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Garden of Eatin' / Vegetables
The Surprising Difference Between Corn and Maize
You've heard these two terms used interchangeably, but now you're curious: what's the difference between corn and maize? Turns out, not a whole lot. While the words are different, the plant they refer to are one and the same. Here's why it might make sense to say maize vs. corn, and where you're more likely to hear it.
Something that many people may have noticed is how similar corn and maize are. They look pretty much the same. They're grown in a similar way and are often even used for many of the same things.
So what's the difference between corn and maize?
Besides some small differences in certain varieties of these crops, they are pretty much the same!
It all comes down to regional differences
What is maize?
What is corn?
Corn and maize are simply two different terms used by different regions to describe one of the most versatile and essential grain crops.
Corn is mainly used in North America, however in the UK and other parts of the world, maize is more commonly used.
Despite this, there are a lot of inconsistencies in where and how these terms are used, and you may often hear them swapped around in both countries, as well as in other parts of the world.
This is confusing enough, but it gets even more confusing when you start to consider the different varieties of grain and how they are used and harvested.
Both terms are also used depending on specific aspects of preparation and farming, as well as intended use and whether it's a specific type of grain.
For example, corn is most commonly used when referring to food items, such as popcorn, whereas maize is less commonly used to describe these foods, even though it comes from the same crop.
So even though the term maize is used in the UK, they don't call their popcorn "popmaize," perhaps because it just doesn't have the same ring to it.
However, when it comes to formal usage (like in scientific study, business use, or when dealing internationally), maize is the more commonly used term.
This is most likely because it's the more common term outside of the US and Canada, and has a broader, simpler meaning than the various types of corn and how they are consumed and prepared.
One thing I do know for sure is that whether you call it corn, maize, or something else, all these terms describe one of the world's most vital crops.
Its versatility, yield, and flavor are well known, and thousands of years of human agricultural study and pressure have made it one of the most important—if not the most important—cereal crops.
Maize was the crop grown by the indigenous peoples of the Antilles islands, which are located in the Caribbean. These are the large islands where Cuba, Haiti, and others exist as part of the Antilles Archipelago.
Way back when Christopher Columbus was exploring the West Indies, he and his crew stopped at an island north of the Antilles archipelago, where the indigenous Tahino peoples shared their main food source with Columbus and his crew.
As you can probably guess, their main source of food was maize, which the Taíno farmers referred to as Mahiz, which means "source of life" in the Taíno language.
When the explorers brought these new crops with them to Europe, the indigenous name slowly mutated from mahiz into maize.
As I mentioned earlier, maize is actually the scientific designation for corn and it's also the most popular name for the crop internationally.
The reason maize is the preferred term for both scientists and formal business is that maize is quite a unique word that obviously only refers to one crop in particular, and so it cannot be confused with other crops and food products.
Corn isn't preferred as it can mean many different things depending on the location, context, and type of product in question.
This is why maize is used by large industrial entities and research groups such as the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FOA) of the United Nations.
While corn is more commonly used in everyday language and marketing, maize is still important due to its formal usage.
Corn is one of the most versatile plants in the world and is actually grown from the seed of a type of grass, which is why it has some similarities to certain grass species.
As a cereal grain, it's a very important crop with a range of applications, and not all of these are food-related.
Its importance and various different uses have actually made corn the biggest provider of energy and carbohydrates when compared to any other crop in the world, and it also covers more farmland than any other food crop in the world. This indicates just how reliant we are on corn in its various forms.
But we don't rely on this crop just for food. Corn and its byproducts are used in all sorts of processes and products, including as a component of explosives, paint, various chemicals, various dyes and solvents, and certain types of plastic. It's even used in the manufacture of many pharmaceuticals.
Corn mainly consists of carbohydrates and other nutrients, which have known health benefits, and can be eaten by celiacs since it's gluten-free, making it a very important grain for a large variety of replacement foods to help provide celiacs with alternatives to wheat-based products.
As a food, corn can be prepared in a multitude of ways and can also be turned into new ingredients such as syrup, flour, and even feed for various types of livestock.
It can be processed in such a way to become ethanol, a type of alcohol that has many uses, including powering cars and other vehicles.
As a word, corn has various uses depending on the context and location it's being used.
Historically, corn referred to whatever crop was most dominant in the local region where the word was used. In the UK this could have meant wheat, whereas in other parts of the world it could have referred to rye, barley, or even oats.
This may be why there's so much confusion about where corn actually stems from.
Corn is less used in regional terms in the present however, and is actually more often used as a marketing term or a common name for various maize-based products.
For example, in the US cornstarch is a popular ingredient in many products, as well as corn syrup which is heavily used in industrial food production in North America.
There is also sweet corn, which is a type of corn that is harvested early to retain its delicious crunchy and sweet taste, and of course popcorn, where corn kernels are cooked until they pop open.
Related: Golden Bantam Sweet Corn (With a Cilantro-Lime Butter Recipe!)
Maize is typically used when referring to the crop in its agricultural environment. Farmers grow maize, however they sell it to various other places as corn, especially when it will be used as food.
Just remember that while not all corn is maize, all maize is technically corn!
This article reads like an 8th grader trying to do an assignment when the teacher says you have to use 1000 words. A lot of redundant wording, therefore it ends up boring. Please get to the facts in a clear and concise manner and maybe I, and others, will buy from your adverts. Just a simple suggestion.
Anorak Jimi
I'm British and I've lived in England my entire life (and I'm 32), and I've never heard any brit call corn "maize". We call it sweetcorn in the UK, not maize. The only time "maize" is used is when the conversation is talking about the ancient Aztecs. The word "maize" has simply never come up in any conversation I've ever had, and nobody ever says "maize" on TV on cooking shows or any other kind of TV show. People are only even aware of the word because of learning about the Aztecs, from history books.
You can't go to any supermarket and buy "maize". It literally doesn't exist, there's nothing by that name in any British supermarket. No, what you do is you go look for "sweetcorn" because that's what we call it over here. Seriously, go to the website of any of our big supermarkets, like Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's, Waitrose, Morrisons, Aldi, etc and search on the online shop for "maize" and see what comes up. Nothing comes up. But search for "corn" and you get dozens and dozens and dozens of different things called "sweetcorn". The biggest most well known brand is Green Giant sweetcorn.
I'm really not sure where on earth you got the idea that we call it maize in the UK. It's a bizarre claim, frankly. Oh and just so there's no confusion, no it's not a situation where we use an S instead of a Z, we don't call it "maise" either.
Maize is listed on the ingredients of many cereal products in the UK rather than corn. Agree it's not used in everyday conversation but the article doesn't claim this – it states it's used in scientific and larger business settings. It even gives examples of common food items that we refer to as "corn" rather than "maize". As an example, the big UK supermarkets are interested in buying "maize" products on international markets.
As a kid growing up in the UK many years ago, I was taught that "corn" was basically grain feed for livestock. Maize was what we ate.
Guaraguao
Its Taino… not Tahino
Thanks for catching that! The name has been corrected.
Blesbok
Rule of thumb in our region is corn is yellow and mauze is white…
Lorenzo Gibson
What is pozol related to maiz?
Pozol is a beverage made from fermented corn dough.
Martha Wells
In Tx, maize is interchangeable with milo. While they are grain, they grow more like sourgum. Than corn. Milo is considered a filler crop, planted for chicken feed if a more profitable crop has failed to produce.
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Samsung Israel
Launching the new Galaxy Note 20 with the help of Israel's top TikTok creators.
New Account Followers
For the launch of the new Galaxy Note 20 in Israel, Samsung wanted to create a unique experience that would resonate with Gen Z and communicate the product's unique selling points in a fun and engaging way rather than doing another standard commercial.
Samsung partnered with TikTok to launch a new cross-screen web series called "AllForYou". The format brought together nine of Israel's top TikTok creators to stay together, eat and create awesome content together using the new Galaxy Note 20, in a one-of-a-kind villa created to inspire creativity!
The first eight TikTok creators were chosen carefully to represent diversity and different content categories on the platform, then to make it more interesting, Samsung launched an audition challenge on TikTok to find the ninth creator who would join the project
In order to connect to TikTok's unique culture, the format was based on different challenges. Each day, two creators were given an assignment to create a viral video for TikTok in 90 minutes with the help of the rest of the gang. Every task was designed to showcase the unique features of the Galaxy Note 20 while spotlighting the creativity of the creators.
When the mission was complete, the video was uploaded to TikTok to face the ultimate test - was it good enough to appear in the For You feed? To help the contestants, we brought in three mentors, all of whom are leading TikTok creators in Israel, to share their tips and best practices for TikTok's content creation.
The series contained eight ten-minute episodes that were later aired on Samsung's YouTube channel redirecting viewers to a dedicated TikTok account to watch the final outcome.
To promote the project to the TikTok community on a larger scale and attract followers to the new "AllForYou" TikTok account, Samsung used two premium ad formats, TopView and One Day Max In-Feed Ads, providing maximum exposure in a minimum amount of time.
The campaign was a massive success, garnering 6.8 million views on TikTok and 1.5 million views of the series on YouTube. With a 30% engagement rate, the campaign smashed all benchmarks, while the new TikTok account went from zero to 30,000 followers in just few days
The project attracted lots of curiosity from the local industry and was featured in two media articles on leading channels. In addition, the project was presented as a unique collaboration in Israel's annual Gen Z marketing summit hosting 400+ marketing professionals.
Ronen Salem, VP Marketing of Samsung Israel, said, "Samsung Israel is leading the innovation in all Marketing activities in Israel, and are always the 1st to create unique and pioneered content. The brand partnership with TikTok, which is the 1st since they entered the Israeli market, brought great value to the brand and the activity itself.

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Q: Will the following code disconnect all incoming or outgoing PyQt signals? In my PyQt5 (Python 3.8) application, many QWidget()s get created and destroyed dynamically. Although I pay close attention to the destruction of every QWidget() - something must have slipped. Each cycle, the RAM consumption goes up.
1. The one-liner to disconnect them all
I've read the following blogpost about disconnecting pyqtSignal()s:
https://www.sep.com/blog/prevent-signal-slot-memory-leaks-in-python/
At the bottom, the blogpost mentions the following one-liner to disconnect all pyqtSignal()s to/from (?) a QObject():
for x in filter(lambda y: type(y) == pyqtBoundSignal and 0 < element.receivers(y), map(lambda z: getattr(element, z), dir(element))): x.disconnect()

Supposing that element represents a QObject() instance, I wonder if this one-liner will actually destroy all incoming or outgoing signals?
I've tried to rewrite this one-liner in an actual function:
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import *
from PyQt5.QtCore import *
from PyQt5.QtGui import *

def disconnect_signals_connected_to_qobject(qobj:QObject) -> None:
    '''
    Disconnect all signals that are connected to a slot in the given 'qobj'.
    '''
    for x in filter(
            lambda y: type(y) == pyqtBoundSignal and 0 < qobj.receivers(y),
            map(
                lambda z: getattr(qobj, z),
                dir(qobj)
            )
    ):
        x.disconnect()
    return

If the code destroys all incoming signals, then the chosen name disconnect_signals_connected_to_qobject() is correct. Otherwise, I should rename the function into disconnect_signals_emitted_from_qobject(). What's the correct name?
2. Does this really disconnect *all* pyqtSignals?
I still have this nagging feeling that the code will "forget" a few disconnections. Some time ago, I found the following code snippet that claims to disconnect a signal completely:
def discon_sig(signal):
    '''
    Disconnect only breaks one connection at a time,
    so loop to be safe.
    '''
    while True:
        try:
            signal.disconnect()
        except TypeError:
            break
    return

It looks like the one-liner from the blog post forgot the fact that a signal.disconnect() invocation only disconnects one connection at a time. So perhaps, I should rewrite my function like this:
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import *
from PyQt5.QtCore import *
from PyQt5.QtGui import *

def disconnect_signals_connected_to_qobject(qobj:QObject) -> None:
    '''
    Disconnect all signals that are connected to a slot in the given 'qobj'.
    '''
    # Define inner function for a complete signal
    # disconnection
    def discon_sig(signal):
        while True:
            try:
                signal.disconnect()
            except TypeError:
                break
        return

    # Loop to find all signals that need
    # disconnection
    for x in filter(
            lambda y: type(y) == pyqtBoundSignal and 0 < qobj.receivers(y),
            map(
                lambda z: getattr(qobj, z),
                dir(qobj)
            )
    ):
        discon_sig(x)
    return

3. Is disconnecting enough?
I'm getting even more worried after reading this mail thread between a user and the PyQt creator Phil Thompson:
https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/pipermail/pyqt/2019-September/042180.html
Long story short - the user claims that disconnecting pyqtSignal()s is not enough to prevent memory leaks. According to his experiments, it's vital that each pyqtSignal() was bound to a decorated slot. Throw in a few undecorated slot, and eternal doom awaits thee:

Kevin (the 'user' writing to Phil Thompson)
My assumption was that the memory usage from the signal connections wouldn't "build up" (i.e. that memory usage would be independent of the number of SignalObject()s instantiated), which seems to be what happens with the @pyqtSlot() decorated version.  In create_slot_objects(), each SlotObject() is instantiated, which connects the signals, and then should be immediately garbage collected, which should disconnect the signals.  In the version of the script without the @pyqtSlot() decorators, the number reported for "Memory after slot objects creation" is proportional to the number of SlotObject() instances created, which is why I'd assumed memory had leaked, but I could certainly be thinking through things wrong.

I couldn't find a clear answer from Phil, so I'm now officially paranoid about each and every pyqtSignal() that lives in my application.
4. Is disconnecting *all* signals actually good?
I just performed a test on my application. When browsing through my QGridLayout()'s widgets (in reversed order), I do the following to clean them up:
disconnect_signals_connected_to_qobject(widg)
widg.setParent(None)
widg.deleteLater()
sip.delete(widg)

Despite doing this, I had a memory leak of almost 100 MB per cycle - with one cycle being the filling of my table with 1000 rows and emptying the table again.
Now I omit the pyqtSignal disconnection:
widg.setParent(None)
widg.deleteLater()
sip.delete(widg)

The memory leak dropped to around 20~25 MB per cycle. How is this possible? Maybe the indiscriminate disconnection of all pyqtSignals is hindering a proper cleanup of the QWidget()s involved? Maybe one has to carefully decide what pyqtSignal to keep and which ones to disconnect? Does this mean that the blogpost cited at the start of this question (see https://www.sep.com/blog/prevent-signal-slot-memory-leaks-in-python/) is actually giving bad advice?

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A prospective study of cognitive functioning in bipolar disorders in a tertiary care hospital
Rajarshi Guha Thakurta Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Midnapore Medical College and Hospital, Midnapore, West Bengal, India
Ananta Manna Senior Resident, Department of Psychiatry, Midnapore Medical College and Hospital, Midnapore, West Bengal, India
Kaberi Bhattacharyya Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Midnapore Medical College and Hospital, Midnapore, West Bengal, India
Soumendu Sen Senior Resident, Department of Psychiatry, Midnapore Medical College and Hospital, Midnapore, West Bengal, India
Bipolar disorder, Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, Young's Mania Rating Scale, Cognitive function.
Introduction: Bipolar disorder (BD) is characterized by episodic pathological mood alterations that can be manic, depressive or mixed [American Psychiatric Association, 1994]. In the last 10 years, there has been increased emphasis on the role of cognition in BD attested by the exponential growth in the number of relevant publications. A significant turning point was the realization that cognitive impairment was a replicable feature of BD with measurable changes being present both during episodes and in remission. Materials and methods: Study Design: A prospective comparative study was conducted at the Department of Psychiatry, Midnapore Medical College and Hospital, Midnapore, West Bengal for 1 year , Institutional ethical clearance was taken. 100 patients suffering from bipolar disorder I currently in remission and 100 healthy controls were included in this study. The clinical state of individuals was assessed by a psychiatrist using a semi-structured proforma for documentation which included socio-demographic data of the patient, history of psychological symptoms, and thorough Physical examination findings. 100 patients were selected for the study, which fulfilled the DSM-IV TR criteria for Bipolar disorder I. Remission was assessed with scores 8 or less on Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (H.D.R.S.) and 6 or less on Young's Mania Rating Scale (Y.M.R.S.). Results: Patients with bipolar I disorder were found more cognitively impaired in comparison to the control group particularly in attention, working memory, and executive functioning. Factors affecting neurocognitive performances were early-onset, age, duration of illness and number of episodes. Conclusion: Cognitive functioning of an individual is very important as it not only reflects a patient's socio-occupational functioning and ability to live independently but also about the insight of their illness and compliance to treatment. Adequate cognitive remediation at an early stage of illness might improve the outcome of bipolar illness. Therefore, the development of interventions targeting cognitive impairments is imperative for improving recovery rates and quality of life in patients suffering from bipolar disorder.
Rajarshi Guha Thakurta, Ananta Manna, Kaberi Bhattacharyya, & Soumendu Sen. (2022). A prospective study of cognitive functioning in bipolar disorders in a tertiary care hospital. International Journal of Health and Clinical Research, 5(3), 572–574. Retrieved from https://www.ijhcr.com/index.php/ijhcr/article/view/4514
Copyright (c) 2022 Rajarshi Guha Thakurta, Ananta Manna, Kaberi Bhattacharyya, Soumendu Sen
Rajarshi Guha Thakurta, Influence of social media exposure on mental health in relation with covid-19 pandemic in a tertiary care hospital , International Journal of Health and Clinical Research: Vol. 4 No. 9 (2021): Volume 4 Issue 9| May 2021


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Mining Lights and Hats
The depth, the dark, and the dangers inherent in mining created a uniquely dangerous working environment for the miner. Miners faced death from collapsing mines, oxygen deprivation, and haulage accidents, with the specter of fatal lung disease remaining even after the miner had left the mines. But the most instantaneous and catastrophic loss of life was caused by explosions due to miner's lamps igniting methane gas.
20th c. Canvas Mining Cap & Lamp Bracket
A miner's light was essential to their labor. Without light there was no sight, no work, and no wages. But this essential light was also lethal. Open flames could ignite the inflammable gas especially prevalent in coal mines and mining explosions with hundreds of casualties was a common occurrence in the late 19th and early 20th century. Miners often carried open flames into the mines in the form of candles and hanging lamps, and later wore the open flames of carbide lamps and oil-wick lamps on their caps and helmets.
Before 1850, miners would use candles or small lamps that were hung from crevices or hammered into timbers near their work. From 1850 until around 1915, miner's headgear generally consisted of cloth or canvas hats with leather brims and metal lamp brackets on the forehead that allowed them to hang a source of light on the front of their cap. Caps served the ancillary use of protecting the miner's eyes from smoke or soot and their head from small bumps, but its main purpose was as a mount for their lamps.
Dunlap's Oil-Wick Cap Lamp,ca. 1840-1890
Around 1850, the oil-wick cap lamp was invented in Scotland. Oil-wick cap lamps were shaped like small kettles—a small font that contained oil fueled a wick that was stuffed into the spout. The oil-wick cap lamp issued a bare flame, giving off enough light for miners to see what was in front of their face, but not much further. The oil-fueled flame was exceedingly smoky, and could easily ignite flammable gasses (mainly methane) found in coal mines. These lamps were worn on soft caps that offered little in the way of protection and were mainly worn for the convenience of having a light source in front of the miner's face.
Simmons Carbide Lamp, ca. 1915
Carbide lamps were also worn on soft caps. Invented around 1910, the small carbide cap lamp had several advantages over an oil-wick cap lamp. The acetylene gas that powered the flame burned cleanly, relieving the miner from the smoke and soot from oil lamps. Also, the flame from the acetylene gas burned brighter than oil-wick cap lamps. Carbide lamps often came with a reflector, allowing this brighter flame to be directed and giving the miner a wider range of light. The drawback of the carbide lamp was that its open flame was still capable of igniting methane gas in mines.
Used in conjunction with oil-wick and carbide cap lamps was the safety lamp, a much larger lamp that could not be worn, but had the advantage of a sheltered flame that would not ignite any flammable mine gasses. In the early 1820s Sir Humphry Davy discovered that a flame enclosed in mesh would not ignite flammable gasses. The fine metal mesh served to cool the flame so that it no longer had the energy required to ignite the flammable gas in a mine. Mine safety lights eventually developed to include a glass enclosure around the flame for better lighting and metal bonnet to better protect the flame.
Miner's with Edison Battery-powered Lamps and Safety Lamp,Warwick Mine, Pennsylvania ca. 1955
Even though it was developed in the 19th century, the safety lamp was not enthusiastically adopted by miners. Many miners objected to using safety lamps because they were cumbersome, could not be worn on the cap, and gave a poor light, all serving to reduce a miner's efficiency. Since most miners were paid by the pound a reduction in efficiency amounted to a reduction in pay, and so the risk of an explosion was worth the reward to many miners.
The early 20th century was the deadliest time for miners in the history of the United States. In 1907, Monongah mines number 6 and number 8 exploded, killing 362 miners. A fire in Cherry Mine in Cherry, Illinois killed 259 miners in 1909. In 1913 Stag Canon Mine number 2 in Dawson, New Mexico exploded killing 263 miners. These were the three worst coal mine disasters in the U.S. history, prompting Congress to establish the U.S. Bureau of Mines in 1910. The Bureau turned their attention to the new technology of electric lamps in an effort to curtail accidents through the elimination of flames and an improvement in lighting. In 1915 the Bureau approved the MSA Edison Flameless Electric Miners' Cap Lamp, beginning the age of electric mine illumination that correlated with a steady decrease in mining accidents from the high reached in 1907.
Just like the soft mining caps that were used to hold oil-wick or carbide mining lamps, mining helmets were used to hold the new electric cap lamp. The lamp sat in a bracket at the front of the helmet, with the cord running along the helmet's crown, guided by a cord holder in the back of the helmet to route the cable directly to the battery pack worn on the miner's belt.
MSA Skullgard Helmet ca. 1930s
The protective helmets in the collection of the Division of Work and Industry of the National Museum of American History generally consists of two helmet types. Either the "Hard Boiled" brand of helmet made by E.D. Bullard Company in San Francisco, California, or the plastic Skullgard or Comfo-Cap manufactured by the Mine Safety Appliances Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Carbide lamps were still used with hard protective helmets, but helmets that used electric lamps often had a cord holder to keep the cord out of the miner's way. A form of this helmet and electric lamp combination is still worn today. Contemporary lamps include improvements in battery life and weight, a change to LED bulbs, and breakaway or segmented cords to allow the miner to be less inhibited by his battery pack.
Oil-Wick Cap Lamps
Carbide Lamps
Safety Lamps
Electric Lamps
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Q: How to get one-to-one resultset from one-to-many relationship I have this two entities
@Entity
@Table(name = "holidays")
public class Holiday implements Serializable{

    [other attributes]

    @OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
    @JoinTable(name = "HOLIDAYS_COUNTRY", joinColumns = {@JoinColumn(name = "ID_HOLIDAY"),  inverseJoinColumns = {@JoinColumn(name = "ID_COUNTRY")})
    private List<Country> country;
}

Entity(name = "COUNTRY")
@Proxy(lazy=false)
public class Country implements Serializable {

    @Id
    @Column(name = "country_id")
    private Long countryId;
    private String name;

}

I'd like to retrieve a list of holidays with one country per holiday from the JPA repository, so that, for example, if a holiday has two countries I retrieve two holidays (copy of each other) with one (different) country each.
Is it possible without modifying the entities, or without having to create two new ones?
I know how to flatten the one-to-many resultset in Java, but it's very inefficient. I'd like to retrieve the flattened resultset directly from the repository


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History Happened Here
FRANCE, BRITAIN, AND THE UNITED STATES ALL WANTED TO OWN MARITIME CANADA. IT'S EASY TO SEE WHY.
Carla Davidson
New Brunswick, the oldest province in Eastern Canada, shares a long border and just as long a history with the state of Maine. Over centuries, the region saw plots, raids, and wars, as France and Britain and later the nascent United States fought for control of a land rich in the bounties of forest and the sea.
Roosevelt Campobello International Park, on Campobello Island at the southwestern tip of the province, reflects the more harmonious Canadian-American relations of the last century. At the heart of the park, the carefully preserved summer home of Franklin Roosevelt draws about 150,000 visitors each year to a patch of "Canadian soil that has become part of America's heritage," as the late Sen. Edmund Muskie once put it.
You can reach Campobello by ferry or automobile from either country. My route took me from the Canadian resort community of St. Andrews, along a fragrantly spruce-fringed route with vistas of Passamaquoddy Bay gleaming at every turn. This involved four border crossings: from Canada to the United States, then back to Canada as we crossed the bridge to Campobello, then the same trip in reverse. Each time we showed our passports and fielded a different set of questions: 1. Any alcohol, tobacco, or firearms? 2. Where are you going, and did you make any purchases in the United States? 3. Is this your car? 4. How many passengers in your car?
One wonders if the original investors in Campobello from Gilded Age America, Roosevelt's father among them, encountered even as much as this mild interrogation when they traveled by rail and ship to the island they planned to develop as a luxurious resort. Roosevelt was a one-year-old when he first came here in 1883, and he returned almost every summer after that until polio struck him here in 1921. By then, he and Eleanor had moved from his mother's house on the island to one of their own, which was called a "cottage" despite its 34 rooms.
This is a place of eclectic and rambling comfort, unpretentious in its simply furnished bedrooms, some 17 in all, its splotchy flowered wallpaper, and its airy living room where chintz-covered easy chairs cluster to provide magnificent vistas of the bay.
As a boy, FDR learned from the local fishermen to love and manage the moods of the wild tides that pour into the Bay of Fundy. When he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy, he sometimes arrived aboard a destroyer. Presenting an image that reads like a metaphor for Roosevelt's Presidency, Stephen Muskie, the senator's elder son and the author of a book about the island, writes, "Although it was against naval regulations, he persuaded the captain to let him take the helm and piloted the ship at full speed ahead through fog-bound waters."
BRITISH SYMPATHIZERS IN MAINE PUT THEIR HOUSES ABOARD SCHOONERS AND SAILED WITH THEM TO ST. ANDREWS.
During one day in August of 1921 that echoes the manic energy of his cousin Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin had sailed with visitors and fallen into the bay, remembering later that he had "never felt any-
thing so cold as that water." He tried to shake off a sudden malaise by leading his children on a two-mile jog through the woods to swim in a lake, and then they all helped put out a fire on a deserted island. That night he collapsed into a painful, paralytic illness that was only diagnosed as polio at the end of several awful weeks. After that, FDR revisited his beloved island only three times.
A good information center at the park gives an overview of the life and times of Franklin and Eleanor through photograph and film, and, at the house, docents stand by to explain (or interpret , as modern terminology has it) each room. They urge visitors not to restrict themselves to the house but to explore the length of the nine-mile island and get a sense of the natural splendors that remain virtually as they were when Roosevelt roamed its beaches, wetlands, and wooded paths. It was the island's physical self as much as the house he lived in that shaped the character of the future President and, writes Stephen Muskie, "helped Franklin Roosevelt gain the courage and self-reliance which scorned the handicaps of a great affliction." Eleanor, who loved the place as passionately as her husband did, remembered that he "was always on vacation when he came to Campobello."
Campobello, only a mile or so off the coast of Maine, belongs to Canada as a result of a tangle of border squabbles between the two countries that officially ended with the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842. This fixed boundaries and allowed for free navigation along the St. John River, the province's main artery. British sympathizers who had settled in Castine, Maine, before 1776 had felt sure their turf would remain British soil, but in 1783, at the end of the war, they dismantled their houses, put them on schooners, and sailed with them from Penobscot Bay to St. Andrews, where they reassembled them. Many of these structures survive to this day, forming the historic kernel of St. Andrews.
A nice bonus of a June visit to St. Andrews is that you can catch up with early spring all over again. Tulips and daffodils will have just come into bloom, and the sweet perfume of lilacs will be vying for attention with the tang of ocean air. The sprawling Algonquin Hotel presides over the town. It was built in 1889 by William Van Home, an American and the genius of the Canadian Pacific, who wanted to encourage vacation travel by rail. Designed in a style that could be called Tudor Resort, with timber-framed whitewashed walls and turreted red roofs, the hotel is embraced by a huge porch where contented guests set in motion battalions of rockers.
About a two-hour drive north of St. Andrews, along scenic Highway 1, lies Saint John, site of the earliest Loyalist landings in New Brunswick. In May 1783, about 3,000 of them came ashore at an old trading post at the mouth of the St. John River. They were known as the Spring Fleet, and as local history has it, they and two subsequent fleets founded the city virtually overnight, surviving the severe winter in huts and tents. A boulder placed at Market Slip in 1923 marks the spot where they landed. Nearby Market Square was from the first, and remains, the city's social and commercial center. But the bustle of the major port has been replaced by that of a mall of shops and eating places, formed from seven handsome brick warehouses that managed to survive for a century or so before a preservation movement arose in the 1980s.
In July and August, walking tours of the city head out from Market Square. To set the stage for the attractive Victorian cityscape that forms much of the downtown area, the guide relates in vivid detail the story of the horrific 1877 fire that in a day leveled 50 percent of Saint John. The survivors built it all back in just five years, but the fire had burned itself into the city's collective consciousness. On peaceful Germain Street, a great melted blob of metal measuring three feet across stands as a memorial to this holocaust. It was all that remained of a neighboring hardware store.
With its traditions of Loyalist settlement still alive today, Atlantic Canada has a very English feeling. Driving farther northeast to the city of Moncton leads to a different world. Ironically, this revived center of Acadian culture bears the name of the British general who directed the mass expulsion of the indigenous French population in 1755. Caught in the middle of the imperial ambitions of the French and English were the Acadian people, who had arrived from Northern France as early as 1604. After they refused to sign a loyalty oath to the victors, nearly all of them, some 15,000, were forced into a diaspora that brought them to the New England and Mid-Atlantic colonies, and, in the greatest numbers, to the Louisiana territory.
Some managed to escape the roundup, and others slipped back home later to launch a revival of Acadian cultural pride inspired in part by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's immensely popular 1847 poem Evangeline . The author had never traveled to the Acadian lands, but he poignantly recalled the dispersal and the permanent scars it had left: "Wives were torn from their husbands, and mothers, too late, saw their children / Left on the land, extending their arms, with wildest entreaties."
Today, descendants of those Acadians populate New Brunswick again, and they hold their story close. There is an immediacy to it that for them chimes with modern-day headlines of ethnic cleansing. Université de Moncton's Musée Acadien provides an excellent introduction to the subject. Beyond Moncton, at Bouctouche, a spit of land reaching out into the bay of the same name, Le Pays de la Sagouine is a fascinating "1950s village" fashioned around the characters in a popular novel from the late seventies, La Sagouine . The title character of that name is a tough, humorous washerwoman who embodies the spirit of her people—worn to the bone but indomitable. In Caraquet, up in northern New Brunswick, the Village Historique Acadien portrays the world Acadians rebuilt as they began to return to their homeland later in the eighteenth century.
Acadians have recently begun crossing borders again, this time willingly. In 1994 tens of thousands of people of Acadian descent traveled from the United States and Europe to New Brunswick for the Congrès Mondial Acadien. Five years later, they held another Congrès in Louisiana. These events have had a huge emotional impact, as families torn apart nearly 250 years ago have begun to restitch their histories. "There's something people kept saying, and it's true," recalls Angela Simoneaux, who reported on the Congrès for the Lafayette, Louisiana, Advocate . "You go to these events and find people who look like your grandfather who died twenty years ago, people who have the same shaped eyes. . . . Like that."
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Women's Soccer goes 1-1 over the weekend
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The Wake Forest women's soccer team has had a shaky first month of games. Its record is 1-3-1, as it lost its first two games to Duke and UNC Chapel Hill. The team tied its third game, a scoreless rematch against Duke, on Sept. 20.
After its unsuccessful first couple of weeks, the team looked to turn things around during a two-game weekend. This past weekend caused both celebration and disappointment for the team.
On Oct. 1 at Spry Stadium, the Deacs got their first win of the season as they defeated the University of Miami by a score of 1-0. The first half was scoreless, but in the 68th minute freshman Carrie McIntire assisted senior Ryanne Brown's breakaway goal. Brown had two shots on goal, one of which was the game-winner.
Despite the close score line, the Demon Deacons dominated the game and outshot their opponents 22-1. Over half of these shots came from Brown, senior Hannah Betfort, junior Giovanna DeMarco and redshirt junior Sofia Rossi.
The Deacs' controlled possession for much of the contest, and their constant threats to goal caused Miami to sit back for most of the game.
In goal, Madison Howard and Mia Raben kept the Hurricanes from scoring. In the second half, Raben saved the only shot on goal the Demon Deacons faced.
On Oct. 4, the soccer team faced No. 2 Florida State University. As predicted, it was a tough game for Wake Forest.
The Demon Deacons lost their fifth game of the season 4-0 as the Seminoles scored three goals in the opening 21 minutes. The fourth came in the 85th minute of the game.
The Deacs struggled to create offensive opportunities much more Sunday afternoon than in their game against Miami. Wake Forest's opponents outshot them 17-2, with 11 of Florida State's shots on goal.
Raben made five saves in the first half and Howard made one in the second. The Deacs' performance improved in the second half, as the number of shots conceded was reduced to five.
The team failed to pressure the FSU defense in the first half, which made it difficult to catch up later on in the game. Though the Deacs' communication improved, they still struggled to get shots off against a team with great depth.
Wake Forest's next game is on Oct. 11 against Clemson, who has a record of 3-2. The game will take place at Clemson but can be watched on the ACC Network. After that on Oct. 15, the Demon Deacons take on Notre Dame in South Bend.
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As Facebook Connect Expands, OpenID's Challenges Grow
Michael Calore
On Monday, Facebook announced it will soon roll out its Facebook Connect login system to several high-profile websites, including Digg, Hulu and Discovery.com. The sites, along with a few others, will begin supporting Facebook Connect within a few weeks. The New York Times has the scoop. The news is sure to be welcomed by Facebook's […]
On Monday, Facebook announced it will soon roll out its Facebook Connect login system to several high-profile websites, including Digg, Hulu and Discovery.com. The sites, along with a few others, will begin supporting Facebook Connect within a few weeks. The New York Times has the scoop.
The news is sure to be welcomed by Facebook's 120 million users and its potential partners, but it presents a new challenge to proponents of the so-called "open stack" for ID management — OpenID, OAuth and the related technologies that allow users to share data across multiple websites.
Facebook Connect is the company's technology which lets Facebook users participate on other websites using their Facebook IDs. Along with an easy login, the user gets the option of re-broadcasting whatever they do on the third-party site to all of their friends within Facebook.
For example, users who wants to vote on or leave a comment on a Digg story will be able to log in to Digg.com using their Facebook ID and password. They can participate on Digg just like a registered Digg user, voting, commenting and adding friends. As they click around on Digg, the fact that they dugg such-and-such story, or wrote a comment, will show up in their Facebook news feed in the same way it would if they had written on the Wall of one of their Facebook friends. Of course, the company promises there will be privacy controls, so only information approved by users gets re-broadcasted to their Facebook account.
Such a system is sure to be welcomed by the web's most social users, many of whom are sick of having to create a unique profile on every site where they want to participate. With Facebook Connect, you carry one set of keys that unlocks dozens of doors, and the stuff you do out there on the web gets fed back into the place you call home.
It's also good for everyone's business. By being able to use a Facebook ID to log in to Digg, the user's barrier of entry is lowered significantly and Digg gets more traffic. Likewise, Facebook can continue to collect data about him even when he leaves Facebook. If the user leaves the data sharing option on, every click on Digg becomes, by extension, another data point on Facebook.
It's the same paradigm promised by OpenID and its companion open-source technologies being developed by Google, MySpace, Yahoo, Plaxo and other key players on the social web. But where Facebook Connect is heading towards mass adoption on mainstream sites like Digg, OpenID is currently bogged down by several issues, the largest of which is poor usability.
Still, some on OpenID's side see a silver lining here.
"Facebook Connect is one of the best thing to happen to OpenID," says Plaxo vice president of marketing John McCrea. "It's an elegant login implementation, not built on the open stack, but it accomplishes the same things promised by the open stack."
Presenting a dialog that asks a user to log in to one website using a name and password from another website is jarring, but Facebook has managed to keep Facebook Connect simple enough for everyday users to understand. Such ease of use virtually guarantees it will win support quickly.
"To see it being adopted lights a new fire under the companies working together to develop and improve OpenID," says McCrea.
Another hurdle: Facebook Connect was developed independently using proprietary code, so Facebook's system and OpenID are not interoperable. Data gathered by Facebook Connect on a third-party site can only go one place once it leaves – straight back into Facebook.
This is a clear threat to the vision of the Open Web, a future when data is freely shared between social websites using open source technologies.
"Essentially, Facebook is trying to replace all logins with their own, and control the creation, distribution and application of the social graph using their proprietary platform," Chris Saad, open source advocate and co-founder of the Data Portability project, writes on his blog.
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Indeed, while OpenID is still working out the kinks, Facebook is busy signing up big-name websites. If things continue rolling down this road much longer, OpenID won't be able to catch up.
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Towards developing the capacity of entrepreneurs in the fashion industry and diversifying Nigeria's foreign exchange earning capacity, leading financial institution, Fidelity Bank Plc, has announced its sponsorship of the Anambra Fashion Expo 2022.
According to a statement on the organiser's website https://anambrafashionexpo.com/ , the event is scheduled to hold at the International Conference Center, Awka, Anambra State, on Friday, 16 September 2022, and would host over 800 walk-in guests, 35 fashion designers, 100 exhibitors as well as millions of virtual attendees.
The theme for this year's event is "In Between Time for All Times" and is designed to capture emerging trends and creativities in the industry and how young talents can maximize them.
"Across the country, Fidelity Bank is known as the bank that empowers. Whether through the right financial product or non-financial initiative such as our sponsorship of the Anambra Fashion Expo, we are helping our customers and prospects grow their businesses and contribute to the economy.
We are pleased with the platform the expo provides us in demonstrating this and look forward to welcoming businesses and guests at the event", commented Divisional Head, Brand and Communications, Fidelity Bank Plc, Dr Meksley Nwagboh.
An important part of the expo is the masterclass to be facilitated by Nduka Udeh, Managing Director/CEO of Export and Sell LLC, where attendees would be guided through the process of developing the necessary competence for selling to the international market and earning foreign exchange.
According to Nwagboh, "As one of the leading banks in the exports space, we felt the need to help attendees at the Anambra Fashion Expo to develop the capacity to compete on the global stage.
That is why we are bringing our partner, Export and Sell LLC to walk participants through the nitty gritty of preparing the correct documentation required to export to the United States of America (USA), how to find buyers, how to list products and sell on Amazon, the various licenses needed amongst other aspects of exporting."
It would be recalled that Fidelity Bank has championed several initiatives to help local businesses play on the global stage and attract foreign exchange earnings. For instance, its Export Management Programme (EMP), which was launched in 2016 and is hosted in partnership with the Lagos Business School and the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), equips participants with the requisite knowledge for driving non-oil exports. The bank also launched the CBN RT200 FX Policy Sensitisation series in February 2022 to highlight opportunities for importers looking to pivot to exporting with the aid of the policy.
Fidelity Bank is a full-fledged commercial bank operating in Nigeria with about six million customers who are serviced across its 250 business offices and digital banking channels.
The bank was recently recognized as the Best SME Bank Nigeria 2022 by the Global Banking & Finance Awards and in 2021, the bank won the awards of the "Fastest Growing Bank" and "MSME & Entrepreneurship Financing Bank of the Year" at the 2021 BusinessDay Banks and Other Financial Institutions (BAFI) Awards.
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Ex-Pac-12 football officials lambast conference…
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Former Pac-12 football officials offer sharp rebuke of conference leadership and policies in letter to commissioner Larry Scott
Officiating program called a "laughing stock" within the Power Five
By Jon Wilner | jwilner@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: March 21, 2019 at 12:33 pm | UPDATED: March 22, 2019 at 1:04 pm
In a letter sent to Pac-12 executives following the 2018 season, three former football officials offered a sharp, detailed critique of the conference's officiating program and asked "for necessary changes in a positive manner."
Mack Gilchrist, Charles Czubin and Fred Gallagher, who have more than 100 years of experience as Pac-12 officials, directed their criticism at commissioner Larry Scott and vice president for officiating David Coleman, but they did not let general counsel Woodie Dixon off the hook.
"We do not appreciate the direction this Conference is headed under your direction by disgracing its long and respected heritage,'' they wrote to the conference in late December. (See the full letter and other exchanges below.)
Calling the Pac-12 officiating program a "laughing stock" within the Power Five, the authors focus on several core issues, including Dixon's controversial interference in the replay review process last season, bowl assignments, position supervisors, the authority of instant replay officials and the conference's training program.
Gallagher, who has served as the instant replay official in the College Football Playoff, also told the Hotline that both Coleman and Dixon have entered his replay booth during games to ask about replay decisions and sideline conduct situations.
"I said, 'Woodie, I'm in the middle of something''' he recalled.
Gilchrist retired after the 2017 season. Gallagher and Czubin say they "were retired" by the conference after the 2018 season.
"They said, 'We need you to move on,''' Gallagher said. "I spent 43 years in the conference. I love it. I love the schools. I hate what's going on."
The conference declined to comment on the contents of the letter, which was sent to both Scott and Coleman via certified mail on Dec. 26 and arrived just after the New Year.
By February, the authors had received no response. Follow-up emails were sent to Coleman on Feb. 11-12, seeking a response and "open discussion" about the concerns.
Coleman answered immediately that the officials would receive "a response to the letter."
Two weeks later, having not yet received the response, the officials mailed a copy of the original letter to this reporter with the following explanation: "We are hopeful that you will read it and view our sincere concerns. Our purpose is to make sure that it is not swept under the rug and it is presented to the Sibson Firm."
On Feb. 22, the conference revealed that it had retained Sibson Consulting to conduct an independent review of the football officiating program. That process, according to a conference spokesperson, was the cause of the delayed response to the officials — Scott and Coleman were waiting until they knew the identity of the outside firm.
A copy of the original letter to Scott and Coleman also was sent to the four athletic directors serving on the Pac-12 officiating sub-committee, which pushed the conference to hire Sibson: Arizona State's Ray Anderson (chair), Colorado's Rick George, Oregon's Rob Mullens and Oregon State's Scott Barnes.
In early March, the officials received an email response from Scott, who indicated in the final paragraph that he would "share your letter with the outside experts."
"That's the one thing we wanted to hear," Czubin said.
That process is already underway. The letter has been shared with Sibson, according to a conference spokesperson, and Gallagher, Czubin and Gilchrist will be interviewed as part of Sibson's due diligence.
The letter was the first item on the agenda Wednesday at a previously-scheduled meeting between Coleman and the Pac-12 Football Officials Association, a voluntary organization not affiliated with the conference. (Football officials are independent contractors.)
The association, according to a source with knowledge of the meeting, "did not condone the contents of the letter or approve of it being sent to the conference."
The letter focuses on the authors' view of the culture, processes and policies underpinning Pac-12 officiating and what they consider to be questionable decisions by the leadership team.
"It's disappointing it got to this point,'' Czubin said, "but we're trying to shed light on it. We're not trying to be a cause célèbre …
"The officiating culture is one of honesty and integrity. People can boo, and we may make mistakes. But there has always been integrity. The Pac-12 being a media conglomerate now, there's a chasm between the officiating people and the Pac-12 people."
The first specific topic addressed in the letter begins: "Let's start with the Woodie Dixon incident."
This refers to Dixon calling into the command center in San Francisco and influencing the replay review process on a targeting no-call during the Washington State-USC game.
Dixon's actions were recorded by the instant replay official, Gary McNanna, and eventually became public in the infamous Yahoo report in early October.
That incident — arguably the most serious crisis of Scott's tenure as commissioner — caused such damage to the integrity of Pac-12 officiating that it eventually drove the athletic directors to push for an independent review by Sibson.
"Mr. Scott," the letter says, "you know from personal experience this is not the first time (Dixon) has far overstepped his bounds, reference the former Supervisor of Officials."
Tony Corrente served as head of Pac-12 officiating for three years before abruptly resigning midway through the 2014 season, citing personal and professional differences as the reason for his departure.
Gallagher recalled a conversation with Corrente, a longtime NFL official: "Tony told me, 'I just resigned,' and then it was 'Woodie this' and 'Woodie that.'''
Asked if he had any knowledge of Dixon influencing a call on the field or in the replay booth (beyond the incident in the Washington State-USC game), Gallagher said: "I can't honestly say if he has."
He did, however, cite two examples of Dixon and Coleman entering the replay booth at Stanford Stadium during games. Gallagher was the instant replay official both times.
He didn't recall the opponent or date of the incident with Dixon but believes it was either 2012 or 2013.
"The door didn't lock, so we put a wedge in the bottom to keep people from coming in,'' Gallagher explained. "He forced his way in. He kept pushing the door to move the wedge."
Dixon entered the replay booth and, according to Gallagher, asked about the conduct of the opposing coach.
"I have no idea, Woodie," Gallagher responded. "I'm not looking at the coaches. That's not my job."
Coleman's entry into the replay booth was more recent — he was hired in 2015 — and involved a replay decision, although Gallagher could not recall the specifics of the play.
"He said, 'Fred, why didn't you stop the game?''' Gallagher said. "I told him, 'Because it was a no-competitive effect play.'" (Replay officials don't stop the game to review every mistake.)
The presence of Dixon and Coleman in the replay booth could be interpreted as a rulebook violation based on Rule 12 (Instant Replay), Section 4, Article 3A, which states:
"All equipment used reviewing a play during the replay process and the personnel using that equipment shall be located in a separate, secure location in the press box. This room shall not be available or accessible to any person not directly involved in instant replay."
The letter goes on to state that after Dixon's involvement became public in the Yahoo report, the conference made changes to its process:
"After the latest incident there is no question the Conference was far more concerned about covering this up and finding the source of the info, rather than dealing with Woodie. You did so by removing a very valuable training tool for IR (instant replay)."
That training tool, the authors explained, is Quik Ref.
Described as a "reporting device," Quik Ref is an online system that allows on-field and replay officials to file reports on their games.
"The information in that Yahoo report," Czubin said, "was on Quik Ref."
Pac-12 instant replay officials were able to log-in to Quik Ref and read reports from other games, then use an online video platform, Hudl, to watch the relevant plays.
"You use it as a training tool. We'd call each other and say, 'What did you see there?''' Gallagher explained. "Then they took it away" after the Yahoo report.
"As of that date, nobody has access to other games, to prevent leaks," Czubin said. "We're all cut off from access. It's hurt the replay process."
The authors also accuse Coleman of undermining the authority of the instant replay officials.
On a conference call in mid-November, the letter explains, Coleman informed referees and replay officials of a new protocol: The replay supervisor in the conference's command center in San Francisco, not the booth officials, would have "final say" on all replay matters, according to Gallagher.
The NCAA rulebook (Rule 12, Section 1, Article 2) seemingly gives authority to the booth official:
"The replay official may reverse a ruling if and only if the video evidence convinces him beyond all doubt that the ruling was incorrect. Without such indisputable video evidence, the replay official must allow the ruling to stand."
However, there appears to be some nuance to this rule, as Rule 12, Section 4, Article 3A states:
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"As an ongoing experiment, a collaborative decision-making model during instant replay reviews that is in full compliance with Rule 12 is not limited to the press box of a stadium."
In the SEC, for example, the instant replay official in the booth is the final authority on all replay decisions.
The letter also goes into great detail about the role of position supervisors, the conference's development program and bowl assignments.
At the close of the note sent to the athletic directors serving on the officiating subcommittee, the authors write:
"Gentlemen, It is our sincerest desire that this committee recognize and implement the necessary changes to correct and improve this deteriorating officiating program. We stand ready to assist you with any questions/clarifications in your endeavors."
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Takes a lot of people to make up a Person ,, doesn't it ?
That was a great movie. It was supposedly based on truth except the military unit they experimented on never came home. Word is the unit, which was kept deep in the jungles and being mega dosed with LSD or some sort of hallucinogens throughout the day every day, was the most successful and lethal unit in history until they started turning on each other.
It's dandy until the paranoia kicks in.
(05-12-2017, 11:04 AM)JayRodney Wrote: It's dandy until the paranoia kicks in.
I had a friend that had half a vial of some really strong liquid leak into his pants pocket and down his leg. He had visuals for a month and could not be around people.
Quote Myself : " Takes a lot of people to make up a Person ,, doesn't it ? "
I pity them , they know not what they're missing .
There are as many specs of perception as there are Elements of the Universe .
light to see by .
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Brought out the Custom Car builder in me .
Better things ? , I can't see how ?
"Within outer space there is no ups and down"
I hAve always been confounded by the moon position in the night sky.
Wheni it's full moon no matter which continent I am in the world or which hemisphere the moon is always in the same position in the shy.
So where exactly is the moon equator in relation to the earth equator??
Even if they are along the very same axis the moon cannot always be in the same position in the sky ?
I have on only one Sock .
(05-14-2017, 03:33 AM)Cynicalabsurdance Wrote: I have on only one Sock .
He got a CIA dose. I bet that was uncomfortable for the first 48 hours.
at least , for the purpose it serves .
or keep something out .
or a Vault ya can't get into .
(05-10-2017, 09:13 AM)JayRodney Wrote: Great post.
I believe we are them though, and come here to play this game with no recollection of our ethereal existence.
It's all about reconnecting with the physical, as a physical universe no longer exists, so we made a synthetic version and put ourselves in it.
It's not far fetched, we are doing the same thing with gaming and VR which are in their infancy.
thats a good way to put it.


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Q: Azure Cloud Service Classic with .NET Standard target Is there a way how to run Azure Cloud Service Classic project with worker role that targets .netstandard2.0?
I have such project, but any time I try to build it I receive this error:

Severity  Code    Description Project File    Line    Suppression State
  Error     Project
  'C:\path\to\project\src\Frontend\Frontend.csproj'
  targets '.NETStandard,Version=v2.0'. It cannot be referenced by a
  project that targets
  '.NETFramework,Version=v4.0'. UserDiscoveryService    C:\Program
  Files\dotnet\sdk\2.0.2\Sdks\Microsoft.NET.Sdk\build\Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Common.targets  87

I tried to set target framework inside ccproj, but it didn't helped me.

A: Just in case anyone else encounters this, I got past this error by adding this line to the Project/PropertyGroup section of the cloud service .ccproj file:
<TargetFrameworkVersion>v4.6.2</TargetFrameworkVersion>
e.g.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project ToolsVersion="12.0" DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
  <Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\$(MSBuildToolsVersion)\Microsoft.Common.props" Condition="Exists('$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\$(MSBuildToolsVersion)\Microsoft.Common.props')" />
<PropertyGroup>
    <Configuration Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == '' ">Debug</Configuration>
    <Platform Condition=" '$(Platform)' == '' ">AnyCPU</Platform>
    <ProductVersion>2.9</ProductVersion>
    <ProjectGuid>8c99xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxx273e</ProjectGuid>
    <OutputType>Library</OutputType>
    <AppDesignerFolder>Properties</AppDesignerFolder>
    <RootNamespace>MyCloudService</RootNamespace>
    <AssemblyName>MyCloudService</AssemblyName>
    <TargetFrameworkVersion>v4.6.2</TargetFrameworkVersion> <!-- Added -->
    <StartDevelopmentStorage>True</StartDevelopmentStorage>
    <Name>CloudSheetCloudService</Name>
    etc...

By default the cloud services project does not specify the framework (it doesn't need to) but something in MSBuild appears to be doing a version check between the cloud service and the web / worker roles and then failing the build.
Changing the tools version did not help.
As background - I have an old cloud service that references a 4.6.2 project that uses the new csproj style like this:
<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
   <PropertyGroup>
     <TargetFramework>net462</TargetFramework>
   </PropertyGroup>
</Project>

HTH.
Mark.
Edit: The file to edit is the .ccproj not the .cproj file as previously stated.

A:
Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Error Project 'C:\path\to\project\src\Frontend\Frontend.csproj' targets '.NETStandard,Version=v2.0'. It cannot be referenced by a project that targets '.NETFramework,Version=v4.0'.

Based on the error, your Frontend.csproj project targets .NETStandard 2.0 and you referenced the .NETStandard 2.0 project from a project targets .NETFramework V4.0. As the official documentation about .NET Standard, you need to at least make your project targets .NETFramework V4.6.1 for referencing the .NETStandard 2.0 project or library. Or you need to choose the lower .NET Standard version, more details you need to follow .NET implementation support.


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6 Shared Mailbox Best Practices your Team must Get used to
There are countless how a team can come together to work and deliver work. Communication and collaboration in the Sleck-era are never difficult. However, as a team, there need to be some best practices that must be put in place to make sure the team never misses its beat. A shared inbox happens to be one.
What is a shared mailbox?
A shared mailbox is a mailbox that multiple users or team members can access to read, send, or respond to emails. They are mostly used by customer support and customer success teams that usually use a single email for customers to reach them. A shared mailbox also has a common calendar which ensures that the team is able to fix meetings and coordinate them without any overlapping.
How does a shared mailbox work?
An individual mailbox, like name@email.com, is handled by a single individual. The access and retrieval of information are restricted to everybody else unless the user has shared the credentials with them.
A shared mailbox, on the other hand, is handled by multiple people using the same shared credentials. A shared mailbox is usually a public email address like info@email.com or support@company.com, etc., that is distinct from an individual user.
Common challenges in using a shared mailbox
Although a shared mailbox makes it easy for a team to come together and work with great ease, it also poses some serious challenges.
It can lead to confusion if multiple personnel respond to the same customer email with various details
It compromises security as everybody has access to the mailbox
It compromises accountability as there is no clarity as to who will access the mailbox when
Despite these challenges, all hope is not lost. It is still possible to make a shared mailbox work for you. Here are some best practices that can help you with that.
Set time-based boundaries for access
As mentioned earlier, one of the downsides of a shared mailbox is that there is no proper clarity as to who will access the mailbox when. This lack of clarity can be eliminated by setting up a time-based boundary.
For example, access to the mailbox can be revoked for the UK team using US working hours and vice-versa. Setting up a shift system ensures that the access and usage of the shared mailbox have no collision incidents. Alternatively, a round-robin system can also be set up here where each team member takes turns to handle the mailbox.
Create an SOP (Standard Operating Procedure)
A Standard Operating Procedure ensures that there is a definite way of handling the mailbox. The SOP can also guide new recruits to get into the system and get into the flow. Also, the SOP can create a system of how to use allied tools like Docs, cloud storage, etc., in conjunction with the shared mailbox.
Furthermore, the SOP can also mention how the team would respond when there is a temporary outage, collision incidents, and so on.
Create mail labels and folders
One of the troubles in using a mailbox — be it an individual mailbox or a shared mailbox is keeping it organized. There are several types of emails that could land on the shared mailbox, like transactional emails, inquiry emails, complaint emails, updates, and so on.
If they are left unorganized, they can clutter the mailbox and create chaos within the team. Finding relevant information when needed for timely service of the customer would become impossible. Such a situation can be prevented by creating mail label folders. Labels are used to mark the emails pertaining to a specific type. Folders are used to group all emails of a certain under a common place where they can be easily accessed.
Aim for inbox zero
Inbox zero is a productivity system developed by productivity expert Merlin Mann. It aims to streamline email management by keeping the inbox empty — that is, down to zero unread emails. The idea is to assign every email to a person who will take it as an action item and see it to completion. This ensures that the shared mailbox becomes a control console of sorts that will enable a team to smoothly collaborate without any overlaps of duties or confusion as to who will do what.
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Use canned responses
Canned responses are the staple form of responding for chatbots and live chat software. However, even a shared mailbox can use canned responses to maximize productivity. In a shared mailbox environment, the canned response can be used to acknowledge the receipt of an email.
Furthermore, if the mailbox is integrated with helpdesk software, a ticket can also assign the ticket number references in the email for faster resolution. It also gives the customer the feeling that their concern is being taken seriously and is being acted upon. One of the additional benefits of canned responses is that it also saves team members from having to write repetitive emails.
Set up automating email routing
This might seem like quite a stretch for smaller teams working with lean resources. However, implementing an automatic email routing system can drastically bring down the AWT (Average Waiting Time) of the customer.
The automatic call routing works the way an IVR works in phone support. It channels emails to designated people based on the issue. The system uses the subject line of the terms used in the mail body to determine the issue and route it to a specific individual.
Taking your shared mailbox from chaos to order
An unorderly shared mailbox is a sure recipe for chaos. It will defeat the very purpose for which it was created — augmenting productivity. However, by implementing best practices, the shared mailbox can become a sort of haven where multiple team members can work together and drive organizational growth. They can also become adept at serving customers better and excel at forging a customer-centric organization. The best practices mentioned above are not the actual final list. They can be considered a flag-off point. You can still improvise them based on the results that your team achieves.
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