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November 15, 2018 / By admin
A Big Congratulations To All Competition Winners
Winners of the Harrison Clark Rickerbys Charitable Art Competition in Hereford 2018
Congratulations to all the winners of the charitable art competition organised by Hereford law firm, Harrison Clark Rickerbys inc Gordon Lutton. The competition attracted no less than 96 entries of a very high standard.
Special congratulations from RRA are extended to Linda Pitcher who won the RRA sponsored category, 'The City'. Linda's picture of the inside of Hereford cathedral showed exceptional talent and an aptitude to capture the essence of space.
Linda Pitcher, winner of the RRA sponsored 'The City' category of the Harrison Clark Rickerbys Charitable Art Competition
The competition designed around celebrating Herefordshire had five categories; City, Leisure, Portrait, Landscape and Wildcard. Entrants were invited to express their passion for Herefordshire, with a chance to raise £250 for their chosen charities. Each entrant had to submit an original piece of artwork along with the completed sentence 'Herefordshire is my passion because…'
Linda, a local artist whose work can be seen at LindaPitcherFineArt.co.uk was delighted to win, particularly with such stiff competition in The City category. After being presented with her certificate and award-winning classic curvée from Hereford's very own vineyard, Castle Brook, Linda chose the very worthy charity of Yeleni Therapy and Support to receive the money.
Entries were judged by a panel comprising local artists and the firm's partners on the criteria of how the artwork reflects the character of the county, together with how the artist expressed their own passion for the county in the piece.
The winners were announced on Monday 12th November at a drinks reception at All Saints Church, Hereford with superb hospitality provided by Bill at the Cafe at All Saints. All the winning artworks are on display in Harrison Clark Rickerbys conference rooms at their offices in Thorpe House, 29 Broad St, Hereford.
Hospitality by Bill at Café at All Saints church, Hereford, for the art competition prize winners event
RRA was very happy to be part of the event along with other sponsors; the Harrison Clark Rickerbys Charitable Trust, Brightwells, the Institute of Art & Law and Gallery 54.
The exhibition of entries for the Harrison Clark Rickerbys Charitable Art Competition in Hereford 2018. Sponsored by RRA Architects and held at All Saints Church, Hereford
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Pentanes are highly volatile chemical compounds used primarily in the production of polystyrene and other foams as blowing agents. They have low-boiling points and are relatively inexpensive. Pentanes make an important ingredient in gasoline blending. Pentane is also used as a refrigerant in the appliance industry. However, the high volatility of pentanes causes rapid evaporation of the compound which increases the VOC content in air and leads to air pollution.
The pentane market is anticipated to grow in the forecast period owing to the growing demand for pentane by end-use industries. Moreover, the low cost of the chemical and its useful properties favor market growth. However, stringent governmental regulations against VOC emissions in the environment associated with the use of pentanes restrict the growth for pentane market.
Market sizing for the global Pentane Market.
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The report provides a detailed overview of the industry including both qualitative and quantitative information. It provides overview and forecast of the global pentane market based on various segments. It also provides market size and forecast estimates from year 2017 to 2027 with respect to five major regions, namely; North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific (APAC), Middle East and Africa (MEA) and South & Central America. The pentane market by each region is later sub-segmented by respective countries and segments. The report covers analysis and forecast of 18 countries globally along with current trend and opportunities prevailing in the region.
The report analyzes factors affecting pentane market from both demand and supply side and further evaluates market dynamics effecting the market during the forecast period i.e., drivers, restraints, opportunities, and future trend. The report also provides exhaustive PEST analysis for all five regions namely; North America, Europe, APAC, MEA and South & Central America after evaluating political, economic, social and technological factors effecting the pentane market in these regions.
The reports cover key developments in the pentane market as organic and inorganic growth strategies. Various companies are focusing on organic growth strategies such as product launches, product approvals and others such as patents and events. Inorganic growth strategies activities witnessed in the market were acquisitions, and partnership & collaborations. These activities have paved way for expansion of business and customer base of market players. The market payers from pentane market are anticipated to lucrative growth opportunities in the future with the rising demand for pentane in the global market. Below mentioned is the list of few companies engaged in the pentane market.


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Q: Android Pushnotification, does nothing on click when inside app I am trying to launch an activity, when push notification is clicked.
Interestingly, when the app is closed, and no activity is in background, and I recieve a push, I click on it and the required activity is opened.
But when any activity of the app is opened, and I recieve a push, clicking on it does nothing.
I have tried diff combinations. Also put exported = true on the launching activity.
Here is my code :
private static void showNotification(Context context,String title,String text,Intent openIntent)
{

    PendingIntent pi = PendingIntent.getActivity(context, 0, openIntent, PendingIntent.FLAG_CANCEL_CURRENT|PendingIntent.FLAG_ONE_SHOT);

   // Resources r = getResources();
   final Notification notification = new NotificationCompat.Builder(context)
            .setTicker(title)

            .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.notif_icon)
           .setLargeIcon(BitmapFactory.decodeResource(context.getResources(),
                   R.drawable.notif_icon))
            .setContentTitle(title)
            .setContentText(text)
            .setContentIntent(pi)
            .setDefaults(Notification.DEFAULT_SOUND|Notification.DEFAULT_LIGHTS|Notification.DEFAULT_VIBRATE)
            .setAutoCancel(false)
            .build();

    // also tried .setAutoCancel(true) above instead of cancel
    notification.flags |= Notification.FLAG_AUTO_CANCEL;

   new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() {
       @Override
       public void run() {
           notificationManager.notify(0, notification);
       }
   },1000);

}

Now, what combination should I try ? Remove the flags CANCEL_CURRENT or FLAG_ONE_SHOT ? Tried already. Even without these two flags there was no result on clicking of notification.
I am running the app on android 5.1 / 5.0 . I have read that there are problems in the notification on these android versions. So I already tried the solutions like android:exported=true and FLAG_CANCEL current. But to no effect.
Now how to make the notification click work and open the intended activity ?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks

A: Use FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT like this. its work for me
PendingIntent.getActivity(context, 0, openIntent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);

A: You need to broadcast data from your FirebaseMessageingService class
public void onMessageReceived(RemoteMessage remoteMessage)

and receive the broadcast where-ever you want to show the data.

A: /*I tried this code on asus zenfone 2 (android 5.0), it is working without any problem please try this.*/
 private void pushNotificationWithClickAction(String mainTittle,String subTittle,Intent intent){
       PendingIntent pIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0, intent, 0);
       Notification noti = new NotificationCompat.Builder(this)
                .setContentTitle(mainTittle)
                .setContentText(subTittle)
                .setSmallIcon(R.mipmap.ic_launcher)
                .setContentIntent(pIntent).build();
        noti.flags |= Notification.FLAG_AUTO_CANCEL;
        NotificationManager notificationManager = (NotificationManager) getSystemService(NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
        notificationManager.notify(0, noti);
    }

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Herbert/Mahut Dazzle To Reach Third Year-End Final
Posted: Nov 20, 2021
Nicolas Mahut and Pierre-Hugues Herbert defeated Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos 6-3, 6-4 in the semi-finals of the Nitto ATP Finals on Sunday to charge into their third championship match at the season finale.
The doubles final in Turin will be contested between the French pairing, who are looking for their second title at the season finale, and Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury, who defeated World No. 1 team Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic in the first semi-final.
There are few doubles pairings more experienced at the Nitto ATP Finals than Herbert and Mahut, who have played six of the past seven years, made the semi-finals on their past three appearances and did not drop a set en route to the title in 2019.
The French pairing had their winning streak snapped by Ram and Salisbury during the group stages, but did not drop a set in their other round-robin matches. Granollers and Zeballos had saved four match points earlier in the tournament and brought a 2-0 record in the ATP Head2Head into the semi-final clash, but found themselves comprehensively outplayed throughout the 76-minute match.
Herbert and Mahut made a scintillating start: Mahut hit an incredible return to break Zeballos in the Argentine's first service game of the match. By the time the French pairing had raced to 3-0, they had won 13 of the first 15 points and Zeballos' racquet had hit the court. Herbert and Mahut went on to close out the set 6-3 in 33 minutes without having faced a break point.
They would not face one in the second set, either. Mahut continued to shine, hitting a jaw-dropping return winner to earn break point as Granollers served to open the second set. He even hurdled the net at one point while chasing down a drop shot.
The Spanish-Argentine pairing managed to hold to open the second set, but were under consistent pressure on serve and were broken to love in the eighth game.
The only hint of a change in momentum came when Herbert was serving for the match, when he went down 0-30 before finding a crucial ace. Mahut backed him up with an impressive volley and the pair closed out the win to reach their third final at the Nitto ATP Finals.
Sunday's final will be a rematch of the round-robin clash between Herbert/Mahut and Ram/Salisbury, which took place on Tuesday. Ram and Salisbury narrowly won 6-7(7), 6-0, 13-11.


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Rome – the Eternal City. This free audio travel guide takes you through the tastes, sights and attractions of Rome alongside practical info on where to stay, getting around and where to go next.
The city has spread over time and is now immense, but you'll probably want to see the sights in Piazza de Spagna, Via Veneto, Quirinal, Esquiline, Lateran, Caracalla, Aventine, Palatine, Forum, Capitol, Campo de Fiori, Piazza Navona, and Piazza della Rotonda, and then Vatican, Januculum and Trastavere on the west of the Tiber.
If you're going to be spending just a short time in Rome, it's probably best to stay near the popular sites. Find yourself a hotel or hostel near the Pantheon and Campo de Fiori. The area around the Termini station is also convenient and in the right area.
Hostel beds tend to cost less than €20 a night but — depending on the quality of the establishment — prices can drop as you move further away from the centre; in fact, they get really cheap. Although it's one of the world's most popular tourist destinations, competition keeps prices in check for the lower- and middle- ranges of the market.
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Although Italian cuisine is well-known worldwide, we tend to combine all sorts of regional specialities into a conglomerate.
Roman cuisine tends towards pasta, sauces and cheeses with lots of deliciously prepared meat and vegetable dishes. One that caught our eye was Trippa alla Romana: a dish of tripe and tomatoes.
When buying coffee or gelato, you tend to order and pay at one counter before taking a receipt to another counter where people prepare your order. It can be a bit confusing if you're used to ordering, eating then paying. Pizza to take away is sold by weight, so let the server know how much you want by indicating where to cut. Backpacking Rome is certainly a good way to put on some weight!
Public transport runs regularly and quite often. Buses, metro and trams are all integrated in the public transport system, so you can hop on and hop off within your time period. The cheapest ticket is €1, which lasts for 75 minutes. If you're doing more than four journeys, more than 75 minutes apart during the day, you can get a €4 daily ticket. Three, seven and 30-day tickets also exist, as do yearly passes.
The first time you use the ticket, validate it in one of the yellow machines on board. Make sure you hold onto it until you're clear of the vehicle as ticket inspectors do operate. The same thing goes for trains, but validate your tickets on the platform before boarding.
You won't need your passport to cross into the world's smallest country, but you will need "modest" clothing as you will in most of the Mediterranean's cathedrals, churches and mosques. Expect a long security queue then a bag search before you can enter to gaze on priceless artistic treasures and soak in the atmosphere amidst other shuffling tourists.
One of the largest and best-preserved temples in Rome, the Pantheon is built in a circular pattern which may have inspired later Roman church builders. The "Oracular" or hole in the roof lets in rain during wet weather.
When the city gets too much, the public gardens of Villa Borghese provide a welcome retreat. The noise of traffic fades into the trees, but never quite manages to disappear. Stands of mature trees, sculptures, and an artificial lake make it nice place to sit and relax, or wander aimlessly.
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It almost goes without saying, but just wandering the streets of old Rome is a treat in itself. Squares, fountains, buildings, statues, churches — they're everywhere and, luckily, never too far away from a good cafe or bar.
The forum was the central area for legal disputes, political and philosophical discussion and worship in the many temples. Walking it nowadays is a treat which can be spoilt by the water-sellers offering €10 bottles of warm water, mimes and actors looking to charge you for a photo, and the other dregs of popular tourist sites.
We recommend reading up on ancient Roman history; at least as far as figuring out who many of these people, places and gods are before you show up. There's little in the way of easy-to-find information on site.
If you approach the forum by metro, which is probably the easiest way, you'll be arriving at "Colosseo" and emerge near this icon. Built, expanded and used for gladitorial contests, it's partially in ruins now. There are chances to take your classic photo from the outside and huge lines to get in. If your time is short, I'd advise skipping it but if you do go inside you can see the excavations which have unearthed the underfloor cages where animals and people were kept.
The resources of the Renaissance church were thrown at bringing together this amazing collection of artwork and the design and building of what was the papal palace. The Sistine Chapel is within its walls and that alone almost makes up for the entrance price. If you go on the last Sunday of the month, admission is free.
Other tours operate around the Vatican, giving access to various places and sights.
Rome is always a popular pilgrim destination, but crowds swell at Easter and Christmas.
On Good Friday, the Pope leads the procession of the cross at the Colosseum; and on Easter Sunday he addresses the crowds in St Peter's Square. At Christmas, the city is filled with nativity scenes and festive markets, culminating in a midnight mass at most churches and a blessing by the Pope in St Peter's Square on the 25th.
If you're brave enough to face the summer heat, you could attend various neighbourhood festivals or Saint's days but Autumn is the party time with the cultural festival RomaEuropa, the White Night (La Notte Bianca) where art galleries and museums are open all night for free, the Marino wine festival and much more.
provides solid background and good on-the-ground choices and tips for getting around.
Being the capital, you can get pretty much anywhere from Rome. Trains run in all directions; budget and legacy airlines lead all over Europe and the world.
Craig recommends heading to Sicily for island life, rich fruits and wines, hiking in Mt Etna and beautiful beaches and countryside. Linda recommends choosing a few cities to visit on the way north into Austria. Assisi, Florence and Venice are all worth a visit, but picking a smaller one to stay in for a few days is a wonderful experience – one of our favourite places in Italy is a tiny town at the end of a winding bus route called Baiardo. And there are thousands of little gems like this throughout the country.
Special thanks to Jessica Stewart from Rome Photo Blog for supplying the photos for this episode; if you've been watching the iTunes enhanced version you should have seen them all.
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excellent tips! thanks, as always, for sharing such great information.
@NomadShan - That's a great point. Good thinking!
Well, this is something really well documented. Never been to Rome although I live in Europe. Been in almost any major city, but somehow I didn't make it to Rome so far. I think this will change pretty soon ;-) Thank you.
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Twitter may not be the biggest social media platform, but it's growing. Its short-form, 140-character style of posting makes it a unique arena to quickly communicate with your followers. If your church is thinking about tweeting, here are a few things to consider as you get started.
Set realistic expectations. Before using any communications tool, it's always important to ask if it helps you reach a specific goal. If it doesn't, don't do it. Chasing a new technology doesn't necessarily expand your ministry.
The biggest misconception about Twitter is that it's where all the young people hangout. That may not be true depending on how you define young. While the 18-24 year old bracket did have the highest amount of growth in 2012, it's still the smallest age group. Nearly half of Twitter users are between the ages of 25 and 44.
Learn the lingo. Twitter has its own language of sorts. It's not that hard once you figure it out. Twitter has a great glossary online. Click here to see it.
Set up an account. This goes beyond creating a username and password. That's the easy part. Add a profile picture, create a cover photo and pick a background. Also, fill in your profile information. As people start to find you on Twitter you want to look like you're a real account. The same is true as you start to follow people and become active on Twitter. Users are skeptical of accounts that still have default icons.
Scope the scene. Now that you're all set up and ready to go, start watching and following other organizations and people you know or align with. See what they're posting. Get a feel for how Twitter works. Gain ideas for how you want to manage your account.
Find a need you can fill. Once you have a better feel for the space you're working in, think of ways you can be a valuable resource to people. What can you post to fill a need your followers or other potential followers have? What problem can you solve? What's the best service you can provide?
Commit to long term tweeting. The most frustrating part of launching a social media account is the lack of followers and interaction you get in the beginning. You're working hard and posting smart things, yet the audience isn't growing as fast as you want. The easy move is to quit. The right move is to stick with it. If you're providing good content on a regular basis, your audience and impact will grow.
Interact. If you see an interesting tweet, start a conversation with that person. Did someone retweet you? Thank them for doing it. Social media is meant to be conversational. When you're interacting you're showing there's a real person behind your church account and it communicates you're committed to Twitter.
How about you? What's the best piece of advice you have for a church starting to use Twitter?
Jerod Clark
Leon Johnston on March 22, 2013
Hi Jerod.
Thank you for writing this helpful blog post on getting started on Twitter. I've been tweeting for about a year now. I really enjoy it! I like your angle on service/mission. How can I serve/encourage others and proclaim the Good News through Twitter? I'm still thinking about that. For now, I like to post a #verseoftheday and also reveal (in appropriate ways) the life of a local church pastor. Anyway, thanks for giving me some things to think about regarding social media. Peace to you!
--Leon H. Johnston
Leon Johnston on April 15, 2013
For anyone who wants to learn more about how to use Twitter, I would suggest reading Claire Diaz-Ortiz's book, Twitter for Good. It is especially helpful for organizations who want to tweet, but also helpful for individuals. I will likely refer back to it occassionally as a reference tool as I seek to #twitter4good.
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Q: How to remove empty rows in tables when they are zero, and how to allow selection in only one table at a time? I created two tables that relate. When I select one or more items from Table A, Table B is resized according to that selection and vice versa.
However, I need to lock the selection of the two tables at the same time. For example, if I click on the sellers Miguel andSede, in Table B the values and cities corresponding to these two sellers will be rendered. And if in Table B I click on the cities of Faro andLoulé, automatically the sellers Miguel andSede should be deselected.
What happens at the moment is that I can make selections in both tables at the same time, as shown in the image below:

I need to create a rule where if I have a selection in Table A and click on Table B. The line selected in Table A has no background color and vice versa.
When I make a selection, some lines are empty, but they still appear, as shown in the image below:

How can I prevent these lines from appearing if there is no selection?
I apologize for asking two questions at the same time, as it is the same code I have found better to use here.
Here's my code, thanks in advance.

var vendedorTable = dc.dataTable("#Vendedores");
var citiesTable = dc.dataTable("#cities");

var url = 'https://gist.githubusercontent.com/bernalvinicius/3cece295bc37de1697e7f83418e7fcc9/raw/a5820379ec6eae76ee792495cc5dd1685c977a73/vendedores.json';
d3.json(url).then(function(data) {

  data.forEach(function(d) {

    var myCrossfilter = crossfilter(data);
    var all = myCrossfilter.groupAll();

    dc.dataCount(".dc-data-count")
      .dimension(myCrossfilter)
      .group(all);

    vendedorDim = myCrossfilter.dimension(function(d) {
      return d.vendnm;
    });
    var vendedorGroup = vendedorDim.group().reduce(reduceAdd, reduceRemove, reduceInitial);

    citiesDim = myCrossfilter.dimension(function(d) {
      return d.zona;
    });
    var citiesGroup = citiesDim.group().reduce(reduceAdd, reduceRemove, reduceInitial);

    function reduceAdd(p, v) {
      p.totalAno += +v.Vendas_Ano;
      p.totalHomologo += +v.Vendas_Ant;
      return p;
    }

    function reduceRemove(p, v) {
      p.totalAno -= v.Vendas_Ano;
      p.totalHomologo -= v.Vendas_Ant;
      return p;
    }

    function reduceInitial() {
      return {
        totalAno: 0,
        totalHomologo: 0,
      };
    }

    //Fake Dimension
    rank = function(p) {
      return ""
    };

    function checkRows(d) {
      if (d.value.totalAno <= 0 || isNaN(d.value.totalAno) || d.value.totalHomologo <= 0 || isNaN(d.value.totalHomologo)) {
        return 0;
      }
      return d;
    }

    //vendedorTable
    vendedorTable.width(500)
      .height(480)
      .dimension(vendedorGroup)
      .group(rank)
      .columns([function(d) {
          d = checkRows(d);
          while (d != 0) {
            return d.key;
          }
        },
        function(d) {
          d = checkRows(d);
          while (d != 0) {
            return Number(Math.round(d.value.totalAno * 100) / 100).toLocaleString("es-ES", {
              minimumFractionDigits: 2
            }) + '€';
          }
        },
        function(d) {
          d = checkRows(d);
          while (d != 0) {
            return Number(Math.round(d.value.totalHomologo * 100) / 100).toLocaleString("es-ES", {
              minimumFractionDigits: 2
            }) + '€';
          }
        }
      ])
      .sortBy(function(d) {
        return d.value.totalAno
      })
      .order(d3.descending)

    //CityTable
    citiesTable.width(500)
      .height(480)
      .dimension(citiesGroup)
      .group(rank)
      .columns([function(d) {
          d = checkRows(d);
          while (d != 0) {
            return d.key;
          }
        },
        function(d) {
          d = checkRows(d);
          while (d != 0) {
            return Number(Math.round(d.value.totalAno * 100) / 100).toLocaleString("es-ES", {
              minimumFractionDigits: 2
            }) + '€';
          }
        },
        function(d) {
          d = checkRows(d);
          while (d != 0) {
            return Number(Math.round(d.value.totalHomologo * 100) / 100).toLocaleString("es-ES", {
              minimumFractionDigits: 2
            }) + '€';
          }
        }
      ])
      .sortBy(function(d) {
        return d.value.totalAno
      })
      .order(d3.descending)

    vendedorTable.on('pretransition', function(table) {
      table.selectAll('td.dc-table-column')
        .on('click', function(d) {
          let filters = table.filters().slice();
          if (filters.indexOf(d.key) === -1)
            filters.push(d.key);
          else
            filters = filters.filter(k => k != d.key);
          if (filters.length === 0)
            vendedorDim.filter(null);
          else
            vendedorDim.filterFunction(function(d) {
              return filters.indexOf(d) !== -1;
            })
          table.replaceFilter([filters]);
          dc.redrawAll();
        });
      let filters = table.filters();
      table.selectAll('tr.dc-table-row')
        .classed('sel-rows', d => filters.indexOf(d.key) !== -1);
    });

    citiesTable.on('pretransition', function(table) {
      table.selectAll('td.dc-table-column')
        .on('click', function(d) {
          let filters = table.filters().slice();
          if (filters.indexOf(d.key) === -1)
            filters.push(d.key);
          else
            filters = filters.filter(k => k != d.key);
          if (filters.length === 0)
            citiesDim.filter(null);
          else
            citiesDim.filterFunction(function(d) {
              return filters.indexOf(d) !== -1;
            })
          table.replaceFilter([filters]);
          dc.redrawAll();
        });
      let filters = table.filters();
      table.selectAll('tr.dc-table-row')
        .classed('sel-rows', d => filters.indexOf(d.key) !== -1);
    });

    dc.renderAll();

  });

  $('#reset').on('click', function() {
    vendedorTable.filter(null);
    vendedorDim.filter(null);
    citiesTable.filter(null);
    citiesDim.filter(null);

    dc.redrawAll();
  });

  $('#resetTable').on('click', function() {
    vendedorTable.filter(null);
    vendedorDim.filter(null);
    citiesTable.filter(null);
    citiesDim.filter(null);

    dc.redrawAll();
  });

  $('#resetTable2').on('click', function() {
    vendedorTable.filter(null);
    vendedorDim.filter(null);
    citiesTable.filter(null);
    citiesDim.filter(null);

    dc.redrawAll();
  });

});

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A: I'm not sure that I understand the first question.
As for the second question, currently you are filtering out the data inside of the formatting functions for the table:
  .columns([function(d) {
      d = checkRows(d);
      while (d != 0) {
        return d.key;
      }
    },
    function(d) {
      d = checkRows(d);
      while (d != 0) {
        return Number(Math.round(d.value.totalAno * 100) / 100).toLocaleString("es-ES", {
          minimumFractionDigits: 2
        }) + '€';
      }
    },
    function(d) {
      d = checkRows(d);
      while (d != 0) {
        return Number(Math.round(d.value.totalHomologo * 100) / 100).toLocaleString("es-ES", {
          minimumFractionDigits: 2
        }) + '€';
      }
    }
  ])

That works, but it's a weird way to go about it for two reasons:

*

*while(...) means "repeat until false". if(...) would be more idiomatic here.

*More importantly, this still prints the rows, but if the values are zero or NaN, it prints undefined (the default return value for a function in JavaScript) and this shows up as an empty cell.

It would be better to filter the data before it gets to the table. You can do this using a fake group. Specifically, you can create an object which supports the .top(N) function that the table will use to pull data, but skips any rows where either of these values is close to zero:
function remove_empty_bins(source_group) {
    return {
        top: function (N) {
            return source_group.all().filter(function(d) {
                return d.value.totalAno > 1e-3 &&
                  d.value.totalHomologo > 1e-3; // does it have a value?
            }).slice(0, N);
        }
    };
}

Apply this function to each of your groups:
    vendedorTable.width(500)
      .height(480)
      .dimension(remove_empty_bins(vendedorGroup))

    citiesTable.width(500)
      .height(480)
      .dimension(remove_empty_bins(citiesGroup))

And now your formatting functions can stick to formatting!
      .columns([function(d) {
            return d.key;
        },
        function(d) {
            return Number(Math.round(d.value.totalAno * 100) / 100).toLocaleString("es-ES", {
              minimumFractionDigits: 2
            }) + '€';
        },
        function(d) {
            return Number(Math.round(d.value.totalHomologo * 100) / 100).toLocaleString("es-ES", {
              minimumFractionDigits: 2
            }) + '€';
        }
      ])

var vendedorTable = dc.dataTable("#Vendedores");
var citiesTable = dc.dataTable("#cities");

function remove_empty_bins(source_group) {
return {
    top: function (N) {
        return source_group.all().filter(function(d) {
            return d.value.totalAno > 1e-3 &&
              d.value.totalHomologo > 1e-3; // does it have a value?
        }).slice(0, N);
    }
};
}
var url = 'https://gist.githubusercontent.com/bernalvinicius/3cece295bc37de1697e7f83418e7fcc9/raw/a5820379ec6eae76ee792495cc5dd1685c977a73/vendedores.json';
d3.json(url).then(function(data) {

  data.forEach(function(d) {

    var myCrossfilter = crossfilter(data);
    var all = myCrossfilter.groupAll();

    dc.dataCount(".dc-data-count")
      .dimension(myCrossfilter)
      .group(all);

    vendedorDim = myCrossfilter.dimension(function(d) {
      return d.vendnm;
    });
    var vendedorGroup = vendedorDim.group().reduce(reduceAdd, reduceRemove, reduceInitial);

    citiesDim = myCrossfilter.dimension(function(d) {
      return d.zona;
    });
    var citiesGroup = citiesDim.group().reduce(reduceAdd, reduceRemove, reduceInitial);

    function reduceAdd(p, v) {
      p.totalAno += +v.Vendas_Ano;
      p.totalHomologo += +v.Vendas_Ant;
      return p;
    }

    function reduceRemove(p, v) {
      p.totalAno -= v.Vendas_Ano;
      p.totalHomologo -= v.Vendas_Ant;
      return p;
    }

    function reduceInitial() {
      return {
        totalAno: 0,
        totalHomologo: 0,
      };
    }

    //Fake Dimension
    rank = function(p) {
      return ""
    };

    function checkRows(d) {
      if (d.value.totalAno <= 0 || isNaN(d.value.totalAno) || d.value.totalHomologo <= 0 || isNaN(d.value.totalHomologo)) {
        return 0;
      }
      return d;
    }

    //vendedorTable
    vendedorTable.width(500)
      .height(480)
      .dimension(remove_empty_bins(vendedorGroup))
      .group(rank)
      .columns([function(d) {
            return d.key;
        },
        function(d) {
            return Number(Math.round(d.value.totalAno * 100) / 100).toLocaleString("es-ES", {
              minimumFractionDigits: 2
            }) + '€';
        },
        function(d) {
            return Number(Math.round(d.value.totalHomologo * 100) / 100).toLocaleString("es-ES", {
              minimumFractionDigits: 2
            }) + '€';
        }
      ])
      .sortBy(function(d) {
        return d.value.totalAno
      })
      .order(d3.descending)

    //CityTable
    citiesTable.width(500)
      .height(480)
      .dimension(remove_empty_bins(citiesGroup))
      .group(rank)
      .columns([function(d) {
          d = checkRows(d);
          while (d != 0) {
            return d.key;
          }
        },
        function(d) {
          d = checkRows(d);
          while (d != 0) {
            return Number(Math.round(d.value.totalAno * 100) / 100).toLocaleString("es-ES", {
              minimumFractionDigits: 2
            }) + '€';
          }
        },
        function(d) {
          d = checkRows(d);
          while (d != 0) {
            return Number(Math.round(d.value.totalHomologo * 100) / 100).toLocaleString("es-ES", {
              minimumFractionDigits: 2
            }) + '€';
          }
        }
      ])
      .sortBy(function(d) {
        return d.value.totalAno
      })
      .order(d3.descending)

    vendedorTable.on('pretransition', function(table) {
      table.selectAll('td.dc-table-column')
        .on('click', function(d) {
          let filters = table.filters().slice();
          if (filters.indexOf(d.key) === -1)
            filters.push(d.key);
          else
            filters = filters.filter(k => k != d.key);
          if (filters.length === 0)
            vendedorDim.filter(null);
          else
            vendedorDim.filterFunction(function(d) {
              return filters.indexOf(d) !== -1;
            })
          table.replaceFilter([filters]);
          dc.redrawAll();
        });
      let filters = table.filters();
      table.selectAll('tr.dc-table-row')
        .classed('sel-rows', d => filters.indexOf(d.key) !== -1);
    });

    citiesTable.on('pretransition', function(table) {
      table.selectAll('td.dc-table-column')
        .on('click', function(d) {
          let filters = table.filters().slice();
          if (filters.indexOf(d.key) === -1)
            filters.push(d.key);
          else
            filters = filters.filter(k => k != d.key);
          if (filters.length === 0)
            citiesDim.filter(null);
          else
            citiesDim.filterFunction(function(d) {
              return filters.indexOf(d) !== -1;
            })
          table.replaceFilter([filters]);
          dc.redrawAll();
        });
      let filters = table.filters();
      table.selectAll('tr.dc-table-row')
        .classed('sel-rows', d => filters.indexOf(d.key) !== -1);
    });

    dc.renderAll();

  });

  $('#reset').on('click', function() {
    vendedorTable.filter(null);
    vendedorDim.filter(null);
    citiesTable.filter(null);
    citiesDim.filter(null);

    dc.redrawAll();
  });

  $('#resetTable').on('click', function() {
    vendedorTable.filter(null);
    vendedorDim.filter(null);
    citiesTable.filter(null);
    citiesDim.filter(null);

    dc.redrawAll();
  });

  $('#resetTable2').on('click', function() {
    vendedorTable.filter(null);
    vendedorDim.filter(null);
    citiesTable.filter(null);
    citiesDim.filter(null);

    dc.redrawAll();
  });

});

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Service to the soldiers in the Civil War and the USO connection
Most folks are familiar with the work of the USO or United Service Organizations. No, I didn't misspell the name. The organization that provides such wonderful support to our service members today in dozens of locations around the world began its work just prior to World War in 1941 as an attempt to mobilize the efforts of groups providing the "emotional support" needed by the troops. The Salvation Army, Young Men's Christian Association, Young Women's Christian Association, National Catholic Community Services, National Travelers Aid Association and the National Jewish Welfare Board joined together to form the United Service Organizations known today simply as the USO. The USO mission quickly expanded to create "new programs and services to meet the ever-changing needs of the troops and their families, while holding fast to the original mission." The USO's work continues today "to lift the spirits of America's troops and their families, and will continue to be there for them until every one comes home." [1]
The colors of the United Service Organizations (USO)
So, how is this related to Oliver Case and the 8th Connecticut? Glad you asked…
A little passage from Oliver's letter of November 3, 1861 triggered me to dig a bit deeper into the story of his one and only visit to the city of brotherly love:
We were got upon the cars with but little delay and tried to start for Philadelphia which was not so easy a job as you might imagine as we had on 19 passenger cars, but with the help of another engine we got under way and arrived safely at ½ after eleven o'clock where we had a huge dinner and if anyone ever did justice to a dinner, we did to that. I think I never tasted anything so good in my life. We stayed there until nearly five talking and shaking hands with everyone.
On November 2, 1861 from 11:30 in the morning until 5 o'clock in the afternoon, Private Oliver Cromwell Case and his fellow soldiers were hosted by the citizens of Philadelphia. My twenty-five years of service as an Army officer has taught me well that Soldiers with free time in a major population center can spell trouble if not properly occupied and supervised. Chief among the activities of these Soldiers is always the pursuit of food. In fact, when serving as a young lieutenant in the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, I was told that one of the rules of the Cavalry Trooper was "never pass up the opportunity for a meal because you never know when you might eat next." So it was with the nutmeggers on that November day. When Oliver writes that "we had a huge dinner" after arriving in Philadelphia, it's likely that he had no idea that the keen observations of one of the city's businessmen and the efforts of a group of ladies was to thank for that meal.
Only six months prior to the arrival of the 8th Connecticut, the citizens of the Philadelphia took action to support the growing number of troops transiting the city. During the closing week of April and the first week of May, Union regiments from the New England states began arriving by both ship and train. Most of these troops proceed along Washington Avenue to board trains bound for Perryville, Maryland, the southernmost location in Maryland accessible by railroad. After noticing the hundreds of soldiers sitting along the streets of the city waiting for their trains, a group of women in the city "formed themselves into a committee, and, with the assistance of their friends and neighbors, distributed coffee and refreshments among the hungry and grateful troops."[2] These modest efforts to provide refreshments continued for several weeks until the last week of May 1861 when a Philadelphia businessman became involved.
William M. Cooper was a merchant with a store located on Otsego Street just off Washington Avenue when he also noticed the large number of soldiers lounging on the streets of Philadelphia. He managed to convince his partner, Henry Pearce, that their barrel making business could be used to advance the mission to the soldiers started by the ladies of the city. As a result, on May 26, 1861, the Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon opened its doors to serve the Union soldiers passing through the city. Mr. Cooper took the lead role in the effort and served as the committee's president and chief fundraiser for the duration of the war. A friendly rival, the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, began operating nearby shortly after the establishment of Cooper's saloon.
The two refreshment saloons provided a welcomed relief for the weary soldiers. As the ladies had first realized, a soldier's first longing after the long boat or train ride was a cup of hot coffee and so Mr. Cooper converted the large fireplace in his shop into an enormous stove. With this setup, it was possible for the volunteers to brew one hundred gallons of coffee per hour! According to a history of the saloon written immediately following the war, the "coffee was made good and strong, and served up in a purely democratic manner."[3] I would assume this means that it was one cup for each man.
Exterior view of the Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon (Library of Congress)
According to the records of the saloon, the soldiers of the 8th Connecticut were divided equally between the Union and Cooper saloons. Oliver does not indicate in which establishment he partook of the "huge dinner" but when he entered the building, he found:
…each table was laid with a clean white linen cloth, on which were arranged plates of white stone china, mugs of the same, knives and forks, castors, and all that was necessary to table use. Bouquets of flowers, the gifts of visitors, were frequently added, and lent their fragrance to the savory odors. The bill of fare consisted of the best the market could supply, and was not, in the articles provided, inferior to that of any hotel in the country. At all meals the fare was abundant; consisting of ham, corned beef, Bologna sausage, bread made of the finest wheat, butter of the best quality, cheese, pepper-sauce beets, pickles, dried beef, coffee and tea, and vegetables. [4]
Interior view of the Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon (Library of Congress)
The Cooper and Union saloons provided an incredible setting for the soldiers to enjoy their meal. One Union Army surgeon provided a detailed description his experience at the Cooper saloon:
We are stopping over Sabbath in Philadelphia, at the above named saloon, where we have been treated with the kindest hospitality. We were met at the ferry by one of the committees, who conducted us to the saloon, where we found tables groaning beneath the real substantials of life. The hall is 150 feet long, by 30 wide, and will accommodate about 350 persons at a time. It is splendidly decorated with wreaths of evergreens, and a great variety of paintings and flags, and is well lighted with gas. At the further end of the hall is a large eagle, stuffed and perched upon a frame enclosing the Declaration of Independence. We were supplied with every thing we could possibly wish.[5]
In September of 1990, I found myself in much the same position as Oliver and the Connecticut boys…waiting around for transportation on my way to war. The USO with many volunteers had established a "saloon" at Rhein-Main Air Base in Frankfurt, Germany providing food, entertainment and, yes, coffee for soldiers deploying to Saudi Arabia in support of Operation Desert Shield. The facility was operated in a German "feast tent" just off the tarmac of the airbase. I don't believe we enjoyed the same meal as Oliver, but the food was fantastic and represented the last taste of home for many months. Upon return to the United States after the conflict in 1991, we found the same reception waiting for us in both New York and our home base in El Paso, Texas. Today, a USO reception center is found in every major airport in the country and at United States military airbases around the world providing that same warm welcome and food (among many other services) that greeted Oliver Case and the soldiers of the 8th Connecticut in Philadelphia over 150 years ago.
The facility at Cooper expanded to include a hospital on the second floor of the building and both saloons hosted upwards of one million troops during the four years of the war. Mr. Cooper poured his heart, soul and finances into the venture. Sadly, in March of 1880, he died in a condition of debt so abysmal that friends and former soldiers assisted by the Cooper saloon had to come to his rescue to prevent his home from being sold at public auction. William Cooper was fondly remembered as the man who "used his private mean liberally, and no soldier was ever turned away hungry."[6]
In addition to the History of the Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon by James Moore written in 1866, the following sites provided useful background information on this subject:
The House Divided site of Dickinson College Essay on Philadelphia
Civil War Philadelphia – Volunteer Refreshment Saloons
[1] History of the USO from the USO website, http://www.uso.org/history.aspx
[2] History of the Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, James Moore, James B. Rodgers, Philadelphia, 1866.
[3] (Moore, 1866)
[6] "A Patriot's Family in Distress," New York Times, March 18, 1880.
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March 6, 2013 by J.P. Rogers
The End of a Very Pleasant Trip Down the Chesapeake
So, it was indeed a "very pleasant trip down the Chesapeake" for Oliver and the other 999 boys from Connecticut for two days during the first full week of November 1861. The Nutmeggers were again of cheerful hearts when their steamer tied up to the pier in Annapolis, Maryland on Tuesday evening, November 5th. As Private Oliver Case and the 8th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry Regiment disembarked at Annapolis on November 5, 1861, they found a city pulled between southern loyalty and northern military force much like their previous transit point in Perryville. This time, they would be more permanent residents. As Maryland and its governor were struggling with the decision against secession only eight months before, the first Union soldiers, in the form of the 7th New York Infantry, arrived in the capital city.
At 4 o'clock P.M. of Monday, April 22, the Seventh Regiment first landed in a hostile State on a military errand, and was disembarked at the dock of the Naval School at Annapolis. The men marched ashore by companies in good order, and formed in regimental line on the beautiful parade-ground in the rear of the Naval-school buildings.[i]
Now the arrival of Burnside's expeditionary force in the capital city became a continued guarantee of Maryland's place in the Union. As they had when Union forces first landed in Annapolis earlier in the year, the citizens of the city watched the soldiers arrive by the thousands as both an occupying force and to train the green regiments for future operations deeper in Confederate territory. The most recent occupation of the city by Union troops under the command of Brigadier General Thomas W. Sherman had been designed to equip and train an expeditionary force comprised of three brigades of 13,000 troops. The objective of this new expeditionary unit was to capture one of the important port cities along the lower South Carolina coast in order to give the Union Navy a base of operations for blockading operations. Only days before the arrival of the first units of Burnside's expeditionary force, Sherman's brigades had departed Annapolis with a combined naval force under the command of Flag Officer Samuel F. du Pont. On November 7, 1861 just two days after the 8th Connecticut arrived at Annapolis, the Sherman/du Pont expeditionary force attacked and captured both Fort Walker and Fort Beauregard gaining control of Port Royal Sound, South Carolina.
General Thomas Sherman and Flag Officer Samuel du Pont confer on the Great Naval Expedition, November 1861
The "Great Naval Expedition" as it was often referred to in contemporary accounts provided invaluable lessons for Burnside's expedition that would follow just two months later.[ii] Thomas Sherman and his staff conducted detailed planning with the naval staff of Samuel du Pont ensuring a well-coordinated joint operation between the two services. Logistical challenges associated with moving 13,000 soldiers with their supporting equipment and horses over hundreds of miles of storming seas were addressed and overcome. Most importantly, the tactics and techniques required to successfully employ this joint Army-Navy force against Confederate shore fortifications were developed through a process of trial and error during the Battle of Port Royal. All of these lessons would provide Ambrose Burnside a head start when planning and executing his expeditionary operations against the North Carolina coast in January of 1862.
As General Sherman and his troops were wading ashore in Port Royal, South Carolina, the city of Annapolis was again preparing for occupation by soldiers dressed in Union blue. In April of 1861, Governor Hicks had expressed concerns that the southern sympathies of eastern Maryland combined with the displeasure of the citizens at the military occupation of the city would have a detrimental effect of his efforts to have the state remain in the Union. Hicks' leadership in keeping Maryland in the Union had not found approval by most of the residents on the east side of the state. By November, Hicks' concerns remained regard the disposition of the citizens of Annapolis, but the earlier occupation by Sherman's regiments had gone without major incident. Now, Burnside's crop of fresh Yankees including Oliver Case would find themselves on the front line of the efforts to improve relations between the citizens of Annapolis and their Union occupiers.
During their first two nights in Annapolis, Oliver and the other soldiers of the 8th Connecticut were billeted on the campus of St. John's College. The college was originally founded in 1696 as King William's School only two years after Annapolis was designated as the capital city for the colony of Maryland. The institute was established as a preparatory school, but when it received its charter in 1784 it included a name change to St. John's College. The college was notable and unique for its time because it espoused a policy of religious tolerance where "youth of all religious denominations shall be freely and liberally admitted" with a focus on rigorous academic pursuits. With the onset of the Civil War, many students departed the school prior to their maturation in order to join either the Union and Confederate armies reflecting the divided loyalties of the host city and state. With most of students gone, the Union army, which had begun to arrive to secure the strategically important city, soon occupied the grounds. College officials watched helplessly as the army established a firm presence in many of the building on campus. By November 1861, the great number of troops landing in Annapolis requiring housing arrangements forced the establishment of large tent cities on the grounds of St. John's.
When the troops of the 8th Connecticut arrived on the night of November 5, 1861, they were given quarter in the buildings across the St. John's campus as a temporary housing arrangement until the tent city was operational. Oliver wrote to his sister that "we were quartered in a college where we stayed two nights and one day."[iii] The campus was comprised of several building that would have been available to house the soldiers of the regiment. McDowell Hall, opened in 1742, was originally built by the Maryland Governor Thomas Bladen to be used as a residence for the state's executive. However, after the Revolutionary War in 1784, the state gave the yet unfinished building to the newly chartered St. John's College. The school completed the building including the addition of a bell tower, still in use today, along with a third floor. Although the building was significantly damaged by fire in 1909, it was reconstructed to its original specifications. It was named for the first principal of King William's School, John McDowell.
[i] (Our War Pictures, 1861)
[ii] (The Great Naval Expedition, 1861)
[iii] (Case)
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Internet memory holes and filter bubbles O NOEZ!!1
July 15, 2011 Paul Raven	4 Comments
Ah, here we go again – another study that totes proves that the intermawubz be makin' us dumb. Perfect timing for career curmudgeon Nick Carr, whose new book The Shallows – which is lurking in my To Be Read pile as we speak – continues his earnest handwringing riff over our inevitable tech-driven descent into Morlockhood
Human beings, of course, have always had external, or "transactive," information stores to supplement their biological memory. These stores can reside in the brains of other people we know (if your friend John is an expert on sports, then you know you can use John's knowledge of sports facts to supplement your own memory) or in storage or media technologies such as maps and books and microfilm. But we've never had an "external memory" so capacious, so available and so easily searched as the web. If, as this study suggests, the way we form (or fail to form) memories is deeply influenced by the mere existence of external information stores, then we may be entering an era in history in which we will store fewer and fewer memories inside our own brains.
Do we actually store fewer and fewer memories, though? Or do we perhaps store the same amount as ever, while having an ever-growing external resource to draw upon, making the amount we can carry in the brainmeat look small by comparison to the total sphere of human knowledge, which is still growing at an arguably exponential rate? Or, to use web-native vernacular: citation needed. (If you can't remember where you saw your supporting evidence, Nick, feel free to Google it; I won't hold it against you.)
If a fact stored externally were the same as a memory of that fact stored in our mind, then the loss of internal memory wouldn't much matter. But external storage and biological memory are not the same thing. When we form, or "consolidate," a personal memory, we also form associations between that memory and other memories that are unique to ourselves and also indispensable to the development of deep, conceptual knowledge. The associations, moreover, continue to change with time, as we learn more and experience more. As Emerson understood, the essence of personal memory is not the discrete facts or experiences we store in our mind but "the cohesion" which ties all those facts and experiences together. What is the self but the unique pattern of that cohesion?
I submit that we form similar consolidations on a collective basis using the internet as a substrate; hyperlinks, aggregation blogs, tranches of bookmarks both personal and public. I further submit that this makes the internet no different to a dead-tree library except in its speed, depth and utility. This puts the internet at the end of a millennia-long chain of inventions that begun with cave-paintings and written language, all of which doubtless provoked sad eyes and headshaking from those who didn't have a chance to grow up around them. It's not the internet Carr fears, it's change.
I'm usually very keen on Ars Technica's reporting on science papers, but there's a glaringingly bad bit in the second paragraph of their piece on this one:
The potential to find almost any piece of information in seconds is beneficial, but is this ability actually negatively impacting our memory? The authors of a paper that is being released by Science Express describe four experiments testing this. Based on their results, people are recalling information less, and instead can remember where to find the information they have forgotten.
The authors pose one simple example that had me immediately agreeing with their conclusions. Test yourself: how many countries have flags with only one color? Regardless of your answer, was your first thought about actual flags, or was it to consider where you would find that information? Without realizing it (even though I knew the content of the paper), I found myself mentally planning on opening up my Web browser and heading for a search engine.
So a guy who writes articles for publication on the web, and presumably does much of his research using the internet too, is shocked to find his first response to a question he doesn't immediately know the answer to is "hey, I wonder how I can Google this?" – is that really a surprise? As a former public library employee, my response would probably have been to wonder whereabouts to look in the stacks for the same information; reliance on what we might call "outboard" cultural memory storage is hardly a new thing. And unless you're in the business of needing to be able to recall trivia without recourse to reference material – like a career pub-quiz participant, perhaps – I remain to be convinced that this is a drastic new failure condition that threatens the downfall of civilisation.
Indeed, a MetaFilter commenter recalls a Richard Feynman anecdote from a year when he was lecturing in Biology that illustrates the point very effectively:
The next paper selected for me was by Adrian and Bronk. They demonstrated that nerve impulses were sharp, single-pulse phenomena. They had done experiments with cats in which they had measured voltages on nerves.
I began to read the paper. It kept talking about extensors and flexors, the gastrocnemius muscle, and so on. This and that muscle were named, but I hadn't the foggiest idea of where they were located in relation to the nerves or to the cat. So I went to the librarian in the biology section and asked her if she could find me a map of the cat.
"A map of the cat, sir?" she asked, horrified. "You mean a zoological chart!" From then on there were rumors about some dumb biology graduate student who was looking for a "map of the cat."
When it came time for me to give my talk on the subject, I started off by drawing an outline of the cat and began to name the various muscles.
The other students in the class interrupt me: "We know all that!"
"Oh," I say, "you do? Then no wonder I can catch up with you so fast after you've had four years of biology." They had wasted all their time memorizing stuff like that, when it could be looked up in fifteen minutes.
Reliance on the memorisation of facts in preference to the more useful skills of knowing how and where to find facts and how to synthesise facts into useful knowledge is a common criticism of the education system here in the UK, and in the US as well. Facts are useless in and of themselves; as such, we'd be better off reassessing the way we teach kids than angsting over the results of the current (broken) system. As Carr points out, the connections we make between facts are the true knowledge, but he discounts those connections as soon as they are made or stored in the cultural sphere rather than the individual mind. That's a very hierarchical philosophy of knowledge… which might explain Carr's instinctive flinching from the ad hoc and rhizomatic structure of knowledge as stored on the internet. Don't panic, Nick; the libraries aren't going to get rid of the reassuringly pyramidal cataloguing systems any time soon. (Though I wish more of them would allow folksonomy tagging on their catalogue interfaces; best of both approaches, you dig?)
Another of the more persistent Rejectionista riffs is on the rise again, courtesy of Eli Pariser's new book, The Filter Bubble. You know the one: confirmation bias! The internet makes it way too easy to ignore dissenting viewpoints! OMG terrible and worsening partisan schism in mass culture! (I have to admit that I suspect this riff is a symptom of continued American soulsearching about the increasing polarity of the political sphere; it's a genuine and increasingly worrying problem, but it ain't the fault of the intermatubes.)
There are numerous lionisings of and rebuttals to Pariser, if you care to Google them – amazingly enough, and very contrary to Pariser's own thesis, both types of response appear in the same search for his name… even when searching using my Google account with its heavily customised results!. But I'll leave you with some chunks from Jesse Walker's riposte at Reason, which I found via Roderick T Long:
Pariser's picture is wrong, but a lot of his details are accurate. Facebook's algorithms do determine which of your friends' status updates show up in your news feed, and the site goes out of its way to make it difficult to alter or remove those filters. Google does track the things we search for and click on, and it does use that data to shape our subsequent search results. (Some of Pariser's critics have pointed out that you can turn off Google's filters fairly easily. This is true, and Pariser should have mentioned it, but in itself it doesn't invalidate his point. Since his argument is that blinders are being imposed without most people's knowledge, it doesn't help much to say that you can avoid them if you know they're there.)
It is certainly appropriate to look into how these new intermediaries influence our Internet experiences, and there are perfectly legitimate criticisms to be made of their workings. One reason I spend far less time on Facebook than I used to is because I'm tired of the site's hamfisted efforts to guess what will interest me and to edit my news feed accordingly. Of course, that isn't a case of personalization gone too far; it's a case of a company thatwon't let me personalize as I please.
Pariser contrasts the age of personalization with the days of the mass audience, when editors could ensure that the stories we needed to know were mixed in with the stories we really wanted to read. Set aside the issue (which Pariser acknowledges) of how good the editors' judgment actually was; we'll stipulate that newspapers and newscasters ran reports on worthy but unsexy subjects. Pariser doesn't do the obvious next step, which is to look into how much people paid attention to those extra stories in the old days and how much they informally personalized their news intake by skipping subjects that didn't interest them. Nor does he demonstrate what portion of the average Web surfer's media diet such subjects constitute now. Nor does he look at how many significant stories that didn't get play in the old days now have a foothold online. If you assume that a centralized authority (i.e., an editor) will do a better job of selecting the day's most important stories than the messy, bottom-up process that is a social media feed, then you might conclude that those reports will receive less attention now than before. But barring concrete data, that's all you have to go by: an assumption.
And in that paragraph I think we see the reason that Rejectionistas like Carr and Pariser get so many column-inches in mainstream media outlets in which to handwring: because the editors who give them the space still feel that filtering is something that they should be doing on behalf of their readers, who are surely too stupid to chose the right things.
Given current newsworthy events, I think that's an attitude which – no matter how well-meaning – needs to be challenged more, not less; if the choice is between applying my own filters or allowing someone whose motivations are at best opaque and at worst Machiavellian and manipulative to do the filtering for me, well… you'll be able to find me in my filter bubble.
Don't worry, I'll see you when you arrive; its walls are largely transparent. Believe it or not, some of us actually prefer it that way. 😉
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More Luddite FUD about kids and computers
May 24, 2011 Paul Raven	1 Comment
I was thinking it had been a while since we had one of these. Via FuturePundit, O NOEZ TEH TECHNOLOGIES BE MAKIN KIDS SUCK AT TEH REEDIN:
"Our study shows that the entry of computers into the home has contributed to changing children's habits in such a manner that their reading does not develop to the same extent as previously. By comparing countries over time we can see a negative correlation between change in reading achievement and change in spare time computer habits which indicates that reading ability falls as leisure use of computers increases", says Monica Rosén.
OK, I'll see your study and raise you with this one:
The e-Learning Foundation says that children without access to a computer in the evening are being increasingly disadvantaged in the classroom. Research suggests that 1.2 million teenagers log on to revision pages every week and those using online resources were on average likely to attain a grade higher in exams.
The charity cites BBC research in which more than 100 students used the BBC Bitesize revision materials before their GCSE examination. The children were found to have achieved a grade lift compared to those who did not use the online revision guides. The BBC study says: "This is compared to factors such as teacher influence, which was found to produce no significant difference."
Which is right? I have no idea. The point is that if you send social scientists looking for evidence to support a pretty nebulous and hard-to-quantify phenomenon, they'll probably rustle some up. Seek and you shall find… or, I dunno, spend that research money on looking into ways that we can use technology more effectively? How's about it, huh?
Computers and the internet are here to stay. The way kids learn and interact with the world has changed hugely in last 100 years, and will keep changing, as it always has since the day some smart hunter/gatherer created the first baby sling. If all you're gonna do is sit on your porch and kvetch about the good old days, you might as well let the kids get some enjoyment out of running around on the lawn.
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October 19, 2010 Paul Raven
What would further education look like if it was run more like Wikipedia? That's the question asked by a chap called David J Staley at the Educause conference in Anaheim, California last week, who thinks it's a pretty good idea [via SlashDot]:
First, it wouldn't have formal admissions, said Mr. Staley, director of the Harvey Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching at Ohio State University. People could enter and exit as they wished. It would consist of voluntary and self-organizing associations of teachers and students "not unlike the original idea for the university, in the Middle Ages," he said. Its curriculum would be intellectually fluid.
[ Those of you who've read Zen & The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance may be reminded of Phaedrus' University… ]
And instead of tenure, it would have professors "whose longevity would be determined by the community," Mr. Staley said, and who would move back and forth between the "real world" and the university.
Universities "seem to be becoming more top-down and hierarchical at a time when more and more organizations are looking more like networks," said Mr. Staley…
Not everyone agrees with Staley, of course:
"… he clearly understands Wikipedia about as well as he understands universities. That is, not very well. Wikipedia is peculiar. Its brilliance is in its peculiarity. It's also more static, intellectually conservative, and elite-governed than most people believe."
Valid points, but I think the problem is due to Staley using a specific institution as a placeholder for a more general set of ideas and methods; yes, Wikipedia is flawed (just like any human institution), but its underlying principles are symptomatic of a phase change in the way we look at organisation, which is what I suspect Staley was getting at.
We've discussed further education's increasing unsuitability-for-purpose before, and much of that unsuitability comes from the rigidity of its hierarchical approach to both organisation and the categorisation of knowledge; a more open, flexible and fluid system might not produce the same numbers of people equipped with expensive pieces of vellum, but I suspect it would produce a lot more people with knowledge that was actually useful to them in the chaos of the contemporary economy. That said, until you manage to convince employers to hire people on the basis of their actual skillsets instead of their paper qualifications, you're going to struggle to convince academia to abandon the business-like model that it currently operates under.
Interestingly, this chimes with a UK-based project I've been invited to get involved with, which I will discuss further when it's more fully developed…
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Wired suggests supplementary skill-sets for the 21st Century
September 28, 2010 Paul Raven	2 Comments
Dovetailing rather neatly with Kevin Kelly's piece on technological literacy last week, Wired has an oddly-formatted but provocative piece that they've entitled "7 Essential Skills That You Didn't Learn In College". Those seven skills are:
Statistical Literacy: Making sense of today's data-driven world
Post-State Diplomacy: Power and politics, sans government
Remix Culture: Samples, mashups, and mixes
Applied Cognition: The neuroscience you need
Writing for New Forms: Self-expression in 140 characters
Waste Studies: Understanding end-to-end economics
Domestic Tech: How to use the world as your lab
All fairly pertinent, and very Futurismic as well… though I'm not sure how "essential" the remix culture aspect is. I'm inclined to think – perhaps uncharitably – that anyone aspiring to be an artist or creator who hasn't already grasped those basic truths by observing the world around them is never going to get it, no matter how clearly you spell it out for them. Am I being unfair?
It's a decent enough list, but not exhaustive by any means – what would you add to it? Or, equally, what would you remove?
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Kevin Kelly on technological literacy
September 24, 2010 Paul Raven
Via BoingBoing, here's a New York Times piece by Kevin Kelly, where he discusses what he learned about technology and education while homeschooling his son for a year:
… as technology floods the rest of our lives, one of the chief habits a student needs to acquire is technological literacy — and we made sure it was part of our curriculum. By technological literacy, I mean the latest in a series of proficiencies children should accumulate in school. Students begin with mastering the alphabet and numbers, then transition into critical thinking, logic and absorption of the scientific method. Technological literacy is something different: proficiency with the larger system of our invented world. It is close to an intuitive sense of how you add up, or parse, the manufactured realm. We don't need expertise with every invention; that is not only impossible, it's not very useful. Rather, we need to be literate in the complexities of technology in general, as if it were a second nature.
He goes on to add some more specific aphorism-style lessons – koans for a digital world, almost:
Before you can master a device, program or invention, it will be superseded; you will always be a beginner. Get good at it.
The proper response to a stupid technology is to make a better one, just as the proper response to a stupid idea is not to outlaw it but to replace it with a better idea.
Nobody has any idea of what a new invention will really be good for. The crucial question is, what happens when everyone has one?
The older the technology, the more likely it will continue to be useful.
Find the minimum amount of technology that will maximize your options.
Some very sf-nal thinking in there… no surprise coming from Kelly, but even so, it reiterates something of Walter Russel Mead's praise of the genre as the source of a useful way of looking at the world.
It's also pleasing to see Kelly's focus on trying to instil an appreciation of (and desire for) learning in his son. I'm far from the first person to observe that the UK education system has long favoured the retention of facts over independent analytical and critical thinking as educational goals, and I've seen plenty of reports that suggest the US system has a similar problem. Kelly's aphorisms underline the point: if you make kids memorise facts, their education is obsolete as soon as it's finished. Learning how to learn is the most important lesson of them all, and the one that seems hardest for schools and universities to deliver.
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Annette Yoshiko Reed joined the NYU faculty in 2017. Her research spans Second Temple Judaism, early Christianity, and Jewish/Christian relations in Late Antiquity. Publications include Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity (Cambridge 2005), Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions (ed. with R. Boustan; Cambridge 2004), The Ways that Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (ed. with A.H. Becker; Mohr Siebeck 2003; Fortress 2007), and Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire (ed. with N. Dohrmann; UPenn Press, 2013). She is currently working on two monographs: one on the origins of Jewish angelology and demonology, and the other on the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies and the history of "Jewish-Christianity."
"The Afterlives of New Testament Apocrypha"


MANCHESTER UNITED, Manchester City and Chelsea target Felipe Anderson is unlikely to leave Lazio this summer, according to his agent Stefano Castagna.
The Premier League trio are tracking Anderson's progress with great interest and have sent to view him in action.
The Brazilian star has been vital to Lazio this term, netting nine goals with a further seven assist to boot.
Anderson, 21, has seen his valuation rocket in recent months with the Italian club slapping a £30m price-tag on their coveted forward.
United, City and Chelsea have been linked with big money moves, however the player's agent Castagna insists his client is happy in Rome.
Castagna told Radiosei: "It's a good thing that the big teams are interested in him, it proves that he's doing well.
"He has just signed his new contract and he is very happy in Rome.
"I do not see any particular problem with the fact that he has prolonged his stay at Lazio, even without the Champions League.
"It would be ideal to play [in the Champions League] but the most important thing is to qualify for the European Cup. The Europa League, that's fine."


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Yes, the vocabulary is based on that Arabic book.
All of the basic Arabic words you need for everyday conversation.
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