Social Media - Which Platforms Make Sense for Your Business?
Then I decided to tone it down to something a bit less cheesy (you're welcome). But The Wizard of Oz reference feels spot on when we talk about the complex, fast-paced social media landscape. It can feel a bit like navigating an unexplored, alien landscape filled with all sorts of pitfalls and unknowns.
But unlike Dorothy & Co., you don't have to wander through the maze of social media options, crossing all your fingers and toes that nothing scary jumps out at you.
All you really need to know are the pros and cons of the top social media sites and which platforms your clients are already using. From there, you can develop a game plan – where to post, how often to post and how to best utilize the tools those sites offer.
One caveat before we go any further – in the early days of social media, all you needed to increase your followers and gain traction on these platforms was lots of good content. This is what social media marketers refer to as organic reach.
However, because social media companies are hugely profitable businesses, the model has changed to make it more difficult to reach those kinds of numbers without purchasing targeted advertisements – in other words, it's not solely about you posting popular, engaging content anymore.
This isn't to discourage you from being on social media – it's hugely important that you have presence on these platforms!
But you want to make sure that you have realistic expectations and that you are investing your time and your advertising dollars for maximum benefit.
So, let's start by looking at three of the most popular social media platforms for businesses and figure out which options make the most sense for you and your company.
Pros: huge number of users, hyper-targeted advertising.
There's no doubt that Facebook dominates when it comes to sheer number of monthly active users – 2 billion of them, in a recent count. While Facebook started as a site for college kids, over half of Facebook's users are 35 years and older, making this a terrific way for companies to market to adults of all ages.
Remember though – organic reach (growth via content you post) is actually going down.
That doesn't mean you shouldn't bother posting on Facebook (you absolutely should!), but it does mean that Facebook Ads will be the key to growing your follower base.
An incredibly useful tool that you'll want to check out is Facebook Business Manager. Think of it as a command center that allows you to manage all aspects of your Facebook page and your ad campaign from one place!
Since we're doing an overview of multiple platforms in this post, I won't go into detail about Facebook Ads here, but check out this post from Neil Patel – he gives a step-by-step breakdown of everything you need to know.
This popular platform is a favorite for younger users and artistic, creative entrepreneurs.
Pros: Millennial user base, image-driven marketing.
You might have noticed that I focused on adults 25 and older when talking about Facebook. While teens and younger adults do have Facebook accounts, a lot of their social media time is spent on other platforms – and one of the biggest platforms for Millennials is Instagram.
Instagram currently has over 800 million monthly active users. But what's truly eye-popping is that around 60% of Instagram users are ages 18-34. If you're marketing to Millennials, an active Instagram presence is an obvious choice!
A major difference between Instagram and platforms like Facebook or Twitter, is that Instagram is entirely image and video based, rather than text based. So managing an Instagram account means committing to a lot of picture taking/editing and uploading to Instagram Stories (a feature that lets users chronicle 24 hours worth of short video clips).
If you run a business that lends itself well to photo ops (restaurants, coffee shops, boutiques, interior design, lifestyle blogs, etc.), Instagram is a natural fit.
Just like Facebook, you have the option of using hyper-targeted advertising with Instagram. Facebook is Instagram's parent company, so you can actually use Facebook Business Manager to manage your Instagram ad campaigns as well – huge plus!
This platform is distinctive for its 280 character per post limit and its use of hashtags to connect companies and customers with trending topics.
Pros: Broad age range of users, hashtags, targeted ads and search words.
Twitter has 330 monthly active users and while the largest age group are 18-29 year olds, Twitter has solid representation from older adults as well.
While Facebook and Instagram have also picked up on the hashtag function, Twitter excels at using the #hashtag format to track trending ideas, topics and keywords across the platform. This gives you the opportunity to connect with conversations across your industry. It also gives you an easy way to put your post in front of anyone who searches for a specific hashtag. This is a fantastic opportunity to connect your business with new customers!
Just like with Facebook and Instagram, Twitter gives you the option of setting up a targeted ad campaign and allows you to select a tailored audience and specific keywords.
So which platforms are right your company?
Always keep in mind that how much social media presence you have and which platforms you choose is a personal decision. You know your company best and trying to force active presence in too many places or using a platform you're not comfortable with won't be effective.
If you're not on social media at all yet, Facebook is a great place to start!
And keep in mind that while I chose to cover three of the most widely recognized platforms in this post, there are many other choices that might be worth looking into – YouTube, Pinterest and LinkedIn, for example.
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So a study about butter, funded by the butter industry, found that butter is bad for you.
If that sounds unlikely, that's because it is.
"It's very rare for an industry-funded study to find something that goes against the interests of that industry," said Marion Nestle, who is the Paulette Goddard professor in the department of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University.
Nestle should know. She began collecting studies that served the interests of their sponsors earlier this year, hoping to bring more attention to what she believes is a dangerous practice. Ever since, she has flagged offending research on her blog, Food Politics, where she shares five dubious studies at a time.
Most recently, Nestle brought attention to a collection of industry-funded research that exonerated orange juice, high-fat cheese and sugar of various harms. In all, she has found 37 such self-serving studies – since March.
Before 2000, it was uncommon, if not completely unheard of, for journals to share the name of sponsors. Now it's the norm, and Nestle says it is imperative that people pay attention.
"The first thing you need to do when you read a study is figure out who paid for it," Nestle said. "It's very telling."
Nestle is working on a book about the soda industry. She says its practice of funding self-serving studies is particularly troublesome and estimates that 90 percent of studies about soda that were funded by the soda industry conclude that soda isn't all that bad for you. Among studies funded by everyone else, she said, 90 percent found that just the opposite is true.
The practice extends to foods that are healthful, too. The nut industry has been an active pursuer of self-serving research. The Almond Board of California, for instance, funded a study last year that showed that eating almonds is good for diabetics. This might be true, but there's still a conflict of interest.
"The purpose of a lot of these studies is to show that a food is a superfood so an industry can market it," said Nestle. "It looks like science, but it's not. It's business first."
The butter industry-funded research is a rare instance in which the interests of the study's sponsor and the findings of the study are not aligned. It's even more improbable, given that its findings run in contrast to much of the recent science on the dairy product. The Danish Dairy Research Foundation did not respond to requests for comment.
It is not the first time, though, that an industry-backed study might not have produced the hoped-for result. Last year, research funded by the American Pistachio Growers concluded that eating pistachios is associated with poorer performance during exercise. In the fine print, the study says the association played no role in the study's design.
"It's obvious that the funders had no role," Nestle said of the pistachio study. "I'll bet they are quite unhappy with the results."

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Q: How do I get my Lua code to read CSV files? I have the following example CSV file. The actual data is different, but I want to use this as an example.
username,firstname,lastname,age,nationality

first_user,Mark,Smith,19,Canada
dogs_are_better_than_cats,Linda,Robertson,47,Sweden
lamborghini33,Chad,Carson,33,Finland
doctorpepper,Rachel,Hill,41,United States
shin0bi,John,Prescott,15,United States
bigshot1997,Spamton,Spamton,31,Cyber City

What I want is to be able to write a LUA module (MediaWiki specifically) that reads this CSV. More specifically, I want to be able to have something that takes a username as an argument and returns some other information, such as full name and age. How do I do that? Thank you. Notably, I can guarantee that no two users have the same username, so I should be able to get the one and only full name and age associated with whichever username is used as an argument. Thank you.

A: Module:CSV:
local split = mw.text.split -- localise the function provided by Scribunto.

local csv = [[
username,firstname,lastname,age,nationality

first_user,Mark,Smith,19,Canada
dogs_are_better_than_cats,Linda,Robertson,47,Sweden
lamborghini33,Chad,Carson,33,Finland
doctorpepper,Rachel,Hill,41,United States
shin0bi,John,Prescott,15,United States
bigshot1997,Spamton,Spamton,31,Cyber City
]]

local lines = split( csv, '\n', true ) -- split the CSV by newline as plain text.

local users = {} -- Associative table of users.
for i, line in ipairs( lines ) do -- iterate over table lines with numeric keys.
    if i > 1 and line ~= '' then -- omit the header and any empty line.
        -- Split the line by comma as plain text and unpack the returned table.
        local username, firstname, lastname, age, nationality = unpack( split( line, ',', true ) )
        users [username] = {
            firstname   = firstname,
            lastname    = lastname,
            age         = tonumber( age ), -- convert to number.
            nationality = nationality
        }
    end
end

-- This table will be returned by the module:
return {
    -- Example: {{#invoke:CSV|user|dogs_are_better_than_cats|lastname}}.
    user = function( frame )
         -- frame.args [1] and frame.args [2] contain the first and the second
         -- unnamed arguments to {{#invoke:CSV|user|nick|field}}, respectively.
        return users [frame.args [1]] [frame.args [2]]
    end
}

{{#invoke:CSV|user|dogs_are_better_than_cats|lastname}} will give Robertson.
Below is a more sophisticated variant that makes no assumptions about the data structure, except counting on the user's ID being in the first column, and gets the necessary columns from the header line of the CSV string.
local split = mw.text.split -- localise the function provided by Scribunto.

local csv = [[
username,firstname,lastname,age,nationality

first_user,Mark,Smith,19,Canada
dogs_are_better_than_cats,Linda,Robertson,47,Sweden
lamborghini33,Chad,Carson,33,Finland
doctorpepper,Rachel,Hill,41,United States
shin0bi,John,Prescott,15,United States
bigshot1997,Spamton,Spamton,31,Cyber City
]]

local lines = split( csv, '\n', true ) -- split the CSV by newline as plain text.

local users, columns = {}, nil -- Associative tables for users and data columns.
for i, line in ipairs( lines ) do -- iterate over table lines with numeric keys.
    if line ~= '' then -- omit any empty line.
        -- Split the line by comma as plain text.
        local chunks = split( line, ',', true )
        if not columns then
            -- This is the header line.
            columns = mw.clone( chunks ) -- deep copy.
        else
            -- This is one of the lines with user's data.
            -- We assume that the first column should be used as the key.
            local id, fields = chunks [1], {}
            for col, value in ipairs( chunks ) do
                -- Convert to number, if possible, or leave as is.
                fields [columns [col]] = tonumber( value ) or value
            end
            users [id] = fields
        end
    end
end

-- This table will be returned by the module:
return {
    -- Example: {{#invoke:CSV|user|dogs_are_better_than_cats|lastname}}.
    user = function( frame )
         -- frame.args [1] and frame.args [2] contain the first and the second
         -- unnamed arguments to {{#invoke:CSV|user|nick|field}}, respectively.
        return users [frame.args [1]] [frame.args [2]]
    end
}

And another variant, where each column name found in the comma-separated text is exported as a separate function:
local split = mw.text.split -- localise a function provided by Scribunto.

local csv = [[
username,firstname,lastname,age,nationality

first_user,Mark,Smith,19,Canada
dogs_are_better_than_cats,Linda,Robertson,47,Sweden
lamborghini33,Chad,Carson,33,Finland
doctorpepper,Rachel,Hill,41,United States
shin0bi,John,Prescott,15,United States
bigshot1997,Spamton,Spamton,31,Cyber City
]]

local lines = split( csv, '\n', true ) -- split the CSV by newline as plain text.

local users, columns = {}, nil -- Associative tables for users and data columns.
for i, line in ipairs( lines ) do -- iterate over table lines with numeric keys.
    if line ~= '' then -- omit any empty line.
        -- Split the line by comma surrounded by optional spaces.
        local chunks = split( line, '%s*,%s*', false )
        if not columns then
            -- This is the header line.
            columns = mw.clone( chunks ) -- deep copy.
        else
            -- This is one of the lines with user's data.
            -- We assume that the first column should be used as the key.
            local id, fields = chunks [1], {}
            for col, value in ipairs( chunks ) do
                -- Convert to number, if possible, or leave as is.
                fields [columns [col]] = tonumber( value ) or value
            end
            users [id] = fields
        end
    end
end

-- This table will be returned by the module.
local p = {}
-- Export each data column as a separate function.
for _, column in ipairs( columns ) do
    p [column] = function( frame )
        -- frame.args [1] contains the first unnamed argument to {{#invoke:CSV|field|nick}}.
        return users [frame.args [1]] [column]
    end
end

-- Example: {{#invoke:CSV|lastname|dogs_are_better_than_cats}}.
return p

{{#invoke:CSV|lastname|dogs_are_better_than_cats}} will return Robertson.

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Why Corrosion Control Is Crucial in Your Industrial Facility
EmilyNewton 8 Apr 2021
Corrosion occurs when a refined metal naturally reverts to its more chemically stable form. Several factors can make the change happen faster, including:
Oxygen exposure
Warm temperatures
Acids and salts
Exposure to electrical current
Since corrosion is an irreversible process, people must take proactive steps to prevent it. One option is to design industrial products with corrosion-resistant metals. The use of sacrificial metals is also common. For example, placing magnesium or zinc in direct contact with steel stops it from corroding. Beyond protecting the immediate area, these dissimilar metals safeguard the surrounding surfaces.
Another possibility is to apply a primer containing corrosion-resistant pigments. Those options change the surface metal's base properties, giving it a high level of electrical resistance.
You may initially think that corrosion will not significantly affect your industrial facility and that there is no need to take action now. However, corrosion control could have a positive, measurable effect on your company's productivity, reputation and more.
Operating Procedures Can Elevate Corrosion Risk
Many industrial plants' daily processes naturally create the conditions that lead to corrosion. For example, the water and steam flowing through equipment at power plants undergo regular chemistry tests to address impurities.
A water impurity problem could cause deposits in a boiler, making it less efficient and posing safety risks. Corrosion could also send rust into a water stream.
Stress corrosion cracking is another issue of concern. It develops due to the combination of tensile strain and corrosive environments and causes fine cracks to form. People categorize it as a catastrophic type of corrosion because it's not easy to spot the damage and estimate the potential ramifications.
In the 1980s, corrosion on a pipe bend in a feedwater pump at Virginia's Surry nuclear power plant resulted in several worker deaths and tens of millions of dollars in costs when the facility went out of service. That's an example of what can happen when people fail to notice corrosion in time.
Corrosion is an Inevitable Occurrence
Even the most thorough corrosion control measures cannot eliminate the problem. However, knowing about the parts of an industrial process that are most likely to cause it can help prevent issues.
For example, estimates suggest that corrosion results in $8 billion worth of extra costs for the oil refining and transport industry. However, crude oil itself does not cause corrosion that occurs in the pipelines that carry it.
Instead, trace amounts of water and sediment are the culprits. Also, the pipeline's environment is relatively cool. That's in stark contrast to the refining setting, which may be nearly 400 F. Sulfur and acid become corrosive at those temperatures, and heavy crude oil often contains high levels of both.
Keeping corrosion under control in any industry requires knowledge about the surrounding environment's typical characteristics, such as the temperature. That makes it easier to determine what type of pipelining could minimize corrosive effects. For example, polypropylene tolerates temperatures up to 225 F and is a budget-friendly option. Alternatively, polytetrafluoroethylene lining withstands temperatures up to 450 F as well as exposure to most chemicals.
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Besides taking corrosion control measures for your company's metal equipment, pipes and fittings, it's also necessary to understand the potential impacts on a vehicle's electrical system. For example, the chemicals used to treat roads in icy conditions can trigger new corrosion or worsen an existing issue related to the wiring on a vehicle's undercarriage.
Some industrial experts say the increased calcium and magnesium chloride usage on roadways makes corrosion happen faster. These materials also naturally pull moisture from the air, which also speeds the corrosive process.
Moisture getting into wiring systems is the main cause of this type of corrosion. However, checking for sealed connections is an excellent proactive measure. Once wetness affects a wire, the moisture proceeds down the whole length of it, worsening the issue.
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Unaddressed corrosion costs some industries billions of dollars, due largely because of how it necessitates more frequent replacements of affected equipment. For example, the water, acid and salts found in many industrial facilities harm geared motors by accelerating the corrosion rate. Gearboxes may get switched out as often as twice per year due to this reality.
However, using preventive measures and knowing the early signs of corrosion can reduce some of these costs. For example, spotting a problem sooner rather than later should limit its effects and the associated expenses.
The nature of your industry could also make metal deterioration more likely to occur. Estimates suggest that marine corrosion costs $50 billion to $80 billion worldwide annually. This equipment is almost always in or near salt and water, both of which accelerate the process. Such corrosion could harm the environment, plus hurt a company's bottom line.
Checking equipment for corrosion and conducting efficient repairs when necessary is crucial for limiting unwanted effects. Becoming more aware of the issue could also help company leaders notice trends that enable making future improvements.
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Some problems caused by corrosion are exceptionally awkward to repair. The anaerobic digesters used in the biomass sector are particularly prone to damage due to the required fermentation and oxidation processes. That's true for both concrete and steel varieties. However, the steel types usually have glass linings to combat corrosion.
The downside of the glass lining is that it can be damaged. Even seemingly minor breakage can cause methane or liquid digestate leakage. Also, a digester produces methane and carbon dioxide. These combustible gases have an elevated explosive potential.
Thus, static electricity or the sparks from welding equipment could have dangerous consequences. These characteristics take some repair options out of the question. However, two common possibilities are to apply an epoxy paste or affix plates to the outside of the digester to deal with known leaks.
This example shows that even some measures to keep corrosion at bay can cause issues. That does not mean you should take them out of consideration. However, knowing how to safely and effectively fix any problems is crucial to prevent making those matters worse.
Corrosion Control Requires Careful Choices
These tips and examples show that corrosion control means taking materials, processes and environmental characteristics into account. However, studying those factors before deciding how to manage corrosion should lead to favourable results.


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Borneo's Bakun dam
by AFP/Sarah Stewart, Jan 7, 2010 | Destinations: Indonesia / Malaysia / Brunei / Borneo
KUALA LUMPUR - A massive tract of Borneo jungle, an area the size of Singapore, will soon disappear under the waters of the Bakun dam, a multi-billion-dollar project nearing completion after years of controversy.
The dam, which forced thousands of indigenous people off their ancestral lands, has struggled through setbacks and delays since its approval in 1993, as well as fierce criticism over its environmental impact.
But even before the turbines of the 2.2 billion dollar hydro-electric facility begin to turn, activists have sounded the alarm over plans for 12 more mega-dams on Malaysia's half of Borneo which it shares with Indonesia.
Balan Balang, an elderly chief of the Penan tribe, sighs as he talks of the Murum dam, the first of the dozen dams envisioned for Sarawak state, which will drown the hunting grounds and burial sites of his people.
"This government is very bad. In the old days people would fight us using machetes or spears. But now they just sign away our lives on pieces of paper," said the headman, who sports the elongated earlobes distinctive to his tribe.
"My people never want to leave our place. We want to die in our place," he said, after a long journey from his rainforest home to seek help from indigenous lawyers in Miri, a coastal town in Malaysian Borneo.
Human rights activists are intent on avoiding a repeat of the botched relocation of some 15,000 indigenous people in the Bakun area who they say have made an unhappy transition to life in resettlement areas.
Balan Balang's village is outside the Murum resettlement area, but some 1,500 people -- mostly Penan but including another of Sarawak's tribes, the Kenyah -- will be forced to abandon their homes for an uncertain future.
The chief, who is not sure of his birth date but reckons he is "between 70 and 80 years old", has seen much hardship during his long life.
As a young boy he watched fearfully as Japanese warplanes flew overhead during the World War II occupation, while rampant logging later degraded the jungles where his people forage for food, wild game, and materials for shelter.
"Now the rivers are all polluted. The wildlife has slowly disappeared -- wild boar, deer, gibbons. Even the broad-leafed plants that we use for roofing, and rattan which we use to make mats and baskets, is gone," he said.
But what brought him to Miri are new threats to his way of life, the dam project as well as plantation firms who want to clear what is left of the jungle and grow palm oil and foreign timber species.
"Our people oppose our area being included for the dam because that's where we come from, our ancestors lived and died and were buried there. For us we have no other place, that is our only place," he said.
The Penan of Sarawak, famed for their ability to live off the jungle armed only with blowpipes and machetes, number around 10,000 including 300-400 thought to be among the last nomadic hunter-gatherers on earth.
Balan Balang is just one of many tribal leaders who have sought the help of Harrison Ngau, a former member of parliament who belongs to a network of indigenous lawyers fighting for tribal rights in Sarawak.
"All these dams, why do we need so many dams here? It's just an ATM card for the political leaders to make money," said Ngau, who has been jailed in the past for his stand against mega-dams and logging of Penan territory.
"There will be further loss of their heritage, their land, whatever forest they have left," he says from his humble offices.
Ngau said a notice extinguishing the rights of the Murum people over the affected land has already been issued, and construction has begun, but so far there is no formal relocation proposal or offer of compensation.
He and his colleagues are now campaigning to halt the next of the dozen projects, the Baram Dam, but he says it is difficult to prove ancestral ownership as the oral history of his people is not admissible in court.
"It is quite sick to know that your own fellow man, your fellow Malaysian, doesn't understand the customs and cultures and history of our people," he said. "That is the tragedy here."
"Even the British colonial rulers were very respectful of communal rights, they even encouraged the native communities to record their traditional boundaries. They did much better than our present Malaysian leaders."
Ngau said that the Penan, forced to shift from the Bakun area more than a decade ago, are still struggling to survive with insufficient farming land, schools, clinics, water supply and transport.
"You haven't solved that problem -- you want to start a new problem?" he asked.
Transparency International has labelled Bakun a "monument of corruption" and highlighted debate over whether there will be enough customers in 2011 when it becomes fully operational with a 2,400MW capacity.
All the valuable timber has already been removed from its catchment area, and the dam will begin filling up in January, taking eight months to submerge all 70,000 hectares (270 square miles).
Details of the 12 mega-dams envisaged by state body Sarawak Energy Berhad are scant -- a map of proposed locations of dams purportedly to be built by 2020 was published on the Internet and seized on by campaigners.
Sarawak's Rural Development Minister James Masing said that all 12 dams may not make it off the drawing board.
"That is a masterplan that we have the potential to build, they may not be built for 50 years," he told AFP earlier this year.
Masing, who is helping formulate the Murum relocation, said it is likely to happen in three to four years' time but that first there should be a careful study of the people involved.
"There are some areas we have to refine. The settlement project must be done properly. What was done in Bakun may not be one of the best, we may have been ignorant of some of the issues," he told AFP earlier this year.
"We want to change them for the better," said Masing, an anthropologist by training. "They have good reason not to trust us, but we are not there to destroy them, we are trying our best to assist them."
See International Rivers for more information on the Bakun dam.
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Vall d'Hebron will be transformed to adapt to the new care and research challenges
The governement's vicepresident, Oriol Junqueras, the Minister of Health, Antoni Comín and the manager of the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Dr. Vicenç Martínez-Ibáñez, have presented the strategy to transform the Vall d'Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, committed to remain a leader in health and quality of life of people, adapting to the challenges of our society. The aim is to maintain leadership in care, research, teaching and innovation nationally and internationally, while achieving a modern Hospital Campus, integrated, sustainable and open to the city. Everything in order to, as the Minister Comín pointed, "eliminate hospital shantyism from Vall d'Hebron."
The transformation strategy involves four main areas: adapting spaces for future care requirements, enhancing the area of knowledge, opening the environment and improving the public space of the enclosure and renovating buildings and facilities.
A new building for research
The first major intervention will provide the current Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) by 2019, with a new building to enhance its excellence. With a surface area of 5000 m2 expandable in two phases, the project envisages an investment of 15 million euros, partly financed with FEDER funds of the European Union already granted. The start of construction will be during the first quarter of next year (April), after closing the international architectural competition to appoint the team that will design the building. In this regard, there are already five architectural candidates which finalists. The winning proposal will be announced in May, so that in September the construction draft is available and in January 2018 tender the work. However, this architectural competition is also twofold, as a side project of this new building, the competition has also envisaged to received a first proposal for restructuring and urban and landscape improvement of the entire Campus environment, so that it gains in accessibility, sustainability and comfort.
Moving outpatient clinics
The second major action will provide Vall d'Hebron with a new space for outpatient clinics and other uses. The building will rise on an area of 30,000 m2, with a budget of 60 million euros by the Department of Health of the Generalitat. The planned period of implementation is 2018-2021. There will be 210 consultation rooms, 90 cabinets, 120 places for day hospital and 16 areas of imaging diagnostic. Thanks to its construction, the center will add a total of 379 consultation rooms, 73 more, 116 cabinets, 8 more, and 215 day hospital places, 49 new places. The options of location of this space will be discussed in the framework of a working group with the City Council of Barcelona.
From hospital to health park
One of the other most ambitious aspects of the transformation strategy of Vall d'Hebron is to turn it into a health park that, in a sustainable way, ends the congestion, facilitates internal traffic and is opened to patients and neighbours. To do this, an area of 131,000 m2 will be used, with an initial investment of 20 million euros contributed by the Department of Health. This project, which covers the years 2017-2022, forsees a gradual construction based on other interventions of the project.
Improving healthcare buildings
At the same time, master plans for the three hospitals that make up the current Hospital Campus will be worked on. A project that will count with a Health budget of 27 million euros and will become a continuous process of transformation to adapt spaces to changing times. The affected area is 45,000 m2 in the General Hospital, 25,000 m2 in the Maternity Hospital and 15,000 m2 in the Traumatology and Rehabilitation building.
The first projects to get underway are the new heliport of the centre and the outpatient consultantion rooms of the Maternity Hospital, the Emergency rooms for Rehabilitation and Traumatology and the entrances to the building and the hospital wards of the General Hospital.
A necessary, beneficial and realistic project
The Minister of Health said that the work will be huge in impact and benefit for professionals and patients, but it will not be in the budget of the Generalitat. In this regard, the announced investments are acceptable, realistic and consistent with the current investment pace and budget. Comín also highlighted the needs that this referent hospital in Catalonia has. "This centre can not continue working like this because it influences the quality of care. Outpatient consultation rooms can not continue being in prefabricated modules, so improving their capacity we will make that their job more excellent," said Comín. As for Health minister, the new research building at VHIR will attract talent, patronage, and more powerful international alliances, even more than the current ones, as placing the rooftop heliport in the Traumatology building will gain in efficiency."The development of plans will impact positively on the quality of care. In fact, all actions will mean improved care and research," summarized the minister.
For his part, the government's vice-president and Minister of Economy and Finance, Oriol Junqueras, has highlighted the efforts of professionals and patients in the hospital every day, highlighting also the same effort and responsibility of the government "to give you the best tools to work through the budget for 2017".
The manager of the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Vicenç Martínez Ibáñez, said that the with presentation of this project "the new Vall d'Hebron begins today." "We are an excellent hospital with many specialties and one of the three with more clinical trials in Europe," he said before expressing the need for the hospital in the future to remain a social hub open to people, not only an enclosure, which promotes an integrated health care. "The patient must be comfortable but also the professional who devotes his life. We are a public service, we feel it that way, but the infrastructure must accompany us," has stressed Martínez Ibáñez.


I spotted this recipe a few days ago in Donna Hay's No time to Cook. The recipe looked so yummy and easy that I had to give it a go and we all devoured it. Seriously, it took no longer that 20 minutes to cook the whole dinner and I was amazed at how moist the chicken turned out. This recipe allocates 1 small chicken breast per person, but ours were bigger, so we only used half a breast each (and with veggies underneath that was more than enough for each of us). So I'm thrilled that this ticks the affordable box as well as those of taste and ease. As well as all these things, this recipe is gluten, diary and egg free! The recipe that follows serves 4 and will cost no more than $10. Hope you enjoy it.
1. Decide what veggies you want to serve this with (I suggest steamed carrots, beans, broccoli and mashed potato) and get them going. Meanwhile, place vinegar, oregano, sugar and pepper in a medium non-stick frying pan over medium heat and cook for 3-4 minutes, or until the liquid has thickened slightly.
2. Add chicken and cook for 3-5 minutes each side, or until cooked through.
3. Stack up your chosen veggies on each plate (mashed potato works best on the bottom). Place pieces of chicken across the top. Drizzle the dish with the remaining vinegar mixture from the pan. Top with spring onions or bits of torn basil.


They're all here--every X-bomber and X-fighter since 1942.
On October 2, 1942, the Bell XP-59 Airacomet soared up and away from present-day Edwards AFB, launching the US Army Air Forces into the Jet Age. In the several decades since, hundreds of new variations of experimental and test turbojet-powered bombers and fighters--X-bombers and X-fighters--have taken explosive flight. These aircraft blazed a trail leading to today's B-2 Stealth Bomber and F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
TheBig Book of X-Bombers & X-Fighters showcases all of the USAF jet-powered X-bombers and X-fighters that have flown since 1942--more than 90 in all, including the alphabet soup of their variants. From experimental to prototype service bombers and fighters--from the XB-43 to the B-2A and the XP-59A to the F-35A--they're all here, with their inside stories revealed. Some of these aircraft were further developed. Others were canceled. All stretched the performance and design envelopes.
More than 250 photos illustrate all of these experimental aircrafts' cutting-edge features and zeroes in on histories of their design, flight testing, and weapons testing. Specification tables detailing performance, design, and armaments help round out this compendium of information on truly groundbreaking aviation designs.
In addition, veteran aviation author Steve Pace shows readers some of the designs that could have been and offers a peek into what might be lurking in the future, making this the definitive guide to USAF jet-powered experimental aircraft!
Steve Pace is a freelance aviation history writer, a contributing editor to Flight Journal, and the author of numerous articles and short features on a variety of aircraft and related subjects, as well as thirty aviation history books, including The Big Book of X-Bombers and X-Fighters (2016). He was raised in Seattle, Washington, where his father worked at the Boeing Airplane Company for more than thirty years. As the son of an aircraft builder, he became interested in aviation at an early age - instead of buying candy and marbles, he bought model airplane kits. Pace now resides in Tacoma, Washington.
"Pace's prose is conversational and succinct making for the rapid sense of aviation evolution as it must have felt at the time. Every sentence is filled with facts - no fluffing about - as he covers the vast array of X-aircraft in this beautifully crafted book. The book is fully sourced and is useful as a research reference. It is comfortable at home in the personal library, desk of coffee table where it can be randomly opened to any page for enjoyment. But read it cover to cover to understand the history Pace has so elegantly placed before the reader - the history of jet aviation. "
"Pace's focus on the history of experimental jets is a strong, informative history of the peak years of big budget planes built for big wars. It may be a finite history: the $1.5 trillion F-35 program gets the last part of the penultimate chapter, and its decades of development, towering costs, and likely middling combat experience are souring the American public, Congress, and the Pentagon on giant expensive super-planes. X-plane programs may no longer be the future of war, but The Big Book of X-Bombers and X-Fighters is an excellent travel through the Planes of Future Past."
"The first jet airplane built and flown in the United States was the Bell Aircraft Corporation's P-59 Airacomet. From there, jet airplanes have a surprising and complex history. Popular Science reviews Steve Pace's "The Big Book of X-Bombers and X-Fighters" and showcases some incredible photography in the process."
"I am no great expert but it appears to be meticulous study and a 'go to' book for anyone interested in or researching the field of experimental military aircraft. If this is your territory I suggest that you need to get yourself a copy!"
"Longtime aviation writer Steve Pace is best known for his insightful histories of pioneering aircraft from the glory days of Edwards Air Force Base. His latest book is his best yet."
"I love - love - Steve Pace's The Big Book of X-Bombers and X-Fighters, out now from Zenith Press. X-Bombers and X-Fighters is too exhaustive to review in the conventional way. So I'm not going to bother trying. Instead, this week I'm going to spotlight a few of the shiniest gems of aeronautical design among the many dozens in Pace's giant, beautiful book. Buy it. You'll be glad you did."
"IF YOU LIKE POINTY-NOSE JETS, you'll love this book. The author, the late Steve Pace, catalogs every single jet-powered experimental bomber and fi ghter fl own by the U.S. Air Force, beginning in 1942. With more than 250 photographs, the book is a joy to browse: Page after page of swept-wing prototypes that soared over the dry lakes of southern California, their descendants ready to scramble during cold war tensions with the Soviet Union. The book, which includes profi les of aircraft from North American's XB-45 to Lockheed's YF-117A, is a testament to the prolifi c imagination of U.S. aeronautical engineers working over the past 70-plus years."


WILMINGTON, DE--(Marketwire - February 12, 2010) - RELM Holdings Inc. (PINKSHEETS: RELM) announced financial results for fiscal year 2009 ended December 31, 2009. The company posted revenue of $1.97 million or $0.003 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $ 2.13 million or $0.003 per diluted share for fiscal year 2008.
"We are pleased with our fiscal 2009 results. Although revenue was down, we surpassed our EBITDA estimates with total EBITDA reaching $ 225,346," said Marc Greenberg, RELM's EVP. "We weathered a challenging business climate and a difficult government contracting period. Access Versalign, a RELM subsidiary, derives a majority of its revenue from the State of Delaware and Fortune 1000 corporate contracts and both groups were significantly impacted by the economic downturn resulting in deferred or curtailed Information Technology projects. We saw some revenue erosion, but most projects were merely delayed due to the budgeting process. Our outlook has stabilized, but macroeconomic risks still remain," continued Greenberg.
RELM remains committed to the Information Technology acquisitions announce in 2009. RELM must raise the funds necessary to close the transactions through the liquidation of Public Stock in an affiliate or external financing. Due the limited liquidity in the PCSO stock, RELM has been actively seeking external financing, but the well publicized lending contraction has impacted our ability to secure external funding. The acquisitions would be additive to RELM's profitability, but failure to close the acquisitions will not impact RELM's on-going financial performance.
Access Versalign is expanding its Computer Recycling and Information Security offerings. Demand for "Green" recycling options is increasing and Access Versalign is seeing an increased opportunity in its offerings for these services. "We are investing in multiple technologies within the Secure Data Destruction space," said Greenberg. "We see the most growth within this segment and the highest barriers of entry for our competition in order to meet our clients' strictest criteria."
This press release contains forward-looking statements including without limitation those about the Company's estimated revenue and earnings per share. These statements involve risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ. Risks and uncertainties include without limitation the effect of competitive and economic factors, and the Company's reaction to those factors, on consumer and business buying decisions with respect to the Company's products and services; continued competitive pressures in the marketplace; the ability of the Company to deliver to the marketplace and stimulate customer demand for new products, services, and technological innovations on a timely basis; the continued availability on acceptable terms, or at all, of certain components and services essential to the Company's business currently obtained by the Company from sole or limited sources; the effect that product and service quality problems could have on the Company's sales and operating profits; the continued service and availability of key executives and employees; war, terrorism, public health issues, and other circumstances that could disrupt supply, delivery, or demand of products and services; and unfavorable results of other legal proceedings.
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What is the role of religion in American public life, and how should religious people understand religious liberty? From the beginning, religious faith and religious communities have played a significant and much-disputed role in shaping the American character and the American republic. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution explains that "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." But the meaning and application of this idea has changed considerably since the founding, and we may be living through yet another revolution in the relationship between religion and democracy in America.
Led by Rabbi Meir Soloveichik of Yeshiva University and former federal judge Michael McConnell of Stanford Law School, this institute will explore the historical background, philosophical foundations, and current controversies about the idea of religious freedom in America. It will begin by asking certain fundamental questions: Is democracy good for religion? Does it allow religious life, in a variety of forms, to flourish? Or does the free marketplace of ideas, especially in the modern age, tend to weaken our religious commitments and communities? Can democracy survive and flourish without the support of religiously-grounded morality? Should religious views of the human good have a serious place in shaping public policy and national culture?
With these fundamental issues refined and enlarged, the institute will then focus on some key political and legal disputes at the crossroads of democratic politics and religious freedom: debates about marriage law, public support for religious schools, decisions related to healthcare and insurance, the adoption of children. In exploring these issues, we will be joined by a range of experts and advocates who are engaged in these disputes, and we will try to formulate the range of alternative perspectives and policy options that lie before us.
We will also pay special attention to the meaning of religious freedom for modern Jews and Judaism, and more broadly how minority religious communities should think and act in the modern American age.


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Agarwal highlights advantage India in Agri sector
Bohar Snappers gather at Shark Reef in the Red Sea during summer.
Target set to raise exports
India has a strong advantage in the Agriculture sector which is being strengthened by several enabling schemes such as the Rs.1 crore Agri Infra Fund for post-harvest infrastructure.
This was underlined by Sanjay Agarwal, Secretary, Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare, who added that food processing in India is less than 10% and the target is to increase it to 25%.
There is an increasing demand for value-added health-fortified and processed food, according to Agarwal.
The global organic market is growing at 12% per annum, he added.
He also informed that a digital agri-stack is being developed for linking farmers to online market places and smart agriculture.
He reiterated that developing a strong Agri ecosystem by providing access to better marketing avenues for farmers' produce and freeing up the sector from restrictive laws is a key focus area for the government, for which three new ordinances have been announced recently.
Agarwal was among the keynote speakers at webinars organized by the Department of Agriculture Cooperation & Farmers' Welfare, Government. The webinars, held 25 and 26 June 2020 were on "Landmark Reforms in Indian Agriculture – Investment Opportunities Arising in Agri Enterprises" and "Ushering A New Dawn in Agri Reforms – Strategic Policy Shifts: The Policy Makers' View".
The government has taken several measures to boost the animal husbandry sector, added Atul Chaturvedi, Secretary, Animal Husbandry & Dairying.
Several incentives have been announced like Dairy Infra Development Fund in 2018 and Animal Husbandry Infra Development Fund this month (June 2020), he informed.
Describing fisheries as a sunrise sector, Dr. Rajeev Ranjan, Secretary, Fisheries, the target has been set to raise fisheries exports to Rs.1 lakh crore by 2024-25 and Rs.2 lakh crore by 2028.
Among other targets is to have the sector raise fish production from 137.58 lakh tons in 2018-19 to 220 lakh tons in 2024-25 and average aquaculture productivity to be raised from 3.3 tons/ha to 5.0 tons/ha in 2024-25.
Dr Ranjan also elaborated on the recent policy reforms and government initiatives in the fisheries sector like Fisheries Infrastructure Development Fund.
The Secretary outlined the investment opportunities in fish farming like brackish water aquaculture, cage farming, seaweed farming, ornamental fisheries; and in support services like brood banks, hatcheries, feed manufacturing, value chain and processing, etc.
He pointed out that from 2014-15 to 2018-19, the fisheries sector has grown by 10.87%, fish production by 7.53%, fisheries exports have grown by 9.71% and India's global share of fish production has grown to 7.73%.
India is now the 2nd largest aquaculture producer in the world and 4th largest seafood exporter. Fiinews.com
Overall, the Agri sector contributes about 15% of the GDP and livelihood for more than 50% of the population.
The country is the fourth-largest producer of agrochemicals and has the largest livestock population of around 31% of the world's total. fiinews.com
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Loan Round-Up: Bloomfield and Morris on form
Six Norwich City loanees have been kept busy over the Christmas period, with Mason Bloomfield standing out for his goal against Northampton Town on Boxing Day.
After replacing Ashley Nadesan in the 76th minute, Bloomfield got on the scoresheet when he lifted the ball over the 'keeper with his right foot and squeezed it into the goal from a tight angle with his left, putting Crawley Town comfortably 4-0 up.
That win, their first under new head coach John Yems, moved them up to 16th in League Two, and it's fair to say the club's Twitter admin was rather pleased about it!
MASON BLOOMFIELD YOU BEAUTY!
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⚽ 4-0#CRANOR | #TownTeamTogether🔴
— Crawley Town FC (@crawleytown) December 26, 2019
Bloomfield was then an unused substitute for Sunday's 1-1 draw at Grimsby Town, which saw Crawley go up to 15th, ten points above the drop and 11 adrift of the playoffs.
Looking up a tier, there was plenty of League One action for Carlton Morris, Sean Raggett and James Husband over the last week. Morris played 85 minutes of Rotherham United's 2-1 win away to his old club Shrewsbury Town on Thursday, before being replaced by Michael Smith, who netted the winner in the seventh minute of stoppage time.
Morris was unlucky not to score, hitting the post in that victory. He did get an assist in the following 4-0 win at home to promotion rivals Peterborough United, crossing for the head of defender Richard Wood. Smith replaced Morris in the 77th minute of that game, as Rotherham rose to third in the league, just one point behind Oxford United and five below league leaders Wycombe Wanderers.
Wycombe were dealt a blow to their dominance at the top of the division by Portsmouth on Boxing Day, Sean Raggett playing the full 90 and keeping a clean sheet in their 2-0 win at Fratton Park.
There was less to celebrate in Sunday's 3-1 defeat at Milton Keynes Dons for Pompey, who slipped back down to ninth and two points away from the playoff places.
Blackpool didn't do their playoff hopes any favours with a loss and a draw in their last two games, James Husband featuring for the full 180 minutes across the double-header. Accrington Stanley inflicted Boxing Day defeat on the Seasiders, before a draw at Tranmere Rovers saw them stay tenth in the league, also two points adrift of the playoffs.
Outside of the Football League, Daniel Barden was between the sticks for Bury Town's 2-1 win at home to Soham Town Rangers on Boxing Day. Bury Town are now third in the Isthmian League North, four points behind Aveley and seven behind Maldon & Tiptree.
Finally, Alfie Payne played the first hour of King's Lynn Town's 2-2 draw away to Alfreton Town, before being replaced by Ryan Jarvis. That point was enough to keep them at the top of the National League North, four points clear of York City in second.
Players who were unused substitutes: Diallang Jaiyesimi (Swindon Town)
Players who were not included in matchday squads: Rocky Bushiri (Blackpool), Louis Thompson (Shrewsbury Town), Simon Power (Ross County), Josh Coley (Dunfermline Athletic), Aston Oxborough (Wealdstone FC)
Players whose clubs didn't have a game: Charlie Gilmour (SC Telstar), Savvas Mourgos (FC Dordrecht)
Image credit: Jim Brailsford (Rotherham FC), Graham Hunt (Portsmouth FC), Telephoto Images (Crawley Town FC)
Mason Bloomfield
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Eight Norwich City loanees were in action over the last week, with James Husband and Diallang Jaiyesimi involved in important wins at the top end of League One and League Two respectively.
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Mason Bloomfield's goal for Crawley Town was the highlight among Norwich City's loanees on the weekend, with ten others featuring for their sides as well.
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Norwich City loanee Caleb Richards became the only player to play all 36 matches for Tampa Bay Rowdies this season, as they lost 2-1 to Louisville City on Sunday.
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Norwich City will be without Emi Buendia for the trip to Tottenham Hotspur on Wednesday.
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A handful of Norwich City Academy products made their loan debuts last week, with Simon Power standing out.
'Hub Talk: Insights from the Academy' announced for January 28
We are pleased to confirm the first in a brand-new series of events, taking place at our City Centre home, the Norwich City FC Fan Hub.
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Q: How to know the frequency of each observation in a column and sort them in r? I have a column and each row is a string.
I want to find
 1.The frequency of each sequence
 2.Sort the result by frequency from high to low
 3.If the frequency are the same for multiple strings, I sort them by alphabet of the sequence.
My data looks like
   ID             seq
1   1 BBBBBBIRBBRBBBB
2   2 BBBBBBIRRRRRBBB
3   3 BBBBBBIRRRRRRRR
4   4 BBBBBBITBBBBBBB
5   5 BBBBBBITBBBRBBX
6   6 BBBBBBITTTTBBCX
7   7 BBBBBBITTTTTTTT
8   8 BBBBBBOBBBBBBTX
9   9 BBBBBBOBBBBBBXB
10 10 BBBBBBIRBBRBBBB
11 11 BBBBBBIRRRRRBBB
12 12 BBBBBBIRRRRRRRR
13 13 BBBBBBITBBBBBBB
14 14 BBBBBBITBBBRBBX
15 15 BBBBBBIRBBRBBBB
16 16 BBBBBBIRRRRRBBB
17 17 BBBBBBIRRRRRRRR
18 18 BBBBBBIRBBRBBBB
19 19 BBBBBBIRRRRRBBB
20 20 BBBBBBIRRRRRBBB

ID<-c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20)
seq<-c('BBBBBBIRBBRBBBB','BBBBBBIRBBRBBBB',  'BBBBBBIRRRRRBBB', 'BBBBBBIRRRRRRRR',  'BBBBBBITBBBBBBB',  'BBBBBBITBBBRBBX',  'BBBBBBITTTTBBCX',  'BBBBBBITTTTTTTT',  'BBBBBBOBBBBBBTX',  'BBBBBBOBBBBBBXB',  'BBBBBBIRBBRBBBB',  'BBBBBBIRRRRRBBB',  'BBBBBBIRRRRRRRR',  'BBBBBBITBBBBBBB',  'BBBBBBITBBBRBBX',  'BBBBBBIRBBRBBBB',  'BBBBBBIRRRRRBBB',  'BBBBBBIRRRRRRRR',  'BBBBBBIRBBRBBBB',  'BBBBBBIRRRRRBBB')
data.frame(ID,seq)

I want the result looks like this
sequence        Frequency
BBBBBBIRBBRBBBB 5
BBBBBBIRRRRRBBB 4
BBBBBBIRRRRRRRR 3
BBBBBBITBBBBBBB 2
BBBBBBITBBBRBBX 1
BBBBBBITTTTBBCX 1
BBBBBBITTTTTTTT 1
BBBBBBOBBBBBBTX 1
BBBBBBOBBBBBBXB 1

Thanks in advance!!

A: Can do this with data.table:
library(data.table)

setDT(df)[, .N, by = seq][order(-N)]

It is worth noting that data.table consistently beats dplyr in terms of speed on different sample sizes:

Number of the top is how many times original sample was repeated.
Here is the code to reproduce:
library(data.table)
library(dplyr)
dtWay <- function(ID, seq) {
  dt <- data.table(ID, seq);
  setkey(dt, seq);
  return(dt[, .N, by = seq][order(-N)])
}
dplyrWay <- function(ID, seq) {
  df <- data.frame(ID, seq)
  res <- df %>%
    dplyr::group_by(seq) %>%
    dplyr::summarize(frequency = length(ID)) %>%
    dplyr::arrange(desc(frequency)) %>%
    dplyr::rename(sequence = seq)
  return (res)
}

N <- c(3, 4, 5, 6)
n <- 10^N

library(microbenchmark)
dev.off()
par( mfrow = c( 2, 2 ) )
res <- lapply(n, function(x) {

  ID <-c(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19)
  ID <- rep(ID, times = x)
  seq<-c('BBBBBBIRBBRBBBB',  'BBBBBBIRRRRRBBB',   'BBBBBBIRRRRRRRR',  'BBBBBBITBBBBBBB',  'BBBBBBITBBBRBBX',  'BBBBBBITTTTBBCX',  'BBBBBBITTTTTTTT',  'BBBBBBOBBBBBBTX',  'BBBBBBOBBBBBBXB',  'BBBBBBIRBBRBBBB',  'BBBBBBIRRRRRBBB',  'BBBBBBIRRRRRRRR',  'BBBBBBITBBBBBBB',  'BBBBBBITBBBRBBX',  'BBBBBBIRBBRBBBB',  'BBBBBBIRRRRRBBB',  'BBBBBBIRRRRRRRR',  'BBBBBBIRBBRBBBB',  'BBBBBBIRRRRRBBB')
  seq  <- rep(seq, times = x)

  m <- microbenchmark( "data.table" = dtWay(ID, seq),
                       "dplyr" = dplyrWay(ID, seq),
                       times = 10, unit = "sc")

  a <- boxplot(m, main = x, xlab ="", ylab = "time")
})

A: If you want to exert more control over the sorting and names you could use the following dplyr functions.
library(dplyr)
# assumes df is a data frame with seq and ID columns
df %>%
  group_by(sequence = seq) %>%
  summarize(frequency = length(ID)) %>%
  arrange(-frequency)

A: I like dplyr.
install.packages('dplyr')
library(dplyr)

df <- group_by(df, seq)
df <- count(df, seq)

count(df, seq)
Source: local data frame [9 x 2]

          seq     n
       (fctr) (int)
 1 BBBBBBIRBBRBBBB     4
 2 BBBBBBIRRRRRBBB     4
 3 BBBBBBIRRRRRRRR     3
 4 BBBBBBITBBBBBBB     2
 5 BBBBBBITBBBRBBX     2
 6 BBBBBBITTTTBBCX     1
 7 BBBBBBITTTTTTTT     1
 8 BBBBBBOBBBBBBTX     1
 9 BBBBBBOBBBBBBXB     1

That looks like your desired output, no?  Not sure why it there's only 4 counts of the first sequence, though.


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Migrant workers in Lebanon demand more rights
Title: Migrant workers in Lebanon demand more rights
Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) UNIDENTIFIED SRI LANKAN WOMEN, DAUGHTER OF DOMESTIC WORKER IN LEBANON, SAYING: (FACING AWAY FROM CAMERA TO CONCEAL IDENTITY) "I am facing many difficulties with continuing my studies, because of the residency. I am in constant fear whether they will give me a residency or not, would I be able to continue forward or not?" VARIOUS OF MIGRANT WORKERS ATTENDING AN ENGLISH CLASS AT MCC (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) UNIDENTIFIED ETHIOPIAN DOMESTIC WORKER IN LEBANON SAYING: (FACING AWAY FROM CAMERA TO CONCEAL IDENTITY) "I live in fear, I am very afraid. I have five children. If I get deported, where would I go? I don't know." VARIOUS OF LEAFLETS ON TABLE AT MCC SIGN ON BALCONY READING (English and Arabic): 'MCC. MIGRANT COMMUNITY CENTRE. BEIRUT' EXTERIOR OF BUILDING WHERE MCC IS LOCATED
Embargoed: 14th June 2017 13:20
Keywords: Lebanon rights migrants domestic workers Human Rights Watch
Location: BEIRUT, LEBANON
City: BEIRUT, LEBANON
Country: Lebanon
Topics: Society/Social Issues
Reuters ID: LVA0036J62DSL
Story Text: Migrant workers in Lebanon recently took to the streets to protest against difficult living conditions.
The country hosts more than 200,000 migrant domestic workers, according to the International Labour Organization (ILO).
Currently workers are employed under the "Kafala" sponsorship system, which binds them to a single employer and leaves them vulnerable to abuse.
Protesters demanded to be protected by the country's labour laws and for the government to abolish the current sponsorship system.
"We just come here, like any Lebanese citizen, they work outside, to work here, you know, to make some money, so we deserve respect and we deserve like treated like human beings. We take care of their family and their kids so we wouldn't get respect," Ethiopian domestic worker Banchi said, surrounded by banners and flags.
According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), some workers have even been deported for having children while in the country.
Lebanon has deported at least 21 domestic workers with children, many of them Sri Lankan, since the summer of 2016, the human rights charity said.
Researcher at HRW, Bassam Khawaja, called for the General Security, Lebanon's agency in charge of immigration, to stop unfairly punishing migrant workers for having children.
"General Security needs to stop deporting women for having children in the country. They should not be punished just to try to have a family here, some of these women have lived here for 20, 30 years, some of whom I spoke to came to Lebanon during the civil war and have been working here since then. Their children have grown up here and the deportations have really split up families, they have caused parents to lose their jobs and they have interrupted children's education, and so these are enormously painful deportations for the people involved. But Lebanon needs to go further than that, they should reform the Kafala system," he said.
Migrant workers in Lebanon are mostly from Asian and African countries, many having lived in Lebanon for decades.
At one Migrant Community Centre in Beirut's Ashrafieh neighbourhood, workers receive English classes, undergo activities and seek help when needed.
Two women, Sri Lankan and Ethiopian, shared their stories but asked to remain anonymous.
"I am facing many difficulties with continuing my studies, because of the residency. I am in constant fear whether they will give me a residency or not, would I be able to continue forward or not?" said the 16-year-old Sri Lankan who was born in Lebanon to a Sri Lankan domestic worker and attends school in the capital.
The student, who dreams of study micro-biology in university and considers Lebanon her second home but faces many residency issues.
Another women, an Ethiopian domestic worker, who came to Lebanon in 2001, married a Sudanese worker and gave birth to five children in Lebanon.
She said her husband was deported some years ago, without any notice and without her knowing any details.
She has lived illegally in Lebanon since 2016, working to feed her children and living in constant fear of being caught.
"I live in fear, I am very afraid. I have five children. If I get deported, where would I go? I don't know," she said.
Many migrant workers are women who work as live-in maids in well-off Lebanese households. They often do everything from heavy housework to nannying and helping with children's homework.
More than 80 percent of the world's 53 million domestic workers are women, according to the ILO. Often unregistered and unprotected by labour laws, they are among the most vulnerable groups of workers in the world.


Preparations in the run-up to Expo 2020 are proving to be a catalyst for the UAE construction industry. The rise in oil prices is also beneficial for contractors since regional governments are beginning to restart old projects or invest in new infrastructure development.
However, contractors are not insulated from challenges - they face smaller margins, more competition in project bids, delayed payments and rise in the cost of doing business. There is also concern about the extent of project awards after all the Expo contracts have been let.
"There is a large amount of current activity but concerns remain about the volume of works after 2020. Meed Projects estimate that around 30 per cent of the $3.8 billion in construction contracts for the Expo have already been let, with another 60 per cent in the final procurement stage and expected to be let during 2018. The volume of new projects awarded across the UAE is expected to decline in 2019 and 2020," says Alan Baker, JLL national director, project and development services - Mena.
Sentiment in the UAE's construction sector is optimistic as the region prepares for Expo 2020. According to Avin Gidwani, CEO of BNC Network: "As the demand for hotel rooms, housing and the need to expand infrastructure increases, one can see activity in a number of construction sites across Dubai. Crude price that is currently hovering over $60 per barrel, up from $40 to $50 a few months ago, is going to lift investor sentiment and will encourage the government and the private sector to invest in new projects or start held-over projects."
Sentiment is most optimistic among contractors in Saudi Arabia and the UAE as the governments look to spend more on infrastructure and construction as they seek to diversify their economies away from oil.
The consultancy JLL estimates that the Dubai government has passed the largest ever budget for 2018 (totalling Dh57 billion) of which more than 20 per cent is allocated to infrastructure spending (an increase of more than 40 per cent from 2017).
"Activities related to setting up the venue for Expo 2020, especially the Dubai Metro expansion by the Roads and Transport Authority, is supporting demand," observes Bharat Bhatia, CEO of Conares, a steel products manufacturer. He adds: "Our order book is pretty good for the future and we are very positive for the year 2018."
A spokesperson from Atradius, a global credit insurance company, says: "We have observed a positive momentum in the sector since Q4 2017 which we believe will continue. In fact, we expect a further pick-up in pace during the second half of 2018. Improved oil prices are and will continue to positively impact the overall perception and the fiscal position of the construction sector."
Recent findings from Pinsent Masons' GCC Construction Survey refer to ongoing concerns relating to delayed payment, the rising cost of capital and increased number of disputes.
"The industry faces a number of key challenges, including pressures on margins and increased competition for projects. This is placing a burden on many second tier contractors who are finding themselves squeezed by the trend for larger firms to bid for smaller projects than they have traditionally been interested in. Delays in payment terms have impacted the cash flow and reduced the profitability of many contractors," explains JLL's Baker.
Market observers claim some contractors face up to a six-month delay in getting their payments. However, defaults have been low in the past few years.
"Another problem is the higher cost of doing business - with the recent set of new fees introduced, cost of business is going to go up significantly this year. Last year, most contractors had to add mandatory health insurance scheme for their workers. Construction companies run business on a very thin margin - between 3 to 5 per cent. Any cost escalation causes negative cash flow. These are teething issues due to regulatory changes and will settle soon as business align to these changes," points out Gidwani.
However, Conares' Bhatia denies any challenges with regards to payments. "Banks are very supportive and our contractors are also paying on time with no records of disputes."
While infrastructure accounts for a big chunk of construction awards, there are growth opportunities in other segments as well. Almost 40 per cent of the total spending on Expo 2020 related projects of $6.1 billion has been allocated to infrastructure projects.
"There has been a pronounced move away from traditional asset classes [offices, residential, retail and hotels] in recent years, with more interest in alternative assets such as affordable housing, education and healthcare. We see this trend continuing into 2018, with increased interest in areas such as student housing. There remains significant investment in physical infrastructure in both the UAE and Saudi Arabia," reckons Baker.
BNC Network's Gidwani adds: "To meet the anticipated demand of over 20 million visitors by 2020, the hospitality, leisure and recreation and retail sectors will offer large opportunities. Although the higher cost of doing business is squeezing the profit margin, these sectors still remain profitable."


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Historical Happy Hour
Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor
April 01, 2022 Jane Healey Season 1 Episode 11
Apr 01, 2022 Season 1 Episode 11
Jane Healey
Their stories unfold in the years leading up to that fateful summer of 1922, when all three of their lives are on the brink of unraveling. Each woman is pulled deeper into Jay Gatsby's romantic obsession, with devastating consequences for all of them.
Jillian Cantor revisits the glittering Jazz Age world of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, retelling this timeless American classic from the women's perspective. Beautiful Little Fools is a quintessential tale of money and power, marriage and friendship, love and desire, and ultimately the murder of a man tormented by the past and driven by a destructive longing that can never be fulfilled.
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Shaynna
Award-winning interior designer, judge of The Block.
Shaynna Blaze is an award-winning interior designer who has created stunning interiors in residential homes and commercial spaces for over twenty years. Armed with a vast portfolio of work in various fields of design, Shaynna is also a successful commissioned artist.
Shaynna transforms commercial, private and retail premises from the most modest budgets to million dollar projects via her successful interior design business, blankcanvas INTERIORS.
Shaynna has also launched her own YouTube TV channel that offers viewers an insightful look into how Shaynna achieves her breathtaking designs, whilst offering easy to follow steps. Shaynna uses the interactive platform to communicate to a large audience the value that can be added to a property, simply by making a few home improvements.
Shaynna is COLOUR Creative Director for Taubmans whom are also one of the major partners of Selling Houses Australia. In 2013, Shaynna was commissioned by leading Australian Furniture maker, Molmic to design a range; and is also designing a lighting range for another major Australian wholesaler, OneWorld Collection - both ranges are due for release late 2014. Often referred to by many as the Storage Queen, it was only a matter of time before storage companies came knocking, and in July 2014 Shaynna officially partnered with The Attic Group, featuring in a number of online videos that will be rolled out over the coming months.
When Shaynna is not filming or working on commissioned designs through her interior design company, blankcanvas INTERIORS, she likes to use her time to inspire others. Shaynna is available as a guest speaker or host at both private and corporate functions, where she focuses not only on design, but on our social environment and how it effects how we live and communicate.
TV: In 2008, Shaynna's talents were brought to a broader audience through her role as Interior Designer and Co-Presenter on the The LifeStyle Channel's award-winning show, Selling Houses Australia. Shaynna will be back helping home-owners change their lives with her design expertise to get the 'unsellable' homes back on the market. It was through her role on Selling Houses Australia that Shaynna was able to showcase her design skills, along with her warm and approachable presenting style, which have consequently led to regular appearances as a design expert across a number of mainstream shows including The Morning Show, The Circle, Today Tonight, A Current Affair and The Renovators.
The Block: In 2012 Shaynna joined the team of design experts as a judge on Nine Network's award-winning show The Block.
Media: As Shaynna's profile has grown, so too has her visibility across a number of other media related platforms. Shaynna's opinion is highly sought after in areas including design, colour and trends and includes having written a fortnightly column in the Herald Sun, a monthly online Q&A for The LifeStyle Channel, a regular contributor to Grand Designs Magazine as well regularly updating her online blog with design inspirations. A popular choice with design magazines including Elle Decoration, OK! Magazine, Belle, Cosmo and Home Living, it was only a matter of time before the big publishing houses started to sit up and take notice and in March 2013, Shaynna's debut book Design Your Homehit the shelves. Following the huge success of Shaynna's debut book, Penguin Australia commissioned a second book which is set for release in early 2015.
Awards: In 2014 Shaynna will reprise her role as Judge for the reece Product Design of the Year Awards, and for the first time will be appearing as a judge at Home Design Magazines, GreenInterior Awards Australian Living. In March 2014, Shaynna launched her exclusive rug range, Textured Coast by Shaynna Blaze that she has designed for The Rug Collection, as well as her continued partnership with Enjoy on her flameless candles - the Shaynna Blaze Signature Collection.
In July 2013, Shaynna beat off some stiff competition to take home the coveted ASTRA Award for Favourite Personality - Female, along with a huge win for the Selling Houses Australia team who took home the award for Favourite Australian Program.
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Academics at the forefront of research into Brexit
School of Biosciences
School of Computer Science & Informatics
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences
School of English, Communication & Philosophy
School of Geography and Planning
School of Healthcare Sciences
School of History, Archaeology and Religion
School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies
School of Law and Politics
School of Optometry and Vision Sciences
School of Physics & Astronomy
School of Welsh
Cardiff University academics are playing a pivotal role in assessing the impact of Brexit.
Since the result of the referendum nearly two years ago, experts from the institution have been carrying out detailed and extensive research – in subject areas ranging from politics and economics, to the environment and journalism.
As well as explaining the context behind the historic vote, their work is also giving a better understanding of what life will be like for people living in the UK once the country begins its separation from Europe in a year's time.
Research at Cardiff University is demonstrating Brexit's impact on many areas, including:
Public attitudes: The work of Professor Roger Scully of the Wales Governance Centre focuses on public opinion around the time of the vote and since, which is tracked through their Welsh Political Barometer Polls.
Young people: Drs Stuart Fox and Sioned Pearce of the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) surveyed 15,000 young people around the UK to assess the impact of Brexit on their political engagement.
Devolved nations: Dr Jo Hunt and Dr Rachel Minto of the Wales Governance Centre are examining the EU referendum from a devolved perspective, feeding into political discussions about Wales' future after Brexit.
Business and the economy: Professor Max Munday of Cardiff Business School researched how larger firms in Wales might be affected by Brexit, contributing to research on trade for the Welsh Government. Professor Patrick Minford, also of Cardiff Business School, is chair of the Economists for Free Trade group.
International trade: Dr Ricardo Pereira of the School of Law and Politics has researched the impact of Brexit on international trade law.
The role of broadcast media: Professors Stephen Cushion and Justin Lewis of the School of Journalism, Media and Culture, analysed sources and statistics in news reporting during the referendum campaign.
Print media: Drs Lucy Bennett and Inaki Garcia-Blanco, of Journalism, Media and Culture, studied 1,419 letters to the editor that appeared in newspapers in the two-month lead up to the referendum.
Waste policy and the environment: Professor Richard Cowell at the School of Geography and Planning undertook research on waste policy and the environment, considering how greener solutions would continue without EU legislation. Professor Ben Pontin of the School of Law and Politics has examined the historical influence of British environmental law versus implementation of EU legislation.
Agriculture: Dr Ludivine Petetin, of the School of Law and Politics, is examining the challenges and opportunities for the food and farming sectors post-Brexit, including international trade aspects.
The impact on immigrants: Dr Dawn Mannay of the School of Social Sciences led on a project to assess how Brexit has affected people from Europe who are living in Wales, specifically in the three Welsh 'Remain' regions.
Language: Professor Diarmait Mac Giolla Chriost has investigated how Brexit will affect minority languages – both within the UK and in Europe.
Other key areas of research include crime and security, technology, health and social policy.
Professor George Boyne, Pro Vice-Chancellor for the University's College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences said: "Our academics are using their extensive knowledge and expertise to inform the debate around Brexit. Their detailed research and analysis is broadening our understanding of what this decision means for the UK, both at home and internationally.
"As we get closer to this fundamental change in the UK's relationship with the EU, I have no doubt their work will continue to have a huge influence on policy-making and on public perceptions of Brexit."
Will the Union survive Brexit?
Brexit's impact on food
"Brexit means Brexit"
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The latest from Cardiff University.


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title:  "appydroid - Contribution is welcomed"
date:   2016-01-06 18:00:00
highlight: false
author: jlelse
image: /img/1.jpg
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Contribution to Open Source projects are great things. And to make the things clear before problems come I wrote this little instructions:

With contribution to appydroid I mean the following things:

* Everyone should be able to add new content to appydroid
* Everyone should be able to contribute to the development of appydroid (like the page code etc.)

#### How to contribute to appydroid

Contributing should be as easy as possible. To enable this appydroid is organized like this:

* appydroid is hosted on [GitHub Pages](https://pages.github.com/) using the blogging system [Jekyll](http://jekyllrb.com/) which generates static websites
* To write new articles only a [GitHub Account](https://github.com/join) is needed
* You don't need anything installed on your PC except a text editor and a browser and a local installed Jekyll version is recommended too
* You should have basic knowledge in managing git repositories, how to fork repositories and howto create pull requests
* You should know how to write in Markdown

To add some new articles or to modify anything on appydroid itself:

* Fork the repository
* Make your changes like writing an article
* Commit the changes to your own fork
* Create a pull request via GitHub

If you want to write an article use any of the files in the *_post* folder as template.

**Every article will be checked before publishing! You do not have any rights that your article will be published on appydroid!**

#### What you have to care about:

You should care about the following things:

* Do not use anything from others without permission (Do not copy any screenshots from apps etc.)
* You are responsible for the articles you write

jlelse
*Founder of appydroid*


"Aspirational Yoga is a new concept that demonstrates why yoga is truly the dance of life."
Visit Tao's website to learn more.
"I met Susan when we discussed filming her Aspirational Yoga Dances. My husband and I watched a few dances to get a sense and I was blown away. The beauty, grace, musicality, stretch, openness that each dance reflected was eye opening to me. We filmed the dances and my entire team started doing yoga once the filming was complete. Susan's attention to detail in each pose, her fluidity in each dance, her flow…I could go on and on. I love the length of each dance and I love how she breaks each dance down in her videos so you can get the detail that she intends. Most importantly Susan lives these dances each day and practices what she preaches. Do yourself a favor and try them out and incorporate them into your life!"
"A blend of original music and choreography, Aspirational Yoga introduces a unique and joyful approach to yoga."


February 14, 2016 Mary W.
Almost 200 more people tried their hand at this year's 2015-16 World Series of Poker Circuit Horseshoe Tunica Main Event than last year. The 646 players created a whopping prize pool of $969,000. A sizable portion ($198,657) went to champion David Kruger. The World Series of Poker (WSOP) ring is the first for the 54-year-old Missouri native, who also secured a seat in the WSOP Global Casino Championship.
Kruger, who runs a waste management company, still considers himself an amateur poker player; but this isn't his first taste of success. He'd already made 11 final tables at WSOP Circuit events before his big win, and he now boasts over half a million dollars in lifetime earnings.
Kruger began day three with the chip lead but didn't hold onto it at the final table, as stacks fluctuated across the board. Heads-up play trailing WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Southern Indiana Main Event-winner Russ Head.
Kruger doubled-up and regained the lead after making a six-high straight flush. The final hand of the battle came during level 32. Head raised with 8♤, 8♧ and Kruger three-bet, holding A♡, A♤. Head then moved all-in and Kruger snap called with his rockets. The board (J♤, 6♡, 5♤, 5♡, 10♧) didn't bring the snowman Head needed, and Kruger took home the title.
The 2015/2016 WSOP Circuit season will continue on Feb. 14 at the Palm Beach Kennel Club.
(Photo credit: Shardayyy, Creative Commons).