Mental fear of the unknown is often what produces the physical symptoms of nervousness. In addition to preparing yourself physically, you also need to prepare yourself mentally. The best way to prepare mentally is to know what may be coming. Fear of the unknown can only exist when there is an unknown. Take the time to understand some of the "standards" when it comes to interviewing questions.
The following are some of the most difficult questions you will face in the course of your job interviews. Some questions may seem rather simple on the surface–such as "Tell me about yourself"–but these questions can have a variety of answers. The more open-ended the question, the wider the variation in the answers. Once you have become practiced in your interviewing skills, you will find that you can use almost any question as a launching pad for a particular topic or compelling story.
Others are "classic" interview questions, such as, "What is your greatest weakness?" Questions which most people answer inappropriately. In this case, the standard textbook answer for the "greatest weakness" question is to give a veiled positive–"I work too much. I just work and work and work"–which ends up sending the wrong message. Either you are lying or, worse yet, you are telling the truth, in which case you define working too much as a weakness and really don't want to work much at all. Think about it.
The following answers are provided to give you a new perspective on how to answer tough interview questions. They are not there for you to lift from the page and insert into your next interview. They are there for you to use as the basic structure for formulating your own answers. While the specifics of each reply may not apply to you, try to follow the basic structure of the answer from the perspective of the interviewer.
Answer the questions behaviorally, with specific examples that show clear evidence backs up what you are saying about yourself. Always provide information that shows you want to become the very best _____ for the company and that you have specifically prepared yourself to become exactly that. They want to be sold. They are waiting to be sold. Don't disappoint them!
My background to date has been centered around preparing myself to become the very best _____ I can become. Let me tell you specifically how I've prepared myself . . .
Because I sincerely believe that I'm the best person for the job. I realize that there are many other college students who have the ability to do this job. I also have that ability. But I also bring an additional quality that makes me the very best person for the job–my attitude for excellence. Not just giving lip service to excellence, but putting every part of myself into achieving it. In _____ and _____ I have consistently reached for becoming the very best I can become by doing the following . . .
3. What is your long-range objective? Where do you want to be 10 or 15 years from now?
Although it's certainly difficult to predict things far into the future, I know what direction I want to develop toward. Within five years, I would like to become the very best _____ your company has. In fact, my personal career mission statement is to become a worldclass _____ in the _____ industry. I will work toward becoming the expert that others rely upon. And in doing so, I feel I will be fully prepared to take on any greater responsibilities that might be presented in the long term.
As you will note on my resume, I've taken not only the required core classes in the _____ field, I've also gone above and beyond. I've taken every class the college has to offer in the field and also completed an independent study project specifically in this area. But it's not just taking the classes to gain academic knowledge–I've taken each class, both inside and outside of my major, with this profession in mind. So when we're studying _____ in _____, I've viewed it from the perspective of _____. In addition, I've always tried to keep a practical view of how the information would apply to my job. Not just theory, but how it would actually apply. My capstone course project in my final semester involved developing a real-world model of _____, which is very similar to what might be used within your company. Let me tell you more about it . . .
Very much so. In fact, I've had opportunities in both athletics and academics to develop my skills as a team player. I was involved in _____ at the intramural level, including leading my team in assists during the past year–I always try to help others achieve their best. In academics, I've worked on several team projects, serving as both a member and team leader. I've seen the value of working together as a team to achieve a greater goal than any one of us could have achieved individually. As an example . . .
Yes, I have had conflicts in the past. Never major ones, but certainly there have been situations where there was a disagreement that needed to be resolved. I've found that when conflict occurs, it's because of a failure to see both sides of the situation. Therefore, I ask the other person to give me their perspective and at the same time ask that they allow me to fully explain my perspective. At that point, I would work with the person to find out if a compromise could be reached. If not, I would submit to their decision because they are my superior. In the end, you have to be willing to submit yourself to the directives of your superior, whether you're in full agreement or not. An example of this was when . . .
I would say my greatest weakness has been my lack of proper planning in the past. I would overcommit myself with too many variant tasks, then not be able to fully accomplish each as I would like. However, since I've come to recognize that weakness, I've taken steps to correct it. For example, I now carry a planning calendar in my pocket so that I can plan all of my appointments and "to do" items. Here, let me show you how I have this week planned out . . .
studying and always sought ways to apply the knowledge in real world settings. Am I just guessing that they would say these things? No, in fact, I'm quite certain they would say those things because I have with me several letters of recommendation from my professors, and those are their very words. Let me show you . . .
The key quality should be leadership–the ability to be the visionary for the people who are working under them. The person who can set the course and direction for subordinates. A manager should also be a positive role model for others to follow. The highest calling of a true leader is inspiring others to reach the highest of their abilities. I'd like to tell you about a person who I consider to be a true leader . . .
10. If you had to live your life over again, what would you change?
That's a good question. I realize that it can be very easy to continually look back and wish that things had been different in the past. But I also realize that things in the past cannot be changed, that only things in the future can be changed. That's why I continually strive to improve myself each and every day and that's why I'm working hard to continually increase my knowledge in the _____ field. That's also the reason why I want to become the very best _____ your company has ever had. To make positive change. And all of that is still in the future. So in answer to your question, there isn't anything in my past that I would change. I look only to the future to make changes in my life.


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Church History & the Fathers
This course is designed for all who wish to learn about the historical background necessary to understand the development of Christian culture and of Catholic doctrine. Come and learn about Church History and the Fathers of the early Christian Church, whose writings shed light on the development of doctrine!
Fr Guy de Gaynesford leads the teaching team for this course. Fr Guy is the Rector of the School of the Annunciation. He studied history at Oxford University and has a Licence in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
• The Founding of Christendom
• Fundamental Themes in Medieval Church History
• Themes in Modern and Contemporary Church History
• The Apostolic and Pre-Nicene Fathers
• The Post-Nicene Fathers of the Church
The Conference begins at 5.00pm on Monday 12 August and finishes at lunchtime on Thursday 15 August. Full Room and Board included in the cost. The programme is designed to include lectures and seminars set within the rhythm of daily prayer of the resident Benedictine monastic community.

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OXNARD >> It's not often the head coach of a National Football League team can pick up the phone after practice, dial his mom's number and tell her to leave the pot roast out because he's coming over for dinner.
But among the many ancillary benefits to the St. Louis Rams spending the last three days practicing with the Dallas Cowboys in Oxnard — some that were cleverly designed in pursuit of an ambitious objective — it gave Rams head coach and San Fernando Valley native Jeff Fisher the chance to hit up mom for the kind of dinner only a mother can deliver her son.
At the risk of upsetting the good folks of St. Louis, who find themselves in a desperate fight to keep their pro football team in Missouri, if Rams owner Stan Kroenke gets his way, the former Taft High and USC star will get plenty of chances fill up on mom's cooking.
And in the process, return the Rams to the region they called home for nearly 50 years.
Kroenke has his heart set on relocating the Rams to the Inglewood palace he envisions on the 60 acres he controls at the site of the old Hollywood Park Race Track.
Among other obstacles he must clear to make his wish come true — notably, convincing enough fellow owners he's justified in bolting his native Missouri despite local leaders delivering more than $400 million dollars for a new stadium in downtown St. Louis — Kroenke finds himself in a battle royal with the Oakland Raiders and San Diego Chargers, who are proposing a joint stadium proposal in Carson.
The NFL, which has long worked to get the NFL back to the second-biggest market in the country, is faced with a difficult decision figuring out which team or teams get the nod to Los Angeles and what stadium they'll call home. A decision is expected by early January, at which point the Raiders and Chargers or Rams or a two-team combination of the three will officially call Los Angeles home in time for the 2016 season.
Which all sounds great, especially if you're an L.A. resident longing to get pro football back. But if you're one of the players or coaches from one of the three teams and you're sole focus is on the 2015 season, not so much.
Awkward might be the best way to put it. It's no secret what each team's long-range objective is at this point — but in the short term players and coaches must go about their business in front of fans who know the clock is ticking on their favorite team's local existence.
If anyone is ideally set up to deal with the uneasy situation it might be the Rams. Fisher was the head coach of the Houston Oilers in the mid-1990s as time ran out on their long stay in Texas.
"I've been through this," Fisher said.
And it was as bad as you can imagine.
Then-owner Bud Adams, sensing he could never get local leaders to pony up the kind of money needed to adequately replace the Astrodome, announced after the 1995 season the Oilers would be moving to Nashville in 1998.
The Oilers limped through a disastrous season in 1996 playing in front of sparse, detached crowds and in a city that essentially detached itself from its once-beloved football team.
It got so bad a deal was worked out allowing the Oilers out of the last year of their Astrodome lease and sending them to Tennessee.
In between wiping away the tears, of course.
Needless to say, it was quite the ordeal for Fisher and his players leaving one city for an entirely different one. Somehow, someway, they managed.
"Once we got through it, got settled, we were a pretty good football team." Fisher said.
The manner in which Fisher led the Oilers through the transition solidified him as one of the top young coaches in the league.
Nearly 20 years later, he finds himself in almost the same exact situation.
It's not official the Rams are leaving St. Louis, but everyone knows their heart is set on returning to Los Angeles.
That means spending an almost inevitable 2015 season playing under a dark cloud.
And while Fisher scanned all the Los Angeles Rams jerseys on hand his team's workout with the Cowboys — and was thankful for it — he also walked a fine line.
Everything he says now relating to the potential move will be scrutinized by St. Louis fans. And everything the Rams do will be viewed through that prism.
Like, say, conspicuously scheduling three days of workouts an hour or so away from where their owner hopes to build a new stadium and L.A.'s latest entertainment hub.
While the higher-ups might have had specific reasons for making the Southern California side trip, it was all business for Fisher.
"I've said this numerous times — we started this early in the offseason and I talked to a number of clubs to try to set up some practices because we needed this. It's almost like buying yourself and extra preseason game," Fisher said.
Nevertheless, there was some nostalgia for Fisher getting to work a few days so close to his native home.
"It's kind of coincidental. But I've been through this area many, many times," he said.
And having grown up in the area, he understands how the Rams still resonate.
All anyone had to do was look around at all the Rams gear on hand.
That talk won't go away any time soon.
But for Fisher and the Rams, there is still a football season to play in St. Louis.


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THE TOWN STORY
Two Towns
Cinque Ports
Old Winchelsea
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Decay and Revival
At War
Winchelsea Certificate
Lifeboat Disaster
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A lost castle at Winchelsea
Blackfriars breakages
Excavations 1974-2000
Some Social History
Children of Winchelsea
CELLAR TOURS
Cellars history
NEW HALL
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From HBO's "Last Week Tonight"
Adam Newman is a New Hampshire-born, Georgia-schooled, ex-Brooklyn-based, now LA- based comedian who has performed stand-up on the Late Show with David Letterman, John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show, Gotham Comedy Live, and his own episode of Comedy Central's The Half Hour. He has also appeared on MTV's The CollegeHumor Show, HBO's Last Week Tonight, the Tyra Banks Show (weird!), Comics Unleashed, and was a regular contestant on Comedy Central's @midnight. Adam was among Comedy Central's first class of "Comics to Watch" to perform at the 2011 New York Comedy Festival, and was invited to the prestigious Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal as a "New Face" in 2013, and again (and again!) in 2014 and 2016 to perform on HBO Canada's Funny as Hell. Adam has released two critically acclaimed stand-up albums, Not for Horses (2011) and Killed (2015) through Rooftop Comedy Productions. Most recently, Adam can be seen appearing on season 3 of HBO's Silicon Valley and on Showtime's series I'm Dying Up Here. Adam's first hour comedy special, Fuzzies, recently premiered on SeeSo and is currently available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.


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YG Expands His Mobile Mental Health Program In California
The partnership is a unique alliance between the rapper's mobile health van company, the city and a health division from the University of California Los Angeles.
Written By Christopher Smith
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YG has been putting in a lot of work to help out the community he comes from, and thanks to a crucial partnership his philanthropic foundation has partnered with a city in California to offer free mobile mental health services to low-income people and the homeless.
On Wednesday (November 18th), the Compton, California native joined officials from the city of Hawthorne, California to commemorate the announcement of the city's partnership with the TeleHealth Van service and his 4HunnidWays Foundation. The multi-platinum artist is a co-founder of TeleHealth Van Service along with Dion Rambo and NFL running back Todd Gurley. They were joined at the ceremony by Hawthorne City Council member Angie Reyes English, Hawthorne Police Chief Michael Ishii, along with representatives from Oracle, and from the UCLA Center for Behavioral and Addiction Medicine. Other figures in attendance were community activist Sweet Alice Harris and DCFS Head Shirley Summers.
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The new contract allows for three TeleHealth Vans to be mobilized throughout Hawthorne to provide residents who are homeless or are classified as low-income access to free mental health screenings and medical insurance submissions as well as guidance to entering programs steering individuals away from jails and access to local food banks and drives. Each vehicle is equipped with 5G wireless technology and is stocked with a full complement of PPE. Those in need of the van can schedule an appointment through the fleet's website confidentially and in accordance with HIPAA guidelines.
As YG said when TeleHealth was launched last year to TMZ: "It works like—you basically don't leave your house if you got a mental health situation or got doctors you need to talk to. The van comes to your location and you get in the van—it's basically like doing a Zoom call. You get in the van and you see your mental health worker or [the doctor] over the screen, and y'all have y'all session." The partnership will also allow the City of Hawthorne to work with local community groups and advocates to help those in need get to homeless shelters with dignity and privacy.
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and yet the ocean doesn't require any chlorine? Or a pond for that matter.
I can understand if you say a stream or free flowing lake doesn't have stagnant water and this it is always fresh but what about land locked ponds? People jump in them all the time.
It's bacteria per gallon that correlates with health risk.
Your pool doesn't require any chlorine to the extent that you don't need any health risk abatement.
It regulates the ph in the pool and unlike natural water ways it doesn't carry away bodily fluids. Do you want to swim in snot, blood, urine, or feces?
People get sick from stagnant water all the time. Farm ponds typically have cow dung in them along with avian poo a diseases. The ocean can have red tides which are highly toxic. Avoiding your non sequiturs, without chlorine or bromine a pool will grow algae, go green, and be totally disgusting while the growth damages the pool surfaces.
While a swimming pool doesn't carry off bodily fluids like a natural waterway, you didn't include the reason why the pH of pools is regulated.
Although the idea of swimming around in a pool with bodily fluids doesn't sound appealing, on many ways natural waterways aren't always that much different. Natural waterways contain poop and slime from creatures that live in the water, dead carcasses and tissue of land and water creatures that have died in the water, bacteria, microorganisms, insects, etc. It renews the supply of water better than pools do, but it's continuously replenished with a fresh supply of more nasty matter replacing that which has flowed downstream. Some of that stuff also comes from the land and soil which has been washed into the waterway by rain, melting snow, wind, etc. Even toxic chemicals from the land by runoff or dumped.
Ever see a pool that stands without it after a short while even with a filter?
LOL! You're right. It doesn't take long to look pretty nasty. The water in those collapsible backyard pools can get pretty green and slimy, even when they're used pretty frequently. Most of that seems to be due to dust and debris that blows around in the air and settles in the water, not using and maintaining the filtration system regularly, and not adding material like chlorine, etc., to kill off stuff like algae. Even larger concrete pools can get pretty bad in a short time. Pools require maintenance on a regular basis.
They now have salt water pools to avoid the chlorine.
You do realize that the salt is electrically disassociated into chlorine and sodium hydroxide? It saves purchasing and transporting chlorine, but the cleaning/sanitizing method is essentially the same.
We regulated the pH with HCL. Chlorine also killed the algae and kept it blue.


Circle Time Games And Activities. A Must For Any Teacher.
This older model of the Milton Bradley version of chutes and ladders exhibits a board with numbered game areas. Our educational games are simple to use and classroom friendly, with a concentrate on mathematical operations, estimation, measuring, artwork and creativity, maps, animation, word clouds, physics, typing games and way more! It is a really well outfitted and designed learning resource for youngsters as well as for the adults. The greatest disadvantage I see to the video games are the worded directions and prompts.
It's laborious to make up every little thing your self.I bought my children began early to readbefore they ever entered kindergarten. Play on desktop laptop or play the original fungooms video games for younger fun video games for toddlers and preschool. Ya I like this but my sister who is ten probly wont want a stink High School Musical doll its a little bit bit dumb!!! My daughter had a marble run toy when she was little and really beloved taking part in with it. It was fun for the adults too. If you will discover a retailer close to you with one in inventory, you could possibly reserve it online.
From simple card video games for camp downtime, to educational scavenger hunts whereas mountain climbing, outside actions might be as simple or complicated, and as lengthy or quick as you need them to be. With just a little forethought – you will be ready with a bag-full actions and video games that kids of all ages will get pleasure from. In addition to LeapFrog's personal characters like Leap, Tad and Lily, many Leapster video games characteristic effectively-known characters youngsters love: Thomas The tank Engine, Disney/Pixar's Cars, Nemo and Ratatouille, SpongeBob, Dora The Explorer and more. The latter excels at reading over gameplay, whilst the Platinum excels at games and apps.
It appears to be considerably restricted to solely storing the audio, images and videos truly recorded with the device, or the educational LeapPad media downloaded from LeapFrog. While Club Penguin was one of many first really successful games in this space there has been an enormous enhance in the variety of virtual worlds focused at tweens over the previous few years as corporations rapidly realise it is a huge (and rising market). All of those games can be found in the US from Amazon, simply click on on the hyperlinks next to every sport for further data. This may mix my love for training and educational design with laptop programming and writing code.
If you visit the Vtechkids and LeapFrog web sites, it is possible for you to to see most of the learning e-books and video games they have for every one. Worksheets & Printable Games from Googol Learning has quite a few free instructional worksheets and video games to boost learning in basic arithmetic. Educational games help to enhance their communication and downside fixing abilities, alertness, locating issues easily without straining too much and so on. American academics have also found improvement in their students' arithmetic, spelling and studying amongst youngsters who play these video games.
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The law in New York limits how much a bail bond agent can charge you. This calculator can help you figure out how much you can be charged based on the amount of the bond.
For more information about bail payment in New York, check out this pamphlet.
This calculator was created by the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund, a nonprofit that pays bail for New Yorkers who can't afford even modest amounts, and who would be jailed or forced to plead guilty just to go home.


The Litchfield Hills Transition Center, a program for students ages 18 to 21 who receive special education services through the New Milford school system, will hold a spring resource fair May 8.
The event, geared toward families with young adults ages 14 to 21 with disabilities, will run from 6 to 8 p.m. in room 2325 at New Milford High School on Route 7 South.
Presentations for families about the Department of Developmental Services, the Bureau of Rehabilitative Services, the Department of Rehabilitation Services, guardianship, special needs trusts, Ability Beyond's ATLAS Program, Friends of New Milford and Marrackech will be available.
Water and refreshments will be available.


By now, it's pretty much a given how formulaic a new DJ Khaled single is, and today, so is the video. The self-aware DJ Khaled presents another ridiculous 30 second skit that I can easily see Aziz Ansari's Tom Haverford character loving and then the video proceeds to showcase the ladies while the other 3 artists do their thing with Khaled minimally shouting again on the hook. Even the hook (by Brown) and verses (by Wayne, Sean, and Brown) are formulaic also — nothing new really from any of em except a little bit of a lazy flow from Sean and a combination of Future and Migos from Breezy. *shrugs* Not my style but it'll be summer's style for sure.


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Q: PostgreSQL copy big data from table to table I have architecture when some data some times is copied to temp table, and then on command, this data with condition must be copied into one of other tables, before this run counts, deletes and updates based on object_id which the same in all tables.
The longest operation is copying - it takes to 10 minutes! on 300 000 rows.
insert into t1 (t1_f1, t1_f2, name, value) SELECT DISTINCT ON (object_id) t1_f1, t1_f2, name, value where loading_process_id = 695 - it is for example.
Can I speed up the process? Or this is bad architecture and I have to change it?
Some more - heap table can contains very much data, to copy can be some millions rows. Some fields (which used for counting or filtering) indexed in heap and in other tables.

And this is plan for not so big data
    Insert on main_like  (cost=2993.63..3115.51 rows=6094 width=797) (actual time=6143.194..6143.194 rows=0 loops=1)
  ->  Subquery Scan on "*SELECT*"  (cost=2993.63..3115.51 rows=6094 width=797) (actual time=55.995..125.081 rows=6094 loops=1)
        ->  Unique  (cost=2993.63..3024.10 rows=6094 width=796) (actual time=55.909..79.237 rows=6094 loops=1)
              ->  Sort  (cost=2993.63..3008.86 rows=6094 width=796) (actual time=55.904..69.195 rows=6094 loops=1)
                    Sort Key: main_loadingprocessobjects.object_id
                    Sort Method: quicksort  Memory: 3321kB
                    ->  Seq Scan on main_loadingprocessobjects  (cost=0.00..465.02 rows=6094 width=796) (actual time=0.578..8.285 rows=6094 loops=1)
                          Filter: (loading_process_id = 695)
                          Rows Removed by Filter: 1428
Planning time: 0.394 ms
Execution time: 6143.631 ms

Explain without insert -
Unique  (cost=2993.63..3024.10 rows=6094 width=796) (actual time=48.915..52.902 rows=6094 loops=1)
  ->  Sort  (cost=2993.63..3008.86 rows=6094 width=796) (actual time=48.911..49.959 rows=6094 loops=1)
        Sort Key: object_id
        Sort Method: quicksort  Memory: 3321kB
        ->  Seq Scan on main_loadingprocessobjects  (cost=0.00..465.02 rows=6094 width=796) (actual time=0.401..5.516 rows=6094 loops=1)
              Filter: (loading_process_id = 695)
              Rows Removed by Filter: 1428
Planning time: 0.214 ms
Execution time: 53.694 ms

main_loadingprocessobjects - is heap
main_like - is t1

A: There is several point that you might concern about this issue:

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*COPY statement in PostgreSQL is faster than insert into select statement.

*Create composite index on this following query ex: (type,category).

SELECT DISTINCT ON (object_id) t1_f1, t1_f2, name, value where
  type='ti' and category='added'

*GROUP BY Statement is faster than DISTINCT statement.

*Increase temp_buffer on postgresql.conf if you consider high usage on temp table.

*Try CTE (Common Table Expresions) instead temp table.

Hope this point my help you in your future development.

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GLOBE is a worldwide network of students, teachers from more than 4000 schools in over 60 countries (including Russia and several other countries of the fSU) who work in partnership via the Internet with research scientists to study and understand the global environment.
This web site is a prototype tool used being tested for the multiple Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society (CCMS) pilot studies and for participating nations to acquire, organize, retrieve, and disseminate environmental information of common interest.
nature of Russia, offer educational programs to the ecologically protected areas throughout Russia in order to inform and educate the general public about this issue in Russia.
Established in 1990, REC is an independent, non-profit international organization devoted to the improvement of the environment in Central and Eastern Europe by the cooperation of diverse organizations in these countries. An excellent (and very well designed) resource.
This site includes many different important resources pertaining to energy and the environment. Included is the updated 1996 Baseline Environmental Management Report for the life-cycle cost and schedule estimate for the cleanup of the 150 former nuclear weapons complex sites in 30 U.S. states.
Dr. Welling Hall has prepared a complete electronic conference proceedings from this symposia held in Moscow in June, 1994.


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Margaret J. Brown Memorial Award
1 award, $1,000; available to students enrolled in, and continuing in either a Bachelor of Business Administration or a Bachelor of Education degree program (including...
J.S. Marshall Prize
Established in 1995 by alumni contributions to the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences to honour the memory of Professor Stewart Marshall. Awarded annually or at the...
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To be awarded to the student who has completed Level I and at least an additional 30 units of a program in Gerontology and who attains the highest Sessional Average. The student...
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A $500 scholarship presented to a Salmon Arm student who is a practicing Catholic.
Ruby McBeth Award
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A $490 bursary, the gift of the Victoria Home Economics and Dietetic Association, is awarded to a student whose home is in Victoria or on Vancouver Island and who is entering...
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The award is made to a student entering third or fourth year in the Department of Metals and Materials Engineering, who has demonstrated leadership and active participation in...
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A prize of $100, endowed through a bequest from Anna Horen, is awarded on the recommendation of the Faculty of Medicine to a deserving medical student.
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In marketing directly to engineers, I've learned that data is key. The more data, the better. Engineers want to know the specifications, not the manifestations. In fact, most skip the marketing blurbs and go right to the datasheets where tables of features can be quickly skimmed and scrutinized.
For everyone else, however, less information is actually better.
That's not to say that you shouldn't have some specifications readily available, or that you not have a lot of backup material, but most visitors to your website or lucky readers of your datasheet only have about 2 minutes to "get it." This is the nature of our world. There is so much noise from vendors and media that the elevator pitch can only last two or three floors before it becomes just another boring elevator ride (complete with Muzak playing "My Favorite Things").
As an engineer-slash-software entrepreneur, your instinct may demand you showcase every nuance of your solution. You may want to write an entire paper on how your API is superior or how you fully utilize memcache.
But not on your first date. You have to learn to flirt a little.
The best vendor-customer conversations are just that: conversations — not a direct sell job, but a serious look into what the customer is trying to solve and whether there is a real fit. That means less time to go into how your backend architecture is totally compliant with open standards. So frigging what?
In the precious moments when we have a customer in your virtual lobby, it makes more sense to determine a fit. Save the deep dive for a demo two or three meetings later. That means putting away the engineer hat and putting on the consultant jacket. If the customer wants to know, let them ask. Otherwise, you need to spend more time understanding their needs.


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La chiesa di San Giovanni Battista in Vico, detta comunemente "chiesa dei Cappuccinini", è una chiesa di Forlì, che in origine sorgeva fuori dalle mura cittadine.

Storia e descrizione
La chiesa fu realizzata in occasione del primo insediamento dei frati cappuccini a Forlì dal 1539. La denominazione col tempo si è trasformata nel diminutivo "cappuccinini":  in seguito ad un errore di trascrizione verificatosi nel documento che attestava la cessione di alcuni appezzamenti di terreni.

La piccola chiesa divenne luogo di culto preferenziale per quanti vivevano fuori città, alimentando una sorta di rivalità con i vallombrosani dell'abbazia di San Mercuriale.

Nel 1884 la chiesa venne completamente ricostruita. L'ingresso era ad est, sul lato opposto delle mura cittadine e l'interno era ad una sola navata con quattro cappelle laterali. Sull'altare maggiore si trova una tela di Francesco Fiorentini, raffigurante San Giovanni Battista e che imita un un'opera del Guercino custodita presso la pinacoteca civica.

Nel 1911, dopo all'abbattimento della cinta muraria cittadina, fu dichiarata urbana. Al suo fianco, nel 1954, don Nicola Sintoni fece realizzare una sala teatrale dedicata a san Giovanni Bosco, ampliata nel 1964, con arena annessa, e destinata anche a proiezioni cinematografiche. L'insieme è stato oggetto di un intervento di ristrutturazione nel 2006.

Bibliografia

Chiese di Forlì
Forlì
Giovanni Battista

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A new take on her most popular double boucle fabric, Pebble Boucle brings a new depth and dimension to Rosemary's line. A combination of a chunkier alpaca and wool yarns makes this unique pairing feel cozy and modern. Pebble Boucle comes pre-backed but can be ordered un-backed for bedding.


EBay has agreed to pay $2.4 billion for GSI Commerce, an online retail and marketing company, in a move that could help the online auction site compete with Amazon.
The purchase of GSI "will significantly strengthen our ability to connect buyers and sellers worldwide," John Donahoe, EBay's president and chief executive, said in a statement. "Combined with EBay Marketplaces and PayPal, we believe GSI will enhance our position as the leading strategic global commerce partner of choice for retailers and brands of all sizes."
GSI works with more than 180 retailers and brands to underpin their online retail operations, the company said.
"Technology is changing how consumers shop, and retailers and brands are changing how they compete," Donahoe said. "With EBay, PayPal, GSI and our global platform capabilities, we are focused on delivering new ways for retailers and brands of all sizes -- from sole proprietors to large merchants -- to drive innovation, engage customers and help people shop anytime, anywhere and on any device."
The current leading online retail site is Amazon, which sells products through Amazon.com and mobile apps on smartphones and tablets. Most recently, Amazon has gotten into the business of selling apps for Google's Android operating system through its Amazon Appstore.
GSI's customers include brands such as Adidas, Calvin Klein, Hewlett-Packard, Mattel and sports leagues such as Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Assn. and the NFL. The Pennsylvania company receives and manages online orders, processes payments, maintains retail websites and handles some customer care services.
Under the deal, EBay would sell off GSI's licensed sports merchandise business and 70% of its ShopRunner and Rue La La businesses. ShopRunner is a members-only shopping website; Rue La La is an invitation-only website that offers daily discounts.
"EBay believes these businesses are not core to its long-term growth strategy," the company said of ShopRunner and Rue La La. "These assets will be sold to a newly formed holding company, which will be led by GSI founder and CEO Michael Rubin."
Rubin started GSI about 10 years ago and was recently featured on the CBS TV show "Undercover Boss."
EBay said it expects the deal, which is to be financed with a combination of cash and debt, to close by the end of the third quarter. Federal regulators and GSI shareholders have yet to approve the deal.


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Q: React context: how to transfer function? How can I pass the addToCard function from the ShoppingBasketProvider component via context to run it in another component? And how right is it in the component to keep the functions in the component using the context. Thank you for your help.
I have a component:
export const ShoppingBasketContext = React.createContext();

export default class ShoppingBasketProvider extends Component {

  addToCard = (event) => {
    console.log(event);
  }

  render() {
    const { shoppingBasketItems } = `this.state`;

    return (
      <ShoppingBasketContext.Provider
        value={{
          shoppingBasketItems,

        }}>
        {this.props.children}
      </ShoppingBasketContext.Provider>
    )
 }
}

A: You can pass on the function as a value to Context provider.
export const ShoppingBasketContext = React.createContext();

export default class ShoppingBasketProvider extends Component {

  addToCard = (event) => {
    console.log(event);
  }

  render() {
    const { shoppingBasketItems } = `this.state`;

    return (
      <ShoppingBasketContext.Provider
        value={{
          shoppingBasketItems,
          addToCard: this.addToCard
        }}>
        {this.props.children}
      </ShoppingBasketContext.Provider>
    )
 }
}

You can keep function in the ContextProvider and allow other component to use the function from context and call it.

A: Context API is a provider from which we can share data among components. And obviously, we can pass the functions in similar way:
value={{
   shoppingBasketItems,
   addToCard: this.addToCard
}}

But I would not suggest you to go with this approach. Instead, you can have a separate file let's call it Util.js and inside that export the required functions and you can use that where ever you want:
Util.js
export const required_function = () => {
  //...
}

Component.js
import { required_function } from 'Util'
//... required_function() ...


When people get ill, they would often consult their doctor in order to get diagnosed after getting checked and undergo some tests. After this, they would surely be prescribed with the proper drugs or medical procedure. When people need some legal help, they would consult their lawyer in order to find out what the ideal legal actions that need to be done in their favor, are.
People trust doctors and lawyers enough that the are willing to pay high sums of money for their services, simply because these professionals have spent years studying and mastering their own respective crafts.
Most people need formal education in order for them to get their license, which is why it could technically be illegal to be hired as a financial adviser if you don't have any formal training, education and most importantly, a license to do it.
Most people think that just because they are good when it comes to budgeting, saving money, and how they're spending it, means they could easily become a financial adviser. What people need to understand is that it is way more complicated than that.
The very first thing that you must have if ever you want to purse a career as a financial adviser, then you must have a bachelors degree. It is very important for you to have well enough knowledge when it comes to finance, taxes, economics, accounting, and literally anything about business and money.
Some people even train for a year or so in order to be qualified to have a license. Just like na accountant or a doctor, what people don't really know about is that financial advisors need a license as well in order for them to practice.
Usually, there are different kinds of licenses that you must have but it would always depend on the size of the company. If the company is just a small firm, then you may simply register with the state. Then again, if your firm is massive, it is a must to have a registration from the Securities and Exchange Commission for a large firm.
The other licenses can be obtained if ever they feel like they want to boost their reputation. It is a way for them to prove that they are actually worthy to provide people the kind of advice that they need.
People who wants to get their license must be able to pass the exams needed that was all provided by the North American Securities Administrators Association as well as the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
This then means that not anyone could claim that they are fit to be a financial advisor just because they are good with money.
Some people think that hiring a financial adviser is a waste of money. A huge percentage of Americans believe that those who need financial advisers either have a problem on having too much money or are having problems with money that often means debt.
There are some people who actually think that they don't need a financial adviser even if they are already lost and may not know which direction to go to. That is because they may have had experiences before wherein they didn't really get the kind of help they were expecting.
There might also be instances where the financial advisers told them a problem that they already are aware of. Also, hiring a financial adviser would also mean that they would have to pay a good amount of money for it.
Those who are not exactly very keen on hiring one may have that way of thinking that it is not best to spend money on it, unless their problem is that they actually have so much money to spare.


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Local NewsCrime
Vegas PD report: Suspected DUI hit-and-run driver described as functional alcoholic
Tyrrell Smith arrested in fatal crash on March 6
Las Vegas authorities continue to investigate a fatal hit-and-run crash that took the life of a bicyclist and involved a suspected drunk driver last week.
By: Jordan Gartner
LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Las Vegas authorities continue to investigate a fatal hit-and-run crash that took the life of a bicyclist and involved a suspected drunk driver last week.
Officers with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department were called to a reported crash on March 6 on West Tropicana Avenue near Tenaya Way at around 6:30 p.m.
PREVIOUS: Driver under arrest after suspected DUI fatal hit-and-run in Las Vegas
The collision occurred when the bicyclist was struck from behind by a 2011 Dodge Challenger while the two were traveling west on Tropicana Avenue in the right travel lane before the vehicle sped off from the scene, according to the LVMPD.
Police say a witness was able to follow the Challenger after the crash and relay the license plate and vehicle description to the department while emergency personnel were also called to the scene to attend to the injured bicyclist.
The 60-year-old bicyclist was transported to the University Medical Center. However, he passed away due to the injuries sustained.
Additionally, an LVMPD officer was dispatched to the Challenger's registered address from the license plate given and was able to locate the car and the driver, later identified as Tyrrell Smith, inside an apartment complex near Durango Drive and Arby Avenue.
Smith's girlfriend informed police that he was passed out in the apartment's back bedroom and had returned home seemingly very drunk, according to the arrest report.
Smith was then found asleep in the bedroom and was placed in handcuffs. The arrested officer reported the 34-year-old smelled like alcohol and was slurring his words with bloodshot eyes.
The Challenger was also located in the apartment parking lot and it had noticeable damage to the right side of the vehicle and hood, according to police.
Smith's girlfriend described him as a functional alcoholic, according to the police report, as he likes to get drunk and had told her that he was at the Orleans hotel-casino before the crash where he normally goes to drink.
Smith was booked into the Clark County Detention Center and is facing two charges stemming from the crash that include DUI above the legal limit.
The bicyclist from Las Vegas killed in the crash will be identified by the Clark County coroner's office once family has been notified.
Smith's next court date is scheduled for March 15.


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Kamsack Times
Dutch Elm Disease took only one Kamsack tree
Since several years ago when a number of trees had to be destroyed due to the disease, the Town has been closely monitoring the situation with annual reports and inspections in order to stay on top of the situation.
William Koreluik / Freelance Reporter Aug 17, 2022 10:00 AM
The Town of Kamsack is keeping a close eye on Dutch Elm disease.Devan C. Tasa / Kamsack Times
KAMSACK — Town council learned that only one tree in the community had to be destroyed due to Dutch Elm Disease.
At its regular meeting on July 11, council accepted the Dutch Elm Disease first survey report that had been completed by Living Tree Environmental.
Since several years ago when a number of trees had to be destroyed due to the disease, the Town has been closely monitoring the situation with annual reports and inspections in order to stay on top of the situation, Mayor Nancy Brunt said, adding that elm trees must not be cut from April to September, and if any elm firewood is discovered in the community it is immediately removed to the municipal dump.
As has been the case in previous years, council approved KamKids Daycare to use the swimming pool at no charge during the summer.
A tax abatement of $1,799, based on 50 per cent of municipal taxes, was approved for St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Parish.
Council approved special requests from Randy Leis, a tenant of Room 107 at Crowstand Centre.
Approval was granted for the renewal membership with SEDA (Saskatchewan Economic Development Alliance) for $377.
Council introduced, gave three readings to and adopted a bylaw allowing it to enter into an agreement with SARCAN for the collection of household glass.
River Valley Archery Club holds 3-D shoot at Pretty View School
Canora–Pelly could expand to the west
RM of Cote tax notices contain info on variety of concerns


They are sharp-looking; see where this could be an offering in more and different colors, etc. Cannot provide any actual 'product review' yet as this is a Christmas gift and we're still a month out. I will say Shipping was Timely and Well-Tracked with Excellent E-mail Updates!


Bright Ideas to Fix Highway 1?
Big Banker sent this message by carrier pigeon: "Instead of widening the highway, retime (synchronize) the stoplights and build a minimum-width, restricted-access emergency lane (fire and police only) from Linda Mar to Fairway Park." Please click the Comments link below to respond.
Big Creek Lumber donates wood to Ortega and La Honda elementary schools to build garden beds.
The above op-eds originally appeared as "My Turn" columns in the Pacifica Tribune, April 19 and March 29, respectively.
Below is SAMCAR's letter to Pacifica residents (referenced in Comments below this post). On April 10, Pacifica City Council passed a temporary rent control ordinance. Council meets May 8 to discuss putting rent control on the November ballot.
Above links to photo galleries by Leo Leon Images, Pacifica.
Links to Pacifica Beach Coalition, Tuolumne River Trust, and other groups working year-round to protect the Bay Area environment.
The author, who lives on Linda Mar Boulevard, has lost five vehicles to speeding drivers over the years, and her friend and neighbor just recently had their cars totalled on the local speedway. Is it time for speed bumps on Linda Mar Boulevard?
Pacifica makes the list of "best cities for starting a small business": third from the bottom at number 1259.
Pacifica gets national media attention for a fast-food dump that serves fake Mexican food, though to be fair, the story emphasizes the beauty of Linda Mar Beach.
A Pescadero woman is in shock after a mountain lion entered her house at night through an open door and snatched the family dog off her bed.


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Skrenta: Google Already Has 70% Market Share
Most share of market reports say Google has somewhere between 45 to 60 percent market share – dominant, but not terrifyingly dominant. Rich Skrenta, who has serious cred in the search world, says he believes it's more like 70 percent. He bases this on referral information from his and…
Most share of market reports say Google has somewhere between 45 to 60 percent market share – dominant, but not terrifyingly dominant. Rich Skrenta, who has serious cred in the search world, says he believes it's more like 70 percent. He bases this on referral information from his and other major sites (he runs Topix).
What strikes me as a potentially gating to this conclusion is that referrals to major sites does not reflect the entire web of search usage. …but it is striking nonetheless.
Author John BattellePosted on December 19, 2006 Categories Of Note in Search Biz
14 thoughts on "Skrenta: Google Already Has 70% Market Share"
Tim Bray says:
I'm with Rich. I haven't updated in a couple months, but see the search-engines graph in my statistics post. Maybe my readers aren't 100% typical, but they're not that weird.
Chris Zaharias says:
If you add up Google, Ask and AOL (Google & its major distribution partners), I'd agree they're closer to 67-68% than to 60% in the U.S. Certainly, if you look at % of advertiser search spend, they get more 'cause their traffic is worth a bit more (or, rather, Yahoo's distribution partners are worth a lot less).
When you look at Europe, though, Google's at more like 80% and in some countries like Spain and France they're at 95%. Google's essentially a monopoly in Europe.
Jeremy Zawodny says:
Tim's language is interesting. I don't think of the people who visit one page on my site (via search) "my readers." Those who subscribe and read more than a small percentage of what I write are "my readers."
Most of my "visitors" or "searchers" come from Google, as Rich's post suggests. Most of my readers use Bloglines, Google Reader, and a small set of other tools.
Analyzer says:
I have another theory – Yahoo doesnt provide good search results, and hence user has to search again on yahoo. Therefore yahoo has more "search query" traffic. But since user doesnt click on the result that often, the referrer traffic (our of yahoo) is lower. I think this methodology, of measuring the referrer traffic, correctly reflects the "search" traffic. Yahoo has artifically higher search page views because of their not so good results 🙂
~ SearcH EngineS WeB ~ says:
The only void in that article is, the method for attaining the stats from the Websites profiled was not revealed. So one can not access the accuracy. However, it appears to be logical.
Would Battellemedia make its stats public just for analysis puposes?
Please consider installing the free version of Sitemeter just for on month.
These are the public stats for the other most popular Technorati blogs
http://seoptimization.blog.com/1221628/
Rich Skrenta says:
Hitwise has taps on the traffic at a bunch of major ISPs so they're looking at actual web usage traffic on the net. It's not nonsense like 1960's people-meters with ridiculously small sample sizes. Jeremy confirmed the accuracy of the stats inbound to his site as well; this is signficant because, while his blog is popular it's not got youtube's traffic, so the accuracy at the small site level also seems to be quite good.
Hashim says:
For Jeremy Zawodny's site, he is the first result for the name "Jeremy" in Google. Perhaps that is why 90% of his searches come from Google.
Hashim: Good try, but not even close. "Jeremy" is rarely in the top 5 for my site based on search referral logs.
How is the marketshare data collected? I've long suspected that Yahoo's numbers include queries from to their applications (i.e., a search in Yahoo Cars). Although this is indeed a search, the assumption is the query number reflects web searches. Any thoughts on this?
arkadaş says:
I assume Yahoo's numbers would include that search traffic from their vertical properties. That's entirely appropriate and should be an important source of monetization for them. But they all point at search.yahoo.com, which is where the outbound refer will be seen from.
Jakob Nielsen says:
For my sites, here are the percentage of search engine-derived traffic over the last two months:
useit.com (content site)
94% Google
4% Yahoo
1% Ask
1% other search engines combined (<0.5%)
nngroup.com (business site)
1% MSN
Note that both of these sites are unrepresentative of the broader audience, becuase they target people interested in usability, i.e., members of the high-tech elite.
Also, for these sites, most of the search traffic is irrelevant, consisting of "tourists" and not loyal readers. Users who subscribe to the email newsletter or who go directly to the sites are more important. People who follow links from 3rd-party sites are in-between search users and loyal users (non-search sites are not included in the above statistics, but they account for 35% *more* traffic than search: see previously published chart).
James Brunskill says:
Tim Bray, Jeremy Zawodny, and Jakob Nielsen that's some big name commenters!
Heres my two cents…
I think we need to ask these questions:
1. Is the number of search referals a good predictor of number of searches?
For example I use Yahoo to search for podcasts, link analysis etc. But mainly use google to search for websites…
Also as already mentioned here, if one search engine requires more search attempts to find the content, that would skew the results.
However I think the idea that different search engines would be used to find different content is more likely…
2. Do a high percentage of yahoo search queries result in further links to yahoo properties?
If yahoo properties account for 11% of site visits then conceivably a lot of there search traffic is going to another yahoo property. Yahoo properties would push you towards using the yahoo search then push you back towards more yahoo stuff…
3. Just because Hitwise provides accurate statistics for topix.net does that mean it is accurate for other sites?
If I understand Rich Skrenta he has looked at the stats for his site topix.net compared it with hitwise then effectively extrapolated that the same relationship will hold for other sites. This may not be true…
Remember hitwise are the same guys who are reporting a 60% google market share…
Out of interest over the last month my site (http://www.jambe.co.nz) seems to have had 58% google 20% yahoo and the other 20% from a variety of very small numbers. This is a very low traffic site so I wouldn't put much weight on it…
I don't have the stats for my blog at the moment, I have hittail running but it doesn't give you counts of total number of search referrals by searchengines.
dumbfounder says:
Google crawls and indexes faster than the others, so for very dynamic sites they will deliver more traffic. Topix.net is definitely a more dynamic site. For http://www.searchles.com we get about 95% of our search engine traffic from Google because our content is quite amorphous.
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This leaflet/guide may be printed out for reference as a guided walk with map around the village. There are many points of interest and summarised facts in the guide that reveal tell-tale signs of the Cawood of old.
Wolsey Walk is circular, starts from Cawood and has proved to be very popular over the years. Covering approximately five miles in length, it is not strenuous and therefore is idea for family groups. The approximate time for this walk is 2 – 2.5hrs.
Start Point: Old Road, adjacent to the River Ouse near Cawood Swing Bridge.
Terrain: Minor roads, tracks through arable land and a good stretch of riverside paths. Some parts may be muddy at times, so sensible shoes or boots are advised.
The original Wolsey Walk leaflet is available to view by clicking here.


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Q: Make Docker container use newest version of Python installed I have a couple of Python modules that I use inside my Docker container and they require a higher version of Python that what's being used. I install Python and install the modules using:
RUN apt-get update || : && apt-get install python3 -y
RUN apt-get install -y python3-pip
COPY requirements.txt /project
RUN pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Expecting I would be using the latest version of Python in my Docker container but when I go into it's shell and run python3 --version is comes as 3.4.2 which is incredibly old for my program. How do I make the default Python to be the latest I installed above without messing over the System-level python?
The image runtime I'm using for the Docker container is: node:9-slim

A: I don't think you can find a prebuilt python3.9 package on a debian 8 distribution as your environment is pretty old.
The only solution is you build the python3.9 out from source code in your base container. A full workable Dockerfile as next:
FROM node:9-slim

RUN apt update; \
apt install -y build-essential zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev libgdbm-dev libnss3-dev libssl-dev libreadline-dev libffi-dev; \
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.9.7/Python-3.9.7.tgz; \
tar -zxvf Python-3.9.7.tgz; \
cd Python-3.9.7; \
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/python3; \
make && make install; \
ln -sf /usr/local/python3/bin/python3.9 /usr/bin/python3; \
ln -sf /usr/local/python3/bin/pip3.9 /usr/bin/pip3

Verify it:
$ docker build -t myimage:1 .
$ docker run --rm -it myimage:1 python3 --version
Python 3.9.7
$ docker run --rm -it myimage:1 pip3 --version
pip 21.2.3 from /usr/local/python3/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pip (python 3.9)


Collectible Card Game Headquarters • View topic - Preferred PNG optimizer?
been working in prepress for the last 22 years, using Photoshop daily and from time to time I add a new set (mostly old school sets) of descreened scans to my tablet.
For each set, there's a PS actionlist to produce very agreeable descreening results, with perfect transparent corners, from the base XLHQ pics set.
So I save as .png and optimise the output with pinga atm ( https://css-ig.net/pinga ) which works like a charm (output > mark all > send to pinga > optimize. The output will be re-/overwritten). It uses all available cores, so this will sloooow things down on your machine(!) And I don't think it uses dithering, only palette customisation and other tricks, I added an example.
My question to you is: What are your preferred ways of png optimisation, focusing on best color reproduction (perceptual)?
Size differences of a few kbytes (eg. 315kb or 400kb for the same image) wouldn't make much difference to me.
I tried most of these already: https://css-ig.net/png-tools-overview#overview but might have missed the best settings regarding (perceptual) color accuracy on some.
Ironically, png optimisation via "save for web" using photoshop wasn't "that" bad, but it's a pain to implement with actionlists (at least with CS6 here).
Turn off Strip or Convert to sRGB using PhotoShop for best color reproduction.
I'd be interested in hearing more about the process you currently have. I just finished cleaning up a full set of tokens for Trice, and have been downloading the high rez pngs from Scryfall on the fly via the software once I figured out the proper API. The problem is that the pngs are anywhere from 1-2mb each. I'm not a huge stickler for the color as long as it doesn't totally flatten them, but Im more interested in reducing file size. Their pngs also have a tiny bit of white haloing in the corners that I can notice on a dark background.
Dstinct wrote: I'd be interested in hearing more about the process you currently have. ... I'm not a huge stickler for the color as long as it doesn't totally flatten them, but Im more interested in reducing file size.
So far, I haven't encountered a png compressor which masters palette compression, perceptually.
Because palette/color reduction would probably result in smallest possible filesizes.
I believe pinga auto-lossy does this to some extend as well, but more conservatively.
Haven't done any tests yet if there are actual differences in filesize reductions between gui (pinga) and cli (pingo). The cli version allows far more options though.
Dstinct wrote: Their pngs also have a tiny bit of white haloing in the corners that I can notice on a dark background.
This sounds more like an image preparing question?
I only worked with scans so far, so there was some minor optimisation for the borders needed, to reduce randomness and unnecessary color varations to compress there.
My borders are completely rebuild in photoshop. This implies very accurate scan centering, which most of the sets adhere to. I personally accept 1 or 2 lines of original card image to be replaced by the new border, if the centering wasn't perfect. You won't notice that later.
Re-bordering the image will probably get rid of any effect "spills"/artifacts on your originals.
I noticed there's been quite some changes between latest pingo (v0.98.6) and the one I used for my first tests (v0.89).. and I like the results of the old one better!
Option 3, 30-39 all produced a slightly blurred version of the old pingo results, missing details while being only 10kbyte smaller.
Also it seems some of the links on https://css-ig.net aren't working, since http://x128.ho.ua seems to be down atm, which hosts a lot of tools.
BUT: Since I went back to my old tests I have to mention "Color Quantizer", a gui tool, again.
You can set the palette to any value you like, optimise it for different perceptual goals and it can shrink those files quite nicely as well.
So, Dstinct, maybe take a look at Color Quantizer if you want (IMO) the best possible filesize reduction while still retain "most" of the originals visuals.


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Q: responsive columns not working? Having trouble with my responsive layout. My twelve columns blocks are not on one row the last two float under it but should be all in one line.
Each row will be having its own column blocks.
You can get full code view of what I mean at my codepen snippet.
http://codepen.io/riwakawebsitedesigns/pen/zbmLE
.container {
  display: block;
  width: 94%;
  max-width: 1280px;
  margin: 2% auto 0 auto;
}

.row {
  display: block;
}

.row:after {
  content: "";
  display: table;
  clear: both;
}

.column {
  background: #e5e5e5;
  min-height: 40px;
  text-align: center;
  float: left;
  margin-right: 20px;
}

.block-1 {
  width: 8.33333333%;
}

.block-2 {
  width: 16.66666667%;
}

.block-3 {
  width: 25%;
}

.block-4 {
  width: 33.33333333%;
}

.block-5 {
  width: 41.66666667%;
}

.block-6 {
  width: 50%;
}

.block-7 {
  width: 58.33333333%;
}

.block-8 {
  width: 66.66666667%;
}

.block-9 {
  width: 75%;
}

.block-10 {
  width: 83.33333333%;
}

.block-11 {
  width: 91.66666667%;
}

.block-12 {
  width: 100%;
}

.last, .omega, .end{
  margin: 0;
}

A: Remove the margin on the columns:
.column {
  background: #e5e5e5;
  min-height: 40px;
  text-align: center;
  float: left;
  margin-right: 20px; <!-- remove -->
}

Instead of the reaching 100% width the margin is causing less width for them due to the 20px x 12. So your getting 100% + 240px, this is causing the last 2 to move below.
DEMO HERE

A: Ruddy is right, you are not considering the gutter between columns. Do his way or...
SIMPLE SOLUTION:
Try to subtract 2% from each block class, worked here.
FANCY SOLUTION:
If you use LESS you can work with variables, so you could do something like this:
/*LESS FILE*/

@gutter: "20px";

.block1 {
   width: (8.333% - @gutter);
}

Hope it helps.


Once you have confirmed that your pet has fleas, proper flea removal and extermination measures must be taken to remove the fleas from your home and your pet. B & B Pest Control describes flea removal as a three-step process that involves sanitation, extermination, and veterinary care.
The first step in the flea removal process is sanitation of the home. The entire house be cleaned and vacuumed as thoroughly as possible before extermination. Areas you should pay special attention to include carpeting, floors, furniture, pet bedding, and other low-lying areas in your house, as these spots are known to harbor fleas. Vacuuming removes lingering adult fleas and will cause flea pupae to emerge from their cocoons, making them susceptible to flea removal treatment.
It is recommended to take the infested animal must receive immediate veterinary attention. Flea removal will not be successful unless the fleas have been directly eliminated from the animal. Talk with your vet about which flea removal treatment is best for your pet.
Once the treatment has been fully completed, you will be expected to vacuum floors and carpets daily for 2-3 weeks in order to help control a possible population resurgence of fleas. This is common, and happens when eggs that weren't previously exposed to the insecticide begin to hatch and go through their normal life cycle. However, because of their exposure to residual pesticides, they won't be able to reproduce and will likely die within days. Keep in mind that total flea elimination can take up to 3-4 weeks.
Be prepared to leave your home or apartment during treatment and until insecticide is thoroughly dried. This will be approximately 3 to 5 hours, or the time advised by your pest control operator.
Wash all pet bedding in hot water or destroy it.
Vacuum all carpeting and mop wood and tile floors, including along walls and inside closets.
Clean or vacuum furniture, especially between and under cushions.
Dispose of vacuum cleaner bag in a trash container outside your home, close tightly. If using a vacuum with a re-usable bag, empty contents into container outside your home, close tightly, and discard. Wash reusable bag in hot water.
Remove all pets and have them treated for fleas by a veterinarian. If you plan to treat the animal yourself, it is essential that all label directions be followed and that you use only products specified for the species of animal on which the product is to be used. (See About Veterinary Medicine for more information on this treatment.) It is critical, however, that pets be treated at the same time as the home, so that neither reinfests the other afterward.
Cover fish tanks with wet towels and turn off pumps until reoccupying home.
Pick up all toys and items off floor. This includes picking up items from floors inside closets and under beds.
Strip all bed linens and wash in hot water.
Remove all caged pets (birds, reptiles, hamsters) before service is rendered.
Cover and store any open food products, dishes or utensils before service is rendered.
If the yard also is to be treated, the same steps as directed for in the home must be followed – that is, wash all pet bedding in hot water or destroy it, pick up all toys and items from the lawn and areas to be treated.
Remain out of home until insecticide has dried thoroughly (3 to 5 hours, or as advised by your PCO). It is essential to allow this time and ensure that the home is completely aired out before allowing sensitive individuals, such as small children, or vulnerable pets back into the home.
To give the treatment time to work, do not clean carpet or floors for at least two weeks after treatment.
Your PCO will most likely shut down the air system during service. This should be turned back on upon reoccupation.
If your stove has a pilot light, the PCO will also likely turn off the pilot light during service. Relight pilot upon returning home.


(1) Find the BT usb device id.
The device id is "0a5c 21f3"
This patch was tested by Dennis Chua and reported to work.
This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel for Oneiric in -proposed (3.0.0-16.29) solves the problem. Please test the kernel and update this bug with the results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed-oneiric' to 'verification-done-oneiric'.


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Q: jQuery calculate sum of values in all text fields I have an order form with about 30 text fields that contain numerical values. I'd like to calculate the sum of all those values on blur.
I know how to select all text fields but not how to loop through them and add up all their values?
$(document).ready(function(){
   $(".price").blur(function() {
    //loop and add up every value from $(".price").val()
   })
});

A: Similarly along the lines of these answers written as a plugin:
$.fn.sum = function () {
    var sum = 0;
    this.each(function () {
        sum += 1*($(this).val());
    });
    return sum;
};

For the record 1 * x is faster than Number(x) in Chrome

A: Use this function:
$(".price").each(function(){
total_price += parseInt($(this).val());
});

A: A tad more generic copy/paste function for your project.
sumjq = function(selector) {
    var sum = 0;
    $(selector).each(function() {
        sum += Number($(this).text());
    });
    return sum;
}

console.log(sumjq('.price'));

A:
$('.price').blur(function () {
    var sum = 0;
    $('.price').each(function() {
        sum += Number($(this).val());
    });

    // here, you have your sum
});

A: This should fix it:
var total = 0;
$(".price").each( function(){
          total += $(this).val() * 1;
});

A: If you don't need to support IE8 then you can use the native Javascript Array.prototype.reduce() method. You will need to convert your JQuery object into an array first:
 var sum = $('.price').toArray().reduce(function(sum,element) {
     if(isNaN(sum)) sum = 0;
     return sum + Number(element.value);
 }, 0);

Reference: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/Reduce

A: $('.price').blur(function () {
    var sum = 0;
    $('.price').each(function() {

        if($(this).val()!="")
         {
            sum += parseFloat($(this).val());
         }

    });
        alert(sum);
});

JS Fiddle

A: This will work 100%:
<script type="text/javascript">
  function calculate() {
    var result = document.getElementById('result');
    var el, i = 0, total = 0;
    while(el = document.getElementById('v'+(i++)) ) {
      el.value = el.value.replace(/\\D/,"");
      total = total + Number(el.value);
    }
    result.value = total;
    if(document.getElementById('v0').value =="" &&
      document.getElementById('v1').value =="" &&
      document.getElementById('v2').value =="" ) {
        result.value ="";
      }
    }
  }
</script>

Some number:<input type="text" id ="v0" onkeyup="calculate()">
Some number:<input type="text" id ="v1" onkeyup="calculate()">
Some number:<input type="text" id ="v2" onkeyup="calculate()">
Result: <input type="text" id="result" onkeyup="calculate()"  readonly>

A: $(".price").each(function(){
total_price += parseFloat($(this).val());
});

please try like this...


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The High Tech Superhero
Take two ordinary guys. OK, scratch ordinary. Two extremely rich people.
One is the orphaned son of a murdered billionaire tycoon, the heir to an industrial empire and the most eligible bachelor in Gotham City. At night he dresses up like an oversized bat, and puts his life on the line to fight crime on the city streets.
The other sits at the head of the world's most advanced weapons and robotics manufacturer, and is a billionaire playboy and genius inventor. With a heart powered by a cutting-edge reactor and a flying suit of robotic armour, he's doing his best to privatise world peace. Neither man has any supernatural abilities, genetic mutations or extra-terrestrial super-powers. All they have is training, courage, and some of the hottest technology imaginable.
Sadly, imaginable is the operative word – Batman and Iron Man aren't real. It's unlikely that we'll ever see a real-life Tony Stark facing down an army of killer drones or a real-life Bruce Wayne taking down the mob. Frankly, we'd hate to think of what a Steve Jobs (let alone a Steve Ballmer) might do with a real Iron Man suit. But is there any truth behind the tech? If you were to win the lottery, would you have any hope of fighting crime on, say, the mean streets of Swindon, or does the stuff just not exist?
Well, lets see...
Powered Armour
Bruce Wayne relies on a rack of muscle and stringent combat training to keep him safe, but where would Tony Stark be without high high-tech tin suit? Nowhere. Well, there might be no real Iron Man suit, but that doesn't mean that work isn't heading in the right direction.
In 2000, America's Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) launched a program – Exoskeletons for Human Performance Augmentation – with the stated goal of developing "devices and machines that will increase the speed, strength and endurance of soldiers in combat environments."
Amazingly, the program has resulted in at least two real-life prototypes that might one day see active service. A team at robotics specialist Sarcos – best known for creating the dinosaurs for Universal's Jurassic Park theme park rides – built XOS, a robotic suit capable of amplifying its wearer's strength by a factor of 10:1. If you can lift 10Kg, then the suit will lift 100Kg, and in theory do it over and over again without you getting tired quickly.
The really clever stuff happens in how the suit is controlled. Just as the Iron Man suit needs to work in concert with Tony Stark's body, so the XOS suit needs to understand its wearer's every movement. The XOS suit's actuators are controlled by processors and sensors which read movement from the user's hands and feet, translating each tiny motion into suit movement, instantly and with a surprising degree of finesse. The exoskeleton takes all but the minimum of weight and effort from its wearer, and is responsive enough to allow them to run, jump, box and even throw and catch a ball. It's not armoured as such, but it's certainly a kick-ass bit of kit.
The one problem? At the moment XOS only works when tethered to a power-source, and while it's hoped that this can eventually be integrated in a case or backpack, with the suit regenerating energy while in use, it's something that – literally – holds the exoskeleton back from active service.
Lockheed Martin's HULC might not be a full exoskeleton, but this suit, which reinforces and works with muscles in your legs and torso, allows troops to carry up to 90Kg over all terrains and march at speeds of up to 10mph, albeit only for brief periods.
As the suit supports full mobility, its wearers can squat, crawl and lift, with the suit supporting its own weight as they do so. An over the shoulder harness allows the user to manage heavier loads, and there are plans for armed and armoured models in the future. Best of all, it's powered by lithium ion batteries, each lasting for an hour or so, depending on usage.
HULC is currently under evaluation by the US Army's Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Centre, and is already available for what a Lockheed Martin spokesperson calls "limited application in select groups." Could this be the basis of a future Iron Man suit, we asked them?
"We see significant potential for this technology in the defense, industrial and medical arenas. As a load-carriage device which augments a person's endurance and capabilities, this technology can be applied to numerous missions including logistics, infantry, explosive ordnance disposal and chemical and biological defense, to name just a few."
We'll take that as a yes.
Exoskeletons and powered armour
Not all the exoskeleton action is taking place in the US. In Japan, Cyberdyne, a company set up by Professor Sankai of the University of Tsukoba, is manufacturing HAL (Hybrid Assisted Limb, pictured right), a gleaming white suit developed, in Sankai's words, to "upgrade the existing physical capabilities of the human body." HAL multiplies the user's strength by a factor of two to 10, with the exoskeleton supporting its own weight. The suit responds to bio-signals running beneath the human skin, interpreting signals going to the wearer's muscles to mimic his or her movement exactly.
The HAL suit is powered by a battery lasting between three and five hours, and while the first suits on sale are targeted at the medical industry, future applications will include heavy labour and rescue support. Why not add dispensing justice to the list? Professor Sankai certainly seems confident; he's already built a factory to produce 500 HAL units every year.
Of course, Iron Man's suit has another function: keeping Tony Stark safe from terrorist machine-gun fire, plasma whips and missile strikes. In real life, even a nickel-titanium alloy suit might not be of much use here: even if the armour withstood every blow, it would still transfer force to the wearer – but some high-tech padding might help. For instance, a foam of carbon nano-tubes – molecular scale tubes of graphite carbon – may be resilient and strong enough to dampen the blow.
There is, however, an alternative to the whole Iron Man concept. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is working with the US military to create a "multi-capability battlesuit" for tomorrow's troops to wear in the field. MIT is already talking about nano-structure actuators that could give the wearer inhuman strength, and nano-fiber materials that could literally deflect bullets. The battlesuit might even be able to sense toxins in the air and filter them away from the soldier without him or her knowing about it. Frankly, it all makes an Iron Man suit seem so last year, even if the research is years away from bearing real fruit.
For Bruce Wayne, of course, things are easier. In Batman Begins, the Batsuit is based on a 'Nomex Surivival Suit', with a neoprene undersuit featuring the same heat-resistant materials used by real firefighters today, covered by bulletproof Kevlar panels and topped with a graphite composite cowl with Kevlar plating – all stuff that's available right now. In The Dark Knight the suit had evolved. In the words of Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman), the suit now featured "hardened Kevlar plates over titanium-dipped tri-weave fibers for flexibility" making Batman, "lighter, faster, more agile."
All very advanced stuff, but Wayne Industries might want to invest in some more R&D if it wants to keep Batman ahead of the curve. Last year, BAE in Bristol demonstrated an armour system which utilized what's called 'shear thickening technology.' Here, tiny particles are suspended in a liquid where, in normal conditions, they repel each other slightly. With a sudden impact, however, the particles instantaneously clump together, creating a hard surface that can stop bullets and dissipate the energy of impact.
BAE's scientists have referred to the liquid as "bullet-proof custard" on the basis that the two materials share basic properties (and more than that if my mum is cooking). This liquid, when used to treat Kevlar plates or garments, creates materials which bend and flow until you need them – perfect for the average stealthy super-hero. In ballistics tests with a gas gun firing ball-bearing bullets, 10 layers of treated Kevlar outperformed 31 layers of untreated Kevlar, dissipating more of the bullets energy and lessening the deformation of the plates.
An alternative approach uses what's called a magneto-rheological fluid, where the armour is treated with an oil filled with tiny iron filings. When exposed to a magnetic field, the particles line-up, thickening the fluid and instantly turning thin clothes into solid armour at the flick of a switch. Sadly, while armour and sports equipment which use shear thickening and similar technologies are already entering the market, magneto-rheological fluid armour is still a few years away from practical use.
Finally, don't forget those carbon nano-tubes.
Massachusetts-based Nanocomp Technologies has already demonstrated carbon nanotube armour plates capable of stopping 9mm bullets while only a few millimeters thick. Working with the US Army Natick Soldier Systems Centre, Nanocomp hopes that carbon nano-tube will be the next-generation of US army body armour. When asked for more details a company spokesman informed us that armour applications were some years away, and might not be suitable for superhero use, but we're not fooled: a real-life Bruce Wayne is probably getting his first suit as we speak.
Labels: Nerd Tech, Superhero Films, Superheroes and Supervillains
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NICHOLAS TURNER
COLLABORATORS & SPONSORS
PHENYLALANINE AMMONIA-LYASES (PALs)
AMINE OXIDASES (AOs)
CONTINUOUS FLOW FOR BIOCATALYSIS
TRANSAMINASES (TAs)
IMINE REDUCTASES (IREDs) AND REDUCTIVE AMINASES (RedAms)
IMINE REDUCTASE
Imine reductases (IREDs) are NADPH-dependent
oxidoreductases that catalyse the asymmetric
reduction of imines to the corresponding chiral
amines and have been one of our main research
interest in recent years.
ACS Catalysis
Lectureship 2018
The American Chemical Society and ACS Catalysis
are proud to honor Nicholas Turner from The University of
Manchester, U.K., England, who is being recognized for his
contributions to biocatalysis and enzymology.
Watch the whole interview
Cascades allow for the combination of several sequential
synthetic steps without any isolation of the intermediates,
hence saving time and effort. Additionally, they are also
useful when some of the reaction intermediates are unstable
or hard to isolate and purify.
AMINE OXIDASES
Amine oxidases have been a key area of research in the Turner
group for more than a decade. They oxidise amines to imines
(or iminium ions) using molecular oxygen. The oxidation is
enantioselective and addition of an amine oxidase to a racemic
amine alongside a non-selective chemical reducing agent
results in deracemisation.
Get an insight into our fields of research
Meet the members of the Turner Lab
Biocatalysis in Organic Synthesis: The Retrosynthesis Approach
by Nicholas J Turner, Luke Humphreys
NEWS FROM OUR LAB
CoeBio3 phase IV continues with the start of six new PhD students
CoeBio3 is the The Centre of Excellence for Biocatalysis, Biotransformations and Biocatalytic Manufacture. http://www.coebio3.manchester.ac.uk/
The centre is based in Manchester but supports PhD students at the University of York, The University of Liverpool and the University of Bristol. The program is supported by industrial affiliates from Merck, GSK, Novartis, AstraZeneca and more….
Prof Nicholas Turner | Professor of Chemical Biology
Securing this prestigious Prosperity Partnership grant represents a significant step forward for the University of Manchester Industrial Biotechnology Research Beacon and highlights the world leading research being undertaken within the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology.
Professor Nicholas Turner will lead a "Prosperity Partnership" for
Developing new biocatalytic technologies for chemical manufacturing in the pharmaceutical industry
This AstraZeneca, Prozomix and The University of Manchester Prosperity Partnership will bring together their expertise to design and develop novel chemical manufacturing technologies, based upon engineered biocatalysts, with the aim of producing new therapeutic complex molecules.
Achieving this goal will require the generation of a new toolbox of biocatalysts that are able to catalyse particularly demanding transformations. This project has the potential to bring new medicines to patients, in addition to developing more sustainable manufacturing processes that reduce the impact on the environment.
Manchester Institute of Biotechnology
131 Princess Street
Manchester, M1 7DN, UK
Tel: +44 (161) 306 5100
Centre Director
Angela Linton


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At this point, we've seen the magic that DirectX 12 can do even on preliminary software and drivers, and it has the potential to make games currently unplayable on existing PC's run as smooth as butter. Today, we learn even more very exciting capabilities to come.
According to Toms Hardware and their source "with knowledge of the matter", DirectX 12 is going to feature some pretty impressive multi-GPU support. Thanks to 'Explicit Asynchronous Multi-GPU Capabilities', DirectX 12 will allow games to utilize multiple GPUs as if they were a single unit. This would mean that instead of the Alternate Frame Rendering (AFR) technique that older APIs use where texture and geometry data in frame buffers have to be mirrored across GPU's, DirectX 12 will use Split Frame Rendering (SFR) where a game would divide the texture and geometry data between the GPUs.
As a result, games can ensure that specific graphics workloads are distributed to the GPU that is better capable of processing it. This would also significantly reduce latency as SFR would result in a lower queue depth when it comes to rendering frames.
Here comes the best part, thanks to this rendering technique, DirectX 12 will be blind to GPU brands or architectures, as in it will work across systems with one MSI GTX 980 and one XFX GTX 770, or a system with an EVGA GTX Titan Z paired with a Sapphire Radeon 295X, or any other GPU combination for that matter.
For the first time, gamers will be able to make the best out of their GPU's regardless of what company or generation it's from. The same applies to laptops with multiple GPUs onboard. This could also mean that you could use an AMD graphics card as the master card and a secondary NVIDIA card for added features like PhysX, something gamers have been wishing for for a long time now.
As is the case with almost everything else that seems too good to be true, there is a catch. Bringing a lot of the optimizations you read above to life will fall into the hands of game developers, DirectX 12 just gives them the canvas to make these optimizations possible. The good news is that thanks to the way the DirectX 12 APIs are designed, it should be a rather hassle-free procedure to integrate.
DirectX 12 will be arriving alongside Windows 10 later this year, and we should be learning more about some of its new features and capabilities during the Games Developer Conference that runs from March 2-6. We will be watching the developments closely so stay tuned to WinBeta for more on DirectX 12 and future of PC gaming.