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Sun-dried cranberries. Sucrose infused with sulfur dioxide added to retain color. These tart red berries are loaded with nutrients and antioxidants and cranberries are phytochemical powerhouses packed with five times the antioxidant content of broccoli. Antioxidants neutralize free radicals, which can damage cellular DNA and may contribute to everything from premature aging of the skin to various types of cancer. In a recent study when compared to 19 other common fruits , cranberries were found to contain the highest level of cancer-fighting antioxidant phenols. Cranberries may also be helpful in treating urinary tract infections(UTIs). This product is Gluten Free.


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When it comes to shop fronts, there's a lot that you should be taking into consideration. Not only are there a sizeable number of different materials for your shop front, but there's also some merit to giving examinations to onsite fabrication. To try and aid you with this, we're going to be looking at some of the different shop fronts which are available, and also why onsite fabrication is so crucial in the process of getting a shop front fitted.
To begin with, we're going to look at some of the different shop fronts that you could have for your business.
A lot of people, especially those who are running a more traditional shop front and are underneath a shelter, often choose to use a wooden shop front for their establishment. It is an older look and feel and is something which is much more difficult to emulate. Wooden shop fronts allow you a higher degree of customisation, as you can paint them whatever colour you like and also showcase your products in a much more aesthetically pleasing way, depending upon what they're made of.
However, when it comes to those shop fronts which aren't protected from the elements in quite the same way, aluminium is often used as the material of choice. Aluminium is the primary go-to material for the contemporary shop front and has a lot of qualities which make it the obvious choice. Not only is it strong and durable, but it is also easily mouldable into different shapes and is also resistant to the natural levels of acid which you can find in the rain, which would slowly but surely erode away a lot of other materials. It's also rust proof and recyclable, which all helps to contribute to creating a material which is long lasting and popular, as you can go many months and even years without the need to replace or adjust the metal in any way.
As well as these other two materials, some shop fronts choose to employ glass as their material of choice. Glass is admittedly easier to clean, and also showcases a lot of what it is inside the store, which means that there's a bigger possibility for advertising products and goods to people who walk past. As well as this, some people consider glass to be a sign of trust, as there's nothing hidden and everything inside the shop is visible, making the establishment an honest and open book.
In reality, what you'll find that is a lot of shopfronts do incorporate multiple elements and materials into their design. Glass is often paired with wood or metal to create a shop front which is not only durable and relevant to the goods being sold but allows customers a look inside to see what's available.
Getting the shop front fabrication right in the workshop saves time and money onsite.
Regardless of which shop front you choose for your business, you still need to have the design fabricated and worked into the store. Many people do decide to have onsite fabrication as a way to accomplish this. Onsite fabrication is where you have the design and products created and fitted for you on site, as opposed to plans being taken away and designed in a factory somewhere. It's an essential part of getting your shop front up and running, and there are a lot of benefits to having it done on site as opposed to any other way.
One of the most significant benefits is the amount of money that you'll save from taking the time to have the fabrication done on site. There's going to be additional costs which would come into play as a result of having the fabrication done off-site, and these can often be costs that a smaller shop or business could do without paying. If the fabrication is done on site and then fitted straight away, you're saving yourself a lot of costs, which makes manufacturing a brilliant choice for businesses.
Another reason why onsite fabrication is essential is that you'll get a better quality of job when you go with an onsite manufacture as opposed to any other kind of fabrication. When other kinds of fabrications are used, they'll take the measurements and then go and create it in a factory, which is all well and good until you realise it doesn't quite fit into place. This presents an issue as you'd have to amend the measurements, figure out what was wrong in the first place, and then spend money to try again. On-site fabrication is a better choice because you're there to have a look at the building, get a feel for the grooves and curves of the shape you're designing, and then make any minute adjustments as and where they're needed. This makes it more likely to fit in the first time and not be a problem, which makes on-site fabrication a cost-effective way to get a shop front set up.
Overall, there's a different shop front for every kind of business, and the site you do choose will vary quite a bit on the type of wares you offer, and also whether you need protection from the rain or not. Shops that are based somewhere out of the way of the rain may well find that they can get a wooden shop front, whereas those that don't need to think in more practical terms. Not only that, but there's a definite advantage to using on-site fabrication. Shops who have their fronts created with on-site fabrication will find that it is a far more cost-effective way of doing things, as you don't need to worry about all of the issues which would usually be faced such as the front not being an exact fit, or having to pay the costs to have it made elsewhere. The on-site fabrication is a cost-effective and sensible choice for shop owners who may well have the money to work on a trial and error basis, but also don't want to part with it unless necessary.
Here at Aluminium Alphamet we install shop fronts throughout the UK and this shop front installation in Stoke-on-Trent is another prime example of our skills of installing and fabricating aluminium shop fronts to suit all types of businesses no matter what your needs are. Our team worked with the client for this Fish and Chip shop and the brief was clear, they were not your average chippy and wanted the shop front to show this.
Working with our close partners LCS Building Services who were working on the refurbishment and overall design on this project we installed this shop front on time, to budget and without any issues proving that when it comes to aluminium shop front installations in Stoke and the UK, we will be hard to beat on professionalism and price.
Below is an image of the finished installation of the shop front installation and another happy customer.
If you are looking for a tried and tested shop front installation company in the Stoke on Trent area or Staffordshire, then why not speak to a member of our shop front team and we can provide you with a free no obligation quote.


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Titan Publishing Group, the UK's leading publisher of licensed film and TV entertainment titles and genre fiction, are currently recruiting for an Editorial Assistant – Fiction.
We're looking for a highly organised, enthusiastic individual to join our busy fiction division in our London office. This position offers the right candidate a unique opportunity to learn the ins and outs of the editorial process. As well as providing general administrative support to the editorial team, the role will include liaison with authors and licensors, proofreading and copyediting, writing jacket copy and reading submissions. You will work closely with internal departments such as Sales, Marketing, Contracts, Rights, Production, and Design, and help ensure projects keep to schedule.
The ideal candidate will be educated to degree level or have equivalent experience and must have excellent written and communication skills along with strong computer skills, including Word and Excel. InDesign skills are desirable. You must be well organised, highly efficient and able to set priorities and meet deadlines under pressure.
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Please note that we recommend that you do not use customized CSS and Optimizely at the same time on your platform. However, if you have configured CSS using Docebo's Branding and Look & Feel, you want to make sure you have saved all changes and customized the CSS BEFORE using Optimizely on your platform.
To activate theOptimizely app in your platform, log into your LMS as the Superadmin. Access the Admin Menu from the gear icon in the header, then press the Add New Apps button.
Select the Third Party Integrations tab from the tab menu. Find the Optimizely app in the list of apps in this tab, then press the Activate Now button in the app's row. Read the description in the pop up box, then press the Activate Now button. The app is now active in your platform.
To begin your configuration, access the Admin Menu, then find the Optimizely section and press the Manage subitem. On the main management page for Optimizely, flag the option to Enable the app, then press Save Changes. You will also see the box below that allows you to add a JS code from Optimizely. To do so, let's take a look at the integration from Optimizely's side.
Begin by logging into your Optimizely account. Then, on the homepage, press the New Experiment button. In the pop up box, type in the name of your new experiment, then enter the URL of your platform. Please note that you should log into your LMS before entering the URL into the corresponding text box in Optimizely. You should have active logins in two tabs on the same browser, one in your Docebo LMS and one in Optimizely.
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Starting the experiment will make the interface live on your platform. Now, you need to copy the JS code from the pop up box and paste it into the corresponding text box on the management page for the Optimizely app in your LMS (you can refer to the steps in the first section of the manual if you need to reminder of how to access that page).
Now, any time that you make a change in the Optimizely editor, make sure that you Save Changes to an existing project before trying to view it on the platform. Likewise, every time you make a new change in an experiment that is already embedded into your platform, it's recommended to log out of your LMS, clear the cookies and cache in your browser, then log back into the platform to view the changes.
You can also use audience targeting and perform A/B testing on your Docebo LMS with Optimizely. By doing so, you can create an audience to deicide which users see the platform that has been changed in Optimizely, and the platform that doesn't show the Optimizely changes. To learn how to perform these actions in Optimizely, please refer to this manual in the Optimizely Knowledge Base.


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By Tom and Ray Magliozzi
Published Mon, Mar 21, 2011
Dear Tom and Ray: I have a question about something that happened to one of the vehicles our company uses. We have a 2005 Ford Explorer that is not used very much in the wintertime. When we tried to start it one cold morning, we thought the battery was weak, because it cranked but didn't start. We had our mechanic come out, but he found that it wasn't the battery. When he tried to start the car, he hit the gas, and a chunk of ice shot out of the tailpipe. When he hit the gas again, another chunk flew out. He had no idea how so much condensation could have built up in the tailpipe area. What could have caused this? Thanks!
-- Kate
Tom: Sounds like you ordered the Explorer with the optional icemaker. But aren't those usually built into the door?
Ray: I don't think it's condensation, Kate. I can't imagine how you could build up enough condensation to freeze and fully block the tailpipe.
Tom: That's why the car wouldn't start, by the way. When the ice blocked the exhaust from getting out, there was no room for fresh air and gasoline to come in. It was an arctic version of a potato in the tailpipe.
Ray: I think the water came in the same way it went out -- through the tailpipe. How could this have happened? There are two likely scenarios. Scenario 1 is that someone backed into a snowbank.
Tom: Let's say you were parking the Explorer, and you backed into a pile of snow. That wouldn't be enough to stop a running engine, but it would have deposited a serious amount of water in the tailpipe -- which would then freeze, preventing the car from starting.
Ray: Scenario 2 involves neighborhood kids who didn't get an Xbox for Christmas and needed to find other ways to entertain themselves.
Tom: In either case, I think it's unlikely to happen again, Kate. But in case it does, keep some club soda and a twist of lime nearby.
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WATCH: Jenna Ellis Shreds Bill Maher's Election Take and It's Delicious
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Trump campaign Senior Legal Adviser Jenna Ellis on Friday shredded HBO's Bill Maher for asking why so many people are congratulating Joe Biden for a projected win.
"Why do you think so many people on the right, including people like Rupert Murdoch, Karl Rove, Erdewan – a strong man of Turkey – the Pope, China now congratulating Biden?" Maher asked. "Why have so many people have come over to this idea, 'Okay, America had a free and fair election, we're congratulating the new guy, that's how it works, you win some, you lose some.' Why?"
"Well, China is definitely congratulating Joe Biden because they know they can control him. Beijing Biden is really something that needs to be looked at," Ellis clapped back.
"Well, I walked right into that one, didn't I?" Maher said, clearly defeated.
"Yeah, you really did," she said with a laugh.
"Alright, Jenna. You got me there," Maher said with a smirk.
"So China congratulating Biden isn't really a good thing," Ellis said. "We have always had contested elections, through the legal channels, through the recounts. Just because we have the Pope or somebody on media who is congratulating Joe Biden, no states have certified their results. And that's all that we're asking, is to make sure that the results that are certified are the legitimate count. I think that is absolutely fair and every American should agree to that, just like Al Gore, the Democrat candidate did in 2000."
"I walked into that one, didn't I? Alright Jenna, you got me there," @BillMaher admits after inadvertently setting up @JennaEllisEsq for her "Beijing Biden" zinger. #RealTime pic.twitter.com/5xmA2lHz5s
— Brent Baker (@BrentHBaker) November 14, 2020
At the end of the day, it doesn't matter what media pundits, comedians or our adversaries think. At the end of the day what matters is that we have an honest election, where questions of voting irregularities and potential voter fraud are addressed and handled. If all of those things are investigated and litigated and Biden comes out victorious, more people will congratulate him. But, as Jenna said, China congratulating Biden isn't exactly a good thing, especially when Hunter allegedly had shady business dealings going on over there.
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for The strong growth and overall state of economic wellbeing that today is synonymous with Malta is no coincidence. Rather, it is the result of a number of key strategic decisions, taken over a number of years, which have contributed to the development and stability of our island republic. Political, economic, social and educational leaders have significantly influenced the way Malta has grown, and continues to grow, in spite of the turbulent circumstances that have hit our shores.
Historically, the island's geographical and strategic position in the middle of the Mediterranean has been a key driver in the various stages of its social, political and economic development. The post-Second World War stage was significant, as we remained a strategic island fortress that was used as a base for the British Navy, an "unsinkable aircraft carrier" as Winston Churchill himself put it. This role created the need for a variety of economic and logistical structures for Malta to be effective. Following the island's independence in 1964, and especially after becoming a republic in 1974, the economy slowly evolved into one driven by the manufacturing sector, as well as by the development of tourism. The latter of these involved many energetic entrepreneurs who catered for the needs of what would become a booming hospitality industry. In the years that followed, the country managed to successfully find a balanced economy by moving away from the relatively low value-added manufacturing sector to much higher value-added service sectors, with an emphasis on the financial services sector and a more focused, export-oriented and high value-added manufacturing industry.
These strategies resulted in Malta being able to retain its economic development in spite of a severe European recession, supported by a resilient export sector, a professional and cost-effective services sector, a strong tourism sector, and the many ancillary services required to support these. The economy was also kept buoyant by steady private consumption. In fact, this ensured that the island economy would be built around a myriad of family-run businesses in the form of small traders, importers, distributors, retailers, IT service providers and legal service providers, all operating hand-in-hand with a well-structured and well-regulated financial services sector. This thriving economic development led to the creation of a company registry that now contains in excess of 60,000 entries, still mostly family-owned and run, besides a number of sole traders. However, one cannot ignore the presence of the many significant global brands that also operate here, in the financial services sector as well as in ICT and manufacturing. The economy is now very open, and relies on international trade both inside and outside the EU.
In spite of the various turbulent events that have transpired relatively close to our shores and further afield, Malta's leaders have managed to consistently weather the storm and carefully handle the various challenging circumstances. In the current economic environment, there is a lot to be said for traditional banking services built on cautious and solid foundations. These make a country's banking system very resilient, while also providing the level of access to finance that companies require from a well-developed banking infrastructure. It is safe to say that over the years, banks have supported the economy by providing a much-needed level of liquidity, flexibility and mobility of depositor funds. Furthermore, this has had the domino effect of generating income through money supply and turnover, creating value, wealth and economic growth.
The Malta Stock Exchange has, in its part, acted as a catalyst for establishing and developing the Maltese capital market. By creating the circumstances for issuers, as capital seekers, and investors, as capital providers, to meet at a well-regulated, transparent and efficient marketplace, it has allowed more direct, efficient interaction between investors and listed companies, going back 23 years. During this period, the Exchange has appropriately focused its main efforts on the operations that surround its primary function – the trading of listed financial instruments, together with the necessary clearing and settlement processes and management of the post-trading infrastructure. This has been a successful growth phase that has seen the listing of over 40 companies, through equity and bond issues, and the issuance of over €15bn in equity, corporate and government bonds, and treasury bills.
This success must be seen in the context of the fact that it took place on a developing island economy with a GDP of €6.5bn and a population of just over 400,000. One should also appreciate that a significant level of this investment came from Maltese private and institutional investors. The critical mass of market capitalisation today stands at over €10bn and there is an appetite for new opportunities for investment, ensuring that subsequent issues are likely to be consistently successful. This level of investor confidence in the market, combined with the increasingly entrepreneurial private sector, has created an environment that allows the capital market to coexist with the traditional banking sector. It also ensures a fairly regular supply of new listings and related investment opportunities coming to market.
The Malta Stock Exchange is still growing. Key strategic changes have been made to increase the level of international exposure and create networking opportunities. These, together with the EU regulatory framework, have resulted in higher international visibility, access to new markets and the possibility to develop products that cater to domestic, as well as international, market needs. Furthermore, in our SME-driven economy, which is mostly built on family-run businesses, we feel that the circumstances are right for attracting privately-owned, family-run companies to the capital market. This could be through the sale or issue of new equity, or the issue of corporate bonds. The benefits of seeking a listing are clear: access to new capital in a cost-effective manner, without the need to put up collateral, the branding and corporate identity of being a listed company, and the valuation and visibility of the business in a very well-monitored market. One cannot overestimate the value of being a listed company when seeking international markets, as this gives the company additional credibility when marketing itself overseas. Of course, the listing of equity of family-run businesses would also create the additional benefit of creating an exit route for existing shareholders, who may have a relatively diluted stake in the business. Succession planning is something that is often overlooked, and it is clear that businesses need to prepare for when they move into second and third generation levels of ownership.
SMEs will remain the backbone of our economy. They are key to sustaining economic growth, employment, opportunity creation, and goods and services provision. By continuing to focus on SME development as well as developing other networking and structural opportunities, the Exchange will continue to grow the domestic market while implementing the vision of the its executive management to develop the international capital market in Malta. We have all the right ingredients: connectivity and technology, professionalism and skills, infrastructure, and a regulatory framework. Put together, these make a compelling argument that the Maltese capital market will continue to develop in interesting ways in the years to come.
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The global prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is 25%. It is considered to be endemic in Europe and a major potential threat to public health. Yet it appears to receive very limited attention. EASL International Liver Foundation aims to place the spotlight on NALFD and take the first important step needed to generate a call to action by developing an understanding of what government and key stakeholders such as medical associations and patient groups are currently doing.
The NASH-CORE study, led by Professor Jeffrey Lazarus, will systematically review the relevant policies European countries have in place to address NAFLD and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), the most serious form of NAFLD.
The results of NASH-CORE will be presented in conjunction with the First EASL NAFLD summit, which is being held in Rome, 9-11 November, 2017.


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Q: Concat fields in load statement I have a simple load statement:
LOAD FIELDA,
     FIELDB,
     FIELDC,
     FIELDD,
     FIELDE
FROM
[C:\Users\XXX\data.QVD]
(qvd);

This loads all the data fine.
If i add an expression into a straight table it gives me the concatenated field:
 concat(FIELDA&'.'&FIELDB&'.'&FIELDC&'.'&IF(Isnull(FIELDD), '0', FIELDD)&'.'&IF(Isnull(FIELDE), '0', FIELDE)) as MERGED

This works, however if i try and add a concatenated field from the load statement i get an error:
LOAD FIELDA,
     FIELDB,
     FIELDC,
     FIELDD,
     FIELDE,
     concat(FIELDA&'.'&FIELDB&'.'&FIELDC&'.'&IF(Isnull(FIELDD), '0', FIELDD)&'.'&IF(Isnull(FIELDE), '0', FIELDE)) as MERGED
FROM
[C:\Users\XXX\data.QVD]
(qvd);

Invalid expression

A: The concat function is an aggregation function so it wants a group by to know what to do, hence the Invalid expression error. In the front end the dimension you choose for the chart serves that purpose.
If you just want to concat the fields line for line just remove the concat function.
FIELDA&'.'&FIELDB&'.'&FIELDC&'.'&IF(Isnull(FIELDD), '0', FIELDD)&'.'&IF(Isnull(FIELDE), '0', FIELDE) as MERGED

The actual use of the concat function would be something like this, run it and see the difference between MERGE and MERGE2;
A:
LOAD * INLINE [
    FieldA, FieldB,FieldC
    1, 2,1
    1, 0,1
    2, 9,1
    2, 4,1
];

B:
load FieldA,
     concat(FieldB,'|') as MERGE
Resident A
group by FieldA;

C:
load FieldA,
     FieldB,
     FieldC,
     FieldA&'.'&FieldB&'.'&FieldC as MERGE2
resident A;

drop table A;

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Heartbroken John Travolta breaks silence following death of beloved wife Kelly Preston
The devastated actor shared a public message
July 13, 2020 - 13:10 BST Gemma Strong John Travolta breaks his silence following the death of his beloved wife Kelly Preston. The couple shared three children together
John Travolta has released a public message following the tragic death of his wife, Kelly Preston. Heartbroken John, 66, took to Instagram to share a beautiful photo of his late partner, along with a poignant tribute to Kelly, who passed away at the age of 57.
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"It is with a very heavy heart that I inform you that my beautiful wife Kelly has lost her two-year battle with breast cancer," John wrote. "She fought a courageous fight with the love and support of so many.
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"My family and I will forever be grateful to her doctors and nurses at MD Anderson Cancer Center, all the medical centers that have helped, as well as her many friends and loved ones who have been by her side. Kelly's love and life will always be remembered.
John shared a beautiful photograph of his late wife
"I will be taking some time to be there for my children who have lost their mother, so forgive me in advance if you don't hear from us for a while. But please know that I will feel your outpouring of love in the weeks and months ahead as we heal. All my love, JT."
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The couple's daughter, Ella, chose to share the same image of her mum, along with her own heartbreaking tribute. The 20-year-old wrote: "I have never met anyone as courageous, strong, beautiful and loving as you. Anyone who is lucky enough to have known you or to have ever been in your presence will agree that you have a glow and a light that never ceases to shine and that makes anyone around you feel instantly happy.
John and Kelly with their two children, Ella and Benjamin
"Thank you for being there for me no matter what. Thank you for your love. Thank you for your help and thank you for making this world a better place. You have made life so beautiful and I know you will continue to do so always. I love you so much mama."
John and Kelly had been married since September 1991, and went to welcome three children together. Tragically, their son Jett died in January 2009 at the age of 16. As well as Ella, the couple also shared nine-year-old Benjamin.
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Kendrick Lamar has already won four #VMAs tonight out of his 12+ VMAs he is up for.
While walking the red carpet and catching up with Charlamagne Tha God, K.Dot caught up with DJ Khaled and his son Ashad Khaled.
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This masterpiece album by dance recording artist Rob E C is already generating buzz on digital stores iTunes, etc. It's euro-dance/pop at it's best!
Electronic - Dance
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A terrific track similar to Depeche Mode from the new album 'Deliverance'. Sensational
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one of my favorite dark electro dance tracks from the new album Deliverance.
ANOTHER EURO-POP TRACK!
YOU CAN TRY
very Linkin Parkish. Terrific electronic rock.
SAVE MYSELF
ONE OF MY FAVORITE TRACKS ON THE ALBUM. Very personal and revealing.
Wishing You Were Here (new)
a great new version of the very powerful synth ballad that first appeared on the EP 'Give It Up'. One of Rob E C's best songs.
CAN YOU FEEL
a high-energy euro-pop track. influenced by Lasgo's 'Surrender'. Great fun!
the least serious track on the masterpiece album 'Deliverance'. about hustling in Los Angeles. very playful, fun track
the most political Rob E C song to date. sends a powerful message about equal rights for all.
Right Here Waiting 2009
a new version of Rob E C's most popular song, "Right Here Waiting", which reached #3 on the Billboard Breakout Chart in 2006
Here is another track from the upcoming album. There is also a terrific remix of it by Jimmy Fehrlund (Sweden) that may be available as an extra track on the album.
a Linkin Park influenced electronic rock track. very powerful. available on the upcoming album.
Lies DJ. Amaya Club Remix
a fantastic remix by D.J. Amaya
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Never Alone DJ AMAYA 80's remix
a terrific club remix by D.J. Amaya
Contemplate DJ AMAYA CLUB REMIX
a great dance remix of "Contemplate" by the amazing DJ Amaya


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The Rise and Resurrection of LinkedIn
Thoughts on the Microsoft-LinkedIn acquisition
Last week the world was surprised with Microsoft's announcement that it would acquire the company for a price well above its recent share price. This was met with a mix of reactions and articles proclaiming to know the future plans of Microsoft for the social network.
I admittedly was very excited, for two reasons:
Microsoft is cool again! It has been on a spree buying some incredible technology products and retaining those brands in its portfolio (for the most part).
LinkedIn has a tremendous number of assets, but I think it was starting to suffer in financial performance because had lost site of its own north star.
Is it live, or is it dead?
LinkedIn is dead, or dying. At least that's what many of my friends and colleagues were saying over the last 12 months. Now we know that's an exaggeration, of course, but they were basing their opinion on some very visible actions the company has been taking.
If you've been a power user of LinkedIn for some time, you will have taken note of one or more of these:
The diversion of power user features from the core service into paid plans like Sales Navigator and Job Seeker.
The creation of very different, CRM-style experiences of the premium services.
An increasingly non-transparent set of paid advertising options.
Corralling an impressive set of content marketing resources (read: Pulse, Slideshare and Lynda.com) but failing to promote any joined up vision for how they co-exist.
My long-standing love affair with LinkedIn
I started early. I think that I was really intrigued with the idea of having a place for professional networking that was inherently social. I initially earned quite a bit of harassment from my colleagues who didn't seem to understand the value in those early years. They eventually came around, seeing the power that an extended network could bring to sales, marketing and recruiting efforts.
Even when I was on and off with my Twitter use, and restricting my Facebook visibility to close friends, my LinkedIn profile was always a place that I shared things of interest to me professionally. My network has become a massive asset for recruiting new team members, for job searches and for business deals. We use it for persona research, testing and amplifying content. It's become an essential part of business life.
That said, perhaps that's why the acquisition makes so much sense. Microsoft's products are by and large synonymous with and (for some) essential parts of business.
Exciting opportunities all around
Depending upon where you sit, you are bound to see lots of very interesting potential opportunities coming out of the Microsoft-LinkedIn deal. A few folks were quick to point out that Microsoft products take a few of the top 10 Lynda.com course slots.
The Return of Author Rank
Google's introduction of Author Rank in its search engine was a pretty big deal and many website owners were miffed when it went away. That said, LinkedIn, via Pulse, does provide a great way to attribute and "score" authority without relying on an obscure social network profile. Because it will be Microsoft owned, this presents an opportunity for Bing to have a very unique point of differentiation from Google search.
Within the B2B technology space, there are a large number of data providers that provide data enrichment services for businesses to augment their customer and recruiting databases. LinkedIn now has the most well groomed data set of company, industry and individual contact information (including job history) on the planet. This could be a Dun and Bradstreet sized opportunity.
Ads Everywhere
Let's not forget, LinkedIn has a wide range of established ad products that include display, retargeting, email and more. Granted their high price points and complex sales model have made them slower in growth than their Google and Facebook counterparts, however, Microsoft has an opportunity to change all of that. The web enabled Windows desktop is now potentially the most coveted destination for B2B buyers to buy their ad impressions.
Experts on Demand
Just having a little fun, let's suppose that Microsoft really started to look at how to combine its new services in exciting new ways. What about asking Cortana, Microsoft's voice enabled personal assistant, to find you an expert on content marketing strategies in the life sciences space, having LinkedIn locate the expert, book the meeting in your calendar and Skype ring them up for a video conference when its time to chat.
Now that's the future of work. It would also seem to be a fun time to work at LinkedIn and Microsoft.
Looking forward to see what happens.
Note: This post was a play on the title of a book by the late, great Ed Yourdon, "The Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer". I was a big fan of his books, most of which were on my Dad's bookshelf, when I started my I/T career. Ed became a pretty great photographer in his later years and sadly passed away in January of this year.
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Sandford Street is a light rail station in Australia on the Canberra Metro R1 Civic to Gungahlin line, located at the intersection of Flemington Road, Sandford Street and Morriset Road in Mitchell. The station serves the surrounding business and industrial precinct, and will support future residential development in the neighbouring suburb of Kenny.  Bicycle racks are provided around the intersection adjacent to the station. It is the only station on the Civic to Gungahlin route that did not open with stage 1 of the network.

History
A light rail stop serving the Mitchell industrial area was considered during the design and planning phase of the Capital Metro project. Public consultation on the final route suggested that relatively few commuters would use this stop on a regular basis,  given as justification by ACT Government to exclude it from construction of stage 1. The construction phase caused significant disruption to many businesses in Mitchell, who were unhappy with omission of a station at this location. Due in part to lobbying by the local business community, $4.8 million was allocated to the planning of a new station at the intersection of Sandford Street and Flemington Road in June 2019  Construction costs were estimated at $12 million, with half of this amount provided by the Federal Government to allow works to commence ahead of schedule  Construction began in December 2020 and the station opened on 16 September 2021 as the 14th stop on the Civic to Gungahlin route.

Light rail services
All services in both directions stop at the station. During peak periods, some services originating at Gungahlin Place also terminate here, as it is the closest station to the depot for south-bound light rail vehicles. There is no interchange available with ACTION bus routes.

Although the station is only a short distance from the main Canberra Metro Operations depot, light rail vehicles will sometimes also stop at a small shelter immediately south of the platform to allow for crew transfer. This is not a timetabled stop and is not accessible to the public.

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HURAKAN: "VIA AETERNA" AN NCS ALBUM PREMIERE (AND A REVIEW): THORIUM — "DANMARK"
MIZMOR/THOU – MYOPIA
(Andy Synn invites you to open your eyes, and your ears, to the morbid magnificence of Myopia, the recently-released collaborative album by Mizmor and Thou)
I am, as has been well-documented by now, something of a sceptic when it comes to so-called "supergroups", whose main impact on "the scene" tends to be just taking up space and column inches which would be better off given over to less well-known (and better) bands.
There are exceptions to this "rule", of course, and the common factor between them seems to be a real sense of collaboration, a partnership driven by an irresistible need to create, as opposed to the crass commercial aspirations or lazy self-aggrandisation which tends to fuel the majority of these shallow vanity projects.
Thankfully, as you may already have guessed, this new collaboration between Mizmor and Thou – written and recorded in secret and released without any prior fanfare to coincide with their joint-performance at Roadburn Festival last week – falls firmly into the former camp, and finds the two bands joining forces to create a singular piece of anguished, blackened art that truly feels far, far greater than the mere sum of its parts.
Smartly, whether intentionally or not, the two bands appear to have settled on a single creative vision early on in the writing process, rather than attempting to compromise by ticking boxes and tracking percentages in a desperate effort to please absolutely everyone.
The end result is that, rather than seeming as though they are trying to please many masters, songs like the gorgeously grim "Subordinate" and the stunning slow-burn of "Indignant" come across as a cohesive group effort, with the album as a whole feeling more like a Mizmor album than a Thou record… albeit one where the members of the latter band have fully immersed themselves in the creative process and, in turn, elevated the music to new heights.
Or, perhaps that should be depths? Because, make no mistake about it, this is one unflinchingly bleak and miserable album, one which – despite moments of haunting beauty (the swirling tremolo melodies and soaring leads woven throughout "Drover of Man", for example, will surely wrap themselves around your heart) – seems to have a single goal… to plumb the depths of despair and despondency further than either band have ever done before.
The vocals in particular are as harrowing, and as heart-wrenching, as they come, both vocalists seemingly caught in a dizzying feedback loop of tortured shrieks and tormented growls, each one constantly driving the other to ever more expressive and extreme heights of fearless, shameless, and limitless catharsis.
For all that this album is a raw scream of pure emotion, however, the band(s) haven't forgotten to make the music just as powerful as the vocals, with several of these tracks (including both captivating opener "Prefect" and absolutely crushing closer "The Root") reminding me a fair bit – in the way in which they blend doomy weight, blackened intensity, and snarling fury – of last year's fantastic debut by Moanhand (which is high praise indeed, considering that was one of my favourite albums of 2021).
Chances are, however, that Myopia will go even further… and not just because both bands involved in this record's creation are more well-known, but because this really is an undeniable "Album of the Year" contender.
It's not an easy listen, by any means, nor is it intended to be. But it's one that will work its way under your skin, sink into your bones, and become a part of you, if you let it.
Myopia by Mizmor & Thou
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Durf says:
This is a fantastic album, but definitely hit better as an early morning road trip listen than it did as a workout album.


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Open sans is a humanist typeface designed through Steve Matteson and commissioned using google. Proposing vast apertures on many letters, it also features an x-peak (tall slash) which makes for Case Letters that stand out even more than ever before!
The typeface is immensely legible on reveal and at small sizes. It belongs to the humanist style of sans-serif fonts, with true italics that were released in 2011 by an American company called Bitstream Incorporated for their new line AyoBook, explicitly designed as book covers which are sold worldwide under such logos like "AQS Type" or "Deberny & Peignot" among others but it can also be used outside.
Open Sans Font Family
The popular font, Open Sans, is used in some of Google's internet sites and its print ads. Designed to be similar with Matteson Droid Sans created for Android Phones as well."
Open sans is a popular font used in some of google's internet sites and its print and advertising campaigns. Designed to look like droid-sans, this typeface was created for android phones primarily.
Usage of Open Sans Font Family
The design was created specifically to be an interface language for Android phones, so users can easily read what they're clicking on without difficulties comprehending the content.
Open sans font is a neon display typeface with an edgy design and remarkable impact. There are two font families included: regular, which looks like traditional lettering; plus outline for more modern applications where sharp corners will be present or desired but not necessary on printed goods such as signs & products because they're rounded out nicely without them.
Open sans font is a modern font perfect for any project that needs an elegant look. With its thin and thin serifs, this typeface will add the right sophisticated touch to your work.
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As designer Christian Boos Amann calls it, Line Light has been explicitly designed with YouTube content creators in mind which means you can use these designs on anything from video thumbnails all way through blog posts or presentations at conferences too without worrying about consistency being lost because they were made.
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Fuzzy logic is becoming popular in dealing with data analysis problems that are normally handled by statistical approaches or ANNs. The major limitation is the difficulty in building the fuzzy rules from a given set of input-output data. This paper proposed a technique to extract fuzzy rules directly from input-output pairs. It uses a self-organising neural network and association rules to construct the fuzzy rule base. The self-organising neural network is first used to classify the output data by realising the probability distribution of the output space. Association rules are then used to find the relationships between the input space and the output classification, which are subsequently converted to fuzzy rules. This technique is fast and efficient. The results of an illustrative example show that the fuzzy rules extracted are promising and useful for domain experts.


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Mass testing for covid...
Mass testing for covid-19 in the UK
BMJ 2020; 371 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m4436 (Published 16 November 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;371:m4436
Linked Opinion
Screening the healthy population for covid-19 is of unknown value, but is being introduced nationwide
Read our latest coverage of the coronavirus outbreak
Mike Gill, former regional director of public health, England1,
Muir Gray, visiting professor2
1London, UK
2Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Correspondence to M Gill mgilm1{at}gmail.com
An unevaluated, underdesigned, and costly mess
Quick turnaround testing for covid-19 is to be made available to everybody, initially to those without symptoms, across England at a cost of £100bn (€110bn; $130bn).1 This follows a still uncompleted "pilot" in Liverpool, which started on 6 November at the invitation of Liverpool City Council in October, after incidence had peaked. The objective is "to demonstrate that massive asymptomatic testing can help identify far more cases and break the chain of transmission of coronavirus."2
Participation in this pilot is voluntary. There is no call or recall. All participants receive two tests, the standard PCR test and the rapid turnaround (within 1 hour) lateral flow Innova test. Those with a positive result in either test are asked to self-isolate and are registered with the national track and trace programme, which initiates contact tracing. Key workers, health and social care staff, school staff, and children aged 11 and over are being targeted, but anyone can get tested, preferably at least twice within two weeks.
This is a screening programme, not opportunistic case finding: people are invited to have a test they would not otherwise have had, or asked for. If judged against the criteria drawn up by the UK's National Screening Committee for appraisal of a programme's viability, effectiveness, and appropriateness,3 it does not do well and has been already roundly criticised.4
Many asymptomatic people testing positive for covid-19 are probably relatively uninfectious.5 Evidence suggests at least a half may develop symptoms6 requiring self-isolation without the need for a test. Since few currently adhere to self-isolation,7 this is an obvious area for improvement before we embark on an expensive screening programme. Without a systematic approach to call and recall, those most at risk of being infected and transmitting may be least likely to present for screening.8
Potential harms
Despite claims by the city council that the Innova test is "very accurate with high sensitivity and specificity,"2 it has not been evaluated in these conditions. The test's instructions for use state that it should not be used on asymptomatic people. A preliminary evaluation from Porton Down and Oxford University9 throws little light on its performance in asymptomatic people or in the field. It suggests the test misses between one in two and one in four cases. The false positive rate of 0.6% means that at the current prevalence in Liverpool, for every person found truly positive, at least one other may be wrongly required to self-isolate. As prevalence drops, this will become much worse.
The self-isolation and tracing of contacts triggered by a positive result can of course be seen as benefiting the individual and others, such as household members. But we know self-isolation has a regressive effect: income level influences adherence to self-isolation10 and the likelihood of household transmission.11 This underlines the importance of reducing the rate of false positive results and providing appropriate support—financial, psychological, and material—to people who must isolate.
Evidence that this pilot will reduce transmission is not yet established. This makes it even more critical that it is carefully planned; the different components, including testing centres, contact tracing, laboratories, and primary care contributions, are quality assured; its total resource requirements identified and costed; and the pilot evaluated for cost effectiveness.
Shaky ground
With incidence across Liverpool already falling, attributing and quantifying any additional effect from the programme may prove complex. Instead, similar programmes are being rolled out across the country to universities and local authorities even before this pilot is complete.
The queues of people seeking tests in Liverpool suggest the initial acceptability of this pilot is high, at least to some. Its ethical basis, however, looks shaky. The council claims, wrongly, that the test detects infectiousness and is accurate. In fact, if used alone it will lead to many incorrect results with potentially substantial consequences. The context for gaining consent has been tarnished by the enthusiasm of some local officials and politicians. In the case of schools, the programme has been culpably rushed: parents have had to respond unreasonably promptly to a request to opt out if they do not want their child screened.12
There is no protocol for this pilot in the public domain, let alone systems specification or ethical approval. The public has had no chance to contribute, as required by the UK standards for public involvement in research.13
Spending the equivalent of 77% of the NHS annual revenue budget on an unevaluated underdesigned national programme leading to a regressive, insufficiently supported intervention—in many cases for the wrong people—cannot be defended. The experience of the National Screening Committee and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) tells us that allowing testing programmes to drift into use without the right system in place leads to a mess, and the more resources invested the bigger the mess. This system should be designed with up to 10 clear objectives to deliver the aim of reducing the impact of covid—for example, to identify cases more quickly or to mitigate the effects of deprivation on risk of infection and poor outcomes. Progress in each objective (or lack of it) should be measured against explicit criteria. Screening programmes based on experience and on the literature relating to complex adaptive systems14 offer a model for rapid progress.
At a minimum, there should be an immediate pause, until the fundamental building blocks of this mass testing programme have been externally and independently scrutinised by the National Screening Committee and NIHR. In the meantime, nobody's freedom or behaviour should be made contingent on having had a novel rapid test. It is premature to offer testing as the route to individuals' release from restrictions. Instead we must heed the advice of the World Health Organization and the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), radically improve the woeful performance of the "find, test, trace, and isolate" system, and renew the focus on identifying symptomatic people, especially among those sections of society most at risk. The current approach will open Pandora's box.
Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and have no relevant interests to declare.
Provenance and peer review: Commissioned; not externally peer reviewed.
This article is made freely available for use in accordance with BMJ's website terms and conditions for the duration of the covid-19 pandemic or until otherwise determined by BMJ. You may use, download and print the article for any lawful, non-commercial purpose (including text and data mining) provided that all copyright notices and trade marks are retained.
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Liverpool City Council. Mass testing FAQs (accessed 11 Nov 2020). https://liverpool.gov.uk/communities-and-safety/emergency-planning/coronavirus/how-to-get-tested/mass-testing-faqs/ accessed 11/11/20.
Public Health England. Criteria for appraising the viability, effectiveness and appropriateness of a screening programme. 2015. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/evidence-review-criteria-national-screening-programmes/criteria-for-appraising-the-viability-effectiveness-and-appropriateness-of-a-screening-programme.
Raffle A. Screening the healthy population for covid-19 is of unknown value, but is being introduced nationwide. BMJ Opinion, 9 Nov 2020. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/11/09/screening-the-healthy-population-for-covid-19-is-of-unknown-value-but-is-being-introduced-nationwide/
WHO. Transmission of COVID-19 by asymptomatic cases. http://www.emro.who.int/health-topics/corona-virus/transmission-of-covid-19-by-asymptomatic-cases.html#:~:text=Available%20evidence%20from%20contact%20tracing,transmission%20of%20the%20virus
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Waugh P. NHS test and trace chief admits workers fear "financial" hit if they self-isolate. Huffington Post 2020 Nov 7. https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/dido-harding-self-isolation-financial-worry_uk_5f036a9cc5b612083c5ffc8d?ncid=other_huffpostre_pqylmel2bk8&utm_campaign=related_articles&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9ibG9ncy5sc2UuYWMudWsv&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGjUJEj7iTmbyTL7F55sleFEZJUGcD4Zs9osMFstHe_Hu7M-&_guc_consent_skip=1605190198.
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Tourism sector in Egypt: Promoting cultural tourism in Egypt
CAIRO: Tourism has become one of the leading sectors of Egyptian economic growth and the first in terms of generating new job opportunities because of its labor intensive character and interconnections with other sectors.
"Traditionally, tourism was 10% to 11% of the GDP and a very large portion of the foreign currency reserves. It's no secret that in the last three and a half years it's been severely impacted," noted Richard S. Zeolla, General Manager of Cairo Marriott Hotel & Omar Khayyam Casino, the best hotel in Cairo.
Tourism has played an important role in the economy over the past decades, and a large number of activities and associated businesses relied on tourism—air transport, services, shopping centers and souks, taxis and cruise boats, as well as restaurants and cafes frequented by tourists.
Egypt depends on tourism for 20 percent of its hard currency and the sector's total investments are valued at $9.8 billion, according to the ministry.
However, the sector was hit hard because of safety concerns in 2011 when long-time strongman Hosni Mubarak was overthrown; and then in 2013 during a second uprising, which saw the ousting of President Mohammed Morsi, whose increasingly radical religious policies proved widely unpopular. Throughout this period, militants moved into the Sinai Peninsula, kidnapped tourists and killed Egyptian security personnel. There have also been numerous protests in Cairo and other cities around the country representative of many different opposing factions.
Back in 2010, before this three-year span of political chaos, about 14.5 million tourists visited the country but then Egypt suffered an 80 percent decline of tourist arrivals in February 2011 as the political situation became unstable. Due to the unsettled and violent political environment, tourism further dropped in 2013. The number of inbound tourists slowed down markedly, affected by the international travel warnings coming from multiple Western countries cautioning their citizens about visiting Egypt.
In early 2014, former Minister of Tourism Hisham Zaazou told the newspaper Al-Hayat that "2013 was the worst year on record for Egypt's tourism industry." The number of tourists visiting Egypt fell by 17.9 percent to from 11.5 million tourists in 2012 to 9.5 million in 2013, according to the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics.
Western Europe supplied Egypt with the most tourists, followed by Eastern Europe and the Middle East in 2013, according to CAPMAS's latest annual report. In 2012, Western Europeans made up 37.4 percent of the country's tourists, followed by Eastern Europe with 32.7 percent and the Middle East with 21 percent.
The report indicated that the number of nights visiting tourists spent in Egypt decreased by 31.5 percent in 2013, falling from 137.8 million nights in 2012 to 94.4 million in 2013.
2014 and 2015 is expected to see a slow but steady revival of tourism in Egypt.
"August 2014 was our best month since January of 2011 and historically, even our best August since 2008." --- Cairo Marriott Hotel
Some progress has been already achieved. "If we look at the numbers during the last 3 years, we can see and analyze that the numbers have been fluctuating from up to down and so on. This shows its resilience. We have been working on planning a strong and a broader strategy about what we want and what we aim to achieve. At the same time, we are working on the tactics of realizing our goals. At the moment, the situation is much better," stated Ambassador Nasser Hamdy, former Chairman of Egyptian Tourism Authority.
Mahmoud ElKeiy, General Manager of the Four Season Hotel Cairo at the First Residence, added: "In 2014, slowly but surely we are going to start to see more positive results. I expect to see this happen quickly on a regional level, such as from the from the GCC market and then later on from the international market, such as Europe and the Americas."
In addition, "There is tremendous potential for MICE in Egypt. Especially Cairo, it's optimally positioned for that. There are lots of things to see here. For a 3 to 7-day package, if you just do 3 days in Cairo, it's just great. If you are going to add the Nile, 7 to 10-days is great. That's perfect for MICE," noted Zeolla from Cairo Marriott Hotel.
Commenting on the occupational rates, Zeolla couldn't hide his optimism: "August 2014 was our best month since January of 2011 and historically, even our best August since 2008. So, that's really very encouraging. Admittedly, mostly Gulf-based businesses coming from a specific market segment, but if that's an indicator of where we are going, that's great news."
For Saudi Egyptian Construction Company (SECON), a large construction and real estate company, several of its key ongoing and future Egypt development programs are based on company confidence in the tourism sector making a strong comeback, according to Darwish Ahmed Hassanin, CEO of SECON.
"Both our real estate and our tourism investments are very important for us. Egypt is an excellent location for both areas of investment. …we went into tourism in order to make sure our investments overall are stable," Hassanin said.
"We have started a very important project that is worth 1.6 billion Egyptian pounds. It is called Secon Nile Towers, and is comprised of two high-rise buildings of 23 floors. The Towers will be located in the Maadi Nile Corniche area of Cairo. The first tower will hold a five star hotel operated by Hilton," Hassanin added.
Cultural tourism in Egypt
"We have two main destinations – the Red Sea and the White Sea, and the cultural part. The Sea was doing fine. The leisure was doing fine. Of course cultural tourism in Egypt has been affected, because all the trouble and incidents were happening in Cairo. Cairo is related with Luxor and Aswan. Thus now we are concentrating more on the cultural part. Our promotion and our activity are focussed more on countries with a big number of cultural tourists, with people more interested in culture," explained Ambassador Hamdy.
Also, "we started a campaign during summer at the beginning of May, because this is the time when you have all the Gulf countries and the Arab countries coming to Egypt. They come during the summer break, the school holidays. So, we started a big campaign called Wahashtouna, which means "we miss you". We created a lot of packages for our friends from the Gulf area. For instance, you can book a holiday to Egypt starting from 400 dollars," added Ambassador Hamdy.
Zaazou recently announced a master plan to attract 25 million tourists by 2020.
Included in the ministry's package of measure are some of the following programs: the launch of a marketing campaign showing the world that the country is safe for tourists; customized travel packages at discount prices; and the launch of an Internet marketing campaign focused on attracting tourists from Europe.
In particular the online campaign will focus on safari trips to the oases of the western desert; visits to Egypt's beaches; Nile cruise trips between Luxor and Aswan; and off-the-beaten track packages of trekking and sand surfing.
Also planned are a program emphasizing green tourism; and a program emphasizing religious tourism; in the latter case, especially since Egypt is rich in such places that could attract tourists of all nationalities and denominations.
In the meantime, those tourists who have already come back are finding accommodations at five-star hotels at friendlier prices, and enjoying uninhibited access to the Pyramids in Giza, the Sphinx; and in traveling up the Nile.
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A New Gradient-Wind Nomogram
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W. L. Godson
A nomographic solution is found for the gradient-wind equation in terms of the curvature of pressure-contour lines and the motion of pressure-contour systems. From the nomogram the gradient wind can be found as a function of the geostrophic wind, and in addition the radius of curvature of the trajectory can be evaluated. Subsidiary aids in determining the quantities involved are discussed, as well as the application of the computing device to routine upper wind forecasting.
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The calculation of transmission for a model spectrum requires the adoption of a distribution function for line intensity. In the case of the infrared water-vapor spectrum (random model), a logarithmic ogive distribution for line intensity is very realistic and produces smaller transmission and cooling-rate errors than other functions previously proposed. These results apply also when experimental data are assumed available and the requisite parameters are obtained by curve fitting.
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Upper-Atmospheric Sodium and Stratospheric Warmings at High Latitudes
A cross correlation (by the superposed-epoch method) has been carried out between sodium abundance, measured in twilight at Saskatoon, and stratospheric warmings, observed in temperature data at Churchill and Alert. A significant peak appears to be present in data from four winters. It is suggested that vertical motion, as indicated by the warming events, is raising a source of sodium atoms into the 90-km region. This source is probably in the form of dust (or aerosol) particles, whose origin could he either meteoric or marine. Partial evaporation of these particles in the daytime could explain the additional sodium observed in the dayglow. A natural explanation is also given of the seasonal abundance variation and the very steep sodium distributions often observed.
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The 26-Month Oscillation in Zonal Wind and Temperature
G. M. Shah and W. L. Godson
Harmonic analysis of mean monthly zonal wind and temperature data,after removing the annual cycle, have shown the existence of the 26-month oscillation in the equatorial stratosphere. The oscillation in temperature extends to temperate and polar latitudes, while in zonal wind it is insignificant beyond 25N.
The amplitude of the 26-month oscillation in temperature follows a meridional wave pattern with an approximate wavelength of about 30 deg of latitude.
The phase of the 26-month oscillation in both zonal wind and temperature progresses downward, at equatorial latitudes, with a speed a little less than 1 km per month. The oscillation in temperature at the position of the tropical amplitude maximum is approximately out of phase with the oscillations at high level equatorial latitudes and at temperate and polar latitudes.
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W. L. Godson, C. L. Crozier, and J. D. Holland
A precipitation physics project aimed at discovering basic relationships in the chain of cause and effect in precipitation mechanisms was operated in western Quebec province, Canada, from 1959 to 1963 inclusive. In addition to many physical measurements taken from an aircraft and on the ground, randomized cloud seeding was employed as one method of study. Clouds over one of two test areas were seeded with silver iodide released from an aircraft during the passage of synoptic-scale weather systems, with the choice of area by a random selection. Comparison of storm rainfall in the two test areas measured by a dense network of raingages was used to evaluate the effect of the cloud seeding. Statistical tests of the relationship of precipitable water and instability with the seeding effect were also conducted. A small negative seeding index was computed and a slight correlation was found between both precipitable water and instability and the seeding index ratio. However, none of these relationships was found to be statistically significant.
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
Volume 5: Issue 4
https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0450(1966)005<0500:AEOSIC>2.0.CO;2
FRONTAL CONTOUR CHARTS
A. M. Crocker, W. L. Godson, and C. M. Penner
A frontal contour chart is one portraying the topography of frontal surfaces by means of contour lines. The method of constructing the charts is briefly indicated. Frontal contour charts have been prepared on a routine basis for about a year; a close study of these charts has revealed a number of interesting features. Isolated or semi-isolated domes of cold air and pockets of warm air are found at intervals. The characteristics, motion, and manner of formation of these are described briefly. Upper fronts, both cold and warm, take on a fresh significance when studied by means of frontal contour charts. The paper ends with a discussion of the role of cold domes and warm pockets in the mechanism of the general circulation.
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Theories on a Grand Target Adventure.
Updated on July 17, 2017 July 16, 2017 Categories "Deep" Thoughts by Rachel, Utter Silliness, Weird Strange and True 5 Comments
As I was driving down Highway 280 on Saturday afternoon, lost in thought about all I had to accomplish in the next day and week and year and lifetime, I approached a set of flashing police lights in the median. I slowed down, as one does, out of caution and to ensure that it wasn't a tricky speed trap.
The cars in front of me slowed as well and then we all slowed much slower than we should have slowed because what was going on was super curious in a fantastic sort of way.
The median was only a few feet wide, but it held a lot of items at that moment:
1. A single cop car.
2. A cop, standing in the median, currently occupied with handcuffing and emptying the pockets of an
3. Extraordinarily tall and skinny gentleman.
4. The gentleman's apparent mode of transportation, which was a Target shopping cart, containing
5. Two industrial-sized mops and a
6. Mop water bucket (uncertain if it still contained dirty mop water.)
Two more cop cars came barreling up the hill toward the party, lights flashing and sirens blaring, because obviously this situation required at least six policemen, especially since those mops were INDUSTRIAL-SIZED.
My mind busied itself for the rest of the day, mapping out this scene and analyzing it in a studious forensic fashion.
Highway 280, for those of you who aren't from around here, is our everybody-hates-it highway. It's huge, always crowded, a continual source of irritation to the entire population, and also the victim of constant reworking to attempt to fix the eternal traffic problems. Currently, there are all these you-can't-turn-left-but-you-can-U-turn lanes, complete with traffic lights that show the U-Turn symbol instead of a left-turn signal. They've barricaded other former left-hand turns and even straight-across pathways, one of which added 15 minutes onto my personal travel situation.
So you get the picture – this isn't some backwoods country lane. It's a SERIOUS road.
The location of the Target Cart Incident was directly in front of the Water Works reservoir. Mapping quickly in my head and then confirming the mileage with the help of Google Maps, the closest two Targets were…
1. 1.8 miles away, but up a seriously steep incline on Highway 280,
2. 4.4 miles away, on Highway 280, but crossing over the interstate, passing a huge shopping mall (and therefore much traffic), and containing a slight uphill climb, then a fairly good downhill coast.
Map not to scale. Curves on 280 attempting to show elevation change. Because I'm super good at maps like that.
I decided option two was where he'd come from, as option one's steep uphill would have been impossible while riding a Target Cart in traffic traveling at 55 miles per hour. Which means that, coming from the other direction, if he'd only made it to that steep downhill section, he'd have had the ride of his life. Who needs roller coasters when you have a Target Cart and Highway 280?
I envisioned the journey as this: Extraordinarily Tall Gentleman (ETG) riding on the back of the cart, kid-style, while holding onto the handlebars. He would push himself like a skateboard to get going, then put his feet up on the crossbar, lean over (quite a bit due to his height), and coast when he could, hopefully with minimal dirty mop water backsplash.
That covered the where and the how, but more importantly was the why.
Maybe he was the janitor at one of these Targets.
Maybe some snot-nosed kid had spilled the LAST Slushie he was going to clean up.
Maybe some suburbia Mom had sloshed the LAST Starbucks double Frappe from which he was going to destickify the floor.
Maybe in a revolt against Target's gross misuse of the word clearance, some angry Tennis Housewife had smashed a case of 10% off "clearance" La Croix.
Maybe there'd been a puker in the home goods section. And maybe it'd splashed all over the sheets and towels.
Whatever happened, I envisioned ETG looking at that Last Mess, saying "Oh no. Uh uh. I'm done here", and walking his Cart de Mop right out the front sliding doors, pushing it to the end of the parking lot, holding on for dear life, giving a loud Braveheart-Style war whoop, and riding his way to FREEDOM from the tyranny of the Kingdom Tarzhey.
I feel like ETG could have had a slightly better escape route planned beforehand, though. 280 drivers are known for spotting – and tweeting – oddities very quickly. Such as Naked Guy with the tripod (not an innuendo) taking selfies of himself – there were two dozen tweets about him before he could snap his first duckface. No, ETG riding a Target Cart with Two Industrial Mops and a Mop Bucket didn't have a chance. But he did hold on longer than Naked Guy (not an innuendo), so there's that.
(As an aside, I did in 2014 have a brief(less) Twitter conversation with Naked Guy. I did not get to the bottom of his motive.)
Later that evening, we passed back by the scene of the crime. I was hoping that the cart would still be there – as a memorial to the ET(and Brave)G. But it was gone. Which led to a whole different slew of questions. Did the cops somehow tow the cart back to the correct Target? Did Target come and retrieve their property themselves? Or was that cart and its contents booked as evidence of a Crime of Passion and Adventure?
The world will probably never know. But I feel like ETG deserves accolades for his attempt to escape the oppression of The Target Empire, not to mention for distracting my mind completely from all I had to do that day and week and month and year and life.
And so I'm here to offer it.
I salute you, ETG.
And I promise to attempt to keep my coffee in my cup and the puke in my kid while I'm in the confines of all Targets from here on out – as a memorial to you and your valiant Stand Against Messes.
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Lesley says:
I passed this same gentleman around 1:30 Saturday afternoon and he was just starting to cross over I-459 from the Hwy 280 Target side of things. Unfortunately, I did not get to see him coasting down the hill on his buggy full of mops.
Rachel Callahan says:
What?! Was he in a traffic lane? There's no median there is there? Did he look indignant? Determined? Like he'd just freed himself from tyranny? More details please!!
This is so curious. I need more details…
Was he wearing a red shirt?? If not he might just be a mop and bucket thief! But I like the disgruntled janitor story better! :)
Jen near St Louis says:
Oh. My. Word. Yours are the only blog posts I read aloud to my husband, this will be one for the record books!


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Q: 256 bit fixed point arithmetic, the future? Just some silly musings, but if computers were able to efficiently calculate 256 bit arithmetic, say if they had a 256 bit architecture, I reckon we'd be able to do away with floating point. I also wonder, if there'd be any reason to progress past 256 bit architecture? My basis for this is rather flimsy, but I'm confident that you'll put me straight if I'm wrong ;) Here's my thinking:
You could have a 256 bit type that used the 127 or 128 bits for integers, 127 or 128 bits for fractional values, and then of course a sign bit. If you had hardware that was capable of calculating, storing and moving such big numbers with no problems, I reckon you'd be set to handle any calculation you'd come across.
One example: If you were working with lengths, and you represented all values in meters, then the minimum value (2^-128 m) would be smaller than the planck length, and the biggest value (2^127 m) would be bigger than the diameter of the observable universe. Imagine calculating light-years of distances with a precision smaller than a planck length?
Ok, that's only one example, but I'm struggling to think of any situations that could possibly warrant bigger and smaller numbers than that. Any thoughts? Are there possible problems with fixed point arithmetic that I haven't considered? Are there issues with creating a 256 bit architecture?

A: SIMD will make narrow types valuable forever.  If you can do a 256bit add, you can do eight 32bit integer adds in parallel on the same hardware (by not propagating carry across element boundaries).  Or you can do thirty-two 8bit adds.
Hardware multiplier circuits are a lot more expensive to make wider, so it's not a good assumption to assume that a 256b X 256b multiplier will be practical to build.
Even besides SIMD considerations, memory bandwidth / cache footprint is a huge deal.
So 4B float will continue to be excellent for being precise enough to be useful, but small enough to pack many elements into a big vector, or in cache.
Floating-point also allows a much wider range of numbers by using some of its bits as an exponent.  With mantissa = 1.0, the range of IEEE binary64 double goes from 2-1022 to 21023,   for "normal" numbers (53-bit mantissa precision over the whole range, only getting worse for denormals (gradual underflow)).  Your proposal only handles numbers from about 2-127 (with 1 bit of precision) to 2127 (with 256b of precision).
Floating point has the same number of significant figures at any magnitude (until you get into denormals very close to zero), because the mantissa is fixed width.  Normally this is a useful property, especially when multiplying or dividing.  See Fixed Point Cholesky Algorithm Advantages for an example of why FP is good.  (Subtracting two nearby numbers is a problem, though...)

Even though current SIMD instruction sets already have 256b vectors, the widest element width is 64b for add.  AVX2's widest multiply is 32bit * 32bit => 64bit.
AVX512DQ has a 64b * 64b -> 64b (low half) vpmullq, which may show up in Skylake-E (Purley Xeon).
AVX512IFMA introduces a 52b * 52b + 64b => 64bit integer FMA. (VPMADD52LUQ low half and VPMADD52HUQ high half.)  The 52 bits input precision is clearly so they can use the FP mantissa multiplier hardware, instead of requiring separate 64bit integer multipliers.  (A full vector width of 64bit full-multipliers would be even more expensive than vpmullq.  A compromise design like this even for 64bit integers should be a big hint that wide multipliers are expensive).  Note that this isn't part of baseline AVX512F either, and may show up in Cannonlake, based on a Clang git commit.

Supporting arbitrary-precision adds/multiplies in SIMD (for crypto applications like RSA) is possible if the instruction set is designed for it (which Intel SSE/AVX isn't).  Discussion on Agner Fog's recent proposal for a new ISA included an idea for SIMD add-with-carry.

For actually implementing 256b math on 32 or 64-bit hardware, see https://locklessinc.com/articles/256bit_arithmetic/ and https://gmplib.org/.  It's really not that bad considering how rarely it's needed.
Another big downside to building hardware with very wide integer registers is that even if the upper bits are usually unused, out-of-order execution hardware needs to be able to handle the case where it is used.  This means a much larger physical register file compared to an architecture with 64-bit registers (which is bad, because it needs to be very fast and physically close to other parts of the CPU, and have many read ports).  e.g. Intel Haswell has 168-entry PRFs for integer and FP/SIMD.
The FP register file already has 256b registers, so I guess if you were going to do something like this, you'd do it with execution units that used the SIMD vector registers as inputs/outputs, not by widening the integer registers.  But the FP/SIMD execution units aren't normally connected to the integer carry flag, so you might need a separate SIMD-carry register for 256b add.
Intel or AMD already could have implemented an instruction / execution unit for adding 128b or 256b integers in xmm or ymm registers, but they haven't.  (The max SIMD element width even for addition is 64-bit.  Only shuffles operate on the whole register as a unit, and then only with byte-granularity or wider.)

A: 128 bit computers. It is also about addressing memory and when we run out 64-bits when addressing memory. Currently there are servers with 4TB memory. That requires about 42 bits (2^42 > 4 x 10^12). If we assume that memory prices halves every second year then we need one bit more every second year. We still have 22 bits left so at least 2 * 22 years and it is likely that memory prices are not dropping that fast -> more than 50 years when we run out of 64-bits addressing capabilities.


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