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Most common data modeling errors
I will describe mistakes that development teams may make in an application development project during development and implementation of a logical and physical data model. I have encountered these situations many times over the last 13 years (and even made some of them myself in the earlier years). The goal of the article is to allow you to learn from other people's experiences and increase the chances of success on the first try. My experience has been concentrated on Oracle databases, so most of the recommendations deal with techniques you can use with Oracle.
Even though many of the recommendations will seem obvious, you may recognize your own projects in some of these mistakes. But perhaps it will be comforting to know that you are in good company, as these errors are far too common, even though Oracle and other relational database systems have been available for years.
Oracle is a sophisticated relational database management system that supports complex data structures. While there is enormous flexibility in building a data model, many of the options in the Data Definition Language (DDL) have default choices, which encourages the temptation to just "build it and go," focusing exclusively on the logical functionality of the application without planning for the physical operation of the database. However, the complexities also require some planning in advance, to allow the application to perform adequately as it scales up to thousands of users, millions of records, or hundreds of gigabytes of storage. The following table summarizes common mistakes and the problems that they can cause.
|Benefit of Correct Action
|Failure to address long-term growth.
|Chronic space shortages.
DBAs in constant reaction mode.
Expense of acquiring storage space.
|Predictable cost for storage space.
Space is available before it is needed.
Time for maintenance tasks (backup, recovery, upgrade) can be predicted and scheduled.
|No routine way to clean out old data.
|Unbounded growth of old data.
Expense of acquiring storage space.
Degrading performance over time.
Difficulty dealing with ad hoc deletions on massive scale.
Excessive production of redo logs; recovery time increases.
|Reduced cost of storage space.
Efficient methods for discarding old data.
Predictable steady-state operation.
|Overuse of synthetic keys.
|Minor to moderate
|Server maintains unnecessary index.
Insert transactions serialize on unnecessary sequence generator.
|Improved performance of high-insert transactions.
|Inadequate planning of indexes.
|Moderate to major
|Server wastes time and space maintaining unnecessary indexes.Suboptimal query plans.
|Improved performance.
Failure to Address Long-term Growth
Logically, all that is needed to construct a data model is CREATE TABLE, CREATE INDEX, and other related commands. Using these commands, your logical entities become your physical tables, and you're done with the data model, right? But operations that work fine on small tables may perform inadequately when a table grows to production size. I have seen many databases for which someone just created tablespaces with a few gigabytes, and then created the tables and indexes; then these creators had to deal with endless crises as they found that the tablespaces were not big enough. Such crises are even more acute when solving that space shortage involves buying more disk drives, since the procurement and installation of disk is rarely fast enough to solve a crisis.
To avoid this, you must focus more attention on the physical storage of large tables during the design of the data model.
- Estimate both the size of the table and its long-term growth pattern. Extreme precision is not required, but the estimate should be based on the actual needs of the table. A table exists to store some real-world information, so use the underlying business needs of the table to produce a simple model (perhaps in a spreadsheet) estimating the number of rows. The business domain experts should provide input to this process. How many customers, clients, or patients will there be? How will the population grow over time? How many accounts, orders, bills, payments, and so on, will a typical customer have over time? How many detailed records with there be on average for a given parent key? How long will information be retained? Answering these questions may be difficult in the case of a new business or application, but frequently there is enough experience in the business to provide at least a crude estimate (of course, it is better to err on the high side than the low side).
- Estimate the physical size of the tables. Again, extreme precision is not required, but the result should be based on reality. Something as simple as the sum of average column lengths times the number of rows, plus some overhead for PCTFREE, will yield at least a reasonable order of magnitude. Obviously, if the database already exists, then the actual tables can be used as an accurate gauge of the storage needs, though one should still extrapolate growth into the future.
- Don't forget to estimate the physical size of the indexes. This is more difficult than estimating table sizes, because the actual size can depend on how compactly Oracle stores keys in non-leaf blocks. But even a crude estimate is better than none at all. A good starting point would be the average length of indexed columns times the number of rows, plus some overhead for PCTFREE. For bitmap indexes, a good estimate would be the number of unique values of the indexed column times the number of rows divided by bits per block. A word of caution: in my experience, indexes may consume up to twice as much space as these simple models would predict. You have to try it on your database to know for sure.
- Use this information to estimate the need for disk space both now and several years in the future. It is not really helpful to know a table's current size if it is going to triple in size in the next three years. Modeling the growth will allow the DBA to construct tablespaces of adequate size without having to react to ever more critical shortages of space. It also allows you to allocate adequate time for maintenance activities such as backups or upgrades, since the time required for these activities is proportional to the size of the database. It may also reveal that a table needs to be archived or cleaned out on a regular basis.
- During development, validate the predictions by comparing predicted bytes per row with the actual row sizes of the tables and indexes in the development or test environments, and adjust the prediction model accordingly. This is especially important for the indexes, for which actual space usage may differ from the predictions by as much as a factor of two.
No Routine Way to Clean Out Old Data
Some parts of your data will be dated, and will have a limited lifetime depending on the needs of the business. Perhaps the business needs to keep orders or payments online for three years, and user activity logs for the last three months. Frequently, programmers will focus on the routine operation of an application, and will pay great attention to the modules that insert the new records. But the application itself takes no specific action to "expire" the old data, so no one is concerned with doing this efficiently, if at all. Naturally, this leads to unbounded growth. On a large table, this can be a disaster. When there is no plan for cleaning out old data, database operations people will typically respond to emergency shortages of space either by scrambling to delete huge numbers of rows or by adding space on an ad hoc basis, neither of which are good long-term solutions.
In Oracle, the DELETE operation is intended for online transaction support, and as such it is most efficient only for small numbers of rows. For every row deleted, the table and index blocks containing the row must be read, recorded in a rollback segment, modified, written to the redo logs, and written back to the disk. All this disk I/O is essential for integrity of the database (which is of course why you are using Oracle anyway), but it is not efficient for large-scale clean-out from a big table. Furthermore, the amount of rollback and redo produced will increase the number log archives and thus increase the time required to recover from a backup.
Oracle's solution to this problem is range partitioning, first introduced in version 8.0. A range-partitioned table is physically separated into many different partitions, and Oracle automatically adds rows to a particular partition based on the value of a specific column in the row (called the partition key). Each partition accepts values in a specific range (hence the name), and the ranges of the partitions are consecutive and non-overlapping. There are many advantages to partitioning large tables, including the following:
- All rows in a given range can be eliminated with a single small, efficient DDL transaction by simply dropping or truncating a partition.
- For queries that have a condition limiting the value of the partition key, such as partition key BETWEEN :lower_bound AND :upper_bound, the query optimizer can skip partitions that will have no matching rows, reducing I/O required to process the query, an operation known as partition pruning.
- Maintenance operations can proceed on individual partitions while the rest of the table is still available to support users.
More details about partitioning can be found in chapter 11 of Oracle 9i Database Concepts and chapter 17 of Oracle 9i Database Administrator's Guide, including specifics on how to set up and managed partitioned tables.
In order to reap the benefits of partitioning, several choices must be made in advance:
- Which column to use as the partition key.
- Which intervals to use as the partition ranges.
- Whether to partition the indexes, and if so, how to do so.
- When to add new partitions and drop old ones.
There are plenty of resources to advise on these decisions, so I'll not cover them in detail here. The main point to remember is that partitioning is by far the most efficient way to deal with large tables that must be cleaned out on a regular basis.
Overuse of Synthetic Keys
As you know, the primary key of a table is a set of one or more attributes such that every row in the table has a unique value. When these attributes are things that the business uses routinely, the key is called a "natural key." Examples could include Social Security numbers, vehicle identification numbers, customer or patient IDs, account numbers, and so on. However, sometimes a table has no obvious natural key, or the natural key has many columns. Database designers frequently create a key using a sequence generator. This is called a "synthetic key," because it serves the purpose of a primary key but has no real meaning to the business. Some database designers and reference materials use the term, "surrogate key."
I have seen data models in which every table in the whole schema was keyed by synthetic keys. While there are valid reasons to use a synthetic key, it is going overboard to extend the practice to every table in a data model, for these reasons:
- There are tables for which a synthetic key simply serves no purpose. The primary key index is a waste of space, and the server must waste time updating the index during inserts and deletes. One example would be a table of log entries; it probably does not need a key at all. Another example would be the detail table in a master/detail relationship. Detail records are typically fetched by the master key; there is little benefit in giving the detail rows their own synthetic key.
- Simultaneous transactions that insert new rows must serialize on the sequence generator as they each take turns getting new key values. If there are dozens or hundreds of such transactions running in parallel, as in an OLTP system, then such serializing will limit performance. (Sequence caching can mitigate this serializing effect in Oracle Parallel Server or Oracle Real Application Cluster, but it does not help at all on a single-instance database.)
So when should you use a synthetic key? I have encountered these situations for which a synthetic key was useful:
- The natural key is something that might change over time, such as a car's license number. A synthetic key can remain fixed while the other attributes change.
- The natural key has many columns, and there are many places in your application where a program must fetch a single row by key value. A synthetic key would allow the application to identify a row by only one value.
- The natural key has many columns, and the table is the target of foreign references. It is generally impractical to repeat all of the natural key columns in the child tables; a synthetic key allows you to create foreign references with just one column.
You may find other reasons for using a synthetic key. But rather than habitually defining a synthetic key for every table, it is a good idea to make sure that the benefit of a single-column key outweighs the cost of indexing and the cost of generating sequence numbers.
Inadequate Planning for Indexes
One of the most challenging tasks in creating a logical data model is to decide which columns to include in indexes. Unfortunately, there are no magic criteria that are guaranteed to tell you which indexes need to exist and which ones don't, but there are some rules of thumb that can serve as a starting point. These generally require a decent understanding of the way the tables will be accessed by the application programs, report programs, and (if possible) ad hoc analysis. It is beyond the scope of this article to explore all of the situations for which an index is a good or a bad idea. The Oracle9i Application Developer's Guide — Fundamentals has some very good advice in a section titled, "Indexing the Correct Tables and Columns," in chapter 5.
So why did I bring this up in a discussion of common mistakes? Because in many cases developers are tempted to apply simple rules of thumb globally across the entire data model without any consideration of whether the resulting indexes are really useful or not.
Foreign Key Indexes
Some data modeling tools have options to create indexes on all foreign keys, and some developers may be tempted just to turn on that option. After all, the rule of thumb says to index columns that are used in joins, right? In reality, a foreign key index is useful only if at least one of the following is true:
- When a query plan in your application starts by fetching rows in the parent table, and then fetches rows in the child table by way of the foreign key, then an index on that foreign key will help. Note that the join order and the search method are both important; if the plan starts with the child table first, or uses a full scan of the child table, or uses a different index on the child table's primary key, your foreign key index is not helping.
- When your application deletes rows in the parent table, or updates key columns in the parent table, Oracle can use the foreign key index on the child table to enforce the foreign key constraint.
If neither of these situations apply, then indexing the foreign key is a waste of space and time. Furthermore, if the foreign key is the first column of the child table, then a separate index on just the foreign key would be redundant, and hence totally unnecessary.
Low-cardinality Columns
For low-cardinality columns, if you really need an index, you might consider using a bitmap index, since bitmap indexes have many benefits when dealing with low-cardinality columns. (See Oracle 9i Concepts for a thorough discussion of bitmap indexes.) However, because a single block in a bitmap index can contain thousands of rows, concurrency can be a problem during inserts or deletes. The only way to know for sure is to try a realistic benchmark with and without the index.
Order of Indexed Columns
The order of the columns in the index can also affect its usefulness, though this is less of an issue with the new skip-scanning feature of Oracle 9i. Generally speaking, columns that are high-cardinality (i.e., have many distinct values in the table) and are used in the WHERE clauses should generally be first in the index. The idea is to allow the query processor to find the rows you want by searching as few blocks as possible.
To understand this concept, consider a telephone book as an analogy. The entries are sorted by last name, first name, street name, and house number. When you are searching for a person by last name, the alphabetical organization allows you to proceed to the correct line very quickly. But it does not help at all if you are searching by street name, the third field in the sort order. Instead, you would need a book where street name is the primary sort field.
Reviewing Index Definitions
During development, it is important to figure out which indexes you will and will not need. Do not defer this activity until production deployment.
- Determine indexes you need by checking the query plans for important queries that your application uses. Make sure the indexes are adequate to support those queries.
- Determine indexes you don't need by using Oracle 9i's new index monitoring feature, which can find unused indexes for you. See the ALTER INDEX command in Oracle 9i SQL Reference for the specifics on how to enable this feature. For this to be useful, your application must be running under realistic conditions that exercise all of the features that will be employed in production.
The only purposes for indexes are to enforce constraints (primary key, unique, and foreign key) and to improve query performance. Any index that does not do one of these two things wastes space, and wastes the server's time during DML operations.
You may have noticed that this discussion of indexes does not have many hard-and-fast rules that will tell you that a given index is or is not a good idea. But the main point of this piece is that you cannot apply such rules indiscriminately; you must test your database to verify that useful indexes exist and useless ones don't.
We have seen a number of problems that a database project can encounter when developers focus exclusively on the logical functionality of a database without planning for performance or space management. Taking the time to plan for these problems during development can help you avoid crises in production, and avoid the time and expense of reorganizing your database later to repair the problems.
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Well nothing new to post, but need to keep up with the blog! Here's an old shot from Menindee Lakes in NSW last year. Dead trees in a lake..tripod a foot deep in mud… lots of fun!
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Very nice. The colours in it are simply stunning. Looks like a fantastic place
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Are shows starring adults meaningfully different from those starring teenagers? Are shows set in college meaningfully different from those set in middle or high school? I ask because I see this distinction made all the time, but generally it doesn't seem meaningfully different outside of a setting/character-appearance sense.
They certainly ought to be! Adults, college-age people, and teenagers all have different central concerns, different degrees of experience, different manners of speaking – if characters are written so that they're actually reflective of their experiences, shows about adults should naturally be fundamentally different from shows about teenagers. Plus, characters aside, there are many themes and narrative focuses that make the distinction particularly relevant. For example, Samurai Flamenco is very clearly a show about the disconnect between youthful ideals and adult realities – so yes, it wouldn't really work as a show about teenagers. Cowboy Bebop is similar – its themes are echoes of those found in films like Seven Samurai, the story of the old soldier trying to find purpose in a world that has moved past him. That pretty much necessitates adult characters. And that of course works in the other direction, as well – Evangelion would be a very different show if Shinji weren't a deeply insecure teenager, and FLCL is pretty much entirely about puberty and adolescence in general. Some of my favorites are master classes in this – Eccentric Family, for example, thoughtfully portrays the very different concerns of characters ranging from early adolescence through old age, all of which reflects on its themes of living well, family, and responsibility.
Granted, many shows don't write characters that seem believably reflective of their experiences, and when you combine that with shows focused wholly on something like action or comedy (things that don't necessarily reflect on the grounded circumstances of those characters' lives), you can get situations where the characters' age isn't a meaningful distinction. But most of the time it really should be.


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New Honda Jazz Teased; Launching Soon
The long wait for the much-anticipated new-generation Honda Jazz is finally going to get over soon, as the company has now kick-started the online marketing campaign for the car. Today, the company has teased a short video of the car that ends up saying 'Coming Soon'. The same video also appears on the company's official website. The video shows design bits of the new-gen model including the front, rear and side profile.
Designed on Honda's 'Exciting H Design', the new-gen model of the hatchback looks sportier, sleeker and bolder than the discontinued model. The vehicle, now, has global Civic-like horizontally stretched head-lamps, new grille and all new bumper with large air-vents. The rear, too, receives new tail-lamps, new bumper and few other changes, though it still looks quite similar to the old model. The side profile, on the other hand, looks more aggressive than before thanks to prominent creases, new alloy wheels and wing mirrors. In short, as against the old model's mini MPV like look, the new -gen model looks a proper hatchback.
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The vehicle might be made available in three engine options – 1.2-litre i-VTEC petrol, 1.5-litre i-VTEC petrol and 1.5-litre i-DTEC diesel. While the 1.2-litre i-VTEC petrol mill is the same that powered the old model, the other two – 1.5-litre petrol & diesel – do duty on the Honda City. Upon its launch, the Jazz is expected to become one of the most powerful and fuel-efficient vehicles in its league.
The last generation model was always praised for its interior quality, spaciousness and design, and the new model is expected to be even better in all the three departments. Though the seats of the car will be similar to the old model, the extended wheelbase will provide more knee-room and legroom to the passengers. The boot space too is expected to be best-in-class.


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Part C - Return of the Group Mind? Social Identity and Shared Intentionality
The current debate on the structure of collective intentionality is haunted by the specter of the group mind. Its importance in this debate seems to stem from a rather innocentlooking assumption. It seems plausible to assume that wherever there is intentionality, there has to be somebody who 'has' it. If it is further claimed that there is such a thing as collective intentionality and that collective intentionality has to be distinguished from individual intentionality, the conclusion imposes itself that it has to be not the single individuals but the collectives that 'have it'. From here it is just a short step to the group mind, because for collectives to have intentions, some sort of a 'collective mind' seems to be required, something hovering over and above the mind of the individuals. For its collectivist connotation, particularly because it seems incompatible with a commonsensical notion of intentional autonomy, this idea does not look very appealing.
Current Issues
By some of the leading proponents of collective intentionality analysis, any appeal to the group mind is therefore directly and unambiguously rejected (Searle calls it "a perfectly dreadful metaphysical excrescence"; Searle 1998, 150; cf. also Bratman 111; 122f.). Other proponents seem to advocate a more moderate strategy. Tuomela points out the possibility of incorporating some "modernized version" of the group mind in his account (Tuomela 1995, p. 231), and Margaret Gilbert, though far from giving this a mentalistic reading, makes some version of the collective subject the label of her entire theory (Plural Subject Theory). Still other contributors even seem to endorse the existence of "Groups with Minds of Their Own", to quote the title of an influential paper by Philip Pettit (1993), or the existence (or at least the conceptual possibility) of collective personhood (Rovane 1998).
Research Questions
Against the background of this apparent resurgence of a vocabulary that has been shunned for its collectivist (and even totalitarian) connotations, this third part of the project will address three issues.
- Firstly, the numerous variations of concepts of the group minds, collective persons, and collective subjects shall be examined, which phenomenologists such as Edmund Husserl, Max Scheler (and in a particular sense Martin Heidegger) have put forth at various times and places of their work, and which – with the exception of the case of Heidegger – are conspicuously absent in the later interpretations of the work of these philosophers. Especially in the case of Husserl, an analysis of the use of these concepts (which extended over a vast period of his later work) seems urgently needed, and might turn out to be of great importance to the current debate. An inventory of these and related concepts in the works of these philosophers and a rough overview of its development shall be sketched, and the reasons that led these philosophers to endorse the group mind (and other phenomenologists to reject any such idea – cf., e.g., Schütz [1957] 1971, 114f.) shall be analyzed.
- Secondly, the question of whether emotional states can be attributed to collectives shall be addressed. In what sense can collectives be the subject or "bearers" of emotions and feelings, andwhat is the relation to the emotions and feelings of the participating individuals?
- Thirdly, the concept of "social identity" shall be examined. In a relatively uncontroversial core sense of the word, a given individual's social identities are determined by whatever makes this individual a member of the groups to which she or he belongs. The standard view in the current debate is that the conceptual core of "collective identity" lies in some reflexive self-ascribed team-membership on the side of the participating individuals (cf., e.g., Abrams/Hogg 1990, 2ff.; Emcke 2000, 204ff.; Tamir 1996, 176ff.; Matthiesen 2003). This view, however, leads into difficulties, as can be learned from early phenomenological thought on social identity. Thus Simon L. Frank, whose significance for the phenomenology of the social world is often overlooked, has forcefully argued that an understanding of team membership in terms of the reflective attitudes of the individuals leads back into the very "atomism" from which departure is sought (Frank [1930] 2002, 130ff.).
The question is: how can these difficulties be avoided? In some places of his work, Martin Heidegger remarks that the reflective identification from the side of the individuals might completely miss or distort Dasein's sociality (cf. Heidegger [1934] 1982, 53; 55). Some phenomenologists and existential philosophers – particularly Sartre with his concept of "le "'nous'-sujet" (Sartre [1943] 1991, 465ff.), and Dietrich von Hildebrand in his Metaphysik der Gemeinschaft (1930), have put forward pre-reflective notion of sharedness or togetherness which revolve largely around the notion of shared intentionality.
The central questions to be addressed in this part of the project are the following: What is the role of group mind concepts (and related ideas) in the current debate on collective intentionality and in early phenomenology and existential philosophy? Does the claim that groups can "have" emotions involve the group mind? Are there arguments for the assumption of a group mind or for related assumptions, particularly in the theory of social identities?


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We went away last week for our honeymoon/first anniversary trip. I didn't temp during the week, but tracked cm, cp and did a couple of OPKs when EWCM showed up early (and in the best quality I've seen since coming off of the pill last spring). I had O twinges on Thursday evening as well. EWCM dropped off fast. The cp pattern did what it was supposed to do too. All signs look like they point to a successful ovulation.
We got back Friday night, and I assumed that Saturday morning I would see my shift upon temping again. I didn't. I wondered if it might take an extra day - it only was .1 degree higher today than it was yesterday morning.
Ashley has mentioned that the cover line I have can't technically be used because I missed a week of temperatures. We went to Mexico, so we were on CST during the trip and are back on EST at home which means there's an hour discrepancy. Could my body clock be off still, even though I didn't record any temperatures while we were on CST/it's been a couple of days? The weather is also about 15 degrees cooler here both in the daytime and overnight than it was on vacation. We slept with the windows open Friday and last night too, and it's getting to low 60s at night.
I guess my question is, is the lack of temperature shift indicative that I didn't actually O, or is it likely/possible that all of the issues surrounding travel, time change, environmental temperature shifts, etc. could cover up a normal shift? I was so excited that everything seemed to happen earlier and more clearly than I expected, and the lack of shift since we got back has really thrown me for a loop.
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This Bloomin' Love Small Glimmer Hearts Valentine is fun to make with our beautiful Glimmer Paper! But what if you want some colored glimmer hearts? It's easy to color the Silver or Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper.
To make these little colored hearts, I cut a strip of Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper into a strip and then colored areas of the paper the colors I wanted to use. To color the paper, I used a bit of ink refill in the lid of the ink pad (or whatever ink was already there – you can squeeze the lid before you open the ink pad and if it is juicy enough, you will have a little puddle of ink in the lid). I used my Aqua Painter, one of my most useful tools in my opinion, to pick up some ink and paint it onto the glimmer paper. You could also use Sponge Daubers if you have those.
You can make the color pretty dark because it will be lighter when it dries. And I found that it needed a blast with the Heat Tool to really get it dry. Maybe that is related to how much ink you put on the paper or the colors you use.
For this card, since I wanted hearts, I punched some little hearts with the heart punch in the Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack. I adhered each one with two Glue Dots. The Valentine greeting is from the Bloomin' Love Photopolymer Stamp Set. I think we too easily just focus on the pretty heart stamp in that set, but take a good look at ALL the stamps in that set you will see words, flowers, a pretty banner, and a few others. Almost all of them, except maybe the greeting I used on this card, can be used for other occasions, even just general use.
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Mental Floss tells the story of how Doctors in Nazi occupied Poland faked a Typoid outbreak
Michael Peck writing for The Week describes the development of and countermeasures taken against the German guided bombs of World War Two.
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This article from io9 describes some of the more unusual weapons deployed in WW2
June 6th 2014 marks the 70th anniversary of the D Day landings in Normandy.
You can find out details of events in the UK and Normandy commemorating the landings at the UK Government's D-Day 70 site.
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Trump hails signing of deals worth 'billions' with Vietnam
President Donald Trump discussed trade with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc during a White House visit.
President Donald Trump discussed trade with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc during a White House visit.
Elevated tech valuations used to be a sign of hysteria. Today's investors believe they are making an ice-cold judgment that these firms are the dominant oligopolies of the 21st century and will extract a vast, rising, flow of profits. There is one gnawing doubt, however: the formidable five's cash-rich balance-sheets, which are built as if they expect a crisis, not to dominate the world.
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HANOVER, Germany (Reuters) – Volkswagen's troubled mass-market brand is pushing upmarket again with a new flagship model a year after ceasing the flopped Phaeton luxury saloon in a bid to lift margins and revive its post-dieselgate image.
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Which questionnaire to use
Neither the GMC or RCGP now specify which questionnaire to use. Many questionnaires are provided by the various toolkit providers and locum chambers.
The GMC has developed their own questionnaire and instructions on how to administer it. Whilst these instructions are specific to their own survey, there are key features that all questionnaire providers have to note:
- Questionnaires should be based on GMC principles of Good Medical Practice, follow GMC principles of good questionnaire design and have been piloted and validated.
- They should be completed anonymously by consecutive patients from the full scope of your work. For locums, this may mean carrying out your survey in different practices and clinical settings.
- The response should be handled and collated independently of the doctor, appraiser or RMO.
The RCGP suggest checking with your Responsible Officer (RO) whether they recommend any specific feedback questionnaires. Given the key role of your appraiser and RO in your revalidation, it might make your life easier to use a tool that is not too alien. However, if you have used a questionnaire that has been designed and administered in accordance with GMC guidance, then you should be able to justify your choice.
Tips for a smooth patient feedback survey
Engage with the practice staff
- You are going to need some level of cooperation from the practice staff in distributing your patient questionnaires and collecting completed responses.
- Make it part of your Terms and Conditions that practices offer you the same support as a fellow healthcare professional that they would give to their own practice team.
- Consider politely forewarning the practice manager that you are carrying out a survey and seek their advice on how this would work best in their practice.
- Arrive early for your "survey" sessions. Check that the staff on duty understand the survey process. Lots of charm, gratitude and perhaps making a cup of tea might help!
Make it easier for the patient to complete the survey
- Willing patients may be deterred from completing the survey if they have no pen, nowhere to sit and then have to join a queue at reception to hand it in. Likewise, if they take the survey away to post themselves, you may see a drop in response rate.
- Overcome these obstacles by investing in some clipboards with pens attached; ask the practice staff if a chair can be placed in a quiet corner; make a clearly labelled postbox for completed responses which can be placed in reception.
- Wear a professional name badge, use removable doorplates with your name on and even carry mini patient-friendly personal profiles to hand out to patients so they can identify you when giving feedback.
- Some locum chambers have developed their own GMC-approved patient feedback, and have invested in several plastic post boxes, pens and clipboards to share amongst them, and there's no reason why other groups couldn't do the same.
Pitfalls in interpreting patient feedback for locums
The GMC feedback surveys were piloted and researched by Professor John Campbell of Peninsular college of medicine in 2012. Appraisers should be familiar with his guidance on interpreting feedback surveys. Some of the key findings that pertain to locums:
- Locums tend to receive less favourable feedback than doctors in permanent positions.
- Doctors who obtained their primary medical degree in a non-European country tend to receive less favourable feedback than those who qualified within Europe.
- Beware benchmarking. Interestingly the GMC does not currently see comparison with other colleagues as an essential feature of the feedback process. Nonetheless, many survey providers do include benchmarking but it is very rarely locum-specific. So for your own sanity and in preparation for your appraisal, it is good to be aware of the rating bias against locums.
The NASGP, with our experience of locum work, think that below the surface of these GMC findings there are probably many granular factors at play which affect how locums are perceived. Read on for some examples which could serve as reminders and talking points with your appraiser when reflecting on your feedback. Unless your appraiser is also a locum, they may not fully appreciate the context in which you work, so be ready to tell them!


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This is a problem that began about three weeks ago and I haven't nailed down the problem. The first symptom was squishy brakes. This points to several problems, such as a bad brake booster, poor vacuum, air in the line, low fluid. I didn't notice any fluid on the ground but I did notice a 1/3 drop in the brake fluid reservoir. It must be a leak. Yesterday, I noticed a puddle of fluid on the ground directly under the brake line fittings.
With my wife's help and my GoPro I was able to catch this on video. The brake tube is leaking. It is the tube that connects the ABS Hydraulic Control Unit to the Brake's Master Cylinder. I zoomed the video in and slowed it down 25% to allow you to see the pinhole leak.
I used a stop-gap solution of silicone rubber self-fusing tape until I get the replacement part. The part number was specified with a label on the tube as 55366057AC; however, this part number is not found anywhere. It must have been replaced.
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Minnesota secretary of state registers voters at Ridgewater
WILLMAR -- More than 80 students have registered to vote this week at Ridgewater College.
The Student Senate started the effort this week, part of a competition among the state's colleges to register young people.
It got a boost Thursday with a visit from Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, who distributed voter information to students in the cafeteria on the school's Willmar campus. Red and white "I Will Vote" stickers and free popcorn sweetened the deal.
Ritchie, whose office is in charge of state elections, said he has been visiting campuses all over the state to encourage young people to register.
Student Senate president Kristin Kahle of Winsted said some students were interested in registering. "Some say, 'not for me,'" she added.
"We try to encourage them" to register, said Nic Carlson, another member of the Student Senate. Kahle said they don't argue with anyone who doesn't want to register.
Kahle, Carlson and other members of the Student Senate worked at a registration table during Ritchie's visit. They started registering voters this week.
The students said they have a goal of registering 185 students at Ridgewater. If they can surpass the goal by 10 percent, they will get special recognition and bragging rights with other campuses across the state.
Ritchie said experience has shown that getting people registered and voting when they are young can develop a lifelong habit.
Ritchie said he is also using his visits to encourage people who plan to vote by absentee ballot to take care of it early, "so if they make a mistake, it can be caught early."
The August primary had more voters than he expected and more absentee voters than he expected, he said. While he was happy to be wrong, he said, he's been hesitant to make many predictions about the November turnout.
"That indicates to me that there will be a large number (of absentees) in the general election," he said.
"Hot local races" are likely to drive voter turnout this year, since there's no presidential or U.S. Senate race in Minnesota, he said.
Another initiative this fall is to recruit people to vote in honor of a veteran they know, Ritchie said.
He and several others wore buttons saying they were voting in honor of a veteran. The buttons had a blank space to fill in with the name of a veteran. Carlson wore one with the name "Isaac" on it, to honor his brother who just finished Army basic training in Georgia. Ritchie's button said "Alfred Ritchie," his father who served in the Pacific during World War II.
Ritchie said he hopes the focus on veterans will "get people to think about voting in the larger context of service to the nation."
Ritchie is also running for re-election this fall against Republican challenger Dan Severson, a state representative from Sauk Rapids. He said it can be difficult to be in charge of the entire election while being a candidate as well. During the day, his focus is on things like the next major deadline in the election timeline, he said, and he switches gears to the campaign in the evening.


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人教版小学六年级英语总复习资料(单词和句子) 三年级上册单词 黑体字(73个单词)
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red yellow green blue purple sports computer game painting study white black orange pink brown bathroom bedroom living kitchen phone cat dog monkey panda rabbit duck squirrel mouse elephant pig bird bear cake bread hot dog hamburger chicken French fries
Coke juice milk water tea coffee one two three four five six seven eight nine ten doll ball boat kite balloon car plane
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fish noodles beef vegetable soup knife chopsticks spoon plate fork
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young funny tall strong kind old short thin who's=who is Mr what's=what is like he's=he is strict smart active quiet
she's=she is very but Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday day have on Saturday Sunday do homework watch TV read books What about...? too eggplant fish
do the dishes can't=cannot use a computer curtain trash bin closet mirror end table bedroom kitchen bathroom living room in on under near behind clothes river flower grass lake forest path park picture house bridge tree
road building clean
五年级下册单词 黑体字(18个) January February March April May June July August September October November December first second third fourth fifth Eighth ninth twelfth twentieth 四会单词、词组(83个)
do morning exercises eat breakfast have English class play sports eat dinner when evening get up at usually noon climb mountains go shopping play the piano visit grandparents go hiking weekend often sometimes spring summer fall winter season which best swim fly kites skate make a snowman plant trees why because sleep Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. birthday uncle her date draw pictures cook dinner
read a book answer the phone listen to music clean the room write a letter write an e-mail mom grandpa study fly jump walk run swim kangaroo sleep climb fight swing
drink water take pictures watch insects 1. Hello! Hi! 2. Hello! I'm Wu Yifan. I'm pick up leaves do an experiment catch butterflies from China. 3. What's your name? 4. My name's honey count insects collect leaves write a report Chen Jie. 5. I have a pencil. Me too. 6. Good play chess have a picnic
六年级上册单词 黑体字(16个)
plane ship subway science museum north south east west tonight tomorrow take a trip read a magazine go to the cinema magazine dictionary vapour 四会单词、词组(71个)
by foot bike bus train how go to school traffic traffic light traffic rule stop wait get to library post office hospital cinema bookstore where please next to turn right left straight then next week this morning this afternoon this evening comic book post card newspaper buy hobby ride a bike dive play the violin make kites collect
watch(es)read(s) does doesn't=does not singer writer
actor actress artist TV reporter engineer accountant policeman salesperson cleaner where work rain
cloud sun stream seed come from soil sprout plant should then
六年级下册单词 四会单词(25个)
taller shorter stronger older younger bigger
heavier longer thinner smaller have a fever hurt have a cold have a toothache have a headache have a sore throat matter sore
nose tired excited angry happy bored sad
morning. Good afternoon. 7. This is Miss White. Nice to meet you. 8. Where are you from? I'm from America. 9. Let's go to school. OK. 10. . How many cakes? One cake11. How are you? I'm fine, thank you. 12. Let's paint. Great 13. I like green. Me too. 14. I have a rabbit.
15. Cool! Super! Great! Wow! 16. May I have a look? Sure.
17. Here you are. Thank you. You're welcome 18. I like hamburgers. Me too 19. Have some French fries. 20. Can I have some chicken? Sure. 21. How old are you? I'm nine.
1. Where are you from? I'm from America.
2. Good morning! Good afternoon! 3. Class, we have a new friend today.
4. Who's that woman? She's my mother。 5. Who's that man? He's my father. 6. Who's this boy? My brother. 7. I have a new kite. Oh, it's beautiful. 8. How many kites can you see? I can see 12.
9. The black one is a bird. Oh, how nice! 10. How many crayons do you have? I have 16 crayons. 11. Open it and see. That's right. 12. Do you like peaches? Yes, I do. /No, I don't. 13. What about pears? Oh, I like them very much. 14. Let's have some peaches and pears.
15. Have some fruits. Thank you, Miss White.
16. Sorry, I don't like bananas.
17. Can I have an apple, please? Certainly. 18. Have some more? No, thank you. 19. Where is my car? It's under the chair. 20. Excuse me. Can I use your pencil? No problem. 2. Good morning! Good afternoon! 3. Class, we have a new friend today.
4. Who's that woman? She's my mother。 5. Who's that man? He's my father. 6. Who's this boy? My brother. 7. I have a new kite. Oh, it's beautiful. 8. How many kites can you see? I can see 12. 9. The black one is a bird. Oh, how nice! 10. How many crayons do you have? I have 16 crayons. 11. Open it and see. That's right. 12. Do you like peaches? Yes, I do. /No, I don't. 13. What about pears? Oh, I like them very much. 14. Let's have some peaches and pears.
15. Have some fruits. Thank you, Miss White. 16. Sorry, I don't like bananas.
17. Can I have an apple, please? Certainly. 18. Have some more? No, thank you. 19. Where is my car? It's under the chair. 20. Excuse me. Can I use your pencil? No problem. 21. Here you are. Thank you! 22. Come on, children. Look at the elephant. 23. Wow! It's so big! It's so funny! 24. It has a long nose and a short tail. 25. It has small eyes and big ears.
26. Look at the giraffe. Oh, it's so tall. 27. The giraffe is tall. The deer is short.
28. You're tall. I'm short. You're right. 29. Let's fly it. OK. 30. What a big fish! 四年级上册句子
1. What's in the classroom?
2. This is Zhang Peng, our new classmate. 3. We have a new classroom.
4. Where is my seat? It is near the door. 5. Let's clean the classroom. Good idea! 6. Let me clean the board. All right. 7. It is nice and clean! Good job! 8. What colour is the schoolbag? It's black and white. 9. May I have a look? Sure. Here you are. 10. My schoolbag is heavy. 11. What is in the schoolbag?
12. How many picture-books do you have? 13. My friend is strong. He has short hair....
14.I have a new friend. He likes sports. She likes music.
15.What's his name ? His name is Zhang Peng. 16. What's her name ? Her name is Amy. 17. Is this your bedroom? Yes, it is./No, it isn't. 18. I have a new eraser.
19. Is she in the study? No, she isn't. She's in the kitchen. 20. Where are the keys? They are in the door. 21 Are they on the table? No, they aren't. 22. What's for dinner? Rice, fish and vegetables. 23. What would you like for dinner? I'd like some rice and soup.
24. Everything's ready. Thanks /Thank you. 25. Dinner's ready! Your forks and knives. 26. Help yourself! Thank you. 27. I can use chopsticks. Let me try.
28. Mm...Yummy, I like Chinese food. Me too.
29. We had a good time. See you tomorrow.
30. How many people are there in your family? Three. 31. Who are they? My parents and me. 32. My family has seven members. 33. Who's this man? He's my uncle. 34. Who's this woman? She's my aunt.
35. Is this your aunt? Yes, she is. /No, she's my sister. 36. What's your mother? She's a teacher. 37. What's your father? He's a doctor.
38. Are they farmers? Yes, they are. / Yes, you're right. 四年级下册句子
1. Where is the canteen? It's on the first floor. 2. This is the teacher's office. That is my classroom. 3. How many students are there in your class? Forty-five.
4. Do you have a library? Yes! 5. The canteen is on the first floor.
6. This is my computer. That is your computer. 7. Is this a teacher's desk? Yes, it is.\No, it isn't. 8. Is that the art room? Yes, it is.\No, it isn't. 9. What time is it? It's nine o'clock. 10. It's time for English class. Breakfast is ready! 11. School is over. Let's go to the playground. 12. Let's go home. I'm ready. 13. It's 7:05. It's time to go to school. 14. It's 8:30 .It's time for music class.
15. I like the white sweater with the green skirt. 16. I like the blue dress. 17. Where is my skirt? 18.What colour
it? Blue.
19. Is this your skirt? Yes, it is./No. it isn't. My T-shirt is red.
20. Is that your T-shirt? No, it's not. 21. Whose is it? It's my T-shirt. 22. Whose is this? It's your baby brother's! 23. What are they? These are your baby pants. They're so small.
24. Are those my shoes? Yes. But what for? 25. Our neighbour has a new baby!
26. This is the weather report. It's cool in Lhasa. 27. Can I wear my new shirt today? No, you can't. /Yes, you can.
28. It's warm today. You can wear your new shirt.
29. Can I wear my T-shirt? Yes, you can. 30. What are you doing? Not much.
31. What's the weather like in Beijing? It's rainy today. 32. How about New York? It's sunny. 33. What's the matter? 34. It's windy now. I have to close the window. 35. Look at that dress. It's colorful. It's very pretty. 36. Can I help you? Yes.
37. How much is this dress? It's ninety-nine Yuan. 38. What size? Size five. 39. Are they all right? Yes, they are.
40. How much are they? They're thirty-five Yuan. 41. What are they? They are goats.
42. Are they sheep? No, they aren't. They are goats. 43. Are they horses? No, they aren't .They are donkeys. 44. Look at the hens. They are fat.
45. How many cows do you have? One hundred. 46. What do you see in the picture? I see five cats.
47. Are these tomatoes? Yes, they are. /No, they aren't. 48. What are these? They are carrots.
1. is, my, this, computer (.) 2. your, is, that, computer
(.) 3. teacher's desk, this, is, a (?)
4. is, it, time, what (?) 5. o'clock, it's, two (.)
23.I have my own room now.
24. What's it like? 25. There is a big closet, a new
6. time, math, for, it's, class (.)7. this, is, your, T-shirt (?) air-conditioner and a new mirror. 8. colour, it, is, what (?) 9. warm, it's, today (.) 26. There are blue curtains.
10. play, let's, football (.) 11. much, how, it, is (?) 27. Where is the trash bin? It's near the table. 12. yuan, it's, ten (.) 13. they, much, how, are (?) 14. three, they, yuan, are (.) 15. they, ducks, are (?) 16. many, horses, there, are, how (?)
1. Who's your math teacher? Mr Zhao. 2. What's he like? He's thin and short. He's very kind. 3. Who's that young lady? She's our principal. 4. Is she strict? Yes, she is.
5. Is she active? No, she isn't. She's quiet. 6. I have a new math teacher. Her class is so much fun. 7. What day is it today? It's Monday. 8. What do you have on Wednesdays? 9. We have English, science, computer and P.E.. 10. What do you do on Saturdays? 11. I often do my homework.
12. What about you? I do my homework too. 13. What would you like for lunch? I'd like some tomatoes and mutton.
14. What do you have for lunch today? 15. I have eggplant and tomatoes. 16. It's tasty. It's my favourite.
17. What's your favourite food? Fish. 18. I don't like grapes. They're sour. 19. Are you helpful at home? You're helpful. 20. What can you do? I can sweep the floor. 21. Just do it!
22. Can you set the table? Yes, I can. No, I can't.
28. There is a forest in the nature park.
29. Is there a river in the park? Yes, there is. No, there isn't. 30. There are many small houses in my village.
31. Are there any bridges in your village? Yes, there are. 32. Are there any tall buildings in your village? No, there aren't.
1. your, who's, teacher, English (?) 2. he, what's like (?) 3. tall, strong, and, he's (.) 4. she, is, quiet (?)
5. it, today, is, what, day (?) 6. do, what, have, you, Thursdays, on (?)
7. English, science, on, we, Thursdays, have, and, math (.) 8.do, what, you, do, Saturdays, on (?) 9. on, I, TV, Saturdays, watch (.) 10. do, I, homework, my, too (.)
11.for, have, do, what, you, Mondays, on, lunch (?) 12. tofu, tomatoes, we, and, fish, have (.) 13. fruit, what's, favourite, your (?) 14. can, you, what, do (?) 15. sweep, I, the, floor, can (.) 16. water, I, the, can, flowers (.) 17. you, make, can, bed, the (?) 18. use, computer, a, you, can (?)
19. two, kitchen, bedrooms, a, living room, are, there, a, and (.)
20. is, there, big, a, closet, mirror, a, bed, a, and (.)
21. near, table, the, closet, the, is (.) 22. in, park, there, is, the, a, forest (?)
23.any, are, there, in, the, mountains, pandas (?) 24. fish, are, in, rivers, the, there, any (?)
1. do, when, you, dinner, eat (?) 2. which, do, season, like, best, you (?) 3. is, when, birthday, your (?) 4. what, they, doing, are (?) 5. he, playing, is, chess (?)
6. eat, at, I, the, in, evening, dinner, 7:00 (.) 7. usually, at, I, get, 12:00, up, noon (.) 8. the, weekend, what, do, on, do, you (?) 9. visit, I, my, sometimes, grandparents (.) 10. do, like, why, you, summer (?) 11. in, swim, I, lake, the, can, because (.) 12. Bill's, is, June, Uncle, birthday, in, too (.) 13. her, is, in, birthday, June (?)
14. cooking, is, mom, dinner, the, in, kitchen (.) 15. in, study, he's, writing, e-mail, an, the (.) 16. is, she, what, doing (?) 17. are, climbing, they, trees (.) 18. eating, the, are, honey, they (?) 19. are, you, doing, what (?) 20. winter, I ,best, like (?)
21.fall, but, my, is, season, favourite (.) 22. watch, and, go, TV, shopping, I, usually (.)
1. When do you eat dinner? I eat dinner at 7:00 in the evening.
2. When do you get up? I usually get up at 12:00 noon. 3. What do you do on the weekend?
4. Usually I watch TV and go shopping. Sometimes I visit my grandparents.
5. I often play football. Sometimes I go hiking. 6. What's your favourite season? Winter. 7. Which season do you like best? Fall. 8. It's always sunny and cool. 9. I can play with snow.
10. Why do you like spring? Because I can plant trees. 11. When is your birthday? My birthday is in June. 12. Is your birthday in June, too? No. My birthday is in December.
13. It's October 1st, our National Day.
14. Who has a birthday in October? Me. 15. What's the date? It's October 1st. 16. What are you doing? I an doing the dishes.
17.What is your father doing? He's writing an e-mail. 18. This is Nina. Can I speak to your mom, please? 19. Please hold on. There's a call for you. 20. I see the mother elephant.
21. What is she doing? She is walking. 22. What about the baby elephant? 23. What is it doing? It's running. 24. What are the elephants doing? They're drinking. 25. What is Mike doing? He's watching insects. 26. What are you doing? I'm watching my classmates. 27. Where are they? They are in the woods. 28. Are they catching butterflies? No, they aren't. /Yes, they are.
29. Where is Zhang Peng? He's in the woods. 30. Is he taking pictures? Yes, he is. /No, he isn't. 六年级上册句子
1. do, school, go, you, how, to (?) 2. on, go, school, to, foot, I, usually (.)
3.by, I, go, sometimes, bike (.)
4. get, can, how, I, to, Zhongshan Park (?)
5.by, can, go, you, No.15 bus, the (.)
6. is, the, where, cinema, please (?)
7. hospital, next, the, to, it's (.)
8. straight, turn, go, at, left, the, cinema, then (.)
9.are, what, you, to, do, going, the, on, weekend (?)
10.visit, this, I'm, to, going, grandparents, my, weekend (.)
11. are, going, this, where, you, afternoon (?)
12. going, am, I, buy, to, a, book, comic (.)
13. likes, he, stamps collecting, too. (.)
14. she, English, does, teach (?)
15.does, father, your, do ,what (?)
16. rain, the, rain, where, come, does, from (?)
17. do, how, you, that (?)
18. does, go, work, to, she, how (?)
19. TV reporter, my, a, is, uncle (.)
20. comes, the, clouds, it, from (.)


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1 | For That Special Occasion: The Game Bird
The Stafford hotel is one of those enigmatic old school St. James's establishments, and its new chef has revamped the restaurant to offer proper, posh, rich British food. The Game Bird's signature dish is, unsurprisingly, gamey and will thus alter with the seasons. Like everything else here, a potentially heavy plate of food is done with fashionable refinement. It's USP: you get a hip flask on the side containing a 'bull shot' of meat juices and sloe gin (which is so good it may inspire you to take up the practice in everyday life).
The chicken kiev is pepped up by gently flavoured truffle butter and comes with a giant leather bib, which you are strongly advised to wear as explosions are common. The smoked salmon gets wheeled to your table on a trolley beforehand and ceremoniously carved in front of you, and the cheese trolley afterwards will make anyone consider eating yet more. That's if you've resisted the heart-warming Lyle's Golden Syrup sponge with good old custard. Your waistline will suffer here and the prices put it decidedly in the treat column, but a treat the whole experience unquestionably is.
16-18 St James's Place, London, SW1A 1NJ; thestaffordlondon.com/the-game-bird
2 | For St George's Day Antics: Borough Market
This Sunday's patriotic celebrations take all forms. But our pick is the fiesta happening in foodie haven Borough Market, which is opening especially for the occasion. And a fiesta it shall truly be, since St George is also the patron saint of Catalonia, inspiring a fusion feast put on by the usual traders, with additional music, dancing and general fun times. There'll be Catalonian seafood fideua, George and dragon biscuits, roast beef sirloin and plenty of English wine and mead. Cookery demonstrations by Luke Mackay are free throughout the day, and you'll also get to witness the formation of an epic human tower by the Castellers of London (who knew?).
12-4pm, Sunday 23rd April
8 Southwark Street, London, SE1 1TL; boroughmarket.org.uk
3 | For Week Night Dinners: The Other Naughty Piglet
Andrew Lloyd Webber liked the Brixton original of this restaurant so much, he handpicked it for his Victoria theatre, The Other Palace (you see what they did with the names there?). You may feel befuddled at wandering in amongst hurrying theatregoers, but plough on upstairs and there is a charmingly relaxed dining room serving British-inspired, but decidedly quirky food. Dishes will be served one at a time – no arguments – so be prepared to share. Around four or five should do it, and the flagship is an absolute must-try: a nest of fishy XO linguine topped with a cured egg yolk. Asparagus spears come shrouded in a tasty film of lardo, beef tartare is topped with crispy spring greens (much like the seaweed you get from your local Chinese) and the rhubarb and custard will bring you childlike bliss. Places like this could easily charge more (and do) so put this one on your date night list.
The Other Palace, 12 Palace Street, London, SW1E 5JA; theothernaughtypiglet.co.uk
4 | For London Marathon Duty: The Narrow
There are some people who are going to be tiring themselves out this Sunday. But if you prefer a more leisurely pace, then why not perform your spectating duties whilst enjoying some additional river views, some good food and a pint of Camden Pale Ale? Gordon Ramsay's The Narrow, in Limehouse, is a prime waterside establishment at any time, but it will be providing sustenance for all you hungry cheerleaders on marathon day by opening first for bacon and egg rolls, and then getting the barbecue fired up for the burgers. Pimms and beer will abound, and you have a roadside view of the runners as they go through. Win-win, you might say.
From 9am, Sunday 23rd April
44 Narrow Street, London, E14 8DP; gordonramsayrestaurants.com/the-narrow
5 | For That Something Else: National Tea Day at St. Katharine's Docks
This Friday is National Tea Day. So yes, you would be justified in multiple morning brews. But the nimble footed amongst you might feel like going several steps further and heading down to a vintage tea party, complete with live band, for a tea dance at St Katharine's Docks. It's free, lasts all afternoon and, alongside a selection of cuppas, Tom Aitkens's team at Tom's Kitchen will be serving homemade lemonade plus cake, scones and sandwiches. That's in addition to the usual Friday World Food Market (think Gyoza dumplings, paella, fish and chips, etc.). Tutorials run at 12pm and 5pm for keen beans but, otherwise, it's just a good excuse for something a little bit different.
12 – 7pm, Friday 21st April
50 St Katharine's Way, London, E1W 1LA; skdocks.co.uk


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When casino multi billionaire Sheldon Adelson decided to "dabble" in American presidential politics, by depositing $10 million into a Newt Gingrich SuperPac, it seemed, at least for the week that followed the South Carolina Primary, as if Adelson's money was going to have a profound effect on the 2012 election. It still might. If Mitt Romney fails to beat Barack Obama in November, a strong argument can be made that the seeds of his defeat were sewn with Adelson's money in South Carolina. If Romney actually manages to lose the nomination, there will be nothing to argue about. Adelson, with a little help from Newt, (to quote Eliza Doolittle) will have done him in.
Even if Mitt Romney succeeds in becoming President Romney, with a modest investment, at least by Adelson's standards, the Las Vegas mogul has already bought himself a legacy, being a big time game changer in the business of presidential politics. The Supreme Court's Citizens United decision in 2010, made it easy and legal for Adelson and his successors to spend vast sums on their new hobby, influencing American voters. You can bet your next $billion that while Adelson's $10 million contribution seems ground breaking today, it won't be long before somebody else with a bank account almost as big, and an even larger ego, will have us all gasping over his or her $100 million, or who knows?, a $billion contribution, on behalf of a candidate to be named later.
Huffington Post calculated that based on his net worth increase in 2011, of $7 billion; figuring that he works a 40 hour week (Granted, they haven't seen his timesheet.), Adelson made $3.3 million an hour! So the $10 million he spent on Newt didn't represent that much of a sacrifice for him.
Adelson has also lost $35-70 million on his "investment" into what is now Israel's largest circulation newspaper, Yisrael HaYom (Israel Today). Using Huffington's accounting method, this would have required Adelson to sweat and slave for as many as two whole days, in order to recoup his full outlay for this venture.
Notwithstanding his "losses" on HaYom, there's no need to have rachmones for Adelson. In Israel, he got exactly what he wanted, the job of Prime Minister for his good friend, Benjamin Netanyahu.
According to Global Post
It was in order to help a future Netanyahu candidacy that Adelson, in 2007, established Israel Hayom(Israel Today) a daily tabloid newspaper that quickly rose to have the widest circulation in the country. The newspaper was founded on the conviction, widespread among the Israeli right-wing since Netanyahu's first term in office in the mid-90s, that the media held a deep-seated antipathy to Netanyahu.
A much-repeated rumor, impossible to verify, has it that Adelson has told Israeli friends he is happy to lose even $150 or $200 million dollars on the venture.
Conservative estimates hold that for now, he has lost at least several tens of millions of dollars. The paper boasts an extensive and expensive list of journalists and analysts, it is printed in massive quantities and distributed widely and for free, yet it does not display advertising in sufficient quantities to offset significant costs. It is a rich man's luxury.
Israelis uncomfortable with the paper's big shadow have bestowed it with a jokey moniker, Bibiton, a play on Netanyahu's nickname, Bibi, and on the Hebrew word for newspaper, Iton.
In 2007, The Jewish Daily Forward wrote this about Adelson's HaYom
Two weeks ago, Adelson, CEO of the Las Vegas Sands Corp., launched Yisrael Hayom, or Israel Today, a free daily newspaper that on its first day was already one of the largest-circulation papers in the country. Adelson's new paper is drawing questions from other journalists, who worry about the mogul's connections to Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu, and also from the owners of other Israeli newspapers, who are a famously tight-knit club . . .
"Adelson is coming with an agenda," said one leading Israeli journalist who did not want to be identified, as he is from a competing media company. "He comes with a right-wing political agenda with the interest of making [someone] a prime minister — and that's Bibi."
In February of 2009, Netanyahu's Likud Party won 27 of 120 seats in the Knessest. Tzipi Livni's centrist Kadimah Party won 28 seats. However, Netanyahu was able to form a coalition by aligning with several smaller parties, most notably, Yisrael Beiteinu, which is led by the controversial Avingnor Leiborman; and The Labor Party, which at the time was led by former prime minister, Ehud Barak.
Even Netanyahu acknowledges that he was the beneficiary of HaYom's unwavering support during the 2009 election. Perhaps without HaYom's support, Kadimah might have won a few more seats, and Livni might have been able to form a government rather than Netanyahu. We'll leave that sort of speculation to others. We know for a fact that Adelson's backing surely didn't hurt Netanyahu.
In December of 2009, Adelson's competitors tried to legislate him out of business.
Neal Ungerleider wrote in the defunct TrueSlant.com (partially broken link, still worth looking at)
A popular free daily newspaper handed out in train stations and on the streets may be banned by the Israeli government. Israel HaYom (Israel Today), which has the second largest daily circulation of any Israeli paper, is the subject of a Knesset bill that would essentially ban publication. Israel HaYomis owned by Sheldon Adelson, an American casino magnate.
The problem? A bill working its way through the Knesset would ban foreigners from owning a newspaper in Israel. The bill is sponsored by parliamentarians Daniel Ben Simon (Labor) and Yoel Hasson (Kadima), along with Ofer Nimrodi. The only problem? Nimrodi is the publisher of Maariv, the top-circulating paper in the country and Israel HaYom's main competitor. The loose legal system in Israel does not currently prohibit foreigners from owning newspapers. The bill that would ban Israel HaYom was drafted by Nimrodi's lawyer and Israeli television reports that he has been trying to recruit parliamentarians to the cause for months.
In Haaretz, Anshel Pfeffer defended Adelson. He wrote
There is only one reason for this pathetic piece of legislation: Sheldon Adelson's two-and-a-half-year-old newspaper, Israel Hayom, is threatening the very existence of one of Israel's national tabloids and the predominance of the other. That's why Maariv publisher and part owner Ofer Nimrodi has recently been seen in the Knesset cozying up to backbenchers. It is also why – after 62 years of bitter enmity, ever since Yedioth Ahronoth's editor and all its journalists walked out of the newsroom to set up Maariv – the proprietors of both dailies are now making common cause and lobbying MKs against the common enemy.
Pfeffer failed to mention that HaYom doesn't have its own printing equipment and that it outsources the very lucrative job to Pfeffer's paper, Haararetz.
This week however, Haaretz seemed to be biting the hand that feeds it (and a some journalistic integrity), with their coverage of an earlier report by Israeli TV Channel 10
Haaretz wrote
A senior columnist for the Yisrael Hayom newspaper is on the payroll of the Prime Minister's Office, with which he has a contract to "write speeches and lectures," for NIS 50,000 a year, Channel 10 reported on Wednesday.
Dror Eydar has written about everything related to the assault on various media outlets in Israel, and frequently pens columns accusing the media of being hostile to Netanyahu. Yisrael Hayom, owned by American Jewish billionaire Sheldon Adelson, is considered to have a right-wing, pro-Netanyahu slant. Adelson has contributed considerable sums of money to Netanyahu's election campaigns.
Here's how the Ultra Liberal Tikkun Olam described HaYom
There is no comparable phenomenon in U.S. journalism. It would be as if Gannett had a billionaire owner for whom money was no object in advancing the specific political career of one far-right American politician. Imagine USA Today as a free paper totally funded by ads and the owner's largess. Imagine too, that virtually the entire newspaper is given over to promotion of the views of Ron Paul or Newt Gingrich, along with other hot tabloidy subjects. Then you'd approach the impact that Yisrael Hayom is having on Israeli politics and journalism.
In 2009 Adelson was interviewed by Jacob Berkman of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency In that interview Berkman asked him about his political involvement in Israel. Adelson replied
What political involvement? I am not involved politically in Israel. Period. And everybody thinks I started the newspaper Israel HaYom purely to benefit Bibi. Nothing could be further from the truth. I started the newspaper to give Israel, Israelis, a fair and balanced view of the news and the views. That's all. It is not "Bibi-ton."
Later in the same interview, when asked about why he started Hayom, Adelson answered
I wanted to give an unbiased, untainted, fair and balanced view of what is happening.