"Your consumption goes down by 90percentt or more, mainly because the lights aren't all on at the same time," said Mr. Smith, who has closely monitored his holiday electricity use for 20 years.
It is a "policy of trust" where workers are left to monitor their own holiday days, according to Netflix.
On the other hand, such systems face several challenges, including how to monitor epidemics during school holidays, the representativeness of participating schools (particularly in rural areas where transmission may be less uniform than in highly urbanized Singapore), mitigating the burden of data collection, and integrating such surveillance with data on adults and pre-school children.
"I'm not sure I'm comfortable with your having the surgery and being monitored over a holiday," I responded, probably a little too quickly.
Stay in beach huts and join marine zoologist Dr Almeida Guissamulo on a volunteering holiday, monitoring dolphins, turtles and coral reef degradation.
For three days after the terrorist attack, Obama carried on with his Hawaii holiday, "monitoring" the situation while leaving his staff to deal with the public.
During the holiday season, they monitor ads and traffic patterns hourly, and meet daily with Mr. Han and other executives to adjust budgets and strategies.
In another development, law enforcement officials said today that the F.B.I. was planning to begin a large monitoring effort during the Fourth of July holiday and will monitor parades and festivals to guard against possible terrorist attacks.
They update or change the ads on pretty much a weekly basis, adding in seasonal or holiday hooks when appropriate, and they monitor the results.
However, our ability to monitor all recruitment days (mostly conducted on weekends and public holidays) for faecal coliforms was limited because the of the 24-hour maximum allowable time between sample collection and testing.
