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Wara Farm Tops Moringa School's Technology for Climate Hackathon
Jacob's Ladder Africa and Moringa School have revealed the winners of the Technology for Climate Hackathon, which challenged young people to develop innovative tech-based solutions to address the impact of climate change in the country.
Wara Farm led by Verah Kwamboka and David Nene emerged as the winner for their artificial intelligence (AI) powered solution to mitigate inefficiencies in food supply chains to address food insecurity in the country.
The solution decentralizes supply chain processes and increases farmers' access to information and tools they require to improve their outputs.
The second and third place awards were won by Okoa Waste, which seeks to provide urban waste management solutions, followed by Kambare, which aims to close the gap in access to high-quality and affordable aqua feeds, respectively.
Jacob's Ladder Africa will incubate the top five teams after the hackathon to help them further develop their solutions.
With 60% of the African population being under the age of 25, the youth can be catalysts that leverage innovation to combat climate change and develop unique solutions to African challenges.
The judging panel consisted of Dorothy Maseke, Head of Risk & Compliance at ICEA Lion Group, Lizzie Biney-Amissah, Partner at E3 Capital, Marcus Watson, Partner at KawiSafi Ventures and Francis Kahindi, Founder of Techprescribed.
"The brilliant ideas presented by the different teams that took part in the hackathon underscores our belief that African youth can be the engine for innovation on the continent. They have the potential to bring forth fresh, new solutions that are contextualized to Africa and we feel compelled to spur them on and help provide the tools they require," says Bilha Ndirangu, co-founder of Jacob's Ladder Africa.
"Our collaboration with Jacob's Ladder Africa exemplifies a good meeting of minds in using technology to encourage innovation towards developing solutions for climate change. The need for tech talent stands out and Moringa School continues to produce more and more skilled graduates. Some great ideas have emerged from the hackathon including creating a platform for urban farming, organic waste management, and more," says Snehar Shah, Chief Executive Officer, Moringa School.
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When you sleep you may not ever enter a deep enough sleep to increase level of HGH alone but that energy gained while sleeping will help you get through the next day and your next workout. Basically sleeping 8-10 hours each night to recover is just a way to get the other forms of HGH production such as diet, resistance training and proper supplementation to be more effective in creating HGH.
Naturally Enhance HGH Through Diet: As far as diet and supplementation are concerned as it relates to Growth Hormone. Amino acids are an excellent tool for boosting HGH level but you need to make certain that 15-20 percent of your diet is coming from essential fats. These will increase cholesterol, the maintenance of the base-hormone in the body that leads to the making of the optimum steroidogenic hormones.
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Intriguing Milo of Croton Story Progressive Training
November 11, 2021 April 17, 2021 by Andrew Pirie
When we think about Milo in the Philippines, we may think of this.
Milo logo with Afro-Haired Rio Dela Cruz
But the real story of Milo of Croton Began in Ancient Greece. In the 6th Century BC, there was a wrestler from the city of Croton in the South of Greece.
Milo was a six-time athletic victor at the Ancient Olympic Games held every four years; he won the boy's title and then the men's title for 20 years.
He also won seven crowns at the Pythian.
How to Build Muscle Like Milo of Croton
It is said that Milo of Croton built his incredible strength through a simple but profound strategy.
One day, a newborn calf was born near Milo's home.
The wrestler decided to lift the small animal and carry it on his shoulders.
The next day, he returned and did the same.
Milo continued this strategy for the next four years, hoisting the calf onto his shoulders each day as it grew until he was no longer lifting a calf but a four-year-old bull. [3]
The core principles of strength training are encapsulated in this legendary tale of Milo and the bull.
Milo of Croton: Strength Training: The Core Principles
"When you first start to study a field, it seems like you have to memorize a zillion things. You don't. What you need is to identify the core principles – generally three to twelve of them – that govern the field. The million things you thought you had to memorize are simply various combinations of the core principles."
—John T. Reed
Conflicting ideas fill the health and fitness industry with unnecessary complexity and thousands of experts.
If anything I've learned during ten years of strength training, mastering the fundamentals is more valuable than worrying about the details.
For example, let's discuss three core principles of strength training hidden in Milo and the bull's story.
1. Start too light: Focus on the volume before intensity.
Did Milo try to lift a full-grown bull on day one?
He began with a newborn calf.
Given his wrestling prowess, it is very likely that this was a weight that was easy for him.
It works the same way for you and me.
When you begin strength training, you should start by lifting something easy.
It is only by focusing on volume, repetition, and easy weights at the beginning that you build the capacity to handle heavier weights later on.
2. Don't miss workouts.
3. Increase in small ways.
Every day, Milo of Croton calf grew just a little bit an ounce here, a pound there, and yet, these tiny gains added up to very significant weight in a relatively short amount of time.
It works the same way in the gym.
Do you think you could squat one more pound this week than you could last week?
Most people probably could.
Adding just one pound per week for two years, you could be squatting 100 pounds more than you are today.
How many people do you know squatting 100 pounds more today than they were two years ago? I don't know many.
Tiny gains add up fast. Average speed can take you far if you keep walking.
The bar's weight should grow like a calf in a field: slowly, gradually, reasonably.
Milo of Croton Military Career
milo of Croton in battle
About 510 BC, hostilities arose between Croton and nearby Sybaris when Telys, a Sybarite tyrant, banished Sybaris's 500 wealthiest citizens after seizing their property.
When the displaced Sybarites sought refuge at Croton and Telys demanded their return, an opportunity for the Crotoniates to destroy a powerful neighbor presented itself.
In an account that appeared five hundred years after the event, Diodorus Siculus wrote that the philosopher.
Pythagoras, who spent much of his life at Croton, urged the Croton assembly to protect the banished citizens of Sybaris; deciding to do so was made and aggravated the dispute between the two cities, each took up arms, and Milo led the charge against Sybaris.
According to Diodorus (XII, 9):
"One hundred thousand men of Croton were stationed with three hundred thousand Sybarite troops ranged against them. Milo the athlete led them and through his tremendous physical strength first turned the troops lined up against him."
According to Diodorus, Milo led the battle against the Sybarites. He wrote his Olympic crowns, a lion skin and wielded like the hero Heracles a club.
Milo of Croton was an Olympic Champion 'Periodonikes' five times.
Ancient Greece held the Olympics every four years.
He competed at a high level for about 24 years. His appearances included Games at Delphi (one as a boy), ten at the Isthmian Games, and nine at the Nemean Games.
Milo of Croton was defeated (or tied) in his attempt at a seventh Olympic title in 516 BCE by a young wrestler from Croton who practiced the technique of akrocheirismos—literally, 'highhandedness' or wrestling at arm's length—and by doing so, avoided Milo's crushing embrace. Simple fatigue took its toll on Milo.
Milo of Croton Death
Eighteenth-century engraving of a painting by Georges Georgian depicting the sixth-century Greek wrestler Milo of Croton being attacked by a lion. — Image by © Chris Hellier/Corbis
The Ancient Greeks typically attributed notable deaths to famous persons in keeping with their characters.[2]
The date of Milo's death is unknown, but according to Strabo (VI, 1, 12) and Pausanias (VI, 14, 8), Milo was walking in a forest when he came upon a tree trunk split with wedges.
Displaying strength, Milo inserted his hands into the aperture to rend the tree.
The wedges fell from the gap, and the tree closed upon his hands, trapping him.
A modern historian has suggested it is more likely that Milo was traveling alone when attacked by wolves unable to escape; the wolves devoured him, and his remains were found at the foot of a tree.
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What would happen to someone's body with the mythical diet of Milo of Croton?
Meat and bread are around 250 calories per 100g.
We can cut down a bit on that estimate since bread right now is way more easily digestible than bread in 600BC, not containing tiny bits of sand and all that.
Wine, in a similar way, was not what it is today. Cut with water, made from grapes low in sugar, the goal was to produce large quantities, not sugary quality.
But even rounding down a bit to account for lower quality of food, that's about 40 000 calories.
A sumo wrestler eats about 20 000 calories per day.
Ordinary people going to the north pole can eat more than 8 000 calories a day.
So it still seems exaggerated, but maybe not that much. If he was huge, strong, and very active, he might have eaten as much as sumo or more.
Maybe that was not his daily diet, but just how much he once ate.
Progressive overload is nothing new the Ancient Greeks used the technique. However, it is a crucial fundamental of weight lifting that and should incorporate into any program where the goal is to build muscle.
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Home Gifts for Book Lovers The Property of the Nation
The Property of the Nation
George Washington's Tomb, Mount Vernon, and The Memory of the First President by Matthew R. Costello. ISBN 978-0-70-0628278. Copyright 2019. Hardcover 336 pages.
This book is a finalist for the 2020 George Washington Prize. The George Washington Prize is one of the nations' largest and most prestigious literary awards.
In this book, the White House Historical Association's senior historian Dr. Matthew R. Costello traces the story of Washington's tomb, whose history and popularity reflect the building of a memory of America's first president—of, by, and for the American people. George Washington was an affluent slave owner who believed that republicanism and social hierarchy were vital to the young country's survival. And yet, he remains largely free of the "elitist" label affixed to his contemporaries, as Washington evolved in public memory during the nineteenth century into a man of the common people, the father of democracy. This memory, we learn in The Property of the Nation, was a deliberately constructed image, shaped and reshaped over time, generally in service of one cause or another.
Washington's resting place at his beloved Mount Vernon estate was at times as contested as his iconic image; and in Costello's telling, the many attempts to move the first president's bodily remains offer greater insight to the issue of memory and hero worship in early America. While describing the efforts of politicians, business owners, artists, and storytellers to define, influence, and profit from the memory of Washington at Mount Vernon, this book's main focus is the memory-making process that took place among American citizens. As public access to the tomb increased over time, more and more ordinary Americans were drawn to Mount Vernon, and their participation in this nationalistic ritual helped further democratize Washington in the popular imagination. Shifting our attention from official days of commemoration and publicly orchestrated events to spontaneous visits by citizens, Costello's book clearly demonstrates in compelling detail how the memory of George Washington slowly but surely became The Property of the Nation.


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Film probes radical black-Latino-poor white 1960s alliance
Published November 8, 2019 7:01 am
Where to see the Berlin Wall
In the dead of night on August 13, 1961, the East German Army began placing more than 48 kilometers of barbed wire through the center of Berlin, splitting the city into two stark halves.
On one side, the Soviet-backed East functioned under a socialist state while the West was controlled by Allied forces, a little urban island of democracy inside East Germany.
Eventually, soldiers replaced the barbed wire with a hulking concrete barrier that became the Berlin Wall. For 28 years, the wall stood as a heavy and imposing reminder of the physical and ideological Cold War divisions of a city and a nation.
The wall finally was demolished in 1989 as Cold War tensions improved across the globe. The most effusive celebration of the city's reunification took place on November 9, 1989, shortly after the East German government announced that all citizens in its capital would be able to move freely across the city.
Euphoric Berliners rushed to the wall and tore it apart with shovels, hammers and picks, eager to end an era of restriction and suppression.
This year, Germany commemorates the 30th anniversary of the fall of the wall. Anyone who travels to Berlin can visit the remains of the 155-kilometer structure at the following locations, which are all free.
These places are home to specific histories and offer their own perspectives on what is still one of the most chilling symbols of the Iron Curtain:
The East Side Gallery is an open-air memorial that features 100 vibrant murals covering the longest continuous stretch of the wall.
The project began after the wall came down, with 118 artists from 21 countries offering to paint the remaining structure with their visual interpretations of the events both leading up to and following reunification.
The most popular images remain a bright yellow Trabant car, created by Birgit Kinder, and Dmitri Vrubel's Fraternal Kiss. The best way to see the colorful work is to start at Ostbahnhof railway station and follow the route of 1.3 kilometers (.8 mile) to take it all in.
East Side Gallery, Mühlenstraße 47 – 80, +49 030 467 9866-23, info@stiftung-berliner-mauer.de
The Topography of Terror
While this museum focuses on the terror and persecution inflicted by the Third Reich, an outdoor section contains a 200-meter section of the wall.
Formerly a barrier between the districts of Mitte and Kreuzberg, the sizable wall remnant has been preserved and designated a national monument. Visitors can tour the Topography of Terror and see the piece, which forms part of the museum's Documentation Center, for free.
Topography of Terror, Niederkirchnerstraße 8, +49 030 254509-50, info@topographie.de
Bornholmer Straße
Bornholmer Straße was one of seven border crossing points between East and West Berlin. However, on November 9, 1989, thousands of people heard news that a change in travel had come and that people would be able to cross the border freely.
East Berliners rushed to a bridge located at the Bornholmer Straße border crossing and demanded that guards let them pass. Even without official orders, the guards relented.
They let more than 20,000 people into the West, making Bornholmer Straße the first border crossing to open in the city. Today, the "Platz des 9. November 1989" outdoor exhibition chronicles these events and also details how the border crossing was built.
Bornholmer Straße, Bornholmer Str.
When the city was divided, the Berlin border ran directly across a row of apartments on Mitte's Bernauer Straße. While one side of the building was situated in the East, another side faced the West — and the windows and doors there provided ways for residents to flee.
They slid down ropes and jumped from balconies into rescue nets set up by fire departments in the West, risking serious injuries. Eventually, all of the building's windows and doors leading to the West were blocked and boarded up and the remaining tenants had to move.
Today, a small, interactive exhibition located where the foundation of the building remains gives visitors a chance to watch video and listen to audio that describes how people made their escape.
Berlin Wall Memorial Historical Site At Bernauer Straße, Bernauer Str. 111, +49 030 467 98 66-66, info@stiftung-berliner-mauer.de


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But servers are now performing not so well, to put it like that.
So my question is, can we expect a Exile update which fixes the simulation issues?


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Q: embedded database hsqldb hibernate persistance im trying to persist a blob of size 27Kb to an embedded database (for test purposes) but hibernate is creating the blob field with limit of 255 (e.g. creation sql contains "blob (255)"). Can this be rectified?
Can the default blob size be changed.
I have found a solution with annotations
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but this is not ideal as file limit must be very large.
I am currently using the spring jdbc embedded database
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Prime Minister meets Canadian counterpart, Zambian President
PM Pham Minh Chinh had separate meetings with his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau and Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema on November 2 on the sidelines of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26).
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (L) and his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh had separate meetings with his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau and Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema on November 2 on the sidelines of the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26).
During Chinh's meeting with Trudeau, the two sides expressed their delight at the development of the Vietnam-Canada comprehensive partnership in all fields, and agreed to further the bilateral cooperation.
They vowed to actively implement and promote the efficiency of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) to which both countries are signatories, and strive to bring two-way trade to over 8 billion USD.
Chinh proposed Canada open up market for Vietnamese agro-aquatic products, hoping that Canadian enterprises will intensify investments in the Southeast Asian nation.
The two leaders agreed that the two countries should speed up negotiations to recognise each other's green visas and vaccine passports. The Vietnamese leader asked Canada to assist Vietnam in reforming and perfecting institutions, technology and green finance, and training human resources in climate change response and innovation.
The two sides shared the view on maintaining peace and stability and promoting legitimate and lawful interests on the basis of complying with international law for common peace and prosperity. Trudeau affirmed the spirit of the rule of law, and the importance of promoting a rules-based world order.
Chinh proposed Canada create favourable conditions for the Vietnamese community to live, work and study in the country, while Trudeau affirmed his willingness to provide training for Vietnamese students as well as to promote people-to-people exchanges with Vietnam.
At his meeting with Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema, PM Chinh congratulated him on his election. The President of Zambia expressed his admiration for Vietnam's impressive and fast development, and proposed the two sides intensify cooperation in trade.
The two leaders agreed to assign the two Foreign Ministries to set up channels for the exchange and sharing of development experience./.
Pham Minh Chinh
Sovereignty over cyberspace an important part of national sovereignty: official
POLITICSicon 09/12/2021
Ensuring sovereignty in cyberspace helps to protect national sovereignty, said head of the Party Central Committee's Commission for Information and Education Nguyen Trong Nghia.
Vietnam urges enhanced awareness, enforcement of UNCLOS
Vietnam called for promoting the awareness and enforcement of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) while attending a plenary meeting at the UN General Assembly's 76th session on December 7.
Vietnam, New Zealand sign action programme to promote strategic partnership
Vietnam and New Zealand on December 8 signed the Vietnam - New Zealand Action Program for the 2021-2024 period through an online platform, with a view to carrying out the strategic partnership between the two nations.
Urgent issues expected to be submitted to NA's extraordinary session
The 15th National Assembly (NA) will consider a range of important issues that will be submitted to the legislature by the Government for consideration and decision at the next extraordinary meeting scheduled to take place in the coming time.
Party Chief highlights traditional friendship with Laos
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong met Chairman of the Lao National Assembly Xaysomphone Phomvihane in Hanoi on Tuesday.
WHO hails Vietnam's willingness to share technologies in COVID-19 fight
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has highly valued Vietnam's innovation spirit and willingness to share COVID-19 prevention and control technologies.
Vietnam's top leaders welcome Lao National Assembly President
President Nguyen Xuan Phuc affirmed Vietnam's consistent policy of prioritising and developing special solidarity with Laos while receiving President of the Lao National Assembly Saysomphone Phomvihane in Hanoi on Monday.
NA Chairman: fiscal policy plays leading role in harmonization with monetary policy
National Assembly Chair Vuong Dinh Hue has asked commercial banks to share difficulties with businesses, stressing that such support will also help themselves and that banks cannot have profits without businesses.
Government urged to launch economic stimulus package
National Assembly deputies have recommended that the Government design an economic stimulus package, but both the Government and the National Assembly have yet to discuss the topic.
Why has Da Nang taken the lead in digital transformation?
Since 2010, Da Nang has identified information and communication technology as one of the three strategic breakthroughs in socio-economic development.
No one must be left without food or clothes after floods: PM
Efforts must be exerted so nobody is left without food, clothes or shelter after the recent floods, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh ordered on December 5.
Vietnamese President's Russia visit impressive: Russian legislator
Andrey Vladimirovich Yatskin, First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Federation (upper house) of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. said that the Vietnam-Russia relationship is experiencing a period of strong growth.
President's visits to Switzerland, Russia produce fruitful outcomes: Deputy FM
President Nguyen Xuan Phuc's visits to Switzerland and Russia were a success with specific outcomes, Deputy Foreign Minister To Anh Dung said in an interview granted to the press following the visits.
NA Chairman chairs meeting on special policies in COVID-19 fight
National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue chaired a meeting on December 3 to discuss the Government's proposal on several special mechanisms and policies in the fight against COVID-19.
State leader concludes Russian visit with great success
President Nguyen Xuan Phuc arrived in Hanoi on December 3, concluding his official visit to Russia at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has requested consistently pursuing the policy of safely, flexibly adapting to and effectively controlling COVID-19 pandemic.
Vietnam approves ASEAN agreements aiming at facilitating traveling among member states
The Government has just issued Resolution 150/NQ-CP approving the ASEAN Framework Agreement on the Facilitation of Cross-border Transport of Passengers by Road Vehicles (CBTP).
Strong solutions to be rolled out in next two years to recover economy
A programme on economic recovery and development is scheduled to be submitted to the National Assembly's extraordinary session in late 2021, heard the Government's regular press conference on December 2.
Russian investments are 'precious bricks' that build Vietnam-Russia relations
President Nguyen Xuan Phuc said that Russian enterprises investing in Vietnam are not only international investors but also close friends who contribute to the building of the traditional relationship between the two countries.
Impressions of Vietnamese President's official visit to Switzerland
Swiss President Guy Parmelin believes that President Nguyen Xuan Phuc's visit will be a new development step in Vietnam-Switzerland relations.


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Give us more money, say peer-run harm reduction groups like SOLID.
An employee prepares injection equipment at an injection site. | Image source, CP.
As a new safe consumption site opened its doors in Victoria last week, marking a new wave of government funding to battle British Columbia's overdose crisis, drug users say their own peer-run programs are being kept at arm's length, and may be missing out on some life-saving resources.
With the largest injection site on Vancouver Island now up and running, focus has shifted to a second stream of funding, an extra $1.65 million the province allocated "for community-led responses to the opioid overdose crisis." The announcements come in the wake of more staggering illicit drug overdoses in the province—so far there's been 511 illicit drug overdose deaths in BC as of April 30, and Victoria has seen 39 overdose deaths already this year.
The new money is undoubtedly good news; however, some peer-harm reduction groups like the Society of Living Intravenous Drug Users (SOLID) say they're still falling short of the resources and staff they need to combat the overdose crisis—mainly because of how it's distributed. Their main issue with funding model is outlined in a letter to the Overdose Emergency Response Centre (OERC) signed by several drug user groups, including SOLID's programs director Jack Phillips, and the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU).
Photos of the new permanent consumption site in Victoria | Image courtesy of Island Health.
SOLID and groups like VANDU have been meeting with officials to address the issue, but for now funding remains a constant hurdle in battle against overdoses on BC's streets. Part of the reason for this is how severe the crisis has become. Mark Willson, the operations director at SOLID, said that "the context has changed a lot" when it comes to what SOLID is doing in the wake of the overdose crisis. "Now we're shifting pretty much into preventing death," he said.
SOLID has been around since 2003 and consists of current or former illicit drug users in Victoria. They also have a presence and chapter in Nanaimo. Currently, the group consists of 14 or so paid employees, and another 15 to 20 core volunteers. Their overall aim is to provide peer-harm reduction strategies to the local community.
Willson added that the entire notion of a drug user organization is rare and different, but it is a "movement" and he says "there is a recognition from the health authority that you need these organizations to support people." Yet, Willson adds that there is a gap somewhere along the way between groups like SOLID and local health authorities.
SOLID gets their funding through contracts from the local health authorities. Currently, SOLID has several contracts, including: a bloodborne disease contract that includes volunteer outreach which includes needle pickup and group therapy programs for Hep-C and indigenous support groups. They also have a contract with the Portland Hotel Society that includes "inreach" and support in the private injection site; most recently, they've been given a full-time seven-day a week contract with new permanent site beside Our Place Society.
In addition to their contracts, SOLID is also research partners with the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research (CISUR) at the University of Victoria; they also offer naloxone training, distribute safe drug supplies (pipes and syringes) and do housing outreach with BC Housing.
SOLID also has a street college program that acts as street outreach and education: "Our street college program is huge. That's our core of our community street college. It turns into leadership..." said Paige Phillips who is the health and education coordinator at SOLID.
Paige also recently became VAT certified (Vulnerability Assessment Tool) which is a big deal for SOLID as it now gives them some more legitimacy in the eyes of detox centres and BC Housing. In essence, SOLID is "now a legitimate service provider" in both the medical and legal system.
Photos of the new permanent consumption site in Victoria. | Image courtesy of Island Health.
In addition to the therapy program and community outreach, SOLID is also piloting ethical research on a cannabis substitution program. On an almost daily basis, SOLID has anywhere from 80-100 people lineup to receive cannabis in various forms. "Cannabis is very valuable as a pain reliever, with all the obvious things, eat, sleep, trauma relief, psychic pain, these are things that cannabis helps with, but it also really helps with the physical pain of withdrawal," Jack told VICE.
SOLID receives donations from local dispensaries and relies heavily on volunteers to run the weed substitution program. One woman I spoke to said the CSP has helped her kick a $500-dollar-a-day crack habit. She's now primarily using cannabis and methadone to try and get clean.
But there's still more barriers to be broken and one of the biggest obstacles in SOLID's growth is acquiring extra funding for programs like CSP. Jack also told VICE that funding is impacting how many people SOLID can employee and manage, as the current lack of funding is impacting the amount of volunteers they can have working at any one time. In short, more funding would mean more staff to manage SOLID's outreach and its volunteers.
Island Health was also hesitant to address the funding issue directly to VICE, the following is their e-mailed answer to the funding claims by SOLID: "There is no one solution to the opioid crisis, but there are effective tools and partnerships. Island Health provides funding for peer supports across the continuum," replied Meribeth Burton, Media Relations at Island Health.
Ultimately, it's clear the groups like SOLID are valued by local and provincial health authorities for their awareness of what's happening on the front lines of the overdose crisis. However, the worry is that further bureaucratizing response to the illicit drug overdose crisis might stall the progress groups like SOLID are trying to make. SOLID's Willson warned that this bureaucratic takeover of harm reduction is not what was originally intended at the grassroots level.


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The removal of short fibers or noils from material so that the resulting yarn be composed of larger fibers. The comb straightens and arranges them in parallel order.
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, is defined as a cluster of diseases in which there is a blockage in the airflow and the person experiences issues related to breathing. This includes breathing ailments like emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Around 16 million Americans experience breathing trouble or breathlessness who is suffering from COPD.
What age does COPD usually start?
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What is the main cause of COPD?
There are several causes that results in COPD but smoking is considered as the major cause of causing COPD which affects 9 in every 10 people. The chemicals that are emitted from the smoke are very harmful which can destroy the lining of the lungs and a person's airways.
What are the early warning signs of COPD?
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is classified as a serious and developing condition of the lung. There will be certain signs and symptoms of this disease. Followings are the primary signs of this disease to look for-
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However, timely and early analysis and suitable action and plan of treatment can considerably refine the outlook of the person.
Can you live a normal life with COPD?
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is quite a tough disease, but that does not hamper the normal ways of a regular life. The severity of this disease can be managed with the help of a proper plan of diet, the perfect care, and endurance; You can continue to live a normal life. It is at times noticed that working out plan gets tough. A person may get affected with more infections.
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Why Trump has U.S. car companies worried about NAFTA
by Patrick Gillespie @CNNMoney November 28, 2017: 12:09 PM ET
NAFTA explained
American car companies have a message for President Trump: Pump the brakes.
Trump's trade negotiators are proposing a major change to NAFTA, the trade pact between the U.S., Canada and Mexico, that worries U.S. car companies.
Trump considers NAFTA the worst trade agreement in U.S. history and says it led to a huge loss of manufacturing jobs, despite nonpartisan research that points to the contrary. His administration sees a change in how cars are manufactured -- under what's known as "rules of origin" -- as critical to creating more U.S. manufacturing jobs.
Auto executives don't seem to agree.
Industry representatives met with Vice President Mike Pence on Monday. After thanking Pence for his time and applauding the "modernization" of NAFTA, Matt Blunt, president of the American Automotive Policy Council ended his statement saying, "we also appreciate the opportunity to directly address the industry's concerns with the administration's rule of origin proposal." The AAPC represents Ford, General Motors and Fiat Chrysler.
Related: NAFTA talks are in trouble
Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, who is leading Canada's NAFTA delegation, punctuated the point last week.
"On rules of origin we have heard from the auto sector not only in Canada but also in the United States that some of the proposals that we have heard would not only be harmful for Canada but would be harmful for the U.S. as well," Freeland said.
Here is what rule of origin means
Under the current law, about 62% of the parts in any car sold in North America must be produced in the region or automakers have to pay import taxes.
It doesn't matter if the parts were made in the U.S., Mexico or Canada, so long as they were manufactured in North America.
The idea was to create a supply chain across the three countries to make companies more competitive.
Related: Trump's trade issues: Where they stand
The Trump administration's major change
American negotiators have proposed raising the threshold to 85% of car parts from 62%.
Additionally, they want half of all parts sourced from North America to come specifically from the United States, and the rest to come from Mexico and Canada.
"These are proposals that we simply cannot agree to," Freeland said at the end of the Round 5 of NAFTA talks.
Why U.S. car companies might be concerned
Forcing car companies to manufacture more of their cars in the United States could result in more jobs, but it could also lead to more expensive cars. Trade experts say if car prices go up, sales would drop and auto companies wouldn't be able to compete as well in regions outside North America.
Some experts also caution that forcing more production in the United States would likely cause U.S. car companies to automate more of their production, making some jobs obsolete.
Again, the threshold on rule of origin -- currently about 62% -- is just to avoid paying import taxes. Right now, U.S. car companies have an incentive to avoid the tax and buy some American-made car parts because they're accustomed to the 62% level.
Related: Canada fights back against Trump tariffs
But if the threshold rises to 85%, trade experts say the incentive to not pay the tax goes away because car companies would have to drastically change where they source car parts.
Faced with that scenario, car companies may prefer to just pay the tax, which is about 2.5% for cars, than bring jobs back.
"It's just not going to serve the Trump administration's stated end, which is to provide incentives for expanded production in the United States," says Edward Alden, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Blok serca przedsionkowo-komorowy (łac. dissociatio atrioventricularis) – jest to czasowe, napadowe lub stałe zaburzenie przewodzenia bodźców z węzła przedsionkowo-komorowego do roboczego mięśnia komór, przebiegający w 3 stopniach zaawansowania:
 Blok przedsionkowo-komorowy I stopnia polega na przedłużeniu czasu przewodzenia między przedsionkami a roboczym mięśniem komór. Wszystkie pobudzenia powstające w przedsionkach przewodzone są do komór. Blok I stopnia charakteryzuje się w badaniu EKG wydłużeniem odstępu PQ powyżej 0,2 s.
 Blok przedsionkowo-komorowy II stopnia:
 blok typu Mobitz I (dawniej: Wenckebacha), charakteryzujący się stopniowym, z każdą ewolucją serca, wydłużaniem odstępu PQ, aż do wypadnięcia zespołu QRS (tzw. periodyka Wenckebacha).
 blok typu Mobitz II (dawniej: Mobitza), polegający na całkowitym wypadnięciu zespołu QRS, pomimo powstałego bodźca przedsionkowego. Charakteryzuje się tym, że po kilku załamkach P następuje brak zespołu QRS. W zależności od stosunku liczby załamków P do liczby zespołów QRS mówimy o typie bloku, najczęściej 3:2, 4:3, 5:4. Jeżeli zespoły QRS nie pojawiają się po przynajmniej dwóch kolejnych załamkach P mówimy o zaawansowanym bloku II stopnia.
 blok 2:1 – w przypadku sytuacji, gdzie w EKG widoczne są dwa załamki P na każdy zespół QRS nie jest możliwe wyróżnienie typu bloku wyłącznie na podstawie załamków P.

 Blok przedsionkowo-komorowy III stopnia polega na zupełnie nieskoordynowanej pracy przedsionków i komór, czemu towarzyszy niezależne występowanie, odpowiadającym im w badaniu EKG, załamków P i zespołów QRS. Częstotliwość rytmu komór jest wolniejsza niż przedsionków.

Etiologia
 blok wrodzony (np. zespół Holt-Orama)
 niedokrwienie mięśnia sercowego
 kardiomiopatie
 zmiany zwyrodnieniowe układu przewodzącego (choroba Lenègre'a, choroba Leva)
 uszkodzenia pozabiegowe, ablacja łącza przedsionkowo-komorowego
 guzy serca
 leki (β-blokery, werapamil, diltiazem, glikozydy naparstnicy, leki antyarytmiczne klasy I, amiodaron)
 hiperkaliemia
 choroby układowe (sarkoidoza, kolagenozy)
 niedoczynność tarczycy
 borelioza
 zaburzenia układu wegetatywnego (sportowcy, niekiedy u zdrowych osób w trakcie snu)

Leczenie
 przewlekły blok I stopnia oraz blok II stopnia typu Mobitz I najczęściej nie wymagają postępowania leczniczego, a jedynie okresowej kontroli. Należy dążyć do odstawienia leków zwalniających przewodzenie przedsionkowo-komorowe, zwłaszcza gdy odstęp PQ wynosi > 0,24-0,26 s.
 u chorych z blokiem II stopnia typu Mobitz II oraz blokiem III stopnia zwykle istnieją wskazania do wszczepienia stymulatora serca, głównie ze względu na niebezpieczeństwo wystąpienia groźnych zaburzeń rytmu (np. torsade de pointes) oraz objawowej bradykardii (tzw. napady MAS).

Zobacz też

 bloki śródkomorowe
 elektrokardiografia

Przypisy

Bibliografia

Zaburzenia rytmu serca i przewodzenia

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Author Kevin Kwan's books are 'funny, entertaining, and universal'
Anand Raj OK Feb 13, 2018
Bestselling author Kevin Kwan's books reveal a world of hidden wealth and privilege in Asia, discovers Anand Raj OK
Author Kevin Kwan will be speaking at the Emirates lit fest
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Kevin Kwan's home in New York's Greenwich Village is, by his own admission, a modest one. 'It's a very simple apartment filled mostly with far too many books and art I've collected over the years, and I have a view of the Empire State Building out my living room window,' says the bestselling author.
'For many years before I moved to New York, my dream was to live in the Village and be in the midst of all that history—the amazing artists and writers who made their home here.'
Kevin says with pride that 'Bob Dylan played his first concert at a café a block away from my apartment; writers like Jack Kerouac and Joan Didion hung out at the café around the corner. I still pinch myself sometimes that I get to live here.'
His apartment, however, is a far cry from the homes he features in his bestselling fictional work such as Crazy Rich Asians and China Rich Girlfriend.
Wallowing in wealth and luxurious ostentation, his characters live in mansions that could make Mukesh Ambani's $1billion pad that boasts three helipads and a 50-seater home theatre appear like a well-furnished basement.
Peik Lin Goh's house in Crazy Rich Asians, for instance, boasts an entrance reminiscent of The Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, a sunken pond in the living room with baby sharks, while just about every tchotchke in the house is gold-plated.
Another character has private hangars in his garden for his three airplanes. Yet another thinks nothing of demanding that a high-end hospital cardiac unit be relocated into her mansion.
Kevin, known for portraying lives, albeit fictional, of the East's uber rich, admits that the inspiration for Peik's living room was a Singaporean friend's house he once visited as a child. Does he still see such houses in Singapore?
'Absolutely,' says the author, who will be a speaker at the Emirates Airline festival of Literature. 'And I think they have become even more extreme in their luxury.'
How extreme?
'I really shouldn't go into too much detail out of respect to the privacy of the home owners,' says the writer, extremely guarded in his response. 'But let's just say that I've seen homes with art collections that belong in the Louvre, and some spaces that are so fantastical, they would make a James Bond villain envious.'
Kevin, who grew up in Singapore before emigrating to Texas in the US with his two older brothers, engineer father and piano teacher mother, had the opportunity to view of some of the most luxurious homes in the island nation up close, and meet some extremely HNWIs (High Net Worth Individuals or 'henweeis,' as one of his characters says) thanks to his well-connected family that included politicians and respected doctors.
Passionate about writing even when he was young, he pursued it seriously majoring in creative writing at university.
'But I reached a point in my early twenties where I felt like I had nothing left to write about and I needed to LIVE for a while before I could write again.'
Living, in Kevin's frame of reference, meant moving to New York where he enrolled at the Parsons School of Design to pursue a course in photography. '[There] I had a whole other life as a photographer and a creative director,' says the writer.
Also read: Author Chetan Bhagat reveals what his USP is
In the Big Apple, Kevin worked as a creative consultant for media houses including Andy Warhol's Interview Magazine and Ted.com. But in 2009, he took a year and half off work to care for his father who was battling lung cancer. 'When he passed in 2010, I began writing my first novel as a way to cope with the grief and to make myself laugh again,' says Kevin.
He would end up laughing all the way to the bank.
A phenomenal bestseller, his debut novel Crazy Rich Asians, a fictional if outrageous romp through the world of the rich and famous, told the story of three immensely rich Chinese families and their machinations when the heir to one of the families brings his girlfriend home to attend a glitzy wedding.
Kevin says he was lucky to see his debut book published in 2013. 'I have to admit I was miraculously lucky,' he exults. 'My good friend Michael Korda, the author and legendary editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster, was one of my early champions and handed my manuscript to his literary agency Janklow & Nesbit. From there it found its way to Alexandra Machinist, the amazing woman who became my agent. She sold it to Jenny Jackson at Knopf Doubleday, who remains my wonderful editor to this day. It all happened in three weeks.'
The success of the novel also spurred him to make his debut work part one of a trilogy. China Rich Girlfriend followed two years later in 2015 and Rich People Problems hit the stands last year. These two novels, too, zoomed to the top of bestseller charts firmly cementing Kevin's position on the international bestselling authors' list.
Kevin believes that a reason for his books' popularity is the universal appeal of the stories. 'I think while I revealed a world of hidden wealth and privilege in Asia that no one had ever written about before, the story itself was funny, entertaining, and universal. Readers from so many different countries have told me the same thing: "We're not rich, and we're not Asian, but my crazy family is just like the one in your books!"'
Some people have even written in to him insisting that their life mirrors closely the lives of some characters in his novels, wondering how Kevin had come to know them so intimately. In fact, for a long time, a popular pastime among his readers was to guess which real-life person was being caricatured in his novels.
And Kevin was savouring the experience. 'Writing the book became an escape for me,' says Kevin. 'At no point did I ever feel like giving up. I truly enjoyed every moment of writing it. It was a passion project that I never expected to get published in the first place.'
Although some scenes in his novels border on the unreal and hperbole - for instance, in Crazy Rich Asians, Kwan details an incident where the hero's father buys an entire London hotel on a whim because he feels slighted – the author says he himself is not really overawed by displays of ostentation.
'I'm not really impressed by ostentation or spending in and of themselves,' says Kevin. 'So, in order to leave me gobsmacked, there needs to be an element of the unexpected or human comedy: a family of toothless people who look like they just climbed out of a coal mine spending a million dollars at Giorgio Armani comes to mind; the Parisian [diva] who grabbed my cell phone from my hand and made a lunch reservation for me at Paris' most exclusive restaurant when she overheard me struggling through my jetlag to speak French; the family that built an incredible modern masterpiece of a house just for their dogs and staffed it with an army of dog nannies twenty-four hours a day.'
As part of the groundwork for his second novel China Rich Girlfriend, Kevin reportedly spent a lot of time rubbing shoulders with China's nouveau riche leaving him with some memorable experiences. 'I'll share one story,' he says.
'I was invited to visit a private club that was so incredibly exclusive, it only has eight members. But these eight members were eight of the wealthiest and influential individuals in the country. 'The club was situated in the most exquisite historical mansion that had been painstakingly restored. I was treated to an [elaborate] tea ceremony and felt like I had stepped back into the Ming dynasty as I strolled through the grounds. The member who invited me pointed out exceedingly rare trees in the gardens that were hundreds of years old and each worth millions.'
Having seen so much of wealth and luxury up close, has his definition of riches changed?
'To me, the definition of a rich life is getting to spend time with the people I love. These days, time is the ultimate luxury,' says Kevin.
These days, he is also busy working on a television show. 'It's something I've created for STX Entertainment,' he says. 'It's a one-hour dramatic scripted series, and I hope that this year will be all about writing the first season of the show and going into production.'


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Q: What is the number of ways to select ten distinct letters from the alphabet $\{a, b, c, \ldots, z\}$, if no two consecutive letters can be selected?
What is the number of ways to select ten distinct letters from the alphabet $\{a, b, c, \ldots, z\}$, if no two consecutive letters can be selected?

There are a couple of formulas that I could use, but I am not sure how to use them.

The number of combinations of a given length that use elements from a given set, allowing repetition and with no missing elements in other words, each element of the given set occurs at least once in each combination: $\binom{k-1}{n-1}$ where where $n$ is the number of elements in the given set and $k$ is the length of the combination.

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The number of combinations of a given length that use elements from a given set, allowing repetition: $\binom{n+k-1}{n-1}=\binom{n+k-1}{k}$ where $n$ is number of elements in the given set and $k$ is the length of the combination.

Please help me understand what I should do and how to go about solving this question?

A: Here is another ways of visualizing the problem.  First, we arrange $16$ blue balls and $10$ green balls so that no two of the green balls are consecutive. Then we label the balls.
Line up $16$ blue balls, leaving spaces between successive balls and at the ends of the row.  There are $17$ such spaces, $15$ between successive blue balls and two at the ends of the row.
$$\square \color{blue}{\bullet} \square \color{blue}{\bullet} \square \color{blue}{\bullet} \square \color{blue}{\bullet} \square \color{blue}{\bullet} \square \color{blue}{\bullet} \square \color{blue}{\bullet} \square \color{blue}{\bullet} \square \color{blue}{\bullet} \square \color{blue}{\bullet} \square \color{blue}{\bullet} \square \color{blue}{\bullet} \square \color{blue}{\bullet} \square \color{blue}{\bullet} \square \color{blue}{\bullet} \square \color{blue}{\bullet} \square$$
To ensure that no two of the ten green balls are adjacent, we choose $10$ of these $17$ spaces in which to insert a green ball, which can be done in
$$\binom{17}{10}$$
ways.  Next, we label the balls from left to right.  The letters on the green balls are the desired subset of the alphabet in which no two of the selected letters are consecutive.  For instance,
$$\color{green}{\bullet} \color{blue}{\bullet} \color{green}{\bullet} \color{blue}{\bullet} \color{blue}{\bullet} \color{blue}{\bullet} \color{green}{\bullet} \color{blue}{\bullet} \color{blue}{\bullet} \color{green}{\bullet} \color{blue}{\bullet} \color{green}{\bullet} \color{blue}{\bullet} \color{green}{\bullet} \color{blue}{\bullet}  \color{blue}{\bullet} \color{blue}{\bullet} \color{green}{\bullet} \color{blue}{\bullet} \color{green}{\bullet} \color{blue}{\bullet} \color{green}{\bullet} \color{blue}{\bullet} \color{green}{\bullet} \color{blue}{\bullet}  \color{blue}{\bullet}$$
corresponds to the selection $\{A, C, G, J, L, N, R, T, V, X\}$.

A: A similar question was asked a while ago, where $r$ non-consecutive numbers had to be selected from $n$ numbers. Basically, the problem at hand can be converted to a stars-and-bars problem with $11$ slots and $10$ bars, where the bars represent the indices of the selected letters. The remaining 16 letters must be divided among the $11$ slots, with at least one letter in each of the $9$ slots in the middle. Once one letter is placed in each of these slots, there are $26 - 10 - 9 = 7$ letters left. As such, the number of ways to select $10$ non-consecutive letters from the alphabet equals:
$${7 + 10 \choose 10} = {17 \choose 10} = 19448$$

A: Having chosen 10 non consecutive letters from the alphabet, see how the gaps created by them will look like. There will be 10 gaps such that no two are adjacent and 16 letters. Thus the number of ways of selecting 10 non consecutive letters is same as putting 10 "gaps" in a sequence of 16 letters so that no two are consecutive. Thus we must choose from the 15 in-between gaps among the 16 letters and the two at the ends. Thus the number of ways is $\binom{17}{10}$


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Successfully performs all facilities maintenance activities according to Manufacturer guidelines, Company standards, and industry best practices.
Troubleshoots, repairs, and maintains buildings, building infrastructure, and roofing.
Performs painting, carpentry, minor plumbing, masonry, and electrical work.
Replaces electrical features such as, but not limited to, receptacles, wires, switches, and motors.
Repairs minor damage to walls using plaster or compound.
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Ability to troubleshoot facilities-related infrastructure problems, operate maintenance test equipment and portable power tools, and identify problem/cause/solution.
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This blog post provides a video followed by concise tips for leaders at startups and early-stage companies to consider when getting a data science team off the ground. Tips covered include timing, hiring, processes, and technology.
An increasing number of startups and early-stage companies are realizing they need to tap into data science to grow or stay competitive. They've recognized that collecting and storing data is fruitless unless it can drive insights that propel the business forward. If you're a manager charged with building a data science team from scratch, or expanding a fledgling one, it can be hard to get the timing right or know what to prioritize. This blog post will help you ensure you're investing in the right people, processes and technology to make your young team flourish.
Don't launch a data science team just because everyone seems to be doing it. You're jumping in too early if you haven't been collecting any data or haven't gleaned basic business intelligence from the information you have. You need to understand what's happening today before building tools to predict what's next.
There are no unicorns. You probably won't find someone who excels at dissecting high-level problems, strategizing about moving the business forward, pitching the team's work to other stakeholders, doing the heavy lifting technically and integrating tools into existing production systems. Instead, think of the team as a balanced organism in which people with different strengths come together symbiotically.
Reflect deeply on your existing skill set and what you need to round out the team. If you have a savvy leadership that knows exactly what problems they want a data scientist to tackle, hire a technical-leaning person first. If you're having trouble integrating data science into the business, prioritize a hire that can cultivate those relationships and spark cultural change. Avoid bringing on a junior data scientist without a strong mentor. People that are scrappy, business-curious and low-ego will be an asset in a young team. And don't underestimate the importance of diversity in fostering better outcomes, even in a small team.
Data scientists are in high demand, so you'll probably have to do some wooing. Pitch potential hires on the opportunity to work on problems that impact the business, and assure them that they'll have access to interesting data to do so. Strong candidates want to know that data science is a priority at the company, not a buzzword. Give them concrete examples of projects they could work on to drive revenue and value. Invite them to spend a day getting to know the team. Communicate that the company will see them not as a cog in the machine but as a thought worker with a seat at the table.
While interviewing candidates, don't just ask about their technical skills. How well can they get to the heart of problems they could be tackling? How effectively can they communicate the importance of their work? How well can they prioritize? After all, solving the right problems and selling data science to business stakeholders are key aspects of the job.
Try to give new hires access to data and business stakeholders on Day One. Get them involved in meetings that will help them understand pressing business concerns, and give them examples of how data science insights have impacted the company in the past. Acquaint them with the standard suite of tools your team uses, but leave room for flexibility and experimentation. New hires will be happier and more productive if they can leverage tools they already know. Make sure newbies understand how they will be evaluated.
With a small team, you won't be able to do everything. Identify one or two priorities that have buy-in from executive stakeholders. Ideally, these priorities will also have clear business value and relatively short timelines, and they won't require vast changes in how other teams operate. Before you start a project, take time to ensure you're solving the right problem. Be clear on who you're building for and how it's going to help the business. If you take six months to build a "perfect" model, it could be obsolete by the time you finish. Being late to the game will also hurt your credibility, because your work will no longer be relevant and the business will have moved on.
Deploy products early and often. Data science is about experimentation, and most experiments fail. Identify the flops quickly so you can course correct. Find ways to shorten the feedback loop. For example, consider a first iteration that is pure business logic, rather than an algorithm, or provide opportunities for soft launches. And make sure you celebrate experiments that lead to no results to encourage bold experimentation.
Collaboration is also critical to working efficiently and making an impact. Working together allows your team to tackle bigger problems, leverage individual strengths and avoid depending too much on one person. Collaborative data science involves ensuring repeatability (the same process produces the same outputs), reproducibility (team members can easily recreate statistical tests, empirical experiments and computational functions), and replicability (the same experiment can be repeated twice, collecting and analyzing data in the same way and arriving at the same results).
Provide opportunities, such as "lunch and learns," that encourages team members to share their work in a supportive environment. Establish frequent communication with the business side to get buy-in and feedback (don't forget to use language they understand and tie everything to business objectives). The strongest data science teams are proactive partners in business discussions rather than request-fillers.
Don't make the mistake of thinking your team is too small to adopt best practices for documentation, code review and feedback. It will be harder to change behavior down the line, and insights you generate could end up being a cornerstone of the business. Failing to install good systems early could mean losing institutional knowledge or going down pointless rabbit holes.
Having a centralized team is important for facilitating collaboration, building on existing work, improving quality through code reviews and providing career development pathways. Meanwhile, embedding data scientists in various divisions steeps them in that aspect of the business and generates better innovations. A happy medium is the hybrid "hub and spoke" model: Team members spend two or three days embedded with a team, and the rest of the week sitting with their data science colleagues.
Selecting the best technology for your team will have a massive impact on its success. The right data science platform will help integrate new hires, make your team more efficient and enable collaboration — so you can quickly make a visible impact.
Some companies can take up to six weeks to onboard new team members, wasting precious time. If past data sources, experiments and discussions are stored on individual desktops or lost in email chains, they can be difficult or impossible to trace. The solution is a data science platform that automatically stores existing data, tools, connections, packages, libraries and code. That means new team members are up and running in days. Since they can easily reproduce previous experiments and view past results, they're in a position to start contributing immediately.
Data scientists also want to use familiar tools. Pick a platform that allows new hires to stick with their preferred programming languages and software while supplementing gaps in knowledge, such as working with Git or AWS.
A data science platform can help iteration happen quickly by allowing your team to efficiently run and track multiple experiments at the same time. It can also allow you to easily share and discuss results with colleagues and business stakeholders. Choose a platform that can communicate results to non-technical users without overwhelming them with the complex model behind the scenes. Sharing your work through easy-to-digest visualizations, interactive dashboards and web apps will do wonders to get buy-in across the company. Getting feedback in real time will also keep your team from going off course and will speed up development cycles.
With a small team, you don't want aspects of your work to become dependent on a single member who can leave at any time. A data science platform that automatically maintains a system of record ensures everyone's contributions remain an asset of the company. The archive also prevents the team from reinventing the wheel or losing the knowledge underlying a key revenue-driver. Choose a platform that tracks code, data, environments and other factors in one place, without anyone having to input them manually.
A growing number of companies are recognizing the value of investing in data science. But launching or building a new team can be daunting. Creating an effective data science team requires getting your timing right, attracting the best people and integrating them seamlessly. It also means focusing on key problems and establishing practices that enable your team to collaborate and quickly make an impact. Adopting the right data science platform can help your budding team thrive.
If you are looking for additional and in-depth insight to help data science leaders identify existing gaps and direct future data science investment, download Domino's whitepaper, Data Science Maturity Model.


When faced with implementing change, conversations can be time savers and essential to success.
Santa Fe High School joined a network of schools that helped the school identify problems of practice and use a backmapping model to plan a great year of growing teacher capacity and student learning.
Investing resources in policy advocacy helps ensure that all teachers and education leaders have the support and resources needed to operate with the best practices possible.
Technology is increasingly used to enhance learning experiences, but it hasn't changed the nature of learning. Instead, it gives learners something they haven't had before.
Explore the need to learn with colleagues around the world and extend our reach as we influence the future of professional learning and understand its evolution and impact.
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