Nat Jay took her first steps in her parents' music school and continues to land on her feet in the world of music today. Her songs have been placed on networks around the world, including ABC, MTV, The CW, Nickelodeon, Freeform, Hallmark, CBC, Syfy, Showcase, and Lifetime. Her debut full-length, All I Think When I Wake Up, was nominated for Pop Album of the Year at the 2015 Western Canadian Music Awards, named in the Top 10 Pop Albums of 2014 on PopDose, and awarded $10,000 for the lead single, "Can't Getcha Out," which was named Best of BC by Shore 104. She then released a follow-up EP, Quiet Dreams, and was awarded second place in LG 104.3FM's VanCOVER contest for her cover of Sting's "Every Breath You Take." In December 2016, she collaborated with electronic production duo, Cookie Cartel, to release the highly acclaimed EP, Stoke the Fire, which Exclaim! described as "what it might sound like if the Postal Service were to make a Christmas EP," and CBC Music added to its coveted holiday playlist. Nat Jay has earned a nomination for SOCAN Songwriter of the Year at the BCCMAs, been a featured songwriter at the Vancouver Folk Festival, and a guest on CBC Radio 2's Canada Live. The songstress is currently in the studio recording her next full-length album with multi-award-winning European producer, Ovi Bistriceanu.
After studying music at the University of British Columbia, Nat Jay released her debut EP, Lights Across the Sky, to a sold out room. Since then, she has been compared with powerful performers like Joni Mitchell, Patsy Cline, Alanis Morissette, and the Dixie Chicks. She has shared the stage with such esteemed songwriters as Canada's own Juno award winner Dan Mangan, Matthew Barber, Oh Susanna, and Justin Rutledge, as well as NYC's Jay Brannan and Australia's Angus & Julia Stone.
Besides the success she's had with her own music, in 2014 Nat Jay scored a co-writing credit with the legendary Stephen Bishop for the song "Loveless" from his album Be Here Then. An advocate of her industry, she sat on the Board of Directors of the Music BC Industry Association for four years and was a committee member for six. She is also a private consultant through one-on-one and group mentoring, facilitating seminars on sync licensing, grant writing, and album release for her peers. Nat Jay has been asked to speak on panels for Canadian Music Week, BreakOut West, SOCAN, and Music BC, and is a guest lecturer at Nimbus School of Recording & Media, the Pacific Audio Visual Institute, and Langara College.
Complimented by a strong business head on her shoulders, Nat Jay's compelling and highly accomplished vocal delivery will certainly turn heads in a noisy club, but it is her emotive songwriting ability that will steal the hearts of each and every audience member.


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Along with the design and the location of the implant shoulder, considerable importance must also be attributed to the surface properties in terms of the crestal bone loss. In principle, the implants currently available can be divided into implants with machined implant shoulders (Fig. 5 & 3) and implants with microstructured implant shoulders (Fig. 4 & 5) in which the largely rough implant surface covers the entire implant. In contrast to the different surface properties of the implant shoulder, these days the remaining surface is roughened in almost all titanium implants using various procedures. This is done to modify the surface properties to favour cell adhesion because slower rates of colonisation by cells have been observed for untreated smooth titanium surfaces compared to roughened surfaces (NISHIMOTO et al., 2008). Furthermore, it has also been observed that osteoblasts are highly sensitive to increased surface roughness and the production of various growth factors is elevated. This means that shorter healing times are needed before the final implant loading and that smaller implants than usual can be used (NASATZKY et al., 2003).
Along with modifying the implant morphology, these procedures can also create a more hydrophilic implant surface. An increase in the hydrophilicity was demonstrated to be another factor favouring initial adhesion of bone cells (WATANABE et al., 2012).
For implants with microstructured implant shoulders, the focus is on the concept of encouraged formation of new bone on rough surfaces around the implant shoulder as well and an associated reduction in the marginal bone loss. This result was observed in various studies. Sandblasted and acid-etched titanium implants without machined implant shoulders have less peri-implant crestal bone loss compared to implants with machined shoulders (HERMANN et al., 2011).
A similar study even observed marginal bone ingrowth with the microstructured SLA® implants and bone loss with the machined implants after one year (VALDERRAMA et al., 2010). In this context, that the marginal bone loss is lower the smaller the machined shoulder also applies to machined implants. One study in which the same implant system was investigated with different machined implant shoulders (0.4 mm and 1.6 mm respectively) showed that the implants with the smaller machined implant shoulders had significantly less marginal bone loss and greater bone-to-implant contact (BIC) (SCHWARZ et al., 2008). These advantageous effects on the formation of bone are, however, accompanied by an increased risk of plaque colonisation. This risk is particularly high if there are complications during wound healing and the implant shoulder is exposed to the bacterial flora in the oral cavity. In this context, a review article by Subramani and colleagues (2009) concluded that an increase in the surface roughness of implants and abutments is associated with an increase in biofilm formation. In terms of the subgingival plaque, an accumulation 25-times higher on rough surfaces compared to smooth surfaces was measured (QUIRYNEN et al., 1996). The resultant biofilm is often responsible for inflammations in the oral cavity such as gingivitis, peri-implantitis or periodontitis and its formation should therefore be prevented as far as possible (DHIR, 2013). To reduce the risk of peri-implantitis, which can ultimately lead to the loss of the implant, a rough implant shoulder and abutment surface should be avoided in addition to the classic risk factors such as smoking and poor oral hygiene (QUIRYNEN et al., 2002).
Unlike with abutments, which are regularly exposed to the oral cavity and the bacterial flora living in it, for endodontic implants a compromise between a rough surface that encourages the formation of bone and a smooth surface that is more resistant to biofilm formation must be found.


The Belize District Zone 5 Primary School Football Tournament came to an end on Thursday, June 2nd at the Honorable Louis Sylvester Sporting Complex in San Pedro Town. The tournament was organized by The San Pedro Sports Committee in collaboration with the National Sports Council of Belize. Male and female teams from different primary schools of Ambergris Caye, and from Caye Caulker played heated matches. After two weeks of intense games, both female and male teams from the San Pedro Roman Catholic Primary School (SPRCS) emerged victorious.
Here's another article in the San Pedro Sun that tells how they did representing Belize District in the National Primary School Football Tournament.


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Joachim Hermanus Jacobus Verberne –conocido como Jochem Verberne– (Alkmaar, 20 de enero de 1978) es un deportista neerlandés que compitió en remo. Participó en los Juegos Olímpicos de Sídney 2000, obteniendo una medalla de plata en la prueba de cuatro scull.

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Remeros de los Países Bajos
Remeros de los Países Bajos en los Juegos Olímpicos de Sídney 2000
Medallistas olímpicos de plata de remo
Medallistas olímpicos de plata de los Países Bajos
Medallistas olímpicos de plata de Sídney 2000
Nacidos en Alkmaar
Neerlandeses del siglo XXI

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Eminem To Re-Release "The Slim Shady LP" On Cassette
by Victoria Hernandez
Eminem announced today (March 4) that he is planning to re-release The Slim Shady LP in cassette format.
The Detroit rapper made the announcement on Twitter and shared a link where people can sign up for more information.
"#SSLP Cassette re-issue coming soon http://shady.sr/SSLP" Eminem writes for the caption of an image of a tape.
The website offers for people to sign up for a newsletter and says that there will also be merchandise based on The Slim Shady LP available.
The Slim Shady LP was first released in 1999 on Aftermath Entertainment through Interscope Records. It features the songs "My Name Is," "Just Don't Give A Fuck" and "Guilty Conscience."
View Eminem's announcement that The Slim Shady LP will be released as a cassette below:
#SSLP Cassette re-issue coming soon https://t.co/ehTfFwLwP5 pic.twitter.com/mIpzM6pbsp
— Marshall Mathers (@Eminem) March 4, 2016
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Play matters. It's how children learn about themselves and the world around them. Giving a child the opportunity, time, and space to play allows them to explore different interests and passions. Through play, children can develop important life skills that can help prepare them for experiences later in life.


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The pressures of an increasingly diverse nation are visible in many of our most complex public issues, such as education, taxes, welfare, and immigration. They also are evident in daily life - whether in open conflict among groups, or in tensions and misperceptions that simmer beneath the surface.
Dialogue to Change programs help people build the trusting relationships necessary for long-term change. People from diverse backgrounds and experiences develop trust, understand each other's experiences, and work together on solutions.
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Intergenerational Equity Framework
Our intergenerational equity framework provides a definition and five principles needed for building intergenerational equity in your community work.
Evaluating Community Engagement (Toolkit)
Along with the Guide to Evaluating Community Engagement, this toolkit provides you with pratical tools you can use in your community engagement efforts.
Evaluating Community Engagement
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People in communities across this country want to live where they have the chance to thrive as they age. This is true in all kinds of places – small and large, rural and urban. This discussion will...
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Iranian Official Warns Saudi Arabia: 'The Moment We are Provoked, We Will Obliterate' You
A high-ranking Iranian official issued a stern warning to Saudi Arabia, letting them know that if Iran is provoked by the Sunni Kingdom, they will "obliterate" them.
"Please realize that we are people who control our anger," Mohsen Rezaee, the secretary of Iran's Expediency Discernment Council and a former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), said in a July interview on a state-run TV network that was posted on the Internet. "It takes a lot to make us angry. But the moment we are provoked, we will obliterate Saudi Arabia. We will not allow insecurities to continue."
Rezaee added, "Therefore, we have told all our friends and supporters, such as Hezbollah to cool down and, for the time being, not to do anything against Saudi Arabia." He said the Iranian regime has told their "supporters from Saudi Arabia to Yemen and many other places … to keep quiet for now."
However, Rezaee predicted that a confrontation between both nations will likely occur. "But our prediction is that the path that Saudi Arabia has begun on is a harsh and painful path which may lead to a limited conflict. For example, Saudi will probably attack somewhere that will encourage us to respond."
Saudi-Iran relations have deteriorated significantly, with each country supporting opposite sides in the conflicts in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen. Both countries have accused each other of destabilizing security in the region.
"If we face Saudi Arabia and even if they beg us to leave them alone, we will not leave them alone."
Asked by the interviewer if he has ever warned Saudi Arabia, Rezai said, "Yes. My interview is a warning to them."
The IRGC accused Saudi Arabia of being behind the Islamic State attack on Iran's Parliament and shrine of the leader of the Iranian revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on June 7. The Islamic State officially took responsibility for the attack which left 17 dead and dozens wounded.
Syria, in particular, has been a point of contention between both countries. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is backed by the Iranian regime and the nation has no formal diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia.
Last month, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage, Assad's government slammed Saudi Arabia for "politicizing" the pilgrimage and blocking Syrians from visiting the holy city. Iran's President Hassan Rouhani responded by saying Saudi Arabia "should stop backing terrorists" in Yemen and Syria.
Last week, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir reportedly said Iran's talk of a possible rapprochement with the kingdom was "laughable" after Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif said the Islamic Republic would soon exchange diplomatic visits with Saudi Arabia.
"The comments of the foreign minister are laughable," al-Jubeir said, according to Reuters. "If Iran wants to have good relations with Saudi Arabia, it has to change its policies. It has to respect international law." He added, "at this time, we do not see… that they're serious about wanting to be a good neighbor."
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A Grip on Sports: Tonight's showdown in Seattle may just tell us which way this Seahawk season will go
Thu., Oct. 7, 2021
A GRIP ON SPORTS • There is no doubt the NFC West is the toughest division in the NFL. Super Bowl favorites, upstarts turned dominators, trendy picks and, of course, the region's team, the Seattle Seahawks. Every division game is a battle. No different tonight.
What to watch for when the Seahawks take on the Rams in Week 5
Wed., Oct. 6, 2021
Hey, it's the Los Angeles Rams again!
A Grip on Sports: When baseball's postseason begins, we are immediately transported back to our youth
A GRIP ON SPORTS • Can you still sing television theme songs from your youth? In my case, we're talking "Come listen to my story about a man named Jed" or "Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale." For others it might be "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" or "I'm going down to South Park." Somehow such words always come back to us when baseball's postseason begins.
A Grip on Sports: Money may not be able to buy happiness but it sure helps baseball teams make the postseason
Tue., Oct. 5, 2021
A GRIP ON SPORTS • There should have been chaos. There wasn't. And, really, why should we have expected any? Baseball just isn't made that way.
Commentary: In vintage performance vs. 49ers, Russell Wilson shows why the Seahawks can still dream big
Mon., Oct. 4, 2021
With the Mariners officially eliminated from playoff consideration Sunday, fans can once again turn back to the Seahawks' to carry their hopes and dreams.
A Grip on Sports: A tearful goodbye to the M's and a welcome return for the Seahawks winning ways highlighted our Sunday
A GRIP ON SPORTS • Missed it by that much. Now, for the Mariners to successfully reward their longtime fans, the front office needs to get smart and add the necessary pieces. Doesn't sound too hard, does it?
Seahawks show signs of life after first-half woes to hold off 49ers and revive season
Sun., Oct. 3, 2021
For about 25 minutes, this appeared to be on the verge of the end of the Seahawks as we've known them.
A Grip on Sports: Haniger, Barriere and the Cougar defense all come through as Saturday lives up to its billing
A GRIP ON SPORTS • It was a crowded Saturday. It will be a memorable Sunday. We have thoughts on all of it. And we are not shy about sharing.
Seahawks vow defense 'will change' as they prepare for first NFC West game this season vs. 49ers
Sat., Oct. 2, 2021
It's a weekly ritual for Seahawks coach Pete Carroll to open his regular Wednesday news conference by referring to the upcoming game as "a championship opportunity.''
Seahawks WRs DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett will likely play against 49ers
After what looked like a potentially ominous situation the day before, the Seahawks might be close to full strength with their receiving corps for the NFC West showdown Sunday at San Francisco with the team indicating both DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett will play.
A Grip on Sports: Though the M's made their fans want to pull out their hair Friday night, Saturday is a new day
A GRIP ON SPORTS • It's OK to be sad this morning. And to be excited for what's ahead. It's just that those emotions might be aimed at different targets.
A Grip on Sports: There are no championship football games on tap Saturday but the Mariners' playoff run seems trophy-worthy
Fri., Oct. 1, 2021
A GRIP ON SPORTS • It doesn't take the help of M's gadgets to get by in this crowded weekend of sports television. But they would certainly help all of us James Bond fans. And James Bond himself.
A Grip on Sports: With the Mariners still in contention, the competition for your TV this weekend will be fierce
Thu., Sept. 30, 2021
A GRIP ON SPORTS • It's that time of year again. When sports overlap and cause a special type of angst. We call it the "Not Enough TVs Syndrome." It was in full bloom again last weekend, last night and will be a worry in the ahead.
A Grip on Sports: Yes, it is time to believe but will M's fans' hopes be dashed once again?
Wed., Sept. 29, 2021
A GRIP ON SPORTS • Here it is, nearly October. The month the leaves fall, pumpkins rise and hobgoblins rule the night. And the month Northwest sports fans turn their attention to football. Except, for one of the few times in the past couple decades, not just yet.
'We're working on it': Pete Carroll tight-lipped on how Seahawks defense will adjust after Week 3 loss
Tue., Sept. 28, 2021
SEATTLE – The Seattle Seahawks may not have had tight coverage during Sunday's 30-17 loss at Minnesota.
A Grip on Sports: The A's may have awoken the Mariners earlier this year and for that we all are grateful
A GRIP ON SPORTS • My youth baseball coach, who also happened to be my father, used to use a cliché to describe his philosophy about blowouts. "Let sleeping dogs lie," he would say. The Oakland A's would have benefited this season from having my dad on their coaching staff.
Commentary: Seahawks haven't reached a crisis point (yet), but their problems can't be ignored
Mon., Sept. 27, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS – Can a team reach a crisis point just three weeks into the NFL season?
A Grip on Sports: Northwest sports fans experienced marital bliss and an awful spat on the same day
A GRIP ON SPORTS • What are those things a bride traditionally needs before walking down the aisle? Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, right? Sounds like Sunday's sports landscape in the Pacific Northwest.
Seahawks fail in all facets, drop to 1-2 with loss to Vikings
Sun., Sept. 26, 2021
For the second straight game, the Seahawks came out hot and opened up a double-digit lead. And for the second straight week, they blew it all.
A Grip on Sports: Though Saturday's final score wasn't what WSU wanted, the Cougars still have a lot for which to be thankful
A GRIP ON SPORTS • We have a theme for this last beautiful Sunday of 2021. We're thankful. Thankful for yesterday, thankful for today, thankful for whatever comes in the future.


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Totally Driven è il secondo album di raccolta del gruppo musicale britannico Uriah Heep, pubblicato il 12 novembre 2015. L'album, registrato tra il 2000 e il 2001, è una raccolta di ri-registrazioni: fu originariamente pubblicato nel 2001, ma andò immediatamente fuori stampa.

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7.) Do I Have Fire In My Eyes?
A bit bizarre, but I liked it! …makes you think….
Thanks, those are the two things I was after!
Brilliant… but could i be as bold to make a suggestion. The layout is a shocker. Too much time spent scrolling which screws up with the flow. It's an excellent read but its hard on the eye.
So, you don't think anything will be lost with the limited font options from a standard post? Or that the benefits would offset the feel?
Not sure what the options are. I'm pretty new to this WP thing and just tiptoe my way through layout. Truth is, i liked what you did with the unique font/script/colour (that worked), but the grand size made it difficult to read as only a few lines were available at any given time.
Most of this is simply over my head. But the exchange is quite amusing anyway.
Well, I'm glad you find it amusing. Trying to blend high brow and low brow … sometimes meaning can be hard to distinguish.
Probably has more to do with the fact that my perceptions of "reality" lean considerably to the "low brow".
Besides, this is set in surreality.
Also, I don't want it to be explicitly educational, so I allow the characters to talk to each other like no one is listening — in spite of the esoteric given circumstances.
Sir! You doubt the veracity of my statement?
Pistols at sunrise I say!
It's all good. Despite its esoteric nature, I enjoyed the exchange between the avenger and nothing. At least that's what I came up with while digging around for Tipota.
You should turn this into a play. I mean your whole blog. It would be the weirdest play ever made, but it would have a certain cohesion to it.
Thank you very much for suggesting that.
If you don't mind my asking — how did you come to this particular page "7.) Do I Have Fire In My Eyes?" … I keep getting more traffic on this than other scenes, and I'm trying to figure out why.


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What is "coram"
Crossword clues for coram
___ nobis (writ of error or review)
___ nobis (a writ)
Coram, MT -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Montana
Population (2000): 337
Housing Units (2000): 151
Land area (2000): 1.136530 sq. miles (2.943600 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.037931 sq. miles (0.098242 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.174461 sq. miles (3.041842 sq. km)
FIPS code: 17500
Located within: Montana (MT), FIPS 30
Location: 48.417462 N, 114.045540 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Coram, MT
Coram, NY -- U.S. Census Designated Place in New York
Population (2000): 34923
Housing Units (2000): 12880
Land area (2000): 13.792268 sq. miles (35.721808 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 13.792268 sq. miles (35.721808 sq. km)
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 40.890439 N, 73.010435 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 11727
Coram may refer to:
Coram, working name of the Thomas Coram Foundation for Children, an English charity
Coram, Montana, place in Flathead County
Coram Experimental Forest within the Flathead National Forest, near Kalispell, Montana
Coram, New York, a hamlet in Suffolk County
Coram nobis, legal term, a petition to the court
Coram non judice, legal term
Thomas Coram, English philanthropist
Coram's Fields, an area of open space in London
Farder Coram, a character in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy
Professor Coram, a character in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes short story The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez
Coram non judice
Usage examples of "coram".
I mentioned before, and with Farder Coram, and form a plan to put before you when we meet.
John Faa poured little glasses of jenniver from a stone crock for himself and Farder Coram, and wine for Lyra.
He looked at Farder Coram, and the two old men laughed again, but more gently.
When she laid the alethiometer bare, it was Farder Coram who spoke first.
Remembering what Farder Coram had said, she tried to focus her mind on three symbols taken at random, and clicked the hands round to point at them, and found that if she held the alethiometer just so in her palms and gazed at it in a particular lazy way, as she thought of it, the long needle would begin to move more purposefully.
Lyra and the Costas got there in time to sit at the front, and as soon as the flickering lights showed that the place was crammed, John Faa and Farder Coram came out on the platform and sat behind the table.
When the six family heads had all come up, Farder Coram showed his piece of paper to John Faa, who stood up to address the audience again.
Sophonax was as sleek and healthy and beautiful as Farder Coram was ravaged and weak.
Farder Coram and Lyra exchanged a look of alarm and wonderment, but only for a second, and then Farder Coram was hobbling out on his sticks as fast as he could manage, with his daemon padding ahead of him.
Farder Coram, it were like everything we did, they knew about before we did it, and for all we know Frans and Tom were swallowed alive as soon as they got near Lord Boreal.
She found John Faa with Farder Coram and the other leaders, looking troubled.
She read it every day, sometimes with Farder Coram and sometimes on her own, and she found that she could sink more and more readily into the calm state in which the symbol meanings clarified themselves, and those great mountain ranges touched by sunlight emerged into vision.
Farder Coram, watching from across the table, noted the places where the needle stopped, and watched the little girl holding her hair back from her face and biting her lower lip just a little, her eyes following the needle at first but then, when its path was settled, looking elsewhere on the dial.
Farder Coram was a chess player, and he knew how chess players looked at a game in play.
I was getting a meaning for that lizard thing, but you talked to me, Farder Coram, and I lost it.
words rhyming with coram, words from word "coram", words starting with "c", words starting with "co", words starting with "cor", words starting with "cora", words ending with "m", words ending with "am", words ending with "ram", words ending with "oram", words containing "o", words containing "or", words containing "ora",


Marketing Basics – Super Library Marketing: All kinds of marketing ideas for all kinds of libraries.
I love planning. I am the queen of to-do lists. I am addicted to reminder notifications. I'm a fan of the Excel spreadsheet.
I rarely go into any situation without a plan. The same is true for my library marketing. I create a marketing plan for everything. And so should you.
A marketing plan has a lot of advantages. It ensures everyone knows the end of goal of your marketing efforts. It defines roles for all the stakeholders. It sets deadlines. It keeps people accountable. And it clarifies how you will measure your results.
A marketing plan is NOT a strategy. A strategy is the path you decide to take to achieve your library's long-term overall business goals: increased circulation, increased program attendance, brand awareness, etc. You can have an overall library marketing strategy that guides your actions for six months, a year, or longer.
A marketing plan lays out all the steps involved in one particular promotion. Everything in the plan should tie into the strategy. It must help to achieve your library's overall goals. But the plan lasts for a shorter period, involves more specifics, and covers just one promotion.
You don't need a plan for everything you market at your library. You do need a plan if you are creating a campaign that lasts for a month or more.
And here's how to put one together.
Know the thing you are promoting inside and out. Be sure you can answer every single question known to man about the thing you are marketing. If it's a new database, use it… a lot. Have non-librarians use it and then ask them to tell you what questions they have. Read and re-read the tutorials. Becoming an expert on the thing you promote means you can explain it to your target audience in a simple and clear way.
Don't be vague. A defined goal keeps you accountable.
Determine your target audience. Many library marketers say their target audience is "our cardholders." Be more specific. Which cardholders? How old are they? How often do they use the library? What exactly do they do? Do they have children? What's their transportation situation?
Add in as many demographic characteristics as you can. This gives you and everyone working on the plan a picture of who you are trying to reach.
Analyze competitors. Research anyone providing a similar program, service, or product. What are they doing well? What are they doing poorly? What are the things that differentiate your library from their business? These are your marketing advantages.
Create the message. This might seem crazy, especially if the marketing campaign isn't set to launch right away. You can adjust the wording later. But getting the message down in writing now, with everything fresh in your mind, an efficient and effective way to make sure all the main pieces of your marketing plan mesh right from the start. It also gives you time to make sure your main marketing message is clear, concise, and correct.
Choose your tactics. Go through all the available avenues at your disposable for marketing and decide which ones will work best to reach your end goals. You do not have to use everything that's available to you. Not every promotion needs print materials or a press release or a digital sign. Sometimes, a video will work well and sometimes an email will do a better job. You know best how your core cardholder audience reacts to each tactic and which will bring you the best results. If you have budget, decide how you'll spend it during this step.
Set the schedule. I am a huge fan of tiered distribution of marketing. The approach takes advantage of a consumer cycle of excitement. You release one or two promotional tactics at the beginning of your promotional cycle, like a social media post and a press release. The promotion gets some play, and excitement builds in the consumer base. It gets shared and people talk about it… and then the excitement dies out.
Then, you release the second tactic, like an email, and the people who see the email get excited and start talking about it and sharing it, and then their excitement dies out.
Then you release a video, and that builds excitement and gets shared, and the excitement then dies out. And so on!
When you use the tiered distribution approach, you get a longer promotional thread. Your promotions will be more successful because the excitement around them builds over time, not in one big burst. This method has led to increased success for my library marketing. It also easier on the person running the marketing! It gives you a small break in between each tactic and creates time for you to measure the success of each tactic individually.
But you need to schedule your promotions, especially if you are using a tiered approach, so you can make sure you have room for them in your regular schedule. It also helps to create a picture in your own mind of how this marketing campaign will play out. Again, you can adjust this later if you need to. Nothing is ever set in stone at my library!
Assign tasks. Delegate jobs and deadlines for appropriate staff. If you need help from another library department, assign their deadline now so they have plenty of time to get you the information you need.
Measure results. Don't forget to measure and record the reaction to each piece of your marketing plan. Analyze what worked and what did not, so you can put that knowledge to use next time.
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I'm so excited to be the keynote speaker for the Illinois Library Association Marketing Forum Mini-Conference in Chicago in a few weeks. My brain is entirely engulfed in content marketing as I formulate the talk. There are also some big content changes afoot at my library. I'll talk more about those when we have our campaigns up and running. But, let's just say that most of my marketing focus in my professional life is on content–why we should do it, how to make it work better, and how to be efficient in our content creation.
The most important part of the speech I'll give next month is the "why." Why is content marketing important to libraries? This was actually the focus of one of my early posts here on blog. The argument for content marketing hasn't changed. You can make all the posters and fliers you want. People don't pay attention to those push promotional tactics. That's why marketing seems frustrating.
You want desperately to break through the noise of life and become a subconscious part of your cardholders' thought process. You want them to think of you every time they face a problem. You want them to remember they can come to you for pretty much anything they need. This is the common struggle for libraries everywhere, no matter their size, staffing, or service area. Honest to goodness, the only way to achieve that is through content marketing. I know this from experience.
There is now a lot of data to back up the assertion that content works. I want to share some of that with you. I'm hoping that, if you are hesitant or nervous about working content marketing into your overall library marketing strategy, these stats will convince you. I truly believe this is an opportunity for libraries that cannot be missed. If we are to survive and thrive as an industry, we need to do more content marketing.
Here are the facts for why content is key to library marketing.
80 percent of people prefer to get information about your library from a series of articles versus an advertisement.
71 percent of people are turned off by content that seems like a sales pitch. Which means, if you are doing mostly traditional promotional marketing, it's not working.
75 percent of people who find local, helpful information in search results are more likely to visit a physical building. We want to get more bodies inside our libraries. Content is the key.
Only 45 percent of marketers are using storytelling to create a relationship with their audience. Most big brands are still running ads and push promotion. This is our open door. It's a huge opportunity for libraries. This is how we sneak in and take away audience share… by telling stories. And who doesn't love a good positive story about a library?
95 percent of people only look at the first page of search results. Optimized content (that's content that uses keywords that are likely to be picked up by Google and other search engines) is incredibly helpful. If your library's content appears on the second page or later, people won't see it.
Blog posts are the content that get the most shares. And if your post is helpful to others, it's more likely to be shared. 94 percent of readers share a blog post because they think it can be useful to someone they know. And the more often you publish blog content, the more often your content will show up in search, which increases the likelihood that people will find your library while doing a search. Amazing, right?
90 percent of the most successful marketers prioritize educating their audience over promotion their company's promotional messages. Education is our main industry. Libraries are perfectly aligned to make this work for us.
But here's a stat that really surprised me. 78 percent of effective content marketers use press releases as part of their strategy. Yep, press releases can be content marketing too. Use your releases to be informative but to really pitch amazing story ideas to the media. If you have a great story and you can make all the elements available to the media, you can let them tell it and take advantage of their built-in audience to spread the word about your library.
These stats come from a variety of great blogs including Impact, Marketing Profs, OptinMonster, Elite Copywriter, Cision, and Forbes. I hope they've convinced you to do content marketing at your library.
I have a theory about the kind of person who becomes a journalist. The general news reporter who gets sent to the drug busts and homicides and fires and tornadoes is a junkie of sorts. They like the high that can only be found when you're racing at breakneck speed to get to a scene before your competitor. They do their best thinking when they're working on a deadline…a really tight deadline. They love that adrenaline rush.
I was just such a junkie. In fact, my addiction to the breaking news high was one of the reasons it took me so long to leave the business. Even after I was worn to the bone, dog-tired, and miserable, I stayed in TV news because I thought I could not get that high in any other profession. I was wrong.
A few weeks ago, I was talking with a former news colleague. He was covering a major event at my library. He said to me, "I never thought you would leave news for a laid-back job at a library." And I laughed, out loud. I may have even sounded maniacal. My library is definitely not laid back. And I'm certain, from my many conversations with my dear readers, your job isn't either!
It's true that, on most days, I have more time to plan and organize than I did in TV news. Overall, things move at a slower pace through the funnel at my organization–and that's a good thing. There's more time to think, be creative, and consider marketing from all angles. There is time to make sure all the pieces of a promotion are in place and crafted as perfectly as possible.
But being a little agile, a little willing to do some marketing on a rushed deadline, is also a good thing. I wish more organizations would open themselves to last-minute marketing. It can be fun and challenging to take ideas that come at the last-minute and bring them to life. You may do some of your best work when you are formulating promotions in a few days or a few hours! A good deadline can push you and your staff to be creative in ways you've never imagined.
It's easy to recognize these quick promotional ideas if you are open to them. Seize an opportunity from a vendor or a partner organization. Recognize when your library has a connection to an event in pop culture. Look for pieces of user-generated content that are so fun and engaging you can't want to wait to promote them. If it makes sense, if the promotion aligns with your library's overall strategy, and if you have the time to do it, there's value in turning a promotional opportunity around in a few days.
You don't have to be a formal journalist to do this. Anyone can include some flexibility in their marketing schedule. The key lies in planning–which sounds contradictory. But the trick is pretty simple. When you're laying out your regular marketing schedule, be sure to deliberately leave holes where you might be able to drop in promotions.
For my library, this drop-in marketing usually happens when we have a great event that's been planned by a branch at the last minute. This year, I was looking at the calendar and I realized there was a series of anti-bullying puppet shows for young children scheduled at several of our branches. I realized the event was in line with one of the core elements of our library's overall strategy. I also did about ten minutes of online research and discovered programs of this nature were not available anywhere else in our community. I quickly put together a social media and email promotional plan and launched it in the span of a week. Our emails had a 30 percent open rate, a ten percent click-through rate, and attendance was high.
Most libraries will find it easiest to create a drop-in marketing campaign on social media. Sometimes the idea will become a creative outlet that can drive engagement on your platforms. This was the case when one of our marketing department co-workers noticed that the front covers of many old books compliment or match clothing! She grabbed some books and some staff and posed them together. Her Instagram posts drew new followers and engagement for the library's account.
Of course, to execute drop-in marketing, you need the approval and trust of your supervisor. So, have the talk ahead of time with your superiors. You won't have to turn a last-minute campaign around every week or even every month. But when you do… it will be worth it. Sometimes the gold nuggets of promotion are the ones you can't plan ahead of time!


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Columns | Globalsutra
My Love Affair with My Passport
It's about romantic notions rather than bald facts
Pallavi Aiyar Pallavi Aiyar	 | 14 Jan, 2022
I'VE SPENT THE entirety of this millennium in geographic flux. Over a 23-year period I've lived in nine cities, in eight countries, on three continents. This year is a watershed of sorts. It marks the point at which I've spent more years living outside of India than in it.
Given my peripatetic proclivities, I've had only a few anchors: a gold filigree brooch that belonged to my grandmother, my email address (Hotmail loyalist here) and my Indian passport.
My relationship with said passport is akin to a love marriage, based on an impractical affection. It's about romantic notions rather than bald facts. It pays no heed to the tortured realities of visa applications and routine humiliations at the hand of immigration officials in a bad mood. It erects barriers—both corporeal and metaphorical—between me, and my husband and children, who are all Spanish citizens.
I recently made a trip to India after a two-year-long, Covid-necessitated, gap. My home city of Delhi wasn't greatly altered. The air smelled like smoke and the traffic was as horn-heavy as ever.
The cars did look more expensive. And the prices at restaurants made eating out in Madrid, where I currently live, feel like a bargain. The public spaces were dirtier. The private spaces more affluent.
But the greatest difference that I noticed since my last visit was in the centrality that my passport seemed to have acquired in conversations with friends. Was I still Indian, I was asked incessantly. When I answered in the affirmative, the universal response was, "Don't be stupid."
These friends tended to divide into two groups, both of which had long been staunchly stay-in-India-ists, if for very different reasons.
In Group One were the über wealthy. These belonged to industrialist families who lived in vast, inherited properties. For them abroad was desirable as a place for shopping and holidays, but India was where life was to be lived, attended to by a full battalion of domestic serfs. Abroad was where people had to cook their own dinners. Abroad they were anonymous. If they proclaimed, "Don't you know who I am?" The answer would be: "No." Abroad might find them queuing for things.
In Group Two were the service-oriented nationalists. Not the Muslim-baiting trolls that pass for patriots today, but the type that grew up committed to their remarkable country for its syncretism and tolerance of difference. Their hearts beat to the moral leadership of Gandhi, the intellectual complexity of Tagore, the clear-eyed polemic of Ambedkar.
They saw themselves as the workforce that would build the nation that India could be. Abroad for them was a cushy life, enviable in terms of quality of air and safety of person, but moving there was to turn one's back on the obligations that came with being born an Indian; as an inheritor of the legacy of the freedom fighters who had forged the tapestry of modern India out of fractured plurality.
The members of Group Two enjoyed privilege as well. They could choose to stay in India because they were equipped by caste and education to make a go of it. To shut out clamorous Bharat at the end of a long day with air conditioning and a glass of wine, even if it was only Sula.
They were not potential economic migrants, but potential expats. If they moved abroad, it wouldn't be as corner-store owners or taxi drivers, but as tenured professors at prestigious universities, or as co-founders of beanbag-strewn startups.
My family had belonged to the latter grouping, which explains why I was so enamoured of my passport, despite it being amongst the least coveted in the world. (An Indian passport ranked a lowly 82 on the Henley Passport Index's 2021 report, tied with São Tomé and Principe.)
Growing up, I used to get teary when I read my history textbooks despite their purple prose. The image of women, Hindus and Muslims, coming out onto the streets and donating their ornaments to the nationalist cause had me reaching for tissues no matter how many times I encountered it.
I spent my school-going years at Nizamuddin, a South Delhi colony, with the ghosts of Khans and Sufis whispering in my ears as I read novels under the eaves of the untended alcoves of the great tombs of Humayun and Rahim Khan-i-Khanan.
This attachment I have for that rectangular navy-blue booklet may be an unrequited passion. I love India, but I'm not sure it loves me back. So, is a divorce imminent? Not for me. I still believe in love marriages
As an adult I wrote a whole book (Punjabi Parmesan: Dispatches from a Europe in Crisis) arguing that the European Union should look to India as a model to follow given how it was a political project that had rejected the homogenising tyranny of the 'nation state' — and instead chosen to celebrate difference and aggregation.
Imagine then my sadness when on this trip to India almost everyone I spoke to was busy making exit plans of some variety. Group One was packing off children to school in the UK or making investments in countries like Portugal and Canada where they could in essence buy a passport.
"I realised during Delta," said one friend. "No matter how much money you have, you're &*# in this country." She urged me to stop being "silly" and apply for a Spanish passport forthwith.
Group Two was frightened by the increasingly authoritarian political climate and felt alienated from mainstream discourse. "There's no place left for us here," a university friend said. "We're heading towards becoming a Hindu Pakistan."
The saddest of all was my chat with Sadia, my primary school bestie who ran a catering business. "People spread rumours that I am selling beef, just to ruin my business," she said. Her face was bleached of emotion as she recounted the onslaught of prejudice she ran up against day after day. Maids left her employment because their other memsahibs would not countenance their working for a Muslim. People wouldn't rent her a home. She'd quit the school WhatsApp group, heartbroken at the casual vitriol spewed against Muslims daily.
"I don't have any friends anymore," she said. "All I want is for my children to be able to leave. How can this be their home?"
I'm now back in Spain. The lawyer who helped me get a residence permit has just emailed to check if I've changed my mind regarding applying for citizenship. "You should start the procedure," she urges. "What do you have to lose?"
And for the first time there is something that stops me from dismissing the argument outright. It's not the immigration lines, nor the impracticability. It's because of a niggling feeling that this attachment I have for that rectangular navy-blue booklet may be an unrequited passion.
I love India, but I'm not sure it loves me back.
Every time I post anything other than lavish praise about it on social media—about air pollution in Delhi, for example—or even about Bangladesh's improved sanitation relative to its richer neighbour, I get trolled. The import of the vitriol is always, "Shut up and get lost."
So, is a divorce imminent? Not for me. I still believe in love marriages. As far as I'm concerned, it's for in sickness and in health till death do us part. I plan on neither shutting up nor getting lost. My passport is worth fighting for, even if my passport may not reciprocate the sentiment.
(This is the first of a fortnightly column)
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Pallavi Aiyar
An award-winning foreign correspondent, Pallavi Aiyar has spent the last two decades reporting from China, Europe, Indonesia and Japan. Her most recent book is Orienting: An Indian in Japan. She currently lives in Madrid where she's learning to dance flamenco in the pauses between photographing storks perched on church steeples


Hello my Empathic and Sensitive friends. I was guided to share some of my recent observations on the current energies and how we can most effectively work with them. I am already seeing the "instant manifestation" aspect of the "8" Universal Year energies and how we need to stay on our toes.
2) Be aware of "yours, mine and ours" energetically. – On a certain level we can say it's all us, but for life in 3D manifestations may appear differently. I have a technique that I've developed with my Guidance Team and I call it the "Red Light/Green Light." How this works is if I can feeling uncomfortable or otherwise affected by energy I ask where it is coming from. If it is externally generated I will see a green light. If it is internally generated, the red. This gives me further clues on how to work with it. You can experiment with your own version of this.
3) I've noticed another interesting aspect of "matching pictures/energies" in the current energies. As Empaths, we often *replicate* energies that are directed our way, sometimes unconsciously or automatically. For example, if you are feeling a persistent negative emotion that is normally not what you experience in your everyday life, you may want to check up on this.
4) It's a good reminder that LOVE always wins, ultimately. If energies are coming your way that are less-than-loving, it's important to not vibrate along with them. Bless and release all in LOVE. This is our most powerful protection and safeguard of all.
5) GROUNDING and CENTERING are not luxuries, but essential practices especially for Empathic and sensitive people. These practices can be done in just a few minutes out of your day, but they will make all the difference.
6) Use the powerful, shape-shifting energies of this year to drop energies and beliefs that are no longer in alignment with you or your purposes.
7) Be aware that this is the last pass of the Uranus/Pluto square energies this month. We've been working with these energies since 2010, so they aren't anything new to us. They are always an opportunity for folks to keep it cool or "lose their heads." Some people are rising, some are falling and it all works out in the wash. Keeping anchored in the heart and staying out of excessive analysis is recommended.
As always, AWARENESS of our emotions and energies is key. Take good care beloved Empath friends!


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If you are a new investor who has heard about the market's turbulence this year, you might be hesitating to invest at all. Most growth stocks got a beating this year. It would be wise for new investors to diversify their portfolios with some safe stocks along with some growth stocks.
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Q: error establishing connection between js client and python server in chrome extension I am trying to connect between js client and python server in chrome extension platform, but getting error in the connection establishment.
It is important to note that the code worked in cmd test, but when I tried to make the connection in the chrome extension, it gets an error. So if someone had already deal with something similar, please check the code and help me to figure what is wrong with it.
I used serversocket module.
Here is the server:
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ICD Code M66.86 is a non-billable code. To code a diagnosis of this type, you must use one of the three child codes of M66.86 that describes the diagnosis 'spontaneous rupture of other tendons, lower leg' in more detail.
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Redundant Media (aka Young Bleezy) has been listening to music for ever. YB's first cassettes included Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black, Dangerous, Aerosmith, and etc, even before he knew what they were actually talking about. YB has not found a genre of music he does not like. He has mainly been concentrating on Hip-Hop, Dance/Electronica and Experimental lately, but you may just be surprised.
YB has been concentrating on making instrumental beats, and freestyling as of lately. But, he keeps building his studio up, with a Macbook, Motu 828, MPC 60, MPC 2000XL, MicroKorg, a variety of lo-fi instruments, drum machines, musical toys, and etc.


So it is good bye David Cameron. Whatever one thinks of him, his time in Downing Street has been dramatic: the first coalition government since the war, the Scottish independence referendum, his 2015 majority and finally, his undoing as he lost his third referendum. He is the youngest prime minister to leave office since Lord Rosebury and served a shorter tenure than John Major. His fall was sudden and history is unlikely to be kind to him.
In foreign policy there was never any grand Blairite vision. His intervention in Libya tried to avoid the mistakes of Iraq but the country has remained chaotic; he endured a humiliating parliamentary defeat over air strikes against Isis and only secured backing after the terrorist attacks on Paris. Domestically Cameron struggled to outline a vision for the country during a time of austerity. It was only after his 2015 mandate that he outlined his "Life Chances Agenda". He now hands that nascent agenda to his successor.
The left has had a lot of fun at Cameron's expense, whether it be his Flashman persona or Steve Bell's condom. Theresa May will be harder to pigeonhole. State-educated, experienced, hard-working, despite being at the top of Tory politics for a decade and a half, Theresa May remains a riddle: she has worked to stop the discrimination of stop and search (earning praise from The Voice) and pioneered the Modern Slavery Bill, but equally she has taken a tough stance on immigration and her recent refusal to guarantee EU residents a right to remain risks re-toxifying the Tory brand. In her leadership pitch she showed there is the beginnings of a different economic and industrial agenda. Could the irony be the second woman prime minister weaning her party off its addiction to the first?
However dull her reputation, her premiership will also be one of surprises.
In my previous civil service career, we changed roles every three years. I always found the best jobs to go for were ones with a feckless predecessor and manifestly unsuitable fellow candidates. This allowed you to look like a star merely by not being a shambles. I never realised that I was setting my sights too low on the government ladder and that one day prime ministers would be chosen this way too.
The Tories thirst for power is staggering in its shamelessness. Having crashed the country in an attempt to solve an internal party squabble, they started tearing themselves apart in the aftermath. But upon realising that infighting risked loosening their grip on government, they quickly snapped back into line behind a referendum losing "Remainer" and have somehow ended up looking like the organised ones.
Who knew that "taking back control" of Britain's democracy actually meant Tory MPs anointing Theresa May as our new Prime Minister?
May has shown few signs of imagination or inspiring ideas during her two decades in politics. She has prospered by being dull and diligent, thus benefiting from the often misleading impression of competence these attributes generate.
It is a measure of how low British politics has sunk that May became the least bad bet for leader, simply by not being obviously deranged, deceitful or clueless. Compared to the other candidates who emerged over recent weeks, her arrival in No. 10 is a relative relief. And that is perhaps the most dispiriting feeling of a spectacularly dispiriting year.
For the first (and probably only) time, I'm about to use the words "In fairness to Theresa May…" But, in fairness to Theresa May, she does feel like a leader. With British politics suffering a vacuum of leadership, it figures that her steadiness has been prized over opponents' charisma or panache. It also figures that May - low-profile, uninterested in popularity - should lead during an unstable period where people are bound to suffer, and bound to be angry about it.
She's accepted the poisoned chalice that Boris Johnson and other jump-ship Brexiteers were too cowardly to. Unlike certain Bullingdon boys, May also appears to be in government because she wants to be rather than because she can be, and she's less immediately alarming than Andrea Leadsom's gurning brand of free-market fanaticism.
Her steadiness is deceptive, though. Despite imitating leftist rhetoric (a vote-winning tactic in no way substantiated by her parliamentary record) May is virulently right-wing. She speaks of a society that "works for everyone, not just the privileged few", yet has voted against lower VAT, banking regulations and rent controls, to name but a few, and was integral to a government whose zeal for cuts reached near-religious levels.
Sure, Theresa May has a steady hand. But the direction it's shepherding us in? That's as authoritarian and unequal as anything the 'Nasty Party' has yet offered us.
Theresa May warned her party in 2002 that they were at risk of being perceived by the public as the "nasty party". One of the reasons being that the Tories - controlled by social conservatives such as Iain Duncan Smith during most of the Blair years - had a hard line towards policies impacting the poor and disadvantaged.
When David Cameron was leader of the opposition, he sought to calm these anxieties by framing himself as a modernising, compassionate conservative leader.
When he came to power he quickly reneged on this commitment , as the vulnerable were thrown to the wolves in the name of austerity: with disability benefit and social care cuts, the rolling out of outsourced "fit for work" assessments and unpaid workfare, and cruelty like the bedroom tax.
May deserves credit for going against the grain as Home Secretary, with moves like establishing inquiries into alleged establishment child abuse and sparing the autistic Gary McKinnon from deportation to the US.
But she has been a consistent supporter of Cameron's anti-welfare agenda - severe enough for even IDS to resign over. Based on this track record we can assume that the Nasty Party will continue unabated.


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WebAssembly: Finally something everyone agrees on – websites running C/C++ code
Native code spec gets buy-in from major browser makers
Thomas Claburn in San Francisco Mon 31 Oct 2016 // 22:29 UTC
Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla on Monday announced preview versions of WebAssembly, a low-level safe binary format designed to allow C/C++ code to run in web browsers.
Once WebAssembly, or wasm, matures and appears in browsers, it will allow developers to create native applications, and web applications with native code libraries, that run in browsers to deliver computationally complex content like streaming video, video editing, games, and virtual reality at high frame rates.
Those backing WebAssembly claim the technology runs ~20x faster than JavaScript. Mozilla says its tests show WebAssembly running only 1.13 times slower than native speed.
Similar efforts to make browsers better at handling native application code have been undertaken before, such as Google's Native Client technology and Mozilla's asm.js, a reduced set of JavaScript instructions tuned for speed. But these approaches haven't had broad support from all the major browser makers.
WebAssembly, on the other hand, is driven by the W3C WebAssembly Community Group, and is backed not only by Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla, but by Apple.
Also, asm.js has some technical shortcomings like lack of SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) support to accelerate parallel processing.
In a blog post last year introducing the technology, JavaScript creator Brendan Eich explained that while asm.js is great, it puts too much pressure on the JavaScript parser in mobile devices.
"Transport compression is required and saves bandwidth, but decompression before parsing hurts," Eich said, while citing other issues.
The WebAssembly Browser Preview is hidden at the moment. It's behind a flag in Google's V8 JavaScript engine and in Mozilla's SpiderMonkey. In Microsoft's case, it's only in internal development builds of the company's Chakra JavaScript engine. And while Apple did not join in the group announcement, Google reports that WebAssembly support is under development in WebKit's JavaScriptCore.
Google and Mozilla are offering preview versions of WebAssembly to solicit feedback from developers on the design and implementation of the specification.
The WebAssembly Community Group intends to publish an official specification in Q1 2017, after which WebAssembly is expected to start appearing in browsers. Mozilla said it plans to ship WebAssembly in Firefox 52 around March 2017. ®


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ZF to unveil new EcoLife transmission
ZF has launches the all-new EcoLife transmission, specifically designed for the stresses of modern city buses and coaches. The company says
ZF has launches the all-new EcoLife transmission, specifically designed for the stresses of modern city buses and coaches.
The company says the transmission represents a major evolution in bus transmission technology.
It is a new design from the ground up to replace the ZF Ecomat series of transmissions, acknowledged as the industry benchmark, which has been delivered in more than 8,000 buses locally.
EcoLife has been developed specifically with fuel economy and passenger comfort in mind.
It is designed for the stresses of modern city buses and coaches, transmitting up to 2,000Nm of torque, and operating smoothly at oil sump temperatures of up to 120 degrees celsius.
Thanks to the improved heat exchange capability, oil change intervals are extended to 180,000km, and service life is also extended.
In conjunction with the new EcoLife transmission is the new TopoDyn Life transmission control system, which continuously monitors load, relating to the gradient on which the bus is travelling.
On flat terrain, shift patterns are optimised for economy, but as the terrain becomes steeper, the software adapts for continuous power, on a constantly variable basis, without 'gear hunting'.
These intelligent shift strategies work to keep engine speeds at a minimum, and with low-noise, helical gearing, EcoLife provides a quieter environment for those inside and outside the bus.
With further benefits in passenger comfort, lower service costs and a hybrid-ready architecture, EcoLife truly is the bus transmission of the future.
Locally, the first EcoLife transmission will be delivered in a Volvo B7RLE chassis. Further application releases with other OEMs will become available in the near future.
The Australian Bus + Coach Show 2009 marks the Australian launch and unveiling of the EcoLife automatic transmission by ZF, with a feature display at the ZF Australia Pacific stand (Stand #1, Upper Level).
ZF will also be showcasing the technical service and replacement parts business relating to the new EcoLife transmission at the show, as well as the products of its brands SACHS and LEMFORDER; including suspension, clutch and steering components.


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Marching Forward or Falling Back?
President Dmitry Medvedev gave a video address last week and, according to tradition, sounded a liberal note in advance of his annual state-of-the-nation address. Last year his message — laid out in the article "Go, Russia!" — sounded like a manifesto calling for change, but now that the midpoint of his term in office has already passed, the message was more like a progress report on what has already been achieved.
Surprisingly, the simple marketing trick of describing Russia's modest technological advances with glowing, ultra-liberal rhetoric and shamelessly presenting that to the West as progress, once again, continues to work for Moscow — time and time again.
If we're going to take the president's message seriously — something I would not advise to the uninitiated reader — it creates an impression of political schizophrenia. In the first part of the speech, Medvedev levels fervent accusations and warnings from on high about the danger of stagnation and calls for strengthened political competition. But in the second part of the speech, he reverts to the language of a typical corporate lawyer who, almost from thin air, paints a picture of major achievements.
Let's take a look, then, at how Russia, in the president's words, has made "decent progress" improving its political system.
"The first thing we did was minimize the risks of election manipulation," Medvedev says. But aside from several minor improvements to the actual voting process, the powerful electoral machine continues to be completely contained within the government's power vertical and impervious to outside influence.
"Second," he tells us, "all parties are now guaranteed equal access to state-run media." But that is not the case when the entire state machinery consists of a single party that maintains its hold on power through rigged elections, and when only seven Kremlin-approved parties are even allowed to participate in elections. When the "head chef" controls which items make it onto the electoral menu, there's no need for leaders to worry about whether voters pick the special of the day, since everything's coming from the same kitchen.
"Third," the president continues, "parties that win a majority in regional parliaments now have the exclusive right to propose candidates for governors." That point sounds particularly ridiculous following the scandalous dismissal of Mayor Yury Luzhkov. The federal center continues, as before, to choose governors in consultation with United Russia's central bureaucracy. What's more, the Kremlin has been appointing an increasing number of governors from outside the regions they're sent to serve.
"Fourth," Medvedev tells us, "a number of measures to protect minority rights have been taken" and "the number of signatures of party supporters required for registering to participate in elections has been reduced." Here, the situation has only worsened lately. With increasing frequency, political parties that are not already represented in the State Duma — along with their candidates — have been denied the right to register or pulled from electoral lists. And by eliminating the right to register through the payment of a monetary deposit, control over who may participate in elections has become absolute.
As for the president's fifth point, that Russia has achieved a proportional balance in the number of deputies in regional legislative assemblies, that's not a responsibility of the central authorities in a federated state, and it does nothing to serve the goal of modernization.
To complete the list of "achievements," I would also add the elimination of direct mayoral elections and further limitations on voter representation in municipal elections, where the share of proportional systems is growing and public groups have lost the ability to put forward their own candidates.
The result is that there has been no political modernization under Medvedev. Russia has been either treading water or regressing.
This seems entirely natural when the country's real leader does not currently occupy the highest position of power and therefore blocks any changes to the system that he perceives as a potential threat to his personal authority.
There are changes to be made down the road, however. The period of regency will end in 2012 regardless: Either the regent will return to the throne or Medvedev will retain the presidency. Either outcome will inevitably lead to a restructuring of the entire system.
Thus, we can expect to see a lessening of the gap between the nominal and real centers of power. Accordingly, the government will be more willing to embrace modernization – not for the sake of improvements, but as the only path to political survival.
The current system is far too primitive for the increasingly complex situation.
Reforms to the political system are therefore inevitable. The only question remaining is how they will take shape. After the presidential elections in 2012, shortages of cash will most likely force the government to make significant reductions to social spending, creating unfavorable conditions for any attempt at liberal modernization.
Nikolai Petrov is a scholar in residence at the Carnegie Moscow Center.


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Q: Why does f# dot operator have such a low precedence The precedence of F#'s member selection dot (.) operator as used in
System.Console.WriteLine("test")

has a lower precedence than [space] such that the following
ignore System.Console.WriteLine("test")

must be written explicitly as
ignore (System.Console.WriteLine("test"))

though this would be the intuition from the notion of juxtaposed symbols. Having used CoffeeScript, I can appreciate how intuitive precedence can serve to de-clutter code.
Are there any efforts being made to rationalize this kerfuffle, perhaps something along the lines that incorporated the "lightweight" syntax of the early years?
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Upon review, the culprit is not the "." operator but the invocation operator "()", as in "f()". So, given:
  type C() = class end

then the following intuitive syntax fails:
  printfn "%A" C()    <-- syntax error FS0597

and must be written thus (as prescribed by the documentation):
  printfn "%A" (C())    <-- OK

It seems intuitive that a string of symbols unbroken by white space should implicitly represents a block. In fact, the utility of juxtaposing is to create such a block.

A: a b.c is parsed as a (b.c), not (a b).c. So there are no efforts to rationalize this - it simply is not true.

A: Thanks to all those who responded.
My particular perplexity stemmed from treating () as an invocation operator. As an eager evaluation language, F# does not have or need such a thing. In stead, this is an expression boundary, as in, (expression). In particular, () bounds the nothing expression which is the only value of the type, unit. Consequently, () is the stipulation of a value and not a direction to resolved the associated function (though that is the practical consequence when parameters are provided to functions due to F#'s eager evaluation.)
As a result, the following expression
ignore System.Console.WriteLine("test")

actually surfaces three distinct values,
ignore      System.Console.WriteLine       ("test")

which are interpreted according to the left-to-right precedence evaluation order or F# (which then permits partial function application and perhaps other things)
(  ignore     System.Console.WriteLine  )  ("test")

...but the result of (ignore expr) will be unit, which does not expect a parameter. Hence, syntax error (strong typing, yea!). So, an expression boundary is required. In particular,
   ignore  (  System.Console.WriteLine     ("test")  )

or
   ignore (System.Console.WriteLine "test")

or
   ignore <| System.Console.WriteLine "test"

or
   System.Console.WriteLine "test" |> ignore


I am a biomedical engineering student from Copenhagen, Denmark. I am currently writing my master thesis which involves comparison of two different knee prosthesis: the C-leg and a hydraulic knee prosthesis. Vicon 460 system is used to gather kinetic and kinematic information.
Only a few articles mention that the biomechanical models they use are modified with respect to the altered inertial properties, mass and center of mass of the prosthesis. Unfortunately none of the studies have reported their values. So far I have not been able to find any values for the inertial properties (neither from Otto Bock or from a search in the Biomech-L archives). I know that the pendulum technique can be used to determine the moment of inertia.
My question is if anybody has made these measurements before on different prosthesis, which values are obtained, and does a database of the mentioned properties exist?


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WP Rugby set for R150-million deal
WP fans
The cash-strapped Western Province Rugby Union is set for a potential game-changing R150-million partnership with a private school group that could drastically boost their ailing finances, writes JOHN GOLIATH.
Generation Schools, which falls under the portfolio of JSE-listed investment holding company Trematon, is currently in talks with the union about a partnership, which could have school campuses being built on WP Rugby-owned properties at Brookside in Claremont and, possibly, in Oranjezicht.
The deal would involve WP making their property, which is estimated to be worth around R70m, available for Generation Schools to put up the building, which could cost another R80m.
SARugbymag.co.za understands that WP Rugby could get between R30-R50m up front if the deal goes through, which will then be repaid from the equity and revenue generated by the school once it's up and running.
WP and the private school group would then combine their resources and expertise to provide education, as well as a high-performance rugby environment. The profits from the school will then be shared by WP Rugby and Generation schools as partners.
Kids attending the school on rugby bursaries will also be harder to poach by other unions as well as overseas clubs. One of the conditions of the bursary will be that the players must stay at WP for a couple of years after finishing school. This is the norm in the private sector, where students are obligated to work for their funders for a stipulated period after finishing their studies.
The deal will go a long way in helping WP Rugby out of their current financial jam. WP Rugby still owes Remgro, their former equity partner, almost R50m.
On 14 August, WP Rugby executive member Junaid Moerat, who also serves on the board of the professional arm, presented this plan to the WP Rugby's general council, which then unanimously gave the green light to explore this option.
Moerat, who has worked in the digital-sports marketing industry for over a decade, declined to comment on the possible deal. However, WP president Zelt Marais confirmed that the union's stakeholders are keen to explore a partnership with Generation Schools.
'We have got the intent to explore the deal, but it may take another two to three weeks to investigate to make sure that is financially viable and profitable for us to do so,' Marais told SARugbymag.co.za.
'We asked the clubs if we can proceed with negotiations and they said yes. It's important we do due diligence and to act in the best interest of the union.'
Jevron Epstein, founder and managing director of Generation Schools, is excited about the possibility of partnering with WP Rugby.
Generation Schools, which started in the Western Cape with a campus in Sunningdale in 2016, and also has campuses in Hermanus, Melkbosstrand and Hout Bay, initially wanted to lease the properties two years ago before the deal fell through.
But now Epstein is confident that this 'mutually beneficial deal' will happen in the next month or so.
'The flame was rekindled three to four weeks ago. It seems we are moving in the right direction. We don't have anything concrete yet, but I do think it could be a mutually beneficial relationship for both parties,' Epstein said.
'The partnership would be something that creates unity in South Africa, because it's education and sport. Our passion is education and WP have the knowledge and know-how of running a high-performance sports institute. It could be a very good marriage.'
Epstein says the school could be built by June, July next year, while the rugby component may be finished by the end of 2020. The school should be fully functional by the time the 2021 school year starts.
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Well, the loan papers are all signed, the home inspection, appraisal, and termite inspection are all done, my agent is working up home insurance for me, and I hope to hear soon on the results of the appraisal.
Things are aligning themselves in preparation for closing. So far so good!


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Four U.S. soldiers killed in roadside bomb attacks
ROBERT H. REID
Iraqi police stand near a burning US military vehicle after it came under attack in the center of Mosul, north of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Oct 13, 2004. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ibrahim)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) – Roadside bombings killed four American soldiers in Baghdad, the U.S. command said Wednesday, as U.S. and Iraqi troops staged raids in Ramadi and Baqouba, stepping up pressure on Sunni insurgents before this week's start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
A suicide driver plowed into a U.S. convoy and blew up his car Wednesday in the northern city of Mosul, wounding five American soldiers. It was the second suicide attack against American convoys in Mosul in the past three days.
Iraq's interim prime minister also warned that U.S. and Iraqi forces will launch military operations in the main insurgent stronghold Fallujah if residents do not hand over Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, whose group has kidnapped and beheaded numerous foreigners.
During Wednesday's operations, U.S. troops swept into the Sunni stronghold of Ramadi and joined Iraqi police and National Guardsmen in raids in Baqouba after a day of fierce clashes in militant enclaves stretching from the gates of Baghdad to the Syrian border.
Last year, insurgents sharply increased their attacks against U.S. and coalition forces during Ramadan, expected to start at the end of this week. Extremists believe they win a special place in paradise if they die in a jihad, or holy war, during Ramadan.
Three of the U.S. deaths occurred late Tuesday when a roadside bomb exploded near a U.S. convoy in eastern Baghdad, the U.S. command said. Another American soldier died in a bombing before dawn Wednesday in western Baghdad.
Two of the soldiers injured Wednesday in the Mosul attack returned to duty later in the day, the military said. The others were hospitalized and there was no word on their condition. One U.S. soldier was killed Monday in a similar suicide operation.
More than 1,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops launched two simultaneous raids Wednesday around Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, to clear the area of insurgents.
One of the early morning operations took place just south of the city, in the village of Daliabbas, said Capt. Marshall Jackson, spokesman for the 3rd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division. Several people were detained. The other operation also took place in Baqouba though no location was given.
"Basically, it's a pre-Ramadan operation just to clear up some of the area around Baqouba," Jackson said.
The city has been relatively peaceful in recent months, but U.S. commanders noted an upswing in insurgent activity during last year's Ramadan in Diyala province.
In an unrelated attack, a police captain was killed Wednesday in a drive-by shooting near Baqouba, officials said. Insurgents regularly target Iraq's security forces, which are seen as collaborators with the United States and its allies.
In Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, U.S. troops sealed off key streets and searched buildings after days of clashes, residents reported.
The U.S. command had no comment on the operation and it was unclear whether the troops were searching for specific individuals or making a show of force.
On Tuesday, Iraqi government soldiers supported by U.S. Marine and Army units raided seven mosques in Ramadi, detaining four people and seizing bomb-making materials and pro-insurgent literature, the military said.
The Association of Muslim Scholars, a Sunni clerical group suspected of links to the insurgency, condemned the mosque raids as an example of alleged American hostility toward Islam.
The U.S. command said the raids followed an increase in insurgent attacks in Ramadi and accused the militants of violating the sanctity of the mosques by using them for military purposes. Marine spokesman Maj. Francis Piccoli said U.S. troops provided backup for the Iraqi soldiers but did not enter the mosques.
In the north, Iraqi soldiers patrolling Tal Afar on Tuesday detained 18 suspected militants, while a joint U.S.-Iraqi operation in Mosul netted five suspected rebels wanted for mortar attacks on military bases and "intimidating local civilians," the military said in a statement. Two more suspects were arrested southeast of Samarra, the statement said.
U.S. and Iraqi forces have used a mix of diplomacy and pressure to try to suppress Iraq's mounting insurgency in time to hold nationwide elections in January.
A wave of deadly bombings, mortar and rocket attacks, kidnappings and shooting sprees has forced the United States to divert funds from reconstruction to security.
In Tokyo, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Armitage acknowledged that the United States was initially too slow in channeling money to Iraq, telling a donor's conference in the Japanese capital that "it took longer than necessary to get our act together prior to turning over sovereignty" on June 28.
This has created a "void," particularly in the electrical and water sectors in Iraq, Armitage said. But he added: "It's not a complete void. We have other money going in."
Armitage stressed the United States – Iraq's leading donor nation, with a pledge of $18.4 billion – is "picking up the pace."
Meanwhile, Iraq's interim government assured the International Atomic Energy Agency that all nuclear facilities under its control were well protected.
In a letter to the U.N. Security Council on Monday, IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei said satellite photos and follow-up investigations show "widespread and apparently systematic dismantlement" at sites related to Iraq's nuclear program that had once been subject to stringent monitoring.
Science and Technology Minister Rashad Omar said the missing items – which the IAEA says includes milling machines and electron beam welders – were taken in the looting spree that broke out after last year's U.S.-led invasion and the sites were quickly secured.
"Not even a single screw is being taken away without my knowledge," Omar said in an interview with The Associated Press. He invited the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency to visit the facilities at any time.
Allawi's government has been negotiating with representatives from Fallujah to secure the city, which is controlled by extremist clerics and armed followers. Fallujah is also believed to be the base for al-Zarqawi's feared Tawhid and Jihad group.
Allawi told the Iraqi National Council Wednesday that if people in Fallujah do not hand over al-Zarqawi and his followers, "we will carry out operations in Fallujah."
Allawi also warned that the more the U.S. and Iraqi forces step up pressure against the insurgents, the more "they will try to escalate the attacks."
In other developments:
– Insurgents fired mortars at an oil refinery in Basra early Wednesday, missing the facility but wounding three Iraqi National Guard members, said guard Capt. Firas al-Tamimi. The refinery in southwestern Basra reported no disruptions to its operations.
– A U.S. official said ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein underwent surgery about two weeks ago to repair a hernia and has made a full recovery.
– Investigators seeking evidence to use in a future trial of Saddam uncovered more than 100 bodies in a mass grave near the northern Iraqi village of Hatra. The bodies were believed to be Kurds killed during Saddam's crackdown in 1987-88.