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UK epidemic is slowing; antibody test could be ready in days
A sign thanking key workers is seen, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Herne Hill, London, Britain March 30, 2020. REUTERS/Hannah McKay
The coronavirus epidemic in the United Kingdom is showing signs of slowing and antibody tests could be ready in days, Neil Ferguson, a professor of mathematical biology at Imperial College London, said on Monday.
"We think the epidemic is just about slowing in the UK right now," Ferguson told BBC radio.
He said a third or even 40% of people do not get any symptoms. He said perhaps 2% to 3% of the United Kingdom's population had been infected.
But Ferguson cautioned that the data was not good enough to make firm extrapolations.
He said antibody tests were in the final stage of validation right now and could be hopefully ready to use in "days rather than weeks".
When asked whether the test would be ready in days, junior health minister Helen Whately told BBC radio: "I am not going to confirm when that's going to arrive."
Britain has begun rolling out antigen tests – which are different to antibody tests – for healthcare workers but the numbers being tested are far below the levels of Germany, Europe's largest economy.
Whately said there was capacity to have 10,000 people a day tested though 7,000 were tested on Sunday. She said the government hoped to get to 25,000 tests per day over the next few weeks.
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Thread: Recreational drugs, NZ style.
#1 Recreational drugs, NZ style.
There are dozens, if not hundreds of potential recreational drugs out there in the commercial wilderness. Everything from the traditional tobacco and alcohol and caffeine, to fringe cannabis, illegal cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, methamphetamine etc., and on to less well known drugs such as mephedrone, benzylpiperazine, and synthetic cannabinoids. Not to mention less well known plant drugs as psilocybin and khat.
Up to the present, there has been a kind of arms race between drug makers and regulatory authorities. The drug makers sell a new drug and the authorities ban it and start locking people up. Then a new drug pops up, and a new ban is needed.
Here in New Zealand, the government decided to try something new. Regulation in the traditional sense has failed. So a form of legalisation is being tried. All recreational drugs are classified as illegal until a license is issued. That license comes when a new drug is tested scientifically and shown not to cause appreciable harm. At this stage, the drug can be sold openly and legally. Of course, if ongoing surveillance shows it causes significant harm, the license will be revoked.
This approach has been welcomed by the drug makers. Though NZ is a small market, just here there are millions to be made. If the system proves good, and other larger nations follow suit, the profits to be made will be in the billions. So a number of drug makers are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on safety testing for their wares.
This new approach will not cause currently illegal drugs to be legalised, though that may be reviewed in the future.
So whaddyathink? A good approach? A revolution in drug control, or an idiotic way of dealing with an intractable problem?
Is Addiction and OCD fundamentally the same mental disorder, or are they completely different???
As far as i know, there are no recreational drugs. There are toxins in plants, that work like this, but they were not created by us, just purified. And the other drugs that are created, are just either failed medicinal drugs, or slightly successful medical drugs with heavy side effects.
However, changing the idea of drugs like this, is beneficial. It makes drugs far easier to monitor, and i think people will rather buy the cheap, legalized types of drugs, that do not cause harm, then the hard to get, expensive, illegal drugs with possible heavy side effects.
But those drugs that don't really harm you also don't get you "high". So when a drug is tested and found OK to use most people won't buy it because it won't get them "high". Every type of recreational drug today has some kind of harmful affect and humans but we still use them knowing so. Whhen young I took drugs to get high , today I use them to get by.
Yes I think this seems a sensible approach, I would much prefer the idea of reputable drug companies making tested, safe and reliable recreational drugs for the consumers than it being left to, as is the case at present in most countries, self styled illegal want to be chemists/drug dealers/barons/pushers ect.. to supply them with a product.
Billions of pounds are spent every year on illegal drugs that most people haven't got a clue what's really in them or how safe they are, it criminalises people puts them into the criminal world and can lead to drug addictions to harder and more dangerous drugs such as heroin and the like. If a new form of proper testing and legitamisation for safer recreational drugs proves workable then many illegal drug users can be brought out of the world of criminality and would also be able to get correct and sensible medical advice about what is or isn't safe for them as individuals. Right now as things stand many recreational drug users have no idea of the real harm the drugs they are taking could be causing them and they don't tell their doctors because these drugs are illegal, obviously legalising safer drugs would enable doctors to more honesty from their patients.
Also, this side should not be overlooked, is the money involved, criminal gangs are making so much money from illegal drugs which all to often then goes on to fund further criminal activities. With legitimate companies providing legalised recreational drugs much of the money involved could be passed on to help fund further research and also taxes introduced could provide funding for people unable to afford healthcare costs.
It seems to me that whilst no drugs are, or probably ever will be for that matter, entirely safe, as there will always be some risk and usually with prescribed medicine it's a trade off between potential risk and the possible benefits, we could make safer alternatives to the illegal recreational drugs currently on the market.
We know that millions of people take recreational drugs around the world on a regular basis and this isn't about to change any time soon, however what could change is the type of drugs they are taking, where they are buying them from and where the profits involved actually end up, this is if we use a sensible approach to towards recreational drug use with a determined policy to make it safer and out of the control of the criminals.
Also since many of these new drugs keep appearing the market faster than governments can ban them, and certainly well before any sensible testing could have been properly carried out, a blanket ban but with licences then issued for safer tested products does seem a very possitive, productive and sensible approach.
The only part of the proposal I disagree with is not reviewing the status of current drugs.
My own view is that we should use alcohol and tobacco as the models for all drug regulation. Set standards which determine concentrations of the active ingredients and determine the nature of the harms possible from its use.
License it, stipulate accurate labelling, tax it taking into account its potential for harm, control/restrict/ban advertising and control/restrict the sales. Licensing of course makes money for the government. All of a sudden, currently illegal drugs would become sources of revenue for governments rather than a drain on resources. Employing the customs and excise staff instead of police and prison personnel is an improvement - for everyone.
All recreational drugs are classified as illegal until a license is issued. That license comes when a new drug is tested scientifically and shown not to cause appreciable harm.
Are they making tobacco and alcohol illegal?
How easy is testing going to be if all untested drugs are illegal?
Which substance can't cause appreciable harm if high enough doses are consumed?
I think it is the kind of legislation which looks liberal/progressive but can be interpreted in whichever way suits the government.
Tobacco and alcohol retain their previous status, as legal, regulated, and taxed products. Other drugs, currently illegal, are not being reviewed right now, but such a review is probable in the long term.
I do not know what the testing standards are, but some of the drug suppliers are busy testing, so they must have those standards. Different drugs have different levels of harm. For example, ecstasy is very low in harm, despite having caused a small number of deaths under extreme circumstances. Cannabis has killed, but is more harmful in terms of its effect on the human brain, which is harmful but not lethal. Heroin is much more harmful. Alcohol is often touted as the worst drug, but that is in terms of overall harm to society. Such total harm depends not just on the harm to the individual, but also depends on how many individuals use it. It is more harmful than heroin only because nearly every adult uses alcohol, and very few use heroin. On a person by person basis, heroin is much, much worse. My own view is that tobacco should be labelled worst, due to the fact that it kills millions of people every year, while alcohol kills a lot fewer.
But it is the vagueness of the legislation that I would have a problem with.
Can you name a substance that is not harmful is sufficient doses?
I don't see how that new law would - in practise - be any different from current laws.
They will deem as harmful any drug they wish to ban.
But will continue to tacitly support other harmful drugs (i.e. alcohol / tobacco).
I think it is a distinction without a difference.
You have a really bad habit of posting un-supported supositions skeptic. Not very skeptical really.
There has never been a documented human fatality solely from overdosing on tetrahydrocannabinol or cannabis in its natural form.
From a quick scan of Google, more people die from alcohol than heroin.
Would that make alcohol more harmful than heroin?
I guess it depends on which politician you ask.
You have not been following other threads. I started an entire thread based on evidence from New Scientist of people killed by cannabis. Take a look.
Hmm... I see that thread has become a discussion of "Riddick". I should go let them know about the animated feature that lies between "Pitch Black" and "Chronicles".
If there was a way to at least access the abstract of whatever study was being mentioned in the pop-sci article that you had mentioned, then maybe there would be something I could comment on.
I attempted to find an apropriatly authoritative source for the LD50 of cannabis, I hear it is listed in the Merck manual but is based on studies from the early 70's.
Sorry, but a mention sourced from a pop-sci news source does not buck the status quo.
"Pop sci" is a somewhat unpleasant and inaccurate description of New Scientist and of Sciencedaily, which are the main news science mags I reference. They are not peer reviewed, hard science, I agree. But neither are they "pop sci". They are designed as news magazines, to keep interested people up to date with ongoing scientific research, new knowledge, and the odd educational article, to increase science knowledge. They do this very well, and generally are very accurate in their descriptions. You can have faith that what they report is good science.
Well, New Scientist being specialized probably has a higher accuracy standard for science as opposed to say, the New York Times. But even at that, think Higg's Bosun transmogrified to The God Particle!
Well, New Scientist being specialized probably has a higher accuracy standard for science as opposed to say, the New York Times.
New Scientist is frequently wrong/inaccurate/badly worded.
^I had heard that about New Scientist myself. When I said New York Times I assumed that they tended to favor right-wing punditry. But that doesn't seem to be the case. Let me substitute The National Enquirer in for New York Times.
There is not a journal in the world that never makes a mistake. That includes hard science peer reviewed journals. Dr. Andrew Wakefield, for example, had a peer reviewed paper published in The Lancet (arguably the world's leading medical journal) on MMR vaccines and autism, which was total bulldust. The Lancet later apologised for publishing it.
New Scientist has a number of Ph.D. qualified scientists on its writing staff. They are not idiots, and they (mostly) write good, solid science.
New Scientist used to be a lot more interesting and reliable than it is now. I bought it every week for 20 years, maybe more. My perception of it going a bit off track was probably once Jeremy Webb took over as editor. A lot more iffy stuff seemed to get through the different 'newsworthy' filter.
I look at the online version sometimes when each issue comes out, but I rarely buy the magazine any more. I certainly wouldn't get a paid, full subscription.


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Peacemaker, Vol. 1: Innocence Lost (2003) – DVD Review
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Written by: Nahoko Hasegawa, based upon the manga by Nanae Chrono
Directed by: Tomohiro Hirata
Clean opening and closing animation
Production sketches
Text on DVD insert
Original Japanese TV spots
Dindrane's Anime Warnings:
Blood and guts
Blood spattering
Blood pooling and congealing
Innocence lost
Released by: ADV
Rating: 15+
Anamorphic: N/A; appears in its original 1.33:1 format.
My Advice: Oh, buy it and sing it a love song.
[ad#longpost]Peacemaker is based upon the manga Peacemaker Kurogane by Nanae Chrono. A tale of revenge, peace in the face of great brutality, and innocence lost in late medieval Kyoto, the story centers on fifteen-year-old Tetsunosuke Ichimura, whose parents are butchered by the Choshu rebels, a band of murderers and criminals who are opposed only by the Shinsengumi, a group of swordsmen who attempted to resist the Meiji Restoration in 1868. Tetsu hopes to join these swordsmen and wreak some revenge against the Choshu, but his bookish, older brother wants him to walk the path of their father, a Peacemaker. Tetsu is very young, but every so small for his age, and he still must make his own path in a world of hatred, brutality, blood, and espionage.
In this first disc, we meet Tetsu and his brother Tatsunosuke, and watch as Tetsu has a scrappy battle with Souji Okita. Tetsu gets accepted, but to Tatsu's relief, he's only the page to Okita and does more serving of tea than sword-fighting. Soon, as the episodes progress, we learn more about the brutal Choshu and about the boys themselves, especially their father and why the leader of the Shinsengumi knows their name. Of course, we get something of a cliché as the brat starts to make friends and influence people with his willingness to give up the body for revenge. One after another, he makes friends with powerful allies, but not everything is as it seems, and there are enough signs even in this early disc that Tatsu has a ways to go to find his truth. Watch for comic relief in Tetsu versus the pig.
There's a lot of talk about humans and demons, and how the boundaries between these groups are very frail. Is it really necessary to give up your humanity to exact revenge? If so, what else can there be for a child who has lost everything, even his innocence? Okita's wisdom in seeing a lot of Hajimi in Tetsu is quite revealing early in the show, and any clash between political groups willing to kill and/or die for their beliefs, it's likely to be more grey than black or white.
The features list is rather nice. We get another cool menu, first of all, and the offerings are good as well. There's the usual, but welcome, clean opening and closing animations, which is particularly nice in this case, as any Gonzo offering is going to have unassailable graphic quality and interest. We also get a nice passel of production sketches, some very cool original Japanese TV spots, and the DVD credits. The disc case insert has additional goodies, however: a reversible cover, brief Q&A text interviews with the director and story editor/scriptwriter, a couple of character profiles, and a couple of little behind-the-scenes essays by writer Nahoko Hasegawa.
If you're looking for historical accuracy, then you're better off looking elsewhere. There are some interesting tidbits, but anime, like any Hollywood "historical" creation, is really better off inspiring research on your own than giving you any real insight into the characters of Toshizo Hijikata and the rest. As with any anime title, you get a bit more insight into the modern minds that created the anime than into the history itself. The Tokugawa Shogunate and the Meiji Restoration is worthy of much study, and here's to hoping that anime such as this one inspires such interest in many a viewer.
The animation is a bit simpler and less about the details than many contemporary series. The result is more dreamlike in the early stages and even more brutal in some places, when the eye has nowhere to rest but on oceans of blood, or the face of a betrayer. The CGI animation is blended nicely with the cell animation, as when Tetsu sits against a backdrop of cherry blossoms or a rainy street. The audio is great; the opening song will have you ready for the action to start, and the look of the opening has a very cool collage-style look.
I can recommend this series to anyone interested in Japanese history, especially the history of the samurai era when Kyoto was the capital and swords ran the world. It's a relatively short series, only seven discs, and so the action gets going pretty quickly, as do the characterizations. Highly recommended for anyone who likes shows like Rurouni Kenshin, Inuyasha, and Berserk. If you're after action, intrigue, and depth of character, then look no further than Peacemaker.
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CAIRO - Mass march on parliament called for Friday in protest over football massacre
Submitted by Jim_Roche1252 on Fri, 03/02/2012 - 01:15.
Mass march on parliament called for Friday in protest over football massacre
A group of 28 revolutionary movements call for a mass march Friday to demand an immediate hand over of power to a civilian government, charging the military with complicity in Wednesday's football riots in Port Said
Ahram Online, Thursday 2 Feb 2012
Political forces demand new government following Port Said violence
Muslim Brotherhood blames police for Port Said disaster
A group of 28 political parties and movements have called for a mass rally Friday at the Egyptian parliament, to demand MPs take definitive measures following the death of over 70 football fans in major riots that erupted Wednesday night in the city of Port Said.
As thousands of protesters marched Thursday afternoon for the same purpose, the group released a joint statement calling for another march on the parliament from the headquarters of El-Ahly Sports Club in the district of Gezira at 1pm. The statement, entitled "The blood of the revolutionary Ultras martyrs revives the revolution," holds the ruling military council and the current government led by Kamal El-Ganzouri fully responsible for the deadly clashes.
The statement further calls on the newly elected People's Assembly to assume political responsibility and undertake measures to counter "the recent deliberate and systematic acts of killing and instigating chaos for the aim of sabotaging and aborting the revolution," reiterating that the military council should hand over power to a civilian authority immediately.
The groups directly accused security forces of purposely facilitating the riots by not mobilising, not separating the sides, and not searching fans at the stadium gates, to prevent armed thugs from entering and infiltrating the stadium.
Furthermore, the statement cited recent incidents of armed robberies occurring in establishments normally under heavy security, such as banks, as part of a deliberate plot by the country's rulers aimed at spreading fear and insecurity among the public and falsely holding protesters responsible, in order to reverse public support for the revolution.
The groups also condemned the response of the Muslim Brotherhood, whose party dominates the People's Assembly, on the clashes, where the Brotherhood linked Wednesday's riots to clashes that took place between Muslim Brotherhood supporters and protesters in front of the People's Assembly earlier this week.
The statement described the Brotherhood's stance as another indicator that the Islamist group is gradually demonstrating "direct enmity" against the revolution's youth protesters.
Signatories to the statements include the April 6 Youth Movement (Democratic Front), the People's Committees for the Defence of the Revolution, the Revolution Youth Coalition, the Union of Revolution Youth, the Coalition of Revolutionary Forces, Coptic activism group the Union of Maspero Youth, the Egyptians for Azhar Reform Movement, the Maspero State Television Revolutionaries, the Youth Movement for justice and Freedom, the National Front for Justice and Democracy, the Free Front for Peaceful Change, the Revolutionary Socialists, the Egyptian Current Party, and the socialist Popular Alliance Party.
Wednesday's Port Said riots have been dubbed one of the worst football riots in history. The People's Assembly held an emergency session Thursday in the presence of Prime Minister Ganzouri to tackle the aftermath of the riots. The military council announced a three-day period of national mourning starting Thursday. Many football teams and associations around the world sent their condolences over the events.


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by Jerome Mark Antil
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The waterfront scenery of Indian Cove on Great Caribou Island in Southern Labrador, Canada, consists of old, rundown fishing stages.
While traveling past Great Caribou Island in Southern Labrador, Canada, a small area known as Indian Cove, provides the waterfront with the scenery of old fishing stages. These fishing stages with faded paint, loose boards and the desire for a little care, have adorned this waterfront for many years.
Indian Cove is a very small fishing village and many of the local fishermen still use these fishing stages on a daily basis after coming in off the water. The village on Great Caribou Island is a one street community with no services, stores or luxuries. The fog can linger around the island for some time, but many still love the old rustic look to the waterfront and the scenery surrounding the island once the fog lifts.
Picture of old fishing stages creating the waterfront scenery at Indian Cove on Great Caribou Island in Southern Labrador.
... along the waterfront in Indian Cove, Great Caribou Island, Viking Trail, Trails to the Vikings, Southern Labrador, Labrador, Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic Canada, Canada.


Antisense to transforming growth factor-beta(1) facilitates the apoptosis of macrophages in rat vein grafts.
BACKGROUND: The success of peripheral vein grafts is limited by intimal hyperplasia. Transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta(1) has effects on cell proliferation, apoptosis and extracellular matrix synthesis. We have previously observed positive changes in vessel healing with antisense to TGF-beta(1). METHODS: Adenovirus was used to transduce rat femoral artery vein grafts with antisense to TGF-beta(1) (Ad-AST) or the sequence encoding the bioactive form of TGF-beta(1) (Ad-BAT). Grafts were harvested at 1, 2, 4 and 12 weeks and formalin fixed for immunohistochemical studies of the cell markers proliferating cellular nuclear antigen (proliferation) and active caspase 3 (apoptosis). In situ DNA fragmentation assays were also performed to confirm active caspase 3 results. RESULTS: Ad-AST treatment significantly (p = 0.05) increased apoptosis of macrophages inside the internal elastic lamina. In addition, Ad-AST treatment significantly increased the cellularity of the graft at early time points and reduced it at later time points (p = 0.01). CONCLUSION: The low levels of TGF-beta(1) in Ad-AST treatment promote apoptosis of macrophages and provide an environment that is more conducive to the proliferation or infiltration of cells that contribute to healthy vessels.


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Collaboration in the Space Sector – UK Space Agency & the National Physical Laboratory
Posted by: Selina Khan, Posted on: 21 April 2022 - Categories: Guest Blog, Our People & Deep Dives, Outreach
The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is the UK's National Metrology Institute, specialising in measurement science. We are delighted to be supporting the UK Space Agency in a variety of projects within the UK space sector. In March, NPL welcomed Dr Paul Bate and his team to our Teddington laboratories, to meet some of our scientists working on these exciting collaborations.
In the UK Space Agency video, you can get a taste of some of the science and engineering innovation that is taking place at NPL that supports the UK Space Sector.
Resilient Timing
In the UK, NPL provides the UK timescale and is working to make our timing infrastructure more resilient through the National Timing Centre Programme (NTC). NTC will provide the UK with a precise and reliable source of time that is independent of GNSS.
Space Optical Clocks
We are also working with the UK Space Agency and the European Space Agency on ultra-stable lasers and space optical clocks that make use of our patented ultra-stable optical reference cavities. These developments will feed into global telecommunications, future GNSS systems, Earth observation and space-based fundamental physics.
Traceable Radiometry Underpinning Terrestrial and Helio Studies (TRUTHS) is a climate mission to improve the quality of earth observation data and the decisions made using it, it is led by the UK Space Agency and delivered through the European Space Agency (ESA).
TRUTHS will enable anchored calibration of other earth observation satellites whilst they are in orbit, back to a primary measurement reference standard. TRUTHS is providing a benchmark that can reduce uncertainties in the earth observation data, increasing our confidence in the data being collected and used to inform our understanding of climate change.
MicroCarb
The MicroCarb mission is the first European mission for mapping greenhouse gas fluxes on the Earth's surface. NPL is contributing to the mission in two ways, both building the facility used to characterise and calibrate the instrument performance before flight and applying metrological principles to the downloaded data to understand the best interpretation for its use.
Quantitative thermal imaging can be used to provide detailed surface temperature measurements across a wide range of sectors from medicine to energy, including thermal vacuum testing and earth observation within the space sector.
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We live in a world where brand matters. How you feel about your favorite tech company or favorite piece of clothing is often determined by the feeling you get when seeing and interacting with that company's products or wearing a certain shirt or jacket. Every time you see, hear and touch those things, you are reinforcing the brand pattern.
In recruiting, where job descriptions are becoming increasingly commoditized, how can you tell if a given job is worth applying to? The employer brand drives interest in our open roles as much as the brand drives our interest in a watch, phone or president. Being a project manager at Google isn't the same job or experience as a project manager at another company, though their job descriptions might be 95 percent identical. The brand matters in how you perceive the value of those jobs.
I previously defined employer brand as the individually perceived pattern of interactions people have with a product or service. Your perception of the brand is unique based on the quality and strength of the times you've interacted with the brand and how it made you feel.
But that's a fairly abstract concept. How you derive value from your employer brand is a function of understanding the source of your employer brand and how well you communicate it.
A brand isn't a thing on a shelf or something you hand someone. It is the sentiment and understanding of a company after multiple interactions with it. That is, it is how people feel about your company after using your products, seeing your brand name in the news, looking at your Glassdoor ratings, and interactions with its recruiters and hiring managers. But while these various touch points seem to be independent and unrelated, they all stem from the same source: your employees.
How is that possible? Look at the news about your brand. Are you being lauded for a high level of innovation or scrutinized for bad behavior? For the most part, that reputation is a result of your employees' behavior. Additionally, when people seek out what it's like to work for your company, they look to talk to other people who already work there, including recruiters and hiring managers. Social posts that praise or decry your company's brand started life as a deeply positive or negative consumer interaction with your products, which were created by your employees.
In other words, talent is the root of your company's growth, not just in the work they do but also in how the perception of that work feeds into the employer brand.
You could collectively call the existing people, attitudes and rituals that occur in a company its culture. Culture is what happens when you put people in a room and then apply incentives to them. If you hire sharks and give the biggest bonuses to the people who create the most value, can you be surprised when your culture is cutthroat? If you hire people who are team oriented and shun people who speak their minds independently, can you be surprised when everyone drives towards consensus?
This means that your employer brand exists and is being fed by the people who work for you. Your employer brand is what happens when you put those people into that situation and asked them to work. They interacted with each other and customers and vendors. The sum of all those interactions, be they experiences or reviews, is the raw material people use to evaluate you.
Furthermore, the brand you established in the past may not be the brand you want to carry into the future. But changing that culture and brand requires a lot of hard work and time. Consider Uber, whose macho, male-dominated culture can be seen as a direct result of the type of people hired by former CEO Travis Kalanick. Such a culture was then reinforced by a lack of negative repercussions on employees for their behavior and codified as those employees made their own hiring choices.
To change it, you can't ask thousands of people to change their attitude on a dime. You have to establish a new set of incentives (both positive and negative). You have to let people go and hire people who align with the newly aspirational brand. You let leadership go and bring in outsiders who can help establish a new, more inclusive pattern. But until people see the effects of that change, until people have evidence of that shift, the brand remains the same.
I only spell this out to show how convoluted the process of creating real, meaningful change is. It can feel something like a bit of a Any "changing" of an employer brand that happens quickly is the equivalent of slapping on a coat of paint onto a collapsing house: the house may look neater and cleaner, but it doesn't do anything to impact the underlying elements of the structure. The house is still going to fall apart.
In lieu of inventing a time machine, your goal should not to establish an employer brand and how things work out in the future, or to try to apply some quick fix. Your goal instead is to reveal your employer brand as it exists and apply a strong frame around it.
Step one is to interview people at every level in the organization. Ask them what they like about the company, why they joined and why they stay. Ask them what makes this company different from others. Ask them what one positive and one negative thing they would tell their friends about this company.
Your instinct might be to quantify their responses; resist this urge. Instead, you should be listening for phrases and ideas that come up again and again. Don't worry if the reasons people stay are small. So long as they are authentic and defensible, you're on the right track. Even if the reason people stay is because you serve the best coffee in any call center, that can be leveraged to both attract coffee lovers (a small but passionate audience), but as an example of how the company cares enough about its staff to pay more for premium coffee.
Over time, you'll start to see responses coalescing around two to five concepts. These are your employer brand pillars. I prefer to start with the pillars instead of the brand itself, as the brand without pillars can feel amorphous and lacking in substance or connection to day-to-day work. The pillars are the means by which you connect that vague brand to people, so I use the pillars to work toward a brand.
The role of the pillars is to give something actionable to people. If your employer brand is "Creating Memorable Experiences" (could be Disney, could be Starbucks), that is very vague. A scared-straight program is a memorable experience, but is very much not in line with a Disney or Starbucks. So you create pillars that make the brand more tangible.
Maybe they are things like "commitment to innovation at every level," "embracing change" and "employees first, then customers." Suddenly, a vague concept of experiences sounds like a flexible tech-forward company that might have unlimited PTO. Those pillars ground the brand and make it more real.
Once you have a sense of the pillars, you need to start beating them up. It's a bit of a trap to simply take what you hear and reflect it back. Any given person likely has only had a few jobs at a few companies: Their frame of reference is weak. For example, if they talk about the company's commitment to customer satisfaction, but they've never worked at a Zappos or Nordstrom, two companies that are bastions of customer service excellence, that may not be a defensible pillar. Instead, it could be shaped to talk about your company's willingness to be flexible in the face of customer need, or that you take a consultative approach to solving client problems. Both of those ideas are about enhanced customer satisfaction, but aren't competing with other companies.
In the same vein, ask if your prospective pillars are authentic or simply aspirational? It's fine to inject a little rose-colored hope for the future, but it shouldn't be the foundation on which your brand rests.
Once you've beaten your pillars up by yourself, ask people at different levels if the pillars you see sound like their company. Listen to the words they use when they respond. Do any of those words create a stronger connection to the work people do? Can they be tweaked to connect more clearly to the mission and culture?
Chances are, you're close, but you want to make sure they connect to as many elements of the company as possible. This includes all teams, departments and locations. Good pillars allow for granularity, but they still have to be broadly true for everyone.
Once you have pillars that work and you have executive buy in, you'll want to activate that brand. Moving forward, every piece of content or brand touch point needs to connect to one or more of those pillars or the broader pattern of the brand won't emerge from the noise every company creates.
In next month's article, we'll go in depth on all the different ways you can activate your employer brand.
James Ellis is the host of The Talent Cast, a podcast about all things employer brand and recruitment marketing. To comment, email editor@talenteconomy.io.
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Says Mitt Romney wrote that if Social Security was done "in the private sector, it would be called criminal."
— Rick Perry on Monday, September 12th, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Tampa, Florida.
Rick Perry says that Mitt Romney wrote that if Social Security were done in the private sector, it'd be called criminal
By W. Gardner Selby on Thursday, September 22nd, 2011 at 6:00 a.m.
Defending his published characterization of Social Security as a failure of legally questionable origin, Texas Gov. Rick Perry turned the tables on Mitt Romney, saying: "You said if people did it in the private sector it would be called criminal. That's in your book."
Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, shot back in the Sept. 12, 2011, Republican presidential debate: "Gov. Perry, you've got to quote me correctly. You said it's criminal. What I said was Congress taking money out of the Social Security trust fund is like (a) criminal (act) and that is and it's wrong."
We wondered if Perry accurately recapped Romney's description of Social Security.
Let's start from a fuller excerpt of their debate exchange.
At the debate, Romney challenged Perry's repeated description of Social Security as a Ponzi scheme. Romney, addressing Perry, said the Ponzi term is "what scared seniors, number one. And number two, suggesting that Social Security should no longer be a federal program and returned to the states and unconstitutional is likewise frightening.
"Look, there are a lot of bright people who agree with you," Romney continued. "And that's your view. I happen to have a different one. I think that Social Security is an essential program that we should change the way we're funding it. You called it a criminal--"
Perry jumped in: "You said if people did it in the private sector it would be called criminal. That's in your book."
We've run several looks at Perry's Social Security descriptions in his 2010 book, Fed Up!, rating False his claim that the government program is a Ponzi scheme. Unlike such a criminal enterprise, Social Security is obligated to pay benefits and participants are aware of how the system operates; it's public. Unlike a Ponzi scheme, too, Social Security is accountable to Congress and the American people.
More recently, PolitiFact in Washington rated True Romney's charge in the Sept. 12 debate that Perry called Social Security a "failure" in his book and rated Mostly True Romney's claim that Perry also called Social Security unconstitutional. Perry's book lacks such an explicit statement, but Perry argues that the Supreme Court should not have ruled significant pieces of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal constitutional and by doing so, "we've been forced to accept (Social Security) for more than 70 years now."
And did Perry accurately recap Romney's own Social Security moan?
In chapter two of his 2010 book, No Apology: The Case for American Greatness, Romney says reporters did not press the 2008 presidential candidates on how they would shore up or reform Social Security, which could be forced to trim benefits starting in the late 2030s if changes aren't adopted.
In chapter six, Romney says Social Security has grown exponentially since its inception in the mid-1930s. He adds that the program's "trust fund" is a fiction. How so? Payroll taxes fund Social Security. Last year, for the first time since 1983, payouts exceeded receipts. So before last year, Social Security ran an annual surplus that was placed into a trust fund that earns interest. But Congress has routinely borrowed Social Security's surplus to cover other government spending and left behind IOUs from the U.S. Treasury to cover future costs. "There is no fund" in the conventional sense, Romney writes.
Romney's reference to criminality comes next, in an analogy.
"To put it in a nutshell, the American people have been effectively defrauded out of their Social Security," Romney writes, adding later: "Let's look at what would happen if someone in the private sector did a similar thing. Suppose two grandparents created a trust fund, appointed a bank as trustee, and instructed the bank to invest the proceeds of the trust fund so as to provide for their grandchildren's education. Suppose further that the bank used the proceeds for its own purposes, so that when the grandchildren turned 18, there was no money for them to go to college. What would happen to the bankers responsible for misusing the money? They would go to jail. But what has happened to the people responsible for the looming bankruptcy of Social Security? They keep returning to Congress every two years."
For this article, we're not judging the accuracy or adequacy of this analogy. Instead, to refresh, we're drilling in on whether Perry accurately aired Romney's characterization of Social Security.
True, Romney mentions the private sector, as Perry claims.
In the book, Romney then shifts into his analogy about a bank spending money from a trust fund that was set up to cover a future expense -- a grandchild's college education. The bankers in charge of the trust fund in Romney's example would face prosecution for, in effect, stealing the trust fund's money. Romney says their behavior would be called criminal, again as Perry says.
However, as Romney said in the debate, this reference to criminal behavior focuses on the trust fund's "surplus" not being socked away and kept safe until needed, a diversion he blames on Congress. By our read, it's not reasonable to interpret the analogy as saying that if the entire Social Security program were in the private sector, it would be called criminal. Perry's claim echoes some of Romney's language, but ultimately overreaches.
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Published: Thursday, September 22nd, 2011 at 6:00 a.m.
Researched by: W. Gardner Selby
Edited by: Jody Seaborn
Subjects: Social Security
Mitt Romney, book, "No Apology, The Case for American Greatness," pp. 46, 151-53, 157-161, St. Martin's Press, 2010
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Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to "issue an immediate moratorium on borrowing by the Federal Government and the 36 states to address a systemic debt crisis, prevent retrogressive economic measures, and the disproportionately negative impact of unsustainable debt on the poor Nigerians."
The request followed the recent approval by the National Assembly of President Buhari's request for a $5.8bn loan and grant of $10bn. Previous approvals in 2021 alone include $8.3bn; €490m, and $6.1bn. The foreign debt stock of the Federal Government, 36 states, and Federal Capital Territory reportedly stands at $37.9bn.
In an open letter dated 18 December 2021 and signed by SERAP deputy director Kolawole Oluwadare, the organisation said: "A moratorium on borrowing would create a temporary debt standstill, and free up fiscal space for investment in Nigerians' needs, as well as ensure sustainable economic and social recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic."
SERAP said, "Without a moratorium on borrowing, your government and many of the 36 states may be caught in a process driven mostly by creditors' needs. This will result in an exorbitant social cost for the marginalized and vulnerable sectors of the population."
According to SERAP, "Long-term unsustainable debt can be a barrier to the government's ability to mobilize resources for human rights, and may lead to taxes and user fees that impact negatively on vulnerable and marginalised Nigerians."
The letter, read in part: "SERAP is concerned about the lack of transparency and accountability in the spending of the loans so far obtained, and opacity around the terms and conditions, including repayment details of these loans."
"While the National Assembly has asked for these details in future loan requests, it ought to have seen and assessed the terms and conditions of these loans before approving them, in line with its oversight responsibility under the Nigerian Constitution of 1999 [as amended]."
"If not urgently addressed, the escalating borrowing and looming debt crisis would cripple the ability of both the Federal Government and the 36 states to deliver essential public services such as quality healthcare, education, and clean water to the most vulnerable and marginalised sectors of the population."
"SERAP notes that governments' ability to protect human rights is inextricably related to the ability to spend needed resources. Growing debt burdens and debt repayment difficulties will have negative impacts on the ability of your government and many of the 36 states to fulfill the basic socio-economic rights of poor and vulnerable Nigerians."
"Sustainable debt management by the Federal Government and state governments will contribute to mobilizing resources for human rights and essential public services, and promote a culture of responsible borrowing."
"The Federal Government and many of the 36 states would seem to be in debt distress or at high risk of debt distress. According to reports, the Senate and House of Representatives recently approved the loans of $5,803,364,553.50 and a grant component of $10m under the 2018-2020 External Borrowing (Rolling) Plan of the Federal Government."
"This followed previous approvals this year by the National Assembly of $16.2 (16,230,077,718) billion loan; €1 (1,020,000,000) million and a grant component of $125 million loan; $36.8 billion, €910 million loans, and a grant component of $10 million; $8.3 billion and €490 million loans; $6.1 billion, $1.5 billion and 995 million loans; and $4(4,054,476,863), €710 million and grant component of $125 million."
"Several of the 36 states are also facing a debt crisis, and vicious debt cycles. According to the Debt Management Office, the foreign debt stock of the Federal Government, 36 state governments and the Federal Capital Territory presently stands at $37.9bn."
"The loans from China alone amount to $3.59bn. According to the UN Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights, Nigeria faces debt service relative to tax revenues that exceed 20 per cent, with escalating social tensions linked to poverty and inequality."
"The growing level of borrowing by your government and the 36 states is clearly a human rights issue because when the entire country is burdened by unsustainable debts, there will be little money left to ensure access of poor and vulnerable Nigerians to basic public services."
"While it is critical for the Federal Government and state governments to have sufficient resources to fund their budgets, it is equally critical for governments to substantially cut the cost of governance. Persistent borrowing is neither sustainable nor fair to the Nigerian people."
"SERAP urges you to conduct a human rights assessment of the borrowing by governments since 1999 to address the dire consequences of unsustainable debts on people and communities across the country, and to ensure that borrowing at all levels of government considers the human rights impacts."
"Any such assessment should be conducted in harmony with existing safeguards and mechanisms in order to contribute to informed decision-making and to complement findings from a human rights perspective."
"A human rights impact analysis should serve to ascertain the debts that can be repaid, and the resources necessary to ensure compliance with the obligation of using the maximum available resources for the protection and fulfilment of human rights."
"As the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has noted, States parties including Nigeria are under an obligation to devote their maximum available resources to the full realization of all economic and social rights, including the rights to health, education and water."
"SERAP also urges you to adopt effective measures to address transparency and accountability gaps in spending of loans, and the systemic and widespread corruption in ministries, departments and agencies, as documented by the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation"
"We would therefore be grateful if the recommended measures are taken within 14 days of the receipt and/or publication of this letter. If we have not heard from you by then, SERAP shall take all appropriate legal actions to compel your government and the 36 states to comply with our requests.
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Q: How to refresh a GTK image? Hi people from Stackoverflow, I have some knowledge of programming, but not very much. My idea is to program something like a video-game or visualizer in c, to do so I make and process somehow an array that represents an image and it has to be visualized and always being refreshed, like a video-game. I have the algorithm already done, I need to optimize it, I mean I know how to create the array representing an image at anytime, what I need now is to visualize it like an animation and later optimize with opencl.
The program that I want to make has to do something like this:
"create the image"
"render it",
"create the image"
"render it",
...
For that reason I know that I could start easily from a very simple example and I don't have to learn everything of GTK. I have been intensively searching for simple examples and trying to understand how it works but it didn't help, I need just to do that simple action, refresh it. A command somewhere should be enough.
#include <gtk/gtk.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <glib.h>
const int Width = 1200, Height = 800;
char *buffer;

int i = 0;
GdkPixbuf *pixbuf;
GtkWidget *window;
GtkWidget* image;

void delay(int number_of_seconds){
    int milli_seconds = 1000 * number_of_seconds;
    clock_t start_time = clock();
    while (clock() < start_time + milli_seconds);
}

int main (int argc, char *argv[]){
    buffer = (char*)malloc(3 * Width * Height);

    // CREATE AN IMAGE IN BUFFER SOMEHOW
    // buffer = something;
    //

    window = gtk_window_new (GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
    pixbuf = gdk_pixbuf_new_from_data (buffer, GDK_COLORSPACE_RGB, FALSE, 8, Width, Height, (Width)*3, NULL, NULL);
    image = gtk_image_new_from_pixbuf (pixbuf);
    gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER (window), image);
    gtk_window_set_title (GTK_WINDOW (window), "Visualizador");
    gtk_widget_show_all (window);
    delay(0.04);
    gtk_main ();
    free (buffer);
    return 0;
}

The program is really simple, when I create/load the image there it shows a picture, but I would like to put the function already programmed there, to return a "buffer" and then refresh the displayed image.
I read that gtk_widget_queue_draw has something to do, or gdk_pixbuf_simple_anim_add_frame or g_timeout_add but I have no idea how they work and what to put in this program.
Thank you in advance!

A: If you want a moving image or something that needs to get refreshed a lot then I would suggest using a GtkDrawingArea and implement it's draw signal, for that you'll need to use cairo. It should look something like this:
static gboolean
your_draw_cb(GtkWidget *widget, cairo_t *context, gpointer data)
{
  // Do your drawing
  return FALSE;
}

int main()
{
  // Some code before ...
  GtkWidget *area = gtk_drawing_area_new();
  g_signal_connect(G_OBJECT(area), "draw", G_CALLBACK(your_draw_cb), your_data);
  gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER(your_container), area);
  // More code ...
}

Each time you want to refresh it you should call
gtk_widget_queue_draw(area);

to get the draw signal called.
You won't need to store a buffer as that comes inside the cairo context.
But you may want to use other libraries for this purpose, like SDL2 or OpenGL as they are designed for videogames.
I hope this helps.

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2. There is reason to believe the records being sought are relevant to a law enforcement inquiry.
a. Endangering the life or physical safety of any person.
c. Destruction of or tampering with evidence.
d. Intimidation of potential witnesses.
e. Otherwise seriously jeopardizing an investigation or official proceeding or unduly delaying a trial or ongoing official proceeding to the same degree as the circumstances in paragraphs A.2.a. through A.2.d. of this appendix.
B. When a delay of notice is appropriate, legal counsel shall be consulted to obtain such a delay. Application for delays of notice shall be made with reasonable specificity.
"Records or information concerning your transactions held by the financial institution named in the attached search warrant were obtained by this [agency or department] on [date].
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Happy Thanksgiving to you! Sounds like your life is getting better, Thanks to the Lord! I love your Cornucorpia card, very beautiful!
What a beautiful post, Melissa! God is so faithful, even when things (from a human perspective) look very impossible. I'm so sorry for all that you and your children have been through.
Melissa, this is gorgeous!! Beautiful post and I am so thankful for our friendship. Keep your faith as you have become a stronger person with it. Love ya!
Beautiful card, love how you cut out the cornucopia.
So sorry for your recent troubles, but you sound like you are very grounded in your faith and that it is carrying you through these difficult times.
I love your card! That cornucopia is so pretty and colored so wonderfully! Lovely gate fold card! Thanks so much for playing with Just Us Girls!
The card is so beautiful and I love the warmth of it.
I am so proud of you because you did hang on and made the best of days that seemed so hard. You hung onto God's promises and they have helped you through.
I love the saying you quoted, "God's answers are never late, rarely early, but always on time."
Hi Melissa, I love this card! The colors and design are fabulous.
Gorgeous cornucopia card!!! Very festive. Great colors. Thanks so much for playing along with Just Us Girls!
Great Thanksgiving card Melissa! You did a fab job with the gate fold this week! I'm so glad that your life is in an upward swing now!
Grogeous coloring on this cornucopia, Melissa!
You've shown amazing strength surviving the curves life has thrown at you. Way to go, friend!!
Fabulous! I love the fall colors and the precise layers of your card. Thank you for playing with Just Us Girls this week!


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Q: Copy ComboBox Dataset to DataGridViewComboBoxColumn (Using C# Visual Studio 2015, Windows Forms)
I have a list of strings that I want to show in a DataGridView (DGV).
Each row in the DGV will have:

*

*column[0]:  String value from list (ColumnType: DataGridViewTextBoxColumn)

*column[1]:  A blank cell (user will enter data here) (ColumnType: DataGridViewTextBoxColumn)

*column[2]:  A ComboBox (ColumnType: DataGridViewComboBoxColumn)

Every ComboBox in each record will have identical items (the same DataSet) and I retrieve these from a SQL query to my Access Database (accdb).
My main problem is that I need to identify the ValueMember and DisplayMember of each ComboBox, and I can't figure out how to do that. My current code just tries to copy the DataTable results into the ComboBox, but I'm getting the error:System.ArgumentException.DataGridViewComboBoxCell value is not valid.

And it repeats for every value of every ComboBox in the DataGridView. I cannot figure out what I'm doing wrong.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here's the code:
     DataTable results = new DataTable();

     //Identify the Connection String
     connection.ConnectionString = dbQuery.connStr;

     //SQL Statement to retrieve ComboBox Items
     string sql = @"SELECT ID, DESCRIP FROM tbl_setpoints_categories ORDER BY DESCRIP ASC";

     //Create a new ComboBox (this is for testing purposes)
     ComboBox cb = new ComboBox();

        try
        {
            connection.Open();
            OleDbCommand command = new OleDbCommand();
            command.Connection = connection;
            command.CommandText = sql;
            OleDbDataReader reader = command.ExecuteReader();

            results.Columns.Add("ID", typeof(int));
            results.Columns.Add("DESCRIP", typeof(string));
            results.Load(reader);

            //For testing purposes...
            cb.ValueMember = "ID";
            cb.DisplayMember = "DESCRIP";
            cb.DataSource = results;

            if (!reader.IsClosed)
            {
                reader.Close();
            }
        }
        finally
        {
            connection.Close();
        }

        //Loop through the list and add each into an array of objects
        //This array will be added as a DataGridView row
        foreach (string spName in spList)
        {

            //My Latest Edit, but still produces same error
            DataGridViewComboBoxCell cbCell = new DataGridViewComboBoxCell();
            cbCell.ValueMember = "ID";
            cbCell.DisplayMember = "DESCRIP";
            cbCell.DataSource = results;
            //End Latest Edit

            object[] row = new object[3];
            row[0] = spName.ToString();
            row[1] = "";
            row[2] = cbCell;  //From Latest Edit (was: results)
            dataGridView1.Rows.Add(row);
        }

EDIT: I just checked to see if my query was pulling records by adding this line:
MessageBox.Show(results.Rows.Count.ToString());
And I received the correct number of records

A: Hopefully this may clear things up. Unfortunately a DataGridViewComboBoxColumn is NOT a column of ComboBoxcontrols. So the lines below won't work as a DataGridView column.
ComboBox cb = new ComboBox();
cb.ValueMember = "ID";
cb.DisplayMember = "DESCRIP";
cb.DataSource = results;

The DataGridView has a DataGridViewComboBoxColumn which unfortunately is a little more challenging to implement than a regular ComboBox. So to help visualize this, I made a drawing to show what I am describing.

Above you can see the output from the code below. I used the button click to place a breakpoint to display the two DataTables. The DataGridViewComboBoxColumn DataSource is a DataTable with the different "Set Point Types" and is displayed on the right showing "Id" and "Set Point Types" 0-14. These are the items that the DataGridViewComboBoxColumn uses as a DataSource.
The convenient part is that once you set the DataSource for this column you do not have to update this with every new/existing cell. The column will build the ComboBoxCells automatically. When you create the DataTable for the main DataGridView with all the data, you would assume that the cells where the combo box column is needs to have ALL the values. But these values would simply be a single string that matches one of the items in combo box (hopefully). So the DataGridView DataTable (not the DataGridView column) needs to make this column a string (not a combo box)  as it can contain only ONE value from the different "Set Point Types" types. The convenient aspect is that even though it is a string and not a combo box, if it matches an existing item in the combo box then it will display that item.
Below is the code that was used for the picture above.
First set the DataGridView columns with two text columns then the last column is the DataGridViewComboBoxColumn. The GetComboColumn method returns a DatGridViewComboBoxColumn with the different items for the combo box. Here the pertinent properties are DataPropertyName, DisplayMemeber and ValueMember, these identify which columns to use from the DataSource. Below that is a method to add a text column to the DataTable.
Finally, we get a DataTable for the DataGridView with some test data for testing. Hope this helps.
DataTable allData;
DataTable comboTable;

public Form1() {
  InitializeComponent();
}

//-------------------------------------------------------------------------
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) {
  SetDGVColumns();
  allData = GetAllData();
  dataGridView1.DataSource = allData;
}

private DataTable GetAllData() {
  DataTable data = new DataTable();
  data.Columns.Add("Set Point Name", typeof(string));
  data.Columns.Add("Description", typeof(string));
  data.Columns.Add("Set Point Type", typeof(string));  // <-- NOTE: this is a string- not a combo box

  data.Rows.Add("nai_m2_no2", "Description 0", "Set Point Type 4");
  data.Rows.Add("nao_enth_no3", "Description 1", "Set Point Type 13");
  data.Rows.Add("nai_m2_no4", "Description 2", "Set Point Type 4");
  data.Rows.Add("nai_m2_no5", "Description 3", "Set Point Type 11");
  data.Rows.Add("nai_m2_no6", "Description 4", "Set Point Type 3");
  data.Rows.Add("nai_m2_no7", "Description 5", "Set Point Type 2");
  return data;
}

//-------------------------------------------------------------------------
private void SetDGVColumns() {
  AddTextCol("Set Point Name");
  AddTextCol("Description");
  dataGridView1.Columns.Add(GetComboColumn()); // <-- THIS DataGridView Column needs to be a combo box column
}

//-------------------------------------------------------------------------
private DataGridViewComboBoxColumn GetComboColumn() {
  comboTable = new DataTable();
  comboTable.Columns.Add("ID", typeof(int));
  comboTable.Columns.Add("Set Point Type", typeof(string));
  for (int i = 0; i < 15; i++) {
    comboTable.Rows.Add(i, "Set Point Type " + i);
  }
  // we now have a data table to use as a data source for the DataGridViewComboBoxColumn
  // make a DataGridViewComboBoxColumn and set it properties
  DataGridViewComboBoxColumn typeCol = new DataGridViewComboBoxColumn();
  typeCol.Width = 150;
  typeCol.DataPropertyName = "Set Point Type";  //<-- needs to match the DataTable column name you want to display - in this case 'Set Point Type'
  typeCol.HeaderText = "Set Point Type";
  typeCol.ValueMember = "Set Point Type";
  typeCol.DisplayMember = "Set Point Type";
  typeCol.Name = "Set Point Type";
  typeCol.DataSource = comboTable;
  return typeCol;
}

//-------------------------------------------------------------------------
private void AddTextCol(string colInfo) {
  DataGridViewTextBoxColumn TextCol = new DataGridViewTextBoxColumn();
  TextCol.DataPropertyName = colInfo;
  TextCol.HeaderText = colInfo;
  TextCol.Name = colInfo;
  dataGridView1.Columns.Add(TextCol);
}


There are a lot of mistakes policyholders can make as they prepare and file a fire insurance claim Los Angeles. Being a victim of a fire is a distressing experience. It often leaves someone in a feeling of being hopeless. It's common for policyholders to make mistakes after a fire incident.
1 Below are 10 of the most common mistakes you may make after a fire.
1.1 1. Making decisions too fast.
1.2 2. Listening to people with no experience.
1.3 3. Not knowing your rights.
1.4 4. Packing out home without a complete inventory.
1.5 5. Packing out without knowing the cost.
1.6 6. Letting the insurance firm contractors start the repairs without knowing the exact cost and scope of the repairs.
1.7 7. Not knowing what your insurance policy covers.
1.8 8. Not knowing the complete process for personal property inventory.
1.9 9. Not understanding that the amount an adjuster gives comes from your final contents.
1.10 10. Not checking the references.
1.10.1 What questions can you ask the references?
Below are 10 of the most common mistakes you may make after a fire.
1. Making decisions too fast.
After a fire incident, you'll be able to come up with hundreds of decisions, especially during the claim process. But before you decide, take your time to get settled in first. This amount of time will let you explore other options. It will also help and guide you do what is best for you.
2. Listening to people with no experience.
Listening to those who have never experienced a major loss will affect your fire insurance claim. Most people are off-balance and emotional after a loss. You'll be influenced by people you interact with. Be careful and only talk to experts who aren't associated with your insurance firm.
3. Not knowing your rights.
How does this affect your fire insurance claim Los Angeles? Most people think that the only option is an insurance company. Remember, you can choose a public adjuster or contractor. You can recover more insurance money if you choose your own experts who are protecting your interests.
4. Packing out home without a complete inventory.
How does this affect your fire insurance claim? An incomplete inventory can result in thousands of lost dollars. The items that are under $150 in your home may add up to a considerable sum. You should include them in your inventory.
5. Packing out without knowing the cost.
How does this affect your claim? If you have a fixed amount of coverage for your contents, the pack-out bill will be taken out of that allotted amount for contents. Unnecessary work will be done on the items which are not repairable. And you will be responsible for the cost for these.
But here's an alternative method that can help you. Have the pack-out company test clean the items that can be cleaned together with a few of your electronic devices. Leave the bad items on the location. This can cut your pack-out bill in half. You can keep the money available in case you need to replace lost items.
6. Letting the insurance firm contractors start the repairs without knowing the exact cost and scope of the repairs.
This will affect your fire insurance claim Los Angeles. How? Policyholders don't realize that there are insurance companies who have preferred contractors. And these contractors work with them on a consistent basis.
Most of the time, the scope of their repairs will lack in tear out and pricing based on the quality of materials. This means you'll lose a huge amount of money – money that could have gone to your property. What you can do is to look for a professional adjuster to help you make the comparisons.
7. Not knowing what your insurance policy covers.
It's important to know what your insurance policy means and what it covers. All policies base on a standard 165-line policy. Each line has its meaning. It will be a problem if you misinterpret any of the lines.
You can find the insurance coverage within your policy. If you don't know what your insurance policy is then it will cost you thousands of dollars. It's your responsibility to prove your loss.
8. Not knowing the complete process for personal property inventory.
Before filing the claim, you need to make sure that you have filled out all the details. If you're still emotional after the incident, you might miss a thing or two while listing the details.
Moreover, your employer may not pay you for your lost hours if you take a day off from work to do the inventory of your losses. This may also affect you while listing the details. Missing a few things may cost you a large amount of money. Make sure that you take note of all the items for the inventory process. Seek help from a family member when doing this process if necessary.
9. Not understanding that the amount an adjuster gives comes from your final contents.
As a homeowner filing for an insurance claim, you need proper bookkeeping. If you get a cash advance from your claim, use this money immediately. You can use it for living expenses. Keep the receipts and then turn that amount in under the "Additional Living Expense" coverage to get a refund. This will help minimize confusion.
10. Not checking the references.
How does this affect your fire insurance claim? You might lose a lot of money if you don't check the references. A lot of people don't do it, but it doesn't mean you don't have to, too. Take all the time you need to talk to the people about the company that you want to hire.
What questions can you ask the references?
Would you like to hire them again?
Make sure that you ask your insurance adjuster to provide you with a list of references. These should be people he or she has already worked with. Once you have the references, try to call them and see how the process went. Remember, you need to prove your loss, so go get the help you need.
Now that you have read the 10 common mistakes policyholders make after a loss, it's necessary to understand these to avoid them in the future. If you have questions, feel free to check Excel Adjusters. They offer free consultations with their public adjusters. They will give you advice and advocacy during your hardship.
Consultations are free of charge for those affected by California fires. It's important that policyholders like you to understand your rights after a disaster. Feel free to reach out to them and get the help you need.


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Tolman Announced as White Ribbon Ambassador
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Thu 8 Dec 2016, 03:00 PM
The Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs in partnership with White Ribbon Australia are pleased to announce Aiden Tolman as an official White Ribbon Ambassador.
The Bulldogs formed a partnership with White Ribbon Australia in 2014 and the father of three has been a huge supporter from day one.
"White Ribbon is a male-led organisation leading the fight against violence against women. It's about having the tools to talk to each other and say, 'Enough's enough," Tolman said.
"It's about standing up and saying that it's unacceptable to be violent towards woman and children.
"If we can stop one incident from happening, then we are making a difference.
"We want to use our voices to let as many people as possible know that violence against women is not acceptable," Tolman said.
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The prop forward says the playing group is united in their desire for all mothers, daughters, wives, partners and friends to be able to live a life free from violence and abuse.
"We want to use our voices to let as many people as possible know that violence against women is not acceptable," Tolman added.
As a White Ribbon Ambassador, Aiden will be the "human face" of White Ribbon Australia, and it is through his leadership and advocacy of the campaign in his communities, that we are all able to work towards changing the attitudes and culture of men's violence towards women and children.
This news comes as the 16 days of activism wraps up.
You can learn more about White Ribbon Australia HERE!
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Easy to apply, just paste it on the wall.
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Q: SQL запрос, который выведет все возможные сочетания из одного столбца DECLARE @Colors TABLE(Name nvarchar(20))
INSERT INTO @Colors
VALUES ('green'),
('black'),
('yellow'),
('blue'),
('white'),
('red'),
('brown')

Необходимо написать SQL запрос который выведет результат в 4 столбца(Name1,Name2,Name3,Name4)все возможные сочетания  для значений переменной, где n = 7(семь цветов) и k = 4(четыре различных цвета в одной строке)
Пример для 4 цветов и 3 столбцов. Результат такой

Name1
Name2
Name3

green
black
yellow

blue
black
green

blue
black
yellow

green
blue
yellow

Это тестовое задание. Ни как не подступиться, у меня есть представление о базовых запросах SQL, здесь для меня, что-то не тривиальное. Мне даже сложно оценить сложность этой задачи. Возможно решение простое, просто еще не достаточно опыта и практики. Буду очень благодарен если подскажите в каком направлении двигаться. Что попробовать. Благодарю.

A: SELECT t1.color color1,
       t2.color color2,
       t3.color color3,
       t4.color color4
FROM @Colors t1
JOIN @Colors t2 ON t2.color NOT IN (t1.color)
JOIN @Colors t3 ON t3.color NOT IN (t1.color, t2.color)
JOIN @Colors t4 ON t4.color NOT IN (t1.color, t2.color, t3.color);

нужно будет исключить повторения, чтобы в каждой строке были только уникальные сочетания цветов.

SELECT t1.color color1,
       t2.color color2,
       t3.color color3,
       t4.color color4
FROM @Colors t1
JOIN @Colors t2 ON t2.color > t1.color
JOIN @Colors t3 ON t3.color > t2.color
JOIN @Colors t4 ON t4.color > t3.color;

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Dung power in Cambodia
By KER MUNTHIT Nget Louns rickety old thatched house is typical of Cambodias impoverished countryside, but it holds a surprise inside: a state of the art, environment-friendly gas stove.
Off the grid as far as most utilities are concerned, her household and 29 others in the village of Tamoung get a steady supply of clean energy from human and animal waste, using a device that not only makes cooking less of a chore, but also keeps their gardens flourishing and helps save the forests.
At the centre of the experiment is a device called a biological gas digester or biodigester which converts a by-product of manure into cooking gas. The technology has taken hold in other countries as a way to generate gas or electricity, and now an independent development group is hoping to spread it to Cambodias poor rural people.
Brendan Boucher, the Australian co-ordinator for the non-profit Cambodian Rural Development Team, which is financed by donations from abroad, introduced the project last year in Tamoung, a village in Takeo province 70km south of the capital Phnom Penh.
Boucher says biogas stoves can help improve food security for villagers and reduce the pressures on Cambodias fast-disappearing forests, which are relied on for firewood.
Som Chhear, 57, says he used to trek 10km from home to find firewood to store for use during the rainy season. When his supply ran low, he had to spend 10,000 riel a month on buying firewood or charcoal from a nearby market.
Now, his biodigester not only provides him with free cooking gas, but also with nutrient-rich effluent organic fertiliser that keeps my vegetable garden green for all seasons. "Sometimes, we even use the power from the generator to operate our karaoke machine and sing for fun," he says.
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Nget Loun, 25, says the biogas stove makes cooking an easier chore. The cooking pots and my hands are no longer dirtied with black smoke from burning wood, she says. And it has absolutely no smell, she adds while opening the gas valve and firing up the stove with a lighter.
Boucher notes an additional benefit: the introduction of toilets, a hygienic convenience absent from most rural Cambodian homes. Human and animal waste is flushed through the toilet into a plastic digester tube 10m long and 1.5m in diameter that sits in a ditch under a thatched roof. At the far end, a knee-deep trench collects liquid residue for use as fertiliser.
A PVC pipe attached to the tubes midsection channels methane gas emitted by the manure mix into a plastic storage bag in the house, from which it is fed into the stove. Each unit cost about 400,000 riel (RM380) to set up.
Boucher says biogas units are part of an integrated development package of water wells, fish ponds, vegetable gardens and training in farming methods, all meant to bolster food security. About half of Cambodias 13 million people live on less than 4,000 riel (RM3.8) a day, so many families are at the mercy of nature for their sustenance. The entire package for Tamoung village cost 540,440,000 riel (RM513,418), which was paid by the Australian government.
Twenty-five biodigesters were installed, serving 30 of the villages 130 families. Ownership of at least three cows was a prerequisite making 100 families eligible and a random drawing selected those who got the systems.
Previous efforts to promote biogas technology in Cambodia more than a decade ago met with limited success. About 500 biogas units were installed but most were abandoned by users within one or two years, says San Thy, a researcher at the Centre for Livestock and Agriculture Development, another non-profit group.
One reason was that peasants failed to keep a suitable number of livestock. Sometimes, needing money, they just sold their entire stock. Without supplies of manure, the digesters simply dont work,San Thy says.
Boucher says that providing villages with integrated systems that include components for sustainable development such as fish ponds and vegetable gardens can generate income to pay for maintenance of the biodigesters.
We dont profess what we do will alleviate poverty throughout Cambodia, but it certainly goes a huge way in improving food security, increasing incomes and the livelihoods of people, he says.
Cambodian villager Nget Loun stands in front of her gas stove in her house in Tamoung village, Takeo province, south of Phnom Penh.
It has been a boon for Chent Dejorith's family, which raises pigs. He says his brother-in-law figured out how to use the methane gas to power a small generator, which pumps water from their well to sell to other villagers. His family has been using the new technology to generate power for four months.