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Business development plan software can be helpful in creating a business plan, but it's not a necessity. Our free business planning course also provides you with what you need to know. Next, you'll learn the importance of The Market Analysis section of a business plan.
The Market Analysis illustrates your knowledge about the industry you are competing in. In this section you will want to present facts and corresponding conclusions based on your market research data.
"COMFORT is not the objective in a visionary company. Progress depends on people facing fear and discomfort."
This key section of your business plan should include a complete industry description and industry forecast; key target market information; market testing results and an introduction to your major competitors.
Describe your primary industry. Provide detail on the size of the industry and it's historic rate of growth. List any important trends that you've noticed. Explain the life cycle of the industry and project the future rate of growth. Describe the customer base for your product or service.
It's very important to know who your primary target market is. If you don't know your target market you haven't done your research. Most important is narrowing your target market to the group(s) that you plan to court and manage for your particular product or service.
In this section be sure to include any distinguishing characteristics of your target market such as size, market share, pricing targets, marketing opportunities to reach your target customers, and any trends or potential changes that might impact your primary target group.
Provide specific results of any market tests have you have conducted in planning your business. Business development plan software may go into more detail on this section, but in general you can provide information on who you contacted and what information you gained as a result of the test.
Tests might be related to pricing of your product or service or how you've analyzed the desires of your prospective customers.
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Jet-images — deep learning edition
Building on the notion of a particle physics detector as a camera and the collimated streams of high energy particles, or jets, it measures as an image, we investigate the potential of machine learning techniques based on deep learning architectures to identify highly boosted W bosons. Modern deep learning algorithms trained on jet images can out-perform standard physically-motivated feature driven approaches to jet tagging. We develop techniques for visualizing how these features are learned by the network and what additional information is used to improve performance. Finally, this interplay between physically-motivated feature driven tools and supervised learning algorithms is general and can be used to significantly increase the sensitivity to discover new particles and new forces, and gain a deeper understanding of the physics within jets.
- Authors:
- Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Inst. for Computational and Mathematical Engineering
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Statistics
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- Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2016; Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
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- Springer Berlin
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A brief burst of optimism in September that World Trade Organization members would be able to conclude a limited package of trade liberalization measures by the end of this year appears to have faded amid continuing disagreements in October. The renewed enthusiasm coincided with Brazil's Roberto Azevedo taking over from France's Pascal Lamy as WTO chief, and several weeks into his tenure Azevedo said the dynamic of the talks had "changed profoundly." On Oct. 14, however, Azevedo told members that unless they "show additional flexibility and work in a spirit of compromise" they will be unable to finalize an agreement by the time of the WTO ministerial meeting set for early December in Bali, Indonesia.
Press reports indicate that there has been particular difficulty finding a way forward on trade facilitation. Guatemalan WTO ambassador Eduardo Sperisen-Yurt, who is leading the talks on this issue, said Oct. 14 that negotiators have made little to no progress on difficult topics such as the nature of the commitments to be made and the flexibility that developing countries should have concerning which of these commitments they implement and when. Some reports blame the lack of progress on the fact that negotiators are continuing to get bogged down in relatively unimportant details.


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Probation and Parole Officers assigned to general caseloads are located statewide and supervise individuals convicted on a variety of offenses. The average size of these caseloads is approximately 190 offenders. All probationers are required to comply with general conditions such as reporting to the Probation and Parole Officer and remaining within Rhode Island (except with specific permission to travel.) In addition, some offenders are ordered by the sentencing judge to fulfill special conditions, such as completing substance abuse treatment, paying restitution, or having no contact with a particular person. As of January 2010, approximately 7,213 probationers were being supervised on general (or generic) probation caseloads.
Offenders requiring more focused supervision because of the nature of their crime or the risk they pose to the community are assigned to specific caseloads.
The Rhode Island Interstate Office is responsible for the transfer of probation and parole offenders into and out of Rhode Island. The unit consists of: Deputy Compact Administrator; Supervisor and 2 Probation and Parole Aide. There are approximately 1,100 Rhode Island probationers supervised by other states and nearly 360 offenders from other states being supervised by Rhode Island Probation and Parole Officers.
Sex Offenders residing in the community require close monitoring and supervision in order to meet public safety concerns. Sex Offender Specific Probation and Parole Officer supervises these offenders closely, enhancing accountability, and providing a quick response to infractions. Since its inception, the Sex Offender Unit has proven its value in supervising these offenders closely, enhancing accountability, and providing a quick response to infractions. Sex Offender Specific Probation and Parole Officers work very closely with police in every community, conducting joint home and neighborhood visits and exchanging critical information. Staff also communicates regularly with treatment providers to ensure appropriate services. A victim advocate who works directly with the Sex Offender Specific Probation and Parole Officer and adds a new dimension in helping to ensure that staff are sensitive to victim issues and that victims have access to support.
13 Domestic Violence Specific Probation and Parole Officers provide supervision of approximately 1110 domestic assault offenders, based upon the foundation principles of victim safety and offender accountability. Staff also communicates regularly with treatment providers to ensure appropriate services. A victim advocate who works directly with the Domestic Violence Probation and Parole Officers helps to ensure that staff are sensitive to victim issues and that victims have access to support.
Gender Responsive/Female Specific Caseloads: There are two Probation and Parole Officers providing specialized supervision of female offenders.
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supervision is 1:46 as of July 2015 with a total of 92 offenders classified in this category.
Mental Health Specific: There is one Probation and Parole Officer assigned to the high risk Mental Health Specific caseload. This caseload provides targeted supervision services to high risk offenders on probation who have a history of mental illness and needs for mental health services, with a particular focus on working with such offenders being released from the ACI and/or at high risk of incarceration. They server as a resource regarding mental health services. There are 62 offenders classified in this category as of July 2015.


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The New York Yankees fighting it out against the Boston Red Sox in a 2-1 game at Yankee Stadium would hold the attention of most baseball fans in attendance. But for Andrew Robert Rector, the game was a real snoozer.
A video of Rector asleep in his seat during the 4th inning went viral on the internet after announcers Dan Shulman and John Kruk called a play-by-play of his sleeping during ESPN's broadcast. Rector now claims that their commentary and filming his nap was denigrating. He is suing ESPN and the New York Yankees for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
Courthouse News Service also lists Major League Baseball Advanced Media and ESPN announcers Dan Shulman and John Kruk as defendants in the suit.
Rector and his attorney, Valentine Okwara, of Jamaica, New York, accuse Kruk and Shulman of unleashing "an avalanche of disparaging words… that include but not limited to 'stupor, fatty, unintelligent, stupid' knowing and intending the same to be heard and listened to by millions of people all over the world." What's more, they further charge, "These unmitigated verbal onslaughts crossed the line between reporting on sport and abuse against the plaintiff without reasonable cause or restraint."
The suit accuses the broadcasters of responsibility for an "unending verbal crusade against the napping plaintiff." Cramming several offenses against grammar and spelling in one sentence, the brief charges: "John Kruck in his verbal attack insinuated that the plaintiff is individual that know neither history nor understood the beauty or rivalry between Boston Red Sox and New York Yankee."
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Joy and Ruby got back from Manila last night. Ruby did her exams there, but has to go back to finish some projects.
Then they left today for some sort of "church" meeting.
They are very involved in their church, always attending meetings and prayer meetings.
I am more like most Americans: I was never involved in church projects. And like most Americans I resent being told I should "volunteer" at the church for X. No thank you. You can serve God in your daily life: you don't have to belong to an elite "in group" to prove you love Him.
Saying Lord Lord is fine, and praying and worshiping (especially receiving the Eucharist) is the food that keeps one going, but the important part is your daily work. Being nice. Giving to charity. Helping your neighbor (without using the help to bribe them to attend your church). If you are lucky, like I was, in having a profession where one is "God's hands" in caring for the sick, fine. But even washing a dish well is a way to show your love for God. This is St Theresa's "Little way". Of the creed of Brother Lawrence. Or taking the advice of one Hindu saint, who told a lady who said she loved her family but didn't believe in the gods, that "your husband is god... your children are god".
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Driver crashes following high speed pursuit
A McMinnville man was arrested Friday morning following a high-speed pursuit that resulted in the driver crashing the vehicle.
Police identified the suspect as Oscar Martin Rocha, 26, whose last known address was 550 S.W. Border Lane.
He was booked into the Yamhill County Jail on two counts each of second-degree criminal mischief and reckless driving and one count each of third-degree criminal mischief, attempt to elude a police officer, hit-and-run, possession of a stolen vehicle and unlawful use of a weapon. Bail was set at $50,000 pending arraignment in Yamhill County Circuit Court.
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About 1 a.m., officers were dispatched to a report of a red Isuzu SUV driving recklessly in the area of Southeast Ford and Storey streets. Officers began arriving in the area, looking for the suspect vehicle.
An officer spotted a red Isuzu SUV at the interseection of Southwest Baker Street and Old Sheridan Road. When the officer turned around to check on the vehicle, it was no longer at the intersection.
Within a few seconds, the Isuzu was relocated speeding west on Old Sheridan Road at a high rate of speed. When the officer came into sight of the vehicle, it turned off its headlights.
The officer caught up to the SUV on Southwest Cypress Street near of Old Sheridan Road. The Isuzu had lost control in the curve and spun out of control before crashing into a fence in the 1500 block of Cypress.
The driver was able to drive the vehicle back onto Cypress and fled again at a high rate of speed, but with the headlights turned back on. The vehicle was pursued north on Cypress reaching speeds of 80 mph.
The vehicle failed to stop at the intersection of Northwest Second Street, lost control in the curves of Northwest Cypress Street near the intersection of second Street.
The Isuzu spun out of control before rolling over two times, ultimately landing on its top, resting against a light pole at the northwest corner of the intersection of Northwest Cypress and Fourth Court.
The driver was wearing a seatbelt which kept him in the vehicle and probably saved him from sustaining serious injuries Officers found him suspended upside down in the driver's seat.
Officers were able to cut the seatbelt and assist the driver out of the vehicle and arrest him. They provided first aid until McMinnville Fire Department medical personnel arrived. The driver was transported to Willamette Valley Medical Center for evaluation of minor injuries, which included minor facial lacerations and contusions from the crash impact.
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Temptation from the Past: Intrigued by the enigmatic lawyer who defended abused children with passion but who seemed untouched by his charm, Michael Hayward wanted to thaw January Stewart's cool demeanor and rouse the heat he suspected lay underneath.
Michael was the sexiest man January had ever seen, but she knew the renowned journalist was trouble. Was this man her worst nightmare come back to haunt her—or the one who would break down the defenses of a lifetime and cast away her pain?
Slow Burn: He was a wanderer whose troubled gaze barely hid his anger and despair, but Joanna Taylor knew she'd offer Adam Dursky the handyman job at her Minnesota lodge. Drawn to a loneliness in him that echoed her own, she couldn't fight the desire his touch awakened in her.
Adam had battled his ghosts and shadows for months, but only Joanna's touch kept the terrible memories at bay. Determined to convince her that forgiveness was better than regret, Adam insisted she make peace with her own past. Could a redheaded rebel who'd given up on love heal the pain of a hero who thought he'd lost his courage?
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Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has been dealt a huge blow with the news that striker Daniel Sturridge could face two months on the sidelines.
The England international has been in excellent form for the Reds so far this season, scoring 11 times and forming a devastating partnership with Luis Suarez.
However, having injured his left ankle in training on Friday, it has been revealed that the former Chelsea man has sustained ligament damage rather than a mere sprain.
"Daniel is probably going to be out six to eight weeks," said Rodgers, speaking to Sky Sports prior to Liverpool's match against Hull City.
"It was something we thought was never going to be as serious as that, to be honest.
"He slipped over in training and we thought initially it was his toe. He got brought inside straight away and he was taken for a scan straight away and it showed he'd actually got a ligament strain.
"It's a big blow for us because he's been brilliant since he's come in."
Sturridge's injury represents a major problem as the 18-time English champions head into the notoriously tough festive period.
After a bright start to the season Rodgers' side sit second in the Premier League table, but face a run of seven games in 29 days during the festive period, including trips to Tottenham, Manchester City and Chelsea.
The loss of the 24-year-old will see more pressure heaped on the shoulders of Uruguayan star Suarez, particuarly after Spanish striker Iago Aspas' difficult beginning to his Liverpool career.
Sturridge's latest problem comes after a thigh injury which disrupted his time with England during the recent international break, and on the back of praise from Rodgers for his conduct in training this week.
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After a long journey of many experiments, adventures, successes and challenges, the vzw Maya Sapera Dance Company was launched in January 2011 (Ghent, Belgium). Maya Sapera and her assistants, fellow-dancers and contributors are delighted to welcome you to this website!
The Maya Sapera Dance Company works as an umbrella production company to house different ethnical dance and music groups, all with the same goal: to offer a high-quality and professional program of non-Western dance styles and simultaneously upgrade these dance forms' technical level and reputation.We also apply our creative skills to combine our own 'Western' culture with 'non-Western' cultures. The company does not intend to imitate other cultures, but aims at a crossover in which they can meet each other. By means of art we try to bring people in positive contact with another world. Maya Sapera Dance Company is more than only a performing company. Our philosophy also extends to the educational level. That is why the company also pays great attention to its high-quality dance classes and workshops in order to motivate people to dance 'non-Western' styles on a high level.
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The Walking Dead Midseason Report Card: B-Sean McKenna at . Comments
The holiday season is a great time of the year to spend with family, and a terrible time of the year to watch television. Everything is a rerun!
But the hiatus at least gives us a chance to sit back and evaluate where various shows stand, something we've done so far via midseason report cards for: The Vampire Diaries; Parenthood; Fringe; and The Secret Circle.
Up now: The Walking Dead.
Best Episode: "What Lies Ahead." The season premiere packed nail bitting tension, great zombie gore, and fantastic pacing between action and drama. It was the perfect kick start to the second season and ended with a cliffhanger that led the way to the infamous Hershel farm.
Worst Episode: "Cherokee Rose." Sticking someone down a well with a zombie is a stupid and pointless idea. It makes zero sense unless you're trying to get killed. Utilizing zombie blood and guts for pure gratuitousness instead of an intriguing and plot moving storyline makes for a boring and yawn inducing episode. We want zombies but not at the cost of the main story. Plus, I don't want to watch anyone pee on a pregnancy stick for the closing scene. Next episode, please.
Best Character: Hands down, Daryl Dixon. He may not have been an original character of the graphic novel, but he's proven himself to be handy with a crossbow, quick with his wit, and intriguing to watch. He's been continuously growing and developing past his original racist redneck persona into one of my favorites. If Merle ever does return, it will be interesting to see their interaction and how he handles it. Just don't die, Daryl!
Worst Character: Andrea gets under my skin and I wish she would go away. She's constantly complaining about not carrying a gun or doing what the "boys" get to do. Andrea comes off less like a strong female character with a edge and more like a whiny, selfish, and foolhardy problem.
What worked: The season started with plenty of drama and tension as well as a nice setting change. The wide stretch of farm land contrasted with the season one concrete jungle of the city offered another take on dealing with the zombie apocalypse. Additionally, the mid season finale ended with a cinematically appealing bang by eliminating the barn zombies with a simple mow down, the revelation that Sophia was a walker, and Rick stepping up to take care of business.
What didn't work: With the magical safety bubble of Hershel's farm, there was a lack of urgency and desperation to survive, something that the show first thrived on. This meant that the characters found themselves making brainless decisions for the sake of attempting to create zombie action. Additionally, the one goal of finding Sophia, a character who we never really got a chance to invest in, felt too dragged on, meaning that a majority of episode plots involved many "talky" and often soap opera feeling scenes.
Hopes for 2012: The Walking Dead needs to re-find that urgency, that take on actually learning to survive a zombie apocalypse and dealing with a world without basic rules. I hope that the mid season finale ending will propel the show forward towards moving away from the farm and back towards dealing with danger around every corner whether it be human or zombie. And hopefully, a more enticing storyline than finding a little girl. Here's to bringing back the action packed, character driven, and heart stopping moments that made the show exciting in the first place.
Overall Grade: B-
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Foreign nationals may register marriage in Denmark provided the Danish conditions for their entering into marriage have been met with. The Danish authorities certify this in a so-called "certificate of marriage". The certificate is valid for 4 months. According to information provided by the Copenhagen City Hall's Marriage Office (Københavns Magistrat, 1. afd.), the following documentation is required when a foreign national wishes to register marriage in Denmark:
Please note that such certificates should be sent for prior approval to:
Københavns Overpræsidium, Hammerensgade 1, 1267 København K, tel. No. (+45) 3312 2380. The Marriage Office has mentioned that the couple should plan to stay in the city for at least 14 days.
Contact details for the Copenhagen Citizen Service Centre:Phone: 33 66 33 66Phone hours: Mon-Fri 10.00 - 18.00E-mail: email@example.com Read more about marriages, Municipality of Copenhagen: http://www.kk.dk/indhold/vielseA fee will be charged for the service.
Two persons of the same sex may have their partnership registered provided that at least one of the partners is a Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian, or Swedish national who resides in Denmark, or provided that both partners have resided in Denmark for the last two years before the registration. Thus, neither two foreign nationals, nor two persons residing abroad can have their partnership registered in Denmark. (See more information, however, only in Danish, at: www.retsinfo.dk).
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Acceleration, or the idea that gifted students should be allowed to move more quickly through a subject area, is a practice supported by a wide body of research. However, it can be a challenge to implement. This book focuses on multiple strategies for accelerating gifted children in any school setting. In this concise introduction to the topic, Dr. VanTassel-Baska offers many teacher-friendly ways in which acceleration can be employed in classrooms at all levels and in all subject areas. The author offers specific strategies for identifying candidates for acceleration, programmatic approaches to employ, and teacher strategies to use for content acceleration in the classroom. This is one of the books in Prufrock Press' popular Practical Strategies Series in Gifted Education. This series offers a unique collection of tightly focused books that provide a concise, practical introduction to important topics concerning the education of gifted children. The guides offer a perfect beginner's introduction to key information about gifted and talented education. Educational ResourceHowever, it can be a challenge to implement. This book focuses on multiple strategies for accelerating gifted children in any school setting.
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Measure, record, and view four channels of thermocouple temperature data with this open source Arduino™-compatible data logger.
T400 Temperature Datalogger Set
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The Pax Instruments T400 temperature datalogger is an open source four-channel thermocouple temperature datalogger based on the Arduino™ Leonardo platform. It is ready to use out of the box with the features you want most. Measurements can be logged to MicoSD card, graphed on screen, and printed to the USB serial port. The T400 is a great tool for anything from live thermal process monitoring in the lab to long-term environmental data collection in the field.
The Pax Instruments T400 datalogger is designed to be out of the box ready for professionals and hobbyists alike. If you need a temperature datalogger that works every time, this is the device for you.
The hardware and software design files are available to you at no cost to use, modify, or redistribute. This allows you and others to extend the devices capabilities or tailor it to your specific application.
Arduino™-compatible hardware means while hacking on the platform you will be able leverage the work of others while sharing your own work with large community of hackers and makers. Sharing is caring.
Readings can be saved to a microSD card in standard CSV format for processing in Microsoft Excel, LibreOffice, or your favorite data analysis tool.
Readings can captured live via the USB serial port. This is perfect for live process monitoring in lab experiments or connecting to an internet-enabled device.
- The T400 runs on the ATmega32u4 AVR processor.
- The MCP9800 temperature sensor is used for cold junction compensation.
- The MCP3424 analog-to-digital converter measures the voltage produced by each thermocouple.
- The DS3231 real time clock is used to trigger readings. Between readings the device is put into low power sleep mode. The RTC wakes up the unit to take a reading. This gives a longer battery life.
- The T400 uses a standard BL-5C battery. This is great for battery replacement in the field.
- The generous 132×64 LCD is capable of displaying the current temperature for each thermocouple as well as a graph of the most recent readings.
- Thermocouples connect via standard mini thermocouple connectors. The T400 is compatible with a wide variety of K-type thermocouple sensor types from stainless steel probes to rolling surface-contact sensors.
- 1x T400 temperature datalogger with battery
- 1x Stainless Steel Thermocouple Probe
- 4x K-Type Thermocouple, wire type, 1 meter
- 1x 256 MB MicroSD card
- 1x MicroUSB cable
- 1x USB wall adapter (US)
- Github electronics repository
- Github firmware repository
- Github enclosure repository
- T400 on Hackaday.io
- T400 on Thingiverse
- ATmega32U4 – Microcontroller
- DS3231 – Real-time-clock
- MCP3424 – Analog-to-digital-converter
- MCP9800 – Ambient temperature sensor
- MCP73831 – LiPo battery charge controller
- MIC5219 – 3.3 V regulator
- PGB1010603 – ESD suppressor
Q: Why does the board operate at 3.3 V?
A: So the board can be run from the 3.7 V LiPo battery without a step-up converter. The LCD operates on 3.3V. Lots of nice sensors operate at 3.3V.
Q: Why does this board operate at 8 MHz rather than 16 MHz like other Arduinos?
A: 8 MHz is the highest clock frequency available when operating the ATmega32U4 at 3.3 V. The Arduino LilyPad and several other boards also operate at 8 MHz.
Q: This is an opensource design; why not use KiCAD?
A: KiCAD would be awesome, but there were already lots of good Eagle libraries for the components.
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A wave of lawmakers and others jumped off the fence, calling on Sanford to "do the right thing" — resign. Attorney General Henry McMaster asked for an inquiry to determine whether Sanford used any public money to visit the woman.
Behind the scenes, political camps tried to influence, in the direction of their own interests, the decisions of Sanford and others. Meanwhile, polls showed more than 60 percent of those asked thought Sanford should resign.
It seemed as if Sanford was hanging on by a thread. Still, Sanford would not resign, telling one top Republican that he would have to be kicked out of office.
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• South Carolina's Republican leadership refused to ask Sanford. Meanwhile, lawmakers — in part because of wrangling over the 2010 governor's race — could not coordinate a push to force Sanford to resign.
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Poppy, Rose, Buttercup, Daisy and Lily have double glazed patio doors and front windows. Each of the units has their own access via the front decking which is equipped with table and chairs. These units also have the benefit of a full central heating system, with parking bays in front of the chalets it means access could not be easier. These chalets are 'doggie friendly' so you can book them in to join the fun!
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No More Chess - We're not against chess, but all the tactics and mind games... well we just don't have the patience for it. Let's all just shake and get over it. A decent remedy for any conflict resolution. Don't be a pawn, choose peace over squabbling.
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Recently, many of the crafty girls at P&N have been exploring the various forms of hand-stitching – – needlepoint, cross stitch, embroidery and even hand-sewing!
A favorite project I hand-stitched was the cross stitch of Molly that was inspired by the "Cross Stitch Family Portrait" from the Martha Stewart's Favorite Crafts For Kids. I did my portrait of my most lovable family member – MOLLY!!
More hand-stitching…a framed embroidery Emily stitched up to test drive the CozyBlue DIY Embroidery Kits we carry at the boutique. It incorporates so many of the classic embroidery stitches – stem stitch, french knot, back-stitch and more! These kits are a great go-to for stitchers of all skill levels.
A signature project for our hand-stitching birthdays is our mini dog pillow (well you can actually do any animal) – this is a simple project that can be completed with some extra fabric scraps, hand sewing thread and felt! Check out all the doggies stitched up during a recent b-day celebration!
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Frequently Asked Questions about ZIP Code cancer data
What do the ZIP Code lists show?
The ZIP Code lists show the number of people who developed the specific type of cancer while living in the ZIP Code area between 2005 and 2009. The lists also show the number of people who might have been expected to get cancer in that time period, based on the size of the population of the ZIP Code.
How do you find out how many people have cancer? How is the information on cancer incidence collected?
Under the New York State Public Health Law, all individuals diagnosed with cancer in New York State must be reported to the New York State Cancer Registry. The Cancer Registry routinely audits hospitals, laboratories and other health care providers to ensure that all required reports are made. The Cancer Registry also has reporting agreements with most other states, including all of the states that border New York. Through these agreements, New York State residents who are diagnosed at hospitals or by health care providers in other states are also reported to the Cancer Registry. The North American Association of Central Cancer Registries has recognized the New York State Cancer Registry as meeting the highest standard for completeness of reporting.
What is "expected incidence"?
Some ZIP Codes have a lot of people living in them; others have fewer people. Because of this, we cannot just compare the number of people diagnosed with cancer in each ZIP Code. Generally speaking, ZIP Codes with more people living in them will have more people with cancer. Those with fewer people will have fewer people with cancer. Also, because cancer is more common in older people, the age of the people who live in a ZIP Code is important. ZIP Codes where older people live will have more cancer than neighborhoods where younger people live.
Expected incidence is the number of people in a given ZIP Code that would be expected to develop cancer within a five-year period if the ZIP Code had the same rate of cancer as the State as a whole. The cancer rate for the entire state and the number of people in a ZIP Code are used to estimate the expected incidence. Age and population size are also taken into account because you would expect to see more people develop cancer in a ZIP Code with a larger population or a higher percentage of older residents. This process is called age adjustment.
How did you determine that a ZIP Code was higher, lower or about the same as expected?
The actual number of people who are diagnosed with cancer in the ZIP Code is compared to the expected number. For example, if there are 11 people diagnosed with cancer in a ZIP Code and, based on the population size of the ZIP Code, we would have expected only five cancers, the ZIP Code will be labeled as being more than 100% above expected.
What are "included ZIP Codes"?
Some ZIP Codes had too few cases to be shown for confidentiality reasons. These ZIP Codes are combined with neighboring ZIP Codes. Also, some ZIP Codes, such as ZIP Codes with only PO Boxes, are combined with the larger surrounding ZIP Codes. In the index, these ZIP Codes are listed with the ZIP Code with which they were combined. The numerical values given are for the combined group of ZIP Codes.
Why do the ZIP Code lists only go through 2009?
The information used to produce the ZIP Code lists is the most recent data available from the New York State Cancer Registry. Reporting to the Cancer Registry comes from hospitals, physicians, managed care organizations, laboratories, and other health care providers. Generally an individual is not reported to the Cancer Registry until they are discharged from the hospital. Under State law, the hospital or other health care provider has 180 days after diagnosis to report to the Cancer Registry. The North American Association of Central Cancer Registries has recognized the New York State Cancer Registry as meeting the highest standard for the timeliness of reporting.
Are the ZIP Code lists based on where a person lives (place of residence) or the hospital where they were diagnosed?
The ZIP Code lists are based on where the person lived at the time they were first diagnosed with cancer.
Why don't you provide more exact data about where people with cancer live?
By law, New York State must keep information about individuals with cancer confidential. To protect their privacy, we cannot show on a map where each person with cancer lives.
How do you know what ZIP Code a person lives in?
Information about where a person lives when they are diagnosed with cancer is usually collected from the persons' medical record. Hospitals and other medical facilities report this information to the cancer registry. Staff at the cancer registry also review the address information for completeness.
Does my chance of getting cancer increase because I live in a ZIP Code that has a higher incidence of cancer?
No. Just because you live or lived in a county or ZIP Code that has a higher incidence of cancer, you are not more likely to get cancer than someone who lives or lived in an area of lower incidence. Cancer risk depends on many things, including your lifestyle (smoking, diet), family history, and contact with cancer causing substances (sunlight, x-rays, tobacco smoke, some chemicals).
If I live in a ZIP Code that has a higher incidence of cancer, what is causing the increase? Is the environment to blame?
The cancer incidence data provided here cannot tell us that something in the environment causes cancer. Most cancers develop slowly in people. They usually appear five to 40 years after exposure to a cancer causing substance. This is called the latency period. Latency is one of the reasons it is difficult to determine what causes cancer in humans. Also, many people move several times during their life making it difficult to link exposures to cancer causing substances to where a person lives.
I am concerned that more people in my community have cancer than is usual. Where can I go for help?
The Cancer Surveillance Program in the New York State Department of Health's Center for Community Health responds to citizen concerns over cancer in communities. Over the years, we have come to realize that many people become concerned when they see a number of people being diagnosed with cancer because they are not aware of how common a disease cancer is, or that people are more likely to develop cancer as they grow older. It is also important to realize that cancer is not a single disease, but a collection of over 100 different diseases, each with its own risk factors. Of course, it is also possible that what a citizen is seeing may be an unusual occurrence of cancer, and so it is important to follow up on these reports.
If you are interested in speaking with someone from the Cancer Surveillance Program to discuss your concerns in detail, please send an e-mail to the link below. Please include in your e-mail a telephone number at which you may be reached during the day.
Are you going to provide data for other types of cancer? How about for children with cancer?
We have provided ZIP Code data for the four most common types of cancer. Together, these cancers make up over half of all the cancers among New Yorkers. We cannot provide ZIP Code data for rare types of cancer for confidentiality reasons. For example, childhood cancer is so rare even the larger ZIP Code areas will have no more than one or two children with cancer. Data on other types of cancer, including childhood cancer, is available for counties from the New York State Cancer Registry web site.


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Acceptance test driven development, or ATDD, is a collaborative practice wherein application developers, software users, and business analysts define automated acceptance criteria very early in the application development process. They then use the acceptance criteria to guide subsequent development work. As John Ferguson Smart explains in this JavaWorld feature, ATDD is a simple process change that can have far-reaching implications for your development projects.
From acceptance tests to ATDD
The idea of acceptance tests -- a set of tests that must pass before an application can be considered finished -- is certainly not new. Indeed, the value of testing an application before delivering it is relatively well established.
Traditionally, testers will prepare test plans and execute tests manually at the end of the software development phase. Acceptance testing is done relatively independent of development activities. In some organizations, QA departments also use automated testing tools such as HP's Quick Test Pro; but, again, this activity is generally siloed away from the rest of the development activity.
Testing an application after it has been developed has a number of significant drawbacks. Most importantly, having feedback about problems raised at this late stage of development makes it very difficult to correct bugs of any size. This results in costly rework, wasted developer time, and delayed deliveries.
ATDD takes a different approach. Essentially, ATDD involves collaboratively defining and automating the acceptance tests for upcoming work before it even begins -- a simple inversion that turns out to be a real game changer. Rather than validating what has been developed at the end of the development process, ATDD actively pilots the project from the start. Rather than being an activity reserved to the QA team, ATDD is a collaborative exercise that involves product owners, business analysts, testers, and developers. And rather than just testing the finished product, ATDD helps to ensure that all project members understand precisely what needs to be done, even before the programming starts.
In addition, acceptance tests are no longer cantoned to the end of the project and performed as an isolated activity. Instead, ATDD tests are automated and fully integrated throughout the development process. As a result, issues are raised faster and can be fixed more quickly and less expensively, the workload on QA at the end of the project is greatly reduced, and the team is able to respond to change faster and more effectively.
ATDD in practice
Let's consider how ATDD typically works in the context of an agile project. As a rule, a software project aims at delivering end-users with a number of high-level "features" (sometimes called functionalities or capabilities). A feature is a general value-proposition relating to something the application can do for the end-user, expressed in terms you might put on a product flyer or press release: for example, a feature of an online real-estate lease-management application might be "Manage property repairs."
Features are generally too big to implement all at once, so they are broken into smaller, more manageable chunks. In agile circles, these chunks are often expressed in the form of user stories -- a short sentence capturing what the user wants from a particular piece of functionality. For example, user stories for the "Manage property repairs" feature might include "Issue work order" and "Approve invoice."
A user story cannot stand alone, however; it is merely the promise of a conversation between developers and users about a particular requirement. The details about what needs to be implemented will arise from this conversation. It will then be formalized as a set of objective, demonstrable acceptance criteria. For example, you would need to specify acceptance criteria for "user can approve an invoice for an amount less than the agreed maximum" and "user cannot approve an invoice if the price exceeds the agreed maximum."
Acceptance criteria determine when a particular user story is ready to be deployed into production. But they do much more than record what should be tested at the end of an iteration. Acceptance criteria are drawn up as a collaborative exercise, at the start of the iteration, with developers, testers, and product owners involved. As a result, they help ensure that everyone on the team has a clear vision of what is required. They also help provide clear guidelines for developers as to what needs to be implemented. (These guidelines are even more effective if the developers doing the programming are practicing Test Driven Development, or TDD.)
ATDD and TDD
TDD, or Test-Driven Development, is a highly effective development strategy that helps developers write code more accurately and precisely. The low-level requirements used to drive TDD are directly derived from the high-level acceptance tests, so the two techniques complement each other: automated acceptance tests describe the high level business objectives, while TDD helps developers implement them as requirements.
Note that acceptance criteria are not designed to be exhaustive -- there will be more technical tests for that. Instead, they are used as much for communication as they are for verification. They take the form of working examples, which is why ATDD is sometimes referred to as "specification by example."
Acceptance-test driven development is not just limited to agile projects. Even teams using more formal and detailed use cases, or more traditional approaches such as the Software Requirements Specification (or SRS) documents, can benefit from having verifiable, automated acceptance criteria as early as possible.
Automating your acceptance tests
A key part of acceptance criteria is that they are automated. They are not simply stored in a Word document or Excel spreadsheet, but are living, executable tests. This is important -- for ATDD to be effective, the automated acceptance tests need to be run automatically whenever a change is made to the source code. So it is vitally important to have a tool that will integrate smoothly into your build process, and that can be run on your build server with no human intervention.
Automated acceptance tests not only serve to test the application: they also provide an objective measurement of progress (in agile projects, working software is considered to be the only true measure of progress). The tests can also give an idea of the relative complexity of each feature and story, because a functionality that is long and complicated to test is likely to also be long and complicated to develop. This in turn can give a useful heads-up to product owners needing to set priorities.
Although you certainly can write automated acceptance tests using conventional unit testing tools such as TestNG, there are a number of dedicated ATDD tools. These tools are focused as much on communication and feedback as they are on testing.
ATDD tools
ATDD is more an approach than a toolset, but there are a number of tools that can make things easier.
FitNesse is one of the earliest ATDD tools. Using FitNesse, users enter their requirements in tabular form in a Wiki, and developers write code behind the scenes to run the test data stored in the Wiki against the actual application. When the tests are executed, the table will be colored according to whether the tests succeeded or failed. FitNesse is very useful when your acceptance test criteria can be expressed in terms of tables of data and expected results, although it is also used to express acceptance tests as a series of steps.
More recently, other tools have emerged that support Behaviour-Driven Development, or BDD. This technique encourages developers to think in terms of the behaviour of an application, and to express their low-level technical requirements using a narrative approach. Cucumber is a popular tool from the Ruby community, that allows you to express your acceptance criteria using the "given-when-then" structure commonly used in agile projects. It is also easy to use Cucumber with Java. JBehave uses a similar approach, with stories expressed in text files and tests written using annotated Java classes. Easyb is a similar tool based on the Groovy language.
Concordion is another more recent ATDD tool. In Concordion, acceptance tests are expressed in the form of HTML pages containing free-form text and tables. Java classes are then used to analyze special tags placed in these pages, in order to execute and display the results in HTML form.
All of these tools place a high emphasis on readability and communication. Listing 1 illustrates how one of the earlier acceptance criteria might be expressed using Easyb:
Listing 1. A user scenario in Easyb
scenario User can approve an invoice for an amount less than the agreed maximum"
given "the User has selected an open invoice",
and "the User has chosen to approve the invoice",
and "the invoice amount is less than the agreed maximum amount",
when "the User completes the action",
then "the invoice should be successfully approved",
Once the acceptance criteria are defined in this way, the corresponding test code can then be written in more conventional programming languages such as Java, Groovy, and Ruby.
In addition to showcasing Easyb, this code snip shows the communication focus of ATDD tools. Automated acceptance criteria are expressed in high-level terms that makes sense to business managers as much as to software engineers and programmers. Most ATDD tools also generate reports that express the test results in familiar business terms. Tests that have been written in this way, but with no backing test code, will be marked as "pending." At the start of an iteration, all of the acceptance criteria will be in this state. As development progresses, the next step will be to implement them, which is where the actual code that tests the application is written. So these reports not only tell you what tests pass and fail, they also provide a way to track the progress of your project, by indicating what work remains to be done.
Taking a slightly broader perspective, automated acceptance tests are like any other automated tests -- they should be stored in your version control system and executed periodically on your Continuous Integration server (at least on a nightly basis, but preferably whenever a change is made to the application source code). Getting fast feedback when acceptance tests fail is essential. You can also configure your CI server to publish the results of the acceptance tests where they can be easily consulted by non-developers. Fortunately, modern CI tools such as Jenkins integrate well with virtually all of the common BDD tools.
Automating acceptance tests for web applications
When it comes to implementing ATDD for a web application, a wide range of open source and commercial tools are available. Given this wide range, choosing your tool with care is important; it can mean the difference between a set of automated acceptance tests that is easy to maintain in the future, and one that quickly becomes unusable due to prohibitive maintenance costs.
Modern automated web testing tools, both commercial and open source, fall into three categories:
- Record/Replay
- Script-based
- Page Objects
Record/Replay tools, such Selenium IDE and JAutomate, let a user step through a web application, recording the user's actions as a test script. While tempting in its simplicity, this approach is in fact a poor strategy. The low-level scripts generated by these tools are fragile and hard to maintain. For example, there is no reuse of testing logic between scripts, which makes maintaining the scripts very costly.
Script-based testing is a slightly more flexible strategy. Tools such as Selenium, Watir, Canoo WebTest, and the commercial Quick Test Pro fall into this category. Tests are written in a programming language such as Java, Ruby, or VBScript. However this strategy is still quite low-level, focusing on the technical details of the web tests rather than the business requirements that they are testing. It also requires strong discipline and structure to avoid duplication within the scripts. Again, this tends to make tests more fragile and harder to maintain.
Good automated acceptance tests should be high level, expressed in business terms. They need to isolate the "what" from the "how." Doing so ensures that, if the implementation details for a particular screen should change, the changes would only minimally affect the low-level test code, and not the high-level tests. Ideally, you want to maintain a level of abstraction between what a web page does in business terms ("Approve an invoice"), and how it does it ("click the invoice in the invoice list, wait for the details to appear, then click on the Approve button").


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How can online instructors and course designers' instruction harness the popular Web 2.0 tool, the wiki, for successful collaboration and learning outcomes? This book focuses on using wikis in the active learning processes that are the hallmark of collaborative learning and constructivism. It provides both the pedagogical background and practical guidelines, tools, and processes for accomplishing these goals with special emphasis on wikis and other collaborative design tools. This book supports the effective design and delivery of online courses through the integration of collaborative writing and design activities.Resources Provide links to useful tools, such as online calculators and virtual lab instruments. Provide ... Integrate publisher-provided and online multimedia into your virtual lab manuals. Look for ... TeacherTube Science Channel. Available at anbsp;...
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Early this year Panasonic introduced the successor of the FZ5: the Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ7 digital camera. Besides the upgrade from 5 to 6 Megapixels, the Panasonic Lumix FZ7 is equipped with several extra settings. The entire camera has in fact undergone a small facelift. The 1.8 inch monitor, for instance, has been replaced by a large format 2.5 inch display. The avid movie fan will be pleased to see a VGA (640x480 pixels) video and 16:9 function. Improvements have also been made to the housing; which is more streamlined and has somewhat rounder corners. Compared to its predecessor, it is even slightly larger.
Panasonic FZ7 - 12x optical zoom
Panasonic DMC FZ7 digital camera is equipped with 6.0 Megapixel CCD and Leica DC Vario-Elmarit lens offering 12x optical zoom (equivalent to 36mm to 432mm on a 35mm film camera) with aperture of F2.8 to F3.3. The combination of three aspherical lenses, the crystallization of Panasonic's optics technology, generates high optical performance while preserving the compactness of the unit. The zoom ratio can be extended up to 16.5x in the 3 Megapixel recording thanks to the Extra Optical Zoom function with minimal deterioration, by intentionally using the center part of the CCD. The zoom range can be totally extended to 66x when combined with 4x digital zoom.
Panasonic DMC FZ7 - Venus Engine II image processor
The engine, or the brain, driving high picture quality and quick response of the camera is once again the leading-edge image processing LSI Venus Engine II. It corrects the chromatic aberration that tends to occur at edges especially in telephoto shooting and peripheral vignetting to render a beautiful image in detail. An industry-leading release time lag of 0.008 sec minimum and shutter interval of approx. 0.5 sec minimum, allowing you to precisely capture your target subject. What's more, consecutive shooting performance boasts the capability of sequential shots at a rate of max. three frames per sec at full resolution. An unlimited consecutive shooting function allows you to take photos in succession until the memory card is full.
Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ7 - Allround digital camera
The compact Panasonic FZ7 has a lot going for it, and should be able to draw in even photographers with high demands by offering a great deal of flexibility. There are plenty of settings that enable the user to unleash his creativity, yet at the same time the camera preserves its low entry-level, which makes it both easy to operate and accessible. Its features ensure the camera can be used for all-round purposes. Thanks to the expansion of its ISO values, (the camera now comes with a highest value of ISO 1600), and the combination with the MEGA O.I.S. (optical image stabiliser), many obstacles can be overcome.
Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ7 review
All in all, enough information to arouse curiosity for the ins and outs of the Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ7 digital camera. The camera comes in two colours: black and silver. We preferred the black housing, and have subjected the camera to a considerable share of tests in practice. Just how the camera performed can be read in the following
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Why and How I Stopped Trying to Control Everything in My Life
When I was a kid, I'd freak at the smallest little thing going wrong. I don't know exactly what made me this way, but I was a huge ball of anxiety all the time. I had chronic insomnia and an erratic sleep schedule. I had digestive trouble and worried about anything and everything all the time. I thought everything had to be "perfect," and I held myself and others to that impossible standard for the better part of my childhood and onward. It didn't make for the most pleasant experience of life, but I honestly didn't see it as much of a problem until I was a teenager and started to see my how lack of flexibility negatively impacted my relationships with others.
Right around my teens, I also started to have more relationships with other people who were similarly inflexible, and I started to understand how miserable it felt to be on the receiving end of such rigid expectations. I started trying to be more mindful of how other people might feel about the expectations I placed on them, and relaxed them just a bit.
My quest to be more flexible continued into college. I first heard the term "locus of control" in a college business class, which changed the way I saw things. According to psychcentral, "A person with an internal locus of control believes that he or she can influence events and their outcomes, while someone with an external locus of control blames outside forces for everything." It made me wonder if I could become a person who believed I had some influence on my life, and whether I could stop feeling so out of control in my life if I changed my perspective.
Then I took a yoga class in college, which helped me to become that person with an internal locus of control. Through yoga, I learned mindfulness and breathing techniques that helped calm my anxiety. I learned how to listen to my body, and to pay attention to how certain situations or conversations affected me. Rather than looking outward to feel a sense of control, I began to seek my peace inwardly. I started to pay attention to how I was feeling, and connecting with myself helped me to stop imagining I was being slighted by everyone.
I did yoga regularly for a couple years, and I saw that I was able to release stress or worries in class. The simple act of focusing on my breath for five or ten minutes at a time produced a sense of peace and calm in me that I hadn't really experienced before. After a while, I found myself feeling more at ease with life, even when things weren't really wonderful. I began to have more empathy for others and more understanding of what others might be going through.
As a kid, I didn't feel in control of anything. I couldn't wait to be an adult and live under my own rules, to have a house of my own that could be my sanctuary from the world. When I grew a little older and left home, I started finding a peace I never thought I'd have. Through learning yoga, mindfulness, and active listening, I started finding that sanctuary. Consequently, I found myself being less and less reactive. I became more flexible and willing to "go with the flow," which I found was greatly appreciated by bosses and friends, and I felt my relationships with others greatly improved because of this newfound ability to not allow mistakes or mishaps to completely crush me.
It's been several years since I started intentionally and consciously changing my perspective on life. Though I've come a long way, I still often have trouble letting go of the need to be "perfect." More often than not, though, I'm okay with "good enough," and I think that's just fine. I'm a lot happier in my daily life, and because I'm more able to let go of the small things, I'm more able to focus on the bigger issues that matter to me.
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Gunmen kill Egyptian general, ousted president defiant at trial
Gunmen on a motorbike killed a senior Egyptian Interior Ministry official outside his home in Cairo on Tuesday, putting pressure on the military-backed government as it struggles to contain an Islamist insurgency.
The death of General Mohamed Saeed, head of the technical office of the minister of interior, suggested militants were stepping up their campaign against the state at a delicate time in Egyptian politics.
Army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who toppled president Mohamed Mursi in July, is expected to announce his candidacy for the same post in the coming days, a move that will anger the Muslim Brotherhood to which Mursi belonged.
"This is a sign of things to come. Sisi probably running for president is just going to deepen the existing hostility between the army and Islamists," said Anna Boyd, risk analyst at IHS Jane's in London.
The Brotherhood accuses Sisi of staging a coup that has undermined democratic gains made since an uprising ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011. Hundreds of its supporters were killed in clashes with security forces across Egypt in August.
In the violence since Mursi was toppled, hundreds of members of the security forces have also been killed.
Saeed's assassination came hours before Mursi appeared at a courthouse set up at a Cairo police academy to face charges of kidnapping and killing policemen after a jailbreak during the uprising.
Mursi, who faces charges in three other cases, was not allowed to freely scream slogans against Sisi and the army-backed government, as he did in previous court sessions.
This time he was held in a glass cage with a sound system controlled by the court, another example of the crackdown on dissent which has drawn criticism from human rights groups.
At one point Mursi said he was still the legitimate president of Egypt, and asked the judiciary not to engage in political revenge.
Screaming at the judge, he said: "Who are you? Don't you know who I am?"
"I am the chief of Egypt's Criminal Court," replied the judge. At other times Mursi, in a white training suit, paced in his cage.
Other Brotherhood leaders, held in a separate glass cage, waved to people in the courtroom.
A list of 132 defendants published by state media indicated some were Palestinians still on the run. Egyptian authorities accuse the Palestinian militant group Hamas of helping Brotherhood leaders escape from the jail.
They also say Hamas has provided funding for Egyptian militant groups based in Sinai who have claimed bombing and shooting attacks like the one on Tuesday.
The Interior Ministry confirmed Saeed's killing. He was an aide to Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim, who survived an assassination attempt last year.
Economic Slide
Political violence has hit the economy hard in Egypt, which is of strategic importance because of its peace treaty with Israel and control of the Suez Canal.
Billions of dollars from Gulf Arab states which poured in after Mursi was toppled have kept the economy afloat in the face of street protests, even though tourism revenue, a main source of foreign currency, sank by 41 percent to $5.9 billion in 2013.
Millions of Egyptians are believed to be employed in the industry, once making their living driving taxis or selling souvenirs, though that money has largely dried up since tourists stopped coming in droves over the past three years of upheaval.
Frequent bombings by Islamists, which get widespread news coverage, could greatly reduce the chances of a recovery.
Militant groups based in the largely lawless Sinai Peninsula have killed hundreds of police and soldiers since Mursi's downfall, but the Islamist insurgency appears to be taking root beyond the region that borders Israel and the Gaza Strip.
It took autocrat Hosni Mubarak several years to end an Islamist insurgency in the 1990s.
Egyptian authorities make no distinction between the Brotherhood, which says it is a peaceful movement, and al Qaeda-inspired Islamist militants in the Sinai.
"Knowing who is doing what, and who is cooperating with whom, is still a big question facing security authorities in Egypt," said Gamal Soltan, who teaches political science at the American University in Cairo.
Last week, six people were killed in a wave of bomb attacks targeting policemen in Cairo. And a Sinai-based militant group brought down an army helicopter with a missile, killing five soldiers.
While Egyptians see Sisi as a strong leader who can crush militancy, his biggest challenge may be to support the economy.
Egypt's central bank has burned through at least $20 billion - roughly half its reserves - supporting the local currency since the 2011 uprising.
[Source: By Michael Georgy, Reuters, Cairo, 28Jan14]
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