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In case you didn't know, I love music videos!
In 2004, during an exercise in a course I was taking, I was repeatedly asked the question: "What do you love about your life?" In answering the question over and over again, I realized that I love waking up on a Saturday morning to watch VH1 Top 20 videos. In retrospect, my love for music videos – more specifically, the creativity, the self-expression and the music in them – has led me to create Alive with Clive the way it is today and interview so many singer/songwriters.
Over the past several months, I've been noticing that more and more independent emerging and established singer/songwriters have been releasing music videos – a trend I find most heartening!
To make it easier for you to see and appreciate existing and future music videos released by singer/songwriters who've been interviewed on Alive with Clive, I've decided to dedicate a Page here on my Blog to create The Alive with Clive Top 20 Music Videos Chart to run in conjunction with voting for The Alive with Clive Top 20.
The Press Release announcing the launch of the new Alive with Clive Top 20 Music Videos Chart under the headline, "Cassandra Kubinski, A Star of The Alive with Clive Top 20, Inspires Creation Of New Music Videos Chart!" will be published soon.
For this Chart, a music video from a singer/songwriter with the highest number of votes to be in The Alive with Clive Top 20 will rank at the top of this Chart, and music videos of singer/songwriters with fewer votes will be ranked accordingly.
Since Irena Hart is in the # 2 position in The Alive with Clive Top 20, and has released a music video for "Heartstrings," the title track from her CD, Heartstrings, her video will start out at the top of The Alive with Clive Top 20 Music Videos Chart, and will remain there for as long as she has the most votes out of all other singer/songwriters with a video to be in The Alive with Clive Top 20.
Because the two charts, The Alive with Clive Top 20 Chart and The Alive with Clive Top 20 Music Videos Chart, will be correlated with one another, a singer/songwriter who wants his or her music video to move to the top of The Alive with Clive Top 20 Music Videos Chart to attract more attention can cause that to happen by obtaining more votes to be in The Alive with Clive Top 20.
In addition, when music fans see the videos on The Alive with Clive Top 20 Music Videos Chart, they will be encouraged and reminded to vote for the singer/songwriter they like to stay at or move to the top of The Alive with Clive Top 20 Chart.
As a result of the creation of this new Chart, singer/songwriters who have released or who do release music videos will receive a boost in their campaigns to obtain votes to be in The Alive with Clive Top 20 and benefit from being included in Alive with Clive Top 20 compilations that are created from now on.
To date, while The FIRST Alive with Clive Top 20 compilation has been released and is available for purchase, the date has not yet been set for the release of The SECOND Alive with Clive Top 20. So there is ample time for singer/songwriters who are not yet in The Alive with Clive Top 20 to generate the votes to make it into The Alive with Clive Top 20 if they are not already there, or to move higher to solidify their positions in The Alive with Clive Top 20 to ensure inclusion in the The SECOND Alive with Clive Top 20 compilation.
To discover how you can obtain one of the remaining exclusive signed and numbered physical copies of the The FIRST Alive with Clive Top 20 compilation of songs (while supplies last) after you become a Bronze Member of The Alive with Clive Global Community, FREE, click here.
In its current form, The Alive with Clive Top 20 Music Videos Chart features twenty music videos that have been created by those singer/songwriters out of the 129 who have been interviewed on Alive with Clive who have released music videos. In the early days of its existence, it's possible that more than twenty music videos will be featured on this Chart, but I anticipate that over time, as more videos are produced by singer/songwriters who have been interviewed on Alive with Clive, only the Top 20 will be featured. And where a singer/songwriter has released more than one video, in all likelihood the one with the most views on YouTube will be featured.
To see the brand new Alive with Clive Top 20 Music Videos Chart, click here!
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En aéronautique
Élève contrôleur dans l'aviation civile.

En architecture
 Le module, très utilisé dans l'architecture grecque, l'architecture romaine et l'architecture classique, désigne une commune mesure conventionnelle d'une ordonnance;
 le module est le demi-diamètre du fût d'une colonne (mesure prise dans la partie basse, au-dessus du congé);
 principe, base de la construction modulaire.
 Module d'un escalier (aussi désigné pas ou foulée) : avec la pente, un des éléments de confort d'un escalier . M = 2g + h suivant la formule de l'architecte Blondel (.g est le  giron partie horizontale, h la hauteur de la marche). Sa valeur doit être comprise entre 60 et 64 cm.

En astronautique et science-fiction
Un module spatial est un petit véhicule spatial prévu pour se rattacher à un autre, plus gros, ou à une station spatiale. Les auteurs de science-fiction parlent souvent de module d'exploration pour désigner les sondes les plus complexes. Le module le plus célèbre est le LEM qui a atterri sur la Lune en 1969. On parle aussi de module de service pour les parties d'un satellite qui ne sont pas directement liées à sa mission principale. Pour une station spatiale, les modules sont ses composants d'architecture principaux: modules pressurisés,...

Au cinéma
Les modules de course ou podracers sont des véhicules de la saga Star Wars.

En hydraulique
 Dans la vis d'Archimède, le module est la longueur de la vis.

En hydrologie
 Le module d'un cours d'eau est la moyenne annuelle ou pluri-annuelle de son débit.

En informatique
 Le terme module en programmation identifie une structure de programmation.
 Module chargeable du noyau (noyau Linux ou noyau BSD ou autre).
 Un module d'extension est un logiciel prévu pour ajouter de nouvelles fonctionnalités à une application.
 Le terme module en musique et en informatique caractérise un format de donnée audio.

En jeu de rôle

Dans les premiers temps du jeu de rôle, un module était un supplément de Donjons et Dragons qui fournissait au maître de donjon un terrain d'aventure tout fait pour ses joueurs. Le terme peut faire référence à la construction modulaire des aventures : des assemblages d'éléments pris des ouvrages de référence (pièges, monstres). Certains rôlistes en ont gardé l'habitude d'appeler « module » n'importe quel scénario.

En mathématiques
Le mot module est utilisé en mathématiques pour plusieurs usages dépendant du contexte :
Le module d'un nombre complexe  est le réel positif noté |z| dont le carré vaut a²+b². Ou, sans faire intervenir la représentation complexe : le module d'un nombre complexe z est la racine carrée du produit de z par son conjugué. Cette notion généralise à l'ensemble  la notion de valeur absolue définie sur .
Par extension la norme euclidienne d'un vecteur est parfois appelée "module" du vecteur considéré.
Le module de la congruence modulo p est justement la valeur p ; voir arithmétique modulaire.
Un module  sur un anneau , est un groupe abélien muni d'une loi externe de . Les modules sur un corps sont appelés des espaces vectoriels ; ce sont les structures fondamentales  de l'algèbre linéaire.
Voir aussi forme modulaire, courbe modulaire, problème de module.

En mécanique
 Module élastique.
 Le module de Young est le coefficient d'élasticité (longitudinale) d'un matériau.
 Le module d'un engrenage est un paramètre qui conditionne le nombre de dents pour un diamètre primitif donné.

En musique
 Le terme module en musique et en informatique caractérise un format de donnée audio.

En origami
Un module d'origami est un assemblage de plusieurs origamis.

En skateboard
Un module de skatepark est un élément qui permet aux différents riders d'effectuer des tricks. Ces éléments se trouvent le plus généralement dans des skateparks.

En ski freestyle

Un module de ski freestyle est une structure construite en neige (half-pipe, tremplin de slopestyle) ou en acier (rail) permettant aux amateurs de cette discipline d'effectuer des acrobaties à ski (tricks). Généralement de la forme d'une rampe de lancement ou d'un rail métallique, il est fixe au sein d'un snowpark ou construit à la pelle (kicker), pour les besoins du ski freestyle backcountry notamment (ski acrobatique hors-piste).

En technologie

Le module en technique est un élément premier choisi, nécessairement un élément majeur, en fonction duquel toutes les autres parties seront déterminées à partir de coefficients appliqués à ce module.

À la télévision
 Les Modules (), le titre français du cinquième épisode de la quatrième saison de la série télévisée britannique Torchwood, diffusé en 2011.

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Since then Mr Sharter had a successful 10-year stint as owner of the Netherton Hall, before he bought the Sandfield farm premises in 2006.
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A spokesman for Cheshire Constabulary said there were no suspicious circumstances regarding Mr Sharter's death and an inquest has been opened.
Mr Sharter leaves behind his wife Sharon and son Joshua.


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Cardinals force four turnovers to beat Giants
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Ted Ginn Jr. ran 71 yards on a punt return for a go-ahead fourth-quarter touchdown and the Arizona Cardinals beat the error-prone New York Giants 25-14 Sunday despite playing without injured starting quarterback Carson Palmer.
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The Cardinals got the ball back right away after Quintin Demps fumbled on the ensuing kickoff return.
Eli Manning threw two touchdowns for the Giants (0-2), who turned over the ball four times.
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NAIROBI, Kenya — School children in Kenya are helping to fight deforestation by planting seeds using slingshots. It's part of an initiative by the company SeedBalls Kenya, which makes and sells seedballs globally. It encourages children to have slingshot competitions using the charcoal-covered seeds instead of stones. About 2 million seedballs have been planted in Kenya in the past year and a half in what has been called "guerrilla gardening." Kenya's government has recognized the threat from deforestation and earlier this year imposed a temporary logging ban that was extended in May by another six months. SeedBalls Kenya recycles coal dust it collects around the capital, Nairobi. It buys the seeds from the Kenya Forest Research Institute.


书籍简介: Grade 5-8-Twelve-year-old Katy is constantly making and quickly breaking resolutions about how she will change her ways and treat others, especially her five younger brothers and sisters, with more respect and compassion. When Katy meets her Cousin Helen, an invalid, Katy is awed by her kindness, prettiness, and generosity. Katy is determined to become more like Helen, a resolution that lasts only a few hours. Soon, however, Katy gets a chance to become more like cousin Helen than she ever wished as she finds herself confined to her bedroom for four years as a result of an accident. Much of the story is focused on the change Katy undergoes during her illness. Helen visits again to advise Katy to learn from her experience and to try to become the center of the house by making her room and herself more attractive to others. One way Katy decides to take Helen's advice is through assuming the responsibility of running the house, a job that consists of giving the servants instructions and ringing her bell to summon her sisters when she has a task for them. As soon as Katy has learned the lesson about how to care for others, she recovers and regains the ability to walk. Barbara Caruso's expressive narration is well done. She has given each character a distinct voice that helps portray his or her personality. This is a lengthy audiobook, but Caruso's pleasant narration helps to keep listeners' interest. Written by Susan Coolidge (Viking Penguin pap. 1997) and originally published in 1872, this work is dated and offers a limited vision of the roles of girls and women within the world and the family. Although there are moments of good storytelling, this title is too dated to be recommended for purchase.
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Area Information for Countesswells Road, Aberdeen, Scotland, AB15 8AJ
Countesswells Road in Aberdeen is in Scotland. The postcode is within the Hazlehead/Queens Cross/Countesswells ward/electoral division, which is in the UK Parliamentary Constituency of Aberdeen South. The Scottish Parliament constituency is Aberdeen South and North Kincardine. This page combines information for the address Countesswells Road, Aberdeen, Scotland, AB15 8AJ, and the neighbourhood in which it resides. If you wish, you can also view information for the whole of AB15 here. For more details on the exact area these statistics cover, please see the map below and click "Show Census Area Covered" immediately below the map.
Ward Hazlehead/Queens Cross/Countesswells
UK Parliamentary Constituency Aberdeen South
Scottish Parliament Constituency Aberdeen South and North Kincardine
Our information is available for almost all UK postcodes. Why not take a look at some of these other postcodes in the immediate vicinity of Countesswells Road, Aberdeen, Scotland, AB15 8AJ:
Macaulay Park, Hazlehead, Aberdeen, AB15 8FR
Macaulay Walk, Hazlehead, Aberdeen, AB15 8FQ
Macaulay Grange, Hazlehead, Aberdeen, AB15 8FF
Macaulay Place, Hazlehead, Aberdeen, AB15 8FP
Countesswells Road, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen, AB15 8AB
Macaulay Gardens, Hazlehead, Aberdeen, AB15 8FN
The information on housing, people, culture, employment and education that is displayed about Countesswells Road, Aberdeen, Scotland, AB15 8AJ is based on the last census performed in the UK in 2011. They are performed once every 10 years. Please note: census information may include figures for adjacent streets and postcodes. The figures are therefore representative of the local area, not a specific street address or row of houses. The census collection is designed so that each group of postcodes should contain at least 100 people (50 in Scotland). This is done to preserve the anonymity of the people in that area, as some postcodes cover a very small area, sometimes a single building. You can see the area covered by the census statistics by clicking "Show Census Area Covered" below the map above.
The area containing Countesswells Road, Aberdeen, Scotland consists predominantly of detached housing, a strong indicator of affluence. Please note that the figures may include adjacent streets - see the Summary tab for an explanation and map of the area that these figures cover.
One Person 5
Across the UK as a whole, the gender split is roughly equal at 49% male, 51% female. This address in Aberdeen South UK Parliamentary Constituency is broadly in line with those figures, with 49% male.
The postcode AB15 8AJ does not show a significant deviation from the average figures for the UK. In the UK as a whole, the average figures are approximately as follows for relationship statuses: 34% single, 47% married, 3% separated, 9% divorced, 7% widowed, and 0.2% same sex.
This area is fit as a fiddle, with over 95% of the population reporting themselves as being in Good or Very Good health at this address.
Countesswells Road and surrounding area has a larger than average concentration of residents that are degree educated or similar - 61% of the resident population. On average, around 27.1% of census respondents fall in to this category.
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Below are the details of the closest services to AB15 8AJ. All distances are straightline distances, please consult the map of the facility to check the exact location. You can also view these details on our interactive services map for AB15 8AJ.
Listed here are the 4 closest railway stations to Countesswells Road, Aberdeen, Scotland, AB15 8AJ. The nearest railway station is Aberdeen, approximately 2.2 miles away.
Portlethen 5 miles
Stonehaven 12 miles
Listed here are the 10 closest primary schools to Countesswells Road, Aberdeen, Scotland, AB15 8AJ. The nearest is Airyhall School, approximately 230 yards away.
Airyhall School 230 yards
Countesswells School 230 yards
International School of Aberdeen 0.6 miles
Hazlehead Primary School 0.9 miles
Broomhill School 1.1 miles
Kaimhill Primary School 1.1 miles
St Joseph's RC School 1.2 miles
Listed here are the 10 closest secondary schools to Countesswells Road, Aberdeen, Scotland, AB15 8AJ. The nearest is International School of Aberdeen, approximately 0.6 miles away.
Harlaw Academy 1.6 miles
St Margaret's School for Girls Aberdeen 1.6 miles
Cults Academy 1.8 miles
Listed here are the 10 closest GPs (General Practitioners) to Countesswells Road, Aberdeen, Scotland, AB15 8AJ. The nearest is Great Western Medical Practice, approximately 0.5 miles away. Please consult the facility to check if they are currently accepting new NHS patients.
Garthdee Medical Group 1.1 miles
Cults Medical Group 1.5 miles
Holburn Medical Group 1.7 miles
Rubislaw Place Medical Group 1.7 miles
Listed here are the 10 closest hospitals to Countesswells Road, Aberdeen, Scotland, AB15 8AJ. The nearest is 375 Great Western Lodge, approximately 1 mile away.
375 Great Western Lodge 1 mile
Rehabilitation Hospital 1.9 miles
Broadband in AB15 8AJ
Broadband data is based on information provided by the major fixed internet service providers in the UK, including Virgin Media and BT. It does not include providers of satellite internet. Data at this postcode has been sourced from 1 reported internet connections.
Maximum Upload Speed Reported 1.3Mbps

Local Area Information About Countesswells Road, Aberdeen, Scotland, AB15 8AJ


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Listen: Jason, Thirteen, Devante Smith discussed on VOICE Global 2021
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Those different models of content may be the wrong term. But i think you get what i'm saying like. How are you incorporating those different opportunities into how you execute cmec job on that one so being here full-time since two thousand and four things have changed in the nfl were it is a year round. It's obviously not year round sport but the news and the attention geared toward the nfl is dictate all three hundred sixty five days of the year because events like the draft. And you know right now. There's many camps and practices going on in the spring. There's always something the schedule released. This year became a huge event where. Nfl network blows it out. And there's hour long. Specials teams are doing all of this concept behind it so pretty much we have a calendar of all of our big events of the year ranging from training camps is season to the off season events and will look down the line you know one month two months three months at a time to say all right. This is on the horizon. What big things do we wanna do for this. What can we do to blow it out of the park looking at what we've done in the past with such things and then you're gonna have the day to day news things and those are the things that you need to just compliment With breaking news so on the voice app for example for the draft we had our voice. Eagles merrill reese when we drafted devante smith with the tenth overall pick. He instantly did a recording pretending that he was announcing his first touchdown in the nfl Something for fans get excited about and merrill was quite excited himself to the philadelphia. Eagles voice assistance. It's time to practice by all the first pick. The ones i spent goes deep holes. It in town one days. If you want to learn more about the draft just say tell me more about the nfl grant but we also made sure to say the nuts and bolts okay. When is the draft. Where can i follow it. Where can i watch it. Who do we pick. Who have we signed so It's that fine balance of trying to look down the road and try to plan out those big picture events and jason. That's what you and the voice team are very good with are saying. Hey look you know. Let's get ahead of some things down the road. What marquee events Do we have coming up for example. We have our annual eagles autism challenge. Which is a huge run bike Event that raises money for the eagles autism foundation. They've raised over ten million dollars into a couple of years. That's a big event coming up. It looks like it's going to be during a preseason game this summer so we're already having those talks about. What can we do to incorporate the voice experience. Because we haven't really done that in previous iterations and i'll add onto that one too it's You know we as kind of our our our content created team is marketed as eagles entertainment. you know. We have a pretty extensive catalog video and stories and articles image images on It's no tremendous wonderful articles as well throughout the season. We wanna be complementary of all of our had logs as well right so there's certain things at work really well in certain regard certain things that we think that we will be called hundred ancillary content. Where it not only can hype off the main content piece that were looking for but it can also be like a standalone piece in itself right so for example. We hired a brand new coaching staff. This year coach. Who came on from indianapolis you know. He sat down. i interview. that interview was recorded. it was a one on one exclusive Of video east that we launched on oliver forums on the voice stuff we said. Well what can we do to start enhancing that piece because fans wanna know who coach is right so you produced a acuity kind of gets yanni You know back and forth a voice conversation as a content piece Not only standalone piece but it also works in conjunction with this main piece of also putting out there and were everything together. Almost -gistically writes a be realized that there's an opportunity for that to where waste apps through conversation can also lend nicely to a understanding and getting to know somebody for example but at the same time. Hyping up some additional content that reproduced on other channels. And i feel year to really getting good at good at that. So that's kind of like our in our focus for these next year is going to be rush is a really good point. I want to add real quick. I think one of the things fell off for us. Internally was important early on was when we discussed content. It's usually okay. How's it going gonna look in an editorial form. Which is my avenue. Social video now incorporating voice into as well and it's important that on top of mind for high level executives to really buy in it. You don't have that buying. It's not gonna go far. But that increase the coolest thing that about that. Jason even our offers when they're out there in a shoot they'll be thinking about like how do we like. Excel something like this in a voice in martin. So they're out there shooting video but at the same time now they're thinking about. Is there anything that we can capture. Maybe we can use it for voice. You know i'll give you really quick example without one too but You know just miked up our offensive in these benza coordinator."
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As little something small as you know the the way that you're gonna use your phone the way you're gonna sized video doesn't fit across all those platforms so you have to make it unique to each one. I sort of see the mean where it's like. You have your lincoln picture and your instagram picture in there. Too late in world. That's the user behavior on those platforms. And you have to adjust to that so you have to learn about those different things. So i think initially were the pandemic hit us. Is that my access personally. Working directly with players and coaches was extremely limited. It was very much from afar. It was all virtual. It was all at a distance whereas on a typical day in a normal season. I'd be in the locker room with the players every day. I can get exclusive interviews. I can get you know fun. Facts about the place. I can have players. Do voice recordings things that could really enhance voice app so we had a kind thing baby steps. I would say this first year. We will leverage leverage. The voice of the eagles reese who has an iconic voice and it beloved by the fans and. There's those things that we wanted to build up. We had a couple of different marketing pushes throughout the year. One late in the two thousand and twenty regular season another one just around the twenty twenty one nfl draft. I think the big thing for us there was. Let's have something where fans will come. They can experience it. Get a taste of it and hopefully a that. The product works and it does seem experienced. Because if it's if it's wonky or anything like that they're not gonna wanna come back and be. Just give them something. Tammy's point about you know his kid playing on the disney app or any video game. You you have that reason to come back and it makes me think of my boys who are thirteen. Eleven and there the video games they play. It's like they add little. You know things where you can get custom uniforms. Or you know different rewards. It's that little gift that little treat. That makes you keep coming back from so you. You both brought up to subjects. That i think everyone that's looking to get into. This channel is very interested in hearing stories about one is content and the other is team right. So let's take them one by one so when it comes to content and we look at. We've looked at your editorial calendar. You know over the past year you guys have these ten goals of events right and that can be considered like these are the things you anticipate. We're going have draft day. We're going to have a early training. We're going to have the season you don't know what's going to happen in the season. So you've got this plan of what feels like back. In the day we call it sort of evergreen content versus like opportunistic. Contact the thing that we know we're going to do versus the things that are just gonna show up at our doorstep and we got to be prepared to execute. How are you guys thinking through. Those different models of content may be the wrong term. But i think you get what i'm saying like. How are you incorporating those different opportunities into how you execute cmec job on that one so being here full-time since two thousand and four things have changed in the nfl were it is a year round. It's obviously not year round sport but the news and the attention geared toward the nfl is dictate all three hundred sixty five days of the year because events like the draft. And you know right now. There's many camps and practices going on in the spring. There's always something the schedule released. This year became a huge event where. Nfl network blows it out. And there's hour long. Specials teams are doing all of this concept behind it so pretty much we have a calendar of all of our big events of the year ranging from training camps is season to the off season events and will look down the line you know one month two months three months at a time to say all right. This is on the horizon. What big things do we wanna do for this. What can we do to blow it out of the park looking at what we've done in the past with such things and then you're gonna have the day to day news things and those are the things that you need to just compliment With breaking news so on the voice app for example for the draft we had our voice. Eagles merrill reese when we drafted devante smith with the tenth overall pick. He instantly did a recording pretending that he was announcing his first touchdown in the nfl Something for fans get excited about and merrill was quite excited himself to the philadelphia. Eagles voice assistance. It's time to practice by all the first pick. The ones i spent goes deep holes. It in town one days. If you want to learn more about the draft just say tell me more about the nfl grant but we also made sure to say the nuts and bolts okay. When is the draft. Where can i follow it. Where can i watch it. Who do we pick. Who have we signed so It's that fine balance of trying to look down the road and try to plan out those big picture events and jason. That's what you and the voice team are very good with are saying. Hey look you know. Let's get ahead of some things down the road. What marquee events Do we have coming up for example. We have our annual eagles autism challenge. Which is a huge run bike Event that raises money for the eagles autism foundation. They've raised over ten million dollars into a couple of years. That's a big event coming up. It looks like it's going to be during a preseason game this summer so we're already having those talks about. What can we do to incorporate the voice experience. Because we haven't really done that in previous iterations and i'll add onto that one too it's You know we as kind of our our our content created team is marketed as eagles entertainment. you know. We have a pretty extensive catalog video and stories and articles image images on It's no tremendous wonderful articles as well throughout the season. We wanna be complementary of all of our had logs as well right so there's certain things at work really well in certain regard certain things that we think that we will be called hundred ancillary content. Where it not only can hype off the main content piece that were looking for but it can also be like a standalone piece in itself right so for example. We hired a brand new coaching staff. This year coach. Who came on from indianapolis you know. He sat down. i interview. that interview was recorded. it was a one on one exclusive Of video east that we launched on oliver forums on the voice stuff we said. Well what can we do to start enhancing that piece because fans wanna know who coach is right so you produced a acuity kind of gets yanni You know back and forth a voice conversation as a content piece Not only standalone piece but it also works in conjunction with this main piece of also putting out there and were everything together. Almost -gistically writes a be realized that there's an opportunity for that to where waste apps through conversation can also lend nicely to a understanding and getting to know somebody for example but at the same time. Hyping up some additional content that reproduced on other channels. And i feel year to really getting good at good at that. So that's kind of like our in our focus for these next year is going to be rush is a really good point. I want to add real quick. I think one of the things fell off for us. Internally was important early on was when we discussed content. It's usually okay. How's it going gonna look in an editorial form. Which is my avenue. Social video now incorporating voice into as well and it's important that on top of mind for high level executives to really buy in it. You don't have that buying. It's not gonna go far. But that increase the coolest thing that about that. Jason even our offers when they're out there in a shoot they'll be thinking about like how do we like. Excel something like this in a voice in martin. So they're out there shooting video but at the same time now they're thinking about. Is there anything that we can capture. Maybe we can use it for voice. You know i'll give you really quick example without one too but You know just miked up our offensive in these benza coordinator.


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Molts països han signat tractats fiscals bilaterals o convenis de doble imposició amb altres països per evitar o mitigar la doble imposició. Aquests tractats poden incloure diversos impostos incloent impostos sobre la renda, impostos sobre l'herència, impostos sobre el valor afegit o altres impostos. A més dels tractats bilaterals, també hi ha tractats multilaterals. Per exemple, els països de la Unió Europea (UE) són parts en un acord multilateral pel que fa als impostos sobre el valor afegit sota els auspicis de la UE, mentre que el Tractat d'assistència administrativa mútua del Consell d'Europa i de l'Organització de Cooperació i Desenvolupament Econòmic (OCDE) està oberta a tots els països. Els tractats fiscals solen reduir els impostos d'un país tractat per als residents de l'altre país tractat per reduir la doble imposició dels mateixos ingressos.

Les disposicions i els objectius varien significativament, i són molt pocs els tractats fiscals. La majoria de tractats:
 definir quins impostos estan coberts i qui és un resident i pot optar a les prestacions,
 reduir les quantitats d'impostos retinguts dels interessos, els dividends i cànons que paga un resident d'un país als residents de l'altre país,
 limitar l'impost d'un país sobre la renda empresarial d'un resident de l'altre país a aquells ingressos d'un establiment permanent del primer país,
 definir les circumstàncies en què seran tributats els ingressos de les persones residents en un país a l'altre país, inclosos el sou, la feina per compte propi, les pensions i altres ingressos,
 preveure l'exempció per a certs tipus d'organitzacions o individus, i
 proporcionar marcs de procediment per a l'aplicació i resolució de disputes.

Els objectius marcats per entrar en un tractat sovint inclouen reduir la doble imposició, eliminar l'evasió fiscal i fomentar l'eficiència comercial transfronterera. Generalment s'accepta que els tractats fiscals milloren la certesa per als contribuents i les autoritats fiscals en el seu tracte internacional.

Diversos governs i organitzacions utilitzen tractats model com a punts de partida. Els tractats de doble imposició generalment segueixen el model de convenció de l'OCDE i el comentari oficial i els comentaris dels membres sobre això serveixen d'orientació per a la interpretació de cada país membre. Altres models rellevants són la Convenció Model de les Nacions Unides, en el cas dels tractats amb països en desenvolupament i la Convenció Model dels Estats Units, en el cas dels tractats negociats amb els Estats Units.

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The Washington Post showcases Briggo, a barista robot capable of displacing four humans while still delivering customised specialty coffees consistently right every time. Not everyone is impressed.
But automation critics claim that machines ultimately harm more workers than they help. Last month, Erikka Knuti — communications director for the United Food and Commercial Workers Union — said too many businesses treat customer service as a line-item cost instead of an investment. In addition to eliminating jobs, she said, removing people from transactions degrades the product that businesses are selling. "Retailers and businesses underestimate the importance of the customer service interaction —— that point when a customer hands over their money and they get a warm smile in return that tells them they're valued," she said.


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Home Entertainment Check Out Duran Duran's Cover Of David Bowie's "Five Years"
Check Out Duran Duran's Cover Of David Bowie's "Five Years"
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Duran Duran have released their version of David Bowie's track "Five Years", to honour the music icon. David Bowie passed away in 2016 and this month would have marked the singer's 74th birthday..
This comes as the band appeared alongside several high profile figures in a livestream A Bowie Celebration: Just for One Day. It was organised by Bowie's long time pianist, Mike Garson. Stars included Boy George, Ricky Gervais and Slipknot's Corey Taylor among others.
"All about David Bowie"
Regarding the band's cover, Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon said that David Bowie was the "reason I started writing songs". Le Bon said, "My life as a teenager was all about David Bowie. Adding, "Part of me still can't believe in his death five years ago, but maybe that's because there's a part of me where he's still alive and always will be".
Le Bon continued, "When we got the 'Ziggy Stardust' LP and put the needle in the groove, our first taste of its perfection was the song 'Five Years'".
Simon Le Bon described being asked to help commemorate the music of David Bowie as an honour.
He said, "I can't begin to explain how honoured I feel for Duran Duran to be given the opportunity to perform this icon, and to place our name alongside Bowie's for this commemoration of his music".
Duran Duran plans for 2021
Meanwhile, Duran Duran have announced they will play at London's Hyde Park this July. Before that, they plan to start their tour in St Anne's Park on June 13.
Depending on the Covid-19 situation, the band are set to play at this Summer's festival. The event was cancelled last April due to the pandemic. Last April, the band's bassist John Taylor tested positive for Covid-19.
The new date is set for 11 July 2021. If it goes ahead as planned, it will be the band's first gig in the English capital since 2014. Nile Rodgers, Chic and Grace Jones are also set to perform at the event.
On this annoucement last November, Le Bon said, "We are so happy to announce the new date for our return to Hyde Park,".
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You're Never Too Old To Sing! Yes, He is 74 Years Old "Frank Sinatra"
Frank is 74 years old. He's retired but been singing all his life. He worked as a bartender for 50 years. Deep in his heart, he really wanted to sing on a big stage. In fact it's his dream. Fortunately to some ladies, Frank is still single. Be surprised how he owned the America's Got Talent Stage! Better late than never. He dazzled with "I've Got the World on a String" by Frank Sinatra. A dream come true for a fine "once young" man! It's true, you're never too old to sing.
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A Seminar entitled "Thirty Years of Legal Scholarship in Ireland" was held in Trinity College Dublin on February 26th to mark the 30th Anniversary of the Irish Association of Law Teachers. The seminar consisted of three papers given by three highly regarded academics in Ireland which will be followed by a response from the Chairperson. Following the seminar, a reception was held at Trinity College Dublin at which the website of the Association was formally launched. The Association also announced details of a new Book Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship by an Irish academic.
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Minority Ph.D. students in STEM fare better with clear expectations, acceptance
by Morgan	on 2 Dec 2019 27 Sep 2019
Taken from https://www.washington.edu/news/2019/01/09/minority-ph-d-students-in-stem-fare-better-with-clear-expectations-acceptance/
Women and underrepresented minorities in STEM fields are more likely to advance professionally, publish more research and secure postdoctoral and faculty positions if their institutional culture is welcoming and sets clear expectations, according to a study of hundreds of Ph.D. students at four top-tier California research universities.
Mark Richards, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the UW.Courtesy photo
University of Washington Provost Mark Richards, the study's senior author, and a team of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) sought to understand how gender, race and ethnicity impact graduate students' success in math, physical sciences, computer sciences and engineering, as measured by publication rates in academic journals.
The findings, published Wednesday in the journal PLOS ONE, suggest that doctoral scholars in STEM fields are more likely to publish if enrolled in well-structured graduate programs that lay out clear, unbiased expectations for assessing students and supporting their careers.
"Our study strongly indicates that the onus should not fall on minority students to make changes to succeed in STEM settings," said Aaron Fisher, an assistant professor of psychology at UC Berkeley and lead author of the study. "Institutional changes that make students feel welcome and provide clear guidelines and standards for performance are optimal ways to ensure the success of all students."
"An important implication of this research, as reflected in several papers our group has published recently, is that essential interventions that promote the success of underrepresented minority and women PhD students in STEM fall mainly in the realm of academic culture, and do not necessarily require the investment of major resources. These interventions benefit all students, along with students who have been traditionally underrepresented in the STEM fields," said Richards, a UC Berkeley professor emeritus of earth and planetary science who became provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the UW in July.
The interventions identified in the study are especially relevant to the success of black graduate students, who are publishing at lower rates than their peers, Fisher said.
While white, Asian and underrepresented minority males and females in STEM fields recruited for the study at the four campuses were found to have published at roughly equivalent rates, black graduate students were nearly three times less likely to have published a paper in an academic journal.
However, when accounting for black students' perceptions of departmental structure and sense of preparedness and belonging, the statistical model used in the study shows that this racial disparity may be due in large part to negative experiences associated with being a minority in otherwise white settings.
"African Americans have been communicating for decades about the difficulties and discomforts of being black in white-majority settings, and our data represent a clear example of empirical support for that narrative," Fisher said. "It's not so much that being black results in fewer publications, but that the experience of being black in a university setting presents challenges and obstacles that white students are either not facing, or facing to a lesser degree."
Among the new efforts underway under Berkeley's leadership is the Research Exchange, a national consortium of nine universities made up of the four California Alliance campuses as well as Georgia Tech; Harvard; the University of Michigan; the University of Texas, Austin; and the UW. The Research Exchange facilitates inter-institutional visits for advanced underrepresented graduate students from these nine top-tier institutions to expand their visibility and experience when applying for elite postdoctoral and faculty positions.
The UW has long been committed to increasing the number of women and underrepresented minorities in STEM fields and was one of the original National Science Foundation ADVANCE grant recipients that developed a host of interventions to make the campus climate more welcoming for both students and faculty from these groups.
"Provost Richards' commitment to diversifying the STEM study body, faculty, and workforce – and his deep belief that diversity is critical to excellence – was something that last year's provost search committee saw as an important strength," said UW President Ana Mari Cauce. "We expect that under his academic leadership the UW will continue to be a leader in this regard."
The newly published study was conducted through the UC Berkeley-led California Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP), a partnership of UC Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford and Caltech that seeks to boost the ranks of underrepresented minorities in STEM fields among the graduate students, postdocs, and faculty at research universities.
Previous research published by UC Berkeley members of the alliance, which was launched in 2014 with a $2.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation, found that underrepresented minorities publish in academic journals at significantly lower rates than their majority counterparts, placing them at a disadvantage in competing for postdoctoral and faculty positions.
"Publishing in academic journals is a key predictor of future success in academia, which is why our research is so concerned with this often-neglected indicator," Richards said.
In addition to Fisher and Richards, co-authors of the paper are Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, Colette Patt, Ira Young and Andrew Eppig of UC Berkeley; Robin Garrell of UCLA; Douglas Rees of Caltech; and Tenea Nelson of Stanford University.
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Secondary storage is also known as external memory, secondary memory or auxiliary memory. It is non-volatile storage, which means it does not lose data then the device is powered off. It is also not directly accessible by the CPU and it is not accessed using input / output channels.
Secondary memory is cheaper and larger than the Primary storage. Secondary storage devices have more access time because they are external devices. The read and write speed of the Secondary storage is also less in comparison to that of the Primary memory (RAM, Cache, Registers). Flash Drives, USB Thumb or pen drives, memory cards, Hard Disk Drive (HDD) and Solid Sate Drive (SSD) are examples of Secondary storage. It also sometimes called as permanent storage.
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Locksmithing 101 | Lock Hardware Grades 1,2, and 3
As a locksmith, you should be familiar with hardware grades, particularly lock hardware grades. If not, I'm going to go over the three of them. Talk a bit about each one of them, and then I want to tie it together to explain why this is so important for the security professional.
Door hardware grades are classified into Grade 1, Grade 2, and Grade 3. They came about by two organizations coming together and developing a set of standards that a lock has to go through to be put in one grade over the other. Those two organizations were the ANSI, the American National Standards Institute, and the BHMA, Builders Hardware Manufacturers Association.
What they did for door hardware is they developed a set of tests that the lock has to go through in order to be put in the proper grade. Those five tests are Strength test, Cycle Test, Security Test, Material Evaluation, and then a Finished Test. All five of those are great when I was going through those and looking at them like, you know what, one that stands out to me over the others is the Cycle Test.
I think that's closest to the real world that we live in. When a lock gets put on a door, in my opinion, if it's not going to pass along the Cycle Test, it doesn't matter the strength per se of the lock, or the security of the lock, or how great the finishes is. It is because that lock is not going to be on that door for very long. What I found interesting are the cycles that the grades had to go through to pass. These cycles I'm going to go over are the minimum standards. Grade 3 has to go through a 200,000-cycle test. That doesn't mean the lock could go to 500,000 to pass that test, but it had to pass the 200,000 cycle test to be approved for a Grade 3.
While Grade 2 has to go through a 400,000-cycle test, which is double over the residential lock.
And to top it up, Grade 1 must go through a million-cycle test. So, to me, the difference between a Grade 2, a light-duty commercial lock, and a Grade 1, a heavy-duty commercial lock, is considerable. It's over double of the Cycle Test between a Grade 2 and a Grade 1.
It got me thinking that the residential is standard. Still, when it comes to commercials, that's a massive difference between the cycle tests, and I think that's important for us as security professionals. That when we're out replacing hardware, we have to think through. I know there's a tendency to put Grade 2 locks on; they are a little less expensive than they're decent locks for sure, but when you think about the cycle tests, Grade 2 and Grade 1 have to go through's a vast difference. I think it's essential for us to make sure that we're putting the right lock on the right door. And by knowing that cycle test, I hope it really will help you make good decisions when it comes to putting the right lock on the right door. That's it! Thank you, guys, and we'll see you next time!
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He Survived Cancer. It Was A Florida Beach That Killed Him.
July 12, 2019 Headline Health 0
Image: #KenFL74, CC BY-SA 3.0
Flesh-eating bacteria kills Memphis man who visited Florida waterways
| Daughter says victim was a cancer survivor
| By Susan Scutti, Jul 12, 2019
CNN – A Tennessee man died Sunday after he became infected with Vibrio vulnificus, a type of flesh-eating bacteria, while vacationing in Okaloosa County, Florida, his daughter said.
"Flesh Eating Bacteria sounds like an urban legend. Let me assure you that it is not. It took my Dad's life," Cheryl Bennett Wiygul wrote Wednesday in a Facebook post.
Vibrio causes an estimated 80,000 illnesses and 100 deaths in the United States every year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the federal government's public health agency.
People with vibriosis become infected either by consuming raw or undercooked seafood or by exposing a wound to seawater.
Weakened immune system
Wiygul begins her description of her family's ordeal by noting that her father had a compromised immune system due to cancer.
"He's battled cancer for many years and has been in the water several times so it didn't seem like a risk," she wrote.
Yet due to recent reports of infections in people who visited Florida beaches, Wiygul said, she researched the topic and took precautions when her parents visited from Memphis in early July.
Her father "didn't have any open wounds," and she made sure the few small scratches on his arms "were super sealed up," she wrote.
During their visit, she and her parents spent time in a boat on the bay, rode watercraft and swam in a bayou, splashed around a creek, swam in a pool and went to the Destin beach.
"Daddy stayed up late Friday night and watched a movie," Wiygul wrote, adding that he "seemed to feel fine as he did all week."
Yet, at 4 a.m. Saturday — just 12 hours after their last swim — he woke with a fever, chills and cramping.
He got worse on the way home to Memphis, Wiygul wrote: "His legs started to hurt severely. He was becoming extremely uncomfortable." Read more.
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Conventional wisdom about 18 months ago was that netbooks were designed for children and developing markets. After all, that was the market that the OLPC Foundation was targeting, and what was the OLPC XO Laptop if not the first netbook? Asus took some cues from the OLPC project with the first Eee PC by building a tiny laptop which was a bit more durable than conventional laptops thanks to the use of flash memory instead of a hard drive. But Asus, Intel, and other major players assumed that computers with tiny screens and keyboards, little processing power, and little storage space wouldn't appeal to grownups in developed nations in Europe, Asia, and North America.
But you know what appeals to grownups? Bargains. And after we'd all been told for decades that you had to pay a premium for a small and light computer, the idea of a sub-$400 laptop that weighs less than 3 pounds was too appealing to pass up. And netbooks began selling like crazy in developed nations in 2008.
Apparently Intel Senior VP Anand Chandrasekher never got the message. Because CNET reports that he told the audience at the Intel Developer Forum that netbooks are still for kids.
One of his basic assertions is sound: There are certain things that you can do with a more powerful notebook that you can't do on a netbook. For instance, I wouldn't expect a cheap netbook to play Call of Duty 4, at least not without an NVIDIA Ion chipset. But that doesn't mean it's not for adults. Becuase it turns out that often all adults need from a computer is a good web browser, internet connection, access to Office software, and a few other applications. And netbooks handle those just fine.
While some netbooks are certainly being purchased and used by school districts, that's not the primary market for most mini-laptops today.
Of course, back in November, another Intel executive indicated that while the chip maker had expected netbooks to sell in developing markets, most mini-laptops were actually being sold in developed nations. So it appears that some people at Intel clearly understand that the netbook market has grown in ways the company didn't really expect. But there's one message that Intel has been sending consistently: Netbooks are not as powerful as full sized laptops. Translation: Please buy our more expensive products too.
Someone should tell Intel that the Genie is out of the bottle and cannot be put back in.
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You forget the basic matra, what Intel gives, Microsoft takes away. It has always worked on the desktop. Lets hope it does not work on netbooks.
I have to admit I vacillate between fury and laughing when the computer industry tries to diminish mini-notebooks. I suppose I should just calm the ____ down sometimes, but it irks me all the same that the industry seem bent on selling us what makes them the most profit instead of what consumers need that would still be profitable.
Mini-notebooks could open up the market, placing not just a second computer in some homes but a first computer in hundreds of millions more homes. And, without a doubt small notebooks could be the second computers in just as many homes as well. These small inexpensive computers could be an insanely large market if the industry doesn't wreck it. Environmentally speaking, maybe that is horrible, but as a goal for the tech industry from top to bottom more computers would be helpful you would think.


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'Thursday Night Football' picks and open thread: Bills at Patriots
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Thursday Night Football is here! DraftKings Sportsbook has the Buffalo Bills opening as 4-point favorites on the road against division rivals the New England Patriots. This part should come as no major surprise, given that the Bills are 8-3 and all three of their losses have been at the hands of teams who currently have winning records. The Patriots may be 6-5, but they have a couple bad losses on their resume (see: Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears). Both the Bills and Pats lost to the Minnesota Vikings and Miami Dolphins, who are both looking like locks to make the playoffs at this point. The Patriots did sweep the 7-4 New York Jets, whereas the Bills lost their first matchup with Robert Saleh's over-performing squad.
Interestingly enough, Bills head coach Sean McDermott has had mixed success against the Patriots, but his fortunes seem to be trending up; after literally never beating Tom Brady as a head coach (and I mean never), Buffalo has gone 3-1 against New England since 2020, according to StatHead. Their only loss in this series was at home during a windstorm game in which Mac Jones threw three passes and "led" his team to a 14-10 victory. Now, I don't want to alarm any Bills fans around here, but the weather in Boston is looking kind of similar — winds up to 30mph, which should settle down a bit into the evening, though it will remain gusty into the night.
Another resemblance to this last game is that the Bills were coming off a hot start to the season — starting out 4-0 — before going 3-5 over their next eight games. The drop off hasn't been as dramatic this season, to be sure; after starting 6-1, they have been 2-2 over the last four games and are hoping to regain some footing in a hyper competitive AFC East that features four teams with winning records. The Patriots, on the other hand, are looking up at the rest of the division right now; QB Mac Jones has been having a rough go of it, and the team has largely succeeded on the strength of their defense, which is ranked 1st in Football Outsiders' weighted DVOA. The Bills rank 4th in the same metric though, and they are definitely the more complete team right now. I think that the Bills pull this one out, but New England will keep it close until the end.
The Pick: Under 43.5 points, Bills win straight up but Patriots cover the spread.


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Coach Grant speaks at Birmingham Tip Off Club
The Birmingham Tip-Off club hosted a recruitment party/panel discussion at Iron City last night. First of all, I want to say this was an excellent event, very well organized and very well attended. I would estimate close to 1,000 people were there including members and prospective members. It was great seeing that many people excited about basketball at this time of the year in the city come together.
Joe Dean Jr.emceed the festivities which featured a panel discussion with Coach Grant, UAB Coach Jerod Hasse, and former auburn player and assistant coach Chuck Person. Bruce Pearl supposedly suffered a back injury a couple of days ago and was unable to attend, but he taped a video from his home that was played at the beginning of the ceremonies.
Pearl said that he was excited about the challenges at auburn, and looks forward to having a great rivalry with Coach Grant to improve the game of basketball within the state, and said they have "too much respect for each other to take the rivalry too far." You can tell the guy is full of B.S. He did state that they have sold out every season ticket available and sold out their first exhibition and season opening games.
The loudest applause of the night came when he said they were in discussions about playing UAB. Jerod Hasse also echoed that sentiment and said they are hoping to start a regular series at the BJCC. Both Person and Hasse spoke of the importance of playing in-state schools to generate interest within sport. Obviously, Coach Grant's hands are tied on this one. I know some will disagree with me, but Paul Bryant Jr. needs to remove his head from his ass and allow us to schedule UAB (and Troy, and South Alabama, etc, for that matter). I understand the animosity, but most of that originated with Gene Bartow who is now worm food. We will always have a strong alumni base in Birmingham, but we are losing ground in the local basketball community to auburn because of the way we treat UAB.
Chuck Person has a good sense of humor and was moderately entertaining. He said the good news for auburn is they have a lot of guys coming back, which is also the bad news. Coach Grant said he was optimistic about our depth, and said we should be able to use more guys than we have in the past. Jerod Hasse was also excited about the Blazers depth, and said he anticipates playing being one of the fastest teams in the country this year.
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I had the chance to speak with some of the coaches from the smaller schools, and they are generally unimpressed with Alabama's fundamentals. "Very talented, but not very skilled" was the general impression.
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Dohar () is an upazila of Dhaka District in the division of Dhaka, Bangladesh. The upazila is situated in the southernmost part of Dhaka District. The Padma River borders the southern part of the upazila.

History
During the British period, farmers in this area were forced to cultivate nil (indigo) and joined the indigo rebellion. Mahatma Gandhi visited the area in 1940.

Geography
Dohar is an upazila of Dhaka district is located at . It has 31,645 households and a total area of 161.49 km2.
One of the largest rivers of Bangladesh, the Padma, is situated in the southern, south central-western and south-western part of Dohar. This upazila is bordered by Nawabganj, Sri Nagar and a small part of Sirajdikhan, which is an upazila of the district Munshiganj (formerly known as Bikrampur). North side Manikgonj Dist. and West side is Padma river/Faridpur Dist.

Demographics
As of the 2011 Bangladesh census, Dohar has a population of 2,26,439. Males constituted 47.27% of the population and females 52.73%. This upazila's eighteen-up population is 1,51,770. Dohar had an average literacy rate of 32.9% (7+ years) compared with the national average of 32.4% literacy. The rate of literacy is increasing nowadays.

Points of interest
The sandy beach at Moinot Ghat, on the Padma River, is a day trip destination for Dhakaites.

Administration
Dohar Upazila is divided into Dohar Municipality and eight union parishads: Bilaspur, Kushumhati, Mahmudpur, Muksudpur, Narisha, Nayabari, Roypara, and Sutarpara. The union parishads are subdivided into 91 mauzas and 133 villages.

Dohar Municipality is subdivided into 9 wards and 26 mahallas.

References

Upazilas of Dhaka District


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Q: Why does comparing two images take longer when running the procedure in parallel using python's Pool module? I'm developing a program that involves computing similarity scores for around 480 pairs of images (20 directories with around 24 images in each). I'm utilizing the sentence_transformers Python module for image comparison, and it takes around 0.1 - 0.2 seconds on my Windows 11 machine to compare two images when running in serial, but for some reason, that time gets increased to between 1.5 and 3.0 seconds when running in parallel using a process Pool. So, either a), there's something going on behind the scenes that I'm not yet aware of, or b) I just did it wrong.
Here's a rough structure of the image comparison function:
def compare_images(image_one, image_two, clip_model):
    start = time()
    images = [image_one, image_two]
    # clip_model is set to SentenceTransformer('clip-ViT-B-32') elsewhere in the code
    encoded_images = clip_model.encode(images, batch_size = 2, convert_to_tensor = True, show_progress_bar = False)
    processed_images = util.paraphrase_mining_embeddings(encoded_images)
    stop = time()
    print("Comparison time: %f" % (stop - start) )
    score, image_id1, image_id2 = processed_images[0]
    return score

Here's a rough structure of the serial version of the code to compare every image:
def compare_all_images(candidate_image, directory, clip_model):
    for dir_entry in os.scandir(directory):
        dir_image_path = dir_entry.path
        dir_image = Image.open(dir_image_path)
        similiarity_score = compare_images(candidate_image, dir_image, clip_model)

        # ... code to determine whether this is the maximum score the program has seen...

Here is a rough structure of the parallel version:
def compare_all_images(candidate_image, directory, clip_model):
    pool_results = dict()
    pool = Pool()

    for dir_entry in os.scandir(directory):
        dir_image_path = dir_entry.path
        dir_image = Image.open(dir_image_path)
        pool_results[dir_image_path] = pool.apply_async(compare_images, args = (candidate_image, dir_image, clip_model)

    # Added everything to the pool, close it and wait for everything to finish
    pool.close()
    pool.join()

    # ... remaining code to determine which image has the highest similarity rating

I'm not sure where I might be erring.
The interesting thing here is that I also developed a smaller program to verify whether I was doing things correctly:
def func():
    sleep(6)

def main():
    pool = Pool()
    for i in range(20):
        pool.apply_async(func)
    pool.close()

    start = time()
    pool.join()
    stop = time()
    print("Time: %f" % (stop - start) ) # This gave an average of 12 seconds
                                        # across multiple runs on my Windows 11
                                        # machine, on which multiprocessing.cpu_count=12

Is this a problem with trying to make things parallel with sentence transformers, or does the problem lie elsewhere?
UPDATE: Now I'm especially confused. I'm now only passing str objects to the comparison function and have temporarily slapped a return 0 as the very first line in the function to see if I can further isolate the issue. Oddly, even though the parallel function is doing absolutely nothing now, several seconds (usually around 5) still seem to pass between the time that the pool is closed and the time that pool.join() finishes. Any thoughts?
UPDATE 2: I've done some more playing around, and have found out that an empty pool still has some overhead. This is the code I'm testing out currently:
            # ...
            pool = Pool()

            pool.close()
            start = time()
            DebuggingUtilities.debug("empty pool closed, doing a join on the empty pool to see if directory traversal is messing things up")
            pool.join()
            stop = time()

            DebuggingUtilities.debug("Empty pool join time: %f" % (stop - start) )

This gives me an "Empty pool join time" of about 5 seconds. Moving this snippet to the very first part of my main function still yields the same. Perhaps Pool works differently on Windows? In WSL (Ubuntu 20.04), the same code runs in about 0.02 seconds. So, what would cause even an empty Pool to hang for such a long time on Windows?
UPDATE 3: I've made another discovery. The empty pool problem goes away if the only imports I have are from multiprocessing import Pool and from time import time. However, the program uses a boatload of import statements across several source files, which causes the program to hang a bit when it first starts. I suspect that this is propagating down into the Pool for some reason. Unfortunately, I need all of the import statements that are in the source files, so I'm not sure how to get around this (or why the imports would affect an empty Pool).
UPDATE 4: So, apparently it's the from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer line that's causing issues (without that import, the pool.join() call happens relatively quickly. I think the easiest solution now is to simply move the compare_images function into a separate file. I'll update this question again with updates as I implement this.
UPDATE 5: I've done a little more playing around, and it seems like on Windows, the import statements get executed multiple times whenever a Pool gets created, which I think is just weird. Here's the code I used to verify this:
from multiprocessing import Pool
from datetime import datetime
from time import time
from utils import test

print("outside function lol")

def get_time():

    now = datetime.now()

    return "%02d/%02d/%04d - %02d:%02d:%02d" % (now.month, now.day, now.year, now.hour, now.minute, now.second)

def main():
    pool = Pool()

    print("Starting pool")

    """
    for i in range(4):
        print("applying %d to pool %s" % (i, get_time() ) )
        pool.apply_async(test, args = (i, ) )
    """

    pool.close()
    print("Pool closed, waiting for all processes to finish")
    start = time()
    pool.join()

    stop = time()

    print("pool done: %f" % (stop - start) )

if __name__ == "__main__":

    main()

Running through Windows command prompt:
outside function lol
Starting pool
Pool closed, waiting for all processes to finish
outside function lol
outside function lol
outside function lol
outside function lol
outside function lol
outside function lol
outside function lol
outside function lol
outside function lol
outside function lol
outside function lol
outside function lol
pool done: 4.794051

Running through WSL:
outside function lol
Starting pool
Pool closed, waiting for all processes to finish
pool done: 0.048856

UPDATE 6: I think I might have a workaround, which is to create the Pool in a file that doesn't directly or indirectly import anything from sentence_transformers. I then pass the model and anything else I need from sentence_transformers as parameters to a function that handles the Pool and kicks off all of the parallel processes. Since the sentence_transformers import seems to be the only problematic one, I'll wrap that import statement in an if __name__ == "__main__" so it only runs once, which will be fine, as I'm passing the things I need from it as parameters. It's a rather janky solution, and probably not what others would consider as "Pythonic", but I have a feeling this will work.
UPDATE 7: The workaround was successful. I've managed to get the pool join time on an empty pool down to something reasonable (0.2 - 0.4 seconds). The downside of this approach is that there is definitely considerable overhead in passing the entire model as a parameter to the parallel function, which I needed to do as a result of creating the Pool in a different place than the model was being imported. I'm quite close, though.

A: I've done a little more digging, and think I've finally discovered the root of the problem, and it has everything to do with what's described here.
To summarize, on Linux systems, processes are forked from the main process, meaning that the current process state is copied (which is why the import statements don't run multiple times). On Windows (and macOS), processes are spawned, meaning that interpreter starts at the beginning of the "main" file, thus running all import statements again. So, the behavior I'm seeing is not a bug, but I will need to rethink my program design to account for this.

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