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Would a solid Democratic majority in both houses represent a mandate for accountability, an imperative so strong that even the timid Democratic leadership couldn't ignore it?
Might the top Democrats calculate that shirking their duty again represented more of a political risk than holding Bush accountable through investigations and possible impeachment? Is it possible that out of such a changed climate a worthy political leader – and a reformed Republican Party – might arise?
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June 18, 2015 at 8:35 am by Brian Hieggelke
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By Emerson Dameron
It is not a typical Tuesday at 1871, the labyrinthine tech-startup hub located on the twelfth floor of the Merchandise Mart, because there are no typical Tuesdays here.
David Johnston is here. He is Canada's Governor General, a position noble enough to merit a large floating entourage and the attention of much of 1871's leadership. Thus, as I wait for my afternoon date with CEO Howard Tullman, I am left largely to my own devices. I explore. I chat up various people who don't appear too engrossed in their work. I struggle to find the men's restroom, which is about as far from the women's room as it could physically be.
1871 does have a ping-pong table, but it's stashed in the mailroom and does not seem to have seen much use of late. The closest thing I can find to an interactive game is the Higi Station, which measures BMI, pulse and blood pressure. It is one of several such kiosks scattered around the city.
Quantification is not a perfect paradigm for measuring success, but it may be the most useful we've currently got as a species. In some respects, I've done well enough trusting my intuition—it's led me to fruitful creative work, wonderful friendships, and a marriage that saved my life with no facilitation from OKCupid or eHarmony. In other respects, it has not served me so well. My personal finances were a wreck until I discovered the Mint app. And although my health has ticked up since my hard-partying days, it has always been a source of painful anxiety.
Nerves aflutter, I submit to the cold, numerical wisdom of the Higi Station. My BMI is safely in the "normal" range for my height and age. That's an improvement. My blood pressure, though, is dangerously high. That's… disheartening.
Mo Yehia/Photo: Emerson Dameron
Glancing around 1871, I imagine I'm not the only one here with such concerns. Entrepreneurial types of all ages and aesthetic tastes hold close eye contact as they chat or pound aggressively on their laptops. I notice many pairs of fancy sound-canceling headphones. The atmosphere is one of sprawling intensity. A lot of these people are not building apps.
I wander past Mo Yehia, a New Yorker and founder of the startup Sidewalk, based at 1871 for less than a year. Although I sense I am interrupting, he agrees to chat with me about the unusual setup of his workspace. He has placed his laptop on a chair atop his desk.
"I spend a lot of time on the computer, unfortunately," Yehia says. "I used to spend a lot of time sitting." That was before he experienced a TED Talk called Sitting Kills You. "This is a version of a very cheap standing desk. When I'm working at 1871, I usually stand. When I go home on the weekends, all bets are off."
He describes 1871 as "a semi-permanent summer camp. It's a bunch of your peers, with a loose structure, all in the same place, doing the same thing. A bit of a rollercoaster."
Good Food Business Accelerator/Photo: Emerson Dameron
Kim Bartko, program manager of the Good Food Business Accelerator, has a more succinct description of what, exactly, goes on in this place. The Good Food Business Accelerator works with businesses throughout the Midwestern food supply chain who subscribe to its local, sustainable values. Many of these companies are not strictly tech firms, but, Bartko emphasizes, technology is a part of almost every business endeavor now.
She lists 1871's core attributes as "technology, innovation and community… We are now in a world where technology touches every aspect of life."
To that list, I would add tech-enabled connectivity and quantification.
The Higi Station has already become one of my minor obsessions. Using techniques I learned from Shambhala meditation (a purely intuitive practice, if such a thing exists), I have brought down my blood pressure into the "at risk" range. Yes! Math works.
In describing the benefits of working in such a seemingly chaotic environment, Joel Blechman, the Good Food Business Accelerator's director, hints at the growing sense of sociability that has spurred an up-and-coming generation of entrepreneurs who never knew life without the internet, along with those of us from the "Oregon Trail Generation" and before who have consciously reshaped our perspectives to work toward the future.
"The thing that is oddest to me, coming out of a corporate, cutthroat career, spending twenty, thirty years trying to outdo everyone else, is that we're in this space, and people are walking in at all hours of the day, and saying 'How can I help? What are you doing? Is there a way we can collaborate?' There's never money changing hands. It's how can people help each other, from different areas.
"People just do here," Blechman says. "If they're here, they want to know if they can help someone else get a leg up."
Kate Drane/Photo: Emerson Dameron
If there is a person here who best embodies the spirit of that we're-all-in-this-together optimism, it's Kate Drane, the director of Midwest outreach for the crowdfunding platform Indiegogo. She recently arrived from San Francisco. Howard Tullman was one of Indiegogo's earliest investors. Although she works with businesses throughout the metro area, 1871 is Drane's home base.
"We've been in talks with [1871] since earlier last year, and it just made sense because there are so many companies here looking for funding, looking to get off the ground, and get market traction and validation," says Drane. "And that's the role that Indiegogo serves."
The more technology proliferates, the more meaningful face-to-face connectivity has become. "It's nice to have me in house," Drane continues. "I offer office hours to members of 1871. Typically, I offer four slots each week, and they're always full. People are excited about being able to tap into the power of the community and the 1871 community to make amazing things happen."
That community. How would you define it, exactly, Kate? I've heard different things from different people. It's not strictly about tech, as strictly defined, or about startups, as strictly defined. What is it?
"It's the hub for innovation and technology to come to life," Drane says. 1871 members are "here to create what they want to see exist in the world. 1871 helps provide their tools." She raves about 1871's many extracurricular events, open to the wider community but available to member companies first. She's particularly enthused about a recent guest speaker teaching "improv for businesses."
I'm beginning to understand that this sort of lesson fits right into 1871's mission. Everyone I've broken bread with lately wants to learn entrepreneurial skills in general and public speaking in particular. Traditional head-down bureaucratic career tracks are a lot less secure since the U.S. economic collapse of 2008, if they were ever all that secure. Not everyone can found a company, but more and more people crave the skills associated with entrepreneurs.
1871 entry/Photo: Emerson Dameron
Take, for example, crowdfunding. In a quick history lesson, Drane assures me that the concept of crowdfunding existed long before households in the hinterlands plugged into AOL, and even before the internet was an idea.
"The Statue of Liberty was crowdfunded," she says. "The base of it. France gave the gift of the statue but not the base. Through small contributions [solicited through newspaper advertising], that's how the base got funded by people all across the country. Through small contributions, that's how something incredible happens."
I've quite enjoyed meeting Drane, and I get a jolt of her trademark enthusiasm when, minutes after we part company, she sends me a connection request through LinkedIn. However, this does not bring my blood pressure out of the "at risk" range.
Like many here, Conor Butkus, business development program coordinator for the Good Food Business Accelerator, has a favorite Howard Tullman story. "One day," he recalls, "a robot-like thing came riding down the hall with Howard Tullman's face on it. I think he was controlling it from a remote area. He was just surveying his domain. He could talk to you. He was there. That was one of the first things that happened when we got here."
When I arrived in Chicago as a recent journalism grad who had seen his chosen trade decimated by Craigslist and Google before I turned in my final projects, I had a number of service-industry bosses who intimidated me and directly challenged my la-di-da warm-weather personality. With his thick Midwestern accent and no-nonsense self-assurance, Howard Tullman reminds me of them.
Howard Tullman/Photo: Joe Mazza/Brave Lux
Tullman is both the CEO of 1871 and its designated mouthpiece. He regularly publishes books and broadsides elaborating on his core philosophy of business and life: "You don't get what you wish for. You get what you work for." Effort trumps ability. Effort trumps talent.
"You get by on your raw talent, and once you fail a couple of times, you realize that it's a thinking person's game," he says.
This ain't Silicon Valley, and it certainly ain't HBO's "Silicon Valley." Like the rest of 1871's inner circle with whom I've spoken, Tullman isn't particularly satisfied with classifying 1871 as part of the tech industry.
"It's not an industry because we serve every industry," Tullman says. "It's a factory. We manufacture companies. What the companies, in turn, create, are jobs. And that's our entire mission. To create jobs for the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois.
"When it started three years ago," he continues, "it was limited, not only to the tech sector, but to companies that were going to be technology-enabled. And even more so, companies that were going to be intensely technical. What's happened in the three years has been that there are no industries left that aren't technically enabled." Tullman and I collaborate on a joke—even Amish woodworking shops may eventually embrace 3D printing.
"In the first year," says Tullman, "companies were rejected that were not hugely dependent on new technologies. Today, fifty percent of the companies here, or more, are in verticals that would not have been admitted in the first year of 1871. If you came in and said, 'I'm a real estate company,' they would have said, 'we're not interested.' Today, there are sixteen different companies here in the real estate incubator that are applying technology to everything from, 'How do I find a home?' to 'How do I value a home? How do I close a transaction? How do I describe my apartment units to perspective buyers?' All within the penumbra of real estate. And all perfectly appropriate here.
"We're not interested on moonshots," Tullman says. "We're interested in people who are making businesses more successful by saving those businesses money, saving those businesses time, or increasing the productivity of those businesses. Those are the three metrics that we measure to see if you have a business."
I ask Tullman if there is a rhyme or reason behind the sprawl and frenetic activity enabled by 1871's design. "It's a focused concentration," he says. "It's not frenzied. Most civilians, when they come in here, that is the first thing they remark on. The volume of motion and activity. Most of the people who work here wish that would go away almost entirely, because they actually have to work here every day." He directs me to "Open Is Over," one of his latest published riffs on the culture of work, and suggests that the future of 1871 will involve more enclosed spaces and a less intense ambience. But he still believes in some aspects of the tarnished open-office promise.
"There's a tremendous amount of cross-pollination. You see a solution that's being used in one business or instance, and you say, 'I can migrate that.' These days, technology jumps from industry to industry quite rapidly. We manufacture a lot of happy accidents, a lot of serendipity, a lot of synergy… There's nothing you need in the development of a technology-based business that isn't physically present here. It's probably something that doesn't exist anywhere else in the United States."
Howard Tullman and David Johnston/Photo: 1871
We're beginning to warm up to each other, and Tullman fields my tougher questions without hesitation.
A few friends closer to the periphery of Chicago's startup world have quietly shared concerns, and SEC documents, involving some of 1871's major players and their aggressive support for Comcast. The corporate giant has been intertwined with 1871 since its beginnings and is now widely considered an arch-villain in the seemingly endless battle over Net Neutrality, an egalitarian principle that has allowed a lot of smaller tech-enabled businesses to get as far as they have.
"I'm not crazy about my cable service either," says Tullman, "but they're very responsive! When you're building a technology-based company, you have to be platform-agnostic. We're Switzerland. We need to have partnerships and relationships with all the people who work in the space."
Lately, several high-profile, big-talking Silicon Valley venture capitalists have openly suggested that we may be in the midst of a tech bubble more absurd than the one that exploded about fifteen years ago. Among them is Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.
"Mark is a very good friend of mine," says Tullman. "And he's been here, obviously. He's invested in a lot of our companies here. I was just with him in Phoenix. He believes that there is a tremendous amount of money sloshing around on the West Coast. There are clearly valuations for things that are inconceivable. Having said that, he's continuing to invest. He's very active as an investor. He's a smart guy. He knows what we're doing here, which is very focused, so I don't think he would think we're doing anything other than a very rational operation."
Heavy hitters such as Steve Case, Steve Ballmer and Sheryl Sandberg have visited the space as well, Tullman says. And they have agreed that there's something distinctively Chicagoan afoot here. "Wherever else you may be in the country where people are trying to do similar things, there's not the kind of structure and discipline we have."
When the last bubble popped, Indiegogo and other such funding avenues did not yet widely exist. And Tullman might argue that his pragmatic Midwestern work ethic was not part of that Pets.com world, either. It's somewhat reassuring. But I still need to use my Obamacare and see a doc about my blood pressure.
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Management Assignment Sample on Organizational Behavior
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Undertake a Literature Review (max 1500 words) on 'the Dimensions and Antecedents of Organisational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB)'. The review is to focus solely on refereed academic publications (i.e. journal articles).
As students of Organizational Behavior it is important that you are able to effectively identify, collate and disseminate credible information on a range of issues that have strong theoretical and/or practical relevance to the field. Such information will often provide the basis for effective planning and decision-making.
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There has been a rapid changes in the functioning and positioning of productions and services to the customers. In bringing those changes Human Resource of any organization has made key contribution. With the increasing importance of human resource in the recent times Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) has been widely studied and more sought after research topic in organizational behavior. This topic has not only been researched on organizational behavior ground but it has also been researched in social psychological ground. It has been studied since mid 1960s. Katz (1964); Organ (1988,1990); Graham (1991); Podsakoff (2000) are some of the researchers who have hugely contributed to the theory of Organizational Citizenship Behavior. OCB is a moderately new idea in performance analysis, however it speaks to an exceptionally old human behavior of deliberate activity and common support with no appeal for pay or formal remunerates consequently. Dennis Organ initially presented the idea in the mid 1980s and Concept has got the force in later a long time.
Organ (1988) defined OCR as a behavior of an individual that is discretionary in nature and has no relation to the reward system of an organization but it is very instrumental in the overall effective functioning of the organization. Joireman (2006) explained OCR as a behavior, which does not fall into regular expectations. It reflects something, which is not routine. Katz(1964) explained OCR as behavior which doesn't fit into the regular behavior but plays an extra role . Organ and Bateman (1983) on the work of Katz(1964) further explained that OCR is a by-product of day to day relational exchanges in our social lives. Walz and Niehoff (1996) described OCB as behavior, which is due to organizational activities in the society. It has relationship with other societal activities as well. (MacKenzie , 1991;Organ, 1988; Podsakoff and MacKenzie, 1994; Smith , 1983) suggested that OCB is not individualistic in nature but it is collective in nature. It has lot to contribute to the proper functioning of the organization and ultimately the success of the organization. In this doing this OCB contributes in many ways.
Dimensions and Antecedents of Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB)
There are various transformations that happened since its inception as a concept. (Smith, 1983; Bateman & Organ, 1983) advised two dimensions of OCB; a) general compliance and b) altruism. The general compliance means employee should work as per the company guidelines and altruism means in doing so employees can help others as well but just related to their work. Various researchers later modified these dimensions. In doing so Organ (1988) came up with five dimensions of OCB.; Altruism ; civic virtue ; conscientiousness; courtesy; and sportsmanship .
• Altruism: It is an act of caring or sympathizing toward the welfare of others. It helps other people who have been truant, or helps other people who have extremely workloads.
• Courtesy: It takes organizations to attempt to anticipate issues with different laborers. It does not misuse the privileges of others.
• Civic Virtue: It indicates that attending meeting or team gathering not required, yet it viewed as imperative. It stays up to date with changes in the organization.
• Conscientiousness: It indicates that employees do not take additional breaks. It is mandatory that they obey organization's principles and regulations mostly when there is no watchdog.
• Sportsmanship: It takes a considerable measure of time about things, which are of not that importance. It continuously concentrates on what's wrong. It doesn't look at the positive aspect because it aims to correct the wrong side.
In 1997, there was more modification done by Organ by classifying those dimensions into three broad dimensions namely; helping, courtesy, and conscientiousness. Williams and Anderson (1991) later came up with two types of OCB; Behavior related to the specific employees in the organization such as courtesy and altruism and other behavior which is related to the whole organization in the form of conscientiousness, sportsmanship and civic virtue. Some behavior researchers believe that job satisfaction is the only single dimension of OCB. Penner (1997); Robert(1993) claim that job satisfaction is directly related to the Organizational Citizenship Behavior and thus it has greater influence than other factors mentioned by different researchers and scientists.
Stephanie (2006) found that the employee was absolutely identified with service oriented Organisational Citizenship Behaviors, consumer loyalty, and client dedication, though full responsibility was not identified with these results. The degree to which the indicator variables connected with one alternate and the part of employment status on these connections was additionally investigated. High amounts of job satisfaction or emotional commitment brought about more service oriented Organizational Citizenship Behaviors for workers and independently employed laborers, while elevated amounts of both brought about more service oriented Organizational Citizenship Behaviors for managers.
Barrick and Mount (1991) in their research found out that private sector employees are lesser 'agreeable' than those of public sector employees. The more that 'agreeable' attitude the more the organizational citizenship behavior. They have highlighted that ' agreeable' alone is the key factor for organizational citizenship behavior. On this concept later John and Srivastava (1999) with their addition came up with a theory which says, ' the employees who have higher agreeable are of more helping nature than those who have low agreeable'. Elanain (2007) supported this theory and concluded that there is a positive correlation between agreeableness and organizational citizenship behavior.
There are various antecedents, which came across during the initial research to the present research. Some of the common variables that have come across during the OCB to find out the antecedents of OCB are; demographical for example altruism and courtesy are regarded as feminism and civic virtue and sportsmanship are more of masculine in nature; job satisfaction which justifies a comparison between private employee and public employee; performance appraisal and reward at work in the form of bonus or allowance or may be promotion, there has been no reward for sportsmanship; organizational and procedural justice, factors such as trust, level of treatment etc falls under organizational and procedural justice and personality , agreeableness, introvert, extrovert, and other factors related to psychological contract; emotional intelligence , conscientiousness, civic virtue ,altruism, motivation whether self or due to other factors likes rewards, appraisals etc are the factors related to personality which effects OCB. Among these job satisfaction is the most instinctive antecedents of OCB. It was found that the correlation between OCB and job satisfaction is very simple. In the context of OCB the relationship OCB and job satisfaction is weaker than the correlation between job satisfaction and performance in a role. Apart from job satisfaction they also found out that justice, responsibility of organization, and support from leader is also related to OCB. Irrespective of the types of leadership, leadership also has a prominent role connection to OCB.
• Job satisfaction – This varies from countries to countries. In some countries job satisfaction correlates with commitment, sense of responsibility, trust, customer's perceived quality and so on. Most of these factors come from research done on Western countries. There is a fair chance that it can be different in Asian or African countries.
• Commitment – Irrespective of the types of commitment, depending on the work culture of different countries commitment has more or less the same sense. But there are due to the difference in work culture there may be differences in the score in organizational commitment.
• Treatment – It can be synonyms to equality, trust, justice and so on. Fair treatment leads to effective organization functioning and thus it is an important antecedent. Different cultures have different level of sensitivity to the treatment and thus the preference of these varies from countries to countries. The culture of a country has direct impact on the importance and the meaning of equality, trust, justice or overall treatment. …..
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Biografia
È nata il 19 settembre 1956, a Sadova, nel Distretto di Călărași, in Bessarabia (Repubblica Moldova). Ha studiato presso l'Università di Stato e presso l'Università Pedagogica "Ion Creangă" di Chișinău. Professoressa, giornalista ed editore; primo sindaco democraticamente eletto nel suo villaggio natìo dopo l'anno spartaque, 1989. Fondatrice e conduttrice della Rivista di cultura e creazione letteraria della nuova generazione "L'attimo siderale" (1995-2015), appoggiata dall'Istituto Culturale Rumeno di Bucarest, Romania (Premio di Stato per la Letteratura per la Gioventu, Chișinău, 2009), fondatrice del Concorso Letterario Nazionale "Iulia Hasdeu" e dello cenacolo omonimo (1991-2014). Cavaliere del Ordine della Repubblica; Premio per la Poesia accordato dalla Unione dei Scrittori della R. Moldova (2018). Nel intervallo 2007-2012, si ritrova in esilio in Italia, a Venezia, dove vive, lavora e scrive. Lancia i suoi libri di poesia e promuove la verità sulla sua piccola patria: provincia rumena, rubata dalla Russia tramite il patto nazisto-bolshevico Ribbentrop-Molotov alla fine della seconda guerra mondiale.

Opere

Poesia

 "Il proffessore. Stefan Sevastian Bulat In memoriam." Casa Editrice UNU, Chișinău, 2020.
"La pietra di Ca' Vendramin. Dialogi di una straniera col vechio amico Alter. Terzo diario di una latitante dell'Est". Versione italiana segniata dalla autrice. A cura di Ilaria Serra, Florida Atlantic University. Con la presentazione di Ilaria Serra. Meligrana Editore, 2018.
 "Piatra de Ca' Vendramin. Dialogurile străinei cu vechiul său prieten Alter. Al treilea jurnal al unui evadat din Est". Con la prefazione di Ioan Holban. Casa Editrice "Junimea", Iași, Romania, 2017.
"În debara. Al doilea jurnal al luin evadat din Est. /Nello sgabuzzino. Secondo diario di una latitante dell'Est". Versione italiana - Geo Vasile, italienista, traduttore, Bucarest. Con la prefazione di Geo Vasile. Casa Editrice "Gunivas", Chișinău, 2009.
"Veneția ca un dat. Jurnalul unui evadat din Est". Con la prefazione di Adrian Dinu Rachieru. Casa Editrice "Augusta", Timișoara, Romania, 20007.
"Veneția ca un dat. Jurnalul unui evadat din Est./Venezia ti fu data. Diario di una latitante dell' Est". Versione italiana - Gabriella Molcsan, IRCRU Venezia. Con la prefazione di Adrian Dinu Rachieru. Casa Editrice "Cartier", Chişinău, 2007.
"Stalattiti". Con la prefazione di acad. Mihai Cimpoi. Casa Editrice "Universul", Chişinău, 2002.
"Lettere d'amore dalla Città della Libertà". Casa Editrice "Prag", Chişinău, 2002.
"Nostalgia di voi". Con la prefazione di Ion Lăpușneanu. Năsăud, Romania, 2002.
"Sillabe del mistero d'amore". "Vatra Românească", Satu Mare, Romania, 1996.
"Poemi dalla Valle del Pianto". Con la prefazione di George Vodă. "Vatra Românească", Satu Mare, Romania, 1996.
"Verso Putna m' incammino". Con la prefazione di Ion Vatamanu. Casa Editrice "Lyceum", Chişinău, 1994.

Altri titoli

Autrice dello studio "L'eruzione del dire ovvero La Generazione dell' Attimo siderale. L'idea nazionale. POESIA". Casa Editrice "Prag", Chişinău, 2003.
Editore della collana "Luccichi siderali": vol. I - "Luccichi siderali" (1994), vol. II - "Il quinto angolo" (1996), vol. III - "I capillari dell' attimo". Casa Editrice "Lyceum", Chișinău, 1996.

Premi
 Premio I, sezione POESIA, accordato dalla Unione dei Scrittori della R. Moldova, per il vol. "La pietra di Ca' Vendramin. Dialoghi di una straniera col vechio amico Alter. Terzo diario di una latitante dell'Est", versione rumena ("Piatra de Ca' Vendramin. Dialogurile străinei cu vechiul său prieten Alter. Al treilea Jurnal al unui evadat din Est", Casa Editrice "Junimea", Iași, 2017). Chișinău, 2018.
Premio del Dipartamento per i Rumeni del Mondo per l'attivita nel campo della Promozione della Letteratura Rumena al Estero. Bucarest, Romania, 2010. Premio speciale al Salone nazionale del libro per i bambini, per lo studio "Erupția rostirii sau generația Clipei siderale. Ideea națională. POESIA" ("Eruzione del dire ovvero la generazione dell'Attimo siderale. L'idea nazionale. POESIA"). Chișinău, 2005.
Premio Top Anticorruzione del settimanale Giornale di Guardia. Chişinău, Edizione 2005.
Premio I, sezione POESIA, accordato dalla prima rivista di espressione grafica latina della Bessarabia postbelica, "Glasul Națiunii" ("La voce della Nazione"). Bucarest, Romania, 1996.
Premio I, sezione DEBUTO LETTERARIO, al Salone Nazionale del Libro della R. Moldova per il vol. "La Putna mi-e drumul" ("Verso Putna m'incamino), Casa Editrice "Lyceum". Chișinău, 1994.
Premio I, sezione POESIA, al Festivale Letterario Internazionale "Dm. Bolintineanu" del Centro per la Conservazione e Valorizzazione della Tradizione Popolare, prima edizione. Giurgiu, Romania, 1993.
Altri premi.

Altre affiliazioni

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Q: what is statistics uncertainty on a quizz score? Remark : I have created the question from scratch : it is not my teachers who asked me that. I'm wondering myself about a general problem of uncertainty.
Let's consider a 'school' quizz with D numbers of questions (D as 'denominator) of the type yes/no for which the student earns 1 point or 0 point if he is correct or not.
Let's consider that the student successes in N questions (N as 'numerator'):
His score efficiency is eff=N/D
(it represents a fraction of correct answer, with score within [0 ; 1], 1 meaning 100 % of correct answers)
How to compute the statistical uncertainty on the score efficiency of a student.
Is it sqrt(eff(1-eff)/N) as in the uncertainties of 'efficiencies' ?
Is it sqrt(N / D) ?
Is it something else ?
(and why) ?
Thank you for your kind help or tips

A: Further comments:
As mentioned in @whuber's Comments, a coherent discussion of statistical uncertainty requires a probability model. From some of the suggestions in your Question and comments, it seems you may be thinking of a binomial probability model.
Binomial models are often---perhaps too often---used to model test scores. So that may be an idea worth exploring as you continue to think about your problem.
Also, you mention 'error bars' as one approach to dealing with uncertainty, which brings confidence intervals to mind.
And some of your suggestions seem similar to approaches that have been
used to make confidence intervals for binomial proportions (perhaps
what you mean by 'efficiency scores').
This link and similar ones (see 'Related' links on that page) discuss various kinds
of binomial confidence intervals.  It might be worth your while to
look there and in Wikipedia.
If that is what you're looking for, fine. If not, maybe looking at such
pages will help you to formulate your question more clearly, so you might get answers in more
helpful directions.

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One of China's wealthiest men, Jack Ma, founder of tech giant Alibaba, is urging his employees to have more sex in pursuit of a better work-life balance.
Mr Ma gave a lighthearted speech at an event at which dozens of Alibaba couples were married in a group ceremony, stressing that a balanced home life was important for long-term happiness and health, and dubbed his philosophy "669". "We want 669 in life. What is 669? Six times in six days; the emphasis is on nine," he said at a company gathering, referring to sex, and using a play on words, as the word "nine" in Mandarin is a homophone for the word "long."
Mr Ma's "669" was in reference to a popular term that describes the Chinese industry's work culture of "996" – a rough schedule of 9 am to 9pm, six days a week. That's 72 hours a week, often without overtime pay. Overworking is common in China, seen as a way to show dedication to your job. But it became controversial recently after Mr Ma endorsed the overwork culture, posting online in April that "to be able to work 996 is huge bliss," arguing then that milestones only come with great sacrifice.
Mr Ma's latest remarks appear to roll back his earlier "996" endorsement, while still falling in line with Alibaba's company culture, which has long prided itself on maintaining the feeling of a start-up despite ballooning to a early $500 billion in market value. Each year in early May, the company celebrates its employees with a day called "Aliday," where couples who work for Alibaba are take part in a group wedding ceremony.
The company even flies international employees to its Hangzhou headquarters to participate. Mr Ma's comments caused a stir online, with some criticising his comments as "disgusting." Others wondered if he was attempting to encourage a baby boom given China's looming demographics challenge. Experts have warned that China's population will start to shrink over the next decade.
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WATCH: Juice Wrld's Last Interview With The Breakfast Club
posted by Gabriel Pabon, @gabep96 - Dec 8, 2019
The world lost a young soul today. Juice Wrld passed away early this morning at the age of 21 after suffering a seizure in Chicago's Midway airport. The flight which was coming in from Cali landed and as the artist and his team were walking in the airport he suffered a seizure. Juice Wrld was then immediately rushed to the hopsital where he was still consious but then was later pronounced dead.
His last time stopping by the show he was celebrating the HUGE success of his album "Death Race For Love" after it went number one and was one of the mosts streamed albums of the year.
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Example of how it was done right in another country: Singapore response
This is how Singapore is fighting the Corona Virus
This is what a government that cares about its people looks like. pic.twitter.com/ExWhxltemM
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Welcome Back to Germany. Now Take Your Free Virus Test.
The country's capacity to make testing efficient, affordable and available has distinguished it. Now, to head off a potential second wave, it's testing anyone returning from a "hot zone" on entry.
"I am very aware that this is an intrusion in personal freedom," Jens Spahn, Germany's health minister, said at a news conference Thursday. "But freedom always comes with responsibility for myself and for others."
As Europe reopens, cases have begun ticking up nearly everywhere, to a greater or lesser extent, leaving countries in a constant, seesaw battle to tamp down outbreaks before they undo months of hard-won progress made during costly lockdowns this spring.
Unlike the United States or Britain, both of which allowed their public health agencies to keep tight control over standards for tests and discouraged private clinics, labs or companies from developing their own, Germany disseminated a blueprint for a test as soon as it had one. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/world/europe/germany-coronavirus-test-travelers.html
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Kew Garden tickets
Kew Gardens – ticket, prices, discount, hours, entrance, explorer train
Vrinda Bhatia in London
Declared as a UNESCO world heritage site, Kew Gardens houses the world's most diverse and exotic collection of plants.
Kew Gardens is often described as a perfect place to get away from the hustle and bustle of London.
This botanical garden offers a wide range of attractions, including the iconic palm house with its exotic rainforest and The Princess of Wales Conservatory, where you can explore ten of the world's climatic zones.
This article shares everything you must know before buying Kew Gardens tickets.
What to expect at Kew Gardens
How to get to Kew Gardens
Kew Garden parking
Kew Gardens entrances
Victoria Gate
Elizabeth Gate
Brentford Gate
The Lion Gate
Best time to visit Kew Gardens
Kew Gardens ticket prices
Same day ticket prices
Kew Gardens discount
Kew Gardens tickets
Regular Kew Garden Tickets
Kew Gardens + Explorer train tickets
Visiting Kew Gardens for free
What to see at Kew Gardens
Kew Gardens Explorer train
Kew Gardens map
While buying Kew Gardens tickets, you have three options.
You can purchase the regular Kew Garden ticket, which is the cheapest and the most popular ticket.
Or, if you want to try out the explorer train, you can opt for the Kew Gardens + Kew Explorer ticket.
However, because of the pandemic, you can't book the Explorer train in advance – you must book your seat on the train once you reach the gardens.
The Kew Gardens is in the London borough of Richmond upon Thames, just 30 minutes from Central London.
Kew Gardens has four main entrances and River Thames flows 500 meters from the Elizabeth gate.
The 300 acres stretch of exotic gardens in southwest greater London is a perfect place to spend a day relaxing.
By Tube
The nearest station to Kew Gardens is the aptly named Kew Gardens station.
It is served by the District line and London Overground and lies in Zone 3.
Once you get down at the Station, you must walk half a km (one-third of a mile) to Victoria Gate of the Botanical gardens.
If you're taking the train, you must get down at Kew Bridge station.
From Kew Bridge Station Elizabeth Gate is the closest Kew Gardens entrance. You can reach it in 10 minutes.
South Western Trains run services from Waterloo via Vauxhall and Clapham Junction.
Buses are the most convenient and accessible method for traveling around the city.
To reach Kew Gardens by bus, you can use routes 65, 391, 237, or 267.
Route 65 stops near the Lion Gate, the Victoria Gate, and the Elizabeth Gate.
Route 391 will drop you near the Kew Gardens station and the Elizabeth gate.
Route 237 and Route 267 pass through the Kew Bridge station.
Note: Visitors can also use riverboat service from the Westminster Pier to the Kew Pier during summer. The Kew Pier is 500 meters from Elizabeth Gate.
Visitors can park their car at Ferry Lane near the Brentford Gate or in the area around Kew Gardens.
You'll have to pay a fee of 7 Pounds for cars and taxis, which is applicable for the whole day. Parking motorcycles and mopeds are free.
Around Kew Gardens, only limited parking is available after 10 am.
If you are a Blue Badge holder, you must head for the Elizabeth Gate, which has three disabled-access parking bays and drop-off areas.
Kew Gardens has four entrances.
Tourists with Kew Gardens tickets bought online can enter through any of these four entrances.
Kew Gardens' Victoria Gate. Image: Daniel Case / Wikimedia
The Victoria Gate is nearest to the Palm House, the botanical, Marianne North, Shirley Sherwood galleries, the broad walk borders, and the Victoria Plaza cafe and shop.
The Kew Gardens station is the closest to the Victoria Gate.
Image: Karen
The Elizabeth Gate is at the Western end of this attraction and is closest to the Kew Bridge Station.
The closest attractions to this gate are the orangery restaurant, the Princess of Wales Conservatory, the Kew Palace and Royal Kitchens, and the Hive.
Brentford Gate is situated next to Kew's Ferry Lane car park.
The nearest attractions to the Brentford Gate are the white peaks cafe and shop, climbers and creepers, and the treehouse towers.
Richmond station is the nearest to the Lion Gate.
The closest attractions to the Lion Gate are the Japanese Gateway and the Pavilion restaurant.
Note: Bicycles, tricycles, roller skates, skateboards, and scooters are not allowed in the Gardens. There are locker services at the Victoria Gate and the Elizabeth gate, so you don't have to worry about your personal belongings.
When you buy Kew Gardens and Kensington Palace tickets together, you get a 10% discount code, which you can use (five times!) to get discounts on future purchases.
Kew Gardens opens at 10 am every day, but its closing time varies all through the year.
Depending on the season, the Gardens' closing time ranges from 3 pm to 5 pm.
Closing time schedule
1 to 27 Oct 6 pm
28 Oct to 20 Nov 4 pm
21 Nov to 1 Jan 3.30 pm
2 to 31 Jan 4 pm
February 5 pm
March 6 pm
The last entry into the Kew Gardens is always one hour before closing.
*The dates usually remain the same every year. For a more updated timing, click here.
The best time to visit the Kew Gardens is as soon as they open at 10 am, for you get to see the flowers and the plants at their day's best and avoid the crowd.
The Kew Gardens are at their best from late August to early September.
But since the botanical gardens have plants of all seasons, you can visit it in any season.
For instance, if you visit the Kew Gardens in Autumn, you will find the gardens filled with red and yellow foliage.
It is best to visit the Arboretum in Autumn.
Similarly, in winter, the Kew Gardens is prepared for the holiday season.
It is the best time to observe the orchids planted in the Princess of Wales Conservatory.
Spring is already known as the season of flowers, and visitors can see the Kew Gardens is blooming with all the different kinds of flora.
The Waterlily House is at its best during this season, and the weather is perfect for spending the day outside.
Whatever be the season, we recommend you add Kew Gardens to your holiday itinerary.
Don't believe us? Check out Kew Garden's Tripadvisor reviews.
You can purchase Kew Garden tickets both online as well as at the attraction's gate.
The price of a Kew Gardens ticket for an adult 25 years and above, if booked online, is £19.50.
Seniors 60 and above pay £17.50 for entry, while the tickets for youth aged 16 to 24 years are priced at £9.75.
Child tickets for visitors aged 4 to 15 years cost only £6.
If you also want to include the Kew Explorer train experience with the Garden entry, it will cost you £5 more.
When you book Kew Garden tickets in advance, you save a few pounds per person on the ticket cost.
Purchasing your tickets for Kew Gardens online will also save you the hassle of standing in the ticket counter queue.
Kew Gardens' same day tickets are costlier, even if you purchase them online.
On the day of your visit, the regular Kew Gardens entry ticket for an adult costs £19.25 per person – £1.75 more than if you had booked in advance.
Same-day Kew Explorer train experience ticket costs £27.
Even if you reach the Kew Gardens, you can still purchase your tickets online and save a few Pounds.
Important: You don't need to print online tickets. Just show them on your mobile and walk in.
Kew Gardens offer discounted tickets to children up to sixteen years of age.
Kids three years and below can enter for free, while children aged 4 to 16 get a £13 discount on the adult ticket and pay only £6 to enter.
The London attraction also offers a massive 50% discount to visitors between 16 to 24 years and students with a valid ID. Their ticket costs only £9.75 per person.
Seniors (60+ years) and disabled visitors get a fixed £2 reduction on the adult ticket's cost.
Image: Kew.org
While buying tickets, you have two options – the regular Kew Garden ticket, which is cheaper and more popular and Kew Gardens + Kew Explorer ticket, which gets you the train experience.
Now-a-days because of the pandemic, visitors can't book the Kew Explorer experience in advance.
All these tickets are 'smartphone tickets,' and within minutes of purchasing the tickets, they will get emailed to you.
On the day of your visit, walk up to any of the Kew Gardens entrance, show the ticket on your smartphone and walk in.
You don't need to take printouts.
Yet another good thing about these Kew Gardens tickets is that you can claim a full refund if you cancel more than 24 hours from the day of your visit.
Regular Kew Gardens tickets offer you entry at any of the four entrance gates.
You can enjoy a full day in the beautiful Kew Gardens, strolling among the millions of magnificent specimens that make up these gardens.
The other ticket inclusions are:
Access to the Art Galleries (Marianne North and Shirley Sherwood)
Entry into Kew Palace
Access to Treetop Walkway and Greenhouses
Free guided walking tours at least twice a day
Map and guide to the highlights of the season
Access to the Children's Garden
Sit and enjoy the calm environment at one of the cafes and eateries situated in the Kew Gardens.
Adult ticket (17-59 years): £19.50
Student ticket (16 to 24 years, ID): £9.75
Senior ticket (60+ years): £17.50
Children ticket (4-15 years): £6
Infant ticket (0-3 years): Free Entry
Buy This Ticket
If you would love to learn more about flora and fauna at Kew Gardens, check out this ticket + audio guide combo.
This Kew Gardens ticket is everything the previous ticket offers, plus access to the Kew Explorer land train.
It is better known as the transportation inside Kew Gardens for the train has a total of seven stops, which help you explore the main attractions.
The train departs every half an hour from the main departure stop at Victoria Plaza.
The Kew explorer ticket allows you to board and de-board the train at any stop.
The Kew Explorer land train runs from 11 am to 4:30 pm.
The Kew Explorer tickets are recommended for you if you are a tourist and are likely to spend less time at the Gardens.
Nowadays, because of the pandemic, Kew Explorer train tickets aren't available online. So instead, we suggest you buy regular Kew Gardens tickets in advance and purchase Explorer train tickets at the venue.
Image: Cherrylsblog.com
Children ticket (4-16 years): £11.50
*On the ticket booking page, choose the "Full-Day Admission to Kew Gardens plus Kew Explorer ticket" option.
Kids 4 years and below walk into Kew Gardens for free.
Registered blind and partially sighted visitors can enter Kew Gardens for free.
Caregivers of visitors with a disability can also walk in for free.
However, if you are a local, the best way to ensure free entry into Kew Gardens is by becoming a Friend of Kew.
This is a value for money offer and can be yours for 69 Pounds a year.
The London Pass helps you enter more than 60 tourist attractions for free. Save time and money. Buy The London Pass
The Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew offer several beautiful and exotic attractions to its visitors, making it a highly rated destination.
Some of these attractions include different glasshouses, galleries, unique eateries, formal gardens, sculptures, a pond, and Treetop Walkway.
Here is our list of the must-see at Kew Gardens, London –
1. Kew Gardens
The most important attraction here is the Kew Gardens itself, which you can't miss.
Kew offers 300 acres of colorful happiness, with flora and fauna of all kinds.
2. The Palm House
The Palm House at Kew Gardens. Image: Richard Mcall / Pixabay
The Palm House has been one of the most popular attractions at the Kew Gardens. It is perhaps the most important Victorian iron and glass structure still surviving.
You will observe that the glasshouse is divided into world areas and the specimens are attached with complete and detailed explanations. The Palm House also has some interactive activities for both children and adults.
3. The temperate glasshouse
The Temperate Glasshouse is home to a collection of the rarest and the most threatened temperate zone plants.
The temperate glasshouse takes care of those plants that are on the verge of extinction.
It is considered the world's largest Victorian glasshouse and was re-opened in 2018 after a five-year-long restoration.
4. The Formal Gardens
The Formal Garden is a dedicated Japanese landscape that attracts tourists with its magnificent aura.
Professor Fukuhara of Osaka designed it after getting inspiration from the Momayama period.
5. The Treetop Walk
The Treetop Walk is an 18-meter high structure that offers a splendid view of the Royal Botanical Gardens.
It also offers a 200-meter walkway around the tree tips of lime, chestnut, and oaks.
6. Minka House and Bamboo Forest
The Minka house and the Bamboo forest are yet another place inspired by Japan.
The Minka house is a wooden house built keeping the Japanese history and values intact.
Until the 20th century, the Minka house was used to move around in an emergency (like an earthquake) as they were not cemented houses.
Image: Twitter
The Kew Explorer land train is the perfect way to explore the massive gardens.
Visitors can either book Kew Gardens + Kew Explorer train tickets in advance or get the Kew Explorer tickets once they are in the garden.
Update: Due to the covid pandemic, the train service has been temporarily stopped.
During the guided tour around the Gardens, visitors learn about Kew's flora and fauna and see the historic buildings within the complex.
The 40-minute train tour starts from Victoria Gate and ends at Elizabeth Gate.
Kew Gardens ticket holders can get on and off at any of the seven stops on the route.
Stop 1 – Victoria Gate
Victoria Plaza shop and cafe, Palm House, The Botanical cafe
Stop 2 – Temperate House
Marianne North Gallery, Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, Davies Exploration House, and Pavilion Restaurant.
Stop 3 – The Great Pagoda
Lion Gate and the Japanese Gateway.
Stop 4 – Natural Area and Woodland
Pinetum, Log Trail, Badger Sett, Stag Beetle Loggery, Queen Charlotte's Cottage, Waterlily Pond, Lake, and Sackler Crossing.
Stop 5 – Rhododendron Dell
Bamboo Garden, Rhododendron Dell, Minka House, Riverside Walk and Oak collection.
Stop 6 – Brentford Gate and car park.
Stop 7 – Elizabeth Gate/Orangery
Orangery restaurant, White Peaks café and shop, Children's Garden, Climbers and Creepers, Queen's Garden, and Kew Palace.
Visitors may have to skip a train and wait for their turn for the next one during peak times.
Download route map of Explorer train
If you are a tourist, it can be a little challenging to navigate Kew Gardens.
There is help all around, but the place is so huge that a little extra help won't hurt, primarily because the attractions are spread all around.
A map of the Kew Gardens can help you navigate the attraction easily.
It especially comes in handy if you are visiting with kids and or the elderly.
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Vrinda Bhatia: She loves to explore new destinations and places at every opportunity available, but she loves to do so with proper planning and according to set schedules. She doesn't prefer well-known destinations and clichéd touristy activities. Once back, she regales her friends with exciting stories from far off destinations. During her travels, she loves to dress up like the locals. Favorite Cities: Quebec City, Nice, Dodoma, Marrakech
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Requirements for Fire Sprinklers at Ceiling Fans
If you work with sprinkler systems & review layouts, you've undoubtedly encountered sprinklers near ceiling fans. Today I'm taking a look at some of the requirements for sprinklers near fans, and the basis for those requirements.
The chief concern with a typical residential-style ceiling fan is that the fan motor housing and fan blades could form an obstruction to proper sprinkler discharge.
Motor Housing Obstruction
NFPA 13 addresses the discharge from the motor housing by the Three Times Rule, where the sprinkler must be located three-times the width of the obstruction up to 24 inches (610 mm).
Fan Blade Obstruction
In terms of obstruction from the fan blades, NFPA 13 also allows sprinklers to be placed "without regard" to the blades of ceiling fans less than 60 inches (1.5 m) in diameter as long as the plan view is at least 50 percent open (NFPA 13 2010-19 under "Obstructions to Sprinkler Discharge Pattern Development" subsections in Chapter 8).
NFPA 13R 3 and 5-foot Rules
NFPA 13R takes a more straightforward requirement for positioning of sprinklers near ceiling fans - residential pendent sprinklers must be 3-feet and residential sidewalls must be 5-feet unless another sprinkler is positioned on the adjacent side, or, the sprinkler is positioned so that the fan is not considered an obstruction (NFPA 13R 2007 6.8.1.5.3, 2010-19 6.4.6).
Residential style sprinklers are impacted by ceiling-mounted obstructions, such as lights and fans, to a greater degree than obstructions down from the ceiling since residential sprinklers throw with more high-wall wetting
NFPA 13R Research Basis
The NFPA 13R guidance was driven by fire modeling, sprinkler response tests, distribution tests, and full-scale fire tests by the National Fire Sprinkler Association and the Viking Corporation in 2005 (Valentine and Isman, Interaction of Residential Sprinklers, Ceiling Fans and Similar Obstructions). These tests indicated that the fan blades where not significant obstructions as long as the sprinkler was far enough away from the motor housing, allowing the sprinkler to control a fire on the other side of the fan in a small room.
These tests also indicated that fans on low to medium speed did not significantly impact sprinkler performance, but high speed did. Despite the effect, the fire was still controlled in small rooms. Larger rooms, due to the size, would be expected to require additional sprinklers (NFPA 13R 2007 Annex).
High Volume Low Speed Fans (HVLS)
Fans moving larger volumes of air can have a significant impact on plume development and fire sprinkler response.
In 2009, a research project sponsored by the Property Insurance Research Group (PIRG) and other industry groups, coordinated by the Fire Protection Research Foundation (FPRF) ran a series of 10 full-scale fire test and limited scale testing to evaluate the impact on sprinkler system performance.
In 2011, a second phase was conducted by Factory Mutual Research Corporation.
Recommendations from Research
Based on the tests, effective sprinkler operation was obtained when the HVLS fans did not obstruct sprinkler discharge and were shut down upon the activation of the first sprinkler.
The research also included shutdown by air-sampling type detection and use of ionization type smoke detectors, with earlier fan shutdown resulting in less commodity damage. FM Global's recommendations even extend into smoke detection devices or heat detection devices as an acceptable means to conduct the fan shutdown (provided uniformly above the fan blade area, per Data Sheet 548).
Due to size and large air movement, High Volume Low Speed Fans (such as Big Ass fans) impact sprinkler discharge as both a potential obstruction and as a large air mover
NPFA 13 Requirements for HVLS Fans
NFPA 13 defines high volume low speed fans as ceiling fans approximately 6 feet (1.8 m) to 24 feet (7.3 m) in diameter, with a rotational speed of approximately 30 to 70 revolutions per minute (NFPA 13 2013-16 Section 3.3.14).
Beginning with the 2013 Edition of NFPA 13, NFPA 13 has required four principal items concerning these large fans (NFPA 13 2013-16 Section 11.1.7 and 12.1.4 for storage):
(1) The maximum fan diameter must be 24 feet (7.3 m)
(2) HVLS fans be centered approximately between four adjacent sprinklers
(3) The vertical clearance from the fan to the nearest sprinkler deflector must be a minimum of 3 feet (0.9 m)
(4) HVLS fans must shutdown (via interlock) immediately upon receiving a waterflow signal in accordance with NFPA 72.
While NFPA 13 suggests centering the fan between four sprinklers - trying to convince an architect or mechanical engineer to shift their equipment based on the sprinkler system can be difficult to do. I've had better success designing the sprinkler locations around the fan location.
Since sprinklers are designed to be sensitive to air temperature and movement, ceiling fans can impact performance. With small ceiling fans, the biggest concern is obstructing sprinkler discharge, while for larger HVLS fans this chief concern moves towards the movement of air and impacting the response. Fortunately, research-backed recommendations have been provided to still allow effective fire sprinkler protection alongside ceiling fans.
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Dave L.
Great article, and timely - HVLS fans are becoming very popular; they aren't just for cows anymore. I'm glad NFPA came up with a definition (sort of) for HVLS, the definitions out in the industry are fuzzy. The existence of HVLS fans (confirm that they are) can be hidden on the RCP, or in the mechanical drawings (pay particular attention to room such as gymnasiums and commons areas). Hopefully the design team scienced-it out ahead of time. The fans may or may not be designed to the proper distance below sprinklers, and throughout the job it is not uncommon for them to shift or change in quantity! Others may not be aware of the impact these small changes are on the sprinkler design. Coordinating with the fans during design is much better than having to react later.
Thank you for compiling this information into one place!
I've often seen ceiling fans get overlooked in re: to sprinkler layout.
They sometimes are not shown on the architectural RCP's, but on the Interior design drawings!


What are the concrete tests?
Slump test, Compressive strength test, water permeability test, Water absorption test.
What's the difference between one-way slab and two-way slab?
What is the cement sand & aggregate ratios for various grades of concrete mix?
What is the unit weight of Steel?
What do you mean by the moment of inertia?
A quantity expressing a body's tendency to resist angular acceleration, which is the sum of the products of the mass of each particle in the body with the square of its distance from the axis of rotation.
What is a crank length in the slab?
The crank length in Slab is 0.42 D. Where D is Depth of Slab- Top cover – Bottom Cover.
How do you check the quality of cement on the site?
Date of Mfg: Cement strength decreases with its age.
Color: Colour should be grey with light greenish shade and it should be uniform. Color gives an indication of excess lime or clay.
Float test: A good cement won't float if you throw a cement in water.
When you put your hand in cement bag you should feel cool.
What is the Unit Weight of concrete?
What are the types of a slump?
What do you mean by honeycomb in concrete?
Honeycomb, also known as airpocket, is nothing but the air voids in concrete. It is usually formed during concrete casting.
What is the initial and final setting time of ideal cement mix?
Initial setting time for ideal cement mix is around 30 minutes for almost all kind of cements. For masonry cement it can be 90 minutes. Final setting time of ideal cement mix should be 10 hours at max. For masonry cement it shouldn't exceed 24 hours.
What is the Compressive Strength of brick?
What are common methods of curing the concrete?
Bleeding is one form of segregation, where water comes out to the surface of the concrete, being lowest specific gravity among all the ingredients of concrete.
How to find the weight of steel bar used in reinforcement?
What are the types of cement?
There are various types of cement which are: Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC), White Portland Cement (WPC), Portland Pozzolana Cement (PPC), Low Heat Portland Cement, Coloured Portland Cement, Hydrophobic cement, Rapid Hardening Cement, Portland Slag Cement, Sulphate resisting Portland Cement, etc.
When we need Pile foundation?
What is the function of stirrups in the column?
What do you know about "TMT"?
TMT stands for "Thermo Mechanically Treated". Generally we use TMT bars and sheet for construction purposes for the reason that they have high strength and high corrosion resistance compared to normal steels.
What's the height of each floor?
What are the types of foundation used in construction?
There are basically two types of foundation: Shallow & Deep foundation. Again shallow foundation can be classified as spread footing, combined footing, strap or cantilever footing and finally mat or raft footing. Deep foundations can be classified as pile footing, pier footing, caissons footing and well foundation.
Name various authorities or workers on a construction site?
What are the functions of column in a building?
Column is a verticle member in building whose primary function is to support structural load and transfer it through beams. Upper columns transfers the load to the lower columns and finally to the ground through footings.
Grout is a fluid form of concrete which is used to fill the voids.
What are various tests for checking brick quality?
It is a process in which mixture of cement & sand in proportion of 1:3 is shooted on concrete surface with the help of cement gun under pressure of 2 to 3 kg/cm2. It is a highly effective process for repairing concrete walls or damaged surfaces.
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After being previewed back in September, Microsoft finally introduced its new Office 365 admin center yesterday with the promise to give Office 365 admins more effective and easier management of Office 365. While the new dashboard will roll out to Office 365 users over the next few weeks, Microsoft is also explaining today in a blog post that a new reporting portal is also rolling out today.
While the Office 365 team gathered customer feedback during the development process of this new reporting portal, it became clear to the team that Office 365 admins could make good use of additional insights about how the Office 365 services are being used. That's why the first version of the reporting portal includes a new activity dashboard featuring a highly improved user experience as well as a variety of reports providing insights on all services.
As you can see below, the cross-service portal uses graphs to give admins a key summary of the activity within each product (it's also possible to switch between 7, 30, 60 and 90 days reporting periods to identify trends).
The new reporting portal can also provide detailed insights on individual services and tell administrators if users in an organizations are using them or not. That's a key insight to effectively plan training and improve a user's productivity, and the new portal will allow admins to quickly get data that they can also export in CSV format for further analysis.
In the fall, we will provide new public APIs that will enable you to programmatically access the usage data and integrate it into custom applications like a company reporting portal.
While this new reporting portal is rolling out to customers, Microsoft also shared that the reports in the old admin center will be available until an equivalent report has been added to the new report portal. Last, customers can help the Office Team to improve this new reporting portal by using the feedback widget on the site. If you're an Office 365 customer, please tell us in the comments what you think of this new reporting portal!


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By Nick Clark
Over 500 Covid-19 cases at DVLA Swansea
Bosses have caused coronavirus to rip through the DVLA office (Pic: Nigel Davies/Geograph.org.uk)
Workers are "scared" of catching Covid-19 in a major government office where more than 500 people have caught the virus thanks to uncaring bosses.
Bosses at a Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) office in Swansea have forced nearly 2,000 people to come into work in dangerous conditions.
Call centre workers say they've been made to sit just one metre apart, while managers dismiss and ignore their safety complaints.
'It's profit over health always'—workers forced into unsafe workplaces speak out
One worker told the BBC, "There are certain elements within management who are trying to bend the rules and regulations."
They said workers who have shown Covid-19 symptoms, or been in contact with someone with the virus, have still been made to come into work.
Paul Williams, group president of the Department for Transport section of the PCS union, has been speaking to workers in the office. He told Socialist Worker, "They've got people sitting back-to-back in the contact centres.
"What's even worse is they're asking staff to bring their own face coverings—DVLA has refused to provide those.
"The cleaning regime isn't good enough. They're not socially distanced properly."
Paul added that it was possible for most of those made to come into the office to work from home—but management refused to allow it.
"It's not that the IT system doesn't work at home," he said. "They won't trust staff to work at home because the system is linked to a police national computer.
"There's been no solution for almost a year. They've put some screens in but it's been spreading and spreading."
Paul said the PCS would back all workers who want to take action over safety, including refusing to work under Section 44 of the Employment Rights Act.
"Members should use Section 44 where they need to use it," he said. "As a union we'll back the members if they want to strike."
Topics Coronavirus, PCS, Wales
Poor plunged further into poverty in pandemic, report finds
'Intensive care is in crisis and it's about to get worse'—nurse speaks out
Thousands of workers forced back to unsafe workplaces
Parents denied furlough payments by the bosses
Covid-19 vaccine—who will be to blame if the poor are again left to die?
Tory vaccine rollout fails black and Asian people despite higher risk of death
Hundreds of workers strike over safety at Swansea DVLA


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Q: Halo 1 Not Working on Windows 7 x64 I recently installed Halo: Combat Evolved and patched it to version 1.09. When I run it, it plays the logo videos fine but then when it gets to the menu, it plays only the music on a black screen. Is there a compatibility problem with my system?
My specs:

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*Windows 7 Professional x64

*Intel Core i3-3110m 2.4Ghz

*Intel HD Graphics 4000

*8 GB DDR3 RAM

A: Try installing it in the default directory (don't pick somewhere else). I tried every tweak I could find on the net, and nothing was working. Then I decided to go with the default directory (C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Halo) and voila, none of the other stuff (compatibility, etc.) was necessary -- it worked fine.

A: I guess the simple thing to check would be to make sure your graphics drivers are up to date, but assuming that doesn't help, There are two solutions I can think of that might work
Running the game in compatibility mode

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*Navigate to the .exe file in the install location.

*Right-click the shortcut, and click 'Properties'

*Click the Compatibility Tab

*Check the box that says Run this program in compatibility mode for: and select Windows XP (Service Pack 3)
You can also try Run the Program as an Administrator as well.
Killing explorer before running the game
The other thing I sometimes find when running these old games in Windows 7/8, is that the taskbar seems to stuff them up somehow. You can also try killing explorer.exe before starting the game.
I usually wrap the game's executable in a batch file that kills explorer, starts the game, and waits for it to finish, before starting explorer again. Here are the commands. Put these in a .bat file in the Halo install directory, and run this to launch the game:
@echo off
taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe
start /WAIT <halo executable name>.exe
start explorer.exe


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From a human development perspective, work, rather than jobs or employment is the relevant concept.
An Oireachtas Committee report published February 19, 2013 recommends that Government consider the proposal to create a Part-Time Job Opportunities programme advocated by Social Justice Ireland.
Ireland's unemployment level is the fourth highest in the European Union according to the latest statistics published by Eurostat (January 8, 2013). The unemployment rate in the EU is now 10.7% (up from 10.0% a year ago). In the Euro area unemployment is higher at 11.8% (up from 10.6% a year ago). It is clear that austerity is not working. An alternative approach is required.
Return to work patterns are often a function of more than financial rewards and include such considerations as work availability, family commitments, travel to work time and the type of available employment. However, financial incentives are important and these depend on the balance between the individual/family's disposable income when employed and when unemployed.
Among the EU Member States in 2011, underemployed part-time work was highest in Ireland (6.3 % of the labour force) according to the latest EU Employment and Social Situation Quarterly Review. The Review also shows that Ireland's youth unemployment rate is among the highest in the EU (over 30%).
Unemployment continues to rise across the EU as detailed in the latest figures from Eurostat. The euro area (EA17) seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate was 10.9% in March 2012, compared with 9.9% in March 2011.
Unemployment continues its steady rise in the EU. Ireland's unemployent rate is the fourth worst of the 27 EU countries with only Spain, Greece and Portugal with higher levels.
Goes nowhere near the scale required to address long-term unemployent.
more than 315,000 people unemployed, half of them for more than a year.
society to respond to the jobs crisis facing our country.


Simon van der Stel (14 October 1639 – 24 June 1712) was the last Commander and first Governor of the Cape Colony, the Dutch settlement at the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.
Simon was the son of Adriaan van der Stel, an official of the Dutch East India Company (VOC, Verenigde Oos-Indiese Kompanjie). Adriaan was appointed the first Dutch governor of Mauritius in 1639. Simon was born at sea while his father was en route to Mauritius to take up his new posting. Adriaan had a long tenure in Mauritius, and Simon spent seven years there.
His mother was Maria Lievens, daughter of a freed Indian slave woman known as Monica of the Coast of Goa, or Monica da Costa.
Adriaan's governorship ended after five years, and after a few more years, Adriaan left Mauritius for Dutch Ceylon. Adriaan was murdered in Ceylon and Maria also died. Simon went on to Batavia, Dutch East Indies. Simon remained in Batavia until he was 20 years of age.
He then went to the Netherlands, where he associated with the most important members of the VOC, such as Willem Six. In 1663 he married Willem's daughter, Johanna Jacoba Six (1645–1700). They had six children. In 1679, he was appointed "Commander" of the VOC's colony at the Cape of Good Hope, through the growing influence of his relative, Joan Huydecoper van Maarsseveen. Simon was involved in making wine in Muiderberg; when he left the country he handed the vineyards over to Hendrik van Rheede.
Van der Stel and his wife, Johanna Jacoba Six, did not enjoy a very good relationship and her sister Cornelia accompanied her husband to the Cape. Van der Stel never saw his wife again, though he remained devoted to her and frequently sent her money. Johanna Jacoba remained in Holland, and sent the furnishings and works of art required to fit out the governor's Residence at Groot Constantia. These included several art works including The Fisherman, an unfinished painting by Simon de Vlieger, which was one of 13 of his works purchased by Jan Cappelle upon his death. The painting came up for sale at the auction of van der Stel's estate in 1716, where it was purchased by the Simon de Vlieger.
In 1685 he was visited by Hendrik van Rheede with whom he shared in great interest in tropical botany. To prevent competition anywhere else in the world, young cinnamon-, cloves and camphor trees were destroyed by the ambitious son of Rijckloff van Goens.
In 1691, the VOC replaced the office of "Commander" with "Governor", and van der Stel was promoted to the new position. His house Groot Constantia was well furnished with fine paintings including the unfinished painting by Simon de Vlieger "The Fisherman".
Every one of his four sons was at one time or another with him in South Africa. Willem Adriaan, after being magistrate of Amsterdam, succeeded his father as Governor of the Cape; Frans "de jonker" became a farmer at the Cape; Adrian became governor of Amboina (1706–1720); Cornelis was one of the 352 shipwrecked in the Ridderschap in 1694. An expedition under Willem de Vlamingh was sent out to look for survivors on islands in the Indian Ocean or on the coast of Western Australia.
Simon van der Stel retired in 1699 and was succeeded by his son Willem Adriaan van der Stel. In retirement, Simon devoted himself to his estate at Constantia, where he died in 1712. François Valentijn visited Frans at Constantia in March 1714. The estate was split up and sold 1716; the auction took four days and was very well attended.
The town of Stellenbosch (founded in 1679) was named after him and Simon's Town is also named after him, as well as the Simonsberg mountain. An early ship of the South African Navy, SAS Simon van der Stel was also named for him, in 1952.
Frontispiece and title page of an edition of Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality (1754), published in 1755 in Holland.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in his Discourse on Inequality, refers to Governor van der Stel by name in a story about a "Hottentot" raised by the Dutch who chooses to "return to his equals" rather than remain in civilized society. According to Rousseau, van der Stel himself raised the "Hottentot" from birth "in the principles of the Christian religion and in the practices of European customs." The frontispiece of the Discourse features van der Stel and the "Hottentot" above the phrase, Il retourne chez ses Egaux.
^ a b "Simon van der Stel and the Development of Cape Town".
^ Richard H. Grove (1996) Green Imperialism, p. 138.
^ "Simon van der Stel" (PDF). lib.ugent.be. p. 13.
^ "De VOCsite : gegevens VOC-schip Ridderschap Van Holland (1681)".
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The project of ''Religious Diversity" has started in 2018 with a visit of the German side to Tishk International University (TIU) on April, 2018 and the counter-visit of Iraqi/Kurdish faculties was on September 2018, to Potsdam University, Germany. We have the best memories to both events and we are still grateful for your overwhelming hospitality and support.
The project will continue in 2019. First, via video-conferences has been held in January 23, 2019 in Potsdam university and Tishk International University.
In the presence of Professor für Religionswissenschaft, Dr. Stefan Gatzhammer from Potsdam University and Prof. Dr. Ahmet Öztaş, Director of international relations office on the date March 24, 2019 in Tishk International University. They had a meeting and they discussed about next activity, which is a summer-school in Potsdam (June/July), for which the DAAD will fund six students and three lecturers from each university.
During the summer school in June/July project participants will discuss religious diversity and study-techniques also with German students and faculty. But the main subject-matter will be the portraits of religious communities that the Erbil field-researchers will present. A publisher in Germany (ERGON-Verlag) signaled interest to publish the results of this project in a book.


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Q: heap corruption compilando um projeto do opencv void trackFilteredObject(int &x, int &y, Mat threshold, Mat &cameraFeed) {
Mat temp;
threshold.copyTo(temp);
//these two vectors needed for output of findContours
vector< vector<Point> > contours;
vector<Vec4i> hierarchy;
//find contours of filtered image using openCV findContours function
findContours(temp, contours, hierarchy, CV_RETR_CCOMP, CV_CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE);
//use moments method to find our filtered object
double refArea = 0;
int largestIndex = 0;
bool objectFound = false;
if (hierarchy.size() > 0) {
    int numObjects = hierarchy.size();
    //if number of objects greater than MAX_NUM_OBJECTS we have a noisy filter
    if (numObjects<MAX_NUM_OBJECTS) {
        for (int index = 0; index >= 0; index = hierarchy[index][0]) {

            Moments moment = moments((cv::Mat)contours[index]);
            double area = moment.m00;

            //if the area is less than 20 px by 20px then it is probably just noise
            //if the area is the same as the 3/2 of the image size, probably just a bad filter
            //we only want the object with the largest area so we save a reference area each
            //iteration and compare it to the area in the next iteration.
            if (area>MIN_OBJECT_AREA && area<MAX_OBJECT_AREA && area>refArea) {
                x = moment.m10 / area;
                y = moment.m01 / area;
                objectFound = true;
                refArea = area;
                //save index of largest contour to use with drawContours
                largestIndex = index;
            }
            else objectFound = false;

        }
        //let user know you found an object
        if (objectFound == true) {
            putText(cameraFeed, "Tracking Object", Point(0, 50), 2, 1, Scalar(0, 255, 0), 2);
            //draw object location on screen
            drawObject(x, y, cameraFeed);
            //draw largest contour
            //drawContours(cameraFeed, contours, largestIndex, Scalar(0, 255, 255), 2);
        }

    }
    else putText(cameraFeed, "TOO MUCH NOISE! ADJUST FILTER", Point(0, 50), 1, 2, Scalar(0, 0, 255), 2);
}

sempre que eu compilo meu codigo com essa funçao, aparece esse problema, heap corruption. eu quero rastrear um objeto e desenhar uma figura geometrica nele
Então, esse erro aparece em tempo de execução, somente quando uso essa função. depurando o código, o erro ocorre no momento em que saio da função. Pelo que vi, esta ocorrendo algo com a utilização dos vetores que uso como parâmetro...


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Q: python-2.7 | SimpleCV - TypeError: 'float' object cannot be interpreted as an index I'm trying to build a Image dewarping tool using simpleCV
and python2.7.
The code below worked perfectly fine before(when I was on Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS)
but I recently updated to the Ubuntu 17.04 and I get this error now.
Here is the function:
def buildMap(Ws, Hs, Wd, Hd, R1, R2, Cx, Cy):
    map_x = np.zeros((Hd, Wd),np.float32)
    map_y = np.zeros((Hd, Wd),np.float32)
    rMap = np.linspace(R1, R1 + (R2 - R1), Hd)
    thetaMap = np.linspace(0, 0 + float(Wd) * 2.0 * np.pi, Wd)
    sinMap = np.sin(thetaMap)
    cosMap = np.cos(thetaMap)

    for y in xrange(0, int(Hd-1)):
        map_x[y] = Cx + rMap[y] * sinMap
        map_y[y] = Cy + rMap[y] * cosMap

    return map_x, map_y

and this is the error I get:
Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 801, in __bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 754, in run
    self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)
  File "./fy360.py", line 189, in new_dewarp
    xmap, ymap = buildMap(Ws, Hs, Wd, Hd, R1, R2, Cx, Cy)
  File "./fy360.py", line 122, in buildMap
    map_x = np.zeros((Hd, Wd),np.float32)
TypeError: 'float' object cannot be interpreted as an index

what is the problem in my code?

A: the np.zeros function needs Hd and Wd to be integers, not floats. Previous versions of Python would silently cast to integer, but newer versions give an error instead. Try adding this:
Hd = int(Hd)
Wd = int(Wd)


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