When I decided to stay a 2nd night, I went on line and booked through LateRooms.com, and got a smaller room for £38.
I decided to stay one more night and called the front desk to see if the room I was in had been booked. The person at the desk said it had not, so I asked him to book it for me for one more night. Imagine my surprise when I checked out and was charged £60. When I questioned the increase the desk clerk told me the price difference was probably because the previous day had been Sunday.
I didn't eat breakfast at the hotel but I did eat one dinner there. The desk clerk was doing double duty as wait staff and possibly cook, if you can call warmed up over-cooked vegetables and mystery meat cooking. To the clerk's credit, my first night there he told me dinner was available in the dining room, but there were a number of good restaurants nearby. I thought I detected a slight emphasis on "good." I should have paid more attention!
Although it did seem a popular hotel with coach trips I thought it was very old and dated and could do with refurbishment.
For the price I suppose it wasn't too bad for one night, but do prefer something rather more luxurious. I did think, however, the staff were very nice and helpful.
This hotel is old and run down.
this was a very grand hotel - once.
Maybe in the Edwardian era, which was probably when it was last furnished. My room was tiny, the TV was the old shape so the picture was distorted, the carpet sticky, the window broken (so very noisy although not onto main street), one wall had a hole in it, the tea/coffee tray was not refilled, there was no shower although i had instructions on its use.... the TV did not have a remote control and the buttons were so dirty i didn't want to touch them. The white wine was warm, the food I believe was frozen/reheated, the clientele appeared to be DHSS but turned out to be decorators or OAP's on a walk thing. You get what you pay for. the employees were grand - the hotel awful!
Although this hotel is a bit dog-eared in places, it is still a very nice hotel (it could do with a bit of refurbishing).
I have still rated it highly though because the staff were very friendly and I was given a lovely big room with a view of the Citadel. I did not eat at the hotel but the restaurant looked very nice. Very near to the shops, restaurants and bars. I would definitely stay here again. I was particularly impressed with the blonde lady on reception who went out of her way for us.
Rooms could be better, they need updated. Apart from that, they were clean.
Very tired building in desperate need of renovation.
First impressions are awful, so delapidated from the outside. The inside isn't much better,the stains on the carpets are realy bad. Not a great place.


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Ворота Национального сада () принадлежат к постройкам эпохи Каджаров, и с 1323 года по 1327 год они были на реставрации под руководством Джафархана Кашани и теперь являются одним из символов города Тегеран. Это здание расположено на северной стороне улицы Имама Хомейни, на восточной стороне Министерства иностранных дел и на западной стороне Музея почты и телеграфа.

До основания башни Азади (башни Свободы) эти ворота были известны как главный символ столицы Ирана.

Площадь Машгх
Площадь Машгх (от перс. مشق  - муштровка, муштра) была одной из крупнейших военных площадей с длиной около 400 метров и такой же шириной. На ней располагались центральные казармы, и военные проходили строевую подготовку. Эта площадь была основана во времена Фатх Али-шаха Каджара и была обновлена и расширена в период Насер ад-Дин Шаха.

Во время существования этой площади появились красивые ворота с двустворчатым входом и двумя закрытыми сводами, которые расположились на юго-восточной стороне площади, в восточной стороне ворот, которые имеются в настоящее время.  Те ворота были известны как «Ворота Насери», и иногда Насер ад-Дин Шах наблюдал с них за ходом строевой подготовки.

Одними из важных событий, которые происходили на этой площади, являются казнь Мирзы Резы Кермани, убийцы Насер ад-Дин Шаха, и казнь шейха Фазлуллы Нури.

Особенности Ворот Национального сада
Ворота Национального сада, а затем и прилегающие к нему здания были построены в столице Тегеран по приказу непосредственно Резы Шаха, под руководством Джафархана Кашани и при поддержке Германии (до начала Второй мировой войны). Эти ворота были построены на восточной стороне старых ворот с такими же размерами и видом, а затем старые ворота были снесены. У новых ворот есть один большой проезд посередине и тротуары по обеим сторонам. Внешний дизайн соткан из текстов стихотворений Надима аль-Мулька, выложенных мозаикой изображений двух львов, которые держат корону, леопарда, солнца и льва, автомата и патронов.

Внутренний дизайн имеет следующие рисунки: сцена захвата Тегерана в ходе переворота 1921 года неподалеку от ворот и крепостной стены с башнями города (вероятнее всего, у ворот Казвина), фигур в полный рост воинов-кавалеристов, пулеметов и изображения ангелов победы, которые были более-менее восстановалены из камней древних арок.

Все три входных проема имеют чугунные ворота, сделанные Мохаммадом Али Кермани в Оружейной палате Тегерана.

Во время строительства прилежащих зданий, боковые части ворот и надписи были прикрыты. Со времен Исламской Республики были приняты попытки стереть изображения солнца и льва между флагами Ирана, с обеих частей стены над воротами и с внутренней стороны сводов. Вдобавок ко всему, металлический бюст Резы Шаха с верхней части чугунных ворот также был демонтирован.

Эти ворота 19 мая 1997 года были зарегистрированы под номером 1968 в качестве одного из национальных памятников Ирана.

Дизайн и архитектура
Дизайнером этого здания является архитектор Джафархан Кашани. Естественно, другие архитекторы помогали ему. Мастер Исмаили проделал тяжелую работу, колонны были сделаны Каримом Маниже и мозаика на них была создана мастером Хакнегаром Могадамом.

Это здание спроектировано путем смешения иранского и европейского архитектурных стилей, особенно в области плиточной мозаики и бельведера. Фундамент этих Ворот, основание его восьмиугольных колонн и остальные колонны сделаны из кирпича. Плиточная мозаика в верхней части состоит из следующих изображений: арабесок, пулемета, поля битвы, Резы Шаха с пулеметом, двух ангелов победы, трехцветного флага Ирана, пушечного снаряд, леопарда, а также аятов Корана, имен имамов, написанных под бельведером. Над надписями внутреннего интерьера видны стихи Надима аль-Мулька. Плиточной мозаикой выложены изображения двух львов, которые держат корону, леопарда, солнца и льва, автомата и патронов. Есть проезд для транспорта посередине и с обеих сторон вход для пешеходов. Все три входных проема имеют чугунные ворота, сделанные Мохаммадом Али Кермани в Оружейной палате Тегерана. .

В верхней части здания были установлены наблюдательный пункт, место для литавристов и проходы для вооруженных сил. В плиточных работах этого здания есть элементы, посвященные перевороту третьего Эсфанда и завоеванию Тегерана Реза-ханом, среди которых разрушение башни и крепостной стены пушечными снарядами, Реза-шах в момент выстрела, два ангела победы.

История названия
Это здание было построено в качество главных ворот площади Машгх, которая была военной территорией и находилась под управлением вооруженных сил. Вскоре после строительства этих ворот был запланирован и реализован план создания первого сада (парка) Тегерана (называемого «Национальный сад») на площади Машгх, и, следовательно, название этих ворот поменялось на «Ворота Национального сада». Но Национальный сад в таком виде продержался всего пару лет, позже на его территории были построены здания Министерства иностранных дел и Музея древнего Ирана. Но память об этом саде осталась в названии Ворот на площади Машгх, а сами Ворота Национального сада стоят на своем же месте в качестве символического памятника об архитектуре прошлых лет.

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The Exodus was a Welcoming
Well everything is done. Everything down to getting tassles and picking up the cap/gown is done. Assignments are in, grades are being posted, and the last issue of the Daily Nebraskan that I'll ever watch in production was just taken to the Lincoln Journal Star for printing. The DN is quiet at 10 p.m. It's never quiet at 10 p.m. -- unless it's a Thursday and everyone's at Iguana's singing "Living on a Prayer" with fists pumping wildly. There are memories that can't be defeated or repressed, and amid all the shit and drama that had to be put up with, there was this. A quiet newsroom, only shadows and things. And I loved every minute of the past four years. Four years. It's strange to say it that way.
Everyone has asked me how my conversion went. Everyone down to the people who I never spoke to and the people I thought hated me. Everyone wanted to make sure it went well, and it did. And that? It means worlds, loads, mountains of stuff to me. It's the perfect way to walk away.
My American Jewish Fiction professor sent me my semester assessment today. I got As in everything from beginning to end. But what mattered most was what he had to say about me, in general.
You have what my mother would have called a Yiddishe kupf – a Jewish head. You see the subtleties, the nuances in things. You see the humor that's enveloped in tragedy, and the tears hidden inside the laughter.
It's funny how four years ago I was planning and plotting a graduation speech and senior solo to parade around in front of the other 525 graduating high school seniors. I did my thing and got the heck out of there, and most of my friends from high school have faded away and moved on (or rather, not moved on). And here I am, wishing I'd have given my college senior friends more time. But we're all going to amazing places -- NYC, Oregon, California, Peace Corps, etc. I can't wait to see our tired, ridged journalist hearts in 20 years. We'll have earned our footsteps.
My hips are still sore from falling a few days ago, and I think I've managed to hurt someone close to me by rumors and flying lips. My dad is doing well and Joseph has a month of school left till he becomes, officially, a high school freshman. I've sent off graduation pleas to relatives and friends, and my tassles are hanging in my car. I spent the greater portion of the evening vacuuming and cleaning my car. My nerves are wearing thin it seems, and nothing can keep me busy enough. I'm ready to roll and move.
I feel the nomad beginning to get restless.
When the ships come ashore, will we know which one...
What a Feeling
Emotion fills the Hole
When we're sitting under the Stars
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Bad jokes make me Silly
Yadadiedie
And so said the Rabbi.
Lyrics, love. Lyrics.
Mikvah me!
Guilt is just part of the gig.

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This page provides a structured access to all available information related to the SMOS mission data products.
The links in the following tables provides a quick access to the main resources.
The following SMOS data products description provides detailed information and links to exhaustive documentation: read-me-first notes, Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Documents, Product Specification Documents and Data Quality Reports. The definition of the data products is based on the the CEOS (Committee on Earth Observation Satellites) conventions.
These are SMOS Payload data in their original format (CCSDS packets) comprised of instrument observation data and housekeeping telemetry, as received from the satellite.
These are SMOS payload data in so-called Source Packets with added Earth Explorer product headers. They are chronologically sorted by Source Packet type: Observation Data and Housekeeping Telemetry. Detailed description of the SMOS L0 data format is available in the Level 0 data product specifications document (PDF).
The level 1 data products are for scientific users and are generated by the L1OP Processor integrated in the Data Processing Ground Segment. They are available in Earth Explorer format from the SMOS data portal.
For an optimal exploitation of the current SMOS L1 data set V620 consult the read-me-first note available here.
Reformatted and calibrated observation and housekeeping data in engineering units. Scientific SMOS Level 1A products are the so-called calibrated visibilities between the individual antenna receivers prior to applying image reconstruction, and in full polarisation. Output of the image reconstruction of the SMOS observation measurements and consist of Fourier components of brightness temperatures in the antenna polarisation reference frame. Multi-incidence angle brightness temperatures at the top of the atmosphere, geolocated in an equal-area grid system (15Km, ISEA 4H9 grid). Separate dataset are available for sea and land pixels. Information is available per pixel and per snapshot. For each Level 1C product there is also a browse product containing the brightness temperatures averaged for an incidence angle of 42.5°.
The level 1 Near Real Time (NRT) data products are similar to the L1C product but adjusted to requirements of operational meteorological agencies. The NRT products are generated by the NRT Processor integrated in the Data Processing Ground Segment in BUFR format. NRT data is available from ESA, NRT light is available from SMOS data portal, EUMETCast Europe and WMO GTS within three hours from sensing time.
Multi-incidence angle brightness temperatures at the top of the atmosphere, geolocated in an equal-area grid system (15Km, ISEA 4H9 grid) with reduced spatial resolution over the Ocean (30Km ISEA 4H8 grid). Multi-incidence angle brightness temperatures at the top of the atmosphere, geolocated on a N256 gaussian grid with a spatial resolution in the range of 30 - 50 Km. The product consist of Land pixel only.
The level 2 data products are for scientific users and are generated by the L2OP Processors integrated in the Data Processing Ground Segment. They are available in Earth Explorer format and netCDF format from the SMOS data portal.
For an optimal exploitation of the current SMOS L2 data set V6 consult the read-me-first notes available for V650 soil moisture data and V662 sea surface salinity data.
The product contains the retrieved swath-based soil moisture, vegetation optical depth and other ancillary data derived during the processing (surface temperature, roughness parameter, dielectric constant, brightness temperature at the top of the atmosphere and at the surface) with their corresponding uncertainties. The product contains one single swath based Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) retrieved with and without Land-Sea contamination correction, SSS anomaly based on WOA-2009 referred to Land-Sea corrected SSS, brightness temperature at the top of the atmosphere and at the sea surface with their corresponding uncertainties.
The Soil Moisture Near Real Time Neural Network product (SM-NRT-NN) provides fast access (within four hours from sensing time) of soil moisture measurements. The soil moisture is retrieved from the multi-angular brightness temperature as available inside the SMOS level 1 Near Real Time BUFR product. The retrieval is based on a neural network schema trained using the level 2 soil moisture data set generated by the operational L2 soil moisture processor V620. The SM-NRT-NN product is avaialble from EUMETCast Europe, WMO GTS and SMOS data portal in netCDF format.
For an optimal exploitation of the current SM-NRT-NN product v200 consult the read-me-first note available here.
The product contains the retrieved swath-based soil moisture and its uncertainty on the SMOS ISEA 4H9 grid for a slightly reduced swath width of about 915 Km.
Detailed description of the SMOS L2 SM-NRT-NN data format is available in the read-me-first note available here.
Previous level 2 SM-NRT-NN data products v100 read-me-first note is available here.
The level 3 sea-ice product is derived from ESA L1C product. The sea-ice thickness is retrieved up to a depth of ~ 0.5-1 m, depending on the ice temperature and ice salinity. The product is complementary with sea-ice thickness measurements from ESA's CryoSat-2 and Sentinel-3 missions. Daily maps are disseminated with a latency of about 24 hours. The product is available in netCDF format from the SMOS data portal.
Detailed description for the SMOS level 3 sea-ice thickness retrieval algorithm and product format is available here.
For Sea Surface Salinity and Soil Moisture level 3 and 4 data products see the national French and Spanish processing entities: Centre Aval de Traitement des Données SMOS (CATDS) and SMOS CP34.
This type of data comprises the Discrete Global Grid (DGG), the land-sea mask, flat target transformation measurements, known RFI (Radio Frequency Interference) sources, etc.
These static or dynamically updated auxiliary files contain information needed for generating soil moisture products, such as ECOCLIMAP surface cover information, ECMWF forecast geophysical fields, vegetation optical thickness, etc.


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Careers with a History Degree
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See the Regulations for the General Degree of Bachelor of Arts.
Any one of History 1009-1015 or the sequence History 1100* and 1101* form the introductions to the theory and practice of history. Third and fourth-year students taking History courses as electives or to satisfy General Regulations for the B.A. Degree are encouraged to enrol in the department's second-year courses. Students cannot receive credit for more than two first-year courses.
All students who Major in History will be assisted by a faculty advisor who will help them in planning their academic programs. It is essential that students register with the Department at an early stage of their studies.
Students who undertake a Major in History must complete 36 credit hours in History, including:
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Students should complete at least 9 credit hours in courses with the initial digit '2' before registering in a course with the initial digit '3'. Student should pay particular attention to necessary prerequisites when scheduling courses. In addition, students should obtain advice on the appropriate courses from their faculty advisor.
At least 9 credit hours in courses with the initial digit '3'. Students must complete History 3840 for which there is a prerequisite of 12 credit hours in History.
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1. Generate leads. The first thing that you need to do is to capture the attention of those people who are most likely to get interested on what you sell. There are so many ways to do this; you can use entertainment, disseminate information, or through focus groups. The more people you attract, the better.
2. Probe. Get your audience to talk about their needs and wants. Make sure that you listen actively not only to know where they are coming from but also to make them feel valued. If possible, ask them to tell you about their problems or their struggles in life. People simply love it when somebody is willing to listen to them.
3. Empathize. Tell your prospects that you do understand their situation and if possible, tell them the time when you were in their shoes. Convince them that you do feel their pain and that you can totally relate with them. This is very important to build rapport and promote trust with these people.
4. Present your products and services. Tell these people that you've got the best solutions to their pains and problems. Talk about your products and services and communicate their benefits and selling points. Demonstrate how your offerings can help your prospects solve their problems. Entertain all their questions and show patience.
5. Create a sense of urgency. After doing everything, you surely don't want your prospects to leave without making a purchase. So, get them to swipe their credit cards by creating a sense of urgency. Offer them with discounts or freebies if they purchase now.


And free entertainment too*. Leia's almost over her cold and definitely feeling better. She was full of herself last night and today, entertaining us with her antics.
Unfortunately, the antics began at 3:30 A.M. when she woke up calling for Meema and ready to play. A quick diaper change and she was back asleep . . . . all the way to 5:00, when she announced that she was hungry - and so were Tiana, Dora and Boots, her constant companions since Christmas morning. She carries them everywhere, always all 3 together, and always insisting "me do it" when I offer to help.
Leia is to the point that she knows what she wants and isn't shy about sharing that info. When hubby or I don't understand what she's saying, she patiently leads us by the hand to what she wants (you can almost hear her mentally sighing - silly grandparents).
She spotted this headband at Michael's before Christmas and had to have it (cost - .80! It costs so little to make them happy at this age.) I thought it would be quickly forgotten but she wears it almost everyday, and always the same way - hippie style. Can't you just see her in a tye-dye shirt and birkenstocks?
And today it was the must-have accessory for reading to her babies. After helping PopPop open the delivery from Barnes & Noble, she grabbed a book, carefully removed the dust jacket, and proceeded to carry it around all afternoon and evening, reading it (upside down, of course) to her dolls. She made the story sound so interesting that I can't wait to read it for myself - provided I can pry the book out of her hands anytime soon.
*There is some - not much, but a little - crafting happening too. Trying to finish up a crocheted shawl before '10 Shawls in 2010' ends Friday night (Oslo time). Pictures soon. I hope. Leia willing.


CAMBRIDGE, Mass. May 9, 2018 – Tango Therapeutics today announced an expansion of its management team with the promotion of Alan Huang, Ph.D., to chief scientific officer and the addition of Charles Davis, Ph.D., as senior vice president, pharmaceutical sciences (DMPK, safety assessment and clinical pharmacology).
The new appointments bolster Tango's expertise in oncology translational research and clinical pharmacology as the company advances its goal of creating novel, targeted medicines for specific cancer subtypes using the principle of synthetic lethality.
Alan Huang, Ph.D., joined Tango Therapeutics as senior vice president, head of biology, after serving as a consultant at Third Rock Ventures, where he played a leading role in the creation and launch of Tango. At Tango, Alan has led the process of designing and building Tango's novel, CRISPR-based, target discovery platform, and has been instrumental in advancing programs in drug discovery. Before joining Third Rock, Alan worked at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research as senior director and interim global head of oncology translational research. Under his leadership, the group advanced multiple Novartis compounds through development. He began his career at Millennium Pharmaceuticals. Alan earned his B.S. in biochemistry from Fudan University and his doctorate in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of South Alabama. He is an author on more than 30 peer-reviewed publications and holds nearly 20 patents.
"I'm excited to be expanding my role at Tango at a time when we've validated our approach and we're moving ahead with a clear sense of purpose to produce therapeutic breakthroughs for patients," Alan said.
Charles Davis, Ph.D., comes to Tango from the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, where he served as vice president, PK sciences. At NIBR, he led an international team of scientists representing the PKS discipline on more than 100 projects and was a member of the PKS Leadership Team, the Integrated Cancer Board and the Oncology Development Leadership Team. Before joining Novartis, Charles spent more than 20 years at GlaxoSmithKline, where he served on the leadership teams of three of GSK's Centers of Excellence in Drug Discovery. Charles has a B.A. in chemistry from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. in biophysical chemistry from Cornell University.
Tango Therapeutics, a 2017 "Fierce 15" company, is a biotechnology company developing novel therapies targeting context-dependent vulnerabilities in cancers. Tango's robust product engine is designed to support the discovery and development of breakthrough medicines that provide deeper, more sustained benefit than today's targeted therapies, and that extend the benefits of available immuno-oncology agents. The company's programs are focused in the area of synthetic lethality, the interaction between two genes that causes cell death when both are inactivated. Tango was launched in 2017 with a $55 million Series A investment funded by Third Rock Ventures. For more information, please visit www.tangotx.com.


CANE GARDEN BAY, Tortola, VI – A decision by the United Kingdom (UK) to review its existing relationship with its Overseas Territories (OTs) has drawn mixed reaction from residents of the Virgin Islands (VI) but Senior Pastor of the Cane Garden Bay Baptist Church (CGBBC), Reverend, Dr Michael A. Turnbull is clear—the matter cannot be dealt with by the current crop of elected officials in government.
The eminent VI Pastor has since called on youth groups, religious organisations, businesses, non-profit organisations, government organisations, government leaders, the opposition, and all other interest groups and individuals to make recommendations to the (UK Foreign Affairs Select) Committee.
so why his son does not make the switch?
What is strange is that he is part of the NDP committee and so are his sons.


Plan is an international child - centered Development Organization whose mission is to achieve lasting improvements in the quality of life of deprived children through a process that unites people across cultures and adds meaning and value to their lives.
Plan Tanzania now invites applications from suitable, qualified and experienced persons to fill the positions described below.
The purpose of this position is to lead and manage Program Unit staffs in planning, implementing and monitoring program interventions to high quality, and manage the teams to ensure they perform highly and achieve organizational goals. The Program Unit Manager is in charge of providing strategic leadership in the overall implementation of the Country programs at the district level through the approaches which are aligned with organizational priorities. Donor compliance across all grants is also key.
She/he is responsible in ensuring that all targets are met by Program Unit staffs across all Key management areas of operation, program, sponsorship, Human resource and finance. She/he is also responsible in ensuring that programs are responsible for ensuring that programs are implemented in light of the CCCD standards and Plan's relationship with implementing partners at the PU level is at a high quality and in line with the Partnership Standards. She/he works in partnership with local authorities at the district /regional level and with Country office team. Overall, she/he is the representative of the Country Director at the Program Unit level and will ensure Plan's visibility and participation within the PU by facilitating appropriate collaboration, networks and partnerships.
• Lead the PU to deliver high quality program through implementing projects in a timely manner and to high quality, reflecting CCCD standards, gender analysis, child protection as well as other organisational priorities.
• Ensure that all programmes and AP budgets are aligned with the organisational vision & mission, CSP and the new Global Strategy.
• Leading in building a motivated and high performing team which strives for success.
• Ensure that costs from grants are effectively recovered and all related costs under grants are charged in appropriate account lines.
• Track Program Unit budget to ensure efficiency, timely and quality program investment, including full expenditure to 100% at the end of the FY with well planned spending throughout the year.
• Ensure existence and compliance of controls for risk reduction and management and that the PU risk database is up-to-date.
• Support project staff and thematic head to ensure quality and timely reporting of both mandatory and ad hoc reports, regardless of funding source.
• Oversee security at the PU including stall, program and property, ensuring that quarterly meetings with minutes of PU-Security review Team during green security phase at PU are filed.
• Ensure that Child Protection Policy Implementation Standards are incorporated in the departmental processes as relevant and other staffs are hold accountable for its implementation.
• Ensure timely procurement of goods and services at the Program Unit level. Lead and advise on the appointment of the Program Unit procurement committee members, ensure their induction and performance at all times. Manage the work of the committee to ensure timely delivery of the procurement services entrusted to them.
• Being on high alert for disaster risks and communicating with Country Office in a fast and timely manner.
• Leading an Orange 1 category disaster including swift coordination with government, other agencies and CO.
• A degree in Community Development, Development studies, Business, Sociology. Master's degree will be an added advantage.
• Experience in an INGO environment would be an added advantage.
• Understand development issues, trends, challenges and opportunities and implication to community (child) development.
• Knowledge on child right programming.
Plan Tanzania is a child centered organization. Protecting the rights of the children is of paramount interest to us. Subsequently, all short listed candidates will undergo a police vetting check for criminal offences particularly relating to any type of child abuse. The successful candidate will be required to sign and adhere to the Plan Tanzania child protection policy.
The above positions carry attractive remuneration as per Plan Tanzania salary structure and incentive package.
Plan Tanzania is an equal opportunity employer. Interested and qualified Tanzanians are invited to send their applications enclosing detailed curriculum vitae, certificate copies of relevant education and professional qualifications together with names of three referees, and their contact.


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Rezultaty Rajdu San Remo (51. Rallye Sanremo 2009), eliminacji Intercontinental Rally Challenge w 2009 roku, który odbył się w dniach 25 września - 26 września. Była to dziesiąta runda IRC w tamtym roku oraz szósta asfaltowa, a także dziewiąta w mistrzostwach Włoch. Bazą rajdu było miasto San Remo. Zwycięzcami rajdu została brytyjsko-irlandzka załoga Kris Meeke i Paul Nagle jadąca Peugetem 207 S2000. Wyprzedzili oni Włochów Lucę Rossettiego i Matteo Chiarcossiego w Fiacie Abarth Grande Punto S2000 oraz Francuzów Nicolasa Vouilloza i Nicolasa Klingera w Peugeocie 207 S2000.

Rajdu nie ukończyło 35 kierowców. Na 8. oesie wycofał się Belg François Duval (Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000). Na 2. oesie koło stracił Czech Jan Kopecký (Škoda Fabia S2000). Natomiast wypadkom ulegli m.in.: Włosi Rudy Michelini (Peugeot 207 S2000, na 4. oesie), Davide Medici (Peugeot 207 S2000, na 3. oesie) i Alessio Pisi (Fiat Abarth Grande Punto S2000, na 3. oesie).

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Q: Flutter google-service plugin For using FireBase services in my Flutter app I've done next recommendation:
In your module (app-level) Gradle file (usually android/app/build.gradle), add the following line to the bottom of the file.
dependencies {
  // ...
}

// ...

// Add the following line to the bottom of the file:
apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services'  // Google Play services Gradle plugin

As a result during compilation I'm getting this messages:
Running Gradle task 'assembleDebug'...
registerResGeneratingTask is deprecated, use registerGeneratedResFolders(FileCollection)
registerResGeneratingTask is deprecated, use registerGeneratedResFolders(FileCollection)
registerResGeneratingTask is deprecated, use registerGeneratedResFolders(FileCollection)
registerResGeneratingTask is deprecated, use registerGeneratedResFolders(FileCollection)
registerResGeneratingTask is deprecated, use registerGeneratedResFolders(FileCollection)

Used  by version of gsm:
classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.2.0'

What should I change for exclude this messages, what the reason. Thanks

A: You shouldn't do nothing.
It will (probably) be addressed by the Flutter dev team soon.

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In this day and age, it's becoming more and more challenging to be in full control of your eating habits. With so much work and stress at hand, it's easy to lose track and fall into poor nutrition patterns. Nevertheless, you can regain the power over your schedule with a proper meal planning template. Find out which structure is the best for you below and download your copy for free!
If you don't want to be limited by a specific timeframe, we recommend using a general meal planning sheet. You can either pick or fill in the days of the week and dates, so feel free to use it every day with the necessary copies. You can also pair it with a cookbook template to make the experience complete.
However, if you're the type of person that loves planning way in advance, use a monthly meal planning template. It clearly identifies all four weeks of the month, with sections for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for every day of the week.
If you're looking for a balance of the two templates above, here is the ideal tool for weekly meal planning. In addition, the document comes with a grocery shopping section complete with a checklist. The two go hand in hand perfectly.
It's always nice to fit in a healthy snack in between meals. If you're prone to snacking and want to keep track of your tasty breaks, use the template above. We have also included a section for water so you know you're getting at least eight glasses per day.
Lastly, we have the ultimate meal planning template for effectively shedding pounds. The extended table includes columns for quantities in grams, carbs, proteins, fats, and calories for each meal. You should also fill in the top part of your weight loss goal. Furthermore, you can use a recipe card template to make your own nutritious meals.
All in all, a well-structured meal planning template will help you make a significant difference in your daily eating habits. Not only will you save time by knowing what you'll be preparing beforehand, but you'll also avoid resorting to last-minute, unhealthy choices. We encourage you to take a bit of time prior to selecting your template to see which one is best aligned with your schedule. Bon appétit!


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BioShock: The Collection Rated In Brazil For PS4 and Xbox One
Danial Arshad Khan
BioShock: The Collection has been rated in Brazil for PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One and PC. This listing might point towards a potential remaster of BioShock trilogy for the first time on PS4 and Xbox One.
BioShock: The Collection has been rumored as a potential remaster for PS4 and Xbox One in the past, and this recent listing might just point towards a potential release soon. This listing was spotted by Gematsu on the Brazilian Advisory Rating Board.
While there is no official confirmation of this collection from 2K Games, the publishers of BioShock, it won't be surprising to see these games getting re-released for PS4 and Xbox One after Borderlands: The Handsome Collection was released last year from the same publisher.
BioShock series has received 3 games so far: BioShock 1, BioShock 2 and BioShock Infinite. If this is the whole collection of BioShock games, then this will be the first time the series gets any release on the current generation consoles.
BioShock: The Colleciton is also rated for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360, which might mean a packaged release for these systems to sell some more copies after the official release. All three BioShock games are already playable on these platforms.
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John S. Murdock (December 25, 1871 – December 19, 1946) was a justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from 1929 to 1935.

Life and career
Born in Massachusetts to Thomas and Jane Dunlop Murdock, Murdock received his undergraduate degree from Brown University in 1896, and his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1899. He had his legal career in Providence, Rhode Island, becoming a partner in the law firm of Murdock & Tillinghast in 1911, and serving as the United States Attorney for the District of Rhode Island. A Republican, he was appointed to the Rhode Island Supreme Court in 1929, to a seat vacated by the resignation of Chief Justice William H. Sweetland. In 1935, the Democrats unexpectedly gained control of the state legislature, and ousted the entire court in favor of a new, entirely Democratic group.

Murdock later served as a member of the Regional War Labor Board, and then as a member of the Wage Stabilization Board.

Personal life and death
Murdock married Nettie V. Goodale in 1901.

He died from a heart attack in Boston, Massachusetts, at the age of 74, while preparing to preside over Wage Stabilization Board hearing.

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package uk.gov.hmrc.ct.ct600.v2.calculations

import org.scalatest.{Matchers, WordSpec}
import uk.gov.hmrc.ct.ct600.v2.{B86, B91, B92, B93}

class CorporationTaxAlreadyPaidCalculatorSpec extends WordSpec with Matchers {

  "corporationTaxOutstanding" should {

    "should return zero when the amount already paid is greater than the amount owed" in new Calc {
      corporationTaxOutstanding(B86(100), B91(200)) shouldBe B92(0)
    }

    "should return the correct amount when when the amount already paid is less than the amount owed" in new Calc {
      corporationTaxOutstanding(B86(100), B91(75)) shouldBe B92(25)
    }

    "should return the correct amount when when the amount already paid is less than the amount owed, with decimal values" in new Calc {
      corporationTaxOutstanding(B86(BigDecimal("100.50")), B91(BigDecimal("100.45"))) shouldBe B92(BigDecimal("0.05"))
    }

    "should return zero when the amount already paid is equal to the amount owed" in new Calc {
      corporationTaxOutstanding(B86(100), B91(100)) shouldBe B92(0)
    }
  }

  "corporationTaxOverpaid" should {

    "should return the correct amount when the amount already paid is greater than the amount owed" in new Calc {
      corporationTaxOverpaid(B86(100), B91(125)) shouldBe B93(25)
    }

    "should return the correct amount when when the amount already paid is greater than the amount owed, with decimal values" in new Calc {
      corporationTaxOverpaid(B86(BigDecimal("100.45")), B91(BigDecimal("100.50"))) shouldBe B93(BigDecimal("0.05"))
    }

    "should return zero correct amount when when the amount already paid is less than the amount owed" in new Calc {
      corporationTaxOverpaid(B86(100), B91(75)) shouldBe B93(0)
    }

    "should return zero when the amount already paid is equal to the amount owed" in new Calc {
      corporationTaxOverpaid(B86(100), B91(100)) shouldBe B93(0)
    }
  }

  class Calc extends CorporationTaxAlreadyPaidCalculator
}


The Turnbull government is daring to dream its deeply unpopular corporate tax cuts could somehow scrape through federal parliament within the next two weeks.
Finance Minister Mathias Cormann has so far been unable to muster Senate support for plans to slash the tax rate for companies with revenues above $50 million a year.
On current numbers the legislation appears doomed to fail, with just four of 10 crossbenchers backing the government.
But Senator Cormann is not giving up.
"We want working families around Australia today and into the future to have the best possible opportunity to get ahead," he told Sky News on Friday.
"That's why we need to ensure that the businesses that employ them here in Australia have the best possible opportunity to be viable, to be competitive, to be successful and to be profitable into the future."
Senator Cormann, the government's chief negotiator in the upper house, said there was always plenty of noise and commentary throughout such long-running debates.
"What I've learned over the years is to just keep working and to try and secure the best possible outcome for Australians," he said.
Crossbench senator Derryn Hinch offered to back the cuts but only for companies with turnovers up to $500 million, meaning the big banks will miss out.
Senator Cormann is not taking the bait, believing imposing a cap will provide a "perverse incentive" for businesses to downsize.
He wouldn't entertain the prospect of a "Plan B".
"What we want to secure is of course the right incentives for smaller business to become bigger businesses which hire more Australians and pay them better wages over time," he said.
After delaying the vote earlier in the year, Senator Cormann promised the tax cuts would be put to the upper house in August.
However, the tax cuts aren't listed on the Senate agenda for when parliament returns on Monday, leading Labor to warn the Turnbull government is ready to drop them.
"If Malcolm Turnbull drops the company tax cuts - that he's spent two years selling as his one point economic plan - he'll be exposed as standing for absolutely nothing," shadow treasurer Chris Bowen told AAP.
Senator Cormann's spokeswoman said the tax cuts will be dealt with over the sitting fortnight, but not until after debate on restoring the territories' rights over assisted dying laws.
Some government MPs are pushing for the coalition to dump the policy if the tax cuts fail to pass the Senate by the end of August.


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Historical Dictionary of Yemen
by Charles Schmitz and Robert D. Burrowes
for $ 137.50 , or download a preview
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Yemen has experienced wrenching changes that have transformed the country in yet unknown ways. The country exploded in a popular revolution against the long-time rule of Ali Abdallah Saleh. While the country appeared to slip toward civil war, Yemeni political elite rallied with international backers to put together a transitional government with a plan to revise the country's constitution. The transitional government began with a cautious sense of optimism and… (more)
Yemen has experienced wrenching changes that have transformed the country in yet unknown ways. The country exploded in a popular revolution against the long-time rule of Ali Abdallah Saleh. While the country appeared to slip toward civil war, Yemeni political elite rallied with international backers to put together a transitional government with a plan to revise the country's constitution. The transitional government began with a cautious sense of optimism and the prospect of substantial change for the better, but ended in collapse because of a failure to govern. The politics of the street overran an ineffective transitional government that could not address the urgent concerns of Yemeni citizens for security and jobs. Instead, populist leaders exploited people's dissatisfactions and threw the country into civil war. The Houthi organization covertly allied with its former enemy, Ali Abdallah Saleh, to overthrow the transitional government and declare war on the rest of the country. Saleh seems unable to conceive of life outside of the Presidential Palace and his Houthi allies appear to believe they are destined to rule. Unfortunately, those opposed to Saleh and the Houthi also seem unable to provide effective rule in spite of massive backing from the Gulf States. The incompetence, infighting, and incoherence of the Hadi government bode equally ill for the future of the country. The one hope may be that a new generation of Yemeni leaders emerges to displace the dismal failures of this one.
This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Yemen contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Yemen.
Non-Fiction History History by country Middle East Reference Dictionaries
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (October 25, 2017)
Collection: Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East
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Actor Targeting Middle East Shows Excellent OPSEC
An actor making extensive use of scripting languages in attacks on targets in the Middle East demonstrates excellent operational security (OPSEC), researchers from Talos say.
Ionut Arghire
As part of these targeted attacks allegedly confidential decoy documents supposedly written by the Jordanian publishing and research house Dar El-Jaleel were used, as well as VBScript, PowerShell, and VBA scripts that would dynamically load and execute functions retrieved from a command and control (C&C) server.
The threat actor(s) was particularly careful to camouflage the infrastructure and used several reconnaissance scripts to check the validity of victim machines. The actor was observed blocking systems that didn't meet their criteria, filtering connections based on their User-Agent strings, and hosting the infrastructure on CloudFlare.
Attacks start with a VBScript designed to create a second stage PowerShell script that would create a Microsoft Office document and to open it. The document was purportedly written by Dar El-Jaleel, an institute well-known for their research of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the Sunni-Shia conflict in Iran.
Supposedly a confidential analysis report on Iranian activities within the Syrian civil war, the document contains a macro designed to create a WSF (Windows Script File) file and to execute it. The WSF script, Talos discovered, is the main part of the infection and contains a User-Agent used to identify the targets.
The script first registers the infected system with a command and control server and executes an infinite loop, trying to contact the /search URI every 5 seconds to download and execute payloads.
These payloads are of three types, but all are VBScript functions loaded and executed on the fly using the ExecuteGlobal() and GetRef() APIs, differentiated by the number of arguments supplied: none, one, or two. The security researchers received five different functions, all obfuscated.
A reconnaissance function was received a few minutes after the initial compromise, meant to retrieve information from the infected system: disk volume serial number, installed anti-virus software, Internet IP address, computer name, username, Operating System, and architecture. All data is sent to the C&C. A second reconnaissance function was used to list the drives of the system and their type.
Two functions meant to achieve persistence for the WSF script were received as well: one script was used to persist, while the second was meant to clean the infected system.
The system also received a pivot function, which was meant to execute a PowerShell script. In turn, the script would execute a second base64 encoded script.
One last PowerShell script served to the system was meant to download shellcode from 176[.]107[.]185[.]246 IP, map it in memory, and execute it. While the shellcode wasn't retrieved during investigation, the process revealed the many precautions the attacker takes before delivering the payload.
The attacker's C&C is protected by CloudFlare, which makes it difficult to track and analyze the campaign. The researchers noticed that the actor was active during the morning (Central European Time zone), and that payloads were only sent during that time.
Furthermore, the attacker's server becomes unreachable after serving the shellcode (the firewall is disabled for a few minutes to allow the download to go through). The actor was also observed blacklisting some of the researchers' specific User-Agent strings and IP addresses.
"This high level of OPSEC is exceptional even among presumed state sponsored threat actors," Talos notes.
The VBScript used during this campaign shows similarities to Jenxcus (also known as Houdini/H-Worm), but the researchers are not sure whether the actor used "new version of Jenxcus or if this malware served as the inspiration for their own malicious code."
While Jenxcus' source code is available on the Internet, the adaptation observed in these attacks is more advanced, with the functions loaded on demand and the initial script including only parts of the code, not all of it.
The security researchers were also able to identify different targets based on the User-Agent and say that targeted campaigns using Dar El-Jaleel decoy documents were observed before. In fact, the same decoy documents were observed in several attacks in 2017, but it is not clear if the same actor is behind all of them.
"These campaigns show us that at least one threat actor is interested in and targeting the Middle East. Due to the nature of the decoy documents, we can conclude that the intended targets have an interest in the geopolitical context of the region," Talos notes.
Related: Middle East 'MuddyWater' Attacks Difficult to Clear Up
Written By Ionut Arghire
Ionut Arghire is an international correspondent for SecurityWeek.
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Lee Sedol started with a bow, a traditional Korean gesture of respect for an opponent who could neither see him nor sense his presence.
The world champion at Go – an ancient Chinese board game – looked nervous. His eyes darted from side to side. He took a sip of water, and made his first move.
Lee could be forgiven some nerves: his opponent was AlphaGo, an artificial-intelligence program designed by Google DeepMind, their five-game series billed as a landmark face-off between human and computer. "History is really being made here," said commentator Chris Garlock, as the first game in the series started.
Three and a half hours later, history had indeed been made: AlphaGo won, shocking many observers of the game and marking a major breakthrough for AI.
Go isn't played much in the west, but it is widely enjoyed throughout east Asia. Two players take turns to place tiles on a board, trying to gain territory by arranging their tiles in strategic shapes or patterns. The surface level simplicity is deceptive: there are trillions of possible moves. The almost endless possibilities make it difficult to follow a particular strategy, and mastering the game means using intuition to react to any number of possible twists or turns.
Computers had already conquered chess, when in 1997 IBM's Deep Blue defeated world champion Garry Kasparov. Go was "the only game left above chess", as DeepMind's CEO Demis Hassabis put it before Wednesday's showdown.
Lee, a South Korean who sports a bowlish haircut and looks younger than his 33 years, spent much of the match leaning forward, cradling his chin in his hand. Sat opposite him was DeepMind developer Aja Huang, who physically placed the stones on the board in positions chosen by AlphaGo. Lee played aggressively from the outset, putting AlphaGo on the defensive.
The match was close, with both AlphaGo and Lee making mistakes, but eventually Lee conceded that AlphaGo had built an insurmountable lead. AI had scored a victory in one of the most creative and complex games ever devised.
Lee maintained a meek posture in a post-game press conference, hanging his head and at times looking to be on the verge of tears. He expressed surprise at his opponent's strong performance. "I didn't know AlphaGo would play such a perfect game," he said.
The result shocked many Go aficionados. As recently as two weeks ago, Lee said he was confident of a sweeping victory. AlphaGo's defeat of a European Go champion in October last year – an achievement many thought was at least a decade away – should have acted as a warning.
AlphaGo's mastery of Go is so significant because of the near-infinite number of board positions available and the intuition that top human players rely upon to pick between them. Hassabis described Go as "the most elegant game that humans have ever invented", with "simple rules [that] give rise to endless complexity".
"There are more possible Go positions than there are atoms in the universe," he added.
DeepMind's team built "reinforcement learning" into the programme, meaning the machine played against itself and adjusted its own neural networks based on trial and error. AlphaGo is capable of narrowing down the search space for the next best move from the near-infinite to something more manageable. It can also anticipate long-term results of each move and predict the winner.
The match took place in a quiet room as reporters watched on a projector screen from a separate press area. The game, including commentary, was live-streamed on YouTube.
Ben Lockhart, a 22-year-old who took up Go as a child in New York and who moved to South Korea four years ago to study the game full time, welcomed the unprecedented level of attention brought by the AlphaGo contest. "That no one really knows this game [in the west] has been frustrating for a long time. At least after this more people will have heard of Go," he said.
Maybe part of the reason that the game has struggled to make inroads in the west, where it has no history, is that it is a less than scintillating spectator activity. The action inches along, with long pauses as players eye the board and contemplate their next move. It isn't always obvious to viewers unfamiliar with the game who is winning. After a couple of hours of play, most reporters were slouched in their chairs playing with their smartphones.
Lee has four more chances to beat AlphaGo and claim the $1m in prize money. The stress and fatigue affecting the South Korean won't be a problem for his opponent when they reconvene for game two on Thursday 10 March.
"Historically, Go has been a game of people testing themselves against each other, and themselves. It has been a game of character," Andrew Okun, president of the American Go Association, who flew to Seoul to watch the showdown. AlphaGo, he added, "doesn't get tired, doesn't forget, doesn't worry".
Google throws down the gauntlet. But can anyone beat its computer at Go?


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Q: Docker Unable to install MongoDB Extenstion I'm trying to install the mongodb php driver in my docker image.
Shorted Dockerfile:
FROM php:7.2-fpm

RUN pecl install mongodb
RUN echo "extension=mongo.so" > $PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/mongo.ini

Later in my Dockerfile i try to install a composer application depending on the mongodb extenstion. There I get this error:
PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'mongo.so' (tried: /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20170718/mongo.so (/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20170718/mongo.so:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory), /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20170718/mongo.so.so (/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20170718/mongo.so.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)) in Unknown on line 0

A: You named the extension wrong. Instead of extension=mongo.so it should be extension=mongodb.so. So your example would become:
FROM php:7.2-fpm

RUN pecl install mongodb
RUN echo "extension=mongodb.so" > $PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/mongodb.ini

Reference mongodb installation


Were you outraged at the Department of Energy over the long-term lack of electricity to millions of Americans following hurricane Sandy? Are you waiting for Secretary Chu's explanation of why 40% of the 2012 corn crop is going to ethanol, raising food prices during an economic slump? Do you follow DOE's positions on the Keystone XL pipeline or the renewal of the Wind Production Tax Credit?
I can confidently say the answer is 'No', since no one I know believes the DOE plays a serious role in US energy strategy and execution.
The most startling part of the Bipartisan Policy Center's call for national energy policy ("The Executive Branch and National Energy Policy: Time for Renewal") is not the observation that DOE is not leading US energy strategy, which is clear. The startling part is the extent to which every other part of the federal government has their hand in energy strategy.
This would be fine if energy was a quiet, stable backwater of national interest. But in President Obama's first term alone we've had the Fukushima nuclear disaster, radical changes in Mideast politics, the Deepwater Horizon spill, dramatic changes in fossil fuel extraction and viable North American sources, a hugely expensive and minimally successful political push for electric vehicles, an unexpected drop in US GHG emissions to 1992 levels, and a hurricane who's destruction and human impact were massively compounded by a prolonged lack of electricity to millions.
Energy is a serious issue for the well-being of our citizens, economy and national security. While we have huge challenges, we fortunately have huge opportunities as well. We can no longer afford a DOE that believes "all of the above" is an actual strategy, and compensates by ceding actual strategy and execution to "all of the above" federal agencies.
Here is my roadmap for getting serious about energy.
Cheap, clean, reliable and secure energy.
Interestingly, not only are these targets easy to list, for the most part they can be quantified, and we can see if we're making progress. It is time for a factual, human-readable, annually produced "State of US Energy" report that shows whether we are making progress in each of these areas.
It would be natural for DOE to be the home for US energy strategy (ala the Department of Education), while the [Bipartisan Policy Center][BipartNov2012] makes a strong case for a National Energy Council (ala the National Security Council).
While there's probably good arguments for each of these approaches, I actually don't care. At this point the need for a stable home is more important than the specific address, and the President needs to identify where it is, and make sure it has the authority and leadership it needs.
Regardless of where US Energy Strategy lives, DOE still has an important role to play, and changes are necessary for them to effectively fulfill their role.
Much has been written at the Breakthrough Institute, ITIF and elsewhere about the ongoing need for energy innovation. While the Energy Innovation Tracker shows us that energy innovation spending at DOE is not insubstantial, it, not surprisingly, suffers from the "all of the above" strategy currently employed at the agency. DOE's huge number of point projects lack an overarching strategy and system for making decisions.
In contrast, DOD approaches energy with a mission-driven mindset, setting priorities and challenging DOD researchers and private industry to meet those challenges. A perusal of the DOD Energy Blog provides a glimpse into the effect of a mission-driven mindset. Instead of trying to pick winning technologies and companies, the DOD challenges public and private research, with the rewards of big contracts to those who can deliver.
Under Arun Majumdar's leadership ARPA-E began to emulate this method of driving innovation, but ARPA-E represents only a few percent of DOE's innovation budget, and even less of its overall budget. Given the clear goals outlined above, DOE should be able to adopt this style of decision making more broadly through the organization.
Secretary Chu is clearly a brilliant man and a world-class expert on the science of energy. But mission-driven organizations understand that there are different leadership roles to play, and a qualified CEO is almost never qualified to be a Chief Scientist, and vice versa.
DOE needs a new Secretary who is up to the task of turning DOE into a mission-driven organization capable of establishing and carrying out an immense, innovation-driven program to drive the US towards cheap, clean, reliable and secure energy.
Our national energy goals, challenges and opportunities are not hazy, vague concepts that are difficult to quantify. We know that rising energy prices hurt businesses and our most vulnerable citizens. We know that our current energy system has damaging impacts on human and planetary health. We know that Americans and the economy suffer when energy supply is unreliable. And we know that having critical parts of our energy infrastructure and supply in the hands of anti-American or unstable political systems threaten our way of life.
The goals are clear, and moving towards them requires focus, investment and innovation. Fortunately when America gets serious, we have shown ourselves to be unequaled in meeting these types of challenges. The four steps outlined in this document provide a blueprint for starting down that path.
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About NASFAA > Awards
NASFAA's newest award, the Gold Star Award, recognizes innovative ideas in the financial aid arena at any level, targeted toward any constituency. This award is open to individuals working at NASFAA member institutions; member institutions; regional associations; and state associations. The Gold Star Award honors up to three ideas each year. If you have succeeded in doing something that no one has done before, we want to hear about it!
The nomination process is now closed. The 2015 winners will be announced at the 2015 NASFAA National Conference in New Orleans, LA.
2013-14 Gold Star Award Winners
In 2014, there were two Gold Star Award winners, and one honorable mention:
FAChat
The first award winner was FAChat, put together by three individuals from three institutions; Justin Chase Brown, formerly of University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and currently Associate Director at the University of Missouri, Melissa Haberman, Compliance and Training Coordinator at the University of Wisconsin Colleges, and Jayme Jarrett, Financial Aid Counselor at Ohio Northern University. It is a moderated Twitter chat for Financial Aid Professionals generally held on the second Tuesday of each month from noon to 1:00 pm central time, that allows consumption, conversation and creation of ideas, discussion, and professional connections.
Financial Aid 101
The second award winner was Financial Aid 101, an email series created by the University of Denver. After realizing that most families were overwhelmed with the financial aid process, Lisa Westendorf, Assistant Director of Communication in Financial Aid, conceptualized and implemented a customized email series for the school's incoming students in fall of 2013. This series was so successful it was carried over to incoming students for fall 2014.
Financial Aid Video Library
An honorable mention was awarded to Michigan State University for creating a video library as a self-help tool for students and parents that can be accessed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The topics of the videos range from loan acceptance processes to explaining the effects of dropping courses in regards to modular withdrawals. The videos are embedded within several of the schools webpages and can be shared easily via social media outlets.
See past Gold Star Award winners.


MIDDLE Eastern investors are set to spend nearly €45 billion in the European real estate markets over the next decade.
The majority of this will be spent in Spain, France, Germany and Italy, claims research from global property advisor CBRE.
A further €62 billion is set to be spent in the UK market.
The massive increase in Arabic investment is due to the region's huge spending power, combined with very few domestic real estate opportunities.
"The 'buy and hold' strategy adopted by many Middle Eastern investors within their home region and the resultant lack of deal flow opportunities leaves much demand here," said CBRE Middle East managing director Nick Maclean.
Arabic investors have already invested more than €15 billion globally in the last two years alone and over the next 10 years it has been estimated that they will spend €132 billion.


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3M Commercial Graphics
3M Commercial Graphics/
3M Presents New Value-priced Film for Vehicle Wraps, Point-of-Purchase Displays and Outdoor Signs
Bracknell, UK, 27 September 2011 – Diversified technology company 3M has introduced a new removable, vinyl cast film that addresses the growing demand for economic flexibility in short- to long-term graphics. Controltac Graphic Film with Comply Version 3 Adhesive IJ170Cv3-10 from 3M's Commercial Graphics Division offers versatile, fast, easy, bubble-free installation and its excellent hiding power and stability make it an ideal choice for vehicle wraps, exterior signage, and interior displays.
"Our new film has been produced specifically for use in less extreme graphics applications where cost is more of a deciding factor," said Kim Brewer, Marketing Manager, 3M's Commercial Graphics division.
Controltac Graphic Film IJ170Cv3-10 is a flexible white film featuring a pressure-sensitive adhesive with air release channels that assist quick and precise positioning of the film with no bubbles. Visually stunning graphics can be achieved with no 'show through' as the grey, pigmented adhesive offers high quality concealing power. Furthermore, the film provides suitable adhesion to moderate compound curves and corrugations, flat and riveted surfaces and simple curves without edge lifting, shrinking or cracking.
As the film has no curing time, vehicle off-road holding periods are kept to a minimum, and a fast turnaround of indoor and outdoor graphics in sign workshops can be achieved. The film offers resistance to water, mild alkalis, mild acids and salt and is removed quickly from vehicle clear coats with heat, leaving no residue.
Controltac Graphic Film IJ170Cv3-10 is compatible with 3M Scotchcal Overlaminate 8580 for vehicle wraps. Both are available from 3M primary stockists William Smith and Spandex.
For more information, please visit www.3M.co.uk/graphicsolutions.
3M, Scotchcal, Controltac and Comply are trademarks of 3M Company.
Beky Cann
Neesham Public Relations
Tel: 44 (0) 1296 628180
Email: bekyc@neesham.co.uk
3M captures the spark of new ideas and transforms them into thousands of ingenious products. Its culture of creative collaboration inspires a never-ending stream of powerful technologies that make life better.
The $27 billion diversified technology company has, since 1902, been creating innovative products that help make the world healthier, safer and more productive. Well known 3M brands include Scotch, Post-it, Scotchgard, Thinsulate and Scotch-Brite.
3M employs some 80,000 people worldwide and has operations in more than 65 countries. The UK and Ireland is home to one of the largest 3M subsidiaries outside the USA, employing more than 3,500 people across 19 locations, including 10 manufacturing sites.
Products manufactured in the UK include coated abrasives, occupational health and environmental safety equipment, adhesive tapes, industrial microbiology products, drug delivery systems, high-performance coatings, secure documents and passport scanners.


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Batrisus formicarius är en skalbaggsart som beskrevs av Aubé 1833. Batrisus formicarius ingår i släktet Batrisus, och familjen kortvingar. Arten har ej påträffats i Sverige.

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presets.audio={}
presets.video={}
presets.ffmpeg_opts={}
presets.mux={}
presets.vfilters={}
presets.afilters={}
presets.bitdepth={}

presets.audio.opus_192k={ mode="ffmpeg", ffcmd={"-threads","1","-map","0:a","-map_chapters","-1","-c:a","libopus","-b:a","192k" } }
presets.audio.opus_160k={ mode="ffmpeg", ffcmd={"-threads","1","-map","0:a","-map_chapters","-1","-c:a","libopus","-b:a","160k" } }
presets.audio.opus_128k={ mode="ffmpeg", ffcmd={"-threads","1","-map","0:a","-map_chapters","-1","-c:a","libopus","-b:a","128k" } }
presets.audio.opus_96k={ mode="ffmpeg", ffcmd={"-threads","1","-map","0:a","-map_chapters","-1","-c:a","libopus","-b:a","96k" } }
presets.audio.opus_64k={ mode="ffmpeg", ffcmd={"-threads","1","-map","0:a","-map_chapters","-1","-c:a","libopus","-b:a","64k" } }

presets.audio.vorbis_q6={ mode="ffmpeg", ffcmd={"-threads","1","-map","0:a","-map_chapters","-1","-c:a","libvorbis","-q:a","6" } }
presets.audio.vorbis_q5={ mode="ffmpeg", ffcmd={"-threads","1","-map","0:a","-map_chapters","-1","-c:a","libvorbis","-q:a","5" } }
presets.audio.vorbis_q4={ mode="ffmpeg", ffcmd={"-threads","1","-map","0:a","-map_chapters","-1","-c:a","libvorbis","-q:a","4" } }
presets.audio.vorbis_q3={ mode="ffmpeg", ffcmd={"-threads","1","-map","0:a","-map_chapters","-1","-c:a","libvorbis","-q:a","3" } }
presets.audio.vorbis_q2={ mode="ffmpeg", ffcmd={"-threads","1","-map","0:a","-map_chapters","-1","-c:a","libvorbis","-q:a","2" } }

-- TODO: presets.audio.no={ ffcmd={"-an"} }
presets.audio.copy={ mode="ffmpeg_noflt", ffcmd={"-threads","1","-map","0:a","-map_chapters","-1","-c","copy"} }

presets.audio.default=presets.audio.copy;

--for 8-bit sources only: autodetect bitdepth and pix format, use 8-bit profile for vpxenc
presets.bitdepth.default={ ffcmd={"-pix_fmt","+"}, vpxcmd={"--profile=0"} }

--force convert source to yuv420p 8-bit format before passing it to vpxenc, use 8-bit profile for vpxenc
presets.bitdepth.yuv420p={ ffcmd={"-pix_fmt","yuv420p"}, vpxcmd={"--profile=0"} }

--for non-hdr sources: try to pass it to vpxenc as is, and use 10-bit profile for encoding (improves quality a lot even for yuv420p 8-bit sources)
presets.bitdepth.nonHDRto10={ ffcmd={"-strict","-1","-pix_fmt","+"}, vpxcmd={"--profile=2","--bit-depth=10"} }

--for non-hdr sources: try to pass it to vpxenc as is, and use 12-bit profile for encoding (probably overkill, not tested)
presets.bitdepth.nonHDRto12={ ffcmd={"-strict","-1","-pix_fmt","+"}, vpxcmd={"--profile=2","--bit-depth=12"} }

-- profile for HDR 10-bit source (use ffprobe to query): yuv420p10le(tv, bt2020nc/bt2020/smpte2084)
-- pix_fmt passed to vpxenc will be set to yuv420p10le
-- extra mkvmerge pass is needed to set remaining color meta headers that was not set by vpxenc
presets.bitdepth.yuv420p10le={ ffcmd={"-pix_fmt","yuv420p10le"}, vpxcmd={"--profile=2","--bit-depth=10","--color-space=bt2020"}, mkvcmd={"--colour-transfer-characteristics","0:16","--colour-primaries","0:9"} }

-- dedicated tables for use in cases when options need to be specially added or removed by using other presets options
-- cmdline building logic depends on some preset names, do not change this table
presets.ffmpeg_opts.vsync={"-vsync","passthrough"}
presets.ffmpeg_opts.ts_extract_convert={"-threads","1","-map","0:v","-map_chapters","-1","-c","copy"}

-- denoise filters
presets.vfilters.denoise_none={ ffmpeg_opts_add={}, ffmpeg_opts_del={}, ffmpeg_filter="" }

-- simple hqdn3d denoisers
presets.vfilters.denoise_hq05={ ffmpeg_opts_add={}, ffmpeg_opts_del={}, ffmpeg_filter="hqdn3d=0.5" }
presets.vfilters.denoise_hq10={ ffmpeg_opts_add={}, ffmpeg_opts_del={}, ffmpeg_filter="hqdn3d=1" }
presets.vfilters.denoise_hq15={ ffmpeg_opts_add={}, ffmpeg_opts_del={}, ffmpeg_filter="hqdn3d=1.5" }
presets.vfilters.denoise_hq20={ ffmpeg_opts_add={}, ffmpeg_opts_del={}, ffmpeg_filter="hqdn3d=2" }

-- hqdn3d denoiser with luma and chroma equals to hqdn3d=2, but with lower temporal effects
-- good for higher contrast noise on dark areas, but do not add any strong temporal artefacts (luma and chroma tails)
presets.vfilters.denoise_hq20_low_tmp={ ffmpeg_opts_add={}, ffmpeg_opts_del={}, ffmpeg_filter="hqdn3d=2:1.5:1.6:1.125" }

function presets.vfilters.denoise_hqdn3d(value)
	assert(type(value)=="number", "hqdn3d filter value is missing or not a number")
	return { ffmpeg_opts_add={}, ffmpeg_opts_del={}, ffmpeg_filter="hqdn3d="..tostring(value) }
end

-- TODO: function presets.vfilters.denoise_hqdn3d_low_tmp(base_value,tmp_divider)

-- deinterlace filters
presets.vfilters.deinterlace_none={ ffmpeg_opts_add={presets.ffmpeg_opts.vsync}, ffmpeg_opts_del={}, ffmpeg_filter="" }
presets.vfilters.deinterlace_bfr={ ffmpeg_opts_add={}, ffmpeg_opts_del={presets.ffmpeg_opts.vsync}, ffmpeg_filter="bwdif=0:-1:0" }
presets.vfilters.deinterlace_bfi={ ffmpeg_opts_add={}, ffmpeg_opts_del={presets.ffmpeg_opts.vsync}, ffmpeg_filter="bwdif=1:-1:0" }
presets.vfilters.deinterlace_k1={ ffmpeg_opts_add={}, ffmpeg_opts_del={presets.ffmpeg_opts.vsync}, ffmpeg_filter="kerndeint=0" }
presets.vfilters.deinterlace_k2={ ffmpeg_opts_add={}, ffmpeg_opts_del={presets.ffmpeg_opts.vsync}, ffmpeg_filter="kerndeint=10" }
presets.vfilters.deinterlace_k3={ ffmpeg_opts_add={}, ffmpeg_opts_del={presets.ffmpeg_opts.vsync}, ffmpeg_filter="kerndeint=128" }
presets.vfilters.deinterlace_k1s={ ffmpeg_opts_add={}, ffmpeg_opts_del={presets.ffmpeg_opts.vsync}, ffmpeg_filter="kerndeint=thresh=0:sharp=1" }
presets.vfilters.deinterlace_k2s={ ffmpeg_opts_add={}, ffmpeg_opts_del={presets.ffmpeg_opts.vsync}, ffmpeg_filter="kerndeint=thresh=10:sharp=1" }
presets.vfilters.deinterlace_k3s={ ffmpeg_opts_add={}, ffmpeg_opts_del={presets.ffmpeg_opts.vsync}, ffmpeg_filter="kerndeint=thresh=128:sharp=1" }
presets.vfilters.deinterlace_w={ ffmpeg_opts_add={}, ffmpeg_opts_del={presets.ffmpeg_opts.vsync}, ffmpeg_filter="w3fdif" }
presets.vfilters.deinterlace_yr={ ffmpeg_opts_add={}, ffmpeg_opts_del={presets.ffmpeg_opts.vsync}, ffmpeg_filter="yadif=0:-1:0" }
presets.vfilters.deinterlace_yi={ ffmpeg_opts_add={}, ffmpeg_opts_del={presets.ffmpeg_opts.vsync}, ffmpeg_filter="yadif=1:-1:0" }

-- need extra file download, not tested
presets.vfilters.deinterlace_nhq={ ffmpeg_opts_add={}, ffmpeg_opts_del={presets.ffmpeg_opts.vsync}, ffmpeg_filter="nnedi=nns=n256:qual=slow:pscrn=new" }
presets.vfilters.deinterlace_nlq={ ffmpeg_opts_add={}, ffmpeg_opts_del={presets.ffmpeg_opts.vsync}, ffmpeg_filter="nnedi=nns=n32:qual=fast:pscrn=new" }

presets.vfilters.crop_none={ ffmpeg_opts_add={}, ffmpeg_opts_del={}, ffmpeg_filter="" }
presets.vfilters.crop_fhd_4by3={ ffmpeg_opts_add={}, ffmpeg_opts_del={}, ffmpeg_filter="crop=1440:1080:240:0" }

function presets.vfilters.crop(value)
	assert(type(value)=="string", "crop filter value is missing or not a string")
	return { ffmpeg_opts_add={}, ffmpeg_opts_del={}, ffmpeg_filter="crop="..value }
end

-- TODO: resize filters
-- test "z$crop" = "zresize_fhd" && crop_opts="scale=1920:-1" && filter_extra="-sws_flags spline"

-- vp9 vbr profile generator function
-- params: bitrate_k - number of kbits/s, arnr_strength - number, aq_mode - number, multithreaded - true/false, cpu_used - number
function presets.video.libvpx_vbr(bitrate_k, ...)
	assert(type(bitrate_k)=="number","bitrate_k parameter is not a number or missing")
	-- default values for optional params
	local arnr_strength=3
	local aq_mode=0
	local threads=1
	local cpu_used=1
	-- parse optional params
	for i, arg in ipairs({...}) do
		if i==1 then assert(type(arg)=="number","arnr_strength parameter is not a number"); arnr_strength=arg end
		if i==2 then assert(type(arg)=="number","aq_mode parameter is not a number"); aq_mode=arg end
		if i==3 then
			assert(type(arg)=="boolean","mt parameter is not boolean");
			if arg==true then threads=16 end
		end
		if i==4 then assert(type(arg)=="number","cpu_used parameter is not number"); cpu_used=arg end
	end
	-- generate params
	local r_ffcmd={"-threads","1","-map","0:v","-map_chapters","-1","-c:v","wrapped_avframe"}
	local r_vpxcmd={"--codec=vp9","--end-usage=vbr","--target-bitrate="..tostring(bitrate_k),"--buf-initial-sz=10000","--buf-optimal-sz=12000","--buf-sz=16000","--auto-alt-ref=1","--enable-tpl=1","--frame-boost=1","--aq-mode="..tostring(aq_mode),"--frame-parallel=0","--static-thresh=0","--drop-frame=0","--resize-allowed=0","--kf-min-dist=0","--kf-max-dist=1440","--good","--cpu-used="..tostring(cpu_used),"--lag-in-frames=25","--arnr-maxframes=15","--arnr-strength="..tostring(arnr_strength),"--minsection-pct=5","--maxsection-pct=800","--bias-pct=50","--threads="..tostring(threads)}
	if threads<=1 then
		table.insert(r_vpxcmd,"--row-mt=0")
		table.insert(r_vpxcmd,"--tile-rows=0")
		table.insert(r_vpxcmd,"--tile-columns=0")
	else
		table.insert(r_vpxcmd,"--row-mt=1")
		table.insert(r_vpxcmd,"--tile-columns=2")
	end
	return { mode="vpx", vpxcmd=r_vpxcmd, ffcmd=r_ffcmd }
end

presets.video.copy={ mode="ffmpeg_noflt", ffcmd={"-threads","1","-map","0:v","-map_chapters","-1","-c","copy"}}

presets.video.libvpx_3000k=presets.video.libvpx_vbr(3000,2,0,false,1)

presets.video.libvpx_3000k_mt=presets.video.libvpx_vbr(3000,2,0,true,1)

presets.video.libvpx_2500k=presets.video.libvpx_vbr(2500,2,0,false,1)

presets.video.libvpx_2500k_mt=presets.video.libvpx_vbr(2500,2,0,true,1)

presets.video.libvpx_2000k=presets.video.libvpx_vbr(2000,3,0,false,1)

presets.video.libvpx_2000k_mt=presets.video.libvpx_vbr(2000,3,0,true,1)

presets.video.libvpx_1000k=presets.video.libvpx_vbr(1000,5,0,false,1)

presets.video.default=presets.video.copy

presets.mux.default={ mode="ffmpeg", ffcmd={"-threads","1","-map","1:v","-map","2:a","-map","0","-map","-0:v","-map","-0:a","-c","copy"} }

--print("pre.lua complete")


A man spent more than two years rowing "around the world" on a rowing machine at a Hampshire shopping centre.
Dave Holby, 29, rowed for an average of 37 miles (60km) every day, five days a week, for the past two years and seven months in Basingstoke.
He clocked up 24,900 miles (40,073km) - the same as circumnavigating the globe.
Mr Holby, who has so far raised £18,000 for Breakthrough Breast Cancer, said: "It doesn't feel real - it's such a lovely feeling."
Crowds gathered to see the end of the record-breaking row, during which Mr Holby had to endure spells of intense winter weather as well as a hot summer.
"There were so many points where I thought I wouldn't get through but the people of Basingstoke carried me through."
Mr Holby was attempting to set a new world record for the fastest row around the equator.
Guinness World Records is waiting to verify his bid.


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The vaccines are coming – we're saved! Although the arriving vaccines are great for humanity, they are bad for the price of gold.
In November, Pfizer and BioNTech announced that their mRNA-based vaccine candidate, BNT162b2, had demonstrated evidence of an efficacy rate above 90% against COVID-19, in the first interim efficacy analysis. As Dr. Albert Bourla, Pfizer Chairman and CEO, said:
Today is a great day for science and humanity. The first set of results from our Phase 3 COVID-19 vaccine trial provides the initial evidence of our vaccine's ability to prevent COVID-19.
Indeed, the announcement is great news! After all, the vaccine is the ultimate weapon against the virus. There's no doubt that we will get the vaccine one day. Thank God for scientists – they are really clever people who work hard to develop a safe vaccine! Why can't we have more of them instead of so many economists? As well, the pandemic triggered unprecedented global cooperation to develop a vaccine as quickly as possible. The funds are enormous, while the bureaucrats eventually decided to behave like decent human beings for once and eased their stance in order to speed up the whole process. Great!
But… there is always a "but". You see, there are some problems related to Pfizer's vaccine. First, all we know comes from the press release, but the company didn't provide any data for a review. Second, the efficacy rate announced by the company pertains only to the seven days after the second dose is taken – we still don't know how effective the vaccine is in the longer term, and how long immunity lasts. Third, we still don't know the efficacy of the vaccine among the elderly and people with underlying conditions – or, the most affected people by COVID-19. Fourth, the vaccine is based on mRNA technology, and such a vaccine was never approved for human use. There is always a first time, but new technologies always give birth to some concerns, which could ultimately reduce the public's preference to get vaccinated.
Another problem is that this vaccine requires two doses that are taken 21 days apart. It delays the moment of immunization and again reduces the motivation to take the vaccine – yes, some people are so lazy, and/or they don't like injections so much (for whatever reason; we're not debating whether it's justified or not) that they can refuse to be vaccinated.
Moreover, Pfizer's vaccine must be stored at a temperature of about -70°C (-94°F), which is quite low indeed, and can be quite chilly in shorts (unless you are Wim Hof). The problem is transportation and distribution – you see, many hospitals - to say nothing of rural physicians and pharmacies, and healthcare systems in developing countries - do not have adequate freezers to store the vaccine. Last but not least, even if scientists develop the best possible vaccine, it remains useless unless people accept to take it – and this is far from being certain, given the pandemic denial movement and fear of vaccines.
Sure, one could say that all these points are not very problematic. After all, Pfizer is not the only company working on the vaccine. There are actually more than 150 coronavirus vaccines in development across the world. For example, Moderna's vaccine can be stored at a much higher temperature – a more comfortable -20°C (-4°F), So even if Pfizer's vaccine turns out to not be the best, other, even better vaccines will arrive on the market – and a lack of any vaccine can transform into a crisis of abundance.
That's true, but the sad truth is that it's unlikely that any vaccine will be widely available until mid-2021. Pfizer, for example, announced that it hoped to produce 50 million doses by the end of 2020. As the vaccine needs two doses, only 25 million people could be vaccinated this year. So don't count on being among this group – countries will prioritize healthcare workers, social workers and uniformed services first, and the elderly next. It means that we will not return to a state of normalcy very soon, and most of us will still need to wear masks, practice social distancing and… wash hands!
In the meantime, the U.S. is about to enter Covid hell, as Michael Osterholm, one of Biden's advisers on the epidemic, said. Indeed, the country is nearing 11 million reported COVID-19 cases, and the coronavirus has already killed more than 240,000 Americans. But the worst can still lie ahead for the U.S. As one can see in the chart below, the epidemiological curve is clearly exponential and the daily number of new cases has touched 200,000! Yup, you read it correctly, about two hundred thousand people are infected each day. You don't have to be a mathematician to figure out that at such a rate of infections, the healthcare system will collapse soon.
What does it all imply for the gold market? Well, although the arriving vaccines are great for humanity, they are bad for the price of the yellow metal. The pandemic greatly supported gold prices. So, the expected end of the epidemic in the U.S. should be negative for the shiny metal.
However, there are two important caveats to this statement. First, there is still a long way to go before widespread vaccination and a true end to the pandemic. In the interim, we still need to face the COVID-19 challenge, so gold shouldn't suddenly fall out of favor.
Second, gold reacted not only to the pandemic itself, but also – or even more – to the world response of governments and central banks to the health and economic crisis. The easy monetary policy and accommodative fiscal policy will not disappear only because of the vaccine's arrival. Actually, the harsh winter or "Covid hell" that awaits America will force the Fed and Treasury to continue or even to expand their stimuli, which is good news for gold prices from the fundamental perspective.
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