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Due to expected capacity bottlenecks of exploited microwave technologies, feeder links for data relay or broadband access systems will require the implementation of high capacity optical communication links between space and ground. In this context, it is necessary a detailed investigation of the optical technologies and techniques that could enable the transmission of high data rates at optical frequencies through the Earth's atmosphere, with regard to all kinds of atmospheric phenomena. In particular, the adverse effects of atmospheric turbulence fading are of special relevance to optical communication systems for ground-to-space uplink applications. Although previous studies and experiments have demonstrated the feasibility of such optical links at low data rate, research is still needed to identify technical solutions and strategies adapted to the specific constraints imposed to these high-speed links in order to ensure the required level of performance. Against this background, various test benches have been developed in order to characterize different modulation and detection techniques for optical communication systems prior to be incorporated in the conceptual design of future 1-Tb/s ground-space optical links. The expected performances of such an experimental demonstration are derived based on simulation models taking into account atmospheric turbulence effects, in order to prove the feasibility of reliable ground-space high date rate optical communication links. Our first simulation studies, considering On-Off Keying (OOK) and Differential Phase Shift Keying (DPSK) modulations, have allowed us to understand the complexity of the link and to optimize both the transmitter and the receiver to achieve acceptable performance levels.


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BOINC client–server technology refers to the model under which BOINC works. The BOINC framework consists of two layers which operate under the client–server architecture. Once the BOINC software is installed in a machine, the server starts sending tasks to the client. The operations are performed client-side and the results are uploaded to the server-side.

Design and structure of BOINC
 BOINC is designed to be a free structure for anyone wishing to start a distributed computing project.
 BOINC consists of a server system and client software that communicate with each other to distribute, process, and return workunits.

Server structure
A major part of the BOINC system is the backend server. The server can run on one or many machines to allow BOINC to scale easily to projects of any size. BOINC servers run on Linux-based computers and use Apache, PHP, and MySQL for their web and database systems.

Scientific computations run on participants' computers. After uploading from the user's client to a science investigator's database, the backend server validates and analyzes the results. The validation process involves running all tasks on multiple contributor PCs and comparing the results.

BOINC servers also provide these features:
 homogeneous redundancy (sending workunits only to computers of the same platform — for example: Win XP SP2 only)
 workunit trickling (sending information to the server before the workunit completes)
 locality scheduling (sending workunits to computers that already have the necessary files and creating work on demand)
 work distribution based on host parameters (workunits requiring 512 MB of RAM, for example, will only be sent to hosts having at least that much RAM)

The server consists of two CGI programs and (normally) five daemons, written in C++. Computations to be performed by clients are called workunits. A result describes an instance of a workunit, even if it hasn't been completed. A project does not explicitly create results; the server creates them automatically from workunits.

The scheduler CGI program handles requests from clients, receiving completed results and sending new work to compute. The scheduler doesn't get available results directly from the database. Instead, a feeder daemon loads tasks from the database and keeps them in a shared-memory block, which the scheduler reads. The feeder periodically fills empty "slots" in the shared-memory block after the scheduler has sent those results to a client.

When all the results from a workunit are completed and returned, the validator checks them. One popular method would be to compare the results against each other. The validator can have custom project-code to do fuzzy comparison between results, or it can perform a bitwise comparison. If the validator determines that at least some of the results are valid, it marks the work unit and the valid results as valid, users who returned legitimate results are granted credit for it, and a "canonical result" is chosen. If the results don't agree, or if one of the results is not reported by its deadline, the server generates an additional instance of the job, and sends it to a third host. This is repeated until a quorum of matching results is found or a limit on the number of instances is
reached.

Next, the assimilator daemon processes the canonical result using project-specific code. For example, some projects may parse the file and store information in a database, others may just copy the file somewhere else. An assimilator may also generate more workunits based on the returned data.

The file_deleter daemon deletes output files after the assimilator has processed them, and deletes input files that aren't needed anymore.

The transitioner daemon handles state transitions of workunits and results. It also generates results from workunits when they are first created, and when more are needed (for example, if a result turns out invalid).

Client structure

BOINC on the client is structured into a number of separate applications. These intercommunicate using the BOINC remote procedure call (RPC) mechanism.

These component applications are:

 The program  (or ) is the core client.
 The core client is a process which:
 Takes care of communications between the client and the server.
 The core client also downloads science applications, provides a unified logging mechanism, makes sure science application binaries are up-to-date, and schedules CPU resources between science applications (if several are installed).
 Although the core client is capable of downloading new science applications, it does not update itself. BOINC's authors felt doing so posed an unacceptable security risk, as well as all of the risks that automatic update procedures have in computing.
 On Unix, the core client is generally run as a daemon (or occasionally as a cron job).
 On Windows, BOINC initially was not a Windows service, but an ordinary application.  BOINC Client for Windows, Versions 5.2.13 and higher add, during installation, the option of "Service Installation".
 Depending on how the BOINC client software was installed, it can either run in the background like a daemon, or starts when an individual user logs in (and is stopped when the user logs out).  The software version management and work-unit handling provided by the core client greatly simplifies the coding of science applications.
 One or several science applications. Science applications perform the core scientific computation.  There is a specific science application for each of the distributed computation projects which use the BOINC framework.  Science applications use the BOINC daemon to upload and download workunits, and to exchange statistics with the server.
  (or ), a GUI which communicates with the core application using remote procedure calls. By default a core client only allows connections from the same computer, but it can be configured to allow connections from other computers (optionally using password authentication); this mechanism allows one person to manage a farm of BOINC installations from a single workstation. A drawback to the use of RPC mechanisms is that they are often felt to be security risks because they can be the route by which hackers can intrude upon targeted computers (even if it's configured for connections from the same computer).
 The GUI is written using the cross-platform WxWidgets toolkit, providing the same user experience on different platforms. Users can connect to BOINC core clients, can instruct those clients to install new science applications, can monitor the progress of ongoing calculations, and can view the BOINC system message logs.
 The BOINC screensaver. This provides a framework whereby science applications can display graphics in the user's screensaver window.  BOINC screensavers are coded using the BOINC graphics API, OpenGL, and the GLUT toolkit. Typically BOINC screensavers show animated graphics detailing the work underway, perhaps showing graphs or charts or other data visualisation graphics.
 Some science applications do not provide screensaver functionality (or stop providing screensaver images when they are idle). In this circumstance the screensaver shows a small BOINC logo which bounces around the screen.

Since BOINC has features that can render it invisible to the typical user, there is risk that unauthorized and difficult to detect installations may occur. This would aid the accumulation of BOINC-credit points by hobbyists who are competing with others for status within the BOINC-credit subculture.

Client platforms

See also
 Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC)
 Volunteer Computing

References

Software that uses wxWidgets
Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing

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Israel hand behind the killing of Rohingya Muslims through the Myanmar military, Within a week hundreds of Rohingya Muslims killed, Children beheaded and burnt alive but the activists say the killed numbers are more than 800.
As per the report of Middle East Eye, Myanmar bought weapons from Israeli companies and the Israeli special forces training them in the Rakhine state, where most of the violence is happening.
- The Rohingya Muslims are living in poverty and facing continuously discrimination from the Buddhist majority people in Myanmar. Thousands of Rohingya Muslims fled away as refugees to other countries since 2016.
- Even though they are living from generations and decades in the country, Myanmar government is not providing Muslim community a legal recognition and constantly treating them as illegal immigrants.
- Earlier King Salman of Saudi Arabia has granted 4 million Iqama's to Burmese Muslims, More than million Muslims fled to countries like Bangladesh, Pakistan and Malaysia. Now Turkey is about to send 1000 tons of aid for Rohingya Muslims.
- According to the human right activist Ofer Neiman, Israeli government is successfully sold arms to the Burma military from last few years. Weapons that was using against Palestinians are now being sold to Myanmar military for field test on Rohingya Muslims.
- It is in records that Israel has sold Myanmar over 100 tanks, arms and boats for guarding the country's border and Israeli companies provided special training to the Burmese forces in the Rakhine state.
- Israel's Human rights activists lodged a petition in High Court of Justice to ban the supply of arms to Myanmar, But the Defense Ministry refused to stop the supply of weapons and replied the Court has no jurisdiction on this matter, The court justice is about to come in the end of this September.


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Anti Turns Discarded and Broken Umbrellas Into Desk and Table Lamps
08.10.21 | By Katie Treggiden
We've all experienced that frustrating moment when an umbrella gets blown inside out, the force of the movement breaking the spindles and rendering it useless. The thing is that the majority of umbrellas are simply not designed to last, with an average lifespan of just six months. In order to turn this frustration into something positive, Anti takes discarded and broken umbrellas, disassembles them, and upcycles them into desk and table lamps. We spoke to UK-based founder and CEO Mark Howells to find out more.
Tell me a little bit about your childhood, education and background in terms of how you first became interested in creativity, design and sustainability.
I grew up In Hertfordshire in a working class family. My mother can draw and paint and my father is very musical; writing and performing electric and acoustic guitar-based music to this day at 70 years of age. My first exposure to design was via a foundation course in art and design at Watford in the 1990s. I was drawn towards the traditional arts as opposed to design, until I was asked by a tutor, who ran a 3D Design class, to select an object from a series of waste objects she had scavenged from a beach and produce a new product. I chose a section of a washed-up bicycle tire and made a watch strap that buttoned over the tire tread. I loved the process of learning to unsee the original utility of an object and unlocking a new purpose unseen by anyone else before. This led to an explosion of designs using waste. At the time I had a cleaning job in the evenings at a very large office and I would collect items of interest that had been discarded in bins – in particular, computer components – and repurpose them. It was these designs that secured me a place on an Industrial Design degree at Cardiff University. Although I learned a huge amount, I really had no real interest in becoming an Industrial Designer – the assembly line approach of the time was a far cry from the work I had been doing to secure my position on the degree course in the first place. This was the '90s and sustainability wasn't a mainstay of the curriculum. I decided to take the drafting skills I had developed and head towards engineering. I worked for various environmental consultancies, which led me to building and land surveying, eventually as a board-level director of a successful surveying practice. In this role, I gained exposure to starting new business units and small businesses – which inspired me to fulfill a long-harbored desire to return to sustainable design.
How would you describe your project/product?
Anti's first collection is upcycled lamps made of discarded umbrellas that were otherwise destined for landfill. The collected umbrellas are disassembled into their separate materials groups (e.g. plastics, metals, nylon) and are made into desk and table lamps. Over 1 billion umbrellas are made each year but are not designed to last, with an average lifespan of just six months. Anti addresses a waste issue by designing with waste, not creating it – and the new products are easier to disassemble at end-of-life than the umbrella was in its original state. This is the first waste stream we are concentrating on, but there will be others. One of our key focuses is to design repeatable upcycled products that can be made/manufactured at scale. The more we sell, the more waste we reuse, and the more good we can do.
What inspired this project/product?
After living in London and Tokyo, I became very aware of the wastage around umbrellas. In Tokyo, umbrellas are everywhere, you see endless rows of broken umbrellas at railway stations and outside shops. On a typical rainy day in Tokyo over 3,000 umbrellas are handed in to lost property, London underground deals with a similar problem. Our research suggests as many as one billion umbrellas are broken, lost or discarded each year worldwide. Umbrellas are just one example of an everyday product that has an important utility and value, but is flawed. It solves one problem but causes another. In the case of umbrellas it keeps us dry, and is portable, cheap and available on every street corner, but is made of different material types and so it's difficult to disassemble at the end of its life, which makes recycling at scale difficult.
What waste (and other) materials are you using, how did you select those particular materials and how do you source them?
Both lamps are made from discarded umbrellas. We have collected these over the last few years primarily from lost properties and from city streets, bins and train stations. We also use a 3D-printed recycled plastic filament for two components and several metal components that are made from recycled materials.
When did you first become interested in using waste as raw material and what motivated this decision?
The design potential of using waste has interested me since higher education, however, the first real exposure I had to the environmental impact of how we were dealing (or not dealing) with waste was when I was a junior technician at an environmental engineering consultancy. I saw how landfills were designed firsthand and even had the opportunity to see one being built. Landfills were recognized even by the landfill designers at the time to be a poor solution with many issues e.g., the plastic membranes often split or ripped leaking the toxic water (leachate) that had percolated through the waste over time and into the soil and worryingly possibly into the groundwater. To see these vast cavernous sites being built, often in areas of countryside, just felt wrong and you could really see the 'out of sight, out of mind' mentality we have associated with waste. The new items we purchase are made of the exact same materials we were throwing away; I have always believed that it's our perception of what we deem as waste that needs to change. If you view any perceived waste item by its material type and form as opposed to its original utility and the stigma associated with something old or used, then it's free to take on a new role. It's down to us as designers to unlock this potential.
What processes do the materials have to undergo to become the finished product?
The umbrellas have to be disassembled into their individual component types and, in some cases, cleaned and repaired. The 3D-printed parts also need to be cleaned and finished. Then both lamps are primarily made through a process of assembly as opposed to manufacturing. This is also more energy-efficient.
What happens to your products at the end of their life – can they go back into the circular economy?
I encourage each customer to return our products at end of life via our Take Back scheme. We will happily take back any of the products produced at our workshop. These will be disassembled and reused as the basis for new designs or as a last resort disassembled for recycling. Having these products returned really is of great value to us. Both lamp designs are easy to disassemble, which allows us to recapture their material value very quickly.
How did you feel the first time you saw the transformation from waste material to product/prototype?
It really does feel like a kind of alchemy when you get it right. My objective Is to produce beautiful products from waste streams that at first, or even second, sight have no reference to their original purpose and utility. I know my work is done when someone suddenly realizes that what they are looking at is not what they thought, and yet it was there in front of them the whole time. To provide that surprise and joy is the best feeling.
How have people reacted to this project?
It's been really positive so far. I think people are genuinely surprised that you can create something that looks beautiful from something that is not considered so. I've been particularly pleased with receiving great responses from fellow designers and sustainable designers.
How do you feel opinions towards waste as a raw material are changing?
I believe people are now more accepting of recycling and products made from recycled materials and in many cases, there's now a demand for these. Upcycled products, however, are sometimes devalued in what people might pay for them due to the monetary tag associated with their previous life. That's interesting because, in my opinion, the creative innovation to successfully develop an upcycled product (particularly at volume) is far more challenging, and ultimately more impressive, from both the point of view of the creative process and the end product point.
What do you think the future holds for waste as a raw material?
Ultimately, we should get to a stage where we do not see waste as rubbish. I believe circular economy principles will be the panacea to the fear and hurt we are feeling more strongly than ever towards the damage to the planet. Politicians, businesses, designers, and individuals will genuinely want to change the way we live, you can see the younger generation are already asking all the right questions and have the hunger to find the answers. Upcycling, in the sense of taking a linear lifecycle product and transforming it into a circular lifecycle product, can be a stop-gap to buy us more time until we are designing with circular principles ingrained into everything we manufacture from the outset. Developing biomimicry and biological fabrication where we can grow our products and they can safely return to the earth without the need for retrieval systems is a really exciting future. Although there is incredible progress in this area, we are, realistically, many decades from this becoming mainstream, and therefore the role of upcycling is critical to providing the time to achieve that transition.
Katie Treggiden is a purpose-driven writer and keynote speaker championing a circular approach to design – because Planet Earth needs better stories. With 20 years' experience in the creative industries, she regularly contributes to publications such as The Guardian, Crafts Magazine and Monocle24 – as well as being Editor at Large for Design Milk. She is currently exploring the question 'can craft save the world?' through an emerging body of work that includes her fifth book, Wasted: When Trash Becomes Treasure (Ludion, 2020), and a podcast, Circular with Katie Treggiden.
You can follow Katie Treggiden on Twitter, Instagram, and Linkedin. Read all of Katie Treggiden's posts.

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Who has a spider in his home schould be lucky!
The 14th of March is National "Save a Spider" Day, a day when arachnids everywhere relax and let their spinnerets down!! While spiders can be terrifying to some, they actually provide incredible services to humans and our ecosystem.
Spiders survive on insects like fleas, flies, and mosquitoes annually up to two kilograms of insects.
Most people are afraid of the creepy-crawlies and kill the beast because they do not know how to help each other better.
But one thing you should definitely know: The so threatening acting spider does not want you any harm. She is more afraid of you than you are of her and she is not poisonous at all.


And the Blossom Bloomtime Is….
This year marks the centennial anniversary of Japan's gift of cherry trees to Washington, DC and the enduring friendship between Japan and the United States. The National Cherry Blossom Festival is celebrating in style this year with a five-week calendar of events. Considered the nation's greatest springtime celebration, this year will feature diverse and creative programming promoting traditional and contemporary arts and culture, natural beauty, and community spirit.
Among some of the events are the Pink Tie Party on March 20 with Chefs Jose Andres and Roy Yamaguchi and the Cherry Blossom Parade on April 14, co-hosted by Katie Couric with special correspondents Alex Trebek, Leon Harris, and Alison Starling.
The biggest news, however, is the bloom prediction by NPS Chief Horticulturalist Rob DeFeo. Due to the light winter and continual warming trend, the peak bloom prediction this year is from March 24th through the 31st. In the coming weeks, watch for updates from WLDC on the exciting Cherry Blossom events and plans to come!


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Daily Post prompt for today was: Pinpoint a moment in your past where you had to make a big decision. Write about that other alternate life that could have unfolded.
Just this past week, I was teaching the story "The Garden of Forking Paths" by Jorge Luis Borges to my university class on Modernity in Literature.
dead; in still another, I utter these same words, but I am a mistake, a ghost."
To me, this applies to the decision points of my life. At age 67, I can look back and see them. At age 18, I decided to go to Saint Joseph College, in a town far from home. Had I decided to go to West Chester State, in my home town, my whole life would be different. I would have probably married the fellow I was dating at home, had children, had lived in my home town all my life, and so on.
If I follow Borges' philosophy, on another parallel level , I AM doing just that.
I could go on and on , through the many decision points of my life, and imagine my life as it is lived on those other levels. It becomes dizzying!
It's been a very long ten days. February seems longer than usual, due in part to the miserable weather ( today we have snow/sleet/ black ice/ rising temperatures/rain/fog) but due also to my worrying about my university. The conflicts over our new president escalated , to put it mildly. I don't feel like telling the story here. Suffice it to say that we aired our dirty laundry in the press, and much angry response has appeared in the comments section of every news article and on Facebook and Twitter. I have said many rosaries, since that prayer is one I am able to say when I am distressed and distracted. I have faith that something good will come from this debacle... eventually.
"Hope and Love" by Jane Hirshfield from The Lives of the Heart. © Harper Perennial, 1997. Reprinted with permission.
Today's Prompt on The Daily Post: Your blog is about to be recorded into an audiobook. If you could choose anyone — from your grandma to Samuel L. Jackson — to narrate your posts, who would it be?
I couldn't think of anyone at first. Needed a woman with an American accent.
Then another blogger was talking about Sylvia Plath. Sylvia Plath was a gifted poet but an emotional disaster, and she committed suicide at the age of 32. I loved her voice. If she had lived, she would be 84 today; she could still be writing! What a loss. But since she is gone, I tried to think of someone else.
Possibly, Mariska Hargitay, because I love her breathy voice. But it's not really me.
Then I thought of Kathleen Turner. She would be good. She looks more like me, too. Though I don't look as good as she does. But it's the voice that matters here.


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Завидовка — деревня в Михайловском районе Рязанской области России.

История
Первые дома на территории Завидовки появились в первой половине XIX века.

Деревня возникла на территории Михайловского уезда Рязанской губернии. До 1924 года входила в состав Виленской волости Михайловского уезда.

Население

География
Деревня находится на юго-востоке от Москвы на расстоянии 205 км.

Ближайший к деревне город — Михайлов — 23 км.

Рядом с Завидовкой расположены 4 деревни:

на северо-западе — Каморино

на юго-западе — Красная Звезда и Курлышево

на юго-востоке — Серебрянь и Горенка

Вблизи деревни находится небольшой пруд.

Объекты
В 2013—2014 годах в Завидовке была построена небольшая церковь.

В начале Центральной улицы располагается кирпичное здание почты. Рядом с ним есть общедоступный таксофон.

В деревне имеются две торговые палатки, обеспечивающие жителей необходимыми товарами.

На территории деревни есть 3 колодца. На околице несколько трансформаторов, вырабатывающих энергию.

Улицы
В деревне три улицы: Советская, Центральная, Крутовка.

Протяжённость заасфальтированной дороги составляет 1,664 км.

Леса Завидовки
Завидовка со всех сторон окружена лесами — Малый лес, Большой лес, Хомут, Липов.

Примечания

Ссылки
 Сайт деревни Завидовка

Населённые пункты Михайловского района (Рязанская область)


10/02/16 - I never imagined that it would be two years and two months from when construction began to when I finally made the move to our new house. Oh, we have moved lots of things into the house over the last several months but I had not moved my personal items that indicate that I actually live there. We have been sleeping in the new house since July and Randy moved his clothes in late July. Moving involved more than just moving items in; we also needed to learn how to live in this type of house, testing the systems, and working out any "bugs." There are many down sides to moving but one up side is that everything in the current house had to be picked up and moved which provided the opportunity to have a heart-to-heart with myself and to weed out some non-essential stuff. We got rid of a lot of stuff seven years ago so where did we get all this new stuff??? It must be Randy's stuff! Well, Randy has his fair share – things like his tools, camping gear, and his golf clubs but some of it is left behind stuff from when the kids lived at home. Things like a few old prom dresses that were really special, a pink fishing pole with a reel that lights up, the green blow-up thing in the garage that looks like a floating device with cup holders, and an oboe that never seems to fit in the suitcase when the kid leaves again after the most recent visit. The instructions are always the same, "Mom, please don't get rid of my stuff!!!" But then there is my stuff – my sewing machine and all the paraphernalia that goes with it, the boxes of photos from when the kids were little, and all the Christmas decorations. I am really trying to get serious about which stuff makes the move and which stuff doesn't make the cut which has been quite time consuming. However, October 2, 2016 was when I officially moved into the new house with my essential stuff – things like my toothbrush, my curling iron, and all my shoes.


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"SAS is the only game in town if you're interested in working with analytics at FORTUNE 500® companies, the government or large research institutions," says Ray Bacon, an expert-level SAS User Support Analyst in the Social Science Statistics Center at the University of Missouri, who also teaches SAS Certification courses each semester. "SAS is embraced by those types of institutions, and having a SAS Certification under your belt can be a really big advantage; many former students say that being SAS-certified made the crucial difference in being hired. And if you doubt that SAS is a job skill in demand, do research on Monster.com – they have to cap the results at 2,000."
Bacon, who has used SAS for 15 years at the university, and currently supports more than 1,700 users, says he has made it his singular mission during his career to make statistical software accessible to every member of the University of Missouri. And this meant implementing an intensive, eight-day SAS Certification course to help any SAS user become self-sufficient – student and professor alike. Furthermore, says Bacon, students have been able to parlay their SAS skills into jobs using the software.
Self-supportive SAS users
"People are more self-supportive," he explains. "In the past, professors needed us to come in and do short courses. Now they provide instruction for the software in their classes themselves, and the level of assignments students receive are getting more elaborate. Our mission has been to help anyone who wanted to use the software to get the support they needed, and to help students find employment using their SAS skills. The SAS Certification training has been very successful in doing that. We also want to help Missouri employers acquire students that have the analytics skillset necessary to help them compete on a global basis. In a way we are helping to foster economic development in the state."
Skills in high demand
To further address the growing need for analytics skills in the work force, the university's Trulaske College of Business recently introduced MBA-level analytics courses for its marketing program, with the curriculum designed with input from executives at leading organizations.
"There are lots of companies out there sitting on a lot of data and not making full use of it," says Ratti Ratneshwar, Professor of Marketing and Marketing Department Chair at the Trulaske College of Business. "They're reaching out to us for students who can help them extract the information they need to support their business decisions.
The MBA degree that students attain helps them with their long-term career growth, but in terms of where they might want to start, the analytics courses provide them with somewhere to start – and that opportunity is only getting bigger."
"Since more than 90 percent of the FORTUNE 100® companies use software like SAS to manage and analyze huge data volumes to forecast their business, having analytical marketing skills can definitely make students more marketable," says Chloe Chan, a Trulaske College of Business MBA program graduate, who is employed full-time and using SAS on a daily basis. "Marketing is no longer just about creating catchy commercials; it's now backed by a lot of data analysis, which supports the direction of the business. Analytical marketing skills are very much a requirement in business today."
The MBA and analytics advantage
So why are people with MBA degrees in such demand for jobs that some might say are more suitable for a statistician? According to Ratneshwar, companies today need both.
"Nearly every company we talked to said they prefer not to have pure statisticians for these jobs, because the pure statisticians don't always understand the business problems that they're trying to solve, and it takes too much training to educate them as to what the issues are," he explains. "Companies increasingly want MBA students who can hit the ground running and be productive very rapidly. It's important that we produce MBA students who can actually do some of the hands-on analytical work, as soon as they join an organization. Often, they will be on a team that has expert statisticians who can perform the in-depth technical work, while the MBA with the analytical skills and business knowledge provides the day-to-day support for the line managers of an organization."
Why SAS?
"Most of the companies that we talked to, especially the ones with vast amounts of data, recommended that we adopt SAS," Ratneshwar explains. "Many professors also use SAS in their research and therefore are well-conversant in it. Such factors led to our decision to make SAS the tool of choice for our analytics courses."
"The thing that really sets SAS apart is how well it supports its users," concludes Bacon. "SAS really bends over backwards. From sales to technical support to user groups, it supports its customers like no other company I've ever seen."
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Q: Individual column filter not working in Datatable I am using jQuery DataTables @version 1.10.11
All thing is work but column Filter not working. what is the issue?
is there external plug-in required or file?
Please help.

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A: You need to include jquery.dataTables.columnFilter.js for columnFilter plugin, see Downloads page.
See this jsFiddle for code and demonstration.

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Q: Use class path properly in Java in command line I'm newbie to Java. I have read all the documentations regarding specifing the classpath. But I'm still confused about my case. I'm trying to use the BuildIndex command that is part of semantic package, specifically this example,
java pitt.search.semanticvectors.BuildIndex -luceneindexpath $INDEX_MADE_ABOVE.

in here
The source of how to use the class is here https://github.com/semanticvectors/semanticvectors/wiki/InstallationInstructions#to-build-and-search-a-model
I'm trying to specify the classpath like:
java cp- {classpath} pitt.search.semanticvectors.BuildIndex -luceneindexpath $INDEX_MADE_ABOVE.
in here

But I'm not sure what the class path should be here. . The command line should have a class path, but thinking it should not be related to my project, it's part of the semantic vectors package. Do I need to clone that? its source code from the package here https://github.com/semanticvectors/semanticvectors/blob/master/src/main/java/pitt/search/semanticvectors/BuildIndex.java..
My trials was using the path of my project as the picture but didn't work. Another trial was using -jar  jarName ,, got the same error: Could not find or load main class pitt.search.semanticvectors.BuildIndex. I appreciate the help as I'm confused and new to this.

A: In Java, classpath is the path pointing to either the directory or the jar file where your compiled java class files are located.
In your project, the class pitt.search.semanticvectors.BuildIndex is located in the jar file C:\Users\{yourusername}\Downloads\semanticvectors-5.8.jar. Therefore, the classpath is C:\Users\{yourusername}\Downloads\semanticvectors-5.8.jar.
Try something like
java -cp C:\Users\{yourusername}\Downloads\semanticvectors-5.8.jar pitt.search.semanticvectors.BuildIndex -luceneindexpath $INDEX_MADE_ABOVE

I think you mistyped cp- instead of -cp.
For more details how to use classpath, please refer to Java SE Documentation


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American Legion Post 79 donated to Operation Warm, a program run by Massena Permanent Firefighters IAFF Local 2220 to provide warm winter coats to Massena children. Donations are still being accepted. Bob Beckstead/Watertown Daily Times
Massena fire union accepting donations for annual Operation Warm program
By BOB BECKSTEAD
bbeckstead@wdt.net
Bob Beckstead
Reporter/Editor
MASSENA — With colder temperatures rolling in, members of Massena Permanent Firefighters IAFF Local 2220 want to make sure children in Massena stay toasty.
They're accepting donations to support Operation Warm. Donations may be dropped off at the fire department at any time or can be set up online at wdt.me/7GNCBB. Donations can also be mailed to Massena Permanent Firefighters, 34 Andrews St., Massena, NY 13662.
American Legion Post 79 in Massena did its part by donating $1,000 for the program.
"We would like to thank Massena American Legion Post -79 for their generous donation to help support our Operation Warm program. We are grateful to have your continued support. Thank you for all that you do to help us and others in the community," Local 2220 members said in a Facebook post announcing the donation.
Operation Warm is a national nonprofit that manufactures brand-new, high-quality coats and shoes for children in need. The organization partners with individuals, community organizations and corporations across North America to provide emotional warmth, confidence to socialize and succeed, and hope of a brighter future by using the gift as a catalyst for community connection.
Members said, thanks to community support from individuals, businesses and organizations like the American Legion, they have been able to provide more than 500 winter coats to children in Massena over the last five years.
The members have purchased and donated more than 70 winter coats to children and families in need at Massena Head Start. That continued a tradition that began in 2016 when they first took part in Operation Warm and purchased 60 coats for Head Start children.
Two years ago, the union purchased enough coats for children in need at Head Start, and had enough left over to donate to children at the Police Activities League of Massena, formerly the Boys and Girls Club. They have also distributed coats during the Massena Central School District's Ready 4 School event.
In the past, they've held fundraising drives and relied on those donations to purchase the coats. But COVID-19 changed that and, rather than seeking donations from residents for the last distribution, funding for the coats came from the members themselves, along with some money that remained from previous fundraising efforts.
Anyone who needs or knows of someone who needs a winter coat can contact the Massena Fire Department at 315-769-2380. Any of the department's on-duty firefighters will link the caller up with one of the program's organizers.
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