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What are the 4 uses and gratifications theory?
What is the main aim of uses and gratification theory?
What is Blumler and Katz theory?
What is gratification theory social media?
What is gratification in media?
Who proposed gratification theory?
What is Curran and seatons main arguments?
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What is the uses and gratifications approach to media?
The four categories were: (1) Diversion: escape from routine or problems; emotional release; (2) Personal relationships: companionship; social utility; (3) Personal identity: self reference; reality exploration; value reinforces; and (4) Surveillance (forms of information seeking).
The Uses and Gratification theory discusses the effects of the media on people. It explains how people use the media for their own need and get satisfied when their needs are fulfilled. In other words, it can be said that the theory argues what people do with media rather than what media does to people.
Blumler and Katz's uses and gratification theory suggests that media users play an active role in choosing and using the media. Users take an active part in the communication process and are goal oriented in their media use.
What are the five assumptions of uses and gratification theory?
Five Assumptions Media use is motivated and goal-oriented. People always have a reason for consuming media, even if it's simply habit or entertainment. People select media based on their expectation that it will satisfy specific wants and needs. Media use is driven by individual social and psychological factors.
What are gratifications in media?
Uses and gratification theory Audiences consume media texts to escape from their everyday lives. They choose entertaining texts that allow them to divert their attention from the real world, perhaps by watching a fantasy film like Harry Potter or reading a fashion magazine like Vogue.
The basic premise of uses and gratifications theory is that individuals will seek out media among competitors that fulfills their needs and leads to ultimate gratifications (Lariscy et al., 2011).
Uses and gratifications theory (UGT) proposes that people choose to consume certain kinds of media because they expect to obtain specific gratifications as a result of those selections.
Coined in the early 1940s by Katz and Blumler (1974), the uses and gratifications theory deals with understanding why people use certain types of media, what needs do they have to use them, and what gratifications do they get from using them.
Who made uses and gratification theory?
Who created gratification theory?
Curran and Seaton – power and media industries theory. A political economy approach to the media – arguing that patterns of ownership and control are the most significant factors in how the media operate.
Uses and Gratifications theory as developed by Bulmer and Katz suggests that media users play an active role in choosing and using the media. Bulmer and Katz believed that the user seeks out the media source that best fulfils their needs.
What is the uses and gratifications theory of communication?
The uses and gratifications theory is one of many used to create effective communications programs when it is implemented properly. It describes the relationships formed between the media and its active audience. The audience (acting actively, not passively) select and use the media to fulfill their own needs and desires.
What is usus and gratifications theory?
Uses and gratifications theory asserts that people use media to gratify specific wants and needs. Unlike many media theories that view media users as passive, uses and gratifications sees users as active agents who have control over their media consumption.
Today, the theory is often credited to Jay Blumler and Elihu Katz's work in 1974. As media technologies continue to proliferate, research on uses and gratifications theory is more important than ever for understanding people's motivations for choosing media and the gratifications they get out of it.
The uses and gratifications approach accentuates the relationship between the sender and the message and how motives and gratifications drive people's actions in relation to the media. The uses and gratifications theory strives to understand what people do with media outlets and the reasons behind their decisions and actions.
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Hedge Funds Are Warming Up To HollyFrontier Corporation (HFC)
Abigail Fisher
Insider Monkey December 5, 2019
We at Insider Monkey have gone over 752 13F filings that hedge funds and prominent investors are required to file by the SEC The 13F filings show the funds' and investors' portfolio positions as of September 30th. In this article, we look at what those funds think of HollyFrontier Corporation (NYSE:HFC) based on that data.
HollyFrontier Corporation (NYSE:HFC) investors should pay attention to an increase in hedge fund interest of late. Our calculations also showed that HFC isn't among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q3 rankings and see the video below for Q2 rankings). Video: Click the image to watch our video about the top 5 most popular hedge fund stocks.
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Unlike the largest US hedge funds that are convinced Dow will soar past 40,000 or the world's most bearish hedge fund that's more convinced than ever that a crash is coming, our long-short investment strategy doesn't rely on bull or bear markets to deliver double digit returns. We only rely on the best performing hedge funds' buy/sell signals. We're going to review the fresh hedge fund action regarding HollyFrontier Corporation (NYSE:HFC).
How are hedge funds trading HollyFrontier Corporation (NYSE:HFC)?
Heading into the fourth quarter of 2019, a total of 27 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey held long positions in this stock, a change of 8% from one quarter earlier. The graph below displays the number of hedge funds with bullish position in HFC over the last 17 quarters. With hedgies' sentiment swirling, there exists an "upper tier" of notable hedge fund managers who were upping their holdings significantly (or already accumulated large positions).
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When looking at the institutional investors followed by Insider Monkey, AQR Capital Management, managed by Cliff Asness, holds the most valuable position in HollyFrontier Corporation (NYSE:HFC). AQR Capital Management has a $182.6 million position in the stock, comprising 0.2% of its 13F portfolio. On AQR Capital Management's heels is Citadel Investment Group, led by Ken Griffin, holding a $75.9 million position; less than 0.1%% of its 13F portfolio is allocated to the company. Remaining members of the smart money with similar optimism include David E. Shaw's D E Shaw, John Overdeck and David Siegel's Two Sigma Advisors and Todd J. Kantor's Encompass Capital Advisors. In terms of the portfolio weights assigned to each position Encompass Capital Advisors allocated the biggest weight to HollyFrontier Corporation (NYSE:HFC), around 2.89% of its portfolio. SIR Capital Management is also relatively very bullish on the stock, setting aside 1.39 percent of its 13F equity portfolio to HFC.
With a general bullishness amongst the heavyweights, key money managers were breaking ground themselves. PDT Partners, managed by Peter Muller, initiated the most outsized position in HollyFrontier Corporation (NYSE:HFC). PDT Partners had $11.5 million invested in the company at the end of the quarter. Donald Sussman's Paloma Partners also made a $4 million investment in the stock during the quarter. The other funds with brand new HFC positions are Steve Pattyn's Yaupon Capital, Peter Algert and Kevin Coldiron's Algert Coldiron Investors, and Mike Vranos's Ellington.
Let's go over hedge fund activity in other stocks similar to HollyFrontier Corporation (NYSE:HFC). These stocks are Kimco Realty Corp (NYSE:KIM), AGNC Investment Corp. (NASDAQ:AGNC), MGM Growth Properties LLC (NYSE:MGP), and Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE:FICO). This group of stocks' market valuations are closest to HFC's market valuation.
[table] Ticker, No of HFs with positions, Total Value of HF Positions (x1000), Change in HF Position KIM,11,100029,-8 AGNC,15,126937,-8 MGP,18,307511,4 FICO,40,873383,6 Average,21,351965,-1.5 [/table]
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As you can see these stocks had an average of 21 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $352 million. That figure was $544 million in HFC's case. Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE:FICO) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand Kimco Realty Corp (NYSE:KIM) is the least popular one with only 11 bullish hedge fund positions. HollyFrontier Corporation (NYSE:HFC) is not the most popular stock in this group but hedge fund interest is still above average. This is a slightly positive signal but we'd rather spend our time researching stocks that hedge funds are piling on. Our calculations showed that top 20 most popular stocks among hedge funds returned 37.4% in 2019 through the end of November and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by 9.9 percentage points. Unfortunately HFC wasn't nearly as popular as these 20 stocks and hedge funds that were betting on HFC were disappointed as the stock returned -3.3% during the fourth quarter (through the end of November) and underperformed the market. If you are interested in investing in large cap stocks with huge upside potential, you should check out the top 20 most popular stocks among hedge funds as many of these stocks already outperformed the market so far this year.
Disclosure: None. This article was originally published at Insider Monkey.
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Q: Architecture to manage multiple instances of a worker? What architecture should I go for? There is a worker process which takes messages off a queue and does processing one by one. Now I can have many windows service instances do this job, or I can have one WCF service hosted as a windows service to act as some sort of a server on which I can start a thread for each instance.
Which approach would scale better? I want viewpoints when we are talking about cloud like infrastructure where scaling is very quick, as well as, non-cloud based infrastructure.

A: The most scalable approach in cloud would be to have an instance configured with handling services with WCF or Web-api(preferable if you are designing RESTFUL services). Such instance would be scalable. In case of Azure consider this as Web-role hosted with IIS. IIS is designed to scale with incoming requests from client. Another advantage is you get IIS and asp.net infrastructure to manage security and other stuff. However if you do not need that use windows service hosted WCF or Web-api services. The web-service instances would then queue the messages or say work loads into a queue. In case of Azure the queue can be a service bus queue. Then you can have windows services or Azure worker roles to pull the work items from the queue. Usually a single worker pulls multiple messages from queue and processes it. While doing so those messages are not available to other workers. After the worker is done remove the messages or work loads from the queue. Because after some time they will be visible to other workers there are settings for visibility like in amazon SQS there is visibility timeout setting. *Pull 5 to 10 messages in a single worker and run them as a thread pool threads as a "Task" parallely.
Note that the architecture with scalable service instances at the front end, receiving incoming requests AND worker roles at the back-end clearing the work items as soon as possible is dependent on the distributed, robust and scalable queue that cloud provides like  Azure service bus and Amazon SQS. Otherwise you may have contention problems.
For in house(non-cloud) deployment normally if there is no distributed queue, here you can have the IIS hosted service instances do everything or the windows service do everything or combination. I suggeste to have HTTP services hosted with IIS to serve web pages and receive incoming requests(REST services) . IIS is good in that. However IIS pool can get recycled and may not be running if there are no requests for long time. Hence if there is requirement to run scheduled tasks or jobs windows service at the back end is good at this. Having windows service to do everything is certainly doable but from my experience using IIS and asp.net for incoming request helps in productivity. You can share the security with services and web app. I prefer to have IIS at front end and windows service at the back end. With this I do not have to manage security with windows service. Try NServiceBus for inhouse queue https://github.com/NServiceBus/NServiceBus. I have not evaluated it.

A: Can't you simply host the worker in a service and make it multithread ?
Wcf just mess up things since you have to create a dispatcher that reads the queue and invoke the services. With having the consumer working as a service you can install it on multiple machine too, configuring to read from the same queue so you scale both vertical and horizontal. I'm supposing you are using MSMQ or some other similar queue mechanism, if not, consider using it.

A: I would host each worker in a single threaded windows service. This has the following benefits:

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*Simple to code and test (no multithreading).

*Lightweight

*Dispatcher not necessary - workers will load balance with no intervention.

*Ease of deployment/management. If there is a problem with a worker just restart service.

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There are 20 miles worth of trails available.
Varies - anywhere from an hour to a half day.
Catamount Outdoor Family Center is a nonprofit located in Williston, just south of Burlington, and offers 20 miles of multipurpose trails. Their mission is to promote family and community well being through activity and education in a natural environment. The property sits on 500 acres and its trails meander through woods, pasture and farmland. The owner-occupied home on the property serves as a bed and breakfast and was built in 1796 by Vermont's first Governor, Thomas Chittenden. Together the property and house are listed by the Vermont Division for Historic Places and the national Register of Historic Places as the Giles Chittenden Homestead. The Center originally opened in 1978 as a cross country ski center and has since grown to include running, hiking, snowshoeing and sledding, and has been offering mountain biking since the late 80s.
This well-marked trail system offers a great variety of singletrack and doubletrack riding within minutes of downtown Burlington. The trails are a mix of rolling hills, flats and steeper climbs. They are mostly root-filled singletrack through heavily wooded landscape on one side and open fields pasture on the other. They also have two pump tracks.
One of the most wonderful things about Catamount is that while it sits in the middle of a well-developed area, once you are on the trails you feel miles away from the city. The green pastures, a small pond and all the trees make for an enjoyable ride regardless of which trail you choose and provide ample opportunity for pictures before and after. In addition, the views that can be found off some of the trails are stunning and include panoramic vistas of Mount Mansfield, Camel's Hump, Lake Champlain and the Adirondacks. Ask at the desk which trails are best for capturing these views.
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Riders of all ability levels looking for a spot that is close to Burlington and offers a variety of options, including everything from relatively flat trails with some rolling hills to very steep and more technical routes. Regardless of riding level, photo opportunities abound and it's a great spot to catch views of the various peaks surrounding the area.
There is a large parking lot on the premises where it is free to park.
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They are open for mountain biking seven days a week, but hours vary depending on the season so be sure to check them before you head over there. Also, be sure to call ahead during mud season in the spring as Catamount will close if trails are too muddy.
Riders can rent bikes at the main desk. Download a map to check out the trails.


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EE Staff Awards, March '18
The Electrical Engineering staff recognized this month for their outstanding effort are Beverly Davis, Teresa Nguyen, and Helen Niu.
Each were nominated by peers, faculty and/or students who included descriptions of their professionalism that goes above and beyond their everyday roles. Gift card recipients make profound and positive impact in the department's everyday work and academic environment.
Please join us in acknowledging Beverly, Teresa, and Helen's extraordinary work! Modified excerpts from their nominations follow.
Beverly Davis, Faculty Administrator
"Beverly is a rock star!"
She is really fun to talk to and does her job flawlessly.
Teresa Nguyen, Student Financial Officer
"She has been such a great help to me during grad school!"
Teresa is very knowledgeable and kind - I'm so glad she's part of our team.
Helen Niu, Faculty Administrator
Helen is extraordinarily capable and diligent.
"I am extremely grateful for her!"
Please congratulate them for their outstanding work!
The Staff Gift Card Bonus Program is sponsored by the School of Engineering. Each year, the EE department receives several gift cards to distribute to staff members who are recognized for going above and beyond their role. Each month, staff are chosen from nominations received from faculty, students, and staff. Past nominations are eligible for future months.
Nominate a deserving staff person or group today – nominate individuals or groups that have made a profound improvement in your daily work life. Each recipient receives a $50 Visa card. Nominations can be made at any time.
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John Hennessy receives the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award
Professor John L. Hennessy and retired UC Berkeley professor David Patterson have been named recipients of the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award for pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures with enduring impact on the microprocessor industry. Hennessy and Patterson created a systematic and quantitative approach to designing faster, lower power, and reduced instruction set computer (RISC) microprocessors. Their approach led to lasting and repeatable principles that generations of architects have used for many projects in academia and industry. Today, 99% of the more than 16 billion microprocessors produced annually are RISC processors, and are found in nearly all smartphones, tablets, and the billions of embedded devices that comprise the Internet of Things (IoT).
John is the James F. and Mary Lynn Gibbons Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, and Shriram Family Director, Knight-Hennessy Scholars. He was dean of the School of Engineering (1996-2000), university provost (1999-2000), and Stanford University's 10th president (2006-2016).
The ACM Turing Award, often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Computing," carries a $1 million prize, with financial support provided by Google, Inc. It is named for Alan M. Turing, the British mathematician who articulated the mathematical foundation and limits of computing. Hennessy and Patterson will formally receive the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award at the ACM's annual awards banquet being held this June in San Francisco.
"ACM initiated the Turing Award in 1966 to recognize contributions of lasting and major technical importance to the computing field," said ACM President Vicki L. Hanson. "The work of Hennessy and Patterson certainly exemplifies this standard. Their contributions to energy-efficient RISC-based processors have helped make possible the mobile and IoT revolutions. At the same time, their seminal textbook has advanced the pace of innovation across the industry over the past 25 years by influencing generations of engineers and computer designers."
Attesting to the impact of Hennessy and Patterson's work is the assessment of Bill Gates, principal founder of Microsoft Corporation, that their contributions "have proven to be fundamental to the very foundation upon which an entire industry flourished."
Please join us in congratulating John for this outstanding recognition of quantitative computer architectures and impact on the microprocessor industry.
"Marty Hellman receives 2015 ACM A.M. Turing Award," March 2016.
ACM press release, "Pioneers of Modern Computer Architecture Receive ACM A.M. Turing Award," March 21, 2018.
Stanford News, "Former Stanford President wins Turing Award for contributions to computing," March 22, 2018.
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Dr. Olukotun Recipient of IEEE Computer Society 2018 Harry H. Goode Memorial Award
Oyekunle Olukotun, Cadence Design Systems Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University, has been selected to receive the IEEE Computer Society 2018 Harry H. Goode Award.
The Goode Award was established to recognize achievements in the information processing field which are considered either a single contribution of theory, design, or technique of outstanding significance, or the accumulation of important contributions on theory or practice over an extended time period.
A well-known pioneer in multicore processor design and the leader of the Stanford Hydra Chip Multiprocessor (CMP) research project, Olukotun is being recognized "for fundamental and sustained effort to create and leverage chip-multiprocessors."
Dr. Oyekunle Olukotun Named Recipient of IEEE Computer Society 2018 Harry H. Goode Memorial Award, IEEE Computer Society, February 2018.
Kunle Olukotun receives the Harry H. Goode Memorial Award, Stanford Report, March 2018.
N3XT: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, November 2015
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Gordon Wetzstein awarded Sloan Research Fellowship
Gordon Wetzstein has been selected as a 2018 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Computer Science. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has selected 126 outstanding U.S. and Canadian researchers as recipients of the 2018 Sloan Research Fellowships. Awarded annually since 1955, the fellowships honor early-career scientists and scholars whose achievements mark them as among the very best scientific minds working today.
"The Sloan Research Fellows represent the very best science has to offer," says Sloan President Adam Falk, "The brightest minds, tackling the hardest problems, and succeeding brilliantly—Fellows are quite literally the future of twenty-first century science."
Awarded in eight scientific and technical fields—chemistry, computer science, economics, mathematics, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, neuroscience, ocean sciences, and physics—the Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded in close coordination with the scientific community. Candidates must be nominated by their fellow scientists and winning fellows are selected by an independent panel of senior scholars on the basis of a candidate's independent research accomplishments, creativity, and potential to become a leader in his or her field.
Congratulations to Gordon for this outstanding achievement!
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a philanthropic, not-for-profit grant making institution based in New York City. Established in 1934 by Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., then-President and Chief Executive Officer of the General Motors Corporation, the Foundation makes grants in support of original research and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and economics. www.sloan.org
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Professor David Tse elected to the National Academy of Engineering
David Tse has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering with the citation, "For contributions to wireless network information theory."
Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to "engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature," and to "the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or developing/implementing innovative approaches to engineering education."
A professor of Electrical Engineering, Tse is the Thomas Kailath and Guanghan Xu Professor of Engineering. Dr. Tse's research interests are in information theory and its applications in various fields, including wireless communication, energy and computational biology.
Previously, Professor Tse was awarded the 2017 Claude E. Shannon Award from IEEE Information Theory Society. Read article.
Please join us in congratulating David for this well-deserved recognition of his profound contributions.
Read NAE Press Release, February 7, 2018
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Goldsmith Awarded UC Berkeley Distinguished EECS Alumni Award
University of California, Berkeley EECS alumna Andrea Goldsmith (B.A. '86/M.S. '91/Ph.D. '94) has been awarded the 2018 Berkeley EECS Distinguished Alumni Award. Her citation reads, "For excellence in research and teaching, and for tireless commitment to the advancement of women in the profession."
Andrea is the Stephen Harris Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering.
Distinguished Alumni Awards winners are selected each year by the EE and CS Chairs in consultation with the Berkeley EECS Faculty Awards Committee and with input from the EECS faculty.
Please join us in congratulating Andrea!
"Prof. Goldsmith receives the 2017 IEEE WICE Mentorship Award," October 2017
"Professor Goldsmith elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences," April 2017
"Professor Andrea Goldsmith elected to the National Academy of Engineering," February 2017
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Staff Gift Card Program, January '18
This month, the Electrical Engineering staff recognized for their outstanding effort are Ann Guerra, Joe Little, and Socorro Ungson. Please join us in acknowledging their extraordinary work!
Each were nominated by peers, faculty and/or students who included comments about their professionalism that went above and beyond their everyday roles. Gift card recipients continue to make profound and positive impact in the department's everyday work and academic environment.
Please join us in congratulating Ann, Joe, and Socorro. Modified excerpts from their nominations follow.
Ann Guerra, Faculty Administrator
Ann's organizational skills helped my event to go flawlessly.
The planning for my project lasted several months, I appreciate her focus and attention to detail.
Joe Little, Principal Systems Architect
Joe is very patient and helpful in suggesting possible solutions for improvements.
He is very professional, and I appreciate his deep expertise. I'm glad he's part of our team!
Socorro 'Suki' Ungson, Faculty Administrator
She is amazing and proactive – I appreciate the help and advice.
Suki is a friendly and positive group member.
Nominate a deserving staff person or group today! We encourage you to nominate individuals or groups that have made a profound improvement in daily work life. Each recipient receives a $50 Visa card. Nominations can be made at any time.
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Arogyaswami Paulraj inducted into the USPTO National Inventors Hall of Fame
Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Arogyaswami Paulraj.
Paulraj joins 14 other inductees this year, recognized for their inventions that have changed the world. The inductee ceremony will be held on May 3, 2018 at the National Building Museum, Washington D.C.
Paulraj pioneered MIMO—Multiple Input, Multiple Output—a wireless technology that has revolutionized broadband wireless internet access for billions of people worldwide. MIMO improves both transmission data rates and expands network coverage. It is the essential foundation for all current (WiFi and 4G mobile) and future broadband wireless communications.
About the National Inventors Hall of Fame:
The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) is the premier non-profit organization in America dedicated to recognizing inventors and invention, promoting creativity, and advancing the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship. Founded in 1973 in partnership with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, NIHF is committed to not only honoring the individuals whose inventions have made the world a better place, but also to ensuring American ingenuity continues to thrive in the hands of coming generations through its national, hands-on educational programming and challenging collegiate competitions focused on the exploration of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. NIHF has served more than 1 million children and 125,000 educators and interns, and awarded more than $1 million to college students for their innovative work and scientific achievement through the help of its sponsors.
Congratulations to Paulraj for this well deserved, and very impressive, honor!
Read more about NIHF inductee Arogyaswami Paulraj
Excerpted from National Inventors Hall of Fame.
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EE Instructors Recognized for Excellence in Teaching
The Stanford chapter of Tau Beta Pi, an engineering honor society, is proud to announce the inaugural "Teaching Honor Roll," which recognizes the extraordinary teaching of 12 educators in the School of Engineering, three are from Electrical Engineering.
Selection criteria include great teaching, extraordinary inspiration to study a topic, outstanding mentoring and particularly creative lecturing, but are by no means limited to these characteristics. Any undergraduate in the School of Engineering can nominate an instructor.
The 2017 honorees in the Tau Beta Pi Teaching Honor Roll include Electrical Engineering's Stephen Boyd, Reza Mahalati, and Rahul Prabala (BS '16, MS '17).
"I'm so glad to be able to make an impact with EE108," said Rahul Prabala (BS '16, MS '17) on hearing the news of his inclusion. "And I'm honored to be part of the first TBP Teaching Honor Roll."
The honor roll will be displayed in the Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center, with plaques bearing the names and short quotes from this year's 12 recipients. The Teaching Honor Roll wall can be found on the ground floor of Huang, near NVIDIA Auditorium. In subsequent years, a list of previous winners will be maintained on the Tau Beta Pi Honor Roll website.
Tau Beta Pi is the nation's second oldest honor society. Founded in 1885, it has chapters in at least 242 U.S. colleges and universities and a membership of well over 550,000. Tau Beta Pi promotes academic excellence, civic leadership and community service for students. In their duties, members organize panel discussions, host industry dinners and conduct math and science programs at local K-12 schools, among many other activities.
Congratulations Stephen, Reza, and Rahul!
Excerpted from Stanford Engineering's, "Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society debuts its "Teaching Honor Roll"" Dec. 6, 2017.
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Staff Gift Card Program, December '17
Electrical Engineering staff recognized for their outstanding effort include Charles Chen, Chet Frost, and Sue George. Each were nominated by peers, faculty and/or students for professionalism that went above and beyond their everyday roles. Gift card recipients continue to make profound and positive impact in EE's everyday work and academic environment.
Nominations may be submitted at any time. There are no restrictions on the persons or groups that you can nominate. Submitters are asked to include a citation of how the group or person went above and beyond. The submitter can choose to remain anonymous. Link to very brief nomination form.
Please join us in congratulating Charles, Chet, and Sue. Excerpts from their nominations follow.
Charles Chen, Research & Finance Administrator, Engineering Research Administration
"Charles was able to deliver a large, complex proposal for us. It wasn't an easy task to get all of the parts—but he did it!"
"He is always a pleasure to work with."
Chet Frost, Administrative Associate, Electrical Engineering
"I appreciate his level of professionalism; he always follows-up, and verifies that a project is complete."
"Chet is always willing to help beyond his ordinary responsibilities."
Sue George, Administrative Associate, Computer Science
"Sue always takes time to hear what others have to say. She's efficient, friendly, and FANTASTIC."
"With the Gates' Building recent renovation, Sue was instrumental in logistics handling."
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My goal is to revolutionize the world of poker and turn it into a legitimate career path and succesful big business.
Cypher systems aims to bring people back into the brick-and-morter casino's and to educate the general populace about the legitimacy of poker as a career path. While the risk is definately evident, the sheer number of players will marginalize that risk, and ultimately reduce it to nothing. The great thing about what we do is that the customers are already hooked on our product, we're just making it more accessable.


If you feel you have been wrongfully dismissed by your employer, you can file a wrongful dismissal claim with the Tripartite Alliance for Dispute Management (TADM).
Dismissal means that an employer has terminated an employee's contract of service. It may be with or without notice, and on grounds of misconduct or not.
It also includes situations where an employee resigns involuntarily.
Misconduct, e.g. employer establishes that an employee was engaged in dishonest or disorderly conduct at work.
Poor performance, e.g. employee didn't perform his or her job according to the required standards.
Redundancy, e.g. employee's job scope changed and the old job scope no longer exists.
Employers retrenching employees must do so responsibly and fairly. Please refer to the Tripartite Advisory on Managing Excess Manpower and Responsible Retrenchment for more information.
Wrongful dismissal happens when an employee was dismissed without just or sufficient cause.
Dismissal on discriminatory grounds based on age, race, gender, religion, marital status and family responsibilities or disability.
Dismissal to deprive an employee of benefits or entitlements, e.g. to deprive employee of her maternity benefits.
Dismissal to punish an employee for exercising an employment right, e.g. dismissing employee after employee submitted a mediation request to TADM for salary-related claims.
You can submit an appeal to the Minister for Manpower if you feel that you have been wrongfully dismissed due to your age or have been denied re-employment.
Employers and employees should refer to the Tripartite Guidelines on Wrongful Dismissal for more information on what is a wrongful dismissal.
You should file a wrongful dismissal claim at TADM within one month from the last day of your employment if you feel that your dismissal was wrongful.
For dismissals without notice, your employer must show proof that the dismissal was not wrongful.
For dismissals with notice or salary in lieu of notice, you must show proof that your dismissal was wrongful.
Reinstate you to your former job and pay you for any income loss due to the wrongful dismissal.
Pay you a sum of money as compensation.
For managers and executives: If you were dismissed with notice or salary in lieu of notice, you can only file a wrongful dismissal claim if you have served your employer for at least 6 months.
If I'm a union member who has been unfairly dismissed by my company, can I submit an appeal?
What happens if there's no progress in negotiating an appeal over termination?


Parking in Genoa is very difficult. The centro storico has just a small parking capacity and the ZTL zone in the inner city makes it not easy fo visitors. Visitors can park in the area adjacent to Centro Storico.
The inner city is a Zona Traffico Limitato where driving through and parking is prohibited for vehicles of non-residents. The LTZ is active permanently and controlled by video cameras. Visitors are advised to park in the city's public car parks outside the ZTL. MAP ZTL GENOA.


At first glance, it is not clear that this is a puzzle at all. Strange objects splash into the water at the bottom of the screen, and if you move the mouse over the tiny hooks you can retrieve the objects and attach them to the "lever" at the top. As soon as you attach an object, another will fall into the pool.
One soon determines that objects in the water will never sink beyond reach. In fact, whole structures of levers/hangers and objects can be dropped in the water without adverse effect. There are some strange physics here, as everything floats in the same way, just enough to be concealed from view. There's no real purpose to this mechanism aside from inducing visual frustration.
The next thing to notice is that the objects can be rearranged, and only by rearranging the hangers and objects can you fit everything in. When everything is in place, the meter at the top of the screen turns into a timer. When the timer runs through a full cycle, a new object will drop. But sometimes, something will interrupt the timer. If the structure is lopsided, this seems to cause the problem. We'll call this theory a.
Theory a: Keep the structure balanced.
After a little more experimentation it becomes clear that objects touching the water will interrupt the timer. This should be avoided.
Theory b: Keep hanging objects out of the water.
By about this time one has five hangers and five objects: a bowling ball, a submarine, a bucket with a faucet, a birdhouse, and a snowman. One can compare the relative weights of objects, and the bucket would be useful for this, but the faucet mechanism is awkward and the measurements very rough. One knows, though, that the submarine is heavier than the bowling ball, and the snowman is heavier than the submarine, and so on. Two or three birds are flapping around, perturbing the balance of things.
Theory c: A balanced structure must tolerate the effect of moving birds.
The next object is a squid. The squid weighs the same as the bowling ball, and as the empty birdhouse. The submarine equals the weight of two of those objects. The squid will propel itself upwards when it is too close to the water.
Theory c, revised: A balanced structure must tolerate the effects of moving birds and the squid.
Next comes a giant rock. The rock is very heavy, weighing more than a full bucket of water. It also changes color and makes a hissing sound when it touches the water -- is this some kind of radioactive rock that heats up in the air? Oh, and the snowman appears to be melting -- is that new, or has it been happening for a while? Well, holding the rock next to the snowman will melt everything but the hat.
Question d: I can melt the snowman. Should I?
The next object is the head of Zeus. (Well, it could be some other god, but Zeus seems the most likely choice.) The head is much heavier than everything else. To balance the head, one has to put Zeus on one side of the central hanger, and most everything else on the other side. But the depth of hangers on that other side is such that something is always dragging in the water. If we don't balance the head this way, then the head will drag in the water. And there is still the snowman/empty hat to be positioned. There are too many objects.
Question d, revised: I need to get rid of an object. Where can I put the snowman's hat?
The game offers a hint for what to do with the hat, as the snowman's face will occasionally appear in the meter. And yes, the hat actually fits on that circle. Problem solved.
Theory d: Melt the snowman. Put the hat on the meter.
Okay, so now back to eight objects. Either Zeus is in the water, or something else is. But what about these hangers, do they weigh anything?
Theory e: The hangers have no weight.
Question f: Why are the hangers different widths?
The width of the hanger determines where the objects are positionally vertically as an effect of any tilt. A narrower hanger provides less vertical shift. What if one puts the Zeus head on a narrow hanger, as close the to top as possible?
While this satisfies Theory b, it weakens Theory a. Structural balance is not as important as keeping objects out of the water.
Theory f: Put the head on a the shortest hanger, just off the center hanger.
With so many hanging objects, the perturbations caused by the birds has little effect. The squid still seems to cause problems, though.
Theory c, re-revised: Ignore the birds. Don't put the squid too close to the water.
There are multiple arrangements which will complete the puzzle. The meter will turn into a sun, applause will sound, and Zeus's eyes will light up.
After the birds appear, drop everything in the water. There are only two spots on any hanger for birds to perch. If there is one hanger and three birds, one must stay in the air. Also, birds don't like to perch in the same place twice.
The snowman's hat appears to have negative weight.
Meta-puzzle: Why is this called "levers"? "Balance", or "mobile" would make more sense.
That was fun. Did you play it through to the applause?
i completed it. it's very fun. i love how many of the pieces don't just act as simple set weights. they can aid or hinder your progress.
The one you call "giant rock" is probably just a giant sponge. If you make it stay out of the water for some time, it dries up and loses weight.
I also found that you can keep the birds away just by moving the cursor on them - in fact you can use them to get some additional weight to one side or the other.


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Adrian Anh Tuấn introduces Fall-Winter fashion collection
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HCM CITY — Famous fashion designer Adrian Anh Tuấn has introduced his Fall-Winter 2021 collection in HCM City.
The collection, Hẹn Hò (Making A Date), features 40 ready-to-wear designs for women in Vietnamese and foreign materials. Shoes and accessories are also included.
Silk scarves, handbags and tote bags in leather and canvas are among the top designer's creative sources of inspiration. They have been created by Tuấn since he entered the industry 14 years ago.
Tuấn used purple and pink-purple to highlight his designs.
Tuấn is very known for women's ready-to-wear designs with his brand Valenciani. He has presented the latest styles and trends in many fashion shows at home and abroad, such as Đẹp Fashion Show, Elle Fashion Show and Vietnam International Fashion Week.
He has shops in Ha Noi and HCM City.
In June 2016, he debuted his collection called The Superstar in California. The collection highlights the beauty of modern Vietnamese women.
The catwalk fashion show in California featured 50 models, including Vietnamese top models Thanh Hằng and Le Hằng.
All proceeds from the event were used for fresh water projects for children living in remote areas in Viet Nam.
"Through my fashion, I hope to raise awareness among people worldwide for the need to conserve fresh water and keep the seas clean," Tuấn said.
In 2017, Tuấn released Away We Know-Things we do for love, a collection of 50 designs to mark his 10 year-career in HCM City.
The collection included charming and elegant designs in a 1960s style.
"Each design from my latest collection, Hẹn Hò, reflects my view of a matter at that time," said Tuấn. "My designs bring stories, dreams and messages that I have gained during my journey."
"I wanted to highlight Vietnamese culture and lifestyle through my collections," the 41-year-old said. — VNS
VN Int'l Fashion Week 2021 is back
Phú Quốc to host "Fashion Voyage 3" show
Vietnamese fashion thrives despite the pandemic
Vietnam's fashion designer to show off his sustainable clothes at London Fashion Week
Vietnamese designer introduces new collection at London Fashion Week
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[TV>>>] Today: Denver Nuggets - Dallas Mavericks live 21 November 2022
" 33 PTS. 12 REB. 11 AST. NBD. 🤧 @luka7doncic // #MFFL pic. com/boMtgLtxfN— Dallas Mavericks (@dallasmavs) November 19, 2022 Besides Doncic having a big game, Christian Wood came off the bench to score 28 points, hitting 11 of 16 shots, while adding eight rebounds. The four other starters produced 36 points, eclipsing Doncic by just three.
Dallas Mavericks vs Denver Nuggets Prediction on today 21 November 2022 BasketballMatch PreviewDallas Mavericks vs Denver Nuggets prediction. We have prepared for you a prediction for the Dallas Mavericks vs Denver Nuggets on 11/21/2022, which will take place as part of the thirty-third game day of the NBA. Dallas defeated Denver 127-99 on Saturday. How will the second game between these teams end? H2H Stats and Previous ResultsIn total, the teams managed to meet 41 times. Dallas was stronger in exactly 20 games, and Denver - 21 times.
Full-Game Side Bet Insiders Status: Rating: The Mavericks dominated Friday night's contest, as Doncic had a huge performance. However, one has to realize that the reason Dallas was able to handle Denver the way they did was because the Nuggets were missing three of their top players, including their top two scorers. That is a lot to try to overcome, as 50+ points were lost before the tipoff.
While Gordon may be available for this contest, there is no replacing Murray and Jokic. Plus, you have to like Dallas after they dominated a game where Doncic received virtually no assistance from the other four starters. All that is needed is a little more support from them and the Mavericks could blow Denver out even more. Also, keep in mind that Dallas has dominated Denver recently and the Nuggets are 1-4 ATS in the last five meetings between these teams. Prediction: Dallas Mavericks ATS -9. 5 (-110) Full-Game Total Pick After the teams combined for 226 points on Friday, this total is a little surprising. In recent history, these teams have played low-scoring games, as the three previous contests saw fewer than 216 points scored, including 192 in January 2022 and 181 scored in October 2021.
Dallas is averaging 109. 9 points per game, 23rd overall, but they are first in points allowed per contest at 105. 8. Reggie Bullock (neck) is probable while Max Kleber (back) is out. Best Bets for this Game All predictions are made well in advance of game time. Don't bet this pick before calling the free Winners And Whiners Hotline to make sure the pick is still good. Call 1-213-205-3114 (recorded message) By calling, you are agreeing to our Terms of Service & Privacy Policy.
When making a prediction for the Dallas Mavericks vs Denver Nuggets, it is worth paying attention to the last game, which took place on November 19: then the hosts turned out to be stronger (127-99). Dallas Mavericks4313 pointsDenver Nuggets4286 pointsMatch bonuses from partnersDallas Mavericks ReviewDallas is a pure home team: this season the Mavericks have played eight games on their own court, and six of them have been successful. The club failed to beat only Oklahoma (111-117) and Orlando (92-101). Thanks to these results, the team is in fifth place in the Western Conference standings. When making a prediction for Dallas, it is worth noting that the club defends smartly in home matches: on average, opponents score about 104 points per game.
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Brown was 7-12 shooting while Caldwell hit 7-13 of his shots. Bones Hyland came off the bench to produce 17 and is now fourth on the club in points per game at 14. 9. The loss of Jokic is huge, as he leads the team in points (20. 8), rebounds (9. 5), and assists (8. 9) per game. Doncic Triple-Double Propels MavericksLuka Doncic recorded a triple-double, scoring 33 points while adding 12 rebounds and 11 assists to lead the Dallas Mavericks (9-6, 4-10-1 ATS) past Dallas. The Mavericks were red-hot in this contest, hitting 59. 7% of their shots, including 13-32 (40. 6%) from three-point range. They also dominated Denver on the glass, outrebounding the Nuggets 44-36. "I don't look at the stat sheet, so I don't know if he has a triple-double or if he has 35 points, " Mavericks head coach Jason Kidd explained about Doncic wanting to stay in the contest. "We've been playing him to start the fourth, so this is something we could be looking at going forward.
Denver Nuggets vs. Dallas Mavericks Prediction, Preview, and Odds - 11-20-2022NFL Round Table Show Denver Nuggets (9-6) vs. Dallas Mavericks (9-6) The 2022-23 NBA betting action continues Sunday in this Western Conference battle when the Denver Nuggets take on the Dallas Mavericks at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas. Dallas defeated Denver on Friday evening, 127-99. That is the third straight victory for the Mavericks over the Nuggets dating back to November 2021. Nuggets Fall in DallasThe Denver Nuggets (9-6, 6-9-0 ATS) entered the second quarter trailing by two points, but Dallas dominated the frame, earning a 127-99 victory.
However, one cannot ignore that performance on Friday. Doncic had his way with the Nuggets, and it would not be surprising to see him do that again here. Without Murray or Jokic to keep this game honest, the Mavericks are likely to move up and down the court with incredible ease. They shot better than 53% in the victory on Friday. One may not suspect that in this contest, but 48% or 49% is quite likely. Denver has gone over in seven of their last nine games on the road.
Denver Nuggets ReviewDenver has not looked the best in recent matches: the club has won only one out of four. Because of such a disastrous stretch, the team dropped to sixth place in the Western Conference standings, although it was on the first line recently. When making a prediction for Denver, it is worth noting that the club is not so bad in attack: on average, it scores about 115 points per match. Best OddsBest OddsThis block provides the user with the opportunity to view and compare the statistics of the Dallas Mavericks and Denver Nuggets teams in detail based on the results of the last 10 matches of each team.
The Nuggets shot 42. 2% from the field, a significant decline in their performance. Denver is second in field-goal percentage (49. 4%) and first in three-point shooting (41. 3%), but hit 10-30 (33. 3%) three-point attempts in the loss. The club is now 5-5 on the road. "I'm going to go home and pray the rosary tonight that we can get some help, " head coach Michael Malone said following the loss. Malone was seeking a bit of divine intervention, as Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray, and Aaron Gordon all missed Friday's contest, and are not expected to play Sunday either. Rematch on Sunday #MileHighBasketball pic. twitter. com/XPoQpGAiqa— Denver Nuggets (@nuggets) November 19, 2022 Kentavious Caldwell and Bruce Brown led Denver with 18 points.
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Across the first month of the Telstra Premiership season the Warriors have produced 40 minutes of football in each of their four games which has blown their opponent off the park.
The trouble for the Warriors is the game goes for 80 minutes.
That is why the Warriors are 2-2 instead of a perfect 4-0 to start their 2015 campaign, and why coach Andrew McFadden might have a few sleepless nights ahead of his side's trip to Melbourne on Monday night.
For the fourth time in as many weeks the New Zealand side produced a half of football where they failed to score more than seven points, ultimately costing themselves a valuable home win against Brisbane.
The Warriors' attack was chalk and cheese across the two halves in the 24-16 loss to Wayne Bennett's Broncos, with halfback Shaun Johnson struggling to explain the first stanza where they went to sheds 16-0 down.
"We just got out-competed in that first half I thought, and obviously it is always going to be hard to chase down a good side when you give them a 16-point start," Johnson said.
"Obviously we made a few basic errors and once the rain started coming down we didn't control the ball well enough.
"I thought that was where it was won or lost in that first half."
After racking up 16 unanswered points of their own in the second period the Warriors looked on track to record a big comeback victory.
Fullback Jordan Kahu, who came up with a handful of big defensive plays throughout the match, admitted the Broncos were powerless to stop the hosts' surge at one point.
"You know the Warriors are never out of the game," he said.
"We came out of the sheds in the second half a little bit lethargic and let them back into the game when we could have just held them out and put the foot to the throat.
"It was getting a bit worrying, they have some big boys and they just kept rolling and rolling and getting down our end."
But with the match on the line the youthful Warriors backline – which has been decimated by injury to start the season – couldn't keep cool heads, with Johnson shouldering much of the blame.
"It's pretty hard to be happy when you lose and I thought I just didn't come up with the right plays at the end of the game… again," the 2014 Golden Boot winner said.
"Composure comes down to your halfback ultimately, so it's pretty disappointing.
"But there were some good things I did out there today. Like I said through the first three weeks… I am building.
"The fact that we clawed our way back into the game and gave ourselves a chance to win was pleasing.
"There just wasn't enough composure shown near the end of the game when we needed it."
Meanwhile the Warriors will wait on scans to reveal the extent of the knee injury suffered by interchange forward Ben Henry on the hour mark.
Henry has a history of knee injuries, including a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament in 2013, and McFadden said the initial sings weren't positive.
"I must admit it doesn't look great, but we will get the scanned and see," McFadden said.
Johnson said the entire squad would be keeping their fingers crossed during the week.
"It really is [upsetting]… I think anyone in the club will tell you how nice Ben is," Johnson said.
"He is just such a hard worker and the type of guy you want to play with.
"I am hoping it's not too bad… hopefully we get some good news this week."


where can I define the javadoc url for my source code?
I want to see the javadoc from the current project in the browser.
The javadoc of libraries I can define, but not for my classes.
you can create the jdoc for your classes using tools/create javadoc. There you can specify the path. The jdoc IDEA shows you in tooltip or a Ctrl+Q is created on the fly.


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Our Wee Farm: Happy Birthday... to me!!
Yesterday I had a dinner at the local yacht club which is conveniently 1 minute from our house!
No surprise I made my own cake!
Good old vanilla sponge with buttercream and strawberry jam filling. Then go to town on the decorating. Bung on more buttercream, chuck in a few macarons, lots of little vanilla meringues, some fresh strawberries a few roses and other bits and bobs and you have a pretty lovely cake... yes, I am now 50. How did that happen?
Here's a few pics of the party. I know it's a bit corny, but I feel incredibly lucky to have the friends I do. We moved to NZ not knowing a soul and now I consider these friends, family. How cool is that!
This was my favourite one! I reckon I could still get away with it.
Forecast today was severe weather warning with thunder storms and masses of rain - woke up to this.


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Q: Error while creating socket in C (Visual Studio 2017) I am trying to make a client/server homework. I use Visual Studio 2017 and already changed the project settings that i can use sockets (Windows Socket Programming in C) but now my console always says "ERROR while creating Socket ... : No error"
This is my current code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <WinSock.h>

void PrintErrorExit(char *msg)
{
    perror(msg);
    exit(0);
}

int main()
{
    int randomNumber;
    int sock = 0;
    // Erzeuge das Socket - Verbindung über TCP/IP
    sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
    if (sock < 0)
        PrintErrorExit("ERROR while creating Socket ... ");

}

A: Three problems:

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*First, you need to call WSAStartup() to initialize Winsock before you can then use socket().

*Second, you need to compare the return value of socket() to INVALID_SOCKET, as the documentation says.

*Third, perror() does not work with Winsock errors, as your example demonstrates.  perror() looks at errno, which Winsock does not set. Use WSAGetLastError() instead to get the error code of a failed Winsock function, and then you can print it out as needed.


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On our website you will be able to access ECFAS publications, reports and deliverables, films and training materials. Watch this space…
The increasing number of tools and algorithms able to process and extract qualitative and quantitative information from Earth Observation products has an enormous potential to support the evaluation of weather-induced climate risks. The ECFAS project will contribute to the evolution of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service by demonstrating the technical and operational feasibility of a European Coastal Flood Awareness System.
ECFAS will provide a proof-of-concept that will complement and broaden the currently available panoply of core service information. ECFAS will evaluate coastal flood risk contributing to a fully integrated risk cycle monitoring service. ECFAS will implement an awareness system for coastal areas (preparedness phase) and impact assessment products (response phase), fundamental for effective recovery and prevention actions. Following the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, the avoidance of duplication, and the facilitation of user uptake, ECFAS will capitalise from the product portfolio of CEMS, CMEMS and CLMS, publicly available datasets and information derived from relevant EU projects.
Marine forcing forecasts will be improved through the integration of available models in order to reduce uncertainties and provide reliable coastal flood maps. Hazard and impact assessments will be carried out taking into account the existing CEMS framework and adding the impact on low-lying areas, which represents a set of added-value mapping products.
The technical operational feasibility of the products will be demonstrated through a performance assessment of the service in selected test cases for past-events, as well as in forecasting mode. The integration of data from different sources will require increased computer resources, supporting the concept of using DIAS as core processing service. The availability and accessibility of generated data and derived products will stimulate their exploitation by users of the Emergency Service and beyond.


Log into your NXT web view, either by navigating to https://renxt.blackbaud.com or through signing in to www.blackbaud.com and selecting RE NXT from the drop down menu at the top left of the display.
On the 'Formats' tab, set the 'Format' to your application language (For example: English (United Kingdom).
On the 'Locations' tab, set the 'Current Location' to your applicable location (For example: United Kingdom).
Verify that this now shows the correct date format.
Verify that the correct currency is selected by navigating to 'Additional Settings'>Currency.
When you are happy that it is set correctly, click 'OK' to close down the 'Regional Settings' Application.
Please Note : If you are hosted by Blackbaud in one of our other data centres, like Boston or Amsterdam, please see this article for instructions on how to change your regional settings.


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Henley Business School – szkoła biznesu wchodząca w skład University of Reading, założona w 1945. Mieści się w Henley-on-Thames i Reading. Była pierwszą szkołą biznesu w Wielkiej Brytanii i jedną z najstarszych i najbardziej cenionych szkół biznesu w Europie. Istniejąca instytucja powstała w 2008 z połączenia Henley Management College i szkoły biznesu na uniwersytecie w Reading. W 2014 roku liczyła ponad  studentów.

Jako jedna z niewielu szkół biznesu na świecie posiada potrójną akredytację od najważniejszych ciał akredytacyjnych w Wielkiej Brytanii, Europie i USA (AMBA, EQUIS, AACSB).

Edukacja
Słuchaczami Henley MBA są z reguły osoby znajdujące się na wyższych szczeblach menadżerskich. Program adresowany jest przede wszystkim do doświadczonych, praktykujących menadżerów, którzy chcą poprawić swoje umiejętności przewodzenia ludziom lub przygotować ich do zajmowania wysokich pozycji w organizacjach. Średnia wieku słuchaczy to 38 lat.

Szkoła Henley MBA oferuje ten sam program MBA w trzech wariantach różniących się intensywnością zajęć na które słuchacze uczęszczają:
12-miesięczny (full-time) program MBA, 24-miesięczny program MBA (executive MBA, EMBA) oraz 36-miesięczny program MBA (MBA by distance learning).

Dla przykładu 36-miesięczny program MBA (MBA by distance learning) oferowany jest w kilku krajach, np. w Danii, Szwajcarii czy Niemczech. Wykłady prowadzone są przez tych samych wykładowców, którzy wykładaja na 12-miesięcznym programie w Wielkiej Brytanii, tzn. wykładowcy z Wielkiej Brytanii podróżują na wykłady co miesiąc do danego kraju. Z tego powodu wykształcenie otrzymane np. w 36-miesięcznym programie MBA w Niemczech nie różni się jakością na przykład od 12-miesięcznego programu MBA oferowanego w Wielkiej Brytanii.

Reputacja
Szkoła Biznesu Henley znajduje się w ekskluzywnym gronie 59 szkół biznesu posiadających potrójną akredytację.

W 1991 roku Henley Management College otrzymał nagrodę Royal Charter w uznaniu jakości nauczania, a w 2006 roku Nagrodę Queen's Award za działalność międzynarodową (najbardziej prestiżową nagrodą w Wielkiej Brytanii dla przedsiębiorczości).

Rankingi
Szkoła biznesu Henley jest wiodącą szkołą biznesu, zajmującą każdego roku wysokie miejsca w rankingach najlepszych szkół MBA.

W rankingu Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) w 2008 distance learning Henley MBA uzyskało miejsca:
 2 w Wielkiej Brytanii
 5 na świecie

W rankingu Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) w 2008 Full time Henley MBA uzyskało:
 1 miejsce na świecie za rozwój osobisty i doświadczenie zawodowe
 1 miejsce na świecie za jakość kadry naukowej
 1 miejsce na świecie za możliwość tworzenia sieci kontaktów
 1 miejsce na świecie za jakość studentów
 1 miejsce na świecie za ilość absolwentów
 2 miejsce na świecie za wpływ na zwiększenie zarobków
 2 miejsce na świecie za zarobki w ogóle

EIU uznało Full-time Henley MBA za 20. najlepszą szkołę MBA na świecie.

Financial Times uznało w 2014 wykształcenie Henley EMBA za
 5 w Wielkiej Brytanii
 19 w Europie
 35 na świecie

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne
 Oficjalna strona Henley Business School

Uczelnie w Wielkiej Brytanii
Uczelnie ekonomiczne

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GRACE-FO Turns on 'Range Finder,' Sees Mountain Effects
Along the satellites' ground track (top), the inter-spacecraft distance between them changes as the mass distribution underneath (i.e., from mountains, etc.) varies. The small changes measured by the Microwave Ranging Instrument (middle) agree well with topographic features along the orbit (bottom).
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GFZ
GRACE-FO has completed its first mission phase and demonstrated the performance of the precise ranging system that enables its measurements of how mass migrates around Earth.
Recently Launched Twin Satellites Create 'The Himalaya Plot'
Less than three weeks after launch, the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission has successfully completed its first mission phase and demonstrated the performance of the precise microwave ranging system that enables its unique measurements of how mass migrates around our planet.
The twin spacecraft launched May 22 from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base. NASA and German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) engineers and mission controllers at the German Space Operations Center in Oberpfaffenhofen then spent the first few days completing the mission's launch and early operations phase and moving into an 85-day in-orbit checkout period. Science operations will begin when that period has been successfully completed.
During the initial phase, the twin GRACE-FO satellites were maneuvered into their operational orbit formation approximately 137 miles (220 kilometers) apart. Spacecraft systems were powered on, checked out and found to be performing as expected. Engineers also activated both primary instruments: the accelerometers, which measure forces on the satellites other than gravity, such as atmospheric drag or solar radiation pressure; and the microwave ranging instruments, which precisely measure the distance changes between the two satellites as they orbit Earth. Variations in Earth's gravity field caused by changes in the distribution of Earth's mass on and beneath the planet's surface -- such as groundwater withdrawal and ice melt -- cause the distance between the two satellites to vary ever so slightly.
The GRACE-FO microwave ranging instruments allow distance measurements with a precision better than one micron -- less than the diameter of a blood cell, or a tenth the width of a human hair.
During any single orbit of the satellites, some of the largest gravity variations on Earth seen in the satellite ranging data are due to massive mountain ranges. To demonstrate the initial performance of GRACE-FO's microwave ranging system, the team examined its measurements of changes in the distance between the two satellites as they flew over the Himalayas. The results are shown in a figure that team members dubbed "The Himalaya Plot," which may sound like the name of a mystery movie. However, the figure's working name actually refers to the distance changes measured by the microwave ranging system as the satellites flew over the mountains. The plot's wavy lines show how the distance between the satellites varies as the satellites pass over oceans, land areas, and particularly mountains as they orbit Earth. The observed inter-satellite distance changes, which can be as large as hundreds of microns, are in good agreement with expectations. These results give the team confidence that the mission's key microwave ranging system is performing well.
By measuring even minute changes in distance between the satellites, GRACE-FO can detect the month-to-month variations in Earth's gravity field caused by the movement of mass as small as about a half-inch (1 centimeter) of water over an area of about 200 miles (320 kilometers) in diameter.
GRACE-FO data will provide unique insights into Earth's changing climate, including large-scale changes in our planet's ice sheets and glaciers; Earth system processes that define our environment, such as droughts and earthquakes; and even the impacts of some human activities, such as changes in the levels of aquifers resulting from pumping underground water for use in agriculture. GRACE-FO observations promise to provide far-reaching benefits to society.
For more information on GRACE-FO, visit:
https://www.nasa.gov/gracefo
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Ashley founded Econsultancy in 1999. He remains with the business as the president of Centaur Media's marketing portfolio.
Ashley is one of the most influential and connected figures in digital and marketing. As one of the 100+ recommendations for him on LinkedIn reads, "If Ashley doesn't know it – it ain't worth knowing."
Ashley is author of two best-selling books on digital. A columnist, commentator and blogger, he speaks worldwide on digital and marketing trends and best practice.
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Prior to this he was responsible for Centaur's Media & Events portfolios and Home Interest Division. Before joining Centaur in 2015, Steve held Managing Director roles at WGSN, i2i Events, Emap Communications (now Ascential) and Emap Consumer Media (now Bauer).
He has experience of running multi-media, international businesses in key sectors across both B2B and Consumer markets.
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Richard is Managing Director of Econsultancy and specialises in accelerating marketing performance & digital transformation.
Richard has worked internationally with The Coca-Cola Company, domestically with McDonald's restaurants, heading Adult and Family Marketing, and before Econsultancy was one of the four equity partners of Oystercatchers. In addition to working in brand marketing, Richard has worked for Publicis Worldwide where he led the agency's P&G business in EMEA for several years while running Publicis Groupe's African expansion in parallel.
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Stefan's work has been featured in the Wall St. Journal, New York Times, USA Today, NPR, CNN, CNBC, Fast Company and AdAge.
Before joining Econsultancy, Stefan was the research director for MarketingSherpa. He began his digital career as co-founder of rich media pioneer Bluestreak, now part of Dentsu.
Paul has spent the last eight years helping marketing and digital leaders and their teams adopt a new mind-set and build new skills by developing and delivering multi-channel learning programmes.
Prior to this, Paul spent 15 years in operational marketing at Nestle & Diageo. His senior roles included Head of Scotch and Luxury Brands for Global Travel & Middle East and Beer Portfolio Manager for Southern Africa. This combination of operational experience and capability building means Paul is able to understand and authentically connect with marketing teams at all levels.
Paul loves the outdoors and in his free time can most often to be found running, cycling or dog walking with his family which includes an 12 year old boy (George) and identical nine year old twin girls (Ruby & Leela).
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Previously, Laurence worked in Haymarket's Strategy & Planning team where she led the insight strategy across the whole group. She joined Haymarket from AutoTrader, where she led the customer value strategy and insight team for the #1 digital marketplace in the automotive industry.
Earlier, Laurence worked as an independent consultant and held positions at several media, marketing and analytics companies. She was Digital Research Director at Time Warner where she led the digital insight programme for CNN International globally, including the creation and management of award-winning thought-leadership projects.
Previous to that, Laurence was Vice-President at IAB Europe and Head of Planning & Research at IAB UK where she worked closely with the CEO and Board and acted as a consultant to the online and mobile industries. She also chaired the IAB's Research Council, led the research & planning team, and managed the Measurement Committee.
Before joining the IAB, Laurence held several positions at Walt Disney International where she provided quantitative and qualitative analysis and conducted and commissioned projects across all product categories, including digital, TV, films, consumer products and theme parks. She was involved in global initiatives focusing on the company's brand management and strategic planning.
Laurence holds a global top-tier Executive MBA from Imperial College Business School, where she specialised in Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Marketing. While studying, she won the prestigious London Business School Business Plan Competition and consulted for the Beijing Olympic Games.
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His background is in innovation management. Before joining Econsultancy, Seán worked at Dublin City University (DCU) where he led the delivery of over 150 digital marketing, ecommerce and elearning consulting projects with SMEs and international businesses. An award winning educator, he has lectured in digital marketing at Dublin City University, University College Cork, National University of Ireland and Cass Business School.
He was also at the forefront of digital marketing training in Ireland. He led a digital outreach project called Techspectations, which delivered more than 15,000 seats of free digital marketing training through a syllabus of marketing workshops and bootcamps attended by professional marketers and business owners.
Seán holds a BA in International Business and Languages (German and Spanish) and a Masters in Electronic Commerce from Dublin City University.
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Econsultancy is a global business with international offices in Europe, Asia and the US. We launch multiple new tools to help marketers analyse and measure their progress, including performance benchmarks and influencer marketing measurement.
Econsultancy launches its acclaimed Modern Marketing Model, which rethinks the discipline of marketing for the digital age. We also launch our suite of online training products including quickfire 'microlearning' videos.
Our pioneering online course – Fast Track To Digital Marketing – launches, while some of our products such as the Email Census reach their 10th year of production, showing our unparalleled depth of content.
We launch the Festival of Marketing, a global event based in London that features 250+ speakers per year across 12 stages, including such luminaries as Apple founder Steve Wozniak and legendary businessman Sir Martin Sorrell. Our blog surpasses more than one million page views per month. Econsultancy publishes the Modern Marketing Manifesto, calling on marketers to adopt vital digital skills.
Econsultancy joins Centaur Media, giving the business access to more than 3.8 million professionals per month, including unparalleled exposure to senior brand marketers through its media brands such as Marketing Week.
Econsultancy launches its suite of digital transformation and bespoke consultancy services, adapting our thought leadership and experience in training into running large scale international projects. We approach our first 100,000 members.
Our US office opens and Econsultancy also expands into the Middle East and Asia, eventually opening an office in Asia.
The Econsultancy business has tripled in size since its launch and the professional community reaches 50,000 members. We launch our now-famous, award-winning blog to provide our users with a quick take on our experience and strategic ideas.
Econsultancy moves heavily into events, with internet founder Tim Berners-Lee speaking at our Internet Decade event, followed by our launch of The Future Of Digital Marketing conference.
The business starts producing its first independent research reports, with the first setting Econsultancy's tone for the practical focus on best practice: 'Content That Works'.
Econsultancy begins life as a digital community for professional marketers. This is five years before Facebook is launched in 2004; and three years before LinkedIn goes live in 2002. Meanwhile, founder Ashley Friedlein writes his first book 'Web Project Management', an early guide to working online.
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