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March 23, 2020By HealthySimulation.com Writing Team
Gordon Center Offers Powerful Curriculum for Clinical Simulation Learners
At the heart of The University of Miami Health System's Michael S. Gordon Center for Simulation and Innovation in Medical Education, or Gordon Center for short, is the mission to save lives with education, innovation and healthcare simulation. With that aim, the Gordon Center developed a series of online curricula for healthcare providers and students around the world to improve patient outcomes and save lives. Here we take a closer look at the powerful curriculum, unique learning programs, powerful simulators, and leading courses available from the Gordon Center!
The Gordon Center, which used to go by the acronym GCRME, offers various training programs such as cardiology, and emergency medicine on blending learning platforms, a combination of online interactive educational programs along with face-to-face classroom methods. These methods allow students to control the place, path, or pace of their learning. In addition, education material developed by the Gordon Center is based on the latest national surveys and guidelines from certification boards such as the American Academy of Neurology and American Board of Emergency Medicine.
But what makes Gordon Center curricula different are the realistic "case-based," multimedia scenarios that emphasize humanistic aspects of medicine, such as communication skills, bedside manner and medical ethics, in addition to diagnosis and management. Innovative tools are incorporated in the learning experience and include simulations, videos, interactive graphics, animations, diagnostic images. In some courses included is hands-on practice with Harvey, the cardiopulmonary simulator and a range of other clinical simulation systems.
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Whether its diagnosing acute stroke, managing heart attacks, treating pediatric airway emergencies, applying emergency medicine core principles or simply taking a blood pressure reading, the Gordon Center curricula will prepare learners for the next level of patient care.
The online curriculum is modular and customizable for the student's specific needs. These ready-to-launch courses offer assessment tools, self-learning components, and multiple learning activities. With a site license, the school or medical facility can train hundreds of students, residents, physicians, physician assistants, nurses and nurse practitioners a year at a nominal cost.
Upon completion, students of the Gordon Center curricula will be better prepared to diagnose and treat a variety of clinic conditions and be more confident in their practice.
Teaching Programs from the Gordon Center
The Gordon Center, courses are known for their emphasis on skills training, interactive teaching and patient simulation through both technology and standardized patients – actors who portray patients. Using realistic "case-based" scenarios to teach healthcare professionals facilitates the discussion of the humanistic aspects of medicine, such as communication skills and medical ethics, in addition to diagnosis and management. The Gordon Center offers medical student teaching programs in introductory clinical skills, cardiology, and emergency medicine. The Gordon Center also houses cardiology educational programs for cardiology fellows, residents in internal medicine and family medicine, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners, and neurology programs for residents in internal medicine. Programs available from the Gordon Center include Clinical Cardiology Electives, Nurse Training Programs, Introduction to Laerdal's SimMan and SimBaby, as well as their world famous partnered iSim debriefing course.
Emergency Medical Skills Training Program
The Gordon Center's Emergency Medical Skills Training Programs also began over 35 years ago. They now train thousands of course registrants per year at nearly 700 agencies in Florida and over 1,000 in other states, as well as internationally. Courses address multiple content areas, including cardiac life support, trauma, pediatrics, stroke, heart attack, advanced airway, team training, rapid response and disaster response. Paramedics diagnose problems using actors to play the role of patients. They are the designated lead training center for the Florida Department of Health's Emergency Response to Terrorism training program. The curricula are disseminated to Florida's state and community colleges, and the paramedics trained at the Gordon Center respond to the 911 calls of millions of Floridians. They also train the U.S. Army Forward Surgical Teams prior to their front-line deployment and healthcare personnel from other high level federal agencies.
Each curriculum developed at the Gordon Center is the work of respected clinicians and educators, reflects the most current science, and undergoes rigorous review by content experts and professional evaluators to ensure adherence to the highest of standards. Instructors trained in their programs, "Advanced Stroke Life Support", "Emergency Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes", "Airway Management – Principles and Practice", and "Emergency Response to Terrorism", teach the curricula at colleges and training programs for prehospital and hospital providers throughout the state of Florida, the United States, and abroad.
Harvey, the Cardiopulmonary Patient Simulator
This full-size manikin realistically simulates nearly any cardiac disease at the touch of a button by varying blood pressure, pulses, heart sounds, murmurs and breath sounds. Harvey is the longest continuous university-based simulation project in medical education, and no other simulator presents cardiac bedside findings at the level of detail and fidelity found in Harvey.
Harvey provides a comprehensive cardiology curriculum by realistically simulating 50 patient scenarios. It is structured to begin with common, less complex conditions and progress to more rare and complex diseases. Some patient scenarios are available in both 60 & 90 bpm with corresponding respiratory rate changes of 12 & 15 rpm, respectively.
Harvey is portable and may be used in any environment in which a patient may be examined. Using stethophones, small groups may learn without an instructor by using the slide programs or the UMedic system. Harvey may also be used in clinical skills or simulation training centers or SP training areas. Larger groups by using stethophones for auscultation, and video projection for observing other physical findings. Most important, Harvey's location should be convenient for students, faculty and staff. Even though Harvey functions as a self-learning device, the nearby presence and availability of knowledgeable faculty and staff will further ensure a successful program.
Harvey teaches many thousands of learners annually at over 600 institutions worldwide. The American College of Cardiology Task Force on Teaching has recommended Harvey for training, the British Heart Foundation has placed the simulator at nearly all of the medical schools in the U.K., and the American Board of Internal Medicine uses videos of Harvey its computer-based skills recertification examination. The Royal College of Canada has used Harvey for its high-stakes internal medicine certification examination.
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import numpy as np
import sympy as sp
#import typing
import vorpy.symbolic
import vorpy.tensor

# TODO: Maybe create a Riemannian coordinate chart, which is a set of coordinates,
# a metric tensor field, and an inverse metric tensor field.  Probably should incorporate
# vorpy.experimental.coordinates into this.

def christoffel_symbol (g:np.ndarray, g_inv:np.ndarray, X:np.ndarray):
    """
    The Christoffel symbol(s) Gamma^{i}_{jk} are a correction to the coordinate-dependent total derivative
    to produce the metric-compatible covariant derivative (Levi-Civita).  Note that while Gamma is a
    3-dimensional matrix, it isn't a tensorial value, since it's coordinate dependent.

    For now, assume g has shape (n,n) for some integer n.  g_inv is an explicit parameter
    because inverting a matrix is nontrivial and
    TODO: Allow arbitrary g having shape s+s for some shape s.
    """

    s = np.shape(g)
    assert len(s) == 2, 'g must be a 2-tensor'
    assert s[0] == s[1], 'g must be square'

    dg = vorpy.symbolic.differential(g, X)
    # TODO: See about forming the sum g_{jl,k} + g_{kl,j} - g_{jk,l} beforehand.
    christoffel = sp.Rational(1,2)*(
          vorpy.tensor.contract('il,jlk', g_inv, dg)
        + vorpy.tensor.contract('il,klj', g_inv, dg)
        - vorpy.tensor.contract('il,jkl', g_inv, dg)
    )
    return sp.simplify(christoffel)

def covariant_derivative_of (V:np.ndarray, Gamma:np.ndarray, X:np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
    return vorpy.symbolic.differential(V, X) + vorpy.tensor.contract('ijk,j', Gamma, V)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    # Test some stuff

    r, theta = sp.var('r'), sp.var('theta')
    print(f'r = {r}')
    print(f'r = {theta}')

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Q: Why can I send AWS S3 bucket events to only one AWS lambda? I have a S3 bucket, to store objects.
On the object creation event, I wish to send a specific category of objects to two lambdas, in parallel:

*

*my_email_lambda

*my_logging_lambda
I set the rule as follows:
Rule 1:
  Prefix: /my/folder
  Suffix:
  Send to: lambda
  Lambda: my_email_lambda

Rule 2:
  Prefix: /my/folder
  Suffix:
  Send to: lambda
  Lambda: my_logging_lambda

When I try to do this, I get an error:

Configuration is ambiguously defined. Cannot have overlapping suffixes
  in two rules if the prefixes are overlapping for the same event type.

Why is this ambiguous? I want to send the events to two separate lambdas. If this were a move operation, then we could consider this setup to be ambiguous. This is an event notification operation, though. This is not ambiguous. If the operation is unsupported, the error message should state this instead.

A: It is not supported. And agree that the error message is not good.
The reason, I think is just that they want to promote another practice: Fanout S3 Event Notifications to Multiple Endpoints | AWS Compute Blog

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My Rails 5.0.0.rc1 installation with Ruby 2.3.1 on Max OS is failed because of Nokogiri error.
Gem files will remain installed in /Users/aji/.rbenv/versions/2.3.1/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/nokogiri-1.6.8 for inspection.
After some googling, the problem is because xz installation with Homebrew. Uninstall xz solve my problme.


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Channel 4 News is to air an exposé into the controversial data mining practices of Cambridge Analytica, despite alleged attempts by the company to block the report.
In the report that airs tonight (Monday) at 7pm, Channel 4 reporters pose as clients and attend a series of meetings with the company that they secretly filmed.
It follows reports in the Financial Times that the data firm and its chief executive Alexander Nix - who appears in the film - attempted to block the broadcast. Channel 4 News did not provide a statement on the reports.
The data firm is currently under investigation for its work for Donald Trump's election campaign, in which it allegedly used the personal information of more than 50 million Facebook users without their consent.
The data was used to build psychological profiles of millions of voters to target political adverts.
The practices were reportedly exposed by a former Cambridge Analytica employee, Christopher Wylie, who showed documents detailing the data collection to the New York Times, The Observer and Channel 4 News.
Cambridge Analytica was suspended by Facebook on Friday after the social network claimed it had violated its rules by failing to delete Facebook user data collected by an app for research purposes.


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Maa (Mother 2010) Bengali Film Review
MAA is a 2010 Bengali Film directed by Shiladitya Moulik based on TheMother by Maxim Gorky. Read the exclusive review of MAA at Calcutta Tube.
By Shoma A. Chatterji / May 3, 2010
MAA is a 2010 Bengali Film directed by Shiladitya Moulik based on The Mother by Maxim Gorky. Read the exclusive review of MAA at Calcutta Tube.
MAA – WONDERFUL PERFORMANCE, WEAK FILM
Maa Bengali Film
In celebration of the 140th birth anniversary of Maxim Gorky, and to commemorate the centenary celebration of his novel TheMother , Souvik Sanskritik Chakra presented a Bengali translation of the novel through cinema under the title Maa. Souvik Sanskritik Charka produced the Bengali version for the stage. It earned so much popularity that it presented more than 1000 performances over a span of 30 years. Gorky was inspired to write Mother from the real-life story of courage of the mother-son duo Anna Kirlovna Zalomova and her son Pyotr Zalomov who headed the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. The first film version by Vsevolod Pudovkin (1926) starred Vera Baranovskaya as the mother and Nikolai Batalov as the son. Utpal Dutt made the first Bengali film adaptation of Mother with Sova Sen in the title role in Maa (1983.)
Maxim Gorky publicly opposed the Tsarist regime and was arrested many times. At the heart of all his work was a belief in the inherent worth and potential of the human person. The brutal shooting of workers marching to the Tsar with a petition for reform on January 9, 1905 (known as the "Bloody Sunday"), which set in motion the Revolution of 1905, seems to have pushed Gorky more decisively toward radical solutions. 1906, the Bolsheviks sent him on a fund-raising trip to the United States, where Gorky wrote his famous novel of revolutionary conversion and struggle, Mat', (The Mother).
Maa Bengali Movie Still
In the current production, Gautam Mukherjee and Samaresh Basu play mother and son. The film was made in 1907 but could be released only three years later. Maa, directed by Shiladitya Moulik, suffers from the drawbacks of a play turned into film by people who are skilled in stage production and not in making films, technically and aesthetically. The script remains faithful to Gorky's original novel but the treatment is rather weak and takes away the power of resistance the novel thrives in. The characterizations do not come across strongly and therefore, the acting leaves room for improvement. The interior set design is convincing but had the director relocated the film within an Indian situation, the designing would have seemed more real and not tacky. The dialogues are mostly delivered sans inflection and tone. The marching scene culminating in the May 1 history with the militia gunning down Pavel brutally as he runs out of captivity in prison is weak and unconvincing. Most of the scenes are too dark. Pratul Mukhopadhyay's music is nothing to write home about.
Maa The March-Bengali Film
If this film makes it to the archive, the credit for this would solely rest on Gautam Mukherjee, who boldly enacts the title role of a woman who remains one of the most historical characters in world literature. Mukherjee has played the character for the stage for many years so he has internalized the character of Nilovna. He spans the character not only by investing it with the qualities that belong to the mother in Gorky's novel, but also maps the growth of the character with depth and quality. He pans the growth of Nilovna from a submissive wife bent under her husband's violence, through her widowhood where she suffers the pain of seeing her only child Pavel Vlasov becoming a useless alcoholic, then registering happiness when she finds that he has become a rebel fighting against those who ruthlessly exploit labour, till the final tragedy of seeing him being gunned down in front of her eyes. She draws strength from this collective and cumulative pain, and rises to become everyone's mother. Looking back on the film, one recalls glimpses of Nilovna silently rendering services, preparing, serving and distributing bread and food to the rebels, bearing the humiliation of being tortured by her alcoholic husband, witnessing the slow decay and downfall of her only child that does not offer any hint of the strength and the courage that lies latent within her, waiting to light up with the trigger of her son's unfair and untimely death. Somewhere along the way, the woman called Nilovna is completely submerged under the idol of the Mother – from the personal to the political.
This is a well-intentioned film. But that does not make it a good film or even a memorable one. The only thing memorable about this film is the courage of the theatre group to be able to present such a challenging production in an ambience of films like My Name is Khan, and the classic performance of Gautam Mukherjee in the title role of Mother.
by Shoma A. Chatterji
Tags: Bengali Film, Maa, Maxim Gorky
By Calcutta Tube Team / May 3, 2013
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3 thoughts on "Maa (Mother 2010) Bengali Film Review"
Ascott Lincon says:
Ms. Shoma has written a knowledgable review of the film Maa, which is in Bengali. Shoma has studied 'Mother' by Gorky before crticizing the movie but someone who was present during the production process or someone who heard about the film making process (like me!) will doubt most of it mentioned above. Gautam Mukherjee has vast experience in acting for theatres. Period. His acting abilities on celluloid are more amateurish than even a freshman. Upon detail research I came to know that he (in the role of Nilovna) was more of a given choice to Shiladitya, who according to me has done more than an average job as a debutant director. Shooting shifts were insane, attitude on the floor was typically calcutta-ish and budget was ridiculous. I sincerely doubt with such limitations a director like Utpal Dutta (who tried his hands on the same story with more resources and experience!) would do much justice to the film. I have seen almost every play that the group has staged in Kolkata and almost every short film that Shiladitya Moulik has produced after Maa. And as a SOHO professional from London Film Industry I would rate the director and the technical crew way above the experienced lot of Souvik Sanskritik Chakra! Honest.
Arindam Debnath says:
Thank you for your judgement.
P Ghoshal says:
Gautam Mukherjee looked and acted like a Hijra in Maa. Liked the direction, dialogues, lighting and the international settings. Was this movie shot in 35mm? Doubt it. Had it been, it would have looked richer. Good job Shiladitya.

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Q: Read Modem Firmware Version : Android I am working on an application which is in iPhone and Android, where I need to read Modem Firmware Version as iPhone developer does in his side.
I searched on Internet/SO but couldn't find anything related to my problem.
Is it possible to read Modem Firmware Version in Android? If not what should be equivalent to that? (We read this attribute and more for keeping track of a device)

A: As nandeesh said to use baseband version at the place of Modem firmware, he didn't provided any source code of his custom method.
I did some RnD and got final solution as
private static final String BASEBAND_VERSION = "gsm.version.baseband";

/**
     * Returns a SystemProperty
     *
     * @param propName The Property to retrieve
     * @return The Property, or NULL if not found
     */
    public static String getSystemProperty(String propName) {
        String TAG = "TEst";
        String line;
        BufferedReader input = null;
        try {
            Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("getprop " + propName);
            input = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()), 1024);
            line = input.readLine();
            input.close();
        }
        catch (IOException ex) {
            Log.e(TAG, "Unable to read sysprop " + propName, ex);
            return null;
        }
        finally {
            if (input != null) {
                try {
                    input.close();
                }
                catch (IOException e) {
                    Log.e(TAG, "Exception while closing InputStream", e);
                }
            }
        }
        return line;
    }

and call it as
String basebandVersion = getSystemProperty(BASEBAND_VERSION);

All credits goes to cyanogen-updater , custom method taken from this same project SysUtils

A: The about phone on android shows the baseband version by getting the property gsm.version.baseband . You can use SystemProperties.get("gsm.version.baseband","unknown");


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Q: auto seeking in mediaplayer in vb.net if i have a video of 70 Seconds and i want to play it directly from 31 seconds to onwards how can i do that in vb.net

A: Have a look here: http://www.devasp.net/net/articles/display/304.html
player.URL = "URL to wmv"
player.Ctlcontrols.play()
player.Ctlcontrols.currentPosition = 31


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Harold Hilgard Tittmann, Jr. (January 8, 1893 - December 29, 1980) was an American diplomat who became an expert on Fascist Italy and represented President Roosevelt in the Vatican during World War II.

Early life and education
Harold Hilgard Tittmann, Jr. was born in 1893 in St. Louis, Missouri, into a family of German immigrants who came to this country from the Saxon city of Dresden. His grandfather, Edward Tittmann, was the first ancestor to come to America, arriving in Belleville, Illinois, in 1833.  His father Harold Hilgard Tittmann was the seventh child born to Edward and Rosa Hilgard Tittmann.  He attended the Taft School in St. Louis, graduating in 1912 and then entered Yale University where he graduated in 1916.  He worked for a year before the United States entered World War I.

Military service
After the United States entered World War 1 in 1917,  he enlisted in the United States Army Air Service. In June 1918 he was assigned to Eddie Rickenbacker's 94th Pursuit Squadron based in northeastern France and became a fighter pilot with the rank of First Lieutenant. On June 3, 1918, while on patrol over German-held territory, he was attacked by five German fighter planes, one of which he shot down. With his aircraft riddled with bullets and himself severely wounded, he managed to fly back to French territory and crash-land in a wheat field. He was taken to a U.S. Military field hospital where initially his condition was considered hopeless. He spent two years in military hospitals, first in France and later in America. He miraculously recovered. However he lost his right leg, a kidney, and half of one lung, incurring as well major bone damage to his arms and remaining leg.  He was reputed to be the most severely wounded-in-action American to have survived the First World War.  He was decorated for bravery by both the American and French governments, being awarded the U.S. Distinguished Service Cross for Extraordinary Heroism as well as the French Croix de Guerre.

Diplomatic career
In 1920, he joined the U.S. Foreign Service and was sent to the American Embassy in Paris as Third Secretary. In 1925, the year that Benito Mussolini asserted his right to supreme power and became dictator of Italy, he was posted to the Rome embassy where he remained for the next eleven years, thus becoming one of the State Department's leading experts on Fascist Italy. There he met Eleanor Barclay, from San Antonio, Texas. They were married in 1928. Their first son, Harold III was born in 1929, and their second son, Barclay, was born in 1932.

In 1936, he was transferred to the State Department in Washington, where he spent three years in the Division of Western European Affairs. In August 1939, a few weeks before the outbreak of World War II he was assigned to Geneva, Switzerland, as Consul General. His involvement with the Vatican began at that time as he was also assigned as part-time assistant to Myron Taylor, President Roosevelt's personal representative to the Vatican. Although most European countries had ambassadors to the Vatican, because of religious objections from a largely Protestant nation, the President could not politically appoint an American ambassador to the Pope. A concerted effort was made many times by Taylor to persuade the Pope to try to influence Mussolini to remain neutral in the war. The Pope sent many messages to Mussolini during the first half of 1940, as did Taylor, but on June 10, 1940, after the defeat of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), Italy declared war on England. After that happened, it became clear that the mission had failed. The European ambassadors to Italy moved out of the embassies into Vatican City as diplomatic relations with Italy were cut. After Pearl Harbor and the US. entry into the war in 1941, Tittmann was reassigned to Rome, and he also moved into the Vatican where he became the Charge d'Affaires and the chief source of information to President Roosevelt of the happenings inside Fascist Italy. After Taylor returned to the United States,  Tittmann remained inside Vatican City until the liberation of Rome in 1944. At that time he and his family moved back to Rome where he remained until 1946.

Post-war career
He was then appointed Ambassador to Haiti. In 1948 he was named Ambassador to Peru, a post he held until 1955. He then became the Director of the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration in Geneva (International Organization for Migration) from 1955 until his retirement in 1958 at the age of 65. He spent his retirement writing the memoirs of his Vatican assignment during World War II, which were edited and published by his son Harold H. Tittmann III. He died in Manchester, Massachusetts, on December 29, 1980, a few days prior to his 88th birthday.

References

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1980 deaths
20th-century American diplomats
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Hematin has been shown to be effective therapy for acute intermittent porphyria. Few complications have been found. We cared for a patient who developed a markedly prolonged prothrombin time, partial thromboplastin time, thrombocytopenia, mild hypofibrinogenemia, mild elevation of fibrin split products, and a 10% fall in hematocrit while receiving hematin. No other cause for the coagulopathy could be found. The abnormal coagulation variables returned to normal when hematin was discontinued. Patients receiving hematin for acute intermittent porphyria should be closely observed for signs of coagulopathy.
Published: Ann Intern Med. 1981;95(6):700-701.


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Special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC)
How do special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) work?
A special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) is a shell corporation that is involved in the process of taking a company public on the stock market. Also referred to as a 'blank check company', it's formed and listed on a local stock exchange with the purpose of acquiring a private company and raising capital. It can then take the company public without going through the traditional initial public offering (IPO) process.
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SPAC stands for a special-purpose acquisition company, which is also known as a 'blank check company'. This type of company is created without any commercial operations in mind. It aims to raise capital through an IPO that can then be used to acquire an existing company, in what is called a reverse-merger.
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Funding: the founders of the SPAC usually provide the starting capital, and then institutional investors and underwriters are the main targets for raising capital before the public can trade SPAC shares. The capital raised during a SPAC IPO will be secured in a trust account. It can only be used to conduct an acquisition, or return the funds back to the investors if the SPAC is liquidated.
SPAC IPO: the shares are then made public on the stock market through a SPAC IPO, which usually cost around $10 per share plus interest. Traders can speculate on these shares through derivatives, such as spread bets and CFDs.
Marketing: the SPAC usually issues a press release to announce the upcoming acquisition of the target company, which is a crucial part of the process. Third-party trader speculation around the potential target of a SPAC and its potential for future growth and success can help to promote the SPAC. In turn, this bumps up the demand and subsequently, its share price, upon flotation on a stock exchange.
Post-merger phase
Voting: after the deal is announced, a redemption and vote phase takes place where shareholders can exchange their shares for net asset value, if they are not happy with the deal or shares are trading below that level.
Lock-up period: this refers to the period after a SPAC IPO in which shareholders are restricted from selling shares. This can be up to 180 days from closing. Some investors may prefer shorter lock-up periods so they can trade on any volatile price action that results from the process, and cash out their positions earlier.
Completion: there is usually a defined period (between 18-24 months) for a SPAC to complete an acquisition, or it may be liquidated. Any interest earned can be used as working capital.
SPAC examples
Some recent examples of major companies taken public on the stock market through a special-purpose acquisition company include Virgin Galactic and DraftKings.
Space stock Virgin Galactic completed its reverse-merger in October 2019 with the SPAC named Social Capital Hedosophia. The company, founded by Richard Branson, received approximately $800m in funding from the original SPAC, and then earned $460m more through a secondary offering in August 2020.
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Fantasy sports contest and sports betting company DraftKings went public through a reverse-merger in April 2020. This deal saw a SPAC named Diamond Eagle Acquisition Corporation merging with DraftKings in a deal that was worth $3.3bn. Diamond Eagle provided about $700m worth of funding to the company as the starting capital.
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There are benefits and downsides to both SPACs and traditional IPOs. Some of the differences are explained below, and these may sway a company either way when deciding how to take their business public. The main differences between the two processes focus on the timeline and costs.
Usually takes less than four months to float the shares on an exchange. Often takes more than six months to go public, sometimes around a year.
Investors can buy shares in private companies that they predict will have high growth potential for the future. Investors can buy shares in private companies that they predict will have high growth potential for the future.
Comes with a 2% underwriter fee and 3.5% fee at completion, which is cheaper than an IPO. A traditional IPO comes with a 7% underwriter fee.
Private companies present forward-looking guidance for revenue and profitability 5-10 years in the future. Companies can share previous fundamental reports and financials but are not easily able to make detailed projections for the future.
SPACs come with a time limit to get a deal done, which is usually a maximum of 24 months, meaning that the shares will be readily available. IPOs can be delayed by months or even years if there are issues, meaning that investors can be left waiting.
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SPAC stock
SPACs are a great way to raise capital for innovative companies at a time when markets are under pressure. For example, large companies including Virgin Galactic have listed with a SPAC, which shows that SPACs are not just used for smaller or startup businesses. It's possible to trade SPAC stocks, as well as their target companies that were merged. Below are some popular SPACs you can trade on our Next Generation platform via spread betting and CFD trading:
Social Capital Hedosphia Holdings: this is a partnership between the investment firms of Social Capital and Hedosophia. The SPAC aims to unite technology-oriented entrepreneurs and investors around a shared vision of identifying and investing in innovative and agile technology companies.
Foley Trasimene Acquisition Corp: this is a blank check company that has an initial focus on financial technology or business process outsourcing. The company aims to lead the US gaming and gambling market through the acquisition of various payment solutions companies.
Capstar Special Purpose Acquisition Corp: this SPAC has more than 40 years of experience evaluating transactions, investing capital and growing operations on behalf of a variety of different companies, within the consumer, healthcare, technology, media and telecom sectors.
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As SPACS become more popular in the world of investing, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have been created to give investors more exposure to these types of companies. The aim of this type of fund is to invest in SPACs and SPAC-merged companies, and these can be either passive or actively managed.
Special-purpose acquisition companies often publicise innovative and tech-savvy companies in particular, as these pose long-term potential for growth. However, the risks of SPAC ETFs remain the same as SPAC shares; these companies are not guaranteed success for the future and could fall upon entering the stock market. Given that SPAC ETFs have not had as much time to develop, there are only a few floating across the market right now, although this may change in the months and years to come.
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Special-purpose acquisition company: pros and cons
Benefits of a SPAC
SPACS often invest in highly innovative companies that its founders expect to grow and develop within their respective industry, which is appealing for investors. This presents opportunities for speculative trading once the company's shares are issued to the public.
SPAC stocks can be highly volatile at times. Share prices may trade for a lower price than their IPO, so traders may be able to use short-selling strategies to profit from price falls.
As the raised funds are kept in a trusted account, there is less downside risk for investors. If the SPAC is liquidated, their funds will be returned, provided they are not used within the defined time period.
Investors have a say in which acquisition target is being pursued. The voting process means that they can opt out of an opportunity and have their funds returned, or they can vote in favour of a target acquisition. This contrasts with a traditional venture capital process where you cannot influence how your funds are used.
A reverse-merger is often quicker and cheaper than a traditional IPO, as explained above. There is also less timing risk or an IPO window that must be met, which can sometimes have an adverse effect on an IPO's success.
Drawbacks of a SPAC
Although volatility may be preferred by some investors, highly speculative shares can also put off a trader. For example, a startup company that showed promising potential can end up falling in the stock market and you could get caught up on the wrong side of the trade. This is why risk-management controls and tools are important for traders.
With both SPACs and IPOs, investing in startups and pre-revenue companies can come with risks. Once a vote to merge has happened, investors are no longer able to redeem shares at net asset value. If the share is unsuccessful, this could make their profits drop.
Valuation of SPAC stocks often overtake the underlying fundamentals of the company. Some investors worry that the SPAC market will be short-lived and then drop.
If there are too many new SPAC listings, the market may not be able to handle the overflow. The process is becoming increasingly popular and may even overtake the IPO market at some point.
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SPAC stands for special-purpose acquisition company, which is an alternative method to taking a company public on the stock market. A SPAC is often referred to as a 'blank check company' that raises capital for its own version of an initial public offering (IPO), acquiring their target company in the process.
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Silicon video IP maker Chips&Media has begun shipping its CODA960 multiformat HD video hardware core, which supports up to 1080p60 playback of VP8 video. VP8 is the video codec used in WebM.
Chips&Media representatives went on the road recently to show the industry's first FPGA demonstration of WebM 1080p hardware decoding. For more information, visit the Chips&Media web site.
As a company, we at Wowza move fast and like to tinker. When WebM was announced in May, we saw it as a promising new approach to HTML5 video and decided to do an experiment with live WebM streaming over http.
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We originally created the demo as a proof-of-concept for the IBC show in September, 2010 but have made it available to watch on our web site.
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After slow start, December snows up
December 2021 snow summary
Updates to the Snow Today website have been made for 2022.
Snow-covered area and snow cover days were the lowest in the 22-year satellite record.
Significant snowfall in December boosted the total snow covered area.
All western states and large river basins had below average snow cover.
Snow water equivalent (SWE) was below average at 80 percent of stations at the start of December 2021.
Thanks to above average snowfall through the month, SWE exceeded average conditions at about 70 percent of stations by the end of December.
The snowpack began developing at SWE stations 8.0 days later than average in 2021.
Dry, autumn conditions in Colorado prevailed with latest snow fall since 1882 contributing to a fire that burned a record number of homes in Colorado. The fire led to the tenth largest loss of homes in US history.
Launching Snow Today 2022
Updates have been made to Snow Today, a scientific analysis website, for year 2022. Snow Today provides monthly insight into snow conditions and daily near-real-time data across the western United States, told with a unique combination of satellite data and surface observations. Snow Today launched two years ago in our inaugural article on February 24, 2020. This marks the first report of the current snow year. We continue to improve our products and update the website based on feedback from the community:
The Snow Today website provides all gridded data (October 2020 to present) and summary data used to develop plots and maps of snow cover percent and snow cover days. Summary metrics related to snow water equivalent are also available.
Starting in early February 2022, Snow Today will:
add snow albedo and snow radiative forcing to the daily analysis to provide more data related to snowmelt. These data are now available on the Download Data page for October 1, 2021 to present.
continue to post Monthly Insights from January to June.
expand analysis to include Pakistan, India, and China. As part of NASA efforts on Global Water Sustainability (GEOGLOWS), starting early February 2022, Snow Today will process and distribute data covering the Indus River basin in Pakistan, India, and China.
Data for snow-covered area and snow cover days can be accessed from the Daily Images & Data page by clicking Download Data and completing a short survey on data use. Daily data for the current year will be available as it is produced and updated. To gain confidence in the products for the 2001 to 2022 record, the historical data will be distributed to a group of early adopters chosen from those who request historical data after submitting the survey. The Snow Today team plans to release all the historical data to the public once feedback has been received and a full analysis is performed.
The Snow Today team acknowledges issues with the near-real-time, remotely-sensed product in northern parts of our western US domain because of low sun angles at this time of year. This results in erroneous readings of zero snow cover in early season snow and discontinuities in summary plots usually between December to February. The team will produce its own source data next season to fix this issue. Note that as the snow season progresses, analysis for the previous month is recalculated, adding new data and providing updated estimates for previous dates—so please revisit for updated files.
Table 1. December 2021 Snow Cover in the Western United States, Relative to the 22-Year Satellite Record
Snow-Covered Area
Square Kilometers
2021, December 175,000 68,000 22
2001 to 2021, Average 698,000 270,000 --
2008, Highest 908,000 351,000 1
2018, Previous Lowest 331,000 128,000 21
2021, Last Year 468,000 181,000 20
Snow-covered area averaged for December 2021 for the western United States was 25 percent of average for December as assessed over the 22-year satellite record and was the lowest on record (Table 1). This marks the second year in a row for low December snow cover. In contrast, the highest December snow cover in the record occurred in 2008, which had over five times the snow-covered area measured in 2021.
Not surprisingly, the December 2021 snow-covered area was below average in all thirteen states in the analysis region (Figure 1). Nevada and California registered the closest values to the long-term average but were still about 70 percent of average. These states benefited from multiple storms that brought significant snowfall to the Sierra Nevada, as discussed more in the snow water equivalent analysis below. By contrast, Nebraska and South Dakota had the greatest differences from the average December 2021 snow cover, about 95 percent below average. Across the hydrologic unit code 2 (HUC2) basins, snow cover was below average for all eight basins in the analysis region. December snow cover was about 45 percent below average in the Great Basin and California basin, and about 90 percent below average in the Arkansas-White-Red, Missouri, and Pacific Northwest basins. For northern areas, there is a known issue with missing data during this time of year (see explanation in the introduction). Hence, caution is warranted in interpreting those results.
Figure 1. The left bar graph shows the percent of average snow cover that has been averaged over December 2021 in western states. The right bar graph shows the hydrologic unit code 2 (HUC2) basins as a percent of average snow cover for the same period.
Karl Rittger, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Conditions in context: snow cover
Over the western United States, the 2022 water year started on track with near average snow cover through the middle of October 2021, but then plateaued with little change in total snow cover through early December (Figure 2, left, solid black line). Following this lull, there was a notable uptick in snow cover in early-to-mid December. However, these snowstorms were insufficient to bring snow cover to average conditions at the end of December. As a result, 2021 ended far below the range of snow cover expected for the month.
Compared to the average December snow cover percent, there are widespread areas with less snow (Figure 2, map on right, red areas). Conditions in California and Nevada were slightly above average with northern and inland areas well below average. Overall, the red areas on the difference map far outweigh the blue areas, indicating below average snow cover across the region (Table 1).
Figure 2. The left plot shows the total snow-covered area over the western United States in relation to the 22-year satellite data. The map on the right shows the differences between the average year's snow cover percent and this year's snow cover percent for December, with warmer colors indicating below average snow cover, cooler colors indicating above average snow cover, and white areas indicating little change from average.
Karl Rittger, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research and Mary J. Brodzik, National Snow and Ice Data Center
Averaged over the western United States, the number of snow cover days from October 1 to December 31 was a new record low since the start of the satellite record in 2001 (Figure 3, right). The previous record low in snow cover days was set in December 2020, hence December 2021 marks the second consecutive year with exceptionally low snow cover days. The year with the lowest snow cover through the full season was 2015, but snow cover days at the end of December was still greater that year than in 2021.
A map of the differences in snow cover days from the average from October 1 to December 31 (Figure 3, left) shows that Nevada, and to a lesser extent some areas in Utah, have some areas with more snow cover days than average. The most northern regions like Washington, northern Idaho, and western Montana are missing data because of the low sun angle problem described in the introduction. Areas in Wyoming, Arizona, California, central Idaho, and near the Black Hills of South Dakota have the fewest snow cover days relative to the average (Figure 3, right).
Figure 3. The left plot shows the snow cover days in context with the 22-year satellite record. The map on the right shows the differences between the average year's snow cover days and this year's snow cover days summed from October 1, 2021, to December 31, 2021, with warmer colors indicating below average snow cover days, cooler colors indicating above average snow cover days, and white areas indicating little change from average.
Conditions in context: snow water equivalent (SWE)
At the beginning of December 2021, snow water equivalent (SWE) was below average at over 80 percent of the stations in the western United States and numerous stations had yet to report any snowpack (Figure 4, left). The progression of snowstorms through the month improved SWE conditions throughout much of the domain, such that only 29 percent of stations had below average SWE at the end of December 2021 (Figure 4, right). California's Sierra Nevada greatly benefitted from storms through December—including multiple atmospheric river events—with many stations indicating SWE more than 165 percent of average at the end of December 2021. Other, more localized, beneficiaries of big December snowfall events include the Cascades of northern Oregon and southern Washington, the Uinta Mountains in Utah, parts of the central Rockies of Colorado, and parts of the Mogollon Rim in Arizona. SWE in other areas remained below average, including eastern Washington, southwestern ranges in Montana, the Laramie Mountains in Wyoming, and the Sangre de Cristo Range in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico.
Figure 4. The left map shows snow water equivalent (SWE) at monitoring sites at the start of December 2021, and the right map shows SWE at the end of December 2021. SWE is expressed as percent of average conditions at each site, with warmer colors indicating below average SWE, or less water in the form of snow, cooler colors indicating above average SWE, or more water, and white areas indicating average SWE. The green shading delineates mountainous areas as represented in Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data.
M. Raleigh, Oregon State University
The general increase in SWE is further visualized in Figure 5, which shows the starting and ending SWE (percent of average) in December 2021 for each station. The upper left quadrant of the plot—where most stations appear—indicates below average SWE at the start of December but above average SWE at the end of December. The SWE percentages averaged across stations in the HUC-2 basins are also shown (larger squares) and illustrate the improvement in conditions over the geographic domain. Six HUC-2 basins in the western United States showed an increase in SWE (relative to percent average) through December. These gains were most notable in California and the Great Basin. The Upper Colorado and Pacific Northwest basins started the month below average and ended the month slightly above average. Finally, the Rio Grande and Missouri basins had below average SWE at the beginning and end of the month, but December storms brought SWE close to average by the end of the month. Very few stations fell below the angled dashed line in the plot, meaning that most stations had average to above average snowfall through the month. The Lower Colorado and Arkansas-Red-White basins were excluded in these analyses because of very few stations reporting snow.
Figure 5. This graph shows snow water equivalent (SWE) at monitoring sites in the western United States at the start (x-axis) versus end (y-axis) of December 2021. SWE is expressed as percent of average conditions at each site. Stations are shown as colored circles, with the HUC-2 basin average shown as a larger square with the same color. The average is computed only from stations reporting SWE at both the beginning and end of the month. Regions above the dashed line indicate greater SWE percentage at the end of the month, while regions below the dashed line show greater SWE percentage at the start of the month.
The delay in snowpack development noted in the snow cover analysis (see above and Figures 2 and 3) was also seen in the SWE station data. The first day with a continuous period (minimum 10 days) with SWE exceeding 2 inches (5 centimeters) from October 1 to December 31, 2021, was taken as the day of snowpack onset. Relative to the long-term average at each station, about 70 percent of stations showed a delayed snowpack onset. These stations were distributed throughout the western states (Figure 6). Across the full network, there was an average delay of 8.0 days in snowpack onset in 2021, with some stations delayed by up to 30 days (Figure 6, right). This delay in snowpack onset is specific to the locations where SWE is measured, which tend to represent only certain physiographic regimes (e.g., forest clearings in the mid-elevation subalpine zone). While some stations had an early snowpack development, some by 30 days or more, these were too few to shift the network-wide average.
Figure 6. This figure shows the 2021 date of snowpack initiation at the snow monitoring sites as a difference from average. In the left map, blue markers indicate locations where snowpack started earlier in 2021 than average, while red markers indicate snowpack started later in 2021 than average. Only sites with at least 25 years of identified snowpack onset date are included. The right chart summarizes the same data as a bar graph. Bins to the left of the thick vertical line depict an early snowpack development relative average, while bins to the right depict a development later than average in 2021. The red dashed line is the average across the snowpack monitoring network.
Despite low snow cover (Figures 2 and 3) and a delay in the onset of snowpack in late 2021 (Figure 6), the calendar year concluded on a positive note with SWE ending at above average conditions in many locations (Figure 4 and 5). However, it is unknown whether the momentum from December 2021 will carry over into early 2022 across the western United States. The latest seasonal climate outlooks suggest atmospheric conditions favoring above average snowfall only for more northern locations, consistent with expectations for a La Niña year. Drier and fewer snowy days may be on the horizon for the more southern locations.
Ripe conditions for a winter fire
On December 30, 2021, drought and high winds (up to 160 kilometers/hour or 100 miles/hour) fueled the Marshall Fire northwest of Denver, burning a record number of homes in Colorado, 6,000 acres, and leaving two people presumed dead. More than 35,000 people were forced to evacuate, impacting hundreds of students, faculty, and staff at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Following above average snowpack in April 2021 and an unusually wet spring that encouraged plant growth, precipitation levels began falling in June and remained below average for the remainder of 2021. According to the US Drought Monitor, Colorado had the driest November in 127 years of data. Although snow fell in the mountains west of the area, the Boulder County region northwest of Denver had negligible snowfall through autumn. Boulder County was, and remains, in extreme drought. Temperatures were also unusually high for early December, climbing more than 11 degrees Celsius (20 degrees Fahrenheit) above average. Many other days throughout the month were 6 degrees Celsius (10 degrees Fahrenheit) or more above average.
On December 31—one day after the fire—the first significant snowfall event for the season occurred in the Denver-Boulder metro area, aiding firefighters in controlling the devastating conflagration.
Figure 7. The Marshall Fire in Colorado burned homes and vehicles in a neighborhood near Harper Lake in Louisville on Friday morning, December 31, 2021.
H. Carey, Colorado Sun
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The lack of a convincing transport plan meant that Camden threw out the proposals to turn the empty ground floor units of Alfred Court into a branch of Abercorn private school (that's the modern block of flats that looks over the park).
Camden cited five reasons for refusal, of which four are related to the transport issues that had local residents understandably up in arms, and which you can read much more about here.
1) The proposed private school, by reason of its catchment, reliance on private transport, unsatisfactory arrangements for on-site servicing and parking for the proposed use, would result in an unsustainable development, detrimental to the operation of the site and contributing to congestion in the local area and highway safety impacts on and near to the site.
Abercorn School could appeal of course, but even back in August it seemed as if this location was a hedge rather than the preferred strategy.
Local residents will be pleased. Bafflingly, the local Conservatives are trying to take some credit for the council throwing the idea out despite a extremely high number of comments from individual residents and collectively from the residents of the block itself.


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Q: Why do UI framework form components often contain native components? From my experience, this is a common pattern. For instance, Angular material does this with checkboxes: https://material.angular.io/components/checkbox/overview
If you use the inspector you can see that the rendered component contains an actual checkbox. Obviously, native elements are difficult to style, so they're just hiding it and replacing it with styled content that mimics the appearance of a checkbox. But why include a native checkbox at all? What is the logic behind this? What are the benefits?


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I recommend the 2015 film Ex Machina. It's a story about Google making robots with metal boobs but, as this isn't a sequel to The Internship and therefore isn't a two hour Google advert, it uses the pseudonym 'BlueBook' instead. If I was a proper writerer, I might describe it as a character driven sci-fi film about geeky programmer Caleb (Domnhall Gleeson) winning the chance to spend a week working on a top secret project at the secluded, clinically clean home of search engine mogul Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaacs).
It's an interesting examination of artificial intelligence and sexualisation. It has similar themes to the peerless Blade Runner, but with an entirely different aesthetic. While Deckard flew through smokey art deco streets, Caleb walks the minimalistic corridors of the sleek, clean, Apple-store esque lab/home of Nathan. While Blade Runner is set in a dystopian future, Ex Machina's modern look adds to the audience's paranoia that, unbeknownst to the rest of the world, the events of Ex Machina really could be playing out in some Silicon Valley hot-shot's jungle retreat.
Domnhall Gleeson's appearances in Star Wars, Frank, About Time, and now Ex Machina have shown him to be a diverse and talented actor. In Ex Machina he is charmingly awkward, with an endearing sense of naivety and excitement. Oscar Isaacs is excellent at being the exact opposite. He plays the closed and cool Nathan, creating an intriguingly enigmatic character.
The core of the film is, of course, Ava; the android/robot/fembot. Alicia Vikander does a fantastic job of balancing humanity and machinery. Her movements , facial expressions, and dialogue all have a slightly unnatural quality to them, and yet the viewer is slowly convinced of her intelligence. When we've seen so many depictions of humanoid robots, from C3-PO to the replicants in the aforementioned Blade Runner, it's impressive that Ex Machina manages to create an original robo-look. Like the enclosed world of the film, Ava is modern and minimalist, an all too believable design.
The following section contains spoilers, if you would rather avoid said spoilers, go and read one of my other recommendations. That way you will still be adding to my stats.
I am not educated enough on the subject of feminism to pass judgement, but, considering that both female characters turn out to be robots, could this possibly be the most spectacular failing of the Bechdel Test ever? Or, considering the fact that at least one of them appears to have artificial intelligence, am I going to be accused of consciousnessism? Robo-Racism aside, it's a shame that we don't see Ava interact with a real woman. As an artificial intelligence without the prejudices of a human, would she have employed the same sexual manipulation in her attempt to escape if she had encountered a woman? Would she, as a female intelligence, have found more to empathise with in a female character?
This, however, is a recommendation, and not an essay on ethics. I recommend Ex Machina on the grounds that it makes viewers consider ideas surrounding misogyny and consciousness.
So, um, give it a watch pal.
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Posted by Dr Adam Read.
Middlesbrough is home to three SUEZ sites with a total capacity in excess of 550,000 tonnes per annum. The sites all operate independently, due to contractual requirements, but share experiences and developed local resilience in order to cover downtime and spare parts etc.
The whole site operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with only 10 operational staff on-site during any shift across all five lines.
Lines one and two have been operational since 1997, they were built to service a contract with Cleveland for Middlesbrough Council, formerly known as Middlesbrough Borough Council, of 180,000 tonnes per annum. This later became a joint venture between four unitaries: Hartlepool; Stockton; Redcar and Cleveland; and Middlesbrough.
Approximately 55 tonnes a year comes from North Tyneside and unlike most of our portfolio of energy-from-waste facilities, this site is wholly owned and operated by SUEZ, rather than being part of a private finance initiative (PFI) or special purpose vehicle (SPV).
The third line is an extension to the first plant and came online in 2009 to service the Northumberland PFI contract which provides additional capacity of 136,000 tonnes per annum.
Lines four and five are contractually linked to the South Tyne and Wear PFI contract, with an additional capacity of 256,000 tonnes per annum, these lines have been in operation since 2014, with some additional waste deriving from Durham.
After spending time on site across these three facilities, it is clear to see how the site has evolved, developed and learned from previous operating experience. After all the first operations date back to 1997, whilst the latest lines only kicked off in 2014 .
Line three was originally restricted in design as it had to match the height of the existing lines one and two, but it has since been redesigned to enable better access to key equipment to assist with maintenance (which is perhaps the biggest lesson learned from lines one and two).
When looking at the different 'lines', it was clear to see that more recent upgrades on lines one, two and three, is inspired by the design and operating experiences associated with the newer lines (four and five). As many of the staff on site have worked across all of the lines, they are able to share experiences and insights to solve problems to improve the sites day-to-day operations.
Lines four and five are more advanced, given their relatively tender age. They use waste bunkers rather than a tipping floor, for a number of operational reasons and have automatic cranes to move waste from bunkers to the furnace. Lines four and five also have the largest footprint of all the lines and therefore have the most space for access and maintenance, giving this plant a much airier feel.
Ash recycling happens next door, at the Phoenix Ballast processing facility, which takes all ash from the five lines and the Kirklees plant and reprocesses it into building materials.
The energy-from-waste facility in Wilton takes residual waste from Merseyside by rail, and is only eight miles away in Redcar, North Yorkshire. I hope to be able to visit that site too in the coming months.
A technical team was formed in 2012 after a boiler was refitted on lines one and two. This team has grown into a group of 10 professional energy engineers, who support the landfill gas and energy engineering activities at all of the SUEZ sites. Our learnings have shown that at our energy-from-waste sites the boilers are often the biggest concern, with ongoing corrosion resulting in unwanted and costly downtime. This is something that can be minimised by regular maintenance and planned refits based on the lessons learned from our existing sites.
I must say that this is one of my favourite sites so far!
It has an iconic design, linked to Norse ships and the sea, and is one of the more colourful of our facilities which always looks good in photographs.
This is also a well-run site, a site that has shown evolution in design and process and one that is now dealing with much of the residual waste in the north east of England. It certainly doesn't look out of place in this industrial zone just outside Middlesbrough – but don't let the location mislead you, this site is full of passionate people, driven by quality principles (just as at our other sites) striving to meet high standards for electricity generation, and sharing its learnings across our sites for the betterment of future site designs, retrofits and refurbishments.
I had a great day on site, and learnt so much about the technologies, the costs of the kit, and the lifetime of critical equipment. A huge thanks to the team who showed me around that were very engaging and knowledgeable.


Dash cams have become ubiquitous among daily driver tools. and, while we don't have quite as much auto insurance fraud cases here in the United. high heat or extreme cold, so you won't have to worry about frying your expensive new.
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Young people are worse drivers than older people. People who drive certain types of sports cars are riskier than those with grandpa cars. And so on. car and home insurance premiums paid in the Unit.
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Sep 29, 2017. Dash cams are no longer just for professional drivers. Other than your home, your car is likely the single most expensive item you own and. claims so much that they offer discount car insurance premiums for dash cam owners. In January 2017, New York State proposed Senate Bill S438, which would.
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Driving in New Jersey is pricey (it's the fifth most expensive state to own a car), only pay-per-mile car insurance offering to New Jersey, so if you don't drive much. that plugs into the OBD-II port of your car (typically located below your dash).
Mar 26, 2016. Black box car insurance: a young driver's new best friend behind the dashboard. novice motorists better skills and reducing what can be sky-high premiums. Currently there are more than 30 insurers in the UK selling black box. the size of a smartphone in your car – usually behind the dashboard.
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Two more women have announced their intention to run for president since the annual women's march on January 19. Senator Kamala Harris and Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard followed Senators Kristen Gillibrand and Elizabeth Warren with their announcements. Reporter Adia White has more on how women's march organizers here in Santa Rosa are hoping to build momentum as the race for the Oval Office gets underway.


Irfan breaks toys and dismantles them to explore their components. What would you do?
Which of the following is not an appropriate tool for Formative Assessment?
Which of the following is not a characteristic feature of intrinsically motivated children?
A teacher wants the gifted children of her 'class to achieve their potential. Which of the following should she not do to achieve her objective?
Human development is based on certain principles. Which of the following is not a principle of human development?
Which of the following statements is true about 'learning' ?
Errors made by children indicate that no learning has taken place.
Learning is not affected by emotional factors at any stage of learning.
Learning is effective in an environment that is emotionally positive and satisfying for the learners.
Learning is fundamentally a mental activity.
Which of the following does not reflect 'teaching for understanding' ?
Which of the following statements cannot be considered as a feature of 'learning' ?


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Samu Fóti (Budapest, Austrohongria, 17 de maig de 1890 – Lipové, Eslovàquia, 17 de juny de 1916) va ser un gimnasta artístic i atleta hongarès d'origen jueu, que va competir a començament del .

El 1912 va prendre part en els Jocs Olímpics d'Estocolm, on va guanyar la medalla de plata en la prova del concurs complet per equips del programa de gimnàstica. En aquests mateixos Jocs disputà la prova de llançament de disc del programa d'atletisme, en què acabà en 25a posició.

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Medallistes hongaresos als Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1912
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Home Football Premier League Liverpool fined for fielding ineligible player Pedro Chirivella
Liverpool fined for fielding ineligible player Pedro Chirivella
liverpool have been fined £200,000 – half of which has been suspended – by the EFL for fielding an ineligible player in their third-round Carabao Cup win against MK Dons last week.
Spaniard Pedro Chirivella, 22, who came on as a substitute in the 2-0 victory, did not have international clearance.
The EFL said it "wasn't appropriate" to expel liverpool from the competition because of "mitigating factors".
Liverpool host arsenal in the fourth round on 29 October.
The EFL said £100,000 of the fine will be suspended until the end of next season.
Liverpool said they "accept the judgement, outcome and punishment", which they described as "proportionate with the technical indiscretion committed".
Midfielder Chirivella needed the paperwork from the Football Association after a loan spell at Spanish side Extremadura last season.
The EFL said Liverpool had "sought the assistance of the Football Association" before the season, and had been allowed to include Chirivella on the team sheet for Premier league two games, the under-23 competition.
An EFL statement read: "The club's breach was in part due to the challenges it encountered with securing the correct international clearance, and its subsequent ability to include the player on team sheets despite the lack of clearance.
"As a result the board concluded the most appropriate sanction was a financial penalty."
Liverpool said: "Even though there were mitigating factors, which were beyond our control or jurisdiction, we believe it appropriate we apologise to the competition's governing body and also to Milton Keynes Dons."
Liverpool must pay the of £100,000, plus an additional sanction, if they were to field another ineligible player in the competition before the end of next season.
In 2014, Sunderland were fined by the premier league and the EFL after they fielded ineligible player Ji Dong-won in four league matches and a League Cup game.
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Large distributed systems like cloud infrastructures are inherently unreliable. Azure Service Fabric gives developers the ability to write services to run on top of unreliable infrastructures. In order to write high-quality services, developers need to be able to induce such unreliable infrastructure to test the stability of their services.
The Fault Analysis Service gives developers the ability to induce fault actions to test services in the presence of failures. However, targeted simulated faults will get you only so far. To take the testing further, you can use the test scenarios in Service Fabric: a chaos test and a failover test. These scenarios simulate continuous interleaved faults, both graceful and ungraceful, throughout the cluster over extended periods of time. Once a test is configured with the rate and kind of faults, it can be started through either C# APIs or PowerShell, to generate faults in the cluster and your service.
ChaosTestScenario is being replaced by a more resilient, service-based Chaos. Please refer to the new article Controlled Chaos for more details.
The chaos scenario generates faults across the entire Service Fabric cluster. The scenario compresses faults generally seen in months or years to a few hours. The combination of interleaved faults with the high fault rate finds corner cases that are otherwise missed. This leads to a significant improvement in the code quality of the service.
The chaos test runs multiple iterations of faults and cluster validations for the specified period of time. The time spent for the cluster to stabilize and for validation to succeed is also configurable. The scenario fails when you hit a single failure in cluster validation.
For example, consider a test set to run for one hour with a maximum of three concurrent faults. The test will induce three faults, and then validate the cluster health. The test will iterate through the previous step till the cluster becomes unhealthy or one hour passes. If the cluster becomes unhealthy in any iteration, i.e. it does not stabilize within a configured time, the test will fail with an exception. This exception indicates that something has gone wrong and needs further investigation.
In its current form, the fault generation engine in the chaos test induces only safe faults. This means that in the absence of external faults, a quorum or data loss will never occur.
TimeToRun: Total time that the test will run before finishing with success. The test can finish earlier in lieu of a validation failure.
MaxClusterStabilizationTimeout: Maximum amount of time to wait for the cluster to become healthy before failing the test. The checks performed are whether cluster health is OK, service health is OK, the target replica set size is achieved for the service partition, and no InBuild replicas exist.
MaxConcurrentFaults: Maximum number of concurrent faults induced in each iteration. The higher the number, the more aggressive the test, hence resulting in more complex failovers and transition combinations. The test guarantees that in absence of external faults there will not be a quorum or data loss, irrespective of how high this configuration is.
EnableMoveReplicaFaults: Enables or disables the faults that are causing the move of the primary or secondary replicas. These faults are disabled by default.
WaitTimeBetweenIterations: Amount of time to wait between iterations, i.e. after a round of faults and corresponding validation.
// Create FabricClient with connection and security information here.
// The chaos test scenario should run at least 60 minutes or until it fails.
// Pause between two iterations for a random duration bound by this value.
// Pause between concurrent actions for a random duration bound by this value.
// Create the scenario class and execute it asynchronously.
The failover test scenario is a version of the chaos test scenario that targets a specific service partition. It tests the effect of failover on a specific service partition while leaving the other services unaffected. Once it's configured with the target partition information and other parameters, it runs as a client-side tool that uses either C# APIs or PowerShell to generate faults for a service partition. The scenario iterates through a sequence of simulated faults and service validation while your business logic runs on the side to provide a workload. A failure in service validation indicates an issue that needs further investigation.
The failover test induces a chosen fault and then runs validation on the service to ensure its stability. The failover test induces only one fault at a time, as opposed to possible multiple faults in the chaos test. If the service partition does not stabilize within the configured timeout after each fault, the test fails. The test induces only safe faults. This means that in absence of external failures, a quorum or data loss will not occur.
PartitionSelector: Selector object that specifies the partition that needs to be targeted.
TimeToRun: Total time that the test will run before finishing.
MaxServiceStabilizationTimeout: Maximum amount of time to wait for the cluster to become healthy before failing the test. The checks performed are whether service health is OK, the target replica set size is achieved for all partitions, and no InBuild replicas exist.
WaitTimeBetweenFaults: Amount of time to wait between every fault and validation cycle.


A word found over 71 times in 39 of the Psalms and three times in Habakkuk 3. It is the last word of Psalms 3, 24, and 46, and in most other cases, it comes at the end of a verse (the exceptions being Psalms 55:19, 57:3, and Hab. 3:3, 9, 13).
A word not fully understood, yet surely meant to remind us to pause, to say amen – let it be so.
A word that faithful leaders need to breathe in and out on a regular basis.
In the midst of hurricane recovery, of fall programing, of family life, of health issues, of whatever, we all need to relish the moments of calm when they come. We all need to be intentional about making these moments happen.


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Grizzlies Game Day: Offense, Conley back on track
The Grizzlies offense and Mike Conley got back on track to start a five-game road trip.
Grizzlies Game Day: Offense, Conley back on track The Grizzlies offense and Mike Conley got back on track to start a five-game road trip. Check out this story on commercialappeal.com: http://memne.ws/2hHxfI2
Ronald Tillery, USA TODAY NETWORK – Tennessee Published 10:56 a.m. CT Nov. 5, 2017 | Updated 12:13 p.m. CT Nov. 5, 2017
Photos: Grizzlies at Clippers
Memphis Grizzlies guard Tyreke Evans (12) beats Los Angeles Clippers guard Austin Rivers (25) off the dribble for a layup during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2017, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Michael Owen Baker) Michael Owen Baker, AP
Memphis Grizzlies guard Mike Conley, left, is fouled by Los Angeles Clippers forward Blake Griffin while driving to the basket during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2017, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Michael Owen Baker) Michael Owen Baker, AP
Memphis Grizzlies center Marc Gasol, right, looks to drive against Los Angeles Clippers center DeAndre Jordan (6) during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2017, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Michael Owen Baker) Michael Owen Baker, AP
Los Angeles Clippers center DeAndre Jordan (6) grabs a rebound over Memphis Grizzlies center Marc Gasol (33) during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2017, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Michael Owen Baker) Michael Owen Baker, AP
Los Angeles Clippers forward Danilo Gallinari (8) dunks against Memphis Grizzlies center Marc Gasol (33) during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2017, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Michael Owen Baker) Michael Owen Baker, AP
Los Angeles Clippers forward Blake Griffin, left, defends against a shot by Memphis Grizzlies forward Jarell Martin during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2017, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Michael Owen Baker) Michael Owen Baker, AP
Memphis Grizzlies guard Mike Conley, left, is fouled by Los Angeles Clippers forward Blake Griffin while driving to the basket during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2017, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Michael Owen Baker)(Photo: Michael Owen Baker, AP)
LOS ANGELES — Allowing Mike Conley's painful Achilles to calm down gave the Grizzlies' offense the pick-me-up it sorely needed.
The starting point guard returned Saturday after resting four consecutive days. Conley showed no ill effects from the injury and moved freely with force as the Grizzlies snapped a two-game losing streak in beating the Los Angeles Clippers.
Conley, who had struggled shooting the basketball in all but one game, connected on four 3-pointers while amassing a team-high 22 points. Having a healthier Conley operating alongside center Marc Gasol re-established the one-two punch Memphis needs to be competitive.
Conley and Gasol in pick-and-roll situations is highly effective.
"It's hard to guard, to be honest, because we don't even speak in the game about what we're going to do," Conley said. "We have every read and counter for every single thing, and that's what's fun about playing alongside him. I know he's going to make the right decision and see the play before it happens. That's why we play so well off of each other."
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Memphis had seven players score in double figures, including all four reserves. Tyreke Evans finished with 20 points as he continues to find driving lanes for easy scores at the rim.
"Any time you can get multiple guys in double figures, it means the ball's moving, everybody's in rhythm, people are being unselfish," Grizzlies coach David Fizdale said. "And you could just see the difference in places we could get on the floor. Any time (Conley's) playing well, we're in the game."
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The first of five consecutive road games proved to be a good first step as the Grizzlies try to gather momentum.
"In today's NBA, you can't look back and see what you have accomplished nine games in," Gasol said. "If it's really good, great. But if it's really bad, so what? You have to continue to get better and continue to look forward in order to become a really consistent team."
Here are three other things to know as the Grizzlies prepare for their game against the Los Angeles Lakers at 8:30 p.m. Sunday (Fox Sports Southeast; WMFS 92.9 FM/680 AM):
1. Lakers rookie forward Kyle Kuzma (27th overall pick) made the first start of his career Friday, replacing an injured Larry Nance Jr. Kuzma recorded 21 points and 13 rebounds. He joined teammate Lonzo Ball and Philadelphia's Ben Simmons as the only rookies to have at least 20 points and 10 rebounds this season. Only two NBA rookies are scoring more than Kuzma's 15 points per game — Simmons (18.0) and Chicago's Lauri Markkanen (16.3). Nance is expected to miss six weeks after surgery to repair a broken hand.
Speaking of rookies, Grizzlies first-year swingman Dillon Brooks will make his second straight start after replacing Andrew Harrison in the first unit.
2. By the numbers: The Grizzlies have lost three straight games to the Lakers in Staples Center. … Ball is shooting just 30.8 percent this season. ... Memphis reserves have outscored opposing bench players 399-220.
3. Grizzlies guard Ben McLemore is on assignment with their NBA G-League affiliate, Memphis Hustle. McLemore will play Sunday evening with the Hustle at 5 p.m. in the Landers Center. You can watch the game against visiting Salt Lake City online through the team's Facebook Live feed.
There you go. A sample of what you need to know to get an early start on your Griz day.
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