The name anaconda comes from the language of Sri Lanka, and refers to another snake entirely.
The python and the anaconda were apparently at one time mistaken for each other. Early settlers to the country called this snake bull killer.
The anaconda is considered to be the largest snake in the world today. They can easily reach lengths of over 25 feet.
Roughly that is longer than most people's living room, or far longer than your car.
The females are generally larger than the males.
The anaconda may vary in color, from deep green, with black oval patching on its back to brownish color.
Different types will have different colorations.
The Anaconda is the heaviest snake, but it may or may not be the longest. The Reticulated python rivals the Anaconda for the longest snake. A 20-foot Anaconda will weigh more than a 33-foot python.
The Anaconda can weigh 550 pounds or more, but will usually top out at a few hundred pounds. These snakes can measure more than 12 inches in diameter. The female typically outweighs the males.
The Green Anaconda is dark green in color with black oval patches on its back. This drab pattern blends the snake in well with the wet, dense vegetations of its habitat. The sides have similar spots with yellow centers.
The Yellow Anaconda is true to its name and is mostly yellow with similar black spots. The scales of the yellow and black underside of the lower tail on these Anacondas have a particular pattern which is unique to each snake. It's a form of identification, like a human fingerprint.
Anacondas like to spend most of their time in the water. When they are out of the water for any lengthy period of time they become prey for a multitude of ticks.
Anacondas are built with a very large head and a thick neck.
They have eyes on the top of their head, helping them to breathe and to also see their prey when they are lying beneath the water.
The anaconda is a constrictor, and is not poisonous, but still has incredibly strong teeth with which it holds its prey still as it pulls it beneath the water to drown it.
They usually eat larger rodents, such as tapirs and capybara. They have been known to kill a jaguar and attacks on humans, although very rare, do happen.
Anacondas are usually coiled up in a murky, shallow pool or at the river's edge. They wait to ambush their unsuspecting prey when they come down for a drink.
Anacondas bite their prey with their sharp teeth, hold on with their powerful jaws and pull them under water. The victim may drown first or it may be squeezed to death in the Anaconda's muscular coils.
The Anaconda has a very slow-acting digestive system. After a meal many anacondas will not eat for several weeks, perhaps a month.
One anaconda did not eat for over a year. Anacondas give birth to live young. After mating she will hold her young for about 6 months, and then have a litter of from 25-40 babies. They are about 2 feet long when born; they are also, because of their small size prey for other animals.
Within hours after their birth they can swim, hunt and take care of themselves.
Anacondas can live to be over 35 years old.
I JUST WANTT YOU TO TELL YOU THAT IM GLADD OF NATURE!
i'm also a lover of nature.
I am indeed fascinated with the jaw-breaking, mouth-opening, snakes you have shown on your site i use to think that such snakes were simple exaggeration on movies and films. I never new such snakes as large as anacodas existed until i checked your website. if possible please send me new pictures of newly cuptured gigantic snakes.
all nature is amazing..including human..
this is very dangrous. it is a long anaconda.
is very lash the anaconda.
its really a wonderful information about nature.one should have a relaxed mind to learn how nathure gives enlightment to humans, but we humans instead of saving them we destroy them.thats really a pity.
NATURE IS GOD'S MOST BEAUTIFUL CREATION.
Nature is wonderful! May God be praised!
Nature is wonderful! May God be praised! Anacondas are fascinating animals.
can you tel me where to get one.
i am a true lover of nature.
I like Nature, This is God's gift to me and all people.
Water is like one of the most physical factor.
your thinking is good. I always surf such sites and in love with nature. If you have any special collection please mail me.
i love anacondas, they are realy pretty and i grew up watching the movies. i love them,this is one interesting creature that id love to learn more about.
AND THE HEIGHT 20 TO 90 FEET.
i loved the pictures of the anaconda.
this earth is so wonderful and its full of amazing god's creatures!
I love nature, love and protect.
I love Anacondas! Iam just so amazed in themand how big they are.
do you want to see anaconda really.
i love anaconda and want to see it.
hello kajal, i m very fond of snakes & i want to see anaconas.
And I hate closed-minded nature haters like you.
than k u but that,s a little harsh.
u now wat people like wat they like so shut up ok? AND u should learn to like others .The world is wicked these days sorry if i sound harsh.
man!!!!! if nature wasnt here what where else ar creatures and animals goin to liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiivvvvvvvvvveeeeeee.
omg i love animalas and u guys luj awesome i wonder if he was heavy lol..
I love nature. They make the ecosystem complete.
This is incredible.I would love to see the giant Anaconda live.
im afraid of anaconda's but i'd luv to have one as a pet………..


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Rudolf Auspitz (7. července 1837 Vídeň – 8. března 1906 Vídeň) byl rakouský podnikatel a politik německé národnosti a židovského původu působící na Moravě, od 70. let 19. století poslanec Říšské rady.

Biografie

Pocházel z rozvětvené a vlivné židovské rodiny usazené historicky na jižní Moravě (město Hustopeče bylo německy nazýváno Auspitz). Mezi jeho předky byli významní rabíni. Dědeček Lazar Auspitz (narozen 1772) založil roku 1833 v Brně textilní továrnu. Otec Samuel Auspitz (1795–1867) byl bankéř a zakladatel velkoobchodu ve Vídni. Oženil se s Therese Ester Lewinger. Kromě Rudolfa se jim roku 1824 narodil i syn Carl Auspitz, jenž byl obchodníkem a spolu s bratrem Rudolfem podnikal.

Vystudoval matematiku na vídeňské technice a fyziku v Berlíně a Paříži. V Paříži od roku 1858 studoval též národohospodářství, později chemii. Působil pak jako průmyslový podnikatel. Podnikatelskou dráhu zahájil roku 1858. Roku 1863 zbudoval v Rohatci cukrovar. Roku 1882 k němu přikoupil i dosavadní hraběcí cukrovar v Bzenci a pronajal si související velkostatky Veselí a Strážnice.

Od zemských voleb roku 1871 byl poslancem Moravského zemského sněmu. Zastupoval městskou kurii, obvod Kyjov, Bučovice, Vyškov a Strážnice. Obhájil zde mandát v zemských volbách roku 1878. V zemských volbách roku 1884 byl na sněm zvolen za kurii obchodních a živnostenských komor, obvod Brno. Uspěl za ni i v zemských volbách roku 1890 a zemských volbách roku 1896. Trvale byl členem finančního výboru zemského sněmu. Na schůzi sněmu 17. prosince 1900 bylo oznámeno, že Rudolf Auspitz rezignoval na mandát. V doplňovací volbě pak místo něj nastoupil brněnský obchodník Friedrich Singer.

V 70. letech 19. století se zapojil i do celostátní politiky. V prvních přímých volbách do Říšské rady roku 1873 byl zvolen do Říšské rady (celostátní zákonodárný sbor) za městskou kurii, obvod Mikulov, Hustopeče atd. Mandát obhájil za týž obvod i ve volbách do Říšské rady roku 1879 a volbách do Říšské rady roku 1885. Jeho volba byla ovšem 27. března 1890 anulována a do parlamentu pak místo něj usedl Karl Lebwohl. Jeho odchod ze sněmovny souvisel podle Národních listů s kritikou regulérnosti jeho volby, protože křeslo v Říšské radě měl získat samými úplatky. Do Říšské rady se vrátil v roce 1892, když sem usedl 13. prosince 1892 místo Julia Gomperze, nyní za kurii obchodních a živnostenských komor, obvod Brno. Mandát zde obhájil ve volbách do Říšské rady roku 1897 a volbách do Říšské rady roku 1901. Na poslanecké křeslo rezignoval 17. ledna 1903. K roku 1897 se profesně uvádí jako továrník ve Vídni.

Stranicky se profiloval jako německý liberál (takzvaná Ústavní strana, liberálně a centralisticky orientovaná, odmítající federalistické aspirace neněmeckých etnik). Na Říšské radě se v říjnu 1879 uvádí jako člen staroněmeckého Klubu liberálů ( Club der Liberalen). Po volbách roku 1885 patřil do klubu Sjednocené levice, do kterého se spojilo několik ústavověrných proudů německých liberálů. Po rozpadu Sjednocené levice přešel do frakce Německorakouský klub. V roce 1890 se uvádí jako poslanec obnoveného klubu německých liberálů, nyní oficiálně nazývaného Sjednocená německá levice. Členem poslaneckého klubu Sjednocená německá levice byl na Říšské radě do roku 1897. Odmítal všeobecné volební právo.

Od roku 1889 působil coby člen obchodní a živnostenské komory ve Vídni. V roce 1888 publikoval společně s Richardem Liebenem knihu o teorii cen. Od roku 1900 zasedal v předsednictvu vídeňské židovské náboženské obce. Zastával funkci generálního rady Rakousko-uherské banky. Byl mu udělen Řád železné koruny 3. třídy.

Národní listy ho v nekrologu označily za nejbezohlednějšího protivníka Čechů, obzvláště těch moravských. Přičítaly jeho politický vliv jeho bohatství. Jeho postavení prý ale postupně oslabil antisemitismus, který postihl i jeho Ústavní stranu, jíž věnoval většinu svých sil.

Rudolf Auspitz měl s první manželkou Helene Lieben dceru Josefine Rosalie Auspitz (narozena roku 1873, zemřela roku 1942 v ghettu v Terezíně) a syna Leopolda Auspitze (narozen 1877). S manželkou se rozvedl roku 1890 a téhož roku si vzal Marii Heidenhain. Zemřel v březnu 1906 na zánět plic. Dědictví po zesnulém se vyčíslovalo na 30 milionů korun. Z toho odkázal 470 000 na dobročinné účely.

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Whilst I love my home comforts, it's a good tonic for the soul getting out into the great outdoors - and even better if there is a wild camp involved. There's nothing quite like the peace and quiet perched high up a mountain side, with no one else about, no mobile phone signal and the only sounds being the sound of the breeze and running water from distant waterfalls. As long as you've got the right kit (and the weather forecast is kind) then it's the perfect place to chill.
Below are a few photos of a recent wild camp to the Lake District one summers evening - to try and inspire you to try out a spot of wild camping and experience that unique solitude.
Overlooking Blea Tarn - my favourite place in the Lakes.
A perfect flat spot to set up my Vango Banshee 200 tent for the evening. The breeze is light on this particular warm summers evening - so this exposed spot is not a problem.
The sun is going down - and I thought we might have been treated to a roaring sunset - but it wasn't to be on this night. You can just about see my tent in the bottom left corner.
As the sun goes down - the moon comes up!
The light is fading now and it's nearly time for a kip!
Morning time! When wild camping is natural to set your body clock to natures pattern - so go to sleep when it get's dark and wake up when it gets light! This is about 6am and it's a bit murky with the mist hanging around.
Location - it's vital to get the spot for your wild camp right - and I would recommend your first wild camp being somewhere you are familiar with. Whenever I'm out on day walks on the fells - I'll make a mental note of somewhere that I think would be a good spot for a wild camp. I personally prefer somewhere with great views and a stream near by for water and a wash :) If it's overlooking a tarn or lake even better. You should note though that you can't just pitch up anywhere - legally you should have the permission of the land owner. However, in the English Lake District, which is my wild camping area of choice - wild camping is tolerated as long as you pitch up above the highest fell wall, stay for only one night and leave no trace that you where ever there.
Camping spot - like most tips on pitching a tent - whether on a campsite or out on the fells - pick a bit of flat ground so you don't end up rolling about in your tent. Also take into consideration the weather conditions and forecast - if its windy or likely to get windier in the night - then you don't want to be in too an exposed a position. Also if it's forecast to rain - then is your spot going to turn into a bog? A bit of raised ground that is flat is ideal.
The right gear - I'll expand in detail below on what gear I like to take on wild camps - but 2 of the most essential bits of kit to get right are your tent and sleeping bag - if you forget everything else - these 2 items should get you through a night :-) Your tent should be up to the weather conditions and big enough for you and anyone else - but also light and easy to carry. Currently I'm using the Vango Banshee 200 tent (A good value tent for my needs). In terms of sleeping bags - again it needs to be warm enough for the weather conditions and easy to pack away and carry. I have a review here of the tent & sleeping bag I'm currently using.
Weather - it's essential to plan any trip according to the weather forecast, especially so for wild camps, and especially more so in places like the Lake District fells where multiple seasons can be experienced in 1 day! I've read stories of people going on wild camps in nice weather - and waking up the next day surrounded by snow. So don't let things like that catch you out. There are some excellent resources online now that can give very accurate forecasts for particular locations - such as the Met Office and BBC weather and a key one for the outdoors is the Mountain Weather Information Service. Be sure to know as best as possible what the forecast is before any wild camping trips and plan accordingly.
So here is a list of the essentials I take on a wild camp - and where possible the links take you to actual products you can buy and read further information or reviews. I'm someone who prefers the best value options for maximum technical quality so everything I take is good value.
• Rucksack - you need something to cary all this stuff in and a strong, robust and weather proof rucksack of an adequate size is essential. Im currently using the Vango Nango 60 + 10 Rucksack which gives me 70 Litres storage and plenty of compartments.
• Knife/fork/spoon - don't forget something to eat with!
• For breakfast - I'll take a porridge pot which just requires hot water and for a treat some bacon and bread buns :-) If I take bacon I'll pack it in a cool box with an ice pack- which is usually good to last the night.
• Ear plugs - always a camping necessity for me - I'm a light sleeper!
• Toilet roll - you never know when you need to go!
- Flip flops - it's nice to give the feet an airing around the tent, especially after having boots on all day and these don't take up much room!


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Broward College is working to digitize images of objects from the Broward County Archaeological Society (BACS), formerly known as the Graves Museum, that were donated to the College in 2005. The collection includes a wide variety of genres and date ranges, including Pre-Columbian and underwater archaeology objects, along with collections from Africa, Asia, and the Mediterranean.
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African Mask.
This is a Songye mask. The Songye people live in Democratic Republic of Congo. They are a relatively small tribe with a central chief and many secret societies. This mask or kifewebe, as masks are called in the Songye language, is of a male figure. This is determined by the center crest on its head. It represents a spirit and bears striations which is one of the chief differentiators of Songye masks. A mask like this would have been used by the kifewebe society to ward off evil, avert...
Show moreThis is a Songye mask. The Songye people live in Democratic Republic of Congo. They are a relatively small tribe with a central chief and many secret societies. This mask or kifewebe, as masks are called in the Songye language, is of a male figure. This is determined by the center crest on its head. It represents a spirit and bears striations which is one of the chief differentiators of Songye masks. A mask like this would have been used by the kifewebe society to ward off evil, avert disaster and heal the sick. When worn in dances, it serves the dancer for its connotation of aggression to help the chief maintain order and control. This mask is believed to embody supernatural forces and the magic it carries is decided by the size of its crest. The white color of the striations symbolizes peace and purity while the red could mean any of danger, fire, blood, evil, courage or fortitude. Songye masks are easily identified by their striations and their shapes. The eyes, noses and mouths are carved in high relief. Often, the lips form star-shaped puckers to give the masks the impression of whistling or pouting.
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Carved Antler Bone.
Carved antler bone, possibly Tequesta Indian, found at the Margate-Blount archaeological dig area. It is a small piece of unidentified bone that has been intricately carved. Prominent carvings include dual four leaf clover designs and a zoomorphic hook. Margate-Blount was discovered in 1959 by former Pompano Beach Mayor Bruce Blount, who found a wooden crypt filled with skeletons after engineers bulldozed the area he was leasing. Archaeologists began to study the site north of Northwest...
Show moreCarved antler bone, possibly Tequesta Indian, found at the Margate-Blount archaeological dig area. It is a small piece of unidentified bone that has been intricately carved. Prominent carvings include dual four leaf clover designs and a zoomorphic hook. Margate-Blount was discovered in 1959 by former Pompano Beach Mayor Bruce Blount, who found a wooden crypt filled with skeletons after engineers bulldozed the area he was leasing. Archaeologists began to study the site north of Northwest 72nd Street and west of University Drive. Subsequent digs were conducted through 2002. Items pulled over the years include ceramics, shells, antlers, carved animal bones, shark teeth and a shark vertebrae. It's one of about 500 Indian archaeological sites scattered everywhere from along the beach in Fort Lauderdale all the way out to Weston and the Everglades.
Pre-Columbian Jaguar Vessel.
This vessel is an example of a jaguar effigy vessel from the Nicoya culture from Costa Rica. It is appropriate to find an effigy vessel of a jaguar, displaying how the Costa Rican people worshipped this animal for its power and beauty. A perfect example of the strength of color use is seen on the head of the jaguar. The colors accentuate the most important aspects of the jaguar such as the big eyes, sharp teeth, and powerful muscles. Within the mouth of the jaguar there is a clay ball,...
Show moreThis vessel is an example of a jaguar effigy vessel from the Nicoya culture from Costa Rica. It is appropriate to find an effigy vessel of a jaguar, displaying how the Costa Rican people worshipped this animal for its power and beauty. A perfect example of the strength of color use is seen on the head of the jaguar. The colors accentuate the most important aspects of the jaguar such as the big eyes, sharp teeth, and powerful muscles. Within the mouth of the jaguar there is a clay ball, transforming this vessel into a rattle most probably used in ritualistic ceremonies. The mouth of the jaguar exemplifies the power of the animal because, the jaguar shows us his sharp teeth, and at the same time gives us a jovial grin. Around the jaguar's head there is a very vibrant pattern of smaller jaguar heads. These patterns are seen around the extremities as well, suggesting the symbolic importance of the revered jaguar. This large pear-shaped jar stands on hollow rattle tripod legs, two of which are modeled to represent a jaguar's hind legs. A third leg in the form of a tail is at the rear. Two short hollow forelegs loop out from the sides with paws resting on the hind legs.
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One of the main theatres of Amsterdam, built in the 19th century. It stages plays, dance and other performances.
If you click on the English flag, you get a selection of shows that have subtitles, or where knowledge of Dutch is not required.


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Lessons from Cities of Opportunity Pilot Initiative Drive Launch of New Technical Assistance RFP
Education and Early Childhood Success
The following presents brief highlights of the work of twelve cities in the Cities of Opportunity pilot. Based on what's learned from these cities, NLC is launching recruitment for a new cohort and invite cities to apply. Click here to access the RFP.
Cities of Opportunity are places where all residents can reach their full potential and live productive, fulfilling and healthy lives as part of a thriving community. Yet in cities across America, the life expectancies of residents who live a few miles apart, and sometimes even blocks apart, vary by as much as five, ten or even twenty years. Multiple factors – income, education, housing, transit, family and social supports, and community safety – all play a role in how long we live and how well we live.
The National League of Cities (NLC) launched Cities of Opportunity to strengthen city leader's capacity to work in a more holistic way to address root causes of poor health. City leaders are uniquely positioned to advance cross-cutting approaches that address issues that affect the health of their residents and the vibrancy of their city. With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, NLC recruited 12 cities in a competitive application process to pilot the initiative. Participating cities included: Atlanta; Birmingham, Alabama; Charlotte, North Carolina; East Point, Georgia; Fort Collins, Colorado; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Hopewell, Virginia; Huntington, West Virginia; Lansing, Michigan; New Orleans; Rancho Cucamonga, California; and Roanoke, Virginia.
Cities of Opportunity reframed how participating cities thought about health. They found it to be a catalyst and accelerator for an entirely new approach to city services and partnerships and that it expanded their ecosystem. Participating in the cohort opened the door to intentionally infuse health equity in all their efforts. From late 2018 to spring 2019, these cities co-learned and co-created with NLC and subject matter experts. Several pilot cities codified equity policies and practices into their master plans and in agreements with developers. Others advanced partnerships and investments with anchor institutions. Cities developed structures to work across silos to align across city departments. They connected plans with data-driven dashboards. Pilot cities also accelerated their work in other national initiatives, such as Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership and Invest Health.
A few specific examples include:
Atlanta built hyper-local hiring requirements into their solicitation for Environmental Impact Bonds for innovative green infrastructure projects; thus, putting equity principles into practice.
Birmingham is operationalizing the Mayor's Comprehensive Community Initiative with a model of governance, accountability and staffing structures for a "no wrong door" service model for all city neighborhoods.
Grand Rapids developed a new objective for health equity and Health in All Policies in the city's new strategic plan. Now they will apply the health lens to all city policies.
East Point's City Council unanimously adopted the Cities of Opportunity Resolution to guide equity considerations in all development decisions that come before the council.
Huntington recently secured funding from a major hospital to invest in community and neighborhood economic development in targeted neighborhoods.
Equipped with learnings from pilot cities, NLC is launching the next stage of Cities of Opportunities to engage more cities to drive change in policies and systems. NLC will move to scale by building a pipeline of cities through learning networks and communities of practice while supporting new cohorts of cities advancing action to improve multiple factors that affect health. Recruitment for a new cohort is in progress. Participating cities will benefit from city-centered and context-specific technical assistance; thought partnership with peer cities, national experts and philanthropic leaders; a focus on equity and race; strategic use of data; and access to recent research and innovations. There will be two peer-to-peer convenings over the course of the year-long cohort – one towards the beginning in Washington, D.C. and one towards the end.
NLC welcomes applications from cities across geographic areas and of various types (e.g., rural, suburban, urban). The deadline is August 30, 2019. Click here to access the RFP for the next Cities of Opportunity cohort.
Learn more about the accomplishments of the 12 pilot cities in this full report – Cities of Opportunity: Highlights and Summary from 12-City Pilot.
About the Author: Kitty Hsu Dana is the Senior Health Policy Advisor in the NLC Institute for Youth, Education, and Families.


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Critical Infrastructure is the term used to describe all the assets that are critical to our existence. It refers to services essential to our day-to-day living: our food, water, power, transportation, communication systems, wastewater management, information technology (computers) and more. This would also include the stores and businesses we rely on to get these services.
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The community plays a vital role in critical infrastructure resilience. One of the primary ways this is done is to report ALL SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY, especially when it deals with those essential services mentioned above. To report suspicious persons, vehicles, and or activity, call Crime Check at 456-2233. You can also fill out Crime Check's online form.
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This research explores the subtle distribution of power within early American industrial capitalism, as seen in the nineteenth-century company town of Fayette, Michigan. Research methods for the project include GIS-based analysis of the built environment and artifact patterns; the development of a historical ethnography for the town; and archaeological excavations of household refuse excavated from three class-based neighborhoods (an artifact database is attached to this document in CD format). Issues surrounding power and agency are explored in regard to three heuristic categories of power. In the first category, the company imposed a system of structural, class-based power that is most visible in hierarchical differences in pay and housing, as well as consumer behavior. A second category, bio-power, addresses disciplinary activities surrounding health and the human body. The class system extended to discrepancies in the company's regulation of employee health, as observed in medicinal artifacts, disposal patterns of industrial waste, incidence of intestinal parasites, and unequal access to healthcare. In addition, landscape analysis shows how the built environment served as a disciplinary technology to reinforce hegemonic and naturalized class divisions, to regenerate these divisions through symbolic violence and workers' daily practices, and to impose self-regulation. The third ensemble of power relations is pluralistic, heterarcical, and determined by personal identity (e.g., consumer behavior and gender). Individuals drew upon non-economic capital to bolster social status and express identity apart from the corporate hierarchy. This research explores the social impacts of our industrial heritage and the potential repercussions of industrialization today.


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Empirical work in the social sciences often uses primary data collected by researchers, or other data that is not yet publicly available. Researchers spend huge amounts of time and money to collect these data; yet after the publication of the paper, the data sit in their files, rarely revisited and slowly buried, unless it is published and shared.
There has been a growing research transparency movement within the social sciences to encourage broader data publication. In this blog post we share some background on this movement and recent statistics, key factors for researchers to consider before publishing data, and tools and resources to support data publication efforts.
The notion of "open data"--the concept that data collected by researchers should be shared publicly without costs incurred by secondhand users--has been promoted by a handful of social science institutions, including the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), the Open Science Framework (OSF), and the Harvard Dataverse, hosted by the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences (IQSS).
Other interesting projects (like Code Ocean and Two Ravens) have been developed to facilitate replication, data exploration, and analysis of published data. These open data initiatives aim to reduce the costs incurred by researchers in sharing their data.
Note: From a survey consisting of 11 top-tier and 23 mid-tier empirical economics journals as of July 2017.
Figure 1. Share of Studies with Posted Data and Code.
The chart below shows the rapid growth in the number of dataset published by J-PAL affiliates, by quarter.
Authors cite confidentiality issues as the primary reason for their inability to publish data, especially for studies that deal with sensitive information. Intellectual property concerns are the second most-cited reason for requesting exemptions to data publication policies.
With these concerns in mind, authors may perceive that the benefits of data publication do not outweigh its perceived costs and risks.
For example, authors may worry that sharing data could result in losing full control of the data , other researchers using the data for similar research when the original author's paper is not yet published, or perhaps outside parties digging for errors in the data analysis. Private data providers, especially for-profit companies, are often unwilling to relinquish valuable proprietary data to the public out of concerns that competitors might gain from it.
These risks are valid, but can be minimized by managing permission settings for reuse when there are concerns about malicious users, and avoiding misinterpretation by showing transparency in the research methods used.
Similarly, a preliminary paper by J-PAL affiliate Ted Miguel, with Garret Christensen and Allan Dafoe, concluded that papers in top economics and political science journals with public data and code are cited between 30-45 percent more often than papers without public data and code. It is plausible that open data platforms such as the Harvard Dataverse lead to greater visibility for the researcher, as users who browse or download a dataset are likely to see the associated study or paper.
More importantly, open data is a public good. The availability of data benefits not only researchers, but policy partners who supported the studies, students who learn from using the data, and - importantly - the people from whom the data was collected (though much more work is needed to better inform and educate study participants and members of the public on effective use of open data). Even further, open data enables government agencies to use data that otherwise is costly to obtain.
The J-PAL Dataverse, a subset dataverse in the Harvard Dataverse, is an open data repository which stores data associated with studies conducted by J-PAL affiliated researchers.
We collected data from our database in J-PAL Dataverse users using a guestbook to better understand who was accessing this open data, and for what purpose.
Figure 4. Data Users of J-PAL Dataverse.
Note: Data is collected from July 23 to November 26, 2018.
I'm a researcher--how can I start publishing my data?
You can get credit for your hard work collecting data, and contribute to the public good, by making data public. It is worth the effort: Researchers and others often do reuse data and appreciate the effort that goes into cleaning it and curating the code.
What are important considerations for researchers before publishing data?
If a donor is funding the research, what are their data publication requirements? Some may require publication of just the data that are part of the analysis, and some may require all data collected to be published.
If your dataset includes administrative data from a third-party organization, are there any data user agreements in place (DUA) that prevent you from publishing the data? Could you go back to the data provider and talk about publication? If you are you writing a new DUA at the beginning of a project, can you include a mandate for data publication?
If your dataset includes survey data, does your informed consent clause allow publication? Who did you tell your survey participants that you would be sharing the data with? How did you tell them their responses would be managed? ICPSR has several good recommendations for informed consent clauses.
Does your institutional review board (IRB) protocol have stipulations regarding data publication? Did you mention data publication as part of your original protocol? Can you go back to your IRB for approval of data publication?
Where will you publish your data? Are there associated fees with the repository? Does your donor mandate a specific repository?
How sensitive is your data? Does your data contain information regarding individuals' financial, health, education, or criminal records? If so, have you considered releasing the data in a restricted repository (similar to ICPSR's data enclaves) where researchers can only access it through DUAs and additional agreements about usage?
Have you thoroughly evaluated the risk to participants? What efforts have you made to reduce the risk of identifying individuals in the study? Have personal identifiers been removed from the data? Could someone potentially link several indirect identifiers (such as gender, age, and address/zip code) to identify individual in your study?
For example, in dataset that contains sensitive information about individuals, there is a tradeoff between utilizability of data and the privacy of human subjects. Protecting individuals should be the main priority.
Are the data and code clearly labeled and clean? Would a third party be able to review, read, and run your code?
Have you clearly documented how the data is organized, how it was collected, what particular variables or observations were dropped or cleaned, and how to use the data and run the code?
Researchers should have a clear answer for each question prior to data publication in order to ensure ethical and responsible use.
An increasing number of research and donor institutions have listed data publication as a condition for grant funding.
J-PAL's data publication policy requires evaluations funded by our research initiatives to share their data and code in a trusted digital repository (more details are in J-PAL's Guidelines for Data Publication).
We've worked closely with our affiliates on curating their data and code for publication since our efforts to increase research transparency began in earnest in June 2015. This work includes cleaning code, labeling datasets, ensuring that personal information is removed or masked, documenting metadata, and publishing datasets themselves. The J-PAL Dataverse has the benefit (over a regular website like a faculty page, for example) of assigning a permanent digital object identifier (DOI) to a dataset for consistent citation, and storing the data in perpetuity through consistent URLs.
J-PAL and our partner organization Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) have created resources to help researchers publish their data and improve research transparency. IPA's best practices for data and code management illustrate good coding practices that can be used to help clean and finalize your data and code before publication. J-PAL North America's data security procedures for researchers provide context on elements of data security and working with individual-level administrative and survey data.
With this in mind, we're always working on new resources to support research transparency. Have an idea? Email me at krubio [at] povertyactionlab [dot] org.
To learn more about our work to promote research transparency, visit www.povertyactionlab.org/rt.
Galiani, Sebastian, Paul Gertler, and Mauricio Romero. Incentives for Replication in Economics. Tech. rept. National Bureau of Economic Research.
Christensen, Garret, and Edward Miguel. 2018. "Transparency, Reproducibility, and the Credibility of Economics Research." Journal of Economic Literature, 56 (3): 920-80.
1 Galiani, Sebastian, Paul J. Gertler, and Mauricio Romero. "Incentives for Replication in Economics." SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017, 4. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2999062.
2 Galiani et. al, 5.
3 Christensen, Garret, and Edward Miguel. "Transparency, Reproducibility, and the Credibility of Economics Research." Journal of Economic Literature 56, no. 3 (September 2018): 937. https://doi.org/10.1257/jel.20171350.
4 Tennant, Jonathan P., François Waldner, Damien C. Jacques, Paola Masuzzo, Lauren B. Collister, and Chris. H. J. Hartgerink. "The Academic, Economic and Societal Impacts of Open Access: An Evidence-Based Review." F1000Research 5 (September 21, 2016): 632. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.8460.3.


A multiyear enforcement initiative conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division, that focused on grocery stores in Iowa and Nebraska, found widespread violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act's child labor provisions. Since fiscal year 2011, Wage and Hour Division investigations have disclosed child labor violations among 28 grocery stores throughout the two states. Civil money penalties total more than $128,500.
Significant child labor violations were found in grocery stores operating under the names of Fareway Stores Inc. and Hy-Vee — two of the largest grocery store chains in the area. These violations included allowing minors to perform prohibited hazardous occupations, such as loading and/or operating power-driving paper balers, meat slicers, bakery machines and operating a motor vehicle, in violation of the FLSA.
As a result of the division's enforcement and compliance assistance efforts, Fareway Stores Inc. has signed a settlement agreement with the department, committing to ensure future compliance with the FLSA at all of its present and future establishments. The agreement includes specific measures the company will take to prevent future child labor violations, including training managers about prohibited hazardous occupations for minors, posting FLSA information for employee awareness, establishing an email contact for reporting potential violations and implementing a new policy to ensure its employment of minors is in compliance with the child labor provisions of the law.
The division's Des Moines District Office also conducted a seminar at the Hy-Vee company headquarters to provide managers and staff with compliance assistance about the FLSA's child labor requirements and how to ensure future compliance with the law.
The FLSA establishes a minimum age of 18 for workers in those nonagricultural occupations that the secretary of labor finds and declares to be particularly hazardous for 16- and 17-year-old workers or detrimental to their health or well-being. These rules must be followed unless a specific exemption applies.


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Gardeners pedal to keep water flowing at Chelsea
Posted 20 May 2009 | By Emily Davidow | Categories: Technology | Comments Off on Gardeners pedal to keep water flowing at Chelsea
Would love to see this!
from Reuters via Scientific American By Farah Master
LONDON (Reuters) – An experimental garden that uses exercise bikes to water plants is about to make the gentle art of gardening much sweatier, its designers said on Monday.
The water-recycling garden, on display at Britain's Chelsea Flower Show, features two static training bikes that pump water to plants — as long as someone is there to do the pedaling.
"We are going to have people cycling on the bikes throughout the show," Gerardine Hemingway, who designed the garden with her husband Wayne, told Reuters at the world famous show in west London.
The garden was designed to promote a healthy lifestyle and the sustainable use of water by encouraging those who use it to think about where irrigation water comes from, she said.
At the show, designers sat side by side on bikes and pedaled to pump water along a circuit which irrigates a vegetable and fruit garden. Excess water flowed to a storage tank below the surface, ready to be pumped again.
The garden, which cost between 40- 50,000 pounds ($61,000) to build, features a "living wall" made of vegetables and fruits including pak choi and strawberries.
After the show, it will be transported to a community park in the town of Gateshead, northeast England.
Hemingway said children from the Gateshead community helped design and decorate the garden.
"The idea is to get the community involved in the creation of the garden so when it goes back to its permanent site in Gateshead they get full ownership over it," Hemingway said.
(Editing by Richard Balmforth)
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Angela Fick Braly (born July 2, 1961, in Dallas, Texas) is an American executive. She served as president and chief executive officer of WellPoint (now Anthem), a large U.S.-based provider of health insurance, and was a member of the company's board of directors. She assumed those responsibilities on June 1, 2007, following several high-profile roles for the company. She resigned in August 2012 due to shareholder criticism. Since May 2016, she has been a member of the board of directors of ExxonMobil.

Early life
Angela Braly received her undergraduate degree from Texas Tech University in 1982 and her Juris Doctor from Southern Methodist University School of Law. She graduated from Richardson High School in 1979.

Career
She was a partner in the St. Louis law firm of Lewis, Rice & Fingersh, L.C.

In January 1999, she joined WellPoint as general counsel for RightCHOICE (currently Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Missouri). She also oversaw the Missouri plan's government relations efforts. During that time, she managed the legal strategy resulting in the creation of The Missouri Foundation for Health, which serves the health care needs of underinsured and uninsured people in Missouri. She later became president and CEO of the Missouri plan, managing all aspects of the business and setting strategies to meet customer needs.

She served as executive vice president, general counsel and chief public affairs officer for WellPoint. In that role, she was responsible for public policy development, government relations, legal affairs, corporate communications, marketing, and social responsibility initiatives. She also had operational responsibility for the nation's largest Medicare claims processing business and the federal employee health benefits business. Braly was also a key strategist during WellPoint's acquisition of New-York based WellChoice in 2005.

On February 24, 2010, Braly gave testimony to Congress defending Wellpoint's insurance premium increases. She served as vice-chairman of the executive committee of The Business Council for 2011 and 2012.

She was recognized by the St. Louis Business Journal as one of the 25 Most Influential Women in Business for 2000 and was named one of Modern Healthcare's Top 25 Women in Healthcare in 2007. Forbes listed Braly as the sixteenth most powerful woman in the world in 2007, fourth most powerful in 2008, and eighth most powerful in 2009. Fortune ranked Braly the fourth most powerful woman in business in America in 2007, fifth most powerful in 2008., and fourth most powerful in 2009.

In May 2013, Braly was named by Indiana Governor Mike Pence to the board of the Indiana Economic Development Corporation.

Personal life
As of April 2009, Braly had the 306th highest compensation for a U.S. CEO, having earned $4.07 million, which is 74th among females. She owns $4.6 million worth of WellPoint stock, or 0.02% of the company.

In 2007, Braly earned $14.9 million, mostly in stock options. Her total compensation was $8.7 million in 2008, and $13.1 million in 2009.

Braly generally supports Republican and conservative political candidates.

References

External links
WellPoint biography

Interview with Braly
Forbes profile

Living people
American women chief executives
American women lawyers
American lawyers
1961 births
Rawls College of Business alumni
Women business executives
Southern Methodist University alumni
People from Richardson, Texas
Texas Tech University alumni
American health care chief executives
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BU wins European Association for International Education (EAIE) award
Bournemouth University has been named winner of the European Association for International Education (EAIE) award for innovation in internationalisation.
The EAIE is a European centre for expertise, networking and resources in the internationalisation of higher education, and the award for innovation in internationalisation recognises exceptional efforts to promote internationalisation.
BU received the award for implementing innovative projects that developed strong societal interaction and stakeholder relations in addition to standard internationalisation activities.
These include the Global Festivals of Learning – which have run in 16 different cities in 6 different countries reaching nearly 4,000 people; BU's student mobility opportunities and the Global Talent programme – a free extra-curricular award focusing on skills essential to the global workplace; and Global Hubs of Practice in ASEAN, China and India to build on research collaborations.
Dr Angelos Stefanidis, Associate Dean (Global Engagement) at BU, who put forward the award submission, said: "We are extremely proud to have received this honour from the EAIE, and in so doing, join a long list of illustrious winners.
"This award represents the ambition, talent, and hard work of so many Bournemouth University staff and students, as well as our valued partners around the globe, who have made our ambitious vision a practical reality."
BU was shortlisted alongside two other European institutions, and was named as winner at the EAIE Conference in Geneva on 11 September.
BU also presented on its internationalisation strategy, alongside the other shortlisted finalists, at the conference.
BU Chief Operating Officer Jim Andrews said: "Our aim at Bournemouth University is to inspire learning, advance knowledge and enrich society, not just in the UK but all around the world.
"This award from the EAIE is a fantastic recognition of many years of hard work across BU and the progress we have made towards achieving our vision. However, our ambition is to achieve so much more, and we are excited about building upon the success of what our staff, students and partners, have collectively achieved to date."
Internal student news
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BU graduates and students are Oscars hopefuls
Over 50 BU graduates worked on the special effects of Oscar-nominated films, and two second-year students acted in the Oscar-nominated 1917.
New Media Writing Prize and VR exhibition held at BU
The New Media Writing Prize tenth anniversary award winners were announced in a ceremony held at Bournemouth University.
BU event kicks off the Year of the Nurse and Midwife
Leading nurses and midwives joined BU academics to start the celebrations for the WHO International Year of the Nurse and Midwife.
OPINION: India's economy: how the world's fastest growing nation went off the rails
BU's Professor Sangeeta Khorana writes for The Conversation about why India's GDP growth has slowed and what might be next for the country's economy.


Bond investors are turning to John Denver songs to make money.
Yes, you read that right. Country Roads and Leaving on a Jet Plane have become a substitute for bonds. Such is the state of the fixed income market. Who would have thought that the future would become so barren of promise, that credit investors would turn to music for interest payments?
I'll tell you how this works in a second. Let's start with why this has happened in the first place.
Thanks to central bank intervention, both short- and long-term interest rates have fallen in tandem in recent years. Central banks lowered long-term rates by buying sovereign bonds, making them more expensive. The interest they pay as a proportion of their price – their "yield" – dropped dramatically.
Investors who rely on interest payments (like pension funds) have had to use their imagination to keep making money. This is known as "reaching for yield", or as I like to call it, "walking the plank" – for they are having to take more risk in order to keep their heads above water.
Walking the plank has involved (so far) buying ever more equities, junk debt, and the use of derivatives to enhance returns. And although the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England have begun raising interest rates – which should provide some relief for the yield starved – demand for junk debt has not changed.
The chart below tracks shows the yield for the lowest rated (least creditworthy) junk bonds in the US. As you can see, yields are close to their 2014 lows.
The yield famine continues. And it's driven yield investors to all kinds of strange places.
I recently attended a presentation on alternative yield strategies at Deutsche Bank's HQ at London Wall (possibly chosen for the presence of "DB" in its postcode).
For those wanting high yields in a low-yield environment, the hedge fund analyst presenting detailed the "private credit solutions" Deutsche has been offering.
The markets bond investors are exploring to find yield ranged from the exotic to the bizarre – from sports finance to art lending.
Although bond investors cannot find high-yielding assets in the US or Europe, they can create them by offering bridge loans to fast food franchises, or leasing ageing commercial airliners (17-25 years old, the less landings the better).
Music copyrights are now a bond alternative. The rise of music streaming services like Spotify has made royalties profitable again now that audio piracy is less common. And the market is inefficient – musicians and their estates rarely understand how the rights to their music will be used to generate returns, and so don't price it accurately. Bought in portfolios, the rights to music can yield high returns for several years.
Country Roads by John Denver is an example of this. Deutsche partnered with Kobalt, a music rights firm, to purchase a portfolio of John Denver tracks. Kobalt then used its contacts to make Country Roads the soundtrack to a Google advert in the Super Bowl.
After the advert was released, American football fans got the song stuck in their heads and started listening to it again. The royalties from streaming services rolled in and the music investors in the song made 400% on the rights.
It's a sign of the times that something so everyday – music – has turned into a financial instrument. That the songs you may hear on the radio, or on TV, are now potential yield instruments for investors destroyed by low interest rates. Where next down the road of risk will investors travel in search of yield?
Wherever it goes, that road faces an earthquake.
The "risk curve", running from bonds to stocks, to even riskier assets like derivatives and now the likes of music royalties, starts with one assumption: that sovereign debt, right at the beginning of the curve, is risk free. It isn't.
When Italy breaks that spell, it'll be interesting to see how the tower of assets built upon that assumption will fare. This country road may not be taking us home after all.


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Q: Messaging.MassEmailMessage class doesn't work when we set a list of case ids as whatids. It works fine if we don't set whatids Please help me fix my issue with Messaging.MassEmailMessage class. It doesn't work when I set a list of contactIds as my targetObjectIds and set a list of case ids as whatids. It works fine if i don't set whatids.
//This is a Utility Class that sends out eamils when a ticket comment is update
//June 14, 2014
public class MassEmailHelper {

   public MassEmailHelper(){}

   public static void notifyAll(List<Case> ticketsToNotify, Boolean setActivity)
{
        Integer num = 0;
        MassLists__c massEmail;
        List<MassLists__c>massEmailList = new List<MassLists__c>();

        Set<ID> ParentTicketIDs = new Set<ID>();
        List<Contact> ContactListIDs = new List<Contact>();

        List<Id> CaseAccountIds = new List<Id>();

      /* //Get the Account ID associated with the ticket comment that has been updated
      ParentTicketList = [SELECT Id, AccountId, Notify_All__c, Mass_Notification__c,
                       Status FROM Case WHERE Id IN: ParentTicketIDs];*/

       for(Case c: ticketsToNotify)
            if(c.Notify_All__c==true)
                CaseAccountIds.add(c.AccountId);

       System.debug('The size of account List is: :' + CaseAccountIds.size());
      //Get all the ids for the contacts to email. Bascially, all support site users from the Accounts for the tickets
      //ContactsToEmailIdList = [Select Id, AccountId From Contact where  AccountID in :CaseAccountIds and Receive_Support_Notifications__c=true];

        Map<Id, Account> mapAccounts = new Map<ID, Account>([Select Id, (Select Id, Email From Contacts where
                                     Receive_Support_Notifications__c=true) from Account where Id IN :CaseAccountIds]);

        Integer batchSize =240;
        List<Messaging.Email> mailList = new List<Messaging.Email>();
        Messaging.Massemailmessage mail = new Messaging.Massemailmessage();
        List<Id> contactList=new List<Id>();
        Id[] caseList = new List<Id>();
        string TemplateName = '{Customer} Ticket has been updated';
        system.debug('>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> fetching email template');
       EmailTemplate e = [select Id,Name,Subject,body, HtmlValue from EmailTemplate where name like :templateName+'%'];
     //  templateName='test4';
       // EmailTemplate e = [select Id,Name,Subject,body, HtmlValue from EmailTemplate where name like :templateName];
        Account accWithContacts;
        mail.setTemplateId(e.Id);
        mail.setSaveAsActivity(false);
        system.debug('>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Set initial params for email');

        for(Case caseObj:ticketsToNotify ){
            if(caseObj.Notify_All__c == true){
                    accWithContacts = mapAccounts!=null ? mapAccounts.get(caseObj.AccountId): null;
                    System.debug('XXXXXXXXXXXXX accWithContacts  '+accWithContacts );
                    if( accWithContacts !=NULL && accWithContacts.Contacts!=NULL)
                        for(Contact contactObj: accWithContacts.Contacts){
                           if(contactList.size()>batchSize){
                           System.debug('XXXXXXXXXXXXX I am in 55');
                                mail.setWhatIds(caseList);
                                mail.setTargetObjectIds(contactList);
                                mailList.add(mail);
                                mail = new Messaging.Massemailmessage();
                                mail.setTemplateId(e.Id);
//                              mail.setSaveAsActivity(setActivity);
                                contactList = new List<Id>();
                                caseList=new List<Id>();
                            }
                            caseList.add(caseObj.Id);
                            contactList.add(contactObj.Id);
                           /* insertUpdateTicketInfo(num, setActivity,massEmail, contactObj,e,
                            caseObj,massEmailList );
                            num++;*/
                     }
                     System.debug('XXXXXXXXXXXXX caseList '+caseList);
                     System.debug('XXXXXXXXXXXXX contactList'+contactList);
                }
            else{
                                       System.debug('XXXXXXXXXXXXX I am in 76');
                    if(caseObj.ContactId!=null){
                                               System.debug('XXXXXXXXXXXXX I am in 78');
                        if(contactList.size()>batchSize){
                                                   System.debug('XXXXXXXXXXXXX I am in 80');
                            mail.setWhatIds(caseList);
                            mail.setTargetObjectIds(contactList);
                            mailList.add(mail);
                            mail = new Messaging.Massemailmessage();
                            mail.setTemplateId(e.Id);
  //                        mail.setSaveAsActivity(setActivity);
                            contactList = new List<Id>();
                            caseList=new List<Id>();
                        }
                        caseList.add(caseObj.Id);
                        contactList.add(caseObj.ContactId);
              //          mailPrimaryContact(setActivity, mail, caseObj, e, mailList);
                         System.debug('XXXXXXXXXXXXX caseList2 '+caseList);
                     System.debug('XXXXXXXXXXXXX contactList2'+contactList)  ;
                    }
                    if(caseObj.Additional_Contact_1__c!=null){
                       if(contactList.size()>batchSize){
                            mail.setWhatIds(caseList);
                            mail.setTargetObjectIds(contactList);
                            mailList.add(mail);
                            mail = new Messaging.Massemailmessage();
                            mail.setTemplateId(e.Id);
    //                      mail.setSaveAsActivity(setActivity);
                            contactList = new List<Id>();
                            caseList=new List<Id>();
                        }
                        caseList.add(caseObj.Id);
                        contactList.add(caseObj.Additional_Contact_1__c);
//                       mailPrimaryContact(setActivity, mail, caseObj, e, mailList);
                    }
                    if(caseObj.Additional_Contact_2__c!=null){
                        if(contactList.size()>batchSize){
                            mail.setWhatIds(caseList);
                            mail.setTargetObjectIds(contactList);
                            mailList.add(mail);
                            mail = new Messaging.Massemailmessage();
                            mail.setTemplateId(e.Id);
      //                    mail.setSaveAsActivity(setActivity);
                            contactList = new List<Id>();
                            caseList=new List<Id>();
                        }
                        caseList.add(caseObj.Id);
                        contactList.add(caseObj.Additional_Contact_2__c);
//                        mailPrimaryContact2(setActivity, mail, caseObj, e, mailList);
                    }
              }
        }
          system.debug('>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Case List Size '+caseList.size());
        system.debug('>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Contact List Size '+contactList.size());
        if(contactList.size()>0){
        System.debug('XXXXXXXXXXXXX caseList 131'+caseList);

            mail.setWhatIds(caseList);
            mail.setTargetObjectIds(contactList);
  //        mail.setUseSignature(false);
            mailList.add(mail);
        }

        //send email
            System.Debug('>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The mail List size is: '  +mailList.size() );
            if(mailList!=null && !mailList.isEmpty() && mailList.size() > 0){
                for(Messaging.Email m: mailList)
                        System.debug('Contact List size '+((Messaging.Massemailmessage)m).getTargetObjectIds().size()
                        +' and what id size '+((Messaging.Massemailmessage)m).getWhatIds().size());
                 try{

                      List<Messaging.Sendemailresult> srs =  Messaging.sendEmail(mailList, false);
                      system.debug('>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> After mass email');
                      for(Messaging.Sendemailresult sr : srs)
                          if(!sr.isSuccess())
                            system.debug('Messaging failed '+sr.getErrors()[0].getMessage());

                  }catch (Exception ex){
                       system.debug('A fatal exception occurred '+ex);
                  }
              }

            /**
            if(massEmailList!=null && !massEmailList.isEmpty() && massEmailList.size() > 0)
                system.debug('Number of emails to email from update Ticket Comments is: ' +massEmailList.size());
            insert massEmailList;
            **/

   }//end of email method

      public static void insertUpdateTicketInfo(Integer num, Boolean setActivity, MassLists__c massEmail, Contact contactObj,EmailTemplate e,
      Case caseObj,List<MassLists__c>massEmailList ){

       massEmail = new MassLists__c();
       massEmail.Set_Activity__c = setActivity;
       massEmail.filterCode__c = 'CDT';
       massEmail.Name = 'MassCommentUpdateTicket'+num;
       massEmail.ContactID__c = contactObj.Id;
       massEmail.TemplateID__c = e.Id ;
       massEmail.TicketID__c = caseObj.Id;
       massEmailList.add(massEmail);
    }
 }

I am using cases for the whatIds. I know that I can use Messaging.SingleEmailMessage. However, for this particular scenario, I need to use Messaging.MassEmailMessage. Please let me know why Messaging.MassEmailMessage is not working with cases as whatIds.
Thanks in advance!

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Dr. Patricia Gomez-Gonzalez on Spain, Recession and Currency Unions
April 21, 2016 by Nimrod Segev
Professor Gomez-Gonzalez will speak on currency unions with particular emphasis on Spain at 4pm Tuesday April 26th in LL309 or E205 Dealy Hall. This ongoing research with coauthor Daniel M. Rees Senior Economist at the Reserve Bank of Australia studies how Spain would have fared outside the Euro area during the recent crisis.
As part of a currency union, Spain could not devalue its currency in response to the double-dip recession of 2009 and 2013. Instead it had to undergo an 'internal devaluation' which can be very costly as it reduces employment and income growth.
The paper presents a two-economy New Keynesian model à la Gali and Monacelli (2005) with a structural break when Spain joined the Euro area in 1999. Before that, Spain is assumed to follow a Taylor rule which responds to domestic inflation and domestic output only.
The estimation of the model accounts for the structural break in 1999 because agents are forward looking, this structural break might cause changes in behavior before 1999. The estimation methodology infers breaks in beliefs of households and firms from the model's observable variables.
The paper's counterfactual exercises find that if hit by the same shocks of 2009-2014, Spain outside the Euro would have experienced a sizable exchange rate depreciation. This would have caused inflation, which in turn would have triggered an increase in the policy rate.
Output, consumption, and investment growth would have exhibited a similar pattern outside the Euro area as it did within. The evidence so far shows that the most relevant shocks in driving fluctuations in Spain during the crisis (aggregate technology, Euro demand shocks) are shocks outside the control of domestic monetary policy.
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NYU's Rajeev Dehejia discusses how external census data can be used to validate "local" fertility natural experiments
April 7, 2016 by Ruixuan Hu
Professor Dehejia will present his research at 4pm Tuesday April 12th in E530 Dealy. He will present his coauthored NBER paper "From Local to Global: External Validity in a Fertility Natural esperiement. He and coauthors Cristian Pop-Eleches, and Cyrus Samii investigate whether well-identified treatment effects from "reference" sites can be extrapolated to "target" sites of interest. They use use data from 166 country-year censuses to implement the Angrist and Evans (1998) natural experiment: that is, what is the effect two same sex children on future fertility and labor force participation by mothers. Reference-to-target group similarities in education, calendar year, and mothers' labor force participation matter, whereas geographical differences per se do not. Errors do not approach zero if the available evidence is naively extrapolated, but with sufficient data extrapolation error goes to zero using a model-based approach.
Short Bio: Professor Dehejia's research spans econometrics, development economics, labor economics, and public economics, with a focus on empirical microeconomic policy. His research interests include: econometric methods for program evaluation, financial development and growth, financial incentives and fertility decisions, moral hazard and automobile insurance, religion and consumption insurance, and the causes and consequences of child labor. His articles have appeared in The Journal of Law and Economics, The Journal of Human Resources, The Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Econometrics, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Development Economics, and Economic Development and Cultural Change. Rajeev is a Faculty Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow at the Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA), and a Research Network Fellow at CESifo. He is a coeditor of the Journal of Human Resources, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics and the Journal of the American Statistical Association. Rajeev Dehejia received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1997. He has been on the faculty of the Department of Economics and The Fletcher School at Tufts University and of the Department of Economics and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and has held visiting positions at Harvard, Princeton, and the London School of Economics.
http://wagner.nyu.edu/video/185
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About a year ago, I bought a $250 headset from Sennheiser that was a game changer in how I listened to everything on my computer. The sound quality on them were excellent and, unlike previous headsets I used, they haven't broke or had any structural defects which is good thing in my book. However, there was something missing about them that I liked from using 3.5 mm jack headphones.
Some retail systems (a few laptops and a desktop) and my prebuilt gaming PC had a good audio manager that allowed me to customize the sound in whatever way I want it to be. This included an equalizer with presets, vocal removal, and other nifty audio settings. My Sennheiser headset does have a similar piece of software, but it's got less features in comparison.
I have a few equalizer presets and surround sound toggling among other things but it lacks many of the features I miss from having to use Realtek HD Audio Manager or some other OEM Audio Software that has these functions. I can't get the Audio Manager to work on my headset nor can I find any free software online that allows me to get all these features. Equalizer APO and the PEACE extension fills the equalizer part but I'm still missing the other features like vocal remover.
I would like to get the ability to customize my sound the way I like it with all the features I had with the Audio Manager, but I don't want to sacrifice the really good audio quality in return. I thought I can probably get another USB device that's just headphones since I'm not sure if 3.5 mm audio devices aren't that good for audio quality. If so, I'd probably still can't use them because the front jack doesn't work probably since I moved all my PC's components into a new case.
This leads to my question: What's a good pair of USB Headphones for listening to music that comes with good audio management software like Realtek HD Audio Manager?
Some requirements I like to meet are over-ear headphones so that they don't hurt my ears after having them on for quite some time and they have to be at least affordable enough since I don't have as much money as I use to while having good quality overall.
That's cool but I'm still looking for something with a vocal remover/voice cancellation feature if Equalizer APO and PEACE doesn't have that feature. Having that will make it complete enough.
May i ask why you need those features?
I sometimes like listening to music that way just to hear how different it sounds just to hear certain instruments more clearly. A little weird, but I typically like hearing music in many ways, including having reverb.
I just want something like that, just for USB headphones. Why would I ever pay for anything professional-grade? I don't have to if I have much simpler alternatives to choose.


The inside line on Brexit. Interviews with top politicians and commentators, analysis from the Telegraph's Westminster team — and the occasional musical interlude. Presented by Christopher Hope. Every Friday.
This week's Chopper's Brexit Podcast celebrates its first birthday, with cake, streamers and party hats at the Red Lion pub on Whitehall.
Over the past year - since its launch in March 2017 - the podcasts' episodes have been listened to 682,000 times - 352,000 downloads and 330,000 streams on the Telegraph's site, Apple and Android.
This week's guests include Brandon Lewis, the Conservative party chairman, Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable, and Elizabeth Campbell, leader of Kensington and Chelsea Council.
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Samsung Launches Notebook 7 Force with Nvidia GTX 1650 Graphics
By Rami Tabari 03 June 2019
Samsung is revamping its Notebook 7 laptop lineup with an all new clamshell 13-inch and 15-inch version, as well as the Notebook 7 Force, which boasts an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 graphics card that's designed to target creators.
Samsung Notebook 7 and Notebook 7 Force price and availability
Both the Samsung Notebook 7 (13-inch) and Notebook 7 (15-inch) start at $999 and $1,099, respectively, while the Notebook 7 Force will start at $1,499. You'll find the latest Samsung laptops available for preorder starting July 12, and they'll officially launch on July 26.
Samsung Notebook 7 (13-inch / 15-inch) and Notebook 7 Force Specs
Samsung Notebook 7 (13-inch) Samsung Notebook 7 (15-inch) Samsung Notebook 7 Force
Starting Price (Availability) $999 (July 26) $1,099 (July 26) $1,499 (July 26)
Display 13.3-inch: 1920 x 1080 15.6-inch: 1920 x 1080
CPU Up to Intel Core i7-8565U
RAM Up to 16GB
Graphics Intel UHD Graphics Intel UHD Graphics or Nvidia GeForce MX250 Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650
Storage Up to 512GB SSD Up to 512GB SSD and HDD
Ports One USB Type-C, two USB 3.0, HDMI, microSD, headphone jack One USB Type-C, two USB 3.0, HDMI, microSD, headphone jack, security slot, RJ45
Size 12.2 x 8.7 x 0.5 inches 14.1 x 9.4 x 0.6 inches 14.2 x 9.4 x 0.7
Weight 2.84 pounds 3.73 pounds (3.95 pounds w/ Nvidia GPU) 4.08 pounds
Samsung's Notebook 7 lineup will feature up to an 8th Gen Intel Core i7-8565U processor, which is disappointing, considering 10th Gen is practically here at this point. The Notebook 7s will also be configurable with up to 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD.
The 13-inch Notebook 7 will get Intel UHD Graphics, while the 15-inch version has the option for an Nvidia GeForce MX250 GPU. The Notebook 7 Force is outfitted with a GTX 1650 GPU.
The MX250 Notebook 7 gets an expandable SSD slot, while the Notebook 7 Force will get two.
Samsung laptop designs have been ho-hum in recent years,, and that doesn't really change here--at least based on the initial photos. At the very least, Samsung outfits the Notebook 7 lineup with solid metal frames, but the silver on the regular 7 and the black on the 7 Force look straight up bland.
To Samsung's credit, each laptop has slim bezels, but the only noteworthy feature about the design is the blue fingerprint reader that sits between the Shift key and numpad on the 15-inch laptops.
They're all slim and light in their own right as well. The 13-inch Notebook 7 weighs in at 2.8 pounds and 12.2 x 8.7 x 0.5 inches while the 15-inch comes in at 3.7 pounds (4 pounds with Nvidia GPU) and 14.1 x 9.4 x 0.6 inches. The Notebook 7 Force is slightly bigger and heavier than the normal 15-inch, measuring 4.1 pounds and 14.2 x 9.4 x 0.7 inches.
The three Notebook 7 laptops feature one USB Type-C port, two USB 3.0 ports, an HDMI port, a microSD card slot and a headphone jack. However, the Notebook 7 Force will exclusively have an RJ45 Ethernet port.
Each of the Notebook 7's panels are capped at 1920 x 1080, which is disappointing in light of the slew of 4K OLED laptops being announced or released this year. It would have been nice to see some higher refresh rates or even just regular 4K on the Notebook 7 Force.
It's hard to imagine the Notebook 7 Force satisfying creators, especially when other premium laptops, like the Gigabyte Aero 15 and the Dell Inspiron 15 7000, we announced to do the same but with higher-res panels.
The images released alongside the news of Samsung's latest Notebook 7 lineup reveal a keyboard that looks akin to the Notebook 9 Pro. If that's the case, then the keys will be reminiscent of MacBook's butterfly keyboard, and measure for roughly 0.9 millimeters of travel.
While that's outside of our 1.5 to 2.0 mm of key travel, the Notebook 9 Pro's keyboard wasn't bad. The 15-inch Notebook 7 and Notebook 7 Force will feature a full size numpad, while the 13-inch Notebook 7 does not.
There's no word on estimated battery life as of yet, but we do know that the Notebook 7 (13-inch and 15-inch) have a 55Wh battery, while the Notebook 7 Force features a 43Wh battery. Combine that with a GTX 1650 GPU, and the Notebook 7 Force's battery life will likely be much shorter than that of its siblings.
Despite the Notebook 7 lineup lacking a few features that other upcoming premium laptops have, we're interested to see how Samsung's revamped line performs when we get these systems into our lab. We're especially interested in the Notebook 7 Force, considering it has a GTX 1650 GPU. Stay tuned for the full reviews and benchmarks.
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Winner of the 2005 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film as well as the Grand Special Jury Prize and Best Actor at the 2004 Venice International Film Festival, The Sea Inside is a powerful and beautiful depiction of the struggle of Ramón Sampedro (Javier Bardem, Collateral, Before Night Falls), who, after being left paralyzed from the neck down, sought the right to die with dignity.
Euthanasia is a dangerously emotional subject, but director Alejandro Amenábar (Abre Los Oyos, The Others) manages the task with great delicacy by focusing on the story of one man's desire to end his own life. Through this plight, Amenábar is able to explore basic human needs and emotions, as well as our fundamental questions about what constitutes living. Sampedro has accepted his accident, but calmly acknowledges that he no longer wants to endure an existence in which he is barely a participant. For him, neither love nor life can be merely mental activities. We cringe with pain as we see him suffer under his unsatisfied desires – to touch the woman he loves and to walk by her side. He pacifies this longing in several incredibly photographed scenes – in one of the film's most poignant scenes, he imagines himself flying out his bedroom window, soaring high above the Galician landscape – but reality always returns.
Though this is intrinsically a film about death, it truly dazzles in its celebration of life and the affirmation of human will, powerfully rendered by Bardem's devastatingly moving performance. We have the power to create heaven on earth if we want, although we have the same power to create hell. The Sea Inside is Amenábar's first masterpiece. His ability to make such profound statements through a simple story will resonate for years.