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Why is Jakarta's governor on trial for blasphemy?
Jakarta's Christian governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama is being prosecuted for blasphemy, an offence that carries a five-year jail term in Indonesia, over remarks he made about the Koran. The comments sparked widespread anger in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country and the case is now seen in part as a test of religious tolerance in Indonesia. But critics say it is also about politics as the governor's foes whip up anger to reduce his support.
Purnama, better known by his nickname Ahok, is Jakarta's first non-Muslim governor for half a century and a member of the country's tiny ethnic Chinese minority. The 50-year-old has won huge popularity with his no-nonsense style and determination to clean up Jakarta, an overcrowded, disorganised and polluted metropolis of 10 million. But he has also faced constant opposition from hardline Islamic groups, who dislike a non-Muslim being in charge of Indonesia's capital.
During a campaign stop in September, Purnama told a crowd they had been "deceived" by his opponents who used a Koranic verse to try to put them off voting for a Christian. The speech went viral, angering moderate and conservative Muslims alike who considered the remarks offensive. Purnama apologised but Indonesia's top Islamic clerical body declared the remarks blasphemous.
Under tough laws dating back to 1965, anyone who insults these religions or deviates from their beliefs can be charged with blasphemy and jailed. Critics say today the laws are exploited to persecute minorities, like Shia and Ahmadi Muslims, and in some cases, even atheists have fallen foul of the legislation.
The race to run Jakarta – Indonesia's financial and political capital – has been a launch pad for the presidency and is always closely watched. But this election, fuelled by the blasphemy controversy, is shaping up as a key battleground for Indonesia's most powerful political factions.
Another key player is the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), a hardline Muslim group that has spearheaded the grassroots campaign against Purnama. Their political heft and credentials as moral enforcers have been burnished by the scandal. The FPI and other Islamic groups have vowed to maintain pressure until Purnama is prosecuted, while rights groups fear the campaign against Purnama could further erode Indonesia's reputation for pluralism and have urged police to drop the case.


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David Beckham Is Heading to Australia With Meghan Markle and Prince Harry This Fall
He's the new ambassador of the Invictus Games.
By Kara Thompson
Max Mumby/IndigoGetty Images
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are headed to Australia this fall on a full royal tour, timed to coincide with the Invictus Games. And this week it was announced that their friend David Beckham will be joining them.
Through a post on his Instagram account, Beckham shared the news that he has been named as the ambassador of the Invictus Games, the international adaptive sport competition for wounded servicemen, women, and veterans that Prince Harry founded in 2014. His post featured two photos from previous years of the Games accompanied with some thoughtful words about his new role.
"I've been lucky enough to meet and work with many serving, veteran and wounded British armed forces personnel over the years and I've been humbled by the courage, resilience and spirit shown by each and every one of them," his caption read, in part.
A post shared by David Beckham (@davidbeckham) on Aug 17, 2018 at 12:59am PDT
Beckham and his wife (designer and former Spice Girl) Victoria were both in attendance at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding in May, looking quite chic while supporting their friends. The two were also guests at Prince William and Kate Middleton's 2011 nuptials, proving that their history with the royal family runs deep.
Beckham is reportedly good friends with both royal brothers, so it's not surprising that he was asked to take on a role that's so close to Harry's heart. "They're very easy to get along with," Beckham said in an interview with Esquire when asked about his feelings toward William and Harry. "It's a very normal relationship."
David and Victoria Beckham at a 2011 and 2018 royal wedding.
In the past, the Invictus Games have been hosted in London, Orlando, and Toronto, where Meghan first attended last fall. This year's event will take place in Sydney in October, and Beckham's enthusiasm about his role is clear.
"I can't wait to be part of the energy and excellence of the Games this year," he wrote.
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Q: python pandas countifs using multiple criteria AND multiple data frames Trying to create--in Python using multiple data frames--the equivalent of a countifs in Excel that would span multiple sheets.
I need a new column count of records on another data frame based on criteria from the current data frame.
See Excel impression of what I want to do in python, also here.
My goal?

*

*Count exams on students data frame

*by Student ID

*with exam date >= enroll date

*with exam date <= detail date

*with exam grade >= 70

Basically the Excel equivalent would be...

=COUNTIFS(Summary!$B$1:$B$11, ">="&Detail!B2,
                             Summary!$B$1:$B$11, "<="&Detail!C2,
                             Summary!$C$1:$C$11, ">="&70,
                             Summary!$A$1:$A$11, "="&Detail!A2)

...where Summary is the primary data frame and Detail is the secondary data frame where I want to count records.
Found these answers in my research:

*

*sumifs function in python

*What is a good way to do countif in Python

*Python Pandas counting and summing specific conditions
Not quite what I'm looking for, because they don't span multiple data frames. I was able to create a basic countifs for a singular data frame:
sum(1 for x in students['Student ID'] if x == 1)
sum(1 for x in exams['Exam Grade'] if x >= 70)

A: Basically what you'll want to do is set up two dataframes, say df1 for the "exams passed" information and df2 for the marks on each exam.
To get yourself started, you can read in your excel files like this:
df1 = pd.read_excel('filename1.xlsx')
df2 = pd.read_excel('filename2.xlsx')

Then for each row in df1 you want to segment df2 and get the length of the segmented dataframe.
First though you might want to make list of information for each row in df1, which could be done like this:
student_info = df1[['Student ID', 'Enrollment Date', 'Qualification Date']].values

Then you can iterate through the rows like this:
N_exams_passed = [] # Store counts for each student in a list

for s_id, s_enroll, s_qual in student_info:
    N_exams_passed.append(len(df2[(df2['Student ID']==s_id) &
                                  (df2['Exam Date']>=s_enroll) &
                                  (df2['Exam Date']<=s_qual) &
                                  (df2['Grade']>=70)])
                          )

Then add/replace the column in df1:
df1['Exams Passed'] = N_exams_passed

In order to compare the dates properly you will need to convert them to datetime objects in each pandas dataframe, and I will leave this up to you. Hint: you can use the pd.to_datetime() function.

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The tunnel leads from the dungeons to the harbor.
Through this door human beings were marched from the bowels of the castle to the holds of slave ships. The transition from a stone to a wooden prison offered the captives one last gaze to the African sun. They would not see it, their families, or their homes again.
Drawing of the harbor at Cape Coast Castle. Image from C. F. Dow, Slave Ships and Slaving (1970: 2). Image from here.
We step through this door as part of a guided tour. Although it is peeling and moldy, Cape Coast Castle is numbered among UNESCO's World Heritage Sites. We are learning why from a young guide named Mark. Edem, KK, James and I soberly follow him. Mark explains how the castle was a hub (termed a "factory" by contemporaries) for the largest migration of human history. Numbers vary, but something like eleven million people were forcibly moved from Africa to the New World as a part of the transatlantic slave trade. Many of those individuals were processed right here at Cape Coast between the years 1665 and 1807.
A sign in the display area describes the slave trade as one leg of a larger economic triangle between Africa, the Americas, and Europe. Slaves were brought from Africa to the Americas to work plantations and mines. Agricultural products, such as cotton and tobacco were brought from the Americas to Europe. Manufactured goods, such as alcohol and guns, were brought from Europe to Africa.
The triangular trade of the 17th century. Image modified from here.
The appetite for these goods had consequences. In Africa, for example, it exacerbated tribal conflict, which, in turn, produced more war and more prisoners-of-war. These captives were sold to the Europeans who, for fear of disease and hostilities, hovered behind a network of walled fortresses along the coast. It was a vicious cycle. Greed greased the wheels.
As I walk through the artifacts on display (wrist and neck shackles, branding irons for marking people, and even a model of a slave ship), it is a visceral experience. I am struck by the fallenness of humanity, the rawness of the evil that we are capable of mustering, and the reality of unchecked consumerism. Free enterprise without conscience will consume even human life.
Map of West Africa from 1736. Image posted here.
Fierce competition for market access in West Africa meant that the Cape Coast Castle would change hands several times. The wooden fort built by the Swedes was refurbished by the Danes, but ultimately reached the form we see today in the hands of the British. Viewed from above, the castle is diamond shaped with stout batteries facing the sea. Despite being pummeled by French cannons during the Seven Years' War, the British held out and continued to build. The castle would remain at the center of their regional interests until the late 19th century when power shifted east to Accra.
Mark leads us to the men's dungeon.
A powerful segment of our tour is a moment when we stand in one of the men's dungeons. Our guide turns off the lights and we are imprisoned by darkness. The room is small. The ventilation is poor (remember this is an equatorial climate!). We taste the mustiness of the space. We are asked to imagine what it would be like to await the arrival of the ships (sometimes for weeks) in this room with as many as 200 other persons. There is no place to sit or lie down. There are several inches of human waste on the floor; the drains are incapable of handling the volume. The dead are hauled out when identified. Thinking about it even now makes me weep. Thousands died in this room from dehydration, malnutrition, disease, and, (who can possibly measure this malady?) a loss of hope.
The batteries rest above the dungeons and tunnel.
In the cruel twist, the space directly above the men's dungeon was used by the British as a chapel. The dying souls of those below could hear the singing of those above. How such a juxtaposition could occur is staggering. Biblical texts were used in the 18th century both to support and condemn the transatlantic slave trade.
The Cape Coast Beach is full of the activities, colors, and smell of fishing.
We pass through the "door of no return" on our tour and find a busy beach on the other side. The fishermen have come in with their morning's catch. Some pick and sort small crabs. Others mend and fold the nets for another day.
I back off and stand on the stone apron of the fort. I breath the sea air, feel the African sun, and take in the vastness of the Atlantic Ocean.
Behind me, a second sign marks the outside of the same gateway. It reads "Door of Return" on this side. We step through it and make our way back up the stairs. No one says anything. Unlike so many others, we are free to leave. Free to remember. Free to forget.
I remember the first months of the presidency of Barack Obama. He received flack from conservatives for daring to make apologies for deeds past. At the time, I paid little attention. I felt I had better things to do. I am ashamed of my thinking today.
Today as we leave the peeling and moldy buildings of Cape Coast Castle though, I notice a plaque placed in the wall above the men's dungeon. It sparks a memory. I read the words of the plaque, and later, the words of Obama's speech offered from that austere podium.


"Hafnium diboride based ceramics are promising candidate materials for advanced aerospace and nuclear reactor components. The effectiveness of boron carbide and carbon as HfB₂ sintering additives was systematically evaluated. In the first stage of the research, boron carbide and carbon additives were found to improve the densification behavior of milled HfB₂ powder in part by removing oxides at the HfB₂ surface during processing. Boron carbide additives reduced the hot pressing temperature of HfB₂ by 150⁰C compared to carbon, which reduced the hot pressing temperature by ~50⁰C. Reduction of oxide impurities alone could not explain the difference in sintering enhancement, however, and other mechanisms of enhancement were evaluated.
Boron carbides throughout the homogeneity range were characterized to understand other mechanisms of sintering enhancement in HfB₂. Heavily faulted carbon rich and boron rich boron carbides were synthesized for addition to HfB₂. The greatest enhancement to densification was observed in samples containing boron- and carbon-rich compositions whereas B₆.₅C provided the least enhancement to densification. It is proposed that carbon rich and boron rich boron carbides create boron and hafnium point defects in HfB₂, respectively, which facilitate densification. Evaluation of the thermal conductivity (kth) between room temperature and 200⁰C suggested that the stoichiometry of the boron carbide additives did not significantly affect (kth) of HfB₂-BₓC composites. The improved sinterability and the high (kth) (~100 W/m-K at 300K and ~90 W/m-K at 1000⁰C) of HfB₂-BₓC ceramics make them excellent candidates for isotopically enriched reactor control materials"--Abstract, page iv.
© 2011 Harlan James Brown-Shaklee, All rights reserved.
Brown-Shaklee, Harlan J., "Processing and characterization of boron carbide-hafnium diboride ceramics" (2011). Doctoral Dissertations. 65.


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Knowing how to start a freelance writing business may seem simple at first glance. You like to write, you want to get paid for that writing — what more is there than that?
In truth, starting a freelance writing business is a bit more complicated, and if you are just getting started, you will have to do some prep work before you actually begin to accept gigs and get paid.
The first step to starting a freelance writing business — or any business really — is to take an extensive inventory of your strengths, weaknesses, and interests. Taking a look at your other passions aside from writing (you do like writing, don't you?), as well as what you are actually good at will do more than help you pick a backup plan if writing doesn't work out (joking). It will help you decide the most crucial part of your writing business — what will you write about?
We know, we know. You were hoping you could just dance around the idea of actually picking a topic and just write about everything, right? While you could do that, it will be easier to find clients if you pick a topic or two to specialize in. Becoming an expert in a subject area will help you stand out to clients who are looking for writers in your niche. And because you are just one fish in the vast sea of freelance writers, standing out is key.
But how do you pick a niche when there are so many to choose from? The first thing to do, is to forget about picking.
Yes, you heard us right. While you will need to actually sit down and pick something eventually, at first it is best to start with a simple list. Don't worry about picking right now. Before you get there, you will need to gather data.
Ask yourself: What are my hobbies? Besides writing, what do I excel at? What do I find interesting? What do I struggle with?
After you've answered these questions, group your answers into topics. These topics will provide a solid starting block for your next step.
So you have a list … now what? Pick your niche? Not so fast. First, you will want to do some research.
You see, while every niche might be fascinating, every niche is not equally as marketable. Just because you are passionate about something doesn't mean that it is the best thing for you to write about. You will also want to consider market value.
Doing a little research online should go a long way in helping you pick a niche that people will pay you to write about (because that's the goal, isn't it?). Start with a simple google search of your niche topic. How many results come up? What kind of sites are they? You can also try to search "niche" + blog, or "niche" + magazine. For example, if you are thinking about writing about pets, try searching "pet blog" or "pet magazine." You can also google, "niche" + write for us, to track down any sites that may be looking for writers.
Next, check out online job boards. How many postings are within the niche you are researching? If the answer is "none," you may want to think again about picking the topic as your niche unless your google search research was favorable.
Not sure what to look for? You want to find a niche that is fairly popular. You may find underwater basket weaving fascinating, but if no one is writing about it, no one will pay you to write about it either. On the other hand, you want to avoid niches that are already oversaturated. The more writers that are writing about a specific topic, the harder it will be for you to stand out.
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Deciding how much to charge is the eternal struggle of every freelancer. On one hand, you don't want to scare potential clients away. On the other, you have bills to pay, successful businesses cost money to run, and you'd like to put food in your stomach every now and then. If your freelance writing business is a side hustle and not your main gig (which we highly recommend, at least at first), you have a bit more flexibility. But your time is still worth something. The trick is to figure out how much.
Most freelance writers charge per word, but you can also charge per project or by-the-hour. Things to consider when setting your prices include: How much experience do you have? What is your level of relevant education? How long does it take you to write a 1,000 word article?What is your level of expertise, both as a writer and in the topic you are writing about? How much would you like to make per hour? How much do you need to make?
Before you pick up clients and begin making money, you may need to get a business license. Laws differ by state (and even city), so you will need to find out the requirements where you live. Try calling the county clerk or your local chamber of commerce. If nothing else, they will be able to get you in touch with whoever handles business licenses in your area.
Most freelancers file as a sole proprietorship, but you can also file as a limited liability company or a partnership. There are pros and cons to each, so make sure you do your research before picking which is best for you. You will also need to register your business name — if you choose to file as a sole proprietor, this is just your legal name — and obtain a federal and state tax ID.
Don't forget that you will still need to pay income taxes as well! Since taxes won't be coming out of your paycheck each month, you will want to set aside a small amount every time you are paid for a project. Generally, it is recommended that you put aside 30% of your business's income for taxes each year. If your freelance writing business is a side hustle, not your main gig, you will still need to pay taxes on any income you receive through it, so the 30% rule still applies.
Ask your family and friends. Do you know anyone with a business that might need a blog, or have connections?
Reach out to local businesses. The worst they can say is no.
Stalk job boards. Focus on listings within your niche. Apply, apply, apply.
Try searching for blogs, businesses, and other sites who accept contributing writers in your niche.
In the meantime, working on a personal blog or being an unpaid contributor at a site in your niche will give you the experience and writing samples you need when you finally get some bites.
Above all, don't give up. Starting out on any entrepreneurial venture is difficult, and you can expect to experience some setbacks. But with a lot of hard work and persistence, you will be well on your way to success.


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package org.apache.wicket.markup.html.form;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.wicket.WicketRuntimeException;
import org.apache.wicket.util.tester.WicketTestCase;
import org.junit.Test;

/**
 * @author jcompagner
 */
/**
 * Test for RadioGroup and Radio components
 *
 * @author igor
 *
 */
public class CheckGroupTest extends WicketTestCase
{
	/**
	 * test component form processing
	 */
	@Test
	public void formProcessing()
	{

		// test model constructors
		List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
		list.add("check2");

		CheckGroupProcessingTestPage page = new CheckGroupProcessingTestPage(list);

		tester.startPage(page);

		tester.submitForm(page.form);

		assertTrue("running with nothing selected - model must be empty", list.size() == 0);

		tester.getRequest()
			.getPostParameters()
			.setParameterValue(page.group.getInputName(), page.check1.getValue());
		tester.submitForm(page.form);

		assertTrue("running with choice1 selected - model must only contain value of check1",
			list.size() == 1 && list.contains("check1"));

		tester.getRequest()
			.getPostParameters()
			.setParameterValue(page.group.getInputName(), page.check2.getValue());
		tester.submitForm(page.form);

		assertTrue("running with choice2 selected - model must only contain value of check2",
			list.size() == 1 && list.contains("check2"));

		// throw in some nulls into the request param to make sure they are
		// ignored
		tester.getRequest().getPostParameters().addParameterValue(page.group.getInputName(), null);
		tester.getRequest()
			.getPostParameters()
			.addParameterValue(page.group.getInputName(), page.check1.getValue());
		tester.getRequest()
			.getPostParameters()
			.addParameterValue(page.group.getInputName(), page.check2.getValue());
		tester.submitForm(page.form);

		assertTrue(
			"running with choice1 and choice2 selected - model must only contain values of check1 and check2",
			list.size() == 2 && list.contains("check1") && list.contains("check2"));

		tester.getRequest()
			.getPostParameters()
			.setParameterValue(page.group.getInputName(), "some weird choice uuid to test error");
		try
		{
			tester.submitForm(page.form);
			fail("running with an invalid choice value in the request param, should fail");
		}
		catch (WicketRuntimeException e)
		{
		}
	}

	/**
	 * test component rendering
	 *
	 * @throws Exception
	 */
	@Test
	public void rendering() throws Exception
	{
		executeTest(CheckGroupTestPage1.class, "CheckGroupTestPage1_expected.html");
		executeTest(CheckGroupTestPage2.class, "CheckGroupTestPage2_expected.html");
		executeTest(CheckGroupTestPage3.class, "CheckGroupTestPage3_expected.html");
		executeTest(CheckGroupTestPage4.class, "CheckGroupTestPage4_expected.html");
		try
		{
			executeTest(CheckGroupTestPage5.class, "");
			fail("this will always fail");
		}
		catch (WicketRuntimeException e)
		{
			if (!e.getMessage().contains(
				"Check component [4:form:check2] cannot find its parent CheckGroup"))
			{
				fail("failed with wrong exception");
			}

		}
	}

	/**
	 * @throws Exception
	 */
	@Test
	public void disabledCheckGroup() throws Exception
	{
		executeTest(CheckGroupDisabledTestPage.class, "CheckGroupDisabledTestPage_expected.html");
	}
}

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"Speaking of Mr. Walsch, she asked: 'Has the man who writes best-selling books about his "Conversations With God" also heard God's commandments? "Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not lie, and thou shalt not covet another author's property"?'"
The funny thing about that (to me anyway) is that if Ms. Chand had ever read Conversations With God, she would know that Walsch has both heard of the commandments and rejected them.
There's materialism, dualism, and idealism. As far as I know, that exhausts all the options. That is unless there's tri-ism or nothing-ism. But let's stick with the big three. No matter which one of the three you go with, there's a problem.
For materialism, there's the hard problem of consciousness.
For dualism, there's the interaction problem.
For idealism, there's the problem of solipsism.
Of these three, I think the materialists try the hardest to solve their problem. There are all kinds of supposed solutions to the problem of consciousness. Some people go to the extreme of denying consciousness even exists.
Idealists, as far as I can tell, don't try to deal with their problem. I think it may be because although there are difficulties with idealism, they don't amount to defeaters. I mean if it turns out that I am the only person who exists (or who I can know exists), it wouldn't follow that idealism was false. Or, if idealism is counter-intuitive for reasons I explained in an earlier post, it wouldn't follow that idealism was false.
Dualists fall somewhere in between. A lot of dualists acknowledge that there's an interaction difficulty, but they don't try to solve it. They rest on the arguments for dualism and assume there must be a solution even if they don't know what it is. Some people try to solve the problem. I thought I had a solution to it a while back, but it ended up not working out because it only allowed for causation in one direction.
But still, it seems like no matter what worldview you subscribe to, there's going to be a problem.
I've been reading Four Views On Divine Providence lately. Although I'm reformed, the representative of reformed theology in this book, Paul Kjoss Helseth, advanced the craziest theory of God's providence. He advocated occasionalism, which is the view that nothing in the natural world causes anything else. Rather, everything that's happening in each moment of time is directly caused by God. In fact, our existence in each moment of time is caused by God. He called this view omnicausality. I think it's just nuts.
According to Molinists, people have libertarian freedom, and God knows what each person would freely choose to do in whatever circumstances they might be in. That means there are counter-factuals to human freedom. A counter-factual is an if/then proposition. For example, if Pete were holding a drink at such and such moment, then he would drink it.
Since, according to Molinists, there are counter-factuals of human freedom that tell God exactly what each person will do in whatever situation, that means there are possible worlds that God could not actualize even if he wanted to. That follows from the counter-factuals.
Let's imagine two possible worlds that are exactly alike up until some precise moment that we'll call t. From t onward, the two worlds diverge because although Pete is in exactly the same situation in both worlds, he makes a different choice in each. In one world, Pete chooses to drink at t, and in the other world, Pete chooses not to drink at t.
Suppose God knew before creating anything that if Pete were holding a drink at t, then Pete would freely choose to drink at t. With that being the case, God could not have actualized the other world in which Pete were in the exact same situation at t, but chose not to drink. Even though the other world describes a possible state of affairs, God could not have actualized that world. That's what Molinists mean by "infeasible." An infeasible world is a possible world that God could not actualize because it describes a possible state of affairs that contradicts one of the counter-factuals that God knew before creating anything. If it was true all along that if Pete were in such and such situation at t, then he would freely drink, then God could not have actualized the world in which Pete was in the exact same situation at t but chose not to drink.
It makes you wonder how many possible worlds are infeasible compared to the feasible worlds. You'd think there would be at least as many infeasible worlds as there are feasible worlds since for whatever choice a person makes, they could have done otherwise, given libertarian freedom. But there are Frankfurt cases that show libertarian freedom does not require that a person could have done otherwise even if they have libertarian freedom. Still, it seems that in most of our choices, we could have done otherwise if those choices were free in the libertarian sense.
I think there would actually have to be far more infeasible worlds than feasible worlds. After all, at any moment, it's not as if the very next choice you make is either to act in some particular way or not to act in that way. At each moment, there are a whole slew of things you could choose to do. Let's say you decide to point in some direction. Well, there are a whole bunch of directions you could have chosen to point. You could choose to point north, south, east, west, up, down, or anywhere in between. You'd have 360 degrees to choose from, and that's just in the horizontal plane. But if you choose to point at some precise moment, you're only going to choose to point in one particular direction. There is some counterfactual that says exactly which direction you're going to point if you are in that situation at that particular moment. Yet every direction is possible. For every possible direction you could point at that moment, but don't, there is a possible world in which you do point in that direction, but each of those possible worlds are infeasible for God to actualize.
Think about that. At any given moment, there are a whole slew of things we could freely choose to do, but we don't. We only take one course of action. That means there must be far more infeasible worlds than feasible worlds. Of all the possible worlds, there were relatively few that were feasible for God to create.
I don't think idealism can be proven false. The main reason I reject it is because it's counter-intuitive in a way that alternate views (e.g. materialism and substance dualism) aren't.
For this blog entry, I'm going to cut and paste some stuff I said in a conversation I had with an idealist.
I think I reject idealism more because it flies in the face of my common sense notions about the world. When I'm standing in front of a tree or a cat, I can't shake the overwhelming impression that it's a real physical object in front of me. Hearing arguments for idealism is like hearing arguments against motion from Zeno's paradoxes. I see the strength of the arguments, but they are not enough to overcome my strong intuition that something has gone awry.
The idea that a subjective mental experience, like perception, could be shared collectively strikes me as being just as problematic as the interaction problem. Even if it's the case that a single God is feeding the same consistent information into each of our minds so that we each see a tree or a cat, we're not all seeing the same actual tree or cat. In fact, we're not interacting with each other at all. At best, we're interacting with a representation of each other. The other person could cease to exist in reality, and it would be possible for God to continue feeding information into our heads as if the other person were still interacting with us. So there's little reason to think that the people wandering around in our sensory perceptions are real people at all except our hope that God is being honest and consistent.
RationalThinker: Hi philochristos. What brings you here today?
Philochristos: I don't know how I got here to be honest with you.
RationalThinker: Really? Are you suffering from amnesia or something?
Philochristos: Maybe. Anyway, it's great to finally meet you.
RationalThinker: You, too! Let's find something to argue about.
Philochristos: Hold on. I have to use the bathroom first.
If it just happened by luck than you had this dream of having this conversation with me, and I had this same dream of having this conversation with you, and we both saw the same trees and the same scenery and everything, it would still be the case that you and I were not actually communicating with each other. I was communicating with a projection of my own mind, and you were communicating with a projection of your own mind.
If it turned out that the projections in each of our minds were planted in us by God instead of us dreaming them up ourselves, the only thing that would change is that it would no longer be strange luck that we happened to have mental perceptions of this conversation happening. But it would still be the case that you and I were not actually interacting with each other. I would be interacting with a mental image that God implanted in my head, and you'd be interacting with a mental image that God implanted in your head. I would not even have to exist for you to have that exact same experience, and you would not have to exist for me to have that exact same experience.
I see that as a problem with idealism. Idealism not only goes up against our intuitions about an external world, but it also seems to go up against our intuitions about other minds.


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DSO & Brasil Guitar Duo Wow Audiences with US Premiere
By Christine Facciolo
The Delaware Symphony Orchestra (DSO) both secured a place in music history and established itself as a strong contender for a 2017 Grammy nod with this weekend's performance and recording of three double guitar concerti, including the US Premiere of El Libro de Los Signos (The Book of Signs) by Cuban composer and cultural icon, Leo Brouwer.
Lending their virtuosic playing to the project was the Brasil Guitar Duo, the stunning collaboration of the supremely musical Joao Luiz and Douglas Lora. Endowed with extraordinary professionalism and technical mastery, these two young talents — who met as teen-aged guitar students in Sao Paolo — have earned critical acclaim for the sensitivity, refinement and mutual respect they bring to every performance.
The near sell-out crowd was especially hushed during their performance. One might attribute that to the fact that they knew recording was in progress. But it's more likely they were simply in awe of this breathtaking display of artistry.
Luiz and Lora introduced themselves to the audience with a masterful performance of the unaccompanied Sete Aneis (7 Rings) by Brazilian composer Egberto Gismonti (b. 1947). This one-movement composition in Rondo form is based on the "choro," one of the first forms of Brazilian urban music, which made its way to Rio de Janeiro from Africa in the mid-19th Century. The work is a study in contrasts and the duo accommodated. A wistful opening morphed into a blazing pizzicato passage before wrapping up with a lyrical and tender finish.
Next came the much-anticipated US Premiere of El Libro de los Signos (The Book of Signs) by Brouwer (b. 1939), widely considered to be the most significant living composer of art music for the guitar. This work — scored for two guitars and string orchestra — features music from Brouwer's Afro-Cuban roots mixed with traditional form. The work was composed in 2003 at the behest of Greek guitarist Costas Cotsiolis and John Williams, and premiered in January 2004 at the Megaron Theatre in Athens. According to the composer, its language uses sounds to explore its rest-motion ambivalence.
The first movement features a series of variations on a theme by Beethoven. The second gives the same treatment to a more lyrical theme. The third — and most virtuosic — exhibits more of the Cuban influence. Brouwer achieves a seamless web of sound by the interplay of passages that at times have the guitars sounding like the orchestra and at other times having the orchestra play in the style of a guitar.
The duo rounded out their portion of the concert with a performance of the Concerto Caboclo for two guitars and orchestra composed especially for them by fellow Brazilian Paulo Bellinati (b. 1950). The duo honored their idol — who was in attendance — with a masterful performance.
Bellinati draws on Brazil's rich musical heritage, infusing it with contemporary harmonies and techniques. The opening movement is most unusual for a concerto. In place of a fast-paced Allegro, the soloists enter with a cadenza in which they share musical materials much like a conversation. The orchestra entered only to be interrupted by another cadenza. Even as the movement increased in intensity, the music never lost the relaxed and lyrical feel of the coutryside.
The second movement (Adagio) was inspired by the Brazilian songs known as modas de viola. In keeping with the question-and-answer structure of these songs, one could frequently hear rhythmic ostinatos used in one guitar as accompaniment for the other. More ostinatos are heard in the final movement, which featured catchy rhythms and flashy fingerwork. Maestro David Amado's meticulous direction of the orchestra's dynamic levels ensured that the soloists were never overpowered.
The second half of the program was devoted to a performance of Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, an opium-filled tale of love, obsession, betrayal and murder. In his pre-concert remarks, commented on how Berlioz, who made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his "Treatise on Instrumentation," took an abstract form — the symphony — and used it to tell a story. And while symphonies that followed a program had existed before, most notably Beethoven's Pastoral, Berlioz took the process to its logical conclusion with every note geared to the specifics of his p lot. That accomplishment as well as his use of the "idée fixe" would go on to inspire composers like Wagner and Liszt.
This truly iconic work poses a challenge to any conductor: Do you play the music and let the story take care of itself, or do you help it along? Amado's reading is absolutely on the right side of sentimentality. His interpretation bristled with desire and intention. The first movement was playful and flirtatious. The ball waltzed itself into sheer delirium. As the music turned dark, Amado followed suit: the rhythms were unyielding; the mocking of Berlioz's hero filled with spite. He kept the momentum going beyond the March to the Scaffold. The Witches' Sabbath with its growly brass and tense strings sustained the nightmare to the very end. And let's not forget the punctuation of the requiem Dies Irae by The Bells of Remembrance, which are featured in each concert of the DSO's Classics Series this season.
See www.delawaresymphony.org.
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Backups were idles for Ripken
By Brad Snyder
Two types of players have backed up the Orioles shortstop who has needed little or no backup the past 14 seasons.
Career utility men saw it as a way of making a living. Aspiring shortstops viewed it as a frustrating early-career experience.
None of them got to play shortstop very much.
From June 30, 1982, to Sept. 14, 1987, no one played there at all. Except Cal Ripken. He played 8,243 consecutive innings, beginning that streak with a month at third base in May 1982 and continuing it for the next five seasons as the exclusive shortstop.
Ripken's backups got about as much use during those five years as the first base and third base coaching boxes.
Blame it on Lenn Sakata, an Orioles utility player from 1980 to 1985. Sakata started at shortstop for most of the first three months of the 1982 season before losing the job to Ripken for good.
"I was a utility player; I didn't see him as a rival," said Sakata, now manager of the Chiba Lotte Marines, a Japanese team. "I knew what my job was -- to come in and back up the regular. That shortstop deal sort of fell into my lap."
The next time the opportunity to play shortstop fell into someone's lap was Sept. 14, 1987. Ron Washington was the beneficiary. The Orioles were losing 18-3 to the Toronto Blue Jays. In the bottom of the eighth inning, Cal Ripken Sr. did what no Orioles manager had done for five years -- he told his shortstop to take a rest.
Washington entered the game, playing shortstop in Ripken's place for half an inning.
Now a coach with the Tidewater Tides, the New York Mets' Triple-A affiliate, Washington did not understand the historical significance of that half-inning until he saw his name on the scoreboard during a minor-league game in Columbus, Ga.
Washington was the answer to a trivia question.
"It really didn't dawn on me that I replaced a legend," Washington said.
Washington, a 10-year veteran who played in 26 games during his lone season with the Orioles, never returned to that position. He went back to his roles as the team's extra infielder, outfielder and pinch runner without complaint.
"I don't think anybody can go to Baltimore and expect to play shortstop," Washington said.
Two Orioles prospects, both of whom grew up in the Dominican Republic as lifelong shortstops, tried.
Juan Bell, the Orioles' prize from the Los Angeles Dodgers in the Eddie Murray trade, was billed before the 1989 season as the shortstop who would force Ripken to return to third base. Ripken moved during spring training but started the regular season at shortstop. Bell, who spent three seasons in the Orioles' organization, never seriously challenged him again.
"It was tough for me to try to get his job," said Bell, now a utility player for the Boston Red Sox. "He's an animal. He never gets tired. You see him taking ground balls, batting practice, during the game he runs hard every time."
Bell filled in for Ripken 12 times at shortstop as a late-inning defensive replacement, second behind Tim Hulett's 22 appearances. The Orioles tried starting Bell at second and third base. Neither experiment worked.
Manny Alexander was the next challenger, another slick-fielding Dominican whom the Orioles envisioned as Ripken's replacement. That still hasn't happened.
Unlike Bell, Alexander has made the transition to second base. But he harbors the same frustrations Bell did about wanting to be an everyday major-league shortstop.
"I tell you the truth, it's really bad," Alexander said. "I hope when he breaks the record he moves to third base, so I can show the Orioles what I can do at shortstop."
Alexander has filled in for Ripken nine times, including seven this season. But, with Ripken playing in 99.2 percent of the innings during his consecutive-games streak, the opportunities are few and far between.
"I didn't think it was going to be this long," Alexander said. "I would have gone somewhere else. Now that I have seen everything, I know he'll be here forever."


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Experts say Covovax has many advantages over other booster doses
By Pooja Biraia Jaiswal Updated: January 14, 2023 18:43 IST
For those who have already taken two doses of Covid vaccines--Covshield or Covaxin, might want to take the Covovax vaccine as a heterologous booster dose as per the recommendation of the Central drug regulatory authority Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI).
Covovax is a Covid vaccine by the Serum Institute of India and the DGCI has recommended market authorisation for Covovax, a shift from its earlier policy of restricted use of Covovax in emergency situations.
It first restricted the vaccine only to adults in 2021, then extended it to include the ages between 12 and 17 in 2022. It was later extended to children in the age group of seven and eleven years on June 28 last year, subject to certain conditions. On December 17, 2021, Covovax, manufactured through technology transfer from Novavax, was granted an emergency-use listing by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Way back in August 2020, US-based vaccine maker Novavax Inc. had announced a licence agreement with SII for the development and commercialization of NVX-CoV2373, its COVID-19 vaccine candidate in India and low-and-middle-income countries. Only recently, Prakash Kumar Singh, Director of government and regulatory affairs at Serum Institute of India (SII) wrote a letter to DCGI for approval of Covovax heterologous booster dose for those aged 18 years and above in view of escalating COVID-19 pandemic situation in some countries.
Experts say Covovax has many advantages over other booster doses that are currently available in India. The first and foremost aspect is the new 'nanoparticle engulfed spike protein technology' that is used in its manufacturing. "What happens is, a spike protein is placed inside a nanoparticle and once it is injected intramuscularly inside a person, the cells come to that nanoparticle and open it up and get that internal spike protein exposed. Now when that happens, the antibodies get created inside the body and these antibodies always come with a memory of their own. So the moment there is an actual virus in the body, these antibodies will immediately start working on killing it. That's how the Covovax works," says Dr. Sanjith Saseedharan, consultant and head of critical care at SL Raheja hospital in Mumbai's Mahim.
"Covovax is not imported from any country. It is cutting-edge technology which has been put to use in the manufacturing of the vaccine right here in India. Covovax can be mixed with other doses too and in fact, when this booster dose is mixed with the other vaccines, the immunity in a person becomes much stronger. Also, Covovax is known to work against Omicron. We are definite about it and that is the reason one must opt for this as the choice for a booster dose," Dr.Saseedharan said.
Also, in the form of a booster almost any vaccine should be okay, says Dr. T. Jacob John, virologist from CMC Vellore. "As long as your body is primed with a good vaccine which induces immunity, even a very small dose of a booster will boost the immunological system in the body. Covovax will definitely be safe because it has nothing of a microbial nature which induces inflammation in the body. In Covovax, the nanoparticle is the spike protein which means that there is nothing which induces undue inflammation in the body that both the mRNA vaccines and AstraZeneca vaccine induce because they make use of human cells to manufacture spike protein. But in Covovax, it does not make use of the human cell to make spike protein, it actually inserts the spike protein from outside and then the cells respond immunologically.
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The long-existing problem of email hacking appears to be unsolved by 2016. According to the recent warning released by FBI, companies have lost above $2.3 billion over the past three years due to email frauds, in which the employees are tricked into wiring funds to adversaries by fake messages sent from "the boss". While the ill-famed breach of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonsecais shows how email server hacks can lead to a horrific 2,6-terabytes data leak.
Despite all existing security technologies developed for email protection, this communication channel becomes untrusted for different reasons. First, since attackers are adapting to any countermeasure, it is getting hard to predict new threat models. Second, using email services in the cloud, companies are not ready to unconditionally trust cloud service providers.
Below I've collected vital practices that would help companies enable security in their email systems disregarding of their location.
FBI continues to warn companies to enable more authentication layers to protect mailboxes against unauthorized access. In practice, this is one of the biggest items for email security and it is critical for C-level managers' accounts and shared accounts with administrative privileges, as adversaries always hunt them. Ensure that those accounts are protected with strong authentication technologies, such as smart cards or a two-factor authentication.
How do your employees distinguish suspicious emails? Which links in the emails would they follow? Regular testing may reveal many surprising details about their behavior, and will help you develop a detailed security policy on real-life examples.
Efficient user behavior analysis is not possible with manual processes. For example, manual configuration of audit settings in Microsoft Exchange Online may require a lot of time due to necessity to configure them per each mailbox. Coupled with poor reporting capabilities and lack of archiving options, security checks and investigations may be inefficient due to lack of visibility into changes made to Exchange Online objects configuration and permissions.
It is almost impossible to prevent insider threats without knowing what non-owners with permission to access other users' mailboxes do with your sensitive data. Keeping an eye on each action taken by an Exchange administrator allows reconstructing the course of events in case of a data breach or system's crash.
When moving workload and information assets to the cloud, the worst thing is to lose control over the data. Although large providers often have more advanced security controls in place rather than regular company can afford, they will not be completely responsible for your data integrity in case of a data breach.
So my tip is ensure you have an ongoing control over your cloud-hosted systems with regularly assessments and monitoring, and that there is no hidden or malicious activity that may compromise your data.


Richard Davidson, MD is a Board Certified Psychiatrist who received his medical degree from George Washington University in 1978. Following his internship, he spent his first six years as a physician providing primary care. Dr. Davidson returned to his schooling to complete his psychiatry residency at the University of Utah. He has spent over twenty years providing psychiatric care to children and adolescents in both the private and public sectors. He served as the first medical director of the inpatient child and adolescent psychiatry program at McKay Dee Hospital. In addition to consulting at Waypoint Academy, he is currently serving as the medical director at Weber Human Services in Ogden, Utah. Dr. Davidson is a retired flight surgeon from the United States Air Force Reserve. He enjoys bicycling, hiking, and spends a great deal of time with his wife and twelve grandchildren.
Bart was born and raised here in the beautiful state of Utah. He attended Weber State University for his undergraduate work and then attained his graduate degree as a psychiatric nurse practitioner from the University of Utah. Bart has worked for many years in the adult inpatient setting attending to various treatment aspects and has developed a greater understanding of mental illness. He presently enjoys working with adults and teens on an outpatient basis. Bart finds pleasure in helping them work through their challenges and adversities in life. As a local of this beautiful valley, he enjoys spending his free time with his amazing wife and three wonderful children. Bart grew up enjoying sports and the outdoors, but his true passions include fishing, hunting, and spending time in the mountains.
Tiffanie was born and raised in Pleasant View, Utah. In her early twenties, Tiffanie spent time in Quito, Ecuador where she became fluent in Spanish and acquired a love for traveling abroad and meeting new people. Tiffanie graduated from Weber state in 1996 with a Bachelor's degree in Zoology and Chemistry. She then continued her education at the University of Utah where she received a second Bachelor's degree in Nursing and subsequently a Masters of Nursing in 2005. Tiffanie is a member of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners and works part-time at a community health center in Ogden where she practices family medicine. Prior to working at the community health center, Tiffanie worked at McKay Dee Hospital in the High Observation Unit, Intermediate Care Unit, Intensive Care Unit and Emergency room. She enjoyed the wide array of experiences and the people she was able to work with and care for. Tiffanie currently lives in the Ogden Valley with her husband and three young girls. As a family, they enjoy playing soccer, snow skiing, water skiing and camping.
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'Hello Mr Rees, You probably won't remember me, (you must see an awful lot of knees!), this is just a short note to express my heartfelt thanks to you and your team who completed both my total knee replacements recently (my right one beginning of June last year and my left one in March this year).
To say it is life changing is an understatement! Both ops were very successful and even [the Physiotherapist] was impressed!
You explained to me when we first met that the operation you would do would only be a part of the cure, the rest was up to me. I took you at your word, and I have lost two and a half stone, and I attend a local gym three times a week working on cardiac fitness and building up the leg muscles. I'm even starting to enjoy it. The results of our joint (excuse the pun) efforts is that I can now walk completely without pain, and I have recently walked over 7 miles on a regular basis, I can go up and down stairs, and I am working on being able to cycle again! I feel a new man!
'Dear Mr Rees, It is now almost a year since you and your team carried out an ACL reconstruction on my knee and I just wanted to let you know what a difference it has made to my quality of life. I wasn't the average age for this operation (53) but the rehab has gone well and I feel great!
It makes such a difference being able to run down a slope, or jump off a step, go to a barn dance or have a game of ping-pong without worrying about my knee giving way. The scar is really neat and is hardly noticeable and I am continuing to work on building up my muscles, using the exercises and the advice given to me by the lovely physio team.
'Today I believe is the signing off on my (right knee) operation. So, I just wanted to again express my thanks through you to the team you lead in the theatre, to the ward staff, liaison nurses and physiotherapists who follow the process to its very successful conclusion. The left knee is also in problems….if it is done, I would dearly like the same main players – surgeon and anaesthetist!….
The main course – the knee! I think it's brilliant! I've been hanging around with a silly smile on my face for a week. I think techniques must have changed in the past 6 years from my experience – so far!
'I cannot thank you enough for what you have done for me. I know I was a very high risk to have surgery and yet you took me on. You have given me a new chance in life to walk again without all the awful pain that I suffered for years on my knee. To feel the freedom in my leg is something I never, ever thought would happen. Foy years I have had to have some sort of support on my knee from ankle to thigh. It's heaven to be free from that!
I thank you for all the hard work you did in getting my leg straight, something I thought I would never see. I have to keep looking at it to see it really happened!
Thank you to all who worked with you as a team, a wonderful team that helped to give me my new knee. Many, many thanks to your special anaesthetist, who did a great job to relax me and made me feel safe. Thank you to all the nurses who helped look after me, especially the Liaison Nurses who were there if I had any worries. Many years ago, I had my first joint surgery, when I was 11 years old at Black Notley Hospital. My surgeon was Mr Moore, then a few years later, more surgery by Mr Waddington. So it was quite something for me to go to the 'Waddington-Moore' Seminar room prior to my surgery. Now I have another special surgeon on my list of many, you Mr Rees.
'This is a very much overdue letter from my point of view. I have gone to write it many times, but I thought it may be wrong for your personal privacy. But here I am, Mr Rees, I just had to thank you personally for the great job you did on my knee. And I really do thank you. It has been great these past few weeks, as you are well aware, it was very swollen and bruised on all parts of my leg. And of course very painful, but I stuck with it all the instructions and help offered and I am quite amazed at how well it has done.
Nearly all the bruising has gone, the leg is still a bit hard, my ankle and foot are still a bit tight but the knee has progressed day by day. It is only slightly swollen, the scar is supreme and the movement is wonderful. I know it isn't all over yet, but I just had to pass on my grateful thanks to you for a wonderful restoration of my knee (no pain).
I would like to have thanked you personally, but of course that's not possible, but I do sincerely thank you for my return of a good and reliable knee (no pain). I have to attend a physiotherapy appointment on Thursday with physiotherapist Sue Partridge and her team and I will be happy to pass on my thanks to them for all the help and guidance they gave me, full marks for all the nurses on the wards, my compliments to each and all.
But, to finish my letter of thanks, I must say once again Mr Rees I am very grateful to you for my return to fitness and that I have my mobility once more. Thank you for a wonderful knee replacement and return to normal life.


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Rosie Wilby presents: The Breakup Monologues
As part of our What's Love Got to Do With It? season, award-winning comedian, author and broadcaster Rosie Wilby is back with a live recording of her acclaimed podcast, recently recommended by Metro as one of the top five love and relationships podcasts in the world!
Rosie  and acclaimed performer pals look back at their best and worst romantic breakup stories and discuss ghosting, divorce parties, open relationships and more. Tragedy plus time equals comedy, right?
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Diane Spencer
Diane Spencer is a UK based comedian, actress and writer, best known for her one hour online comedy specials. She now has a growing online fanbase, with over 12k YouTube subscribers and 1.5 million views. She has toured all over the world and won the prestigious Chortle Best Newcomer award in 2011.
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Chris is a writer and comedian, working on stage, radio and television. The third series of his critically-acclaimed BBC Radio 4 series Woof: True Tales Of Romance And Failure is currently in production. As a columnist he has been published by Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Spectator and Sunday Express and in March 2019, his essay collection What Is This Thing Called, Love? was published by WF Howes as an audio book (which he also voiced).
"Blissfully well written, Neill may be first and foremost a comedian, but his observations are as acute as any novelist's. Sweet, sharp and very funny." – The Times
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Glicozilarea este o reacție chimică prin care o moleculă de glucidă este legată de o grupă funcțională (de obicei hidroxil) a unei alte molecule. În biologie, glicozilarea este un proces enzimatic în urma căruia sunt legate molecule de glican de proteine sau de alte molecule organice. Glicanii prezintă o varietate de roluri structurale și funcționale în membrane biologice și în proteinele secretate.

Majoritatea proteinelor care sunt sintetizate în reticulul endoplasmatic rugos trec prin procese ulterioare de glicozilare, care este un proces specific și realizat enzimatic (spre deosebire de glicare). Glicozilarea mai poate avea loc și în citoplasmă și în nucleu. Aglicozilarea este caracteristica anticorpilor creați prin inginerie de a ocoli procesele de glicozilare.

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Vezi și
 Glicare
 Glicozidă

Reacții organice
Biochimie
Glucide

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Logistika proizvodnje je dio mikrologistike koji se bavi koordinacijom unutarnjih tokova materijala, do i unutar proizvodnih mjesta.

Ciljevi
Cilj logistike proizvodnje je opskrba proizvodnih mjesta :
s pravim materijalima
u potrebnoj količini
u pravo vrijeme
uz što niže troškove

Zadaci
odlučiti "proizvesti ili nabaviti"
strukturiranje proizvodnje prema logističkim aspektima
planiranje i upravljanje proizvodnjom
uobličavanje fizičkog i informacijskog toka kroz proizvodnju

Planiranje proizvodnje
Uz planiranje proizvodnje vežemo dvije stvari : utvrđivanje potrebne količine materijala i opisivanje kvalitete materijala.

Metode utvrđivanja potrebne količine materijala
Deterministički :
prema planu proizvodnje
prema normativima utroška materijala
prema narudžbama
prema planu investicija i investicijskog održavanja
Stohastički :
na temelju prošle proizvodnje
Subjektivno :
na temelju iskustva

Metode opisivanja kvalitete materijala
navođenjem zaštitnog znaka odnosno robnog žiga
na temelju uzorka
navođenjem tržišne kvalitete → određena je trgovinskom praksom
pozivanjem na standarde
specifikacijom

Organizacijski tipovi proizvodnje

Tipovi prema mjestu rada
radionička proizvodnja
→ diskuntinuirani transport sirovina, pomoćnih materijala i poluproizvoda do sljedećih mjesta obrade → potreba za međuskladištenjem.
lančana proizvodnja
→ pojedinačna proizvodna mjesta se ulančavaju pa je potrebno osigurati stalnu raspoloživost dobara koja se ulažu.

Tipovi prema količini proizvoda i učestalosti ponavljanja
masovna proizvodnja
→ zadatak je opskrbiti proizvodna mjesta ulaznim materijalima u dugim vremenskim rasponima.
serijska proizvodnja
→ zadatak je opskrbiti proizvodna mjesta serijama pojedinih vrsta materijala i poluproizvoda.
pojedinačna proizvodnja
→ zahtijeva se fleksibilnost, tj. opskrbljivanje uvijek drugim materijalima.

Proizvesti ili nabaviti
Najvažnije pitanje kod logistike proizvodnje je da li neki proizvod proizvoditi u vlastitoj režiji ili ga jednostavno nabaviti od nekog dobavljača. Ovo pitanje je zapravo pitanje ekonomičnosti. Da bi se mogla donijeti ispravna odluka o tome da li proizvesti ili nabaviti potrebno je razmotriti nabavnu cijenu i cijenu koštanja vlastite proizvodnje. Ako su potrebe manje tada se u većini slučajeva odluka donosi u korist nabave.

 Nabavna cijena

 Prednost nabave
standardizirani i tipizirani dijelovi za čiju proizvodnju dobavljač ima više iskustva i bolje uvjete i načine proizvodnje
tehnički zahtjevi predstavljaju velike investicije ili su teško izvedivi za vlastitu proizvodnju
veća elastičnost proizvodnog programa
ne dovodi se u opasnost likvidnost poduzeća

 Cijena koštanja vlastite proizvodnje

 Prednosti vlastite proizvodnje
kontrola proizvodnje s jednog mjesta
zbog tajnosti načina izrade (zbog konkurencije)
renomirano poduzeće s visoko cijenjenim proizvodima na tržištu i očekuje se vlastita proizvodnja
intenzivna suradnja na raznim stupnjevima procesa proizvodnje
povjerenje u rad osoblja i sigurnost održavanja rokova

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We assist our clients in attaining compensation for on-the-job injuries. This includes the filing of all necessary paperwork, appearances for hearings, trials and Section 32 settlement evaluations at the Workers' Compensation Board. We will also evaluate whether a separate lawsuit may be filed against the employer for employment law violations and any other potential third-parties where additional monies may be available. This includes car accident cases caused due to the negligence of a party unrelated to your employment.
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P0300 – P0312- These 12 codes have to do with your ignition coil. The number that follows the P030 code represents the number of cylinders that may be misfiring. A bad ignition coil may not be the only cause of the misfiring and it could be an easy fix such as a bad spark plug, or it could be something more serious.
P0101- This code relates to your mass airflow sensor, this sensor meters incoming air and decides how much fuel to inject. You car's fuel efficiency can decrease greatly when there is a problem with your mass airflow sensor.
P0401- This code relates to the EGR or Exhaust Gas Recirculation Valve in your car. If this code is scanned, it is likely that you have a bad valve. A problem with your car's ERG valve could cause your car to idle roughly and your engine to be choppy.
P0217- This code will light up when your engine is overheating. This light should come on prior to any damage being done to your engine. Your car may also trigger this code if you are low on coolant.
P0463- This check engine code can be triggered by the fuel level sensor, which is found in your car's fuel tank. If a problem occurs in your gas tank, it will trigger this code.
P0115- Triggered by the ECT or Engine Coolant Temperature sensor this code may show up if the PCM or Power Control Module is detecting a voltage condition that is too low or high. A vehicle with this problem may be hard to start, smoking or backfiring.
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Cardiovascular health effects of oral and pulmonary exposure to multi-walled carbon nanotubes in ApoE-deficient mice
Cardiovascular health effects of oral and pulmonary exposure to multi-walled carbon nanotubes in ApoE-deficient mice. / Christophersen, Daniel Vest; Raun Jacobsen, Nicklas; Guerra Andersen, Maria Helena; Connell, Shea P.; Barfod, Kenneth K.; Thomsen, Morten Bækgaard; Miller, Mark R.; Duffin, Rodger; Lykkesfeldt, Jens; Vogel, Ulla Birgitte; Wallin, Erik Håkan Richard; Loft, Steffen; Roursgaard, Martin; Møller, Peter.
In: Toxicology, Vol. 371, 14.09.2016, p. 29-40.
Christophersen, DV, Raun Jacobsen, N, Guerra Andersen, MH, Connell, SP, Barfod, KK, Thomsen, MB, Miller, MR, Duffin, R, Lykkesfeldt, J, Vogel, UB, Wallin, EHR, Loft, S, Roursgaard, M & Møller, P 2016, 'Cardiovascular health effects of oral and pulmonary exposure to multi-walled carbon nanotubes in ApoE-deficient mice', Toxicology, vol. 371, pp. 29-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tox.2016.10.003
Christophersen, D. V., Raun Jacobsen, N., Guerra Andersen, M. H., Connell, S. P., Barfod, K. K., Thomsen, M. B., ... Møller, P. (2016). Cardiovascular health effects of oral and pulmonary exposure to multi-walled carbon nanotubes in ApoE-deficient mice. Toxicology, 371, 29-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tox.2016.10.003
Christophersen DV, Raun Jacobsen N, Guerra Andersen MH, Connell SP, Barfod KK, Thomsen MB et al. Cardiovascular health effects of oral and pulmonary exposure to multi-walled carbon nanotubes in ApoE-deficient mice. Toxicology. 2016 Sep 14;371:29-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tox.2016.10.003
Christophersen, Daniel Vest ; Raun Jacobsen, Nicklas ; Guerra Andersen, Maria Helena ; Connell, Shea P. ; Barfod, Kenneth K. ; Thomsen, Morten Bækgaard ; Miller, Mark R. ; Duffin, Rodger ; Lykkesfeldt, Jens ; Vogel, Ulla Birgitte ; Wallin, Erik Håkan Richard ; Loft, Steffen ; Roursgaard, Martin ; Møller, Peter. / Cardiovascular health effects of oral and pulmonary exposure to multi-walled carbon nanotubes in ApoE-deficient mice. In: Toxicology. 2016 ; Vol. 371. pp. 29-40.
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Q: Django adding multiple m2m related model records using .set works fine, but how to also add additional model fields other than ids? I have photos model and tags model with m2m relationship through phototags model.
class Photo(models.Model):
    tags = models.ManyToManyField(Tag, through = 'PhotoTag', related_name="tags")

In a view I create a list of tag ids that I use in photo.tags.set(form_tags_ids) to create the new phototag relationships. This works fine and successfully populates both photo_id and tag_id fields in phototags model.
However, I also have other additional fields in phototags model, other than the related models' ids, that I want to populate at same time eg created date, user_id to record who made relationship and when it was created.
What would be best way to populate these other columns?
The only thing I can think of is to not use .set and loop through the list of tag ids and manually create the phototag records but then I lose benefit of m2m in avoiding duplicate assignment of tag to photo, etc.

A: You can use the bulk_create method. You can add all the other params on each object creation, like this:
PhotoTag.objects.bulk_create([
    PhotoTag(photo=photo_id1, tag=tag1, created_date=datetime.now(), user_id=75),
    PhotoTag(photo=photo_id2, tag=tag2, created_date=datetime.now(), user_id=75),
    PhotoTag(photo=photo_id3, tag=tag3, created_date=datetime.now(), user_id=75),
])

Also, you can add the unique_together on the model relation to avoid duplicate assignments.
class PhotoTag(models.Model):
    photo = ...
    tag = ...

    class Meta:
        unique_together = ['photo', 'tag']

A: I just found through_defaults in Django documentation which are added in .set() which lets me default my user_id and team_id for all tags assigned to the photo which is exactly what I was looking for.
Looks like this for my use case:
photo.tags.set(form_tags_ids, through_defaults={'user_id': request.user.id, 'team_id': team.id})

However this appears to be new to Django 2.2