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NUST EENHANA SATELLITE CAMPUS OFFICIALY OPENED
The Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) has opened its Eenhana satellite campus on Thursday, the 10 March 2022. The Eenhana satellite campus is currently operating from the Billy Mwaningange Rural Development Centre situated at Eembaxu.
The NUST Eenhana Campus was officially opened by Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila. During her officiating statement, the Prime Minister indicated that the establishment of NUST Eenhana campus is a commitment to capacitate the human resources needs in all parts of Namibia to enable the country can fully harness National development through research, business, and community engagement. Various dignitaries such as His Excellency Hifikepunye Pohamba, Former President of the Republic of Namibia and the Patron of the NUST Eenhana campus, Hon. Peter Katjavivi, Speaker of The National Assembly and NUST Chancellor, Hon. Itah Kandjii-Murangi Minister of High Education, Training and Innovation Technology, Hon. Erastus Uutoni Minister of Urban and Rural Development, Hon. Daniel Vladimir Kashikola Deputy Minister of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety and Security, Ohangwena Governor hon.
Walde Ndevashiya and theNUST vice –Chancellor Dr Arold Naomab attended this notable event. His Excellency Hifikepunye Pohamba, Former President of the Republic of Namibia and the Patron of the NUST Eenhana campus, He encouraged the public to work in unity towards collecting funds for the completion of the NUST Eenhana campus so that the youth ca access to education. He emphasized that education is for all and no Namibian should be left out when it comes to education. In his welcoming statement, Ohangwena Governor indicated that the establishment of the NUST Eenhana campus will create a knowledge-based economy that is characterized by dependence on a highly-skilled, well educated, and technically-minded workforce that will make use of advancements in technology alongside intellectual capital to move away from material consumption and aim towards an economy built on knowledge and data. His Worship the Mayor of Eenhana, Cllr Omri-Onn Kavandje appreciated all Speakers and everyone contributed to the realization of the establishment of the NUST Eenhana Campus.
March 14, 2022 by Gotlieb in Education
The name "Eenhana" means "Calves" in the Oshikwanyama language which is an indigenous language of many in the region. Legend has it that the name Eenhana originated from an event in which calves belonging to a livestock herder named Hakambaba lost his calves that were either by wild animals or succumbed to a disease in the area as a result hunters and travelers used to refer to the place as the "Valley of Calves of Hakambaba" hence the area used to be called Eenhana da Hakambaba (Hakambaba's Calves).
November 7, 2021 by Gotlieb in Education
INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT (IUM) EYE EENHANA AS AN IDEAL TOWN TO ESTABLISH ITS CAMPUS
The IUM delegation headed by Prof. David R Namwadi met with the Management and leadership of Eenhana Town Council to discuss the merits of establishing a Campus in town. Prof. Namwadi expressed his profound excitement about the investment opportunities in town and pledge that the IUM campus will soon be established in town to enable learners to access tertiary education. The Town Mayor Omri Onn Kavandje appreciated IUM for this remarkable initiative. TheTeam visited a site earmarked for the construction of the campus.
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'There's a difference between inclusion and change' News - 20 January 2020
If you want to talk about inclusion, you have to bring up the subject of race. This is what Kamna Patel said at Leiden University's annual Diversity Symposium on 22 January. She is Vice-Dean for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at University College London. We spoke to her beforehand.
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Aya Ezawa new Diversity Officer Announcement - 27 May 2019
Read the online magazine on diversity and inclusiveness News - 13 December 2016
How can we make sure that everyone feels welcome at our university? Read the highlights from the conference on The Making of an Inclusive Leiden University: The Do's and Don'ts.
Pieters Corner: Can diversity be engineered? News - 11 May 2017
In discussions about today's society and multiculturalism the word is constantly bandied back and forth: diversity. At Leiden University we aspire to 'diversity and inclusiveness', and claim that our diversity policies put these core values into practice. We have a Diversity and Inclusiveness Working…
Two different approaches at the Diversity symposium News - 14 November 2017
One of the speakers at the Diversity symposium on 22 November is Estela Mara Bensimon, highly honoured professor of Higher Education in the US. A second speaker is Peter Slort, from the Dutch National Police, responsible for Diversity. He will talk about how diversity is progressing within the police…
Sounding Board on Diversity Policy urges University to be more inclusive News - 16 February 2017
Leiden University is becoming increasingly aware of the importance of diversity and inclusiveness, but there is still plenty of room for improvement. This is the key message from the first annual report of the Sounding Board on Diversity Policy, presented to Vice-Rector Hester Bijl on 15 February.
'Diversity doesn't appear at the wave of a magic wand' News - 2 December 2019
If universities want to open their doors to more students and staff from minority groups, good intentions alone will not suffice. That is what Frank Tuitt, Diversity Officer at the University of Denver, has to say. He will speak at the University's annual Diversity Symposium on 22 January 2020.
Diversity magazine with Barbara J. Love, Jan Terlouw and Domenica Ghidei News - 4 December 2018
What does diversity mean for you? And what can Leiden University do to create a more inclusive academic environment? Participants in the diversity symposium on 13 November and speakers share their thoughts in this e-zine.
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'We are most attracted to people who are like us' News - 1 November 2017
Professor of Higher Education Estela Mara Bensimon approaches diversity from a specific viewpoint. Examine and reflect on your own motives, is her advice to lecturers. Do you know for sure that you don't treat students from minority groups differently?
Corrie Bakels portrait unveiled News - 18 April 2016
During the Dean's lecture on April 21 a portrait of Corrie Bakels will be unveiled. This portrait is part of the initiative of Athena's Angels project 'Room for women!'
Studying with a disability: 'Accessibility alone is not enough' News - 7 April 2017
How can we make studying easier for students with a functional disability? This will be the key question during a public conference on 20 April. Romke Biagioni (Fenestra) explains why there is such a need for this conference. Are you going to be there?
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The dream of inclusivity... and the harsh reality News - 11 October 2019
'When I started out, I could only dream of an inclusive university,' said departing Diversity Officer Isabel Hoving at her leaving do on 9 October. 'But this dream has come true in part. I only have to look at the audience here to see so.'
Leiden student wins ECHO Loyens & Loeff Law & Tax Award News - 27 September 2019
Leiden Business Law student Raz Ahmad has won the ECHO Loyens & Loeff Law & Tax Award 2019. The ECHO Awards are presented each year to excellent students in higher education with a non-western background.
'I'm in awe of these refugee students' News - 1 July 2019
Proud family members, lecturers and, above all, students congregated in the Van Steenis building on 27 June to celebrate the students' having completed the Preparatory Study Year in Leiden.
This is what it's like studying with a disability News - 21 April 2017
More than a hundred people took part in the conference on Studying with a Disability on 20 April. Dozens of students shared their experiences. 'I would rather you ask me the same question a hundred times than that you decide on my behalf.'
Leiden University appointed extra 25 female professors in 2017 News - 8 March 2018
Last year Leiden University appointed an extra 25 female professors. With these appointments the Executive Board has increased the percentage of women in the highest academic role.
Terra study association wins Van Bergen Prize News - 14 November 2018
Bringing Dutch and international students together. One way to do that is by playing Archery Attack, archaeology student Timothy Stikkelorum suggested. On 13 November, he and his team, a committee from the Terra study association, won the Van Bergen Prize with their idea.
New Master: Governance of Migration and Diversity News - 17 June 2016
In September 2016, the Leiden University Institute for History starts with a new MA sub-track 'Governance of Migration and Diversity'. This so-called LDE Master (a joint program of Leiden, Delft and Erasmus) is part of the MA History specialization Cities, Migrations and Global Interdependence (CMGI…
Working together only way to create equal opportunities News - 15 June 2017
'Systematic, coherent, comprehensive policy for the long-term,' is key to initiatives by different groups within the University to collectively reinforce their quality, says Diversity Officer Isabel Hoving. On Thursday 15 June 2017 the Minister of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) visited Leiden…
'An inclusive university begins with which books you choose' News - 24 September 2019
Sociologist Aya Ezawa is the new Diversity Officer at Leiden University. What is the University doing well and what could it do better? 'It's taken much more for granted that universities should be a reflection of society. But this is also an area where we can still make progress.'
Leiden Science Buddy Programme off to a sunny start News - 10 August 2017
With a barbecue at the Scheveningen beach the Leiden Science Buddy Programme was kicked off on 7 August. In this first round, 64 new international students are paired to current students. These buddies will do their very best to make the new students feel right at home in Leiden.
Van Bergen Prize winner Archery Attack has growth potential News - 28 May 2019
Dutch and international students brandishing bows and arrows fire at each other on the fields of the University Sports Centre on 11 May. This is the aim – not the shooting each other, but the act of getting together.
How can we become a more inclusive university? News - 23 November 2017
Inspiration from outside and best practices from inside the University. These were the most important ingredients of the symposium on inclusivity organised by the Diversity Office at Leiden University on 22 November.
Additional support for students with a disability News - 31 August 2017
How do I get into this hard-to-reach classroom with my wheelchair? How do I learn to divide my time better over the courses I'm taking? Can I take an exam on my laptop? These are all questions with which students have approached Jaap de Witte. For several years now, he has been a study adviser for students…
LU Pride: 'It's great that there's a club where you don't feel different!' News - 6 February 2018
Fifty years ago a group of students started the Leiden Student Working Group on LGBT. Today students can contact Leiden University Pride and for staff there is the LGBTQ+ Core Network. Five questions for Kirsten de Mare, student of linguistics and chair of LU Pride.
LGBTI+ inclusion in the spotlight News - 4 July 2017
Why should your sexuality or gender identity be relevant at work? This is the question that Jojanneke van der Toorn, Professor by special appointment of LGBT workplace inclusion at Leiden University, addressed in her keynote at the annual Workplace Pride Conference on Friday 23 June 2017 in Brussels…
More inclusive communication is more complex than it seems News - 29 June 2018
How can we adapt the Dutch we use at the University so that everyone feels comfortable and included? This was the subject of debate during a panel discussion on 28 June at Leiden University.
Yiran Yang PhD candidate / Guest
Nina Adriaanse
Two Van Bergen Prize winners: bringing Dutch and international students together News - 22 January 2020
The Van Bergen Prize was awarded to not one, but two initiatives at the Diversity Symposium on 22 January. 'Leiden City Safari' is a fun city tour that will help incoming Dutch and international students get to know the city of Leiden – and each other. The interactive 'OpenUP!' symposium will invite…
Leiden University College to receive funding for diversity project News - 14 June 2019
The Minister of Education, Culture, and Science Ingrid van Engelshoven revealed on Thursday 13 June 2019 which projects will receive funding from the Students-4-Students Campaign. She made the announcement at Pulchri Studio in The Hague. Leiden University College The Hague was one of the seven educational…
Diversity and inclusiveness Event - 13 November 2018
Mitch van Geel Assistant Professor
Anouk de Koning Associate Professor
Debate: Inclusive Leadership, how to maximize the diverse talent News - 16 March 2018
Why do international companies around The Hague have only 6% ethnic minorities as employees, even when the business case proves that diversity adds value? On Tuesday 13 March in The Hague, Wijnhaven, the University's Diversity Office and the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs organised the first…
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The Conference Board releases its October index on U.S. consumer confidence. The report will be issued Tuesday at 10 a.m. Eastern.
BUILDING BACK UP: Economists expect the index to edge slightly higher to 87 after falling sharply the previous month. Consumer confidence slumped to 86 in September from 93.4 in August, a level not seen since the recession began in late 2007.
JOBS AND GAS: Solid job gains and falling gasoline prices should help to improve sentiment, despite muted economic growth in Europe and China that has created a lot of volatility in financial markets.
Steady hiring and fewer layoffs over the past 12 months have pushed unemployment lower. Employers added 248,000 jobs in September, helping to push the unemployment rate down to 5.9 percent, from as high as 7.2 percent. The new jobs mean more paychecks, which should lead to more spending and overall economic growth.
Economists project that the gains should continue into October with the addition of 235,000 more jobs, according to the data firm FactSet.
Also, Americans are likely feeling less depleted after a trip to the gas pump. Average gas prices have dipped 30 cents in the past month to $3.04 a gallon, according to the AAA's Daily Fuel Gauge Report, freeing up cash to spend elsewhere.
Still, shopping failed accelerate much in September.
Purchases of clothing dropped 1.2 percent last month and spending on building materials fell 1.1 percent, while auto-buying dipped after surging in August, the Commerce Department reported.


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Did You Ever See a Horse Go By?: A Coming Out Memoir
by Frank DeFrancesco (Author)
In Did You Ever See A Horse Go By? new author Frank DeFrancesco invites the reader into his personal tug-of-war and ultimate triumph over the psychological and sociological restraints that immobilized him for half a lifetime.
The author uses biographical events, old letters. unpolished poetry, and excerpts from his journals along with a few fictional composites to recreate
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DeFrancesco pokes fun at his own naiveté, self-doubts, and Catholic guilt, as well as clueless therapists, Rome adventures, Woodstock, discos, and dead Bob to weave a compelling story that balances seriousness and sadness with humor and joy.
"While I'm not sure the world really needs another coming out story," DeFrancesco says, "I feel deeply
the need to tell it."
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Tell a trusted adult to look at this site www.iwf.org.uk so they can check if they can report the content as illegal.


Remember that survey we told you about recently from Gemtrix? If you took part in the SWTOR vs SWG survey, you can now see the first week's results. This survey will be ongoing so each week there will be updates to see how the survey continues to unfold.
These results are as of May 24th, 2012 @ 9:18am EST. There are 1,096 responses in record here. Week 1 results are just the beginning. Each week this will continue. So if you didn't participate in the survey yet, head back over and answer the questions. Your results will be part of week 2.
All questions, and responses are optional. As such, any voter is free to skips questions, vote for multiple line items, etc. This means that anyone is free to say that they prefer SWTOR, and SWG, at the same time for example.
Votes Per Line Item – This is simply how many times a participant picked that line item.
Percentage of Total – This divides Votes Per Line Item by Total Votes Per Question.
With that said, we can argue all day long about how useful these numbers are, so my advice is to just "take it for what it is." This are just a bunch of open ended questions that we threw together to give the world a place to talk about two games that many of us love to talk about.
We would obviously like to thank all the people who have participated, and who continue to participate. Over the past 7 days we've had tons of feedback from people who came to us via Facebook, Reddit, MMORPG.com, SWGEMU.com, SWTORSTRATEGIES.com, Twitter, PROJECTSWG.com, LinkedIn (Wha??), and a bunch of guild sites (Foo Guild, Phalanx, and Wraith Squadron to name a few).
We are super humbled by this traffic, and hope that people continue to visit our little corner of the internet as we continue to focus on the social aspect of online gaming. Please feel free to comment below, and check back next week, when we will post refreshed results.
What do you think? Are the current results and accurate representation of what you think? If not, it's time to let your voice be heard. Head on over and take the survey for yourself.


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A Filipino bishop has criticised President Duterte's plan to extend martial law in Marawi (CatholicCulture.org).
Germany's independent commissioner on abuse has urged Cardinal Gerhard Müller to apologise for mishandling the Regensburger Domspatzen scandal.
Pope Francis has made a surprise call to an Argentine rubbish collector who lost both legs in an accident.
Today is the 75th anniversary of Dutch bishops' pastoral letter on the deportation of Jews.
Marco Tosatti explains why he doesn't always trust Vatican denials.
Dana Milbank argues that Callista Gingrich's nomination as US ambassador to the Holy See "stinks to high heaven" (Michael O'Loughlin).
And Charles Camosy says that Louis CK has found an "absolutely astonishing" way to stir consciences on abortion.


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The Port Moresby golf course is located in Waigani behind PNG Parliament and was built over top an American dispersal and camp area between 5 Mile Drone (Wards Drome) and 7 Mile Drone (Jackson). Several of the greens were made inside wartime revetments. A larger water hazard on at the edge of the course contains a P-40 Warhawk fuselage dumped into the hole during the war.


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Leonia closes dozens of local roads to out-of-towners
Friday, January 19, 2018 10:06 PM EST
Monday, January 22, 2018 12:50 PM EST
Leonia officials to close side roads to GWB to non-residents
LEONIA -
Starting Monday, a Bergen County town will close off dozens of local roads to out-of-towners during rush hour.
Leonia officials said it is all in an effort to alleviate traffic for locals. They said too many people from other towns cut through Leonia on their way to get to the George Washington Bridge to commute to and from Manhattan.
Officials said navigation apps, such as Google Maps and Waze, will often bring drivers through town in an effort to avoid traffic in other parts of the state, creating heavy traffic on many Leonia roads, including Fort Lee Road, Chestnut Street and Howard Terrace.
"If you look down this way as far as you can see, it would be bumper-to-bumper on a Sunday night or in the morning," said Leonia Councilman Greg Makroulakis.
Leonia residents will need to have a yellow tag on their vehicles as of Monday. The tag will let the Leonia Police Department know that they live in town and are allowed to transverse local roadways.
Sixty roads will now be for locals only, officials said. Those roads will show up as red on the traffic apps, to let drivers know.
"People who are normally using a GPS like Waze will not see these streets as a viable cut through to the bridge because they're out of play," Leonia Police Chief Tom Rowe said.
Drivers who don't live in town who are caught on some of the roads can face a $200 fine. Rowe said his officers initially will give motorists warnings, but will eventually begin writing tickets.
Some streets will be blocked by police, and four have been turned into one-way streets. Drivers with the yellow tags will be allowed on these roads.
Officials said the reason for the changes is that they are concerned that if something isn't done, ambulances and fire trucks won't be able to travel around the town.
"I think it'll definitely help. The quality of life will definitely improve," Makroulakis said.
Officials said they spent the last two years studying the plan in preparation.


With its gingerbread-like houses, picturesque lighthouses, sandy shores and tough, resourceful people, Nova Scotia is a memorable destination. From cosmopolitan Halifax, with its great restaurants and thriving music scene, to the historic fishing village of Lunenburg and the Celtic culture of Cape Breton Island there is much to see and explore in this charming eastern Canadian province.
Begin your customized Encore Performance Tour of the Canadian Maritimes, with today's flight from the United States to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Upon arrival, meet your Encore Tour Manager and transfer to your hotel. There is a welcome briefing today, to review your trip's details followed by dinner at the hotel.
Enjoy breakfast at the hotel, provided each morning of your tour. Depart for a guided sightseeing tour of historical and greater Halifax. Your exploration begins with this morning's sightseeing of Halifax Citadel Historic Site, founded in 1749 and a principal naval station of the British Empire. Here, you will perform your debut concert. Afterwards, spend some free time with your Tour Manager in downtown Halifax before continuing on to the Halifax Public Gardens. Have dinner at a local restaurant tonight before returning to your hotel.
After breakfast, board your deluxe motorcoach for a full-day excursion to Lunenburg. En route, stop at Peggy's Cove for lunch on your own and time to explore. Continue on to Lunenburg where you will visit the Fisherman's Life Natural Museum. Have free time as a group before returning to Halifax for dinner and an overnight stay.
Today, check-out of your hotel for your transfer to Baddeck and Cape Breton Island. Upon arrival, check-in to your hotel, relax and enjoy views of the Bra D'Or! Visit of the Alexander Graham Bell Museum as a group before returning to your hotel for dinner and an overnight stay.
Today, after breakfast, check-out of your hotel and head to Glace Bay. As you continue on the Cape, stop to visit the Glace Bay Heritage Museum and the Cape Breton's Miner Museum. Situated on one of the most picturesque coasts of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, the Miners' Museum pays tribute to the region's long and rich history of coal mining. In the afternoon, enjoy a traditional Fish & Chips lunch included in your tour. Continue on to Louisbourg where you will visit the Louisbourg Fortress. In the evening, continue to Port Hawkesbury where you will check-in to your hotel and have dinner as a group.
In the morning, check-out of your hotel for your return to Halifax. En route, stop in Truro for shopping and lunch on your own. Delight in the natural living beauty of the regions as you make your way back to Halifax. Upon arrival, perform your final concert! Celebrate your successful performance tour with a farewell dinner cruise.
After a final breakfast at your hotel, it's time for hotel checkout. Transfer to the airport for return flight to the United States.


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Q: Update stored records numbers depending on previous rows I have to create script that will set the column of one table in databse based on these conditions:

*

*Every Selling order (table selling_order) has record in Selling order person (table selling_order_person) where is email of person stored

*I have to order all records in selling_order by order_time ASC (so the oldest orders will be first) and on these orders I have to set the column of selling_order name rank (that is column repesents how many orders customer alredy did. Its based on email in selling_order_person). So the first order of customer will have 1, the second one will have 2 etc. And this have to be done for one customer.

*All this logic will be stored in liquibase (so it will run just once, the next records will be managed by Java on the row creation. But the old data have to be managed first via liquibase).

I´ve written this procedure. But it does not work, It just set number 1 to half of a table (it is possible cause its testing table so there could be cases where selling_order_person have no mail or no record).
Can anyone help me with that? Its my first SQL procedure so I dont know whats wrong.
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION updateSellingOrderCustomerCount()
    RETURNS VOID AS
$$
DECLARE
    t_curs CURSOR FOR SELECT so.*, sop.email
                      FROM selling_order so
                               INNER JOIN selling_order_person sop on so.person_id = sop.id
                      ORDER BY order_time;
BEGIN
    FOR tmp IN t_curs
        LOOP
            UPDATE selling_order
            SET rank =
                    (SELECT COALESCE(MAX(so.rank), 1)
                     FROM selling_order so
                              INNER JOIN selling_order_person sop on so.person_id = sop.id
                     WHERE sop.email = tmp.email)
            WHERE selling_order.id = tmp.id;
        END LOOP;
END
$$ LANGUAGE plpgsql VOLATILE;

SELECT * FROM updateSellingOrderCustomerCount();

For simplicity Ive deleted all columns that we dont work with now.
create table selling_order
(
    id bigserial not null
        constraint selling_order_pkey
            primary key,
    selling_order_person_id bigint not null,
    rank int,
    order_time timestamp
);

create index idx_selling_order_person_id
    on selling_order (person_id);

create table selling_order_person
(
    id bigserial not null
        constraint pk_selling_order_person
            primary key,
    email varchar(64)
);

A: As far as I can tell, this can be done with a single UPDATE statement
update selling_order so
  set rank = t.rnk
from (
  select id,
         row_number() over (partition by selling_order_person_id order by order_time) as rnk
  from selling_order
) t
where t.id = so.id;

I assume that the customer you mention in "how many orders customer already did" refers to selling_order_person_id not to some hidden "customer" column.
Online example: https://rextester.com/ATD51610

But managing this rank column seems pretty useless, given the fact that you can easily calculate that information (as shown in the inner SELECT of the UPDATE statement)

A: Big thanks to a_horse_with_no_name. Ive just editted a little his code and it works like charm.
UPDATE selling_order so
    SET rank = tmp.rnk
    FROM (
             SELECT so.id, sop.email,
                    ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY LOWER(sop.email) ORDER BY order_time) AS rnk
             FROM selling_order so
                      INNER JOIN selling_order_person sop ON so.selling_order_person_id = sop.id
         ) tmp
    WHERE tmp.id = so.id;

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Guerilla Usability Testing (sometimes called "pub test") is a quick, easy and cheap alternative to traditional lab testing: You just take a device with what you want to test on it to some place where you find members of your target audience (usually a public place, but can also be your workplace, school or sometimes even your friends and family), have them try it out while you observe (and potentially record) them, and ask a few questions. Usually you buy them a drink afterwards.
This talk introduces the method, what you have to keep in mind for it to work well, and what it should or should not be applied for.
Since we are doing extremely little user testing in KDE, this talk is meant to introduce this alternative to the community, which is more feasible for us than traditional lab testing. Guerilla Usability Testing can be applied by pretty much anybody.


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Oil is like the life blood of your engine and it needs taking care of. It will also give back to you with better fuel economy and a long running life. Engines burn oil naturally and as the vehicle gets older it will burn more oil. Before you go on a road trip you should take a few minutes to check the oil. When checking your oil you want to look out for two things, one of these is a colour change, if the oil is very dark, you know you'll either need to change the oil soon or change it now (while you're looking). The other thing you're looking for is the level at which the oil is sitting, if you notice this is very low then you might as well top the oil up now, if this become a frequent occurrence then it might signal that you have a leak in the system somewhere, best take it to the garage if this is spotted. Use these resource and you'll have your oil topped up and perfect in now time!
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Your tyres are as important as anything else, you don't notice them as much as they usually require much less maintenance than the rest of your car. But they too need checking every few weeks. When your tyres get worn from all the driving you do the tred on them starts to wear away, this reduces grip on the road, which in turn can reduce things like stopping distance, likelihood of picking up punctures and flat tyres & at high speeds (if very worn) the potential of the tyre bursting! But what exactly do we need to keep an eye out for? What does it matter? Well these resources will tell you everything you need to know!
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House Democrats are proposing a package of rules to govern the House of Representatives in the 116th Congress. The package contains many changes from the rules governing the last Congress, affecting legislative procedure, ethics and diversity, and creating two select committees on climate change and modernizing Congress.
Pay-As-You-Go. The rules package would restore the PAYGO rule that was last in place in 2010. It replaces the previous Congress's CUTGO rule – spending increases must be offset – with a PAYGO rule stipulating that both mandatory spending increases and tax cuts must be offset. We strongly support PAYGO rules that encourage fiscal responsibility.
Eliminates dynamic scoring requirement in the House. The Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation would no longer be required to produce a macroeconomic "dynamic" estimate of major legislation incorporating the effects of economic growth.
Remove supermajority requirement to raise income taxes. The rule would remove a requirement for a 3/5 supermajority vote to raise revenue through federal income tax rate changes.
Remove term limits for serving on the House Budget Committee. Previously, Members could not serve for more than four Congresses out of a period of six successive Congresses – that is, for more than 8 years out of a 12-year period.
Removes point of order against appropriations amendments that increase spending without offsets. Amendments could be offered to appropriations bills increasing spending. Other points of order would still be able to be raised if it did not comply with the 302(a) overall limit on discretionary spending or the 302(b) allocation assigned to each appropriations subcommittee.
Strengthen rules about advance notice. Major bills would need to be made public 72 hours before being considered by the House, as opposed to "on the third day" under the previous rules. The "third day" rule could be less than 72 hours, for instance, if a bill was released late on the first day and voted on early in the third. The rules also create a point of order against bills that haven't had a hearing or a committee markup.
Consensus calendar to circumvent committees. If a bill has 290 consponsors and the relevant committee has not acted on the topic, a bill can be placed on the "consensus calendar." The House is supposed to consider at least one bill a week from that calendar.
Less need for Rules Committee for the first two weeks: The Speaker is granted the authority to consider bills under suspension of the rules through January 17, bypassing the Rules Committee but requiring a two-thirds vote.
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package com.googlecode.android_scripting.activity;

import android.app.Notification;
import android.app.NotificationManager;
import android.app.Service;
import android.content.Context;

import com.googlecode.android_scripting.Log;

import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;

/**
 * A utility class supplying helper methods for {@link Service} objects.
 *
 * @author Felix Arends (felix.arends@gmail.com)
 */
public class ServiceUtils {
  private ServiceUtils() {
  }

  /**
   * Marks the service as a foreground service. This uses reflection to figure out whether the new
   * APIs for marking a service as a foreground service are available. If not, it falls back to the
   * old {@link #setForeground(boolean)} call.
   *
   * @param service
   *          the service to put in foreground mode
   * @param notificationId
   *          id of the notification to show
   * @param notification
   *          the notification to show
   */
  public static void setForeground(Service service, Integer notificationId,
      Notification notification) {
    final Class<?>[] startForegroundSignature = new Class[] { int.class, Notification.class };
    Method startForeground = null;
    try {
      startForeground = service.getClass().getMethod("startForeground", startForegroundSignature);

      try {
        startForeground.invoke(service, new Object[] { notificationId, notification });
      } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
        // Should not happen!
        Log.e("Could not set TriggerService to foreground mode.", e);
      } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
        // Should not happen!
        Log.e("Could not set TriggerService to foreground mode.", e);
      } catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
        // Should not happen!
        Log.e("Could not set TriggerService to foreground mode.", e);
      }

    } catch (NoSuchMethodException e) {
      // Fall back on old API.
      // service.setForeground(true);

      NotificationManager manager =
          (NotificationManager) service.getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
      manager.notify(notificationId, notification);
    }
  }
}

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// Reviews // 29th Nov 2013 — 8 years ago // By Ross D. Brown
XCOM: Enemy Within Review
XCOM: Enemy Within is the DLC pack that fans of Enemy Unknown have been waiting for. While the Slingshot DLC pack disappointed with its rather meagre offerings, this latest round of content offers a huge amount of additions to the XCOM experience and significantly changes the nature of the game.
Our early preview focused largely on the two additional XCOM unit types that have been added to the mix, through genetic modification and cybernetic enhancements. These new soldiers are a small part of a larger whole, but they are among the first to reveal themselves and have significant impacts on gameplay.
Both genetically enhanced troopers and 'MEC' troopers are unlocked early on through the use of a new alien resource called 'Meld', which can be scavenged from canisters strewn around the strategic maps on which you will be doing battle. By hoarding and researching this substance, and by building the new facilities for your science team, you can upgrade any of your existing troopers with Gene Mods or convert them into a MEC very early on in the invasion.
A cybernetic soldier casts eyes on her MEC suit for the first time
MEC troopers are cybernetically enhanced super-soldiers encased in a giant mechanised suit of killy-deathiness. They have increased health, extremely powerful heavy weapons and can integrate several secondary weapons systems into their armour: such as grenade launchers, flamethrowers and proximity mines. Because of their size, they are unable to utilise cover and must instead compensate with their advanced armour, offensive capabilities and a unique skill tree.
Converting an existing soldier into a MEC trooper is permanent and strips them of their existing class, although they maintain their rank and so can get a head start on the new skill tree. However, the class a soldier was pre-conversion does have a small impact by granting the MEC a unique bonus ability. For example, a MEC who was a former sniper gains a bonus to accuracy when firing from a stationary position.
Gene Mods are more subtle than MEC conversion, and are applied to existing soldiers who otherwise maintain their existing class and abilities. A number of different modifications are available at the outset, while others can be learned from conducting alien autopsies. Gene Mods are applied to individual body parts (brain, eyes, chest, skin, legs) and each soldier can be upgraded multiple times, up to one mod per body part.
A trooper volunteers for genetic modification
The mixing-and-matching of Gene Mods allows for the creation of specialist troopers for a number of circumstances. An assault trooper with Mimetic Skin and a Secondary Heart can use his partial invisibility to get close to the enemy before striking, and take greater risks with a better chance of survival. A sniper with improved Muscle Fiber Density and Depth Perception can scale buildings with a single leap and fire from their elevated position with increased accuracy.
Both new troop types change the pace of gameplay. The MEC trooper represents pure power and resilience, a manifest and unmistakable show of force on the battlefield. The Gene Mods are more subtle in their operation, and require more thought in their deployment, but in the right hands can prove powerful tools that can turn the tide of battle.
You'll need a lot of Meld to keep your troops in Gene Mods and MEC suits, and fortunately there is a fair bit to go around, spread throughout most maps for you to pick up on your operations. However, capturing Meld requires aggressive expansion, as the containers in which it is stored will self destruct after a certain number of turns; which means that risks must be taken in order to maximise your Meld reserves.
Farming Simulator - XCOM Edition
Gene Mods and MEC troopers represent the two most obvious of the new tools in the XCOM arsenal, but many more changes and tweaks have been introduced. New equipment such as Flashbang Grenades and Mimic Beacons has been added, and several class abilities have been tweaked and balanced.
While the XCOM organization may have a few new tricks up their sleeve, they are by no means guaranteed an easy ride, as their enemies are more numerous and powerful than ever. To start, two new alien types have been introduced: the Mectoid and the Seeker.
Most of you have probably already guessed what the Mectoid is, but for those still in the dark, it's basically a Sectoid in a MEC suit. This is the alien's answer to your MEC Troopers, a dual plasma-wielding cyborg-soldier. They have a whole bunch of health, a lot of firepower and the ability to mind merge with Sectoids, giving themselves a powerful force shield in the process. They are dangerous enemies and not to be taken lightly.
A Mectoid with its Sectoid entourage
Seekers are more specialist in their purpose, using their cloaking devices to roam the battlefield, giving priority to isolated targets whom they can immobilise and attack with impunity. Seekers are not overtly powerful, but their clever tactics can cause problems for lone wolf assault troops or Squadsight snipers hiding in the rear.
Further balancing has taken place in terms of enemy abilities and AI. Enemies that don't utilise cover now often go into overwatch mode when discovered, and the Sectopod has been significantly buffed to increase their toughness when compared to the new Mectoid. These are the most obvious changes, but are just two in a list of many.
It's not just the new and improved aliens that XCOM have to worry about. Enemy Within introduces an entirely new faction to the war, the shadowy EXALT, a group of human fanatics committed to capturing and exploiting alien technology and using it for their own advancement.
Three EXALT fanatics ready for battle
If ignored, EXALT will conduct clandestine operations against XCOM, stealing resources, sabotaging research and increasing the panic levels in friendly countries. In order to prevent these attacks from occurring, XCOM must take the initiative, and bring the fight to EXALT.
By investing a small sum into satellite scanning, EXALT cells can be uncovered and agents sent to conduct operations against them. Covert operatives will be sent away, armed with only a pistol and one item, and will be unavailable for several days whilst they conduct their mission. After a few days, a squad will have to be dispatched to recover them, and combat will occur against the EXALT cell in one of two new game types.
Covert Data Recovery is a defensive mission type, in which the XCOM squad must defend a data transmitter and encoder against several waves of EXALT soldiers, while Covert Extraction requires that the covert operative hack into two enemy communications arrays before retreating to the extraction zone.
An XCOM agent in a covert operation
Combat with EXALT is refreshingly different from fighting the aliens, and the tactics used by the enemy are very distinct. Like XCOM, EXALT soldiers are broken down into four different classes and will regularly be seen using specific abilities. Heavy weapons troops can, and will, use their rocket launchers to hit multiple soldiers and destroy your cover, and medics will heal their wounded comrades. EXALT will also increase in power as the game goes on, and will independently discover Gene Mods and advanced weaponry, which they will bring to the field against you.
Completing missions against EXALT gives you clues as to where their global headquarters is located, and the group can be eliminated by destroying their main base once you have enough information to locate them. Caution is advised though, as if you jump the gun and invade the wrong country, they will immediately and permanently withdraw from the Council.
With the introduction of Meld, new XCOM units, new technology, new aliens, a new enemy faction and a number of tweaks and balances; XCOM: Enemy Within certainly adds a huge amount to the overall package. It may surprise you to know, then, that there is even more to this massive DLC pack.
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Enemy Within adds a new three-part sequential mission pack, similar to the Slingshot DLC pack, which will introduce a new, unique character to your barracks. Also added are around 50 new maps, a unique stand-alone Council mission, additional language packs for soldiers, further Second Wave gameplay options, bug fixes, a new cheat-unlocked William Carter 'hero' character and, no doubt as a result of constant fan requests, an XCOM base attack mission.
There are very, very few criticisms that can be levelled at Enemy Within. The new soldier types are introduced very early in the story, and are far more technologically advanced than the rest of the gadgetry available to XCOM at the time. The technological disparity is glaring, and it also leads to minor story inconsistency down the line; notably when Dr Shen expresses his distaste at the alien's fusing of organic and cybernetic material when you first autopsy a Floater; by which point you are likely to have had a MEC Trooper on staff for several weeks at least.
By contrast, EXALT are introduced quite late into the game. There is little reason as to why they could not have featured as a consistent threat from the relative outset of proceedings, and this certainly would not have adversely impacted the story progression in the same way as the early introduction of MECs and Gene Mods had.
An XCOM soldier eyes up a Meld container guarded by a Mechtoid
Finally, the already wide gulf between 'Normal' and 'Classic' difficulty is further widened by the additions made. The extra technology available to XCOM makes 'Normal' difficulty substantially easier than in the vanilla game, while longer research time and balancing tweaks make 'Classic' difficulty even harder than before. Newer players and true XCOM veterans will be OK, but if you fall between these two polar extremes then your difficulty choice is 'Cakewalk' or 'Punishing', with no middle ground.
XCOM: Enemy Within is an outstanding DLC pack. The sheer wealth of additional content is overwhelming, and the combined factors substantially change the overall experience. The result is something new and fresh, even for veterans of hundreds of hours in Enemy Unknown.
This is what DLC should be. Masses of content. New options, new maps, new missions, new soldiers, new enemies, balances and optimisations; hours and hours of brand new gameplay. It's all here. It's all good. It's the best that XCOM has ever been.
XCOM: Enemy Within (Reviewed on Windows)
Ross D. Brown
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Developer Firaxis Games
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We lead a desert life. Girls do not study - at all", says an inhabitant of a village in northwestern Yemen, who has eight children including an eight-year-old girl named Khairiah. But this is changing. Dubai Cares, in partnership with CARE International in Yemen, recently constructed fifteen new schools in the area. The new schools are slowly changing the long-standing gender norms in the region.
Now, when Khairiah wakes up in the morning in her one-room mud hut, she still washes her face in the only bucket available for her family and the cattle, but it marks the start of a new daily routine for her, which includes going to school. "If the new school wasn't built, I would not have any access to education," Khairiah states, her eyes gleaming with excitement and hope for a better future.
The new school buildings have shown the local community the potential of modern education in improving the security and hygiene of their children. In the village, access to education has soon not only become a reality but a matter of prestige for the community.
Khairiah glows with happiness as she sets off to school with her brothers and neighbors. Her mother hears her talking about the new school, the availability of running water and bathrooms, blackboards, tables and chairs; simple amenities not found in their own home. She is proud that her daughter gets an education while she herself was denied one.


I've been a parent for some 8,286 days. A stunningly imperfect parent, I hasten to add. During that period of time I learned more about sleep deprivation, sibling rivalry and teen angst than I previously considered humanly possible. However, the past decade has proven to be particularly edifying. Indeed, Thing One and Thing Two have provided me with a veritable feast of enlightenment. So, in the spirit of welcoming the new year and the vat of enlightenment sure to come, I thought it might be fitting to recap what the last decade has taught me—at least from the perspective of a stunningly imperfect parent.
1) Beauty is likely in the kitchen. Translation: Most of the masterpieces I've collected thus far in my parenting journey are proudly displayed upon my refrigerator, where I suspect they will remain for a very long time to come. That is not to say the face of the fridge is the only canvas upon which said prized artwork hangs in all its faded glory. My home is quite literally inundated with the fledgling, Picasso-esque efforts of my brood, serving as a constant reminder of their boundless generosity and artsy flair. As it should be, I suppose.
2) The word "sleepover" is a misnomer. No one actually sleeps at a sleepover—including the pitiable adults charged with the impossible duty of entertaining the gaggle of impressionable youths in attendance. Furthermore, the later slumber party-goers appear to crash, the earlier they will rise, demanding bacon and eggs. Moreover, it is inevitable that someone's personal effects (i.e. an unclaimed pair of underpants, a lone sweat sock, an irreplaceable stuffed animal) will be tragically lost—only to show up months later in the oddest of places.
3) When taken out of context, that-which-parents-say-and-do is often appalling. Case in point: "Stop licking the dog." "If you're going to ride your scooter in the house, wear a damn helmet." "Fight nice." In a similar vein, I've fed my charges dinner and dessert in a bathtub more times than I'd care to admit, I've used a shameful quantity of saliva to clean smudges off faces, I've suggested a broad range of inappropriate responses to being bullied and I consider the unabashed bribe to be one of my most effective parenting tools.
4) A captive audience is the very best sort of audience. That said, some of the most enlightening conversations between parent and child occur when the likelihood of escape is at a minimum (i.e. at the dinner table, in a church pew, en route to the umpteenth sporting event/practice session/music lesson, within the confines of the ever-popular ER).
5) On average, we parents spend an ungodly amount of time reading aloud books that we find unbearably tedious. We say unforgivably vile things about the so-called "new math" and, as a matter of course, we become unhinged by science projects and whatnot—especially those that require mad dashes to the basement and/or the craft store at all hours of the day and night in search of more paint, more modeling clay and perhaps a small team of marriage counselors.
6) Forget wedding day jitters, the parent/teacher conference is among the most stressful experiences in life—not to be confused with the anxiety-infused telephone call from the school nurse and that interminable lapse of time wedged between not knowing what's wrong with one's child and finding out.
7) Of all the creatures in the animal kingdom, the child-with-a-camera is undoubtedly the most fearsome—although the child-with-webcam-knowledge is equally clever and decidedly terrifying as well. More specifically, the aforementioned entities possess an uncanny knack for digitally preserving our less-than-flattering moments. Joy. What's more, they have a certain weakness for documenting freakishly large or (gasp!) green-hued poo, which I'm told is bizarrely linked to the consumption of blue Slushies. Color me enlightened, yet again.
8) Kids are hard-wired to harvest every syllable of that-which-their-parents-shouldn't-have-said so that they might liberally share those choice phrases in the most humiliating venue and manner imaginable (i.e. during show-and-tell, at Sunday school, in a crowded elevator, while sitting upon Santa's lap, at the precise moment the guests arrive).
9) The discovery of a teensy-tiny wad of paper—one that has been painstakingly folded and carefully tucked within a pocket, wedged beneath a pillow or hidden inside a dresser drawer—is akin to being granted psychic powers. Everything a parent needs to know about their child will likely be scrawled upon said scrap of paper.
10) Unanswerable questions never die—they simply migrate to more fertile regions of our homes where they mutate into hideous manifestations of their original forms, leaving us wringing our hands and damning our inadequate selves.
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RE: #3- to this day, I cannot abide Dentyne cinnamon gum, clearly remembering the many times that my mother used said method to clean a smudge off my face before allowing me to darken anyone's doorstep. As far as #8, I was just mentioning that to my mother the other day when she asked me about something one of them had said, and I felt compelled to remind her of just where they had learned certain phrases, i.e. from her when she was driving on occasion-you son of a b*tch, watch where you're going. It's so cute when they utter their first "sum b*tch," isn't it? Of course, since mom is older, she doesn't remember saying it.


is, to any historian of technology, no surprise. Founded in 1925 for the specific purpose of improving telephony, Bell Labs made good on their mission (saving AT&T billions with inventions as simple as plastic insulation for telephone wires) and then some. By the 1920s the laboratories had effectively developed a mind of their own, carrying their work beyond better telephones and into basic research to become the world's preeminent corpo-rate-sponsored scientific body. It was a scientific Valhalla, hiring definitely the right men (and later women) they may find and leaving them relatively free to pursue what interested them.
When scientists are given such freedom, they are able to do amazing things; Bell's scientists did cutting-edge work in fields as diverse as quantum physics and data theory. It was a Bell Labs employee named Clinton Davisson who would win a Nobel Prize in 1937 for demonstrating the wave nature of matter, an insight more typically credited to Einstein than to a telephone company employee. In total, Bell would collect seven Nobel Prizes, more than any other corporate laboratory, including one awarded in 1956 for its most renowned invention—the transistor—which made the computer possible. Other Bell Labs creations, while obscure to the general public, are certainly dear to Communications readers, including Unix and the C programming language.
force for good. It is the kind of thing, in fact, that gives monopoly a good name. In current-era usage, the word "monopoly" is a scary concept, one that few would dare endorse publicly. But AT&T was, in its time, a proud monopolist, and even a critic is forced to admit a system run by a beneficent monopolist had its advantages. While to some degree Bell Labs served AT&T's interests, it was also run, in part, out of a kind of noblesse oblige. For in a corporate setting, it is often difficult to imagine how funding theoretical quantum physics research can be of any immediate benefit to shareholder value. More to the point, it is very difficult to imagine a phone company today hiring someone to be their quantum physicist, without rules and with no boss.
The story of Bell Labs is, in many ways, the strongest case in support of the near-inevitable monopolies that emerge in the information industries. Yet, despite all of the undeniable glory of Bell Labs, when you look carefully at the history there emerge little cracks inside the resplendent façade of corporatism for the public good. For however many its breakthroughs, there was a technique through which the institution was very different from a research university. For when the interests of AT&T were at odds with the advancement of information, there was no doubt as to which good prevailed. And so, interspersed between Bell Labs' public triumphs were its secret discoveries, the skeletons within the imperial closet of AT&T. And here we clearly see the long-term costs of industrial rule by a single firm.


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Have you ever imagined being in Joseph's shoes? Think about his predicament. Joseph is a righteous man, betrothed to a chaste young woman. The future looks bright as he maps out plans to build a family with his soon-to-be bride. But then he hears the shocking news—Mary is pregnant. That's no small dilemma for Joseph, especially since he is obviously not the father of the child. What would you do?
Initial news of Mary's pregnancy presented Joseph with a twofold problem. A caring and responsible person concerned about doing the right thing, Joseph was unwilling to proceed with his original plans once he perceived that a crucial part of those plans was no longer acceptable. His difficulty was intensified by the reality that he was a righteous man, genuinely concerned about doing what was right according to God's Law. First, when Joseph realized Mary was pregnant, he knew he could not go ahead with their marriage. He knew he was not the father and, based on what he knew at the time, he had to assume that another man was.
Joseph's second difficult decision concerned how he should then treat Mary. Because he was a good and loving man, he was grieved at the thought of shaming her publicly (a common practice in those days when a wife was unfaithful), and even more so at the prospect of demanding her death, as provided for in Deuteronomy 22:23–24. We don't know if he felt anger, resentment, or bitterness, but he certainly experienced shame at what he had to assume was true. However, Joseph's concern was not primarily with his own shame and embarrassment, but with Mary's. Matthew 1:19 says, "not wanting to make her a public example, [Joseph] was minded to put her away secretly."
Therefore, Joseph's plan was to divorce Mary secretly so she would not have to endure the disgrace of everyone in the community knowing about her supposed sin. Not many husbands ever display such firmly held and deeply felt love for their wives. Of course eventually, when the marriage didn't occur, everyone would have found out that something had gone wrong. But at least in the meantime Mary would be protected from humiliation and death.
The Lord, however, in His sovereign providence and wonderful grace, intervened directly and spared Joseph the further trauma of actually carrying out his divorce plans. "But while he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, 'Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit'" (Matthew 1:20). That verse underscores the miraculous nature of the virgin birth and the supernatural character surrounding the entire event. It also provides divine assurance to Joseph ("son of David") and to us that Jesus had legitimate royal lineage that legally came through Joseph as a descendant of King David.
The angel's words provide the ultimate and most irrefutable testimony to the essential truth of the virgin birth and to the proper response Joseph was to have to Mary's extraordinary situation.


The following headlines appeared following the Supreme Court's decision on the Affordable Care Act: "Supreme Court Upholds Health Care Law ... In Victory for Obama" (New York Times); "Court Backs Obama On Health Law" (Wall Street Journal); "Supreme Court Upholds Obama's Healthcare Law" (Los Angeles Times); and "Justices back health law" (Boston Globe). Clearly a victory for Obama but what does it mean that the Court "upholds" or "backs" the Affordable Care Act.
This lecture will explore this question looking at the Supreme Court decision in the Hobby Lobby birth control case to inform students of the appellate process. The Supreme Court recently ruled that the government can not force Hobby Lobby to offer birth control as part of its employee health insurance plan. We will examine the government's ability to regulate conduct when that regulation has religious implications.
Leonard Singer is a semi-retired Massachusetts lawyer who has followed developments in this area of the law. He has practiced law in Boston for almost 40 years specializing in civil litigation and commercial disputes.


Do you slide too often? Are clients choosing to pay too little most of the time? Are you complaining about the money you earn as a result?
In a self-pay practice, sliding scales are a great way to help people who can't afford your full fees. However, if you always offer it most prospective clients will take you up on it even if they don't need one. In order to rectify this problem, I recommend only offering your scale when a client clearly demonstrates need. Always explore all of their potential resources with them before jumping to the conclusion they need a sliding scale. The client will take the easiest solution, however, there may be a mutually beneficial solution that takes a little exploration in order to get there.
When you offer a sliding scale and you don't know how much you want to collect on your average session fee, you won't be able to determine how much money you're expecting to earn in a month. Make sure to create a budget based on how much you want to collect from the average client session. This will help you determine how much you can slide and still earn the money you need.
There are different ethical considerations when thinking about what clients will actually pay. If you only offer a full fee practice this point is quite simple. In sliding scale practices it gets more complicated. I can guarantee that if the scale isn't talked about effectively most new clients will pay somewhere in the middle to the bottom of the scale. If that's ok with you then there's no problem. But many therapists I talk to complain about the thousands of dollars they are losing here and there, becuase of clients' choices around what they can pay. There are a couple of solutions to this.
You can offer a scale based on income levels. Outside of asking for tax returns, which is highly unusual in our profession, you are putting a lot of trust in a client you've just met around the financial health of your own business. Anecdotally, clients will choose lower ends of the scale even if they make enough money for higher ends of the scale. It's not because they see this as if they are outright lying; it's simply that they don't feel that the higher fee will generate enough value in their life to be financially viable.
The alternative to this approach when a client says they can't afford your services is to simply ask what their budget is per month for therapy. This places them in a position to consider how much value they place on therapy. It then places you in a position to work with the monthly budget of the client and where you feel they fit in your scale.
One common mistake around scales is not explaining that the scale is intended to help the client at their current income and budget levels. If you let the client know from the start that you would appreciate revisiting the discussion of fee if they are able to pay more in the future, you will have many clients return to it on their own when they can afford your full fee.
Sometimes, the clients that can't afford you are not a good fit for you. If you don't know when and to whom to say no to, you will experience burnout. If it's simply not a good fit and you overextend by seeing a client for less than a fair exchange, you will resent the client overtime and not be as available to other clients. In the long run this can hurt the overall financial health of your practice.
Sliding scales allow private practitioners to see people from many different social contexts. If scales are offered carelessly, the therapist will struggle financially and often end up in client dynamics that feel off. However, when done effectively it's both rewarding to the therapist and the client.


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The Big Data Issue: How to Define It?
Along with medical applications and geography-based social networks, "Big Data" is the hottest topic in tech these days. Everyone seems to be talking about it – though if you listen closely you'll realize, as is often the case with new technologies, that nobody really knows what it is.
In fact, Big Data has been around for decades – but until now it has mostly been in the hands of a small elite: mostly academic and government researchers manning supercomputers in secure facilities. But, as usual, Moore's Law has done its work. . . and now billions of servers, personal computers, tablets and smartphones around the world are each generating gigabytes of raw data almost on a daily basis. And with the presence of the global broadband Internet, those mountains of data are now merging into vast data stores of literally unimaginable size.
It is this huge collection of raw information that most people think of when they mouth the words "Big Data." But that is incorrect; that is merely A Whole Lot of Data. It only becomes Big Data when that raw material has been processed in some way as to glean out valuable meta-data that is invisible in everyday life, but which emerges when you sort through the behavior of millions or billions of data sources.
That brings to me to my definition of Big Data: Any body of information that is so big it cannot be analyzed directly for profitable use in its raw form.
Let's deconstruct this definition a bit. Note that we begin with a 'body of information'. I've phrased it this way to recognize that there have always been these large information caches. William the Conqueror's Domesday Book of the 11th century, the first great census of the Medieval world, was for its time a vast body of information. So was the Oxford English Dictionary eight centuries later. These giant repositories of knowledge were all-but impenetrable to their owners because of the lack of automatic search tools. At best, they could be accessed only in piecemeal, the conclusions drawn rarely more than anecdotal.
The modern census, a phenomenon of the 19th century, was at least initially another largely impenetrable body of information. Thanks to early adding and computational machines, it was possible to extract a few pieces of meta-data from these pools – such as total population. But the amount of data captured from each data point necessarily had to be small (i.e. a half-dozen questions about family size, age, etc.) or the data pool quickly grew out of control once again. Indeed, the censuses of the late 19th century grew so unmanageable that the U.S. Census bureau nearly used up one decade (the 1880s) – thus almost starting the next census – before they completed processing the previous one. It was the desperate need to solve this problem that led Herman Hollerith to develop his Tabulator and give birth to the modern computer.
Even today's cheapest laptop or tablet is millions of times more powerful than the Hollerith Tabulator, but the challenge of Big Data has never really gone away. That's because while each generation of processor grows ever more powerful at crunching volumes of data, it also becomes even more efficient at creating that data. And that's just the start, because most of those billions of processors are now connected via the World Wide Web, and that interconnection multiples the amount of data being created. The good news is that this interconnection also allows to us to multiply our processing power – and use that expanded power, with the right application tools, to crunch all of that expanded data. . . and, with luck, uncover trends and truths heretofore lost in the noise.
2. That there really are valuable nuggets of metadata hidden out there in those mountains of data, that they can be found, and their value will be greater than the cost of their discovery.
Hence my use in the definition of the terms "analyze" and "profitable". Whatever the breathless coverage by the media (and by entrepreneurs in the industry) about the importance of Big Data, those two core beliefs I just listed have not been proven viable. At present, we have no idea what tools we will ultimately need to drill down through all of that data out there, how far down we will have to drill to find anything useful, and once we do find something useful, whether it can produced in a form that is useful to corporate customers, governments, healthcare professionals and everyday consumers – and finally, even if it useful, whether it will show sufficient return on investment to justify continuing the pursuit.
This is not going to happen overnight, whatever you may have read. A year from now, we may begin seeing the first public results of this research. When you will see Big Data a part of our daily lives the way we see past tech revolutions like the Web, social networks, GPS and smartphone apps? Maybe five years.
And we may need every day of that half-decade. There is a technology law, first proposed years ago by my friend, technology journalist and author Mike Malone. It's not as famous as Moore's or Metcalfe's Laws, but I think it might be particularly useful here. It says that All technology revolutions arrive more slowly than we predict, but arrive quicker than we are prepared for them.
My gut tells me that Big Data is real, that we will find the right tools to explore it (and that they will be available to almost everyone via the Cloud), that we will find useful results almost from the beginning – and that will grow even richer the deeper we drill. And that a whole second generation of tools will convert those results into content that will form the basis for a whole new boom of entrepreneurial start-ups. There is too much historic precedent – such as the work of epidemiologists in the eighteen century looking at illness tables – to argue otherwise.
But my hunch is also that all of this will take at least five years, and maybe more, to pull off. And that we will need every bit of that half-decade, and probably a whole lot more, to deal with the larger cultural implications of Big Data. Eugenics, racial theory and a whole host of other misguided, and often murderous, nonsense emerged from the misuse of the cruder forms of Big Data two centuries ago. There are a whole bunch of potential problems waiting in the wings with this newest wave of Big Data – the biggest one being privacy. Indeed, in my cynical moments, I believe that the only thing standing between us and our complete loss of personal privacy is the fact that we are still too dumb to devise the right Big Data tools. That won't last long – indeed, you'd be amazed, and shocked, at what is being tracked by Big Data already. It is time to start worrying about these matters right now.
In my next two blog entries, I plan to look even deeper into what needs to be done to help Big Data achieve its destiny; and then, into what needs to be done restrain Big Data once it gets there.


TPx, the managed services and connectivity provider, has added Matthew Coso and Shawn Kirchner to its team of channel managers, with Coso supporting partners in upstate New York, and Kirchner doing the same in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.
Coso brings 20 years of industry sales and channel experience. Before joining TPx, he was a channel manager in the Northeast for RapidScale. Before that he held executive, sales and channel management positions for several high-tech companies, including PaeTec (now part of Windstream), where he spent seven years.
Coso plans to recruit new TPx partners and support existing ones, assisting them with technology selection and solution design for their clients.
Kirchner has 23 years of industry experience working for technology companies and their channel partners in the Northeast, including Aargent. He plans to work alongside TPx partners, and make sure they have the resources and support necessary to successfully market TPx managed IT, UC and managed connectivity solutions.
The mobile enhancements include an innovative Call Boost feature that allows users to seamlessly move an active call from 3/4G or Wi-Fi data services to their cellular voice provider.
Broadvoice's new vice president of client and partner solutions will develop a certified installer program.
TPx now has 24 channel managers across the country.
TPx opened its security operations center (SOC) in St. Louis last summer.


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