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Sensualisation in Sport
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The importance of sensualisation as an aid to enhancing athletic performance is now so widely recognised that very few elite sportsmen or women would dream of competing without first mentally rehearsing every aspect of their upcoming challenge.
"It's been called 'going to the movies," says Ray Floyd winner of the PGA, Master's and US Open. "It may be the most important part of your mental package."
Swimmer Alex Bauman, double Olympic Gold Medallist, has no doubt about the vital role they have played in his own sporting achievements, telling one journalist: "That's what really got me the World record and Olympic medals."
Golfing ace Jack Niclaus says that prior to playing he spends time visualising his ball landing on the green and watching it bounce. Next he visualises the arc of the ball in flight, his swing and finally the ball leaving the ground. He then joins these images together in the correct sequence; his swing, the ball's trajectory, its landing and bouncing on the green in order to achieve the perfect stroke.
Here's how triathlete Sally Edwards describes her preparations for the 1991 Ironman-Hawaii Triathlon in which she was racing: "As always I set my race plan and visualised it in advance. On race day I replayed that mental video. I knew just about when the monkey of fatigue was going to jump on my back during the 112 mile bike ride leg."
There were many occasions during the 11 hours of fierce competition that she suffered pangs of self-doubt. On each occasion, by switching on her 'mind movie', Sally was able to confirm that this particular setback had been allowed for in her overall sensualisation which, she is convinced, led her to final victory.
When sportsmen and women use visual rehearsal to improve on their personal best they may imagine themselves competing at a familiar course or athletics track, taking part in a highly competitive game or recovering from early setbacks and storming through to victory. Apart from enabling them, and you, to explore an almost unlimited number of possible scenarios, visual rehearsals have the additional benefit of ensuring more accurate recall of any problems or errors that occurred. While memory of the event can often be misleading, rerunning an event in the mind's eye is likely to prove more precise.
A professional skier, disqualified for falling during a race, for example, was convinced his tumble had been caused a sudden change in snow conditions. By recreating that event in his mind's eye and incorporating such sensations as the coldness of the air, sounds of the race and the way his weight was being distributed, he quickly realised his recollection of the incident had been at fault. The tumble was due not to any change in the snow but resulted from placing his weight on the wrong ski at the turn. Having recognised where the problem lay he then imagined himself overcoming it during a mental rehearsal in which he not only saw the event but also felt the wind on his face, the coldness of the air on his skin and the sounds as he hurtled down the slope. He also became aware of which muscles were appropriately or inappropriately tensed at different moments in the competition.
The competitive edge sensualisation can provide no matter what sport is played is demonstrated by the fact that one tennis player who had been beaten in 85% of her games prior to visual imagery training lost only one during the remainder of the season. In cricket a bowler raised his average from 185 before training to 215 afterwards, while in basketball one player improved from shooting 61% from the free-throw line and 38% from the floor to 90% and 50% respectively.
Sensualisations have has also been shown to have a positive effect on motivation. In one study of novice golfers, for instance, it was found that not only did those using imagery spend more time practising and stuck more closely to their training schedules, they also set higher goals and had more realistic expectations.
So if you play at any sport and are eager to improve your performance and increase your successes, make Sensualisations as described in my DVD and on the Bo-Tau programme a part of your training.

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Taki Telonidis and Hal Cannon spent a recent evening on the west side of Salt Lake City, Utah, with refugee families preparing to cultivate gardens in an abandoned field. Taki, the Western Folklife Center's Media Producer, wrote this report of his experience.
It didn't look like much when we got there one evening last week… just an abandoned field near towering power lines that buzzed and crackled, next to an empty softball field encircled by a chain link fence. This was on the west side of Salt Lake City, and we'd come to witness the first chapter of a story that has the potential to change the lives of dozens of refugee families struggling to make a home in America. This project is part of a "growing" trend that helps refugees capitalize on one of the few transferable skills they bring with them from the third world: farming. Last year, Salt Lake County's refugee coordinator, Ze Min Xiao (Zee), facilitated a handful of tiny informal garden projects that not only provided refugees with food, but also put them side-by-side with Americans who took interest in the refugees, sprouting friendships and even a few potluck dinners. This year Zee is organizing a more ambitious project: a small training farm that will be managed and tilled by four refugee communities in the city. The short-term goal is to provide these folks with supplemental income, but the longer-term goal is to cultivate a crop of commercial farmers who might one day own and run their own farms.
Hal Cannon and I were excited about this project from the moment we heard about it a couple weeks ago. We'd been looking for a refugee story for several months, and this seemed like a perfect fit given the rural mission of the Western Folklife Center. Plus we'd get to follow the story from its inception, over the course of the summer, to harvest time. So the plan was to meet Zee and two facilitators at the farm site, and look on as they did an orientation for leaders of the four participating refugee communities: Ethiopian, Bhutanese, Burundian and Chin (from Myanmar). We'd parked our car and weren't sure we were even at the right place until a second car pulled up and a man stepped out with an equally disoriented expression on his face. This was Michael and he was representing the Ethiopian community of Salt Lake. Other cars pulled up and it wasn't long before about a dozen men and women (representatives as well as some potential gardeners) were surveying the weedy field… looking like a delegation from the United Nations. Zee and her colleagues Chris and Steve did their best to explain the size of the plots, and the plans for preparing and tilling the soil, bringing in a tool shed, building fencing and irrigation, etc. As they spoke, my mind was transforming this fallow field into a verdant utopia where the four communities would work side-by-side sowing the seeds of their future. I imagined our completed radio feature: an inspiring, quintessentially American story of rebirth in the new world.
I snapped out of my daydream when Zee asked if there were any questions, and the group began peppering the organizers with queries. It was clear that some had not understood all the information that was conveyed to them, while others were hoping to accommodate many more families than their plot could support. One man asked if it would be okay to grow medicinal plants he wanted to import from India, while another wanted to raise goats at the site. The questions were handled graciously by Zee, Chris and Steve who promised to explore as many possibilities as they could. It began to dawn on me just how ambitious this project really is. The potential for that utopia is there, but it's going to take an enormous amount of physical labor, diplomacy and translation to get to the promised land. This is, after all, a mash up of four cultures, each with its own language, leadership style and way of doing things, all trying to create something that must conform to American rules and regulations.
The meeting ended with handshakes and an agreement to meet at the plot in 10 days with volunteers from each community who'd begin work on building rows and pathways for the farm. After Zee left, each delegation broke up into a huddle with the leaders of each group fielding questions from those who didn't speak English. Hal and I were suddenly surrounded by animated conversations in four languages, as the field slowly turned golden in the evening light. The refugee farm project was officially under way, and I had a sense that there would be many huddles like this one in the coming weeks and months. Once again my mind drifted forward to what this plot of land might look like in two weeks, or two months, and whether this whole experiment would flourish or whither on the vine.
I was brought back to the moment by the sound of a baseball bat hitting a ball. While we'd been engulfed in discussions about the farm, two women's softball teams had taken the adjacent field and a game was in full swing. I stepped back to take in these contrasting worlds, impossibly different from each other, separated only by a few yards and a simple chain link fence.
P.S. Stay tuned to our blog for occasional updates and photos of the Refugee Farm Project.


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Q: Is there a design pattern that expresses objects (an their operations) in various states? I have a design question about the evolution of an object (and its state) after some sequence of methods complete.  I'm having trouble articulating what I mean so I may need to clean up the question based on feedback.
Consider an object called Classifier.  It has the following methods:
void initialise()
void populateTrainingSet(TrainingSet t)
void pupulateTestingSet(TestingSet t)
void train()
void test()
Result predict(Instance i)

My problem is that these methods need to be called in a certain order.  Futher, some methods are invalid until a previous method is called, and some methods are invalid after a method has been called.  For example, it would be invalid to call predict() before test() was called, and it would be invalid to call train() after test() was called.
My approach so far has been to maintain a private enum that represents the current stateof the object:
private static enum STATE{ NEW, TRAINED, TESTED, READY};

But this seems a bit cloogy. Is there a design pattern for such a problem type?  Maybe something related to the template method.

A: I think a state design pattern can help you. For each state, you create a class that implements those methods in your way, and methods you don't need, you can throw exceptions or don't do anything. And your main class can contain a state object which will change based on the state. Is it suitable for you?
State Design pattern

A: Yes, a Finite State Machine represents the states of the object and what an action will cause the object to do at a given state.
There are some very good examples on this Wikipedia article.

A: Well, for this particular case, I think you are over-designing here. For example, should you really make a distinction between the training dataset and the testing dataset in terms of their type? My suggestion would be to go with  a factory pattern; you should have a MachineLearningAlgorithm factory with a "train" function that returns a Hypothesis object on which you can perform "test" or "predict". The "train" function should take, as its parameter, the training data set, while the "test" function should take, as its parameter, the testing data set. Both data sets should probably be the same type, since their form/structure is identical, even though the data contained therein is different. As for populating the dataset, that really should not be the concern of your machine learning algorithm; whoever uses the algorithm should be responsible for providing those data sets. If you want to have some sort of example data sets, though, I would suggest factories for various different train/test data set pairs.
 public interface Result
 {
      public double getDecisionValue();
      public String getPredictedLabel();
 }

 public interface TestResult extends Result
 {
      public String getActualLabel();
 }

 public interface TestResults extends Iterable<TestResult>
 {
      public int getErrorCount();
      public double getErrorRate();
 }

 public interface Hypothesis
 {
       public TestResults test(Iterable<DataPoint> dataset, Iterable<String> labels);
       public Result predict(DataPoint datapoint);
 }

 public interface MachineLearningAlgorithm
 {
         public Hypothesis train(Iterable<DataPoint> trainset, Iterable<String> trainlabels);
 }

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Kandirpar is situated on Comilla, Bangladesh. It is considered the heart of the Comilla district.

See also
 Comilla
 Comilla Division

References

Populated places in Cumilla District

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Work continues on the repair on the privately owned Park Village Fountains. Owned by ShopCore Properties, the fountains experienced extensive plumbing and robotic problems starting in 2017. The most recent repairs have been ongoing on since early summer.
After evaluating their plans, the City has recently given the fountain contractors representing ShopCore permission to continue the repair work. The most recent repairs include the installation of a cover plate that sits at the bottom of the fountain to allow easier and more efficient access to the fountain's mechanical equipment. In order to perform this work and to ensure the fountain functions safely, the City required the submission of engineered plans detailing the proposed work and the issuance of an electrical permit.
The Southlake City Council approved the privately-owned lighted fountains as part of the Park Village development in 2013.


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I'm currently testing a web application which takes input from a user via a form that has 850 questions on it. Generally, only a selection of the questions will be answered, this is because the majority of them are only presented to the user if they give certain answers.
The bulk of the tests I'm running involve answering the question set in different ways and checking the response from the application once they have been submitted. Ideally, I'd like to automate this process, so I'm looking to find some software or an extension that I can map the form inputs to that will then automatically run through and input the answers for me.
The questions are all multiple choice, and I've got all of the input combinations stored in Excel so something that I could import into would be perfect.


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Fra i monumenti si segnala l'edificio della sezione del tribunale della contea di Guadalupe, che si trova a Santa Rosa e risale al 1909.

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Q: Array_walk through 10000 items. Optimization possible? My code is looping through an array with array_walk and that array contains about 10.000 items. The query takes 5.19 seconds to fetch the records but walking through the array takes 19.86 seconds. There probably isn't anything I can do to speed things up?
The questions are returned in json and used by the jquery dataTables plugin to create the table. The plugin doesn't seem to have a problem with that many entries (at least not on firefox).
I'm using the laravel framework. See controller code below
$start = microtime(true);
$questions = Question::with(array('tags', 'category'))->get();
$now = microtime(true) - $start;
echo "
FETCHED QUESTIONS: $now
";
array_walk($questions, function(&$value, $key) {
    $value = $value->to_array();
    if (empty($value['category'])) $value['category'] = '--';
    if (empty($value['difficulty'])) $value['difficulty'] = '--';
    $value['difficulty'] = HTML::difficulty_label($value['difficulty']);
    $value['approved'] = HTML::on_off_images($value['approved'], 'approved', 'declined');
    $value['active'] = HTML::on_off_images($value['active'], 'active', 'disabled');
    $value['edit_link'] = '' . HTML::image('img/icons/pencil.png', 'edit question') ; '';
});

$spent = microtime(true) - $start - $now;
$now = microtime(true) - $start;
echo "
AFTER WALK: $now ($spent)
";
$out = array('aaData' => $questions);
return json_encode($out);

A: Just loop the array yourself with foreach to avoid the penalty of making 10000 function calls:
foreach($questions as &$value) {
    $value = $value->to_array();
    if (empty($value['category'])) $value['category'] = '--';
    if (empty($value['difficulty'])) $value['difficulty'] = '--';
    $value['difficulty'] = HTML::difficulty_label($value['difficulty']);
    $value['approved'] = HTML::on_off_images($value['approved'], 'approved', 'declined');
    $value['active'] = HTML::on_off_images($value['active'], 'active', 'disabled');
    $value['edit_link'] = '' . HTML::image('img/icons/pencil.png', 'edit question') ; '';
}


"Today is a good day to die." I thought to myself. But in reality I wasn't ready to leave this world. Pushing back the tears, I tried to focus on my game of Candy Crush. I clutched my phone, trying to slide the little multi-colored sugary sweets, back and forth, to reach the next level of the game. Somehow though, this diversion wasn't working. The tiny screen turned blurry, my stomach tightened, and I started to sweat.
I put the phone in the magazine pocket in front of me. Locating the emergency procedures card, I placed it where I could reach it easily, just in case. I sat on my hands and tried to evaluate the level of danger. The paneling in the ceiling was still in place. The wings outside the window seemed rigid as they reflected the dull pink of the late afternoon sun. Yet everything inside the plane seemed to be in frantic motion.
The more I fly the worse my anxiety seems to get. My rational mind says that the plane isn't going to crash, but something just seems to take over my body when the fuselage starts to shake. I can't stop my brain from imagining the spiraling motion as I fall from the heavens to my death. I have tried everything: deep breathing, self-hypnosis, alcohol. And they won't even let you smoke anymore.
The child and the doll are calm and unaware of the dangers. I'm trying to stay calm in the midst of the horror.
Nothing seems to help me in these moments of extreme terror and turbulence. I have even tried to watch a good movie, to lose myself in the fantasy world. Whether it is Bridgit Jones, Blades of Glory, or Bond, I can't seem to enjoy a film. The more intense the movie, the more intense my panic attack becomes.
In reality, I don't think I have ever been on a flight that was seriously in danger of crashing. Last Christmas traveling from Atlanta to Stuttgart, the turbulence was so bad that for 3 hours the passengers and flight attendants were asked to remain belted in their seats.
Two years ago my plane from London to Stuttgart was trying to land during a monstrous thunderstorm. Unable to land as lightning crashed right next to the wings, the plane ran low on fuel. Eventually we were able to make an emergency landing in an out-of-the-way airport near the Bodensee.
Last week's 45-minute ride from Berlin to Frankfurt had minimal turbulence, but I think it was the worst anxiety I have experienced to date. The flight attendants were still passing out drinks with smiles on their faces as I was reading myself my last rites.
According to an article from Popular Mechanics, there has only been one time in history where a plane went down due to turbulence. Some would say this statistic is no longer relevant because the design of the plane from 1966 is now obsolete. Today's planes are built to withstand incredible pressure and force. A Boeing 777's wings have been tested to withstand 154% more pressure than its designed limit load. See for yourself the huge amount of flex in the wings before they snap. And in most cases, when planes feel like they are jumping up and down, they are really losing very little altitude.
I know that I can't just stay on the ground the rest of my life. The road is more dangerous than the air. According to a 2013 World Health Organization report, "approximately 1.24 million people die every year on the world's roads, and another 20 to 50 million sustain non-fatal injuries as a result of road traffic crashes." What is the statistic for average deaths in the air? Based on 20 years of data collected by OAG Aviation, my odds of being in a fatal plane accident if I fly with one of the top 39 airlines, is 1 in 19.8 million!
What am I so scared about? Maybe it is the lack of control. I have no idea what is going on in the cockpit when I'm strapped into my tiny uncomfortable plane seat. Or maybe it is the speed (or lack of it) of the oncoming crash that I fear most. In a car, I could get slammed from the side and never see my death coming. But on a plane, I would be fully conscious and aware of the danger. I would feel it coming. I would have to wait, knowing that in a few minutes, it would be all over.
I fly twice a year over the Atlantic, and numerous times a year to places around Western Europe for work and vacation. I dread it. When I wake in the night, days before my flight, I slip into fits of anxiety that leave me in cold sweats worrying about falling out of the sky. Will this be the trip where I become this evening's news flash? And yet, by some miracle, I always survive the flight with some story tell about the best flight attendant ever, a cool person I met while waiting for the flight, or the spectacular view of the sea and land from 30,000 feet up. Yes, today was a good day to fly.
How do you stay calm when the ride gets bumpy? Do you have a horror story about flying?
I also am not a huge fan of flying, but I find a cocktail or two does take the edge off. I also have a Xanax on hand, just in case. I've never had to take it, but just knowing I have it helps. I've only been on one flight where I thought it might not end well, but no one else seemed to be overly concerned about the noise and shaking. 😉 Looking forward to your next trip across the Atlantic.
I tried having a few glasses of wine once….major dehydration headache. Usually by hour 6 or 7 my mind settles in for the long haul. Good flight attendants help too. This one guy on the Delta Amsterdam-Seattle run always makes my day. Red head with glass, this guy makes duck noises for the crying babies, calms the bitching customers who are angry they didn't get an aisle seat, and gives me as many ibu as I need. When I see him on my flight, I know all will be well.
I'm with Chris. I (prepare to) medicate. I fly every month overseas so now I take a lot in stride, but sometimes I'll wake in a sweat during turbulence convinced we're going to crash into the ocean.
What is that inside our brains though that makes us worry so? It didn't worry me so much before. Usually short flights over land don't bother me. My thought is…more chances of finding an airport for emergency landings.
Is it the same if you fly alone? I am more stressed about it when I am with my family. I don't want anything to happen to them and I sure don't want our last moments to be terrified ones.
Yes! When flying with the girl I worry about staying calm in the face of danger.
I decided to take flying lessons to learn exactly how it all works and whether all that anxiety is really necessary. It did the trick and now I have zero problem with turbulence. Once you experience turbulence in a Cessna 172 and realize what it would take for disaster to strike, it becomes clear that it is exceedingly unlikely to die in a place crash. So, save up some cash and find some time. And besides, you will have a pilot's license at the end of the process. Cool!
Cyrus, this sounds intriguing. When you are in the driver's seat I'm sure it makes a world of difference.
The recent loss of MH370 makes this all too real.
Funny you should mention this. I turned on CNNWorld for 10 minutes of catching up. The show that was on did a feature on why there is more intense turbulence/global warming. It showed crazy video of some rocky rides. I got up to go to the bathroom, came back and a reporter was breaking the news about the Malaysian flight. I will still fly, just not over air space where they are fighting a war.


Frank Wijen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship of Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam. He holds a PhD in management from Tilburg University, where he also worked as a Senior Researcher. His research interests include institutional processes, globalization, power and influence, organizational learning, and corporate and national environmental management. Frank published in journals such as Academy of Management Review (2014, 2015), California Management Review (2011, 2018), Organization Science (2013), Organization Studies (2006, 2007), Strategic Management Journal (2018), and Strategic Organization (2011), and was the leading editor of A handbook of globalisation and environmental policy, second edition (2012, published by Edward Elgar).
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Andrew Dewar Gibb MBE QC (13 February 1888 – 24 January 1974) was a Scottish advocate, barrister, professor and politician. He taught law at Edinburgh and Cambridge, and was Regius Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow 1934–1958. Gibb was the leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) from 1936 to 1940.

Early life and career
Born in Paisley, the son of William Fletcher Gibb, a doctor, Gibb was educated at Paisley Grammar School, Homefield Preparatory School, Trinity College, Glenalmond, and the University of Glasgow, where he graduated with an MA in 1910 and an LLB in 1913.

Following graduation, Gibb was called to the Scottish bar in 1914. During World War I he served in France with the 6th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, achieving the rank of major. He also served as an adjutant to Winston Churchill during the short period in 1916 when Churchill was the battalion's commanding officer. Gibb became a member of the English bar in 1917 and practised as a barrister in England.  In 1929 he was appointed as lecturer in English law at the University of Edinburgh, and from 1931 to 1934 he was lecturer in Scots law at the University of Cambridge.

In 1934, Gibb was appointed Regius Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow, and from 1937 to 1939 and 1945 to 1947 was Dean of the University's Law Faculty. As a legal scholar he edited a range of works, including successive editions of a text on the law of maritime collisions, and on the position of Scots law in the United Kingdom. His Students' Glossary of Legal Terms was published in 1946, and four editions of his Preface to Scots Law were published between 1944 and 1964. In 1947, he became a King's Counsel, and from 1955 to 1957 he was the Chairman of the Saltire Society. Gibb retired from his professorship in 1958, and was awarded an honorary Doctor of laws degree by the university the following year.

Political career
Andrew Dewar Gibb was politically active throughout his adult life. He began his political career in the 1920s as a supporter of the Unionist Party, and stood unsuccessfully as a Unionist parliamentary candidate for Hamilton in 1924, and for Greenock in 1929.

During the 1920s, Gibb came to the view that Scotland had been ill-served by the union of 1707. His book Scotland in Eclipse (1930) linked the economic depression with a wider cultural malaise in Scotland. In particular, he believed that Scotland's status as a partner in the imperial mission had been compromised by her lowly status in the United Kingdom. While he moved towards a Scottish nationalist position, he also retained a right-wing world view, and imperial questions remained prominent in his writings.

Gibb's involvement in Scottish nationalism came initially as a member of the Scottish Party, which had been founded as a counterbalance to the left-wing National Party of Scotland. In 1934, he became a founder member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), and was the second leader of the SNP, serving from 1936 until 1940. Gibb stood as an independent for the Combined Scottish Universities constituency in the 1935 general election, and as an SNP parliamentary candidate in the 1936 Combined Scottish Universities by-election, taking 31.1% of the vote and second place in the poll. However, he was less successful at the 1938 by-election, his share falling to 18.2%. Gibb resigned as leader of the SNP in 1940, due to what he regarded as its rapid lurch to the left. By 1947 he was considering returning to the Unionist Party, and possibly running for Parliament once more under their banner.

Gibb died at his home in Glasgow in 1974, aged 85. Married to Margaret Isabel Downie in 1923, the couple had a son and two daughters.

Publications
With Winston Churchill at the Front, 1924
Sale of Goods on CIF and FOB Terms: A Guide to the Decisions, 1924
The International Law of Jurisdiction in Scotland and England, 1926
International Private Law of Scotland in the 16th and 17th Centuries, 1928
Scotland in Eclipse, 1930
The Trial of Motor Car Accident Cases, 1930
Select Cases in the Law of Scotland, 1933
Scottish Empire, 1937
A Preface to Scots Law, 1944
Student's Glossary of Legal Terms, 1946
Law from over the Border: A Short Account of a Strange Jurisdiction, 1950
Scotland Resurgent, 1950
Perjury Unlimited: A Monograph on Nuremberg, 1954
Fragmenta Legis, 1955
Judicial Corruption in the United Kingdom, 1957

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1974 deaths
Leaders of the Scottish National Party
Academics of the University of Cambridge
Academics of the University of Edinburgh
Academics of the University of Glasgow
Alumni of the University of Glasgow
British barristers
People educated at Glenalmond College
People from Paisley, Renfrewshire
Scottish legal scholars
Conservative Party (UK) parliamentary candidates
Unionist Party (Scotland) politicians
Scottish National Party parliamentary candidates
Scottish King's Counsel


The rise of augmented analytics empowers businesses to find correlations in data that might very well be the critical difference in operational efficiency and cost savings.
A reasonable person could assume that healthcare costs are higher for the chronically ill than for the typical adolescent, and the best way to lower costs is to first examine all aspects of care for those suffering from illnesses. But this type of assumption -- the kind that ignores hidden factors -- can lead companies down the wrong path.
One U.S. health insurance company encountered this situation while examining the cost of care using Salesforce's AI-infused analytics tool, Einstein Discovery. The insurer's CFO had always tracked cost metrics based on the sickness of patients -- the sicker the person, the costlier the care in terms of staff, equipment and other factors. The company decided to use augmented analytics to see if they were overlooking anything. Big data was ingested and fed to algorithms and models running in parallel to explore all the possible combinations and permutations of factors driving costs, explained Gartner analyst Rita Sallam, who led a recent webinar on the ways augmented analytics is transforming BI.
Surprisingly, the insurance company discovered that children under 12 were the biggest cost driver, because its contract allows ambulance companies to charge per person in the vehicle, and children typically have at least one parent accompany them to the hospital.
"They would never have found that had they continued to look at their data the way they always did," Sallam said during the webinar. "Their hypothesis was that sicker people tended to drive costs -- and there was a relationship with that -- but their biggest cost driver was something they never thought to look for, because to do that would have required manual exploration of relationships they would have had to have known about in advance."
This example clearly showed how the collection of vast amounts of data can make it difficult, if not impossible, to see all the possible correlations. Sallam shared another salient example, taken from a Gartner BI Bake Off, in which analytics software vendors received public data sets on the U.S. opioid crisis and were asked to find the most important insights in that data. A small augmented analytics vendor called Stories.bi -- acquired by Workday in July -- was the only company to auto-generate a list of the top trends, including the most dangerous route to heroin use through specific drug prescriptions.
Stories.bi's augmented analytics software also revealed which states were saving lives through government programs that were beginning to reverse the opioid crisis. Rhode Island came out on top -- a result that seemed odd because the state's overall opioid abuse trend was still upward. Then came the aha moment when the company Googled the phrase "heroin in RI," which yielded a unique treatment program kicked off by the Rhode Island Department of Corrections in 2016 and whose results correlated with the decline in heroin deaths, Sallam explained in the webinar.
"Comparing augmented analytics to using visual-based BI exploration tools to uncover insights is that, with [the traditional BI] approach, you have to have an idea of the relationships, and if you aren't aware of a relationship between data, you won't explore it," Sallam later said in an interview. "That's the drawback, particularly as data becomes bigger with more variations."
Traditional BI involves manually exploring and preparing data, manually testing models, finding patterns in data and sharing those patterns with business leaders. Those who do the analysis have the power to decide what's important, and anything outside of their purview is left unexamined.
Compared to BI, augmented analytics improves overall speed and accuracy, and, because more data can be analyzed, it can potentially reduce data bias. Data discovery and prep are faster as algorithms are applied to data to automatically search for patterns, while features, models and code are auto-selected. Insights are narrated using natural language processes, or visualizations are created to show what's important.
New approaches to business analytics include AI within the analysis process itself. With augmented analytics, for example, you can ask a question concerning a drop in sales to derive insights from areas you normally wouldn't consider.
On the data science side, traditional vendors such as SAS and a host of newer software vendors like DataRobot are adding AI to data prep, analytics processes and building models, Sallam said. Outlier AI, BeyondCore (acquired by Salesforce), Empirical Systems (acquired by Tableau), Qlik, Microsoft and other BI vendors have also invested in augmented analytics capabilities and offer varying levels of functionality.
"The user experience will transform quite a bit over the next few years," Sallam noted. "If you are dealing with an analytics vendor, monitor their roadmaps regarding this capability."
Like any analytics tools, augmented analytics software requires large amounts of good, quality data that's related to the business area being analyzed, and if you don't have the data infrastructure, Sallam added, you don't get the analytics. "I wouldn't suggest people have the perfect data in a data lake before piloting augmented analytics; you can start with a smaller data set to prove out the value in solving business value," she said. "I encourage organizations just to begin. That first mile is the hardest."
While augmented analytics can reveal incredibly valuable information, data analysts have to maintain a healthy skepticism when working with these black box systems. For one, if you feed the algorithm biased data that doesn't represent the full spectrum, then you won't get the right results, Sallam said. "Bad data, whether explored manually or in an automated way, results in bad insights or even dangerous insights," she warned.
It's not a question of if AI-assisted business intelligence tools will become the norm -- but when.
Sallam encouraged companies to validate the accuracy of the data and algorithms by back-testing; look at historical data to see how well these systems would have predicted reality. An expert data scientist should be able to look at the model, test it and extend it to gain trust in the model's accuracy.
"It's really about transparency in the models -- proving value through testing and being able to source the results and verify the results on known data," Sallam explained. "That's the same with any analytics tool. If you come up with a result that people don't expect or don't want to hear, they want to see how you got it."
Data literacy is also critical with augmented analytics, so that people outside the data science team understand how to use data responsibly and know what to do with the insights they're given, she said.
And as AI automation changes the way technology works, it also changes the way people do their jobs. Sallam advised companies to plan for possible changes in worker roles, responsibilities and skills.
"You may have to invest in data literacy, new data governance policies," she suggested. "The thinking here is to look at not only how this impacts your tools, but also your processes and skills."
We don't need augmented analytics to help us conclude that it's not a question of if AI-assisted BI tools will become the norm -- but when. Read on to learn more about the tools, technologies and skills necessary to meet the business challenges in the years ahead.
Where is your organization with augmented analytics?


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Q: Install v8js-0.1.3 with ansible I would like to install v8js-0.1.3 with Ansible, so I have the following task:
- name: Install pecl package
  pear: name=pecl/v8js-0.1.3 state=present

But this task freezes.
So I tried with ssh:
pecl install v8js-0.1.3

And it prompts me with a question (I think this is why it freezes):
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How can I tell Ansible to select the default value?

A: Looking at the pear module's source code it doesn't look like this is possible directly in the module.
One option would be to use expect which is essentially shelling out but with the ability to interact with the response from the command.
So your task might look something like:
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Leaders of Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan attend the signing ceremony of the 5th Caspian Summit. (AFP) By Simon Watkins January 4, 2020 Given the array of sweetener deals in the oil and gas sector promised to Russia by Iran in the past year or so – suspended until public outcry over [...]
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Why did I decide to go with a 25G Lagoon? Size, clean look and less maintenance and upkeep was the first thoughts. Of course less maintenance and upkeep isn't actually true with less water volume. So scratch less maintenance and add bigger challenge to the list.
I personally love the lagoon style tanks. If done right they really do look great. So here is to hoping I can do it right.
I am looking to do a mixed reef with fish. Bare bottom is the goal to help with nutrient control. Skimmer and reactor (biopellets) and live rock will drive the filtration. Although I am seriously debating the skimmer. ATO and dosing will be done to help reduce overall maintenance (ATO is actually a must here).
For lighting, the 26HD Hydra will support the corals.
More to come. It's really good to be back!
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Ok no more pulsing modes for you!!
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So here is a photo of the tank cycling. This was prior to the mp10qd.
The tank is temporarily setup in my garage while I build the tank stand. More on that later.
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I have used flickr and google photos. Using the postcard icon. The photos do not display?


Special education advocates are pushing back against the Alabama State Department of Education's (ALSDE) proposed changes to the special education complaint process.
In early April, a draft of the proposed changes circulated among parents and special education advocates, setting off a firestorm of concern that resulted in one advocacy group starting an online petition to force the ALSDE to hear their concerns.
At this time, the petition has nearly 1,800 signatures.
It appears that the collective voice of special education advocates prompted the ALSDE to postpone a meeting this past Monday with a group of attorneys who wanted to voice their concerns directly to the ALSDE, though the ALSDE has not provided a reason for postponing that meeting.
Malissa Valdes-Hubert, spokesperson for the ALSDE, said that a larger group of stakeholders, including due process hearing officers, advocates and parent attorneys, will be consulted in small groups about these changes. She emphasized that the revisions "are not final and were not ready to be reviewed in a public forum and setting, as we were awaiting much more analysis and input by the primary stakeholders before public dissemination and comment".
Valdes-Hubert anticipates the Special Education Advisory Panel (SEAP) will have an opportunity to review the proposed changes at their regular meeting in June.
After public comment is taken, a presentation would be made to the SBOE, which could happen as early as this summer.
Appropriate procedures would then be followed to make changes to the Alabama Administrative Code, where these regulations are housed.
Implementation of the final changes could begin in the fall.
James Gallini has a child with autism and knows first-hand the difficulty parents encounter when they are dissatisfied with the special education services provided by a school district.
Gallini is the founder of The Gallini Group, Alabama's only law firm focused exclusively on serving families of children with special needs, which allows him an additional lens through which to view the draft proposed changes. He also participates in the Alabama Autism and Asperger Info and Support Network's "Ask a Special Ed Attorney" forum.
He and his partner, Gina Lowe, spend much of their time educating parents and families about special education regulations, and he believes these changes are unnecessary and will create burdens for families that will prevent families from being able to effectively advocate for their child with special needs.
Gallini prepared a thorough review of the proposed changes, which was shared widely through social media.
Most of the proposed changes affect the complaint process, known as "due process". Additional barriers would be erected that could keep parents from being able to navigate the process without the help of an attorney, according to Gallini.
While the ALSDE can create rules to administer the federal law regulating special education, known as IDEA (the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act), those rules cannot conflict with the actual federal law.
Gallini believes these rules violate IDEA in many ways, all of which are delineated in the review linked above. If these changes were enacted as written, he anticipates a higher court challenge.
Shrinking the statute of limitations for requesting a hearing to one year, instead of two.
No hearing can be conducted until the parent has filed a complaint that sufficiently describes how the school district has deprived the child of a free appropriate public education, known as FAPE. Gallini contends this would be very difficult for a parent to do without the assistance of an attorney.
The addition of a step in the process called "summary determination", which reduces all fact-gathering to an affidavit submitted by the parties. Gallini claims this limits the discovery process because "we can't cross-examine an 'affidavit'".
Creating an "evidentiary submission format" which means no live testimony, unless both the school district and the parent agree, or the hearing officer determines that live testimony is necessary. Gallini maintains this violates the parent's "rightful opportunity" to call witnesses as spelled out in the IDEA.
Within the "evidentiary submission format", parents have only 30 days from the day the complaint is filed to produce evidence, which Gallini says is exceedingly difficult due in part to school officials' lack of cooperation in providing a child's full educational record for the parent or the attorney to review.
In one part of the review, Gallini states that the process is "overly complicated to understand as a parent," and that parents are denied the "right to a simple process of advocacy by inserting an extraordinarily high amount of work and documentation without ever having access to an actual hearing".
To be clear, those are only a few of the proposed changes in the ALSDE's draft document.
Gallini believes fewer than 200 complaints are filed in a given year, which amounts to one-quarter of 1% of the 80,000 children receiving special education services in Alabama. Data from 2013 indicates 141 due process complaints were filed that year.
A review of recent due process hearing results provided to the Alabama School Connection by attorneys representing families in prior disputes showed that school officials are well aware of the issues long before a parent files a request for a hearing.
These due process decisions posted on the ALSDE's web site also document the many ways parents attempt to resolve concerns prior to requesting a hearing.
In response, Gallini contends that the hearings would not be necessary if there were no disputes, suggesting that state efforts would be better spent training those serving special education students in school rather than making the complaint process overly difficult for parents to resolve concerns.
With advocates getting themselves informed, and with children's futures in the balance, there promises to be much debate about these proposed changes. Stay tuned.
For more information about the special education conflict resolution process, here is the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (ADAP) publication "Special Education: A Right, Not a Favor". The chapter on conflict resolution begins on page 56.
The state lawmakers are attempting to dismantle the public school system piece by piece. If you take on one segment at a time you only have to deal with a small group of stakeholders at a time. Good for those fighting back but fight back when other parents need you too. Don't let them hurt children who have no voice.
Thank you Trisha Powell Crain for simplifying and putting in layman's terms what would otherwise be too complicated to understand! You are a Godsend to children and families who are struggling with an overwhelmingly complicated government bureaucracy!
The state lawmakers are attempting to dismantle the public school system piece by piece. If you take on one segment at a time you only have to deal with a small group of stakeholders at a time. Good for those fighting back but fight back when other parents need you too. Don't let them hurt children who have no voice.
Thank you Trisha Powell Crain for simplifying and putting in layman's terms what would otherwise be too complicated to understand! You are a Godsend to children and families who are struggling with an overwhelmingly complicated government bureaucracy!


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If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of an everyman's journey through life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance.
E. V. Rieu's translation has long been beloved and celebrated by scholars and readers alike, and for this Penguin Classics edition, classicist D. C. H. Rieu has revised the work of his father. This edition also includes an introduction by Peter V. Jones.
Homer was probably born around 725BC on the Coast of Asia Minor, now the coast of Turkey, but then really a part of Greece. Homer was the first Greek writer whose work survives.
He was one of a long line of bards, or poets, who worked in the oral tradition. Homer and other bards of the time could recite, or chant, long epic poems. Both works attributed to Homer – the Iliad and the Odyssey – are over ten thousand lines long in the original. Homer must have had an amazing memory but was helped by the formulaic poetry style of the time.
In the Iliad Homer sang of death and glory, of a few days in the struggle between the Greeks and the Trojans. Mortal men played out their fate under the gaze of the gods. The Odyssey is the original collection of tall traveller's tales. Odysseus, on his way home from the Trojan War, encounters all kinds of marvels from one-eyed giants to witches and beautiful temptresses. His adventures are many and memorable before he gets back to Ithaca and his faithful wife Penelope.
We can never be certain that both these stories belonged to Homer. In fact 'Homer' may not be a real name but a kind of nickname meaning perhaps 'the hostage' or 'the blind one'. Whatever the truth of their origin, the two stories, developed around three thousand years ago, may well still be read in three thousand years' time.
E. V. Rieu was a celebrated translator from Latin and Greek, and editor of Penguin Classics from 1944-1964. His son, D. C. H. Rieu has revised his work.
D. C. H. Rieu is the son of E. V. Rieu, celebrated translator from Latin and Greek and Editor of Penguin Classics from 1944-1964.
Peter Jones is former lecturer in classics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
"[Robert Fitzgerald's translation is] a masterpiece . . . An Odyssey worthy of the original." –The Nation
"[Fitzgerald's Odyssey and Iliad] open up once more the unique greatness of Homer's art at the level above the formula; yet at the same time they do not neglect the brilliant texture of Homeric verse at the level of the line and the phrase." –The Yale Review
"[In] Robert Fitzgerald's translation . . . there is no anxious straining after mighty effects, but rather a constant readiness for what the occasion demands, a kind of Odyssean adequacy to the task in hand, and this line-by-line vigilance builds up into a completely credible imagined world."
–from the Introduction by Seamus Heaney
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Q: How do I create a global exception handler for winforms app that is making asyncronous WebClient calls I have a winforms app that is making asyncronous WebClient calls with a callback procedures as follows...
using (var wc = new WebClient())
{
    wc.DownloadFileCompleted += new AsyncCompletedEventHandler(DownloadCompleted);
    wc.DownloadProgressChanged+=new DownloadProgressChangedEventHandler(DownloadProgressCallback);
    //other stuff
    wc.DownloadFileAsync(uri, fullLocalPath);
}

I want to create a global exception handler so I have defined an application event for it...
[STAThread]
static void Main()
{
    Application.ThreadException += new ThreadExceptionEventHandler(ApplicationThreadException);
    //other stuff
    Application.Exit();

}

private static void ApplicationThreadException(object sender, ThreadExceptionEventArgs e)
{
    // Do logging or whatever here

    Application.Exit();
}

I believe that I am correct that application errors that are raised by the Callback event will not be caught by the Application.ThreadException?   So what is the best way of insuring that the callback exceptions are handled?
I have seen on other SO posts that you can also create a handler for AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException.  Is that the best way to handle the callback exceptions?
I am just looking for best practices when using asyncronous callbacks in a winforms app.
EDIT
Nicholas...thanks for your answer. So can I put the whole callback into a try catch and then do a throw in the catch.  Or do I have to explicitly check the AsyncCompletedEventArgs.error property for a non-null value.
If it IS non-null...can you tell me how to cause the callback error to bubble up to my global exception handler?
I think I would do it like this...
private void DownloadCompleted(object sender, AsyncCompletedEventArgs e)
{

    if (e.Error != null)
    {
        throw e.Error;
    }

    if (DownloadHasCompleted == null) return;
    File.Copy(this.RemoteIniFilePath, this.CurrentIniFilePath, true);
    DownloadHasCompleted(this, e);
}

Seth

A: Any exception will be passed to your DownloadFileCompleted event handler.
This is called with a AsyncCompletedEventArgs object which has an Error property.
You just need to check this property in your handler - it won't be an "unhandled exception".

A: Yes, AppDomain.CurrentDomain.UnhandledException is the way to handle any exceptions that aren't otherwise handled.
However, in general you should have exception handlers in what I call the outermost edge, specifically: control events, callbacks, etc.


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Q: Existence of primes in short intervals and Euler's prime-rich polynomial Consider the set $\mathcal{E}:=\{n\in\mathbb{N} \text{ such that } n^2+n+41 \text{ is prime}\}$ (this is A056561 on the OEIS).
Now, after some little trial and error, it appears to be well fitted by the graph of $g$ defined by $g(k):=0.1468k+0.2773k^{1.0667}\log(k)^{0.729}$ (where $k\in\mathbb{N}$) in the sense that the following seems to hold:
$\forall n\in\mathcal{E}\cap[\![0;27400]\!], \exists k\in [\![0;10000]\!] \text{ such that } n\in[g(k)-200;g(k)+200]\ \ (*)$
Here is a plot illustrating this:

This seems to be related to the first Hardy-Littlewood conjecture, see the answer of Joriki in this older question, but not quite in the same way as in that answer.
It also has a bit of the flavor of Polymath8b on the existence of bounded intervals with many consecutive primes.
[edit of august 19: it could also be just a consequence of the PNT, which asserts in particular that the $m-$th prime is $p_m\simeq m\log(m)$, so that for any $n\in\mathcal{E}$ there exist some $m$ such that $n^2+n+41=p_m$, so $n\simeq \frac{1}{2}(\sqrt{4p_m-163}-1)\simeq m^{0.5}\log(m)^{0.5}$. But these are not quite the constants in $g$, perhaps due to its additional linear term.]
As such, it might follow from known results, or at least widely believed conjectures, but unfortunately I am not knowledgeable enough to be quite sure.

*

*Can $(*)$ indeed be proved for any $n\in\mathcal{E}$ (i.e. still with a fixed finite amplitude around $g(k)$, perhaps a bit larger than 400) with current technology? Or at least assuming some HL type conjectures?

*If yes, what would be an executive-style summary of the proof?

(Just for reference, another related question on MSE, but with the polynomial $n^2-n+41$ instead and about values for which it is not prime, is this one).


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