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package com.asura.framework.monitor.jmx.mbean;

import java.lang.management.ManagementFactory;

import com.asura.framework.monitor.annotation.MBean;
import com.sun.management.OperatingSystemMXBean;

/**
 *
系统信息实现类

 *
 *

 *
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 *
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 *
	修改日期			修改人			修改内容
 *

 *
 * @author zhangshaobin
 * @since 1.0
 * @version 1.0
 */
@SuppressWarnings("restriction")
@MBean(name = "com.asura:type=SystemInfo")
public class SystemInfo implements SystemInfoMBean {

	/**
	 *
	 * 获取操作系统MBean
	 *
	 * @author zhangshaobin
	 * @created 2013-1-8 上午8:08:03
	 *
	 * @return
	 */
	private OperatingSystemMXBean getOperatingSystemMXBean() {
		return (OperatingSystemMXBean) ManagementFactory.getOperatingSystemMXBean();
	}

	/* (non-Javadoc)
	 * @see com.sfbest.monitor.mbean.SystemInfoMBean#getTotalPhysicalMemorySize()
	 */
	@Override
	public long getTotalPhysicalMemorySize() {
		return getOperatingSystemMXBean().getTotalPhysicalMemorySize();
	}

	/* (non-Javadoc)
	 * @see com.sfbest.monitor.mbean.SystemInfoMBean#getFreePhysicalMemorySize()
	 */
	@Override
	public long getFreePhysicalMemorySize() {
		return getOperatingSystemMXBean().getFreePhysicalMemorySize();
	}

	/* (non-Javadoc)
	 * @see com.sfbest.monitor.mbean.SystemInfoMBean#getMaxJvmMemorySize()
	 */
	@Override
	public long getMaxJvmMemorySize() {
		return Runtime.getRuntime().maxMemory();
	}

	/* (non-Javadoc)
	 * @see com.sfbest.monitor.mbean.SystemInfoMBean#getTotalJvmMemorySize()
	 */
	@Override
	public long getTotalJvmMemorySize() {
		return Runtime.getRuntime().totalMemory();
	}

	/* (non-Javadoc)
	 * @see com.sfbest.monitor.mbean.SystemInfoMBean#getFreeJvmMemorySize()
	 */
	@Override
	public long getFreeJvmMemorySize() {
		return Runtime.getRuntime().freeMemory();
	}

	/* (non-Javadoc)
	 * @see com.sfbest.monitor.mbean.SystemInfoMBean#getJvmStartTime()
	 */
	@Override
	public long getJvmStartTime() {
		return ManagementFactory.getRuntimeMXBean().getStartTime();
	}

	/* (non-Javadoc)
	 * @see com.sfbest.monitor.mbean.SystemInfoMBean#getJvmVersion()
	 */
	@Override
	public String getJvmVersion() {
		return ManagementFactory.getRuntimeMXBean().getVmVersion();
	}

	/* (non-Javadoc)
	 * @see com.sfbest.monitor.mbean.SystemInfoMBean#getJvmName()
	 */
	@Override
	public String getJvmName() {
		return ManagementFactory.getRuntimeMXBean().getVmName();
	}

	/* (non-Javadoc)
	 * @see com.sfbest.monitor.mbean.SystemInfoMBean#getTotalLoadedClassCount()
	 */
	@Override
	public long getTotalLoadedClassCount() {
		return ManagementFactory.getClassLoadingMXBean().getTotalLoadedClassCount();
	}

	/* (non-Javadoc)
	 * @see com.sfbest.monitor.mbean.SystemInfoMBean#getLoadedClassCount()
	 */
	@Override
	public long getLoadedClassCount() {
		return ManagementFactory.getClassLoadingMXBean().getLoadedClassCount();
	}

	/* (non-Javadoc)
	 * @see com.sfbest.monitor.mbean.SystemInfoMBean#getHeapMemoryInit()
	 */
	@Override
	public long getHeapMemoryInit() {
		return ManagementFactory.getMemoryMXBean().getHeapMemoryUsage().getInit();
	}

	/* (non-Javadoc)
	 * @see com.sfbest.monitor.mbean.SystemInfoMBean#getHeapMemoryUsed()
	 */
	@Override
	public long getHeapMemoryUsed() {
		//		return ManagementFactory.getCompilationMXBean().;
		return ManagementFactory.getMemoryMXBean().getHeapMemoryUsage().getUsed();
	}

	/* (non-Javadoc)
	 * @see com.sfbest.monitor.mbean.SystemInfoMBean#getHeapMemoryMax()
	 */
	@Override
	public long getHeapMemoryMax() {
		return ManagementFactory.getMemoryMXBean().getHeapMemoryUsage().getMax();
	}

	/* (non-Javadoc)
	 * @see com.sfbest.monitor.mbean.SystemInfoMBean#getThreadCount()
	 */
	@Override
	public long getThreadCount() {
		return ManagementFactory.getThreadMXBean().getThreadCount();
	}

	/* (non-Javadoc)
	 * @see com.sfbest.monitor.mbean.SystemInfoMBean#getPeakThreadCount()
	 */
	@Override
	public long getPeakThreadCount() {
		return ManagementFactory.getThreadMXBean().getPeakThreadCount();
	}

	/* (non-Javadoc)
	 * @see com.sfbest.monitor.mbean.SystemInfoMBean#getDaemonThreadCount()
	 */
	@Override
	public long getDaemonThreadCount() {
		return ManagementFactory.getThreadMXBean().getDaemonThreadCount();
	}

	/* (non-Javadoc)
	 * @see com.sfbest.monitor.mbean.SystemInfoMBean#getTotalStartedThreadCount()
	 */
	@Override
	public long getTotalStartedThreadCount() {
		return ManagementFactory.getThreadMXBean().getTotalStartedThreadCount();
	}

	//	public long getTotalStartedThreadCount() {
	//		return ManagementFactory.getGarbageCollectorMXBeans().;
	//		return ManagementFactory.getMemoryManagerMXBeans();
	//		return ManagementFactory.getMemoryPoolMXBeans().、;
	//	}

}


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module Company
  class Profile
    attr_accessor :first_name, :last_name, :handle, :title, :bio, :primary_email, :primary_phone

    def initialize(first_name, last_name, handle, title, bio, primary_email, primary_phone)
      @id = nil
      @first_name, @last_name, @handle, @title, @bio, @primary_email, @primary_phone = first_name, last_name, handle, title, bio, primary_email, primary_phone
      @type = 'Company::Profile'
    end

    def to_json
      hash = {}
      self.instance_variables.each do |var|
        next if var.to_s == '@id'
        p "Assigning [#{var.to_s.gsub(/^@/,'')}] [#{self.instance_variable_get var}]"
        hash[var.to_s.gsub(/^@/,'')] = self.instance_variable_get var
      end
      hash.to_json
    end

    def from_json! string
      JSON.load(string).each do |var, val|
        self.instance_variable_set var, val
      end
    end

  end
end

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Many more women runners are choosing to wear a shorts-and-skirt combination called a skort. I have been testing the SkinFit Vento Trail Skirt for a wide range of running and over several months.
My favourite item to wear on my lower half is a skort. I like the flattering and feminine look of the short and skirt combo.
If you do not feel confident in tight-fitting shots this is the ideal remedy because you get the support of the shorts with a skirt over the top to hide any lumps and bumps.
In particular, I like the length of the inner shorts of the SkinFit Vento Trail skirt. Many skorts have legs that are too short. But the SkinFit legs stay in place and offer good thigh coverage. They do not ride up or annoy.
The wider hem on the lower part of the short makes them really comfortable. There is no bulging or discomfort at all. The design is excellent.
The support of the soft Lycra fabric is fairly good. If you want a tighter fit I suggest going down a size from what you might normally choose.
The skirt is long enough to reach to just above the hem of the shorts. This means you get great coverage.
There is no restriction when running. The skirt feels like it is not there at all really.
The waistband fits me perfectly. It is not too high-rise or too low and it fits gently around my lower waist. It is one of the most comfortable running products I own.
I have to say I was doubtful that the Teflon water repellency treatment would work after a few washes. However, after many washes and then plenty of drying in a tumble drier, the Teflon still does a great job. Water simply runs of the outside of the fabric. This is really rather amazing.
There is a strip of thinner, translucent fabric that runs around the lower half of the skirt. This is a nice design feature and also allows for breathability. Of course it also allows a bit of wind to get into the skort but since I would usually wear this on a warmer day it is not a problem.
The colours of the skort are fantastic and I have received many compliments and questions about this product. I really like wearing it.
The skort has become my number one choice of wear for warmer weather.
If you are packing for a holiday and want to take running clothes with you, the skort fits into a tiny corner of your suitcase.
There is little to fault with the skort. Normally I would find something to complain about but I am struggling with this product.
Perhaps the inner pocket is worth a mention. I can't see the point in it. I would find it annoying to carry anything in the pocket unless it was very lightweight such as a bank note or a credit card - a waistband pocket would be a lot more useful.
The Lycra shorts could be a little more supportive. I found I need to wear ordinary pants under the shorts but this is not a problem. As I said above, if you want a bit more support, buy a size smaller so they are tighter fitting.
€89 might seem like a lot for one skort but I have found the product lasts very well. I have worn it repeatedly and washed it again and again and it still looks great.
I absolutely love the look, fit, feel and technical details of this skort. It is very comfortable to wear and has brought many positive comments. I would happily buy another one so I would always have a SkinFit skort on hand to wear.
Have you used the SkinFit Vento Trail Skirt? Don't agree with this review? What's your opinion? Add your own comment to this review and share your experience and passion for running with others.


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La saison 1956 du Championnat de Hongrie de football est la  du championnat de première division en Hongrie. Les douze meilleurs clubs du pays sont regroupés au sein d'une poule unique, la Nemzeti Bajnokság I, où ils s'affrontent deux fois, à domicile et à l'extérieur. À cause de la révolution hongroise de 1956, le championnat est interrompu et ne pourra jamais aller à son terme.

Les clubs participants

Compétition

Classement
Le barème utilisé pour établir le classement est le suivant :
 Victoire : 2 points
 Match nul : 1 point
 Défaite : 0 point

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Matchs

Bilan de la saison

Voir aussi

Références

Liens internes
 Championnat de Hongrie de football

Liens externes
  Page sur RSSSF

Championnat de Hongrie de football
Hongrie
1956 en Hongrie

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Home > Bioquell (UK) Ltd > Burns units combat superbug outbreaks with HPV disinfection bundle.
Burns units combat superbug outbreaks with HPV disinfection bundle.
News and PR from Bioquell (UK) Ltd - Published 16 August 2012 A bundle of infection control measures using the latest hydrogen peroxide vapour (HPV) disinfection technology has significantly reduced the incidence of nosocomial MRSA and Acinetobacter baumannii in
Work conducted at Saint-Antoine Hospital in Paris, France by Dr Frederic Barbut and his team has recently been published in a leading scientific journal. It demonstrates the effectiveness of regular HPV disinfection of rooms following discharge of patients known to be affected by multidrug-resistant bacteria. The Saint-Antoine Hospital burns unit is one of two major reference burns centres in Paris. It had an ongoing problem with Acinetobacter infections when it experienced a major MRSA outbreak in 2007. This led to the closure of the unit in July 2008.
As a result, the entire unit was decontaminated using BioquellÂ's HPV technology and an infection control bundle (ICB) was implemented when the unit was reopened in September 2008. The ICB comprised regular HPV disinfection of the rooms following discharge of patients colonized or infected by multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO), pre-emptive cohort isolation of newly admitted patients before being proven culture negative and cohorting of colonized or infected patients. In addition, two air disinfection systems were installed in the corridors of the unit and improvements made to material storage.
HPV disinfection was shown to be effective at significantly reducing environmental contamination (bacterial and fungal) from surfaces and the air within the unit and eliminating pathogens from the environment. The ICB stopped the MRSA outbreak, and resulted in a significant reduction in the incidence of nosocomial MRSA (89.3%) and A. baumannii (88.8%). It also prevented further outbreaks of these organisms in the burns unit.
Commenting on this research, James Salkeld head of healthcare at Bioquell said, "Interestingly, results showed that surfaces were still contaminated with Acinetobacter, E. coli and S. aureus including MRSA, after standard terminal cleaning and before HPV treatment. Aspergillus was also isolated from the air before HPV was used."
"Bioquell's HPV disinfection process eliminated pathogens from the environment and significantly reduced total bacterial surface counts as well as fungal air and surface counts on both a room and unit scale. In fact, no pathogens were isolated from surfaces or any air samples after our HPV decontamination."
The latest research will been published in the next 'Burns' journal (October) but is already available online at http://www.burnsjournal.com/article/S0305-4179(12)00225-2/abstract.
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As a result, the entire unit was decontaminated using BioquellÂ's HPV technology.

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Andy Burnham might have kissed a Tory after all
Nick Duffy August 25, 2015
Labour leadership candidate Andy Burnham proudly wore a 'Never Kissed a Tory' t-shirt at Pride in London – but is it true?
The former Health Secretary, who is one of four candidates vying to replace Ed Miliband as leader of the Labour Party, proudly wore a shirt at Pride featuring the slogan of LGBT Labour, 'Never Kissed a Tory'.
However, the Evening Standard wonders whether he actually had.
Though he insisted "To my knowledge, I have never set lips upon a Tory", the paper opined that "a mole says otherwise".
He slightly walked back the claim – adding: " Well… I don't vet the people I kiss."
The contender recently posed in a t-shirt while marching at Pride with Charlie Condou, who is backing his leadership campaign.
Writing for PinkNews, Condou said: "I met Andy Burnham at London Pride. I found him at Trafalgar Square, completely surrounded – not by Party organisers and volunteers – but by members of the public.
"As the first 2010 leadership candidate to publicly call for gay marriage, I already knew he'd be a leader with a proud record of advocacy for LGBT rights.
"After meeting with him, I know he'll be a leader with an unshakeable commitment to the rights and values of every person in the country who has been let down by the Conservative Government.
"I believe that Andy is the right person to lead both the Labour Party and the country towards true equality for all, including LGBT people.
"I spoke to him about his beliefs and left confident that he will make championing equality the core of his leadership. Andy has the right values and he offers the hope that we all need, and I'm proud to support his campaign."
School bans book on Pulse shooting over 'extreme homosexuality'
Lydia Smith - July 15, 2019
Canadian 'LGBT purge' victims to receive compensation
'Grindr thief' guilty of murdering Bond actor Eric Michels


After working in drug discovery and development in the pharmaceutical industry, Ana Mingorance founded Dracaena in 2014 to help drug developers and rare disease foundations develop new orphan drugs for rare neurological diseases.
Ana is currently is the Chief Development Officer of the Loulou Foundation, the Scientific Director of the Dravet Syndrome Foundation Spain, and an independent consultant in genetic epilepsy syndromes and orphan drug development through Dracaena.
For more information about Ana visit the website anamingorance.com or click on the image.


Tikaula Sugar Mills Ltd.(the Appellant) has filed refund claim of Service tax paid on Goods Transport Agency service (GTA service) twice due to clerical error for the month March, 2013. Further, the payment of Service tax made twice was reflected in the ST-3 returns as well as the Appellant also produced challan along with CA certificate. Even though, the Department has rejected the refund claim on ground that the Appellant has not produced any supporting documents that the payment has been made twice by them.
The Hon'ble CESTAT, New Delhi held that the Department has not examined the documents submitted by the Appellant. Moreover, the Appellant has been able to prove that they have paid Service tax twice during the month of March, 2013. Hence, the Appellant was entitled to refund of the excess Service tax paid by them on GTA service.


Myrto Dramountani began her career as an architect after she graduated at the Technical University in Metsovo, Architect-Engineer. Later she took Master in fashion design at Parsons New York. In 2004 she worked at the Olympics in Athens as an architect, and later as fashion designer at Lord and Taylor. Also she participated in a exhibition that highlighted the 40 best graduate designers of Parsons. Since a year she is based in London and we are looking forward to see her first collection showed in Athens at AXDW.
Miltos, a Athens-based designer is known for his stable quality and all time elegance of his creations. Also with his new collection he continues to take us on a romantic journey when a woman has the innocent femininity. Let us see if he will make his show as theatrical as last time.
His new collection with the name "What is hidden, is not a sin" will be at AXDW.
Stelios always ends with the models wearing the same outfit. What will it be this season?
Chara Lebessi studied information technology, PR and fashion design at AKTO in Athens. However, it was the first prize she won, in 2001, at the first Hellenic Wedding Dress Competition, that made her turn to fashion. She continued her studies in London at Saint Martin's and sold her collection at London Designers ltd. but despite her success in London, Chara returned to Athens. Recently she has showed her collection in Belgrade but also in Paris and Istanbul.
Antoine Antoniadis is born in Paris and started at a young age to work. He feels lucky that he met the 84 years old Marie Anne Quinnet, a fashion legend, who advised him to think rather as a couturier than designer. So he started working at his first Haute Couture collection, Samurai.
'Samurai' is inspired by the elegance of the '50s and the simplicity of the Far East, with sharp cuts, architectural forms, accented shoulders, narrow middle and couture references. He describes his work «pret-a-couture», since all the pieces are individually crafted by hand in a final sewing machine.


Some email providers notify Groups.io when group messages land in someone's spam folder. Groups.io never wants that to happen. It can lead to further emails landing in spam, it can cause Groups.io emails to be blocked by email providers, and it is a bad user experience when someone doesn't think they receive all the messages from their groups. Adding to this, unfortunately some people use the spam button instead of trying to unsubscribe from a group.
Groups.io automatically unsubscribes someone when notified about this. As part of that process, Groups.io sends the unsubbed list member an auto restore email with a link that lets them automatically and quickly resubscribe if it was a mistake. The email lets them know to check their spam folders and mark any messages from us in there as not spam, which trains the spam filters to make fewer mistakes about our email. But, you will have to check your Spam folder for this auto restore email, since you (or your ISP/email provider) have indicated groups.io emails are spam.
It is critical that you use good email practices: Do not mark Groups.io emails as Spam. Never empty your Spam/Junk folder without checking that folder first, for valid emails, especially Groups.io emails. If you find a Groups.io email in your Spam folder, you MUST mark it as "NOT SPAM". That will also send a message to your ISP that Groups.io emails are trusted emails.


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Today is my better half's birthday. Wow time flies. This is the first year that we celebrated without the kids since they have been born. Kara is in New Orleans and John is in Vermont.
Ed just took another position at work, which includes lot of travelling. It really will be different being the only one here. I thought and thought about what to get him, but finally came up with an mp3 player that holds five gigs, so he can listen to music while he is flying all over the place.
We had a great day together. Funny how life is really a big circle...first it was just us, then it was us and the kids and now it is us again. It really is wonderful being married to your best friend.


For example currently if you order 10 units of Product A and this product has serial numbers, in the receiving note it will show 10 line items of Product A with serial number next to each line.
Need the ability to have the product in a single line item with serial numbers listed and seperated by comma.
New ReceivingNoteByProducts mail merge table has been added to purchase printing. It provides requested functionality.


The Electoral Commission is required to maintain and make available for public inspection the Register of Political Parties. The register shows for each registered party its name, any abbreviated name, any component parties, dates of registration of the party and any logo, details of its secretary and contact information, along with dates of amendments to party rules.
The following table lists current registered political parties, any registered abbreviated name for use on ballot papers, any registered logo, and includes links to party websites. The current Register of Political Parties is provided as a downloadable .pdf document (PDF 232.75 KB). An Excel spreadsheet, available here (XLS 31.5 KB), is also provided giving names and addresses of party secretaries. This spreadsheet can be used for mail merging.
The Register of Political Parties can also be inspected at the Electoral Commission, 34-42 Manners St, Wellington, between 9am and 5pm weekdays. Information about party donation returns by year is also available.


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The II Congress of Free Economic Zones was held in Gomel on May 25, 2018 within the framework of the 15th Gomel Economic Forum.
The Congress was organized by Free Economic Zone Gomel-Raton with the help of the World Federation of Free Zones (FEMOZA).
During the Congress, topical issues of attracting investments, working in free economic zones and the role of FEZ in the economic development of the region were discussed.
Heads of administrations, managing companies and residents of free zones of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Serbia, Georgia, Russian Federation; businessmen, investors, experts in economics and investments, scientists, representatives of consulting, investment and legal companies took part in the event.


Nexus 6P usage review: Is Google's phablet worth the hype?
The Nexus 6P is one of two Nexus phones released by Google in 2015, along with the smaller 5X manufactured by LG. This gives you a wider range of devices to choose from, as in the past some people have been disappointed by the size of the Nexus 5 (in 2013) or the 6 (in 2014). Now you can finally choose the phone that's right for the size of your hand.
After the specs were revealed, and after the honeymoon period wore off, I'm finally left with a clear overview of the phone, and this is the perfect time to do a Nexus 6P usage review.
Launched in late 2015, the 6P is the result of the first collaboration between Google and Huawei. Prior to its announcement, the internet was filled with rumors, memes and mockups of what the phone might be. After launch, the phone was received with overall positive results.
Boasting several new features and upgrades over previous versions, the new Nexus is a powerhouse. Packed with a 12MP back camera, a 8MP front camera, a brand new fingerprint scanner and a wide range of more or less obvious features, this is among the top choices for a flagship Android phone this year.
We all have biases, and mine is that I'm a fan of Android phones in general, and the Nexus line in particular. The more I fiddle with Nexuses (Nexi? Nexii?) the more I find I'm a total fanboy. I thought this should be noted for a fair Nexus 6P usage review.
My first Android phone was a Samsung Galaxy S3. I had a love-hate relationship with it from the get-go: on the plus side, it had all the wonders an Android phone can bring to the table – a crazy amount of apps, plenty of customization options, and decent specs for a decent price.
On the downside, the support from Samsung left me wanting, and almost a year after buying the phone I was always 3-4 Android versions behind. The love-hate slowly turned into meh-hate.
That "meh" feeling was what drove me to get a Nexus device. When the Nexus 5 was released I grabbed one and used it happily for the next two years. When the 6P was announced, I knew it was time for an upgrade.
I kept a close eye on the rumor mill and was pleasantly surprised to see that most of the 6P's specs and features lived up to the expectations, at least as far as the early reviews showed. On the day the phone became available in my country I made an order and brought my shiny new device home with me.
So here's where we get down to the nitty-gritty and I put it all to the test. What's good? What isn't? Is the phone worth it at the end of the day?
Every new phone I've gotten has been the best phone I've ever had, and the Nexus 6P is no exception. It definitely has its drawbacks, but the more I use it the more I'm confident that this was the right choice for me.
Most of the times, the phone works without a hitch and you find yourself just using it without any pesky issue. The build quality is amazing, the camera is more than decent, the battery life is decent and I've yet to find an issue that would become a dealbreaker.
I won't go into too much detail about the specs, after all, this is a Nexus 6P usage review and I doubt that many of us care about the exact model of the CPU or every kB of RAM the phone packs.
Build quality is one of the aspects I feared the most when I got the Nexus 6P. I had read a ton of reviews from users on Reddit who were complaining that just a couple of weeks after buying the phone it bent in their pockets.
After two and a half months of carrying the phone in my pocket with no case, no screen protection, just a decent amount of care, it looks brand new with not a scratch on it. Unlike my other phones, this one has yet to meet the floor, so I'm holding out ruling on that one.
The phone is slim despite its size. It feels comfortable to use and carry around in your pocket. I feared the leap to a phone with 5.7" screen would mean that I'd have to carry it around like a tablet, but most times I don't give it a second thought.
The metal back doesn't slip from your hands. I've used other metal phones that made me feel uneasy, as if it's biding its time waiting for the right moment to leap on the floor. This doesn't happen here. However, from what I've read online my opinion isn't shared by everybody, and I've seen tons of people that complain about the back actually being too slippery for them.
The screen's glass keeps most fingerprints off it, and it cleans easily – all you need is a sleeve, rub it twice and a genie… Well, no genie, but the screen is clean again.
The speakers are amazing. When I was using my Nexus 5 I had this trick where I would cup my hand around the speaker to make a funnel of sorts so I would hear something. The two stereo speakers on the front of the Nexus 6P are loud enough that you can hear them even in a noisy environment, and the sound quality is great. I find myself watching a lot more Youtube videos on my phone now; in landscape mode the stereo sound is near perfect. However, I don't recommend listening to music on the bus, regardless of the sound quality.
The USB-C charger makes all the difference. It charges the phone lightning-fast when using the official charger – a couple of times I charged it from the battery's red zone to 100% in the time it took me to get ready to leave in the morning. The nexus 6P is the first phone I've had that doesn't need to be plugged in all night, every night.
The fingerprint scanner. I saved the best for last, because this is hands-down the best hardware feature on the phone. Even though Android now has "Trusted Devices" that can disable the lockscreen code when the phone is paired to your Android watch or a trusted Wi-Fi network, I keep it on at all times (more on that later) and always use the fingerprint scanner.
Nexus Imprint, as it's called, works flawlessly and usually by the time I take out the phone from my pocket it's already unlocked and ready to go. You can register up to five fingers that would work for unlocking the phone, and I opted to enter my index fingers twice (and one thumb) – this helped me have a near 100% success rate for unlocking the phone, whereas when I used five different fingers the phone would slip up and not recognize my fingerprint every now and then.
It heats up. If you often go skiing and want to use a hand warmer this might come in handy, but otherwise it's not that pleasant. After a couple of minutes of moderate or intense use (watching videos or playing games) the phone heats up significantly.
The buttons sometimes press themselves. This is the reason why I keep a lock on the phone at all times. While in the pocket, I'd often find the phone unlocked and one or several apps open (mostly gibberish written on the Google Keep app). This happened to my Nexus 5 as well, and I solved the problem by simply locking the screen.
The glass on the back. I haven't had a problem with the phone's glass back yet, but that doesn't make me feel any better about it. The fact that it's the first to come into contact with the surface you place the phone on makes me feel uneasy about scratching or downright breaking it.
The display: how does it look, anyway?
I know, the display is technically still hardware, but I felt this one needed a category of its own. The 2K screen is better than anything I've used on a phone so far, the colors look great and I've yet to have any burn-in issues. Some Nexus 6P users have reported that the buttons at the bottom of the screen have left their mark on the display after just a couple of weeks of use, but that's not the case for my device.
I keep the brightness level at about 30% and that's great for both indoor and outdoor use, even in direct sunlight. If I crank it up to 100% it looks even better, but that comes at the expense of battery life, which I'm not willing to give up.
The 2K display: bright, clear, awesome.
The camera: will it turn you into a photographer?
When I first got the Nexus 6P this was the feature that I loved most. On the back you have a 12.3 megapixel camera capable of filming 4K-resolution videos, or 240fps slow-motion video. On the front you have the same camera that's on the older Nexus 5, and that's decent enough for a front facing camera.
Low-light photos look great. The f/2.0 aperture is responsible for this, and the result is awesome. I've taken photos at night, with no flash and little light around the subject, and even though I won't win any prizes for those pictures the details captured in them are great.
Fast focus, thanks to the laser autofocus. I used the camera to take photos in a couple of seconds, unlike my older phone which took 5-10 seconds just for the focus to figure out what I'm trying to capture.
Fast overall camera performance. With the stock Android 6.0 that the 6P is running, you can double-tap the power button to open the camera in about a second. It's not quite instant, as you'll see in the Samsung Galaxy 6 Edge, for instance, but it's fast enough for me.
Slow-mo is cool. This isn't a new or an outstanding feature, my 2007 LG Viewty could take slow-motion videos, albeit at low resolutions and poor quality. I'm glad to see this feature is back and I've used it on a ton of videos so far, making me feel like an entry level time traveller of sorts.
Burst mode is great. If you use the stock Google Camera, pressing the shutter button and keeping it pressed will have the phone take a burst of photos. In the initial Keynote presentation, Google announced that burst mode meant you could take 30 photos per second, although in practice I've seen that it takes 7-8 photos per second at most, depending on the lighting conditions. Once you finish the burst, Google Photos will combine the result in an animation or a collage (or you can do that manually afterwards). This feature is great for making sure you don't miss a moment, and for a sequence shot.
The Burst option gives you a couple of neat ways to play with your photos.
Burst mode isn't flawless if you're using it in low-light. If you are, and you're holding the phone in your hand, burst mode basically translates to "take a dozen photos and hope you can use one of them." I tried this with my cat and apparently Burst mode turns him into a blur every time he moves his head. And trust me, in real life he's not the least bit blurry.
Videos are shaky. This is where the lack of an optical stabilizer is obvious. Some videos come out shaky – they're not ruined by all means, but it is noticeable for motion shots.
Slow-mo is weak in low-light and artificial light. This isn't the camera's fault as much as it shows the current constraints of the technology. If I'm indoors and filming at 240fps, a flickering light bulb will be very noticeable, giving the video an old-timey feel.
The software: how's the phone on the inside?
The stock Android feel is hard to match and impossible to beat, in my opinion, and the way the Nexus 6P runs on it can be described in one word: flawless.
For the past couple of months I've had as little as 50 and as many as 200 apps installed on it, and I've yet to encounter a freeze, a reboot that came out of nowhere, or any other performance issue. I have a number of resource-consuming games on the phone and after booting up in a flash they run with no errors, 100% of the time.
That's no surprise, either – my 2013 Nexus 5 ran fairly smoothly despite being a two-year-old phone, and I put it through quite a few tests.
It should be noted that I haven't rooted my phone and most of the apps I use are stock – I rely heavily on the Google ecosystem (Calendar, Keep, Inbox, etc.) and it's been smooth sailing so far.
One of the biggest advantages that the phone has is that it's always up-to-date. Most times I don't even find out there's been a security update (although they come in monthly now) until I get the shiny notification letting me know that I'm due for an upgrade.
The battery: how long will the juice be flowing?
The Nexus 6P comes with a 3450 mAh battery, which seems plenty. In practice, this allows me to take the fully charged phone in the morning, run around all day listening to podcasts, browsing, checking my email and social media accounts, playing the occasional game or two, and make it home in the evening with just under half of the charge left.
Of course, there are days when I wish for more. Look at the example below: In these screenshots, I had listened to podcasts for 3-4 hours and used the hotspot for another two hours. Sprinkle some email usage in between and… I barely squeezed 15 hours of battery life, and 2 hours of screen on time. That's just enough to make me paranoid about the battery for an entire day.
So, on a scale from 1 to 10 I'd rate it 7-ish. It's not bad, but I still don't get how other users report getting 4-5 hours of screen on time from it.
The Nexus 6P is definitely one of the best smartphones on the market right now, and I'd place it at the top of all Android phones too. Using it is a delight, and its flaws, although present, can be overlooked.
After using the phone for almost three months now, I feel like it brings the best out of Android, and with the launch of Android N coming soon I have a feeling things are only going to get better.
How about you? Have you had any contact with Google's newest phablet? What's your experience with it? Love it, hate it, can't decide?


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Future of Green's restaurant uncertain amid Crown Estate demolition plans
London restaurant Green's is searching for a new home after it emerged that the site it has occupied for the past 34 years is to be demolished by the Crown Estate.
The restaurant in Duke Street, St James's, will close on 23 April as the Crown Estate redevelops the Duke's Court premises as part of a £500m investment strategy for the area.
The news emerged in a statement sent out to customers by email from the restaurant's owner Simon Parker Bowles, the former brother-in-law of the Duchess of Cornwall.
In his statement, Parker Bowles said: "Happily it will not be the final lunch or dinner this world famous restaurant will serve, as we are hot on the trail for a new home in the West End. As soon as our new site has been purchased there will be a further announcement and we will let all our longstanding and more recent customers know the details."
Parker Bowles founded Green's in 1982 and it was a favourite of the likes of Baroness Thatcher. Among other directors of the business, Green's (West End), are restaurateur Marlon Abela, Jonathan Harris and Patrick Willis. It is majority owned by Daresbury Restaurants Ltd.
Last summer, the Crown Estate announced plans to convert Duke's Court, where the restaurant sits, into 36,000 sq ft of office space, plus shops, restaurants and luxury apartments.
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Author Slams 'Tyranny of Silence' Surrounding Islamic Cartoon Crisis
By Larry Luxner
Cartoons and the Prophet Muhammad do not seem to mix very well. Flemming Rose learned that the hard way nine years ago — long before anyone even dreamed that two masked terrorists, dressed in black and armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles, would storm the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo and gun down 12 people after the irreverent French magazine published caricatures deemed offensive to Muslims.
Rose knows what that special hell feels like more than most. In early 2006, violent riots shook the Islamic world after the Danish newspaper editor commissioned and published 12 satirical drawings that depicted Muhammad — including one showing the prophet with a bomb-like turban. He has been marked for death ever since.
In the beginning, few people outside Denmark saw the offending cartoons, which had appeared in September 2005 in Rose's Copenhagen daily Jyllands-Posten. Local Muslims protested, claiming the drawings had insulted Islam (portraying the Prophet Muhammad is considered blasphemous), while fellow Danish newspapers joined in solidarity with Jyllands-Posten. (Charlie Hebdo also reprinted all 12 cartoons.)
Photo: Larry Luxner
The terrorist attacks in Paris brought back painful memories for Flemming Rose, who's been marked for death ever since he printed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad nine years ago.
The controversy quickly spread throughout Europe, and efforts by the Arab League and the Organization of the Islamic Conference to resolve it diplomatically failed when Danish officials refused to punish the newspaper, and in fact stood by the newspaper's decision to publish the cartoons in the name of free speech.
By January 2006, demonstrations began erupting from Beirut to Benghazi, and furious Muslims — most of whom had never seen the caricatures — attacked Danish embassies in half a dozen countries. In India, a minister in the state government of Uttar Pradesh announced a cash reward for anyone who beheaded cartoonist Kurt Westergaard. An Arab boycott of Danish goods caused a 50 percent drop in exports to the Middle East.
All told, the violence triggered by the newspaper's cartoons killed more than 200 people around the world. But Rose — whose life was threatened numerous times — stands by his actions in the autumn of 2005.
"I don't feel guilty for these people's deaths, and I don't think a cartoon is worth a single human life. The problem was, a lot of other people did feel that way," Rose told The Washington Diplomat. "They were willing to kill because of a cartoon. Human beings are not robots or animals who are not able to reason. When violence is committed, it means individuals made a decision to commit violence."
Rose laments that the violence has succeeded in shutting down free speech and scaring journalists. After last month's Paris attacks, dozens of newspapers, magazines and websites around the world reproduced the very cartoon that had so angered the terrorists who ultimately took the lives of 17 people. Notably, Jyllands-Posten, the Copenhagen paper where Rose works, wasn't among them.
"We caved in and we've been very honest about it," Rose told BBC-TV on Jan. 14, a week after the carnage in Paris. "Sometimes, the sword is mightier than the pen. We have been living with death threats and several foiled terrorist attacks in my own office for the past nine years. Perhaps if the reaction worldwide had been a little bit different in 2006 — if we had received stronger support from media organizations insisting that this is something we have the right to do, even though you may disagree with what we did — we would not have been in the situation we are now."
Rose said it's obvious there's still a lack of understanding of the reasoning that goes into editorial decisions.
"One thing is to publish a cartoon as an act of solidarity. Another is to publish a cartoon because it's news," he said in the BBC interview. "Publication does not mean endorsement. And our cartoons had nothing to do with mocking a minority. It was about targeting blasphemy. We're losing a battle, but we're not losing the war."
At the same time, in an early January article for Politico magazine, he lamented that "the intimidation has grown more murderous — more intimidating — than ever. Already, in the immediate aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo killings, news publications in the United States and around the world were publishing blurred images of the Mohammad cartoons so as not to offend…. In this way we are, slowly but surely, watching our too-often 'neglected principles' of free speech eroding away."
Rose, 56, was speaking on the subject of free speech weeks before the Paris onslaught, when he visited Washington in mid-November to promote his well-timed new book, "The Tyranny of Silence." Incidentally, none of the original 12 cartoons that Jyllands-Posten printed appear in the volume's 240 pages.
And that doesn't bother Rose, whose main objective was not to ignite another controversy but to simply tell his side of the story — in this case with the help of his publisher, the Washington-based Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. In fact, during his week in the United States, Rose did at least 15 interviews with a variety of media outlets including The Washington Post, Al Jazeera America, Fox Business, MSNBC, Foreign Policy magazine and Politico.
"There's been amazing interest in the book, far more than I expected," he said.
One reason, he muses, is that it touches on universal principles that affect all societies, like the protection of free speech versus fear of offending a particular minority, religion or ethnic group.
"I think this is the basic debate," Rose explained. "There are people in other countries who would like to determine what a newspaper in Denmark should be allowed to publish. The diversity in societies around the world means there is social pressure for passing laws, and even if you don't pass laws, people submit themselves to censorship in order not to say anything that might be offensive."
Two relatively new factors frame this debate, he said.
"One has to do with technology, the fact that what is being published by a newspaper in a small country in a language very few people can read is immediately accessible by people all over the world. That creates a lot of room for misunderstanding and manipulation, because when information travels, quite often the context gets lost in transmission," Rose said. "The other new factor is migration. People are moving across borders never before seen in the history of mankind. Every society in the world is getting more multicultural, more multiethnic and more multi-religious."
But intolerance is increasing as well. Barely two years after publication of Westergaard's cartoon showing Muhammad with a bomb in his turban, Danish police arrested two Tunisians and a Moroccan-born Dane on charges of planning to murder the cartoonist. Two years after that, Westergaard was surprised in his own home by a Somali man wielding a knife and an axe. He fled to a recently installed panic room and called police, who arrested the intruder. It was later determined that the would-be assassin had links to the Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab; he was eventually sentenced to 10 years in prison, followed by deportation from Denmark.
Rose said that except for the attacks on Westergaard, the cartoons didn't create a violent storm in Denmark. "All the violence that erupted in the aftermath of [their publication] took place in countries where citizens do not enjoy free speech, and where they do not have the right to criticize religion."
Westergaard, now 79, lives under constant, round-the-clock protection; police are camped out in his backyard, ready to foil the next assassination plot against him.
"That's the irony. People said, 'If you say we are violent, we'll kill you.' They don't understand the irony of their own words," Rose observes. "All the threats and attempts on Westergaard's life and terrorist attacks against the newspaper confirmed the content of that cartoon: that some Muslims commit violence in the name of their religion. It's a fact of life. That's why I don't understand why people are so upset with those cartoons."
Rose told The Diplomat he's been unfairly painted as a racist Islamophobe whose life's mission was to denigrate Muslims in the eyes of the West. Nothing could be further from the truth, he insisted. "The publication of the cartoons, the reasons behind it, the sequence of events, my line of defense — it all makes sense to me. It fits my value system. I'm a liberal in the European sense of the word. I believe in freedom. I'm against hate speech laws, and I'm not anti-Muslim."
What he's against is violence, intolerance and a refusal to see the truth, which is that other religions like Christianity can be freely criticized but Islam is singled out for special treatment. Rose argues this phenomenon is particularly acute in Scandinavian countries that have opened their borders to refugees from Iraq and other war-torn Muslim lands.
"Sweden perceives itself as a humanitarian superpower. So they have this image that they are a very nice country, and it implies they should not accept any offensive speech," he said, arguing that authorities often fear antagonizing the Islamic community. "A black man had been beaten severely in southern Sweden, and it created a huge uproar because people thought white supremacists were behind this. But it turned out they were Arabs. Then the human rights industry didn't want to discuss it anymore."
But the rise of Islamic radicalism across Europe cannot be ignored, Rose warned. In the Swedish city of Malmö, for instance, there's one Arab district where police officers, firefighters and emergency responders hesitate to enter.
"A few years ago, Sweden's Ministry of Integration polled the population in this ghetto, and the women said they enjoyed more rights and freedoms in the Middle East than they felt in this ghetto in Sweden," he said. "A country like Sweden is doing quite badly because they don't want to confront these issues. They are living in a world of extreme political correctness, so the debate is being suppressed."
What many people don't know is that besides the Muhammad cartoons that grabbed world headlines, Jyllands-Posten also reprinted a full page of cartoons from the Arab world that were clearly anti-Semitic in nature. Often depicting Jews with hooked noses, some of these illustrations denied the Holocaust, while others painted Israelis as bloodthirsty terrorists who killed Arab children with help from Uncle Sam.
"The Muslims are so up in arms about these cartoons but then they endorse anti-Semitic cartoons that in many ways are more offensive," Rose pointed out. "Our cartoons did not target individuals or Muslims as believers. It targeted religious doctrine. In a democracy, you should have the right to question and challenge ideas. This is about free speech in a globalized world. If it should be a criminal offense to publish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, it should be a criminal offense to deny the Holocaust. And if it's a criminal offense to deny the Holocaust, it should be a crime to deny the Armenian genocide, or the crimes of communism or the Soviet occupation of Latvia."
Rose, whose wife is Russian, spent many years covering the U.S.S.R. as a foreign correspondent for a large Danish newspaper. He said the Soviet dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s had a huge influence on him.
"I used to work as a translator at the Danish Refugee Council, receiving refugees from the Soviet Union. Among them were dissidents. I was very influenced by them. They were struggling and risking their lives and welfare for the liberties we enjoyed in the West. Some of them went to prison camps. Their insistence on struggling for this human dignity really impressed me," he said.
In 2009, Rose attended a UNESCO conference in Qatar, marking his first visit to a Muslim country since the "cartoon crisis" four years earlier. Locals were so angry with his presence that Qatar's Ministry of Domestic Affairs set up a special hotline for citizens to call in their complaints. Five years later, people in the oil-rich Arabian Gulf emirate are still complaining he was let into their country.
But that's OK, too. Rose clearly doesn't mind a little controversy now and then.
"I like debate," he said. "If you believe in something, you'll want to defend it. You don't need to talk to people with whom you agree. That's boring."
Larry Luxner is news editor of The Washington Diplomat.


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Why a Content Audit is the Perfect End-of-the-Year Activity
As we continue hurtling towards the end of the year, we enter that weird period where a lot of things slow down and companies are looking for ways to set up for success in the new year…without requiring too much heavy effort. Well, look no further! I'm here to suggest using December to run an audit of your website.
Seriously, it's not as bad as it sounds. A site content audit is a relatively low-lift way to take a look through your website and find things like gaps, content you can repurpose, and more.
What is a content audit?
A content audit is basically a review of all of your website content. Before you come for me for that being way too much work – you don't have to go through your entire site if it doesn't make sense. Let's say you've had a blog for over five years. Content from 2016 is probably not worth reviewing. But going back for the last two or three years can allow you to find relevant pieces of content that could be updated and republished.
A content audit also helps you find any gaps or really outdated content you might have missed in the day-to-day updating and publishing.
What do I need to do a content audit?
This will depend largely on your goals for your audit. If you just want to get ideas for updated blog content, then you could focus your efforts on your blog only. You can go through the Content Management System (CMS) for your site and look back through past posts, noting ones that could be updated.
If you want to see what pages are doing well and which ones have low traffic that could be updated and improved, you'll want to start in Google Analytics and look for your top performing and worst performing pages. This will help you see where your site is working and where there's room for optimization. Pages with a high bounce rate, high exit rate, and/or low time-on-page averages are ones that aren't keeping visitors' attention that could probably be updated.
For a more complete audit, you'll want to look at both. Set a timeframe you want to review (I'd recommend going back a few years) and look in both Analytics and your CMS to see how the page is performing.
How do I do this?
The easiest way to track all of this is by setting up a quick spreadsheet. Here's an example sheet with some of the key metrics you may want to consider, including:
Any page categories, tags, or keywords
The date of publication
The target audience
Whether or not the page is SEO optimized
Key metrics from Analytics like pageviews, average time on page, referral source, and bounce and exit rates.
You can find additional resources below to help get you started too.
How to Run A Content Audit in 2021 (Hubspot)
Content Audit: The Step-by-Step Guide for the Ultimate Strategy (SEMrush)
How to Perform a Content Audit: The Definitive Guide (WordStream)
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Clarivate, ProQuest, and our Resistance to Commercializing Knowledge
The dominant commercial models in scholarly publishing aren't serving the academy or humanity well — extracting enormous profits from a mostly publicly-funded endeavor. But we have a window to stand up and support an alternative.
by Gabriel Stein, Travis Rich, Zach Verdin, and Catherine Ahearn
Published onMay 19, 2021
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The Business of Knowing
The dominant commercial model in scholarly publishing isn't serving the academy or humanity well, and instead extracts enormous profits from a mostly publicly-funded endeavor,1, 2 replicating society's inherent biases in its assessments of quality.3 It must be met, if not with a replacement, then with viable alternatives that center the public good over profit, diverse perspectives over ivory tower monocultures, and effective communication over monetizable assets.
Just this week, Clarivate announced it would be buying ProQuest for a cool $5.3 billion in cash and equity.4 The announcement is only the latest in a series of recent acquisitions in the scholarly publishing space leaving many rightfully wondering who all of this consolidation is really benefitting. As a quick Google search will remind us, Elsevier isn't a publishing company anymore, it's "an information analytics business." They've learned from Silicon Valley that content isn't king: the data it generates is. These days, Elsevier and other major publishing companies operate more like Clarivate, an analytics company that not only mines data from their own products and services, like Web of Science, but also privatizes open data sets to their advantage. Soon enough, most research will be "open," but it won't be without cost. If the academy becomes evermore intertwined with the business of selling analytics for profit,5, 6 our decisions as researchers, archivists, and publishers will become even less aligned with the needs of knowledge production and more aligned with the needs of appeasing commercial algorithms that have different definitions of "success." The impacts of the corporatization of information and the prioritization of data over people have already been felt by the news, retail, and entertainment industries. Moves driven by data analytics are good for business but potentially devastating for the health of ecosystems and the people who comprise them. And academic publishing is next (indeed, if it hasn't already been happening for years).
Among other downsides, the effect of this business model transformation will be to encode the ecosystem's existing biases into the analytics products themselves, making the biases less visible.7 We can look to the behaviors of researchers, readers, and reviewers and see the disparity between what's good for business and what's actually needed. These groups want to read, find, produce, and engage with useful scholarship. Unfortunately, without a compelling alternative, the incumbent power of corporations will continue to prioritize numbers and memberships, carrying us further and further from the needs of a productive, equitable, accessible publishing ecosystem.
We have an opportunity to avoid this fate due to a window cracked open during the coronavirus pandemic. In the face of COVID-19, the decisions driving science publishing shifted in focus away from impact for tenure and promotion packages8 to impact towards a single goal: getting humanity through the pandemic. This brought about amazing changes in how we communicate knowledge and presents a rare chance to course-correct towards a system that's more open, flexible, and resistant to the corporatization of knowledge.
Preprints, once marginalized in all but a few disciplines, are now flourishing in traditionally resistant fields.9, 10 Researchers across the globe and disciplines are demanding shorter and shorter review times on work that's evermore timely11 and, in many cases, making do with informal and rapid evaluations of preprints conducted independently of a traditional journal submission process. At the same time, this rapid sharing of knowledge is being picked up by journalists and news outlets in their mission to inform an increasingly concerned and curious public, demonstrating the value and impact of open science like never before.
This emergent model, often described as Publish, Review, Curate (PRC),12 is shifting the Overton window on what constitutes a valuable contribution to knowledge. Yes, there are dangers and downsides to this rapid communication of information — especially in an age of disinformation and the mainstreaming of conspiracy — but these are challenges to solve for instead of deterrents away from the PRC model altogether. To that end, groups like PREReview, Peer Community In…, Sciety, and Rapid Reviews: COVID-19 (RR:C19) are seeing dramatic uptake of their models, and increasing interest from academics, the press, and the public as resources that can help make sense of the COVID-driven glut of preprints and, potentially, much else.
In a future where review happens in the open, and where editorial data is accessible and researchers and institutions shape it to fit their needs rather than the needs of algorithms, commercial publishers will still exist. But they'll be incentivized to innovate and serve researchers and institutions to earn their keep, rather than extracting 35% margins13 through monopolistic rent-seeking. In this possible future, we would have tipped the balance from an extractive knowledge-creation ecosystem designed to serve the profit margins of conglomerates to a healthy one led by researchers and institutions in service of the public good.
Little will change unless researchers believe that they can secure a future for themselves by participating in PRC publishing models. For that change to happen, tenure and promotion committees must be willing to value PRC-produced research as highly as papers published in traditionally elite journals. But few people submit PRC-produced research to those committees, so why would they consider valuing it? Simply put, the dam won't break until researchers demand that their institutions value PRC-produced research.
How do we break the dam? Turn a trickle into a flood. A whole generation of researchers are going to build their careers on work done in the urgency of the pandemic and within the PRC model. Tenure committees are already needing to adapt their practices to accommodate research preprinted and evaluated on accelerated timelines in alternative models — especially research that so clearly contributes to the public good.14 In addition to offering more opportunities for a more diverse group of researchers to participate and have their contributions valued and recognized, it is associated with more attention than traditional models.15 It's no less effective at producing quality contributions to scientific literature,16 and potentially much more so.17 It can be a much faster process than traditional publishing18 with more satisfying feedback loops.19 Additionally, it has the potential to offer a broader range of higher-quality assessment metrics, and to be far cheaper for institutions than traditional publishing processes.
Deals like the one between Clarivate and ProQuest likely won't stop happening any time soon. But, what the scholarly publishing ecosystem needs is hundreds more groups turning to community-driven models like PRC built on top of open infrastructure. As examples like RR:C19 and PREreview demonstrate, the PRC model has a lot going for it that can be catalytic and compounding, continuing the perception shift sparked by the pandemic and offering a real alternative to the profit-centric system currently in place.
We Each Have a Role
No matter our position within the academic publishing ecosystem, we can each play an important role in bringing about and supporting this alternative path.
Academics and Researchers can engage in a PRC process and offer feedback to organizations like the Knowledge Futures Group,20 eLife, and Invest in Open Infrastructure that are working to support non-profit open publishing and infrastructure alternatives.
Tenure and promotion committee members as well as university administrators can move to update guidelines (and redirect budgets) so they better align with University missions, prize open access, and create value systems that reward all contributions rather than just elite publications.
Professors can more frequently incorporate lessons and advice on publishing and reviewing to graduate students (and even undergraduates) so that learning about the healthy communication of their work is experienced in tandem to conducting the work itself.
Foundations and other funding bodies can update their policies to require not just openness of the research they fund, but also a contribution to the health of knowledge exchange. And, they can work to fund PRC and other alternative models as a programmatic priority.
And finally developers of open infrastructure can help make it less costly to experiment with new models by providing shared tools, as well as developing ways to more effectively measure the impact of research published outside of for-profit (but "high-impact") publications. If we move right now to develop ways to measure impact within the PRC model and rapidly accelerate its adoption with validation from the kinds of senior researchers who sit on tenure committees, we can turn this brief, forced opening into lasting change.
In Clarivate's issued press release, its Executive Chairman and CEO, Jerre Stead, states, "we will enable our customers to solve the world's most complex challenges." The validity of this sentiment is surely dependent on your view of what these challenges are, who should be solving them, and what form(s) such solutions should take. In any case, let's work together to ensure Clarivate will, at least, inspire us to define these solutions and paths forward for ourselves, if not enabled by them, then motivated by what this most recent acquisition — and those that came before it — portends.
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A Commentary on this Pub
It's all of our business
by Sarah Kearns and Catherine Ahearn
commonplace.knowledgefutures.org
A letter from the editors
Angela Q: In Australia's most recent round of funding applications, the major research funding body, the Australian Research Council (ARC), banned the mention of preprints in any part of their applications. It was poorly communicated to applicants and led to 32 applications that cited preprints being deemed ineligible across the Future Fellowships and Discovery ECR awards. Even if it were clearly mentioned, it's remarkable that ARC wouldn't recognise the value of preprints. Understandably, there was a huge outcry from researchers for this rule to be rescinded. From what I've read last, this affected round has had no change wrt this rule, but ARC has since updated the rules for the next round of applications to allow for the mention of preprints. The flood is incoming! After reading Stefano Davide Vianello's pub, I'm excited to see how the process of publishing preprints and being peer reviewed but not publishing in a journal will be received.


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Clear lens extraction is a surgical procedure designed to reduce or eliminate the need for distance glasses or contact lenses and it can be used to treat a wide range of far-sightedness and near-sightedness.
Hear what Mr Day has to say about his treatment at Midland Eye.
Unlike other refractive procedures that change the shape of the cornea, clear lens extraction corrects vision by removing the crystalline lens in the eye and replacing it with a new artificial lens of a different focusing power. This is much like what happens in cataract surgery.
State-of-the-art instruments are used to measure your eye for the correct lens power, taking your lifestyle and activities into consideration. These custom measurements are entered into sophisticated formulae to calculate your personal implant power.
Cataract surgery has been successfully performed for years and has been one of the major advancements in the restoration of sight in the last decade. The clear lens extraction procedure resembles cataract surgery. However, in cataract surgery the removed lens is cloudy whereas in clear lens extraction the removed lens is clear.
Clear lens extraction has been performed extensively in Europe over the past 20 years with excellent results in correcting moderate to high far-sightedness and near-sightedness with or without astigmatism.
Cataract surgery and clear lens extraction are essentially the same operation which involves both the cornea and lens and is the commonest operation done in the UK. With more than 300,000 a year being performed.
The technique was introduced by Charles Kelman in the 1960's but required technical improvement before its widespread adoption about ten years ago. It is a quantum improvement over extra-capsular surgery and de regeur for refractive surgery. its advantages stem from the tiny (<2.8mm) incision needed. This induces very little astigmatism (termed "corneal corruption" by refractive cataract surgeons) and is much less traumatic to the eye than the comparatively giant incision it replaced.
The incision is completely filled intra-operatively by the phaco probe enabling exquisite control of the operation by the surgeon. Never before has the outcome of cataract surgery depended so much on the surgeon's skill rather than by chance. The small incision does not generally need stitches and heals rapidly with good vision expected after a day or two (but improving over a couple of weeks).
Phacoemulsification or Phaco is the modern method for removing lenses utilising high energy ultrasound. Using this technology a cataract which measures 12mm in diameter and 4mm in thickness can be vacuumed through an incision which measures only 3mm or less!
Basically, phaco uses a hollow needle which, when activated by the surgeon, vibrates at 40,000 times per second thereby emulsifying the lens. Emulsified lens material is aspirated through the hollow centre in the phaco needle and fluid is simultaneously infused into the eye in order to keep it "inflated" during surgery.
With the FemtoSecond laser system, our surgeons can remove your lens in a more advanced way, using a laser. Using the FemtoSecond laser system ensures that your advanced, customised cataract or clear lens extraction procedure can be performed with laser precision. This is because of Augmented Reality, a unique imaging system that provides an advanced, 3-D view your eye to help plan and treat your cataract or lens exchange.
With this advanced technology, your surgeon can offer you a better, more precise removal procedure that is customised to your eye's own unique anatomy.
An intraocular lens or implant is routinely implanted following removal of the natural lens. The surgery takes about 30 minutes.
Finally, phacoemulsification lends itself to other ways of improving outcome such as measures to reduce pre-existing astigmatism and to reduce the dependence on reading glasses by the use of multifocal or accommodating implants.
The traditional implant is monofocal (i.e. is only perfectly focused at one particular distance) and usually chosen for distance vision but for near the patient will need reading glasses even if they did not need them before.
The multifocal lens is made of either silicone or acrylic and has optics allowing two or three separate areas in focus simultaneously. Previous versions of these lenses used to cause halos and glare but this has largely been eliminated. In one study of patients given a multifocal implant 80% did not need distance glasses and 40% did not need reading glasses at all (compared to nearly 100% needing reading glasses with monofocal implants). These are impressive results but they demonstrate that not all can expect to be completely glasses free. The majority will enjoy reduced dependence on reading glasses but still need them for more taxing near activities. There are ways of reducing this dependence even further. Your surgeon will discuss with you whether you are suitable for these implants.
This is the third type of implant. It is designed to change position in the eye when you try to read so you can have good distance vision and also good reading vision. The ability to read with these implants varies from person to person but on average give 1.4 dioptres of accommodation equivalent to a weak pair of reading glasses. Even if this type of implant does not work very well for you the end result would be little different from having a monofocal lens; also this lens does not degrade the quality of your vision or have an effect on night driving as may occur with multifocal lenses.


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I travelled for 4 months with only 8 kilos. This is what it looked like.
I've been away since late May; about four-and-a-half months. I've been hiking and working and writing between LA, New York, London, Scotland, Cornwall, Crete, Paris, Slovenia and Slovakia. For the bulk of this I've carried a small backpack that weighed in on various flights at 8kg (I did also have a case of work materials that I had with me in London and that travelled home with me). This enabled me to fly carry-on, to move between places on foot with ease and to travel via moped (with all my worldly possessions on my back) when I needed to.
How do I live with only 8kg of possessions?
I gave into wearing the same thing every day, as I do here in Australia. I honestly don't think people notice or care. I have a signature look, is how I see it.
I researched the lightest and simplest multi-day pack (light enough to be a day-pack, too) on the market. The reviews revealed the Southwest Ultralight backpack was the one to go for. And so I went for it. It's also the most waterproof and has the least number of added bits. This video here explains the gist. That's the bag below on my back. I'm on my way from Crete to Paris (with takeaway coffee in a real cup!).
I only wear things I love and that make me feel comfortable. This is because I only buy stuff I love and feel comfortable owning.
I came home with less stuff than I left with.
I handwashed smalls in the shower at night. So only carried two pairs of undies for the trip.
I took a bunch of white things. Mad? No. It meant I could justify a "white wash" regularly.
I live in silk and light woollen and synthetic things; they scrunch up tight and weigh little.
I wear sneakers with dresses very happily. I also took a very flimsy (thus, light) pair of heels for fancy stuff.
I wear heels with leggings very happily, too.
What exactly did I take?
From top left (not including stuff you can work out for yourself): denim jacket (second-hand, GAP; I wear this in transit as it's too bulky to go in my bag), silk wrap ra-ra skirt, denim shorts (you'll recognise them from pictures of me in all three of my cookbooks); bag of "fancy things" (two silk singlets/shell tops, gold dress I wore for party, see below), Gortex jacket, heels, headband/eyemask; Saloman hiking shoes (my silk inner sheet stuffed into one of them), undies and bra, I Quit Sugar market bag (very old and faded); white things (Bassike pants, linen shirt, Bassike singlet; again all three seen in most of my books and press pics); leggings; shirt I pulled from a friend's rubbish bin that I use for hiking but did, in fact, lose in Slovenia; sports bra; cap given to me by my mate Paul at ArtPark in Byron; thermal top, striped singlet, hiking shorts.
You can check out my beauty and makeup kit, all of it toxin-free, here (and buy the lot at a discount if you like). That's it all in the 4 x Qantas inflight bags, next to the laptop.
At this point I should also confess: I did lug a laptop with me most places, too (leaving it in safe places when I hiked). This adds an extra 1-2kg. I looked into getting an iPad (ironically, I write ebooks for a living but don't own a tablet of any sort), but couldn't justify the doubling-up of technology.
Books. I always have a book with me. When I've read it, I give it away before buying another.
Notebook, pencil, passport, credit card, an I Quit Sugar satchel (for hiking and toting things day-to-day).
I've arrived "home" and am living nomadically from the same bag of stuff in an Airbnb. I'm still deciding if I'll settle. And where. And with what.
That said, I'm heading to my storage shed to grab some more underpants and my cooking gear on the weekend.


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U.S. Navy Lt. Jessica Colston, the team lead at the Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point (NHCCP) Respiratory Clinic, locates a piece of equipment for a COVID-19 test at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, Aug. 18, 2020. Colston worked in the women's health department of NHCCP before taking lead in the respiratory clinic during the fight against COVID-19. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Michael Neuenhoff)
Photo by Lance Cpl. Michael Neuenhoff
6 Sep 2020 | Lance Cpl. Micahel Neuenhoff Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point
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The fight against Coronavirus disease 2019, commonly referred to as COVID-19, has been a long and tiring combined effort from some of our nation's best medical professionals without an end in sight. Tirelessly, medical personnel have been grinding away to diagnose and treat any and all persons that have come in contact with the virus. Here at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Cherry Point, North Carolina, it isn't any different. The medical staff at Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point (NHCCP) have been on the front lines of the battle against COVID-19 since the beginning.
"When we first heard about this pandemic, I realized it was a very serious issue and had to be dealt with accordingly," said Lt. Jessica Colston, team lead at the NHCCP respiratory clinic.
COVID-19 is a strain of the Coronavirus, Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that are known to cause illness such as the common cold to more severe symptoms such as Severe Acute Respiratory syndrome (SARS), Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), and death.
"The purpose of the respiratory clinic is to evaluate people that are presenting any kind of concern for a respiratory illness," said Colston. "The challenge with COVID, is that it presents very vague symptoms, similar to those of the flu. So here, we are the filter that catches all the people who may be infected with COVID-19 so they don't go to their primary healthcare provider and risk spreading the virus. So it's imperative you get tested if you show any signs."
The nurses and Navy Corpsmen at the NHCCP respiratory clinic have been pulling long hours since the start of the virus in an effort to mitigate the amount of cases on base and get those exposed quarantined in an efficient manner.
Respiratory clinic workers are trained on the job. If someone is newly appointed to the clinic, the rest of the staff ensures they properly know how to dawn the protective equipment, fill out appropriate paperwork, and how to safely collect a sample from a patient.
Colston's previous positions within NHCCP overseeing the day-to-day operations of women's health and the readiness clinic, on top of Colston's experience in the San Diego Naval Medical Center, provided her with more than enough skill and knowledgeable expertise to be the team lead at the NHCCP respiratory clinic.
"I function as a nurse," said Colston. "But I also work very closely with the preventative medicine, the corpsmen, and the doctors in a very team focused approach. As well as all the clinical care we provide, we also do a lot of administrative work and coordination with different departments and squadrons to make sure all the patients we test for COVID have a safe way to isolate, so they aren't at risk for spreading the virus."
For NHCCP personnel like Colston, the fight against COVID-19 has been non-stop since March. She said the way we stop the spread of the virus is by continuing to follow basic safety guidelines already implemented on the installation.
"The biggest thing is to social distance," said Colston. "Keep at least six feet from those around you, and wear your mask. The mask isn't there to protect you as much as it is to protect others, you could be asymptomatic and pass COVID-19 on to somebody without ever knowing you had it. And finally, wash your hands, if you can't wash your hands for at least the length of the happy birthday song, something is wrong and at least use hand sanitizer."
Although there may be stricter policies from service to service, Colston says that her family and friends are there for her no matter what and are always there to talk despite her not be able to see them in person.
"Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, my life has changed in quite a few ways," said Colston. "My friends are all in the medical field, so they understand how it goes, and my family is always just a phone call away but, it's rough not being able to go see them and I certainly miss doing the things I love to do. I'm an environmentalist so using all this different protective equipment really hurts my heart."
COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on everyday life in the United States. It's high time the fight against COVID-19 comes to an end, but, that can't happen unless we all do our part. Wear your mask, wash your hands, and practice social distancing.
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For the first time in America's 241 year history, the Vice President Mike Pence has used the vice president's tie-breaking authority during a cabinet confirmation to vote in Betsy Devos as Secretary of Education.
US Senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski said in floor speeches on Wednesday that they will vote against Department of Education nominee Betsy DeVos.
In the state of New Jersey being murdered 'does not meet threshold for loan forgiveness' in an only in America story of heartless profiteering on the back of a grieving mother.
Professor Ashok Goel tricked an entire online class into taking their questions to an artificial intelligence robot using IBM's Watson technology.
A new US program seeks to provide access to high-quality educational opportunities and help inmates transition back into the classroom or the workforce.
The White House on Wednesday launched a "College Scorecard" designed to help Americans determine which institutes of higher learning provide the best return on an investment in education.


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This character cottage, with beams and flagstone floors is set on the edge of a quiet village in the Brecon Beacons National Park in easy reach of South Wales largest peak, Pen y Fan and a short stroll away from the good local pub.
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TECHY STUFF: Underfloor heating, Smart TV, Blu- Ray Player, Wi-Fi.
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THE GARDEN: Very large private enclosed garden to rear of property with decent dining table and chairs, barbeque available on request.
PETS: Two well behaved dogs are very welcome here, although no puppies under 12 months please. The garden is enclosed. Please call us if you would like to discuss further pets.
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