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Lightning. It avoids the ocean, but likes Florida. It's likely to strike in the Himalayas and even more so in central Africa. And lightning almost never strikes the North or South Poles.
These are just a few of the things NASA scientists at the National Space Science and Technology Center (NSSTC) in Huntsville, Alabama, have learned using satellites to monitor worldwide lightning.
"For the first time, we've been able to map the global distribution of lightning, noting its variation as a function of latitude, longitude and time of year," said Hugh Christian, a scientist from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama and project leader for the lightning team at the NSSTC's Global Hydrology and Climate Center.
This new perspective on lightning is possible thanks to two satellite-based detectors: the Optical Transient Detector (OTD) and the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS).
"These are two optical sensors that we've flown in lower Earth orbit," said Christian, whose team developed the sensors. "The Optical Transient Detector was launched in 1995 and we got five good years out of it, compared to the two years expected, before it stopped transmitting data. The Lightning Imaging Sensor was launched on the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite in 1997, and it's still going strong."
"Basically, these optical sensors use high-speed cameras to look for changes in the tops of clouds, changes your eyes can't see," he explained. By analyzing a narrow wavelength band around 777 nanometers -- which is in the near-infrared region of the spectrum -- they can spot brief lightning flashes even under daytime conditions.
Before the Optical Transient Detector and Lightning Imaging Sensor, only approximate global lightning patterns were known. Ground-based lightning detectors employing radio-frequency sensors provide high-quality local measurements. But because such sensors have a limited range, oceans and low-population areas had been poorly sampled.
The development of space-based optical detectors was a major advance, giving researchers their first complete picture of planet-wide lightning activity. The new maps show that Florida, for example, is one place where the rate of strikes is unusually high.
Dennis Boccippio, an atmospheric scientist with the NSSTC lightning team, explained why: "Florida experiences two sea breezes: one from the East Coast and one from the West Coast." The "push" between these two breezes forces ground air upward and triggers thunderstorms.
Within thunderclouds, turbulence spawned by updrafts causes tiny ice crystals and water droplets, called "hydrometeors," to bump around and collide. For reasons not fully understood, positive electric charge accumulates on smaller particles -- that is, on hydrometeors smaller than about 100 micrometers -- while negative charges grow on the larger ones. Winds and gravity separate the charged hydrometeors and produce an enormous electrical potential within the storm.
"Lightning is one of the mechanisms to relax this build-up," said Boccippio.
Another lightning hot spot is in the Himalayas, where the extreme local topography forces the convergence of air masses from the Indian Ocean.
And where does lightning strike most frequently? Central Africa. "There you get thunderstorms all year 'round," Christian said. "It's a result of weather patterns, air flow from the Atlantic Ocean, and enhancement by mountainous areas."
The satellite data also track patterns of lightning intensity over time. In the Northern Hemisphere, for example, most lightning happens during the summer months. But in equatorial regions, lightning appears more often during the fall and spring.
Meanwhile, areas such as the Arctic and Antarctic have very few thunderstorms and, therefore, almost no lightning at all.
"Oceanic areas also experience a dearth of lightning," Christian said. "People living on some of the islands in the Pacific don't describe much lightning in their language." The ocean surface doesn't warm up as much as land does during the day because of water's higher heat capacity. Heating of low-lying air is crucial for storm formation, so the oceans don't experience as many thunderstorms.
According to Boccippio these global patterns probably aren't much influenced by human activity. Some people have suggested that buildings and metal communications towers increase the overall frequency of lightning strikes. But, "lightning that does make it to the ground is pretty much creating its own channels," Boccippio said.
"The likelihood that we are changing the amount of cloud-to-ground strikes with construction of towers is very slim." He cautions, however, that this has not been verified experimentally.
To answer such questions, a new lightning detector -- the Lightning Mapper Sensor or "LMS" -- is on the drawing board at the National Space Science and Technology Center. The proposed instrument would circle our planet in a geostationary orbit over the United States, detecting all forms of lightning with a high spatial resolution and detection efficiency.
The LMS, or something like it, could provide valuable -- even life-saving -- data to weather forecasters. "The same updrafts that drive severe weather often cause a spike in the lightning rate at the onset of a storm," explained Boccippio. So, measuring the rate of lightning flashes in real time might offer a way to identify potentially deadly storms before they become deadly.

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As an expert on overstepping boundaries, Gabor George Burt helps companies expand and succeed by teaching them how to eliminate perceived limitations. He provides an informative, step-by-step framework for re-imagining self-imposed limits in his book Slingshot. He has been called a visionary for shaping strategies for organizations, which have included start-ups and Fortune 500 companies.
Today companies must continuously innovate and do it organization-wide in order to actively shape the future of the market space they occupy. Otherwise, they risk being left behind.
SPEAKING.COM: This year Forbes published an article saying that U.S. firms are struggling to compete internationally because they are experiencing an "innovation slowdown." How can U.S. firms reverse this trend?
BURT: I think the key trend affecting not just American companies but firms worldwide, is the explosive reduction in innovation cycle times and the severe consequences of getting caught standing still. Today companies must continuously innovate and do it organization-wide in order to actively shape the future of the market space they occupy. Otherwise, they risk being left behind.
The industry that best illustrates this trend is mobile telecom, whose speed of progression is unprecedented in business history. It has gone from market introduction, market acceptance, full market saturation, and market transformation in less than 25 years – changing the way people work and live worldwide in the process. Nokia, the Finnish company largely responsible for creating the industry, was so dominant that as recently as 2010 its global market share was bigger than the next three players combined. Yet it failed to take a leadership position in smart phones and in the U.S. market. As a result, it was left behind and forced to sell its telecom business to Microsoft in 2013 for a fraction of what its market value had been three years before – signaling its exit from the industry it created.
The best way to avoid this fate is to adopt a culture and process of ongoing, market-driving innovation. Companies should not fear this shift, but rather embrace it as an exciting opportunity for growth.
SPEAKING.COM: What are some common self-imposed limitations that people have and how can they overcome them?
BURT: There is an interesting paradox in our human nature. On one hand, it is our natural state to be creative, curious, and seek new experiences. On the other hand, we need boundaries to feel safe and protected. The problem is that most people operate within self-imposed boundaries that are too confining, which prevent them from achieving their full potential and expressing their natural creativity.
How can we bridge this paradox? Once we learn how to go beyond our mental boundaries by systematically exploring new possibilities and new territories, our comfort zone expands as well. What was unfamiliar becomes familiar. The result is a continuous process of creative exploration and comfort zone expansion. It is the same process with organizations as well.
Picasso said: "Every child is an artist, the problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up".
SPEAKING.COM: What are some common challenges people face in learning to re-imagine their boundaries?
BURT: Picasso said: "Every child is an artist, the problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up". This is the main challenge we face. As children, we rely on our imagination and mental flexibility to make sense of the world, but as we grow older, we are conditioned to replace our creativity with adherence to established norms and boundaries. This leaves us detached from and unable to apply our power of imagination as adults. Reconnecting with our dormant creativity is therefore the main challenge to re-imagine boundaries, and a key foundation in the work I do.
SPEAKING.COM: What are some steps leaders can take to foster environments that encourage their employees to go beyond their perceived boundaries?
Commit the leadership team itself to continuous change and adaptability (exemplified by Samsung CEO's style of 'management by perpetual crisis').
Create an internal culture and process that foster, encourage, and reward overstepping perceived boundaries.
Empower all members, not just specific teams of the organization to re-think, re-imagine, and re-formulate boundaries in the pursuit of customer-centric innovation.
When we push against self-imposed, mental boundaries, we launch ourselves forward towards limitless new possibilities and market spaces.
SPEAKING.COM: The slingshot is a recurring symbol in your work; you have a book named Slingshot, in which you present "the Slingshot framework." Could you explain the significance of this symbol in regard to innovation?
BURT: A slingshot is a universal symbol of childhood. It is a reminder of the creative mindset we all had as children, that powerful resource we all possess and can re-connect with in order to re-imagine boundaries as adults. This re-connection is a starting block for my Slingshot Framework.
Moreover, the very mechanics of a slingshot is such that we apply tension against an elastic band in order to launch a projectile forward. Similarly, when we push against self-imposed, mental boundaries, we launch ourselves forward towards limitless new possibilities and market spaces.
Identifying the Pain Points of your customers (where they feel the most frustration, the most disconnect) and turning them into Points of Infatuation – transforming your weakest points into your most attractive.
Continuously re-examining, re-thinking, and stretching the definition of what business and market space you are in.
Embracing the 'innovation shortcut' – instead of pursuing outright inventions, simply look to combine already existing components in meaningful, new ways.
SPEAKING.COM: Which companies today exemplify successful implementation of the Slingshot framework?
BURT: The exciting change in the dynamics of the business world is that the most successful companies today are the ones featuring the Slingshot principles. They are the ones rapidly shaping new market spaces, continuously overstepping perceived boundaries, creating legions of fans, and making traditional industries obsolete.
These companies include Google, Apple, Virgin, Ikea, Nest Labs (which was acquired by Google), T-Mobile in the U.S., Koenigsegg (the maverick upstart that has re-defined the supercar market space), and the Dollar Shave Club. All these companies are in the business of identifying and taking advantage of significant market opportunities by daring to challenge conventional boundaries, and they are excellent examples of the three key Slingshot components in action.
My approach is not to position innovation as the goal, but rather as the outcome.
SPEAKING.COM: Does innovation matter more in some industries than others?
BURT: I think the word innovation is overused and too abstract. If you were to ask the CEO of any company whether innovation is important, the answer would be yes. But if you were to then ask 'what type of innovation is it important to pursue?' the responses would be vastly different.
As a result, my approach is not to position innovation as the goal, but rather as the outcome. Instead, the goal of the Slingshot Framework is to instill a mindset and simple process of continuous, customer-centric renewal. This goal is equally important for any company or industry. As part of the outcome, the framework helps create internal alignment around the optimal pursuit of innovation.
SPEAKING.COM: What is the link between systematic creativity and strategic thinking?
BURT: The link between the two is critical, because systematic creativity provides the fuel for organizations to re-imagine boundaries in pursuit of smart strategies. There is an abundance of expertise on creativity as well as on leadership, but as separate topics. Therefore I perceived a void in addressing the important link between the two. My Slingshot Platform is designed to fill this void and empower organizations to leverage the collective creativity of their workforce to help shape their ongoing success.
To bring Gabor George Burt to your organization to help re-imagine boundaries and cultivate innovation, please contact Michael Frick at: Mike@Speaking.com.


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Olof Dallner was just 16 months removed from a major alpine climbing accident when he entered last weekend's Spartan Death Race in Pittsfield, Vermont.
The 34-year-old Swedish scientist, who has lived in New York City for the last three years, still feels some lingering effects from the accident in his left arm. But that wasn't enough to keep him from winning the Spartan Death Race, perhaps the most mentally and physically taxing event in endurance sports.
Dallner, who also won the inaugural winter Death Race in March, was in the lead when the Death Race was called on Monday – 67 hours after it began and with just 51 of 344 athletes proclaimed official finishers.
The obstacle and challenge-driven race required competitors to complete more than a dozen unusual, grueling mental and physical challenges throughout a 50-mile course in the dense Vermont woods.
Some of the challenges included: a 25 mile/12-hour hike (done as a team challenge) carrying either a kayak, water filled plumbing pipes or a tractor tire above their heads; a 250 question exam with brain twisters; swimming in the Chittenden dam; form work including stacking hay bales; 1,000 Burpees; log chop; a 2-mile body roll through a sheep paddock; carrying a 50-lb bag of cement to the top of a mountain on a 3+ hour trek up and through a steep ravine and waterfall (and if the bag broke they had to head back down to get a new one); plus many more grueling challenges, all the while carrying all required gear, food and water in 40-lb packs.
The theme of the race this year was "Betrayal" which came to life throughout the event. Organizers planted seeds of doubt and distrust in the competitors by declaring that they was open to mislead or betray other racers, but other competitors were there to potentially do the same to them.
Olof Dallner at a running event in NYC
This format played havoc with the racers psyche. The ultimate betrayal came after 30 hours when a group of competitors planted by race organizers deliberately began cheating during a challenge. Once the other competitors saw how easy it was to cheat, many cheated. But when confronted they understood that cheating was not without consequence. The penalty for the cheat was 6-hours standing in a 45-degree pond and other comparable tasks.
"I'd see people get betrayed and they'd get angry and quit but that's part of the game," Dallner said.
Dallner said his toughest challenge was something called "The Roll," where competitors had to roll side-over-side across a quarter-mile field strewn with pine cones, brush, and poison ivy for three hours.
"I'm not sure what kind of plants those were but my arms were stinging pretty bad," Dallner said. "My arms are all scabbed up from that."
This is what Joe DeSena and Andy Weinberg had in mind in 2005 when they came up with the Death Race as an alternative to triathlons and other endurance races they felt had become predictable and routine. The idea was to create an event athlete couldn't possibly train or prepare for in advance.
The race has gotten longer each year as it seems organizers like to wait until 80 percent of the field has dropped out before calling time. Last year's race went on for 45 hours. In 2010, DeSena and the gang launched the Spartan Race, which now features events at three different distances.
Dallner said he got into Spartan Races after being sidelined for nearly three months following an alpine climbing accident in Vermont in February of 2011. An ice pillar he was climbing collapsed, sending him on a 75-foot fall. His ropes held, but he still crashed against the wall, breaking his helmet in two. He spent four days in an ICU in New Hampshire and underwent surgeries to repair nerve damage in his arm.
Dallner, who works in genetics developing a hormone that controls eating behavior, quickly discovered a knack for obstacle racing and won the winter version of the Death Race in just under 32 hours.
Upon arriving at last week's version of the Death Race, he reported that he did not meet the race requirement of generating media coverage prior to the event. Weinberg said he would have to swim 12 miles afterward, relinquish his title (if he won), or quickly come up with some media coverage.
Dallner already is scheduled for both versions of the 2013 Death Race.
Florida finishers of the 2012 Spartan Death Race: Andrew Andras (Miami Beach), Joshua Clifford (Fort Walton Beach), Joe Falcone (Boca Raton), and Ricky Weiss (Tallahassee)
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Q: Convert pandas time series with monthly returns into a df with col cumulative yearly return My df containing monthly returns looks like this:
df=pd.DataFrame((x*x).dropna(),columns=['mthly rtrn'])

             mthly rtrn
2016-09-30    0.002488
2016-10-31   -0.004692
2016-11-30    0.003157
2016-12-30   -0.000503
2017-01-31    0.008019
2017-02-28    0.010055
2017-03-31    0.003435
2017-04-28    0.002577
2017-05-31    0.012107
2017-06-30    0.001089

How can I convert this into a df with columns Jan to Dec plus column for the cumulative yearly return. Lines should be the years 2016, 2017 etc. And the numbers should ideally be shown in %.
Desired output:
      Jan   Feb  Mar  Apr  May  Jun  Jul  Aug  Sep   Oct  Nov  Dec ANNUAL
2016 -5.0  -0.1  6.7  0.4  1.7  0.3  3.6  0.1  0.0  -1.7  3.7  2.0   12.0
2017  1.8   3.9  0.1  1.0  1.4  0.6  0.1   NA   NA    NA   NA   NA    9.3

where ANNUAL is the cumprod of the monthly returns.
What is the best pythonic way to achieve this?

A: I would first add additional columns Year and Month to your df using this, then use a pivot table to create a new df to get the index as Year and columns as Month, around the monthly return values.
Once you have the pivot table, you can use apply along axis=1 to get whatever aggregation you need for each year.
I can't really comment on the aggregation because I'm not sure if by 'cumulative' do you mean additive or multiplicative. You might want to consider cumsum or gmean from scipy, or if you prefer not to get scipy this function works too.

A: I would first resample the data by month using the .resample() method:
http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/version/0.17.0/generated/pandas.core.groupby.DataFrameGroupBy.resample.html
Then use the pivot method to turn the rows into columns:
https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.pivot_table.html
Then I would create a new column for the annual total:
df['annual'] = df['jan']+df['feb']+...+df['dec']

A: I found a nice tool for what i need:
https://github.com/ranaroussi/monthly-returns-heatmap

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Q: Why does Maven warn that failsafe forkCount should not be zero? I've set forkCount to zero in my maven-failsafe-plugin configuration so that I can easily use mvnDebug and set breakpoints in my tests while debugging.
This results in the warning:

The parameter forkCount should likely not be 0, not forking a JVM for tests reduce test accuracy, ensure to have a <forkCount> >= 1.

Why is that? What effect on accuracy does not forking have?


Importance of Processes in an ERP Implementation | Eastern Software Systems Pvt. Ltd.
At ESS, it is our constant endeavor to improve performance, and the performance of our businesses. We achieve this by continuously moving from one strategic milestone to the next. The first step, a step that most of us do not adequately focus on is reducing the effort which is required to maintain current levels. Performing the same task more efficiently results in the release of resources which can then be channelized for further production. This is precisely where processes come into place.
A process is a series of activities or steps taken in order to produce a particular service or product. We first establish processes that are in line with our business strategy. We then move on to managing and controlling processes. This is when we start improving quality, reducing costs and accelerating schedules. Many quality management systems are available to gauge this improvement. Some of these are the ISO 9000 series of standards managed by ISO, the International Organization for Standardization, Six Sigma and CMM, Capability Maturity Model.
The real challenge before any management is to ensure that the entire organization, both horizontally and vertically, develops a new mind set. Only then can the old, ineffective ways be left behind. It is only with an open new mind, that an organization can adopt new and better business processes, which give an enterprise the momentum to be a stronger and a better performer.
ERP implementation is one such means that can bring the best industry wide practices to any business. An ERP implementation ensures that wasteful inefficient processes of yesteryears are phased out and replaced with contemporary tried and tested processes and templates. Furthermore, the fact that an ERP is itself designed using software processes that comply with worldwide quality models such as those maintained by the ISO and CMM, is undoubtedly an added advantage.
Growing organizations need to establish the strength of their processes in a global arena. Using a methodology which conforms to international quality frameworks like the ISO naturally increases the likelihood of success in the ERP implementation. Moreover, ERP implementation is itself a process involving careful selection of the consultant, the product, its planning and monitoring and its resource allocation.
Companies need to understand the complexities of aligning an ERP software with their own business processes. This is because creating a duplicate process from the competition is something which can restrict growth and shift the focus of an organization from its basic business goals. A successfully customized ERP implementation should not only be aligned with company's objectives, but must also optimize processes to keep the business going.
ESS recognized the need for its own quality system to be in place way back in 1998 when it started with its ISO implementation. This was followed by ESS initiating the CMM model in 2000. ESS was ISO 9001 certified in 1999 and was assessed at CMM level 5 in 2002. ESS continues to undergo routine ISO Surveillance Audits by its certifying body, Bureau Veritas.
ebizframe©, ESS's flagship product is designed using processes that are ISO and CMM compliant. ESS also understands that adapting a wholesale version of somebody else's process logic may not be the best fit for your company. Therefore ESS has established implementation steps and customization processes to meet your specific needs when you implement ebizframe©. Needless to say, these steps and processes are again ISO and CMM compliant.
Rajyashree Agarwala is Chief Manager Quality Systems with Eastern Software Systems.


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Q: ThreeJS: How can I use a shader to filter vertices by property? I'm using custom shaders to allow for slider filters on X, Y, and Z co-ordinates on a particle system by following this github issue.
I'd like to expand this to allow filtering on non-positional properties such as a cost associated with each vertex.
shader is a modified version of ThreeJS's particle_basic shader.
Shader
// snip
// filter by co-ordinate
"if(myWorldPosition.x < xMin) discard;",
"if(myWorldPosition.x > xMax) discard;",
"if(myWorldPosition.y < yMin) discard;",
"if(myWorldPosition.y > yMax) discard;",
"if(myWorldPosition.z < zMin) discard;",
"if(myWorldPosition.z > zMax) discard;",
// TODO: filter by cost
// ex: if(myCost < minCost || myCost > maxCost) discard; // <-- myCost?

Initializing shader and uniforms
var uniforms = shader.uniforms;
uniforms.xMin = { type: "f", value: 0 };
uniforms.xMax = { type: "f", value: 100 };
uniforms.yMin = { type: "f", value: 0 };
uniforms.yMax = { type: "f", value: 100 };
uniforms.zMin = { type: "f", value: 0 };
uniforms.zMax = { type: "f", value: 100 };
uniforms.minCost = { type: "f", value: 0 };
uniforms.maxCost = { type: "f", value: 100 };
// TODO: uniforms.cost = { type: "fv1", value: [ 30, 30, 0, 100, 30, 0 ] };

var material = new THREE.ShaderMaterial( {
    uniforms:       uniforms,
    fragmentShader: fragmentShader,
    vertexShader:   vertexShader,
});

What I'm not sure of is how to provide each vertex with the correct cost (or how to get the vertex's cost from the array). Is what I want to do even possible using shaders?

A: You seem to be mixing apples and oranges here. That shader above is a fragment shader, and it can discard pixels, you can't do that in the vertex shader. If you are referring to
// TODO: uniforms.cost = { type: "fv1", value: [ 30, 30, 0, 100, 30, 0 ] };

as something you want to map to the vertices, this is not how it's done. A uniform is a value shared across the program ie. every pixel / vertex. You need attributes. If you don't want to play with attributes explicitly, you can set up your UVs (within the three.js framework) to take this data. It's a vec2 so you can store two values in it. Each vertex will have its own.


text: Q: Best Way to Store Data from Large Web Crawl I am using a python web crawler for various social networking sites and am trying to determine the best way to store large amounts of data (mostly xml/text data) that I screen scrape. Could you suggest any databases that would be appropriate and easily accessible. Something that works well with python would be nice. Additionally, I would want to go back and parse the data at a later date.


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ProtonMail logged IP address of French activist after foreign request approved by Swiss authorities
A police report revealed that the popular encrypted email service provider ProtonMail shared the IP address of a French activist with the authorities.
The privacy friendly end-to-end encrypted email service provider ProtonMail has shared the IP address of anti-gentrification activists with law enforcement authorities, a police report revealed.
The police used this information to identify and arrest a France activist who was using the popular service.
The company states that it doesn't log IP addresses, except when it has to comply with local regulation. In this specific case, it received the request for information from the Swiss police, which was contacted by French authorities via Europol.
"According to their story, French police sent an Europol request to ProtonMail in order to uncover the identity of the person who created a ProtonMail account — the group was using this email address to communicate. The address has also been shared on various anarchist websites." reported the TechCrunch website. "The next day, @MuArF on Twitter shared an abstract of a police report detailing ProtonMail's reply. According to @MuArF, the police report is related to the ongoing investigation against the group who occupied various premises around Place Sainte-Marthe."
Cops are lying ? pic.twitter.com/xIglWqLcfk— MuArF (@MuArF) September 2, 2021"Proton must comply with Swiss law. As soon as a crime is committed, privacy protections can be suspended and we're required by Swiss law to answer requests from Swiss authorities," ProtonMail's founder and CEO Andy Yen wrote.
Yen pointed out that his company did not provide support to the Europol either the French police, it only complied with a foreign request approved by Swiss authorities.
"In this case, Proton received a legally binding order from the Swiss Federal Department of Justice which we are obligated to comply with. There was no possibility to appeal or fight this particular request because an act contrary to Swiss law did in fact take place (and this was also the final determination of the Federal Department of Justice which does a legal review of each case)." the company wrote on Reddit.
Proton must comply with Swiss law. As soon as a crime is committed, privacy protections can be suspended and we're required by Swiss law to answer requests from Swiss authorities.— Andy Yen (@andyyen) September 5, 2021"No personal information is required to create your secure email account. By default, we do not keep any IP logs which can be linked to your anonymous email account. Your privacy comes first." states ProtonMail on its website.
Users could continue to use ProtonMail, but experts recommend them to use a VPN or access it through the Tor network.
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Kicking technique is a key factor for every successful free kick taker. Scoring a goal from a free kick may sometimes decide the whole match, so it is very important to do not underestimate its importance during your training sessions. Today, you are going to learn few kicking tricks. Your task will be to score as many goals as possible, but there is a but... There is a goalkeeper and defenders making it a quite challenging task. Lets do it! Have fun.


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Cap'n, I'm givin' it all I have, but there's no' enough time!
Published Saturday, March 23, 2013 @ 10:26 PM EDT
Through the end of the month, Hulu is streaming without charge all the Star Trek television series- Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Enterprise.
That's 693 episodes; figuring in commercials, it's about 32,000 minutes, or 533 hours. If you watched eight episodes a day, it would take you about 67 days. Which means if you start first thing tomorrow morning, you'll be done on May 29.
March Madness marathons? Hah. Amateurs.
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"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly..."
Published Thursday, November 22, 2012 @ 8:30 AM EST
WKRP in Cincinnati: "Turkeys Away" (Season 1, Episode 7, aired 10/30/1978)
Mr. Carlson is beginning to feel useless at the new formatted rock station so he decides to create a big Thanksgiving Day promotion. His idea? Get a helicopter, with a banner attached to it saying "Happy Thanksgiving From WKRP", and drop live turkeys from the helicopter. What could go wrong?
(YouTube video: "The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement!")
See the full episode on Hulu.
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The Rich Countries Should Help Contain the Effect of Coronavirus in the Third World
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power*
LUND, Sweden (IDN) – There was a great piece of news announced on August 25 by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Wild-polio has been wiped out of Africa, thanks to a vaccine. It only remains in some isolated parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan where public health officials fight the poliovirus against inbred conservative peoples, some of whom who are prepared to kill the health workers on the grounds they are spreading the disease.
This fight to eliminate polio has been going on since 1988, a warning that even when a vaccine for Coronavirus is invented there will be many barriers to surmount before it has done its job.
One must say thank heavens that the battle against polio was practically done and over in Third World countries before the Coronavirus pandemic got up speed. Since Coronavirus swept the world the battles against tuberculosis, malaria and AIDS/HIV have been slowed down, partly because of peoples' worries about visiting health clinics, many of which have been closed for fear of contagion.
It's estimated that about 80% of programs have been disrupted. One in four people being treated for HIV have reported problems in getting hold of their medications. In India diagnosis of TB cases has dropped by nearly 75%. In country after country the Coronavirus has resulted in sharp drops in diagnosing TB: a 70% decline in Indonesia, 50% in Mozambique and South Africa and 20% in China. Yet, if ranked by numbers and importance, TB eradication should be given priority over Coronavirus which has only claimed around half a million deaths this year, against TB's annual 1,600,000. So should malaria treatment where also more lives are being lost than those from Corona.
According to the New York Times, a 3-month lockdown across different parts of the world and a gradual return to normal over the next 10 months could result in an additional 6+ million cases of TB and 1.4 million deaths from it.
Measles immunisations have been suspended in 27 countries. Western companies making Coronavirus test kits are diverting their resources to producing tests kits for it because they can sell that for €10 against 18 cents for a rapid malaria test. Moreover, restrictions on air and sea travel have severely limited the delivery of medications to the hardest-hit regions.
It's quite amazing that Africa, despite the hurdles, has done better than any other continent in fighting Coronavirus. Is this because its population is relatively young? But India's is also young and now has a million cases, a world record. It's more likely that one reason is that the virus was late in coming to it, giving time for preparation and because there is less human traffic with the rich countries.
Most important is that Africa confronts so many of the world's diseases it has built up the infrastructure to deal with them. For, example because of dealing with the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa, medical staff already had in storage protective suits and head-coverings and knew how to act when it came to hygiene and isolation.
The African "good news" somewhat balances the bad when it comes to epidemiology. But when we start to look at the economics of development the story is largely but not entirely a negative one. The International Monetary Fund says that the continent, after 25 years of rapid growth, with some countries being the fastest growing economies in the world, will suffer its worst recession since the 1970s. The World Bank talks about what the Latin Americans used to call "a lost decade"
In the fragile states -- Somalia, South Sudan, Zimbabwe and those of the Sahel -- hunger is steadily advancing. The UN's World Food Program and NG0s are fully stretched already. A devastating attack of locusts in East Africa has added to the misery. There has also been a sharp loss of markets in the developed world.
This is the price of the coronavirus which was incubated in China but was spread mainly by the highly developed countries in Europe, Japan and North America. Have they shown any signs of compensating Africa, Latin America and India for the damage and destruction they have caused? Not one bit.
We don't need to be told that if there is a vaccine the developing countries will be last in the queue. President Donald Trump will insist on "America First". Europe, Japan, Canada and Russia will quickly follow.
The rich countries have helped their poorer people (although in the US that has now stopped) but they have done little to help the poorer Third World countries. Talk of debt moratoriums has brought warnings of rating downgrades. A proposal to increase the IMF's Special Drawing Rights -- a form of global money printing -- to help poor countries has got nowhere, yet the rich countries have not hesitated in doing something similar for themselves.
The Financial Times has written, "The idea of making cash available to some of the poorest people on earth, either through grants, concessional loans of debt write-offs, has elicited tuts of 'moral hazard' (bankers' terminology for making it too easy for the wrong-headed to make the same mistake again)".
Mark Lowcock, the emergency relief co-ordinator of the UN, estimates it would cost €90 billion to protect the poorest 10% of the world's people from the worst impacts of the virus. This includes many people in Africa as well as such countries as Afghanistan and Syria. A lot? No, it is only 1% of the stimulus rich countries have spent on themselves, even though they should know well enough that if things are left as they are there will be hunger, violence, political instability, domestic violence, especially against women, and migration, flooding Europe and America with boat people.
All is not lost. As a BBC program highlighted on August 31 it may be that the extent of the damage to Africa is not as bad as the IMF says. A large part of their economies is in the informal sector -- making and selling goods away from the eyes of tax officials and number counters. They have a flexibility and durability that big established companies don't have. Also, people can change their diets to equally nutritious foods- from imported rice to domestic cassava. This could mean that instead of the World Bank's "lost decade" the setback may be as small as 3 years in the more successful African countries. During the fall out from the 2008 American-induced financial crash, Sierra Leone kept its poverty rate falling despite the added burden of Ebola.
The spread of the internet in the Third World has had a dramatic effect on development. The United Nations Human Development Agency (UNDP) estimates that without access to the internet the decline in human development would be two and a half times worse. Even in these dark times the spread of the internet is growing.
Nevertheless, although I have tried to underline the positive side, in sum the virus has been devastating. The rich countries have it within their resources to mitigate the worst of it.
Why don't they? It's in their own interests to contain the effect of Coronavirus in the Third World which, over the long run, will affect their well-being as well. Once the rich countries have conquered their infections, do they want the virus still active in Africa to come back and bite the hand that doesn't feed it?
Note: The writer was for 17 years a foreign affairs columnist and commentator for the International Herald Tribune. Visit his website: www.jonathanpowerjournalist.com [IDN-InDepthNews – 01 September 2020].
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Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, which is an integrated environment to manage a SQL Server infrastructure, provides us the feature to schedule a job in SQL. We can achieve the scheduling task through SQL Server Agent.
Let's see how we can achieve our task through SQL Server Agent.
First, open your SQL Server Management Studio. As you open you will find the following screen.
Here you can see the Object Explorer tab which includes your Server Name. Expand it and you will find the various options (also called objects) in it like Database, Security, Server Objects, Replication, etc. The last option is SQL Server Agent and this is where we need to do our scheduling.
Click on the + sign in front of SQL Server Agent to expand it. See the above image. Right click on Jobs and then on New Job… . A new window will appear as shown below.
Fill the General details like Name and Description.
Select Steps on left hand side of the window and then click New which is at the bottom.
The Steps window will open, enter the Step name. Next, in type, select Transact-SQL script (T-SQL), choose the database against which the query will run and write the query in the space provided for command.
Select on the schedules option on the left side of the window and click on New.
A new window will appear where we have to set the name, Frequency, time and Start date as per which the job will run.
Once set, click on OK and our scheduling process is completed. Now the schedule will run as per the date and time mentioned.
Kumar Ankit is a BI Consultant at Prudence Technology. He is B. Tech from Chandigarh Engineering College and has started his career with Prudence Technology. He own a technical blog as well named techanswersweb.wordpress.com (https://techanswersweb.wordpress.com/).
Helpful work..thanks Ankit for sach a helpful blog..


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Why We Like It – LG 34GK950F-B
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The LG 34GK950F-B is one of three LG Ultrawide monitors that are tweaked to provide the best experience in gaming. It's a Nano IPS display that has nanoparticles that absorb excess light, and covers 98% of the DCI-P3 color space to bring forth the sharpest images. The gaming monitor supports HDR content for a hyper-realistic picture, and this earns it a place among the best monitors for video editing. In spite of the fact that it's 1000:1 contrast ratio doesn't offer deep blacks that are good enough for a dimly lit room, the IPS panel still does a good job with a peak brightness of 400 nits for greater visibility. If you prefer a dual monitor setup, you'll definitely be interested in reading our guide to the Dell multi-client monitor: makes multiscreen setups unnecessary.
LG 34GK950F-B
The UltraWide LG 34GK950F-B features a 1900R curvature for its 34-inch screen size, giving a wide Field-Of-View that a lot of gamers come to appreciate. The gaming monitor has a variable refresh rate of 144Hz courtesy of Adaptive AMD FreeSync technology for tear-free gameplay, and a 5ms response time that shoots down to 1ms MPRT when Motion Blur reduction is switched on to cut down ghosting. Also, you may want to check out this review on Acer releases their S1 Series LCD monitors.
AMD Radeon FreeSync 2 technologies for synchronizing refresh rates
AMD Radeon FreeSync 2 technologies for synchronizing refresh rates High refresh rate of 144Hz for snappy imaging
HDR Content support
Low 1000:1 contrast ratio makes it unsuitable for a dimly lit room
No speakers
Input lag on this Ultrawide Gaming Monitor is kept at a minimum of 12ms thanks to Dynamic Action Sync, meaning players get to enjoy a more responsive and fast paced gameplay. The LG 34GK950F-B's Radeon FreeSync 2 has a range of 55Hz – 144 HZ, though to achieve a response time of 1ms, the refresh rate must be at 144Hz. The LG monitor also knocks out lower resolution competitors such as the ViewSonic VP2468 ColorPro despite not being a 4K display. Being an IPS panel however, it has just a bit of IPS glow but this depends on which side of the monitor you're looking from. The monitor also has more than one gamer mode to save different presets and preferences.
Being slightly bigger than the Dell Ultrasharp UP3216Q, the LG 34GK950F-B features a very basic design, with all-round thin bezels and a two pronged stand that has a slight red accent. The display can be slightly tilted and swiveled, but it's curved nature doesn't allow for a portrait setting. The display can be VESA mounted on a wall, and if you did this you'd need your separate speakers since the monitor doesn't have any of its own.
One thing you should know about the LG 34GK950 is that it was released as two models. There's the 34GK950F-B model that is meant for FreeSync, and the 34GK950G-B model that's meant for G-Sync. Thanks to AMD FreeSync support however, this monitor is compatible with both AMD and NVIDIA graphics cards. Between the two, we would recommend the 34GK950F-B as it is slightly cheaper, supports HDR, and has a high refresh rate of 144Hz compared to the 34GK950F-G's 100Hz. Compared to the AOC U3277PWQU, these features blow it out of the water & make it one of the best ultrawide gaming monitors you can find.
The LG 34GK950F-B is guaranteed to give you the best ultrawide gaming experience, at a price that's not too exploitative either. The monitor is also a great choice for users who want to do professional work as it has a high color accuracy thanks to its wide color gamut. Despite having no speakers and a relatively low contrast ratio, it still remains a great pick for ultrawide gaming.
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