Context: Cutting and processing fruit and vegetables is an art in itself. Hessing BV has mastered this craft for almost 60 years. They process fresh raw ingredients to produce ready-to-cook vegetables, processed fruits and main-course salads. They supply these to supermarkets, fast-food chains, wholesalers and (in-flight) catering companies.
Our work: ALL YOURS was asked to launch the new ‘Just’ brand for Hessing Supervers. This brand focuses on convenient healthy smoothies and snacks available for consumers and professionals. ALL YOURS developed the corporate identity, look & feel, brand name, website, brochures, packaging and POS/retail materials. The brand caused disruption on the market had a disruptive effect in the market and deals with various retailers were immediately signed.
Result: The development of this brand identity delivered in a disruptive effect in the food market. Above that, Just started partnerships wirth McDonald’s, HLM and different big retailers.


Managers impact the work environment, culture of an organization, and the well being of their employees. Unfortunately, managers do not always have the self awareness, knowledge or skill to manage their own behavior so that they, their employees, and organizations can be successful in reaching their full potential. The purpose of this project is to develop a plan which will improve employee morale, commitment, and organizational performance.
Description Managers impact the work environment, culture of an organization, and the well being of their employees. Unfortunately, managers do not always have the self awareness, knowledge or skill to manage their own behavior so that they, their employees, and organizations can be successful in reaching their full potential. The purpose of this project is to develop a plan which will improve employee morale, commitment, and organizational performance.


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В рамках встречи, которая начнется в Российской государственной детской библиотеке в 13 часов дня, участников ожидает разговор о новых книгах поэта и писателя Андрея Усачева, стихи, песни под гитару, фрагменты мультфильмов, в том числе «Ку. Кин-дза-дза».
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В рамках встречи, которая начнется в Российской государственной детской библиотеке в 13 часов дня, участников ожидает разговор о новых книгах поэта и писателя Андрея Усачева, стихи, песни под гитару, фрагменты мультфильмов, в том числе «Ку.


We are talking with Peter Lawrey about digital currencies.
What do you think is the main advantage of a digital currency vs. a classic one?
Peter Lawrey: Digital currencies have a different trust model. This allows multiple organisation and individual to co-operate with a lower level of trust required. There is less risk of hacking as the data is designed to be shared from the start. Instead of trusting central governments, people can trust the platform and/or a company which interests are known. This doesn't make the solution better but does provide a viable alternative.
One Bitcoin has a market value of more than 10.000 euros. Do you think is a proper price or just a bubble?
Peter Lawrey: The question is; if people stopped buying the coins because they believed they could sell them for a profit later, what is the fundamental value of a coin. You might wonder if a bitcoin is like a tulip, but this is not entirely fair. Bitcoins are not perishable, and they serve a useful purpose. Around 1/3 of the money miners make comes from transaction fees, not from mining. To my mind, this tells me the price is inflated, not the real value is not too far removed. Another issue is the fundamental cost of running the service compared with the revenue it raises. One estimate places the cost of running to be about 1/3rd of cost of the power it consumes. I suspect many miners find a way to pay very little for their power, possibly less than real cost, however even if they paid full rate for the power, and the mining reward disappeared as it will over time, the price at the moment is reasonable.
The problem for bitcoin as I see it is not whether the value of the digital currency market is a bubble, but whether bitcoin cannot be easily replaced by one or more better solutions. Once enough people believe there is a better place to store their money, it can be easily replaced by service(s) with a similar commercial model but are a bit better, e.g. in terms of cost of power.
Which are the current Bitcoins limitation?
Peter Lawrey: I would say the biggest limitation is it's resistance to change. Most of the other technical problems can be solved fairly easily and will be solved in other solutions. However, even a minor technical change to double the block size, something other solutions have already done, failed to happen after a lengthy debate. As it evolves, digital currencies will need to embrace much more dramatic and fundamental changes. As I see it, bitcoin advocates are too attached to arbitrary decisions made at the start, which at the time were disruptive, but over time are likely to be increasingly inadequate.
The amount of power consumption for digital currencies is huge, and in general creates pollution. Are there better alternatives? How far are we from finding an optimised solution?
Peter Lawrey: There are more optimised solutions available already. Solutions using large blocks can half the power consumption, but those using Proof of Stake use several orders of magnitude less power. Further, if we are to have a blockchain to supports IoT needs, the throughput will need to increase by 100,000s of times over Proof Of Work, and the cost of operation will need to decrease by around 1,000,000 times. The problem for bitcoins is this is entirely achievable, and Ethereum is taking a step in this direction with its move to Proof of Stake.
Can you give few starting points for someone who wants to look in creating a new digital currency?
Peter Lawrey: The best thing is to research existing solutions, many are open source. The key thing to look at is the balance between performance and the level of trust you need. If you don't need high performance, and you want a widely used solution Ethereum is a good start.


The retail world remains tough, both online and with physical stores. The challenge is with determining what the customer wants and then creating or marketing products around this trajectory. A startup called Celect aims to use AI for this task.
New York	- Early sales data released Monday and over the weekend suggested a strong start to the US holiday shopping season but analysts said it was too soon to declare victory overall.
Montr	- A little more than a week after Canada legalized cannabis, supply shortages are forcing Quebec pot dispensaries to curtail hours, they said Friday, while Ontario's online store is still trying to clear a huge order backlog.
Berlin	- For many consumers, rewinding cassettes, carefully placing a needle on a record or shaking dry a Polaroid photo may all feel like long-forgotten gestures from a bygone era.
Berlin	- Some two years after stepping into the spotlight, voice assistants are learning new languages and connecting to ever-more devices around the home -- but mass adoption and widespread ease with the new technology remain some way off.
The balance within business has swung more towards consumers and away from established brands. This is due to greater competition, with startups using digital technology to cut into established spaces. This gives consumers more voice.
Toronto	- The recent Capital One Digital For Good Summit presented findings that showed around half of all Canadian charities state they are not able to keep up with today’s technology-driven society.
Berlin	- Former meteorologist Lars Hattwig has achieved the "frugalist" dream that is gaining ground in ageing Germany: retiring in his 40s and living on the proceeds of a working life lived sparingly.
London	- Payment systems giant Visa recovered on Saturday from a hardware issue that had left it struggling to process transactions at bars, shops and cash machines across Europe.
London	- Payment systems giant Visa said late Friday it was "operating at close to normal levels" after a hardware failure left it struggling to process transactions in Europe.
London	- Payment systems giant Visa was struggling to process transactions in Europe on Friday and said it was rapidly trying to fix the issue.The blockage has left some customers stuck at the tills in stores across the continent and queueing at cash machines.
Buenos Aires	- Argentina's President Mauricio Macri on Thursday vetoed a law placing curbs on prices of electricity, gas and water, citing a need for fiscal discipline.
Jeff Kupietzky has identified a gap in the way advertisers and marketers are trying to connect with their potential buyers: they are using their millions of email subscribers to make money. He discusses his PowerInbox solution.
Apo	- The EU on Wednesday unveiled rules to bolster European consumer protections by ensuring "tougher fines" for cheating companies and stronger legal ways to compensate victims.
Apo	- The EU on Wednesday unveiled rules to bolster European consumer protections by ensuring "tougher fines" for cheating companies and legal ways to compensate victims.
For those developing autonomous and connected technology, and who see considerable value in collecting and analyzing data, a new approach might be needed if consumers are to continue to ‘buy into’ their personal data being used for such purposes.
Stockholm	- Swedish clothing giant Hennes and Mauritz on Monday apologised and removed an advertisement of a black child after the company was accused of being racist on social media.
Bejing	- British toy retailer Hamleys opened its largest store in the world in Beijing on Saturday, just two days before Christmas as debate played out over whether the holiday should be banned in the Communist country.
Wala is a new financial platform built on the Ethereum blockchain designed help the 3.5 billion unbanked emerging market consumers reach financial prosperity by eliminating their barriers to banking. We spoke with Tricia Martinez, the CEO of Wala.
Chantelle	- After prayers at the Chantelle Abbey in Allier, central France, a marketing meeting between the abbey's nuns and their employees discusses the latest orders for its on-site soap and cosmetics products, the delivery destination: Germany.
Bratislava	- Grumbling that their western neighbours enjoy better quality fayre, from chocolate to ketchup, eastern Europeans stepped up their campaign Friday for better food standards.
M	- The Coromoto ice cream parlour had it all - chocolate and vanilla for sure, though also garlic, avocado and even octopus sorbets... but the things you can't find in Venezuela any more, like milk and sugar, means the landmark has had to close for good.
Inashiki	- Cough-medicine-flavoured KitKat anyone?It may not be to everyone's taste, but this is just one of 300 weird and wonderful flavours flying off the shelves in Japan, which has become the world's biggest market for the four-fingered snack.
Consumers are starting to engage with businesses in new ways, using the Internet to post questions or to track orders. Rising consumer expectations in relation to when they will get their goods is driving interest in location analytics.
Paris	- Long an important source of revenue for telecom companies, roaming charges will be lifted in Europe starting June 15, raising pressure on operators in a tight market.
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In the UK and America, 30 to 40 percent of the food we buy gets thrown in the trash.
Sargent, Bruce McPhilips of the South San Francisco Police Dept. cautions that when people rely too much on high tech conveniences, they might make themselves more vulnerable to thieves.
The Florida Organic Aquaculture shrimp farm opened in Fellsmere, Florida in 2014.


On first encountering the eponymous Eleanor, she seems embarrassingly eccentric - in short, someone you would not invite to lunch or tea.
In the first chapter, she is telling a doctor her backache may be caused by the weight of her breasts. She also seems utterly tactless, telling an old man later that she assumed he was single and childless.
Is Eleanor Oliphant - what kind of name is this? - someone I want to spend 393 pages with?
The answer, surprisingly, is yes. This is a hilarious and poignant character study and marks the debut of Scotland-based author Gail Honeyman, who is in her 40s.
Eleanor is 31, a holder of a degree in classics and a dead-end accounts job at a graphic design firm.
She sticks to a routine designed to minimise human contact - she lunches alone, scoots off quickly from work and spends weekends home alone.
Hilarity ensues when her almost airless existence is threatened by two men - Johnnie Rivers, a musician she has a crush on, and Raymond, a kind but paunchy IT guy.
Despite my initial misgivings about the heroine, she grows on me as an outsider blessed with a fine wit and an even finer vocabulary.
She thinks nothing of using words or phrases such as comestibles, masticators and hors de combat in daily speech and so hates short forms that she declares: "LOL could go and take a running jump."
Visiting a fast-food restaurant for the first time, the anthropologist in her wonders why people would line up to order processed food, carry it to a table and eat it, with their hands, from paper.
Elsewhere, she notes how graphic artists in her firm all sport sharp haircuts and nerdy glasses, despite wanting to be seen as "freethinkers with unique ideas"; or how those who love to wear sports apparel are usually the least sporty.
Clueless about shopping, she is the source of much amusement when she goes to a Bobbi Brown cosmetics counter asking for "Bobbi".
She takes a dig at herself after a makeover: "I look like a small Madagascan primate, or perhaps a Canadian raccoon. It's charming!"
Jokes aside, Honeyman's novel feels relevant as it looks at the issue of loneliness, which is no laughing matter, but a modern-day epidemic. The book speaks to me as a singleton in my 30s who yearns for deep bonds, but like Eleanor, would often retreat into my own shell.
There is a dark side to Eleanor's social ineptitude, though. She is not quite fine, as Honeyman hints.
One clue is Eleanor's houseplant, Polly - which has survived "the rough treatment in foster placements and children's homes".
A quibble here is that Eleanor is such a dazzling creation that she makes the other characters look like dullards.
Also, near the end, the book takes a wild turn and looks as if it may follow in the tragic footsteps of Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life (2015). A twist is thrown in, too, to add to the chaos.
Without giving the ending away, one thing to take away is to be kind to everyone you meet, no matter how annoying they seem, as there is no knowing if he or she is fine.
If you like this, read: The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (2014, Penguin, Books Kinokuniya, $17.66), a warm and funny debut novel about an autistic professor's quest to find a wife.


Generally that is left to the women and the men practice militarism. What I propose is for the United States to ban the right to own all types of firearms, which should in theory end Churches, convents, and ecclesiastical persons were put under a peace-taboo.
Criticism[ edit ] Critics of Thomson's argument generally grant the permissibility of unplugging the violinist, but seek to block the inference that abortion is permissible by arguing that there are morally relevant differences between the violinist scenario and typical cases of abortion.
She gives as an example a hypothetical woman who seeks a late-term abortion "just to avoid the nuisance of postponing a trip abroad" and declares this to be "positively indecent".
As in Aristotelean thought, we use our reason to develop episteme or knowledge of the natural world, which produces sophia or understanding. A gun kept for protection is six times more likely to kill someone you know rather than an attacker.
When he leaves it he is fair game, whether enemy, friend, or neighbor. How did things get this way? When friends came back from faraway places, it wasn't just out of politeness that I asked what they saw. It would be suspicious if it didn't meander. At the assemblies all the sacred objects are brought into the ceremonial ground, but on account of the danger of quarrels, no display of arms is allowed anywhere near the sacred objects.
Their remoter relationship does not keep them from quarreling Edition: Is there no middle ground? Within each of these issues, there are those who want gun control legislation, and those like myself, who want less gun control legislation.
But can we be certain that we can calculate this happiness or lack of it in the future? There would be no second-class citizens in this kingdom: If, for example, a late-term abortion accidentally results in the birth of a living baby, then Thomson would conclude that the mother has no right to kill the baby.
There was a good deal of resistance at first. We might say that the mother aggressed against herself, except that one cannot aggress against oneself. Follow the threads that attract your attention. He saw very clearly that good acts done from good intentions could have bad consequences.
He has been found to have a fatal kidney ailment, and the Society of Music Lovers has canvassed all the available medical records and found that you alone have the right blood type to help.A comprehensive, coeducational Catholic High school Diocese of Wollongong - Albion Park Act Justly, love tenderly and walk humbly with your God Micah The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments: The culmination of English translations of the Bible, the agronumericus.com publication of the American Bible Society’s King James Version features full-text searchability, content-based tables of contents and a quick verse finder.
A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc. Facsimile PDF MB This is a facsimile or image-based PDF made from scans of the original book. Kindle KB This is an E-book formatted for Amazon Kindle devices.
EBook PDF KB This. General Information. The West Valley College Philosophy department offers an unusually large number of courses in Philosophy and introductory Religious Studies.
One major aim of the Philosophy program is to encourage clarity and rigor of thought and expression. In a must-read essay, former GOP congressional analyst Mike Lofgren analyzes America's "Deep State," in which elected and unelected figures collude to serve powerful vested interests.
"A Defense of Abortion" is a moral philosophy paper by Judith Jarvis Thomson first published in Granting for the sake of argument that the fetus has a right to life, Thomson uses thought experiments to argue that the fetus's right to life does not trump the pregnant woman's right to control her own body and its life-support functions, and that induced abortion is therefore not morally.


To help children to consider listening to and thinking about advice.
You will need a Narrator, a Gibbon and a Baboon for the short play.
You will need two umbrellas, one with holes in (or perhaps cut out black circles of paper and stick them on to one umbrella to represent holes).
Make a Baboon mask and a Gibbon mask, or apply face paint (optional).
Obtain pictures of different types of monkey and photocopy them onto OHP transparencies (optional).
Begin the assembly with a discussion about primates. Ask the children for examples, such as gorilla, baboon and gibbon. You could show pictures of these to demonstrate differences.
Introduce the subject of fables and Aesop. If this is the first 'fable' assembly, you could say that Aesop was born as a Greek slave, but became a philosopher and taught people by telling them fables - stories with a message.
Explain that the fable we are going to hear today is about a Baboon and a Gibbon. Introduce the characters and ask the children to think about the meaning of the story.
Narrator: One day a baboon was taking a walk through the jungle.
After a short while he bumped into his friend the Gibbon.
Baboon: At last I can feel the beautiful warmth of the sun. How delightful.
Narrator (to the audience - actors freeze): Can you guess what happened next? There were a few drops of rain, and then it began to pour. Within a few minutes the poor Baboon was soaked to the bone.
Ask the children for their ideas about the meaning of the story. Work round to the idea that advice from friends is like the weather - sometimes good, sometimes bad. Discuss times when children have listened to advice. How did it turn out? Discuss their need to listen to advice and to think about whether they should follow it or not.


Tests of significance are a statistical technology used for ascertaining the likelihood of empirical data, and, from there, for inferring a real effect, such as a correlation between variables or the effectiveness of a new treatment. Fisher, starting around 19252, standardized the interpretation of statistical significance and was the main driving force behind its popularity in empirical research, especially in the social and behavioral sciences. However, Fisher's tests are often carried out as a null hypothesis testing procedure, a pseudo-scientific procedure partly initiated by Fisher himself. I, thus, bring tests of significance up to a sounder scientific procedure in this article (or the Fisher-Perez's procedure).
In a nutshell, a test of significance works by establishing a theoretical distribution adequate to the data at hand, calculating the probability of the data under such distribution (p-values), contrasting the p-values against a pre-selected level of significance (eg, 5%), deciding whether the results are statistically significant or not, and inferring any research effects, as appropriate.
A typical test of significance is based on two procedures. The probability of the data within a theoretical distribution is calculated first, then a decision is made regarding whether such probability is statistically significant or not. Both procedures are normally presented as a unique, seamless one, although this is not so.
The calculus of the probability of the data returns two statistics: a test statistic (eg, z, t, F…) and an associated probability (p, sig4).
Most test statistics locate the observed data within a theoretical distribution, which also provides the null hypothesis for the test. However, the information derived from this statistic is of little immediate usability and, thus, can be ignored.
The p-value, on the other hand, describes such location as a probability, which is the statistic ultimately used for deciding about statistical significance. The p-value may sometimes be expressed as an exact probability (eg, p=0.013), although it is most often expressed as a categorical probability (eg, p<0.05 and p<0.01, or as '*' and '**' in tables, respectively). It may sometimes be expressed as a nominal probability applicable to all tests in the research (eg, all p-values < 0.05)5.
An assessment of statistical significance is made upon p-values small enough that may be interpreted as a rare occurrence under the null hypothesis. Conventional levels of significance are 5% (0.05) and 1% (0.01), although the researcher may establish any other threshold considered appropriate to the research at hand. P-values larger than the threshold are considered non-significant and are typically ignored from further discussion. P-values equal to, or more extreme (smaller) than, the threshold are considered statistically significant, leading to an appropriate inference of real effects.
The test statistics are z (normality test), F (equality of variance test), and r (correlation)7. Each p-value indicates, with more or less precision, the probability of that statistic under their corresponding null hypothesis (conventionally, '*' stands for p≤0.05). Assuming a conventional level of significance (0.05, or 5%), all tests are, thus, statistically significant. The correlation statistic provides information which is usable directly7, being possible to infer a medium-to-high correlation between two variables. The test statistics 'z' and 'F' do not provide immediate useful information, and any inference about them require the calculation of descriptive statistics, such as skewness and kurtosis for inferring normality (z), and group means and variances for inferring group differences (F).
P-values are often misinterpreted as "significance" statistics. For example, the statistical package SPSS reports p-values under the label 'sig', while some authors refer to p-values simply as 'significance'. However, as introduced earlier, the calculus of probabilities is a step independent from the interpretation of statistical significance, and proper labeling could help avoid current mix-ups. The solution proposed here is to reserve the notations of 'p' for p-values, and 'sig' for significance levels.
P-values are further confused with the actual level of significance in a more insidious way. Indeed, most categorical and nominal uses of p-values are "forced to share", unbeknownst to the researcher, a dual role, so that, for example, p<0.05 is typically used both for indicating the probability of the results being smaller than 5% (p<0.05) and for interpreting the same results as being significant at the 5% conventional level (sig<0.05). The use of the reserved notations 'p' and 'sig' should help prevent such mix-up, as much as the use of exact levels of probabilities instead of categorical or nominal p-values.
Finally, the significance level is also confused with a type I error (from Neyman-Pearson's procedure). Thus, it is often noted as 'alpha' (or 'α'). The use of the reserved notations 'sig' for significance and 'α' for type I error should help prevent such mix-up.
Tests of significance are commonly misused in two accounts: they are used as a hypothesis testing procedure (instead of Bayes's), and they are mixed up with steps from a related procedure (Neyman-Pearson's) to form a seamless procedure for hypothesis testing. Such misuse leads to misinterpretations, by placing the interpretation of empirical results at the fringe between science and pseudoscience. Illustration 1 summarises how the procedure of tests of significance can be used either way with easy, thus care is needed in order to avoid using it in a pseudoscientific manner. Furthermore, being able to re-interpret a pseudoscientific interpretation into a scientific one is critical because pseudoscientific interpretations are commonplace and the publication record is rarely changed retroactively.
A main misuse of tests of significance is assuming they test null and alternative hypotheses. In reality, what they test is the probability of data under the null hypothesis (ie, assuming the null hypothesis is true). Given a significant result, it is possible to infer an effect different from the one expected under the null hypothesis, yet the hypothesis itself is never put to test.
Another misuse is to mix Fisher's procedure with Neyman-Pearson's procedure, as when setting alternative hypotheses, interpreting significance (and p-values) as the probability of making judgement errors (Type I errors), and rejecting null hypothesis or accepting alternative ones when results are statistically significant. In reality, Fisher's procedure only considers one hypothesis, the null hypothesis. An alternative hypothesis is unnecessary (it is not tested) and redundant (it simply is the negation of the null). And because no hypothesis is tested, they cannot be rejected or accepted, properly speaking. Furthermore, the level of significance cannot be interpreted as the probability of making a judgement error under Fisher's approach, even when it can be so interpreted under Neyman-Pearson's approach. Both procedures have different working parameters and, thus, shouldn't be mixed up.
"…there was a significant correlation between mean bigram frequency and word accuracy [correlation coefficients (r) ranged from 0.51 for baboon VIO to 0.80 for baboon DAN, all P values < 0.05…]" (Grainger et al, published in Science 2012, p.248).
In this commentary we can find a pseudoscientific use of tests of significance and the confusion highlighted earlier. The p-value has the dual role of being both a nominal p-value (all p-values are smaller than 0.05) as well as an indicator of the level of significance (all p<0.05 are considered significant at the conventional 5% level, sig<0.05). Results are thus taken to represent a true effect (accept Ha = real correlations) rather than being a statistical indicator from which to infer such true effect9.
In order to prevent a pseudoscientific conclusion, the same results should be understood as meaning: "the observed results had a chance of less than 5% of occurring under the null hypothesis (p<0.05)8, and we considered them to be statistically significant at a typical conventional level (sig<0.05). Therefore, we can infer the existence of a correlation between mean bigram frequency and word accuracy both for baboon VIO (r=0.51) and for baboon DAN (r=0.80)."
A test of significance works by generating a theoretical distribution using the sample's statistics, if appropriate. Depending on the test statistic to be used, such distribution may be a Gaussian (normal) distribution, a t-distribution, an F-distribution, a binomial distribution, a Poisson distribution, a chi-squared distribution, etc. This distribution thus become the "null" distribution, providing both a 'null hypothesis' for the test and the space to locate the observed data and estimate their probability. Therefore, the resulting distribution is always the distribution of the null hypothesis and the location of the observed data in this distribution is simply a description of how probable the data are under the null hypothesis (ie, always assuming the null hypothesis is true).
If the location of the observed data (p-value) is extreme enough that it rarely occurs as random fluctuation under the null hypothesis, the data can be considered as statistically significant (ie, worthy of attention). If deemed statistically significant, then it can be inferred that the null hypothesis is not explanatory enough for that data and that another hypothesis, the so called 'alternative hypothesis' or 'research hypothesis', may provide the explanation sought.
The following procedure should be considered a compromise between a literal understanding of tests of significance and current pseudoscientific use. This compromise seems appropriate because of the high prevalence of the later case and the absence of the former, which could see research work and scientific articles rejected if straying too far off the current pseudoscientific understanding. Using this compromise, such research work may perhaps be interpreted as punctilious but not necessarily wrong. Meanwhile, researchers can progress further into an advanced use of literal tests of significance if so wished.
Set up or assume a statistical null hypothesis (Ho). Setting up a null hypothesis helps clarify the aim of the research. However, such hypothesis can also be assumed, given that null hypotheses, in general, are nil hypothesis and can be easily 'reconstructed'. A null hypothesis is such that, for example, it will not be possible to infer any significant mean differences between groups, that it will not be possible to infer any significant correlation between variables, or that it will not be possible to infer any significant differences in variance between groups.
Ho: Given our sample results, we will be unable to infer a significant correlation between the dependent and independent research variables.
Ho: It will not be possible to infer any statistically significant mean differences between the treatment and the control groups.
Ho: We will not be able to infer that this variable's distribution significantly departs from normality.
Decide on an appropriate level of significance for assessing results. Conventional levels are 5% (sig<0.05, or a similar result occurring under the null hypothesis less than 1 time in 20) or 1% (sig<0.01, or a similar result occurring under the null hypothesis less than 1 time in 100). However, the level of significance can be any 'threshold' the researcher considers appropriate for the intended research (thus, it could be 0.02, 0.001, 0.0001, etc). If required, label such level of significance as 'significance' or 'sig' (ie, sig<0.05); thus, avoid labeling it as 'p' (so not to confuse it with 'p-values') or as 'alpha' or 'α' (so not to confuse it with 'alpha' tolerance errors).
Decide between a one-tailed or a two-tailed statistical test. A one-tailed test assesses whether the observed results are either significantly higher or smaller than the null hypothesis, but not both. Thus, one-tailed tests are appropriate when testing that results will only be higher or smaller than null results, or when the only interest is on interventions which will result in higher or smaller outputs. A two-tailed test, on the other hand, assesses both possibilities at once. It achieves so by dividing the total level of significance between both tails, which also implies that it is more difficult to get significant results than with a one-tailed test. Thus, two-tailed tests are appropriate when the direction of the results is not known, or when the researchers wants to check both possibilities in order to prevent making mistakes.
Obtain and report the probability of the data (p). It is recommended to use the exact probability of the data, that is the 'p-value' (eg, p=0.011, or p=0.51). This exact probability is normally provided together with the pertinent statistic test (z, t, F…) either as 'p' or as 'sig' (significance)4. However, when necessary (eg, for reducing the size of a table), 'p-values' can also be reported in a categorical (eg, * for p<0.05, ** for p<0.01) or nominal manner (p<0.05)5.
'P-values' can be interpreted as the probability of getting the observed or more extreme results under the null hypothesis (eg, p=0.033 means that 3.3 times in 100, or 1 time in 33, we will obtain the same or a more extreme results as normal [or random] fluctuation under the null).
'P-values' are considered as statistically significant if they are equal or smaller than the chosen significance level. This is the actual test of significance as it interprets those 'p-values' falling beyond the threshold as 'rare' enough as to deserve attention.
If results are accepted as statistically significant, it can be inferred that the null hypothesis is not explanatory enough for the observed data.
All test statistics and associated exact 'p-values' can be reported as descriptive statistics, independently of whether they are statistically significant or not.
As per Fisher (19593), significant results can be reported in the line of "Either an exceptionally rare chance has occurred, or the theory of random distribution is not true" (p.39). Eg, "In regards to this correlation, either a rare chance has occurred (p=0.01), or the hypothesis of nil correlation between these variables is not true."
As per Conover (19801), significant results can be reported in the line of "Without the treatment I administered, experimental results as extreme as the ones I obtained would occur only about 3 times in 1000. Therefore, I conclude that my treatment has a definite effect" (p.2). Eg, "This correlation is so extreme that it would only occur about 1 time in 100 (p=0.01). Thus, it can be inferred that there is a significant correlation between these variables."
Discussion: As we obtained statistically significant results, we can infer a correlation between the dependent and independent research variables.
Discussion: Without the administered treatment, results as extreme as the ones I obtained would occur about 1 time in 100 (p=0.01). Thus, it can be inferred that the treatment does have a positive effect.
Discussion: Given our results, and unless an exceptionally rare chance has occurred (p=0.04), we can infer that this variable is not normal.
1. CONOVER WJ (1980). Practical nonparametric statistics (2nd ed). John Willey & Sons (New York, USA), 1980. ISBN 0471084573.
2. FISHER Ronald A (1925). Statistical methods for research workers. Oliver and Boyd (Edinburgh, UK), 1925.
3. FISHER Ronald A (1959). Statistical methods and scientific inference (2nd ed). Oliver and Boyd (Edinburgh, UK), 1959.
4. This reflects the current level of confusion in statistics, in general. SPSS, for example, provides exact 'p-values' under the label 'sig'. Properly speaking, what SPSS is providing is the 'p-value' of the observed data within the null distribution. The 'significance' level, however, is a nominal 'p-value' that the researcher selects as a cut-off point for interpreting the observed 'p-values' as being either statistically significant or not (eg, sig<0.05 implies that all p<0.05 will be deemed significant); thus neither it is calculated statistically nor it depends on mathematical formulas.
5. Make sure you understand the difference between a 'p-value' expressed categorically or nominally and a level of significance. A 'p-value' such as 'p<0.05' or '*' indicates that the observed result has a 'p-value' lesser than 0.05, independently of whether such result is interpreted as statistically significant or not. It also allows for using 'p<0.01' or '**' as a more extreme 'p-value' category, thus, as stronger evidence against the null hypothesis. In contrast, 'sig<0.05' only indicates that you will consider all 'p-values' smaller than 0.05 as statistically significant. As it is easy to confuse these two concepts, try to express 'p-values' as exact probabilities, and avoid using categorical or nominal expressions for 'p-values' as much as possible. Also, beware that 'sig' is commonly confused for, thus written as, 'p' or 'α' in research articles and statistics books alike, while 'p' is written as 'sig' in SPSS outputs.
6. "Honest" means honest to the philosophical and mathematical underpinnings of Fisher's tests of significance. Such interpretation is rarely found in the literature, and is not even used extensively by Fisher or Conovan. Indeed, Fisher was more than happy to interpret significant results as evidence of the existence of an effect rather than merely as evidence against the null hypothesis. Yet an "honest" or literal interpretation, albeit somewhat cumbersome, makes clear the working of the test: the location of the observed data within the theoretical distribution of the null hypothesis, resulting in the probability of that data assuming the null hypothesis is correct.
7. The statistic 'r' is not a test statistic but the correlation coefficient proper. The significance of this correlation is tested against a t-distribution, from where the p-value is obtained.
8. Preferably, authors should use exact p-values, rather than nominal or categorical ones.
9. In reality, what are significant are not the correlations themselves but the t-tests done on the correlations, leading to the rejection of both null hypotheses and, thus, to the provisional inference that such correlations are true, pending further confirmation.


Après un voyage fatigant, Gasje est arrivée à St-Vaast. Il entre la réception de la chancellerie. Il était étonné de la beauté du bâtiment quand, tout à coup, il constate que la réceptionniste lui regarde.
Je voudrais me présenter brièvement. Je suis Gasje, le nouvel ambassadeur d'Holland. Dernièrement, il y avait beaucoup de changements dans la chancellerie d'Holland. Est-ce que c'est possible de parler à l'ambassadeur d'Artois qui est responsable pour Holland?
Un Page arriva dans le bureau du Chancelier. Flapen se leva et parla quelque secondes avec le page qui lui indiqua qu'un Ambassadeur venais d'arriver qui 'attendais dans le Hall d'Entré. Ainsi, Flapen alla à la rencontre de l'Ambassadeur.
Bonsoir, Excelence Gasje. Bienvenue en Artois!
J'espère que le trajet se fit sans encombre?
A Servant arrived in the office of the Chancellor. Flapen stood up as the Servant arrived that told him that an International Ambassador was waiting for him in the Hall.
Hello, Excellency Gasje! Welcome in Artois!
I hope the trip wasn't too bad?
Attendent l'arrive du chancellor d'Artois, Gasje s'est assis dans une chaise comfortable. Il se rendit compte qu'il presque dorme, quand quelqu'un quelqu'un a commencé à faire une conversation avec lui.
Bonsoir, Excelence Gasje. Bienvenue en Artois! J'espère que le trajet se fit sans encombre?
Je suis honoré d'être accueilli dans ce beau bâtiment de l'Artois. Comme vous avez vu, je suis fatigué, mais je l'ai trouvé facilement ici.
Est-ce que le page a déjâ dit pourquoi je suis ici? Il y avait beacoup de changements en Holland dernièrement. La chancellerie était morte, mais notre chancellor Louwrens Phoenix II a lancé un nouveau démarrage. Aujourd'hui nous sommes avec quelques vieux ambassadeurs et un nouveau, moi. Je dois m'excuser pour ma connaissance de la langue française. Je ne peux pas promettre que que tout est si bon comme il se doit, parce que je n'avais parlé aucun mot de Français les années passées.
Depuis que nous avons pas eu de contact depuis plus d'un, il est temps de changer cela. Je suppose que vous êtes le chancelier de l'Artois?
Gasje had taken a seat in one of the comfortable chairs while he was waiting on the Chancellor to arrive. He realised that he was falling asleep, when suddenly someone started talking to him.
Hello, Excellency Gasje! Welcome in Artois! I hope the trip wasn't too bad?
I'm honored to be welcomed in this beautiful building of Artois . As you might have noticed i'm a bit tired, but it wasn't too hard to find here, so I got here pretty fast.
Did the servant already told you why I was here? Things have changed a lot in Holland last time. The chancellery was dead. But our chancellor Louwrens Phoenix II started over with a few old ambassadors and a new one. That last one is me. I do need to apologize for my knowledge of French. I can't promise everything will be as fluent as it should be, because I haven't spoken French the last few years.
Since we haven't had contact for over one year now, it was time to change that. I assume that you are the Chancellor of Artois?
The chancellor look at the Ambassador. Sorry for taking so much time to reply, he knew this wouldn't help the future discussion.
My name is Flapen de Bertincourt, Chancellor of Artois. I am very happy to meet you, Excellency.
Would you have any credentials from your Embassy?
Gasje smiles when he sees the Chancellor enter the room again.
It has been a long time, but I was really busy aswell. Since you speak English, I assume we are going to have this conversation in English? I do have credentials from my Embassy, although they are in French.
Gasje shows his credentials to Flapen.
Monsieur Gasje et autorisé pour opérer comme ambassadeur d' Hollande.
I also like to invite you to our Embassy. Our chancelor likes to meet you. Since he doesn't speak French (or just even worse then me), the conversation over there will also be held in English. If you would like to come, I will give you a key.
Yes, English would be better for you and me. That way we will both understand each other alot better.
Flapen took the piece of paper and read it before giving it back to the ambassador.
Thank you very much. I would be very happy to come to your embassy. I am sure, we could certainly have a good meeting together. We both, as northern country/counties to learn from each other and find some allies either on the seas or by trading.
I'm sorry for my late response, but I was very busy lately. Today I leave on a holliday untill the 14th of september, so if you don't mind, your visit will be postphoned untill then?
I'm sure my chancellor will be happy to hear that you are open for trading.
That sounds good. Come back to me when you will be back. And we'll travel together to Holland if you don't mind.
Gasje returned from his holliday and immediately rushed to the embassy of Artois.
Hello Excellency, I hope you still accept our invitation to come to our embassy? I recieved the key from our Chancellor. Will you follow me?
Flapen saw the Ambasssador coming back.
Welcome back Excellency! I would love to accept and meet the Chancellor.
Flapen then followed Gasje in a journey towards the Embassy of Holland.


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where is the metric connection of , which is still a flat metric but not the Minkowski metric . The additional terms involving which appear, are inertial forces.
The principle of equivalence requires that gravitational forces, a well as inertial forces, should be given by an appropriate . In this case we can no longer take the spacetime to be flat. The simplest generalization is to keep as the metric connection, but now take it to be the metric connection of a non- flat metric. If we are to interpret the as force terms, then it follows that we should regard the as potentials. The field equations of Newtonian gravitation consist of second- order partial differential equations in the potential . In an analogous manner, we would expect that General Relativity also to involve second order partial differential equations in the potentials . The remaining task which will allow us to build a relativistic theory of gravitation is to construct this set of partial differential equations. We will do this shortly but first we must define a quantity that quantifies spacetime curvature.


These recordings are freely available on the BBC Radio 4 site, but only as realmedia stream, requiring a specific player etc - not entirely convenient.
Bettany takes a deeper look into Florence and the Medici - swiftly debunking all the myths about the Renaissance and putting it into the context of a continuum of change. Writers from Petrarch to Ficino and beyond are largely responsible for the honeyed perception we have of this period.
Through the many experts that accompany Bettany Hughes in these recordings, we receive wonderful insights into what the Renaissance really was - more than an art movement, more than a rebirth of classical ideas, but an amalgamation of myriad factors which helped propel Europe toward a modern age, but also drew quite heavily on knowledge from the East - something which writers like Vasari, Voltaire, Burckhardt and Gibbon are quite dismissive of.
This is an interesting line: "an amalgamation of myriad factors which helped propel Europe toward a modern age, but also drew quite heavily on knowledge from the East". Which East were they referring to, and what areas of knowledge?
I'd recommend Bettany's description of this in part 2.
To give a hint - she was looking at a middle ages Arabic version of Ptolemy's ancient treatise on astrononmy, Almagest This amazing work from antiquity was lost to Western Europe at this time, yet only when it appeared in the 16th Century is seen to have 'emerged from the darkness' - we must be cautious to note that this darkness was quite localised to Western Europe!
Thanks for these links! I think this bit about the East is interesting as well. I'm always fascinated by the Eastern/Islamic connections with Venice during the 15th and 16th centuries, so I'll be interested to see what Bettany says in regards to the Renaissance in Florence.
M: In regard to Venice consider that the Turkish Sultan (50 years after the fall of Constantiniple) had to import Giovanni Bellini's brother, Gentile, to paint his portrait. However, the Sultan did make a contribution: he cut off a slave's head in front of the shocked painter in order to show him the correct way to depict a severed head!
H: The Almagest appeared in Western Europe long before the 16th century. Pope Nicholas ordered a translation in the mid-15th century but it was known even before then. I don't understand how Ptolomy, the great exponent of the geocentric theory and the favorite of the sterile Aristotelian academics, is responsible for the Renaissance art you love so much.
About your trip to Florence. Don't expect to stand in front of the Primavera in hushed silence. You will be jostled by crowds of tourists, many from the "East." Also, please have your hotel book a reservation for you or else you will have to wait hours on line.
Finally, I hope your planning to go to the restored Brancacci chapel, the source of much of the naturalism that characterized the Ren. It's in a nice neighborhood across the Arno with some nice outdoor restaurants.
I was paraphrasing what is explored further in the programs. In this instance - Bettany Hughes was describing the perception of the Renaissance as the rebirth of classical ideas, and how due to writers such as Petrarch and Vasari the notion of the 'Dark Ages' seems to have spread and enveloped the whole of the world. As we are better aware of now, this was far from the case.
Arabic copies of Almagest have been sourced to the 8th Century, and the first copy appeared in Europe(Spain) in the 12th Century due to this Arabic connection. She also of course mentions the Byzantine and monastic traditions of preserving classical works, which were so actively pursued by the Medici in the 14th century onwards.
Carlo Ridolfi's apocryphal tale of Bellini's experience is useful as a caricature of Venetian perceptions of their Eastern rivals, but nothing much more than that. In many instances, his Vite is as crammed full of warped anecdotes as Vasari's work.
@M - Sultan Mehmet II was singularly interested in Italian Art, which was quite atypical for an Islamic leader at that time. We are told he invited both Leonardo and Michelangelo to Istanbul on various occasions to work on artistic and architectural projects, but political circumstances prevented this from being realised.
It would have been amazing to have Michelangelo design a bridge to span the Bosphorous Strait, connecting the East and the West physically as well as symbolically!


September marks the end of the big summer blockbusters, and the beginning of "Oscar Season", where a lot of the year's artistic and Oscar-bait films come out. I had the privilege to start this year's Oscar Season with The Drop. Up until a week before the film's release, I hadn't even heard of it before. Then I saw the trailer. A movie about the mob. Tom Hardy. James Gandolfini's last film. Noomi Rapace. What more incentive do you need?
The movie focuses on "Cousin Marv's Bar", a Brooklyn bar run by cousins Bob (Hardy) and Marv (Gandolfini). But the bar, as with many Brooklyn bars, is really owned by the mob. Every so often, the bar will become "the drop-off", where people drop off their "dues" to the mob. The mob comes by the next day to pick it up. One day, the bar is robbed by a couple of masked thugs and sets of a chain of events leading to an electric ending.
While Tom Hardy is the film's lead, James Gandolfini was the stand-out performance for me. It was hard to watch, knowing it was his last film, but he gave a fantastic performance, as a desperate man near the end of his days. Hardy gives a great performance as well, involving a lot more subtlety than Gandolfini. With Hardy, we see a lot more instances of raw emotion in his eyes, whereas a lot of Gandolfini's acting comes from his voice, body and face. Rapace also does a good job playing an emotionally unstable woman, but isn't featured as heavily as the others.
The movie had a good pace. Even though it was slow, it was a great lead up to a great end. A lot of criticism surrounding the trailer was how Hardy's accent would work out. I though his Brooklyn accent was just fine and never took me out of the movie. Despite the movie's poster, there isn't a lot of violence and uses it at certain moments to add to the story, not just for the sake of using it.
There were a lot of great cinematographic shots in the movie. There's a shot at the end of the trailer with money in a sink and blood dripping down onto it, mixing with the tap water. The opening shot is also great, focusing on a puddle of water where we see the reflection of the Brooklyn bridge and Tom Hardy walking down the street. The camera then pans up and follows Hardy.
There was also a great subplot (which was featured more in the movie than the actual plot of the drop-off) surrounding Hardy's discovery of a dog and how he goes about caring for the dog. At first, it seems a bit out of place, but as the movie progresses and Hardy's character develops more, it fits right in.
Overall, The Drop is a good, solid film. It's entertaining, intriguing, with great characters, great performances and good pacing. It probably won't get a lot of Oscar attention, but it is without a doubt an enjoyable movie.
Weekly Box Office Round-Up: Equalizer = Success!


How do I Determine Population & Sample Size?
In statistics, two of the most important concepts are populations and sample sizes. A study needs an adequate sample size to mean anything. For example, a study could say that a baseball player who hits two home runs at four at bats in a game hits a home run 50 percent of the time. This sample size is too small to be meaningful. The population is also important as it defines what the study is looking at as a whole.
Write out the fact of the study. For example, a statistician studies the effects of health food on high school students in a small town. The statistician studies 40 students at a high school of 250.
Determine the total population of the study. The population will always be the bigger number of the sample size and population. The population is the whole group of people being studied. In the example, the population is the size of the high school being studied, so 250 people.
Determine the sample size of the study. The sample size is the number of people who the statistician examines. In the example, the statistician examined 40 students, so the sample size is 40 people.


What are the pros and cons of operating on a balanced-budget?
Few issues are more complicated, contentious and controversial in contemporary American politics than balancing the federal government's budget. Those who argue in favor of a balanced budget offer many claims about the deleterious impacts of huge federal debt. Others counter that balanced budgets would drastically limit the government's ability to ward off economic or foreign threats.
Ultimately, proponents of balanced budgets like that it restricts the power and scope of the government. Their opponents want the government to afford wide-reaching power.
Interestingly, the most frequently cited reason for balancing the budget – that it robs future generations to pay for present expenses – is mostly incorrect. The government eventually has to pay back Treasury bonds (T-bonds), so future bondholders will receive nominal payments that are at least as large as the money lent today.
Several other factors haven't been addressed, including inflation, crowding out and the general inefficiency of government spending. It's likely that the future economy will be smaller and less productive because of federal borrowing, but it isn't because today's beneficiaries are stealing from future generations; it's because government activity hurts economic growth.
One particularly poignant critique of large debt is that it makes the U.S. government too vulnerable to interest rate fluctuations. If interest rates rise too quickly (potentially to fight inflation), the government would find it very difficult to afford interest payments on the national debt, leading to default or still higher inflation.
Keynesian economic theory suggests that deficit spending can help an economy fight recessions. Most Keynesians also support (at least in theory) paying off the debt during boom years. However, they want the power to spend beyond tax receipts to boost aggregate demand and the gross domestic product (GDP).
Most arguments against balanced budgets come from the recipients of the largest spending programs, such as Social Security, welfare, Medicare and the military. Even if those groups support a balanced budget in theory, they are practically opposed to the steps likely required for its execution.


OUR NEGATIVE-123 BILLION CUBIC FEET FORECAST [for natural gas next week from working gas in storage] is fundamentally bearish against the five-year average, but an improvement nonetheless from last week, as the first triple-digit withdrawal of the season is shaping up.
We've made downward adjustments to our forecast to account for both nuclear generation increases and additional supply created by what we believe to be gas plants leaving ethane and other liquids in the pipeline due to low natural-gas-liquids prices. While Nymex gas prices are below current costs to incent drilling, we expect lower power costs and rig rates to reduce cost structures in 2009, allowing lower pricing lows, but also making existing price hedges more attractive.
Companies such as Plains Exploration & Production (ticker: PXP) and XTO Energy (XTO) -- both Buy-rated -- feature particularly strong 2009 hedging positions, which we have highlighted in this low-commodity-price environment.
Cold weather moving West to East this week provided some relief to beleaguered Rockies producers, enabling spot prices to post impressive week-over-week gains (up 23% at Opal, Wyo., and up 9.8% at Blanco, N.M., in the San Juan Basin). Below-seasonal norm temperatures have gripped much of the nation this week, with snow in the Pacific Northwest and in the higher elevations of the Southwest, subzero temps in the Upper Midwest, and snow/ice in the Northeast. We are expecting a strong storage withdrawal in next week's report.
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries dominated the news Wednesday, with the group announcing a larger-than-expected 2.46 million-barrel-per-day cut to supply (from current 27.308 million barrels per day to 24.845 million barrels per day) starting Jan. 1. Russia also signaled its willingness to reduce supply further in 2009, after cutting 350,000 barrels per day in November.
Despite the news, Nymex January crude fell $3.54 per barrel, reportedly on skepticism about OPEC's ability to adhere to its own cuts. Such concern today seems overdone in our view, as OPEC production cheating is a regular occurrence, and a well known part of the equation. Crude inventory figures did not help prices either, rising again this week by 525,000 barrels. Gasoline inventories also increased, while refinery utilization was down 3.32% week over week.
After years of covering Plains Exploration, this week we wrote an update note that is practically a reinitiation piece.
These days, exceptional hedging, differentiated project access, and growth momentum from partnered development and exploration projects stand out from the group. Plausible near-term catalysts include details of ongoing production results in the Haynesville Shale with Chesapeake Energy (CHK), and at Flatrock with McMoRan Exploration (MMR), and finally a possible permit to drill offshore California.
Longer term, we suspect monetizing in-hand discoveries with Royal Dutch Shell (RDSA), an exploration play in Vietnam, and a nonoperated interest in the Madden Field operated by ConocoPhillips (COP) are all on the table. We also propose that Plains and Chesapeake Energy might revive a master limited partnership concept in the Haynesville over time, highlighted in our note.


Things I liked: This is great for my apartment; no noise or mess, You get plenty of shooting off of one target with the twelve bulls eyes. The trap is solidly built.
Things I would have changed: A little expensive, but factoring in the good qualities, it's not that highly priced.
What others should know: Other reviews mentioned the empty space at the top. Before I used this trap I mashed the ballistics putty around to fill in this area as well as assuring good contact/overlap of the three pieces of ballistics putty. Besides, if you're shooting in the unfilled area you're not near a bulls eye anyway.
Things I liked: Nice for practicing in small spaces - no worry about ricochets. Compact size.
Things I would have changed: Putty does not extend all the way to the top so pellets shot at the top row of targets can pass into open space and hit back of the trap. Best to invert the paper to shoot the last row of targets to avoid problems. Frame cracked where the paper groove is cut when I lifted an edge. Just glued it back on and now I am careful when lifiting. A handle on top would avoid this problem.
Things I liked: Nice large size. great for apartments.
Things I would have changed: I am adding a handle to the top for easy carry. There is a support wood beam near the top that tends to bounce pellets out of the trap, but it's not much of a problem. I would increase the box depth 1" to allow the addition of more leaded clay.
Things I liked: Stops pellets quite well.Easy to slip targets in.
Things I would have changed: Make it taller so that you can use the large twelve target paper that you get with the trap and not have to go down and turn the target over to shoot the last remaining targets on the sheet.Other wise the last three targets on the sheet hit the protruding wood backing instead of the puddy.
What others should know: Shorter targets work fine with trap.


To be working fast, proceeding rapidly.
After working with those old hand tools, power tools will make you feel like you are really cooking with gas.
Although common place today, gas stoves have not always been the norm. Gas stoves started to be available in the 1800's, and until that time wood stoves were the standard.
You're cooking with gas comes from an old advertisement for gas stoves. The phrase suggests that gas is faster, easier, cleaner, better than cooking with wood.


Prime Minister, Theresa May, has announced she plans to ban the use of Section 21 or what is termed as so-called ‘no-fault evictions’ in England.
“But millions of responsible tenants could still be uprooted by their landlord with little notice, and often little justification.
“This is wrong and today we’re acting by preventing these unfair evictions. This important step will not only protect tenants from unethical behaviour, but also give them the long-term certainty and the peace of mind they deserve.
“Government was making the biggest change to the private rental sector in a generation. By abolishing these kind of evictions, every single person living in the private rented sector will be empowered to make the right housing choice for themselves not have it made for them. Evidence showed that so-called Section 21 evictions were one of the biggest causes of family homelessness.
Shadow Housing Secretary John Healey cautiously welcomed the Tory proposals, but said they: “Won’t work if landlords can still force tenants out by hiking the rent. For nine years, the Tories have failed to tackle problems facing private renters.
NLA Chief Executive, Richard Lambert, said: “Landlords currently have little choice but to use Section 21. They have no confidence in the ability or the capacity of the courts to deal with possession claims quickly and surely, regardless of the strength of the landlord’s case.
“England’s model of tenancy was always intended to operate in a sector where Section 21 exists. This change makes the fixed term meaningless, and so creates a new system of indefinite tenancies by the back door.
She has no security of tenure where she lives.
As with Sadiq Khan's Ultra Low Emission Zone tax this is a knew jerk reaction to pressure from the left and tenants rights groups. It's all a part of the feel good factor. There are a number of issues that I would like to raise for discussion.
The first is that unless there is a new clause to the act or S8 is greatly strengthened then we could end up with a situation where a rented property becomes unsaleable. If the tenants comply with the law in all respects they are, as the situation has been explained today, unmoveable. We are then, by default, going back to a pre 1977 Rent Act Tenancy situation. This will mean, or will it, that a new owner or the lender in an appropriate situation of default on mortgage payment or similar, cannot regain the property and realise their security for the loan. What do people think?
'Fault' evictions - non payment of rent or unsociable behaviour should be streamlined to take effect within, say 2 -4 weeks maximum but non-fault evictions (where the landlord might wish to 'take the property back - for whatever reason) can take place after a notice period of say, 6 months: which should be sufficient time for the tenants to find alternative accommodation.
There is merit in this but it should not become a lawyers benefit.
Some recent attacks by the British people on themselves.
1.	The labour government want to give all tenants indefinite security of tenure.
2.	Theresa May has announced she will ban section 21 notices, which take a minimum of five months to implement, (So-called “No fault evictions”) If the tenant gets the support of the local council the situation can drag on for a year. If the landlord makes a single technical mistake and does not follow the required process precisely, the whole thing has no real time limit. During this time frame, the tenant can cause thousands of pounds of damage to the property.
So, at best, now, if a landlord needs to sell up, he can't until the contract ends.
But the Gov't also wants to increase minimal rental periods to several years.
Obviously this takes no account of the landlord’s needs to adapt to the market place in order to survive or avoid total financial melt-down, let alone optimise the business.
3.	We have a local council (in an area that is often regarded as having the highest quality of life in Britain), that is right on the very cusp of forcing people out of their homes, especially tenants. New, approved and very severe parking restrictions are being implemented. Visitors have, in reality, been banned by the local council for anyone with no private parking space or a single parking space. Many of those who wish to stay will have to seek permission from the local council via a licence at £70/Yr. There will not be enough licences for all existing home occupiers. Yes you have that right! The local government are making it literally impossible to own a car and live in much of the area.
There is opportunity here to create a more streamlined Court system but I fear and doubt that it will be taken up. The County Courts are creaking with Case overload now, how will they cope with a 3x/4x increase in cases requiring a hearing ?
James Brokenshire says, "section 21 is the biggest cause of homelessness" errrrr I don't think so. I've said this many times before, H.B. Paid to tenant = not paid on to LL = eviction = homelessness, as the gov' well know!!! Everybody', write/email them now! Chasing l------r voters comes to mind??? There's always the bk door as an option! All comments send them on.
BBC runs an article on that today, largely triumphant that the end of landlords is at sight.
Disgusting. Time to call the time being a LL, pack up and sell. BTW - will limited companies also be affected?


Determine the maximum length of the cable (in km) for transmitting data at a rate of 500 Mbps in an Ethernet LAN with frames of size 10,000 bits. Assume the signal speed in the cable to be 2,00,000 km/s.
Data should be transmitted at the rate of 500 Mbps.
Let G(x) be the generator polynomial used for CRC checking. What is the condition that should be satisfied by G(x) to detect odd number of bits in error?
G(x) has an odd number of terms.
Frames of 1000 bits are sent over a 10^6 bps duplex link between two hosts. The propagation time is 25ms. Frames are to be transmitted into this link to maximally pack them in transit (within the link). What is the minimum number of bits (i) that will be required to represent the sequence numbers distinctly? Assume that no time gap needs to be given between transmission of two frames.
Same as the baud rate.
In Manchester encoding, the bitrate is half of the baud rate.
There are n stations in a slotted LAN. Each station attempts to transmit with a probability p in each time slot. What is the probability that ONLY one station transmits in a given time slot?
This solution is contributed Anil Saikrishna Devarasetty .
Consider a token ring network with a length of 2 km having 10 stations including a monitoring station. The propagation speed of the signal is 2 × 108 m/s and the token transmission time is ignored. If each station is allowed to hold the token for 2 μsec, the minimum time for which the monitoring station should wait (in μsec)before assuming that the token is lost is _______.
There are 112 questions to complete.


“We are in business to make money” is a common mantra, and it’s true that without money a business will soon die. But if it’s the prime focus then its going to be a tough journey for all concerned.
What happens for many people is that they believe happiness will come when they have money, so they strive to make every last dollar in the business.
Customers feel this, and have a sense that they are not getting good value. There is the constant need to attract new customers to replace those that leave. The customers that stay are …The money focused customers who fight to get the price down, or worse don’t pay.
The staff know its about the money, and become infected with this attitude, except its not to make every dollar for the business that is important. Rather, it is “the boss is greedy, so I want my share too”. In this situation everyone always wants more money for less effort.
The thinking is:”When we have enough money we will be happy, and then we will be passionate about our job”, unfortunately as happiness is never reached staff never become passionate.
Someone who is happy in themselves will do a few things that lead to success. They will treat people well e.g. staff and customers. They will attract people to them because they have something others want. Being happy they are content with their lot in life so do not come across as needy or greedy. They do however have a strong sense of self worth and are prepared to ask a fair price for their skills.
A happy person acts with passion, so when in business they just do what’s necessary to make it work. Why? Because that what they feel like doing. This passion rubs off onto staff, who are happy to do anything for a happy, passionate boss; they feel they are involved in something worthwhile. Customers just arrive, as they see they are being looked after and given good value.
So we have– staff that want to work, Customers that arrive of their own accord. The two big problems in business are suddenly gone. No staff issues and plenty of loyal customers, who are happy to pay a little extra for the great service.
The business can’t help but make money!
Of course now the money is flowing the business has the resources to do an even better job (note not just give it all to the staff, or pay excessive directors fees) and the cycle repeats.
Focus on being happy, and having happy people around you.
Recognise people for what they contribute, not what they lack.
Don’t offer extra money, offer extra heartfelt thanks.
Pay yourself along with the staff– nothing kills happiness like no reward for effort.
Get back to the passion that got you started in business in the first place.
Keep a tight reign on finances as a measure of progress, not just as the goal.


Which sequence of research steps is logical in the list given below?
(1). Problem formulation, Analysis, Development of Research design, Hypothesis making, Collection of data, Arriving at generalizations and conclusions.
(2). Development of Research design, Hypothesis making, Problem formulation, Data analysis, Arriving at conclusions and data collection.
(3). Problem formulation, Hypothesis making, Development of a Research design, Collection of a Data; Data analysis and formulation of generalizations and conclusions.
The issue of ‘Research ethics’ may be considered pertinent at which stage of research?
(4). At the stage of reporting the findings.
In which of the following, reporting format is formally prescribed?
The principal of a school conducts an interview session of teachers and students with a view to explore the possibility of their enhanced participation in school programmers. This endeavor may be related to which type of research?
In doing action research what is the usual sequence of steps?
What was the stance of Indian intelligentsia during the period of great war?
(4). They expressed sympathy for England’s dogged courage.
Identify the factor responsible for the submergence creative energy in India literature.
What was the aftermath that survived tragedies in Kashmir and Bangladesh?
(4). Literature has no relation with war and independence.


Will it outshine Beck's "Restoring Honor" event?
Hoping to steal the spotlight away from the Tea Parties and Glenn Beck, some 300 liberal groups are descending on Washington this Saturday for a rally. The event, dubbed "One Nation Working Together," aims to faithfully represent America's "embattled middle class."
"The Tea Party has been getting much more media attention than it deserves, and it's been saying it represents the voice of middle-class America." said George Gresham an SEIU president speaking to The New York Times. "A lot of us feel we have to get a different voice out there speaking for working people, one respecting the diversity of this country, which the Tea Party does not."
Conservative pundits, emboldened by a strong turnout at Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally, are taking an acute interest in the event.
Attendance at the march will likely be viewed as a test of liberal organizing strength at a time when polls show Democratic base voters are far less enthusiastic about the upcoming election than their Republican counterparts. In particular, it seems likely the press will compare turnout to that of the "Restoring Honor" rally staged by Fox News personality Glenn Beck at the Lincoln Memorial August 28. (The One Nation march was already in the planning stages when the Beck march was held.) The comparisons will, however, have to take into account two significant differences. First, the Beck rally was essentially the work of one person, albeit one with a big megaphone in talk radio and cable news; the One Nation rally will be the product of the combined organizing power of the country's largest unions. And second, while the Beck rally was self-consciously non-political, the One Nation gathering will be frankly partisan. "It's time to stand up and march for the change we voted for," say organizers.
How Does This Represent the Middle Class? wonders Daniel Foster at National Review. The Times article mentions that the rally will consist of the NAACP, the AFL-CIO, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, National Council of La Raza and other liberal groups. "More telling still," Foster writes, "Is the ranks of those left out" of the New York Times article. Other liberal groups attending the rally include: Communist Party USA, International Socialist Organization, Planned Parenthood, Democratic Socialists of America and Code Pink. "A veritable tapestry of America's embattled middle class," Foster jokes.
Probably Will Be Union Dominated, writes Warner Todd Huston at Stop the ACLU: "It will be very interesting to see the numbers that turn out. Likely you'll see thousands of professionally printed signs instead of handmade ones (indicative of a lack of grassrootiness) and you'll be presented with a sea of purple shirts, red shirts and T-Shirts sporting other union colors showing that unions are the only real source of participants here."
They're Left-Wing Copy Cats, writes Stephan Tawney at The American Pundit: "Yep. These leftist groups are angry that independents, conservatives, libertarians, and even some Democrats have found common ground on a renewed platform of smaller government, fiscal responsibility, and personal liberty. That common ground has manifested itself in the form of many new Republican candidates on the path to victory in 2010."


Two police officers wept as they tried to resuscitate one of the 96 fans fatally injured at Hillsborough, one of his friends told the new inquests jury.
Stanley Mullin said an officer had "tears in his eyes" as he said he could not do any more for Eric Hughes, 42.
The policemen gave mouth-to-mouth and heart massage to the father-of-two from Warrington, while Mr Mullin rubbed his friend's hand, saying: "Come on, Eric!"
The court also heard about the final movements of 18-year-old Paul Clark.
Mr Mullin and Mr Hughes had travelled to Sheffield on 15 April 1989 to watch Liverpool play Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup semi-final.
Mr Hughes' son David, who was 17 at the time of the disaster, previously told the court how his father - who had worked as a lorry driver, a taxi driver and a salesman - was nicknamed "Eric The Red" because of his devotion to Liverpool FC.
He told the hearing of his sorrow that his father had not lived to meet his grandchildren, and that he never "got to buy my dad a pint".
The friends went into pen three together on the Leppings Lane terraces but were separated after a crowd surge, the hearing was told.
Mr Mullin managed to escape through a gate at the front of the stand, which he said had been opened by a police officer.
He later saw Mr Hughes being lifted off the terraces and laid on the pitch. The jury heard he was placed near the goal line at 15:26 BST - 20 minutes after the match was halted.
PC Neil Mutch was giving Mr Hughes chest compressions while his colleague PC Barbara Hardwick - now Barbara Woodward - gave him the kiss of life.
Mr Hughes was unresponsive, the jury heard.
Mr Mullin said: "I was rubbing Eric's hand. I was talking to Eric while rubbing his hands, saying, 'Come on Eric! Come on!'"
Mr Mullin said the officers, who were both crying, eventually stopped.
He said: "The chap just looked up at me with tears in his eyes and said: 'I'm sorry I can't do any more.' They were so upset."
In a statement, Mr Mutch said that after seeing Mr Hughes he was "in a very bad state", while Mrs Woodward was "very upset".
Mrs Woodward told the court she had "blocked out" a lot of what happened on the day of the disaster.
The court heard how the officers stopped giving first aid after a man who said he was a doctor told them Mr Hughes had died.
Paul Clark was an apprentice electrician from Derbyshire. His parents described him as a "lovely young man" who was "fun-loving and caring".
He went to the match with his father, Kenneth, and a friend, Andrew Booth.
Mr Booth, who was with his friend inside pen three, said Mr Clark moved towards the front of the enclosure shortly before kick-off.
"I would have said he was pushed forward by the crowd," Mr Booth said.
He did not see his friend alive again and said that after kick-off the pressure in the enclosure intensified.
Matthew Hill, a barrister representing the coroner, said there was no video or eyewitness evidence showing how Mr Clark made it off the terraces.
After the disaster Mr Clark's father, who had a seated ticket for the match, waited for his son at a meeting point. When he did not turn up, he went to a nearby police station for help.
Mr Clark eventually called his wife, Susan, who travelled to Sheffield that evening.
They later identified their son's body in the stadium's gymnasium.
The inquests, in Warrington, Cheshire, are due to resume on Thursday.


Yeeeeeeeeeah. So I kinda changed stuff up a bit.TL;DR: my web hosting was about to renew its annual contract thingie, and I punched out while there was still time and moved everything elsewhere for various reasons. Ironically, not cost related reasons. Which hopefully will not end up biting me in the kiester.
Hopefully, though, they’re good reasons. You know me and big sweeping decisions. I am cognizant that they are not always fruitful. But change is learning, learning is growth, and growth is better than stagnation, which is where we’ve been for the past couple years. So this is happening. This is the bedrock upon which I will build the new YnrohKeeg.com. It’s not going to be what you’re used to. By that I mean, you’ve maybe been here once, and it was half-done. In the near future, it will hopefully be a better-looking, half-done affair. Because to finish a thing is to end a thing. And that’s sad.
So while I hate to ask you to give me time (again, we all know how I am), I nevertheless ask exactly that. I can only do this in my scant spare time, but it’s something I wanna do, if for no other reason that to see if I can. Stay tuned, friends.
I’m having trouble downloading the early episodes on any source, and, well, I do tend to begin at the beginning. I pray that you don’t force me to download iTunes, which I have successfully managed to avoid for my whole life.
Actually thinking of making an “Audiobook Version”, without all of the credits and campfires and stuff. If that does happen (holding your breath is not advised), I’ll have it available here!
Don’t worry Rich, we’re holding out that you get round to Episode 18 at some point but take your time man, like you said, spare time is short and you’ve gotta focus on the more important things! Looking forward to the future my dude, keep on trucking!
Thanks for keeping the faith, my man! The Quest is very near and dear to my heart, and I can’t wait to get back to it!
Shoutout to my favorite podcast!
I recently downloaded a quest mod and got back into Skyrim. I thought I’d listen to Keeg’s story again, and panicked when my podcast app (podcast addict on Android) wouldn’t download or play.
I’m glad to see you’re still keeping Keeg’s quest available, and I’m excited to see he’s still on your mind!
To everyone who reads this; I listen to about 2 hours of podcasts a day, and this is hands down my favorite. Great character development, hilarious story, talented voice acting, and spot on audio quality with a smart use of the soundtrack; you can’t ask for more.
Rich, you’ve given us hours of great entertainment and I can’t thank you enough.
I think you’re pretty great.
Aw, shucks. You got me blushin’ over here! Thanks so much for your kind words!
this is one of the first podcasts i listened to , and its hands down one of the best.
it actually inspired me to try something of my own.
Hey man! Sorry for the delay. I was stymied by my own damn Captcha that wouldn’t let me post to my own friggin’ site. Something about that doesn’t seem right! What kinda stuff are you working on??


History bar in Internet Explorer?
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remember not to block popups from this site.
turn off the checkmark for Enable Ad-ware Protection.
many programs also produce popups on their own. These programs are also called Ad-ware programs.
1. When the popup appears, do not close it. Leave it open.
2. Click the Block List button to open the screen of window titles.
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1. Click Browse to select a currently displayed popup window title.
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exactly as it appears. Click REMOVE to erase the entry, and re-try it again.
that it detects from the Filters list. Setting it to the fastest may take up more CPU time.
run it to see the changes.
1. When you see a popup, don't close it. Leave it open.
5. Click OK. The popup will now be killed and will not appear again.
different Ad-ware popup types. This means, after blocking 5-6 of the popups, you should have most of them blocked.
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When installing the software under each user's account, you will also need to enter your registration code for those users as well. Note, a registration code may only be shared by direct family members within a household.
1. Hold down the CTRL key on your keyboard as you click a link to allow a popup to display.
of your Windows start bar.
2. Click on the menu item Enabled. Currently, it will have a checkmark indicating PopupDummy! is ON.
3. If you look again, the checkmark should now be a red X indicating PopupDummy! is OFF.
The PopupDummy! tray-icon will also turn gray in color.
I still see popups! Why?
will display how many days you have remaining. You can purchase a registration code here.
2.1. Exit PopupDummy! by right-clicking the PopupDummy! icon next to your clock and selecting EXIT.
2.2. Uninstall by clicking Start->Programs->PopupDummy!->Uninstall.
2.3. Download the latest version. Your registration code will be remembered between installs.
4. Clean your PC of spyware by running the free tool Microsoft AntiSpyware or Ad-aware or Spybot S&D.
your computer, allowing PopupDummy! to continue protecting your computer in the future.
by following the directions at Adding Popups to your Block List.
satisfied, restart your PC for changes to take effect.
to the old control-alt-delete to kill them.
Tool Bar, Address Bar, and Resizable.
This allows you to always have control of your web browser.
Where are my Favorites, Search, History bars in Internet Explorer?
running PopupDummy!, this is because you have Normalize Windows enabled.
Solution: Disable Normalize Windows by un-checking the box for this feature.
Normalize feature. Again, disabling the Normalize feature will solve this.
Normalizing windows makes sure your browsers always have an address bar, tool bar, and are resizable.
bar, for instance, then this will not appear anymore with Normalize Windows enabled.
What is Integration with Microsoft Internet Explorer?
you with easy access to the PopupDummy!'s options.
PopupDummy! "globe" icon in Internet Explorer, you will need to manually select the icon to be shown.
1. In Internet Explorer, click VIEW->TOOLBARS->CUSTOMIZE.
2. Find the PopupDummy! icon in the list of icons on the left and move it to the right.
3. Close the window, you should see the icon appear.
Safe Sites allow you to specify sub-phrases of URLs that you want to allow popups from.
or the tray-icon next to your time). Then click on the Safe Sites button.
This allows all popups from any url containing "dummysoftware.com".
Netscape Users should enter a sub-string from the web page TITLE of the popup.
If the popup window title was "My Inbox - Netscape", then entering the text "My Inbox" would be enough to keep PopupDummy! from blocking it.
and looking at the "Popups Blocked From" list for the last entry.
This is the trick to catch some safe sites.
Summary: Enter the sub-phrase of the URL as a safe site keyword.
Enter about:blank as a safe site keyword.
Some web sites which spawn popup windows expect to communicate with the popup windows.
popup window to appear, but where is it?" since PopupDummy! killed it for you.
1. In Microsoft Internet Explorer, click on the menu item TOOLS.
2. In the tools menu, select the menu item INTERNET OPTIONS.
3. In the Internet Options window, click on the ADVANCED tab at the top.
4. Checkmark the item Disable Script Debugging (see image below).
5. Un-checkmark the item Disable a notification about every script error (see image below).
1. Double-click the PopupDummy! icon on your desktop to open the options screen.
2. Checkmark the option Allow Manual Popups.
Now, when you click on a link that displays in a new window, PopupDummy! will allow the popup window to open.
you can simply hold down CTRL as you click the link.
Popups, and Integrate into Toolbar.
To allow a popup to appear in Netscape, simply hold down the bypass key such as the CTRL key.
the Safe Sites button, and type in "My Inbox" to have PopupDummy! ignore blocking this page in the future.
All about the Cookie Cutter / What is a Cookie?
date and time, preferences, etc.
Why is a cookie bad?
computer to store their data?
Why is a cookie good?
were originally designed to bring convenience to the web. However, today many cookies are misused.
Should I remove all my cookies?
them anymore. You may have to enter specific settings again when you visit the site.
Which cookies should I remove?
cookies with names from web sites that you frequently visit should probably be left alone.
How did the cookie named [some_cookie_name] get on my computer?
create cookies on your computer too. These are the ones you probably want to remove.
What is an IE plug-in?
enhanced features such as tool bars, added menus, side panes, spell checking, and other features.
advertisements. Most IE plug-ins can be considered spyware or adware.
How did I get these IE plug-ins?
such as Kazaa, Grokster, and other file-sharing tools.
Should I disable all of my IE plug-ins?
your computer so there is usually no need to enable or disable other IE plug-ins.
How do I remove an IE plug-in rather than just disable it?
harmful plug-ins requires a complete scanning and cleaning of your computer for adware and spyware.
Please see the topic Removing Adware/Spyware for links to download free tools to clean your computer.
What is an Internet Explorer Start Page?
hijackers will change your start page on their own, often to a site with popups or other malicious content.
They may also deny you the ability to reset your start page so that you are forced to view their advertisements.
Why did PopupDummy! tell me my Internet Explorer start page was hijacked by spyware?
you can set the URL yourself.
When PopupDummy! prompts me to confirm my start page, what should I do?
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PopupDummy! said my start page might be spyware, but I want to keep it. What should I do?
leave your start page as-is and PopupDummy! will not ask you again.
How can I manually change my Internet Explorer start page?
change your Homepage Address and click OK.
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