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Due to the severe weather on Saturday the Pumpkin Regatta has been cancelled. See you next!!
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You may apply up to 3.75 hours total credits as needed. Training hours (also referred to as credits or CEUs) can only apply to one category. For example, if a course is approved for 6 NEC hours and 6 JTA hours, you may apply all 6 to the NEC, OR you can apply 2 to the NEC and 4 to the JTA.
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Chris Gayle scored a scintillating 79, as Kings XI Punjab defeated Rajasthan Royals by 14 runs at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur on Monday.
After being put into bat by Rajasthan skipper, Punjab started poorly as they lost Lokesh Rahul who was caught by wicket keeper Jos Buttler off Dhawal Kulkarni for four.
The pair of Gayle and Mayank Agarwal added 56 runs for the second wicket, before the latter fell to a brilliant catch at long off by Kulkarni off Krishnappa Gowtham .
The 39 year old Jamaican left handed batsman along with Sarfaraz Khan stitched together an 84 run stand for the third wicket, before the former was holed out at midwicket fence by Rahul Tripathi.
His knock comprised of eight boundaries and four sixes. The Universe Boss also became the fastest to score 4000 runs, in the Indian Premier League.
Sarfaraz’s brilliant cameo of 46 at the end, helped Kings XI Punjab post a challenging total of 185 in 20 overs.
Ben Stokes was Rajasthan Royals best bowler as he claimed 2/48, while Kulkarni and Gowtham bagged a wicket each.
Chasing a target of 186, the opening pair of Jos Buttler and skipper Ajinkya Rahane got Rajasthan off to a brisk start, as the duo added 78 runs for the first wicket, before the former was bowled up by his counterpart Ravichandran Ashwin for 27.
Buttler along with Sanju Samson batted sensibly as they added 30 runs, before the former became the first victim of Mankading by Ashwin in the history of IPL for 69 runs.
The dismissal of 28 year old Butler changed the complexion of the match, as Rajasthan Royals in quest for some quick runs lost Steve Smith, Samson, Ben Stokes and Rahul Tripathi cheaply, as the visitors were restricted to 170/9.
Sam Curran, Mujeeb Ur Rahman and Ankit Rajpoot bagged two wickets each, while Ravi Ashwin claimed a solitary wicket.
Kings XI next match would be at Eden Gardens against Kolkata Knight Riders on March 27, while Rajasthan Royals will be facing Sunrisers Hyderabad at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on Friday.
Chris Gayle was declared the Man of the Match.
The fifth match of the Indian Premier League would be featuring Delhi Capitals and Chennai Super Kings at Delhi on Tuesday.
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The Attleboro Farmers Market will be selling cornstalks and pumpkins this Saturday, October 6 with all the proceeds going to the Hebron Food Pantry. Get your decorations for the fall and help the food pantry stock up for the coming winter. Local artist Kim Bennett will be at the Market painting pumpkins and will have painted pumpkins available.
The Attleboro Health Department will be at the Market offering a public flu clinic this Saturday from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m. This clinic is open to any individual 3 years and older. Only Flu “shots” are available.
Individuals are requested to bring all insurance cards.
Individuals without insurance or whose insurance does not cover flu vaccine will still be able to receive their flu vaccine.
Any one receiving the flu vaccine for the first time will be asked to stay for observation for 10-15 minutes.
To help clinic staff, please wear loose clothing or short sleeves to provide easy access to your upper arm.
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This mantel is four inches thick with a six inch apron that has tile inlays. The wood was harvested from a storm damaged tree from Big Sur.
This mantel was made from the interior siding of this original room.
The bed has twelve drawers and an end storage cabinet.
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When Missouri families are forced to make the difficult decision of moving an elderly family member to a nursing home they are at least able to take comfort in the fact that the nursing home with provide safe and adequate care for the elderly family member - or so they think.
Unfortunately, countless elderly residents are injured while in the care of Missouri nursing homes - with the injuries often coming as a result of nursing home abuse or neglect. Fortunately, much can be done to not only spot nursing home abuse but also hold the abusers liable for their actions.
Some indicators of abuse are quite obvious, such as symmetrical bruises, broken bones or even signs of restraint such as marks on wrists. However, some types of abuse or neglect may not be as obvious until it is too late - as with the case of medication errors.
Unfortunately as many nursing homes become focused on their bottom line, it may become easy for them to begin "cutting corners" with training and staffing - which can quickly lead to nursing home residents getting the improper amounts or types of medication. For some residents who receive the wrong meds, they are lucky to escape with only minor injuries, but for many others, these medication errors can lead to severe injury or even death.
Missouri law does go a long way to protect residents of nursing homes, and in fact has a statute that requires certain employees to report known or suspected instances of abuse - such employees include long-term care facility administrators or employees, hospital or clinic personnel engaged in examination of the resident or any other person charged with the care of the nursing home resident.
Also, in an effort to encourage reporting, those who report the abuse are immune from civil or criminal liability - unless of course "such person acted negligently, recklessly, in bad faith or with malicious purpose."
Under Missouri law, nursing home abuse cases are not like other personal injury or med-mal cases - there are many specific statutes and regulations that govern the law surrounding nursing home abuse claims. This article by no means covers every legal aspect of nursing home abuse in Missouri as the laws are quite complex and difficult to navigate - and as such this article should not be taken as legal advice. The complexity of nursing home abuse laws in Missouri only furthers the need to contact an experienced nursing home abuse attorney if you believe you or a loved one has been the victim of abuse or neglect while in the care of a nursing home.
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The use of drones in cell tower inspection and maintenance is growing rapidly as operators recognize the benefits in terms of time, cost and safety. Whether for structural and electrical condition checks, bird and pest infestations, storm damage assessment, vegetation management, site documentation or leased equipment audits, UAV's provide visual evidence quickly and accurately.
We use one of our four Matrice M100's and a zoom-enabled, professional-grade camera to obtain the imagery our customers specify. Our pilots are all Part 107 licensed and highly skilled in flying the aircraft and getting the right shots. In many inspection jobs, we also use a Visual Observer to maintain a high degree of safety and quality. Watch our videos to see examples of cell tower missions we've flown.
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Batons of eggplant, tofu and asian greens cooked in a wok and tossed with a rich butter seaweed sauce with orange and ginger.
2. Place seaweed to soak in cold water. Peel and grate ginger. Zest and juice orange. Whisk together with 3/4 cup water and 1/2 tbsp flour (see notes).
3. Cut Asian greens and spring onions into 4cm lengths. Slice tofu and garlic. Cut eggplant into similar-sized batons. Keep separate.
4. Heat a large frypan or wok over medium high heat with 1 tbsp oil. Add eggplant to cook for 2-3 minutes, or until golden. Add remaining stir fry ingredients and cook, tossing, for 5 minutes. Remove and keep pan over heat.
5. Drain seaweed and squeeze out extra liquid. Chop and add to pan along with 40g butter and orange sauce. Simmer for 1 minute, until thickened. Return vegetables and toss until coated. Season to taste with pepper, soy sauce or tamari if desired.
6. Divide rice and stir fry between bowls. Slice red chilli and use to taste.
Corn flour or tapioca flour work well to thicken the sauce and are also gluten free.
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Cyber Safety is important to us and you.
How to contact Next Address.
In collecting and handling personal information, we are bound by the Privacy Act, including the Australian Privacy Principles ("APPs"), and applicable privacy regulations.
We recognise the importance of protecting personal information. We do not collect sensitive information as defined under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) ("Privacy Act"), such as racial or ethnicity information, political opinions or associations, criminal records or health information.
Next Address Pty Ltd may collect personal information about you including, but not limited to your name, address, phone number, email, gender, occupation, personal interests and any other information provided. For some services and products, Next Address Pty Ltd may also collect your personal information to enable verification of your identity, including information from your passport, driver's licence, and health care and concession cards.
If you are a shareholder of Next Address Pty Ltd, (or its service providers) we/they may collect information about your shareholdings, banking details and tax file numbers for payment of dividends and other amounts.
If you subscribe to alert services on the Next Address Pty Ltd Website, we may collect your name and email address.
We may also collect non-personal information about you including, but not limited to, data relating to your activities on the Next Address Pty Ltd Website (including IP addresses) via tracking technologies such as cookies, web beacons and measurement software or data relating to survey responses.
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Personal information submitted by Next Address Pty Ltd customers and visitors to the Next Address Pty Ltd website may be held on servers located in Australia or in the data centres of outsourced data processors with data centres in Australia, the United States of America, Europe and Asia. We transfer data outside of Australia to our service providers in order to obtain secure storage, back-up and data retrieval services. Next Address Pty Ltd has implemented policies and procedures to safeguard the secure storage and processing of data with its related companies and has verified the security arrangements of its outsourced data processors. When you provide us with your personal information you give us your consent to store your personal information outside of Australia for the purposes described above.
We will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to keep accurate and up to date, any information which we hold about you. If, at any time, you discover that information held about you is incorrect or you would like to review and confirm the accuracy of your personal information, please contact Next Address Pty Ltd direct.
NEXT ADDRESS PTY LTD is committed to providing its customers with a fair and responsible system for the handling of complaints.
If at any time you have any concerns, complaints or questions in relation to your privacy or the operation of NEXT ADDRESS PTY LTD please contact our office at contact@nextaddress.com.au so that we may resolve your concerns.
For more information about privacy issues in Australia and protecting your privacy, visit the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner's website.
We may combine our cookies, information collected through the cookies and web beacons on the Next Address Pty Ltd Website with other information (including information collected by third parties using their own cookies and web beacons) to provide better or more relevant services and advertising to you on the Next Address Pty Ltd Website. Our service providers and other third parties may do the same in order to provide more relevant services and advertising to you through other websites that you may visit.
Next Address Pty Ltd provides 'commercial credit' for the purposes of the Privacy Act to businesses (such as real estate agents, developers and business brokers) who apply for credit in relation to our services. We do not provide any consumer credit.
References to "you" and "your" in this credit reporting policy are references to individuals in relation to whom we hold credit information or credit eligibility information for the purposes of the Privacy Act in connection with such credit. This policy provides details about our management of such information.
"Credit information" relates mainly to your credit-related dealings with us and comprises various types of information that can be collected by credit reporting bodies ("CRBs") that report on consumer credit worthiness. We may collect or generate various categories of 'credit information' about you.
We may also collect "credit eligibility information" about you, which is mostly information provided by CRBs relating to your dealings with other credit providers (for example, financial institutions that provide you with loans or other businesses that provide you with credit in connection with their products or services).
We may collect credit information about you in any of the circumstances described above under the heading "How we collect your personal information" above. We collect credit eligibility information from CRBs but may collect it from other third parties where permitted by the Privacy Act (such as from other credit providers with your consent).
We store and safeguard your credit information and credit eligibility information in the manner described under the headings "Disclosure and storage of personal information outside Australia" and "Security" above.
We may disclose your credit information to CRBs. Those CRBs may then include that information in credit reporting information that they provide to other credit providers to assist them to assess your credit worthiness. For example, we may disclose to a CRB the type of commercial credit, and the amount of credit, sought in your application for credit with us. We may also use and disclose your credit information for other purposes and in other circumstances as described under the headings ""How we use your personal information"" and ""How we disclose your personal information"" above when permitted to do so by the Privacy Act.
In some cases, the people to whom we may disclose your credit information or credit eligibility information may be based outside Australia - see the heading "Disclosure and storage of personal information outside Australia" above for more details.
If at any time you would like to make a complaint about whether we have complied with Part IIIA of the Privacy Act or with the Credit Reporting Privacy Code please contact our office at contact@nextaddress.com.au so that we may resolve your concerns.
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In French, the word “cinq” means the number five, which already hints at the writing technique of this poem.
We can’t remember every single thing we do in our lives, but there are certain moments that stand out to us that we remember forever.
Poetry itself is a type of art, but did you know that you can create poetry to look like art, too?
Music is something that we are all exposed to and it touches each of us in different ways.
We use our poetry to write our own life stories, and not all chapters in those stories are serious.
Did you know that there are famous books (like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein) that are based on dreams?
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McGregor responds to Mayweather’s comments that there is no comparison between them and his description of McGregor as an ‘ant’.
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Do you remember the last time that you had a bad experience with your ages-old fax machine?
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Stand still, be calm, be centred and be strong. This is the message from Yoga and from Qi Gong - two systems designed to keep us calm and healthy throughout our lives. Both arts favour still, standing poses, to develop core strength, stability and peace.
Standing poses invoke the mood of the mountain - still, immovable and solid, whatever weather crashes over head or blows around it, it stands strong, tall and unchanged.
With many of us surrounded by a variety of noise and hustle and bustle throughout the day (and sometimes the night too) it’s important that we find the time to recharge and ground ourselves before our energy gets depleted by pure lack of true peace and rest.
This technique is also helpful in cases of anxiety and dissociation.
1. Bend your knees slightly and place your tongue on the roof of your mouth behind your top teeth. Focus on your feet and imagine them sinking down into the ground that supports them.
2. Place the fingertips of one hand beneath your lower lip and the heel of the other hand on your navel with the fingertips pointing down towards the ground (see arrow on diagram).
3. Hold your hands on the points for about 30 seconds, or 4 - 6 complete breaths. Then switch hands and repeat.
Breathing slowly and deeply encourages relaxation and further enhances the benefits of using this technique.
When you hold your hands in these positions they are contacting key points on the central vessel of the energy system. By simultaneously stimulating the beginning and end points of this meridian the brain is stimulated and mental fatigue is relieved.
This simple exercise is useful during breaks from repetitive tasks, when working in front of a computer, or after long spells of driving.
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Opening on the 15th November in the city’s Old Market Square, Nottingham Winter Wonderland boasts over 70 stalls, a real ice rink and a collection of children’s rides, proudly taking the title of largest Christmas market in the East Midlands. With live entertainment, table entertainment and plenty of delicious food and drink to try, it’s a great place to attend with the whole family. Sample some traditional pretzels or stollen, enjoy listening to the bands play over a mug of hot chocolate or pick up some delightful festive gifts.
Taking place between Friday 23rd and Sunday 25th November, at the Welbeck Estate, the Welbeck Winter Weekend is a crafting family’s paradise. A whole host of stalls featuring crafting goods, handmade wares and pottery painting opportunities will be available to view or take part in over the weekend. While shopping for yourself, you can drop by the 15 artists’ studios available to explore, showcasing some hard-working local artists and their handmade art. You’ve also got the chance to try some tasty food and drink from 30 artisan food stalls with delights including jams, meats and cheeses. Opening hours are 10am to 5pm all day through Friday and Saturday, closing at 4pm on Sunday, if you are looking for something fun to do with your kids to get you in the festive spirit, check out the Welbeck Winter Weekend.
Another crafty-orientated event taking place in the wonderful Victorian Riding Hall at Thoresby Park, Winterfest prides itself on only showcasing the very best of local handmade crafted items to sell over the weekend with plenty of excellent handmade goods to choose from. Shop at your leisure while enjoying delightfully sung carols from local choirs and music from lively brass bands or treat yourself to some of our free craft workshops available from local Thoresby Studio Artists. Santa himself will be attending Winterfest so bring the kids down for a chance to meet him after trying some of the great food stalls available in the courtyard!
Winterfest takes place over the same weekend as the Welbeck Winter Weekend, on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th of November so you could visit them both in the one weekend if you wanted to! Accommodation is available across Nottingham with the city centre boasting some of the best luxury hotels in Nottinghamshire, so why not treat yourself and the family to a night in comfort on your festive adventure.
On the night before Christmas, all through the house, everyone was gone! Singing along with the rest of Nottingham at the Christmas Eve Sing-Along being held at The Southbank Bar City, Friar Lane. Taking place between 1pm to 7pm and with eager requests for visitors to wear their Christmas jumpers with pride, the event is sure to leave your throats hoarse and faces all smiles as you sing along to live music from Urban Intro and others on the day.
This festive season start your celebrations off in style with some exciting Christmas-themed and crafty orientated events in the exciting city of Nottingham, with plenty of interesting sights to see and beautiful Christmas decorations throughout the city to admire. The city is sure to delight adults and children alike and put the Christmas spirit in even the grouchiest of Scrooges.
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» Powdered Milk Thistle is Milk Thistle reduced to a fine or very fine powder. It contains not less than 2.0% of silymarin, calculated as silybin (C25H22O10), on the dried basis.
Botanic characteristics The powder is characterized by fragments of colorless cells, up to approximately 75 µm in length and 8 µm in width, from the palisade layer of the epidermis of the fruit wall, with their adherent pigment layer (they assume a red color in chloral hydrate preparations), and by gray pieces, viewed from above, with the slitlike lumen produced by the pronounced wall thickening or the nodes on the cell wall formed by the thickened ridges; fragments of the pigment layer viewed from above, with red coloration diffusing out of them in chloral hydrate preparations, pigment cells alternating with colorless parenchymal cells; conspicuously stippled colorless cells through which pigment cells are visible when viewed from above; cigar-shaped or monoclinic calcium oxalate prisms, lying free or in groups of cells; numerous fragments of the lemon yellow palisade cells of the seed coat, up to roughly 150 µm in length, having a very narrow lumen and conspicuously stippled when viewed from above; pale yellowish fragments from the net cell layer together with portions of the embryo consisting of thin-walled cells with small glands and lipophilic substances.
Other requirements It meets the requirements in the tests for Identification, Foreign organic matter, Total ash, Pesticide residues, Loss on drying, Microbial enumeration, and Content of silymarin under Milk Thistle.
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One of Nike’s most notable silhouettes is back for another round. Just in time for the warm weather, the Nike Cortez returns in quality full grain leather. This simple colorway hosts a white-dominated upper contrasted by black detailing which can be seen on its Swoosh logo, midsole stripe and heel. This colorway of the Nike Cortez is currently available in-store only at KITH’s Manhattan and Brooklyn locations.
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Our 12 year old mini schnauzer was heartbroken over the loss of his sister dog and his health and appetite revealed his grief. He was diagnosed with CHF and Diabetes requiring insulin and decided to stop eating. We started trying different foods including boiling our own chicken but he was getting skinnnier and failing more every day. A friend asked if we tried fresh pet. He gobbled down the first bowl full and every one since!! He has gained weight and has his energy back again!! He’s back!! Thank you, you literally saved his life and have made us so happy!!
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To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 8 March 1884.
Sinks, radiant, high summer’s dazzling star.
With leaping, whirling step they sing a roundelay.
The sensitive mimosa shrink and pine.
Your noble beauty in its flame.
The wholesome scent of wheat.
Stands out against the softness of the corn.
Rises and falls on every side.
Blow on his rousing horn.
Now you get a little rebuke — which is — when I was with you this winter,5 you were against ‘enthusiasm’ — I mean, said something that Jaap Maris said, I don’t know what, about enthusiasm — which he, that is Jaap, didn’t exactly apply in his life, thank God — even though he may have said something of the sort relating to some special case or other — he having carried on painting in all circumstances. Then the birds simply shouldn’t sing and the painters not paint if they were supposed to think about whether they weren’t too passionate.
Now read Les Cigales — and — I’ll simply say nothing more.
And as I wandered, called back long-lost dreams.
The thirst of bindweed twined about their feet!
Just like a sickly tree that’s watered by the rain.
From the misty east, the first pink fleck.
Cast their golden leaves among the paler reeds.
Trembling as if shaken by a host of birds.
A furtive streak of emerald and fire.
Emerge, their brown feet sunk in the foam.
Flicker, the sky shimmers and lights up all as one.
Of the fruitful star, censed by the clouds.
Gravely, slowly, sets the sun.
The girls returning from the spring at noon.
By her proud bearing and tall shapeliness.
And what a pleasing sight it was, by Jove!
And soft blue petticoat flutt’ring in the wind.
Against her pale-skinned brow, her earthen amphora!
Strong, as if drenched by the exhalations of the sea.
Pass gravely by, without a backward glance.
Far from the silent sun that sets the fields on fire.
Their wings against their wild cymbals’ bronze.
That echoes down the darkness of the nights.
That dies of thirst in parched and sandy wastes.
Still drunkenly exulting as it sings.
It expires, singing, on the dried-out stem.
Traced lightly on the sleeping mirror’s face.
The humble ditch gleams brighter than a hoard.
Surround a crucible of pale and liquid gold.
And purple trees that seem to grow straight down.
And the low sun, flickering through the reeds.
And I glimpse something of the Maker’s work.
– blessing supreme – with an unstinting hand.
And I feel better – and I bless my fate.
On which there gleams a Christ, daubed all in pink.
The old Christ, faded, twisted out of shape.
Spreads wide aloft his arms, haloed in gold.
To him be incense, holy vows, and prayers.
The other, on the pebbly ground, naught but a piece of stone.
And yet what heart would not be moved!
The wall was broken, and Christ filled up the rift!
On his beloved feet, those the Magdalen bathed.
The bramble’s prickle with the granite spine?
Reveals the garden in its ideal form.
In evening’s rich and dusky tones.
Sleeping in the shade, becomes more fragrant still.
They harass us no more.
Outlines appear, Traced with a thread of gold.
Beside the scorched and withered grass.
The final struggle of the waning fire.
Float through a vast emptiness.
The day becoming one with night.
At evening, gathered round their lighted fires!
With their drooping heads, vermilion.
Making it writhe in a demented dance.
Tiring the watcher’s searching gaze.
Can only call it purple.
The cricket’s shrill and reedy song.
Tolling in silent village streets.
Makes his way home, his labour done.
With mist, and with the scent of wheat.
Turns him a deep and fiery bronze.
The soup is singing on the fire.
Set beside childhood’s gay springtime?
The wheat is heavy and the barley fair.
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, inv. nos. b8374 a-b V/2006 (sheets 1, 2); Paris, Fondation Custodia, inv. no. 1977-A-1715 (sheet 3); whereabouts of the greater part of sheet 4 unknown.
Letters 435, 437 and 439 to Van Rappard were probably all written in March 1884. There are no points of reference from which to date them exactly. The sequence is also problematic. Letter 435 stands alone in that there are no references to other letters. On the basis of the poems copied out in it and the remark in the first sentence that he was sending some of Breton’s poems ‘too’, however, we assume that it is a follow-up to the previous batch of poems sent on or about 2 March (letter 433). We therefore regard this letter as the first of the three.
The order of the other two letters is determined by what Van Gogh writes about sending his drawings to Van Rappard: in the first he says that he will send them, and in the second he thanks Van Rappard for his reply. Van Gogh must have received this reply by 20 March at the latest, because he told Theo about it on that date (letter 440). Since these three letters to Van Rappard cannot be dated more accurately, we have spaced them evenly through the period 3-19 March. We therefore date the present letter on or about Saturday, 8 March, letter 437 on or about Thursday, 13 March and letter 439 on or about Tuesday, 18 March 1884.
In De brieven 1990 five extra poems by Jules Breton were printed with this letter: ‘Le soir (à Louis Cabat)’ (Evening (for Louis Cabat)), ‘Les deux croix’ (The two crosses), (recto and verso of a half sheet in Paris, Fondation Custodia), as well as ‘Crépuscule (à Charles Daubigny)’ (Twilight (for Charles Daubigny)), ‘Dans la plaine’ (On the plain) and ‘Le retour des champs (à François Millet)’ (Returning from the fields (for François Millet)) (the last ones have only partly survived). These half sheets were once joined together, since the last – missing – verse of ‘Le soir’ was added in the space below ‘Le retour des champs’, as a photocopy of this sheet shows. We too assume that these fragments were originally part of the present letter. In 1957 L.H.M. Brom of Utrecht had this sheet in his possession and sent a photocopy of it to V.W. van Gogh. (Correspondence between L.H.M. Brom and V.W. van Gogh, April-September 1957, Van Gogh Museum, Documentation). Van Rappard was a leading member of the Kunstliefde association in Utrecht, where he became friends with the silversmith Jan Hendrik Brom; this Jan Brom, father of Leo, owned a study by Van Rappard, who also made his portrait. Brom probably acquired the sheet with the five poems through Van Rappard. Cf. exhib. cat. Amsterdam 1974, pp. 20, 85, 91.
The formulation ‘Here, too, are some of the poems by Jules Breton; if you don’t have them I’m sure they’ll really touch you’ (ll. 3-4) does not mean that he had sent poetry by Breton before (‘too’ must refer to the fact that he had previously sent poems by Coppée (letter 430)). As far as we know there are no missing letters from Van Gogh to Van Rappard in these two months. We see no grounds for placing the poems with a later letter.
In 1977 the Fondation Custodia in Paris bought half of this sheet from a French private collection through the bookseller André Jammes. The other half was cut up and only part has survived. In March 2001 a seller on eBay offered one verse (ll. 361-364) for sale.
Two fragments (l. 274-278 and – on the verso – part of l. 341, and l. 378-379) were auctioned on 31 March 1998 in The Collection of George Cosmatos. Sotheby’s London. London 1998, lot 450 (ill.).
Part of the sheet on squared paper (7.3 x 4.1 cm), with ‘à Charles Daubigny’ (l. 273) and ll. 318-321) on one side and ‘Le retour des champs’ (l. 340 and ll. 341-344) on the other was in Galerie St Etienne, 24 West 57th Street in New York in November 2002.
1. It is not certain which drawing and painting these were. If it was the small drawing Weaver (F 1124 / JH 456) (see letter 437, n. 1), it might be that Van Gogh is referring here to Weaver and a spinning wheel (F 29 / JH 471 ).
2. Van Rappard had previously been sent the sketch Parsonage garden (F 1133 / JH 485) after Parsonage garden (F 185 / JH 484), which Van Gogh might now have started to work on again.
It is more likely, though, that what he means here is that he has meanwhile made a new version of the garden, after which the letter sketch Garden (F - / JH -) was done. However, there is no known painting that corresponds with this.
5. Van Gogh had visited Van Rappard on 20 December 1883 (see letter 416).
6. The poem ‘L’Aube (à Corot)’, in: Breton 1875, pp. 39-40.
7. The poem ‘Automne (à Jules Dupré)’, in: Breton 1875, pp. 29-30.
8. The poem ‘Soleil couchant (à Emile Breton)’, in: Breton 1875, pp. 31-32.
9. The poem ‘Yvonne’, in: Breton 1875, pp. 33-34. With the dedication: ‘A André Lemoyne’ (To André Lemoyne). Van Gogh copied out the fourth verse of this poem on a separate sheet. See Pabst 1988, p. 87.
10. The poem ‘Les cigales’ in: Breton 1875, p. 16. With the dedication: ‘A Leconte de Lisle’ (To Leconte de Lisle). There are a few minor differences. Van Gogh spread this poem out over several pages of the letter.
11. The poem ‘Le soir – (à Louis Cabat)’ in: Breton 1875, pp. 45-47.
12. The poem ‘Les deux croix’ in: Breton 1875, pp. 131-133.
13. The poem ‘Crépuscule (à Charles Daubigny)’ in: Breton 1875, pp. 91-94.
ll. 337-338 ‘Prise de spasmes convulsifs’ (‘Seized by convulsive spasms’) was omitted.
l. 339 ‘Quand’ should be ‘Quant’ but there is a typographical error in the source text.
15. The poem ‘Le retour des champs (à François Millet)’, in: Breton 1875, pp. 51-53.
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Integration Services, Part 1 — Import and data processing in Firebird and InterBase.
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) — is a comfortable way for developing ETL processes. Integrations Services Projects are well integrated with other development tools of SQL Server 2005 — Analysis Services (SSAS) and Reporting Services (SSRS). Excel workbooks, text and XML files as well as databases with OLE DB Provider realization may be both data sources and data receivers. To work with Firebird и InterBase data в Integration Services you should use OLE DB Source and OLE DB Destination Components. Also you should install IBProvider Professional Edition (32/64 bit).
Let’s create as an example of SSIS package, in which the data about company’s clients and the sales reports from database coming as a part of Firebird distributive will be downloaded. Further we’ll make the simplest data converting and show the sales statistics, grouped according to countries, on screen.
SSIS package and Data Flow creation.
Run SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio and create the new Integration Services Project. Drag Data Flow Task Component to Control Flow Tab (Picture 3). The new data flow will be created. Further switch to Data Flow Tab and drag OLE DB Source from Toolbox. Picture 4. Then you should customize data source.
Full path to database file — correspond to connection string parameter Location.
Save password — let password saving in connection string text.
Enable Automatic transaction — correspond to connection string parameter auto_commit).
Set up the ticks Support ODBC Query correspond to connection string parameter support_odbc_query).
Put off the ticks Truncate Char — correspond to connection string parameter truncate_char).
And finally you have to set up new property support_square_delim_name = 1 of IBProvider on the last tab (Picture 10).
So the connection setup is finished. To be sure in the right way of settings you are to press Test Connection button.
Data import on the table basis. OLE DB Source.
Choose table with data (CUSTOMERS table).
Customize returned fields list, chosen table.
Data Import on SQL-query basis.
Query may be written manually or you may use Query Builder. To check syntax press Parse Query, Preview button shows query processing result.
FAQ: Set up MS SQL Server Business Intelligence (SSIS, SSRS, SSAS) for Firebird, InterBase [en].
FAQ: Set up Firebird/InterBase для работы с MS SQL Linked Server [en].
Connect to Firebird/InterBase from .Net.
ODBC Firebird driver, ODBC InterBase or OLE DB?.
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Publish date: 2008-02-18. Copyright: IBProvider. This material may be reproduced on other web sites, without written permission but link https://www.ibprovider.com/eng required.
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A couple of recent incidents have gotten me thinking about how norms of scientific criticism are changing. With one side effect being nasty fights.
Here’s the first incident (ht Retraction Watch). Computational biologist and blogger Lior Pachter has a series of posts strongly criticizing the network research of A.-L. Barabási, Manolis Kellis, and others. This is very prominent work, reported in a long string of papers in Nature and other top-tier journals. In particular, Pachter digs into one recent paper by Kellis and co-authors in great detail and argues that it’s “nonsense”. And he goes further and accuses Kellis and co-authors of misconduct: being intentionally-vague about their methods in order to get the paper into a leading journal and then trying to cover their tracks by “correcting” the paper post-publication. Pachter has taken to his blog because his correspondence with the authors left him unsatisfied and journals rejected the comments he submitted. A reply from Kellis is here, and a reply to the reply is here.
The second incident is the recent dust-up over some prominent papers on dinosaur growth rates. Nathan Myhrvold, a millionaire dinosaur hobbyist, has strongly criticized a series of papers by paleobiologist Gregory Erickson and colleagues for numerous omissions of methodological details that make it impossible for others to fully reproduce the data analyses. And also for various mistakes (including two different figures in which the fitted curve shown in the figure doesn’t come close to matching the equation provided in the figure legend). Myhrvold has described his concerns publicly and in great detail in a peer reviewed paper, and apparently has had private correspondence with Erickson. But he also took his criticisms to the New York Times, and in an interview with the Times said the errors in Erickson’s work were “consistent with scientific misconduct”. And while some of the co-authors of the criticized work have said that Myhrvold has identified some important issues, Erickson’s public response has been limited to noting that his papers were peer-reviewed.
I’m not qualified to judge the first dispute, and while I do feel I’m qualified to judge the second I don’t really want to get into that.* I just found both incidents to be striking signs of the times. Whatever the rights or wrongs of these two particular incidents, this kind of incident is going to become more common, I think. Because like Bob Dylan sang, the times they are a changin’. What follows are my admittedly anecdotal impressions and probably-rash generalizations. I’m tossing them out there in the hopes that others will chime in with their own impressions.
I’m actually not sure if more and more people feel this way, or if thanks to the internet people who feel this way are merely more visible and vocal than they used to be. Could be some of both. In any case, I do think times are changing, and that they’re going to keep doing so. So if you don’t like the way things are changing, well, for better or worse I think you’re going to end up on the wrong side of history in the long run.
We’re living through a culture clash, I think. People who feel more or less as described above certainly can give reasons for thinking that science would be better off if everyone felt the same. And conversely, people who don’t feel that way can give reasons for thinking that science will be better off if everyone felt as they do. And I actually think everyone’s reasons (including mine!) mostly are post hoc rationalizations. For instance, people who are used to scientific communication working a certain way would like it to continue working in that familiar way. And people who are used to other things working a certain way (e.g., they’re used to the informality and openness of social media) would like scientific communication to work in that familiar way. Put it this way: do you often see people arguing that scientific communication should change in a way that they personally would hate? And culture clashes are a recipe for arguments.
But having said that, just because people’s proffered reasons are post hoc rationalizations doesn’t mean they’re merely post hoc rationalizations. It’s by giving reasons that we can (sometimes) get others to understand where we’re coming from and appreciate our own point of view. Even if we don’t ultimately hold that point of view for rational reasons. And through trying to rationalize your point of view and thereby justify it to others with different preferences, you’ll often come to realize that you are rationalizing. Which is a useful thing to recognize. So if indeed there is a culture clash here, I don’t think that means there’s no hope for mutual understanding or compromise.
I think the bar always gets raised rather than lowered in science. Our standards for everything go up over time, and that’s good. Right now, the bar is getting raised on the detail and completeness with which authors are expected to report their methods. I think that can only be good for science.
And I think it’s a good thing on balance if people have less ability these days to dismiss criticisms on the basis of the critic’s credentials or the venue in which the criticisms were published, or any other basis besides the substantive content of the criticism itself. Science is supposed to be all about logic and evidence. Logic and evidence don’t care what credentials you have, or the venue in which they’re published, or etc.
On the other hand, I do think we need some professional norms or other about post-publication review. Because otherwise post-publication review isn’t going to work well. Pre-publication review works because everybody agrees to participate voluntarily. It’s part of what you’re signing up for when you choose to do science. But while at some level everyone’s aware that once they publish something others are free to read and react to it as they see fit, lots of people don’t feel like they signed up for post-publication “review”, at least not in all its forms. I mean, do you feel like being accused of serious mistakes and possible misconduct in the New York Times just “comes with the territory”?
Pre-publication review also works because it’s a system with formal and informal rules, not a free-for-all. For instance, it’s private, which saves people from the embarrassment of having their mistakes pointed out publicly, thereby encouraging them to participate. And there’s an editor involved, which helps ensure (though of course doesn’t guarantee) that referees and authors address each other professionally, and obliges authors to respond point-by-point to referees rather than just ignoring them or whatever. The fact that it’s a system with rules is a big part of what encourages people to participate voluntarily. People know what they’re signing up for.
Which is why I don’t think you can just tell people to “have a thick skin” or “don’t take it personally” when it comes to post-publication review. As this very good piece about another recent post-publication review dust-up points out, post-publication review these days seems to slip quite easily into personal criticism of the author. Which isn’t something you should be expected to “have a thick skin” about. Nobody should be expected to “have a thick skin” about implications or accusations that they’re incompetent or unethical. And further, sufficiently-strong criticism of someone’s work is awfully hard to distinguish from an attack on their competence or integrity, whether or not you preface it by saying “Don’t take what I’m about to say personally” (again, see the very good piece I just linked to).**** Further still, just as authors sometimes make mistakes, sometimes because they’re incompetent or unethical, so do critics. It seems like advocates for “anything goes” in post-publication review presume that critics are always right. They’re not. So what’s needed isn’t for everyone to have a thick skin. A thick skin is what you need to survive perceived or actual attacks. What’s needed are new norms and practices that everyone buys into.***** So that, as far as reasonably possible, people don’t get attacked and don’t feel they’ve been attacked, and so don’t need to have thick skins.****** For instance, in the post linked above, Andrew Gelman offers some suggestions on changes to how journals publish criticisms. In the absence of widely-accepted norms and practices, effectively critiquing the published literature is a really tricky thing to do.******* This isn’t (just) about sparing people’s feelings or protecting their reputations–it’s about creating a post-publication review system that actually works. That actually does effectively correct the scientific record, and that is seen by all to do so.
I don’t have any answers here–I don’t know what the new norms and practices will be, or should be. And I don’t know how to create a set of norms and practices that everyone would buy into and happily participate in. Attempts to codify rules of good commenting behavior on the internet are infamous failures. So we may have no alternative but just to let things sort themselves out through some sort of quasi-evolutionary process. But until we have wide agreement on new norms and practices, expect more dust-ups like the two described above.
*For the record, I’ve read Myhrvold’s paper carefully, and I feel like I’m competent to judge it because his concerns all relate to data processing and statistical analysis. Assuming that he’s truthfully described what he did (and he does seem to have described it in sufficient detail for anyone to reproduce it), then I think he has indeed identified some mistakes that really ought to be corrected. And while the mistakes may not alter the broadest qualitative conclusion (“dinosaurs grew fast”), the quantitative changes seem big enough to me to be more than trivial. As for the various methodological omissions he’s identified, I suspect that this is an example of changing reporting standards. The work was originally reported in enough detail to satisfy the referees that it was done competently. But like an increasing number of readers, Myhrvold wants to see methods reported in sufficient detail so that others can exactly reproduce all of the results without any need to contact the authors.
**E. D. Deming supposedly said “In God we trust; all others must bring data.” That’s never been more true and it’s going to get truer.
***Although there’s an irony, noted by a commenter on Pachter’s blog, that people who feel comfortable expressing even minor criticisms in strong language sometimes also complain about authors overhyping their results. Leaving one wondering why it’s not ok to hype results, but is ok to hype criticisms of those results.
****I’m probably one of the guilty parties here. Probably one mistake I’ve made at times in the past has been phrasing criticisms of people’s ideas so forcefully that it sounds like I question the competence of anyone who disagrees with me. Even though I’m usually careful to say that I’m not questioning anyone’s competence.
*****Some would disagree. For instance, the comments on that piece I just linked to include the view that not only will scientific debates get personal sometimes, but that they should get personal. I don’t buy that at all. But the fact that that view is even out there is another sign of the times.
******A bit of a thick skin is always going to be needed, no matter what our norms and practices are. Some people find pre-publication review quite hard to take. Which is a feeling they have to learn to get over, since pre-publication review is standard practice.
*******”Effectively” is a key word here. If you want your post-publication critique to actually convince people rather than falling on mostly-deaf ears, you can’t just voice it however you want and then write off anyone who doesn’t like your tone as a wimp. If you want to be convincing, you have to write for the audience you have, not the audience you wish you had. See this old exchange of comments.
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I more or less agree with you here. Post-pub review is probably good on the whole, and some form certainly inevitable. My concern is the same with all of these “let’s change how science is done” proposals. The proposed new system is going to have cracks, just like the old one. Even if it is an improvement overall. Better to try to address those things now than wait for down the road.
With regard to PPR there clearly need to be some guidelines about what is fair game and what is not (at least without serious evidence). Accusations of unethical behavior need to have a high standard. Other changing standards, such as publishing data, should help with this.
I agree 100%. But unfortunately, if you try to say something like this to a “true believer” in some new way of doing things, you get tarred as a “concern troll”.
One of the things that I think you at least alluded to, but is occasionally ignored, is that there will almost certainly be differential post-publication review. It takes a lot to step up and take Big Name Person on, even in private peer review, where much less concern is given to eviscerating someone with much less standing in the field. As this also gets entangled with issues of diversity, I think the “Come what may, grow a thick skin” crowd may be somewhat idealistic in terms of the outcomes of that kind of post-publication review.
That’s a good point, and yes, it’s something I’ve alluded too but probably should’ve emphasized more. Post-publication review is highly differential. In all sorts of ways. For instance (and this is just one example), it’s mostly high-profile papers that get subject to close post-publication scrutiny. So while it does take courage to take on a Big Name Person, I think that effect is outweighed by the “people mostly only notice and critique high profile papers” effect. For instance, both of the examples in the post concern critiques of high profile work by famous authors. But your broad point is one I very much agree with. Another key feature of pre-publication review is that everyone, and every paper, has to go through it. Not so with post-publication “review”.
all great points. I’d be hesitant to accuse someone of misconduct or fraud for something like post-hoc rationalization of a method (even the hidden, “arbitrary” changing of model parameters) that gives a desired result. I think our brains do this quickly, effortlessly, and not entirely consciously unless we are very on-guard. This is why I think the post-publication reviews are valuable because they will make all of us stay much more on guard and more honest with ourselves.
The problem with PPR is that it opens a lot of space for some people who just want to “make a name” by attacking silverbacks. In fact, PPR is already there, grows stronger each day with the help of social networks, and is not going away. The question is how to tame PPR and make it more civilized, in order to help us point and correct mistakes without attacking reputations lightly. Peer-review has much to do with a law trial: in order to acuse someone, people need to collect evidence, make a strong case and go through the official channels. PPR on Facebook is like a witch trial on the street.
The analogy to a legal trial is one I thought about making in the post, but didn’t. It’s a very useful analogy here, I think.
Which isn’t the same as saying nobody should ever accuse somebody else of misconduct. It’s just to say that accusations of misconduct should be handled differently. How accusations of misconduct should be handled isn’t an easy question, of course.
One could make a similar argument about incompetence. If the goal is to correct the scientific record, there’s never any reason to state or imply that anyone is incompetent. Although at least there the stakes are usually (not always) lower.
I don’t actually agree that nobody should *ever*, under *any* circumstances, publicly accuse a fellow scientist of misconduct or incompetence, outside of some “official” channel. But I don’t think it would be a terrible norm to follow, either.
Of course, all this is kind of like wishing for a free pony, given that nobody has any idea how to tame PPR and make it civilized!
Agreed. Unfortunately, social networking will surely make PPR much more poisonous in the coming years. But maybe one day the scientific community will find a middle way. It’s always like that with human behavior: exaggeration to one side (no PPR at all), then exaggeration to the other side (ferocious PPR), and finally a little balance (well-tought pre- and pos-PR through official and non-official channels). I tend to be optimistic anyway.
Jeremy, very interesting post that raises some good questions. I largely agree with your take on the situation (such discussions are valuable but should be civil) but I’m unconvinced about the “changing times” part. You mention that people “Are increasingly disinclined to care about voicing post-publication criticisms through the “proper” channel”, but it sounds like the critics in both examples tried that first unsuccessfully?
You also raise a good question about whether the bar for reproducibility is going up. Of course it is difficult to generalize about such things, but I’m inclined to see this rather as a time-lag than a change in scientific norms. Most really classical literature I’ve read has been perfectly reproducible (though filtered by the test of time, I know!), but it’s also been simple. Methods today have simply outgrown what we can easily capture in a nice methods paragraph the typical article or supplementary material, and it is only now that we’re getting the infrastructure to share these really big complicated processes more precisely.
I’m sure scientists have been uncivil in the past and have expressed themselves in the communication media of the times before. Do you feel these examples reflect changes in scientific norms and processes, or do you think we would be able to read disagreements much like these if our predecessors of 50, 100, 200 years ago had blogs?
Yes, both critics in the incidents I mentioned did try to go through traditional peer review, and in Myhrvold’s case succeeded. I guess the question I’m asking is about what’s appropriate when one doesn’t get satisfaction through that route. It’s not clear to me that the appropriate answer is always “just publish your criticisms in some public, non-peer-reviewed place”. At least not if your criticisms include accusations of misconduct or incompetence.
Good point re: some of today’s methods having outgrown what could be easily encapsulated in traditional methods sections.
Good question re: levels of civility now vs. in the past. Were past scientists less inclined to voice strong, public criticisms of their peers? Or maybe such criticisms were voiced just as often back in the day, but merely less widely noticed? Or maybe there’s actually no real difference at all between today and the past, it’s just that we’ve forgotten all the many highly-visible incidents of public incivility in the past? I don’t know the answer, though I do think there is an increasing tendency today for people to say in public what they might’ve previously only said in face-to-face conversations or private correspondence.
As for the last point (past vs. present), it seems obvious to me that past criticisms must have had a much more limited scope and resulted in less public exposture. There were fewer scientists, communicating in more closed circles (scientific journals were not easy to obtain), no direct “publishing” (as e.g. blogs) and newspapers/magazines had narrower circulation. Also, there was no possibility to do direct searches on the scientific record along with comments to research results (e.g. google). This means that criticism would mostly spread to those in the field (and probably with lower penetration). The current situation allows for researches to lose face on an unprecedented scale, and possibly to be unjustly attacked with the whole world as your audience (well, maybe all of them won’t be interested…). However, this is only me speculating, and it would be interesting to hear comments from researches with experience from e.g. the 60-80s.
I’m sure that researches were uncivil and voiced criticism (justified and unjustified) just as strongly in the past as well, but maybe the negative consequences became evident in other ways. Since the number of working scientists within a field was much smaller, I can imagine that cronyism and disfavouring through direct intervention as a result of disagreements (coming from senior scientists) could have a larger influence than today (which is not to say that those factors are unimportant now). However, I seems plausible that e.g. “Darwin’s bulldog” would have blogged if he had the means to. Come to think of it, historical disagreements over evolution would probably be a good way to study the civility of public scientific criticism of the past.
Thomas Henry Huxley would *totally* have had a blog! 🙂 Though I doubt he’d have limited himself to that. He and his buddies started their own journal (Nature) to promote their ideas, no reason why he couldn’t do the same today.
Which gives me a good idea for a fun, silly post: Which past scientists would’ve made the best bloggers?
Pretty interesting piece! I am relatively new to social media. I tend to like what I am seeing, but I feel it is tricky. With the ‘social’ component also comes the ‘political’ aspect where the publicity an idea gathers becomes more powerful than its actual soundness.
I am mostly worried about papers that do not get the attention needed to detect flaws. Should these papers be published in the first place? Two reviewers and a single editor usually improve the quality of a paper (at least in my limited experience), but is probably not enough to protect against important flaws. Should we put papers in a pre-print purgatory to see if they recruit enough ‘scrutiny’. I feel this could limit the strategy of creating new terminology and hot topics like we create hashtags, and prioritize the work a community needs to review in order to move forward.
You may have a point for the growing number of papers published in the growing number of new, low-profile journals. But for higher-profile journals I think pre-publication peer review catches flaws pretty well, and isn’t getting any worse at doing so. Just my own impression.
Wanted to pass on a good point from a conversation with a colleague. My post implicitly assumes that people doing PPR only care about what’s written in the papers they’re critiquing. So while they might be quick to infer incompetence or scientific misconduct from what they’ve read, they won’t, say, attack the author because of her gender or race or sexual orientation or etc. Which isn’t always a valid assumption, and is perhaps less likely to be valid for research on certain topics. Just as researchers shouldn’t be expected to have a thick skin about attacks on their competence or professional integrity, they shouldn’t be expected to have a thick skin about misogyny or racism or etc. Another feature of pre-publication review, which post-publication review lacks, is that the norms and practices of pre-publication review are pretty effective at preventing things like misogyny and racism.
Very nice post Jeremy, and again many good comments. I much appreciate folks’ thoughts on this subject because we are involved in ongoing debates and I expect my collaborators and I will be getting into some additional ones in the near future. it is indeed challenging to get the tone right. As you and the others commenting have emphasized, the key lines to avoid going over are the accusations of general incompetence or deceitful behavior. When I review proposals I make sure to criticize the proposal, not the investigator. I suppose that is a good approach when involved in debates – to criticize the paper or critique, not the investigator. Not sure I have been as good as I should be in that regard and your comment reminds me to avoid personalizing the exchanges as much as possible.
I would call this a sort of post-publication review, not just of the Moles paper but of several others mentioned in the comments. But other than Jordano’s response, I don’t see this as an example of “mutual criticism and vigorous debate.” Seems like you would have to talk to or notify the authors of criticized papers in order for it to become a debate rather than a self-congratulatory trash-talking session. What do you think? How do you square those two posts? Thanks for your thoughts.
Thanks for your comment CAB. That’s a very fair question. And in passing you’ve raised (or I least I think you’re raising) a number of related issues.
In part, you’ve noticed that my own views have changed a bit over time. By that I mean both my views on how to effectively do post-publication review, and my views on what sort of blog I want Dynamic Ecology to be. My views on both are still in flux, too.
Having said that, I don’t know that my views have radically shifted. In the post you referred to, I discussed in a positive way two peer-reviewed papers by Angela Moles, and tried to link those papers to broader issues that I often discuss. So in this particular case, I’m not sure why you think I should have notified the authors of other papers and invited them to comment. And while the comments do mention other specific papers, the discussion is all about contrasting peer-reviewed papers by Angela Moles, and peer-reviewed papers by other people. So the discussion is about a debate within the peer-reviewed literature. A debate in which I do take a side. Various other discussions on this blog over the years have been similar. For instance, in my zombie ideas posts, I’m not actually making any original criticisms of (certain versions of) the intermediate disturbance hypothesis. Rather, what I’m doing is calling attention to, and indicating my agreement with, criticisms that are already in the peer-reviewed literature.
In contrast, when I think of ‘post-publication review’, I think of cases like those highlighted in the post, which are very focused on detailed technical critique of specific papers, to the exclusion of larger issues.
If we were ever to do post-publication review of a specific paper (and I emphasize that we have no future plans to do that), we probably would notify the authors and invite them to reply. That’s actually something I’ve changed my mind about recently. Previously I probably wouldn’t have bothered to do that, so that’s a point on which my views have shifted. But because I don’t see posts like the one highlighting Angela Moles’ papers as representing post-publication review of specific papers, I don’t see any need to invite specific people to comment. We of course welcome any and all comments we get, as long as they’re productive. But it’s not feasible for us to err on the side of caution and invite comments from anyone and everyone who works on a topic mentioned in one of our posts. I’d actually LOVE it if we got lots more comments from lots more people, including people who’ve published on the issues we discuss. Many of our best comment threads have involved back-and-forth between people who are experts on the issue under discussion (see below for links to some examples). Believe me, I do NOT want this blog to just become a place where the only comments come from people who agree with the posts! But in order for debate to happen in the comments, I think it’s just going to have to happen “naturally”, rather than by us trying to invite lots of comments from specific individuals who might disagree with the posts. Plus, if we started inviting lots of comments, we’d risk giving the mistaken impression that we only welcome comments from select people, and we definitely don’t want to give that impression.
One thing we have done occasionally, and that we may try again in future, is inviting guest posts (as opposed to comments) from folks who want to express a dissenting point of view. For instance, I did this with Doug Sheil and David Burslem, in order to continue a conversation that began in the peer-reviewed literature: https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/a-thumbs-up-for-the-intermediate-disturbance-hypothesis-guest-post/. I think we’d only do this to further debate on general issues though, not to debate the merits of specific papers. Unfortunately, in our experience it’s very hard to get people to write guest posts, on anything. Over the years, we’ve invited lots of guest posts, and most people we’ve invited have eagerly agreed to write them–and then not followed through, despite prodding from us. People are busy, and not many people are actually prepared to allocate time to writing a guest post, even for a blog with a pretty big audience such as we have. I’m guessing this is something you’d like to see us do more of?
I get the sense that you’re also uncomfortable with the tone of some of our posts or comments? If so, all I can say is that that’s something I do worry about. My natural way of writing and speaking is forceful, I have a snarky sense of humor, and I try to write in a breezy style I hope readers will enjoy. Obviously, writing in that way runs the risk of putting off some people. Indeed, I know from comments, private correspondence, and a reader survey we did that there are some people who find my tone to be really off-putting and even offensive. But I also get an awful lot of positive feedback on the way I write. It’s impossible to please everyone, so I just try to strike an appropriate balance as best I can, and apologize when I get it wrong. I’m well aware that anyone can read anything I write on this blog, and that I have to be prepared to live with the consequences of that.
You describe my post on Angela Moles’ work as “one sided”. I’m a little unclear what you mean by that. Yes, my comments on Angela’s work were “one sided” in the sense that I agree with her views, and that I didn’t go out of my way to highlight or cite the views of those who disagree. But this is a blog, not a newspaper. It’s a place where I and my fellow bloggers express our own opinions and discuss them with anyone who’s interested. I don’t think I’m under any obligation to never “take sides”, or to otherwise ensure that all sides in any debate are included in a post. Were you suggesting that I should? (honest question) In saying that, I freely recognize that this blog is not what some readers are looking for. I’m sure some ecologists see no value, or perhaps even negative value, in opinion pieces, especially those that haven’t been through peer review. Which is absolutely fair enough; anyone who feels that way is perfectly entitled to their opinion. And it’s a defensible opinion, even though I don’t personally agree with it. But anyone who feels that way shouldn’t read this blog.
In conclusion, just wanted to say thanks again for asking a very fair question. Brian, Meg, and I want Dynamic Ecology to set a good example and become the go-to place for vigorous professional discussion of issues ecologists care about. I think we’re doing a pretty good job of that, but the only way we can keep improving is via this sort of feedback.
Thank you for the response! I definitely don’t think that your blog suppresses dissent. I’m personally uncomfortable with wading into the discussion and critiquing papers in any form of “post-publication review.” I agree with you that “we need some professional norms or other about post-publication review. Because otherwise post-publication review isn’t going to work well.” I would like to be involved in the debate over papers sometimes, but simply don’t feel comfortable doing it in this setting. That’s no fault of the blog, it’s my own preference.
Response: Hmm, perhaps I would like to suggest something kind of like that. I called that particular post one-sided because hypotheses/arguments/evidence against your opinion are not even refuted. They don’t even seem to exist. Whatever they are, they are simply wrong, you say, because of these two papers. In a post like this you cover the other sides and refute them, so even though you certainly take a side, it’s a well-rounded discussion that comparatively makes the Moles post seem rather “one-sided.” If this type of one-sidedness doesn’t trouble you, then you’re right, I simply shouldn’t read the blog because it’ll irritate me too much when hypotheses that I happen to like for good scientific reasons (and that are very difficult to test) are branded as zombies because of a couple of refuting papers, without a well-rounded discussion of the arguments and evidence.
You’re absolutely right that there is a contrast between my own zombie ideas posts on the IDH, and my post on Angela Moles’ work. In the former case I spelled out detailed arguments, in the latter case I merely called readers’ attention to someone else’s arguments that I personally had found convincing. So although both posts are about “zombie ideas”, I do see them as two quite different sorts of posts, each of which has its place in my view. From the sound of it, it sounds like you much prefer the former sort of post to the latter sort of post, which is absolutely fair enough. Honestly, I prefer the former sort myself–they provide more “added value” than if I merely call attention to and briefly comment on peer-reviewed papers I liked. But none of the bloggers here have the time to write the former sort of “meaty” post all the time (though we wish we did!) And so we fill in the space with less-meaty posts that raise issues we think are worth talking about.
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Under pressure from patient advocates and faced with the likelihood that Alzheimer's patients will be prevalent among their enrollees, Medicare HMOs are developing special programs to care for people with the disease.
"We have a quarter of a million people over age 65 who are enrolled in Kaiser plans in Southern California alone," said Richard D. Della Penna, M.D., eldercare coordinator for Kaiser Permanente's Southern California region. "Judging by the statistics, thousands of those people are in different stages of Alzheimer's. We saw the need to develop more continuity of care and take a proactive stance."
Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser is one of three managed-care organizations that have partnered with the Chicago-based Alzheimer's Association to launch pilot programs targeting the needs of Alzheimer's patients.
In addition to Kaiser, United HealthCare of Ohio in Columbus and U.S. Healthcare in Blue Bell, Pa., are setting up demonstration projects.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations in Arizona, Connecticut and Wisconsin also have expressed interest in developing programs, according to the Alzheimer's Association.
The demonstration projects will focus on filling the dearth of data on Alzheimer's patients covered by managed-care plans. They also will be used to develop models of care for Alzheimer's patients and to determine if the costs of caring for such patients can be spread more evenly.
$80 billion to $100 billion a year on costs related to Alzheimer's, making it the third most expensive disease in the country, after heart disease and cancer. Seven out of 10 Alzheimer's patients live at home, while the other three are cared for in a nursing home, an assisted-living facility or another institution such as a psychiatric hospital, according to the Alzheimer's Association.
The National Institute on Aging funded one of the most recent studies to break down the costs. The study found that in 1990 the average annual costs for professional home care for Alzheimer's patients in Northern California was $12,572. Some 63% of these costs were paid out-of-pocket, according to the study. The Department of Veterans Affairs, private foundations, and state, county and local governments chipped in 22%, while Medicare covered 12% of the costs. Private insurance picked up 2% and Medicaid and HMOs each paid for less than 1%.
For those cared for in an institution, the study found the average annual cost for Alzheimer's patients in Northern California was $42,049. About 60% of these costs also were paid out-of-pocket, the study noted. Another 31% were covered by Medicaid, while Medicare covered only 3%. Private insurance, HMOs and other public sources combined accounted for 6%.
Wendy Max, an associate professor of medical economics at the University of California's Institute for Health and Aging in San Francisco and an author of the study, noted that the average annual costs of home care match those of an institution when the free help from family and friends is considered.
"We're shifting the burden of the costs to the families," she said. She explained that the public sector covers so little of the costs because "there are huge gaps in long-term-care coverage." She noted Medicare only covers long-term care for about a month and only following a hospital stay. Home care also is covered in limited circumstances. For Medicaid to kick in, the patient must "spend down to the eligibility level," she said, leaving many people in the middle without coverage.
Not surprisingly, Alzheimer's patient advocates would like to see Medicare HMOs pick up more of these costs by including services such as home care, adult day care, respite care and rehabilitation in their covered benefit packages.
However, Medicare HMOs and other insurers are not required to provide services that go beyond the limited Medicare benefits.
"Home care and adult day care are not benefited services, given the Medicare reimbursement structure, so we wouldn't provide those," said Della Penna of Kaiser.
Under a Medicare risk plan, the contractor receives a set amount from HCFA to pay for the care of a Medicare beneficiary. The plan puts itself at risk under the arrangement because it must absorb the cost of any services that go beyond the basic package.
Teresa Fama, deputy director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's chronic-care initiatives in HMOs, argued Medicare HMOs may have more to gain than lose from covering additional services. She explained that they could help prevent a high-cost emergency room visit or an inpatient hospital stay, both of which typically are absorbed by a plan.
"What Medicare provides is a floor," she said. "Medicare doesn't prevent (HMOs) from providing services such as respite care that could end up reducing the cost of covered services. Saying `Medicare doesn't pay for it so why should we?' is a shortsighted view."
As HMOs move more aggressively into the seniors market, they are running headlong into such dilemmas.
Alzheimer's is the 11th leading cause of death among Americans 65 and older, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. There is no known cure or prevention for the chronic disease of the brain, which eventually impairs memory, thinking and behavior to such an extent that the body's automatic systems shut down and death results from a variety of complications.
Most of the 4 million Americans afflicted with Alzheimer's are in the seniors age group targeted by Medicare HMOs. Some 10% of Americans 65 or older have Alzheimer's, according to the Alzheimer's Association. The numbers increase with age. Some 50% of those 85 or older have the disease. The association estimates that by the middle of the next century as many as 14 million Americans will have Alzheimer's.
At the same time, the number of older Americans joining managed-care plans is destined to increase, as the federal government continues to steer seniors into health plans in an attempt to bring down national healthcare costs.
Currently, about 10%, or 3.8 million, of the 37 million Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in Medicare risk plans, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. That's up from 1.1 million Medicare risk enrollees in 1990 and only 309,000 in 1985, according to the foundation. And a report prepared by InterStudy, a managed-care research firm based in Excelsior, Minn., predicts that by 2000 as many as 12.6 million will be enrolled in Medicare HMOs.
Increased scrutiny from Alzheimer's patient advocates has come with the new territory.
Earlier this year, the Senate's Special Committee on Aging conducted a hearing on the effects of managed care on Alzheimer's patients.
Witnesses expressed concerns that managed-care organizations discourage the referral of Alzheimer's patients to geriatric specialists. They further cautioned that some managed-care companies don't provide access to a full range of services and warned that the healthcare market doesn't offer incentives for plans to develop programs that might attract patients with long-term, costly illnesses.
Alzheimer's patient advocates also have complained that Medicare HMOs lack standardized clinical protocols for identifying and treating Alzheimer's patients.
"If managed-care organizations don't have protocols for Alzheimer's patients, then people with Alzheimer's should stay in fee-for-service for as long as they can," said Katie Maslow, director of the Alzheimer's Association's initiative on managed care.
Patient advocates also would like to see information on the number of Medicare HMO enrollees with Alzheimer's, the type of services they receive and the costs of their care.
"The association is worried about managed care and what it will mean for people with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia," Maslow said. "We're not sure they're receiving poor care in general, but since they don't have any data on their enrollees with dementia we can't say that managed care is any better or worse than fee-for-service."
The demonstration projects are designed to address most of these concerns. But while the projects share similar clinical goals of improving and coordinating care for Alzheimer's patients, they take different approaches to the issue of cost.
Della Penna said Kaiser's effort should roll out in early 1997 and will affect enrollees who use its Los Angeles and West Los Angeles medical centers. He said the focus will be on identifying Alzheimer's patients and aligning them with social workers who serve as their care coordinators.
The care coordinators will help patients navigate the clinical system and monitor their condition through regular check-up calls. They also will direct patients to resources in the community that offer home care, respite care and other specialized services found outside the plan.
Additional costs under this scenario, he explained, would be related to the salaries and benefits of the new case workers rather than to additional covered benefits.
Meanwhile, Helen-Ann Comstock, executive director of the Alzheimer's Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania, said U.S. Healthcare and the association began the planning process for their program earlier this month and likely will target enrollees in the Philadelphia area in the middle of next year.
Comstock said the organizations will be determining whether the HMO can underwrite the costs of providing enrollees with educational materials on Alzheimer's as well as the costs of training family caregivers.
While such services could be included in the basic benefits package, Comstock explained, others such as respite care and home care could be provided for an additional fee. "Everyone is anxious to come away with something that will provide a better service to the families but still be affordable," she said.
The Columbus, Ohio, project experiments the most with including Alzheimer's-specific services in its basic covered benefits package.
Patricia Carroll, United HealthCare of Ohio's vice president for health services, said skilled home care is covered as part of United's basic benefits package and respite care is provided on a case-by-case basis.
"The main purpose is to prevent chronic conditions from becoming catastrophic," Carroll said. "We want to maintain the health status of the member so they can remain in the home. We want to prevent secondary complications and reduce unnecessary emergency room and hospital stays."
For Alzheimer's patients, Carroll said United is contracting with Alzheimer's Home Care, a private, not-for-profit spinoff of the Columbus chapter of the Alzheimer's Association that specializes in providing home care for dementia patients. United will be the first managed-care organization to contract with the group.
Carroll said the contract with Alzheimer's Home Care has given United an upfront idea of how much the program will cost. She said each home visit to an Alzheimer's patient will cost United between $35 and $150, depending on the care required. The number of visits will be determined on a case-by-case basis, she said.
However, Carroll said, it's too early to tell whether the program will improve care and reduce costs overall. United rolled out its Medicare risk plan in Ohio on July 1 and had 3,500 enrollees by Sept. 1.
"We don't know about the costs yet," she said. "It's like AIDS when people were predicting the costs would be astronomical. We're not seeing that at all, at least not to the extent that was forecast."
Even so, Stan Jones, director of the Health Insurance Reform Project at George Washington University in Washington, predicted the demonstration projects would make more progress on the clinical side rather than the cost side.
He said managed-care companies have the potential to offer Alzheimer's patients the integration and coordination of services they may not have in the fee-for-service setting.
However, he said, competition among health plans typically discourages the development of programs tailored to chronically ill patients who may end up costing the plan more than healthier enrollees.
"The long-term incentives work against doing those special programs because they have to cut back on benefits or start charging a premium to cover the costs," he said.
The "acid test" for judging the success of the projects will be whether the companies advertise their Alzheimer's programs during open enrollment, Jones said. "If a company decided it could sell to Alzheimer's patients and come out ahead of the game, then you'd see advertising," he said.
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見通し線通信路条件および非見通し線通信路条件は、特定の通信路条件の存在の判定に応答してアンテナ出力の規定された組合せを選択するコントローラを介して複数の二重偏波アンテナを一緒に結合することによって、ＭＩＭＯ無線ネットワーク内で効率的かつ最適に処理される。 Line-of-sight channel conditions and non-line-of-sight communication path conditions, together a plurality of dual-polarization antenna through a controller for selecting a defined combination of antenna output in response to the determination of the presence of a particular channel conditions by binding to be efficiently and optimally processed within a MIMO wireless network. この形で、制御されたアンテナ・アレイは、通信路が適切なレベルの信号弁別（非相関性）をもたらすか否かにかかわりなく、適切なレベルの信号弁別（非相関性）を展開する。 In this manner, controlled antenna array, the communication path regardless of whether results in signal discrimination suitable level (decorrelation), to expand the signal discrimination suitable level (decorrelation). 一実施形態で、２つの二重偏波アンテナは、互いから分離され、その二重偏波出力信号を、同一の切替要素に結合され、その結果、１つのアンテナからの直交出力が、同一の切替要素で使用可能になる。 In one embodiment, the two dual-polarization antennas, separated from each other, the dual polarization output signal is coupled to the same switching element, as a result, the orthogonal output from one antenna, the same It will be available to the switching element. コントローラは、所定の判断基準に基づいて、各アンテナからの特定の偏波出力信号を選択する。 The controller, based on a predetermined criteria, selects the specific polarized wave output signal from each antenna.
前記少なくとも第１および第２のアンテナの各直交要素に結合された制御可能選択要素であって、前記制御可能選択要素は、少なくとも第１および第２の出力ポートをも含み、前記第１アンテナによって受信された前記信号の所望の偏波を前記第１出力ポートに接続するためおよび前記第２アンテナによって受信された前記信号の所望の偏波を前記第２出力ポートに接続するために制御信号に応答する、制御可能選択要素と を含む無線アンテナ配置。 A controllable selection element coupled to each orthogonal element of the at least first and second antenna, the controllable selection element also includes at least a first and a second output port, by said first antenna the desired polarization of the received the signal to the control signal to connect the desired polarization of the signal received by and the second antenna for connection to said first output port to said second output port It responds, a radio antenna arrangement which includes a controllable selection element.
受信信号の選択された組合せを前記制御可能選択要素によって出力させる前記制御信号を生成するために前記アンテナによって受信された信号の特性に応答するコントローラをさらに含む請求項１に記載の無線アンテナ配置。 Radio antenna arrangement according to claim 1, further comprising a controller responsive to the characteristics of the signal received by the antenna selected combination of received signals to generate said control signals for output by the controllable selection element.
前記少なくとも第１および第２のアンテナのそれぞれは、二重偏波開口結合パッチ・アンテナである請求項２に記載の無線アンテナ配置。 Wherein at least each of the first and second antenna, radio antenna arrangement according to claim 2 which is a dual polarization aperture coupled patch antenna.
前記少なくとも第１および第２のアンテナのそれぞれは、直交ダイポール・アンテナの組である請求項２に記載の無線アンテナ配置。 Wherein at least each of the first and second antenna, radio antenna arrangement according to claim 2 is a set of orthogonal dipole antennas.
前記アンテナによって受信された信号の特性を監視し、受信信号の選択された組合せを前記制御可能選択要素によって出力させる前記制御信号を生成するコントローラをさらに含む請求項１に記載の無線アンテナ配置。 Said antenna to monitor the characteristics of the signal received by the radio antenna arrangement according to the selected combination of received signals to claim 1, further comprising a controller for generating the control signal for output by the controllable selection element.
前記コントローラは、前記アンテナによって受信された最良の特性を判定するため、およびこれによって前記制御可能選択要素によって出力される受信信号の前記組合せを選択する前記制御信号を生成するために、所定の監視期間中に前記アンテナによって受信される信号の特性を比較することもする請求項５に記載の無線アンテナ配置。 The controller is to determine the best characteristics received by the antenna, and thereby to generate the control signal for selecting the combination of the received signal output by the controllable selection element, a predetermined monitoring period radio antenna arrangement according to claim 5 which also comparing the characteristics of the signal received by the antenna into.
前記少なくとも第１および第２のアンテナのそれぞれは、二重偏波開口結合パッチ・アンテナである請求項５に記載の無線アンテナ配置。 Wherein at least each of the first and second antenna, radio antenna arrangement according to claim 5 which is a dual polarization aperture coupled patch antenna.
前記少なくとも第１および第２のアンテナのそれぞれは、直交ダイポール・アンテナの組である請求項５に記載の無線アンテナ配置。 Wherein at least each of the first and second antenna, radio antenna arrangement according to claim 5 is a set of orthogonal dipole antennas.
前記少なくとも第１および第２のアンテナの各直交要素に結合された制御可能選択要素であって、前記制御可能選択要素は、少なくとも第１および第２の入力ポートをも含み、前記第１入力ポートでの信号を前記第１アンテナの所望の直交要素に接続するためおよび前記第２入力ポートでの信号を前記第２アンテナの所望の直交要素に接続するために制御信号に応答する、制御可能選択要素と を含む無線アンテナ配置。 At least first and second a controllable selection element coupled to each orthogonal element of the antenna, the controllable selection element also includes at least first and second input ports, said first input port responsive to signals at said first antenna desired and the second input port for connection to the quadrature component of a signal to the control signal to connect to the desired orthogonal element of the second antenna, the control can be selected wireless antenna arrangement comprising a component.
受信信号の選択された組合せを前記制御可能選択要素によって出力させる前記制御信号を生成するコントローラをさらに含む請求項９に記載の無線アンテナ配置。 Radio antenna arrangement according to the selected combination of received signals to claim 9, further comprising a controller for generating the control signal for output by the controllable selection element.
前記少なくとも第１および第２のアンテナのそれぞれは、二重偏波開口結合パッチ・アンテナである請求項１０に記載の無線アンテナ配置。 Wherein at least each of the first and second antenna, radio antenna arrangement according to claim 10 which is a dual polarization aperture coupled patch antenna.
前記少なくとも第１および第２のアンテナのそれぞれは、直交ダイポール・アンテナの組である請求項１０に記載の無線アンテナ配置。 Wherein at least each of the first and second antenna, radio antenna arrangement according to claim 10 is a set of orthogonal dipole antennas.
制御信号に応答してｍｕｌｔｉ−ｉｎｐｕｔ ｍｕｌｔｉ−ｏｕｔｐｕｔ（ＭＩＭＯ）受信器への入力信号として信号の第１組合せを選択する工程であって、信号の前記組合せは、前記第１二重偏波アンテナの前記第１および第２の出力信号からの１つの信号と、前記第２二重偏波アンテナの前記第１および第２の出力信号からのもう１つの信号とを含む、工程と を含む方法。 In response to the control signal comprising the steps of selecting a first combination of signals as an input signal to the multi-input multi-output (MIMO) receiver, said combined signals, said first dual-polarized antenna the method comprising one of the signal from the first and second output signals, and a another signal from the first and second output signals of said second dual-polarization antenna, and a step.
前記制御信号に応答して信号の前記第１組合せから信号の第２組合せに切り替える工程であって、信号の前記第２組合せは、前記１つの信号および前記もう１つの信号のそれぞれに直交する信号を含む、工程 をさらに含む請求項１３に記載の方法。 A step of switching to a second combination of signals from said first combining signal in response to said control signal, the second combined signal, the signal orthogonal to each of said one signal and said another signal the method of claim 13 comprising, further comprising a.
監視される前記特性に応答して前記制御信号を生成する工程と をさらに含む請求項１４に記載の方法。 The method of claim 14, further comprising the step of generating the control signal in response to the characteristic to be monitored.
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Next, we completed the installation of the hybrid cloud agent via Oracle Enterprise Manager, which performed a background transfer of the agent software to the destination host. We logged into the on-premises Enterprise Manager console as SYSMAN or a super administrator and drilled down to the Cloud Host home page. On this page, we could see the Enterprise Manager Configuration and performance metrics for the host; these metrics had been uploaded by the hybrid cloud agent. And, after the database discovery process was completed, the cloud database appeared in the list of Enterprise Manager database targets, and it can now be monitored and managed just like a normal on-premises database.
The name of the destination PDB on the cloud side was entered as “SALESTST”, since this will be a test pluggable database. We also selected a user name and password for the PDB administrator of the new PDB. Then, we could have clicked on “Clone” to quickly start the procedure, but instead we clicked on the “Advanced” button at the top of the page. This switched to advanced mode, and a multiple-page workflow appeared on the same screen.
We clicked on Next. The “Clone to Oracle Cloud: Configuration” page appeared. As per cloud database standards based on Oracle Flexible Architecture (OFA) standards, the PDB data files will reside on /u02, in the /u02/app/oracle/oradata/<PDB name> directory. You can also enter storage limits if you wish, such as the maximum PDB size or the maximum shared TEMP tablespace size. The default logging attribute for tablespaces creating with the PDB can also be specified – Logging, No Logging or Filesystem Like Logging.
If we had selected the Masking definition as a part of the cloning workflow, we would need to verify that the employees table data has been masked. We connected to the on-premises ahuprod cdb as sysdba, and selected from the hr.employees table to examine the original umasked data. Then we checked the same rows in the cloud PDB. We observed that the employee data had been masked successfully, as per the masking definition that was selected during the clone to cloud procedure.
The reason can be seen in the view PDB_PLUG_IN_VIOLATIONS on the cloud database; the Message column shows an “APEX mismatch” between the PDB installed version and CDB installed version.
The solution for this issue was to download the APEX 5.0 version (not the 5.0.1 version) from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/apex/downloads/index.html , and then to apply this APEX version on the on-premises database, before starting the cloning.
After this is complete, the on-premises will have the correct APEX version. This is verified below.
The cloning from the on-premises PDB to the cloud CDB can then proceed without any issues. However, if the cloud database reports a new version of APEX higher than 5.0, then you will need to follow the procedure as outlined above while using the higher version of APEX and installing it on the ahuprod database.
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All other information, such as preferred schedule, short notice availability, emergency contact information and pertinent medical information will be collected during training sessions.
Prior to the start of the season, all referees must have an active bank account. Those referees who earn more than $60 per pay period (4 times per season) will be paid by cheque. Those earning less will receive cash payment.
If you want to be a referee with BCSL, please contact our Director of Officiating Daniel Barbieri at 647-201-2310 or at bcsl.referees@gmx.com after March 1st, 2017. You may also email soccerinthebeach@gmail.com in the off-season, and we will forward the email to Daniel in the spring.
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The Karel Zeman museum in Prague celebrates its first birthday today. They’re celebrating with Karel Zeman’s daughter Ludmila who is unveiling costumes from Zemans films now on display. The Fundus (costume department) at Barrandov is lending costumes from the films on a regular basis. They both hope the joint activity will boost film tourism in the capital.
The Museum is also promising the digital release on DVD of Na Kometě (On the Comet 1970).
The museum has a great website and an active facebook page.
Burning Bush and My Dog Killer are part of the Made in Prague season at the Riverside Studios, London this November.
This years programme has a Czech-o-Slovak flavour, with films from both countries showing in celebration of their long and linked film cultures.
Burning Bush (Hořící keř) tells the story of Jan Palach from 1969. My Dog Killer (Môj pes killer) depicts life in Czech/Slovak border country. Both are respectively the Czech and Slovak Oscar nominations. They show at the Riverside Studios on the weekend 10-11 November.
The Made in Prague season is supported by the Czech Centre London.
The warm up for this year’s Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival kicks off this weekend with a showing of Two Nil (Dva nula 2012) at the FC Vysočina Jihlava stadium on Friday 23 August. The film covers a Prague Derby match between Sparta and Slavia. Gambrinus League team FC Vysočina Jihlava play Slavia at home on Saturday.
The fun doesn’t stop there, Fortress (Pevnost 2012)) shows at the town railway station and Citizen K (Občan K 2012) plays in the town’s Březinova housing estate as part of the 10th Living Cinema event. The sixth Living Cinema event takes place in Prague showing previews of films in this year’s Czech Joy competition in the editing rooms!
The laid back and popular festival takes place across the town from 24-29 October 2013.
The film that started the Czechoslovak new wave is now out in the UK on a new DVD from Second Run. Štefan Uher’s groundbreaking film The Sun in a Net (Slnko v sieti) 1962 has developed a growing reputation in the last few years. Find out more on their website. Second Run have also produced a new trailer to go with the release.
Director of the 1960 film Vyšší princip (Higher Principle), Jiří Krejčík has died in Prague at the age of 95. See a tribute in Czech from Barrandov Studios here. Jiří also acted: he plays the character Mr Karel in Jiří Menzel’s Slavnosti sněženek (Snowdrop Festival 1984).
The Sun in a Net ( Slnko v sieti), the 1960 film by Slovak director Štefan Uher shows in London on Thursday 25 July 2013. Riverside Studios are showing the film alongside short film (40m) Joseph Kilián (Postava k podpírání) made in 1963 by Pavel Jurácek and Jan Schmidt, and “banned for life” in 1969 following the Soviet occupation after the Prague Spring. The screening is co-organised by the Czech Centre in London, both have English subtitles.
The Sun in a Net is then released on DVD by Second Run DVD in August 2013. Second Run follow this with the release of cult space classic Ikarie XB-1 in September, but more about that in a post of it’s own. Find out more about The Sun in a Net in this review or Joseph Kilián in this one.
Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, This Sporting Life, We Are The Lambeth Boys, Morgan: A Suitable Case For Treatment. Film doesn’t come much more “British” than that….
The link between them all is Karel Reisz, born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, and brought up there until he escaped Nazi persecution at the age of 12.
A Czech biography screens in London today, 23 June as part of the Open City Docs Fest. The film was released in October last year, and today is it’s UK premiere. The screening is followed by a discussion with the director and producer of the film; chaired by Stephen Frears, who worked with Reisz. You can find a trailer for the film here.
Only a few hours to go before the first night of the Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia in Melbourne. First night and first festival.
The opening night features both animation and 60s new wave cinema with the screening of Slovak director Štefan Uher’s The Sun in a Net (1962) and both A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1959) and The Hand (1965) by Legendary animator Jiří Trnka.
Other films showing include major Czech Lion winner In the Shadow (2012) at the opening gala on 6 June, Private Universe (2012), the Blue Tiger, Alois Nebel and to close the festival on 9 June: Flower Buds. Their great website gives more details on each film.
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Recently， I was invited by a number of property investors from Hong Kong and Singapore. Most of them bought properties in Tangjung Bungah, Pulau Tikus and Batu Feringgi Areas. Penang property value is comparatively cheaper to Hong Kong and Singapore. The reason why they choose Penang, is simply due to Penang island scenery is seaview and comfort life style but with sufficient and relax daily living hood pattern.
The dragon vein of Penang island is running North -South Axis. You can see it very clearly in the picture above as the dragon vein is running in the middle. I would to draw your attention to a few high-end property especially located at Tanjung Bunga, Pulau Tikus and Batu Feringgi.
Stay Tuned！ More informative Penang Feng Shui articles will be coming soon….
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Editor’s Note: See also An Updated Look at the Federal Policies Governing How Agencies Use Voluntary Consensus Standards in Regulatory, Procurement, and Science Documents.
On Monday, President Trump issued the following executive order on artificial intelligence. The White House provided a summary of the order, and the full order is below.
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TORONTO/MONTREAL (Reuters) - Canadian hedge fund West Face Capital is pushing SNC-Lavalin Group Inc to sell its stake in Ontario’s 407 toll highway, a move that could fetch the engineering and construction company more than C$5 billion ($3.83 billion), according to two sources familiar with the process.
West Face is an SNC shareholder but has not disclosed the size of its holding. SNC owns about 17 percent of the 407, which many investors see as a non-core asset.
Stretching from the Ontario cities of Burlington to Pickering, the 407 is a 108-km (67-mile) electronic toll highway that runs north of Toronto. It is in the midst of expansion projects aimed at improving its growth profile and value.
SNC could begin the process of selling its 407 stake as early as later this year, said the sources, who declined to be identified because the matter is not yet public.
SNC-Lavalin spokesman Louis-Antoine Paquin said on Tuesday that the company “continually reviews all opportunities that would be accretive to the company and improve value for shareholders.” West Face declined comment.
The push to sell the Ontario toll road comes after West Face in 2013 called for SNC’s sale of AltaLink, Alberta’s largest regulated electricity transmission company. SNC sold its stake in AltaLink to Berkshire Hathaway Inc’s energy unit for about C$3.1 billion in 2014.
Other investors in the 407 are Cintra Infraestructuras Internacional S.L., a unit of Ferrovial S. A., and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.
The sale of the stake in an infrastructure asset with a steady cash flow would likely attract strong interest from pension and sovereign wealth funds and other infrastructure investors.
Montreal-based SNC has said it the past it could consider selling the stake. It initially resisted the move but has become more open to the sale stake in recent months, especially with appointment of a new chief executive, the sources said.
One of the sources said the company indicated that it will consider selling the stake once its engineering business has stabilized, said. SNC said earlier this year that it expects to record an earnings increase from those core businesses in 2016.
West Face, one of Canada’s biggest hedge funds, would like the company to use the money from a sale for a share buyback and to reinvest into the business, the sources said.
West Face’s discussions with SNC are friendly and have been going on for about a year, the sources said. West Face has played an activist role in the past and successfully brought about a shake-up at Maple Leaf Foods in 2010.
West Face is pushing for the sale because it believes SNC’s share price does not reflect the value of the 407 and its other businesses, the sources said.
SNC’s share price is up about 26 percent year to date, and it has a market capitalization of about C$7.8 billion.
The stock, which was weaker earlier in the session, closed up 0.8 percent on Tuesday at C$52.16 in Toronto.
Other top shareholders in SNC include Canadian pension funds Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, as well as fund managers Fidelity and Mackenzie Financial.
Caisse, the biggest shareholder in SNC and a major infrastructure investor, would prefer that SNC spins off the 407 stake to existing SNC shareholders, thereby allowing it to continue to own a slice of the asset, one of the sources said. Caisse declined comment.
It’s also possible that an agreement could be reached to sell part of the stake on the open market and spin off the rest to SNC shareholders, satisfying all parties, one of the sources said.
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The Robinson Library >> General and Old World History >> Balkan Peninsula >> Romania >> Cities, Towns, Etc.
Craiova is situated near the east bank of the river Jiu in central Oltenia. Eight villages are administered by the city: Facai, Mofleni, Popoveni, Simnicu de Jos, Cernele, Cernelele de Sus, Izvoru Rece, and Rovine. The last four were a separate commune called Cernele until 1996, when they were merged into the city. The city covers an area of approximately 31 square miles and has a population of about 295,000.
The site on which Craiova is located has been occupied since 225. It was founded on the site of the Dacian stronghold of Pelendava (which later became the Roman Castra Nova). The city's importance in the history of Romania began with Wallachian Prince Mihai Viteazu, who served as the ban (military governor) of Craiova and achieved the first unification of the three Romanian principalities in 1600.
Manufacturing comprises the largest sector of Craiova's economy, with machines and tools, aircraft and automobiles, and chemicals being the prinicpal products. Telecommunication services, banking, and insurance are also important.
The city hosts a great number of religious buildings, many of them dating back to medieval times. The most notable of them are the 15th-century Church of Cosuna Monastery, which is the oldest building preserved in Craiova, and Madona Dudu Church, which is renowned for its mural paintings by Romanian painter Gheorghe Tattarescu.
Bania House, the oldest non-religious building in Craiova, is home to the Oltenia Museum, where the history of the region, starting with the prehistoric times, is on display. Great care has been taken in presenting, in full detail, the traditional trades and occupations of peasants in Oltenia.
The Art Museum of Craiova is located in the of the former magnate Jean Mihail. Built between 1899-1907, according to the plans of the French architect Paul Gottereau, the palace represents, stylistically, a rather free interpretation of the late baroque. The museum exhibits masterpieces created by Romanian painters, including Craiova-born Theodor Aman and Nicolae Grigorescu. One of its main attractions is a section dedicated to Constantin Brancusi, comprising six of his early sculptures.
Unique in Romania, Nicolae Romanescu Park is an architectural monument that is also one of the most interesting accomplishments of its kind in Europe. Displayed at the Universal Exhibition in Paris, in 1900, the park`s plans received the Golden Medal. The work began in 1901, under the supervision of French architect Emile Rendont, assisted by artists Jules Redont and Emil Pinard. Over the next two years, 50,000 seedlings of ornamental trees and shrubs were planted; a river, lake, small waterfalls, and two islands were "built"; and several structures -- including "The Suspended Bridge," "The Enchanted Castle," and "The Circular Hall" -- were constructed. The park`s inauguration took place in May 1903.
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Don’t we all want to run tests as quickly as possible, reaching results as conclusive and as certain as possible? Don’t we all want to minimize the number of users we send to an inferior variant and to implement a variant with positive lift as quickly as possible? Don’t we all want to get rid of the illusory results that fail to materialize in the business’ bottom-line?
Of course, we all do, and this is the motivation behind the AGILE A/B testing method we at Analytics-Toolkit.com have developed in order to satisfy the demand for accurate, flexible and most of all efficient solutions. An AGILE A/B test reaches conclusions 20% to 80% faster than the classical methods and solutions while providing the same or better statistical guarantees and significant flexibility in monitoring and acting on data as it accrues.
In this post we explain how A/B or multivariate tests following the AGILE approach work and how using them one can enjoy efficiency and flexibility without compromises with accuracy. Below we cover the basic flow of an A/B test and offer detailed practical advise on how to properly select the different test design parameters. Since no two tests are the same, there is no “best” or “optimal” set of parameters, so don’t skim through the test expecting to find the “secret formula”.
Also available is a white paper describing the whole approach in detail, as well as our statistical calculator for A/B testing which helps automate the most cumbersome parts of the design and analysis of AGILE tests.
As any other approach to testing AGILE has two stages: design stage and execution/analysis stage. Test design precedes the launch of the experiment and is where the design parameters are decided on. Analysis happens during the test and also post-test, with some statistics available only after the test is completed.
Decide on the primary design parameters of the test – minimum effect of interest, statistical confidence required, power of the test.
Decide on the secondary design parameters of the test – number of interim analysis, type of futility boundary (binding vs non-binding), number of tested variations.
Evaluate the properties of the test design and decide on if it is practically feasible to run the experiment. Adjust the parameters accordingly, accounting for the trade-offs between the parameters.
Extract data for interim analysis on stages. Can be on a daily/weekly schedule or ad-hoc, or a combination of both.
A standardized Z test statistic is calculated for the currently best performing variant.
If there is more than one variant tested against the control, the test statistic is adjusted for family-wise error rate.
– If the efficacy boundary is crossed, consider stopping the test and declaring a winner.
– If the futility boundary is crossed and a non-binding futility was chosen, consider stopping the test for lack of superiority of the tested variant(s).
If the test continues until the maximum sample size prescribed, the two boundaries converge to a single point by design. Stop the test and interpret the result in a binary way – a winner if the test statistic is above the common boundary or a loser if the test statistic is below it.
Whenever the test is stopped, calculate the p-value, confidence interval and point estimate at the termination stage and apply adjustments that guarantee conditional unbiasedness of the estimators.
Of these, steps 5, 6 and 9 are completely automated if you’re using our AGILE A/B Testing Calculator while plenty of guidance and partial automation is provided for the remaining ones.
In the next section we go over the design stage in significant practical detail.
An AGILE test is no different than other approaches in the fact that the design process is in its essence all about trade-offs, compromises between the different parameters. If one wants greater certainty, one should be prepared to pay for it by an increase in the number of committed users and the longer time to get results. If one prefers to have more flexibility, then the trade-off is uncertainty of the final sample size, which in some cases may result in larger sample sizes compared to an inflexible fixed-horizon test. Thus is the nature of reality, thus is the nature of statistics.
For the more statistically-inclined, the design stage of an AGILE A/B test is in essence a Group Sequential Error Spending Design with Stopping Rules for both Efficacy and Futility (GSTEF) adapted to the practice of Conversion Rate Optimization for websites, applications, e-mails, etc. The analysis stage includes procedures that compensate for the bias introduced by the interim analyses to the naive versions of three popular estimators: p-value, confidence intervals and point estimator for the lift. This allows decisions and actions to be maximally informed.
In using AGILE we have several choices for trade-offs to make, with the first five being exactly the same as in a fixed-sample design test.
How high the evidence threshold needs to be can be informed by things like: is the decision reversible; how easy it would be to detect the error at a later point; how hard or how costly it would be to revert the decision once it is implemented and other considerations of that nature. There is a trade-off here due to the positive relationship between the level of certainty and the sample size – the more certain one wants to be, the more time and users one needs to commit to the experiment.
Usually a small and agile team (e.g. a startup) working on a site with a relatively small number of users can be satisfied with a lower confidence threshold (higher error rate) since the risk of doing something wrong will not have that great of an impact while the decision to reverse can usually be made quickly and easily. On the contrary – a business with a complex site or app with lots of users and revenue and a large team behind it is justified in being much more careful and requiring higher evidential support before a change is introduced, especially if it is a core change versus a superficial one.
Other considerations also come into play, such as continuity and reliability of the customer experience. The “two steps forward one step back” approach might look good in terms of long-term performance on paper, but might actually be much worse than going step-by-step in the right direction, if the disturbances and unevenness of the user experience have a detrimental longer-term effect on the business.
2. Choosing a minimum detectable effect size is to be done with commercial viability in mind. The minimum detectable effect should justify running the test and should be non-trivial in this sense. It should be the difference one would not like to miss, if it existed.
In the case of websites where redesigns and changes happen frequently we propose to consider the monthly or yearly effect, multiplied by 24-48 months or 2-4 years.
As Jennison and Turnbull (2006) state on the problem of how to choose the effect size at which to specify the power of a clinical trial when there is disagreement or uncertainty about the likely treatment effect: “Our conclusion when there is a choice between a minimal clinically significant effect size and larger effect sizes that investigators hope to see is that the power requirement should be set at the minimal clinically significant effect. This decision may need to be moderated if the resulting sample size is prohibitive, bearing in mind that a good sequential design will reduce the observed sample size if the effect size is much larger than the minimal effect size.” By “observed sample size” they mean the actual sample size that one would end up committing, should it turn out that the true effect size is significantly larger than initially estimated. In general, if the sample size is prohibitive, reconsider the utility of running the test at all.
Smaller sites with less revenue should generally aim at more drastic improvements, otherwise the cost of running the test might not be justified. On the other hand, very large sites can aim to detect very small improvements as these are likely to correspond to a significant lift in absolute revenue. Of course, this depends on the nature and effort required to perform the test, as well as other factors, not subject to the current article.
3. Choosing a satisfactory power level is as important as choosing the significance level and the effect size, but sometimes underestimated in practice. The more powerful the test, the more likely one is to detect an improvement of a given size with a specified level of certainty (if such exists in reality). Thus the greater the sensitivity of the test, the bigger the sample size required.
4. Choosing how many variants to test against the control. The more variants one tests, the more things can be tested at once, though it comes at the cost of increasing the required total sample size.
5. Choosing the type of sample size / power calculation when there is more than one variant tested against the control. The two types are disjunctive (OR) and conjunctive (AND) power. In 9 out of 10 cases an AB testing practitioner would chose disjunctive power, meaning that he would be satisfied with finding one positive result (rejecting at least one null hypothesis) among the tested ones. If one wants to have the same level of power for all tested variants, choose conjunctive power, although be aware that it comes at a great cost in terms of required sample size.
6. Choosing the number of interim analyses. It is best to take a look at the estimated sample size for a fixed-sample design and consider how long it would take to achieve that sample size using a prediction based on historical amount of users/sessions/pageviews for the website or app in question. The number should be adjusted so it only includes the target group of interest, e.g. by geo-location, device category, visited pages, cookie status and others. This prevents inflating the baseline by counting in users who do not really matter which can increase the sample-size requirement by multiples in some cases.
One should not be conducting tests with a duration of less than a week, due to in-week variability which may result in issues with the representativeness of the conclusions for future traffic. If, for example, the test is estimated to take 6-8 weeks, it is best to plan for at least 8 interim analyses – 1 per week. It should suffice for weekly reporting purposes and should be frequent enough to satisfy executive curiosity. So if a site has 10000 users per week who are eligible to enter a test and the maximum expected sample size is 120000 for all arms (variants), then 120000/10000 = 12 interim analyses. Setting it to 15 just to be on the safe side is generally preferred.
In some cases, one wants a higher frequency of interim analyses and that may well be warranted, however, one should keep in mind that the more interim analyses, the higher the maximum sample size gets. Maximum sample size is the maximum information that would be needed if the experiment is not stopped at any of the interim analyses. On the plus side, the more interim analyses conducted, the better the chance for an early stopping and thus the smaller the average sample size gets.
It is encouraged to check a few different design outputs to evaluate the trade-off between number of interim analyses, average and maximum sample size.
Lan and DeMets (1989) demonstrate that even when performing twice the initially planned interim analyses the type I error probability is not significantly impacted when the sample size remains fixed. The theoretical limit of the number of analyses is to do an interim after each observation, although that is not practical at all.
In our approach we adjust the boundaries based on the actual number and timings of observations and thus keep the type I and type II error probabilities under control, but this happens at the cost of increasing the sample size required for a conclusive test. This means that if the test runs to the pre-specified maximum sample size one might end up with an inconclusive result as in figure 4 below.
It might sometimes happen that many more than the initially planned interim analyses are conducted. In such cases it might be necessary to increase the total sample size, so it is encouraged to have a realistic number of interim analyses set in the design stage in order to avoid that.
7. Choosing the Time / Information fraction at each interim analysis. Usually the time and information fraction are closely correlated, i.e. at time t = 0.5 (0 < t < 1) the amount of information collected should also be about 0.5 or 50% of the maximum information.
Usually equally spaced time intervals are chosen and we do so behind the scenes as it practically does not matter due to the continuous nature of the alpha-spending functions used to calculate the efficacy and futility boundaries. No input is required from the user in our statistical calculator.
8. Choice of error-spending functions for the efficacy and futility boundaries – there are several different popular spending functions – Pocock-like, O’Brien-Fleming-like, Hwang-Shih-DeCani Gamma family, Kim-DeMets power family – all having different properties. Our AGILE A/B testing calculator currently uses the Kim-DeMets error-spending functions for both the efficacy and futility boundary construction and the interface is not complicated by the choice of other spending functions.
9. Choice of futility boundary-type – the futility boundary can be binding or non-binding with respect to the efficacy boundary.
A non-binding boundary means that alpha and beta spending are completely independent, so when the futility boundary is crossed one can still decide to continue with the experiment without inflating the Type I error-probability. This comes at the cost of increased sample size compared to the binding design, but it is generally a preferred choice, as considerations outside of data gathered might help inform the decision to stop or to continue when the futility boundary is crossed. In this design the boundary is more of a guideline, not a rule.
If the boundary is binding, then there is some chance that the experiment will stop prematurely due to futility, so we get a reduced level of type I error – alpha. Thus, we can “spend” this gain by slightly decreasing the efficacy boundary so that the alpha level is kept as specified and we gain a bit of power, which allows us to run the test with fewer users when compared to a non-binding boundary approach. However, if a binding boundary is used the experiment must stop if the futility boundary is crossed at any interim analysis point in order to preserve the desired error control properties of the test. You can read more about the effects of futility stopping on the efficiency of A/B tests in our post on Futility Stopping Rules in AGILE A/B Testing.
(Added Apr 27, 2018): I have subsequently developed a comprehensive overview of the costs & benefits and risks & rewards in A/B testing (not AGILE-specific) and have built a tool that will help with the balancing act, allowing you to use A/B testing to manage business risk while maximizing gains and rewards: the A/B Testing ROI Calculator.
The reported design characteristics include: efficacy and futility critical values (boundaries) in a Z-scale normalized form; total sample size required in case the experiment continues through all interim analyses; expected sample size under the null and under the alternative hypothesis (if one or, respectively, the other is true, how early would the experiment terminate versus a fixed-sample design) as well as an average sample size which is calculated across a set of possible true values of the tested variant(s).
It is recommended to evaluate several designs and consider the one that suits the particular test best. There is no universally preferable set of design parameters, the same way there are no two identical tests.
We hope this post was helpful in shedding light on the practical application of the AGILE statistical approach to A/B testing. As you can see there are just a few more decisions to be made, compared to a proper fixed-horizon test, while the benefits that come from using AGILE are immense.
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1 – based on subjective opinion about the likely impact or success of the test, choose a maximum period of time over which to run the test. For example, test A is research based and I’m fairly sure it is going to be positive, so I want to give that a maximum of 8 weeks to prove itself. Test B someone else asked me to do and I don’t really believe it will work, so I an not prepared to let it hold up other tests on that page for longer than 2 weeks.
3 – design the parameters of the test in order to achieve that sample size over that period of time. If the starting point of this design is the power and confidence, then the remaining parameter to play with is the MDE, which should be as low as possible to achieve the sample size (after power and confidence set) but not lower than the cost/benefit would allow.
Therefore, what I am fundamentally doing is designing a test window of time, which is driven by my desire to move the CRO programme at pace, but I understand by doing that I will probably reject tests which might have had more subtle effects.
The question that pops into my mind after reading your comment is: what determines what is a good pace for a CRO programme? In my mind the judgement should be based on the business bottom line, which has a rather objective correspondence to test parameters (our A/B testing ROI calculator helps enormously with that). The way I see it, the only reason to start with the time limit and work your way backwards is if there is a set deadline determined by factors external to A/B testing. Even with my experience with stats I wouldn’t trust my ability to transform any kind of judgement about the potential of an A/B test into sample size or time periods without using a tool like a power analysis calculator or, even better – the calculator cited above.
I have run a real scenario through the ROI calculator, but after the optimisation it is suggesting the test run for 30 weeks with significance of 55% – I have yet to completely get my head around the ROI calculator, but a test which runs for potentially 30 weeks (appreciate that the point of agile is that it might not run for that time) is risky in the sense that I could have been testing something else which may have worked better. If I have 10 ideas for a single page, I can only prioritize them based on the research which gave rise to them and subjectivity, but what I want to do is find the most successful ones as quickly as possible. If I run a test for a short(ish) period of time and then discard it because it isn’t showing any evidence of positive impact, that doesn’t mean I have discarded it forever, because after I have found the stuff which is positive, I can always go back and test the other stuff for longer.
Sounds like you just need to do the math for the 10 tests you have in mind and then start with the one for which the ROI calculator suggests the shortest testing time-frame? 30 weeks is a lot, maybe you have a minuscule amounts of traffic or the changes you are making are too small to be detectable in a shorter time-frame.
Is this an appropriate use of a non-inferiority hypothesis? a HiPPO has asked me to make a fairly trivial change to the website. I could make the change quickly, and it probably won’t have much effect on anything, but I want to check it doesn’t have any negative impact. So I am not so much interested in whether it is better, just that it isn’t worse?
Maybe you meant this comment for another post, but yes, that sounds like a good situation for a non-inferiority test.
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I could say I invented these Cinna-Plum Muffins but that would be a lie. I took a very established recipe for plum cake and put it into muffin shape. I used bit more cinnamon and sugar than called for but other than that, I changed nothing.
My imaginary best friend, Deb from Smitten Kitchen, highlights this recipe on her blog. She calls it Purple Plum Torte. But she gives the credit to Amanda Hesser and the New York Times Essential Cookbook. Which is a compilation of favorite recipes printed in the New York Times newspaper over the years. This recipe was first published in 1983 by Marian Burros, who got it from a friend of hers. Apparently the NYT then published it every year in late September for the next 12 years until they told readers they were cutting them off, they needed to laminate their cut out newspaper copies, there were other recipes to be written. In 2010, when Amanda Hesser was compiling recipes for the huge NYT Essential Cookbook and asked readers for suggestions to be included, she got this recipe suggested 247 times.
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I give you the recipe, exactly as it came to me. Follow the directions exactly, make small changes, make huge changes, change the shape. Call it yours. Give thanks to everyone who came before you. Pass it along to someone else. As far as I’m concerned, food ideas are meant to be eaten, shared and passed along. These are my muffins, and I’d be nowhere at all without Deb and Amanda and Marian and her friend Lois…and my mom and her mom and the friend who gave me the plums and the friend of hers who gave her the plums to give to me. And so on.
Preheat the oven to 350F. If you are making a cake, grease and line a 9 inch springform pan. If you are making muffins, grease or line approximately 12 standard muffin tins.
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Professor Bailey graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from the Canberra University College in 1950 and a Master of Laws at ANU in 1954. He was a Rhodes Scholar for Victoria. His earlier career was in the Commonwealth Public Service, where he served in the Treasury and then in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, becoming a Deputy Secretary in 1972. He was a full time member of the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration 1974-76. Peter was appointed CEO of the Commonwealth’s Human Rights Commission in 1981. He joined ANU as a Visiting Fellow in 1987 and became an Adjunct Professor in 1999. Peter’s specific area of research relates to government and its instrumentalities.
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Top-performing internet of things companies in South Carolina help businesses connect their digital products to the global world. These top-rated companies help businesses reach their business growth goals through effective research, custom strategy, innovative technology and more.
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Single arena access for Saturday 27th July 2019. Also allows arena access for Friday 26th July 2019.
Single arena access for Sunday 28th July 2019. Also allows arena access for Friday 26th July 2019.
Single arena access for entire festival weekend 2019. Also allows arena access for Friday 26th July 2019.
Single camping access for entire festival weekend. The camp site is for festival goers only, you MUST have a valid day or weekend ticket to enter the site.
Single Live-in camping access for entire festival weekend 2019. This site is for festival goers only, you MUST have a valid day or weekend ticket to enter the site.
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We are extremely pleased to announce that part number 39614-005 is now available in our ready-to-ship inventory. Part number 39614-005 is a zee manufactured by Piper Aircraft Inc. If you’re interested in a quick and competitive quote for this part, just fill out the Request for Quote (RFQ) form below to get started.
Are you interested in learning more about part number 39614-005? You can reach a member of our sales department by email at sales@aerospacepurchasing.com, or you can call us at our toll-free number, +1-412-212-0606. We’re always available and ready to help, 24/7x365. And, if you’d like an even faster and more convenient purchasing option, you can download the ASAP Semiconductor App from Google Play or the App Store.
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A living room is the first thing which people notice in your home as it is the first place where your guest steps first. So it is very important to make the ambiance of your living room so attractive that it creates a mesmerising glance in the viewer’s eyes. There are many ways in which you can revamp your decor, but to give a unique and elegant look here are 7 simple and easy to do tips which you can use in your decor style for a refreshing look.
First thing comes is what seating option to choose for the living area. Lavish sofa sets and modern couches can be seen everywhere, but for an interesting and unique glance, you can go for a floor seating option. For a floor seating option, you can opt a Rajasthani style traditional Bajot or Chowki with a low heightened table. You can also go for wooden low seating furniture which will look beautiful and will give an enticing look to your ambiance.
Nowadays modern paintings and wallpapers can be seen in every single house, so to make a difference in your ambiance you can choose for a traditional style jharokha or an elegant wall hanging. You can opt for a rajwadi style Jharokha and can place it on your back side of the couch, that will give a royal king style look in your home.
How you brighten up your décor also plays an important role. To make a mesmerizing effect in your ambiance switch to antique looking Tealight Holders. Make them place in corner of your area or hang it on the side wall of the living room. You can choose from brass engraved holders or metallic ones. These tealight holders will give a lavish classy style and a perfect soothing light in your ambiance.
Next, comes is the decorative figurines which you place in your display units. You can experiment in placing them; rather than placing them on a single shelf in the same pattern make them place in random order. Buy the figurines in pair and make them place separately in different positions. If you want to place a Divine Figurine then opt for a statue made from brass, it will enhance the grace of your ambiance.
Handicrafts are the latest trend and biggest advantage of these things are that they do not look same because they all are uniquely crafted. In your living area, you must include handcrafted things like it can be your Furniture your wall arts, your traditional figurines anything. This handcrafted thing gives a unique glimpse to your décor.
Space is also a major issue while you plan for a beautiful décor, so to overcome this issue you can go for Decorative Storage. If you are planning for stool then you can go for the one which has storage space beneath. For this space issues you can buy a chest of drawer and can make them place along your wall, these will not only look good but will give you enough storage space to keep your small possessions inside.
Modern Paintings on the walls are so common nowadays so to set a trend and stand out of crowd go for traditional miniature paintings. You can go for a Kishangarh paintings or miniature paintings. These artforms can be included in the ambiance in many ways like you can hang wall paintings, a Key Holder having these kinds of paintings; can buy your furniture having these painting on them etc.
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Healing Spaces is a physical, sensory experience for older adults living with dementia and for their caregivers. A smart platform currently allows the caregivers to choose between two environments, forest and seaside. They can adjust light, color, sounds, and visuals to turn any environment into a place where older adults living with dementia can focus, engage and relax. Inspired by the research legacy of Multisensory Environments (MSEs) — spaces where sensory stimulation can be controlled and matched to the therapeutic needs of the user — Healing Spaces is about creating restorative environments of respite and healing.
The experience focuses on improving the quality of life for adults living with dementia. Conceived as a tool to help these individuals and their caregivers reconnect, it spreads awareness about dementia care and makes this knowledge accessible to the wider public.
Gabriela Gomes outside the Interactive Media Building at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. The statue is of Eadweard Muybridge, considered the father of cinema for his photographs of horses in motion at Leland Stanford’s Palo Alto Horse Farm (now the campus of Stanford University) in the 1870s.
Gabriela Gomes: Healing Spaces was developed as my MFA thesis for the University of Southern California’s Interactive Media & Games Division. I was inspired by my own struggle to interact with my late grandmother, who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease. Little by little, she lost the ability to connect with the world around her, to her grandchildren, to the person she once was. Healing Spaces was my attempt to design a tool to help older adults living with dementia and their caregivers reconnect, even if just for a brief moment.
It was also about making research and knowledge about dementia care and sensory stimulation more accessible to the public in the form of a product, one I wish I had access to while my grandmother was still alive. With Healing Spaces, my hope was to inspire others to see the transformative potential of our medium, beyond entertainment and the traditional target audiences.
What surprised you when you were making this work?
GG: Seeing our users’ reactions during our first feasibility study. I don’t think any of us were expecting to witness such powerful moments of presence, serenity and connection. This is when we knew we had created something special.
GG: When I first came up with the idea for this project, I was interested in looking at the future of smart, sensor-enabled environments, and I was leaning towards speculative design. During the early research process, I decided to challenge myself to go beyond fiction and make something that could be a reality now, not in 20 or 30 years. That meant designing a usable system under current real-world constraints, accessible both in terms of technology and implementation. And this naturally introduced a whole new set of challenges to address during the design process.
We needed to take all these digital and physical moving parts and package them under one cohesive, easy-to-use system with sustainability and scalability in mind. That was probably the most challenging aspect of making Healing Spaces. And we haven’t solved them all yet. But we see these challenges not as barriers, we embrace them as an opportunity to push ourselves and the project further.
“Healing Spaces” teammate Sydney Rubin demonstrates the app at the 2018 E3 in Los Angeles.
“Walking around at the Electronic Entertainment Expo — commonly known as E3 — gamers stopped in their tracks when they came upon Gabriela Gomes’ booth. The video game convention draws industry juggernauts like Playstation and Xbox, but Gomes’ booth was a little different.
“There were no controllers or consoles. And there was no use of the latest in VR or AR, like so many of the surrounding booths at the Los Angeles Convention Center. ‘Healing Spaces’ is simple — all you need is an iPad, a TV, Hue lights and speakers. And it’s aimed at adults with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. . . .
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The Balloon Sinuplasty procedure is used to treat chronic sinusitis and other related conditions. There are over-the-counter and prescription remedies to help bring sufferers relief, but balloon sinuplasty offers a more lasting solution.
Balloon sinuplasty is a relatively new procedure and there are many myths surrounding it, but the truth is that it is a safe and effective treatment for many people.
Myth: After the procedure, a patient’s nose needs to be packed with gauze, and the removal of the gauze is uncomfortable. People who have had traditional nasal surgery are aware of how uncomfortable this was, even years after it has been removed.
Fact: New technologies have eliminated the need for nasal packing post-procedure. Whether the patient needs traditional sinus surgery or is having balloon sinuplasty, the gauze is no longer required.
Myth: Sinus surgery has to be repeated because it often doesn’t work.
Fact: The majority of people who have sinus surgery or balloon sinuplasty see improvements in their quality of life after the procedure and it does not need to be repeated.
Myth: Recovering from these procedures is difficult and takes a great deal of time.
Fact: Traditional sinus surgery does require a few days of recovery time and you might have to take more time off work if you have a manual labor job. When it comes to balloon sinuplasty, there is almost no down time. Patients can often return to work and normal activities after a single day of rest.
Myth: After the procedure, people will have black and blue eyes.
Fact: There is normally no external change to a patient’s appearance unless they have cosmetic nasal work done at the same time.
Myth: Balloon sinuplasty is not covered by insurance.
Fact: Many plans cover the procedure, but there might be a pre-authorization required before the procedure is completed. The medical office where you are having the balloon sinuplasty should handle these details with you.
Myth: Balloon sinuplasty might not be safe.
Fact: The devices used in balloon sinuplasty were approved by the FDA in 2005 and thousands of these procedures have been performed since. The procedure’s safety profile is excellent.
Myth: Every patient who has sinus issues is a candidate for balloon sinuplasty.
Fact: When a patient has a deviated septum or large polyps, they may be better suited to traditional sinus surgery that is done under a general anesthesia. Some patients with these issues can still benefit from balloon sinuplasty with less recovery time.
Myth: There is no good treatment for nasal polyps because they always reoccur.
Fact: While they can reoccur, advances in the treatment options reduce the likelihood of them coming back. A doctor can provide navigation of a patient’s polyps so they can identify where they occur and treat them more accurately.
Myth: The procedure is so painful that it is intolerable.
Fact: Balloon sinuplasty involves the use of local and topical anesthetics to make the procedure more tolerable. There is a good chance the patient will feel a sensation more like pressure and less like pain.
Myth: Balloon sinuplasty will not be effective in relieving symptoms.
Fact: Balloon sinuplasty has proven very effective in providing lasting relief of chronic sinusitis symptoms.
Balloon sinuplasty is a less invasive, alternative treatment to the traditional endoscopic sinus surgery. A balloon is used to dilate the sinuses instead of using metal surgical tools to cut and remove tissue. This increases the sinus openings with fewer complications and less risk.
As local anesthesia is used as opposed to the general anesthesia used in traditional sinus surgery, balloon sinuplasty works well for patients who would not be candidates for traditional surgery because of their health, age, previous reaction to anesthesia, or fear of being put under general anesthesia. For many patients, balloon sinuplasty can reduce symptoms as much as traditional surgery.
Please consult the American Sinus Institute for further information on balloon sinuplasty.
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A popular muscle relax that reduces/removes the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, especially around the eyes, on the forehead and the area between the eyes called the glabella.
The ultimate stem cell skin care products from Spain. Finally a cream that will actually improve your skin.
Micropen facials are an excellent treatment for fine lines, acne, acne scars, shrinking pores, uneven skin tone, and texture.
A painless, needle-free beauty procedure with instant results. In only 4 minutes super hydrate your face and fill in under eye hollows and crows feet.
HA fillers are great for adding a nonpermanent volume enhancement to different areas of the face, giving a more rested and youthful appearance.
A popular muscle relaxant that reduces/removes the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, especially around the eyes, on the forehead and the area between the eyes called the glabella. Botox is also good for “bunny” lines on the sides of the nose, to reduce frown lines at the corner of the mouth and other areas of the face. Botox has also shown too decrease tension in the TMJ from clenching and some cases of migraines. Lasts an average of 3 months.
Europe has been enjoying this therapy for years and now it is stateside! A quick effective treatment for tightening skin and wrinkle reduction that gives immediate effects that last 2-4 weeks. Perfect for a fresh look before a last minute event. Stack 3 in a row for longer lasting results of 9-12 months. Excellent when paired with PRP Micropen treatment for a beautiful allover look. Don’t worry about pain or downtime with this treatment.
Excellent choice for enhancing the lips and fill small areas of volume loss and larger “lines”. Lasts up to 6 months.
This is a thicker and longer lasting hyaluronic acid the is excellent for lifting nasolabial folds, filling in fat pad loss of the cheek and returning the apple cheeks of a youthful face. Lasts up to 2 years.
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Sunday Reflection Quote…When it comes to improvement, if I don’t see immediate results I have to guard against discouragement. The self-imposed perfectionist mindset creates a lot of pressure and disappointment. My new normal is a space of measuring reps, sets, steps, seconds, and minutes. As I march towards goals, I’m reminded no matter how small the increment, growth is growth. Here’s to being grateful and celebrating all those baby steps!
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Product lining with a rebound sponge, 2.5CM thickness, and the use of 190T polyester fabric. To ensure a comfortable while also ensuring the durability of the product.Integral pillow stitching design, simple and lightweight, save time and effort. Note: pillows are inflatable. Pinch the mouth of the mouth to inflate the inside to inflate. Breathing time also need to pinch the gas mouthNeed to fill the air cushion, just turn the knob to open automatically to complete the inflatable, easy to operate. Storage also need to open the knob, press the exhaustManual measurement size inevitably has some errors that do not affect normal use. Customer satisfaction is our goal. If you have any questions about the products you receive, please contact us via our mail system. We will reply to you within 24 hours, as far as possible to solve your problem.Normally, we will be in the 1-3 days of delivery time to launch 9-15 days of products. We will deliver the product to you as soon as possible.
Single camping automatic inflatable pad length and width 185x55x2.5CM weight 900G internal filling: rebound sponge gas nozzle: automatic inflatable mouth. Process: can be spliced.
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Friends with Four Paws is looking for caring people like you. We need volunteers to open their hearts and homes to some of our animals. There are times where immediate foster placement is needed for some of the animals being rescued from death row at local animal shelters.
We are always accepting volunteers. We need volunteers for assisting at adoption events, handling dogs, transporting them and setting up and breaking down.
We are currently looking for temporary fosters in NY and NJ.
Can you open your heart and home to one of our rescue dogs? If you can assist us in housing a dog until we find them a forever home, your contribution will help save lives.
Fostering is an extremely rewarding, short term commitment.
We are a group with a shared passion for "Making a difference, four paws at a time."
If you are interested, please fill out our foster application.
How long will I be fostering for?
How much does fostering cost?
How does the transport program work?
What if my foster doesn’t get along with my dogs/cats/kids?
Where should I take my foster if there’s an emergency?
What if I’m going on vacation?
Where do potential adopters meet my foster?
When a potential adopter is interested we set up a meet and greet. Fosters are asked to meet with potential adopters at a convenient meeting location.
Can my foster sleepover at a friend’s?
What do I do if someone wants to adopt my foster?
What if I decide I want to adopt my foster?
How can I support FWFP if I can’t foster?
We are always accepting donations which help our rescue effort running. We are always seeking volunteers to assist with local transports, sew adopt me vests, post flyers, organize a supply drive at a local school or church, assist with adoption events, and anything you feel that would be helpful!
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1) Stitch out two heart sides, two small sides and one handle on one layer of heavy solvy. If the handle is to big for your hoop, you can use a satin ribbon instead.
2) Zigzag as many sides together as you can, leaving one side and the bottom open.
3) Let it soak in hot water, leave some of the solvy in for starch.
4) Let it flat dry.
5) When dry, sew the side and bottom.
6) Glue or sew the handle on, on the inside.
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To promote behavioral health and prevent mental illness and/or episodes through prevent, advocacy, empowerment, community awareness, peer support groups and recovery workshops. Our goal is to promote mental health recovery that will enable successful transition and integration into the community. Mental health recovery benefits everyone.
Our organization is a peer-run facility because we believe and understand that there is therapeutic value in peers helping peers. Our peers are State Cerified peer specialist.
We operate in a non judgmental and supportive environment. We serve mental health consumers. However; Everyone is welcome!
Would you recommend UNASHAMED - A MENTAL HEALTH SOCIETY INC?
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A waltz worthy of Astaire and Rogers. A tango straight from Buenos Aires. Turn the first dance into the most cherishing moment with our first choreographer-in-residence.
The renowned choreographer Marius Caluser will guide you through every step, with private classes at his Mayfair dance studio. If you are holding your wedding in our art deco Ballroom or the French Salon and Drawing Room, the introductory lesson and final rehearsal are courtesy of Claridge’s. The final rehearsal takes place in your chosen for your wedding setting, and includes a celebratory glass of champagne.
To create an effortless and elegant routine, Marius recommends an average of 5-7 lessons in between the complimentary sessions. These can be arranged directly with Marius, at an exclusive rate for couples holding their wedding at Claridge’s.
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Eighgth Grader, Jackson Bartak won the SJS Geography Bee in January. He then took the State Qualifying Test for the Geography Bee and had one of the top 100 scores in the state. He will now compete at the State Geography Bee at UNO on April 4th.
Jackson is the son of Stan and Kim Bartak. Congrats Jackson.
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The Open Government Partnership (OGP) was launched back in September 2011 when the governments of Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Norway, Philippines, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States took stance in favour of more transparent governance by signing the Open Government Declaration: The Open Government Partnership is a global effort to make governments better. We all want more transparent, effective and accountable governments — with institutions that empower citizens and are responsive to their aspirations. But this work is never easy. It takes political leadership. It takes technical knowledge. It takes sustained effort and investment. It takes collaboration between governments and civil society. Shortly after, the World Bank recognized the importance of the foundational principles of the Partnership and declared its support to the initiative “by facilitating knowledge exchanges and helping to build the capacity of OGP member countries to elaborate and implement their plans to become more open and responsive.” The OGP already has 50 members. Although several African countries have presented their action plans and three of them — South Africa, Tanzania, and Kenya — have already delivered their commitments, Africa is still trailing in involvement. The most recent OGP Africa meeting indicates that slow progress is being made, with Ghana and Liberia developing their respective ‘Action Plans’ in order to apply for membership at the Open Government Partnership.
A more detailed version is available on Global Voices Online website.
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– Ensure well owners make a productive use them: irrigation, livestock, water for neighbours, etc.
The SMART Centre Tanzania is coordinated by Eugenia Kimaro. She comes from Moshi, Kilimanjaro and has a background in Environmental Engineering.
Leire is the coordinator of the NjomBE BEyond project. She comes from Bilbao, Spain and has a background in Environmental Engineering.
Sola is a volunteer with a background in Urban Planning and Community Development. She works in WARIDI project (SHIPO project) as well.
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Ways To Support Our Work – Nolef Turns, Inc.
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Nolef Turns Inc. believes in community. We volunteer at various events around the Richmond City and surrounding areas, to feed the less fortunate. We currently accept non-perishable food items for recently released individuals and for individuals experiencing hardships or homelessness. We will also accept cash/credit donations or local grocery store gift cards for individuals in transitional housing or experiencing homelessness, who may not be able to store a large amount of items.
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We are very grateful for your contribution and for your efforts to support Nolef Turns, Inc. as we build an even stronger and more inclusive Virginia for all of our citizens. We are a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization and all donations are tax-deductible.
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I love this hill. I usually wheel past it on the last stretch in my chair along the river before turning up the hill to my home. It is always nice and green and gives a good contrast to the sky especially if there are clouds.
This morning was a busy morning up to now. I forgot to upload a couple of photos yesterday from the camera and decided to deal with it first of all, meaning firing up my windows computer. Having completed that task, I noticed that my cat had some recycling traces in her box which I had to empty. I had a few things to sort out in the kitchen, the general opening of the blinds and letting the fresh air into the apartment. Also refreshing my cat’s water bowl outside and phoning up the garage.
Since having my own car I have to organise things like fitting the summer tyres and removing the winter tyres. The guy at the garage dealing with it who I have known since at least 30 years, gave me an appointment for April. I don’t know how it is done in other countries, but in Switzerland we generally have two sets of tyres for the car due to the winter and summer driving conditions on the road. If you buy a car they usually have the summer tyres. The winter tyres, which are more expensive because heavy duty, you buy extra. The tyres are stored at the garage until I need them. I do not want to have them at home, meaning I would have to bring them every time I have a change. With the amount of kilometres I drive throughout the year, my tyres will probably last for at least 10 years – I hope.
Mr. Swiss has a couple of appointments in April and I can only give the car on a Tuesday or Thursday as I otherwise need it for shopping. The garage guy said they do it in half an hour, so I can wait at the garage. Otherwise it would mean organising a taxi for backwards and forwards as I am no longer so mobile without a car.
Since the gardener tidied up my garden I can now actually see what is growing. I was pleased to see that my peonies are already poking through, as well as the remains of my tulips which have been many years in the garden and never fail to arrive annually.
He also removed the weeds that were engulfing my christ rose and now I can actually see how well it has grown.
Yesterday was quite an afternoon shopping with Mr. Swiss. It was again a carefully planned operation but we had completed it in an hour. Mr. Swiss also took a trolley to lean on and when we met before paying at the cash desk I transferred his choices into my trolley. He does not get out so much now and makes the most of it when he can. His major target was getting the ink cartridges for our computer, but he also tanked up on various biscuits and other delicacies. It is a relatively new experience for me to be his chauffeuse, but it works well.
This afternoon I plan on another excursion into the wild in my wheelchair. There is so much happening at the moment in nature and I do not want to miss anything. Even the ducks are now swimming in pairs on the river, it seems to be family time.
Thursday is usually a quiet morning if we do not have to change the bed linen, which is the case today, so I have more time to deal with this and that, although I am up to date with most of the household chores.
Make the most of the day (and sleep well for those that now have night). I leave you with the forsythia bush that is now flowering its heart out in our area.
Yes, a beautiful description of how glorious our life can be even though we all battle with some obstacles or others.
We get our summer tires (on wheels) fitted next Monday, HH needing the car ALL THE TIME and coming Monday was the only day he stayes in F for part of the day….
Good Morning! (I happened to get here in time with a few extra minutes, but will be on my way now.) You have more greenery than typical, but I suppose it is that time of year. Forsythias are excellent, but since posting pictures of the first few that I ever worked with, I find that they are common in other regions, like oleander is here. Oh well; they are exquisite to me. I intend to make copies of them to plant on the outskirts of the landscaped areas, in the transition zone into the forests. They look so woodsy. Peonies must do well in that climate. I wrote about them a long time ago, but only because I got a good picture of them while in Oregon. Anyway, I did not mean to ramble on so; Good Morning!
Ramble away, I am learning constantly. Forsythia is one of the first to flower here after Winter. We have to keep our oleander in a glasshouse in Winter to stop it freezing. Peonies do well here.
They are one of the first bushes to flower. But Bear digs his holes for his bones.
Here in Melbourne we don’t have to change our tyres until they wear out. Thankfully.
It is so spring-like there! I think we will see the beginning here soon because it’s warming up.
We used to do the two-tire thing, but now we get “all weather” tires that are designed for 4-wheel drive cars. You just drive them all year and about every three years, you replace them. Winter is so long here and you never know when the snow will begin. Sometimes, it starts early in November and stays on the ground until Easter, so the switching gets complicated.
Very nice to see the gleam on your river and the forsythia. Ours should bloom in a couple of weeks. Everything blooms late here because it’s dark from all the tall trees, but we get there. Eventually.
We are now into Spring and today should be warm and no more cold breeze.
We can also get all weather tyres, also for the 4 wheel drive, but mainly you just your tyres. I am glad they do it straight away so I just have to wait half an hour. Our first snow is usually some time in November and it makes a pause until end December, or can continue. We have had snow into April. There will be a cold spell at the end of next week apparently and might be a few snow flocks, but nothing big time.
Everything is spring up now and it is a delight to see it all. I seem to be getting sentimental in my old age.
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Jer 25:3 - From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.
Jer 25:4 - And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.
Jer 25:6 - And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.
Jer 25:7 - Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.
Jer 25:9 - Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
Jer 25:10 - Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.
Jer 25:12 - And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
Jer 25:14 - For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.
Jer 25:15 - For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.
Jer 25:16 - And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
Jer 25:26 - And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
Jer 25:27 - Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
Jer 25:28 - And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.
Jer 25:29 - For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.
Jer 25:30 - Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.
Jer 25:31 - A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.
Jer 25:32 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.
Jer 25:33 - And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.
Jer 25:34 - Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.
Jer 25:36 - A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD hath spoiled their pasture.
Jer 25:37 - And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
Jer 25:38 - He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.
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Contract Purchase is the funding facility which gives you the option to own the vehicle at the end of the contract. Typically suited for higher value vehicles or companies who cannot re-claim VAT. As with Contract Hire you have the option of a maintenance contract. The payments do not attract VAT.
If your company is restricted to the amount of VAT it is able to reclaim, or you have several expensive (typically in excess of £25k) cars in your fleet, it may make financial sense to retain ownership of your vehicles.
Contract Purchase offers all the operational, managerial and administrative benefits of Contract Hire, together with the tax efficient benefits of ownership, such as the ability to claim capital allowances.
- Your company enters into a finance agreement for the vehicle for a pre-determined period at a fixed monthly rate.
- You can choose to include maintenance cover with full breakdown and recovery assistance, keeping the driver on the road without involving the company in complex or costly administration.
- You retain the tax benefits of ownership throughout the contract, with the option to take full legal ownership at the end of the term.
- Removes disposal risk and protects you future profits.
- A maintenance inclusive contract will remove the inherent risks associated with running a vehicle.
- Your monthly outgoings are fixed and incorporate realistic running costs, giving you greater budgetary control.
- Credit lines can be better utilised for investment in your core business.
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It is Travel Tuesday again, and we want to talk to you about cruising. Have you ever been on a cruise? If not, you may wonder what it is like – and one of the most asked questions is ‘Will I get sea sick?’ Well, why not try one of many taster cruises from £249?
Mummy has been on a few of these, and says they are a brilliant way to see if cruising is for you. Usually one or two nights, sailing from Southampton, you really get the full experience of parking and checking in at the port, embarking the ship, and having the big sail off. And none of the hassle, extra charges or luggage size and weight restrictions of flying.
The first night sees a full dining experience, where you can dress up a much as you want. Some will wear full dinner suits and gowns, or you can dress less formally. Enjoy the entertainment after your meal, and finish off with a dance, or a little flutter in the casino.
Wake up at the next port – that is the best thing about cruising, you have fun whilst you are travelling! Enjoy breakfast over looking the port, or a seaview.
You can choose to just stay on board for the trip, or you may decide to explore the port(s) you arrive in. Mummy has been to Zeebrugge where she caught the train into Bruges.
If you do stay on board you could choose an activity or a spa treatment, or just relax by the pool. Curl up with a book in a cosy corner, or visit the gym. There is so much to do, you will always find something – as well as eating!
We have searched around for you to bring together some great taster cruises available this year. You really can cruise from £249, and with accommodation, food and all entertainment included, cruising is great value for money.
P&O Cruises – 2 nights. Southampton to Zeebrugge from £249 pp 16 February 2016 – The ship is the Ventura which is family friendly.
Princess Cruises – 3 nights. Southampton to Guernsey from £249pp 23 April 2016 – The ship is The Emerald Princess which is family friendly. Mummy went on board another Princess cruise ship The Royal Princess last year.
Royal Caribbean – 3 nights. Southampton to Zeebrugge and Normandy from £299pp 23 October 2016 – The ship is the Independence of the Seas which is family friendly.
There are lots more cruise lines offering all sorts of cruises, but these are three of the best we have found. What do you think, are you tempted?
I had never cruised before November and would love to do a full one now. Me and the teen had a fab time.
I’ve never heard of these short cruises before, but they sound fantastic. It’s definitely going on the “to do” list!
We’ve heard of the Ventura before. We must really go on a cruise soon as we live near to Southampton! 🙂 It sounds wonderful and the stops look good too!
I have been on a ferry before but never a cruise. Because I get so sick it is not a viable concept for me but I like that they are shorter than the norm!
The nearest ive got to a cruise is an overnight ferry to Zebrugge which is nowhere near as glamourous as this is.
I would really lovely to go on a cruise, my ideal one would be to Scandinavia – I love the idea of these short cruises and great value too!
My Husband is a travel counsellor and sells lots of cruises, sounds like you have been on a fair few, I have only been once but loved it, especially the food!
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I LOVE the idea of a cruise, i just couldn’t bring myself to do one though. Im so scared of feeling sick on the boat.
That’s such a bargain price. I’ve never been on a cruise athough I would like to try one.
I would definitely be tempted by these. I went on board a Royal Caribbean ship for the day, and was impressed. So much delicious food and fun activities on offer!
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The schools return in September and so does Froxfield Choir! Our first rehearsal is on Thursday 6 September at 7.45 pm in Froxfield Village Hall. The AGM will be on Thursday 4 October. We always welcome new singers to the choir (particularly male voices). If you are interested in coming along to a rehearsal please contact us through the website or call the chairman, Sue Clegg, on 01730 827505.
2018/2019 is going to be a busy one for the choir. Our November concert is on Saturday 10 November in St Peter’s, High Cross and, as it is the eve of Remembrance Sunday and the centenary of the end of WW1, it will be a Remembrance concert with pieces by Hubert Parry, George Butterworth and Edward Thomas interspersed with readings. This black-tie event, organised in conjunction with the Froxfield Village Fundraising Committee, will be followed by a candlelit reception and dinner in the Village Hall.
Christmas dates: Saturday 1 December, Gilbert White Museum; Sunday 16 December at 6.30pm Privett Carol Service. Choral evensong will be on Sunday 10 February 2019 (venue tbc), and there will be a spring event (tbc) on Saturday 6 April 2019. The summer concert will be on Saturday 15 June 2019 and will be the gala finale to the village’s fund-raising year. The repertoire will include Zimbe! by Alexander L’Estrange, written for an adult and children’s choir.
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You can renew items by going to HUGO. Log in with your HU-account. The loan can be renewed for a maximum number of 12 times or until the material is reserved by another borrower.
Go to HUGO and look for the item you wish to reserve.
Click the button 'Reserve', log in with your HU-account ('Reserveren' in the Dutch interface).
You will receive an email as soon as the title is available on the chosen location.
Should you need more help please contact the library.
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It was pretty interesting, I guess. I was excited to learn that there is a point where alcohol can’t get any stronger through distillation. Or something. Science isn’t my strong point. In case you’re wondering, it’s around 191.2 proof, or roughly my BAC Monday morning after the Mets lost.
In addition to learning about fermentation and chemistry, you get to taste the vodka, which tastes like…vodka. They also make gin and limoncello and you can buy a handful of delicious cocktails and some snacks (empanadas, mostly. I didn’t try them). You can also buy stuff to make your own limoncello, although why you’d wanna do that when you can just order from Drizly, is beyond me. But hey, maybe you’re not as lazy as I am.
*I just finished watching Friday Night Lights on Netflix and I’ve been channeling my inner Mrs. Coach Taylor.
Pink drinks are the best drinks!
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Several Halloween-related events take place throughout town today. All events are free of charge.
Round Rock Parks and Recreation’s annual Fall Fun Festival takes place from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Lakeview Pavilion at Old Settlers Park. Children of all ages are invited to take part in carnival games, hayrides, food and more. Costumes are encouraged.
Participants are invited to bring canned goods to donate to the Round Rock Area Serving Center.
The Round Rock Public Library hosts a baby costume party at 9:30 a.m. Children up to age 18 months are invited to take part. Costumes are welcome. No pre-registration is required.
From 6-8 p.m., teens may enjoy Halloween games, decorations and refreshments at the library. Costumes are encouraged.
The library is located at 216 E. Main.
Medicine in Motion and Family Tree Dental Group are participating in Operation Gratitude’s Halloween Candy Buyback program.
This Halloween, trick-or-treaters of any age can bring their excess candy to Medicine in Motion’s north Austin office or Family Tree Dental’s central Austin and Round Rock offices to receive $1 per pound.
The sweets will then be placed in care packages that will be sent to U.S. service members deployed in hostile regions, to their children left behind and to veterans, first responders, wounded warriors and their caregivers.
Drs. Martha Pyron and Chad Denman are spearheading their offices’ participation.
The Family Tree Dental Group Round Rock location is at 200 N. Red Bud Lane.
"We all know that Halloween candy is bad for us. But what parents may not realize is that the excessive sugar in many of these treats causes an insulin boost and a sugar spike that leaves the kids craving more," Pryon said in a written statement. "In fact, studies have shown that these sugar-heavy foods can cause a chemical change in the brain along the same level of those changes caused by drugs."
Unopened candy and treats will be collected at Family Tree Dental Group’s Round Rock location on Oct. 31, Nov. 1 and Nov. 4 during normal business hours.
In 2011 and 2012, Family Tree Dental’s two offices collected about 300 pounds of Halloween treats.
St. William Catholic Church will host its annual arts and crafts show Nov. 2 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Non-perishable food items for the St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry will be collected at the door. Approximately 30 vendors are expected to display items ranging from religious jewelry to Christmas decorations.
The event takes place at the St. William Pavilion at 620 Round Rock West; admission is free.
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Discussion in 'Humor - Jokes - Games and Diversions' started by CRC, Oct 31, 2006.
This morning, from a cave somewhere in Pakistan, Taliban Minister of Migration, Khalid Sheik Mohammed Omar Sahib Skyhook, warned the United States that if military action against Iraq continues, Taliban authorities will cut off America's supply of convenience store managers. And if this action does not yield sufficient results, cab drivers will be next, followed by AOL & Dell customer service reps.
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The Get Together Fundraising Campaign for Foodlink, Inc. - Giveffect, Inc.
For four decades and counting, Foodlink has been leveraging the power of food to end hunger and build healthier communities. On Saturday, May 18, 2019, our inaugural evening fundraiser will welcome over 300 guests to experience Foodlink first-hand — with a strolling cocktail tour, live entertainment, and an elegant meal right on the Foodlink lawn. We’ll be showcasing 40 stories from community members, volunteers, and partner organizations in honor of 40 years of social innovation.
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i was admitted to cal tech and MIT and am happy i chose cal poly instead. you get personal instruction from ivy league educated professors here and the facilities are top notch. this year our rose float that we built was the first in history to win two awards. the campus is spectacular at a bargain price. admissions are getting tougher but give it a look!
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Sentencing for Dawn Wright-Olivares, a former Zeek Rewards’ executive who pleaded guilty in February 2014 to investment-fraud conspiracy and tax-fraud conspiracy, has been postponed, the office of U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose of the Western District of North Carolina said today.
Wright-Olivares, whose age was listed as 45 by federal prosecutors at the time of her guilty plea, was to have been sentenced yesterday at 2:30 pm EDT before U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn Jr., according to the government’s Victim/Witness site for the Zeek Ponzi- and pyramid case.
No new sentencing date has been scheduled for Wright-Olivares, prosecutors said.
Accused Zeek operator Paul R. Burks is not expected to go on trial until at least May of 2016.
Zeek’s alleged haul clocked in at about $897 million. In terms of the number of victims, it appears to one of the two largest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history, possibly trailing only the TelexFree MLM scheme.
Visit the website of the court-appointed receiver in the civil portion of the Zeek case. The latest update was posted Oct. 22.
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Nikola Tesla (1856-1943): prolific inventor, developed alternating current (AC), was hugely famous in his lifetime, but died impoverished and in debt and mostly forgotten.
Skull Appreciation Shirts On Sale!
In the spirit of this spooky season we've put the last of our Skull Appreciation shirts on sale!
The remaining men's and women's shirts in both black and silver on soft eco-friendly fabrics are just a mere lucky $13 until they're all gone!
Once they run out we won't be reprinting so don't miss out on this last chance to show your skull love to the world on your chest. Get them HERE.
Don't forget to make a reservation for some time to sign up for our latest giveaway. You only have until 11:59:59 PM Eastern Time, Friday Nov. 1st to get entered to win one of 4 FREE sugar skull items from Casa Del Barco Restaurant in Richmond, VA.
Returning contributor, Brent Griffith, is back today with something completely different from his pen and marker drawings that we featured before. This time he's armed with "only my phone, my fingers and various apps". I especially like the "kaleidoscope" looking backgrounds. A bit of colorful fun for such a creepy cranium. Thanks again for sharing your work with us, Brent!
The other participating artists include Linda Ayala, Marsha Gray Carrington, Sean Carroll, Hector Castellanos-Lara, Daniel Corrigan, R!ch Cihlar, John Gulyas & Maryann Posch, Joshua Haplea, Nina Vivian Huryn, Salavador Jimenez, George Kocar, Craig Matis, Amanda Plavan, Dante Rodriguez, Andrew Shannon and Gary Spinosa.
If you're in the area you can find out more about the exhibition HERE.
"Using recipes passed down from his Hispanic grandmother, Executive Chef Todd Richardson aims to bring a new twist on traditional Mexican dishes to Richmond. Unique entrées such as Beef Barbacoa Enchiladas, Gaucho Cut Skirt Steak, and Blackstrap Molasses-Glazed Salmon will delight visitors as they dine in the historic circa 1890s Reynolds Metals Italianate building, featuring recycled and repurposed materials throughout, from the tabletops to the bar’s foot rail. Casa Del Barco boasts a growing list of over 100 different tequilas, sure to please the casual spirit drinker to the seasoned aficionado."
PRIZE INFO: Four lucky winners will receive one of the following prizes: 1- CDB skull flask, 1- CDB skull bamboo iPhone cover (Sizes: 4s, 5, 5s or 5c),1- CDB skull t-shirt (mens and/or womens), 1- set of 4 CDB sugar skull pint glasses. One prize per winner.
HOW TO ENTER(this is important): Leave a comment stating your opinion on whether you think it's "tequila" or "ta-kill-ya". No offense to you tequila connoisseurs, but I say it's the latter(I'm a scotch and whiskey kind of guy). I also know - to each their own and I want to know where you stand. p.s.- Since the iPhone case is such a specific prize, and not everyone may need that, please also include "iPhone- yes" or "iPhone-no" in your comment. That way we will know and send it to an appropriate winner. Thanks!
CONTACT INFO: If you win, we need to contact you. With your comment you must include your email address. Entries are only valid with this information! You can break it up to avoid spammers(i.e. skulladayfan AT skulladay dot com).
CONTEST CLOSES: 11:59:59 PM Eastern Time Friday, November 1st.
PRIZE SHIPS: To skull lovers across N. America. Sorry to those overseas.
IF YOU DON'T WIN: You can visit Case Del Barco yourself if you are in the Richmond, VA area. Check out their site to find out more on where to find them and about what's happening at Richmond’s premiere dining destination for upscale Mexican cuisine, waterfront dining and a one-of-a-kind tequila bar. Thanks to Casa Del Barco for these awesome giveaways and The Flores Shop for designing them!
Today's simulacrum come from separate locations, but I'd swear they were separated at birth. Emily from Philadelphia, PA found the first long lost twin, and our own skull master, Noah, found the second in Richmond, VA. It's hard enough to find these sneaky skulls, but to see the striking resemblances between these two leads me to believe that they MUST be from the same family. I'm sure a dendrologist could help me out, if I only knew one. Thanks for sharing your finds with us, Emily and Noah!
Of course you can say that pretty much ALL of the artwork we share on Skull-A-Day is Halloween related, but I had a really serious feeling of this with the first piece here from Karen Dittman. "Blue Bonnet" has that eerie, deep in the woods, crazy lady gonna getcha vibe that you can only get with a great scary story around a campfire in the fall. Thanks for creeping me out, Karen(in a good way!).
Paula Osbun, of The Grinning Skull, created these clay skulls. These necklaces are her signature style and available for sale on her website. With Dia de los Muertos in a few days, these cheerful skulls would be a perfect addition to any calavera costume. However, if you are like me, they are great any time of the year.
Charles Darwin (1809- 1882): developed the theory of evolution known as natural selection, which he based in part on observations of birds in the Galápagos. The theory was nearly universally accepted by scientists by the time he died, but has been consistently reputed by religious fundamentalists ever since.
Here are a few shots from my exhibition Natural Selection, currently on display at Krause Gallery in NYC running now through November 24. If you're in the area please stop by and check it out! Details are HERE.
I created a new Skeletube for the Think Small exhibition opening this week at Artspace in Richmond, VA. The show requires all work to be 3" x 3" (x3") or smaller and this hand-painted vacuum definitely fits that requirement.
See my previous Skeletube creations HERE and hey, if you want to own one, check out the Skeletube Store!
Skeleton Cardboard painted these skeletons on old prints that he found discarded on the curb and destined for the garbage. Skeleton Cardboard is in London and has been painting skeletons on anything they can find (mainly cardboard) for about a year now. Street art is becoming a more respected artform, and one I admire. For this artwork below, I like that the artist is reusing old found artwork and adding their own skeletons to it. There are a few artists that do similar things with monsters, but I hadn't seen someone do this with skeletons, so of course I'm intrigued. You can find more of their artwork on Facebook and Instagram.
I don't want to say that today's simulacra are s#!++y, but that would be a technically accurate statement. The first of these excellent excrement captures is from Carolyn Tuttle in Richmond, VA and the second is a night shot from Tim McGinnis in Willoughby, OH. I apologize for the language(I WAS a sailor once), but like my Dad the umpire always taught me, "You gotta call'em like you see'em." Thanks for sharing these, Carolyn and Tim!
Tony Yarbray has a peculiar way of fulfilling a request with this skull stencil. He tells us, "This young lady asked me to ruin her jacket for her a couple of years back so I started to cut the sleeves off it for her, but then she told me she just wanted me to spray the skull stencil I had made on it. When some kids saw her do that they all wanted a skull on their shirts. I hope their parents didn't whoop them." I hope so too, Tony, but I'm sure everyone was okay in the end with their new additions of skullrific decorations. Thanks for sharing it with us, and not getting us whooped!
Dirk Wild of Pennsylvania created this watercolor skull. Watercolor has become one of my favorite mediums to work with. It's great to build and reduce color intensity, and manipulate the shapes and blending. It had a mix of softness and strength that can help create beautiful paintings like this one. With the blurred background, it looks as if the skull is sitting on a blanket in the clearing of a dark forest. Perhaps it's being discovered, or buried...only the artist truly knows.
[BONUS] 412. Pumpkin Anatomy III: It's the Great Pumpkin!
After carving a pumpkin with a skull and a pumpkin with a brain previously, I decided I really wanted to carve a skeleton pumpkin this year. I knew I would make the rib cage and head out of two separate white pumpkins, but wasn't sure if how to accomplish the arms. At first I was going to just leave them off. But when I was sorting through the haul from my family's recent visit to the pumpkin patch I discovered that I had two funky gourds that fit this bill perfectly, and required no carving! How's that for some creative serendipity?
You can also see my original Skull-A-Day project pumpkin carving HERE.
Have you made your own skull/skeleton pumpkin carving, or heck, if you give this design a try this year, send us a pick to share!
Septerhed is the alias of today's artist. This piece titled "Blooddemon" has me recalling creepy medieval times of haunting demons and the foreboding art of their beware. I think I need to go repent or something now. Thanks for sharing this, Septerhed!
Natural Selection, my exhibition of portraits of scientists and their skulls opens tomorrow in NYC. If you're in the area I hope you'll check it out!
The show runs through November 24 at Krause Gallery in the Lower East Side. RSVP for the opening reception HERE.
Karen Kuttner is an Austrian painter of skulls who works with mixed media also. This piece is her favorite one titled "Der Dackel Waldi ist auch tot". She adds, "I hope you like my little dead dog!" Of course we would rather have a little live dog, but the way she has resurrected this dog and skull show is quite impressive. Thanks for sharing it, Karen!
Mike Diana created this demon skull. With Halloween a few weeks away, this creation seems appropriate. The origins of Halloween in it's current form, are mixed. Demons imagery is commonly used during Halloween, and are found in many Halloween histories.
As the summer season has slipped on by for most of us, we welcome in fall and the festivities it brings. Luckily, grilling outdoors is a past time that extends to both seasons, and drinking beer is well, a year round activity. So this Sunday I would like to thank Carol Ann Dreistadt who noticed this skull in her Heineken in Woodbridge VA, and Rachel Bender for the delicious looking pork chop skull. I hope that all of you have a fall filled with similar results. Enjoy!
Sometimes the hardest part of being a Skull-A-Day editor is trying to decide which piece(s) of art to display from the submissions we get. Espcecially when any one artist decides to submit a whole handful of wonderful work. So, sometimes you just gotta say F*@k it and do what feels best(which is a pretty zen thing to do actually, thank you Sarah!) and post all of them. Today is an excellent case in point from ARTmuffin. These pieces are just a small assortment of what lies ahead for you to discover on his site. I'll let him tell you a little more, "My art is created with the concept of being pages from a lost book or temple from another culture in another dimension. The work is often human, alien, or animal anatomy with what appears to be a kind of hieroglyphic writing and symbolism accompanying the subject. The pages vary from anatomical description to ceremonial preparation to the preservation of a history. All pages are from 'The Book of Gosh'."
ARTmuffin hits it dead on the head for me. I love skulls, Geometry, ancient history, and mystery. He's got all of that going here as well as a myriad of other skullacious works that could fill a month's worth of posts for us. It's a great collection of awesome work. Plus, ARTmuffin is doing more awesome work by donating a portion of any of his sales to the charity of your choice. He's letting your love of art go directly to helping others. There's no better way to serve humanity while indulging into some fantastic skull art. Thanks for sharing all of these, ARTmuffin!
Eike explains, "These are collage made of old hiking maps (37 x 37) on bristol pasteboard 50 x 50." This is an interesting reuse of materials. Reminds me of Noah's Skull Island. I wonder how these locations would look in person, if they were actually rearranged into a skull.
Coen Velden, from Geldern, Germany, created this snow skull on their garden table, spontaneously last Winter. With the weather cooling down here, snow is on it's way. We don't get much here in Richmond, VA, but Tatman gets feet for months in Michigan. Normally our amount is only enough to make a thin skull like Coen's or this Snow Skull Noah made in NYC However, there is the rare season every few years where creations like Noah and Paul's Snow Skull is possible. I'm hoping for a Winter like that...granted that I've stocked up with hot coco and popcorn before it arrives.
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Verity’s all about protecting her city, but right now that’s mostly running surveillance and handling the less exciting cases for the Weyrd Council after all, it’s hard to chase the bad guys through the streets of Brisbane when you’re really, really pregnant.
An insurance investigation sounds pretty harmless, even if it is for ‘Unusual Happenstance’. That’s not usually a clause Normals use — it covers all-purpose hauntings, angry genii loci, ectoplasmic home invasion, demonic possession, that sort of thing — but Susan Beckett’s claimed three times in three months. Her house keeps getting inundated with mud, but she’s still insisting she doesn’t need or want help . . . until the dry-land drownings begin.
As I’ve mentioned before, I love a good urban fantasy and Angela Slatter’s Verity Fassbinder series is turning out to be one of my favourites. Corpselight does some unusual things with the genre.
For a start, it’s refreshing to see a pregnant protagonist. And I don’t mean just pregnant, I mean almost-ready-to-drop pregnant. This raises the stakes in some interesting ways. Verity has scaled back her activities as an investigator for the Council, but events conspire to draw her in. She’s forced to weigh her duty to the Weyrd community against her daughter’s safety.
The theme of motherhood plays out in several strands of the book. In particular, it is concerned with neglectful mothers and examines where this can be fairly benign all the way through to where it facilitates abuse. Readers should be warned the story is quite dark in places, involving off-screen family abuse and on-screen suicide.
The book is not without humour, however. Fassbinder’s Law of Handbags made me chuckle, and I cackled out loud at numerous points of the story. I also appreciate a book that takes its cake seriously… though marshmallow and caramel sounds a bit sweet for me.
One of my criticisms of Vigil was its depiction of Verity’s love interest, David. I was pleased to see him get a little more screen time in Corpselight. He’s still a relatively shallow character–but this is by design. It reverses the gender dynamics often present in male-led urban fantasy and noir. David is the supportive spouse, there to love and enable Verity. While this was also true of Vigil, his added screen time gives weight to the affection he and Verity share.
The story kept me on my toes. Every time I thought I’d figured out the direction it was going, it proved me wrong. The ending, in particular, shook things up and I’ll be interested to see how events play out in the sequel.
Overall, I found Corpselight to be a thoughtful example of urban fantasy and an excellent continuation of the series.
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System A has problems, where it will fail deterministically in a random 10% subset of cases.
System B has different problems, where it will fail deterministically in a different random 10% subset of cases.
Assuming the problems in each system are independent, the chance that a particular failure mode affects both system A and system B is only 10%*10% = 1%. Thus, the chance that a problem which occurs in system A, is gone when you switch to system B, is about 90%.
And that's why replacing your broken wifi router with a different wifi router usually makes your problem go away.
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The drying tube angled at 75Degree with an inner joint at one end and an Open end which can be blocked by cotton.
Drying tube is a tube-like piece of apparatus used to keeping the vessel free of moisture,often used in organic syntheses.
There is usually a standard joint for use in connecting the drying tube to a reaction flask . In use, the drying tube is filled with a rechargeable desiccant such as calcium chloride, and the open end of drying tube is partially blocked. This 75 Degree bent drying tube with an inner joint at one end and an Open end which can be blocked by cotton.
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the vertical post on which a gate is suspended by hinges, or the post against which the gate is closed.
They went around to the rear of the building, where they saw a horse, attached to a light wagon, hitched to a gatepost near the door of the dissecting-room.
A bald, well-preserved old man, with a broad, red beard, gray on his cheeks, opened the gate, squeezing against the gatepost to let the three horses pass.
She took off the thick boots in which she had walked thus far, put on her pretty thin ones of patent leather, and, stuffing the former into the hedge by the gatepost where she might readily find them again, descended the hill; the freshness of colour she had derived from the keen air thinning away in spite of her as she drew near the parsonage.
As we went by the footpath and beside the gateposts and the unfinished lodge, we kept looking back at the house of my fathers.
Whether it was brought in by the birds of the air, or came blowing in with the very air itself, when the casement windows were set open; whether the baker brought it kneaded into the bread, or the milkman delivered it as part of the adulteration of his milk; or the housemaids, beating the dust out of their mats against the gateposts, received it in exchange deposited on the mats by the town atmosphere; certain it is that the news permeated every gable of the old building before Miss Twinkleton was down, and that Miss Twinkleton herself received it through Mrs.
Getting a gatepost made and transported was very expensive.
The bomb, left on a gatepost, exploded at around 8pm at St James Park in West Belfast.
In St Helens, a driver died after his car collided with a gatepost.
Channon saddles Gatepost, who finished fifth behind Power in the Coventry, and said: "I would say Frederick Engels has been the most impressive two-year-old so far and Lilbourne Lad looks pretty decent too.
Not totally disgraced when he made his debut in a red-hot maiden at York won by the well-regarded Gatepost, he ran out of his skin next time at Ripon.
A FAMILY with young children had a narrow escape after a device left on a gatepost outside their house exploded in one of two bomb attacks last night.
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In case you have ever utilized the Microsoft Office Outlook like your e-mail patron within your private computer, you may have observed some deferral in the time it consumes your received mail to reach compared to while utilizing web-based facilities like Gmail/ Yahoo/Outlook.com that characteristically auto refresh your inbox records on every occasion a new email is received by your account. In this article, we are going to offer you the method to enable your Outlook inbox to update spontaneously at smaller intervals of time so that your inbox remains up-to-date at all times.
First, you have to open the Outlook web application and then click on the Send or Receive button.
Then, you have to click on Send or Receive Groups’ drop down box and choose “Define Send/Receive Groups”.
In every single account, you need to click on “Schedule an Automatic Send/Receive every”.
Adjust the value of the minutes to 30 to an even smaller number. Keep in mind that assigning this value below 5 minutes might give rise to repeated entries inside your inbox.
Following the change, you have to close the dialog panel.
Then, your respective Outlook Mail’s Inbox is going to automatically refresh within every time interval that you assigned before.
It is indeed probable to fix down an individual refresh rate interim of your Outlook inbox.
Subsequently, fix the Schedule an automatic value for the necessary refresh frequency. Be careful about the information that too recurrent updates might give rise to duplicate emails in your inbox.
After that, click on Apply.
Similar to the section we have provided above, just make sure that the Contacts folder has been marked for automatic synchronization.
To update the Outlook Inbox Instantaneously, Press the F9 button on your keyboard.
We might as well move into the Send/Receive menu and then click on the Send/Receive All Folders, which is going to refresh your mailboxes.
How Do You Archive Emails in Outlook?
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Market Pulse: Should you hedge your bond portfolio?
The Fed raised rates last week and is expected to do so again in the fall. Long-term rates might rise, too, if economic activity accelerates. Is it time to hedge your bond portfolio to limit your risk?
Many people think so. Some investors are hedging portfolios by owning the Direxion Daily 20-Year Treasury Bear 3X (TMV), a fund that attempts to deliver triple the daily inverse returns in treasuries, or the ProShares Short 20+ Year Treasury (TBF), which moves inverse to treasuries but without leverage. But buyer beware.
Leveraged and inverse funds serve a purpose for day traders, but are not good long-term investments. Just look at 2008. Suppose someone had the foresight to predict the fall in real estate values and bought ProShares UltraShort Real Estate (SRS).
If the investor bought SRS on Oct. 1, 2008, right before the financial collapse, and held it through the rest of that year, the investor would have been right but would have lost 30 percent. Another example, Chinese stocks lost half their value from mid-March 2008 through October 2008, but ProShares Ultra-Short China (FXP) lost nearly 20 percent of its value. So leverage cuts both ways.
Some bond exchanged-traded funds (ETFs) place hedges more efficiently by matching durations to their bond holdings. Two good examples are ProShares Investment Grade Interest Rate Hedged (IGHG) and ProShares High Yield Interest Rate Hedged (HYHG).
I’m not hedging my fixed-income portfolio. I’ve avoided treasuries and short-term investment-grade corporates because their low yields make them vulnerable to rising rates. Rates would have to go much higher, however, to make high-yielding bonds and non-real estate investment trust (REIT) preferreds unattractive. I don’t expect that.
For a few years it was widely assumed that interest rates will head higher. When everyone is on one side of a trade count on a move in the opposite direction. I don’t expect much higher rates (see my March 16 article) and hold no hedges in my portfolio. Still, for those who want to protect their portfolio from rising rates, there are some good ETF choices.
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GitLab Community Edition is an open source application that allows a team or developer to manage their project on their own servers, it’s an alternative to GitHub. GitLab Community Edition is designed to be hosted on our own infrastructure, and it provides flexibility in deploying as an internal repository store for our development team, a public way to interface with users, or a means for contributors to host their own projects. GitLab also provides our teams a single data store, one user interface, and one permission model across the DevOps life-cycle allowing teams to collaborate that would significantly reduce cycle time and focus exclusively on building great software quickly. In this article, we will show you How to Install GitLab on Debian 9. GitLab will use some ports on your server, so we encourage you to install this on a fresh server to avoid any conflict with your existing applications.
Add the GitLab package repository.
Before starting with the GitLab installation, it is encouraged to check that our system package database is up to date.
In this tutorial, we will install GitLab CE (Community Edition), and we have to add the package repository to continue with the installation.
Next, we need to edit the gitlab.rb file, find external_url string and edit it to your server IP address or domain you want to use to access GitLab.
The installation will take a few minutes to complete, it will automatically configure and install nginx web server to run GitLab at that defined URL.
Once completed, navigate to your server IP address or domain name you previously specified in external_url in /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rg in a web browser, you will need to create a new password.
Once created you can log in to your GitLab backend using “root” user and the new password you created earlier. You can change this “root” username in Settings – Account.
The default data backup will be stored in /var/opt/gitlab/backups. You can modify this backup path in /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb file. If you made changes to the backup configuration, do not forget to run the following command to create the backup.
You can also add the same command in the cron job to backup your data.
That’s it, GitLab has been successfully installed and running on your Debian 9 server, you and your team can start working with it now.
Of course, you don’t have to install GitLab on Debian 9 if you have a Debian VPS Hosting with us. You can simply ask our support team to install GitLab on Debian 9 for you. They are available 24/7 and will be able to help you with the installation of GitLab on Debian 9.
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Rami Fadayel’s parents, Rizik and Muna, and his aunt Samia attended Rami’s commencement exercises in 2002 at Birzeit University, where he received a degree in accounting. They wanted to hear his name being called out. Rami himself could not be at the commencement. He was wanted by the Israeli forces and did not risk passing through the check point at Surda to get to Birzeit.
Rami, who is now 24 years old, was likewise absent from his own engagement party, which his family held for him on April 4, 2004, on the Day of the Palestinian Prisoner. Arrested on January 11, 2003, he was in Ofar prison in Ramallah serving a sentence of 42 months. He is still there with 1,200 other prisoners living in tents, each of which includes 4 beds and holds 25-30 prisoners.
At the request of the family, the officiating priest at Rami’s engagement ceremony had arranged, through the International Red Cross, for the rites to be read at prison. But these arrangements fell through when the time came. There is a thick photo album of the ceremony waiting for Rami at home for when he is released.
Being active in organizing in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine 96-99 (when he was 16-19).
Attempting to throw a Molotov.
When Rami knew that the Israeli forces were after him, he hid in various places and managed to escape arrest for a year and a half. Before catching him in one of his hiding places, Israeli soldiers had come to his home a total of five times to search for him. At one time they arrested his two brothers, beating them, and making them walk blindfolded alongside the tank, so that they would stumble and fall down. Neither was allowed to use the bathroom for 24 hours. The object was to interrogate them as to the whereabouts of their brother.
Fayeq (29), who works with his father at their household goods store in downtown Ramallah, was held for eight days at Beit Eel, the Israeli military base in Ramallah. Ra’fat (26), who has a master’s degree in accounting from Birzeit University, was held for 12 days. During that time, their family had no word from them. Because the military police lost Ra’fat’s ID, they gave him an instamatic photograph of himself holding a sheet that identified him.
Israeli forces were familiar with the Fadayel household long before they came looking for Rami. About 65 soldiers had commandeered the building in June of 2002 at a little before 7 in the morning staying until 8 that evening. They kept the men on hold in the courtyard while they availed themselves of the facilities - taking baths, napping on mattresses and trashing the house with the remainder of their food.
When they were able to get back to their home to survey the wreckage, the Fadayel family noticed that a picture of Jesus Christ they had on the wall of their living room had been turned so that its back was showing. On another wall, the enlarged photograph of Rami Fadayel’s grandparents, taken in Jaffa when his father Rizik was a boy, was luckily left intact. Rizik’s parents owned a bed-making factory in Jaffa before they were driven out in 1948 and not allowed to return.
One item he found incriminating and confiscated was a photo album the family kept of the funeral of Issa Abed (Abu Saree’), a janitor at Birzeit and a friend of Rami’s. Issa was shot in the head at a demonstration in Ramallah in 2000. He was bending down to pick up a stone to throw when the rubber bullet rendered him unconscious. He died at hospital the following day. He was 29.
The other thing that was notable during that raid was the deliberate trampling underfoot of Ra’fat’s accounting textbooks, which appeared to infuriate the officer.
At Rami’s hearing in Beit Eel on August 1, 2004, the set up is such that the parents are not allowed contact with the prisoner. But after Rami heard his plea-bargained sentence, he struggled to approach his mother and embrace her. He succeeded in doing so at the cost of a beating by a soldier, which injured his arm. When he was taken outside, he was ordered to collect the garbage out in the street as punishment, but he refused and was deprived of food for the day.
Rizik and Muna Fadayel have been able to visit their son once since his imprisonment, but their application for a second visitation was denied.
Rima Merriman is a freelance writer and a communications specialist. She has been working in the West Bank for the past four months.
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Knowing about how to paint a door at your home may cut a lot of cost for hiring a professional painter and on the other hand, this painting maneuver for your own doors may charm you in many ways too. Painting a door can be gone through by yourself and for this reason, you will have to learn well how to paint a door. Just read on this article as to grab the knowledge of best way to paint doors.
Learn well how to paint a door and by reading this article will be enough for this.
Unlike other paintings like wall, furniture etc, you will need at least another person’s help in order to go through the painting process of a door. So first of all, manage somebody who will help you complete the painting job entirely.
Choose the color for painting the door.
Buy all the necessary items for flawless paintings.
Manage a time when you can carry on the painting job freely as this is not a hasty maneuver. Set a perfect day or two to take the painting project.
Choose a suitable place for painting the door.
Now we are going through all the steps one by one, you just be attentive.
The best way to paint anything which is removable by removing that and placing adjust-ably to paint well. As the door frame can be removed, you must remove it in order for a better painting result.
Use a screwdriver to unscrew the screws (learn how to unscrew properly) from the hinges that hold the door in its place. Later on, after removing the hinges form the main part, take the door away from its earlier place and then take it to the place where you will paint it. You must place the door over sawhorses because these will give you room for painting comfortably by going all the sides of the door as per your need.
After keeping the door over the sawhorses, remove the hinges from the door by unscrewing the screws. Keep all the hardware in a safe place so that this doesn’t lose. If there is any pull or door knob on the door, you must remove that too.
You should clean the door (learn how to clean wood nicely) with detergent as over time, the door must have been dirty. You can use TSP for the cleaning purpose. Use tack clothes to wipe the door with TSP as to clean properly. After cleaning the door completely, dry it with a dry cloth.
Now you will have to use a fine grit sandpaper such as 180 grit sandpaper. Sand gently to remove the previous coat for peeling off. Sand smoothly until you get an even smooth feel all over the surface of the door.
After sanding well, you now have to remove the residue as well dust with a cloth. You can do it with a little wet cloth and then dry the door with a completely dry one.
Wooden doors are porous and there might be some pores on the surface of these types of doors. You must fill up the holes with wood filler using a putty knife. Make the wood putty even on the surface with a putty knife.
Using primer on door is good for expressing the main color brightly. Primer will work as the base holder of the paint coat. So it is very important to prime the door with primer.
Take a roller for priming on the door. Later on, you will have to use small paint brushes to reach the primer into the tough corner of the door. The reaching of both primer or paint will be tougher if there is some carved designs on the door. If there is any carved design, use a small paint brush to fill all the edges of the carvings.
As you will need to paint the both sides of the door, you will have to flip the door to another side after priming one side. Do the same process for both the sides of the door. Give adequate time to cure the priming well on one side before flipping for another. If you flip without drying the primer completely, there is high chance of spoiling the primer by touching with sawhorses when you will flip down the primed side.
After you are sure that the priming of both the sides of the door has been dried completely, you now can go for the final stage of painting. Take the chosen color and use a paint brush, or roller or paint sprayer paint the door.
A paint sprayer will undoubtedly give the best painting result though you can use a roller or brush for the painting process. Painting one side of the door, give it reasonable time to dry fully. Once you are sure that the painted side has been dried up completely, flip the door to the other side for painting. Paint again similarly and wait until it dries up perfectly.
Now you will have to add the hinges, pulls and door knob with the door tightly. If the condition of the hardware is poor, then it is better to use new ones for ensuring decent longevity.
Move the door to its original place and screw the hinges with the main part of the wall where from you removed the door. You may need to use a hammer to stick the screwdriver and tacks to fix well. Test the door by opening and closing whether it has fitted well or not. Fixing a door with wall is very tricky, so you should take some advice from door fixing experts.
Manage a person to assist you during the painting job. You must not deny this part because moving the door will obviously need somebody’s assistance. Again when you will need to flip and place the door to its original place, it is impossible to do so without somebody’s effort along with yours.
Think about the perfect door color which may match well with the wall’s color. You can visit some websites for better idea for choosing a nice color. You should see the color catalog where from you will buy the painting.
Small Paint Brush, Roller or Paint Sprayer.
You must dedicate a fixed date for starting the painting. It may need a few days to complete the whole process as drying up is king here. So it is better to manage 2 or more days for the whole task.
It is not advisable that you paint your door inside your house or without removing the door’s frame. So select a suitable place which is well ventilated and not prone to much wind and dust blow.
You see that painting a door is not a project that you can do in a hurry, but it is quite simple and you can do it professionally by following all the outlines mention here in the article.
Lastly, be health conscious and always use face mask during any sort of painting job as the odor of the painting materials is quite harmful to our health.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Roche on Thursday lifted its veil of secrecy over a patent that has reaped billions of dollars over the years but is due to expire on Dec. 18, depriving the Swiss drugmaker of a key source of income.
The so-called “Cabilly” patent brought in 834 million Swiss francs ($840.39 million) in 2017, Roche said in an 81-page report that accompanied its first-half earnings release.
The patent, named after one of its inventors, protects a pivotal step in manufacturing therapeutic antibodies and requires drug companies making biological medicines to pay Roche royalties. California’s City of Hope medical center also gets its own share of royalties from the famous patent, which has been the subject of numerous court disputes.
The 834 million figure is higher than analysts at Barclay’s Capital assumed, they wrote, “which will likely provide a stiff headwind for 2019”, though Roche Chief Executive Severin Schwan assured on Thursday that he is confident growth will continue.
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Boys Summer Dress Exporter in Bangladesh - SiATEX is a group of companies in garments business from Bangladesh. The group consists of apparel sourcing, manufacturing and exporting companies located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bangladesh is a hotbed of garments manufacturing. Bangladesh is the only country in the world that can produce textile items at least 20% to 30% cheaper than China. Bangaldesh is now second single country after china to produce largest volume apparel in the world.
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Shelly Beauch: A Fishy Tail or Tale!
Once upon a time deep under the sea lived a fine finicky fish with a tangled tail. This fussy fish frolicked in the wispy waves, swam amongst the fangles and florz looking for sweet juicy squid!
Can you add a line or two to this fishy tale?
I am absolutely not a poet, so no extra lines from me.......but I love your fabulous fish! A beautiful combination of tangles, I love how it flows from section to section. Wonderful!
I especially love the fish's tail! This is so terrific!
The sea was vast and full of sparkly facets and the fussy fish soon became struzzeled. He asked some scallops which wave he should ride, but they were talking warts and wobbles and he could not make sense.
Michelle you are delightful! That was fun. Kids book in the making?
Thanks Debra for joining in with the fishy tale, our fussy fish could end up anywhere with those warts and wobble directions!
hahaha! debra, that is great! michelle - your drawing is wonderful fun!
This is so cute--absolutely love your fishy tale! Too much fun!!
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Forget slogan tees, Fiasco’s American dream is a hardline litany of hypocrisy and consumerism.
Metallica & The Roots Perform “Enter Sandman” as Never Before!
Twenty five years after ‘Metallica’s release, it’s back to school for Hetfield and the band.
Are Streaming Services The New Record Labels?
Sometimes the myth is more interesting than the reality.
And promise a new album will be coming soon.
You’re ears are not deceiving you, streaming services are changing soundtracks.
Why are Female Artists Staying Silent about Trump?
Is there a reason why fewer women in music are really speaking out against Trump’s sexism?
Celebrity mental health: open discussion or sensationalist speculation?
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Hiring employees can be a challenging process. It’s important to make sure the potential employee will suit your organization’s culture and team, as well as offer the skills and qualifications needed to excel in the position. Here are some tips to making sure you hire the right healthcare candidate for your business.
Providing an effective job description for the position is the first step in helping you hire the right healthcare candidate for your company. Properly identify behaviors, skills, and qualities the role requires, ensuring these assets will add value to the position. Develop a clear hiring standard based on those specific factors and remember to keep job descriptions updated if the position changes or develops.
Set up a meeting with the key employees who will be involved in the hiring process. Individuals with in-depth knowledge of the job and what the role requires are often better at evaluating how candidates will prosper in the position. Make sure to involve them in your recruiting strategy. Once you plan your strategy, execution begins.
After reviewing a candidate’s resume, conduct a phone screen to help eliminate candidates that may not be right for the position. You can also allow your consultant at HSS to conduct a phone screen. If the candidate sounds perfect don’t hesitate to offer the job. Great candidates go quickly.
To draw fair comparisons from applicants, ask the same interview questions to help establish a consistent and successful hiring path. Have a checklist to help you systematize your employee hiring process by allowing you to keep track of your recruiting efforts.
If all the information collected during the interview process makes sense for your business, you can extend your job offer to the candidate. Remember that the key to any successful employment offer is to view it as a process that begins from the moment you interact with a potential candidate and ends when all screenings are completed and they begin the assignment.
Once your new hire gets started, remember to do your best familiarizing them with your business. Helping the new employee will ensure their success within your organization. At HealthCare Support (HSS), we know how challenging the recruiting and hiring process can be within your healthcare organization. As a result, we consider ourselves the matchmakers of the staffing world. Our hiring process focuses on putting candidates in the right job. Contact us at 888-219-6285 to let HSS help you meet your recruitment goals.
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Perhaps you’ve heard of the age old tale of the Philosopher’s Stone... the great goal of alchemists of yore, said to bestow those who obtained it with the ability of Immortality? Or maybe the Fountain of Youth, through which the elixir of life freely flowed, granting eternal longevity to anyone able to find it? What if we told you that something very similar has been produced and bottled for millennia? What if we said it was affordable, and very within reach? Allow us to introduce Ormus!
Ormus is the essence of life itself. It is naturally found in anything living, plants, animals, and of course human beings! Ormus can be likened to chi, manna, or simply referred to as ‘life force’. It is the consciousness that links us all together, and enables us to have life while on this plane of existence. Unfortunately, exposure to the modern world, specifically electromagnetic frequencies and electromagnetic radiation, depletes our Ormus, literally leeching it out of our bodies. The result of reduced Ormus levels can be disastrous; fatigue, mental and physical disorders, neurological impairments, shortened life potential, a loss of sense of self, and more. Thankfully, there is a way to manufacture Ormus, allowing us to take it back into our bodies!
What can taking Ormus do for you?
Given that Ormus is life essence and consciousness itself, consuming it allows us to reconnect with the natural world surrounding us once again. Through overexposure to technology, many of us have begun to forget our place in nature, and even amongst each other. Ormus helps to raise the level of consciousness within your body, opening your capacity to connect more compassionately with other humans, animals, plants and the world at large. The outwards expansion also reverses inwards, as Ormus opens you back up to reconnect with the Self, allowing you to rediscover the blueprint of your authentic self.
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Cincotti Tile custom designs and installs floor tile, wall tile and shower tile in homes and businesses in Concord MA. We specialize in all types of custom tile design and installation including: ceramic tile, glass tile, porcelain tile, marble tile, granite tile and mosaic tile.
At Cincotti Tile, we bring years of experience, skill and reliability to your Concord MA Custom Tile installation project. We work directly with contractors and homeowners to meet the individual needs of each client. We also provide free in-home tile consultations and custom tile designs for all your tile needs. We are ready to handle all your custom tile work whether it’s in your bathroom, kitchen, entrance way, shower or basement.
If you are looking for an experience tile installer near Concord MA, call Cincotti Tile to schedule a free custom tile installation estimate. Call 781-937-3170 or click to request an estimate online.
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A JCATI funded recycling technology was recently highlighted in a Pittsburgh Post Gazette article. Dr. Jinwen Zhang, Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, along with his industry partner Global Fiberglass Solutions have developed a chemical method that breaks down carbon fiber reinforced plastics. This technology provides a more efficient and less toxic method to break down the fibers for recycling. Dr. Zhang was awarded JCATI funds in 2015 and 2016 for this project. For more information on composite recycling, visit the Dr. Zhang's and Global Fiberglass Solutions websites.
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The plush pillow top of the Beautyrest® Recharge Platinum-Huntington Beach Mattress Collection is a unique combination of comfort and support. The Comfort Level includes the SurfaceCool™ Plus Fiber, and Comfort Foam, the Contour Layer features the AirCool® Gel Memory Foam and AirCool® MAX Memory Foam and the Support Layer with 1000 Density Beautyrest® Pocketed Coil® Technology, and Total Surround Ventilated AirCool® BeautyEdge® Foam Encasement with QuantumLock™.
This collection from Beautyrest® also includes the Total Surround Ventilated AirCool® BeautyEdge® Foam Encasement with QuantumLock™ and an Energy Foam Base Layer.
The Platinum-Huntington Beach Mattress Collection is made in the United States and comes with a 10 year warranty.
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