1 What are some of the benefits of being physically active every day?
What are some of the benefits of being physically active every day?
Among the greatest benefits some individuals find is feeling stronger, more alive. Another is being less quickly fatigued and being better able to meet the physical demands of the environment.
For some, it is a way to be able to participate and have fun with friends and family. By improving positive health, the risk for chronic illnesses, such as stroke, heart attack, diabetes, cancer is decreased.
According to the 2008 CDC guidelines: adults need at least 2 hours 30 minutes of moderate intensity aerobic exercise every week and muscle strengthening activities on two or more days a week that work all major muscle groups (legs, back, abdomen, chest, shoulders and arms).
Or they can do 1 hour 15 minutes of vigorous aerobic activity and two or more days a week of strengthening major muscle groups. Or a mix, noting that 1 min of vigorous activity is equivalent to 2 minutes of moderate activity.
According to the CDC adults with disabilities are three times more likely to have heart disease, stroke, diabetes, or cancer than adults without disabilities.
Adults with mobility limitations are the least likely to get aerobic physical activity.
Regular aerobic exercise or activity can improve heart, and lung function, and health of blood vessels. Aerobic activity can include taking a dance class, wheelchair basketball, or wheeling oneself in a wheelchair for daily exercise.
If you are a person with a disability, you can engage in regular health-enhancing physical activities based on your abilities. For example, swimming, water exercise, routinely wheeling oneself in a wheelchair, upper body stationary cycling, wheelchair sports.
The main thing is to avoid inactivity. You can talk with your healthcare professional such as your doctor, physiotherapist, health coach and others, to provide guidance for both aerobic activities and muscle strengthening exercises.
They will help you be active in ways that are appropriate for your abilities. They can also provide guidance to help you progress slowly and avoid injury.
Changing one simple behavior can be the turnkey that will affect other behaviors.
That may be simply deciding to do a few minutes of exercise every morning instead of sleeping in. Or you might start with other healthy and stress-reducing habits, like meditating before bedtime. It may even be keeping a journal with words or pictures Or you can find a creative outlet that you enjoy.
Perhaps you might encourage another person to join you. Just one small change today can help chart a new course. Then you will be well on your way to being active, your way, for life. What are some reasons you might like to be more healthy and active? What is holding you back?


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We're developing new virtual training environments that will allow armed forces to train on any weapon or system from anywhere in the world.
The U.S. Army's Synthetic Training Environment (STE) team is developing a single environment that will allow soldiers to train together from anywhere in the world. Raytheon Intelligence & Space' proposed STE solution blends new and emerging technologies – augmented reality, virtual reality, artificial intelligence and big data – to connect soldiers and allow them to train like never before.
Our solution is among several the U.S. Army is considering to help launch STE.
Our STE Approach
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Raytheon Technologies' STE approach will completely shift the paradigm of virtual training for individual soldiers. The current "boxy" simulators – which fill huge rooms with screens, sensors and projectors – will be replaced by laptop-powered virtual reality headsets soldiers can use to train anywhere, at any time. And because STE is cloud-enabled, the system is accessible whenever and wherever it's needed.
While Raytheon Technologies' STE solution has a small form factor, it delivers big on realism and performance. It offers 4K ultra-high-definition image fidelity, allowing soldiers to train in the highly detailed, immersive environments needed for realistic training and mission rehearsals.
In the larger enterprise, Raytheon Technologies' STE solution uses our extensive experience with artificial intelligence, big data and cybersecurity to connect systems and gain insights. Our cutting-edge technologies will help STE provide automated and semi-automated forces that scale from individual engagements to nation-scale training events, and rapidly generate training scenarios that require forces to adapt in real time to ensure soldiers meet training objectives.
Raytheon Technologies unveils new dismounted soldier training simulator
U.S. Army Synthetic Training Environment makes training more effective and accessible anytime, anywhere.
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U.S. Army builds synthetic battlefield to blend with live training.
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Defense looks toward artificial intelligence to help train troops.

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If you're planning a geeked-out celebration sometime soon, get inspired with these fun, playful dessert ideas. Not exactly an expert in the kitchen? Don't stress: we've rounded up creative examples to suit all kinds of baking levels. From nostalgic '80s cakes to gaming treats to iPhone-themed designs, these geeky desserts are sure to satisfy your nerdy sweet tooth.


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Armed Police Interrogate Black Man at the ATM For Having Too Many Credit Cards
Burleson, TX — Brian Friar, a 39-year old Black man from Texas, says he was terrified when 3 police officers with guns suddenly confronted him at a gas station ATM because he apparently had too many credit cards. During the encounter caught on video, they demanded him to prove that all of his own credit cards belonged to him.
Friar, who is from nearby Fort Worth, told the Daily Mail that he was looking through his cards to choose which one to use when an officer came up to him and questioned him.
He started recording the incident when two other armed officers surrounded him and he began to feel afraid that what happened to George Floyd would happen to him too.
In the video, one of the officers can be heard saying, "Prove to me the rest of the cards are yours. You got like ten there, man."
"All those are mine," Friar responded.
He explained that he used the wrong PIN at the ATM and he had to use his phone to unlock it. He showed them 3 credit cards with his name on it, but he was told to slow down.
Still, another officer proceeded with asking him why he is in Burleson. Friar said he was getting a tattoo and that he had to hurry to go to his wife, whose car broke down nearby.
Friar believes the incident was racially motivated and said that it wouldn't have happened if he was a white man.
"They were harassing me. I was a black man in a dominant white town," Friar said. "I wasn't dressed like a bum — I hadn't done anything wrong."
The incident ended as the police officers let Friar go with the cash he had withdrawn, but Friar was still shaken up.
Meanwhile, Burleson Chief Billy Cordell said that the officers approached Friar when someone told them that he was using multiple credit cards and was getting declined by the ATM.
"He said the man was acting suspiciously. The officers approached the man, activated their body-worn cameras, and explained why they were contacting him," Cordell said. "Officers observed multiple receipts and cards as described by the witness. Officers asked him if he minded sharing identification to match the name on the cards and he eventually provided identification and cards."


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Appeal of MAUREEN CROWLEY PESCE, on behalf of her children DOMINIC, SEAN, WALTER, CHRISTOPHER, MICHAEL, MATTHEW, MAURA and SIOBHAN, from action of the Board of Education of the Westhampton Beach Union Free School District regarding class rank.
Kevin A. Seaman, Esq., attorney for respondent
MILLS, Commissioner.--Petitioner appeals the refusal of the Board of Education of the Westhampton Beach Union Free School District ("respondent") to change its class rank policy. The appeal must be dismissed.
Petitioner's son, Dominic, is a senior in respondent's high school and is ranked seventh in the class of 2008. Petitioner has seven other children, two of whom are also students in respondent's high school.
Dominic attended middle school within respondent's district. During seventh and eighth grades, Dominic took four high-school-level courses – "Earth Science, Spanish Language and two courses in math" – for which he was awarded high school credit. Petitioner appears to argue that because Dominic took high-school-level courses during middle school, such courses should be given greater weight in calculating his high school class rank.
Respondent's class rank policy, which was adopted on November 19, 2001, states that "[a]ll students entering grade 12 will be assigned a rank in class in accordance to their weighted GPA .... Courses will be assigned a weighting factor of either 1.10, 1.05 or 1.0." Respondent's "Course Offerings Catalog 2007/2008" ("catalog") states:
The Grade Weighting Protocol recognizes that some academic programs are more rigorous and challenging than others, and therefore rewards students for taking more demanding classes. Grades are weighted on a scale, as follows: Final grades in AP and Honors courses are multiplied by a factor of 1.1[.] All other final grades are multiplied by a factor of 1.0[.]
The catalog also states that students' class rank "reflects weighted grades." The record indicates that respondent does not assign AP and/or honors weight to regular high-school-level courses taken during middle school. Rather, an affidavit from respondent's superintendent explains that under the district's weighting policy, "it is the course that is weighted or not weighted, not the fact that it may have been undertaken prior to the ninth grade."
The record indicates that in late December 2007 and early January 2008, petitioner wrote letters to respondent and attended at least one board meeting to express her objections to the district's class rank policy. By letter dated January 16, 2008, respondent's superintendent informed petitioner that the board would take no action "on the matter of modifying the current District policy pertaining to the establishment of 'class ranking' and the designation of the Valedictorian and Salutatorian of the Class of 2008." The superintendent added that petitioner's "points of contention will be considered on the matter of possible adjustments to the policy in future years ..."
On January 18, 2008, petitioner filed an appeal with my Office of Counsel requesting interim relief, which was denied on January 25, 2008. Petitioner then withdrew that appeal and commenced an Article 78 proceeding in Suffolk County Supreme Court. By Order to Show Cause dated January 25, 2008, petitioner obtained a temporary restraining order ("TRO") from Suffolk County Supreme Court prohibiting respondent from implementing its class ranking policy and publicly announcing the rankings for the class of 2008. On February 11, 2008, the TRO was vacated and petitioner's Article 78 proceeding was dismissed for failure to exhaust administrative remedies. Petitioner then commenced the instant appeal.[1]
Petitioner claims, interalia, that respondent's policy is arbitrary and capricious, that the policy "discriminates against students who have pursued advanced level work as middle school students" and that "there is no written policy on how advanced middle school work is accounted for in calculating high school GPA." Petitioner also objects to respondent's decision to award weighted credit to its AP French course but not to the "Syracuse University Project Advance Spanish 201" course in which Dominic is enrolled. Petitioner asks that respondent's "flawed protocol be annulled and replaced" and that revised rankings immediately be provided to colleges which "accurately [portray] where each student's academic efforts stand with respect to his classmates ...." If "respondent has insufficient time to immediately improve its protocol," petitioner requests that respondent "name 'co-valedictorians' and 'co-salutatorians,' that is, one set of students under the protocol historically in use and one set determined by student's actual earned GPAs ...." Finally, petitioner seeks "a rebate check for the fractional amount of money spent on respondent['s] counsel fees which represents my share of the school tax dollars paid for such legal fees."
Respondent contends, interalia, that the appeal must be dismissed as moot and for petitioner's failure to state a "cause for proceeding." Respondent maintains that its class ranking process has been in place for several years and has been appropriately and consistently applied.
I must first address several procedural issues. Petitioner attempts to bring this appeal on behalf of "the class of individuals who are students in the Westhampton Beach Elementary and Middle Schools." An appeal may only be maintained on behalf of a class where the class is so numerous that joinder of all members is impracticable and where all questions of fact and law are common to all members of the class (8 NYCRR §275.2; Appeal of Hempstead Parents/Community United, 45 Ed Dept Rep 381, Decision No. 15,357; Appeal of Hempstead Parents/Community United, 45 id. 354, Decision No. 15,346; Appeal of Ockimey, 44 id. 169, Decision No. 15,136). A petitioner must set forth the number of individuals he or she seeks to represent and must show that all questions of law and fact would be common to all members of the class (Appeal of Hempstead Parents/Community United, 45 Ed Dept Rep 381, Decision No. 15,357; Appeal of Hempstead Parents/Community United, 45 id. 354, Decision No. 15,346; Appeal of Garmaeva, 43 id. 253, Decision No. 14,988). Petitioner's pleadings are entirely devoid of any allegations addressing those criteria. Therefore, petitioner's request for class status is denied.
The purpose of a reply is to respond to new material or affirmative defenses set forth in an answer (8 NYCRR §§275.3 and 275.14). A reply is not meant to buttress allegations in the petition or to belatedly add assertions that should have been in the petition (Appeal of E.R., 45 Ed Dept Rep 487, Decision No. 15,389; Appeal of Ramroop, 45 id. 473, Decision No. 15,385; Appeal of C.R., 45 id. 303, Decision No 15,330). Therefore, while I have reviewed the reply, I have not considered those portions containing new allegations or exhibits that are not responsive to new material or affirmative defenses set forth in the answer.
Respondent argues that the appeal must be dismissed as moot because the district publicly named its valedictorian and salutatorian for the class of 2008 on or about March 3, 2008. The Commissioner will only decide matters in actual controversy and will not render a decision on a state of facts which no longer exist or which subsequent events have laid to rest (Appeal of C.A., Sr., 45 Ed Dept Rep 388, Decision No. 15,360; Appeal of the New York Charter Schools Assn., Inc., et al., 45 id. 376, Decision No. 15,355; Appeal of the Bd. of Trustees of the N. Merrick Public Library, et al., 45 id. 363, Decision No. 15,350). Because, as petitioner points out, the class of 2008 has not yet graduated from high school, I decline to dismiss this appeal as moot.
Turning to the merits, the determination of class rank is a decision for the local board of education that should not be altered unless it is arbitrary and irrational (Appeal of Jobson, 47 Ed Dept Rep __, Decision No. 15,719; Appeal of Lynch, 42 id. 398, Decision No. 14,892; Appeal of Armella and MacIntyre, 40 id. 451, Decision No. 14,525). As long as the local policy in question is not wholly without a rational basis, the Commissioner will not impose a different policy (Appeal of Lynch, 42 Ed Dept Rep 398, Decision No. 14,892; Appeal of Armella and MacIntyre, 40 id. 451, Decision No. 14,525; Appeal of Tenbus and Kraack, 35 id. 320, Decision No. 13,556).
Petitioner argues that respondent's practice discriminates against students like Dominic who take high school courses in middle school because "less accelerated students actually accumulate greater amounts of honors weighting points along the way because they have waited until they were older and actually in high school, to take the very same course material in its 'weighted' version and they thereby benefit in rank over the accelerated students." However, the record indicates that respondent has determined that AP and honors courses taken during high school will be weighted more heavily than regular courses taken prior to and during high school. As stated in respondent's catalog, this policy takes into consideration that "some academic programs are more rigorous and challenging than others, and therefore rewards students for taking more demanding classes." Recognition for academic achievement, including designation as valedictorian and salutatorian, is strictly a local matter for which the board of education may impose reasonable standards (Appeal of Tenbus and Kraack, 35 Ed Dept Rep 320, Decision No. 13,556; Appeal of Maloney, 33 id. 154, Decision No. 13,007; Appeal of Kuttner, 32 id. 39, Decision No. 12,749). In this case, there is no basis to conclude that respondent's class ranking system is irrational or unreasonable.
In support of her argument, petitioner cites several prior Commissioner's decisions for the proposition that school districts cannot discriminate against "accelerated" students with respect to class ranking (Appeal of Sperry, 37 Ed Dept Rep 660, Decision No. 13,951; Appeal of Knapp, 34 id. 357, Decision No. 13,340; Appeal of Chesbrough, 32 id. 647, Decision No. 12,944; Appeal of Pelletier, 27 id. 265, Decision No. 11,942; Matter of Roberts, 15 id. 269, Decision No. 9,164). However, petitioner's reliance on those cases is misplaced. Unlike Dominic, each of the students in the cited cases was considered "accelerated" because he or she either graduated from high school in less than four years or, as in Pelletier, was enrolled in a "full-time college level course of study" during her senior year. In the instant case, while Dominic did take high-school-level courses in middle school, he is not an "accelerated" student who is graduating from high school in less than four years. I commend Dominic's efforts and academic achievement; however, I cannot find that he is "accelerated" as described in Matter of Roberts and its progeny.
As petitioner points out, the record contains no evidence that respondent has a written policy on the application of its weighting policy to high school courses taken during middle school. However, the fact that respondent's practice has not been reduced to writing does not preclude respondent from implementing it, as the record reflects that this has been a consistent practice of the district for several years. Additionally, there is nothing in the record which indicates that this practice has been applied unfairly or inconsistently by respondent.
Finally, I note that respondent's superintendent has established a committee to review the district's class rank policy to determine whether any "prospective modifications ... may be in order." I encourage respondent to continue its efforts to clarify its policies and communications in response to the concerns raised in this appeal.
[1]The record indicates that both petitioner and respondent have attempted to include in this appeal the families of the students in the class of 2008 ranked one through six. Petitioner provided respondent with additional copies of her appeal papers and, by letter dated March 10, 2008, respondent requested consent from the parents of each of the six students to release such students' names and addresses for purposes of service of process. The record does not indicate that any of the parents provided their consent. As a result, I will not dismiss the appeal for failure to join necessary parties.


Drum Forum - Drummers Forum > General Chit-Chat > General Chit-Chat (Forum Moderators: PASHA, KenSanders) > Jazz great Paul Motian passed away today.
Jazz great Paul Motian passed away today.
Paul Motian, the legendary drummer whose shadowy, ethereal playing was one of the most singular and identifiable styles in all of jazz, died at 4:52 a.m. in New York City, as confirmed by a representative from ECM Records. He was 80; a cause of death has not been disclosed.
JazzTimes.com will publish a full obituary later today.
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I just reviewed some of his work, a real treat.
He was involved in what I believe was the second generation of modern jazz. A stylist to be studied for real jazz purists.


Press Releases > Economy > GKN recognized by Jatco with Regional Quality Award..
GKN Sinter Metals has been recognized by Jatco with the Regional Quality Award for efforts in the supplier's Japanese business.
Each year, Jatco awards companies that produce over a 15 month period with a defect rate of zero parts per million (PPM). GKN's 2017 Quality Award is the first of its recognition from Jatco.
GKN's representative locations for the award include Osaka, Japan and Danyang, China. The award reflects products manufactured and delivered by Danyang, and executed through Osaka.
The teams at GKN accepted the Regional Quality Award at Jatco's annual supplier conference in Japan.
"This is a great encouragement for all of us who are working endlessly to deliver on increased customer requests," said Leo Zhang, Sales and Marketing Manager, GKN Sinter Metals.


If you or a family member is charged with a shoplifting or burglary charge, you may be facing serious jail or prison time, especially if allegations involve a weapon or use of force (robbery). Contact the skilled defense attorneys of The Law Offices of Schlissel DeCorpo to protect your rights and minimize any consequences if you are convicted.
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Retail theft of merchandise can be a misdemeanor or a felony crime, depending on the value of merchandise stolen (more or less than $400). Sentencing is increased for previous shoplifting convictions. First offenders may qualify for the Nassau County's special education programs which can result in the dismissal of charges or a plea bargain to a lesser offense. Repeat offenders can be jailed for up to a year for misdemeanors and one year and more for felony theft.
Entering a residence or business unlawfully to steal merchandise is a felony crime, which can be punishable by a sentence of up to two to five years in prison. We can sometimes obtain a plea bargain on these charges to lesser charges that do not require prison sentences.


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Filling (And Even Enjoying) the Empty Nest
Diane Sewell | September 21st, 2018
Here, how to turn this time into a huge opportunity for personal growth.
It can suddenly feel like there's a big hole in your heart when your kids are all gone off to university or college, or have taken a job somewhere. Your once hectic life is suddenly a whole lot quieter, the demands on your time much fewer.
"This is not something you're going to find in the diagnostic statistical manual," says Alyson Schafer, a Toronto-based psychotherapist, parenting expert and best-selling author. "But we are recognizing that it's very common when kids leave home for parents – and more so for mothers – to experience a great sense of loss. It's a kind of grief. And it's to be expected since such a tremendous part of a woman's self-concept it tied to being a mother. It can create a sense of meaninglessness."
Alyson says the departure of kids also usually kick-starts a new phase in our lives, bringing about new challenges as well as new opportunities – and in some cases realizations.
"The distraction of parenting may have kept us from asking the big, deep questions," she says. "They could be about our marriage. Maybe we were holding the marriage together for the child."
Frequently the departure of kids also coincides with the beginning of menopause, creating for women what Alyson calls "a tsunami of events".
But parents all need to be patient and try to reframe the way they look at the change. "Parents need to realize this is a process and that any major life transition is going to take time. It's also a huge opportunity for personal growth."
"Now you have time to think about yourself, about your dreams. Now you have time to think about your wants, your dreams, your friendships and your desires – what you want to create now with the time, space and energy that was previously devoted to raising kids."
Alyson advises empty nesters not to focus too much on the absence of the child, but instead to envision what the future might hold.
"Get in touch with the benefits, even if it's just initially about lower water bills, less laundry, and better weekend sleeps without worrying if they've crashed the car or when they're going to get home. Then maybe you can think about going back to university or taking that art class. It can be an exciting time."
But it's also a time when you have to step back as a parent and realize it's not just the family home that's changed. Your job as a parent has changed too. "We're supposed to launch our children and then learn to communicate with them as adults," says Alyson.
"We need to let go to a certain extent and remember that the fact your kids are launched is where the mistakes are going to begin. They're floundering newbie adults and they're going to make mistakes and as parents we have to take a deep breath and say 'that's not my child failing, that's my child learning'.
Your job is to support them, not rescue them, and that can be hard – but if not now, when?"
Part of empty nest syndrome also involves facing things that might have been too difficult for parents to face earlier. It's not uncommon for couples to be left looking at each other and wondering 'what are we to each other now?'
"This is when couples need to talk and realize this doesn't have to be a bad thing. It can be like spring cleaning. Often, it actually reinvigorates and enriches the marriage. It can be scary confronting something, but if you're brave enough to look it in the eye and do the work, if often leads to a whole other season in your marriage."
In general, it's important for empty nesters to talk about how they feel, no matter what surfaces.
"Don't suffer quietly," advises Alyson. "Talk with a friend, a counsellor or write in a journal. If all we do is think, it just perseverates in a circle in our brain. If we talk and turn it into language or we journal and turn it into language, it tends to go to different parts of the brain and makes us go forward."


This Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) project totaled over 12,000-ft. of pipe and included a complete new drainage system for the city of Monticello.
A-2000 and Polymeric Coated CMP met the "Class C" specification and were used to provide a cost effective and quality storm sewer option.
9,000 ft 12-in. 18-in. 24-in. 30- in. 36-i.dia.


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Q: Como detectar interrupções das setas em assembly x86? Estou com dúvida como reconhecer um comando das setas no programa em assembly x86. Por exemplo chamar a proc e ao clicar na seta direita, emitir uma resposta você utilizou seta direita...
Se alguém sabe qual é a interrupção para fazer a comparação de registradores e como fazer agradeço!  Até agora o que achei foi as interrupções  int 16h e 21h, mas não funcionou. Continua não reconhecendo.

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The Task Force has developed draft recommendations for the County to reduce racial disparities in the justice system, and it will host three community Forums in May 2018 to present the recommendations and solicit community input and feedback before it takes them to Board of Supervisors in June 2018.
You can also provide input to the Task Force online at this link. Click here to see a list of the Task Force's 17 members, and meeting locations and agendas for each monthly meeting, held the first Wednesday of every month at 1 PM.
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6 months old!! Wow has time flown by! This Milestone 6 month session was so fun! These boys just laughed and laughed at the world around them! Not to mention their rolls get cuter and cuter as the months go on.


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Xperiel Aims To Turn Sports Venues Into Augmented Reality Consoles
Fans playing Xperiel's I Called It game could have predicted whether this play would've been a touchdown or not. (Photo by Abbie Parr/Getty Images)
By Jen Booton Dec. 5, 2017
Imagine if the sports venue you were in were transformed into a giant video game console, with your phone serving as a controller that enables you to unlock new levels of a mixed reality experience that runs alongside action on the video board and field.
Xperiel, founded by a set of brothers who previously worked as Google engineers, has been rapidly expanding its suite of augmented reality products for the sports industry since announcing a $7 million funding round that included backing from early Google investor Ram Shriram, the Los Angeles Dodgers and Major League Baseball in August 2016.
The company now counts the ...


Loaves and Fishes is an emergency food pantry providing groceries for neighbors in need throughout Mecklenburg County. Sedgefield Church participates by collecting non-perishable food on the first Sunday of every month and transporting it to the Loaves & Fishes pantry location at one of our neighboring churches. Let Rob Neill (robneill@primaxproperties.com) know if you would like to help transport items to the pantry.


We looked at a variety of similar pictures as a stimulus this week for the children's literacy work. We worked on embedding adjectives, asking questions and recording them using the correct punctuation. They also described the character and setting using adjectives and other literary techniques. Can they tell you any?
Maths has been exploring missing numbers and more and less. Some children were challenged to find missing numbers both forwards and backwards using their 2 x table knowledge. Others continued to try and use a number line to help them. Please continue counting in 2s, 5s and 10s at home.
In Geography we used atlases to find different countries and their corresponding flags. We looked at different food customs from around the world and how far food has travelled to get to our plate.
The children enjoyed their sneak peak at the art exhibition on Monday afternoon and were very excited for you all to come and see their hard work. We hope you enjoy your purchased masterpieces. Thank you for supporting the school.
Two children from Demeter joined Mrs Meeks and Mrs Hay on Saturday afternoon for our two hour Zumbathon to raise funds towards a defibrillator. Well done to Nathan and Abby.
Another record breaking week for our reading lottery tickets this week. We beat last week's score by 1. 19 tickets were issued.
We are really looking forward to our trip on Tuesday.
Parent consultation slips will go out on Monday with your time slot.
No show and tell next week with it being a short week and we have our trip.


Exactly What It Says on the Tin, an episode or installment of a TV show, movie series, etc. that deals with a major character having insomnia. The plot almost always revolves around the character and his or her friends trying to find a way to resolve the problem, although sometimes it also revolves around the insomniac character refusing to accept his or her friends' help as they go about something they consider to be of vital importance. If Played for Laughs, expect the insomniac character to race around doing all sorts of crazy things while the other characters get increasingly fed up.
See The Insomniac for a character who is usually suffering from sleeplessness.
Sleep Deprivation is a supertrope.
A Scrooge McDuck comic had him unable to sleep after overseas travel due to jet lag. He eventually manages to make himself fall asleep, and wakes up in the morning... only to find out that he's been asleep all day, and it's actually evening of the next day.
"Nighty Shut Up!" from Calvin and Hobbes: The Series has Calvin unable to sleep when the monsters underneath the bed won't stop partying. He solves it by using the Time Pauser to sleep as much as he wants.
In How to Sleep, an episode of Robert Benchley's "How to..." Faux to Guide series, he's instructing the audience on how to get a good night's sleep. The Benchley in the video consistently fails. The end of the film cuts back to Benchley the instructor, falling asleep at his desk.
In one episode Sheldon is unable to sleep as long as he's left a specific science problem, one he's having a lot of trouble with, unsolved. Over the course of the episode he steals peas, then makes diagrams with marbles, and when those are not big enough he breaks into a generic Chuck E Cheese type place to use the balls from the ball pit. Bernadette tells him he would probably be able to solve it if he wasn't so sleep-deprived, but he doesn't listen.
"The Anxiety Optimization", has a similar plot, with Sheldon raising his anxiety levels in an attempt to optimize his performance. Again, he ends up sleep deprived and hallucinating about armadillos.
On an episode of The Big Comfy Couch Loonette talks about the previous night where she and Molly barely slept since, as she put it, their brains were so excited and couldn't stop thinking to go to sleep. They go out to explore the house at night and think about why they must sleep. Later on Granny goes to tell them that you need sleep every night to relax and stay healthy, and encourages her to go to bed early.
In one episode of Family Ties, Alex is unable to sleep, even when his family offers various ways that usually help them sleep.
On one episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Sarah is put in a sleep ward when she has been unable to sleep for two straight weeks. Subverted when at the end of the episode we find out that the sleep ward plotline was All Just a Dream, which she was having while being held captive by a man she had shot earlier in the series, although it is hinted that she was still having sleep problems before this.
There is an episode of Two and a Half Men where Alan has trouble sleeping and visits a psychologist to hilarious effect and it's revealed that because Alan is resentful of Charlie for having such an easy life and how he almost never suffers, Alan can't sleep. By the end of the episode, Alan can sleep again because he got his wish of seeing Charlie suffer.
The aptly titled Emergency! episode "Insomnia", where John just can't get to sleep during a run of night shifts, and becomes convinced he'll be able to sleep after they get a nighttime call. At the end of the episode, the station does get a nighttime call, but not for the rescue squad. Not to be discouraged, John grabs onto the rear handhold of the leaving fire engine and falls asleep on his feet.
episode "Sleepless in Lazy Town" Pixel has been tired lately because he's deprived himself of sleep to play video games all night, until Sportacus tells him that a goods night's sleep every night is another thing needed to stay healthy and be active during the day. When Robbie Rotten gets word of this he deprives Sportacus of all sleep so he has no energy to play in the town's big baseball game.
In "Hero For A Day" Robbie is the one dealing with no sleep, which has made him extra cranky and in the mood to cause chaos for all his friends.
On M*A*S*H in the episode "Dr. Pierce and Mr. Hyde", where Hawkeye winds up going 3 days without sleep (lots of casualties plus his own inability to sleep between surgical shifts). He was even ordered to go to bed and responded with "not now, I need a little sleep".
One episode of Bonanza had Ben Cartwright unable to sleep because of noise around the house including Hoss' snoring, Adam's guitar playing, and Little Joe chasing his girlfriend with a bell, eventually he decides to rent a room in a hotel for the night but finds himself in more predicaments from the guests interrupting him every time he gets to sleep, including an obnoxious drunk, a quarreling newlywed couple, and one man out to kill another for winning all his money in a poker game.
Monk once found himself unable to sleep after meeting a woman he couldn't stop thinking about, and not even romantically. After solving the crime of the week, he realizes the woman was the recipient of a cornea transplant and his late wife Trudy was the donor.
One episode of Empty Nest had Harry unable to sleep due to a recurring nightmare. It takes Barbara's detective skills to figure out the reason for the nightmare.
Mr. Bean has trouble sleeping one night after being kept awake by everything from motorcycles to cats. His final solution is to count sheep—by using a calculator to figure out how many are seen in a picture.
An episode of the The Drew Carey Show had this as its plot. After Kate married a Navy pilot and moved with him to a base in Guam, drew goes several nights without sleep because every time he does, he dreams about her leaving. It gets to the point where it seriously starts to affect his daily life, and eventually his sister in-law,Mimi, takes him to a junkyard brandishing a shotgun, Drew thinks she'll finally put him down, but she gives him another shotgun, and explains that she felt so sorry for him, she had to do something. After shooting some garbage, Drew goes home and comes to the realization that he and Kate were not meant to be together and that he has to move on, and finally gets some much needed sleep.
Paddy McAloon's album I Trawl The Megahertz was written while he was temporarily blinded by surgery and unable to do anything at night but sit and listen to late-night radio call-in shows. The title track is a 22-minute monologue by a woman suffering from insomnia trying to make sense of her life.
Madison from Heavy Rain suffers from chronic insomnia, which we mainly see in a paranoid delirium episode early in her arc.
In Gunnerkrigg Court, Zimmy doesn't sleep. When infected with the spiders around Zimmy's mind, Jack Hyland also becomes sleepless for a short while, and gets more and more mentally unstable until Zimmy finally removes them.
The Siblings episode "Don't Sleep, Robby!".
In Twig Arc 6, Tooth and Nail, Sylvester is so upset by the absence of Jamie that he stays up all night reading Jamie's journals instead of sleeping, as a result getting about five nights of sleep in two weeks.
"How To Sleep", with Goofy unable to sleep, so an Anthropomorphic Personification of Science comes in to help.
The Donald Duck cartoons "Early To Bed" and "Drip-Drippy Donald". In those cases it isn't that Donald has insomnia as such, it's that external factors (a Murphy's Bed, a dripping faucet) won't let him sleep.
The The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh episode "Rock-A-Bye Pooh" had Piglet unable to go to sleep, due to a bad dream that he had where he lost his friends while they were going on a picnic. Pooh, Rabbit, and Tigger then work hard using different methods to try to get Piglet to go back to sleep, but to no success, until a storm blows up to which Piglet's dream does sort of come to reality. Fortunately for him, he's reunited with his friends in the end and he is able to sleep at night again.
In the Arthur episode "Sleep No More", Buster is picked as one of the contestants to compete in an All-You-Can-Eat Pizza contest, but he finds that he cannot sleep because of pizza-related dreams that continuously plague him. There, he meets up with other contestants who also cannot sleep due to the excitement of the contest. Because of this, the contest is cancelled until everyone can get a good night's sleep.
Avatar: The Last Airbender, "Nightmares and Daydreams": Aang is troubled by increasingly worse nightmares and ends up staying awake... only he stays up so long he starts hallucinating. The season 2 episode "The Chase" is a lesser example, as the focus of the episode is on the chase that keeps the entire Gaang awake and on the run, but insomnia does take its toll.
The Ren & Stimpy Show, "Insomniac Ren". Everything from chirping birds to Stimpy's dreams keeps Ren awake.
Dexter's Laboratory: "Quiet Riot" has Dee Dee trying to help Dexter fall asleep (and, of course, making things worse.) The episode ends with Dexter finally falling asleep... under Dee Dee's bed, keeping HER up all night with his snoring.
An episode of Home Movies has Coach McGurk suffering from insomnia, and eventually signing up for a program that studies insomnia. Notably doing it long enough will allow him to get a DVD player, so near the end of the episode when he's gotten over it, he's still trying to stay awake.
The SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Inspongiac", has Mr. Krabs ordering SpongeBob to get a good night's sleep for work, but finds himself unable to fall asleep. He asks Patrick for help, who of course makes things worse.
In one episode of The Smurfs, Gargamel is having terrible insomnia. Eventually, he looks up a sleeping spell in his spellbook, and casts it on himself using a mirror. That works, but it makes him sleepwalk... right into the Smurf Village. Suffice to say, Hilarity Ensues from there.
In an episode of Cow and Chicken, Chicken accidentally eats a bowl of his dad's coffee-flavored cereal, and ends up going crazy on a three-day caffeine buzz.
The 1937 short Porky's Badtime Story (later remade as Tick Tock Tuckered) has Porky Pig and Gabby Goat (the latter replaced by Daffy Duck in the remake) trying to get up early so they won't get fired for being late for work. After a hard night of awakenings, they manage to show up for work, only to find that it's closed on Sundays.
The 1940 short Good Night, Elmer has Elmer Fudd being kept awake by a candlestick flame that won't go out.
The Woody Woodpecker short The Coo-Coo Bird has Woody trying to get up early for quail hunting but various things within or outside his house keep him awake.
Later, the short Sleep Happy has Wally Walrus being kept up by Woody's snoring.
The House of Mouse short "Hickory Dickory Mickey" has Mickey being kept awake by Goofy's alarm clock.
In the Fairly Oddparents episode "Beddy Bye" Timmy becomes angered after falling asleep repeatedly and missing a few big events, so he wishes that the whole town never had to sleep. Things turn out nice at first with everybody staying up to party all night but soon the effects of long-term sleep deprivation kick in for the whole town, which also nearly puts the Sandman out of business because his daytime job is a mattress salesman, and nobody has a use for a mattress when they don't sleep.
In "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," Buzz, after hearing a Ghost Story about a Bug Zapper, can't go to sleep.
In "I'm So Tired," Jay can't get to sleep because of the loud noise coming from a neighbor bug who's trying to add-on to his house at night due to his family multiplying as insects often will do. The neighbor constructs at night because there's the sweeping, working, washing, etc. to keep up with during the day. Jay's loud activities to keep himself distracted create a chain reaction keeping the other Beat Bugs awake. They decide to try to solve the problem by working themselves during the day to construct the add-on, but Buzz keeps falling asleep on the spot while they're trying to work, Crick is driving a crane tired, and Kumi can barely stay awake either.
Bali has "I'm Not Scared" and it's no surprise that Bali can't get to sleep when he has to listen to the sound of a noisy truck outside, his little sister crying loudly (because of the truck), his neighbor playing the saxophone and a horse neighing on television elsewhere in the house among other things.
The Dragons: Riders of Berk episode "The Longest Day" features the characters going on without sleep because of the annual midnight sun, a time where the sun does not set for 2 whole weeks. Each of the characters are shown to suffer a variety of symptoms brought on by this.
In the ChalkZone episode "Asleep at the Chalk", Rudy sneaks into the night-time part of Chalk Zone to avoid having to go to bed at night. Eventually the effects of sleep deprivation kick in leading Rudy to make some careless choices that start causing harm for the residents of Chalk Zone, so Snap has to work to get him safely back home.
Little Princess has the episode "I Don't Want to Go to Bed", in which the Princess cannot sleep, due to first not feeling tired, then being thirsty, then needing to pee, then believing there's a monster in her room, then being lonely, then being kept awake by the maid's snoring.


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Q: How to set Alias name in Mongoose For reducing the MongoDB's document size in mongoose, I want to use the alias feature. But I don't know how to set that for  location?
const questionSchema = new Schema({
    location: {
        country:  { type: String },
        province: { type: String },
        town:     { type: String },
    });

const questionSchema = new Schema({
    l: { //alias: 'location', <--  **HOW CAN I SET ALIAS FOR LOCATION ???**
        c: { type: String, alias: 'country'  },
        p: { type: String, alias: 'province' },
        t: { type: String, alias: 'town'     },
    });

A: We can define location schema separately after using them.
const locationSchema = new Schema({
        country:  { type: String },
        province: { type: String },
        town:     { type: String },
    });

const questionSchema = new Schema({location:locationSchema});

A: try to this shape the
 const LocationSchema = new Schema({
        location: {
            country:  { type: String },

            //what it is content attribute withe type

        }});
    const questionSchema = new Schema({
    location:LocationSchema
    });

A:

const locationSchema = new Schema({
  country: {
    type: String
  },
  province: {
    type: String
  },
  town: {
    type: String
  },
});

const questionSchema = new Schema({
  l: {
    type: locationSchema,
    alias: 'location'
  }
});

I am guessing this should work for you.


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Split your time between Jean-Claude Van Johnson and Steven Universe this weekend
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Jean-Claude Van Johnson (Photo: Amazon Prime Video); Steven Universe (Screenshot)
Here's what's happening in the world of television for Friday, December 15 and Saturday, December 16. All times are Eastern.
Steven Universe (Friday, Cartoon Network, 7:30 p.m.): This spring, Steven Universe kicked off its fifth season with the bold and heartbreaking miniseries Wanted. For resident Gem-ologist Eric Thurm, the arc ushered in a darker, more mature era for the show, which we'll see play out in tonight's double-header. "Dewey Wins" and "Gem-cation" find the Crystal Gems reunited on Earth, but that doesn't mean they're safe from harm.
Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Friday, ABC, 9:01 p.m.)
Z Nation (Friday, Syfy, 9 p.m.)
Saturday Night Live (Saturday, NBC, 11:30 p.m.)
The Crown (Saturday, Netflix)
Jean-Claude Van Johnson (Amazon, Friday, 3:01 a.m.): In his action-hero heyday, Jean-Claude Van Damme was referred to as the "Muscles from Brussels" or "He of the death-and-pants-crotch-defying splits." In his new Amazon series, Van Damme is no longer the high-kicking star of the Kickboxer series. Well, he is, but now he's deploying all his chops and blows in the defense of our country. This bonkers meta-comedy, which co-stars Phylicia Rashad, debuts its complete first season today. Just be sure to stretch before streaming.
Steven comes back to Earth in an exclusive Steven Universe clip
Jean-Claude Van Damme gets his own Amazon series
Wanted is a wild, thrilling, and unpredictable start to a new era of Steven Universe
Recent from Danette Chavez
What did the Emmy nominations get right this year?
Colson Whitehead's Nickel Boys unearths ugly truths about America's past—and present
Angelica Ross wants tonight's Pose to inspire action, not just anger


The international meeting on "Turkic Republics on the 20th Anniversary of their Independence" was organized by the Turkish Prime Ministry OfficeofPublic Diplomacy, the AKDTYK Ataturk Culture Centre, the InternationalHocaAhmet Yesevi Turkish-Kazakh University and SAM on October 5-6, 2011 in Ankara. The meeting was inaugurated by the President of the Republic of Turkey, and the Turkish Foreign Minister participated in the meeting as a speaker.
In the meeting panels on "Political Relations between Turkic Republics", "Economic Relations between Turkic Republics", "Cultural Relations between Turkic Republics" and "Relations between Turkic Republics on Education and Science" were organized and 9 reports prepared by Ahmet Yesevi University were presented by their authors.


Success story: Donated £650 of Vivatic earnings to poor children in India.
Bio: Patricia works as a Personal Assistant in London, and in her spare time she enjoys learning Hindi, which helps her to communicate with the villagers during her trips to India.
When I signed up to Vivatic I immediately started to put aside all my earnings as I had just returned from India and was very moved to see the little children walking 4 km to school without shoes. My first £100 was spent on shoes, clothes, notebooks, pencils and food for 6 of the poorest families in the village.
I go to Rajasthan twice a year but am not affiliated with a charity. I have a personal interest in making a difference to people's lives and do whatever I can to help the children. Sometimes it is simply a case of buying a pair of socks for several children or anoraks and woolly hats as it is very cold in the mountains during wintertime.
I met one lady who had to chop wood in the forest every day in order to make a small fire to cook or to heat water to make a cup of tea. She is an elderly lady and I bought a gas hob for her and arranged a supply of gas. Every year I go to visit her and give her 1,000 rupees (£10) to replenish the gas. This has made a huge difference to her life.
I met a young boy who was very gifted in art. However, he had hardly any paper and pens so I took him to the local village to the stationery shop and let him choose whatever he wanted. I can still see the joy in the child's face. The children have nothing - no toys and only one set of torn clothes, and only one simple meal per day.
Another child had been hit by a car and had an open, infected wound. The family had no money to pay for medical care. I arranged a taxi to take him to the local hospital and paid for his wound to be treated and also for medication. The child is now doing well.
So thank you Vivatic for providing such an enjoyable way of earning money to bring happiness to the children in a remote area of Rajasthan. Completing Vivatic surveys is both enjoyable and rewarding in the knowledge that the fruits of my time and energy will make a difference to people's lives. In order to maximise my earnings I complete the surveys in the evenings and also during my lunch breaks and at weekends.
A massive thank you to Patricia for sharing her amazing story. We're so thrilled that through her charitable work, Vivatic is having such a positive impact on the lives of those less fortunate than us around the world.
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Q: restart counting under conditions in R I have a flag column that contains continuous streams 1s and 0s. I want to add the stream of 1s. When it encounters 0s, the summing should stop. For the next stream of 1s, summing should start afresh
I have tried cumsum(negread_flag == 1) this continues to sum after the 0s
negread_flag   result
1               1
1               2
1               3
1               4
0               0
0               0
0               0
1               1
1               2
1               3
0               0

A: We can make use of rleid (run-length-id - to generate different ids when the adjacent element differ) as a grouping variable, then get the sequence of the group and assign it to 'result' where 'negread_flag' is 1, remove the 'grp' column by assigning it to NULL
library(data.table)
setDT(df1)[, grp := rleid(negread_flag)
     ][, result := 0
     ][negread_flag == 1,
      result := seq_len(.N), grp][, grp := NULL][]
#     negread_flag result
# 1:            1      1
# 2:            1      2
# 3:            1      3
# 4:            1      4
# 5:            0      0
# 6:            0      0
# 7:            0      0
# 8:            1      1
# 9:            1      2
#10:            1      3
#11:            0      0

Or a similar idea with tidyverse, using the rleid (from data.table), create the 'result' by multiplying the row_number() with the 'negread_flag' so that values corresponding to 0 in 'negread_flag' becomes 0
library(tidyverse)
df1 %>%
   group_by(grp = rleid(negread_flag)) %>%
   mutate(result = row_number() * negread_flag) %>%
   ungroup %>%
   select(-grp)
# A tibble: 11 x 2
#   negread_flag result
#          <int>  <int>
# 1            1      1
# 2            1      2
# 3            1      3
# 4            1      4
# 5            0      0
# 6            0      0
# 7            0      0
# 8            1      1
# 9            1      2
#10            1      3
#11            0      0

Or using base R
i1 <- df1$negread_flag != 0
df1$result[i1] <- with(rle(df1$negread_flag), sequence(lengths * values))

Or as @markus commented
df1$result[i1] <- sequence(rle(df1$negread_flag)$lengths) * df1$negread_flag

data
df1 <- structure(list(negread_flag = c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 0L, 0L, 0L, 1L,
  1L, 1L, 0L)), row.names = c(NA, -11L), class = "data.frame")


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It's a great time to be a data scientist entering the job market. That's according to recent data from job sites Indeed and Dice.
"The job of a data scientist has only grown sexier," said Andrew Flowers, an economist at Indeed, based in Austin, Texas, and author of the Indeed report. "More employers than ever are looking to hire data scientists."
The January report from Indeed, one of the top job sites, showed a 29% increase in demand for data scientists year over year and a 344% increase since 2013 -- a dramatic upswing. But while demand -- in the form of job postings -- continues to rise sharply, searches by job seekers skilled in data science grew at a slower pace (14%), suggesting a gap between supply and demand.
Similarly, data from technology job site Dice showed the number of data science job postings on its platform -- as a proportion of total posted jobs -- has increased about 32% year over year, and the site considers data science a "high-demand skill." Dice noted that the job postings are from companies in a wide variety of industries, not just tech.
Forrester Research analyst Brandon Purcell said demand for data scientists will only grow, as organizations increasingly rely on data-driven insights.
"To acquire and retain today's increasingly empowered customers, companies need to harness the insights in their data to personalize experiences at scale," Purcell said. "Data scientists are crucial in turning the massive amount of data companies capture into action. They've always been in high demand, but until recently, only large enterprises and digital natives were willing to make the significant investment. Now, almost everyone is."
The rise of AI and machine learning may also be a factor in the dramatic increase in demand for data scientists, Purcell said.
"Honestly, a lot of this is because of branding," Purcell said. "Many companies see data scientists as the key to embracing AI or machine learning, which are the hottest technologies out there."
Unfortunately, the reality is data scientists are only a small part of an organization's AI strategy, Purcell said. Data engineers who understand where data resides and what it contains are also necessary, as are DevOps professionals who can operationalize a machine learning model at scale.
The number of job postings for the related and much-talked-about skill of deep learning has more than doubled year over year, according to Dice.
In his Indeed report, Flowers cited recruiting agency Burtch Works and data science competitions platform Kaggle, saying data scientists typically are expected to have some fluency in at least one programming language -- Python and R being the favorites. Data scientists also are expected to have experience in tools like Hive, BigQuery, AWS, Spark and Hadoop, as well as training in statistical modeling, machine learning and programming.
Along with statistical and machine learning modeling using Python or R, Feyzi Bagirov, data science adviser at San Francisco-based B2B data insight vendor Metadata.io, said he's also seeing more demand for skills in SQL, NoSQL databases, Apache Spark and relational database management systems (RDBMS). SQL is a standard skill for most of the data analytics and data science openings, and most corporate data still sits on RDBMS legacy systems, Bagirov added.
Purcell said organizations err when they tend to look for the "unicorn data scientist" that combines the skills of data engineer, machine learning expert and business executive.
"That's the wrong approach, because those people don't exist," Purcell said. "Look for the machine learning expert who can use R, Python or SAS and understand which algorithms to apply to different situations. Then, team the person with the other two personas, which you already have in-house."
The Indeed report noted that many data scientists' formal education is in disciplines like computer science, statistics or a quantitative social science. Of the recent data scientist candidate profiles present on Dice, 27% have a master's degree, 10% have a doctorate and 13% have a bachelor's degree.
The growth in data scientist job postings on Indeed, from December 2016 to December 2018.
In August 2018, LinkedIn reported that there's a shortage of 151,717 people with data science skills in the U.S., based on data from its platform. Combine that with a 15% discrepancy between job postings and job searches on Indeed, it's evident that demand for data scientists outstrips supply.
According to the Indeed report, data science job searches follow a somewhat seasonal pattern. In 2017 and 2018, searches peaked in April or March, which might reflect the influx of students searching for internships or soon-to-be graduates looking for their first jobs, Flowers said.
"After all, the job data scientist has been hyped for at least six years now, and college students majoring in computer science are on the rise," Flowers said. "But, as the growth in postings for data scientists shows, even with that boom, there potentially may not be enough skilled applicants."
Data scientists are crucial in turning the massive amount of data companies capture into action.
Purcell said he thinks the supply-demand gap for data scientists will definitely narrow, as there are more data scientists entering the job market -- either from graduate programs or after getting "nanodegrees" from massive open online courses.
After doing his own calculations (in true data scientist fashion -- see sidebar), Bagirov said he thinks the supply-demand gap won't close anytime soon. Academia still struggles to propagate data science, he added.
"Universities are having a hard time finding quality faculty to facilitate their programs' growth, as the salaries in the industry for data scientists are much higher than those in academia," Bagirov said.
On the demand side, Purcell said there's a new category of automated machine learning platforms, such as Salesforce Einstein and DataRobot, that give businesspeople with any data science background access to the output of machine learning models.
Feyzi Bagirov, data science adviser at Metadata.io, did some simple math to determine if the gap between the supply and demand for data scientists will close in the foreseeable future.
Editor's note: Bagirov's remarks have been edited for clarity and length.
Feyzi Bagirov: In 2016, Huffington Post indicated there are approximately 1.5 [million] to 3 million data scientists in the world. Extrapolating from the [estimated supply-demand gap reported on Indeed], the need last year would have been between around 1.69 [million] and 3.19 million data scientists.
Assuming there are around 200 graduate programs [graduating students within one to one and a half years] with each graduating 500 to 1,000 students per year, that adds to the workforce around 100,000 to 200,000 new data analytics and data science graduates. With little work experience, they will need at least one to two years to gain the experience.
If you add another 500,000 students coming from the adjacent majors -- computer science, statistics -- and data science boot camps, which vary dramatically in their quality and outcomes, the number would still not be enough to fill the need, and it is not going to close anytime soon.
It's no surprise, given the high demand for data scientists, that salaries for the position are also elevated. According to an annual Dice Salary Survey, the role of data scientist carries an average salary of $106,000 a year.
Indeed data showed the top cities for data scientists are Houston and San Francisco, with average cost-of-living-adjusted salaries of just over $120,000. By comparison, the nationwide average in 2017 for computer programmers was $88,000 and $107,000 for software developers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Do you think the gap between supply and demand for data scientists will close soon? Why or why not?