Running an online site and bringing it up in the ranks can be quite a lengthy and tedious task, especially for time poor business owners.
And this is where the important aspect of SEO comes in.
From site building, content set up, copy writing to product promotion and marketing, SEO is an aspect that contributes to all these areas.
If you are familiar with SEO, then you must be aware of the algorithm changes that constantly take place. These shake up any good rankings you might possibly have, as search engines endeavour to make the user's experience as seamless, easy and relevant as possible.
However, it's not only algorithm changes that have shaken things up.
Where mobile was nothing a couple of decades ago, today mobile - and the optimisation of mobile - largely contributes to how well a website will rank. Things keep on transforming in SEO for our convenience and Google is smart enough to know whether you are responding to the trends by improving your website's usability for their searchers.
Despite all these changes and trends, there is still one essential principle that will make or break your SEO.
The right keyword research! It's still such a critical part of SEO, even if the way you use it might have changed a little bit.
The trouble comes that there are so many things that contribute to your SEO, making the list of things to do seem almost endless. This is why for the start of any SEO project we provide preliminary keyword research, because you need to start somewhere!
There are plenty of blogs and articles (4.6+ million to be exact) that are written on how keywords are one of the defining factors of good SEO services, what role it has, and why any online business can't grow without the proper use of keywords.
As an established SEO company in Melbourne, this is what we do for a living. And after speaking to different marketers and promoters, we have found that most of them still aren't doing the right things for their keyword research. We'll give you some tips on how to do your keyword research quickly and properly in 2018. Read on to learn about the easiest ways to do keywords research in 2018, and how to effectively use your time to find the right keywords.
How to do strategic keyword research?
1. Beating all other ideas, the first step is to use common sense.
Now, if your site is a hair salon, what types of keywords would you use? Spa, colour, haircut and hairstyling.
And what searchable terms or phrases come to mind as a customer that is looking for hair salon?
"Hair salon near me", "Hair spa at best price", "Hair colour that is natural", and more.
When you have figured these out in your head, make a list out of it.
e.g. hair salon in Melbourne, best hair salon in Melbourne, natural hair salon, hair spa and colour service, best hair stylist in Melbourne.
In case you're struggling and ready to jump on to a keyword tool, we would suggest not doing that too soon. It's important to first understand what types of phrases that an everyday person might use - as it will be useful to finding the right keywords in the tool later on.
❖ Learning from competitors. You can know what is going on in the outside world through the research already done by your competitors. And this tactic doesn't necessarily mean 'copy what they do', sometimes it means that you know that this particular phrasing is too hard to compete for, so you should find an alternative or a long-tail phrase.
❖ Confirm that the keywords you are ranking in the market to have a strong base. If you find that none of these terms or a completely unrelated product or services pop up, it's likely that it is because nobody searches for them.
3. After compiling a strategic keyword list, move on to classifying keywords.
In the past, people often overlooked the segregation of keywords. However, this is important, and it eases the task of research.
3+ word keywords are long tail keywords with the least competition. People are often scared away by the low search volumes, but these are easier to rank for, and have a better conversion rate. For example, somebody searching for, 'red striped nike leggings for sale' is more likely to know what they already want to buy - making them an easier sale than somebody just searching for 'leggings'.
4. Go for a targeted, small set of specific keywords and phrases that match your business.
These keywords aren't searched for frequently, but when they are they will bring a greater likelihood of conversion and value to your business.
Users & searchers are getting smarter and more demanding. They want to see the right results for the things that they have searched for, and they want it quickly as well.
Add a dose of bad attention span, you can expect these searchers to leave very quickly or search for a different term if they don't find what they're looking for. And you can also expect them to be seriously annoyed if they click a link to what they think they were looking for, only to find that it's completely unrelated.
So, you should have a set of keywords which are relevant and useful. Don't try to deceive Google by using a term you think a lot of people will search for only to write about something completely different.
Google's algorithms are smart enough to pick up on meaning within pages, so if your page is unrelated to the title you've provided, it's unlikely that you'll get value or rankings from it, anyway.
Use these patterns: Informational, Navigational, Commercial Investigation and Transactional. When you use 3+ word keywords, meeting these 4 criteria provides qualified keyword output.
6. Do you use filters for keywords research?
After you have retrieved commercial intent data and expanded your seed (niche) keywords, use filters to recognise the easy wins, valuable targets and keyword trends.
Online markets have become highly saturated and competitive. Throughout the research process you have to think methodically on what areas you'd want to dominate, and where you won't have as much chance of succeeding. To know all this, use keyword research tools.
Most of the people rely on this tool because it's from the Google clan. And given that Google is one of the leading search engines that dictate your rankings, it's likely that any tools they create will be beneficial to you.
That's not the only reason to get this tool, it is also quite simple to use and gives you results to begin your SEO journey. With this, it becomes important to understand keyword metrics such as search volume, trends, cost per clicks and traffic potential.


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Harrigan-Scott, Kelly Reflect On Rio Olympic Games
Dean Greenaway
Tahesia Harrigan-Scott, left and Ashley Kelly
Sprinter Tahesia Harrigan-Scott left her third Olympic Games disappointed after an unlooked for performance of 11.54 seconds in her 100m heat in Rio de Janeiro, where she finished sixth. Compounding matters was the fact that the three times Olympian ran and unchallenged 11.40 days before she departed for the competition.
"I was disappointed with the race. I came in feeling extremely healthy, extremely positive and expected to run a great time-actually I expected to perform the best that I've ever performed," Harrigan-Scott said. "However, I had some issues with my calf and during the race it hindered my performances, so more disappointed than anything. I'm happy to be here but, I didn't just want to be here, but to come here and perform well and in my opinion, I didn't do that."
Prior to Rio, Harrigan-Scott said she was working on some technical things and felt good. She said the difference between that race and the one in Rio is that she was aggressive in the first part and middle of the pre Olympic race then backed off because there was no one pushing her.
"For this race, I felt like I had a really good beginning but I couldn't finish it. I couldn't get up and keep pushing towards the end and I think I lost a lot of time in the last part of the race," she explained. "I guess it was an issue that I couldn't prevent and it's just something that just happened. It was meant to be the way it was and have to accept it, but, I felt that if I didn't have that issue, I would have had a great time."
Ashley Kelly was fifth in her 200m heat on Tuesday in 23.61 seconds. She said things didn't go as well as she imagined it. "I really enjoyed the experience and was happy overall," she said. "I came out healthy so I can't be mad."
Kelly had been focusing on the first 30m of the race and the last 50m as well as her breathing and different phases of the race and her posture-something she had been working on throughout the year.
"My first 30 felt pretty good in the race and when I came up, it was a little bit distracting," she said. "I think I should have just stayed focused on the task as hand but, it is what it is. It's a learning experience."
Kelly not only had her lane but also found former Olympic champ Veronica Campbell-Brown of Jamaica running in hers off the curve, much to her surprise.
"This is not indoors," she said of the surprise. "It was just a shock initially and I focused on it a little too much and it became frustrating instead of staying to the race plan. People can say a lot of different things but I know how I felt in the race. It definitely did distract me and I didn't execute the last half of the race as I should, but, it is what it is."
Despite the race outcome, Kelly said there's a lot she has learnt and will build into her training to help her keep improving.
"I have seen what it takes to really compete at this level," she said. "Every race is a learning experience and I think I've learned a lot here in terms of the maturity level, what it takes and the physical shape that you have to be in."
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THE COMMISSION ON PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES IS A FRAUD
September 14, 2020 September 14, 2020 / News / By Lex Hannan
The Commission on Presidential Debates is a fraud perpetrated jointly by the Democratic and Republican parties for the purpose of excluding third party candidates from the presidential debate stage. The Commission, by its very name, poses as an official entity; while it is in fact a private enterprise sponsored jointly by the two old parties to preserve an exclusively two party system. The Commission was formed when the League of Women Voters refused the duopoly's demands to exclude third party candidates from debates. The duopoly intentionally colludes to limit choice at the ballot box.
Dr. Joanne Jorgensen, the 2020 Libertarian Party candidate for president, has something to say about the system that is trying to silence her. (View video.)


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To ensure the smooth continuity of leadership at the Department of the Treasury, Acting Under Secretary Adam Szubin will serve as Acting Secretary of the Treasury, effective January 20, 2017. He will serve in that capacity until a new Secretary is confirmed and in place. At that point, Mr. Szubin will leave government service to pursue other endeavors .


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PUBLISHED: 12:01 15 October 2009 | UPDATED: 17:15 25 August 2010
AN MP who claimed £10,000 to decorate a second home before selling it at a profit is confident a new government inspector will find his claims within the spirit of the rules . Erith and Thamesmead MP, John Austin, (pictured below) was responding to Sir
AN MP who claimed £10,000 to decorate a second home before selling it at a profit is confident a new government inspector will find his claims "within the spirit of the rules".
Erith and Thamesmead MP, John Austin, (pictured below) was responding to Sir Thomas Legg's appointment to scrutinise members' second home bills - Additional Cost Allowances (ACAs).
Sir Thomas has retrospectively applied "fundamental principles of propriety" to thousands of claims previously signed off by the Commons fees office, based on The Green Book or so-called John Lewis List.
The principles mean ACAs must not be extravagant or luxurious, above reproach and avoid the appearance of benefit.
MPs claiming second home allowances have been sent a letter by Legg stating if they have any money to repay, subject to challenge.
Mr Austin said: "I have previously stated that I believe all my claims to have been both within the rules and the spirit of the rules and was quite happy to submit my claims for an objective, independent investigation.
"I am confident that The Legg Inquiry will not identify any irregularities in regard to my claims but I will accept Sir Thomas' findings.
"Sir Thomas Legg has not yet completed his enquiries and I do not propose to make any further statement until he does."
Sidcup and Old Bexley independent MP Derek Conway was suspended from Parliament in January 2008 for "misuse" of funds.
A statement from Mr Conway's office said: "MP Derek Conway has received a letter from Sir Thomas Legg confirming that his expense claims as an MP had been in order and there is nothing to repay. All three main Party Leaders are making repayments."
MPs not in receipt of second home allowances are David Evennett (Bexley and Crayford), Nick Raynsford (Greenwich and Woolwich) and Clive Efford (Eltham and Plumstead).


Calgary's economy is headed for a glass half full — or half empty — type of year, depending on how you view the world.
For those staring up at the grey clouds, some negative signs loom overhead: growth in the local economy will slow down substantially to 2.5 per cent this year, according to a Conference Board of Canada report released Tuesday.
That's far off last year's scorching pace, when Calgary led the country with 6.9 per cent economic expansion, although the big jump came in the aftermath of a punishing two-year recessionary fall.
Housing starts and the downtown office market will remain in a funk this year, and the unemployment rate is expected to stay above the national average for the next five years.
For optimists, however, more bright spots are appearing.
Beginning in 2019, Calgary's economy will grow at roughly the same rate for the following four years — averaging 2.4 per cent annually — which will be tops in the country.
"It's way weaker than what you are used to, but still better than anywhere else," said Alan Arcand, associate director in the centre for municipal studies at the economic think tank.
Much of Calgary's economic optimism is still fuelled by the unpredictable fortunes of energy prices.
With the plunge in oil markets in 2015-16, the city's economy suffered its first back-to-back contraction since the collapse of global oil prices back in the 1980s.
Pink slips rained down inside downtown office towers and the city's unemployment rate jumped above 10 per cent in late 2016. Calgary saw 12,400 jobs disappear that year.
A rebound in oil prices and drilling activity in 2017 saw the sector begin to stabilize. Crude prices have traded above US$60 this year, bolstering consumer confidence and the outlook for business operators.
"I meet a lot of different customers every day and I see the reaction from people — they are more inclined to spend money than they used to be," said Greg Garcia, president of Calgary Elite Roofing, who expects sales to increase by about five per cent this year.
The job market is also headed in the right direction, although not fast enough for everyone's liking.
Employment grew by 3.3 per cent — or 26,300 jobs — in Calgary last year and the unemployment situation should continue to improve in 2018, Arcand said.
A two per cent bump in employment this year, and moderate annual growth of one to two per cent in the following four years, should cut the jobless rate to 6.2 per cent by 2022, although that's still above the city's normal levels.
The number of people leaving Calgary for other provinces should also slow down.
After years of being a magnet for job seekers from across the country, Calgary saw an average of 1,600 residents relocate to other provinces during each of the past two years.
"The worst appears to be over. Although net interprovincial outflows will continue over the next few years, they will be greatly diminished starting this year," the report states.
Bright spots for the local economy include higher oil prices, an expanding services sector, relatively strong retail sales (forecast to rise by 2.6 per cent this year) and moderate growth expected in the local construction sector.
On the downside, the office vacancy rate in the city's core ended last year at almost 28 per cent. It's unlikely Calgary will see any new downtown office buildings constructed in the next decade.
"We've always said that in spite of that significant growth in 2017, that we have long-term problems, which are 13 million square feet of (vacant) office space and we still have quite a few people unemployed," said Mary Moran, CEO of Calgary Economic Development.
On the housing front, home starts are expected to remain tepid in 2018, increasing slightly to around 11,500 — far off the peak of 17,130 units built four years ago.
Arcand said another significant issue hanging over the market is the number of new unsold housing units in the city.
According to data from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp., the city had 1,208 unabsorbed apartments in Calgary, roughly 20 per cent of all unsold apartments in the country.
So the outlook for 2018 is a varied one, with the local economy continuing to grow moderately, and the initial burst of post-recession activity now behind us.
Lagging investment in the oilpatch remains a problem. The need for new pipelines to improve oil and gas prices hasn't been resolved.
But more people are finding work, consumers are more confident and business is picking up in certain quarters.
There's something here for both optimists and pessimists alike.
"Things are coming back and people are adjusting to what we call the new reality," said Phil Roberts, CEO of Vintri Technologies and chair of the Calgary Chamber of Commerce.


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Michael Ammar combines world class sleight-of-hand with his signature charm and humor to create a performance that will disarm and delight even the most jaded audience. His list of accomplishments are without equal, and like a wheel with many spokes, his influential work within the realm of magic includes a wide array of roles: performer, lecturer, consultant, and author. Browsing through this site you will find details related to each kind of work in which Michael has considerable experience. Click here to receive his newsletter.
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Categories: Firefox
Early Returns on Firefox Quantum Point to Growth
Nick Nguyen
When we set out to launch Firefox Quantum earlier this year, we knew we had a hugely improved product. It not only felt faster — with a look and feel that tested off the charts — it was measurably faster. Thanks to multiple changes under the hood, we doubled Firefox's speed while using 30% less memory than Chrome.
In less than a month, Firefox Quantum has already been installed by over 170M people around the world. We're just getting started and early returns are super encouraging.
Here's a look at the top initial indicators we are seeing for Firefox Quantum since our launch:
Our biggest release to date. Firefox Quantum is Firefox's fastest path to 100M+ profiles and half a billion daily hours of use on a new release in recent memory – a product of both seamless release and strong uptick in new profiles. And, millions of users are still getting their first introduction to Firefox Quantum every day.
More users are coming from Chrome. We've seen a 44% growth in downloads from people who are using the Chrome browser compared to the same time last year.
Mobile is growing too. Our four core mobile apps are experiencing strong growth resulting from the launch of Firefox Quantum. Firefox for iOS and Android has shown a 24% lift in installs, and Firefox Focus for Android and iOS showed a 48% lift in installs.
The Add-ons ecosystem remains strong. Over 1,000 Firefox Quantum-ready extensions have been added to addons.mozilla.org since Firefox Quantum was released.
Screenshots is a breakout hit. It's seeing very strong early traction. Users have taken over 30 million screenshots since the feature launched in late September.
Developer Support for Firefox Quantum: Improved browser speed and stability, as well as high quality developer tools are giving developers more reasons to try and continue to use Firefox developer tools. Since the September 26th developer edition of Firefox Quantum was released, we saw a 10% increase in daily use of developer tools and a 53% increase in Developer edition downloads.
Here's what the world is saying about Firefox Quantum:
7. Social media Is buzzing. While the fun part was reading what new users had to say, the data also showed a significant positive shift in sentiment across Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, YouTube, and blogs. (Source: Crimson Hexagon social media analytics)
8. Our Ads are taking off. We took a unique approach to marketing the new Firefox browser, where we focused on what it feels like — and even sounds like — to use our blazingly fast new browser. They came to life in television spots and promoted videos with our "Wait Face" and Reggie Watts video which, combined, had more than half a billion impressions, and a third of those views are from start to finish.
9. Firefox in the news. We've received an overwhelming amount of positive coverage for the new Firefox browser. We've seen hundreds of headlines across the globe from Wired's "Ciao, Chrome: Firefox Quantum Is The Browser Built for 2017, " to El Pais' "Firefox wants to reinvent browsers with Quantum" and Usbek & Rica's "Firefox Quantum: 'We're back'."
We're incredibly heartened by the positive response since the launch. We'll continue to watch these numbers, and plan to check back in the new year with an update!
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SABMiller is one of the world's leading brewers with more than 200 beer brands and some 70,000 employees in over 75 countries. We also have growing businesses in soft drinks and we are one of the world's largest bottlers of Coca-Cola products. We've become a global leader by excelling locally - nurturing strong, local brands and building brand portfolios that meet the needs of consumers in each of our markets. Our portfolio of brands includes premium international beers such as Pilsner Urquell, Peroni Nastro Azzurro, Miller Genuine Draft and Grolsch, as well as leading local brands such as Águila, Castle, Miller Lite, Snow, Tyskie and Victoria Bitter.


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A fresh and exciting personal approach to the inevitable and urgently needed revolution in education, which demolishes the one-size-fits-all, industrialized model of processing and warehousing students and creates a community-based, individualized learning society accommodating learners of all ages, interests, abilities and styles. This book discusses why a progressively-minded parent might not want to send their child to school…and describes the democratic, life-affirming, academically and socially beneficial alternative.
Wendy Priesnitz is an unschooling pioneer. She and her husband helped their two daughters learn at home when it was almost unheard of. In 1979, she founded one of the earliest unschooling support organizations in North America and continues to share her experience and long-term perspective through workshops, speeches, articles and books, and consulting to individuals and governments. She has authored nine other books, including School Free, a bestselling homeschool start-up guide and has edited Life Learning: Lessons from the Educational Frontier, both published by The Alternate Press and available on this website. She is an award winning journalist and edits Natural Life magazine.
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Depending on its job purpose and application, there are many different configurations and options that can be installed on a wheel loader to help in machine function and longevity.
One such option that is often overlooked is Axle Oil Cooling. Maintaining the correct oil temperature in all machinery applications is critical. Overheated oil can breakdown prematurely and will result in premature wear and failure in seals, bearings and friction materials in braking applications.
A recent job in our shop saw a John Deere 644K wheel loader come in for a "burnt" smell coming from the axles. The machine was used on a heavy rotation for snow removal this past winter and had multiple operators sharing its use. Moving and loading large amounts of snow in a hurried manner can put heat stress on the drive train of a wheel loader.
Pollard's shop technicians identified the problem and suggested adding the axle oil cooling option. After a quick retrofit the customer was back up and running and happy with peace of mind knowing his axle overheating problems were a thing of the past.


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Remember When: Did you own an Olivetti or an Underwood?
Joyce Harvey
Are you old enough to remember using a typewriter? Robert (Bob) Heimberger literally knows them inside and out yet today. Bob married Ann Zollinger in 1949, and in 1957 they bought a home/office at 812 Forest Rose Ave. The first ad for their business, "Heimberger's Office Machines," appeared in the E-G Dec. 19, 1957. It offered a "New Underwood Add-Mate that does everything" for $168. Bob had started his career working for the Underwood Corporation. His ads appearing in 1958 offered: Underwood typewriters (standard & electric), adding machines, posting machines, printing calculators, supplies, parts and rentals.
Bob traveled to Underwood's headquarters in New York and its plant in Hartford, CT in 1961.
When he returned, he announced Heimberger's would be an exclusive Underwood agent and would be "selling and servicing the most complete and comprehensive line of office machines ever available from a single source" (E-G 8 April 1961). They were also growing and planning to enlarge the office by relocating downtown.
They opened a store in June 1961 at 126 E. Main Street, on the south side just up the hill from City Hall. This location had previously provided office space to Dr. Boerstler, Clinton Cleaners, Dr. Amstutz, Dr. Biddle and Dr. LeSar among others.
Heimberger's moved down the hill to 120 E. Main in 1967. This space had been occupied by several doctors, the Lancaster Beauty Salon, Silver's Jewelry Store, and the U.S. Army Recruiter. By 1973 Heimberger's was selling and servicing Olivetti office machines. Bob's son Rex had joined the service personnel who had been trained to service all makes of machines. Mrs. Heimberger was managing all the office details and bookkeeping tasks in this truly family-run business.
Meanwhile, several blocks east on Main Street, "a fine brick home" that had been standing at 664 E. Main Street since the late 1890s or early 1900s, was waiting for new owners. The Heimbergers purchased the property in March 1973 and were promoting their new location with an ad in the E-G April 19, 1973. "We've moved to better serve you at 664 E. Main St. with larger sales area & better parking facilities…" They had been downtown for almost 12 years.
While growing the business, their family had grown to include two sons Paul and Rex, and two daughters Rita and Beth. Bob and Ann celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in 1974, and their company's 25th year in Lancaster during 1982. They then began learning new skills as they prepared for the Canon electronic typewriters, word processors and computers entering the market. By June1995 they were an authorized Canon dealer and inviting customers in to learn the benefits of word processing and business computer applications. They were ready to help customers solve problems with what was then the latest technology.
What a difference a couple of years made. Ads in 1997 included computer systems, printers and fax machines. Their technicians would custom build the computer the customer needed, and service it after the sale. They were offering software, CD-ROMs, modems, and computer upgrades. The word "INTERNET" also appeared in the ads for the first time.
Son Rex Heimberger had returned to school and entered the Business Management Technology program at Ohio University–Lancaster in 1995. After earning an associate degree and developing a business plan, he purchased the family business — Heimberger Office Machines — from his father in 1997.
The next 20 years of "office machines" changed more quickly and in more ways than most people expected. Try as hard as they might, small businesses could not keep up with the "giants." This was also true for the hardworking Heimberger family. After 60 years in business, they closed in 2018. Wonderful memories remain, and nostalgia may encourage you to find a typewriter and strike some typewriter keys again.
Readers may contact Harvey at joycelancastereg@gmail.com
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3) Fang Jingyun, Liu Huiling, Shang Chii, Zeng Minzhen, Ni Mengling, Liu Wei (2014) E-coli and bacteriophage MS2 disinfection by UV, ozone and the combined UV and ozone processes. Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering, 8(4), 547-552.
1) Liao H., Fang J., Shang C., Zeng M., Chen Z., Ni M. and Liu W. (2011) An integrated UV/ozone reactor with ozone generated from the same UV lamp, IUVA News, 13(4), 22–26.
2) Zeng M., Fang J., Shang C. and Liu W. (2011) E. coli and bacteriophage MS-2 disinfection by UV, ozone and the combined UV and ozone processes, 4th IWA-ASPIRE Conference & Exhibition, October, Tokyo, Japan.
3) Liao H., Fang J., Shang C. and Liu W. (2011) Design and evaluation of a reactor using ultraviolet light and ozone co-generated from the same UV lamp, 4th IWA-ASPIRE Conference & Exhibition, October, Tokyo, Japan.
4) Fang J., Shang C., Zeng M., Liao H., Chen Z., Ni M. and Liu W. (2011) Development of an integrated UV/self-generated ozone advanced oxidation reactor for water treatment, IOA & IUVA 2011 North American Joint Regional Conference, September, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
5) Fang J., Chen Z., Zeng M.,Shang C. and Liu W. (2011) Micro-pollutant degradation in tap water by UV, ozone and UV/ozone processes, IOA & IUVA 2011 North American Joint Regional Conference, September, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.


New Delhi, Nov 20: To help enterprises provide end users with data control across multiple sources, Accenture Ventures, the venture capital arm of global professional services company Accenture, has acquired a minority stake in California-based software firm Paxata for an undisclosed sum.
Accenture will include Paxata's Adaptive Information Platform and self-service data prep application in the Accenture Insights Platform (AIP).
"Paxata's Adaptive Information Platform empowers users to unlock trapped data and use it to develop robust insights, which can lead to more intelligent decision-making and better business outcomes," Narendra Mulani, Chief Analytics Officer, Accenture Analytics, said in a statement on Monday.
Using Paxata's Adaptive Information Platform, Accenture will help clients accelerate access to contextual information.
"Accenture's drive for efficiency, innovation and assisting clients with emerging technologies makes this an incredibly strong and an exciting alliance", said Prakash Nanduri, CEO, Paxata.


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Group Work and Technology
Group Work and Technology Program Transcript
EVA REED: In terms of the future of group work, I would say that technology is probably going to play a pretty crucial role. We're already seeing a lot of changes. People are getting distance counseling credentials. And certainly, that can apply to group counseling as well. And we have a lot more opportunities to connect virtually.
And the really cool thing about that is that there are a lot of people who might not otherwise have access to services that they can now get virtually if they're able to do so. I think that because group is such an interactive process. It really stems from the core that we are social beings and that a lot of the problems that people exhibit and bring into counseling to address have to do with interactive challenges.
And so the future of group work is probably going to have a lot to do with technology and allowing people to interface in that way and get the services and the counseling that they need at a distance. There could be drawbacks to that just in terms of being able to pick up on subtle cues, the way people carry themselves. But I think that as technology grows and advances, we're probably going to see more people using that as a method to reach clients.
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Qualcosa è cambiato (As Good as It Gets) è un film del 1997, diretto da James L. Brooks.

I due protagonisti, Jack Nicholson ed Helen Hunt, sono entrambi stati premiati agli Oscar 1998, rispettivamente come miglior attore e miglior attrice, ad oggi l'ultima volta per una coppia di attori dallo stesso film.

Il film occupa il posto numero 140 de "I 500 film più grandi di tutti i tempi" (The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time) della rivista Empire.

Trama
Melvin Udall è un affermato scrittore di romanzi rosa che vive a New York; soffre di disturbo ossessivo-compulsivo, offende e umilia costantemente gli altri a causa del suo pessimo carattere, è un misantropo razzista e detesta neri, gay, ebrei, vecchiette e cani. Simon, il suo vicino di casa gay, è un pittore che subisce un'aggressione da parte di tre ladri penetrati in casa con l'inganno. Per pagare l'assistenza sanitaria dilapida tutto il suo patrimonio e, durante la convalescenza, è costretto ad affidare il suo amato cagnolino di razza griffone di Bruxelles Verdell a Melvin. Carol è una ragazza single, madre di un bambino che soffre di un disturbo respiratorio mal curato, cameriera in un locale dove Melvin va a mangiare ogni giorno portandosi dietro posate di plastica per paura dei germi.

Un giorno Carol è costretta a rinunciare al lavoro per assistere suo figlio malato, ma questo fatto stravolge le abitudini di Melvin. Per risolvere il problema, lo scrittore invia a casa di Carol il suo medico personale con l'ordine di non badare a spese e fare tutto il possibile per far guarire il bambino in modo che Carol possa tornare a servirgli il pranzo e a sopportare le sue cattiverie. Intanto Simon, ridotto sul lastrico, cade in uno stato depressivo che gli impedisce persino di dipingere. Melvin diventa una presenza ricorrente nella sua vita, essendosi affezionato al cagnolino Verdell, che era stato obbligato a tenere mentre Simon era in ospedale. I due alternano scontri e momenti di confidenza.

Simon, convinto dall'amico gallerista Frank, decide di andare dai suoi genitori a Baltimora per chiedere loro il denaro che gli occorre e, non potendo ancora guidare per le lesioni riportate nell'aggressione, si ritrova ad avere per compagni di viaggio Melvin e Carol. Melvin si prepara meticolosamente ad affascinare Carol approfittando del viaggio, ma non riesce a vincere la sua radicata ritrosia a lasciarsi andare. Durante una cena romantica con Carol, in cui lei gli fa chiaramente capire di ricambiare i suoi sentimenti, Melvin dice per il nervosismo di averla portata a Baltimora perché magari sarebbe andata a letto con Simon. Offesa, Carol se ne va e trascorre la notte in camera con Simon, ma solo a parlare e farsi ritrarre. Fa intendere altro a Melvin, che ne diventa infatti geloso.

Al rientro a New York, Carol dice chiaro e tondo che non vuole più dover sopportare Melvin. Ma Simon, che è riuscito a ritrovare l'ispirazione proprio grazie a Carol, sprona l'amico a reagire. Melvin si rende conto di come la presenza di Carol lo stia aiutando a vincere le sue ossessioni e riesce finalmente a confessare a Carol il suo amore per lei.

Produzione
La prima versione della sceneggiatura si intitolava Vecchi amici, e fu indicata come una delle migliori sceneggiature non prodotte dalla rivista Movieline.

I ruoli di Melvin Udall e Carol Connelly furono offerti inizialmente rispettivamente a John Travolta e Holly Hunter. Il cane Verdell è stato interpretato da sei Griffoncini di Bruxelles, dai nomi di Timer, Sprout, Debbie, Billy, Parfait, e Jill. Il ruolo di Shirley Knight (Beverly Connelly) era stato offerto a Betty White, un'attivista per i diritti degli animali: la White rifiutò quando apprese di come il cane sarebbe stato maltrattato nel film.

Nel film, in una delle prime scene, compaiono in un cameo Lisa Edelstein e Peter Jacobson, che interpreteranno successivamente Lisa Cuddy e Chris Taub nella serie televisiva House MD.

Gli esterni utilizzati per il palazzo dell'appartamento di Melvin Udall e Simon Bishop si trovano vicino alla quinta Avenue e sulla dodicesima a Manhattan.

Distribuzione
Il film inizialmente fu valutato dalla MPAA R (per adulti). Successivamente è stato ridotto in appello a PG-13 (si suggerisce il parere dei genitori perché "alcune parti potrebbero essere inappropriate per i minori di 13 anni").

Il titolo di questo film è stato tradotto come Mr Pupù di Gatto (Mr. Cat Poop) a Hong Kong. Apparentemente si è arrivati a questo titolo dal nome "Melvin", che in cantonese suona molto simile al nome colloquiale degli escrementi di gatto.

Data di uscita
23 dicembre 1997 negli USA (As Good as It Gets)
27 gennaio 1998 in Italia (Qualcosa è cambiato)

Colonna sonora
Nel film compare una registrazione di Art Garfunkel che canta Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, una canzone tratta dalla colonna sonora del film dei Monty Python Brian di Nazareth (1979). La frase del testo originale "Life's a piece of shit..." ("La vita è un pezzo di merda...") è stata cambiata in "Life's a counterfeit..." ("La vita è una contraffazione...").

Tracce
 "As Good as It Gets" (Hans Zimmer)
 "A Better Man" (Zimmer)
 "Humanity" (Zimmer)
 "Too Much Reality" (Zimmer)
 "1.2.3.4.5" (Zimmer)
 "Greatest Woman on Earth" (Zimmer)
 "Everything My Heart Desires" (Danielle Brisebois)
 "Under Stars" (Phil Roy)
 "My Only" (Danielle Brisebois)
 "Days like This" (Van Morrison)
 "For Sentimental Reasons (I Love You)" (Nat King Cole)
 "Hand on My Heart" (Judith Owen)
 "Climb on (A Back That's Strong)" (Shawn Colvin)
 "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" (Art Garfunkel)

Accoglienza

Incassi
La pellicola esordì al botteghino statunitense nel fine settimana del 26-28 dicembre 1997, conquistando il terzo posto dietro Titanic e Il domani non muore mai con un incasso di circa 13 milioni di dollari. Divenne un successo finanziario, guadagnando a livello globale 314 milioni di dollari, di cui 148 milioni negli Stati Uniti e i restanti 166 milioni nel resto del mondo.

Critica
Il film venne accolto con ottime critiche. Il sito Rotten Tomatoes riporta che l'85% delle 78 recensioni professionali ha dato un giudizio positivo, con un punteggio medio di 7.2/10. Il consenso recita: "James L. Brooks e Jack Nicholson, facendo ciò che gli riesce meglio, combinano dialoghi intelligenti e recitazione impeccabile per tirar fuori una nuova qualità d'intrattenimento dal genere della commedia romantica". Su Metacritic ha invece un punteggio di 67 basato su 30 recensioni.

Roger Ebert gli diede un giudizio di tre stelle su quattro, definendolo "un compromesso, un film che forza un sorriso su una materia che generalmente non gli appartiene".

Premi e riconoscimenti
 1998 - Premio Oscar
 Miglior attore protagonista a Jack Nicholson
 Miglior attrice protagonista a Helen Hunt
 Nomination Miglior film a James L. Brooks, Bridget Johnson e Kristi Zea
 Nomination Miglior attore non protagonista a Greg Kinnear
 Nomination Migliore sceneggiatura originale a Mark Andrus e James L. Brooks
 Nomination Miglior montaggio a Richard Marks
 Nomination Miglior colonna sonora a Hans Zimmer
 1998 - Golden Globe
 Miglior film commedia o musicale
 Miglior attore in un film commedia o musicale a Jack Nicholson
 Miglior attrice in un film commedia o musicale a Helen Hunt
 Nomination Migliore regia a James L. Brooks
 Nomination Miglior attore non protagonista a Greg Kinnear
 Nomination Migliore sceneggiatura a Mark Andrus e James L. Brooks
 1998 - Screen Actors Guild Award
 Miglior attore protagonista a Jack Nicholson
 Miglior attrice protagonista a Helen Hunt
 Nomination Miglior attore non protagonista a Greg Kinnear
 1997 - Chicago Film Critics Association Award
 Nomination Miglior film
 Nomination Migliore regia a James L. Brooks
 Nomination Miglior attore protagonista a Jack Nicholson
 Nomination Migliore attrice protagonista a Helen Hunt
 Nomination Miglior attore non protagonista a Greg Kinnear
 Nomination Miglior sceneggiatura a Mark Andrus e James L. Brooks
 1998 - MTV Movie Award
 Nomination Miglior performance femminile a Helen Hunt
 1997 - National Board of Review Award
 Migliori dieci film
 Miglior attore protagonista a Jack Nicholson
 Miglior attore non protagonista a Greg Kinnear
 1997 - Satellite Award
 Miglior film commedia o musicale
 Miglior attore in un film commedia o musicale a Jack Nicholson
 Miglior attrice in un film commedia o musicale a Helen Hunt
 Nomination Miglior attore non protagonista in un film commedia o musicale a Greg Kinnear
 Nomination Miglior attore non protagonista in un film commedia o musicale a Cuba Gooding Jr.
 Nomination Miglior attrice non protagonista in un film commedia o musicale a Shirley Knight
 1999 - Awards of the Japanese Academy
 Nomination Miglior film straniero
 1998 - Critics' Choice Movie Award
 Miglior attore protagonista a Jack Nicholson
 Nomination Miglior film
 1998 - GLAAD Media Award
 Nomination Miglior film della grande distribuzione
 1997 - Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award
 Nomination Miglior attore protagonista a Jack Nicholson
 Nomination Miglior attrice protagonista a Helen Hunt
 1997 - San Diego Film Critics Society Award
 Miglior attore protagonista a Jack Nicholson
 Migliore sceneggiatura originale a James L. Brooks e Mark Andrus
 1998 - Southeastern Film Critics Association Award
 Migliori dieci film
 Miglior attore non protagonista a Greg Kinnear
 Migliore sceneggiatura originale a Mark Andrus e James L. Brooks
 Nomination Miglior film
 Nomination Miglior attore protagonista a Jack Nicholson
 1998 - ALMA Award
 Nomination Migliore attrice a Lupe Ontiveros
 1998 - Eddie Award
 Nomination Miglior montaggio a Richard Marks
 1998 - BMI Film & TV Award
 Miglior colonna sonora a Hans Zimmer
 1999 - Blockbuster Entertainment Award
 Miglior attrice in un film video a Helen Hunt
 Nomination Miglior attore in un film video a Jack Nicholson
 1998 - Artios Award
 Nomination Miglior casting per un film commedia a Francine Maisler
 1998 - DGA Award
 Nomination Miglior regia a James L. Brooks
 1999 - London Critics Circle Film Award
 Attore dell'anno a Jack Nicholson
 1998 - Golden Reel Award
 Nomination Miglior montaggio sonoro (Colonna sonora)
 1998 - WGA Award
 Miglior sceneggiatura originale a Mark Andrus e James L. Brooks
 1998 - American Comedy Award
 Attore più divertente a Jack Nicholson
 Attrice più divertente a Helen Hunt
 1998 - Chlotrudis Award
 Nomination Miglior attrice protagonista a Helen Hunt
 1999 - Czech Lions
 Nomination Miglior film straniero a James L. Brooks
 1998 - Florida Film Critics Circle Award
 Miglior attrice protagonista a Helen Hunt
 1998 - Golden Screen
 Golden Screen Award
 1998 - Jupiter Award
 Miglior attore internazionale a Jack Nicholson
 1998 - Online Film & Television Association
 Miglior film commedia o musicale a James L. Brooks, Bridget Johnson e Kristi Zea
 Miglior attore protagonista a Jack Nicholson
 Miglior attore in un film commedia o musicale a Jack Nicholson
 Miglior attrice in un film commedia o musicale a Helen Hunt
 Miglior colonna sonora originale in un film commedia o musicale a Hans Zimmer
 Nomination Miglior film a James L. Brooks, Bridget Johnson e Kristi Zea
 Nomination Miglior regia a James L. Brooks
 Nomination Miglior attrice protagonista a Helen Hunt
 Nomination Miglior attore non protagonista a Greg Kinnear
 Nomination Miglior cast
 Nomination Miglior sceneggiatura originale a Mark Andrus e James L. Brooks
 1997 - Online Film Critics Society Award
 Miglior attore protagonista a Jack Nicholson
 1998 - PGA Award
 Nomination Miglior produttore a James L. Brooks, Bridget Johnson e Kristi Zea
 1999 - SESC Film Festival
 Miglior attore straniero a Jack Nicholson
 1997 - Society of Texas Film Critics Awards
 Nomination Miglior sceneggiatura originale a Mark Andrus e James L. Brooks
 1998 - Toronto Film Critics Association Award
 Nomination Miglior attore protagonista a Jack Nicholson
 1998 - YoungStar Award
 Miglior giovane attore in un film commedia a Jesse James

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Curiosità

 Jack Nicholson ha dedicato l'Oscar vinto al suo partner in Codice d'onore, J.T. Walsh, morto poco prima della cerimonia degli Academy Awards del 1998.
 Quando Melvin Udall getta il cagnolino Verdel nello scarica - biancheria, lo accompagna con le parole Questa è New York... se ce la fai qui, puoi farcela dovunque!, citazione dal testo della canzone New York, New York di Fred Ebb.
 La risposta di Udall alla domanda come fa a descrivere così bene le donne? («Immagino un uomo, e gli tolgo affidabilità e razionalità») è la risposta misogina data nella realtà dallo scrittore John Updike quando gli fu posta la stessa domanda.

Influenze culturali
 Il rapper italiano Ghemon ha omaggiato il film con la copertina del suo mixtape Qualcosa è cambiato - Qualcosa cambierà Vol. 2, chiaro riferimento alla locandina del film.

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Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Film diretti da James L. Brooks
Film commedia drammatica
Film ambientati a New York
Film sui disturbi psichiatrici
Golden Globe per il miglior film commedia o musicale

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Newborn Penguins, Waddling in Very Winning Ways
Posted on March 28, 2007 by PucksAndBooks
A non-startling confession: I haven't been in that many professional sports team locker rooms — fewer than 10, including visits during this landmark season of blogger access courtesy of owner Ted Leonsis — and so perhaps what I'm about to report is couched in the naivete of limited exposure, as well as my personal encroachment upon middle-aged-ness. But the astounding youth abundantly on display in the Pittsburgh Penguins' vistor's locker last night in no way seems to comport with the long-established protocols for success in the National Hockey League. It's one thing to have a few kids on a big league roster that's targeting a healthy run through the postseason; it's quite another to have a half dozen of them be the centerpiece of a team's pretensions of contention.
In this league as I've come to know it, kids like these should be feasted upon night after night by the cunning experience and physical prowess of their more seasoned opponents.
You know how bars occasionally have '80s nights by which we can reacquaint with schlocky one-hit pop wonders? Every day in the Pens' room is '80s night, cause that's when so many of them were born.
Here is what I saw as I entered: to my immediate right a seated Marc Andre Fleury, born in 1984, entirely unpadded and sweat-soaked, speaking in heavy French-Canadian-accented clips of conspicuous modesty, bearing a very boyish frame and an even more boyish visage. I really thought he could have been mistaken for a first-year netminder in Canadian Major Juniors. In the immediacy of the moment, it wasn't possible for me to stare at Fleury and see a world-traveling professional athlete. Instead, as the hour neared 10:00, I wondered at the youth's not having parents around to enforce an appropriate curfew.
Immediately across from Fleury sat Sidney Crosby, born in 1987. A good deal of ink has been spilled the past two years on Crosby's living with Penguins' owner Mario Lemieux. When you stand in close quarters with him and realize he's too young to have acne, that domestic arrangement storyline garners a fresh line of thought: Crosby is simply billeting in America as many young hockey players do all across Canada, because he arrived in the big league before his beard stubble.
His billet family just happens to be a little famous.
In the midst of a post-game media melee, with microphones and recorders forming an impenetrable cocoon around him, Sidney Crosby is poised and polished but not over-produced by PR pros to the point of rote cliche. Make no mistake — he is well insulated and guarded by the Pens' PR team: he and he alone in the room is accorded time and space with which to undress and get his gear together and perhaps collect his thoughts. It is a situation that is well controlled. But once he's ready and the camera lights alight and the recorder tape rolls, Sidney Crosby patiently listens to the entirety of all inquiries directed his way, deliberates a bit, and then articulates thoughtfully.
I wanted to know the extent to which all these young Penguins were familiar with the Washington-Pittsburgh rivalry that has, alas, become dormant come springtime.
"We were all made aware of it," Crosby told me. "I'm personally aware of the playoff series, the battles that they had with each other. There's a lot of history there."
Is a regular season game with the Caps a different, somewhat special game for them? Here I heard a bit of the boy seated before me.
"Maybe a bit more. When you have that big following of your own fans, you can't help but be motivated. We didn't play up to our standards those first few shifts, but as the game went on, it was fun scoring goals and hearing that many people."
Earlier, up in the press box with my bloggerbrother Gustafsson and Off Wing's Eric McErlain, we discussed the obvious — that the Penguins this spring are where the Caps want to be in a year or so — but also the less obvious: that their remarkable turnaround in one year's time from draft lottery drab to conference champion contender was aided by a remarkable infusion of game-breaking talent in short order. It's one thing to strike it big with Evgeni Malkin (born in 1986), but quite another to have Jordan Staal (born in '88) and his 29 goals come aboard at the same time. At the age of eighteen. Such dramatic talent infusions are almost always spread out over years.
Out of the corner of my eye I saw Sergei Gonchar, who by virtue of turning 33 in two weeks likely is nicknamed Gramps in this room. I didn't have a question for him at the time, but an hour later, already home, I chided myself for not soliciting his thoughts on Alexander Semin. Gonchar has been in this league long enough to have seen an awful lot of special talent emerge from his homeland, and late last night I wished that I'd asked him where he'd slot Semin in its hierarchy.
There were one or two well known players older even than Gonchar in the room, Gary Roberts and Mark Recchi most particularly, brought in to help out the kids. But even they appear younger than their years in this room. Winning a lot probably has something to do with it.
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2 Responses to Newborn Penguins, Waddling in Very Winning Ways
VT Caps Fan says:
I hate them
TG says:
Scary to think, but their window to win may only be for the next two years. After that point, the salary cap will come into play, and I'm sure someone will offer a max contract to Crosby, and Malkin, and Staal, and they can't pay 'em all. Wonder if/how the Caps will avoid that problem.


Pakistan government has directed its State Bank to issue special coins in Dr Ruth Pfau's honour.
The State Bank of Pakistan will issue 50,000 coins worth Rs. 50 in recognition of Dr Pfau who dedicated her life to fighting leprosy in the country.
It may be recalled that Dr Ruth came to Pakistan in the early 1960s and decided to adopt Pakistan as her home and dedicating her life to taking care of leprosy patients.


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Democrats' use of Spanish in debate evokes praise, eye rolls
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Some Democratic presidential hopefuls peppered statements with Spanish during the first televised debate of the 2020 election, evoking praise from some Latino activists and eye rolls from others. …
Former Texas congressman Beto O'Rourke answered a question about marginal tax rates in Spanish. U.S. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey showed off his Spanish skills while discussing his ideas on immigration reform. Former U.S. Housing Secretary Julian Castro, who is Mexican American, gave part of his closing statement in Spanish.
The Democratic presidential hopefuls peppered their statements with Spanish on Wednesday night in Miami during the first televised debate of the 2020 election, evoking praise from some Latino activists and eye rolls from others.
Their efforts were a testament to the fact that Latinos are on track to be the largest minority racial or ethnic group eligible to vote in 2020 with 32 million, according to figures from the Pew Research Center. That amounts to about 13 percent of the electorate, and the population is strong in such key states as Arizona, Florida and Colorado.
But using the Spanish language to woo voters is a double-edged sword: Advocates looking for clues about how candidates would respond to issues facing Latinos in the United States saw the gestures as promising and sincere. Critics called the moves "hispandering" — a term used to describe pandering to the Hispanic community.
It's a delicate balance and after the debate, which also was televised on Telemundo, O'Rourke, who is white, and Booker, who is black, were mocked on social media with widely shared memes that made fun of their Spanish. The criticism ranged from ridiculing their accents to laughing at their imperfect grammar.
"It's like a spice. You have to be very careful about how much you use because too much and you taint the whole dish," Fernand Amandi, a Miami-based political consultant and pollster said. "It can become a distraction."
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio ran into trouble in Miami on Thursday when he cried out in Spanish: "Hasta la victoria siempre!" The words, which translate as "To victory, always," were first used by Che Guevara in a farewell letter to Fidel Castro and became a slogan for the Cuban revolution.
Cuban-Americans who fled the Castro regime and their descendants are hugely influential in Florida politics, and De Blasio's comment drew stunned retributions from Florida politicians of both parties.
Sen. Marco Rubio swiftly derided De Blasio in a tweet. So did Florida state Sen. Jose Javier Rodriguez, a Democrat, who stressed that he was not present at the event and demanded in a tweet that De Blasio apologize. De Blasio did so in a tweet later Thursday, saying he didn't mean to offend anyone and "I certainly apologize for not understanding that history."
The candidates' foray into the Spanish language came as the country has been locked in a heated debate over how to respond to the high number of migrants from Central America who are seeking asylum in the United States. Latino and immigrant activists have condemned President Donald Trump's response to detaining migrants, which has included separating families and detaining children in overcrowded and substandard facilities.
There also have been a few high-profile episodes in which people have been harassed on the street for speaking Spanish. In one instance, videos taken at a California gas station in April showed an employee yelling at a customer for speaking Spanish. Last year, a woman was arrested after she was caught on video shouting at two Spanish-speaking shoppers at a grocery store in Colorado.
As the presidential campaigns have gotten under way, Latino advocates from New York to New Mexico have been seeking clues on how the Democratic hopefuls would tackle issues affecting Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans dealing with poverty, education funding and poor access to health care.
Melissa Mark-Viverito, interim president of the Latino Victory Fund, attended Wednesday night's debate and said she welcomed the use of Spanish by some of the candidates.
"In the time I have been part of the debates, I've never seen candidates directly reach out to our community in that way. It's important that we have candidates who speak to our community," Mark-Viverito said. "Our vote is going to be so incredibly important in selecting who the Democratic nominee will be."
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat and leading progressive, said on Late Night with Stephen Colbert that she "loved" the use of Spanish during the debate, even though it appeared the candidates spoke Spanish to dodge the questions.
"I thought it was a good gesture to the fact that we are a diverse country," Ocasio-Cortez said.
Candidate's use of Spanish during Wednesday's debate was far cry from 50 years ago when politicians outside the American Southwest rarely spoke the language during campaigns.
In 1960, Hispanic civil rights leaders praised U.S. Sen. John F. Kennedy after he uttered the words "Mexicans" and "Puerto Ricans" during his opening statement of the nation's first televised presidential date. He was referring to the struggles Latinos faced with poverty, and his comments came at a time when Mexican American and Puerto Rican students were punished physically for speaking Spanish in school.
Later in the campaign, his wife, Jackie Kennedy, recorded what is believed to be the first Spanish-language television ad. Her Spanish skills got some help from Mexican American adviser Carlos McCormick and her aide, Dominican-born Providencia Paredes.
Eighteen years later, Republican U.S. Sen. John Tower of Texas used a Spanish corrido written in his honor in a TV ad. He won a close re-election by capturing 37 percent of the Hispanic vote.
George H.W. Bush featured his Spanish-speaking daughter-in-law in a television commercial during his successful 1988 presidential campaign. His son, future President George W. Bush, spoke Spanish during debates for Texas governor and his 2000 race for the presidency.
As a candidate, Trump referred to some Mexican immigrants as "bad hombres," meaning bad men, during the third presidential debate against Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016. These words also morphed into memes and some Latino Twitter users to temporarily change their user names to "bad hombre."
Nowadays, adding Spanish to a public statement can make a politician look silly if he or she isn't reasonably fluent, Amandi said.
"Anytime you become a meme for using Spanish in a debate, it's no bueno," he said.
Rebecca Garcia, 25, a Miami-based political activist whose parents came from Colombia, said Booker's Spanish was hard to understand. She called Castro's statement in Spanish "deliberate, thoughtful and considerate."
"What he said, 'adios Donald Trump'," Garcia said, "it (was) so amazing."
Associated Press writers Alexandra Olson in New York and Marcus Lim in Miami contributed to this report.
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American Airlines bid goodbye to New York-Savannah flights
American Airlines is ending its weekend-only service between New York LaGuardia and Savannah due to the losses on the given route to the coastal city in Georgia.
American Airlines is a member of Oneworld Alliance and it released a statement that It will end its Saturday and even Sunday flights between Savannah (SAV) and LaGuardia (LGA) effective May 3, 2020. Cerium schedules also confirmed this issue and are validated as well. American Airlines starts serving the given route in 2018. It makes use of a 44-seater Embraer ERJ-140 jets on every flight.
According to Nichelle Barrett, a spokeswoman of American Airlines, the company was asked If the decision made to end the service has a relation to the pending early retirement of small regional jets namely the ERJ-140. As a reply, she said that the given route, Savannah and LaGuardia was unprofitable. This airline company is forced to removed earlier four of the said aircraft than expected. This is due to the ongoing grounding of Boeing 737 MAX and restrictions in the company's contract with pilots.
On the other hand, Forth Worth, which is a Texas-based airline company faced a plethora of competition between the given route, New York and Savannah. Currently, the city is being served by Delta Airlines from LaGuardia while both Delta Airlines and JetBlue Airways serve those from New York John F. Kennedy (JFK). Allegiant Air together with United Airlines does serve those departing from Newark Liberty (EWR).
American Airlines will continue to serve passengers from Savannah from Charlotte (CLT), Miami (MIA), Chicago O'Hare (ORD), Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW), Washington Raegan National and Philadelphia (PHL).
American Airlines' decision to bid goodbye to the New York-Savannah route comes a week after it released a statement that it would also end another LaGuardia route. This airline company is only providing service on Saturday-only between LaGuardia and Bermuda (BDA) in May 2020. This is also due to the financial losses being incurred.
In January this year, American Airlines executives and decision-makers outlined their plans to make changes and grow its system capacity by 4 to 5% year-over-year this 2020. However, there are some considerations and challenges like the combined impact of the grounding of Boeing 737 MAX and the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. Several flights were suspended mostly to the entire Asia routes and Europe. These problems may significantly reduce those plans.
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As the title states I'm in search of a mechanic well versed in classic Volvos ('91 745T specifically) in the general vicinity of Asheville, NC. I've scoured the Google machine with zero success. Any attempt to establish a relationship with a European/Volvo centric mechanic has been met with disinterest or avoidance.
I'm aware that these cars are relatively simple in comparison to any modern vehicle, I've found a trustworthy mechanic for general repair. He too is not interested in the task at hand. I'm specifically looking to have a complete suspension overhaul performed, including all bushings. I have all required parts on hand. In the past this is something I'd have tackled myself, unfortunately life circumstances dictate that I simply do not have the time. If anyone could point me in that general direction I would be grateful. Thanks.
It's so "easy". But the potential reason they're shying away from it is because there's a Volvo specific press you need to do the rear (wait... nvm, not sure the 7 series is the same as the 2 series).
Have you inquired with the dealer?
I'm volunteering Jared Gant to help you out.
I haven't inquired with the dealer. Trying to avoid spending more on the suspension install than I paid for the car. There's an independent Volvo shop about an hour away (Simpsonville, SC) that I left a message with, didn't receive a call back but perhaps I'll try again.
Tell me more about this Jared fellow? I have United States Domestic currency I'll gladly exchange for his services.
propav8r on here. He's in Franklin I think.
There used to be an exception SAAB guy in Black Mtn., just "down the hill" on I-40. He certainly will know the savvy OVLOV wrenches in Asheville. Considering the college town folk there, I'd say the chances are good there is a Swedish wrench handy.
Jared also could likely steer you.
I recognize Jared's screen name, perhaps I'll reach out to him.
Thanks for that lead on the Saab guy in Black Mountain. I'll try to track him down, perhaps he can provide some insight. You would think in a town like Asheville there'd be an abundant source of Swedish savvy wrenches. The vintage Volvo ratio is strong in these parts.
The vintage Volvo ratio is strong in these parts.
Doing their part to "Keep Asheville Weird".
Indeed, one of the reasons I'm fond of this place. Perhaps all the Volvo mechanics closed up shop because they were tired of getting paid with patchouli oil and weed.
Nonetheless I made contact with Euro-Car Specialist Inc located in Greenville. Chatted for a while with the service Manager. Seemed enthusiastic and willing to work on old Volvos. Waiting on a rough labor estimate, if it seems within the realm of reason I'll give them a try.
Larry's Performance Werks. Outstanding. Have used them on a road trip.
Unfortunately Larry falls into the "disinterested" category. I've stopped in there on a couple occasions and he politely expressed his lack of interest in working on vintage Volvos (specifically mine). I was disappointed because I've heard good things.
Alas, I've come to yet another deadend. Garage in Greenville, SC will not install ANY parts furnished by the customer. I understand their position but it's slightly frustrating when the parts in question are from reputable manufacturers and I've provided an itemized list to them.
If there are any local guys out there that would like to make some money on installing my suspension please feel free to contact me. Doesn't have to be all bushings etc. But at the very least I'd like to install my struts, springs, panhard rod bushings and control arm stay bushings (2-piece conical IPD poly) because I have a nasty shimmy at 45-55 mph. Plea over.
Come to Columbia SC. I have over 20 years with VCNA and now my own shop. I'll be more than willing to do what you need. Royal Automotive Techs.
Thank you for the info. I found an upstanding member of the local Volvo community to help me out. I'll certainly keep you in mind for the future.


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How Wright's Law Can Right the Climate
Sep 15, 2022 Anand Gopal
While America's Inflation Reduction Act is a historic achievement in its own right, its largest benefits will come in the form of global economic spillover effects. Ultimately, all countries will pay much less to cut their own emissions at the speed and scale necessary to keep climate change in check.
OAKLAND – As the world's second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, the United States is critical to preserving a livable planet. And with the recently enacted Inflation Reduction Act – which allocates hundreds of billions of dollars toward decarbonization – America has shored up its credibility just in time for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt.
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America is now well positioned to achieve its goal of halving its emissions by 2030, relative to 2005 levels. While the IRA's provisions could cut US emissions up to 43% by 2030, the remaining shortfall can be covered by new Environmental Protection Agency rules and stronger state-level action of the kind that we have seen this year in California.
But while the IRA is a historic achievement in its own right, its largest benefits will come in the form of global economic spillover effects. Like the European Union's "Fit for 55" policies, the IRA will drive the deployment of solar, wind, and battery storage, thereby reducing the costs of these clean technologies for everyone. Ultimately, all countries will pay much less to cut their own emissions at the speed and scale necessary to keep climate change in check.
To be sure, the US still needs to follow through on its other climate commitments, not least by providing the $11.4 billion per year (a paltry sum compared to other US expenditures) that it has pledged to finance mitigation and adaptation in the Global South. Counterintuitively, though, massive domestic investments in clean technologies by the US and the EU stand to be much more valuable than any direct financing they provide, owing to a little-known phenomenon known as Wright's Law.
Named after the US engineer who first noticed it in the 1930s (Theodore Wright), Wright's Law predicts that every cumulative doubling of a technology's global production will reduce its cost by a constant percentage. And as recent research at the University of Oxford confirms, solar, wind, battery, and electrolyzer costs have declined steeply as their global production has increased.
But even more significantly, the researchers found that Wright's Law holds true even after an innovative technology has achieved high levels of market maturity. That means the IRA's $370 billion dollar investment in clean-energy production could trigger even faster cost decreases for the technologies needed to solve the climate crisis, delivering a higher quality of life for billions of people.
For example, our modeling at Energy Innovation shows that these government investments could add 1,053 gigawatts of new wind and solar energy to the US grid, making it 85% clean in just eight years. Likewise, the law's new electric-vehicle (EV) tax credits could ensure that roughly one-third of all new passenger cars and heavy-duty trucks sold in the US are electric by 2030. IRA incentives are also expected to add five gigawatts of electrolyzer capacity to produce zero-carbon hydrogen, which will be critical to cutting emissions in the chemical industry and aviation.
Moreover, the IRA's public investments will unlock several times as much private capital. Add in Europe's investments and China's massive push into clean energy and EVs, and annual deployment of innovative clean technologies is poised to explode.
In addition to reducing emissions in the world's largest and most highly polluting economies, the exponential growth in clean technologies will make it dramatically cheaper for the rest of the world to transform their energy systems. In fact, we have already seen this dynamic playing out. Green investments by Germany and California at the start of the last decade helped reduce the costs of solar by 85% and of wind by 56% between 2010 and 2020. Similarly, EV demand in China has helped slash battery costs by 89% since 2010.
For its part, India has capitalized on these falling costs by designing clever power auctions that result in the lowest utility-scale solar-power prices in the world. As the decrease in costs accelerates, countries across the Global South will be able to exploit the benefits of Wright's Law through bold policies to decarbonize cars, cooling, and electricity.
Energy Innovation's modeling consistently shows that ambitious clean-energy policies expand economies and create jobs, while also improving air quality. Even before the IRA, research found that India could save more than 60 trillion rupees ($752 billion) by 2050 if it adopts high-decarbonization policies.
To that end, performance standards – requiring an increasing minimum share of clean power and EVs each year – are a particularly powerful instrument. In low- and middle-income countries, such policies can elegantly leverage US and EU investments at no cost to governments beyond enforcement, and can prevent a country from becoming a dumping ground for polluting vehicles and equipment.
Understanding Wright's Law can help reframe North-South dialogue at COP27. Domestic investments by the wealthiest countries will cut costs for developing countries and stretch international finance further. The less expensive climate action becomes, the greater our chances of maintaining climate stability.
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A Gut Geeling about the Ketogenic Diet in Epilepsy
Abstract, published in Epilepsy Research
The ketogenic diet has been used to treat intractable epilepsy for many years, yet the mechanism(s) underlying its effectiveness have not been completely explained. Emerging evidence indicates that the ketogenic diet may correct or otherwise alter a gut microbiota whose fecal microbial composition is different from that in healthy individuals.
Recent studies in animal seizure models also reveal an altered gut microbiome, and, interestingly, changes in the composition of the microbiota after ingestion of a ketogenic diet. The effectiveness of the ketogenic diet in these animal models appears to be absolutely dependent on the presence of gut microbiota. Further evidence suggests that effectiveness of the ketogenic diet in controlling seizures may rely on the ability of specific bacterial populations to alter a particular chemical modification of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, and thus alter their movement into the central nervous system. These studies suggest new directions for research in patients with epilepsy.
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They observed that a reduction in the amount of energy led to an increase in the level of calcium in neurons, making them hyperexcitable. These dysfunctions could be corrected when mice were fed a ketogenic diet, which is rich in lipids and has been used since antiquity. This work is published in the journal eLife.


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Q: test around 20k client connection with server I have a chat aplication in java nio package. i want to test the capacity of server. I run my server application and client program is runing through a batch file. so that at time i can run any number of client. when 268 client application is runs RAM stops the process. Ram didnt have suffient memory to execute the next client.
Is there any way that processor use hard disk memmory when Ram is full ?? not java heap space
am using Windows 7 Prof 32 bit, 4 gp ram,i5 processor

A: I have recently tried a more humble experiment with 2000 MySQL threaded clients.
And I'm afraid you gonna hit a number of walls.
First of all, you gonna have a java 2GB heap size limit. You should consider going to a 64-bit JVM. See Maximum Java heap size of a 32-bit JVM on a 64-bit OS
Then, Windows 7 32 bit doesn't handle more than 3.12GB of RAM. You should consider a 64-bit OS
Moreover, the OS won't let you open 20k sockets at first. Check MaxUserPort in the registry.
If you pass through all this, it may be time to consider CPU allocation which, under 2k threads and your i5, shouldn't be a problem. But I don't know for 20k ...

A: For your load test, you should separate the server and the client.
Run the server and only that on your machine. Use other(s) computer(s) to run the clients.
This will avoid you this kind of issue and will be much more realistic. You will never have 20k clients and a server running the same machine :)
You will also be able to monitor the performance of the server w/o having the client interferences on your computer as your resources will be dedicated to your server.
BTW, in w7, there the turboram that allows you to plug an usb dongle to extend the RAM of your computer. This could help you.
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King's Ely Junior hosts and wins Schools Football Tournament
KING'S Ely Junior was delighted to both host and win the East Cambridgeshire Years 3 and 4 Schools Football Tournament.
Teams from 20 primary schools in the district flocked to the school on March 23rd to compete in the tournament, which was organised in conjunction with the Witchford School Sports Partnership.
The sun shone and all students played with great enthusiasm, but it was King's Ely Junior's players who were victorious on the day. They beat Littleport Community Primary School, Ely St John's Community Primary School and St Andrew's Primary School in Soham in the pool stage, before beating Isleham Primary School in the final.
Four King's Ely Senior students also helped with the refereeing on the day.


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Q: Set NixOS config option only when it is valid, for backwards compatibility Occasionally, NixOS changes config options in a way that is not entirely backwards compatible. For example, nixos 19.09 did not have a programs.gnupg.agent.pinentryFlavor option, but in nixos unstable (soon 20.03) I need to set it to a non-default value in order to get the right pinentry variant.
I share my configuration across machines, some of which run nixos-19.09 and some nixos-unstable, so I want my configuration to be compatible with both. (even without multiple machines, it would be nice to be able to switch nixos channels without breakage)
Setting programs.gnupg.agent.pinentryFlavor = "gtk2"; as needed for nixos-unstable causes nixos-rebuild to fail on nixos-19.09:
error: The option `programs.gnupg.agent.pinentryFlavor' defined in `[...]/desktop.nix' does not exist.
(use '--show-trace' to show detailed location information)

Is there a way to check if an option is valid?
Essentially, I'm looking for what to write in place of ???(pinentryFlavor)) here, so as to not set a nonexistent option:
programs.gnupg.agent = { enable = true;} // (
  if ???(pinentryFlavor)
  then { pinentryFlavor = "gtk2"; }
  else {});

A: The configuration function does receive an options attr, so it is possible to check if a given option is defined using builtins.hasAttr before setting it in the configuration.
Most NixOS configurations don't extract options, so you may need to add it first. For example:
{ config, pkgs, options, ... }:
{
  programs.gnupg.agent =
    { enable = true;  } //
    # False on NixOS 19.09
    (if builtins.hasAttr "pinentryFlavor" options.programs.gnupg.agent
     then { pinentryFlavor = "gtk2"; }
     else {});
}

Similarly, the same approach can be used to set options used by nixos-rebuild build-vm, which would normally not be available.
Instead of needing to set options via environment variables when running the VM like
QEMU_OPTS='-m 4096 -smp 4 -soundhw ac97' ./result/bin/run-*-vm

the equivalent options can be set in configuration.nix:
  # The default 384MB RAM is not enough to run Firefox in a VM
  virtualisation =
    lib.optionalAttrs (builtins.hasAttr "qemu" options.virtualisation) {
      memorySize = 4096;
      cores = 4;
      qemu.options = [ "-soundhw ac97" ];
    };


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It is the for MS-Windows system. And more of the DirectX8 is necessary.
The operation key is the 'cursor' key and 'A', 'S', 'D', 'Z', 'X' and 'C', such as accelerator and brake.