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Q: Optimizing aggregate function in Oracle I have a query for pulling customer information, and I'm adding an max() function to find the most recent order date. Without the aggregate the query takes .23 seconds to run, but with it it takes 12.75 seconds.
Here's the query:
SELECT U.SEQ, MAX(O.ORDER_DATE) FROM CUST_MST U
INNER JOIN ORD_MST O ON U.SEQ = O.CUST_NUM
WHERE U.SEQ = :customerNumber
GROUP BY U.SEQ;

ORD_MST is a table with 890,000 records.
Is there a more efficient way to get this functionality?
EDIT: For the record, there's nothing specifically stopping me from running two queries and joining them in my program. I find it incredibly odd that such a simple query would take this long to run. In this case it is much cleaner/easier to let the database do the joining of information, but it's not the only way for me to get it done.
EDIT 2: As requested, here are the plans for the queries I reference in this question.
With Aggregate
Without Aggregate

A: the problem with your query is that you join both tables completely, then the max function is executed against the whole result, and at last the where statement filters your rows.
you have improve the join, by just joining the rows with the certain custid instead of the full tables, should look like this:
SELECT U.SEQ, MAX(O.ORDER_DATE) FROM
  (SELECT * FROM CUST_MST WHERE SEQ = :customerNumber )  U
INNER JOIN
  (SELECT * FROM ORD_MST WHERE CUST_NUM = :customerNumber) O ON U.SEQ = O.CUST_NUM
GROUP BY U.SEQ;

Another option is to  use an order by and filter the first rownum. its not rly the clean way. Could be faster, if not you will also need a subselect to not order the full tables. Didnt use oracle for a while but it should look something like this:
SELECT * FROM
(
 SELECT U.SEQ, O.ORDER_DATE FROM CUST_MST U
 INNER JOIN ORD_MST O ON U.SEQ = O.CUST_NUM
 WHERE U.SEQ = :customerNumber
 GROUP BY U.SEQ;
 ORDER BY O.ORDER_DATE DESC
)
WHERE ROWNUM = 1

Are you forced to use the join for some reason or why dont you select directly from ORD_MST without join?
EDIT
One more idea:
SELECT * FROM
(SELECT CUST_NUM, MAX(ORDER_DATE) FROM ORD_MST WHERE CUST_NUM = :customerNumber GROUP BY CUST_NUM) O
INNER JOIN CUST_MST U ON O.CUST_NUM = U.SEQ

if the inner select just takes one second, then the join should work instant.

A: Run this commands:
Explain plan for
SELECT U.SEQ, MAX(O.ORDER_DATE) FROM CUST_MST U
INNER JOIN ORD_MST O ON U.SEQ = O.CUST_NUM
WHERE U.SEQ = :customerNumber
GROUP BY U.SEQ;

select * from table( dbms_xplan.display );

and post results here.
Whithout knowing an execution plan we can only guess what really happens.

Btw. my feeling is that adding composite index for ORD_MST table with columns cust_num+order_date could solve the problem (assuming that SEQ is primary key for CUST_MST table and it has already an unique index). Try:
CREATE INDEX idx_name ON ORD_MST( cust_num, order_date );

Also, after creating the index refresh statistics with commands:
 EXEC DBMS_STATS.gather_table_stats('your-schema-name', 'CUST_MST');
 EXEC DBMS_STATS.gather_table_stats('your-schema-name', 'ORD_MST');

try your query.


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THE Scotland boss had already seen a number of key players pull out for this Friday's clash with Croatia, now six more have called-off with injuries.
SIX players have withdrawn from the Scotland squad to face Croatia in a World Cup qualifier on Friday.
Full-backs Lee Wallace and Danny Fox have been forced to pull out, while the defence has also been weakened by the loss of Gary Caldwell.
Celtic duo Scott Brown and James Forrest are also struggling in terms of fitness and will not make the trip to Zagreb.
Brighton midfielder Liam Bridcutt completes the call-offs ahead of the match, as the Scots seek their first win of the campaign.
Drafted into the squad are Motherwell full-back Steven Hammell and Aston Villa's Barry Bannan.
Scotland coach Stuart McCall eased fears over Grant Hanley and Gordon Greer joining the casualty list.
He said: "Grant just rolled his ankle early on in training today.
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"Gordon Greer is coming up. He has had a little bit of tonsillitis but he will join up with the squad, as will Alan Hutton tonight as he played the other night."
McCall is well aware of the size of task facing an inexperienced squad against a team sitting joint top of the group.
But he is hopeful the Scots can give a good account of themselves in Zagreb.
He added: "Everyone is looking fine and raring to go.
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It's cheaper to preserve the Amazon than we might think
The Review of Economic Studies
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By Eduardo Souza Rodrigues
"The cattle need ladders to graze here." That is what my wife's relatives used to tell her after they moved to the Amazon rainforest. She visited their farm when she was 13, and the planted grass was taller than she was. Grass grows tall there because of the substantial amount of nutrients left on the ground immediately after deforesting. A few years after clearing the land, though, most nutrients were gone and the grass became thin. That is hardly surprising as the Amazon soil is known to be among the poorest on the planet. By that point, as the locals say, the cattle would need to bend their knees to graze.
Despite the poor soil, the accumulated deforested area in the Brazilian Amazon since 1988 comprises an area larger than California. About two-thirds of that area is used for extensive pasture (the most common land use there). Extensive farming is to be expected in places where land is abundant and of poor quality.
The high deforestation rates have been a source of international concern for at least the past 30 years – and especially in the last two years. There has been many discussions among academics, policy makers, and in society in general, about different ways to curb the deforestation process. Examples of such policies include pre-established limits to deforestation in public and private lands, and the so-called "incentive-based" policies, which – as the name suggests – provide incentives for farmers to not deforest, such as taxing agricultural land or subsidizing forested areas. While all these policies can be effective in preserving forests if properly implemented, monitored, and enforced, their economic costs are not the same. Reducing the costs of policies is an important goal by itself, as it eliminates wasteful expenditures, and it can help avoid political strife. The greater the costs, the less likely are farmers to abide by the rules.
Key to reducing economic costs of environmental policies is to note that, although the soils are generally poor in the Amazon, they are not equally poor. Nor are farmers' resources or entrepreneurial abilities. Differences in farms' profitability means that some farmers need to forgo substantial profits to preserve the land, while others lose much less. A cost-effective policy minimizes farmers' losses by avoiding unnecessary sacrifices. In order to preserve a certain amount of forested area, a cost-effective policy induces farmers who lose less from preservation to preserve larger areas, while inducing farmers who lose more from preservation to sacrifice smaller agricultural areas.
Some environmental policies are considerably more expensive than others. Currently, the Brazilian Forest Code requires that each farm in the Amazon must keep 80% of its area in natural vegetation. There is ample evidence that this rule has not been fully enforced: Forest coverage on private properties there has been approximately 40%. Farmers would lose about US$ 4 billion per year in forgone profits if the legislation were perfectly enforced. Not surprisingly, farmers have tried, systematically, to alter the Forest Code since it was implemented; the senator Flavio Bolsonaro (one of the president's sons) had even proposed recently to eliminate the 80% rule completely.
In contrast, taxing agricultural land in a way that preserves 80% of forest cover in total would be approximately eight times less costly to farmers (about US$ 480 million per year of forgone profits). This corresponds to a cost saving from the land-use tax of approximately 90% of the cost of a perfectly enforced 80% rule. To have a sense of magnitudes, this is substantially higher than the cost saving estimates from allowance trading in pollution markets, ranging from 20 to 47% of the cost of standard quantitative limits to pollution emissions. Taxing agricultural land puts in place a price for everyone that considers that activity. In this way, the less productive farmers would find it profitable to use less land for agriculture, while the more productive farmers would still use more land and forgo fewer profits. (As a by-product, noting that the most productive farms are located in the south Amazon, toward the edge of the rainforest, forests in the central regions would be more preserved and less fragmented, which is advantageous from a biodiversity point of view.) The 80% rule disregards differences in profitability and so penalizes the more productive farms disproportionally, raising the total costs of the policy (and allowing for more forest fragmentation).
Instead of taxing agriculture, we could subsidize farmers to keep their forested areas. The total economic costs of payments would be similar to taxing, as it similarly puts a price on land use, but with the difference that farmers would not bear the burden of preservation – those who pay to preserve (and presumably benefit from) the forests would bear the conservation costs, which may sound fair. It could be politically difficult to do so in practice, either by taxing Brazilian families and business or by obtaining resources from foreign sources. Still, the benefits could be enormous. If we paid farmers to preserve the land based on the amount of carbon on the ground, a payment as small as US$10 per ton of CO2 per year could virtually eliminate all agricultural land in the Amazon. That is because of the overall low agricultural returns and the large stock of carbon on the ground there.
Evidently, no policy can be successful without efficient monitoring and enforcement systems, which in turn depend on political will – a by-no-means small issue, as we have been experiencing during the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro. Yet Brazil has a well-established, almost real-time, satellite-based monitoring system that have proved to work in deterring deforestation. Also, the country has been in the process of geo-referencing all rural properties, including the location of the required preservation areas within farms. Further, the Forest Code permits farmers who use more agricultural land than allowed by the 80% rule to buy quotas from farms that use less land than required – this effectively allows for a trading quotas market to emerge, which, like taxing or payments, is another "incentive-based" tool that puts a price on land use, and so can be a cost-effective policy.
In sum, despite the current increases in deforestation rates, all these recent advances point to a state with an increased capacity to implement preservation policies with small (or at least as small as possible) economic costs. Hopefully, cattle won't need to be climbing ladders nor bending their knees, and perhaps not even travelling to the Amazon, to graze in the future.
Featured image credit: Rio Teles Pires by Frederico Oliveira. Photo owned by the author.
Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues is an economist interested in the causes of deforestation in the Amazon and in the costs and effectiveness of policies that promote conservation. He is currently an associate professor of the department of economics at the University of Toronto. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Yale University in 2012, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment in 2012-2013.
He is the author of the paper "Deforestation in the Amazon: A Unified Framework for Estimation and Policy Analysis," published in The Review of Economic Studies.
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Top 5 reasons to be excited for the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845
With the Snapdragon 845, Qualcomm turns many small steps into one giant leap.
When you're hanging out with other people as obsessed with the intricacies of technology as oneself, competitors and friends alike become sounding boards for whether you're on the right track with an idea.
One of the ideas I've been noodling with recently is the subtle way Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 — its flagship platform that debuted in late 2016 and came to devices in the spring of this year — upended the battery conversation in smartphones. Every year before this one I'd read about how, unless a phone had a massive battery, uptime was disappointing. No one really needs a phone to last a weekend, but there should be no anxiety about having to top up during the day. For the most part, barring a few outliers, phones running Snapdragon 835 delivered on that promise.
Like gas in a car, you only start to notice battery life when it begins to run out; as long as you stay within a certain (self-imposed) comfort level — and as long as you don't approach zero — your phone continues to work, and life goes on. I have a Pixel 2 sitting next to me at 55%; it's been off the charger since 6 a.m. and now it's closing in on 3:30 p.m. I won't have to charge it until I go to sleep, of that I am sure. It's a comfort thing.
Similarly, much ado (and rightfully so) has been made about improvements to camera quality in 2017, from devices like the Galaxy S8 and LG V30 to the champion, the Pixel 2. (Of course a Snapdragon 835 doesn't guarantee a great camera — see Essential Phone.) Then there's the gigabit movement, which pushed carriers and manufacturers to take more care about freeing up much-needed spectrum to make all LTE networks more efficient. I could go on.
This brings me to the Snapdragon 845. On the surface, it doesn't appear to move the needle much in terms of whiz-bang, marketable upgrades. It's faster and more efficient, sure, but the same line is trotted out year after year. What makes the Snapdragon 845 really interesting is how the minor individual improvements add up to something substantial.
It really is faster
Just because the chip is built on the same 10nm Samsung FinFET manufacturing process as the Snapdragon 835 doesn't mean the sequel can't be significantly faster. Back when the Snapdragon 835 was in development, Samsung Foundry's 10nm process was fairly young, so companies like Qualcomm couldn't necessarily push them to their full potential. A year later, that's changed with the Snapdragon 845.
'Seems faster' is an annual game we play with our flagships, but the Snapdragon 845 gives us reason to hope.
Not only is the new Kryo 385 CPU built on the newer Cortex-A75 and Cortex-A55 cores (for power and efficiency, respectively), but the designs are brand new, allowing Qualcomm to push clock speeds to 2.8GHz and 1.8GHz. That should turn into meaningful improvements in single-core and multi-core benchmarks, sure, but real-world applications will also feel the upgrades. Qualcomm also sought to minimize power usage by adding two megabytes of L3 cache, which should prevent the chip from having to dig into RAM as often to recall oft-repeated processes, reducing battery usage significantly.
Similarly, the Adreno 630 GPU is promising a 30% improvement in both performance and efficiency. Given that almost every app loaded onto a phone these days is graphically-accelerated, that should bode well for battery junkies and game enthusiasts alike.
The takeaway: The Snapdragon 845 isn't reinventing the performance wheel, and it's certainly not going to compete with Apple's A11 in single-core performance, but Android users will have nothing to complain about come 2018.
There are meaningful improvements to the camera
These days, it's not enough for a phone to have the best sensor or sharpest lens. They're physically limited by their size, so software — and the silicon pipes that software passes through — have to pick up the slack. A phone like the Pixel 2 has decent hardware credentials, but Google performs a bunch of its own magic behind the scenes.
Qualcomm has a part to play in that process, too: every photo captured on a Snapdragon-powered phone runs through the Hexagon DSP and Spectra ISP. And while running a Snapdragon chip doesn't guarantee great photos (see the Essential Phone, for instance) it does offer a turnkey solution to manufacturers that are willing to put in the effort to build on an already-strong base.
The Snapdragon 845 provides an even stronger base for manufacturers. Yes, being able to capture photos in 10-bit color with a Rec. 2020 gamut is impressive, but there's no real-world advantage to that just yet. What's more impressive to me is how the new Spectra 280 ISP facilitates 60fps photo capture at up to 16MP, and uses on-device programming to interpret the photos and bring out their best qualities. The only reason phone cameras are able to get photos as good as they do on such tiny sensors and stubby lenses is through intelligent pipelines that provide APIs the right tools to work. Google has the best APIs (with Samsung, Huawei and LG not far behind) but I'm excited to see how 2018 flagships will use with war chest of tools.
For instance, Apple continues to own Android phones when it comes to slow motion — 1080p at 240fps is still unreachable anywhere in the Android ecosystem — but the Snapdragon 845 gets phone makers closer. They'll be able to get 480fps slow motion at 720p with HDR detail, which is pretty great (though 1080p slo-mo is still capped at 120fps for some reason). Better yet, Android flagships will be able to draw in 4K video at 60fps next year, which gives videomakers so much more to work with. Imagine an LG V40 with all of the V30's video capabilities with the option to get 60fps 4K video. Amazing.
The takeaway: Cameras will only get better in 2018, and videographers are in for more than one treat.
Cellular speed and flexibility
This year, 2017, has all been about gigabit speeds. Next year, that's not going to change much with the Snapdragon 845. Yes, theoretical maximum speeds will increase to 1.2Gbps, a 20% increase over the 835, but what's more important, and impressive, is the availability of gigabit to additional carriers.
You'll probably never reach gigabit speeds outside of a lab, but the Snapdragon 845 makes it more likely you'll get closer more often.
This comes in the form of alternative combinations of bands to achieve those speeds; with the Snapdragon 835, carriers were limited to just two combinations; on the Snapdragon 845, that numbers swells to eight. Why does this matter? Because in the real world, carriers can't just switch up or acquire new spectrum to cater to the limitations of a modem; they have made investments in spectrum and equipment and will wait until the phones support the technology combinations in which they've invested.
According to Qualcomm, over 90% of the world's carriers now have the capability to offer gigabit speeds with just 10Mhz of licensed spectrum thanks to the growing support of unlicensed spectrum. Qualcomm's LAA (License Assisted Access) solution lets carriers glob onto existing 5GHz airwaves — the same spectrum used by Wi-Fi routers — to offer additional capacity in areas that need it, like dense urban environments. The beauty of LAA is that these small cell sites — boxes deployed in large cities to add much-needed relief to low- and mid-range spectrum — can be reused in 2019 and beyond for 5G.
The takeaway: Chances are, your carrier is going to be able to offer gigabit LTE sooner than later.
Making biometrics suck less
Android phones have a mishmash of unlocking methods, from front and rear (and side) fingerprint sensors to iris scanning, face unlock, and more. Companies, including Qualcomm, have been promising alternatives for years, including under-the-glass finger identification that has eluded even the Apples and Samsungs of the world, but the Snapdragon 845 is more realistic than that: it merely wants to make biometrics suck less.
Get ready for iris scanning that's fast and reliable in 2018.
Specifically, it's making the data less vulnerable to attacks, putting it in what's called the Secure Processing Unit. This is a separate core from the rest of the SoC, with its own power and runtime components, and will store both biometric data and key data components like payment credentials, passwords and personal identification cards.
But the Snapdragon 845 goes well beyond that: Qualcomm recognizes that, despite Samsung being the only big name in the Android space to currently use iris scanning, the technology is poised to expand big-time. And with it, the speed and reliability of what is arguably the best alternative to fingerprint biometrics is going to increase many times over. We've already seen speed improve considerably on devices like the OnePlus 5T, but that particular solution makes no claims to security itself, just convenience. With the Snapdragon 845, companies can build unlocking solutions that cater to both.
The takeaway: More secure, faster biometrics? That's good for everyone.
Totally wireless headphones that last
This one hits close to home. With the Snapdragon 845, Qualcomm is adding a piece to the Bluetooth 5 stack that allows certain music apps to communicate with totally wireless headphones independently, as opposed to relying on a "master" to communicate in real-time with its counterpart. This promises to not only cut down on battery usage but potentially eliminate the common issue where one earbud loses sync with its twin.
Qualcomm says that users can expect up to 50% improved battery life from these kinds of increasingly-popular headphones — without having to actually buy new ones. Pretty great if you ask me.
The takeaway: 🎧🔋🎉
What are you most excited about with the Snapdragon 845? Let us know in the comments!
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When it comes to home decorating, my pet peeve is using text as art, sure, it was fine 15 years ago in a restaurant or bar and today singular words in an ad is better than a sentence because no one actually reads ( so why am I writing this I ask myself), It is just that it is so banal.
I hate seeing words like EAT, RELAX and LOVE everywhere. It is now so infuriating that I can't get my scrabble pieces out and spell Happy Birthday on the dining room table anymore, as I did when the children were young.


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Mom pays $600 to see video of daughter bullied on bus
by: Melissa Alonso, CNN
(CNN) — A Dallas mother was told by her child's school district that it would cost her $600 to see a video that showed what happened to her 5-year-old daughter on a small school bus in November.
Audrey Billings did so, and what she saw left her crushed.
"I was devastated, I cried," Billings told CNN on Thursday.
The video of the November 11 incident shows the 5-year-old getting pushed, pulled, poked with a pencil and grabbed around the head by at least two students on the bus over a period of nearly 14 minutes. The 5-year-old is also shown trying to fight back against the other students.
She calls out to the bus driver several times during the assault and starts crying as she continues to get hit. The bus driver does not respond on the video, which does not show the entire bus ride.
It is not clear from the video what prompted the children's actions or physical contact.
Billings, who first saw the video Saturday, told CNN she wants a major change to the Dallas Independent School District's bullying policy and its procedures for handling bullying incidents.
Dallas ISD spokeswoman Robyn L. Harris said "students were disciplined according to the Student Code of Conduct."
"Dallas ISD has taken steps to improve our transportation services to further ensure the safety of students. The district has provided additional training and monitoring. We are dedicated to ensuring a safe environment for all students and remain committed to meeting the expectations of our parents and community." Harris said in a statement.
Harris said the bus driver was immediately removed from the route.
Billings said she reached out to the school district after her daughter said students were hurting her. Billings said she spoke to the principal and was initially only given the "play by play" of what occurred.
When she asked to be sent videos for multiple days she was told she would need to pay $600 to have each one redacted, Billings said.
Billings said she reluctantly paid for the one she viewed.
Her daughter no longer rides the bus, Billings said.
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On Saturday at NRG Stadium, the Houston Texans will do their best to try and bring a small amount of peace to some of the drama lifelong Houston Oilers fans have had to endure since the 1993 NFL Wildcard Playoff weekend. Most of them can tell you where they were and exactly what they were doing on January 3, 1993.
"We had been keeping up with the game at church and when the Oilers went into halftime up 28-3, we were all saying to ourselves, 'We got this,' said retired Navy Chief Paul Crampton who is a fan of the Oilers and Texans. "By the time we hopped in the church fan and turned the radio on the game the Bills were up 38-35. Jesus himself could have just taken me right then."
It has been called "The Comeback" by a lot of NFL analysts and fans who were around to witness the Buffalo Bills erased a 35-3 deficit to defeat the Houston Oilers 41-38 in the 1993 Wildcard game.
This weekend when the Texans (10-6) play the Buffalo Bills (10-6) in the first game of the 2020 NFL Playoffs, they won't focus on the past but are aware that there will be a lot of fans in attendance who still won't talk about that game to this day. They will all be rooting for Houston to exercise those demons of the past.
"I'm not going down that road. Holy smokes, that was 26 years ago," Texans head coach Bill O' Brien said to the media. The game will be played in 2020. So, we got a lot of work to do, we've got a very tough opponent coming in here that's played very well."
Houston will look to get past some of its own playoff miscues as they have come up short since 2015 with a 1-3 record over the last four playoff games. The last being a 21-7 defeat to the Colts last year at home. Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson has learned a lot since that dreadful Indianapolis loss and is better prepared and knows what to expect playing in only his second playoff game in his career.
"Every play matters," Watson said. "You don't really know it until you actually experienced that, and that's what we experienced last year."
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This weekend's game also marks the return of Texans defensive leader J.J. Watt. He had been out for a little more than two months after undergoing surgery to repair a torn pectoral muscle. His return may give the team and fans the emotional lift needed to defeat the Bills.
"I'm really excited about it," Watt said about his return. "Any time you're away from the game and you get a chance to go back into, you have so much appreciation, so much excitement for it."
Time may not heal all wounds, but a Texans victory over the Bills would be just what the Oiler/Texans fans would need to cure the hurt they endured watching the Bills celebrate one of the most impossible comebacks of all-times.
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(Re)imagining hegemonies: Policy outcomes
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Berlin, 5 September 2019: The Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute (DOC) hosted a roundtable at its headquarters in Berlin on '(Re)imagining hegemonies: Policy outcomes' within the framework of a series of events from the '(Re)constructing hegemonies' research project.
The research project is led by DOC expert, Prof. Piotr Dutkiewicz, who is a professor of Political Science and the director of the Center for Governance and Public Policy at Carleton University.
After conferences and roundtables in Warsaw, Berlin, and Shanghai held between May 2018 and April 2019, this roundtable was dedicated to the presentation of policy outcomes and results of the project. The discussion particularly focused on the global reconfiguration of power and influence. The conclusions were developed in collaboration with fifteen renowned experts from Canada, Central Asia, China, Europe, Russia, the US, and India.
Prof. Piotr Dutkiewicz gave a brief introduction, addressing the need to identify specific aspects of hegemonic power's dissemination and dominance, its strategies, and its means of construction and reinvention. This is necessary in order to understand the systemic shifts in the contemporary world order and the extent to which particular developments might result in deeper challenges for international society.
Prof. Dutkiewicz argued that structural contradictions in the global system are making world order chaotic and unpredictable. As long as they remain unresolved, they will continue to stoke systemic fear about the future, resulting in politics and policies based on fear instead of rational approaches.
Tom Casier, the director of the Global Europe Centre and a reader in International Relations at Brussels School of International Studies, highlighted the need to distinguish hegemony and power. Power relations are changing with the rise of many countries in Asia, the South, and the rise of the 'Rest' opposed to the American world order, so hegemony is no refers more to a stable hegemonic order based on material and non-material power (capabilities), ideas (including forms of trade, market, and currency systems as factors of interaction), and institutions through which these ideas are spread.
Even after a decline in power from one side, he argued, there will still be more continuity than change in the whole system, since the principles that are crucial for the international order will remain. Fear creates new levels of action and reaction in policy processes and some countries face the question of how to create small but self-led hegemonies in order to revise the system and remain competitive.
Elena Chebankova, a senior lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Lincoln, underlined the role and importance on non-material aspects in the context of power and hegemony, concluding that without an ideological paradigm no hegemony would be able to exist. With a disintegration of spiritual values and ideological beliefs, societies will erode, so there is a need to shape a global understanding of civilisational foundations in order to build up an ideologically based consensus.
Martin Geiger, associate professor of Politics of Human Migration and Mobility at Carleton University, outlined some conclusions based on the example of global migration as a powerful social process that transforms and alters the existing systematic order. In terms of politics related to migration, he underlined that the rise of actors beyond the state is increasingly shaping a system of governance with government or beyond government, in which new ideologies and new practices beyond the state are evolving.
Viktoria Akchurina, researcher at TRENDS Research & Advisory, addressed developments in Central Asia, highlighting the dynamic aspect of socio-economic development in the region and the nature of counter-hegemonic forces, where no single hegemony is expected to succeed and power can be seen as the capacity to introduce social change.
As a result of this project and its related policy outcomes, a volume will be published in early 2020.
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Pathogens, or More than Pathogens? (Taxon of the Week: Aeromonas)
Dropsy in a goldfish infected with Aeromonas hydrophila. Keepers of freshwater fish will probably be all too sadly familiar with this sight - dropsy is highly contagious, and almost impossible to eliminate once it becomes established (of course, fish not being great exhibitors of external symptoms, "once it becomes established" is roughly equivalent to "by the time you notice that something's happening"). Image from MicrobeWiki.
Yeah, it's late. Tough. What with moving house over the weekend, having learnt that I had to move on Monday (long story), I've been a little preoccupied. I rather doubt that anyone marks their calendar for these posts anywho.
Anyway, Aeromonas is a genus of rod-shaped facultatively anaerobic gamma proteobacteria that is abundant in aquatic habitats (mostly freshwater). 16S rDNA phylogenetically speaking, it belongs to a clade that also includes the Vibrionaceae, Pasteurellaceae and Enterobacteriaceae, all of them pretty economically significant families because they all contain common pathogens, and Aeromonas follows suit. Of the about fifteen species currently recognised in the genus, at least five have been implicated in human infections, while the others are known primarily as pathogens of aquatic organisms such as fish and frogs. The most common symptoms of Aeromonas infection are gastrointestinal diseases (just to make you wince, a quote from Janda & Abbott, 1998 - "Chronic diarrhea exceeding 1 year's duration due to [Aeromonas] caviae or A. hydrophila has been recorded"), but conditions such as septicaemia, wound infections or even meningitis have been caused by this genus, among others.
Human leg infected with Aeromonas hydrophila. Photo from Microbe Wiki.
So far, Aeromonas species have been almost entirely studied as pathogenic and/or animal-associated organisms. However, they have been isolated in large numbers from freshwater and brackish habitats (particularly nutrient-rich ones) (Kaper et al., 1981; Martin-Carnahan & Joseph, 2005), and, in comparison with other genera such as Streptococcus, Staphylococcus and Vibrio, appears to me to show every sign of being primarily a facultative pathogen. Infection causes a range of pathologies, with no obvious standard symptom arc*, low host specificity, and without a tight correlation between the presence of Aeromonas and whether or not a pathology develops (Aeromonas has been isolated from the gut of patients with no sign of Aeromonas-related pathologies). Compare this to an obligate pathogen such as Treponema pallidum (the cause of syphilis), which causes a more standardised range of symptoms and for which presence of the pathogen almost always leads to presence of the disease**. It is quite possible that Aeromonas' role in the environment as a pathogen is in fact only secondary to whatever else it's doing out there (my first guess would be decomposition). However, this neglect of Aeromonas' environmental ecology is hardly unusual. The truth is that our knowledge of environmental real-time ecology for all bacteria is depressingly low. Not only have pathogens received the greater share of attention, but even studies of non-pathogenic taxa have generally been conducted in highly artificial laboratory environments (for obvious reasons of practicality). Laboratory culture media, for instance, generally offer a uniform abundance of nutrients that is entirely unlike the poorer and more patchy nutrient distributions elsewhere, and it is a very open (and very difficult) question how much and in what way observations made in the laboratory environment really reflect what happens elsewhere.
*Yeah, you can tell I'm not thoroughly briefed in my medical terminology and I'm just making this up as I go along, can't you?
**Anybody out there with actual medical knowledge can feel free to rip into me if I've just made an idiot of myself.
Back to Aeromonas. While (as I said) about fifteen or so species are currently recognised, traditionally these have been divided into two groups - Aeromonas salmonicida (guess what it is known to do) vs. everything else. Aeromonas salmonicida is psychrophilic (it grows best at low temperatures, from 2 to 30°C) and nonmotile, while the other species (the 'Aeromonas hydrophila' group) are mesophilic (growing at temperatures between 10 and 42°C) and motile, usually with a single polar (at one end) flagellum but occasionally with lateral flagella. 16S rDNA phylogeny, however, shows that A. salmonicida is nested deep within the genus, and represents a derived taxon. Reflecting this position, A. salmonicida still possesses the genes for flagella production despite their inactivity. And just to really hammer the point home, an as-yet unnamed Aeromonas strain has been isolated (Martin-Carnahan & Joseph, 2005) that is mesophilic, motile, but genetically identical to A. salmonicida!
Janda, J. M., & S. L. Abbott. 1998. Evolving concepts regarding the genus Aeromonas: an expanding panorama of species, disease presentations, and unanswered questions. Clinical Infectious Diseases 27: 332-344.
Kaper, J. B., H. Lockman, R. R. Colwell & S. W. Joseph. 1981. Aeromonas hydrophila: ecology and toxigenicity of isolates from an estuary. Journal of Applied Microbiology 50 (2): 359-377.
Martin-Carnahan, A., & S. W. Joseph. 2005. Genus I. Aeromonas Stanier 1943, 213AL. In G. M. Garrity, D. J. Brenner, N. R. Krieg & J. T. Staley (eds) Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd ed., vol. 2. The Proteobacteria. Part B. The Gammaproteobacteria, pp. 557-578. Springer.
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small things considered 18 March 2009 at 06:13
Nice to see a bacterium making "Taxon of the Week." A fine write up of a somewhat neglected but very interesting pathogen. Try some more!
Dredd 18 February 2014 at 06:26
The damage done by war with the microbial world might better be done by diplomacy?.
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USS Ronald Reagan conducts integrated operations with JS Ikazuchi
20 August 2020	(Last Updated August 20th, 2020 16:37)
The US Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group has conducted integrated operations with Murasame-class destroyer JS Ikazuchi (DD 107) of Japan in the Philippine Sea.
JS Ikazuchi (DD 107) steams alongside USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Credit: US Navy / MC3 Jason Tarleton.
This move is part of the current shared commitments to achieve regional stability through cooperation.
USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) commanding officer Captain Pat Hannifin said: "The USS Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group routinely conducts operations to support our nation's commitment to regional stability and freedom of the seas.
"Seamless integration with our allies ensures a lethal and flexible global force, answering the call for prompt and sustained combat operations from the sea.
"We have utmost respect for our Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force partners and are proud to stand with them on watch in the Western Pacific."
The Ikazuchi and the Reagan Strike Group carried out integrated flight operations, high-end tactical training, maritime defence exercises, and a replenishment-at-sea.
The America Expeditionary Strike Group also joined Ikazuchi and Reagan to boost the integrated operations in a multi-domain warfighting scenario.
With these integrated engagements, regional allies will be able to build upon the current relationships and bolster the international rules-based order.
JS Izakuchi commanding officer commander Sugiyama Yasuhiro said: "The Japan-US Alliance contributes to maintaining regional peace and stability.
"The bilateral exercise such as we conducted will make our relationship stronger. We are making steady progress to realize the free and open Indo-Pacific."
This year, the integrated operations that were carried out include the USS America (LHA 6) with JS Kunisaki in January and four Destroyer Squadron 15 ships with JS Suzunami and Sawagiri in February.
The most recent integrated operations were the one with USS Mustin (DDG 89) and JS Suzutsuki, which finished on 18 August.
In May this year, USS Ronald Reagan successfully completed its maintenance availability programme.
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This Neptune, New Jersey hotel is located half a mile from the Jersey Shore Premium Outlets and 15 minutes' drive from the beach. Facilities include an indoor pool and free Wi-Fi access. A flat-screen TV is available in every guest room at the Hampton Inn Neptune. Decorated in bright colours and dark wood furnishings, each room has a desk and en suite bathroom. Select rooms have a microwave and refrigerator. Guests can relax in the hot tub after working out in the on-site fitness centre. Laundry facilities and a 24-hour reception are also provided at the Neptune Hampton Inn. A hot continental breakfast is served every morning in the hotel lobby. The hotel is half a mile off the Garden State Parkway. The Asbury Park Convention Hall is 6 miles away.
You must show a valid photo ID and credit card upon check-in. Please note that all special requests cannot be guaranteed and are subject to availability upon check-in. Additional charges may apply. Please note, only guests above 21 years are allowed to check-in to this property. Please note, a security deposit of USD 35 is required upon arrival for incidentals. This deposit is fully refundable upon check-out and subject to a damage inspection of the accommodation. Guests are required to show a photo identification and credit card upon check-in. Please note that all Special Requests are subject to availability and additional charges may apply.
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Which Web Design Trends Will have Bigger Impact in 2019?
Websites that are considered as modern and fresh today, will not be treated in the same manner tomorrow because Web design trends are changing constantly with time. Professionals associated with the industry are aware of the fact that every year brings new challenges and opportunities in the field of web design and development.
Therefore, it is important to know how to make them flexible and adaptive towards the rapidly changing trends of website design. Here, we have put together a list of web design trends that will have a bigger impact in 2019.
You are definitely not going to build your site with cards, but one of the most important things you should keep in your mind is that your site should look and act like Pinterest. The website has been developed on rectangles laid out and in a grid connected to a separate page. It is better to develop home pages that come with such cards instead of horizontally divided wide sections. Such websites help marketers in increasing user engagement.
Images play a great role in describing one's interest and objectives to others. The fresh and new images can provide a new and energetic life to your website. No matter what industry you belong to and what you are selling, you will need a refreshing and updated website to increase the traffic and conversion rate. The fresh and relevant images will definitely gain confidence among the visitors, as such practices signify that you care about your impression and brand value.
Marketers often find it difficult to take full advantage of video content. This happens because most of the marketers do not know how to integrate them into their marketing campaign. However, the task of integrating video into the marketing campaign has become easier today, as marketers can now include personalized videos for their target audiences and clients.
Such trends clearly insist that our society is ready to embrace the futuristic insignia. The icon at the top of an application or mobile site will direct users to 'click here' to open the menu. Users will be curious to know what is hanging there and that will lead them to pull up a menu with this one giant leap.
A website's form plays a great role in generating leads; thus developers and marketers should pay attention to the issue to draw more and more traffic to their site.
However, if the form is big then chances are high that the visitors will be bored and might consider leaving the page if they cannot find their fields. Getting the form within a pop-up that will emerge after clicking a CTA will be better than availing it on a separate landing page.
These web design trends will be there around 2019 and help the designers to create more attractive and engaging websites for a better response and conversion rate.
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The match of FC Eindhoven vs NEC in Holland Eerste Divisie is started at 2019-1-13 21:32. For this match, the initial Asian Handicap is FC Eindhoven0.0,+0.5; The initial Goals Odds is 3.0; The initial Corner Odds is 10. Totally, FC Eindhoven and NEC fought for 5 times before. Over Goals occurred for 3 times and Over Corners occurred for 0 times. FC Eindhoven got 3 win, 0 draw and 2 lost with 9 Goals For and 7 Goals Against.
For the last 15 matches, FC Eindhoven got 6 win, 6 lost and 3 draw with 19 Goals For and 19 Goals Against. The average of Goals For is 1.3 per match and the average of Goals Against is 1.3 per match. The rate of Over Goals is 60%; The rate of Handicap Win is 40%; The rate of win is 40%; The average of corners is 5.5 per match and the rate of Over Corners is 60%.
For the last 15 matches, NEC got 3 win, 9 lost and 3 draw with 20 Goals For and 27 Goals Against. The average of Goals For is 1.3 per match and the average of Goals Against is 1.8 per match. The rate of Over Goals is 60%; The rate of Handicap Win is 23%; The rate of win is 20%; The average of corners is 5 per match and the rate of Over Corners is 53%.
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After the success of the inaugural exhibition, Galleria Massimodeluca presents the second part of the project curated by Andrea Bruciati: NI DIEU NI MAÎTRE#2. Structured as a double group exhibition, NI DIEU NI MAÎTRE is introducing a total of 16 young Italian artists all born in the 80s: after the first part, which put on view the first 8 artists, it is now the turn of Paola Angelini, Thomas Braida, Giulia Cenci, Teresa Cos, Tomaso De Luca, Giorgio Guidi, Vito Stassi and Elisa Strinna.
The exhibition space created inside a former early twentieth-century industrial building, which has been restored with the utmost respect for the original architecture, houses works of highly differing personality and characteristics ranging from photography to sculpture, passing through performance, painting and drawing. The complete mix of media, styles and techniques typify the complexity of contemporary life, which has been investigated, re-examined and given back with no frills by the young artists who have been selected for the group exhibition. «The artists invited to take part in NI DIEU NI MAÎTRE belong to the generation born in the 80s which is living through that youthful period of transition, a complex and tough period – explains the curator Andrea Bruciati – yet harbinger of courageous experimentation and full of potential, which accepts its deep cognitive function».
«Mestre is environmentally and culturally a very difficult town, but NI DIEU NI MAÎTRE#1 has drawn a great number of visitors and there are many who have thanked us for having done something good for the town» says the art dealer Massimo De Luca, to sum up the first group exhibition. «It was, however, a deliberate choice to open in Mestre because it is here, in this virgin land, that we want to sow our seed and tackle the exhilarating challenge of promoting young artists. In fact, art should help to understand rather than just decorate the world and no-one better than the young generations can accompany us along this path».


Our family loves to watch the Amazing Race. Given our many travels together, we often think about how we would compete to cross the finish line first. And you can imagine the joy it gives me to hear my kids evaluating the CQ of the various participants based upon how they interact with the locals and describe the various stops along the way.
Many college students live out their own version of the Amazing Race by studying abroad. It's estimated that more than 1 million students study abroad annually. And the number keeps rising.
When done well, the opportunity to study or serve abroad can be life changing. One of the greatest benefits of a semester or even a few weeks overseas is the opportunity to discover one's self and gain hands-on experience learning to be effective in a different culture. But the experience by itself does not guarantee this. For many students, the time overseas ends up being little more than moving campus life from Columbus to Barcelona. One study found that on average, U.S. study abroad students spend more than four hours per night communicating with friends back home on Facebook and Skype. If not done well, international experiences like these can actually erode cultural intelligence and perpetuate ethnocentrism rather than improving CQ.
What makes the difference? Ultimately, the value of an overseas experience rests in the individual but universities and organizers can play a powerful role in shaping study abroad programs to have lasting impact.
Every trip will have participants who go for the pub-crawl or simply for a change of scenery. But the selection and preparation of facilitators and faculty is the most important thing to consider. These are the individuals who help students interpret the experience. And the ways these mentors talk about the culture and personally interact with it will be far more influential to students than any formalized cultural training you give them.
Assess students' cultural intelligence before they leave. The feedback they receive will help them focus on their CQ strengths and opportunities for improvement. In addition, just the process of answering the questions in the assessment is educational by getting students to reflect upon their intercultural perspectives and experiences.
Rather than simply relocating lectures to a different culture and time zone, take advantage of local learning opportunities. Many students won't take the initiative to get involved locally unless it's required. At the most basic level, require them to travel to various sites like museums, cultural icons, and even grocery stores and shopping centers to discover what's similar and different from home. Then assign them to set up meetings and interviews with local experts. Require a local internship related to their studies.
Living with other international students in the dorm can definitely be valuable but it's often little more than another extension of university-life back home. If at all possible, have students stay in local homes. Living and communicating with a family provides a much more visceral experience than another semester of dorm life. And lifelong friendships are often developed as well.
Drop students somewhere with a limited amount of money and require them to find their way back to your central location. You'll be amazed at how resourceful they become when they aren't simply waiting for the program facilitator to announce the next thing on the agenda. They'll overcome their fear of using the local language when it's their only means to communicate. Show them that they have more intercultural skills at their fingertips than they may think they do.
Some students experience far greater culture shock when they get home than when they go abroad. Many friends and family aren't interested in hearing much about their experience and many of the students overlook the opportunity of continued intercultural encounters with international students on campus back home. In addition, many job recruiters complain that most students can't explain how their study abroad experience will improve their effectiveness in the workplace. Students need help in transferring the learning from overseas to life back home.
Assess students' CQ again upon their return. This gives students (and universities!) a tangible way of measuring the impact of the experience upon a students' intercultural effectiveness. In addition, study the aggregate data from all the students who participate to compare how various programs fare in developing CQ. (Pre and Post CQ Study Abroad Assessments are available as well as Short-Term Missions Assessments).
As students, families, and institutions invest growing amounts of money in studying and serving abroad, it's essential that we take time to develop effective programs and assess their role in improving participants' cross-border effectiveness. I've only scratched the surface of ways to improve these experiences. I'd love to hear what you're doing if you're involved in this fascinating opportunity for growing CQ!


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Magnificent & Majestic Bhutan
Bhutan is magnificent & majestic, a rare combination of harmony and accord, amidst a landscape of incredible natural beauty. Visit to magnificent valleys of Thimphu, Paro and Punakha is indeed a journey into an enchanting realm.
Arrive Paro by Flight & Transfer to Thimphu (55 km, approx.1.1/2-hour drive)
The flight to Paro is one of the most spectacular in entire Himalayas. Whether flying along the Himalayan range from Kathmandu or over the foothills from Kolkatta, the journey offers fascinating views and an exciting descent into the Kingdom. Bhutan's first gift, as you disembark from the aircraft will be cool, clean fresh mountain air. After immigration formalities and baggage collection, you will be met by our representative, and afterwards drive to Thimphu, the capital town of Bhutan with en-route stop at Chuzom, the confluence of Thimphu and Paro rivers. Three different style of stupas; Tibetan, Nepalese and Bhutanese adorn this confluence. Shortly before reaching Chuzom, you will see on your left Tamchog Lhakhang, 'the temple of the excellent horse'. It is a private temple, built in 15th century, as the result of visitation from Balaha, the excellent horse, a manifestation of Chenrezig, the compassionate Buddha.
Later in the day take an exploratory walk around local market place located a few minutes' walk from hotels. Or take a walk to local craft Bazar recently established under patronage of Department of cottage & small industry and in collaboration with the Department of culture, Tourism council and the Department of agriculture marketing and cooperatives. This market offers genuine Bhutanese arts & crafts thus contributing in promotion, protection and preservation of traditional arts.
Evening an exploratory walk around Thimphu main street and market area.
After breakfast, proceed for tour of some of city's main attractions that includes:
National Library: The history of Bhutan lies imprinted in archaic texts, which are preserved at the National Library. Besides thousands of manuscripts and ancient texts, the library also has modern academic books and printing blocks for prayer flags.
(Zorig Chusum is an art school and are periodically closed for exams, summer and winter holidays, if closed replace visit with Zangtho Pelri Lhakhang)
Zangtho Pelri Lhakhang: The present structure was built in 1960s and although lacking the charm of many of the older temples, Zangtho Pelri still possesses some impressive murals and art treasures and is worthy of a visit. The site of the temple was a former battle ground, and the temple was constructed there in order to pacify energies.
Buddha Point (Kuensel Phodrang): Located at a short drive from Thimphu city centre, visitors can get a good overview of the Thimphu valley from the Buddha point (Kuensel Phodrang). You can pay your obeisance and offer prayers to the Buddha, the largest statue in the country and then walk around and take a glimpse of the valley.
Thimphu – Punakha (75 km, approx. 3-hour drive)
After breakfast at hotel, drive to Punakha across Dochula pass (3,088m/ 10,130 ft) stopping briefly here to take in the view and admire the chorten, mani wall, and prayer flags which decorate the highest point on the road. If skies are clear, the following peaks can be seen from this pass (left to right): Masagang (7,158m), Tsendagang (6,960m), Terigang (7,060m), Jejegangphugang (7,158 m ), Kangphugang (7,170 m ), Zongphugang (7, 060 m ), a table mountain that dominates the isolated region of Lunana – finally Gangkar puensum, the highest peak in Bhutan at 7,497m.
Afternoon visit Punakha Dzong or (Palace of Great Happiness), built at the junction of the Phochu and Mochu rivers in 1637 by Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal. This majestic dzong served as both the religious and the administrative center of Bhutan in the past. It measures some 600 by 240 feet and has a six-story, gold-domed tower. Inside are courtyards and religious statuary that hint at the depth of history and spiritual tradition embodied here. Your guide will illuminate your understanding of this intricate culture that is exotic to us, though long established here.
Afterwards proceed for walking excursion to Chimi Lhakhang.
The Chimi Lhakhang, situated on a hillock in the centre of the valley, also known as the temple of fertility. It is widely believed that couples who do not have children and wanting one, if they pray at this temple, they are usually blessed with a child very soon.
Evening explore Wangduephodrang town and its market area.
Overnight at the hotel in Punakha. (Altitude 1,300m)
Punakha – Paro (125 km, approx. 4-hour drive)
Morning after breakfast, drive back to Paro descending back down from Dochu La, follow the way back up the dramatic Wang Chhu and Paro Chhu river valleys, before crossing through Paro Town towards the north end of the valley.
En route visit Simtokha Dzong, the place of profound tantric teaching, this dzong now houses a school for the study of the Dzongkha language.
Later in the day after checking into hotel, proceed to visit Ta Dzong, originally built as Watchtower, which now houses National Museum. The extensive collection includes antique thangkha paintings, textiles, weapons & armour, household objects and a rich assortment of natural and historic artifacts.
Then walk down the trail to visit Rinpung Dzong, meaning ('fortress of the heap of jewels'), which has a long and fascinating history. Along the wooden galleries lining the inner courtyard are fine wall paintings illustrating Buddhist lore such as four friends, the old man of long life, the wheel of life, scenes from the life of Milarepa, Mount. Sumeru and other cosmic Mandala.
Later take a stroll around Paro city centre and market.
After breakfast excursion to Taktshang Monastery (Tiger's Nest): It is one of the most famous of Bhutan's monasteries, perched on the side of a cliff 900m above the Paro valley floor. It is said that Guru Rinpoche arrived here on the back of a tigress and meditated at this monastery and hence it is called 'Tiger's Nest'. This site has been recognized as a most sacred place and visited by Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal in 1646 and now visited by all Bhutanese at least once in their lifetime.
On the way back to Paro town, stop at the base of Drukgyel Dzong, a ruined fortress currently under restoration, where Bhutanese warriors fought Tibetan invaders centuries ago. The snowy dome of sacred Chomolhari, 'mountain of goddess' can be seen in all her glory from the approach road to the Dzong.
Along the way to town, visit the 7th century Kyichu Lhakhang, one of the 108 temples built in the Himalayas by Tibetan King, Songtsen Gampo. The building of this temple marks the introduction of Buddhism in Bhutan.
Evening at leisure in Paro market.
After breakfast at the hotel, drive to the airport for flight to your onward destination. Our representative will help you with exit formalities and then bid you farewell.


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Is Randy Gregory Worth The Wait For Dallas?
The final two regular season games for the Dallas Cowboys were "meaningless." Going into their week 16 Monday night game against the Detroit Lions, Dallas had already wrapped up both the NFC East and the number one seed in the NFC.
Though they went full-throttle against a playoff-caliber opponent that night, they decided to take their foot off the gas this week against the lowly Philadelphia Eagles. With many of the team's stars not seeing much, if any, action at all on Sunday, other players were able to get extra opportunities to play. Some of those aforementioned players made the most of their opportunities over the final two weeks, not the least of which was defensive end Randy Gregory.
The former second round pick was suspended for the first fourteen games of the 2016 season, but was finally cleared prior to the team's home finale against Detroit. Over the final two weeks, Gregory tallied 9 tackles, one for a loss, and his first career sack.
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While it did seem that on most snaps, Eagles' left tackle Jason Peters got the better of Gregory, the flashes of burst and impact which Gregory showed were certainly promising.
No, he didn't beat Peters with some fantastic move for the sack, but his relentlessness, motor, and ability to stay on his feet and defeat the cut-block are all superb here.
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Gregory's get-off is arguably the best on the entire team. What he lacks in size or stature, he certainly makes up for in speed. Here we see him get off the ball with a purpose, splitting the blockers and stopping Darren Sproles for a four yard loss.
Randy Gregory's quickness off the ball gives Peters trouble here, as he is unable to step backside and hinge before Gregory blazes by him. (Okay, maybe blazes isn't the best adjective for Randy).
Peters is taught to step down and help out the center, who is trying to make a key back block, before hinging backside to protect against anyone trailing the play. Usually, the offense doesn't expect a backside defensive end to get off the ball like this, and make the play in the backfield. But Randy Gregory does it here.
Another area which impressed me was Gregory's conditioning. The Cowboys normally go with an eight or nine man rotation on the defensive line, but due to injuries and rest they were down to just five defensive linemen over the last two games. This meant that Gregory, who hadn't played a snap of football all year, was forced to play just about every play in Philadelphia. The fact that he was able to last through that speaks volumes about his preparation.
It is hard to get too excited over Gregory's performance, however, as we know that a longer suspension still looms large. There is reason to believe that when his appeal is heard, he could get off scot-free, but the inconsistencies of the NFL and Gregory's history, should make any fan nervous.
Hopefully, Randy Gregory can avoid another suspension, and can be available for the Cowboys playoff run.
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Q: Is there a name for this phenomenon? Imagine I have a cylindrical pipe closed on both ends with lids. I fill it with sand and compress the sand tightly. Now I hold the cylinder vertically and remove the bottom lid. The sand will counter intuitively not fall off apart from a few loose grains. I understand the reason for this. Essentially the downward gravity force acting on each sand grain is counter balanced by net upward friction force. And the friction force arises due to the contact of each sand particle with it's neighbors.
Now, is there a name for this phenomenon? Or, are there related experiments or applications of this phenomenon?

A: The phenomenon is called dilatancy.
In my former life as a colloid science I frequently encountered this in concentrated dispersions (the archetypal example of this is oobleck) though the mechanism is subtly different in dispersions since it arises from viscous drag in the medium rather than friction between the dispersed particles. However the phenomenon is basically the same.
In this particular case the volume is constrained by the tube hence the grains cannot flow.

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CodeDay - Fall 2014
Nov 11, 2014 4 min read Events
CodeDay is a 24-hour programing marathon for Middle School through College students. It is hosted 3 times a year – Fall, Winter, and Spring. The dates are set to fit with the 3-day weekends, because this is a very tiring event. This time, CodeDay San Diego was hosted at the Ansir Innovation Center. The Ansir Innovation center is a Co-Working Space located in Kearny Mesa. They were one of a very small group that would let us host this event for 24-hours in their space.
CodeDay is similar to many other hackathons for students, lots of food and little sleep. Many students depend on WiFi, like the rest of us, for looking up answers to problems; one of the best techniques to debug is to Google the error message and work from there. Certain problems arise when approximately 100 people try to connect to a small network. Down it went, at around 2pm the WiFi began to deteriorate. Rebooting the system did little to fix the problem.
Even more depend on power, to keep their laptops running, or to power their desktops and monitors. Ansir had the outlets, but not the breakers. Within an hour of the event, we tripped the breaker for all the outlets in the main workspace. We had to go deep into the electrical room to find the breaker, but to our luck we were able to restore power and it would remain on for the remainder of the event.
Food and Sponsors
Lunch was provided by STACKED Restaurants, they provide a unique ordering experience, based on their iPad ordering system. You only pay for what you want. Dinner was from Papa Johns and paid for by Mt. Sac (San Antonio) College. The Midnight Snack, Breakfast and Drinks were provided by Cyber United, a leading security firm, which also provides space to startups. Breakfast, Einstein's Bagels, was loved by everyone, especially after a long night of coding.
Code Day is different from many large-scale hackathons, like PennApps or MHacks, as there are no large prizes; only laser-cut trophies and a round of applause. CodeDay is more about the process of getting there, rather than the final product itself.
Winning doesn't represent that you are the best, it represents that you have passion and the courage to step outside of your comfort zone. It starts at kickoff, pitching your idea, and it is persistent through the event, climaxing during presentations when you get to show off what you did.
The top prize went to team "Username2" and their app "Dream Develop". Dream Develop sought to connect creators and developers through a simple interface. Ideas would be proposed by the "Dreamers" and then made into reality by the "Developers". The judges liked the story behind the app and the balance between team size and experience. The mix of genders was a big plus, "This is the future," said Jerry, the judge who gave out the Top Overall award.
This prize is given to the second place in the game category. Team "Athenix" was composed of 7th graders who put together a game called "PuddiPuddi" – The adventures of a pudding cup and his quest to avoid the spoon monster who wanted to eat him.
The judges were impressed by the level of completion in the game and the originality and creativity. They also didn't use a game engine which furthermore impressed the judges.
Team Collaboardtive created an Online, Interactive white board. The interface was clean and easy to use "I would start using that tomorrow," said Judge Cordell, the judge who gave the award to the team. They found inspiration in the lack of whiteboards accessible to them at the event. They fought through the terrible WiFi and made it work in the end.
0-60 (Special)
Every year there are a few special awards, given to teams that didn't quite make it, but still deserve to be recognized for their work. The "Financial Trackers" had the biggest team by far, and half of them had little to no knowledge of programming before the event. Their final product was not perfectly complete, but they had preparations to implement many additional feature; had we given them an additional day, they would have surely won the Top Overall Prize. The judges recognized their willingness to help other teams and how many people they got into programing.
Most Innovative (Special)
Trevor, the winner of the Most Innovative award built a physics simulator that replicated gravity in a system, modeling planets and other bodies and their interaction with on another. He didn't use any game engines, which impressed the judges. The app clearly demonstrated the principles and although there were a few bugs in the collisions, the results were amazing. He worked alone, and didn't complain about the lack of internet, if he had a graphic artist on his team, the app would have been near perfect.
Our Judges: Jerry, Emmanuel, Bob, and Cordell
Our Local Organizers: Ayesha, Aaroh, and TJ
Our Venue Sponsor: Ansir Innovation Center
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Q: MacBook Pro not responding to power button My Mac wont start up even with full battery and charger plugged in... There is no sound, no screen or any disk movement.
The same thing also happened a few weeks back and when I took it to the repair guy; he fixed it in a matter of minutes.
He held down the power button for 10 seconds, removed the charger and did something else and the system started working but I don't exactly remember what he did.
Can anyone tell me what those magic steps are?
I am currently out of town and can't take it there again.
Any help please?

A: Try: "Press the (left) Shift-Control-Option key combination along with the power button once" to reset the system management controller.


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Q: socket.io - ReferenceError: io is not defined I am writing an application for Android 2.3.5 (that will also be compatible with iOS). I wish to transfer data from the app's HTML/Javascript to a Python program on a server (which uses the Twisted engine to retrieve the data).
I've tried many things and looked at various forums, answers, tutorials, and web pages--including most of them here--and can't find an answer. Here's the relevant Javascript I have in my index.html file:
<script src="socket-lib/socket.io.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
function sendData() {
    try {
        var socket = io.connect('http://mywebsite.com:12345');
        socket.on('connect', function(data) {
            socket.send('Hello.');
            socket.on('message', function (msg) {
                socket.send('This is where I send data?');
            });
        });
    }
    catch(err) {
        alert('ERROR: socket.io encountered a problem:\n\n' + err);
    }
} // end of sendData

If you can't tell, I'm still pretty confused how this works; I can't even test anything. The error that keeps coming up is ReferenceError: io is not defined. Some sites used something like var io = require('socket.io');. But then it results in the same error: ReferenceError: require is not defined.
I put the socket-lib folder in assets/www, where any other Javascript source should go. This is also where the index.html file is. Many sites use <script src="/socket.io/socket.io.js"></script>, but this makes no sense to me. Many sites also imply the use of node.js, but I never see it anywhere.
How can I make this work?
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I tried it in Chrome, and it's giving me an Uncaught ReferenceError: require is not defined for the socket.io.js file. So I decide to source in require.js right before it. Then it gives the error Uncaught Error: Module name "socket.io-client" has not been loaded yet for context. Since I'm not using this, I care not. When I try the connection, though, it gives the same io is not defined error. When I define it as var io = require('socket.io'), the error is Error: Module name "socket.io" has not been loaded yet for context: _ http://requirejs.org/docs/errors.html#notloaded. I looked at the website, and it doesn't help me at all. When I try to put "require" as a function argument, another error occurs: TypeError: undefined is not a function.

A: I found the answer for anyone who gets immensely confused by the horrible lack of documentation of socket.io.
You cannot source /socket-lib/socket.io.js,
you must source http://yourwebsite.com:12345/socket.io/socket.io.js.
The server automatically does the rest for you.

A: I solved it myself by changing index.html to import the socket io client from bower, first i installed the bower component:
 bower install socket.io-client

then i changed the reference in index.html to :
 <script src="bower_components/socket.io-client/socket.io.js"></script>

Or file could be found at  - lib/socket.io-client/dist/socket.io.js

A: I managed to blunder through this, and squandered about an hour, on something that turned out to be a very basic error.
When an function is not defined? Such as " Uncaught ReferenceError: io is not defined ". Does that not mean that the function is getting "used" before it is "created"?
In the part of my HTML file, that "calls" the javaScript files, it looked like this :
<script src='./js/playerChatter.js'></script> <!-- this one calls io -->
<script src="http://localhost:2019/socket.io/socket.io.js"></script><!-- This Creates io -->

and i changed it to this
<script src="http://localhost:2019/socket.io/socket.io.js"></script> <!-- This Creates  io -->
<script src='./js/playerChatter.js'></script> <!-- this on calls io -->

So now the item "io", whether it is an object or function... Is actually getting created before it is getting used :D
Have FUN!

A: write server side code in socket.io.js file and try src="/socket.io/socket.io.js"
hope this will solve your problem

A: When getting socket.io to work with many other libraries using require.js I had same error, it turned out to be caused because of trying to load the socket.io.js file from the same /js folder than the rest of the other files.
Placing it in a separated folder, fixed it for me, you can see the code in this gist but all I changed for making it work, was this:
instead of:

socketio: 'socket.io',

Use:

socketio: '../socket.io/socket.io',

Not sure about the reason of this behavior, but I hope it helps you.

A: This looks like your browser cannot find the socket.io.js file. You could try opening the index.html on your computer with Firefox+Firebug or the Chrome Web Developer Tools and look at how the .js file is requested. On the other side, you could check the logs on the webserver serving the .js file whether there are any file not found errors.
The require function would be provided by e.g. RequireJS, but you would still need to configure the paths to your scripts correctly for it to work.

A: For me after debugging through all of the very helpful suggestions, it turned out to be simply that my node server had stopped. I had been running it manually in a terminal window during dev.
Make sure your node [yourservercode].js is running on the specified port! :-]

A: I use jspm.
Add this:
import 'btford/angular-socket-io/mock/socket-io';

A: In my case, using Unity WebGL with C# UnitySocketIO plugin, I need to add delay (1 sec) between Init and Connect, because the first method did not have time to add a new JS Socket object and code (listeners) to the page to work with it..

A: As mentioned in other answers, you have to use the complete URL.
 <script src="http://127.0.0.1:5565/socket.io/socket.io.js "></script>
if it's giving you an error 404  please check whether io is properly instantiated on your server.js.If not please refer following to instantiate the io properly.
<script>
  var socket = io();
</script>

In your server.js
const app = express();
const http = require('http'); //from express module
const server = http.createServer(app);
const { Server } = require("socket.io");
const io = new Server(server);

A: got to url /socket.io/socket.io.js and check if a js file is served or not if yes then instead of writing
var socket = io();

write
window.onload= function(){
var socket = io();
}


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The Environment Agency have now taken control of F Gas Regulation enforcement and are pro-actively checking business compliance. Refcom works closely with the EA to ensure better compliance and more effective enforcement. RJD Air Conditioning Services Ltd has a full Refcom certificate.
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The Scheme keeps a database of people working in construction who have achieved, or are committed to achieving a recognised construction related qualification. All engineers at RJD Air Conditioning Services Ltd are fully CSCS qualified.


Located in Salina Bamba in Capo Coda Cavallo, some kilometeres from the touristic town of San Teodoro, the charming villa La Danza dei Fenicotteri offers six bedrooms and six bathrooms. The property has been designed for 2 families or groups of friends as it offers two separate entrances what permits more privacy.
Each unit is disposed on two levels. The left part of the villa has a basement level with two bedrooms and two bathrooms, a very spacious living room and kitchen. The first floor has also a living area, another kitchen, a big terrace with seaview and pool view, two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
The right part of the property offers one bedroom, one bathroom, a living room, equipped kitchen and a panoramic terrace on the first floor and one bedroom and one bathroom on the basement level. So, totally there are six bedrooms, six bathrooms, four kitchens and four living rooms. The terrace is accessible from both units so that all the guests can enjoy together their meals. The pool is accessible from each part of the villa.
This beach villa is walking distance from the beach of Salina Bamba which is accessible directly from the garden. The beach has white sand and crystal clear water. There is also a small jetty where you can rent a boat and explore all the marine area of Tavolara.
The bay of Capo Coda Cavallo is enclosed by the island of Tavolara, Molara and the island of Proratora and is located within the protected marine area of Tavolara - Punta Coda Cavallo. The coast is characterized by a succession of coves with sandy beaches and cliffs covered by a lush of Mediterranean scrub with Mediterranean plants such as dumpling, juniper, lentil.