BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Growth in Czech and Polish manufacturing slowed to almost two-year lows in September and Hungarian data also showed a slowdown on Monday, signalling that Central Europe's fast-growing economies are facing bleaker prospects.
The region, which has close economic and export links to the eurozone, primarily to Germany, has been booming in the past years helped by loose monetary policies. The Hungarian and Polish central banks still maintain a dovish stance.
But growth of Germany's manufacturing sector slowed to a 25-month low in September on the steepest drop in new export orders in more than five years, which does not bode well for the eastern economies of the European Union.
As rising uncertainties amid an escalating trade war between the United States and China are taking their toll on the German economy, the latest readings of Purchasing Managers' indices on Monday showed the Czech PMI reading at its lowest since November 2016 and order growth also at a nearly 2-year low.
Activity in Polish manufacturing barely grew in September as new orders fell for the first time in nearly two years.
The IHS Markit purchasing managers' index for Polish manufacturing fell to 50.5 in September from 51.4 in August, its lowest level since October, 2016. It came in below a forecast for 51.5 in a Reuters poll.
Hungary's seasonally-adjusted Purchasing Managers' Index dropped to 53.8 in September from a revised 56 in August.
The Association of Logistics, Purchasing and Inventory Management said the figure was below an average reading of 57.1 in the past three Septembers.
"The PMIs for Central Europe fell markedly in September. Most notably, the Polish and Czech surveys plunged to their weakest levels since late-2016," Capital Economics said in a note.
Germany's leading economic institutes last week cut their 2018 growth forecast for Europe's largest economy to 1.7 percent from 2.2 percent.
Hungary's economy, home to big car manufacturing plants of Daimler and Audi, is expected to slow to 3.5 percent next year and 3 percent in 2020, from 4.4 percent this year according to central bank data.
The Polish economy is projected to slow as well, to 3.8 percent next year from 4.6 percent this year based on central bank data.
The Czech economy is expected to grow at a rate of 3.2 percent this year and 3.4 percent next year, according to its central bank.


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Subscales measuring symptoms of non-specific depression, anhedonia, and anxiety in the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale
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There has been considerable research and clinical interest in the comorbidity of anxiety and depression in the post-partum period, and specifically in the possibility that the commonly used Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) incorporates an anxiety component. We hypothesized that the recommended version of factor analysis (Fabrigar, Wegener, MacCallum, & Strahan, 1999) would identify such covert dimensions more reliably than the commonly used principal components analysis with varimax rotation and eigenvalues greater than 1.
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What a weekend! I have so much to write but instead of making this post a chapter book I will break it into parts.
My weekend began early as I took part of Friday off from work. My intentions were to power wash the frame and south wall of my greenhouse and purchase the paint for the walls. I managed to complete both and power wash the deck as well. The weekend was off to a good start.
Saturday morning, in order to beat the summer heat and to take advantage of the time that the hubs would be home before his softball tournament, I dragged myself out to the greenhouse to paint at 6 am. By 9:30 I was done with the primer and then had to call it a day. I was dying to get at least one coat of paint complete but my 3 year old came down with a fever and needed lots and lots of mommy cuddle time.
This morning rolled around and I woke up early again to tackle the paint. It was dark and the clouds were heavy. Mother nature seemed to have alternate plans. I took a deep breath, kept my eye to the west and the paint brush and I teamed up to work at lightening speed in hopes to beat the rain. Thankfully the rain was very light and for the most part, I painted right through the occasional drops.
To be quite honest, I was hesitant about the color. I thought it was too light, too minty, overall too bright. The more I painted and the more the paint dried, it grew on me. I think mostly because the fresh color made everything seem so clean and refreshing. Calm and happy. Exactly what I was going for.
Rip my pants. Not just tear but rip. Right in an area that would have been offensive to the neighbors had I not had a privacy fence.
Drip massive amounts of paint in my hair.
But in comparison my husband took one for the team. The uninvited guests inhabiting my garden didn't like how close he was to their pad so one of the bullies let him have it. Right on his ring finger.
All of that aside, this has been a very productive weekend and I am very pleased with the results.
So here it is folks, the before and after.
I think the last time this stall was painted was in the 50's. Brown was the color of their choice. Frugal Gardener green is its color of choice now.
I do believe the color is a little lighter than the Vanilla Mint that was chosen but after 6 hours of painting, it is here to stay.
In part 2, I will highlight the installation of 2 panels (whoo hoo!!!), a couple things we learned and why I think the panel channels are direct descendants of the devil.
It looks really good. Looking forward to more pictures when it is finished and how it looks with your garden and house.
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Image Comics had six titles in the top ten. Three volumes of Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples' award-winning Saga placed in the top ten, led by volume 9 at #2, followed by volume 1 at #3 and volume 8 at #4. Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead Volume 29: Lines We Cross ranked #6, Vaughan and Cliff Chiang's Paper Girls Volume 1 ranked #7, and Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda's Monstress Volume 1 ranked #10.
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It was less than a year ago that I sat in the back of a conference room at the storied Santa Fe Institute (SFI) listening to lectures on garbage, slums and cell phones.
I was the only reporter invited to a workshop that converged scholars from realms as diverse as physics, sociology, statistics, biology and urban planning to discuss an arguably lofty topic: can there be a science of cities? Can there be an equation, or series of equations, that describes what the heck a city actually is and does, and what it means to be a member of a city?
The scientists debated the subject for only a few days on top of the hill where this Institute dedicated to complex studies is located, but many of them had been working on this for years. One scientist had been analyzing patterns of refuse to better understand city residents' behavior, while another had begun utilizing cell phone data to establish a better comprehension of human movements. One of the workshop leaders, Luis Bettencourt, is a physicist whose previous work related to the early Universe, and associated mathematical techniques of statistical physics, field theory and non-linear dynamics. Now a Professor at SFI, Bettencourt has been researching issues pertaining to city dynamics and function for a decade. And inspired by new perspectives and ideas that stemmed from this meeting of metropolis-focused minds, Bettencourt has now produced a science of scaling of cities, which he published in a cover paper in Science on 22 June 2013.
The fascinating paper takes a new look at how a city, any city in fact, evolves according to only a few principles, and how the social, spatial and infrastructural properties of cities can be described by scaling relationships.
But most perhaps importantly, the paper argues that a city is a new type of system in nature, something that is a cross between a star and a social network. In fact, Bettencourt says that "a city is not a place in space and time. It is a place to maintain and sustain social networks." He refers to the holistic enterprise as a social reactor.
1) There are "mixing populations": basically, cities have attractive interactions and social outputs are the results of those, which leads to more social interactions.
2) There is "incremental network growth": notably, the networks themselves and the supporting infrastructure develop gradually as the city grows. The infrastructure is decentralized as are the networks themselves. This is very different from an organism, says Bettencourt, whose internal "infrastructure" (analogous to a vascular system for example) develops basically all at once and has a centralized node.
3) "Human effort is bounded": as he writes in his paper, "The increasing mental and physical demand from their inhabitants has been a pervasive concern to social scientists. Thus this assumption is necessary to lift an important objection to any conceptualization of cities as scale-invariant systems." In other words, "The costs imposed on people by living in the city do not scale up," he says, because as the number of social interactions increase, one doesn't have to necessarily travel more to get to these interactions. "The city comes to you as it becomes denser," he notes.
4) "Socioeconomic outputs are proportional to local social interactions": this gives us an interesting snapshot of exactly what a city is – not just a conglomeration of individuals, but rather a concentration of social interactions.
Alaina G. Levine is a freelance science writer, professional speaker, corporate comedian, and President of Quantum Success Solutions, a leadership and career consulting enterprise. Her new book on networking strategies for scientists and engineers will be published by Wiley in 2014. She can be contacted through her website at www.alainalevine.com or on twitter @AlainaGLevine.
Alaina G. Levine is science journalist, professional speaker, corporate comedian, and science and engineering careers consultant. As President of Quantum Success Solutions, a career consulting enterprise with a focus on advancing the professional development expertise of scientists and engineers, she has been advising emerging and established scientists and engineers about their careers for over a decade, and has personally consulted with hundreds of early- and mid-career scientific professionals. The author of over 100 articles pertaining to science, science careers and business in such publications as Science, Nature, Scientific American Online, IEEE Spectrum, New Scientist, and Smithsonian, she was recently named a Contributor to National Geographic, where she writes articles and blogs for NatGeo News Watch. Levine also writes the Careers Column for The Euroscientist and the Profiles in Versatility career column for the American Physical Society's national publication, APS News. Previously, she directed a master's program in science and business and taught entrepreneurship to science graduate students at the University of Arizona. She has given over 450 workshops and seminars around the country and in Europe. Levine holds degrees in mathematics and anthropology from the University of Arizona, studied abroad at the American University in Cairo as a DoD National Security Education Program/Boren Fellow, and pursued grant-funded research in cosmology and mathematics history. Recently, she was honored with a travel fellowship to cover the 62nd Lindau (Physics) Nobel Laureates Meeting in Lindau, Germany (which she used to cover the meeting for National Geographic and APS News), during which she broke the Higgs news for NatGeo. She also has been honored as a Logan Science Journalism Fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Robert Bosch Stiftung Science Journalism Fellow and an Institutes for Journalism & Natural Resources Fellow. In addition, Levine is an award-winning entrepreneur, winning more than 20 business and leadership awards in under a decade, including being named one of the youngest YWCA Women on the Move winners; the Tucson Leader of the Year, an honor previously bestowed upon former US Surgeon General Richard Carmona; and a Tucson 40 Under 40 Leader, an honor she shared with former US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Read her complete bio at www.alainalevine.com.


As I usually do at this time of year, I've selected five blog posts from the past year that seem to have had the most interest from readers. With the publication of my new book, Minds at Work: Managing for Success in the Knowledge Economy, I have continued to focus my blog posts on a manager's role in supporting continuous learning for all employees in the workplace. And I have examined an employee's responsibility for continuous learning in the Knowledge Economy. But I have also been influenced by current events and what a hostile work environment does to individuals, teams, and organizations. Here are the five blog posts I've selected with a short selection from each.
Yes, the purpose of business is to make a profit, retain customers, be sustainable, satisfy shareholders, and, for some, make a difference in the community. But none of this is possible without learning. At its core, any high performing organization is about learning; continually using new information to become smarter, better, and more effective.
This post was selected by Jane Hart for her 30 Favorite Blog Posts and Articles of 2018. She published the list in her magazine, Modern Workplace Learning Magazine, under the title, "Jane Hart's Pick of the Year".
eLearningLearning featured another part of this post. eLearningLearning wrote: …let's revisit @sjgill's fascinating dive into the realities of modern #corporatetraining, and the essential nature of a #learningculture.
Work is No Longer Work. The nature of work is changing. This world is one in which humans no longer make things or fix things or sell things or provide basic services. Work has become mind-intensive instead of hand-intensive.
For the first time in history, in the last 50 years, most people have been using their minds to produce work. We no longer need to manage hands; we have no choice but to restructure our organizations and change our approach to management and learning to reflect this historic change. In this mind-intensive knowledge economy, we must learn to manage minds to get the smartest, most creative, and most innovative results.
I was asked by LAD Global, in partnership with the Singapore Training and Development Association, to make a short course on evaluation of training and learning available online, for free. This blog post announces the course and provides the links.
My emphasis in this course is on using measurement and evaluation for learning. Much of evaluation in organizations today is still focused on formal training programs and limited to Kirkpatrick's "level one". In other words, L&D professionals are using "smile sheets" that measure immediate reaction to classroom instruction, collected at the end of training. Of course, we all are curious about what participants think of our programs and us as trainers. Great to know for marketing purposes…But this information is not particularly helpful to the organization.
It's a vexing question: As automation, robots, and AI do more of the work that people used to do, and do it better and safer in many cases, what will people be doing and how should we educate and train people for these new roles?
The Pew Research Center and Elon University address this question in a survey they did that resulted in responses from just over 1400 experts and highly interested individuals, selected because of their familiarity with the internet and its impact on work and education. They were asked what they think will happen to jobs and education over the next 10 years.
The logical response seems to be to educate people differently, so they're prepared to work alongside the robots or do the jobs that machines can't. But how to do that, and whether training can outpace automation, are open questions…People still need to learn skills, the respondents said, but they will do that continuously over their careers. In school, the most important thing they can learn is how to learn.
The authors of the report reduced the many lengthy responses to five major themes, presented in the summary below.
No doubt, the workplace now and over the next 10 years will require people to be continuous learners and to be more self-directed in what and how they learn. Methods of learning in schools, colleges, and in the workplace will continue to evolve and be more learner-centered. Proof of competency will become more important than evidence of educational completion. Companies will have to assume greater responsibility for employee learning in response to an ever-changing workplace. The danger is that people who can't adapt readily to change, who are not independent learners, or who are not a good fit with the new workplace culture, will be left out in the cold.
Following is an excerpt from our new book, Minds at Work: Managing for Success in the Knowledge Economy (Chapter One).
As the economic paradigms change, a corporate Darwinism takes over and the companies that fail to change and evolve disappear.
In 2012, Richard Foster's research at Yale University indicated that the average life span of a company listed in the S&P 500 index of leading U.S. companies fell by more than 50 years in the last century, from 67 years in the 1920s to just 15 years. He estimated that by 2020, more than three-quarters of the S&P 500 will be companies that we have not heard of yet. More recently, in 2016, Innosight, a growth strategy consulting firm, forecasted that half of S&P 500 companies will be replaced over the next 10 years. The new environment is increasingly aggressive, incessantly competitive, and constantly driven by surprise innovation and technological changes, all happening at an unprecedented pace. Yet we are still trying to use 20th-century management practices and principles to coordinate and manage people in the 21st century. We need to change the basic way we manage people so that managers can create the best environment for everyone to develop the competencies necessary to be successful in this new environment.
We have no choice. We need to stop managing hands.
None of this, we suspect, is news. What may be new is that you are, as a manager, in charge of this change. Your primary responsibility is to lead people into a 21st-century knowledge economy that supports and sustains learning over everything else. Learning is the critical differentiator in the knowledge economy. How you manage that learning is the new competitive advantage.
We describe the 21st-century corporation as an organization that is global and virtual. People all over the world will form the intersecting nodes for a constantly humming web of communication. They will be able to continuously and seamlessly communicate and collaborate. From the individual to the group, their actions will be quick, decisive, and informed, and the results relevant, smart, and proactive.
To create this corporation, how we share information must change. As Ray Gilmartin, CEO of Merck, states, the 21st-century corporation is one in which "a hierarchy of ideas replaces the hierarchy of position." The previous command-and-control structure—where knowledge was power, but only a few could access it and make decisions—will be replaced with the new structure, where sharing knowledge is the real power and decisions are made by everyone focused on the job. There is no alternative future.
Examples abound of companies that were once household names that became extinct because they did not successfully shift from a static managing hands model to a more agile and dynamic managing minds approach: Compaq, E.F. Hutton, PaineWebber, Merry-Go-Round, MCI WorldCom, Eastern Air Lines, Enron, Woolworth, Pan Am, Kodak, Standard Oil, The Pullman Company, Arthur Andersen, General Foods, TWA. Of the many factors that contributed to their demise, their slowness or inability to change the way they managed people played a major role.
If you have your doubts, look at the companies that are managing minds who filled the empty spot in the marketplace. Investment firm E.F. Hutton—whose commercial catchprase was, "When E.F. Hutton talks, people listen"—was replaced by several technology-based brokerage houses that understood that investors wanted to disintermediate from brokers and manage their own stock portfolios. The older companies were so invested in a hands-on approach to buying and selling stocks that they missed the big new idea. Individuals no longer wanted to listen. Instead, they wanted to use a faster, cheaper, and more do-it-yourself technology that provided information to help them purchase and sell stocks without brokers.
Kodak's moment happened when senior management refused to look at digital photography as a disruptive technology. They failed to heed their own engineers, who told them that instant film was an idea whose time had come and gone. Decisions in this managing hands company were top-down and final. Kodak was so invested in manufacturing film that they ignored customers who were rapidly switching to filmless cameras. The lesson is clear: Corporations must learn to listen to their customers and employees or face the consequences.
"Change or die" is not just a compelling hook to capture the imagination. It is the reality that corporations face whether they want to admit it or not. Fortunately, examples of success are everywhere. The new style of managing minds is the antidote to the problems created by trying to force-fit the 20th-century analog model into the 21st-century digital reality.
Hands are replaceable, literally: Human hands are being replaced by robotic hands every day. And managing robots is no longer a job that requires hands-on managers. This trend toward automation will not stop while technology keeps getting better and more sophisticated. One study from Oxford University found that "advanced robots are gaining enhanced senses and dexterity, allowing them to perform a broader scope of manual tasks. This is likely to change the nature of work across industries and occupations."4 Astonishingly, robot hands can now thread a needle.
Foxconn has replaced 60,000 factory workers with robots.
Wendy's is replacing its lowest-paid workers with robots.
Tesla Gigafactory is using robots to build machines at its battery factory.
We once used machines to build things, and we managed hands. Now we build machines to build machines. When there are no hands left, what still needs to be managed?
Minds. It's time we begin to consciously manage minds—the minds of the people who design, program, install, service, and upgrade those robotic hands, for example. Their work is the product of their thinking, creativity, and problem solving.


First created on 1st May 2003.
Welcome to anime.smallapple.net! Here, you will find screen-captures from various anime DVDs. You will find few comments. Rather, it is up to you to draw your own conclusion.
Note: all the images are properties of their respective copyright owners.
The thumbnails are resized to give 4:3 aspect ratio (16:9 for widescreen). The original images remain at 720 x 480 (3:2), except for widescreen images that are sized to 854 x 480 (16:9).
Most people automatically dismiss the use of lossy file format for image comparison. For most part, they are right. However, using lossless file format is impractical for more than a handful images. A lossless compressed file is typically 600 kB, compared to 100 kB for a high quality JPEG.
What about image degradation? Negligible at 100%. This can be confirmed by overlaying the BMP/PNG/TIF file and the JPEG file and taking their difference. Random pixels become visible only when you set the whitepoint to 5% of the blackpoint.
See for yourself in the Gundam 08th MS Team (R2) article (above).


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![Build status](https://github.com/RyuuGan/sol-merger/actions/workflows/node.js.yml/badge.svg)

### Quick Usage

```javascript
const { merge } = require('sol-merger');

// Get the merged code as a string
const mergedCode = await merge("./contracts/MyContract.sol");
// Print it out or write it to a file etc.
console.log(mergedCode);
```

### CLI Usage

Right now it only works with solidity files that are in `node_modules`
or relative to your solidity file.

Simple usage:

```sh
npm i --save-dev sol-merger
```

Then add following line to your `package.json`.

```json
{
  "scripts": {
    "build-contracts": "sol-merger \"./contracts/*.sol\" ./build"
  },
}
```

This will allow you to use `npm run build-contracts` in your project directory.

Note that contracts glob should be surrounded with `"`

If no output file specified then output file will be created at the same
directory and appended with `_merged` (by default), i.e. `MyContract_merged.sol`. You can also
change this behaviour by specifying `--append` option:

```sh
sol-merger --append _me "./contracts/*.sol"
sol-merger -a _me "./contracts/*.sol"
```
You may need to use `npm run` to invoke the program standalone, as in `npm run sol-merger`.

You can also get help via `--help` command

```sh
sol-merger -h
sol-merger --help
```

More info about `glob` available at [node-glob repository](https://github.com/isaacs/node-glob)

See tests for more examples.

# Post processing support

It is possible right now to write your own plugins to process exports.
Currently state is not used in plugins. To see available plugins
[take a look plugins page](https://github.com/RyuuGan/sol-merger/tree/develop/lib/plugins).

All default plugins are available via shortcut syntax using filename:

```
sol-merger --export-plugin SPDXLicenseRemovePlugin "test/contracts/*.sol" compiled
```

It is also possible to use external plugins via relative path to plugin
or path relative to `node_modules`:

```sh
sol-merger --export-plugin ./dist/lib/plugins/SPDXLicenseRemovePlugin.js "test/contracts/*.sol" compiled

sol-merger --export-plugin sol-merger/lib/plugins/SPDXLicenseRemovePlugin.js "test/contracts/*.sol" compiled
```

Note that file extension is required for plugin to be loaded.

# Debuging

It is possible to setup environment variable to see what is happening under the hood
when contracts are being compiled:

```sh
export DEBUG="sol-merger*"
```

# Plugin for VSCode

I created a plugin for `VSCode` so you can use it instead of `sol-merger`: [Solidity Contracts Merger](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=RyuuGan.sol-merger-vscode).

Hope you will like it.

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