A 'limited technical review' of NZS 3604:1999, the key Standard for building timber-framed houses in New Zealand, is now underway. The Department of Building and Housing and the Earthquake Commission have sponsored the revision and the draft revised Standard is planned for public comment release in late 2009. Publication is scheduled by late 2010/early 2011.
NZS 3604 sets a minimum standard for the design and construction of timber-framed houses in New Zealand. About 90% of timber-framed houses in New Zealand feature elements of NZS 3604 in their design and construction, and timber-framed houses designed to NZS 3604 give consumers assurance that their house will meet legislative requirements.
Architects, designers, builders, engineers, the building industry, and regulators use NZS 3604 for practical guidance on how to design and build houses to meet New Zealand Building Code requirements, without the need for specific engineering design. NZS 3604 provides an Acceptable Solution in the Compliance Documents of the New Zealand Building Code. This means designs and plans in accordance with NZS 3604 are deemed to comply with the New Zealand Building Code and must be accepted by building consent authorities. This provides the sector with the most cost effective, efficient way for designing, building, and inspecting a house, which meets the performance requirements of the New Zealand Building Code.
Many different stakeholders are involved in the NZS 3604 revision process. The organisational structure for the project has been broken down into three main areas: a leadership group, a technical committee, and five work groups have been established – loadings, bracing, durability, roof framing, and design clarity.
Overall, the leadership group and the technical committee agree that there is a need for a limited technical review of the NZS 3604. The 'limited technical review' will reflect the needs of industry, changes in materials and industry practice, and changes in related Standards including those setting requirements for loadings It will also incorporate content on bracings and durability.
Standards New Zealand has formed a leadership group of senior people in the building industry to maintain an overview of the entire rev iew process for NZS 3604. As at June 2009, the group has met three times.
Warwick Quinn, Chief Executive Officer, Registered Master Builders' Federation.
The technical committee has been formed under Standards New Zealand's Standards development guidelines to enable the many different stakeholders to be involved in the NZS 3604 revision process. As at June 2009, the technical committee has met four times.
'The technical committee is primarily responsible for focusing on and reviewing technical issues surrounding the revision of the Standard, and developing the revised draft,' says Don Bunting, Chair of the technical committee.
The majority of this section has been superseded by the compliance document E2/AS1 External Moisture. This section will be removed from NZS 3604.
Section 4 is to be updated to bring it in line with the recent changes to the Building Code and other Standards, in particular the maps and recent product developments.
The content is appropriate; however there are a number of problems with readability and some areas are too open for interpretation, which has the potential for inconsistency among building consent authorities. The committee is reviewing the usability and the appropriateness of worked examples, and so on. For example, subfloor bracing and interior bracing are to be re-evaluated.
2. E2/AS1 is to be revised; The Department of Building and Housing will be running this project in parallel with the revision of NZS 3604.
3. Section 4 Durability is to cover structural issues only. All areas to do with the building envelope or weather-tightness are to be removed because they are now referenced in E2/AS1.
4. Section 19 Statutory information is no longer relevant and is to be removed.
5. The foreword is to be reviewed and updated. A draft has been tabled for discussion by the technical committee.
6. Several recommendations have been made by the loadings work group on AS/NZS 1170 including reviewing the soils determination process and soils classification, adding an extra high wind zone classification of 55 metres per second to NZS 3604, including reclarification of the wind zone and seismic maps to be adjusted to include reference points identifying where the zones start and finish. This is work in progress.
7. The durability work group has identified key issues including reclarifying the corrosion zone maps for sea spray zones, reviewing fastener treatments for higher weight galvanising, including identifying clauses 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.9, 4.10, and tables 4.4 & 4.5 for deletion, among others.
8. The bracing work group is well advanced. It has made several recommendations to the technical committee, and is currently reviewing section 5 on bracing design, for relevant clause, table, and figure changes.
9. The roof framing and design appearance and clarity work groups have identified the key issues for consideration and are in the early stages of developing their recommendations to be put to the technical committee.


Moolman, Daniel Christiaan. An evaluation of security features of SAP R/3. 2012-08-17.
SAP R/3 is a fully integrated system equipped to function in an open server environment. The system consists of different modules that can operate independently. The focus of the literature study is the evaluation of the security features within an open server environment and SAP R/3. 1.1 Definition of the problem Securing transactions in the Information Technology (IT) environment is the key issue for the 21st century. Proper security controls are essential for the effective operation of a system, especially given the fact that by the year 2000 an estimated 70% of all transactions will be processed via the Internet. SAP R/3 has features and characteristics which makes it suitable for the processing of all types of transactions on the Internet. It is therefore important to understand the security risks involved, both internal and external. All transactions and information must be secured and controlled. 1.2 Objective The objective of this dissertation comprises the development of a security audit program to enable the external auditor to evaluate the security controls in the SAP R/3 environment, especially in respect of two modules within SAP R/3, being the basic system and finance system modules. RESEARCH APPROACH AND METHODOLOGY The research is aimed at developing a security audit program to assist the external auditor in evaluating logical security controls within a SAP R/3 environment, especially in respect of two specific modules related to two modules of SAP R/3. 2.1 Methodology The research consists of a detailed literature survey on existing authoritative textbooks and other literature. Other mediums in gathering information include surfing the Internet and discussions with technical SAP R/3 specialists. All findings support the definition of the problem and objectives of the dissertation. SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS The study focuses on logical access controls of two SAP R/3 modules important to the external auditor, namely the basis system (BC) and the financial accounting systems modules (FI). Some of the controls are applicable to other modules, but these have been excluded from the discussion in the detailed research conducted. RESULTS A security audit program has been developed that will assist the external auditor in the evaluation of security features of the SAP R/3, basis system and financial accounting system modules. The security audit program is a guide for the external auditor, which should be tailored to meet the specific industry requirements and SAP R/3 modules in use. The study has implications for further research in various other areas. CONCLUSION The security features in an open server environment are applicable to the SAP R/3 environment. The SAP R/3 system comprises comprehensive security features, which if correctly implemented, will result in a secure environment that will enable and ensure proper functionality of the system. The security audit program further clearly indicates the impact and implications of the procedures on the audit assertions which will assist the external auditor for focusing his approach on specific areas.


Day 10-11: Ending Number 7 at Sape, Sumbawa.
We skid through Sumbawa and breaking Boski's record for the furthest he's ever driven before, Lombok. We cruised and did some sightseeing Sumbawa on its brand new asphalt and ending the road at Sape after about 2500 meters. The roads on Sumbawa are delicious for any driver. It's hardly crowded, it's brand new, smooth, and the best part is that it's located on the coast of the island, providing a scenic ride most of the way across the island.
We did get a chance to stay at the Aman Gati Hotel, located at the Lakey Beach, Dompu. This is a surfers beach with long sets of waves come rolling in the distance. A wave-watching tower confirmed me that this is a serious place to surf. I'm not sure about the technicality of the waves, whether it's a lefty or not, how hard it is, or how dangerous the reefs are. I just happen to see some surfers take the effort to be there with their boards. Surf camps are always located in the most interesting places in Indonesia!
Amongst the landscape that we admired, we also made a pit stop to Palama Village. This is one of the villages you could visit while sightseeing Sumbawa, which produce wild horse milk. Yes, they drink horse milk here even though cows seem to be running around the place. I had a sip from a batch that was freshly milked in front of me. The milk itself tasted thin and less tasty than cow's milk. There's no confirmation whether 'wild horse milk' has certain purposes for 'stamina' as believed by many Indonesians, but it's sure one source of protein for the locals in this dry and arid area, where veggies can't prosper as well as other places of the country. During the visit, the cutest beings had to be the baby horses that had just been born not so long ago. It looked more like a sheep than it did a horse.
As we arrived at Sape Port, we parted with car number 7. T7 was to return to Jakarta and we were accompanied by one remaining car. I gave it a last hug as it has brought me so far. I got my cheek burned a bit, but it was worth it. We also parted with most of the drivers as they are to head back to Jakarta. Part of the team had left and it already felt very quiet. Sightseeing Sumbawa had ended. The trip continued. To Labuan Bajo!
There wasn't much time to do anything on Sumbawa. It was a long ride. We arrived too late at the hotel, and had to rush the next morning to the Sape port to cross to Labuan Bajo, Flores. But that doesn't mean that there's nothing to enjoy. I have never been to this part of Sumbawa before so even though we did nothing, it was the best time to really see the land from end to end. On this lag of the trip, I adored the landscape of Sumbawa. It's not as dramatic, but similarly exotic to Flores. I hope to this drive again in the future, with the wheel in my hand and the drivers view across my eyes.
Again, with the smooth asphalt and the coastal view, the ride was a joy. One of the automotive guys even compared the route to Monte Carlo. Now that's something. In the mean time, enjoy the little that I can share of the trip; Sumbawa's scenery.
3 Comments on "Terios 7 Wonders: Sightseeing Sumbawa"
pengen ke sumbawa :(( …….
Huhuhuhu.. I wanna go back too.


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Friday's Five Ideas for the Future
Leading in Uncertain Times
Welcome to this week's Friday Five (F3). Today, we focus on some of the positive outcomes that have emerged from the enormous challenges of this year. As leaders, we have had to pivot and change the ways we lead, manage our teams, and define success. We have had to build new kinds of management structures - with less hierarchy and more shared responsibilities. This has allowed us to have a sharper focus on what really matters: quicker decision-making, experimentation and innovation. As we learned to embrace the unknown, we have also had to embrace a greater tolerance for failure. So the question is: how do we preserve the recent energy and enthusiasm of distributed, team-based, rapid problem-solving? In these trying times, many of our team members have stepped up and shown they were their best selves during times of crisis; moving out of their usual roles to take on new responsibilities. How do we continue to support them to learn, innovate and perhaps even fail sometimes so they may better support their communities well beyond this current crisis? Below are some ideas.
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WORTH A THOUGHT
"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality." - Plutarch
Now on to Friday's Five...
10 Leadership Lessons from COVID Field Hospitals
The pandemic sparked innovations in the delivery of care and a transient change in how our organizations are managed. Many credited their successful COVID-19 response to flatter hierarchies, easier access to senior leaders, a sharper focus on what really matters, and less-experienced staff spontaneously stepping up to lead. However, once the first wave of crisis abated, staff returned to their usual routines and traditional management and governance models were reintroduced. In this Harvard Business Review article, senior leaders who served at two emergency field hospitals discuss how instead of returning to the old leadership and management style, we should continue to encourage the kind of innovation leadership that characterized the acute response. They offer the 10 senior leader behaviors they observed that served to empower, encourage, and support leaders across professions.
Disagreement Doesn't Have to Be Divisive
A well-functioning organization, like a well-functioning society, requires employees and leaders alike to have productive conversations, even in the face of different views and opinions - in fact, especially in the face of such differences. Rather than engaging in potentially difficult or uncomfortable conversations, many of us try to avoid them altogether. In this Harvard Business Review article, Francesca Gino argues that there may be a more effective approach using conversational receptiveness in our language. This means parties who disagree should communicate their willingness to engage with each other's views. It involves using language that signals a person is truly interested in another's perspective. Gino offers four strategies that can help us leverage conversational receptiveness in even the most heated disagreements and politicized conversations.
How To Lead When Nobody Knows What Will Happen Next
COVID-19 has created an environment of extreme uncertainty this year and forced many leaders to wrestle with challenges they've never come across before. So, how can they lead in an era when nobody knows exactly what will happen next? In this Forbes article, Sally Percy offers five strategies for leading when you don't know what's next. One positive thing about leading in a time of great uncertainty is that it gives you more opportunities to experiment and take risks than you might otherwise have had in steadier times. As Percy explains, now is not the time to let those opportunities pass you by.
You Don't Have to Wait for an Apology to Forgive Someone Who Hurt You
Forgiveness is hard for most of us. When we've been harmed in some way we tend to carry the pain around with us. Anger and resentment are natural responses to being hurt and what we usually want - or think we want - is for the person who did the hurting to acknowledge our pain. However, as Annie Reneau advises in this Upworthy post, you do not have to wait for an apology in order to forgive. And in fact, you shouldn't. Forgiveness is an internal act of releasing anger, frustration, disappointment, and resentment. It is an active process in which you make a conscious decision to let go of negative feelings whether the person deserves it or not. In other words, you are doing it to take care of yourself, and that is very important for leaders today.
The Competitive Imperative of Learning
Most executives believe that relentless execution - efficient, timely, consistent production and delivery of goods or services - is the surefire path to customer satisfaction and positive financial results. But as Amy C. Edmondson points out in this Harvard Business Review article, this is a myth in the knowledge economy. Such an execution-as-efficiency model results in employees who are exceedingly reluctant to offer ideas or voice questions and concerns. Placing value only on getting things right the first time, organizations are unable to take the risks necessary to improve and evolve. By contrast, firms that put a premium on what Edmondson calls execution-as-learning focus not so much on how a process should be carried out as how it should evolve. Organizations that foster this approach provide employees with psychological safety as no one is penalized for asking for help or making a mistake.
All You Have to Do Is Ask: How to Master the Most Important Skill for Success
by Wayne E. Baker
You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
by Kate Murphy
Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age
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Yesterday, Proteostasis Therapeutics, Inc. (PTI) announced it had raised $37 million in new funding that will be used to develop its lead product candidate for the treatment of cystic fibrosis (CF) in human clinical studies as well as expansion of its therapeutic portfolio.
PTI is a US-based pharmaceutical company focusing its development efforts on new therapeutics addressing diseases caused by protein processing defects, such as cystic fibrosis (CF). CF results from physiological mutations in the membrane of protein regulators — the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR). Some of the symptoms associated with the disease include frequent lung infections, persistent coughing, salty-tasting skin, shortness breath and male infertility.
PTI has worked to develop a new class of CFTR regulators that are able to amplify the effect of the common CFTR modulators, such as potentiators and corrector amplifiers, for the treatment of CF. CFTR amplifiers are a novel drug class that is able to enhance the effect of potentiators and correctors. In preclinical studies, PTI has indicated that the amplifier that the company is currently developing was effective across several CFTR mutation classes. These previous results have led PTI to begin developing a broad-acting combination therapy that the company believes will be able to treat most of the genetic mutations associated with cystic fibrosis.
PTI's financing was made possible by a mezzanine financing strategy in which the investors have the rights to convert to an ownership or equity interest in the company if the investment is not paid back in time. The lead investors in this project are Cormorant Asset Management and Rock Springs Capital Management but names such as New Enterprise Associates, Elan Science One, HealthCare Ventures, Fidelity Biosciences, Novartis Bioventures, Novartis Venture Fund, and Sanofi-Genzyme BioVentures also participated in the financing. Leerink Partners LLC acted as the exclusive placement agent to the company for the offering.
"Cormorant Global Healthcare Fund is pleased to participate in the mezzanine equity financing of PTI. We believe PTI's pipeline of drug candidates has the potential to provide significant benefits to a broad group of cystic fibrosis patients. We are excited to support this experienced management team as they advance a series of compounds through clinical trials. We are happy to join such an innovation-focused investor group and to help PTI achieve its mission to improve the lives of patients with cystic fibrosis," stated Bihua Chen, Managing Member and Chief Executive Officer of Cormorant Asset Management.
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Gauri Khan is popular as an interior designer and Indian film producer. As a designer, she has her own interior design studio. She is wife of one of the Bollywood's biggest stars, Shah Rukh Khan. She, with her husband co-founded the production company, Red Chillies Entertainment and its subsidiaries. She is one of the 50 most powerful women in Business in India.
As a producer and designer, Gauri Khan spends a lavish life owning luxurious car and villa. Her net worth is expected to be around Rs. 1600 Crore. These values are collected from various websites and is not confirmed.
The main income source of Gauri Khan is mainly from the production house. The approximate annual turnover is Rs. 500 crore. She also earns from her own interior design studio designing for various celebrities.
Gauri Khan was born in Delhi, India. Her father is Colonel Ramesh Chandra Chibber. Her mother is Savita. She has a brother namely, Vikrant Chibber. She belongs to Punjabi Hindu Brahmin Family. They are from Rawalpindi, however, they are raised in the suburb of Panchsheel Park. She completed her schooling from Loreto Convent School. She graduated with B.A.(Hons.) from Lady Shri Ram College. She also attended National Institute Of Fashion Technology and did a 6 month course on fashion design.
Gauri Khan was born on 8 October, 1970 in Delhi. She met Shah Rukh Khan in 1984. They got married on 25 October 1991. They both have a daughter and 2 sons.
Gauri Khan met Shah Rukh when she was 14 years old. She is a big fan of Justin Beiber. She opened her own interior designing store in Mumbai.


Wondering what to do for your evening meal?
You can eat out-have a look at Places to Eat for some local to us suggestions where you can get some great food. If you don't want to drive then you can order a taxi from Jocks Taxis 01646 698818, where the cost is usually about £5.50 to go to Milford Marina.
In the village we do have a typical old village pub (Taberna Inn) offering a basic menu. The pub is within walking distance, which is great and is award winning for its' ales – do check out Trip Advisor for visitors reviews.
You can eat in-we offer a 'Supper Sharing Platter' (£20 per 2 persons), a combination of meats and cheeses (those available on the day) and accompaniments for you to enjoy inhouse. These need to be ordered by 9am on the morning of when you would like one. We will then prepare it for you and store it in the guest refrigerator, for you to eat at your leisure when you return at the end of the day, either in the dining room, the lounge, in the garden if you'd like to enjoy the last of the sun, or in your room. You are welcome to use any of the cutlery & crockery that can be found in the sideboard in the dining room. When you've finished, just pop your dirty dishes on the top of the dining room sideboard and they will be cleared away later.
You can also order in a delivered 'take-away'-there is a file on the table in the lounge that documents most of the take-aways in Milford Haven and of course, these days, most are on apps such as Just Eat. Feel free to order something in and choose to eat in the Dining Room, Lounge, Garden or your room, again using cutlery & crockery found in the sideboard of the dining room.


Its great to see that your are keeping the spirits up team, well done :). Looks like rough conditions through tonight, but after that, it looks like perfect conditions for the next few days – maybe even Ben will overcome his sea sickness.
Thanks for the updates margaret, it helps to sooth the fears of those with vigourous imaginations.


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The World known Fair will present trend setting topics like environment protection and renewable energies.
The Top themes during ISH 2017 pick up actual themes from the branch and trendy visions, and still reflect innovations for domestic installations with a comfortable uses in buildings.
In Hall 9.0 Stand B30 Team Poujoulat is happy to welcome you during your visit, from March, 14th to 18th 2017.
Visit our stand with numerous of innovative new products from the European Leader.


It takes careful planning and time to create quality content. So, it stands to reason that anyone investing in content creation should get maximum value from their investment.
The content published by influencers is targeted and curated to their specific audience. Influencers who work on your campaign are selected because their audience is also your target audience. This content should be shared across channels to ensure maximum reach and engagement.
Influencers have created beautiful content featuring your brand, so why not showcase it on your own social media channels? There may be people following your brand's accounts who haven't seen the influencer content yet.
Acorn partners with digital media agencies to use influencer generated content in paid media campaigns. Together the teams closely monitor the usage and analytics of the content being used in ads.
Results from a/b tests have shown that Acorn's influencer content significantly outperformed non-Acorn media for store promotion, and lifted sales by over 4%.
Influencers are expert photographers and videographers, which means the content they're producing is well worth sharing in print and other offline advertising channels. With the rights to share this content, you can put it on banners, catalogues, flyers, and more.
When you combine the efforts of a campaign's worth of influencer content you can create entirely new and valuable content. An example of this would be to create a cookbook full of influencer-made recipes incorporating your product.
Before you do this make sure you have the legal rights to reuse the content in this way. Content ownership is dependent on contract you sign with the influencer agency, and/or the influencers themselves.
After every Acorn campaign we receive feedback from our influencers. Time after time we're thrilled to see that the products weren't just a "job" but a perfect match for them and their audience.
Brands can capitalize on the genuine love influencers have for their products by asking them to write testimonials and reviews of the products, paired with the beautiful imagery they created from the campaign.
Shoppers want to engage with a brand or product before they make a purchase. That's why more brands than ever are started to showcase influencer content at the digital point of purchase.
Add influencer content like videos, images, recipes and more to the item page. Brands can inspire consumers to make a purchase by educating them on the product all on the product item page.


What is the Chill out zone?
This is a place where you can tear yourself away from the difficulties of an ongoing conference, laud party, crowd or just a place for spending time in a pleasure way. This is a special zone created for the participants of a given event. It may be used for playing, relaxing or for selling purposes in case the event is thrown for your clients.
Furniture constitutes the most significant part of a chill out zone, the use of all the accessories is always consulted to create a unique atmosphere of such a place. Depending on the type of the event, we usually use deckchairs, poufs, chairs etc.
Music, which seems to be of great importance in a chill out zone, is always chosen on the basis of your indications. Additionally, we can offer you other forms of entertainments such as: retro games, xBox Kinect etc as well as darts, billards pool, pitch-and-putt or table football. Photo booth can be frequently visited by the participants either. Moreover, we can offer cold drinks in a small fridges or boxes with fresh fruit.
State of the art technologies surround us in everyday situations. Consequently, they cannot be ignored when setting up a chill out zone. That is why touch-sensitive tables, large outdoor screens, LED walls, video walls and films presented in the 360° technology by the use of Gear VR Oculus are commonly used in such places. Thanks to these solutions you can easily present the products of your company in an innovative way.


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We're back from our much needed break, normal service and hours resume, thanks for your patience!
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Golczewo è un comune urbano-rurale polacco del distretto di Kamień Pomorski, nel voivodato della Pomerania Occidentale.Ricopre una superficie di 175,39 km² e nel 2005 contava 6.077 abitanti.

Altri progetti

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import os, pickle, time, urllib
import http.client
from urllib.parse import urlparse

from templater import additional_urls

do_check_links = True

link_exceptions = set([
    'https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jean-hugues-lestang-90b70073', # LinkedIn doesn't like links... in...?
    ])

if os.path.exists('last_checked_links.pkl'):
    last_checked_links = pickle.load(open('last_checked_links.pkl', 'rb'))
else:
    last_checked_links = {}

today = time.strftime('%d/%m/%Y')
last_checked_links = dict((url, day) for url, day in last_checked_links.items() if day==today)
last_updated = time.strftime('%Y/%m/%d')

def check_link(url, msg):
    if url in last_checked_links or url in link_exceptions:
        return
    # first try just getting the header (quick)
    p = urlparse(url)
    conn = http.client.HTTPConnection(p.netloc)
    try:
        conn.request('HEAD', p.path)
        resp = conn.getresponse()
    except Exception as ex:
        print('Failed: {msg}, URL {url}, exception {ex}'.format(msg=msg, url=url, ex=ex))
        return
    if resp.status >= 400:
        try:
            # Pretend we are a browser because some journals refuse connections otherwise
            urllib.request.urlopen(urllib.request.Request(url, headers={ 'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0' }))
            last_checked_links[url] = today
        except Exception as ex:
            try:
                if hasattr(ex, 'getcode') and ex.getcode()==500: # just do a retry in this situation (internal server error)
                    ex.read()
                else:
                    raise
            except Exception as ex:
                print('Failed: {msg}, URL {url}, exception {ex}'.format(msg=msg, url=url, ex=ex))
    else:
        last_checked_links[url] = today

def check_links():

    if do_check_links:

        # # Check publication URLs are OK
        # for publication in papers.values():
        #     for _, url in publication.urls:
        #         check_link(url, "publication "+publication.name)

        # Check all additions links are OK
        for url, pagename in additional_urls:
            check_link(url, "page "+pagename)

    pickle.dump(last_checked_links, open('last_checked_links.pkl', 'wb'))

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SundayReview|The M.R.S. and the Ph.D.
SundayReview | Opinion
The M.R.S. and the Ph.D.
By STEPHANIE COONTZ FEB. 11, 2012
TODAY women earn almost 60 percent of all bachelor's degrees and more than half of master's and Ph.D.'s. Many people believe that, while this may be good for women as income earners, it bodes ill for their marital prospects.
As Kate Bolick wrote in a much-discussed article in The Atlantic last fall, American women face "a radically shrinking pool of what are traditionally considered to be 'marriageable' men — those who are better educated and earn more than they do." Educated women worry that they are scaring away potential partners, and pundits claim that those who do marry will end up with unsatisfactory matches. They point to outdated studies suggesting that women with higher earnings than their husbands do more housework to compensate for the threat to their mates' egos, and that men who earn less than their wives are more likely to experience erectile dysfunction.
Is this really the fate facing educated heterosexual women: either no marriage at all or a marriage with more housework and less sex? Nonsense. That may have been the case in the past, but no longer. For a woman seeking a satisfying relationship as well as a secure economic future, there has never been a better time to be or become highly educated.
For more than a century, women often were forced to choose between an education and a husband. Of women who graduated from college before 1900, more than three-quarters remained single. As late as 1950, one-third of white female college graduates ages 55 to 59 had never married, compared with only 7 percent of their counterparts without college degrees.
Some of these women chose to stay single, of course, and that choice has always been easier and more rewarding for educated women. But the low marriage rates of educated women in the past were also because of the romantic and sexual prejudices of men. One physician explained the problem in Popular Science Monthly in 1905: An educated woman developed a "self-assertive, independent character" that made it "impossible to love, honor and obey" as a real wife should. He warned that as more middle-class women attended college, middle-class men would look to the lower classes to find uneducated wives.
That is exactly what happened in the mid-20th century. From 1940 to the mid-1970s, the tendency for men to marry down educationally became more pronounced and the cultural ideal of hypergamy — that women must marry up — became more insistent.
Postwar dating manuals advised women to "play dumb" to catch a man — and 40 percent of college women in one survey said they actually did so. As one guidebook put it: "Warning! ... Be careful not to seem smarter than your man." If you hide your intelligence, another promised, "you'll soon become the little woman to be pooh-poohed, patronized and wed."
Insulting as it may have been, such advice was largely sound. Studying national surveys on mate preferences, David M. Buss, a psychologist at the University of Texas, and his colleagues found that in 1956, education and intelligence were together ranked 11th among the things men sought in a mate. Much more important to them was finding a good cook and housekeeper who was refined, neat and had a pleasing disposition. By 1967, education and intelligence had moved up only one place, to No. 10, on men's wish lists.
Men in the postwar period were threatened by the thought of a woman with more or even as much education as they had. One man who taught at a women's college in the 1950s told me his colleagues used to joke that once they knew a woman had earned a Ph.D., they didn't even need to ask what she had specialized in: clearly, it was in "Putting Hubby Down."
But over the past 30 years, these prejudices have largely disappeared. By 1996, intelligence and education had moved up to No. 5 on men's ranking of desirable qualities in a mate. The desire for a good cook and housekeeper had dropped to 14th place, near the bottom of the 18-point scale. The sociologist Christine B. Whelan reports that by 2008, men's interest in a woman's education and intelligence had risen to No. 4, just after mutual attraction, dependable character and emotional stability.
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The result has been a historic reversal of what the economist Elaina Rose calls the "success" penalty for educated women. By 2008, the percentage of college-educated white women ages 55 to 59 who had never been married was down to 9 percent, just 3 points higher than their counterparts without college degrees. And among women 35 to 39, there was no longer any difference in the percentage who were married.
African-American women are less likely to marry than white women overall, but educated black women are considerably more likely to marry than their less-educated counterparts. As of 2008, 70 percent of African-American female college graduates had married, compared with 60 percent of high school graduates and just 53 percent of high school dropouts.
One reason educated heterosexual women may worry about their marriage prospects today is that overall marriage rates have been slipping since 1980. But they have slipped less for educated women than for anyone else. Furthermore, college-educated women, once they do marry, are much less likely to divorce. As a result, by age 30, and especially at ages 35 and 40, college-educated women are significantly more likely to be married than any other group. And according to calculations by the economist Betsey Stevenson, an educated woman still single at age 40 is much more likely to marry in the next decade than her less educated counterparts.
Even for women who don't marry, it's better to be educated; a 2002 study found that never-married white women with more education than average lived "the longest, healthiest lives of all groups."
ONE of the dire predictions about educated women is true: today, more of them are "marrying down." Almost 30 percent of wives today have more education than their husbands, while less than 20 percent of husbands have more education than their wives, almost the exact reverse of the percentages in 1970.
But there is not a shred of evidence that such marriages are any less satisfying than marriages in which men have equal or higher education than their wives. Indeed, they have many benefits for women.
In a forthcoming paper from the Council on Contemporary Families, Oriel Sullivan, a researcher at Oxford University, reports that the higher a woman's human capital in relation to her husband — measured by her educational resources and earnings potential — the more help with housework she actually gets from her mate. The degree to which housework is shared is now one of the two most important predictors of a woman's marital satisfaction. And husbands benefit too, since studies show that women feel more sexually attracted to partners who pitch in.
Speaking of which, educated wives also get better sex, whatever their partner's educational level, according to the sexuality researchers Pepper Schwartz and Virginia Rutter. They are more likely to receive as well as give oral sex, to use a greater variety of sexual positions and to experience orgasm regularly.
Certainly, some guys are still threatened by a woman's achievements. But scaring these types off might be a good thing. The men most likely to feel emotional and physical distress when their wives have a higher status or income tend to be those who are more invested in their identity as breadwinners than as partners and who define success in materialistic ways. Both these traits are associated with lower marital quality. Few women really want to marry a man whose penis rises and falls in tandem with the size of his paycheck or the prestige of his diploma.
Yet when the journalist Liza Mundy interviewed young women for her forthcoming book on female breadwinners, she found that most wanted a mate they could "look up to" or "admire" — and didn't think they could admire a man who was less educated than they were. During a talk I recently gave to a women's group in San Francisco, an audience member said, "I want him to respect what I know, but I also want him to know just a little more than me." One of my students once told me, "it's exciting to be a bit in awe of a guy."
For a century, women have binged on romance novels that encouraged them to associate intimidation with infatuation; it's no wonder that this emotional hangover still lingers. Valentine's Day is a perfect time to reject the idea that the ideal man is taller, richer, more knowledgeable, more renowned or more powerful. The most important predictor of marital happiness for a woman is not how much she looks up to her husband but how sensitive he is to her emotional cues and how willing he is to share the housework and child-care. And those traits are often easier to find in a low-key guy than a powerhouse.
I am not arguing that women ought to "settle." I am arguing that we can now expect more of a mate than we could when we depended on men for our financial security, social status and sense of accomplishment. But that requires ditching the Lois Lane syndrome, where we ignore the attractions and attention of Clark Kent because we're so eager for the occasional fly-by from Superman.
Stephanie Coontz is the author of "A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s."
A version of this op-ed appears in print on February 12, 2012, on Page SR1 of the New York edition with the headline: The M.R.S. and the Ph.D. Today's Paper|Subscribe
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Ron Sims
By Christopher Sandford
People call me up and say they want to beat me to a pulp. I am, they tell me, a lowlife muckraker, and obviously a racist to boot. Some of my closest friends express doubts about my sanity. An apparently well-subscribed website appears to be devoted to my downfall and calls for my books to be banned, so that I can no longer make a "fat living" (sic) by peddling my odious political views in such works as Imran Khan: The Cricketer, the Celebrity, the Politician and Masters of Mystery: The Strange Friendship of Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini.
What have I done? I have tried to find out more about Ron Sims, the deputy secretary of Housing and Urban Development and previously the long-running chief executive of King County, Washington, where I live. Sims (an African-American) stirs strong emotions in these parts. Experts will be chewing, and gnashing, over his legacy for years to come. Was he a sort of cross between Mother Teresa and Robin Hood, as his supporters claim, or just another facile rabble-rouser whose personal wealth largely insulated him from the consequences of his own social-engineering schemes? Opinionated, vain, shameless, intellectually agile, personable and articulate, duplicitous and shrewd, by at least some measures brilliant, Sims may be the nation's most polarizing politician after Barack Obama.
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Inspiration for my project stemmed from an unlikely source--like thousands of girls my age, I am a rabid fan of Grey's Anatomy. With every rare disease Meredith treated, I was intrigued, inspired, and in need of learning more, so I researched them online. As I examined diseases in Grey's Anatomy like astrocytoma—a tumor of supportive glial cells—I discovered the gravity of these rare diseases. In the U.S alone, 10% of people suffer from the nearly 7,000 rare diseases identified thus far—totaling over 25 million Americans. However, there are less than 500 drugs for rare diseases, implying most remain untreated. Moreover, the average price for such a drug is more than 4 times the cost of other diseases' treatments. Propelled by my fascination with rare diseases, I took advantage of several opportunities for biological research in high school. An example: I worked with a team in a model biotechnology company toward developing a novel vaccination technology to mitigate mosquito- transmitted diseases like West Nile Encephalitis. When my group and I presented this product to a member of the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA), she commended our humanitarian mindset. Likewise, she explained that the FDA also works to prioritize the common good. Particularly, she mentioned the Orphan Drug Act (ODA), which provides companies with economic incentives to develop drugs for rare diseases. Fascinated by the concept of the ODA, I conducted this research project to quantify the law's effects.
My name is Nicole and I am a rising first-year student at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. I am both honored and thrilled to have been named a Davidson Fellow. Even more so than the scholarship itself, the recognition awarded to me for my research encourages me to continue pursuing projects such as this one with equal vigor and dedication throughout my undergraduate years and beyond.
and statistics resources along with peer-reviewed journal articles was the best way to build my foundation in these areas. Furthermore, I received guidance remotely from my two mentors: Professor Emily Oster, a health economist at Brown University; and Dr. Kathleen Miller, an economist for the FDA. I did have some previous knowledge that was particularly useful--for instance, from my aforementioned involvement in a model biotechnology company, I was familiar with the complexity of the R&D process and realized I would have to analyze it from multiple angles. My background in biological research also lent itself to certain assumptions I made in my project, such as the fact that the prevalence of a genetic disease remains fairly constant in a population over time.
My research finds that many Americans with rare diseases receive adequate treatments because the ODA provided economic incentives for pharmaceutical companies to create drugs. Nonetheless, millions remain untreated because many diseases still lack a drug. My research will thus benefit this untreated population by encouraging more companies to realize the ODA's support and develop drugs for rare diseases. Additionally, I seek to reach out to the general public as advocates. Just like the 2014 ALS ice bucket challenge spurred research into ALS, I hope to ignite similar public uproars for other diseases. I will also share my research with media outlets to inform the public. Lastly, I will also share my findings with scientists in the field to inspire more work on the ODA and rare diseases. My novel use of regression discontinuity may also enable credible evaluations of other health-related policies. Moreover, scientists will benefit by accessing my newly digitized datasets.
As I attended a STEM-focused high school, I was extremely lucky to have access to a breadth of unique classes, clubs, and research opportunities. I pursued a research project on modeling stroke in vitro in my school's cellular and molecular biology lab beginning my freshman year. This introduced me to the statistical methods necessary for scientific research and allowed me to take unique courses such as Developmental Biology and Introduction to Surgical Technique; in the latter, I learned to perform survival surgeries on live rats at a local hospital. This class solidified my interest in medicine and biology. Involvement in the model biotechnology company at my school exposed me to another side of science and medicine—the entrepreneurial side—and this was an invaluable experience. I will continue to explore these interests at Duke University, where I will be matriculating this fall. I hope to double major in Neuroscience and Statistical Science.
I hope to pursue a career in medicine while training to become a physician and help conduct clinical trial research on rare diseases, so I learn how to lead such research myself one day. At the same time, I may pursue a PhD in statistics or health economics, so I can become an expert on all aspects of rare diseases, drug development, and health policy. I have also gained recognition for my project through the Regeneron Science Talent Search, in which I was named a semifinalist. As an Angier B. Duke Scholar, I have been awarded a full scholarship to Duke University and will receive funding to pursue an undergraduate research project of my choosing, which I will certainly take advantage of to explore a new side of neuroscience, statistics, or a combination of both. Other than research, I enjoy the finer things in life—playing with my labradoodle, baking desserts for my friends and family, and being outside and active.
Hopefully starting (or two years into) a surgical residency in a big city.
Sitting by the fire on Christmas Eve with cookies and milk.
Closter, N.J. – The Davidson Institute for Talent Development has announced the 2018 Davidson Fellows. Among the honorees is 18-year-old Nicole Moiseyev. Moiseyev won a $10,000 Davidson Fellows Scholarship for her project, The Effects of the Orphan Drug Act on Rare Disease Research and Drug Development: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design. She is one of only 20 students across the country to receive this honor.
Inspiration for Moiseyev's project stemmed from an unlikely source--like thousands of girls her age, she is a rabid fan of the hit series Grey's Anatomy. In the United States alone, 10 percent of people suffer from the nearly 7,000 rare diseases identified thus far—totaling more than 25 million Americans. However, there are less than 500 drugs for rare diseases, implying most remain untreated. Moreover, the average price for such a drug is more than four times the cost of other diseases' treatments. Propelled by her fascination with rare diseases, she took advantage of several opportunities for biological research in high school. She discovered the Orphan Drug Act (ODA), which provides companies with economic incentives to develop drugs for rare diseases could help solve this problem. Fascinated by the concept of the ODA, she conducted her research project to quantify the law's effects.


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Q: Error when outputting xml with php I'm trying to implement Google maps on my site. I'm following the tutorial here: https://developers.google.com/maps/articles/phpsqlajax_v3?hl=sv
However, I can't output xml properly when looping through the database. In the tutorial there are three examples on how to output xml. I get "error on line 2 at column 1: Extra content at the end of the document" both when using example two and three.
Som what's up with this, why am I getting this error message. Since the code is from Google I assume it's correct, so my best guess is that I have som kind of hidden sign in my file.
Any help much apprecieated!
<?php

 require("dbinfo.php");

// Start XML file, create parent node

$dom = new DOMDocument("1.0");
$node = $dom->createElement("markers");
$parnode = $dom->appendChild($node);

// Opens a connection to a MySQL server

$connection=mysql_connect (localhost, $username, $password);
if (!$connection) {  die('Not connected : ' . mysql_error());}

// Set the active MySQL database

$db_selected = mysql_select_db($database, $connection);
if (!$db_selected) {
die ('Can\'t use db : ' . mysql_error());
}

// Select all the rows in the markers table

$query = "SELECT * FROM markers WHERE 1";
$result = mysql_query($query);
if (!$result) {
die('Invalid query: ' . mysql_error());
}

header("Content-type: text/xml");

// Iterate through the rows, adding XML nodes for each

while ($row = @mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){
// ADD TO XML DOCUMENT NODE
$node = $dom->createElement("marker");
$newnode = $parnode->appendChild($node);
$newnode->setAttribute("name",$row['name']);
$newnode->setAttribute("address", $row['address']);
$newnode->setAttribute("lat", $row['lat']);
$newnode->setAttribute("lng", $row['lng']);
$newnode->setAttribute("type", $row['type']);
}
echo $dom->saveXML();
?>

Edit:
Here's an example of my output which might give some more insights on what's going on:

<marker name="Pan Africa Market" address="1521 1st Ave, Seattle, WA" lat="47.608940"
lng="-122.340141" type="restaurant">
<marker name="Buddha Thai & Bar" address="2222 2nd Ave, Seattle, WA"
lat="47.613590" lng="-122.344391" type="bar">
<marker name="The Melting Pot" address="14 Mercer St, Seattle, WA" lat="47.624561"
lng="-122.356445" type="restaurant">
</marker>
</marker>
</marker>
</marker>

So the problem seemts to be that the marker node doesn't close for each loop. Instead the closing  nodes are just added at the end.

A: You have already assigned $node to the markers node at the top and you are overwriting it in the while loop...that's why it's messing up after the first iteration. Replace your while loop with this:
<?php
while ($row = @mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){
// ADD TO XML DOCUMENT NODE
    $marker = $dom->createElement("marker");
    $node->appendChild($marker);
    $marker->setAttribute("name",$row['name']);
    $marker->setAttribute("address", $row['address']);
    $marker->setAttribute("lat", $row['lat']);
    $marker->setAttribute("lng", $row['lng']);
    $marker->setAttribute("type", $row['type']);
}
?>

Hope this helps.

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Every year our family visits a local orchard and picks apples. It is such a wonderful family tradition and we all love it! Hubs especially loves it, because he knows that means some yummy recipes are going to be made. One of our family's faves is my Grandma's Apple Crisp Recipe.
I will tell you. When I make it now, I have to double the crust/topping part. Hubs likes his ratio to be more sugar and less fruit! LOL! So try it either way and see how your family prefers it.
Cut in the butter, sugar, flour and cinnamon (like you would a pie dough).
Layer the apples and then topping in a 9X13 pan.
Another awesome recipe for those apples is Homemade Applesauce. So good and easy too!