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MariaDB's Latest Update Promises Peace of Mind
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At times, there is a need to have security within the database be a bit more sophisticated than what is available. On specific tables, there may be a need to limit access to a subset of rows, or a subset of columns to specific users. Yes indeed, views have always existed, and yes indeed, views can be established limiting rows or columns displayed. However, views only can go so far.
DBA Corner: Implementing DBA Best Practices
What are the practices and procedures that you have found to be most helpful to automate in administering your databases? Yes, I know that automation has been a standard claim for most DBMS vendors, as well as third-party DBA tool vendors, for many years. But are you really anywhere closer to an "on demand," "lights-out," "24/7" database environment yet?
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Real Time Begins to Dominate Data-Driven Agendas
IT executives and their business counterparts understand the importance of a strong data strategy and its value to their businesses, and most are starting to get the key pieces in place to drive transformation through next-generation technologies and processes. One in four enterprises now regards real-time data as critical to their ongoing operations—and another one in four is actively preparing to introduce real-time data capabilities into their infrastructures, according to a new Unisphere Research survey.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Beta Now Available
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 beta is now available. The beta release was announced in a Red Hat blog post by Chris Baker.The latest update to the stable and more secure Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 platform marks the final release in the Full Support Phase (formerly known as "Production Phase 1") of the RHEL 7 lifecycle as described in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Lifecycle.
Open Mainframe Project Launches Summer Internship to Train the Next Generation of Mainframe Engineers
The Open Mainframe Project (OMP), an open source initiative that enables collaboration across the mainframe community to develop shared tool sets and resources, announced the launch of this year's internship program with 9 global students. Each intern will be paired with mentors from member organizations such as Red Hat, IBM, Sine Nomine Associates and SUSE who designed a project to address a specific mainframe development or research challenge.
SnapLogic Becomes CoupaLink Technology Partner
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Experts Share How to Capitalize on Your Data Lake
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Arcserve Enables Full System High Availability for Windows and Linux
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DBTA's next Data Summit conference will be held May 19-20, 2020, with pre-conference workshops on Monday, May 18. The conference will return to the Hyatt Regency Boston.
AtScale Introduces New Round of Updates for its Flagship Platform
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Migrating Oracle to the Cloud?
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Snowflake Creates the Snowflake Data Exchange
Snowflake, the data warehouse built for the cloud, is introducing the Snowflake Data Exchange, an all-new shared data experience. The Data Exchange is a free-to-join marketplace that enables Snowflake customers to connect with data from providers to seamlessly discover, access, and generate insights from data.
Microsoft and Oracle Form Strategic Partnership to Expand Cloud Interoperability
Microsoft and Oracle have announced a cloud interoperability partnership to enable customers to migrate and run mission-critical enterprise workloads across Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud. According to Don Johnson, executive vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, with this partnership, joint Oracle and Microsoft customers will be able to migrate their entire set of existing applications to the cloud without having to re-architect anything, and have the ability to preserve the large investments they have already made.
Opengear to Provide Network Resilience Upgrades
Opengear, a provider of solutions to critical IT infrastructure, will be unveiling several new product features that empower customers to improve the reliability of their network. Opengear continues to focus on network resilience—keeping the network running at the core and out to the edge of the infrastructure, with no disruption to the customer experience in the event of network issues.
Trifacta Introduces Cloud Preparation Platform for Snowflake
Trifacta, a leader in data preparation, is releasing a new native integration for Snowflake, the data warehouse built for the cloud. Trifacta's visual and machine learning guided interface empowers data teams to collaboratively explore, clean, structure and enrich data at the scale and agility provided by Snowflake.
Syncsort Expands Global Operations
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SolarWinds Adds Host of Updates to its Network Manager Platform
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Fivetran Unveils Streamlined Transformation Tool
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Datical Receives Patent for its Latest Solution
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Pivotal Software Creates Support Platform for Java Environments
Pivotal Software, Inc., a cloud-native platform provider, is releasing Pivotal Spring Runtime, a comprehensive support package for Java environments. Pivotal Spring Runtime supports Java workloads running on Linux and Windows server environments including server-side apps running on bare metal, VMs, containers, or Kubernetes. Pivotal Application Service includes Pivotal Spring Runtime, so Java workloads running on the app platform are already covered.
JetStream Raises $7.7 Million, Helping Boost Disaster Recovery as a Service
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Broadcom Introduces Value-Based Licensing for Software on IBM z/OS Mainframe Systems
Broadcom has introduced value-based software licensing model designed to provide increased clarity regarding software consumption on z/OS mainframe systems. The new Mainframe Consumption Licensing (MCL) model is intended to give mainframe customers better visibility and predictability into their software spending while enabling them to maximize the value created for their end customers.
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IBM Introduces Tailored Fit Pricing for IBM Z to Extend Mainframe's Role in Hybrid Cloud Strategy
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NetApp Releases Storage System Updates
NetApp, a provider of hybrid cloud data services, is releasing NetApp ONTAP 9.6, the new midrange, end-to-end NVMe AFF A320 storage system and an expanded portfolio of services.
Dynatrace Now Supports Red Hat OpenShift
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Red Hat and Microsoft Collaborate on Kubernetes Project
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DBA Corner: The Challenge of Managing the Modern IT Infrastructure
It can be challenging for IT architects and executives to keep up with today's modern IT infrastructure. Homogeneous systems, common in the early days of computing, are almost non-existent today in the age of heterogeneous systems. It is de rigueur for Linux, Unix and Windows servers to be deployed throughout a modern IT infrastructure. And for larger shops, add in mainframes, too.
Accelerating Analytics with GPU Platforms
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John O'Brien on Lessons Learned from Data Summit 2019
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Using Knowledge Graphs to Organize Content
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Syncsort Introduces Real-Time Streaming Solution
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SAP HANA Receives Variety of New Cloud Updates
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Mindtree Creates Deployment Platform for SAP Solution Manager
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All Signs Point to Cloud Optimization
When it comes to cloud technology, more and more businesses are realizing the benefits that cloud can provide them and are beginning to seek more cloud computing options to conduct their business activities. And obviously, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Alibaba, IBM, and Oracle plan to capture this spend by providing a dizzying array of IaaS and PaaS offerings to help enterprises build and run their services.
Ethical Considerations of AI Technologies
As we move into a new computing era, technology has outstripped society in its ability to up-end labor markets and industries, as well as personal lives. In a panel discussion at Data Summit 2019, Sue Feldman, president, Synthexis, David Bayer, Executive Director, Cognitive Computing Consortium, Tom Wilde, CEO, Indico, and Steven Cohen, COO, co-founder, Basis Technology, explored the ethical and legal issues that computing advances have raised.
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The Hypocrite Oath… or Hippocratic?
I suppose all readers have heard of the Hippocratic Oath, that is, the traditional oath that new doctors make at the beginning of their profession and that contains a series of ethical commitments related to the practice of medicine. It was written by Hippocrates, or a disciple of his, in the fourth century BC.
For more than two thousand years, doctors have committed themselves to act, in different ways, for the good of their patients and not to harm them. With Christianity, an important change was made in the oath, so that it was no longer sworn by Apollo, Asclepius, Panacea and other gods, but before God, so that said oath was not only solemn, but also real and significant. In this way, doctors understood that, due to their profession, they acquired a commitment before men and also before God.
The rest of the oath, however, remained unchanged. Ultimately, true morality, what is good and what is bad for human beings, does not change over time, but is proper to human nature. Killing an innocent is equally unacceptable to modern man, to a crusader, to a Germanic barbarian or to a caveman.
Some time ago, I attended a graduation of a medical course at one of Madrid's universities. In it, as is traditional, those who graduated recited the Hippocratic Oath. I expected to hear the traditional oath, but I observed with horror that the new graduates (or, rather, those who organized the act) had changed God again for Apollo, Asclepius and the rest of the gods and goddesses. I guess it was due to the protests of someone who did not believe in God. It is curious how far the rejection of Christianity has gone: to prevent a minority from having to swear by a God in whom that minority did not believe but the others did, they had decided to swear by gods (Apollo and company) in which none of them believe.
At first and to think well of the organizers, I assumed that perhaps they had returned, by simple historical fidelity, to the original text of the oath... but it was immediately clear that it was not so. Although in the invocation to the Greek gods they had returned to the old text, they also had eliminated, without repairs, parts of the oath that had remained unchanged during thousands of years.
In the first place, they eliminated the phrase that says: "I will not administer drugs to any woman to cause her an abortion". Whoever thinks that the Church opposes abortion for purely religious reasons, can find in the Hippocratic Oath the testimony of more than two millennia of medicine that also condemns that monstrosity, as something unworthy of someone who heals people.
Secondly, they had eliminated the prohibition of euthanasia: "I will not give anyone deadly drugs even when they request it, nor will I give advice for this purpose". Euthanasia is not a modern invention. The temptation to reject life to escape suffering has always been present. However, the graduation organizers probably felt very modern in accepting what was already a crime for the ancient Greeks.
So, they only kept in the oath three types of commitments, those that, so vague in their formulation, hardly mean anything ("I will keep my life and my art pure"), those that are concrete but will never have to be fulfilled (as the obligation to teach medicine to the children of their teachers free of charge) and those that the law obliges them to comply with (such as professional secrecy).
In other words, the new doctors rejected any commitment that would force them to behave in a difficult manner, that opposed social pressures or that could limit their professional opportunities in any way. In simple words, they swore... they were going to do whatever they wanted.
I sincerely believe that an era begins in which Christian doctors will have to give a courageous testimony before other doctors and before society. They will suffer rejection and, in many cases, ridicule because they are faithful to the truth and defend human life at all times. In return, they will also have the opportunity to be, in the midst of the world, a current image of the one who came to heal our wounds and surrender to death so that we could have life in abundance.
Bruno M.
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Nokia Unveils 3 New Symbian^3 Smart Phones at Nokia World
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Nokia showed off three new smart phones running the Symbian^3 OS today at Nokia World in London, which will sit alongside the much-talked-about N8 as the newest generation of Nokia devices.
First up comes the Nokia E7, a business smart phone with a 4-inch AMOLED touch screen with 640x360 resolution. The device looks sleek and quite similar to the N8, except this has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. It features an 8-megapixel camera, HDMI output, 720p HD video recording, a microSD slot, and 16GB of internal storage.
Next is the Nokia C7, a consumer-driven smart phone with a 3.5-inch AMOLED touch screen with 640x360 resolution. With rounded edges and a decent-sized touch screen, it looks like a successor of sorts to the Nokia Nuron. The phone sports an 8-megapixel camera, HD video recording, an FM radio, a 3.5mm headphone jack, a microSD card slot, and 8GB of on-board storage.
Finally, there's the C6-01, which looks like a more-compact version of the C7. The phone has a 3.2-inch capacitive AMOLED touch screen with 640x360 resolution and features an 8-megapixel camera that can record HD video, an FM radio, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a microSD card slot that can hold up to a 32GB card.
All three devices, as well as the N8, should be available in several countries before the end of the year, according to Colin Giles, global head of sales for Nokia. However, Giles noted that no U.S. availability has been announced for any device except for the N8, which is available for pre-order now.
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Q: Is Kalman filter suitable for smoothing sound spectrum? I'm implementing a software similar to a real-time spectrograph with a modified FFT. The output vector summarizes the intensities of various musical tones present in the input signal. Its size is a small constant (compared to the FFT window size) and the values can be continuous. The problem is there is a lot of noise both from the signal itself and from the transformation process. I think that some kind of smoothing could help since the tones that should be emphasized are typically of longer duration and the noisy values vary much from one frame to another.
I've came across the Kalman filter which is used mainly in real-time control systems. It seems to be very powerful. As I've dug into the literature I've gotten unsure if this kind of filter is really suitable for my problem. It seems that the Kalman filter requires modelling the underlying linear process. On the other hand I don't assume any particular process behind the signal. Should I just model a trivial steady-state process or this kind of filter is not suitable?

A: You can certainly use an adaptive Kalman Filter to identify or remove noise, and there are hundreds of articles on this in the signal processing literature.  Whether you need to or not depends on the nature of your task and the noise -- whether the noise is in the frequency range of the signal, whether the noise is signal dependent, etc.
If it were me, unless there were reason to do otherwise, I'd try (in the following order)
1) make sure the signal is good -- i.e., make sure you're doing everything you can to quash the noise before its acquired, and make sure you're not doing something silly, like aliasing your noise into the signal by not acquiring fast enough or prefiltering (which will make your task very difficult
2) Try standard filtering techniques, like FIR and IIR filters to do what you need to do
3) Move on to non-linear, but easy, techniques, like median filtering, Sovitsky-Golay filtering, ..., which might be more tolerant to your noise.
4) Pull out the big guns-- the adaptive filters.
Finding the right filter in tough situations can be a matter of rolling up your sleeves and trying different things.

A: A Kalman Filter is great if you don't know all of the states of the system, in actuality it's an adaptive or observer type control system that uses state estimation to fill in gaps left by noise.
Kalman or Luenberger state estimators are great for well defined, high noise, systems where certain states can be observed and essentially whittled down to what they "should be" if all states of the system were observable.
So for your system, as long as you aren't aliasing your inputs with the FFT you shouldn't need any of the more crazy filters and can probably go with a PID control system using an FIR or IIR.
Further, since you aren't entirely sure of what the system is that you're modelling it would be a good idea to make sure that your signal isn't getting Borked by the FFT and try to make that signal as clean as possible as an input before even going into filtering out noise and disturbances, that way you're making your controls/signal processing job as easy as possible on yourself.
ADDENDUM: Just read TomL's answer, and it has a grain of truth in it.  Matlab and Simulink are great for this kind of problem, with Matlab's built in DSP toolbox you can easily build out most easy to intermediate signal processing jobs and with their new HDL toolbox if you're using VHDL or Verilog you can even get the code spit out for you.  As well, once that IP block is built you can push it into a Simulink simulation with a/your FFT and signal setup so you can quickly and easily test the overall validity of different filtering types and methods without having to resort to testing different builds in whatever language/stack you're currently working on.  So once you pick whatever method you can easily mock it up for yourself, your investors, or your higher ups.  Adding this to any controls/signal processing stack makes your life so much easier in the long run that it's what I start any of my jobs/projects with now.
Using a high level approach first will allow you to be able to break your system down into its more basic 30,000 ft view blocks that you can then push into whatever control system fits those blocks best.
TL;DR: Make sure your signals as good as it can get and you aren't breaking it in your FFT, model how you want the signal processed, fit a filter to the model (Kalman probably won't be it).

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By Will Boggs, MD
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Health care workers in emergency departments are often carriers of the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or (MRSA), potentially putting patients at risk, according to two reports in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.
Testing positive for MRSA is sometimes transient among health care workers, but unfortunately the results of this study, along with the findings of the second report, reinforce concerns that MRSA carriers are an important part of the transmission of MRSA among patients, Dr. Elise O. Lovell from Advocate Christ Medical Center, Oak Lawn, Illinois, told Reuters Health.
Lovell and colleagues collected nasal swabs from a sample of 105 emergency department staff at their institution. Sixteen subjects (15 percent) tested positive for MRSA, including 12 nurses, 2 physicians, and 2 technicians.
The MRSA positivity rates in our emergency department health care workers is "much higher than that found in the general US population, but is similar to rates seen in other studies of non-ED medical personnel," Dr. Lovell said.
In the second report, Dr. Brian P. Suffoletto and colleagues from the University of Pittsburgh Department of Emergency Medicine measured the prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus and MRSA in 255 emergency department health care workers.
Just under one third of nasal cultures (31.8 percent) were positive for S. aureus, the researchers report, and the overall prevalence of MRSA 0was 4.3 percent.
None of the demographic and exposure characteristics examined were significantly associated with MRSA colonization, the investigators say, but MRSA colonization was restricted to nurses, nursing assistants, and radiology and respiratory technicians.
"The varying prevalence among the different health care workers was unexpected," Suffoletto told Reuters Health.
The relationship between MRSA-positive ED personnel and patient transmission is "still largely unexplored," Suffoletto continued. First we will need to establish if MRSA in ED personnel is transient or persistent. "Then we wish to determine the rate of unprotected contacts between ED personnel and patients."
Both Lovell and Suffoletto stressed the importance of using universal infection control practices in the emergency department.
"It's been demonstrated repeatedly that these hygiene techniques are poorly followed in the ED, yet they represent the best (and simplest) way to minimize the spread of MRSA between our patients and to keep our patients and ourselves safe," Lovell said.
"The findings in these reports may have important implications for infection control practice," agrees Dr. John A. Jernigan from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, writing in a related editorial.
"Better implementation of current recommendations for preventing transmission of MRSA and other multidrug-resistant organisms will likely yield important benefits for both patients and health care personnel."
SOURCE: Annals of Emergency Medicine, November 2008.
Serious infections rising in U.S. children: study
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Children in the United States increasingly are developing serious head and neck infections with a drug-resistant type of "superbug" bacteria called MRSA, U.S. researchers said on Monday. They said rates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, are rising in children, and called on doctors to be more judicious in prescribing antibiotics. "There is a
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U.S. government sets infection control goals
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Urinary infections caused by improper use and placement of catheters are the top cause of infections among hospital patients, but simple measures can prevent them, the U.S. government said on Tuesday. The Health and Human Services Department released a plan to reduce hospital infections, which kill an estimated 99,000 people a year, affect
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Uninsured not main reason for ER crowding
By Anthony J. Brown, MD NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Contrary to what many believe, people without medical insurance are not the primary cause of the overcrowding that is typical in emergency rooms at US hospitals, new research indicates. "There is a commonly held belief that uninsured patients abuse the emergency department, coming in for 'non-urgent' complaints,
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Dangerous bacteria on increase: expert
LONDON (Reuters) - A dangerous, drug-resistant bacterium normally found in soil and water is on the increase in hospitals worldwide, an infectious disease expert warned on Tuesday. Acinetobacter baumannii is more resistant than the MRSA superbug and accounts for about 30 percent of drug-resistant hospital infections, said Matthew Falagas, director of the Alfa Institute of Biomedical
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China sees sharp rise in HIV-positive gay men
BEIJING (Reuters) - The number of gay men in China who are HIV positive has risen sharply in the last three years, according to a survey of Chinese cities conducted by the Ministry of Health. Men with HIV make up 4.9 percent of the gay population, up from 0.4 percent in 2005, the Xinhua news agency
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Q: How do I use a for loop for iterating the 3rd number in a list of lists? If I have a list such as:
set = [[1, 3, **4**, 10], [2, 4, **7**, 1], [1, 4, **4**, 8]]

and I want to make a loop where it will repeat the process X times for each sub-list, where X is the 3rd number of each list.
For example, draw a square 4 times, then make a draw 7 times, then draw it 4 times.
I am not necesserily looking for the code of how to produce the example, but just an explanation of how to tell my loop to do something x times based on a number in a position in a list.

A: There are 2 equivalent ways to structure your logic. Which you choose depends on context and the nature of your function.
lst = [[1, 3, 4, 10], [2, 4, 7, 1], [1, 4, 4, 8]]

Option 1
As suggested in comments, use a nested for loop.
def f(x):
    print(x)

for sublst in lst:
    for _ in range(sublst[2]):
        f(sublst)

Option 2
Add a parameter n to your function and move the for loop to the function that's doing.
def f(x, n):
    for _ in range(n):
        print(x)

for sublst in lst:
    f(sublst, sublst[2])

While ordinarily the advice is, "Each function should do one thing," if the very nature of the function is to run a certain number of times, then the second option may be viable.
In addition, do not name variables after classes, e.g. set is not a good choice for a variable name.

A: So, you have a list of lists, right?
your_set = [[1, 3, 4, 10], [2, 4, 7, 1], [1, 4, 4, 8]] # naming a variable with a keyword argument is not a smart move btw

for iter_list in your_set:
    for _ in range(iter_list[POSITION_OF_THE_NUM_YOU_WANT]):
        DO_SOMETHING()

A: You can use the map functionality in python:
set = #your list

def func(ll):
    return ll[2]

map(func, set)

A: I'm not certain that I understand your question, but I if I do then something like the following should work:
# Create your input set.
my_set = [[1, 3, 4, 10], [2, 4, 7, 1], [1, 4, 4, 8]]

# Define a generic function. It sounds like you might use draw_square here.
def do_something():
    print("Doing something!")

# Loop through each list in your input.
for input_list in my_set:
    # Use the third element of the list to determine how many times
    # to do something (draw squares in your case).
    num_actions = input_list[2]
    for _ in range(num_actions):
        # This could be a function or any other logic you want.
        do_something()

This code will loop through each list in my_set and for each list will call the function do_something x times, where x is the third element of the list.

A: Just collect the 3rd element and then use it as range int :
set_1 = [[1, 3, 4, 10], [2, 4, 7, 1], [1, 4, 4, 8]]

#fake data

def print_hello(x):
   return x[::-1]

#collecting the 3rd element
data=map(lambda x:x[2],set_1)

#3rd element times
for i in data:
   for k in range(i):
      print(print_hello('hello_world'))

output:
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Home » Guides » Sci-tech: Ethics, IP, and data
Sci-tech: Ethics, IP, and data
This guide contains information resources on ethical codes and research conduct, research ethics, publishing ethics, copyright, data management services at Stanford, laboratory notebooks, plus some special journal issues and websites on data.
On Being A Scientist from the National Academies
"The scientific research enterprise is built on a foundation of trust. Scientists trust that the results reported by others are valid. Society trusts that the results of research reflect an honest attempt by scientists to describe the world accurately and without bias. But this trust will endure only if the scientific community devotes itself to exemplifying and transmitting the values associated with ethical scientific conduct. This video is based on third edition of On Being a Scientist and reflects developments since the publication of the original edition in 1989 and a second edition in 1995."
Academic tips for undergrads by Colin Purrington
Maintaining a laboratory notebook
Designing conference posters
Writing science papers
Giving science talks
Weaseling into a research lab
Using laptops for notes
Adding photo creds to talk slides
Watch your figures
Preventing plagiarism
ACS Ethics and Professional Guidelines
AIChE Code of Ethics
NSPE Code of Ethics for Engineers (Nat Soc Prof Engineers)
Fundamental Standard
Research Policy Handbook
Dean of Research and Graduate Policy
Information Security Office
On being a scientist : a guide to responsible conduct in research / Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, National Academy of Science, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
3rd ed. Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2009.
Science Library (Li and Ma) » Stacks » Q180 .A1 S35 2009
The art of being a scientist : a guide for graduate students and their mentors / Roel Snieder and Ken Larner.
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Earth Sciences Library (Branner) » Stacks » Q147 .S64 2009
Critical risk research [electronic resource] : practices, politics, and ethics / Matthew Kearnes, Francisco Klauser, and Stuart Lane.
Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2012.
Stanford Libraries » Online resource » eResource
The ethical chemist : professionalism and ethics in science / Jeffrey Kovac.
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c2004.
Science Library (Li and Ma) » Stacks » QD39.7 .K69 2004
The Ethical Chemist is a self-contained introduction to scientific ethics that can also be used as a textbook for a course or seminar, or as an instructor resource.
Ethics education and scientific and engineering research : what's been learned? what should be done? : summary of a workshop / Rachelle Hollander, editor ; Carol R. Arenberg, co-editor ; Center for Engineering, Ethics, and Society ; National Academy of Engineering of the National Academies.
Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2009.
Ethics in science : ethical misconduct in scientific research / John D'Angelo.
Boca Raton, FL : Taylor & Francis, c2012.
Science Library (Li and Ma) » Stacks » Q180.55 .M67 D36 2012
Ethics in science and engineering / James G. Speight and Russell Foote.
Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley ; Salem, Mass. : Scrivener, c2011.
Engineering Library (Terman) » Stacks » Q147 .S677 2011
Research ethics : a philosophical guide to the responsible conduct of research / [edited by] Gary Comstock.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2013.
Science Library (Li and Ma) » Stacks » Q180.55 .M67 R465 2013
Research ethics for scientists : a companion for students / C. Neal Stewart Jr.
West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2011.
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » Q180.55 .M67 S76 2011
Responsible science : ensuring the integrity of the research process / Panel on Scientific Responsibility and the Conduct of Research, Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine.
Washington, D.C. : Nationl Academy Press, 1992-
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » Q180.55 .M67 C66 1992 V.1
Scientific integrity : text and cases in responsible conduct of research / Francis L. Macrina.
3rd ed. Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, c2005.
Green Library » Stacks » Q180.5 .M67 M33 2005
The student's guide to research ethics / Paul Oliver.
2nd ed. Maidenhead, Berkshire, England : McGraw-Hill/Open University Press, 2010.
Science Library (Li and Ma) » Stacks » Q180.55 .M67 O38 2010
Style and ethics of communication in science and engineering [electronic resource] / Jay D. Humphrey, Jeffrey W. Holmes.
San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, c2009.
Ethics - selected links
AAAS Scientific Freedom, Responsibility and Law Program
ACS Committee on Ethics
The Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Research Program (Nat Human Genome Res Inst)
Ethics in Computing (North Carolina State Univ)
Ethics in Engineering (Dept of Electrical & Computer Engineering, North Carolina State Univ)
Ethics in Science (Dept of Chemistry, Virginia Tech)
Ethics Updates Home Page (Univ of San Diego)
Ethics Updates is designed primarily to be used by ethics instructors and their students. It is intended to provide resources and updates on current literature, both popular and professional, that relates to ethics.
EthicsWeb.ca
Applied Ethics > Science & Technology Ethics
The Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Institute of Ethics (Georgetown Univ)
Murdough Center for Ethics in Engineering (Texas Tech Univ, College of Engineering)
National Institute for Engineering Ethics
Applied Ethics in Professional Practice
NIH Ethics Resources
National Society for Professional Engineers (NSPE) — Engineering Ethics
Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Research
The President's Council on Bioethics
Resources for Research Ethics Education (UCSD)
American Chemical Society publications - ethical guidelines
The ACS Journals' Ethical Guidelines are offered from a conviction that the observance of high ethical standards is so vital to the whole scientific enterprise that a definition of those standards should be brought to the attention of all concerned.
COPE: Committee on Publication Ethics
COPE is a forum for editors and publishers of peer-reviewed journals to discuss all aspects of publication ethics. It also advises editors on how to handle cases of research and publication misconduct.
Council of science editors' white paper on promoting integrity in scientific journal publications, 2009 update
The Council of Science Editors and its Editorial Policy Committee encourage everyone involved in the journal publishing process to take responsibility for promoting integrity in scientific journal publishing.
CrossCheck powered by iThenticate is an initiative started by CrossRef to help its members actively engage in efforts to prevent scholarly and professional plagiarism.
Publishing ethics resource kit (PERK)
The Publishing Ethics Resource Kit (PERK) is an online resource to support journal editors in handling publishing ethics issues. It is a single point of access for information and guidelines on publishing ethics. PERK provides flowcharts to guide editors through processes required to deal with different forms of publishing ethics abuse. Provided by Elsevier.
Retraction Watch Database
In October 2018, the Retraction Watch Database was launched with over 18,000 retractions in it. Each retraction was assigned a reason for the retraction. Please see this blog entry to learn more.
We are a charitable trust that equips people to make sense of scientific and medical claims in public discussion. With a database of over 5,000 scientists, from Nobel prize winners to postdocs and PhD students, we work in partnership with scientific bodies, research publishers, policy makers, the public and the media, to change public discussions about science and evidence.
Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals: writing and editing for biomedical publications
The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors created the Uniform Requirements to help authors and editors in their mutual task of creating and distributing accurate, clear, easily accessible reports of biomedical studies. The initial sections address the ethical principles related to the process of evaluating, improving, and publishing manuscripts in biomedical journals and the relationships among editors and authors, peer reviewers, and the media.
U.S. department of health and human services. Office of research integrity
The Office of Research Integrity (ORI) oversees and directs Public Health Service (PHS) research integrity activities on behalf of the Secretary of Health and Human Services with the exception of the regulatory research integrity activities of the Food and Drug Administration.
U.S. national science foundation. Office of inspector general
Each federal agency has an Office of Inspector General (OIG) that provides independent oversight of the agency's programs and operations. The office is responsible for promoting efficiency and effectiveness in agency programs and for preventing and detecting fraud, waste, and abuse.
New resources at Stanford on copyright
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Adventures of a Jazz Age lawyer : Nathan Burkan and the making of American popular culture
Gary A. Rosen. 2020
Building equitable access to knowledge through open access repositories
Nikos Koutras. 2020
Coaching copyright
edited by Kevin L. Smith and Erin L. Ellis. 2020
Authors and apparatus : a media history of copyright
Monika Dommann ; translated from the German by Sarah Pybus. 2019
Copyright law for librarians and educators : creative strategies and practical solutions / Kenneth D. Crews.
3rd ed. Chicago : American Library Association, 2012.
Green Library » Information Center: Reference » KF2995 .C74 2012
Copyright questions and answers for information professionals : from the columns of Against the Grain / Laura N. Gasaway.
West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, c2013.
Law Library (Crown) » Stacks 1 » KF3030.1 .G368 2013
Handbook on the economics of copyright : a guide for students and teachers / edited by Richard Watt (associate professor of economics and finance, University of Canterbury, New Zealand).
Law Library (Crown) » Basement » K1420.5 .H363 2014
Intellectual property : patents, trademarks, and copyright in a nutshell / by Arthur R. Miller, Michael H. Davis.
5th ed. St. Paul, MN : West, c2012.
Law Library (Crown) » Basement » KF2980 .M52 2012
Copyright : Key documents and websites
Stanford copyright reminder
Many common campus activities involve copyright, and so it is critical that all Stanford faculty, students and staff have a working understanding of copyright law as it impacts their daily lives. The Stanford University Libraries provide this Copyright Reminder to ensure that all members of the Stanford community have access to that critical information. The Copyright Reminder highlights common campus copyright concerns, and outlines the fundamental elements of US copyright law that apply in those situations.
Stanford copyright and fair use center
This site includes primary case law, statutes, regulations, as well as current feeds of newly filed copyright lawsuits, pending legislation, regulations, copyright office news, scholarly articles, blog and twitter feeds from practicing attorneys and law professors. Its emphasis is on copyright issues especially relevant to the education and library community, including examples of fair use and policies. Useful copyright charts and tools are continually added to help users evaluate copyright status and best practices. Featured cases include full text of court documents of district court cases that The Center for Internet and Society Fair Use Project is involved with as well as other cases of high interest.
Stanford Research Policy Handbook: Intellectual Property
The Research Policy Handbook is a collection of policies, guidelines and general information related to the research enterprise at Stanford. Chapter 9 includes: 9.1 Inventions, Patents, and Licensing. 9.2 Copyright Policy. 9.3 Administration of Copyright Policy. 9.4 Tangible Research Property. 9.5 Other Intellectual Property: Trademarks, Patents, and Proprietary Information.
Creative Commons is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright. They provide free licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof.
Electronic lab notebooks at Stanford
ChemOffice Professional
We have a campus-wide site licence that includes all current students, faculty, and staff at Stanford. This agreement includes the desktop version of ChemOffice Professional (PC) and ChemDraw Professional (Mac). Our agreement includes the PerkinElmer Signals Notebook Individual Edition, a cloud-based electronic notebook, ChemDraw Cloud, and access to the personal edition of ChemACX, a supplier catalog with over 10 million compounds that is available on the web.
Reworking the bench : research notebooks in the history of science / edited by Frederic L. Holmes, Jürgen Renn, and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger.
Dordrecht ; Boston ; London : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2003.
Green Library » Stacks » Q225.5 .R475 2003
Research records composed of notes and protocols have long played a role in the efforts to understand the origins of what have come to be seen as the established milestones in the development of modern science. The use of research records to probe the nature of scientific investigation itself however is a recent development in the history of science.
Writing the laboratory notebook / Howard M. Kanare.
Washington, D.C. : American Chemical Society, 1985.
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » Q180.58 .K36 1985
Discussing the vital aspects of how to make a proper and permanent record of research work, this work goes beyond the mechanical of simply filling in the notebook pages with details on the skills needed to create proper records of research, observations, and results. It helps to increase awareness of what is being done in the lab, and to develop a flexible style of notekeeping that will serve a variety of research environments.
Retention of and access to research data
Published in Stanford's Research Policy Handbook (RPH 2.10), this policy establishes University policy to assure that research data is appropriately recorded, archived for a reasonable period of time, and available for review under the appropriate circumstances.
Suggestions for keeping laboratory notebooks (for legal purposes)
These guidelines were obtained from the University of California, San Francisco and are being reprinted and distributed by Stanford's Office of Technology Transfer with the permission of the UCSF Office of Technology Management.
Data managemnt and laboratory notebooks
"This chapter covers some of the basics: the importance of day-to-day record keeping and good practice for laboratory notebooks, what to consider when developing a system to track and store information, and finding the right data management system for you." Chapter 8 IN Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty, 2nd edition, 2006. By Buroughs Wellcome Fund and Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Listed on the Resources for the Development of Early-Career Scientists page at HHMI.
Excellent but succinct information that includes many practical suggestions for maintaining a lab notebook. By Colin Purrington.
Guide for keeping laboratory records
Two page brochure summarizing best practices for keeping laboratory records. Rockville, MD : National Cancer Institute, Technology Transfer Center, [2009]
Laboratory Notebooks
Suggestions for Keeping Laboratory Notebooks from the University of California at San Francisco. Office of Research. Office of Information Technology.
Guidelines on research data and reports
From the UCSF Department of Neurological Surgery.
How to pick an electronic laboratory notebook
Published in Nature, 6 Aug 2018
Electronic Lab Notebooks for Prospective Users
From Cambridge University.
Data management services @ Stanford
"The main goal of Data Management Services is to assist Stanford University's researchers with the organization, management, and curation of research data in order to enhance its preservation and access now and into the future. This site will help you create and carry out a data management strategy that will preserve your valuable research data for future sharing and reuse."
Data access and preservation
A data-based assessment of research doctorate programs in the United States [electronic resource] / Committee on an Assessment of Research Doctorate Programs ; Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Charlotte V. Kuh, and James A. Voytuk, editors ; Board on Higher Education and Workforce, Policy and Global Affairs, National Research Council of the National Academies.
Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2010.
Ensuring the integrity, accessibility, and stewardship of research data in the digital age / Committee on Ensuring the Utility and Integrity of Research Data in a Digital Age, Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2009.
Science Library (Li and Ma) » Stacks » Q180.55 .I45 C66 2009
Long-lived digital data collections [electronic resource] : enabling research and education in the 21st century / National Science Board.
Arlingto, VA : National Science Foundation, [2005]
Special journal issues devoted to data
Science special issue: Dealing with data
In the 11 February 2011 issue, Science joins with colleagues from Science Signaling, Science Translational Medicine, and Science Careers to provide a broad look at the issues surrounding the increasingly huge influx of research data. This collection of articles highlights both the challenges posed by the data deluge and the opportunities that can be realized if we can better organize and access the data.
Nature special issue: Data sharing
Sharing data is good. But sharing your own data? That can get complicated. As two research communities who held meetings in May on the issue report their proposals to promote data sharing in biology, a special issue of Nature examines the cultural and technical hurdles that can get in the way of good intentions.
Nature special issue: Big data
Coping with floods of data is now one of science's biggest challenges. In this Nature Special, we assess the need to complement smart science with smart searching; look at what the next Google will be; talk to the pioneering biologists who are trying to use wiki-type web pages to manage and interpret data; and recall that the first mass data crunchers were not computers, but the remarkable women of Harvard's Observatory.
Featured data websites
For more resources to find physical properties information, please see Physical Properties for Chemists and Chemical Engineers
Data citation index
Indexes research data, including data studies and data sets, and links them to the scientific literature to track data citation.
DataCite's list of repositories of research data
DataCite has started to collate a list of repositories for research data, for internal reference and as a resource for researchers looking to deposit and find data. Compiled through the collaborative efforts of the British Library, BioMed Central, and the Digital Curation Centre, the list is a working document and we encourage community participation in its development.
figshare
figshare is a repository where users can make all of their research outputs available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner. figshare allows users to upload any file format to be made visualisable in the browser so that figures, datasets, media, papers, posters, presentations and filesets can be disseminated in a way that the current scholarly publishing model does not allow.
NIST Data Gateway
Searchable by specific keywords, properties and substances, the NIST Data Gateway provides easy access to NIST scientific and technical data. These data cover a broad range of substances and properties from many different scientific disciplines. The Gateway includes links to selected free online NIST databases as well as to information on NIST databases available for purchase. You can also search the Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data through this Gateway.
SpringerMaterials
SpringerMaterials is based on the Landolt-Börnstein New Series, the unique, fully evaluated data collection in all areas of physical sciences and engineering. SpringerMaterials also comprises the Dortmund Data Bank Software & Separation Technology, a Database on Thermophysical Properties and the Linus Pauling Files, a Database on Inorganic Solid Phases and chemical safety data. This resource is expanded and updated on a quarterly basis and offers advanced search & navigation functionalities.
Wikipedia List of Open Data Repositories
Includes repositories and databases for open data for these subject areas: Archaeology, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Energy, Environmental sciences, Geology, Geosciences and geospatial data, Linguistics, Marine sciences, Medicine, Multidisciplinary repositories, Physics, and Social sciences (as of 10 October 2011).
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FSS is providing its "Payments in a Box" solution to support Ujjivan with end-to-end payments technology infrastructure for launching itsSFB.Using this FSS solution, Ujjivan bank'sATMs will provide not only biometric access to its customers through their thumb prints linked with their Aadhaar Cards but also highest level of security by adding new features like EMV chip in lines with latest guidelines of the RBI.
Ujjivan expects an increase in ATM usage among the underprivileged with marginal education which often get intimidated by machines and technology, forget pin and often have their card locked out. Ujjivan proposed Small Finance Bank ATMs will have a regional language option in 24 states where Ujjivan has its operations. Customers will be able to withdraw amounts as low as Rs. 100 by using these ATMs.
Ujjivan small finance bank branches will support and assist customers who are first time users, by running financial literacy, LIVE demonstration andcommunication program demystifying ATM machines. The objective is to make customer comfortable with the use of their personalized Ujjivan SFB Debit card.
With the support of "Payments in a Box" infrastructure that provides integrated payment services, Ujjivan's proposed SFB will be able to expedite its go-to-market plans of launching retail banking services and allow payments to be made across all delivery channels for its existing customer base within a short period of time.
Commenting on the partnership, Mr. Nagaraj Mylandla, Managing Director, FSS, said, "We are honoured to be chosen by Ujjivan, as the payments technology partner for their soon to be launched SFB. FSS has consciously invested in building a superior technology infrastructure, which is designed to allow Banks and Financial Institutions to readily establish and manage their operations at a lower cost and become profitable within a short period of time.


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Q: Are there any problems with UpperCamelCase / lowerCamelCase in db schema?
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*Will I bump into any issues if I use PascalCase for table names and lowerCamelCase for column names in my PostgreSQL database? Other than being forced to use quotes for such names. For example: SELECT "User.normalizedEmail" FROM "User" WHERE "User.id" = 123

*What would be the matching convention for naming indexes and constraints then? PK_User_id/UK_User_email, or maybe User_pkey/User_email_unq..

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*When you create a table fOoBaR you can stil use foobar/FOOBAR/FoObAr/"foobar" (unquoted names are stored in lowercase). You're only forced to use double quoted names when that name is a restricted keyword or contains non-allowed characters. And this is usually considered bad practice.
For me case-sensitive object names are the most stupid thing in Standard SQL.

*Whatever you choose, just use it consistently.


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Kinton, Tony. The Beginning Bowhunter. Merrillville. ICS. 1985. 125 pps. Octavo. Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
Kirby, George. Jujitsu. Basic Techniques of the Gentle Art. Inscribed by the author. Burbank. Ohara. 1987. Octavo. Soft cover. Illustrated. Inscribed by the author. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
Kirby, George. Jujitsu. Basic Techniques of the Gentle Art. Volume 2. Inscribed by the author. Burbank. Ohara. 1987. Octavo. Soft cover. Illustrated. Inscribed by the author. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
Klowden, David Yardagebook. Volume 6. Photo available. np. Linksoul Publication. nd. 4to. Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
Knauff, Thomas L. Glider Basics. From First Flight to Solo. Photo available. (Iceland). Self published. Prentmidja Arna Valdemarssonar. 1987. 160 pps. 4to. Hardcover. First edition, fourth printing. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in near fine (very light shelf wear) dust jacket (in mylar).
Knott, J.E. My Horse can Outrun Your Horse. A Narrative History of Horse Racing in New Mexico... Photo available. El Paso. Mesa Pub. 1992. 379 pps. Octavo. Soft cover. First edition. Very scarce in this condition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Fine copy.
Kocour, Ruth Anne. Facing the Extreme. Inscribed by the author. One Woman's Story of True Courage, Death-Defying Survival, and Her Quest for the Summit. Photo available. New York. St. Martin's Press. 1998. Octavo. Hard cover. First edition. Inscribed by the author to Scott Farrand. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
Kocour, Ruth Anne. Facing the Extreme. One Woman's Story of True Courage, Death-Defying Survival, and Her Quest for the Summit. New York. St. Martin's Press. 1998. Octavo. Hard cover. First edition. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Krakauer, Jon. Into Thin Air. A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster. Photo available. New York. Villard. 1997. 291 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. Stated first edition. Illustrated. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Krakauer, Jon. Into Thin Air. A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster. Photo available. New York. Villard. 1997. 291 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. Stated first edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Krakauer, Jon. Into Thin Air. The Illustrated Edition. A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster Photo available. New York. Villard. 1998. 291 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
Krakauer, Jon. Into Thin Air. The Illustrated Edition. A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster Photo available. New York. Villard. 1998. 291 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated. Fine copy in fine glassine wrapper.
Krakauer, Jon. Into Thin Air. The Illustrated Edition. A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster Photo available. New York. Villard. 1998. 291 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition. Full number line. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine glassine wrapper.
Krakauer, Jon. Into Thin Air. The Illustrated Edition. A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster Photo available. New York. Villard. 1998. 291 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition thus. Illustrated. Fine copy in glassine wrapper (chipped at spine tip).
Krzyzewski, Mike. Five-Point Play. Inscribed by the author. Duke's Journey to the 2001 National Championship. Photo available. New York. Warner. 2001. 239 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition. Full number line. Illustrated. Important reference work. inscribed by the author "To Erin, My best wishes always! Mike Krzyzewski". Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
La Fontaine, Gary LaFontaine. Gaddisflies. Inscribed by the author. A Major Study of One of the Most Important Aquatic Insects - Entomology, Fly Tying, and Proven Fishing Techniques. Photo available. New York. Nick Lyons. Winchester Press. 1981. 336 pps. 4to. Hardcover. Stated first edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Letter from author laid in. Inscribed by the author "Best of angling - Gary La Fontaine". Fine copy in near fine (very light shelf wear) dust jacket (in mylar).
Landis, Floyd. Positively False. Inscribed by the author. The Real Story of How I Won The Tour de France. Photo available. New York. Simon. 2007. Octavo. Hard cover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Inscribed by the author. Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar).
Laney, Al. Following the Leaders. A Reminiscence. Francis Ouimet, Walter Hagen, Bobby Jones, Gene Sarazen, Byron Nelson, Sam Snead, Ben Hogan, Ken Venturi, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and the Other Great American Golfers. Photo available. np. The Classics of Golf. 1991. 165 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. First edition thus. Foreword by Herbert Warren Wind. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
Lasker, Edward. Chess and Checkers. The Way to Mastership. New York. D. Appleton and Company. 1942. 284 pps. Octavo. Hardcover. Reprint. Illustrated. Fine copy. Remnants of dust jacket laid in.
Lawler, Jennifer. The Secrets of Tae Kwon Do. Principles and Techniques for Beginners. Photo available. Lincolnwood. Masters Press. 1999. 230 pps. Octavo. Soft cover. First edition (number line starts with "2"). Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine (owner name on end paper) copy.
Lawrence, H. Lea. The Ultimate Guide to Bowhunting. Hunt Like a Pro with These Easy Tips. Photo available. np. Lyons Press. 2002. Octavo. Hard cover. Illustrated. IMPORTANT REFERENCE WORK. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. Still in shrink wrap.
Laycock, George. The Shotgunner's Bible. A Complete Guide to Selecting and Handling a Shotgun. Photo available. Garden City. Doubleday. 1969. Octavo. Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated. Related material laid in. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy.
Lee, Bruce & John Little. Bruce Lee. The Celebrated Life of the Golden Dragon. Photo available. Boston. Tuttle Publishing. 2000. 180 pps. 4to. Soft cover. First edition. Full number line. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Fine copy.


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DraftKings Soft Launch in Pennsylvania Set For Nov. 4
By Brant James | Oct 30th, 2019 | 2 mins
DraftKings has been licensed to launch online in Pennsylvania and will begin a "soft-play" period on Monday. A full state-wide launch would follow within a few days.
For the daily fantasy and sports betting purveyor, Pennsylvania will be the fourth state in an online portfolio whose reach was extended with a 10-year deal with Penn National Gaming.
The company went live in Indiana on Oct. 3.
DraftKings will be The Meadows' online platform.
"DraftKings is excited to receive our Sports Wagering Operator License, moving us one step closer to bringing our top-rated online and mobile sportsbook app to sports fans in Pennsylvania," chief compliance officer Tim Dent said in a statement. "Working in partnership with the outstanding team at Penn National Gaming, we expect the mandatory soft-play period to begin on Nov. 4 towards the goal of an official public launch a few days later."
How DraftKings Can Shape Massive Market
For Pennsylvania, DraftKings becomes the sixth online outlet and brings the top two online providers from neighboring New Jersey west of the Delaware River. FanDuel, the top earner in New Jersey, launched in Pennsylvania in September and has become the market leader there also.
Brand familiarity has long been cited as a boon to the success of both DraftKings and FanDuel, meaning Pennsylvania holds great prospects for the second to arrive, also, as DraftKings is the top DFS provider there since launching in 2018.
The impact on Pennsylvania's nascent online wagering economy will be telling. Riffing on what he described as a "rolling dumpster fire" of sports betting regulations in Pennsylvania, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said at October's Global Gaming Expo that Pennsylvania residents still cross into New Jersey to place wagers on mobile devices. The claim was confirmed by David Briggs, the CEO of GeoComply, which tracks and enforces jurisdictional boundaries for mobile betting.
One of the possible reasons for the continued migration could be brand loyalty, as there are 17 vendors in New Jersey. DraftKings' arrival in Pennsylvania could therefore mitigate the trend, keeping tax revenue in-state and perhaps somewhat quashing Christie's perceived fire.
David Rebuck, director of the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement, believes Pennsylvania could eventually become the top sports betting market by handle because of its population.
Brant James
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Cowdenbeath predictions. | Albion Rovers F.C.
Tuesday night sees us with the chance at long last to get off the bottom of the table,and we will..3-1 rovers for me.
Solid 2-0. The momentum to continue.
Not quite half a dozen cup finals to go now, but three points tomorrow would feel like winning perhaps a semi-final. A couple of wins in a row(with, importantly, clean sheets) is cause for cautious optimism. Not a frequent predictor, but I'll go 1-0.
What a psychological boost it would be to get off the foot of the table tomorrow night.
Never in a million years did I see that happening.
We have to take something from all our remaining games and it would be great to get another victory.
Cautiously optimistic that our mini run will continue.2-1.
Another clean sheet please Rovers and the rest will follow. That is the key to victory. It won't be easy.
Just looked at Oddschecker. Best prices on offer for the next two games amounts to 38/1 for the double. The bookies seldom get much far wrong. How many points would we settle for over the two matches? I'd take three (at a push, maybe even two).
2 0 Victory. Odds still good at 5/2 the lads can do it !
If we play like we did on Saturday we will probably win. Still feel nervous predicting a win though despite the last few weeks.
Fingers crossed for a 2-1 win.
2-0 Rovers, carry from Saturday, we are staying up!
Massive incentive for us to win tonight.
Reckon the guys will carry their good form into this game - 2-0 to the MIGHTY Rovers!


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I have high expectations when it comes to my system's powered subwoofer. I want the kind of deep, chest-thumping bass that movie soundtracks demand. But I also want it to be tight and fast to accurately reproduce bass guitars, kick drums, and cellos with nuance when I'm streaming music. Monitor Audio's Silver W-12 excels on both counts.
This powered sub uses a 500-watt DSP-controlled amplifier to drive its beefy 12" woofer. It's the perfect choice for a high-end Monitor Audio stereo or home theater system.
Monitor Audio's Silver W-12 powered subwoofer is available in a variety of finishes to match your décor (shown in satin white with grille removed).
One of the keys to the W-12's powerful performance comes courtesy of its advanced driver design. The cone is made from a lightweight, ceramic-coated aluminum/magnesium alloy originally developed by the aerospace industry for jet engine components.
This ultra-rigid material, known as C-CAM, resists the bending and twisting that causes distortion while allowing the use of thinner, lighter, more responsive materials in the sub's construction. The result is precise, musical bass with exceptionally high output levels.
The W-12's amplifier uses Monitor's advanced switch-mode power supply and digital signal processing to increase its dynamic control. And it features Monitor's Automatic Position Correction system, which tunes the sub to your room. Simply place the included calibration microphone in your main listening position, plug it into the W-12, and let the sub automatically find just the right amount of "oomph" for your music and movies.
12" C-CAM Woofer: The Monitor Audio Silver W-12 powered subwoofer features a front-firing ultra long-throw 12" driver featuring a concave "dished" C-CAM cone. An oversized black anodized 3" voice coil provides high power handling and low distortion. A triple suspension is used for ultimate linearity, ensuring control at high power and long excursions.
Automatic Position Correction (APC): Monitor Audio developed Automatic Position Correction (APC) to optimize response for room acoustics. This innovative APC (Automatic Position Correction) system uses a microphone and test tones to identify detrimental room modes and correct frequency response for the room and position automatically. The simple and quick process will ensure perfectly optimized seismic bass quality in any room.
Acoustic Suspension MDF Cabinet: The powered sub features a durable 25mm (1") MDF cabinet with internal bracing. The MDF enclosure is rigid and protects against unwanted vibration and distortion. The cabinet is an acoustic suspension (sealed) design for deep, detailed, and accurate bass.
Low-Pass Crossover: The variable low-pass crossover is adjustable from 40-120Hz. The crossover point chosen determines where low bass frequencies are "handed-off" from your AV system's loudspeakers to the Monitor Audio powered subwoofer. Set the crossover point based on the size of your systems' main left/right speakers.
Bass EQ: The Silver W-12 powered subwoofer offers Impact, Movie, and Music presets for easy EQ operation. Movie mode provides a relatively flat response down to 35Hz. Music mode is -2dB down from Movie mode but goes lower, all the way down to 30Hz. Impact mode is +3dB up from Movie mode and comfortably goes down to 40Hz.
LFE/Stereo Inputs: The Monitor Audio Silver W-12 powered subwoofer is equipped with a dedicated LFE input and a stereo RCA input to connect the powered sub to a variety of AV receivers or integrated amplifiers.
LFE/Stereo Outputs: The W-12's LFE and stereo RCA outputs are used to daisy-chain additional powered subs in your system. These outputs do not provide any type of filtering.
12V Trigger Input: A 12V trigger input (3.5mm) syncs the Silver W-12 powered sub with other AV components when the system is activated.
Rubber or Spike Feet: The Monitor Audio Silver W-12 powered sub includes four feet assemblies that can be used as rubber feet or spikes (the spikes simply unscrew from the feet assembly in order to use them as rubber feet). The spikes are great for carpeted floors, while the rubber feet are recommended for hardwood and tile floors. These feet thread into the bottom of the powered sub and are adjustable to level the subwoofer up with your floor. The spikes add approximately 0.625" to the height of the powered sub versus the rubber feet.
Searches related to the Monitor Audio Silver W-12 Powered subwoofer with auto room correction.


Vipshop Holdings Limited (NYSE:VIPS) represented a move of -9.55 percent or $0.5 per share and closed its previous day trading session at $5.4. 7.68 Million Shares were traded in the last trading session with an Average Volume of 8.66 Million Shares. The stock currently has a Market Capitalization of 3.49 Billion.
The stock traded between $ 4.30 and $19.14 over 1-Year time period showing its price to sales ratio of 0.3. Vipshop Holdings Limited (NYSE:VIPS) is currently showing an INCREASING volatility over a period of 10-Days while the 20-Days Volatility showing a INCREASING trend.
Right now, the stock has a 50-Day Simple Moving Average of $-6.66 and 200-Day Simple Moving Average of $-53.5. Its Price to Free Cash Flow is 0 and Price to Book of 1.54.
In the last Quarter, Vipshop Holdings Limited (NYSE:VIPS) reported its Actual EPS of $0.12/share. The analysts offering Earnings Estimates for the company were believing that Vipshop Holdings Limited could bring EPS of $0.14/share. The difference between Actual EPS and Estimated EPS was -0.02 Percent. Thus showing an Earnings Surprise of -14.3 Percent.
In the last trading session, MetLife, Inc. (NYSE:MET) added its value by 0.58% closing at the price of $45.44. The stock currently has market capitalization of 43.48 Billion, with average volume of 5.91 Million shares.
Beta is also a factor of measure of the relative volatility of a particular stock to the market. Currently MetLife, Inc. (NYSE:MET) is showing beta of 1.25. This particular value of beta suggests that MetLife, Inc. (NYSE:MET) has historically moved 125% for every 100% move in the benchmark, based on price level.
EPS is another important factor while making the decision of buying, selling or holding of particular share. Currently EPS for MetLife, Inc. (NYSE:MET) is at $4.82.
The stock currently has RSI of 60.22. RSI is considered overbought when above 70 and oversold when below 30, currently the given RSI for the stock suggests that the stock is average and it has not entered in overbought or oversold territory.
MetLife, Inc. (NYSE:MET) topped its 52-week high price of $55.21 on 01/29/18 and 52-Week Low Price of $39.31 on 10/26/18. The Stock currently has P/E (price to earnings ttm) of 9.44 and Weekly volatility of 2.67% and monthly volatility of 2.93% respectively.


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Velua är det tredje studioalbumet med det nederländska folk metal/viking metal-bandet Heidevolk. Albumet släpptes i mars 2012 genom skivbolaget Napalm Records.  Albumet erbjuder en mörk, mytisk bild av Veluwe, en skogklädd region i den nederländska provinsen Gelderland.

Låtlista
 "Winter woede" – 4:15
 "Herboren in vlammen" – 4:45
 "Urth" – 4:44
 "De hallen van mijn vaderen" – 4:18
 "De vervloekte jacht" – 4:41
 "Het dwalende licht" – 4:55
 "Drankgelag" – 4:30
 "Velua" – 4:50
 "Een met de storm" – 4:15
 "Richting de Wievenbelter" – 4:45
 "In het diepst der nacht" – 4:35
 "Vinland" – 5:34

Bonusspår
"Immigrant Song" (Led Zeppelin-cover)" – 2:26
 "In the Dutch Mountains" (The Nits-cover) – 3:32
 "Rebel Yell" (Billy Idol-cover) – 4:58

Medverkande
Musiker (Heidevolk-medlemmar)
Joost Vellenknotscher (Joost Westdijk) – trummor
Reamon Bomenbreker (Reamon Bloem) – gitarr
Mark Splintervuyscht (Mark Bockting) – sång
Rowan Roodbaert (Rowan Middelwijk) – basgitarr
Kevin Olinga – gitarr
Lars Vogel – sång

Bidragande musiker
Irma Vos – violin, viola
Rowan Schuddeboom – violin
Klaartje Horbach-van Zwoll – viola
Sebastiaan Pongers – cello
Hanna van Gorcum – nyckelharpa, violin
Madicken de Vries – sång
Sneeuwvlokjes String Ensemble

Produktion
Heidevolk – producent, omslagsdesign, omslagskost
Bouke Visser – producent
Jochem Jacobs – producent, ljudtekniker, ljudmix, mastering
Awik Balaian – omslagsdesign, omslagskonst

Referenser

Externa länkar
Metal-archives: Velua

Musikalbum 2015