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Bengals WR Green will have tests on foot
Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver A.J. Green will have tests on his right foot after being injured on Sunday against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.Photo Credit: David Kohl-USA TODAY Sports
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Wide receiver A.J. Green of the Cincinnati Bengals will reportedly undergo further testing on his right foot/toe injury.
Green was seen wearing a protective walking boot on his right foot at the Bengals practice facility on Tuesday, and the newspaper said he was not "out of the woods" because there was swelling in the foot after he was injured late in Sunday's game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The Bengals (5-3) are on their bye week, so Green could have time to heal before Cincinnati's next two games against the New Orleans Saints and the Baltimore Ravens.
Green played 62 of the Bengals' offensive 66 snaps against the Buccaneers and made five catches for 76 and a touchdown. For he season, he has 45 catches for 687 yards and six touchdowns.
With the score tied, 34-34, in the final minute against Tampa Bay, quarterback Andy Dalton led the Bengals down the field to set up Randy Bullock's game-winning 44-yard field goal.
Dalton hit Green twice on the game-winning drive, including an 11-yard pass play that put Cincinnati in position for the winning kick, but that was when he sustained the injury.
Green was favoring his right foot, but said after the game he would be fine, and the Bengals didn't seem concerned on Tuesday, but obviously things have changed.
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It's coming. And don't kid yourself into believing it won't. It happens in every cycle. The economy comes out of a recession, things recover (these days with the help of central banks) and the cycle ultimately morphs into unrealistic positive expectations about the future and optimism reigns supreme as unemployment drops to cycle lows and corporate profits look great.
We just had this phase in 2018 on the heels of tax cuts and the official unemployment rate dropping to 3.7% with record earnings and over 20% profit growth thanks to tax cuts.
But then something happens at the end of each cycle. Corporations have a harder and harder time keeping pace with the high expectations. It's called peak profit growth. One can squeeze only so much profit growth out of each cycle. And now, in this cycle, the artificially induced profit growth results in 2018 are not sustainable into 2019.
So what, you might ask, will companies do to maximize their profit growth in a challenging comparison environment, an environment where they are facing higher costs and margin pressures due to a myriad of reasons? Think rising rates, trade wars, difficulty to find new talent, etc.
You already know the answer: It's called rightsizing, operational efficiency and a number of other clever guises designed to avoid the term layoffs. And no it doesn't suddenly happen in size. It starts small, but it begins nevertheless. You just have to look for the signs.
Here's one current example:
"Starbucks Corp., on a mission to boost profit and appease apprehensive investors, is dismissing about 5 percent of its non-restaurant workers.
The company said it's laying off about 350 corporate employees, most of whom work in its Seattle headquarters. Starbucks had said in September that an unspecified number of job cuts were coming. The coffee chain is restructuring to speed innovation and pump slowing sales."
And you get the talk of "oh how difficult it is, but we have no choice" blah blah blah:
"Today will be a difficult day for all of us," Chief Executive Officer Kevin Johnson said in an internal email to employees viewed by Bloomberg News. "As we continue evolving our core areas of marketing, creative, product, technology and store development, we are making some significant changes to these areas, as well as other functions across our global business."
We just have to do it right? Can't afford those salaries of these people right?
Bullshit. These 350 people are losing their jobs in the face of this:
"Starbucks is raising its dividend and increasing its share buyback program to return $10 billion more to shareholders by 2020 than previously promised, CEO Kevin Johnson told analysts on a conference call Thursday.
In November, the company announced it would return $15 billion to shareholders through buybacks and dividends through fiscal year 2020″.
Right. Oh yea, the writing is on the wall and it's already beginning.
For reference we are here in the unemployment versus market cycle structure:
Now you may choose to believe we stay at 3.7% unemployment forever or you may not, but history suggests a reversion to the historic mean is coming.
But here's the kicker: With the advance of AI, automation and robotics in recent years, and more technological improvement to come, when the next downcycle begins in earnest, corporations will not only have more incentive than ever to automate, they will have technological options at their disposable like never before.
Technology after all is improving rapidly and I'm sure you've seen some of the more recent impressive examples in the headlines:
There are a ton of studies on this from the scary to the don't worry. I humbly submit that nobody knows how this will play out, but I do know one thing: Corporations will do what's best for them and their primary purpose is not to guarantee you a job.
Rather it's maximzing shareholder value. And whether you like it or not it's buybacks and dividends while streamlining and finding ways to maximize margins.
And that may or may not impact you. Some of these changes coming will be positive and fascinating, but these changes will also impact real people with real jobs and the I think it's fair to say the transition will be far from smooth for many.
But let there be no doubt: It's coming. And then the cycle repeats itself.
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24 Jun Public Opinion on Coronavirus: Navigator Update
This release features findings from a national online survey of 1,013 registered voters conducted June 18-22, 2020.
Trump's approval ratings remain negative across a range of metrics and are deeply underwater among independents.
The share that thinks the country is "off on the wrong track" has reached a new high, and a majority again feel that the "worst is yet to come" in the coronavirus pandemic.
Support for more aggressive social distancing is increasing, and those in states with growing numbers of cases feel their state is reopening too quickly.
Trump Approval Underwater on Range of Metrics
Trump's approval ratings on his handling of his job overall as president, health care, the pandemic, the economy, and responding to the protests following George Floyd's death remain underwater.
Among independents, Trump's job approval overall is at 24% approve/69% disapprove.
Largest Share Yet Believe Country "On the Wrong Track"
The percentage who think the country is "off on the wrong track" has reached a new high in our tracking since March 23, at nearly three in four Americans.
Among Republicans, the share who think the country is "off on the wrong track" has grown by 26 points since March 23, from 24% "wrong track" to 50%.
Democratic Advantage on Issues Relating to Health, Pandemic
Democrats in Congress hold a lead over Trump in trust on every issue tested related to the coronavirus pandemic, though their lead is narrower on handling the economic impact.
Congressional Democrats' advantage on responding to the coronavirus outbreak has grown 16 points since March 23 (from -6 to +10).
Approval Higher for Democratic Governors & Governors of States Where New Cases are Not Increasing
While a majority still approve of governors at large in their handling of the pandemic, Republican governors and governors in states where new cases are increasing have lower approval ratings than their counterparts.
Governors of states where new cases are increasing have a net approval rating 21 points lower than governors whose states have rates that are either stable or decreasing.
Majority Again Think "Worst is Yet to Come" in Pandemic
For the first time in over a month, a majority believe that the "worst is yet to come" in the pandemic. This is the highest level since May 14.
Among 2016 Trump voters, 36% believe that the worst is yet to come. When this number reached its low-point on May 5, only 25% of Trump voters said the "worst is yet to come."
Top Worries: Nursing Homes, Economy in Recession
A top concern for Americans across parties is the vulnerability of nursing homes to coronavirus. Democrats and independents are more concerned about a new surge than are Republicans.
Worries about states seeing the number of new cases grow fall partially along partisan lines: while 94% of Democrats and 70% of independents are worried, only 55% of Republicans say the same.
Americans Increasingly Want More Aggressive Social Distancing Measures
The share of Americans who say the country needs more aggressive social distancing measures is at the highest level since April 13th, with two in five now preferring more aggressive social distancing measures.
On May 18th, there was a 16-point gap between the share who were satisfied with current measures (47%) and those who wanted "more aggressive" social distancing (31%). That gap has flipped 20 points in the other direction with a plurality now preferring more aggressive measures.
Concern About Reopening Higher in States with Surging Cases
Two in five Americans say their state is moving too quickly on reopening, up 4 points from last week. Nearly half of those in states with growing numbers of new cases say that their state is moving too quickly to reopen.
On the other hand, in states with decreasing or stable numbers of new cases, a plurality (44%) feel their state is getting the timing about right on reopening.
Americans Appear to Be Keeping Up With Local and National Coronavirus Trends
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Among those in both states where the rate of new cases is declining or stable, a plurality say that the number of new cases is declining.
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His aim is to reduce some kilogrammes and burn out some calories in the system to keep him fit and healthy.
However, on several occasions, he came across many articulator vehicles and various trucks hauling charcoal to the southern part of the country.
Sometimes, he could count about 20 vehicles moving with the product to their destinations. In some of the occasions, this writer shook his head to stop the avalanche of thoughts from coming.
But tried as he did, he failed because the environment which is critical to the survival of the people is under serious threat of depletion. In deed all that the region has is the environment which serves as the soul and spirit of the people and needed absolute protection.
At night, the environment echoes with emptiness; all the rosewood, mahogany and other tree spices, in the entire region are gone through illegal lumbering. The activities of illegal timber merchants have added to the overwhelming destruction bushfire caused to the environment on yearly basis.
And in recent times, the shea tree which serves as one of the most valuable economic trees of the people is besieged. Charcoal producers, « Pito » local drink brewers and « Waakye » (rice and beans sellers) have turned their energies towards the wanton destruction of the shea tree, despite its economic values and usefulness to the people.
In local literature, one can confidently say « the shea tree is the north and the north is the shea tree ». The shea tree provides oil for the lighting at home, its products are used for the production of cosmetics, medicines and several others, while its fruits are edible and very helpful to the body.
But going round « pito » brewing centres in Wa, the shea tree branches are heaped in large quantities and used as firewood for the brewing of pito. The same is with Waakye sellers. The youth, especially women are burning the shea trees in large scale for charcoal production, even though it is one of the cash crops in the north that benefits women most.
The Upper West Region has now become a leading producer of charcoal in Ghana, despite its desertification nature. Charcoal production has become a commercial activity of the youth in the communities and if some measures are not put in place to address the menace, sooner than later, the region would become a desert.
Desertification, which often results from felling too many trees and damage that occurs from such activities such as; cattle grazing and bushfire, are affecting the well-being and livelihoods of several people in the communities.
Precious fresh water supplies are also drying up, such as aquifers under major towns and villages have been reduced to a trickle for much of the year.
Dwindling water supplies have caused escalating tensions and even conflicts to erupt as many people, including disadvantaged farmers, don't have enough water and are struggling for their share.
There are tens of thousands of rivers and lakes dying all over the region. People are leaving their villages, their hometowns because they don't have any more water to drink and in search for fertile lands to farm. Decline of wildlife due to species extinction is so rapid that there is no modern comparison.
The region in recent times has been experiencing worsened droughts that make it difficult to plant crops, thus adding to food shortages and prices rising. Increased temperatures mean erratic rainfall – either too little or too much at a time – bringing ravaging floods that drown the crops and fires that burn the forest.
Disasters will never end if the current trend is allowed to fester on. By so doing, the restoration of health, biodiversity will be allowed to thrive, planet equilibrium restored, along with the easing of conscience and capacity for elevated consciousness.
The physical evidence up to date shows that there is no time. The threats imposed by global warming are more than imminent; they are already here, as we can see through many disasters, upheavals, climate refugees, phenomena around the region.
Some communities have to cope with worsened drought situations.
We need to tackle the root problem now by stopping the greatest contributors to our environmental crisis.
We must focus on stopping the destruction of the environment and waste of the forest and lands, stop talking around the subject, but talk to the point: charcoal burning in commercial quantities and felling of rosewood and other tree species and the perennial bush fires must all stop now.
Without this main, most time-effective change, it won't be enough to repel the worst consequences that have accumulated.
Moreover, the problems such as the warming atmosphere, water shortage, food scarcity, and desertification, we can quickly eliminate by stopping the destruction on the environment.
« So, in order to solve the problem we have to reverse our actions. And instead of deforestation, we have to plant trees again. Take care of whatever environment that we have. And instead of polluting our planet, the air, we have to turn to friendly energy and sustainable energy. Just reverse our actions.
We should be in coordination with the universal energy, the loving law of nature. If humanity does not respect other forms of life, then the life of humans will also be in peril, because we are all interconnected.
Trees attract rain, keep the soil, and stop the erosion. And they give oxygen and shade, and give a home to the environmental forest friends, animals, which in turn, also keep our planet going in a good, ecological way.
Deforestation is not just about the permanent changes to the world's temperature, rainfall and weather patterns, which the forests regulate, it is not just about the millions of people who might lose their livelihoods that depend on the forest. There is more to it than that. There is the extinction of plant and animal species that is 100 times faster than what is natural, and it ruins our ecosystems.
Everything on this planet, including us, is integrated, and we help each other to make our lives here comfortable and liveable. But if we don't know that, we are killing ourselves. Every time we fell a tree, we are killing a little part of ourselves.
The leaders of the region must do something. Just because we can still sit here pretty and talk, just because in our area, there is not yet water shortage or food prices going up does not mean it will not happen soon.
The government have to explain to people that it is truly harmful now and this is an emergency that people should stop destroying the environment. It is not a matter of personal choice anymore. It is a planetary life- and death matter.
We only have this one home; earth. If it is destroyed, another one cannot be built, unlike a house which can be rebuilt, we cannot build another earth if it is destroyed. Therefore, the most important thing for the government to do is to spread information to the public. We have no other choice – either we change or we will all go.
The thing is, the leaders should know that is a priority. What is the use of worrying about war or about position or about anything else when the environment is going to be ruined?
So, right now, all the leaders must concentrate on saving our environment and must concentrate on spreading information and making new laws for people to live a more benevolent life.
Our environment is a house that is burning. If we don't work together with a united spirit to put out the fire, we will not have a home anymore.
We have to be the change we want to see, change the environment by changing ourselves. The best to save the environment is the individual. It begins with us. Since time immemorial, evolution always begins with the individual. If we want to change the environment, we must change ourselves first.
Avoid self-destructive habits now or else, major negative consequences awaits us soon. Let us try harmless ways to calm our poverty anxieties. Balance our time. Many find it helpful to alternate periods of poverty with temporary breaks activities that temporarily distance them from their poverty.
The government is aware. It is just perhaps the government is putting priority elsewhere. Government must launch a crusade to deal with the wanton destruction of the environment for commercial charcoal production in the region as it did with the illegal mining menace in the country. Wake up, wake up now and save yourselves. The hour is late; it's time to decide. The Environment crisis in the region- Let we stop it now.


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The Birds of America
The birds of America : from original drawings / by John James Audubon, Fellow of the Royal Societies of London & Edinburgh and of the Linnean & Zoological Societies of London[,] Member of the Natural History Society of Paris, of the Lyceum of New York, &c. &c. &c.
This book was published over an eleven year period, 1827-1838. Fewer than 200 sets of the four volumes were printed. There are 435 prints in a complete set. The College paid £48 in 1838 for its half set of prints 1-200, probably purchased second-hand after the original subscriber defaulted. The prints were engraved and coloured in Edinburgh and London, under Audubon's supervision, from his original paintings and drawings now held by the New York Historical Society.
Although he portrayed the birds in lifelike poses, all were dead when painted. He shot the specimens himself then arranged them with wires on a firm base. The book is double elephant folio in size to allow depiction of the birds life-sized, in their natural habitat and to be viewed from eye level.
John James Audubon was born as Jean Rabin in Haiti in 1785, the son of a French naval officer, Lieutenant Jean Audubon and his mistress, Jeanne Rabin, a Creole woman who died later that year. When John was four years old his father took him back to France and he was formally adopted into the Audubon family.
He was sent to his father's small estate near Philadelphia in 1805, perhaps to avoid conscription in Napoleon's army, and it was here he began to study and illustrate American birds. This was to be the major work of his life, and is one of the finest ornithological works ever completed.
Audubon; John-James (1785-1851); Ornithologist; artist
Audubon, Lucy Green Bakewell, 1788-1874.
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Havell, Robert, 1793-1878.
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Title: The Birds of America
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Q: Java MyFile extends File I am very very new to java and trying to extend File class to add some more methods and properties to it with below class
import java.io.File;

public class RecordingFile extends File {
private static final long serialVersionUID = -4774703382591639948L;
String RecordingNameFormatted;
String RecordingDurationFormatted;
String RecordingSizeFormatted;
String RecordingDateFormatted;
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    RecordingSizeFormatted = Utils.humanReadableByteCount(f.length(), true);
    RecordingDateFormatted = Utils.longToDate(f.lastModified());
    RecordingBitrateFormatted = Utils.getBitratePureJava(f) +"Kbps";
}
}

Above doesn't work properly. I am not even sure if
    File f = new File(path);

supposed to be there. For example when I try this
ArrayList<RecordingFile> ret = new ArrayList<RecordingFile>();
    RecordingFile filesDir = new RecordingFile(path);
    if (!filesDir.exists()) {
        filesDir.mkdirs();
    }
    RecordingFile[] list = filesDir.listFiles();

Eclipse tells me that "Type mismatch: cannot convert from File[] to RecordingFile[]"
How can i just extend File class by adding couple more properties/methods to it?

A: None of the builtin things know about your class, so they can't possibly return your new types.  what i think you're looking for is probably extension methods which don't exist in Java yet.
Java equivalent to C# extension methods
In order to use your stuff, you'd have to make a method that, given any collection of File objects, returns your new type.  You'd then have to call that everywhere you want to use your type instead.
so that line would look like
RecordingFile[] list = convertToRecordingFiles(filesDir.listfiles());

i leave the implementation of convertToRecordingFiles as an excercise :)

A: If you are extending File then your class instances are also Files. Calling the super constructor is enough, and then this will have all the public and protected fields & methods of File plus whatever you add.

A: The issue is that when you call listFiles(), you are calling the File method listFiles(), which returns an array of the File type.
Because of inheritance, your RecordingFile type IS A File, but a File IS NOT A RecordingFile. So when you call listFiles now, there is no issue since it returns an array of RecordingFiles which ARE Files, but the methods specifies that they are the File type.
As suggested above, you could write a utility method that converts Files to RecordingFiles.
Alternatively, you could just cast the results of the method call, since the File that it returns are in fact RecordingFiles.
So change the line to:
RecordingFile[] list = (RecordingFile[])filesDir.listFiles();
The cleanest choice, in my opinion, would be to overload the method on your new class: Give RecordingFile a method listFiles() that returns a list of RecordingFiles (tip: you can write the method exactly how I specified above).

A: In terms of listing a (virtual)filesystem in a treeview I had to override the File class..
So I choosed John's answer to solve it. Here is some help for people who had never overriden a class before.
@Override
public MyFile[] listFiles() {
    File[] theFiles = super.listFiles();
    if (theFiles == null || theFiles.length == 0) return null;

    MyFile[] myFiles = new MyFile[theFiles.length];
    for (int i = 0; i < theFiles.length; i++) {
        myFiles[i] = new MyFile(theFiles[i].getAbsolutePath());
    }
    return myFiles;
}

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Waters Elementary School. The amazing garden is pictured just off screen, to the left.
This last year was rocky for my son's school, Waters Elementary, a public school on Chicago's North Side. There was a threat to demolish the school's award-winning community garden to make way for a new annex, a once broadly-loved teacher was found to have raped a 13-year old student, and then the rapist's replacement teacher allegedly made racist and demeaning insults as a regular part of her instruction to her already traumatized seventh-grade students.
Those are the publicly reported incidents. Then there's the items talked about among informed parents, but mostly discussed in whispered tones, such as general dissatisfaction over how the school's principal has released little information about the school annex construction process, problems with another teacher that regularly insults and demeans students, and a growing sense among parents that many of the school's teachers have become obstructionist and disdainful of parent involvement.
But wait, have I mentioned that Waters Elementary is considered one Chicago's best public elementary schools? Heavily supported by a well-to-do community, it is well-resourced, and so popular that it is overcrowded because so many neighborhood parents want to send their kids there. The annex is coming to accommodate the booming student population. Viewed against a list of Chicago's many trouble public schools, Waters is a paradise and example of how public education can be a wonderful success.
Who's responsible for that success? Parents? Community volunteers? The principal? The teachers?
All of these groups are responsible for Waters' success, to some degree. But it's hard to know exactly what successes should be contributed to what group, because although the school is a critical hub for 628 students and their families, a key to our neighborhood, our schools just aren't set up as transparent government bodies. Without transparency, it's hard to know who is really responsible for the good things, as well as the bad. That's a tough reality for any community, let alone one made up of the super type-A personalities living in Chicago's affluent Lincoln Square.
As a former journalist and a believer in government transparency, I've been trying to figure out how to solve this problem. Last fall, when the school's garden was threatened by a crew that suddenly showed up to start drilling core samples to make way for an annex building, I put together a website and email list to update parents on the annex' progress.
But as the process went on, it became clear to me that almost all information was moving through the principal – who more often than not seemed to be directed by Chicago Public Schools HQ to not talk to anyone under any circumstances, even the Chair of the Local School Council, a group that is nominally supposed to be overseeing school operations.
Due to a lack of confirmed information, I stopped posting updates. Believe me, the reporter in me didn't like that decision at all, so I looked at other ways of getting information. Because construction drawings are considered "draft work", they aren't subject to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests until they are completed. And that upended the whole point of getting information out – so that parents and community members could be part of the decision-making process beforethe decisions were made.
When I was a political reporter, if I met this kind of barrier, I'd start war-dialing. I'd literally call communications directors or public officials every hour for days, demanding information. Obnoxious? Yes, but very effective.
But war-dialing your son's principal is not a great idea.
Parents are not unified in their feelings about Waters. Many disagree with me, some suggesting that the school is just fine. Some agree with me that there needs to be improvements, but that my desire for transparency is misplaced.
Making things even more complicated, my wife and I are friends or professional colleagues with many parents. Disagreements about Waters Elementary's management has the potential of bleeding into personal and work lives, so it doesn't pay to get too strident about things.
Some parents have told me to stop worrying, with versions of, "Hey, it's still a good school. Stop complaining because your kid will still get a decent education."
This approach makes me ill, since it essentially suggests that nothing can ever get better, that complacency is just fine. But still, those parents aren't wrong. Despite my concerns, Waters is still a good school.
Other parents are attempting to work the process by meeting with the school system's network chief (similar to an area head of schools) to register their concerns. This must seem like a remarkable turn of events for the network chief, since other elementary schools under his oversight deal with shootings, drug dealing, rampant truancy, and generally uninvolved parents. What's up with these complaining parents from one of the city's best schools?
I don't expect much sympathy or action from the higher-ups, as much as it might be warranted.
I'm stymied, honestly, about what I can do to help make things better. Summer break ends and school starts up again in Chicago in just a few weeks. I'm hoping my son will draw another great teacher, as he has for so many years. I'm hoping the annex will be built to suit the school's unique needs, rather than the cookie cutter standards we saw come down from HQ. I'm hoping that I'll learn enough information as the year goes by to stay on top of things for my own son's needs.
There has got to be a better solution. If you have any ideas, please email me. I'd love to hear them.
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WASHINGTON - Josh Bailey may not have proved himself as a reliable playoff performer, not with just seven games of postseason experience under his hockey suspenders.
But he certainly is not shrinking from the few playoff spotlight chances he's had. In Game 1 Wednesday night, Bailey was the best of a very strong group of Islanders forwards, assisting on Brock Nelson's game-opening score and scoring the big third goal in the second period of the Isles' 4-1 win.
His line, with Frans Nielsen and Kyle Okposo, interrupted a half-dozen Caps outlet passes from the Washington zone and generally played more in the opposing end than their own. Bailey spent a bulk of this season on John Tavares' wing, but he's had good chemistry with Nielsen and Okposo in the past and the three seem to mesh well on the forecheck.
"That's a strength of our team, to be hard on the forecheck and we want to play to our strengths," Bailey said. "It's just one part of what we want to do."
Bailey finished off the regular season with a career-high 41 points, but most important for Jack Capuano was that Bailey also had a career high with 140 shots on goal -- not an eye-opening number in 70 games (Okposo had 195 shots in 60 games), but for a player in Bailey whom the coaching staff implores to shoot more, it's a start.
Bailey had three of the Isles' 27 shots Wednesday night, two on the sequence where he shoveled the puck off Caps goaltender Braden Holtby, off the post, back off Holtby and in midway through the second period.
Bailey now has five points in seven career playoff games, having played the bulk of the 2013 playoff loss to the Penguins on Tavares' wing. It's not exactly a Gretzkyian scoring pace, but for a player who doesn't pile up points in the regular season, it's something to note.


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Angela Sterling, Founder and CEO, says: "This was a really fantastic surprise and everyone at Lingotot is delighted! Communication is key to our business and with our ever expanding network, we felt it was important to invest in a new website. This new site came with an extensive and purpose built intranet system, enabling us to build a wide range of support systems for the benefit of our network.
We are very proud of our site but to have it recognised by a panel of respected business minds is just wonderful! At the very heart of it, all we wanted to do was better support our network of franchisees and tutors."
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sleepynoodle replied to JojoandTomas's topic in K-1 Fiance(e) Visa Case Filing and Progress Reports
inquiries didn't help us. We are now filling out an ombudsman form. From my understanding if you have complaints about the USCIS, this organization is your next step after submitting inquiries. We had two calls where we tried to talk to a TIER 2 agent at USCIS. Both were unsuccessful. They straight up lied that they already contacted us and explained everything when we had the second call. https://www.dhs.gov/topic/cis-ombudsman/forms/7001 https://www.dhs.gov/case-assistance
so so sorry to hear that. We are still stuck as well.
sleepynoodle reacted to a post in a topic: APRIL 2022 K1 NOA2 to NVC to EMBASSY November 30, 2022
This is becoming more ridiculous by the day! USCIS still hasn't found our case even though they approved it on April 13 2022 (half a year of more waiting) - and this week, when my fiancé called them (for like the 100th time) to remind them that it has been another month of waiting without any substantial TIER 2 agent's updates they started straight up lying about tier 2 already having contacted us about the issue. What do we do? We wrote a big letter to the local congressman but heard nothing. Now we are submitting an inquiry to the ombudsman. Is there any way to hold the USCIS and the NVC accountable?
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Hi everyone! Has anyone's approved petition also been lost by the USCIS after NOA2? We were approved on April 13th 2022 (NOA2) BUT our approved petition never made it to the NVC. It has been 3 months of tirelessly trying to have both NVC and USCIS find our paperwork but it has led absolutely nowhere. Please, if anyone is dealing with the same issue - let me know. We received different suggestions on what to do next - from contacting the ombudsman to sending our local congressman a letter but we were curious if we are the only ones experiencing this awful nightmare.
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Tomorrow is 2 months since we received our NOA2 and STILL NO NEWS FROM NVC! I have read here that after the I129F is approved we have 4 months to schedule the interview and we are starting to get super worried because we just don't know where our paperwork is. Since we can't call NVC we left them a public inquiry but who knows when they will look at those, if at all? USCIS said they sent our case to NVC and can't help us. Same with the consulate in Kazakhstan - they said until we can provide them with a case number from NVC they can't do anything either. Anyone else here has the same problem? What can/should we do? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Thank you so much for your reply and thanks for sharing the other number (but yes, they won't pick up that one too now)! No, we haven't had a chance to register our email with the NVC. How do you do that? Is that through the Public Inquiry Form. Because they no longer answer their phones we submitted a Public inquiry form (https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-information-resources/ask-nvc.html) but haven't heard anything back. We just want to know our case number so we can start tracking and now after over a year of waiting for I129F approval it feels like we are back in this "uknown void of waiting" again. It's heartbreaking. Again, thank you so much for your reply, it means a lot. Glad you have your case number)))))
I just tried calling the NVC and got the message that they "suspended answering calls" in order to focus all their energy on processing applications. This is the number i called 603 334 0700. Last week when i called the message was different and they just had me on hold for forever. It has been over 5 weeks that we received our NOA2 (April 14th 2022) and no news from NVC as of yet. Does anyone have the same situation? What should we do? Is there a way to check or find out where is our application and when it will be processed by NVC? Thank you so much.
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We are in 72000s and just got approved! We can't thank you all on this forum for keeping us sane and giving us the hope and encouragement to keep on going even in the darkest of times of this excruciating wait. We appreciate you so so much! Best of luck to everyone here and much much love.
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I am an April filer but I just couldn't not react to your post - I mean what you had to go through sounds awful and just so painfully unnecessary. What else do they want if all those things you mentioned were not enough??? I can't even imagine how that must have felt but I am so so happy for your case to now be moving in the right direction. I mean, do they want us all to become YouTubers and vlog our whole relationship and time stamp every single minute of just being humans that love each other?????
Your charts are amazing! They bring so much more calm and reason - you are doing a very great and helpful thing! Many many thanks to you)))))))
It was better to wait for the reply longer than usual than to be that one couple whose petition gets lost in the mail. And I like April very much, it is a good month for us - that's when we started dating and our first kiss anniversary, so, it makes sense lol. Thanks for all the updates)))
Hi, we received the letter and the text on April 25th. When I log into the case status website it says "we received your i129f on April 7th". Yeah, we had to wait for the longest after we sent it in March.
You are so right about the effects of the waiting on mental health (our NOA is April 7 and we also heard nothing, which is devastating). You gotta stay strong though, for yourself and your partner cause it is so easy to let the anxiety about the case status take hold of how you think and function. I have been waking up once every night (sometimes more) and not being able to go back to sleep until I check the case status online. I didn't mean to do it, it just started this way and now it has been over a month of interrupted sleep like that. But things will be great at the end of it all, I just know it. And sometime very soon you will be reunited with your love.


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While planning of any type can be a bit daunting, being strategic about it can be even more confounding. Craig struggles to figure out how to balance his need to be present and in the moment with the long term vision required for strategic planning, Thankfully, Brian sets Craig straight as they discuss having those usually avoided but highly necessary difficult conversations about planning BEFORE you think about implementing them, asking yourself if a new plan is necessary and how metrics are such an important part of figuring out what's working. As Brian explains, sometimes after a planning sessions understanding that no action is needed can often be better than any action you can take. And Craig can totally relate to inaction!


What is the Brain Cancer SPORE?
The Brain Tumor Center at MD Anderson Cancer Center established a Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) for the study of brain cancer under the leadership of principal investigator, W. K. Alfred Yung, M.D., and co-principal investigator, Oliver Bögler, Ph.D., in July of 2008. Since that time the SPORE grant has been renewed under the leadership of Frederick Lang, M.D., and Juan Fueyo, M.D., making MD Anderson one of only five programs in the nation with a Brain SPORE grant. This grant supports an outstanding multidisciplinary group of investigators whose research is both innovative and translational.
Why is the research being conducted by the Brain Cancer SPORE so important?
Nearly 360,000 people are living in the United States with a diagnosis of a primary brain tumor or central nervous system tumor. In 2016, an estimated 23,770 people will receive a brain cancer diagnosis, according to the NIH. Sadly, the median survival for glioblastoma (GBM), the most common and aggressive primary brain tumor, is 14.6 months; despite surgery, radiation and chemotherapy . As other cancers have progressed in their treatment methodologies over the past 20 years, advances in brain cancer treatment have only been incremental.
What has the Brain Cancer SPORE at MD Anderson Cancer Center accomplished?
The current Brain Cancer SPORE at MD Anderson Cancer Center builds upon the significant progress achieved in the initial funding period, including the development of new biological (oncolytic virus, stem cell delivery), targeted (PI3K inhibitors) and immunomodulatory (p-STAT-3 inhibitor) therapeutic strategies. Our initial projects led to the first-in-human Phase I clinical trial of the oncolytic virus Delta-24-RGD, a GBM-specific Phase II clinical trial of the PI3K inhibitor BKM120, and an IND for a new immunological therapy WP-1066. We also advanced glioma diagnosis by developing a prognostic biomarker profile (9-Gene Signature) for "personalizing" GBM care, which was incorporated into two large Phase III trials (RTOG-0525; RTOG-0825).
What is the current Brain Cancer SPORE's goals?
To read more in depth about the five SPORE projects and Cores A-E, click here.
What are the strengths of the MD Anderson Cancer Center Brain Cancer SPORE?
Overall, our studies have significant potential to improve the diagnosis and outcome of patients with malignant brain tumors.
How is the MD Anderson Cancer Center Brain Cancer SPORE mentoring the next generation of translational investigators?
The goal of the Career Development Program is to provide training and guidance from academic physician-scientists, clinical-investigators and laboratory-based scientists to individuals who wish to dedicate their efforts to improving the diagnosis and treatment of brain tumors through translational research. Similarly, Developmental Research Projects promote interdisciplinary research and move basic research findings from the laboratory to clinical settings. During the initial Brain Cancer SPORE, 14 Career Research Project Awards and 13 Developmental Research Project Awards were granted to MD Anderson Cancer Center investigators. One of initial Developmental Research Projects was elevated to a full SPORE project under the renewed Brain Cancer SPORE Award.
2016 Development Research Project and Career Development Awardees (L-R): Kunal Rai, Ph.D., Krishna Bhat, Ph.D., Jian Hu, Ph.D., Hillary Caruso, Ph.D., Florian Muller, Ph.D., Pratip Bhattacharya, Ph.D., Candelaria Gomez-Manzano, M.D., and George Calin, M.D., Ph.D.
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Rider Notes: June 6-7, 1998
Food of the Day: meat pierrade (meat cooked on heated stones)
A "pierrade" is a meal in which small strips of raw meat are cooked on an extremely hot piece of stone, a "pierre" in French, hence the name of the meal. And, since the strips are so small and the process is so individual, the meat chefs are the customers themselves. Yes, the piping hot "pierre" is brought to the table, along with the platter of viandes, and a selection of creamy condiments with which the meat is then eaten, and each person cooks the meat to his or her own tastes. This has to happen pretty quickly since the stone won't stay hot forever, but the meal should not be rushed either (it is a thick piece of rock and stays hot for more than long enough).
Person of the Day: King Louis IX, also known as Saint Louis
King of France from 1226 and 1270, Louis IX, or Saint Louis , is best known for his piety (which earned him sainthood) and for having undertaken two separate crusades to recapture the Holy Land from the Saracens.
His first crusade (actually the 7th Crusade) failed miserably, leaving Louis a prisoner for four years in Palestine. However, he eventually made it back to France and had great success consolidating the French monarchy's grasp over what would later become France. He successfully negotiated treaties with the Spanish and English that netted the country the provinces of Languedoc, Anjou, Normandy, Poitou, Maine, and Touraine. Still, being pious, he was not satisfied until he launched a second crusade, some 20 years after his first. This ended badly as well. Louis died en route; he drowned crossing a stream near Tunis.
However, this final crusade did leave a legacy. Louis had ordered the construction of a walled city - Aigues-Mortes (see the Rider Notes - on the site from which he left for the Holy Land. On August 25, his feast day, there is a Festival Saint Louis in Aigues-Mortes during which the town is transported back to the 13th century and remembers Louis' departure for Jerusalem. There are pageants, medieval markets, street minstrels, fire-eaters, chivalric performances, and fireworks.
Place of the Day: the Camargue
Wedged between Arles and the sea and bounded by the two southern arms of the Rhône River - the Petit Rhône and the Grand Rhône - the Camargue is the swampy, low-lying, Rhône delta known for its otherworldly landscapes and as the location of one of Europe's best wildlife sanctuaries.
Fortunately, all of the Camargue is today (and since 1970) a Regional Natural Park. This park and additional areas have also been recognized as a National Nature Reserve since 1927 particularly because of the role they play as a sanctuary for dozens of species of birds, especially migratory waterfowl like the pink flamingo and the heron. More than 95% of the Reserve - the whole of the park plus some areas, for a total of 13,117 hectares (32,412.5 acres) - is protected. This place is a bird-watcher's paradise.
In addition to all the birds, thriving within the confines of this natural wonder are plenty of fish, a growing population of wild white horses , and herds, or "manades," of breeding animals (like the black bull, or "biou" as it is called in the local dialect). Local equine bull ranchers, known as "gardians," can still be seen in the area and lend it a feeling of a wild frontier. They often wear traditional costumes when they round up the bulls and make them ready for the early October "course camarguaise," or local bullfight, in which a "razeteur" (a man dressed in white) measures his strength against a bull without killing it.
The Camargue is also a productive agricultural zone known for its rice, asparagus, and "sand" wine, as well as the harvesting of reeds and the culturing of salt.
Above all, the area is a wonder of preserved natural beauty in an outstanding setting of dunes, lagoons, marshes and ponds.
If you wish to learn more about the Camargue, there are a number of public and private foundations working to protect the area and educate people about it and other similar "humid zones" in the Mediterranean. Contact the
Centre d'Information du Parc
Pont Gau
13460 Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
Tel: +33-04.90.97.86.32
Fax: +33-04.90.97.70.82
Réserve Nationale de Camargue
Société nationale de Protection de la Nature
La Capelière
for more information about their activities as well as those of the Domaine de la Palissade, the Association la Sigoulette, the Parc ornithologique du Pont de Gau, and the Station biologique de la Tour du Valat.
Tech Fact of the Day: midges, the scourge of the Camargue
Midges are tiny insects (Ceratopogon guttipennis, of the Diptera subclass) that look like gnats, but suck blood like mosquitoes. Sometimes known as No-see-ums in the United States, they are usually found in forests or swampy marshy regions. Since they are small, quick, and fly around in swarms, they can be a terrible and itchy annoyance to intrepid bikers who tarry too long fixing flats or taking photos in their midst (see the Rider Notes).
Group Dispatch, June 6-7
With precious Internet access to capitalize upon, many farewells to make to our friends at DIA , and a couple of flat tires to repair, we did not get an early start from Marseille. In fact, by the time we had finally cleared the city - not even stopping to take part in a local equivalent of Bicincittà whose path we accidentally crossed - and stopped for lunch, our watches showed that it was already after 1 p.m. With 80 km (50 mi) yet to go, we could not afford to dawdle.
Unfortunately, we had little choice. First, the raindrops began to fall, then Ethan got a flat tire, and then Padraic broke a spoke. While everyone had stopped to fix Padraic's wheel, Ethan noticed that he had gone flat again. As luck would have it, the only place we could find where we could escape the rain and make further repairs turned out to be a car wash. So, while Padraic and Ethan made their repairs , Anthony washed his bike with a high-pressure hose - something he has wanted to do for months. So impressed by Anthony's glittering bike, the rest of the team decided to do the same.
Our bikes cleaner than they had been in months, we set out again, only to have Padraic get a flat within a couple of kilometers/miles.
Now we began to worry about time. It was 4 p.m. and we still had 60 km (37 mi) to go. Another flat while negotiating a dirt path through a swamp slowed us down further, but fortunately the last 30 km (19 mi) turned out to be mostly flat (the terrain, not our tires) and even with a slight tailwind. We rolled into Arles just after 7.
Quickly finding a hotel, showering and changing, we were off to a restaurant in minutes and back before midnight. Anthony nearly succumbed to the siren song of a rock concert in the ancient Roman Theater, but we bungeed him to Ethan and Padraic, and they carried him back to the hotel.
The next morning was reserved for some sightseeing. Not wishing to get as late a start as the day before, Ethan, Corinne and Padraic (Anthony had already seen the sights of Arles on a previous trip) decided to keep their visits short.
The Arles of today is considered by many to be a city that has again and again successfully adapted itself to the changes of the times. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why it is a UNESCO World Heritage site . Dating back to the 1st century BC, Arles, or Arelas as it was then known, was an important Roman commercial center. In 49 BC, Caesar, with whom the city had allied itself, had succeeded in defeating his rival's (Pompey's) forces in Marseille (which he then destroyed), and all attention was turned to Arles. (For more Roman history, see the dispatch from Roma.) Many of its greatest and oldest monuments - a 26,000-seat amphitheater, a 12,000-seat theater, and some eerie underground tunnels - all date from this period. In the 4th century, when Constantine was emperor, Arles again received a great deal of attention as a palace built for the emperor was erected here (of which the baths remain). However, after the collapse of the Roman Empire, Arles never quite recovered its earlier notoriety. That said, as the capital of the 10th-century Kingdom of Arles (also known as the Kingdom of Burgundy), it did not fade into oblivion. In fact, many historians claim it was one of the most pleasant cities of the Mediterranean. During the 19th and 20th centuries, it certainly attracted its fair share of beauty appreciators, two of the most famous being the painters Gauguin and Van Gogh, the latter creating more than 200 canvases in 1888 and 1889.
The BikeAbouters began their visit at the 12th-14th century Cathedral and Cloister Saint Trophime, admiring in particular the beautiful Romanesque entranceway to the Cathedral, with its magnificently carved version of the Last Judgement. On one side you see the saved, ready to enter heaven ; on the other side are the damned, already suffering on their way down to hell.
From the Cathedral, we looped around to check out the major tourist attractions to the town: the Roman Theater, called today the Théâtre Antique (which is still used for performances, like the rock concert that had been held the night before), and the Roman amphitheater , now known as the Arènes (the Arena). The latter was by far the more impressive of the two. Though not nearly as big as the Coliseums and amphitheaters we have seen in El Jem and Roma, the Arena of Arles tops the other two in that it is still in use for entertainment and spectacles just as it was two thousands years ago! Bullfights - probably not that much different in tone than the gladiator fights and events of Roman times - are now held here.
After the Arena, Ethan, Corinne and Padraic headed over to check out the 1st century BC Cryptoportiques du Forum, an eerie U-shaped stretch of underground galleries and chambers. Built by the Romans as the foundation for the ancient Forum (and also as either a refuge or a storage area), these spooky basement rooms are the oldest remnants of the original Roman colony. Its vastness and dim light reminded us of the Serapeum in Saqqarah.
Once back into the sunlight, we bought a small lunch and ate it while teeter-tottering in a little Rhône-side park. Then, at last we were off.
We decided not to try to ride too far today, settling for a flat pedal across the Camargue - the beautiful protected natural reserve in the area of the Rhône delta (see the Place of the Day) - to the little medieval town of Aigues-Mortes (which we later learned means "dead water").
Unfortunately we did not make very fast progress. The wind had whipped up and was now blowing in our faces. When we finally reached the Camargue, however, we were happy for the wind. Not only did it keep us cool as we peered across long stretches of beautiful green fields or into swampy alcoves at flamingoes, herons and even bulls, it helped keep the killer-midges (see the Tech Fact of the Day) off us as we pushed toward the Etang du Vaccares - the large body of water at the center of the National Reserve - and then coast. Our progress was further impeded when our road turned first to gravel, then to dirt, and finally to mud. In just a few km our sparkling-clean bikes became coated with mud. Indeed, the mud gummed up our pedals and covered our wheels, making it hard to ride at all. Then of course the inevitable happened: Ethan flatted again! Luckily it was near the end of the mud path and the midges weren't too bad. Regardless, we were glad to emerge on the other side of the park almost within sight of our final destination.
Aigues-Mortes itself appeared as if an apparition, a beautiful fortified city with a huge tower right in the middle of the swampy lowlands. After rolling through the front gate , soaking in some of the wonderfully relaxed and festive atmosphere, and treating ourselves to huge ice cream cones, we found a nearby hotel, quickly showered and emerged ready for some sight-seeing.
For the next couple of hours we explored the little town, noting the classic 13th century medieval architecture, and the very impressive walls. Built in 50 years at the command of Louis IX (also known as Saint Louis - see the Person of the Day) to commemorate his Crusaders' departure for the Holy Land (and also so that the expanded Kingdom of France could have a port on the Mediterranean), Aigues-Mortes was an important coastal lookout and bastion against maritime invasions well into the 16th century. Unfortunately, since it was late in the day, we were foiled in our attempt to visit the majestic medieval Constance tower (it closed prematurely), or either of the 17th-century chapels. However, our roam around town did reveal a wonderful restaurant where we enjoyed one of our best meals of the trip, including a delicious pierrade (see the Food of the Day).
After dinner we paused for a while on the main square to enjoy the ambiance of this quaint little town and then retired to our cozy quadruple for a well-deserved night's sleep.
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U.S. retail sales were unexpectedly flat in July, pointing to some loss of momentum in the economy early in the third quarter.
The Commerce Department said on Wednesday retail sales, which had increased 0.2 percent in June, were held back by a second straight month of declines in receipts at auto dealers, as well as weak sales of furniture and electronics and appliances.
July's reading was the weakest since January. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast retail sales, which account for a third of consumer spending, increasing 0.2 percent last month.
So-called core sales, which strip out automobiles, gasoline, building materials and food services, and correspond most closely with the consumer spending component of gross domestic product, edged up 0.1 percent in July. That suggested a moderation in consumer spending early in the third quarter.
Core sales rose by a revised 0.5 percent in June. They were previously reported to have increased 0.6 percent and economists had expected them to advance 0.4 percent in July.
The retail sales report, which was generally weak, suggested third-quarter growth will probably pull back after the April-June quarter's brisk 4.0 percent annualized rate.
Receipts at auto dealerships fell 0.2 percent in July after declining 0.3 percent the prior month. Sales at non-store retailers, which include online sales, slipped 0.1 percent.
Sales at clothing retailers rose 0.4 percent and receipts at sporting goods shops gained 0.2 percent.
Sales at electronics and appliances stores fell 0.1 percent, while receipts at building materials and garden equipment suppliers rose 0.2 percent.


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Roinn sé Duais Nobel na Ceimice sa bhliain 1956 le Nikolai Semenov as an saothar ar chinéitic imoibrithe.
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In-demand big data skills: a mix of old and new
Summary: Enterprises have to decide whether to look at hiring new talent for big data or infusing existing data management talent with new skills.
By Mary Shacklett for Between the Lines |	October 1, 2013 -- 16:28 GMT (09:28 PDT)
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In fall of 2012, MIT's Sloan Management School issued a report discussing the differences between big and regular data, and also differences in skills that the two demanded.
Big data: An overview
Organizations that utilize big data differ from those with traditional data practices in that they:
Pay attention to flows as opposed to stocks;
Rely on data scientists and product and process developers as opposed to data analysts; and
Move analytics from IT into core business and operational functions.
How does this play out in business? Companies want to measure customer sentiment or respond to breaks in train tracks in time to effect preemptive change — and they need to analyze the data coming in from remote points as it flows in, not after it has been 'stocked' in a master database or migrated to a data warehouse. They also need the heuristics and statistical analysis skills to know which questions to ask of this data, and how to ask questions to arrive at new processes and even new products that the business sees commercial potential in. To get there, companies must somehow combine these technical skills with people possessing strong business acumen and understanding.
In-demand skills
This 'skills bill' isn't easy to fill in businesses today, which is exactly why we keep hearing about competition intensifying for big data professionals. At the same time, however, big data in businesses doesn't run well without contributions from traditional data competencies.
For instance, 59 percent of companies responding to a 2012 survey conducted by analyst firm Information Difference said that their big data projects were 'highly linked' to their master data repositories. In many cases, master data (e.g. customer data, product data, and so on) was being used as 'vectors' into big data queries that began the process of probing piles of unstructured and semi-structured big data for clues on how customers react to certain offers, or how products were being accepted in certain markets, and so on.
In these cases, it was traditional master data that actually formed the core of what big data queries were constructed from — and so it was no surprise that 67 percent of respondents in the same survey also said that master data was driving big data, rather than the other way around.
How companies are actually exploiting their big data, coupled with their continued reliance on enterprise master data, suggests that a 'mixed' skills set might be in order for big data workers.
Big data skills vs traditional skills
First, let's get into some specifics about how big data skills differ from traditional data skills.
Big data demands new programming and analytics skills that today's data analysts typically lack. Most of these skills fall under the heading of 'data science'. They include a strong background in mathematics and statistical analysis, familiarity with newer statistical programming languages like R, a knowledge of analytics modeling techniques, knowledge of data subject matter, and the ability to experiment with data without fear in order to get results. In the past, most data science work has been performed in academic environments, so if the problem was extremely complex, it was understood that the answers might not come right away.
Big data also demands a new set of technical skills that aren't readily found today in many enterprise data centers. Among these 'hard skills' are data architecting that includes the build-out of databases that span terabytes of data, being able to administer software frameworks like Hadoop, expertise in databases like noSQL, Cassandra or HBase; or in analytics programming languages and facilities like R or Pig.
But if these are some of the hard skills areas, big data also demands a set of soft skills that enterprise IT has customarily been short on. These include the ability of people to think broadly across the organization, to understand the bottom-line needs of the business, to know which analytics questions to pose to get to those bottom lines, and to measure and communicate results.
Big data demands a new set of technical skills that aren't readily found today in many enterprise data centers.
In the 1980s, a Los Angeles aerospace company grew frustrated with the inability of technically oriented IT personnel who couldn't speak the language of the business. The company conducted a study and learned that music majors and other liberal-arts graduates could be employed and trained as systems analysts, and that they could bridge the gap in understanding so the IT-business connection could be made. It worked.
This kind of thinking again resurfaced when a Booz Hamilton Allen management consulting vice president said companies were experiencing success by adding physicists and music majors to their data science teams — because of their ability to look at big data problems in new ways.
A mix of new and established skills
The moral of the story is that enterprises need a new set of skills for big data — and colleges and universities in partnership with technology solution providers are hard at work to supply them. At the same time, however, there are spots on the new 'data science' teams that are evolving in enterprises with room for those well versed in business knowledge and analytics query development; and those with skills in well-established query products that have extended analytics capabilities and proven track records — such as SAS or Cognos.
One characteristic of enterprise big data environments that isn't necessarily present in academic settings is that time-to-results is paramount. SETI, for example, spent 50 years probing radio emissions for signs of extraterrestrial life, enlisting volunteers to analyze this unstructured data for signal patterns that might indicate communications from another civilisation. It never identified a pattern that could establish extraterrestrial life.
Enterprises, on the other hand, have sales forecasts, product launches and business risks to manage — not to mention customer satisfaction and fulfillment. If something goes wrong, or is predicted by analytics to go wrong, the organization will marshall every on-board skills set it has to solve that problem — whether it's possessed by a recent university graduate who is a statistician-programmer, or by a business-savvy analyst with SAS expertise.
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"Je suis Charlie"
What are French Politicians and Journalists Afraid of?
by Voltaire Network
Geneva (Switzerland) | 26 January 2015
The astonishing Press campaign currently being waged in France, in the name of freedom of expression, against all those who have been questioning the January attacks in Paris, has spread progressively to all the NATO countries. As from now, the use of a critical mind may become a criminal offence punishable by prison.
Voltaire Network Press Release
Voltaire Network denounces attempt by the "rebels" to arrest Thierry Meyssan
Voltaire Network, Thursday, 25 August 25, 2011, 3:25 p.m. - The journalists who had been trapped inside the hotel Rixos in Tripoli since Sunday were evacuated yesterday, 24 August 2011, at 5 p.m, by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The four members of the Voltaire Network team - journalists Thierry Meyssan, Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, Mathieu Ozanon and Julien Teil - were among them.
However, after their release, the rebels tried to detain Thierry Meyssan, well known for (...)
Darfur: Simplification and Moralization of the Conflict
Paris (France) | 10 March 2006
The extremely complex situation in Darfur is being ignored by analysts and by the commentaries published in the western mainstream media, particularly in the United States. US media analysts deal with the Darfur issue only as an ethnic conflict, or more precisely as the "genocide" of "Africans" at the hands of the "Arabs". If it is a fact that the conflict leads to massacres that cruelly affect sedentary populations, it is false to suggest that confrontation is based on such ethnic or "racial" reasons and that such a division is the cause of the conflict.
Pakistan: after the missiles, the smokescreen
Paris (France) | 3 February 2006
As we already said in previous articles, the US attacks against Pakistan, whose supposed goal was to eliminate Al-Qaeda's Number 2: Ayman Al Zawahiri, allowed to attack rebel movements in Baluchistan. However, the mainstream media have never considered this offensive as evidence of Washington's support of his allied Pervez Musharraf and an attempt of brutal "pacification" of a strategic zone that is crucial for the transfer of oil from the Caspian Sea. Giving more importance to the myth of the "global war on terrorism", analysts leave aside the subtleties of Pakistan's policies to focus on the justification, or condemnation, of the principle of "selective killing" and on other questions about the regime of Pervez Musharraf.
Russia: George Soros' great offensive reveals the emergency of the energy situation
As it is hard to believe that the disclosure of the activities of British spies by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) is just a coincidence of the calendar, it is certainly very unlikely that the activities of Project Syndicate dealing with the Ukrainian issue are not a veiled response. Thus, the staff of George Soros spreads columns in affiliated media questioning the Russian energy policy and the political orientation of the country. Considering their audience and the effect of their reiteration, it is easy to understand that the arguments presented by Project Syndicate have an impact not only on public opinion but also on the analysts who usually deal with these topics. Therefore, anyone can see in the background of this issue the concern of the big financial organizations about the re-distribution of world energy (...)
The two bodies of the Israeli Prime Minister
In his famous work The King's two bodies, German historian Ernst kantorowicz studied the consecration of the royal figure of the Middle Age and of Modern Times in Europe. He studied how the myth of double Royal nature had been created: on the first hand, the individual with his own gifts and shortcomings (the King) and on the second hand the incarnation of a function well above the person who would incarnate that function (the King). Such a system is similarly applied by the media to the post of Prime Minister in Israel. That way, the gifts previously attributed to Ariel Sharon are now those of Ehud Olmert.
Chile, Bolivia… "responsible" left against "populist" left
Paris (France) | 31 January 2006
The Electoral victory of Evo Morales in Bolivia again puts Latin America in the focus of attention of the media after a long absence. Erroneously compared to the election of socialist Michelle Bachelet in Chile, the Bolivian election is fairly interpreted by the media as a symbol of a political turning point in the continent. The pro-American circles show concern in front of this trend, while they praise the "realist" policies of Washington's last supporters.
Iraq: What does success mean?
Trapped in its own propaganda, the US currently faces a serious problem in Iraq. The US people are more and more reluctant to the deployment of troops in Iraq, while neo-cons are already dreaming of new invasions. For the Bush administration, the officially-proclaimed objectives of the invasion make it too difficult for a victorious withdrawal, though. Washington's elite discusses the conditions for the retreat and tries to define what could be interpreted as a success.
Iran: made satanic before what?
We're witnessing, in the mainstream press, a propaganda campaign against Iran similar to that preceding the invasion of Iraq. We're seeing again the arguments then used to shape western opinion for a war on Baghdad. However, there is a big difference between the articles currently condemning Iran and those that stigmatized Saddam Hussein's Iraq before the invasion: there is practically no talking about a possible war. The process of making Iran satanic is running smoothly but even the most belligerent neo-cons frown now before explicitly speaking of an armed conflict.
After all, it is just a movie…
The entertainment, television or movie industries feature political symbols that can support or denounce the actions of a government. In this case, they then turn into an adversary for those who are in power, whose impact has to be minimized. Over the past months, we have seen several movies of political nature that portray elements criticizing the activities of the Bush Administration. The neo-conservative and Zionist circles have mobilized to discredit them.
Orwellian resource to make torture acceptable
Eclipsed by the media whirl of the end of the year, the torture issue begins to gradually appear again in some articles. Most of media outlets make big efforts to analyze it "with clarity and without prejudices" (as the German conservative journal Frankfurter Allgemeine reads), which in fact means justifying the method. Bottom line: torture is harmful from the moral point of view but… Everything lies on that "but" and they resort to the Orwellian neo-speech to sweeten the pill for the public.
Debate on "Islam" Back in the Media
The questions about Islam, which have been formulated after the spreading of images produced by the Strauss ideology of the "Clash of Civilizations", are a recurrent subject in the "Western" press since 9/11, 2001. Having nothing to do with recent reality, many tribunes that expose or question these prejudices have been published in recent days.
Chronicle of the Announced Death of a "Man of Peace"
"Homicidal", "killer", "war criminal", "terrorist", "commander-in-chief of a death squad": none of these words will be found in the hagiographic forums spread by the Atlantist press after the stroke suffered by Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Regrettably, this is not amazing to us. We have already commented here how Sharon was presented as a "man of peace", a "centrist" by an amnesia-affected press.
The Unknown Evo Morales
Coca-leaf farmer Evo Morales – President of the Movement to Socialism (MAS) – has been elected President of Bolivia in the first electoral round on December 18, 2005. The International Press puts the event in some skeptical manner, which translates into the US loss of interest in South America and a growing ignorance of its history and evolution. So, the ballot has been hailed incorrectly as the first election of an Amerindian president in the continent.
Silencing the media with submission or with bombs
The Project to bomb Al Jazeera has led people to talk a lot about this issue in the United Kingdom, where the government of Tony Blair has refused to make any comments. However, outside the United Kingdom, not much is said about it and most of the western media outlets, the same that do not hesitate to denounce attacks on freedom of the press when it affects a western journalist, remain silent. However, focusing on Al Jazeera, isn't it losing sight of a more important issue which is the treatment given to the media by the Bush administration? John Pilger and Sydney Blumenthal express their irritation at the submissiveness of mainstream media.
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Neptune – Roman god influenced by Greek aesthetics
Neptune with Trident uploaded by Steve via Flickr
Neptune originally was the Roman god of freshwater, including rain and fertility. Later in 399 BCE Neptune become identified with the Greek sea god Poseidon. His wife was Salacia.
The powerful and militaristic Romans eventually made Greece a province of Rome in 146 BCE but they were strongly influenced by the rich depth of Greek myth and culture.
So depictions of Neptune in mosaics, especially around North Africa, were strongly imbued with Greek aesthetics.
Like the Greek Poseidon, Neptune was additionally worshipped by the Romans as Neptunus Equester, the god that overlooks horse-racing.
Also from the Greek tradition, Neptune was the brother of Jupiter and Pluto. The three brothers governed the heavenly, earthly and underworld realms.
Neptune and Triton at Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England – Wikipedia
Neptune had two main temples of worship in ancient Rome. His festival was celebrated mid-summer when huts were made out of tree branches and underbrush.
Scholars mostly agree that the symbolism of these structures pointed to Neptune's role as the giver of life through water.
Bernini's magnificent sculpture of Neptune and Triton can be seen at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. And many other depictions of Neptune are found around the world, as the one pictured here (top right) at Coney Island, New York.
Anyone who has delighted in Gustav Holst's masterpiece, The Planets, will remember that Neptune is the 7th and final movement, subtitled "The Mystic." Here, Holst brilliantly merges the mythical and astronomical aspects of Neptune.
Concerning astronomy, Neptune is the name of the 8th and, since the demotion of Pluto in 2006, furthest planet from our sun.
Related » Pisces, Pluto, Uranus
The Planets: Professor Brian Cox to give Holst's masterpiece a scientific reworking for its 100th anniversary (telegraph.co.uk)
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Maps of South Bucks
Buckinghamshire LIII.12 (includes: Iver) - 25 Inch Map
Buckinghamshire LIII.SE - OS Six-Inch Map
Map of Langley Parke
Map of Langley Park from "A Description of the Honour of Windesor", John Norden's survey of Windsor. The title page states that the survey was "taken and performed by the perambulation view and delineation of John Norden In Anno 1607". The plans are the result of a survey conducted on foot by Norden. The maps in this volume show communication routes, individual buildings, field boundaries and parkland along with details of wildlife and human activity, such as stags in Windsor Park and people boating on the Thames. The scale at which the maps are presented varies throughout the volume, with feet, perches and miles being the units of measurement recorded by a scale bar. John Norden is best known for his work "Speculum Britainiae", literally a "Mirror of Britain", which in its attempt to include the road names and town plans, lacking on many county maps of the period, was a direct ancestor of the modern A-Z. As well as producing several county maps in the 1590s, Norden worked as a land surveyor producing surveys for landowners and was the author of a work which outlines principles of surveying, known as the "Surveyor's Dialogue". Norden, John
Middlesex XIV - OS Six-Inch Map
Buckinghamshire LIII - OS Six-Inch Map
Middlesex XIV.3 (includes: Denham; Iver; Uxbridge) - 25 Inch Map
TQ08 - OS 1:25,000 Provisional Series Map
A topographical map, of the county, of Berks, Blatt VII und XIII
2 Blätter : 99 x 52 cm John Rocque
Carte topographique de le comté de Middlesex, 1
1 Blatt : 53 x 69 cm John Rocque
Beaconsfield (Outline) - OS One-Inch Revised New Series
Beaconsfield (Hills) - OS One-Inch Revised New Series
Uxbridge, Windsor
1 : 31680 This plan of the Chiltern Hills runs from Beaconsfield and Harefield at the top to Windsor Park, Egham and Staines at the bottom. A section of the Grand Junction Canal, running from Harefield down to West Drayton, is shown in aquamarine. The paper carries the watermark "E ,amp; P", standing for Edmeads and Pine. Boyce
London to Tring.
1 : 63360 Cary, John
High Wycombe 20
1 : 31680 The county boundaries of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Oxfordshire are indicated by red pecked lines. The draughtsman has drawn individual trees in avenues at Hampden, and noted the location of the Old London Road at Fawley, to the extreme left. On the reverse of the drawing is written: "Mr Boyces High Wycombe No 154" and "Reduced [10 Aug]..." Boyce
A new correct map of Middlesex
Warburton, John, Bland, Joseph and Smyth, Payler
London passenger transport map
1 : 31680 The individual settlements that make up this area of London are shown by red blocks, with boundary lines indicating the fields separating them. Shading and soft interlining indicate relief, neatly illustrated at Primrose Hill, the summit of which is left bare. The barracks at the edge of Hyde Park are illustrated at the very bottom of the map. The dark blue-black line running from West Drayton to Brentford and Paddington is the Grand Junction Canal. This was London's principal link to the rest of Britain's canals, allowing the passage of goods to and from the industrial towns of the North and Midlands. Hyett includes a ground plan of Kenwood House in Hampstead, showing a level of detail much greater than might be expected from a map with a scale of two inches-to-the-mile. Hyett, William
Estates at Windsor, Berkshire
This is a manuscript map of the area surrounding Windsor in Berkshire. It forms part of an atlas that belonged to William Cecil Lord Burghley, Elizabeth I's Secretary of State. Burghley used this atlas to illustrate domestic matters. Burghley was in charge of administration for the Royal Estate of Windsor. The Royal Estates were notoriously slackly administered, a flaw that no official involved was keen to remedy as there were considerable personal advantages to be gained from inadequacies in the system. The map is drawn to scale with a scale bar of 5.5 - 6 miles. The many parks are shown by enclosure symbols, an important feature of any landscape for military purposes as it was in parks that troops could rest and horses graze. Communication routes such as roads and pathways are indicated by double or single broken lines and the rivers and the points at which they are bridged are also shown. The waterways were a vital communication route at the time, especially in this area where the Thames provides direct access to the centre of London.
England and Wales [OS of]
Provincia di Middlesex
1 Karte : Kupferdruck ; 19 x 29 cm Zatta; Zuliani; Pitteri presso Antonio Zatta
A map of the county of Middlesex
1 Karte : Kupferdruck ; 50 x 68 cm Rocque publish'd according to act of parliament by J. Rocque in the Strand
Map of the county of Middlesex
1 Karte : Kupferdruck ; 50 x 50 cm, Bildgrösse 52 x 73 cm Seale s.n.