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Tom reviewed 2017 U.S. federal legislative and regulatory developments that affect insurers generally, including trade (UK-EU Covered Agreement), tax reform, National Flood Insurance Program reauthorization, as well as other topics of interest to non-U.S. re/insurers.
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Q: Retrieve values from mssql to add new markers to Google Maps Can anybody help me with this code... Basically I want to output a Google map with marker locations from my MSSQL databse. I am connecting to the database and outputting data from the database with out any issues. The values in my database that need to be used are latitude and longitude
I just need some help getting the latitude and longitude information from the database into an array that can feed through to "var markers = createMarker". Can anyone suggest any code or advice?
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
  Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
    charset=utf-8"/>
    <title>Google Maps JavaScript API Example</title>

    <?php
    /*data base connection */

    /* SQL query */
$tsql = ("SELECT gps_lat
      ,gps_long
  FROM location");

  $result = sqlsrv_query($conn,$tsql);

if( $result === false)
{
     echo "Error in query preparation/execution.\n";
     die( print_r( sqlsrv_errors(), true));
}

/*Display the table */
// keeps getting the next row until there are no more to get
while($points = sqlsrv_fetch_array( $result )) {
    echo $points['gps_lat'];
    echo ',';
    echo $points['gps_long'];
    echo "
";
}

/* Close the connection. */
sqlsrv_close( $conn);

?>

I have tried to create the new markers by using the below method, but I have been unsuccessful. Can anyone point out anything wrong with the code below or give me any advice?
  //<![CDATA[
    function load() {
      if (GBrowserIsCompatible()) {
        var map = new GMap2(
        document.getElementById("map"));
        map.addControl(new GSmallMapControl());
        map.addControl(new GMapTypeControl());
        map.addMapType(G_SATELLITE_3D_MAP);
        map.setCenter(
        new GLatLng(37.4419, -122.1419), 13);
        function createMarker(point, text, title) {
          var marker =
          new GMarker(point,{title:title});
          return marker;
        }
        <?php
        /*data base connection */

        /* Connect using Windows Authentication */
        $conn = sqlsrv_connect($serverName, $connectionOptions);

        /* Check whether connnection is established */
        if($conn === false)
        {
            die(print_r(sqlsrv_errors(), true));
        }

        /* SQL query */
        $tsql = ("SELECT TOP 10 gps_lat
                ,gps_long
                FROM location");

        $result = sqlsrv_query($conn,$tsql);

        if( $result === false)
        {
            echo "Error in query preparation/execution.\n";
            die( print_r( sqlsrv_errors(), true));
        }

/*
BELOW IS THE ADJUSTED WHILE LOOP
*/
while($row = sqlsrv_fetch_array( $result )) {
    $lat = $row['gps_lat'];
    $long = $row['gps_long'];

        ?>
        var marker = createMarker(
        new GLatLng(<?php echo $Lat.','.$Long;?>)
        );
        map.addOverlay(marker);
        <?php } ?>
      }
    }
    //]]>
    </script>

I thought it would be fairly straightforward but I can't seem to get my head around it. If there is any information that is unclear...

A: I did actually manage to resolve the issue in the end by working through the night, trying loads of different things... The code for retrieving the values are as follows.
    $lat=array();
    $long=array();
    while($points = sqlsrv_fetch_array($result)) {
    $lat[] = $points['gps_lat'];
    $long[] = $points['gps_long'];
    }

    $latLongSize = sizeof($lat)-1;

for($i=0; $i<=$latLongSize; $i++){ ?>

    var marker<?php echo $i; ?> = createMarker(new GLatLng(<?php echo $lat[$i];?>, <?php echo $long[$i]; ?>));
        map.addOverlay(marker<?php echo $i; ?>);

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Rumer
Rumer has it: Brit songbird returns with vibrant new album
Wed. March 25, 2015 by Gregg Shapiro
I'm interested in life and finding out more about the human condition.
Into Colour (Atlantic) is the exact right name for the vivid new album by singer/songwriter Rumer. After presenting her own version of sixties pop on her incredible 2010 debut album Seasons of My Soul, Rumer turns her attention to the soulful seventies on Into Colour. From the reverent retro disco of "Dangerous" to the beautiful balladry of "Better Place" and "Reach Out" to the seductive "Baby Come Back To Bed" and the light funk of "Play Your Guitar," Into Colour is a vibrant achievement. When Rumer takes us to the Church of the Open Mind on album closer "Frederick Douglass," you will be ready to testify to her talents. [Rumer performs on Apr. 13 in Chicago at S.P.A.C.E. and on Apr. 23 in Los Angeles at Masonic Hollywood Forever.]
Gregg Shapiro: Rumer, I spoke to you a few years ago, at the time of the release of your 2010 debut album Seasons of My Soul. In what ways would you say you have changed as a songwriter and performer since then?
RumeR: When I first started performing, I was so focused on getting the album made, I didn't think about success or anything like that. Success, to me, was finishing it. I hadn't thought about beyond. So when the sort of demand for shows and going out to play came upon me quite suddenly, I wasn't prepared. I was painfully shy and I got terrible stage anxiety. I was really green, basically, when I started. I didn't know what the hell I was doing. I was like, "Oh, my God, there's like 2,000 people in this room," and I'd only played to one man and his dog before. And not one paying customer in my life. I had always played to somebody else's crowd or the people behind the bar or whatever. I'd never had 2,000 paying customers waiting to have their concert with Rumer [laughs]. I managed to get through that in one piece. I've changed a lot. I've done a lot more gigs. I've learned a lot. I've gotten better at performing; more confident. I've got more studio experience. I've met loads of new people. I've had access to some of the greatest songwriters who've ever lived to be inspired by and to get advice from, including Jimmy Webb and Paul Williams and P.F. Sloan and Stephen Bishop, all the people who were on my Boys Don't Cry record. I've been on this rich journey and it helped me evolve in so many ways.
GS: I'm so glad you mentioned your 2012 covers album Boys Don't Cry. You closed Seasons of My Soul with a reading of the David Gates song "Goodbye Girl," which in a way could be considered a hint as to what was to come with Boys Don't Cry.
R: "Goodbye Girl" was supposed to be for Boys… I recorded it for Boys…I had already started recording music for Boys…The label said they wanted that track on Seasons… I was like, "Nooooooo." I wanted it for Boys… We had a little argument about it and they just took it. I like the way you were thinking about it. Like it was heralding (what was to come).
GS: Why did you decide to do a disc of covers for your second album?
R: I don't think of it as a covers record. Covers is sort of an idea and term in the context of the music business. There seems to be a sort of negative connotation to it, but actually I think that it's about storytelling and curation, both things in which I'm really interested. Both things I want to be better at and to share with people. It was a concept album and I had selected the material completely and specifically to paint a portrait or landscape of emotion and feeling. Also because I feel like as a singer, a storyteller, a narrator, it's an important role. For example, if you're an actor, you're not going to insist on writing your own plays or movies or TV shows, are you? Because you're never going to get to play or experience the world as all these different characters and points of view. In fact, it would be incredibly limiting and egotistical to insist on only performing your own work. Yet, it music, it's frowned upon to do covers. I don't see it like that. I see it as storytelling. I want to sing a song from the point of view of an 85 year old man. It's music as storytelling as in the folk tradition. I'm interested in life and finding out more about the human condition. I don't want to restrict myself with just me [laughs].
GS: One of the benefits that came from Boys Don't Cry can be heard on your new album Into Colour: your songwriting collaborations with Stephen Bishop, whom you mentioned, on "Dangerous," "Baby, Come Back To Bed" and "Sam." What was the experience of writing with Stephen like for you?
R: Really fun. He's a fun guy; very, very funny. He's old school, like an old school Hollywood star. He's got that charisma that doesn't exist anymore; old school Hollywood charm. He's humorous and cool and says so many funny and cool things. He's got a great way of looking at the world. He's also very down to earth, as well. It was a joy and he's a joy. He's a great human being and I love him.
GS: You are a songwriter who appears to be comfortable with the collaboration process. What makes you so good at playing well with others?
R: I never used to be, actually. I had to learn that. I was very defensive when I started. As a woman you are defensive because there's this constant assumption that you don't write your own songs, you can't do anything by yourself, there's loads of men in the background doing everything for you. You couldn't possibly do everything yourself. You can't be a songwriter. You can't be a producer. Who the hell do you think you are? So, there's that energy that women come into in the music business; that you're faced with. It can make you very defensive. At the beginning I didn't want to collaborate. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself. For the most part, I did. I wrote 99% of the music and songs myself. I collaborated on a few things musically, but really everything was me. This time I was way more collaborative. I just relaxed. I proved that I could do it myself, so I don't have to prove anything anymore. Let's try this, let's try collaboration, see who's got the best ideas.
GS: If Seasons of My Soul was a `60s pop homage, then Into Colour is pure `70s soul tribute, beginning with the vintage disco sound of "Dangerous." Would you have liked to be a disco diva from the disco era and what would it mean to you to be a modern day disco diva?
R: I'm definitely not a disco diva. I wouldn't look good in one of those outfits [laughs]. I'm maybe a little bit too old. I'm just not that kind of performer. But I do like disco music. On Into Colour we were trying very hard to keep true to being authentic to whatever song form we were going for, whether it was the power ballad "Better Place" or disco in "Dangerous." We wanted to pay respect to the song form. We wanted to do disco and do it right with everything real and give it that sophistication.
GS: The previously mentioned "Baby, Come Back To Bed" has a Dusty In Memphis quality to it.
R: Thank you!
GS: Would you consider Dusty Springfield to be an influence?
R: Oh, my God, are you kidding? Dusty is it! It doesn't getter better than Dusty. She is divine [laughs].
GS: "Pizza and Pinball" is a perfect summer song, something that people here in States can be grateful for during this brutal winter.
R: That's nice. The song came about because me and Rob (Shirakbari, the album's producer/arranger) have a friend called Vince (Bernardy). He's a singer/songwriter and he's a really big, beefy guy. He's from Minnesota and he's got a family of big, beefy Minnesota construction workers. He's one of these guys who's really emotionally sensitive. He can play guitar and he can sing songs. He's really manly but he's also very sensitive. He can upholster, he can skipper a boat, he's just amazing and creative. He's one of our friends. He loves pinball. He used to take us to this pizza joint and he'd go there because it had this pinball machine. He'd say, "Come on guys, let's go play pinball." I'd sit there with my Coca-Cola and Rob would get thrashed by Vince on the pinball machine. It was at a time when we really needed cheering up and they were just good times. When me and Vince and Rob sat down to write a song together, I wanted to write a song that encapsulates Vince and his heart and that wonderful, boyish exuberance that Vince has; a big, manly guy with a little boy heart. I was asking him about his childhood and Rob was talking about his childhood. They were talking about stuff and I didn't understand any of it. I just started writing everything down. Then we started to piece it all together about Rob's childhood in Arkansas and Vince's childhood in Minnesota. It became an homage to a seventies childhood in America. Of course, I had a shitty childhood, so I was in tears of joy enjoying this kind of lovely, sunshine, all-American childhood. It's one of the songs that I find to be the most emotional on the album. It really makes me cry because it hits a nerve. I didn't have any of that.
GS: As we speak, you are currently in the midst of a concert tour.
R: I'm in Edinburgh right now and then I'm going to Europe in a few days. It's going very well, thanks for asking.
GS: What can people expect when your tour hits the States?
R: I'll play a lot of music from Seasons…, a couple of songs from Live At Daryl's House, some songs from Into Colour. We'll hopefully have a nice exchange of energy in the evening. Sharing music and making a connection.
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How to Play Like Christian Pulisic
Posted on April 2, 2018 at July 11, 2019 by admin
There's really no better player to model your game after if you're a young American youth soccer player. Why not try to learn how to play like Christian Pulisic, someone who knows how to take players on with the ball at his feet, a unique skill that's often lost in the game of soccer.
Key: Want to play like Christian Pulisic? Spend time with the soccer ball on your own day in and day out. Play as much soccer as you can, but have fun doing it. Do it because you want to and just love to play. When dribbling, touch the ball with every step, even when you're sprinting with the ball. See Pulisic's interview on 60 minutes here.
This ability to go at players on the dribble is a soccer skill that will separate you from most of the other players in your league. And Pulisic is adept at getting the ball and going right at defenders, putting them on their heels, Pulisic keeps the ball close to his feet and can cut the ball one way or the other to throw off the defender. He's not afraid of going at any defender, whether they play for Real Madrid or Mexico's national team.
At just 17 years old, Pulisic was already playing for Borussia Dortmund in Germany, one of top soccer clubs in Europe. I think something that really stands out about Pulisic, is his love for the game soccer and desire to get better. That's why he went to Germany. This love for the game is a trait that all top soccer players share, they just want to play day in and day out and get better.
Pulisic has become the great hope for American soccer. The new Landon Donovan. Better than Donovan, in fact. Here he scores a goal for the United States in a World Cup qualifier against Panama.
The other thing that stands out with Pulisic is his passion and desire to score. It seems ingrained in him to go at goal and always look for ways to score or create goal scoring chances. He's relentless. And like all great soccer players he always wants the ball at his feet. And if he doesn't have the ball he's always asking for it.
When asked if he likes Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi best, he said that growing up he idolized Messi. Which makes sense, since Pulisic dribbles the soccer ball much like Messi does – the ball tethered to his foot and touched with each step he takes. If you want to play like Pulisic you have to learn how to dribble the ball close to you and at speed.
And while Pulisic is exceptional on the ball, dribbling, cutting and beating other players, he also knows how to play simple two and one touch soccer. If you watch him, he gives the ball off and gets it back, he plays with in himself and doesn't overly complicate the game.
Pulisic's Dad made sure he played with confidence when he was playing against older kids growing up – that's confidence has stuck:
"He became obsessed with soccer and before he started kindergarten had mastered one of the sports most difficult skills: playing with both feet. He'd play for hours in the yard. When his parents finally coaxed him inside for dinner, he'd pass under this sign — confidence — the one-word Gospel according to Mark.Mark Pulisic: He was always playing up against older kids so I said there was only one thing you can never lose — you always have to play with confidence. That you belong.So I wrote it up there. I did a spell check first to make sure it would be spelled properly."
An interesting thing that Pulisic has written about is how having a Croatian passport enabled him to sign with Dortmund when he was 16:
"As a result of my dual citizenship, I've been able to play in Europe, training at the Dortmund academy, since I was 16. Without it? I would have had to wait until I was 18. And for a soccer player … man, ask anyone and they'll tell you — those age 16–18 years are everything. From a developmental perspective, it's almost like this sweet spot: It's the age where a player's growth and skill sort of intersect, in just the right way — and where, with the right direction, a player can make their biggest leap in development by far."
I'd go further though and say that around 11 or 12 kids start to choose which sport that want to focus on. I think it's good to play multiple sports when you're young, but you have choose one if you want to become a pro. Soccer is unique because it takes time to develop the control and touch on the ball. It takes years and hours of work with the ball. But it's not really work when you love to play. In the article mentioned above, Pulisic goes on to take about the need to be challenged at a young age, 16 or 17, when you're usually the star on your team.
That's when you have to find a new team that's better where you're not the star. And sometimes this means playing with older players. Pulisic talks about young players in the MLS who don't get the chance to play in as many games as young stars in Europe.
Lastly, like all great soccer players, Pulisic knows how to use his body to protect the ball and shield it when under pressure. And he's not afraid of pressure either, invites it rather, since he knows once the defender is close he can go by him or pass the ball off. While Pulisic isn't tall or that big, he's tough and strong one the ball – always keep his body between the ball and the defender.
Yes, there's talk of Manchester United and Liverpool trying to sign Pulisic, but surely he fits in more in Spain, at Barcelona.
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Admittedly an artsier scene than most, the live music cafes around town feature some of the most eye opening and brilliant indie music being made. The low-key Carmel live music cafes let amateur singers and songwriters sign up for open mic nights where spectators gather to hear songs as they sip on their favorite coffee or tea drink. Many of the artists specialize in certain genres of music, which attract a special subset of listeners eager to hear what the artist has to offer.


I applaud you. Please keep writing about your journey — many will look to this for guidance, community and practical information. You offer a great example of taking charge of your treatment as much as possible. Even with all of your family and friends, I know that cancer is still quite lonely. Know there are many in your corner. Prayers and best wishes for you. Just keep putting one foot in front of the other.


I have always been interested in food and the science behind it. It's a fast paced industry that is always evolving and growing in some way.
There is always going to be food and the industry is always going to be facing new challenges.
I fell in love with the city straight away. I grew up in a small village and so the prospect of moving to a big city was really exciting.
The University itself has a great reputation – especially for the food science courses which made me want to come here even more.
I love the campus and the union. There is so much to do and get involved in. It's a great place to come – it's got everything you could want as a student - the nightlife, the shopping and the great academic reputation.
Yes and yes. Coming to the Open Day confirmed for me that Leeds was where I wanted to be.
I liked the fact that the School of Food Science and Nutrition is relatively small and everyone made me feel welcome and I wanted to be a part of that – you immediately feel like you are a part of something.
Which aspect of food science do you find the most interesting?
There's a lot of variety in food and that's what I like – no two things are the same.
It's always changing, and there are always new discoveries on how to make a food better or how to produce it more efficiently.
Everything about it is interesting because there are just endless things you could learn.
Friendly and approachable. I am always in and out of the lab to see different lecturers about something and they are really easy to talk to and always willing to help – even if it is something really basic!
I really struggled with one of my modules this year but the lecturer was always able to fit me in so I could ask him about the topic and it really helped me.
I think because the School is small it means we all know the lecturers well.
Have you taken advantage of the flexibility of your course and enrolled in any discovery modules outside of food science?
This year I am doing a psychology module on animal behaviour as I studied the topic in A-Level Biology, so it's quite interesting to do something different from food.
Busy and hard-working. We have lab sessions once or twice a week and throughout the year we have different assignments and lab reports to write so you're always doing something, but you have enough free time to go and play sport or join different societies. I think it's a good balance.
I absolutely love being a student here. I couldn't imagine being anywhere else.
It's an amazing city with so much going on. The nights out here are great and the clubs and societies that you can join in the Union are so varied.
Halls in first year were such a great way to meet friends. I lived in Central Village so I was close to the city centre as well as the University - it was the best of both worlds!
I joined the rowing team last year, and I have gone to a few give-it-a-go sessions this year, such as handball and ballroom dancing!
I am also part of the Food Science Society which has been a great way to meet everyone and this year I'm on the committee so we have organised lots of different socials for the first-years to meet each other, to stop that first year being so daunting!
I have an industrial placement for my third year with Mondelēz International who own Cadbury's. I'm working in the R&D team for Process Solutions in Chocolate in Birmingham.
Having the option to do an industrial year will hopefully help me decide on what I would like to do when I graduate.
It would be nice to get a job with Mondelēz afterwards but it depends on what area I find the most interesting and want to go in to.
There are so many job prospects in food and loads of graduate schemes to get on to.
Do it. The course is hard but the work is worthwhile, the job prospects are endless and it is a really interesting degree and area to go into.
I would really recommend the year in industry – it's only one extra year to your degree but having that behind you could really help you when you graduate.


COST Commentary: Below are two articles regarding the minor and declining role of public transit in the U.S. The first is by assistant professors at Columbia, Cornell and Rutgars Universities and the second by Wendell Cox, one of the nation's leading experts in U.S. and international public policy and demographics.
These articles reinforce the reality of the minor role of transit in overall society as described in many postings on this site. However, this does not indicate a lack of understanding of the critical importance of transit to a small portion of our citizens who depend on it in their daily lives and have no alternatives. Our challenge is to understand priorities and to serve the communities greater-good within finite funding. The worst outcome, now being pursued by Austin and other cities, is to spend "all" available funds to serve a very minuscule few who have private vehicle alternatives at the expense of those who have no alternatives and need transit for basic living needs. The wasteful spending of huge tax dollars on ineffective rail transit leaves no winners among the array of mobility needs including transit, private, emergency, other government/school, commercial goods and services vehicles; as well as taxpayers who will face higher taxes/fees with very little benefit, if any.
David King is an assistant professor of urban planning at Columbia University. Michael Manville is an assistant professor of city and regional planning at Cornell University. Michael Smart is an assistant professor of city planning at Rutgers University.
The American Public Transportation Association reported this month that U.S. transit ridership hit an all-time high last year. The March 10 report came with a caveat — "all-time" means "after 1956," but the numbers nevertheless sound impressive. Transit users took 10.65 billion trips in 2013, topping the previous record of 10.59 billion trips in 2008. These numbers were widely reported in the media, including in The Post, often with commentary suggesting a fundamental change in American travel behavior: a nation moving away from driving and toward more efficient and sustainable public transit.
But the association's numbers are deceptive, and this interpretation is wrong. We are strong supporters of public transportation, but misguided optimism about transit's resurgence helps neither transit users nor the larger traveling public. Transit trips did rise between 2008 and 2013. But so did the U.S. population, from 304 million to 316 million , as did the total number of trips made. Simple division suggests that, if anything, transit use fell between 2008 and 2013, from about 35 trips per person annually to 34. Many numbers look impressive without denominators, but anyone who examines transit use as a rate — whether as trips per person or share of total travel — will find that transit is a small and stagnant part of the transportation system.
Transit receives about 20 percent of U.S. surface transportation funding but accounts for 2 percent to 3 percent of all U.S. passenger trips and 2 percent to 3 percent of all U.S. passenger miles. In fact, use of mass transportation has remained remarkably steady, and low, since about 1970. There is nothing exceptional about last year's numbers; they represent a depressing norm.
This is not to say that public transportation is unimportant. Most U.S. transit use occurs in a handful of dense cities, and in these cities transit provides vital mobility, especially for poorer people (particularly immigrants) who don't own cars. New York alone accounts for a third of all transit travel. A close look at the report shows that while U.S. transit trips increased by 115 million from 2012 to 2013, trips on New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority rose by 123 million. In other words, transit use outside New York declined in absolute terms last year. This fact shows how crucial public transportation is to our largest city and how small a role it plays in most other Americans' lives.
So there is no national transit boom. Why does this matter? The U.S. transportation system is deeply troubled. The country has difficulty financing improvements to its aging infrastructure, and heavy reliance on driving creates congestion, increases carbon emissions, pollutes our communities, and is a leading cause of injury and death. No one should pretend these problems are spontaneously solving themselves because Americans have decided en masse to ride transit instead of driving.
Nor should we misdiagnose problems caused by too much driving as problems caused by too little transit. Building transit systems is not the same as having people ride them, and people riding transit more is not the same as people driving less (plenty of transit riders are people who used to walk). Additionally, transit is not the only viable alternative to using a car. The environment is helped when drivers switch to buses but also when drivers switch to bikes.
Resting our hopes on a transit comeback distracts from our real transportation problem, which can be summarized in four words: Driving is too cheap. Drivers impose costs on society — in delay, in pollution, in carbon, in wear and tear on our roads — that they don't pay for. As a result, many of us drive more than we otherwise would. Ending this underpriced driving — through higher fuel taxes, parking and congestion charges and insurance premiums based on miles driven — is a central challenge for local, state and federal transportation officials.
Charging the right price for driving would give drivers a better-performing system, both by reducing congestion and raising revenue to help repair roads. It would help communities and the planet by reducing pollution. And, not least, it would help public transportation by leveling the playing field between transit and private vehicles. Increased subsidies for public transportation have neither reduced driving nor increased transit use. But ending subsidies to driving probably would do both.
Ending these subsidies will be hard work, politically. Yet we will have no incentive to do this work if Americans continue to believe that transit is making a comeback on its own. It isn't. Transit, like the rest of our transportation system, is in trouble. We need to act quickly to save it.
The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) is out with news of higher transit ridership. APTA President and CEO Michael Melaniphy characterizes the new figures as indicating "a fundamental shift going on in the way we move about our communities." Others even characterized the results as indicating "shifting consumer preferences." The data shows either view to be an exaggeration.
This is hardly a reliable time for making judgments about fundamental shifts or shifts in consumer preferences. Economic performance has been more abysmally abnormal only once in the last century –during the Great Depression – than at present.
The last year, 2013, is the sixth year in a row that total employment, as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics was below the peak year of 2007 (Figure 1). This run of dismal job creation was exceeded only between the Great Depression years of 1929 and 1936 in the last 100 years (Note 1). From World War II until the Great Recession, the maximum number of years that employment fell below a previous peak was two, following the 9/11 terrorist attacks (2001 to 2003). The Great Recession may have ended, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, but the Great Malaise continues as the economy is performing well below historic levels. Judgments about fundamental shifts and consumer choice today are not more reliable than they would have been in the Great Depression year of 1935.
But more importantly, there is no shift to transit. APTA is right to point out that transit ridership has grown faster than vehicle travel in the United States since 1995. Nonetheless, transit's share of urban travel has barely budged, because its 1995 share of travel was so small. This is indicated by Figure 2, which compares the overall market share of transit to that of cars and light trucks from 1995 to 2013. Indeed, the top of Figure 2 (the 100 percent line) is virtually indistinguishable from the personal vehicle share over the entire period. The bottom of the chart (the zero percent line) is virtually indistinguishable from the transit share. This is not the stuff of fundamental shift.
A similar pattern of little or no change is indicated by the commuting (work access) data from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey.
Over the past five years, as with virtually all the years since such data has been collected, the overwhelming majority of new commuters have driven alone (Figure 3). Indeed, transit has not taken a single net automobile off the road since 1960, and not in the last five years. Between 2007 and 2012, 93 percent of the additional commuters drove alone (Note 2). The drive alone market, which might have been thought to be saturated, actually rose from 76.1 percent to a 76.3 percent market between 2007 and 2012.
The biggest change has been the continuing loss in carpool use, which dropped from 10.4 percent to 9.7 percent from 2007 to 2012. It is estimated that nearly 450,000 passengers left carpools (excluding drivers), approximately 1.8 passengers for each additional commuter using transit (250,000).
The largest gain from 2007 to 2012 was in working at home, including telecommuting. Working at home increased from 4.1 percent to 4.4 percent. In actual numbers, working at home added 1.9 times the increase in transit commuting. Its change in market share was greater than that of transit in 42 of the 52 major metropolitan areas. Surprisingly, this includes New York, with its incomparable transit system (by US standards).
Transit's share of commuting inched up only 0.1 percentage points between 2007 and 2012. This is so small that if this rate of annual increase were sustained for 50 years, transit's commute market share would edge up to only 6 percent (Figure 4), approximately transit's 1980 market share (doubling to 10 percent would require 130 years). The latest data indicates both gains and losses for transit, with market shares up in 28 major metropolitan areas and down in 24.
In Atlanta, with the nation's second largest Metro (subway) system built since 1975, a declining overall employment base was accompanied by a loss of 13,000 transit commuters, at the same time that there was an increase in working at home of 19,000.
In Portland, considered by many around the world to be an urban planning Utopia, the data is hardly favorable. Since 1980, the last year with data before the first of five light rail lines and one commuter rail line opened, transit's market share has dropped from 8.4 percent to 6.0 percent. While spending billions of dollars on rail, working at home – which involves little or no public expenditure – increased by triple the number of people drawn to transit. And things have not changed materially, even during the claimed "fundamental shift." In the last five years, the working at home increase is more than double that of transit.
In Los Angeles, ridership at the largest transit agency continues to languish below its 1985 peak, despite having opened 9 light rail, Metro, and rapid busway lines and adding more than 1.5 million residents. Even this decline may be under-stated because of how transit counts passengers. Each time someone steps on a transit vehicle, they are counted (as a boarding). A person who transfers between two or three buses to make a trip counts as two or three boardings, which is what the APTA data reports.
When rail is added to a transit system, bus services are reconfigured to serve the rail system. This can mean many more boardings from transfers without more passenger trips. This potential inflation of ridership is likely to have occurred not only in Los Angeles, but in all metropolitan areas that added rail systems.
At the same time, gains are being made in some metropolitan areas. Ridership has risen more strongly in transit's six "legacy cities," the municipalities (not metropolitan areas) of New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Boston, and Washington. Between 2007 and 2012, 68 percent of the additional transit commuting occurred to employment locations in these six municipalities. This is higher than the 55 percent of national transit commuting that these areas represented in 2012. The much larger share being attracted by these areas in the last 5 years is an indication that transit ridership, already highly concentrated in just a few places, is becoming even more concentrated. Further, 50 percent to 75 percent of commuters to the corresponding six downtowns reach work by transit.
Even when the nation finally emerges from the Great Malaise, only vain hope will be able to conceive of a large scale consumer preference driven shift toward transit. The rational consumer will not choose transit that is slower or less convenient than the car. Where transit access is impractical or impossible, people will use cars. This is the case for most trips in all US metropolitan area, as the Brookings Institution research cited below indicates.
The Brookings Institution research indicated that the average employee in the nation's major metropolitan areas are able to access fewer than 10 percent of jobs in 45 minutes. This is not only a small number of jobs, but it is a travel time that is approximately twice that of the average employee in the United States (most of whom travel by car).
More funding for transit cannot solve this problem. The kind of automobile competitive transit system needed to provide rational consumer choice between cars and transit would require annual expenditures rivaling the total personal income in the metropolitan area, as Jean-Claude Ziv and I showed in our 2007 11th World Conference on Transport Research paper (2007). It is no wonder that not a single comprehensive automobile competitive transit system exists or has been seriously proposed in any major US or Western European metropolitan area (Note 3). Transit is about the largest downtowns and the largest urban cores.
All of this appears to have escaped many media outlets, which largely parroted the APTA press release. For example, The New York Times, CBS News, the Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune were as parish newsletters commenting on a homily by the priest, for their failure to report both sides. A notable exception was USA Today, whose reporter consulted outsider Alan Pisarski (who has written for newgeography.com). Pisarski placed the APTA figures in historical context and expressed reservations about restoration of the transit commuting share numbers of 1980 or before.
Note 1: Current Employment Statistics Survey data, 1939 to 2013. 1913 to 1938 estimated from data in Historical Statistics of the United States: Bicentennial Edition.
Note 2: The source for the commuting data is the American Community Survey of the Census Bureau, which indicates an employment level in 2012 that is higher than in 2007. The Current Employment Statistics Survey of the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates a decline.
• Transit choice (automobile competitive public transport service) for at least 90 percent of trips and passenger kilometers in the particular urban area.
• Automobile competitiveness is defined as door to door trip times no more than 1.5 times automobile travel time.
The description of any system not already in operation should also include an estimate of its cost, capital and annual operating.
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What to expect from Alex Mighten
Wednesdayites got their first glimpse of latest loan addition Alex Mighten in last night's Papa John's Trophy clash with Bradford City.
The exciting 20-year-old who represents England at under 20s level, joined The Owls on Monday from Premier League Nottingham Forest where he made 23 appearances for Steve Cooper's side last season as they gained promotion to the top division.
There's high hopes for Mighten at The City Ground and I got the downlow on the new Wednesday man from the Managing Editor of Nottingham Forest News and member of the 'Red Side of the Trent' podcast, Lee Clarke (@Clarkey_No1).
What kind of player is Alex Mighten?
"He's quick, skilful and will run himself into the ground in every game he plays for Wednesday. He's typically operated as a winger but could work in a system that utilises two floating number 10s."
What are some of his best qualities that Wednesdayites can look forward to?
"His pace is the main one. He has a great turn of pace and he can often leave defenders having a flick through the programme as he skips past them."
What are some of the things he's not so good at?
"It's probably harsh to say he's not good at them but the one main thing he has to improve is his bravery in the sense of wanting to get on the ball. Mighten should improve that pretty comfortably in League One, however."
The Owls usually prefer a 3-5-2 formation, is this one you could see Mighten fitting into? If so, where?
"I'm pleased it's a problem for Darren Moore and not for me to be honest with you. He recently played RWB for Forest in the Carabao Cup at Grimsby but I can see him taking one of the attacking positions at Wednesday. He's not averse to playing as a striker and that could work."
I understand Mighten can play a number of positions but in your opinion which is his strongest?
"He's strongest on the left I think. He has the modern day trait of loving to cut inside and cause chaos with shots or deliveries into the box. It wouldn't be completely disastrous if he played on the right."
Will Forest want him to be starting every week or so you think they'll be understanding should Mighten be more of a substitute option for Wednesday?
"I think Forest could have let him go to the Championship if they weren't fussed on him featuring every week. In hindsight, he might have made our bench every week so it wouldn't make sense for him not to be playing. I'd be very disappointed to see him on the bench in L1."
Do you see Mighten doing well in League One?
"Massively. If Moore gets him playing as we know he can, he could not only lead Wednesday to promotion but he could also be one of the signings of the summer."
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The Varying Drivers License Requirements Around the World
Minimum driving ages, the number of passengers young drivers can have with them at any time, the times of day that drivers under the age of 18 can drive…
These all vary depending on where young motorists are driving. They vary, even, across the United States.
For instance, in Maine, motorists under the age of 18 aren't allowed to have any passengers with them as they drive for the first 180 days after they obtain their licenses. In Alabama, motorists under the age of 18 can have one passenger with them.
And that's just one example of the differences in driving license requirements from one part of the country to the next. The differences are even more pronounced when comparing one country to another. Minimum driving ages vary widely across the world. While most states in the United States allow youngsters to earn their learner's permits at the age of 15, many other countries require their residents to be much older before they get behind the wheel of a car.


The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has asked the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) to clarify the accounting standards that real estate companies have to follow.
The capital market regulator has noticed that different real estate firms have been using varied methods for accounting revenues.
According to the ICAI, there are two methods of accounting for real estate revenues. The one followed by most companies accounts for revenues according to the stage of completion of construction. If a particular project is half complete, the company will account for half of the project revenues.
What happens in UK in circumstances where there unsatisfactory interpretation of accounting standards ?
It is referred to Urgent Issue Task Force (UITF) which is a subsidiary of the Accounting Standards Board.
The main role of the UITF is to assist the ASB where unsatisfactory or conflicting interpretations have developed (or seem likely to develop) about a requirement of an accounting standard or the Companies Act. The UITF seeks to arrive at a consensus on the accounting treatment that should be adopted, in such cases, in the context of the ASB's declared aim of relying on principles rather than detailed prescription.
In India, everything is referred to ICAI. We in India are too under-developed that the government relies heavily on ICAI - body responsible for setting standards and the same set of people who audit them !!!
The GOI should establish a proper Accounting Standards setting Framework where there is a distinction between Standard Setters and Auditors. Any unsatisfactory interpretation should not be referred to Accounting Body.
Santosh, I can safely say that even SEBI is under developed and its action might be spurred by its intentions to be at par with other countries and never to exceed them. This could be only an extension of what happened in Singapore a few weeks ago where the authorities started question the property accounting methodologies. Thanks for highlighting the flaws in Indian accounting system. Hope the authorities will take notice of the same.
In India, lot has to be done. For eg. GOI has initiated steps for forming a professional body for Valuation which ICAI had opposed.


The two gun manufacturers that call the Empire State home, Remington Arms and Kimber Manufacturing, not only oppose microstamping, a cost-effective tool to help the police catch violent gun criminals that is supported by more than 80 police departments and law enforcement organizations from across New York, but Remington and Kimber are threatening to leave New York if microstamping is enacted into law.
These empty threats show the lengths gun manufacturers will go to stop any regulation of their industry. In these difficult economic times Remington and Kimber are holding the threat of lost jobs over the heads of elected officials, resulting in more inaction from Albany on microstamping. The truth is that Remington, Kimber, the National Rifle Association and the National Shooting Sports Foundation oppose ANY regulation of guns, no matter how small or how sensible. Microstamping is just the tip of the iceberg. None of those companies or organizations even support something as small as requiring a background check on all gun sales nationwide.
Fact: A laser machinist job shop that could produce the microstamped components has already provided a cost estimate letter that it would cost, at most, $6 per firearm to implement microstamping.
Letter: Cost estimate letter from Laser Light Technologies, Inc.
Remington and Kimber, along with the NRA and NSSF, claim that if microstamping is enacted in New York they "could be forced to reconsider its commitment to the New York market altogether" (see Remington opposition letter). The gun industry is threatening to stop selling semi-automatic handguns in New York if microstamping becomes law in New York.
Gun manufacturers need the Empire State because if they stopped selling guns in New York they would lose millions of dollars in sales. Why is New York so important?
NYAGV research shows New York has more gun owners than 41 other states. With the 9th most gun owners making up 3.45% of all the gun owners nationwide, pulling out of the New York market would be a tremendous blow to the bottom line of gun manufacturers like Remington and Kimber.
NYAGV research shows New York has the 4th largest number of hunters in the United States.
The Freedom Group, the parent company of Remington and nearly a dozen other firearm manufacturers, had nearly $1.5 billion dollars in sales in 2010 and 2011 according to their 2011 Annual Report. If Freedom Group and Remington stopped selling to the New York market (and New York's market share of 3.45% of gun owners) they would need to find a way to make up more than $25 million in lost sales each and every year.
For decades, corporations and their trade associations have opposed regulations aimed at protecting human health, the environment and much more. Industry has repeatedly argued that the cost of complying is too high, the benefits to society don't justify the investment, or the regulations will cost jobs. When regulations have been implemented, however, the compliance costs have proved to be less and the benefits greater than industry officials predicted.
The gun industry is no different. Click on the chart below to see a comparison of quotes from the gun industry opposing microstamping and historical quotes from other industries opposed sensible regulations and how they predicted things like requiring seat belts in cars would car companies out of business.
ECONOMIC IMPACT: According to data obtained from School Bus Fleet, the year seat belts were required on new large school buses, 1987, New York's national market share of school buses was 7%. The number of school bus sales in New York spiked by more than 60% in the 10 years following the mandating of seat belts in all New York school buses in 1987.
Graph: Sales of school buses spike in New York during the years after the state mandates seat belts in new large school buses.
Just as there was no negative impact on the number of buses sold to New York school districts by mandating seat belts, the same will be true of firearm sales in New York if microstamping is introduced.


JCHS of Harvard University | Cambridge, MA – Growth in home improvement activity is expected to peak during the second half of 2014 and then begin to ease heading into next year, according to the Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity (LIRA) released today by the Remodeling Futures Program at the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. Revised estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau show the home improvement market grew 5.6% in 2013.* For 2014, the LIRA projects annual gains in home improvement spending of 9.9% with annual growth slowing to 7.0% in the first quarter of 2015.


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Shots ring around Capitol as a female driver seeks to mow down police
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Police may be the only shooters as female driver seeks to run them over on the grounds of US Capitol.
by Stephen C. Rose
March 29, 2017 at 3:30 PM March 29, 2017 at 3:30 PM
A female driver hit a police cruiser on the grounds of the US Capitol this morning. Police exited, and she apparently tried to Run them down. The police fired Shots. She was taken into custody, and no one was hurt,
A female at the wheel?
Customarily if a news headline indicates no gender and the subject is an act of violence, the assumption is that the perpetrator is a male. Yet it seems to me relevant to say at the outset that the driver was a woman. I am not sure what it means. Police had no hesitation in firing their guns. Apparently, they missed.
Tangled web
Such clues as can be gathered point to no terror but a possible DUI. Someone started driving erratically some distance from where the incident occurred. Arriving on Capitol Hill, she struck a police cruiser. Officers exited. She aimed her car at them and proceeded. Shots rang out. She is taken into custody. Would not one begin with a sobriety test?
NEW: Reports of shots fired at Capitol Hill after driver hits Capitol Police cruiser; suspect taken into custody https://t.co/fDgMUFQztW pic.twitter.com/KYzdMpKWK8
— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 29, 2017
We wait for news
Some ten or so news reports have hit Twitter as I was writing these lines and nothing new has been revealed. Even those who like to cry terror at every possible opportunity are unable to conclude anything.
But there is something to be said, anyway. It is that we have changed as a nation in the wake of 9/11 into a state of national jumpiness.
Confusion was widespread as workers entered their Capitol offices and several buildings in the area were placed on alert. This is similar to airport shutdowns that seem a bit overdone.
Since 9/11 we are all on alert. It was this jumpiness that gave the Trump message resonance during the campaign. So we can conclude that even when there is no hint of terror, the fear is there and it can be exploited.
The exploitation of fear gets us back to FDR's caution that what we should be afraid of is fear itself. We are now seeing the consequences in ICE raids and in a President who never fails to squeeze any trigger that will set off fear.
We need in the face of incidents like this altercation at the Capitol to relax and feel some concern for a woman who risked death and may have been crazy or drunk enough to inflict it. We can live with that.
Stephen C. Rose
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Robert R. Taylor dies at 77; entrepreneur created Softsoap
By Steve Chawkins
Sept. 11, 2013 12 AM PT
With one stroke, entrepreneur Robert R. Taylor made a fortune, changed the way America washed up and doomed the bathroom soap dish to virtual obsolescence.
It was Taylor who turned hand soap from a slippery lump to a dab from a pump.
Taylor, who created Softsoap, the first mass-marketed liquid soap pumped from a plastic bottle, died of cancer Aug. 29 in Newport Beach, family members said. He was 77.
Softsoap was one of his many successful ventures, which included Obsession, a fragrance he developed with Calvin Klein and promoted in steamy ads that stimulated both sales and controversy.
But it was Taylor's famously bold gamble on Softsoap that still is the stuff of business school case studies.
The problem, as he saw it, was that larger competitors would quickly copy his idea and sweep Softsoap off the shelves.
In 1980, the small Minnesota company he founded, Minnetonka Corp., introduced his new soap line with a $7-million ad campaign. By comparison, the yearly ad budget for Dial, the biggest soap of the day, was $8.5 million.
While the ad blitz drew consumers, "the threat of imitation was real," wrote business professors Adam M. Brandenburger and Barry Nalebuff in their 1997 book "Co-Opetition."
"Softsoap was hardly a patentable invention," they noted. "Pumps had been around since Archimedes."
In what the authors called a "bet-the-company move," Taylor secretly ordered 100 million of the little plastic pumps that were at the time used to dispense various lotions. That tied up a full year's production of the pumps' only manufacturers, giving Taylor time to establish his brand without rivals. In 1987, a few years after the soap giants caught up, he sold Softsoap to Colgate-Palmolive for $61 million.
"The best way for an entrepreneur to compete in today's marketplace," he told the New York Times, "is to avoid competition — or at least find ways to circumvent it."
Born in Baltimore on Sept. 1, 1935, Robert Ridgely Taylor grew up in Cincinnati and displayed a flair for business early in life. As a boy, he sold a homing pigeon to a pet store several times, family members said. After graduating from Miami University in Ohio and receiving an MBA from Stanford in 1959, he worked for Johnson & Johnson before starting his own business with a $3,000 investment in 1963.
Run at first from Taylor's Minnesota home, Village Bath Products made hand-rolled soap balls marketed in homey glass jars and baskets. There also were fruit-scented shampoos, cocoa-butter soap designed to look like candy bars, body "paints" for kids taking baths and hundreds of other upscale variations on the workaday soap cake.
"My dad and I did all different kinds of formulations in the kitchen night after night," Taylor's daughter, Lori Lawrence, told the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday. When she was 7 or 8, she helped mix up batches of bath-oil-filled soap balls called Soap Puffs, squeezing them onto a cookie sheet through a pastry bag and baking them in the family oven.
"Some days they'd be too flat or they'd get too big and explode like popovers," she said. After her nightly bath, her father would tell her: "Tomorrow's a new day. There's always a new formula."
For years, Taylor marketed the soaps by jokingly fashioning himself as the "Prof. Taylor" on the soaps' old-time labels and driving to department stores in a vintage Ford truck.
"It was normal for us to do brainstorming sessions at the dinner table, to come up with product names, to give him our evaluation of scents, consistencies and colors," Lori Lawrence said. "We thought all families were like ours."
Village Bath eventually became Minnetonka, which grew into a publicly held business that Taylor would promote on weekend jaunts in his hot-air balloon. Unilever bought most of the company in 1989 for $376 million.
Taylor, who founded and sold 14 consumer product businesses, acquired Calvin Klein's failing cosmetics line for about $1 million in 1980. Although he and Klein did not get along, according to the Wall Street Journal, their signature Obsession perfume brought in $30 million in 1985, the first year it hit the stores.
Taylor bankrolled a glitzy $15-million ad campaign that hyped Obsession — "Between love and madness lies Obsession"— well before it was available. Its erotic imagery was lambasted by critics and lampooned on "Saturday Night Live" in segments that "Dad just loved," his daughter said.
Taylor moved to California in the 1990s, buying homes in Indian Wells and Newport Beach and running his business interests from an office in Carlsbad.
In his later years, Taylor teamed with London stylist Graham Webb on hair-care products and developed the Monterey Bay Clothing Co.
In addition to Lori Lawrence, Taylor is survived by his wife, Mary Kay Taylor; daughter, Karen Brandvold; and six grandchildren. A son, David Taylor, died in a 1984 avalanche in Utah.
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Steve Chawkins
A former obituary writer, Steve Chawkins joined the Los Angeles Times in 1987 after working as a reporter and editor at the Santa Fe Reporter in New Mexico and the Rocky Mountain News in Denver. He has been a roving state correspondent and a columnist and reporter in the Ventura County edition. He also was managing editor of the Ventura Star-Free Press. He graduated in 1969 from Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. Chawkins left The Times in 2015.
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Q: How to disable syntax characters in autohotkey? I want to create a program in autohotkey so that when ~pdo is typed it replaces it with a long line of code. How do I do it so that the symbols inside do not get formatted as autohotkey syntax?
I have tried the following code:
~pdo:Send,

$pdo = new PDO('mysql:dbname=chat;host=localhost', 'root', 'simon sleeping123!@#');

$pdo->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES, false);
$pdo->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');

In return I get the error message:
Line Text: $pdo->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES,false);    Error: Invalid hotkey.

A: I'd recommend utilizing the clipboard and CTRL+V for such a long input. If not pasting the text, you'd need to send that in text mode to avoid translating certain characters to certain buttons. E.g # to the Windows key.
Also, you'll need to add line breaks. More on that below.
Firstly, use a hotstring to trigger when ~pdo is typed. Use whichever options you see fit. I'd assume you'll be fine with just the * option.
And to send multi line stuff, you can either explicitly specify line breaks with a line feed character `n(docs):
$pdo = new PDO('mysql:dbname=chat;host=localhost', 'root', 'simon sleeping123!@#');`n`n$pdo->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_EM...

Or you can more conveniently use a continuation section:
:*:~pdo::
    Clipboard := "
    (LTrim
    $pdo = new PDO('mysql:dbname=chat;host=localhost', 'root', 'simon sleeping123!@#');

    $pdo->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES, false);
    $pdo->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
    date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');
    )"

    SendInput, ^v
return

And there's your finished script. ^v means CTRL+V and the LTrim(docs) option is used do we can still properly format the code without adding extra spaces to the actual text in the continuation section.

A: You are looking for a Hotstring rather than a Hotkey. A hotkey triggers when keys are held down together, whereas a hotstring triggers when keys are typed in sequence.
Furthermore, seeing how this is a multiline hotstring, take a look at this to let it work.
Based on this, here is my code (triggered when "~pdo" is typed):
:*:~pdo::
MyMultilineHotstring =
(
$pdo = new PDO('mysql:dbname=chat;host=localhost', 'root', 'simon sleeping123!@#');

$pdo->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES, false);
$pdo->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');
)
SendInput, %MyMultilineHotstring%


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About the Donald P. Sowell Committee
The Donald P. Sowell Endowment Committee (Sowell Committee) was established in 1993 as a tribute to Donald P. Sowell (1929-1989), an important Cincinnati artist and art educator.
The Sowell Committee promotes greater interaction and involvement of the African American community with the Cincinnati Art Museum. In doing so they oversee an endowment in Mr. Sowell's name and act as a recommending body for the disbursements of its funds to promote African American art, programs, exhibitions and other art forms of interest to the African American community. The Sowell Committee also provides educational and social fundraising activities that benefit the endowment and the museum.
Programs take place on the first Sunday of each month from September through June from 3-5 p.m.
For more information, please contact the Philanthropy Office at [email protected] or (513) 639-2964.
SOWELL COMMITTEE PROGRAMS & EVENTS
Winter and Spring 2023 List of Programs
Sunday, January 8, 2023, 3 p.m.
Michael Thompson, Artist
Fath Auditorium
Michael Thompson, a multimedia artist, designer, and poet will share his artistic practice as an archivist; collecting things, spaces, and histories to add to his art and life. Thompson served previously as artist-in-residence at CAM and the Contemporary Art Center.
Sunday, February 12, 2023, 3 p.m.
Georgia O'Keeffe, Photographer
Nathaniel Stein, Curator of Photography, will guide members through Georgia O'Keeffe's exhibition of nearly 100 photographs by the artist, together with a complementary selection of paintings and drawings.
Sunday, March 5, 2023, 3 p.m.
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Sowell members will tour the exhibition Memories & Inspiration: The Kerry and C. Betty Davis Collection of African American Art.
This exhibition features approximately 60 works of art, including paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, sculptures, and mixed media by well-known African American artists Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Sam Gilliam, Loïs Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Gordon Parks, Alma Thomas, and others. More details to follow regarding admission fees.
Optional: Sowell members will gather in the Lindner Family Café at 1:00 pm for lunch (dutch-treat), prior to tour.
Sunday, April 23, 2023, 3 p.m.
Roberto Lugo: Hi-Def Archives
Amy Miller Dehan, Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, will guide us through a tour of ceramic works created by Roberto Lugo. Lugo draws from his lived experience and deep knowledge of ceramic history to create works that elevate the stories of those historically absent from the decoration of extravagant examples of pottery.
Sunday, May 7, 2023, 2:00 - 4:30 pm
Fiber Artist Cynthia Lockhart, Our Journey Continues / Fath Auditorium / Castellini Room
Cynthia Lockhart will share her "journey of life" and experiences that influenced her decision to become a practicing fiber artist. Lockhart's textiles are distinguished by their pulsating colors, which simulate the vivaciousness of her African ancestry, and by their irregular, organic shapes and circles. Lockhart's fiber art tells a story-one that encourages people to understand the diversity of people, cultures, and beauty in the world around them. Most recently, Lockhart's quilt titled Created To Be Me was acquired by the Smithsonian Collection in Washington D.C. at the Renwick Gallery.
Workshop for SEC MEMBERS:
Sowell Committee members will also have an opportunity to create a one-of-a-kind quilt. Participants will learn how to tell a story through various textile techniques: stitch, sew and embellish.
This workshop is appropriate for an adult audience of all levels who are interested in learning about fiber art. All items needed for hands-on project will be supplied. Registration required for workshop due to limited seating. Register by April 15 at [email protected]
Sunday, June 11, 2023, 3 p.m.
Creating Connections: Self-Taught Artists in the Rosenthal Collection
Dr. Julie Aronson, Curator of American Paintings, Sculpture, will give us a guided tour of this collection of works by self-taught artists.
Mark your Calendars: During the month of October 2023, SEC will have a celebratory event and a fundraiser to support CAM's acquisitions of work by African American artists and the SEC Summer Intern Program.
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Myra Paige-Livingston, Treasurer
Katrina Mundy, Past Chair
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Join the Donald P. Sowell Committee
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Low resistance Al/Ti/n-GaN ohmic contacts with improved surface morphology and thermal stability
Joon Seop Kwak, S. E. Mohney, Je Yi Lin, Rs Kern
The Al/Ti/n-GaN ohmic contact and multilayer variations on this contact are widely used because of the low contact resistivities they provide to n-GaN. However, there are few reports that reveal the influence of the atomic ratio of Al to Ti on the contact resistivity, thermal stability and surface morphology of the contacts. This study reveals that the ratio of Al to Ti strongly influences all of these characteristics. All contacts in this study had atomic ratios of Al to Ti higher than 1. Those contacts with ratios, of Al to Ti less than 3 required higher annealing temperatures or longer annealing times to reach comparable contact resistivities compared to the more Al-rich contacts. On the other hand, the less Al-rich contacts provided several advantages. They exhibited smooth surface morphologies even after they were annealed at temperatures near 1000 °C, and they suffered much less severe degradation during long-term aging at 600 °C. These findings are explained by differences in the phases formed after annealing.
Semiconductor Science and Technology
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Dive into the research topics of 'Low resistance Al/Ti/n-GaN ohmic contacts with improved surface morphology and thermal stability'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
Ohmic contacts Engineering & Materials Science 100%
low resistance Physics & Astronomy 75%
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electric contacts Physics & Astronomy 58%
thermal stability Physics & Astronomy 57%
Thermal Stability Chemical Compounds 43%
Kwak, J. S., Mohney, S. E., Lin, J. Y., & Kern, R. (2000). Low resistance Al/Ti/n-GaN ohmic contacts with improved surface morphology and thermal stability. Semiconductor Science and Technology, 15(7), 756-760. https://doi.org/10.1088/0268-1242/15/7/316
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Ever tried to make Crème Brulee at home without using an oven?
I love this French dessert, with rich custard base and topped with a layer of crunchy caramelized sugar. This well-known French dessert, Crème Brulee is widely accepted. Yet not all restaurants offer such a supreme dessert in Australia, only offered by some prestige ones. So I tried to make some for my family some time ago. Although it's not difficult to cook this dessert, I found it took nearly an hour to bake them. Here I found an easier way to make delicious crème brulee, saving much electricity, energy and cooking time with very good results. Sounds great?
Lightly whisk egg yolks. Add in white sugar, thickened cream, milk and ginger juice, mix well. As you don't want to have any foams appeared on the surface, so just combine the ingredients, not to beat them.
Sift egg mixture into ramekins in order to have smooth custard. Cover ramekins with foil (see picture shown above). Use a wok or steamer, steam for 10 to 15 minutes over medium-high heat with a lid. Insert a toothpick in the middle of custard to test if they are cooked through or not. If the toothpick comes out clean, they are done. Let custard cool and refrigerate for 1 to 2 hours to set up.
Generously sprinkle raw sugar on the surface of custard. Torch it. Let the creme brulee cool for just a minute. Enjoy!
You can use a teaspoon of vanilla instead of ginger juice if you like. Well, this is a traditional way of making crème brulee, I know. However, I love the taste of ginger, just going so well with the custard. Yummy!
Christine- thanks for replying to my comment on the coconut pudding. I tried your suggestion to lower the oven heat (at 121 C instead); I also tried lowering the heat in conjunction with covering the cake with aluminum foil. Both methods worked much better (the uncovered one looked a bit prettier, although still not as pretty as yours!).
And yes, Jessica is my friend-- she is going to love this creme brulee recipe; it's her favorite dessert!
Glad to hear that you've tried with better results.
I think 121C is too low. You might like to try 150C or 160C next time. If you lower the heat, then you don't need to cover the cake when baking.
Yeah, Jessica also left messages on this blog several times. Hope she enjoys the creme brulee.
Hi, I tried making creme brulee yr way, it turned fairly good but I noticed the texture was a bit grainy instead of thick and creamy. I frgot to cover it with foil when steaming. Was this the cause?
I guess it could be the cause. Without covering the custard with foil, the steam would condense and some of them would change into water on the custard, making the custard runny.
Mine was very thick and creamy. The texture was like those creme brulee baked in oven.
You might like to try again with foil to see if you're satisfied with the result or not.
Luv this quick variation! Must go to get some ramekins now! Hehehe!
hi christine..thankyou sweetie for dropping by n even following my blog.......i am a new blogger n it's great encouragement.
came here to see a wonderful cream brulee.....looks so inviting n i have to try it.....only , i don't have a blow torch, can it be caramelized any other way?
Love to explore new blogs. I found your great one so I added you to keep me updated with your new posts.
Well, a friend of mine tried to caramelize her custard with grilling in an oven. She said that she's quite satisfied with the result. You might like to try to see if it works for you.
MMMMM...they look so lovely & inviting!! Yummie!
Mine turns out really grainy and watery, i did put foil, i follow every steps, i turn oven at 120C to cook for about 35 mins, what went wrong?
The steaming method was used in this recipe.
If you want to bake this dessert in an oven, you don't need to cover with foil. And the temperature of 120C was too low. Try 150C and bake for 35 to 45 mins next time.


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Q: How to optimize proc sql join in SAS? I have 2 datasets:  t.a with 390K rows and 1 variable and t.b with 60 million rows and 350 variables.
I need to join this datasets quickly, but my query is too slow.
How I can optimize query?
My query:
    proc sql;
    create table с as
    select distinct a.REP_CLID, b.REP_DATE, &Score_Column, b.REP_AGE as AGE
    from a (IDXWHERE =Yes) ,
    &b (IDXWHERE =Yes)
    where a.rep_clid = b.rep_clid

A: Since you already have an index on rep_clid in your large table b, this seems like a good candidate for a data step key merge. Tweak as required so you're just keeping variables of interest:
data c;
  set a;
  set b key = rep_clid; /*requires unique index on rep_clid to work properly*/
  if _IORC_ then do;
    _ERROR_ = 0;
    delete;
  end;
run;

That will return only records with rep_clid present in both a and b. You can then deduplicate via proc sort with the nodupkey option.
If you have a non-unique index on b, it can still be made to work, but the syntax is a bit more complex:
data c;
  set a;
  do until(eof);
    set b key = rep_clid end = eof; /*will work with non-unique index on rep_clid*/
    if _IORC_ then do;
      _ERROR_ = 0;
      delete;
    end;
    else output;
  end;
run;

A: Performance can be a tricky issue as there a huge number of factors that can affect it.  It is often a case of trying numerous ways to achieve the same thing until you find the best performing method.
Are both of these tables SAS tables or one or both third party DBMS tables? This opens up a whole world of performance issues I will leave until confirmed.
Assuming they are both SAS tables try re-writing your query like this if you only want columns from table B, assuming &Score_Column is in table B.  If not then this will not work.
proc sql;
    create table с as
    select distinct b.REP_CLID, b.REP_DATE, &Score_Column, b.REP_AGE as AGE
    from   &b   (IDXWHERE =Yes) as      b
    where   b.rep_clid  in
            (   select  a.rep_clid
                from    a (IDXWHERE =Yes)
            )
    ;
Quit;

Alternatively you could use a proc format as has been suggested.  This example will work if &Score_Column is in table a but could be easily modified if it is not.
Proc sql;
        create table    rep_clid_fmt    as
        select  distinct        'rep_clid_fmt'  as fmtname
        ,       rep_clid                        as      start

/*              If &Score_Column  is in table a then use &Score_Column  as the label */
        ,       &Score_Column                   as      label

                else use a flag like...
        ,       'keep'                          as      label

        from    a
        ;
Quit;

Proc format cntlin=rep_clid_fmt;
Run;

proc sql;
    create table с as
    select distinct b.REP_CLID
        ,  b.REP_DATE
        , put (b.REP_DATE,rep_clid_fmt) as      &Score_Column
        , b.REP_AGE as AGE
    from   &b   (IDXWHERE =Yes) as      b
    where   put (b.REP_DATE,rep_clid_fmt)       ne substr (b.REP_DATE,1,length(put(b.REP_DATE,rep_clid_fmt))
    ;
Quit;

Good luck!


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Hu Jia (; * 25 de julio de 1973 en Pekín, China), activista chino de los derechos humanos y disidente. Estudió informática en Pekín. Fue detenido el 27 de diciembre de 2007, junto con su esposa Zeng Jinyan. Ambas detenciones —según informaciones de Amnistía Internacional— formaban parte de la campaña de represión que el Gobierno chino lleva a cabo contra defensores de derechos humanos antes de los Juegos Olímpicos del 2008. En el momento de su detención, Hu Jia estaba gravemente enfermo de hepatitis.

Según destaca el Parlamento Europeo, "Hu Jia y su esposa, Zeng Jinyan, han puesto de manifiesto las violaciones de los derechos humanos que se han cometido en China en los últimos años y han pasado muchos períodos bajo arresto domiciliario".

El 3 de abril de 2008 fue sentenciado a tres años y medio de prisión. La sentencia añadió más tensión internacional tras los disturbios creados por las protestas pro-independencia del Tíbet. El tribunal presentó como pruebas "la publicación de artículos dentro y fuera de China y aceptar entrevistas con la prensa extranjera".

En 2006, Time Magazine consideró a Zeng Jinyan una de los mil "héroes y pioneros" del mundo. En 2007, el matrimonio recibió el premio especial "China" de Reporteros sin Fronteras.

La esposa de Hu Jia desapareció antes del inicio de los Juegos Olímpicos de Pekín 2008.

El 23 de octubre de 2008, el Parlamento Europeo le condecora con el prestigioso Premio Sajarov de los derechos humanos.

El 26 de junio de 2011 terminó su detención.

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Información de Amnistía Internacional
 "The Year of the Dog - A Chinese activist's story"  (Helsingin Sanomat, 7 de febrero de 2007; en inglés)
 Resolución del Parlamento Europeo, de 17 de enero de 2008, sobre la detención del disidente chino Hu Jia

Disidentes de China
Activistas por los derechos humanos
Ganadores del Premio Sájarov
Prisioneros de conciencia de Amnistía Internacional
Nacidos en Pekín

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