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The paper costs 1.20 euros ($1.50) and polls show that the habit of reading Le Canard Enchainé is something that that is passed down from one generation to another. Media consultant Illouz says despite 24-hour news cycles and flashy, cable networks, the plain little Canard Enchainé remains a respected institution in Fr... |
"Who would believe that an eight-page, nonglossy newspaper could still be such a hit?" he says. |
The original version of this story said Le Canard Enchainé had no website. The newspaper has a minimalist webpage that summarizes articles and offers contact information, but it does not provide full articles. |
Correction: The name Dassault was previously misspelled as Dassaut. |
Engineers check machines that print aviation parts at one of Honeywell's labs. The process is known as additive manufacturing, which is often referred to as 3D printing. Some of these machines stand more than six feet high and print materials such as nickel-based alloys, titanium and aluminum. |
Although we might be more familiar with the term 3D printing, the aviation industry uses the term "additive manufacturing" to describe how these parts are made. Materials such as nickel-based alloys are added to a base to make each component. |
Traditionally, airplane parts are made by pouring metals into molds in a foundry, a process that can take several months. |
Machines in Honeywell's labs can make aircraft parts faster than a traditional cast process. In some cases, a part that could take six months to make in a foundry could be reduced to two weeks with 3D printing. |
On the left is a component that's been cast in a foundry then welded together. On the right, its counterpart printed as one entire piece. Printing can cut down the weight of components, which leads to better fuel efficiency. |
A top-down look at some of the components made at Honeywell's labs. |
A look inside one of the machines as it starts a job. |
Two parts emerge from underneath a pile of metal powder once the job is done. The material deposited around these parts will get vacuumed up. |
This is what they look like after they've been taken out of the printer. |
This is a cross-section of a D-strut, used to dampen vibrations. It's like a spring or a shock absorber in a car. The part needs to be flexible and hold helium without leaking. Honeywell tried several designs before coming up with this version that squeezes like an accordion. It's made from nickel-based alloy. |
3D printing can even be used to make really tiny components. |
FEATURES: 3 bedrooms, 2 bathroom, 2 car parking ADDRESS: 51 Warrah Road, Yowie Bay AUCTION: Saturday, October 27 on site at 9.30am AGENCY: Pulse Property Agents CONTACT: Colin Stone 0408 280 978 INSPECTION: Wednesday 10am to 10.30am, Saturday 10am to 10.30am Impeccably presented and as new throughout, this impressive p... |
Impeccably presented and as new throughout, this impressive property combines practical, contemporary, styling and an understated designer elegance. |
Offering an inviting spacious light filled home with premium finishes and nothing to do but move in, unpack and enjoy. |
Perfect for families who love to entertain, the home features a spacious open plan chef’s kitchen with a servery window to a very private level grassed yard, which includes a tiled setting ideal for alfresco entertaining. |
The spacious open plan dining/living room features beautiful polished timber floor boards. |
All bedrooms are spacious and include built-in robes, whilst the master bedroom with sitting area offers a wonderful parent’s retreat including a striking customized walk-in robe. |
Versatile free-flowing floorplan ideal for family entertaining. |
Master suite with ensuite and large walk-in robe plus two double bedrooms. |
Chef’s Caesarstone kitchen with large entertainer’s sink, quality appliances and servery window to outdoor entertaining. |
High ceilings throughout, polished timber floors, ducted air conditioning, electric gate entrance with intercom security. |
LED lighting throughout, instantaneous hot water system, 300 litre water tank, internet and Foxtel-ready. |
Private north facing, easy-care, landscaped, and child-friendly grassed yard. |
Oversized automatic double garage with generous storage space ideal for a workshop. |
Conveniently located just 1.4km approx to Westfield Miranda and Miranda railway station. |
Get smart on equity compensation. |
Start bonus conversations early and know your audience. |
When we think about closing the gender pay gap, are we paying close enough attention to our total compensation? This is the question raised by a new report titled Rethinking Gender Pay Inequity in a More Transparent World, published recently by the ADP Research Institute. The report analyzes data from a six-year cohort... |
The study suggests that "lower negotiated incentive pay at time of hire may become a limiting factor that prevents career advancement years down the road." Researchers examined six industries, including finance and real estate, professional and business services, information, manufacturing, trade, transportation and ut... |
In a six year study, the ADP Research Institute tracked men and women's salary from the time they were hired. The report found that the gender pay gap is likely perpetuated because women aren't achieving the same bonus structures as their male counterparts. |
Not all industries have the same incentive pay, and that variance proves to be helpful for women in technology. Analysis from the report showed that women working in the information sector were able to secure 107% of the bonus to base ratio when compared to men coworkers, which lessened their overall gap in total earni... |
In stark contrast, women in the Finance and Real Estate industry are earning 21% less in their bonus to base ratio compared to men. In fact, finance and real estate as an industry had the largest pay gap for women, with and without incentive pay. Yildirmaz thinks this is probably linked to the wide variety of jobs and ... |
One encouraging finding is that women in the 40-to-50 year range had virtually no pay gap when compared to men in their cohort. In fact, women in this age group were able to close any gaps that might have been present at the start of the study. Yet, they still had lower incentive pay. This is particularly true in the $... |
So how does this research inform how women might move forward and beat the odds? Being savvy about how, when and what to negotiate is the first step. I talked to three negotiation and career experts to see what strategies they suggest that can help close the bonus gap for good. |
1. Get smart on equity compensation. |
Understanding the longer-term benefits of a bonus package are essential to closing the bonus and wealth gap, and some of those benefits are detailed and complicated. But that shouldn't put you off from understanding the specifics. Executive coach Suzanne O’Brien urges women to get smart on their equity compensation as ... |
2. Start bonus conversations early and know your audience. |
Negotiation coach Jaime Lee points out that salary and incentive pay are rarely coming from the same part of your organization's budget. This information is important to keep in mind because "there is more flexibility, seasonality, and taxes for bonuses than salaries.” She also suggests paying close attention to the th... |
3. Use open-ended questions to gain information for current and future negotiations. |
Fotini Iconomopoulos suggests a similar approach or starting early. Iconomopoulos is a negotiation expert and lecturer at Schulich School of Business at York University. She urges being as proactive as possible in determining the parameters and requirements attached to getting a better bonus. She also mentioned the imp... |
A rundown of typical procedures during a school lockdown. |
A threatening Snapchat post showing a teen holding a gun and referencing a school called "CHS" has no connection to Christiana High School, Delaware State Police have confirmed. |
"There is no connection to any Delaware school," Master Cpl. Michael Austin said. |
A threatening Snapchat post is not local, Delaware State Police confirmed. |
The picture originated from New Mexico, Austin confirmed, where a 17-year-old male at Clovis High School was arrested on April 5 for making online threats. |
"[Expletive] CHS I'm going out with a bang," the Snapchat message said. "Don't go to school tmrw." |
Despite the arrest last week, the picture has continued to circulate on social media. Because it used the school's initials, CHS, instead of its full name, parents at schools such as Christiana High School have worried the post was made by somebody locally. |
The Washington Post, for instance, reported Monday that law enforcement in Maryland investigated the post over the weekend amid fears it was aimed at Chopticon High School in the southern part of the state. |
The incident comes as the number of school threats is up nationwide. Since a shooting in Parkland, Florida, there have been more than 1,119 threats made against schools in the U.S., according to the Educators School Safety Network, which tracks violent incidents and threats. |
More than 50 percent of the threats were made using social media. Of the threats, 573 mentioned guns. There have been more than 70 threats made a day since Feb. 14, according to the nonprofit. |
So far this year, Delaware State Police have investigated 17 school threats, up from 10 in 2017, the department said last week. All threats made toward a school, either verbally or online, are investigated by police regardless of intent. |
"You can't yell fire in a theater, you can't yell bomb in a plane and you can't threaten violence in schools anymore," said Sgt. Richard Bratz of Delaware State Police, who wants people, particularly youth, to understand how serious the consequences are. |
Charges related to the threats can range from misdemeanors to felonies. |
Consumption of crystal meth in Germany appears to have reached a record level, according to government figures published on Thursday. |
The number of people using the drug for the first time rose seven percent last year, while police found 77 kilogrammes of the highly-addictive drug in 2013. That was up from three percent the year before and 88 percent on 2011. |
In 2005, before the drug became so popular, police seized just six kilogrammes. |
"We are concerned about the increase in consumption of crystal as taking this substance has major health risks," Joerg Zierke from the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) said. |
According to the figures published on Thursday by the government, police confiscated the drug on 3,847 occasions in 2013. |
It is the eighth year in a row where crystal meth consumption has increased. |
The biggest finds were around the Czech border, but the government’s commissioner for drug related issues warned in March that it was spreading to other parts of the country, particularly Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Bavaria and Thuringia. |
A study commissioned by the health ministry which was released last month also found children as young as 11 had taken the drug. |
Britain's nuclear power stations and airports have been instructed to "remain resilient" against potential terrorist attacks, amid fears that their systems may be targeted by hackers, according to a media report. |
Security services have issued a series of alerts in the past 24 hours, warning that terrorists may have developed ways of bypassing safety checks, The Sunday Telegraph reported. |
Intelligence agencies believe ISIS and other terrorist groups may have developed methods of planting explosives in mobile phones and laptops that can evade airport security screening methods. |
It was this intelligence which is understood to have led the US and the UK to ban travellers from a number of countries carrying laptops and large electronic devices on board. |
Now there are concerns that terrorists will use the techniques to bypass screening devices at European and US airports, the paper said. There were also fears that computer hackers were trying to bypass nuclear power station security measures, it said. |
Security services fear that some will nonetheless try to exploit "vulnerabilities" in the nuclear industry’s internet defences. Energy minister Jesse Norman said the government was "fully committed to defending the UK against cyber threats, with a £1.9 billion investment designed to transform this country’s cyber secur... |
But the threat of attack on Britain's 15 operational reactors, which account for nearly a fifth of the country’s electricity, from terrorists, foreign spies and "hacktivists" remains high. |
Norman said the civil nuclear strategy published in February sets out ways to ensure that the civil nuclear sector "can defend against, recover from, and remain resilient to evolving cyber threats." |
Professor Malcolm Chalmers, deputy director-general of the Royal United Services Institute, an independent think tank for defence and security, said that it was crucial for the Government to "respond rapidly". |
"The potential threats are wide-ranging and are coming from government and non-government sources," the paper quoted him as saying. "Crucially there has to be clear co-operation with the private sector to tackle this, especially as airports are usually in private hands," he added. |
There’s only so much time in a day, a week and a year. One way any business owner will start to realize just how precious time can be is by considering what international trade shows to attend. |
Just to rattle off a few, there's the annual International Pizza Expo, the Nightclub Bar Convention and Trade Show, the Philadelphia National Candy, Gift and Gourmet Show, the World Tea Expo-Trade Exhibition Conference -- and those are just a handful that I'm mentioning in the food space. There are trade shows in inter... |
Actually, there are probably several trade shows you could attend. As the executive vice president of Wayback Burgers, I could probably make attending franchise trade shows a full-time job since there are so many. |
But, again, there are only so many hours in a day, and only so many of them that you can go to -- when you do attend one, you want to make the most of it. If you’re attending an industry trade show in the near future, keep the following in mind if you really want to maximize your time. |
We’ll start off with the easiest, most basic advice -- and easiest to forget, too, if you’re traveling. You’re busy, after all, running a company. You have the trade show on your calendar. You’ll be excited just to make it there, let alone prepare. But, preparation is a huge help. Study the trade show website. Read abo... |
Now, if your business is running a booth at the trade show, you’d better be prepared -- or you’ll end up wasting an incredible amount of money. You want as much time -- hopefully, months -- to plan for this. You have a booth to set up, signage, swag, brochures to print out -- there are a ton of details that go into bei... |
This shouldn’t be hard, but if you’ve flown in from somewhere and you’re jet-lagged, there may be a part of you that just wants to crash in your hotel. Big mistake. Get there a day early if you need to, and make sure you stay hydrated, eat well and be healthy and all of that. But you want to make sure that when the tim... |
So, when you’re on the floor, be fully present. For instance, if you’re manning a booth, somebody preferably needs to be standing. If you’re all sitting, you’re going to look as if you’re resting or gabbing and don’t want to be disturbed. |
In any case, I just know that last year when I was at The Franchise Show in Dublin, I was extremely glad I hadn’t stepped away from our Wayback Burgers’ booth when Zubair Najm stopped by. We may have never met otherwise. |
Zubair is an entrepreneur who owns multiple franchises in Dublin. We hit it off and Zubair, after further researching Wayback Burgers, liked what he saw. Thanks to that meeting last year, Zubair is now Wayback Burgers’ master franchisee in Ireland actively looking for franchisees and locations. That’s exactly how trade... |
Zubair and I didn’t meet up within the first hour. It was more like the last hour of the show. That may be a slight exaggeration, but Zubair had been there most of the weekend and was ready to leave, thinking he was going to go without making any deals. But then suddenly he spotted the sign at our booth, came forward a... |
Meanwhile, I had met a lot of nice, intelligent and great people. I didn’t regret coming at all. Yet, until Zubair came along, I thought I’d be going back to the states without any concrete progress. I’m not saying patience is this magic formula that will make all of your trade shows turn out to be a big hit. Some of y... |
Yes, I know I already said that. But it really is the difference between succeeding at these trade shows and having it be something of a flop. If we hadn’t invested in a dynamic, professional, attractive booth, I’m not sure the trade show would have worked out for us. After all, Zubair was about to leave until he saw o... |
If you want to stand out, you have to be seen. That doesn’t just mean you, but your company, too. |
OPINION: Has the state done enough to provide adequate education for all? |
For years, Connecticut has been challenged in court to show that it provides the minimally adequate education the constitution mandates to all students, even in the most impoverished school districts. Last month, the state Supreme Court ruled that it is doing so. |
It is not the court’s responsibility, Chief Justice Chase T. Rogers wrote for the majority, to “eliminate all of the societal deficiencies that continue to frustrate the state’s educational efforts.” The students must be able to take advantage of the educational opportunities furnished by the state. |
But what are the schools, or the state that funds them, supposed to do? Serve breakfast and lunch? Done, in many schools. Maintain security in the building? Check. But how do you eliminate “other serious distractions” that make learning “effectively impossible”? How? |
The Supreme Court case followed a 2016 ruling by Superior Court Judge Thomas Moukawsher, but his main points were that the state should provide adequate educational opportunity to all students – not adequate education, because how can you guarantee that? – and that much of what the state has been doing to help fund poo... |
He wanted a rational process. What we have instead is politics, an inherently messy and inefficient art. |
And yet, Connecticut has demonstrated good faith in the way it fortifies the poorer school systems with Education Cost Sharing grants. Less than a year ago I looked up the numbers and discovered that threadbare Hartford gets 70 percent of its school budget from the state till, while posh Greenwich gets only 3 percent. |
How much more can the state be expected to do? And is there any amount of state funding that can eliminate “hunger, fear … or other serious distractions” that interfere with learning. The state of Connecticut is not God – as even a quick glance at its balance sheet will reveal. |
But, lest we assume that this trend of expecting the schools to take a more and more therapeutic role toward students is limited to the state’s poorer communities, we need only to look at what’s happening in Wallingford, where the school district recently discovered a need for a new program for children in grades K-2 w... |
This will require hiring social workers and psychologists to work with para-educators in a smaller classroom environment to help some of the school systems youngest charges deal with anxiety, trauma and other issues. |
What happened? Why this big need now? And why in Wallingford? No one seems to know. Is this a crisis? |
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