Salesforce.com uses a multi-tenant structure to host enterprise applications and data in the cloud in a secure and user friendly manner. In this workshop you will learn how to access that data and visualize it within your browser using Wave, a search-based and mobile friendly analytics engine built into the Salesforce Platform. The session will begin with the basics of how to build applications on the Salesforce Platform, including custom data models and business logic. Attendees will be instructed on how they can utilize Trailhead, an interactive learning framework, to start working with Wave using a free Developer Edition license.
Interest in the creation and administration of cloud based enterprise applications and the easy visualization of related data.
Please bring a laptop with a modern browser.
How to use simple tools like Python, Scikit-Learn for building Machine Learning algorithms. Learn workflows that a data scientist or Machine Learning engineer can follow while building machine learning models. Learn preprocessing steps like feature engineering, hyper parameter tuning. Now we will take all these skills and learn how to scale using the most popular data processing framework called Apache Spark and it's machine learning toolkit Mllib.
Experience with Python is minimum requirement. Basic knowledge of Linear Algebra, Statistics and Machine Learning is required as well. Participants should have some knowledge of Big Data systems like Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark, but no experience is required.
None, his session will be held in a computer lab.
Join a Tableau expert for a hands-on training session to help you see and understand your data. Learn best practices for data visualization and how to create interactive visualizations and dashboards in Tableau. This workshop is designed for all audiences and skill levels.
This workshop is designed for all audiences and skill levels.
The Watson Analytics Workshop is designed for professors and students as a way to introduce you to the revolutionary approach to analytics that is smart data discovery. Industry is demanding it and here is an opportunity to learn from Watson Analytics experts how you can benefit from learning about guided exploration, automated predictive analysis, and effortless dashboard creation.
As the world of Big Data and Analytics have evolved, Microsoft has led the way with cloud delivery of a simple to use, integrated analytics platform. Cortana Analytics Suite was designed to integrate the technologies required to allow you to transform your data into action.
Take action ahead of your competitors by going beyond looking in the rear-view mirror (traditional reporting and self-service BI tools) to predict what's next with analytics that enables action.
Get closer to your customers. Infer their needs through their interaction with natural user interfaces (perceptual intelligence).
Build with partner solutions for your industry to get going quickly and tailor to your specific needs.
Get value from your data in a secure and scalable way regardless of its size and complexity.
Get things done with Cortana in more helpful, proactive and natural ways.
This workshop will provide an overview of the technologies included in the Cortana Analytics Suite. It will also include a hands-on lab where you will build out a solution using the tools. The hands-on approach will allow you to spend time working with the tools and learn how data flows through a big-data analytics solution. We'll include loading data, creating a predictive model, as well as create reports and a dashboard to show how to visualize this data.
This workshop is designed for all audiences and skill levels, but a laptop is recommended for this session.
Please bring your own laptop, charged, and with network connectivity capabilities.
Using Hadoop and Predictive analytics for identifying security threats in enterprise.
Cloudera will provide exact link for CDH QuickStart Demo VM for participants if they prefer to use QuickStart VM (available on Cloudera Downloads page). This will require at-least 8GB RAM on host machine.
Please bring your own laptop, charged, and with network connectivity.
How long does it take you to get insights into your data? Days? Weeks? Are you caught in "Spreadsheet Hell" where every report is a cumbersome, macro-laden, Microsoft Access nightmare? Do you find yourself giving up and making decisions based on gut feelings because you simply cannot get analyses in a timely manner? Well, perhaps it's time to step into the world of self-service analytics where you can quickly integrate data, analyze data, and share insights without having to work through elongated delivery cycles.
By walking you through a case study of a large bicycle retailer, we will guide you through the various stages of Business Intelligence maturity—shifting from raw data to descriptive visualizations to diagnostic analyses that allow users to answer the big questions as to why events occurred. Following the workshop, you will be able to come into work on Monday and immediately start using Qlik Sense for your data analysis needs.
Anyone who is interested in making better sense of their data in order to better manage their organization—process efficiency, resource performance, supply chain analytics, and more—through Qlik Sense's ability to consolidate multiple data sources into an easy to use dashboard application. Likewise, anyone tasked with providing analytics to their company should attend in order to see how Qlik Sense can be utilized as both a front-end tool for data delivery, as well as a means to perform data analysis and create proof of concepts to determine project feasibility.
There are no prerequisites to this workshop. Anyone who wants to improve their and their team's insight into their organization through better data analysis or to get their company out of "Spreadsheet Hell" is encouraged to attend and witness the value of Qlik Sense.
None. This session will be held in a computer lab.
High ETL complexity and costs, data latency and redundancy, and batch window limits are just some IT challenges caused by legacy enterprise data warehouses (EDW). Using Hadoop and open source big data tools to create an Enterprise Data Hub can reduce traditional EDW costs and improve performance. With Hadoop as an Enterprise Data Hub you can store and process all of your data in one place to create a single version of truth and run multiple transformation jobs that deliver information to multiple systems.
This approach enables faster data workloads, provides a more robust set of tools to analyze data and makes it possible to consolidate hardware and software within the Hadoop infrastructure.
Join MetaScale for a detailed discussion on Hadoop and the Modern Enterprise Data Hub, how we build it, what open source big data tools and technologies are used and how business users can leverage it for greater insights. We will highlight the features and benefits of the enterprise data hub approach with an in-depth analytics demo.
This is a must attend session for anyone interested in developing a greater understanding of how open source big data technologies such as Hadoop enable advanced analytics. Data Management, Business Intelligence and Analytics Managers who are struggling to develop a big data strategy or achieve ROI from their implementations will benefit from the discussion and demo.
Some programming experience and an understanding of basic databases.
Learn basic Ethical Hacking skills including how the "bad guys and gals" create viruses, use wrappers, crack passwords, and exploit vulnerabilities in network devices (computers, laptops, tablets and smartphones) and information networks. This course will help participants understand how to protect themselves and others against malicious users on the Internet while exploring the world of information technology.
Sponsored by Northwestern University's School of Professional Studies, this course combines interactive discussion and hands-on lab work in a fun, casual environment.
Students between the ages of 14 and 19 interested in technology (or a career in technology) will gain valuable insight into how the Internet works and how to hack common weaknesses, which is key to understanding how mischievous hackers think and work. This course requires no previous experience, and all computers will be provided!
Big Data has an increasing problem of access and real-time (or close to real-time) analysis. The conversation around Big Data has traditionally been geared around storing and analyzing large amount of data at off-peak times or in systems where latency of querying is not an issue. However, there is an increasing need to attach big data systems to applications. This course will discuss strategies for organizing data for this purpose.
We will discuss common querying frameworks like Hive, Sqoop and Pig. and where these frameworks start to break down in a real-time querying situation. We will also talk about distributed search technologies like ElasticSearch and Solr and how these can be used for fast indexing. Finally, we will discuss architecture strategies to use these products together to create customer-facing solutions that respond quickly.
This workshop will benefit anyone who is working with big data systems that need fast querying.
Basic programming knowledge is recommended for the hands-on exercises. The conversation will benefit anyone who is interested.
The "Moneyball" revolution coincided with a shift in the way professional sporting organizations handle and utilize data in terms of decision-making processes. Due to the demand for better sports analytics, organizations are utilizing fine-grain tracking data to enhance their ability to analyze performances. Two prime examples are the STATS SportVU system which has been deployed in the NBA, as well as Prozone tracking data which is used in most European soccer Leagues.
In this workshop, I'll first show a portfolio of recent research that utilizes tracking data for a host of applications. Specifically, I'll show examples using SportVU data in basketball, Prozone data in soccer and Hawk-Eye data in tennis.
Anyone interested in sports, unstructured fine-grained data, and/or applied machine-learning will find this interesting.
Please bring your laptop, but there are no requirements for this session.
Part I. Which players should we draft? We will examine performance data and measures from both the National Football League (NFL) as well as the NFL Combine. Here we review physiological and physical performance measures, showing how they relate to performance of players across various positions in the sport of football. Methods include exploratory data analysis, descriptive statistics, and classical models.
Part II. What play should we call? The focus here is play-by-play data from Major League Baseball. We introduce game states, transition probabilities, and Markov chain models as they apply to baseball.
Part III. What is a player worth? Using data from the National Basketball Association, we show how to generate ratings and rankings of players. We also show how to assess a player's worth in terms of points made or number of team wins relative to other players. We end by showing how player performance measures may be translated into dollars during salary negotiations.
Please reach out to Thomas Miller at thomas-miller-0@northwestern.edu with questions.
Those who are looking to learn about the future of Data Science but feel that the hands-on workshops might be a little overwhelming. If you are looking to learn and want to listen in on some great discussions to see how Data Science will influence your future, this is the session for you.
None. Come one, come all and dive into some great lectures and discussions.
Join us May 7th, 2016 for the Escape Data Science and Sports Analytics Conference in Chicago, IL where we will "Learn by Doing."
Brought to you by Northwestern University and Robert Morris University.
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to protect all that we own.
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Once an Arcadian suburb of grand houses, orchards and conservatories, Hackney declined into a zone of asylums, hospitals and dirty industry. Persistently revived, reinvented, betrayed, it has become a symbol of inner-city chaos, crime and poverty. Now, the Olympics, a final attempt to clamp down on a renegade spirit, seeks to complete the process: erasure disguised as 'progress'. In this 'documentary fiction', Sinclair meets a cast of the dispossessed, including writers, photographers, bomb-makers and market traders. Legends of tunnels, Hollow Earth theories and the notorious Mole Man are unearthed. He uncovers traces of those who passed through Hackney: Lenin and Stalin, novelists Joseph Conrad and Samuel Richardson, film-makers Orson Welles and Jean-Luc Godard, Tony Blair beginning his political career, even a Baader-Meinhof urban guerrilla on the run. And he tells his own story: of forty years in one house in Hackney, of marriage, children, strange encounters, deaths.


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Q: Automatic propagation of monoidal mappend Let's say I have a monoid defined as this:
data TotalLine = TotalLine { totalQuantity :: Int, orderTotal :: Float }

instance Monoid TotalLine where
  mempty = zero
  mappend = add

As totalQuantity and orderTotal are both numbers they also form a monoid under (+)
Is there any way to define
add :: TotalLine -> TotalLine -> TotalLine

so, Can I just propagate the mappend call on each field instead of having to manually define something like
add line1 line2 =
  TotalLine {
    totalQuantity = totalQuantity line1 + totalQuantity line2,
    orderTotal = orderTotal line1 + orderTotal line2
   }

A: Note there are several monoids with domain Int (Nat, Float, ..)
so I would find it highly confusing to read code that has instance Monoid Int. Then mappend could be any of plus, times, max, min, and a lot more.

A: There's generic-deriving package matches exactly your requirement:
{-# LANGUAGE DeriveGeneric #-}

import           Generics.Deriving.Monoid
import           GHC.Generics

data T = T {str :: String, str' :: String}
  deriving (Generic, Show)

main = undefined

instance Monoid T where
  mempty = memptydefault
  mappend = mappenddefault

And some result from ghci:
> T "a" "b" `mappend` T "c" "d"
< T {str = "ac", str' = "bd"}

But it doesn't work out-of-box for your TotalLine data type, since both Int and Float do not have an instance of Monoid.
Also add a dependency just for that purpose is not so economic. You'd better implement the Monoid instance manually.

There has been some discussion on why GHC cannot derive Monoid instances, it turned out in general such derived instance may not be unique. But in the special case when the data type have only one constructor with concrete and monoidal fields the derived instance is unique.

A: If you're fine changing the type a little (but that is still isomorphic to yours), you could try this:
{-# LANGUAGE GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving #-}
import Data.Monoid

newtype TotalLine = TotalLine (Sum Int, Sum Float) deriving Monoid

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Robert K Schnittger
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Robert K. Schnittger (RK), 75 passed away at his home surrounded by family on July 1, 2021. He grew up in Mentor but lived most of his adult life in Chardon. He was born on a military base in McCook Nebraska on September 24, 1945 to Robert E. and Barbara Schnittger who preceded him in death. RK attended Mentor schools for grade school and then graduated from Western Reserve Academy in 1963. He also attended Cornell University. He was an engineer and DJ at prominent radio stations in Florida and Cleveland in his young adulthood. He started Maple Rock Management and Maple Rock Properties which he successfully managed for more than 40 years. RK is survived by his son Robert J. Schnittger, ex-spouse and close friend Christine Simmons, half brothers Joe Farrell (Eleanor) and Bob Boswell. Siblings Kathy Southall/Renard (Joe), Bill Schnittger (Rebecca) and many nieces and nephews. He was also preceded in death by his sister Barbara Symanek (Jerry). A private service for family and close friends will be held at a later date. Lake Erie Cremation & Funeral Services, 1500 Harpersfield Road, Geneva, Ohio assisted the family with arrangements. www.LakeErieCrematory.com
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Southwestern Vermont Health Care may open a dental clinic in Bennington County. The health care organization says more than 55%of southwestern Vermont residents do not receive regular dental care, and one-in-four Bennington County adults is missing six or more permanent teeth. The proposed dental clinic would help serve southwestern Vermont residents that currently go without health care.


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Remainers marshal their troops for battle against hard Brexit
Brexit: one year to go
Billboard and newspaper ads to target 'soft leavers' and MPs in bid to moderate or halt process
Dan Sabbagh
Thu 29 Mar 2018 15.25 EDT Last modified on Thu 29 Mar 2018 17.36 EDT
One year to go: pro-remain groups are hoping to take the Brexit fight beyond parliament . Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
Remain campaigners plan to use the next six months to try to stoke public concern over Brexit and pressure MPs to vote against the final deal that Theresa May extracts from her negotiations with the European Union.
Best for Britain this week began spending the £500,000 it raised from George Soros's foundation, starting with a set of billboards asking "When will we know what we voted for?" and stating "We all deserve a say on the final deal", talking up the idea of a second referendum.
MPs and peers flex muscles as countdown to meaningful vote begins
The pressure group is pursuing tactics akin to a political party, focusing its energies on targeting voters in the Midlands and north of England with billboards at the main railway stations and advertisements in the regional press as the battle to halt or soften Brexit starts to go beyond parliament.
It hopes to target a constituency of 7 million "soft leavers", according to communications director Paul Butters, and will also use Facebook to reach such people.
Social media messages will highlight the number of doctors and nurses from the EU who work at local hospitals. "The argument will be this is not the Brexit you signed up to," Butters said.
The approach differs subtly but importantly from Open Britain, which developed from the failed remain campaign, and has been consolidating with other grassroots organisations such as the European Movement or Scientists for the EU in shared offices based at Millbank Tower – a short walk along the Thames to Westminster.
Open Britain works as a more traditional pressure group. With a staff of eight, it is aiming to lobby MPs and campaign in the first instance for a softer Brexit, trying to keep the country within the customs union or even the single market, by mobilising supporters from a mailing list that it claims is 500,000-strong. It wants supporters to hold events around the country in a day of action on 14 April.
Pedestrians pass a Best for Britain billboard in Leicester Square in London. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters
That approach isn't enough for the more fundamentalist Best for Britain, which has far more money to spend. "They want to argue for a softer Brexit," Butters argued. "We think that no Brexit should be on the table; they are not comfortable with that argument."
But the differences between the groups are not vast, and their staffs – many of whom have links to Labour or the Liberal Democrats – are well known to each other.
James McGrory, the executive director of Open Britain and a former adviser to Nick Clegg when he was deputy prime minister, emphasises unity: "Just look at what we achieved with amendment 7 before Christmas, where all of the pro-European groups, including Open Britain, Best for Britain and the European Movement, worked hand-in-glove to lobby MPs to vote for it."
11 Brexit promises the government quietly dropped
There are doubts whether Best for Britain's posters and local newspaper ads will be effective in leave-supporting parts of the country. Billboards are a particularly crude form of political targeting, with political parties spending less on them as social media has taken their place.
There are mixed messages from the polls, several of which nominally put the remain camp about three points ahead if the referendum were held again tomorrow.
Anti-Brexit organisations have been attending a Wednesday morning coordination meeting chaired by Labour MP Chuka Umunna. Despite reports to the contrary, few other MPs attend.
Another key figure is Open Britain chair Roland Rudd, who runs corporate communications firm Finsbury. Until recently, Rudd had Open Britain operating out of a tiny room in his own Thameside offices off the Strand. A wider group participates in an email chain. People such as journalist and former spin doctor Alastair Campbell pitch in; one of the most active participants is said by some recipients to be philosopher and author AC Grayling.
Best for Britain has an openly stated goal to stiffen the Labour party's anti-Brexit stance so that opposition MPs vote against the final deal on offer. It intends to produce research showing that in 150 mainly Midlands and northern seats, sitting Labour MPs owe their majorities to remain supporters.
For Umunna, as part of Open Britain, the focus is on staying in the single market. "Whether the UK stays in the single market – through participation in the European Economic Area – is in Jeremy Corbyn's hands," he said.
However, Umunna's challenge is that within Labour ranks he is seen by many as anti-Corbyn. Some figures linked to Open Britain – but not Umunna himself – have argued that their campaign should become the basis for a reinvented third party. Few are taking that talk seriously, not least because the pro-Europe Lib Dems are doing so poorly.
Brexit: how UK's negotiations to leave the EU echo its accession talks
The problem for both organisations has been working with Conservatives. Pro-EU Tories cut their ties with Open Britain before the 2017 general election after it released an "attack list" of MPs to target. Earlier this week, however, Anna Soubry and former cabinet minister Chris Patten spoke at an Open Britain event – a signal, some hope, of the beginning of a rapprochement.
Open Britain and Best for Britain each claim that the energy is on their side, not least because there is nobody as enthusiastically making the case for Brexit, even though it is government policy.
During May's tour of the country on Thursday, which included a muted endorsement of the UK's post-Brexit prospects, she said it "would deliver a country that will be different" and that the UK would have the chance of a "bright future".
Jacob Rees-Mogg has emerged as the Brexiters' standard bearer, with influence gleaned from his chairmanship of the European Research Group, the group of 50 or so Tory MPs with the principal aim of pushing party policy towards the right.
The pro-Brexit campaign groups are weaker: Leave Means Leave provided a backdrop for a Rees-Mogg speech earlier this week, but it has a skeleton operation, and puts out far fewer press releases than the hyperactive pro-remain groups.
Richard Tice, the international property developer and co-chair of Leave Means Leave, said the aim of the group in the coming months would be to push for "clean, swift Brexit" and to emphasise that "a Canada-style free trade deal on goods and agricultural products is there for the taking".


"In accordance with Budget Implementation Act C-45, Jobs and Growth Act 2012, which received Royal Assent on December 14, 2012, the Canada Employment Insurance Financing Board is being dissolved".
This is the message that appears on the Canada Employment Insurance Financing Board (CEIFB) website. Email accounts have been disconnected and the telephone number is no longer in service. There was no official announcement by the key proponents of the CEIC — the minister of Human Resources, Skills Development Canada and the Finance Minister Jim Flaherty — that CEIFB had been eliminated.
But is it really gone for good? Not if you carefully read the fine print in Bill C-45.
The CEIFB was established in 2008 to "set EI premium rates for the upcoming year in a transparent fashion". Given that the government retained ultimate control over the setting of rates, and has done so since 2008, there never was any need for the CEIFB to exist.
Since its inception, we have argued that the CEIFB was created solely to provide cover for the Harper government to write off the $57 billion surplus recorded in the Employment Insurance (EI) account at that time. Although the surplus was notional only — there was no actual money in the EI account — it was an ongoing embarrassment to the government, as its existence was a major issue in the EI rate-setting process.
In the March 2012 budget, the government proposed further changes to the EI rate-setting process. The employee EI rate is now to be limited to a 5-cent-per-year increase until the EI operating account is balanced. This precludes the CEIFB from setting rates for at least another four years. The budget also noted that once the EI operating account returns to balance, the CEIFB is to set a rate for each year that would generate premium revenue over the next seven years equal to the forecast cost of the EI program during that period. This clearly indicates that the CEIC is not gone.
The March 2012 budget also indicated that "in light of this new approach to rate setting, the Government will review the size and structure of the CEIFB to ensure that independent rate setting is done in the most cost-effective manner possible". To most readers, this did not mean the dissolution of the CEIFB, especially when — on the same page — the minister of Finance stated that "the CEIFB will continue to set the rate but the Government will limit rate increases to no more than 5 cents per year until the EI Operating Account is balanced".
In the second budget omnibus bill related to the 2012 budget, the government proposed to suspend the operations of the CEIFB until such time the EI operating account returns to balance. In tabling the second omnibus bill, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty told the Opposition that everything in the omnibus bill was in the budget — and that if they had read the budget, they would have realized this.
This is not a very transparent way to dissolve a Crown corporation, even if it delivered little public value. However, to do so with greater transparency would have meant to officially admit that the creation of this corporation was a mistake in the first place.
What he failed to say was that one has to read very carefully between the lines of the budget and question the meaning of every sentence — and that the budget omnibus bill was the "real" budget. The minister should have indicated in the budget that the CEIFB would be dissolved for a period of time and that the government would set the rate in the interim.
The budget omnibus bill suspended the operations of the CEICB. However, it also allows the government to establish a new board and reinstate the CEIFB whenever it desires.
The CEIFB Board of Directors and the corporation were officially dissolved on February 28, 2013. However, the only official announcement on the termination of the CEIFB was the announcement on their website. There has been no official announcement by the Harper government on the CEIFB's demise. In our view, this is not a very transparent way to dissolve a Crown corporation, even if it delivered little public value. However, to do so with greater transparency would have meant to officially admit that the creation of this corporation was a mistake in the first place.
According to budget 2013, the EI operating account is projected to be in balance by 2016-17. Going forward, the EI premium rate would then be based on the seven-year moving-average sufficient to generate revenue to equal EI program costs over that period. Based on the above, one might expect the government to resurrect the CEIFB in order to recommend a premium rate for 2017.
But why would it want to do so? Legislation still allows it to override any recommendation on rates proposed by the CEIB. Who will remember that there ever was a CEIFB? Its recommendations have never been accepted. The establishment of the CEFIB became an embarrassment to the government when the media began to question the validity of the corporation and its $1.5 million annual operating costs — especially in an environment where the rest of government was downsizing.
However, there is an issue with the new rate-setting proposal that will need to be addressed once the EI operating account is in balance. Based on budget 2013 and the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer's economic and fiscal update, the seven-year moving-average rate for 2017 is projected to be significantly lower than that for 2016, representing a drop in EI revenues of $4-$6 billion. Depending on the economic environment at the time, the government could well end up facing a budgetary deficit if it allowed a drop in EI rates of that magnitude. It may want to wake up the CEIFB to help it justify preventing the rate from dropping by that much.
We applaud the suspension of the CEIFB's activities, even if it is for just the next few years. However, the manner in which it was done again demonstrates the Harper government's lack of transparency. In addition, there is a lack of clarity as to what the government proposes to do once the EI operating account is in balance.
Right now, it's keeping all options open. If the CEIFB is to be re-established, one suspects that its rebirth will receive much more publicity than its death.
Scott Clark is president of C.S. Clark Consulting. Together with Peter DeVries he writes the public policy blog 3DPolicy. Prior to that he held a number of senior positions in the Canadian government dealing with both domestic and international policy issues, including deputy minister of finance and senior adviser to the prime minister. He has an honours BA in economics and mathematics from Queen's University and a PhD in economics from the University of California at Berkeley.
Peter DeVries is a consultant in fiscal policy and public management issues, primarily on an international basis. From 1984 to 2005, he held a number of senior positions in the Department of Finance, including director of the Fiscal Policy Division, responsible for overall preparation of the federal budget. Mr. DeVries holds an MA in economics from McMaster University.
Scott Clark is currently President of C. S. Clark Consulting. Prior to that Mr. Clark held a number of senior positions in the Canadian Government dealing with both domestic and international policy issues, including deputy minister of finance and senior adviser to the prime minister. He has an honours BA in Economics and mathematics from Queen's University and a PhD in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley. Peter DeVries is currently a consultant in fiscal policy and public management issues, primarily on an international basis. From 1984 to 2005, he held a number of senior positions in the Department of Finance, including Director of the Fiscal Policy Division, responsible for overall preparation of the federal budget. Mr. DeVries holds an MA in economics from McMaster University.


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Fauci won't rule out annual COVID booster shots in the US: 'We don't know'
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Dr. Anthony Fauci hasn't ruled out that Americans might have to receive a COVID-19 booster shot every year in a bid to ward off infection.
He told CNN's coronavirus town hall on Wednesday night that it was still too early to tell if an annual booster shot would be needed as more variants of the virus emerge.
"The honest answer is we don't know what's going to be required," President Biden's chief medical adviser admitted.
"I hope we get a durability protection from the boost that we won't have to be chasing all the time against the new variant, but that just remains to be seen."
Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said his team is looking at how a booster shot can elevate antibodies to "high levels" and "induce a degree of affinity maturation."
A man gets his COVID-19 vaccination at an outdoor walk-up vaccination site in Washington, DC, on Nov. 29.
"[That's] a big word to mean that you really get the immune response to get a much greater breadth and a much greater strength so that we maybe don't have to boost every eight months, nine months," he said.
His comments came just hours after he confirmed the first US case of the new Omicron variant after it was detected in California in a traveler returning from South Africa.
Of the US's latest travel bans on South Africa, Fauci said, "We felt it was better to be safe than sorry."
Fauci went on to defend the travel bans that were put in place on eight southern African countries last week before the variant was detected in the US, telling the CNN town hall he "felt really badly."
"It was a very difficult choice to make because we had no idea what was going on when you saw what was coming out," he said.
"So we felt it was better to be safe than sorry."
People wait in line at a walk-up vaccination site in Washington, DC, on Nov. 29.
It comes as Biden was set to kick off a more urgent campaign for Americans to get COVID-19 booster shots on Thursday as he unveils his winter plans for combating the virus and Omicron.
The plan includes a requirement for private insurers to cover the cost of at-home COVID-19 tests and a tightening of testing requirements for people entering the US regardless of their vaccination status.
People wait to be inoculated at the Sanford Civic Center in Florida on Dec. 1.
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Royersford, Pennsburg Food Pantries Win Grants
By Joe Zlomek May 31, 2020
HARRISBURG PA – Food pantry operations in Royersford and Pennsburg are among 10 Montgomery County recipients of state Food Recovery Infrastructure Program grants announced Wednesday (May 27, 2020).
The Open Link in Pennsburg was awarded $31,600, and Open Door Ministry in Royersford, $28,915, for projects to fight hunger and prevent food waste under coronavirus pandemic relief expanded during April by Gov. Tom Wolf. More than $9 million in grant funding was scheduled to be distributed to non-profit entities to ensure their food banks are adequately supplied to meet Pennsylvania residents' needs.
"Grants like this help our food banks keep their promise to always be there for those in need," 146th District state Rep. Joe Ciresi said. "With the increases in numbers at our local food banks and pantries during this time, we must make sure we're doing everything we can to help feed our neighbors and loved ones."
The pandemic created an increased demand on charitable food systems. Also receiving similar grants in Montgomery County, according to the state, were:
Garden of Health Inc., Souderton, $127,945;
Emmanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church, Hatfield, $2,299;
Community Interfaith of Central Montgomery County, Norristown, $21,920;
Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, Norristown, $2,799;
Narberth Community Food Bank, Narberth, $100,075;
Willow Grove Seventh Day Adventist Church Food Pantry, Willow Grove, $46,023;
Jenkintown UMC Food Cupboard, Jenkintown, $15,660; and
LaMott AME Church, Elkins Park, $12,480.
Funding was made available for proper management and food waste reduction through the Pennsylvania Municipal Waste Planning, Recycling and Waste Reduction Act of 1988, the state indicated.
Because unused or unsold food can end up in landfills, where it can biodegrade and release greenhouse gases like methane, food waste can be dangerous for the environment, the state added. The federal Environmental Protection Agency estimates that during 2015, the last year when information was available, more than 30 million tons of food waste went into landfills nationwide.
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Let me personally (and by personally I mean write a blog post about it) thank you for teaching us the "Doppler Effect" today.
Not only did you have me thinking of this the ENTIRE class.
But you also used NASCAR to describe it. How did you know that using sports analogy's help me!??! Which made class 10x better for me at least. Now I know when I take the final I will associate The Doppler Effect to NASCAR :)
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Consecon Women's Institute (Trent Valley Area) celebrated their 100th Anniversary on Monday, April 22, 2013 by inviting all Prince Edward County WI Members to a luncheon at Consecon United Church.This was well attended by 60 Members. A good time was had by all with a program of questionnaires, funny readings, music and the presentation of long service awards. Mrs. Marion Walt received her 50 year pin, Rena Cunningham and Gudrun Schwarze received 40 year pins along with Lynn Keene who also received her Life Membership Award. Heather Mattis and Mary Blanchart received their 10 years pins. Paulina McMahon, Catherine Arnott and Sue Holmes received membership pins.


Deep Money is here with the official video to his brand new single – 'Cute Look'. Music for the track is composed by Kuwar Virk who has also penned the lyrics for the track alongside Deep Johal. The track is out now on Saga Music.
Cute Look by Deep Money ft Kuwar Virk is available to download from here.


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UF vets use novel treatment to save Louie, the trailblazing seahorse
By Sarah Carey
Louie the seahorse is back home in his 45-gallon saltwater tank and doing swimmingly, thanks to innovative treatment at the UF College of Veterinary Medicine for a potentially fatal illness.
Carol Benge brought Louie — a captive-bred Hippocampus erectus, or lined seahorse — to Gainesville from her home in Chiefland in October after noticing he was swimming abnormally and had small, pearl-like bubbles on his tail.
"He likes to hitch on the protein skimmer that is near the top of his tank," she said. But Louie swam horizontally or floated upside down when he wasn't hitched.
"I realized that I had not seen him swimming for two or three weeks,'' she said. "When I agitated him to get him to move, I saw the small bubbles on his tail. I felt that I had failed him. That began the journey to UF."
Louie the seahorse's owner brought him to UF from Chiefland in a cylindrical plastic bag filled with water. (Photo courtesy of Dr. Tatiana Weisbrod)
Louie received a full physical examination from a team of veterinary specialists at UF's Small Animal Hospital, who noticed that he had several prominent bulges along his tail tip.
Louie was briefly sedated, enabling veterinarians to weigh him and obtain a skin scrape to look for parasites, bacteria of fungus. The team aspirated the tail bumps with a small needle to confirm that they contained air and not something else like fluid, tissue or infectious material and to decrease the large number of air bubbles present.
"This was both diagnostic and therapeutic, as it helped Louie maintain a better body position in the water afterward," said Dr. Tatiana Weisbrod, a first-year resident with the hospital's aquatic animal medicine program.
The team diagnosed Louie with gas bubble disease, which is similar to the bends in human scuba divers. While still under sedation, he received two injections of medication and was then moved into a glass vessel with clean water that Benge brought from his home tank to recover.
Louie was about to become a pioneer at UF.
The glass vessel was placed inside the hospital's oxygen-based hyperbaric chamber, the first time UF has used it to treat an aquatic species. The door was secured shut, and veterinary team members watched Louie throughout his treatment through porthole windows in the chamber, which was slowly pressurized until the target pressure was reached.
The treatment lasted about three and a half hours, and Louie came through it like a champ.
"He tolerated his treatment very well," Weisbrod said proudly.
Although Weisbrod has used aquatic hyperbaric systems to treat gas bubble disease in other species of fish, UF did not have such a system. What it did have was the oxygen-based chamber used routinely by the hospital's integrative medicine service for wound care and other conditions in small animals.
Louie the seahorse is shown inside the UF Small Animal Hospital's hyperbaric chamber.
"Hyperbaric treatment has mostly been used in aquatic medicine for treating barotrauma in fish brought up from deep waters during events like collection dives rather than explicitly for treatment of gas bubble disease in privately owned fishes," Weisbrod said. "Based on my discussions with other aquatic vets, our integrative team and a lot of research, I felt comfortable offering this as a treatment option to Louie's owner."
The theory behind using hyperbaric treatment for this disease is based on the literature for treating decompression sickness in humans. The team used a protocol devised from U.S. Navy hyperbaric treatment tables aimed at maximizing bubble size reduction while minimizing treatment duration and other risks.
"Pressure and time are used to shrink the volume and diameter of gas bubbles in the tissue and allow them to resorb into the animal," Weisbrod said. "Then, the pressure is released in a slow, controlled manner to allow sufficient time for degassing without bubble re-formation."
Gas bubble disease is common in aquariums. Syngnathids, the family of fish that seahorses belong to, are particularly vulnerable to the illness, although veterinarians don't know why and a definitive cause of the disease has not been determined.
Benge has worked hard to educate herself about the species. A teacher who works with special needs kids, she began keeping seahorses about four years ago. She loves their ability to camouflage, and how they move their eyes independently, similar to chameleons.
"They are beautiful, and males carry the fertilized eggs," Benge said. "Hooray!"
But she learned the difficulty of seahorse husbandry the hard way. Several wild-caught Hippocampus zosterae she had purchased from a pet store, also known as , or dwarf seahorses, soon died.
"I decided to do my homework," Benge said. She determined that any seahorses she would add to her herd would be captive-bred, for a variety of reasons. Wild populations are threatened and/or endangered across the globe, and many never adjust to captivity, with the stress of a captive environment often leading to death, she said.
Louie the seahorse, shown back home inside his 45-gallon tank. (Photo courtesy of Carol Benge)
Benge lost her first captive-bred seahorse, a yellow and white female she named Sheila, after about three years. She wanted another like her and contacted a Hawaiian company about the possibility of purchasing a similar animal. At the encouragement of a company representative, Benge completed a training program, and about a year ago, Louie joined Benge's household.
While participating in "seahorse school," Benge received a manual she described as "technical, specific and incredibly informative." That manual helped her to pinpoint a possible cause of Louie's illness before she called UF.
"I'm so glad I did, as Dr. Weisbrod gave me a wonderful opportunity to use the hyperbaric chamber to treat Louie," Benge said. "I learned that very few veterinarians are equipped to treat these amazing fish. Louie and I received the best treatment from every person with whom we interacted at the UF veterinary college."
The UF veterinary team hopes their successful experience treating Louie could benefit aquariums that might not have access to aquatic hyperbaric chambers, as oxygen-based chambers are more widely available.
"Very little is published on successful treatment for this important disease, so every small success could lead to improved outcomes," Weisbrod said. "Hyperbaric treatment is an emerging medical modality within the field of aquatic animal medicine and certainly deserves further consideration and refinement to optimize its use for the treatment of gas bubble disease."


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Special Needs Applications are available for children who have been determined by a licensed professional (who fills out the medical forms) to have special needs and also currently receive ACS vouchers. Parents can request a special needs designation and a special needs rate for their child's provider. Child care providers can receive a reimbursement rate once they provide child care services which are appropriate for the child and demonstrate increased costs as a result of the child care.
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If you do not receive a satisfactory response from the Board of Directors, call 311 or submit a written complaint via 311 Online.
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Orden Kutuzova 3
Awarded to regimental, batallion and company commanders as well as to chiefs of regimental staffs for initiatives displayed during military operations causing great loss to the enemy as a result of a sudden and audacious attack.
The badge, entirely made of silver consists of a pentagonal star with radiating beams between the points. The disc in the center is of white enamel surrounded by a wreath of laurel and oak, at the bottom a red banner is woven into the wreath. On the disc is an image in silver relief of Michael Kutuzov with a Kremlin tower in the background, the tower ending in a red star. The image is flanked by the inscription Michael Kutuzov, in Cyrillic on a white band bordered in silver.
Two types are known. The early 1st Type hung on a small suspension. The 2nd Type soon replaced the 1st Type and has a screwback. The 3rd Class was made out of one part.
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H.T, Dorling, Ribbons and Medals, Philip, London, 1963.
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* This file is part of the ToolXiT project.
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* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
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package toolxit.bibtex
package machine

import scala.collection.mutable.Stack

/**
 * This trait proovides stack capabilities to a machine.
 *
 * @author Lucas Satabin
 *
 */
trait StackMachine {
  this: Environment ⇒

  // ==== the stack ====
  protected[this] val stack = Stack.empty[StackValue]

  /* pushes an int on the stack */
  protected[this] def push(i: Int) {
    stack.push(SIntValue(i))
  }

  /* pushes a string on the stack */
  protected[this] def push(s: String) {
    stack.push(SStringValue(s))
  }

  /* pushes a symbol on the stack */
  protected[this] def push(v: StackValue) {
    stack.push(v)
  }

  /* pops an integer from the stack. If the value is not an
   * integer or does not exist, None is returned */
  protected[this] def popInt = {
    if (stack.isEmpty)
      None
    else
      stack.pop match {
        case SIntValue(i) ⇒ Some(i)
        case _            ⇒ None
      }
  }

  /* pops a string from the stack. If the value is not a
   * string or does not exist, None is returned */
  protected[this] def popString = {
    if (stack.isEmpty)
      None
    else
      stack.pop match {
        case SStringValue(s) ⇒ Some(s)
        case _               ⇒ None
      }
  }

  /* pops a function from the stack. If the value is not a
   * function or does not exist, None is returned */
  protected[this] def popFunction = {
    if (stack.isEmpty)
      None
    else
      stack.pop match {
        case FunctionValue(instr) ⇒
          // it is directly a block on the stack
          Some(instr)
        case SStringValue(str) ⇒
          // it is a name on the stack, look if it represents a function
          functions.get(str).map(_.instr)
        case _ ⇒ None
      }
  }

  /* pops a value from the stack. If the stack is empty returns None */
  protected[this] def pop = {
    if (stack.isEmpty)
      None
    else
      Some(stack.pop)
  }

}

// ==== values that are pushed on the stack ====
sealed trait StackValue {
  def toVar: Variable
}
final case class SStringValue(value: String) extends StackValue {
  def toVar = StringVariable(value)
}
case object NullStringValue extends StackValue {
  def toVar = StringVariable()
}
final case class SIntValue(value: Int) extends StackValue {
  def toVar = IntVariable(value)
}
final case class FunctionValue(instructions: bst.BstBlock) extends StackValue {
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}
case object MissingValue extends StackValue {
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Sylvio Fraga: Rio De Janeiro, By Way Of New York City
XPN | By David Dye
In this installment of Sense of Place: Rio, songwriter Sylvio Fraga performs two songs with his trio. There are underlying hints of samba in his performance, as well as a hefty dose of American songwriting. It makes sense that he would combine the two styles, given that he grew up in both Rio de Janeiro and New York City.
Fraga recently released his debut album Rosto, which he's made available for free download on his website.
Copyright 2013 XPN
David Dye
David Dye is a longtime Philadelphia radio personality whose music enthusiasm has captivated listeners of World Cafe® since 1991. World Cafe is produced by WXPN, the public radio service of the University of Pennsylvania.
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