To get a broader impression and prepare your first questions, we would like to give you further information, as known so far, about our plans. After the registration, we will update you frequently.
This year we are trying to find a good mix in order to get different insights in the broad maritime industry. Therefore, hopefully all MT students out of all tracks will find something for their interests as well as many other visits to extent their knowledge.
The plan is to split the week into nights and stops in different cities in the North of France. We will start with an interesting day in Brest at the Northwest coast. Without calling it immediately "Design of complex specials", we will get insights in the naval industry by visiting one of the biggest companies within their field, the Naval Group. Most likely, we will continue after lunch with a second stop at Thales and their unwater systems departments.
When we are heading south on the second day, we will stop by the French Naval Academy and will get in contact with their learning environment and facilities. Maybe we can also take a look in the simulator to be our own captain for a few minutes. After a small trip along the coast, we will arrive in Saint Nazaire with their long traditions of fishing and shipbuilding. In the afternoon we can look for impressive ship engines at the head office and production site of the French subsidiary of MAN Energy Solutions, where they are producing engines for Marine, Military Marine and Offshore among others.
The next day will start with a visit at one of the biggest shipyards on the world, Chantiers de l'Atlantique, which has constructed notable superliners such RMS Queen Mary 2 and MS Symphony of the Seas, the largest passenger ship in the world as of 2018. After lunch and change of location, we will get the opportunity to visit the École Centrale de Nantes and their naval architecture and well-known hydrodynamic department. Next to that, as part of Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore, Nextflow Software will present their developments, research topics and ability to set up a start-up out of a university research project.
By coming closer back to Delft, the rest of Thursday and Friday are mainly focused on the area around Paris! There are several opportunities, which have to be integrated in our final programme. One great option is GTT, as a leader of LNG insulation with all their laboratories in their research departments. And if the time permits, the last evening can be spent in the city centre of Paris.
But don't forget the last day, which will bring us to Dassault Systèmes, as developer of 3D design and product lifecycle management (PLM) software (e.g. SolidWorks and CATIA). Next to their 3DExperience Lab, we can get rid of all our questions regarding smarter ships on safer seas and all their challenges and opportunities.
We are all really excited about that trip and have high expectation for ourselves. After registering, you are welcome for further suggestions and ideas. Even if there are any unexpected changes or difficulties in the organization of the programme, the French maritime industry within these locations offers a variety of alternatives and great opportunities in order to have an interesting studytour.


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The WhatsApp Inc. and Facebook Inc. application are displayed along with other apps. (Photographer: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg)
WhatsApp Users Can No Longer Avoid Sharing Data With Facebook
Azman Usmani
WhatsApp users will no longer have the option of opting out of sharing information with Facebook Inc.When the popular messaging application last updated its privacy policy in July 2020, it gave users a month to opt-out from sharing information with its parent. Now, its updated privacy policy will offer no such choice.That is one of the many changes to the more expansive updated privacy policy WhatsApp users are being notified of ahea...
WhatsApp users will no longer have the option of opting out of sharing information with Facebook Inc.
When the popular messaging application last updated its privacy policy in July 2020, it gave users a month to opt-out from sharing information with its parent. Now, its updated privacy policy will offer no such choice.
That is one of the many changes to the more expansive updated privacy policy WhatsApp users are being notified of ahead of its rollout on Feb. 8. If users don't accept the privacy policy before that, they will no longer be able to use the service.
The prompt for updated policy as seen on an iPhone. (Source: BloombergQuint)
Also read: Facebook Sees WhatsApp As Its Future, Antitrust Suit or Not
WhatsApp, founded by Jan Koum and Brian Acton, started as an ad-free, secure messaging service, helping it win users across the globe. Facebook acquired the platform in 2014 for $19 billion. Kaum, however, quit four years later amid differences with Facebook over data privacy—or using user data for targeted ads, media reports said at the time. Facebook went ahead with the plan to monetise WhatsApp.
The updated policy goes into much more detail on how user data is shared with Facebook, businesses on the platform and other third-party services.
According to the WhatsApp's FAQs on privacy policy, the information it will share with Facebook companies includes:
Account registration information (such as phone numbers)
Service-related information
Transaction data, if users use WhatsApp Pay or purchase products through it
Information on how you interact with others (including businesses) when using WhatsApp
Mobile device information
Other 'Information We Collect' or obtained "upon notice to you or based on your consent"
Facebook Companies include Facebook Payments, Onavo, Facebook Technologies, Facebook Technologies Ireland, WhatsApp, WhatsApp Ireland and CrowdTangle.
BloombergQuint awaits response to queries emailed to WhatsApp and WhatsApp India.
In its earlier versions of the privacy policy, WhatsApp gave existing users 30 days to go to their account settings and turn off sharing information with Facebook that would help the social media giant improve "Facebook ads and products experiences". The upcoming policy does not have any clause specifying this choice.
WhatsApp's earlier privacy policy, updated July 2020, that offered users the option to opt-out. (Source: WhatsApp)
According to the policy, WhatsApp shares information with Facebook companies to improve delivery systems, understand services used, promoting safety, fighting spam, improve user experience through personalised suggestions, and for relevant offers and ads, among others.
Messages are still end-to-end encrypted and are stored only on user devices as long as they are delivered with a double tick. WhatsApp says it stores messages on its servers when they are undelivered for a maximum 30 days. Thereafter, these are deleted from the servers too. When a user forwards media content, WhatsApp stores it "temporarily in encrypted form" to make further forwards more "efficient".
The policy, however, cautions that any information, including messages, you share with businesses on WhatsApp--including messages—will be processed under that particular business' privacy policy. If that business is working with a third-party service, which could include Facebook, then they may also be able to access the information.
Other tweaks to the policy include more details on how businesses will be able to interact with users and broader definitions of information that WhatsApp collects.
WhatsApp has already started notifying users in India about the updated privacy policy with a full-page prompt when they first open the application starting Wednesday. Users are given brief pointers about the major changes and are required to accept it before Feb. 8.
Also read: WhatsApp Pay Vs Google Pay Vs PhonePe: Who Has The Edge?
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The Crypto Crash is an Opportunity to Build a Better Industry, Says Blockchain Entrepreneur
Having lived through the dot.com crash with his first company, Bancor co-founder Eyal Hertzog has much to say about the downturn in the crypto industry
CTech	18:1422.04.19
Eyal Hertzog
Two years ago, Eyal Hertzog, co-founder of Israeli crypto coin trading platform Bancor, was among the rising stars of the cryptocurrency world. At the time, Bancor just raised $153 million in an initial coin offering of its token.
The hype has since been reversed, Hertzog said in a recent Hebrew-language interview with 30 Minutes or Less, a podcast created by Microsoft Accelerator TLV, published Friday. First, the cryptocurrency market crashed, taking Bancor's token with it. Then, to make matters worse, in July 2018 Bancor was hacked, resulting in the theft of $13.5 million in crypto coins.
Eyal Hertzog. Photo: PR
"In most forums, I'm the only person who got to experience it twice," Hertzog said, referring to his first company, Contact Networks Inc., a social network company founded in 1992, which fell victim to the dot.com bubble crash. Back then, he said, "the hype was even greater, and the crash was, in a way, almost more complete. And since it hit the global stock markets, the damage was in trillions of dollars."
Hertzog, who was 26 when he shut down his first company, said he was left confused by the reactions of venture capital firms he approached following the crash. The unanimous response was "the internet is dead," he said. "Was I the only one thinking the internet was going to change everything? Was I wrong, or were they?"
There's a great feeling of déjà vu now, regarding blockchain, Hertzog said. "I knew there was a risk, but I didn't expect the fall." He, too, was swept in the euphoria of something that could change everything. And he still believes that even now.
To transfer information costs nothing, but to save that information over time costs something, and that's the difference between internet protocols and blockchain protocols, which are in all actuality a database, Hertzog said. A network transfers information; the database saves information. Networks exist in space, databases in time. And as long people have an incentive to mine cryptocurrency, they would be able to access blockchain protocols even years in the future. "That's why blockchain needs cryptocurrency," Hertzog said.
But those are not the uses being discussed by most people performing ICOs, Hertzog said.
Detractors of bitcoin often ask what the actual uses of the technology are, and current answers are far from satisfying to them. "Financial experts have to contend with amateur software engineers that try to explain how the monetary system of the future will look, just because they figured out the code for bitcoin," he said.
There probably isn't an example in history of a coin that is as unstable, in terms of the cost of manpower needed to produce it, he said. And only a stable coin can enter circulation.
ICOs are speculative tools, like securities–they are bought and sold according to a future bet. And there is much economic value in such collective wisdom, Hertzog said, but currency cannot act the same—an unstable coin eventually fails. And unless cryptocurrency can be stabilized, only die-hards will use it.
"And I say it as someone who trades in bitcoin," he said. "I've thought–and continue to think–that crypto will work. But coins like bitcoin will never replace fiat money."
What happens now? "After the dot.com crash, companies whose stock lost 98% of its value like Amazon continued to build." In Many ways, Hertzog said, the crypto crash is doing the same for the industry, since it forces people to focus on the work and on building systems people can actually use.
When the internet was first created, people could pretty much just email each other, Hertzog said—similar to the way blockchain is now used for transactions between people. And then there was Google, and suddenly people had access to an endless database, and that was the start of the internet revolution.
"That's where blockchain is going now," Hertzog said.
The 30 Minutes or Less podcast, which launched in 2017, is hosted by Navot Volk, the managing director of Microsoft ScaleUp TLV, and tech entrepreneur Aviv Frenkel. The two interview tech founders, investors, and other key members of the Israeli tech ecosystem.


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Q: error "expected initializer before 'using'" c++ im new here ,and new at proggraming in general .
whem im trying to run this code:
#include<fstream>
#include <iostream>
#include "main.h"
using namespace std;
int main()
{
 short arr_size ()
float temp;
point point_arr[99];
ifstream my_file   ("points.txt");
while(!my_file.eof())
{
    my_file>>temp ;
    point_arr[arr_size].set_x(temp);
    my_file>>temp ;
    point_arr[arr_size].set_y(temp);
    arr_size++;
}
arr_size--;
my_file.close();
ex_point(point_array,arr_size);
cout<<"the middle point is:("<<mid_p(point_array,arr_size).get_x()<<","<<mid_p(point_array,arr_size).get_y()<<")\n";
return 0;
}

im getting this error : "error "expected initializer before 'using'" c++"
this is the first time i get this error . it may be somthing wrong with "main.h" ?
this is "main.h " :
    #ifndef MAIN_H_INCLUDED
#define MAIN_H_INCLUDED
#include<iostream>
class point
{
    float x ,y ;
public :
    point(float a,float b){x=a;y=b;}
    point(){};
    void set_x(float a){x=a;};
    void set_y(float b){x=b;};
    const float get_x(){return x; };
    const float get_y(){return y; };
    const void show();
    const float pitagoras();
};
const point mid_p(point[],float);
const void ex_point(point[],float)

#endif // MAIN_H_INCLUDED

thank you !
ivory

A: const void ex_point(point[],float)

at the end of main.h is missing a semicolon.

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package io.aif.language.sentence.separators.classificators;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.OptionalInt;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.function.Function;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;

class StatSeparatorGroupsClassifier implements ISeparatorGroupsClassifier {

  @Override
  public Map<Group, Set<Character>> classify(final List<String> tokens,
                                             final List<Set<Character>> separatorsGroups) {
    final Map<Group, Set<Character>> result = new HashMap<>();

    if (separatorsGroups.size() <= 1) {
      if (separatorsGroups.size() == 0) {
        result.put(Group.GROUP_1, new HashSet<>());
      } else {
        result.put(Group.GROUP_1, separatorsGroups.get(0));
      }
      result.put(Group.GROUP_2, new HashSet<>());
      return result;
    }

    final List<Integer> mapTokensToGroups = mapTokensToGroups(tokens, separatorsGroups);

    final Map<Integer, Map<Character, Integer>> connections = new HashMap<>();
    for (int i = 0; i < separatorsGroups.size() + 1; i++) {
      connections.put(i, new HashMap<>());
    }

    for (int i = 1; i < tokens.size(); i++) {
      final int group = mapTokensToGroups.get(i - 1);
      final Character ch = tokens.get(i).charAt(0);
      if (!connections.get(group).keySet().contains(ch)) {
        connections.get(group).put(ch, 0);
      }
      final int count = connections.get(group).get(ch);
      connections.get(group).put(ch, count + 1);
    }

    final Function<Map<Character, Integer>, Map<Character, Double>> mapper = map -> {
      final OptionalInt max = map.entrySet().stream().mapToInt(Map.Entry::getValue).max();
      if (max.isPresent()) {
        return map.entrySet()
          .stream()
          .collect(Collectors.toMap(Map.Entry::getKey, e -> e.getValue() / (double) max.getAsInt()));
      }
      return Collections.emptyMap();
    };

    final Function<Map<Character, Double>, Map<Character, Double>> filter = map -> {
      final Map<Character, Double> filteredResults = new HashMap<>();

      final List<Map.Entry<Character, Double>> list = map.entrySet()
        .stream()
        .sorted(Comparator.comparing(Map.Entry::getValue))
        .collect(Collectors.toList());

      for (int i = (int) ((double) list.size() * .7); i < list.size(); i++) {
        filteredResults.put(list.get(i).getKey(), list.get(i).getValue());
      }

      return filteredResults;
    };

    final Map<Integer, Map<Character, Double>> convertedGroupsMap = connections.entrySet()
      .stream()
      .collect(Collectors.toMap(Map.Entry::getKey, e -> mapper.andThen(filter).apply(e.getValue())));

    final List<Double> p = new ArrayList<>();
    for (int i = 0; i < separatorsGroups.size(); i++) {
      p.add(distance(convertedGroupsMap.get(i + 1), convertedGroupsMap.get(0)));
    }

    double max = p.stream().mapToDouble(i -> i).max().getAsDouble();

    result.put(Group.GROUP_1, new HashSet<>());
    result.put(Group.GROUP_2, new HashSet<>());

    for (int i = 0; i < p.size(); i++) {
      if (p.get(i) == max) {
        result.get(Group.GROUP_2).addAll(separatorsGroups.get(i));
      } else {
        result.get(Group.GROUP_1).addAll(separatorsGroups.get(i));
      }
    }

    return result;
  }

  private double distance(final Map<Character, Double> from, final Map<Character, Double> to) {
    return from.keySet()
      .stream()
      .filter(to::containsKey)
      .mapToDouble(key -> (from.get(key) + to.get(key)) / 2.)
      .average()
      .orElse(.0);
  }

  private List<Integer> mapTokensToGroups(final List<String> tokens,
                                          final List<Set<Character>> separatorsGroups) {
    return tokens
      .stream()
      .map(
        token -> {
          if (token.isEmpty()) return 0;
          for (Integer i = 0; i < separatorsGroups.size(); i++) {
            final Set<Character> separatorGroup = separatorsGroups.get(i);
            if (separatorGroup.contains(token.charAt(0))) {
              return i + 1;
            }
            if (separatorGroup.contains(token.charAt(token.length() - 1))) {
              return i + 1;
            }
          }
          return 0;
        }
      ).collect(Collectors.toList());
  }

}

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Childcare is one of the key issues faced by families across the country. Finding the right childcare which is affordable is becoming increasingly difficult. As the Easter holidays start as well as the official launch of election campaign season, many families will be feeling the financial and time pressures that childcare involves. Sarah Jackson, chief executive of Working Families has addressed the issue of modern family life in the following article that was first published in Flexible Boss Magazine, March 2015.
"The Modern Families Index, published recently by Working Families and Bright Horizons, highlights the importance families place on dependable childcare and that women in particular are having to think carefully as they consider promotion opportunities because of childcare issues.
Young fathers are becoming increasingly involved in caring for their children and more than half (52%) drop their children at school every day or most of the time. But being more hands-on is proving difficult at work, where the culture is often out of sync with fathers' aspirations for family life.
We found that time off for family reasons and discussing family at work is increasingly acceptable for fathers, and more feel confident doing it. But discussing workload and putting boundaries upon work is something fewer men are confident about.
Family is parents' highest priority, and policy-makers and employers need to recognise that working with the grain of parents' values is likely to create happier, more effective employees. Parents are putting in extra time at work just to get the job done due to a combination of work pressure, jobs growing too large to be done within 'normal' hours, and a workplace culture that values presenteeism and long hours.
Work stress is significant and not abating, and the negative results often spill over into both family life and back into the workplace. Forty-one per cent of parents said that work life is becoming increasingly stressful.
Work is also affecting physical health. At a time when public health policy is focusing on improving wellbeing and diet, it is eroding the time parents have to make healthy choices, such as exercising or cooking properly. We believe working arrangements need to be configured to support working families in leading healthy lifestyles, not impinge on their time to live healthily.
The report also shows mixed attitudes emerging towards Shared Parental Leave (SPL). Parents favour more equality in caring responsibilities, but there are also strong gendered beliefs about the importance of the role of the mother. In addition, two in five parents anticipate that they will become a carer in the next 10 years.
Getting work right for parents and families is essential. Not only must it pay well enough to support family life, but it also needs to be alive to the realities of parents' responsibilities outside of the workplace. The growth and spread of flexible working and enhancements to parental leave arrangements show many employers (and the government) are trying to tailor practices to fit in with employees' lives. But some parents do not have a full range of flexible options available to them and substantial obstacles remain: workplace cultures that still implicitly encourage longer hours; negative perceptions of flexible working and career (and income) progression; and a lack of affordable, available and appropriate childcare.


In the age of digital streaming music, entire discographies are at your fingertips but the concept of the rarity is on its last legs. The End of Scarcity is a feature that attempts to spotlight the deep cuts from big names that can't be found on Spotify or bought on iTunes. Demos, B-Sides, Covers, whatever — things that require a close searching. Today: Elliott Smith.
Elliott Smith had a lot of early demos and recordings, indicating a writer that was also a meticulous editor. Those early drafts eventually saw publication on the posthumous 2007 release New Moon, along with other loose unpublished works. As a result, there aren't that many purely unreleased Elliott Smith songs out there anymore.
One of the few is "I Figured You Out," a song that is captured only in a live performance from February 2000. Smith would eventually ditch this song for sounding "too much like The Eagles," but it's still one of his best. The guitar work, in particular, captures everything that was magical about his acoustic picking.
It's a nice, neat little circle.


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Christopher Lydon
American media personality
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Roxbury Latin School
journalist, author, broadcaster
Christopher Lydon (born 1940 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American media personality and author. He is best known for being the original host of The Connection, produced by WBUR and syndicated to other NPR stations, and for Open Source, a weekly radio program on WBUR.
2 Journalistic history
4 Cultural references
Christopher Lydon is a graduate of Boston's Roxbury Latin School and Yale University.
Journalistic history[edit]
Lydon is a former journalist with The New York Times, and anchored The Ten-O'Clock News on WGBH in Boston, Massachusetts. After WGBH cancelled its nightly news program, he moved to WBUR, where in 1994 he became host of The Connection. In 2001, he and his longtime producer Mary McGrath were fired after a high-profile contract dispute with WBUR. McGrath's and Lydon's claim, rejected by the station, was that they, not WBUR, were the true creators of The Connection - moving it far beyond the initial WBUR template to become the successful, widely syndicated program.[1]
During his tenure on The Connection, Lydon frequently discussed Internet topics, and his Radio Open Source blog[2] became a launchpad for international broadcasts and other activities. While a fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society in 2003, Lydon began recording in-depth interviews focused on blogging and politics, posting the downloadable audio files as part of his blog. Dave Winer, also a Berkman Fellow, created an RSS enclosure feed for Lydon's MP3 interview files, an event credited with sparking the growth of podcasting.[3] .[4]
Christopher Lydon is credited with creating the first podcast ever recorded in July 2003.[5]
He also launched the political site Bopnews (for "Blogging of the President") during the 2004 U.S. presidential campaign.[6] [7]
On May 30, 2005, Lydon returned to the air on University of Massachusetts Lowell's radio station WUML and Boston's WGBH with a new show called Open Source, syndicated through Public Radio International. Including a blog and podcast, the program promised to "use blogs to be a show about the world." On October 16, 2006, the Lowell, Massachusetts newspaper The Sun announced that "Radio personality Christopher Lydon's lucrative and controversial contract with UMass Lowell to broadcast an hourlong radio show will not be renewed when it expires in December."[8] Upon notice of the UMass Lowell discontinuance, Lydon began actively seeking new funders for the program. In November 2007, Lydon partnered with Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies to continue producing Radio Open Source.[9]
In 2013, Lydon was often a guest commentator on Thursdays on WGBH Radio's "Boston Public Radio" show.[10] In 2014, Lydon returned to WBUR with a weekly radio program, Open Source.[11]
Politics[edit]
Lydon was a candidate for mayor of Boston in 1993. He finished sixth out of eight candidates in the nonpartisan primary.[12]
Cultural references[edit]
Lydon is the subject of an eponymous song by the Boston duo The Dresden Dolls.[13]
^ Dan Kennedy (2009-03-06). "RADIO DRAMAS: Can this marriage be saved?". The Phoenix. Archived from the original on 2006-06-29.
^ "Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon".
^ Walsh, Colleen (2011-10-27). "The podcast revolution: Two Berkman fellows helped to make it happen". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved 2013-03-07.
^ Doyle, Bob. "Chris Lydon - The First Podcast". Retrieved 2013-03-07.
^ "Web 2.0: First Show!". Retrieved 2015-08-15.
^ "The Blogging of the President". Archived from the original on August 10, 2006. Retrieved 2005-03-29. CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
^ "The Blogging of the President: 2004". Minnesota Public Radio. Archived from the original on 2012-10-22.
^ Robert Mills, Sun Staff (2006-10-16). "U-Mass Lowell drops Lydon". The Sun (Lowell). Archived from the original on 2006-10-26.
^ "Launching 'Open Source at the Watson Institute'". Watson Institute for International Studies. 2007-11-19.
^ "Boston Public Radio - WGBH News". Archived from the original on 2013-08-06.
^ Ed Siegel (2013-10-20). "Open Source".
^ "Annual Report of the Election Department". Boston (MA) Election Department. 1994-07-01.
^ Amanda Palmer (2002). "The Dresden Dolls - Lyrics". The Dresden Dolls. Archived from the original on 2005-03-05.
Radio Open Source
Christopher Lydon Interviews...
Kennedy, Dan (March 2005). "Lydon returns: A true original's long exile finally comes to an end — but not without complications or controversy". The Boston Phoenix. Archived from the original on 2013-01-29. Retrieved 2013-03-07.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christopher_Lydon&oldid=894945675"
American bloggers
American talk radio hosts
Berkman Fellows
People from Boston
Roxbury Latin School alumni


Dream Catcher, handmade wood web art with waxing and waning lunar cycle represented by geometric silhouettes.
This is a handmade dream catcher or Woodland Web is made of locally sourced wood. It has gold and royal blue, geometric silhouettes representing the waxing and waning lunar phases.


A reader in Kentucky gives daily thanks for the Web. Without it, he writes, he would have no clue what's going on in the WNBA.
On one hand, I understand the league's struggle for television coverage.
ESPN/ABC aren't the most agreeable partners and need ratings to attract advertisers to make money. They sneak a few broadcasts underneath their NBA deal and the ESPN2 Tuesday night lineup is a treat.
But remember when the league had a WNBA Pass? They say not enough of us signed on, so it was axed. Now, only New York has consistent coverage through Madison Square Garden's own broadcast.
The Storm will put this week's final two home games on the tube via FSN.
While I'm happy about the addition of games, it's still whacky. My new friend in Kentucky wouldn't be able to see the game anyway and it does help another reader in Bellingham, who usually can't make it to KeyArena, but won't the majority of the people interested in the game be at the arena?


Nick goes to collect conkers from Cottar's Yard and finds a half starved dog chained up there. He leaves with the conkers but decides to rescue the dog later. Then Nick's gran uses her "conker magic" to help him become conker champion of Jubilee Park and he is rewarded with a special surprise.


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    private static final long serialVersionUID = -1L;

	@Element(name = "RequiredSellerAction")
	private List<RequiredSellerActionCodeType> requiredSellerAction;

	/**
     * public getter
     *
     *
     * This field contains a possible action that a seller can take to expedite the
     * release of a payment hold. There can be zero or more RequiredSellerAction fields
     * in the RequiredSellerActionArray container.
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     *
     * @returns java.util.List<ebay.apis.eblbasecomponents.RequiredSellerActionCodeType>
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	public List<RequiredSellerActionCodeType> getRequiredSellerAction() {
	    return this.requiredSellerAction;
	}

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     * This field contains a possible action that a seller can take to expedite the
     * release of a payment hold. There can be zero or more RequiredSellerAction fields
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	    this.requiredSellerAction = requiredSellerAction;
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This clump forming, color-morphing super showy Cordyline offers a new world of possibilities for adding size, presence, visual contrast and year-round drama to dry or succulent gardens andcontainers!Unlike most Cordylines that look like miniature tropical trees on a skinny trunk, this captivating cultivar has a 3-4' mounding form with variegated 1" wide weeping strappy foliagethat starts cocoa brown striped with pinky apricot and changes as it matures to chartreuse striped with buttery yellow. Constant new growth insures that all colors are present at the same time! Long weeping foliage reaches to the ground and obscures the short trunk almost entirely. Can be grown in full sun or part shade (in hottest areas) with only occasional water once fully established but does require well-draining soil. Evergreen in mild Winter areas, best in a container that can be move to a protected spot in colder climes.


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Artwork Collection
Ranked and Rated
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Four horror and science fiction segments, directed by four famous directors, each of them being a new version of a classic story from Rod Serling's landmark television series.
Combined Rating:
Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
Joe Dante, John Landis, George Miller
John Landis, George Clayton Johnson, Richard Matheson
Main Stars:
Dan Aykroyd as
Albert Brooks as
Scatman Crothers as
John Lithgow as
Vic Morrow as
Kathleen Quinlan as
Charles Hallahan as
Doug McGrath as
Murray Matheson as
RT Critics Rating:
RT Users Rating:
Letterboxd Rating:
Metacritic Rating:
Worldwide Gross:
Profit / Loss:
1 win & 8 nominations
Prologue: a driver has a big surprise with his passenger. Segment 1 ("Time Out"): a bigot hates Jews, Black and Asians. One day he will live in World War II, be hunted down by the KKK and get attacked in the Vietnam War and feel the effects of his hatred. Segment 2 ("Kick the Can"): In a nursing home, the elder inhabitants learn that their minds can keep them young. Segment 3 ("It's a Good Life"): a traveler hits a boy in a bicycle with her car and takes the boy home. Soon she learns that the powerful boy brought her home indeed. Segment 4 ("Nightmare at 20,000 feet"): a writer is scared to fly and soon he sees a monstrous creature destroying the airplane engines during a stormy night.
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Q: How to filter data on datatables using the filer API I want to filter the data on my data tables using the filter() API as described in the docs. The filtering works in terms that the data is filtered, but I am not finding a way to update the table with the filtered data. I want all employees with age less or equal to 40
My HTML code:

            Name
            Position
            Office
            Age
            Start date
            Salary

            Tiger Nixon
            System Architect
            Edinburgh
            24
            2011/04/25
            $320,800

            Garrett Winters
            Accountant
            Tokyo
            63
            2011/07/25
            $170,750

            Ashton Cox
            Junior Technical Author
            San Francisco
            40
            2009/01/12
            $86,000

            Cedric Kelly
            Senior Javascript Developer
            Edinburgh
            22
            2012/03/29
            $433,060

            Airi Satou
            Accountant
            Tokyo
            33
            2008/11/28
            $162,700

            Brielle Williamson
            Integration Specialist
            New York
            61
            2012/12/02
            $372,000

            Tiger Nixon
            System Architect
            Edinburgh
            64
            2011/04/25
            $320,800

            Herrod Chandler
            Sales Assistant
            San Francisco
            59
            2012/08/06
            $137,500

            Name
            Position
            Office
            Age
            Start date
            Salary

My JavaScript (I am using Jquery):
$(document).ready( function () {
let table = $('#myTable').DataTable();

    $('#filterTable').click(function () {

      let filteredData = table
        .column(3)
        .data()
        .filter(function (value) {
            return value <= 40;
      });
});

});

A: Because Datatables  filter()

... uses of the fact that DataTables API objects are
"array like", in that they inherit a lot of the abilities and methods
of the Javascript Array type.

...but I am not finding a way to update the table with the filtered
data.

In order to update the table with filtered values I suggest to add a .search() of found values with a final .draw().
table.column(3).search(filteredData.join('|'),true, false).draw();

The snippet:

let table = $('#myTable').DataTable();

$('#filterTable').click(function () {

  let filteredData = table
          .column(3)
          .data()
          .filter(function (value) {
              return value <= 40;
          });

  // next line added...............
  table.column(3).search(filteredData.join('|'),true, false).draw();
});

<link rel="stylesheet" href="//cdn.datatables.net/1.10.23/css/jquery.dataTables.min.css">

<button id="filterTable">filterTable</button>

        Name
        Position
        Office
        Age
        Start date
        Salary

        Tiger Nixon
        System Architect
        Edinburgh
        24
        2011/04/25
        $320,800

        Garrett Winters
        Accountant
        Tokyo
        63
        2011/07/25
        $170,750

        Ashton Cox
        Junior Technical Author
        San Francisco
        40
        2009/01/12
        $86,000

        Cedric Kelly
        Senior Javascript Developer
        Edinburgh
        22
        2012/03/29
        $433,060

        Airi Satou
        Accountant
        Tokyo
        33
        2008/11/28
        $162,700

        Brielle Williamson
        Integration Specialist
        New York
        61
        2012/12/02
        $372,000

        Tiger Nixon
        System Architect
        Edinburgh
        64
        2011/04/25
        $320,800

        Herrod Chandler
        Sales Assistant
        San Francisco
        59
        2012/08/06
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Why Superyacht Owners Can Finally Anchor—and Charter—in Costa Rica
A change in the nation's regulatory law means the Central American hot spot is more accessible than ever to yacht travelers.
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Some memorable things you learn on your first trip to Costa Rica: First, howler monkeys in the jungle scream louder than roller coaster riders at theme parks. Next, you can absolutely scuba dive in a shark cave, as long as you don't mind sharks brushing against your body. And last, when barreling down a Class-4 rapid and the guide yells "Down!", duck into the middle of the raft—fast.
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I learned these vital facts several years ago, as a guest on a yacht passing through the country, known for its rain forests, white beaches, sportfishing, wildlife and adventure sports. Back then, that was pretty much the only way someone could vacation in Costa Rica by yacht; legal restrictions made traditional seasonal yacht charter all but impossible.
But things are about to get much better for visitors. In April, Costa Rica's lawmakers fixed the regulatory issue after extensive lobbying by Marina Pez Vela managing director Jeff Duchesneau, superyacht company Fraser and others. Yachts 79 feet and longer can now charter legally in Costa Rica's waters for a year, which allows them to move in and out on a seasonal basis as they do in the Med and the Caribbean.
The Marina Pez Vela in Costa Rica. Marina Pez Vela
"We're going to see so many more boats heading to Costa Rica," says Fraser charter broker Katy Carter, who received early inquiries from clients seeking more adventurous destinations. "Maybe the family's scuba-certified and wants to dive with hammerhead sharks or surf with a great tender and mothership. These people want to see waterfalls and hike jungles."
A monkey spotted in a Costa Rican jungle. Adobe Stock
The process to implement the new regulations is already underway, with completion expected this month. "By January and February, when the majority of megayachts are coming in, everything should be sorted," says Duchesneau, who is also president of the Costa Rica Marine Trades Association. "Last year, before the law passed, we had 53 superyachts. For 2022, we're expecting that number to push the 100 mark."
By signaling a desire to move their boats to Costa Rica, yacht owners are trying to persuade charter clients to book early. Offerings from Burgess, Camper & Nicholsons and Fraser Yachts include the 180-foot Lady Michelle, 197-foot Ramble On Rose and 177-foot Bella, all of which will provide luxurious respite after a day of adventure.
The beach club on-board the Ramble on Rose superyacht for charter. Burgess Yachts
Chartering the 183-foot Baba's, a 2020 launch from Hargrave Custom Yachts, includes use of its 42-foot Hydra-Sports tender. "You can fish and explore in the tender and then come home to Armani fabrics and hand-carved wood panels and a hot tub with an overflow to a shallow pool," Carter says. "There's an elevator and a beach club with exercise equipment. There's a steam room. It doesn't get better than that."
For anglers, though, it actually might get better. Both coasts offer strong seasonal sportfishing, but on the Pacific side, marlin, sailfish, tuna and a dozen other species are considered world-class for both blue-water and flats fishing. "Our local charter fleets have a dozen of the world's best fishing boats, including 50-footers," Duchesneau says, adding that the passage of a single law could have a wider ripple effect. "I'm hoping Costa Rica not only becomes the next great charter destination, but the spark that ignites the entire Pacific charter market."
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Le Petit Vapoteur est une entreprise spécialisée dans la vente de cigarettes électroniques et de liquides à vapoter créée en 2010 par Olivier Drean et Tanguy Gréard. Elle regroupe un site de vente en ligne et un réseau de boutiques physiques.

Le Petit Vapoteur est le leader français de la vente en ligne de cigarettes électroniques.

Historique
L'entreprise indépendante de l'industrie du tabac devient une SARL en 2012.

En 2013, elle ouvre en propre sa toute première boutique à Cherbourg et crée ses gammes de produits dédiés au DIY (Do It Yourself) en 2015.

En 2017, elle est la deuxième entreprise connaissant la plus forte croissance européenne d'après le classement de Inc Europe.

En , Le Petit Vapoteur installe son nouveau siège social dans un entrepôt situé au 325C rue de Sauxmarais à Cherbourg-en-Cotentin. L'ancien bâtiment, situé 135 rue des Entreprises est désormais uniquement consacré à la production de liquides à vapoter.

Le 23 novembre 2018, elle lance son premier Black Fairday. À contre-courant du Black Friday, le Black Fairday est une journée durant laquelle chaque euro dépensé sur le site est intégralement reversé à plusieurs associations. En 2018, 200 000€ leur ont ainsi été octroyés. Lors du Black Fairday 2020, 365 344€ sont mobilisés au bénéfice des Restaurants du Cœur, la SPA, Mécénat Chirurgie Cardiaque, La Chaîne de l'espoir, Sourire d'Enfant, Cetasea et Planète Urgence. Il s'agit de 90 000 € de plus qu'en 2019 (276 746€). Au total, cette opération solidaire a permis de récolter 500 000€.

En juillet, Le Petit Vapoteur se classe  dans le Top 100 des sites de vente en ligne français selon un rapport publié par E-commerce Nation et SimilarWeb.

Début 2021, l'entreprise commence une activité de grossiste via sa nouvelle entité "LPV Pro" qui s'adresse à tous professionnels de la cigarette électronique.

En 2022, elle compte implanter 50 boutiques.

2020 en chiffres
Avec un chiffre d'affaires de 82 500 000 €, plus de 1 000 000 de clients et 6500 commandes par jour, l'année 2020 a été marquée par une croissance de 19% du chiffre d'affaires global.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Karl Rumelhart Talks about VMWare, Spring, and PaaS
Karl Rumelhart Talks about VMWare, Spring, and PaaS
Karl Rumelhart has been with VMware since 2003 and is currently Group Product Manager for Application Services. Karl was the originating product manager for many core VMware technologies including the VMware Virtual Infrastructure SDK and VMware DRS, and served as the lead product manager for VirtualCenter.
SpringOne 2GX is an annual event; it includes a technical exploration of the Spring ecosystem along with the latest developments in the Groovy/Grails space. As a participant, you will have the opportunity to attend two great events at one venue. Whether you're a Spring enthusiast, Tomcat user, Groovy/Grails fan, or just interested in open source development, you'll find valuable content in sessions presented here.
1. My name is Ryan Slobojan and I am here with Karl Rumelhart the director of Product Management at VMware. Karl, what is the cloud?
What is cloud? I think it's important to start with talking about cloud by making a distinction that really cloud can appear in two contexts: one is cloud as an architecture and the other one is cloud as a destination. So when we talk about cloud as an architecture, cloud is something that can very much be present inside an enterprise and we might call that an internal cloud, and then of course we talk about cloud as being on the cloud as in a destination.
And so just to hear what we mean by, what I mean at least by cloud as an architecture, I mean that if you have an infrastructure platform, to virtualize such a platform such as VMware offers, that has a lot of value operationally but in a typical or a traditional deployment that is not accessible directly by the consumers of that infrastructure, often developers. So the developer doesn't have direct access. But in a cloud architecture you enable self service, so that the benefits of that dynamic and virtualized infrastructure becomes directly accessible by the consumers, so that's something that is an important step technologically, it's an important step in the way we think about architectures and it applies in data centers everywhere.
We also talk about cloud as a destination, we think about cloud as a destination it's the idea of course that we are familiar with nowadays I am going on in the cloud, I am consuming, my capacity in a rental manner or through a scheme where somebody else controls it. It is important to talk about that and not talk about the cloud as one place, in fact we believe strongly that there should be many clouds compatible with each other, but they should be available from different organizations, different providers.
2. What are the asserted VMware offerings and how did they fit together?
VMware 's core foundational offering is called vSphere. vSphere is full infrastructure virtualization, I like to think about it as a foundation for the cloud but it is very widely deployed across organizations, globally a super successful product that incorporates many of the technologies VMware is known for: VMware ESX, vCenter all the VMotion, DRS distributed resource scheduling technologies and so on and so on. So this is a core foundation, is as I said used very broadly.
So vSphere as a foundation and there are a couple of directions that you can go from there. One thing that VMware offers is a large collection of what are called vCenter management solutions so there are quite a number of these solutions that really form a nice management portfolio that complements the vSphere foundation. Another important direction for us is view technology, so VMware view is our desktop oriented set of solutions, and we have a whole outstanding group of technologies under the heading view which builds again on the vSphere foundation and then I should mention vCloud which is again what you can imagine taking the vSphere foundation and really enabling cloud infrastructure, cloud built out of that foundation, either for internal use or more importantly through eco-system of vCloud partners or providers that offer vCloud services which are again ultimately built out of the vSphere foundation and leveraging the vCloud technology along with it.
3. There has been a gradual move towards open source in VMware . How will this trend continue?
Of course with our recent acquisition of SpringSource, we have the opportunity to work with people who are no more about open source so much as anyone, so we clearly have a strong commitment to that, it's very important to emphasize our absolute commitment to continuing the open source technologies, that SpringSource works with, continuing to emphasize that and make it even better than it has been before. So it's a huge part of what we care about with SpringSource and the rest of us we have the opportunity to learn from these experts in open source and no doubt will have its impact across the company but right now our focus is on integration of SpringSource company and open source technology to support them.
4. How do you see SpringSource fitting into the VMware product line?
Ok great. One thing that is very important to be clear about is that SpringSource is successful, ongoing big business and has strong products that are continuing to grow; so a really important thing about our work with SpringSource is that we will all work towards continuing that direction so no big changes or sudden moves away from the strategy that SpringSource has been pursuing. But we think that there are opportunities to get more out of the overall combined set of technology in particular we think that the more you know about applications the better a job you can do providing infrastructure applications, and SpringSource obviously being deep in frameworks, having a great understanding of the way applications are built and run, and managed, we can use that information to do interesting things across the infrastructure.
Another way to talk about this is to think about it as an emerging platform as a service. We have talked about the idea of the cloud architecture with emphasis on the infrastructure cloud, it could be internal, it could be in a public cloud but we could imagine taking that to the next level, by leveraging the infrastructure technology that VMware has traditionally provided together with the application tier technology and all the great frameworks runtimes, major technologies that SpringSource has and bringing this together in the form as platform as a service technology that can be deployed flexibly inside an enterprise or in a public cloud.
5. So what are the pros and cons of the platform as a service approach and the infrastructure as a service approach?
I wouldn't say that we should really contrast them and suggest that it's a choice between one and the other; I mean infrastructure as a service is extremely important foundation and platform as a service leveraging infrastructure as a service underneath. So in some sense they come naturally together, and having said that infrastructure as a service is of course broad, you can put anything on virtualized infrastructure, you can put vSphere technology or anything whereas making certain assumption about the application when you talk about setting up an application platform as a service. So I think both have their place and we'll see both of them in great use going forward.
6. One of the things which has limited some platform as a service offerings that have been put forward recently is that they tend to be a very constrained programming model, so what are your thoughts on that? Does it have to be this way?
That is a good question I don't think it has to be a particularly constrained programming model I mean you are working with frameworks that people want to use you are talking about the most popular frameworks in the world that's not a very constrained programming model. I really think that you have the opportunity to be open and flexible in what you offer through the platform as a service model so I can see where it's coming from but it's a little false choice to say "Well you either get efficiency but you trade off… you put yourself in a box in order to get there".
There is some truth in that and you may need it, it might be important in some cases, but I wouldn't necessarily say that you would have to become extremely narrow to be successful.
Karl Rumelhart
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We are proud to announce our BPM Suite FireStart overall winner of the Tool Masters 2017 in Vienna. The BPM solution convinced the participants and performed particularly successful in the categories process modelling, process automation, process monitoring and usability.
Since the first event in 2011, the BPM Tool Masters is an established name in the European Business Process Management community. At the Tool Masters, well-known vendors of BPM tools give a live demo of their solution. What is special about the Tool Masters is the scoring system – the points are not awarded by an expert jury but by expert users. This way tool assessment is conducted by those who will work with it in the end, which is a high accolade for the overall winner.
Being an effective solution combining professional process planning, intelligent workflow automation, and in-depth process analysis, FireStart managed to capture the visitors' interest.
The 4th Tool Masters was organized by the Society for Process Management and the Institute for Information Business of the Vienna University of Economics and Business. The awards were presented by Professor Dr. Jan Mendling from the Vienna University of Economics and Business. The next Tool Masters will take place in February 2018.


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International Architecture in Interwar Japan
Constructing Kokusai Kenchiku
By Ken Tadashi Oshima
SUBJECT LISTING: Middle East Studies, Architecture
BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: 320 Pages, 8 x 9 in, 220 illus., 20 in color
After World War I, architects around the world aspired to transcend national boundaries that had been devastated by conflicts. The result was a flurry of artistic creativity. In Japan, young architects strove to create an "international architecture," or kokusai kenchiku, an expression of increasing international travel and communication, growth of the mass media, and technological innovation.
Ken Tadashi Oshima traces the many interconnections among Japanese, European, and American architects and their work during the interwar years by examining the careers and designs of three leading modernists in Japan: Yamada Mamoru (1894-1966), Horiguchi Sutemi (1895-1984), and Antonin Raymond (1888-1976). Each espoused a new architecture that encompassed modern forms and new materials, and all attempted to synthesize the novel with the old in distinctive ways. Combining wood and concrete, paper screens and sliding/swinging glass doors, tatami rooms and Western-style chairs, they achieved an innovative merging of international modernism and traditional Japanese practices. Their buildings accommodated the demands of modern living while remaining appropriate to Japan's climate, culture, and economy.
Until now, scholars have tended to isolate the work of Japanese architects from the European-American sphere of influence. Oshima reverses this trend, exploring the influences that flowed in multiple directions among architects in Japan and their counterparts in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, and elsewhere.
Sadly, few of the buildings of Japan's interwar period withstood the destruction of World War II and the wrecking balls of subsequent decades of development. Oshima uses a wealth of photographs to vividly capture the character of the burgeoning architectural media of those years and to generously illustrate the works and visions of these pioneering modernists.
Ken Tadashi Oshima is associate professor of architecture at the University of Washington.
Color Plates
Chapter One: International Architecture in Japan
Chapter Two: Constructions of Practice
Chapter Three: Structures for Modern Living
Chapter Four: Buildings for Modern Infrastructure
Appendix 1: List of Architects and Other Major Figures
Appendix 2: Building Data
The great strength of this book is its fascinating and compelling examination of a short but fertile moment in architecture history through the multiple lenses of Horiguchi, Yamada, and Raymond . . . a long overdue study of the germinal stage of modernism in Japan.
- Alice Y. Tseng, CAA reviews
A welcome addition to the literature on modernism in Japanese architecture. Oshima focuses on three of the most important professionals engaged in the shaping of a new culture that articulates patterns from Japanese culture and new forms invented in the West.
- Jean—Louis Cohen, New York University Institute of Fine Arts
A well—researched book dealing with an especially creative period in the history of modern Japanese architecture. International Architecture in Interwar Japan is particularly effective at exploring the relationship between Japanese architecture and contemporary developments elsewhere in the world.
- Jonathan Reynolds, Barnard College
Japan's dramatic rise to international architectural prominence after the Second World War is well known, but the roots of that creative burst—- ideologically, stylistically and socially—- in the work of a handful of practitioners who negotiated the complex terrain of national tradition and modernization are little studied. Ken Oshima's focus on three figures whose works are central—- but most of whose buildings have been lost—- is an eye—opener. A richer understanding of Japan's place in twentieth—century architectural history emerges from each of the subtle analyses offered of major designs lost or lost to critical scrutiny until now.
- Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art
Anyone who has followed the evolution of architecture in the first half of the twentieth century will have long been aware of the fertile Japanese contribution. However, until this brilliant study of three of its most prominent, pioneering practitioners, we have not only lacked sufficient documentation but also any kind of comprehensive analysis that does justice to the richness and rigor of these architects: Sutemi Horiguchi, Mamaru Yamada and the émigré Czech—American Antonin Raymond, whose unique contribution in the interwar years in Japan was to be fully integrated into the local architectural culture. What Ken Oshima demonstrates is that far from being a reductive abstract manner solely dependent on foreign models, this Japanese 'international style' yielded a regionally inflected, modern architecture that was particularly appropriate to the modernization of Japan. This is a seminal work, to be valued as much for its relevance to Japanese cultural studies as for the important contribution it makes to the history of modern architecture as a whole.
- Kenneth Frampton, Ware Professor of Architecture, Columbia University
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When I think of equality and what that means to me, it's something very simple. Equal opportunities for all, you should not have your future dictated for you before you've even learned to walk and talk simply because of your race, gender, social status or the location in which you're born. Those things are all out of your control, no one chooses to be born a certain colour skin or in a particular part of the world (or do they? Who knows on a spiritual level if we have any say or not), so why would someone born into a better situation than someone else have the right to a better life?
In my opinion, the answer is very simple, they don't.
Everyone should be given the same opportunities to better themselves in life, the game of life should be decided on talent, not status. Some of the most stupid people I have ever met end up in positions of power or influence, simply because they were born into the right families, while on the other hand, there will be people of extreme intelligence and wisdom working out in fields somewhere in Africa, who would make considerably better leaders and influencers than we have today. I mean just take a look at the houses of parliament in the UK or congress in America, hardly much intelligence going on there is there? Yet they snigger and look down on those below them when really they're only there because they know the right people. Very few, if any people come into politics have much in terms of brain power going on, if they did then they wouldn't last too long in their current form.
Anyway, to get back to equality, equality of opportunity is a great idea, where the activists and campaigners lose me is when they talk about equality of outcome. Now unlike my outlook where people get the same opportunities but are free to make their own choices, equality of outcome would go one step further and ensure that in every job, discipline etc each demographic of people is represented equally, now for simplicity we'll stick with men and women as the two parties here, and by that, I mean biological men and women, because after all, whatever nonsense we may be pumped with from the media, there are still only TWO genders. (I know, I'm a transphobic bigot whose solely responsible for climate change).
Men and women are not only biologically different, but they're also very socially different. Historically men did the more manual jobs, simply because on the whole men are physically stronger than women, and therefore were better at that kind of work. I don't see many female bricklayers, binmen, scaffolders and so on, do you? And women were/are more in people-related jobs, where interaction is key, things like teaching and nursing for example. My wife is a former primary school teacher, and she used to tell me about the stigma that was attached to young male teachers in primary schools. It has become something almost frowned upon, yet if that was the other way around then all of sudden there would be a national enquiry, so that is hardly fair is it?
Psychologist Jordan Peterson has spoken heavily on this subject and has highlighted on a number of occasions some very key points, one being that if you leave men and women to sort themselves out into their professions, without any outside influence and social pressure then they will choose completely different paths. This idea that our society is still male-dominated is a complete farce, something very dangerous to be telling young women, and also a horrible slur to place onto young men.
Men should not be asked to apologise or be scared to stand up and be men because of fears they'll be accused of being toxic etc,. In my opinion being a man comes with great responsibility, the responsibility to stand up and protect those you love, fight if required for truth and justice, and also to provide for your family. (I am old school like this, I said to my wife when we have kids if you want to work then great, but I don't want you to have to if you want to stay at home for 10 years and raise our kids, I want to be able to support us to allow that).
This brings me to another point, 50 years ago, generally, only the man of the house worked, and they earned enough to pay for their family. Now take gender away for a second, in 90% of cases, both the man and the woman now have to work to earn enough to live, the cost of living has gone up so much, while wages haven't, it's put so many families in the position where they simply have to work, they have to send their kids off to nursery or rely on grandparents to help out so they can earn some money which is needed to support the family. From the establishment's perspective, this is great, they get to tax both sexes don't they, we demanded this, so we can't even blame them.
Equality in its true form is a great thing, I mean who wouldn't want to pick from the best possible talent available, for any given environment? It's madness to not want that in my opinion, but the world we're heading to is far from equal, it's one where certain groups hold more status than others, groups are expected to apologise and hang their heads in shame for the actions of people years ago, and of course, the worse thing you can ever be is a straight, white man (closely followed now by straight white women, ironic eh?).
That is not equality, it's social control, and something I am not willing to accept.
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Bay Area Writing Project in partnership with UC Berkeley.
All sessions will focus on deepening writing instruction through the use of technology in order to meet the Common Core writing standards.
This event will take place in rooms 2319 and 2326 in Tolman Hall on the UC Berkeley campus from 8:45 to 12:00 on April 19.
Google Docs is here to stay! What is google doc? Why should I or my students use google doc? What are the benefits? These questions and many more will be answered in this introductory workshop on google docs. In this workshop you will have the chance to explore and learn about the components that make up google docs, by using it. You will be writing, peer editing, sharing your work and more.
Marna Blanchard teaches 8th grade Humanities and a media class at Francisco Middle School in San Francisco. In addition, she also teaches at the Young Writers Camp for digital storytelling here in the Bay Area, as well as similar workshops in Seoul, Korea and recently in Singapore. Marna is a frequent contributor to the Digital Paper, an online publication featuring the work of teacher writers.
This hands-on workshop will introduce teachers to the online collaborative text annotation platform, Rap Genius. Initially developed for fans of hip hop music to annotate lyrics and debate meanings of their favorite songs, Rap Genius has moved into classrooms over the past several years, rapidly becoming a tool for teachers to engage students with different texts and "flip" classrooms. With the ability to annotate with text, images, and video, Rap Genius helps encourage the 'close reading' of texts we want to students to practice. In addition to learning how to navigate Rap Genius' multimodal platform, teachers will also have the opportunity to join a growing network of innovative educators around the world.
Exequiel "Rex" Ganding is currently a second-year doctoral student in the Language, Literacy, and Culture program in UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Education. He is interested in issues at the intersection of Composition and Literacy studies, specifically examining the challenges and potential that digital culture poses to writing pedagogy. For the past five years, Rex has also served as a College Composition instructor at various institutions in the Bay Area, teaching courses from below-transfer level to second-year composition.
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White Rose York Tours
Home of York's finest free tour – Daily at 11am
Here's what people are saying about us on Tripadvisor
"If you enjoy history, this is for you. The guide is so knowledgeable and puts it across really well. I would 100% recommend this to people who enjoy a bit of history. I learnt a great deal and my children really enjoyed it as well. we went to places that we would not have visited on our own." – review by Matt from Lincolnshire, dated February 20th, 2014
"The best walking tour I have ever experienced. Alan's wealth of knowledge and obvious passion for history combined with his experience as a stand up comedian add up to a most enthusiastic and engaging guide. The three hours flew by." – review by Sonyar from Bucks, dated November 15th, 2013
"I've done a couple of free walking tours in UK and Alan is the best guide so far. He's very engaging, interesting and knowledgeable. The 3-hour tour gave me a good understanding about York and made me start to in love with the beautiful city. Strongly recommended!" – review by helloMinming from Reading, dated October 30th, 2013
"This was an amazing tour!! Cannot imagine a better way to spend a day in York!!! Alan was a wonderful guide. His knowledge, enthusiasm and passion on this "Walk through History" was superb." – review by BRW2013 from Louisville, Kentucky, dated October 21st, 2013
"A most enjoyable tour. Alan's passion for history brought this walk alive for us. A must for anyone who wants to get the most out of their time in this wonderful city." – review by Colin and Debbie from Derby, dated October 6th, 2013
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"Alan is an enthusiastic history fanatic who seems to takes the greatest of pleasure in passing on his incredible knowledge of the local area from its beginnings right up to the present day. A very enjoyable and informative tour that everyone should take to get the most out of your visit to this amazing city." – reviewer from Rugby, dated March 2nd, 2014
"Alan was one of the best guides we have ever had anywhere in our travels all over the world! His love of history, his enthusiasm & his storytelling made the morning so very special! We felt so fortunate to have this remarkable man be our guide to this amazing city." – review by Janice from Los Angeles, dated November 15th, 2013
Sophie & josh says:
This tour I must say was one I will never forget. We had a guide called Alan sharp who is an excellent historian, so knowledgable and you can tell he loves his job so much! It just shines through! He talked about all the different ruins and explained each part piece by piece! You do not pay for the tour although it is 3hrs long! You can donate if you wish too, what you think It was worth – me and my partner donated £20 because it was fantastic! We would definitely recommend this to everyone if in York!
Ben Taylor says:
I believe you may have walked the same tour as myself and my girlfriend (Geordie couple, I was wearing a camouflage biker jacket)
I concur completely, Alan was a lovely chap, with an extensive knowledge of York and it's history. No pressure to donate at the end, and looking forward to arranging a group tour with mates, in the Spring/ early summer.
Colin B says:
Top tour. Alan is an humorous, engaging and skilled orator who has a passion for history. Highly recommend this brilliant tour.
chris &jill blaney says:
great walking tour lots of interesting history with a bit of comedy alan is very knowledgeable very open to questions we highly recommend.
The Wright family from Bridlington really enjoyed our walk today with Alan. We would highly recommend it.
We joined Alan for the 11am tour on the 15th August 2014. This was one of the best tours that we have been on, good pace, plenty of history and an interesting man to listen to. We would recommend Alan and his tour, a must for anyone visiting York.
M. Buckley says:
I took the free three hour walking tour today and WOW!!! Alex was our guide and he was amazing!!! His knowledge of the history of York is astounding! We were a group of 13 and he made sure everyone was always accounted for and answered all questions along the way. Best trip so far in the UK I have taken. Even though the walk about is free… They depend on tips . So please do not be stingy at the end of the tour and tip well. You won't regret it!!!
Judith Greenhow says:
Easter Monday 2015 we enjoyed a fantastic tour with Alan. He was informative,funny and gave us a great overall tour of York. Our daughter who is a history major especially enjoyed it. Thank you Alan and hope to return to York again.
Andrew Botting says:
Whit Monday 2015 we enjoyed a fantastic tour with Dave. It was informative and enjoyable and gave us so much more than a guide book ever could. Thoroughly recommended to everyone. Thanks again Dave.
Gillian Cummins says:
My daughter and I did this walk yesterday. Our tour guide for the afternoon was David.We really enjoyed the tour and found our guide to be interesting,very informative and entertaining. I would highly recommend this tour to future visitors .Thanks for a great afternoon .
Katherine Jones says:
Hi, we went on a tour hosted by David on Sat 31st Oct and were so impressed by his knowledge which was nothing sort of astounding. He has a real passion for his subject and what he doesn't know isn't worth knowing. An incredible man and guide. Katherine & Dan
Margaret Waller says:
We've just been part of the most amazing guided tour around York led by David. He was able to explain the history & put it all into context of other events of the times with a really impressive depth of knowledge tailored to his group. Stunningly brilliant.
Bart Cael says:
superb tour. Alan is really a great guide hat is passionate about the city and its history. would recommend to anyone visiting York to follow this tour and get to know the city in a few hours time.
Jean Pritchard says:
This was our best walking tour ever. York is truly a glorious treasure with historical 'happenings' wherever you wander…but to be shown it by Dave Haw was the cherry on the top of the cake. His depth of knowledge is amazing and he has such a passion for his subject. We also enjoyed the fact that, as we had been on a previous tour, he carefully tailored the tour to suit our interests. Thank you Dave…I wish you had been my History teacher when I was at school and found it all so boring! . Jeannie and John
David Haw made this tour a truly unforgettable experience. I have never seen anyone so excited about a city, and I learnt a great deal about the historical background of York. It would be very difficult get the same detailed narrative full of anecdotes and historical facts by reading a book about the city. I hope I get to visit York again and repeat the guide experience. Thank you, David.
NEIL SYMMONDS says:
We went on this tour yesterday with Alan, the founder of the company. He was a great guide, very informative on York's fascinating history and guiding us through areas of York we'd not seen before. His love of all matters historical shines through and you will have a very entertaining 3 hours ( inc a tea stop) wandering around the sights of York
Cyndi Kerr says:
Thank you David Haw for your wonderful tour! We learned a great deal about the history of York! Loved the history of the Abbey and council.
Fantastic tour!!!
Norma Tiltman says:
We did the "Step into History" tour last week with David Haw and he was absolutely fabulous. We would recommend his tour to everyone because he is so enthusiastic and knowledgeable.
The tour was without a doubt one of the highlights of our 2 week trip to England. Alan is fantastic! Our 2 teenagers noted (as only teenagers can) "wow – we learned so much, and it was actually FUN!" Alan is such a great story teller, making all the information very understandable to those of us who have a cursory understanding of British history (insert Yankee jokes here). I especially enjoyed Alan's explanations of specific historical events, and how sometimes 'popular history' contradicts the real evidence. We took the tour at the beginning of our visit to York, making the rest of the stay even richer. We can highly recommend the tour, and Alan.
Paul Ashby says:
One of the best guided tours I've done to date! Alan was just so knowledgeable and mixed it up with his humour. The rain was a bit of an issue but did not put us off and Alan carried on regardless. Thanks to Alan for keeping us entertained for 3 hrs. This tour is a must!
Jackie Kirk says:
We attended this walking tour on 18th October 2017. We are three generations of family who all enjoyed Alan's tour which was well crafted, well delivered and full of knowledge. This was undoubtedly the highlight of our trip to York and I would recommend anyone interested in the historic aspects of this city to attend. We will be looking out for this companies tour in other cities.
John Sbrocchi says:
If there ever was one thing that would cause you to pick up and read your history books it's a tour of York with Alan. He's forgotten more than I ever knew! A historian with a sharp wit and great sense of humour there was never a dull moment on the tour. He provided many revelations of English history completely contradicting popular theories/ movies/ TV series etc. It was a real eye opener and a tour I would recommend to anyone who has a lazy 3(nearly) 3 hours to spare.
Nicola GRAYSON says:
Absolutely fabulous morning tour today. Can not recommend enough-having never visited York before im delighted we went on this tour. What a wealth of historical knowledge this guy has! Remarkable and so very very interesting. Free! But do give the guy a nice tip to keep his services going and a few pints.
David Haw was recently our guide in York. He was most knowledgeable and made our walking tour fun and informative. I would highly recommend him as your guide if you are planning a walking tour in York. Thank you David.
Judi and Jim
We visited York earlier this month and opted to take advantage of the White Rose York Tours. It was our lucky day, as we had David as our tour guide!
He was extremely knowledgeable and helpful, with a great sense of humour. David crafted to meet the interests and needs of the group and we came away with a much better understanding of York and medieval times. We'd highly recommend this tour.
Charles Lovelace says:
Toured with David Haw on November 7 and David left no stone uncovered. He knows his stuff so to say.
Charles Lovelace in Woodstock, Georgia USA
Debbie Jenkins says:
Enjoyed this tour yesterday with David Haw,a true enthusiast for all things historical in York.Personable and flexible and willing to tailor his commentary to his group it made for a good few hours of entertainment. Would recommend.


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SYTYCD?
Think you can dance's road show hit it big at the Fox Theatre, now called the Bob Hope Theatre, in downtown Stockton. There might have been a few empty seats in the back corners, but the good seats were sold out. The audience was very warm and noisy, and as is the style these days, "whooped" with appreciation instead of applause. The dancers were even better than anticipated from previous appearances on TV. Amazing extensions and elevation. There were no average dancers, all top gypsies! My only complaint was the lighting...the dancers were dimly lighted most of the time, while flashing strobes and LEDs directed at the audience had me closing my eyes in defense. This trendy style of audience insult needs to pass, and quickly. We pay to see what is on the stage, not be blinded by technology. Staging positives? yes, the large screens were able to depict windows and hand painted sets in exquisite detail. When the heavens broke loose with weather and a light show, it was impressive...
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ENTERTAINMENT PLUS
In the past twenty eight years that I have ushered for the Overture Center (and the preceding venue), I have seen many, many shows, including a variety of dance performances and all of the broadway shows. But, nothing prepared me for DWTS. This was part Las Vegas revue, part Magic Mike, part Broadway, part Alvin Ailey and more! The cast was supremely talented and very personable. The dance performances varied from many Latin classics - paso doble anyone? - to hip hop and ballet/modern dance to rock and roll to waltz. The sound track was gorgeous and varied as well, with many of my favorite contemporary music featured. As a result, the audience was absolutely going nuts from beginning to end!!!! This sold-out show left people grinning from ear to ear and dancing and singing out of the theater. I only hope that DWTS will be back next year.
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THAT'S ALL THERE IS?
The dancing part lasted about an hour and a half with about 30 minutes of filler. The filler consisted of a couple of videos and Bobby Bones once again confirming that HE CAN'T DANCE. It seemed to me that the cast wanted the show over ASAP so they could get to Huntsville. I felt the same way.
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JUST A LITTLE DISAPPOINTED
I love DWTS and have never missed a single episode in all of it's many seasons on TV. I was especially excited to go see the DWTS Live tour in my hometown of Nashville, TN. Unfortunately, it was pouring rain and there were many long lines waiting to go through security to get into the theatre. Once inside the historic Grand Old Opry House our seats were pretty good in the Mezzanine. I loved seeing all of the Pro dancers up close and personal. The stage is fairly small so it's very different than when you see them perform in the Ballroom on TV with the fancy props, etc. The one real disappointment I had was it was advertised that four celebrity dancers would take part in the Tour this year. I didn't read until after the fact that not "all" would perform in "all cities", but we didn't have one single celebrity here -- not even Bobby Bones who works here or John Schneider. It even stated in the fill-in video that more than the usual one celebrity (the winner) would be on tour.
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BIG RIPOFF
I paid $300 for 2 tickets just to watch the dance troupe. Not one professional dancer from television or the dozen pros on the face of the tickets were there except for Joe, who emceed the show. BIG HUGE FAT RIPOFF. NEVER AGAIN!!!
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What Skills Will I Learn in Nursing School?
The profession of nursing requires that students learn an incredibly diverse set of skills and subjects. Knowledge of these skills can help you prepare for college and seek out the best prerequisite courses while you're still in high school or before you enter your nursing program.
Nursing school is a challenging experience that not only requires mastery of many subjects based in lecture and laboratory classes, but also the successful completion of nursing school clinicals, which are shifts at facilities like hospitals and public health agencies. You'll learn an incredible variety of skills during your clinicals, and your success in nursing school will depend largely on mastering all the skills taught to you in the classroom and applying them to a medical setting.
Reading a list of the skills within the average nurse's "tool kit" might look like a dictionary's worth of information. Those things you'll learn in nursing school run the gamut from organizational skills that will help you take care of multiple patients at the same time to physical skills like administering medication, maintaining sterile fields, and dealing with catheters, IVs, and suctioning.
The best way to ensure you learn everything you need to be a good nurse is to choose the best nursing school. Take a look at those listed on our site and request program details before you make a decision about where to go to school.
If you're already in nursing school, take some time to review the essential nursing skills listed below to make sure you're on the right track to success.
As a nurse, you must master the wide variety of physical tasks required for your job duties in a healthcare setting like accurately taking a patient's temperature and administering medication safely. Before learning those skills, you must first understand how and why the body works like it does, and how medications work within the body. You will take courses in areas like anatomy and microbiology to learn the underlying reasons for nursing practice. According to most nursing program curriculum (BLS), you will also need to complete courses in physiology, nutrition, and chemistry to deepen your understanding of body processes.
Mastering the information presented in these courses is an essential step in your nursing school journey since they're the building blocks of your skill set. For example, chemistry helps you understand pharmacological information connected to medication, as well as how each cell within a human body functions under different sets of conditions. Anatomy helps you identify parts of the body in a medical setting where it's necessary to use medical terminology and accurately describe what is happening with your patients.
When you begin your clinical rotations, which may occur in your second or third semester, many of the initial skills you'll learn will assessing patients. This is the basis for everything you will do as a nurse, so your ability to observe and record what is happening with your patients is one of the most crucial skills you will develop. Your clinical rotations will also include learning to perform tasks like sterile dressing changes, suctioning, bathing, and using O2 tanks. As you increase your nursing knowledge, you'll also learn how to start and work with IVs, administer medication through a variety of routes, and insert NG tubes and catheters.
You may wish to investigate the state nursing board of the state in which you want to become licensed for more information on the skills you need to learn in nursing school and the tasks you will need to master at each level of your education. For example, the state nursing board in Nevada provides an apprentice nurse skills list for individuals who are in school and who are also employed in a health care facility during nursing school.
The list covers an extraordinary amount of information from performing simple back rubs and admissions assessments to distinguishing between the techniques of sterile and non-sterile dressing changes.
Taking care of a patient often means monitoring vital signs, reading and interpreting doctors' orders and completing various clinical tasks. However, the profession also requires an agile mind, excellent communication skills, and the ability to remain focused under pressure. You may not have these skills innately, which means you will need to cultivate them during your time in nursing school.
Essential nursing skills like direct and effective communication, combined with good organization, can help you master a variety of tasks and improve the experience of a patient while he or she is under your care. Being able to calm and reassure patients and adequately acting as a communication link between healthcare providers and patients is crucial to improving and maintaining health.
Exhibit a professional demeanor during stressful incidents.
Develop and maintain rapport with patients and their families.
Provide support for multiple patients at the same time.
Educate patients and their families on various aspects of health care.
Utilize critical thinking skills to prioritize care.
You will likely find your writing, communication, and critical thinking skills are some of the most important skills possessed by a well-rounded and experienced nurse. Many people who are unfamiliar with a nurse's duties assume he or she simply takes orders from a doctor and makes few decisions on a daily basis. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
In reality, you will need a firm and solid grasp of concepts like triage, delegation, and prioritization as you will be required to make important decisions about the lives of your patients each and every day. The work of a nurse isn't one of standing around until the doctor makes a suggestion about treatment or medication. Maintaining the highest standard of patient care falls into the hands of the nurse just as much as it does the doctor's hands.
Learning to communicate effectively can save a life, and this is one skill that you can help develop on your own before you even start school.
Why is it Essential to Master Nursing Skills?
The skills you'll learn in nursing school will cover a wide array of topics, and it's important to remain focused during study, classes, laboratories, and clinicals. Repetition and familiarity with essential nursing skills will help you pass your National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) after graduation from nursing school, as well as succeed as an entry-level nurse.
Though nursing school provides you with the practical knowledge base you will need to perform your nursing duties, you will find that mastery only comes once you are working in the field. Once you've graduated, you will depend upon the skill set you obtained in school, and you will continue to develop your professional abilities every day.
An educated nurse is an essential member of a successful healthcare team, so take your schooling seriously and get the skills you need to help others stay healthy.


Good piece on what an engine REALLY is. Learned a lot from this and will be covering it tomorrow.
Always good to spread more nuanced truth.
Why am I not surprised that the source of this is another blisteringly bad take on Forbes?
This is dumb. Who cares about the game engines. Just play the game.
This is good context about game development and what a "game engine" is.
La controversia gilipollas de turno. De verdad GAMERS, cada vez más pesados.
Even as someone who this is obvious too it's still a great read. I had these same issues with Quake.
The controversy over Bethesda's "game engine" is misguided.
Literally any "controversy" in gaming is misguided AT BEST.
This article has given me a new appreciation for 343 building a new engine for Infinite.
@schimahr @BristolianGamer This is true. @jasonschreier 's Kotaku article is very informative in this matter.
Good article and response thread!
This is a take more outraged gamers who react to cherry picked lines about have development need to read.
The Controversy Over Bethesda's 'Game Engine' Is Misguided via @kotaku worth a read.