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Malta is the centre for international business and a model economy based on sound policymaking and a pro-business environment. Malta's economy is dynamic and innovation-driven. It is a multicultural, multilingual country, with more than 88% of the population speaking the business language – English. Ranking as one of the European countries with lowest unemployment rates and with a growing economy of 6%, Malta offers plenty of opportunities for those who want to grow personally and professionally.
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Paragon Europe is a leading innovative, international EU affairs, advisory and compliance company with head offices in Malta and Brussels with over 14 years of operational experience.
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Paragon Europe is a leading innovative, international EU affairs, advisory and compliance company with head offices in Malta and Brussels. With over 14 years of operational experience, our multilingual, multicultural and multidisciplinary team has developed the right expertise to carry out project activities and tenders to the highest standards. With an average annual participation in over 350 EU funded projects and with a success rate comparable to the topmost European Universities, Paragon Europe has established itself with global and European credentials in the field of internships, research and innovation projects.
This position entails oversees travel on company business.
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Paragon Europe is an innovative, international EU affairs, advisory and compliance company with head offices in Malta and Brussels.
With over 12 years of operational experience, our multilingual, multicultural and multidisciplinary team has developed the right expertise to carry out project activities and tenders to the highest standards. With an average annual participation in over 350 EU projects and with a success rate comparable to the topmost European Universities, Paragon Europe has established itself with global and European credentials in the field of research and innovation projects.
Paragon Europe is looking for a Senior Project Officer to join its Head Office in Malta.
Working closely and reporting to the Directors, the ideal candidate will be responsible to maintain established networks and create new ones, searching for new project collaboration and attend high level meetings with partners and possible collaborator/s.
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Interested candidate can send motivation letter and an updated CV to Ms Maria Borg, HR Manager, at maria.borg@paragoneurope.eu, indicating as object of the e-mail "Senior Project Officer".


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Serbia SEE Energy Mining News|SEE Energy News|Bosnia: TPP Stanari back online after overhaul
Bosnia: TPP Stanari back online after overhaul
Published on 15. May 2018. , SEE Energy News
Bosnian thermal power plant Stanari, owned and operated by EFT Group, has been reconnected to the electricity after the annual overhaul in which it invested about one million euros.
The statement from the plant said that the main activities during the downtime were performed at the boiler and turbo-generator thus ensuring the reliable plant operation in the future, improving and maintaining its efficiency and providing the conditions to proceed with the application of stateof-the-art technologies in regard to environmental protection. The overhaul starter on 8 April.
In April, EFT also said that besides this lengthy, annual overhaul, the plant will also undertake much shorter one in autumn, with expected downtime of 8-10 days. 300 MW coal-fired TPP Stanari produced a total of 2,035 GWh of electricity in 2017, while nearby coalmine produced 2.5 million tons of coal, both in line with the annual production plan. According to the plan for 2018, TPP Stanari should produce 2,025 GWh of electricity with coal production in the same amount as last year's.

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Nutrients. 2019 Sep 9;11(9). pii: E2158. doi: 10.3390/nu11092158.
Vitamin D and ω-3 Supplementations in Mediterranean Diet During the 1st Year of Overt Type 1 Diabetes: A Cohort Study.
Cadario F1,2,3, Pozzi E4, Rizzollo S4, Stracuzzi M4, Beux S4, Giorgis A4, Carrera D5, Fullin F6, Riso S5, Rizzo AM7, Montorfano G7, Bagnati M8, Dianzani U9,8,10, Caimmi P11, Bona G4, Ricordi C12,13.
Division of Pediatrics, University of Piemonte Orientale, 28100 Novara, Italy. francesco.cadario@gmail.com.
IRCAD (Interdisciplinary Research Center of Autoimmune Diseases), 28100 Novara, Italy. francesco.cadario@gmail.com.
Diabetes Research Institute Federation, Miami, FL 33163, USA. francesco.cadario@gmail.com.
Division of Pediatrics, University of Piemonte Orientale, 28100 Novara, Italy.
Department Dietetic and Clinical NutritionUniversity Hospital of Novara, University of Piemonte Orientale, 28100 Novara, Italy.
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, UniversitàdegliStudi di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy.
Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences (DiSFEB), Laboratory of Membrane Biochemistry and Applied Nutrition, UniversitàdegliStudi di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy.
Clinical Biochemistry, University Hospital of Novara, 28100 Novara, Italy.
IRCAD (Interdisciplinary Research Center of Autoimmune Diseases), 28100 Novara, Italy.
Immunology, Department of Health Sciences, Università del Piemonte Orientale, 28100 Novara, Italy.
Medical Direction University Hospital of Novara, 28100 Novara, Italy.
Diabetes Research Institute Federation, Miami, FL 33163, USA. CRicordi@miami.edu.
Diabetes Research Institute and Cell Transplant Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA. CRicordi@miami.edu.
Vitamin D and omega 3 fatty acid (ω-3) co-supplementation potentially improves type 1 diabetes (T1D) by attenuating autoimmunity and counteracting inflammation. This cohort study, preliminary to a randomized control trial (RCT), is aimed at evaluating, in a series of T1D children assuming Mediterranean diet and an intake of cholecalciferol of 1000U/day from T1D onset, if ω-3 co-supplementation preserves the residual endogen insulin secretion (REIS). Therefore, the cohort of 22 "new onsets" of 2017 received ω-3 (eicosapentenoic acid (EPA) plus docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), 60 mg/kg/day), and were compared retrospectively vs. the 37 "previous onsets" without ω-3 supplementation. Glicosilated hemoglobin (HbA1c%), the daily insulin demand (IU/Kg/day) and IDAA1c, a composite index (calculated as IU/Kg/day × 4 + HbA1c%), as surrogates of REIS, were evaluated at recruitment (T0) and 12 months later (T12). In the ω-3 supplemented group, dietary intakes were evaluated at T0 and T12. As an outcome, a decreased insulin demand (p < 0.01), particularly as pre-meal boluses (p < 0.01), and IDAA1c (p < 0.05), were found in the ω-3 supplemented group, while HbA1c% was not significantly different. Diet analysis in the ω-3 supplemented group, at T12 vs. T0, highlighted that the intake of arachidonic acid (AA) decreased (p < 0.01). At T0, the AA intake was inversely correlated with HbA1c% (p < 0.05; r;. 0.411). In conclusion, the results suggest that vitamin D plus ω-3 co-supplementation as well as AA reduction in the Mediterranean diet display benefits for T1D children at onset and deserve further investigation.
AA/EPA ratio; DHA; EPA; arachidonic acid; cholecalciferol; honeymoon period; omega3; remission period; type 1 diabetes
10.3390/nu11092158
Levels of average daily insulin needs (IU/Kg/day), pre-meal boluses (IU/Kg/day), glicosilated hemoglobin percentage (HbA1c%), and the Insulin Dose adjusted for glicosilated hemoglobin percentage partial remission index (IDAA1c ≤ 9), in supplemented case (white), for 22 patients after 12 months of ω-3 supplementation vs. controls (black), a group of 37 not-supplemented patients at the same time.
Vitamin D and ω-3 Supplementations in Mediterranean Diet During the 1st Year of Overt Type 1 Diabetes: A Cohort Study
Nutrients. 2019 Sep;11(9):2158.
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Home » Gender Failure: In Depth With Rae Spoon & Ivan Coyote
Gender Failure: In Depth With Rae Spoon & Ivan Coyote
By Bobbi Zahra, for Wayves.
Neither Rae Spoon nor Ivan Coyote is a stranger to Halifax (lucky us!), and in advance of their upcoming show, Gender Failure, at the Bus Stop Theatre on Gottingen Street – a neighbourhood known by many as an alternate cultural mecca: New York City may have 'off-Broadway,' but Halifax has Gottingen and the neighbourhood around it, up to Agricola. Do yourself a favour and find out what's happening there in any given week – but I digress.
We are here today to have a few words with Spoon and Coyote, to whet your appetite for their April 20thappearance. No thanks to their often frenetic travel and performance schedules, we didn't get to sit down and do this over a beverage of some sort… but thanks, indeed, to the wonders of technology, because we did get to connect electronically and by phone!
Wayves: Rae, thanks for taking the time for this, and let me be among the first to officially welcome you back to Halifax – you're not quite here yet, but you're getting closer, and we're pretty happy about that. Let's jump right in to it – where are your favourite places to perform?
Rae Spoon: I've gotten friendly with a lot of places and really like playing in Europe – it's a cool place to be a performer. I live in MTL because I've always loved playing here. In Halifax, the Bus Stop is a good size – you get more people out than we might expect in a venue that size. GF is more literary and better suited to a smaller venue. There seems to be a lot of support for live music in Halifax.
I look at a bunch of criteria, but it's really important for venues to be accessible. Accessibility more and more an issue in the queer community – groups in TO will boycott things that aren't accessible. If I am choosing the venue, I try to achieve this. (More after the jump ...)
W: You started out singing country and have since added other genres to your repertoire. Do you consider that any one genre is your musical home, or will you resist an innate audience urge to pigeonhole you?
RS: The base of it is songwriting – the last few songs could be recorded in a number of genres. For me, it's about my bringing my songwriting to a genre. Singing and songwriting are my strengths, and the genre isn't so important. My Prairie Home is more folky than country.
W: Both your music and your writing have gotten the attention of awards programs, for which congratulations (Rae Spoon has released seven solo albums and three collaborative albums over the past ten years. They have toured extensively in Canada and internationally and have been nominated for The Polaris Music Prize, CBC Radio 3 Bucky Awards, and the Galaxy Rising Star Award). Do you consider yourself first a performer or a writer? Do you get more pleasure from one than from the other?
RS: For music, I wrote songs before I performed them – when I first wrote, I was very shy and hated performing. I don't really consider a song finished until I can play it for an audience and see how they think about it.
W: How autobiographical is your music? Or am I reading something into some song titles that just isn't there? Besides "My Prairie Home," for instance, which is very much about you, how much of you is reflected in earlier music, and how much is simply character-driven?
RS: My Prairie Home is of course autobiographical; but then, the music is all fairly autobiographical. The goal of the song, though, is to somehow reach people with room for their own story, their own interpretation.
W: Ivan, since joining forces with Arsenal Pulp Press in 2000, you've released 9 books, covering genres from memoir to young adult to some pretty serious scholarly work with Zena Sherman. Every one of them has been nominated for, or has won a literary award. Then there's the music – which we have yet to hear in Halifax, sadly. And of course, performances such as the Gender Failure collaboration and your own solo shows. When do you sleep?!
Ivan Coyote: Finding a work and life balance is increasingly challenging. I say no a lot more. I create boundaries. I don't take gigs where I am not paid a living wage, or that I don't feel will be well-organised or well-attended. Even still, finding time to create and just live is a struggle some days. Every morning, I wake up to a full inbox, and there is no possible way I can do or be or answer or give every bit of advice I am asked for. Letting go of feeling like I have to or even can is a daily juggling game.
W: And Rae, following up First Spring Grass Fire, which was a Lambda finalist in the Transgender Fiction category, you have this new collaboration with another literary star, in the just-published Gender Failure (which readers can pick up at Venus Envy in Halifax!) What works better for you – collaboration or working on your own?
RS: My first book was written for the director of My Prairie Home. I hadn't planned to write a book and just wanted to tell her some stories. I was actually trying to map out the film when I wrote that book. With Gender Failure, we already had a performance that we thought might have something more. I like doing both, and working with Ivan provides some unique stories.
W: Rae, what authors do you like to read? What book or books have had a strong influence on you or your writing?
RS: People suggest books to me – and now that I have a book, I have become friends with other writers, so I read pretty much anything, and take suggestions. Miranda July has a book that has taught me that you really can write any way you want. I liked the book but mostly I liked that you could write in your own voice. There was room for my voice.
Q: Ivan – same questions. Who do you like to read? What book(s) have had a strong influence on you or your writing?
IC: I like a lot of Canadian authors. I like the sensibility, the pacing the sense of humour, it is familiar. Right now, I've just finished Joseph Boyden's new book The Orenda. Now reading Emma Donaghue's Frog Music... Lidia Yuknavitch, from Portland, OR – I love her book, The Chronology of Water. Jeannette Winterson. Dorothy Allison. The books of my peers and fellow road dogs and writer pals. Some poetry. Tom Spanbauer, pretty much anything he ever wrote. I am one of those writers who are influenced a little bit by every single thing I read, even directions in a manual. I soak it all up and then have a think on it, and it will pop up somewhere in my work, even subconsciously.
W: Do you read your reviews? Do you respond to them, good or bad?
RS: I sometimes read the reviews, but I'm not inclined to correct errors like someone thinking that I use autotune if I don't. You know when you make something that not everyone will like it.
W: Rae, I know you've had speaking engagements at universities, including guest lectures and speeches. Given those experiences, and engagements with GSA groups, is there perhaps a workshop in the making for high schools? I'm thinking to when my daughter was part of her high school's GSA, which was sometimes challenging but also affirming. If you haven't already got it waiting in the wings, would you hop on board if a school approached you?
RS: There's a music workshop with LGBTQ in Edmonton associated with the Gender Failure tour. I've also done music workshops at the Youth Project in Halifax, and really, I do workshops & GSA conferences as I'm asked. It's important work – at my high school, we cobbled together a group of about 20 people, including those who were goths, who may have been technically straight, and who were doing GSA work. People can contact me, and I'd be happy to do it. I try to fit it in when I can.
W: You're both clearly connected to the community in a deeper way than just tours to support your own current work. Ivan, how did you develop the "One in Every Crowd" presentation? The idea is brilliant, and I cannot imagine an adolescent who wouldn't benefit from it. How do you let schools know that this is even a possibility for them? What's the best thing you can think of that's happened from one of those presentations?
IC: I started going into high schools about 15 years ago, just as an artist and storyteller. While doing those shows I realized the potential of art and writing in schools, so I wrote a show that was designed to get the youth thinking and talking about how they/we treat people who are different, in all of the ways that we can be, whether that be race or gender or gender identity or sexuality of class or ability. The show works, so often I think I get more bookings by word of mouth through teachers or school staff and of course, the kids themselves. The young adult book (also called One in Every Crowd) also helps get the word out about that show, and I also have a booking agent who helps me get it into schools.
W: Ivan, you've been a writer-in-residence several times – what do you like about that? I've read in an essay you wrote a couple of years ago about the pleasure you seem to get in coaxing people's stories from them. It's almost as if you're helping in a birthing process.
IC: I like doing residencies because it gives me a solid length of time in a particular writing and academic community. I've done one in Ottawa, London, Winnipeg, and Vancouver. I like running into those writers years later and getting a chance to catch up on what they have done with their work, and how their writing has developed. Many of my former mentees have gone on to publish or do great things. I like bearing witness to that.
W: What do you consider to be your best accomplishment?
RS: I'm proud of My Prairie Home – it was a really big project, we worked on it for 5 years. To see the film finished and to see the good reception has been very relieving to me.
W: Ivan, what do you think is the best thing you've ever written? Have you published it? If not, why not?
IC: I hope I haven't written the best thing I have ever written yet. I also think the true task of a good storyteller is to pick the perfect story for the perfect crowd at the right time on the right night, so in that way, I have no "best thing" I have ever written. There is the best thing for that reader or that audience member to read or hear at that given moment. I also don't rate my work, or think about it in that way. I have what I am excited to write about or perform, what I feel moved to think about or work on, and what I have performed or published. I always tweak stories when I do them live, even very old ones that were published years ago.
W: Let's talk details: How many hours a day to you devote to writing? Do you write a draft on paper or at a keyboard (typewriter or computer)? Do you write every single day? Any writing rituals? Ballpoint, uniball, fountain pen, computer…?
RS: Songs come fairly easily to me. When I'm at home, I do more songwriting – I have all my gear here. Most of my days lately are traveling and administration. There is a lot of business stuff that has to be attended to. I'm writing fairly constantly, including articles for various publications. The film has been doing really well, and there's been a great deal of attention recently – I control all the rights to my music, and Arsenal is very respectful of me. I don't think I'll ever become "a pundit" or representative of the trans* generation, and I'm ok with that. This is my story, and there's room for other narratives.
This whole process is dependent in some ways on a publisher's choice of editor … and songwriting can give me an immediate response that I don't get from a book. I can share parts of it with others, but until the whole is put together, it's a process.
W: You have a pretty punishing schedule ahead of you – it looks as if you're finished the Gender Failure tour in just a couple of weeks, in Ottawa; but then you have just a couple of weeks before you're off to Europe. Do you get much writing done on those trips, or is it just about the performance? What's up next for you?
RS: I do get some writing done while traveling, and I even record while I travel. I'll record some horns, for instance – I work as I move. I don't write as many songs while I travel, but I seem to always be working on something… write new songs. The funding process for making albums is really long… trying to figure out where the music is going, and the kind that I want to make next. I've worked on 2 scores for film/tv since My Prairie Home came out and probably will do a bit more of that.
W: Why should people go to see GF?
RS: The likelihood of our being together in Atlantic Canada is rather low… we started to write a show about being trans*, but the more I thought about writing this, I realised that it's made more complicated by gender identification. Everyone has SOME sort of gender expectation that they sometimes feel they aren't fulfilling. There's a storytelling/presentation element, but a visual element. This isn't a "queer" show, or a "trans" show, but a discussion about the gender binary for everyone. People are more than welcome to bring their parents!
Editor's Note: Bobbi Zahra is mostly a theologian, always an ally, and a great appreciator of excellent writing. She lives and works in Halifax, where she is often very outspoken but only rarely wreaks havoc. You can read her previously published Book Review of Gender Failure for Wayves here.


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Pedro Macía (Madrid, 19 de febrero de 1944 - íd., 14 de abril de 2012) fue un periodista español.

Estudió Derecho, Radiodifusión y Periodismo. Sus inicios en el mundo del periodismo fueron a través de la radio, concretamente Radio Juventud (1961), desde donde pasó a Radio Nacional de España.

Ingresó en Televisión Española en 1963, prestando su voz para reportajes emitidos en Telediario. A partir de ese momento, desfiló por numerosos programas de la cadena a lo largo de la década de 1960: En antena (1963), Punto de vista (1964), Fin de semana (1965-1966), Revista para la mujer (1967), Por tierra, mar y aire (1968), Noches de Europa (1968), Un pueblo para Europa (1970), Investigación en marcha (1970)...

A partir de 1971 se apartó temporalmente del mundo de la comunicación y se dedicó a las relaciones públicas en distintas empresas. En 1973 volvió a TVE y se puso al frente del Telediario, en el que permanece durante la etapa de la Transición, hasta 1980. Durante la primera legislatura democrática, en 1979 no quiso dar una noticia impuesta por TVE sobre una huelga de RENFE que él suponía falsa, por lo que fue cesado y destinado a Canarias. En 1981 tras presentar durante un mes el informativo Crónica 3, se le designó director del Centro Regional de RTVE en Canarias, donde permanece hasta 1983.

Tras dirigir el programa informativo Siete días y el espacio cultural Un país de Sagitario puso en marcha el programa Punto de encuentro (1985-1987), que se emitía no sólo en España sino en todos los países de habla hispana.

En 1976 se le concedió el Premio Ondas (Nacionales de Televisión).

Es autor del libro Televisión Hora Cero, Madrid, Erisa, 1981.

Falleció a consecuencia de un cáncer.

Referencias

Presentadores de televisión de España
Periodistas de España
Fallecidos por cáncer en España
Presentadores de televisión de Madrid
Nacidos en Madrid
Fallecidos en Madrid

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More and more studies are proving that the less we sleep, the higher out body fat levels will be, and the more we will weigh. It's what many observational studies seem to show, and even a number of randomised controlled studies have supported this evidence. So, the stats and results are there to show that getting sleep can lead to an increase in weight, but exactly why does this happen? Recent research seems to offer some answers.
Brain scans of patients who are sleep deprived have shown an increase in the activity in response to food, in particular areas of the brain which are considered to be associated with reward, including the putamen, insula and nucleus accumbens. Research into other sections of the brain during sleep deprivation when exposed to pictures of food seem to suggest that these regions respond much more strongly than had they not been deprived of sleep.
It might be interesting to note that the similar regions of the brain respond in similar ways between obese patients and patients who are sleep deprived. A lot of recent evidence points in the direction that obese people may have significant differences in the brain than those of normal-weight people.
There is a common trend when it comes to the activity of the brain regions in response to food in sleep deprived people and obese patients. This connection is known as the "salience network". The network keeps an inventory of how the body is as a whole, and then guides the behaviour of the body in order to put things right if something's amiss. This system allows us to notice if something might be useful in our environment, and generates some of our impulse to act. It then gives us a small reward when we've acted and the desired result is achieved. It's possible that sleep deprivation could activate the salience network and make particular types of food more appealing and palatable.
There is plenty of evidence which suggests that sleep deprivation and obesity could be directly linked. In one study carrying out research into this potential link, forty-six adults aged between 21 and 50 were recruited. None of the individuals were obese, but were between normal weight or slightly over-weight. All were non-smokers, and tested to ensure they had regular sleep patterns. The patients were given a baseline functional MRI (fMRI) of their brains after sleeping for up to nine hours. Their caloric and macronutrient intake was measured the following day.
Afterwards, the patients were then randomly assigned to either a total sleep deprivation (TSD) condition, or a control condition. Those participants in the TSD group were not allowed to sleep at all for one night. Both groups were then studied again for their macronutrient and caloric intake levels.
The primary focus of the fMRI's were to measure the "resting state functional connectivity". The resting rate is when the patients were having their brain scanned whilst doing nothing else. FMRI's are sometimes conducted whilst patients are performing tasks, although this was not done so here "Functional connectivity" refers to studying how the activity in various parts of the brain are related.
The results of the test showed that the participants who were randomised to TSD didn't actually different from the controls in any measurable amount, which included also their caloric and macronutrient intakes. This was a positive result, as it showed that any variation between them would be more likely attributable to sleep deprivation, as opposed to a statistical accident.
The results of the study showed that total sleep deprivation can, in the short-term, have an effect on the brain, which can change the macronutrient intake. Sleep deprivation, through this study, showed us that sleep deprivation increased caloric intake of almost 1000 calories on average. What we also learned from the study is that almost all of the extra caloric intake can be attributed to extra night time eating. The TSD group, when allowed a full night's sleep, ate as many calories during the day as they did when they were deprived of sleep. However, most of the calories were consumed as fat, and fewer as carbs, when deprived of sleep.
This poses the question of why the TSD group ate more at night. Was it because of boredom? It might be a slight possibility, but they were allowed to do all types of other activities as they wished to prevent them from being bored. So, why did they decide to eat more food? Correlations could be made between variations in functional connectivity with macronutrient intake on the day following sleep deprivation.
This study wasn't the first to conclude that sleep deprivation can cause an increase in caloric intake. A particular trial found a 500 per day calorie increase after patients were deprived of sleep, yet no further energy was expended in order to account for the surplus of caloric intake. Another trial demonstrated that the increased calories which are consumed as a result of sleep deprivation can be directly linked with gaining weight.
The idea of a lack of sleep being a contributing factor to weight gain and obesity has long being studied. A trial showed that an increase in energy and fat, particularly saturated fat that were consumed as a result of a lack of sleep could be linked to higher body fat levels.
The evidence is strong for linking sleep deprivation to individuals eating more, less healthy food, and therefore can be attributed to weight gain.


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The stolen money was used to buy shares in blue-chip companies like IBM and Coca-Cola in his name, to funnel $7,500 into a property investment in New York, and also to pay the bill of someone Hans was friends with on Facebook.
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Q: Theoretical Median and Mean question How likely is this scenario?

In a class of 100 people who take an exam, the median of the exam is 82 and the mean is 77.
  What if the sample size is cut in half and the median/mean stay the same?

So how likely is the initial scenario and how does it change when the sample size is reduced or increased.
Thanks for any help.
Edit: I would think that a difference between the median and mean for a sample of that size would be unlikely in the first place?

A: There is no use speculating about this, when one can try the experiment
repeatedly, using simulation, and see what happens.
First, here are 100 'test scores' for which the mean 72.37 and the median is 78.
  33 38 40 41 41 43 43 46 48 48 50 50 50 50 52 52 52 53 53 54 55 55 56 56 59
  69 70 70 71 72 72 73 73 73 74 75 75 76 76 77 77 77 78 78 78 78 78 78 78 78
  78 78 79 79 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 81 81 81 81 81 81 81 81 81 82 82
  83 83 83 83 83 84 84 84 84 84 85 85 85 85 86 86 86 86 86 87 88 88 90 90 90

I put this sample of size $n = 100$ into a vector x. Then I took 10,000 random
sub-samples (without replacement), each of size 50. For each subsample, I
found the mean a and the median h.
At the end, I asked what percentage
of the subsamples have mean less than median. Surprisingly, that was true
100% of the time.
There is no guarantee that it must always happen, but
it seems very likely that the mean will be less than the median when you try this
in a real situation. [(a) The smallest median in any subsample was 72.5 and
the largest mean in any subsample was 77.86. But every subsample of 50
had a smaller mean than median. (b) For a different, slightly less skewed x
with mean 74.85 and median 78, I got one subsample out of 10,000 with mean larger
than median.]
The code in R statistical software that I used for this simulation is
shown below:
 m = 10^4;  a = h = numeric(m)
 for (i in 1:m) {
   y = sample(x, 50)
   a[i] = mean(y);  h[i] = median(y) }
 mean(a < h)  # proportion with mean < median
 ## 1

Here are histograms of the 10,000 differences 'Median - Mean'. Notice that
all differences are positive.

Note: Following @jjet's Comment, which mirrors my own teaching
experience, here is how I got my original sample x of 100 'scores': I took
a sample of size 75 from $Norm(\mu = 80, \sigma=5)$, for students
paying some attention, and a sample of size 25 from $Norm(50, 10)$,
for students not paying so much attention, and then merged them into
a 'class' of 100.

A: Suppose $X$ is a random variable which denotes the marks in the exam. Given a sample $\{X_1, X_2, \ldots , X_n\}$ of size $n$, the mean and median are both well known measures of central tendency of the distribution of $X$. Since it is random variables we're talking about, and the sample mean and sample median are actually realizations of a random process, we do not have a hold on the exact values of these quantities. We can only handle them in terms of chance, i.e. probability. As $n$ increases, we expect the mean and median to get closer. But in reality, they only get closer in terms of chance, i.e. for some fixed pre-specified positive real number $\epsilon > 0$,

$$P_n(\epsilon)=Pr(|\overline{X_n}-X_n^{med}|>\epsilon)$$

becomes smaller as $n$ increases (Of course the quantity will depend on the underlying distribution of $X$). So even if you consider a sample of size $10000$ instead of one of size $100$, it is still possible that the realized value of sample mean and sample median differs a lot. But the probability that they will differ more than some pre-specified quantity will be smaller. That said, there are some subtle features that really make these measures different. For example, median is a robust estimator, while mean is not. If you change a sample value and make it very large or very small, the mean will be affected badly, but the median remains same, and hence the median is said to be more stable than the mean. Hope that helps.

A: I think this question is tougher than it seems at first glance. However, if you randomly sample a population, you would not change the theoretical mean or median. That can be proved with a little technical setup.
You mentioned though that this is a finite class with 100 students and not a theoretically infinite population. Therefore, the sample mean and median are estimators which would likely have non-neglible variances. If the sample mean and median for the whole class is 82 and 77, then recalculating these estimators on half the class would almost certainly alter their values.
*I'm new here so I can't comment directly on BruceET's answer. But I'll add that the simulation he did is highly dependent on the distribution of the underlying data. Thus, speculation is all that we can really do here. To emphasize this point, consider what would we redefined the original R data as
x = c(rep(44.5102, 49), rep(78, 2), rep(100, 49))
Then, the mean and median are the if we run the same simulation, the mean will only be less than the median 49% of the time -- not 100%.

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Call Me Grateful
John Millea
Christian/GospelFolk
For fans of:Andrew Peterson, James Taylor, Josh Garrels, Jon Foreman, Noel Paul Stookey
In 2015 I ran a campaign on Kickstarter to fund the recording of my first studio album, Things New & Old. One of the backers who helped make the campaign a success was my friend David Kim. David is a corporate executive, accomplished cellist, and radical disciple of Jesus. It's no wonder then, that he's also a big supporter of artful Christian music. As a reward for his support of my Kickstarter project, I wrote David a custom song. I'll let him tell you about it:
"I asked John to write a song based on my testimony (http://audiover.se/1Nho6ND). I had become familiar with his singing and songwriting through our collaboration on The Lamb Wins, and I really respected and appreciated the distinctive way in which he combines Biblical and musical insight to convey deep meaning to the listener. I knew that he would be the right person to memorialize in music my experience of embracing God and faith for the very first time at the age of 36 despite having grown up in the church.
"I was struck by how he had identified elements of the lives of Samson, Jacob, and Jonah and told a composite story which perfectly mirrored my own. His inclusion of the cello in the instrumentation was exemplary of the type of musical insight that he brings to all of his music (I am a former professional cellist). He brought all of these facets together into a whole which in just a few lines captures my life of Congenital Christianity followed by the powerful heart conversion and re-birth which I am living today.
"I want to thank John and all of his collaborators in producing this song. Just call me grateful, and I hope you are too after you hear it."
A big thanks to David Kim who, after hearing the demo of Call Me Grateful, offered to fund this recording.
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How to Use Free Analyst Reports to Build Your Case for Microsoft Project
Last updated on September 17th, 2022 at 6:36 pm
Dian Schaffhauser 08/16/2011 No Comments 0 likes
If you're ever in the position of needing to sell your senior executives on the idea of using Microsoft products for your project and portfolio management (PPM) work, take a lesson from Microsoft itself: Exploit the contents of analyst reports.
Recently, for example, Arpan Shah, the director of the Microsoft Project business crowed about his products' strong rankings in the 2010 Gartner Magic Quadrant for IT PPM. His blog entry on the subject even includes a public link to the report, which Microsoft licensed for redistribution. By making this report freely available for a period, Microsoft boosts its case for serious consideration by major companies that only want to work with best-of-breed tools from vendors with staying power.
And that's the same approach you can use in making the case for a move to Project 2010 from earlier releases or even to continue use of a formal PPM approach within your operations.
The primary analyst firms that follow the PPM market include not only Gartner, but also IDC and Forrester. In each case the analysis typically examines a broad range of competing products that meet certain criteria (such as a feature set that addresses the most critical customer needs) to help readers understand how to distinguish one product from another and to lay out what the analysts view as a given product's strengths and weaknesses. In other words, these evaluations help to position products.
By quoting judiciously from these reports, your effort to sell your boss on the use of Project and Project Server 2010 can go beyond these anemic arguments:
"We've always used Project and that's what our project managers know best!"
"Project 2010 has a whole bunch of new features that will save us time!"
How much more compelling to put together a memo with these bold-faced jewels:
As IDC has reported in "IT Project and Portfolio Management 2010 Vendor Analysis": Organizations emerging from last year's financial crisis with complex sourcing and increased management challenges demand automated solutions for improved communication, metrics, and governance… For IT project portfolio management in particular, [Project 2010 includes] tight integration with Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server (TFS). Enabling visibility across the life cycle with a portfolio view potentially enables strategic decision making, metrics, and prioritization across development projects… Using SharePoint as a central collaboration point has also helped to drive growth generally for Microsoft Project as an all-purpose project management solution and offers chances for greater communication across far-flung distributed resources for IT PPM as well.
Or how about this excerpt from the Gartner report, "MarketScope for Project and Portfolio Management Applications" to cater to that manager of yours who can't get enough SharePoint or is continually trying to tighten the budget?"
"Microsoft Project Server 2010 is a landmark release for Microsoft, and for PPM prospective users and existing Project Server customers, because it is in this release in which Microsoft includes SharePoint 2010 as a the foundation for workflow, document management and collaboration… From a license fee perspective, Microsoft Project Server 2010 can be one of the more cost-effective…PPM systems."
Gartner Matt Light offers a concise list of strengths and challenges in his mini-report worth referencing, "Microsoft Project 2010 Adapts to Thrive." Among the strengths he references: a "smoother transition than previous upgrades"; the ability to let "online users do basic scheduling without a desktop client"; and the addition of a focus shift from "single project delivery to better project selection."
Forrester's latest full evaluation of PPMs came in late 2009 with the publication of "Forrester Wave: Project Portfolio Management, Q4 2009." But you won't find that report cited in Microsoft blogs. (Here, we're linking to it from Primavera owner Oracle's sponsorship of the report.) The report appeared months before Project 2010 was released, and the analyst firm promoted other products as being more robust than Project 2007. Although Forrester doesn't list an update to its PPM evaluation on its schedule of upcoming projects, we believe the company will have to update its appraisal at some point in the near future as part of helping guide its customers through choosing tools to help with the painful IT project prioritization process brought on by the economic downturn.
When you're faced with the job of persuading your leadership to upgrade or maintain its commitment to the use of the latest version of Microsoft Project, there's no crime in bringing in the big names to help you build your business case. They've seen almost every product out there; they've had to help their clients sort through the PPM options; and they know the grass isn't necessarily greener anywhere else, but they will let you know where it's patchy.
Tags: Business Case, Decision Making, Executing, MS Project and Sharepoint Integrations, Project Controls, Project Portfolio Management, project scheduling, Report, Server, Workflow
Written by Dian Schaffhauser
Dian Schaffhauser is MPUG's editor. She's been covering project management, business transformation and topics technical as a journalist and editor since IBM released its first PC. She invites you to send your best story ideas for MPUG to her at editor@mpug.com. She promises to let you know what she really thinks.
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package com.microsoft.graph.authentication;

import com.azure.core.credential.AccessToken;
import com.azure.core.credential.TokenCredential;
import com.azure.core.credential.TokenRequestContext;

import javax.annotation.Nonnull;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Objects;
import java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture;

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 * An implementation of the Authentication Provider with Azure-identity
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public class TokenCredentialAuthProvider extends BaseAuthenticationProvider {
    /** TokenCredential expected from user */
    private final TokenCredential tokenCredential;
    /** Context options which can be optionally set by the user */
    private final TokenRequestContext context;
    /** Default scope to use when no scopes are provided */
    private static final String DEFAULT_GRAPH_SCOPE = "https://graph.microsoft.com/.default";

    /**
     * Creates an Authentication provider using a passed in TokenCredential
     *
     * @param tokenCredential Credential object inheriting the TokenCredential interface used to instantiate the Auth Provider
     */
    public TokenCredentialAuthProvider(@Nonnull final TokenCredential tokenCredential) {
        this(Collections.singletonList(DEFAULT_GRAPH_SCOPE), tokenCredential);
    }

    /**
     * Creates an Authentication provider using a TokenCredential and list of scopes
     *
     * @param tokenCredential Credential object inheriting the TokenCredential interface used to instantiate the Auth Provider
     * @param scopes Specified desired scopes of the Auth Provider
     */
    public TokenCredentialAuthProvider(@Nonnull final List<String> scopes, @Nonnull final TokenCredential tokenCredential) {
        if(scopes == null || scopes.isEmpty()) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("scopes parameter cannot be null or empty");
        }
        this.context = new TokenRequestContext();
        this.context.setScopes(scopes);
        this.tokenCredential = Objects.requireNonNull(tokenCredential, "tokenCredential parameter cannot be null.");
    }

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     * Returns an AccessToken as a string
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        if(shouldAuthenticateRequestWithUrl(Objects.requireNonNull(requestUrl, "requestUrl parameter cannot be null")))
            return this.tokenCredential
                        .getToken(this.context)
                        .toFuture()
                        .thenApply(AccessToken::getToken);
        else
            return CompletableFuture.completedFuture((String)null);
    }
}

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Although Laurel Road has three bank branches in southern Connecticut, including in Darien, Rowayton and Southport, these branches are not part of the transaction.
Bank officials said the acquisition will provide mutual benefits, with KeyBank enhancing its digital capabilities and technology while offering growth potential to Laurel Road. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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"Laurel Road has been an innovator in online lending and experienced significant growth," Gorman said.
Gary Lieberman, founder and chairman of Laurel Road Bank, said the company is excited to combine its "technological expertise with Key's industry expertise."
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Key indicated it will acquire the Laurel Road team as part of the transaction, so about 140 Laurel Road employees will be joining Key.
In 2018, Laurel Road introduced a platform for mortgages using the same secure lending technology to offer homebuyers and owners a streamlined experience, from application to payment.
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ASOS and Boohoo, who in response to learning how much pressure a school prom puts on families and young people, have donated over 500 items of prom clothing to OnSide for the benefit of young people across the OnSide network, to wear at their school prom.
A Night to Remember...
The offer...
OnSide was totally overwhelmed by the generosity of ASOS and Boohoo, who in response to learning how much pressure a school prom puts on families and young people, donated over 500 items of prom clothing to OnSide. This incredible offer will enable young people from across the network to borrow a dress or suit for their prom, 'booking' it out on the new, dedicated website which has been built by young people as part of Project Prom. Thus removing the often crippling monetary pressures buying prom outfits has on families. The dresses and suits have been divided equally across all Youth Zones.
Johnson the Cleaners also responded with incredible support, pledging to dry clean all of the prom dresses and suits for free across the Network, ready for use next year.
The Project...
As expected, Project Prom has caused a huge buzz of excitement throughout the OnSide Network!
The Hive Youth Zone have developed 'Project Prom' as part of their enterprise project and are also delivering it through a cohort of the Inspiring Futures courses.
The group was made up of individual young people, who wouldn't normally engage as a peer group; they worked incredibly hard to achieve certain deliverables, including building and designing a new website, creating an online catalogue (all stock photographed and catalogued by the young people themselves), designing a 'Project Prom' logo and creating posters to support the project across the OnSide network.
Next year...
This is a truly remarkable project, which will have far-reaching positive affects for both young people and their families, for many years to come. We cannot thank BooHoo, ASOS and Johnsons the Cleaners, enough for their incredible support and generosity.
Youth Zones are already planning how to maximise the impact for next years school leavers. They are in talks with local Secondary Schools to publicise Project Prom well in advance, so that every young person has the opportunity to benefit from this incredible offer.
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A structural issue at home is the common cause of water damage. Say, for example, a water damage might be a result of a burst pipe, a damaged water main, a broken toilet or a defective home appliance like a washing machine.
Once the source of the problem or damage is found, it can be rectified with the help of a professional. A professional water damage service will repair all the problems. In addition to it, they will help you with tips to reduce or eradicate such kind of problems in the future. If suitable precautions are followed, we will be able to save our home and the money in our wallet.
A Natural Cause or a calamity will lead to Flood Damage. Heavy Rains, melted snow that gives rise to water at our home and local flooding are the most common causes of Flood damage. As flood damage arises from a natural calamity, it is not possible to stop it until nature's rage comes to an end.
There are some preventive measures that can be done to ensure that our home is safe to some extent. Having sandbags, clearing off snow near the house and being alert to the flood warnings in the area are some precautions one could take to prevent higher extent of flood damage.
After the natural calamity is over, it is important to call a professional to do the repair and cleaning job for you. They are the people who are more efficient and knowledgeable in handling the work with ease.
Differentiating both is simple. If your home is the only one that is affected by water issues, then it is clearly a case f water damage. But if the whole neighborhood is experiencing the same, then it is Flood damage. As simple as that.
As discussed earlier, there are two different policies. While the Homeowners policy covers only the water damage due to a structural issue, a standard flood insurance policy covers damage caused by natural calamity. Flood means rising or overflowing of water into the normally dry land.
Flood coverage means any water breaking into your home like swimming pool collapses. Note that this kind of a situation is covered only by the Flood Insurance.
Just like the Homeowners policy, the flood coverage is available to everyone and is not specific to the place where you reside. Whether you live in a flood-prone area or not, it does not matter. There is nothing like "zoned" area for Flood coverage.
Is it important to know about air ducts?
The answer is yes. You should know all about air ducts and the implications that it can have in your house and on your health if you do not clean and maintain it well. Knowledge about air ducts is vital to the quality of the air in your house. Air ducts are directly related to air pollution.
How are air ducts related to your health?
Where can the dirty particles come from?
From personal experience, I have seen dirty and dusty particles enter the house from various outdoor and indoor activities such as cooking, smoking, cleaning etc. The chances of contamination exist with these activities.
While studies do not relate health with air ducts, it does not mean you can relax on the cleaning. There is a heavy dose of mold that grows on the hard surface of the air duct. The different components of the cooling and the heating system do not repel the growth of clutter and mold. Since these components are not accessible easily and visible by the naked eye, chances are you will not notice the increase in the air pollution until it is too late.
It is prudent to clean the air duct regularly to avoid such instances.
What about insulated air ducts?
Insulated air ducts should be kept an eye on. If the air duct is insulated, it is likely to get wet. This increases the chance of growth of mold and clutter. In such a scenario, it cannot be effectively cleaned. The best way to get rid of the mold is to remove and replace it.
What are the conditions that induce the growth of mold and clutters?
Mold and clutters love a nice warm place. They do not like the cold. They avoid bright sunlight. Mold grows best in secluded and dark places.
How do you recognize a clutter or a mold?
Anything that looks like a mold need not be one. Experts and lab reports will confirm if it is a mold. Ducts will be infected with vermin – insects and rodents. These are some of the most obvious places where clutter and mold are likely to grow and flourish in.
How to clear the air from mold and clutter?
Cleaning the air duct is one of the best ways to get rid of the mold. Another way is to open the windows. Letting the sunlight in will clear the air in many ways.
Clutter can make u sick, tired and stressed out.
You are more likely to fall sick inside the house than out.
Clutter is a safety hazard. Tripping and slipping over it can injure your body in many ways.
Clutter can cause a fire to become worse.


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Swimming Pool Equipment and Maintenance Products, 2nd Edition
Chapter 1 Executive Summary
Scope of Report
The Evolution of the 'Swimming Pool'
Table 1-1 Approximate Costs of In-Ground Pools
Above-ground Pools
Market Size and Growth
Swimming Pool Equipment and Maintenance Products Market
Nearly 10 Million Swimming Pools in the United States in 2011
Figure 1-1 Total Swimming Pools in the U.S., Quantity, in Thousands (2007-2011)
U.S. Swimming Pool Market Valued at $7.07 Billion in 2011
Figure 1-2 Total Value of the U.S. Swimming Pool Market, In Billion Dollars (2007-2011)
Equipment & Maintenance Products Valued Over $3.4 Billion
About 17.4 Million Swimming Pools in the U.S. in 2021
Figure 1-3 Total Value of Swimming Pool Equipment and Maintenance Products in the U.S. In Million Dollars (2007-2011)
Figure 1-4 Total Projected Swimming Pools in the U.S., Quantity, in Thousands (2011-2021)
Total U.S. Swimming Pool Market Valued at $10.73 Billion in 2021
Figure 1-5 Total Projected Value of the U.S. Swimming Pool Market, In Billion Dollars (2011-2021)
Figure 1-6 Projected Value of Swimming Pool Equipment and Maintenance Products in the U.S. In Million Dollars (2011-2021)
California Lays Claim on Equipment and Maintenance Market
Figure 1-7 Swimming Pool Equipment and Maintenance Products in the U.S.,Dollar Value, Top Twelve States , In Millions (2011)
Factors in Market Size and Growth
Pool and Pool Product Sales Seasonal
Economic Woes Weigh Heavily on Commercial Swimming Pools
Fitness Regimes Becoming More Commonplace
Proper Maintenance and Repair May Be Costly, but Is Necessary
Push for Eco-friendly Pool Equipment & Maintenance Products
Energy Efficient Equipment and Maintenance Products for Pools
Technological Innovations and Schemes
New Technologies for Swimming Pool Products Pour Forth
Salt Systems Reduce Need for Harmful Chemicals
Ozone Technology Is Effective Bacteria Killer
Sonic Wave Technology Cleans Pools
Architectural Membranes for Year-round Outdoor Pools
Wide Range of Jobs in Pool Equipment and Maintenance Market
472,013 Employed in Swimming Pool Products Market in 2011
Close to 634,859 in Swimming Pool Products Market in 2021
Figure 1-8 Employees in Swimming Pool Equipment and Maintenance Products Market (2007-2011)
A Glimpse Outside the U.S.
Table 2-2 Pool Heater Pump Costs
Controllers & Other Automated Systems
Pool Insurance
Pool Cleaning and Maintenance Services
Chapter 3 Market Size & Growth
Residential In-ground Pools Claim More than Half of Market
Figure 3-2 Total Residential In-ground Swimming Pools in the U.S. Quantity, in Thousands (2007-2011)
Almost 4.24 Million Residential Above-ground Pools in 2011
Over 278,000 Commercial Swimming Pools in 2011 in the U.S.
Figure 3-3 Total Residential Above-ground Swimming Pools in the U.S. Quantity, in Thousands (2007-2011)
Figure 3-4 Total Commercial Swimming Pools in the U.S. Quantity, In Thousands (2007-2011)
Residential Above-ground Swimming Pools Dominate Market
Figure 3-5 Total Swimming Pool Market Volume in the U.S. % Share, by Pool Type In Quantity (2007)
Figure 3-7 Total Value of the U.S. Swimming Pool Market In Billion Dollars (2007-2011)
Residential In-ground Swimming Pools Valued at $3.52 Billion
Figure 3-8 Total Value of the Residential In-ground Swimming Pool Market in the U.S. In Billion Dollars (2007-2011)
Figure 3-9 Total Value of the Above-Ground Swimming Pool Market in the U.S. In Billion Dollars (2007-2011)
Above-ground Residential Pools Valued at $.54 Billion in 2011
Commercial Swimming Pools Valued at $3.01 Billion in 2011
Figure 3-10 Total Value of the Commercial Swimming Pool Market in the U.S. In Billion Dollars (2007-2011)
Swimming Pool Market Value Share Shifts Slightly in 2011
Figure 3-11 Total Swimming Pool Market Value % Share, By Pool Type In Dollars (2007)
Figure 3-13 Total Value of Swimming Pool Equipment and Maintenance Products in the U.S. In Million Dollars (2007-2011)
Liners and Covers Valued at $202.3 Million in 2011
Figure 3-14 Total Value of Swimming Pool Liners and Covers in the U.S. In Million Dollars (2007-2011)
Figure 3-15 Total Value of Swimming Pool Pumps and Filters in the U.S. In Million Dollars (2007-2011)
Swimming Pool Pumps & Filters Valued at More than $1.8 Billion
Electric Swimming Pool Heaters Valued at $154.3 Million in 2011
Figure 3-16 Total Value of Electric Swimming Pool Heaters in the U.S. In Million Dollars (2007-2011)
Solar Power Heating Equipment Valued at $78,033 in 2011
Figure 3-17 Total Value of Solar Power Heating Equipment for Swimming Pools in the U.S. In Dollars (2007-2011)
Swimming Pool Chemical Products Valued at $960 Million
Figure 3-18 Total Value of Swimming Pool Chemical Products in the U.S. Including Green Chemicals In Million Dollars (2007-2011)
Figure 3-19 Total Value of Swimming Pool Sweepers and Vacuums in the U.S. In Million Dollars (2007-2011)
Swimming Pool Sweepers and Vacuums Valued Over $99 Million
Swimming Pool Lighting Valued at Nearly $26 Million in 2011
Figure 3-20 Total Value of Swimming Pool Lighting in the U.S. In Million Dollars (2007-2011)
Pool Controllers & Automated Systems Reach $61.72 Million
Figure 3-21 Total Value of Swimming Pool Controllers and Automated Systems in the U.S. In Million Dollars (2007-2011)
Figure 3-22 Total Projected Swimming Pools in the U.S. Quantity, in Thousands (2011-2021)
Figure 3-23 Total Number of Projected In-ground Residential Swimming Pools in the U.S. Quantity, in Thousands (2011-2021)
Over 9,157,000 Residential In-ground Swimming Pools in 2021
Over 7.9 Million Residential Above-ground Pools in 2021
About 348 Thousand Commercial Pools in the U.S. in 2021
Figure 3-24 Total Projected Above-ground Residential Swimming Pools in the U.S. Quantity, in Thousands (2011-2021)
Figure 3-25 Total Projected Commercial Swimming Pools in the U.S. Quantity, in Thousands (2011-2021)
Residential Above-Ground Swimming Pools Gain Share by 2021
Figure 3-26 Total Swimming Pool Market Volume in the U.S. % Share, by Pool Type In Quantity (2011)
Figure 3-29 Total Projected Value of the U.S. Swimming Pool Market In Billion Dollars (2011-2021)
Value of In-ground Swimming Pools Nears $6 Billion in 2021
Figure 3-30 Total Projected Value of Residential In-ground Swimming Pools in the U.S. In Billion Dollars (2011-2021)
Value of Above-ground Swimming Pools Rests at $.98 Billion
Figure 3-31 Total Projected Value of Above-ground Swimming Pools in the U.S. In Billion Dollars (2011-2021)
Figure 3-32 Total Projected Value of Commercial Swimming Pools in the U.S. In Billion Dollars (2011-2021)
Value of Commercial Swimming Pools Nears $3.8 Billion in 2021
Market Share Values Slip and Slide by 2021
Figure 3-33 Total Projected U.S. Swimming Pool Market Value % Share, By Pool Type In Dollars (2011)
Figure 3-36 Projected Value of Swimming Pool Equipment and Maintenance Products in the U.S. In Million Dollars (2011-2021)
Figure 3-37 Total Projected Value of Swimming Pool Liners and Covers in the U.S. In Million Dollars (2011-2021)
Swimming Pool Liners & Covers Valued at $372.6 Million in 2021
Pumps and Filters Valued Over $3.2 Billion in 2021
Figure 3-38 Total Projected Value of Swimming Pool Pumps and Filters in the U.S. In Million Dollars (2011-2021)
Figure 3-39 Total Projected Value of Electric Swimming Pool Heaters in the U.S. In Million Dollars (2011-2021)
Electric Swimming Pool Heaters Valued at Almost $220 Million
Swimming Pool Chemical Products Valued at Nearly $1.7 Billion
Figure 3-41 Total Value of Swimming Pool Chemical Products in the U.S., Including Green Chemicals In Million Dollars (2011-2021)
Figure 3-42 Total Projected Value of Swimming Pool Sweepers & Vacuums in the U.S. In Million Dollars (2011-2021)
Pool Sweepers & Vacuums Valued Close to $214 Million
Swimming Pool Lighting Valued Close to $52 Million in 2021
Figure 3-43 Total Projected Value of Swimming Pool Lighting in the U.S. In Million Dollars (2011-2021)
Value of Controllers & Automated Systems Over $134 Million
Figure 3-44 Total Projected Value of Swimming Pool Controllers & Automated Systems in the U.S. In Million Dollars (2011-2021)
California Holds the Majority Share of Swimming Pools
Figure 3-45 Swimming Pools in the U.S. Top Twelve States Quantity, in Thousands (2011)
Table 3-1 Number of Swimming Pools in the U.S. Quantity, by State/District (2011)
Figure 3-46 Swimming Pools in the U.S. Top Twelve States Market Value, In Million Dollars (2011)
California Holds the Majority Share of Swimming Pool Value
Table 3-2 Swimming Pools in the U.S. By State/District In Thousand Dollars (2011)
Figure 3-47 Swimming Pool Equipment and Maintenance Products in the U.S. Dollar Value, Top Twelve States In Millions (2011)
Table 3-3 Value of Swimming Pool Equipment and Maintenance Market in the U.S. Dollar Value, by State/District In Thousands (2011)
Figure 3-48 Swimming Pool Equipment and Maintenance Market % Share, Top Twelve States In Dollar Value (2011)
Pool Cleaning & Maintenance Services Valued About $2 Billion
Figure 3-49 Value of Swimming Pool Cleaning and Maintenance Services in the U.S. In Million Dollars (2007-2011)
Figure3-50 Value of Swimming Pool Cleaning and Maintenance Services in the U.S. In Million Dollars (2011-2021)
Chapter 4 Factors in Market Size & Growth
Regional Factors Steer Pool and Pool Product Sales
Small Residential In-ground Pools Becoming More Popular
Fine Balance of Operating Costs and Income for Public Pools
Above-ground Pools Sought for Vacationing in the Backyard
Water Shortages Incite Strict Restrictions in Some Regions
Pool Safety Products of Great Importance
Swimming Pool Chemicals Can Be Dangerous
Pools Easily Damaged by Floods
Solar Pool Heating Huge; at Least in Some States
Robotic Cleaners Becoming More Popular
Water Pollution Spurs Interest in Swimming Pools
Tight Regulations Hurting Commercial Pool Market
Pool Refurbishment and Repair Can Be Costly
Pools Not Always Considered Desirable
Associations, Trade Publications and Online Resources
Chapter 5 Technological Schemes and Innovations
Polaris 9300 Sport Robotic In-Ground Cleaner
Dirt Devil's Pool Cleaner Relies on Unifram™ Technology
E-ZEE Flow Indirect Pool Heater
Solar Powered Pool Water Purifier Cuts Chlorine Usage
Magni-Clear Solar Pool Covers Extend Swim Season
Aluminum EZ Panel Pool™ Easily Erected
SRS® Chlorine Generator Transforms Salt into Chlorine
Water Purification Using Nano-Catalytic Micro Electrolysis
Creative Water Solutions Serious about Being Green
TechnoPure's Chlorine-free System
'Liquid' Solar Blankets
Mineral Pool Systems
SolidPOOL Modular Blocks Ease Pool Construction
Spool: Hybrid Hot Tub and Pool
Residential Heating and Cooling Systems Use Pool Water
Crematorium to Heat Public Swimming Pool
Pool Heated by Nearby Arena's Ice Compressors
Chapter 6 Employment Opportunities
Figure 6-1 Employees in Swimming Pool Equipment and Maintenance Products Market (2007-2011)........................................................................................................... 102
Close to 634,859 in Swimming Pool Products Market in 2021.................. 102
Wide Range of Experience and Salary in Pool Products Market............. 103
Table 6-1 Job Earnings and Educational Requirements: For the Swimming Pool Equipment and Maintenance Products Market, By Occupation................................... 104
Many Job Openings Posted on Company Websites
Job Openings Posted on Job Websites
NSPF Offers Training and Scholarships
Aquatherm Offers Scholarships Totaling $16,000
Chapter 7 Company Profiles
America's Swimming Pool Co.
Table 7-1 America's Swimming Pool Co. Profile
ASP Franchises Golden
Anthony & Sylvan Pool Corp.
Table 7-2 Anthony & Sylvan Pool Corp. Profile
A&S Products & Services
Aquatherm Industries, Inc.
Table 7-3 Aquatherm Industries, Inc. Profile
Aquatherm Polar Heating System
Aquatherm Installs One of Largest Solar Power Pool
Del Ozone Holding Company, Inc.
Table 7-4 Del Ozone Holding Company, Inc. Profile
DEL's Ozone Sanitation Systems
DEL Ozone Installations
Hayward Industries, Inc.
Table 7-5 Hayward Industries, Inc. Profile
Hayward Products
Hayward Featured on Designing Spaces
"Beat the Heat" Campaign Awards Rebates for High Temperatures
Hayward Donates $1 Million in Product for Virginia Graeme
"PoolSide Stars Video Contest" Open to Facebook Fans
King Technology, Inc.
Table 7-6 King Technology, Inc. Profile
King Tech Products
Leslie's Poolmart, Inc.
Table 7-7 Leslie's Poolmart, Inc. Profile
Leslie's Products
Leslie's Expands
Leslie's Sponsors Golf Tournament
Pc Pools
Table 7-8 Pc Pools Profile
Pc Pools' New Grand Entrance Pool Step
Pc Pools Has Focus on On-line Security
Pentair Water Pool and Spa, Inc.
Table 7-9 Pentair Water Pool and Spa, Inc. Profile
Pentair's Focus on Green Products
Pool Corp.
Table 7-10 Pool Corp. Profile
Pool Corp. Products
Pool Corp. Financial Overview
PoolGear Plus
Table 7-11 PoolGear Plus Profile
Poseidon Technologies, Inc.
Table 7-12 Poseidon Technologies, Inc. Profile
Poseidon's Life-saving Products
Glimpse of Poseidon's Financials
Precision Pool Care LLC
Table 7-13 Precision Pool Care LLC Profile
Raypak, Inc.
Table 7-14 Raypak, Inc. Profile
Raypak Products
Reliable Pool Solutions, Inc.
Table 7-15 Reliable Pool Solutions, Inc. Profile
Waterco USA, Inc.
Table 7-16 Waterco USA, Inc. Profile
Waterco's Products
Waterco Financial Profile
Waterco Wins Awards
Zodiac Pool Systems, Inc.
Table 7-17 Zodiac Pool Systems, Inc. Profile
Zodiac Products
Zodiac Creates Spanish Website
Zodiac Uses Facebook for its "Dive in and Win" Sweepstakes
Zodiac Launches Massive Advertising Campaign
SBI's U.S. Market for Swimming Pool Equipment and Maintenance Products contains in depth historical data and projections for 2007 – 2021 for swimming pools and various pool related equipment and maintenance products. The study identifies trends and factors that affect the size and direction of market growth in the U.S.
The U.S. market for swimming pool equipment and maintenance products was estimated at over $3.4b in 2011. This is despite the closing of commercial and public swimming pools in recent years, due to the global financial crisis and recession, and a slow down of growth of residential in-ground pools. SBI Energy however looked at several factors that indicate that the market is poised to grow once again.
The American population's increased interest in fitness is one such factor. The athletic club membership has nearly doubled in the past 20 years, and this trend is expected to continue. Swimming is often the exercise option for baby boomers because it offers a low impact, total body workout. The increased interest is also driving apartment complexes, retirement habitats, schools, and other types of residential and community to add swimming pools to meet the growing demand.


We arrived in San Diego around 7pm and were greeted at the airport by our driver for the night. We packed into the Suburban provided to us by La Costa Limousine and headed over to our friend Savi's house, where we planned on staying.
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This was one of the most fun days we've had yet. We arrived in Sacramento greeted by car service provided by Corporate Transport Solutions, our new official transportation coordinator (www.ctslimo.com).
We left Austin in the very early morning hours and headed to the Bay area. We were greeted by KPIX – CBS Channel 5 and a limo from Bauer's Limo.
Here's the B-Roll footage from Austin, the full episode is gonna be wild.
Our one week anniversary of the start of our most epic journey began with what some might call torture. Clark woke Joe & Steve with death metal. Not Cool. Vengeance will be had.
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