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Behind the Scenes at LinkedIn Learning
July 17, 2018 • thornley • Show Notes
http://traffic.libsyn.com/prworks/ipr514.mp3
Online learning courses have become the main channel for many of us to pick up new skills and refresh our understanding of the latest developments and best practices in our current field of work.
Have you wondered where the ideas for them comes from, how the instructors are chosen, how the courses are produced or how the sessions are targeted at you? Well, this week, Martin Waxman is in California recording his next course for LinkedIn. And we took the opportunity to invite Martin's producer, Hilary White, to give us insight into these and many more questions we have about online courses.
Bonus: Do you think you might like to offer an online course with a major platform like Lynda.com or LinkedIn Learning? Listen to the end for info on how you can put yourself forward for consideration as a LinkedIn Learning instructor.
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Yes, you are the product. But you don't have to be.
May 8, 2018 • thornley • PR
Are you the product today? Heck Yeah!
In the past two weeks, many people have jumped on the bandwagon launched by Will Oremus' article "Are You Really the Product? The history of a dangerous idea." In a nutshell, Oremus argues that the "If you're not paying for the product, you are the product," aphorism doesn't really apply in the case of Facebook.
Gini and Joe have different perspectives on this. Gini sees a lot of value in Oremus' arguments. Joe thinks that his arguments are beguiling, but convoluted, bringing us to the same conclusion: "If you aren't paying for it with money, you are paying for it in other ways." Ultimately, he who pays for something sets the terms.
Don't fall into the trap of believing this is an expression of powerlessness. In fact, as Joe sees it, it is a call to action.
So, what can we do about it?
First, don't think about recreating Facebook or finding a viable Facebook competitor. Facebook has reached dominance and will not be challenged until it is broken up. (Remember the good things that followed on the AT&T break up in the 1980s? Basically, it created the opportunity that became Silicon Valley.)
Instead, think about the more selective, specialized things that we want to do, connections that we want to make, networks we want to create, that reflect our actual interests. Think about why so many people see Slack as their social platform. Why we love using Apple Messages to create groups of friends for sharing. Places that will give us the dignity and respect that we want. That will be geared to us. Not their advertising model. And places that we are prepared to pay for.
Don't fight Facebook. Go outside of and beyond Facebook.
LinkedIn at 15
LinkedIn. Can it really be 15 years old? It seems like only yesterday we first met.
LinkedIn is not as big as Facebook. It doesn't sit at the middle of the news cycle like Twitter. And it doesn't have the love directed at Instagram. But it is older than all of these social networks – and it occupies a unique place for business. We talk about how it has changed over the years and our ongoing love/hate relationship with it.
Are You Really the Product? The history of a dangerous idea, Will Oremus
LinkedIn Turns 15, Allen Blue
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Inside PR 446: Bad news for independent podcast creators
June 19, 2016 • thornley • Inside PR
Is podcasting on the verge of tipping from a creator-driven medium to an advertiser-driven channel? UNU predicts the trends. Microsoft gets LinkedIn. And crises bring out the best in both social and mainstream media. Gini Dietrich, Martin Waxman and Joseph Thornley tackle these topics and more in this week's Inside PR podcast.
Midroll acquires Stitcher
A big deal by podcasting standards. Podcast advertising broker Midroll has acquired Stitcher. I think that independent podcasters have reason to worry that, if successful, Midroll/Stitcher will do to podcasting what Facebook did to the open Web. Martin and Gini are still making up their minds about this. Whatever your view, if you care about podcasting, this is an #IPRMustKnow.
Who knew UNU?
UNU is a site that uses the wisdom of the crowd to answer questions and predict trends. Very 2008.
Microsoft acquires LinkedIn
The news that Microsoft is acquiring LinkedIn broke just before we recorded this episode. So here you get our first impressions of the potential benefits and downsides of Microsoft's integration of LinkedIn with its Office suite.
Crisis brings out the best in us
Finally, in the wake of the Orlando shootings, we reflect on the current state of crisis communications, how news flows through social media and the important role of mainstream media to establish context, discern authoritative, credible witness testimony and curate the reports from social media.
We'd love to know what you think.
Leave a comment on the blog, send us an email or an audio comment to [email protected], join the FIR Google+ Community, join the Inside PR Facebook group, message us @inside_pr on Twitter, or connect with Gini Dietrich, Joseph Thornley, and Martin Waxman on Twitter. And we have a favor to ask: If you like this podcast, please rate us on iTunes.
Thank you to the people behind Inside PR. Our theme music was created by Damon de Szegheo; Roger Dey is our announcer. Inside PR is produced by Joseph Thornley.
Inside PR 407: PR generalists versus specialists
April 20, 2015 • Martin • PR
http://traffic.libsyn.com/prworks/IPR_407_FINAL.mp3
Martin here and it's a jam-packed episode this week. But first a milestone: it's been nine years since Terry Fallis and David Jones started Inside PR and we want to give Terry and Dave a big congratulations and bigger thank you! And thanks to all of you for sticking with us. If you're interested, head to the archives and listen to IPR #1.
Back to 2015…On today's show, we talk about three things:
1. When to hire a PR firm – and when you should wait
Gini wrote a post about a startup client whose product wasn't ready when they hired her firm, so any traffic the Arment Dietrich team drove to the site led to customer frustration since the business wasn't ready for…um business. Moral: sometimes entrepreneurs need to put the brakes on their PR efforts until they have something to show, solid goals and can afford it.
2. PR generalist or specialist – where is the industry heading?
According to the Holmes Report Card, in recent years PR agencies have been hiring specialists over generalists, similar to the way things operate in the ad and marketing industries. However, data now shows the generalist may still have a role, especially as it pertains to developing strategy. Thanks to Shel Holtz for suggesting this idea.
3. LinkedIn buys Lynda.com – are jobs posting now going to be linked to skills training?
LinkedIn's become a publisher, job source, networking space and virtual rolodex and now it's moving into training with its $1.5 billion purchase of training site, Lynda.com. See a job you want but lack some of the skills. LI may have a training program for you. Thanks to Alison Garwood-Jones for suggesting this topic.
Send us an email or an audio comment to [email protected], join the FIR Google+ Community, join the Inside PR Google+ Community, join the Inside PR Facebook group, leave us a comment here, message us @inside_pr on Twitter, or connect with Gini Dietrich, Joseph Thornley, and Martin Waxman on Twitter.
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Inside PR is produced by Ashlea McGrath.
Inside PR 383: Making LinkedIn work for your business
September 8, 2014 • thornley • PR
In this week's Inside PR podcast, Martin Waxman, Gini Dietrich and I talk about LinkedIn as a publishing platform.
LinkedIn has been pushing itself as a publishing platform, promoting links to new content and providing publishers with additional data on the performance of their content. LinkedIn's efforts seem to be an illustration of "if you build it they will come."
From the number of alerts I receive when I open LinkedIn, it appears to me that more and more of the people with whom I have connections are in fact publishing content to LinkedIn.
Martin, for one has been drawn to LInkedIn more often as the amount of fresh content has increased. However, while there is more content that he can find there, he observes that a large portion of the content is repurposed content that originally appeared on a blog.
Gini agrees with Martin that cross posting content from blogs to LinkedIn seems to be common. The question she asks is, what is the right strategy? Post on the blog first and then cross post on LinkedIn? Or do it the other way around. Which will give her the greatest engagement on both of her platforms?
The question for publishers remains, "Is it worth the effort?" Gini has a practical, hard-nosed answer. She points out that our job is to drive traffic to our websites, where it can be converted to benefit our business. Publishing to LinkedIn is valuable if it contributes to that.
We also talk about Chuck Hester's approach to LinkedIn. Chuck, who hosts the Linked Conversations podcast on the FIR Podcast Network (Inside PR is also a member of the FIR podcast network.) Chuck relies primarily on LinkedIn to connect with potential clients. To do this, he publishes a post or updates his profile at least every week or so. He has observed an uptick in the number of people looking at his profile after each of these events. When new people do look at his profile, he sends them a message asking if they'd like to connect. And this has generated new business opportunities. (You can hear Chuck describe this approach to Sarah Lane and Tonya Hall during an appearance on TWiT's The Social Hour podcast.)
We like Chuck's approach and think it is worth exploring further. We plan to reach out to him and ask him to join us in a conversation on a future episode of inside PR. To set up this discussion, Gini plans to emulate Chuck's approach to see what types of results she can achieve. And in a month, after she's done this, were going to invite Chuck to a discussion with us about this approach and how others can pick it up.
We'd love to hear your thoughts.
How do you use LinkedIn? Do you publish content on LinkedIn to provide people with a reason to click through to your profile? Do you watch your LinkedIn stats so that you can reach out to these people? Has this provided any benefit to you?
Thank you to the people behind Inside PR
Inside PR 366: Kelly Blazek, LinkedIn Connections, and Proper Communication
March 19, 2014 • Gini Dietrich • social media
Martin Waxman is back and we are grateful because he is much better at the intro and closing than Joe Thornley and me.
We kick the show off by talking about the Kelly Blazek crisis situation that happened a couple of weeks ago.
As a quick refresher (or the story, for those of you who missed it), the 2013 Cleveland Communicator of the Year received an email from a young professional who is moving to Ohio and searching for a job.
Because Blazek runs the 7,300 member marketing job board for the Cleveland area, this young woman sent her a LinkedIn message, explaining who she was, her business expertise, and what kinds of jobs she could do. She then asked to join the jobs board.
What she received from Blazek, in return, was both unprofessional and … strange … for a communicator.
While we don't beat this horse to death, it did create an interesting conversation about LinkedIn and how we each use the tool.
As it turns out, we have three different uses for it: Ambivalence, referrals, and contact management, which makes it an interesting look at how there really is no right way or wrong way to use social media. Except to not take your bad day out on someone asking or help.
Martin also mentions he hates the generic LinkedIn requests. You know the one. The, "I'd like to add you to my professional network" with no mention on how you know the person or why you'd like to connect.
He also talks about his pet peeve, which is people who have never worked with you asking you to write a recommendation.
After you listen, we leave the floor to you. What are your personal rules about LinkedIn connections?
P.S. While Terry Fallis's new book, No Relation, doesn't come out until May, as is his modus operandi, he is podcasting it for you ahead of time. Check it out!
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Inside PR is produced by Kristine D'Arbelles and Ashlea LeCompte.
Inside PR 2.48 – A big week for Salesforce and Radian6, Google +1 and April Fools!
April 6, 2011 • thornley • measurement, PR, Shownotes
Martin Waxman, Gini Dietrich and I are back for another episode of Inside PR.
This week, we talk about the implications of the Radian6 acquisition by Salesforce.com and the launch of Google +1.
Oh. And April Fools didn't pass us by either. Gini gives a big shoutout to HootSuite 's Angry Owls prank and Martin is looking forward to connecting with Ernest Hemingway on LinkedIn. And along the way, Joe gets reorganized into a spare office – if one is available.
The big news this week was the announcement that Salesforce.com would pay $323 million to acquire social media analytics company Radian6. This is an interesting acquisition for the valuation, of course. But even more-so for what it may signal about the evolution of social media monitoring and analysis services. We take a close look at the implications of the Salesforce-Radian6 deal.
Finally, Gini kicks off our discussion of Google +1 with the question, "What does it feel like to be a me-too product when you used to be ruler of the world?" Fighting words?
Do you have comments? Send us an email or an audio comment to [email protected], join the Inside PR Facebook group, leave us a comment here, message us @inside_pr on Twitter, or connect with Gini Dietrich, Joe Thornley, and Martin Waxman on Twitter.
And a BIG WELCOME to the new producer of Inside PR: Kristine Simpson. You're a brave person Kristine. 🙂
UPDATE: I've written a longer post on ProPR.ca about the implications of the Radian6-Salesforce, Finally, a means of measuring the ROI of social media?
Inside PR #190 – Wednesday, February 3, 2010
February 3, 2010 • David • 30, Agency Life, Comments, Inside PR, PR, Show Notes
http://media.libsyn.com/media/prworks/IPR_190_FINAL.mp3
Comments? Send us an email or an audio comment to [email protected], visit the Inside PR Blubrry site, leave us a comment on the Inside PR show blog or message us @inside_pr on Twitter.
This week on Inside PR, Terry, Dave and Martin welcome listener comments and discuss the best ways to prepare for the departure of a senior team member.
00:29 Dave opens the show.
01:22 Martin introduces a comment from Laurie Smith of CNW. (See the whole comment on the blog).
01:47 Terry reads a comment from Jennifer Grinder.
08:50 Martin shares a neat analogy for Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter via @julito77
10:21 Terry introduces this week's topic: How can PR agencies minimize the impact of losing a senior team member?
23:08 Terry starts the -30- segment.
32:25 Terry wraps up the show.
This week's episode was produced by Sarah Laister.
Inside PR #130 – Wednesday, September 24, 2008
September 24, 2008 • Terry • Agency Life, Comments, Inside PR, PR, Show Notes, social media
http://media.libsyn.com/media/prworks/Inside_PR_130_FINAL.mp3
Comments? Send us an email at [email protected], call us on the comment line on 206-337-0727, visit the Inside PR Blubrry site, or leave us a comment on the Inside PR show blog.
This week on Inside PR Terry Fallis and Martin Waxman discuss the topic of Word of Mouth, suggested by Bob Crawshaw of Maine Steet Marketing.
00:27 Terry opens the show.
2:24 Housekeeping: Terry introduces the first of two comments.
Brent Kinnaird at the Hamilton Port Authority left a comment about Inside PR # 129 not being up.
*Inside PR #129, is currently only available on some computers, but, for subscribers, is still available on Itunes. We are looking into it.*
5:16 Terry introduces the second comment from Bob Crawshaw of Maine Steet Marketing, who suggests that Inside PR discuss Word of Mouth (WOM).
10:06 Terry mentions WOM expert Sean Moffitt who runs Agent Wildfire.
10:33 Martin talks about WOM.
11:03 Terry talks about WOM.
11:56 Terry reads from Agent Wildfire's website.
12:49 Terry mentions research on trust and gives the example of the Edelman Trust Barometer.
14:05 Martin talks about WOM in terms of Social Networking sites such as LinkedIn and Twitter.
17:41 Martin mentions that anyone who is interested in WOM should read Malcolm Gladwell's book, The Tipping Point.
22:50 Terry mentions Sean Moffitt's involment with WOMMA and his blog Buzz Canuck.
23:45 Terry closes the show.
Our theme music is Streetwalker by Cjacks and is courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network; Roger Dey is our announcer.
This week's episode was produced by Janna Guberman.
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Q: Aggregating by two different columns I'm trying to aggregate this using python pandas,
I'm trying to find the Sum of spend and visitors for each network, but only aggregregate them if the months are the same
for example

month
network
spend
visitors

9
CNBC
10
2

10
BBC
10
1

9
BBC
10
2

10
CNBC
10
2

10
CNBC
10
2

should result

month
network
spend
visitors

9
CNBC
10
2

9
BBC
10
2

10
CNBC
20
4

10
BBC
10
1

how would I be able to do this?

A: You can group your pandas dataframe by network and by month and then call the sum method.
df.groupby(['network', 'month']).sum()

Returns:
network     month       spend   visitors
BBC            9           10          2
BBC           10           10          1
CNBC           9           10          2
CNBC          10           20          4

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DIY electric guitar kits are a great first step for anyone who wants to build their own guitar.
DIY electric guitar kits offer a stepping stone between buying an off-the-shelf finished guitar and making your own from scratch. You don't have as much control over the finished guitar as you would from an entirely self-built one, of course, but you avoid many of the headaches and potential pitfalls too.
Electric guitar kits, like those from DIY Guitar Shop typically include the body, neck with fretboard and headstock, scratchplate, pick-ups, pots, machine heads, bridge, and tailpiece. They come with all the hardware – screws, strap buttons, truss rod wrench, etc — that you need to put the guitar together, and, of course, a full set of assembly instructions.
You'll usually have a choice of body shape and colour, and scratchplate colour too.
By choosing a DIY electric guitar kit for your first assembly, rather than a full blown self-build, you'll get an insight into the process of putting together a guitar and the way in which each part works together. You won't, obviously, have the satisfaction of planing that perfect piece of maple you spent months sourcing and getting it to just the right shape, size and silky smoothness.
The other benefit is that it takes a great deal less time to put together a DIY electric guitar than it does to make one from scratch yourself. As you can see with our interviews with Chris Sundlof and Ken Francis, building your own guitar is a labour of love which can't be rushed.
Talking of rushing, don't just by a kit from the first website you come across. Decide what you want and do your research. Find out where they source their wood and other parts. Do they make the body and neck themselves or buy them in? What's their after-sales service like? These are all questions you should find the answer to, before you get your credit card out.


Try again with different USB port in main board. Also, check your bios and make sure you have XHCI Handoff enabled.
Did you change USB ports, the local host error is gone? Clover boot manager "Binaries" use cpuid 0x0506E3, and uncheck the lower CPU options except appleRTC option.
I changed ports and unplugged anything that was plugged into other USB ports. Ill give this a shot. Don't know anyone in the Chicagoland area that can come and install this by chance?
No, I'm out west. If you keep at it you'll get it.
How did you make the USB? Is it Unibeast?
So I remade my USB boot drive from scratch with the most current Unibeast and MultiBeast from this site. Set my BIOS to exactly as stated in the guide but I don't have the option for "other OS". I have unplugged everything from my MOBO except the SSD. I don't have any graphics cards and am just using the integrated GPU 530. It still keeps crashing at the same point as in post #61. If this keeps up I think my next step is to insert my system into a wood chipper.
I have spent many hours on this effort now, trying different options, USB slots, etc and I continue to get the same results: a hang "IOTimeSyncClockManager::interface matched registered service", then the stop sign with screen corruption during the install step.
I don't really understand how this all works so I'm out of ideas for things to try.
the verbose log isn't very helpful. Interweb posts imply that I am having a USB problem but I don't see any text on screen that mentions USB. I'm not sure how I could be getting this far into the process unless the USB was working since it got to the Clover loader and started the install.
Ive tried 10.12 and 10.13 with the appropriate Unibeast versions.
Have you disabled serial ports in bios? It may be listed in SuperIO configuration.


MOSCOW (Reuters) - Opposition supporters will march through Moscow on Sunday in memory of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov, whose murder has increased concern about Russia's future among opponents of President Vladimir Putin.
Thousands of people laid flowers and lit candles on Saturday on a bridge near the Kremlin where the opposition politician and former deputy prime minister was shot dead late on Friday.
National investigators who answer to Putin say they are pursuing several lines of inquiry, including the possibility that Nemtsov, a Jew, was killed by radical Islamists or that the opposition killed him to blacken the president's name.
Putin's opponents say such suggestions show the cynicism of Russia's leaders as they whip up nationalism, hatred and anti-Western hysteria to rally support for his policies on Ukraine and deflect blame for an economic crisis.
"It is a blow to Russia. If political views are punished this way, then this country simply has no future," Sergei Mitrokhin, an opposition leader, said of Nemtsov's murder.
Putin has described the killing as a "provocation", and told Nemtsov's mother that the killers would be found and punished.
Some Muscovites, accepting a line repeated by state media, appear to agree that the opposition, struggling to make an impact after a clampdown on dissent in Putin's third spell as president, might have killed one of their own.
"The authorities definitely do not benefit from this. Everybody had long forgotten about this man, Nemtsov ... It is definitely a 'provocation'," said one Moscow resident, who gave his name only as Denis.
Nemtsov, who was 55, was one of the leading lights of an opposition struggling to revive its fortunes, three years after mass rallies against Putin that failed to prevent him returning to the presidency after four years as prime minister.
Putin has now been Russia's dominant leader since 2000, when ailing President Boris Yeltsin chose the former KGB spy as his successor, a role Nemtsov had once been destined to play.
Even many of Putin's opponents have little doubt that he will win another six years in power at the next election, due in 2018, despite a financial crisis aggravated by Western economic sanctions over the Ukraine crisis and a fall in oil prices.
Many opposition leaders have been jailed on what they say are trumped-up charges, or have fled the country.
Nemtsov had hoped, however, to start the opposition's revival with a march in Marino on the outskirts of Moscow on Sunday to protest against Putin's economic policies and what they see as Russia's involvement in the separatist war in east Ukraine. The Kremlin denies any role in the fighting.
The opposition said Moscow city authorities had approved the march from 3 p.m. (12.00 p.m. BST), allowing for up to 50,000 people, though the organisers say more could show up to march alongside the River Moskva.
Nemtsov had said in an interview that he feared Putin may want him dead because of his outspoken criticism of Russia's role in Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Nemtsov had told him about two weeks ago that he planned to publish evidence of Russian involvement in Ukraine's separatist conflict.
"Someone was very afraid of this ... They killed him," Poroshenko said in televised comments shown in Ukraine.
Kiev, the West and some Russians accuse Moscow of sending troops and weaponry to support separatist rebels who have risen up in east Ukraine, an accusation Russia has denied.
Others saw the murder as a result of a climate of fear where Putin demands total loyalty and supporters go to great lengths to do what they think may please him.


The first Australian telegraph line, built in 1853–54 from Melbourne to Williamstown, demonstrated the power of this technology to speed commercial transactions. Telegrams, the e‑mail of the day, soon yielded significant revenue, a fact not lost on the administration in Adelaide.
The South Australian government asked the Colonial Office to find an astronomer with telegraphy knowledge to head its own version of Victoria's initiative. The appointment of Charles Todd early in 1855 as Superintendent of Telegraphs and Astronomical Observer predated the inauguration of responsible government in the colony by almost a year, illustrating the importance placed on securing the nascent technology as a government monopoly.
Todd's arrival from London in November 1855 with his new wife, Alice, technical assistant Edward Cracknell and a quantity of equipment coincided with the completion of a private telegraph line from Adelaide to Port Adelaide. Rising to the challenge, Todd pushed ahead with the first government line and linked the same points on 18 February 1856. Unlike its short-lived competitor, Todd's line was a success, as was his decision to train local operators rather than bring telegraphists with him as instructed.
Other lines, to Gawler to the north of Adelaide and Port Elliot and Goolwa on Fleurieu Peninsula were opened in 1857. More importantly, Todd had already journeyed to Melbourne and successfully negotiated to establish the first intercolonial link. Todd surveyed the route for the South Australian section on his way home, and the line was completed in July 1858. Sydney and Adelaide were directly joined by 1867. When a 1255-kilometre line to Eucla finally connected Western Australia to its sister colonies in 1877, Port Adelaide was no longer the first available telegraph stop for overseas shipping, reducing the swarms of journalists who had competed among themselves to telegraph the latest news to their editors.
Technical problems with submarine cables were solved by 1870, when the South Australian government outbid Queensland in complex negotiations with the British and Australian Telegraph Co. A bill was rushed through parliament securing the prized land connection for a proposed link with London. Against extraordinary odds, the Overland Telegraph Line (OTL) from Adelaide to Darwin was completed on 22 August 1872. This single strand of galvanised wire had cost the lives of five workers, but now crossed the continent over country largely unknown to white settlers.
Secrecy was always a prime requirement of telegraphists, and once overseas cables began to flow companies quickly introduced business codes to thwart competitors. During wartime the telegram boy on the red bicycle became the harbinger of bad news for unlucky families with loved ones in the services. In happier times, birthdays, weddings and anniversaries were celebrated by special greetings telegrams. At wedding receptions it was obligatory for the best man to read out risqué telegrams of advice for the newly-weds.
The heavy and lucrative volume of traffic over the network soon led to the introduction of improved equipment and the multiplication of lines. By 1880 there was a more reliable inland line to Melbourne, via Murray Bridge and Bordertown, and within a decade copper began to replace the original galvanised wire. In 1897 Todd introduced a more efficient 'universal telegraph code' that continued in use until the last signals were tapped out from Adelaide to Kalangadoo in April 1963. 'The most perfect invention' (Melbourne Argus, 15 June 1853), and its skilled operatives had been superseded; automatic telegraphy and telephony now held sway. A small group of ex-operatives have preserved the old skills and celebrate the anniversary of the OTL each year by tapping out messages to colleagues via a temporary hookup to Darwin.
Charles Todd became Superintendent of Telegraphs and Astronomical Observer on 10 February 1855.
The first government telegraph line in Adelaide was established, once again linking Adelaide and Port Adelaide.
The South Australian government outbid Queensland to negotiate a link to London through the British and Australian Telegraph Co.
The Adelaide to Darwin line was finally completed on 22 August 1872. Five workers died in the process of building it.
This entry was first published in The Wakefield companion to South Australian history edited by Wilfrid Prest, Kerrie Round and Carol Fort (Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2001). Edited lightly. Uploaded 19 August 2015.
Peter Strawhan, 'Telegraph', Adelaidia, History Trust of South Australia, http://adelaidia.sa.gov.au/subjects/telegraph, accessed 21 April 2019.


I work with family — husband, offspring, in-laws and their partners. A while back, I was going through some difficulties. My mother's terminal cancer, my own health problems, and the start of a new business venture are three that spring to mind.
It was a stressful period and looking back, I can see that I was in a bad mood a lot of the time. Sometimes I was snappy with my co-workers. My husband and sons didn't take it personally.
My sister-in-law, on the other hand, did. I know this, not because she confronted me, but because she'd grumbled about me to another relative who took it upon himself to admonish me.
Although I hadn't meant any harm, and the other relative had only heard one side of the story, I took his reproach to heart, albeit grudgingly. It forced me to see that I had been so caught up in my troubles, I hadn't noticed that my sister-in-law had taken my disposition personally.
As you can probably gather, I tend to have an overly sensitive nature too: I can tell self-righteous tales about how I'm the thoughtful one and people are snarky and critical of me; I can be bothered by mean-spirited remarks; I can be irritated by jokes made at my expense.
How do you behave when someone, deliberately or not, belittles, humiliates or rejects you?
Do you become resentful? Do you issue a counterattack? Do you curl into the foetal position?
Or do you shrug it off as "their problem"?
If it's the latter, then you'll be in on this secret: Life is far more pleasant if you don't take things personally.
But if you find yourself becoming prickly, then before declaring war or licking your wounds, try to break the habit with the following four strategies.
STOP! Concentrate on another task or project: sing, draw, write, work! Do whatever stops you dwelling. Focusing on something productive will shift your attention from what they said or did. It will replace agitation with tranquility.
Remember, move on or you'll amplify the negative feelings.
#2. Control your emotions. If you tend to take things to heart, you might believe that someone is targeting you when they might just be having a bad day. I know it's hard, but try to give them the benefit of the doubt. Think before reacting and don't be too quick to draw conclusions.
#3. Be brave and speak up. If their bad attitude or behavior is getting to you, let them know. They might not realize how uncomfortable you feel. If they don't appreciate your honesty, stand up for yourself and don't accept demeaning treatment.
Remember, be assertive and tackle the situation with integrity.
#4. Talk to the hand. Even if for some reason they do target you, you don't have to bear the brunt of their latest eruption. If speaking up doesn't help, don't be too embarrassed or afraid to end it by simply walking away.
Remember, you can't control the behavior of others, but you can control yours.
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Gipfeltreffen im Zeichen der Gesundheit Internationale Meinungsbildner beim World Health Summit in Berlin
Better health care for everyone in the world is one of the greatest challenges faced by the international community. Around 1,000 experts from over 80 countries came to the sixth World Health Summit at the Foreign Office in Berlin in mid October. They discusses epidemics, climate change, medical progresses, healthy living in big cities, and "Big Data".
International cooperation should be expanded in the fight against global epidemics. This was one of the main statements made at this year's World Health Summit in Berlin. The first day of the event was centred around the dramatic spread of the Ebola virus. By mid November, more than 14,000 people have been infected, the majority of them in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. More than 5,000 people have already died. In order to combat the disease, the European Union has already provided a billion Euro in aid. The German federal government has provided over 100 million Euro for aid measures, which are being put to use by the World Health Organisation and the Agency for Technical Relief.
In his opening speech for the four-day summit, the federal foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier urged his audience of 600 guests to consider possible strategies against the disease in some of the most severely affected areas in West Africa: "We cannot abandon the people there – and we will not abandon them." He demanded a greater commitment from the international community in the fight against Ebola, as well as a more determined international cooperation in all social areas. "It is important that not only states and governments, but also economic, scientific, and social and civil experts come forward and contribute to stopping the epidemic." He suggested the implementation of a civil EU mission as a concrete measure of action. This would also provide those member states lacking structures in the affected regions a platform with which they could send medical personnel. The GermanArmed Forces, for example, would provide assistance via an airlift and help building sick bays. In a moment of self-criticism, the foreign minister conceded that the size and dynamic of the epidemic had been underestimated, and that Germany had not properly prepared for it.
Apart from Steinmeier, the main speakers included the federal health minister Hermann Gröhe, the French secretary of state for development Annick Girardin, the Australian medical Nobel-prize winner Barry J. Marshall, and the chairman of the Charité hospital Prof. Dr. Karl Max Einhäupl. Gröhe emphasised Germany's international responsibility and the importance of functioning structure in the Ebola-affected areas. According to him, Germany, unlike many other countries, is well prepared for a potential epidemic.
"The Ebola crisis shows that the international focus on developing robust health systems needs to be increased." The minister of health emphasised that Germany was the only country worldwide that was taking on infected individuals from other countries. Gröhe also commended the efforts of the over 3,000 "Doctors without Borders" workers on assignment in the affected areas of West Africa. For 2015, when the Millennium Goals expire and new ones will be established, he demands that special attention be payed to health policies. Annick Girardin also believes that the World Health Summit 2014 is particularly valuable in order to mutually prepare for the new world climate contracts that are to be set next year. The cooperation between Germany and France in the P4H-Initiative of the WHO is a good example of effective international partnerships in this area.
A further central topic at the World Health Summit was climate change and its direct and indirect effects on health. According to information provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the average temperature worldwide has increased by 0.75 °C in the past years. As a result, the sea level has risen, glaciers have melted, and the occurrence of extreme weather conditions such as heat, drought, or flooding has increased. The WHO estimates that between 2030 and 2050, climate change will cause 250,000 additional deaths through malnourishment, diarrhoea, malaria, or heat stroke.
Climate change also has worldwide indirect effects on agriculture and the fishing industry, access to clean drinking water, sufficient nourishment, and therefore affects the health of the people. At this year's Health Summit, researchers from different regions presented their research findings. The Brazilian Professor Paulo Saldiva, who teaches at the Medical Institute at the University of Sao Paolo, warns that countries in Central and South America, in sub-Saharan Africa, in the Middle East, and in Europe have very high emission rates. This makes these regions more vulnerable to health hazards. Kathryn Bowen, from the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, showed that Australia significantly improved their health care services through political and structural changes, such as the implementation of a Climate Change Department.
The third topic discussed at this summit was the topic of "Big Data," which concerns itself with the measuring of medical progress through digital content. "Tablets and similar gadgets are nowadays just as important as the stethoscope," Roger I. Glass, the director of the Fogarty International Centre in the USA, explains. According to him, particularly structurally vulnerable countries have to be introduced to specific training programs for research and teaching. This would necessarily include an infrastructural improvement with stabile Internet connections. A good example is Uganda, where there are few Ebola infections due to the country's good infrastructures. In the heavily affected areas of West Africa, less investments had been made in the community institutions, which is how Glass explains the high infection rates in these countries.
When the Millennium Goals expire and are reset in the next year, three points will be of utmost importance to the provision of health care: the decrease of the child mortality by two thirds of its current rate, a decrease by three fourths of a mother's mortality rate, and the prevention of the spread of HIV/AIDS and other diseases. Critics have deemed these previous goals to be overly ambitious and unrealistic. Ebola shows how vulnerable developing and threshold countries are to such epidemics. Even highly developed industrial countries such as Germany or the USA have had to treat infected individuals, sometimes to no success. The international cooperation between scientists, politicians, NGOs, and volunteers has to be strengthened in order to share knowledge and prevent potential angers at their sources.
Markus Feller
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Q: t-distribution in confidence intervals and corresponding ti84 commands In computing confidence intervals for population means and variances, I have come across the use of the t-test for the computations of certain intervals.
For example, the formula given for the confidence interval of μ with σ unknown is: ( x̄ - t(n-1, α/2)(S/sqrt(n)), x̄ + t(n-1, α/2)(S/sqrt(n)) )
The problem arises in determining what values to use for the critical values for the t-test and how to express it in the ti-84. I've tried looking up values in t-tables, but I'm never sure whether to use one or two tailed values, so I end up with inconsistent results. Intuition tells me that I should use the values for two sided t tests, but I don't know quite how to interpret the tables accordingly. Also, the results in the table never match the values my calculator gives me when I use the "tpdf" function.
For example, if I am to compute a 95% confidence interval with 60 degrees of freedom, what commands do I put in my ti84 to execute the t-test part of the confidence interval?
To do this I would use the "tpdf" command in the ti84 to get tpdf(60, .025)=1.022*10^-4, but ttable.org tells me that I should get 1.671 or 2.000 (depending on one tail or two. again, I'm not sure how to make this distinction).
Same goes for chi-square commands within the same context, I'm not sure how to accurately enter them into my calculator to solve confidence intervals.
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AMEC awarded US$600 million oil & gas contract by BP in Azerbaijan
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AMEC, the international engineering and project management company, has been awarded a major brownfield contract by BP Azerbaijan, covering both their onshore and offshore assets in the region for five years with two possible four-year extensions.
The US$600 million Engineering and Small Projects contract is for the provision of project management, engineering, construction management and commissioning for engineering modifications to BP's existing oil and gas facilities in Azerbaijan. AMEC will carry out the work in Baku with local company Azfen.
The new contract combines BP's two existing offshore and onshore EMS (engineering modifications services) contracts into one overall contract covering the Sangachal terminal and all BP-operated offshore facilities serving the Shah Deniz and Azeri Chirag Guneshli (ACG) oil and gas fields. Sangachal is one of the world's largest oil and gas terminals, and Shah Deniz is one of the world's largest gas condensate fields.
Previously, AMEC held only the offshore EMS contract, so the new combined award significantly increases the scope of the contract for the company.
"This major award further demonstrates the successful long-term relationship between AMEC and BP." said Neil Bruce, Chief Operating Officer of AMEC. "I am delighted that our track record of delivering globally, safely, consistently and excellently on some of the world's largest and most complex assets has been recognised."
Tony Cruddas, President of Growth Regions for AMEC added: "The award demonstrates AMEC's delivery of our Vision 2015 strategy for growth in the region. Since setting up our operations centre in Baku in 1996, we have built a long-term business employing local people, working with local partners, using AMEC's global skills and delivering complex major projects for BP – all helping Azerbaijan's national oil industry to grow."
This award is in addition to the existing five-year Master Services Agreement awarded to the AMEC Tekfen Azfen (ATA) Consortium in July 2010, and the two call-offs under that agreement, namely the US$340 million COP-WC (Chirag Oil Project – West Chirag) project also awarded in July 2010 and the US$20 million PCWU (Process, Compression, Water Injection and Utilities) brownfield integration contract awarded in October 2010.
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NEPAL'S EARTHQUAKE AND WHY MOUNT EVEREST SHOULD BE CLOSED – PERMANENTLY
Opinions, Weekly_Article May 14, 2015
[OPINIONS★★] NEPAL'S EARTHQUAKE AND WHY MOUNT EVEREST SHOULD BE CLOSED – PERMANENTLY
(P1) Now that Mount Everest has been swept by a fatal avalanche following Nepal's disastrous earthquake, the arguments of those who wonder how the mountain can handle hundreds of climbs per year are thrown into the spotlight. The mountain is crowded, dirty, tense and, in the past two years, has killed more people than ever before.
(P2) "The death of 12 people on Mount Everest by avalanche is a reminder that, at 8,848 metres, the mountain should represent the ultimate challenge for climbers and adventurers," the Telegraph wrote after another devastating avalanche — last year. "But in recent years, mountaineers have complained about the over-commercialisation of the Everest ascent, likening the climbing path to a 'traffic jam.' "
(P3) So: What are the problems with the world's highest peak?
(P4) 1. It's the "McDonald's" of mountain climbing.
(P5) People who are the first to arrive at a party often complain about those that come later. But those new to Everest aren't just latecomers. They're often less experienced — and less able to handle themselves in dangerous situations.
(P6) "It isn't a wilderness experience — it's a McDonald's experience," Graham Hoyland, the author of "The Last Hours on Everest," about the doomed 1924 ascent by George Mallory and Andrew Irvine, told the BBC in 2013.
(P7) "Many recent deaths on Everest have been blamed on a dangerous lack of experience" Mark Jenkins wrote in National Geographic in 2013. "Without enough training at high altitude, some climbers are unable to judge their own stamina and don't know when to turn around and call it quits."
(P8) "Only half the people here have the experience to climb this mountain," one Sherpa told Jenkins. "The half without experience are the most likely to die."
(P9) 2. It's filthy. Like, really filthy.
(P10) The environmental disaster at Everest was summed up in a Washington Post story with a memorable headline: "Decades of human waste have made Mount Everest a 'fecal time bomb.' " And the more people climb the mountain and feel the call of nature, the worse the fecal time bomb gets.
(P11) "Along the way, people have left oxygen canisters, broken climbing equipment, trash, human waste and even dead bodies in their wake, transforming the once pristine peak," Peter Holley wrote.
(P12) 3. The racial politics are appalling.
(P13) Many people reach the summit of Everest — many rich people, given that the price of climbing is tens of thousands of dollars. But they're helped every step of the way by Sherpas, members of a Nepalese ethnic group that does a lot of the hard work, but isn't necessarily rewarded for it. This became apparent after 16 Sherpas died in an avalanche last year.
(P14) "The mountains are a death trap," Norbu Tshering, a 50-year-old Sherpa and mountain guide told the Associated Press at the time. "But we have no other work, and most of our people take up this profession, which has now become a tradition for all of us."
(P15) The tradition doesn't bring equal rewards — or acclaim. After all, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, who summited with Hillary, wasn't knighted for his effort.
(P16) 4. Avalanches are a leading cause of death on Everest — and climate change may be making them worse.
(P17) After last year's avalanche, the Atlantic published a breakdown of deaths on the mountain, finding that avalanches are the leading cause of death among Sherpas and the second-leading cause of death among other climbers. Global warming may be making avalanches worse.
(P18) As temperatures around the world heat up, even the highest place on Earth is not immune.
(P19) "If it wasn't the tallest mountain in the world, you would never put yourself on a glacier this active," guide Adrian Ballinger told the Associated Press.
(P20) Of course, despite these worthy arguments against Everest, the mountain isn't going anywhere. "There will always be people who want to climb the world's tallest peak," Jenkins wrote in National Geographic.
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/27/why-mt-everest-should-be-closed-permanently/
The article mentions that many of the rich climbers on Mount Everest lack the necessary experience to climb the world's tallest mountain. Why is experience important?
If Mount Everest were closed to climbers, for some period of time or forever, what would the effect on the Sherpas be?
What does Graham Hoyland mean when he calls climbing Everest a "McDonald's experience"?
The article mentions that Mount Everest has become "really dirty." What effects do the presence of so many climbers have on the environment of the mountain?
To call it quits
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JORDAN SPIETH STORMS TO MASTERS WIN
After Bizarre Scene, Rwandan Soccer Bans Witchcraft
★★★, Weekly_Article January 5, 2017
[Sports ★★★] (P1) Rwandan soccer officials have added a new rule to the game: no witchcraft. The move comes after a bizarre turn of events at a match between teams Mukura Victory and Rayon Sports on Dec. 16. After hitting …
US NAVY LIMITS USE OF WHALE-HARMING SONAR
Weekly_Article September 20, 2015
Russian weapons maker now a fashion brand
[Business ★★] (P1) The Russian gun maker Kalashnikov will move into fashion. Kalashnikov is one of Russia's most famous companies. It makes the AK-47 rifle. The company said it has to make different things because Western countries stopped buying Russian …


After first meeting Angie and Keith I was really looking forward their wedding day. The ceremony took place at the Windsor Guildhall where Prince Charles and Camila got married only a few years before, It was beautiful inside. As soon as you walk into the main hall it's very grand, very fitting as Keith's family came all the way over from Ireland. I really admire how Angie and Keith managed to organise the wedding and think of everyone involved. Angie's father was very unwell at the time and so it was a particularly emotional day. I loved seeing him proudly walk Angie down the aisle. We then had the afternoon celebrations at the Castle Hotel Windsor. After the wedding breakfast and emotional speeches I soon discovered that nobody parties like the Irish. I always love staying later at weddings to capture the party atmosphere. The Irish folks gave me so much as a photographer it was funny and beautiful! Here are a few of my favourite images.
"It was so important to me to have someone great capturing a very special moment of my very ill father walking me down the aisle. John managed to capture every natural emotion at that moment through to the very end of the evening. Super talented."
"The photos are absolutely amazing and really exceeded my expectations! You did a fabulous job at capturing some great moments and we just wanted to say a HUGE thank you for that!"


Freeform shapes and handmade glass river rok tile were designed into the basement level area to meet the owner's vision of being transported into a lagoon like setting with warmth and life all around.
Both the pool and hot tub run on independent operating systems with individual automatic safety covers hidden below the deck. Individual strands of fibre optics were used throughout the pool to create a celestial underwater scene of light as well as hand-cut mosaic characters to bring the pool floor to life.


Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez had a Friday date night with their kids!
In a shot Lopez shared to Instagram, she can be seen sitting courtside with her twin children Max and Emme while joined by the baseball star and his two children Natasha & Ella.
"Great time at the Laker game with the kiddies last night!!! Thank you @gunnarfitness @lakers @magicjohnson," the singer captioned the photo.
Lopez also shared a selfie with Max, while joking that he fell asleep right after taking the picture.
The famous couple have been dating since February.
The pair celebrated Christmas together in Miami with their families.


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Yesterday's workout wasn't that intense, so I decided to step it up a little this morning with a tempo run. I woke up with a neck ache that I'm sure was caused by my Brookstone Shake Weight. This is a weighted balanced stick that you shake to (supposedly) build muscle via "dynamic inertia." I used it a couple of years ago but started getting back aches. I grabbed it out of the closet the other day thinking it might be a good way to work on arm strength without weights.
Whether it was the shake stick or something else, my neck was in pain. It felt like a pinched muscle but it didn't hurt so bad that I couldn't do my run. In deference to the discomfort, I decided to keep it fairly short. I started the tempo about a minute slower than training pace and held that for about 15 minutes, gradually increasing every quarter mile until I finished near my current 5K race pace.
After I'd completed my run, I took an Aleve. Even after putting some heat on it, the pain is still there, although it's not as intense as it was this morning. I'm hoping that a good night's sleep will get rid of it for good. I'm excited to be doing the GLIRC Clubhouse run tomorrow morning with my running friends, the Petite Pacer and SIOR. I'm really excited about that. As for the Shake Weight, it's either back to the closet or bound for the trash.
I hope you're feeling better this morning!
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Anthropocene 2019Scottish Opera
Read more about the opera Anthropocene
The combination of composer Stuart MacRae and librettist Louise Welsh has, from the start of their collaboration a decade ago, established a nice line in the macabre. This fourth piece continues that trend. The setting has nothing in common with its predecessors. The initial meaning of 'Anthropocene' is taken to be the recent or current age of geological time, in which humankind has made a marked impact on the environment.
The Arctic setting
The titular vessel, King's Anthropocene, has been specifically designed for exploration and research in extreme climatic conditions - like the Endurance or its recent successor Sir David Attenborough. For the duration of the opera it is moored in some remote northern harbour - perhaps Greenland - and as the temperature drops, the sea freezes over, and the occupants settle in, marooned for the winter.
The ship and expedition have been paid for by a leading tycoon, a multimillionaire complete with peerage, (Lord) Harry King, who is on board, along with his daughter, a photographer. King's purpose is to collect and study ice samples, in the hope of explaining early life on Earth. His ulterior motive is clearly self-glorification, and King makes it clear from the outset that he sees himself in charge. But both the Professor and the Captain have other ideas...
The other characters who take part are two academics, husband and wife, two of the ship's crew, captain and engineer, and a journalist, who is attempting to salvage his career.
Tensions emerge when the scientists discover a mysterious figure entombed in the ice - her origin remains unexplained. The interaction between these characters leads to conflict - is scientific discovery more important than human life? Indeed the climax of the first act features a murder, with retribution dealt out by the end. There are hints of Frankenstein to start, with a nod to Rite of Spring and Lord of the Flies at the end. Lots of interesting ideas, though not all the elements cohere.
What cannot be doubted is the wonderful quality of the music. MacRae's use of the orchestra is quite masterly, and shows further development since his previous opera. The soundworld is fascinating, with the ice represented by a judicious mix of high notes, including the soprano Ice figure, and percussion with deep brass. There are periodic hints of Britten and Tippett as well as Adams, but the sounds are ultimately MacRae's own, and endlessly fascinating.
Impact and atmosphere
The performance, at the second evening, was quite superb, led by Stuart Stratford's masterly laying out of the score with his orchestra. The singers were varied and full of character, projecting most of the words with ease. Jennifer France's voice is a phenomenon, effortlessly projecting her high melismas, while still maintaining a lovely, eerie, sweetness of tone.
Most of the others were relatively unfamiliar. Paul Whelan and Jeni Bern both worked with Scottish Opera early in what have been busy careers. Benedict Nelson seems to specialize in new work, and does it very well. Stephen Gadd is the only company regular. Like the other three he was able to project a sense of character that allowed us to distinguish a group of distinct individuals, albeit in identikit wilderness-wear costumes that must have been horribly uncomfortbale under the hot stage lights.
The production by Matthew Richardson, was very simple, choosing to ignore the wide open spaces of the Arctic, in favour of on-board claustrophobia. Samal Blak's simple, adaptable set worked well.
For the final two performances in London a slightly reduced orchestration will be heard.
Scottish Opera 2018/19
Scottish Opera's 2018/19 season started with the company's first full-scale staging of one of the most popular works of the verismo school in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. This was seen in Paisley in July - an impressively large-scale production with many local performers, all in a temporarily-erected marquee. The new stagings include a world premiere, Anthropocene, an eagerly awaited further collaboration between Stuart MacRae and Louise Welsh. There is also a new Kátya Kabanová. Returning to the composition period of Pagliacci, the continuing Sunday afternoon concert series includes Scottish premieres for Puccini's second opera, Edgar, and Mascagni's fifth, Silvano. There are also major revivals, and long tours, for Matthew Richardson's staging of Rigoletto from 2011 and Sir Thomas Allen's of The Magic Flute (2012).
Stuart MacRae and Louise Welsh
The creative partnership of composer Stuart MacRae and librettist Louise Welsh has developed into the most successful and enduring team to emerge from Scottish Opera's enterprising 5:15 event a decade ago. Over three seasons, groups of fifteen-minute operatic scenes were premiered, trying out various combinations of composers and writers.
The first MacRae and Welsh work, Remembrance Day, an excellent short piece, was succeeded in 2012 by a more substantial single act in Ghost Patrol. This is a satisfying blend of thriller and human drama, with a bit of PTSD thrown in. Their development continued with a full-length opera, The Devil Inside, derived loosely from a short story by Stevenson.
Performance Cast
Harry King a wealthy entrepreneur, backer of the expedition
Mark Le Brocq
Professor Prentice a scientist, the expedition leader
Jeni Bern
Captain Ross Commander of the 'King's Anthropocenr'
Paul Whelan
Vasco ship's engineer of the 'King's Anthropocene'
Anthony Gregory
Daisy a photographer, daughter of Lord King
Sarah Champion
Miles a journalist
Benedict Nelson
Charles a scientist, Professor Prentice's husband
Stephen Gadd
Jennifer France
Production Cast
Stuart Stratford
Matthew Richardson
Designer - Sets
Samal Blak
Designer - Costumes
Jenny Ogilvie
Orchestra of Scottish Opera
Scottish Opera's New Commissions Circle
John S Cohen Foundation
RVW Trust
Performance DatesAnthropocene 2019
Theatre Royal, Glasgow | Glasgow
24 Jan, 19.15 26 Jan, 19.15
King's Theatre, Edinburgh | Edinburgh
31 Jan, 19.15 2 Feb, 19.15
Hackney Empire | London
7 Feb, 19.30 9 Feb, 19.30


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	// may receive at runtime. The type information describes the shape of the instance.
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3: Defiance este un joc FPS pentru Nintendo DS creat de n-Space și publicat de Activision. Jocul are multe opțiuni din jocul cu variantă pentru PC incluzând folosirea unui vehicul. Jocul a fost lansat în data de 8 noiembrie 2011.

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Jocuri video din 2011
Call of Duty
Shootere first-person
Jocuri pentru Nintendo DS

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Q: select link, automatically checks the checkbox to the left of it I want to a user to be able to hover over a link, click it, and it will automatically check the checkbox to the left of it, and when they select it, it will uncheck the box.
How do I do this?
<input type="checkbox" name="favorite_color" value="Orange"> Orange

A: Instead of a link (anchor), use a  which is designed for this:
<input type="checkbox" name="favorite_color" id="favorite_color" value="Orange">
Orange

Or without the id, wrapped around it:
<input type="checkbox" name="favorite_color" value="Orange"> Orange

With both of these there's no JavaScript required, just built-in browser behavior.

A: $('a').click(function() {
  var checkbox = $(this).prev('input[type="checkbox"]')
  checkbox.attr('checked', checkbox.is(':checked'));
}

A: <input type="checkbox" id="chk" name="favorite_color" value="Orange">
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A: Does it have to be a link?  You could just underline/highlight a span inside a label.

    <input type="checkbox" name="favorite_color" value="Orange">
    Orange


Vancouver, B.C. (April 15/14) – Red carpets, champagne receptions and $250-a-plate dinners have never been part of Patti Tubbs' lifestyle. She's a 48-year-old single mother surviving on a monthly $900 disability pension who tries to make ends meet by delivering pizza at night and occasionally selling one of her racing-related photos at Hastings Racecourse.
Her story is one of tragedy, personal health issues and broken dreams. It is also one of unimaginable courage and perseverance, peaked by her 2013 Jockey Club of Canada Sovereign Award in the photography media category presented April 11 at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto.
Her winning entry was a candid shot of muddy-faced veteran jockey Frank Fuentes heading back to the winner's circle after a victory at Hastings Racecourse.
Her 20-year-old daughter Amanda had made the 3,000-mile trip from Vancouver to Toronto with Patti, only the second time the two had been on an airplane. "It wouldn't have happened without so many of my friends at Hastings helping out with the funding," Patti says.
One horse owner of note, who doesn't want to be identified, donated the airfare for the Tubbs ladies while other contributions from Hastings horsemen helped cover hotel and food costs.
Despite being born without a hip socket, Patti managed to work as a youngster in the barns at Hastings for her mother Maureen, a respected trainer in a small stable. Patti's father Gerry and brother Chris were outriders.
It was in 1999 when things turned upside down in the Tubbs family. Maureen was driving her minivan to work from their farm in Aldergrove when a speeding car ran a red light at Cassiar and Hastings Streets, just minutes away from the racetrack. Maureen died at the scene.
"It was really a tough time," Patti says. "I was struggling both emotionally and physically. I'd had 37 surgeries, 34 of them on my legs. I simply couldn't continue doing physical work at the racetrack anymore but there was no way I was going to give up the life I loved, being around horses and the people in the industry. That's when I came up with the idea of becoming a track photographer.
"I bought a camera, started snapping shots during morning workouts and eventually trainers, owners, jockeys, grooms and hot walkers began supporting me by purchasing them." Her 2013 Sovereign Award winning photo will obviously be in demand once the thoroughbred season at Hastings gets underway.
The Sovereign Award, she might have added, is simply the ideal topping.


Shown in a rubbed (non-reflective) finish, this 'Italian White Marble' cord and tassel book style memorial has a carved rose ornament at the top, symbolising love and purity. The base is shaped to complement the headstone.
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Enhancing quality of justice to improve business environment in Azerbaijan
20 May 2019 [16:46] - TODAY.AZ
Enhancing the quality of justice will improve the investment and business environment in Azerbaijan, said Orkhan Mammadov, chairman of the board of the Agency for the Development of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), Trend reports May 20.
Mammadov reminded that one of the Agency's mandates is to protect the legitimate interests of SMEs, noting that this directly affects the effectiveness of the Agency's work in other areas.
He added that the reforms being carried out in the judicial and legal system of Azerbaijan over the past years have significantly contributed to the strengthening of the judicial institution.
"As noted in the relevant decree by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, reforms that are being carried out in all areas to ensure sustainable progress of the country dictate the need to begin a new stage in the development of the judicial system and deepen reforms in this area," Mammadov said. "From this point of view, the measures reflected in the presidential decree on deepening reforms in the judicial and legal system cover important issues serving to improvement of the quality and effectiveness of justice and as a result improvement of the investment and business environment."
Noting that the provisions of the decree are aimed at protecting the rights of entrepreneurs, he stressed the importance of these provisions in terms of solving the problems of subjects of SMEs, and also put forward proposals for conducting educational events for entrepreneurs on a single judicial experience, the transition to electronic office work in the judicial system, etc.
On April 3, 2019, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev signed a decree on deepening reforms in the judicial and legal system.
The decree states that reforms that are being carried out in all areas to ensure sustainable progress of Azerbaijan dictate the need to begin a new stage in the development of the judicial and legal system and deepen reforms in this area.
In order to speed up the process of forming justice that meets the requirements of time and enjoys high prestige in society, it is necessary to further expand the possibilities of applying to courts, increase transparency in the activities of courts, increase the efficiency of legal proceedings, ensure full and timely implementation of court decisions, strengthen measures taken to eliminate red tape and other negative phenomena.
At the same time, to ensure the effective operation of justice mechanisms, it is necessary to improve the social protection of judges and members of the judiciary, continue to upgrade the relevant infrastructure, fully utilize the advantages of using modern information technologies in court proceedings and solve other important issues.
URL: http://www.today.az/news/business/182722.html


Lots of memories in this well loved home. 4 rooms, 2 beds makes it the perfect size for downsizers and the location with direct access to salt water also makes it the perfect summer home. Home does needs updating but offers a galley kitchen, open dining/living room, 2 bedrooms, bathroom with laundry, enclosed porch and an open deck to enjoy the ocean breeze and spectacular sunsets. Storage space in the basement or in the one car garage. Town water/sewer. House sits high on hill and per owner, flood insurance not required (buyer to verify). The views, location and water access makes this home one of a kind.
Comments: Waterfront home with beautiful views and no flood.


I was in Japan earlier in the month and I spotted this in Tokyo. Of course, from the title, you know that this must be a bicycle park. So, let's start with a question – how many bicycles do you think there are under there?
The answer might surprise you – there are 144 bicycles under each of these. The picture below shows how the bicycles are arranged underneath.
The rest of the installation is as shown below.
The installation that I saw in Jiyugaoka (Tokyo) has 2 stations – so, that accommodates a total of 288 bicycles in a relatively small area. Seems perfect for dense urban environments.
The technology seems to be from a company called Giken and the details are available on their website – I still think it is quite cool!
It seems such a difference from the way that bicycles are sometimes littered around with the new stationless bike sharing that's taking off in Singapore in a big way.


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Q: How to extend 'old style' dojox widgets? I've already written my own dijit widgets, as well as extended the existing one. It's simply making new declare with extended widget as argument, and using the own one instead of extended one.
However, I have a problem with dojox/form/Uploader, because it's that 'old-style' widget using old-style syntax. Instead of using the object returned by require, one should use the global object:
  require(['dojox/form/Uploader'], function(Uploader){
    var u = new dojox.form.Uploader({})
    u.startup()
  })

So, if I want to extend that widget, and using the child 'class' instead of the original, how should I actually do that?
Another thing I don't fully understand is, why whe need to use that 'old-style' syntax for dojox/form/Uploader, because it's created with the same syntax as 'normal' widget:
    return declare("dojox.form.Uploader", [Base, Button, HTML5, IFrame, Flash], {

A: I believe you can extend it just like a 'new style' (AMD) widget, i.e.:
require([
    "dojo/_base/declare",
    "dojox/form/Uploader"
], function(decl) {
    var MyUploader = decl(dojox.form.Uploader, {
        buildRendering: function() {
            this.inherited(arguments);
            this.domNode.appendChild(
                document.createTextNode(" ← awesome"));
        }
    });
    new MyUploader({}).placeAt("x").startup();
});

Or am I misunderstanding your question? The reason there are traces of the 'old style' syntax in Uploader (and some other widgets) is probably just because nobody has had the time to port it to the new style yet (so it was probably automatically "converted").
Edit: Actually, the Uploader returns a 'new style' object in addition to setting the dojox.form.Uploader global. So you can actually change the above example to:
require([
    "dojo/_base/declare",
    "dojox/form/Uploader"
], function(decl, Uploader) {
    var MyUploader = decl(Uploader, {
    ....

since Uploader === dojox.form.Uploader here.


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New Restaurant Alert: Niu By Vikings at SM Aura Premier, Bonifacio Global City
The famous buffet is upping the ante.
Niu By Vikings
6/F SM Aura Premier, 26th Street corner McKinley Parkway, Bonifacio Global City
Contact: 478-3888, 0917-586-6888, 0919-999-6888
Open daily from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
(SPOT.ph) A buffet is one those things that can never be truly justified with words. No matter what you say-smorgasbord, unlimited, variety-nothing quite measures up to what you actually see on the counters. Niu by Vikings is one of those cases. Photos alone aren't enough to set it apart from the original Vikings brand, but Niu is in a class of its own, the kind you can tell by taste.
Muted colors give it extra sophistication.
Survey the sections.
Some light fare to start the gastronomic adventure.
A comparison is inevitable, of course, and one of the owners, Charles Dee, isn't coy about stating the distinction. Niu addresses the more discerning, more upscale diner. "The ingredients we use in Vikings are good, but for Niu, it's really premium," he says, "We have figs, arugula, Gorgonzola cheese, wine." Niu also has a foie gras station that makes the P1,388++ price per head seem especially reasonable considering that the French delicacy comes unlimited.
Lobster in miso soup
Surf and Turf-with shrimp and Lechon Macau
Two servers are assigned for every 30 diners to ensure more personalized attention. See, Niu makes standing optional, though we doubt that you'd be able to help yourself from patrolling and observing the shiny chafing trays loaded with food. Still, after your third and fourth plate, when standing up starts to feel like a chore, guests can simply request an order, and let servers do the walking. The dish that arrives at your table is beautifully plated, like what you'll have in a fine-dining restaurant. Tell your server you want Surf and Turf, he'll make some recommendations, and let the chef work his magic with what's available in the buffet. Lee describes this as "a more evolved dining experience."
Carving stations
Mediterranean fare
The tip to managing Niu is to walk all the way to the far end and start there. The selection is one long stretch, and as you make your way to the back, you can survey what you want and plan a strategy. Heavier pizzas and pastas and that prized foie gras can be found here, alongside the carving station which is glistening with a market of meats-turkey, prime rib, lamb, chicken, ribs. There's a remarkable Salmon Coulibiac that almost looks too pretty to eat and a crisp and juicy Belly-chon that resembles porchetta.
Now who wants to be the first person to break this beauty?
Ready to be cooked
Japanese section
Raw meats are displayed in the grill area, waiting to be cooked fresh upon order for maximum flavor and texture. The beef medallions are tender and blanketed in salty bacon; the salmon is fresh and earthy in the way only the pink fish can make so delicious. This is one of those stations that really drives home Lee's idea of a new kind of dining experience. Instead of you having to come back for it, the servers bring the cooked order to your table, with more flair than you imagined: swirly sauces, garnish, the works.
An option from the Filipino side of the buffet
Tasty shrimps that thankfully don't need to be peeled!
See the green cheese peeking out?
As far as culinary geography is concerned, Niu is reasonably well traveled. Tikka masala, kofta balls, and beef rendang share space with Yorkshire pudding, New Zealand style lamb, and Crispy Pork Binagoongan. The shelf of cheeses amuses with a bright green Dutch one that's flavored with pesto, and there's more than enough variety of sashimi (maguro, ebi, ika, shake, kani, et cetera) to satisfy. Lee is especially proud of the Chinese section. The chef, he says, hails from Hong Kong and knows his way around Chinese flavors, particularly Cantonese. Chef Kavino Lau's talents in the kitchen have long been proven, and from the Lechon Macau, with its crackly tan skin covering stringy layers of melting fat and succulent white meat, the Chinese may very well be our favorite as well.
Desserts, including Filipino kakanin
Mango Sponge
Niu is Nordic for "nine," which, from the restaurant's position on the highest floor of SM Aura, is their interpretation of being on cloud nine. Trust us, the copious amounts of foie gras you'll be having will only help simulate that feeling.
Niu By Vikings is priced at P1,088+ (weekday lunch) and P1,388+ (dinner, weekends, holidays). Kids' rates are P288 to P688.
Niu Vikings Buffet Foiegras
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Texas Theatre
It's a switch for a frontier town to change its name from Bronco to Bronte (after the English novelist Charlotte Bronte). But Bronte it was for the high-minded cattle ranchers who established the town in 1889. The railroad arrived a decade later, and the 1911 Bronte Depot still stands, restored as a Masonic lodge. Bronte's main claim to fame lies 12 miles north at Fort Chadbourne. The U.S. Army built the garrison in 1852 to protect settlers and travelers on the Butterfield Overland Mail stage route. The fort housed Confederate soldiers during the Civil War, before the Army abandoned it in 1868. Six historic structures have been restored, including the state's only restoration of a Butterfield Overland Mail stage stop. Other restored structures include a company barracks and an officer's quarters where interior plaster walls bear graffiti from the 1870s. A 12,500-square-foot visitors and research center displays some of the fort's half-million artifacts. The center also sports an antique gun collection, old saloon, stagecoach and Medal of Honor exhibit. The annual Fort Chadbourne Days (the last weekend of May) attracts visitors who view reenactors replicating frontier life.
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Gull Life
There's a club for that at Salisbury University
Clubs are a place where, outside of the chaos and stress of schoolwork, you can unwind and have fun while getting to know peers with similar interests.
Seeing as that is an extremely broad definition, you might think, "Salisbury University would not offer something that suits my own interests."
However, each semester, the school holds the Student Activities Fair, which begs to differ. SU bears over 150 organizations, and the fair gives students the opportunity to recruit new members and drum up interest for student involvement.
Real live reenactments of Harry Potter's Quidditch? There's a club for that. Like to bike? There's a club for that. Passions for health and fitness? Yes, there's a club for that.
At this year's fair, organizations lined the halls and rooms of the Guerrieri Student Union, and each club gave away free swag and information on its organization. The Student Organization for Activity Planning even raffled off three VIP experience tickets for the opportunity to meet Josh Peck, who will be visiting SU on Feb. 29.
Whether or not you were in attendance, you could have easily missed some of the lesser-known organizations here on campus.
Here are five student organizations that you may have missed at the fair:
1. SU Mural Club
The SU Mural Club is a new organization to SU. It was created in response to the vandalism that occurred last fall in Fulton Hall.
In reference to the vandalism of Fulton Hall, students have sparked positive rebellions on campus like the sticky note movement. SU's Mural Club is working to make that positivity more permanent. Photo by Caroline Streett Images.
SU senior Adde Grosse founded this club after a discussion she had in one of her classes.
"I was in my environmental justice class, and we were talking about the situation. Someone suggested we do a mural," Grosse said.
As the only art major in that class, Grosse felt as though it was the perfect opportunity for her to take a stand. The interest meeting is being held on Feb. 5 at 7 p.m., and future meetings will all follow in that time slot.
The goal for this organization is to create a unifying response to what occurred last semester that represents how the student body feels and to also add a little color to the university.
2. Scorpion Wresting
This club was started by SU sophomores Siobhan Martinez and Bruce Rismono last year.
Since then, it has gained around three members who compete in dual meets and participate in practices on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 8 to 9:45 off campus.
SU Scorpion Wrestling Club logo. By Scorpion Wrestling Images.
The Scorpion Wrestling Club functions as a team, but you do not need any wrestling experience to join. Mainly, this club is for both girls and guys who are interested in or already love wrestling, providing everyone with the opportunity to get some work in on the mat.
3. Black Students in STEM
This club is one of the many academically focused organizations that were in attendance at the fair on Friday.
SU senior and president Chaniele Duhaney stated that the purpose of this group was "to bring the small minority of black students who are in STEM classes together and to just have a place for them to commune, socialize and study together."
This club has been around for a year, and it currently has a new meeting place. It will now meet weekly in Henson Room 123 on Wednesdays at 6 p.m.
4. Salisbury eSports
Garret Shindle is the president of the newly founded eSports club here at SU. He and a couple of friends wanted to play some tournaments, but they all required some sort of organization in order to enter.
Shinldle felt the best way to go about the issue was to form a club.
"We figured that not only would we want to do it, but there was probably a lot of people on campus who would enjoy being able to compete with other people," Shindle said.
The club offers strategy games as well as "Rocket League" and "League of Legends" with the new partnership with Salisbury Intramurals.
Each game has a captain that sets up weekly meetings or practices, tryouts and determines final rosters. This semester, tournaments will be about once a week, with surprise prizes for the winning team.
5. Bury Motor Club
Members of SU's Bury Motor Club stand with pride representing their club at this year's Student Activities Fair. Photo by Annie Geitner Images.
Lastly on the list of clubs you may not have known there was a club for is the Bury Motor Club.
Put simply, the Bury Motor Club is for people who love motors — any kind of motors.
Co-Founder and President of the Bury Motor Club Nicholas Teti says the club does not discriminate.
"All cars, motorcycles, trucks, jeeps, you name it," Teti said.
Teti talked about how the club does car meet-ups here on campus as well as in Ocean City and Assateague Island. Everyone's car is lined up, and members are social and walking around looking at the different sort of automobiles.
The main goal of this club is to teach people about their cars and how to work on them, as well as promoting diversity in the car community. The first meeting will be held on Feb. 5 in the parking lot of Planet Fitness and Taco Bliss at 5 p.m.
For more information on the wide variety of clubs that SU offers, head to the Student Activities Office in the Guerrieri Student Union.
By ANNIE GEITNER
Featured photos from Caroline Streett Images, Scorpio Wrestling Club Images and Annie Geitner Images.
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Norman Oliver is Managing Director of N D Oliver & Co Ltd, an SME Geomatics (Land) Survey company based in Sale, South Manchester. The company was first established in 1995 as a sole trader and grew from there to become the current limited company in 1999.
How did your career in surveying begin?
My father is a chartered land surveyor and had his own company (M N Oliver and Co), so my earliest experience of surveying was helping him at weekends or sometimes on jobs which by chance seemed to coincide with family holidays! Having decided on a career as a land surveyor, I went to North East London Polytechnic to complete an HND in surveying and take the RICS final exams. Following this, I started full time as a surveyor with M N Oliver and Co and completed my APC to become a chartered surveyor in 1989 and continued to gain experience of surveying and managing a SME company until setting up on my own.
In a typical week what sort of work are you doing?
As the company has grown, my role has increasingly become more and more office based and that of a manager of a small business rather than a surveyor. This has some benefits such as meeting clients but is a source of some regret as I do very little surveying now.
I have been privileged to work on some wonderful projects. Here are a few examples.
First, as a callow 16- year-old going to Garyan, Libya to work as a chain lad for a month as part of a topographical survey team – quite an eye opener!
My first big project for M N Oliver and Co, running a team of surveyors (7 teams at the peak) setting out the route, completing crossing surveys for design and as-built surveys. Our section of the pipeline was 92km long stretching through Lancashire and Cumbria. I learned a lot about organising teams and liaising with the main contractor.
This was the first big project carried out by N D Oliver & Co. The survey included all the new routes (75km) for the proposed "big bang" expansion of the Metrolink system. The work included using OS background maps, aerial photography, videos and structure elevations, as well as detailed topographical survey. It is hugely satisfying to have had a part to play in the development of a great transport system which has been such a benefit to my home town.
This was a government leaseback scheme, where the DWP proposed to sell off over 800 job centres to a private company. N D Oliver & Co Ltd was engaged to survey all the properties for NIA and many with full floor plans as well. The work had to be completed in a relatively short time period which meant sub-contracting many of the sites to other survey companies, generally by geographical location.
This work has been on-going since the 1980s and has become a bit of a specialist service for us. Cooling towers have been surveyed for shape, in comparison to the design and visually inspected for defects. As survey equipment has developed so too has the techniques employed, evolving from two instrument intersections, to reflectorless observations and now laser scanning. The specialised nature of the work has given us the opportunity to work on cooling towers as far away as Australia and recently in Maryland, USA.
What advice would you give your younger self on whether to choose a career in surveying?
I would have no hesitation in recommending a career in surveying. In my case I set up my own company, but it is important to get a good education in the basics / theory of surveying and then to gain experience doing the job first.