BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia will have to reach and implement a legally binding agreement on relations with its former province of Kosovo and undergo a string of reforms if it aims to join the EU by 2025, EU enlargement commissioner Johannes Hahn said on Wednesday.
A day earlier, the European Commission, seeking to reinvigorate the EU with Britain set to leave, presented a strategy to bring Western Balkan nations into the fold if they achieve required reforms by 2025.
But Hahn said the bloc will not import unresolved disputes.
"The EU cannot and will not import bilateral problems ... Serbia must conclude and irreversibly implement a legally binding agreement with Kosovo," Hahn told a news conference in Belgrade.
He stopped short of saying whether Serbia must fully recognize Kosovo, which declared independence in 2008 almost a decade after a NATO bombing campaign ended a crackdown by Serbia against independence-seeking ethic Albanians there.
Kosovo has been recognized by 115 countries, including 23 out of 28 EU members, but its UN membership is being blocked by Serbia's allies Russia and China.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, who met Hahn and appeared alongside him at the news conference, praised EU strategy as an opportunity for integration for Serbia, which is still reeling from isolation and devastating wars in 1990s.
Vucic, a former Serb nationalist who changed his views in the past decade to become a supporter of closer integration with Europe, described a deal with Kosovo as a "mountain of obstacles" which could be achieved only if "everybody loses something". A plebiscite would be needed, he said.
On Wednesday, Aleksandar Vulin, the defense minister and Vucic's top ally, said Belgrade and Pristina should partition Kosovo.
Before it joins the EU, Serbia will also have to solve open border issues with Croatia and Bosnia, its foes from the 1990s wars that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia.
Belgrade will also have to reform its slow and unwieldy judiciary, improve rule of law, tackle the freedoms of the media and safeguard minority rights.
"If we solve ... problems we will accelerate like a rocket," Vucic said.


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OMF Control Monitoring Framework
OMF [Rakotoarivelo 2010] is a framework developed in Ruby language and based on XMPP (eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) with the focus on controlling and managing network devices. The OMF suite also provides OML (OMF Monitoring Library), which allows instrumentation of applications for collecting measurements. Actually, OMF depends on a suite of software components in order to provide services such as dynamic IP addressing, remote booting, remote OS imaging, data archiving, etc.
OMF was originally developed for the ORBIT wireless testbed at Winlab, Rutgers University. This former software only supported the specific ORBIT hardware resources (i.e. custom built static nodes with 802.11wireless devices), and provided a limited experiment description language. In contrast, the current OMF [OMF 2012] supports a large number of different wired and wireless resources, such as PC-like devices, Android phones, routers, sensors, among others.
The OMF architecture consists of 3 logical planes: control, measurement, and management. This architecture is not completely clear in version OMF 5.4, but it is the approach defined for the forthcoming version 6. The control plane includes the OMF tools that a researcher uses to describe his/her experiments, and the OMF entities responsible for orchestrating them. The measurement plane includes the OMF tools to instrument an experiment, and the corresponding OMF entities to collect and store measured data. The management plane includes the OMF functions and entities to provision and configure the resources, which are provided by the testbed facilities and used by the experiments.
In the next Figure, there is a system view of an OMF deployment. The main OMF elements are detailed below.
A domain specific language (the OMF Experiment Description Language – OEDL) allows an experimenter to write an Experiment Description (ED), which details the resource requirements, their initial configuration, and a state machine describing the time/event-triggered actions required to realize the experiment.
The experimenter submits the ED to an Experiment Controller (EC), which is the control entity orchestrating the experiment on behalf of the experimenter. The EC issues requests on the management plane to configure the resources as specified in the ED. Once the experiment prerequisites are met, the EC sends directives to the Resource Controller (RC) associated with each resource. Actually, the configuration of the resources is also done by the RC. Following the ED's state machine, the EC sends directives to the RCs, which are the control entities responsible for executing actions on the resources.
The measurement plane consists of two parts, namely the Measurement Collection Server (MCS) and the Measurement Library (ML). OML allows recording of any relevant metrics and instrumented applications. The resulting streams are forwarded to the MCS either in real-time or batch mode to minimize interference with the experiment itself. The MCS stores them in a SQL database created for each experiment instance. The user can directly run SQL queries against it, or retrieve a data dump from it. Standing queries can feed events back into the EC to support steerable experiments.
The batch mode is monitoring part the disconnected operation mode, which also involves specific configuration in OMF elements. The capability of performing experiments with partial disconnection of mobile devices is an important feature which allows tests with smart phones, cars, DTN devices, etc.
Another important feature is the capability to visualize the measurements at real-time on the experimenter's Web browser. This is useful for the beginners, but it can also help the experts to easily verify if the expected results are being generated at very begin of an experiment.
OMF combines a set of management services into an Aggregate Manager (AM). Thus, the AM is a collection of services, which can be deployed across multiple servers for performance and redundancy reasons. AM accepts request from the ECs or the testbed operator, and sends corresponding commands to the RC running on each resource. MCS may be treated as one of the services of the AM.
[Rakotoarivelo 2010] T. Rakotoarivelo, M. Ott, G. Jourjon, Iv. Seskar, "OMF: a control and management framework for networking testbeds", ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review archive Volume 43, Issue 4, 2010.
[OMF 2012] OMF official site.http://mytestbed.net.
OCF: OFELIA Control monitoring Framework [Discontinued]
The OFELIA Control Framework (OCF) was developed in the framework of the OFELIA testbed project, funded by the European Union 7th Framework Programme (FP7). Is is a open-source control framework that followed the evolution of Expedient and Opt-in manager [Naous, 2011], and the introduction of the VT-Manager, all publicly available (Codebasin) and intended to be of easy setup.
Expedient consists of several subsystems: an object relational mapping (ORM) database, a base platform subsystem, and at least two types of plug-ins, the so-called connectors and user clients. These plugins cooperate to provide the user interface for creating and managing slices across multiple island providers. The architecture depicted originally in Naous work can be represented by Figure below. In OFELIA, regarding the Expedient sub modules, they were substantially improved, in particular the WebUI, that is the most used and important part for the experimenters and the database.
In order to slice the OpenFlow resources to support multiple experiments and users, the Expedient system, from which OFELIA and FIBRE inherit some of the most important features, make use of 4 layers: at the bottom (identified in Figure 1 as IaaS Provider resources) are OpenFlow switches, then on top of them, the Flowvisor, the Opt-In Manager, and finally the OpenFlow Expedient connector. The Flowvisor is the most necessary part to isolate and support multiple experiments. At an abstract level, Flowvisor is a transparent proxy between many islands with OpenFlow switches and OpenFlow controllers used in a certain slice. Basically, the Flowvisor(s) present in each island (or provider) monitors OpenFlow protocol messages from and to the controllers, ensuring that each slice defined by the FlowSpace (a set of header values defined to isolate experiments) operates on traffic within that space.
The OCF, in addition to the expedient and opt-in pair, make use of an additional resource of a virtualization service, in order to provide, virtual machines to the users as end-hosts or in order to, allocate local OpenFlow controllers to test the experiments. Next Figure (extracted from Public Deliverable 5.1 of OFELIA Project) presents the main components of the OFELIA framework and the internal configuration of each OFELIA island.
As it can be verified, the OCF system uses LDAP as the main software authenticator, and provides the Virtualization Aggregate Manager based on Xen machines (called OXA – OFELIA Xen Agent) which can allocate on-demand virtual machines.
[Naous, 2011] JadNaous.Path-Policy Compliant Networking and Platform for Heterogeneous IaaS Management.PhD Thesis. Stanford. March 2011. [White, 2010] White, J. (2010). A Tutorial Introduction to OML. GEC9. Available at http://omf.mytestbed.net/projects/oml.
Terra: a Wireless Sensor Network Control Framework [Discontinued]
Terra's goal is to facilitate the creation of WSN applications, specifically as refers to dealing with event-driven programming and with network programming. The Terra model is based on a virtual machine and combines a reactive scripting language with a set of customized components. These components may be selected as needed, creating customized virtual machines with abstractions provided by the component interfaces. A scripting language enforces a programming model that glues components together to create powerful applications in a few lines of code. This makes them suitable for creating programs that benefit from the pre-defined and pre-installed set of components and that can be easily sent over the network.
Terra uses Céu-T as its scripting language and provides a component-based virtual machine VM-T to be customized for different application domains. Céu-T implements a variation of the Céu programming language [SantAnna2013]. The Terra Virtual machine VM-T, with its customizations, runs on WSN nodes with limited resources. We built VM-T using the nesC programming language and the TinyOS [Levis2004] operating system. Below it is presented the three basic elements of Terra:
Terra's guarantees for race freedom and against local starvation and invalid pointers contribute to safer code. These guarantees came, basically, from the static analysis of the Céu compiler and runtime checks of the VM-T execution.
[SantAnna2013] Sant'Anna, Francisco and Rodriguez, Noemi and Ierusalimschy, Roberto and Landsiedel, Olaf and Tsigas, Philippas, "Safe system-level concurrency on resource-constrained nodes.", Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, SenSys '13, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2517351.2517360
[Levis2004] P. Levis, S. Madden, J. Polastre, R. Szewczyk, K. Whitehouse, A. Woo, D. Gay, J. Hill, M. Welsh, E. Brewer, D. Culler. "TinyOS: An Operating System for Sensor Networks". Book Title: Ambient Intelligence, Part II, pages 115-148, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27139-2_7.

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a little bit over my head – I was definitely more of a Chemistry kind of girl.
well as a recommendation given to me by Leah – House Rules by Jodi Picoult.
love the style of writing to this point.
What're you planning on reading this month?
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So you go to an event or meeting where you don't know 95% of the attendees. Being one of the first to arrive, you sit down in the middle of the row so that late-comers don't have to crawl over you to find a seat. Someone you don't know sits next to you and introduces himself, so you extend your hand for a handshake and reply in kind, but before you can finish the sentence, the woman in the row in front of you turns around, grabs the man's hand, and boldly–one might even go so far as to say flirtily–cuts you off to introduce herself and strike up a conversation. Curtain closed. From that moment on, you might as well no longer exist.
Scenes like the one above happen all too frequently, at least to me. Being naturally a quiet individual, I've had decades to come to terms with the fact that I was, am, and will continue to be "the one who almost…", and "the one before…", and "the one over there, whose name I forgot." I mean, you can only get mad at being interrupted, talked over, cut off, or flat out ignored so many times before you ask yourself, Why bother? What am I even getting worked up over?
Now, here's the thing. I don't blame the woman, or the man for blatantly ignoring the unspoken rules of polite conversation etiquette. I'm sure they had very important things to discuss, and I didn't really care one way or another. I wasn't at this event to make friends. I was there to listen to a presentation.
But it got me thinking, and I came to a conclusion I'm sure most everyone already knows. People tell teenagers things will be better after high school, but the truth is, if you put enough adults in the same room together for an extended period of time, you realize high school never really ends. Some people never really grow out of that phase, and by their animated interactions in a group setting, they change the mood of the group and their environment changes to adapt. Meaning, put a middle-aged jock in a board room, give him a football and before you know it, it's Fantasy Football Wednesday in one corner, cheerleaders in the other, and anyone without interest in the sport quietly doing their own thing in the back of the room.
People don't want to grow up. Makes sense, right? We cling to our "good old days" to make ourselves forget how much time has passed since then. Aging scares people. The prospect of death, time running out on those dreams we never got to grasp is daunting. I get that. It's a totally understandable thing to do and feel.
But it underscores the problematic trend in our society: People have infinitesimal attention spans and a chronic case of tunnel vision. We focus on the obvious, and don't bother to look elsewhere. We are too comfortable being hand-fed information from the most prominent sources and too eager to accept it as true, valid, or worth while. Do you know why the saying "It's always the quiet ones" is so popular? Because no one ever pays attention to the quiet ones. Our senses are automatically drawn to what stands out, not what blends in. This is also what makes the saying false. The quiet ones are no different from the loud ones. People are just so busy watching the ball being passed back and forth, they totally miss the moon walking bear.
This phenomenon holds true in any and all areas of life: politics, news reporting, religion, advertising, even dating and relationships. How often does the nice guy get passed over for the rap star flashing 24 karat gold on each finger? How quickly does Neo get offed by an Agent for ogling the woman in the red dress? (Yes, I made a Matrix reference. Try not to faint 😛 ) It might be an ingrained part of our built-in pattern recognition software, but isn't it time we rise above it, just a little?
What's meant to be will be, and it will be worth the wait.
Being visible only means the enemy will see you sooner.
I'm smiling. That should scare you.
It takes 42 muscles in your face to frown. It only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and b*tchslap that mother %@&^$# upside the head.


SINGAPORE – A thickening, smoky haze cast a shadow over festivities in Singapore on Thursday, as Muslims headed to mosques to celebrate the culmination of the annual hajj pilgrimage and Chinese readied for a traditional harvest festival.
The three-hour Pollutant Standards Index (PSI), which measures air pollution in the country, hit the day's high of 262 at noon on a public holiday. It then dropped to 225 in the mid-afternoon. The haze is blowing in from neighboring Indonesia where forests are being burned to clear the land for farming, as is done every year causing the annual problem for the region.
High-rise buildings surrounding Masjid Hajjah Fatimah, a mosque in an area historically associated with the island nation's Malay community, were barely visible through the veil of smog.
Mustafa Muhamad, 61, said the bad air quality caused some of his friends to opt to say prayers to mark the Eid-al-Adha, or festival of sacrifice, at home instead. From a group of 40 usually seen at each of the day's five prayer sessions, the number has dwindled to around 20, he added.
"My son is very sensitive to dust and has lung issues, so I'm limiting his outdoor time," said Esther Au Yong, 34, a freelance editor. A trip to the gardens with her three-year-old son on Friday night, on an outing organized by his kindergarten is on the rocks due to the haze.
On Tuesday, Indonesia's environment and foresty ministry named four Indonesian plantation companies whose licensed were suspended or revoked for clearing land illegally, sparking forest fires in the process.


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Culture Secretary has questions to answer over whether he exposed himself to blackmail over his relationship with a dominatrix
Byline can reveal a year long relationship between a senior figure in David Cameron's government and a dominatrix which potentially jeopardized government security and left ministers open to blackmail. John Whittingdale, now Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport was involved in a long relationship between at least November 2013 and January 2015 with Olivia King, a well known escort who specializes in domination and sado-masochistic practices. It is unknown whether the relationship continues.
During this period, Whittingdale was accompanied by her at locations including the MTV Awards in Amsterdam in November 2013, the SportBall, attended by Kate Middleton, also in December 2013 and a New Years Eve party at the House of Commons in 2014/15. The photos below were taken the night following the SportBall. During this period, his movements and private conversations with her were well known by the tabloid press, allowing photographs of the couple to be photographed at these locations. They are a selection of the photos Byline has obtained, taken following the November Sports Ball:
As Culture Secretary, Whittingdale's brief includes press regulation, the BBC Charter and OfCom, including the implementation of press regulation based on recommendations from the Leveson report.
Whittingdale's relationship has been an open secret in Westminster and Fleet Street circles, and major tabloid and broadsheet papers including the Mail on Sunday and The Independent have undertaken extensive investigations and written stories, only to have the stories abandoned at the last minute. The Editor of The Independent, Amol Rajan decided in October that he had made the decision to not run the story on 'editorial grounds'. The previous day, Rajan had met with Whittingdale and Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre at the Society of Editors Conference in October 2015. When Whittingdale delivered his keynote address, he stated that he was minded not to implement a major recommendation of the Leveson inquiry and passed by Parliament as part of the Courts and Crimes Act.
Whittingdale told the conference:
"The costs provisions in the Crime and Courts Act, when brought into force, will have the effect that publishers who are not members of a recognised self-regulator will normally lose the ability to claim back their own costs in libel and privacy cases – whether they lose or win. This will be a serious and significant change for the industry. I know that it is a matter of particular concern to many small publishers who had absolutely no involvement in the abuses the Leveson Inquiry was set up to tackle.
I have to say that at the moment, I am not convinced the time is right for the introduction of these costs provisions."
One senior source associated with a major tabloid newspaper said they believed the story had been withheld for 'political' rather than editorial reasons because of Whittingdale's significant influence over legislation related to the media.
Other internal correspondence from The Independent claimed that the paper could demonstrate that Whittingdale failed to declare a trip paid for by MTV to the company's annual music awards to the Register of Members Interests. However, Whittingdale did declare the trip on previous occasions, when Ms. King did not attend. The following email was written by the then News Editor.
We can also reveal that while she was involved with Whittingdale, Ms. King was also involved in a relationship with a member of the London underworld, who has a previous firearms conviction. Whittingdale's relationships with prostitutes are said to be well known in the London underworld and could potentially leave him exposed to blackmail considering his senior position in the Government. While there is no evidence or suggestion that Ms. King ever attempted to blackmail Whittingdale, what is clear is that information about their relationship and movements was regularly conveyed to the press and other parties.
In particular, information about her visits to Parliament and the Royal Sports Ball, which raises serious questions event security and Whittingdale's judgment in bringing Ms. King to highly secure locations and events, and also with entrusting her with sensitive information. A senior Labour MP confirmed that he had seen Whittingdale with a prostitute at the House of Commons, although was unaware if it was Ms. King. When pressed on how he was aware of this, he told Byline that she was giving out business cards to other MP's.
Our tabloid source drew a parallel to the Profumo scandal of 1962, where the Minister of War, John Profumo, was forced to resign after the revelation of his relationship with Christine Keeler, an escort who was also dating a Soviet attaché.
These revelations mean that David Cameron has questions to answer on whether he knew of Whittingdale's relationship with prostitutes when he appointed him Culture Secretary in May 2015.
John Whittingdale has questions to answer over whether the possession of this story by a number of media publications ever influenced his political actions as Culture Secretary and when he was Chair of the Culture, Media and Sports Committee. In September 2011, then Liberal Democrat MP Adrian Sanders stated that Whittingdale had warned MP's against calling Rebekah Brooks to testify before the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, because of the risk of their personal lives being investigated. Whittingdale strongly denied this claim
This is the first instalment of a developing story. Byline has many more revelations to follow on the story and why it has so far been hidden from the public view, so stay tuned.
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How come none of this in the Sun I thought it would be just their cup of tea He must be serving Murdoch well Rupert will want the BBC dismantling for this I always thought Wittingdale was a slimy shithouse rat of a man
cowerme
The reason the Indy editor put the kibosh on that story is that selfies of a person talk to another person is not evidence of anything. Even if you did have evidence it maybe embarrassing for Wittingdale but he's not breaking any laws and is therefore not open to blackmail. And Wittingdale's lawyers aren't the only ones you need to be concerned about if you make inference that Ms King is a blackmailer because she once knew someone from 'the London underworld' (is it Bob Hoskins from Long Good Friday?). Thin gruel indeed.
Nick Turpin
Good, it's the clean living family men I don't trust. I like my ministers to be personally flawed.
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I'm all for this man enjoying his private life.
What right do we have to judge his choice of lifestyle?
Perhaps he'd be better just coming-clean and admitting that he enjoys being dominated.
As stated elsewhere, it's not that he's a submissive, it's that print media owners may now appear to have got him "over a barrel".
If I was his publicity officer, I'd be getting a press release ready with full disclosure, including the emails...
*My statement is not based his government position or policies - most of which I do not agree with.
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Yes, that's right ... upstanding pillocks of the community. A responsible, shining example to all upcoming young people everywhere.
jpjanson
No reaction from the main stream media, which is fascinating.
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JUDY WOODRUFF: As students across the country return to their classrooms, how can they best prepare for the academic year ahead? Daniel Levitin is a musician, author, neuroscientist, and teacher. Every September, he tells his students something they would never expect, revealed in tonight's In My Humble Opinion.
DANIEL LEVITIN, Musician/Author/Neuroscientist/Teacher: It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. You may be familiar with this Mark Twain quote. It was used in the film The Big Short and in Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth. Twain is saying that, if you're sure you know something, you act on it with the strength of conviction, never considering that you might be wrong. If you're sure that this alternative treatment will help cure you better than Western medicine, you will forego the traditional treatment. Two-thirds of cancer patients think this way, that alternative medicine will prolong their lives.
But, in fact, patients who turn to it are twice as likely to die of their cancers, and they die earlier. If you're sure that your choice of political candidate is right, you're not gonna be open-minded about any new evidence that might come in that could or should cause you to change your mind. I'm a college professor, and I train Ph.D. students for careers as neuroscientists. They come into my laboratory full of confidence. They have been at the top of every class they have been in their entire lives. I spend most of my time trying to teach them that they don't know everything they think they do. My job as a teacher really is to unteach them. I'm always asking, why do you think that? What's the evidence? These lessons can take four to eight years. Knowledge can only be created in an environment where we're open to the possibility that we're wrong. You may recognize the Zen connection, the wisdom of insecurity. If you think you know everything, you can't learn anything. I think that all of us are capable of this kind of critical thinking. Every 4-year-old asks a series of incessant why questions. We have this beaten out of us early on by worn-down parents and teachers. But this why mode is the key to critical thinking. Think like a 4-year-old. Ask why and how. Ask them often. This attitude allows us to navigate the world more effectively, choosing among options or political candidates or medical treatments that are more likely to maximize our success and our well-being. By the way, Mark Twain is widely cited for the quote we began with, but there's no evidence that he ever said it or anything like it. The source of it is unknown. Sometimes, you don't know what you think you do.
JUDY WOODRUFF: A great lesson for all of us.
A patient will usually listen to the doctor's advice and act on it.
He was very open-minded about other people's work.
This is important, because critical thinking and creativity demand the liberalization of learning and information.
Their example shows us what we are all capable of.


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Q: No sound output, but is recognizing device I am new to Ubuntu and have no sound coming from my laptop speakers, external speakers via audiojack, or bluetooth headphones.
I have confirmed that the speakers and headphones work, and that all of the sound is definitely not muted.  I have uninstalled and reinstalled Alsamixer and installed pulseaudio.  I have identified my sound card (nvidia) and installed the latest drivers, then uninstalled them and installed them again.  I have opened this file using gedit: gksu gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf per instructions on another answer (No audio after fresh install of 15.04) and pasted this line at the bottom of the file: options snd-hda-intel model=3stack
These all solved the issue for other users but not for me.
Interestingly, in pulseaudio under the playback tab, the sounds of my music are registering, just not being output to any of my devices.

A: Have you installed the media codecs. It's common for beginners to forget to install the mp3 codecs. If not open up your terminal and type in the following
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

A: The 15.04 can be buggy at times. Have you done
sudo apt-get install build-essential

before installing PulseAudio? If not, do it. The audio functions too need essential libraries and compilers at time.
Now I know this is basic, but perhaps, it may have been overlooked. It had happened to me a couple of days ago.
So next, check this:

*

*Go to the dash on the top-left corner of your screen

*Type in pulseaudio and open the pulseaudio volume control

*Open an mp3 file and let it play while you check these two tabs. Check the options available one-by-one and select the one which allows you to listen to the mp3 file being played.

*If/when you will have been successful in fixing your problem, go brew yourself a warm latte.

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Certainly, there is no shortage of problems in computer science education. The difficulty is narrowing them down to just a few of the most important. Before I lay out those I find most significant and challenging, let me explain where I'm coming from. First, and most importantly, my research specialty is the theory and design of programming languages, rather than computer science education, though I do have a deep commitment to computer science education. My contributions have mainly been in the areas of curricular design and the design of introductory courses in computer science. This background should help put in context the concerns I highlight here.
Certainly, the most pressing problem for the field now is how to deal with the overwhelming increases in enrollments in computer science. While the degree of change differs between institutions, nearly all are seeing increases, with some seeing the number of CS majors increasing by as much as factors of 5 to 10. While it's not completely clear what the cause is—residual effects of the great recession, an understanding of the centrality of computing to many parts of society, an increase in students from lower-income families, or second-generation immigrants who are more occupationally focused—the effects are plain to see. Virtually every institution is struggling to offer more sections, capping classes, increasing the size of classes, or all three.
The possible solutions for colleges and universities fall into three broad categories—increase the size of the faculty, cap the number of students, or increase the ratio of students to faculty. Others have written eloquently about this problem and I refer you to their analyses [ 3, 7, 8]. Thus, I'll limit myself to a few brief remarks. Expanding faculty is hard, slow, and will take serious incentives to attract more people to the profession. Capping enrollments frustrates everyone and goes against the huge demand for CS education. Students learn less effectively in large classes. Modern techniques like peer instruction can help as classes become even larger but can't make up for the difference between large and small classes.
It appears there are no simple answers, but this is a crisis we must address.
Look around at nearly any computer science department and you will immediately notice that the students are mainly White and Asian males. While most CS departments do not actively discourage women and under-represented minorities, there are actions that can be taken to make underrepresented groups more successful. For example, research indicates that those who are less confident in their abilities in an area (no matter what their actual ability level) are more likely to give up in frustration and quit, especially when society views them as less capable [ 14].
Providing support at all stages of education can make a significant difference in retaining those capable of succeeding, but lacking confidence. Having an instructor who knows the student and can provide encouragement and support where needed can change a student's trajectory from failure to success. Sadly, the huge increase in enrollments discussed earlier seems to be causing a reversal of some of the improvements we had been seeing in CS classes.
There has been a lot of work in recent years to make computer science more welcoming of women, with some success at institutions like Carnegie-Mellon University and Harvey Mudd College. Yet, with the percentage of female CS majors under 20% across the country, there is clearly much room for improvement. Departments that have succeeded have had more control over admissions than most departments and have devoted a great deal of energy to make women feel welcome and an important part of the department.


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The Psychology of Discovery and Invention
By: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Living at the Peak of Your Abilities
By: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Ph.D.
Narrated by: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Ph.D.
In flow, everyday experience becomes a moment by moment opportunity for joy and self-fulfillment. Flow is the brain-child of a fascinating psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a renowned social scientist who has devoted his life's work to the study of what makes people truly happy, satisfied and fulfilled. While much of the study of psychology investigates disorders of the human mind, Dr. Csikszentmihalyi takes a different route.
Good book. Average sound.
By Pk on 20-03-2017
How to Read a Book
The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
By: Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren
Narrated by: Edward Holland
Originally published in 1940, this book is a rare phenomenon, a living classic that introduces and elucidates the various levels of reading and how to achieve them - from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading. Audiences will learn when and how to "judge a book by its cover," and also how to X-ray it, read critically, and extract the author's message from the text.
By: Mortimer J. Adler, and others
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Creativity
HBR's 10 Must Reads Series
By: Harvard Business Review
Narrated by: Randye Kaye, William Sarris
Are your organization's ideas growing stale? Do your employees need to refresh their thinking? We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the 10 most important ones to help you instill creativity across your organization.
Creativity, Spirituality, and Making a Buck
By: David Nichtern
Narrated by: David Nichtern
Wondering how to reconcile your calling with your need to make a living wage, or what to do once your art starts selling, or how to achieve success in your field, or what it even means to be successful? David Nichtern offers his lived, learned experience as an entrepreneur, musician, and Buddhist teacher to first help you figure out what "success" means to you and then show you how to get there. He offers advice on the creative process and principles of business and ethics, and provides mindfulness exercises to help you integrate inspiration and aspiration, vocation, and avocation.
Inspiring & awesome listen
The Evolving Self
A Psychology for the Third Millennium
In this wise, humane inquiry, Csikszentmihalyi ( Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience) argues that genetically programmed behaviors that once helped humans adapt and multiply now threaten our survival. These traits include obsessions with food and sex, addiction to pleasure, excessive rationality, and a tendency to focus on the negative. A University of Chicago psychology professor, the author also believes we must free our minds of cultural illusions, such as ethnocentric superiority or identification with one's possessions.
It's all in chapter 10
By George Broadfoot on 25-01-2017
The Creative Thinker's Toolkit
By: Gerard Puccio, The Great Courses
Narrated by: Gerard Puccio
According to the latest scientific research, anyone can be creative. You just have to know how to think creatively, which involves taking a more imaginative approach to the challenges we all face. Learn how to wield the same research-based tools that today's creative people use and tap into your inner creative thinker with Professor Puccio's engaging 24-lecture series that takes you step-by-step through the creative-thinking process.
interesting information but quite business focused
By Engineer on 17-06-2019
By: Gerard Puccio, and others
Leadership, Flow and the Making of Meaning
Narrated by: Truitt Blassingham
In today's corporate upheaval, a new business paradigm is evolving. This audiobook reveals how business leaders, managers, and employees can find their "flow" and contribute not only to their own happiness, but also to a just and evolving society. It identifies the factors crucial to the operation of a good business: trust, the commitment to fostering the personal growth of employees, and the dedication to creating a product that helps mankind.
Exponential Organizations
New Organizations Are Ten Times Better, Faster, and Cheaper Than Yours (and What to Do About It)
By: Salim Ismail, Yuri van Geest, Michael S. Malone, and others
Narrated by: Kevin Young
In business, performance is key. In performance, how you organize can be the key to growth. In the past five years, the business world has seen the birth of a new breed of company - the Exponential Organization - that has revolutionized how a company can accelerate its growth by using technology.
Wonderful but scary
By Raz Chorev on 19-10-2016
By: Salim Ismail, and others
The Gap and the Gain
The High Achievers' Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success
By: Dan Sullivan, Dr. Benjamin Hardy
Narrated by: Dr. Benjamin Hardy
As he did in Who Not How, Dr. Benjamin Hardy shares one of Dan Sullivan's simple yet profound teachings that until now has been known only to his Strategic Coach clients: unsuccessful people focus on "The Gap", but successful people focus on "The Gain".
The True "Lens of Success"
By RIK RUSHTON on 22-11-2021
By: Dan Sullivan, and others
Debt - Updated and Expanded
The First 5,000 Years
By: David Graeber
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Here, anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: He shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods - that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors.
some interesting bits but too long and opinionated
By Reuben Schwarz on 01-11-2018
Wanting
The Power of Mimetic Desire, and How to Want What You Need
By: Luke Burgis
Narrated by: Luke Burgis, Sean Patrick Hopkins
Gravity affects every aspect of our physical being, but there's a psychological force just as powerful - yet almost nobody has heard of it. It's responsible for binging groups of people together and pulling them apart, making certain goals attractive to some and not to others, and fuelling cycles of anxiety and guilt. According to French polymath René Girard, humans don't desire anything independently. Human desire is mimetic - we imitate what other people want.
A great entry point to memetic theory
By Yule on 09-08-2021
Alive at Work
The Neuroscience of Helping Your People Love What They Do
By: Daniel M. Cable
Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
In this bold, enlightening book, social psychologist and professor Daniel M. Cable takes leaders into the minds of workers and reveals the surprising secret to restoring their zest for work. Disengagement isn't a motivational problem, it's a biological one. Humans aren't built for routine and repetition. We're designed to crave exploration, experimentation, and learning - in fact, there's a part of our brains, which scientists have coined "the seeking system", that rewards us for taking part in these activities. But the way organizations are run prevents many of us from following our innate impulses. As a result, we shut down.
Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager
Gain the Mindset and Skillset for Getting What You Need to Succeed
By: Ken Blanchard, Susan Fowler, Laurence Hawkins
Narrated by: Dan Woren
Twenty years after creating the phenomenal best-selling classic The One Minute Manager, Ken Blanchard returns to its roots with the most powerful and essential title in the series as he explores the skills needed to empower yourself to success. In this captivating business parable, best-selling author Ken Blanchard tells the story of Steve, a young advertising executive who is about to lose his job.
By: Ken Blanchard, and others
The Science of Self-Discipline
The Willpower, Mental Toughness, and Self-Control to Resist Temptation and Achieve Your Goals
By: Peter Hollins
Narrated by: Peter Hollins
Your best intentions are not enough. Learn how to scientifically engineer a disciplined existence, become relentless, and never give up. Whatever you want in your life, self-discipline is the missing piece. Goals will remain dreams if you make the mistake of relying on motivation and your best drawn plans. The Science of Self-Discipline is a deep look into what allows us to resist our worst impulses and simply execute, achieve, produce, and focus. Every principle is scientifically-driven and dissected to as be actionable and helpful as possible. You'll learn how top performers consistently exercise self-discipline, as well as what drives us on an instinctual, psychological level to act.
great insight to improving yourself.
By Kevin on 11-08-2021
How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
By: Chip Heath, Dan Heath
Narrated by: Charles Kahlenberg
We all know that change is hard. It's unsettling, it's time-consuming, and all too often we give up at the first sign of a setback. But why do we insist on seeing the obstacles rather than the goal? This is the question that best-selling authors Chip and Dan Heath tackle in their compelling and insightful new book. They argue that we need only understand how our minds function in order to unlock shortcuts to switches in behaviour.
The best managing change text I've ever read
By: Chip Heath, and others
The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life
Based on a far-reaching study of thousands of individuals, Finding Flow contends that we often walk through our days unaware of and out of touch with our emotional lives. Our inattention makes us constantly bounce between two extremes: During much of the day, we live filled with the anxiety and pressures of our work and obligations, and during our leisure moments, we tend to live in passive boredom.
By fabiola on 31-01-2017
When Psychology and Economics Collide
By: Scott Huettel, The Great Courses
Narrated by: Scott Huettel
Behavioral economics is the study of decision making, and of the related themes of valuation, exchange, and interpersonal interactions. Using methods from psychology, sociology, neurology, and economics, behavioral economics sheds light one of the most fundamental activities of human life: the decision process. In 24 insightful lectures, you'll learn how behavioral economists look at decision making and explore a set of key principles that offer deep insight into how we evaluate information and integrate different factors to make decisions.
Very interesting...
By: Scott Huettel, and others
The Art of Impossible
A Peak Performance Primer
By: Steven Kotler
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Best-selling author and peak performance expert Steven Kotler decodes the secrets of those elite performers - athletes, artists, scientists, CEOs, and more - who have changed our definition of the possible, teaching us how we too can stretch far beyond our capabilities, making impossible dreams much more attainable for all of us. What does it take to accomplish the impossible? What does it take to shatter our limitations, exceed our expectations, and turn our biggest dreams into our most recent achievements?
Great read, but a little self indulgent.
By Bruce donaldson on 24-02-2021
The classic study of the creative process from the national best-selling author of Flow, Creativity is about capturing those moments that make life worth living. Legendary psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi reveals what leads to these moments - be it the excitement of the artist at the easel or the scientist in the lab - so that this knowledge can be used to enrich people's lives. Drawing on nearly 100 interviews with exceptional people, from biologists and physicists, to politicians and business leaders, to poets and artists, as well as his 30 years of research on the subject, Csikszentmihalyi uses his famous flow theory to explore the creative process. He discusses such ideas as why creative individuals are often seen as selfish and arrogant, and why the "tortured genius" is largely a myth. Most important, he explains why creativity needs to be cultivated and is necessary for the future of our country, if not the world.
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What listeners say about Creativity
An insightful and practical exploration of creativity.
Once again Csikszentmihalyi demonstrates why his research is so well respected. A practical and thorough investigation into creative individuals that challenges me to think bigger and better.
Grows on you
It's a long book but definitely grows on you. Very well structured. Creativity is on of those areas I never really understood but now with this book I know better. The narration is excellent.
Ray Horacek
Not the "creativity" one might think
Flow is by far my favorite book ever, and as a person who makes my living doing creative work (design & art) I probably went into this with expectations that were too high. Having said that, it appears that Csikszentmihalyi considers Big C creativity to be mostly in the sciences (including social sciences). I don't disagree with sciences being creative and I learned some new things about this side of creativity in this book, but for a book to be titled "Creativity" this book touches very little or never on what many people would consider the most obviously creative disciplines (music, visual art, dance, architecture, film, philosophy, etc) other than a chapter devoted to writing.
GoingGoingGone...
The author hedges most of his observations due to the anecdotal nature of his research, to the point he never actually commits to really knowing anything from his research. The words likely, probably, and possibly are too frequently used, such that I feel he has not earned the latitude he claims for himself when he states his opinions and worldviews as truisms.
This might have been fine had his work been graced by a sustained attempt to support his assertions with well developed arguments contrasted against alternative perspectives, but he did not offer these; he engages in intellectual shadow boxing, conflating marketability and craftsmanship with creativity. By tying creativity to domain; a child could never be "creative" by his definition as he can't master a craft or amass knowledge such that his efforts can be recognized as such. But this is not consistent with what most of us see, and mean when we use this word.
For me then, his definition and treatment of creativity and invention is stilted and tendentious, substituting one enigmatic definition of creativity for another. The anecdotal evidence presented was interesting, but the conclusions drawn from them did not illuminate the subject of creativity for me as I hoped it would.
Great Insights into Creativity and Creative People
What did you love best about Creativity?
This book from the psychologist who coined the term "flow" focuses on what differentiates extraordinarily creative people. In this book he does a wonderful job of discussing how a domain and the field devoted to that domain impact the creative people in that field. He also brings out lots of great insights from his studies of extraordinarily creative people and touches on what it takes to develop the meta-skill of being able to turn almost any activity into an occasion of flow.
It's great material for anyone who fosters creativity in others or for people looking to better understand and harness their own creativity.
Corbett Hoxland
just don't - 2nd time I did and still regretting i
this is the 2nd book I bought from this author, the first one on flow. both topics are very interesting to me and the impact they have on modern Life and business.
both times the author killed it for me.
how do you take such an interesting topic and make it so boring? filled with details I couldn't care less about, your opinions, what the book is not, clarifying points and justifications take up to much space and time.
saying people are creative only if their peers agree with them is crazy. your examples of people being a knowledged 500 years after their death should prove that.
such a great topic and you liked it again for me. well done
Like a flint strike to the tinder!
I bought the physical copy halfway through listening, because taking notes/highlighting was too much work. I've been out of college for a decade, but am immediately put back in practice. This should be required reading for any creative!
Doug Lipman
Terrific book! And the reader is magnificent!
I adore this book. It is based on interviews with many creative people- creative according to the quite restrictive definition of the author, which guarantees that the people studied have made creative contributions to their fields. The in-depth interviews supply clear and moving stories to illustrate the author's conclusions- stories that stay in the mind and heart.
A special acknowledgement to the narrator: he is clear and engaging. But he is so attuned to the content that from time to time I realize that, yet again, I have felt as though I am hearing the author himself!
Todd Evans
If this book does anything, it doesn't inspire people to be creative. It's argument is based on the assumption that creativity is only for those who have been labeled "geniuses" by their peers. It further locks creativity in the ivory tower and safeguards it from anyone who doesn't have a formal education. (I have graduate degrees and have seen this "elitism" throughout my time in universities. It is something we (general we) need to address as a society at large). Let's make education and creativity for that matter more accessible to everyone! This book acts against that impulse.
Disappointed.
Great perspective on creativity
At first the author walks you through the stories of many characters and their experiences in different fields. It also provides a few tips of to more to be more creative in a our daily life.
steve hunt
Sean Pratt is exceptionally good
the performance helped make the experience of this audiobook one of the best I've heard. the research helps not only to explain creativity, but also personal development in any field.
Tyler Horn
Absolutely fascinating!
This book explores the importance of creativity in our world and the many processes by which to be or become more creative. A must read for all in my opinion!
Practical, compelling listening if you're interested in developing your own creativity and others'. Highly recommended
Jase W.
Provides a positive stimulus
For what ever reason I've found that this book has helped to alleviate a bit of writers block for me. It's not a flowchart or a step by step guide to being creative, not at all. But I found the discussion stimulating and the exploration of the subject to be, academic yes, but helpful nonetheless. Sometimes a good audiobooks can kick me into gear with my work and help me to feel stimulated and motivated. This one did it for me, may not do it for others. 🤷♂
Soaking with incorrect agenda
Mostly he's just talking about factually incorrect feminist agenda which is easily disprovable with research&statistics.
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The first and second books of Xenophon's Anabasis.
Anabasis; the first four books. With introduction, notes, and vocabulary, by Charles Forster Smith. With the coöperation of Campbell Bonner and Frederick Stillman Morrison.
New York, D. Appleton and co., 1906.


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Q: Python Linked List with Nodes. Iterable I need some help writing an __iter__() method for my UnorderedList() class. I tried this:
def __iter__(self):
    current = self
    while current != None:
        yield current

But the while loop doesn't stop. Here is the rest of my classes and code:
class Node:
    def __init__(self,initdata):
        self.data = initdata
        self.next = None

    def getData(self):
        return self.data

    def getNext(self):
        return self.next

    def setData(self,newdata):
        self.data = newdata

    def setNext(self,newnext):
        self.next = newnext

class UnorderedList:

    def __init__(self):
        self.head = None
        self.count = 0

A: If you want to iterate all items succeedingly, you should do
def __iter__(self):
    # Remember, self is our UnorderedList.
    # In order to get to the first Node, we must do
    current = self.head
    # and then, until we have reached the end:
    while current is not None:
        yield current
        # in order to get from one Node to the next one:
        current = current.next

so that in every step you go one step further.
BTW, setters and getters aren't used in Python in the form of methods. If you need them, use properties, otherwise omit them altogether.
So just do
class Node(object):
    def __init__(self, initdata):
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        self.next = None

class UnorderedList(object):

    def __init__(self):
        self.head = None
        self.count = 0

    def __iter__(self):
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        while current is not None:
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Egypt opposition alleges referendum 'fraud'
National Salvation Front claims irregularities in constitution poll, after Muslim Brotherhood says charter was approved.
Egypt's opposition has said it will keep fighting the Muslim Brotherhood-backed constitution after the group, the main faction backing the charter, claimed it passed with a 64 per cent "yes" vote in a referendum.
The opposition alleged vote fraud on Sunday and demanded an investigation - a sign that the referendum will not end the turmoil that has roiled this country for nearly two years since the uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak.
Many Egyptians, especially the tens of millions who live in extreme poverty, had hoped the new constitution might usher in a period of more stability.
A heated political debate over the past month leading up to the referendum at times erupted into deadly street battles.
Security was tightened around the Egyptian presidential palace, but there were no mass opposition demonstrations on Sunday after the unofficial results came out.
Renewed violence and political tensions have further imperiled Egypt's already precarious economy, reeling from dwindling resources and a cash-strapped government whose plans to borrow from the International Monetary Fund had to be pushed back.
The finance ministry said on Sunday the budget deficit reached $13bn in the five months from July-November, about 4.5 per cent higher compared to the same period last year.
Official results of the referendum are not expected until Monday.
If the unofficial numbers are confirmed, it will be a victory for President Mohamed Morsi, who is from the Brotherhood.
Al Jazeera's Rawya Rageh, reporting from Cairo, said that while the results were so far unofficial, the Muslim Brotherhood's figures on elections have usually been close to accurate. She said that the low turnout figures, however, were of concern to both camps.
"Some 30 per cent only of eligible voters turned out to vote in both rounds, once again raising questions of how the leadership of both the opposition and the Islamic camp have failed to appeal to the public and get them to vote in the first place," she said.
'Not the end game'
The opposition allegations look likely to prolong the fight. Beyond allegations of fraud, the opposition will likely challenge new laws issued on the basis of the constitution as well as Morsi's economic policies.
"The referendum is not the end game. It is only a battle in this long struggle for the future of Egypt," said the National Salvation Front, the main opposition group. "We will not allow a change to the identity of Egypt or the return of the age of tyranny."
The opposition claims the new constitution seeks to enshrine Islamic rule in Egypt and accuses its backers of trying to monopolise power.
The National Salvation Front urged the election commission to investigate the "irregularities" [Reuters]
The latest political battle began with Morsi's November 22 decrees that gave him powers to protect the panel writing the constitution and dismiss the country's top prosecutor, a holdover from the Mubarak era.
Although Morsi subsequently rescinded the powers that gave him immunity from judicial oversight, his decision to replace the prosecutor general was viewed by many in the judiciary as trampling over their powers.
Hundreds of prosecutors held a rally on Sunday demanding the new, Morsi-appointed prosecutor general quit, days after he retracted his resignation claiming it was rendered under pressure.
Adding to the anxiety, state television reported on Saturday amidst voting on the referendum that the central bank governor had resigned, then retracted the report.


Atlanta - Dana Innovations, parent of Sonance and iPort, launched a new company whose products are designed to eliminate the visual hodgepodge of on-wall light switches, electrical outlets, audio/video wall plates, keypads and touchscreens.
"We are the aesthetic treatments for other manufacturers' devices," Sloan added.
Fascias are available in three colors - white, brown and almond - but are also paintable on site.


I have always been fascinated by propaganda posters, and have a little collection going of my own of vintage ones from The War to End all Wars and The War to End all Wars II. Today my branch received a brand new copy of Chinese Propaganda Posters, and I have had a death grip on it all day. I could not recommend it more. Doesn't Mao just look like the most benevolent, huggy wuggy teddy bear? It's hard to believe that he starved 30 or so million of his own people to death just 'cause he could, but he did!
The pictures are hypnotically beautiful in their otherworldly, super idealized kitschiness, but the best parts are the text and slogans written on each poster.
People of the world unite and defeat the US aggressors and all their running dogs!
Eschew the worlds of literature and art and become familiar with the lives of workers, peasants and soldiers.
I love the blue sky of the fatherland!
A bad element is to be publicly criticized!
The atom bomb is a paper tiger the US reactionary uses to scare people! It looks terrible, but in fact, it isn't.


1. The widespread adaptation to EMV technology will be a major topic this year, at least in the USA. EMV is a technical standard for payment cards equipped with a processor chip and the accompanying smart card devices. This chip technology enables a secure payment process and a short transaction period. The payment process is therefore faster and more secure.
2. Another aspect is Digital Secure Remote Payments (DSRP). Because of contactless NFC payment transactions via mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets or wearables and remote payments via in-app payment functions, for example, security standards are essential. One way of continuing to enable secure payment via smartphone is tokenisation. With this method, the original payment data is encrypted in accordance with the PCI-DSS standard and only transmitted in the form of tokens during a transaction. The original data remains in the secure database. However, this also means that if a mobile payment is processed via tokenisation, the authentication process must operate smoothly and in real time. It is therefore advisable for suppliers to transfer this service to a specialist payment processor.
3. Another interesting consideration is digital fraud in e-commerce. A complete solution such as Trust Evaluation Suite is highly effective, enabling all merchants to assess their customers, finding out not just where they come from but also their past transaction record. Solutions such as these encompass a comprehensive 360-degree view of all relevant information on consumers – automated and in real time. As a result, e-commerce fraudsters can be recognised in good time, before they can complete the transaction.


Construction is a very diverse industry that includes activities ranging from mining, quarrying and forestry to the construction of infrastructure and buildings, the manufacture and supply of products, as well as maintenance, operation and disposal.
Construction output in the UK is more than £110 billion per annum and contributes 7% of GDP (ref. Government Construction Strategy). Approximately a quarter of construction output is public sector and three-quarters is private sector.
Commercial and social (approximately 45%).
Contracting, 2,030,000 jobs, 234,000 businesses.
Services, 580,000 jobs, 30,000 businesses.
Products, 310,000 jobs, 18,000 businesses.
Construction is a high-cost, high-risk, long-term activity, and so its performance is a good indicator of the heath of the wider economy. When the economy falters, construction investment grinds to a halt, but when the economy begins to recover, the construction industry can quickly overheat.
Construction comes within the remit of the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills. However, planning and building regulations fall under the Department for Communities and Local Government. To further confuse matters, the Government Construction Board reports to the Minister for the Cabinet Office and the Cabinet Office is also the home of the Efficiency and Reform Group which includes the Major Projects Authority.
The abolition of the role of Chief Construction Adviser in November 2015, and the taking over of responsibility for the Government Construction Strategy by Cabinet office minister Nick Boles has made the position even more confused.
In addition, a Construction Leadership Council (CLC) was established in 2013 to oversee implementation of Construction 2025: industrial strategy for construction. This is an industry/government council jointly chaired by the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and an industry representative.
See Statutory consultees and Non-statutory consultees for more information.
For more information, see Construction industry institutes and associations and Construction industry organisation.
The UK construction industry is regularly criticised for being wasteful, adversarial, fragmented, dominated by single disciplines, reluctant to innovate and poor at disseminating knowledge (see Construction industry reports for more information).
However, given that despite a great number of reports about the industry, and numerous attempts to improve efficiency, the perception or poor performance persists, it might be inferred either that; under the circumstances the industry operates more effectively than it appears from the outside; expectations are unrealistic; or recommendations have been consistently poorly implemented.
In 1900, only 13% of the population lived in urban areas. Over half of the planet's population now lives in cities. These densely occupied areas should be more sustainable than more dispersed rural settlements, but in fact they account for more than 75% of the consumption of non-renewable resources, and create around three quarters of global pollution.
By the second half of the century, more than 70% will live in cities, and at the same time global population will increase from 7 billion to around 9.5 billion. If we are to accommodate this growth whilst at the same time reducing overall consumption, our design and construction needs to become much smarter.
See Smart Cities for more information.
The UK government has committed to cut green house gas emissions by 80% by 2050 compared to 1990 levels, and to halve them by 2025. In 2009 buildings accounted for about 43% of all the UK's carbon emissions (ref. DCLG). If the government commitment is to be met, buildings must become considerably more efficient. This is made more complicated by the fact that around 80% of the UK building stock that will exist in 2025 has already been built, along with two thirds of the housing that will be occupied in 2050.
Not only does our building stock need to become more efficient, if the climate changes as projected, it will also need to become more resilient.
However, government policy, such as scrapping the Green Deal, dropping plans for zero-carbon homes, and reducing subsidies for renewables would seem to be contrary to these goals.
An intention to achieve savings of 15 - 20% by the end of the parliament.
A requirement for fully-collaborative 3D BIM on all centrally-procured construction contracts by 2016.
See Government Construction Strategy for more information.
Some of these targets have been developed and extended by Construction 2025.
There is significant evidence to suggest that buildings do not perform as well in practice as was anticipated at the design stage. The difference between anticipated and actual performance is known as the performance gap.
Findings from the PROBE studies (Post Occupancy Review of Buildings and their Engineering) demonstrated that actual energy consumption in buildings will usually be twice as much as predicted. More recent findings from the Carbon Trust's Low Carbon Buildings Accelerator and the Low Carbon Buildings Programme have demonstrated that in-use energy consumption can be 5 times higher than compliance calculations.
See Performance gap for more information.
For more possibilities, see Procurement routes.
Other stage definitions can be seen in comparison of work stages.
BIS, UK Construction, An economic analysis of the sector, July 2013.


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October 20, 2017 August 3, 2018
What's He Doing From The Front?
Jan, who does the biscuits, and Mary who has a bit of a short temper, were setting out chairs in the hall for a Mother's Union meeting. Jan paused and looked like she wanted to say something. She rarely ever spoke, but when she did it was usually something worth saying.
"Mary," she started. "What's a blessing?"
Mary loved being asked questions. It made her feel that the other person thought that she might have the answer. And Mary loved having the answer. She loved giving her opinion and correcting others about theirs. But when it came to faith, she was a bit shaky. Mary was a life-long card-carrying Christian. She attended every service, knew the service booklet word for word and really did love Jesus. But if there was one area she was uncharacteristically reluctant to be an authority on, it was her faith. And this made her feel quite flustered.
"Reverend John said he'd be popping by later Jan, why don't you save that question for him?"
Mary carried on shuffling chairs around, but Jan seemed to have not heard her, and continued her line of enquiry.
"I'm on about the offering. When the vicar is handed the plate at the altar…who's actually blessing the gifts? Is our contribution on the plate blessed by the vicar, or is it being blessed by God?"
Mary felt annoyed that she couldn't think of anything at all to say to this. She was annoyed with herself, and also mildly annoyed with poor Jan who couldn't have possibly known that Mary would have such an aversion for talking about faith.
"That's a tricky one Jan it really is, but I see we're still 12 chairs short and they won't unstack themselves." But Jan simply continued asking about blessings whilst unstacking chairs. At this point Natalie from the Youth Group arrived with two more ladies from the Mothers Union and Mary seized her opportunity.
"Ladies, Jan has a really interesting question for you. I'm going to put the kettle on."
Jan, Natalie and the other ladies from Mother's Union sat in the seats they'd just put out, and considered the question. Natalie put it to Jan that we can't just assume God blesses what we give, or indeed blesses anything. We can only ask for His blessing. "So," said Natalie "I think our offering blessed by the Vicar."
"I don't know," said one of the ladies from the Mother's Union (no-one knew their names and it was far too late in the game to ask) "I think we can assume some things are blessed, because Jesus said so." Well played, thought Natalie, well played. "Jesus said so" is a great trump card.
The MU lady went on, "He said 'It's more blessed to give than to receive' and He also said 'Blessed are those who believe without seeing me.' And then there's the Beatitudes where Jesus lists all sorts of folks who are blessed, like the poor in spirit, the meek, mourners, the merciful and that. Jesus said it, so can't we just assume it's always true?"
Game, set and match to the lady from MU. Very well put. The others were impressed. Mary was hovering by the entrance with a tray of tea and wondered if she could divert the topic onto safer ground, like the recent scandal about the craft tables and all that glitter.
Before she could intervene, Natalie asked Jan, "What's brought this up?"
Jan said, "Well last Sunday, I was a bit late and I forgot to pick up a hymn book on my way in. I just rushed to a free pew. The back 10 rows were all full, so I had to sit near the front, near that new couple. Now, I knew most of the hymns, mind you, but I'd never heard the offertory one. So when we got to that one, I mimed for a bit then just looked around.
"And that's when I saw Rev John mouth something when he got the offertory plate. I thought to myself 'I've never seen him do that before.' I suppose I'm normally looking down at my hymn book. I wanted to ask him what he'd said but I thought it might be private. So when I got home I popped in on Mr Connor, that Catholic that lives near me, 'cos he knows everything, and I had to return a Pyrex dish I'd borrowed, and anyway he told me that Rev John was probably blessing our contributions. That's what got me wondering about blessings."
At that moment Rev John walked in carrying huge number of shopping bags, an umbrella and a puppet of King Herod. He had his vestments draped over one shoulder and his car keys between his teeth. A standard assortment of accoutrements for Rev John. Putting them all down in turn he flopped onto one of the spare seats and said "Hullo ladies," in his usual jolly way.
Mary seized her opportunity. "Rev John, we were just discussing what a blessing is," this was a slight departure from the truth as Mary had yet to say a single thing about it, but never mind that, "and Jan here didn't know what that private thing you say over the plate might be, but she was too afraid to ask." Mary had a way of being divulging rather more than people would like, whilst expertly distancing herself from ambiguity or doubt.
Rev John felt wounded at the thought of anyone not wanting to ask him something. Poor Jan. She looked very embarrassed. He felt doubly wounded that anyone might think anything he did at the altar might be private. Didn't people know he was blessing the gifts? It was a public prayer.
"I'm awfully sorry Jan. It's a blessing I say. It goes something like, 'Yours, Lord is the greatness the power, the glory etc. etc. and everything in heaven and on earth is yours.' Then I lift up the plate and say 'All things come from you, and of your own we give you.'"
By the looks on everyone's faces, this was news to them too. How? Ah, the offertory hymn! They're always looking down at their books. It dawned on him. No wonder Jan didn't know. For a horrid moment Rev John wondered if his beloved congregation actually knew that God blessed their generosity at all. Did they make a connection between giving and faith? Had he ever made it clear? No, he probably hadn't. But he had an idea. Leaping to his feet he took Jan's hand in both of his and shook it and said, "Thank you! Jan thank you! It's clear now. I know what I've got to do."
And at that he dashed off leaving the group of women quite startled and confused.
Very Rev John.
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