Our program size allows us to work closely with our students, both on campus and online, as they develop critical thinking skills, improve writing mechanics, and become informed readers. Lower division courses are usually limited to 35 students, while upper division courses frequently enroll between 10-15 students.
Where can History take you?
Above find a great podcast series on careers for historians.
Many of our students go on to graduate school, law school, or become teachers at the elementary or secondary level. This is because the history major emphasizes the continuity of culture by providing a historical background for the study of other disciplines and the tools necessary for responsible citizenship. It also helps to prepare students for careers in teaching, public service, consulting, research, museums, archives, and libraries, and provides a liberal education as a basis for entering a variety of careers such as public administration, business, and law.
There are many great opportunities to engage with a community around History programs and beyond with LiveStream presentations and ongoing visiting lecturers.
The 2019 Phi Alpha Theta Pacific Northwest Regional Conference, hosted by Idaho State University, will take place April 12-13 on the ISU campus in Pocatello, Idaho. Abstracts will be due in February and final conference papers in March. Stay tuned for more information!
Dr. Jason Knirck of Central Washington University presents "The Irish Revolution and World History." Thursday, May 18, 3:00, Pierce Library.
In addition to the variety of scholarships available at EOU, Full-time students who are researching history are encouraged to apply for The Oregon Heritage Fellowship.
EOU graduates in History find their way into some diverse and wonderful education and career paths. Deneil Hill (2010) recently received the Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women's Studies for her dissertation project, "Shifting Feminist Visions at the UN: Self-Determination, Sexuality and Human Rights, 1975-1995."
Established in 1921, Phi Alpha Theta is the nation's premier history honor society. It is the charter member of the Association of College Honor Societies, the nation's only certifying agency for college and university honor societies, which sets standards for scholastic eligibility and organizational excellence.


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[monday, october 28, 2013]
Friday's Cable Ratings & Broadcast Finals: "Shark Tank" Tops Demos for Sixth Straight Week
Plus: numbers for TLC's "Secret Princes," WE tv's "Kendra on Top" and Travel's "Ghost Adventures."
"Gold Rush" #1 Series in Persons, Men and Women 25-54 on Cable Friday, Oct. 25
Discovery spins the numbers for Friday, October 25.
2013 World Series on FOX Continues Impressive Prime Time Performance
"Elementary" Delivers Its Largest 7-Day Viewer Lift Ever and Is Biggest Percentage Gainer Among Adults 18-49
CBS further spins the numbers for the week of October 7-13.
Live + 7 Day Ratings: ABC Ranks #1 Season to Date in the Non-Sports Adult 18-49 Averages
Sunday's Broadcast Ratings: World Series, NFL Overrun Hand Victory to FOX
Plus: ABC sees double digit gains from "America's Funniest Home Videos," "Betrayal" and "Once Upon a Time."
ABC's Sunday Lineup Grows Against the World Series and "SNF"
ABC spins the numbers for Sunday, October 27.
"SNL" Was the #1 Non-Sports Telecast of the Night in Metered-Market Households and in Adults 18-49 in the Local People Meters
"The Blacklist" Generates Second Biggest "Live Plus Seven Day" Lift Ever, 5.7 Million Viewers
NBC further spins the numbers for Monday, October 7.
World Series Rating Soars 21% as Cards Trip Red Sox in Game 3
FOX Sports spins the numbers for Saturday, October 26.
Saturday's Broadcast Ratings: Game 3 of World Series Dominates for FOX
The Boston/St. Louis showdown continues to outpace last year's Detroit/San Francisco match-up.
"The Blacklist" Delivers the Second Biggest "Live Plus Three Day" Increase in U.S. Television History in Total Viewership
NBC further spins the numbers for Monday, October 21.
"Dracula" Is the 2nd Highest Rated Friday Drama Premiere in Three Years in 18-49
NBC spins the numbers for Friday, October 25.
"Shark Tank" Earns Most-Watched-Ever Telecast and "20/20" Draws Its Biggest Audience in 1-1/2 Years
ABC spins the numbers for Friday, October 25.
Friday's Broadcast Ratings: NBC Tops Demos with "Grimm," "Dracula" Premieres
ABC however has the most-watched program overall in adults 18-49 with "Shark Tank."
Thursday's Cable Ratings & Broadcast Finals: World Series, "Big Bang Theory" Top Charts
Plus: numbers for MTV's "Scrubbing In," Food Network's "Restaurant Divided" and Lifetime's "Project Runway All Stars."
Cardinals Strike Back & Propel World Series on FOX; Series Viewership Up 13% Over 2012
FOX Sports spins the numbers for Thursday, October 24.
"Elementary" Up +20% in Adults 18-49 and +17% in Adults 25-54 Opposite the World Series
"Sean Saves the World" Matches Last Week's 18-49 Rating, While Growing by 20% Versus Last Week in Total Viewers
Thursday's Broadcast Ratings: FOX, World Series Snap CBS Win Streak
The Eye had won the night in total viewers and adults 18-49 the previous five weeks.
ABC's Thursday Is Up Year to Year Against the World Series/"Grey's" Grows Week to Week
ABC spins the numbers for Thursday, October 24.
Bravo and Oxygen Media Delivered Record-Breaking Wednesday with "Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles" and "Preachers of L.A."
Plus: based on the franchise success, "Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles" has been picked-up for a seventh season.
Wednesday's Cable Ratings & Broadcast Finals: World Series, "Modern Family" Top Demo Charts
Plus: numbers for Food Network's "Restaurant: Impossible," Syfy's "Ghost Mine" and OWN's "For Better or Worse."
Red Sox & FOX Unleash Dominant Primetime Performances; World Series Game 1 Viewership Up 18%
FOX Sports spins the numbers for Wednesday, October 23.
"Tonight Show," "Late Night" Encores Defeat Timeslot Competition in Total Viewers for Week Of Oct. 14-18
NBC spins the late-night numbers for the week of October 14-18.
"Nightline" Is #1 Show in Time Period in Total Viewers for the Week, Beating Both NBC and CBS
ABC spins the late-night numbers for the week of October 14-18.
300th Episode of "CSI," "Criminal Minds" Deliver Their Largest Audiences of the Season
CBS spins the numbers for Wednesday, October 23.
Wednesday's Broadcast Ratings: World Series Opens on Top for FOX
The Fall Classic is up more than 28% among adults 18-49 from last year's debut.
"Revolution" Improves by 8% on NBC's Time-Period Result for the Same Night Last Year
NBC spins the numbers for Wednesday, October 23.
"Modern Family" Is Wednesday's #1 Series/"Super Fun Night" Grows Against the Fall Classic
ABC spins the numbers for Wednesday, October 23.
Tuesday's Cable Ratings & Broadcast Finals: CBS Dramas Top Viewers, "Voice" Leads Demos
Plus: numbers for History's "American Daredevils," Discovery's "Tickle" and TBS's "Trust Me, I'm a Game Show Host."
ABC Family's "Pretty Little Liars" Halloween Special Is Network's #2 Telecast Ever in Women 18-34
ABC Family spins the numbers for Tuesday, October 22.
"NCIS" Sweeps Time Period, Beating "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." in Adults 18-49 for the Second Consecutive Week
CBS spins the numbers for Tuesday, October 22.
"Live with Kelly and Michael" Nearly Ties "Dr. Phil" as the Week's Most-Watched Syndie Talk Show
Disney-ABC Domestic Television spins the numbers for the week of October 7-11.
"Millionaire" with Cedric Is Up the Most Among All Syndie Game Shows Week to Week
For the First Time in Eight Years, NBC Is #1 in 18-49 on Each of the First Five Tuesdays of the Season
NBC spins the numbers for Tuesday, October 22.
"SHIELD" Is Tuesday's #1 TV Show for the 5th Straight Week in Key Men
ABC spins the numbers for Tuesday, October 22.
Tuesday's Broadcast Ratings: "The Voice" Tops Demos as NBC Edges CBS
Plus: FOX's "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" and ABC's "The Goldbergs" show week-to-week gains among adults 18-49.
"MNF's" Vikings-Giants Telecast Helps ESPN Win the Night among All Networks in All Key Male and Adult Demos
ESPN spins the numbers for Monday, October 21.
Monday's Cable Ratings & Broadcast Finals: "MNF," "Voice" Top the Charts
Plus: numbers for Discovery's "Bar Hunters," VH1's "CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story" and Bravo's "Real Housewives of Miami."
Discovery Channel's "Fast N' Loud" #1 Cable Program on Monday Among Men
Discovery spins the numbers for Monday, October 21.
Haunted Hub Themed Programming Delivers Kids and Co-viewing
The Hub spins the numbers for the week of October 14-20.
American League Championship Series Drives Strong Week for FOX
FOX spins the numbers for the week of October 14-20.
TBS's Coverage of the 2013 National League Championship Series Accounts for Four of Basic Cable's Top 15 Programs for the Week
Turner spins the numbers for the week of October 14-20.
NBC Wins the Fourth Week of the Season in 18-49 and Is at Its Highest Four-Week Season Average in Six Years
NBC spins the numbers for the week of October 14-20.
VH1 Original Movie "CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story" Scores As Cable's Highest Rated Original Movie Of 2013, Drawing In 4.5 Million Total Viewers
VH1 spins the numbers for Monday, October 21.
Disney XD Rises to #1 Week in the Network's History in Prime in Boys 9-14 and Hits Near 1-Year High in Kids 6-14
Disney XD spins the numbers for the week of October 14-20.
Chapter 2 of "American Horror Story: Coven" Sets Ratings Record for FX
FX further spins the numbers for Wednesday, October 16.
NBC's "Sunday Night Football" Scores Best 7-Week Start for NFL Primetime Package in 17 Years
NBC spins the numbers for Sunday, October 20 plus the season to date.
Sunday's Cable Ratings & Broadcast Finals: NFL Coverage Slips Past "The Walking Dead"
Plus: numbers for Food Network's "Guy's Grocery Games," Discovery's "Yukon Men" and Spike TV's "Bar Rescue."

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Visiting the suburbs in Sydney inspired me to shoot with horses for my hairdo I got in Salon Vim just before leaving Singapore. The laid back lifestyle living an hour away from the busy city was a nice change I've needed and the perfect way to experience Australia after so many years of not coming back. Being able to take a seven minute drive from home to some of Australia's most famous beaches was definitely a luxury I was more than thankful for. I was introduced to LO'real's 'SOMPTUEX' a couple of months ago by Ivan which kind of left me lost for words. The thought of how hair can be articulated in such a comprehensive manner was overwhelming but with the help of my ever so patient stylist, I've come to understand and appreciate its benefits.
For something more natural, we decided on Majirel's 'Very Light Golden Brown' for my highlights, while the base of my hair is Majirel's "Dark Brown". I shan't bore you with the technical details but if you want to learn more about LO'real's 'SOMPTEUX', read my previous post here. This process of highlighting hair usually involves 3 sections, with each colour gradually getting softer and lighter as it goes. However, using the same technique, my highlights are hidden inside my hair to compliment my curls so as to give a more natural finishing with my beachy waves.
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This is doing my head in. Please lend me your experience and advice.
I am setting up a KH director with a SA doser.
Can someone advise me the sequence of these steps.
I then calibrate the pump 1-2-3.
Pump 1 calibrated, saved, Pump 2 calibrated but i notice that the regeant didn't get into the KH director, but stopped an inch before regeant reaches the KH director. I also noticed that the regeant tube is narrower than the other tube. I then calibrated pump 3. Every step i saved the changes.
KH Measurement - did this several times, i notice that the pump 2 struggled to get regeant into the KH director. It seems the regeant tube between the container and doser is too narrow. Is this the right tube to use between container and doser? I got the impression that the narrow tube would fit the vent better, perhaps i have used the wrong tube?!
KH measurement attempts failed. Message says tritration takes too long. I have read the troubleshoot, a number of possible causes. GHL support asks me to open the housing cover and check the pumps which i am reluctant to do as it may void the warranty?
Since support is being carried out via the ticket system, we will continue assisting there.
Warranty will not be voided if you open the KHD.


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De Universiteit van Dole bestond van 1422 tot 1691 in Dole in het vrijgraafschap Bourgondië. Enige tijd was het een van de belangrijkere universiteiten voor civiel en kerkelijk recht in West-Europa.

Geschiedenis
De instelling werd in 1422 gesticht door paus Martinus V op initiatief van Filips de Goede. De hertog wilde geschoold personeel voor het bestuur van zijn groeiende rijk, meer bepaald voor de zuidelijke pool ervan, de Landen van derwaarts. Hij koos niet voor de Bourgondische hoofdstad Dijon en ook niet voor Besançon, maar voor het kleinere Dole. Dat was centraal gelegen en ook rustig (de Parijse studentenonlusten van 1419 lagen vers in het geheugen). De organisatie was gebaseerd op een studentengemeenschap naar het model van de Universiteit van Bologna. Nadat de stad de Sint-Joriskapel had geschonken, opende de universiteit in 1423.

In 1437 gaf de paus toestemming om in Dole een theologische faculteit op te richten. Het was vooral dankzij de rechtenfaculteit, die zowel burgerlijk als kerkelijk recht aanbood, dat de Universiteit van Dole een reputatie verwierf. Door de Franse verovering van de stad in 1479 moest ze verhuizen naar Besançon, maar in 1484 keerde ze terug.

Dole trok studenten uit heel West-Europa. Onder de 268 studenten in 1562 waren er 223 buitenlanders en 45 Bourgondiërs. Ook verschillende docenten kwamen uit de Nederlanden en Italië. In 1582 startten de jezuïeten met het Collège de l'Arc, een onderwijsinstelling die door de universiteit als een illegitieme concurrent werd bestreden. Ook de Tachtigjarige Oorlog liet sporen na in Dole: met een plakkaat van 1591 verboden de Staten van Holland hun onderdanen te studeren in Leuven, Dole en Douai en ontzegden ze rechterlijke ambten aan wie daar was afgestudeerd. De Staten-Generaal der Nederlanden breidden dit in 1596 uit tot de hele Republiek.

In 1613 werden gezanten naar de aartshertogen Albrecht en Isabella in Brussel gestuurd om een omzetting naar een magisteruniversiteit te verkrijgen, zoals in Leuven en Douai. De aartshertogen gaven in 1616-1618 hun goedkeuring, maar de edicten werden klaarblijkelijk niet uitgevoerd vanwege weerstand bij de studenten.

De Hollandse Oorlog van Lodewijk XIV resulteerde in 1676 in de verovering van de Franche-Comté op de Spanjaarden, die het gebied twee jaar later afstonden in de Vrede van Nijmegen. De Zonnekoning liet de universiteit in 1691 overbrengen naar Besançon, waar ze voortleeft in de Université du Franche-Comté (d).

Personaliteiten

Professoren
 Anselmo Marenchi (Anselme de Marenches), civiel recht in 1452-1499
 Nicolas Belloni, rechten
 Antoine Lulle, retorica eind 15e eeuw
 Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, theologie vanaf 1509
 Charles Dumoulin, rechten in 1555-1556

Justus Lipsius was in 1572 enkele maanden in Dole en beweerde dat hij er had gedoceerd, om zijn kansen op een benoeming in Jena te verhogen.

Studenten
 Jan I Carondelet, later kanselier van Vlaanderen en Bourgondië
 Nicolas Perrenot de Granvelle, ca. 1505, later kanselier van keizer Karel V
 Wigle van Aytta van Swichum, ca. 1526, later staatsman in de Nederlanden
 Simon Renard, ca. 1530, later diplomaat van keizer Karel V
 Otto von Waldburg, ca. 1530, later prins-bisschop van Augsburg en kardinaal
 Claude de La Baume, later kardinaal-aartsbisschop van Besançon
 Balthazar Gerards, later moordenaar van Willem van Oranje
 Lodewijk van Simmern, ca. 1554, later keurvorst van de Palts
 Johann Christoph von Westerstetten, ca. 1584, later prins-bisschop van Eichstätt
 Jules Chifflet, ca. 1630, later historicus en genealoog

Literatuur
 Nicolas-Antoine Labbey-de-Billy, Histoire de l'Université du Comté de Bourgogne et des différens sujets qui l'ont honorée, 2 dln., 1814-1815
 Émile Longin, "La nation flamande à l'université de Dôle, 1651-1674" in: Bulletin de la Société d'agriculture, sciences, commerce et arts du départment de la Haute-Sâone, 1891, p. 59-77
 W.F. Leemans, "Nederlanders aan de universiteit van Dole in Bourgondië" in: Nederlandse Leeuw, 1966, p. 4-8
 Willem Frijhoff, L'Album Inclytae Nationis Belgicae de l'université de Dole en Franche-Comté, 1651-1674 in: Lias. Sources and documents relating to the early modern history of ideas, 1978, nr. 1, p. 87-151
 Jacky Theurot, "L'Université de Dole de sa fondation à son transfert à Besançon" in: Institutions et vie universitaire dans l'Europe d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, eds. M. Gresset, F. Lassus, 1991, p. 25-44
 Jacky Theurot, "L'Université de Dole au service de Bourgogne. L'Université, les gens de savoir et le prince (1423-début XVIe siècle)" in: Hommes d'église et pouvoirs à l'époque bourguignonne (XIVe-XVIe siècle). Publications du Centre Européen d'Etudes Bourguignonnes, 1998, p. 263-300.
 Jacky Theurot, "Le pouvoir et le savoir. L'Université de Dole, une université pour les terres de Bourgogne, des années 1420 à 1479", in: Dijon. Annales de Bourgogne, 2020, p.85-123

Voetnoten

Voormalige universiteit
Franse universiteit
Geschiedenis van Bourgondië
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Q: How to get PHP 7.0 running with Apache2 I am totally new to Linux, servers and websites. I recently set up Apache2, Python, PHP, and MySQL for setting up a LAMP server. I am using Xubuntu 16.04 and PHP 7.0.11. I followed a guide and placed a PHP file named testing.php in it with:
<?php phpinfo(); ?>

It doesn't show anything on localhost/testing.php All it shows is the code itself.

A: Open the terminal and type:
sudo apt install libapache2-mod-php7.0 # install PHP7 module for Apache2 webserver
sudo a2enmod php7.0 # enable the PHP7 module
sudo service apache2 reload # restart apache

For PHP 7.2 in Ubuntu 18.04 run the following commands:
sudo apt install libapache2-mod-php7.2
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Home / Glossary Term / CM Chondrite
CM Chondrite
Class of carbonaceous chondritesChondrites are the most common meteorites accounting for ~84% of falls. Chondrites are comprised mostly of Fe- and Mg-bearing silicate minerals (found in both chondrules and fine grained matrix), reduced Fe/Ni metal (found in various states like large blebs, small grains and/or even chondrule rims), and various refractory inclusions (such named after the Mighei meteoriteWork in progress. A solid natural object reaching a planet's surface from interplanetary space. Solid portion of a meteoroid that survives its fall to Earth, or some other body. Meteorites are classified as stony meteorites, iron meteorites, and stony-iron meteorites. These groups are further divided according to their mineralogy and that fell in Ukraine in 1889. They represent samples of incompletely serpentinizedName used for a large group of phyllosilicate minerals with the generalized formula X2-3 Y2 O5 (OH)4. Due to their various structures (meteoritics focuses primarily on (Fe, Mg)3Si2O5(OH)4), serpentine can be used to understand the chemistry and progress of aqueous alteration (hydration) of olivine, amphibole, or pyroxene dating back to primitive asteroids and have experience extremely complex histories. CM meteorites are generally petrologic level type 2 though a few examples of CM1 and CM1/2 also exist. Compared to CI chondrites, they have about half the water content, show less aqueous alteration, and retain some well-preserved small chondrulesRoughly spherical aggregate of coarse crystals formed from the rapid cooling and solidification of a melt at ~1400 ° C. Large numbers of chondrules are found in all chondrites except for the CI group of carbonaceous chondrites. Chondrules are typically 0.5-2 mm in diameter and are usually composed of olivine (diameter s <0.5 mm; 10-40 vol. %) and CAIsSub-millimeter to centimeter-sized amorphous objects found typically in carbonaceous chondrites and ranging in color from white to greyish white and even light pink. CAIs have occasionally been found in ordinary chondrites, such as the L3.00 chondrite, NWA 8276 (Sara Russell, 2016). CAIs are also known as refractory inclusions since they (~5 vol. %). Like CI chondrites, they also contain a wealth of organicPertaining to C-containing compounds. Organic compounds can be formed by both biological and non-biological (abiotic) processes. material: more than 230 different amino acids have been identified in the Murchison meteoriteCarbonaceous Mighei-like chondrite which exploded into fragments over Murchison, Australia, located ~200 km north of Melbourne, on Sept. 28, 1969. About 82 kg of the meteorite were recovered. Eyewitnesses reported smelling something like methanol or pyridine, an early indication that the object might contain organic material. Subsequent analysis by NASA. Comparisons of spectra point to the asteroid 19 Fortuna or, possibly, the largest asteroid, 1 Ceres, as candidate parent bodies.
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'It's face-meltingly hot': Irish in Australia on the ongoing heatwave
Multi-week heatwave is breaking records with temperatures exceeding 45°C
Ted Felton: 'Even the smallest provincial town has a half-decent pool. Here's our six-year-old, Robbie, at the Avoca pool in the Victorian Goldfields, a couple of hours northwest of Melbourne.'
South Australia was one of the hottest places on Earth this week, with record-breaking temperatures approaching 50°C in some parts. Around 200,000 people were left without electricity after demand for air-conditioning blew the power supply, and wildfires are burning across Tasmania. Tradesmen are being encouraged to take the week off work in Sydney to avoid labouring under the hot sun.
Irish readers living in Australia have been sharing what it is like where they live with Irish Times Abroad.
Gerald Faulkner: 'The flies are as bad as the heat'
Our temperatures have risen to the crazy 40s, with night-time temps of around 22°C. Work begins and ends earlier than you'd be used to in the Northern Hemisphere. We start at 6am, just as the sun comes up, that red-wine rusty orb on the eastern horizon, tantalizing and beautiful in the chill of a summer's morning at 20 degrees. By 10am, it's starting to fry. There's no reprieve. No let-up… just bloody hot mate. The flies are as bad as the heat. Camellia leaves are rubbed into the skin to stave off the flies. Billabongs are evaporating. Rivers have already dried up. The fish are dying due to a lack of oxygen and, jeez, it's hot.
Gerald Faulkner: 'By 10am, it's starting to fry.'
Roll on the southerlies, the winds that blow in off Antarctica. They are a blessing. "Southerly busters ", the Aussies call them. They are nature's air-conditioning but for weeks and weeks, we've had none. We are on level 2 water rationing at the moment, which means no garden sprinklers, no car-washing (except with a bucket), and the birds trip about with their beaks open and their wings extended, in a benign effort to chill themselves. Meanwhile, we humans seek out air-conditioning in pubs, shopping malls and cinemas, to escape the heat, and the flies!
Michelle Harper, Melbourne: 'The weather has definitely become hotter'
Michelle Harper: 'The weather has definitely become hotter over the years. And drier.'
My Irish ancestors arrived as free settlers in 1842 from Ahascragh, Co Galway and, despite being sixth-generation Australian, I can't bear this heat. When it's in the mid-40s, being outside in the blazing sun is like being surrounded by hair dryers on full bore while in a furnace. The weather has definitely become hotter over the years. And drier. An air-conditioner is essential in summer.
Thomas Shaw, Queensland: 'We haven't had rain in months'
The heat has been fierce. We have been melting. The weather here is getting warmer. Usually at this time of year we have afternoon thunderstorms and heavy rain just about every other day. But we haven't had rain in months. None so far in 2019.
Gerard Quigg, Melbourne: 'It certainly beats complaining about another Atlantic storm'
Having recently moved to Melbourne, my girlfriend Roisin and I joined St Kevin's GAA club and have been adjusting to pre-season training in the summer. Last Thursday night we trained in almost 40° heat; it wasn't long until we were in for a swim on Elwood beach! We enjoy everyone's heatwave stories; it certainly beats complaining about another Atlantic storm moving in over Cork or Donegal.
Finbarr McCarthy: 'The humidity is brutal'
Finbarr McCarthy: 'Boris won't get out of the pool.'
It's 9am and it's 32°C, heading for 36ish by noon. We've got people coming over for lunch and our dog Boris won't get out of the pool. The humidity is brutal and the air-conditioners are struggling. Way back in 1990, consecutive days over 35°C were rare, but now, heat records are broken almost annually. Here in eponymous Caves Beach, the sea breeze helps, but I envy my Dublin family who have returned to 7°C and proper winter weather. Make no mistake, climate change is here and the heat is rising. The only thing to do is go to the beach or jump in the pool.
Sadhbh Warren, Sydney: 'It's face-meltingly hot'
It's 9am in Sydney and already face-meltingly hot. I've put the kids in a cool bath with toys and filled the kids' waterplay table out the back yard - not for them, it's too hot! - but for native birds and lizards to drink from. We had planned to go see some of Saturday's Australia Day events but they were mainly outdoors, so we chucked it all in and went to a museum with air-con.
Hilary Farrell Naik, Melbourne: 'The summers have got hotter each year'
Since coming to Australia in 1990 the summers have got hotter each year. We used to use our air-conditioner a few days a year in the early years, but now use it most days and nights. Our winters have become colder and our summers hotter. Now that I'm a lot older, this has become hard at times.
Ruth O'Connell, Sydney: 'Compared to the Dubai heat it feels nice'
I just arrived in Sydney having lived in Dubai for the past six years. The weather is really nice here. Yes, it's warm, but there is a lovely breeze and compared to the Dubai heat it feels nice and balmy!
Joe O'D: '700km south of Darwin, 42°C at 3pm'
Anna Porter, Melbourne: 'I'm trying to learn to like the heat'
I moved to Melbourne from Dublin in June. When people say the weather in Dublin changes fast, it's nothing like here. It can go from 40°C to 22°C in the same day. I'm a rain and boots kind of person, but I'm trying to learn to like the heat when we get it here. People at home freak out when they hear how hot it is, but you get quite used to it. It's certainly uncomfortable at times but it's a common occurrence so you still have to go to work, and live life. When it gets to the 40s though, it is a little sweaty; I took an ice pop with me when I left the house today.
John O'Boyle, Melbourne: 'I love the climate here'
John O'Boyle: Last Wednesday in Melbourne it reached at least 41°C.
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Shaheen History
From Lebanon to Hawai'i
Late-1800s through the 1940s
Alfred Shaheen was born in Cranford, New Jersey on January 31, 1922 to a family of Lebanese immigrants, who were garment industry entrepreneurs. The Shaheen family emigrated from Arbanieh, Lebanon in the late-1800s. In 1902, Alfred's grandfather, Assy Shaheen Rizkallah, established A. Shaheen & Sons, a silk mill, in New Jersey, where he wove raw silk he bought from Japan. In New York, Assy manufactured his woven silk into negligees, waists, and undergarments.
In 1897, Alfred's father, George, who was born in Lebanon, joined Assy in the silk business. By 1909, George started his own silk manufacturing business in Cranford, New Jersey. In 1929, however, George and his wife, Mary, lost their land to eminent domain and moved their operation to California, then eventually to Hawai'i.
Alfred's parents, Mary and George, settled on O'ahu in 1938 and brought with them the knowledge and experience of a family history in the garment industry. Mary and George established a custom manufacturing business, specializing in custom garments made from silks, brocades, rayon satin, and other formal fabrics. Alfred returned to the mainland and attended Whittier College in California, where he excelled at math, physics, engineering and football. Alfred graduated from Whittier College with a degree in aeronautical engineering just as the U.S. entered World War II.
Alfred enlisted in the Army Air Corps and became a fighter pilot, flying 84 missions over Germany, Italy and France.
When WWII ended in 1945, Shaheen returned to his family on O'ahu and joined his parents in their custom garment business. In 1948, in keeping with family tradition, Shaheen branched out to create his own garment company, specializing in ready-to-wear aloha shirts and women's fashions. He started his company in the Shaheen family home on Kalakaua Avenue with four seamstresses trained by his mother, Mary.
Like other Hawaiian manufacturers of his day, Shaheen's aloha wear was originally made with textiles imported from the mainland. However, using these imported textiles had serious drawbacks. In 1949-1950, a dock strike and the Korean War severely curtailed importation of goods to Hawai'i, and Shaheen soon realized that if he wanted to survive, he must find a way to create his own fabrics. Shaheen set up Surf 'n Sand Hand Prints, his first print plant, in a Quonset hut on Hornet Street on the outskirts of town. With two inexperienced local workers, Shaheen began building his machinery from parts he found in Honolulu's junkyards.
1950s through the 1960s
By 1952, Shaheen had engineered and built his own machinery to print, dye, and finish his fabrics. Shaheen was printing more than 60,000 yards of fabric per month under the label Surf 'n Sand. In 1956, Shaheen built an $8,000,000 factory, showroom, and office complex. By 1959, Shaheen employed over 400 people, sold garments and fabrics worldwide, began establishing a chain of retail stores in Hawai'i, and grossed more than $4,000,000 annually, which is approximately $38,000,000 in today's currency. Shaheen attributes these achievements to his ability to print and produce his own fabrics.
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Alfred Shaheen's textile designs and fabrics were inspired by Hawai'i, the South Pacific, and Asia. Shaheen studied the native designs of these regions and adapted them to textiles, producing many of Hawai'i's icocnic prints and bringing ethnic imagery to the forefront in fashion and textiles. Shaheen's philosophy was to celebrate our ethnic diversity and remain true to authentic cultural art forms.
Shaheen engineered his unique method of silk-screening textile designs for mass production, and introduced new sewing and production techniques to the garment industry. In his in-house training department, Shaheen and his mother, Mary, trained artists, printers, screeners, finishers, seamstresses, and models. These highly-trained individuals became known as Alfred Shaheen's City of Craftsmen and produced the extraordinary garments that made Shaheen the largest aloha wear manufacturer in Hawai'i in the 1950s and 1960s. These specialized craftspeople eventually integrated into the Hawaiian garment industry, taking with them the knowledge obtained from their training and experience.
Shaheen credits many gifted people for his success. Among them are his mother, Mary, for her love, guidance, strength, and incredible artistry; his head dye chemist and close friend, Dr. Edmund Lutz, who was the genius behind Shaheen's vast library of specialty dyes; the brilliant textile designer, Robert Sato; Richard Goodwin, whose flair for the dramatic created spectacular Shaheen fashions; and his model, the beautiful Beverly Noa, for her radiant grace and style.
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#ifndef GDCMSEQUENCEOFITEMS_H
#define GDCMSEQUENCEOFITEMS_H

#include "gdcmValue.h"
#include "gdcmItem.h"

#include <vector>

namespace gdcm
{

/**
 * \brief Class to represent a Sequence Of Items
 * (value representation : SQ)
 *  - a Value Representation for Data Elements that contains a sequence of Data Sets.
 *  - Sequence of Item allows for Nested Data Sets
 *
 * See PS 3.5, 7.4.6 Data Element Type Within a Sequence
 * \note
 * SEQUENCE OF ITEMS (VALUE REPRESENTATION SQ)
 * A Value Representation for Data Elements that contain a sequence of
 * Data Sets. Sequence of Items allows for Nested Data Sets.
 */
class GDCM_EXPORT SequenceOfItems : public Value
{
public:
  // Typdefs:
  typedef std::vector< Item > ItemVector;
  typedef ItemVector::size_type SizeType;
  typedef ItemVector::iterator Iterator;
  typedef ItemVector::const_iterator ConstIterator;
  Iterator Begin() { return Items.begin(); }
  Iterator End() { return Items.end(); }
  ConstIterator Begin() const { return Items.begin(); }
  ConstIterator End() const { return Items.end(); }

  /// \brief constructor (UndefinedLength by default)
  SequenceOfItems():SequenceLengthField(0xFFFFFFFF) { }
  //SequenceOfItems(VL const &vl = 0xFFFFFFFF):SequenceLengthField(vl),NType(type) { }

  /// \brief Returns the SQ length, as read from disk
  VL GetLength() const { return SequenceLengthField; }
  /// \brief Sets the actual SQ length
  void SetLength(VL length) {
    SequenceLengthField = length;
  }
  void SetLengthToUndefined() {
    SequenceLengthField = 0xFFFFFFFF;
  }
  /// return if Value Length if of undefined length
  bool IsUndefinedLength() const {
    return SequenceLengthField.IsUndefined();
  }

  template <typename TDE>
  VL ComputeLength() const;
  void Clear() {}

  /// \brief Appends an Item to the already added ones
  void AddItem(Item const &item);

  SizeType GetNumberOfItems() const {  return Items.size(); }
  void SetNumberOfItems(SizeType n) {  Items.resize(n); }

  /* WARNING: first item is #1 (see DICOM standard)
   *  Each Item shall be implicitly assigned an ordinal position starting with the value 1 for the
   * first Item in the Sequence, and incremented by 1 with each subsequent Item. The last Item in the
   * Sequence shall have an ordinal position equal to the number of Items in the Sequence.
   */
  const Item &GetItem(SizeType position) const;
  Item &GetItem(SizeType position);

  SequenceOfItems &operator=(const SequenceOfItems &val) {
    SequenceLengthField = val.SequenceLengthField;
    Items = val.Items;
    return *this;
    }

  template <typename TDE, typename TSwap>
  std::istream &Read(std::istream &is)
    {
    const Tag seqDelItem(0xfffe,0xe0dd);
    if( SequenceLengthField.IsUndefined() )
      {
      Item item;
      while( item.Read<TDE,TSwap>(is) && item.GetTag() != seqDelItem )
        {
        //gdcmDebugMacro( "Item: " << item );
        assert( item.GetTag() != seqDelItem );
        Items.push_back( item );
        item.Clear();
        }
      //assert( item.GetTag() == seqDelItem && item.GetVL() == 0 );
      }
    else
      {
      Item item;
      VL l = 0;
      //is.seekg( SequenceLengthField, std::ios::cur ); return is;
      while( l != SequenceLengthField )
        {
        try
          {
          item.Read<TDE,TSwap>(is);
          }
        catch( Exception &ex )
          {
          if( strcmp( ex.GetDescription(), "Changed Length" ) == 0 )
            {
            VL newlength = l + item.template GetLength<TDE>();
            if( newlength > SequenceLengthField )
              {
              // BogugsItemAndSequenceLength.dcm
              gdcmWarningMacro( "SQ length is wrong" );
              SequenceLengthField = newlength;
              }
            }
          else
            {
            throw ex;
            }
          }
        if( item.GetTag() == seqDelItem )
          {
          gdcmWarningMacro( "SegDelItem found in defined length Sequence" );
          }
        //assert( item.GetTag() == Tag(0xfffe,0xe000) );
        Items.push_back( item );
        l += item.template GetLength<TDE>();
        if( l > SequenceLengthField ) throw "Length of Item larger than expected";
        assert( l <= SequenceLengthField );
#ifdef GDCM_SUPPORT_BROKEN_IMPLEMENTATION
        // MR_Philips_Intera_No_PrivateSequenceImplicitVR.dcm
        // (0x2005, 0x1080): for some reason computation of length fails...
        if( SequenceLengthField == 778 && l == 774 )
          {
          gdcmWarningMacro( "PMS: Super bad hack" );
          SequenceLengthField = l;
          throw Exception( "Wrong Length" );
          //l = SequenceLengthField;
          }
        // Bug_Philips_ItemTag_3F3F
        // (0x2005, 0x1080): Because we do not handle fully the bug at the item
        // level we need to check here too
        else if ( SequenceLengthField == 444 && l == 3*71 )
          {
          // This one is a double bug. Item length is wrong and impact SQ length
          gdcmWarningMacro( "PMS: Super bad hack" );
          l = SequenceLengthField;
          }
#endif
        }
      assert( l == SequenceLengthField );
      }
    return is;
    }

  template <typename TDE,typename TSwap>
  std::ostream const &Write(std::ostream &os) const
    {
    typename ItemVector::const_iterator it = Items.begin();
    for(;it != Items.end(); ++it)
      {
      it->Write<TDE,TSwap>(os);
      }
    if( SequenceLengthField.IsUndefined() )
      {
      // seq del item is not stored, write it !
      const Tag seqDelItem(0xfffe,0xe0dd);
      seqDelItem.Write<TSwap>(os);
      VL zero = 0;
      zero.Write<TSwap>(os);
      }

    return os;
    }

//protected:
  void Print(std::ostream &os) const {
    os << "\t(" << SequenceLengthField << ")\n";
    ItemVector::const_iterator it =
      Items.begin();
    for(;it != Items.end(); ++it)
      {
      os << "  " << *it;
      }
    if( SequenceLengthField.IsUndefined() )
      {
      const Tag seqDelItem(0xfffe,0xe0dd);
      VL zero = 0;
      os << seqDelItem;
      os << "\t" << zero;
      }
  }

  static SmartPointer<SequenceOfItems> New()
  {
     return new SequenceOfItems;
  }
  bool FindDataElement(const Tag &t) const;

  bool operator==(const Value &val) const
    {
    const SequenceOfItems &sqi = dynamic_cast<const SequenceOfItems&>(val);
    return SequenceLengthField == sqi.SequenceLengthField &&
      Items == sqi.Items;
    }

private:
public:
  /// \brief Total length of the Sequence (or 0xffffffff) if undefined
  VL SequenceLengthField;
  /// \brief Vector of Sequence Items
  ItemVector Items;
};

} // end namespace gdcm

#include "gdcmSequenceOfItems.txx"

#endif //GDCMSEQUENCEOFITEMS_H

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Journal/Authors Guidelines for JNS
The Journal of Nursing Science is a biannual refereed journal that publishes original research and scholarly work that contributes to the development and understanding of all aspects of nursing. Suitable manuscripts undergo a double blind peer review process to determine suitability for publication. The editor makes the final decision regarding acceptance of a manuscript for publication.
The Journal welcomes submissions of evidence-based clinical application papers and descriptions of best clinical practices, original research reports, case studies, narratives, commentaries, and other manuscripts on a variety of clinical and professional topics. In summary, we welcome the following range of other submissions:
• Research Papers.
• Short Reports.
• Study Protocols.
• Letter to the Editor.
• Review Articles and Systematic Reviews.
• Editorials and Commentaries (invitation by the Editor in Chief and editorial members, but we will consider unsolicited proposals).
Manuscript Length
• Original research, practice or education articles: 4,000 words including abstract and acknowledgments.
• Special reports: 2,000 words.
• Short stories/commentary from the field/letters to the Editors: 1,500 words.
• Figures and tables supplementary material is kept to a minimum and should not exceed three for each.
Note: A word count for the text only (excluding figures, tables and references)
Manuscripts should be written in English (British or American) as long as consistency is observed. The manuscript is to be typewritten in 12 point Times New Roman font, double-spaced and numbered pages. Abbreviations should be used sparingly and only where they reduce the repetition of long, technical terms. Initially use the word in full, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses. Thereafter, use the abbreviation. Drugs should be referred to by their generic names, rather than brand names.
Figures, graphs and tables should be numbered and presented at the end of the manuscript with indication of their location in the text.
The title page should carry the following information; the author/s given name and surname; qualifications; present position; place of work; postal address; email address; and phone number/s. An author should be identified with whom the editorial team can correspond. Source(s) of support in the form of grants, equipment, drugs, or all of these Presentation of the Manuscript Research manuscripts should generally be presented under the following headings
• Title
conveys the nature of the paper and does not exceed 12 words, informative and contain the major key words, including the country (countries) where the project took place.
• Key Words
Up to six essential words.
• Abstract
All articles must have a brief abstract not more than 250 words. It should provide the context or background for the study and should state the study's purpose, basic procedures main findings. It should emphasize new and important aspects of the study and implications for practice. The abstract should not contain abbreviations or references, and should not be written in various sections under headings..
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This should establish the relevance of the particular research and set the scene for the paper. A literature review should be included either as part of the introduction or as a separate section.
• Method / Methodology
Sufficient detailed methodology should be provided to describe and justify the approach and demonstrate rigor.
• Findings
This should describe the results as fully as possible and explain their relevance to nursing. Limitations of the study should also be highlighted.
• Discussion
This section should draw the findings together and demonstrate how they relate to the original aims of the study.
• Conclusion
The author/s provides a is section should draw the findings together, demonstrate how they relate to the original aims of the study, and make recommendations.
• Recommendations
Where recommendations are made they should be grounded in the substantive content of the paper.
The source of financial grants and other funding should be acknowledged, including a frank declaration of the authors' industrial links and affiliations. The contribution of institutions also should be acknowledged. Acknowledgements given to anonymous reviewers are not allowed.
Within your article cite primary references only. No more than 30 references are to be used. Seek out and use the most current and up-to-date references (evidence) in your text; Matters of fact that are well-established in nursing, such as normal pulse rate ranges, don not need to be referenced. In formatting your cited references, follow the standards set for references only in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, sixth edition (APA) but also add in the volume number for the publication when available.
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General Points
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- ALL or part of the manuscript, has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere.
- All authors approve the content of the manuscript and have contributed significantly to research involved/ the writing of the manuscript.
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Automotive Industry Road Map for Australia
This week's announcements of Kim Carr's success in Detroit in obtaining future funding from Ford and GM for their Australian manufacturing activities should probably be applauded. However, like the inevitable Greek debt default, it's just kicking the stones a few more metres along the road.
Fairfax business journalist Ian Verrender is correct when he opines the Federal and State governments are tipping taxpayers money into a bottomless pit, but he's a dedicated business journalist.
The Australian's automotive writer, the respected Philip King takes a more balanced, albeit car industry-centric approach, when he writes that the death of Australian car manufacturing is not imminent, but that it is inevitable.
However, for the 60,000 or so people employed in dedicated car making, and the supporting automotive component parts industry, it is nonetheless welcome news. But those people, and the Federal and State governments need to start thinking right now, about what happens after 2017. Face the fact - after that date we will NOT be able to sustain full-blown car manufacturing. What do we do with all these experienced and talented people?
The governments are right to be worried about job losses, so they need to be developing a road map in concert with the major companies.
Here's a plan. Last year the authoritative automotive newsletter Go-Auto devoted almost an entire week's edition to highlighting talented, inventive and visionary Australians leading the technology advances in parts and components. We recognise that we already have those same skills in automotive design and engineering, residing inside the major car makers.
Why doesn't Australia set itself a course for developing a series of small, niche automotive design, and production companies which could sell their expertise around the world? We have a hotbed of people with vision, expertise and energy who could fuel such a plan.
It is far easier for governments to support a range and number of small, specialist companies developing ideas and projects which would be of use to car companies in China, Japan, Germany, Italy, Korea and the USA, as well as in automotive countries like Brazil, India, Thailand and Indonesia.
Let's admit that car manufacturing as we have known it since 1950 is going to die, and begin developing the strategies to absorb all these talented people into a globalised, high-tech group of companies creating ideas for future mobility. This also opens up opportunities for schools and tertiary colleges to develop upcoming genii to grow into jobs in this range of companies.
Many years ago in France I uncovered an overt plan between Automobiles Peugeot in Mulhouse, and the education decision-makers in the Montbeliard region, to 'design' their curriculums to ensure the colleges and university turned out graduates with expertise and diplomas aimed at getting a job with Peugeot (or even other car companies). This marriage of needs and training worked fantastically. The car companies got graduates whose talents fitted their needs. The tertiary institutions grew, the car companies benefitted of course, but the community came out a winner too - by offering jobs which, more importantly, kept talented, increasingly wealthy young people in the region contributing to the local tax base.
My plan suggests that we don't even need to localise this range of high-tech, niche companies in the accepted auto industry towns and cities. Indeed, they could be located anywhere in Australia, serviced by the fibre-optic NBN, and putting a lot of emphasis into an important part of the business community - 'small business'.
There's no reason Australian cannot remain deeply involved in the mainstream of the automotive industry of the future, not just in car-making - which we know is going to be dead here after 2017.
Let's invest in people, and a diverse range of skills, ideas and innovation which makes Australia a really clever country!
LABOR'S CAR INDUSTRY CHAMPIONS
Senator Kim Carr is the latest champion for Australia's car industry of which the Labor Party can be proud. Some may think he's misdirected by pouring so much energy into retaining car manufacturing in Australia, but it's a fact he has worked tirelessly to try and protect thousands of skilled jobs.
Many years ago another Labor senator brought rational debate and innovative solutions to help that same thrust, protecting jobs, by defining a path for car makers which made them competitive and confident about investing in Australia. The man was John Button, and Australia should never forget the important contributiomns he made to this important industry.
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Patience Pays Off - for Skoda


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A growing body of literature is documenting what development practitioners have observed for some time: the most critically needed, well-conceived, and technically sophisticated interventions can be undone by what Campos and Syquia call "the politics of change."1 In some reform efforts, wi...
E-book: Putting Leadership at the Center of Development, The Coll...
The Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions vice presidency of the World Bank Group (WBG) and international partners organized the Global Leadership Forum in Washington, DC on March 6-7, 2017. See Press Release 2017 RECAP The theme of the 2017 Globa...
Global Leadership Forum, March 6-7, 2017
Honoring (and learning from) leaders who make a difference
By Donna Barne
What kind of leaders can bring people together for the common good, even amid clashing opinions or real conflict?
That question was at the heart of the 2017 Global Leadership Forum March 6 on the growing need for "collaborative leadership" in an age of increasingly polarized societies.
Ilolahia, Betancur, Walliser, Mayor Pacalioga, Musa, Sahraoui
The event at the World Bank was organized with the Global Partnership for Collaborative Leadership in Development. It explored how to bridge often wide divides to arrive at inclusive solutions, and featured guests such as Festus G. Magae, a former President of Botswana and a South Sudan peace negotiator, and Frank Pearl Gonzalez, Chief Negotiator in the Colombian Peace Talks.
The forum also recognized five leaders from Bangladesh, Colombia, the Philippines, Tonga and Tunisia for their exceptional ability to mobilize people, ideas and resources to fight poverty and tackle other development challenges. They are the first recipients of a non-monetary award, the Jose Edgardo Campos Collaborative Leadership Awards, in memory of Ed Campos, a World Bank political economist known for his anti-corruption and institution-building work. Ed was also a very inspirational leader, and a great musician.
Hailing from government, civil society, academia and the private sector, the experience of these five leaders offers insight into effective leadership qualities and tactics.
So what are their secrets and advice?
Paula Gaviria Betancur, Presidential High Counsellor for Human Rights, Colombia, said persistence, flexibility, and a firm belief in the end goal are key. She received the Campos Award for Latin America and the Caribbean for her contributions to the peace accord between the Government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
"You have to be clear where you're going," said Betancur, who led an ambitious effort to reintegrate and otherwise aid the victims of the decades-long conflict. Colombia has so far compensated 700,000 victims, restored 200,000 hectares of land, and provided psycho-social assistance to more than 300,000 people, she said.
"You have to listen to everyone that's out there that has fears, that has ideas also, that has questions. And when you make a mistake, and when you're wrong, you have the capacity to accept it, and to overcome those difficulties."
It's also important not to take criticism personally, said Emeline Siale Ilolahia, Executive Director of the Civil Society Forum of Tonga and the recipient of the East Asia and Pacific award for her efforts to build coalitions for change.
When bringing together a diverse group of people, personalities often play a critical role, she said. "When you facilitate, you try to understand where they're coming from and try not to have those prejudices drive or control what's in the room."
Her work has focused on building consensus around the qualities of good leadership in a country where the idea of democracy is relatively new. Traditionally a monarchy, Tonga became a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy in 2010.
"We have to find a way to bring different perspectives as a starting point and clearly articulate and agree on the core issue and agree on the core purpose – what are we here for? Because that's the only thing that glues them together," she said.
To help build a coalition, the Tonga Civil Society Forum, an umbrella organization, surveyed key focus groups to measure public opinion, said Ilolahia.
Gathering grass roots opinions has also been important for the recipient of the Campos 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award, Nacianceno Mejos Pacalioga, Mayor of Dumingag Municipality, Zamboanga del Sur, in The Philippines. He was recognized as a pioneering public servant whose leadership style has been characterized by dialogue, inclusive partnerships, results-based programs, and responsive governance.
Pacalioga said he often went out to communities to talk to people and even stay there in an effort to communicate the goals of his government as well as to understand how to solve their problems.
In the last 12 years, poverty in his municipality has dropped from 92% to 42.8% today, and it continues to fall, said Pacalioga. He served as Mayor for the maximum nine years and is now Vice-Mayor of the city of 52,000, as well as a farmer of organic rice, vegetables and livestock.
"My advice is know the situation of your locality and understand deeper the emerging problem, and serve the people with conscience and heart," said Pacalioga.
A leader must also be pragmatic, said Sofiane Ben Mohammed Sahraoui of Tunisia and the recipient of the Campos Middle East and North Africa award. He is the founder of Middle East and North Africa Public Administration Research, a first-of-its-kind research network of professionals and organizations in the Arab region.
"Once you have an objective you have to achieve, you have to compromise in terms of defining the common ground with people," said Sahraoui. "Build coalitions, do the right things – integrity, transparency."
To build his network, he chose people who could have an impact, managed egos, and launched an e-training market across the region, providing both the technology and the content. "Basically, we harness resources across the network and put them at the disposal of people," he said.
"We are also pushing an agenda – which is nurturing constructive leadership so that later on people take up positions and do for their countries what we believe they should be doing," he said.
Innovation and vision are other critical characteristics of successful collaborative leadership. Sir Fazle Abed, Founder and Chairman of BRAC, Bangladesh, and the South Asia winner, was hailed for his visionary outlook on helping the poor help themselves. BRAC's innovative use of microfinance, among other interventions, is credited with lifting millions of poor families out of poverty.
"Sir Abed had a vision when he established BRAC, and the vision was not only to see that we have a world without poverty, but we have a world where everybody has equal value, where there would be no exploitation, there would be no discrimination," said Muhammad Musa, Executive Director of BRAC. He accepted the award on behalf of Abed, who was unable to attend.
The wisdom of these five leaders is food for thought as the Global Partnership, its supporter, the Collaborative Leadership for Development Program, and the World Bank seek the best ways to achieve inclusive development.
"For policies to be effective, we need to guarantee credible commitment, support coordination, and promote cooperation, and that's what collaborative leadership is all about," said Jan Walliser, the World Bank's Vice President, Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions.
(Blog originally posted on worldbank.org.)
Blog: 3 Secrets of Invincible Coalitions
by Eva Shiffer
How do you change the world if you are not in a position of formal power? How do you start a social movement, with nothing more than your passion for change or your disdain for the status quo? How do you ensure your gains aren't just little blips in an otherwise downward spiral?
These aren't new questions, but to many they are currently gaining more urgency, as ordinary citizens around the world try to mobilize their communities to make the change they are passionate about. For all of you good people out there, here are 3 secrets of invincible coalitions. The most powerful coalitions share these characteristics:
Clear on the goal: United behind one enticing, measurable, sexy goal. ONE.
Agnostic about motivations: Allowing people to join you for their own reason - if they share your goal
Diverse in sources of power: Include people whose influence is different from yours
Let's take this step by step:
Clearity of the goal
We all have many different issues we care about and might dream of a once-and-for-all coalition, that works on all of these worthy causes. However, if you want to bring people together to achieve difficult change, you have to keep it simple. Define one goal and phrase it in the most enticing, heart-grabbing way you can find. Make sure you can measure whether you have reached it ("making the world a better place" is a laudable intention, but you'll never know whether you have reached it and will attract a lot of people for whom a better world looks very differend from yours). And, when people want to join you in your strife, insist, that you agree about the goal.
Openness about motivation
So, after you have been really strict and specific about your shared goal, now is the time to loosen up. Let go of your convictions that your motivation is better and purer than that of others and don't send out the motivation police. One of you wants to reduce infant mortality out of religious motivations, while another one sees the quest for a solution as an enticing intellectual challenge that will further her career as a researcher. Well, so what? As long as your are aligned behind the same goal, working toward the same North start, motivations don't matter. I have seen a lot of potential coalitions fall apart or never form because of narrow minded doctrine and differences in minimal details of the participants' motivation. While the bad people couldn't stop laughing. And didn't have to stop laughing and start fighting, because the internal conflicts of the coalition were enough to do it in.
Diversity of Power Sources
Most of us like hanging out with people just like us. We talk the same, think the same, eat the same food, watch the same shows and don't have to explain much to each other because we communicate in the secret language of shared culture and expectations. Researchers hang out with researchers, left-wing environmentalist students hang out with left-wing environmentalist students, church-goers with other church-goers and so on. So it seems natural that you can build the most trusted coalition by locking hands with the people you already know and trust. Unfortunately these coalitions will be as unbalanced as an elephant balancing on one leg. The most powerful coalitions are the ones that unite people with very different power sources: This means e.g. bringing together those who make laws, have access to funding, have cutting edge knowledge, and can mobilize communities.
To do this successfully, you may have to reach out to groups you never talked to, who are in the game for different reasons and with whom you have to slowly develop a shared language and base of trust. But this hard work will be rewarded by a movement which may well be unstoppable.
Tackling Corruption and Fostering Transparency Presentation
This BBL (in Spanish) will explore the complex nature of development that makes implementing reforms a daunting task. In a space with multiple actors with differing perspectives, the work of leadership is often to mobilize diverse stakeholders and galvanize their energies towards a common goal. This means taking on complex challenges that require more than a purely technical fix, involve changing the mindsets and behaviors of multiple stakeholders, and a careful navigation of the political economy of reform landscapes.
The BBL will also have discussion around transparent practices that form the basis for enhanced accountability. In situations where transparency reforms are involved, things get more complicated. Institutions depend on transparency to facilitate the participation of citizens in the development process by building the relations and trust that unify citizens and governments. Where corruption is rampant, there are vested interests who gain from the status quo, and navigating the political economy becomes more challenging for reform agents. In such situations, collaborative leadership approaches can help in establishing stronger teams and reform coalitions who can provide much required support.
Opening & Closing Remarks: Roberto de Michele, Principal Specialist Institutional Capacity of the State Division, Inter-American Development Bank
Presenter: Paula Bertol, Secretaria Jefatura de Gabinete de Ministros, Argentina
Discussant: Alberto Leyton, Lead Public Sector Specialist, Governance Global Practice - Public Sector and Institutions, The World Bank
Chair: Roby Senderowitsch, Manager, Leadership, Learning, and Innovation, Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions Vice Presidency, The World Bank
Blog: What Complexity Science Can Teach Us
Leadership Learning Series
BBL on Leadership for Fiscal
BBL: Network Analysis for Reform
Leadership: The Adaptive Framework by Ronald Heifetz
Politics, Institutions, and Development by Francis Fukuyama


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Q: Debugging tool to compare parameters for MSVS? Are there any plugins for MSVS (any version) to compare function parameters?
So - I have to call a function with a lots of parameters, which are non-POD types, can be polymorphic objects... anyway, legacy spaghetti code. Refactoring is out of the question.
Sometimes the function outputs correctly, sometimes it doesn't. I want to compare the parameters between calls which yield correct results and the others. I could debug this, and I could compare parameters by hand, but this isn't the first time I've encountered this issue and I'm thinking it would be a lot easier if we had something like Araxis Merge (possibly in the form of a macro) that would let you compare parameters between calls. Know of any such tools?


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Old Monterey Foundation will Hold 2nd Free Lecture Focusing on "Hippolite Bouchard, THE PATRIOT PIRATE" on Friday, July 15, 2016
Do you like pirate stories? Do you love enhancing your knowledge about history of Monterey and the Lower Presidio Historic Park project? Old Monterey Foundation will hold its second free event as part of the 2016 Lecture Series sponsored by The Marcia F. Devoe Fund of the Community Foundation for Monterey County for the third year.
JULY 15TH LECTURE
What: "Hippolite Bouchard, THE PATRIOT PIRATE" presented by Michael Melzer
Author Michael Melzer presents his new biography of Hippolite Bouchard, The Patriot Pirate. Bouchard (January 15, 1780–January 4, 1837) was a French Argentine sailor and privateer who fought for France, Argentina, Chile, and Peru. Pursuing the war of rebellion against Spain, Bouchard was the first Argentine to circumnavigate the world when he attacked the Spanish ciudad of Monterey, California, raised the Argentine flag and held the town for six days in November, 1818. This was the only land-sea battle fought on the West Coast of the United States. Argentina remembers him as the South American equivalent of our John Paul Jones.
The Lower Presidio Historic Park Improvement Plan
Following Mr. Melzer's lecture, Frank Sollecito, President of the Old Monterey Foundation Board of Directors, will present a short overview of improvements planned for the Lower Presidio Historic Park and Vizcaino Park.
This lecture is suitable for ages 9 and up
When: Friday, July 15, 2016 - 6:30 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
Where: Irvine Auditorium, McCone Building, MIIS; 499 Pierce Street, Monterey
Free Admission - Reception and book signing to follow
About Michael Melzer
Michael Melzer has a passion for California history, and has published his first book, The Patriot Pirate. He has a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Maryland, after spending time studying film, and video production at the University of Wisconsin.
For more information, call [831] 346-3030 or visit OldMontereyFoundation.org
AUGUST 18, 2016 LECTURE:
"The Past, Present and Future of Cooper Molera" presented by Michael Green, Interpretive Program Manager, Monterey State Historic Park
SEPTEMBER 8, 2016 LECTURE:
"Figurative Art on the Monterey Peninsula and Beyond" presented by Ami Davis, Director of Education and Community Partnerships at the Monterey Museum of Art
For more information, go to www.oldmontereyfoundation.org or call (831) 346-3030.
(More details to come on these two lectures in August and September, 2016.)
The lectures are very popular so attendees are urged to come early to secure a seat.
About Old Monterey Foundation
The Old Monterey Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, was formed on February 14, 2011, with the specific mission and purpose of promoting, supporting and enhancing the artistic, cultural and historic environment of historic Downtown Monterey, California. The group is well known for their work with the Art-in-the-Adobes event that was held from 2011-2013 as well as other fundraisers, lectures and events. Its private/public partnership with the City of Monterey heralds a new way of doing public business in a State strapped to find funds for park operations and expansions.
Photo courtesy of the California History Room, Monterey Public Library


Note the grammatical indeterminacy. Are the Iraqi forces "supported by Iran" or are the radical Shi'a militias the ones "supported by Iran"? Unclear, both in the text of the speech and in real life.
Note the grammatical indeterminacy. Are the Iraqi forces "supported by Iran" or are the radical Shi'a militias the ones "supported by Iran"? Unclear, both in the text of the speech and in real life.


Nearly half of the cheques and demand drafts (DD), in terms of value, sent to Chief Minister's Distress Relief Fund (CMDRF) in view of the 2018 Kerala floods were dishonoured, CM Pinarayi Vijayan said. Till November 30, CMDRF received cheques and demand drafts worth Rs.7.46 crore, out of which those worth Rs.3.26 crore were dishonoured at the banks, he added.
How to Fill a Cheque?
Writing a cheque is probably the easiest thing to do right? Well, maybe. But there some simple things we overlook while writing out a cheque to someone that can easily be misused. This post will discuss the 'hows' and' whats'. Let us see what the correct way to write a cheque is and how to avoid mistakes while writing a cheque.
Life for people in Kerala, as they have known it, has seen a sea-change since August-8. The chief-minister's office released a letter appealing for help to rebuild the lives of people affected by the floods in Kerala. Donations can be made through cheques or demand drafts (DD), or internet-banking. Address for cheques: The Principal Secretary (Finance) Treasurer, Chief Ministers Distress Relief Fund, Secretariat, Thiruvananthapuram.


The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released the 26th report in a series of annual reports designed to provide State-level data from the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System. Child Maltreatment 2015 includes information on reports of abuse and neglect made to child protective services (CPS) agencies, the children involved, types of maltreatment, CPS responses, child and caregiver risk factors, services, and perpetrators.
During Federal fiscal year (FFY) 2015, CPS agencies received an estimated 4 million referrals involving approximately 7.2 million children.
For FFY 2015, there were approximately 683,000 reported victims of child abuse and neglect in the United States. The victim rate was 9.2 victims per 1,000 children in the population, and children in their first year of life had the highest rate of victimization at 24.2 per 1,000 children of the same age in the national population.
Three-quarters (75.3 percent) of victims were neglected, 17.2 percent were physically abused, and 8.4 percent were sexually abused.
For FFY 2015, an estimated 1,670 children died of abuse or neglect, which is a rate of 2.25 per 100,000 children in the national population.
The full report is available on the Children's Bureau website at https://www.acf.hhs.gov/cb/research-data-technology/statistics-research/child-maltreatment.


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What is Bitcoin's Hashrate and Why Should You Care?
When talking about cryptocurrencies, the hashrate is a unit that can be used to inform miners of their potential earnings and indicate the overall health of a decentralized network. While an inherently complex topic, building an understanding of the hashrate as a unit of measurement will allow those involved in crypto to better understand the landscape as a whole.
This article provides a simple guide to what the term "hashrate" (also known as "hashing power") actually refers to. It's part of our ongoing effort to help people of different levels of familiarity all understand the most important crypto terms.
What is a hashrate?
As we covered in a previous plain-English guide, cryptocurrency mining is a process that allows Proof of Work networks—like Bitcoin—to operate without any involvement from a centralized third party. Instead, the network essentially tasks participants' computers with trying to guess the answer to a complex algorithm.
The algorithm used by Bitcoin and several other PoW cryptocurrencies is known as the SHA-256 hash algorithm. The inputs of this algorithm are all the transaction data contained in a block, while the output, the answer, is the result of this data being run through a complex mathematical blender.
An example of a cryptographic hash function (SHA-1) at work. Note that small differences in the input result in very different outputs. By Jorge Stolfi for Wikipedia.
From the network's point of view, this algorithm is predictable, producing an answer that is always fixed in length and format: a hexadecimal string containing 64 characters. The algorithm also adjusts based on how many miners are making guesses at once in an automatic process known as difficulty adjustment. Adjustments allow the difficulty of correctly generating the right string to change every 2,016 blocks (approximately every fortnight) in order to ensure that blocks are mined at a relatively constant rate of one block every ten minutes.
From the perspective of miners, however, the result of the algorithm is unpredictable, meaning there is no real way to reverse engineer the process or automatically know the right answer. Instead, their best bet is to allow their computer to continuously generate guesses until it finds the correct string of letters and numbers. The owner of the first device to guess correctly is financially rewarded in the form of a block reward and all of the transaction fees contained within the block.
In order to make sense of this system, we need a way of measuring the race between miners who are trying to verify blocks. This metric is known as the hashrate or hashing power. It refers to the amount of guesses that a device can make in a given period of time. It is measured in hashes per second (H/s) and typically expressed in:
Kilohashes: thousands of hashes per second (kH/s)
Megahashes: millions of hashes per second (MH/s)
Gigahashes: billions of hashes per second (GH/s)
Terahashes: trillions of hashes per second (TH/s)
Petahashes: quadrillions of hashes per second (PH/s)
Exahashes: quintillions of hashes per second (EH/s)
Online tools allow interested individual miners and mining pool participants to estimate the hashing power of their device(s). After factoring in electricity costs and the mining difficulty, this information can then be used for miners to get an idea of their potential daily earnings. To put these numbers in perspective, a single high-end mining rig might be capable of a few dozen TH/s, while the entire Bitcoin network currently accounts for a total estimated hashing power of around 127 million TH/s (127 EH/s).
The Bitcoin network's total hashrate varies over time based on a variety of external factors - more on this in the next section. By YCharts.
What the hashrate means for the health of decentralized networks
When looking at a network's total hashrate, we're essentially considering the entire volume of computational resources that are being offered to the network for the purpose of crypto mining. This means that, with a higher hashrate, a larger or more powerful number of devices are serving the network in a way that allows it to stay decentralized.
As a result, a high hashrate can indicate that there is a lot of interest in mining a specific cryptocurrency—typically due to it offering significant financial motivation. In addition, a high total hashrate makes a network more impervious to security threats.
One of the most commonly discussed threats in a decentralized system, for instance, is the risk of a 51% attack. This term refers to malicious actor(s) manipulating a network by contributing the majority of its hashing power. This would then allow them to compromise the integrity of the network by double spending. When a decentralized network has a high hashrate, the absurdly expensive cost of the resources needed to hold a 51% stake through mining, and the impracticality of even obtaining control of the necessary physical components, prohibits any individual or group from taking control.
While such attacks can happen to smaller and less stable altcoin networks, cryptocurrencies as gargantuan as Bitcoin and Ethereum consistently boast high hashrates. However, there have been instances in the past where fears were raised over a single country accounting for a majority of Bitcoin's hashrate. As recently as 2020, for instance, Coindesk reported that Chinese miners were contributing most of Bitcoin's hashing power. China, despite its frequent crypto crackdowns, has historically served as a popular location for miners and mining farms due to the production of necessary components in Asia and access to cheap electricity.
Before it's crackdown in the summer of 2021, China contributed a great deal of Bitcoin's mining power. Where the new power centers will be is still in flux. By the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index.
It is important to note that, even when they are consolidated in a single geographic region, miners have a diverse range of opinions and motivations. They would not be likely to all unite against their own self interests in order to attempt to hinder a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin. This further adds to the fact that high hashrates further lower the risk of a 51% attack and generally indicate that a decentralized network is healthy.
With some countries contributing notably more hashing power than others, paying close attention to crypto news and global regulatory action can help give investors an indicator of the constantly-changing landscape. For instance, the news that China cracked down on mining in June 2021 created a period where Bitcoin's total hashrate dropped substantially. Fortunately, the asset's mining economy has since begun to recover thanks to mining difficulty adjustments and miners relocating to more crypto-friendly countries.


Dark Souls™ : The Card Game is a cooperative deck evolution card game for 1-4 players. Players must explore the Encounters around them, defeating a myriad of enemies to gain Souls and Treasure.
A MISSTEP CAN BE FATAL, BUT THE REWARD OF SUCCESS IS GREAT.
The Player Character Battle Board [Right] will determine the attacks you can make. Whilst the Encounter Map [Left] will determine the difficulty of your battle.
Players must walk a narrow path as their decks allow them to attack their enemies, but also represent their health.
Decks are only refreshed when the players rest at the bonfire, so players must defeat their enemies while husbanding their strength for the greater challenges ahead. Thinking quickly and adapting to the enemy's attacks is key for survival.
Haunting foes will stand before you and frustrate your efforts. Each foe has their own unique attack that you must memorise to succeed.
Players may assume the class of a Herald, Assassin, Knight or Sorcerer - each giving a powerful in-game ability.
Each with their own deck of 8 devastating attacks, you will need skill and strategy to survive.


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Q: How can I improve MySQL Query to load result fast using JOIN? I am using following query to load results, I am fetching 10 records in each query,
but it takes more then 1 second to load only 10 records.
https://i.stack.imgur.com/8xXmi.png
how can I improve my query to load result faster.
SELECT S.session,
          S.session_timein,
          S.session_timeout,
          S.session_duration,
          S.session_groupsize,
          Date_format(S.session_createdate, '%d-%b-%Y') AS createdate,
          S.session_location,
          S.session_type,
          S.session_notes,
          P.payroll_amount,
          R.session_student_id,
          R.session_s_t_id,
          T.teacher_name,
          ST.student_name
   FROM   tbl_session_teacher_student AS R
          JOIN tbl_session AS S
            ON ( R.session = S.session )
          JOIN tbl_teacher_details AS T
            ON ( S.session_teacher_id = T.teacher_id )
          JOIN tbl_student_detail AS ST
            ON( R.session_student_id = ST.student_id )
          JOIN tbl_payroll AS P
            ON ( P.session = S.session )
   WHERE  session_agency_id = '54DB0A72-4F16-4BB5-A1FC-151B64D5817F'
          AND S.session_type != 'ABSENT'
   ORDER  BY T.teacher_name,
             S.session_createdate ASC
   LIMIT  0, 10

I also set indexes to all fields which i used in join. but it's not more useful.


It is always beneficial to review the performance of your campaign the previous day; to make sure everything is running smoothly and to check for any faults. There is no point in changing things in your campaign from a day's worth of data. Looking at the last few days will give you a better indication of the success of your campaigns. Do these checks on a daily basis to get a better understanding into the patterns of your campaign performance.
Analyse the performance of your campaigns over a certain date range (last 7 days or last month), to monitor the performance of the data. This will give you a better idea on whether you need to move your budget around different campaigns. The campaigns with the highest CTR and conversion rate would benefit with an increased budget; so it is a matter of shifting budget from lower performing campaigns to more successful ones. It would be recommended to manage the performance of your campaigns on a weekly basis.
It is important to always check for the best keywords and to analyse the existing ones. Keyword research is an ongoing process, so it is important to find keywords that have the highest monthly search and an affordable CPC. You can optimise your keywords further by adding negative keywords which will improve the performance of your campaign. It is also important to bid on your keywords effectively, and that they won't be outranked by competitors.
It is important to check that your ads are bringing in a good amount of clicks, and that they are in a high position within the relevant search results. Review your ads and see which ones are performing well. Any low performing ads in terms of CTR, conversion rate or clicks would need to be paused. Having two or more ads in one ad group will help you identify the elements that positively or negatively effect the campaign. The elements of your ad is very important as it is responsible for bringing in the clicks; so it would need to be understandable, unique and interesting.
Review your ad groups and campaigns to ensure that they are meeting your requirements; as you would want to make sure that you are targeting the right keywords for your campaign and ad groups. You also might need to search for any new keywords that would benefit your campaign further, and to create new ad groups that would accommodate more generic keywords to improve performance.
It is important to monitor your quality score as along with keyword bids, Google considers both when determining the position of your ad. In some cases, high quality scores can beat competitors' ads, even if you have a lower bid than them. Ways you could improve your quality score may be to send traffic to specific and keyword rich landing pages. Sending your customers to pages that match what's being advertised will greatly improve your campaign performance. You could also use keywords in ad text to match a customer's search terms, making your ads more relevant and useful.
It is important to continuously optimise and monitor your negative keyword lists; by doing this you will help reduce costs and see better results. This happens more effectively if you are using broad match keywords. Look at the search terms that people are typing into Google to make your ads appear. Are they relevant to your product/service? If not, you will need to monitor these search terms regularly, and make sure your ad only appears when a relevant keyword is entered.
Check to see if you have any low performing landing pages that you are able to remove, in order to allocate more of your traffic towards top performing pages. Also create a series of tests by having new landing pages, which are based on your more successful pages. You could continue to test this every month to get more accurate information into your page performance; and alter elements to see if this will improve the amount of traffic you receive.
There are many ways to use Geotargeting, we would suggest creating a Geographic report to determine locations where performance is high or below average. Use this data to exclude certain locations where your ads aren't performing, or to optimise it further by targeting different areas. You could target the country or region, postal/zip code, a certain radius or location extension targeting depending on how specific you want to be with your ads. It's important to carry this out properly as Google will decide which ad they will use; based on certain search terms and physical location of the requested search term.
Analyse the performance of your account over a specific time period to highlight any trends or faults in the data; this could be over a few years or from the past 2 weeks. Looking at your current data and comparing it with the previous day is not enough to give you the best insight; as one day's worth of data isn't long enough to record or make changes. You may want to check the performance of your keywords over a few weeks to see if it has improved or declined. See if your current daily spend (Cost) is bringing in enough traffic and is not limited in funds. These are a few checks you could carry out, including any others that are important to your account. It would be recommended to do this every other month to maintain good results.