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10 Tried and True Mobile App Metrics to Track
Screens with Highest Crash Rate
Number of Crashed Sessions
Unresponsive Gestures
App Not Responding
Killed By User
Daily Active Users (DAU)
Onboarding/Sign-Up Drop-Offs
Average Time to First Action
Purchase Flow CR & Drop-Offs
All This To Say…
This is a guest story by Lesley Wasserman from Appsee.
There's an app for everything, as they say, and the idea that new ones are popping up daily is not just a feeling – it's the reality. Want proof? Well, the App Store just celebrated its 10th birthday with over 2 million apps on its platform. But what separates the winners from the losers, the success stories from the flops? Sure, every solid app needs to be rooted in a good idea or product, but the journey doesn't end there. For example, on the product side, perhaps apps like Gett Taxi or Starbucks were a shoe-in for success, but without stunning UX and proper monitoring, they could have been doomed.
Mobile app professionals know that it's critical to track KPIs, but it's not just about tracking any old metric for the sake of saying, "Sure, I track KPIs." Without having a precise process or direction for what you're tracking, the goal is dubious at best.
Which is why we've put together a list of ten critical KPIs for you to put to work when tracking your mobile app. Each metric is paired with a real-world example of a case study that could help you reap benefits by giving you a tangible means of applying the metric to your app.
Which screens are experiencing the most crashes with the consequence of the highest proportion of users quitting the app?
How to go about it: You can quickly track and fix these issues with tools that allow you to see the sequence of events that led to a particular crash. Some of these tools include ones by Bugsnap, Appsee, or Google's Firebase Crash Reporting.
For example: If an app permits users to order food on a micro level (from a single restaurant), or on a macro level (for food apps that provide ordering/payment features from a variety of restaurants), it's crucial to understand which screens are experiencing more crashes, ultimately causing users to quit. Is it happening during browsing? Just before placing an order? Seamless and successful food ordering is critical to the app's success, which is why crashes on any screen (whether browsing or purchase screen) will make any user more and more "hangry."
A high number of crashed sessions is any app professional's worst nightmare. This can cause user frustration and/or a decrease in user trust, which will in due course lead to lower retention rates.
How Crashlytics tracks crashed sessions
How to go about it: This KPI can be measured with Crashlytics, a platform that considers a wide range of factors such as: device, battery status, charge in progress, proximity sensor, and Wi-Fi connection.
For example: A user is in the middle of watching the last episode of a season, and suddenly the app crashes. As an entertainment app pro, ask yourself these questions: How often is this happening? How many users are experiencing this? Is the crash occurring on a certain connectivity type (e.g. Wi-Fi vs. data)?
Perhaps a user is trying to interact with an app's element that wasn't designed to be interacted with at all (for example, a confusing image that looks like a button to tap on, but is in fact not tappable). Why is the user inclined to tap? Is this happening to more than one user?
Tracking unresponsive gestures using touch heatmaps on Appsee
How to go about it: This KPI can swiftly measure the whys of these unresponsive gestures, for example, with Appsee.
For example: Users are ready for their ration of daily news, and as they peruse the list of articles to read, they find one that piques their interest. They assume they can tap to open the piece, but the app was designed for the user to swipe left to open. Frustrated that they can't open the article, they try for another, only to receive the same disappointing result. Unfortunately, this will leave a news junkie uninformed, frustrated, and probably heading to a different new source. If many users are experiencing this issue, a touch heatmap tool would display a high density of unresponsive gestures for the article browsing screen.
ANR, App Not Responding, is another important metric to track. Has the app frozen on your user and there is simply no response to any gesture? You need to find out how often this is happening and how it is affecting your retention rates.
ANR statistics on Appsee's interface
How to go about it: This KPI can effortlessly be tracked through tools that have a user recording feature, so you can immediately understand what went wrong in your user's journey.
For example: In a gaming app, ANR can be a grim reality. Perhaps the user is in the middle of a game, perhaps about to beat a record, and the app stops responding. This is going to be a huge source of frustration (and possibly even anger) for the user, and if this becomes a persistent problem, it's quite likely that the user will quit your app… for good.
Sometimes users kill the app because they think they'll save battery life or even by force of habit. Other times, it's more severe because the app is being killed off by way of frustration or confusion during the user's journey. With this metric, you can understand where/when users are killing the app, both on an aggregate and single user level.
For example: Whether the daily commute to work or a vacation itinerary, figuring out the best routes is key for efficiency. So why might a user be killing the app? It's important to understand where it's happening in their journey – is it in the middle of a journey, before they've begun, or at the end? Each of these moments could indicate major insights into your UI and UX.
The name of this metric says it all: DAU represents the number of users who engage with your app at least once per day. This metric can help identify which days of the week are preferred by the majority of your users. Similarly, Monthly Active Users (MAU) is a metric that tracks how many people are using your app on a monthly basis and can help you identify seasonal trends where relevant.
For example: Some people like to check their finances frequently. Others not so much. Nonetheless, understanding users' needs/interests on a day-to-day basis is key. Are users engaging many of the diverse features on the app, or are they repeating the same actions over and over – checking balances, sending money, depositing checks, etc.? Do users tend to access the app more often on certain days versus others? Which features are being used the most on Monday, and why are some features being ignored on Friday?
It can be very challenging to build a smooth and successful sign-up screen, as users will often see this as a hurdle that they don't want to leap over. What percentage of your users are dropping off during login, registration, or onboarding? Do you know why?
For example: People are often seeking new fitness regimes, and any app that offers exciting features, and has a shiny and catchy sign-up UX will grab attention. Now why aren't they completing the onboarding process? What's stopping them from wrapping up the sign-up process?
Closely monitoring your app's retention rate is integral to providing you with insights about performance and user experience. How many users are downloading the app, using it once, and then never returning? What's the rate of users who never return after just one action?
Tracking retention on Mixpanel
How to go about it: Tracking retention rates can be done through many different analytics platforms, one of them being Mixpanel, which measures retention stickiness and answers questions about how users engage with a product.
For example: Users head to travel apps for easy browsing, booking, and convenient purchasing. But what if they downloaded the app, took one look around, and never returned? What happened to cause this casualty? It's necessary to track where, when, and why they encountered issues, and hopefully understand why they didn't return based on their user journey.
After the initial download, roughly how long is it taking users to return and engage with your app. With tools analyzing cohorts, it's easy to take two actions and understand how they relate to each other.
For example: The idea of utilizing business apps to increase productivity is an excellent initiative, but sometimes that excitement wanes after the download and users never return. Then assuming they do return, how long is it taking them to complete their first action within the app? And if it's taking a while, where are the trends and why could it be taking so long?
What percentage of users are making a purchase or completing an order? How many users are dropping off between each stage of the funnel? Moreover, which screens are they dropping off and why?
Drop-offs data on Amplitude
How to go about it: When analyzing funnels, it's important to use the right tracking tools. Appsee and Amplitude are two top contenders in monitoring user activity through funnels and conversions.
For example: Shoppers have downloaded the app, completed registration, and they're still not making a purchase. In order to increase your bottom line (and increase retention!) it'll be helpful to know when and why users are dropping off. Are they adding items to their cart and simply not checking out and paying? Or maybe they've made it all the way to the checkout, and they were unable to enter their address, got frustrated, and didn't finish the journey. These are key elements to analyze for shopper optimization.
Don't have a shopping app, you say, and you're wondering why you should track purchase flow? To which I'll say that each KPI has its place and relevance based on your app's category. The above examples are here to get your wheels turning, and explore more precisely how you can monitor and assess these metrics. There is relevance everywhere. It's just a matter of manipulating the metrics to fit your app – and the application of qualitative analytics is the cherry on the sundae of understanding the whys.
Lesley Wasserman is an Inbound Marketing Manager at Appsee. She is an avid UX and tech trend-seeker and loves finding innovative ways to make life better! Lesley prefers vegetarian options, although occasionally has a hankering for a steak, and she's constantly on the lookout for new ways to decorate her home. You can follow her on Twitter @wassles.
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Katastrofa tlenowa – wielkie przemiany środowiska Ziemi w okresie paleoproterozoiku 2,4–2,0 miliarda lat temu.

Gdy około 2,7 mld lat temu pojawiły się pierwsze formy posiadające zdolność fotosyntezy tlenowej, zaczęły one wytwarzać znaczne ilości tlenu, jednak wzrost jego ilości w atmosferze wystąpił ponad 300 mln lat później. Tłumaczy się to tym, że pierwsze cząsteczki tlenu wydzielane były do wody, tlen ten reagował z żelazem i z węglem.

W owym czasie organizmy fotosyntezujące produkowały także metan. Przy silnym promieniowaniu UV tlen reagował z metanem już przy stężeniu 0,0002% w atmosferze. Spadek zawartości metanu spowodował wystąpienie serii rozległych zlodowaceń. Dopiero uwięzienie większych ilości węgla w organizmach żywych i ich szczątkach spowodowało znaczący wzrost ilości tlenu w atmosferze, co wywołało powstanie warstwy ozonowej ograniczającej proces reakcji tlenu z metanem umożliwiając osiągnięcie stabilnego stanu o zawartości większej niż 0,2% tlenu w atmosferze.

Większa ilość tlenu spowodowała wielki kryzys ekologiczny. Dla większości bakterii beztlenowych (wówczas jedynych organizmów) tlen był trucizną i spowodował ich wielkie obumieranie, prawdopodobnie było to jedno z pierwszych masowych wymierań. Jednakże zarazem pojawiły się wtedy możliwości dla zupełnie nowego rodzaju organizmów żywych korzystających z możliwości energetycznych zawartych coraz powszechniej w materii organicznej, tj. wykorzystujących oddychanie tlenowe.

Znaczenie dla różnicowania minerałów
Katastrofa tlenowa jest zbieżna w czasie z gwałtownym wzrostem różnorodności minerałów na Ziemi. Szacuje się, że zdarzenie to spowodowało powstanie ponad 2,5 tysiąca nowych minerałów spośród około 4,5 tysiąca minerałów stwierdzonych na Ziemi. Większość z tych nowych minerałów powstała w procesach hydratacji i redoks minerałów tworzonych w wyniku dynamiki płaszcza i skorupy ziemskiej.

Przypisy

Proterozoik
Ekologia
Masowe wymieranie
Powstanie życia

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A total of 217 guerrillas demobilized in August according to the Program for Humanitarian Attention for the Demobilized (PAHD), El Espectador reports.
The central Colombian department of Cundinamarca registered 34 guerrillas as having demobilized, followed by Antioquia, with 29, then Meta with 19.
Among the demobilized guerillas, the agency reported 68 women and 26 minors.
According to the report, under the administration of former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, who governed from August 2002 to August 2010, nearly 50,000 members of illegally armed groups demobilized, including 32,000 paramilitary members of the Autodefensas Colombianas (AUC).
Uribe was succeeded by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos a month ago. So far Santos' leadership has been dominated by the issues of security and international relations.


I find that a general problem with K-dramas that are based solely on romantic relationships and the getting together of two people is that romance alone can't sustain a story; there has to be other elements. With sageuks in particular, a lot of writers often times feel the need to fill their stories with a certain amount of politics — almost to fulfill a quota — or else, hey, their dramas would just be regular ol' dramas.
And that's what I'm starting to feel with The Moon That Embraces the Sun: what the writer of the original source material really want is for King Hwon to mack at it all day with Yeon-woo, but because they can't, he's gonna throw in a bunch of plotting ministers and rich nobles taking advantage of The Common Folk so that it feels somewhat historical, and call it a day. I love the relationship between Hwon and Yeon-woo, but I am wary already of how much fluff we're going to have to sit through in order for the two to get together. It would be fine if the fluff were well-written and well-acted, but it's not, so I'm gnashing my teeth a bit.
First, let's start with the acting.
While the children actors were all good in their own right, I suspect that a huge portion of why they're hard to let go of is also because the mood was a lot lighter when the children were around. There was some doom n' gloom, but it was pretty restrained, given that the writers didn't try to take all of them to that dark place we called angst for an elongated period of time. It's easier to like them and to be lenient with children acting when the tone is fun and the story is light.
Now that we've graduated into the adults, however, I'm feeling a little less enamored and a little more critical, because the story is calling for more. It seems like some of the characters are not designed to be likeable, no matter how well the actors/actresses play them (Kim Min-seo playing Bo-kyung, for example), and some characters became more likeable regardless (Princess Min-hwa).
But then, there are the characters that are supposed to be likeable, yet feel like diluted versions of themselves now that they're grown up. The adult cast feels all over the place, ranging from the really, really bad (Song Jae-rim playing adult Woon) to the really good (Kim Soo-hyun playing adult Hwon), and they're all acting with each other so I'm extremely distracted by how much of an imbalance in skill there is. Case in point: whenever Kim Soo-hyun reveals his innermost thoughts as an uncertain king to Song Jae-rim. The Woon character could be so much more (and is so much more, if we're going to go by the original source material) if the actor playing him were more nuanced and gave more life to his character.
No actor acts within his or her own bubble, so no matter how good an actor, acting alongside a bad actor most definitely has an impact on how a scene plays out.
Fine, I can overlook Song Jae-rim because Woon, while important, isn't that important. But what of Yeon-woo, played by Han Ga-in? Han Ga-in is one of my least favorite popular actresses and I have a huge irreversible gripe with the fact that she drains all energy from the scenes she's in. I watched this happen for 17 episodes in Bad Guy and she's freaking doing it again in Moon. I don't think she's a bad actress — there are many who are way worse than she is — but she's acting alongside actors who are many, many times better than she is, and she's just not enough. She was not enough when she was acting alongside Kim Nam-gil and Kim Jae-wook in Bad Guy, and it's almost painful to watch her be so blank in a scene with Kim Soo-hyun, when Kim Soo-hyun is always so loaded and in touch with his character's emotions.
It also doesn't help that she has no chemistry with either Kim Soo-hyun or Jung Il-woo, and has a history of not having chemistry with her male leads. It becomes palpable when Kim Soo-hyun or Jung Il-woo have to work around Han Ga-in's amazing blankness and thus can't be as good as they possibly can be.
Another case in point: there have only been two scenes thus far between Jung Il-woo and Kim Soo-hyun, one when they meet again after Yang-myung has come back from traveling, and two when they dine together. In the first scene, they say so little to each other but convey so much. In the second, the mood goes from flippant so quickly into somber with a mere question from Hwon regarding whether or not Yang-myung "still thinks about that girl." The seriousness of the question and the intonation and line delivery from Kim Soo-hyun forces Jung Il-woo to react and deliver his lines a certain way, which is what creates the somber mood. SEE WHAT I MEAN?
It really doesn't bode well that Han Ga-in is so central to this storyline yet her work is what it is. Like I said, I don't think she's bad, I just think she's nowhere near as strong as her male counterparts.
Because there is no arch or central conflict to guide us through the story other than the getting together of two ill-fated lovers, a story of this kind so often becomes just the pushing and pulling of these two lovers together and apart until they're finally together. These are the most popular kind of stories and maybe the ones that resonate the most with audiences, but they're also the least innovative. Who doesn't know how Moon is going to end? Who doesn't know who's going to get the girl, who's going to end up with heartbreak, who's going to do questionably moral things to attain their goal? This is just an age old tale dressed differently with another set of metaphors and another set of actors.
I fully admit that it is exactly because this is the kind of story I know best that I'm addicted to knowing what happens next: because what I anticipate will happen will actually happen, and thus I am rewarded for knowing how the story plays out. It's human nature. But I also know why Moon, at the end of the day, is not really satisfying writing-wise because there is nothing bigger.
The plotting ministers all feel like caricatures. The evil grandmother and the scheming Queen are unconvincing and so twirly-mustache-evil that there's no doubt they're going to lose in the end, so there's no sense of suspense or urgency when obstacles arise. That takes so much out of a good and evil story. I know we're only eight episodes in, so I hope that the story develops more and that the writers pack more meat in the obstacles that come King Hwon's way, because as it is now…whoooooooo caaaaaaaares?
Sigh, so much tragedy is headed towards thy bromance.
her acting has never connected with me so i was pretty unhappy when HGI got casted. but i thought that at least she'd look perfect for the role, right. however, actually seeing her act with the boys, she just looks so disconnected and zilch on the chemistry.


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This beautiful farm building located in the heart of a village on the edge of the « Yonne » will allow you to enjoy a peaceful stay, with your family, with your other half or between friends and to be welcomed at your arrival, as well as when you wish it, by hosts attentive to your well-being - to discover this region rich, in history (Cities of Provins, Fontainebleau, Moret-sur-Loing), and in summer activities - to organize your private events in the numerous available spaces - to meet the artists who regularly come to work in "the wing of the dancers" (the house is property of the famous choreographer Olivier Briac). You can also attend private spectacles on spot.
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Националната финансово-стопанска гимназия (НФСГ) е специализирано средно училище в София.

История
В началото на ХХ век, бурното развитие на индустрията и търговията в България налага да се организира професионална подготовка на нужните специалисти. С тази задача се заемат търговско-индустриалните камари, които финансират професионални курсове и основават професионални училища. През 1913 г., по инициатива и с финансовата подкрепа на Софийската търговско-индустриална камара е основана Софийска мъжка търговска гимназия. Тя е открита официално на 25 февруари 1913 г. по стар стил (11 март по новия календар) от председателя на Софийската камара Иван Грозев.

По-късно специално за Търговската гимназия е изградена внушителна за времето си сграда в софийския квартал "Лозенец". Тя е завършена и осветена през 1930 г. и през следващата 1931/32 учебна година посреща новите ученици.

След 1990 г. икономическите промени в България налагат реформи в икономическото образование, създаване на нови специалности, отговарящи на нуждите на стопанската практика. Ръководството и педагогическият колектив активно търсят партньори за въвеждане на специалности и методика на обучение, отговарящи на европейските стандарти. В резултат гимназията се включва в Българо-австрийския проект за реформи в професионалното образование. С огромна методическа, финансова и материално-техническа помощ на австрийската страна е създадена нова специалност – икономически мениджмънт. Специалността напълно отговаря на европейските образователни изисквания.

По-късно отново в рамките на Българо-австрийския проект, се създават Учебно-тренировъчните фирми, в които учениците се учат да работят в реална бизнес среда. В рамките на проекта е създадена и още една специалност – предприемачество и мениджмънт.

Днес НФСГ е член на Асоциацията на икономическите училища в България към Университет за национално и световно стопанство.

Богатата история на гимназията се съхранява в летописни книги.

От 1 август 2016 г., НФСГ има нов директор в лицето на Мая Гешева. Тя е дългогодишен преподавател по български език и литература в гимназията.

Химн
ВРЕМЕТО В НФСГ

Червената сграда с кулата
има богата история…
Спомени пази аулата
за хора, създали теория…

Стъпка по стъпка откриваме
колко широк е света…
Учим се как да събираме
по-важни неща от числа…

Ще минат сезони…Години…
Часовникът няма да спре…
А в нас една частица ще има
от времето в НФСГ…

И утре, когато поемем
нанякъде в този живот,
ще даваме…, за да вземем
от всичко… И много любов.

Ще минат сезони… Години…
Часовникът няма да спре…
А в нас една частица ще има
от времето в НФСГ…

Хронология
 1894 г. Начало на аргументирани и настоятелни предложения от членовете на Софийската търговска индустриална камара за откриване на средна търговско училище в гр. София.
 1913 г. Открива се Софийска мъжка търговска гимназия. Учебната година започва с две паралелки от 108 младежи в сграда на ул. "Сан Стефано" № 23. За учители са привлечени титулувани университетски преподаватели – литературоведът проф. Михаил Арнаудов, проф. Емануил Иванов – математик и физик, и др. Директор на гимназията е д-р Нейчо Иванов – виден столичен общественик и издател.
 1930 г. Освещава се новата сграда на гимназията в кв. Лозенец на ул. "Розова долина" № 1. Сградата е изградена със средства на Софийската търговска камара.
 1931 г. Начало на прием в гимназията и на девойки.
 1934 г. Към гимназията е открит стажантски институт за подготовка на учители по икономически дисциплини.
 1943 г. Софийската търговска гимназия е разделена на две: Първа държавна мъжка образцова търговска гимназия и Девическа търговска гимназия.
 1947 г. Открита е Вечерна търговска гимназия към Мъжката.
 1951 г. Преименува се на Образцов стопански техникум.
 1955 г. Преименува се на Образцов икономически техникум.
 1993 г. Преименува се на Финансово-стопанска гимназия.
 1999 г. Признат е статут на национално учебно заведение и съответно е преименувана на Национална финансово-стопанска гимназия.
 2004 г. НФСГ е асоциирана към Университет за национално и световно стопанство, като УНСС предоставя квота за прием на студенти.

Ученически съвет

История
Ученическият съвет на гимназията е орган на самоуправление на учениците, създаден в нужда да откликне на техните морални и материални нужди за подобряване на средата на обучение. Създаден е през 2010 година от училищния психолог Иван Марков, като неговият първи председател е Мартин Обретенов, ученик от 11 клас. Ученическият съвет се занимава както с проекти, отнасящи се до училището, така и с благотворителност. УС на НФСГ е събрал близо 4000 лева за благотворителност от всякакъв тип.

Структура
Начело на съвета е Председателят. Той има мандат от една година и бива избиран на първото Общо събрание след началото на учебната година. Председателят избира своите двама заместник-председатели, с които най-добре работи в екип. Условието е единият заместник да е от първата учебна смяна, вторият – от втората. Членовете на съвета се наричат отговорници и се избират от всеки клас по двама или трима чрез общо гласуване. На второто Общо събрание се избират отговорници на випуските – двама души за всеки випуск, които координират останалите отговорници при нужда.

Комисии
Комисиите са "Учебно-възпитателен процес", "Благотворителност" и "Материално-техническа база". Всеки член на съвета се записва в една, две или три комисии, като участва активно в дейността им.

Общо събрание
Общото събрание е висш орган на Ученическия съвет. На него се събират всички членове на комисиите и ръководството на съвета, за да отчетат дейността и да гласуват решенията, които комисиите са взели. Общото събрание служи за вътрешни избори, гласуване на промени, гласуване на решения, промени по устава или съобщаване на бъдещи проекти. Свиква се от председателя на съвета най-малко два пъти месечно, решенията се взимат при 3/4 от активния числен състав на съвета.

 Клуб "Таланти" е създаден с цел забавление и развлечение.
 Клуб "Интеракт" е чартиран през 2001 година в Националната финансово-стопанска гимназия в град София, той е първият интеракт клуб в България. "Интеракт" клуб е подклон на Ротари Интернешънъл за младежи, част от семейство с повече от 1 200 000 члена и вековна традиция. Клубът подпомага младежите да осъзнаят ценостите на обществото и развива лидерските им качества. Като една от най-важните и бързо развиващи се програми на Ротари, "Интеракт" се е превърнал в световен феномен с почти 200 000 младежи в повече от 10 700 клуба в 109 страни.
 Клуб "Икономист" е създаден през ноември 2005 г. Основната цел на клуба е да обедини възпитаниците на НФСГ около една интересна професионална тема. Клубът осъществява срещи с известни икономисти с цел информация от първа ръка и придобиване на нови знания и опит. Всички членове на клуба участват активно както индивидуално, така и групово в различни състезания и проекти на икономическа тематика. Клуб "Икономист" има за цел да осъществи връзка с други подобни клубове в страната. На всеки член на клуба се издава сертификат, като една добра добавка към CV-то му.

Учебни програми

Програми на Junior Achievement – България
Учениците от гимназията имат възможност да се обучават по програмите на Джуниър Ачийвмънт, която е най-старата и бързо развиваща се организация в света. Създадена е в САЩ през 1919 година и се развива на основата на партньорство между бизнеса и образованието. Джуниър Ачийвмънт е предпочитаната програма за бизнес обучение в Европейския съюз.

В България Джуниър Ачийвмънт е регистрирана като фондация с обществена полза, член на световната организация Junior Achievement Worldwide, която всяка година работи с почти 7 милиона ученици от 97 страни. В Европа, организацията е част от мрежата на Junior Achievement – Young Enterprise, която координира регионални изяви и събития.

Програмите на Джуниър Ачийвмънт обхващат обучението от предучилищна възраст до завършване на висше образование. Те съдействат за развиване на активност и предприемаческо поведение, етика и др.

Програма "Ученическа компания"
По програмата се обучават ученици от специалност "Банково, застрахователно и осигурително дело". Учениците сформират фирма, която регистрират в офиса на фондацията, работят съобразно устава и в рамките на една учебна година развиват дейност по избрана от тях бизнес-идея. Работят с избран от тях мениджърски екип, набират начален капитал чрез продажба на акции и облигации, рекламират дейността си и продават своя продукт. В края на учебната година извършват ликвидация и разпределят печалбата под формата на дивиденти.

Успоредно с това учениците работят и като застрахователни агенти към Общинска застрахователна компания, която е бизнес партньор на ученическите компании и място за практическо обучение по специалността. В края на учебната година учениците представят своята дейност на годишното изложение на ученическите компании в хотел "Шератон" и се състезават за най-добра компания, за най-добър бизнес план.

Програма "Виртуално предприятие"
Програмата "Виртуално предприятие" компютърна симулация на икономически процеси. Нарича се още Учебно Тренировъчна Фирма (УТФ). Извършва симулативна дейност на предприятия, покупки и продажби от продуктовата линия на други УТФ-та, в други градове на страната. Наблюдава се желание и интерес у учениците. Насърчаване на учащите и техните преподаватели под формата на чуждестранни и български панаири, където те вземат активно участие.

Програмата "Виртуално предприятие" (Компютърна симулация по мениджмънт и икономика – КСМИ) предоставя на желаещите ученици да се регистрират като отбор-фирма и да се конкурират с други отбори при производство и пласмента на зададен симулативен продукт. Отборите се стремят да изпреварят конкурентите си по отношение на рентабилност, продажба и пазарен дял. Програмата е уеб-базирана и предлага възможност за международно участие.

Програма "Бизнес етика"
По програмата "Бизнес – етика" се обучават ученици в СИП от 9 и 10 клас. Разглеждат се етични казуси от бизнеса, анализират се широк спектър етични понятия от различни гледни точки. Програмата е уеб-базирана и се провежда на две сесии с участието на ученици от страната и чужбина.

Специалности
 Икономика и мениджмънт с разширено изучаване на английски език
 Икономика и мениджмънт с разширено изучаване на немски език
 Икономика и мениджмънт с разширено изучаване на френски език
 Икономика и мениджмънт с разширено изучаване на испански език
 Икономическа информатика с разширено изучаване на английски език
 Икономическа информатика с разширено изучаване на  немски език
 Търговия с разширено изучаване на английски език
 Търговия с разширено изучаване на немски език

Награди
В резултат от подчертаното присъствие в столичната и национално-образователна система, НФСГ има достойни признания:
 орден "Кирил и Методий" – I степен по повод 50-годишния юбилей
 орден "Народна република България" – I степен за 75-годишния юбилей
 почетен знак на УНСС по случай 90-годишния юбилей

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Q: pscl::predict.hurdle probabilities do not sum to 1 I'm using the predict.hurdle function from the pscl package to estimate the probabilities of observing 0, 1, 2, ..., N events in a data set.
Using the example in ?predict.hurdle:
data("bioChemists", package = "pscl")

fm_hp1 <- hurdle(art ~ ., data = bioChemists)
summary(fm_hp1)

head(predict(fm_hp1, newdata = bioChemists, type = "prob"))
# returns a matrix of probabilities too large to show here

Each row of this matrix is an observation and each column is the probability of that count, 0-19 in this case.
summary(rowSums(predict(fm_hp1, newdata = bioChemists, type = "prob")))
   Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max.
 0.9998  1.0000  1.0000  1.0000  1.0000  1.0000

But some rows don't sum to 1 as they should. But okay, they're close so maybe it isn't an issue....
But, I need to calibrate the intercept terms. "Calibration" in my industry is an acceptable way of saying "change the estimated parameters". Yes, I know there are many reasons for why this is not a good idea statistically (intentionally biasing estimates). However, I would still expect the code to work and the prediction to adhere to the rules of probability.
# Change the count model intercept
fm_hp1$coefficients$count["(Intercept)"] <- 3

summary(rowSums(predict(fm_hp1, newdata = bioChemists, type = "prob")))
    Min.  1st Qu.   Median     Mean  3rd Qu.     Max.
0.001521 0.434300 0.647400 0.602000 0.818400 0.983900

Now we see some major problems with the resultant probabilities.
I'm tempted to simply re-normalize these utilities on a 0-1 scale via:
old.p <- predict(fm_hp1, newdata = bioChemists, type = "prob")
new.p <- t(apply(X = old.p, MARGIN = 1, FUN = function(x) x/sum(x)))
summary(rowSums(new.p))

But I worry that the cause of the issues with the probabilities summing to 1 means that this wouldn't be appropriate.
Is my worry founded? Is there another element of fm_hp1 that I need to modify in order to to change the intercept term but still get correct probability predictions?

A: The count distributions supported in hurdle() all have support 0, 1, 2, ... (up to infinity). Thus, in order to sum exactly to 1 you would have to sum up the probabilities for all these integers 0, 1, 2, ...
As infinitely many values are not useful in practice the predict() method just provides the probability for a finite number of integers, by default 0, 1, 2, ..., max(y), i.e., up to the maximum response observed. In case of the bioChemists data this is 0, 1, ..., 19.
Thus, by taking only the sum over these probabilities you ignore the probabilities for all higher counts. Usually, this probability weight is small as your first summary illustrates. However, if you increase the intercept(s) you make higher counts much much more likely than they were in the original data set (expectations increase by a factor of about 10!). Thus, you would need to sum up over a much larger support. You can do this by supplying the at argument:
summary(rowSums(predict(fm_hp1, type = "prob", at = 0:50)))
##     Min.  1st Qu.   Median     Mean  3rd Qu.     Max.
## 0.001789 1.000000 1.000000 0.994000 1.000000 1.000000
summary(rowSums(predict(fm_hp1, type = "prob", at = 0:100)))
##    Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max.
##  0.9889  1.0000  1.0000  1.0000  1.0000  1.0000
summary(rowSums(predict(fm_hp1, type = "prob", at = 0:200)))
##    Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max.
##       1       1       1       1       1       1

As already brought up in the comments above I doubt that this change of the intercept is really a good strategy here but that is a different debate...

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Q: OnItemClickListener un fragment doesn't work I have a probleme when using onItemClickListener un Fragment.
Here is my code
list.setOnClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {

   @Override
   public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> p1, View p2, int p3, long p4) {
       Toast.makeText(getActivity().getApplicationContext(), "Test", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
   };
});

Which return the error : method android.widget.AdapterView<>.OnItemClickListener(android.view.View.OnClickListener) in android.view.ListView' cannot be applied to (com.package.name.MainActivity.PlaceholderFragment(anonymous)).`

Edit : The code above is in the OnCreateView of the Fragment, and there's a rootView Variable.

A: Use setOnItemClickListener instead of setOnClickListener as:
list.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {

    @Override
    public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> p1, View p2, int p3, long p4) {
    // ItemClick/ItemSelect Code
    }
});

Because you are passing OnItemClickListener listener in setOnClickListener. if you want to set setOnClickListener for ListView then pass OnClickListener anonymous class to setOnClickListener method of ListView.


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Staphylococcus aureus (3)
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Intracellular Staphylococcus aureus employs the cysteine protease staphopain A to induce host cell death in epithelial cells (2021)
Stelzner, Kathrin ; Boyny, Aziza ; Hertlein, Tobias ; Sroka, Aneta ; Moldovan, Adriana ; Paprotka, Kerstin ; Kessie, David ; Mehling, Helene ; Potempa, Jan ; Ohlsen, Knut ; Fraunholz, Martin J. ; Rudel, Thomas
Staphylococcus aureus is a major human pathogen, which can invade and survive in non-professional and professional phagocytes. Uptake by host cells is thought to contribute to pathogenicity and persistence of the bacterium. Upon internalization by epithelial cells, cytotoxic S. aureus strains can escape from the phagosome, replicate in the cytosol and induce host cell death. Here, we identified a staphylococcal cysteine protease to induce cell death after translocation of intracellular S. aureus into the host cell cytoplasm. We demonstrated that loss of staphopain A function leads to delayed onset of host cell death and prolonged intracellular replication of S. aureus in epithelial cells. Overexpression of staphopain A in a non-cytotoxic strain facilitated intracellular killing of the host cell even in the absence of detectable intracellular replication. Moreover, staphopain A contributed to efficient colonization of the lung in a mouse pneumonia model. In phagocytic cells, where intracellular S. aureus is exclusively localized in the phagosome, staphopain A did not contribute to cytotoxicity. Our study suggests that staphopain A is utilized by S. aureus to exit the epithelial host cell and thus contributes to tissue destruction and dissemination of infection. Author summary Staphylococcus aureus is an antibiotic-resistant pathogen that emerges in hospital and community settings and can cause a variety of diseases ranging from skin abscesses to lung inflammation and blood poisoning. The bacterium can asymptomatically colonize the upper respiratory tract and skin of humans and take advantage of opportune conditions, like immunodeficiency or breached barriers, to cause infection. Although S. aureus was not regarded as intracellular bacterium, it can be internalized by human cells and subsequently exit the host cells by induction of cell death, which is considered to cause tissue destruction and spread of infection. The bacterial virulence factors and underlying molecular mechanisms involved in the intracellular lifestyle of S. aureus remain largely unknown. We identified a bacterial cysteine protease to contribute to host cell death of epithelial cells mediated by intracellular S. aureus. Staphopain A induced killing of the host cell after translocation of the pathogen into the cell cytosol, while bacterial proliferation was not required. Further, the protease enhanced survival of the pathogen during lung infection. These findings reveal a novel, intracellular role for the bacterial protease staphopain A.
Intracellular Staphylococcus aureus Perturbs the Host Cell Ca\(^{2+}\) Homeostasis To Promote Cell Death (2020)
Stelzner, Kathrin ; Winkler, Ann-Cathrin ; Liang, Chunguang ; Boyny, Aziza ; Ade, Carsten P. ; Dandekar, Thomas ; Fraunholz, Martin J. ; Rudel, Thomas
The opportunistic human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus causes serious infectious diseases that range from superficial skin and soft tissue infections to necrotizing pneumonia and sepsis. While classically regarded as an extracellular pathogen, S. aureus is able to invade and survive within human cells. Host cell exit is associated with cell death, tissue destruction, and the spread of infection. The exact molecular mechanism employed by S. aureus to escape the host cell is still unclear. In this study, we performed a genome-wide small hairpin RNA (shRNA) screen and identified the calcium signaling pathway as being involved in intracellular infection. S. aureus induced a massive cytosolic Ca\(^{2+}\) increase in epithelial host cells after invasion and intracellular replication of the pathogen. This was paralleled by a decrease in endoplasmic reticulum Ca\(^{2+}\) concentration. Additionally, calcium ions from the extracellular space contributed to the cytosolic Ca2+ increase. As a consequence, we observed that the cytoplasmic Ca\(^{2+}\) rise led to an increase in mitochondrial Ca\(^{2+}\) concentration, the activation of calpains and caspases, and eventually to cell lysis of S. aureus-infected cells. Our study therefore suggests that intracellular S. aureus disturbs the host cell Ca\(^{2+}\) homeostasis and induces cytoplasmic Ca\(^{2+}\) overload, which results in both apoptotic and necrotic cell death in parallel or succession. IMPORTANCE Despite being regarded as an extracellular bacterium, the pathogen Staphylococcus aureus can invade and survive within human cells. The intracellular niche is considered a hideout from the host immune system and antibiotic treatment and allows bacterial proliferation. Subsequently, the intracellular bacterium induces host cell death, which may facilitate the spread of infection and tissue destruction. So far, host cell factors exploited by intracellular S. aureus to promote cell death are only poorly characterized. We performed a genome-wide screen and found the calcium signaling pathway to play a role in S. aureus invasion and cytotoxicity. The intracellular bacterium induces a cytoplasmic and mitochondrial Ca\(^{2+}\) overload, which results in host cell death. Thus, this study first showed how an intracellular bacterium perturbs the host cell Ca\(^{2+}\) homeostasis."
Identification of factors involved in Staphylococcus aureus- induced host cell death (2020)
Stelzner, Kathrin
Staphylococcus aureus is a Gram-positive commensal bacterium, that asymptomatically colonizes human skin and mucosal surfaces. Upon opportune conditions, such as immunodeficiency or breached barriers of the host, it can cause a plethora of infections ranging from local, superficial infections to life-threatening diseases. Despite being regarded as an extracellular pathogen, S. aureus can invade and survive within non-phagocytic and phagocytic cells. Eventually, the pathogen escapes from the host cell resulting in killing of the host cell, which is associated with tissue destruction and spread of infection. However, the exact molecular mechanisms underlying S. aureus-induced host cell death remain to be elucidated. In the present work, a genome-wide haploid genetic screen was performed to identify host cell genes crucial for S. aureus intracellular cytotoxicity. A mutant library of the haploid cell line HAP1 was infected with the pathogen and cells surviving the infection were selected. Twelve genes were identified, which were significantly enriched when compared to an infection with a non-cytotoxic S. aureus strain. Additionally, characteristics of regulated cell death pathways and the role of Ca2+ signaling in S. aureus-infected cells were investigated. Live cell imaging of Ca2+ reporter cell lines was used to analyze single cells. S. aureus-induced host cell death exhibited morphological features of apoptosis and activation of caspases was detected. Cellular H2O2 levels were elevated during S. aureus intracellular infection. Further, intracellular S. aureus provoked cytosolic Ca2+ overload in epithelial cells. This resulted from Ca2+ release from endoplasmic reticulum and Ca2+ influx via the plasma membrane and led to mitochondrial Ca2+ overload. The final step of S. aureus-induced cell death was plasma membrane permeabilization, a typical feature of necrotic cell death. In order to identify bacterial virulence factors implicated in S. aureus-induced host cell killing, the cytotoxicity of selected mutants was investigated. Intracellular S. aureus employs the bacterial cysteine protease staphopain A to activate an apoptosis-like cell death characterized by cell contraction and membrane bleb formation. Phagosomal escape represents a prerequisite staphopain A-induced cell death, whereas bacterial intracellular replication is dispensable. Moreover, staphopain A contributed to efficient colonization of the lung in a murine pneumonia model. In conclusion, this work identified at least two independent cell death pathways activated by intracellular S. aureus. While initially staphopain A mediates S. aureus-induced host cell killing, cytosolic Ca2+-overload follows later and leads to the final demise of the host cell.

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These hanging lights look great in dining rooms or drawing. This is a little diversion from the regular lights that are available for households. For adding a little fancy decoration these lights are a good choice. The great thing about such lights is that it does not block any corner or wall of the room. The hanging nature is the beauty of such lights. These can work as lights over the dining table. This would be a kind of spotlights but in a different version. The sleek style is stylish. The source of such lights mainly is led and thus assures lesser electricity bills.


The Tiaras around Town group begins to gather between 6:00 and7:00 p.m. That allows time to visit and dine before the music begins around 7:00 p.m. Our host, Jeri, reserves an area for members and guests so that you can arrive at any time and still get a seat and have dinner if you desire. PLEASE ASK THE HOST FOR THE WILD BOOMER WOMEN RESERVED TABLES. The music lasts until 10:00 p.m., but you can arrive and leave at any time.


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Mike Tyson-Roy Jones: Drug testing could be the new concern
by Ryan O'Hara
A looming issue surrounding the Mike Tyson-Roy Jones exhibition fight is not headgear or even the size of the gloves.
It is drug testing.
According to multiple sources with knowledge reporting to The Ring, the Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA) is in talks to administer random drug testing for the eight-round exhibition bout, which will take place September 12 on pay-per-view at a crowdless Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California.
Since 2011, VADA has conducted more than 2,000 urine and blood performance-enhancing drug tests.
"Drug testing is the major concern for this event," one source said. "That needs to be the focus, not the size of the gloves, or the headgear."
We reached out to VADA president Dr. Margaret Goodman for comment, but our attempts were unsuccessful.
According to a 2019 presentation from Goodman before the Association of Boxing Commissions, VADA generally performs roughly 40-50 tests a month. But due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Goodman revealed in an interview with NBC-affiliated television station KSNV that the number of tests has slowed down, but didn't specify how much.
Another issue, as The Ring previously reported last Wednesday, is whether the living legends will wear headgear for their fight. We have been informed that the California State Athletic Commission is leaning towards no headgear for the contest.
Contracts for the event were inked in June, but both sides agreed to delay the announcement by nearly a month to debate waiting out the COVID-19 pandemic so that fans could potentially attend the fight.


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How to fix common problems with Your Phone app on Windows 10
Are you having issues with the Your Phone app on Windows 10 and Android? Then these troubleshooting steps should help to fix them.
Mauro Huculak
On Windows 10, Your Phone is an app available starting with the October 2018 Update that further integrates your phone with your computer. It's a "window" that gives you quick access to your pictures and notifications, and it allows you to send and receive text messages. It all happens wirelessly and without you having to unlock your phone.
At this point, the new experience only works with Android phones running version 7.0+ of the mobile OS, and because it's still a work in progress features are missing, some of the functionalities are limited, and there's a good chance that you may come across errors and other problems. Thankfully, Microsoft has outlined some troubleshooting steps to complete the setup successfully and resolve common issues using the experience.
In this Windows 10 guide, we'll walk you through several troubleshooting steps to successfully connect the Your Phone app with your Android device, and we look at some details you need to know when using this new experience.
How to fix connection errors with Your Phone
How to fix 'Check your phone' message with Your Phone
How to fix missing text messages problem with Your Phone
How to reset the Your Phone app on Windows 10 and Android
Information you need to know about Your Phone
Quick Note: In addition to the Windows 10 steps, we're also outlining steps to change the settings on your Android phone, and because the experience isn't the same across devices, it's likely the settings in this guide will be a little different on your phone. If you can't find a particular option, it's recommended to check your manufacturer support website for more specific steps.
If you're getting the "We can't connect to your phone" message on your computer, then it means that something is preventing the connection between the two devices.
Here's a list of obvious (and not so obvious) things that you can try to get your PC connected with your Android phone:
Verify network connectivity
Your computer and phone won't connect unless the two devices can communicate. On your mobile device, swipe down from the top, and confirm that it's connected to the same wireless network as the computer you're trying to connect.
Also, you should make sure that your computer can connect to the internet. (If you can load a web page on the web browser, then your device is connected.)
Disable blocking features
If you're still unable to connect, then it could be a feature blocking the connection. On your phone and computer make sure that airplane mode is disabled.
On Android, use these instructions to disable Airplane mode:
Open Notifications.
Tap the Airplane mode button to turn it off.
On Windows 10, use these instructions to disable Airplane mode:
In the bottom-right corner of the taskbar, click the Network icon.
Turn off the Airplane mode button.
Turn off a metered connection
The Your Phone app doesn't work over a metered connection. If you're using a limited connection, you must disable the feature to allow the communication between devices.
On Android, use these instructions to disable a metered connection:
Tap on Data usage.
Tap on Network Restrictions.
Turn off the toggle switch for the connection.
If you're using the Data saver feature, in the "Data Usage" page, disable the feature as well.
On Windows 10, use these instructions to disable a metered connection:
Click on Network & Internet.
Click on Status.
Click the Change connection properties link.
Turn on the Set as metered connection toggle switch.
Disable battery saver on your PC
If you're using the Windows 10 battery saver feature, either plug your computer to a power outlet or do the following:
Click on System.
Click on Battery.
Turn off the Battery saver status until next charge toggle switch.
Alternatively, you can also click the battery icon, in the bottom-right corner of the taskbar, and use the slider to select a battery mode other than Battery saver.
Confirm Microsoft account
The new phone experience works using a Microsoft account, which means that you need to make sure that you're signed in to the Your Phone Companion app (on your Android device) using the same account that you're using on your PC.
On Android, use these steps to confirm your Microsoft account:
Open the Your Phone Companion app.
Tap the Settings (gear) button in the top-right.
Tap on Accounts.
Sign in with your Microsoft account as necessary.
On Windows 10, use these steps to confirm your Microsoft account:
Click on Accounts.
Click on Your Info.
Verify that you're using the correct Microsoft account.
If you're using a local account on Windows 10, then Your Phone experience will not work.
Allow app in the background
If you're blocking the Your Phone app from running in the background, you won't be able to connect to your phone. You can make sure that you're allowing the app in the background using these steps:
Click on Privacy.
Click on Background apps.
Turn on the Your Phone toggle switch.
Disable Do not disturb feature
During the initial setup, the app sends a notification to your phone, and if you're using the do not disturb feature on your Android device, you won't be able to complete the setup.
On Android, use these steps to turn off the do not disturb option:
Tap the Do Not Disturb option.
If you're getting the "We can't connect to your phone" message, it's also possible that either the "Share experiences" feature is disabled or there are problems with your Windows 10 account.
To resolve problems with the Share experiences feature, do the following:
Click on Shared experiences.
Turn on the Share across devices toggle switch.
While in the "Shared experiences" settings, make sure that you're account is working correctly. If under "Accounts," you see a Fix now link, click the link and follow the instructions to resolve the issue.
If you see the "Check your phone" message while trying to set up the app, you may need to change the notification settings on your phone using these steps:
Tap on Notifications.
Tap on the Your Phone Companion app.
Turn on notifications for the app.
The Your Phone app currently supports access to photos and text messages. However, if you do not see all the messages, it's likely that they were sent using Rich Communication Services (RCS), which is a service not supported in the Windows 10 app.
If you want to see all your messages, you need to disable the RCS feature on Android using these steps:
Open the default messaging app.
Tap the menu (three-dotted) button in the top-right.
Tap on Advanced (or More settings).
Turn off the toggle switch for Chat features, Push messages, RCS messages, or Advanced messaging.
Alternatively, you can reset the app to resolve most common issues connecting your computer with your phone.
On Android, use these steps to reset the Your Phone Companion app:
Tap on Apps.
Select the Your Phone Companion app.
Tap on Force Stop.
Tap on Clear Cache and Clear Data.
On Windows 10, use these steps to reset the Your Phone app:
Click on Phone.
Click the Unlink this PC option.
Then you can reset the app using these steps:
Click on Apps & features.
Under the "Apps & features" section, select the Your Phone app.
Click the Advanced options link.
Click the Reset button.
Once you've completed the steps, re-launch the app, set up the experience one more time, and this time, it should connect to your Android device.
While the above troubleshooting steps can help to fix most problems setting up the Your Phone app, the experience is still a work in progress, which means that some features and functionalities are limited or they're yet to be implemented.
You won't see all your pictures
For instance, to reduce network usage and optimize performance, the Your Phone app only shows the 25 recent images from your Android device.
In addition, only the images within the "Camera Roll" and "Screenshots" folders will be available. If you're saving pictures on a different location, they won't appear on your desktop app.
Missing photos and videos from text messages
The Your Phone app is still a work in progress, and at the time of this writing, it doesn't include support for viewing or sending media in MMS messages. (In future updates, Microsoft is expected to bring this functionality.)
Inconsistent incoming text notifications
When using the Your Phone app, you'll notice that only some of the notifications for incoming text messages, but not for all of them. The reason is that when you close or minimize the app, there's a delay before text notifications appear in Action Center.
It's expected that this behavior will improve over time, but in the meantime, you can check all your incoming text using the Your Phone app directly.
More Windows 10 resources
For more helpful articles, coverage, and answers to common questions about Windows 10, visit the following resources:
Windows 10 on Windows Central – All you need to know
Windows 10 help, tips, and tricks
Windows 10 forums on Windows Central
Honey I shrunk the computer!
These are the best PC sticks for when you're on the move
Instant computer, just add a screen! That's the general idea of the ultra-portable PC Compute Sticks, but it can be hard to know which one you want. Relax, we've got you covered.


Vintage Crockery Hire in Bristol? And more…….
I've got some exciting news to announce at the weekend regarding 'Vintage Tea Sets', that's if I can hang on that long eeek! As you may be aware, we're a Bristol based Vintage Crockery Hire Business (also covering south wales, the South West region including, Bath, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Devon as well as London) and have a love and flair for Vintage Event Planning …..that's a hint but not the half of it, I cannae say anymore, you'll have to wait! Sorry! Just make sure you pop back….
Whilst writing, for those of you who are local to Bristol or just fancy a trip over here (I love this City really do). Pop this event in your diary. The last one in October was excellent, a great selection of stalls and all the vintage loveliness was very affordable.


Walnut hollow unfinished wood box, keepsake by. Wood rustic wine racks hand made from reclaimed wood sanded and finished with wood oil great solid racks .
Jetez un œil à ces annonces intéressantes liées à "unfinished wood box"
Usage : nordic minimalist modern wood bed frame black walnut wood king bed.. "N'hésitez pas à regrouper vos achats, je recalcule les frais d'envoi"
Occasion, Darice Wood Box Assortment 3/Pkg-6"X6"
Darice wood box assortment 3/pkg-6"x6". A wwii re-enactors unfinished project. it is good condition for its age, came off unfinished project. i have been given a number of unfinished tapestries all of which have no wool with t.
Unfinished Wood Box / Treasure Chest - 7.5" x 4.6"
Bon état Walnut Hollow Unfinished Wood Prix de 52,70 . Frais de port ajustés pour plusieurs achats. Autres informations me contacter. Paiement : chèque, virement bancaire, paypal.
Walnut hollow unfinished wood box, card keeper by. Due to a new job i'm selling off my unfinished iphone repairs. N'hesitez-pas a me contacter pour des complementsd'informations et/ ou photos.. Cordialement.


We've been nominated for a What's On 4 Kids Award 2019!
We're delighted to have been nominated for a What's On 4 Kids Award for the second time!
We've received a nomination for the Most Loved Baby Activity so we are absolutely thrilled. To be nominated for this award is a reflection on how our fabulous teachers help nuture your little ones natural affinity with the water and help babies and parents alike build confidence.


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Q: Castle Windsor: How to pass commandline args to multiple services? I want to pass command line args (ie. string[]args) to two different services. I tried a lot of things, closest is the code below.
namespace CastleTest
{
  static class Program
  {
    static void Main(string [] args)
    {
      IWindsorContainer container = new WindsorContainer();
      container.Install(FromAssembly.This());
      IService srv = container.Resolve<IService>(new Hashtable {{"args", args}});
      srv.Do();
    }
  }

  public class Installer : IWindsorInstaller
  {
    public void Install(IWindsorContainer container, IConfigurationStore store)
    {
      container.Register(Component.For<IService>().ImplementedBy<Service>());
      container.Register(Component.For<IRole>().ImplementedBy<RoleService>());
    }
  }

  public interface IRole
  {
    string Role { get; }
  }

  public class RoleService : IRole
  {
    private string[] args;

    public RoleService(string[] args)
    {
      this.args = args;
    }

    public string Role { get { return args[1]; } }
  }

  public interface IService
  {
    void Do();
  }

  public class Service : IService
  {
    private readonly string[] args;
    private readonly IRole service;

    public Service(string[] args, IRole service)
    {
        this.args = args;
        this.service = service;
    }

    public void Do()
    {
        Console.WriteLine(args[0] + ": " + service.Role);
    }
  }
}

Executing this gives:
Can't create component 'CastleTest.RoleService' as it has dependencies to be satisfied.
CastleTest.RoleService is waiting for the following dependencies:
Keys (components with specific keys)
- args which was not registered.
Why is this? Why is the dependancy "args" from RoleService not satisfied? And more important? How can i do it?
PS. I want to use FromAssembly to call my Installers, so passing constructor params to it is no option (afaik).

A: The error is throwing because you have two constructor parameter in Service, a string array  and IRole. But while creating the instance of service you are passing only one argument. You should call as shown below.
IRole roleService=container.Resolve<IRole>(new HashTable {{"args", args}});
IService srv = container.Resolve<IService>(new Hashtable {{"args", args}, {"service", roleService}});


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Resolving financial disputes by arbitration
By Yoon Byung-chol
Kim&Chang, Partner
Traditionally, financial institutions have preferred court proceedings as a method of resolving their disputes.
Among various reasons for this, a defendant in Korea, after receiving a complaint must submit a denial of such complaint, otherwise a default judgment can be rendered in favor of the plaintiff.
Further, in the case of a financial dispute between domestic parties, the court's first decision can be executed immediately, whereas an arbitral award may need to be enforced by the courts which would make the procedure rather more complex.
However, the story becomes somewhat different when the financial dispute is not a part of our court's jurisdiction and occurs with a foreign party.
Enforcing foreign court judgments in Korea or enforcing a Korean court judgment outside of Korea is generally difficult and time consuming. In comparison, enforcing an international arbitration award is much more straightforward due to the 1958 New York Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Arbitral Awards.
With almost 150 signatories, from Rwanda to Romania, the New York Convention recognizes and enforces, with only a few exceptions, an arbitral award made in one signatory state to another signatory state.
Accordingly, international arbitration is the most suitable forum to settle a financial dispute with an international element as there is a much better chance of enforcing any such decision.
Further, financial institutions should be aware that arbitral institutions have recently been making a push to expedite resolution of arbitrated disputes by adopting expedited proceedings.
For instance, the Singapore International Arbitration Centre adapted the possibility of expedited proceedings in its revised rules in July 2010. When the decision for an expedited proceeding is made, the arbitration proceeding is conducted by a sole arbitrator and the arbitration award is granted only within 6 months from the date when the arbitrator is appointed.
A similar model has been adopted by the International Center for Dispute Resolution and other arbitral institutions such as the International Chamber of Commerce which would allow financial institutions the possibility of resolving its disputes quicker and more effectively.
Some financial disputes have been resolved by creative use of mediation and arbitration. In Hong Kong, financial authorities have chosen a way to resolve collective financial disputes through arbitration institutions.
At the time when Lehman Brothers applied for bankruptcy in September 2008, a large number of small investors had financial derivatives called Credit Linked Notes in their possessions and they filed a claim collectively against over 20 banks that sold this product to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA).
In order to settle this situation, a provision was made by HKMA that the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) would be responsible for the mediation and arbitration of these disputes.
According to this provision, if an investor agrees to this, it must participate in a 5 hour mediation session within 21 days of agreement as the first phase. If a settlement cannot be reached, the dispute is then managed through a "documents-only" arbitration in the second phase. As a consequence, for one year thereafter, over 346 mediation requests were received.
In case a collective financial dispute occurs like the example above, a plan for a financial authority to allow for parties to choose mediation and/or arbitration in particular cases is a solution that is at least worth considering.
With more diverse and unique disputes in the horizon, our financial authorities and financial institutions must be able to act in a flexible and creative manner and learn from foreign precedents to resolve disputes in the most favorable manner possible.
gallantjung@koreatimes.co.kr More articles by this reporter


The Menai Suspension Bridge connecting the island of Anglesey with the mainland of Wales was opened to a great deal of fanfare. This structure, which crosses over the Menai Straits, is widely considered to be the world's first modern suspension bridge.
Prior to the bridge's opening, the only options for traveling between Anglesey and the mainland were by ferry or – if there was a low tide — by foot (risky even under those circumstances). Anglesey's leading source of income involved the sale of cattle, which had customarily been led into the water and guided across to the mainland. It was decided at long last to build a bridge at that location, not only to get livestock across in an easier and safer manner but also to transport those animals more expeditiously to London and other regions.
Scottish civil engineer Thomas Telford designed the bridge, and construction on it began in 1819. The bridge was built with 16 huge chain cables – each consisting of 935 iron bars – to support the 579-foot (176.5-meter)-long main span. In addition, towers made of Penmon limestone were constructed at each end of the bridge.
For more information on the Menai Suspension Bridge, please check out https://www.asce.org/project/menai-suspension-bridge/.


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"How will population change transform our world?" with Prof Sarah Harper
with Professor Sarah Harper
Clore Professor of Gerontology
Sarah is Clore Professor of Gerontology at the University of Oxford, a Fellow at University College, and the Founding Director of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing. Sarah served on the Prime Minister's Council for Science and Technology, whi...
Professor Sarah Harper, Director of the Oxford Institute of Ageing, explains how the different age profiles of different societies around the world impacts on issues such as economic development, health care, and migration, and also on individuals' life opportunities.
Professor Harper's new book, How Population Change Will Transform Our World, part of the Oxford University Press' 21st Century Challenges series with the Oxford Martin School, is available to buy now.
Ageing Populations
Oxford Institute of Population Ageing


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Q: Magento : How to Setup Advanced Search in Multicurrency Shop I have Magento 1.9 shop with 2 languages (English and Russian) and 2 currency - Euro and RUB (Russian rubles). Currency rate setup correct and in product page I see correct price for both currency.
But in advanced search I need select products by Price, dependency by currency.
Now this search work normal only for one of currency - RUB.
Then I switch to English site, search result for Price show me products with my wishes price, but in RUB, not in Euro...
For example - products have a cost 6300 RUB, in my currency rate it's equal 100 Euro.
In Russian version of site everything works fine but in English I setup Price to 100 Euro. In results, I see all products with price unlit 100 RUB, instead of 100 Euro.

A: Now I again back to this problem and I think it's bug of core of Magento (
I made some tests on demo sites and found some bug in all sites.
For example I make search for price from 8 to 10 (USD and EURO - dependence in language store)
http://tigermin.demo.emvee-solutions.com/catalogsearch/advanced/result/?___store=nl&name=&descriptio...
and
http://tigermin.demo.emvee-solutions.com/catalogsearch/advanced/result/?___store=default&name=&descr...
Search result correct only for USD store (EN), in Dutch store (with EURO) we can see wrong products.


Boasting an immensely talented line up consisting of singers/guitarists Eddie Baird, John Gladwin and Terry Wincott, The Amazing Blondel were easily as talented as fellow English folk-rock contemporaries such as Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span. Unfortunately, over the course of five early-'70s American album, the band never managed to attract the attention lavished on their competition. Part of the explanation may stem from the fact the group remained devoted to acoustic English folk music, largely avoiding rock overtones, sticking almost exclusively to acoustic jigs and ballads until relatively late in their recording career.
Gladwin and Wyncott actually started their musical collaboration in the rock band Methuselah (see separate entry). Following its break up the duo decided to continue their partnership as an acoustic duo. Subsequently joined by Baird, as The Amazing Blondel (the name drawn from Richard the Lionheart's favorite minstrel), the group was quickly signed by Bell Records (Chris Blackwell's Island Records acquiring American distribution rights).
Co-produced by Phil Brown and the band, 1973's "England" saw the trio retaining their interest in English folk, though the set saw a shift to a more commercial sound. That said, with all three members contributing material (Gladwin credited with the majority of six selections) the results were frequently stunning. For us the highlights included Gladwin's beautiful side-long suite "The Paintings" and the group's stunning harmony vocals (check out "Seascapes"). Acoustic material such as "Landscape" and "Cantus Firmus to Counterpoint" was soft, warm and highly melodic. While you couldn't exactly call it rock and roll (thoughts of an evening in an Irish pub quickly come to mind), it made for a great choice to play on a cold winter night, or an early Sunday morning.


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Pseudancistrus papariae is a species of catfish in the family Loricariidae. It is native to South America, where it occurs in Lake Papari and the Jaguaribe River basin in Brazil. The species reaches 15.3 cm (6 inches) SL.

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Owls disappointed with derby draw
Carlos Carvalhal said he was disappointed not to come away with all three points following the Owls' 1-1 draw against Barnsley at Oakwell.
Ex-Tykes striker Sam Winnall opened the scoring for Wednesday in the second half before Angus MacDonald levelled for the home side with an injury-time header.
Carvalhal said: "Today we came to win the game.
"In the first half, none of the goalkeepers had much to do, then we scored the goal.
"Barnsley didn't cause us any problems until the final five minutes, so it's disappointing that we didn't win.
"As I've said before, in the Championship, getting a second goal is very important but unfortunately we didn't do this.
"We were forced to make changes during the game with Sam Hutchinson coming off, this is never good as it means we can't make changes later in the game.
"They scored is from a free kick in injury time, these things happen in football.
"What we have to do is in our hands and we now look forward to Tuesday, where we will be fighting to win as always."


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You'll appreciate the fact that Quintana Roo's Kilo Race does not, in fact, weigh a kilo. QR's lightweight carbon frame delivers exhilarating acceleration, and the aero carbon fork means precision handling and a super-smooth ride. Comfort comes standard thanks to QR's tri-specific geometry, with a taller head tube that lets you produce more power in greater comfort. Add in the Profile Design aero bar extensions and you're in the perfect tuck for speed. Speed comes easy thanks to the lightning-quick carbon Reynolds Assault wheels and the crisp-shifting FSA/Shimano drivetrain with powerful brakes at the ready. You'll also love the host of quality parts from Quintana Roo, including their supportive Tri saddle and aero carbon seatpost.
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To go faster you need to cheat the wind or reduce weight; lucky for you, Quintana Roo does both with the PRsix Ultegra Race Triathlon/TT bike. This carbon rig blends extensive wind tunnel testing with real-world riding applications to give you a wind-cheating TT machine that's also one of the lightest frames in its class. Boat-tail tube shapes optimize airflow over the entire bike, and QR's Shift+ technology shepherds the wind to the less-turbulent non-drive side to further reduce drag. In addition to poring over every aerodynamic detail and keeping weight as low as possible, Quintana Roo set out to keep the bike extremely user-friendly. Their proprietary stem offers X/Y adjustability with precise, easy-to-use positions, and the Profile Design Aeria bar with T4+ extensions provides even more position optimization. Shimano's Ultegra drivetrain with an FSA crankset ensures smooth shifting, while slick Reynolds Strike carbon aero wheels save precious watts. Plus, travel is simple: two hex wrenches is all you need to go from bike case to T1-ready. That new PR is as good as yours!


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Intel puts GPU memory on Ivy Bridge
Silicon interposers and stacked memory, oh my
Dec 29, 2010 by Charlie Demerjian
INTEL'S SANDY BRIDGE is days away from launch, but the big news this week is the massive changes to the next generation Ivy Bridge. If Intel manages to get their drivers in order, it could destroy the entire low end GPU market.
OK, lets be realistic, Intel won't get their drivers in order, five years in they are still irrevocably broken, but Ivy Bridge will change the game on the hardware side. Ivy will give a massive speed boost to the GPU side of things through the most unlikely of places, chip packaging technology. The big secret for Ivy Bridge is a silicon interposer coupled with lots and lots of DRAM under the thermal cap.
How much memory? Rumors from the far east say that the high end SKUs might carry as much as 1GB of GPU memory on board, not very fast, but it will probably be hugely wide. The magic of this all is in the silicon interposer(SI), and stacked memory. When AMD finds out, they are going to be very scared, so don't tell them.
What is an SI, and what is stacked memory? Stacked memory is basically what it sounds like, take a bunch of memory dies and stack them one on top of each other. If you own a smartphone or a high capacity micro-SD card, you almost assuredly are the proud owner of at least one memory stack. The technology to make them isn't all that tricky, but powering them and cooling them is, which is why the technology is currently limited to low power devices.
"But Ivy Bridge is a 100W or so part, hardly low power" I hear you say. Yes, but the memory on it is going to be low power, and thus low speed, which is why it has to be very very wide. It is also why Intel is going the SI route instead of stacking the memory on the CPU like cell phones do.
A SI is basically a very simple chip, a slab of silicon ground very thin, and with a small number of metal layers, possibly only one. The idea is that if you put two chips on an MCM, the thinnest you can draw traces on the fiberglass or organic substrate is fat and bloated compared to those on a chip. That is fine with one die because the purpose of the substrate is basically to break out the pins so the motherboard or socket can be make cheaper, or in some cases made at all.
If you are connecting two chips with lots of external connections, like a combo CPU/GPU to a wide memory stack, and you still have to connect it to the outside world as well, pin counts explode. This in turn explodes the trace count that the substrate needs to route, and that means more layers.
More layers means more cost and a lot higher defect rate. Basically costs balloon enough so that it is uneconomical. This is the reason that all GPUs use external DRAMs and the GT200 was EOL'd so early, basically cost. You can do wide paths between chips, it just isn't worth it.
That is where the SI comes in, instead of drawing traces on a substrate scale, you draw them on a chip metal layer scale, something that can be an order of magnitude or more thinner. Then routing between adjacent chips becomes far less of an issue, and you can pack them together at much tighter pitches.
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Two separate stacks solves most of the heat dissipation problem, from a packaging standpoint anyway, and the interposer solves the MCM path problem. The only remaining calculation is, "Is the cost of the SI worth more than the cost of doing it the 'old way'?". For Intel, the answer on Ivy Bridge is yes.
From here however, things get a little hazier. How much memory? Our sources say that if the stacking tech works out, the high end SKUs could get up to 1GB of memory under the heat spreader. This will undoubtedly be confined to high end laptop SKUs, most won't get anything near that, if they get any at all. Stacking of the DRAM allows Intel to seriously differentiate between lines, in a way that is much more than the current bulls^h^h^h^h^h fluff, ehem, bull-fluff.
An iSomethingmeaningless would have no memory, an iSomethingmeaningless+2 would have 128MB, iSomethingmeaningless+4 could have 512MB, and finally the iSomethingmeaningless+4 XXXLOLBBQ edition might have 1GB. If the yields don't get to within acceptable ranges over the next 9-12 months, Intel could just forget about it entirely, and use the thermal budget of the DRAM for higher clocks. It's not like people would be surprised if that generation of GPU underperforms too.
What kind of memory will they use? All signs point to LPDDR2. Why use something that old and slow? Because it is the one type of memory available in stacks, there is no other choice. Intel could be defining their own standard, but checks with the memory makers seem to indicate that this is not in progress, much less low volume test runs. If they aren't running chips by now, it is too late for Ivy. There are other, definitely faster, specs wending their way through JEDEC, but they won't be here in time.
Remember when we said that a SI would allow for very wide memory busses? How wide will Ivy Bridge be? Sources again say that 512 bits are the likely candidate, again because there is a commercially available stack of LPDDR2 in that width. If it only runs at 1066MHz, that is still the equivalent to the bandwidth available for an AMD Radeon 5770. For an integrated part, 1GB of frame buffer at that speed is well into the overkill category.
In the end, Ivy Bridge will uncork the Intel GPU in a way that basically no one is expecting. The architecture may suck, the drivers may be broken, but bandwidth will not be a problem for a long time. If everything works out, Ivy Bridge will be a massively fast graphics chip, Krishna will be hard pressed to keep up. Intel is flexing their chip packaging muscles, and the payoff is going to shock people.S|A
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I am just the same, although our house is just a modest little 1915 fishing cottage. The stupidly low ceilings are the only thing that has kept me from decoing it to death!
I love elements of art deco — the clean lines and balance — but realize that I am not able to do vintage anything with success. Probably because I get anxious with too much colour and clutter in my living space. Very boring and I do so admire people who can pull it off.
Lovely post. There's something comforting about Art Deco as it often represents for our generation the safety of home, almost Enid Blytonish – I'm thinking of my grandparents' Deco club armchairs and little touches of chrome. If you haven't already visited it, I think you'd love the Musee des Annees Trente in Boulogne-Billancourt.
Hey, thanks for the kind words, most generous! Your Bounds Green friends sound like extremely good eggs. Whilst it (rightly) seems almost unthinkable to rip out pre-WW1 features when renovating a property, equivalents from an inter-war house appear to be virtually disposable in most peoples eyes. I can understand that a fiancé tiled fireplace, or fitted ply laundry cupboards aren't to everyone's taste, but they are integral parts to the building's identity. Renovate and refresh by all means, but don't gut it for gawds sake. Sorry, I'm preaching to the converted obviously, but it's good to vent ones frustrations once in a while!
I was an Art Deco nut, too, until I met Art Nouveau. I'm more about organic curves than crisp angles. Art Deco is so very glam (all those Astaire-Rogers movies!), which I would like to be but am so very not.
Nothing wrong with nouveau. But there is something so succinct (have I spelt that correctly) about deco – and often it is more functional than glam, as am I!


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New report: Public sector wage data undermines public sector union claims
June 20, 2018 New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Over the last 25 years, public sector incomes have grown much faster than the private sector, while public sector employees also enjoy a higher rate of sick leave costing taxpayers $173 million, according to Public Sector Wage Gap: The taxpayer-funded premium for working for the government, a new report we've released today.
If you work for the Government, you earn a third more on average, with taxpayers footing the bill.
This report seriously undermines the public sector unions' claim for 9-15 percent pay hikes for their members. It blows to bits claims the last Government did not pay bureaucrats enough.
The public sector pay gap nearly doubled since the 1990s. If anything, a wage freeze, not hikes, would be fairer.
Left wing activists and unions would have the public believe that the public sector has undergone nine years of neoliberal hell. But this shows that to be a lie.
Key findings of the report:
The gap in weekly earnings between the public and private sectors has grown since 1990, from 18.9% of private sector earnings to 34.6% in 2017. The gap peaked in 2010 at 38.4%. The premium is even higher for hourly earnings (as public sector employees, on average, work fewer hours).
If the Government had retained a public sector earnings premium of 20%, taxpayers would save $2.5 billion per year, or $1,445 per household in lower taxes or reduced Government debt.
The public sector took an average of 8.6 and 8.4 days of sick leave in 2016 and 2017, compared to the private sector average of 4.7 days per year.
If the public sector reduced its rates of sick leave to private sector levels, the taxpayers would save $173 million per year, or approximately $100 per household per year in lower taxes, or reduced Government debt.
Key recommendations:
The Government should set a goal of returning to a 20% public sector earnings premium by placing constraints on public sector wage growth and focusing on growing productivity.
If private sectors stagnate or decline (such as in a recession) the Government should be willing to cut public sector wages to match.
You can also download the report here.


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