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Skills (The Cambridge Judge Business Debate podcast series)
What skills are required for the 21st Century, and what is the role for technology and governments?
L-R: Mark Andrews, Michael Kitson, Bruno Cotta, Jaideep Prabhu
In this episode, joining podcast host Michael Kitson, University Senior Lecturer in International Macroeconomics at Cambridge Judge Business School, are Cambridge Judge colleagues Jaideep Prabhu, Professor of Marketing; Bruno Cotta, Executive Director of the Entrepreneurship Centre; and Mark Andrews, Digital Learning Programme Manager.
This is the 15th in a series of "Cambridge Judge Business Debate" podcasts featuring faculty and others associated with Cambridge Judge Business School and the broader Cambridge community.
This latest podcast focuses on skills – relearning on the job, what entrepreneurs need to know, the role of blended learning, and the part played by public policy.
Here is an edited transcript of some of the podcast discussion:
How the concept of "skills" is changing
Michael Kitson: "What are the new skills required for the digital age, an age increasingly focused on innovation and entrepreneurship? It's an age where there may be major disruptions in how work is organised, and it could be an age when many jobs are lost. A recent study by Oxford Economics has forecast that robots could replace up to 20 million factory workers by 2030."
Jaideep Prabhu: "In the 20th Century you typically had large corporations in the West that drove the world's economic engine: they generated large amounts of money, employed a lot of people, and spent a lot of money on research and development to come up with next big thing. That's changing in the 21st Century, where you have small teams of people who can now do things that only large companies or the government could do 20 years ago, not only in software but also in hardware."
Skills learned, and relearned, on the job
Jaideep Prabhu: "People need to retrain and reskill a lot more often than before – to find a way to upgrade while at a job."
Mark Andrews: "What digital technology allows us to do is to reach into organisations and help them with mindset changes, things like coaching."
Michael Kitson: "Who is responsible for improving skills in a volatile world – is it the individual worker, is it the employer, is it the universities?
Mark Andrews: "It's everybody. From an individual level you need to have the intrinsic motivation to want to make a change, and from a business perspective it's a real issue how you upskill a workforce at scale so that workforce is ready for the new challenge presented by startups and entrepreneurs.
The skills needed for entrepreneurship
Bruno Cotta: "To encourage entrepreneurship you need to focus on mindset first: what are you trying to achieve? Entrepreneurs are achievement-oriented, and need to have a broader set of skills that are not just about producing something. It's about taking risks in a managed and calculated way, to shape their way of looking at the uncertainty and dealing with that in a step-by-step process. Entrepreneurs can surround themselves with those sorts of skills – you don't necessarily need to have those skills yourself."
Michael Kitson: "That's an important point: entrepreneurship is a team sport, it's not an individual sport. We have this image of the sole entrepreneur, this sole innovator, but it's really about creating a team."
Bruno Cotta: "If you're able to create a team that's good in problem solving, then they can go out and find a problem to solve. The most fundamental skill we see in entrepreneurs at the early stage is the ability to deal with uncertainty, to face a risk not necessarily knowing where they will end up. It's the ability to pivot."
Blended learning, for students and teachers alike
Bruno Cotta: "If we're trying to train entrepreneurs there are three pillars: one is research, one is skills, and one is practice – because entrepreneurship is about getting things done. So it's not a theoretical sport, it's very practical, and it's very real when it doesn't work."
Jaideep Prabhu: "That's a very import aspect of these more blended forms of learning: because you're teaching people in work, they're able to apply almost immediately the lessons they draw from the instructor – but equally the instructor is able to draw on their live challenge and bring that back into the classroom."
The role of public policy
Michael Kitson: "What's the role of public policy in all of this? Education or training or acquiring skills can often be very expensive and very uncertain, but we're seeing many governments cutting back and putting this responsibility back on the individual."
Jaideep Prabhu: "There's a very important role for the state in this whole debate. The question is who pays and how much. Currently students and their parents are paying a lot. Personally I feel digital learning offers a way to reduce costs and expand the reach of education once you get over the high set-up costs."
Mark Andrews: "Public policy can be used to turn research into really good education through digital learning and various means, as it can take high-class research and turn it into manageable educational chunks."
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Levin loses ground to Leshman in Texas
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MIDLAND, Texas ' Marc Leishman fired a 6-under 66 Friday to grab a three-stroke lead after two rounds of the WNB Golf Classic.
Leishman, who is looking for his first Nationwide Tour title, completed 36 holes at 11-under-par 133.
First-round co-leaders Tom Gillis and Spencer Levin both carded 2-under 70s in the second round. They dropped into a share of second at minus-8, where they were joined by Michael Boyd (67) and Brendon Todd (68).
Reid Edstrom, who shared the first-round lead with Gillis and Levin, stumbled to a 3-over 75 that dropped him into a tie for 15th at minus-3.
Leishman played the back nine first and opened with a birdie on the 10th. He parred four in a row from the 11th before making birdie on the par-5 15th at Midland Country Club.
After a birdie on the 18th, Leishman headed to the front nine at minus-8.
Leishman birdied the two par 5s on the front nine, Nos. 2 and 4, to climb to 10 under. He parred four straight from the fifth before closing with a birdie at the ninth, his last, to lead by three after two rounds.
'Today the greens were softer and there's nowhere near as much wind, but yesterday was brutal,' said Leishman, who held the 36-hole lead at the Utah Championship as well. 'I'll draw on my experience from Utah over the weekend. I learned a lot from that.'
Gillis carded three birdies on the front nine and a lone bogey on the back to share second at minus-8.
Levin drained three consecutive birdies from the 14th. He gave two strokes back with a double-bogey on the par-five second. Levin got one shot back with a birdie on the fourth before parring out.
Boyd was 5 under through 12 holes with three birdies and an eagle. After a bogey at 13, he bounced back with a birdie at 14. Boyd traded a bogey for a birdie from the 17th to post his 67.
Todd carded two bogeys and two birdies on the back nine, his first nine holes. On the front nine, he birdied three in a row from the second, then birdied the seventh to get to minus-8.
Michael Putnam (67) and Ricky Barnes (68), who stands 25th on the money list, are tied for sixth at 7-under-par 137.
The cut line fell at even-par 144 with 69 players moving on to the weekend.
With the top 25 on the money list earning their PGA Tour card for next season, several players battling for their cards missed the cut. They included Matt Every, Ewan Porter, Bryan DeCorso and Chris Anderson.
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Garrett Willis won the WNB Golf Classic on Sunday to lock up a spot next year on the PGA Tour, closing with a 4-under 68 for a one-stroke victory over Chad Collins at Midland Country Club.
BY Sports Network — October 12, 2008
Marc Leishman cruised to an 11-shot win at the WNB Golf Classic.
Marc Leishman posted his second 6-under 66 in as many days.

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Peterborough Amazon team head back to the classroom for Learning at Work Week
The Career Choice programme pre-pays 95 percent of tuition and associated fees for permanent and fixed-term associates to undertake nationally recognised courses for up to four years, regardless of whether the skills are relevant to a future career at Amazon.
By Day One Team
Our team in Peterborough celebrated National Learning at Work Week (15th - 21st May) by taking part in our Career Choice programme, which helps train fulfilment centre employees for in-demand jobs at Amazon and other companies.
31 year old Ausra Kiaulakyte is one of the members of our Peterborough team who took part in the Career Choice programme and is now calling on others to follow in her footsteps. Ausra's worked at Amazon for three and a half years and is doing a qualification in Health and Social Care through Career Choice:
"I've always had an interest in health and social care and when I learned about the Career Choice programme, it sounded like a great way to get an understanding of a new career and even build my experience and qualifications in that area. I think it's brilliant that Amazon gives us an opportunity to widen our skills in other sectors like health and social care. It's a real benefit not only to me, but to the wider community."
The Amazon Career Choice Programme is designed to encourage employees to pursue qualifications and training in high-demand fields such as engineering, IT, computer science, mechanical and electrical trades, healthcare, construction, transportation, logistics and accounting to name just a few.
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Claude Poher's Superconductor Impulse Gravity Generator
December 9, 2020| Antigravity, Superconductors|3 Minutes|By AAG
In this experimental replication video, Dr. Claude Poher demonstrates multiple test runs of a spark-discharge through a superconductive apparatus, similar to Eugene Podkletnov's well known "Impulse Gravity Generator" experiment.
In the abstract for "Physical Phenomena Observed during Strong Electric Discharges into Layered Y123 Superconducting Devices at 77 K" (2011)
"Electric discharges of several megawatts were applied, at 77 K, to propelling devices made of Y123 superconducting layers and thin insulating layers. During the discharges, the devices were strongly pushed in the direction opposed to the electron flow. The layered devices were apparently propelled by their emission of a momentum-bearing flux of an unknown nature. This flux weakly accelerated distant irradiated matter and created several physical effects not yet reported. The emitted beam had no electric charge, and traveled through materials without apparent absorption or dispersion, at a speed much greater than 1% the speed of light. The kinetic energy transferred by the propelling momentum of the devices to external masses, were proportional to the square of the electric energy of the discharges. No known effects were found which could explain these phenomena."
Poher's experiment is similar in nature to Eugene Podkletnov's Impulse Gravity Generator, which applied a 5-megavolt pulse of electrical energy from a Marx generator to a superconducting emitter in a high-magnetic field, generating what Podkletnov described as a non-diverging beam of force with properties he believed to be gravitational in nature.
Dr. Claude Poher holds a Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics. He began his career as an Electronics Engineer, instructor with Air France, and astronomical researcher with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). Following, he worked for 30 years in the domain of Space Research and Aeronautics with the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES).
Poher has contributed to scientific experiments in space at the time of the NASA lunar explorations, in the various USSR and U.S. space stations, and planetary exploration missions, and he has also led numerous sessions of international congresses of astronautics in the fields of astronomical research, and advanced technical studies concerning the future feasibility of interstellar missions. You can learn more about Dr. Poher on his website at: http://www.universons.com.


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Disney Closes LucasArts, Video Game Arm Of LucasFilm, Cancels 'Star Wars' Games
The End of LucasFilm's Legendary Video Game Studio
By Ryan W. Neal @ryanWneal
LucasArts, the popular videogame arm of LucasFilm, was officially shut down on Wednesday by Disney. According to Kotaku, about 150 employees have been laid off and all current projects have been canceled.
"After evaluating our position in the games market, we've decided to shift LucasArts from an internal development to a licensing model, minimizing the company's risk while achieving a broader portfolio of quality 'Star Wars' games," Disney said in an official statement.
The move is sure to disappoint "Star Wars" fans, who have remained cautiously optimistic about the beloved franchise since Disney acquired LucasFilm in October. The studio rose to prominence in the 1990s with several successful "Star Wars" games like "Rebel Assault," "X-Wing" and "Dark Forces," as well as non-"Star Wars" hits like "Grim Fandango" and the "Sam & Max" series.
The closure is no surprise, however, for those in the video game community. Recent titles have been canceled in mid-development, and LucasArts announced a freeze on all hiring and product announcements in September. The last game it published, "Kinect Star Wars," was unsuccessful, while hit "Star Wars" games were developed externally.
The company will retain a small team to handle licensed products like the Lego "Star Wars" series. Disney could license LucasArts' two remaining projects -- "Star Wars: First Assault" and "Star Wars: 1313" -- but they would become brand new games.
To remember this once-great game studio, The Next Web has a list of every game LucasArts ever published.
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Amye Barrese Archer and Loren Kleinman
My Body, My Words: A Collection of Bodies
(Big Table Publishing, 2018)
Lexie Bean
Written on the Body: Letters from Trans and Non-Binary Survivors of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence
(Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2018)
After the #MeToo movement brought long-silenced experiences of women to the forefront, the national lens has been laser-focused on bodies and power. But what stories—and which voices—are left out of our current national discussion? Two new moving and important small-press anthologies seek to broaden the conversation.
In the anthology My Body, My Words: A Collection of Bodies (Big Table Publishing), Amye Archer and Loren Kleinman gathered contributors to share stories around body image. The book's website cites statistics that motivate the editors: "20 million women and 10 million men will suffer from a 'clinically significant' eating disorder in their lifetime," adding that 40–60% of girls worry about their weight before age six. Archer and Kleinman praise "an explosion of books" on the body, and indeed, My Body, My Words joins a growing genre. Its goal is to bring together many, varied voices in one place, and to expand the "body positivity" discussion beyond just weight loss, to include things like disability, aging, gender identity, and sexual preference.
The compendium features emerging writers, as well as familiar faces like Beverly Donofrio (Riding in Cars with Boys) and Martha Frankel (Hats & Eyeglasses), who authors the Introduction. My Body, My Words aims to look at more than weight, but that's where it starts. Frankel opens with an internal drama many will recognize—the experience of perusing old photos of herself and remembering how she'd felt when they were taken. "I was worried—about my weight, or the way my hair looked, or the way my clothes bunched around my belly. I remember sucking in, or jutting forward, or turning to the right, to hide an overbite that now seems charming." This way of writing about the body doesn't start a far-reaching conversation, but it exposes personal dialogues often left unspoken—and sets the book's tone. Most essays favor self-exploration over cultural criticism, revealing internal dramas and exposing harmful thought patterns complicated by bodies and our expectations for them.
In the haunting essay "The Weight of Silence," Heidi Stuber pairs a fluctuating number on a scale with the negative self-talk that accompanies those measurements. 142.6 lbs is "Acceptable, barely," while the note, "Disgusting. Immediate action necessary. Cut all carbs and sugar," follows an increase to 145.4 lbs. For anyone who has struggled with binge dieting, this story's familiarity is meaningful. It's hard to believe you're the only one beating yourself up when the sentences read like they were pulled from your own head.
My Body, My Words delivers on its promise to change the way young girls see themselves, especially in coming-of-age narratives. In "Water," Megan Culhane Galbraith's "weightless" body with its jutting hip bones figures as a character in her account of skinny dipping as a camp counselor. And in the gut-wrenching "The Fat Filly," Wynn Chapman reveals how her mother's worry that she has too many "male hormones" crushes her self-image.
A handful of men feature in My Body, My Words as well. In the touching piece "Hey, Old Man," Dinty W. Moore laments: "What bothers me most at this juncture are the age spots." Men, he says, aren't supposed to worry about wilting, "But we feel it too." Jim Warner's piece "Melt" meditates on how poor self-image and sexual dysfunction stunt a relationship: "Resting heart rate under sixty. Poured heart from a gelatin mold. 115 pounds lighter and I'm more afraid to be naked." Males struggling with confidence issues after massive weight loss don't typically get the spotlight. Still, the most impactful pieces reveal how much more complicated body relationships can be for historically marginalized groups.
In "Thigh Gap (or Lack Thereof)," Eloísa Pérez-Lozano longs for "the supposedly ideal hourglass figure assigned to the stereotypical Latina woman," but comes to terms with legs that won't conform. She doesn't just encounter typical beauty standards—she must reconcile what she sees in the mirror with a narrow vision of what she should be. E.R. Zhang's beautiful piece exposes what it feels like to fill out a simple form when neither "Male," nor "Female" feels quite right. "My friend checks 'female' without a second thought," Zhang writes, "She doesn't know what it feels like not to know." It's a vivid picture of gender fluidity: "I wake up and it's a boy day. / I wake up and it's a girl day. / I wake up and it's a day. / I wake up and it's day." While cis women might feel overweight and invisible, gender-variant bodies are literally written off. Monique Antonette Lewis's letter, addressed from her hair to herself, captures how she finally stopped battling her locks into submission to fit into a white patriarchal ideal: "You want to set me free but some say I am unwelcome in a white man's world."
At times, My Body, My Words defines "body issues" loosely, and looks more at how our corporeal selves interfere with who we imagine ourselves to be. In "Teddy Bear Theater," Kaylie Jones confronts her own impulses after slapping her daughter for refusing to put on her coat after school—as if her arm had its own volition. Instead, she learns that, left unchecked, anger issues can influence her actions despite her best intentions. Molly Pennington's "Sensitivity to Light" depicts life as "a hostage" to migraines in a medical system that under-medicates and invalidates women in pain. And in the interesting piece "Miscarriage," Bryne Lewis learns to trust her biology, even when it seems wrong. "On the back porch, I realized my body had made that decision, the right decision, for me."
With fifty-four essays sharing such a broad sweep of experiences, the collection succeeds in looking beyond weight loss journeys, and manages to be both meditative and playful. However, the breadth of coverage underlines just how open a topic "the body" is for one volume, and just how much more there is to say.
If My Body, My Words is about what Frankel calls "the whole mess of being human," another new anthology takes a different approach, dialing into the more specific experience of identifying as trans or non-binary in a culture that labels you "Other." Written on the Body: Letters from Trans and Non-Binary Survivors of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence focuses on depth rather than range, specifically making space for what organizer and contributor Dean Spade calls "gender rule-breakers." Editor Lexie Bean, a writer and TeenVogue contributor, garnered support for the project with a GoFundMe campaign. The result is a collection of letters to specific body parts, by anonymous contributors from the gender-variant community.
Unlike much popular writing about trans and non-binary experiences, Written on the Body is neither cultural criticism nor coming-of-age memoir. Rather, the letters reveal slices of identities in progress, not yet polished for the public eye. Most of the works don't follow a clear arc—because they're not stories. Instead, they offer private, narrow windows into a life. They don't explain. Often, it's unclear what gender a writer identifies with, what their sexual preferences are, how they were assigned at birth. In this gender-bending house of mirrors, a new way of being emerges, where the writers are people with genders, rather than gendered people. As the writers tell fundamentally human stories while declining to "place" themselves in a gender, how they identify becomes secondary to their personhood. They cast gender as a private experience rather than a public classification system.
Each essay is addressed to a single feature: hands, ribs, necks, and yes, genitals. Ieshai Bailey, one of the project organizers, explains that writing to a body part, instead of about it, can offer distance. It allows writers to zero in on a single feature, she says, "which may have once been objectified, misused, abused, dehumanized, medicalized, hidden, and hurt." Some pieces, like "To my fifteen-year-old chest," do just that. In practice, however, most of the letters cover less explicitly sexualized terrain, like editor Lexie Bean's beautiful poem "To My Back":
the chiropracter didn't touch you
instead she said to the rest of us
what you used to protect yourself
years ago
is now only hurting you
if you keep making yourself small
your back is only going to get worse
i wish i knew
making you small
i never stretch you towards
i care more about hiding my breasts
than your wellbeing
every possible solution to your pain
seems temporary
everything that still hurts
keeps climbing up your ladder…
Narratives of sexual assault don't typically center around the back, but exploring the repercussions of trauma through a spine highlights just how pervasive and long-lasting a violent or abusive act can be. It emphasizes what is likely obvious in the trans and non-binary community—identity isn't just about coming to terms with birth sex or sexual preference. Another letter, "Dear Eyes," relives abuse through the pupils that witnessed it. "You've seen him. You know he's not as strong as I am. You also saw him hit me." These letters move the focus away from taboo body parts and allow the writers to figure as whole people.
While much of Written on the Body occupies private thoughts and spaces, for those living outside the old-fashioned definitions of "he" and "she," perhaps it's difficult to separate the personal from the political. The provocative critique of feminism, "Dear You-Who-Must-Not-Be-Loved," objects to legislation like the Bathroom Bill, reminding readers that trans women are the people most at-risk in public restrooms. It demands that feminist upheaval against sexual assault include the trans community: "Society often doesn't believe cis women when they say they've been raped. Society even (and sometimes especially) feminist society, doesn't believe that trans femmes can be raped." It reveals how easily—even with the #MeToo movement in full-swing—trans women might be left out entirely, or worse, vilified. "Patriarchy," the letter continues, "means that cis women are identified with blame or victimhood or survival, transmisogyny means that trans girls are identified with violence."
Aging seems especially complicated here, too. "We non-binary people in our 50s are thin on the ground still," reads one note, regretting that in popular imagination, the gender-variant community is exclusively young. "Nonsense, we're everywhere and everyage." Another pens their story of traveling to Thailand at age sixty-seven for gender reassignment surgery. Even without the logistics of transitioning, several writers describe a poignant belatedness when coming into their own after coming of age. "A Song for My Voice" reads, "I too have felt like a permanent child until I started to step into my 'true' gender, if such a thing exists. It feels like a second puberty." These letters show that for non-binary and transgender people, growing up is a minefield of personal hurdles and cultural expectations, far more tangled than just "coming out" or transitioning.
Written on the Body comes with a trigger warning, and the writing often has a raw, experimental quality. It makes sense; the letters are designed to help the writers heal themselves, and part of that process is experimenting with the language they use to convey their stories. "For gender rule-breakers," writes organizer Dean Spade, "finding words and images about our bodies and sexuality that ring familiar is a matter of survival. We need different words, different images, different frames for understanding ourselves and our parts and reclaiming what is stolen by meanings that have been forced on us."
By no means are the letter-writers chronically wounded, though. Some essays are embraces like "Dear tender squishy wonderful belly." Others, like "Ode to My Trans Penis," are triumphant explorations of sexuality. Often, the book reads like an anthem: "Body, we both know who owns you, no matter what they told Carrie Buck or Henrietta Lacks . . . Body, we claim you every single day as we flow through gender, uncomplicated." But we learn from the Written on the Body that selfhood is actually incredibly thorny for the gender-variant community. That these self-investigations are anonymous underscores the real danger trans and non-binary people risk when they claim their identities publicly.
While the book is designed to be a healing tool "by and for trans and non-binary survivors," it's also a much-needed education for anyone looking to better understand and support the gender-variant population. Ieshai Bailey, LMHC, CST, includes a "Guide for Professionals and Mentors" at the back of the book that cis-gendered readers would do well to inspect. "First, I implore you to put aside everything you may think you know about the Gender Variant Community," Bailey writes. "You have a unique opportunity to do the single most important thing I am going to ask you to do right now, and that is: LISTEN." And there is a lot to listen to.
Both of these new, important books interrogate what it means to inhabit yourself in a political and social landscape where safety, acceptance, and rights aren't guaranteed to all. My Body, My Words sets out to bring more voices and stories to discussions of body image that typically focus solely on women, weight loss, and sexism. The resulting volume is a valuable collection, especially for educators. And beyond the engaging essays, the book is worth purchasing, as half of the proceeds will go to the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media. But there's a lot more to say than will fit into one volume, especially from more marginalized voices. Written on the Body effectively makes space for a specific community that is often othered. It's a powerful exercise in claiming a narrative and processing trauma, but when writers share their stories anonymously, there's still a long way to go. Despite the boom in body image books, we need small presses to keep publishing underrepresented perspectives like this, until they're no longer relegated to the margins.
Randle Browning
Randle Browning is a writer in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MA in English Literature from Boston College and has written for Electric Literature and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Her website is https://www.randlebrowning.com/.


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Q: matomo SecurityInfo plugin privileged user error I installed the matomo  SecurityInfo plugin and I am getting these errors in red. What I don't understand is that I am already running php as a non privileged user and group. ( www-data for both user and group ) So why I still having this message ? Thank you
group_id    PHP may be executing as a "privileged" group, which could be a serious security vulnerability.
user_id PHP may be executing as a "privileged" user, which could be a serious security vulnerability.

A: The test only checks the group user ID of the user that is running PHP (www-data in your case) and throws a warning if it is below 100 (same for group id).
On my system the id of www-data is 33, therefore the library throws a warning.
As this seems to be the default in Debian (and therefore Ubuntu), I think that should be fine.

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Q: How to make a scrolling background? I'm making a Shooter game like "1943" and "Jamestown". I was wondering how I would make the scrolling background to simulate moving forward and How would I make this efficient? I was thinking about using a animated GIF or to make a looping BitMap. Please could someone help me out.
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A: Take a look at the XNA framework for game development to develop a game that will use the computer's resources efficiently for smooth gameplay and frame rates.  There are a number of books and online tutorials available.
If you're wanting a quick and dirty vertical background scroll in a windows form, you could always place a panel control inside another panel, set the outer panel to not display scrollbars, and make the inner panel twice as tall (or more), and set the background texture of the inner panel to be the background image you want to display.  You can then animate the inner panel to move from top to bottom and reset back to the top when it reaches the bottom.  Also be sure to design your background image so that the view at the top and the view at the bottom are the same for a smooth transition when the panel gets reset.  You'll also want to call panel.Refresh() when you move the panel.
All that said, the XNA framework is really the way to go for game development.


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While the business' brand promise remains the same across the whole network, there are subtle differences to your offer and positioning in different locations and regions. We really do mean subtle - much of your offer will be the same, but the price might alter, or perhaps your stock mix or stock turn rate is different.
Take time to understand these differences.
If your second, third or fourth site is greenfield, apply what you know concerning your current store/s and the market to take your best approximation of the right mix, and then iterate from there.
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With a multi-site setup, the chances are you have at least one store with a manager in place.
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My queries are slow and do not seem to use the GSI indexes what am I doing wrong.
EXPLAIN SELECT doc.id FROM development_bucket doc WHERE doc.id = "list-VyXX$ne3e"
Awesome, that fixed it. So I can't use OR? Can I use OR in 4.5?
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may be @geraldss can give us the answer.
You can use OR if both predicates were using the same expression and index. Otherwise, use UNION ALL.


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Eric Lehmann, né le  à Versoix est un journaliste, gestionnaire et commandant de police suisse.

Biographie

Activités professionnelles

Licencié en droit, diplômé en gestion d'entreprise, journaliste inscrit au registre professionnel après un stage en radio, il fait ses débuts en télévision au département d'actualité avant de devenir Grand reporter puis présentateur vedette du Journal télévisé. En 1985, il prend la tête du Journal « La Suisse ».

En 1990, il est éditeur délégué de La Tribune de Genève puis nommé à la présidence de la Société suisse de radiodiffusion et télévision qu'il dirige durant onze ans, tout en créant, au Kosovo, la Radio-Télévision du Kosovo (RTK).

Parallèlement il préside la SEHT (Société d'Edition et d'Hébergement Télématique), KIM & Cie SA (société de communication), Forum de Crans-Montana, SAM SA (Sport Art Management). On le retrouve également au Conseil de Fondation du Grand-Théâtre de Genève, à celui du Théâtre de Carouge ou encore au Comité genevois de la Main Tendue. Administrateur de la Fondation Hippomène (propriétaire du Stade des Charmilles) il participe activement à la construction du Stade de Genève ainsi que du Musée International de l'Automobile.

En 2001, il prend la tête de la plus grande coopérative viticole de Suisse.

Il est nommé directeur de la police vaudoise et crée l'académie de police de Savatan. Il quitte la branche sécuritaire en 2008 et crée un cabinet de conseils, Lehmann, Kim & Partners en communication stratégique et en sécurité. Il est le cofondateur du site Wikiswiss.ch.

En 2020 il est nommé président du Tribunal arbitral de la Fédération suisse de patinage. (SIS)

Sur le plan sportif, ancien membre de l'Equipe nationale de voile, il fut aussi président du Ski-Natique-Club de Genève.  Il est le créateur de la course TERRIFIC de Crans-Montana, de la Cyclo-sportive Serge Demierre, du Club de patinage de Crans-Montana (ISCCM).

Il est l'auteur de quelques essais politiques ainsi que des pièces de théâtre.

Publications
 Parti pris (tomes 1 et 2), Éditions de l'Aire, 1984.
 Wod et les Avenaires, pièce de théâtre montée à Genève en 1998.
 Journal de l'après-guerre au Kosovo, Éditions Favre, 2000.
 Poderosa, pièce de théâtre en trois actes, 2006.
 Le Petit dictionnaire des mots oubliés... et trahis, Éditions Amalthée, 2014.
 Les dérisoires, Pièce de théâtre, 2015.
 Mes brèves de télévision, Éditions Cabedita, 2018.
 Ma fille ne le sait pas encore mais le patinage est un sport très glissant, Éditions Icerink, 2019.
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Noé et le Management vertical. Editions l'Harmattan. Littérature et Management. 2021
Si Littré m'était mal conté. Editions Ambre. 2021
Le mystère du Monument Brunswick. Editions Slatkine. Sous le pseudonyme de Le Groumeur. 2021
Les libertés perdues. Editions Ambre-Slatkine. 2022
Après moi le déluge. Editions de La Versoix. 2022
On a enlevé la femme du Président. Editions Kindle 2022
Curé, à ta mort qui m'ouvrira la porte de l'Eglise. Disputatio avec Michel Salamolard. A paraître en 2023 aux Editions Saint-Augustin

Notes et références

Personnalité suisse du XXe siècle
Journaliste suisse
Collaborateur de La Tribune de Genève
Naissance en mars 1947
Naissance à Versoix

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New DNV GL white paper looks to close looming safety gap
DNV GL, the world's leading classification society, released a white paper – "Closing the safety gap in an era of transformation" – at a press conference today. The white paper identifies a looming "safety gap" between shipping's existing approach to safety risks and its ambitions for greater digitalisation and the adoption of alternative fuels.
The maritime industry is undergoing a rapid transition to a decarbonised, digitally smart future. However, the new technologies and fuels that the industry is banking on to meet the challenges of the next decades are also creating a new risk landscape and demanding a new approach to safety. If shipping is able to adapt and implement the new safety paradigm identified in the white paper – the end result could be a maritime industry that is not only more efficient and sustainable – but safer as well.
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The white paper identifies a looming "safety gap" between shipping's existing approach to safety risks and its ambitions for greater digitalisation and the adoption of alternative fuels.
The white paper focuses on the twin trends shaping the industry – digitalization and decarbonization – and the different safety-related risks associated with these trends. Digitalization increases system complexity and introduces new ways of operation and collaboration. While decarbonization involves a significant increase in the use of alternative fuels and operations. To deal with these, the white paper focuses heavily on the interaction between technology, organizations, and the greatest asset of the maritime industry: Its people.
"If we want to ensure our industry transforms safely, we must embrace the idea that whenever we are developing new technologies, systems and processes, the end user must be central to that development process," said Fenna van de Merwe, Principal Consultant at DNV GL – Maritime, and the paper's lead author. "Our aim should be that throughout the industry we have a shared focus that in both design and operation we are supporting people in their work and decision making. This is essential to understanding these new risks and to building the safety barriers that will enable us to realise the potential of these new technologies and processes safely."
The white paper concludes that every maritime organization can play a part in facilitating safe and efficient performance, by balancing technology and personnel, utilizing human-centric design, and ensuring the overall wellbeing of their people. Because ultimately, it is the people in these organisations who will lead the industry forward as it transforms to a more digital and decarbonized future.
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Breanna Stewart edges A'ja Wilson for AP WNBA Player of the Year
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For the second year in a row, Breanna Stewart has been named the Associated Press WNBA Player of the Year.
After leading the WNBA in scoring for the first time in her career (21.8 points), the Seattle Storm forward becomes the first player in WNBA history to repeat as the AP Player of the Year. She also received the award in 2018.
Stewart received six votes, edging A'ja Wilson, who received the other four votes from the a 10-member media panel.
"It's an honor to be recognized as the best in the league," Stewart said. "Since I started in the WNBA in 2016, just trying to get better. Elevate myself and the team, the league as a whole. A big honor, but we're motivated by more and that's trying to win a championship."
Wilson was named the AP's Defensive Player of the Year, narrowly beating Alyssa Thomas and Natasha Cloud. Wilson averaged 1.9 blocks and 1.4 steals per game for the Las Vegas Aces, who enter the WNBA playoffs with the top seed.
Her Aces teammate Jackie Young was named Most Improved Player.
Atlanta Dream coach Tanisha Wright was named Coach of the Year, becoming the first former WNBA player to win the award.
"It's good practice to have former players on the bench whether they are head coaches or assistant coaches," Wright said. "We've come up through the fire and put our stamp on the WNBA. I'm proud to be part of that group of players that have played in this league and impacted it in a different way now."
Other AP award winners include:
Sixth Woman of the Year: Connecticut's Brionna Jones was the unanimous choice one year after winning the AP's Most Improved Player. She averaged 13.8 points, 5.1 rebounds and 1.2 steals off the bench for Connecticut.
Comeback Player of the Year: Jones' Sun teammate Alyssa Thomas earned the award after missing all but two games during the 2021 regular season because of an Achilles injury she suffered in January 2021. Thomas averaged 13.4 points, 8.2 rebounds and 6.1 assists.
Rookie of the Year: The No. 1 overall pick by the Atlanta Dream, Rhyne Howard averaged 16.2 points and 4.6 rebounds this season while helping Atlanta win six more games than last season. "Rhy put us on her back and made a statement for herself and the organization and franchise," Wright said.
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Monaco slows down Lille's Champions League bid with 1-0 win
Associated PressMar 16, 2019, 9:23 AM EDT
PARIS (AP) Monaco boosted its chances of staying up and slowed down Lille's bid for an automatic Champions League place with a 1-0 away win on Friday.
Brazilian striker Carlos Vinicius pounced in the last minute to move Monaco up to 16th place in the French league and keep Lille under pressure in the fight for second.
[ MORE: Ligue 1 score, schedule ]
Third-place Lyon can close the gap to four points with a home win against seventh-place Montpellier on Sunday, after which both sides have nine games left.
In Friday's other game, eighth-place Nice conceded a last-gasp equalizer in a 1-1 home draw with 14th-place Toulouse.
As so often this season, Nice played without a recognized center forward and midfielder Wylan Cyprien opened the scoring midway through the first half with a free kick from 30 meters (33 yards) out. Striker Firmin Mubele equalized in the 89th minute for Toulouse, which moved further away from the danger zone.
Meanwhile, runaway league leader Paris Saint-Germain remains 17 points clear of Lille despite playing two games less, and is even closer to another title after Lille's stumble.
PSG hosts bitter rival Marseille on Sunday, with only the title and the French Cup to focus on following its surprise elimination from the Champions League.
Marseille has found form since the arrival of striker Mario Balotelli from Nice. He has netted five times in seven games to help the club into fourth place.
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Hello, world. Facebook's algorithms shaping the news. Self-driving cars roaming the streets. Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder. We live in a world constructed of code--and coders are the ones who built it for us. From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson comes a brilliant anthropological reckoning with the most powerful tribe in the world today, computer programmers, in a book that interrogates who they are, how they think, what qualifies as greatness in their world, and what should give us pause. They are the most quietly influential people on the planet, and Coders shines a light on their culture. In pop culture and media, the people who create the code that rules our world are regularly portrayed in hackneyed, simplified terms, as ciphers in hoodies. Thompson goes far deeper, dramatizing the psychology of the invisible architects of the culture, exploring their passions and their values, as well as their messy history. In nuanced portraits, Coders takes us close to some of the great programmers of our time, including the creators of Facebook's News Feed, Instagram, Google's cutting-edge AI, and more. Speaking to everyone from revered "10X" elites to neophytes, back-end engineers and front-end designers, Thompson explores the distinctive psychology of this vocation--which combines a love of logic, an obsession with efficiency, the joy of puzzle-solving, and a superhuman tolerance for mind-bending frustration. Along the way, Coders thoughtfully ponders the morality and politics of code, including its implications for civic life and the economy. Programmers shape our everyday behavior: When they make something easy to do, we do more of it. When they make it hard or impossible, we do less of it. Thompson wrestles with the major controversies of our era, from the "disruption" fetish of Silicon Valley to the struggle for inclusion by marginalized groups. In his accessible, erudite style, Thompson unpacks the surprising history of the field, beginning with the first coders -- brilliant and pioneering women, who, despite crafting some of the earliest personal computers and programming languages, were later written out of history. Coders introduces modern crypto-hackers fighting for your privacy, AI engineers building eerie new forms of machine cognition, teenage girls losing sleep at 24/7 hackathons, and unemployed Kentucky coal-miners learning a new career. At the same time, the book deftly illustrates how programming has become a marvelous new art form--a source of delight and creativity, not merely danger. To get as close to his subject as possible, Thompson picks up the thread of his own long-abandoned coding skills as he reckons, in his signature, highly personal style, with what superb programming looks like. To understand the world today, we need to understand code and its consequences. With Coders, Thompson gives a definitive look into the heart of the machine.
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Index Fungorum

#### Published in
in Hu & Peng, Acta Mycol. Sin. 9(1): 6 (1990)

#### Original name
Heterochaete chrysocystidiata Y.B. Peng & X.W. Hu

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