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Private Investment in Conservation Reaches $8.2 Billion [more...]
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A collective of researches in ecological restoration offers an approach and results of their works in the field of ecosystem services and biodiversity. An interesting view of Payment for Ecosystem Service (PES) is considered in this paper-review.
Coral reefs: Ecosystems of environmental and human
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The evidence for biodiversity effects on ecosystem services
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and many subsequent publications suggest that biodiversity and the provision of ecosystem services are positively related, with the implication that management to enhance one should increase the other. However, analysis of empirical evidence shows that this relationship is complex and not always positive. Species richness has been linked positively to several ecosystem processes, leading to enhanced provision of ecosystem services. On this basis, actions that increase species richness should also benefit services. However, this cannot be considered to be a general rule. Most studies of the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem function consider a limited number of ecological processes that relate almost exclusively to resource utilisation.
Limitations on the restoration of biodiversity and ecosystem services
It has long been recognised that the effectiveness of restoration projects must be evaluated against a reference. In practice the reference has often been the attributes of an undegraded ecosystem, which can either be the presumed historic state or an extant natural or semi-natural ecosystem. Although recovery towards the reference varies among restoration projects, some generalisations are available. A meta-analysis that included a range of biomes found that restoration was only partially successful in achieving reference conditions, as restored systems had median measures of 86% of the biodiversity and 80% of the services associated with reference ecosystems. Similarly, a study of restored lands across the USA showed that these provided 3193% of the services supplied by the reference prairie, forest, wetland, or desert ecosystems within a decade after restoration. Therefore, although individual restoration projects can be successful, multi-site evaluations indicate a widespread failure to restore fully the biodiversity or ecosystem services to those of reference ecosystems.
Payments for ecosystem services (PES) and restoration goals
Although the use of ecosystem service markets to support restoration has been questioned in terms of the ability of restoration to deliver specified services, it is also appropriate to ask whether PES can help achieve restoration goals, such as the CBD targets. PES might focus restoration activities on a limited set of services, such as carbon sequestration, whereas other services or biodiversity are neglected. This could be a particular problem when international markets are brought into play, which might override local concerns. The desired link between reversing environmental degradation and alleviating poverty might also be undermined by an excessive reliance on market forces, as poor people do not always benefit from PES. As previously noted, for PES to be successful, there is a need to develop local and regional institutional frameworks that can cope with the complexity of such schemes, and that can integrate PES within existing rural development policies and programmes. For restoration to contribute both to sustainable development and the alleviation of poverty, it is essential that such financial flows compensate landholders adequately for any costs of restoration and provide an effective incentive to initiate restoration actions. Identifying how this might be achieved, based on an understanding of the potential distribution of benefits among different stakeholders and the conflicts that could arise, represents a major challenge to future restoration research and practice.
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The original article is: Bullock, J.M.; Aronson, J.; Newton, A.C.; Pywell, R.F.; Rey-Benayas, J.M. 2011. Restoration of ecosystem services and biodiversity: conflicts and opportunities. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. (26) 10, October, 541-549.

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I cannot, for the life of me, raise a Pochitchi or Ginjirotchi in Tamagotchi L.I.F.E. It's always Mametchi/Mimitchi or Maskutchi/Zuccitchi. I try the method of letting both hearts drop by two twice, and only discipling once, get Maskutchi/Zuccitchi. I try discipling more, get Mametchi/Mimitch.
Dec 12 2014 05:16 PM
I always get Ginjirotchi oops
Dec 12 2014 06:12 PM
Does the Tamagotchi Friends really launch in June? I'm confused here. I thought it was Fall.
Apr 24 2014 11:19 PM
Eternal Mametchi Fan
Different places say different things~
Apr 24 2014 11:30 PM -
Every toy announced at the New York toy fair has a release date of fall it's like code for later instead of actual fall unless the toy is out like a month after announcement so who knows
Apr 25 2014 12:49 AM -
I keep hearing June, not fall. But we'll see.
Apr 25 2014 12:55 AM
Whenever I try to get a poor care Angel on the Angel App, it just dies (not even bad death, it actually gets the "good end" death). Think I'm gonna put that down for now and just run one of my Connections. I'd run my P's, but I can't remember where I put it.
Apr 18 2014 05:33 PM
I got oyajitchi angel by not taking care of it at all. I played with it once or twice, but ignored it for the rest of the day.
Apr 18 2014 11:33 PM
Think I'll buy an Umino when I have money. I could do for a challenging vpet every once in a while.
Apr 17 2014 06:32 PM
Out of my Tamagotchi Connections, I have to say the 4.5 is my favorite. I think it's the strange Ura Tamagotchi characters that does it for me.
Apr 16 2014 11:24 PM
Eternal Mametchi Fan
It also has lots of great games!
Apr 17 2014 12:09 AM -
Same here. Love the Ura characters.
Apr 17 2014 07:30 AM
Anyone looking for a 3DS XL? Nintendo and Disney are giving away a free one with the new Disney Magical World game if you're feeling lucky! https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica
Apr 16 2014 04:56 PM
Anny Biondi
Omg!Disney Magical World coming to the west?!!! <3 Thanks for this news!Now I only need Kuma Tomo, Enchanted Folk 3DS and Tamagotchi 3DS games to be happy with 3DS!
Too much stuff to buy...
Apr 16 2014 05:41 PM -
Anny Biondi
Wait?!No PAL release date?!
Apr 16 2014 05:42 PM
Checked out the second Game Boy Tamagotchi game out of curiosity. There are quite a few Ocean Tamagotchi that aren't in the actual V-Pet, and I believe Taiyakitichi was replaced with a Sea Turtle Tamagotchi (which I unfortunately don't know the name of because I can't read Japanese)
Apr 16 2014 02:15 AM
Anny Biondi
The SNES game has also new characters
Apr 16 2014 02:48 AM -
According to Tamagotchi Town (The aforementioned SNES game), the turtle's name is Kametchi - "kame" being Japanese for "turtle."
Apr 16 2014 06:36 AM -
They also changed the secret characters on both the Garden and Ocean charts to Tengutchi (Not the same one as the Keitai Akai) and Kaizokutchi (A pirate), respectively.
Apr 16 2014 06:37 AM
So how hard is it to take care of an Umino Tamagotchi anyway? I've been looking at it alongside the Morino and they're around the same price.
Apr 15 2014 06:03 PM
The Ocean will grind your nerves and is exceptionally needy. The Morino is only slightly needier than an Angel (in my opinion).
Apr 15 2014 08:05 PM -
You've gotta be ready to tend to it once every 10m for it's entire lifespan - and keep the sound on for polar bears o_o
Apr 15 2014 09:41 PM
Is it impossible to get Ginjirotchi Angel or what? I neglected my Tama, on the Angel App, and yet I keep getting Chestnut Angels. I never give it it Candy, never praise it when it prays, have the AP at 0, and never fill the hearts to more than 2. It called for attention more than 7 times in the past day and it was STILL Chestnut Angel when it changed.
Apr 14 2014 06:15 PM
Well, on my Angelgotchi (not sure if the same logic applies) I got it to Kodoten and completely ignored it w/o even feeding it or playing with it (I left it in my locker) and then I got Ginjirotenshi. I think you just have to completely ignore it.
Apr 14 2014 06:30 PM -
I neglected it even worse and it died. So I'm having trouble finding the fine line here.
Apr 14 2014 06:35 PM -
I neglect to the point where it becomes sick. Then after I give it medication, I refill the hearts and let the cycle once again continue. Best of luck :)
Apr 14 2014 10:46 PM
I'm thinking of getting a vintage out of these three: Ocean (Probably the Japanese one, since the US prices are ludicrous), Morino, Mothra. Anyone have experience with them?
Apr 10 2014 02:17 PM
Ocean if you're ready to dedicate your life to it, haha. They're my favourite, but can only be run on weekends :(
Morino + Mothra are similar playstyle... I would choose based off of characters :)
Apr 10 2014 03:49 PM -
Apr 10 2014 04:59 PM
So how is the Music Star anyway? That's one of the only connections I haven't tried. (Wish I had more money for older ones I never tried, like Ocean and Angel)
Jan 03 2014 02:47 PM
I love my music star, it's unique and really fun, i recommend it!
Jan 03 2014 03:36 PM -
@ciara, for some that could be a good thing, it's the same reason i prefer v2's or v3's, i feel that i get more bang for my buck if the features/items/toys take time to get to or unlock.
@conando, the music star i'm very curious about as well. It looks very interesting though.
Jan 03 2014 03:41 PM -
The fact is once your Tama makes their pro debut on the music star, they rack up money so fast that you can buy whatever toys and instruments you want. Getting the pro debut can be a bit challenging, but that's one of the things I like about the music star. If it was easy, it wouldn't be as much fun in my opinion!
Jan 03 2014 04:42 PM
Anyone know where you can actually import European tamas? Only ever done Japanese ones. But I might just import a Friends since the US doesn't get them for almost a year.
Jan 02 2014 12:41 AM
Amazon UK ship virtually internationally :)
Jan 02 2014 12:58 AM
Eternal Mametchi Fan
Yep =D
Aug 25 2013 08:11 PM
My first P2 Tamagotchi is Zuccitchi. Was aiming for Pochitchi, man is he hard to get. Oh well, now I can try and get a Zatchi!
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Nick and I have been fishing buddies for a while now and aside from him using spinners and I fishing flies we have a surprising amount in common. We are both young and pretty. We fish hard and are in the best shape of our lives. You wouldn't want to get in the ring with either one of us and when we team up everybody better watch out.
One of my favorite things about trout fishing is exploring new places and Nick is the same way. Sometimes you go to a new place and at the end of the day you almost wonder if you should have stayed home. Once in a while you find a stream that reminds you why you put on countless miles in search of really good water. Nick recently found one of those places and he invited me to come and check it out.
It was just getting light out when we started fishing and the fog was heavy.
Nick caught a nice Brook Trout right off the bat. After releasing it he picked up a paddle and started paddling. I advised him to put down his paddle and cast to the right bank instead. Only one of us needed to be paddling at any given time. On about his third or fourth cast he informed me that he had a fish on and it was big.
He was able to get the fish near me and I quickly scooped it up into my net.
It ended up being Nick's first Brown Trout over 20 inches which is the benchmark for a trophy sized Brown Trout. It actually measured 21 inches.
What a beauty.
It was a great morning canoeing and fishing under a veil of fog.
I was constantly impressed with the scenery.
Eventually I would catch a Brook Trout on my signature Olive Bugger.
Then I found a tree with four distinct flavors of fruit. Cherry, Lime, Lemon and Orange. I named it "Skittles of the Forest".
Sometimes it got pretty thick.
Then it would open up again.
On my recent trip out west I had a lot of trouble with my dry flies becoming waterlogged so I decided to invest in an Amadou Fly Drying Patch. I found one on Ebay sold by Nelson. Nelson did a good job. I thought it was cool that my fly made and imprint.
On both sides.
Nelson's fly drying patches have the thickest Amadou in the industry. They are also less expensive than the competition.
Here is a Brown Trout.
Here is a Brook Trout.
Hey what's that?
"Hey Nick, let's get out of here!"
"Hey Eddie, cant you see I am fishing?"
This stream changed character about five different times on our journey.
Can't forget the selfy.
What a nice stretch.
It was nice having the canoe along.
We even kept a few for the frying pan. They tasted delicious.


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NEW YORK – April 14, 2011 – A new book released today assesses the factors and trends that have led 3.3 million students around the world to study in a country beyond their own. Who Goes Where and Why: An Overview and Analysis of Global Educational Mobility by Caroline Macready and Clive Tucker tackles the scale and range of global educational mobility over the past decade. The new book is the fifth in a series of timely Global Education Research Reports published through a partnership between the Institute of International Education (IIE) and the American Institute For Foreign Study (AIFS) Foundation, and can be purchased at www.iiebooks.org.
While international mobility among students and scholars is not a new phenomenon, new trends have emerged in the last ten years that continue to shape a rapidly changing landscape in international higher education. Macready and Tucker explore the complexity of these trends in depth and anticipate possible changes to student mobility patterns in the future. The book also provides a thorough analysis of the Exchange Visitor Program in the United States, using statistics provided to the authors by the U.S. Department of State.
Previous books in this series have examined higher education initiatives and exchanges in China and India and new developments in the expanding knowledge economy of the Middle East, as well as the effects of recent developments in higher education, the world economy, and government policy on global student and scholar mobility. The Global Education Research Reports series is a joint effort of IIE and the AIFS Foundation to explore the most pressing and under-researched issues affecting international education policy today.
Who Goes Where and Why sets out to answer several central questions in global mobility, specifically whether the worldwide growth in international student mobility is likely to continue; which destination will likely see their shares of the international student market increase and which diminish; which origin countries and regions are most likely to increase their numbers of outgoing international students in the future; and why students study outside their home country. In addition, Macready and Tucker consider the impact of national policies in major host or sending countries, and identify the practices that help or keep countries from meeting their mobility aims.
"The authors' analyses and conclusions aim to inform discussion and illustrate for governments and educators alike the physical flows of internationally mobile students across national borders," says Dr. Allan E. Goodman, President and CEO of IIE. The book includes forewords from Dr. Goodman and AIFS Founder and Chairman Sir Cyril Taylor GBE.
"We believe that the study is crucial because it highlights how student mobility has been impacted by the global recession yet illustrates that we are poised for inevitable growth as more students demand educational mobility," said William L. Gertz, President and CEO of AIFS.
The book also discusses the rise of economic powers like China and India as they build the capacity of their higher education systems and seek to develop more world class universities and draw in more top tier students and scholars. While Who Goes Where and Why takes a close look at tertiary education, the authors also delve into non-tertiary education, including secondary school and vocational education, relating both important mobility models and gaps in data in this under-studied arena.
Institute of International Education
The Institute of International Education is a world leader in the international exchange of people and ideas. An independent, not-for-profit organization founded in 1919, IIE has network of 18 offices worldwide and over 1,100 member institutions. IIE designs and implements programs of study and training for students, educators, young professionals and trainees from all sectors with funding from government agencies, foundations, and corporations. IIE also conducts policy research and program evaluations, and provides advising and counseling on international education and opportunities abroad. www.iie.org.
The American Institute For Foreign Study (AIFS) Foundation
The American Institute For Foreign Study (AIFS) Foundation, an independent, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) tax exempt public charity, was established in 1967 to help young people from many nations and diverse cultures to better understand one another. The AIFS Foundation provides grants to high schools and institutions to encourage international and educational travel. The AIFS Foundation also sponsors the Academic Year in America (AYA) program, which enables international teenage students to live with an American host family while attending the local high school. www.aifsfoundation.org.
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Founded in 1964, the American Institute For Foreign Study is one of the largest and most experienced cultural exchange organizations in the world. With global offices in 5 countries, AIFS organizes cultural exchange programs for more than 50,000 participants each year. AIFS programs include college study abroad, au pair placement, international camp staffing, gifted education, high school study/travel and insurance services. More than one million students and teachers have participated in AIFS programs worldwide. www.aifs.com.


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Category: News and Press Releases Link: Griffin cancels iFM iPod FM tuner accessory Posted on MacBytes.com Approved by arn
Griffin cancels iFM iPod FM tuner accessory... they decided it would be too popular and didn't want a repeat of the iTrip shipping fiasco. c'mon, somebody say it: This means new iPods with built-in FM tuners!
There would be a lot of angry people out there if that happened. Like me. I thought that I would have to settle with no car playback when I got my brand new iPod on the 20th. If that's released, there will be a lot of people who bought an iPod with their Christmas money, or as a gift who will feel cheated by apple.
Oh no! I spent $400 on an iPod, Apple BETTER not upgrade their products! That's just cheating me! We have to hold back the industry 6 months while I get my money's worth! </sarcasm> If that was how the tech industry worked, we'd be on 100mhz computers.
You're right. I'm sick and tired of Apple releasing all this *new* crap. I have the 10GB 2nd generation iPod, and just imagine my seething anger when the 40GB models came out. I mean, How dare they! They shoud not have sold ANY iPods this Christmas, if they knew a new one was just around the corner. The consumer need to be protected from innovation like that! Now, on a more rational and logical note... What does an iPod with a tuner have to do with your car stereo? Did you mean FM Transmitter?
What does an FM tuner have to do with playback in your car? This is not the FM transmitter to play your iPod through your car radio, it's a way to listen to radio ON your iPod. As for an FM transmitter, I'd recommend a cassette adapter. At least here, way too hard to find an available frequency.
So, why couldn't they just release it for the 2nd and 1st generation iPods? I would buy one, I have a 2G. I have been waiting on such a product from the start!
integrated radio I think it would much more appropriate to have DAB radio rather then FM radio on an ipod; But the situation is a bit divided, with Europe supporting it, and US choosing for propriatary (payed services) solutions. Unless apple also taps into this evolving market.... (include in .mac?) Maybe Apple could make an European Ipod with DAB, to balance out the Itunes music store delay for us But most likely this will all be for the next generation ipods, together with firewire over airport....
Well said! I would have to say that Kingsnapped's original post has to be one of the stupidest things I have ever heard!! People bought iPods at christmas because they are one of the hottest things on the planet. If they wanted an FM tuner, there are other MP3 players with that capability. Consumers typically understand that a new product may actually include more features than the one it replaces.
Apple fans are the only people I know that FEAR new product releases. Always waiting for the next big item, while hoping nothing replaces something they own now. Users always being worries about resale value, instead of enjoying what they own NOW. Be happy that Apple produces limited product lines which artificially inflates resale value. If something new comes out that you want to buy, you can unload your almost new item at an almost new price, and buy the new one. Get over it.
Pure speculation on my part, but I imagine that the bulk of all iPods sold are the 3rd generation and therefore, the bulk of the projected market.Why develop a product for an older design that is approaching obsolescence?
If apple does come out with a built in fm tuner, admit it, you're going to want that new model...so you'll dump your "old" model off before dust has had a chance to settle on in and invest a little more $$$ (because you probably didn't get quite what you paid for the old on) on the newer model. I think apple is a bunch of freakin' geniuses.
That anti-inovation screed was pretty funny. That said, I wish Apple would either provide themselves, or give assistamce to 3rd parties to provide: 1) Recording capabilty (good quality, stereo -- with the ability to plug in high quality external mikes). The iPod could completely take over the DAT market, which is currently mainly supported by musicians who need a high quality portable device to tape themselves. 2) FM radio receiver. 3) I DO NOT want a a FM transmitter: there is already a marvelous tool out there that works with 1 through 3G iPod's and it is called the line out/in. The problem is that the vast majority of car radios out there do not have a line in. However, I would never buy such crippleware, and with the explosion in MP3 players, I think that sooner or later car radio manufacturers will get religion and start including line in. In the meantime, there are cassette adapters... Ted
Please, it is amazing how whiny and spoiled people are when the GDP of countries in the world that are the price of the iPod. Chistmas to others is getting a piece of bread to eat, or living to their 30th birthday! Anyways...sounds like Apple has plans for an FM tuner of their own.
I have a 2G 10 Gig iPod, and if they updated the ipod so it has a FM transmitter and reciever, I would totally upgrade. One and a half years is a good ipod upgrade time if you ask me. And all you christmas ipoders, dont complain. You still have a incredible ipod, no need to whine.
We're here discussing Apple, its products and rumors. What the hell do conditions in third world countries have to do with this? Sorry, but the analogy just doesn't fly with me.
Hopefully, this means that an FM radio receiver is built-in to next generation iPods. For that matter, AM radio too. All I really want to do on my iPod that I can't do right now is listen to baseball games, which are of course, on AM.
From what I understand from the post at ipodhacks.com, they had already spent the time and resources designing the 2G receiver, so that is a moot point. From experience, I know that once Apple releases a new product in its grid (iBook, Powerbook, etc.), it completely removes mention of the older product, but the remotes for the 2G iPods were on there until recently. I wonder why Apple stopped selling them? Surely there are MANY 2G iPod owners out there who may need a replaccement or such someday. Anyway... Regards, Gus
You've obviously never used the iTrip. Sound quality is about equal to good FM reception, in a very crowded spectrum. Only problem is occasional interference.


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All Him, all the time.
If Jesus is King,
Why does darkness rule the world?
Where are His servants?
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Only I'm no extrovert
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You can put down that syringe full of bear hormones – EA's got a much easier (and more affordable!) way of transforming yourself into that most noble of Mother Nature's creatures: simply don Korssar's Helm. You see, the "magical Kislevite helm is imbued with the spirit of the wild North and will magically transform the wearer into a ferocious bear."
There are some caveats however: your ability to live your life as a bear will be limited to the virtual confines of EA Mythic's Warhammer Online MMO (a deal breaker for some, to be sure) and those willing to confine their bearness to WAR will still need to preorder Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 on PC to access the magical helm. Preorder cross-promotion? Clever move, EA. Great to see publishers further incentivizing preorders ... but we're sure there's at least a handful of WAR-heads eager to play as a bear (a bear!) but uninterested in picking up Red Alert 3. In other words: don't throw away those bear hormones just yet.


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App::LintPrereqs - Check extraneous/missing/incorrect prerequisites in dist.ini
This document describes version 0.52 of App::LintPrereqs (from Perl distribution App-LintPrereqs), released on 2016-01-01.
# Use via lint-prereqs CLI script
Check extraneous/missing/incorrect prerequisites in dist.ini.
lint-prereqs can improve your prereqs specification in dist.ini
by reporting prereqs that are extraneous (specified but unused), missing (used/required but not specified), or incorrect (mismatching version between what's specified in dist.ini
vs in source code, incorrect phase like test prereqs specified in runtime, etc).
Checking actual usage of prereqs is done using Perl::PrereqScanner (or Perl::PrereqScanner::Lite).
Sections that will be checked for prereqs include [Prereqs / *]
, as well as OSPrereqs
, Extras/lint-prereqs/Assume-*
. Designed to work with prerequisites that are manually written. Does not work if you use AutoPrereqs (using AutoPrereqs basically means that you do not specify prereqs and just use whatever modules are detected by the scanner.)
Sometimes there are prerequisites that you know are used but can't be detected by the scanner, or you want to include anyway. If this is the case, you can instruct lint_prereqs to assume that the prerequisite is used.
;!lint_prereqs assume-used "even though we know it is not currently used" Foo::Bar=0 ;!lint_prereqs assume-used "we are forcing a certain version" Baz=0.12
Sometimes there are also prerequisites that are detected by scan_prereqs, but are false positives (Perl::PrereqScanner::Lite sometimes does this because its parser is simpler) or you know are already provided by some other modules. So to make lint-prereqs ignore them:
[Extras / lint-prereqs / assume-provided] Qux::Quux=0
You can also add a [versions]
section in your lint-prereqs.conf
configuration containing minimum versions that you want for certain modules, e.g.:
[versions] Bencher=0.30 Log::Any::IfLOG=0.07 ...
then if there is a prereq specified less than the minimum versions, lint-prereqs
will also complain.
This function is not exported by default, but exportable.
Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):
Whether or not prereqs to core modules are allowed.
If set to 0 (the default), will complain if there are prerequisites to core modules. If set to 1, prerequisites to core modules are required just like other modules.
Add extra directories to scan for runtime requirements.
Add extra directories to scan for test requirements.
Attempt to automatically fix the errors.
can attempt to automatically fix the errors by adding/removing/moving prereqs in dist.ini
. Not all errors can be automatically fixed. When modifying dist.ini
, a backup in dist.ini~
will be created.
Perl version to use (overrides scan_prereqs/dist.ini).
Which scanner to use.
means Perl::PrereqScanner which is PPI-based and is the slowest but has the most complete support for Perl syntax.
means Perl::PrereqScanner::Lite has uses an XS-based lexer and is the fastest but might miss some Perl syntax (i.e. miss some prereqs) or crash if given some weird code.
means Perl::PrereqScanner::NotQuiteLite which is faster than regular
but not as fast as lite
Returns an enveloped result (an array).
First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (result) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.
Return value: (any)
Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/App-LintPrereqs.
Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-App-LintPrereqs.
Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=App-LintPrereqs
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Karl Lagerfeld wants to be taken just as seriously as a photographer as he is a designer. Presumably, this is why he did quite a lengthy interview with Scott Athorne for the Times' Sunday magazine. They met in Karl's tennis-court-size photography studio in central Paris. His publicist asks Athorne not to write that the Kaiser arrives three hours late to the interview. "Karl has time for everyone, he is very generous, you will see," she says. But we could not think of a wait that could have been more utterly worth it considering the new and interesting insights Karl offered on himself, his childhood, and life in general, from speaking about things as mundane as footwear and people who smell to philosophizing on death. Here are ten things we enjoyed learning about him.
1. He doesn't like intellectuals.
"I want to know everything, but I'm not an intellectual, and I don't like their company. I'm the most superficial man on Earth."
2. He doesn't buy shoes for comfort.
"I buy my shoes a size too small. I like the way it feels."
3. He likes journalists. Except, of course, the smelly ones.
"I have no problem with journalists — many are friends," he says. "Only if they are really stupid, or if they've got bad breath, or if they smell. Yesterday [at the Chanel couture show] I had a problem. I said, 'I'm sorry, you've got to tell this woman that she needs to be taken away. Her smell is not possible.'"
4. His mother never wanted him to be a child.
"'You may be six years old, but I am not,' she used to say." She refused to let him wear glasses although he was short-sighted, saying: "Children with glasses are the ugliest thing in the world." She also took little interest in his schooling, never attending a parent-teacher evening. Nor did she ever attend one of his fashion shows later in life, despite his success. "She said, 'Well, I didn't go to your father's office either,'" he laughs.
5. He avoided boarding school as a child because he hated the idea of dorms.
"I found out that if I didn't create trouble, I could do what I wanted." Did he not like the idea of boarding school? He screws his face up in disgust. "It was out of the question. I hated the idea of being in a dormitory with other people. No, no, no," he says, hitting the table as he speaks. "My sisters were sent away because my mother thought they were boring. I was not boring."
6. He is loath to dwell on the past.
"The worst thing is when friends say, 'Remember the good old days?' Forget about the good old days! That just makes your present second-hand. What is interesting is now. If you think it was better before, then you might as well commit suicide immediately."
7. He sees himself just as we see him.
"Often things aren't that important. I'm not that important either. I don't take myself too seriously."
8. He doesn't see fashion design as art.
"I'm in a permanent bad mood with myself, thinking I could always do better, that there is more. It's like there is this glass wall, and I can't get through to the other side." But he adds, raising an exclamatory finger: "I'm not one of those people who think they're more artistic than their profession. Come on. You're selling things that make people happy, not difficult pregnancies. I can't stand designers who talk about their work being art."
9. He thinks of death in a very un-scary way.
"Everything changes, except death. Billions have died before us, so it can't be that bad. If you ask me, death and deep sleep are the same thing. And then you don't take yourself too seriously." He takes a considered sip of his drink before adding: "Oh, please. Don't over-react to how I am talking. Try to keep all this abstract, huh?"
10. He is entirely nonjudgmental.
"For me, identity is a private, intimate problem," says Lagerfeld. "Fashion doesn't have to be your identity. Who cares what people think? As long as you agree with yourself, that's enough, no? I judge nobody. I laugh about myself. That I can do; I know myself pretty well."
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NEIGHBORHOODS AND HEALTH: Building Evidence for Local Policy Cross-Site Analysis Kathy Pettit and Tom Kingsley The Urban Institute
NNIP uCollaborative effort - Urban Institute and local partners in twenty cities uPartners operate local information systems - Recurrently updated neighborhood data - Multiple topics-data sources uSuccess from 3 kinds of innovations 1. Technological 2. Institutional 3.Using information for change uCompetitive procurement this study - 9 proposals, 5 selected
Research questions Neighborhood conditions and health outcomes uBasic relationships health, demographic and contextual variables - Multiple cities, consistent definitions -Variations across sites uHow relationships change over time -Long time series almost all sites -Specifically – 1990s trends in high-poverty areas uFeasibility – tract level analysis
5 sites - major differences Metro area population growth - Slow in Cleveland and Providence - Rapid in Denver, moderate Indianapolis, Oakland
Racial/ethnic contrasts - Cleveland, Indianapolis: high share black - Denver, Providence: rapid Hispanic growth - Oakland: minority-majority expanding
Concentrated Poverty uDevastating effects, inner-city neighborhoods -Loss of the middle-class, institutions and role models -Concentration "magnifies poverty and exacerbates its effects." uConcentration - seemingly inexorable trend - Major increases in 1970s and 1980s share of poor in high-poverty tracts uWhat happened in the 1990s?
Nationally – important reduction in concentrated poverty - Share of poor: down in high categories up in middle categories
5 sites, overall poverty rate - change not dramatic, 1990s
Concen. poverty: bigger changes - major drops, Cleveland, Denver - modest declines, Indianapolis, Oakland - increase in Providence
% adults without HS degree Improvements in high-poverty neighborhoods – all sites
% adults without HS degree but major gaps remain re rest of city
% households rec. pub. assistance Major declines, high-poverty neighborhoods – all sites
% households rec. pub. assistance again, major gaps remain
Rental vacancy rates Tight housing markets exacerbate other problems
Research approach Neighborhood conditions and health outcomes uScan of Birth and Mortality Outcomes - Diversity of levels and trends within & between cities uExamine relationships between health and neighborhood conditions -Bivariate and Multivariate analyses
Maternal and Infant Health Indicators u Pct. low-birth weight infants u Pct. of births to mothers with early prenatal care u Teen birth rates (age 15-19) u Age-adjusted mortality rate u Infant mortality rate
Gaps between poor/non-poor vary u Confirmed that gaps exist between high- poverty and non-poor tracts u BUT gaps vary by city and indicator -Gaps most consistent for prenatal care -Gaps generally lower in Oakland, Providence (smaller geographies)
Pct. low birth weight births, 1998/2000 Large gaps seen in black/white cities
Teen Birth Rates in Denver
Some progress in health outcomes across all neighborhoods u Improvements in both high-poverty and non-poor neighborhoods u BUT generally not enough to close gaps u Direction and speed of change varies by city and indicator -Oakland generally saw most improvements -Teen birth, infant mortality rates dropped in all -Some troubling signs in Providence
Age-Adjusted Death Rates Begin together, but paths diverge High poverty census tracts
Oakland: Change in Early Prenatal Care Rates
Lessons from Introductory Scan u Improvements are possible u Racial/ethnic differences -Change in teen births -Low birth rates u Policy and programs can have impact -Healthy Start -Campaign for Healthy Babies
Pathways of Neighborhood Effects on Health (Ellen et al. 2001) u Physical Stressors u Social Stressors u Neighborhood-based Networks & Norms u Neighborhood Institutions & Resources
Static Research Hypotheses Poorer birth & mortality outcomes will be associated with: -higher levels of minority and immigrant population -higher shares of low-income households -higher levels of social risk factors -poor housing quality -higher crime rates -more mobile and transient population
Dynamic Research Hypotheses Some relationships will remain positive, but have decreased in strength over the 1990s -high minority tracts and poor birth and mortality outcomes -lower-income tracts and lower prenatal care rates -lower-income tracts and higher low-birth weight rates
Socioeconomic Links Hold True uPoorer birth & mortality outcomes will be associated with: -higher levels of minority and immigrant population »True except for foreign-born with low-birth weight & mortality rates -higher shares of low-income households »True for all measures (poverty, income, TANF, public assistance) -higher levels of social risk factors »True for all measures (No HS, female-headed HH with children, unemployed)
Physical, Social Stressors Matter Social Network Proxies Mixed uPoorer birth & mortality outcomes will be associated with: -poor housing quality »True for all measures (older housing, overcrowded, home values and mortgage amounts) -higher crime rates »Not true for prenatal care, strongest with teen birth rates -more mobile and transient population »True for renter-occupancy & vacancy, mobility »Not true for change in population
Mixed results in link between non-white areas & poor health outcomes uSome relationships will remain positive, but have decreased in strength over the 1990's: -High minority tracts and poor birth and mortality outcomes »True for low birth weight »Not true for prenatal care and pct. Hispanic »Not true for teen birth (much higher correlations) or mortality rates (about the same)
Again, mixed results in link between low- income areas & poor health outcomes uSome relationships will remain positive, but have decreased in strength over the 1990's: -lower-income tracts and lower prenatal care rates »True but only slight drop in relationship -lower-income tracts and higher low-birth weight rates »True for all measures of income
Multivariate Regression uTo test independent relationships of birth/mortality outcomes with neighborhood context variables uTo test how much variation the neighborhood context variables explained uTo test shifts over time for significance
Regression Model uNeighborhood Indicators -Pct. African-American, Pct. Hispanic -Average Family Income -Pct. population not employed -Pct pop > age 5 who moved in past 5 years uDummy Variables -City, year, and interaction of city & year
Regression Summary u Regression strongest for prenatal care rates -R-Squared:.45 (teen births) to.77 (prenatal care) uNeighborhood variables did explain some variation -Pct. population not employed had highest coefficient uConditions specific to time and place matter -not just due to racial or income change
How well do neighborhood conditions explain differences in rates? Reference City is Cleveland
Testing for significance of change in unobserved characteristics Reference is Cleveland 1999 rate Differences in Early Prenatal Care Rates
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NEW YORK (AP) Police acting without the FBI's knowledge might have inadvertently helped blow the surveillance of a terrorism suspect and compromised a bomb plot investigation at a sensitive stage by questioning an imam about him, a criminal complaint suggests.
"They came to ask me about your characters," the Muslim religious leader, Ahmad Wais Afzali, told Najibullah Zazi in a secretly recorded Sept. 11 telephone conversation. "They asked me about you guys." ACROSS THE USA: Alerts intensify in terror probe
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ALERT ISSUED: Terror suspect held without bail
At least one of those New York Police Department detectives, referred to in the recently unsealed criminal complaint, works for a division that operates independently from an FBI-run terrorism task force. Zazi, a 24-year-old Denver airport shuttle driver, his father and Afzali were charged last weekend with lying to the FBI in a probe of a possible al-Qaeda plot to detonate homemade explosives. Authorities say they found bomb-making instructions on a hard drive on Zazi's laptop but knew of no specific time or place for a possible attack. The arrests came after a series of high-profile raids of several city apartments in a neighborhood where Zazi had recently visited, and were followed by an intense flurry of nationwide warnings of possible strikes on transit, sports and entertainment complexes. A criminal complaint suggests that investigators might also have tipped off Zazi this month by towing and searching a rental car he was using on his trip to New York City. The maneuver, authorities say, produced evidence of the bomb-making instructions on his laptop. In the phone conversation with Afzali, Zazi said the car's disappearance convinced him he was being watched. NYPD and FBI officials have denied that the potential missteps forced their hand in last week's raids, prompted Zazi to abort his New York visit and caused friction between the two agencies, which work together through the Joint Terrorism Task Force. NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly, asked Tuesday whether he had any concerns about the handling of Afzali, declined to comment on the investigation beyond what was in court papers, saying the probe was classified. NYPD spokesman Paul Browne insisted the NYPD and the FBI "worked closely and successfully in this case and in scores of others." He declined further comment. Zazi's arrest in Colorado touched off several national terrorism warnings and advisories, with authorities cautioning transit systems, sports stadiums, hotels and entertainment complexes to be vigilant as investigators search for more suspects in a possible al-Qaeda plot to set off hydrogen-peroxide bombs. Law enforcement officials said Zazi might have been plotting with others to detonate backpack bombs on New York trains in a scheme similar to the attacks on the London subway and Madrid's rail system in the last few years. Backpacks and cellphones were seized in raids on apartments Zazi visited in New York. In a statement, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security said that while the agencies "have no information regarding the timing, location or target of any planned attack, we believe it is prudent to raise the security awareness of our local law enforcement partners regarding the targets and tactics of previous terrorist activity." Afzali's attorney, Ron Kuby, has said his client had a history of giving police information as a community liaison and religious leader in his Queens neighborhood. Kuby claimed Afzali was doing their bidding by talking to Zazi and finding out what he was up to. "My client is being blamed for an investigation botched by the authorities," Kuby said Tuesday. "It's much easier to blame some obscure Afghan imam." A criminal complaint says NYPD detectives first visited Afzali at his home on Sept. 10. Around that time, the public was unaware that federal authorities were tracking a suburban Denver man with possible links to al-Qaeda who had driven to New York City — Zazi. The complaint says that unnamed detectives showed Afzali photos of Zazi and that Afzali admitted he recognized him. Kuby said one of the detectives was his client's usual police contact, an investigator assigned to the police department's Intelligence Division, not the terrorism task force. The day after police spoke to Afzali, the FBI intercepted his phone call with Zazi discussing the NYPD's inquiry. The next day, Afzali's lawyer said, his client had his first-ever contact with the FBI, when he agreed to answer questions at their Manhattan headquarters. On Sept. 14, Afzali also agreed to a search of his home, then gave DNA samples and a written statement on Sept. 17, the attorney said. Afzali was arrested on Sunday on charges he lied in the statement by denying that he had tipped off Zazi. Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Letzkau was founded by the Teutonic Knights under the Chełmno law (Kulm Law, a legal constitution for a municipal form of government) in 1384. In 1552, the charter was confirmed by King Sigismund II Augustus (Zygmunt II August) of Poland. The village was completely destroyed multiple times -- in 1458 by the Teutonic Knights and then in 1626 by the Swedes.
Until 1793 Letzkau was part of Danzig in Royal Prussia (also known as Polish Prussia) in the Kingdom of Poland. The Second Partition of Poland in 1793 added Danzig and its surrounding territory to the province of West Prussia. Letzkau was situated in the district (Kreis) of Danzig from 1818 until 1887, when it became part of the district of Danziger Niederung. Letzkau became part of the Free City of Danzig from 1920 until the outbreak of World War II in 1939, when it came under the control of Nazi Germany. In February 1945 it was occupied by Soviet forces and eventually returned to Poland. In 2012 Letzkau (now Leszkowy) was a village in the administrative district of Gmina Cedry Wielkie, within Gdańsk County, Pomeranian Voivodeship.
In 1820, Letzkau had 350 residents, including nine Mennonites. In the 2nd half of the 19th century, the village had 4,403 morgas (2,635 hectares) of land, 197 Catholics, 339 Lutherans, two Mennonites, and 37 houses.
Mennonites who were residents of Letzkau were members of the Bärwalde Mennonite Church.
Stowarzyszenie Konserwatorów Zabytków. "Leszkowy." Catalogue of Monuments of Dutch Colonization in Poland. 2005. Web. 26 December 2012.
Wikipedia. "Leszkowy." Web. 26 December 2012. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leszkowy.
Wolf, Hans-Jürgen. "Familienforschung in Westpreußen." Web. 26 December 2012. http://www.westpreussen.de/cms/ct/ortsverzeichnis/details.php?ID=3884.
Map:Leszkowy, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
Author(s) | Richard D Thiessen |
Date Published | December 2012 |
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n. | 1. | The act of reading; |
2. | A discourse on any subject; especially, a formal or methodical discourse, intended for instruction; sometimes, a familiar discourse, in contrast with a sermon. | |
3. | A reprimand or formal reproof from one having authority. | |
4. | (Eng. Universities) A rehearsal of a lesson. | |
v. t. | 1. | To read or deliver a lecture to. |
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Noun | 1. | lecture - a speech that is open to the public; "he attended a lecture on telecommunications" Synonyms: public lecture, talk |
2. | lecture - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" Synonyms: talking to, speech | |
3. | lecture - teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class) Synonyms: lecturing | |
Verb | 1. | lecture - deliver a lecture or talk; "She will talk at Rutgers next week"; "Did you ever lecture at Harvard?" Synonyms: talk |
2. | lecture - censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup" Synonyms: call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, bawl out, berate, rebuke, reproof, scold, reprimand, call down, lambast, lambaste, trounce, remonstrate, jaw, rag |


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June 6, 2013 at 1:34 am 12 comments
I usually really like Annie Murphy Paul's articles, but this one didn't work for me. Below are her reasons why TED talk videos work well in learning, with my comments interspersed.
• They gratify our preference for visual learning. Effective presentations treat our visual sense as being integral to learning. This elevation of the image—and the eschewal of text-heavy Power Point presentations—comports well with cognitive scientists' findings that we understand and remember pictures much better than mere words.
Cognitive scientists like Richard Mayer have found that diagrams and pictures can enhance learning — absolutely. But his work combined diagrams with words (e.g., best combination with diagrams: audio narration, not visual text). This quote seems to suggest that pictures are better than words. For most of STEM, that's not true. We may have an affinity for visual, but that doesn't mean that it works better for learning complex material.
• They engage the power of social learning. The robust conversation that videos can inspire, both online and off, recognizes a central principle of adult education: We learn best from other people. In the discussions, debates, and occasional arguments about the content of the talks they see, video-watchers are deepening their own knowledge and understanding.
Wait a minute — isn't she just saying that TED talks give us something to talk about? TED talks are not themselves inherently social. Isn't a book discussed in a book club just as effective for "engaging the power of social learning"? What makes TED talks so "social"?
• They enable self-directed, "just-in-time" learning. Because video viewers choose which talks to watch and when to watch them, they're able to tailor their education to their own needs. Knowledge is easiest to absorb at the moment when we're ready to apply it.
This was the quote that inspired this blog post. It's an open question, but here's my hypothesis. Nobody watches a TED talk for "just-in-time" learning. People watch TED talk for entertainment. "I am about to go to my school board meeting — I think I'll watch Sir Ken Robinson to figure out what to say!" "I need to be able to guess birthdays — isn't there a TED talk on that?" There are videos that really work for "just-in-time" learning. TED talks aren't like that.
• They encourage viewers to build on what they already know. Adults are not blank slates: They bring to learning a lifetime of previously acquired information and experience. Effective video instruction build on top of this knowledge, adding and elaborating without dumbing down.
It's absolutely true that effective instruction builds on top of existing knowledge, which is something that the best teachers know how to do — to figure out what students know and care about, and relate knowledge to that. How does a fixed video build on what viewers (all hundreds of thousands of them) actually know? No, I don't see how TED talks do that.
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In my personal experience, I have not absorbed or used anything truly useful by watching a TED talk online, I"m afraid to report. I remember getting even more out of TV. Here's my hypothesis about why: a TED talk is fast-paced and short and crafted really well to hold attention in a story, and all of this goes completely against the kinds of things that lead me to remember, reflect, and plan to act. Theoretically, in watching a recorded video, I could hit "pause" and take notes and think for myself, but because the production values are so high and the story is so gripping and lacking in boredom, I just want to keep it coming, and the next thing I know, it's over, and I got some high, but that's it. The format is a disaster, which is why I quickly learned to stop watching almost all TED talk videos.
What do you mean by "anything truly useful?" This sounds like a you problem and not a TED problem.
Yes, and the problem is admittedly "I quickly learned to stop watching almost all TED talk videos."Their slogan is "Ideas Worth Spreading," not "We here to teach you something." Learning is self directed.
See also this article mentioning that recent research paper on fluent speakers: http://priceonomics.com/is-this-why-ted-talks-seem-so-convincing/ and a follow-on that specifically mentions Ken Robinson: http://huntingenglish.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/why-we-should-mistrust-ken-robinson/ (and this post with similar sentiments: http://largerama.creativeblogs.net/2013/05/26/weloveken/ ).
Very well said. I understand that people may say things for rhetorical effect or based on speculation – especially when their livelihood may be impacted by such. However, it seemed to me that when someone sets themselves up as presenting "educational research" based on empirical findings and "science" that there is a bit of a duty to stick with it. For important reasons, everything presented by that person in a public fashion carries with it the implication that it is research based and/or otherwise grounded in scientific fact. If that person does present something not grounded in fact or research, but rather random speculation, there is a danger that many may be misguided and misinformed as a result.
There is a bit of "the emperor's new clothes" in TED talks sometimes. Really smart people are giving them (hard to dispute usually) so really smart people will get real value from them (that part is what you are disputing). I find them entertaining and even interesting. Great learning? Not so much. Although the talk on how to tie your shoes has made a difference in how I tie mine so that they don't come loose as often.
I have to confess ignorance of TED talks. I've not yet managed to sit through one. I find videotaped lectures one of the most off-putting forms of information transfer. I much prefer written text (with diagrams as needed). Video is good for showing complicated motions that might be otherwise hard to convey (instruction in stretching exercises, for example, or how a mechanical watch works), for lectures, though, it seems to be of rather limited utility.
Re: "…it seems to be of rather limited utility." The qualifier in this sentence is "To you…" it seems to br rather limited, but not to younger students. My guess is you are from my grandfather's generation.
Google "flipping the classroom"-
Based on the grammar and typos in your comments, I assume that you are fairly young, and so may be young enough for me to be of your grandfather's generation (my son is only 17, but I have grandnieces and grandnephews who are 9 and 10 years old.
I have not seen much evidence that the younger generations learn more effectively from videos in either sense of the expression (more effectively than older generations or more effectively than from books). Videos are popular with students because they appear to take less effort than books, and with administrators because they appear to be cheaper than live instructors. I'm not convinced that either is the case when the time or cost to achieve a high level is measured.
Note: on re-reading the comment you replied to, I regret the comma splice in the last sentence. The antepenultimate comma should have been a semicolon.
Recognizing that this is just an anecdote, I can say that the only TED talk that had any permanence with me was Mike Rowe's. The rest all seem like fluffernutter sandwiches – lots of calories but low nutrition.
Daniel Kahneman, Antonio Demasio, E O Wilson, and Sir Ken Robinson are fluffernutter? Hmmmm
In 20 minutes, even these worthies can't say very much of value (other than "read the book").
The sad part of this commentary is that it misses out on the TED experience. There is a faithful TED community that watches the video, but also comments and exchanges perceptives. Then there are the TED conversations which can link to severals of the talks. There are TEDx events and they are also being streamed live or captured on YouTube.
Theres here have mentioned the that videos or the format are not to they liking but this is a personal, and I will add prejudice, point of view. Video lectures are the future and we might a well get accustom to them. But TEDTalks is not meant to be a lecture. They're is intended to introduce new ideas and help to spread them virally.
Learning doesn't happen, you make it happen and TED is just a tool to promote ideas for learning.
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