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Home Computers, Laptops & Tablets Epson EcoTank ET-3710 Printer review
Epson EcoTank ET-3710 Printer review
Finding a printer that lasts is mainly about the ink and how long that lasts, which is where the Epson EcoTank ET-3710 tends to excel the most.
When Epson launched its EcoTank printers a few years ago, it changed the concept of ink availability. Rather than using inkjet cartridges, the printers utilized ink bottles to fill up small tanks. The collective amount of ink was like having several cartridges at once, which is why Epson projected output in both number of pages and in years.
The ET-3710 continues that mantra as yet another all-in-one printer that also has a built-in scanner and copier. But it's also what Epson calls a "supertank" printer for the sheer size of the tanks themselves. Epson reckons they amount to the equivalent of about 80 ink cartridges. That would mean the printer can output approximately 7,500 black pages (6,000 colour) before you need to refill them.
There isn't anything particularly dramatic about the ET-3710's design. It looks like an all-in-one printer has looked for years. The lighter colour is a nice departure from the usual black finishes in this category. It's also relatively slim in stature, though its depth and height will necessitate you putting it in a more open space.
The whole front panel housing the 2.4-inch screen and keypad tilts, making it easier to view all the controls from a higher vantage point. No need to hunch over the printer when standing up that way. The screen isn't touch-sensitive, so the directional pad handles navigating the printer software's interface.
Up to 150 plain pages can fit in the paper tray at the bottom, and the output tray just above it is elevated to allow paper to dry quickly on both sides. Connectivity ports are limited to Ethernet and USB, in case you want a wired setup.
Don't expect to be up and running within 10 minutes with this printer. The entire process is upwards of 45 minutes, or even an hour, when factoring in everything from the unboxing to being ready to print.
After taking off all the protective stickers, I filled up each of the ink tanks individually, which is easier to do now than it used to be with Epson's EcoTank models. The bottle tips align perfectly with the tank's slot. With each bottle, I had a little ink left over, so the size of each bottle isn't precise to that of each tank.
With that done, I then had to download and install Epson's software and drivers to my Mac (the process is the same for Windows PCs). Once that was done, it walked me through setting it up on my Wi-Fi network (Ethernet was also an option). It must be a 2.4GHz network, by the way, so if you're wondering why it won't connect to any network running on the 5GHz band, it's because it can't.
After that, I used the printer's own screen to align the print heads and output the test pages to get it ready. There were five in total, each of which had to be confirmed to be accurate by pressing corresponding buttons on the display.
Only then was I able to start printing. What I described may appear convoluted, but it's often how printers start out. Epson's EcoTank models have been a little more intricate in that regard, from my experience.
There are additional features and integrations with cloud-based services, like Google's Cloud Print or Apple's AirPrint. But it goes further by including Dropbox, Box, OneDrive, Evernote and Google Drive, particularly when it comes to scanning documents and saving them. Documents can go straight to a cloud service via direct upload or through an email address associated with the printer.
Epson's Remote Printing works in a similar way, where emailing a document you want to print to that email is like sending it directly to the printer. It's a great way to save time by having papers ready before you arrive at home or work.
The details for setting these up don't come in the box, but are actually part of the full manual available online. Follow the step-by-step instructions for each of the different options, and you can expand the ET-3710's scope significantly.
Print quality
It's a big commitment to go with a printer like this because if you don't like the results, there's a whole lot of ink still waiting to hit paper. The ET-3710 is more about economical output than it is about pure quality. There are dedicated photo printers made for that sort of thing, so bear that in mind.
Except this one can do it all. It can print photos, brochures or any other detailed print you want. It can do double-sided printing, and works with Epson's iPrint app, letting you print off photos you shot on your phone too.
I had little to fuss about when it came to standard black text sheets. Crisp, even when in standard mode, the content is highly legible and looks good. They also come out reasonably quickly. For documents that matter, going to draft mode will make them look rushed, but for copies that aren't of great importance, it's a nice way to conserve a little ink. At the highest setting, text looks immaculate.
Photos are going to depend on a few factors. First, the type of paper you're using. Use better paper, and you can get better results. But again, this isn't the kind of printer meant to prioritize images. The second thing is size of the print itself. I tested out a couple of 8 x 10 prints first to gauge any weaknesses.
Two things stood out. Blacks, like a night sky, for instance, will turn out a little too grey, making colour accuracy somewhat suspect. Colours are relatively vibrant otherwise, but I found smaller-sized prints were better than larger ones. If 4 x 6 and 5 x 7 prints are what you have in mind, the ET-3710 can handle those well enough.
This is ultimately a volume-based printer. Whether it's at home or in an office, if you're going through a lot of pages, it's the kind of model that vastly reduces anxiety over ink levels. You can print into the thousands of pages and still have ink left to do more. Inkjet cartridges don't offer that kind of volume.
If you only print leisurely once in a while, this might be overkill. But the ink also isn't in danger of drying up the way cartridges do when inactive for long periods. By now, you expect an all-in-one to also scan and copy well, and the ET-3710 has those bases covered. It's a model that should last a long time, even beyond the ink running out the first time.
The Epson EcoTank ET-3710 is available now.
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The Reason You Should Be Adding MSG To Salad Dressing
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By Talin Vartanian/Dec. 25, 2022 4:30 pm EST
Salad dressing can make or break a salad. Too much of it renders the greens soggy. Too little of it makes every bite dry. But just the right balance, along with thoroughly mixing everything together, elevate a salad with perfect consistency and flavors.
You're likely familiar with ranch, Italian, blue cheese, and Russian dressing. But the variety of salad dressings extends to other parts of the globe. In Japan, for instance, wafu is used to add flavorings of onions, soy sauce, ginger, and rice vinegar to vegetables via Whiskware. Or, in the Middle East, dressings often have tahini, which is a marriage of hulled sesame seeds and oil, according to Food Network. Other flavorful foreign dressings may consist of maple syrup (Canada), coconut cream (Suriname), and Dijon mustard (France), per Whiskware.
Hopefully, this may spark some ideas for making homemade salad dressings, which, for the most part, are quick and easy to whip up. As Start Cooking mentions, all you need is some oil (like olive or sunflower oil), acid (balsamic vinegar or herb-infused vinegars are popular choices), and seasonings. Creamy components like yogurt or mayonnaise may also be utilized. And for even more flavor, throw some MSG in there (via Bon Appétit). Now, this might seem like a strange choice at first, but we've found a few reasons why MSG and salad dressings are a match made in heaven.
MSG enhances umami
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According to Ajinomoto, umami can be found in aged cheese, mushrooms, anchovies, cured meat, and plenty of other foods that are commonly associated with the term "savory." It's also a basic taste, along with its sour, sweet, bitter, and salty family members, and stands out from the rest of them because it lingers on the palate.
So how do umami and MSG correlate? Well, as Bon Appétit explains, MSG seems to level up those umami flavors in salad dressings. There's more savoriness and balance among acidic and fatty elements of dressings, which makes the salad, as a whole, that much better.
In terms of how much MSG to add, this depends on whether you'd like to add MSG to the dressing or the salad. But in short, a little goes a long way. Bon Appétit suggests one teaspoon of MSG for their jalapeño ranch recipe. For a salad, Lifehacker relies on a good old-fashioned sprinkling directly on the greens and veggies. Up to four shakes of the MSG container should suffice, then mix away before adding the dressing.
So next time you whip up some homemade salad dressing, be sure to use a little MSG to enhance the depth, balance, and flavor profiles of your favorite salad.

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Can you please join me in a moment of thanksgiving?
I am so exceedingly thankful that for the first summer in three years, we are not renovating a basement (ditto for the roof, not that we've done that more than once).
Instead, as temperatures soar outside (last week felt like mid-40s with the humidity), we are camped out in the coolness of our freshly renovated basement.
Now obviously, my reading nook could use a side table, an actual light fixture and some reupholstery. But you see, that would require getting up. And no one's in the mood for that right now.
Wishing everyone a good weekend. The forecast here calls for… what else… some relaxing.
Same here. It's finally cooled down enough to enjoy the outdoors. Have a restful weekend.
It's cooled down a lot here too. I can't believe the temperature difference between last week and this week!
From the picture it looks like Baxter is adjusting well! Have a great weekend!
🙂 He's doing very well. I'm looking forward to spending lots of time with him this weekend.
Love the sentiment and the great picture. Two males in their repose!!! Looks like Baxter is right at his forever home and loving it.
Have a wonderful mid-summer weekend.
My two favourite guys, absolutely.
The basement is looking lovely. And how great to have a cool place to retreat to!
It's such a nice retreat in the heat of the summer.


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He/she is born under the zodiac cancer, who is known for Emotion, Diplomatic, Intensity, Impulsive, Selective. Our collection contains 2 quotes who is written / told by Carl.
"What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall"
"My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won't have to tell me what's going on in our city. I'll hear it, I'll see it, I'll touch it myself"


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Reactions to the Spider-Man: Homecoming Teaser Trailer
thegaminggeek / December 15, 2016
I've been a little anxious about the Spider-Man franchise since Sony announced that they would be rebooting it for a third time, especially since their second attempt started back in 2012 with The Amazing Spider-Man – a mere four years ago! How many times can you effectively re-tell a story in such a way that it would still feel fresh in the eyes of moviegoers?
My concerns were alleviated a little when news of a deal between Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios broke – Spider-Man would finally be in the hands of producers who knew how to translate the character from his comic book origins to film. But I was still worried even after Captain America: Civil War. But the timing of the reboot comes at a critical period – again, this reboot comes just four years after the last attempt and people have been talking about superhero movie fatigue recently. And let's not forget about the reception that the Amazing Spider-Man films received.
Well, the first teaser trailer for Spider-Man: Homecoming was finally released last week and let me say that I'm feeling better about this now. Let me talk about the specifics.
I was so glad to see Marvel Studios at the beginning of the teaser. I was worried that they'd only be involved with Spider-Man's appearances in the other MCU films, but I'm glad to see that they're also part of his solo films.
I loved that scene with those bank robbers with Avengers masks. It showed a kind of wisecracking humor that I've never seen from Maguire's or Garfield's films. Tobey Maguire's attempts at humor never felt right to me, and Andrew Garfield's delivery felt either forced (see first confrontation with a carjacker in the first film) or insulting. Holland's delivery has this youthful quality to it that I really like.
Spider-Man vs the Avengers! No, not really.
I've seen some people react about how this Spider-Man is too young, but I like this direction. Spider-Man started off as a teen superhero and his early storylines had a "coming of age" feel to them which is something that the MCU currently does not have. Also, having a younger actor portray Spider-Man not only differentiates this new version from the previous two Spider-Man incarnations but also gives us something different from what current superhero films in general have to offer.
"What's wrong with a younger Spider-Man?"
Speaking of a young Spider-Man, am I glad to see a different romantic counterpart for Peter. Again, this differentiates this incarnation of Spidey over what came before, but it also mirrors what happened in the original Spider-Man comic books wherein Peter doesn't date either Gwen Stacy or Mary Jane Watson until much later.
Another reboot means another love interest for our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man!
No sign of Uncle Ben! I saw a lot of negative reactions about DC going through the death of the Waynes in Batman V Superman even if the film really didn't spend a lot of time on it, so I can only imagine how people would feel if we go through another Uncle Ben death scene in Spider-Man: Homecoming. We don't need to see it again – we've already seen it twice and as recently as 2012. However, Peter still needs that emotional moment that's going to give him a chip on his shoulder, which leads me to my next item…
I love how Marvel Studios is able to keep telling Tony Stark's story outside of the Iron Man films. We can see that this version of Tony has grown further – he doesn't want Peter to do superheroics because just a few films ago, his best friend almost died in a battle that's not even supposed to be high stakes. And I can see Marvel using this relationship to give Peter that tragedy that shaped him to be the hero that he's meant to be. Imagine this scenario: Iron Man dies during Infinity War in Peter's arms. Not only does this serve as "the Uncle Ben death" for Spider-Man, but it can break off the MCU's dependence on the Iron Man character.
It was nice to see Peter and Tony walking around what looks like an Avengers facility. I'm not sure if this is a new facility or the Avengers base that we saw in Age of Ultron/Civil War, and I'm not really interested in the base itself. What I want to see is a little glimpse on the current state of the Avengers since we really haven't seen what happened after Civil War. Spider-Man: Homecoming presents the best opportunity for this as both Thor: Ragnarok and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 won't happen on Earth.
I don't know how I feel about the Vulture, both his looks and the character itself. The MCU already has a character that can fly thanks to technology in Falcon, so I'm not sure how the Vulture will be any different. Michael Keaton is a great actor but actors can only do so much depending on the material that they're given (e.g. Mads Mikkelsen, Christopher Eccleston, Ben Kingsley). I hope the Vulture will buck Marvel's trend of underwhelming villains.
"I'm different from the Falcon! I have a full helmet!"
The teaser trailer showed too much Tony Stark for my taste. The scenes that the teaser showed all made sense and I think Tony's presence in the film is necessary given the direction that Marvel/Sony is following, but anything more might just steal some of Spider-Man's thunder. I hope that quick scene between Iron Man and Spider-Man is just limited to the film's introduction; Spider-Man needs to beat whatever challenges he's going to face in the film on his own to earn that "coming of age" ending and not have Iron Man save his ass at the end of the film.
"Don't worry, I'll only take up this much of your screen time. This is your movie after all, Peter."
I didn't like that shot near the end of the teaser that showed Spider-Man holding together what looks like two parts of a ship/yacht sliced in half. It felt like they were trying to top the train sequence in Spider-Man 2. I think one reason why the Amazing Spider-Man films failed is because the filmmakers were too focused on trying to be "better" than Raimi's trilogy, so I hope this isn't the case with Spider-Man: Homecoming.
This is a teaser trailer, so we can't expect this to tell us whether Spider-Man: Homecoming is a good film or not. But the teaser establishes a few things about the movie without revealing too much: (1) that this movie is different enough from the previous Spider-Man films, (2) that this is truly a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and (3) that this film will still manage to give us something that the MCU hasn't been able to give us – a coming of age superhero story. This trailer just made Spider-Man: Homecoming my most eagerly anticipated superhero film for 2017.
Have you seen the Spider-Man: Homecoming teaser trailer/s? What did you think about it? Let us know by leaving a comment or two below!
December 15, 2016 in Alky's Random Thoughts. Tags: Marvel Cinematic Universe, marvel studios, MCU, sony, Sony Pictures, spider man, Spider-Man: Homecoming
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This document aims to document consensus on the CAPPORT architecture.
acceptable-use policy, or providing some form of credentials.
alerting the user involve modifying HTTP or DNS traffic.
portals that provides tools for addressing most of those problems.
SHOULD NOT require man-in-the-middle proxy of TLS traffic.
as Cable, WiFi or 3GPP.
responses to well-known queries with expected responses).
distinguished from attacks from untrusted agents.
Advertisement options for this purpose are available in [RFC7710].
notification to the User Equipment that it is in a captive state.
provisioned API to obtain information about the network state.
safety mechanisms to the extent possible.
device must satisfy in order to gain access to the wider network.
communicating beyond the constraints of the captive network.
assisting the user in satisfying the conditions to escape captivity.
Section 2.4, until site-specific requirements have been met.
applications being the means of satisfying Captive Portal Conditions.
o  An example interactive User Equipment is a smart phone.
in the manner of Provisioning Domain Architecture [RFC7556].
message types, and to access the Captive Portal API in response.
has been termed "make before break".
expects this URI to indicate the API described in Section 2.3.
Captive Portal API described in Section 2.3.
should provide a different result when access is not restricted.
access by IOT devices, etc.
The URI of this API will have been provisioned to the User Equipment.
alerts, the user equipment SHOULD query the API to check the state.
token for validating ICMP messages.
This document does not specify the details of the API.
denied general network access until it has performed some action.
o  Allows traffic through for allowed User Equipment.
pages to fulfill requirements of exiting captivity.
operations from the Captive Portal back-end.
port unreachable, packet too large, etc.).
Equipment is proposed in [I-D.wkumari-capport-icmp-unreach].
indications are only sent to the User Equipment.
The following diagram shows the communication between each component.
. +------------+   Provision API URI         | Provisioning |   .
. |            |<---------------------------+|  Service     |   .
. |   User     |                             +--------------+   .
. | Equipment  |   Query CAPPORT status;     +-------------+    .
. |            |+--------------------------->| CAPPORT API |    .
. |            |                             |  Server     |    .
. |            |                             +------+------+    .
. |            |                                    |Status     .
. |            |   Portal user interface     +------+------+    .
. |            |+--------------------------> | CAPPORT     |    .
. +------------+                             | web portal  |    .
.       ^  |  Connection Attempt             +-------------+    .
.       |  |  to prohibited service.                   |        .
.       |  +------------------> +---------------+  Allow/Deny   .
.       |                       |               |    Rules      .
.       |   ICMP Unreachable    | Captive Portal|     |         .
.       +---------------------+ | Enforcement   | <---+         .
.                            To/from external network           .
URI for the CAPPORT API.
user interface to the user.
through the Captive Portal enforcement device.
workflow of solutions adhering to the architecture.
initially joins a Captive Network.
lease, RA, or similar, acquiring provisioning information.
the provisioning information (e.g., [RFC7710]).
otherwise the "Expired" behavior occurs.
8.  The User Equipment accesses the network until conditions Expire.
to detect an expiry condition, which has now occurred.
2.  The User Equipment sends a packet to the outside network.
Equipment indicating that it needs to refresh its access.
5.  The User Equipment verifies the ICMP message is plausible.
parameters and status of the Captive Network.
gain access to the external network.
Enforcement the new, extended quota.
9.  The User Equipment accesses the external network.
When joining a network, some trust is placed in the network operator.
DHCPv6 AUTH option can sign this information.
servers but cannot detect cleverly misspelled domains, for example.
trivial for an on-path attacker to send a plausible ICMP packet.
User Equipment rate-limit these requests to the API.
force, the impact would be at worst a nuisance visit to the API.
the granularity of Provisioning Domains.


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Anne McCaffrey's long-running series will become a live action movie.
There's a lot of craziness in Dragonflight, and it feels like the kind of thing that Ralph Bakshi would have knocked out the park back in the day. The idea of it being live action is intriguing.
Steve Hoban, Don Murphy and Susan Montford are producing along with Hayter's Dark Hero shingle. Hoban used to work at IMAX, so expect to see some REALLY BIG dragons when this fucker gets off the ground next year.
Dragon city, here we come.


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Q: AutoIncrement is not working with sqlite-net Client in windows phone universal App I am using sqlite-net for sqlite in my windows phone universal application I have following class with table and column attributes and using async connection to add data in sqlite all is working fine, But the Id column is not auto incremented neither it is a primary key. Does any one else face this issue? following is my code.
 [Table("Account")]
public class Account
{
    [PrimaryKey, AutoIncrement]
    [Column("Id")]
    public int Id { get; set; }

    [Column("FirstName")]
    public string FirstName { get; set; }

    [Column("LastName")]
    public string LastName { get; set; }

    [Ignore]
    public string FullName { get; set; }
  }

  SQLite.SQLiteAsyncConnection conn = new SQLite.SQLiteAsyncConnection("database.sqlite");
        var result = await conn.CreateTableAsync<Account>();

        var _accountList = new Account();
        _accountList.FirstName = "Name 1";
        _accountList.LastName = "------------";
        var result1 = await conn.InsertAsync(_accountList);

        _accountList = new Account();
        _accountList.FirstName = "Name 2";
        _accountList.LastName = "------------";
         result1 = await conn.InsertAsync(_accountList);

         var list = await conn.Table<Account>().ToListAsync();

         var item = list;

on reading the table Id is always 0 for all records. Is there any way to fix this?

A: This is an old post, but maybe my answer can help someone, almost i hope so.
First declare your Id field as nullable:
[PrimaryKey, AutoIncrement]
[Column("Id")]
public int? Id { get; set; }

Is important that your primary key is nullable, otherwise it will be sent to the Insert method with the value of "0" and SQLite won't change an already existing integer value, and the next insert you'll receive an error, becouse you're trying to put another "0" index in the table.
And, in your CreateTable section, specify the createFlags argument, that if omitted, defaults to "none".
This is how i do it. "_dbPath" is the path to the database file in IsolatedStorage:
using (_connection = new SQLite.SQLiteConnection(_dbPath))
{
   _connection.CreateTable<T>(SQLite.CreateFlags.ImplicitPK | SQLite.CreateFlags.AutoIncPK);
}

This will made your Id field an indexed primary key, autoincremental.

A: I think using the below code will help you.
 [SQLite.PrimaryKey, SQLite.AutoIncrement]
        public int Id { get; set; }

A: I had a similar issue.
Try to reset simulator:
Step 1: Goto C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft XDE\8.1\
Step 2: Run XdeCleanup.exe

and rerun you app.
It happened for me because I had created a database without primary key and auto increment and then added it to the code. But somehow the state without PK&AI was cached in simulator.

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The cluster effect
Silicon Valley is known as the technological hub of international business, but finding high-calibre employees can greatly affect where a company remains. Jordan Bintcliffe looks at emerging and established economies using worldwide talent pools to source success
Wednesday, November 21st, 2012 By Jordan Bintcliffe
There are various elements affecting where the most highly skilled employees are based, which impacts the decisions companies make when choosing a location. Investment in education by a number of governments is creating a knowledgeable and skilled workforce throughout the world. Innovation through education is a consistent boom to the economy, and those economies that have treated education as an asset reap the long-term benefits that accompany a society at the cutting edge.
Creating the pool
Although talent is spread all over the globe, growing understanding of competition and the phenomenon of closely grouped companies has caused governments to artificially create or encourage 'business clusters' – an excellent opportunity for companies that demand a skilled pool of workers to hire from, along with access to important industry contacts, and the added ease of communication with similar or competing organisations.
Furthermore, the increasingly global availability of the internet is making it easier for employers to delegate work of all varieties to far-flung locations – even if it's not on the other side of the globe, there's the possibility that an employer and employee will never meet. Yet this is giving companies access to an ever growing and constantly available pool of talent; location is no longer a constraint.
Starting a business in a country where a large percentage of the population has a degree offers obvious benefits when it comes to picking employees – the talent pool is expanded, and the skills are competitive.
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) recently released a report entitled 'Education at a Glance 2012.' The report is, ironically, over 500 pages long and is packed with information and statistics on the state of teaching and the rising levels of education throughout a variety of countries in the world: 34 OECD member countries and eight other major economies.
Far-reaching education
The research is wide-ranging, including studies into the number of students expected to finish secondary and tertiary education; how much education affects economic growth; how much is spent per student; the proportion of public spending on education; student to teacher ratios, and teacher salaries.
The findings show that, among 25-64 year-olds, Canada has the proportionally highest number of inhabitants that have completed tertiary education, at 51 percent. Next comes Israel with 46 percent, Japan with 45 percent, US at 42 percent, New Zealand with 41 percent, » South Korea with 40 percent, UK at 38 percent, Finland at 38 percent, Australia with 38 percent, and Ireland at 37 percent.
But the percentages don't tell the whole story. Despite having the highest percentage of inhabitants who have completed tertiary education, the number of people qualified to degree level in Canada is less than 9.5 million – putting it in fourth place.
With its mammoth population, the US has considerably more individuals with tertiary education, at a staggering 67 million. Interpreting the data by numbers, rather than percentage, the order of most educated countries shifts; in descending order the top ten consists of: US, Japan, UK, Germany, Korea, Canada, France, Mexico, Spain, and Italy.
Leading nations
Countries all over the world are not only improving levels of education, but also investment into research and development. A report from the UK's Royal Society, entitled 'Knowledge, Networks and Nations: Global Scientific Collaboration in The 21st Century', published earlier this year, showed that China is quickly becoming the leading power in the field of science.
Although a decade ago China was ranked sixth in the league table of authorship in recognised scientific journals, it has quickly climbed to second place – sitting just behind the US. More countries are also beginning to specialise in science. Iran, after government leaders stated it was committed to a 'comprehensive plan for science,' boosted its investment in research and development from less than one percent up to four percent of national GDP.
Between 1996 and 2008, Iran has seen the fastest growth of scientific output in the world, with the number of research publications jumping from 736 to 13,238. Where the talent is however, is not always a perfect indicator of which country pours the most money into education. Although good education standards in an area does add value to businesses setting up there, many companies ignore conventional logic and set up as near to their competitors as possible – this is known as a business cluster.
Friends close, enemies closer
Business clusters occur when companies working in similar industries are grouped together in the same geographical location. Concentrating industry like this has a number of positive effects on the companies involved. Being located closely to rivals, businesses are pushed to be more competitive in order to out-do their neighbours.
Besides fostering a spirit of competition, the proximity to other companies tends also to facilitate the sharing of information, and clusters often see the emergence of new business partnerships using combined power to leverage economies of scale.
As a cluster takes root, more companies move in and the burgeoning job market becomes a tempting option for highly skilled workers. This pooling of talent produces a snowball effect as, in turn, more companies make the decision to set up there.
Studies have found that companies located in clusters grow faster. According to the Brookings Institution's 'Sizing the Economy' report, clean energy "clustered establishments grew at a rate that was 1.4 percentage points faster each year than non-clustered establishments."
The best-known example of the cluster effect is Silicon Valley, which became famous for its silicon chip innovators and manufacturers, and eventually became synonymous with all of the hi-tech companies in the area. As multiple start-ups in Silicon Valley became successful, more moved into the area. This, in turn, attracted venture capital firms, which led to the proliferation of more startups, creating a critical mass of companies drawing employees to the area and thus encouraging more businesses to set up there to take advantage of this talent pool; an ever-increasing feedback loop of business success.
Silicon Valley's legacy
With roots stretching back over decades, the valley has a rich history that speaks of innovation, entrepreneurship, and success. The original technology cluster can proudly call itself home to Intel, Google, eBay, Apple, and a variety of other big names in technology.
Barbara Diehl, manager at the Oxford Centre for Entrepreneurship, offered an insight into the cluster effect: "Everyone wants to have a Silicon Valley. But it's not a magic formula. It's not 'three companies, two universities, high speed broadband – put it together and magic happens.'"
She notes that the original Silicon Valley came out of the Manhattan project, where large scale investment by the Department of Defence "created infrastructure for an attractive site for companies to settle, and be located next to world-class universities."
Some governments, hoping to mimic the success of California, have attempted to manufacture business clusters through heavy investment: "Clusters are still prevalent on the political agenda because it's an easy concept to grasp, but it's not something that you can facilitate top-down."
The outskirts of Moscow, for instance, is home to the Skolkovo Innovation Centre, which is aiming to encourage the development of science and technology companies in Russia. But not all business clusters have to be centred within a sprawling and purpose-built research park. A cluster can refer to the entirety of an existing city, rather than a single isolated area. The technology cluster in Israel, known as Silicon Wadi, refers to most of the country, though some areas have notably intense concentrations of high-tech industry, particularly around Tel Aviv.
Silicon Wadi borrows heavily from the original Silicon Valley – the word Wadi means 'valley' in Arabic. It is now considered to be one of the main technology hubs on the planet, second only to the original in California, and a long list of impressive international companies have situated research and development facilities in the region.
Global clusters
In a relatively small city, 'The Cambridge Phenomenon' in the UK is the most successful business cluster in Europe. Charles Cotton, chairman of Cambridge Phenomenon, says there have been $11bn companies started in the Cambridge cluster, two of which have gone on to be $10bn – ARM and Autonomy.
Cotton states that the "Cambridge Phenomenon is an example of a bottom-up cluster which did not result from any overt government action or policy. Since 1969 around 5,000 tech companies have been founded."
He notes that the geographical proximity to other companies offers spontaneous opportunities for networking: "Cambridge is a compact city and companies are generally to be found on one of the 18 science, technology and business parks, and innovation centres within a ten mile radius of the city centre.
"The compactness of Cambridge means that there are a lot of chance meetings between people, and these meetings often result in serendipitous happenings. Cambridge has a lot of pubs, coffee shops and cafes which provide more opportunities for chance meetings as well as planned ones."
Clusters come in all sizes, and they don't have to be technology based – Hollywood is a prime example. Many industries now have well recognised clusters, like the automotive industry cluster in Southern Germany, the financial clusters in New York and London, and the telecoms cluster in Finland.
Some argue that Silicon Valley has seen better days, and is now suffering from detrimental issues such as high costs, a decline in local manufacturing, and increased competition from other regions or countries. "They're a victim of their own success," says Diehl. "The developers expect six figure salaries, which is difficult for small start-ups to offer." Regardless, the appeal of Silicon Valley seems to live on, and it continues to attract both startups and future investment.
Outsourcing to a global audience
The freelance industry, powered by the communicative opportunities of the internet, is changing the way in which employers approach the talent pool. With the internet improving how companies and individuals communicate across the globe, it is also affecting how employees are sought and hired.
Online freelance hire means that company location doesn't have to be a restriction on the skills available to them – they can simply outsource work to any part of the globe, with the highest level of talent and at the best possible price. The online freelance market is growing at a rapid rate, offering more opportunities for employers and employees.
Sam Golden from Elance, a global platform for online employment, spoke about how the online world is changing the employment market: "In an era of online collaborative working, it's not always necessary to meet your staff. Employees can see where the freelancers are bidding from and specify if they want to have face-to-face meetings."
This lack of necessity for face-to-face relationships offers a stark contrast to the concept of a business cluster, where proximity to other companies and the talent pool is a significant advantage over those located outside the cluster. Golden also notes that the range of skills available to prospective employers is outstanding, with a choice of everything, "from web design to full-blown virtual assistants. Employers can use sites like Elance to hire people for one-off web jobs or to book meetings for them every month."
Services like Elance offer employers access to numerous skills on a global scale, and it is increasingly becoming a viable model for many people seeking employment. A recent study by Elance showed that 69 percent of the freelancers asked were happier working as a freelancer than in a traditional office environment.
The availability of appropriate talent has long been a deciding factor when a business chooses its location. Now, high levels of education across the world, purpose-built business clusters, and access to a massive market of online freelancers is giving employers more choice when locating their business in an area with access to the all-important talent.
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Mortgages become the most expensive in history. The monthly loan repayment can increase by thousands
January 21, 2022 by newsy today
The average mortgage rate rose in December the fastest since 2003. According to the Fincentrum Hypoindex, it ended just below three percent. Rates exceeding the four percent mark can already be found in the offers of some banks. Financing experts thus estimate that interest in housing loans will fall sharply this year.
The average mortgage rate rose 29 basis points to 2.99 percent in December. "This is the highest month-on-month increase in the interest rate in the history of the hypoindex. And given the ever-increasing supply rates, it is clear that they will continue to rise. of Fincentrum & Swiss Life Select.
Normally, however, rates of over four percent can be found on the market. Banks have become more expensive in recent months. For example, Airbank and ČSOB have now announced interest rate increases.
"From January 17, 2022, we will increase interest rates on mortgages by 0.4 percentage points. For new mortgages, the bank will offer clients an annual interest rate of 4.14 percent, including mortgages on the ability to repay the mortgage. For mortgages transferred from another bank, the annual interest rate will be new to 3.94 percent, "Airbank said in a press release.
ČSOB rose by 0.6 percent and the rate thus ranges from 4.49 to 4.79 percent, depending on the length of the fixation. "The new rates are a response to the CNB's sharp move on 22 December 2021, which seeks to prevent a further rise in inflation," explained Jiří Feix of Hypoteční banka and ČSOB Stavební spořitelna.
At the end of December, the Czech National Bank (CNB) raised the key interest rate by one percentage point to 3.75 percent. In addition, the central bank expects its further growth this year as well, but the growth rate should slow down.
"It is likely that the growth of the average interest rate on mortgages will continue to accelerate. The average rate in the hypoindex last reached four percent in August 2011. It reached its highest level in August 2008, when it climbed to 5.82 percent," says Jiří Titmouse.
Higher monthly payments by thousands
As the hypomonitor of the Czech Banking Association points out, who also monitors developments on the mortgage market, with the expected rise in interest rates, the monthly payment for new or refixed loans also increases.
"If the average mortgage rate reaches the limit of five percent this year, it will mean an increase in the monthly payment of three and a half to four thousand crowns per month for the average size of the mortgage. In 2016 and 2017, mortgage rates at five percent would mean an increase in the monthly payment for the average mortgage by five to six thousand crowns per month, "the hypomonitor points out.
Monthly mortgage payment at the rate Photo: CBA
In December, banks provided 10,745 mortgages in the total amount of CZK 34.532 billion. Compared to November, the number of provided mortgages decreased by 624 and the volume by 2.672 billion crowns.
Last year was quite extraordinary on the mortgage market. Banks have arranged loans worth almost 430 billion crowns. Until now, it held the lead in 2020, when banks provided mortgages worth 254 billion crowns. The mortgage market thus grew by almost 70 percent year-on-year.
"The year 2021 was a record year in the volume of provided mortgage loans and it can be expected that it will not be surpassed immediately. Because the mortgage market will cool down this year, by at least 20 percent," Jiří Sýkora estimates.
The average amount of a mortgage in December fell by almost 60,000 to 3,213,738 crowns. Over the last year, the average mortgage has increased by 247,588 crowns, despite several declines. "The growth of the average mortgage is slowing down, but real estate prices are still rising, although not as fast as last year," says the analyst.
The executive director of the Central Group development company, Michaela Tomášková, pointed out that the path to mortgages will soon become even more complicated for many people. The new stricter CNB rules will come into force on 1 April.
"While now it has been enough to save 500,000 from your own resources to buy a five million apartment, you will need at least a million from April 2022. In addition, it will only be possible to take out a loan up to 8.5 times your net annual income. According to the statistical office, it is 45 thousand crowns (36 thousand net), so it will reach a maximum of 3.7 million crowns on the mortgage, "said Tomášková, adding that the total repayment of all loans in this model case will not exceed 45% of net monthly income.
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Welcome to THE COMMONS – News and Views for Windham County, Vermont
By Denis D. Vaillancourt	 Last updated Nov 23, 2021
PUTNEY — A wildlife photography exhibit, "The Peace of the Wild," by Dara Carleton, is now on view at the Putney Public Library through February 2022.
The color photographs of local wildlife by artist Brookline are taken with a zoom in place from his kayak or during his wanderings in the woods, images of a mink, a pair of nesting great blue herons, a black bear, bald eagles the face of a raccoon.
Most of his photographs are taken from his kayak in places less than an hour's drive from his cabin, using a Nikon D7500 handheld digital camera and a Tamron 150-600mm lens.
Much of what she photographs is on the Connecticut River, home to many bald eagles and their nests. His work can be seen on daracarletonwildlifephotography.com.
"Immersing yourself in nature feeds my soul," Carleton said in a press release. "I feel completely connected to my subjects as I photograph them. Through my photographs, I hope to convey this feeling and encourage everyone to explore their local environment. "
Carleton holds a Bachelor of Arts degree and has specialized in wildlife photography for the past six years. She has exhibited her photographs locally, as well as in New Hampshire and New York.
She also volunteered for Audubon Vermont and New Hampshire Audubon for several years, surveying bald eagle nests and a peregrine falcon nest.
She saw and reported bald eagle paw bands to the government and was able to identify seven local bald eagles.
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To help change the lives of the orphans and street children, JRMD/YRWD is building an orphanage, a school, and a community center (Imuhira Iwacu Village/In Our Home Village), in Burundi, Cibitoke Province, Buganda Commune, at Ruhagarika. The orphanage will accommodate 160 children and the school around 800 children each year, from the orphanage and locations surrounding Imuhira Iwacu Village and beyond. Currently, the school is providing education to 450 children.
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Massachusetts Mom Who Withheld Cancer Drugs From Son Convicted of Attempted Murder
April 12: Kristen LaBrie looks at family and friends after she was found guilty on all four counts, including attempted murder, in the death of her son, at Lawrence Superior Court in Lawrence, Massachusetts. (AP)
LAWRENCE, Mass. -- A Massachusetts woman who withheld at-home chemotherapy medications from her autistic, cancer-stricken son was convicted of attempted murder Tuesday by jurors who dismissed her claim that she thought the side effects of the treatment could kill him.
Kristen LaBrie also was found guilty of child endangerment and assault and battery for failing to give her son, Jeremy Fraser, at least five months of cancer medications after the boy was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma in 2006. He died in 2009 at age 9.
LaBrie, 38, told the jury she stopped giving him the medications because she couldn't bear to see how sick the side effects made him.
Prosecutors portrayed her as a single mother seething with resentment because she had to care for Jeremy alone.
LaBrie, who appeared teary-eyed but resigned as the verdict was read, consoled her sobbing sister in the front row.
"Tell everybody I'm OK. It's going to be OK. I love you, too," LaBrie said.
As she was led away in handcuffs, she mouthed "I love you" to her family.
Jeremy's oncologist, Dr. Alison Friedmann of Massachusetts General Hospital, had testified that she told LaBrie her son's cancer had a cure rate of 85 percent to 90 percent under a two-year, five-phase treatment plan that included some hospital stays, regular visits to the hospital clinic to receive chemotherapy treatments and at-home administration of several cancer medications.
Friedmann said the boy's cancer went into remission after months of treatment. But in early 2008, Friedmann said she discovered that the cancer had returned in the form of leukemia and that LaBrie had not filled at least five months of prescriptions she was supposed to give him.
LaBrie, testifying in her own defense, told the jury that she followed the instructions from her son's doctors for the first four phases of treatment but stopped giving her son the medications during the final phase because she "didn't want to make him any sicker."
LaBrie said she told her son's doctor two or three times that she was afraid that "he just had had it."
"He was just not capable of getting through any more chemotherapy," LaBrie said. "I really felt that it could out-villainize the disease -- the medicine could -- because he was very, very fragile."
LaBrie's lawyer, Kevin James, told the jury LaBrie was depressed and overwhelmed by caring for her son, who was severely autistic, nonverbal and developmentally delayed. James said she made a "tragic mistake" in stopping her son's at-home medication, but said her actions were not criminal.
LaBrie and the boy's father, Eric Fraser, had a contentious relationship. LaBrie said she received very little help from him, even after their son was diagnosed with cancer.
After doctors discovered LaBrie had withheld the medications, Jeremy went to live with his father for the last year of his life. Eric Fraser was killed in a motorcycle accident seven months after his son died.
Fraser's family members wept in the back row of the courtroom as the verdict was read, and left the court without commenting.
LaBrie will be sentenced Friday morning. She faces a maximum sentence of 20 years on the attempted murder charge, 10 years on a charge of assault and battery on a disabled person, five years on assault and battery on a child causing substantial injury and 2 1/2 years on reckless endangerment of a child.
Her attorney, Kevin James, asked to delay sentencing until next week so he could write a sentencing memo and gather letters on LaBrie's behalf from her friends and family. Judge Richard Welch said he would review the letters and sentencing memo, but would not agree to schedule the hearing next week.
"Those are very serious crimes," Welch said.


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Two arrested after barristers' clerk stabbed to death in brawl outside pub
A man and a teenager have been arrested after a 24-year-old barristers' clerk was stabbed to death in a brawl outside a pub.
By PA
Tuesday, 23rd April 2019, 3:35 pm
Updated Tuesday, 23rd April 2019, 4:39 pm
Joe O'Brien, who died after being stabbed in a brawl outside a pub in Failsworth, Greater Manchester. Police have arrested a 22-year-old man and a 17-year-old boy on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.
Joe O'Brien, from Blackley, Manchester, died in hospital after suffering serious stab wounds in the "large fight" outside the Royal Oak Hotel pub in Failsworth, Greater Manchester, at about 3am on Sunday.
His family have paid tribute to a "much loved son, brother, grandson, uncle, nephew and friend".
Two other men, aged 21 and 23, were injured in the fight and the 21-year-old was taken to hospital, where he is being treated for stab wounds that are not believed to be life-threatening, a Greater Manchester Police spokesman said.
A 22-year-old man and 17-year-old have been arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder and remain in custody for questioning.
In a statement, Mr O'Brien's mother Roz McDonald said: "Joe was a much loved son, brother, grandson, uncle, nephew and friend to many.
"He was hard working and had a great sense of humour. He was kind and generous, both with his time and with his money.
"His friends, his family and Manchester United were his life.
"Joe worked as a barristers' clerk at Deans Court Chambers in Manchester and he loved this job.
"The majority of Joe's time was spent either with his friends, or caring for his mother, who he always put first."
Detective Chief Inspector Cheryl Chatterton said: "We are deeply saddened by Joe's death and we are determined to find answers for his family, who are being cared for by specialist officers at this dreadful time.
"While we have made arrests, it is absolutely essential that anyone with information comes forward to the police as soon as possible."
Information can be left with police by calling 0161 856 9908 or the independent charity Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.


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Harrington: John Mellencamp talks about his Steinbeck Award
John Mellencamp sings at the Farm Aid concert in Camden, N.J., Saturday, Sept. 30, 2006. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
PUBLISHED: July 23, 2012 at 9:20 a.m. | UPDATED: August 13, 2016 at 1:34 a.m.
John Mellencamp, the Hoosier State troubadour known for crafting such tuneful slices of Americana as "Pink Houses," "Small Town" and "Jack & Diane," is this year's recipient of the John Steinbeck Award.
The 60-year-old singer-songwriter, who has sold more than 40 million records during a career that spans five decades, is the fourth musician to earn the honor, also known as "In the Souls of the People" Award, following Bruce Springsteen (1996), Jackson Browne (2002) and Joan Baez (2003). Other recipients of the honor, which is bestowed annually through the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University, have included actor Sean Penn, director Michael Moore and author Studs Terkel.
Mellencamp will receive the Steinbeck Award from Thomas Steinbeck, an accomplished author and son of John Steinbeck, on Monday at the lovely California Theatre, 345 S. First St., San Jose. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer will perform songs at the event and participate in a talk moderated by Robert Santelli, executive director of the Grammy Museum. Showtime is 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $45-$55 (www.ticketmaster.com).
I talked with Mellencamp last week, as he turned his thoughts toward the Steinbeck Award.
Q First off, congratulations on winning the Steinbeck Award.
A It's a nice thing to get. I like it when families do this kind of thing, as opposed to business people. I got the Woody Guthrie award a few years ago from the Guthrie family, and that probably meant as much to me as anything else I've gotten.
Q What was your reactions when you heard that you'd won the award? Were you aware that the award existed?
A I knew about the award. And, of course, I know a lot about Steinbeck. I was pleased.
Q This won't be the first trophy in your case. How does it stack up to some of the other honors you've received?
A Awards — they only give them to old people. Keep that in mind. When you start getting awards, you know you are old. But it seems a little bit more … oh, I guess the word would be honoring, when it is from a family, as opposed to a bunch of music affiliates. To get something from the Guthrie family or the Steinbeck family is pretty nice praise for a guy from Indiana.
Q You're the fourth musician to receive the award — after Springsteen, Jackson Browne and Joan Baez. Not bad company.
A I would imagine they offered it to Dylan, but he wouldn't take it — if I know Bob.
Q The award is given to, and I quote from the Center from Steinbeck Studies, "writers, artists, thinkers, and activists whose work captures the spirit of Steinbeck's empathy, commitment to democratic values, and belief in the dignity of people who by circumstance are pushed to the fringes." That an apt description for your body of work?
A I don't know if that shoe fits perfectly, but I have written a lot of songs about extreme parts of life that all of us go through.
Q When someone mentions Steinbeck, what images first come to mind?
A My favorite Steinbeck piece is "Tortilla Flats." It is so beautiful — and so grotesquely beautiful. I sent Springsteen a copy of the movie — Spencer Tracy stars in the movie. It's about the problem of the possessions.
Q Why do you think Steinbeck continues to fascinate so many readers?
A Because he's good. It's that simple — because he's good. And because he's dealing with stuff that people just don't deal with anymore. People don't want to deal with that type of reality. If you just look at the movies that were made of Steinbeck's books, and then the movies that they make today. What chance do you think "East of Eden" would've had of being made today? I'll tell you — none. They just wouldn't do it. Hollywood is all about Spider-Man.
That's why he endures with a certain type of person. Not with the general public, I don't think anymore, but with a certain type of person.
Speaking of Dylan …: Bob Dylan is hitting the road — yet again. This time, however, he's got company — Mark Knopfler.
The former Dire Straits frontman, who is one of the best electric guitarists in all of rock 'n' roll, will join Dylan on a fall tour. The trek includes four Northern California dates — Oct. 17 and 18 at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, Oct. 19 at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley and Oct. 20 at the Power Balance Pavilion in Sacramento.
Tickets are $59.50-$125 for the Bill Graham gigs; $49.50-$129.50 for the Greek show; and $65-$85 for Power Balance performance. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through www.ticketmaster.com.
Who new: The Who is coming.
The British group, which clearly ranks as one of the most popular classic-rock acts in history, has announced plans to launch a major North American tour at the end of 2012.
Bay Area fans, however, will have to wait until early next year to see the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band, which still includes original members Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend. The Who will perform Feb. 1 at Oracle Arena in Oakland.
Tickets to the Oakland show, priced at $37.50-$123.25, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through www.ticketmaster.com.
The band will be playing its acclaimed 1973 rock opera, "Quadrophenia," in its entirety during this tour. That should take up much of the Who's time onstage — given that "Quadrophenia" is a double-disc effort — but the band still plans to reserve space on the set lists for many of its classic hits.
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Q: why does array copy changes after changing real array? I am programming chess engine in order to see in the futere I have to change board configuration and remove changed parts A lot in short problem is this
function chessAi(){
    let copy=[...board]
    pisces.forEach(pisce=>{
    pisce.forEach(move=>{
       //play move on the board
       //reset board to original board
       board=copy
       }
    }
}

this just doesnot work and I cant figure out why,however I messed around and find that if I define copy on every move like this
function chessAi(){
    pisces.forEach(pisce=>{
    pisce.forEach(move=>{
       let copy=[...board]
       //play move on the board
       //reset board to original board
       board=copy
       }
    }
}

it works perfectly can someone explain why and how to fix that? this takes a lot of processing power and makes calculating moves much harder. thanks in advance

A: In the first iteration of your first code snippet you create a clone (copy) of board array but after the first iteration and in the next iterations you are working on the same array you created in the first iteration that is why you get unexpected results.
But in your second code snippet you are creating new clone (copy) of the board array in each iteration.
A solution to your problem could be reset board variable with a clone (copy) of the copy variable:

function chessAi(){
    let copy=[...board]
    pisces.forEach(pisce=>{
    pisce.forEach(move=>{
       //play move on the board
       //reset board to original board
       board=[...copy]
       }
    }
}

A: After the first iteration of pisce.forEach copy and board will reference the same array. One way, as @vcodepro mentioned, is to restore the board by cloning the copy. Another alternative is that you clone it at the start of each iteration and throw it away after the processing is done:
function chessAi(){
    let selectedConfig = null
    pisces.forEach(pisce=>{
    pisce.forEach(move=>{
       newConfig = [...board]
       //play move on the newConfig
       //if the newConfig is appropriate
       selectedConfig = newConfig
       }
    }
    return selectedConfig
}

This way you are keeping the current state of the board safe from any modification. Otherwise, if you want to use board in some other places and it has been modified here, it may cause hard to find bugs.

A: The spread operator makes deep copies of data if the data is not nested.
It means when you have nested data in an array the spread operator will create a deep copy of the top most data and a shallow copy of the nested data. That's the reason it getting change when actual array changes.
Let me explain with an example :

// Original Array
let board = ['board1', 'board2',['board3','board4']];

// On copy this board data to a new variable via spread operator.
let copy = [...board];

// It looks like we get a deep copy of whole board array but in fact we don't.
console.log(copy[0]) // 'board1'
console.log(copy[2][1]) // 'board4'

Now, if we change the array saved at index 2, copy[2][1] not only does it change the data for our variable "board" but "copy" as well. So it means board[2][1] points to the same array that copy[2][1] points to in memory.
That's the reason your second solution works as you are making deep copy of each nested array after each iteration.


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Martha Holden recently joined Waterford Country School in celebrating Waterford becoming the first Children And Residential Experiences (CARE) Academy in the world.
The CARE Academy was established to recognize certified CARE agencies that contribute to the field in a variety of ways including partnering with Cornell to conduct research, writing articles about their CARE experience, presenting at conferences, building communities of practice, and hosting other agencies interested in the CARE model.
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This latest article, written by Kim Draheim, is a follow-up to the first article and continues the story about how the Youth Voice Band personifies the CARE principles in action.
Background: In June 2016, RCCP had the priviledge and the pleasure of opening our international conference with an extremely heartfelt and emotional musical performance by the Youth Voice Band from Hillside Family of Agencies. The songs that they performed, mostly original music, show us what some of our most vulnerable children go through each day of their lives.
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Reflections from the "Building a Community of Practice" International Conference - Write On Community of Practice
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Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Youth: A Consensus Statement of the International Work Group on Therapeutic Residential Care
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The Northern Health and Social Care Trust of Northern Ireland presents a planning tool to assist residential child care practitioners in integrating the CARE program model into their practice. The HCS team created the "CARE-Giving Journey Planner" based on their own experiences in establishing a CARE-based practice. The CARE tools "are ultimately aimed at increasing the congruence and applicability of CARE-based language and practice; prioritising preciseness and pragmatism in the interests of everyday use. It is hoped that through such mediums, the fundamentals of CARE can continue to live and breathe in the daily interactions with our children and families."
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Expert Urges for a More Multidisciplinary Approach to Bladder Cancer Care
Danielle Bucco
Robert Jones, MD, discusses the future treatment landscape for patients with urothelial carcinoma in a more multidisciplinary setting.
Robert Jones, MD
Multidisciplinary teams could help push the quality of care for patients with urothelial carcinoma forward, according to Robert Jones, MD.
"We need to build stronger, more comprehensive, and more specialized multidisciplinary teams," says Jones, a professor of Clinical Research at the University of Glasgow.
OncLive: Can you provide an overview on your presentation about the future of urothelial carcinoma?
In an interview with OncLive at the 2017 Global Congress on Bladder Cancer held in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Jones discussed the future treatment landscape for patients with urothelial carcinoma in a more multidisciplinary setting.Jones: I discussed the future role of the medical oncologist is in the management of advanced urothelial cancer, highlighting 4 key things, which I think are clear in cancer:
Firstly, early detection brings about better outcomes. As a medical oncologist, we're not diagnosticians, but early detection results in better outcomes. Traditionally, medical oncologists have been involved later in the course of the disease. We've gradually brought that role further forward. Currently, the earliest moment that the medical oncologist is [involved] is in the management of muscle-invasive bladder cancer with neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
It's clear that there are also patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer who have a very high risk of dying. Therefore, in the future, the medical oncologists are going to be getting involved in this setting for 2 reasons: Firstly, the current treatments in that situation leave a great unmet need. The toxicity and efficacy of both Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) and cystectomy are questionable. We badly need new treatments for those very high-risk patients. It may be that drugs play a part in the role of systemic therapy. I think that medical oncologists are going to get involved in that stage of the disease.
Secondly, it's clear that we're not going to continue treating all patients in the same way. We've failed up until now in trying to subdivide patients. There has been a lot of work around how you select patients for immune checkpoint therapy and that's all failed in bladder cancer. There is a lot of data coming through, particularly from The Cancer Genome Atlas, where we can clearly subdivide patients—there are at least detectable trends in response to treatment.
There is a lot of work that still needs to be done both with making those biomarkers ready for clinical use and in understanding the actual productivity of those markers. I think it is inevitable in the next few years that we're going to have to better understand the molecular biology [of the disease] because it's going to dictate how we treat bladder cancer, as it already does in other common cancers, such as breast cancer, lung cancer, and colorectal cancer.
Thirdly, it's clear that bladder cancer at many stages of presentation benefits from multimodality therapy. I think the multidisciplinary team in bladder cancer is poorly developed at an organizational level. We need to build stronger, more comprehensive, and more specialized multidisciplinary teams. The idea that bladder cancer is managed by the urology multidisciplinary team where there are 9 patients with prostate cancer for every 1 patient with bladder cancer, is going to disappear and a multidisciplinary team is going to be focused purely on urothelial cancers.
Is there any ongoing research that you're interested in?
Finally, the fourth observation is that the molecular biology of cancer, including bladder cancer, is incredibly complex. This will reflect what I've already said about stratification. Part of our take on data is to do big randomized phase III trials. In a disease like bladder cancer, which is relatively rare, we are beginning to understand that the molecular pathways are not entirely linear. We're going to need to find new ways of making progress as we increasingly subdivide cancer patients. In my opinion, the era of the big randomized phase III trials is something we're going to have to part with over the coming years. At a scientific level, I think there is a lot of interesting research around gene expression profiling, both at the genomic and transcriptomic levels, which is already beginning to give us a nearly tractable hypothesis. There is also ongoing research to translate those complex biomarkers into simpler biomarkers that are potentially amenable to every pathology laboratory, in every specialist hospital in the world.
If we look more broadly, the whole area of how we research the optimum way to deliver individualized care to the patient is interesting. There is interesting research being conducted at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center looking at the use of patient-recorded outcome tools and how we can improve care and quality of life for our patients. That research is not bladder cancer—specific but it will relate to patients with bladder cancer. As treatment options become more complex, we must not forget that sometimes there are simple tools that can help us better meet the needs of our patients and this translates to survival benefits for patients.
How do you sequence the different systemic therapies available to patients with metastatic disease? This is a new problem we have because up until recently, we only had one line of treatment. There wasn't much debate about that. We do have more than one line of treatment now, potentially 3 lines of treatment, which are proven to be effective.
How do we sequence them? First of all, we have to look at the evidence base. Right now, I would say the evidence base is still platinum-based chemotherapy first and then an immune checkpoint inhibitor. One might consider further chemotherapy after that. In my view, there is an argument for changing that sequence based on the evidence we have, bearing in mind the evidence for first-line checkpoint inhibition is in patients who are not suitable for platinum-based chemotherapy. We're going to get trials coming through which will change that to where we will have uncertainties.
We need to stay focused on which of these options is best for the patient, taking into consideration previous treatments.
I also treat prostate cancer where we've gone from having no treatments to 5 different treatments in a relatively short period of time and many are discussing sequencing. There is never going to be 100% evidence for optimal sequencing. It is difficult to do those trials because they are complex. The lesson I've learned from prostate cancer is that the sequence in which a patient takes up different treatments is going to be largely driven by the patient's preferences at the time. We shouldn't worry too much about drug sequencing in advanced disease. It's a privileged position to be in where you have a choice at any time. Do you see immunotherapy developing even further in the long term? We're still in the early days with immunotherapy. What we've seen with immunotherapy is that it doesn't work for everyone. It's clear that if you're one of the small proportion of patients who do benefit, the benefits can be profound and prolonged. We're not going to discard that quickly.
What would you hope physicians take away from your presentation?
Can we build on that to find immunotherapies that work for a larger group of patients? There is already work ongoing looking at immune combinations or combinations with cytotoxics. Immunotherapy is probably here for the long term because it's been an enticing hypothesis for many years. Now, we're getting evidence that we can manipulate it and hopefully we can build on that to bring those benefits to more patients. The main takeaway is that we need to drive up the quality of care that we can offer to patients with bladder cancer through a multidisciplinary approach. We can make progress with the knowledge that we already have if we just make that knowledge available to all patients. There are multiple barriers to quality of care, which is why it is important to get the whole system to work together to deliver the best possible quality of care to the individual patient.


Enjoying their camp at the Hostel of Uitzi, students from ARGIA IKASTOLA took the baton of Korrika for the kilometre of Astitzko Aterpea. If you click here, you can see the video (from 5th minute) .
20 years at the Hostel of Astitz, we're going to celebrate it!
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Cassidy: How Philz Coffee became the official…
Cassidy: How Philz Coffee became the official beverage of IPO darling Facebook
Phil Jabor, right, and his son Jacob are photographed in their coffee shop, Philz, in downtown Palo Alto, Calif. on Friday, May 11, 2012. Philz has become a rapidly growing coffee chain in the Bay Area. Jacob Jabor, 25, is the president and runs the the daily operation. One of their shops is located in the new Facebook campus in Menlo Park where the two growing companies enjoy a rosy future. (Gary Reyes/ Staff)
Artwork and a living room atmosphere gives Philz coffee shop in downtown Palo Alto, Calif. a unique character on Friday, May 11, 2012. Phil and his son Jacob run Philz which has been a rapid growing chain in the Bay Area. One of his shops is located in the new Facebook campus in Menlo Park where the two companies enjoy a rosy future. (Gary Reyes/ Staff)
Phil Jabor is photographed in his coffee shop, Philz, in Palo Alto, Calif. on Friday, May 11, 2012. Phil and his son Jacob run Philz which has been a rapid growing chain in the Bay Area. One of his shops is located in the new Facebook campus in Menlo Park where the two companies enjoy a rosy future. (Gary Reyes/ Staff)
The front counter at Philz coffee shop in downtown Palo Alto, Calif. is photographed on Friday, May 11, 2012. Phil and his son Jacob run Philz which has been a rapid growing chain in the Bay Area. One of his shops is located in the new Facebook campus in Menlo Park where the two companies enjoy a rosy future. (Gary Reyes/ Staff)
Bins of coffee beans line a wall at Philz coffee shop in downtown Palo Alto, Calif. on Friday, May 11, 2012. Phil and his son Jacob run Philz which has been a rapid growing chain in the Bay Area. One of his shops is located in the new Facebook campus in Menlo Park where the two companies enjoy a rosy future. (Gary Reyes/ Staff)
By Mike Cassidy | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: May 15, 2012 at 8:00 a.m. | UPDATED: August 13, 2016 at 4:12 a.m.
On the eve of the monumental Facebook initial public stock offering, Phil Jaber is remarkably calm.
You'd think he'd be a buzzed-up, jittery, caffeinated wreck. See, coffee is his business, and his brand, Philz Coffee, has become inexorably linked with the social networking juggernaut set to make IPO history Friday. When Facebook designed its new Menlo Park campus, Philz was front and center with a stand-alone coffee shop at FB HQ.
Philz, plain and simple, is the official coffee of Facebook.
And so I'm thinking that Philz is the fuel for Facebook's success; that whether Facebook flies or flops rests largely on the exotic blends of joe that Jaber worked 25 years perfecting. Think about it: What's more important to an enterprise's success than the corporate coffee that keeps the coders coding?
But Jaber, suave and favoring crisply pressed shirts and an ever-present fedora, will have none of it.
"No. No," he says, "each company has its own success."
That Jaber would pass on such an easy opportunity to take some credit for Facebook's astounding success is a sign of the supreme confidence he has in his coffee and his business. Jaber says with his coffee and his customer service, he and his son, who is the company's CEO, have built a business that can't miss.
Sort of like what some say about Facebook.
In fact, it's little wonder that Philz and Facebook have hit it off so well. True, Philz, is a high-tech darling. It's delivered bags of coffee to Facebook for years and it counts Twitter and Google (GOOG) among the corporate accounts to which it delivers coffee for workers to brew at the office.
But Facebook is its one and only full-blown corporate campus coffee shop. And why not? The companies have much in common. Both launched within a year of each other (Philz in 2003; Facebook in 2004). They started in odd spots (Facebook in a Harvard dorm room; Philz in a San Francisco corner grocery where Jaber experimented with different blends for decades before launching). They both have chief executives who are 20-somethings. (Philz CEO Jacob Jaber is 25; Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is 28.)
Both companies have attracted cultlike followings — Facebook with its addictive ability to let users be in close and constant contact with thousands of friends and Philz with a dozen blends of coffee and a ritual experience. Coffee at Philz is made in front of you, one cup at a time, resulting in deeply satisfying and complex flavors best described with wine words like bold, fruity, flowery, chocolate and charcoal.
And the similarities don't stop there. Talk to Phil Jaber for five minutes and he will tell you (several times) that he does not focus on profit.
"We're not looking for money or numbers," he says. "We're looking for growth." While Facebook spent it's pre-IPO years focused on capturing eyeballs, Philz is capturing taste buds. Increasing profits will follow. Jaber is sure of that, especially with his son, whom he calls his best friend, at the day-to-day helm.
"I have a strong feeling that he's going to be in Fortune magazine, one of the 500 companies," says Phil Jaber, 56. "He wants to grow and I said, 'Let's grow.' "
And you know how Zuckerberg structured the stock offering so that he will retain control of the company? Jaber says he's turned down offers from venture capitalists who wanted to fund his expansion in return for a say in the business and a piece of the action.
"I'm not interested," Jaber says. "There is no one who is good enough to come and tell me how to run my business."
Both companies have seen wild growth in less than a decade of doing business (Facebook from thousands of members to about 900 million; Philz from one shop to 10 in the Bay Area, with several more opening this year). And both have ambitious plans to become even bigger. Facebook is looking to nab every human on the planet and Philz, well …
"I've got 1,000 shops in my mind," Phil Jaber says. Says son, Jacob, of retail opportunities: "There are millions of square feet of space around the world and we only have about 10,000 square feet of it. We have a ways to go."
And, of course, both companies are about building communities.
"Facebook is high-tech, all over the globe, you can communicate, see each other," Phil Jaber says. "Philz is personal, eye-to-eye. You socialize. You feel it. You touch it. You taste it. Both cultures are a good marriage with each other."
But how exactly did Philz become the official coffee of Facebook, a company that could soon be valued in the neighborhood of $100 billion? (Nice neighborhood.)
"A lot of Facebook employees really love Philz," Jacob Jaber says, "so do the executives." In fact, at least one recent Zuckerberg sighting has been reported at the midtown Palo Alto Philz, though Jacob says he's never run into him there and "I think he drinks tea." (Which Philz is happy to supply.)
At any rate, one day Jacob Jaber's Facebook contact said the company wanted a full coffee shop on its new campus. "So we said sure," he says. After all, if you want to conquer the world with coffee, Facebook isn't a bad place to start.
And no, Jacob Jaber says, Philz didn't score any pre-IPO stock in the deal. Does he wish he had?
"I think everybody wishes they did," he says. But no hard feelings.
"I wish them the best of luck," Jacob Jaber says. "I think they're going to do just fine."
No doubt. And chances are Philz will do just fine along with them.
Contact Mike Cassidy at mcassidy@mercurynews.com or 408-920-5536. Follow him at Twitter.com/mikecassidy.
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