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Checkoff Watch: Evolving to meet consumers' needs in the future
Contributed by Barbara O'Brien Published on 31 March 2020
Checkoff Watch: Growing sales, 'sustainable nutrition' remain cornerstones of checkoff 2021 plan
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Checkoff Watch: Adapting to the challenge while maintaining the mission
We've all heard the phrase, "The only constant in life is change," and today's dynamic global landscape certainly reflects that sentiment.
From evolving expectations around the food consumers choose to global thought-leader dialogues focused on finding solutions to growing climate change concerns, the marketplace and opportunity for dairy is changing.
Change, while different and sometimes uncomfortable, can be good if we – as dairy – take advantage of the opportunity. By focusing the checkoff investment on strategic priorities that have the greatest impact to evolve how we engage, we can keep dairy as a relevant – and even vital – part of people's lives.
Our priorities for 2020-23
The 2020 Unified Marketing Plan, which ties together your national, state and regional checkoff work, is the first step in a multiyear journey focused on three business priorities: building trust and relevance with consumers and youth, positioning dairy and farmers as leaders in providing sustainable nutrition to the world and accelerating sales growth.
Build trust in youth and the 'conflicted health seeker'
You've seen it and heard it: Consumers today, young and old, express concerns about the environment, where their food comes from and how it's produced, starting at the farm. A recent report by the Hartman Group shows that 70% of adults indicated they make purchasing decisions based on sustainability at least some of the time. And we've seen the environment and climate change become a rallying cry for youth around the globe.
Young people and a subset of consumers referred to as "conflicted health seekers" are key to dairy's future and, increasingly, have influence in shaping the perceptions of others.
Dairy has a great story to tell – from the nutritional value that fuels wellness at any age to farmers' shared commitment to care for the land, animals and communities. This year, dairy's story will come to life in new, innovative ways as we reach targeted consumers through ongoing executions of the "Undeniably Dairy" campaign.
Position U.S. dairy in a global food system
In addition to shaping consumers' perceptions, climate considerations are dominating global nutrition and sustainability policy discussions.
Your investment in the science deepens dairy's nutrition and wellness benefits, reinforces U.S. dairy's leadership globally and progress in reducing environmental impacts and showcases the contributions to communities. It's important that thought leaders, media and other key decision-makers hear our voices from across the U.S. dairy community, including farmers, processors and customers.
Accelerate incremental sales growth
The farmers on our board, representing dairy families across the country, directed us to work with and through industry and commercial partners to make fundamental consumer-driven changes in how dairy is offered. Today, we're helping move billions of incremental pounds of dairy through global leaders such as McDonald's, Taco Bell, Domino's, Pizza Hut, KFC, Kroger and others, offering consumers new and innovative dairy choices.
In addition to menu and dairy product innovation, our partners use their marketing channels to share dairy's sustainable nutrition story.
In the years ahead, we will build upon our success in foodservice and in retail while we identify emerging growth and product innovation opportunities with new players.
Working together for you
As checkoff staff, we are proud to work for dairy farmers across our country who put food on our families' tables and take care of our land. In developing a framework for our 2020-23 Unified Marketing Plan, our mandate is to focus not only on what we need to do to grow trust and drive sales but on how we do it to have the greatest impact.
Over the past 18 months, national, state and regional and international staff have worked as one team to create a unified framework and plan that builds from a strong foundation around growth-oriented partnerships, social and environmental responsibility, and investments in scientific research and integrated marketing. This is not about a revolutionary new plan but rather one with greater focus and prioritized investment.
It's a checkoff plan driving dairy's long-term relevance and sales, not just here but around the world.
Any thoughts or questions? Contact us at We are your Dairy Checkoff.
Your Dairy Checkoff in Action – The following update is provided by Dairy Management Inc. (DMI), which manages the national dairy checkoff program on behalf of America's dairy farmers and dairy importers. DMI is the domestic and international planning and management organization responsible for increasing sales of and demand for dairy products and ingredients.


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Dartmouth study examines association between care management and outcomes in Medicare ACOs
A new study from The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, published this week in JAMA Network Open, finds that Accountable Care Organization (ACO)-reported care management and coordination activities were not associated with improved outcomes or lower spending for patients with complex needs.
Patients with complex medical and social needs--such as older adults who are frail or suffer from multiple chronic conditions--often experience difficulty navigating the healthcare system since their care is typically fragmented across many practitioners and settings. As a result, gaps in the quality of their care and unnecessary spending occur, contributing to a disproportionate amount of Medicare-associated costs.
As they have become more widespread in healthcare, ACOs have employed a variety of care management and coordination strategies to address these issues.
To determine the impact these strategies have on improving patient outcomes and reducing healthcare costs, the researchers conducted a cross-sectional study using Medicare claims data and the National Survey of Accountable Care Organizations that included surveys from 244 Medicare Shared Savings Program ACOs.
In their analysis, the team looked at more than 1.4 million Medicare beneficiaries with complex health and social needs. They computed an index score (grouping patients by intensity of services) that measured self-reported care management and coordination activity that was then linked to Medicare claims. The primary outcomes of interest included quality of care, healthcare utilization, spending, and interactions with the healthcare system.
While the researchers found that the care management and coordination activities that were reported by ACOs were not associated with differences in spending or measured outcomes for this population of patients, the study's limitations should be considered when interpreting the results.
"The most important limitation of our study is its cross-sectional nature, which does not allow for causal interpretation," explains Carrie Colla, PhD, an associate professor at The Dartmouth Institute and senior author on the study. "Longitudinal analyses would allow for evaluation of whether or not length of exposure to care management has an effect on health outcomes."
Future efforts to care for patients with complex needs should assess whether strategies found to be effective in other settings are being used, and if so, why they fail to meet expectations.
"More research is needed to inform the field," Colla says, "particularly on other components of care management outside of the health system--such as housing, transportation, social support, and food security--and their impact on cost and health outcomes should be studied as well."
This study received support from the following funding organizations: Six Foundation Collaborative (which includes the Commonwealth Fund, the Peterson Center on Healthcare, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, SCAN Foundation, John A. Hartford Foundation, and the Milbank Memorial Fund); National Institute of Mental Health of the NIH; the California Health Care Foundation; and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Comparative Health System Performance Initiative.
Founded in 1797, the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth strives to improve the lives of the communities it serves through excellence in learning, discovery, and healing. The Geisel School of Medicine is renowned for its leadership in medical education, healthcare policy and delivery science, biomedical research, global health, and in creating innovations that improve lives worldwide. As one of America's leading medical schools, Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine is committed to training new generations of diverse leaders who will help solve our most vexing challenges in healthcare.
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Q: Rails RMagick output carrierwave I am using RMagick gem to make a rails app that turns images into animated gifs. There is Post model, which has_many post_attachments and has_one post_output. The idea is users can upload multiple images and get redirected to a page with a resulting animated gif. I am having a problem with attaching the gif to post_output(which has an attribute called 'output') via carrierwave, AWS S3, and fog.
posts_controller.rb
def create
  @post = Post.new(post_params)

  if @post.save
    @post_attachments = params[:post_attachments][:image].map do |attachment|
      @post.post_attachments.create!(image: attachment)
    end

    images = @post_attachments.map { |attachment| attachment.image.url  }
    gif = Magick::ImageList.new(*images)
    gif.to_blob
    gif.delay = 20
    filename = "#{@post.title}.gif"
    gif.write(filename)

    binding.pry
    @post.post_output.create!(output: gif)

    flash.now[:success] = "Post was succesfully created!"
    redirect_to @post

  else
    flash.now[:danger] = "Something went wrong. Try again. :("
    render 'new'
  end
end

def post_params
    params.require(:post).permit(:title,
    post_attachments_attributes: [:id, :post_id, :image],
    post_output_attributes: [:id, :post_id, :output])
end

post.rb
class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :post_attachments, dependent: :destroy
  has_one :post_output,     dependent: :destroy
  accepts_nested_attributes_for :post_attachments
  accepts_nested_attributes_for :post_output

  validates :title, presence: true
end

post_output.rb
class PostOutput < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :post
  mount_uploader :output, OutputGifUploader

  validates :output, presence: true
end

output_gif_uploader.rb
class OutputGifUploader < CarrierWave::Uploader::Base

  include CarrierWave::RMagick

  storage :fog

  def store_dir
    "uploads/#{model.class.to_s.underscore}/#{mounted_as}/#{model.id}"
  end

end

And this is the log and error:
Started POST "/posts" for ::1 at 2015-07-27 17:56:32 -0400
Processing by PostsController#create as HTML
  Parameters: {"utf8"=>"✓", "authenticity_token"=>"nXZJyEcn14qULwFsF3G59CajZeRG0QbsZDS/1MTXoCSzmOks24PL7eSeep2396wcDYrbhpgYX/1ISMkjOEEf0A==", "post"=>{"title"=>"afda"}, "post_attachments"=>{"image"=>[#, @original_filename="td2.png", @content_type="image/png", @headers="Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"post_attachments[image][]\"; filename=\"td2.png\"\r\nContent-Type: image/png\r\n">, #, @original_filename="td3.jpg", @content_type="image/jpeg", @headers="Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"post_attachments[image][]\"; filename=\"td3.jpg\"\r\nContent-Type: image/jpeg\r\n">]}, "commit"=>"gifMeDat"}
   (0.1ms)  begin transaction
  SQL (1.1ms)  INSERT INTO "posts" ("title", "created_at", "updated_at") VALUES (?, ?, ?)  [["title", "afda"], ["created_at", "2015-07-27 21:56:32.917946"], ["updated_at", "2015-07-27 21:56:32.917946"]]
   (5.2ms)  commit transaction
   (0.1ms)  begin transaction
  SQL (1.4ms)  INSERT INTO "post_attachments" ("image", "post_id", "created_at", "updated_at") VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?)  [["image", "td2.png"], ["post_id", 97], ["created_at", "2015-07-27 21:56:33.031573"], ["updated_at", "2015-07-27 21:56:33.031573"]]
   (1.0ms)  commit transaction
   (0.1ms)  begin transaction
  SQL (0.3ms)  INSERT INTO "post_attachments" ("image", "post_id", "created_at", "updated_at") VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?)  [["image", "td3.jpg"], ["post_id", 97], ["created_at", "2015-07-27 21:56:33.983511"], ["updated_at", "2015-07-27 21:56:33.983511"]]
   (1.8ms)  commit transaction
Completed 500  in 2301ms
NameError (uninitialized constant Post::PostOutputs):
  app/controllers/posts_controller.rb:22:increate' `
Rendered /Users/AYL/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.5/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/actionpack-4.2.0/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/templates/rescues/_source.erb (8.3ms)
  Rendered /Users/AYL/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.5/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/actionpack-4.2.0/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/templates/rescues/_trace.html.erb (4.2ms)
  Rendered /Users/AYL/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.5/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/actionpack-4.2.0/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/templates/rescues/_request_and_response.html.erb (1.8ms)
  Rendered /Users/AYL/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.1.5/lib/ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/actionpack-4.2.0/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/templates/rescues/diagnostics.html.erb within rescues/layout (33.1ms)
Cannot render console with content type multipart/form-dataAllowed content types: [#, #

What is the right way to do this?

A: SOLUTION
in posts_controller.rb do
@post.create_post_output!(output: File.open(filename))
instead of
@post.post_output.create!(output: gif)

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FAFARD, The Hon. Joseph-Fernand, B.A.
I would say that people who have done reforestation some 15 or 20 years ago are our best boosters. Their neighbours, convinced by that successful planting, now also want to make all of their plots of land productive.
Subtopic: PROVISION FOR AGREEMENTS RESPECTING MARGINAL LANDS, RURAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES, ETC.
Certainly, and we congratulate them on providing for the future of those who will replace them. Besides, most of them are proud to show us around their plantation.
Mr. Speaker, like Mr. Fafard, I should also like to congratulate those who took to reforestation in the Portneuf riding, as several of them are over 60 years old and will certainly not see the results of their planting. On the other hand, they are citizens who have the next generation in mind and who will be quite delighted to hand down such a legacy to their successors.
In his report to the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association meeting in Montreal at their 47th annual convention, the chairman of the association, Mr. E. M. Fowler, pointed out that productivity, in the pulp and paper industry, the largest export industry in Canada, had gone up almost 50 per cent since 1949.
Mr. Speaker, this is an industry which is very important to the economy of my riding, where many pulp and paper companies are located. Among them, there is the Building Products Ltd. at Pont-Rouge, whose workers are now on strike. Here may I express my sympathy to those workers, as they have been on strike since September.
There is also the Donnacona Paper Corporation, at Donnacona, the J. Ford and Co., at Portneuf, the St. Raymond Paper, at Chute-Panet, the World Plywood Veneer, at St. Casimir, and the Precision Panels Inc., at St. Basile. The yearly payrolls of those industries in Portneuf county amount to $6,796,000.
In the lumber industry, the payroll amounts to $449,575.
In addition, the coal industry also contributes to the economy of Portneuf county.
It is therefore very important that we take some interest in those industries, because we can expect increased production in this field. If we want the economy to remain buoyant and if we want those companies to be in a position to obtain their materials from their present suppliers, we have to take an interest in the development of those industries.
I am glad to have had an opportunity to participate in this debate and I trust the people of Portneuf constituency will derive benefits from this bill.
I.	Who can benefit from section 164?
A person who plants a few hundred or a few thousand trees on his woodlot to complement natural regeneration: or a person who reforests a fraction of an acre of cleared land runs little risk of having his assessment raised as a result of his reforestation activities. On the other hand, any person planning to reforest cleared land over an area of an acre or more should avail himself of section 164. Assessors may, in preparing an assessment roll, ignore the fact that a portion of the property to be assessed is now covered with seedlings; however, there is no guarantee that they will in 10, 15 or 25 years hence, fail to take into account the promising stand that has grown from those seedlings. It is therefore wise to look to the future.
II.	What is required to enjoy the benefits of section 164?
A land owner who decides to reforest a particular area of his property need only, to avail himself of section 164, send notice in writing, before starting the work, to the secretary-treasurer of the municipality wherein is located the cadastral lot on which he plans to carry out reforestation, to the effect that he plans to reforest so many acres on the said lot and wishes to avail himself of section 164 of the Forests and Lands Act.
It is therefore most important that those interested in reforestation be aware of the benefits available under the act.
Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. members for allowing me to make these few remarks, and I again thank the minister for introducing a bill which will certainly benefit the citizens of the constituency of Portneuf.
7,000	reforestation projects and that over 15 million young trees have been planted on farms?
I am sure it will. Agriculture is changing and many marginal lands will be given up. Non-productive land is a liability to the province. As a case in point, Mr. Maheux, may I say that sometimes the soil is so exhausted that reforestation cannot be planned before it has been regenerated?
What was the total expenditure of the federal government in the province of Quebec, each fiscal year from April 1, 1935, to March 31, 1939, as assistance in (a) housing; (b) home improvement?


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Booking.com Sees Loyalty Programs as a Burden, Not an Opportunity
- Mar 24, 2016 7:30 am
All companies want repeat, loyal customers. Expedia is willing to buy their allegiances through loyalty programs while Booking.com vows to do without. It's another point-counterpoint between the two companies as they compete against one another in villages and cities around the world.
Loyalty programs among online travel agencies seemed to be a trend with the launch of Orbitz Rewards in 2013 and then Expedia revamped its program a year later but hotel-site Booking.com wants no part of them.
Priceline Group CFO Daniel Finnegan, speaking at a Bank of America Merrill Lynch retail tech conference in mid-March, said there is a downside to loyalty programs and its Booking.com unit would rather create a great user experience for site visitors and app users instead of paying them to be loyal.
"I feel our performance has been strong without being beholden to loyalty programs," Finnegan said.
Noting that many hotels have loyalty program and rival Expedia does too, Finnegan said it can be costly to compensate customers through loyalty programs when perhaps they were going to become repeat customers and be loyal anyway.
You have to pay these customers even when they were going to book direct anyway, he said.
If Booking.com provides a great user experience — with comprehensive content in 42 languages and no consumer booking fees — then it would be questionable how many incremental visits a loyalty program would generate, Finnegan said.
Loyalty programs can also be frustrating to customers when their points expire, Finnegan added.
Not A Purist, Though
The Priceline Group, which includes brands such as Booking.com, Agoda, Priceline.com, Kayak, RentalCars.com and OpenTable, isn't a purist about abstaining from loyalty brands. Booking.com, which is by far the biggest money-maker in the Group, doesn't have a rewards program but Agoda and OpenTable do, for example.
Finnegan sees the trends working in favor of Booking.com's lack of a loyalty program. Direct bookings, which might come organically, are growing faster for Booking.com than visitors who arrive from paid channels, he said.
Once Booking.com entices customers to use its apps, then the company doesn't necessarily have to reacquire these users again through advertising, the lure of a loyalty program or other incentives. The Priceline Group says one third of its bookings come from mobile, including the mobile Web, and that should reach 50 percent of all bookings over the next year or two, Finnegan said.
Expedia's All-In
There is a different take on the subject over at Expedia, which counts some 40 million loyalty program members among Expedia, Hotels.com and the Orbitz Worldwide loyalty programs.
"I would say our appetite here is unlimited and the way to explain that is that the variable economics behind these loyalty programs are all working," Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said during its fourth quarter of 2015 earnings call in February. "In other words, we look at the points costs, we look at the ultimate redemption value of those points, the percentage of people who are using points — customers who are using the points, and when they use them. And then we look at the behavior of the consumers and like-for-like consumers who are in the program versus the behavior of consumers who are not in the program and how that behavior changes in terms of repeat characteristics and in terms of channel mix."
Khosrowshahi said that if the dynamics and the benefits of these loyalty programs remain favorable then Expedia will look to expand them "as aggressively as we can on a global basis."
For Expedia, its loyalty program is especially strong in Asia Pacific, "where loyalty has really taken off," Khosrowshahi said.
That may be one reason that the Priceline Group doesn't have a one-size-fits all policy toward loyalty programs as Singapore-based Agoda chooses to feature a loyalty program while Booking.com wants no part of it.
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AMD Shares Skyrocket; Rumor About Licensing Deal With Intel Surfaces
By Andy Franco , Feb 07, 2017 12:15 PM EST
The shares of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) are up over 10 per cent to $13.49 per share in Monday's afternoon trading. As of the moment, 32 percent of the graphics chips industry shares belong to the company. It's a big deal considering that the industry is worth billions of dollars.
Meeting The Strategic Objectives
The graphics chipmaking giant has been aiming to climb back up by introducing new chips. According Lisa Su, the AMD CEO, the company was able to meet their strategic objectives in 2016 as it successfully executed product roadmaps, regained share in key markets, strengthened its financial foundation, and delivered annual revenue growth. "As we enter 2017, we are well positioned and on-track to deliver our strongest set of high-performance computing and graphics products in more than a decade," said Su.
According to Wall Street Analyst at Loop Capital Markets, Betsy Van Hees, AMD has set the bar very high in 2017 leaving the company no room for error. The analyst, who has an AMD buy rating recently increased the price target to $12.
Partnership With Long-Time Rival Intel
In addition, there have been reports that AMD is striking up a relationship with long-time rival Intel Corp. Rumor has it that the company will license its graphics chip designs to Intel. Rumors of the licensing deal with Intel have not been addressed by an AMD official.
Van Hees noted AMD's aggressive roll out new products as it is the first time the chipmaker has ever embarked to ramp three new products in a very short amount of time. AMD is will soon be releasing Ryzen, a desktop processor which is based on it's the Zen architecture has been set for an early release in March; Vega, a graphics processing chip will arrive in the second quarter, and a server-based product which is codenamed as Naples.
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Q: opengl slow on texture blit I called this function once per frame and it took my FPS from >400 to 33. Why?
sw blt(const PtRect *dstRect, Texture *src, const PtRect *srcRect, RenderDevice::bltFlags flags=RenderDevice::bltDefault)
{
    assert(src);
    GL_Texture *glsrc = dynamic_cast<GL_Texture*>(src);
    if (glsrc == 0)
        return -1;

    PtRect srcRect2(0, 0, src->width, src->height);
    if (srcRect == 0)
        srcRect = &srcRect2;

    PtRect dstRect2(0, 0, srcRect->makeWidth(), srcRect->makeHeight());
    if (dstRect == 0)
        dstRect = &dstRect2;

    glColor4f(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);

    glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
    glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, *glsrc->getTex());

    glBegin( GL_QUADS );
    glNormal3f( 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f );
    for (size_t i=0; i<350; i++)
    {
        glTexCoord2f( srcRect->left /src->width, srcRect->top/src->height);    glVertex2f(dstRect->left,  dstRect->top);
        glTexCoord2f( srcRect->right/src->width, srcRect->top/src->height);    glVertex2f(dstRect->right, dstRect->top);
        glTexCoord2f( srcRect->right/src->width, srcRect->bottom/src->height); glVertex2f(dstRect->right, dstRect->bottom);
        glTexCoord2f( srcRect->left /src->width, srcRect->bottom/src->height); glVertex2f(dstRect->left,  dstRect->bottom);
    }
    glEnd();
    return 0;
}

A: Hard to say without more details, potential problems could be using a too large texture, causing software fallbacks in your driver. Also you appear to loop 350 times for no obvious reason.
You may be able to improve performance by building an array of data and then calling glDrawArrays instead of issuing each glTexCoord/glVertex pair individually

A: For performance you should load your textures in an init function and use a list to display then later on the main render function, for example:
// Generate texture object ID
glGenTextures(1, img);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, img);

// Set Texture mapping parameters
glTexParameterf(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GL_REPEAT);
glTexParameterf(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, GL_REPEAT);
glTexParameterf(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_LINEAR);
glTexParameterf(GL_TEXTURE_2D,GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_LINEAR);

LoadBMP("texture.bmp");

Then on the main render function you have something like:
// Front face of Cube
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, img);
glBegin(GL_QUADS);
glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(-fSize, fSize, fSize);
glTexCoord2f(0.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f(-fSize, -fSize, fSize);
glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 1.0f);
glVertex3f(fSize,-fSize, fSize);
glTexCoord2f(1.0f, 0.0f);
glVertex3f(fSize,fSize, fSize);
glEnd();

As you can see you can wrap the texture on the parameters instead of repeating it over and over in a loop.

A: Maybe you are not using Textures with of a power of 2 (e.g. 1024x768 instead of 1024x512)?

A: It looks like you draw the quad onto the screen 350 times for some reason. If this is full screen, then texturing every pixel on the screen 350 times a frame is bound to damage your performance.


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Slovakia is a small and colorful country in Central Europe, full of lovely surprises. Let's explore it together! Read our quick reference guide with basic information about Slovakia.
Where is Slovakia?
Slovakia is located in the middle of Europe.
Surrounding countries:
Czech Republic (west)
Austria (south-west)
Hungary (south)
Ukraine (east)
Poland (north)
Tourist info & tips
What every visitor should know before coming to Slovakia: Visas and embassies
Official name Slovak Republic
Name in native language Slovensko ("Slovakia"), or Slovenska republika ("Slovak Republic")
Capital city Bratislava
Official language Slovak
Population 5.500.000
Electricity 220V
Phones +421 xxx xxx xxx / 00421 xxx xxx xxx
European Union and NATO member state since 2004
Slovak is a western Slavic language, very closely related to Czech and relatively close to Polish and the languages of the former Yugoslavia.
Nationalities: 85% Slovak (western Slavic in origin), 10% Hungarian, 3% Roma. Significant smaller nationalities include Czechs, Ruthenians, Ukranians, Germans and Poles.
Religions: 63% Roman Catholic, 9% Protestant, 4% Greek Catholic, 2% other churches.
Type of government: republic, with parliamentary democracy.
Head of government: Prime Minister, generally the leader of the largest party in parliament, this post holds most real executive authority.
Legislative body: National Council, a one-house parliament elected at least once every four years.
Head of state: President, elected once every five years, largely ceremonial.
History, identity and culture
Modern Slovakia was born as an independent nation-state in 1993, when it peacefully separated from the Czech Republic, splitting from the former Czechoslovakia by mutual agreement. (There has been no organized conflict of any kind in Slovakia since 1945.) Many foreigners still confuse Slovakia with Slovenia of the former Yugoslavia.
No discussion of Slovak culture can take place without a nod to the country's folkloric traditions. From music and dance ensembles, to handicrafts, open-air markets and festivals, we explore how folk traditions are alive and well in modern-day Slovakia, and continue to receive widespread support.
Slovakia's path through history | Slovak folklore
National flag of Slovakia
Slovak flag consists of white upper strip, the middle is blue and bottom red. These colors are conventional Slavonic shades. They symbolize Slavonic harmony and independence.
The double cross represents Christian tradition and memory of St. Cyril and St. Methodius, the two missionaries who came to Great Moravia in 863 to strengthen Christianity. They created the first alphabet to be used for Slavonic manuscripts and wrote the first Slavic Civil Code, which was used in Great Moravia.
The three hills represent Tatra, Matra and Fatra mountains. (Matra lies in the north of Hungary.)
The Slovak anthem
The name of the Slovak national anthem is Nad Tatrou sa blýska (Lightning over the Tatras). The lyric was written by Janko Matúška in February 1844. The melody came from the folk song "Kopala studienku".
Matuska and some other students left the prestigious Bratislava´s Lutheran lyceum to protest against the removal of their favorite teacher Ludovit Stur from his position by the Lutheran Church. The lyrics reflected the students' frustration. Ludovit Stur was an author of the Slovak Literary Language.
When Czechoslovakia fell apart in 1993, another stanza was added to the anthem and it resulted in Slovak national anthem.
There is lightning over the Tatras,
thunderclaps wildly beat.
Let us stop them, brothers,
for all that, they will disappear,
the Slovaks will revive.
That Slovakia of ours
has been fast asleep so far,
but the thunder's lightning
is rousing it
to come to.
Nad Tatrou sa blýska,
hromy divo bijú. (2x)
Zastavme ich, bratia,
veď sa ony stratia,
Slováci ožijú. (2x)
To Slovensko naše
posiaľ tvrdo spalo, (2x)
ale blesky hromu
vzbudzujú ho k tomu,
aby sa prebralo. (2x)
Currency in Slovakia is Euro (EUR)
Euro is an official currency in Slovakia since 1st of January 2009. Any Euro coin is valid in any country of the Euro area. Slovak Republic adopted the Euro after 16 years of using Slovak Koruna. The conversion rate was 1 EUR = 30,126 Slovak Crown.
Money can be changed at most bank branches throughout the country, or at currency exchange locations (often a booth, situated at airports, larger train stations, tourist areas and most larger towns). Banks are usually open 9:00-17:00.
Slovak language
Slovak alphabet contains 46 letters. As we use diacritic, it changes pronunciation of letters and words. The following phrases are the ones, you may use when you come to Slovakia and want to start and keep simple conversation:
BASIC PHRASES
Hello. Dobrý deň. (DOH-bree deñ)
How are you? Ako sa máte? (AH-koh sah MAA-teh?)
Well, thanks. Ďakujem, dobre. (JAH-koo-yehm DOH-breh)
What is your name? Ako sa voláte? (AH-koh sah VOH-laa-tyeh)
My name is ______ . Volám sa______ . (VOH-laam sah_____.)
Pleased to meet you. Teší ma. (TYEH-shee mah)
Please. Prosím.(PROH-seem)
Thank you. Ďakujem.(JAH-koo-yehm)
You're welcome. Prosím. (PROH-seem) Nie je za čo. (NYEE_eh yeh ZAH choh)
Yes. Áno. (AAH-noh) Hej (HAY) (informal)
No. Nie. (NYEE_eh)
Help! Pomoc! (POH-mohts!)
Good morning. Dobré ráno. (DOH-brehh RAA-noh)
Good afternoon. Dobrý deň. (DOH-bree deh-NYEH)
Good evening. Dobrý večer. (DOH-bree VEH-chehr)
Good night. Dobrú noc. (DOH-broo nohts)
I don't understand. Nerozumiem.(NEH-roh-zoo-myehm)
The Slovak language belongs to the languages which are difficult to learn. We decline the nouns and conjugate verbs. The pronunciation is the same like spelling. There are language schools in Slovakia, where you can learn our language. If you cannot find the school in your area, you may use online language courses.
Holidays in Slovakia
State holidays and Sundays
On most holidays and on Sundays, there is little change, although most people have the day off from work.
Offices of firms, state administration (including post offices) and all other organizations including all schools will be closed.
Shopping in larger stores and in shopping malls carries on, even if smaller stores often close or have limited hours.
Culture (museums and performances), recreation, and eating out all continue, often with extra gusto.
Hotels almost always continue to operate, but if your stay includes a major holiday it's best to double-check.
Travel is easy: petrol stations with convenience stores are almost always open 24 hours per day and 365 days per year; and public transportation in cities and between cities continues, though on a limited schedule.
The exception to this rule comes on Slovakia's major holidays (this is an unofficial distinction): 25 and 26 December, 1 January, and the Easter weekend. In most areas, a few stores and restaurants will remain open (at petrol stations if you're desperate), but most are closed.
The following holidays are celebrated in Slovakia:
January 1st – Independence Day; New Year Day
July 5th – Holiday of Saint Cyril and Metod
August 29th –Slovak National Uprising
September 1st – Constitution day
November 17th – Day of Fight for Democracy
January 6th – Epiphany
March to April – Easter
September 15th – Our Lady of Sorrows
November 1st – All Saints' Day
December 24th – Christmas Eve
December 25th – 1st Christmas Day
December 26th – 2nd Christmas Day
May 1st – Labor Day
May 8th – Victory over Fascism Day
COMMEMORATIVE HOLIDAYS
August 4th – Day of Matica Slovenská
end of October – start of November – Autumn holidays
end of December – start of January – Christmas holidays
mid February – start of March – Spring holidays
end of March – start of April – Easter holidays
June 29th – September 1st – Summer holidays
Slovak art
To speak of Slovak culture and art is to note a tapestry of traditions, customs, folklore, and on the same breath mention its staging under different regimes, and the European context overarching it. Long steeped in an agrarian life while being subjects under the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and then after WWII, as comrades within a Soviet satellite state, Slovaks sought to preserve not only their language but also all those distinctive markings of their culture.
Along the way, Slovaks have also embraced artistic, intellectual, and political movements taking place in Europe, integrating into its particular context. Taken together, all of these influences have left an indelible mark on the "little big country," offering an impressive array of cultural manifestations with which to represent it.
Anyone interested in Slovak or Central/Eastern European culture and art will find no shortage of folklore and legends, music, films, art, and literature to give voice to the country, its people, and their concerns.
Slovak legends
Slovakia is replete with gothic churches, medieval towns, macabre torture inventions, as well as majestic mountains and looming castles along bucolic rural landscapes. Fittingly, legend after legend arose in such surroundings, many of which were based on enigmatic historical figures.
It's not surprising that given its landscape and historical past, countless Slovak legends based on captivating figures arose. Slovakia's many gothic churches, medieval towns, torture recordings, looming mountains and castles serve as open invitations to the stretches of imagination. But then again, the best legends rely on a least some smidgeon of truth. Here are some prominent historical figures to give rise to the stuff of legends.
Elizabeth Bathory
Known to many as the "Blood Countess," Elizabeth Bathory was the daughter of powerful Hungarian aristocrats. Related to warlords, clerics, bishops, she enjoyed nearly absolute power. In her castle of Cachtice, she exercised that power with a sadistic zealousness that eventually garnered her reputation of being the world's first female mass murderer. Legend has it that, upon accidentally discovering the youthful effect of blood on the skin, she took to bathing in the blood of young women.
The White Lady of Levoča
Slovakia has three White Ladies; one from Bratislava, one from Bojnice Castle, and another from Levoca. The one from Levoca is based on Julia Korponayova, who, when spying for the Hapsburg emperor in Levoca, a town which was presently besieged by the Hapsburg army outside its walls, became the lover of the rebel Hungarian baron. During the night, she stole his keys, and let the army in, leading to the fall of the town. This didn't stop her from meeting an unfortunate end, however.
Juraj Janosik
Considered the Slovak Robin Hood for reputedly stealing from the rich to give to the poor, Janosik is a beloved figure in Slovak folk art. He gave rise to many legends, myths, and is a constant mainstay of Slovak literature. Noted for his bravery as a soldier and as a symbol of resistence, Janosik is equally esteemed by Poles; but Janosik's origins lies in Terchova – a town in Northern Slovakia. Legends surrounding him run aplenty, involving his faultless character as an outlaw with a purpose. One of the better known one is Janosik's Fist, involving his punishment of an arrogant tyrant on a boulder.
Hedviga
After King Philip of Spis Castle killed the son of a Polish monarch, legend has it that the Polish king sought revenge by killing King Philip's daughter Barbora. While Barbora and her sister Hedviga were alone in the castle, the Polish king seized the castle. Hedviga, believing her sister to be dead, jumped from the castle's highest tower. After she jumped, a mysterious face appeared on a wall of the castle that is said to bear a striking resemblance to Hedviga.
Other legends include:
The Virgin Tower, featuring about a certain knight, Nicolas, whose bride met her tragic end from a tower in the Devin Castle.
Three Twigs of King Svätopluk, about the Great Moravia king's lesson of strength through unity.
The Well of Love, involving a Turkish noble reclaiming his love by digging a well for years until it reached water, and how his efforts were rewarded.
Bratislava Castle, relating to curious facts about why the castle has such curious characteristics.
Slovak films
What better way to get a sense of Slovak life than to watch it; here we point you to some remarkable films and filmmakers to come out of Slovakia since the Oscar-winning Shop on the High Street first gave a hint of the country's tremendous filmmaking talent.
If you have a soft spot for European art-house cinema, you will want to turn your gaze to Slovak films and their many auteur filmmakers. Ignited by the worldwide New Wave movement which occurred elsewhere in the 60s, Slovak filmmakers together with their Czech counterparts brought an array of classics to world cinema while portraying a unique setting and place.
Slovak film in the 60s gave rise to many innovative films, influencing generations of filmmakers since; these achievements are especially note-worthy considering the restrictive environment in which films were made, relying as they did on state approval. (Unsurprisingly, many lauded films were banned at the time.)
With a penchant for experimentation, Slovak films dabbled in surrealism, magical realism, and avant-garde filming techniques. Dazzling montages, theatrical techniques, puppetry (a Czech and Slovak tradition) and mime are just some of the landmarks of Slovak filmmaking at its best.
Starting with the drama Shop on High Street (1966), which won an Oscar for its humane portrayal of the relationship between conscience and the pressure to go against it during WWII while the country briefly served as a German puppet state, Slovak filmmakers have produced a slate of films that are as poignant as they are visually appealing. What's really interesting here is how Slovak filmmakers often treat serious topics with a deftness and wry sense of humor that, bit by bit, manages to encapsulate the mood of the country.
Notable Slovak directors:
Juraj Herz
Martin Sulik
Slovakia is a small country, but rich in good genes. Let's see who made himself famous and brought his homeland glory.
Adriana Sklenaříková
Artist, parents from Slovakia
Miroslav Šatan
Juraj Jánošík
Slovak Robin Hood
Svätopluk
King of Great Moravia
Aurel Stodola
Steam and gas turbines
Marián Hossa
Ondrej Nepela
Fgure-skating
Timea Majorová
Daniela Hantuchová
Ľudovít Fulla
Painter, illustrator


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Email service provider ExactTarget has published a series of reports, the most recent (#8) of which details why consumers end brand relationships (permission-based email and social channels like Twitter and Facebook), how they do it, and "the impact of this 'social break-up' on consumers' intent to do business with brands in the future."
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Facebook: 44% said the company posted too frequently, 43% said because their wall was becoming too crowded, 38% because the content was becoming repetitive, and 26% because they too advantage of a one-time offer.
Email: 54% because emails come too frequently from a particular brand, 49% because content became boring or repetitive over time, 47% because they're overwhelmed by the amount of email they receive, and 25% of consumers said they unsubscribe because the email content was irrelevant from the start.


This vase is handcrafted out of solid local spalted birch and is the perfect accent to any decor. This piece is finished with polyurethane and paste wax. Dimensions are approximately 7" high and 6" diameter for the exterior and the interior is 6'' deep and 4 inches in diameter. Made in Newfoundland.


A brand-new experience has been planned for students interested in learning more about apprenticeship and training programs with the Operating Engineers Local 158 in Glenmont and the Carpenters Local 291 in Albany. This is an opportunity for students who are interested in pursuing careers in either carpentry or heavy equipment operation and mechanics. The trip is also designed for students who remain undecided in their plans, but could benefit from exposure to outstanding employment possibilities and learning experiences.
Attached please find a copy of the permission slip for this trip, which will take place during the school day on April 15th. Participation is limited to the first 30 students who have submitted a signed consent form to the Main Office.
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Android: not only another word for "robot." It's also a great option for anybody who would like a mobile device unshackled by the closed os's used by certain other smartphone manufacturers. The end result is a collection of games that's nearly bottomless. Even though you've been navigating the Google Play search for years, it can be hard to understand where you can start. That's where we come in. Below, here's our set of the dozen best games for Android devices.
The newest gaming sensation to emerge in 2020 is Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout. The charming game, that adds a little bit of game-show spin to the battle royale genre, has been a resounding success.
Fall Guys has spawned multiple apps and games trying to get aboard the hype train and reap the advantages of the trend. The game has even overtaken industry juggernaut Fortnite in regards to streams.
You may find tens and thousands of Android games on the Google Play Store. But don't you think that it is quite difficult to discover the actual gems? Yes, it seems to be very difficult. Furthermore, it's too embarrassing to locate a game boring just once you have downloaded it. For this reason I decided to compile typically the most popular Android games. I do believe it could come as a good help to you if you are really willing to take pleasure from your leisure by playing Android games.
Fall Guys is one of the most fun games players have noticed in recent years and is an infinitely more laid-back experience compared to standard battle royale. Up to now, there hasn't been a Fall Guys app for mobile devices.
However, there are plenty of games you can download from Google Play Store for the time being.
We're after dark half way point in 2020. One suspects that for most of us, 2021 can't come soon enough.
Still, there's no knocking the caliber of the mobile games we've been getting of late. Over the past 30 days roughly we've received some absolutely killer ports alongside a smattering of first class mobile originals.
July was heavy on the'killer ports'part of this equation. But several of those have already been of a very good quality, with one or two of these selections arguably playing best on a touchscreen.
Have you been playing anything different in July? Let's know in the comments below.
Google Play Store can provide you the most effective and award-winning games that could help you get rid of your boredom through the lockdown brought on by the ongoing global pandemic. The app downloader will provide you several types of games such as Strategy Games, Sports Games, Shooters, RPGs, and many more.
If you're new to Android, or perhaps wish to have new games to play in your smartphone, here are some of the best games in Google Play Store that you'll find right now.
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Planet of the Apes Online Slot
Planet of the Apes is a five-reel, 20-payline online video slot produced by Net Entertainment. This amazing slot is inspired by the hit movie that had a couple of reboots, making it a movie with the large following. This slot was well thought through with two unique sets of reels. It has a brilliant design and graphics, and there is an interesting intro movie that is definitely worth watching.
Planet of the Apes currently has a rating of 5.0 / 5 from 1 Votes
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PLANET OF THE APES ONLINE SLOT REVIEW
Progressive Jackpot: No
Paylines: 20 + 20
RTP: 96.33%
Planet of the Apes is a five-reel slot that has three rows and 20 fixed paylines on each set of reels. Those dual reels represent the various parts of the life of Caesar, who is the leader of the ape army after his escape from captivity. Each reel should be treated as a distinct set during normal gameplay but they may function together during the special features.
Before you can go over and take your place in this raging war, you need to set your bets. Coin denominations go from 0.01 to 1, and can be set by clicking "Coin Value +/-" section. With "Level +/-" you can set the number of coins per line. By clicking on "Max Bet" you will set the maximum bet available. "Spin" will set the reels in motion, whereas "Autoplay" will turn the reels automatically for a chosen number of times without interruption.
The Planet of the Apes video slot is a split-screen machine that, in more ways than one, should be considered as two games in one. On the left, a set of reels is devoted to Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and on the right, another is themed on Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
On each side, fans of the movies would definitely appreciate the intricate artwork that is unmistakably rendered from each title, with a unique color scheme on each. The reels and the symbols on them are appropriately designed, with loads of premium-quality images of human and ape characters on each.
This online slot game truly captures the vibe of the more recent Planet of the Apes flicks, and as such, this would surely appeal to fans of the franchise. The special features are not as on point with the theme but the unique dual reels design and the overall game structure delivers more than enough action to satisfy both movie fans and serious players alike.
FEATURE SYMBOLS
The left reel set is called "Rise" and the symbols there include Caesar, three characters from Rise of the Planet of the Apes and then the common characters 10, J, Q, K and A.
The right reel, on the other hand, is "Dawn" and those symbols are composed of Caesar, three characters from Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and, once again, the characters 10, J, Q, K and A.
There is also a gold wild symbol on the left, a red one on the right and both will take the place of all others to make winning combinations except for the bonus/scatter icons.
Dual Feature
There's a chance this can happen before each spin and you will see one symbol chosen at random from each reel set. The reels will re-spin and any further happenings of those symbols would freeze in place or, if they land on the other side, move over to the correct side. The re-spins stop when no new matching symbols land and the payout is made.
Rise and Dawn Bonuses
This is initiated by landing the Rise bonus symbol on reel one on the left-hand side or the Dawn bonus symbol on reel five on the right-hand side and you will receive the following:
Rise Bonus = every human and ape symbol will pay out a cash prize.
Dawn Bonus = all humans and apes transform into one matching symbol.
Stacked Wilds
If a full stack of wilds covers one reel in the Rise area, it will be copied over to the corresponding reel on the Dawn set.
There are two free spins modes and they are sparked by three scatters on the Rise reel or three on the Dawn reel and they work like this:
Rise Free Spins = awards ten free spins and each wild will be collected and placed back into view for the final spin.
Dawn Free Spins = awards fifteen free spins on a set of reels with three additional flaming symbols. Each time one lands in partially fills a meter which, when full, triggers that feature – three extra spins, increased multiplier values or a human changed into a wild.


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R E G I O N A L B R I E F S
APKF members: With a view to convey Gurbani's message 'Well Being of All', two members of the Akaal Purkh Ki Fauj (APKF) arrived here on Wednesday as part of their 4,000-km long journey from Jammu and Kashmir to Kanyakumari. The volunteers paid obeisance in the Golden Temple before resuming their journey.
Heat kills truck driver: A truck driver died of scorching heat in the truck union complex in Tappa, Barnala, on Thursday afternoon. According to reports, 38-year-old Mahilo Singh fell unconscious at the union office. A doctor was called and after check up, he declared the driver dead.
Rs 34 cr approved for Ferozepur dist: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Friday approved Rs 34.5 crore for the execution of developmental works in the border district of Ferozepur. The decision was taken by Badal while presiding over a series of meetings to review the ongoing development projects in the district. The CM, out of Rs 34.5 crore, allocated Rs 7 crore for Abohar, Rs 5.75 crore for Ferozepur city, Rs 5.50 crore for Guru Har Sahai, Rs 3.25 for Zira, Rs 3 crore for Talwandi Bhai and Rs 2 crore each for Ferozepur Cantt, Makhu, Mudki, Fazilka and Mallaawala towns.
Stress on traffic rules: Children should be made aware of the traffic rules to reduce the increasing number of accidents, Director General of Punjab Police PS Gill stated this today at a Punjab Police state apex committee for community policing and state-level meeting of first-aid posts at Desh Bhagat Institute.
Parkash Singh Badal
9-hr power cut in Malerkotla: The town faced an unscheduled power cut for nearly nine hours from 10 am to 7 pm on Thursday. XEN of the Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd (PSPCL) Tarsem Chand Jindal said that the cut was due to the installation of a power line in Maloud area. Residents claimed that they also suffered due to the non-availability of drinking water as the power cut also hit the water supply in the town.
Rape attempt: Fourteen-year-old Fannaha, alias Jugnu, of Gokalpur locality, attempted to rape a 4-year-old girl near his locality for which he was booked under Section 376 and 511 of the IPC against the accused. In his statement to the police, the victim's father alleged that the boy attempted rape when he and his wife were away. On their return, they found their daughter lying naked. The boy fled away on seeing the girl's parents.
Police station: The city got its first metro railway station police station on MG Road metro station on Friday. It was inaugurated by DCP (East) Vikas Arora. This police station will cater to the needs of all five metro stations of Gurgaon.
SONEPAT
RTI activist shot at: A case has been registered against six persons, including Jai Pal, sarpanch of village Siwanka, his two sons - Jitenderand Ravinder - and Munshi Ram, head clerk in Murlana BDPO's office, for allegedly firing at an RTI activist, Jai Bhagwan, of the same village outside the BDPO's office on Wednesday. According to a complaint lodged with the police by Jai Bhagwan, he along with other villagers came to the BDPO's office for obtaining information under the RTI Act about the developmental works done in the village. Jai Pal and his sons allegedly fired at Jai Bhagwan and others as they came out of the BDPO's office. A case had been registered.
CPI flays state government: The state unit of the CPI has charged the government with false propaganda regarding its so-called strenuous efforts to uproot corruption in the state and alleged that corrupt elements are being protected by leaders and those upright officers, who are taking action against corrupt elements, are being harassed by transferring them to far-off places. CPI state unit assistant secretary Pravesh Chandel told mediapersons here that the government had suddenly transferred at least three officers who were trying to check corrupt practices of a BJP leader and his near relations at Ghumarwin in this district and now the government owed an explanation to the people.
'Prashasan Janta Ke Dwar' held: Most of the grievances of villagers were settled on the spot in the "Prashasan Janta Ke Dwar" organised by the district administration at Hobar village of the district on Friday. As many as 86 grievances were recorded in the camp. Presiding over a camp Chamba DC Devesh Kumar said these camps were being organised at various places in the district to save the public from the trouble of visiting offices for getting their problems solved. The DC directed the authorities of the Social Welfare Department to cover widows and old-aged persons under the pension schemes in a time-bound manner. He also issued directives to the PWD officials to clear debris from private land.
Football tourney begins: A sum of Rs 36 lakh will be spent on the improvement of Dhalpur Ground here and funds have been transferred to the PWD for executing the work at the earliest. Deputy Commissioner BM Nanta said this while inaugurating district seniors and juniors football competitions on Friday. Nanta said the amount had been earmarked for repair of the playground, construction of walls and net-practice, besides beautification of the ground. The DC said the state government was committed to promote sports and had made 3 per cent reservation in government jobs for sportspersons. District football association president Ram Singh said 16 teams of seniors and 13 of juniors, besides four teams of women were participating in the tournament.
Man held for torturing wife: Maya Devi, wife of Jawahar Singh of Darudhar village, reported to the police on Thursday that her husband and mother-in-law Laja Devi attempted to burn her by pouring kerosene on her on April 27. The mother and the son have been arrested in a case of alleged dowry torture. The Superintendent of Police here confirmed that a case under Sections 307, 313, 498(A) and 34 of the IPC has been registered in Banjar.
Teachers demand CPF plan: The Himachal Pradesh Government College Contract Teachers Association on Friday demanded regularisation of their services and coverage under the CPF scheme. The State Executive of the association decided to meet CM PK Dhumal and Education Minister ID Dhiman to seek fulfilment of their demands.
One dead, two hurt in mishap: One person died and two were injured when an Innova hit two scooters from behind at Dhanotu near here on Friday. The Innova was coming from Sundernagar and was on the way to Mandi. The deceased was identified as Surinder (58), a shopkeeper at BBMB colony in Sundernagar. The injured included Vinod and Vijay Kumar. A case under Sections 279, 337, 338 and 304A of the IPC has been registered. The driver of the vehicle has been arrested and was stated to be drunk.
CT scan records seized at GMCH: Acting on the complaints of bungling in various sections of the GMCH, Jammu, Minister for Medical Education RS Chib conducted a surprise check at the hospital on Friday and seized records of the CT Scan section. According to sources, Chib conducted the surprise check after people complained that fake CT scans were being conducted in the hospital, while deserving patients were being ignored.
Anantnag resident scales Mt Manaslu: Rafiq Ahmed Malik of Kuchipora village in Anantnag, who is a serving soldier in the JAK LI Regiment, has scaled the world's eighth highest peak Mount Manaslu, 8,163 metre high, in Nepal. Rafiq was part of the Indian Army expedition that successfully summited the peak, a defence spokesperson said.
Girl's body yet to be identified: The two and a half years old girl whose body was found stuffed in two sacks on Thursday morning in a compartment of the Bandra Express at the railway station here is yet to be identified. A police team from the Vikasnagar area had come to see the body, but could not identify it. Meanwhile, different teams have been formed and will be sent to Rajasthan and its nearby areas for the identification of the body, Station House Officer of the GRP said. Two tickets of Sawai Madhopur to Kota in Rajasthan were also found from the bag.
Demonstration: Members of Chayanit ITI (Industrial Training Institute), Anudeshak Sangh in Dehradun, held a rally and a demonstration outside the secretariat in Dehradun on Friday. The protesters handed over a memorandum to the chief secretary, technical education, additional secretary and director, technical education, addressing Ramesh Pokhariyal, Uttarakhand Chief Minister, demanding that their jobs be regularised. — TNS
Candidates selected as Industrial Training Institute instructors hold a demonstration in Dehradun on Friday. A Tribune photograph
Suicide bid: Following tension in the family, a woman of Shivpuri Colony attempted to commit suicide by pouring kerosene on herself on Friday morning at her house. Her husband rushed to save her but also got caught in the fire. Later, with the help of neighbours the woman was saved and was admitted to a local hospital in Premnagar from where she was referred to the Coronation Hospital.
Kumaon Briefs
Schedule for Lok Adalats prepared: The authorities in Udham Singh Nagar have prepared a roster for organising Lok Adalats across the district during this year. According to the District Judge and Chairperson of the District Legal Aid Authority Jaidev Singh, the Lok Adalats will be organised on the specified dates. He said various delayed matters pertaining to various types of cases would be taken up for on-the-spot disposal, disposal through mutual consent and resolving these by other means. He has stated that the outcome of the cases taken up at the Lok Adalats must be conveyed to the District Legal Aid Authority on the very same day.
Sustainable mountain development: A two-day meeting on sustainable mountain development (SMD) is being organised by the Central Himalayan Environmental Association (CHEA) at the Administrative Training Institute, Nainital, from Saturday. The meeting will focus on the ways and means to develop the mountain areas of India. It will be attended by prominent environmentalists and policy makers besides Uttarakhand Governor Margaret Alva. A two-day photo exhibition and competition depicting the various facets of the Himalayas will also be held on the occasion. Cash prizes would be given to the winners.
Cases of power theft: The personnel of the vigilance wing of the Power Department have nabbed heads of five households for power theft in Ramnagar. They have recovered a sum of Rs 26,000 as penalty from the defaulters residing in the Nayagaon locality. Increasing instances of power theft have been leading to the problem of low voltage in residential areas where defaulters are consuming additional power in comparison to the sanctioned load. The officials say that they had been receiving persistent complaints regarding power thefts by certain elements in the Nayagaon area and it was following these complaints that they decided to carry out surprise checks. They have stated that more such checks are likely to be conducted in other parts of the region.
9 hurt in accident: Nine members of a family were injured in a car accident near Ramnagar on Friday. It is learnt that the accident occurred when the driver of the vehicle in which they were travelling lost control over the vehicle while trying to save a Neelgai that had appeared suddenly in the middle of the road. Two of the injured are said to be serious. All the injured persons are residents of Indranagar in Haldwani and were travelling by their car to Ramnagar. The accident took place near Chhoi village located close to Ramnagar. The local villagers helped shift the injured to medical centres with the help of the 108 ambulance service.
DM upset over slow pace of work: District Magistrate of Almora DS Garbyal has expressed his displeasure at the slow pace of repairs and rehabilitation works with regards to the infrastructure destroyed during the rains last year. Speaking at a meeting convened to take stock of the works he expressed his anguish over the failure of the officials to execute works for which money had been sanctioned. He was particularly agitated over the slow pace of repairs on the highways, which have turned into a nightmare for drivers.
(Compiled by Rajeev Khanna)
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I have been using the Google Pixel 2, which is the latest and greatest Android phone out there. I chose this phone for my experiment because I wanted to leave no room for my conclusions to be colored by a bad OEM skin on top of Android or by a lower quality phone as my comparisons to iOS should be as fair as possible. Since I wanted to review Oreo, a Pixel was my only option in October, and thankfully that Pixel has top of the like specs and the best Android camera out there. This is Android how Google intended it.
Android has grown up considerably over the last decade. It's no longer a complete disaster of a user experience, and some elements have actually surpassed what Apple is doing with iOS. Notifications are much better than they are on iOS and Google Assistant is more accurate and more helpful than Siri. That said, there are a million little (and not so little) things that truly make Android a sub-par experience for me. Your mileage may vary, but the abysmal third party software available for the platform, poor inter-app communication, and countless stability issues make Android a place I only want to visit for a month or two per year, not something I can see myself using full time.
I have been wanting to get out of my echo chamber lately and this review is just what I needed. It recognises the strengths of both platforms and describes the issues beautifully.
In its first 10 years, the iPhone will have sold at least 1.2 billion units, making it the most successful product of all time.
Look at this graph ↓.
The revenues from iOS product sales will reach $980 billion by middle of this year. In addition to hardware Apple also books iOS services revenues (including content) which have totaled more than $100 billion to date.
This means that iOS will have generated over $1 trillion in revenues for Apple sometime this year.
iOS users spend more and are more loyal than those on alternative platform thus qualifying the platform as "premium" and thus adding to its value in the eyes of developers, content producers and service providers.
As the install base of iOS increases and as users hire the devices to do more and spend more time with them the virtuous cycle of value creation will continue and accelerate.
This ↑. This is what iPhone (and by extension Apple) detractors don't understand.
Instead of racing to the bottom as the market plummets, Apple appears to be taking the "high road", in a sense: They're taking refuge at the high end of the market by introducing new, more expensive MacBook Pros, with a visible differentiating feature, the Touch Bar. This is known, inelegantly, as milking a declining business, although you shouldn't expect Apple to put it that way.
Those who predict the future we call futurists.
Those who know when the future will happen we call billionaires.
In the end, iOS numbers make the decision. For its part, Apple will stay out of the way and let customers — and developers — decide when it's time to buy the last Mac.


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Unions wade into debate over requiring COVID-19 vaccine
By Alex Gangitano - 01/21/21 06:01 AM EST
Labor unions may soon find themselves in an unexpected role during the coronavirus pandemic: defending members who refuse to take a vaccine.
Unions have fought hard to get their workers near the top of the vaccination list but now are girding for the likelihood that some of their members will push back on businesses that mandate shots for employees.
The brewing standoffs carry political implications as well as public health concerns. During the 2020 campaign, unions were largely supportive of President Biden, who has set a goal of 100 million vaccinations in his first 100 days in office.
Kim Cordova, vice president of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW), said companies have to negotiate with unions before making any vaccine mandatory.
"If the employer wants to make that mandatory ... they would have to negotiate that with us. They could not change a condition of employment. They could not make that mandatory in the middle of a contract unless the state or the government required it," she said.
The UFCW, which represents 1.3 million grocery, food processing and health care workers, has pushed for states to prioritize their members in vaccine distribution.
"Obviously, we want priority, but we also want freedom of health care choices," Cordova said, adding that she expected that some workers, because of allergies or religious objections, won't want to take the vaccine.
If a union employee's contract doesn't specifically address vaccinations or include anything like medical testing and vaccines, the dispute becomes an issue of mandatory bargaining, experts said.
"If you unilaterally implement a mandatory vaccine policy when it's not been addressed in your current collective bargaining agreement, that may lead to a successful unfair labor practice charge against the employer," said Jill Lashay, a labor law expert at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC who represents management and employers.
Lashay is co-author of a report on mandating the COVID-19 vaccine that concluded different rules may apply for mandating a vaccine for employers with union members, even if taking it could be considered essential for the job.
Jay Timmons, CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers, previously told The Hill that his group would back member companies implementing vaccination requirements.
Some unions sidestepped questions about whether they would defend members who refuse to take the COVID-19 vaccine.
"While we support universal vaccination, we believe the most effective approach is to encourage our members to make informed decisions. Our view is that if workers are properly educated, they will make the decision that is best for them, their colleagues, their families and their communities consistent with their own personal beliefs and health status," said Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the largest public sector union in the U.S.
Forty-six percent of respondents said last month that they intend to take the vaccine as early as possible, up 20 percentage points from a similar poll in late October, according to a USA Today-Suffolk University survey.
Meanwhile, 32 percent of people polled said they were willing to wait for others to get the shot first, and 20 percent were unwilling to take it at any time, a number that hasn't changed from October.
The American Federation of Teachers, which represents 1.7 million educators, said in October that it plans to focus on educating its members about the importance of vaccinations.
"Employee education that includes the risks and benefits of the vaccination, as well as the known efficacy rates of the vaccine; and an informed declination for those who opt out after receiving education as described above," the union's executive council said in a resolution adopted in October.
The resolution focuses on negotiations with employers to make sure the COVID-19 vaccine is convenient and readily available for employees.
The union would not say whether it will back any members who refuse to take the vaccine.
The challenge ahead is comparable to the flu vaccination, which some companies already require their employees to take. Lashay said employers are likely on firm legal ground if the existing collective bargaining agreement permits mandatory vaccines. But some are more specific and could have clauses for illnesses like the flu.
In addition to potential clashes with union members, employers could run into issues with workers under the American Disabilities Act and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which allows for employee vaccination exemptions for certain health and religious reasons.
Richard Block, labor and employment law attorney at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo P.C., said employers should communicate with their unions if they want to mandate the COVID-19 vaccine.
"It seems to me that if an employer sits down and discusses it with the union, and is flexible enough to make some exceptions, that they may succeed in getting a mandatory program across. Those exceptions, they could be people with disabilities, it could be people with religious objections, but I think the gray area is just going to be people who feel it's unsafe," said Block, whose clients include Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions and health care organizations.
The issue isn't black and white, he said, because many union members want the vaccine and want their co-workers to get it so that the workplace is safer.
"This is going to be a really fascinating bargaining subject because you don't have to be a management-sided person to think that it's reasonable to have your workforce vaccinated," he said.
For some unions, though, that decision should be left to the individual.
"Some people may just not want to do it," Cordova, of UFCW, said. "There are some people who just don't have confidence in the vaccine yet. The problem is everything has been made so political."


Here's the new Analoguetube AT-101 recall module for the Patchrat app. For those of you unfamiliar with the brand, Analoguetube offers exquisite recreations of the original Fairchild 660 and 670 compressors. I've had the privilege of peeking under the "bonnet" and was blown away by the stellar craftsmanship. A work of visual and sonic beauty!


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Q: Stop ADK/DLL writing to console I have an ADK provided by a hardware manufacturer for connecting to and using their hardware.
The ADK is a DLL we have referenced in our project, then called and used methods based on events. The problem is that the DLL constantly writes some text to the console. The string is always the same, We need to use the console so completely turning it off is not a viable solution.
I have attempted an implementation of the TextWriter class that ignores this string but this output from the DLL does not come into the class when I breakpoint inside it.
The TextWriter we built looked like this;
public class MyTextWriter : TextWriter
{
    private TextWriter _standardOut;
    public MyTextWriter(TextWriter ConsoleOut)
    {
        this._standardOut = ConsoleOut;
    }
    public override Encoding Encoding
    {
        get
        {
            return Encoding.ASCII;
        }
    }
    public override void WriteLine(string val)
    {
        if(val != "Hello")
        {
            _standardOut.WriteLine(val);
        }
    }
}

Is there any other way to stop this DLL writing to the console?


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[Ppnews] Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Carlos Alberto Torres to be Relased July
Political Prisoner News ppnews at freedomarchives.org
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Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Wins Release on Parole
The National Boricua Human Rights Network and the
Human Rights Committee of Puerto Rico have the
great and historic pleasure of announcing that
Puerto Rican political prisoner Carlos Alberto
Torres, after serving 30 years in U.S. prisons
for his commitment to the independence of his
nation, will be released on parole in July of
this year, to reside in Puerto Rico.
This historic release is due to Carlos Alberto's
maintaining his integrity and commitment
throughout three decades behind bars, and to the
support of the people of Puerto Rico, Puerto
Rican communities in the U.S., as well as those
who support human rights throughout the world.
This broad support was key in winning his
release, and he is looking forward to expressing his gratitude in person.
For no legitimate reason, he was made to serve
almost 11 years more than his compatriots who
were released in 1999, when president Clinton
deemed their sentences to be disproportionately
lengthy. The United States stands out as the
country whose political prisoners serve among the
longest sentences in the world.
Two Puerto Rican political prisoners remain in
U.S. custody. Oscar López Rivera, who this month
will mark his 29th year in prison, is not
scheduled for release until 2023; and Avelino
González Claudio, who this month will be
sentenced to a term not to exceed 7 years. While
planning the celebration of Carlos Alberto's
release, the National Boricua Human Rights
Network and the Human Rights Committee of Puerto
Rico will continue to work for the release of
both remaining political prisoners.
in the U.S.: Alejandro Molina 312/296-7210
in Puerto Rico: Eduardo Villanueva 787/612-7840
www.Freedomarchives.org
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Diageo's female chemists are crucial to its innovation journey. To mark National Chemistry Week in the UK, Diageo celebrated the pioneering work carried out by the skilled individuals based within its Research and Development centres around the world.
Diageo has three Research and Development centres globally, based in North America, Singapore and the UK.
As a company built and sustained through innovation, the work of Diageo's liquid developers, packaging teams as well as its sensory and consumer guidance teams play an important role translating insights and ideas into products and bringing their craft to life.
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