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I have a role which is assigned to all users but i want that one iview fpresent in that role should be visible to only some of the users. How ca i achieve it?
You can define permissions for the iView. Just open your iView in the Portal Content and choose "Permissions" in the drop down.
Now select which user needs which permissions and then save and execute.
What we have done is created a seperate roles that are liked to worksets etc....and that can be identified as different roles and at that point you can assign them to users.
U must have heard about ''Role Merging.."
but only n the second level navigation,with the contents of the higher priority role.
Also if one wants to hide some of the contents of the low priority views,it can be done.
It means that either i have to set the permission for the users in the iview or need to create different role and merge it with the previous role for the users who requires the needed functionality.
1. Create another role with the same name and add the iView that you want only a few users to see in that role.
2. Give same merge id to both the roles now, and assign the second role(in which the desired iView is there) to one particular user who u want to have access to that iView.
Jus check doing this, would be helpful.


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Trope-a-Day: Privately Owned Society
Privately Owned Society: In what is now the Empire, long ago. Or now. Could go either way.
In its purest form, in the years immediately following the Drowning of the People. After deciding that democracy amounted to substituting a parade of replaceable jackasses for the old permanent jackasses on the thrones of tyranny – and subsequently tossing the first candidates for the position off a 400′ waterfall – society was indeed privately owned, there not being anything non-"private" left in the world. Law and contract enforcement was entrusted to for-hire and eleemosynary PPLs, justice and arbitration left in the hands of equally private deemsters, and pretty much every other necessary function that people not familiar with the theory of this sort of thing are now thinking of handled by one or another for-profit, non-profit, or cooperative (yes, kids, an internally syndicalist syndicate is every bit as much a free-market entity as a megacorporation) group.
Things evolved somewhat over the centuries, with various PPLs forming complex coordinating superstructure organizations out of efficiency, evolving towards de facto pseudo-monopoly in some areas, and for similar reasons ending up purchasing sovereign rights – which in Imperial parlance are a very limited subset of the bundle of property rights attached to real property, nowhere near as generous as what we would claim them to be on Earth – from their subscribers. These superstructures were, through evolution, the basis of the Old Empires and other pre-Imperial polities of Eliéra, and eventually for the Empire itself.
But is that a move away from a Privately Owned Society?
Well, the obvious answer is that the citizen-shareholders obviously do own the Empire and all its appurtenances. That's what the shareholders part means. Hell, they can even dissolve it any time they like.
But a more sophisticated answer would be that the Drowning of the People marked a divergence point from our history in that it pretty much killed off all forms of legitimacy, governmentally speaking, as we use the term. You can look down pretty much every form of legitimacy/legitimate government mentioned in that Wikipedia article, and they've got a multi-thousand-year old philosophical tradition explaining how that's a quaint slaver's rationalization. You can't legitimize the coercion of the non-consenting no matter how much bullshit you spread on it.
The only source of "legitimacy", they would claim, is the free consent and contract of the individual, and that's what they have. Their Divine Majesties' Governance derives all of its power from literally every single Imperial citizen-shareholder having contracted its services – in the areas of law and contract enforcement, externality management, and some minor coordination functions – and clicked through to accept the terms and conditions of service – and, as Imperials point out laboriously to those missing the point, it has absolutely no existence apart from the sum of people who follow said service agreement…
(And, okay, the volume in which they own the purchased sovereign rights mentioned above. But even tenuous as they are, there's an entire political faction – the Dissolutionist Tendency – which exists to argue that they should never have got into volume-management in the first place and should sell said rights right back to the citizen-shareholders.)
…and they have the seals and signatures on file to prove that, dammit.
All the terminology and practices reflect this. There's no tax, for example, because the governance literally does not have the power to tax. All it can do is charge a Service Fee, and that service fee is strictly defined in the contract. And if you don't pay, it's not some special criminal offense of "tax evasion" with all manner of special investigatory powers and punishments attached; it's plain old breach of contract.
Privately owned enough for you?
Tagged citizen-shareholders, Dissolutionist Tendency, Drowning of the People, legitimacy, Old Empires, PPL, private sector, Privately Owned Society, sovereignty, trope-a-day
Vigorous Meritocracy
"There is something to be said for lanect governance. Not a lot, but something.
"That something is that lanect polities are some of the truest meritocracies in the Worlds. Any lanect, regardless of birth, sex, race, wealth, or popularity who – by some talent of wit, gripe, cunning, or main strength – is able to seize some degree of power within the racial hierarchy may carve his skull, name himself Warmark, and command whatever holdings he can as his "'ak". Indeed, such a lanect will enjoy the utter loyalty and unquestioning obedience of the uncarved, non-entity lanect from whose ranks he rose – until and if another ambitious one rises.
"Such a one is then thrust immediately into the hierarchy of Warmarks, all simply titled so, that dominates lanect space – from those mightiest who can claim multiple systems as their holdings, down to those at the bottom who can dominate little more than two streets together or at most a small factory. This hierarchy is, too, determined by ability: one who can dominate another Warmark, will. Lesser Warmarks offer service to the greater in exchange for protection from their peers, while in turn plotting to replace the greater if they can. If and when they do, they are immediately accepted in that position: success is all that matters to legitimize a lanect Warmark, not the origin of the Warmark nor the methods of his success.
"But what is most to the credit of the lanect is their whole-hearted embrace of these principles. Many species, in such an environment, would plan to avoid having strong rivals in their service that might replace them, and seek out an overlord weak enough to be unable to make harsh demands upon them, or embroil them in dangerous affairs.
"And yet, despite the remarkably high mortality among Warmarks, whose average lifespan is less than a third of the species average of 99.4 years – even the longest-lived on record, Stantur of Nemp, only lived to be 42 before his assassination in the nuclear destruction of Stanturaken – virtually all lanect Warmarks seek to attach themselves to the greatest destiny they can find that will have them among those higher, and surround themselves routinely with the smartest, toughest, most devious advisers and lieutenants that they can successfully dominate, despite – in a majority of cases – creating their own worst rivals and eventual successors. Indeed, those few who have lived at least some time after being deposed have been recorded taking pride in creating a successor more fit to hold power than they.
"We may not want to live under a lanect meritocracy, but we should, I deem, honor their willingness to live up to their principles to the exact and final end which those principles demand."
– Sophontology of the Lanect 'Aks,
L. Airin Makarios, RT,
Imperial Exploratory Service
Tagged fic-a-day, governance, lanect, legitimacy, meritocracy, progress through assassination, writing
Odious Sovereign Debt
MirrorField asks, with regard to Author's Note: Sovereign Debt:
If this is the case, I'm left to wonder on their opinion on the concept of "odious debt", ie. debt incurred by government *not* representative of it's constituents. Basically, do the eldrae believe that it's a-ok to hold joe average responsible for debts run up by government he didn't support (and possibly actively worked against)? Or is it a simple credit risk associated with lending to dictators? Or would they simply consider members of said regime *personally* liable for debts thus incurred? Inquiring minds want to know…
Well, the first thing to note at this point is that *there* , the concepts of what one might consider a legitimate government are somewhat different to begin with.
For the Worlds in general, as I mention in today's out-of-order trope-a-day People's Republic of Tyranny, unlike Earth, there is no general consensus in favor of representative democracy. (And, heck, the Accord has members for whom the entire concept would be meaningless – hive minds, say, in which The Man would have The Vote – or would need a lot of revision – sophonts with specialized castes, like those of many Earth insects, in which all sophs are definitely not created equal and some subcastes may not even be sophont.)
Now, where the eldrae, the Empire, and the Directorate of Gilea & Company in particular are concerned, the thing to remember is that they're libertists, and pretty hard-core ones by our standards. So far as they're concerned, governmental legitimacy can only come from the unanimous consent of the governed, not the "representative consent of the governed", or the "implicit consent of the governed", or whatever other excuse one might cobble together. That's what defines a Society of Consent. All other forms of government are necessarily based on the coercion of the unwilling, and therefore korasmóníë, "force-states", all of which are mighty obnoxious in the sight of the Freest of the Free.
Representativeness as we would define it, therefore, doesn't exactly cut much ice with them. In an autocracy, one man is wearing the jackboots. In a democracy, >=(50%+1) men are wearing the jackboots. Neither of these cases is equivalent to an absence of jackboots, but both of them are suspiciously near-equivalent to a gang of nasty little slaving thugs who probably pull the wings off flies and engage in dubious sexual practices.
Now, on the specifics of odious debt, I suspect what matters to them is continuity. Recall, so far as they're concerned, a government is just another type of business. If your revolution just happens to be a change in management, or a takeover that still lays claim to all the assets of the business – well, corporations don't get to conveniently forget about their liabilities just because the shareholders fired the board for making deals they wouldn't have approved of and replaced them. You don't get to claim the assets, the name, the infrastructure, yadda yadda, without the liabilities that come attached to them. (Although we might be willing to talk about restructuring. Maybe. If it improves our chances of getting our money back.)
If, instead, it's the equivalent of buying the company's assets at the liquidation sale – well, fine, then, you don't get the liabilities (they aren't holding Joe Average responsible, you see; they're holding the corporate governance responsible, in short). But you also aren't necessarily the seniormost creditor in that liquidation – if the overthrown dictator borrowed a few billion exvals to spend on battlecruisers and palaces, and you don't want to honor the loan under these circumstances, that's fine, but you can't have the battlecruisers and palaces either. We have a lien and a legitimate claim on the assets of the former regime. You can't disavow the legitimacy of a transaction and simultaneously claim ownership of the assets that transaction paid for. That's double-billing, and pretty odious double-billing at that.
This is, of course, arguably rather a harsh position to take – but should you point that out to them, the average Imperial will shrug and point out that:
(a) As long xenohistorical experience has taught them, The Revolution Was Not (Will Not Be) Civilized, and should this turn out to be the rare exception where the new regime isn't a bunch of equivalent thugs wearing differently colored hats, someone will probably offer to help them out with their debts later on – and if they are, why exactly do they deserve a freebie?
(b) That in any case, there's an established precedent for being oppressed, and it worked for them, and they are deeply cynical, therefore, about this supposed "lack of support" on the part of the many.
(c) In any case, that loan is not the bank's money to give away. It's their customers' money, their investors' money, the people to whom they have a fiduciary responsibility, and it is absolutely not their place to decide to give away their customers' money without their customers' joint say-so. No matter who might claim otherwise.
(Every note, after all, has two ends – and that some governments are often happy to order the wiping out "odious debt" without so much as mentioning that the other end of that note is coming right out of a bunch of pension funds, small investors' funds, etc., that don't particularly deserve to be stiffed is another one of those things that the average Imperial would find headbangingly dishonest. If exactly what they'd expect from a korasmóníë.)
Tagged banking, democracy, legitimacy, odious debt, representative government, sovereign debt, they're all odious to me mate, worldbuilding

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Q: Angular 9 never calls HammerGestureConfig.buildHammer After update to Angular 9 it does not work to use Hammer.js anymore. We have extended the Angular HammerGestureConfig like the following.:
import {HammerGestureConfig} from '@angular/platform-browser';
import {Injectable} from '@angular/core';

@Injectable({providedIn: 'root'})
export class HammerConfig extends HammerGestureConfig {

  overrides = <any>{
    'pan': {
      direction: Hammer.DIRECTION_ALL,
      threshold: 5
    } // override default settings
  };

  buildHammer(element) {
    const recognizers = [];
    if (element.hasAttribute('data-hammer-pan')) {
      recognizers.push([Hammer.Pan]);
    }
    if (element.hasAttribute('data-hammer-pan-x')) {
      recognizers.push([Hammer.Pan, {direction: Hammer.DIRECTION_HORIZONTAL}]);
    }
    if (element.hasAttribute('data-hammer-tap')) {
      recognizers.push([Hammer.Tap]);
    }
    if (element.hasAttribute('data-hammer-pinch')) {
      recognizers.push([Hammer.Pinch]);
    }
    if (element.hasAttribute('data-hammer-rotate')) {
      recognizers.push([Hammer.Rotate]);
    }
    if (element.hasAttribute('data-hammer-press')) {
      recognizers.push([Hammer.Press]);
    }
    if (element.hasAttribute('data-hammer-swipe')) {
      recognizers.push([Hammer.Swipe]);
    }
    const hammer = new Hammer.Manager(element, {
      recognizers: recognizers,
      touchAction: 'auto'
    });
    return hammer;
  }
}

The HammerConfig is added to the app module.:
  providers: [
    {
      provide: HAMMER_GESTURE_CONFIG,
      useClass: HammerConfig
    }
  ],

As far as I understand the method buildHammer should be called, but it is never called.
What could be the problem?

A: Comment out any imports for hammerjs that are likely in your main.ts file that were likely added in Angular 8 or earlier -- for me it was originally an Angular 4 project 2 years old that we have evolved. But Angular 9 can't use it there.
Move them all to app.module.ts in this order…
import { HammerModule, HammerGestureConfig, HAMMER_GESTURE_CONFIG } from '@angular/platform-browser';
declare var Hammer: any;

If you are using it for swipes, like for a carousel, you will need to export a custom class...
@Injectable()
export class MyHammerConfig extends HammerGestureConfig {
  overrides = <any>{
    pan: { direction: Hammer.DIRECTION_All },
    swipe: { direction: Hammer.DIRECTION_VERTICAL },
  }

  buildHammer(element: HTMLElement) {
    const mc = new Hammer(element, {
      touchAction: 'auto',
      inputClass: Hammer.SUPPORT_POINTER_EVENTS ? Hammer.PointerEventInput : Hammer.TouchInput,
      recognizers: [
        [
          Hammer.Swipe,
          {
            direction: Hammer.DIRECTION_HORIZONTAL,
          },
        ],
      ],
    })
    return mc
  }
}

Then in NgModule
@NgModule({
// ...
   imports: [
      HammerModule,
      // ...

don't forget the providers...
providers: [
 {provide: HAMMER_GESTURE_CONFIG, useClass: MyHammerConfig}
  // ...
]

It should work.

A: The HammerModule needs to be imported to the Angular app module.
  imports: [
    ...
    HammerModule
  ],
  providers: [
    {
      provide: HAMMER_GESTURE_CONFIG,
      useClass: HammerConfig
    },
    ...
  ],
  ...

ivy: make Hammer support tree-shakable. Previously, in Ivy
  applications, Hammer providers were included by default. With this
  commit, apps that want Hammer support must import HammerModule in their
  root module. (#32203) (de8ebbd)

https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/9.0.0/CHANGELOG.md

A: After upgrading to Angular 9, I had to re-npm-install hammerjs since it had been removed from my package.json. I would check that yours is still there.

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https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-defense-bill-seeks-to-counter-china-1533127150
Congress Passes Defense Bill That's Tough on China
Lawmakers from both parties back measure targeting Beijing on military activity in South China Sea, pursuit of U.S. technology
China has pledged to retaliate against U.S. tariffs in "equal scale and equal strength." In addition to tariffs, here are three ways Beijing could hit back at Washington. Photo: Getty Images
By Kate O'Keeffe
and Siobhan Hughes
Updated Aug. 1, 2018 2:50 pm ET
Congress passed a defense-policy bill that some lawmakers say is tougher on China than any in history, as a bipartisan movement to confront Beijing gathers steam.
The measure, an annual policy bill that authorizes $716 billion in total defense spending for the coming fiscal year, seeks to counter a range of Chinese government policies, including increased military activity in the South China Sea, the pursuit of cutting-edge U.S. technology and the spread of Communist Party propaganda at American institutions.
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Pycnopodia helianthoides is known as the sunflower sea star, or less frequently referred to as the twenty-rayed sea star  and the many-rayed star. The sunflower sea star's scientific name, Pycnopodia helianthoides, is the literal combination of 'many-' or 'densely-' (pycno) with '-footed' or '-legged' (podia), and 'sunflower-' (helianth) with '-like' (oides), meaning the densely footed sunflower. P. helianthoides was originally named Asterias helianthoides by Brandt in 1835, but in 1862, Stimpson changed the name to what is still in current use. It is one of the largest and fastest moving of sea stars in the world, and is endemic to the Pacific Northwest.
The size of the sunflower sea star varies with age; the adults range from approximately 46 cm  to 66 cm , up to as large as 1 m in diameter, sometimes even larger , and with a weight up to 5 kg . P. helianthoides is radially symmetrical and has as many as 24 rays (however, a report of 26 rays has been noted ); juveniles have only 5 rays, growing more as they age. Below 100 meters, Rathbunaster californicus and Pycnopodia helianthoides can appear very similar.
Unlike many other sea stars, such as the hard and rigid Pacific sea star (Pisaster ochraceus) which has a heavily calcified skeleton, P. helianthoides has a very soft and flexible body, due mostly to its loosely connected aboral skeletal plates . To the touch, P. helianthoides is very soft and flaccid, with a velvet-like feel to its aboral surface .
P. helianthoides is a member of the order Forcipulatida, which all share the following characteristics: the presence of 5 or more rays, have crossed and straight pedicellariae present, and have tube feet arranged in 4 rows . Lambert (2000) defines pedicellariae as "small jawlike structures that occur on the outer surface of sea stars"; pedicellariae are sometimes referred to as tiny pinchers .
P. helianthoides' natural range is from Unalaska, Alaska , down to Prince William Sound, Alaska , into the San Diego area of Southern California ; however, P. helianthoides is uncommon south of Carmel Bay in the Monterey area . You can sometimes find P. helianthoides at low tide in sandy substrate in an Eel grass (Zostera sp.) meadow , within tide pools in rocky substrate , and also within surge channels, believed to be used as a means of moving in and out of intertidal areas  . P. helianthoides is considered a low-intertidal organism, with a natural vertical depth range to about 120 meters; P. helianthoides was found as deep as 437 meters on an isolated occasion, seeming to be an anomaly .
Pycnopodia helianthoides are dioecious, and breed via broadcast spawning between March and July . The fertilized zygotes develop into free-swimming, pelagic, planktotrophic larvae , and remain in the water column for up to 10 weeks . While in their planktotrophic larval stage, and during the immediate period following their metamorphose into a five rayed juvenile, P. helianthoides feeds on single-celled algae .
P. helianthoides appears to prefer purple sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) as a prey source ; S. purpuratus will actively flee from P. helianthoides, as will other mobile prey organisms. P. helianthoides also eats bivalves, barnacles, chitons, snails, polychaetes, crabs, sea cucumbers and some smaller sea stars    . P. helianthoides feeds by both extruding its stomach and digesting its prey externally or it will completely cover its prey and pull it in to its stomach, digesting prey internally .
Research suggests that P. helianthoides uses chemosensory perception to scavenge on dead and dying organisms , such as dead squid  and flat fish . When P. helianthoides ingests indigestible material, such as a squid pen or the spines of an urchin, it will extrude the indigestible matter through the aboral surface of its body  .
P. helianthoides' few natural predators include the Alaska king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus)   and the carnivorous morning sun star (Solaster dawsoni)  ; gulls have also been seen attempting to feed on an exposed P. helianthoides within the intertidal zone . When a predator finds and attempts to eat P. helianthoides, it will autotomize its rays as an escape mechanism, commanded by chemicals from injured tissues  . It is not uncommon to find P. helianthoides in the process of regenerating new rays, visible by the presence of significantly shorter rays alongside full length rays  .
An single sunflower sea star can have as many as 15,000 tube feet  , allowing it to travel between 96  and 110  meters per hour. P. helianthoides' tube feet are very strong and stretchy; they have strong suckers on the bottom that allow them to cling to rocks in heavy waves. Their tube feet will often break if a person or a predator succeeds at pulling the star off of it's substrate  .
Interspecific competition for food has been observed between P. helianthoides with both Pisaster brevispinus and P. giganteus; intraspecific competition between individuals for space has also been reported .
Video of P. helianthoides attempting to feed on abalone.
Video depicting P. helianthoides' appetite, and prey escape response.
Boolootian RA. 1966. Physiology of Echinodermata. Interscience Publishers.
Shivji M, Parker D, Hartwick B, Smith J and Sloan NA. 1983. Feeding and distribution study of the sunflower sea star Pycnopodia helianthoides. Pacific Science. Volume 37.
Kjerskog-Agersborg HP. 1918. Bilateral tendencies and habits in the twenty-rayed starfish Pycnopodia helianthoides. Biological Bulletin. 35: 232-254.
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↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Morris RH, Abbott DP, and Haderlie EC. 1980. Intertidal Invertebrates of California. Stanford University Press.
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Lamb A and Hanby BP. 2005. Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest. Harbour Publishing.
↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Harbo RM. 1999. Whelks to Whales. Harbour Publishing.
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↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Carlton JT. 2007. The Light and Smith Manual: Intertidal Invertebrates from Central California to Oregon. University of California Press.
↑ 7.0 7.1 Meinkoth NA. 1981. The Audubon Society: Field Guide to North American Seashore Creatures. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
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↑ Brewer and Konar. 2005. Chemosensory responses and foraging behavior of the seastar Pycnopodia helianthoides. Marine Biology. 147: 789-795.
↑ Mladenov PV, Igdoura S, Asotra S and Burke RD. 1989. Purification and Partial Characterization of an Autotomy-Promoting Factor from the Sea Star Pycnopodia helianthoides. Biological Bulletin. 176: 169-175.
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function D = buildDictionary( X, method, params )
% buildDictionary from data
% Usage:
%   D = buildDictionary( X, method, params )
%
%   X - ( N x M )
%       N - number of observations
%       M - number of variables
%
% Rows of the ouput matrix contain
%
% methods:
%   spams
%   kmeans
%   pca     : Note, assumes data are already centered
%
% See also KMEANS, PCA, MEXTRAINDL

if( ~exist( 'params', 'var' ))
    params = {};
end

switch( method )

    case 'spams'
        D = mexTrainDL( X', params );
        D = D';
    case 'kmeans'
        [~,D] = kmeans( X, params );
    case 'pca'
        D = pca( X, 'centered', false );
        D = D';
    otherwise
        error('Invalid method')
end

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text:
@protocol TMPlugInController
	- (float)version;
@end

@interface HTMDMissingDrawer : NSObject
{
}
+ (NSView*)makeSplitViewWithMainView:(NSView*)contentView sideView:(NSView*)sideView;
+ (IMP)replaceClassName:(NSString*)className selectorName:(NSString*)origSelName withFunc:(const void*)repFunc isClassMethod:(BOOL)isClassMethod;
+ (IMP)replaceClass:(Class)aClass selector:(SEL)origSel withFunc:(const void*)repFunc isClassMethod:(BOOL)isClassMethod;

- (id)initWithPlugInController:(id <TMPlugInController>)aController;
- (void)_setup;

@end


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Goodwill Manasota reopening retail store in Sarasota
September 27, 2016 by Press Release
The Arthur and Mabel Soine Goodwill Manasota retail store, located at 700 N. Beneva Road in Sarasota
SARASOTA/BRADENTON, FL – Goodwill Manasota is preparing to open its newest hybrid retail store at 700 N. Beneva Road in Sarasota – the doors will open to the public on Thursday, October 13 at 9 a.m. The Arthur and Mabel Soine retail store will be open Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The attended donation center (ADC) will be open daily from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
"Goodwill Manasota strategically places donation centers and retail stores in locations where there is high demand. We are very excited to re-open the store at this location in Sarasota after a five-year hiatus. We believe that the community will love our new hybrid concept, and will especially enjoy the value of the 10,000 items that will be in the new location," said Bob Rosinsky, Goodwill Manasota president and CEO. "Creating jobs for those with disabilities and other barriers to employment is made possible through the sale of goods donated by this generous community."
The retail store is named after longtime supporters Arthur and Mabel Soine. The sales floor is approximately 6,000 square feet and will offer more than 10,000 pieces of apparel, along with books, electronics, housewares, new goods, and other eclectic finds. The ADC at this location is approximately 2,400 square feet and has a drive-through for donor convenience. The store also enables Goodwill to continue to enhance its leadership development and job creation initiatives: seven new jobs were created to operate this location.
For a complete list of Goodwill locations, go to experiencegoodwill.org.
About Goodwill Manasota
Goodwill Manasota is an industry-leading, 501(c)(3), not-for-profit organization that changes lives through the power of work. With the sales of donated goods and philanthropic donations, Goodwill is able to assist people with disabilities and other barriers to employment by providing job skills training and employment opportunities. In 2015, Goodwill Manasota served 22,739 people, placed 961 people in jobs and assisted 358 veterans as they reintegrated back into the civilian workforce. Goodwill Manasota's economic impact back to the community is worth $81.3 million. Goodwill is one of the pioneers of the reduce-reuse-recycle movement and this past year diverted 41 million pounds out of the landfill. We accomplish our mission through a network of Good Neighbor Centers in Sarasota, Manatee, Hardee and DeSoto counties and our Mission Development Services (MDS) around North America. Goodwill Manasota is accountable to a local Board of Directors. Goodwill Manasota, in essence, belongs to this community and is not owned by any individual or company. For more information, visit www.experiencegoodwill.org.
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2016 hurricane season, 97% chance of named storm hitting U.S.
Colorado State University's Department of Atmospheric Science stopped doing quantitative December hurricane forecasts for pending storm seasons in 2012.
But researchers are still issuing a more qualitative discussion of the factors that will influence the 2016 hurricane season, including the climatological chances that the U.S. and individual states will get hit by a tropical storm, hurricane or major hurricane.
This year's discussion, released last week, relies on two main events for its hurricane predictions; whether El Nino will remain a strong influence through summer next year and the potency of the Atlantic Multi-Decadal Oscillation (AMO).
El Nino is known to knock down hurricanes by creating strong westerly wind shear, such as we saw during the 2015 hurricane season.
The AMO is a longer-term phenomenon that impacts sea-surface temperatures. Warm sea surface temperatures are like candy to growing hurricanes.
While CSU's study, which was written by hurricane expert Philip Kotzbach with assistance from William Gray, looks generally at four scenarios affecting hurricane frequency and strength, it also gives climatological landfall probabilities for 2016. The probabilities are long term chances, taking into account data from the 20th century.
"While we are not issuing a quantitative forecast in this early outlook, we can still provide interested readers with the climatological probabilities of landfall for various portions of the United States coastline," Klotzbach wrote.
For all of the U.S., Klotzbach said there is a 97 percent chance of a named storm making landfall. That could mean a tropical storm, hurricane or major hurricane.
Last week's discussion also gives the climatological probabilities that a hurricane or major hurricane will impact specific states.
Climatological probabilities for a hurricane landfall in 2016.
Klotzbach notes that none of the 27 major hurricanes that have formed since Wilma in 2005 made a U.S. landfall.
"The 10-year period that the U.S. has gone without any major landfalls exceeds the previous record of eight years set between 1861 and 1868," he wrote.
"There is obviously a luck component that has played a significant role," Klotzbach said.
He explains another part of why in a blog for the Capital Weather Gang written with Brian McNoldy. Basically an exploration of how an east coast low pressure system may be steering hurricanes away from the U.S.
Florida is singled out as being "remarkably lucky" to have not been impacted by a hurricane since Wilma. Klotzbach said there has been a marked decrease in hurricanes hitting the Florida peninsula over the past 50 years.
Bob Henson, a meteorologist and blogger for Weather Underground said CSU's recent discussion makes him even more "eager to see how this very uncertain hurricane season will unfold."
"As one would expect, the skill of these outlooks steadily improves as the hurricane season nears," he wrote in a blog last week. "Even if it's too soon right now to expect an accurate forecast for 2016, the latest thoughts from CSU make me even more eager to see how this very uncertain hurricane season will unfold."
Author Staff WriterPosted on December 15, 2015 December 16, 2015 Categories National Hurricane Center, National weather service, noaa, Technology/science, tropical weather, unreal weatherTags bnblogs, National Hurricane Center, National Weather Service, news, newsfeed, NOAA, Phil Klotzbach, Tropical Storm, tropical weather, William GrayLeave a comment on 2016 hurricane season, 97% chance of named storm hitting U.S.
Patchy dense fog a concern for drivers this morning
The National Weather Service has issued a special weather statement warning of patchy dense fog across portions of inland Palm Beach Palm Beach County.
The main concern is along portions of Alligator Alley and areas around Lake Okeechobee.
In worse case scenarios, visibility could be reduced to less than half a mile.
The fog is expected to burn off quickly once the sun rises. The statement is in effect until 8 a.m.
Author Staff WriterPosted on December 15, 2015 Categories UncategorizedTags bnblogs, fog, National Weather Service, news, newsfeed, special weather statementLeave a comment on Patchy dense fog a concern for drivers this morning
Cold front to send South Fla. temperatures plummeting
South Florida may break record high heat temperatures this week, but the scorcher is expected to end soon.
A strong cold front is forecast to move through the peninsula Friday or Saturday morning, bringing with it daytime temperatures cooler than normal for this time of year.
The National Weather Service is predicting a high around 70 degrees on Saturday, which is six degrees below the 30-year normal maximum high for that day. AccuWeather puts Saturday's high at 69 degrees.
The NWS has the overnight low temperature dipping to 60 degrees, which is one degree warmer than normal for Dec. 19.
"A much drier and milder air mass may finally knock temperatures and humidity levels back to values more typical of the holiday season, particularly for this coming weekend," NWS forecasters wrote this morning.
But before the cold from hits South Florida, temperatures will continue well above normal for this time of year and could break records.
The high today in West Palm Beach is forecast to hit 86 degrees. The record for today was 87 degrees, set in 1920. It's possible the overnight low of 75 degrees was a record-setter, or at least tied for the record. I'm checking on that now.
The typical normal high temperature 76 degrees. The normal low for today is 60 degrees.
This Saturday forecast shows the low pressure system pushing through Florida into the Florida Straits.
Florida is suffering its hottest year on record and is expected to finish 2015 as top ranked for toasty temperatures.
South Florida temperatures have been running an average 3 degrees warmer than normal this year.
A report released Wednesday by the National Centers for Environmental Information, shows the first 11 months of the year have simmered at an average 73.7 degrees in the Sunshine State. That's 2.5 degrees above average and higher than anything measured in the 121 years records have been kept.
Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties are on a similar track with November topping off as the hottest 11-month streak since Grover Cleveland was president with an average temperature of 77.8 degrees.
This weekend's cool front is an extension of an incredibly strong storm that hit Alaska last weekend.
According to AccuWeather, the central area of low pressure of the storm as measured over the Bering Sea was 924 millibars. The strongest low pressure measured over Alaskan soil was from a storm in 1977 that measured 925 millibars.
Author Staff WriterPosted on December 14, 2015 December 14, 2015 Categories cold front, el nino, South Florida weatherTags bnblogs, COLD FRONT, National Weather Service, news, newsfeedLeave a comment on Cold front to send South Fla. temperatures plummeting
Video: vultures a sign of fall, but also eat car parts and known to puke
Surfing lazily on thermal air currents rising from the steamy earth, the graceful yet gruesome vulture is a sure sign that fall has arrived in the Sunshine State.
They are the original snowbirds – here before seasonal residents flocked to condos dug into South Florida's shores.
And while the vultures typically arrive closer to Halloween than Christmas, one national wildlife researcher said the flight schedule of this year's flock was a little delayed.
Read the full Palm Beach Post story on Florida's vultures here.
"Some of our birds have just arrived in the last couple of weeks," said Michael Avery, project leader for the National Wildlife Research Center at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Gainesville. "We have some that we previously tagged in Key West that are still making their way down."
Turkey vultures roost and soar near the Southern Boulevard drawbridge on Thursday morning, December 10, 2015. (Thomas Cordy / The Palm Beach Post)
Avery said it's not clear yet what may have delayed the seasonal southern sojourn, but it's possible record warm temperatures nationwide this autumn contributed to the rescheduling.
Temperature readings released this week by the National Centers for Environmental Information revealed that from September through November, temperatures nationwide were above average to record warm. Areas around the Great Lakes, where Avery said many of the birds he tracks spend their summers, experienced their hottest autumn in years.
Turkey vultures roost and soar near the Southern Boulevard drawbridge on Wednesday morning, December 9, 2015. (Thomas Cordy / The Palm Beach Post)
Michigan's average temperature was 51.6 degrees September through November, nearly 5 degrees above the 20th century average for that time period and the second warmest on records dating back 121 years. Minnesota's average temperature of 49.5 degrees was 6.3 degrees higher than average.
Florida too is experiencing record warmth, with 2015 expected to go down as the hottest on record.
But maybe it's not such a bad thing if the vultures' visits are shortened, because once they get here, they can be quite a nuisance.
While a vital component in clearing carrion, black vultures also are predators, attacking and eating small animals, including newborn cattle, piglets and goats.
They also, for reasons unknown, have an affinity for rubbery materials and are known to pull windshield washer blades off cars, eat the rubber around windows, destroy outdoor furniture and pull the rubber splines from pool enclosures.
"They are a very important component of a healthy ecosystem, but vultures are one of those birds that do create a lot of hassles," Avery said.
In a 2005 federal report on the management of damage by vultures in Florida, the scavenger bird topped the list of troublemaking fowl with 680 requests for assistance from wildlife services between 1993 and 2003. That's more than six times higher than the second-ranked nuisance bird — the duck.
The report estimated that vultures caused $1.4 million in damage in the same period — everything from chewing up vehicles to leaving excessive fecal droppings.
Author Staff WriterPosted on December 14, 2015 December 15, 2015 Categories South Florida weatherTags bnblogs, National Weather Service, news, newsfeed, NOAA, vulture, warmest year on recordLeave a comment on Video: vultures a sign of fall, but also eat car parts and known to puke
Forecasters alert to dense fog in Palm Beach County
The National Weather Service issued a special weather statement this morning warning of dense fog for all of Palm Beach County.
Visibility is less than a half mile in coastal and western Palm Beach County.
Drivers should use low beam headlights and slow down while driving through the fog early this morning.
The statement is in effect through 7 a.m. but fog could linger until shortly after sunrise.
Light fog on State Road 7 extension north of Okeechobee Boulevard Tuesday morning, April 2, 2013. (Lannis Waters/The Palm Beach Post)
Weather observations at Palm Beach International Airport reflect the fog started to form just before 5 a.m. as northwest winds stilled to 3 mph and the air temperature and dew point temperature met at 66 degrees.
The relative humidity shot to 100 percent and cloud heights plummeted from 3,000 feet to near ground level. Without strong winds or the sun's dispersing rays, the low fog will linger.
The National Weather Service sends out a special weather statement, like the one this morning, when visibility is reduced to one-half mile. If visibility dips to one-fourth mile, a fog advisory is issued.
Dense fog on the intracoastal water way. Palm Beach disappeared! @KMillerWeather pic.twitter.com/o8TJ4LsVBC
— Emily Sawyer (@MissEmRenee) December 10, 2015
Dense fog is rare in Florida. Between 2000 and 2011, NOAA's storm events database recorded just 35 days during which dense fog was present statewide. But those incidences can be lethal.
The database lists five deaths and 17 injuries directly attributable to dense fog, while Palm Beach Post archives list multiple car accidents in which fog was involved.
Dense fog obscures islands in the Intracoastal this morning. Photo by Eddie Ritz
In March 2007, Boynton Beach resident Anita Zoet died after her car plowed into an 18-wheeler on Florida's Turnpike in heavy fog. Four others were also killed in the accident that included a 12-vehicle pileup.
A year earlier, two people were killed and 20 injured in western Palm Beach County when smoke combined with fog to reduce visibility on State Road 80 and U.S. 27.
Meteogram at PBIA shows where dew point temperature and air temperature meet, helping to initiate fog.
Dense fog this morning starts to break up shortly after sunrise, but still obscures islands in the Intracoastal between West Palm Beach and Palm Beach. Photo by Eddie Ritz
Dense fog this morning obscures islands in the Intracoastal between West Palm Beach and Palm Beach. Photo by Eddie Ritz
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Epic December rain totals for South Florida
Just nine days into December and Palm Beach County is at least 3.65 inches over the historic norm as far as rainfall totals with 5.08 inches falling at the airport.
Miami-Dade County broke a record yesterday when it hit 9.24 inches of rain for the month, making December the second wettest since 1895.
And Broward County has seen 5.2 inches of rain since Dec. 1, more than 5 inches higher than the historic norm for this month, according to the South Florida Water Management District.
The National Weather Service says Palm Beach County is just 3.35 inches away from making December one of the top 5 rainiest on records.
Florida State Climatologist David Zierden pointed to moisture from the tropical Pacific as connected to South Florida's heavy rains.
Water vapor image shows tropical Pacific connection to South Florida rains….#ElNino pic.twitter.com/ehBfRg22l9
— David Zierden (@FLClimateCenter) December 8, 2015
And if El Nino is to blame, South Florida may be in for a wet and dreary (for the Sunshine State) winter.
Author Staff WriterPosted on December 9, 2015 December 9, 2015 Categories UncategorizedTags bnblogs, El Niño, National Weather Service, news, newsfeed, NOAA, outlookLeave a comment on Epic December rain totals for South Florida
35-foot sand tree gets face lift after heavy rains
Workers from Team Sandtastic arrived today to start fixing Sandi, the 600-ton sand Christmas tree in West Palm Beach, after heavy rains last week washed away many features.
Tom May, a sculptor with Team Sandtastic, said he was surprised at the amount of damage done by the deluge. Palm Beach International Airport has measured 5 inches of rain since Dec. 1.
"We had some pieces that dissolved completely," May said. "We had an elf over there on the side that just fell apart."
See Sandi photo gallery here.
On Friday, even the showcase star toppled, crooking the tip of the sand pile and taking out the impressive light display with it. The light show has since been restored.
Fixes for the tree, dubbed Sandi, are estimated to cost about $5,100.
Sculptors work to restore Sandi.
South Florida's dry season was officially declared Oct. 18 by the National Weather Service, and forecasters said Monday the last week's weather was uncommon for this late in the year.
"This is extremely unusual," said Chuck Caracozza, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. "To get this amount of rain in one week of December is rare."
A ribbon of turbulent air advancing a cold front is responsible for the stubborn showers. While South Florida didn't get chillier temperatures from the system, the front stalled in the Florida Straits shooting moisture north in its counterclockwise flow.
May said three or four sculptors plan to work on Sandi this week.
"The big thing is just getting the drier weather so it can harden and hold it's shape," May said.
A worker sprays a fine mixture similar to glue and water to keep sand from blowing away.
Author Staff WriterPosted on December 8, 2015 December 8, 2015 Categories UncategorizedTags bnblogs, National Weather Service, news, newsfeedLeave a comment on 35-foot sand tree gets face lift after heavy rains
Will South Florida see the sun this week?
South Florida will see the sun again this week after cloudy to partly cloudy skies have blanketed the area since at least Dec. 1.
By Friday, rain chances are expected to be down to 10 percent, and skies are forecast to be mostly sunny, according to the National Weather Service.
Saturday's forecast is "sunny."
"It will be a nice change," said David Ross, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Miami. "I'm sure it will be welcome."
According to a weather station at the Palm Beach International Airport, every day this month has been either partly cloudy or cloudy. In technical terms, "partly cloudy" is a day when more than half of the sky is cloudless.
By Saturday the stubborn front that has brought so much rain is pushed south of Cuba.
"Cloudy" is when 7/8 or more of the sky is covered by clouds.
The stubborn front stalled in the Florida Straits has been responsible for most of the clouds and rain.
Since Dec. 1, 5 inches of rain has fallen at Palm Beach International Airport. That's 3 to 4 inches above normal for the first week of December.
A high pressure system is expected to push through later this week that will get rid of that soggy front to our south.
"By Saturday and Sunday, we'll have the best couple of days we've had in several weekends," said Arlena Moses, a NWS meteorologist in Miami. "If you look to Central and North Florida, they don't have a cloud in the sky."
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10 safest Florida cities from hurricanes, where West Palm Beach falls
There's really no where 100 percent safe in Florida from hurricanes.
Even Orlando got hit twice in 2004 by hurricanes Charley and Frances.
>>Hurricane Irma: Get the latest news and information on the storm
And although Florida enjoyed a more than 10-year hurricane drought after 2005's Hurricane Wilma, Hurricane Hermine made landfall in the Big Bend area in September 2016. And the east coast experienced a scary swipe from Hurricane Matthew in October 2016.
>>Hurricane Irma: Follow the latest headlines
Still, HomeInsurance.com has ranked Florida's cities based on their evaluation of NOAA-identified storms from 1965 to October 2014, doling out scores based on the number of storm events, number of storm-related deaths, property damage and storm-related injuries.
This satellite image provided by NOAA and taken at 3:15 p.m. EDT Thursday Oct. 20, 2005 shows Hurricane Wilma as it approaches the Mexican Yucatan peninsula.
>>Hurricane Irma coverage: Follow The Palm Beach Post's certified weather reporter, Kim Miller on Twitter
West Palm Beach ranks 15th on the list, falling behind Miami, which took the 14th place. Stuart ranked 11.
The top 10, beginning with the safest, are:
The entire ranking is below.
Author Staff WriterPosted on June 3, 2015 September 7, 2017 Categories Past storms, Season forecasts, South Florida weatherTags bnblogs, hurricane, Hurricane Irma, irma, National Hurricane Center, news, newsfeed, prediction, storm 2017, Tropical Storm, tropical weather, west palm beachLeave a comment on 10 safest Florida cities from hurricanes, where West Palm Beach falls
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The Bright Ideas Challenge, a brain eating amoeba and a shaky Spanish city in the Fun Kids Science Weekly podcast with Dan!
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They chat all about how we could power the cities of the future and the brand new findings that show that kids think they are the key to changing the world for the better through science!
Plus Dangerous Dan is discovering a tiny single-celled organism that will eat your brain!
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Using the domain name means we are able to automatically assign new users at the same company to the same credit account. It does however mean that assigning credit limits to gmail, hotmail and the like is not possible. We don't foresee this being a huge issue and see the benefits of the new system outweighing that.
If a domain is set on stop it will be impossible for anyone to raise new orders against anyone else from that domain. This overrides all other settings.
We will in due course be adding in new features to the credit control system that will allow chasing outstanding accounts. We will also be adding in new notifications for when the customer account it over it's limit. We hope you find this new feature useful and as always welcome any feedback.
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The Arkansas State women's tennis team swept Louisiana 4-0 Sunday morning at Jonesboro Country Club.
The Arkansas State women's tennis team defeated ULM 4-1 Saturday in a Sun Belt Conference match played at RidgePointe Country Club.
The threat of inclement weather this weekend has forced the Arkansas State women's tennis team to alter its schedule as the team heads into the final week of the season.
The Arkansas State women's tennis team suffered a 4-0 setback at UT Arlington Sunday.
The Arkansas State women's tennis team fell to Texas State 4-0 on Saturday in a Sun Belt Conference tennis match.
The Arkansas State women's tennis lost a Sun Belt Conference tennis 4-1 to South Alabama Sunday afternoon at the A-State Tennis Complex.
The Arkansas State women's tennis team lost to Troy 4-1 Friday afternoon in a Sun Belt Conference tennis match at the A-State Tennis Complex.
The Arkansas State women's tennis team fell to Georgia Southern 7-0 on Sunday afternoon in a Sun Belt Conference tennis match.
The Arkansas State women's tennis team lost to Georgia State 4-3 Saturday afternoon in a Sun Belt Conference matchup.
The Arkansas State women's tennis team fell to Appalachian State 4-3 Sunday morning in a Sun Belt Conference match at the A-State Tennis Complex.
The Arkansas State women's tennis team opened up its 2019 Sun Belt Conference schedule with a 4-0 loss to Coastal Carolina Saturday morning at the A-State Tennis Complex.


On Saturday night, July 16, WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder made the fourth successful defense of his title with a punishing 8th round TKO over contender Chris Arreola.
The bout took place from the Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Ala., as Wilder (37-0, 36 KO's) was simply too sharp, powerful, and active for Arreola (36-5-1, 31 KO's), who may have seen his last appearance on the big stage.
It was revealed after the match that Wilder had been taken to a nearby hospital, as he suffered a broken right hand during the match.


the house is a ranch so only one floor and we have 2 bathrooms. the room already does have a large window. i've also been doing some research online about whether a room NEEDS to have a closet to be considered a bedroom and getting lots of mixed reviews on that.
yes, the market here is HOT, but i notice a 4 br will sell for at least $100k more than a 3 br. 4BR in this area is pretty rare.
Also, we have a separate bonus room as well. what's kind of funny is that the family before us used that bonus room as a master bedroom, so i'm wondering if i could technically convert that into a bedroom. but i think most people would want to use that as a bonus room b/c it's very big and the living room is fairly small.
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If it meets the legal requirements for a bedroom (egress, no steps up or down to a bathroom, closet, ...) why would people be upset that it's a room off the kitchen rather than a room back with the other bedrooms?
Those may not be the legal requirements for Seattle.
As I posted, it may not, but if it does why would potential buyers be put off by a bedroom off the kitchen?
...why would potential buyers (of 4BR houses) be put off by a bedroom off the kitchen?
and in THIS instance apart from the bathroom(s) too.
like the examples of au pair, house maid, in-law, older child from first marriage, etc.
well, those with that circumstance in their family would most likely see being apart as a benefit.
If the room has a half bath (let alone a full bath) even more so.
Some people don't like the bedrooms right next to each other so that can be a benefit for some, I forget the name if it's called split bedrooms or something.
plus your setup may be perfect if the person wants to turn that into an in law suite for their use or to rent out if they add a bathroom.
i agree, i think families with little kids want the bedrooms to be close together. as kids get older they'd love to be a little farther from the parents. at least that's my own experience w/ my teens.


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MWSC College News – Issue 16
Read all the latest news and events happening at Mount Waverley Secondary College in this edition of MWSC college news.
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Campus Principal's Report – Junior School
Student Wellbeing Report
Head of The Arts Report
Year 11 Fancy Dress Day
Year 9 & 10 Incursion with Tayla Harris
Year 9 Explore Program
Student Activities – Junior School
Resource Centre News
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2022 Year 7 Information Evening
It was wonderful to see a large number of parents and students attend our 2022 Year 7 Virtual Information Evening on Tuesday 23 November. I spoke about what skills, attributes and strategies I would want my child to develop at school and encouraged the new Year 7 students to get involved in the many opportunities and extra curricula activities on offer at Mount Waverley Secondary College. I left the students with a quote from Dr Seuss "You're off to great places, today is your day. Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way!"
Teaching Excellence Program
Nine outstanding Victorian teachers have been chosen to lead the Teaching Excellence Program – an Australian-first professional learning program at the new Victorian Academy of Teaching and Leadership. The Teaching Excellence Program will provide advanced professional learning for highly-skilled teachers at government, Catholic, and Independent schools – working with academics, international experts and partners from across various sectors to deliver an innovative training program for Victoria's best and brightest educators.
The one-year program will support up to 500 teachers each year to advance their professional practice, with access to the best research in the science of learning and discipline-based content knowledge at academies in Melbourne, Bairnsdale, Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong, Mildura, Moe and Shepparton from the beginning of 2022.
The nine exemplary teachers were selected from around Victoria to lead eight disciplinary streams including arts, English, humanities, languages, technologies, science, mathematics and health and physical education. Each Master Teacher was selected based on being recognised as an exceptional teacher in their field, having knowledge and skills for curriculum and professional learning design and contributing to the teaching culture in their school, raising student achievement and learning confidence and participation in their learning.
The Master Teachers for each subject discipline are:
Adam Brodie-McKenzie – University High School (Humanities)
Dr Andrea Truckenbrodt – McKinnon Primary School (Languages)
Christopher Wines – Ballarat High School (Science)
Clare Mackie – Haileybury College (English)
Colin Chapman – Caroline Chisholm Catholic College (Technologies)
Hayley Dureau – Mount Waverley Secondary College (Mathematics)
Johanna Simmons – Altona P-12 College (English)
Paul Seery – Bendigo Senior Secondary College (Health and PE)
Tobias Wilkins – Box Hill High School (the Arts)
Congratulations Hayley on being seconded to this important program, we know you will do a great job!
VCAA Exams
Our Year 12 exams finished last week. Thank you to Mr Matt Cara, Senior Subschool Leader who oversaw this process along with our Chief Examiner Mr Alex Berhardt who has retired from this position after 5 years of dedicated service to our college.
Kwong Lee Dow Young Scholars Program
Over 1500 applications from Year 10 students were received for this exemplary Melbourne University program this year. Mount Waverley Secondary College had two students Alannah T and Ellen L accepted into the Successful Class of 2023 Kwong Lee Dow Young Scholars. Thank you to Ms Hayley Dureau for supporting our students with their applications.
Australian Schools' Rugby Union
Congratulations to Blair P of Year 11 who has been selected in the 2021 Australian Schoolboys President's Team and was presented with his team jersey recently. Since 1969 the Australian Schools' Rugby Union has selected Australian Schoolboy teams to play other nations both in Australia and overseas. The title of Australian Schoolboy is synonymous with players of high rugby skills and outstanding personal character.
Victorian Young Leaders: Global Youth Forum 2021
Thank you to Mrs Meagan Merlino and Ms Sarah Smith for supporting a group of Year 9 students in the DET Global Youth Forum over the past few weeks. The students engaged enthusiastically throughout the duration of the program, shared their stories, and articulate their thoughts, feelings, and experiences on wide-ranging and complex topics, including globalisation, global citizenship, identity, purpose, student voice, and leadership.
Our students demonstrated empathetic and active listening and displayed an eagerness to collaborate with students across Victoria, Indonesia, China, Vietnam, and Japan. They engaged in deep learning about globalisation and global citizenship and have practiced global competencies such as intercultural awareness and communication, leadership, critical and creative thinking, and ethical capabilities. Well done to all involved!
Virtual Arts Festival
Our 2021 Virtual Arts Festival opened last night and the quality of our students' art work at our college continues to amaze me.
Special thanks to Mrs Cecilia Carlill for creating the website and Ms Jane Carter, Head of The Arts for overseeing this important event. Thank you to all of our talented Arts students and staff who were involved in this fantastic display of work.
As Year 12 results are not released until Thursday 16 December this year, our 2021 Presentation Night will be postponed until Term 1 2022 to enable us to recognise our Year 12 award winners and College Dux. Further details regarding this event will be released at the start of next year.
Mrs Karen Wade
College Principal
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As the end of term four rapidly closes in, I want to take a moment to reflect on how proud and fortunate I am to work alongside all of the staff and students at the Junior Campus of Mount Waverley Secondary College. The way every member of our community has approached this year is nothing short of extraordinary. Staff and students have time and time again reflected our college values of Integrity, Learning, Excellence, Accountability, Respect, and Nurturing in everything that they do. It has been especially pleasing to see how many staff members have been nominating students for our College Values through Compass.
So many parents have been thrilled to read messages such as the following:
Learning: Caeden has been doing excellent in remote learning Mathematics, he is up to date on all his tasks and even made the effort to do some extra without being asked. It is really wonderful to see his dedication to learning!
Excellence: Riley made an insightful contribution to discussions in class today about Edward Scissorhands – he had really thought about symbolism and meaning in the film. Well done!
Accountability: Stefanie, thank-you for your friendly and cheerful participation in today's class. Your willingness to speak up and be involved was most appreciated! Danke!
Respect: James always speaks so respectfully with, and around, his peers. He handles difficult situations calmly and expresses his feelings very eloquently.
Nurturing: Jimmy has consistently offered his help to his fellow classmates who needed help in completing their tasks for the Humanities CAT. He has shown maturity and kindness that demonstrates a real commitment to upholding college values. Well done!
Well done to all of the above students, and dozens more who have been recognised this term.
Good luck to year 7s with their move into year 8 during ECP, and a big farewell to our year 8s who will next week be joining the Senior Campus as year 9s!
Mr Matt Sheehan
Campus Principal – Junior School
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As we move through November and into December the Middle School students in Year 10 have been busy with exams which will continue next week. Our Year 9 group have been engaged in the Explore program this week and will undertake exams in the coming week. Following the exam period students will be busy in classrooms starting their 2022 courses as part of the college's Early Commence Program. This program is designed to give students a head start on their learning for 2022.
The much anticipated Explore Program happened this week, which was fantastic to see. Students in Year 9 spent two days exploring the city as part of the Explore program, which included a scavenger hunt, a tour of the city's laneways and a session on Homelessness run by the Salvation Army. Teachers have commented on how well our students engaged with all of the activities on offer. Thanks must go Meagan Merlino for her leadership of this program, thanks also to Wayne Griffin and Sarah Smith for their work helping to make it run smoothly.
STEAM Centre
The tendering process for our new STEAM Centre has closed. The process of tender selection is well underway and we hope to announce the successful builder prior to Christmas. We have been working closely with partners including our architects BKK, Project Managers – Johnstaff and the Victorian Schools Building Authority.
Mr Ian MacLeod
Campus Principal – Middle School
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Exams on the Senior Campus
This week the senior campus has been a very busy place. Students in Years 10 and 11 have been completing exams and teachers have been marking them and writing reports. Year 9 exams will run next week.
The VCAA exams have also been running and finished last week. Thanks to all the subschool teams, exam supervisors, support staff and teachers who have been involved in all of the exams. It is always a huge undertaking made even more complex with the processes put in place due to COVID19 measures to keep students and staff safe.
Year 11 and Year 12 Formal
With the easing of some restrictions and a change in the health advice, the Year 11 and 12 Formals are able to take place. Thanks for the subschool and Education Support Staff and Business Managers who have worked to get these events going. Parents and students need to take note of the payment deadlines and health requirements of the venues.
Early Commencement Program
Students in Years 7 to 11 start their 2022 classes in the week beginning 6 December. This program provides an opportunity for students to meet their teachers, start work for next year and, in the case of the Year 8 students, get used to the senior campus. All year levels participated in a range of programs as well as classes. A special thank you to the staff and in particular the subschool team, faculty heads and Mr Scott Smith (timetable) for all of their hard work.
Staff Expertise
A number of our teachers have been involved in assessing the written and performance exams for VCAA during term four. This work is important and it is a recognition of the expertise and experience of the teachers at the college. Staff have also been involved in subject association conferences and some have presented sessions for their peers.
VCE Students – 2022 Central Australia Trip
The college will be offering the Central Australia trip to students in Years 11 & 12 (2022). The trip is planned for the end of term three and the first week of the break. More information will be available and an information evening will run in term one 2022.
Semester Two Reports
Teachers have been completing reports and feedback for their students. Year 7 to Year 11 students and parents/carers will receive an end of semester report via Compass on the Tuesday 14 December. The reports are a culmination of the written feedback from their teachers with additional information on work behaviours and, for Year 7 to 10 students, Victorian Curriculum levels.
Mrs Julie Cain
Campus Principal – Senior School
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On Thursday 25 November, our two Mental Health Practitioners, Phoebe and Aisha presented our first wellbeing at home- parent webinar on family inclusive approaches of supporting good mental health at home. They covered what good mental health looks like, how good mental health promotion can affect other aspects of our lives, how to encourage open communication about mental health concerns as well as exploring other strategies and self care methods that can be achieved together as a family. The webinar was recorded and will be available soon to watch.
We are currently busy in the wellbeing team with supporting students in their transition, especially those transitioning from year 8 to 9. We have just finished a podcast episode where we interviewed a year 10 student who shared her story on change and moving from junior campus to senior campus. This will be available on spotify and apple itunes next week.
We are also currently putting together the Student Wellbeing Program for 2022. We have some exciting guest presenters and workshops being run which we will advertise in the new year.
November/December's Student Wellbeing bulletin will be out next week.
Mr Paul Graham
Manager of Student Wellbeing
PreviousCampus Principal's Report – Senior SchoolNext Head of The Arts Report
2021 what a year. Every year typically has a few defining moments but the past 12 months has contained so many world changing developments that it is hard not to be overwhelmed by the immense disruption to our lives.
This year as Arts teachers we have had to rapidly shift our perspectives and take up the challenges of teaching Arts Subjects online. For many of us, the task seemed insurmountable – we rely so heavily on collaborative work, problem solving, audience feedback and connection that only fact to face communication can offer. we as Arts teachers had to find other ways to teach, we have had to stretch and adapt our pedagogy to the online space. At the beginning of this year I didn't know what flipgrid was, poll everywhere of canva?…I do now!
This year despite the challenges, the majority of our Arts students have done really well, working with the students in the virtual work our teachers have still been able to foster their creativity and their independence in developing their own style and sophisticated techniques.
I would like to thank the immense ingenuity, flexibility and resolve shown by our Arts teachers. Moreover, I would like to thank the many Arts students for their resilience, their optimism and courage to create such brave and arresting art works in such a challenging time. Well done.
I would like to thank Ms Cecilia Carlill who again spearheaded the Virtual Art Festival and whose tireless work has created this wonderful virtual space for us all to experience.
Enjoy the 2021 Virtual Arts Festival. Available on the College Intranet. Please ask your children to show you the site.
Ms Jane Carter
Head of The Arts
PreviousStudent Wellbeing ReportNext Music Director's Report
It has been wonderful to see students back on site and once again in music lessons. The commitment and flexibility of these students moving from remote to in person lessons should be commended. The music faculty has exciting plans moving forward into 2022. We have begun to plan for ensembles, performances, production and ensembles. We are searching for our 2022 Jazz and Senior Stage Band positions with a full bill of auditions taking place over the next week. Congratulations to those students who have been chosen by the music staff to partake in an audition, and good luck to all.
Remote Gala Concerts
As we have been limited in running live concerts, we are having a series of remote Gala Concerts via Youtube Premiere. These concerts feature students Year 7-12 playing a wide variety of instruments and genres. Each concert is approximately 30 minutes in length. Please come along and celebrate our music program at the college.
NB: Youtube Links will be sent out closer to the event via Compass
Upcoming Music Events for 2022
MWSC Jazz Night
Jazz Camp
MWSC All State Jazz Championships
Generations in Jazz
Unit 10, 11, 12 Recitals
Victorian Schools Music Festival
South Street Eisteddfod
Music Gala Concert
Year 7 Band Program Concert
Lunchtime Concert
College Production – 'Matilda'
Mrs Tijtje Keatley
PreviousHead of The Arts ReportNext Year 11 Fancy Dress Day
Last Friday 19 November, the year 11s were involved in a Fancy Dress Day, where they could come as any character from a movie, book, tv show etc! The students exceeded our expectations, and the effort that they went to in making amazing, creative and detailed costumes was incredibly impressive!
The day was very fun. Students congregated at the fishbowl during lunch where photos were taken and awards given.
The winners of the day were:
Nick T – Santa
Charlotte, Jarrah, Mia V and Bella K – Mean Girls
Megan and Eden – Mr Newport and Mr Wall
Olivia Zhu – Giorno
Tamsyn – Abby from NCIS
John K – Personified
But honestly, we wish we had more awards based on how amazing everyone looked!
Additionally, the year 11 cohort generously donated food goods which will be delivered to the Asylum Seeker Resource Center who are in need of food to provide people doing it rough. Thank you to all the families who donated, and to everyone who got involved in such a fun day!
Ms Gabrielle Phelan
Year 11 Coordinator
PreviousMusic Director's ReportNext Year 9 & 10 Incursion with Tayla Harris
On Tuesday 16 November, our Year 9 and 10 students participated in a guest speaking event, Ms Tayla Harris was invited to discuss her journey and how she found empowerment in adversity. The students may have thought they would learn about and be inspired by the many great achievements Tayla Harris has experienced and this would be a valid assumption. What they found was, Tayla is so much more than her achievements, she is strong, persistent, focused, determined and courageous.
Tayla presented to the students through a question and answer session and met with the middle school leadership group, her final words of advice were, "invest in your friends and support network, invest in your people".
Ms Jo Hall
Careers Education Manager
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It was with great excitement that 250 students and 50 staff members travelled into the city for 2 days of Exploring our beautiful city, Melbourne. On both days, we were lucky enough to experience glorious sunshine and warmth, which made the experience that much more pleasant. The city was very quiet on both mornings but became more like the bustling city centre that we are familiar with as the day wore on. Students were clearly excited to be leaving the school grounds and to be in a different environment with their friends alongside.
The program for the 2 days alternated between two itineraries. On one day, students experienced the Graffiti tour – probably better described as the Street Art tour – which we found out is the most popular tourist attraction in Australia in non-Covid times. Students then spent the remainder of the day finding popular landmarks and making their way accurately around the city to solve Scavenger Hunt clues. The alternate itinerary included a Salvation Army Homelessness Tour, which outlined the reasons people become homeless, the information about people who predominantly make up the homelessness cohort and what constitutes homelessness. Students were urged to consider how the challenge of homelessness can be prevented. Finally, students were provided with questions to answer in a Culture discovery of the Greek precinct and Chinatown.
It was clear by the end of each day that the full day of collaborating, wayfinding and stimulation had taken its toll on students, as they looked extremely tired and happy to sit down in the Treasury Gardens prior to boarding the bus. It was very enjoyable to watch students take control of their navigation around the city, work together to achieve group outcomes and successfully meet in order to come home at the end of the day!
Thank you to the coordinators Mr Wayne Griffin, Ms Sarah Smith and the many staff who dedicated the day to supervising and checking in with our students. Thank you to the students who behaved responsibly throughout, we hope that you learned plenty and enjoyed the 2 days. Thank you to the parents for supporting the changed departure and return times.
Ms Meagan Merlino
Middle School Leader
PreviousYear 9 & 10 Incursion with Tayla HarrisNext Student Activities – Junior School
St Vincent's Appeal – Tinnies for Vinnies
Mount Waverley Students on the Junior Campus have been collecting donations for the St Vincent's Appeal. The hampers are put together for families in need to help them celebrate over the festive season. We've had lots of contributions of non-perishable foods including tinned items, rice, cereal and chips. To help the families celebrate with a Christmas meal we'd love some donations of pastas, packaged puddings, Christmas biscuits and anything else families are happy to donate.
We are collecting items until Wednesday 1 December, in a Home Group competition. Students are to bring donated items to their Home Group for it to be recorded and then added to our collection! Thank you for your generosity!
Ms Grace Leszczynski
Student Activities – Junior Campus
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MWSC Bookplate Design Awards
The talented Year 11 Visual Communication students were given a design brief by the Library staff, to create a bookplate for Mount Waverley Secondary College. Bookplates have been used for centuries to symbolically convey meaning and ownership; they provide provenance and as such add value to the book being awarded or donated.
Initially it was envisaged that one design would be selected, but it soon became apparent there were too many exceptional works to choose from. These four winning designs were shortlisted and then went through a popular vote by staff. They not only met the design brief but speak volumes of the wealth of talent at our College. They will be used in books that are awarded as student prizes and books that are donated to the College Library.
Our immense thanks to Ms Cecilia Carlill for agreeing to undertake and guide her classes through this project. Without her it simply would not have come to fruition.
Johana W (11L)
Patrick O (11D)
Venice C (11D)
Hanh L (11M)
Ms Andrea Daniels
Library Technician – Senior Campus
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Submission Tuesday of a report on the prevention of farmer suicides
MP Olivier Damaisin is interested in the fate of farmers – Jacques Witt / Sipa / SIPA
LREM deputy for Lot-et-Garonne Olivier Damaisin must submit to the Prime Minister on Tuesday a report presenting avenues to support farmers in difficulty more early and to try to stop the suicides which regularly mourn the profession.
The elected official was entrusted with this mission by the government during the agricultural fair in February. He initially had six months to submit his report, but the schedule was jostled by the health crisis. "There are small solutions that I will propose that can save lives," said Olivier Damaisin, ahead of the presentation of his work to Jean Castex.
372 farmer suicides in 2015
These measures will not necessarily require going through legislation, with a view to "being able to act quickly to reduce the number of suicides," he said. A "statistical excess mortality by suicide for farmers, compared to the general population, was highlighted", recalled in June the national suicide observatory. This excess mortality is "particularly marked among cattle breeders (milk and meat) aged 45 to 54".
In 2015 alone, 372 suicides of farmers had been recorded, or more than one per day, according to the most recent statistics from the agricultural social security, the MSA. The deputy, who regrets the lack of updated data, underlines that this number is deemed to be below reality, deaths being likely to be counted as accidents at work, for example.
A film as a revelation
If the situation is gloomy, Olivier Damaisin wants to believe that a "taboo" has been broken since the release in September 2019 of the film "In the name of the earth", which was a great success in France, with two million admissions. in theaters, especially in regions.
Based on the story of director Edouard Bergeon's father, Guillaume Canet plays a poultry farmer caught in the spiral of over-indebtedness, which sinks into depression. Until then, the issue of peasant ill-being remained globally "sealed", of the order of "unspoken rather than denial", considers Olivier Damaisin.
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Q: Dependent Product Variations in Woocommerce I am implementing dependent product variations in woocommerce. The problem is that the product has to sizes it is available in Large and Small. The Large size has colors available but the small size of product has a transparent look.
I have added two attributes to the product Size and Color. Now what i want to happen is that when the user selects Large size colors should show up but if he chooses small size the color options select should go blank.
Is there any other way then using a no color options in colors select for Small size?

A: Basically you just need to remove the "small" variations with color.

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*Make sure your color options are ordered after your size options in the attributes section of the product. Make sure you save.

*In your color options group create a transparent color.

*Remove all variations that include Small and a color except for small and transparent

*If a user chooses small, then they will only have an option for transparent

I just did the exact same thing on a site.


The teaching of digital literacies is regarded as an important facet of literacy teaching in the 21st century. With many literacy tests continuing to indicate that students' levels of achievement tend to be differentiated along socioeconomic lines, it seems timely to consider the connections between home and school and how these play out in relation to digital literacies. This is particularly important in light of the considerable evidence that has demonstrated how important home-school connections are in ensuring improved traditional literacy outcomes for students from low socioeconomic backgrounds. With these points in mind, this article reports on an investigation into the usage of digital technologies in two middle years classrooms in low socioeconomic suburbs in a regional Australian city. Using a range of ethnographic techniques, the study explored two teachers' approaches to teaching students how to use digital technologies in one school term. Through snapshots of digital practices in the two classrooms, three issues are considered: teachers' pedagogical approaches; students' access to digital technologies at home and at school; and the teachers' recognition of students' prior knowledge of digital technologies. The article concludes by reflecting on the need for teachers to draw on the digital literacies that students are using in their out-of-school lives, to make bridges to school learning and thus address the challenge of preparing students to be literate in the 21st Century.
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"Still Life" in this tree.
This tree had no insides, yet continued to bear abundant fruit!
Phillips Hill Winery is situated on an old Apple and Pear Farm.
Old Apple Drying Barn at Phillips Hill Winery–converted to be their new tasting room.
Aroma Exhibit provided several of these glass domes to sample the different aromas offered in wine varieties.
Out door tasting room is right where all the apple drying process took place a hundred years ago. Notice the fruit bins in the background.
Drying racks (now used to display wine) concealed behind these wooden doors.
Barn wood is believed to be over 800 years old.
Beautiful picnic area under an enormous weeping willow.
One of the many areas to enjoy the fruit of the vine.
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2017-18 A-League Round 7 Betting Multi
November 17, 2017 by Sports Betting Tips Posted in Soccer Tips
Week 6 of the Hyundai A-League consisted of plenty of exciting games and even more upsets. Here, we'll be looking ahead to the upcoming matches and presenting our A-League Multi of the Round for Week 7.
The first leg of our multi is Melbourne City to defeat Brisbane Roar at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane (7:50pm AEST). Melbourne City come into this match in second place with a record of 4-1-1 and coming off a 1-1 draw at home to WSW. Brisbane Roar hold a 0-3-3 record and currently sit in last place, with their latest outing being a 1-1 draw away to Melbourne Victory. City are clearly in better form than roar and still have some value due to this being an away game. We think Melbourne City will get the job done here.
Leg two of our multi is Western Sydney Wanderers to defeat Wellington Phoenix at Spotless Stadium in Sydney (5:35pm AEST). WSW are currently in 4th position in the standings with a 1-5-0 record, making them and the Jets the only sides who are undefeated after 6 games. Wellington Phoenix got their first win of the season last weekend, downing Perth Glory 5-2 and moving them up to 7th place in the standings with a 1-2-3 record. WSW have been unlucky not to have claimed a few more wins in their opening games and should be too good for Wellington in this one.
The third leg of our multi is Sydney FC to defeat Newcastle Jets at Sydney Football Stadium (7:50pm AEST). Sydney FC suffered their first loss of the season in Week 6, going down 2-0 to CCM and taking them to 3rd place and 4-1-1 for the season. The Newcastle Jets claimed a 2-1 win against Adelaide in their last game, taking them to the top of the table with a 4-2-0 record. Although the Jets are undefeated and on top, we feel that the reigning champions Sydney FC will see this as an opportunity to remind the league that they're still the top dog, by winning this one in a dominant performance.
The final leg of our multi is Melbourne Victory to defeat Perth Glory at NIB Stadium in Perth (7:00pm AEST). Melbourne Victory were unable to make their dominance show on the scoreboard last weekend as they drew 1-1 with Brisbane at home. This makes it 4 draws in a row for Victory and leaves them in 9th place with a 0-4-2 record. Perth Glory were smashed 5-2 by Wellington last week, moving them down to 5th place in the standings at 2-1-3. Although Melbourne Victory are still winless, they have been dominating possession in their last few matches and we think this will be the week they make it count.
A-League Week 7 Multi
Melbourne City to defeat Brisbane Roar – $2.25
Western Sydney Wanderers to defeat Wellington Phoenix – $1.59
Sydney FC to defeat Newcastle Jets – $1.57
Melbourne Victory to defeat Perth Glory – $2.68
Combined Price: $15.05
Return on $50: $752.63
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Q: Dataset with 10% missing without either using a multiple imputation technique or removing the samples. How would I address the missingness? I have a dataset comprising of 10% missing fraction where missingness can be predicted from the data which I believe is Missing Not At Random. How would I address the missingness of a dataset without using a multiple imputation technique or case wise deletion or removal of samples with missing?

A: Missing not at random (NMAR) has a very specific meaning in this literature: it means that the chance of being missing depends on the unobserved value of the variable itself.
Missing at random (MAR) means that the chance of being missing does not depend on the unobserved value of the variable itself, but it can depend on other observed variables.
Only Missing completely at random (MCAR) means that the chance of being missing does not depend on anyhting.
You state that your data is NMAR and that you can predict the missing values from the data. That is bold statement. I suspect that you mean that the data is MAR.

Anyhow having said that, if you don't want to do MI and don't want to remove observations, then all that is left is to use a model that includes the missing data mechanism (typically using maximum likelihood). What that model looks like depends on the exact problem. (weighting is also sometimes used, but that also removes the observations from the data, so that does not meet your criteria) You can read more in (Little & Rubin 2002)
Roderick J. A. Little and Donald B. Rubin (2002) Statistical Analysis with Missing Data, Second Edition. Wiley.


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Industrial production in Ukraine grew 1.4% in October
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News State industrial production 10 December 2021
Vadim Kolisnichenko
Production of steel and finished metal products over the month has remained at the level of the previous year
In October 2021, industrial production in Ukraine grew by 1.4% against October 2020. In September, this indicator dropped by 0.7%, according to the State Statistics Service.
In October, production of steel and finished metal products fell by 1.5%, but mining of iron ores increased by 0.2% compared to the previous month. Compared to the same month of the previous year, the output in the steel industry remained flat, while the volumes of ore mining fell by 3%.
With adjustment for the effect of calendar days, the growth in industrial production in October was more significant — 2.2%. Compared to September 2021, the non-adjusted indicator grew by 7.8%, whereas the seasonally adjusted indicator grew by 1.9%.
In January–October, industrial production in Ukraine increased by 1.4% y-o-y.
In 10M, production of steel and finished metal products increased by 5.6%, and mining of iron ores by 3.8%, y-o-y.
In 2020, industrial production in Ukraine declined by 5.2% against 2019. Last year, production of steel and finished metal products decreased by 9.1%, whereas mining of iron ores by 2.4%.
steel industry, State Statistics Service, industrial production
Denys Morozov
First Deputy Director General at Interpipe
Opinions Industry capital investment
Our strategy is to increase the share of high value-added products
Today, Interpipe can cope with virtually any grade of steel according to our clients' needs
Industrial production growth slowed down to 0.4% in November
Cabinet of Ministers to present Ukraine's Green Deal Strategy in February
The Cabinet of Ministers approved the corporatization of Ukroboronprom


Make it happen Stains can strike at the most inconvenient of times, so on behalf of stain removal brand, Dr. Beckmann, we went on a mission to find out if we can rely on fellow strangers to point out our unsightly mishaps.
We devised and filmed one of the boldest social experiments ever, before sharing the content via a highly targeted campaign across digital and social media.
What we did To promote Dr. Beckmann's Stain Devils range, we hired two actors (one male and one female), smeared their backsides with chocolate spread, and let them loose on the streets of Manchester's Northern Quarter to gauge the public's response.
The result? Well, boys, you're not going to like this, but the female actor was stopped and helped seven times more often than the male actor.
The two-minute, candid-camera style social experiment was written, filmed and edited by Brazen Live, Brazen's in-house content production arm, before being amplified across digital and social media channels.
The humorous etiquette test was picked up by the Daily Star Online, which featured it on its home page for a full day, while Brazen worked with a number of leading lifestyle bloggers through a targeted influencer campaign.
Over on social media, Brazen handled the paid-for support for the content, which contributed to the video racking up more than 1m views on the brand's Facebook page. The CPV (cost per view) was a miniscule £0.001 with a relevancy score of 10/10, meaning the content was being served to the right people at the right time.