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The paper explores and assesses the approaches used by statistical offices to ensure effective methodological input into their statistical practice. The tension between independence and relevance is a common theme: generally, methodologists have to work closely with the rest of the statistical organisation for their work to be relevant; but they also need to have a degree of independence to question the use of existing methods and to lead the introduction of new ones where needed. And, of course, there is a need for an effective research program which, on the one hand, has a degree of independence needed by any research program, but which, on the other hand, is sufficiently connected so that its work is both motivated by and feeds back into the daily work of the statistical office. The paper explores alternative modalities of organisation; leadership; planning and funding; the role of project teams; career development; external advisory committees; interaction with the academic community; and research.
This article develops computational tools, called indicators, for judging the effectiveness of the auxiliary information used to control nonresponse bias in survey estimates, obtained in this article by calibration. This work is motivated by the survey environment in a number of countries, notably in northern Europe, where many potential auxiliary variables are derived from reliable administrative registers for household and individuals. Many auxiliary vectors can be composed. There is a need to compare these vectors to assess their potential for reducing bias. The indicators in this article are designed to meet that need. They are used in surveys at Statistics Sweden. General survey conditions are considered: There is probability sampling from the finite population, by an arbitrary sampling design; nonresponse occurs. The probability of inclusion in the sample is known for each population unit; the probability of response is unknown, causing bias. The study variable (the y-variable) is observed for the set of respondents only. No matter what auxiliary vector is used in a calibration estimator (or in any other estimation method), a residual bias will always remain. The choice of a "best possible" auxiliary vector is guided by the indicators proposed in the article. Their background and computational features are described in the early sections of the article. Their theoretical background is explained. The concluding sections are devoted to empirical studies. One of these illustrates the selection of auxiliary variables in a survey at Statistics Sweden. A second empirical illustration is a simulation with a constructed finite population; a number of potential auxiliary vectors are ranked in order of preference with the aid of the indicators.
The number of people recruited by firms in Local Labour Market Areas provides an important indicator of the reorganisation of the local productive processes. In Italy, this parameter can be estimated using the information collected in the Excelsior survey, although it does not provide reliable estimates for the domains of interest. In this paper we propose a multivariate small area estimation approach for count data based on the Multivariate Poisson-Log Normal distribution. This approach will be used to estimate the number of firm recruits both replacing departing employees and filling new positions. In the small area estimation framework, it is customary to assume that sampling variances and covariances are known. However, both they and the direct point estimates suffer from instability. Due to the rare nature of the phenomenon we are analysing, counts in some domains are equal to zero, and this produces estimates of sampling error covariances equal to zero. To account for the extra variability due to the estimated sampling covariance matrix, and to deal with the problem of unreasonable estimated variances and covariances in some domains, we propose an "integrated" approach where we jointly model the parameters of interest and the sampling error covariance matrices. We suggest a solution based again on the Poisson-Log Normal distribution to smooth variances and covariances. The results we obtain are encouraging: the proposed small area estimation model shows a better fit when compared to the Multivariate Normal-Normal (MNN) small area model, and it allows for a non-negligible increase in efficiency.
Alternative forms of linearization variance estimators for generalized raking estimators are defined via different choices of the weights applied (a) to residuals and (b) to the estimated regression coefficients used in calculating the residuals. Some theory is presented for three forms of generalized raking estimator, the classical raking ratio estimator, the 'maximum likelihood' raking estimator and the generalized regression estimator, and for associated linearization variance estimators. A simulation study is undertaken, based upon a labour force survey and an income and expenditure survey. Properties of the estimators are assessed with respect to both sampling and nonresponse. The study displays little difference between the properties of the alternative raking estimators for a given sampling scheme and nonresponse model. Amongst the variance estimators, the approach which weights residuals by the design weight can be severely biased in the presence of nonresponse. The approach which weights residuals by the calibrated weight tends to display much less bias. Varying the choice of the weights used to construct the regression coefficients has little impact.
Taylor linearization methods are often used to obtain variance estimators for calibration estimators of totals and nonlinear finite population (or census) parameters, such as ratios, regression and correlation coefficients, which can be expressed as smooth functions of totals. Taylor linearization is generally applicable to any sampling design, but it can lead to multiple variance estimators that are asymptotically design unbiased under repeated sampling. The choice among the variance estimators requires other considerations such as (i) approximate unbiasedness for the model variance of the estimator under an assumed model, and (ii) validity under a conditional repeated sampling framework. Demnati and Rao (2004) proposed a unified approach to deriving Taylor linearization variance estimators that leads directly to a unique variance estimator that satisfies the above considerations for general designs. When analyzing survey data, finite populations are often assumed to be generated from super-population models, and analytical inferences on model parameters are of interest. If the sampling fractions are small, then the sampling variance captures almost the entire variation generated by the design and model random processes. However, when the sampling fractions are not negligible, the model variance should be taken into account in order to construct valid inferences on model parameters under the combined process of generating the finite population from the assumed super-population model and the selection of the sample according to the specified sampling design. In this paper, we obtain an estimator of the total variance, using the Demnati-Rao approach, when the characteristics of interest are assumed to be random variables generated from a super-population model. We illustrate the method using ratio estimators and estimators defined as solutions to calibration weighted estimating equations. Simulation results on the performance of the proposed variance estimator for model parameters are also presented.
The size of the cell-phone-only population in the USA has increased rapidly in recent years and, correspondingly, researchers have begun to experiment with sampling and interviewing of cell-phone subscribers. We discuss statistical issues involved in the sampling design and estimation phases of cell-phone studies. This work is presented primarily in the context of a nonoverlapping dual-frame survey in which one frame and sample are employed for the landline population and a second frame and sample are employed for the cell-phone-only population. Additional considerations necessary for overlapping dual-frame surveys (where the cell-phone frame and sample include some of the landline population) are also discussed. We illustrate the methods using the design of the National Immunization Survey (NIS), which monitors the vaccination rates of children age 19-35 months and teens age 13-17 years. The NIS is a nationwide telephone survey, followed by a provider record check, conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Data collection for poverty assessments in Africa is time consuming, expensive and can be subject to numerous constraints. In this paper we present a procedure to collect data from poor households involved in small-scale inland fisheries as well as agricultural activities. A sampling scheme has been developed that captures the heterogeneity in ecological conditions and the seasonality of livelihood options. Sampling includes a three point panel survey of 300 households. The respondents belong to four different ethnic groups randomly chosen from three strata, each representing a different ecological zone. In the first part of the paper some background information is given on the objectives of the research, the study site and survey design, which were guiding the data collection process. The second part of the paper discusses the typical constraints that are hampering empirical work in Sub-Saharan Africa, and shows how different challenges have been resolved. These lessons could guide researchers in designing appropriate socio-economic surveys in comparable settings.
The current economic downturn in the US could challenge costly strategies in survey operations. In the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), ending the monthly data collection at 31 days could be a less costly alternative. However, this could potentially exclude a portion of interviews completed after 31 days (late responders) whose respondent characteristics could be different in many respects from those who completed the survey within 31 days (early responders). We examined whether there are differences between the early and late responders in demographics, health-care coverage, general health status, health risk behaviors, and chronic disease conditions or illnesses. We used 2007 BRFSS data, where a representative sample of the noninstitutionalized adult U.S. population was selected using a random digit dialing method. Late responders were significantly more likely to be male; to report race/ethnicity as Hispanic; to have annual income higher than $50,000; to be younger than 45 years of age; to have less than high school education; to have health-care coverage; to be significantly more likely to report good health; and to be significantly less likely to report hypertension, diabetes, or being obese. The observed differences between early and late responders on survey estimates may hardly influence national and state-level estimates. As the proportion of late responders may increase in the future, its impact on surveillance estimates should be examined before excluding from the analysis. Analysis on late responders only should combine several years of data to produce reliable estimates.
Using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada, this study sheds light on a specific aspect of newcomers' settlement-recognition of their foreign credentials and work experience in relation to their individual characteristics. These characteristics range from class of immigrant (skilled-worker principal applicants, family class, refugees, etc.), education and field of study to country where the highest credential was earned, and knowledge of English or French. The study also examines foreign credential and work experience recognition at three time points over a four-year period-six months, two years and four years after landing.
This study uses data from the Labour Force Survey to examine whether offshorable service-sector occupations and other comparable occupations have displayed similar wage growth since the late 1990s. The analysis allows results to vary across service-sector occupations and worker characteristics.
This analytical article "Freshwater Supply and Demand in Canada", provides information on Canada's freshwater supply as well as the demands placed on it. New research done within Statistics Canada is complimented by information from other sources, including other federal government departments, international bodies and scientific journals.
Section 1 of this article compares Canada's renewable water resources to those of other countries, introduces key highlights and presents a short water primer. Section 2 quantifies Canada's renewable water resources (annual water yield), shows how water yield has changed from 1971 to 2004, and presents graphs of water yield by month for four regions of the country. Section 3 quantifies economic and residential water use in Canada and concludes with an analysis of the relationship between supply and demand. A glossary of terms used in the publication is available in Section 4.
This is a health fact sheet about lead concentrations in the Canadian population. Results shown are based on data from the Canadian Health Measures Survey.
This is a health fact sheet about mercury concentrations in the Canadian population. Results shown are based on data from the Canadian Health Measures Survey.
This report includes scientific and technological (S&T) activities involving the generation, dissemination and application of new scientific and technological knowledge for the provincial governments of New Brunswick, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Scientific expenditures for British Columbia are based on last year's survey. The provincial overnment of Quebec conducts a survey of its R&D activities, the results of which it shares with Statistics Canada.
The main S&T activity is research and development (R&D). Related scientific activities (RSA) are also included.
This publication shows readers how to design and conduct a census or sample survey. It explains basic survey concepts and provides information on how to create efficient and high quality surveys. It is aimed at those involved in planning, conducting or managing a survey and at students of survey design courses.
-how to plan and manage a survey;-how to formulate the survey objectives and design a questionnaire; -things to consider when determining a sample design (choosing between a sample or a census, defining the survey population, choosing a survey frame, identifying possible sources of survey error); -choosing a method of collection (self-enumeration, personal interviews or telephone interviews; computer-assisted versus paper-based questionnaires); -organizing and conducting data collection operations;-determining the sample size, allocating the sample across strata and selecting the sample; -methods of point estimation and variance estimation, and data analysis; -the use of administrative data, particularly during the design and estimation phases-how to process the data (which consists of all data handling activities between collection and estimation) and use quality control and quality assurance measures to minimize and control errors during various survey steps; and-disclosure control and data dissemination.
This publication also includes a case study that illustrates the steps in developing a household survey, using the methods and principles presented in the book. This publication was previously only available in print format and originally published in 2003.
This series contains short analytical articles providing statistical insights on emerging issues in the economy such as productivity, innovation and technology use. These articles briefly describe the issues and the results examined by these research papers.
The articles describe issues on a wide range of topics, including - the amount of dynamic competition taking place as a result of the entry of new firms and the exit of closed firms; - the amount of merger activity taking place; - the difference between multinational and domestic firms; - the productivity growth in Canada; - the changes in the geographic location of industry; - the problems in small-firm financing; - the changing industrial structure of different regions; - how the economy interacts with the environment; - the changes in trade patterns; - Canada/United States price differences; - the innovation process in Canada; - the differences between small and large producers; - the changing patterns of advanced technology use and its effect on firm performance; - the type of strategies that differentiate more-successful from less-successful firms.
This series of profiles provides analysis on a variety of topics and issues concerning victimization, offending and public perceptions of crime and the justice system. The profiles primarily draw on results from the General Social Survey on victimization. Where applicable, they also incorporate information from other data sources, such as the Census of the Population and the Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
Examples of the topics explored through this series include: Victimization and offending in Canada's territories, Canadians use of crime prevention measures and victimization of older Canadians. This is a unique periodical, of great interest to those who have to plan, establish, administer and evaluate justice programs and projects, or anyone who has an interest in Canada's justice system.
The papers in this series are based on the Survey of Financial Security which is a study of what families own (assets) and what they owe (debts). Various topics are covered by this survey, such as the value of family assets (home; other property; vehicles; bank accounts; term deposits; life insurance; and investments in registered savings plans, bonds, mutual funds, stocks, etc.), the amount of family debts (amount owed on mortgages, car loans, credit cards, other charge accounts, student loans, etc.), major on-going expenses for housing and child care, and any employer pensions plans that members of the family belong to. Information is also available on the demographic, employment, income and educational characteristics of family members. This research paper series covers various topics relating to survey content, concepts and operations.

industry_corpus2: Math & Statistics


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提供基底類別，用來傳送 HTTP 要求，以及從 URI 所識別的資源接收 HTTP 回應。Provides a base class for sending HTTP requests and receiving HTTP responses from a resource identified by a URI.
上述程式碼範例會使用async Task Main()進入點。The preceding code example uses an async Task Main() entry point. 該功能需要 C# 7.1 或更新版本。That feature requires C# 7.1 or later.
HttpClient類別執行個體是做為工作階段使用以傳送 HTTP 要求。The HttpClient class instance acts as a session to send HTTP requests. HttpClient執行個體是套用至該執行個體所執行之所有要求的設定集合。An HttpClient instance is a collection of settings applied to all requests executed by that instance. 此外，每個 HttpClient執行個體都使用自己的連接集區，這樣可將其要求與由其他 HttpClient 執行個體執行的要求隔離。In addition, every HttpClient instance uses its own connection pool, isolating its requests from requests executed by other HttpClient instances.
HttpClient也會做為更特定的 HTTP 用戶端的基底類別。The HttpClient also acts as a base class for more specific HTTP clients. 使用範例會提供特定的 Facebook web 服務的其他方法 FacebookHttpClient (GetFriends 方法中，執行個體)。An example would be a FacebookHttpClient providing additional methods specific to a Facebook web service (a GetFriends method, for instance). 在衍生的類別不應該覆寫類別虛擬方法。Derived classes should not override the virtual methods on the class. 請改用可接受的建構函式多載HttpMessageHandler設定任何前置或後置要求管線處理。Instead, use a constructor overload that accepts HttpMessageHandler to configure any pre- or post-request processing instead.
根據預設，.NET Framework 和 Mono 上HttpWebRequest用來將要求傳送至伺服器。By default on .NET Framework and Mono, HttpWebRequest is used to send requests to the server. 可以修改此行為，藉由指定不同的通道，其中一種建構函式多載採用HttpMessageHandler做為參數的執行個體。This behavior can be modified by specifying a different channel in one of the constructor overloads taking a HttpMessageHandler instance as parameter. 如果需要，功能，例如驗證或快取WebRequestHandler可以用來設定它執行個體可以傳遞至建構函式。If features like authentication or caching are required, WebRequestHandler can be used to configure settings and the instance can be passed to the constructor. 傳回的處理常式可以傳遞至其中一個建構函式多載採用HttpMessageHandler參數。The returned handler can be passed to one of the constructor overloads taking a HttpMessageHandler parameter.
如果應用程式使用HttpClient和相關類別中的System.Net.Http命名空間想要下載大量資料 （50 mb 或以上），則應用程式應該串流處理這些下載項目，並使用預設的緩衝處理。If an app using HttpClient and related classes in the System.Net.Http namespace intends to download large amounts of data (50 megabytes or more), then the app should stream those downloads and not use the default buffering. 如果預設的緩衝處理使用的用戶端記憶體使用量會變得非常大，而且可能會導致大幅降低效能。If the default buffering is used the client memory usage will get very large, potentially resulting in substantially reduced performance.
HttpClient 被要具現化一次和重複使用的應用程式生命週期。HttpClient is intended to be instantiated once and re-used throughout the life of an application. 每個要求的 HttpClient 類別具現化會耗盡可用在沈重負載下的通訊端數目。Instantiating an HttpClient class for every request will exhaust the number of sockets available under heavy loads. 這會導致 SocketException 錯誤。This will result in SocketException errors. 以下是正確地使用 HttpClient 範例。Below is an example using HttpClient correctly.
HttpClient是包裝在每個平台可用的較低層級功能，其執行所在的高階 API。The HttpClient is a high-level API that wraps the lower-level functionality available on each platform where it runs.
使用者也可以設定的特定傳輸HttpClient叫用HttpClient建構函式HttpMessageHandler。Users can also configure a specific transport for HttpClient by invoking the HttpClient constructor that takes an HttpMessageHandler.
與之前的實作相比，能提供顯著的效能提升。A significant performance improvement when compared with the previous implementation.
排除的平台相依性，可簡化部署和服務。The elimination of platform dependencies, which simplifies deployment and servicing. 比方說，libcurl不再適用於 macOS 和.NET Core 的相依性 .NET Core for Linux。For example, libcurl is no longer a dependency on .NET Core for macOS and .NET Core for Linux.
跨所有.NET 平台的一致行為。Consistent behavior across all .NET platforms.
定義名為環境變數DOTNET_SYSTEM_NET_HTTP_USESOCKETSHTTPHANDLER並將它設定為false則為 0。By defining an environment variable named DOTNET_SYSTEM_NET_HTTP_USESOCKETSHTTPHANDLER and setting it to either false or 0.
初始化 HttpClient 類別的新執行個體。Initializes a new instance of the HttpClient class.
使用特定處理常式，初始化 HttpClient 類別的新執行個體。Initializes a new instance of the HttpClient class with a specific handler.
取得或設定傳送要求時所使用之網際網路資源的統一資源識別元 (URI) 基底位址。Gets or sets the base address of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) of the Internet resource used when sending requests.
取得應該在每個要求中傳送的標頭。Gets the headers which should be sent with each request.
取得或設定讀取回應內容時要緩衝處理的位元組數目上限。Gets or sets the maximum number of bytes to buffer when reading the response content.
取得或設定要求逾時前等候的時間長度。Gets or sets the timespan to wait before the request times out.
取消這個執行個體上的所有暫止要求。Cancel all pending requests on this instance.
以非同步作業的方式，將 DELETE 要求傳送至指定的 URI。Send a DELETE request to the specified Uri as an asynchronous operation.
以非同步作業的方式，傳送 DELETE 要求和取消權杖至指定的 Uri。Send a DELETE request to the specified Uri with a cancellation token as an asynchronous operation.
釋放 Unmanaged 資源，並處置 HttpMessageInvoker 所使用的 Managed 資源。Releases the unmanaged resources and disposes of the managed resources used by the HttpMessageInvoker.
釋放 HttpClient 所使用的 Unmanaged 資源，並選擇性處置 Managed 資源。Releases the unmanaged resources used by the HttpClient and optionally disposes of the managed resources.
以非同步作業的方式，將 GET 要求傳送至指定的 URI。Send a GET request to the specified Uri as an asynchronous operation.
以非同步作業的方式，傳送 GET 要求和取消權杖至指定的 Uri。Send a GET request to the specified Uri with a cancellation token as an asynchronous operation.
以非同步作業的方式，傳送 GET 要求和 HTTP 完成選項至指定的 Uri。Send a GET request to the specified Uri with an HTTP completion option as an asynchronous operation.
以非同步作業的方式，傳送 GET 要求和 HTTP 完成選項以及取消語彙基元至指定的 Uri。Send a GET request to the specified Uri with an HTTP completion option and a cancellation token as an asynchronous operation.
將 GET 要求傳送至指定的 URI，並透過非同步作業，以位元組陣列形式傳回回應主體。Sends a GET request to the specified Uri and return the response body as a byte array in an asynchronous operation.
將 GET 要求傳送至指定的 URI，並透過非同步作業，以位元組陣列形式傳回回應內容。Send a GET request to the specified Uri and return the response body as a byte array in an asynchronous operation.
將 GET 要求傳送至指定的 URI，並透過非同步作業，以資料流形式傳回回應內容。Send a GET request to the specified Uri and return the response body as a stream in an asynchronous operation.
將 GET 要求傳送至指定的 URI，並透過非同步作業，以字串形式傳回回應內容。Send a GET request to the specified Uri and return the response body as a string in an asynchronous operation.
以非同步作業的方式，將 POST 要求傳送至指定的 URI。Send a POST request to the specified Uri as an asynchronous operation.
以非同步作業的方式，傳送 POST 要求和取消語彙基元。Send a POST request with a cancellation token as an asynchronous operation.
以非同步作業的方式，將 PUT 要求傳送至指定的 URI。Send a PUT request to the specified Uri as an asynchronous operation.
以非同步作業的方式，傳送 PUT 要求和取消語彙基元。Send a PUT request with a cancellation token as an asynchronous operation.
以非同步作業的方式，傳送 HTTP 要求。Send an HTTP request as an asynchronous operation.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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Every year at Augusta, the previous year's Masters champ chooses the menu at the famed Champions Dinner on Tuesday night. (Only Masters champions and the club chairman make the guest list.) But who is the Master of the Champions Dinner? We asked Top Chef head judge and restaurateur Tom Colicchio [right] which Masters winner should wear the Green Apron.
Here are the candidates: Charl Schwartzel, 2012: A "braai," a South African-style barbecue of pork, lamb chops, chicken, steaks and sausages. Phil Mickelson, 2011: Seafood paella and machango-topped filet mignon. Mickelson chose a Spanish menu in honor of Seve Ballesteros, who was too ill to attend.
Angel Cabrera, 2010: An Argentine asado, a five-course barbecue with blood sausage, pork sausage and beef ribs. Trevor Immelman, 2009: Bobotie, a spiced minced meat baked with a custard topping.
Zach Johnson, 2008: Iowa beef and Florida shrimp. Phil Mickelson, 2007: Barbecued ribs. Tiger Woods, 2006: Steak and chicken fajitas. Phil Mickelson, 2005: Lobster ravioli and Caesar salad. Mike Weir, 2004: Elk [below], wild boar, Arctic char, Canadian beer.
Tiger Woods, 2003: Porterhouse steak and sushi (repeat of his 2002 menu). Tiger Woods, 2002: Porterhouse steak and sushi. Vijay Singh, 2001: Chicken panang curry [below], baked Chilean sea bass, rack of lamb in yellow curry sauce, and sea scallops in a pepper garlic sauce. (Prepared by a chef Singh brought in from Atlanta).
Nick Faldo, 1997: Fish and chips. Ben Crenshaw, 1996: Texas barbecue. Jose Maria Olazabal, 1995: Paella and tapas. Bernhard Langer, 1994: Turkey and dressing.
Fred Couples, 1993: Chicken cacciatore. Sandy Lyle, 1989: Haggis, mashed potatoes, mashed turnips.
Bernhard Langer, 1986: Wiener schnitzel (breaded veal).
Invitation for 2000 Champions Dinner (GreenJacketAuctions.com) And the winner is.........Vijay Singh! "It sounds like he enjoys food, both by the length of his menu and that he asked to bring in a chef," Colicchio said of Singh's Thai feast. "Most of the other menus are pretty conservative, as I would expect from golfers."
He also likes champions who bring their heritage to the menu, like Charl Schwartzel's South African barbecue and Mike Weir's Canadian wild boar, although he'd be happier if Sandy Lyle had left the haggis in Glasgow.
"The haggis is probably my least favorite," Colicchio said. "I’m not a fan, although if you wash it down with enough cold beer you can eat anything."
Colicchio used to play golf himself -- "I got down to a 12 or 13" -- and he loves the Masters, which he attended twice, just not the pimento cheese sandwiches.
"That's not really gourmet," he laughed.
So if there was a Cinderella story of a chef from New Jersey who came out of nowhere and became the Masters champions, what would Colicchio's Champions Dinner menu look like?
"I'd serve two of my favorite foods: squab, which is a small bird, and wild mushrooms. Crab is another one of my favorites, and it should be soft-shell crab season starting in Georgia right now," Colicchio said. "It’s springtime, so I’d want asparagus, peas and ramps [wild leaks], and you can probably find them around Augusta."
Singh's 2001 Champions Dinner was a hit with his fellow green jacket winners as well, according to a 2005 Sports Illustrated article about Singh and the Niyomkul family, who cooked the meal.
The 2001 past champions' dinner remains magical for both Singh and the Niyomkuls. The festivities began with a barbecue on the clubhouse porch, with Charlie cooking chicken satay and stuffed shrimp. The sit-down dinner featured a scallop and shrimp coconut soup, and then chicken panang curry, baked Chilean sea bass with three-flavor chili sauce, rack of lamb in yellow curry sauce, sea scallops in a pepper garlic sauce and sauteed vegetables, all served family-style. At every past champions' dinner the players have the option to choose from the club's regular menu, and to the mild dismay of the Niyomkuls, Jack Nicklaus ordered a plain grilled chicken breast. This brought a rebuke from Tiger Woods, whose mother is Thai. Says Charlie, "Tiger was like, 'C'mon, Jack, don't be scared. This is good food.' Jack had one bite and never stopped eating the whole night. Byron Nelson had never even seen Thai food before. He ate six or seven of the scallops, and they were huge, probably a quarter-pound each."
Colicchio was encouraged to hear the notoriously finicky former Masters champions enjoyed Singh's menu.
"It’s like I tell my kids," Colicchio said. "You can say no, but you have to try it first." [All photos from Associated Press except chicken penang curry, by Pamela Lao/Flickr] -- This story was produced for Golf Magazine's weekly Front9 app. To keep up with the latest golf news, get great tips from the Top 100 Teachers in America, and weekly Rules Guy columns, download the Front9 app at the Apple iTunes store. A lifetime subscription is $2.99.

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We would like to thank Mormanity for bringing this video to our attention.
President Eyring learned something profound when he first came to council in a setting of Church Leadership. He came into it with his “Harvard and Stanford eyes” ready to compare the decision making process to his experiences in more secular settings and was surprised by what he found.
This statement of process and coming together makes my heart happy and fills me with the desire to have this type of spiritual decision making in all my church callings.

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A popular Belgium waffles franchise has opened in Dubai with the help of the government’s agency to support small and medium enterprises.
Yummy Waffles Cafe opened in Dubai Festival City on Sunday under a franchisee agreement with Dubai SME, the Department of Economic Development agency mandated to develop the SME sector.
The cafe is part of the So Good Company Franchise, best known for making waffle dough.
It already has stores across Europe and in North America, South Africa, Turkey, Hong Kong and mainland China.
Chairman Abdul Salam Hammadi said the Dubai cafe also would serve some Arabian flavours.
He praised Dubai SME for helping to bring the brand to the emirate.
"We believe our initiative will serve as an inspiration for the entrepreneurial community and add a new flavour to Dubai's rich and varied mix of eateries,” he said in a statement.
“Entrepreneurs in Dubai are growing bolder and venturing into new partnerships with a comprehensive support system extended by the government and institutions like Dubai SME."
Dubai SME CEO Abdul Baset Al Janahi said the agency aimed to encourage entrepreneurs and start-ups in Dubai and international franchises were an opportunity to acquire global competencies, while expanding on them by adding an Arabian touch.

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The Biologic License Application for getting marketing approval for Bexsero meningitis B vaccine in the United States has been submitted by Novartis. Their vaccine has already received approval from 34 other countries. Novartis came up with this drug after researching for over 20 years. This vaccine was introduced in 2013 and Novartis has distributed over half a million doses across the globe. The FDA has awarded them with a breakthrough Therapy Status for this cell-culture vaccine.
The disease that causes viral or bacterial infection to occur in the membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord is referred to as meningitis. This type of disease is rare but can be life-threatening. The symptoms resemble those of flu and if not treated within 24 hours can kill or cause a serious disability. Bexsero has been administered to staff as well as students in some Universities in the U.S when an outbreak of meningitis B occurred. The US health authorities continue to work with Novaratis to provide Bexsero for any age groups.
The U.S Food and Drug Administration have also given their approval for introducing a facility in North Carolina called Holly Springs. They will produce pre-pandemic and seasonal influenza vaccines. This facility that uses cell-culture technology will have the capacity of ramping up production if a pandemic should occur. The U.S Department of Health and Human Services, Biomedical Advanced R&D authority and Novartis are in joint partnership of the Holly Spring facility. They were privileged to win the 2013 ISPE Facility of the Year Award.
Flucelvax is also producing using cell-culture technology by Novartis. This type of technology offer numerous benefits over the traditional vaccine for influence that is manufactured with chicken eggs. Novartis was able to develop a vaccine for the H7N9 influenza associated with the avian virus in China in March 2013.

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An out and back course, which starts at Morrison High School, with water stop located at the 1 mile and 2 mile. First 3/4 of a mile is flat with a small hill right before mile 1. A medium hill is located right before the turn around. The second half of the course is all down hill and fast.
Course begins in front of the high school on Genesee St. and makes a right hand turn onto Prairie Center Rd., a left hand turn on to Lister Rd., then a right hand turn onto Harvey Rd. Turn around is located on the top of the hill.
Bike Course: 2 lap course with rolling hills. Largest hill is located before the first mile and then again on the start of lap two.
Course begins on Genesee St. in front of the high school, a right hand turn onto Prairie Center Rd., a left hand turn on to Hillside Rd., then a left hand turn onto Bunker Hill Rd, followed by a left hand turn onto Lister Rd. First lap riders will make a left hand turn back onto Prairie Center and complete a second lap. After two laps are complete then the riders will make a right hand turn off of Lister Rd. onto Prairie Center followed by a left hand turn onto Genessee St. to the finish line in front of the high school.


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The Labour Party is wrong to argue against increasing mechanisation. It would impede productivity growth, depress wage growth, and encourage economic activity to relocate.
The UK manufacturing sector needs a supply side revolution if it is to continue to occupy a competitive position on the world stage. There is a continuing need for UK manufacturing, particularly in boosting productivity and exports.

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Nothing tells a story it like pictures. Some captures at the Nidahas Trophy game between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka which ended in a brawl.
1. Not all heroes wear capes!
Knowing Kusal Perera won’t make it to the non-striker’s end in time, Tharanga halted mid-way and returned on a suicidal mission unselfishly saving the man in form.
After Sri Lanka were 41-5, the two Perera’s Kusal and Thisara took Sri Lanka to a formidable score adding 97 runs for the 6th wicket.
3. KJP in sublime form!
The little emulator Kusal Janith Perera was in fine form. 4 matches, 204 runs, the highest run getter in the tournament. Keeps taking us on a nostalgic run to a time when the great Sanath Jayasuriya smashed the bowlers of the world all around the park.
What better time to bring up your first 50 in t20 internationals! Captain Thisara Perera (Sri Lankan hero now for more reasons than one)amassed a 37-ball 58 last night after coming in when the team was five down for 41.
The match winner from the record run-chase couldn’t get past Isuru Udana who was quick enough to run last-match hero Raheem out without scoring a run.
6. “The lion doesn’t concern himself with the opinions of the sheep” In his singular appearance on the field, Bangladeshl water-boy roused tensions on the field after match umpire reversed a no-ball delivery, trying to agitate the Lankan skipper who calmly held his stance.
7. Mahmudullah breaks the Lankan hearts!
With six needed in the last two deliveries, Mahmudullah flicks Isuru Udana’s fifth ball in the 20th over backward square to take Bangladesh to the final of the Nidahas Trophy throwing hosts Sri Lanka out.
8. Kusal Perera lost it!
Clearly there was something wrong when the most humble lad on the team lost his cool. Sporty of Tamim Iqbal to come in as a mediator to reason out before things got dirty!
9. Well earned victory marred by unsportsmanlike gesture Mahmudullah should have got the appreciation he deserved for taking his team over after Sri Lanka were in the driving seat during the last few overs. Unfortunately the incidents overshadowed the Bangladeshi performance at Khettarama.


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A Midwifery Group Practice (MGP) is a midwifery led model of care which follows a caseload model in accordance with the award. You will be involved in planning, co-ordinating and implementing care for a known group of women as well as providing support to other staff. MGP caseload midwives provide holistic care along the continuum of antenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum period. Caseload midwives are contracted on an annual salary and are largely self-managing deciding their working patterns in consultation with each other and their immediate supervisor to ensure that the needs of the clients and the organisation are met. 35% loading is applied to the ordinary rate in recognition of flexible patterns of work to provide continuity of care.
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Lion Babe had a long night in the UK, according to their songstress, Jillian Hervey, who’s a dead ringer of her mother, actress and singer Vanessa Williams. It wasn’t because she and Lion Babe’s other half Lucas Goodman (a.k.a. Astro Raw) were out and about, roaming the streets of London; they were busy preparing in the studio for their then UK tour. This is Lion Babe’s way of conquering the world with their soul-filled and heady tunes—one continent at a time. The idiom “strike while the iron is hot” is something that they’ve obviously been practicing and taking in by heart. “It’s been moving pretty fast for us. When we released our first song ‘Treat Me Like Fire,’ we signed a record deal six months later. That really pushed us to develop our sound and make more good songs,” shares Lucas. The duo have already worked with titans of the music industry such as Mark Ronson, Pharrell Williams, and Childish Gambino, and with their debut album coming around September, they’ve been doing more collaborations—trying to infuse new flavors and sounds to their present gamut and song-producing formula.
We caught up with the duo while hustling in an unfamiliar territory that they won over by their special blend of soul, talent, and charisma.
You’re currently on tour in the UK for your self-titled debut EP. How is the reception of your audience there so far?
Lucas: It’s been great! We just put out our most recent single called “Wonder Woman,” which we collaborated on with Pharrell Williams, and it’s been doing really well. We just found out yesterday that the single got included on the B-List of BBC Radio 1, that’s amazing. Getting that push and everyone digging the track like that, it’s really nice over here.
How do you make sure that your audience is having fun in your show?
Jillian: Performing on stage is personally our kind of escape. The only way we can guarantee that other people are having fun is if we’re having fun. I just usually let it go and do what I feel is natural and make sure that the band is connected with everyone. I think that kind of energy is what people pick up from. It’s just being open to have the audience interact, and whenever they smile, I smile back.
What has been the most surreal thing to happen to you guys due to this newfound success?
J: When I look back this past year alone, one of the biggest experiences for us would be opening for The Roots in a series of tours. That was really exciting.
Outside of your life as the duo Lion Babe, what’s your life like? Do you still find time to do other things that aren’t music related?
J: Right now, not really, but it’s totally fine. We understand. We’re hardworking people, we spend a lot of time thinking about what we’re making. But that being said, it’s summer, and yes, I wish I can be chilling at a BBQ with my friends in Brooklyn, but we gotta work. If I’m not being Lion Babe, most likely I’d be making some tea, sitting outside with my dog, or trying to see my family. I love art, I like going to museums, and I love going to performances to see my other friends perform. I definitely miss that because scheduling has been tough, but I think it’s also important that you have to keep feeding your brain with what other people are making. Luckily, there’s internet for that, but a lot of times, it doesn’t satisfy you as much as actually seeing and watching a performance. Whenever we have the moment, it’s really good to have some R n’ R and take some time off.
Besides touring, what’s next for Lion Babe?
J: We’re currently preparing for our tour here in the UK, that’s super exciting. We’ll be releasing more music, just really trying to grow musically. People have singles and EPs to live with, but I think that they would love more music and more content, so that they can really be more excited. It’s fun to make something and we really want to share it to everybody. It’s just really doing that and growing as a band, and I’m sure we’ll be traveling more.

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This cute Cripple Creek condo is the perfect first time home buyer or Aggie home, a stones throw to the TAMU Shuttle Bus stop, it has 1 bedroom, 1 bath, a spacious living, kitchen and dining. It has new carpet and fresh paint. . Bedroom has 2 large closets and washer-dryer. The complex has a pool and tennis courts.
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Now that we are all living longer, we all run the risk of losing our capacity to deal with day to day issues, so will require the help of trusted advisers, normally family members. They will need the Authority to make decisions on your behalf for both Financial & Health issues-The only way this can be assured is to arrange for Lasting Power of Attorney.
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If you purchase one of our shared web hosting plans, you will receive what you've paid for with no exclusions. We don't oversell and we'll give you all of the system resources which you can see on our site for each of the plans. Even the features which are listed as unrestricted have no hidden quotas and we can afford that as we use an extremely powerful custom website hosting platform. Instead of generating accounts on a single server like the majority of companies do, we offer clusters of servers controlling every part of the hosting service - file storage, database access, e-mails, statistics, and so on. Owing to this, the system resources are practically inexhaustible as we can keep adding disk drives or entire servers to any of the clusters. In contrast to all widespread Control Panels, our Hepsia tool was meant to work on such a platform.
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Researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) have developed a miniature X-ray source with laser light. They used this light-generated radiation in combination with phase-contrast X-ray tomography and captured three-dimensional images of ultrafine details of a fly measuring just a few millimeters. Until now, such radiation could only be produced in expensive ring accelerators measuring several kilometers in diameter. The newly developed instruments only require a university laboratory.
When the physicists Prof. Stefan Karsch, researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and Prof. Franz Pfeiffer, TUM professor for Biomedical Physics, illuminate a tiny fly with the new technique, the resulting image captures even the finest hairs on the wings of the insect. For the first time, the scientists have coupled their technique for generating X-rays from laser pulses with phase-contrast X-ray tomography to visualize tissues in organisms. The result is a three-dimensional view of the insect in exact detail.
The X-rays required were generated by electrons that were accelerated to nearly the speed of light over a distance of approximately one centimeter by laser pulses lasting around 25 femtoseconds. A femtosecond is one millionth of a billionth of a second. The laser pulses have a power of approximately 80 terawatts (80 x 1012 watts). By way of comparison: an atomic power plant generates 1,500 megawatts (1.5 x 109 watts).
First, the laser pulse ploughs through a plasma consisting of positively charged atomic cores and their electrons like a ship through water, producing a wake of oscillating electrons. This electron wave creates a trailing wave-shaped electric field structure on which the electrons surf and are accelerated in the process. The particles then start to vibrate, emitting X-rays. Each light pulse generates an X-ray pulse. The X-rays generated have special properties: They have a wavelength of approximately 0.1 nanometers, a duration of only about five femtoseconds, and are spatially coherent, i.e., they appear to come from a point source.
For the first time, the MPI and LMU researchers have combined their laser-driven X-rays with a phase-contrast imaging method developed by a team headed by Prof. Franz Pfeiffer of TUM. Instead of the usual absorption of radiation, they used X-ray refraction to accurately image the shapes of objects, including soft tissues. For this to work, the spatial coherence mentioned above is essential.
This laser-based imaging technique enables the researchers to view structures around one tenth to one hundredth the diameter of a human hair. Another advantage is the ability to create three-dimensional images of objects. After each X-ray pulse, meaning after each frame, the specimen is rotated slightly. For example, about 1,500 individual images were taken of the fly, which were then assembled to form a 3-D data set.
Due to the shortness of the X-ray pulses, this technique may be used in future to freeze ultrafast processes on the femtosecond time scale e.g. in molecules – as if they were illuminated by a femtosecond flashbulb.
The technology is particularly interesting for medical applications, as it is able to distinguish between differences in tissue density. Cancer tissue, for example, is less dense than healthy tissue. The method therefore opens up the prospect of detecting tumors that are less than one millimeter in diameter in an early stage of growth before they spread through the body and exert their lethal effect. For this purpose, however, researchers must shorten the wavelength of the X-rays even further in order to penetrate thicker tissue layers. Due to the small size of the X-ray source, the new imaging method could make future medical applications more cost-effective and space-efficient than is possible with today’s technologies.

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I think this subject has been covered before but I cant find it in the archives and hope someone can lead Me in the right direction. I am about to shoot a small feature and one of the gags is that it is supposed to be during a very hot summer and we need to get that shimmering heat effect.
Needless to say that at this time of year in Canada it is not going to happen naturally so we will have to produce the effect in camera. A flame bar below the lens has been suggested but I would like to know if any other working ideas are out there?
I've used a few methods to get this effect. A Blond or Mighty faced up in front of the lens, a Coleman propane stove w/ 2 burners (no flame) set the long way just at the bottom frame line, and the heat from the "festering" charcoal in a Weber grill.
A longer lens always helps as well.
I have had to accomplish this effect in very close quarters before where flames/heat were prohibitive. We duplicated the shimmering heat effect using high pressure helium. We used one of the ~ 5' tall canisters with the appropriate regulators attached. We had a 50' high pressure hose line connected to the regulator, and on the "business end" we had a simple on/off valve.
Now what you have to do, to spread the effect across your entire frame, is to fashion a diffuser nozzle. We made a very simple inverted triangle box out of foamcore ( think V ), the nozzle was connected to the "southern" end of the V. We placed this under the lens about 4 feet in front of the camera and it worked like a charm.
One caveat, however. The high rate of flow can be VERY loud, so if you are in an enclosed area, communication can be hampered and ear protection is advised. Good luck and no sucking on the hose between takes.
One easy portable way to go is to use a few cans of sterno (jellied alcohol in cans used for heating food trays in buffets and such) on a board right below and in front of lens. Advantage is nearly colourless, smokeless flame, portability, ease of extinguishing, relatively safe.
Not as much poop as a flame bar but not as much fuss either (no propane container, hoses, etc).
If you need to do a lot of these shots, you might consider buying a lot of cans at Costco - they will not last all that long. Cheap and easy to test, however.
Editing can do it easily, safe, no flames, gas, loud sounds, etc. Definitely an easy post maneuver so you can concentrate on making nice pictures.
>any other working ideas are out there?
I've always used a couple cans of sterno just under the lens. Have a guy hold them with a pair of fireplace gloves and wiggle them around a bit.
On "Sega Howdedodat!" we used flamebars in front of the lens for every shot, sometimes 2 at staggered distances.
I really don't think anything else looks like it.
>On "Sega Howdedodat!" we used flamebars in front of the lens for every >shot, sometimes 2 at staggered distances. I really don't think anything >else looks like it.
What's cool (or hot) about your method there is how it works with the wides. I've gotten great results with Sterno on longer lenses, but wide angle is tough, with any kind of wind very tough unless you want to set up windbreaks with flags etc etc.
>On "Sega Howdedodat!" we used flamebars in front of the lens for every >shot, sometimes 2 at staggered distances.
Recently did just that on a table top food shot, but a bit unnerving with flame bars pretty close to the camera in a modest sized studio.
That roll was first up in telecine while I was out getting some rocket fuel and when I came back the colorist (new, young and a bit inexperienced but pretty good) had this really worried look on his face. "Ah, something is going on here, I don't know if it's the film or the Rank." I explained the heat wave thing and he was much relieved. Seems like the effect worked pretty good.
I've done it w/ an electric hot plate below the lens.
Geoff, I really like your light in this commercial. I’m about to shoot a video clip which has a sequence of western, I was asked by the director to recreate this kind of light in a studio. I’d like you to tell me specifically how do you get this kind of warm and hot atmosphere, apart from the heat waves that I’ve used before... was the color get it in spirit transfer or ambient light or filter, can you tell me if you remember about key lights, your work with mirrors, exposition, all you can to get same results...and to all CML’s that can help in this way all welcome!!!
>Geoff I really like your light in this commercial. I’m about to shoot a >video clip which has a sequence of western, I was asked by the director >to recreate this kind of light in a studio.
First of all you shoot on a stock that isn't available anymore Agfa.
No, seriously a lot of the look come deliberately overexposing highlights, really walloping the level down on the stock! expose for the shadows and to hell with the highlights!
We also printed this commercial, just the selected takes, and telecined from the print.
Contrast levels that scare you to death are important, if you're not panicking when you shoot you haven't taken it far enough.
This was Ursa not a Spirit.
Heavy use of Polas and NBRA's help as well.
Lack of sleep on this shoot probably helped as well, ie I got to a point where I'd just go for it, it was the local festa so we finished shooting around 7pm went to the Festa until, err 3 maybe 4 am and then went on location at 7am.
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Its Autumn and that means Christmas is officially on the way (sorry to you Christmas haters out there), but that ALSO means Coast have launched their fabulous new AW15 collections *squeal*. I had a play around with the new Roccobella dress (which may I add, is truly beautiful) and decided to create two totally different looks.
The first, is a classic look with heels and a small clutch which would be perfect for a prom, a party or even a fancy Christmas do! I love the detailing on this dress as it means you don’t necessarily have to wear accessories, it can look simple and classy without. Not to mention the beautiful flowing skirt – my weakness!
I then decided to try making this dress slightly more edgy by pairing it with my trusty Doc Marten boots, not necessarily your ‘go to’ footwear with a dress like this but dare to be different eh? I love the retro punk edge they bring. I also teamed this with a black leather jacket from H&M because here in the UK you can’t be without a jacket – Ever. I actually love how this outfit ended up as I think mixing classic pieces with retro pieces can blend two different eras together and makes an outfit just that bit more interesting.


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Being an avid C.S. Lewis fan, I am unsure as to how to react to the news that Twentieth Century Fox is going to take the helm in the making of the third Narnia film. According to news reports, the movie giant has partnered up with Walden Media and will create the third installment in The Chronicles of Narnia series.
The development was announced after the Walt Disney Co stepped out of the picture sometime this week. If you recall, Walt Disney and Walden Media were the entities behind the first two Narnia films, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and Prince Caspian. And the reason behind Disney’s letting go of the franchise? “Budgetary considerations and other logistics.” Could this be a sign that Disney is being affected by the economic times?
Perhaps. The numbers that were involved in producing the first two Narnia films are around $180 million to $200 million. The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe grossed about $745 million worldwide while Prince Caspian earned nearly half of that amount at $420 million. Perhaps Disney is merely playing it safe and not wanting to risk much lower turnouts.
In any case, the third movie is going to be The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. The story (based on the book, at least, as the movie is not out yet) picks up Caspian’s story but many many years later. The once prince is now the King and is on a quest to find the seven lost lords of Narnia – a promise which he made to Aslan. The younger Pevensies and their cousin Eustace are drawn into Narnia again. The Dawn Treader is Caspian’s ship, where much of the story will take place.
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Falling in the middle of the towering successes of Off the Wall and Thriller, Triumph achieves a balance between the blissful disco of the former and the sharp-edged pop of the latter. While the Jacksons were still bonded at this time, there is no denying that Michael had become the dominant creative force within the group. He is responsible for writing or co-writing six of the album’s nine songs, and even on tunes by Jackie and Randy (“Your Ways,” “Wondering Who,” “Time Waits for No One”) Michael’s vocals give the music its glowing aura. While there is nothing here as indispensable as “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” or “Billie Jean,” “Can You Feel It,” “Lovely One,” and “This Place Hotel” exude the same urgent passion that made Michael’s solo work so irresistible. Triumph can’t boast the phenomenal popularity of its sister albums, but it is no less golden. Michael Jackson was in the zone, enlivened by the support of his family, and everything he touched during this period alights with a singularly exhilarating inspiration.
"Can U Feel It?" I Can!
Tito, Jackie, Randy, Marlon and Michael the recorders on this CD given to the world known as "TRIUMPH." This CD is a symbol of the peacock many strings, sounds, emotions and feelings. Michael was at his peak on lead songs "This Place Hotel," and "Can You Feel It" which is definately a club favorite. This CD also showcases the muscial talents of Jackie Jackson in "Wondering Who" an inovative club disco sound. Other jams include "Lovely One" and "Everybody" leading up to the sound from the man we all know as the "King of Pop," Michael Jackson. Triumph is an Epic and a must have for a Jackson fan!
Destiny was probably the better album, but the Jacksons here clearly remained on top of the soul music world with Triumph. To tallTB, you are mistaken. The song was originally entitled "Heartbreak Hotel" when the album first came out in 1980. Apparently, it was changed later (maybe because of the clash with Elvis' song "Heartbreak Hotel"). I'm a REAL Jacksons fan.
Itunes is missing a ton of more songs from the Jacksons.
Took me forever to find one song....Get it together.


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There are plenty of ways to remove stains from your sofa. Below you will find a few ideas and suggestions. Below you will find a few ideas and suggestions. Get a bowl and put three tablespoons of baking soda in it.
Remove odours from your micro suede by putting baking soda over the area and leaving it to soak in. Vacuum it off or shake it out. If you use a furniture deodoriser spray, just mist lightly or you will leave watermarks on your faux suede.
Mix one and a half tablespoons of baking soda with one tablespoon of detergent and mix together with a toothbrush. Scrub the canvas sneakers with the mixture using the toothbrush and leave for 20 minutes. Thoroughly rinse the surface of your shoes with clean water (don’t put this in a washer as this can shrink your shoes) and then leave to dry.


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Freezing rain fell in Philadelphia and the north and west suburbs overnight while snow fell until turning to ice in the Poconos and Lehigh Valley. It’s all part of a second storm this week that continues to move through our region, creating slippery road conditions throughout.
Basically if you don’t have to go anywhere, don’t. Driving conditions are bad in many areas and trees are blocking some roads.
Of course, you might be sitting in the dark.
The icy conditions knocked out power to more than half a million customers — nearly 80 percent of PECO customers in Chester County and nearly half of PECO’s Montgomery County customers — around the region as ice weighted down power lines and caused branches to break.
See PECO’s map of service outages.
Nearly1/3 of an inch of ice had fallen by 7 a.m. in Northeast Philadelphia and Trenton, N.J. with more than 1/4 inch in Norristown; Pottstown, Pa. and Washington Township, N.J.
Abington Memorial Hospital was using on backup generators after power was knocked out to the area.
The icy mess caused wrecks around the region including crashes and downed trees on the Schuylkill Expressway (I-76), Route 30, the Pa. Turnpike and a tree that sprawled across U.S. Route 1 northbound at Maple Avenue in Bucks County.
PennDOT closed I-76 eastbound at the Blue Route (I-476) due to concerns above downed trees and closed U.S. Route 1 between I-95 and Route 213 due to a downed trees. The Pa. Turnpike also warned of downed tress in the lanes of the Pa. Turnpike’s Northeast Extension and closed the road in both directions from Exit 236 to Exit 242.
Plenty of local roads were blocked by trees and, with power knocking out traffic signals, drivers should treat those intersections as four-way stops.
It wasn’t much better on the rails. Amtrak suspended service between Philly and Harrisburg around 9 a.m.
Service was suspended along SEPTA’s West Trenton Line and New Jersey Transit’s Northeast Corridor due to wire problems on Amtrak’s line that knocked out service for hours. SEPTA also said the Cynwyd, Paoli/Thorndale and Warminster Lines were suspended. They said to expect delays up to 30 to 40 minutes on some rail lines, trolleys and a handful of bus routes due to power issues.
SEPTA said to track delays and cancellations on the SEPTA website but the site slowed to a snail’s pace due to increased traffic.
SEPTA spokeswoman Heather Redfern said the site isn’t actually down but slowed. She said SEPTA’s IT team was addressing the problem.
The storm also closed area business and government offices including the Philadelphia Zoo and Montgomery County’s government. The power outage also forced the Montgomery Mall to close until further notice.
A Winter Storm Warning is in effect for the entire state of Pennsylvania as well as parts of South Jersey and Delaware until 1 p.m. Wednesday.
By the time the storm moves out, forecasters say some parts of the area could get up to a half-inch of ice.
Bill also says that conditions should slowly improve as time passes.
“We will see slow improvement during the morning,” he said.
He also advised drivers to be careful, especially in the north and west suburbs.
Due to slippery road conditions, officials with the Pennsylvania Turnpike banned commercial vehicles pulling double trailers as well as empty tractor-trailers throughout the Turnpike system until further notice. All tractor-trailers are restricted to the right lane only between the Breezewood and New Stanton exits.
Officials also reduced speed limits on the Turnpike to 45 mph for roadways for hours before lifting the restriction after 9 a.m.
Drivers were warned to stay alert for areas with snow, poor visibility and icy road conditions. They were also advised to allow plenty of space when driving near plow trucks and to never attempt to pass a truck while it’s plowing or spreading winter materials.
In Lower Merion Township motorists were warned to stay off the road due to downed trees, power outages and slippery streets.
It also knocked out phone service to the Horsham Township Building and police station.
A small amount of ice can make walking and driving tricky, but higher amounts can wreak havoc on trees and power lines.
A half-inch accumulation of ice on power lines can add 500-pounds of extra weight, according to our sister network The Weather Channel. Ice can also increase the weight of branches by 30 times significantly increasing the potential for breaking and complete falls.
“Remember, respect the snow, fear the ice,” said Gary Szatkowski, of the National Weather Service’s Philadelphia/Mt. Holly Office.
Snow is still falling in the Upper Lehigh Valley and the Poconos. Nearly 8 inches fell in Tobyhanna in the Poconos..
Allentown, Easton and most of the northern and western Pa. suburbs — 9 inches fell in Bushkill Township — got measurable snow before turning over to ice.
Philadelphia, the I-95 corridor and the nearby suburbs didn’t see much snow but did get plenty of ice.
Only rain fell in most of far South Jersey and Delaware.
The storm is expected to move out early this afternoon.
After storm No. 2 moves out, a third system will move into the area over the weekend with the potential for more winter weather. Glenn says the track of that storm will be determined by what the second storm does.

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I gotta admit that I'm pretty underwhelmed by the technology so far. Ring tones? Trailers of other movies? Hopefully they're going to come up with some better uses for it.
It will get better. The Lionsgate molog feature sounds interesting. The Technicolor trivia game was also ok.
That Aliens vs. Predator online game sounded pretty interesting too.
Ian wrote: That Aliens vs. Predator online game sounded pretty interesting too.
It was actually pretty lame. It sounds interesting, but when you play it, it is pretty sucky and boring. There are no options to aim or do anything complicated, all you can do is press one button on the remote control to "shoot".


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By applying the third generation ACV-OSV and our new HSC-OSV surface vessels in environmentally sensitive regions will gain significant environmental benefits.
A conventional displacement vessel designed to carry 10 - 200 tons at 40 knots would require propulsion by diesel or gas-turbine engines at extremely high power output.
No, or limited, Submarine Impact.
Transference of propeller noise from our ACV-OSV vessels to marine life does not occur and does not have a negative impact on the submarine life at all. And due to the extremely limited hull resistance and shallow draft on our HSC-OSV vessels, the negative impact on flora, fauna, seabed sediments and fish spawn are limited. For our ACV-OSV vessels this impact is zero because of total absence of any underwater turbulence or stern gear.
There is no discharge of diesel fuel, lubrication oil, gasoline or hot exhaust gases into the water by either the ACV-OSV or the HSC-OSV vessels.
The MMS (Multi Mission System) design platform of our HSC-OSV enable LNG as an alternative to gasoil (diesel) fuel. We encourage our clients to implement an appropriate fuel infrastructure, LNG storage and distribution.
Our light displacement vessels generates almost zero wash above hump-speed. Beach-, jetty- and harbor construction erosion is avoided or limited. The erosion is a major problem caused by conventional medium and heavy displacement vessels in the most sensitive regions.
Due to the past ten years development of propeller ducts with close propeller tip clearance our ACV-OSV fleet is not noisier than equivalent multi engine conventional high speed vessels. Our HSC-OSV vessels posses very low emissions due to the newest generation power plants and propulsion. Independent noise tests has been carried out both in England, Sweden, Alaska and Brazil recording acceptable low levels.
No, or limited Toxic Antifouling.
Our ACV-OSV fleet does not call for any toxic antifouling paint to keep bottom clean from vegetation. Toxic bottom paints has become serious problems in the most sensitive areas. Due to the limited wetted surface on our HSC-OSV fleet, a limited amount of anti fouling paint is needed which, reduce any toxic impact on the submarine life.
Navifast and its subsidiaries have applied a very strict agenda for the discharge of all waste related to the maintenance and the operation of the vessels. This goes for all on-shore and offshore activities. All proceedings are stipulated in our QHSE and Code of Business. We apply a zero-discharge policy.

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To ensure comparable land cross-spread 3D to 2D data quality, many authors advocate dense in-line receiver and in-line shot station sampling but ignore the receiver and shot line dimensions that are generally 10 to 20 times larger than station spacings. Consequently land 3Ds are routinely acquired with coarse cross-lines with a severe asymmetry between line and station dimensions resulting in extremely erratic offset and azimuth sampling within and between bins. This asymmetry causes severe statistical and aliasing limitations for key processing and inversion steps such as surface consistent statics, pre-stack migration (PSTM) and even AVO due to a lack of near offsets, as all of these applications have strict requirements for dense regularly sampled shot, receiver and common reflection point domains. By contrast, 2D linear spatial sampling is regular and dense with fold that is higher by the same line to station spacing ratio of cross-spread 3D's i.e. by factors of 10 to 20 times. The reason for this is that 2D fold is a function of shot spacing that is routinely acquired to be equal to the receiver spacing, while 3D fold is a function of line spacing (shot and receiver) that is considerably coarser than station spacings. This irregularly sampled lower fold aliases high wavenumber surface noise and leaks interbed multiple interference that contaminates signal in the standard gather domains of common shot, receiver, offset, azimuth and mid-point, thereby distorting the final 3D stack in subtle ways resulting directly in drilling failure for stratigraphic targets. However reducing line spacings to station dimensions incurs significant additional cost and may be environmentally prohibitive.
One solution or compromise to this dilemma is to acquire a wide azimuth parallel geometry with coincident shots and receivers that naturally reduces the line dimension to the station spacing in the in-line direction and efficiently allows for a finer cross-line spacing that may be regular or staggered (see following discussion on random sampling). However the compromise is that the cross-line spacing creates an asymmetric coarse cross-line bin that needs to be reduced by factors of 2 to 6 times in order to create the desired symmetric bin of the cross-spread 3D design. A design variously termed MegaBin or SlimBin that achieves this goal was tested through an oversampled decimation experiment and introduced in the early 90's by Goodway and Ragan while at PanCanadian. Ever since its introduction MegaBin has been vociferously denounced by various authors notably Vermeer, Cary and Perz to name a few, with good reason as this regular coarse cross-line bin spacing leads to aliasing that violates the Nyquist limit.
This brings the discussion to spatial interpolation. At the time of its introduction in the 90's the MegaBin design purposefully incorporated and aimed to recover the coarse cross-line bin size through interpolation both pre- and post-stack. At that time many authors rejected the ability of interpolation to successfully de-alias coarse sampling as the commonly quoted statement "you can't recover what you did not pay for" clearly indicates. However notable exceptions to this thinking included Claerbout and Spitz (1991) who showed that the spatial Nyquist limit when viewed as a wavenumber bandwidth can be overcome, i.e. de-aliased, by assuming that the un-aliased, low temporal frequencies share the same linear velocity or plane as the aliased, higher temporal frequencies. In addition this spatial bandwidth need not be contiguous, i.e. the wavefield may be comprised of a few planes with wavenumbers both below and well above the Nyquist limit as long as the sum of these wavenumbers did not exceed Nyquist. Both authors concluded that the assumption of a smoothly varying linear model for the wavefield (or a plane wave decomposition in a limiting sense), permits a reasonable reconstruction of the pre-migrated wavefield at finer spatial sampling, by using FX spatial prediction. The MegaBin patent awarded to PanCanadian required recovery beyond Nyquist of the coarse cross-line dimension through processes such as FX interpolation that primarily de-aliases signal as pre-conditioning for PSTM, but in some cases for linear noise attenuation that is more challenging due to its spatially sporadic high wavenumbers. In the last few years interpolation has finally gained wide acceptance through the research and implementation of pre-stack 5D Minimum Weighted Norm Interpolation (MWNI) by Sacchi and Trad that has allowed previously Nyquist challenged processes such as PSTM to succeed. However unlike the model driven FX de-aliasing methods championed by Claerbout and Spitz, MWNI does not explicitly de-alias data beyond the Nyquist limit. The reason for this is that MWNI as its name implies, relies on iteratively reinforcing the correct un-aliased wavenumbers in the presence of aliased wavenumbers. In order to achieve this, the un-aliased data must have a stronger representation in FK space than the contaminating aliased wavenumbers. This misunderstanding of MWNI's ability to de-alias was recently expounded at a lunchbox talk by Cary last year where the suggestion was to resort to random sampling, as this reduces the strength of aliased wavenumbers by smearing the strong regularly sampled aliases across the full range of low signal to high noise wavenumbers. However this randomness is difficult to achieve and not acquired in practice by cross-spread 3D's due to logistical field limitations. An easier alternative mentioned in the second paragraph above, is to simulate randomness or introduce irregularity by staggering or dithering the cross-line spacings in parallel geometries such as MegaBin.
So far the discussion for land 3D has focused exclusively on the Nyquist limit as formulated by Shannon's (1949) sinc interpolation that forms the basis for MWNI. What has not appeared in the land 3D debate is the concept of Seismic Wavefield Gradiometry to accurately reconstruct both the aliased signal and noise wavefields beyond Nyquist by factors of 2 to 6 times according to the multichannel sampling theorem of Linden (1959). This theorem accurately recovers aliased wavenumbers by simultaneously exploiting point sampling and its various higher order derivatives or gradients using sinc interpolation combined with a Taylor series expansion.
The presentation will cover both the past and future solutions described above, to accurately recover an inherent and severe acquisition sampling limitation that arises from coarse land 3D line spacings whether they be cross-spread or linear in design.


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This article is part of a series on the OWASP Top 10 for ASP.net Core. See below for links to other articles in the series.
In our previous article on the OWASP Top 10 we talked about SQL Injection. Where SQL Injection has a pretty definitive explanation and examples, this next one on “Broken Authentication and Session Management” is a bit more open ended. It covers everything from bad password storage systems (Plain text, weak hashing) to exposing of a session to a user that can then be stolen (For example a session string in a URL) all the way to simple things such as timing out a authenticated session.
As always, while the topics we talk about here are a good start to protecting your ASP.net Core application, they are by no means the end of the road. Especially when it comes to things like hashing of passwords. It’s a game of always staying up to date with the latest threats and updating your application as you go along.
It goes without saying that all passwords stored in a database should be hashed and have an individual salt (More on the individual salt later). Under no circumstances should passwords be stored as plain text. When you store plain text passwords, not only do you run the risk of if you get hacked, users on your website having their account stolen, but because people tend to use the same password on multiple sites, you run the risk of then being the source of pain for a user across every website they use.
If you use ASP.net Core Identity framework, out of the box you are going to have secure password hashes and an individual salt used. Identity uses the PBKDF2 hashing function for passwords, and they generate a random salt per user. Ideally if you are unsure on what you are doing, use the out of the box functionality! Microsoft actually have pretty good documentation on getting the framework up and running.
While using the out of the box ASP.net Core Identity framework is definitely preferable, there may be times where you just need to roll your own. But the roll your own only extends to the C# code that you are using to authenticate, under no circumstances should you “invent” a hashing algorithm of your own to store passwords.
OWASP recommends 4 different one way hashing functions for storing passwords. In order they are Argon2, PBKDF2, scrypt and bcrypt. If you intend to write your own authentication layer you must use one of these.
Salting is the act of adding a random string of text to your password before hashing it. In this way, even if the same password is hashed, the resulting hash will be different… Confused? Let’s use an example. I will use the PBKDF2 hashing function for this example.
Let’s say, I am using the password apples4tea . When I hash this I get the result of : 09ADB1C51A54C33C11CD3AE113D820305EFA53A173C2FF4A3150B5EC934E76FF . Now if a second user signs up to my site and uses the same password, they will have exactly the same hash. You can test this yourself by using a PBKDF2 Calculator online calculator here. Why is this bad? Well it means any hacker can essentially “pre-compute” what a password hash would be (For example, taking a list of the most popular passwords today), and simply do a string compare in a database.
Ontop of this, it means that all users who share the same password have the same hash. When one users password is “cracked” or even guessed, anyone else who uses that same password now has their password leaked also.
Now let’s say I add in a random salt for the user and I concatenate it onto the start of the password. The first time round my salt is H786Bnh54A . Hashing the full string of H786Bnh54Aapples4tea gives me the hash of DfsjpycJwtWkOu8UcP8YXC/G09HES8LU+kku0iSllO4= . Another user signs up to the site and a randomly generated hash is given to them of 76HNhg67Ac . Now we hash the salt with the same password and we end up with a hash of RP62+SmFCJLeQzROTtk5HpMId0zuFtsPeBFuBLpH/Sc=. Now we have the same password, and yet have a different hash.
Quite famously, Adobe had a giant data breach in 2013 that leaked users passwords. The passwords were not per user salted, and worst of all the password “hints” were stored along side the passwords. Meaning if a hint helped you guess one users password, any user using the exact same password would have the same hash in the database! Sophos did a great write up of the breach here. And of course there is an XKCD of the incident too.
If you use ASP.net Identity, the salt is stored with the password in the same column in the database (Because the salt is the same length everytime, we just count the characters as the salt, with the remainder being the hash).In previous iterations of ASP Membership (in .NET full framework), the salt was stored in a separate column. Either are fine as long as the salt is per user, and not application wide.
In previous versions of ASP.net, you could have a “cookieless” session. You would then see URL’s that looked not too dissimilar from the following : http://www.example.com/(S(lit3py55t21z5v55vlm25s55))/orderform.aspx . Where the session data is actually contained within the URL rather than in a cookie. This caused havoc for multiple reasons. Imagine sending this URL to a friend, and now they have access to your session data! Even worse is that if you click on any outbound links on this page, the referrer header will be set to include your session.
In ASP.net Core, cookieless sessions were actually never implemented so you won’t see URL’s like this. It doesn’t mean you won’t see people going ahead and trying to implement something similar in a roll-your-own type fashion however. In simple terms, no URL that is given to another user via any means should be able to suddenly impersonate the user.
There is actually an entire OWASP Top 10 article coming up about encrypted connections, but it deserves special mention here. Even if your passwords are all hashed with a per user salt, and you don’t expose session identifiers in the URL, it means nothing if you are susceptible to “Man in the middle” attacks. A user connecting to some dodgy airport open wifi could mean they unintentionally broadcast our their clear text password when logging in.
SSL means you are encrypted from the a users computer to the server, no matter the route it takes – dodgy wifi included. Given free SSL providers such as Let’s Encrypt popping up, and even sites like Cloudflare offering free SSL. There is really no reason to not protect your users by taking advantage of SSL.
On a final note, We’ve talked about ASP.net Core Identity so much in this article. But again I would like to point out just how much it enforces good habits. Let’s just take a look at the setup for Identity that you would typically put in your Configure Services method.
Look at the options you have here. There are very good password enforcement options (Although arguments can be made that you shouldn’t go overboard on requiring things like alphanumeric as people tend to then just write them down on pieces of paper…), good options for locking a users account if they continually type in bad passwords, and even requiring email confirmation (Which again, is part of the Identity framework).
I use these examples because they are great pointers to best practice when it comes to authentication and session management. Even if you decide to roll your own, you should investigate what Identity gives you out of the box so that you can replicate some or all of the functionality, and always keep up to date with the latest improvements to the framework.
Authentication and session management is such a broad topic and one that I think is plagued by slow moving legacy applications. Often when I’ve shown new developers things such as session identifiers in the URL, they can’t imagine why someone would ever do that. “Did people actually ever think that was secure?” is an actual quote from a junior developer I’ve worked with. I think that’s actually the essence of the topic, that we need to be on the forefront of what’s new and secure when it comes to authentication and sessions, so that we stay ahead of the “Did people actually every think that was secure?” curve.
In our next article, we will investigate the never ending fight against Cross-Site Scripting (Or XSS). See you then!


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When winter storms significantly impact highway travel in Wyoming, the state's chain law will go into effect.
Wyoming's chain law is two-tiered. What is called "Level 1" is declared when conditions are rated as "hazardous." Travel is restricted to vehicles equipped with tire chains, or to vehicles with adequate snow tires, or to all-wheel-drive vehicles.
When conditions deteriorate to an "extremely hazardous" rating, Level 2 of the chain law is declared. Travel is then restricted to vehicles equipped with tire chains or all-wheel-drive vehicles equipped with adequate mud and snow or all-weather tires.
For commercial vehicles, Level 2 of the chain law requires chains be on at least two of the drive wheels, at opposite ends of the same drive axle.
Along I-80 in southern Wyoming, the chain law is most likely to be enacted for three specific high-elevation sections.
-- Three Sisters (mileposts 7 to 34, east and westbound) between Evanston and Bridger Valley. Specially designated chain installation and removal areas are located at both ends of the section.
-- Walcott Jct. (beginning at milepost 235, eastbound) east of Rawlins and Sinclair. Chain installation or removal may be accommodated at Walcott Jct. Interchange (exit 235) or other locations designated by WYDOT or Wyoming Highway Patrol (WHP).
-- Summit (beginning at milepost 318, eastbound) from the bottom of Telephone Canyon east of Laramie. Chain installation or removal may be accommodated at locations designated by WYDOT or WHP.
Drivers on I-80 who cannot meet the requirements of the chain law will be asked to turn around and return to the nearest community.
Another locale where the chain law is likely to be enacted during storms is the South Pass section of WYO 28 between Farson and Lander.
Highway Patrol troopers may make compliance checks when the chain law is in effect. A driver who violates the chain law and causes a highway closure can be fined $750; other chain law violations carry a $250 penalty.
"The chain law was enacted to improve traveler safety and to reduce the number of road closures resulting from vehicles becoming stuck on the roadway," WHP Administrator Col. John Butler said. "Our enforcement efforts are focused on those goals"
"State law does not specify any certain time of year when commercial vehicles must carry tire chains, but it's a good idea for them do so during the cold weather season," Butler added.

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Congratulations to the 2018 Global Stock Pitch Competition Winners!
Congratulations to the winners of the 2018 Global Stock Pitch Competition!
Give the Gift of Financial Literacy this Holiday Season!
Global Stock Pitch Competition Winners!

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Today I went down memory lane to visit New Orleans and my fabulous trip a year ago for inspiration... I absolutely LOVE that town and especially the french quarters in vivid colours of jewellery box houses, cajun food shacks, neon lights, and rainbow beads raining from above. Totally spellbound by the rich history! As a result todays design #adoodleadaymilajkiway is out n about.
If you enjoy my designs, please share the love with your friends and family!

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The circuit has two stable states that change alternatively. It is implemented by the coupling capacitors that instantly transfer voltage changes because the voltage across a capacitor cannot suddenly change. In each state, one transistor is switched on and the other is switched off. Accordingly, one fully charged capacitor discharges slowly thus converting the time into an exponentially changing voltage. At the same time, the other empty capacitor quickly charges thus restoring its charge. The circuit operation is based on the fact that the forward-biased base-emitter junction of the switched-on bipolar transistor can provide a path for the capacitor restoration.
In the beginning, the capacitor C1 is fully charged to the power supply voltage V with the polarity. Q1 is on and connects the left-hand positive plate of C1 to ground. As its right-hand negative plate is connected to Q2 base, a maximum negative voltage (-V) is applied to Q2 base that keeps Q2 firmly off. C1 begins discharging via the high-resistive base resistor R2, so that the voltage of its right-hand plate is rising from below ground (-V) toward +V. As Q2 base-emitter junction is backward-biased, it does not impact on the exponential process. Simultaneously, C2 that is fully discharged and even slightly charged to 0.6 V quickly charges via the low-resistive collector resistor R4 and Q1 forward-biased base-emitter junction. Thus C2 restores its charge and prepares for the next State 2 when it will act as a time-setting capacitor. Q1 is firmly saturated in the beginning by the "forcing" C2 charging current added to R3 current; in the end, only R3 provides the needed input base current. The resistanse R3 is chosen small enough to keep Q1 saturated after C2 is fully charged.
When the voltage of C1 right-hand plate becomes positive and reaches 0.6 V, Q2 base-emitter junction begins diverting a part of R2 charging current. Q2 begins conducting and this starts the avalanche-like positive feedback process as follows. Q2 collector voltage begins falling; this change transfers through the fully charged C2 to Q1 base and Q1 begins cutting off. Its collector voltage begins rising; this change transfers back through the almost empty C1 to Q2 base and makes Q2 conduct more thus sustaining the initial input impact on Q2 base. Thus the initial input change circulates along the feedback loop and grows in an avalanche-like manner until finally Q1 switches off and Q2 switches on. The forward-biased Q2 base-emitter junction fixes the voltage of C1 right-hand plate at 0.6 V and does not allow it to continue rising toward +V.
The capacitor C2 is fully charged to the power supply voltage V with the polarity. Q2 is on and connects the right-hand positive plate of C2 to ground. As its left-hand negative plate is connected to Q1 base, a maximum negative voltage (-V) is applied to Q1 base that keeps Q1 firmly off. C2 begins discharging via the high-resistive base resistor R3, so that the voltage of its left-hand plate is rising from below ground (-V) toward +V. Simultaneously, C1 that is fully discharged and even slightly charged to 0.6 V quickly charges via the low-resistive collector resistor R1 and Q2 forward-biased base-emitter junction. Thus C1 restores its charge and prepares for the next State 1.

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