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- What does the Antwerp ITCCO stand for?
- Why is the ITTCO located in Antwerp?
- What makes the Antwerp ITCCO unique?
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- What is the Global Compact?
- What are the ten principles of the Global Compact?
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- Is the Antwerp - ITCCO focusing exclusively on the jewelry and diamond industry?
- How does the center contribute to advancing the MDGs and the UNGC principles?
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E-learning FAQs
- What does the Antwerp ITCCO stand for?
Antwerp ITCCO stands for the Antwerp International Training Center for Corporate Opportunities.
- Why is the ITTCO located in Antwerp?
The ITCCO was established in Antwerp because most of its founding partners are located there.
- What makes the Antwerp ITCCO unique?
It provides an overall framework inspired by the UN Goals and the Global Compact for training on CSR.
- What is UNITAR?
The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) is a United Nations autonomous body whose mission is to enhance the effectiveness of the UN through appropriate training and research on issues such as peace and security, social and economic development and the environment.
- What is the Global Compact?
The United Nations Global Compact, also known as Compact or UNGC, is a United Nations initiative to encourage businesses worldwide to adopt sustainable and socially responsible policies, and to report on their implementation. It is a principle-based framework for businesses, stating ten principles in the areas of human rights, labor, the environment and anti-corruption. It is the world's largest corporate citizenship initiative.
- What are the ten principles of the Global Compact?
The UN Global Compact asks companies to embrace, support and enact, within their sphere of influence, the following a set of core values in the areas of human rights, labor standards, the environment and anti-corruption. The ten principles are:
Human Rights
Principle 1: Businesses should support and respect the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights; and
Principle 2: make sure that they are not complicit in human rights abuses.
Principle 3: Businesses should uphold the freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining;
Principle 4: the elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labour;
Principle 5: the effective abolition of child labour; and
Principle 6: the elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation.
Principle 7: Businesses should support a precautionary approach to environmental challenges;
Principle 8: undertake initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility; and
Principle 9: encourage the development and diffusion of environmentally friendly technologies.
Principle 10: Businesses should work against corruption in all its forms, including extortion and bribery.
- What are the MDGs?
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight international development goals that all United Nations member states have agreed to achieve by the year 2015. They include eradicating extreme poverty, reducing child mortality rates, fighting disease epidemics such as AIDS, and developing a global partnership for development.
- Is the Antwerp - ITCCO focusing exclusively on the jewelry and diamond industry?
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Whilst some of its activities will, in the beginning, focus on the diamond and jewelry industry, the scope of the courses will be expanded to other industries.
- How does the center contribute to advancing the MDGs and the UNGC principles?
The Antwerp ITCCO helps further the MDGs and the UNGC principles by raising awareness about them as well as by providing practical training on how to promote them and operate in compliance with them. It demonstrates how the goals of the United Nations and those of business can be mutually supportive, in the spirit of, and in accordance with the United Nations Millennium Declaration. Its e-learning courses significantly expand its outreach and bring a multiplier effect.
- What is corporate social responsibility (CSR)?
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) can be understood as a management concept and a process that integrate social and environmental concerns in business operations and a company's interactions with its stakeholders.
From a UN perspective, the Global Compact asks companies to embrace, support and enact, within their sphere of influence, a set of core values in the areas of human rights, labor standards, the environment and anti-corruption.
- How does CSR relate to sustainable development?
The most widely recognized definition of sustainable development was published in 1987 in the Brundtland Report: "sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."
Business goals are inseparable from the societies and environments within which they operate. Whilst short-term economic gain can be pursued, the failure to account for longer-term social and environmental impacts makes those business practices unsustainable. CSR can be seen as a dimension of sustainable development that focuses on a sound stakeholder approach with business realizing its responsibilities as a member of society and meeting the expectations of all stakeholders.
- What type of trainings does the center offer?
The center will offer several types of trainings: one to three-days executive trainings, operational trainings and e-learning courses.
- Who can participate?
Courses are open to all professionals with the exception of the executive courses that are by invitation only.
- Why follow these trainings?
CSR and sustainability issues are gaining more and more importance. These trainings allow participants to acquire relevant knowledge and skills that will help their organizations address those issues. It is therefore good for business AND for development.
Furthermore, the UN's approach to sustainable development and CSR is likely to become even more relevant and acknowledged in an increasingly globalized world.
- Are these trainings certified/recognized externally?
Trainings are designed and developed under UNITAR standards for quality and are delivered through partnerships with specialized institutions and internationally-recognized universities. Some courses may allow participants to get academic credits under particular conditions.
- Who are the partners of the center?
- What are the minimum hardware and software requirements for taking our e-learning courses?
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- What is the grading system?
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- Why does the fee cover?
- Does UNITAR refund fees?
- Can I apply my fees to another course?
- Can I take more than one course at a time?
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LAS VEGAS and WASHINGTON — In a mammoth convention hall at a Las Vegas resort and casino that could house nine American football fields, thousands of conference goers peruse exhibits featuring some of the latest advancements in robotic technology.
But of the more than 7,400 attendees at the Unmanned Systems North America 2012 conference of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, one demographic was notably absent: the U.S. military. Only a few dozen military officers gave presentations or took part in panel discussions and only a handful of generals attended.
So why such a small military presence? Stricter government travel restrictions, imposed in the wake of a General Services Administration (GSA) conference spending scandal, are mostly to blame, and the repercussions could shut down some of the most widely attended military events. The restrictions have also launched a debate as to how much value these conferences actually provide.
In June, Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter instructed the services to review DoD or industry conferences that cost more than $100,000 to attend. That figure includes booth space and other logistical issues, such as airfare, lodging and per diem. The services have since sought waivers to attend some of the larger events.
In response to greater scrutiny on conference and travel spending, as well as White House and Pentagon spending guidance, the Air Force is scaling back its attendance at the Air Force Association's main conference, which starts this week.
The service is expected to save more than $280,000 on attendance cost and exhibit booth space, according to a Pentagon memo. Active-duty military and DoD civilians are being allowed to attend free of charge.
Meanwhile, the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) notified its members and registered show attendees Sept. 7 that the Army would scale back its exhibits to a single space at the late October show. In prior years, the Army had numerous booths, which included multiple levels, intelligent lighting and multiple movie-screen-sized displays.
The Army confirmed the exhibit consolidation.
"Army participation from the field will be reduced significantly," Michael Scanlan, AUSA's director of industry affairs, wrote in a Sept. 7 email to association members.
A map of planned displays at the October conference released by AUSA in July showed 75 Army booths of varying sizes spread between the two major exhibit halls, meaning the service would have to eliminate 74 booths to meet its target.
As of Sept. 14, most of those booths had been marked as empty or rented to another exhibitor on AUSA's website, which includes an updated version of the map, while several were still scattered throughout the map.
The same July exhibit map estimated 35,000 attendees for the 2012 conference. Past estimates were that roughly one-fourth of attendees of the annual conference were military personnel.
Still, Scanlan wrote that "high-level participation from the Army's senior leadership" is expected.
But before the Pentagon can take steps to prevent overspending, it must first figure out how much it spends. While the Defense Department does not appear to pay a premium for conference contracts, the magnitude stands out due to legislation that would cap this type of spending.
A Defense News investigation has found that DoD uses a labyrinth of contracting techniques that make spending totals impossible to calculate. Each individual command conducts its own conference contracting, typically without overarching coordination. But all told, tens of millions of dollars are spent every year.
Spending on Conferences
Examples found in government contracting databases provide a glimpse of multimillion-dollar spending on items, such as designing tradeshow booths, transporting those items, floor rental space and communications contracts. These contracts cover spending on conferences not hosted by DoD, with an entirely different set of costs surrounding conferences hosted by the services themselves.
Trade shows held by AUSA, the Air Force Association and Navy League have grown exponentially, particularly since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. AUSA is so popular that it was moved from a large hotel to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, the U.S. capital's biggest exhibit venue.
Between 2008 and 2011, the Air Force spent more than a half-million dollars at roughly $100,000 per event on display booth space alone at Air Force Association-sponsored conferences.
Design and construction of the booths costs even more. The Army spent $1.1 million to design a booth used at a 2008 AUSA conference.
Although many of these booths are reused at follow-on conferences, the services must spend more money to assemble, dismantle and transport the booths to each show. In 2012, the Army spent $429,231 for a small business to ship, set up and break down a booth for an AUSA conference in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
The company, Janson Communications, performed the same service for Army Materiel Command at AUSA's 2011 conference in Washington. In what a contracting officer described as a "typical deal," Janson moved roughly 34,000 pounds from storage in Lawrenceville, Ga., to the U.S. capital.
On July 25, Army Contracting Command put out a request for proposals to perform the same duties in 2012 and even extended the deadline due to the number of questions, according to a contracting officer. The contract was canceled Aug. 28, shortly before the announcement the Army would shrink its presence at the show.
In another case, federal contracting data show the Army's Tank Automotive Command (TACOM) spent $91,200 for 4,800 square feet for one booth. But it turns out, in a common practice that can make it difficult to track spending, TACOM spent the money for the Army's acquisition division.
None of these contracts includes attendees' travel costs.
It costs about $1,200 for a service member to attend a four-day event, according to a military official.
Using those figures, travel expenses alone for an event such as this week's Air Force Association's conference in Washington, which attracts about 4,000 military officers, would total nearly $5 million. The costs associated with a larger event, such as AUSA's annual Washington conference, are exponentially higher.
What's more, that number increases when top generals attend these conferences. Many four-stars travel on military jets, which cost $8,000 to $30,000 per hour to fly. Some of these generals are accompanied by security teams and are shuttled around in armored vehicles.
A Pentagon report shows that in January 2011, Gen. William "Kip" Ward allegedly took an 11-day trip to Washington and Atlanta with an entourage of 13 military and civilian personnel, which cost $129,000.
Ward is under investigation for excessive spending during his tenure as head of U.S. Africa Command.
Any accounting of total spending on conferences also must include the cost of events hosted by the services, another maze of numbers that cannot be fully counted. In response to a request from Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., following the GSA conference scandal, DoD provided his office with a database that includes the costs of various conferences and meetings held by the agency. The total costs listed did not include travel expenses, and it wasn't immediately clear that all of the services had fully accounted for their individual costs.
Together the database accounts for $210 million in expenses over five years. Of the more than 3,700 events listed, more than 70 cost more than $500,000, and 12 cost more than $1 million. Without travel expenses included in the conference costs, the actual budget impact of agency-hosted conferences is significantly underestimated.
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has been working on a new service travel policy that would create greater visibility into spending and cut costs.
"We look for every possible way to reduce cost," said Carla Lucchino, assistant for administration to the secretary of the Navy.
The Navy is requiring its conference planners to seek cheaper venues, particularly military installations. It has restricted rental car use, and is encouraging the use of hotel shuttles to and from the airport.
"I won't send a package to OSD [Office of the Secretary of Defense] unless I'm certain it's the best possible deal we can get and meet the mission requirements," Lucchino said.
The Navy is looking at ways to automate the process, making it faster and simpler. It is also looking to use video conference technology as an alternative to some events.
New Navy guidance, which in the works, will seek to track conference spending throughout the service.
Pending Legislation
Legislation introduced in the House and Senate seeks to limit government spending on conferences and associated travel after the GSA's lavish conference in Las Vegas came to light.
A House bill, introduced by Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill., would cap spending on a single conference at $500,000. It does provide an exemption for military travel, "expenses involving military combat, the training or deployment of uniformed military personnel, and such other travel expenses as determined by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget."
The Senate bill introduced by Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., would cap government-run conference spending at $200,000, which includes travel. Her legislation does allow the head of an agency to waive the cap.
Since Carter issued his DoD guidance in June, the Pentagon has approved an "extremely limited number of waivers," said Lt. Col. Elizabeth Robbins, a DoD spokeswoman.
Among those approved are this week's Air Force Association show in National Harbor, Md., and an Air National Guard requirements event, according to sources. Still, the Air Force is scaling back its presence at both events.
DoD is placing increased scrutiny on decisions to host or attend conferences and has canceled a "a number of conferences of various sizes when it was deemed prudent to do so," said Robbins, who declined to name any of the conferences canceled.
"If the decision is made to proceed with a conference, planning factors such as the geographic location of the conference, the length of the conference, the choice of venue, any associated contracts, and the number of attendees are closely scrutinized," she said. "For example, in the case of one recent conference that received a waiver from the deputy secretary, attendance was reduced by almost 50 percent from the last time the conference had been held and overall costs were reduced by approximately one third from original estimates."
The pending legislation on Capitol Hill is separate from guidance provided by the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in May that restricted federal conference spending.
The Pentagon has been working to clean up its accounting practices so it could pass a financial audit. However, tracking conference spending, particularly travel expenses, will still be difficult.
Personnel travel is managed at the major command level, not through the Pentagon.
None of the services was able to provide data on the amount of money spent on conferences and related travel.
"Unfortunately the information … isn't kept centrally," Matthew Bourke, an Army spokesman, said. "To get a clearer picture of how much the Army is saving you would have to question all Army agencies that participated in past AUSA conventions."
Even if DoD is able to pass an audit, that would tell only where the money went. It will not tell exactly what the money was spent on, according to Winslow Wheeler, director of the Straus Military Reform Project of the Center for Defense Information at the Project On Government Oversight.
"It doesn't tell you what they did with the money when it got there and it doesn't tell you what came out the other end," Wheeler said.
The Value of Conventions
The service associations believe they can work within the OMB guidance, but fear the legislation being considered in Congress could put the kibosh on military attendance at their shows.
The trade shows are viewed as a forum for military and industry dialogue. If the military attendance is limited, then industry, which pays higher rates to attend and even more for exhibit hall space, would dwindle.
U.S. defense officials and service lobbying groups are expressing concerns that legislation placing limits on federal conference spending could affect the Pentagon's ability to communicate with forces and industry.
"We do training, we do information exchange, we use them to advance scientific research, to associate with industry, things like that," said Lucchino, assistant to the secretary of the Navy. "Those are all good reasons to get people together."
Shows are sponsored by groups, such as AUSA, Air Force Association and Navy League. Each group holds an annual symposium in Washington and another event outside of the capital region. Some of the associations also hold additional, smaller shows.
The events are widely attended by the military, defense industry, congressmen, congressional staffers and lobbyists. The major defense companies collectively spend millions of dollars per year on exhibit hall space and elaborate display booths.
The shows are a cross between an international weapons exposition, awards show, pep rally and reunion.
Service chiefs typically use these conferences to send marching orders to troops and industry. For example, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates used a 2009 Air Force Association show to announce the service would be in charge of its multibillion-dollar aerial tanker acquisition program.
Service chiefs also use the shows to communicate with the force and announce personnel policy changes or communicate their acquisition priorities and direction to industry.
The shows outside of Washington, typically in Florida during the winter months, are smaller and always involve golfing.
For the non-Washington shows, the services typically dovetail attendance with other existing meetings.
The Air Force has traditionally held its four-star general meetings, called Corona, in Tampa, Fla., the same week the Air Force Association holds its major winter symposium in nearby Orlando. Holding the events the same week allows the travel funds to come from different accounts.
"The core deal of getting guys together is inherently valuable when the bureaucracy is so darn difficult and a lot of things can get solved over a five-minute conversation that would otherwise spiral over 50,000 emails and escalate to absurd proportions," an association official said.
At the robotics show in Las Vegas, many defense exhibitors took note of the lack of military presence. After all, if you cannot get a product in front of a potential customer, they say, the chances of selling it go down the tubes.
Paul McLeary contributed to this report.


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A Memorandum of Understanding was signed today in Riyadh concerning the organization of all forms of visas between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United States of America, with immediate effect. The aim is to facilitate procedures for citizens of each country who seek visitor and business visas, visas for scholarships and training, and visas for official missions. Fees are to be determined within the framework of certain flexible regulations agreed on by both sides. The signing of the MOU was preceded by official talks in Riyadh by representatives of the two countries, and was approved by the Consultative Council (Majlis Al-Shura) and by Royal Decree M/12 dated September 29, 1999.


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In early December, Mina Ahadi, Nick Cohen, Richard Dawkins, Taslima Nasrin, Salman Rushdie, Joan Smith and I wrote a letter to the European parliament calling on them to condemn and investigate the assassination of Islam critic Rafiq Tagi. Mina Ahadi delivered our letter during her meeting with the office of the European Parliament President.
Mina has just informed me that Members of the European Parliament have this week condemned Rafiq Tagi's assassination and expressed concern over the safety of his colleague, Samir Sadagatoglu, the editor of Sanat newspaper. They have also called on the Azerbaijani government to ensure a thorough investigation into his murder and for the prosecution of the perpetrators.
If you recall, in 2006 Ayatollah Lankarani issued a death fatwa against him. Ayatollah Lankarani's son (whose father has since died) saluted Tagi's murder; the Islamic regime of Iran's paper gleefully wrote 'Azerbaijan's Salman Rushdie is dead.' [Read more…]


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9 Mar 2012 9:13 AM #1
Unanswered: How to get buttons in the titlebar?
Hi guys,
I'm new to Sencha.
I've played around with Sencha Touch 2 a few days, to figured out the documentation etc.
But there is one thing I can't get to work.
If I want to get a button in the titlebar, for example a button where I can click to add an item, how can I do that?
I've this code at the moment:
var view = Ext.create('Ext.NavigationView', { fullscreen: true, items: [{ title: 'First', items: [{ xtype: 'button', text: 'Push a new view!', handler: function() { //use the push() method to push another view. It works much like //add() or setActiveItem(). it accepts a view instance, or you can give it //a view config. view.push({ title: 'Second', html: 'Second view!' }); } }] }] });
9 Mar 2012 9:22 AM #2
The Navigation View has a navigation bar config, you can put your items in there.
config:{ autoDestroy: false, navigationBar: { items: [ { xtype: 'button', text: 'myButton', align: 'left', } ] }, items: [ { type: 'panel', html: 'my Panel' } ] }
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Why and in which way should I incorporate console logging into my small sized games? I use Java and C++.
With console logging I mean things like this:
Why and in which way should I incorporate console logging into my small sized games? I use Java and C++.
With console logging I mean things like this:
Your question seems a little vague to me (mainly the how part, do you mean the concept or the coding?) but I'll try my best to answer it for you:
I know I use console logging in all my projects. For me, I mainly see it as a way for the end-user to report problems. An example could be, the game crashes for an unknown reason. So they come to help and support and say "My game crashes, here is the log:". The last line in the log is
I've found it also helpful to me when I'm developing. Sometimes I report important but non-crashing errors into the console. For example, if my game is loading extra entities that have no model data. Nothing will tell me this while running unless I get a
Mainly console logging is just to do what the debugger can't. If your worried about performance, you can always just put the logging code into a macro (if in C++), and remove it in release builds. If you do keep it in for release builds, though, be careful as to what you put in it. In my projects, I don't put shader error dumps in release builds so users can't see what is in the shader code.
What I'll do is give you the concept part. I'll explain how I usually do it, and you can adopt this method into your projects. Keep in mind I use C++, not Java. However, porting shouldn't be that hard. Because the adding of consoles into the project is language and class specific, I'll leave that up to you. I found it the first time by a quick Google.
What I do is create a class to handle the console. I always output the console logging to a file so the user (or me!) can review it after a game crash or unexpected closure. The handle to the file is managed within that class. It is a good idea to have this class available to all other classes. That way, you can always report a problem or status update. The way you do this depends on the structure of your application (you can make it global, or put it into another global class, or pass it to every object. It's up to you).
My console class always has these 5 functions:
I mentioned performance in the Why portion. Indeed, performance can come into play in release builds. There are so many ways to handle this. You could add an extra argument to the logging functions along the lines of
I hope that what I've written can help you decide if you need console logging and how to do it. Good luck!
Console logging is used mainly to debug an application. It is always good to print out essential information, just in case something goes wrong you can have a first look to how things went. Information like library version, etc is always handy to have, especially if you are planning to run your application in different platforms.
What I usually do is set up different levels of debugging, each of them printing out different information. In your release level you can then set up a debugging level of 0, which would only print out essential information, as mentioned earlier. You can then prepare your code to print out a more detailed log when the debugging level is set to a higher number, which at the same time might affect your performance if you are also saving some debugging textures, etc....
In my games, I use the following macro's:
This allows you to write this:
Which gives output like this:
In any logging system, you will have to balance the following factors:
In my experience, a logging system needs to be fast above all else, including safety. In a game I worked, the log was only important when the game crashed. But when the game crashed, the log hadn't been written to the file yet! So to fix that, we opened the log file for every line, appended a line and closed it. This made sure that always got the very latest log message in the file before the crash.


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Russia has never accepted Ukraine's independence and now Putin has engaged the KGB's elite, clandestine Department S to destabilize the young democratic nation and bring it back under Russian control.
But Cougar, the private intelligence company that dwarfs even the CIA, strikes back at Russia with its deadliest weaponthe gorgeous ex-KGB colonel Anna Resnikov. Her former countrymen murdered the love of her life, the father of her child, and she'll risk everything to destroy the evil that rules her homeland. But on the ground in Ukraine, she meets a formidable foe, a mysterious KGB agent who aims are unclear but whose power is unmistakably lethal. A killer cocktail of action, suspense and intrigue, The Blind Spy will hold you captive from beginning to end.
About the Author
Alex Dryden is the pseudonym of a British writer who worked for the British security services. He has had extensive first-hand experience with Russia for many years. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Red to Black and Moscow Sting. The Blind Spy is his third novel.
Praise For…
"It's boots on the ground in Ukraine, considered the cradle of Russian civilization, in this chilling novel that reminds us that the Cold War may never be over; third in a knockout series.
-USA Today
"His thrillers are an extended clarion call to arms, despite their spy-thriller guise. And as guises go, Dryden's books are doozies. They're exceptionally intelligent examples of the genre. The American publication...is particularly timely..... Brace yourself, Mr. Dryden. You're likely to be a busy writer for many years."
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"Anna Resnikov is the kind of spy a reader can learn to like. A lot.... Alex Dryden's thriller presents Anna's combat skills, her spy-smarts and a chess match involving the top spies of the United States and Russia."
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"The unbelievable becomes believable...as we wade through scenes of terror, and scenes of terrifying ordinariness that serve to add to the tension."
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"Anna is a refreshing addition to the traditionally male-dominated role of spy. She's believably crafted...simultaneously exhibiting strength and intelligence.... [Witten] with rich, distinct characters and timely subject matter. The time invested in reading The Blind Spy is definitely time well spent."
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"With a plot as current as today's headlines, Dryden's latest is as good as his previous two novels…[but] while Anna's past matters, this exceptional novel stands on its own. Aficionados of spy thrillers will want."
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"Another tantalizingly plausible plot. . . . Dryden is building an impressive list of post–Cold War espionage fiction, and [there is] much to enjoy in his latest."
"The pseudonymous Dryden's... fine third entry (after 2010's Moscow Sting) in a series grounded…in the twisting intellectual gamesmanship that makes the shadow world of espionage so compelling....Russia's plan to take over Ukraine lies at the heart of...this intricate and deadly struggle for international domination."
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Homepage Real Estate Allocation
Summary: Websites spend too little homepage screen space on content of interest to users and fail to utilize modern monitor sizes. And? It's worse now than it was 12 years ago :-(
Corporate homepages are the most valuable real estate in the world. Millions of dollars are funneled through an area that's roughly one square foot in size — 0.1 m2 — if we consider only the region above the fold. (The top part of web pages gets the lion's share of user attention.)
How is this valuable real estate allocated? Very inefficiently. Most pixels go to waste.
A homepage has two main goals: to give users information, and to provide top-level navigation to additional information inside the site. However, these two goals accounted for only 36% of the screen space across a sample of 50 homepages.
A third important homepage goal is to tell users the site's purpose and where they are relative to the Web as a whole. Sites typically accomplish this using a logo and a tagline. On the sample sites, these elements were sometimes much too big; on average, however, sites spent an appropriate 3% of space welcoming and situating the user. Even including these elements, however, the sample sites allocated less than half the screen space to useful pixels.
Saddest of all? These statistics are even worse now than they were 12 years ago when I conducted a similar exercise:
- In 2001, 45% of the screen was useful (content, navigation, or logo/tagline).
- In 2013, 39% of the screen was useful.
Screen Space Use: 2001 vs. 2013
In the 2001 book Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed, we analyzed a broad sample of 50 sites — mainly corporate sites and e-commerce sites, but also government, nonprofits, and news sites.
In 2013, I analyzed the same homepages again with the help of my research assistant Shih-Hsuan Chou. (Because 5 of the sites no longer exist, we replaced them with similar sites; for example, in place of CDNow, we analyzed Best Buy.)
The following table and pie charts show the average use of screen space in 8 categories in 2001 and 2013.
|2001 (%)
|2013 (%)
|Operating system and browser overhead
|Content of interest to users
|Self-promotions (ads for the site's content)
|Welcome, logo, tagline, and other site identifications
Use of the available screen space, averaged across 50 websites' homepages in 2001 and 2013
(analyzing only what's visible on the screen without scrolling).
Using these major categories to map a site's use of space above the fold is a revealing exercise. You can do this yourself: Grab a screenshot of your homepage and superimpose semi-transparent colored boxes on top of each design element, using color-coding for each important screen space category. You will often find appallingly small green (useful content) or red (navigation) areas.
The pie charts represent the "average" homepage in 2001 and 2013, but of course there is no such thing. Advertising, for example, can represent anywhere from 0 to 10% of a page or more; other categories also vary drastically from site to site.
The most striking thing about these pie charts is how similar they look. Very little change has changed in 12 years.
Bigger Screens = Less Chrome and Navigation
The only positive development during these 12 years is that much less space is consumed by system chrome — that is, the Windows taskbar, the browser menus, the URL field, and so on. Of course, when I say "less space," this is true only in a relative sense: because computer screens are much bigger now, the chrome consumes a smaller proportion of the available pixels, even though its absolute size is slightly bigger.
Navigation also consumes a smaller share of the (larger) screen these days. I'm not sure this is actually positive, however, because navigation is crucial on homepages. Users rarely go to a homepage to admire it. They go there because they want to find their way to a destination elsewhere on the site. (In contrast, on article pages and product pages, navigation should indeed be smaller than the content.)
Another positive development is the slightly larger area spent on content of interest to users (as opposed to self-promos and advertising). Today, user-oriented content gets almost a quarter of the screen. Although this is still very little, sites at least show a good deal more information now given the larger monitors in use these days.
Half the Screen Space Wasted
52% of screen space is completely wasted on things users ignore: filler, self-promos, ads, and blank space. It seems that no matter how much research we present about the uselessness of stock photos, the fluffy areas of web pages grow every year.
Although there can be some disagreement about whether something is useless filler or content of interest to a few users, there is no excuse for completely unused screen space. I'm not talking about whitespace for layout purposes; pixels can definitely be left blank and still contribute to a page's usability. When I say "unused space," I mean huge areas of the screen with absolutely nothing on it, except possibly a solid block of color.
(More on how to use the screen space wisely in the full-day course on Web Page Design.)
Web design's biggest disgrace over the past decade is that we haven't discovered a good way to use the increasingly wide screens on desktop and laptop computers. Pages are still designed as if people had 1024 × 768 monitors.
Progress instead seems to focus exclusively on optimizing web pages for the smaller screens on mobile devices and tablets. All our research on mobile usability confirms the need to modify designs for a tiny screen. But an equivalent argument supports the need to modify pages for bigger screens as well, and that hasn't happened.
Example: GM Homepage 2001 and 2013
The following screenshots show examples from the two analyses: gm.com's homepage in early 2001 and mid-2013.
General Motors homepage (www.gm.com) as analyzed in 2001 and 2013.
Not shown to scale; a bigger monitor was used for the 2013 screenshot.
I don't particularly want to pick on General Motors, though they are big enough to take it. The company's site was quite representative of those we studied in 2001 and 2013. That is, it was typical of corporate homepages in both years.
In fact, if anything, GM deserves an honorable mention for trying to utilize the wide screen in their current design — even though it's mainly through the fluffiest of fillers. Although the skyscrapers look nice, most people are probably at this site to see cars. At least GM did nice by offering big, clear navigation to its main car brands.
Design Agenda: More User Focus, Better Screen Use
When I decided to redo my homepage analysis from 12 years ago, I assumed I'd find major changes to discuss in this article. Instead, the news is "the dog that didn't bark in the night." Still, this lack of change is actually pretty big news considering how much the web has otherwise changed since 2001. If you compare the two sample screenshots, they certainly look very different. And yet the two pie charts are very similar.
So, my challenge for the next decade is simple:
- Cut the fluff and spend the pixels on design elements of interest to users — mainly content, but also navigation (particularly on homepages that are very navigation-intensive).
- Invent page designs that can stretch across widescreen monitors and still adapt to smaller screens.
See also:
- Full list of 113 usability guidelines for homepage design
- Canonical Intranet Homepage
- Same analysis applied to popular weblogs
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Robert Hill (also known as Bob Hill) is an early furry artist and writer, who also builds model crafts professionally. He was involved in Rowrbrazzle in the early years, sometimes doing stories with artists Pat Ortega and Wendell Washer.
His main character was Vawlkee, a Russian wolf-morph. Later he dropped out of Rowrbrazzle and began drawing hermaphrodite, Disney-style bears in various leather outfits. He published two collections of these drawings, Slave to Fashion 1 and 2, before mostly vanishing from the web.
Robert's fursuits have been seen at many conventions, and he wore some of them on the MTV special about furries when he was interviewed. His most famous fursuit is the Bambioid costume, based on the characters of Jerry Collins.


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Has there been any study into how quickly autocomplete suggestions need to show up for a good user experience?
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Has there been any study into how quickly autocomplete suggestions need to show up for a good user experience?
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Giving immediate results with first character is the way to go, according to me.
If the search history is saved for the particular user (Like in google if your are logged in, or on your Mac/Windows, where you're the only user) then this is a valuable thing to have. Most of the time in chrome/spotlight I just type one letter and hit return for my frequent websites/applications. Like F+return will get me to facebook in less than a second. I also feel that it sort of makes my experience more personal, I know this is my system and it knows my usual requests and is expediting the process.
There is also the notion of the impatient user. As the systems get more powerful and the bandwidth increases, people are getting less tolerant of wait-time. No one likes watching the "Loading..." prompt. Why I bring this up is, if you delay the search by a couple characters, it might lead the user to believe that the system is slow/not good enough to guess things right off the bat.
The downsides is, you need a fast enough system to make it a fluid experience (else you will end up with a flickering search results list).
Edit: Just remembered Nielsen's time scale explanation for UX. http://www.nngroup.com/articles/powers-of-10-time-scales-in-ux/
It resonates with what I wrote above.
Instant results:
1 sec results:
We presume that
Though I don't have a paper to cite, I have seen that around a 1000-1600ms window is range before which people begin to purse their lips or otherwise get 'the stare'
If this is a multi-use field that does not absolutely present itself as a 'search box' then you can probably have it delay a little longer.
Generally, even with apps with slower UX allowances, a search field involves a more hurried state of mind.
I am not aware of any studies on this subject. A search of journal archives (in particular, ACM SIGCHI) did not yield anything useful - a handful of studies that looked at autocomplete mechanisms as part of their studies, but none that answered this question specifically.
HCI is still a young field, and published answers to questions about particular widgets and their design are generally exceptions, rather than the norm.


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Reviving Israeli-Palestinian negotiations has stymied the best efforts of U.S. leaders and diplomats for decades, but that didn't stop FIFA president Sepp Blatter from trying a little shuttle diplomacy of his own in the West Bank.
For Blatter, the goal was securing an Israeli commitment to allow free passage for Palestinian football players between the West Bank and Gaza and at Israeli-controlled international border crossings.
"I'm in a sport-diplomatic mission to transmit to the Israeli authorities the problems which your football faces," he told Palestinian Football Federation Chair Jibril Rajoub, according to FIFA. "Football shall not create borders; football shall bring people together."
But that has been a matter of debate. While members of the Palestinian national team are in a small minority of Gazans eligible for permits to cross Israeli territory to reach the West Bank, Israeli authorities often make exceptions if they suspect a security risk, according to Sari Bashi, the director of Gisha, an Israeli non-profit that monitors access to the Gaza Strip.
Last month, when Israel hosted the Under-21 European Championships, Rajoub had also tried to convince European soccer's governing body, UEFA, to observe a sports boycott of Israel.
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Seeing that with the "new rules" certain sub communities could theoretically splinter off SO, like say a Python or a PHP community, will this be allowed and supported?
What is meta?
- Any Stack Exchange user can ask a question
- The community provides support, votes on ideas, and reports bugs
- Your voice helps shape the way Stack Exchange operates
I have seen some (small) splinters; there is an iPhone SE for example. Personally, I hugely value the cross-fertilisation of ideas on stackoverflow, so I really don't want that to happen.
That is also one of the things I find so objectionable about the iPhone SDK, btw. Seriously? The actual released API is under NDA? Get behind me, Apple! (throws salt etc).
I think the SE rules are more for your "fly fishing" site. So I don't see this as a threat to SO. Jeff wants the site to thrive, too ;-p
If that is the case then every single programming could have a separate site. Existing SO helps me to learn A-Z in what ever language. "Get into SO, you will get answer for all the question regardless of languages". I say this statement to all my colleagues. I feel that the uniqueness of SO will lost.
I'm not sure such a thing will be allowed by our Dear Leader. Stack Overflow is the crown jewel in the Stack Overflow LLC crown; if we start to splinter the site it's going to turn into a mess and could be a really bad thing for us as a community as well.
I'm not exactly sure where things are going with this whole Stack Exchange 2.0, but one thing I wouldn't want to see is having the community torn apart by it.
The "new rules" would allow it as long as there is enough community support to start a region/language/country specific site.


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Let A and B be positive semidefinite matrices. It is not hard to see that $(A-B)^2 \leq 2A^2 + 2B^2$. In fact, $2A^2 + 2B^2 - (A-B)^2 = (A+B)^2$ is positive semidefinite.
My question is: Is there a constant c (independent of A and B and the dimension) such that
$$(A-B)^2 \leq c (A+B)^2?$$


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In the Cooks Illustrated BBQ brisket recipe and many others I've seen, they call for moving the brisket from the grill where they are being smoked to the oven to finish. I'm wondering why the recipes call for this step rather than finishing in the grill.
Convenience: It's more convenient and easier to monitor the temperature inside the home. The oven has a thermostat, where the grill temperature needs to be monitored and adjusted manually.
No smoke left: Is could be assumed that the smoke has been exhausted.
Too much smoke: The smoke flavor could become too strong if finished on the grill.
There's really no reason to move the brisket into the oven aside from convenience and ease of temperature control, with the contrasting point also being true that there's no rule that says you have to leave your meat on the grill for the entire cook. After a few hours, the brisket will have taken on about as much smoke as it can/should. So if it makes sense to finish cooking it in the oven, there is nothing keeping you from doing so. Also bear in mind that a gas grill is not the most efficient means of cooking with indirect heat. You will use a lot of propane to maintain even relatively low roasting temperatures, while an oven requires far less energy to achieve the same effect.
If it were me, I would be inclined to keep the brisket in the cooker if I were using a charcoal grill, or a smoker, where the cooking chamber is more suitable for retaining ambient heat. I would be less inclined to keep it on a gas grill the entire time, as it's not worth blowing through the bulk of a propane tank for no discernible benefit.
All of your postulations are valid. A couple more below. These would my main concerns:


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I have the following setup:
ArcGIS Server + ArcSDE on top of Oracle RAC.
I created a view merging some data that is in Oracle and ArcSDE. In ArcMap it all works just fine. Whenever a new location is added to the locations table, I can see the joined features, etc.
However I need this to happen in ArcServer. I mean, I have a MSD published and I can consume it via REST and OpenLayers. It seems to me that AGS is caching the generated tiles, although it's set to NOT cache anything.
Any ideas why this is happening?


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I am trying to find out the best way of representing hierarchical data in android. There are no tree view controls and expandable list views dont work since i can have many levels of hierarchy. I thought I could use the Pulse app view to show data but again that is customised for one level. How best both visually and implementation wise then can I represent hierarchy in android for n levels ?
There are a couple patterns you can use here; I would recommend looking at the following articles for ideas:
Drilldown navigation:
See also:
1) Add location breadcrumbs at the top of the screen to indicate where in the hierarchy you are.
2) Don't let the new level cover the previous level. Let some pixels of each level be reachable. In this example you can just let the menu icons and the profile pictures (from the first two levels) be visible.


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I am interested in running cellular Automata to run a simulation on city growth. Which GIS software can run this out of the box, or via plugins?
I was able to do this in ArcGIS using Repast's Agent Analyst Extension a couple of years ago. It allows you to do agent-based geosimulation, CA included. It uses Java or a subset of Python called Repast Python. Not sure if it's still supported, though. It goes by Repast Simphony now. Here is a walkthrough on creating cellular automata models to get you started.
Another tool for ArcGIS is the cellular automata tool that comes with Hawth's Analysis tools. I don't have any experience with that one though.
IDRISI works quiet well. And it seems someone ask quite the same question here.
I hope it will help you.
EDIT : On open source side, there is TerraME.
You may have a look at the GAMA platform:
For CA, see for example this tutorial.
The best integration of a GIS with a cellular automata modeling system is TerraME from INPE in Brazil.
Another CA modeling system with som GIS-like capabilities is NetLogo. The logo language takes some getting used to, but this is a great CA platform.
I don't think any COTS product will have a built-in tool for CA.


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For-Sale Signs Sprout in Heartland
With demand for farmland showing no signs of slowing, the market is welcoming the return of a missing element: supply.
Sales of land used to grow crops are surging, with owners capitalizing on a sustained rise in real-estate values driven by low interest rates and historically high prices for corn and soybeans. But the last straw for many prospective sellers has been Washington's continued fiscal confusion and the prospect of higher taxes next year.
That was the deciding factor for Judy Beetzel and her four siblings, who last month sold the family's 770-acre farm in central Illinois to a local farming family for $10,900 an acre, more than double the state average three years ago. The family had been renting the land to two local farmers, and Ms. Beetzel said they were going to continue that practice after her father's death in August. But plans changed after the family accountant estimated selling now could save as much as $500,000 in taxes.
My father "loved that land. But we know he would want us to do the best we could," said Ms. Beetzel, 61 years old.
The family joined a rush of sellers looking to capitalize on a marked rise in land prices that goes back several years, prompting debate over whether a bubble could be forming in the Farm Belt. But the sales don't represent farmers cashing out. In fact, just the opposite: Experts say most sellers aren't farming the land themselves, while most buyers are farmers looking to capitalize on long-term industry trends as well as scoop up land that may become available once in a generation.
Comprehensive data on farmland transactions aren't available, but more than half of real-estate professionals in a survey last month sponsored by Iowa State University reported a rise in farmland sales from a year ago, the highest number since it started asking the question in 1986.
Meanwhile, Farmers National Co., the largest auction firm in the Midwest, did a record 76 farmland auctions in October, seeing in recent months a 20% jump in the number of farms sold from a year ago, said Chief Executive Jim Farrell.
"It's just amazing the amount of farm sales that are going on right now," Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad said in an interview.
Gov. Branstad, like other observers, attributes the recent flurry of transactions to nervousness about the "fiscal cliff," a combination of spending cuts and increases in federal taxes that could start to take affect Jan. 1. Starting next month, the federal tax rate on capital gains is set to climb to 20% from 15%, while a new 3.8% tax on capital gains that is part of the health-care overhaul law also takes effect. Additionally a key exemption for land passed from one generation to another will drop to $1 million from more than $5 million under current law.
But sellers would likely not be as anxious to pull the trigger if prices hadn't enjoyed such a steady march higher. Across a large section of the Great Plains, the value of farmland has risen 70% since the fourth quarter of 2009, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
Ryan Downs said the likely increase in capital-gains taxes played into his decision to sell 150 acres outside of Omaha, Neb. last month. But he also questioned how much more prices could climb, with the value on his land jumping 130% over six years.
"I find it hard to believe it returning 20% every year," said Mr. Downs, chief executive of an Internet company in Omaha, who added that he doesn't foresee a collapse in prices.
Indeed, despite the new supply of properties for sale, there is little evidence of falling prices. The survey by Iowa State found the average value for an acre of cropland in Iowa jumped 24% from a year ago, to $8,296 an acre.
Many bankers and regulators anticipate price stability in part because many purchases continue to be made by farmers buying with cash to expand their operations—rather than by speculators with borrowed money. Even after this year's severe drought, many farmers have cash on hand from crop-insurance payments and record prices paid for the corn and soybeans they were able to harvest.
"There is a lot of cash in the market, and it's in farmers' hands," said Shawn Smeins, managing director at a subsidiary of Rabobank, which is based in the Netherlands and an active agricultural lender in the U.S.
He and other large lenders say they remain conservative, but bank regulators say they are watching. A memo from the Federal Reserve last fall warned that cropland values "may reflect overly optimistic long-term expectations."
Lenders have put in a number of controls "to prevent what we would call an overheated lending market," said Robert Coleman, chief examiner for the Farm Credit Administration, which regulates institutions accounting for more than a third of all lending in the rural U.S.
Brent Gloy, associate professor at Purdue University, warned that the market for cropland could be vulnerable in the event of either higher interest rates or lower farm incomes. In the near term, however, the biggest red flag would come if lenders come under growing pressure to make more loans. "The biggest concern to me is if we start to see a lot more credit in these transactions," he said.
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I'm wondering if the set of all rationals with denominators less than $10^6$ is closed in the real number system. I think it is not, so that's what I've been trying to prove. I've tried looking at its complement and showing that it is open, but I didn't progress much. My last resort is to show that there is a sequence of rationals in my set converging to an irrational number (or to a rational whose denominator is greater than $10^6$). The problem is, how do I ensure that all simplified fractions in my sequence will have denominator less than $10^6$?
Hint: Let $N=\operatorname{lcm}\{1,2,3,\ldots,10^6\}$, and let our set be $$S=\{\tfrac{a}{b}\in\mathbb{Q}\mid 1\leq b\leq 10^6\}.$$
Consider the homeomorphism $f:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ defined by $f(x)=Nx$. Then $f(S)\subseteq\mathbb{Z}$.
Of course it's closed. Just blow it up by a factor of $(10^6)!$, and all its elements are integers.
Call our set $D$. We show that $D$ is closed by showing that the closure of $D$ is equal to $D$.
Any bounded set $B$ contains only finitely many elements of $D$. For suppose to the contrary that $B$ contains infinitely many elements of $D$. Since the number of denominators is finite, the number of numerators of elements of $B$ must be infinite, and therefore unbounded, making $B$ unbounded.
So if we take any real number $x$ not in $D$, there is an open interval about $x$ which does not contain any element of $D$. Thus $x$ cannot be in the closure of $D$.
Note that $D= \displaystyle \bigcup_{n=1}^{10^6} \frac{1}{n}\mathbb{Z}$. Each element of this union is closed since $\mathbb{Z}$ is closed and the map $x \mapsto \frac{x}{n}$ is a homeomorphism for all $n \ne 0$, and a finite union of closed sets is closed.
Lemma: Suppose $X,Y\subseteq \mathbb R$, $X$ is finite and $Y$ is closed. Then the set $$X+Y:=\{x+y|x\in X, y\in Y\}$$ is closed.
Proof: Since $Y$ is closed, any sequence $(y_n)$ in $Y$ with limit in $\mathbb R$ has limit in $(y_n)$. For $x\in X$, any sequence in $\{x\}+Y$ is of the form $(x+y_n)$, and if $(x+y_n)$ has limit $x+y$ in $\mathbb R$ then $(y_n)$ has limit $y\in Y$, so $x+y\in \{x\}+Y$ hence $(x+y_n)$ has limit in $\{x\}+Y$. Thus $\{x\}+Y$ is closed. Since a finite union of closed sets is closed, it follows that $X+Y=\bigcup\limits_{x\in X} \{x\}+Y$ is closed.
Corollary: The set $\{a/b|a,b\in \mathbb Z, 0\leq b\leq 10^6\}$ is closed.
Proof: Note that $$\{a/b|a,b\in \mathbb Z, 0\leq b\leq 10^6\}=\{a/b|a,b\in \mathbb Z, 0\leq a\leq b\leq 10^6\}+\mathbb Z$$ and $\{a/b|a,b\in \mathbb Z, 0\leq a\leq b\leq 10^6\}$ is finite while $\mathbb Z$ is closed.


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Women's Stress
In This Article:
Productive Stress
In a positive sense, stress can make you alert, motivated, and productive. To this end, stress can be beneficial. It inspires you to meet the challenge of the task at hand. You push yourself and learn how to best handle the situation so it will be less stressful in the future. Some women "thrive" on stress, appreciating the motivation it provides.
Stress is common to women. Because women are capable of doing many things at once, they are more susceptible to the stresses of all the activities they take on. Women are social organizers, mediators, planners, mothers, wives, spouses, girlfriends, daughters, friends, athletes, teammates, managers, employees, cleaning ladies, cooks, partners, athletes, and therapists. Positive stress can lead to a full, very active life that keeps you young in spirit and in health. Athletic girls in organized sports have a full schedule as they go from school to athletic activity, and learn to balance school, fitness, friendships, and family. These girls grow into women who regularly exercise and who have the ability to manage their busy lives with multiple responsibilities, squeezing the most out of every day.
Some people need both physical and mental stress to be productive; some athletes need stress to stay at the top of their game. Their rewards are good health, personal satisfaction, and positive acknowledgment or compensation. Some athletes compete at high levels with the reward of enjoyment. Regardless, the stress must be worth it, otherwise the athlete will lose her edge, competitiveness, and desire.
Commonly Identified Positive Causes of Stress
- Being involved in multiple activities
- Qualifying for elite competition
- Starting a new sport or job
- Moving up a position or ranking
- New relationship/marriage/living arrangement
- Moving or going away to college
- Joining a new team
- A new contract or scholarship
- Being responsible for others
- Hormone fluctuations
At high levels or for long periods of time, stress can be dangerous. Not only can it cause crying, anger, or inability to get work done, it can also cause physical illness or problems. Sometimes it can lead to negative coping behaviors, which lead to even more problems and a vicious cycle of never-ending stress. These negative coping behaviors include eating too little or too much, eating unhealthy foods, sleeping too much or too little, skipping work or practice, smoking, drinking, taking drugs, or taking too many prescribed medications. Even if you are not conscientiously engaging in negative coping behaviors, your body might be doing it for you. Signs of this are frequent colds, cold sores, canker sores, appetite and weight changes, heart disease, heart attacks, and even cancer. Too much stress can also lead to injuries or accidents, as it can cause you to be distracted from the task at hand.
Commonly Identified Negative Causes of Stress
- Death of a loved one or friend
- End of a relationship
- A move, change of schools, or change of jobs
- Money problems
- Loss of position, standing, or ranking
- Physical, sexual, or verbal abuse
- Overwhelming pressure from coaches, peers, employers, or family
- An accident or injury
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How do I install Java, including in my browser, so websites with Java work?
There are several implementations of Java. The three most common implementations when talking about it for Ubuntu are:
Since Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) and due to license issues Ubuntu will no longer distribute Oracle's JDK and JRE. Also, previous versions supplied on PPAs suffer from security issues and are not recommended to be installed on any Ubuntu system.
There are no more supported .deb releases from Ubuntu with reference to Sun Java or Oracle Java, Ubuntu officially supports OpenJDK and OpenJRE implementation of Java which is the base for Oracle's own implementation.
OpenJRE is the official implementation of Java Runtime Environment (JRE) for your Ubuntu systems and should suffice to run any Java program that you might require and it's included in the main repository and it's easily installable.
Or by opening a terminal and typing
Also important is to install the wrapper for supporting Java applications on your web browser, the Iced-Tea Java Plugin.
IcedTea Plugin
Or via a terminal
Or look for
To make sure that you are running the correct version of Java, use this command to set your choice:
If you need to install OpenJDK-JRE 6 or OpenJDK-JDK 6
Install it with
Or if you need the developers' package,
A version of the
Install it with:
If you really want to use Oracle's Java SE Platform, see How can I install Sun/Oracle's proprietary Java JDK 6/7/8 or JRE?.
Installing OpenJDK is not enough for enabling Java in browsers. You'll also need to install the
A restart of the browser might be required.
For installing Oracle Java 7:
Installing OpenJDK - Recommended
The simplest way to install Java on Ubuntu is to use OpenJDK. This will work fine for most people. To install it, click on the small button with the Ubuntu logo on it, as shown in the screenshot below.
After opening the Dash Home, you need to type in Terminal. Click on the icon that is circled in the screenshot below.
This will open the Terminal, which is Ubuntu's version the the Windows Command prompt, though the Terminal has many more features. Now, copy and paste the following command into the Terminal window. You will need to use ControlShiftV to paste text into the terminal.
You will need to enter your password to use this command. Although it will not show up in the Terminal, it will still be entered when you type it. After running this command, you will be set up to run and develop Java applications.
Installing Oracle Java
OpenJDK works fine for most people, but if you play Minecraft, you will want to use Oracle Java instead. To install Oracle Java, run the command below one at a time in the Terminal.
This will download Java from Oracle's website, and install it for you.
Open your terminal with Ctrl+Alt+T and:
Now this will install the latest Java version
Oracle Java 8 was just released (stable). To install it in Ubuntu, you can use the WebUpd8 Java PPA:
The PPA itself doesn't provide Oracle Java 8 binaries (that's not allowed by the Oracle Java license). Instead, an installer is used that automatically downloads and installs Oracle Java 8. Using this PPA, you'll also receive automatic Java 8 updates.
More information and some tips on using / further configuring Oracle Java 8 @ WebUpd8 is in Install Oracle Java 8 In Ubuntu Via PPA Repository [JDK 8].
Unfortunately, because of issues with its license, Oracle Java is no longer distributed within the official Ubuntu repositories. You have two main options: either try OpenJDK -- an open source replacement for Oracle Java -- or proceed with the "manual" installation (which is exactly what you were trying to do). Both these options are described on the help wiki: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Java. This page also include some other alternatives that, depending on your needs, you may find more suitable.
Just a side note: most of the time, with Ubuntu, you should not download software from the Internet, but rather use the Ubuntu Software Center. The software you'll find there is ensured to be stable, safe and to respect the standard conventions of the system. Oracle Java is just an exception to this rule.
Just go to Aplications --> Ubuntu software center and then search for
There are a few ways to install Java in Ubuntu:
Install OpenJDK (The open source equivalent to Sun's Java) directly from Ubuntu Software Center. All you need to do is search for Java. That tends to work as is for me.
If you need Sun's Java, say if you want to play Minecraft, you download the JRE as you described from Java.com, but make sure your .bin-file can be executed. You do that by opening a terminal and typing the following (I will assume you have it in your Downloads folder so change the cd line accordingly if that's not where it is):
Then, you should be able to close your terminal, right click on your .bin-file and select "Execute", which should run the installer. If this is not an option, just do the following from terminal (in the same folder as the two other actions):
That simply runs the specified file and if you successfully typed in the two first lines, the installation.
# current java release - get both jdk / jre download here
# remove previous installs if any
# move downloaded/expanded dirs into /usr/local/java
# create symbolic links
# ONLY need to do below on fresh ubuntu install - IGNORE if previously installed any java version as its already in place
# setup symlinks :
Finally, put these in your ~/.bashrc
now you're locked and loaded ;-)
If you are missing Java in Firefox, then
This script will overwrite libnpjp2.so even if it exists, but points to wrong file (for example, the symlink is broken).
As of now ( 2015-11-28 ) there is no official package for Java 8 from OpenJDK ( the open source version ), but you can install it via this PPA by running:
I made a text-based Java installer using terminal commands. It uses
You can download the installer from Google Drive here. Then put it in your home folder, open Terminal and type
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