BITSAT 2019 Slot Booking process will commence from April 5th 2019 from 5 p.m onwards. BITSAT 2019 aspirants are suggested to visit the BITSAT 2019 official website to book their slots. The candidates have to choose their desired time slot and test date during the online slot booking process. Once the slot booking is completed, the applicants will be able to download their BITSAT 2019 admit cards.
Click on the BITSAT 2019 slot booking link provided below.
The applicants will be taken to the BITSAT 2019 official website.
The applicants have to sign in with their valid credentials like application number and password.
The applicants must then next choose their desired time slot, test date and test centre.
The applicants after thoroughly checking their input details have to click on the "Submit" button to register their choices.
*BITSAT 2019 Slot Booking will be offered to candidates on first come first serve basis.
*The Institute will offer slots to those candidates who failed to book their BITSAT 2019 slot during the initial phases.
The BITSAT 2019 Application Process is a crucial step for those who wish to take the exam. Candidates can fill BITSAT Application Form 2019 by simply visiting the official website of BITS, Pilani. The BITSAT application form is available on the official website of the institute.
Admission in BITS, Pilani is done purely on the basis of merit and the performance of candidates in the BITSAT exam. Candidates who are appearing for 10+2 examination in 2019 or who have passed 10+2 Examination in 2018 are eligible for BITSAT 2019 exam. Candidates who are already studying in any of the BITS Pilani campuses are not eligible to appear for BITSAT 2019. Candidates who have passed 10+2 exams in 2017 or earlier are also not eligible to take BITSAT 2019.
The application fees of BITSAT 2019 is INR 2750/- (two thousand seven hundred fifty) for male candidates and it is INR 2250/- (two thousand two hundred fifty) for female candidates.
If a candidate chooses Dubai as a test center, the application fee will be US $60 (or INR 4000/-) for both female and male candidates.
BITSAT application forms 2019 are available online.
Interested candidates must login to the official website of BITS, Pilani to fill the BITSAT 2019 application form.
Candidates must provide a valid User ID and a Password.
A page with BITSAT 2019 Application form will open on the screen.
Candidates have to fill all the personal as well as education-related details in the application form.
See BITSAT 2019 eligibility criteria & registration process here!
Candidates must upload their scanned latest passport size coloured Photograph and Signature with the required format in the BITSAT Application form 2019.
After uploading the photograph and signature, the candidate has to pay BITSAT 2019 application fees of amount INR 2750/- for male candidates and INR 2250/- for female candidates and the US $60 or INR 4000/- for Dubai candidates via Debit card/Credit card/Net Banking facility.
After successful payment of BITSAT 2019 Application fees, candidates have to submit the application form by clicking on "Submit" button.
Candidates are advised to take a print out of filled-in application form for future use.
Candidates must note that BITSAT 2019 slot booking process which was scheduled to begin from 28th March 2019 will now begin from 5th April 2019. In order to book BITSAT slots, candidates will require their Application, Date of Birth, Gender and Email ID. Additionally, candidates who have completed their slot booking process will be able to download their BITSAT 2019 admit cards.
The slot booking process of BITSAT 2019 is based on first come first serve basis. Therefore, it is suggested to the candidates to book their slots as early as possible. As the BITSAT slots are booked and the date and time are reserved, any requests for change in the details will not be accepted.
Step 1: Visit the official website of BITS Pilani.
Step 2: Login with the help of required credentials.
Step 3: Select your exam centre, date and time slot.
Step 4: Check all the details that you have entered.
Step 5: Click on the 'Submit' to proceed further.
Before applying for BITSAT 2019, read the instructions carefully. If there is any wrong information, exam authority may cancel your application form.
Your application form may get rejected if photograph and signature look blurred or in improper pixels.
After completing the application form, you must recheck the form once.


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Q: Failed to read schema document [XSD] because I am getting the following error message:

Failed to read schema document
  'ofbiz.apache.org/dtds/widget-screen.xsd', because 1) could not find
  the document; 2) the document could not be read; 3) the root element
  of the document is not <xsd:schema>.

I have got a XML file as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE xml>
<screens xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://ofbiz.apache.org/dtds/widget-screen.xsd">
    <screen name="ShippingAgreement">
        <section>
            <actions>
                <set field="selectedMenuItem" value="facilityShipment"/>
                <set field="selectedSubMenuItem" value="ShippingContract"/>
            </actions>
            <widgets>
                <decorator-screen name="DelysCommonDecorator" location="${parameters.mainDecoratorLocation}">
                    <decorator-section name="body">

                    </decorator-section>
                </decorator-screen>
            </widgets>
       </section>
    </screen>
</screens>

Why can't I validate it against XSD file http://ofbiz.apache.org/dtds/widget-screen.xsd?

A: I am able to access http://ofbiz.apache.org/dtds/widget-screen.xsd from a browser.  Assuming that you too have access to the XSD specified by xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation, delete the following line from your XML
<!DOCTYPE xml>

and your XML will be valid against the given XSD.

A: I faced the same issue. then i was using Netbeans IDE 11.1, i later installed 11.2 and now it worked.
You can also check Fix for web.xml errors found it to be resourceful during my search on the web :)

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Truhlar is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Donald Truhlar (born 1944), American scientist
Vladimir Truhlar (1912–1977), Slovenian theologian

Czech-language surnames
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Home Sectors TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION Cobots: a lifeline for SMEs
Cobots: a lifeline for SMEs
by Guest post, Mark Gray
Since March, the pandemic has dictated how we do business and how we go about our daily lives. But with the end of 2020 in sight - a year that'll no doubt live in infamy - many in the manufacturing industry are bracing themselves for the next big disruptor - the end of the Brexit transition period.
Credit: Universal Robots
Manufacturers, of all sizes, will have a real challenge of weathering the coming storm. To navigate the next few months, they must create lasting change and bolster organisational agility, and proactively look to new solutions to solve these new operating challenges – and the answer lies with collaborative robots (cobots).
Automation means agility
A recent study from the International Federation of Robotics revealed that the UK is lagging behind other European nations in terms of automation. Therefore, UK manufacturers can no longer afford to view the technology as a luxury. To remain competitive, manufacturers - of all sizes - must look to automation as a way of shoring up efficiencies across operations. Once deployed, cobots can start paying back their investment on day one of implementation, increasing output and productivity.
For instance, Bloom-in-Box, a Lancashire-based flower packaging service, illustrates just how much impact automation can have. When the pandemic hit the UK earlier this year, the company was able to pivot and began making PPE to take advantage of new market opportunities and demand. This was only possible because cobots can be programmed and reprogrammed with ease – with a new task taking roughly 30 minutes. This means they can easily be switched between different tasks, so manufacturers aren't locked into a specific production cycle and can adapt to changing production requirements.
Automation 101
Implementing Automating may sound like a daunting objective, but what does this really mean in practical terms? Firstly, the concept of a completely lights out factory is still science fiction - the reality is much more manageable. Evaluating different aspects of a production line and identifying the most 'dirty, dull and dangerous' tasks, is the first step introducing automation. As the name suggests, these are usually the tasks that are best suited to robots. In part, because it means human employees no longer have to take on strenuous or monotonous tasks. But also because a cobot replacement can do these tasks 24-7 while allowing their human colleagues to work on more valuable tasks.
Ease of set up goes further than this as no expert programmer is required after a short course staff can easily program a vast number of new tasks. Similarly, built-in safety functions mean that collaborative robots can work alongside human employees without the need for protective guard fencing, so cobot cells can be installed without having to shut down the factory floor for a risk assessment.
Aside from the practicalities of implementation, many SMEs understandably see cost as the biggest hurdle. However, investing in these tools is not as expensive as many believe, as the cost of a typical cobot is the same as the yearly salary of your average employee.
Many companies are wary of automation, as they are concerned that it will take jobs away from human employees. Of course, cobots are a powerful tool, but they were never designed to replace human employees. Instead, we'll likely see a gradual evolution of roles within manufacturing – with day-to-day work becoming less monotonous, strenuous and more rewarding for the employee.
Regardless of the pandemic, or Brexit, the manufacturing industry has been under increased pressure for some time. As the need for mass customisation and faster, more complex, product cycles means that manufacturers have to constantly look to optimise production lines to meet demand. Furthermore, automation is no longer a novel technology and the UK is lagging well behind its European neighbours in terms of adoption. Therefore, manufacturers must prioritise automating aspects of their production line, or risk being left behind as automation becomes an even more fundamental part of manufacturing.
Cobots can give SMEs some much-needed agility – with little upfront cost, short set up time and little to no downtime for health and safety assessments - which could prove a deciding factor in the months to come.
- The author, Mark Gray, is Country Manager, UK & Ireland at Universal Robots.
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So far , Through the links I have provided on this blog, we can see where Seroxat came from, How GSK unscrupulously hoodwinked it passed the regulators (MHRA and FDA) and obtained a market to promote what was originally classified as a "hypnotic" chemical as an "antidepressant" treatment… Seroxat was then released to an unsuspecting and trusting public in 1991 , I call this The first wave , because it seems that from this period until 1998 , GSK were testing the waters with Seroxat , gathering data on how it would perform …How much could they get away with?
A PILL to combat shyness is being launched this week and will be available on the NHS.
The drug, which could relieve the symptoms of up to three million chronically- shy people in Britain, is reported to improve the condition within a week in some cases.
Seroxat, which was originally licensed to treat depression, has now been given the go-ahead to fight shyness and "social phobias".
The drug works by increasing the level of seratonin in the brain, and could cost the NHS up to pounds 700 million a year if all the country's shy people took it.
Social wallflowers could be transformed into outgoing party animals with the help of a new drug.
SmithKline Beecham claims its anti-depression drug Seroxat, launched in the UK in 1992, has been shown in tests to cure 'social phobia'.
It has applied to the US Food and Drug Administration for a licence to use the drug, now prescribed for panic attacks, for people diagnosed as having acute shyness.
The media has climbed onto the Seroxat bandwagon, hailing it as the big new thing in social drugs after anti-impotence pill Viagra.
They say Seroxat will help shy people get to the point where they might need Viagra.
The downside is that Seroxat can reduce sexual drive and function.
The drug boosts the level of serotonin in the brain – the hormone which controls people's moods.
It is already a major success at treating depression and its sales have risen by 23% in the last year.
It now accounts for one quarter of US anti-depressant drug sales and it was the fastest selling anti-depressant drug in the UK in the mid-1990s. In 1996, UK sales grew by 50%.
But if it gets approval to be used to treat acute shyness, sales are likely to soar.
A spokesman for SmithKline Beecham said shyness was ' a serious condition' and that only those who had acute problems would be prescribed the drug by doctors.
"It would be used for the sort of people who would have to run out of a crowded room. The underlying problem is usually extreme anxiety," he said.
-SMITHKLINE BEECHAM: SmithKline Beecham's Seroxat/ Paxil approved in UK to treat social anxiety disorder.
Most people call it extreme shyness. According to some experts, up to eleven per cent of people in Ireland suffer from it. They prefer to call extreme shyness "social phobia" and they say that people who suffer from it experience unimaginable torment and isolation.
Now doctors believe Seroxat, a pill to counteract depression, can also help these social phobics or people who are, literally, painfully shy.
Now, new research in Britain which reveals that the anti-depressant drug Seroxat successfully treats the condition has brought the plight of social phobics into the public mind for the first time.
On 9th January 1998, in the face of mounting adverse reports from users and GPs, Seroxat was re-licensed for a wider range of symptoms including depression accompanied with anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder and panic disorder. Off label prescription included pre-menstrual tension and irritable bowel syndrome. This wider remit increased sales dramatically and for the first time people who had never been depressed or suicidal were being prescribed Seroxat. Unbeknown to them, they were exposed to the additional risk of dependency syndrome and a raised risk of suicide. No longer could depression, suicidal thoughts and acts suffered by these people be attributed to a relapse of their depressive illness.
The contents of the 250-page document have alarmed health campaigners who accuse the firm, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), of putting profit before the therapeutic needs of patients by attempting to broaden the market for the drug which has been linked to a spate of suicides.
The internal report carries a section which outlines how GSK planned to double sales of 'selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI)' – the industry term for anti-depressants – by winning the marketing war against Seroxat's chief rival, Prozac, manufacured by Eli Lilly.
Written in 1998 and subsequently updated in following years, the section is entitled: 'Towards the second billion – all SSRIs are not the same' and discusses strategies to see off the threat posed by Prozac.
The document outlined how GSK intended to market Seroxat for a range of conditions other than clinical depression. Chief among these was a condition the company identified as social anxiety disorder, although other forms of anxiety were also discussed internally.
'What this document makes clear is that a number of different forms of anxiety were being targeted in a systematic way. The thrust was to move sales beyond the $1 billion to $2 billion mark by pushing it to people who were not clinically depressed,' said Professor David Healy, a psycho-pharmacologist at Cardiff University, who has given evidence to the House of Commons Health Select Committee.
Richard Brook, chief executive of Mind, the mental health charity which submitted the document to the committee, told the MPs it was 'all about developing new conditions for that drug and demolishing the arguments of other competitors about why their drug was not any good'.
In addition the document shows GSK made a great virtue of the fact that Seroxat had a relatively short 'half-life' compared with Prozac, an argument which has subsequently proven deeply controversial.
A half-life is the scientific term for how long it takes for the concentration of a drug to drop by 50 per cent in a patient's bloodstream. The company suggested Seroxat's short half-life meant patients could come on and off the drug easily, compared with those on Prozac, even to the extent that they could take 'treatment holidays'. 'There was an argument that a short half life was really good news,' Brook said.
In its submission to the parliamentary committee Mind said the original trial data submitted to the UK regulators by GSK showed the claim was at best 'naive and at worst seriously mislead ing'. It added that 'the Seroxat file is highly illustrative of using marketing information as facts'.
Concerns about the addictive properties of Seroxat saw the government ban its prescription to people under the age of 18 last year. This followed a review which found children taking it were more likely to self-harm or commit suicide.


Octyl acetate is an ester which is commonly found in citrus fruits.
Octyl acetate can hydrolyze to 1-octanol and acetic acid. It can also act as a solvent.
Octyl acetate is insoluble in water but soluble in ethanol, 1-octanol and diethyl ether. It has a fruity smell. Octyl acetate has a wide liquid range. It melts at -38°C and boils at 211°C.
Octyl acetate may be extracted from oranges or grapefruits.
As octyl acetate is an ester of 1-octanol and acetic acid, it can be synthesized by adding the two together in dehydrating conditions, though this is difficult.
Octyl acetate is not particularly toxic, but do not ingest lab-grade material.
Should be stored in closed bottles, away from any flame source.
Octyl acetate can be safely burned.
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Q: Image Processing: how to find factor x and y of resizing image knowing that the object has an angle up to 90° I built such classification model that takes as input an image of such rectangular object that has fixed dimensions (w0 x h0). the output of the model is the class of this object.., where w0 = 742 pixels and h0 = 572 pixels
now I have the same problem but with bigger rectangular object that has new fixed dimensions (w x h), where w = 1077 pixels and h = 681 pixels.
I would like to resize the new image so that the object will have exactly the same size of the old object to fit the current model I already built. How can I find the x and y factors of the image resizing knowing that the object is not straight and can has an angle alpha from 0° to 90°? alpha is known for me.
currently I have a bad solution:

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*rotate the image -alpha

*resize the image using factor x = x0/x and y = y0/y

*rotate the image back (+alpha)

Is it possible to calculate the resizing factors with respect of the angle alpha so I only resize the image without rotating the image back and forth? or maybe you know such function in opencv that does this calcuation?


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Passenger – Runaway
It was only last summer that Mike Rosenberg (a.k.a. Passenger) announced that he was taking a break from the constant treadmill of touring, just before a surprise release of his ninth studio album, The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Taking into consideration the current album title, he is now back on tour and album number ten (in just eleven years) has arrived in the shape of Runaway. Heavily influenced by Americana, both stylistically and thematically, he may come to feel that it would have been better not rushing back quite so quickly. He may have found inspiration on the road, but it appears that he lost something else along the way.
White Denim – Performance
Nothing if not regular, Performance marks the eighth studio album in ten years from the Texan indie-rockers. It marks a new beginning of sorts, with Conrad Choucroun (drums) and Michael Hunter (keyboards) joining stalwarts James Petralli (vocals, guitar) and Steve Terebecki (bass) in a revamped line-up following a partial exodus to Leon Bridges' backing band. It also signals a return to form after the slight drift of 2016's Stiff, and a definitive re-alignment away from the smooth sounds of recent years and back to the ramshackle style of earlier albums.
Anna Calvi – Hunter
"I have long felt frustrated at the limitations of what a woman is allowed to be, on a very basic level," Anna Calvi says about the main concept behind Hunter, her third album. "Perfect, smiling, accommodating. Why do I have to live up to these ideals because of my anatomy?"
Wild Nothing – Indigo
Jack Tatum's long-term musical project has entered a variety of musical realms, with this next stage seeing a transition into 80s new wave. Indigo borrows different aspects from his previous work, whilst still managing to sound fresh and ambitious.
Darwin Deez – 10 Songs That Happened When You Left Me With My Stupid Heart
The quirky natured New Yorkers fronted by the wonderful Darwin Smith are back, bringing with them a delightful narrative-led record which depicts exactly what it says on the tin. 10 Songs That Happened When You Left Me With My Stupid Heart could not be more literal, this is an album of love, loss and a rekindling heart; if you were a fan of the Darwin Deez debut back in 2010, you'll certainly find some familiar territory here.
The Kooks – Let's Go Sunshine
Still riding high after all these years (it's been 12 years since their debut album Inside In/Inside Out), another high-profile festival slot at Reading and Leeds proves that The Kooks remain one of this country's most beloved indie bands. With a huge array of anthems and bangers at their disposal, they can always be relied upon to fire up any field or arena full of party people.
Her's – Invitation To Her's
A duo forged somewhere between Barrow and Norway via Liverpool, Her's are a band that seem to exist in a parallel dimension. They live in a world that is nearly, but not quite, the same as ours. Their eccentric, off-kilter songs have been catching the eye for a few years now, and at last a debut album that captures all of their fun and magic has arrived. Buckle up and accept the invitation.
Muncie Girls – Fixed Ideals
Devon's own Muncie Girls' first record managed to perfectly bridge the gap between punk and catchy indie-pop. The three-piece have managed to do the same this time around only with a deeper exploration into frontwoman Lande Hekt's personal life, as she explores themes of metal health, family life and sexism. Fixed Ideals sees Hekt eloquently deliver these topics under the backdrop of catchy hooks and intense melodies.
Menace Beach – Black Rainbow Sound
Black Rainbow Sound is a band coming into their own. Menace Beach have released two great albums, Ratworld and Lemon Memory, over the past few years, however, for their third album they shift up a gear massively. Production-wise this is the best the band have sounded: well-rounded and sharp. Black Rainbow Sound above anything is exciting to listen to, the album that Menace Beach were always destined to make.
Tunng – Songs You Make At Night
"We really wanted to do a Tunng record going back to the original line-up," founder member Mike Lindsay has said about Songs You Make At Night. "There was a real magic in the early records that we all wanted to capture again in this one." Lindsay is right. There was a magic about early Tunng, a group who spearheaded the (albeit small) wave of folktronica artists that infiltrated the musical landscape back in the mid-00s. In particular, their 2005 debut Mothers Daughter and Other Tales, and the 2006 follow-up Comments of the Inner Chorus, with songs such as 'Tale From Black', 'Woodcat', and 'Jenny Again' depicting a noirish and surrealistic world, amplified by an otherworldly mix of glitchy electronica, and natural acoustic timbres. While a largely underground phenomenon at the time, the idea of incorporating acoustic instrumentation with dance/electronic rhythms and beats has became normalised in 2018, whilst still remaining somewhat of a leftfield pursuit, with acts such as Seamus Fogarty flying the flag, alongside a resurgent Tunng.
Nils Frahm – All Melody


Eileen, I have loved reading your blog! Fascinating cultural bits, even the food items (hmmmm liquid yoghurt with garlic for breakfast? thanks, I'll pass!). Keep up the good studying! We pray for you every Sunday at St. John's – for your well-being, your good health, your energy, and for protection. Bless ya!
Thank you for the kind words! It means a lot to me.
The hotel in Skopje has a very nice website. Looks quite modern and inviting. And at $95US, it does look like a good deal. I would likely pass on the yoghurt as well. The wedding outfits are very attractive and wearing them to special events the first year means they get used more than once.
What an experience. Closest thing to this for me is Pine Ridge but it is really a far distant closest thing.
I will be teaching English to either Albanian or Macedonian students. I could also have a few Roma students. Will be a challenge but they are preparing us quite well. Too bad colleges don't use this approach to teach teachers how to teach. Instead they fill their heads with a bunch of pedagogical gunk that can stand in the way of effective teaching.
We swear in officially as PC volunteers the day after Thanksgiving–so as you are bemoaning how much you ate on Turkey day just imagine me with my suitcases trying to get to my new duty station. Will know what it will be on this Tuesday the 14th. Will be posting it and any information I have at that point.
I love reading your posts. What exactly is Bajram celebrating? Yohurt with garlic to drink no but it might be good as a cooking sauce for chicken or lamb. I really admire your ability to learn 2 difficult languages.
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Jon Anderson fills us in on a little bit of Dallas' high rise history in his latest column for CandysDirt.com.
Beginning in the late 1950s, Dallas saw a decade of building for its first residential high-rises. These Modernist buildings included a quintet of buildings on Turtle Creek – 3525 Turtle Creek, Turtle Creek North, Park Towers, "21" and The Gold Crest – as well as Athena and Preston Tower on Northwest Highway. With the exception of "21" (originally built as low-income housing by HUD), these were tony pied-à-terre or the full-scale residences of those wanting as much urban high-rise living as Dallas could offer. They're close enough for "city lights" views but far enough away to not actually be in the then lifeless downtown core.
Trivia: These buildings began life as either co-ops or rental apartments that only converted to condos after Section 234 of the Housing Act of 1961 enabled FHA (Federal Housing Administration) to insure mortgages on condos. By 1969, all states had laws governing the creation of condominiums. Puerto Rico passed the first condo law in 1958 and the first continental US building was in Salt Lake City. One side-effect of this heritage is that these buildings have master meters for utilities resulting in a single bill that's divided between owners (and part of the monthly HOA dues). Something to factor in when evaluating HOA fees – and summer electricity bills.
Update: Colin Larnder of LocalDwelling.com says that this unit is PENDING!
We've posted about this unit before, and when I went back and looked at LocalDwelling.com's available leases, I was absolutely floored that this incredible condo inside Park Towers is still up for grabs.
This is a 1,790-square-foot, three-bedroom, two-bath condo that is just beautiful inside. I swear this luxury condo unit offered by one of the most fastidious D/FW leasing companies is an excellent value at $3,200 for the location and amenities alone, but you'll love the views and the ample style, too.
This unit, which has two suites and a third bedroom/office, has almost 1,800 square feet of space that includes tons of storage. There's an incredible balcony, too, which you can access from the master bedroom. With this lease you get access to a fitness center, too, as well as two parking spots in the garage and an in-unit washer and dryer.
The kitchen is an absolute masterpiece of streamlined luxury and utility. It's perfect for entertaining guests, and includes a wine refrigerator and bar. And trust me on this, with the floor-to-ceiling windows that give you an ample view of Dallas' incredibly, sparkly skyline, you'll have tons of guests.
So why, folks, hasn't this amazing property leased yet??? What would get you to sign an agreement today, lovely readers?
While I love having backyard and not having to go down several floors to get my mail or retrieve packages, I would trade all the conveniences of a single-family home for the downtown views that this Park Towers unit offers.
This is epic-level city living right here, folks. Samantha might just be envious of the lucky tenant that leases this gorgeous high-rise unit. Marketed by Local Dwelling's David Ericson, this three-bedroom, two-bath condo unit will rent for $3,400 a month. It's unit 15E, which affords incredible views of the downtown Dallas skyline.
Heck, I might even beg an invitation off of you!
Or you could keep it as is, but the wallpaper would need some freshening up. Unit 11D in the Park Towers Condominiums is a time warp. Everything looks to be from the 60s, when this building was constructed.
The owner was obviously a big fan of green, as you can see from the wallpaper in the living room that matches the swag curtains just so. Still, it doesn't distract from what I consider to be the best selling point for this unit — the huge floor-to-ceiling windows and an amazing view.
As the listing tells us, there are no load-bearing walls in this unit, so you can completely upend this two-bedroom, two-bath condo to whatever kind of high-rise vision you have. I think this property, which is sandwiched by the Katy Trail and Turtle Creek, would look amazing as a Mad Men homage with cream shag carpet, a sunken living area that is open to the kitchen and dining areas, and a large master bedroom and spa-like bath.
With more than 2,000 square feet of space, you can definitely accomplish your dreams of living like Don Draper. Of course, for $345,000 you will have to have a remodeling budget because there is no way you can live with that cloistered kitchen or that hideous bath!
Still, I love looking at the photos of this listing. It's really amazing to see how much home decor has changed in 50 years. Does this unit send you back in time, too?


Specifies whether the ColorPicker will display the Apply and Cancel buttons (buttons in Kendo UI for jQuery). Applicable only for the HSV selector when a palette is not specified.
Specifies whether the ColorPicker will display the Clear color button (clearButton in Kendo UI for jQuery). Applicable only for the HSV selector when a palette is not specified.
The number of columns that will be displayed in the color drop-down when a palette is specified (columns in Kendo UI for jQuery). columns is automatically initialized for the basic and web-safe palettes. If you use a custom palette, then you can set columns to a value that indicates your colors.
The size of a color cell (tileSize in Kendo UI for jQuery). The supported composite props are available in TileSizeProps.
Allows the localization of the strings that are used in the ColorPicker (messages in Kendo UI for jQuery). The supported composite props are available in MessagesProps.
When palette receives an argument different from null, the drop-down will be a simple ColorPicker that lists the colors (palette in Kendo UI for jQuery).
websafe—Displays the web-safe color palette.
A string with colors in HEX representation that are separated with commas&mdashh;Displays a palette.
An array of colors&mdashh;Displays a palette. The passed array can contain strings that are supported by parseColor or color objects.
If palette is missing or is null, the ColorPicker will display the HSV selector.
(Applicable only for the HSV selector) If opacity is set to true, the ColorPicker will display the opacity slider (opacity in Kendo UI for jQuery).
Currently, <input type=color> in HTML5 does not support opacity.
(Applicable only for the HSV selector) Displays the color preview element along with an input field where the user can paste a color in a CSS-supported notation (preview in Kendo UI for jQuery).
A CSS class name that will display an icon in the ColorPicker button (toolIcon in Kendo UI for jQuery).
The initially selected color (value in Kendo UI for jQuery).
When the ColorPicker is initialized from an <input> element, the initial color will be decided by the field instead.
Fires when a color was selected by clicking the color itself in the simple ColorPicker, or the Enter, or the Apply button in the HSV picker (change in Kendo UI for jQuery.
Fires as a new color is displayed in the drop-down picker (select in Kendo UI for jQuery. The value can be different from final—for example, select is triggered when the sliders in the HSV selector are dragged. However, pressing the Esc key cancels the selection and the color will revert to the original value.
Fires when the ColorPicker popup is opening (open in Kendo UI for jQuery.
Fires when the ColorPicker popup is closing (close in Kendo UI for jQuery.
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Q: Find duplicate values in comma separated rows with random data Your assistance will be greatly appreciated as I have been struggling with this for a while and couldn't find a solution.
I have a Google Sheets file with comma-separated data in two columns as per the screenshot attached.
Screenshot of the two columns
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soon,son,so,on,no                               N/A
kind,kid,din,ink,kin,in                         dink
sing,sign,sin,gin,in,is                         gis,ins,sig,gins
farm,arm,ram,far,mar,am                         arf
may,yam,am,my                                   N/A
tulip,lip,lit,pit,put,tip                       piu,pul,til,tui,tup,litu,ptui,puli,uplit
gift,it,if,fit,fig                              gif,git
hear,are,ear,hare,era,her                       hae,rah,rhea
dish,his,is,hi,hid                              dis,ids,sidh
trip,pit,rip,tip,it                             N/A
wife,few,if,we                                  fie
thaw,what,hat,at                                haw,taw,twa,wat,wha
red,deer,reed                                   ere,dee,ree,dere,dree,rede
as,save,vase,sea                                ave,sae,sev,vas,aves
from,for,form,of,or                             fro,mor,rom
won,now,on,own,no                               N/A
sport,port,spot,post,stop,sort,top,opt,pot,pro  tor,sotrot,ops,tors,tops,trop,pots,opts,rots,pros,prost,strop,ports

I would love to have in another column a formula to show if in these two columns there are any duplicate values.
Thank you in advance for your help... it's been weeks without success haha

A: If you have Excel for Windows O365 with the UNIQUE and FILTERXML functions,
and if you mean to consider both columns together as if they were a single piece of data,
then try:
=UNIQUE(FILTERXML("<t><s>" & SUBSTITUTE(TEXTJOIN("</s><s>",TRUE,$A$1:$A$17,$B$1:$B$17),",","</s><s>") & "</s></t>","//s[.=following-sibling::*]"))

If that is not what you want, please clarify your question.

A: First place your data in columns A and B of an Excel worksheet.  Then run this short VBA macro:
Sub report()
    Dim rng As Range, r As Range, c As Collection, K As Long
    Set rng = Range("A1:B17")
    Set c = New Collection
    K = 1

    For Each r In rng
        arr = Split(r.Value, ",")
        For Each a In arr
            On Error Resume Next
                c.Add a, CStr(a)
                If Err.Number <> 0 Then
                    Err.Number = 0
                    Cells(K, "C").Value = a
                    K = K + 1
                End If
            On Error GoTo 0
        Next a
    Next r
    Range("C:C").RemoveDuplicates Columns:=1, Header:=xlNo
    Set c = Nothing
End Sub

The duplicates appear in column C

A: What I have understood from your question: you want to find out if there are any words delimited by commas matching between the cells of two different columns.
For this solution I have used Apps Script. The following commented piece of code will find matching words between the two columns. Moreover, as the function used is an onEdit() trigger, it will automatically detect any changes done in either of these columns and automatically find out new matches or matches that are no longer there and update the value of cell C1:

function onEdit() {
  // get current sheet
  var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActive().getActiveSheet();

  // get values from our columns. This returns a 2D array that is flatten into a
  // 1 D array to then convert it into a string where its elements are separated
  // by a comma and white spaces are removed (so that a matches space + a for example)
  var colA = sheet.getRange('A1:A2').getValues().flat().join().replace(/\s/g, '');
  var colB = sheet.getRange('B1:B2').getValues().flat().join().replace(/\s/g, '');

  // Create two arrays where each element is a word delimited by a comma in their original
  // string
  var ArrayA = colA.split(',');
  var ArrayB = colB.split(',');

  // find matches in these two arrays and return these matches
  var matchingValues = ArrayA.filter(value => ArrayB.includes(value));

  // set the value of C1 to the words that the filter has matched between our two columns
  // join is used to display all the matching elements of the match array
  sheet.getRange('C1').setValue(matchingValues.join());

}

Demo:

If you do not know how to open the script editor, you can access it on your Google Sheets menu bar under Tools-> Script editor.


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Q: TeamCity "Cannot resolve symbol" in Code Inspections .NET We are running TeamCity 10.0.1.
The build steps for our project include the step "Inspections (.NET)", which is supposed to run the resharper code inspection.
The build itself and the unit tests are all succeeding but the result of the Inspection shows a lot of errors:
4: Cannot resolve symbol 'Drawing'
141: Cannot resolve symbol 'Image'
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[...]

This is obfuscating the real issues we should address.
Does anybody know why the inspections show this kind of error although the build is succeeding and how i can fix this?

A: I had this problem with the code inspection at TeamCity 10.0.2 after installing the latest "JetBrains Resharper Command Line Tools" - 2017.2.2.
Using the previous one version

and assigning it to the build step

helped.
It seems that TeamCity 10.x can't work well with the 2017.xxx R# command line inspection tool. Maybe some parameters are not well passed....(?) I guess that upgrading to the TeamCity 2017.xxx and using the R# command line inspetion tool of a version 2017.x would solved the problem too.


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Original research, new tools highlight conference
Posted: March 5, 2013 | Tags: NICAR
I came away from last week's National Institute of Computer-Assisted Reporting conference feeling pretty good about the future of journalism. In newsrooms large and small, reporters and editors are experimenting with bold new ways to gather, analyze and present the news. Despite its serious economic problems, the field continues to attract a wealth of talented and energetic people, including some folks with backgrounds and educations that wouldn't have been sought after or welcomed in the past.
NICAR is sponsored by IRE — Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc. IRE has been holding NICAR conferences since 1993, and this year's in Louisville, Ky., was the largest ever. In the crowd were, of course, many of us "seasoned veterans" (I have been doing computer-assisted reporting since 1982 and have attended all but one or two of the NICAR conferences), as well as a significant number of first-time attendees learning or stretching new skill sets.
It was heartening to hear that after years of newsroom penny-pinching, many of the conference-goers were there on their employer's dime. Over the years, a great many IRE members have paid their own way to conferences and training sessions so they could get better at their jobs. One of the great shames of this field is that too few employers have been willing to invest adequately in improving the skills of those who work for them. The IRE blog covered many of the panels. And there was a lively Twitter feed: #NICAR13
The conference takeaway for me is not only how data-driven journalism continues to expand, but also how it has fundamentally altered the approach that many of the world's best journalists take in their daily work. It also provided some glimpses into where we might be headed.
When I became a reporter more than four decades ago, the field's relationship with data analysis and statistics was often remote, if not antagonistic. Our training barely brushed on mathematics. When we used numbers in stories, they were generated by our sources and often taken at face value or with little of the skepticism we were taught to apply to other forms on information. We simply weren't equipped for the task.
The development of computer-assisted reporting, beginning in the 1980s, saw journalists starting to take raw data from sources (mostly from government agencies) and apply their own analysis to the information. Often these analyses provide the public with a better understanding of how government and businesses operate. Our BankTracker project is an example of this, in my admittedly biased opinion. New tools and methods of displaying information visually are certainly making these stories more accessible to larger portions of the audience. And they have required journalists to learn much more about the power (and limits) of statistical methods and analysis.
In recent years, the field has attracted more and more people whose training and education give them the interest and capacity to conceive and execute these projects. I've written previously about their emergence.
But we might be headed in an entirely new direction — one in which news organizations generate the raw data themselves, becoming original researchers akin to the way academic researchers work. Reporters at USA TODAY have provided two high-profile examples of this approach in recent years. In 2008, the newspaper published a project it called "The Smokestack Effect" about air quality around the nation's schools. Part of the data from that came from of air-quality sensors the newspaper placed near 95 schools around the nation. Last year the newspaper tested soil samples in the vicinity of 21 sites where companies operated lead smelters.
Matt Waite, who now teaches journalism at the University of Nebraska, has been advocating that journalists become more active in gathering their own data. Waite is well-known and respected in data journalism circles. As a member of the staff of the St. Petersburg Times (now the Tampa Bay Times) he helped develop Politifact and has helped develop other online journalism sites, including the Investigative Reporting Workshop's site.
Last year at NICAR, he demonstrated a small drone. At Nebraska he has created Drone Lab to study and experiment with ways journalists might use the small unmanned aerial vehicles (once some pesky legal and regulatory barriers have been overcome).
This year, he and a colleague placed a small sensor inside his luggage and tracked it as it made its way from Lincoln to Louisville through the airline baggage system and the Transportation Security Administration's inspection. Every tenth of a second, the tiny device transmitted its location and other information to a disk like the ones found in cell phones and digital cameras onboard the sensor. As part of a NICAR session, Waite showed a graphic of the sensor's output.
At the moment, these are not truly serious tools for journalists. But among other things, Waite envisions using drones to collect data from disaster sites and to track environmental issues. (For part of an upcoming video project on climate change, Workshop producers used a drone on a shoot last month.) Last summer some of his students used a drone to capture images revealing the extent of a severe drought in Nebraska. At a NICAR panel, he showed off the drone and talked about their potential uses, such as sports teams now using drones and sensors to track real-time performance of professional athletes. The University of Missouri Journalism School also has started a drone training program.
Of course, these developments won't come without controversy both inside and outside journalism. Some Missouri legislators have expressed misgivings about the privacy implications of using drones to collect information for stories. But, to me, the important point at this juncture is that it is journalists who are engaging in experimentation. For a field that has been far too complacent and reactive for far too long, that's a good sign.


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Sales of its sportswear businesses, which include Nautica and Kipling, increased 22 percent in the quarter, to $127 million from $105 million. Operating income increased sharply to $19 million, or 15.1 percent of sales, compared to $1 million in last year's second quarter, it said. Both sales and operating income in the 2004 quarter included the negative impact of an acquisition-related adjustment of $7 million.
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Including sales from both the wholesale divisions and the Internet and catalog retailing business, Teva sales for the second quarter decreased to $24.8 million from $27.1 million in the same period a year ago, while Ugg sales increased to $13.3 million compared to $11.7 million for the second quarter last year. Simple sales increased to $2.2 million compared to $1.8 million for the second quarter last year. Sales for the Internet and catalog retailing business aggregated approximately $3.5 million for the second quarter of 2005, compared to $4.9 million for the second quarter of 2004.
Gross margin for the quarter was 39.6 percent compared to 46.6 percent in the second quarter of last year, primarily due to an increased impact of closeout sales and inventory write-downs during the quarter, it said. In addition, the decrease in the high margin Internet and catalog retail sales compared to the second quarter of last year also contributed to the lower gross margin.
Deckers reaffirmed the higher end of its previous guidance for net sales and earnings for fiscal 2005. For the year, Deckers now expects net sales between $251 million to $258 million and diluted earnings per share between $2.35 to $2.43. For the third quarter, Deckers expects net sales of $68 million to $71 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.58 to $0.61.
Institutional Shareholder Services is joining Dolphin Limited Partnership I, L.P., and recommending that Johnson Outdoors (Nasdaq: JOUT) shareholders vote in favor of Dolphin's proxy proposal. The proxy requests that Johnson's board provides for cumulative voting for the Class A common stock in accordance with Wisconsin law.
ISS said in its report: "ISS believes that cumulative voting is an important tool in the protection of shareholders' rights, but recognizes that the need for cumulative voting can be offset if a company has other safeguards in place to protect shareholders' rights and to promote management accountability. Therefore, proposals to provide for cumulative voting are evaluated based on an assessment of a company's other corporate governance provisions."
ISS also noted that the Johnson Family "effectively controls the vote for all directors." ISS said it has concluded that "in this case, the company fails to meet all of [ISS' specified] governance criteria. Specifically, the board of directors is not majority-independent and the company maintains a dual-class capital structure. Accordingly, the proposal warrants shareholder support."
ISS noted Dolphin's recent "efforts to communicate with the company to determine whether the company's board is effectively focused on generating shareholder value," and stated that it "feels that the board has an obligation to provide a communication structure which facilitates communication between shareholders and the board ... ISS will monitor the action of the board going forward and determine whether or not the company has made reasonable efforts to promote discussion with company shareholders."
Quiksilver (NYSE: ZQK) said it has successfully completed its tender offer for the outstanding share capital of Skis Rossignol S.A. (EN Paris: SR). Quiksilver acquired approximately 6.0 million shares during the offering period for Euro 19.00 per share. The transaction is expected to close on July 26 and Quiksilver will directly or indirectly own approximately 94 percent of the issued share capital of Rossignol with just over 95 percent of the voting rights.
Quiksilver also announced that the tender offer will be reopened on July 25 for an additional 15 days to address the remaining outstanding shares. In the event the company acquires an additional 1 percent of the issued share capital, it is expected to proceed to the mandatory squeeze out to obtain the remaining issued shares.
Quiksilver anticipates completing today its private placement of ten-year senior notes to facilitate financing the Rossignol acquisition. While the offering was initially planned to raise $350 million, it said strong demand enabled the company to upsize the over-subscribed offering to $400 million at a coupon rate of 6.875 percent.
The Forzani Group includes Sport Chek, Coast Mountain Sports, Sport Mart and National Sports.
The Sportsman's Guide (Nasdaq: SGDE) said that its net sales and fully diluted earnings per share for the second quarter will be higher than current average estimates and well above the levels reported one year ago. Net sales for the second quarter are now expected to be in range of $63 million to $64 million, compared with net sales of $39.6 million for the same period one year ago and current average estimates of $56 million. Fully diluted earnings per share are now expected to be in a range from $0.28 to $0.30 per share, compared to earnings per share of $0.16 for the same period one year ago and current average estimates of $0.20 per share. The earnings per share numbers for 2004 have been restated to reflect the Sportsman's Guide's recently announced change in accounting policy for certain revenues and adjusted to reflect the 3-for-2 stock split, distributed in April.


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Q: Testing login system on local server I'm using a codeigniter library called tankauth. It creates a user table in the db with sessions and encrypted password. When registering users they have to check their email and confirm registration. For testing locally can I just manually add data to the table?
I'm not sure if sessions work locally as well.

A: Sessions work locally because the user end is kept as a sort of cookie and the server end is kept by your local web server. You could enter data manually, or you could use multiple users/browsers on your computer to test.

A: You can install a mail server locally, e.g hMailServer or Mercury Mail Transport System for MS-Windows. That way you can test if the registration works correctly.


Smartzone, an Irish smart home technology company, is to create 90 new jobs around the country over the next 12 months.
The Cork-based company has established a strategic partnership with cloud-based security company, Alarm.com and has also signed a deal with Aviva.
Aviva will offer their customers the new Aviva Smart Home solution.
As a result of the company's growth and the new deal with Aviva, Smartzone have announced the creation of 90 new jobs.
Over the next year, Smartzone will be recruiting around the country to fill roles such as Smart Home Installer, Heating Engineer, BER Consultant and IT/Tech Support.
Smart Home Installer, Heating Engineer, BER Consultant and IT/Tech Support.


Sure, Q&A seems like one of the simplest features you can use during an event. Let's face it, it's a simple text box. People enter their questions, send them in, and the speaker answers them. But in my 18 years of using technology in meetings to increase engagement, I've never seen a process and feature that was so effective at truly transforming events. When done right, Q&A can make people more aligned, enhance their learning, help them feel more valued, and make them be more deeply engaged.
Why Q&A? Because sessions usually consist of someone standing in front of the room talking at people. Whether it's a CEO address to top leadership, the VP of sales at an SKO, or someone running a breakout, we simply put someone in front of the room and tell them to talk, be dynamic, not to kill the audience with "Death by Powerpoint." Even if someone is a good speaker, the truth is people have questions, opinions, concerns, and they want the opportunity to actually participate by asking them. It makes it much more interesting and therefore creates much more value. If we don't open it up to questions, we'll end the session never knowing if people really got it. And it doesn't have to just be questions. During a talk on direction and vision of the company, for example, ask participants to voice their concerns and issues about what they're hearing so you know whether or not they're indeed aligned. That way any issues or questions can be answered in real time.
Of course, you can have a speaker ask "Any questions?" or have a mic runner during the last 5 minutes of a session, but that's never going to give you a true representation of what's going on with the whole audience nor is it going to let everyone ask a question. By using meeting technology, you can give the entire group a voice, not just the people brave enough to stand up in front of everyone. And by building in a toggle for anonymity, you'll get even more questions. If you really like mics go ahead and keep them, but make sure in between questions asked out loud, you go back to one collected through the app to make sure everyone is heard.
Don't make it risky. Just moderate.
By far the biggest objection to opening the room up to Q&A is that the speaker will get embarrassed by a question or caught off guard. That's why any Q&A tool should have a moderation feature. This feature should allow someone to go through the questions and send the chosen ones up to the speaker via an iPad or a confidence monitor. That way, the speaker can choose the ones she or he wants to answer. This also allows you to theme the questions that are coming in so that you find the ones that are being asked the most and make sure those get answered. Some speakers don't like that; they want to see exactly what the audience is asking. That's their call and if it works for them, great.
As the moderator of a panel it's your job to create a conversation that attendees find valuable. What better way to do that than to take questions directly from the audience? This can be done via the moderation tool on an iPad and the moderator can seamlessly work in the questions as she or he conducts the conversation. The moderator now has direct feedback from the participants that will help steer the session.
Implementation of a Q&A tool will not only enhance learning, alignment, and engagement, it will also make participants feel more valued. At an annual sales meeting for a large company, the CEO usually got up in front of everyone and gave them the typical year in review/year to come speech. But since they kept talking about wanting to engage people more, we suggested that he cut that speech to 10 minutes and then take questions from the audience for 45 minutes. The results were astounding. During the first part of this dialogue, people voiced opinions and concerns. The CEO responded openly and honestly, building alignment and trust. By the end of the session people were sending in comments like, "It's great to work for a company where you can actually connect with the CEO." That kind of engagement is priceless. The participants felt valued by the CEO and the CEO became a much for valued leader in the eyes of his sales team.
If you decide to take the plunge and implement a Q&A tool at your next event, just make sure to do one thing: respond. There's nothing more disheartening for participants than to be told that organizers want you to ask questions, only to see them enter the void without a response. This doesn't mean you have to respond to every question of course but it does mean that you have to find a way to let participants know you've heard them. That can be answering some in real time but it can also mean answering some after the event. This shows participants you've taken extra care. A combination of the two is the best.
In the end, what's important is to dive in and go for it. The truth is that Q&A is probably the simplest tool to use and again, the one that has the most impact on participants. They have questions they want to ask and issues they want to raise and by giving them a voice, you're creating more value for everyone.
Want to talk about how to enhance Q&A for your events, reach out!


This dissertation provides three distinct perspectives on state rainy day funds. The first empirical chapter explores the factors that influence a state to access their rainy day fund, and a variety of economic, institutional, and political factors to be important. The influence and effects of these factors, however, are contextual, and vary depending on the economic environment and political control. The most important influences on accessing the rainy day fund, however, are economic indicators that are in line with the purpose of state rainy day funds. The second empirical chapter investigates the influence of state rainy day fund deposit and withdrawal rules on where lawmakers place savings. The findings reveal that when states have strict rule configurations that limit legislative discretion, lawmakers avoid placing savings in the formal rainy day funds and opt for informal savings that allow for easier access. The final empirical chapter examines if states save enough to handle their unique economic environments. This chapter replicates Joyce's (2001) study with longitudinal data to gain a better understanding of state savings behavior and economic environments. Additionally, this chapter posits that informal and formal rainy day fund savings are closely linked, and, therefore, scholars need to consider both accounts when determining if states save enough their unique economic environment. Results indicate that under a broader view of state savings behavior and volatility, states are in a much better position than Joyce originally reported. What is more, when we consider both formal and informal savings, states are in a very good position to handle average volatility.


Legal talent equally, if not more matching than these elite class of lawyers, is available among those who practice in the subordinate courts and tribunals, the lawyer contends.
A lawyer practicing in subordinate courts has approached the Kerala High Court seeking an equal opportunity to lawyers practicing in the subordinate courts and tribunals for appointment as the judges of high court.
Justice Shaji P Chaly, before whom the petition came up for admission, has reportedly asked the government to file a statement in this regard and posted the matter after three weeks.
Petitioner P Bijumon, a practicing advocate and joint secretary of the National Lawyers' Campaign For Judicial Transparency, stated that the lawyers practicing in subordinate courts are in no manner inferior in competence and talent to the lawyers who exclusively practice in superior courts.
He sought for a declaration that the current practice of appointment of judges by "invitation " was unconstitutional and be forthwith abandoned instead, application be invited from all eligible candidates, so too references from all stakeholders, and an open and transparent selection be made which will also ensure due consideration of the lawyers, who practice in the lower courts and are completely ignored today.
"Legal talent equally, if not more matching than these elite class of lawyers, is available among those who practice in the subordinate Courts and Tribunals, nay, they could even excel those practicing in the High Courts because most of the High Courts are not invested with original jurisdiction, except in the realm of Writ Petitions, Company Petitions etc., and no trial at all is conducted," he stated in his writ petition.
The petitioner further contended that the sons and daughters of common men, taxi drivers, teachers, farmers, those in the private and public sector in the lower rungs, who constitute to be 98 per cent of the legal fraternity, have no place anywhere near the higher echelons of judicial office.
The ordinary lawyers, the first generation lawyers born in humble circumstances and thus not able to start their career as a lawyer in the High Courts or Supreme Court, but in the subordinate Courts and Tribunals, howsoever deserving they are, are totally excluded from ever being considered for selection and appointment as Judges of the higher judiciary, the writ petition read.
The petitioner also stated that had the National Judicial Appointment Commission been allowed to take birth and be functional, the petitioner believes that the commission would have certainly brought into existence a transparent system of selection and appointment of judges of the higher judiciary, of which the paramount is invitation of applications.


With the wet start to the 2019 season, there's discussion about the tactics and competence of teams playing the wet. The Bulldogs seem to have the best reputation for playing in the wet, although I'm not sure where this originated from. After some prompting on social media, I decided to do a bit of investigation.
Hey @AndrewRLP and @pythagoNRL. Who are the best wet weather teams? Or does this stat not exist yet?
Over the off-season, I spent some time collecting individual match stats from the NRL website, from season 2013 through to the end of 2018. In that dataset, the NRL identified 176 games where the weather was recorded as "rain", "showers", "light rain" or "rain and thunder".
There were a further 128 games where the weather was noted as "unknown" or not listed at all, which suggests that this is not a complete record of all wet weather matches over the last few years. If this subset is representative of typical weather, we might only be missing a dozen games or so.
I could digress on to a discussion about how weather in south-east Queensland is different to Sydney and the obvious impacts on the game suggested but I'll stick to the main point. And this table settles it, right? Broncos won the highest percentage of wet games, so they're the best? But that doesn't seem right, does it?
Take this slightly different example: the home team at Suncorp Stadium has won 61.8% of 217 NRL games played there. The home team at AAMI Park has 74.6% of their 114 games. Are these exceptionally high rates due to park factors – that is, the home crowd, travel distances, quality of playing surface – or due to the fact that the home team is usually the Broncos and Storm, respectively, and these teams are generally much better than average? Put another way, if we moved the Tigers to Melbourne, would they start winning three out of four home games or would they maintain a rate in line with their current .496 home record? The answer probably takes a little from both column A and B.
We see the Broncos still win a lot more games in the wet than they win overall. Even using Pythagorean expectation, my preferred method for filtering out some of the noise created by binary win-loss scenarios, the Broncos massively out-performed their regular level of performance.
However, most teams rank about the same in the wet and overall. The other significant divergences are Canberra, Manly and Cronulla on the upside and Gold Coast, Newcastle and Canterbury – contrary to initial expectations – on the downside are not as huge as the Broncos'.
So here's another question for you. What are the odds of getting exactly ten heads in eleven tosses? I'll save you digging out a binomial distribution table and tell you that it's 0.5%. And if that coin normally returns heads 57.8% of the time, those odds increase to 1.9%. That sounds extremely unlikely but the odds of at least one team in sixteen achieving something that occurs only once in 200 attempts is actually 8%. For one in 50 attempts, that increases to 27%.
What does this all mean? I'm suggesting that a lot, not all but a lot, of wet weather performance can be explained by randomness. In a scenario like the NRL, it is unlikely but entirely possible that a team could win ten of eleven games largely by chance. The weather is a coincidental, but not irrelevant, factor.
Phil Birnbaum, a baseball analyst, did some interesting work looking how performance could be sharply different for players when splitting stats up using a completely arbitrary factor. For example, in 2004, Derek Jeter had a substantially higher batting average on odd numbered days (.325) than even (.254). Why? There is no reason, it's just a weird quirk of the way that season played out. If you have enough players or games, weird patterns like that naturally emerge with no overarching explanation.
You might have wanted a simple answer when you clicked on the link but, with me, you're never going to get one. The moral of the story is that humans are primed to identify patterns. We're like hairy pigeons in that sense. The reality is that much of our surrounds, especially the game of rugby league, is a lot more noise than signal than we would like to admit. We're naturally geared to seek out the signal and if it's not there, we'll fill in the gaps.
If I was building a mathematical model to represent Grand Unified Theory of Rugby League, of course I would factor in weather forecasts. It would be foolish to conclude that weather does not have an impact on the outcome of a game. By the same token, you have to be aware of drawing seemingly solid conclusions from small sample sizes and assigning undue importance to them due to their apparent certainty.
In other words, just because the Broncos win 90% of their wet games, doesn't give them a 90% chance of winning any wet game in the future. Would you take the Broncos head-to-head at $1.10 if the only information you had about the game was that it will be raining?
Those cognitive biases can be troublesome if not managed.


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Podcasts to Listen to While Quilting
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My sewing room doesn't have a TV, so most of my sewing time is spent listening to music and podcasts! So, I'm always on the lookout for new podcasts — anything from educational to just plain fun. I asked my Facebook audience what podcasts they listen to and compiled a list of their favorites. (Leave a comment with your favorites, and I'll add them to the list!)
Note: I took descriptions from iTunes to give you a better idea of what each is about, but haven't personally listened to all these suggestions. I hope there are some you're excited to check out! Links go to iTunes.
99% Invisible: Design is everywhere in our lives, perhaps most importantly in the places where we've just stopped noticing. 99% Invisible is a weekly exploration of the process and power of design and architecture. From award winning producer Roman Mars.
Awesome with Alison: Hello! I'm Alison, this is my podcast and my ONLY goal for it is to help you feel more awesome each time you listen. Whether it's by laughing at me, laughing with me, or learning something new and helpful, I hope you feel more empowered and awesome than you did before!
Baby Geniuses: Baby Geniuses is a show for people who know stuff and people who don't know stuff, but would like to. Every week, comedian and super-genius Emily Heller and cartoonist and mastermind Lisa Hanawalt, challenge their guests to share some knowledge on any topic they want.
By the Book: By The Book is half reality show, half self-help podcast, and one wild social experiment. Join comedian Jolenta Greenberg and her skeptical friend Kristen Meinzer as they live by the rules of a different self-help book each episode to figure out which ones might actually be life changing
Dear Sugars: The universe has good news for the lost, lonely and heartsick. The Sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears. Hosted by the original Sugars, Cheryl Strayed and Steve Almond, the podcast fields all your questions — no matter how deep or dark — and offers radical empathy in return
Fictional: Classic lit with a modern tone, every other week. These are the stories of Dracula, The Time Machine, The Three Musketeers. They're stories written by Jane Austen, Shakespeare, and H.P. Lovecraft, but with a casual, modern tone. Listen as Jason and Carissa Weiser breathe new life into the classics and tell the stories of some of the greatest books ever written.
Freakonomics Radio: Have fun discovering the hidden side of everything with host Stephen J. Dubner, co-author of the best-selling "Freakonomics" books. Each week, hear surprising conversations that explore the riddles of everyday life and the weird wrinkles of human nature—from cheating and crime to parenting and sports.
Happier in Hollywood: Veteran TV writers Liz Craft and Sarah Fain demystify Hollywood by making career and personal struggles universal. Friends since high school and writing partners for 17 years, Liz and Sarah have survived and thrived in Tinseltown's male-dominated entertainment industry, guided by blind optimism and a Midwestern work ethic. Along the way they've learned a lot about kicking ass, kissing ass, and office yoga.
Happier with Gretchen Rubin: Gretchen Rubin is HAPPIER, and she wants you to be happier too. The #1 bestselling author of The Happiness Project and Better Than Before gets more personal than ever as she brings her practical, manageable advice about happiness and good habits to this lively, thought-provoking podcast.
Here's the Thing: From WNYC Studios, award-winning actor Alec Baldwin takes listeners into the lives of artists, policy makers and performers. Alec sidesteps the predictable by going inside the dressing rooms, apartments, and offices of people we want to understand better: Ira Glass, Lena Dunham, David Brooks, Roz Chast, Chris Rock and others.
Invisibilia: Invisibilia (Latin for invisible things) is about the invisible forces that control human behavior – ideas, beliefs, assumptions and emotions. Co-hosted by Hanna Rosin, Alix Spiegel, and Lulu Miller, Invisibilia interweaves narrative storytelling with scientific research that will ultimately make you see your own life differently.
Joyce Meyers: Enjoying Everyday Life® is a daily TV and radio broadcast provided by Joyce Meyer Ministries.
Lady to Lady: Comedians Barbara Gray, Brandie Posey and Tess Barker welcome a fourth funny lady to the table to bring you gut-busting debates over current events, pop culture and embarrassingly hilarious personal revelations for a podcast full of insanity and laughs.
Levar Burton Reads: Lose yourself in a great story with LeVar Burton Reads. In each episode, host LeVar Burton (Reading Rainbow, Star Trek, Roots) hand-picks a different piece of short fiction, and reads it to you.
Myths & Legends: Jason Weiser tells stories from myths, legends, and folklore that have shaped cultures throughout history. Some, like the stories of Aladdin, King Arthur, and Hercules are stories you think you know, but with surprising origins. All the stories are sourced from world folklore, but retold for modern ears.
Oprah's Super Soul Conversations: Awaken, discover and connect to the deeper meaning of the world around you with SuperSoul. Hear Oprah's personal selection of her interviews with thought-leaders, best-selling authors, spiritual luminaries, as well as health and wellness experts.
Pod Save America: Four former aides to President Obama — Jon Favreau, Dan Pfeiffer, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor — are joined by journalists, politicians, comedians, and activists for a freewheeling conversation about politics, the press and the challenges posed by the Trump presidency.
Revisionist History: Revisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell's journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood. Every episode re-examines something from the past—an event, a person, an idea, even a song—and asks whether we got it right the first time.
Science Vs.: There are a lot of fads, blogs and strong opinions, but then there's SCIENCE. Science Vs is the show from Gimlet Media that finds out what's fact, what's not, and what's somewhere in between. We do the hard work of sifting through all the science so you don't have to.
Serial: Serial unfolds one story – a true story – over the course of a whole season. The show follows the plot and characters wherever they lead, through many surprising twists and turns. Sarah won't know what happens at the end of the story until she gets there, not long before you get there with her.
Side Hustle School: A daily show for everyone who works a regular job and wants to start an income-earning project on the side. In each episode, listeners will hear a different story of someone who's started a side hustle—along with what went well, how that person overcame challenges, and what happened as a result.
Someone Knows Something: In 1964, the remains of Charles Moore and Henry Dee were found in the Mississippi River. But no one was convicted. 40 years later, Charles's brother Thomas returns to Mississippi with David Ridgen to reopen the case and confront the Klan.
Ted Radio Hour: The TED Radio Hour is a journey through fascinating ideas: astonishing inventions, fresh approaches to old problems, new ways to think and create. Based on Talks given by riveting speakers on the world-renowned TED stage, each show is centered on a common theme – such as the source of happiness, crowd-sourcing innovation, power shifts, or inexplicable connections.
The Moth: Since its launch in 1997, The Moth has presented thousands of true stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. Moth storytellers stand alone, under a spotlight, with only a microphone and a roomful of strangers. The storyteller and the audience embark on a high-wire act of shared experience which is both terrifying and exhilarating.
The Worst Bestsellers: Writer Kait and librarian Renata read bestselling books in an attempt to understand their appeal and, barring that, to become the Crow and Servo of the book world.
This American Life: This American Life is a weekly public radio show, heard by 2.2 million people on more than 500 stations. Another 2.5 million people download the weekly podcast. It is hosted by Ira Glass.
Thrive Global Podcast: Welcome to the Thrive Global Podcast hosted by Arianna Huffington. We'll be sitting down with notable leaders, celebrities, athletes and influencers to learn how prioritizing well-being — instead of burnout and overwork — has made them happier and more successful. This podcast will give you the tips, tools and microsteps to transform your life and go from surviving to thriving.
Comment with your favorite podcasts below, and I'll add them to the list!
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