous advances toward algorithms that use pattern recognition effectively. In response to the review arms race, or the current trend of buying or selling favorable product reviews, Cornell researchers developed an algorithm in 2011 that detected fake online reviews with a 90 percent success rate. The algorithm's capacity for pattern recognition surpassed human ability to accurately detect the same patterns.
Once we are aware that our brains default to pattern seeking in response to ambiguous situations, it becomes easier to see how we are pre-wired toward cognitive limitation. When it comes to SEO ambiguity, remember, "this" isn't always connected to "that." The best defense is to be aware of this limitation. Think creatively and let go of any assumptions. And above all, test for statistical significance, while leaving room for possibility and results.


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Q: Is there a chain rule for Taylor operators? Given a commutative ring $R$, write $D_n(R)$ for the commutative ring $R[\varepsilon]/\varepsilon^n.$
In this notation, the taking of degree $n$ Taylor polynomials can be viewed as a function $$T_n : \mathcal{C}^\infty(\mathbb{R}) \rightarrow D_n(\mathcal{C}^\infty(\mathbb{R})), \qquad f \mapsto \sum_{i = 0}^n \frac{f^{(i)}}{i!}\varepsilon^i.$$
For example: $$T_2(x^5) = x^5+5x^4 \varepsilon+10x^3\varepsilon^2$$
It's well known that $T_n$ is an $\mathbb{R}$-algebra homomorphism; linearity is obvious, and the fact that $T_n$ preserves products is a fundamental consequence of the product rule. Long story short, I was wondering

Question. Is there's a useful formula for the $n$th-order Taylor polynomial of a composite? As in: $$T_n(g \circ f) \;= \;\cdots$$

I've been stuffing around with this for about half an hour or so, but to little avail.


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Q: 'The target account name is incorrect'-IOException with DirectoryInfo.GetFiles I am doing this and this was working before:
var di = new DirectoryInfo("FolderOnSharedDrive");
var files = di.GetFiles("*");

I have now this exception and the only difference I can see is that I have now Windows 10.
Exception thrown: 'System.IO.IOException' in mscorlib.dll
Additional information: The target account name is incorrect.

A: Try to use the IP address instead of the computer name.

A: Problem solved by deregistering the machine completely from the network.


Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met György Jakubinyi, the archbishop of Alba Iulia (Gyulafehérvár), to discuss Pope Francis's visit to Romania and investments crucial for the protection and religious life of ethnic Hungarians in Romania, the prime minister's press chief said. The archbishop briefed the prime minister on current affairs in the central Romanian archdiocese, Bertalan Havasi said. They discussed investments in the area, which the Hungarian government is ready to continue to fund as it did in the past, such as the reconstruction of the St Michael church in Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár), in western Romania, Havasi said. Orbán and Jakubinyi also discussed Pope Francis's forthcoming visit to Romania. The pontiff will visit, among other sites, Şumuleu Ciuc (Csíksomlyó), a traditional place of pilgrimage for Hungarians, in early June. The Hungarian government and the archdiocese will closely cooperate to ensure smooth organisation, Havasi said.


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Groupes de discussion
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2010 Toronto
2008 Girona et Perpignan
2006 Ann Arbor
2004 Utrecht
2002 Montréal
2000 Udine
1998 Washington, D.C.
1994 New York
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From Werner Nekes: Object Lessons in Wonder
by Colin Williamson
Werner Nekes in Film Before Film. Reproduced from Media Magica I, directed by Werner Nekes (1986), DVD.
Newer, more glamorous technologies still glimmer with mysterious and sensual ancestors.
-Barbara Stafford, Devices of Wonder (2001)
In a recent article published in The Moving Image, Meredith Bak makes the convincing case for thinking about "play" both as a key dimension of the experience of pre-cinematic optical toys—devices that used play as a technique of education (see also Steven Johnson's Wonderland)—and as a method of researching them. Writing about working with pre-cinema collections, she asks, "What exactly does it mean to play with these toys in the archival context?" [1] For Bak, pre-cinema research is enriched and expanded by experiential methods—like assuming the role of users—that promote improvisation and experimentation. The idea gets at something essential to the work that many historians, artists, archivists, curators, and collectors do: handling artifacts involves an open-ended-ness that can lead to innovative and surprising ways of seeing, thinking about, and interpreting the past. The experience may be a familiar one, but it got me thinking about something unexpected: What might a model of play afford in the context of teaching pre-cinema and early film history?
An animated chromatrope. Reproduced from Media Magica I, directed by Werner Nekes (1986), DVD.
I pose the question because, increasingly, I find myself returning to my first encounter with early cinema studies for insight into how to connect students in meaningful ways to film history. As an undergraduate student in a film history course taught by Peter Bloom, I watched Film Before Film (Was geschah wirklich zwischen den Bildern, 1986), the first installment of the Media Magica series by experimental filmmaker and collector Werner Nekes, who passed away earlier this year. Media Magica is an animated encyclopedia of objects taken from Nekes's vast collection of optical devices and related ephemera. What struck me was the spirit of wonder that Nekes brought to displaying his collection as a site of serious research and an opportunity to play with the mesmerizing movements, metamorphoses, and illusions of optical devices. As part of the course, I also had the great opportunity to visit the Getty Research Institute, where Frances Terpak and archivists guided students through a hands-on experience of objects from the Nekes collection, which had been assembled in a way that transformed the reading room into a dizzying cabinet of curiosities. (This model was the basis for related exhibitions at the Getty Museum, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, and the Hayward Gallery in the early 2000s.) Encountering the physical objects in this way, I experienced the cinema for the first time as part of an unfamiliar constellation of media and discourses spanning centuries. I also began to understand how deeply such objects are rooted in their historical contexts, and how so-called old media have strange afterlives—"sensual ancestors," as Barbara Stafford puts it—that extend well beyond the horizons of their original uses. The encounter was quite formative—I can trace the close relationship I now have with early cinema studies and media archaeology to watching Media Magica and operating a box-form camera obscura at the Getty Research Institute.
Granting that such opportunities and experiences for students may be rare, particularly at the undergraduate level, I'm interested in thinking broadly about what the "devices of wonder" we work with can teach us about teaching in our field. Sean Cubitt makes a helpful point along these lines when he writes of Nekes's optical toys,
While it is legitimate to place these devices in the past of cinema, it is misleading to try to keep them there to the exclusion of […] other histories. Their abiding fascination is about the possibility of playing with them in the present, about the disorienting dislocation we experience when confronting once-familiar, now forgotten, relics of the recent past, about their difference from contemporary media as well as their similarities. [2]
Animated phenakistoscopes. Reproduced from Media Magica I, directed by Werner Nekes (1986), DVD.
Nekes explored this in his film-making and collecting by creatively combining the old and the new in ways that rendered both categories unfamiliar and mutually illuminating. (Thomas Elsaesser speaks of something similar when he calls for a "hermeneutics of astonishment" in which scholarly research is animated by the same "wonder and disbelief" that historical film and media generated in their original contexts. [3]) There is a pedagogical value in this kind of creative work with objects and ephemera that I find at once compelling and elusive. For example, what specific forms—e.g., projects, exercises, object lessons, etc.—might "playing with" pre-cinema and early film history take in the classroom? How can that play be balanced with rigorous historical inquiry to create experiences that are productive and impactful for students? And, especially given recent trends in higher education, cinema studies, and the digital humanities (the classroom applications for the Media Ecology Project come to mind), what roles can new media and "making," "interactivity," "collaboration," and "creativity" play in how students learn about early cinema?
In my own film history courses, I have started assigning students traditional research papers alongside creative projects, like making short trick films and developing multi-media dossiers with digital animations of chronophotographs and pre-cinematic media. I am curious to know if and how members of the Domitor community are experimenting or have experimented pedagogically along these lines, generally as a way of engaging students in the classroom and specifically in the service of promoting student involvement in early cinema studies. I write this admittedly from a place of nostalgia marked by Nekes's passing but also in the hopes of opening up a dialog about how we can continue to create opportunities for students to be inspired by the "disorienting dislocations" that, I imagine, initially drew Nekes and many of us to the study of early cinema.
[1] Meredith Bak, "The Ludic Archive: The Work of Playing with Optical Toys," The Moving Image 16, 1 (Spring 2016): 8.
[2] Sean Cubitt, "Observations on the History and Uses of Animation Occasioned by the Exhibition Eyes, Lies and Illusions Selected from Works in the Werner Nekes Collection," animation: an interdisciplinary journal 3, 1 (2008): 53-54.
[3] Thomas Elsaesser, "The New Film History as Media Archaeology," Cinémas 14, 2-3 (2004): 113.
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Field Notes from Women and the Silent Screen (Amsterdam, May 2019)
In memoriam: Madeleine Malthête-Méliès (1923-2018)
In Defense of the Poor Digitization: Reflections on the Domitor Journals Project -Michael Cowan
Treasure! Mysterious cans at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto
The Tenth International Convention of the Magic Lantern Society
Art, Metamorphosis, and Le Giornate del Cinema Muto
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In this episode, Mitchell Levy @HappyAbout and his co-host for the month of February, Lori Ruff @loriruff, hang out with Migdalia Diaz @_MigdaliaDiaz, president of ALPFA: Association of Latino Professionals For America, Boston Chapter (http://www.alpfa-boston.org). The interview continues the discussion from the last episode about mentoring and how non-profit organizations like ALPFA have been helping many young Latino and even non-Latino professionals advance to leadership positions and succeed in their chosen career. Migdalia was referred by Lori as an inspirational leader who has been sought out by other chapter presidents of ALPFA for motivation and advice. Having taken a key role in steering such a big organization, Migdalia points out that being a leader allows you to think in ways that you may not in any other opportunity. She also notes that, as a mentor to other chapter presidents, all that was needed was to give them a good nudge and encouraging words like, "Just get out there and do it!" Migdalia sees mentorship as an opportunity to give back, and that it becomes a different relationship and a different conversation when you invest in the development of a person.
February 27, 2015 in ThoughtLeaderLife.


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Q: Failing to display joining key on SQL Joins I have standard 2 tables - I want to display highest selling products (by Sale) in each Group
Product_Info_Table ->
Product_Id, Product_Group, Product_Name
P1  BOOK    3 Musketeers
P10 SHOES   NIKE Fly
P11 SHOES   NIKE Thunder
P12 SHOES   ADIDAS 10
P13 SHOES   ADIDAS 09
P14 BOOK    Harry Potter 1
P15 BOOK    Harry Potter 2
P2  BOOK    HARRY POTTER 7
P3  ELECTRONICS NIKON 5600i
P4  ELECTRONICS CANNON 4d
P5  ELECTRONICS CANNON 5d
P6  VIDEO DVD   LOR 1
P7  VIDEO DVD   LOR 2
P8  VIDEO DVD   HP 1
P9  VIDEO DVD   HP 2

And Product_Sales_Table
Product_ID SALES_AMT
P1  10
P10 8
P11 45
P2  5
P3  5
P4  25
P5  15
P6  35
P7  5
P8  100
P9  30

I did the following:
SELECT product_info_table.PRODUCT_GROUP,
product_info_table.PRODUCT_ID,
MAX(IFNULL(sales_fact_table.SALES_AMT,0))

FROM product_info_table
INNER JOIN product_sales_table
ON product_sales_table.PRODUCT_ID = product_info_table.PRODUCT_ID

GROUP BY product_info_table.PRODUCT_GROUP

Result:
Product_Group Id    Max_Sales
BOOK          P1    10
SHOES         P10   45
ELECTRONICS   P3    25
VIDEO DVD     P6    100

Error: Strangely, this result correctly identifies the max selling products in each category however, the Product_Id is not shown correctly, by default the 1st product_id is picked up in each category.
What am I doing wrong to display the correct product_id.
Desired_Result
Product_Group Id    Max_Sales
BOOK          P1    10
SHOES         P11   45
ELECTRONICS   P4    25
VIDEO DVD     P8    100

A: Use window functions not aggregation:
SELECT p.*
FROM (SELECT pit.PRODUCT_GROUP, pit.PRODUCT_ID, pst.SALES_AMT,
             ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY pit.PRODUCT_GROUP ORDER BY pst.SALES_AMT DESC) as seqnum
      FROM product_info_table pit JOIN
           product_sales_table pst
           ON pst.PRODUCT_ID = pit.PRODUCT_ID
     ) p
WHERE seqnum = 1;


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Updated : 2013.06.05 01:24:04
Looking back on our lives, everybody has their happiest and worst memories. For most people, those two must exist separately. When I look back on my days in the U.S., however, the memory of how hard it was overlaps that of how desperately I tried to make myself happy.
Having a comparatively well-off childhood, I spent my college years in Korea without much difficulty, just going back and forth between school and church. I had vaguely dreamt of studying abroad while I was working overseas, but had not even expected I would abruptly go to the U.S. to pursue my degree much earlier than I planned.
When I think about my days of studying in the U.S., the first thing that occurs to me is my study group members. Even before the semester began in September, I had suffered from a dust allergy while I was studying at the library of Law School in the University of Wisconsin. The symptom was not that severe when I was in Korea, but the completely carpeted American buildings worsened my allergy to the degree that I had teary eyes and a runny nose all day long from the moment that I opened my eyes in the morning until when I fell asleep. Andrea, one of the members of my study group who became my friend as well, later told me that she believed I cried for homesickness. That was why she talked to me first to become friends and suggested that we study together in the study group.
It was easy to join a white students' study group, but to survive was not easy. Being the top students in the class of 250 students, the members were not lenient with an Asian female student like me. Renee, who explicitly opposed my joining the group, seemed to want me to voluntarily give up as she kept indicating that I lowered the quality level of the group and I did not reach up to the level as I didn't even read Latin.
The other four were also cold-hearted. They gave me an assignment every day, saying that Renee was not wrong and I really needed to make up for my shortcomings but I would be fine as long as I made it. So I had to do my homework from my friends intending to make me smarter, though it was hard enough for me to do my coursework. Being expelled from the group felt seriously dishonorable, so I spent a year doing all the homework till every early morning. I kept collapsing on the street due to numerous symptoms that doctors could not even diagnose. However I appreciated the members, feeling that if it had not been for them I would have been frustrated with other matters and wanted to go back to Korea. Working together for two years we six had never eaten together. They always say that being members of a study group means studying together, so if I want to have a good time I can do whatever I want to do with a pal outside the group. It felt so cold then, but now I am truly grateful. Those days in the U.S. made me a better, mature person. Even though I do not wish to go back, I still miss those days. I truly appreciate my friends who helped me grow.
Gachonians remind me of my younger self, before experiencing the U.S., and I believe they are wonderful people who can grow much more as I did. I want to help them become better people who believe in themselves. They say learning is a benevolent process in which we can understand and be understood. I hope we all can build respect and trust for each other by way of intellectual communication.
-Park, Seonuk (Department of Law)
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