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Danish robots fighting coronavirus in China
With the coronavirus crisis raging across most of the globe, China is adopting Danish technology to fight the virus with autonomous robots
The infectious coronavirus that is currently plaguing countries all over the world has proven difficult to get rid of. That is why there is a need to think unconventionally – and this is what several hospitals in China have now started doing.
Here, Danish robots drive around killing viruses autonomously without having to be controlled by human hands. The robots are made by the Danish company UVD Robots which specialises in disinfection robots for hospitals.
Earlier this year, UVD Robots signed a contract with Sunay Healthcare Supply to purchase the robots for use in Chinese hospitals. Deliveries began as early as February and will continue throughout the spring.
The UVD robots are expected to be operational in potentially more than 2,000 hospitals across China.
Cleanses with light
China was initially the country most severely affected by the infectious coronavirus that originated in Hubei Province and spread to thousands of people before it was finally discovered.
Suddenly, the province's hospitals were flooded with patients who had become seriously ill with Covid-19 – and it severely affected the hospitals' staff who were also infected by hospitalised patients.
Now the UVD robots will autonomously drive around the hospitals, killing viruses with ultraviolet light and only a minimum of human interference. The staff can order a cleaning session through an app, after which the robot arrives to irradiate the room with intense UV light which has been proven to kill bacteria and viruses. It typically takes less than 20 minutes.
When the work is done, the robot will notify the staff.
Works against many kinds of infectious diseases
UV rays do not replace normal cleaning but can effectively kill coronavirus as a supplement to the regular cleaning of hospital rooms where Covid-19 affected patients have been treated.
UVD robots are already in use in over 40 countries, where they work to irradiate bacteria and viruses in hospitals so that these do not infect staff and other patients. It is not only coronavirus they fight, but many types of infectious diseases, both viral and bacterial.
The CEO of UVD Robots, Per Juul Nielsen, is pleased to help combat the spread of the virus in China through the company's solution: "In a severe crisis like this where the world health is threatened, our innovative technology is really proving its worth," he says.
At Odense Robotics, a cluster organisation serving the rapidly growing robotics industry that is centred around the Danish city of Odense, there is much enthusiasm at the prospect of Danish robots playing a role in the fight against coronavirus.
"Robotics technology has great potential to help combat coronavirus. Autonomous mobile robots make it possible to conduct a range of essential tasks in the healthcare system remotely, safely and quickly. Quite simply, robotics technology has the potential to save lives and make a difference in a range of ways, such as solving logistics challenges and limiting the spread of the virus," says Mikkel Christoffersen, Cluster Director at Odense Robotics.
The city of Odense has become the centre of a cluster of very successful robotics companies. Several of them have already been sold to foreign companies for billions of Kroner. This is money that has largely been reinvested in the robotics industry in Denmark.
Some of the robots are industrial robots, while others have been developed to serve different purposes in the healthcare sector, where they can solve tasks that free up resources so that hospital staff can spend more time with patients instead.
We will see more of these kinds of solutions in the coming years, says Mikkel Christoffersen.
"We can expect to see more examples of new robotics solutions emerging that will help the corona crisis, like the mobile robot that distributes hand disinfectant at Odense University Hospital while advising people on how to prevent infection. Research scientists at the University of Southern Denmark can build a robot to take samples from patients to be tested for coronavirus – and they say it could be ready within a matter of weeks, he says.
Coronavirus first appeared in China in late 2019 and has since spread to most of the world. At present, Italy, Spain and the United States are hit particularly hard.
UVD Robots is owned by Blue Ocean Robotics.


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WWE Hall of Famer Jake 'The Snake' to speak about pro wrestling career at The Wilbury
Mark Hinson
Tallahassee Democrat USA TODAY NETWORK - FLORIDA
According to legend, snakes can be charming beasts.
See if that is true when former notorious pro-grappler Jake "The Snake" Roberts, 63, gives a talk about his colorful career during an appearance at 9 p.m. Thursday at The Wilbury, 513 W. Gaines St.
Roberts is a WWE Hall of Famer who will tell behind-the-scenes tales of such "rasslin'" greats as Andre the Giant, "Macho Man" Randy Savage and Ravishing Rick Rude. There will also be more stories about life on the road.
In 2000, Roberts was featured in the documentary "Beyond the Mat." In it, he admitted to a drug problem. The wrestler, who has been upfront about his addiction, has been clean and sober for six years.
Roberts is well remembered for a stunt in 1982 during a steel-cage match between Dusty "The American Dream" Rhodes and Kevin Sullivan in St. Pete.
"Somehow I lasted four hours going around that building in a Santa suit giving out candy without being recognized," Roberts told the Orlando Sentinel this month. "When the time came, I approached the ring and attacked Dusty with my bag of toys and just listened to the people for a minute. They started chanting, '[Bleep] you, Santa!' It was one of the high points of my career. The next day in the paper, there were reports of like 12 or 13 Santa Clauses around there getting assaulted. … I loved those days."
Tickets are $10 to $30. There is a $2 fee for being under 21. If you under 18, the show requires a parent or guardian to attend. Visit www.ticketfly.com.

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Update: Family asks drivers to be more cautious after losing loved one
By: Christine Flores
Posted: Oct 22, 2018 5:21 PM CST
Late Afternoon Update: Moderate bands of snow impacting areas...
Hit & run crash near 35th & Hope leaves 1-year-old dead late...
Schlesinger's Saturday Spotlight (1/28)...Couple of fundraisers...
Annual State of the State address
Memphis releases police footage with Tyre Nichols
Poorly Drawn Pets campaign raising money for Wisconsin Humane...
Capri Communities testing four-day work week, giving caregivers...
Several inches of snow expected Saturday into Saturday Night
Warm drinks, chilly atmosphere: Ice Bar opens at The Wicked Hop...
'They're part of history': Charles Allis Art Museum temporarily...
Kenosha County deputies respond to multi-vehicle crash on I-94...
Updated 12:44 p.m. October 24, 2018
UPDATE: MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- The Milwaukee Police Department will be referring criminal charges to the District Attorney's office in the near future.
Milwaukee Police investigating fatal pedestrian accident near 29th and Center
MILWAUKEE, WI (CBS 58) – A family is asking drivers to be more cautious after a man was hit and killed by a car near 29th and Center Street on Monday, October 22.
The entire block was taped off as investigators combed through the scene.
The Milwaukee Police Department says the driver did stay on scene.
Family and friends of the victim gathered as they shared their fondest memories.
"That was my Pooh", says Diane Tharpe, mother of the victim. "That was my only son. He was my baby".
Tharpe sheds tears as she looks over the scene where her son Darryl Tharpe was killed.
"He was 36-years-old," says Diane. "He had two kids and now they're left without a father".
Police were called to the scene around 11:15 A.M. for a report of a pedestrian hit.
The Medical Examiner's Office confirmed a man was killed after being hit by a car.
Fatal shooting of 46-year-old man early Saturday morning near 35th & Sarnow


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Copper Spoon and Paulista Brazilian Kitchen Now Open in Oakland
After months of buzzing and waiting, two high-profile restaurants finally opened in Oakland this weekend.
Janelle Bitker
Crowds flooded into Copper Spoon as soon as it opened Sunday night.
The owners of Copper Spoon (4031 Broadway) spent two and a half years renovating the former Art's Crab Shak location in North Oakland, and it's paid off. The space is barely recognizable, with tall ceilings, lots of natural light, an enormous wood bar, and all the hip accents you might expect. Owners Vita Simone Strauss and Carmen Anderson previously ran the quirky Sassafras Seagrass food truck, and truck favorites stud Copper Spoon's menu, including the lamb merguez burger and salmon hand rolls.
Their eclectic approach to locally sourced California cuisine is taken a step further with executive chef Andre Hall, who has held positions at big-name spots in San Francisco such as Bar Tartine, Alexander's Steakhouse, and Fifth Floor, and has a thing for Japanese cuisine.
You can that fondness for Japan in dishes like the soba noodles with miso dashi, wasabi, avocado, and a 62 degree egg. You can also see Hall's time at Eastern European-centric Bar Tartine in the country bread served with eggplant harissa, tomato-bacon jam, and a sweet potato-maple spread.
With its late-night hours — 5:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. daily — Copper Spoon is fittingly bar-focused. Strauss is a well-known fixture in the bar scene, having worked at Bar Dogwood, Prizefighter, and Kingston 11. Unsurprisingly, Copper Spoon's cocktail menu looks bold and exciting, with mezcal heavily featured on opening night.
Meanwhile, Paulista Brazilian Kitchen & Taproom (4239 Park Blvd.) owners Jesse Madway and Alex Yamamoto have been teasing followers on social media all year with its progress in the Glenview neighborhood. Paulista is the first Brazilian restaurant of its kind in Oakland: an all-day destination focused on everyday Brazilian dishes and street food. In other words, it's not an all-you-can-eat steakhouse.
It's still in soft opening mode, but today Paulista opened its cafe at 7 a.m., serving acai bowls, smoothies, and pastries. The taproom portion, focused on local beers, wines, and ciders, opens at noon. Dinner service starts at 5 p.m.
The opening weekend menu featured coxinhas, fried croquettes filled with cheese and chicken; pastel, a thin-crust pie filled with savory beef; and, of course, Brazil's national dish, feijoada, a black bean stew punched up with sausages, beef, and pork.
Copper Spoon, 4031 Broadway, Oakland, Facebook.com/CopperSpoonOak.
Paulista Brazilian Kitchen & Taproom, 4239 Park Blvd., Oakland, Paulista510.com.
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An Australian Senator Has Just Thanked Smokers For Their $8 Billion 'Staggering Generosity' To The Economy
Alex Heber
Oct 1, 2014, 3:30 PM
Photo by Scott Barbour / Getty Images.
Australian Liberal Democratic senator David Leyonhjelm has just delivered a speech which stands up for the one rights of one in five citizens who choose to smoke.
His speech titled, Thank you For Smoking, he praises nicotine fiends for their $8 billion a year contribution to the economy and says he did the maths: Last year smokers cost the health care system $320 million and another $150 million in bushfire control.
Senator David Leyonhjelm just thanked Australia's smokers.
Leyonhjelm argues despite the "generosity" of smokers they're branded as filthy yet their money is still taken willingly and spent on "sillier" things than cigarettes and booze.
He even channelled South Park's Mr Mackey when he told parliament we can agree that "drugs are bad, mmmkay", and it is probably also fair to say that "regressive taxes are bad, mmmkay".
Here's his speech.
I'd like to address my comments to the roughly 18% of the Australian population that engages in a despised activity.
Ladies and gentlemen, thank-you for smoking.
Australian smokers contribute significantly to the pile of money that – as I noted in this place recently – other people then spend.
As you well know there are many such big spenders in this parliament, as are many of the people who malign you.
They don't like your habit, but in my view they have an even filthier habit: spending your money – and other people's money – on things that are often even sillier than spending too much on cigarettes and booze.
Your generosity to the nation's treasury is truly staggering. The government collects around 8 billion dollars in tobacco excise each year. That's a lot of cash.
Last year, smokers imposed $318.4 million in net costs on Australia's healthcare system. Depending on rainfall, smokers also cost the taxpayer about $150 million a year in bushfire control.
If you do even basic arithmetic, these figures disclose that you wonderful, generous smokers pay 17 times as much as you cost.
Of course, I'm aware that the justification for making you pay so much for your smoking is borne of a desire to help you quit and to improve your health. However, every now and again the mask slips.
Tony Abbott – in one of those "unguarded moments" while in Opposition – made the following comment in relation to the then Government's tax hikes:
"It would only be raising $5 billion dollars or so if people are to continue to smoke, so let's not listen to this palaver about health. This is all about revenue, it's all about tax, it's all about a government that can't control its spending – that's why it hits you in the hip pocket."
Those who would tell us how to live, back this flagrant theft, not because they're prone to agree with Tony Abbott, but because they are troubled by the worrying thought that someone, somewhere, may be having a good time.
Those havers of good times, smokers of Australia, are you.
This is why, having banished cigarette advertising from everything from television to cinema to motorsport and even the internet, and ended the commercial cultivation of tobacco in Australia, the health mandarins have moved on to banning smoking in prisons and insane asylums.
That's right, people in cages who have lost most or all of their rights are denied even this small thing. Yes, prison is meant to be punishment. But the widespread tendency to see prisons as comfortable budget hotels bespeaks a fundamental failure to grasp just what gaol means. Rehabilitation means not committing further crime, not being trained to live according to somebody else's values.
The same people worry and worry about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander smoking rates, with about half of Australia's indigenous population being daily smokers. Aborigines on income management, like prisoners, are also denied this small consolation. Racial paternalism lives on.
Because the revenues versus costs figure is so lopsided, those who would tell you how to live have tried to add "social costs" to the healthcare costs I discussed earlier. "Social costs" take in things like smokers' spending on tobacco, and the lost productivity represented by smokers' earlier mortality. These, allegedly, represent income foregone.
By that logic, deciding to work part time to increase your leisure time is a social cost, as is going on holiday.
Arguments like that suggest to me the anti-smoking lobby is running out of ideas.
But when powerful, well-funded lobby groups run out of ideas and arguments, unfortunately they don't fold up their lobbying tents and head home. They keep lobbying, and we've now reached the point where, thanks to their efforts, the government is about to kill the goose that lays the golden egg, handing all the lovely tax money it extorts from you over to organised crime.
Australia is set to have the most expensive ciggies in the world once Abbott's extraordinary 12.5% a year tobacco tax hikes – taken over from Labor – kick in. Already, in 2012, the WHO found that a pack of cigarettes cost $US14.35 in Australia. Only Norway had higher prices, at $US14.49.
Following the unprecedented 25% tobacco excise increase in April 2010, Treasury's post implementation review observed that:
"The availability of illicit tobacco products (products on which taxes have been avoided) undermines the effectiveness of taxation in many countries in reducing affordability to prevent uptake and promote quitting, particularly among low income groups."
This should come as no surprise. Here's a little basic maths: if you spend $5,000 a year on tobacco, it's a bigger proportion of your income if you earn $30,000 per annum than if you earn $100,000 per annum. In the trade, that's what's known as a "regressive tax".
And if – along with South Park's Mr Mackey – we can agree that "drugs are bad, mmmkay", it's probably also fair to say that "regressive taxes are bad, mmmkay."
Calling regressive taxes 'sin taxes' doesn't hide the scale of the problem. Smokers are typically poor, which makes this vast tax-take all the more perverse. It means, for example, that social planners who want to redistribute money from the rich to the poor need to increase both welfare payments and income tax rates to achieve their goals.
When the 25% excise increase was imposed, the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service noticed an increase in seizures of illicit tobacco. In 2013, it rose to 183 tonnes, representing forgone customs duties of $150 million. Remember, that's the annual cost of putting out bushfires due to cigarettes. And it's also entirely to be expected: tobacco can't even be commercially grown in Australia.
Smokers of Australia, despite your generosity, I need to apologise on behalf of the short-sighted pickers of your pockets in this place. Maybe they haven't studied any history, because if they did, they would learn that the regime controlling cigarettes is no longer one of 'legalise, regulate, and tax.'
Instead, it now resembles two other regimes, regimes that were and are catastrophic failures. I'm thinking here of Prohibition and the War on Drugs.
In a world where cannabis is in the process of legalisation – because illegality simply doesn't work – and where Prohibition enriched Al Capone but beggared the US Government, I think people like me need to do better by you, the smokers of Australia.
I am put in mind of a constituent's comment, made to me last week. He pointed out that he valued the e-cigarettes now available because they meant he didn't smoke during the day, and also meant he didn't inflict his smoke or smell on others.
However, he said he was still going to sit on his balcony of an evening, drink a glass of wine, and smoke a cigarette.
He was going to continue to do this because he enjoys smoking.
And that, Mr President, is his choice.
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Q: How to evalutate this exponential integral Is there an easy way to compute $$\int_{-\infty}^\infty\exp(-x^2+2x)\mathrm{d}x$$
without using a computer package?

A: In general
$$
\begin{align}
\int_{x=0}^\infty e^{-(ax^2+bx)}\,dx&=\int_{x=0}^\infty \exp\left(-a\left(\left(x+\frac{b}{2a}\right)^2-\frac{b^2}{4a^2}\right)\right)\,dx\\
&=\exp\left(\frac{b^2}{4a}\right)\int_{x=0}^\infty \exp\left(-a\left(x+\frac{b}{2a}\right)^2\right)\,dx\\
\end{align}
$$
Let $u=x+\frac{b}{2a}\;\rightarrow\;du=dx$, then
$$
\begin{align}
\int_{x=0}^\infty e^{-(ax^2+bx)}\,dx&=\exp\left(\frac{b^2}{4a}\right)\int_{x=0}^\infty \exp\left(-a\left(x+\frac{b}{2a}\right)^2\right)\,dx\\
&=\exp\left(\frac{b^2}{4a}\right)\int_{u=0}^\infty e^{-au^2}\,du.\\
\end{align}
$$
The last form integral is Gaussian integral that equals to $\frac{1}{2}\sqrt{\frac{\pi}{a}}$. Hence
$$
\int_{x=0}^\infty e^{-(ax^2+bx)}\,dx=\frac{1}{2}\sqrt{\frac{\pi}{a}}\exp\left(\frac{b^2}{4a}\right).
$$
In your case,
$$
\begin{align}
\int_{-\infty}^\infty e^{-x^2+2x}\,dx&=2\int_0^\infty e^{-(x^2-2x)}\,dx\\
&=2\cdot\frac{1}{2}\sqrt{\frac{\pi}{1}}\exp\left(\frac{(-2)^2}{4\cdot1}\right)\\
&=e\sqrt{\pi}.
\end{align}
$$

$$\text{# }\mathbb{Q.E.D.}\text{ #}$$

A: This is a Gaussian integral. In general you can use the formula
$\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \exp(-x^2+bx+c)\mathrm{d}x=\sqrt{\pi}~\exp(b^2/4+c)$. This formula, as suggested by Thomas, can be derived by completing the square in the exponent, and using $\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \exp(-x^2)\mathrm{d}x=\sqrt{\pi}$.

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Related Topics: Industrial IoT
Industrial IoT: Article
Web-Services Transactions
From Loosely Coupled - The Missing Pieces of Web Services
By Doug Kaye
February 20, 2004 12:00 AM EST
Most non-programmers think of transactions as associated with buying and selling, credit-card authorizations, and the like. But in the jargon of computer science, the word transaction has a very specific meaning: the interaction and managed outcome of a well-defined set of tasks. If that definition still sounds rather vague or abstract, it's because the scope of what's considered a transaction has expanded over the past two decades, and the older simpler definitions are no longer adequate. Computer systems have been connected via networks, and applications are more distributed in nature. The theories and practices of transactions have been repeatedly stretched to their limits, re-evaluated, and extended. Now, because of web services, we're once again expanding that definition to include long-lived loosely coupled asynchronous transactions.
Transaction Basics
Most database operations are simple, and thus don't qualify as transactions per se. For example, when a customer-service application wants to look up a customer's phone number, the application sends a query message to the database. It's a read-only operation that involves only one record in a single database. But most importantly, it's a one-step (atomic) operation that doesn't interact or conflict with other applications that may be interacting with the same record or even the same database.
More complex database operations require multiple steps that must all be completed for the operation to succeed. We refer to these operations as transactions. The traditional definition of a transaction is a single unit of work composed of two or more tasks. If any of these component tasks cannot be completed, the entire transaction fails, leaving the data in the state it was in before the transaction was initiated. In other words, a transaction is a collection of tasks that either all succeed, or all fail. Achieving this consistent termination of a unit of work is the goal of a traditional transaction-processing monitor (TP monitor) which is software that manages lower-level database operations.
An example of a simple transaction is a transfer of funds from one account to another within the same bank. The transaction's unit of work consists of two tasks: the debiting from one account, and the crediting to another. Ideally, both tasks will execute properly (commit), but even more important is that if one task can't be accomplished, neither will be executed (i.e., they'll both abort). It's okay if the matching credit and debit both fail—the application initiating the transaction can always try again. But it's a serious problem if the credit is executed without the associated debit, or vice versa.
As the results of their theoretical studies of transactions, Theo Häerder and Andreas Reuter published a 1983 paper, "Principles of Transaction-Orientated Database Recovery," in which they presented the requirements for systems that could process multiple-task units of work (transactions), and would not be corrupted by hardware, database, or operating-system failures. The paper is most famous for its specification of the principles of Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability (ACID). A system that conforms to these so-called ACID properties guarantees the reliability of its transactions.
Two-Phase Commit
When all of the data involved in a transaction resides on a single database, only one TM is required to maintain atomicity. But applications and databases are increasingly distributed, such as those linked by web services. The challenge for web services is to maintain atomicity by guaranteeing the mutual success and durability of all of the elements of such a distributed transaction, so named because it involves a distributed unit of work. In other words, multiple steps are required that involve two or more databases.
The traditional method for handling distributed transactions is known as the two-phase commit, which, as its name implies, breaks transactions into two cooperating phases. The two-phase commit protocol is illustrated in Figure 1.
The two-phase commit process assures the atomicity of the distributed transaction. It's clean and simple—except when things go wrong. Due to hardware, software, or communications failures, it's possible that one or more messages may be lost, resulting in an uncertain state for one or more of the resource managers. As it turns out, however, only the loss of a commit message can cause a serious problem. Losses of other message types are less critical. If a resource manager fails to get the request-to-prepare message, it will simply fail to respond. The controller will give up waiting for the resource manager's response and send out an abort message. The other resource managers will not have committed any of their changes. The same occurs if one or more of the response messages is lost. And if a done message is lost, no action need be taken, since all of the resource coordinators will have committed the transaction.
The most serious problem occurs when a resource manager prepares for the transaction but never receives either a commit or an abort message from the transaction coordinator. Once a resource manager has sent its prepared response, it's in limbo. It can't commit the transaction, and it can't release any resources locked on behalf of the transaction. (Resource locks are under the control of the individual resource managers, not the transaction controller.)
In fact, there's no simple solution to this problem. No two-phase commit protocol can protect against all failures. The possibility will always exist that a communications failure can cause a resource manager to become blocked, or unable to commit or abort. Still, even with its limitations, the two-phase commit protocol remains the mainstay of distributed transactions.
The Web-Services Challenges
The ACID model has been the focus of transaction technologies for twenty years. It's widely used for both local and—via the two-phase commit protocol—distributed transaction systems. But as valuable as the ACID model has proven to be for tightly coupled distributed systems, it falls short for long-lived, loosely coupled asynchronous transactions.
Long-lived transactions
Web services are far more complex in terms of time and space than the transactions for which the ACID concepts were developed. Whereas ACID-based transactions may span many seconds or even a few minutes, loosely coupled web-services transactions may extend over hours or even days. Considerable time can elapse between the preparation and commit phases. Using ACID-style transactions in such long-running business processes would mean that participating resources could be locked and unavailable for extended periods of time—which is unacceptable to many local applications that use the same databases and pend until the resources they require are released.
ACID-style transactions are designed to cope with failures in hardware, software, and communications, but only in otherwise reliable environments where such failures occur relatively infrequently. Most ACID-style distributed transactions systems are based on synchronous, connection-oriented protocols, which maintain communications paths between transaction coordinators and the participating resource managers for at least the duration of the transaction. These synchronous protocols assist in handling such errors by signaling the transaction-coordinator or resource-manager software when a communication failure occurs, so that the coordinator or resource manager knows it can no longer communicate with the service at the other end of the connection. When a communications link fails, all synchronous transactions that depend on that link are promptly aborted.
Short-term communications failures are therefore fatal errors for tightly coupled synchronous transactions, but they must be routinely handled by the systems that support long-lived, loosely coupled asynchronous transactions. The latter are based on a reliable-messaging infrastructure that delivers messages with a high degree of assuredness, even in cases where the recipient and the intervening infrastructure may be down for extended periods of time.
Because the resource locks typically used with ACID-style transactions may block applications, it's critical that they be held for as short a time as possible. If an application dies after locking a resource, that resource could be orphaned forever. If the resource in question represents the availability of an airline seat, that seat might never be filled. A resource manager therefore manages its resources like a mother hen, making sure that locked resources are never abandoned. If a local application requests a lock and then terminates, the resource manager must clean up the mess by unlocking the resource. Before a resource manager allows transactions to be initiated by remote transaction coordinators, a great deal of trust must exist among the resource manager, the remote coordinators, and other resource managers participating in the transactions.
Suppose it's not the link that fails, but rather the remote transaction coordinator. Although the messaging software won't signal a communications error (the communications link is still operational), the local resource manager has the ultimate fallback: It can rely on timeouts to protect its resources. Unfortunately, timeouts can't be used for long-lived transactions, because by definition they execute over extended periods. Again, the techniques that support ACID-style transactions won't work with those that are long-lived, loosely coupled, and asynchronous.
Cancellation risks and abuses
External web services introduce a number of risks just by exposing internal systems to access by others. Allowing externally initiated transactions increases what's known as cancellation risk. For example, consider airline seats purchased at full price a few months before the flight. If they're cancelled at the last minute, the airline may be unable to sell them.
The problem becomes more acute when business processes are automated by web services, because accidental or even intentional abuse can so easily go undetected. For example, imagine how an unethical travel aggregator might exploit an airline-reservation web service. Months in advance, the aggregator reserves every available seat on a particular flight—but at the last minute, cancels them. In a panic to sell the seats, the airline puts them on sale at a deep discount. The unscrupulous travel aggregator then repurchases the same seats at this much lower price.
Accepting a reservation carries an inherent risk of such a last-minute cancellation. This problem exists even without web services, but there are systems in place to detect and prevent most abuses. Airlines manage this risk through overbooking. Concert and theater ticket agencies protect themselves using no-refund policies. But many other businesses - particularly those in wholesale trade - have no formal methods for managing cancellation risks. The risks and abuses of cancellations will probably increase and spread to other industries as external web services are deployed. Web services will ultimately need to express and negotiate the policies under which such transactions are made.
Loosely Coupled Transactions
Clearly, the web-services requirements for transactions far exceed what can be accomplished using traditional technologies. The more loosely we couple systems - separating them in time, space, and control - the more difficult it becomes to manage transactions distributed among them. Loosely coupled transactions, it would seem, come at a cost of increased complexity. That's true, but only so long as we keep trying to apply, refine, and improve traditional approaches based on ACID-style concepts. Instead, let's consider how we can build an all-new transactional system based on loosely coupled web services technologies: asynchronous communications, reliable messaging, and document-style interaction. Let's use an example of a tightly coupled transaction, then see how it can be improved.
You're in your car, listening to the radio, when you hear an announcement that your favorite musician will be performing in your town. You grab your cell phone and dial the ticket-sales agency. A friendly salesperson answers the phone, and you launch into your request - only to be interrupted by the salesperson telling you, "I'm sorry, but our computers are down right now, and we don't know when they'll be back up. You'll have to call again later."
You've just stumbled into one of the drawbacks of synchronous transactions: In this case, there's nothing you can do but abort the transaction. You (the requestor) and the reservation system (the provider) must be available simultaneously. There's no point leaving your information with a salesperson who's just an intermediary, with no store-and-forward capability. Even if the salesperson were willing to take down your information, would you trust that person to complete your order? The responsibility for recovering from the system failure and restarting the transaction falls entirely on you, the requestor.
Half an hour later, you call back (retry), and learn that the system is now available. Of course the context of your transaction has been lost, so you've got to start from the very beginning. As luck would have it, the agent submits your request only to report, "Sorry, but all of the orchestra seats are now sold out. The best I can do is row J, seats 103 and 104 in the upper mezzanine." For a period of a few minutes, the reservation system locks the database records that represent those two seats while you make up your mind. If other customers are placing orders through different agents, they won't be offered those same seats. (This is now a synchronous transaction.)
You tell the agent you'll take the tickets, but your cell phone goes dead just as you're about to jot down your confirmation number. Now what? Did the transaction complete? Do you really have two tickets for the concert, or do you need to call back and place another order? If you do, will you end up with four tickets instead of two? Unfortunately, there's no way to know. Such are the problems of tightly coupled transactions without a reliable asynchronous messaging infrastructure.
Wouldn't it be great if you could just leave a voice-mail message (a self-contained document) including not only the obvious details, but instructions (the business logic) for what to do in case your first-choice seats aren't available? Your voice-mail message would then enter a message queue along with those of other customers, and be processed in sequence. As a result of your request, the ticket agency would call you back or send you an email message confirming your purchase. The acknowledgement would complete this long-lived, loosely coupled asynchronous transaction.
By communicating asynchronously, you've eliminated the real-time constraint of the transaction. You can make your request in the middle of the night. Even if a human agent must review your order, that person need not be available at the time you submit it. Although the vendor's voice-mail system must be able to accept calls at a reasonable rate, the actual transaction system that processes the request is highly scalable. Even if the transaction system goes offline, all orders will get processed in due time as long as customers can submit voice-mail orders. You can see how a reliable asynchronous messaging system is key to long-lived, loosely coupled asynchronous transactions.
Isolation without locking
You've also eliminated the need for record locking. So long as all requests are submitted through a single queue, the ticket agency can process its requests serially. And provided only one ticket request is being processed at a time, the application doesn't need to simulate serialization by locking resources.
Compensating Transactions
Once a transaction has been committed, it can no longer be aborted. Yet in the real world, there are often times when the effects of a transaction must be undone. The problem is that some transactions can't be reversed because their effects are permanent, and/or conditions have so changed over time that restoring the previous state would be inappropriate. As an example, consider a transaction that triggers the manufacturing of an item. Materials are consumed, and money is spent. It's impossible to simply wipe out the transaction. You can't un-manufacture the item. Instead, other actions must be taken, such as charging the customer a cancellation fee and offering the item for sale to other parties. In the earlier example of an unscrupulous travel aggregator who cancelled airline tickets at the last minute, we saw how the airline chose to put those seats on sale at a discount in order to make sure they'd be sold and the airplane would be full.
These are examples of compensating transactions that can be applied after an original transaction has been committed in order to undo its effects, without necessarily returning resources to their original states. Many transaction managers support compensating transactions - and as we'll see in the case of long-lived, loosely coupled asynchronous web services, compensating transactions can actually be used instead of resource locking.
ACID-style transactions are optimistic, and assume a high likelihood of success. You can imagine a human coordinator of a simple two-phase commit transaction commanding the participants. Phase One: "Okay, here's what you need to do. [Coordinator enumerates the requirements.] Has everyone prepared for the transaction by safely storing the results? Good." Phase Two, after receiving affirmative votes from all participants: "Now everyone...GO!" There's no need for the coordinator to ask whether anyone was unsuccessful, since all of the participants promised in Phase One that they could do as requested. The key to the success (and integrity) of the transaction is the locking of the resources between these two phases.
On the other hand, a loosely coupled transaction coordinator must take a pessimistic view of a transaction's outcome. Even with a reliable messaging protocol, many other errors can occur due to the long-term nature of the transaction. Rather than reserve their resources in advance, loosely coupled participants prepare compensating transactions that will undo the local effects in case the first phase is unsuccessful. If the transaction is later aborted, all participants execute their compensating transactions.
When using compensating transactions, our human coordinator might say in Phase One, "Okay, here's what you need to do. Don't do it yet, but in case this doesn't work, I want each of you to figure out ahead of time how to recover. Now everyone...GO!" Then, in Phase Two: "Great...did that work for everyone, or do we all need to run our back-out scenarios?"
Compensating transactions are one of the technologies that decouple systems from one another, and are a first step towards filling in the missing pieces of complex web services.
IBM, Microsoft, and BEA are at work on WS-Coordination, a framework that supports multiple coordination types including WS-AtomicTransactions for short-lived "all-or-nothing" transactions, and WS-BusinessActivity for long-lived loosely coupled transactions using compensation.
Sun, Oracle, Iona and others have announced plans for WS-CAF, the Web Services Composite Application Framework, for transactions and coordination of interdependent web services. And the OASIS Business Transaction Technical Committee is continuing to develop BTP, the Business Transaction Protocol, but they're awaiting implementations so that they can progress it towards a full OASIS standard.
The issues are both political and technical. Because the traditional mechanisms for handling distributed transactions don't work for web services, the standards for web-services transactions will be some of the last to be developed, agreed to, and adopted. Most experts don't expect much impact from these competing standardization efforts until 2005.
This article is excerpted from Loosely Coupled - The Missing Pieces of Web Services (ISBN 1881378241). ©2003 Doug Kaye.
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Closely related to this, is decoration. Most Riverside pet grooming can decorate the pet's body to make it suite a specific occasion be it wedding or any function which requires pets to be groomed in a particular manner.
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Ear cleaning; just like other pet grooming facilities in other states, Riverside pet grooming centers are also doing this kind of treatment to all pets brought to the center for general grooming unless the owner isn't willing to either pay for the services or is not comfortable. They have some of the best equipment for this particular procedure.
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Play is one of the most effective tools for keeping human relationships fresh and exciting. Playing together for the fun of it brings joy, vitality and resilience.
The Play Revolution is an energetic team that are trained to go into any workplace that is suffering from disconnection and staff friction and help them out of it through activities, creativity and play.
The brand for The Play Revolution needed to be much more than just a traditional logo. We wanted to create a tool that was playful and encouraged creativity while also being recognisable as The Play Revolution.
This is how we came to develop the Play Kit.
The Play Kit is a system of pieces—much like Meccano pieces—that can be joined together to form shapes. These connections represent the connections within a workplace that The Play Revolution is helping their clients repair.
Icons built on the Play Grid.
There is a strict yet simple formula for creating the Play Kit pieces — as illustrated below. Keeping within these guidelines delivers a consistency of brand, while also allowing a great deal of creativity in application.
We achieved a combination of playfulness and creativity while still having a strong brand that would be taken seriously by a crew of 50 lawyers who were being asked to play an egg and spoon race.
The final logo was built following the Play Tool Kit rules within a strict grid.
Grid structure used for logo.


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About BSI
Figure 1: Installation of the UV monitoring system at Summit Greenland. The irradiance collector of a BSI SUV-150B spectroradiometer is shown in the foreground. Instruments in the background include a GUV-511 multi-filter instrument from BSI and a PSP pyranometer from Eppley Laboratory.In 1987, responding to serious ozone depletion reported in Antarctica, the Division of Polar Programs of the National Science Foundation called for the establishment of an ultraviolet (UV) monitoring system in Antarctica. Acting on short notice, Biospherical Instruments Inc. (BSI) was selected to install a network of instruments, which has become known as the NSF Office of Polar Programs Ultraviolet Spectral Irradiance Monitoring Network (UVSIMN). BSI has been responsible for overseeing the network's operation, data processing, quality control, and dissemination of data since 1988.
Network locations include the South Pole; two research stations at the Antarctic coast (McMurdo and Palmer); the city of Ushuaia at the tip of South America; the Arctic village of Barrow; and Summit, a research camp established at the top of Greenland's ice sheet (Figure 1). An additional instrument is located at our company's headquarters in San Diego. The network has produced one of the longest Climate Data Records of UV radiation in existence.
Data are distributed via the website uv.biospherical.com, which also provides extensive information on the network's instrumentation (BSI's SUV spectroradiometers and GUV multifilter radiometers), data processing, quality control, and data format.
The organizational structure of the network changed in 2009. The network sites at Barrow and Summit became part of NSF's Arctic Observing Network (www.aoncadis.org). BSI continues operating the two sites. In 2010, NOAA's Global Monitoring Division took over the helm from the NSF to oversee operation of the instruments at the South Pole, McMurdo Station, and Palmer Station. BSI continues to prepare and quality-control data of the three sites.
In addition to operating the network, BSI has added a strong research component to the project with a focus on atmospheric physics. Results have been presented at numerous conferences and were published in more than 60 papers (http://www.biospherical.com/nsf/references.asp), either independently or in collaboration with other researchers. Some of these results are summarized here.
Climatology of UV radiation
We established a climatology of the UV Index (a measure of sun-burning radiation) for all sites of the NSF UV Monitoring Network. Results were published in the book "UV Radiation in Global Climate Change: Measurements, Modeling and Effects on Ecosystems." Examples of these results for the South Pole and Barrow are shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2: Climatology of noontime UV Index at South Pole and Barrow. Measurements from the years 1991-2007 are indicated by black dots. Statistic based on these measurements are indicated by thick lines. Reconstructions of historical UV Indices are indicated by thin lines and gray-shading. A 11-day running-average has been applied to the average, median, 10% and 90% lines. The plot starts at the winter solstice. Summer solstice, and vernal and autumnal equinoxes are indicated by broken lines.
Measurements of the noontime UV Index covering all years of network operation are indicated by black dots. Associated statistics (average, median, 10th and 90th percentile, overall maximum) are drawn with thick lines. At the South Pole, there is a strong enhancement during the spring (October to November) because of the effect of the ozone hole. At Barrow, average UV Indices are more symmetrical about the summer solstice (broken vertical line), but the variability is much larger in summer than spring. This is a consequence of the annual cycles of snow cover, sea ice extent, and cloudiness.
We also compared UV indices at the South Pole (representative for the polar plateau) and Summit (representative for Greenland's interior) (Bernhard et al. 2008a). One important result was that the UV indices measured during the austral spring at the South Pole are 1.9–2.4 times larger than the UV indices during the vernal spring at Summit despite the similar locations of the two sites on vast, highly reflective, and high-altitude ice sheets.
Measured values from the South Pole and Barrow were also compared with estimates of historical UV Indices (1963–1980 for the South Pole; 1973–1980 for Barrow), which were reconstructed from data of total ozone predating operations of the network. These estimates are indicated in Figure 2 by gray-shading. During October and November, the average UV Index measured at the South Pole between 1991 and 2006 was 55–85% larger than the estimate for the years 1963–1980. In contrast at Barrow, there was little change between the two periods: the gray-shaded area in Figure 2 has a similar pattern to that of recent measurements. The analysis provided valuable insight into the evolution of UV irradiance during the last 30 years.
Factors affecting UV radiation
Figure 3. Effect of total ozone (a), albedo (b), aerosols (c), clouds (d) on the annual cycle of the UV Index at Barrow. Panel (e) compares the effects of all factors on a common scale and panel (f) quantifies the variability of the various factors. Figure is from Bernhard et al., [2007].UV irradiance at the surface is affected by the solar elevation, total ozone, clouds, Rayleigh scattering, surface albedo (e.g., snow cover and sea ice extent), aerosols, absorption by trace gases, and Sun–Earth distance. In 2007, we published the most in-depth study to date to separate the effect of these factors (Bernhard et al. 2007). The analysis was based on our UV measurements at Barrow.
Figure 3 summarizes some of the results. Panel a indicates the effect of the total ozone column on the annual cycle of the UV Index at Barrow. Data are normalized to the effect of ozone at the summer solstice. Data for individual years are indicated by small dots, and large red circles represent the climatology. Because of larger atmospheric ozone concentration in April, the UV Index is about 25% lower compared to the solstice, while lower ozone in September enhances the UV Index by about 20%.
High albedo in spring, due to snow and sea ice cover, increases the UV Index by 40–55% compared to summer when albedo is very low (Panel b). The albedo in May and June was greatly affected by the date of snow melt and ranged between 0.2 and 0.8. Aided by sunphotometer measurements provided by NOAA, we showed that aerosols reduce the UV Index by typically 3–5%.
Aerosol effects are largest during the spring because of "Arctic haze" episodes (Panel c). The effect of clouds is much larger during the summer and fall, partly because of the increased frequency of storms (Panel d). In addition, the effect of clouds is moderated during the spring because of multiple reflections between snow-covered ground and cloud ceiling.
In Panel e, the effects of the four factors are drawn on a common scale. The spring-time reduction of the UV Index due to the annual ozone cycle is overcompensated by the effects of albedo and clouds, highlighting that measurements of ozone alone are not sufficient for understanding the Arctic UV climate.
Our study suggested that long-term changes of albedo and clouds may have a profound effect on the Arctic UV climate. The importance of clouds is further highlighted in Panel f, indicating that the year-to-year variability in UV due to clouds, exceeds that of the other factors, particularly during summer and fall.
Validation of Total Ozone Measurements
Figure 4. Total ozone at Summit, South Pole and Barrow derived from measurements of the UV Monitoring Network Panel a shows total ozone as a function of time of year while Panel b shows the same data set as a function of solar zenith angle. There is a stark contrast between the annual cycles of total ozone at South Pole and the two northern-hemisphere sites: at South Pole, the lowest ozone columns are observed in the austral spring (October through early December), when Antarctica is affected by the ozone hole and total ozone is frequently below 220 DU. In contrast, total ozone at Barrow and Summit is largest during the boreal spring (February and April) as a result of the so-called Brewer-Dobson circulation.We developed a new method for calculating total ozone from global irradiance spectra measured by instruments of the NSF UV Monitoring Network (Bernhard et al. 2003). The method takes vertical profiles of ozone and temperature into account and delivers more accurate results at small solar elevations than previous approaches (Figure 3).
Measurements of the UV network have also been used for the validation of total ozone observations performed by the instruments usually used for this purpose (Dobson and Brewer spectrophotometers). As part of this research, we discovered an error in the Dobson ozone absorption coefficients recommended by the World Meteorological Organisation (Bernhard et al. 2007a). Our results may help to improve the accuracy of measurements performed by WMO's Global Atmospheric Watch program.
Our data have also been used for the validation of surface UVR retrievals of the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on NASA's AURA satellite (Tanskanen et al. 2007b). One important result was that OMI underestimates erythemal UV doses at coastal high-latitude locations sometimes by up to 60%.
Intercomparison campaigns
The quality of data of the UV Monitoring Network has been regularly assessed by participation in intercomparisons. The SUV-150B spectroradiometer now installed at Summit participated in the fifth North American Interagency Intercomparison for UV Spectroradiometers, held at Boulder, Colo., in 2003 (Wuttke et al. 2006, and Lantz et al. 2008). The instrument at McMurdo was compared with a NIWA spectroradiometer, which was brought to Antarctica for a 2-month campaign (Bernhard et al. 2008b). The quality of the network's UV data meets the standard of the Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC), a global network focusing on high-quality long-term measurements of atmospheric constituents.
Development of quality control tools
We developed an extensive set of software tools for the quality control of spectral measurements, which includes the test and correction of measured spectra for wavelength shifts, the cosine error, outliers, responsivity drifts, detection limits, etc. (Bernhard et al. 2004). We also developed methods utilizing measurements of filter radiometers for the quality control of spectroradiometric data (Bernhard et al. 2005 and 2008a). These tools are routinely implemented for preparing and testing data of the NSF UV Monitoring Network.
Bernhard, G., C.R. Booth, and R.D. McPeters. (2003). Calculation of total column ozone from global UV spectra at high latitudes. J. Geophys. Res., 108(D17), 4532, doi:10.1029/2003JD003450.
Bernhard, G., C.R. Booth, and J.C. Ehramjian. (2004). Version 2 data of the National Science Foundation's Ultraviolet Radiation Monitoring Network: South Pole, J. Geophys. Res., 109, D21207, doi:10.1029/2004JD004937.
Bernhard, G., R.D. Evans, G.J. Labow, and S.J. Oltmans. (2005a). Bias in Dobson Total Ozone Measurements at High Latitudes due to Approximations in Calculations of Ozone Absorption Coefficients and Airmass. J. Geophys. Res., 110, D10305, doi:10.1029/2004JD005559.
Bernhard, G., C.R. Booth, and J.C. Ehramjian. (2005b). Real-time ultraviolet and column ozone from multichannel ultraviolet radiometers deployed in the National Science Foundation's ultraviolet monitoring network. Opt. Eng., 44(4), 041011-1 – 041011-12.
Wuttke S., G. Seckmeyer, G. Bernhard, J. Ehramjian, R. McKenzie, P. Johnston, and M. O'Neil. (2006). New spectroradiometers complying with the NDSC standards, J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 23(2), 241–251.
Bernhard, G., C.R. Booth, J.C. Ehramjian, R. Stone, and E.G. Dutton (2007a). Ultraviolet and visible radiation at Barrow, Alaska: Climatology and influencing factors on the basis of version 2 National Science Foundation network data, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D09101, doi:10.1029/2006JD007865.
Tanskanen, A., A, Lindfors, A. Määttä, N. Krotkov, J. Herman, J. Kaurola, T. Koskela, K. Lakkala, V. Fioletov, G. Bernhard, R. McKenzie, Y. Kondo, M. O'Neill, H. Slaper, P. den Outer, A.F. Bais, and J. Tamminen. (2007b). Validation of daily erythemal doses from Ozone Monitoring Instrument with ground-based UV measurement data, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D24S44, doi:10.1029/2007JD008830.
Bernhard, G., C.R. Booth, and J.C. Ehramjian. (2008a). Comparison of UV irradiance measurements at Summit, Greenland; Barrow, Alaska; and South Pole, Antarctica, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 8, 4799–4810.
Bernhard, G., R.L. McKenzie, M. Kotkamp, S. Wood, C.R. Booth, J.C. Ehramjian, P. Johnston, and S.E. Nichol. (2008b). Comparison of ultraviolet spectroradiometers in Antarctica, J. Geophys. Res, 113, D14310, doi:10.1029/2007JD009489.
Lantz, K., P. Disterhoft, J. Slusser, W. Gao, J. Berndt, G. Bernhard, S. Bloms, R. Booth, J. Ehramjian, L. Harrison, G. Janson, P. Johnston, P. Kiedron, R. McKenzie, M. Kimlin, J.P. Neale, M. O'Neill, V.V. Quang, G. Seckmeyer, T. Taylor, S. Wuttke, and J. Michalsky. (2008b). The 2003 North American interagency intercomparison of ultraviolet spectroradiometers: Scanning and spectrograph instruments, J. Appl. Remote Sens., 2, 023547, doi:10.1117/1.3040299.
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The largest financial obligation most people ever take on couldn?t escape the reach of the Internet. Home mortgage loans originated online comprise an integral part of one of the largest and most profitable aspects of the banking industry. Unlike many shifts in big business recently, this change actually seems to greatly benefit consumers by increasing competition and placing more financial control in the hands of homeowners.
?Instant Approval For Home Loans? is a common refrain for online mortgage lenders, but sometimes instant is longer than you think. During regular business hours with a typical application, you can expect the databases to approve your application almost immediately. However, any glitch in the system will require the intervention of a person, which adds a time delay.
Mortgage lenders have set up shop online, but they aren?t all reputable mortgage brokers. To find a good mortgage lender you need to compare rates and research to find reputable companies.
You have been paying on your mortgage for quite sometime and you think that your money serves no purpose except paying for your loan. This you already know. The thing you don't know is that there is latent money in your mortgage that needs to be harvested. Now you probably ruminating between mortgage repayments and personal finances, where is the place for latent money? There certainly is! Unbolt these funds by improving interest rates through remortgage.


I, like others, are predicting intense competition between high-speed internet providers to offer greater bandwidth at lower prices. Frankly, it's about time. For the longest while, Comcast and a few select cable companies dominated the market, keeping bandwidth low and prices high. No longer. 2009 should see some good, old-fashioned capitalistic competition between high-speed broadband providers.
Expect to see a large number of Android-based handsets. Google has made it very clear that it intends to do what it can to drive Apple into the ground in the mobile arena, and there's a good chance that simply due to the quantity of phones that will carry Android, that could happen. The iPhone will still amass followers, but Android will the year's OS.
You can be sure you'll see even greater drops in smartphone prices, as well as BIG jumps in handset hardware. Real camera phones will be everywhere, and manufacturers will need to build better, cheaper handsets to remain competitive. 8-10 megapixel camera phones will be available on every network. WiFi, 3G, UMA, high storage capacities, and GPS will be built into most smartphones.
With the increased competition between handset manufacturers, expect to see more competition between wireless carriers as well. Lower termination fees, plans that allow more people to be in your "circle," cheaper upgrades, and big steps towards improving customer satisfaction will be the name of the game.
Apple, Apple, Apple! Though Apple has been steadily building a following in the computer market, I'm guessing we'll see a big boost in adoption rates. Rumors are already going around that Apple is preparing a tablet-sized version of the iTouch with a screen of 7 or 9 inches, which should be announced at Macworld in January. If that device launches, expect to see it become just as popular, if not more popular, than the iPhone.
Smartphones will be everywhere, carried by everyone, and apps stores like those of Apple and Google will be offered by all carriers and manufacturers. Mobile social networking will receive massive support with new and improved mobile applications, which will push the adoption of social media and networking in general. You'll live by your handset, not your computer.
Twitter, Twitter, Twitter (I like saying things three times when its important)! Facebook made a move last year to acquire the micro-blogging platform, and Twitter wisely refused. All the haters will try to imitate and replicate the popular client, but Twitter will stay on top. Even more people will use it, and Twitter will find a way to monetize its operation without ruining the experience.
Let's not forget Obama. No, he isn't social media or technology directly, but the man is more popular right now in media than JFK was. I'm honestly excited and curious to see what develops in Washington with Obama and his interesting potpourri of cabinet members in 2009.
There's probably a lot more predictions that could be made, but these are the few that top my list. What are your predictions?


I purchased the pro version from the android store because i thought it was supposed to have an auto answer option but i can't seem to find it in the app on my phone. can anyone help?
Zoiper for Android does not support Auto-answer at the moment.
Is it something that is supported now or do you have any short plan for this?
Auto-answer is already available on Zoiper for Android. It can be found under Zoiper -> Settings -> Calls.
I just looked at my Zoiper on Android (Zoiper 2.6.39) and there is not "Zoiper -> Settings -> Calls"
Are you sure it's available on Android? Is there a Pro version ?
There is no Calls section, as mentioned in this thread. Is it on a pro version or I m not looking at the right place?
Maybe you are using Zoiper Lite, it does not have this option and it is hidden. It is part of Zoiper Premium/ Gold.
Thanks indeed I didn't install ZoiperBeta, as it was `beta` it didn't look like the one to install.
I can now find that feature. Thanks for the help!


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Johann Joseph Kenn (auch: Jean-Joseph Kenn; * 21. September 1757 in Dietrichingen; † 14. Februar 1840 in  Fontainebleau) war ein deutscher Hornist, Komponist und Professor für Horn.

Kenn stammte aus Zweibrücken, wo er 1757 als Sohn des Schneiders Johann Christian Kenn und dessen Frau Anna Maria geboren wurde. Vermutlich wurde er von Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith unterrichtet und wirkte möglicherweise in der Hofkapelle. 1782 ging er nach Paris und stand bald im Ruf als einer der besten tiefen Hornisten. Ab 1783 war er als zweiter Hornist an der "Grand Opéra" in Paris tätig. Am Conservatoire de Paris unterrichtete er von 1795 bis 1802, unter anderem auch Louis François Dauprat (1781 bis 1868). Er starb am 14. Februar 1840 im französischen Fontainebleau.

Sein erhaltenes Œuvre als Komponist umfasst Duos für Horn und Klarinette, 25 Duos für zwei Hörner, 36 Trios für drei Hörner. 24 der Horntrios erschienen 1797 in der Sammlung "Recueil d'airs" (Neudruck 1808).

Quellen
 Karlheinz Dettweiler: Der Mann mit dem Naturhorn in: Zweibrücker Rundschau. 11. August 2010.

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Hochschullehrer (CNSMD Paris)
Komponist (Klassik)
Komponist (Deutschland)
Dietrichingen
Geboren 1757
Gestorben 1840
Mann
Person (Landkreis Südwestpfalz)
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This is a fabulous elegant ring! In the centre of the platinum ring set in 4 platinum split claws is a rectangular natural unheated tanzanite that was cut by Alan from rough material that he bought in Tanzania in the 1980s. On each side of the tanzanite is a 4 claw set trap cut diamond above a platinum shank.


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is een Japans mangaka. Vandaag woont ze in Sapporo.

In 1968 maakte ze als scholier aan de Asahi Gaoka Middelbare School te Sapporo haar debuut in Shueisha's Ribon magazine. Dit was met haar manga Shiroi Same no iru Shima. In 1977 won ze de eerste prijs in de Kodansha Manga Prijs vanwege haar tekenwerk voor de reeks Candy Candy.

In de late jaren 1990 maakte Igarashi deel uit van een legale strijd over haar auteursrechten als illustrator. Igarashi was van mening dat zij als tekenaar de auteursrechten bezat over de afbeeldingen van personages en dat zij daarom geen toestemming nodig had van de auteurs waarmee zij samenwerkte om producten te verkopen op basis van deze personages. In een rechtszaak over de rechten van de reeks Candy Candy in 1999 oordeelde de rechter dat zowel zij als Kyoko Mizuki, de schrijver van de reeks, de rechten bezaten. Igarashi moest Mizuki 3% royalties betalen op alle producten die zonder haar toestemming geproduceerd waren. Dit legale dispuut legde de productie van een Candy Candy anime en bijhorende producten stil tot in 2004.

In Kurashiki is een Yumiko Igarashi Museum.

Oeuvre
1968: Shiroi Same no iru Shima (debuut)
1975: Candy Candy (verhaal van Kyoko Mizuki)
1979: Mayme Angel (verhaal en tekeningen van Yumiko Igarashi)
1982: Koronde Pokkle (verhaal en tekeningen van Yumiko Igarashi)
1982: Georgie! (verhaal van Mann Izawa)
1986: The Sword of Paros (verhaal van Kaoru Kurimoto)
1993 - 1994: Muka Muka Paradise (verhaal van Fumiko Shiba)
2011 - 2014: Josephine the French Rose (verhaal van Kaoru Ochiai)

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A proposal to gerrymander in the name of stopping gerrymandering
October 10, 2019 by Andy Jackson
I have previously noted that Common Cause was unhappy with a few of the General Assembly districts created in the wake of Common Cause v. Lewis. There is someone else so unhappy with those districts that he not only wants the court to throw out those districts, he wants the court to toss out part of its own ruling.
Sam Wang, head of the Princeton Redistricting Project, submitted an amicus brief to the court handling Common Cause v. Lewis asking the court to give it's appointed special master wide latitude to draw more districts favorable to Democrats.
Wang's biggest objection appears to be with the use of the random maps created by Jowei Chen for the Democrats in Common Cause v. Lewis as a starting point for drawing the remedial maps. Wang claimed that "when an algorithm ranks criteria such as compactness and municipality splits above representation of communities, partisan skew can result" (page 7). However, the "partisan skew" in Chen's maps is due to geography, not bias; Republicans tend to be more evenly spread across the state than Democrats. Wang knows enough that he has to admit that fact in the very next sentence of his brief.
In addition, he uses statistics, such as the efficiency gap, in a way that fails to distinguish between gerrymandering and geography. His choice runs contrary to best practices and the statistical work done by Chen in Common Cause v Lewis.
Further complicating things for Wang is the fact that compactness and avoiding municipality splits were part of the criteria the court laid out for the General Assembly to follow when drawing remedial maps, meaning that the court would have to contravene its own order to please Wang. You simply can't get what Wang wants without intentionally manipulating districts to advantage one political party.
Wang then proceeds down the "lies, damned lies, and statistics" road:
In the past cases, winning vote shares were decreased by the redrawing of the map by an average of 9 to 16 percentage points. See id. In contrast, the Remedial Maps submitted by the General Assembly would lead to an estimated reduction of winning vote share of only 2.3 percentage points in the Senate and 2.8 percentage points in the House. See id
The implication is that members of the General Assembly were being laggards in adjusting their maps. However a look at a chart on the same page (19) of Wang's brief tells a different story:
Detail of "Table 4. Changes in competitiveness in the Remedial Maps, compared with increases in competitiveness in past redistricting cases." Source: Sam Wang and the Princeton Gerrymandering Project.
Wang wants the judges to focus on the "change" column and how relatively small the 2.3 and 2.8 percentage point change is compared to those in other redistricting cases. However, he neglects to mention the difference in winning vote share in the maps before court-ordered redistricting (the "before column"). The districts under remediation in Common Cause v. Lewis already had much smaller winning vote shares than those of other cases. Despite the relatively small changes in the proposed remedial maps the General Assembly submitted, the winning vote share in those maps (the "after column) is still smaller than those in the other cases. In fact, the original House maps struck down in Common Cause v. Lewis had a smaller winning vote share than half the remedial maps from the other cases and the original Senate maps had a smaller winning vote share than all of the remedial maps from the other cases. The relatively small change in winning vote share was not due to the General Assembly not doing it's job; it was due to the fact that the winning vote share in the old maps was already low compared to those other cases.
For all the numbers in Wang's brief, the only thing it clearly demonstrates is his desire help Democrats win more seats.
Tagged With: common cause v. Lewis, elections, gerrymandering, Redistricting
https://www.nccivitas.org/civitas-review/proposal-gerrymander-name-stopping-gerrymandering/


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'Shared iPad' in Apple's iOS 9.3 update is a big deal
Along with Night Shift mode and CarPlay enhancements, the upgrade adds useful features to mobile OS
By Ryan Faas
Contributing Writer, Computerworld |
Apple this week offered a preview of features in the upcoming release of iOS 9.3. Those features include a range of consumer enhancements, including Night Shift, a viewing mode that minimizes the output of blue light that can disrupt sleep patterns; significant improvements in the iPhone's health tracking capabilities; the ability to secure notes; and improvements to CarPlay and the iOS News app.
The most significant changes, however, are aimed at the education market, though it's likely those changes will eventually reshape iPad use in the office and at home.
The advances in education capabilities come as Chromebooks are making massive inroads in K-12 education, a market Apple has largely dominated for years.
iOS 9.3 introduces a range of education features:
A new Classroom App that allows teachers to see what students are doing on iPads in the classroom, remotely launch and lock apps, and share student work on a classroom display connected to an Apple TV.
Simplified device and service management that allows education IT shops to set up devices, create user accounts, distribute apps and ebooks and build custom courses that can be delivered through Apple's iTunes U.
Streamlined Apple ID creation and management that allows bulk creation of student and teacher Apple IDs, local password resets and customized roles for teachers and school staff.
Night Shift is designed to reduce blue light from a mobile device's screen in dark environments.
Shared iPad -- the biggest new feature
The biggest advance is known as Shared iPad. As the name suggests, this feature lets students share iPads and it's designed for schools where cost or policy concerns prevent implementation of a one-iPad-per-student program. Shared iPad allows students to log into an iPad similar to how they would log into a Mac or PC. The result is that a student's apps, content and progress through various tasks will be available, regardless of which iPad they actually use.
Apple is working to make this as frictionless as possible by using intelligent data caching. There's also a Photo ID feature that allows teachers to identify the last student to use an iPad, which should avoid delays related to downloading content and could help optimize on-device storage. For younger students, login can require a simple four digit PIN rather than a complex passcode.
Regardless of the technologies it relies on to streamline downtime and login, Apple is supporting multiple users on an iOS device for the first time. That is extremely significant because the company has never shown any real interest in making iOS a multi-user environment.
[ Related: Wireless chargers for Apple's iPhone X ]
Apple hasn't stated this clearly, but its description of the feature implies that these user accounts or profiles aren't necessarily on the device itself: For students who use the same assigned iPad in a class each day, starting a lesson is hassle-free. Thanks to intelligent caching, when students log in they don't have to wait for everything to download — it's already there.
That implies that user data is cached on a shared iPad, but that the data could also be downloaded if a student needs a device other than the one he or she has been using. Given the focus on Managed Apple IDs, the implication is that user data is linked to a specific Apple ID created and managed by the school.
Useful at home, too
Shared iPad will be a major advance for schools, because it helps make iPad use a major part of the classroom experience without requiring a massive investment -- and it will be a boon to education IT and teachers. But schools aren't the only environment where iOS devices are shared.
Notes can be secured in iOS 9.3.
Many families share one or more iPads (and even iPhones, in some cases). At home, an iPad becomes a multi-user device, albeit with limitations. As things stand now, progress in games, ebooks, education apps and so on isn't delineated between siblings or parents. Access to email, social media, or messaging accounts isn't separated. Access to content isn't partitioned based on user, genre, or age appropriateness. Device and app settings are one-size/user-fits all. A single Apple ID is used across the board for purchases (a second may be used for iCloud features, but again it's just one ID).
For families on a budget, buying multiple iPads isn't always an option. BUt sharing a single iPad (or even a couple) isn't always ideal for these reasons. Expanding this ability from the classroom to the living room is a natural extension. So is taking the Managed Apple ID concept from teacher and school administrators and adapting it for parents.
Apple isn't there yet, but it's hard not to see where the company is heading.
It's also worth noting that this functionality already exists across most mobile a desktop platforms. Android, Windows and Windows Phone have offered multi-user capabilities in one form or another for some time. Apple has, of course, offered this in OS X since it debuted 15 years ago, along with a range of parental control options, all of which could be adapted for iOS. Apple could even take OS X's Guest User feature and extend that to iOS as well.
The big step: Shared iPad in the enterprise
It's hard not to see Shared iPad as enterprise-worthy. Despite the BYOD trend for mobile devices at work -- and the related assumption that devices will be used by a single employee regardless of ownership -- there are a variety of contexts in which a device could be shared. Retail, customer service, and hospitality are prime examples, though they can often work in a kiosk mode where personalization isn't needed. Other environments like healthcare, sales, field service, architecture/engineering and design are areas where multiple professionals might work with a single pool of devices, but where user-specific apps, settings or content is necessary for effective use.
This need for personalization is even more apparent when using the iPad Pro. One of the chief criticisms about Apple's oversized tablet is that its hardware potential is held back by the limitations of iOS, an issue I predicted Apple would tackle in 2016. Multi-user functionality isn't at the top of the list for iOS improvements related to the iPad Pro -- paid upgrades, light versions of apps and better multitasking tend to lead the list. But it is a "pro" feature that would make the device even more valuable. It would allow a company to offer the pricey tablet in a more cost-effective way since a single iPad Pro could be shared among several staff members.
The big question with enterprise use of the Shared iPad feature is how far Apple would go in tying into existing enterprise systems. The company's Education Preview page implies that at least some of the management functionality will be tied to Managed Apple IDs and services like Apple's Device Enrollment Program and Volume Purchase Program, though it does reference integration with MDM/EMM software.
If Apple supports key enterprise systems like Active Directory, then managing shared iOS devices, including device access and usage logging, could be similar to managing PCs. The very functionality Apple is already implying for education use is essentially the same as Windows roaming profiles, in which a user receives the same Windows desktop and experience regardless of which PC they use.
This would significantly expand the versatility of iOS in the enterprise and could be a big step in making the iPad Pro a true competitor to the Surface Pro or other Windows tablets/hybrids.
A big step, not yet taken
Should Apple move forward with Shared iPad as a cornerstone feature of iOS, it will likely do so with iOS 10. Introducing the feature specifically for education at this stage represents a good testing ground for Apple and a way to reassure education customers that the company understands their needs.
If this does become a standard iOS feature, it will mark a major expansion of capability on par with support for mobile management in iOS 4 or Apple's Device Enrollment Program introduced in iOS 7. Whether Apple will move forward with multi-user support, to what extent, and in what form remain unanswered questions. But the idea is exciting from the perspective of educators, consumers, business users, and IT professionals.
Ryan Faas, a contributing writer for Computerworld, is a technology journalist and author who has been writing about Apple, business and enterprise IT topics, and the mobile industry for over a decade.
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NGC 6252 je spiralna galaktika u zviježđu Malom medvjedu.

Izvori

Vanjske poveznice

  Hartmut Frommert: Revidirani Novi opći katalog
  Izvangalaktička baza podataka NASA-e i IPAC-a
  Astronomska baza podataka SIMBAD
   VizieR
 DSS-ova slika NGC 6252
  Auke Slotegraaf: NGC 6252 Deep Sky Observer's Companion
  NGC 6252 DSO-tražilica
  Courtney Seligman: Objekti Novog općeg kataloga: NGC 6250 - 6299

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Q: How to cache a NetworkImage to use in Another Activity using Volley I have two views, one is main and the other one detail. I am getting all the urls from the server and display the bitmap accordingly on the gridview. Once users clicks on a grid item, I want to use cache'd image from the main view. However, my following implementation does not work.
The way I am testing is as follows: first, I display all images on the gridview and disconnect the Internet and wanted to see cached image on the detail. However, on the detail activity the image is not being displayed.
I am using the following Volley Singleton class as follows:
public class CustomVolleyRequest {

    private static CustomVolleyRequest customVolleyRequest;
    private static Context context;
    private RequestQueue requestQueue;
    private ImageLoader imageLoader;

    private CustomVolleyRequest(Context context) {
        CustomVolleyRequest.context = context;
        this.requestQueue = getRequestQueue();

        imageLoader = new ImageLoader(requestQueue,
                new ImageLoader.ImageCache() {
                    private final LruCache<String, Bitmap>
                            cache = new LruCache<>(20);

                    @Override
                    public Bitmap getBitmap(String url) {
                        return cache.get(url);
                    }

                    @Override
                    public void putBitmap(String url, Bitmap bitmap) {
                        cache.put(url, bitmap);
                    }
                });
    }

    public static synchronized CustomVolleyRequest getInstance(Context context) {
        if (customVolleyRequest == null) {
            customVolleyRequest = new CustomVolleyRequest(context);
        }
        return customVolleyRequest;
    }

    public RequestQueue getRequestQueue() {
        if (requestQueue == null) {
            requestQueue = Volley.newRequestQueue(context.getApplicationContext(), 10 * 1024 * 1024);
        }
        return requestQueue;
    }

    ImageLoader getImageLoader() {
        return imageLoader;
    }
}

Main Activity Adapter
public View getView(final int position, View convertView, @NonNull ViewGroup parent) {
    final ViewHolder holder;
    if(convertView == null) {
        holder = new ViewHolder();
        convertView = LayoutInflater.from(getContext()).inflate(R.layout.grid_item, parent, false);
    }
  holder.imageView.setImageUrl(imageRecord.getUrl(), mImageLoader);
}

Detail Activity
String url = getArguments().getString("image_url");
ImageLoader imageLoader = CustomVolleyRequest.getInstance(getContext()).getImageLoader();
mImageView.setImageUrl(url, imageLoader);

A: If the size of the ImageView is different the default implementation for image caching will not work as the key of the caches passed by the ImageLoader include the size of the view:
private static String getCacheKey(String url, int maxWidth, int maxHeight, ScaleType scaleType) {
    return "#W" + maxWidth + "#H" + maxHeight + "#S" + scaleType.ordinal() + url;
}

You have 2 main options:
1) Rework the ImageLoader and probably NetworkImageView as it places the actual converted bitmap, which might be different size and you may want to call createScaledBitmap() to adjust it to the view.
2) make sure the raw image data received form the network is cached.
So 1) relatively complex because you have to change a few classes chnage the parsing done in ImageRequest and not to scale the raw image data but perform the scaling after the image is received and cached, basically in NetworkImageView or late in ImageLoader
If you go for 2 you would probably need to adjust the default Network Cache implementation of Volley if you server does not send cache headers or etag.
In that case you will need a little change in ImageLoader for that you can check https://stackoverflow.com/a/36549815/2267924


To assess whether ultrasonographic examination compared to chest radiography (CXR) is effective for evaluating complications after central venous catheterization" Kim et al (2018).
OBJECTIVE: To assess whether ultrasonographic examination compared to chest radiography (CXR) is effective for evaluating complications after central venous catheterization.
METHODS: We performed a prospective observational study. Immediately after central venous catheter insertion, we asked the radiologic department to perform a portable CXR scan. A junior and senior medical resident each performed ultrasonographic evaluation of the position of the catheter tip and complications such as pneumothorax and pleural effusion (hemothorax). We estimated the time required for ultrasound (US) and CXR.
RESULTS: Compared to CXR, US could equivalently identify the catheter tip in the internal jugular or subclavian veins (P=1.000). Compared with CXR, US examinations conducted by junior residents could equivalently evaluate pneumothorax (P=1.000), while US examinations conducted by senior residents could also equivalently evaluate pneumothorax (P=0.557) and pleural effusion (P=0.337). The required time for US was shorter than that for CXR (P<0.001).
CONCLUSION: Compared to CXR, US could equivalently and more quickly identify complications such as pneumothorax or pleural effusion.
Kim, Y.I., Ryu, J.H., Min, M.K., Park, M.R., Park, S.C., Yeom, S.R., Han, S.K., Park, S.W. and Lee, S.H. (2018) Usefulness of ultrasonography for the evaluation of catheter misplacement and complications after central venous catheterization. Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine. 5(2), p.71-75.


Nick decided to shortlist Alice, a marketing graduate, after she passed the first steps of the selection process with flying colors. A few days before her final interview with the marketing manager, Alice decided to cancel her interview. In shock, Nick tells his colleagues, "I don't understand these Millennials! This is one of the best graduate programmes in the country, how can she turn down an opportunity like this?!!".
You already know the evidence for generational differences, so you know that being a "Millenial" is not the reason Alice turned down the opportunity.
Like the rest of us at ScienceForWork, you may be wondering why this happens. After all, companies invest a lot of resource in building their employer brand and in targeting the best talent to apply. How can you ensure you attract and hire the best candidates? Which factors influence a candidate's decision? This Evidence Summary will give you an evidence-based answer.
Which factors can influence applicants' decisions in a recruitment process?
A meta-analysis by Chapman, Uggerslev, Carroll, Piasentin & Jones (2005) investigated how the organization and the recruitment process can influence candidate experience and their intention to accept a job offer. The findings are based on 71 studies and a sample of around 10,000 candidates. Because of the snapshot nature of the majority of these studies, we cannot say that certain characteristics of the recruitment process cause specific outcomes, but we can look to see how they are related.
During their job search, candidates imagine themselves in the job and the organization they apply to work for, and judge whether the opportunity is right for them. This is called "perceived fit" and is strongly linked to candidate attraction. In other words, candidates need to feel that the company, and the job they are applying for, fits with their values, needs and interests.
And it turns out that fit with the organization is more important than fit with the job itself. The type of job matters more at the beginning of the process – candidates aren't going to apply for roles they aren't interested in – but your employer brand makes a bigger difference when it comes to accepting the job offer or not.
Once candidates have gone through the first steps of the recruiting process, they meet the recruiters. This is already a decisive moment: the way the recruiter behaves will have an impact on the candidate experience and on that candidate's final decision on whether to join the company or not. Applicants are more likely to accept a job offer from a recruiter they found approachable. Recruiters are contributing greatly to your employer brand, as they are likely to be the first human contact candidates have from your organization.
To increase the likelihood that applicants will accept the job offer, they need to feel they have a good chance of being hired. What is the point of being part of the process if they don't think they stand a chance? Candidates may feel they fit with your organization but they can be put off by a recruitment process which is unnecessarily long or difficult. This can be a reason why candidates drop out and look for a job elsewhere. However, candidates who feel they are likely to be hired will be more likely to hold on to this possibility and try to give the hiring process their best shot.
Work on your employer brand – To attract the best candidates, they need to feel they fit with your organization. People have different values and needs, so what you can do is try to be as inclusive as possible. Explain what your employee value proposition is, and, when it comes to diversity, communicate how people from different backgrounds can thrive in your organization.
Train recruiters to be professional and likeable – Your recruiter is the first person applicants will get in touch with. The way they interact with candidates has a great influence on your employer brand. Emphasize good practices in your recruiter training such as treating candidates like clients so they feel welcomed and will be enthusiastic to work for you.
Be positive about the selection process – Candidates need to believe they have a chance to be hired and to perform well in the job. If the selection process is too complicated or is perceived as being out of their reach, they may not see it through. When the process is long, make sure you are very clear about each step. You can look at making the process simpler without impacting quality and fairness. If the process is particularly challenging, you can be clear with candidates about why this is the case and let candidates know that successful applicants found it difficult too but got hired in the end.
Make sure your selection process is fair and is perceived as being fair – Candidates think that a selection process is fair when it includes activities which are related to the job itself and when they feel they are given the opportunity to show their potential. Learn more about what you can do to make your selection process fairer with this Evidence Summary.
Jonathan works as a consultant for Aon in Paris providing clients with innovative and robust psychometric assessments. His interest in understanding how organisations can work better for the people forming them led him to graduate in Organizational Behaviour at Birkbeck, University of London after a first degree in Business Psychology at the same university. He is particularly interested in employee selection, people development and diversity. When he is not working, Jonathan enjoys performing arts in all its forms, from theatre to classical music, and the cultural life Paris has to offer.


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Az 1923-as NFL-szezon volt a National Football League 4. szezonja. Ez volt az első alkalom, hogy minden NFL-tag kiállított csapatot a bajnokságra. 3 új csapat lépett be: a Duluth Kelleys, a St. Louis All Stars, és a Cleveland Indians. Az Evansville Crimson Giants kilépett.

Az NFL-t az 1922-es szezon után ismét a Canton Bulldogs nyerte meg 11-0-1-es eredményt produkálva.

Végeredmény
GY = Győzelmek, V = Vereségek, D = Döntetlenek, SZ= Győzelmi százalék (Győzelmek/Győzelmek+Vereségek)

Megjegyzés: 1972-ig a döntetleneket nem számolták bele az végeredménybe.

Hivatkozások
 NFL Record and Fact Book ()
 NFL Történelem 1921-1930
 Az 1923-as szezon részletei
 Total Football: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Football League ()

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