A sequential developmental field defect of the vertebrae, ribs, and sternum, in a young woman of the 12th century AD.

Changes in the vertebral column are often noted in skeletal material. Descriptions of these anomalies are often lacking, and their developmental origins are not often discussed. The skeleton of a young woman from the medieval cemetery of Tirup, in Denmark, has multiple defects of the axial skeleton, including extra thoracic and lumbar vertebrae, border… (More)


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How can you tell if something is alive?

What are the characteristics of life? (Ch. 1.3, Miller and Levine)

It turns out that these are NOT the easiest question to answer!   How, for example, would scientists be able to tell if something they found on another planet was alive, or not?   To explore this question, students have been given an assignment called "A Martian Safari".

Using their textbook, and what they've learned in class about forming hypotheses and answering questions (the RA Guide), students will apply the "characteristics of life" from their textbook to an imaginary situation: that they are explorers on the planet Mars, who've discovered something mysterious....

Far out!   Or is it?   After all, the mission in the video below became a reality on August 6th, just a few weeks ago.   One of the main goals of the Curiosity mission is to pursue evidence for past or present life on the "Red Planet."   Something to think about!

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Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Top 20 Doctoral Program — National Research Council

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Edward Maginn from University of Notre Dame

Friday, September 30, 2016 - 10:30am

Liquids that contain charged species, such as electrolytes and ionic liquids, have many important technological applications in fields such as energy storage, separations, and catalysis. By changing the structure of the molecules or employing mixtures, the properties of these fluids can be altered significantly. The key question is: what should we do to get the properties we want? In other words, how should I change the structure of the molecule or ion? What type of solvent should I add to the mixture to get the behavior I want? To answer this, we use atomistic-level simulations to compute structural, thermodynamic and transport properties of these systems. We are able to provide molecular-level explanations for experimental observations, and we can predict properties of systems that may not yet have even been made in the laboratory.

In this talk, I will focus on recent efforts we have made as a member of the DOE-sponsored Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR) in computing conductivity, viscosity, and self-diffusivity of ionic liquids mixed with monovalent and divalent cations and diluents such as glycol ethers. Using high throughput computational methods, we have identified several new types of anions that may enable the use of divalent cations such as Mg2+ in rechargeable batteries. We have also helped explain unusual trends observed experimentally in the liquid dynamics of cations with progressively longer alkyl tails. Finally, I will describe how simulations can be coupled with X-ray scattering experiments to provide a detailed picture of the organization of these liquids on the 1-20 nm length scale.


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Latest research has indicated that common although highly protected public/private primary encryption strategies are vulnerable to fault-based harm. This quite simply means that it is now practical to crack the coding devices that we trust every day: the security that finance institutions offer with regards to internet savings, the code software that individuals rely on for business emails, the safety packages that we all buy off of the shelf inside our computer superstores. How can that be conceivable?

Well, several teams of researchers have already been working on this kind of, but the first of all successful test attacks were by a group at the College or university of The state of michigan. They decided not to need to know regarding the computer hardware – they only needed to create transient (i. e. temporary or perhaps fleeting) glitches in a computer system whilst it had been processing encrypted data. Consequently, by examining the output data they acknowledged as being incorrect components with the errors they developed and then resolved what the main ‘data’ was. Modern security (one amazing version is known as RSA) uses public key and a personal key. These types of encryption beginning steps-initial are 1024 bit and use significant prime numbers which are blended by the software. The problem is much like that of damage a safe – no safe and sound is absolutely secure, but the better the safe, then the more hours it takes to crack this. It has been overlooked that protection based on the 1024 tad key would take too much effort to resolve, even with every one of the computers on earth. The latest research has shown that decoding may be achieved a few weeks, and even more rapidly if more computing ability is used.

How must they fracture it? Contemporary computer reminiscence and CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT chips carry out are so miniaturised that they are vulnerable to occasional problems, but they are made to self-correct once, for example , a cosmic ray disrupts a memory location in the computer chip (error fixing memory). Ripples in the power can also trigger short-lived (transient) faults inside the chip. Many of these faults were the basis of your cryptoattack in the University of Michigan. Remember that the test team did not need access to the internals of this computer, only to be ‘in proximity’ to it, my spouse and i. e. to affect the power supply. Have you heard regarding the EMP effect of a nuclear exploding market? An EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) is a ripple in the global innate electromagnetic field. It could be relatively localised depending on the size and precise type of explosive device used. Such pulses could also be generated on the much smaller increase by an electromagnetic heart beat gun. A little EMP marker could use that principle in the community and be accustomed to create the transient nick faults that may then be monitored to crack security. There is a person final perspective that influences how quickly encryption keys may be broken.

The amount of faults that integrated outlet chips happen to be susceptible depends on the quality with their manufacture, and no chip is perfect. Chips could be manufactured to provide higher failing rates, by simply carefully adding contaminants during manufacture. Casino chips with higher fault costs could improve the code-breaking process. Inexpensive chips, only slightly more at risk of transient faults than the normal, manufactured over a huge degree, could turn into widespread. Cina produces remembrance chips (and computers) in vast amounts. The implications could be severe.


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Turkish Cuisine: Recipes

Turkish cuisine (Turkish: Türk mutfağı) is largely the continuation of Ottoman cuisine, which in turn borrowed many elements from Greek, Central Asian, Caucasian, Sephardi Jewish cuisine, Middle Eastern, and Balkan cuisines. Turkish cuisine has in turn influenced those and other neighbouring cuisines, including those of Central and Western Europe. The Ottomans fused various culinary traditions of their realm with influences from Levantine cuisines, along with traditional Turkic elements from Central Asia (such as yogurt and mantı), creating a vast array of specialities—many with strong regional associations.Turkish cuisine and Iranian cuisine on the other hand have heavy mutual influence on each other, due to geographical proximity, ethnic relations (f.e Azerbaijanis, a Turkic people, are the second largest ethnicity in Iran) many common cultural aspects, shared empires, and conquerings by such as the Achaemenids, Sassanians, Seljuks, Safavids, Afsharids, Ottomans and Qajars.
Especially in the western parts of Turkey, where olive trees grow abundantly, olive oil is the major type of oil used for cooking. The cuisines of the Aegean, Marmara and Mediterranean regions are rich in vegetables, herbs, and fish. Central Anatolia has many famous specialties, such as keşkek, mantı (especially from Kayseri) and gözleme.
A specialtys name sometimes includes that of a city or region, either in or outside of Turkey, and may refer to the specific technique or ingredients used in that area. For example, the difference between Urfa kebap and Adana kebap is the thickness of the skewer and the amount of hot pepper that the kebab contains. Urfa kebap is less spicy and thicker than Adana kebap.
Turkish cuisine recipes:Turkish Red Lentil Soup with MintTava or Turkish StewTurkish Style EggsZucchini with Dill Weed and Garlic-Yogurt SauceChicken Tava from TurkeyTurkish cuisineLahmacun Turkish PizzaTurkish KebabsCyprus Gyro BurgerHaydari (Turkish Yogurt Dip)Turkish CoffeeTurkish cuisineZucchini Salad with Yogurt and WalnutsTurkish MarinadeTavaKobete ChickenGround Chicken With WalnutsRoasted Red Pepper SaladAnatolian Bulgur PilavCarrots and LentilsEasy Turkish DelightRose Water Turkish DelightTurkish cuisineTurkish Walnut Soup


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A dissertation is a serious scientific research, which is carried out in written form and has a qualifying character. As a result of the defense of the thesis, the applicant is awarded the academic degree of a master, candidate or doctor of science (depending on the type of work being defended).

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Sub-synchronous controller interaction (SSCI) of series-compensated DFIG wind farms

Ahmed Elgaali
Göteborg : Chalmers tekniska högskola, 2016. 67 s.
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One of the problems faced by the integration of large renewable energy sources - such as wind turbines- is that often the load centres are very far from the production centres. This forces the use of series capacitor compensation in order to increase the power transfer and the transient stability limits. The presence of series compensation introduces resonance into the system and this resonance could interact with the control system of the connected DFIG wind farm, thus causing the system (under certain conditions) to experience unstable resonant oscillations at the subsynchronous frequency range. This thesis studies the sub-synchronous controller interaction (SSCI) of DFIG-based wind-farms with series-compensated transmission lines and suggests a STATCOM solution to damp the resulting oscillations. This is done by studying the IEEE First Benchmark Model (FBM) for computer simulation of sub-synchronous resonance as test system. Analysis is conducted in both time domain and frequency domain to understand the parameters that affect the system’s stability and create the unstable sub-synchronous oscillations. The software employed is PSCAD/EMTDC. The frequency-domain analysis includes the use of the net positive damping criteria to assess the stability of the system For the mitigation of the SSCI oscillations, a STATCOM installed at the DFIG wind farm bus is employed. It is assumed that this STATCOM is there for the purpose of reactive power compensation and grid code compliance of the wind farm. For SSCI oscillation damping, a controller is designed and tested. The damping controller is based on detecting the presence of sub-synchronous oscillation and then determining its frequency on-line. Next this frequency is used to extract the unstable component from the active power signal. This extracted signal is then multiplied by an empirical gain and afterwards used to modulate the voltage reference of the STATCOM voltage controller. This method was found to damp both oscillations on voltage and power signals.

Publikationen registrerades 2017-02-27. Den ändrades senast 2017-02-27

CPL ID: 248309

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Why August 5th Matters In Rock History

- In 1972, Clive Davis signed a young band called Aerosmith to CBS Records after seeing them play Max’s Kansas City in New York. They received $125,000 at the signing.

- In 1957, American Bandstand first aired nationally.

- And in 2003, Smash Mouth released their album Get the Picture and celebrated with a performance at a New York Toys ‘R’ Us.

And that’s what happened today in rock history.

Original article by Dave Basner at iHeartRadio


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Group stages for the Bucharest Major have begun and in OG’s first match, support player Jesse “Jerax” Vainikka pulled some serious mind games.

One of Jerax’s best-known heroes is his Earth Spirit, a warrior of stone that has a lot of mobility and some tricky abilities. During a lull in the action in OG’s match against Natus Vincere, Jerax decided to use the enemy’s expectations to his advantage.

Jerax rolls into the base and blinks out, which might look like a ward attempt to the enemy team. Wards grant crucial vision, and one planted squarely where Jerax rolled to would let OG know which heroes were lurking around the walls of the Radiant base. Wards are also invisible, and so to remove them, Na’Vi would need to guess the location and drop an invisibility-breaking blue ward to see and destroy the sight-giving yellow ward.

Except Jerax didn’t plant any wards. He simply rolled in and used his blink dagger to pop back out, making it look like he did. And so Na’Vi spend the next few moments baffled, dropping blue wards to try and find the yellow they think Jerax planted. At 100 gold a pop, it’s not a cheap investment, and you can see Na’Vi queuing up and dropping blues, rotating heroes to scour the landscape.

With one little play, Jerax tricked the opposing team into wasting hundreds of gold in wards and precious time for Na’Vi’s heroes to farm resources. OG would win the match, their first of the round-robin stage.

If you missed the games from Bucharest, which started in the twilight hours this morning for most of the US, you can catch a re-run or browse the VODs over at PGL’s Twitch channel.


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Yeah this is a big issue. These accounts are effectively stuck and can’t do anything. Really poor design choice to not let accounts delegate bandwidth to themselves, because there is not enough bandwidth available to perform the actions.

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Signs of Traumatic Brain Injury

Personal injury attorneys work through cases involving various injuries, including fractured spines, burns, broken legs, sprains, and head injuries. One of the most severe injuries that personal injury attorneys work through is traumatic brain injuries. Traumatic brain injuries range on a scale from mild to severe, and may lead to neurobiological injuries, generating lifelong damages, also varying from mild to severe. Moderate brain injury involves lost consciousness, ranging from approximately 20 minutes to 6 hours. Severe brain injury involves lost consciousness for greater than 6 hours. The impact of moderate to severe brain injury is dependent upon the severity of the initial injury, the range of physiological recovery, affected functionality, resources available to help recovery, and affected functionality aside from the traumatic brain injury.

Cognitive deficits involve various functioning difficulties, that impact an individual’s daily functioning after an event. Throughout a lawsuit, attorneys explore all of the differences between an individual’s cognitive deficit post-accident, and how that individual’s daily life is affected. Cognitive deficits include complications with attention, concentration, distractability, memory, processing speed, confusion, preservation, impulsiveness, and language processing. All of these variables are part of regular behavior, which is why they all play a predominant role in traumatic brain injury. Speech and language also involve daily functioning, including how we communicate with others, how we process ideas mentally, how we complete our school or work projects, how we read, and how we remember past events. Traumatic brain injuries affect speech and language in various ways, including not understanding the spoken word, difficulty speaking, difficulty being understood, slurred speech, speaking rapidly, speaking slowly, difficulty reading, and difficulty writing.

The five human senses are the mechanism for how we perceive the world. Sight allows us to visually interpret our experiences, seeing our loved ones, reading through complex work instructions or documents, and recognizing how others look. Smell allows us to smell baked goods in the oven, and is the sense that is most strongly associated with memory. Hearing allows us to learn the alphabet as children, and listen to our favorite music as adults. Touch allows us to perceive different textures. Taste allows us to taste our favorite foods, with different spices and seasonings. The five senses are all vital to our daily functioning and processes, and losing any of the five senses partially or completely impacts our human functioning. Traumatic brain injuries impact vision with partial or total vision loss, weakening of eye muscles, double vision, blurry vision, difficulty with distance perception, involuntary eye movements, and sensitivity to light. Hearing difficulties from brain injury include decrease of hearing, loss of hearing, sensitivity to sounds, and ringing in the ears. Those who suffer from traumatic brain injury may also experience loss or diminishes sense of smell. Some may experience loss or diminished sense of taste.

Traumatic brain injury may also cause seizures, which are convulsions associated with epilepsy. There are various types of seizures, and they may include changes in consciousness, sensory perception (symptoms discussed previously), and changes in motor movements. Physical changes resulting from traumatic brain injury include physical paralysis, menstrual difficulties, difficult regulating body temperature, changes in appetite, stamina loss, sleep difficulties, difficulties controlling bowel and bladder movements, and chronic pain. Social-emotional changes may also result from traumatic brain injury. Social-emotional functionality that may be affected includes dependent behaviors, emotional ability, lack of motivation, increased irritability, aggression, depression, and lack of awareness. Traumatic brain injuries, whether minor or severe, are devastating injuries that result after an accident. Traumatic brain injury symptoms may begin to appear within days after the accident, which is one reason why it is essential to seek medical attention immediately after an accident. Traumatic brain injuries may be minor or severe. Traumatic brain injuries involve cognitive defects, speech and language difficulties, changes in sensory perception, seizures, physical changes, and  social-emotional changes. If you believe you are experiencing any of the discussed symptoms, or additional symptoms, contact a personal injury attorney to represent you in the court of law. When hiring a personal injury attorney, look for someone who is experienced with traumatic brain injuries, and an attorney who is eager to obtain compensation for your devastating injuries.


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Commentary/Op-Ed - July 2013

Building the American Workforce

Employers need more workers with middle skills qualifications, but the supply of applicants with more than a high school diploma and less than a bachelor’s degree doesn't match the demand. In a Council on Foreign Relations report, CUF senior fellow Tom Hilliard argues that policymakers can narrow this gap by overhauling the national workforce development system.

by Tom Hilliard

Tags: economic opportunity workforce development human capital higher education community colleges

This report was published by Council on Foreign Relations and is reprinted with permission.

Click here to download the full report as a PDF.

There has never been greater urgency for expanding and improving U.S. workforce training programs. Even before the onset of the Great Recession, an alarming number of Americans lacked the skills and education credentials needed to compete for decent-paying jobs in an economy transformed by globalization and accelerating technological change. In the Great Recession’s wake, new jobs capable of supporting a family will increasingly require more than a high school diploma.

Journalists and policymakers have focused predominantly on the quantity and quality of jobs being created in the U.S. economy. They should also pay attention to the difficulty of training people to qualify for those jobs. Employers claim they cannot find job candidates with appropriate vocational training, work-related soft skills, or aptitude in reading, writing, and math. Such skills have always been expected in the high-skill occupations reserved for holders of bachelor’s and advanced degrees. But to an unprecedented extent, employers now need and expect applicants with “middle skills” qualifications—a level of education and training beyond a high school diploma, but less than a bachelor’s degree. The supply of middle-skilled jobseekers lags behind.

Policymakers can narrow this skills gap and prepare the workforce of tomorrow by overhauling the national workforce-development system. Workforce providers do not serve enough of the disadvantaged, low-skilled population that needs services and would provide a high-yield return on investment. They are also not adequately engaging with employers to ensure their workforce services are the ones that employers genuinely need, too often emphasizing inadequate short-term services over better longer-term training toward market-recognized credentials. Finally, the workforce field has grown increasingly fragmented as major programs harden within silos and goals are set without regard for any larger vision.

Employers and disadvantaged workers desperately need a high-functioning workforce system. Now is the right time to build it. The most important changes cost little, but prepare the ground to spend taxpayer dollars much more effectively. The federal government should begin by: establishing a broad and integrative vision across workforce, postsecondary, adult education, and social-services programs; developing performance measures that align across multiple systems; and rewarding providers for helping disadvantaged clients hit milestones toward self-sufficiency. This integrated system should be supported by data warehouses at the federal or state level to connect educational and workforce services with data on employment outcomes. The overhauled system should be funded at a level large enough to bolster regional labor markets.

With a common vision and a careful division of responsibility between all the stakeholders in building human capital, the United States could secure its long-term competitiveness and prosperity in a dynamic global economy.

Labor Market Transforms, Workforce Stays Behind

When news broke in the fall of 2012 that New York City’s poverty rate rose to nearly 21 percent, the highest point in more than a decade, a spokesperson for Mayor Michael Bloomberg pointed to a surprising culprit: the growing skills gap. “These poverty numbers reflect a national challenge: the U.S. economy has shifted and too many people are getting left behind without the skills they need to compete and succeed.”
Indeed, the combination of globalization and technological advances has transformed the economy in recent years. One result is that the skills demanded by employers in virtually every industry have risen dramatically. But the skills of the country’s workforce have lagged behind.

Once upon a time, breakthroughs in technology disrupted the established order. Today, technological change is the established order. The accelerating pace of discovery and application shapes the kinds of jobs Americans can do, and raises the qualifications needed to obtain and keep those jobs. Tasks that can be reduced to a set of rules will be shifted to the least expensive workplace setting. By coding the task, an employer can shift it to a computer (e.g., tax preparation), a robot (e.g., warehouse order fulfillment and battery production), or overseas (e.g., smartphone production and customer service).

The effect of the technological revolution has been profound. Where legal secretaries once typed up and laboriously formatted court briefs, specialized software conducts those tasks automatically, enabling law firms to shrink their administrative staffing. Where travelers once purchased airplane tickets from travel agents and airline personnel, they now go online. Shoes once made on a cobbler’s bench and later manufactured on an assembly line are now produced, distributed, and increasingly sold without ever being held by a human hand.

At the same time, the globalization of the U.S. economy has opened up the U.S. labor market to international competition, especially in the tradable goods and services sector. Companies have greater capacity than ever before to move their worksites to locations with the lowest labor costs, and to build complex equipment by linking supply chains from multiple countries. Competitive pressure on employers to reduce labor costs and develop flexible production processes has grown more intense.

Still, many occupations, particularly in the nontradable service sector, cannot be outsourced abroad or replaced by technology. An actual person needs to perform high-touch tasks like sweeping floors, caring for disabled seniors, or making burritos. But such occupations have few entry requirements. The supply of workers who apply for them greatly exceeds the demand, resulting in low wages and unstable working conditions.

Occupations that employers reward with higher wages and benefits require skills in thinking and communicating that cannot be reduced to a code. These include occupations like auto mechanics who once learned how to fix cars by watching other mechanics fix them. Today, computerized diagnostic systems locate a car’s problems, but the mechanic must be able to identify which diagnostic tests to use and how to interpret the findings. A salesperson must explain why one microprocessor design works better than another, and take a customized order requiring informed and probing questions.

The twin forces of globalization and technology have eliminated whole occupations whose tasks can be carried out more cheaply by computers or foreign workers. Between 1980 and 2010, employment doubled in high-skill occupations that require expert thinking and complex communications, such as engineers, managers, and scientists. Meanwhile, occupations vulnerable to automation or outsourcing, such as administrative support, rose only slightly.

Manufacturing was hit hardest. Over the past half-century, hundreds of American factories closed, and the remaining plants survived through automation. After World War II, manufacturing accounted for 25 percent of all U.S. employment, but by 2009 the share had fallen to 11 percent. The decline accelerated after 1980. In that year, machine operators accounted for 10 percent of the U.S. workforce; by 2010, they accounted for only 4 percent.

As flexibility and adaptability have become essential to competitive companies, they have transferred the risks associated with a volatile consumer market to their workforce. The result has been soaring growth of the contingent workforce—workers whose job tenure is temporary, and who in most cases are employed by a staffing firm rather than the employer using their services. In 1999, employers used an estimated 990,000 contingent workers nationwide. By 2007, the number of contingent workers had grown to three million. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that by 2018 the contingent workforce will expand to six million. These contingent workers are not, for the most part, choosing a more flexible work life, but simply taking employment where they can find it.

The workers who have weathered the storm the best have postsecondary degrees. Over the past decade, adults with some college or an associate’s degree have consistently earned about 20 percent more than adults with only a high school diploma, while adults with a bachelor’s degree earned roughly twice as much. Since the 2007–2009 recession, the number of jobs requiring a high school diploma or less has fallen by 10 percent, while jobs requiring some college or an associate’s degree held steady, and the number of jobs requiring a bachelor’s degree or better rose by 5 percent.

But although economic success depends on postsecondary education, that education need not take the form of a traditional four-year bachelor’s degree. Workers can receive an income boost from completing an apprenticeship or on-the-job training program, as well as earning a vocational certificate, industry certification, or associate’s degree. More than twenty-nine million jobs requiring middle-skill education or training pay more than $35,000 annually. One in four workers with licenses and certificates earns more than the average employee with a bachelor’s degree, as do three in ten workers with an associate’s degree. Some certificates are even more rewarding than bachelor’s degrees for people who work in their field of study. An adult with an aviation certificate, for example, can earn $65,000, and some computer/IT certificates offer $70,000 in annual earnings.

Jobs in this middle-skill segment of the American labor market are projected to grow more rapidly than lower-skill jobs over the next decade. About 38 percent of the labor market, or forty-five million adults, held middle-skill jobs in 2010. The Bureau of Labor Statistics forecasts that occupations requiring a postsecondary credential will grow about five percentage points faster than those that do not. Middle-skill postsecondary employment is expected to rise by 17.5 percent from 2010 to 2020—about the same rate as high-skill employment (see Table 1). Meanwhile, middle-skill employment requiring apprenticeships and job training is expected to grow by about 13.4 percent, which is faster than low-skilled job growth.

Yet employers are struggling to fill middle-skill jobs with qualified candidates, despite the weak economy inherited from the recent recession. Employers report again and again that they face a chronic gap in the skills needed for job openings compared to those possessed by job applicants. In 2010, at a time when the nation’s unemployment rate was still well over 8 percent and millions of Americans had been jobless for more than a year, more than half of American employers reported difficulty filling positions because of a lack of suitable skills. In another national survey, more than half of employers (53 percent) said their company faces a major challenge in recruiting non-managerial employees with the needed skills, training, and education. Two-thirds of manufacturing firms, according to a Manufacturing Institute survey, have either a moderate or severe shortage of qualified workers; almost half of the surveyed companies reported a severe shortage of production workers, which remains an important occupation for middle-skilled adults.

The middle-skills gap damages job creation and economic mobility. Employers are less likely to create good jobs with long-term advancement potential if the productivity of their workers does not cover their higher wages. A recent McKinsey study found that 86 percent of U.S. employers surveyed would pay more for a job candidate with the right training and hands-on experience—more than any of the other eight countries surveyed. In the absence of those skilled candidates, employers will compete on the basis of lower costs, a path that leads to outsourcing and widespread use of part-time and temporary workers.

Disadvantaged and displaced adults are the ones hit hardest by the middle-skills gap. Disadvantaged adults often live in high-poverty or distressed areas, and struggle with chronic unemployment, fewer job opportunities, and low pay. These adults may have been poorly served by the formal education system, and in many cases dropped out of high school or graduated with poor literacy and numeracy skills.

Displaced adults have lost their jobs, in most cases because of the labor-market trends described above. Many have worked for a single employer for more than ten years, and their current skills set may not be suited to a change in industry or occupation. Even as unemployment in the general population shrinks, the number of long-term unemployed continues to grow. The population of long-term unemployed adults as a share of all unemployed adults is now higher than at any point since the Great Depression. Almost four out of ten jobseekers have been looking for work for at least six months. Some economists argue that many of these adults remain unemployed because they lack the qualifications required for new job openings. But the problem is not simply an overall lack of skills, since many of the long-term jobless actually possess higher skills than competitors who are quickly rehired, but the decay of their skills and the lack of direct contact with employers.

These disadvantaged and displaced workers need something different from the traditional post-secondary experience: four years on a college campus, ivied walls, and grassy quads. They need education that moves more quickly and engages directly with employers. This is where middle-skill attainment and the workforce system intersect.

The middle-skills gap refers not to one specific kind of skill set, but several that are interrelated. Hiring managers want a broad and varied spectrum of skills, which they do not always clearly articulate to jobseekers. These skills start with vocational skills specific to the occupation or sector, include basic literacy, numeracy, computer familiarity, and soft skills like punctuality and interpersonal communication, and extend to high-end workplace skills like problem-solving, team management, and creative thinking.

One useful way of visualizing the dilemma faced by employers and jobseekers is the competency pyramid, a model devised by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration (see Figure 1). The model is available for twenty-one separate industries, and the pyramid for each industry is designed by industry leaders, not government officials. The competency pyramid depicts skills needed by all or most jobseekers at the base, moving up to industry-wide vocational skills and then skills needed in specific sectors of the industry, finally reaching management competencies at the summit.

Looking at the bottom half of the pyramid reveals why so many adults never achieve stable careers. The first layer consists of personal competencies such as dependability, integrity, and willingness to learn. The second, academic competencies, comprises the basic skills taught in school (e.g., reading, math, computer proficiency, and communications). The third layer pertains to higher-order soft skills, including teamwork, planning and organizing, working with technology, and creative thinking. The subject of most traditional workforce policy, technical competencies, only emerges in the fourth layer.

The skills deficits in those first three layers are enormously frustrating to U.S. employers. According to the 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy, 14 percent of American adults read at “below basic” literacy level, and another 29 percent read and write at only a basic prose level. This shortfall in the basic tasks of reading, writing, and carrying out simple arithmetic may be the largest factor holding back disadvantaged youth and adults. For example, a survey of human resource professionals conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management found that young people entering the labor market lacked important skills possessed by older workers preparing to retire: most notably, writing in English (51 percent) and professionalism/work ethic (52 percent).

Disadvantaged jobseekers may not know how to scale the base of the competency pyramid and reach the point where they can obtain the technical competencies and credentials that put them on a solid career track. Displaced jobseekers, on the other hand, have developed skills appropriate to their old workplace that may be unsuited for a new career—not only vocationally, but also in terms of basic and soft skills. For example, workers laid off from manufacturing who enter healthcare must navigate a different work culture, with an ethic of teamwork and customer service at odds with the traditional factory floor.

The informational deficit that employers face in this environment has damaging consequences for the labor market. Hiring managers seek middle-skill candidates with specific occupational or professional credentials, which are easily signaled (although not necessarily up to date). But other skills, such as literacy, computer proficiency, work ethic, and collaborative spirit are more difficult to identify, even in a job interview. In the absence of widely accepted credentials, applicants have every incentive to claim relevant basic, personal, and workplace skills, since their viability as prospective employees depends on it. Employers have responded with a variety of counterproductive workarounds: using software programs that screen out candidates because of formatting mistakes in their resumes, hiring applicants with bachelor’s degrees even when the job does not require it, poaching employees from other companies rather than hiring unemployed adults, or filling positions with temporary workers who can be easily dropped at the first sign of inadequacy. Developing workforce strategies to train adults effectively for open positions and demonstrate their value to employers would be a far more effective alternative.

The workforce development field can assist jobseekers in navigating their way up the competency pyramid, and assist employers by reducing guesswork in the hiring process and fostering long-term employment relationships. In the twenty-first century economy, there are few win-win opportunities. But workforce development, done properly, is one of them.

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Lambadi Banjara Muslim people are the residents of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. It is estimated that they are not local residents of these countries still taking benefits of government services. It is true come from different areas still somehow trying or preparing themselves to get government jobs. They are also known by these names such as Lamani, Lambani, Banjara Lambani. Lambadi Banjara Muslim community people were customarily suppliers of bullock and salt dealer. They don’t only supply salt in the specific area but also supplied worldwide because they were a big famous trader. Lambadi Banjara Muslim speaks Urdu, Hindi and Marwari depending on their culture and residency of different countries like India and Pakistan. They are also called Rahmani predominantly in the state, Uttar Pradesh and used Rahmani as their surname.
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Bicycle Accidents – Kintnersville, PA 18930

Bicycle mishaps can result in major and often fatal injuries. Claims to recuperate damages for injuries in bicycle mishaps with autos involve a number of the same problems as any vehicle mishap lawsuit. Liability for bike mishap injuries frequently boils down to negligence– whether the vehicle motorist’s negligence caused the bicyclist’s injuries, and whether any negligence by the bicyclist caused or added to the mishap.

Bicycle Accident Liability Fundamentals

Bicyclists and motorists are obliged to comply with the rules of the road. These guidelines include traffic laws, as well as the duty to work out common care in regards to one’s own safety which of others on the streets. Like other vehicle mishap claims, bike mishap claims are governed by state law, and frequently informed by state and regional traffic laws.

Negligence and Bike Accidents in Kintnersville, Pennsylvania

Chauffeur Negligence or Recklessness

In a suit declaring negligence by another individual, plaintiffs typically must prove that the offender acted in a way that breached a duty owed to the complainant. In automobile accident cases, this means violating the standard task of care owed to everybody else on or near the highways.

Mishap suits boil down to truths particular to the specific case, and typically the capability of the plaintiff to show negligence through eyewitness testimony or other evidence. In automobile accident cases, nevertheless, behaviors which make up traffic violations can constitute “negligence per se.” This implies that if a motorist was mentioned for an infraction such as speeding at the time of the accident, proof of the speeding violation counts as proof of negligence. The concern then shifts to the offender to prove that she or he didn’t cause the plaintiff’s injuries.

Bicyclist Negligence – Kintnersville, Pennsylvania 18930

Whether a cyclist sues a driver, or a bicyclist is demanded triggering another person injury, cyclist negligence can determine the outcome of the lawsuit. Examples of bicycle rider negligence consist of riding the wrong way on a one-way street, running a stop indication, and turning suddenly into traffic.

In accident cases involving kids on bicycles, courts hold chauffeurs to a greater requirement. See specifics on child bike mishap liability for more information.

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Accidents involving cars and bicycles can involve serious injuries and big liabilities. Bicycle accident claims often boil down to whether the motorist or the bicyclist negligently caused or added to the accident. This negligence decision can be a complex and need thorough analysis. If you or a loved one has been in a bike accident, you need to talk to an attorney to finest secure your rights. You can have an experienced law firm examine the benefits of your claim free of charge.


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Authors: Wei Zhao, Yuke Tian, Feng Peng, Jianlin Long, Lan Liu, Meijuan Huang, You Lu

Pulmonary infections and lung cancer can resemble each other on radiographic images, which makes it difficult to diagnosis accurately and apply an appropriate therapy. Here we report two cases that two postoperative patients with lung adenocarcinoma developed diffuse nodules in bilateral lungs in a month which needed to be distinguished between metastatic malignancies and infectious diseases. Although there are much similarities in disease characteristics of two cases, patient in case one was diagnosed as acute miliary pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) while patient in case two was diagnosed as metastatic disease. The symptoms and pulmonary foci on CT scan of patient in case one improved distinctly after the immediate anti-TB treatment, but the disease of patient in case two progressed after chemotherapy. These findings caution us that differential diagnosis is crucial and have significance in guiding clinical work.


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Speed Date Portuguese - Learn Brazilian Portuguese - Portuguese Language Learning For Left Brained People

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Speed Date Portuguese - Learn Brazilian Portuguese - Portuguese Language Learning For Left Brained People PDF ebook download Speed Date Portuguese is a language learning system which allows you to have real conversations with local Brazilians much more quickly than traditional approaches to language study.

The book was created based on the way the author learnt Portuguese. Faced with three hours to wait before going out with a girl who did not speak any English he discovered that most language learning books and phrase books give you very little in terms of real Portuguese to actually be able to make conversation. They were usually a simple collection of phrases or non-related elements of language structure.

Speed Date Portuguese offers a solution to the usual Portuguese learning problems. It takes you back at the beginning to the key concept missed by most language systems. That is, how do you speak English? As we learnt to talk when we were very young most people have very little knowledge of how to speak English. This is a problem because Portuguese is structured differently to English.

Portuguese has the same structure as the Latin languages (Spanish, Italian, French) so for people from these countries to learn the other language it is fairly easy as they have a similar structure. For an English speaker to learn them they are much more difficult. The first step to success comes in having a greater understanding of the structure of English and then the contrasting structure of Portuguese.

The book places a heavy emphasis on verbs and the verbs formula from which every single sentence is constructed. Most language learning systems shy away from verbs because people think they are “boring”. However, if faced with a real life meeting with a non-English speaker you more concerned about long silences than being bored reading about verbs.

The early part of the book offers a 120 verb formulations which if learnt will allow you to make conversation in many different ways. This can contrasted with learning say 120 words of vocabulary. With 120 verbs formulations you can say “I will go, I went, I had, I would have, I was doing, I am, we were etc”. The possibility of conversation thereafter is almost infinite compared to knowing a set of random words “cat, red, table, car”. This works well on a date because in general it is possible to quickly look up a word, e.g. dog or you could mime a dog barking or simply point at one across the square. To mime or look up “I used to have” is difficult.

The latter section of the book has in-depth Portuguese vocabulary to compliment the verb structure. The book has hundreds of example sentences throughout to give you a feel of the speaking Portuguese. It also has some powerful methods for rapidly learning the language.

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Welcome to uavster's project portfolio

Here you will find a selection of Ignacio Mellado's present and past projects. Common topics are Computer Vision, Unmanned Vehicles, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Augmented Reality and Software Architecture.

The Perceptive Portable Device
Can a smartphone perceive the environment like a human does? Portable devices are full of sensors, but they are still very limited to understand what is happening from a human perspective: Where am I inside the building? Is my user healthy? Is the baby crying? This side project is my quest to give portable devices such capabilities.
Autonomous LinkQuad quadcopter with Computer Vision
Autonomous Pelican quadcopter with Computer Vision
Camera localization with visual markers
MAVwork released for Parrot AR.Drone
Laura: Self-driving public transportation. Prototype II.
Laura: Self-driving public transportation. Prototype I.


Do I lack self-esteem and self-confidence

 Many people want to know the answer to the question : do I lack self-esteem and self-confidence?

Academic research at Harvard and Ohio State Universities show that 80% of the people wish to increase their self-esteem and self-confidence. This represents a vast majority of the people. Another problem is that many people do not know that the source of their daily problems originates from a lack of self-esteem. In general they do not pay attention to this essential component which is very much connected to happiness.

Having confidence means that you trust yourself and often trust that your actions will lead to a successful outcome. Even if you may not always succeed you still believe that you have a self-assurance.

Self-confidence and self-esteem are closely intertwined. Self-esteem is the degree to which you like or dislike yourself.

Self-worth means how much you value yourself. In a way it is synonymous to self-esteem.

People differ in the degree to which they like or dislike themselves. This trait is called self-esteem. Because self-worth and self-esteem have a direct impact on life, substantial academic and psychological research has covered these interesting subjects. For example, self-esteem was found to be directly related to expectations for success: people who possess high self-esteem believe they hold the ability they need in order to succeed at school, university, or at work.

Individuals with high self-worth and high self-esteem are also likely to take more risks, to choose unconventional jobs, to be less susceptible to external inﬂuence, and to be less prone to seek approval from others. Instead, low self-esteem is another way of saying you put little or no value on yourself.

Not surprisingly, Self-Esteem has also been found to relate to Conﬁdence and to Locus of Control; a characteristic by which people believe they are masters of their own life.

How many people have the potential but are not aware of it? How many people could succeed if they increased their self-esteem by only a little?

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Raffaello Giovagnoli

Giovagnoli, Raffaello

Born Mar. 13, 1838, in Rome; died there Aug. 15, 1915. Italian writer.

Giovagnoli was a participant in the Risorgimento and an associate of G. Garibaldi. His historical novels dealing with ancient Rome, including Plautilla (1878), Saturnino (1879), and Messalina (1885), convey a romantic enthusiasm for the struggle against tyranny and a sharp anticlericalism. The novel Spartacus (1874; Russian translation, 1880-81), which deals with the revolt of slaves and gladiators in the first century B.C., brought him fame. Despite a certain sentimentalism, this novel glorifies the ancient revolutionary who rose against oppression. With the lessons of the Italian national liberation movement in mind, he makes an appeal in the novel on behalf of the struggle for social justice and equality. Its support of revolutionary ideas guaranteed the novel’s success among the broad masses of the Italian people, as well as its popularity in Russia.

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Spartak. Moscow, 1954. (Translated by A. lasnaia, with an introduction by Z. M. Potapova.)

Poluiakhtova, I. K. Istoriia italïianskoi literatury XIX veka (Epokha Risordzhimento). Moscow, 1970. Pages 183-88.


The fantasy of Trump and his Muslim ban only exists on the pages of the Third Progressive Party, aka "the media."

Seven countries are on Trump's list,  totaling less than 180 million Muslims.  There are 1.4 billion Muslims in the world.  The notion that Trump's ban is a "Muslim ban" is as big a lie as has been told,  to date.  The truth is this:  there are 1.2 billion Muslims not on Trump's list.  On the map, below,  the first six nations plus Turkey,  have a total Muslim population of 1 billion  . . . . .    so stop with the crap lie that Trump is anti-Muslim.


There are many languages to be found across the face of Middengeard. Some vibrant and verbose, some a clipped and practical. Many fall in between. Some are dead and exist only on ancient tablets. This post will detail the languages available to characters.

Regional Languages: All characters will start with the regional language of their home. Literacy will be available/unavailable as per usual. Geography may limit what languages a character can take. The regional languages are as follows:

Notaran: The language of the Imperial Republic of Notaras. One of the oldest in the world. The language is phonetic, utilizing a series of 30 letters (including accented variants).

Barcenillsian: The language of the Feudal Kingdom of Barcenillas. Uses a phonetic alphabet of 33 letters (including accented variants). Bards tend to favor this language for songs dealing with romance or legend.

Rockhavian: The language of the Feudal Kingdom of Rockhaven. Influenced by certain dwarven scripts and uses many of their idioms. They use Barcenillsian letters but have no accents (26 letters). In many ways it has become the standard for treatices on architecture, stonework, etc.

Beredoo: The language of the people of the Beredoo Islands. Uses an intricate and precise series of pictographs to convey ideas in writing.

Wantanakan: The tribal language of the Wantanaka. Emphasizes vowels rather than consonants. Strictly an oral language, although some scholars have attempted transcribing words and simple phrases.

Tlahtoa: The language of the Kingdom of Toca. Nonliterary, though the artists of the Toca convey wonderful stories through bas-relief and murals.

Glozel: The language of the Commonwealth of Shias. 28 letters, no vowels. Vowel sounds are inserted as contextually appropriate. A form of Glozel has been spoken for as long as anyone can remember. Many religious texts rely heavily on it.

Racial Languages: Characters with a race other than human will start with the corresponding racial language. As a general rule people tend to favor talking in a racial language over other types. Different communities will have different dialects of a racial language, but they are close enough to be understood. Racial languages will follow the default descriptions and flavor. Exceptions or additions are noted below.

Draconic: The language of the great dragons has become the standard for scholarly works. Many noble houses employ tutors to ensure their children have a firm grasp of this language.

Regional sub-languages (Dialects): There exist in many places minor languages that the populace may speak. These dialects are never the official language. In some places the dialects only have minor variations and by taking the base language you can also communicate in the dialects (Think northern US compared to southern US). In a few cases there is a regional sublanguage that is part of the cultural heritage. These are often not spoken at all outside their areas, and even within the area not all would necessarily understand (Think Ireland and Gaelic). If you're interested in dialects or sub-languages let me know I can fill you in on a given area.

This list is not complete. I'll be updating it periodically and as necessary.

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Rasmussen urged NATO allies to provide Ukraine with lethal weapons

Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said that now is the time for NATO allies, especially the United States, to provide Ukraine with defensive lethal weapons. "This will have an effect of deterrence against the armed forces supported by Russia," he said in an interview with Ukrinform.

"I also advocate that the US grant Ukraine a special status, the so-called major non-NATO ally (MNNA). This will not provide security guarantees for Ukraine, but it will allow potential access to certain types of weapons. More importantly, it will become a powerful signal to Russia about Washington's obligations towards Ukraine," Rasmussen stressed.

Rasmussen also said that it is necessary to involve the US in negotiations in the Normandy format.

"’Minsk’ is the best format for keeping Putin at the negotiating table. However, I am skeptical that Moscow views Minsk as a real opportunity to resolve the conflict in Eastern Ukraine. This is, rather, a way of strengthening Russian supporters in the region. I am convinced that the best option is to preserve the Normandy partners but also with the involvement of the US in the negotiations. There must be a clear definition of what achievements there should be and when," he concluded.

Ukraine has asked the US in the past to join the Normandy format. The possibility of expanding the Normandy Four has been raised from time to time at various levels. The most popular proposal is to include the United States and Great Britain as guarantors of Ukraine's security according to the Budapest Memorandum. Poland also expressed a desire to join the talks, but this proposal was blocked by Russia in 2014.

The main complaint about the Normandy format is the lack of significant progress reaching a peaceful settlement.

  Ukraine, NATO, Weapons to Ukraine, Rasmussen


The Powers of The Celts

Jason Pitzl-Waters —  June 29, 2006 — Leave a comment

So I was reading a story about the Viking Festival in Denmark (think Renaissance Festivals except with more Vikings and overt paganism) when I came across an odd claim that I had never heard before. It had to do with Celtic women (and Vikings of course).

“Eventually, the Vikings took Celtic wives and proceeded to convert from Paganism to Christianity. They settled into family lives, which motivated them to become farmers, and teachers of poetry, music and folklore.”

Yes, thanks to Celtic wives the bloody Vikings settled down and converted. They then finally learned about farmings, music, and poetry! I wonder why I had never heard the “Celtic wives” theory of Viking decline before? But perhaps I shouldn’t mock the civilizing power of the Celts, according to scientists at the University College London the Celts were better survivors than anyone had figured.

“A new genetic survey of Y chromosomes throughout the British Isles has revealed a very different story. The Celtic inhabitants of Britain were real survivors. Nowhere were they entirely replaced by the invaders and they survive in high proportions, often 50 percent or more, throughout the British Isles, according to a study by Dr. Cristian Capelli, Dr. David B. Goldstein and others at University College London. The study, being reported today in Current Biology, was based on comparing Y chromosomes sampled throughout the British Isles with the invaders’ Y chromosomes, as represented by the present-day descendants of the Danes, Vikings (in Norway) and Anglo-Saxons (in Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany).”

But if you look closely at their findings, it isn’t so much that the “Celts” survived (“Celtic” being a linguistic/cultural term), as perhaps the original neolithic population of Britain, who were “reculturalized” by “Celtic” invaders/visitors (and hence became “Celtic” for all intents and purposes).

“In a study two years ago Dr. Goldstein and colleagues established that Y chromosomes of Celtic populations were almost identical with those of the Basques…they have long been regarded as likely remnants of the first modern humans to reach Europe some 30,000 years ago, during the Paleolithic…By this chain of reasoning, the Celtic-speaking men, since genetically very close to the Basques, must also be drawn from the original Paleolithic inhabitants of Europe, and probably represent the first modern human inhabitants of Britain who settled the islands some 10,000 years ago, Dr. Goldstein said. These original Britons must later have adopted from Europe both the Celtic culture, evidence of which appears from some 3,000 years ago, and the Celtic language, which is a branch of the Indo-European language family.”

So I would guess the take-home message is never underestimate the staying power of the Celts (and in the Vikings case, particularly the Celtic women).

Jason Pitzl-Waters


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Your organization is expanding globally and you will no longer have direct contact with members of your team. It is important to be able to communicate

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In the never-ending battle for your investment dollars, there will always be new products and new pitches from Wall Street. After all, who wants yesterday's boring old mutual funds when there are newer, shinier products like leveraged exchange-traded funds and hedge funds to tempt you today? And while some new products will catch on and become fairly popular among the masses, others will have a short shelf life or have trouble reaching critical mass. These are the investments you would be better off avoiding in the first place.

The long and short of it
Although long-short mutual funds have been around in one form or another for many years now, a new breed surfaced more recently that grabbed a lot of attention as they broke onto the scene -- the 130/30 fund. In such a fund, a portfolio manager shorts 30% of the total portfolio assets in stocks he or she believes are overvalued and uses the money from those short sales to invest in more long positions, amounting to 130% of fund assets. Thus, the moniker "130/30" refers to the fund's long and short positions, respectively.

If you believe in the concept of active management, the idea is a sound one. After all, if you have a portfolio manager or management team doing the hard equity research work to find undervalued companies, wouldn't they be equally versed in which companies are overvalued? Why not capitalize on that knowledge by allowing them to short those very companies so you can profit on both ends of the spectrum?

Unfortunately, 130/30 funds haven't exactly been living up to expectations. While some bold market watchers expected inflows to 130/30 funds to reach $1 trillion by now, those estimates have proven grossly optimistic. Since the initial boom back in 2006 and 2007, many 130/30 and other like-minded funds have closed, while other shops have delayed or canceled launches of new products. Now there are just a handful of funds and institutional accounts that use this strategy, with combined assets estimated at around $30 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. Adding to the clouded future for the funds, RidgeWorth Investments recently announced it would be closing three 130/30 funds by the end of May. The field is definitely getting narrower for these types of investments.

High hurdles
Of course, one of the reasons many 130/30 funds have stumbled is the same reason many plain-vanilla actively managed mutual funds have stumbled: A fund is only as good as its manager. It's been proven time and time again that the majority of active funds can't beat the market over the long run. 130/30 funds face the same hurdle, except now you are adding leverage to the equation, magnifying any potential slip-ups. If your average fund manager can't beat the market, then the average leveraged, long-short, or 130/30 fund will probably fall short by an even wider margin.

And then there is the question of expenses. Like most new-to-the-scene investment ideas, 130/30 funds are generally more expensive than the average mutual fund. According to Morningstar, the average large-cap blend fund sports an annual expense ratio of 1.28%, where the average 130/30 fund charges 1.64%, while the average long-short fund (including more than just 130/30 funds) has a shocking 2.10% price tag. Compare that toa low-cost exchange-traded fund like SPDR S&P 500 ETF at just 0.09%! That price differential is just more ground the portfolio manager has to overcome to even match, much less exceed, market returns.

Think twice, buy once
Ultimately what investors need to realize is that, like so many investing ideas, the concept behind 130/30 funds is sound, but in practice, there is a lot left to be desired. I think anyone considering a 130/30 or long-short fund should seriously reconsider whether such a fund is really appropriate for them. If the current trend continues, there may not be many 130/30 funds left in another year or two.

However, if you're still jonesing for some downside protection with a fund that can short stocks, stick to a fund with a proven long-term track record. There aren't many in this category, but Hussman Strategic Growth (HSGFX) is one of them. Manager John Hussman has been pessimistic on the U.S. economy for years and fully hedges his investment portfolio. However, he has still found some attractive opportunities in the health care sector, which has lagged the broader market in recent years. Hussman looks for companies that fit within his framework of favorable valuation and favorable market action, or advancing trends across multiple market measures.

The fund's investment strategy leads to its owning a diverse set of stocks, including large- and mid-cap health care names AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN), biotech firm Life Technologies (Nasdaq: LIFE), and insurance firm Humana (NYSE: HUM). More staid consumer goods stocks Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE: CL) and Clorox (NYSE: CLX) also make the cut in a portfolio that is designed to protect on the downside in what Hussman considers to be an overvalued market. While the fund's pessimistic outlook has contributed to its lagging recent performance, over the past decade, it has beaten the S&P 500 by 2.4 percentage points annually, so investors should do well over the long run.

The path that 130/30 funds have taken is a fine example of what can happen to trendy, of-the-moment investments. Investors should never jump on the bandwagon of any new product, no matter what its claims are. The truth is for most folks, the old tried-and-true approaches and products will still work best -- that's why they are still around when so many competitors have faded away.

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Amanda Kish is the Fool's resident fund advisor for the Rule Your Retirement investment newsletter. At the time of publication, she did not own any of the funds or companies mentioned herein. Clorox is a Motley Fool Income Investor selection. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days.


Why Should You Use Continuous Integration?

What is Continuous Integration (CI)? Put simply, it is the process by which software engineers continuously update working copies of code to a shared location several times a day. The benefits of CI cannot be understated. When CI is used during the software development process, you can expect to realize stability, speed and reliability since teams of people are all working on the same product in real-time. By using CI, developers are able to spot and resolve any coding problems early on in the development process and correct them before they become major issues downstream. This process reduces the costs associated with bad code in the long term.

In today’s constantly evolving technology environment, the goal posts are always being moved — whether it is what the consumer expects or what the newest and most in-demand coding language is. There are potentially dozens of coding languages that developers are able to use, but what is accepted as the best practice today can easily become outdated in just a few short years or even months. This poses a problem for companies because if a language falls out of use, it can affect product maintenance and support negatively. Teams that are able to adopt CI are better equipped to continuously integrate and modify code as the process moves along, and can adapt better to changes in coding standards and best practices.

Before the widespread adoption of CI, development teams were bogged down in unnecessary and time-consuming testing processes. Because so much time was wasted on these tasks, there would be an eventual delay in getting the product to market. An automated pipeline of continuous development ensures that only high-quality code makes it into the end product. Automation plays a key role in CI and helps to build a full-bodied development workflow where constant improvement is the goal.

Continuous Integration has a considerable impact on the amount of time spent on QA testing. If CI is not used, QA testers could be spending upwards of 50% of their time running minor tests instead of looking for larger issues. With CI, because developers are constantly reviewing and editing previous code, they are able to head off many of the smaller bugs that QA would normally find. This allows testers to delve deeper and focus on more important problems, and test more use scenarios.

In the CI framework, code is constantly checked and tested — in most cases several times a day — and because of this, risk is significantly reduced. CI has been described by some as being akin to having a smoke detector in your home. It won’t fix the problem, but it will alert you right away when something goes wrong.

Another added benefit to development teams using CI is the creativity in coding that it is able to foster. Because continuous development is inherently flexible, developers are able to quickly and easily make changes to the code without running the risk of regressions.

Any firm that isn’t at least investigating continuous integration is going to be left behind. The benefits highlighted here are only beginning to scratch the surface of what CI can do for your company.

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Graduate Trainee - Devon

Graduate Trainee - Devon

Posted 4 April by FT Recruit Ended
Graduate Trainee

Based in Totnes, we are a young business, with a progressive approach to financial planning and wealth management.

If you are looking for a career in financial planning/wealth management, and would like to work at a well-respected firm that recognises commitment and success, then we can offer a fantastic opportunity to develop your skills and experience.

The initial salary range is £18,000 - £25,000, depending on relevant experience. A discretionary annual bonus is also payable.

Financial support and mentoring, designed to help you obtain the appropriate professional qualifications, will also be provided.

Key accountabilities:

* Work with clients, financial planner(s), product providers and other third parties to gather information necessary to carry out comprehensive financial reviews.
* Prepare draft strategic financial plans (using lifetime cashflow forecasting software).
* Undertake investment and product research, as directed by the financial planner(s), to identify solutions that meet clients’ needs and objectives.
* Prepare draft suitability reports, ensuring all relevant compliance documentation is also produced for clients.
* Carry out technical analysis and prepare reports on pension taxation or other specialist services, as required.
* Act as a central point of contact and deal effectively with queries from clients and other parties through effective communication.
* Maintain a proactive file review system, in accordance with contractual client service responsibilities.
* Undertake business-related administrative duties, as required.

About you:

You are motivated by wanting to build a career in financial services and interested in delivering the very best financial planning and investment solutions, with the client best interests always coming first.

You are looking to develop technical and client relationship skills & experience, combining a commitment to self-study with hands-on learning in a supportive work environment.

You are able to work under pressure and take ownership of tasks, prioritising effectively to meet deadlines.

You have excellent attention to detail in both written and analytical work.

You have outstanding people skills and a positive attitude.

You are always professional, ethical and discreet.

The ability and commitment to achieve a full RDR qualification (CISI investment advice qualification, CII Diploma in Financial Planning, or equivalent) within 12-18 months.

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Product Manager - Digital Banking

Popular Inc New York, NY
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US Digital Innovation

The Digital Banking Product Manager is a collaborative product leader with a user-centric mindset that leads the vision, product planning, product management, go-to-market strategies and operational model for our Direct Bank.

The Product Manager uses his/her abilities to successfully build trust, partner and achieve consensus among a wide range of business partners and instill passion for user experience across the company.

This role requires a constant sense of urgency dictated by a rapidly evolving competitive landscape as well as a structured thinker who helps advance the design and execution of the Direct Bank strategy. It is a hands-on product management position that works across the entire product lifecycle from product-market fit, customer experience design, implementation, go-to-market delivery, performance measurement and post launch support.

In this position, you will:

* Drive the product development process and work in partnership with internal stakeholders across product development, sales, marketing, credit, legal, finance, compliance, operations and executive management to translate business needs into a product strategy that ensures we maintain a highly competitive market position.

* Drive the design and implementation of a scalable operating and servicing model for the Direct Bank that leads to an improved ability to deliver an exceptional customer experience by:

* Identifying process improvement opportunities that enhance the customer's experience

* Partnering but also challenging stakeholders to maximize opportunities from process improvement

* Documenting and monitoring business processes

* Maintain documented competitive, market and customer needs analysis.

* Be responsible for assessing emerging trends, technologies, electronic platforms and potential partnerships that allow us to deliver innovative experiences and that simplify customer experience.

* Define, update and execute the Direct Bank roadmap, constantly incorporating enhancements based on competitive analysis and in partnership with internal and external stakeholders.

* Apply product development process best practices to ensure the product development initiatives comply with the bank's Product Development Policy, responsibilities and requirements.

* Research and document detailed product requirements to ensure that products meet business needs, performance objectives and deliver an exceptional customer experience

* Perform User Acceptance Testing

* Track key performance indicators and provide actionable insights to continuously improve the Direct Bank's performance and profitability.

* In partnership with Marketing, develop and execute marketing plans for products for the assigned segment.

* Be subject matter expert and business owner of the Direct Bank business line

To be considered, you will need:

* A minimum of 3 years of Financial Services experience in Product Management, Customer Experience, Process Improvement or Digital Banking.

* Bachelor's degree required.

* Deep understanding of digital industry dynamics and competitive landscape.

* Demonstrated process mapping skills

* Demonstrated ability to identify opportunities, quickly understand complex operational problems and define operational improvements in a matrixed organization.

* Experience in the cybersecurity space is a plus

* Demonstrated ability to build partnerships and foster collaboration and teamwork.

* Microsoft office suite with marked proficiency using PowerPoint and Excel.

* Excellent communications skills and proven ability to communicate effectively with senior management.


Receiving and Storeroom Clerk

Huggins Hospital Wolfeboro, NH

Under the immediate supervision of the Materials Manager, is responsible for assigned tasks in the receiving, storage, supply and distribution of materials throughout the hospital.

* Responsible for the Receiving Dock functions including receiving purchased medical products and equipment.

* Matching the physical product against the packing slip.

* Matching the packing slip against the system Purchase Order.

* Receiving the item in the system.

* Primary signer for deliveries (FedEx, UPS, etc.).

Stock Items Storeroom

* Maintaining Par levels.

* Inventorying stock items on a daily basis.

* Reporting items that have fallen below or are exceeding establish Par levels.

* Restocking shelves with daily deliveries.

* Assists personnel who come into Materials Management looking for stock items in of an immediate nature.

* Inventory of store areas in various department that require product from our stock inventory on a daily basis.

* Maintains an organized inventory count on a daily basis.

* Checks for items on shelf that are nearing or have exceeded their expiration date.

* Makes suggestions to increase or decrease a Par count on a particular item.

* Performs a Zero Inventory physical count at the end of the hospitals fiscal year.

General Support

* Delivering goods to stock and non-stock locations.

* Returning unwanted or outdated products to Materials Management for logging and disposal.

* Printing Forms as required.

* Answering general questions and providing products for walk-in requests.

* Assisting with Housekeeping Storeroom deliveries.


Hello, College!

Well, I'm finally writing! I've been waiting for a moment when I would have my laptop open and muster up the strength to say no to homework and yes to a little bit of word therapy. I'm not sure if I've officially published this online or not but I'm currently a freshman at Clemson University and I'm majoring in Pre-Professional Health studies. It's been a few weeks since I've moved in - I'm knee deep in classes, done with rush (Alpha Phi!!), and officially over dining hall food. So yes, I'm transitioning to the "college life" well, but it still has not been easy. And that right there, is why I haven't been able to post.


Essay about gregor mendel - Modern Thrill

Kafka in the beginning first shows Gregor as a person we can all relate to.
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Gregor mendel essay 1866 – pansmeticalancoviconcaseno

There are greater contrasts in humanity’s collective standard of living than ever before. As of 2014, Bill Gates topped the list of the world’s richest people for nearly all years of the previous 20. In 2000, his net worth was about $100 billion, or about the same as the collective wealth of the poorest hundred million Americans or the poorest half of humanity. Although Gates and other high-technology billionaires can live , for one person to possess the same level of wealth as billions of people collectively is a recent phenomenon. In 2014, about 30 thousand children died each day because of their impoverished conditions.

Mendel was not the first to experiment with heredity, and our Lyman Briggs biology class will not be the last to deal with genetics.
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One of the most notable geneticists was Gregor Mendel

I learned from my middle school years, that Gregor Mendel’s experiment on pea pods is an example of genetically modified foods.
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With that separation from physical reality, speculation frenzies have been major aspects of how stock markets operate. The first bout of market insanity was the . The slave-trade frenzy that fortune was less than a century later and was a stock speculation issue. The , in which greed and fear prevailed. The USA has devolved into the serial bubble economy as its empire has declined, and until the crises of the early 21st century, the USA’s previous market mania was in the 1920s. Back then, companies with nothing more than “” behind them sold stock to the public. It was essentially no different from the that . Those orgies of greed were usually associated with some new product, market, or a financial sleight of hand to finance them. The 1920s bubble was sandwiched between World War I and its sequel, and a . , and there was even a , backed by leading industrialists and politicians who tried to entice into becoming their front man.

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Land colonization was perhaps the Devonian’s most interesting event. The adaptations invented by aquatic life to survive in terrestrial environments were many and varied. Most importantly, the organism would no longer be surrounded by water and had to manage . Nutrient acquisition and reproductive practices would have to change, and the protection that water provided from was gone; plants and animals devised methods to protect themselves from the Sun’s radiation. Also, moving on land and in the air became major bioengineering projects for animals. Breathing air instead of water presented challenges. The pioneers who left water led both aquatic and terrestrial existences. Amphibians had both , and arthropods, whose exoskeletons readily solved the desiccation and structural support problems, evolved to replace their gills, which were probably book gills.


himalayan salt lampsHimalayan Salt Lamps are made from Himalayan salt crystals and can help to purify indoor air, reduce allergens and improve mood.

They are natural negative ion generators. At any given time, there are both positive and negative ions in the air. Negative ions occur more often in nature and they are often created by things like lightning storms, sunlight, waterfalls, and ocean waves. This is one of the reasons people often report feeling renewed or refreshed after a storm or at the beach.

Positive ions are often created by electronic devices like computers, TVs, microwaves, and even vacuum cleaners and can often exacerbate problems like allergies, stress and sleep trouble. Negative ions can neutralize positive ions and help cleanse the air.

The unique combination of salt and a light source in salt lamps are what cause the negative ions. Salt is hygroscopic, meaning that it attracts water to its surface and this water evaporates quickly due to the small amount of heat from the light source which is why salt lamps tend to sweat and appear wet. The negative ions are generated during the evaporation process.


? Miniatures of Macugnaga

Miniatures of Macugnaga

Miniature reproductions of the old houses Walser of Macugnaga

Macugnaga, the ancient colony of Z'Makanà Walser, Walser is among the countries that the village, perhaps still best preserves its ancient architectural structures and housing. They are in fact still present several barns (stadal), farms, bread ovens, mills and most splendid houses, which have a high degree of conservation among the best of all the settlements are still inhabited Walser.

The ancient technique of nesting of the beams, together with stone roofs, or shingles, brick walls, while nell'esiguità of available materials, has led to the development of Walser resisted the relentless passage of time and climate change. The ancient Walser buildings that can be admired today in the territory of Macugnaga, from the beginning of 1600 to 1500 for the houses and barns, they have faced for centuries in perfect harmony with nature, resisting even to large natural disasters that the territory has immediately.

After years of research and studies, webegun to to rebuild a scale of 1:25 and with traditional materials and authentic reproduction of these works,which were built by our ancestors with great talent and skill technique, but also with great sacrifice.

Each existing building is initially measured, photographed, carefully researched, cataloged, and then translated faithfully in scale in every detail. Currently we are able to play all types of existing buildings in Macugnaga Walser and other countries (in Italy and Switzerland), whether they are buildings from the past, ignoring the various changes introduced by technology, or are newer buildings that are inspired to 'Walser architecture.

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For any info you can ask to:
Negozio Marone - Pecetto di Macugnaga (VB)
Tel. +39 0324 65460

WebCam Macugnaga

WebCam Macugnaga


Introduction to the Controversy

The purpose of this website is to compare carbon sequestration in Old-Growth vs. Young-Growth Forests in order to determine which is a better carbon offset to carbon dioxide emissions. We explore recent forest sequestration methods such as Reforestation, Afforestation, and Forest Preservation. Select case studies are discussed, stemming from various climatic settings, in order to describe the difference between old-growth and young-growth forests.

This website starts by providing a background on recent climate change and carbon offset methods, and then followed by a discussion of key players in the scientific community.  We include a network of papers cited frequently by other members of the scientific community with a breif discussion of their work.

Additionally, we identify key players in this debate and include a relevant  background on participating government agencies; non-governmental organizations; pertinent legislation; and identify companies with varying degrees of interest in carbon offsets.

There is much controversy over which type of forest biomass is better suited as an offset: old-growth or young-growth. Studies have shown that both are effective carbon sinks, but old-growth forests are better at storing carbon.  Young-growth forests, however, are better at sequestering (capturing) carbon. We present the pros and cons of both sides of the controversy; provide a time-line of events; and show how the topic has been exploited in the media, political arena and within the scientific community itself.