Since God knows our every thought we need to be very careful of the thought patterns that we allow to develop. Of course, thoughts drift into our mind and that is beyond our control to a point. But we do have control over whether or not we dwell on those thoughts. In Corinthians, we are instructed to "take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ". We can also take some control of our thought patterns by making better decisions about the things we read, the things we see, the conversations that we have and the people we associate with daily. We must be careful that our pride doesn't lead us into believing that we are influencing others more than they are influencing us. The things and the people that we spend the most time with are the ones that influence us the most. Pride says "I would never" but we all have at some time or other done or said those things that we are not proud of later. Those things that we did and the words that we spoke are results of thought patterns that we have developed over the years. We need to ask the Holy Spirit to help us purify our hearts and minds. We can help by studying God's Word and making it a bigger part of our daily thought patterns.
God's plan has never changed. It existed in eternity and before time as we know it. Eternity was, is and always will be. God was, God is and God ever more will be. He knew our finite, human minds would be unable to grasp and understand eternity and endless space. So, He spoke the earth into existence somewhere in space and some time in eternity. By doing so, He divided space and time into small chunks of universes and days. This allowed humans to have something finite that we could grasp and understand. This is wisdom beyond our understanding. Then He created us and breathed life into us. Then we rebelled against God by doubting His love and provisions for us. This was no surprise to Him. He had already made provision to redeem us before we ever fell. The how and the when was a mystery until Jesus came and died for us on the Cross. It was prophesied over and over throughout history but people refused to see and /or believe. Had satan and his demons understood the plan and the time, they would not have crucified Jesus on the Cross. But God was, is and always will be in control. Jesus helped to design the plan of salvation and He finished it at Calvary.
We have a place that has been prepared for us by God Himself.. One day, Jesus will return and take us there to live with Him for eternity. Paul said that if Christians had hope only for this life and not for eternity, we should be pitied..
If we truly believe that the Bible is inerrant and infallible and that Jesus is the truth, we have no reason to fear or dread anything that man can do to us. Jesus gave us a gift of His peace, not like the world's peace that means no storms will ever come our way. His peace keeps us calm in the storm because we believe He is in perfect control of every situation.
Jesus showed us example after example of His humbleness. From the time He laid aside His glory in heaven to come to earth clothed in the flesh of a lowly human. Jesus was the perfect example of supreme power under control. He could have lashed out at any time and wiped out village after village. But He chose to be a servant to the people. Serving them by teaching and healing every disease. Now, Jesus was preparing to perform an act that in that time and place was performed only by servants. To wash another person's feet showed complete meekness and humbleness. The disciples knew that and that is why Peter said "No, you will never wash my feet". Peter could not imagine Jesus, His Lord and Master, stooping so low as to do that. But when Jesus explained to Peter that He could not be one of His disciples if Peter didn't allow Him to wash his feet, Peter said ""Lord, then wash not only my feet, but wash my hands and my head, too!" Peter would later understand that Jesus was doing this as an example of how humble we, as Christians, must be. Maybe we all need to participate in a good old fashioned foot washing ceremony. Would we be willing to do that for our brothers and sisters?
Do You Want a Good Answer or a Great Answer?
God always answers our prayers. He answers us in one of four different ways.
1. Do it now–and of course that is the answer we want so we recognize it right away.
2. Delay–It wasn't what we wanted to hear so we assume God didn't answer our prayer.
3. Don't do it – I'm not hearing that so God must not have answered.
4. Dynamically Different–He answers in such a better and highly effective way than what we anticipated that we don't recognize it as His answer.
1 Kings 19:3-5 when Elijah prayed "I have had enough, Lord, just take my life."? Then think of how God answered that prayer in 2 Kings 2:9-12 when God took him up in a chariot of fire! If God had taken Elijah's life when Elijah wanted him to, Elisha would not have been trained to become Elijah's replacement and Elisha would never have seen all the great miracles. God answered Elijah's prayer in a way far better than Elijah could have thought of or dared to ask. So when we don't get the answer we want or it is not in the time frame we wanted relax, God is still in control.


Discussion in 'For Sale and Wanted Forum' started by eskimo39, Jan 11, 2011.
Discuss 2 x Brand New Di-Log Voltage & Continuity Testers in the For Sale and Wanted Forum area at ElectrciansForums.co.uk.
Hi guys, I recently borrowed a few testers to do a review which I will be posting on here soon. However I couldn't get hold of either of the new Di-Log testers on loan so I went and purchased 2 today. They have only been out of the box for 5 minutes to do a quick review in my garage and are still like brand new. I can confirm that neither will trip an RCD whether testing between L-N or L-PE which is a superb requirement. They both also have a continuity buzzer and LED lamp built in to illuminate where you are probing. One unit uses LED's to display voltage and the other has LCD and LED's.
I am selling for less than they cost me and including free delivery so a chance to grab a bargain.


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In-addition, we added some 2D enhancements, accentuating the particle sparks and scorch marks in the edges of the concept car for a heightened but seamlessly integrated effect.


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Q: Serial port responder buffer null issue C# I am trying to make a small Console program in C# which mimics a hardware where the it responses a particular sent command in a master slave fashion. So another program(master) will send a byte array for example: 0xFF, 0x00, 0xCD, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00; and the slave Console program I try to make will check this received byte array and if its third element is 0xCD then it will respond as  0xFF, 0x00, 0xCD, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00.
Here is the entire program I tried:
using System.IO.Ports;
namespace ConsoleMyConsole
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            SerialPort myPort = new SerialPort();

            byte[] message_to_receive = null;
            byte[] message_to_response = { 0xFF, 0x00, 0xCD, 0x01, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 };
            myPort.PortName = "COM8";
            myPort.BaudRate = 9600;
            myPort.DataBits = 8;
            myPort.Parity = Parity.None;
            myPort.StopBits = StopBits.One;

            myPort.Open();

            int received_bytes = myPort.BytesToRead;
            myPort.Read(message_to_receive, 0, received_bytes);

            if (message_to_receive[2] == 0xCD)
                myPort.Write(message_to_response, 0, message_to_response.Length);
        }
    }
}

But when I run this program I get: System.ArgumentNullException: 'Buffer cannot be null error. I dont know why is this happening at myPort.Read. I have to declare message_to_receive anyway, and couldn't make it work.

A: See this specification page.
SerialPort.Read Method
For the buffer array specified in the parameter of the Read(), an area of the size required by the calling application must be prepared in advance.
Unlike ReadExisting(), ReadLine(), and ReadTo(), the API does not prepare the character string data.
Prepare an array with the longest data size that can occur, or prepare an array with a short size and repeat Read() as many times as necessary.

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(Newser) – Hey … you want to get high? If so, you may want to consider vaping your weed, rather than smoking it. According to a study published in JAMA Network Open, the former results in "significantly greater drug effects, cognitive and psychomotor impairment, and higher blood THC concentrations" than the latter. And just how did the researchers with Johns Hopkins Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit make this determination? Seventeen participants volunteered to get stoned for science, Live Science reports. During six 8.5-hour sessions, the participants, who had used pot but not in the previous 30 days before the study began, smoked or vaped marijuana with 0mg, 10mg, or 25mg of THC. After consuming the weed, the participants filled out a questionnaire about their degree of intoxication and then went through a bunch of physical and cognitive test ("the apex of weed-enabled fun," Live Science quips).
Should be mandatory for all school bus drivers to relieve their daily stress.
Throwing down the BS card here. My wife uses medical cannabis which she vapes in an oil form cartridge. It is not as strong as regular weed. Question: Who paid for the study? The vape cartridge companies?
Learn to make your own edibles and you waste zero THC, the high is slow in coming but seriously intense when it gets there. Much better for your lungs too.


Industry experts — from analysts and consultants to users and the top vendors — offer thoughtful, insightful, and often controversial predictions on how APM and related technologies will evolve and impact business in 2018. Part 6 covers ITOA and data.
The amount of data facing ITOps practitioners is only going to grow in the coming year and teams will be faced with the increased challenge of finding the signal in the noise — and fast — to resolve incidents. As a result, it will be necessary for ITOps to reexamine previous assumptions around automation and responsibility.
By utilizing smart data, which distills the essence of the traffic flows that traverse the service delivery infrastructure in a distributed fashion, close to the source, and compresses it into metadata, businesses can ensure they only store the information that holds real value. This information can then be used to gain meaningful and actionable insights, helping organizations to gain a competitive edge while driving efficiencies by enabling data to be rapidly compressed, and substantially reducing the volume of data stored by an order of magnitude or more. Smart data is already used to power a range of service, operations and business analytics across different industries including automotive, manufacturing and healthcare, and we expect its usage to increase dramatically in 2018. With the proliferation of IoT sensors, mobile devices and digital services creating an abundance of data used by the various applications and services that rely on hybrid cloud infrastructure, having the ability to convert smart data into meaningful and actionable IT and business insights, will help corporations to thrive in 2018 and beyond.
Today's APM tools and monitoring, in general, have discreet silos of data for time-series, transactions, and logs. In 2018 We will begin to see the first converged data stores, which will unlock the ability to answer questions significantly more easily than today's tools.
Read Jonah Kowall's Blog: Looking Back at 2017 APM Predictions - Did They Come True?
In the past, people were focused on learning the various big data technologies. It took time for users to understand, differentiate, and ultimately deploy them. There was a lot of debate and plenty of hype. Now that organizations have cut through the noise and figured all that out, they're concerned about actually putting their data to use. The enterprise doesn't really care about the technology being used. It's not important which distribution or database or analytics they're using, what matters is the result. The enterprise has realized this and we can expect to see an increased adoption of an application-centric approach to big data in the coming year.
We'll see new patterns of backend performance problems stemming from the broader adoption of containers and microservices architecture. Our performance palette will be expanded to include new measurements like micro pause delays, herd effects, cold start time etc.
The New Job Description: DBAs Take on New Responsibilities. One of the most significant changes we will see in 2018 will be toward a more collaborative relationship between IT infrastructure managers and database administrators (DBAs). As more applications are run in the cloud, senior DBA managers will be able to take more of a central role in troubleshooting problems and improving efficiency. DBAs will be looking beyond just the application and database to find and fix issues. Both IT and application teams will need tools that look deeply into the cloud infrastructure to identify causes of performance and availability issues and provide accurate recommendations for addressing them.
The advent of efficient RESTful APIs on many services and applications coupled with the maturation of time-series databases such as OpenTSDB and InfluxDB will drive IT operations analytics to use more quantitative approaches, and lead to advances in root cause analysis. This is due to the high storage efficiency of the time series databases, and the speed with which the optimize-on-write approaches they use can accept data. It is now increasingly practical to track large quantitative data volumes. RESTful API endpoints from applications and cloud services are rich in metrics, and the same types of APIs are efficient at accepting such metrics in data streams. With these large volumes of contemporaneous, high-cardinality time series data sources, operations analysis will become possible at a higher scale than previously possible. Cross-correlation will yield forensic insight into failures. In contrast, predictive time series analysis based on auto-regressive/moving average models, while mathematically practical, will fail to lead to any significantly valuable results on operations data, with rare exceptions.
IoT apps need to get out of the hype cycle and deal with real world pain points. Their devices are still a hassle to set up and they solve too few real world cases. Alexa has shown promise, but IoT platforms as a whole are too fragmented for developers to invest in learning them. Hardware manufacturers will agree on a common set of protocols and open up APIs for devices to work seamlessly.
In my opinion, the biggest occurrence in 2017 was that IoT reached peak hype, giving way to new hype-cycles for machine learning (actually, an offshoot of IoT) and for Artificial Intelligence (a familiar topic area, and one that requires IoT data as fuel for its intelligence). We saw a combination of several companies making very large investments in IoT, while others are scaling back or reorganizing their IoT teams. This combination of investment push and pull means that we're at an inflection point. For IoT, this means we're now at a point where projects have to deliver results. IoT vendors invested ahead of demand, with all sorts of claims of IoT one-stop shopping. With more capacity in the industry than there is demand, I expect we will see players drop off or shift focus.
We've now passed the point where we know that the human brain can no longer cope with the complexity of modern applications. Meanwhile, businesses have never relied on digital services more than they do today. Today, every company is a digital company and every critical IT issue has become a business issue. Therefore, APM solutions must evolve from just being early performance-issue detection tools to providing much more insights into the other phases of the resolution process. This includes not only root cause diagnostic and identification capabilities, but also self-teaching capabilities that leverage big data and AI-based algorithms and require very limited initial configuration to deliver actionable insights and recommended remediation actions. This will allow DevOps teams to make the best possible decisions to resolve performance issues.
Read 2018 Network Performance Management Predictions, the final installment.


If you're a regular reader, you know I like to complain about the Manhattanization of our menu pricing here in Brooklyn. As the local restaurant scene continues to boom, it seems to become harder and harder to find an affordable meal. Plenty of great meals, yes, but with the new normal being checks that come out to $50 per person, we're always looking for ways to cut corners, one of them being the borough's few great BYOB restaurants. Especially at an upscale eatery, the ability to bring your own bottle can make the difference between a reasonable check and an outrageous one, which is the reason why these four spots will always be among my favorite standbys since they allow outside alcohol and don't charge corkage fees for wine. Thanks to reader Cliff Fisch for requesting this story–ask and ye shall receive!
The area around Barclays Center is adding generic, mediocre restaurants at a frenetic pace, but this is one that still feels like a secret neighborhood gem. The dark, French bistro atmosphere is paired with an inventive menu influenced by the Caribbean isle of Guadeloupe, where the chef and owner Sebastian Aubert hails from. Dishes like duck confit with mango jerk sauce and lime-poached tilapia over coconut rice are all $20 or less, so paired with your own bottle of wine, that's about as cheap as you're gonna get for cuisine this refined. Bonus: The airy back patio has just one long picnic table: a perfect private spot for a birthday dinner, especially since you can bring your own booze and avoid the whole "who had drinks, who didn't" check-splitting fiasco.
Where to get your own booze: Grab a French wine from the large selection at no-frills Gary's Wine and Liquor, 80 St. Mark's Avenue (on Flatbush) or grab a six-pack at the bodega around the corner on Dean Street.
Filipino-Thai chef King Phojanakong's Asian small plates may seem a bit out of place along this otherwise downscale stretch of DeKalb in Clinton Hill, but he's drawn a following for dishes like coconut-basil-green-curry salmon and pig's ear/snout tacos. Umi Nom's non-alcoholic drinks–mango nectar, guava juice, young coconut water–are tasty enough that you might not even need the booze, but a few cold beers can certainly pair well with the supremely spicy fare.
Where to get your own booze: Fill up a growler beforehand at Bed Stuy Beer Works, worth the short jaunt for very affordable pours of brews like Flying Dog Pumpkin Ale and Barrier Bulkhead Red.
For my money, this Carroll Gardens mainstay is still one of Brooklyn's best pizzerias–even if it almost certainly has the longest wait. But the hours-long experience of waiting for these thin-crust, blackened slices of heaven can be a little much for even the sturdiest pizza-lover. Their meaty pies pair so well with a bold Italian red that in the past Lucali has had to warn patrons not to bring too much wine.
Where to get your own booze: Old Brooklyn Wine & Liquor Company, four blocks away, is a great neighborhood wine shop. Don't worry, you'll have plenty of wait time to walk there and back.
This French-East Asian mashup in South Williasmburg is seriously committed to being BYOB (they perplexingly don't even serve tap water), so you may want to bring a bottle of Poland Spring along with your pinot. However, the innovative fare makes up for any quirks, with stellar dishes like Korean beef bourguignon, kimchi bouillabaisse and fresh cinnamon beignets to finish.
Where to get your own booze: Challenge the knowledgeable sales folk at Nini's Wine Cellar by asking for something that pairs well with kimchi and seafood.
Thanks for the additions, Todd. Need to revisit Shinobi–thought their fried chicken app was great last time. Perfect pre-Roberta's nibble.


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Congratulations! It looks like a really cool place for your art also. Your work really brightens up the place. I hope you get lots of sales form your venture.
I recently got info on displaying my work in a little cafe. My work is so small though, I need to start working bigger to fill the large walls.
Thank you!!! Congratulations on displaying your work! How exciting! Don't worry about size, I am sure it will look amazing!!!
Just saw your FB post and jumped over to your blog. Your pieces a so vibrant and exciting. Love the way you have them hung. The coffee shop looks like a fun place to visit as well. Wishing you luck in the sales dept and also congratulate you on sticking to it. Wonderful that you could share this teachable event with your children. Good luck.
Thank you!! The coffee shop is so fun and I wish I lived closer to it! I would go often! I think its so great when a local shop displays local art. What a cool way to support each other!
Congratulations Janine for taking the reigns on your dreams! Your work is very beautiful and fits with the vibe of the cool environment. I wish you great success and please keep sharing your inspirational story!


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Oscar Vault Monday – Chinatown, 1974 (dir. Roman Polanski)
Posted by Marya E. Gates
This is one of those films that's often imitated but never duplicated (even with the ill-conceived 1990 sequel). It was directed by Roman Polanksi, who at the time was one of Hollywood's hottest up and coming directors; was written by Robert Towne, who at the time was mostly known for some uncredited work on Bonnie & Clyde and The Godfather; and stared two of the most acclaimed young actors of their generation: Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. The film was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, but only Robert Towne walked away a winner for his screenplay. It lost Best Picture to The Godfather Part II which is, perhaps, the most acclaimed sequel of all time.
Polanski received his first of three nominations for Best Director, losing to Francis Ford Coppola for The Godfather Part II. And although he would go on to win for 2002's The Pianist, I think this is by far his masterpiece. It's a detective tale full of twists and turns and the direction is impeccable. I think really what makes this film so amazing is the combination of all who worked on it. equal parts his direction, Towne's script and the performances of each of the actors.
At this point Nicholson had already been nominated for three acting awards one for supporting, two for lead: Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces and The Last Detail; but had yet to win. Ultimately he lost to Art Carney in Harry and Tonto, but he went on to win the next year for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. I've yet to see Art Carney's performance, but I find it very hard to believe it was better than Nicholson's. In fact he won numerous awards for his performance, including a BAFTA and a Golden Globe. He is a force to be reckoned with in this film, exuding an insane amount of energy from the beginning of the film all the way to the very last frame.
I also feel it necessary to point out that for a great deal of the film Nicholson performs with a giant bandage over his nose. Not only does it not hinder his brilliant performance, he somehow even makes the bandages sexy. The choice to have their lead male covered in a bandage for so much of the film was a risky one at the time, but it more than works, and is now one of the more memorable aspects of the film.
I don't want to spoil the film for those who haven't seen it yet, so I can't go into too much detail about Faye Dunaway's character, but let's just say it's one of the most complex and tortured performances ever to grace the silver screen. This was Dunaway's second performance to earn her an Oscar nomination, she'd previously been nominated for 1967's Bonnie & Clyde, and would later win the award for 1976's Network. She is definitely one of the greatest actresses from the 1970s and the roles she originated are nothing short of iconic.
To call John Huston's character in this film a scoundrel is beyond understatement. He is perhaps one of the slimiest, most despicable characters in cinema history and John Huston plays him so well. What's so remarkable about John Huston's turn in this film is that he's more known for his directing – he's directed over 40 films and won Best Director for 1948's Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Clearly he was comfortable – and talented – both behind the camera and in front of it.
Prior to her role in this film, Diane Ladd had mostly worked in television, and although her role is small, it is a crucial one and she plays it with gusto. The following year she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her work as Flo in Martin Scorses's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, as well as being nominated twice in the 90s for Wild At Heart and Rambling Rose. She was married to actor Bruce Dern from 1960 to 1969 and is the mother of actress Laura Dern. All three are being awarded Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2011.
I don't want to spoil the film, because I feel like it would ruin your viewing experience if you've never seen it, so I'm not going to talk much more about it. Instead I'm just going to end this post with the final lines of the film, as they were perfectly delivered by veteran television actor Joe Mantell:
Walsh: Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
If you're interest in purchasing the film, you can do so here.
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Erin | June 21, 2010 at 11:33 am
I still haven't seen this movie. I've given it as a gift! But I haven't seen it.
cinemafanatic | June 21, 2010 at 12:24 pm
GET ON IT. you will LOVE it. also my mom wants me to tell you to watch it immediately (it's one of her all-time favorites)
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What is the difference between a Jesuit school and a Catholic school?
What makes Jesuit education different?
Are all Jesuit schools Catholic?
What are the benefits of a Jesuit education?
What is the difference between Jesuit and Catholic priests?
What is the difference between Jesuit and Catholic schools?
What makes Jesuits unique?
Do you have to be Catholic to go to a Jesuit college?
What are the five characteristics of Jesuit education?
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Baber outlined five qualities of a Jesuit school graduate: intellectual competence; a loving nature; an openness to growth; a spirituality that tells them they're loved by God no matter their faith background; and a commitment to pursuing justice. … Zynda emphasizes how comprehensive a Jesuit education is.
All Jesuit schools are affiliated with the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. … A Jesuit is a member of the Society of Jesus, an order of Roman Catholic priests founded in Spain in the 16th century. In other words, all Jesuit colleges are Catholic, but not all Catholic colleges are Jesuit.
Jesuit education cultivates critical awareness of social and personal evil, but points out that God's love is more powerful. This value is illustrated through community service programs, service learning semesters, immersion experiences and various volunteer opportunities for students. Solidarity and kinship.
What's the difference between a Jesuit and a Diocesan priest? … Jesuits are members of a religious missionary order (the Society of Jesus) and Diocesan priests are members of a specific diocese (i.e. the Archdiocese of Boston). Both are priests who live out their work in different ways.
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using Atata;
using NUnit.Framework;

namespace AtataSampleApp.UITests;

public class HomeTests : UITestFixture
{
    [Test]
    public void Home() =>
        Go.To<HomePage>()
            .PageUrl.Should.Be(Config.BaseUrl);

    [Test]
    public void SignInAndSignUpLinks() =>
        Go.To<HomePage>()
            .SignIn.Content.Should.Be("Sign In")
            .SignUp.Content.Should.Be("Sign Up")
            .SignIn.ClickAndGo()
                .GoBack<HomePage>()
            .SignUp.ClickAndGo();

    [Test]
    public void SignInAndSignUpLinks_Visibility() =>
        Go.To<HomePage>()
            .SignIn.Should.BeVisibleInViewPort()
            .SignUp.Should.BeVisibleInViewPort()
            .SignIn.ClickAndGo()
                .Email.Set(Config.Account.Email)
                .Password.Set(Config.Account.Password)
                .SignIn()
                    .Menu.Home()
            .SignIn.Should.Not.BeVisible()
            .SignUp.Should.Not.BeVisible()
            .Menu.Account.SignOut()
                .Menu.Home()
            .SignIn.Should.BeVisible()
            .SignUp.Should.BeVisible();
}


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Q: How many unique outcomes can be made from the 12 river tiles in Carcassonne? I have been pondering this question for some time now and it's a bit out of my scope to solve it. I am curious to know how many arrangements are possible for the river 1 expansion for Carcassonne.
The rules for playing the river are as follows: The source tile is played first, The lake tile is played last, and If two river bends are drawn in sequence they must have opposing orientation.
I understand the following: The first and last tile played will not factor into the counting so we just look at the $10$ tiles in between. Each tile has $2$ orientations and there are $8$ unique tiles, plus $1$ repeated corner, and one repeated straight. We must also exclude possibilities that become unplayable when the river curves in onto itself.
Here's an image of the $12$ river tiles:

My preliminary guesswork at counting is
$$\frac{(2^8)10!}{2!2!}$$
My rationale
$10!/2!2!$ Because order of selection matters and repetition tiles are excluded by dividing by $2!$
$2^8$ because each tile can be placed in $2$ ways (the $2$ straight tiles are not included because they are not unique)
I know this is wrong. It's just my first guess at it, and it has not excluded possibilities where the river curves into itself and creates an unplayable game. Any assistance would be much appreciated, thanks!

A: The main problem is counting the different selfavoiding layouts that can be produced using the four tiles of the following figure:

An admissible layout begins with $A$, ends with $B$, and contains $4$ $L/R$ tiles. We may assume that the first such tile is an $L$ (and multiply by $2$ at the end). There are $8$ $L/R$ words of length $4$ beginning with $L$, namely
$$LLLL, LLLR, LLRL, LLRR,LRLL, LRLR,LRRL,LRRRR\ .$$
These words have to be decorated with $A$, $B$ and six letters $S$, whereby certain $S$ are compulsory. We then obtain the following $8$ patterns, whereby at the dots  optional letters  $S$ may be filled in:
$$\eqalign{p_1:\quad&A\cdot LS\cdot LS\cdot LS\cdot L\cdot B \cr
p_2:\quad&A\cdot LS\cdot LS\cdot L\cdot R\cdot B \cr
p_3:\quad&A\cdot LS\cdot L\cdot R\cdot L\cdot B \cr
p_4:\quad&A\cdot LS\cdot L\cdot RS\cdot R\cdot B \cr
p_5:\quad&A\cdot L\cdot R\cdot LS\cdot L\cdot B \cr
p_6:\quad&A\cdot L\cdot R\cdot L\cdot R\cdot B \cr
p_7:\quad&A\cdot L\cdot RS\cdot R\cdot L\cdot B \cr
p_8:\quad&A\cdot L\cdot RS\cdot RS\cdot R\cdot B \cr}$$
These $8$ patterns fall into three types:
(i) The pattern $p_1$ contains four consecutive equal turns, and has to be treated using a case analysis in order to ensure selfavoiding.
(ii) The two patterns $p_2$ and $p_7$ contain three consecutive equal turns, and have to be treated using a case analysis in order to ensure selfavoiding. (Note that $p_7$ is equivalent to $p_2$.)
(iii) The remaining patterns are selfavoiding however we fill in the optional letters $S$. The number of ways to do this is a stars and bars problem for each $p_k$, depending on the number of compulsory letters $S$ in $p_k$.
Assume that the total number $N$ of selfavoiding layouts has been determined. We then have to distribute the picture tiles on these layouts. The number $M$ of possibilities is the same for all layouts. Concerning the two pictures occurring twice assume that they are "secretly" different, and divide by $2\cdot2$ at the end. In this way we obtain
$$M={6!\> 2^6\>4!\over2\cdot2}=276\,480\ .$$

A: You're off to a good start, but I don't know why you used $2^8$ instead of $2^{10}$. You write "the $2$ straight tiles are not included because they are not unique", but whether they're unique has nothing to do with counting their $2$ different orientations – you've already correctly accounted for the fact that they're not unique by dividing by $2!$ twice.
I'll leave out the factor $2!^2$ until the end because it applies to all configurations and we can apply it once.
Two conditions are left to be taken into account: We can't have self-intersections, and two consecutive bends must turn in opposite directions.
Let's start with the second one. Each pair of consecutive bends reduces the options by a factor of $2$, so we need to count the configurations according to the number of pairs of consecutive bends they contain. This can be done using inclusion–exclusion.
Let's find the numbers $a_k$ of ways in which $k$ pairs of bends can be adjacent (not yet counting orientations).
$a_0$ is just $10!=3628800$.
For $a_1$, we can choose a pair in $\binom42=6$ ways, order it in $2$ ways, and order the resulting $9$ items (one pair, eight unpaired tiles) in $9!=362880$ ways, for a count of $a_1=4354560$.
For $a_2$, there are two options. We can either choose two disjoint pairs in $3$ ways, order each of them in $2$ ways for a factor of $2^2=4$, and order the resulting $8$ items (two pairs, six unpaired tiles) in $8!=40320$ ways; or we can choose two overlapping pairs to form a consecutive triple in $\binom43=4$ ways, order them in $3!=6$ ways and order the resulting $8$ items (one triple, seven unpaired tiles) in $8!=40320$ ways, for a total count of $a_2=(3\cdot4+4\cdot6)\cdot40320=1451520$.
For $a_3$, there's no choice; we have to have all $4$ bends in a row. We can order them in $4!=24$ ways, and then we can order the resulting $7$ items (one quadruple, six unpaired tiles), in $7!=5040$ ways, for a count of $a_3=120960$.
Then by inclusion–exclusion the number $b_j$ of configurations that have exactly $j$ pairs of adjacent bends is
$$
b_j=\sum_{k=j}^3(-1)^{j+k}\binom kja_k\;,
$$
so
\begin{eqnarray*}
b_0&=&a_0-a_1+a_2-a_3=3628800-4354560+1451520-120960=604800\;,\\
b_1&=&a_1-2a_2+3a_3=4354560-2\cdot1451520+3\cdot120960=1814400\;,\\
b_2&=&a_2-3a_3=1451520-3\cdot120960=1088640\;,\\
b_3&=&a_3=120960\;.
\end{eqnarray*}
Each pair of adjacent bends reduces the options by a factor of $2$, so the total number of configurations (now counting orientations) is
$$
\sum_{j=0}^32^{10-j}b_j=1024\cdot604800+512\cdot1814400+256\cdot1088640+128\cdot120960=1842462720\;.
$$
That's a bit less than a half (about $49.6\%$) of the count $2^{10}\cdot10!$ that we'd get without taking into account the bend restrictions.
Now we need to take care of the self-intersections. Those can only occur if all bends are separate, as the chain can't intersect itself once we place two adjacent bends in opposite orientations. So we have at least one straight tile between any two bends; and if we also consider the source and lake (which we must to test for self-intersection), we also have at least one tile before the first bend and after the last bend. Thus, we can describe the sequence of bends and straight tiles by a quintuple $(v,w,x,y,z)$ of the numbers of tiles before, between and after the bends, where each entry is at least $1$ and they sum to $8$.
For a self-intersection to occur, the two bends in the middle have to turn the same way. Which of the two outer bends have to also turn the same way depends on the sequence. (At this point, I'd suggest to draw yourself a diagram. :-) If the first bend turns the same way as the inner bends and $y\ge w$ and $v\gt x$, there's an intersection independent of the orientation of the last bend. Likewise, if the last bend turns the same way as the inner bends and $w\ge y$ and $z\gt x$, there's an intersection independent of the orientation of the first bend. Moreover, if $w=y$ and all bends turn the same way, there's an intersection if $v+z\gt x$.
Thus, for $(2,1,1,1,3)$ and its mirror image there are three options for the outer bends (all except the one where they turn away from each other); for $(2,1,2,1,2)$ there is one option for the outer bends (the one where they turn towards each other), and for all other tuples with $y\ge w$ and $v\gt x$ or $w\ge y$ and $z\gt x$ there are two options for the outer bends (one must turn towards the other and the other's orientation is irrelevant). This last case comprises $(4,1,1,1,1)$, $(2,2,1,1,2)$, $(1,3,1,1,2)$, $(1,2,1,2,2)$, $(1,2,1,1,3)$, $(1,1,2,1,3)$, and their mirror images. Altogether, that's a total of $2\cdot3+1\cdot1+2\cdot6\cdot2=31$ cases. Each of these can have $2$ orientations of the bends in the middle, $2^6=64$ orientations of the straight tiles, $4!=24$ permutations of the bends and $6!=720$ permutations of the straight tiles, for a count of $31\cdot2\cdot64\cdot24\cdot720=68567040$ self-intersecting configurations, a small fraction of the total number of configurations. That leaves us with
$$1842462720-68567040=1773895680$$
admissible configurations, still almost half (about $47.7\%$) of the $2^{10}\cdot10!$ we'd get without restrictions.
Now, at the very end, we can divide by $2!^2=4$ to account for the fact that two bends and two straight tiles are exchangeable; the result is
$$
\frac{1773895680}4=443473920\;.
$$
Here's Java code that checks this result by enumerating the chains.


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Half Step was written some time in the late 90's, probably around 96-97. It is quite high for my range, yet I've always had a nasty habit of thinking that I was a light tenor when I'm really not. I enjoy the challenge of singing high but I will not subject anyone the discomfort of having to listen to me try it — it's a purely private pursuit. Despite my having a hard time executing it, the song itself seems to draw attention because of the demanding verse melody and dramatic contrasts between loud and quiet sections.
This is one song that had a bigger baggage than others on the EP, because I recorded it on my solo album. For a long time I felt that I didn't do this song a justice because of my lack of singing chops, though I revisited it after Bob picked it out as a song to re-record and realized that the first version had many endearing qualities to me. The original goal was to make this version different from the Aries9 version, make it less layered and more live-feeling, and of course, add a cello to the mix.
But it's a tough thing for a recording to have a pre-cursor, as new takes constantly get compared to the old. It probably didn't help that I didn't change the drum parts — simply used the new samples — because I was already fond of the drum sequencing I created, especially the sequences in the 2nd verse and the loud bridge.
The more the recording progressed, the more the parts started resembling the old recording, as attempts to re-arrange them failed. In the end we even ended up recreating the "choir" which I really didn't want to do, as it'll be hard to reproduce that live. But without the choir the choruses seemed too repetitive and particularly, the final chorus felt anti-climactic after the big climax of the bridge — so Half Step went back to being a heavily layered epic. Pretty much every part is simply a re-tracking of the arrangements I made in the original recording. I suppose you can't fix what's not broken.
The title is referring to the chord progressions in the song — both verse and chorus are two-chord progressions, each half-step away from one another.
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TIFF Time
Where does the time go? The 2007 film list is already on-line. I'm pumped about a few movies, curious about many. The full schedule won't be on-line until the 28th, so I don't know what I can see yet. I'm guessing that the full details will also be available then. Right now, all they give you is a title and a director, which isn't much to go on. imdb provides a little more detail on some, but the festival film guide is always much more informative.
I definitely want to see Control, directed by rock photographer Anton Corbijn. It's a biography of Ian Curtis, lead singer of Joy Division, an influential post-punk band from Manchester. They were rapidly gaining popularity of the underground sort when Ian hung himself. Bummer, eh? Anyway, he was apparently interesting enough to be the subject of a movie. It doesn't hurt that Samantha Morton plays his wife, nor that I'm a fan of the band.
Other movies caught my eye, some of which I want to see, but not necessarily all. Can you guess?
Joy Division; A documentary, not sure if it's about the band, or a Nazi prostitution ring...
Elizabeth: The Golden Age; Starring one of my favorite actresses, Cate Blanchett
Sleuth; Directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Jude Law and Michael Caine
Run, Fat Boy, Run; Feature directorial debut from a guy most popularly known as Ross
Cassandra's Dream; Woody Allen's latest
Honeydripper; Directed by John Sayles (it's not about bees, Jen, I checked!)
Lust, Caution; Directed by Ang Lee, who is not trying to persuade the MPAA not to slap this film with an NC-17 rating
Mad Detective; Directed by Johnnie To, great action/comedy director out of Hong Kong
Then She Found Me; Feature Directorial debut from Helen Hunt
No Country for Old Men; Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen and starring Tommy Lee Jones
Nothing Is Private; Directed by Alan Ball of Six Feet Under fame
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Why Global Citizens Should Care
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen countries around the world implement strict lockdown regulations in order to protect the public from the virus, but with knock-on effects for people's mental health globally. The Jerusalema challenge is a reason to look for happiness in such unprecedented times and has helped people to endure lockdown measures. The UN's Global Goal 3 calls for good health and well-being for all, and this requires attention to both physical and mental health. Join the movement and take action on this issue here.
In a year that has been both challenging and depleting, South Africans have managed to come out dancing, and have inspired the rest of the world to join in.
This is all thanks to music producer Master KG and his international hit, Jerusalema, which quickly became a lockdown anthem both for South Africans and people all around the world.
The song that speaks about not being left behind without hope, and asks God to take the singer to Jerusalem, is sung proudly in Zulu to an uplifting beat that's easy to move to. When the song was released earlier this year, although South African's proudly promoted the beat, it was a group of friends in Angola who helped the tune go viral and kicked off the international dance challenge.
"It is a dance that was done by people from Angola, then Portugal followed, and it just went viral from that point," Master KG, whose real name is Kgaogelo Moagi, told Sowetan Live.
The dance spread like wildfire around the globe, everyone from firemen in Romania to wildlife conservationists in Zimbabwe took part in the dance craze.
South Africans certainly rose to the challenge and soon enough the entire country was dancing in unison, from the Minister of Health, Zweli Mkhize, and his department, to judges and lawyers in Cape Town's high court, to frontline workers at South Africa's hospitals and schools, and even factory workers and truck drivers.
At the peak of the pandemic, Jerusalema managed to uplift people who were in lockdowns all around the world, and encouraged them to find a reason to celebrate life.
This positive impact was important to help boost mental health during the lockdown. Recently Pharmaceutical company, Pharma Dynamics, interviewed South African adults about their health status during and after the lockdown. Their research revealed that 56% of adults are currently experiencing higher levels of emotional and psychological stress.
The study concluded with a reminder to citizens to look after their well-being. The Jerusalema dance challenge has been welcomed as a source of brightness in a difficult time and has managed to lift moods in spite of pandemic-related emotional stress.
The challenge inspires togetherness even when the pandemic has called on us to isolate as much as possible, and it has brought joy to a year that has been defined by loss and hopelessness.
The song has since become the most Shazamed song in the world, and has earned over 200 million views on YouTube — with Master KG winning the MTV Europe Music Award for Best African Act on Nov. 8 for his efforts.
"It means a lot to me. It validates the path I'm on," Master KG told Sowetan Live after the song broke Shazam's records. "It means the world is moving to Jerusalema and they want to know more about the song and the artists behind it."
Shout out to South Africa's very own @MasterKGsa for bringing a win home! #MTVEMApic.twitter.com/3hirCAYNN1
— MTVAfrica (@MTVAfrica) November 8, 2020
When explaining why "Jerusalema" was a finalist for South Africa's word of the year — a title ultimately won by "lockdown" — Ntombenhle Huluhulu from the Pan South African Language Board described how the dance challenge truly tells the story of South African people.
"This is just who we are, it is being South African. We always find joy in the toughest of times and it just speaks to the resilience of our spirit," she said.
Meanwhile, in September, President Cyril Ramaphosa even praised the song, and encouraged all citizens to take part in the dance challenge for Heritage Month, in the same speech that he announced the end of the national lockdown.
He said at the time that taking part in the dance challenge was an opportunity to "reflect on the difficult journey we have all travelled, to remember those who have lost their lives, and to quietly rejoice in the remarkable and diverse heritage of our nation".
Here are a few of our favourite contributions to the international dance challenge.
1. The Masaka Kids Africana in Uganda
2. Nuns and Priests in Italy
3. Care for Wild Rhino Sanctuary in South Africa
4. Slingeland Hospital in the Netherlands
5. And finally, the original challengers in Angola
Launched in April by seven global partners, the ACT-Accelerator is a unique coalition aimed at accelerating global efforts against the COVID-19 pandemic. Its members are working together to develop tests, treatments, and vaccines as quickly as possible, while also strengthening the world's most fragile health systems.
But the organization desperately needs financial support from governments around the world. You can join us in calling on world leaders to fund the ACT-Accelerator by taking action here.
TopicsMusicSouth AfricaMental HealthAnxietyGovernment of South AfricaCoronavirusCOVID-19LockdownCOVID-19 LockdownsJerusalemaJerusalema Dance Challenge
Discover the South African 'Jerusalema' Dance Challenge
By Khanyi Mlaba


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You may also find it helpful to meet with a local HSS Registered Celebrant to discuss your thoughts and wishes.
HSS Registered Celebrants are all self employed and therefore you are advised to confirm fees with them directly.
However, as guide our celebrants do not normally charge for meeting with you to discuss your advance wishes.
Your humanist ceremony will be to mark one of life's most important events. That is why we take your booking seriously. As the longest standing provider of humanist ceremonies in Scotland we support and co-ordinate our nation's largest and best known group of Humanist Celebrants. Every year our celebrants conduct thousands of ceremonies and we're committed to ensuring that every one is unique and of a consistently high quality. To demonstrate our commitment to you and your ceremony we are the only provider to offer the HSS Ceremony Promise; all HSS Registered Celebrants are covered by our Promise as are all their ceremonies.
We are delighted to have a reputation for providing high quality ceremonies and service. Although it is only occasionally (only about 0.5% and we conduct around 7000 ceremonies each year!) that problems arise with our ceremonies you can be assured if you book an HSS Registered Celebrant they are covered by our Public Liability Insurance.
It is very rare that the celebrant you have booked is unable to conduct your ceremony; and this would only be in extreme circumstances such as serious illness. However, as the largest provider of humanist ceremonies in Scotland we have the network to find you a replacement, even at very short notice. We have office staff available to ensure we can respond quickly to any emergency with minimal stress to you. Although unlikely to happen, always ask your chosen organisation how they provide cover in emergencies.
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Online Drug Dealers Are Now Accepting Darkcoin, Bitcoin's Stealthier Cousin
Darkcoin, bitcoin's more anonymous cousin, is increasingly being used for online drug deals. Ironically, this could actually help take it mainstream.
When the cryptocurrency darkcoin launched earlier this year, it distinguished itself from dozens of bitcoin copycats by promising to keep users' transactions far more anonymous than its predecessor. Now that promise is being tested in the Internet's fastest-growing proving ground for privacy technologies: the online black market for drugs.
Over the last month, two of the dark web markets selling an anonymous, mail-order catalog of narcotics and other contraband have begun supporting darkcoin transactions. On a site called Nucleus, visitors can now use darkcoin to buy LSD, MDMA, and marijuana. On the competing market Diabolus, dealers accept it for cocaine, synthetic stimulants like ethylone and alpha-PVP, and even counterfeit Euros. Those two markets still represent only a tiny fraction of the growing dark web drug economy---most of which uses bitcoin exclusively. But darkcoin's entrance could signal a new means of transaction in that underground industry, and one that's far harder for law enforcement to trace.
A more private cryptocurrency
"Using [darkcoin] on Diabolus is no more difficult than using bitcoin, and we hope that this currency will receive more adoption because of its superior anonymity," a Diabolus administrator known as Accida wrote on the Reddit forum devoted to dark net markets two weeks ago. "Ultimately, Diabolus cares about protecting your security and anonymity, and we'll consistently take action to maintain it as best we can."
PVP-alpha, marijuana, and ecstacy being sold for darkcoin on the drug site Nucleus. Screenshot: WIRED
Since as early as 2011, when a bitcoin was worth less than a dollar, the drug trade has been attracted to the cryptocurrency as a means of divorcing money and identity. Bitcoin, after all, allows Paypal-like payments online with many of the anonymity advantages of cash. But that privacy is far from perfect. In fact, the public ledger of bitcoin accounting known as the blockchain means that anyone can trace a transaction to a pseudonym, if not a name. Without careful and cumbersome methods of protecting those pseudonyms---services like bitcoin "laundries" or local, in-person exchanges---it's often possible for blockchain watchers to learn who's sending bitcoins to whom.
Darkcoin is designed to scramble any attempts at blockchain tracing. Darkcoin users can, whenever they want, swap their coins with two other users, a process known as CoinJoin. That exchange is organized by a so-called Master Node, one of the servers that runs the darkcoin network in exchange for periodic payments in the currency. And since that coordination of CoinJoin transactions is protected by encryption, it's nearly impossible for an outside observer to match up darkcoin payments with anyone's identity.
Gateway: drugs
Despite all of that, darkcoin's creator Evan Duffield says he's never intended darkcoin to be used for dark web drug sales. But he can't stop drug vendors from being attracted to its privacy properties. "Yes, it was accepted and implemented by these two markets. I can't really control that," he says. "The goal has always been to make a currency that's privacy-centric and is more for mass consumer base types of things. It's not just for buying drugs online."
But he still sees Diabolus' and Nucleus' adoption of darkcoin as a positive sign for his budding currency system. Bitcoin, he points out, got an early boost from Silk Road, which accepted it long before more mainstream vendors like Dell and Overstock.com. Duffield points to dozens of websites that already accept darkcoin payments, many in exchange for private web hosting or VPN services to encrypt and anonymize internet traffic. "Early on with bitcoin the only thing you could do with it was gamble and buy drugs. Then it got past that and was accepted on many sites all over the internet," says Duffield. "The same thing is happening with darkcoin."
Adoption by the narcotics underground could give darkcoin a needed injection of demand: A speculative bubble brought darkcoin's price to more than $13 in May, making it the second-most valuable cryptocurrency after bitcoin at the time. But since then, its exchange rate has plummeted back to less than $2; all existing darkcoins are now worth close to $8 million.
Booms and bust in value, however, have never mattered to the privacy-sensitive dark net economy as much as they do to cryptocurrency speculators. A currency's privacy properties, after all, have little to do with its dollar value, as the black market Silk Road administrator known as the Dread Pirate Roberts said after a bitcoin crash in 2013. "Bitcoin's foundation, its algorithms and network, don't change with the exchange rate," he wrote in a message at the time. "It is just as important to the functioning of Silk Road at $1 as it is at $1,000." That may be even more true of darkcoin, which is specifically designed to allow anonymous transactions.
Since the FBI takedown of the Silk Road in October of last year, next-generation cryptomarkets have been evolving and experimenting, using features like multi-signature transactions and even peer-to-peer selling systems to better protect transactions from surveillance. But bitcoin's fundamental privacy problems persist. Darkcoin, along with other anonymous money projects like Dark Wallet and the still-in-development cryptocurrency Zerocoin could change that.
The underlying demand for more financial anonymity means darkcoin may soon be adopted by more of the dozens of small marketplaces that now compete in the crypto-economy, says cryptocurrency consultant and privacy advocate Kristov Atlas, who recently performed an audit of darkcoin. While he doesn't expect the newly dominant Silk Road replacement sites like Silk Road 2, Agora, and Evolution to begin accepting darkcoin any time soon, Atlas argues it could serve as a differentiator for lesser-know sites. "People are becoming increasingly aware of the need for mixing services when they're using these dark web marketplaces. They're aware that bitcoin in itself is not completely anonymous," Atlas says. Darkcoin's early adopters, he argues, are a sign that it could fill that privacy void. "If you want to find out whether a currency is good, one of the first places you look is people who need to do things anonymously like criminals and drug dealers. It's a vote of confidence in darkcoin."
Andy Greenberg is a senior writer for WIRED, covering security, privacy, and information freedom. He's the author of the book Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers. The book and excerpts from it published in WIRED won a Gerald Loeb Award for... Read more
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Q: Adding numbers in defined set and printing it in Python I am trying to input the 5 numbers in defined length set and try to print out those numbers but it's giving "TypeError: 'int' object is not iterable" this error.
print("enter 5 numbers")
a=set(5)
for i in range(0,5):
    a.append(int(input("enter a number")))
for i in range(0,5):
    print("numbers in array are",a[i])

A: You cannot fix the size of set while creating.
a = set(5) is the source of your error.
Also, sets do not have append method. You should use a.add("data") for adding elements to the set.
To ensure that the size of set does not exceed a particular length, you can try something like this
fixed_length = 3
a=set()
for i in range(0,5):
    if len(a) == fixed_length:
        break
    else:
        a.add(int(input("enter a number")))

for index, element in enumerate(a):
    print("numbers in array are", element)

A: I think there is some confusion on what set actually does. I assume you want to make a predefined set of length 5. When doing:
set(5)

you get:
 TypeError: 'int' object is not iterable

because you're trying to make a set containing only the integer 5. If you want to make a set from that, you would have to include an iterable, maybe like so:
set((5,))

Out: {5}

But what I would recommend you to do is declare
a = []  # create an empty list

and then run your code. At the end then, I would make a set by typing
a = set(a)

Hopefully that was helpful for you! Have fun coding! :)


Just like everything else in the world of business, a whole lot has changed in the area of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). In the past, search engines like Google and Bing relied on technical elements to display relevant content.
However, in recent years Google has started focusing more on user intent and user preference to show the most relevant and valuable content for your customers. This is a substantial change to the way SEO worked in the past, and your business needs to be on top of these changes if you want to continue to dominate your market and drive more sales.
Modern day SEO requires businesses to look beyond keywords, meta information, and backlinks, and think about the end user. Google's business model is to present relevant content to searchers, so your business should focus on providing great content that is optimised for your user.
While you need to focus on your content and audience, technical aspects of SEO still matter. This is because search engines look at various signals to run their algorithms. This means your business has to focus both on your customers and the technical signals search engines use to rank content.
But what does this mean? Let's take a look at the top 5 SEO tips that will help make your business money today!
Keywords are bread-and-butter of SEO because they are the way that search engines interpret search queries of their audience. Once someone goes to Google and searches for something, Google's algorithm runs the question and search query through their search engine to display the best content for that user.
This means that your business needs to understand the problems and questions your customers ask and optimise your content around specific keywords that are relevant and searched for frequently.
It could be a waste of time to maximise your site for keywords which aren't even being hunted for. Even if you decide to get premium placement for a general keyword which is not what most users are searching for, Google will figure out some times users didn't pick content.
This means that your business should focus on long-tail keywords that address specific needs of your customers instead of general keywords. Focus your time and resources for finding the best keywords that will attract qualified leads and result in a conversion for your business.
Drill down in each theme and associated keyword class to produce modest clusters (or silos) of keywords.
Since your customers are searching for solutions to their problems and search engines want to deliver great content to their audience, your business needs to focus on producing great content. Many companies concentrate on the technical aspect of SEO and forget all about providing amazing content.
This is a big mistake because the content is the backbone of your online marketing strategy. New, readable and pertinent articles can help you attract and keep visitors to your site. When creating content, then it is advisable that you set a good deal of work in making it amazing.
Offering different types of content is a very good idea because your customers consume content differently depending on your industry. The types of content you should consider include: videos, sound, and pictures, along with text, offers guests the chance to locate their preferred media. Additionally, these kinds of networking can easily be shareable on various platforms, presenting a chance for widespread exposure.
When creating relevant content, then don't forget to carefully consider the problems, questions, and needs of your visitors. It's also worth noting that you don't have to make articles too frequently, only ensure it is regular enough that guests can discover new and unique items on a reasonable and consistent basis.
Understanding the needs of your customers is the most important part of a great SEO strategy for your business, but you also should understand what your competition is doing. This type of information can help you position your company and marketing tactics based on what your competition is or is not doing.
SEMrush is an exceptional tool to find out more about your competition and understand missed opportunities in the market.
The free version limits the results you can view, however, the information you collect is sufficient to put together an essential competitive evaluation.
For this example, let's imagine that I sell homewares. I use SEMrush to research a large competitor, Kmart, for this particular exercise based on the Google results we gathered from the first measure.
SEMrush provides great information about this business, including backlinks, organic keywords, paid search traffic, and much more. If you want to learn about your competition, then you should look to SEMrush to help your business today!
To make sure that your guests will still get info from your pictures whenever there are technical issues or if graphical components of your website. Images are often the low-hanging fruit that many businesses miss because they don't realize that search engines examine image alt tags to understand what the images on each page are.
Alternative descriptions for pictures and graphics do not only play a massive part in on-page optimisation but for access to all search engines and people. Individuals with hearing or vision impairment utilise voice browsers or screen readers (browser software) to browse the web rather than a text style.
The meta title, meta description, and meta tags should be optimised to help search engines understand and index your content. Each page must have different meta information on each page of your site should you wish for search engines to shop and record them from the search results.
I like to create a spreadsheet that has different columns for the page name, URL, meta title, and meta description. I also add keywords on this spreadsheet, so I can keep all page information together and optimize accordingly.
Even though meta descriptions have been depreciated by Google and don't contribute to the technical aspect of SEO, they are still important because they provide a preview to your audience in SERPs. Your business needs to make sure that your meta information is optimised for the needs of your customers and optimised for search engines!
Understanding your audience and competition are the most important parts of today's SEO strategy for your business. Along with that knowledge, your company needs to focus on the keywords, content, images, and meta information to ensure your information is indexed by Google and other search engines.
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Chris is a Digital Media Strategy Consultant in Orlando, FL. He has over 13 years of experience helping businesses grow their bottom line and expand their company by focusing on SEO, freelance copywriting, and PPC management services.


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Q: interface builder change constraint 2nd item? Hi I want to change the second item of a constraint - for example a UILabel has a constraint for Top Space to Top Layout Guide - I want to change that to superview, OR, I want to change Align Trailing To: superview instead of another label - when I click on Edit I cannot change it:
http://imgur.com/7o2yvcQ
If I select the constraint on the left side, if I try to edit the second item, it won't let me change it to superview here either...
http://imgur.com/MVgRmbY
any tips?  thanks.  read the documentation but didn't find any answer.

A: You can change things like the constant, priority or multiplier after creating a constraint. But you cannot change the items involved.
So you have to remove the constraint and recreate it with the correct second item.
(see Puneet Sharma's answer for how to select the correct view when creating a constraint in IB)

A: Press on the black arrow button. It will show you options you can align a particular constraint with in a dropdown

A: I've found out that sometimes you can.

*

*Select your constraint from the document outline

*On successful selection you'll see the constraint in the size inspector. Open the dropdown menu of the item you want to change

*If you can change the item from the interface builder you'll see the possible alternatives. Select the one you desire