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Radiation doses in interventional radiology procedures: The RAD-IR study part I: Overall measures of dose
Donald L. Miller, Stephen Balter, Patricia E. Cole, Hollington T. Lu, Beth A. Schueler, Michael Geisinger, Alejandro Berenstein, Robin Albert, Jeffrey D. Georgia, Patrick T. Noonan, John F. Cardella, James St. George, Eric J. Russell, Tim W. Malisch, Robert L. Vogelzang, George L. Miller, Jon Anderson
Radiology - Physics
PURPOSE: To determine patient radiation doses for interventional radiology and neuroradiology procedures, to identify procedures associated with higher radiation doses, and to determine the effects of various parameters on patient doses. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A prospective observational study was performed at seven academic medical centers. Each site contributed demographic and radiation dose data for subjects undergoing specific procedures in fluoroscopic suites equipped with built-in cumulative dose (CD) and dose-area-product (DAP) measurement capability compliant with International Electrotechnical Commission standard 60601-2-43. The accuracy of the dosimetry was confirmed by comprehensive measurements and by frequent consistency checks performed over the course of the study. RESULTS: Data were collected on 2,142 instances of interventional radiology procedures, 48 comprehensive physics evaluations, and 581 periodic consistency checks from the 12 fluoroscopic units in the study. There were wide variations in dose and statistically significant differences in fluoroscopy time, number of images, DAP, and CD for different instances of the same procedure, depending on the nature of the lesion, its anatomic location, and the complexity of the procedure. For the 2,142 instances, observed CD and DAP correlate well overall (r = 0.83, P < .000001), but correlation in individual instances is poor. The same is true for the correlation between fluoroscopy time and CD (r = 0.79, P < .000001). The correlation between fluoroscopy time and DAP (r = 0.60, P < .000001) is not as good. In 6% of instances (128 of 2,142), which were principally embolization procedures, transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) procedures, and renal/visceral artery stent placements, CD was greater than 5 Gy. CONCLUSIONS: Most procedures studied can result in clinically significant radiation dose to the patient, even when performed by trained operators with use of dose-reducing technology and modem fluoroscopic equipment. Embolization procedures, TIPS creation, and renal/visceral artery stent placement are associated with a substantial likelihood of clinically significant patient dose. At minimum, patient dose data should be recorded in the medical record for these three types of procedures. These data should include indicators of the risk of deterministic effects as well as the risk of stochastic effects.
Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
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Miller, D. L., Balter, S., Cole, P. E., Lu, H. T., Schueler, B. A., Geisinger, M., Berenstein, A., Albert, R., Georgia, J. D., Noonan, P. T., Cardella, J. F., St. George, J., Russell, E. J., Malisch, T. W., Vogelzang, R. L., Miller, G. L., & Anderson, J. (2003). Radiation doses in interventional radiology procedures: The RAD-IR study part I: Overall measures of dose. Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, 14(6), 711-727. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.RVI.0000079980.80153.4B
Radiation doses in interventional radiology procedures : The RAD-IR study part I: Overall measures of dose. / Miller, Donald L.; Balter, Stephen; Cole, Patricia E.; Lu, Hollington T.; Schueler, Beth A.; Geisinger, Michael; Berenstein, Alejandro; Albert, Robin; Georgia, Jeffrey D.; Noonan, Patrick T.; Cardella, John F.; St. George, James; Russell, Eric J.; Malisch, Tim W.; Vogelzang, Robert L.; Miller, George L.; Anderson, Jon.
In: Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Vol. 14, No. 6, 01.06.2003, p. 711-727.
Miller, DL, Balter, S, Cole, PE, Lu, HT, Schueler, BA, Geisinger, M, Berenstein, A, Albert, R, Georgia, JD, Noonan, PT, Cardella, JF, St. George, J, Russell, EJ, Malisch, TW, Vogelzang, RL, Miller, GL & Anderson, J 2003, 'Radiation doses in interventional radiology procedures: The RAD-IR study part I: Overall measures of dose', Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 711-727. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.RVI.0000079980.80153.4B
Miller DL, Balter S, Cole PE, Lu HT, Schueler BA, Geisinger M et al. Radiation doses in interventional radiology procedures: The RAD-IR study part I: Overall measures of dose. Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology. 2003 Jun 1;14(6):711-727. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.RVI.0000079980.80153.4B
Miller, Donald L. ; Balter, Stephen ; Cole, Patricia E. ; Lu, Hollington T. ; Schueler, Beth A. ; Geisinger, Michael ; Berenstein, Alejandro ; Albert, Robin ; Georgia, Jeffrey D. ; Noonan, Patrick T. ; Cardella, John F. ; St. George, James ; Russell, Eric J. ; Malisch, Tim W. ; Vogelzang, Robert L. ; Miller, George L. ; Anderson, Jon. / Radiation doses in interventional radiology procedures : The RAD-IR study part I: Overall measures of dose. In: Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology. 2003 ; Vol. 14, No. 6. pp. 711-727.
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The Higher Education Price Index  (HEPI) is a measure of the inflation rate applicable to United States  higher education. HEPI measures the average relative level in the prices of a fixed market basket of goods and services typically purchased by colleges and universities through current-fund educational and general expenditures, excluding expenditures for research.  Educational and general expenditures include the functions of instruction and departmental research, extension and public services, educational programs such as workshops and instructional institutes supported by sponsors outside the institution, student services, general administration and expenses, staff benefits, libraries, and operation and maintenance of the physical plant.  Sponsored research, sales and services of education departments, and auxiliary enterprises are not priced by HEPI. The index is calculated on a fiscal year basis ending each June 30,  by the Commonfund Institute, a branch of Commonfund, a non-profit organization devoted to the management of college and university endowments.

History and current status
 Throughout the years, Halstead continued to update the HEPI.

Since 2005, HEPI has been maintained by the Commonfund Institute, and it relies upon eight separate "cost factors" to construct the overall index. These factors are: faculty salaries, administrative salaries, clerical salaries, service employee salaries, fringe benefits, miscellaneous services, supplies and materials, and utilities.

In 2005, Commonfund Institute assumed responsibility for the index and the proprietary model used to calculate HEPI's values from Research Associates of Washington, D.C. In 2007, in keeping with its commitment to improving and expanding the index, Commonfund Institute inaugurated two additional HEPI services: HEPI calculated by type of institution for six different categories of public and private colleges and universities, and the monthly release, beginning in January of each year, of a forecast of HEPI for the coming fiscal year end.

In 2009, two further improvements were introduced, aligning the estimates and the final HEPI calculation with the July–June academic fiscal year and making available HEPI calculated by region. HEPI forecasts are provided monthly from January through June of each year. The HEPI report is published using the July HEPI figure, which may be subject to a further small adjustment when the last of the underlying data items are finalized in November.

Five characteristics
HEPI has five critical characteristics that should be kept in mind when using it:
 HEPI measures general inflation affecting all colleges and universities in the sector, not any specific institution.
 In measuring average prices, HEPI reflects the quality of typically employed commodities.  Any institutional departure in real expenditure from these averages represents a quality differential.
 HEPI measures price changes for a fixed market basket of goods and services, so it does not account for the budgetary needs of institutions to buy more or better items to meet enrollment expansion, quality improvement, and competition.
 The market basket has remained fixed over the years, which means that the index assumes a typical budget weighting of, for example, the number of gallons of fuel oil versus the number of professors.
 Specialized indices for specific geographic regions and types of institution are included in the annual HEPI Report, but because the data series for which specialized information is available account for less than half of the factor weightings in the HEPI equation, they are of necessity approximations and should be used accordingly.

Methodology

Calculation
From 1961-2001, HEPI was based on the price data for 25 budget components organized into eight categories – more than 100 items in all. From fiscal year 2002 on, HEPI has been calculated using a regression formula.

The weighting of each expenditure category is determined by regression analysis (though it appears as though a sample of just 41 colleges is used) that essentially reports the share of total spending for each category. The heaviest weights accompany faculty and clerical salaries and fringe benefits, reflecting their relatively large share in college and university budgets."

The regression-based index values are essentially equal to those resulting from complete data. The R-squared value for the regression is .999997809. Regression-calculated HEPI values are not likely to vary from fully compiled values by more than 0.1 parts out of 200.0 or ± 0.05%.

Enhanced methodology
Beginning in 2009, the estimates and the final HEPI calculation were calculated using data series that were entirely aligned with the July–June academic fiscal year. Prior to that, the index had been calculated using data drawn from data series with various monthly endpoints. The resulting timing differences in the underlying data had sometimes led HEPI to seem too high or too low relative to the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Adoption of the improved methodology led to a restatement of HEPI for the period 2002-2008.

HEPI has useful tools for measuring inflation – but they have to be used appropriately:
 HEPI is useful as an overall measure of inflation affecting the higher education sector, just as consumers everywhere use the national Consumer Price Index (CPI) as a general measure of family purchasing power.
 When HEPI is used in an educational context to adjust faculty and other college and university personnel salaries, it does not result in constant purchasing power -- a calculation more closely related to CPI. The current HEPI does not contain this disclaimer, however.

Recent values
2020 Fiscal year (June 2020 preliminary estimate): 2.2%
2019 Fiscal year: 2.5%
2018 Fiscal year: 2.8%
2017 Fiscal year: 3.7%
2016 Fiscal year: 1.8%
2015 Fiscal year: 2.1%
2014 Fiscal year: 3.0%
2013 Fiscal year: 1.6%
2012 Fiscal year: 1.7%
2011 Fiscal year: 2.3%
2010 Fiscal year: 0.9%
2009 Fiscal year: 2.3%
2008 Fiscal year: 3.6% (as compared to a 3.7% increase in the Consumer Price Index. This marked the first time since 1995 that the Higher Education Price Index for a year was less than the Consumer Price Index.)
2007 Fiscal year: 3.4% (as compared to a 2.6% increase in the Consumer Price Index.
2006 Fiscal year: 5.0%
2005 Fiscal year: 3.6%
2004 Fiscal year: 4.6%
2003 Fiscal year: 2.9%
2002 Fiscal year: 4.1%

References

External links
Commonfund web site
Description of HEPI

Higher education
Price indices

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Justice for the "Restless Dead"
August 23, 2021 • By Adela Pineda Franco
The Restless Dead: Necrowriting and Disappropriation
HOW WILL LITERATURE — and the literary communities from which it spawns — survive in an era of deep technological change? Although this question is pertinent to the age of social media and screen saturation, it has vexed artists and philosophers for generations. In "The Storyteller," Walter Benjamin explored the fragmenting effects of industrial capitalism on communal experience, describing the historical decline of oral cultures and the rise of print media at the beginning of modern times. "The birthplace of the novel," he wrote, "is the solitary individual, who is no longer able to express himself by giving examples of his most important concerns, is himself uncounseled, and cannot counsel others." Yet Benjamin also foresaw the liberating potential of mass-produced, technological media. In his quest to rehabilitate a politicized sense of social experience beyond the atavistic cult of tradition in the age of fascism, Benjamin endorsed the radical conceptualism brought about by the early avant-garde movements, which drew attention to the mass-produced and mechanical nature of modern media.
Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza endorses Benjamin's confidence in technology's democratizing aspects yet grows cautious about sheer literary experimentation as the adequate way to bring the lonely novelist out of the ivory tower and circumvent reactionary politics. In the 21st century, demystifying and decentering the authorial figure as the consciousness behind the literary work is no longer a radical stance. It has become an historical consequence of information processing. Hence, the main challenge posed by the digital age involves rethinking the way we envision and recreate identity and community.
Rivera Garza's goal is to bring the individual writer back into the commons-based workforce of today's writing by moving from European-based notions of community to Mesoamerican understandings of mutual belonging in language and in collective work, or, what she calls communality. "[C]an communalist writing be formally bold and aesthetically radical while simultaneously demanding an organic connection with the community that has grounded it and gives it meaning?" Rivera Garza's resounding affirmative response to this question opens up manifold reflections on the task of writing in the 21st century in The Restless Dead: Necrowriting and Disappropriation, a collection of essays originally published in Spanish as Los muertos indóciles: Necroescrituras y desapropiación.
Most of the compiled texts in this volume were originally written as journalistic pieces that appeared in Mexican newspapers between 2006 and 2013. Marked by the War on Drugs, which brought about overwhelming violence to civilians in Mexico, these years were also decisive for Rivera Garza's writing career in the United States, as she became a key figure in the establishment of Spanish creative writing programs in the North American academia. The English version of Los muertos indóciles, then, entailed not only a close collaboration between Rivera Garza and the translator, poet Robin Myers, but also a thoroughgoing recontextualization to meet the requirements of new readers and circumstances. Through revision and rewriting, Rivera Garza also developed a peculiar vantage point, which she herself defines as that of "a migrant of color on the US-Mexico border." Benjamin's concern with the imperative to politicize writing resurfaces in The Restless Dead. Rivera Garza does not confront mechanical reproduction and Nazi annihilation, but rather the unprecedented digital revolution in the era of punitive anti-immigration policies, neofascism, and a permanent state of crisis.
If the novelist was the logical consequence of the marketplace inaugurated by print culture, as Benjamin argued, then the crowdsourced creativity of networked communities is the result of the continuous and flexible flow of information inaugurated by the internet era. In this regard, closing the loop between Benjamin's image of the lonely novelist at the beginning of the print era and Rivera Garza's idea of communal writing at the moment of print culture's technological obsolescence seems logical. How can we reconnect in a world in which meaning is constantly displaced by a Babelic multiplicity of languages and an incessant deluge of "content"?
The verbal excesses of modern literature broke through the power of speech-inaction that used to characterize oral address. Modern literature revealed its multiple related senses the same way fossils bore evidence of a defunct era, according to philosopher Jacques Rancière, who also considered this lack of referentiality a sign of democratization, since readers were set free to appropriate the meaning of texts in many different ways. Yet, in our hypermediated cultural environment, permanently governed by screens, new challenges arise. Rivera Garza points to transkrit as the opaque form of communication beyond voice, a lost-in-translation dialogue, based on constantly transcribing the experience of others from one media form to another. It is from within this multilingual, fossilized screen environment that Rivera Garza aims to restore a will to act beyond living speech, in writing.
Less focused on the antisocial dynamics of corporate technological infrastructures, and more optimistic of new media's capacity to circumvent digital monopolies and democratize writing, Rivera Garza brings to the fore diverse scenarios in which such creative potential manifests itself. In the chapter "Brief Missives from Pompeii," she relates the verbal sobriety of the tweet message to previous forms of literary writing, such as the haiku. But more importantly, she characterizes Twitter as a medium in its own terms within a virtual economy of total presence. The multidirectional circulation of "real-time" tweets across social networks is at odds with print culture's forms of communication that lack immediacy, such as the authorial canon of Western literature. Throughout the eight chapters of The Restless Dead, Rivera Garza points to the audacious use of digital media by manifold writing communities as well as individual authors, such as Eloy Fernández Porta, Agustín Fernández Mallo, Vicente Luis Mora, Graciela Romero, and Alberto Chimal. The implication of this perspective is that new media has perfected one of the aspirations of 20th-century literary experimentation: depriving literature of the legal authorial copyright by cannibalizing all sorts of writings.
Yet beyond its democratizing potential, the digital age is also marked by a global economy based on uneven development. Globalized financial capitalism engulfs all sorts of activity at the expense of local communities, which are constantly displaced by forced migration. In this regard, Rivera Garza provides a critical perspective on Western writing traditions, drawing them from the once-safe confines of humanism to the fluid on-off screen scenarios of the posthuman moment, highlighting their complicity, even if unintentional, with colonialist legacies.
Her empathic reflections on the life and work of American experimental novelist Kathy Acker — particularly with regards to Acker's uncompromising collage-style aimed at debunking established hierarchies between pop culture, literature, and critical theory — finds their outer limit in Tijuana, where Acker came to face her real tangible death. Written in a suggestive prose, and not deprived of subtle irony, Rivera Garza puts into perspective the radicalism of those 1970s North American writers who developed anti-establishment, appropriative aesthetics under the tutelage of David Antin in San Diego, yet remained inflexibly oblivious of the world unfolding on the other side of the border. The exceptional case of Acker serves as a paradigmatic example of what I consider the central argument in The Restless Dead. As Acker's health collapses, a more complex view of life on the brink of death takes place. Rivera Garza writes:
I'd like to think that home is also wherever we stop breathing […] that it's also the language that heard our final whimpers. If this is true, then Kathy Acker — or at least the Kathy Acker who leapt into the void […] when she had nothing left to lose — is at least a little bit at home in Tijuana, too.
These lines bring forward an image related to the concepts that give the book its title: disappropriation and necrowriting.
What is "the language that hears our final whimpers" if not the final social manifestation of a life in common, an experience of collectively belonging in language, the language of others, beyond literature? In the chapter titled "Disappropriation," Rivera Garza develops this idea by engaging with worldviews alien to the Global North, such as the Mixe people of Oaxaca's highlands in southern Mexico. Through strong forms of unpaid, service labor, known as tequio, as well as other material communal practices, the Mixe, observes Rivera Garza, have been able to resist the state of permanent crisis and relentless privatization brought about by neoliberalism. The Mesoamerican thinker Floriberto Díaz's understanding of communality as a mutual belonging with the earth, based on the material practice of common labor, allows Rivera Garza to read against the grain of the literary institution. It allows her to question isolationism and the egotistical disposition behind appropriative literary strategies of cannibalizing other writings only for the sake of self-gratification and prestige.
The concept of disappropriation, then, entails a double move: experiencing writing as a communal endeavor and exposing the uneven exchange of labor that looms behind any authorial claim. It is from this angle that she approaches the work of certain contemporary writers, such as Sara Uribe, Gerardo Arana, and Eugenio Tisselli, whose strategies of disappropriation aim not only to potentiate wide open access in the digital era, but also to promote activism in search of social change. Hence, Rivera Garza's reassessment of the task of writing in the 21st century goes beyond a desire to redeem literature from its institutional moorings. Writing should confront the sweeping horizon of death produced by violent forms of capital accumulation.
Today, the mythical resonances of imaginary ghost towns in literary fiction simply spell out the embeddedness of death that governs our times. "Seldom […] have the relationships between text and cadaver been as close as they are now. […] [T]here are shortcuts between Comala and Ciudad Juárez," Rivera writes, convinced of the need to stop considering literature as the exclusive realm of fiction.
The idea of necrowriting runs throughout The Restless Death. It refers to the poststructuralist "death of the author" in experimental fiction; the most illustrative case is that of David Markson, for whom writing is a ceasing-to-exist in language and life at once. Necrowriting, in Rivera Garza's reflections, also inhabits the spectral reality of our technologized era and is at home in the zombification process of neoliberalism, a topic further developed in Rivera Garza's previous volume of essays, Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country, translated by Sarah Booker. Yet, she also pledges for another kind of necrowriting: an ethical stance that demands a total abandonment of the ego to let the dead speak for themselves against violence and impunity. This perplexing call for a restitution of life in death becomes politically meaningful through the verses of Salvadoran poet and revolutionary Roque Dalton, which also resonate in Rivera Garza's book: "The dead are getting more restless every day / […] I think they've started to notice / they're outnumbering us."
What sort of autobiographical gesture is implied in this kind of necrowriting, deprived of authorial intent in the era of algorithmic affect and proxy humans? How can necrowriting shake off the obsessive temptation of personal exhibition and instant gratification afforded by social media and corporate capitalism? How can necrowriting become an effective weapon against femicide, the unbearable reality that afflicts Mexico and the world today? Throughout the book, Rivera Garza resorts to myriad Western and non-Western sources in order to reflect on such questions. In the particular case of necrowriting as autobiographical writing, she relies on German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk's proposal to self-expose the indelible marks of our lives, those primordial tattoos that set language in motion beyond egotistical purposes.
As I was reading Rivera Garza's The Restless Dead, two other books came to my mind: Jorge Aguilar Mora's Una muerte sencilla, justa, eterna: cultura y guerra durante la Revolución Mexicana (1990) and Juan Rulfo's novel Pedro Páramo. The former is an extraordinary reflection on the meaning of life at the brink of death, which, unfortunately, has not been translated into English yet. In it, Aguilar Mora takes on a singular approach to autobiographical writing as well. He writes:
The theme in our life is not a fact, nor an image, nor an idea, nor an obsession; we know that it is a position of our body, like the position of a planet with respect to the sun or the world, and we also know that the fact or image or idea that we accept as the governing principle of this theme is a simulacrum of a deep and essential operation of our body with the outside world and with time.
Through a well-documented inquiry into the singular, affirmative ways in which the anonymous fighters of the Mexican Revolution faced the firing squad, Aguilar Mora exposed the indelible mark of his own life: the disappearance and murder of his brother by the Guatemalan army in 1965, whose body has never been found. Searching for the words to let his brother speak his unbearable absence allowed Jorge Aguilar Mora to restitute the silent, insurgent voices of the 1910–1920 Mexican Revolution, well beyond the revolution's grotesque institutionalization by the Mexican state.
In Rulfo's Pedro Páramo, the restless dead likewise take over life, turning the protagonist Juan Preciado into one more ghost: "Murmurs seemed to ooze out of the walls, as if they were filtering through the cracks. I heard them; they were voices of people, not clear voices but secret, as if they were whispering something…" In the 21st century, the murmurs that ooze out the walls of our decrepit polis, buzzing close to our ears, belong to a great contingent of women.
In many works, encompassing a variety of styles, forms, and genres, Rivera Garza has written, without fear, on behalf of them. "While women's voices throughout the world continue to be silenced and those in power still argue for the irrelevance of gender equality," Rivera Garza writes in the introduction of the experimental novel The Iliac Crest, "characters in this book understand that gender […] can be lethal." This year, Rivera Garza published in Mexico El invencible verano de Liliana, a journey into public and personal archives to bring to life the murmuring voice of Liliana, her 20-year-old sister, who was victim of femicide 30 years ago. The process of writing this book will only conclude, Rivera Garza declared in an interview, if it contributes to bring to justice the man responsible for Liliana's murder. Joining the contingent of restless dead in the name of justice is, I believe, the most vital, urgent call of Rivera Garza's necrowritings in the digital age.
Adela Pineda Franco is Lozano Long Endowed Professor in Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
Adela Pineda Franco
Adela Pineda Franco is Lozano Long Endowed Professor in Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on the relationship between culture and politics, the dynamics of cultural transfer, and the transnational impact of visual media on Latin American literature. Her recent monograph, The Mexican Revolution on the World Stage: Intellectuals and Film in the Twentieth Century, addresses the global significance of the Mexican revolution in the twentieth century by exploring the links between cinema and intellectual thought.
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According to Leaked on Antutu, Xiaomi Mi Note Plus is identical to the Mi Note Pro will support Single SIM, 4GLTE, NFC, Wi-fI, Bluetooth, LTE Cat. 9 networks with download speeds up to 450Mbps come with a bigger 5.7-inch QHD 2D glass Sharp JDI display with (1440×2560 pixels) resolution offering a pixel density of 515ppi and gorilla glass 3 protection offers you crystal clear wide-angle view from every angle even in bright sun-light perfact for watching movies, playing games and Reading e-books.
Xiaomi Mi Note Plus will be powered by octa-core 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor (quad-core ARM Cortex A57 and quad-core Cortex A53) with 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM and Adreno 430 GPU with 64GB internal memory variant with 64GB expandable memory will run on MIUI 6 base on Android 5.0 Lollipop OS. But I think Note Plus will be powered by upcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon 815 or Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Processor.
Xiaomi Mi Note Plus will sport a 13-MP rear camera with f/2.2 aperture, Sony CMOS sensors(Sony IMX214 with zero shutter lag), with the OIS and dual tone dual LED flash perfect for low light shooting and 4-MP rear camera with large 2-micron pixels for video calling and selfies.
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Octa-core 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor/Qualcomm Snapdragon 815 processor/Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor, Adreno 430 GPU.
At last few honest word from heart, Xiaomi Mi Note Plus is coming to take on Apple iPhone 6 Plus. What you think? Please be open to give your view.


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Hijacking Icons
Posted By Fenek Solère On April 11, 2019 @ 5:01 am In North American New Right | 2 Comments
Not for the proud man apart
From the raging moon I write
On these spindrift pages
Nor for the towering dead
With their nightingales and psalms
But for the lovers, their arms
Round the griefs of the ages,
Who pay no praise or wages
Nor heed my craft or art.
— From Dylan Thomas, "In My Craft and Sullen Art"
He may have been a drunken misogynist, but he was our drunken misogynist! In A Child's Christmas in Wales (1952), he conjured up all the wild magic of a long-lost youth, and in his seminal work Under Milk Wood (1954, he gave us a highly eccentric cast of characters in a hilarious play for voices about parochial people in a small, seaside parish clinging to the rugged coast of wind-blown Wales. He gave us lines such as, "It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea" from A Child's Christmas in Wales; "The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs," from Under Milk Wood, and "Though lovers be lost love shall not," from "And Death Shall Have No Dominion."
Given all this, it is particularly galling that Thomas is now associated with poetry and short story competitions mired in the ubiquitous themes of anti-colonialism, fighting racism and gender oppression, and calling for social inclusivity. A perusal of the list of recent long- and shortlists for the winner of the thirty-thousand-pound Dylan Thomas Prize reveals that almost none are of European extraction.
Professor John Spurr, Head of the College of Arts and Humanities at Swansea University, said of the Prizewinners [2]:
This year's long list demonstrates the breadth, humanity and promise being produced by young international writers of such incredible talent. Featuring prose and poetry from new and established authors from around the world, it is a longlist to be relished. At this stage, the only certainty now is that the judging panel will end up with an exceptionally strong shortlist of six stunningly gifted authors.
Chaired by Professor Dai Smith, CBE, and Emeritus Raymond Williams Research Chair in the Cultural History of Wales at Swansea University, this year's judging panel also includes a previous contestant: the Nepali-Indian author Prajwal Parajuly, who wrote Land Where I Flee.
These are writers and judges who have next to nothing in common with the troubled genius whose name they have hijacked to dignify their carnival-like celebration of multicultural, middle-class morality in a morbid attempt to give their so-called competition credibility. But is it really a merit-based accolade? Or is the outcome predestined in order to satisfy the insatiable appetite of the globalists and to conquer the European cultural credo? Their obvious objective is to fill the bookshelves of every suburban home across the length and breadth of the country with the pusillanimous poetry of Maya Angelou, the polemical prose of Bonnie Greer in such works as Obama Music, and the thinly-veiled liberation literature of writers like Zadie Smith, author of White Teeth, which focusses on the Bangladeshi community in London. And indeed, every time I enter a bookshop I have to contend with the simian smile of Michelle Obama relentlessly advertising her bestseller, Becoming, and rack after rack of books with titles like We Rise: Speeches by Inspirational Black Women, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala, and Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah.
As for Dylan Thomas himself, he may have been a rogue, and he may have said, "Land of my fathers, my fathers can keep it," but he had magic in his pen and starlight in his soul, and none of those who I have mentioned above – or those who dare claim to follow in his footsteps – can hold a candle to even one of his lesser, let alone greater, lines:
It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobbled streets silent and the hunched courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crow black, fishing-boat-bobbing sea.
Those who do are nobodies and nothings who will hopefully soon fade into the ignominious obscurity they rightfully deserve in spite of the best efforts of the (((editorial and commissioning teams))) of the major publishing houses to promulgate their works. In truth, they are the blue-sprouting mushrooms covering the decomposing corpse of what the enemy claims is the passing of white male Western literature. It is up to us – every one of us, irrespective of age, gender, and educational attainment – to resist this gangrenous rot by means of boycotting this bilge on the bookshelves. We must exercise critical judgment about what we purchase, and for those of a more imaginative inclination, we must inject the penicillin of our own poetry, prose, and fiction, reflecting our own Weltanschauung, into the ailing body of our civilization. We must follow in the feted footsteps of giants like of H. P. Lovecraft, William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, and Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
We must establish our own competitions and awards better reflecting the vitality of the Western corpus, and helping us to escape the sterile, suburban stereotypes we are force-fed in our schools. We must defeat the constant overt and subliminal marketing being foisted upon us by a highly manipulative media establishment that obsessively seeks to endlessly deconstruct our children's stories and classic literature in the hope that even our mythologies and foundational folk legends will be erased in to make way for Consumer Unit 1, the Multicultural Man. Despite my instinctive misgivings, a part of me swells with joy at the sight of Polish priests setting fire to copies of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, which are in reality nothing more than poorly-plagiarized fusions of C. S. Lewis' Narnia adventures with Anthony Buckeridge's Jennings and Darbishire schoolboy yarns. Rowling does not in fact represent a call for the return of witchcraft among schoolchildren, but something far more insidious: a pulchritude of plastic prose shorn of any authenticity, attempting to instill the desire for total racial inclusivity into the minds of her young and impressionable readership.
And so, as I perch on a hard, wooden stool in Brown's restaurant bar under a cloud-strewn sky stretching over Laugharne, fingers carefully adjusting the chain on the 1930s pocket-watch in my waistcoat and staring defiantly into a glass of Penderyn's honey-glazed malt, my mind drifts once more to that little boy growing up on Cwmdonkin Drive in Swansea, and I swear I can hear the First Voice in Under Milk Wood very gently breathe:
Only you can hear the houses sleeping on the streets in the slow deep salt and silent black, bandaged night. Only you can see, in the blinded bedrooms, the coats and petticoats over the chairs, the jugs and basins, the glasses of teeth, the Thou Shalt Not on the wall and the yellowing dicky-bird watching pictures of the dead. Only you can hear and see, behind the eyes of the sleepers, the movements and countries and mazes and colours and rainbows and tunes and wishes and flight and fall and despairs and big seas of their dreams.
I am certain that the Bardic traditions of Hedd Wyn, Edward Thomas, David Jones, and R. S. Thomas still runs rich in the veins of my kinfolk, and the transfusion of thinner alien blood and the attempted appropriation of our icons will soon pass like the grey rain falling over the Pendine Sands, and the ringing verses of Iolo Goch's cywydds will blow once again through the trees surrounding Owain's hall at Sycarth. We will hear sacred voices calling out through the deep green valleys and echoing boldly off the standing stone that marks the spot of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, where last Prince of Wales made his final stand:
This land of my fathers is dear to me
Land of poets and singers, and people of stature
Her brave warriors, fine patriots
Shed their blood for freedom
Land! Land! I am true to my land!
As long as the sea serves as a wall
For this pure, dear land
May the language endure forever.
Old land of the mountains, paradise of the poets,
Every valley, every cliff a beauty guards;
Through love of my country, enchanting voices will be
Her streams and rivers to me.
Though the enemy have trampled my country underfoot,
The old language of the Welsh knows no retreat,
The spirit is not hindered by the treacherous hand
Nor silenced the sweet harp of my land.
— "Mae Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau" [Land of My Fathers]
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[2] said of the Prizewinners: https://poetrysociety.org.uk/news/longlist-announced-for-dylan-thomas-prize/


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This is the page where you can offer your suggestions about what you would like to see in the history section of the Discover Seaside Heights website. My own little set of things that I would submit in the comments are given next.
I have a list of projects, all of which require input from others. If I am able to get some help or some material I should be able to take some of this things off the list by making them into actual webpages.
Some form of a boardwalk photo timeline. Ideally I could get photos that are taken in many different years and end up with a year by year list.
Boardwalk Memories - this would be a compilation of stories that all center around experiences at the Seaside Heights boardwalk. I have one I will write. Anyone else care to send me their own?
Old places - this would be many pages, with each page potentially being about a different place that no longer exists. I already have some that I can begin to cover: the Casino Pool, the ice house, bat-em-out.....what else?
Your turn. What would you like to see? Initially I will not be able to help with much but as we get going others will come along and be able to contribute. If you see something on the list or in the comments you can help with, let us know and we can figure out the best way to put that information on the site.
This page is primarily for questions, and potentially for answers to any comments that are clearly asking for some information. If you have a story, picture or even a short anecdote you would like to share you can find out how to submit content here.
Submitted by Peter Smith (not verified) on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 23:13.
I am working on a book right now about the first century of Seaside Heights. We turn 100 on February 26, 1913.
Submitted by Dennis R. Crump, Sr. (not verified) on Tue, 05/19/2015 - 09:28.
I was born in Jersey City in 1941. We often visited Uncle Benny )Benjamin Berger) at 221 Hancock Avenue. Later my Grandparents inherited the house from Uncle Benny and lived there for the rest of their lives. The house has been replaced but the chain link fence that I installed for them around 1966 is still standing there. The next door neighbors were Bonni Poane and her husband who was a coin collector for the meters. Their son graduated law school and I think practices in Lakewood. Mary Antonelli lived across the street. I remember the 1955 boardwalk fire and also when the gaming wheels were shut down as illegal gambling. My grandfather (Poppy)and I would get up at 5 a.m. and he would take me crabbing by the second piling on the left at the pier where Stewart's Root Beer stands now. The crabs were 8" and blue-clawed in those days. George McDevitt was the Chief of Police then and I played with his kids Joanne and Georgie in milk boxes in the empty lots which had plenty of poison ivy. I remember the clatter of the old wooden bridge as Daddy drove us into Seaside.
The beach was free and there was no fence along the boardwalk. The laughing Lady at the fun house always frightened me. I remember the "Walk-Away_Sunday", a slice of ice cream brick in a rectangular topped cone. I had my first slice of pizza on the boardwalk.My little sister and I loved to collect seashells, take them hone and paint them.
Now I am 73 and live in Beachwood. I took my own little grandchildren to the very same pier by the same piling where Poppy took me. I wept.


The GIANT RED TURNIPS is a large English heirloom that traces back to the 16th Century with a finer-than-usual consistency and mellow sweet taste! Unusual and "HUGE" in the garden!
And is the best tasteing Heirloom turnips!
This turnip is a very old variety, dating before 1680!
It is a favorite for its bright red color and unbeatable sweet fruits and very tasty extra tall greens!
This Turnip is remarkably easy to grow, yields a large crop and can be planted in spring and successively all the way through late summer. A light frost will actually enhance the flavor making the Red Tops Globe even Redder!!!
Ideal for fall and winter harvest!
The Turnip globes can grow to 12" in diameter but, for the best flavor, harvest when they are at a 6" - 8" diameter!
Giant red Turnips are very versatile and store well! Try using Turnips in place of potatoes. They are also delicious raw, for pickling and general cooking. Turnip greens are delicious and can be cooked, stir-fried, used in soups, enjoyed raw or as a garnish!
In Europe,Giant turnips used to be seen as objects that could ward off demons and devils, and this is where the first Jack-o-Lanterns came from. They were hollowed out and a burning ember was inserted, which now is what we do with pumpkins on Halloween.
The nutritional value of turnips for humans can be summarized as low in fat and calories but very high in vitamin C and fiber!
The greens have vitamins A and K in addition to the Vitamin C, folate, and beta-carotene, lutein, and zeaxanthin, which are common antioxidants.
Today's gardeners are always trying to grow the biggest tomato, watermelon or pumpkin. Back in the 1800′s the prize of every gardener was a gigantic turnip. 33 lbs. monsters were quite common and a grower in California was said to have grown a turnip of over 99 lbs. in 1850!
Consumed by livestock, is of very high quality in turnips in relation to that of other commonly grown plants. Grazing animals consume the stems, leaves, and roots of the plants. The stems and leaves contain about 20-25% crude protein, 65-80% in vitro , TWICE AS MUCH AS CORN!!!
These plants have unlimited uses due to their multiple edible parts, and their nutritional benefits are of great value to both humans and animals.


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Advice on political impartiality in English school rooms 'confusing' say teachers' unions | Colleges
New steering on political impartiality in the classroom is bewildering and probably to scare instructors in England absent from tackling vital subjects these types of as weather modify and racism, according to training unions.
The steering issued by the Department for Instruction claims that modern historical events "which are especially contentious and disputed", these as "many matters relating to empire and imperialism", should really be taught "in a balanced manner".
The DfE's advice singles out the Black Lives Matter motion, declaring that whilst lecturers should really be distinct "that racism has no area in our society", the needs of campaigning organisations these kinds of as BLM "go over and above the basic shared theory that racism is unacceptable".
In training of scientific info close to local weather alter, lecturers are informed they ought to not give harmony in the type of misinformation or unsubstantiated statements.
Nevertheless, the direction goes on to state that "where teaching covers the prospective options for tackling weather alter, this may constitute a political issue".
Nadhim Zahawi, the education secretary, explained: "I do not want there to be any boundaries – actual or perceived – to teachers' important perform in this space, which is why I am reinforcing that no subject matter is off-restrictions in the classroom, as very long as it is handled in an age-ideal way, with sensitivity and regard, and devoid of promoting contested theories as reality."
But Mary Bousted, joint standard secretary of the National Education and learning Union, said that the steering "does not so a lot clarify existing steerage as insert new levels of mystification and complexity to it" for lecturers and school leaders.
"This could induce such a level of uncertainty and warning in faculties about 'political issues' that they are a lot less probable to interact with them," Bousted reported.
"The losers in the DfE's 34-site game of obfuscation about what is and is not a 'political' issue will be the pupils who are denied the possibility to have interaction with the most challenging problems of our time.
"The warning lights that the authorities is flashing all over local weather alter, racism, planet poverty and the legacy of empire as matters of exploration are far more probable to decrease students' engagement with understanding than to stimulate it."
The DfE direction – which includes no new statutory requirements and is dependent on present legal obligations – avoids defining "political issues", stating that ethical debates are not political concerns if they are "shared ideas that underpin our society", these types of as independence of speech or complicated racism.
Alternatively, school leaders and instructors are informed to use "reasonable judgment to decide what is and is not a 'political issue'".
The steerage also warns against reliance on teaching product provided by exterior companies. In one particular circumstance of educating about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the document says academics need to have to assure that any exterior means employed are impartial.
When educating young pupils about "significant" political figures, "including people who have controversial and contested legacies", educational institutions are encouraged "to focus on teaching about what these figures are most renowned for and factual details about them if lecturers consider pupils may perhaps not be equipped to fully grasp the contested mother nature of a lot more complex analyses of their life, beliefs and actions".
Additional sophisticated conversations about controversial figures "might be reserved for older pupils who are more probably to be equipped to fully grasp and have interaction in this debate".
The Affiliation of College and Faculty Leaders mentioned it would be "studying the assistance carefully to fully grasp its implications".
"The extensive greater part of lecturers are extremely excellent at managing these discussions in a way that is balanced and impartial. We welcome anything at all which helps them to navigate this hard territory. Nonetheless, we are keen that this ought to not be around-prescriptive as it could have the unintended consequence of deterring open up conversations," the ASCL said.
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Home Lawyers About Your Licence Manage Your Licence Lawyers from Outside Ontario Foreign Legal Consultants
Foreign Legal Consultant Permit
By-Law 14 states that no person shall give legal advice in Ontario respecting the law of a foreign jurisdiction except in accordance with the provisions of the By-Law. By-Law 14 requires lawyers licensed outside of Canada to apply to the Law Society for a permit to give legal advice in Ontario respecting the law of a foreign jurisdiction. Applicants must meet the conditions outlined in the By-Law to qualify for a permit and must apply annually to the Law Society to renew their permit.
Foreign lawyers who want to provide legal advice in Ontario must apply for a Foreign Legal Consultant (FLC) permit. Additionally, Law Society licensees who are entitled to practise law or provide legal service with the Law Society and who are authorized to practise law in a foreign jurisdiction must apply for a Foreign Legal Consultant permit if they want to provide legal advice in Ontario respecting the law of the foreign jurisdiction. Ontario lawyers and licensed paralegals may also employ, partner, or associate with FLCs provided this is done in compliance with the Law Society Act, the Law Society's By-Laws, the Rules of Professional Conduct or the Paralegal Rules of Conduct, and any other applicable legislation.
A person who is authorized to practise law in a foreign jurisdiction
The applicant is not the subject of any order made against them by a tribunal of any governing body of the legal profession in the foreign jurisdiction in which they are authorized to practise law
The applicant has no terms, conditions, limitations or restrictions imposed on their authorization to practise law in the foreign jurisdiction
The applicant is of good character
A supervisor may be required depending on the applicant's experience. If approved, FLCs may only provide legal advice in Ontario respecting the law a foreign jurisdiction where they are authorized to practise law. A Foreign Legal Consultant Permit does not entitle someone to provide legal advice or services about the law of Ontario or Canada.
Applicants must submit the following:
An original application for Permit as a Foreign Legal Consultant and a non-refundable application fee
Proof of professional liability insurance for the giving of legal advice in Ontario respecting the law of the foreign jurisdiction which is at least equivalent to that required of a licensee who holds a Class L1 licence for the licensee's practice of law in Ontario
A Certificate of Standing (dated within the last 30 days) from each jurisdiction where the applicant is or has been a member to be submitted by the regulatory body directly to Complaints & Compliance – must be forwarded directly from the governing or regulatory body to the Law Society
A certified copy of a government issued photo ID (not applicable if applicants are also licensees of the Law Society of Ontario)
A copy of the applicant's curriculum vitae (resume)
Additional undertakings and documents, as required
PROCESS UPDATE: Convocation approved-in-principle a number of proposals including removing the 'reciprocity' requirement for Foreign Legal Consultant permit applicants. As of November 6, 2020, we will no longer require proof of reciprocity as part of the application process. We anticipate the by-law amendments to follow early in 2021.
NOTE: Any documents that are not in English or French must be translated by an Association of Translators and Interpreters of Ontario (ATIO) Certified Translator. You may wish to refer to ATIO's Directory of Certified Translators on its website at www.atio.on.ca.
Ongoing Requirements
A permit is valid for one year after the day on which it comes into effect
Before the expiry of the permit, the permit holder may apply for its renewal
Renewal applications should be submitted to the Law Society no later than 30 days before the expiry date of the permit to ensure that you remain authorized as an FLC
Proof of professional liability insurance details must be submitted with the renewal application. Applicants must ensure that their insurance is valid for the duration of their permit and that it meets the minimum requirements. Under section 8 of By-Law 14, a permit is automatically revoked if the permit holder fails to comply with certain conditions, including the requirement to maintain appropriate insurance.
FLCs must notify the Law Society immediately of any change to the information provided to the Law Society including any change in employment
Note: If an approved FLC ceases to be authorized to practise law at any time in the foreign jurisdiction for which a permit was issued, the FLC permit is automatically revoked pursuant to section 8 of By-Law 14.
Partnering with Licensees
When a foreign legal consultant and a licensee intend to enter into a partnership, the conditions in subsection 18(2) of By-Law 7 must be satisfied. Refer to Multi-Discipline Partnerships for more information.
All applications and attachments are reviewed by Complaints & Compliance. If the review reveals that the application cannot be approved, Law Society staff will contact the applicant to request additional information or to advise of necessary changes.
Complaints & Compliance requires a minimum of 30 business days to process an FLC permit application or an FLC permit renewal application, if they are complete. A permit will be issued upon approval.
Temporary Arrangements due to COVID-19 - Completed Applications & Inquiries
In support of public health recommendations to reduce the spread of COVID-19, Law Society staff are working remotely. The Law Society's work at home plan will continue to be re-assessed as the situation develops based on recommendations from public health officials.
Until such time as the Law Society fully reopens its physical offices, we ask that you communicate with us electronically, or by phone, where ever possible. If submitting an application, please send a copy of the application and supporting documents to us by email to lsforms@lso.ca.
This arrangement may result in delays in our ability to respond to your communications and we ask for your patience as we adjust our operations to manage the dangers to the community posed by COVID-19.
Non-refundable Administrative Fees
A non-refundable application fee in the amount of $500 (CAD) + HST must be received by the Law Society in order to commence processing the Foreign Legal Consultant Permit application.
A non-refundable annual renewal fee in the amount of $250 (CAD) + HST must be received by the Law Society in order to process the annual Foreign Legal Consultant Permit renewal application.
Paying Administrative Fees
Application fees and renewal fees, where applicable, should be paid through the Law Society Store.
You may also pay the applicable fee(s) by enclosing a certified cheque or money order with your application. All cheques should be made payable to the "Law Society of Ontario".
Licensees: Login to the Law Society Portal (https://portal.lso.ca/). Select LSO Store in the left panel. The page will be automatically re-directed to the Law Society of Ontario's online store. Select the fee(s) you wish to pay.
If you are unable to access the Law Society Portal, please contact Complaints & Compliance for assistance.
Non-Licensees: Visit the Law Society store at https://store.lso.ca/flc to pay the necessary fees online.
Proof of Payment or a Certified Cheque/Money Order to Accompany All Applications
Payment or a copy of the receipt for payment must accompany all applications.
Links to Applications and Additional Documents
Initial Application
Application for a Permit as a Foreign Legal Consultant (PDF)
Link to LAWPRO insurance information for Ontario Lawyers
Annual Renewal Application
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Applicable By-Law
By-Law 14: Foreign Legal Consultants
All questions about FLC applications should be directed to the Complaints & Compliance department by contacting the Resource Centre at (416) 947-3315 (toll-free 1-800-668-7380 x3315) and asking to be transferred, or emailing Complaints & Compliance using the Contact Page.
The Law Society of Ontario is committed to ensuring that our websites and web applications are accessible for people with disabilities. We have also made efforts to make Law Society documents accessible to everyone. If you need any of our documents or forms in an alternate format that is accessible to you, please contact us.


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Portrait of Susanna Lunden or Le Chapeau de Paille (The Straw Hat) is a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, in the National Gallery, London. It was probably painted around 1622–1625.

The portrait's subject has not been securely identified, but she may be Susanna Lunden, née Fourment (1599–1628), the older sister of Rubens' future second wife Helena Fourment. If the identification is correct, the portrait probably dates to the time of Susanna's marriage to her second husband, Arnold Lunden, in 1622. The ring on her finger might mean that the painting is a marriage portrait,In the 19th century it was in the collection of Robert Peel at Drayton Manor until 1871 when it was sold to the National Gallery.

Rubens' portrait was engraved in 1823 by Robert Cooper (active 1795–1836). At that time, it acquired the name Le Chapeau de Paille, which incorrectly describes the hat as "straw" (paille). A sketch of Rubens' painting (ca. 1823–24) by J. M. W. Turner is in the Tate.

In 1781, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun and her husband visited Flanders and the Netherlands, which inspired her to paint Self-Portrait with Straw Hat (1782), a "free imitation" of Rubens' Le Chapeau de Paille.

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I have a 400 Cybertech and a 400 Synthweaver on the Republic Side of the Guild.
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The only things I don't have alot of is upgraded recipes.
If anyone needs anything, just let me know.


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Fox Shows On Hulu Will Offer Reduced, Only 30-Second-Long Ad Option
Hulu may have introduced a commercial free-tier to improve the user experience for those who can't stand watching ads, but a new deal with Fox Networks has the potential to make the ad-supported version of Hulu less painful as well.
This week, Fox and Hulu announced a new type of ad format would be arriving on Hulu for the first time: engagement ads. Viewers who opt for this sort of interactive advertisement will be able to reduce the number and length of commercials they see on Fox's current season shows from interruptive ad breaks totaling 2 minutes and 30 seconds, down to just 30 seconds.
The engagement ads are powered by technology from true[X], a company Fox acquired last year for $200 million. The company still operates independently, as its ad tech is used by a number of other major broadcasters, including ABC, Viacom, CBS Interactive, and others.
The engagement ad format itself is meant to solve one of the bigger problems with traditional advertising – not knowing that a viewer actually saw the message. Viewers could have walked away from the program; they may have been playing with their phone during the break, or they may have otherwise simply tuned out the commercial.
An engagement ad, however, ensures the advertiser has captured the viewer's attention. It loads an interactive canvas and typically starts off with a video. But at some point, the viewer has to interact with the creative in order to move the ad forward. This proves they're really watching.
For example, an engagement ad for milk might ask the consumer to pick a favorite recipe about all the great things that can be made from cheese. An automaker's ad might ask what part of the car a viewer wants to learn about, and so on.
Hulu viewers will be asked to choose whether they want engagement ads or traditional commercial breaks at the start of a Fox TV show, and if they choose the former, they can interact with the ad for half a minute, then watch the remaining show commercial-free.
They may also be presented with the option to choose an engagement ad upon the first commercial break, if they went the latter route, but then aren't bothered again until they move on to another Fox program. Engagement ads can also be introduced after a viewer clicks pause, offering them the chance to watch the rest of the show without commercials in exchange for their attention now.
Fox had already introduced engagement ads on Fox.com and in its Fox Now mobile application, but this is the first time that the ads have been available on Hulu.
In addition, that same technology allowing for the Hulu integration will now be made available to other true[x] customers, which include a large lineup of top broadcasters. If the format grew popular among Hulu customers, it could help to improve Hulu's ad-supported model, while offering a better viewer experience. After all, while you might not want to "play" around with ads, a 30-second engagement is less painful, usually, than constantly being interrupted with commercials.
"All digital ad models are built for tonnage…none of those ad formats are built for quality content," explains Fox's President of Advanced Advertising, Joe Marchese, previously founder and CEO of true[X] prior the acquisition. "One of the biggest things about engagement ads is that you're not just trying to find a way to make money through advertising, you're trying to make the watching experience better," he says.
Engagement ads are more expensive than traditional ads, and are charged on a per engagement basis rather than an impression basis. But because of their reduced frequency, the goal is not to make more money with engagements, but rather make the same amount of money but with fewer ads.
That said, Hulu viewers who want to use engagement ads instead won't always have the option – at least, not yet. For now, the ads are only available in current season shows, and only when a campaign is available because an advertiser bought it.
At launch, the billion-dollar snacking company Mondelēz International will be running engagement ads on Hulu for Swedish Fish and Halls.
The ads are live now on Hulu on the web and mobile, and the format will eventually be supported on any platform where Hulu runs, whether that's web, mobile web, native mobile apps or connected devices, like Apple TV or Roku.


Onspring Connect is just around the corner, and we've planned four days of training, client presentations, workshops, and social events for our wonderful user community. I look forward to meeting the faces behind the voices I encounter in my support role.
One of the key ways I'm facilitating Connect this year is through the training classes on Monday and Tuesday. We're offering two training programs, so our Administrators (from newbies to seasoned vets) will have a value-packed experience in the training room.
The Advanced Workshop flips the script and puts you in the shoes of an Onspring Consultant. We'll hone in on building complex formulas and multi-faceted access scenarios, and we'll zoom out on problem solving and solution development strategies. Many of these scenarios are born right from the field, so bring your thinking caps!
Don't worry, we'll never deliver a boring training program that leaves you snoozing into your keyboard. With the flexibility and seemingly endless capabilities of the Onspring platform, it's always our goal to share creative strategies, lessons learned and tips for success. Many things are possible, but not all things are advisable. Our trainers are ready to help you use the system wisely so you can configure solutions that are easy to use, scalable and sustainable.
Come learn with us and cultivate your practical understanding of Onspring. It will be fruitful!


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Viola Green Porter
Viola Green Porter (1898-1985) commissioned this portrait to commemorate her graduation from the 8th grade at Charlottesville's segregated Jefferson Graded School.
The white dress and diploma make this photo similar to other Holsinger Studio graduation portraits of young women, both Black and white.
Viola married Horace Porter six months after this portrait was made. They made their home in Gospel Hill, an African American neighborhood that was adjacent to the University of Virginia.
The university bulldozed it in the 1970s and 1980s to make room for the expansion of its hospital and nursing and medical schools.
Viola worked as a housekeeper and, in later years, as a practical nurse. She and Horace had eight children and were married for nearly 70 years.


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Heat Pump Summit Issues Call to Action to Reduce GHGs
By Tine Stausholm, Oct 30, 2019, 10:57 • 2 minute reading
Speakers urged the industry to work towards higher energy efficiency and a greater use of natural refrigerants.
Andrea Voigt, EPEE, speaks at the Heat Pump Summit. Photo: Nürnberg Messe.
The heat pump industry should play its part when it comes to reducing GHG emissions, while ensuring heating/cooling for all, according to several speakers at the 2019 Heat Pump Summit, which took place in Nuremberg, Germany on October 22-23.
"There are no passengers on spaceship Earth; we are all crew," said Peter Wegener from Business Development Holland, quoting Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan. The heat pump industry must step up and become part of the climate-crisis solution rather than the problem if we are to avoid a temperature increase of more than 1.5°C (2.7°F).
"Our industry sector, and particularly heat pumps, can play a very important role," Andrea Voigt, Director General of the European Partnership for Energy and the Environment said, adding that: "We have to decrease the energy consumption by at least one-third by 2050, if we want to achieve the 1.5°C (2.7°F) goal, and double the use of renewable energy, and heat pumps are ideally placed to satisfy both requirements."
The summit included several presentations on energy efficiency, energy certification of heat pumps, and natural refrigerants.
Biagio Lamanna, R&D manager from Carel spoke about CO2 technology and its use in single-stage, cascade and dual-stage cycles, detailing the evolution of its use in in high-efficiency solutions like mechanical subcooling, parallel compression, and ejectors. Lamanna showed the audience how ejectors can improve the coefficient of performance (COP) by 12% and explained that while ejectors can be used with other refrigerants, the benefits are highest with CO2.
Our industry sector, and particularly heat pumps, can play a very important role," Andrea Voigt, EPEE
Water as a refrigerant was also explored, by Jürgen Süss, Independent Consultant for Efficient Energy, who spoke about its use in traditional compression systems, but also touched upon its potential use in adsorption and absorption technologies.
All presentations from the summit can be found here from October 31.
The 2019 Heat Pump Summit took place at the Nuremberg Messe, in Nuremberg, Germany. It included more than 35 speakers with 260 attendees from more than 30 countries. The summit focused on industrial, commercial and municipal applications for heat pumps under the theme "Connecting Experts."
By Tine Stausholm (@TStausholm)
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Somalia Ratifies Kigali Amendment
By Tine Stausholm , Dec 13, 2019, 12:12
The East African country becomes the 91st party to ratify the HFC phase-down treaty.
BUSINESS & MARKET
Eurovent Trade Group Endorses the European Green Deal
Eurovent sees potential for the deal to bolster the European industry as leaders in clean and sustainable products.


Read a Book Day is one of those holidays I like to celebrate pretty much every day – not necessarily a whole book, of course, but at least some of one. 🙂 Nevertheless, on September 6, it's time to read a book!
Need any ideas? I've got the World Library List of the 100 Best Books of All Time and here's the Top 100 from BBC's 2003 Big Read. Have fun!
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Q: how extract email from fb html c# Facebook emails in html page will show as below.

rezarezvan110@hotmail.com

(Windows Live Messenger)

    yasin_zfarzaneh@yaho

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    o.com

(Yahoo! Messenger)

know i want extracted email of it , how can i do it ?
 i used this method but dont return anything
 public static List<string> Fetch_Emails1(string Sourcecode)
    {
        List<string> Emails = new List<string>();

      Regex exp = new Regex(@".*?(@)", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
        MatchCollection matchCollection = exp.Matches(Sourcecode);

        foreach (Match m in matchCollection)
        {

            Emails.Add(m.Value);

        }

        return Emails;
    }

how change pattern for extract email ?

A: Basing your code on another web application's page parsing is error prone and very difficult to maintain. Imagine that if facebook changes the rendered HTML, your application won't work.
I would strongly suggest to use some facebook API. Check facebook SDK for .NET or Facebook API for C#.NET developers on codeplex.
Regarding the emails, you have to check the permissions issue. This post gives details.
Hope I helped!

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