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3D Printing Nanoparticle Neural Probes
Low-cost, rapid additive manufacturing method could create a new class of high-density neural probes to record neurological data.
By College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University08.30.19
Carnegie Mellon University's Rahul Panat, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, and Eric Yttri, an assistant professor of biological sciences, have received a $1.95 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to use a low-cost, rapid additive manufacturing method to create a new class of high-density neural probes to record neurological data.
The grant, which is part of the federal Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, supports research that will create an entirely new manufacturing method for the fabrication of neural probes based on 3D nanoparticle printing. This new technology will dramatically increase accessibility to brain tissue, as well as the number of electrodes that can fit in a small area and will give researchers the ability to prototype new electrode configurations at the click of a button, on-demand, within a few hours.
"This research proposes to use a novel additive manufacturing (AM) method that uses 3D nanoparticle printing to fabricate customizable, ultra-high density neural probes, such as brain-machine interfaces or BMIs," said Panat, who is also a member of Carnegie Mellon's Next Manufacturing Center. "The recording densities of the probes will be an order of magnitude higher than that made by any current method."
Many existing 2D and 3D arrays of silicon electrodes are prohibitively fragile and expensive, and thus they are impractical for use in many contexts. Additionally, these existing arrays have a relatively low density of electrodes, meaning that they cannot achieve the resolution required for applications such as precision neuroprosthetics.
However, Panat and Yttri's new 3D nanoparticle printing technology promises to overcome the field's current limitations in terms of sampling, structure, reliability, and cost. By producing customizable, 3D printed neural probes, the team believes that their research has the potential to profoundly change the course of neuroscience research.
"With fMRI we can see the whole brain, but the temporal and spatial resolution are not where we need them to be. Electrodes can give us millisecond, single neuron resolution, but even with the most recent advances you might only be able to get information from 300 or 400 neurons at a time," added Yttri. "With my expertise in neuroscience and Rahul's pioneering 3D printing technique based on aerosol jet technology, we decided to combine our interests to bridge this gap that exists between the two ways neuroscience is classically done."
By combining their research areas, Panat and Yttri will use their unique collaboration to make an entirely 3D printed microelectrode array, the first of its kind. By using 3D printing to manufacture the arrays, Panat and Yttri will achieve a degree of customizability that is unheard of.
"If you want an electrode, typically you go to a supplier who offers 10 options, and you have to make one of those options work for any experiment," explained Yttri. "By 3D printing the electrodes with our high throughput method, we can put the recording sites as close together or far away as we want. And the nature of the electrodes' structure means they can be implanted in the brain much easier and with less damage than the current state of the art."
The long-term goal for this project is to create precision medical devices, such as brain-machine interfaces (BMIs). Not only will these devices be more precise, but they will be more customizable to the patients. A patient needing an electrode for a neuroprosthetic, for example, could be given a device that, using structural MRI, could be customized on a patient-by-patient basis to map to the individual curves of the brain.
"We are applying the newest advances in microelectronics manufacturing to neuroscience in order to realize the next generation of tools for the exploration of the brain," said Panat. "This research will lead to a more precise 3D mapping of neural circuits and precision neuroprosthetic devices that can restore significantly more of patients' previously lost functionality. The research will also lead to new avenues for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as paraplegia and epilepsy."
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Introducing the directors for My Asian Mom 2.0.1.3
Christine Bunuan (Ginger)
Christine is excited to work with A-Squared. She has been an actor in Chicago for over 10 years and has worked with many theater companies. Go to www.christinebunuan.com for more info. Thanks to her family, friends, and husband, Sean! She dedicates this show to her friend and A-Squared company member, Max!
Jin Kim (Dim Sum, My Asian Mom 2.0.1.3 lead director)
Jin is psyched to be working with A-Squared Theatre Workshop again on this year's production of My Asian Mom. He even has one. Special thanks to friends and family for their tireless support, no matter the pursuit.
Ginger Leopoldo (Bulad)
Ginger is an actor, director, producer, organizer, and educator. She co-produced Really Rosie and performed in the 2012 edition of My Asian Mom. Recent shows include: Checkov Shorts, A View from a Bridge, Arms and the Man, and The Boys Next Door. She is the Executive Director of CIRCAPintig, celebrating their 22nd Anniversary Season. Love and Light!
Marc Rita (Do These Genes Make Me Look Fat?)
Marc is a theater director, actor and producer. Marc has worked at Bailiwick, Victory Gardens, Organic Theater, Wisdom Bridge, Silk Road Rising, Rasaka Theater and theaters in Los Angeles and Wisconsin. Marc trained at the Steppenwolf and Organic Theaters. Marc has been a supporter of Asian American theater since 1983.
Cary Shoda (Agent Kilikili's Mom and His Male Order Bride)
Cary is an A-Squared company member who performed in Trial By Water and produced The Other Shore and The Wind Cries Mary. He is currently an artist-in-residence with Halcyon Theatre Company and has also collaborated with The James Downing Theatre, American Blues Theatre, Teatro Vista/Goodman Theatre, the side project, and others.
Best to Max.
Giau Truong (Dead Dolls, Oh What a Relief It Is)
Giau is currently the Artistic Director for Circa/Pintig, an all Filipino theatre company, a board member of Dream Theatre Company, member of A-Squared Theatre Workshop, and is a program manger/teaching artist for Story Catchers Theatre. Lights Out, Everybody was the latest show he directed this year at Dream Theatre.
Joe Yau (Black Coffee Green Tea)
Joe is excited to be a part of My Asian Mom 2.0.1.3. He is also happy to be part of the A-Squared Theatre Workshop family. Joe was an original member of Stir-Friday Night! some seventeen years ago and hopes to help A-Squared prosper and grow in the upcoming years. Thank you to his wife and kids for their support. Thanks to Max Chung, Mia Park, Cary Shoda, and Allen Sermonia for starting the A-Squared adventure. And finally, Max, we can't wait to have back!

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In a surprise plot twist, coming just 10 days before opening night of the San Francisco International Film Festival, Executive Director Noah Cowan has told staff he is resigning.
Cowan is leaving SFFilm, the nonprofit that organizes the festival, he announced to his staff by email on Friday, March 29. Cowan was unavailable for additional comment and gave no reason for his departure other than that he has reached his fifth anniversary at SFFilm.
Cowan's arrival from the Toronto International Film Festival came at the end of a rocky four years involving four executive directors. It began with the death of Graham Leggat, a charismatic Scotsman who built a two-week festival into year-round programming during his six-year tenure. Leggat was under constant funding and budgetary constraints but was working through them when struck down by brain cancer at age 51, in 2011.
Ray took over in November 2011, and died three months later, at age 57, after suffering a stroke on his way to the Sundance Film Festival.
Hope started in September 2012 and quit a year later to go back to film production, stating fundraising fatigue.
After another lengthy search that included 40 candidates, Cowan was hired to replace Hope in September 2014. He had been co-director of the Toronto International Film Festival and executive director of the Bell Lightbox, a theater/restaurant/gallery complex within the Toronto fest.
"I feel like there is an enormous opportunity to put the region and its various film-related activities on the national and international map," Cowan told the Chronicle at the time.
Cowan arrived with plans to build a festival like the one in Toronto — an urban village with filmmakers, actors and moviegoers talking film in cafes and bars as they walked a grand boulevard from screening to screening.
His first attempt to do it, a Fillmore Street configuration he inherited linking the Clay and the Kabuki, did not work out. So three years ago, he shifted to the Mission District, using the Roxie, the revived Victoria and the newly opened Alamo Drafthouse in the historic New Mission. That system is still in effect with an additional downtown hub off the village.
Cowan rebranded the San Francisco Film Society as SFFilm and started Doc Stories, a November series that has become an important stop for documentary films hoping for recognition during awards season.
Under Cowan the annual operating budget has also doubled, from $4 million in 2014 when he arrived, to $8 million, and funding to filmmakers has also doubled, to $1 million.
SFFilm operates in the Presidio with a staff of 29. David Winton, a SFFilm board member and maker of short films, will serve as interim director beginning May 1. A request for comment by Winton and board President Nion McEvoy was denied. An official announcement is not expected until after the festival.


Ted has lectured on a wide variety of topics related to his research, including the relationship between climate and violence, patterns of African economic and political development, the need for greater transparency in social science research, electrification and development, and links between health, education and productivity for the poor. He has also given public lectures on his books, Economic Gangsters and Africa's Turn? Most talks listed below are public lectures, often with slides, audio and video recordings. For a more complete list of talks (including academic seminars and conferences), refer to his CV.
Ted presented at the February 2014 TEDxBerkeley event at Zellerbach Hall. He discussed results from his paper 2013 Quantifying the Influence of Climate on Human Conflict, which he co-authored with Solomon Hsiang and Marshall Burke and appeared in Science.
As one of the speakers at CEGA's flagship event Evidence to Action 2018: The Future and Reality of Work, Ted presented findings from randomized studies on providing grants for vocational education to young people.
This public lecture at the Pontifical Javerian University (Universidad Javeriana) in Colombia highlighted Prof. Miguel's work on the links between climate change and conflict, and in advancing research transparency and replicability in the social sciences.
This public lecture on "New Evidence on the Economics of Rural Electrification" was a keynote for the 17th Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet, Europe's premier conference on public economics, held annually at Aix-Marseille University in Aix-en-Provence, France.
This public lecture focused on research on the links between extreme climate, economic development, and human violence, and its implications for our societies in the coming century.
Presented in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Eilert Sundt, a pioneering Norwegian social scientist, this public lecture focused on research on the links between extreme climate, economic development, and human violence, and its implications for our societies in the coming century. The presentation also connected recent research to Sundt's seminal 19th century observations.
Ted presented on issues of research transparency and reproducibility to the MAER-Net group, with a particular focus on the application of pre-analysis plans and study registration to meta-analysis research.
Ted was invited to present the keynote talk at the World Bank's Annual Bank Conference on Africa, "The Challenges and Opportunities of Transforming African Agriculture" on June 2nd, 2017. The two-day meeting covered various topics pertaining agricultural productivity and nutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa.
As one of the keynote speakers for the 2016 NOVAFRICA Conference for Economic Development in Africa, Ted spoke about the latest research on rural electrification in Africa. The talk included a discussion of the lack of research knowledge on energy as it relates to development, as well as recent findings on the impacts of electrification. Ted referenced recent publications, including "Experimental Evidence on the Demand for and Costs of Rural Electrification" and "Appliance Ownership and Aspirations among Electric Grid and Home Solar Households in Rural Kenya."
Ted spoke as one of two keynote speakers at the SEEDEC 2016 conference hosted by the Busara Center for Behavioral Economics at the Strathmore Business School in Nairobi, Kenya.The presentation was based on his paper in the Journal of Economics Perspectives (joint with Michal Bauer, Chris Blattman, Julie Chytilova, Joe Henrich, and Tamar Mitts) that combines evidence on war's impacts over the last decade from 16 studies across over 40 countries. Ted discussed the main findings, that individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level, including community participation and prosocial behavior, and that while war has many negative legacies for individuals and societies, it appears to leave a positive legacy in terms of local cooperation and civic engagement.
Ted was invited to give a talk at the METRICS Forum at Stanford University. The presentation covered recent progress towards research transparency in the social sciences, made the case for standards and practices that help realign scholarly incentives with scholarly values, and specifically discussed prospects for pre-specifying research hypotheses in prospective observational studies.
At George Washington University's Economics and Political Economy of Africa Conference hosted by the Institute for International Economic Policy (IIEP), Ted discussed the prospects for rural electrification in Africa. The talk touched on various issues surrounding rural electrification and its impacts, including a discussion of the gap between public spending and research knowledge. Ted referenced recent publications, including "Experimental Evidence on the Demand for and Costs of Rural Electrification" and "Appliance Ownership and Aspirations among Electric Grid and Home Solar Households in Rural Kenya."
There is growing interest in research transparency and reproducibility in economics and other scientific fields. We survey existing work on these topics within economics and discuss the evidence suggesting that publication bias, inability to replicate, and specification searching remain widespread problems in the discipline. We next discuss recent progress in this area, including improved research design, study registration and pre-analysis plans, disclosure standards, and open sharing of data and materials, and draw on experiences in both economics and other social sciences. We discuss areas where consensus is emerging on new practices as well as approaches that remain controversial and speculate about the most effective ways to make economics research more accurate, credible, and reproducible in the future.
In an interview with Thought Lounge Against Poverty (TLAP), Ted discusses climate change in the context of global poverty and inequality, referencing his recent research on the impact of rising temperatures on economic production. TLAP is a Thought Lounge initiative featuring experts in the field of international development in a dialogue around the question "How do we end poverty?".
At the BITSS Summer Institute, "Transparency and Reproducibility Methods for Social Science Research", Ted presented on the methods and best practices for reproducible research and next steps in achieving greater transparency throughout Social Science research.
Ted was invited to present the keynote talk at the World Bank's Annual Bank Conference on Africa, "Confronting Conflict and Fragility in Africa" on June 8th, 2015. The two-day meeting covered various topics pertinent to the causes, solutions, and understanding of conflict and fragility in sub-Saharan Africa.
At CEGA's annual Evidence to Action (E2A) event, Ted presented on a large and influential Chlorine Dispensers project to highlight the advances in Development Engineering.
The movement towards more transparency, reproducibility, and openness has gained a lot momentum in the social sciences. Yet, the norms and institutions that govern academic research do not reflect this culture shift. Significant problems remain, including professional incentives that reward striking and statistically significant research findings at the expense of scientific integrity.
The two-day conference brought together academic leaders, scholarly publishers, and policy-makers to discuss recent innovations in journal practices, academic training, data sharing, and evidence-based policy in light of the push for increased transparency.
The event was organized by BITSS in partnership with the Center for Effective Global Action, the Center for Open Science, D-Lab, The Berkeley Institute for Data Science, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation.
In December 2014, Ted spoke at IATRC's Annual Meeting themed "Food and Resources: Conflict and Trade" on the links between global climate change and its implications on conflict and poverty.
Technology plays a central role in economic transformation. Yet relatively few teams of economists and engineers work together to maximize technology's impact on international development. In his address, Berkeley Professor Edward Miguel describes the experimental methodologies that today's economists employ in their work, and cases where their research findings have contributed to large-scale policy change. Looking forward, he argues that deeper engagement between economists, data scientists and engineers can accelerate a new wave of policy innovation and improve understanding of what really "works" in development, providing a valuable global public good.
Second year Berkeley Master of Development Practice student, Kennedy Mugo from Nairobi, Kenya, sits down with Ted Miguel in his Berkeley office to discuss Africa's economic future - and how to stay young.
Ted was invited to speak at UC Berkeley's Master of Development Practice (MDP) Special Lecture Series on the trajectory of Africa's development through the lens of his career as an economist, providing insight on the future of African development based on his research findings and those of his colleagues.
By 2015, it is projected that we will be sharing the planet with 7.3 billion people. While the human population swells -- especially in parts of the world where there is more poverty, disease, famine, and political instability -- we must continue finding innovative ways to achieve global health goals. Population health coheres infectious disease, NCD's, and nutrition with behavioral economics, climate change, agriculture, resource scarcity, and the entire living ecosystem. To improve health, from rural villages to booming metropolises, there is a need for transdisciplinary and collaborative global health action. This panel convenes experts from around the Bay Area to explore cutting-edge research tackling complex global health challenges, and to debate the priorities for a growing, interconnected, and crowded Earth.
Ted was invited to give the keynote speech at the 2014 Annual Working Group in African Political Economy (WGAPE) meeting at UCLA. The presentation covered recent progress toward research transparency in the social sciences and make the case for standards and practices that help realign scholarly incentives with scholarly values.
Ted was invited to speak at the Experiments in Governance and Politics (EGAP) meeting on transparency in the social sciences and make the case for standards and practices that help realign scholarly incentives with scholarly values.
The presentation covers recent progress toward research transparency in the social sciences and make the case for standards and practices that help realign scholarly incentives with scholarly values. There is growing appreciation for the advantages of experimentation in the social sciences, but accompanying these changes is a growing sense that incentives, norms, and institutions under which social science operates undermine gains from improved research design. We describe promising, bottom-up innovations in the social sciences, including the three core practices of: disclosure; registration and preanalysis plans; and open data and materials. We also assess common objections to the move toward greater transparency, and argue that new practices need to be implemented in a way that does not stifle creativity or create excess burden for scholars.
Ted was invited to present at NYU's Development Research Institute in April, 2014. His talk focused on the recent progress toward research transparency in the social sciences and make the case for standards and practices that help realign scholarly incentives with scholarly values.
How much cooperation exists across ethnic lines in East Africa? And how is this cooperation affected by political circumstances and messages? This project, which is joint with several co-authors (Lars Ivar O. Berge, Kjetil Bjorvatn, Simon Galle, Dan Posner, Bertil Tungodden, Kelly Zhang), uses evidence from lab experiments in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to begin to answer these important questions.
A talk on the relationship between education, health and economic performance in Africa, and the role that impact evaluations can play in advancing public policy in this area.
Ted was the commencement speaker for UC Berkeley's International and Area Studies Spring 2013 graduation.
Ted gave the Keynote Speech at the 2013 Center for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) conference at Oxford University. He presented results from his paper Quantifying the Influence of Climate on Human Conflict, which he co-authored with Solomon Hsiang and Marshall Burke.
The 2013 Pacific Conference on Development Economics (PacDev) was presented by the Bay Area Development Association and held at San Francisco State University. During the 2013 PacDev plenary session entitled Understanding African Development: Trends and Prospects, Ted Miguel and Bob Bates discussed the emerging economies of Africa in their talks.
Africa is besieged with drought, war and famine, yet since 2000 it has also experienced monumental economic growth after decades of decline. Paved roads, electricity, and other infrastructure have improved, malls and Internet cafes are sprouting up, and cell phones have become ubiquitous, indicating a substantial rise in disposable income. What is behind the rebound? Will it last? Ted explores one of the world's most intriguing economic trends in one of UC Berkeley's 2012 Homecoming Faculty Seminars.
The Global Crossroads Conference is held annually at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. It focuses on a topical phenomenon that has world-wide relevance. Starting with a foundation of academic research presented by thought leaders on the topic, the conference expands to engage business and political figures in a dynamic conversation.
The theme for the 2012 Global Crossroads Conference was "Radical Political Transitions: Causes and Consequences". Ted presented results from his paper Reshaping Institutions: Evidence on Aid Impacts Using a Preanalysis Plan, which he co-authored with Katherine Casey and Rachel Glennerster.
The Center for Effective Global Action's 2012 Evidence to Action symposium, "The Road from Conflict to Recovery", brought together academics and policymakers to discuss strategies for promoting recovery in fragile states and conflict-affected communities. In particular, Ted and Katherine Casey discussed the challenges of community driven development in post-war settings. They presented results from their GoBifo study in Sierra Leone, an intensive program to promote democratic decision-making within villages, in which they found no impact on social norms (i.e. involvement of marginalized groups in community decision making). They also discussed their use of the pre-analysis plan and the importance of having a registry for social science research to record such plans.
Ted was one of five recipients of the 2012 Distinguished Teaching Award. He received this honor at the Distinguished Teaching Award Ceremony in UC Berkeley's Zellerbach Playhouse. A video of recipient profiles is here.
(2) What geo-political effects will the rise of south-south cooperation have on the global economic landscape?
The Econometric Society's 2011 North American Summer Meeting was held at Washington University in St. Louis. During the development economics plenary session, Ted presented the results of his paper Reshaping Institutions: Evidence on Aid Impacts Using a Pre-analysis Plan, which he co-authored with Katherine Casey and Rachel Glennerster.
The Econometric Society's 2009 North American Summer Meeting was held at Boston University. During the development economics plenary session, Ted presented on civil war and economic development.
The Authors@Google series brings innovative authors to speak at Google. In 2009, Ted was invited to Google's Mountain View, California Headquarters. He discussed his book Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations, which was written with Raymond Fisman.
In 2008, Ted presented at Microsoft Silicon Valley as part of its visiting speakers series. He discussed his book Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations, which was written with Raymond Fisman.
The 2007 Pacific Conference on Development Economics (PacDev) was presented by the Bay Area Development Association and held at the University of California at Davis. During the 2007 PacDev plenary session entitled Identification and the Identity of Development Economics: Non-random Thoughts on the Use of Randomized Experiments, Ted Miguel and Michael Carter discussed and debated the rise of experimental research approaches in development economics and throughout the social sciences.


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The Hawks will open next season at vaunted Pauley Pavilion against UCLA on Nov. 13, Monmouth head coach King Rice told Gannett New Jersey. While in Los Angeles, Monmouth will also play USC at the 10,000-seat Galen Center on Nov. 16.
Monmouth has never played the Bruins, nor the Trojans. These will be the program's second and third-ever games against members of the Pac-12 (formerly Pac-10) after it played Washington State during the 1990-91 season.
UCLA finished 22-14 and advanced to the Sweet 16 last season, while USC went 12-20 in its second season under former Florida Gulf Coast head coach Andy Enfield.
As has been the case since Rice took over in West Long Branch for the 2011-12 season, Monmouth will play a host of high-major schools.
The previously-announced eight-team field for the Orlando Classic includes Monmouth, as well as Alabama, Dayton, Iowa, Notre Dame, USC, Wichita State and Xavier. That event will take place Nov. 26, 27 and 29 at the HP Field House, a 5,000-seat arena at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World Resort in Kissimmee, Fla.
The bracket for the Orlando Classic is expected to be released some time in August.
On Tuesday, Gannett New Jersey reported that Rutgers will host Monmouth at the RAC on Dec. 20 in the return game of a home-and-home agreement. The first meeting, a 59-58 Rutgers win at the Multipurpose Activity Center, saw Myles Mack hit a long jumper at the regulation horn for the win. After the game, both Rice and Rutgers head coach Eddie Jordan said they would like to continue the series beyond 2015-16.
Under Rice, Monmouth is 0-15 against Power Five and former-BCS conference opponents with the average margin of defeat sitting at 23.1 points. However, as Monmouth improved last season to finish 18-15 overall, it has never been closer to pulling off an upset.
In last season's opener at West Virginia, the Hawks led by 14 points with 16:38 to go before falling, 64-54. On Nov. 28, Monmouth was within one possession inside the final minute at Maryland, but timely free-throw-shooting from freshman star Melo Trimble helped the Terrapins to a 61-56 win.
Staff writer Josh Newman: jnewman@GannettNJ.com


MANUAL - Disables automatic DOP, statement queuing and in-memory parallel execution. It reverts the behavior of parallel execution to what it was previous to Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2), which is the default.
AUTO - Enables automatic DOP, parallel statement queuing, and in-memory parallel execution.
ADAPTIVE - Enables automatic degree of parallelism, statement queuing, and in-memory parallel execution, similar to the AUTO value. In addition, performance feedback is enabled.
By default, the system only uses parallel execution when a parallel degree has been explicitly set on an object or if a parallel hint is specified in the SQL statement. The degree of parallelism used is exactly what was specified. No parallel statement queue occurs and parallel execution does not use the buffer cache. For information about the parallel statement queue, refer to "About Parallel Statement Queuing".
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When PARALLEL_DEGREE_POLICY is set to AUTO, Oracle Database determines whether the statement should run in parallel based on the cost of the operations in the execution plan and the hardware characteristics. The hardware characteristics include I/O calibration statistics so these statistics should be gathered.
If I/O calibration is not run to gather the required statistics, a default calibration value is used to calculate the cost of operations and the degree of parallelism.
I/O calibration statistics can be gathered with the PL/SQL DBMS_RESOURCE_MANAGER.CALIBRATE_IO procedure. I/O calibration is a one-time action if the physical hardware does not change.


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Q: ASP.Net Core API: How to link User Identity to a Contact I am working on an app that takes advantage of ASP.Net Core's User/Role identity tables in SQL.
Due to the nature of the app I am building right now, public registration is out of the question. What I am looking to build would require an admin of the app to first add the new employee as a contact into the app. After saving their contact info, they would click a button to set that contact up as a user.
What would be your recommended approach to either extend the identity framework or link AspNetUsers with my Contacts table to accomplish this goal. I am sure I will be querying information from both sides of this setup often and this is my primary reason for asking this question.
Your help is greatly appreciated. Please let me know if I can provide additional details.
public class ApplicationUser : IdentityUser
{
    public virtual ICollection<Contact> Contacts { get; set; }
}
public class Contact
{
    [Key]
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string IdentityUser { get; set; }
    [ForeignKey("IdentityUser")]
    public virtual ICollection<ApplicationUser> AppUser { get; set; }
}

A: A Contact can exist without User but a User cannot exist without a Contact. A simple one-to-one relationship:
public class User : IdentityUser<int>
{
    int ContactId { get; set; }
    Contact Contact { get; set; }
}

public class Contact
{
    int? UserId { get; set; }
    User User { get; set; }
}

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Jesús "Chus" Ruiz Suárez (born 20 January 1997) is a Spanish footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for AD Alcorcón.

Club career
Born in Esplugues de Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Ruiz joined RCD Espanyol's youth setup in 2014, from UE Cornellà. On 25 June 2016, after finishing his formation, he returned to his previous club and was assigned to the main squad in Segunda División B.

Ruiz made his senior debut on 30 April 2017, starting in a 2–0 home win over CD Ebro. On 7 August, after being mainly used as a backup, he moved to Tercera División side UD Ibiza.

On 28 July 2018, after achieving promotion to the third level but again as a backup, Ruiz was loaned to SD Tarazona in the fourth division, for one year. He returned to Ibiza after being an undisputed starter for the club, and was transferred to RCD Mallorca on 18 July 2019; he was initially assigned to the reserves also in the fourth tier.

On 31 August 2020, Ruiz returned to Tarazona, with the club now in the third division, but left on 18 September to join AD Alcorcón, being initially a third-choice option behind Dani Jiménez and Samu Casado.

Ruiz remained a third-choice behind Jiménez and José Aurelio Suárez for the 2021–22 campaign, but on 4 February 2022, after Jiménez left for CD Leganés and Suárez moved to Tokushima Vortis, he made his professional debut by starting in a 1–3 away loss against Burgos CF in the Segunda División.

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People from Baix Llobregat
Sportspeople from the Province of Barcelona
Spanish footballers
Footballers from Catalonia
Association football goalkeepers
Segunda División players
Segunda División B players
Tercera División players
UE Cornellà players
UD Ibiza players
SD Tarazona footballers
RCD Mallorca B players
AD Alcorcón footballers

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Why upload to academic preprint sites like arXiv?
Why would one be concerned about getting a manuscript on arXiv, if it's already under review with a journal?
It attracts readers. Many people pay close attention to arXiv postings in their area, in a way that doesn't happen as much with journal tables of contents. I don't have statistics, but my impression is that a substantial fraction of the people who learn about my papers do so through the arXiv. If you can get noticeably more attention for your research with almost no additional effort, why wouldn't you?
It establishes priority. Submitting to a journal does not: if you submit to a journal without circulating your work publicly, then you may still end up sharing credit with anyone who makes the same discovery before your paper is made public. The way to establish priority is to distribute your work so widely that any competitors cannot credibly claim to have been unaware of it. Submitting to the arXiv is the easiest way to show that you have done so: it's widely read, and it preserves all versions of the article with time stamps.
It's conventional. This varies somewhat between subfields, but once arXiv use reaches critical mass in a given area, it becomes the standard way of announcing to the world that you have completed a paper. At that point, not posting to the arXiv looks strange.
Compared with other fields, mathematics and physics are anomalous in making heavy use of the arXiv, with physics even more so than mathematics. As I understand it, in high energy particle physics the arXiv replaced an elaborate system of paper preprint distribution that was used in the late 80's (and it rapidly became popular since it was obviously better than the paper infrastructure). Usage spread to other areas of physics, from physics to adjacent areas of mathematics, and then further into mathematics.
Things are trickier in other fields, because many of the advantages depend on network effects. If nobody in your field pays attention to a server, it's not conventional, and it counts for little or nothing regarding priority, then there's less reason to post to it (although it still has some value). I'm not surprised that it catches on only slowly and spreads primarily to adjacent fields, but I expect green open access servers like the arXiv will become more popular over time.
To disseminate your paper without waiting for the peer review and publishing process. This is a serious issue - in mathematics, for example, peer review often takes a year or more, and it can be several more years before your paper gets to the front of the queue to actually appear in print.
To make the paper permanently available to readers who don't have a subscription to the journal where the paper is published.
In some cases, to disseminate and solicit comments on a paper that may not quite be ready for publication, while at the same time establishing priority.
Incidentally, from the computer scientists here, I've gathered the impression that CS uses arXiv very heavily, to the point that it practically supersedes journals as a way to distribute papers. Perhaps I'm mistaken, or it varies by subfield?
Let me add one point not mentioned by other answers so far.
In fast moving fields (e.g., most of computer science), a great benefit of publishing technical reports in recognised/citable series (at least an ISSN) and/or arXiv is to get a citable reference before publication in a more serious venue, such as a conference, or a journal.
right the next day you can write a next paper referring the work you published as a preprint. It can be either an incremental work, or something else using the result you achieved recently, etc. All this you can do way earlier than the paper really appears in proceedings, or a journal issue.
if it wasn't, you still can refer to the work, while improving it and submitting next time/elsewhere/etc.
As you see, the turn-around time is what this is all about. Of course one should be later careful regarding replacing references to TRs with references to the really published stuff in CR versions - if there's time/space for it.
If papers were posted on the arXiv before submission then I argue it would be easier to branch out. I also think it would increase the quality of submissions and the speed of progress. Overall, it should benefit your community and so, albeit indirectly, yourself.
I quote from this blog post an illustration.
The current system reinforces the partition of research into (sub)areas, making it hard for an outsider to leave their own. Of course, it is good to have a domain of expertise and produce deep results in it. Still, I think it would be better if it was a little easier to work in different areas.
To illustrate the difficulty, suppose you want to start working in new, hot area X. To learn the background, typically you have to read papers. However, for every paper that you read, it is not uncommon that there is another one which is or was under submission. Indeed, the community is producing great results the majority of which is rejected due to capacity constraints. So unless these works are on electronic archives such as the arXiv, you don't have access to them.
Who does? The experts of area X, to whom these papers are sent so that they can be properly evaluated. But it may be hard for reviewers to ignore submissions until publication. Suppose for example you have been working on problem Y for months and now you are asked to review a paper that solves Y. Are you going to ignore this information and keep working on Y despite knowing that you will be beaten? Also, when the paper does come out you've had a long time to internalize its implications.
The edge currently given to an insider over an outsider is months if the paper is accepted right away; it may be years otherwise.
Some researchers (supposedly from respectful schools) will use preprints as a way to hack the double-blind process and to try to impress possibly hesitating reviewers with their name or the name of their institutions. Preprints usually appear in Google Scholar if you work in that field. So, by the time the paper gets to the reviewer he or she already knows who wrote it. In my opinion that violates the double-blind process, but the official position is that it does not, at least in conferences where I submit. Is anyone aware of different policies?
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The test-launch might coincide with the inauguration of Donald Trump on 20 January.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is reported to have visited the country's military units for the first time since the start of the year amid reports that Pyongyang is likely to test-launch a new and upgraded prototype of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
Kim reportedly called on the country to boost its combat preparations during his visit to the military units under the Korean People's Army. He said he was satisfied that soldiers were keeping weapons and combat equipment "always ready to go into action, thinking only of combat readiness awake or asleep", Yonhap reported.
Citing military sources, South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported that the test-launch of the ICBM might possibly coincide with the inauguration of Donald Trump on 20 January.
Seoul's intelligence agencies had reportedly spotted Pyongyang transporting missile parts, thought to be the lower-half of an ICBM, raising concerns that a test-launch might soon happen.
"It was different from a conventional Musudan missile in its length and shape. It is possible they were moving it somewhere for assembly," one source told the Chosun Ilbo newspaper. The unidentified source referred to the Musudan intermediate-range missile that North Korea test-fired last year.
However, such reports could not be confirmed, a spokesman for South Korea's Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Roh Jae-cheon, told a regular press briefing. But the South Korean military was constantly monitoring the North's activities related to ICBM development, he added.
The two missiles were suspected to be placed on mobile launchers for test-firing and were estimated to be 15 metres (49 ft) long and shorter than the existing the KN-08 and KN-14 ICBMs, Yonhap cited unidentified military officials as saying.
"I don't recognise the missiles from this description. But as we saw in 2016, there's certainly a variety of active missile programmes underway in North Korea," Reuters quoted Joshua Pollack, editor of the US-based Non-proliferation Review, as saying. "It's also possible that they are simply conducting field exercises with no plans to launch, or the option to launch if decided."
North Korea has previously paraded mock-ups of a road-mobile missile thought to be an ICBM design termed the KN-08 by outside observers. It was also reportedly upgraded to the KN-14 version.
The latest and supposedly the new upgrade of the ICBM, placed on mobile launchers, is believed to be kept hidden until it is fired, making it significantly more difficult to track or stop such missile launches.
It has now been speculated that Pyongyang intentionally leaked information about its missiles in order to send a "strategic message" to the incoming Trump government. State media reports did not mention when Kim conducted his inspection of the military units.


Because of challenges like these, market sizing often makes it to the top of the CDD agenda.
Market sizing exercises are sometimes simple: models built in markets where public registration (or a rock-solid database) exists. In other cases, they require complex approaches building on original data. The complexity in these approaches – combined with the natural quantitative bent of investment professionals – means that the techniques themselves sometimes become the subjects of significant debate.
Having rigorous debates on these topics is rarely a bad thing, but it is vital that in the midst of the debate, we remember that no degree of savvy design can save a good market sizing approach from a bad market definition.
Is this a cyclical market? Anything touching European consumer wallets in 2016 is going to likely have very different dynamics in a bull market. There are two take-aways to consider in this example: first, that some markets should be sized with the possibility of significant upside; and second, that knowing how other businesses might perform in the face of a market slowdown is key. Remember that this can differ by segment: despite declining European consumer spend in our example, luxury goods have a distinctly different degree of cyclicality than mass and masstige products.
This is a partial list, but the point is that focusing on the definition (more than the technique) is critical to successful sizing. Having clear definitions that everyone on the deal team is aligned on is essential; poor definitions will often lead to a contentious investment committee debate – or worse – waking up post-close to a portfolio company with diminished headroom.
Mark is a founder and Senior Partner at GRAPH. Mark has been advising business owners and investors since 1990 and has been providing acquision and investment oriented strategy guidance to leading corporations, private equity clients and portfolio companies for 18 years.
Keep me posted about GRAPH developments, news and ideas.


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ACAS Guidance on making changes for the better
Recent Acas research sheds light on how changes to our working environment can have an impact on our mental health.
Rachel Pinto, Senior Research Officer at Acas, examines what employers can do to improve the mental health and well-being of their staff, especially during times of change.
There are very few certainties in life, but, in the public sector, there is one thing we can be certain of: work is changing. With the government's digital agenda and the prevalence of flexible working, new ways of working are becoming the norm. Running in parallel to this, there is an increasing number of cases of poor mental health at work.
One of the factors that can contribute to this is the workplace. After all, we spend a significant part of our lives working, and in some cases, worrying about work in our personal time. Therefore, it's important to promote a positive culture of mental health in the workplace and support employees when times are tough.
New research from Acas and Essex Business School focuses specifically on drawing learning and insights from employers who have had to manage staff with mental health issues. While the research shows that there is no set response or one-size-fits-all approach in terms of dealing with mental health issues, there are four key areas for employers to consider and act upon:
Communicating well during times of change
Often when big changes are made in organisations, it's for improved efficiency or financial gain. While it is important to make business improvements, we all need to understand how things, like new ways of working, restructuring programmes, and cost efficiency drives, can all breed uncertainty and anxiety for staff. Therefore, giving staff the opportunity to voice their opinions on changes and responding to concerns before it escalates is a useful starting point.
It's also important not to underestimate the impact of day-to-day challenges such as staff shortages and the introduction of new technologies.
As well as recognising the need to communicate well with staff, attention should be paid to how stresses at work are likely to affect staff in different ways, especially if they have a history of mental health problems or complicated situations.
The importance of approachable line managers
Employees interviewed as part of the research repeatedly emphasised the importance of being able to communicate with line managers about their situations. This is significant, as individuals are more likely to disclose mental health conditions and seek extra support if they have a strong relationship with their manager in the first place.
From the manager's perspective too, a good working relationship can help to spot the signs when something is wrong and make reasonable adjustments where possible. This can help minimise disruption to work plans and enable staff to work at the best of their ability.
The research also highlighted the importance of changing line manager mindsets to be supportive of a positive approach to the management of mental health at work. It also recognised any learning and development needs managers may have.
Appropriate support for staff returning to work
For staff returning to work after a long period of absence, it can feel like a daunting experience; therefore, return to work policies need to be tailored to the individual and flexible where possible.
Employees interviewed as part of the research who had mental health issues and had taken a related leave of absence suggested an array of enablers that helped them to return to work. These included: being given access and time to see health professionals, such as their own GPs and counsellors; Employee Assistance Programmes to signpost them in the right direction; not being pressurised to return to work early; being given time to become re-orientated back to the workplace; and reasonable adjustments being made, for example changes to hours of work and avoiding sources of stress such as long commutes.
Similarly, just because a member of staff has returned to work after experiencing poor mental health, it doesn't mean that they do not need continuing support.
Using employer outreach or trainers with lived experience
There is a wealth of support and information for all managers, regardless of your level of experience. The organisations used as part of the study had often drawn on multiple sources of guidance to help manage staff undergoing mental health difficulties.
Using employer outreach activity was another useful way of developing skills and enabled trainers with lived experience of mental health conditions to share their insights on how managers can support their staff.
Change is clearly something that all organisations need to go through at some point, but how employers manage, communicate and respond to these changes can have a big bearing on employee well-being at work, and, in turn, affect how productive your organisation is.
Acas has produced guidance, research and case studies on mental health at work to raise awareness and share learning to help employers manage changes for the better.
Further Information: www.acas.org.uk


The computer is designed to meet the command- and data-handling requirements for missions requiring space-grade radiation hardness and fault tolerance, but in a much smaller size, lower weight, and lower power than what is currently available. The invention leverages the Lab's legacy of designing instruments for satellites and deep space missions for over fifty years. Read more (link to article). Learn more in the current issue.
Photo caption: Paul Graham (left) and Robert Merl work on the Radiation Hardened Single Board Computer for Command and Data Handling.
Read these articles and more in the Sept. 26, 2018 issue.
Science Highlights features some of the current, cutting-edge scientific research at Los Alamos. The highlights also include recent awards and recognitions of Los Alamos scientists. Science Highlights is published once a month and produced by the Laboratory's Science, Technology, and Engineering directorate.


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GGYA 2013 Enrollment Gathers Steam
March 6, 2013 Education
Although the start of the year is typically slow for recruiting new units, enrollment in the Governor General's Youth Award is steadily picking up with The College of the Bahamas, Central Andros High School and Akheprah International High School all signing on as new recruits.
There are now more than 50 GGYA units throughout the country.
According to the GGYA's national director, Denise Mortimer, the programme aims to attract more than 1,500 new participants.
This year, the GGYA aims to establish a presence on Inagua, Cat Island, Bimini, San Salvador and Mayaguana. Units are currently in operation on New Providence, Grand Bahama, Abaco, Acklins, Andros, Crooked Island, Eleuthera, Exuma and Long Island.
The government partners with the GGYA through the G.O.L.D. Initiative, an acronym for Greatness, Opportunity, Leadership and Development. The financial backing has helped to make the programme more national in scope.
The internationally recognized youth programme is divided into four sections: service, skills, physical recreation and adventurous journey. With three levels to the Award (Bronze, Silver, and Gold), each stage requires an increasing commitment of time.
Heading the new unit at COB is Edward Bethel, the college's director of distance education. It's not the educator's first brush with the programme having previously served as a volunteer with St. John's College.
"I've always been interested in the outdoors, camping and hiking. But, the GGYA is more than that, it's really a character building experience," said Mr Bethel. "Participants get to learn about themselves and reach their full potential. I recommend this programme to anyone who feels like they are up for the challenge."
Assisting Mr Bethel in recruitment and operation is Gold Award Holder, Alexandrianna Swain. Thus far, they've recruited 16 participants. One of them is 17-year-old, Jada Francis.
"It builds networking and endurance," said Francis, an engineering major who has been involved with the programme since high school.
Francis and 19-year-old Richard Swain are working to obtain their Gold Award. Like Francis, Swain has been active in the programme since his early teens. "It really helps one to become well-rounded," he said.
Andros onboard
Meantime, Central Andros High has returned to the programme after a three-year hiatus. With the programme back up and running, Principal Wanda Thompson is happy to know her students are able to engage in something positive.
"The programme promotes hard work as the key to success," she said. "The road towards achieving a GGYA Award is not easy."
There are hiking expeditions of varying distances and duration depending on the Award level. Those pursuing Gold must also complete a community project.
Leading the unit in Andros is Richard Johnson. After two months of operation, 37 participants have joined.
"Like other Family Islands, in Andros there is a lack of structured opportunity for youths to get involved in wholesome activities," said Mr Johnson. "GGYA gives participants an outlet to have something productive to work towards."
GGYA is a keeper
The GGYA unit at Akheprah International Academy (AIA) has been active since last November. It's the institution first encounter with the youth programme.
Currently, there are about 20 participants registered at the high school where Leanora Hawk administers the programme. Some are pursuing their Gold Award, others Silver.
"This year I aim to have them become more service and skill oriented. I want them to be able to do things on their own, survive in the wild and build cohesiveness," said Ms Hawk. Her unit has already carried out quite a bit of community service, including a Goodman's Bay clean-up exercise.
"I joined GGYA because I wanted to challenge myself and get active in my community," said AIA student, Lyric Culmer who described her experience in the programme as "rewarding" and "interesting."
Sixteen-year-old Joseph Braynen echoed similar sentiments.
"We're more active in our community compared to other youth programmes I was involved in prior," said Braynen. "GGYA is a great programme for any young person looking to get active."
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"My son has 48-52 deletion He is 4 years 7 months old Last year we came to know he is having Dmd He is on deflazcort .cqlc and multivitamins We are from India. We did stem cell therapy to him. He is better than last year. Hope any up coming…"
Hi,my son is about 6 years.He is on the waiting list for this trial.we are from London ON where the ACE 031 is being conducted.I called my son's neurologist who is also running the trial here,and he told me that my son is supposed to enter the trial on June.I had the impression that they will go on with this trial.Moreover,It seems that this drug is working.Anyway,I am going now to get more news and if you like I can provide you with the updates.
My son uses:DFZ,ECGC,LOSARTAN (ON MY OWN),Vit D,fish oil,multivit,Coq10,Taurine(aminoacid),Calcium.
I highly recommend Losartan,and I bet that it might stop fibrosis+reduce the side effects of DFZ.
I do everything I can do then rely on God because doctors and medicine are just causes in any treatment,but God is the CAUSATIVE to this treatment because he is the omnipotent and merciful.
Don't worry,I have strong feeling and faith that our sons will be rescued.Could you tell me what medications and supplements you use for your son?


The Armenian – Thai Chamber of Commerce visited the trade fair Food & Hotel Thailand 2018, a leading international trade exhibition for the food and hospitality business in Thailand as well as for the region, which took place at BITEC Bangna 5 – 8 September 2018.
FHT featured many Hotel, Restaurant & Food industry representative companies participating from various countries, presenting a wide array of products and services for the Food & Hotel industry. Specialized companies in the field presented their new products and services, exhibiting existing as well as innovative choices for the visiting business professionals.
FHT Thailand is considered a key event for industry professionals, with Thailand serving as a prominent regional hub, home to a highly dynamic and continuously transforming tourism and F&B Industry.
Visitors could get in touch with the region's leading industry suppliers. The event also included informative industry conferences and events. Working closely with professional associations and FHT's marketing and press activities, the organizer; UBM ensured FHT consistently added value to the high number of professionals from hotels, restaurants, retail, manufacturing, importers, distributors, chefs and sommeliers.
7 International Group: Belgium, China, Germany, Japan, South Africa, Taiwan, and the USA… & growing.


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Do You Keep Promises to Yourself?
Do you keep the promises you make to yourself?
Do your words match your actions?
Are you 'all in' and then 'not'?
I can't tell you how many times people say they want to get healthy, to exercise regularly, to eat right… and then they literally behave in every way possible that's the opposite.
I've been there too...
Partly it's because of the stories they tell themselves.
· "I'm too busy."
· "I can't afford it."
· "I don't have the time."
· "My kids are picky eaters."
We usually call these "excuses," and you can believe them IF YOU WANT TO.
But if you want to be a real doer instead of just a dreamer, then here's what I suggest:
· Get clear on what you want and how to get it.
· Take the first step, without worrying about the second. (Call it a "leap of faith.")
· Feel the fear and work through it anyway.
· Feel the power and the pleasure and the SHEER JOY of growth.
Love yourself enough to do what you say you're going to do.


Tag: urine | Something Odd!
Dog peed on the carpet?
In any home where a dog is indoors that dog is going to pee on the carpet sooner or later. Hopefully the "little accident" will be noticed quickly but if not it'll dry into your carpet and you might not even notice it for a while if the house is well ventilated.
Then some time later comes that unmistakeable odour. The sickly sweet smell of urine, of a dirty public toilet in your living room corner or in a neglected spare room. You just know that it's deep in the carpet by now. Bacteria doing their thing in the fibres of your precious floor covering. Ugh!
You'll be happy to hear there's a really easy way to clean it up. No need to buy an expensive carpet cleaner containing exotic sounding chemicals. There's no need to fumigate the room, or steam wash the carpet. Just white vinegar and water first and then dry it. Follow up with bread soda and then a dilute bleach, 3% hydrogen peroxide mixed with a little washing up liquid.
It's quite amazing how well it works.


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09/06/2010 10-333 Technical Advice- The Equivalence between the Japanese Regulatory and Supervisory Framework and the EU Regulatory Regime for Credit Rating Agencies CESR Archive, Credit Rating Agencies Technical Advice PDF
17/05/2011 2011/144 Final advice- ESMA´s Technical Advice to the Commission on Fees for CRAs Credit Rating Agencies Technical Advice PDF
04/10/2011 2011/323 Final report- ESMA's technical advice on possible delegated acts concerning the Prospectus Directive as amended by the Directive 2010/73/EU Prospectus, Corporate Disclosure Technical Advice PDF
01/03/2012 2012/137 ESMA's technical advice on possible delegated acts concerning the Prospectus Directive as amended by the Directive 2010/73/EU Prospectus, Corporate Disclosure Technical Advice PDF
1.32 MB ESMA publishes today the second part of its final advice (ESMA/2012/137) on possible delegated acts for the Prospectus Directive (PD). The advice was submitted to the Commission on 29 February 2012. In its advice, ESMA proposes how to use a prospectus in a retail cascade and provides input on how to review the provisions of the Prospectus Regulation concerning tax information, indices, auditor's report on profit forecasts and estimates and audited historical financial information. Today's advice follows a public consultation started on 13 December 2011. Overall, the technical advice aims to achieve a high level of investor protection and to increase across Europe the legal clarity and efficiency of the prospectus regime. Investment prospectuses as such are aimed to provide investors with easily accessible information on financial products so as to foster in-formed decision-making.
18/04/2012 2012/259 Technical advice on CRA regulatory equivalence- US, Canada and Australia Credit Rating Agencies Technical Advice PDF
697.78 KB On 12 June 2009 the European Commission requested CESR, now ESMA, to provide its technical advice on the equivalence between the legal and supervisory framework of Japan, The United States, and Canada with the EU regulatory regime for credit rating agencies. (Regulation (EC) No. 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and the Council on credit rating agencies ). On 17 November 2009, the Commission also requested CESR to provide its technical advice on Australia. On 28 September 2010, the European Commission published an equivalence decision on Japan. With regard to the compliance with the EU requirements on endorsement, ESMA had already indicated that it considers the legal and regulatory regime for CRAs supervision of the following countries as "as stringent as" the EU requirements: - On 22 December 2011, Japan and Australia; - On 15 March 2012, US, Canada, Hong Kong and Singapore. This report sets out ESMA's advice to the European Commission in respect of the equivalence between the US (Part I), Canada (Part II) and Australia (Part III) respective legal and supervisory frameworks and the EU regulatory regime for credit rating agencies.
27/09/2012 2012/600 Draft technical standards under the Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2012 on OTC Derivatives, CCPs and Trade Repositories Post Trading Technical Standards PDF
04/04/2013 2013/302 ESMA's Technical Advice to the Commission on Fees for Trade Repositories Post Trading Technical Advice PDF
On 14 January 2013 ESMA received a formal request from the European Commission (the Commission) to provide technical advice to assist the Commission in formulating a Regulation on fees for Trade Repositories (TRs) by a delegated act. In order to deliver its advice to the Commission, ESMA consulted market participants regarding the proposed fee structures for registration, supervision and recognition of TRs. Respondents to this consultation were encouraged to provide the relevant data to support their arguments or proposals.Given the time period established for providing this advice, ESMA was compelled to require responses to the consultation within a short timeframe. In total, ESMA received 8 responses to the consultation. Non-confidential responses can be found on ESMA's website. ESMA would like to thank respondents for providing input given the short period ESMA was able to consult for. This document sets out a summary of the responses received by ESMA regarding the fee structure for registration, supervision and recognition of TRs in the EU and includes ESMA's final technical advice to the Commission on the future Regulation on fees for TRs which will be adopted by the Commission in the form of a delegated act. It is worth noting that all major ESMA proposals were supported by respondents and where comments were received ESMA has considered how best to adjust the original proposals. Next steps ESMA will follow-up on this work with the Commission as they work on the adoption of the Commission delegated regulation on fees for TRs.
31/05/2013 2013/626 Technical advice on CRA regulatory equivalence on Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Hong Kong and Singapore Credit Rating Agencies Technical Advice PDF
840.48 KB The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has provided advice to the European Commission in respect of the equivalence between the EU regulatory regime for credit rating agencies and the respective legal and supervisory frameworks of Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Hong Kong and Singapore. This is in response to the European Commission's request for technical advice from ESMA on the equivalence of these jurisdictions legal and supervisory frameworks with the EU regulatory regime for credit rating agencies as set out in Regulation (EC) No. 1060/2009 of the European Parliament and the Council on credit rating agencies. The European Commission has already published equivalence decisions on US, Canada and Australia, on 9 October 2012, and on Japan, 28 October 2010. Regarding compliance with the EU requirements on endorsement, ESMA has already indicated that it considers the legal and regulatory regime for CRAs supervision of the following countries as "as stringent as" the EU requirements: 15 March 2012, Hong Kong and Singapore; 18 April 2012, Argentina and Mexico; 27 April 2012, Brazil.
08/08/2013 2013/1087 Final Report on amended EMIR implementing technical standards Post Trading Technical Standards PDF
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has sent the European Commission a Final Report proposing an amendment to Article 5 of the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No.1247/2012 (ITS on reporting) on the format and frequency of reporting to trade repositories under EMIR. The amendment relates specifically to the reporting of exchange traded derivatives (ETDs) and proposes postponing the reporting start date by one year. Background Article 5 regards the reporting start date of derivatives to trade repositories, however the current dates do not include a specification of ETDs. This specification would be useful as there is a risk currently that reporting of ETDs is not harmonised unless further regulatory guidance is issued. Based on the need to ensure the consistent implementation of EMIR, ESMA considered that guidelines and recommendations should be developed in relation to this issue. A delay in the reporting date for ETD transactions will allow sufficient time for the development of the relevant guidelines and their implementation by counterparties, trade repositories and regulators. The European Commission has three months to decide whether to endorse ESMA's draft implementing technical standards.
03/09/2013 2013/1157 Technical advice on third country regulatory equivalence under EMIR – US Post Trading Technical Advice PDF
03/09/2013 2013/1158 Technical advice on third country regulatory equivalence under EMIR – Japan Post Trading Technical Advice PDF
03/09/2013 2013/1159 Technical advice on third country regulatory equivalence under EMIR – Australia Post Trading Technical Advice PDF
03/09/2013 2013/1161 Technical advice on third country regulatory equivalence under EMIR – Singapore Post Trading Technical Advice PDF
03/09/2013 2013/1162 Technical advice on third country regulatory equivalence under EMIR – Switzerland Post Trading Technical Advice PDF


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Q: How to find table name if I know only data which stored in it I have DB which contains more than 100 tables. Most of the tables have names like SY0001234 I know data which stored in that table but do not know the name of it so cant run normal select against it. Do you have any ideas how to find the table name?

A: You do perform something like this
--EXEC SearchAllTables 'test'

CREATE PROC SearchAllTables
 (
@SearchStr nvarchar(100)
 )
AS
BEGIN

CREATE TABLE #Results (ColumnName nvarchar(370), ColumnValue nvarchar(3630))

SET NOCOUNT ON

DECLARE @TableName nvarchar(256), @ColumnName nvarchar(128), @SearchStr2 nvarchar(110)
SET  @TableName = ''
SET @SearchStr2 = QUOTENAME('%' + @SearchStr + '%','''')

WHILE @TableName IS NOT NULL
BEGIN
    SET @ColumnName = ''
    SET @TableName =
    (
        SELECT MIN(QUOTENAME(TABLE_SCHEMA) + '.' + QUOTENAME(TABLE_NAME))
        FROM    INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES
        WHERE       TABLE_TYPE = 'BASE TABLE'
            AND QUOTENAME(TABLE_SCHEMA) + '.' + QUOTENAME(TABLE_NAME) > @TableName
            AND OBJECTPROPERTY(
                    OBJECT_ID(
                        QUOTENAME(TABLE_SCHEMA) + '.' + QUOTENAME(TABLE_NAME)
                         ), 'IsMSShipped'
                           ) = 0
    )

    WHILE (@TableName IS NOT NULL) AND (@ColumnName IS NOT NULL)
    BEGIN
        SET @ColumnName =
        (
            SELECT MIN(QUOTENAME(COLUMN_NAME))
            FROM    INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
            WHERE       TABLE_SCHEMA    = PARSENAME(@TableName, 2)
                AND TABLE_NAME  = PARSENAME(@TableName, 1)
                AND DATA_TYPE IN ('char', 'varchar', 'nchar', 'nvarchar')
                AND QUOTENAME(COLUMN_NAME) > @ColumnName
        )

        IF @ColumnName IS NOT NULL
        BEGIN
            INSERT INTO #Results
            EXEC
            (
                'SELECT ''' + @TableName + '.' + @ColumnName + ''', LEFT(' + @ColumnName + ', 3630)
                FROM ' + @TableName + ' (NOLOCK) ' +
                ' WHERE ' + @ColumnName + ' LIKE ' + @SearchStr2
            )
        END
    END
END

SELECT ColumnName, ColumnValue FROM #Results
END

A: You may do better to read this article - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/67624/
I realize I am late to the party - but this may help you.


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Q: How does deploying a Node.js app using Strongloop on Heroku work? Can someone with actual experience explain how these layers interact with each other and how a working setup (dev to production) should actually be, well, set up?
I understand there are buildpacks that serve to install Strongloop on Heroku. And that deploying the actual app is done with git push.
Some specific points that you could address...

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*How can I have (more or less) the same environment locally and at Heroku.

*After setting up Strongloop Node, does the server environment stay in place? Or is it recreated every time I deploy an update? (if yes, how so?)

*How does slnode fit into the picture

*Can I connect to a db hosted at Heroku from a dev machine?

I hope answers to this question can serve as a guide for people like me who are struggling to understand how all the pieces go together.

A:
I understand there are buildpacks that serve to install Strongloop on Heroku. And that deploying the actual app is done with git push.

You don't need our buildpack, and yes, you deploy with git push.

How can I have (more or less) the same environment locally and at Heroku.

How much more or less? You can develop on your mac laptop, and push to Heroku, using same version of node, or you can be more like Heroku, and use Linux, or ... what exactly about the Heroku env do you want to reproduce?

After setting up Strongloop Node, does the server environment stay in place? Or is it recreated every time I deploy an update? (if yes, how so?)

Not sure what setup you are referring to.

How does slnode fit into the picture

It doesn't.

Can I connect to a db hosted at Heroku from a dev machine?

Don't know, sorry, try Heroku support pages for this kind of heroku-specific tech question, perhaps?
I followed docs on bottom of page at http://docs.strongloop.com/display/DOC/Heroku, look for  "Create Procfile and deploy", and it worked OK for me.

A: Fast answers

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*Use Vagrant, download a Debian 6 box, and install whatever you need in it, remember to check what version of Node.js Heroku uses.

*It will be partially rebuilt, your npm dependencies will be redownloaded, your application gets rebuilt and so on.

*You can use slnode on your dev machine. However if it is necessary to use slnode on a dyno, fork a build pack and install slnode as part of it.

*You can connect to a database hosted on Heroku from any network connected server or pc, you will be provided with an ip and credentials.

Build packs
I'm not sure about actual constraints of a build pack, but it can do almost anything that you can do in an Debian 6 virtualized environment with shared kernel. ( An Debian 6 instance in a OpenVZ VPS )

*

*Think of build packs as low level dependency managers which solve dependencies like node.js, Redis, Apache2 and so on.

*They also build an environment like file system structure, ENV variables and so on.

Heroku infrastructure
Heroku is using AWS as it's raw hardware provider, AWS provides a fresh installation of an OS in a virtualized hardware ( VPS )
Heroku builds dynos on top of raw OS, by guess, it shares one OS between at least 128 dynos.
Each dyno is isolated from others, it has common software built in like ls, but it's build pack's duty to install any other software like Node.js for your application.
Heroku's node build pack, installs Node.js, and runs npm.


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February 13, 2020	/ Hub & Spoke, Black Rock
Education Luncheon: Funders Panel
The Funders Perspective: An Inside Scoop!
Institutional grants are getting harder to secure as funders establish rigorous guidelines with clear funding metrics, as building good working relationships with funders is also becoming more difficult.
During the panel discussion, we will explore trends in philanthropy including the expectations of grant-makers and the importance of maintaining the integrity of program delivery. We will discuss how to work effectively with funders during all stages of the grant-making cycle, discussing hot topics including collaborative partnerships, data-driven measures, and sharing key metrics used by grantmakers.
Finally, the panel will field questions on the do's and don'ts of grant applications, grant funding and the expectations of grant recipients during the funding cycle.
Our Presenters:
Kathryn Luria – Panelist, SVP, Community Affairs, Director of Philanthropy at Webster Bank
Kathy Luria serves as Senior Vice President of Community Affairs and Director of Philanthropy at the corporate headquarters of Webster Bank in Waterbury, CT. In this role, she oversees the corporate philanthropic arm of the organization across the franchise. Kathy helps guide the bank toward achieving a key tenant of The Webster Way, to give of ourselves in the communities we serve.
Kathy attended the University of Connecticut where she earned her Bachelor's Degree in 1991, and continued on to earn an M.B.A. from the University of New Haven in 1999. For the past 12 years, she has served as an adjunct professor in the School of Business at the University of Connecticut – Waterbury Campus.
Kathy also serves as a Director and Assistant Vice President of the Harold Webster Smith Foundation. She is board chair of the CT Council for Philanthropy; and sits on the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston CT Working Cities Challenge Advisory Council.
Diane Sierpina – Panelist, Director of Justice Initiatives at The Tow Foundation
Diane Sierpina joined The Tow Foundation in 1998 and currently serves as the director of justice initiatives. Prior to joining the Foundation, Diane was a newspaper and magazine journalist covering government, politics, and social issues. Diane is primarily responsible for the Foundation's criminal justice reform strategy and investments, which average more than $5 million a year.
Diane has been an advocate of evidence-based, youth-centered justice system reform in Connecticut, New York and nationally for more than 20 years. She holds leadership roles with Connecticut Juvenile Justice Alliance, Strengthening Organizing Work in Connecticut (SOW) funders group, New York Youth Justice Initiative, Justice Reform Working Group of Philanthropy New York and the Youth Transition Funders Group (YTFG). Diane is a steering committee member of YTFG, board member of Connecticut Council for Philanthropy (CCP) and was a founding chair of CCP's Program Officers Network. In May 2017, Diane was honored by her peers with CCP's Martha S. Newman Award in recognition of her exemplary service to the philanthropic sector in the state.
Diane earned a B.S. in Journalism summa cum laude from Boston University.
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Ben Murray Bruce, the Senator representing Bayelsa East senatorial district, has told the All Progressives Congress, APC, that Senators on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, are "fighting for democracy" and not to defend the personal interest of Senator Bukola Saraki, the Senate President.
Senator Murray-Bruce stated this on Saturday via Twitter in reaction to calls from the APC leadership asking Senator Saraki to resign his position as Senate President, following his defection to the PDP.
The Bayelsa Senator asked the APC to halt any "illegal" measures it may want to use to remove Senator Saraki from office.
He demanded the ruling party resort to legal means to impeach the Senate President, provided they have the requisite numbers to do so.
Senator Murray-Bruce tweeted, "The APC Federal Government must not misunderstand my colleagues in the PDP and I. We are not fighting for @BukolaSaraki, we are fighting for democracy. If they can impeach Saraki legally then they should do so and stop any forceful, illegal and undemocratic attempt at impeachment."
The Senator's statement is coming in the wake of the lawmakers' resumption on Tuesday after halting their recess to consider issues of national importance.


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  Nassandres est
      une ville géographiquement positionnée dans le département de l'Eure en Haute-Normandie. On dénombrait 1 387 habitants en 2008.

À proximité de Nassandres sont localisées les villes de
Fontaine-l'Abbé située à 4 km, 564 habitants,
Fontaine-la-Soret localisée à 3 km, 387 habitants,
Beaumontel située à 4 km, 715 habitants,
Serquigny à 2 km, 2 139 habitants,
Launay localisée à 2 km, 215 habitants,
Perriers-la-Campagne à 3 km, 334 habitants,
 entre autres. De plus, Nassandres est située à seulement 26 km de Elbeuf.

La ville propose quelques  équipements, elle dispose, entre autres, de un terrain de tennis et un terrain de sport.

Le nombre de logements, à Nassandres, se décomposait en 2011 en 65 appartements et 566 maisons soit
 un marché plutôt équilibré.

À Nassandres, le prix moyen à l'achat d'un appartement s'évalue à zero € du m² en vente. Le prix moyen d'une maison à l'achat se situe à 1 560 € du m². À la location la valeur moyenne se situe à 9,44 € du m² par mois.

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