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San Francisco Whistleblower Attorney: Whistleblowers - Evans Law Firm, Inc.
The Wells Fargo bank fraud case has been the hot topic for<|fim_middle|> aren't retaliated against. | news stations, politicians, and consumer attorneys for the last few weeks. The case saw the largest fine ever levied by the Consumer Financial Protection Board, over 5,000 employees fired, and the usual round of investigations and congressional hearings. Wells Fargo customers across the country were affected, and the case brought to light the high-pressure sales tactics used to meets quotas and raise stock prices.
However, as the initial waves of coverage subside, it may be time to reflect on what the case means for another group of people seriously affected by the Wells Fargo case: employees who knew what was going on and tried to raise the alarm. In the aftermath of the investigation, numerous employees have come forward saying that they tried to put a stop to the practice of creating fraudulent accounts for customers, and suffered retaliation , harassment, and firing as a result.
It's explicitly illegal for a company to try to prevent whistleblowers from coming forward, or to retaliate against them in any way once they have. While companies tend to adhere to this on paper, it's sometimes the case that an employee who reveals the sordid details of a company finds themselves being let go for "tardiness" or other trivial issues. Whistleblowers who use a company's "anonymous" internal ethics hotline may find themselves targeted by higher-ups, or ostracized by peers.
Because of this, it's vitally important that potential whistleblowers contact an attorney who can help them not only shepherd their case through the IRS, SEC, CFPB or other regulatory agency, but can also help ensure that they are protected from their employer, and that they | 329 |
Truisms du Jour on Luck and Persistence: "Suit Up and Show Up"
How much of what shapes our lives is luck and serendipity? Most of us have met our spouse by chance, and many even have their jobs or even<|fim_middle|> bear witness that, for some of us fellows, the laws of statistics were suspended when it came to getting "lucky" while hitting on gals in pubs. When examined in the light of day the (for lack of a better word) successes hardly seemed "lucky".
Not sure who said it, though.
who phrased it that way.
I got my current position because I showed up the week after another fellow had to take a medical leave from the firm.
I lied and said I could do the job. I did learn how to, eventually. | their careers by stumbling onto something.
On Maggie's Farm, we like to view life optimistically as an endless conveyor belt of opportunities, but with few of them passing by more than once. Thus do we necessarily accumulate regrets over time.
"Suit up, show up, and shut up." - AA aphorism, and the closely related Woody Allen quote: "Eighty percent of success is showing up."
This topic came to mind as I reflected on our corny but deeply true QQQs on persistence. Persistence tends to work because it works on a statistical basis. If a fellow hits on enough gals in the pub, he'll eventually get lucky.
Of course, knowing when to fold 'em is part of wisdom too. Sometimes sunny optimism is plain stupid.
Another truism, spoken by my high school geometry instructor.
"Luck is the collision of preparation and opportunity."
You botched that Walking Horse. That was the football coach or physics teacher. Your geometry teacher would have talked about intersections, not collisions.
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Hunter Sharpe is an up-and-coming alternative<|fim_middle|>. | artist hailing from Austin, Texas. Hunter has been developing his musical prowess since he was old enough to pick up a guitar. Flourishing from the influence of contemporary alternative artist like Jack White and Arctic Monkeys, Hunter's ambitious exploration has culminated in the creation of an extraordinary rock sound.
With an average age of 19, Hunter and his band, consisting of Marlon Sexton, son of Charlie Sexton, Colton Kincaid, and Hunter Pierce, have captured their diverse and electrifying live show into a collection of 6 songs titled as the Forced Landings EP. Tracks such as "Tokyo" and "Playing Fair," both mixed by Vance Powell, encapsulate the energy and vigor of this band, while songs like "2×2" and "Ivy" display the bands ability to turn down and still deliver a monumental performance. Overall, the Forced Landings EP portrays alt rock in its purest sense and perfectly translates performances seen at ACL and the EL Rey Theatre onto record | 204 |
The forces driving today's world of structural change create sharp bends in the road that can lead to major explosions in your existing market space. But exponential change also offers exponential opportunities. How do you leverage change to go on<|fim_middle|> and capital allocation, and key performance indicators to the new realities of the marketplace. | the offense?
The Attacker's Advantage is the game plan for winning in an era of ambiguity, volatility, and complexity, when every leader and every business is being challenged in new and unexpected ways.
Build the perceptual acuity to see around corners and detect, ahead of others, those forces, especially people, who are the catalysts of change, that could radically reshape a company or industry.
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Dr. Bruce J. Keyser joined NJRetina in 1996. Dr. Keyser received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College, graduating cum<|fim_middle|> Society of Retina Specialists
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• Wills Eye Hospital Society | laude with high distinction. He earned his Doctor of Medicine degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, where he was the recipient of a Jefferson Research Scholarship, a National Institute of Health Levine Research Grant, and a Measy Academic Scholarship. He was also elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha and Hobart Amory Hare Honor Medical Societies.
Dr. Keyser continued his training at the Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia for his residency in ophthalmology, followed by a fellowship in vitreoretinal disease and surgery.
Dr. Keyser is a Clinical Instructor in Ophthalmology at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey / Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, where he regularly teaches and lectures to medical students. He is on the medical staff of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ, and Kimball Medical Center in Lakewood, NJ.
Dr. Keyser has researched, published, and presented at national meetings on a range of topics, including diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, retinal vascular occlusion, retinal detachment surgery, small-gauge vitrectomy surgery, uveitis, and choroidal melanoma. He has served as a reviewer for the Archives of Ophthalmology and the American Journal of Ophthalmology.
Dr. Keyser has been an investigator for numerous national clinical investigational studies, including acting as a Principal Investigator for the Complications of Age-Related Macular Degeneration (CAPT) Study, the Miravant Photodynamic Therapy Study, and the Vitrase for Vitreous Hemorrhage Study.
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We are one of the founding faculties at Masaryk University. We are committed to its democratic values.
We use innovative methods in both science and education. We have built modern facilities for the development of the humanities and social sciences.
We maintain dialogue across disciplines, institutions, and cultures. We are involved in the cultivation of discussion in the public space.
We develop the desire for knowledge and we teach critical thinking skills. We contribute to the understanding of the contemporary world.
In 2015, an extensive renovation and reconstruction of state-of-the-art teaching and research facilities for humanities and social sciences was completed in the Faculty area on the street of Arna Nováka, No. 1.
The buildings were designed by architect Petr Pelčák who combined modern functionalist effectiveness with historical decorations in the form of classical sculpture castings.
The four-storey building of the Central Library of the Faculty of Arts, designed by the architects Ladislav Kuba and Tomáš P<|fim_middle|>.
In 2012, Masaryk University won the European Association for International Education (EAIE) award for its innovative and proactive approach to the internationalization of university education.
Masaryk University holds an ECTS Label certificate, guaranteeing a high standard of services and easy access to information on studying in a foreign language.
Masaryk University's Information System received a prestigious EUNIS Elite Award in 2005 for the best implementation of a university information system. | ilař, won the main prize in the Czech Society of Architects Grand Prix in 2002.
The construction made it possible to increase the number of books in circulation from 2000 to 120,000 and the number of study places from 40 to 400; it has significantly contributed to the improvement of other library services as well.
Since 2014, we have been a partner faculty of AIESEC, which is an international student organization that has been helping young people to gain work experience abroad since 1948 | 121 |
'Ex Machina' Trailer #4 Puts a Dark Spin on 'Weird Science'
Ex Machina Trailer #4 Puts a Dark Spin on Weird Science
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A24's sci-fi thriller Ex Machina has already been playing in a handful of theaters over the past few weeks, but as the studio prepares for its nationwide expansion on April 24, the final trailer has been released. Not only do fans get brand new footage, but this trailer offers insights from some of today's most brilliant minds, such as Elon Musk<|fim_middle|>
Ex Machina Trailer Unleashes a Modern Day Frankenstein
Ex Machina Trailer: Oscar Isaac Builds a Female Cyborg
Ex Machina Featurette with Oscar Isaac | , Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates and Google co-founder Larry Page, who offer their thoughts about what the creation of artificial intelligence (A.I.) could mean for humanity. This trailer also offers a unique insight into how the A.I. in this movie is created by using data from internet search engines.
Alex Garland, writer of 28 Days Later and Sunshine, makes his directorial debut with the stylish and cerebral thriller, Ex Machina. Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson), a programmer at an internet-search giant, wins a competition to spend a week at the private mountain estate of the company's brilliant and reclusive CEO, Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac). Upon his arrival, Caleb learns that Nathan has chosen him to be the human component in a Turing Test-charging him with evaluating the capabilities, and ultimately the consciousness, of Nathan's latest experiment in artificial intelligence.
That experiment is Ava (Alicia Vikander), a breathtaking A.I. whose emotional intelligence proves more sophisticated--and more deceptive--than the two men could have imagined. Corey Johnson, Sonoya Mizuno, Claire Selby, Symara A. Templeman, Gana Bayarsaikhan, Tiffany Pisani and Elina Alminas round out the supporting cast of Ex Machina. Take a look at the latest trailer below before Ex Machina invades a theater near you this weekend.
Topics: Ex Machina
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We're all guilty of it. The glorification of "busy. We work, take care of the kids, take care of the house. Start a project, volunteer at the school, plan a trip. It's hard to say no, and pretty soon, you don't remember what it felt like to just sit still.
It's not good for the soul, this being busy. The damage is being caused every single day, and we're too busy to notice!
Our stress level is rising.
There are to-do lists by our beds.
It's like a competition! Who can be the busiest? Who's to-do list is the longest? These last few months, I've found myself yearning for stillness. Craving the calmness of my early mornings.
I'm still trying to take this stillness into more aspects of my life. I'm going to bed a little earlier, saying "no" more often, making time for lost hobbies, and even going "unplugged" when the mood suits me. It's been so freeing. I find myself being more productive, actually. My nerves have been less on edge. Stillness is good for the soul.
So, here's what I propose, for anyone who would like to join me. I propose a stillness challenge. It's not a competition. I don't need you to report back (although you can if you want to). This is just for you! Try to take a moment each day to forget that you are busy. Relish a few minutes of stillness each day, and see what happens.
Fix a cup of tea or coffee.
Meditate, or use positive affirmations.
<|fim_middle|> to cram too much into one day. | Go "unplugged" by turning off all of your electronics.
If you are like most people these days, you probably feel stressed out and anxious a lot of the time. The focus we put on multi-tasking, and the way we compete over our to-do lists has us so buried in the stress that we don't even notice it any more. If you need a minute to relax and step away from your hectic schedule, please give yourself permission! Write in your journal or enjoy a cup of coffee to give yourself time to re-charge. These are the moments that offer clarity and help us work out our priorities. They say you can't pour from an empty cup. Consider these moments of stillness your refill, and relish in them!
Thanks so much for sharing, Terryn! I agree, I have been very mindful of how many items I put on my daily to-do list as well. That isn't the same, but it definitely helps you find the time for this, so they go hand-in-hand! It all comes down to trying | 214 |
Holly Johnson, serves as a Category 3 support scientist at the USDA-ARS Northern Great Plains Research Laboratory (NGPRL). She has been on the staff since June 1999. She completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology from Concordia College, Moorhead, MN in 1996 and a Masters degree in Rangel<|fim_middle|> chambers, field collections of plant and soils, as well as analysis work completed in the laboratory. In her capacity as a support scientist, she has contributed to range, crop, and integrated crop and livestock research. At this time, Holly works with Dr. Mark Liebig, a soil scientist at NGPRL, and is involved in projects researching biofuel, cover crops, and soil quality. She was actively involved in developing the Cover Crop Chart outreach tool. She presently serves as the NGPRL Greenhouse Committee Chair.
1999 - present: Rangeland Scientist, USDA-ARS Northern Great Plains Research Laboratory, Mandan, ND.
1996 - 1997: Manufacturer's Safety Co. Inc., Minnetonka, MN. | and Science from North Dakota State University in 2000. Her Masters thesis was on the biomass reallocation and growth characteristics of plant species from the Great Plains. Prior to coming to NGPRL, she worked for an environmental consulting firm in Minnetonka, MN which serviced businesses needing OSHA support, SARA, and Title II reporting. Her current work at NGPRL includes a broad range of field components in grassland and cropland systems, studies conducted in greenhouses and growth | 102 |
Title: World Processor
Authors: Jacob, Silverman
Topics: anti-technology, anti-work, community, review
Source: http://thebaffler.com/salvos/world-processor
World Processor
The Theory of the Sub-leisured Class
Speed Up, Power Down
The Machine, Raging
"I'm unemployed now and should be typing my resume. Typing a resume becomes more and more like typing a suicide note, and yet choosing not to work is a kamikaze mission." - anonymous San Franciscan, Processed World, issue 7
Consider the plight of the office drone: more gadgeted-out than ever, but still facing the same struggle for essential benefits, wages, and dignity that workers have for generations.
Utopian reveries spill forth almost daily from the oracles of progress, forecasting a transformation of Information Age labor into irrepressible acts of impassioned fun. But we know all too well the painful truth about today's ordinary work routines: they have become more, not less, routinized, soul-killing, and laden with drudgery. The contrast between the glum reality of cubicle labor and the captivating rhetoric of Internet liberation, which once seemed daft and risible, doesn't anymore; now it's only galling. In recent years, for instance, the term "creative" has been captured by advertising agencies, who've bestowed on it a capital C and made it into a noun, a coveted job title meant to signify Mad Men–style braggadocio. But all this business-card-ready term usually denotes is someone who writes copy for<|fim_middle|> building." Marina Lazzara, one of the magazine's poetry editors, recalled this period fondly. "I miss those days," she told me. "We were really out in the streets."
For Hayes, who would later become the magazine's go-to source for Silicon Valley commentary, this attitude was refreshing. "There was a lot of leftist cant" in the air at the time, he said. The members of the PW collective "were actually funny—really funny. I started chatting with them. They radiated warmth, humor, and a kind of point of view that went way underneath what was going on at the time in the way of political protest."
The magazine continued to straddle the line between sarcasm and playful derision, its pages filling with parodic advertisements, gallows-humor cartoons, provocative photography, and reprinted Dadaist leaflets excoriating work. While large chunks of PW are available on its official website, processedworld.com, many of these graphical elements aren't; fortunately, the Internet Archive has full scans of the magazine, and Verso brought out an anthology, a meaty, oversized paperback called Bad Attitude, in 1990.
Processed World's "first two issues were printed on paper unknowingly 'donated' by San Francisco's major banks," the magazine's official history recounts. For the next five years, the magazine's collective held collating parties with weed, booze, and potluck buffets. No one ever got paid for Processed World except the printers—a fact stated with bald pride in the magazine. It was a collective, volunteer effort, and it had the rotating cast (as many as four hundred members over the years), intermittent publication, and borrowed office space to match. The various offices that Carlsson rented for his typesetting business often served as what Lazzara called the magazine's "clubhouse," where members would drop in to hang out, write, and argue.
"At one point, for me, it was really my social life, my politics, my creativity, muses for my own writing," Lazzara said. "For me, it was much bigger than a publication."
A sort of communitarian anarchism suffused much of what Processed World did. But this sensibility ran alongside an angry, even militant, approach to work and corporate America. According to the December 1985 issue, "One of PW's principal aims is to make people feel good about hating their jobs, not to mention despising the dullness and ugliness of so much of life in general." Among the celebrated forms of rebellion were sabotage and resistance to unions—the anarchist insurgents at PW dismissed the union world of the eighties as too pro-management and hamstrung by the National Labor Relations Board, which had outlawed hallowed protest tactics like the sit-down strike decades earlier and which would only become more reactionary in the Reagan years.
This kind of attitude can seem more than a little purist, or like Left Coast posturing for posturing's sake, but it's not much different from what runs through the activist strains of the Twittersphere or in the pages of many radical publications today. In the case of Processed World, outrage rated more highly than ideology, and so the magazine sometimes lacked the theorizing and institutional affiliations that might have earned it more attention in a culture that values credentials and easy categorization. PW also placed a premium on first-hand experience—many contributors began as letter writers or people who encountered a PWer distributing the magazine on the street—something that today's labor press might take heed of. The magazine's amateurish execution (and I mean this in the best sense) gave PW a certain air of testimony, all the more so because a number of its writers, both out of a sense of fun and self-protection, chose to write under pseudonyms. PW's dispatches from the working world were often rough-hewn and unfinished; they went in unexpected directions and contained sudden, moving confessional moments. They also were generally insightful about the power dynamics of the office and the petty tyrannies of bureaucratic regimes.
In issue 6, for example, one anonymous correspondent, a "Personnel Management Analyst Trainee for the State of Tennessee," recalled being hired to create detailed job definitions for 3,200 government positions. The consultant arrived on the first day to find eight colleagues working on this project without having completed one definition—and each was supposed to be three hundred pages long. They had been working on this task for two years. The ironies and indignities amassed from there: the project was only approved to satisfy a capricious judge, it would take so long that the definitions would be out of date, an upcoming election might require that they start over again. The writer concluded, "I had to work toward writing job definitions that would never be finished, and if finished never used."
This was but one among the magazine's darkly comic dispatches from the absurdist trenches of the overmanaged workplace. Others gestured at something more haunting, such as the anonymous San Franciscan who wrote in issue 7, "I'm unemployed now and should be typing my resume. Typing a resume becomes more and more like typing a suicide note, and yet choosing not to work is a kamikaze mission." It was to this group—torn between the exigencies of white-collardom and the seeming impossibility of living as one chooses—that Processed World ultimately spoke.
San Francisco has changed dramatically over the last thirty years. It has been thoroughly gentrified, and become rich in a way that few American cities have before. Its radicalism, its poor and working classes, its patches of squalor, much of its analog culture—these once-distinguishing features have fled east across the bay, to Oakland. Like so many of us, they've been priced out.[2]
The tech backlash precipitated in journals like Processed World has also come of age. The cleaned-up version appears in the op-ed pages of our biggest newspapers, alongside news articles about the latest cuts in food stamps. Contrast this with a different, and likely more honest, form of dissent: crowds of bitter people holding placards ("Public $$$$, Private Gains"; "Stop Displacement Now") while blocking the paths of Google buses, for example. The op-eds are understood to be the prudent, measured thoughts of experts. The protests are seen as bizarre, "misplaced" (a natural complaint for an industry obsessed with efficiency), and offensive.
What to say except that this is a sign of a pitiable softness? Protest—actual bodies in the street—has become so rare, and so fully prey to a reflexive and deeply unearned cynicism, that it's practically gauche, the hopeful incursions of the Occupy movement notwithstanding. Who wants to make such a mess? Who can get over his or her own practiced nihilism?
If they were to be faced with the raucous, are-they-serious-or-aren't-they militance of the Processed World crowd, today's financial and tech elites in San Francisco or New York would probably just walk around it, perhaps asking the nearest police officer for assistance. (The state is there to help.) A stunt like the End of the World's Fair—a "carnival of celebration and refusal" concocted by PW in 1984 after President Reagan, in a People magazine interview, suggested that we might be living in apocalyptic times—would be chum for a jaundiced media. That is, if it didn't first die a thousand small, ignoble deaths on Twitter.
Many of us know we work bullshit jobs; others would be only too happy to have one, to escape the suffocating anxieties of living on the margins. Those employed in socially useful jobs—teachers, nurses, social workers—must contend with low pay or, if they agitate for something more, being vilified.
The point is to make something out of one's disillusionment. Today, we have many smart, young, angry writers. Occasionally they sneak into legacy newspapers and magazines, or a New Yorker staffer will code-switch and bare his inner Marxist in an interview with Salon. Whether to reach larger audiences or exorcize their own guilty fixations, these radicals tend to hold up pop culture and celebrity as the prism through which their politics flow. Racism is important, but when you can talk about it in the context of Miley Cyrus or Macklemore,[3] it's relevant.
Along the way, the sense of community and common cause epitomized by Processed World has been sublimated into the incessant branding and self-promotion from which none of us appears immune. We are all living precariously, and so we tread water by competing for the occasional life preserver thrown out by the attention economy. Do your job well and maybe the Washington Post, the Daily Beast,or the latest buzzy new-media property will hire you as its token leftist columnist. Hit the jackpot, and you'll become the next Chris Hayes.
Who can blame them? It's now so expensive to live in a coastal metropolis that one hopes to sell out at least a little bit.
The remaining members of Processed World have become victims of some of the same forces. Over the last three years, Carlsson and Lazzara have seen an increasing number of friends evicted from San Francisco to make way for the tech nouveau riche. "It's a tidal wave of displacement. All of our friends are leaving," Carlsson said. "It's like a trauma that people are living through."
It's become passé to blame our machines—in our individualist society, you are the sole author of your failures—but consider this: to those whose work appeared in Processed World, the introduction of computers to the workplace was a political act. The computerization of the workplace brought regulated workflows, surveillance by managers, deference to the dictates of software, and a machine with which you couldn't keep up. It meant a noticeable loss of autonomy and a dawning sense—seen in the rapid turnover guaranteed by planned obsolescence—that productivity and growth had become ends in themselves. The most dangerous -isms turned out to be those preceded by "Ford" and "Taylor," and they exerted their ultimate hold by becoming technologized and dispersed throughout our homes, our offices, our cars, and our cities.
In a 1982 essay, three PWers wrote, "It is not hard to imagine that in the very near future most people will carry out their jobs in front of TV screens." It's one of those delightfully naive predictions that's appreciated all the more because it so rapidly became antique. But there's something unexpectedly apt here about the phrase "TV screens," with its aura of anesthetizing entertainment. In 1982 an office computer was almost certainly just a machine for work. Now, the same machines we use for work can also provide a salutary escape—into something meaningful, sure, but maybe just into something distracting and numbing, enough to get through that day's particular soul-deadening meeting or performance review. Work has been allowed to conquer our lives in part because there is now no difference between the tools we use for work and for play. These tools are always with us, and so we are always available to our jobs. Maybe we'd be able to do something about all this bullshit if we weren't forever standing in it.
The essay, titled "Roots of Disillusionment," ends with a consideration of why it's so difficult to imagine, much less enact, a new social and political order. The members of Processed World hoped for a world defined by voluntary social and labor relations, "a freely, genuinely cooperative and communal world, in which the individual would be realized rather than suppressed." It was a hazily defined goal, sure; they would always be searching, always be resisting the calls of competing ideologies and petty sectarianism, or giving up and going to work for Apple. But just as it had been in the sixties, that process was part of the point:
"Some of these experiences were disillusioning too—a good many former activists and communards turned sourly conservative after concluding that free collectivity was impossible. But others still remember the successes, partial as they were, the moments when people felt they had the power together to make their own history, to become anything they might desire to be. They carry with them a blurred snapshot of utopia."
That snapshot is worth holding onto. As we joylessly compete for ever-shrinking rewards, it might even provide some small inspiration.
[1] Thirty-two issues appeared in the magazine's initial run. An abbreviated issue, referred to as number 33 1/3, appeared in the spring of '95, with others following in 2001 and 2005.
[2] Swap in "Manhattan" and "Brooklyn," and you have the same story for New York, though the pattern is repeating itself in Brooklyn now.
[3] Or whichever famous name fits the news peg. | Google AdWords or applies Photoshop filters to an image of an anatomically impossible woman in carnal embrace with a bottle of vodka.
Even software programmers, once the Brahmins of the new economy, must contend with diminished status. The costs of launching a company have declined, so everyone is doing it. Direct your thanks to the glut of cheap engineering talent in Russia and India and the boom market in cloud computing, where a half-dozen companies control the digital infrastructure of hundreds of others, including Snapchat, Netflix, and the CIA. Please donate to your neighbor's Kickstarter on your way out, and don't mind the venture capitalists lazing nearby—they'll still manage to get theirs, as bankers usually do.
Every city hungry to attract high-spending digital workers, from Austin to New York to Chattanooga, now lays claim to its own Silicon district, and lavishes potential corporate recruits with tax breaks and face time with the mayor. But the cyber touts in city government suffer their own version of the digital workplace's bait and switch. In place of, say, a stream of tax revenues to revive decrepit public transport, they'll end up with a smartphone app that links commuters with gray-market taxi drivers. At the same time, disconsolate holders of humanities degrees, who once may have caught on in a human resources, customer service, or speechwriting department, have found their jobs outsourced or automated. A glut of digital labor markets—oDesk, Amazon's Mechanical Turk, TaskRabbit—lets companies summon pliable workforces on demand (a postindustrial reserve army, you might say) and deploy them at the stroke of a cursor to perform tasks that in better days would have gone to full-time employees: checking on store displays, organizing documents, performing transcription, writing newsletters. Even translation has become digitized and highly distributed; users of the Duolingo language-learning app are unwittingly translating articles—gratis—for BuzzFeed, CNN, and other media giants.
Such are the perverse rewards we reap when we permit tech culture to become our culture. The profits and power flow to the platform owners and their political sponsors. We get the surveillance, the data mining, the soaring inequality, and the canned pep talks from bosses who have been upsold on analytics software. Without Gchat, Twitter, and Facebook—the great release valves of workaday ennui—the roofs of metropolitan skyscrapers would surely be filled with pallid young faces, wondering about the quickest way down.
So what has happened, exactly, to the noble dream of the creative workplace? Is it simply that the giddy, VC-fueled idealism of the first wave of web startups was always destined to come crashing down into the pinched, clock-watching rounds of glorified make-work that have long bloated the days of insurance clerks and budget auditors? Or is there some more revealing and insidious dynamic at play here? Was the noble dream really a nightmare all along?
This latter option seems the likeliest. After all, the dramatic downturn in the quality of white-collar labor hasn't come about due to any slough in the core project of boosting worker productivity. Quite the opposite. As technology has advanced, so has productivity, just as the sunniest macroeconomic forecasters would expect. But the workers most responsible for carrying out improved routines of productivity are reaping none of the gains. It's not just that technological innovation has failed to bring about a more equitable, less labor-intensive society, contrary to the predictions of our daring prophets of leisured abundance from the 1950s onward. It's also that the lords of capital have used the very promise of technological revolution to extract ever more value from workers. Stock indices and corporate profits hover near all-time highs precisely because in the last forty years, most Americans' wages have barely kept up with inflation, much less increased in proportion with their output.
Technology, from an Excel spreadsheet to an assembly-line robot, may make aspects of our jobs easier. But that's at most a collateral aim; the real point of technological improvement in the office has always been to make us more productive. The "Great Speedup," as this phenomenon has been called, involves us working harder and longer, even when we're not in the office, than we ever have before. With history in mind, one can say that the introduction of new workplace technologies has been more about increasing profits for corporations and less about addressing the problems of workers or rewarding them for their feverish output. There's no indication that this pattern is set to change.
To grasp how deeply such patterns are rooted within the twenty-first century workplace, it's important not to look forward, as the hucksters of digital capitalism are forever urging us to. (Stare long enough at the futurist mirage and you might forget that you blew your department's slush fund on a Jeff Jarvis lecture.) Instead, let us travel backward in time, to the very cusp of the Information Revolution. Amid the first stirrings of dissent in Northern California, long before tech moguls were granted the dubious prestige of celebrity, a leaderless collective of disenchanted office workers put out a subversive periodical—a magazine called Processed World. First published in San Francisco in April 1981, the magazine now serves as an invaluable repository of all the mistaken, venal, and authoritarian guiding assumptions of the great digital reorganization of work. The brain trust behind Processed World was composed of people—many of them steeped in radical causes, environmental activism, and Situationist-type affairs—who began to identify the features of today's high-productivity, low-content corporate workplace. Standing on the frontier of the new Information Economy, they took stock of their working lives and despaired at what they saw—and they made special, mordant note of the new technologies that didn't make their work lives any easier or more meaningful.
These would-be revolutionaries were eager to see the automated world's long-promised bounty of self-determined leisure bear fruit at last. They had plenty of marketable skills, but what most of them really wanted was time—to write and paint and act and organize. Some of them didn't want to work at all. Others preferred not to give themselves over to big corporations and bureaucracies that offered them little in return for their labor. Most of all, they wanted their lives to be their own. Still animated by the antiwar radicalism of the previous decade, they were also bruised by the failures of 1968. Consequently, the magazine, if not its contributors, adopted no official ideology. They knew what they were against: wage labor, authoritarianism, war, nationalism, and the state itself. But they weren't always sure what they wanted in its place. Figuring that out would be a challenge; it would also be the great project of the next fourteen years, during which Processed World would publish thirty-two issues (give or take),[1] participate in numerous acts of protest, street theater, and sabotage, and launch a range of other initiatives, from Critical Mass, the cycling event now held in hundreds of cities worldwide, to the preservation of some of San Francisco's history in what may have been the last era a poor person could move to the Bay Area and still manage to get by.
Though its circulation peaked somewhere around four thousand copies, Processed World found an eager audience. Beginning with the second issue, the pages filled up with letters praising the magazine for finally talking about work and its discontents. Readers shared stories of corrupt unions, malignant bosses, profound existential boredom, and the recovery of some of their dignity through protest and mischief. They also argued with Processed World's writers, who were only too happy to return the volleys. Many of the letter writers simply offered thanks. As one reader marveled in the July 1981 issue, "THERE'S INTELLIGENT LIFE OUT THERE!! WE ARE AT YOUR SERVICE."
But Processed World did much more than supply to depressed office proles a therapeutic outlet. The magazine also managed to diagnose some of the issues that still animate radicals today: housework, sex work, and other unacknowledged forms of labor; unionization and its limits; income inequality; the precarity of the typical worker; corporate power; the state of exception that comes with permanent warfare (embodied then by the Cold War and later by the first Gulf War); and the ways in which the computerization of society was changing work, often to the detriment of workers. In the writing—essays, poetry, reportage, fantastical short stories about rebellious paper-pushers taking over San Francisco's financial district, only to be brutally put down by government soldiers—one can also find the beginnings of today's revolt against Silicon Valley and its pernicious mix of libertarian economics, techno-utopianism, and the deracinated remains of the sixties counterculture.
As Processed World veteran Dennis Hayes explained it to me, "We were really examining social history. We were asking questions that went unasked. We were asking, 'What's the value of a job that creates no value? Or that simply creates more work?'"
In an Information Age "largely mute about the experience of work—its meaning, its purpose, who decides what should get done, by whom, and how"—Processed World was talking about little else. The magazine's twentieth-anniversary issue, published in 2001, surveyed our blasted landscape of false hopes for a simpler, leisure-enhanced American working life. An essay by Hayes, "Farce or Figleaf: The Promise of Leisure in the Computer Age," traced how computerization of the workplace has coincided with the Great Speedup. As Americans work more hours than ever, Hayes noted, the former utopian promises of automation have given way to the added burdens of computerization; we now work more not only at our own jobs, but also at learning to manage the ever-changing digital infrastructure of our lives. We don't work with computers; we work to keep up with them. (No wonder our smartphones "push"notifications at us.) What Thorstein Veblen knew in 1904 bears repeating: "Wherever the machine process extends, it sets the pace for the workmen, great and small."
"For most," Hayes wrote, "overwork is not elective, it is part of a new social contract." Just as temporary, freelance, and other "gig" work was supposed to be liberating in the 1980s—a fallacy that the earliest Processed World issues joyfully skewered—computers and information technologies were supposed to make work more efficient, more creative, and less onerous. Instead, we spend more time on more tasks, whether in the office, on the road, or at home, tethered to what Hayes calls "a mobile and instantly interruptible workplace." The too-frequent introductions of new software only increase the pace of the upgrade cycle, leading to boom times for manufacturers and support staff, while "those of us who work with computers now have a second job: keeping them patched and upgraded and responding to their intricate cues, messages and glitches." That is in addition to the many other unacknowledged jobs we have—email being among the biggest time-sinks—all part of a phenomenon that the computer scientist Ian Bogost recently labeled "hyperemployment."
By the time Hayes wrote "Farce or Figleaf," the dotcom bubble had already burst. The magazine had essentially disbanded, and the issue was a valedictory one—an anniversary celebration and an opportunity for Processed World writers to return and see just how completely their grim prophecies about the direction of the information workplace two decades earlier had come to pass. Hayes chose a fitting epigraph: an outlandishly optimistic forecast from Popular Front playwright Archibald MacLeish, who in 1933 looked forward to "a civilization in which all men would work less and enjoy more."
It was this ability—to take stock of the hidden history of the degradation of the info-workplace while also reclaiming the promise of greater leisure for America's workforce—that set Processed World apart from the bulk of Reagan-era ventures in radical publishing. Where other outlets of critical thought took reliable aim at the (ample) cast of historical villains who made up the Reagan revolution's vanguard, the keepers of Processed World kept their gaze fixed on history's longer vectors of resistance and (eventual) social change. One example: Members of the Processed World collective were instrumental in starting the Critical Mass bike ride in 1992; they also published an article about a 1896 San Francisco bicycle protest in which riders, by rallying for better-paved roads, not only anticipated the protest tactics that would be deployed by Critical Mass a century later, but also paved the way, quite literally, for "the car culture that contemporary bicyclists" now hope to undo. The Processed World crowd knew from whence they came.
But where exactly was that? And what can Processed World teach us about today's radical press, the organs now trying to lead the vanguard against the world's bullshit jobs (as David Graeber has memorably dubbed them) and technological determinism?
Anarchist credentials aside, the closest thing that Processed World had to a leader must have been Chris Carlsson. A longtime San Franciscan, Carlsson claims the fistful of titles that comes from being self-employed for thirty-odd years—"writer, San Francisco historian, 'professor,' bicyclist, tour guide, blogger, photographer, book and magazine designer." Carlsson has been with Critical Mass, itself a leaderless operation, since the beginning. And one of his ongoing projects is Shaping San Francisco, a Howard-Zinn-meets-Studs-Terkel social history project, with digital archives, public talks, recorded interviews, and invitations for community contributions.
When I reached Carlsson by phone, he was on his bike, heading to a farmer's market and then a co-op grocery store. He eventually pulled over in a quiet alley, and we talked about his life and the origins of Processed World.
Carlsson and Caitlin Manning (the two would later have a daughter together) met, along with several other early PWers, in a street-theater protest group called the Union of Concerned Commies. Founded in 1979, the UCC opposed war, militarism, and nuclear power. They held protests, distributed satirical leaflets, and published in underground newspapers. Some UCC members participated in the White Night riots—the street violence that followed the manslaughter conviction of former city supervisor Dan White, who killed supervisor Harvey Milk and mayor George Moscone. (The rioters had been expecting White to receive a harsher sentence than he did.) Afterward, the UCC made a T-shirt featuring a burning cop car with the words "No Apologies." As if any clarification were needed, the date and location of the riot were also included.
More agitation followed. The jingoistic fervor that erupted after the seizure of U.S. hostages at the embassy in Tehran prompted UCC members to put on fake military uniforms and perform a satirical variety show in downtown San Francisco. They declared martial law, rationed food, extolled the virtues of war, sang anthems, and managed to poke fun at some Leninist factions who bore "complicity in capital's authoritarianism and work fetishism."
The UCC soon fell apart, but street theater, satirical art and graphics, and a strong sense of grievance would be mainstays of the group members' lives, and of the cultural and social life of Processed World. As Daniel Brook recounts in his book The Trap: Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America, Carlsson and friends liked to "dress up as investment bankers and bow in unison at the stock ticker in front of the Charles Schwab | 3,268 |
Software categories are ripe for consolidation, and the KANA-Verint combination is well positioned: There are three main technology categories that comprise a contact center: queueing and routing technologies; CRM, or agent desktop technologies and workforce<|fim_middle|>, most sales opportunities today are not greenfield opportunities: most customers have an agent desktop and a WFM solution in place. This makes realizing the value of the entire value proposition more difficult; and gains may only be made by the adoption of point solutions in each other's respective prospect and customer base. | optimization technologies. We have predicted that these technology categories will converge because (1) these are mature markets and vendors will move into adjacent spaces to increase market share and (2) companies are looking to simplify their technology ecosystem in order to improve the quality of service. The user conference did a good job at articulating the value of consolidating these spaces.
KANA and Verint are leveraging each other's customer base for tactical growth: It is still early days for the convergence of KANA and Verint technologies, but both companies seem to be working hard to position each other's offerings into their respective customer base. One natural cross-over is Verint's VoC product which can be effectively leveraged by KANA customers. Other cross-overs include agent knowledge into the Verint WFO customer base, and lightweight case management and workforce management solutions targeted for the back office. This tactical focus on crossover point solutions, which is being led by customer demand, should have better success than a strategy of broader integration between the company's respective product portfolios.
New products will help bridge the customer-to-agent divide: For example, KANA introduced their engagement analytics that the user conference, which combines customer interaction data, customer service agent desktop activity, agent performance data,and survey feedback to analyze the effectiveness of customer journeys.
Customers have good things to say about KANA. KANA solicited a range of customers in various industries to highlight product usage and the ROI of KANA solutions. Key examples included The Hartford and Salmat, both which rolled out omnichannel agent desktops. The main drivers for these projects were increased customer satisfaction and loyalty, in addition to optimizing efficiency metrics.
The organizational alignment is in progress: So far, KANA has retained its own brand, but its organizational structure is being merged into Verint's, and the shake-out of this alignment yet to come. KANA's internal processes are becoming more scripted, and will suffer from a loss in agility.
The event gave us ample opportunity to network, with good access to executives. However, the venue and food negatively impacted the event.
The Verint-KANA solution portfolio differentiates the company from its competition. However | 435 |
Calvary Chapel gives high priority to the Word of God and a "relational style" of ministry. Romans 15:7 says to "accept one another, just as Christ also accepted us to the glory of God." Jesus accepted people as they were when they came to Him, so they could then be transformed by their relationship with Him. Because of this, people could be 'real' with Jesus. He did not want them 'putting on airs' of formality or religiosity.
We cherish being able to have an intimate fellowship with Christ that is<|fim_middle|> feel comfortable to express our needs, issues, and even our sins, thus allowing Jesus to help us, cleanse us, and change us! Through relationships Jesus discipled the Twelve, and with the help of the Spirit we seek to do the same. Though we tend to be relaxed and informal, it does not mean we are 'loose or lax' about hurtful or dishonorable behavior. Our utmost desire in our relationships is to both please the Lord and provide a loving atmosphere so that everyone in the church can flourish.
As we meet together each week in this loving environment we place great emphasis on the exposition of Scripture and teaching the entire Bible chapter-by-chapter and verse-by-verse. We believe that the Spirit of God works through the Word of God in the hearts of the people of God. Exposition is more than merely speaking about the bible or from the Bible; it is the proclamation of the Bible itself. The work of the expositor is to determine what God has said in Scripture and then to convey it to God's people so that God's own voice is heard. | relaxed, and not filled with a sense of judgment, suspicion, or unworthiness. "The ground at the foot of the Cross is level," meaning no one is more holy or righteous than another there, but we through Him are all accepted.
For this reason we accept each other, and seek to love one another (John13: 34-35). We try not to set up religious formalities as "hoops" for people to jump through before they are welcomed. Rather we seek to show them and tell them of the genuine love that we have found in Christ.
In this accepting, informal style we have found it easier for us all to | 135 |
Deesha Shah Awarded <|fim_middle|> led me to an internship at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), where I designed a metamaterial-based chemical sensor for explosive materials. My experience at LANL fueled my motivation to pursue a research career in photonics."
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PI (Physik Instrumente) LP, Motion Control, Air Bearings, Piezo Mechanics | 2020 Teddi C. Laurin Scholarship
Deesha Shah has been awarded the 2020 Teddi C. Laurin Scholarship for her contributions to the field of optics and photonics.
Shah is a doctoral student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, co-supervised by professors Vladimir Shalaev and Alexandra Boltasseva. Her research includes the development of plasmonic thin films, particularly transition metal nitrides, and noble metals, with a specific focus on the optical properties of ultrathin metallic films and their uses in tunable nanophotonic devices. She has received several awards, including the Ross Fellowship and the Society of Vacuum Coaters Student Award.
Deesha Shah, winner of the 2020 Teddi C. Laurin Scholarship, is pursuing a doctorate in plasmonic thin films at Purdue University. Courtesy of SPIE.
Photonics Media partners with SPIE to fund the Teddi C. Laurin Scholarship to raise awareness of optics and photonics and to foster growth and success in the photonics industry by supporting students involved in photonics. The scholarship is in memory of Teddi C. Laurin, founder of Laurin Publishing and Photonics Media.
"We are proud to congratulate the 2020 Teddi C. Laurin Scholarship winner, Deesha Shah," said Tom Laurin, president of Photonics Media. "This award honors the vision of my mother, Teddi Laurin, whose dream was to see the photonics industry thrive and expand. We wish Deesha the best of luck as she pursues her studies in plasmonics."
As the treasurer for SPIE's student chapter at Purdue, Shah helped organize the 2018 SPIE/OSA callout and the 2019 SPIE Women in Optics panel. She said she plans to use the scholarship in part to attend SPIE's Photonics West 2021 and Optics and Photonics 2021, and to cover university fees.
'I was intrigued how optical properties could be enhanced by manipulating structure geometry.'
"I attended both [conferences] in 2019, and at both I had the opportunity to meet and talk with several important professors in the field of plasmonics," Shah said.
Her interest in plasmonics, she said, originated with a research project in her undergraduate studies for which she was looking into the physics behind metamaterials.
"I was intrigued how optical properties could be enhanced by manipulating structure geometry," Shah said. "My newfound interest | 531 |
Spring is definitely in the air in my garden today! The weather has warmed up a bit so I've got buzzing insects, lots of birds and plenty of spring flowers blooming to brighten any cloudy day. Here's a few highlights, I'll start with some flora highlights and then move onto the fauna.
In one section of my garden I can't mow the lawn at<|fim_middle|> and I didn't know whether it'd grow back or I'd have to plant some more. However, I think you'll agree I'm going to have plenty of chives this year!
Finally I thought I'd share some photos of our slowly emerging insect life who are happily feeding on our early flowers!
I hope Spring is coming to your gardens too, have a lovely day! | this time of year because its full of beautiful Sweet violets in three different shades. These are delicate little flowers but together make an impressive display in an otherwise dull patch of grass!
Some other lovely flowers around my garden include daffodils, hyacinth and grape hyacinths.
In addition to the early flowers, I've also got some pretty little leaf buds forming on my, pear, apple and acer trees.
One plant that has really surprised me this Spring is my chives in my herb garden. Last years growth died off | 110 |
When Jerry and<|fim_middle|> way of the future. This kid said he saw google ads all the time for new Heating as well as Air Conditioning businesses. Next, our worker did a lot of research on how both of us can market our Heating as well as Air Conditioning company. The worker found a SEO team as well as showed us what they did. The Heating as well as Air Conditioning websites were always linked with ads for goods as well as services as well as any person would decide to look at. This day in age when the news is at your fingertips on a 24/7 basis with cable or online device, a lot of people need to be targeted a different way. The online marketing world is faster as well as more cheaper too. With SEM as well as PPC, the websites are able to get a lot of flow. | I first opened our small Heating, Ventilation, as well as A/C repair shop him and I struggled because we did not dedicate enough currency to ad campaigns. Jerry and I were hopeful that word of mouth would make a change in the traffic. But it wasn't doing the work fast enough to give money to the bills. Jerry and I entirely were not big enough to afford those high-priced ads you see on TV many times a morning. We could not even get a sound dock announcement. Jerry and I started looking at a fw SEO corporations as well as going the digital marketing route. 1 of our workers mentioned that online marketing is the | 128 |
Bertens followed her shock third round success against five-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams by claiming the scalp of Czech seventh seed Pliskova.
Seven-time champion Williams has won all three of her meetings with first-time Grand Slam quarterfinalist Camila Giorgi, with the most recent coming in the first round of the 2016 Australian Open.
She gave birth to daughter Olympia in September.
Goerges, seeded <|fim_middle|>7-6 (1), 7-6 (5), 5-7, after play was suspended in his fourth-round clash against Simon on Monday, and the Argentinean took little time in rounding off a hard-fought triumph after resuming on Tuesday. | 13th, will tackle American Williams as the tournament's top server, having racked up 44 aces so far at these Championships.
Having missed Wimbledon previous year while she prepared to have her first child in September, Serena is in pole position to win her first Grand Slam crown since becoming a mother.
"I think it's a big challenge, especially with Ostapenko where I never played against her".
You could understand the 13th seed's bewilderment, after she came from a set down against Kiki Bertens to win 3-6, 7-6, 6-1. I feel god, I feel like I did better today, I had to. Plus, at Wimbledon in particular, she lost in the first round each of the past five years.
After going a couple of weeks without hitting a serve, Williams has regained her ability with that stroke nicely at Wimbledon. "After the first set, I just said, 'Let's go three sets.' I just kept fighting".
"I'm just here just to be here, and to prove that I'm back", Williams added.
Julia Goerges dropped her racket and froze temporarily on No1 Court at the magnitude of reaching her first grand slam semi-final.
Del Potro led | 258 |
Note: This article covers the best deals in super for income protection insurance with the latest premiums as at 31 August. For the best deals in super on life insurance (death and disability cover), see SuperGuide article Comparing super funds: Top 20 cheapest funds for life insurance.
In the past few years, insurance premiums associated with super fund accounts have increased dramatically (although some super funds have reduced life insurance premiums, especially for younger fund members). More Australians are shopping around for the best insurance deal, and discovering that men often get a different insurance deal to women, and as you age, your premiums jump dramatically.
Very few people realise that most income protection insurance premiums more than double from the age of 45 to 55, and this also applies to the super funds offering the cheapest insurance deals.
The cheapest income protection insurance charged by a super fund for a male aged 45 years is $1.60 per $1,000 a year of cover. For example, looking for income protection for a 75% replacement income of $45,000 a year (based on usual annual income of $65,000 a year), is $72 a year (usually charged monthly or weekly). For a male aged 55 years looking for similar cover, the annual insurance premium is $166.50 (or $3.20 a week) – more than double the cost compared with a male aged 45 years.
The cheapest income protection insurance charged by a super fund for a female aged 45 years is $2.00 per $1,000 a year of cover. For example, looking for income protection for a 75% replacement income of $45,000 a year (based on usual income of $65,000 a year) is $90 a year (usually charged monthly or weekly). For a female aged 55 years looking for similar cover, the insurance premium is $180 (or $3.46 a week) – double the cost compared with a female aged 55 years.
For the best deals in income protection insurance, see the 4 tables below.
Background: Many super funds offer you income protection insurance; in the event that you are unable to work for a period of time due to illness or injury. Your super fund usually automatically provides you with separate life insurance cover (also known as death cover), and this cover is usually packaged with disability insurance, which means your super's life insurance policy (death/TPD) also covers you if you become permanently incapacitated in specific circumstances. Disability insurance is also known as total and permanent disability (TPD) insurance.
Depending on the super fund that you belong to, you may be receiving income protection insurance under a group cover policy, which means you may be receiving a comparatively good deal, compared to seeking out insurance cover with a super fund as an individual. You are likely to be covered under a group policy if you haven't chosen your super fund, or you don't have a choice about the super fund you belong to. Even where you have chosen a super fund, you may still be covered by a group policy, depending on the arrangements of a particular super fund.
If you choose to change super funds, or in most cases, where you actively choose your own super fund, you will not generally be covered by the more competitive group cover (although there are exceptions). The information in this article lists the 20 cheapest deals on income protection insurance across all public offer funds, that is, super funds (and products) that anyone can join. If you belong to a super fund that is not open to everyone, such as a super fund linked directly to your employer, then such a super fund will not appear in the list.
Note: If you belong to a corporate super fund,<|fim_middle|> super funds, see SuperGuide article What are the different types of super funds? and What is MySuper, and which super funds are MySuper funds?).
Cost shock: Paying too much for insurance in your super fund?
Comparing funds: Which super funds offer the cheapest insurance? | or a public sector super fund, you may receive income protection cover that is more competitive, because in some cases, the employer subsidises the insurance premiums. Also, if you joined an industry or retail super fund via your employer (that is, you did not actively choose your fund), you may be charged more competitive premiums than if you actively joined such a fund as an individual. Now is a good time to check what your super fund charges for income protection cover against the tables below.
Note: We thank superannuation ratings agency, SuperRatings for supplying this valuable data.
For the best deals on income protection insurance, see the 4 tables below. For the best deals on life insurance, see SuperGuide article Comparing super funds: Top 20 cheapest funds for life insurance.
Source: Table adapted by SuperGuide, but data supplied by SuperRatings. Ranking and insurance rates are as at 31 August 2018. Assume 60-day waiting period before policy becomes payable. The table covers all types of public offer super funds (for information on the different types of super funds, see SuperGuide articles What are the different types of super funds? and What is MySuper, and which super funds are MySuper funds?).
Source: Table adapted by SuperGuide, but data supplied by SuperRatings. Ranking and insurance rates are as at 31 August 2018. Assume 60-day waiting period before policy becomes payable. The table covers all types of public offer super funds (for information on the different types of | 317 |
Ben's work at Karen Karp & Partners includes food system mapping,<|fim_middle|> Whitman College. | data visualization, program and event design, and research and analysis. In addition to extensive work in NYC, he has managed or supported KK&P projects in Maine, Louisiana, and New York's Hudson Valley.
Prior to joining KK&P, Ben was project coordinator for Ohio State University's Mapping the Food Environment research project, evaluating the food environment of central Columbus. Ben also coordinated OSU's Agroecosystems Management Program, an interdisciplinary program focused on healthy agroecosystems and sustainable communities. He received master's degrees in environmental science (with an Agroecosystems Science specialization) and city & regional planning from OSU in 2013. Prior to moving to Ohio for graduate school, he lived in Brooklyn and worked as associate director of artist residencies for Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, an arts nonprofit based in NYC's Financial District.
Having personally experienced many sectors of the food system, including industrial processing of green peas in Idaho, serving organic and local foods in restaurants in the Northwest and Manhattan, growing vegetables on rooftops in Brooklyn and Columbus (including his own), and avidly cooking at home, Ben brings a passionate and engaged perspective to his projects. Ben is a native of Idaho and holds a BA in theater from | 249 |
Summary: Injection drug users uninfected by hepatitis C virus (HCV) despite likely repeated exposure through<|fim_middle|> for binding to genotype 1a and 3a envelope glycoproteins E1E2 with further testing for IgG and IgM reactivity against soluble E2. Virus-neutralizing activity was assessed using an HCV pseudoparticle system. Uninfected subjects demonstrated significantly greater IgG and IgM reactivities to envelope glycoproteins than healthy controls with IgG from 6 individuals additionally showing significant neutralization. This study is the first to describe humoral immunological responses targeting the HCV envelope, important for viral neutralization, in exposed uninfected individuals. A subset of these cases also had evidence of viral neutralization via anti-envelope antibodies. In addition to confirming viral exposure, the presence of specific anti-envelope antibodies may be a factor that helps these individuals resist HCV infection.
Swann, R.E., Mandalou, P., Robinson, M.W., Ow, M.M., Foung, S.K.H., McLauchlan, J., Patel, A.H., and Cramp, M.E. | high-risk behaviour are well documented. Factors preventing infection in these individuals are incompletely understood. Here, we looked for anti-HCV-envelope antibody responses in a cohort of repeatedly exposed but uninfected subjects. Forty-two hepatitis C diagnostic antibody- and RNA-negative injection drug users at high risk of exposure were studied and findings compared to healthy controls and cases with chronic HCV infection. Purified IgGs from sera were tested by ELISA | 86 |
194 – Sean Paddock: Touring w/ Kenny Chesney, Recording and Producing in a Home Studio
by Matthew Crouse · Published November 15, 2018 · Updated November 15, 2018
Growing up in Watertown, NY, Sean Paddock started playing the drums at the age of four, and within a year was sitting in, performing live with his musician parents, Don Paddock (bassist) and Claudia Paddock (singer, guitarist) at local nightclubs. By the time he was 9-years-old, Sean had begun formal drum lessons and participated in the school band program. At fourteen, Sean and his family moved to Arizona where he continued his involvement in variety of high school music groups, including marching band, orchestra and stage band. It was during his high school years that he started his<|fim_middle|> Composing, and Scofield | music career as a semi-pro, playing paid gigs with his father. After high school, Sean was working as a full-time musician, playing the local music seen both in Phoenix and northern New York.
In 1996, Sean traveled to Nashville to check out the music scene, heard that Kenny Chesney needed a drummer, auditioned and landed the gig which he's been playing ever since.
Besides Kenny Chesney, Sean has worked with such rock and country icons as Vince Gill, Sammy Hagar, John Mellencamp, Steve Miller, George Strait, and numerous others. His televised appearances with Chesney include The Grammy's, Austin City Limits, Sound Stage, the ACM, CMA, AMA award shows, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Late Show with Letterman, Good Morning America, and Today Show. Sean can also be seen in many of Kenny Chesney's music videos, as well as the Summer In 3D Movie.
When not on the road, Sean is back in Nashville — doing recording sessions with an A-list team of musicians or tracking drums at his home studio.
In this episode, Sean talks about:
The importance of mic placement, creating phase coherence, kit placement, etc when recording at home
Tracking and producing full tracks with all instruments
Touring with Kenny Chesney
The realities of touring with a major label act
How he got the gig with Kenny
Being authentic on the gig
Recounting the flood of 2010 and how it affected tour production
Final words of advice in maintaining sanity on the road
Sean endorses: Tama Drums, Zildjian Cymbals, Vic Firth Sticks, Evans Drumheads, Audio Technica, Puresound Snare Wires
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At the time of re-writing this, this post is late. It missed its original schedule day and now I'm re-writing my post to add in the few things that have happened over the past few days. Sometimes things don't go the way they should.
On January 29, I saw twenty one pilots. Seeing my favorite band live is something I'll never be able to explain but I'm going to try with an article I will be posting in a few days (depending on when you read this, it may or may not be up yet).
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Global parasite burden may impact population, individual health and livestock production, with socioeconomic consequences. Preventive measures are the first approach for control but peculiarities of parasitic infections when involve sylvatic vectors or reservoirs for instance turn them close to impossible. In this context, an alternative is to induce protective responses in the target hosts. Parasites in general comparing with other microorganisms have long replicating time that apparently would facilitate the immune system to defeat them. However through millions of years these parasites have developed diverse strategies to evade and/or to modulate the host response for their survival. The difficult control of parasites derives in part from characteristics of their life cycle presenting different developmental phases, interactions with different vectors, intermediate and definitive hosts. Thus for effective parasite control, researches focusing different interactions that take place during life cycle are of paramount importance. The articles in this issue highlight some novel facets. Related to these aspects we add some reflections focusing the role of diverse hosts, of vectors and non-specific elements of host defense, many paving route to adaptive immune response, to open fronts that may be tackled aiming parasite control.
Author(s) Ferrolho J., Domingos A. and Campino L.
Theileria annulata, the causative agent of tropical theileriosis, is an intracellular protozoan parasite transmitted by ticks of the genus Hyalomma. This tick-borne disease (TBD) exerts a high impact on livestock production in many developing tropical and subtropical countries. With an intricate life cycle and wide distribution around the world, many advances were made to restrict the impact and to control this TBD through the use of acaricides, chemotherapy and attenuated vaccines. However, an overreliance on these chemicals has meant new approaches for developing more effective vaccines are needed. Decades of studies support the idea that the humoral immune response elicited against the sporozoite stage of the tick life cycle may protect the<|fim_middle|> mortality rates around the world, this protozoan disease is most common in the tropical and sub-tropical regions. Herein, using a pure transcriptomic data analysis approach on mosquito salivary glands we have identified, compiled and compared immune-related transcripts and their levels of expression in A. gambiae and A. stephensi after P. berghei infection. Focusing in immune mechanisms such as recognition of the parasite, signal modulation by serine protease cascades and effector mechanisms, several subclasses of proteins were investigated, including thioester-containing proteins, leucine-rich domain-containing proteins, C-type lectins, galactoside-binding lectins, clip-domain serine proteases, serine protease inhibitors, and antimicrobial peptides. The anti-vector vaccine potential of key-molecules that have exert an action in regulating parasite development have been considered thus, targeting highly conserved antigenic molecules can be effective to control arthropod-borne diseases, including malaria. This study constitutes the first comparative sialotranscriptomic analysis between these two mosquito vectors upon pathogen invasion, focusing solely specific subclasses of immune-related transcripts. Lastly, in order to search for new targets with potential to become pan-arthropod vaccines, we provide potential candidate genes with interest to be further investigated for malaria control.
Copyright © 2016 Research Publisher Inc. All Rights Reserved. | host from infection. Further protective responses provided by cytotoxic T-cells, macrophages, and Natural Killer cells have also been identified as critically important during T. annulata infection. Here our focus will be the bovine immune response upon T. annulata infection, particularly the differential humoral and cellular immune responses. Our aim is to highlight the importance of the mechanisms potentially involved in protective immunity as well as significant findings, which may be incorporated into novel strategies for tropical theileriosis control.
Leishmaniasis is a neglected parasitic disease whose diverse clinical manifestations are dependent on the interrelations between intrinsic and extrinsic factors. The infecting species of Leishmania, the parasite's ability to evade mammal immune response and the host genetic background seems to pre-determine the degree of resistance and sensitivity to infection, regulating the disease outcome. The introduction of metacyclic promastigotes into the dermis of the mammal host by the sand fly originates an unspecific immune response that can difficult the parasite replication and dispersion or, by the contrary favor the selection of fit parasites, assuring the parasite survival and the disease onset. This review aims to provide a comprehensive outline of the immune response displayed against Leishmania parasites by the host and the strategies exhibited by the parasite to subvert the host immune mechanisms. Emphasis is given to the early contact of the parasite with the immune system of the host, as this is a crucial time-point for parasite control that might be explored for the development of new and more efficient control measures. The role of neutrophils, macrophages and dendritic cells when facing different species of Leishmania are examined as well as the link of immediate innate immune response with the late acquired immunity.
Author(s) Couto J., Ferrolho J., de la Fuente J. and Domingos A.
Malaria is caused by parasites of the genus Plasmodium that are transmitted through the bite of female mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles. Responsible for high mobility and | 409 |
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WASHINGTON, D. C.--- U.S. Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced today that the City of Centre will receive $800,000 from the Federal Aviation Administration for the new Centre-Piedmont Cherokee County Regional Airport.
Senator Shelby said, "I am pleased to make this announcement for the Cherokee County Regional Airport. These funds will be used for phase III construction at the new airport, which will include construction of an access road and paving of a runway. This new airport will help accommodate increased air travel into this area. I was pleased to play a role in securing these funds so the airport may continue its work."
This funding, which was secured in the federal appropriations process, will be administered through the Federal Aviation Administration's Airport Improvement Program (AIP).
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Railroads are a primary source of transportation for agricultural products in the United States. Over the last 35 years there have been numerous changes within this industry, beginning with the partial deregulation of the industry through the Staggers Rail Act of 1980. This Act provided railroads more pricing flexibility, and also eased the legal impediments to mergers as well as the abandonment of unprofitable rail lines. As such, real rates and costs fell dramatically following passage of the Staggers Act. In addition, the years following the passage of this legislation saw massive consolidation of the nation's largest railroads, the so-called Class 1 carriers (MacDonald and Cavalluzzo, 1996; Bitzan and Wilson, 2007). A large economic literature has documented some of the impacts of this 1980 Act (Wilson, 1994; Wilson, 1997; MacDonald and Cavalluzzo, 1996; Winston, 1993). At present, there are a new set of factors affecting the transportation of agricultural products by rail, making it useful to reexamine this industry in the context of the major provisions of the Staggers Act along with some of the changes that have resulted from partial deregulation.
The rail industry has been regulated since passage of the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. This regulation was primarily aimed at the perceived problems associated with railroad behavior in markets in which there were few alternative railroads present, such as markets with one railroad acting as a monopolist. As such, the federal regulation was geared towards setting guidelines for how railroads could conduct business, including their rate policies, track operated, and merger activity. Indeed, virtually all rates were subject to regulation after the passage of this legislation, along with tremendous impediments to merger activity and strict rules regarding the abandonment of rail lines. However, over time, both new sources of competition—such as from truck and barge as well as new products like plastics—negatively impacted the industry. These negative impacts, along with the regulatory environment in which railroads operated, limited the ability of these firms to adapt and adjust to these changes. By the 1970s, the industry was largely in financial ruin, with many railroads in bankruptcy. Policymakers recognized the need for revamping regulation, and responded with the passage of the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 and the Staggers Rail Act of 1980, which have had a tremendous effect on the industry.
Prior to partial deregulation, all rates in the industry were subject to regulatory review and jurisdiction, limiting the railroads' ability to leverage their market power into their pricing decisions. This changed with the Stagger's Rail Act, which gave railroads some pricing flexibility, along with some relief to the regulatory agency through the introduction of a staged process for judging the reasonableness of a given rate.
The first step in this process for determining the reasonableness of a rate was to determine whether the railroad in question was "market dominant" (Wilson, 1996; Bitzan and Tolliver, 1998). In order to determine if market dominance exists for a given rate, the regulatory agency first calculates the ratio of revenue to variable cost (that is, the costs that vary with service). If this measure is less than 180%, the railroad is deemed to not be market dominant,<|fim_middle|> and Efficiency in the Railroad Market." Research in Transportation Economics 6 : 1-24.
Kevin Henrickson, Associate Professor of Economics, Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA (henrickson@gonzaga.edu); and Wesley W. Wilson, Professor of Economics, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon (wwilson@uoregon.edu). For more detailed information, please contact the authors. | a finding that is not rebuttable. However, if the calculated ratio is greater than 180%, then the regulatory agency takes a second step in assessing whether competitive factors are present or not. Only if a railroad is found to be market dominant over the movement in question, can the reasonableness of their rate be considered. This implies that only if the revenue to variable cost ratio is greater than 180%, and the regulatory agency finds that competitive factors—such as intra-modal and inter-modal competition—are not present, the reasonableness of the rate can be examined.
Assuming that the above process yields a finding of market dominance, the reasonableness of the rate is evaluated using one of three alternative criteria that are earmarked for "large", "medium", and "small" cases. In a large case, the stand-alone cost test (SAC) is used. This test holds that the rate charged cannot exceed the rate that would be charged by a hypothetical stand-alone railroad charging enough to fully cover all of its costs. In practice, the SAC criterion is difficult to implement, the costs to shippers to bring a case is substantial, while the length of time to reach a decision largely eliminates its use in a regulatory proceeding (Pittman, 2010). In a medium-sized case, there is a simplified SAC test with set guidelines on the determination of the hypothetical railroad. Finally, for small cases, reasonableness is determined by a three-benchmark test, which generally compares the markup over costs paid by challenged rates to average markups on comparable traffic. While the methodology for examining medium and small cases is more palatable, the maximum reparations on these cases could not exceed $5 million for medium cases or $1 million for small cases. Recently, however, the simplified SAC limits were removed and the three-benchmark limit was raised to $4 million. This was exceedingly important in that the actual damages awarded were relatively small compared to the advantages gained by the market dominant railroad under the previous rules.
The size of damages and the method for determining whether the railroad is market dominant in general, is particularly significant for agricultural shippers, as most of these shipments emanate from areas that are remote, with limited availability of intra-modal transportation options. Indeed, as shown below, most areas have only one shipping option, a factor made worse in the post Staggers era, as the rail network has shrunk due both to railroads abandoning low density lines, as well as railroad consolidation, limiting the availability of intra-modal competition. While intermodal transportation options are still present, their ability to compete with rail transportation is limited based on location and distance. For example, truck competition is important for short haul distances, but is much more expensive on a per-mile basis, limiting its ability to compete on the longer routes that railroads tend to focus on. Alternatively, barge competition is also a viable alternative, but is limited geographically (MacDonald, 1987; Burton, 1993; Henrickson and Wilson, 2014). Combined, these observations illustrate how most agricultural shipments arise from geographically dispersed locations with little opportunity for intra-modal competition, travel long distances, for which truck is not a feasible option, and only have barge as a viable alternative if the shipper is located in close proximity to a major waterway.
In addition to its impact on rates, the Staggers Rail Act also substantially eased the regulatory impediments to merger activity. As noted in Bitzan and Wilson (2007), the number of Class 1 railroads has fallen dramatically since the passage of this legislation. In 1983, there were 28 Class 1 railroads operating, but by 2003, only seven remained. While six railroads were declassified as Class 1 carriers, the other railroads that existed in 1983 were consolidated into the seven Class 1 railroads in operation today. Bitzan and Wilson (2007) additionally find that consolidation has reduced industry costs by approximately 11.4%. This consolidation of railroads has been a major result of the Staggers Act and, along with easier abandonment of lines, has led to a very different industry today than what was present in 1980. Indeed, these changes have left many shippers without direct service—requiring a truck movement to access rail—or without direct access to a Class 1 carrier, requiring an interchange. These forces, all act together to put upward pressure on rail rates, but the analysis of this effect is somewhat limited in the literature.
The economic welfare consequences of these horizontal mergers are often cast in terms of the so-called Williamson (1968) model of mergers. In this model, there are two different effects: a cost synergies effect, which may have a downward impact on railroad costs, and the direct impact of a reduction in competitors, which places an upward impact on rail rates. Economists have analyzed whether the theoretical effects predicted by economic theory have materialized in the real world of rail markets. For example, Bitzan and Wilson (2007), as well as others (Berndt et al., 1993; Vellturo et al., 1992), find that consolidation has indeed reduced costs to some degree, while a study by Ivaldi and McCullugh (2012) finds that "shipper surplus and total welfare have remained fairly constant in U.S. freight rail markets despite a dramatic degree of consolidation in the industry." Ivaldi and McCullugh (2012) also find that surplus increased in intermodal markets, while bulk markets have offset the loss of surplus in general freight. In addition, they conclude that surplus has increased for bulk shippers, but that the majority of that surplus was only realized after most mergers were completed, and were primarily driven by reductions in unit costs. It is also quite noteworthy that that they estimate a measure of markup—defined as the Lerner Index, or rate-marginal cost/rate—for bulk shipments to be about 75%.
Source: USDA, NASS. The production figures are in millions averaged over a four year time period.
Over the last 24 years, the quantity of rail shipments of agricultural products throughout the United States has increased, as shown in Figure 1. While railroads haul a wide variety of agricultural products, the primary commodities carried are corn, wheat, soybeans, barley, and sorghum, commodities that account for over 90% of annual rail farm product tonnages. Specifically, while there are 93 different classifications of "Farm Products" hauled by railroads at the five digit Standardized Transportation Commodity Codes, corn (44.8%), wheat (29.0%), soybeans (12.7%), barley (3.1%), and sorghum (2.7%) total over 90% of all rail transportation of farm products between 1990 and 2013. As such, we focus on wheat, corn, and soybeans in what follows, with Table 1 summarizing the total tonnages (in millions) over this time period, along with shares of all farm product traffic.
Given this background, the demand for rail transportation depends critically on the production of these five agricultural commodities. Table 2 contains summaries of state level agricultural production in 1990-1993 and 2010-2013, along with changes by state. It is particularly noteworthy that the top producing states for each commodity during 1990-1993, remain at the top in 2010-2013. However, outside of the top state for each commodity, there are remarkable changes illustrated in Table 2. For example, corn grew for all states, but, in particular, for Minnesota, Kansas, and North Dakota; wheat production fell in all states; while soybean production increased in all states, and, in particular for North Dakota.
As noted above, railroad markets have also changed dramatically over this time period. Between 1990 and 2013, there were multiple mergers in the rail market, reducing the number of Class I carriers from 14 to only 7. Coinciding with these mergers, there was a dramatic reduction in the miles of track operated. Between 1983 and 2012, miles of road operated by Class 1 carriers fell from 168,838 to 120,658 miles, with most of the reduction in the 1980s (Figure 2). This pattern continued into later years, but at a much slower rate, as the miles of road only fell from 133,189 to 120,658 between 1990 and 2012 (Railroad R-1 Reports filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Surface Transportation Board). Also shown in Figure 2 is the doubling of revenue ton miles for Class 1 carriers over this same period of time. Figure 3 presents this same information on an average unit basis, showing that both miles of road and revenue ton-miles per firm have grown together as firm sizes have grown. However, from about 1999 to 2012, output per firm continues to grow, but miles of road have remained relatively constant. A particularly striking result illustrated in Figure 4 is that output per firm increased more than eight times between 1983 and 2012, while the network size (miles of road) has increased only slightly more than two times. This pattern points to substantially more intensive use of the rail network, along with the associated issues that agricultural shippers have faced in gaining access to this network; a result that for some locations has been exacerbated as railroads have reallocated resources to meet the growing demand for the transportation of oil from the Upper Midwest.
Source: Constructed from R-1 Financial Reports filed with the Surface Transportation Board.
One of the largest issues associated with a smaller network along with fewer firms using the network far more intensely, is the effect on pricing. In particular, as railroads have merged and abandoned, or sold rail lines to regional short-line carriers, the inevitable effect for shippers is less access to rail and/or less competition among Class 1 carriers. Information from the Oakridge National Laboratories allows an assessment of these impacts. In these data, there were 1982 counties with rail service in either 1990 or 2013. In 1990, about 68% of these counties had access to Class 1 rail service, while 32% received service from non-Class I carriers. In 2013, these statistics remain virtually unchanged; however, of the counties that received Class 1 service, about 14% lost service between 1990 and 2013. In short, most counties in the United States do not receive railroad service presently, and even fewer receive Class 1 carriage. However, for those that did receive service in 1990, most continue to have service—only 32 of 1392 have lost service from any Class 1 carrier—while only 14% have lost service from competing Class I carriers.
with the Surface Transportation Board.
Statistics filed with the Surface Transportation Board.
Another measure of the changing competitive environment comes from the railroads' annual reports (the Form R-1 reports). These data allow for the calculation of the Herfindhahl Index, an index of market power. If market power increases, all else equal, markups increase. Henrickson and Wilson, 2014 separated the railroads into east and west railroads, calculating the resulting Herfindahl Index for each region. While this standard measure of market power is somewhat overstated given that it captures only Class I carriers, Class 1 carriers account for over 90% of railroad traffic, which lessens this upward bias. Figure 5 illustrates this measure of concentration for each of these regions, and points to tremendous increases in concentration over time, attributed primarily to the merger and consolidation activity within the market, with only modest differences across regions. The increase in concentration of course reflect greater amounts of outputs held by larger firms, which in turn, points to pricing power and associated higher prices.
While much of the structural change in rail markets was realized in the 1980s and 1990s, a more recent effect on rail markets has been the tremendous increase in the cost of fuel to railroads which in turn is passed on to the shippers in the form of high rates. Figure 6 presents real fuel prices over time, and points very directly to the significant changes in these costs over the past decade.
Unfortunately, the effects of these various changes in the railroad industry on rail rates are not clear. While the nation's rail network has decreased dramatically, most shippers that had service in 1990 continue to have service today. Conventional measures of concentration point to dramatic increases, yet the effects of this consolidation may point to efficiency gains, perhaps realize through larger lengths of haul, consolidated shipments, and less interchange, but may also point to higher market power. Yet, most shippers have only one rail option, and fewer yet have direct service from Class 1 carriers, while higher fuel costs have led to fuel surcharges added into rail rates.
To assess some of the changes over time we used the Public Use Waybill available from the Surface Transportation Board (STB, 2015). These data give shipment characteristics and rates at the Bureau of Economic Region level. Using these data, we calculated the average rate per ton-mile, which is shown in Figure 7. As indicated, the rates for each of these commodities vary, with wheat rates tending to be higher. However, rates for each commodity tended to fall through the 1990s, and have been increasing since mid-2000. These patterns are consistent with net efficiency gains realized through consolidation followed by rising fuel prices, and associated fuel charges, over the last 10 years.
While there are only modest changes in service offered to shippers from consolidation, sales and/or abandonment of rail lines by Class 1 carriers, there are differences across shippers in terms of service options available. To capture these differences, we merged the public use waybill data to the Oakridge data by U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis economic area code. In the data, there are a total of 188,504 observations for the entire time period in question, of these, 22% of the observations were from counties with no service from Class 1 carriers, 45% were from counties with only one Class 1 carrier providing service, and the remainder have 2 or more Class 1 carriers. Direct comparisons are quite difficult owing to different traffic characteristics of shipments that vary over geographic space, including miles traveled, shipment size, number of interchanges, whether the shipments were in rail owned or shipper owned cars. However, we accounted for these differences statistically, and found that the rates are about 2-3.5% higher for counties with one Class 1 carrier, and about 3 to 7% higher for counties with no Class 1 service. These findings do point to competitive issues, but the magnitudes are generally quite small.
Partial deregulation of the railroad industry has dramatically changed the level of competition present in much of the United States, directly impacting agricultural shippers. Railroads have consolidated and introduced innovations that have resulted in dramatically lower costs and prices. While the overall rail network has decreased in size, many shippers in this study have experienced little, if any, change in service provided by Class 1 carriers. Analysis of rates, point to significant declines through the 1990s that coincide with several major mergers that offered efficiencies. However, rates have climbed substantially since 2005, which coincides with increasing fuel prices. Yet, the bulk of shipments emanate from areas with no Class 1 service or from areas with a single Class 1 carrier. Thus, most agricultural shippers have limited options for Class I service.
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Langley House Trust has been awarded Investors in People Gold status – the highest accolade that the awarding body can give.
The award reflects the commitment of the charity to value its people and provide good leadership and communication. Langley employs about 200 people across the country and secured the coveted status after a thorough assessment of its people management.
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Langley will hold Investors in People Gold status until 2019.
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Langley achieved 178 out of 196 criteria – more than crossing the threshold for Gold status. Approximately 12,000 organisations apply for the Investors in People standard annually, with less than a quarter of organisations achieving Gold standard. Langley has held Investors in People status since 2007. It achieved Bronze status in 2013 and Silver status in 2014.
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2 Lost Gems From Manchester's Factory Records: Cath Carroll's 'Moves Like You' and Northside's 'Moody Places'
by Stan on Sunday, August 28, 2011 at 2:58 pm EDT in Arts & Entertainment, Music
When I was living in London in 1991, Select Magazine released a Factory Records sampler cassette ( FAC 305C ) that would eventually go on to melt in my car. I cherished this sampler, because it introduced me to some fabulous tracks by two largely unknown Manchester artists that I otherwise might never have discovered: Cath Carroll's 'Moves Like<|fim_middle|>
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I did ultimately find Cath Carroll's CD as a pricey import (back in the States), but that Northside track was not included on the group's only LP release at the time, Chicken Rhythms. Over the years, I managed to forget about the song, its title, etc. (Note to our younger readers: the internet was barely in existence in the early 90s, and it would take more than a decade before decent search engines evolved.)
Well, twenty years now after its release — not sure what exactly made me think of that long lost sampler — I vaguely recalled the track, and thought to investigate on Google.
What I found: In 2005, Northside re-released its Chicken Rhthyms LP — currently unavailable in the US, even as a download — but this time with bonus tracks, including the long lost song, 'Moody Places'.
Here is that song, streamed from the group's MySpace page:
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And for those who have never heard of the former-Factory Recording artist, Cath Carroll, here's the video of her fabulous 1991 single 'Moves Like You':
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Well, printers are a necessity these days no matter what you do! Children have presentations, projects and holiday homework to print out; adults have office projects, tickets, vouchers or even reports. This is why we said no matter what you do, it is necessary that you have a printer around. They make life much easier because even if we have<|fim_middle|> the feed rollers of the printer to pull the sheet. Next, the drum continues to charge the images on several places, the negatively charged areas of which toners like the Canon toner stick to. The rollers then create the image.
Now, this is a short summary of how the different types of printers work. Always remember to replace and restock your cartridge, toner etc. from stores such as GM Supplies.
Next: What All It Takes To Become the Best Web Hosting Reseller? | moved on to soft copies and digital records, a lot of us still prefer hard copies.
Even as we speak, a printer must be somewhere around us, tucked away in our cubicles or on that multi-purpose table we all have at homes. We print so much without even stopping to think twice about how the machine which makes our work more convenient works itself. Now, in order to answer this question, we must first understand that there are two types of printers- inkjet and laser.
More conventional printers are inkjet; it is only recently that a number of people have begun converting to laser printers. Most of us also own inkjet printers and this is why we buy products such as Canon toner, cartridge etc.
An Inkjet printer is basically the most conventional form of printer where ink is dispensed on paper in order to recreate a digital image which was earlier on the screen. Now, with the advancement in technology, there were basically two kinds of inkjet printers, namely the Continuous printer and the other type is the Drop on Demand printer.
While more or less, most printers used these days are DOD printers, a technology the teams at Hewlett Packard and Canon came up with where the cartridges basically have tiny heaters which heat the ink enough to drop at a certain pace. This is how images are produced and reproduced where the tiny balls on the paper and the surface tension of the heated ink together produce an image.
In the continuous method, printing goes on at a furious speed with the ink constantly being dispensed to create an image or produce a text at a rapid speed. This kind of printing was used previously to print out cartons, coding of packages etc. The CIJ method uses a highly pressurized pump to direct ink from a reservoir through a gun, using its microscopic nozzle to create a stream of ink droplets. This method is actually great in order to avoid any kind of ink clog etc.
The workings of a Laser printer!
With a laser printer, the process of printing has been revolutionized with the printer itself doing more than simply reproducing an image. What it does is that the data to be printed is transferred through a USB or a port to the printer which aligns the data according to how it can be printed. The Printer command language relays the command from the computer to the printer effortlessly.
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'Forty Years in Bloomington: A Memoir'
Road tripping on the Marijuana Way
Life in Bloomington in the early 1970s was tantamount to that of a Wild West town, without the shootouts (although, eventually, there were some). The place was wide open and oozed wealth generated by a burgeoning hippie economy. And few cared that the boom was fueled by contraband. Too many people made too much money off marijuana. Society accepted it. And the community embraced it.
I can say with unimpeachable confidence that a walk down Kirkwood Avenue and around the Courthouse Square anytime between 1971 and '75 would have passed at least a half dozen businesses whose owners were or had been pot dealers, and probably more. With equal certainty, I can say the first communication a high-powered local attorney shared with three green asses busted cold with five pounds of marijuana in 1974 were: "I've talked to the prosecutor, and he said to tell you not to worry, you're not going to jail."
The Monroe County prosecutor was a Republican named Greg Carter, who would represent the Indiana chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) after he left Bloomington. The attorney was John G. Baker, who would eventually be, in turn, Monroe County Judge, Monroe Superior Court Judge, Monroe Circuit Judge and Indiana Court of Appeals Judge. His office in 1974 was located in what is now the Old National Bank building at Kirkwood and Washington.
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A number of factors, in addition to the city's enormous population of pot-smoking-age college kids, coalesced to make Bloomington and its rural environs a logical outpost on the Marijuana Way. Among them were the locals' unique combination of libertarian and liberal politics; the remote, rugged, sparsely populated countryside; and its location within a few hours of major metropolitan areas, especially Chicago and The Region, as I learned Indiana's Lake Michigan steel country is known.
And, it can't be overstated, there were those hundreds of millions of dollars that passed through the town, underground, tax free, year after year after year. No car salesman would question the source of the cash a longhair wearing a Hawaiian shirt and dripping with turquoise and silver jewelry laid on his desk for, say, the first Datsun 240Z sports car to hit the lot. Metallic green, special-ordered, paid in advance.
My first trip on the Way came during the summer of 1972, much of which I spent hanging out and road-tripping with a friend from Indy named Banks. He was 18, three years younger than me, a former wrestler and cross country runner who, for reasons I never quite ascertained, left home and turned his back on society.
I "worked" that summer cutting grass and whacking weeds at rich people's houses with a friend in Indy. I didn't work much, and Banks slept under the Interstate 465 bridge on East 30th Street. He'd come by, and we'd hang out while my parents were at work.
Banks was a cute little guy, short and muscular with an engaging manner, blue eyes and a slight lisp. He didn't drink; he hated drunks. But, it soon became apparent that he had an enormous appetite for drugs. Before his habit developed, Banks and I hitchhiked from Indy to LA to Berkeley and back in three weeks. That thumb trip produced too many tales for one section of one story, but the only time I ever saw the fearless little bastard rattled is one that must be told.
Photograph by Steven Higgs
Rural Monroe and surrounding counties' rugged, isolated landscape combined with the locals' liberal and libertarian attitudes to make South-Central Indiana a major distribution point along the 1970s Marijuana Way.
Our second day of hitching landed us on the historic Highway 66 in Gallup, N.M., on a Saturday night. Gallup was an Indian town where, we noticed as we walked a few miles through its north end, police patrolled the streets with helmets on and nightsticks in hand. We had taken a ride off Interstate 40 to restock our supplies. Instead, as we eyed our surroundings, we walked nonstop to the Interstate interchange on the west side of town and pitched our sleeping bags in the desert sand and slept under the stars.
One of the first cars to see our thumbs in the morning pulled over, an occurrence we viewed as recompense for our meticulous attention to Karma -- "Don't step on that bug! Bad Karma!" The bronze, 1959 Chevy 4-door had Oklahoma plates and a driver who emanated an In Cold Blood vibe. He was a wir<|fim_middle|>.
Tony and Stan were art students, and their place was decorated in hippie chic -- antiques, oil lamps, India print spreads. The three of us sat around a wooden utility spool turned on its side for a table and talked and sampled.
Tony was working in the mills, Stan said, and when he returned, they were reorganizing their operation. They were buying a downtown business, which he was going to run. Tony would handle the side operations. They were still partners, but if we wanted in, I'd be dealing with Tony.
We picked up Banks at the Pizzeria and gave him the good news. No more trips to Talbot Village for Northern Indiana ditch weed. We had a Bloomington pot connection.
When I returned to IU for my senior year in the Fall of 1972, Banks moved to a junkie-infested apartment complex near Windsor Village in Indianapolis, where he succumbed to the lure of hard drugs. I didn't see him much after that. He eventually joined the Navy, married Filipino and drowned in Puget Sound, allegedly. I saw it on Indianapolis TV news while waiting for Chinese takeout. The last I heard, his body was never recovered. | y little guy with tattoos, slicked-back, straight black hair and cigarettes rolled up in the sleeve of his white T-shirt. Seated next to him was another hitchhiker he had picked up a half hour before us. He was a demonic-looking cat with long, dirty hair and a goatee. Reminded me of Gary the bank robber.
The driver didn't seem to have any particular destination and decided he would take us wherever we were all going. Good news, we thought. Maybe we could make it to our destination, Whittier, Calif., in four days. The home of Richard M. Nixon from age 9 through his college years, Whittier is located about 15 miles west and south of LA. Our euphoria dissipated, however, when the driver leaned over, opened the glove box and threw the car's registration into the Arizona desert. At that moment, Banks and I knew we were riding in a stolen car.
To fuel the drama, the driver stopped at every gas station along the way, retrieved oil cans from the trash bins and drained their remains into the car's engine. It leaked like a sieve, and none of us would own up to having any money to buy oil. Banks, as tough as he was, was only a kid and panicked when the registration papers flew. He wanted to get out at the next oil stop, but I changed his mind by pointing out the endless string of roadside messages, made out of softball-sized rocks, on the desert's edge: "Randy and Tim stuck here five days. Stuck here three days. Stuck here ... Stuck here ... Stuck here ..."
We stayed in the Chevy's backseat, smothered by the desert heat, and arrived alive in Barstow, where the driver bid us adieu and sped off to whatever one does when driving a stolen Oklahoma car in California. Hitchhiking in 1972 California was like hailing a cab, and we quickly landed in Whittier, where we stayed in a garage apartment of a cousin of a guy named Paul Huerta, who had spent some time on the east side of Indianapolis. The place had changed since Nixon was a lad.
Hitchhiking provided a window into a separate reality that I'm glad I peered through, kind of like seeing the world through Jack Kerouac's eyes. And it provided my first view of Latino culture, even if it only lasted a few days. But another road trip Banks and I made to Bloomington in the Summer of 1972 opened a door I passed through and never exited.
"There were those hundreds of millions of dollars that passed through the town, underground, tax free, year after year after year."
I had briefly met an aspiring dope dealer named Tony at my childhood friend Terry's apartment on East University Street in the spring. Terry had gone to a Catholic, all-boys school in Indy and was one of the smartest guys I ever knew. He roomed with three guys from The Region he had met in McNutt dorm. Tony was a big-talker from steel country who said he was going to work in the mills over the summer and save some money to invest in the marijuana trade. "If you can make a thousand dollars," he told the handful of guys drinking beers and smoking his pot, "you can make a hundred thousand."
Terry knew where Tony and Stan moved that summer but didn't have their number. So he and Banks and I decided to drive south on 37 one afternoon and see if we couldn't make a summer connection. Terry, who had been busted for selling LSD spring semester, knew that he couldn't take two strangers to their place, so we dropped Banks off on Kirkwood with directions to meet us later at Pizzeria.
As we approached the Smith Road and Hillside intersection in my 1970 Firebird, dark green with black vinyl top, Terry saw Stan, also driving a Firebird, turn our way. We flagged him down, and, yeah, he said, he could help us out. He turned around, and we followed him to his rustic, two-bedroom house overlooking a farm field.
Stan was an ebullient fellow who was always smiling and greeted everyone with a lilting, "Hello. How are you?" with the emphasis on "you." When we got to the house, I sat on the porch swing while Terry convinced Stan that I was cool. Due to his legal predicament, Terry was only interested in facilitating a connection | 924 |
The Good Dinosaur – Trailer
by Shaik | Jul 21, 2015 | 0 comments
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures debuted the trailer for The Good Dinosaur, an upcoming American 3D computer-animated comedy film directed<|fim_middle|> web. | by Peter Sohn.
The voice cast features Lucas Neff, Bill Hader, Neil Patrick Harris, John Lithgow, Frances McDormand, Judy Greer.
"The Good Dinosaur asks the question: What if the asteroid that forever changed life on Earth missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct?
Pixar Animation Studios takes you on an epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend.
While traveling through a harsh and mysterious landscape, Arlo learns the power of confronting his fears and discovers what he is truly capable of."
The Good Dinosaur is scheduled to be released on November 25, 2015.
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Team of the League – Champions League group stage
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The Champions League group stages have concluded! To commemorate, this week instead of a team of the week, ORTEC Sports created a Team of the League<|fim_middle|>88%. However Romero only made about half the amount of passes Messi did at 34,2 per match.
– The king of duels was Sandro. This duelist had on average 10.7 defensive duels per match, and won 75% of them. This is only equaled by Romero who averaged 16.6 defensive duels with a 73% win rate. However what sets Sandro truly apart is that he also averages about 4.3 attacking duels per match, and of these he won a stellar 77%. | to compare the players over the entire UCL group stage.
Instead of focusing on a single stat, the Team of the League has been put together using the ORTEC Player Performance Score. This score is a score given between 1 and 10 based on how well the players performed in several stats. These stats include (amongst others), goal attempts, duels, possession regain and key actions.
– The Team of the League gets 2 of their players from the Juventus squad, with both the left and right back scoring near the 8.0 in Sandro and Cuandado.
– The best scoring player in the Champions League group stages was Lionel Messi. This great score consists in part of:
– Messi had a goal involvement of 2.25 per match.
– He had a pass count of around 70 passes per match, oh which he hit 88%.
– He made on average 4 goal attempts on target per match, with 4.8 shots.
– The Goalkeeper spot this week is taken by Matvej Safonov from Russias Krasnodar. This is the only spot we did not use the player performance score, as it involves a lot of statistics and weights that are irrelevant for a Goalkeeper. Instead we focussed on the most saves on goal attempts, which was 7.8 per match, with the highest save % at 74%.
– Although he only played two matches, Kevin de Bruyne came in second in terms of performance score. This score was in large part due to his high amount of key actions and assists, and 4,5 and 2.0 average per match respectively.
– Of the Team, Vasquez received the most first passes in possession on average at 11 per match.
– The only player on the team who had a higher pass accuracy than Messi was Romero who hit 89% as opposed to Messi's | 396 |
In her memoir,<|fim_middle|> | Everything Happens for A Reason Kate Bowler writes about living with Stage IV Cancer in the most real way, but her book is not only for those with cancer, or those who live with a chronic illness, it's for anyone who has ever said that "everything happens for a reason", it's for the Church; in short, if you're breathing then you need to read this.
I first read this when I was in the middle of getting diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, and I was struggling with God, the Church, and my life in general. I felt instantly understood not only because she was writing about failing health and what that's like as a follower of Jesus, but because she was unapologetically honest.
Kate said exactly the opposite and I was able to take a deep breath and know that it was okay that I didn't believe that everything happens for a reason at all.
Kate's writing comes right from her heart; it's witty, ironic, hilarious, touching, raw, deeply emotional, and thoughtful. Her book is one of those books that I highlight until there is little left to highlight, one of those books that makes me laugh and cry exactly as much as it did the first read-through.
When I read it, I wanted to recommend it to everyone I knew, and when I sat in waiting rooms in hospitals and doctors' offices and saw the people around me, I wished I had copies for everyone.
This book, as I said before, is for anyone who's breathing. It's for anyone who wants to live like they're dying, because that's the only way to live.
You can go buy it here on Amazon in Kindle, audiobook, hardcover, or paperback form. | 348 |
Cranleigh is ready to go even greener
THE "greening" of Cranleigh continues with the launch of a new waste recycling scheme aimed specifically at businesses in and around the village.
Louise Grundy, Julia Brown and Richard Graham launch the Business Recycling Scheme.
Both High Street store One Forty and Cranleigh Arts Centre have joined the scheme, which is being co-ordinated by local resident, Julia Brown, director of Green Office Consulting.
Collections of cardboard, paper and cans have been running for more than a month now and have been warmly welcomed by those using the scheme.
"Unlike domestic waste, there is no centrally co-ordinated collection for businesses and it makes sense for this to be organised efficiently," said Ms Brown.
"The purpose of the Cranleigh Business Recycling Scheme (CBRS) is to co-ordinate collections of recyclable material on a local level. This not only keeps collection costs to a minimum, but also maximises the amount of material recycled. The scheme therefore helps businesses comply with their obligations at the same time as cutting their normal waste collection costs.
"By having only one lorry coming into the village for a weekly collection, it cuts down on heavy traffic in the village as well as saving costs to business and to the environment."
A recent change in the law has given businesses even more incentive to think about what happens to their waste.
Since October 30, landfills can no longer accept untreated waste and every business is now responsible for ensuring that its own waste is treated.
In most cases, this<|fim_middle|> local environment.
More details on the Cranleigh Business Recycling Scheme and details about a free one-hour consultation on waste options can be obtained by calling Ms Brown on 01483 548413 or by e-mailing info@greenofficeconsulting.co.uk | will mean removing a proportion of the waste for recycling, whether this is done by the business itself, through a separate recycling collection such as CBRS or paying a waste contractor to deal with it at a special sorting facility. Some businesses have been trying to get round these regulations by using local residential recycling facilities for business waste, or taking commercial waste to a local amenity site in private vehicles, both of which are technically illegal.
"The local authority is becoming increasingly aware of this and there have been recent instances where the council has threatened businesses with prosecution if they continue to do this," said Ms Brown.
She says burning of waste, such as cardboard, is not only a waste of recyclable resources, but is also illegal without the appropriate licence. Collections of glass and plastic will shortly be fully operational and confidential paper can also be collected for confidential shredding.
Ms Brown is also looking into co-ordinating collections of other things, such as light bulbs, batteries, green waste and even carpets.
One Forty owner, Richard Graham, said: "We are very grateful to Julia Brown for her help and advice to get us so far so quickly. Our main aim was to adopt a greener approach to our waste management, but with the changes we have made we anticipate making financial savings in the long term."
The arts centre is happy that a solution has been found that takes the effort out of organising the collections of the different types of waste.
Louise Grundy, the centre's joint operations manager, said: "We are very pleased to be part of this new and exciting scheme and this is a further step for us in our bid to becoming a greener arts centre.''
A local firm of accountants, AIMS, has also made use of the confidential shredding service, which not only saved it money, but also a substantial amount of time standing over a shredding machine. "Many surveys have revealed that the majority of customers prefer to do business with environmentally friendly businesses," said Ms Brown.
As part of the Cranleigh Business Recycling Scheme, a window badge will be given out to confirm the shop's or business's participation in the scheme and advertise their commitment to helping to improve the | 438 |
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Can You Win at a Video Game That Simulates Alzheimer's/Dementia?
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Imagine you are standing in a dimly lit living room, which could be your own, but which also may not be home at all.
You don't know because you can't remember.
Who lit the glowing fire in the fireplace? What are you there to do? Where is everyone? And do you even belong here?
That's where a player begins in Forget-Me-Knot, a new video game designed to increase dementia awareness by immersing players in an unfamiliar environment intended to simulate the Alzheimer's experience. The graphic layout will be familiar to anyone who has played a mystery or horror-themed game where the player explores a home for clues, objects, or people through a first-person, optical POV.
By searching through the room's interior, a player can discover various clues, which allow them to piece together an understanding of their environment, their past, and ultimately their identity.
Created by Alexander Tarvet, a student studying Game Design at Abertay University in Scotland, Forget-Me-Knot can be a unique experience for healthy individuals interested in developing a greater understanding and empathy for<|fim_middle|>ementia Caregivers
Download this free guide, featuring ways to help you better interact and connect with someone living with dementia. | those living with Alzheimer's/dementia. As Tarvet explains in the engadget article, "Through playing Forget-Me-Knot the player gets an immediate sense of the confusion the character feels. The player is in exactly the same position as the person with Alzheimer's--both have to explore the room and try and piece together an understanding of photos and letters through clues left on shelves and in drawers."
The game could be especially useful for facilities that wish to give staff a more immediate and visceral understanding of the confusion and disorientation often present in the lives of those living with Alzheimer's/dementia. The "I've walked in your shoes" kind of understanding the game hopes to inspire could be a big win for facilities looking to inspire staff to adopt a more patient, compassionate approach.
What is your facility doing to make staff more empathetic to residents with Alzheimer's/dementia?
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The community event hosted by the Shoalhaven City Council Youth Advisory Committee emanated a warm and friendly atmosphere that showcased the talents of the future generation of the Shoalhaven.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Apr 24, 2017 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced results for the first quarter 2017.
Cadence reported first quarter 2017 revenue of $477 million, compared to revenue of $448 million reported for the same period in 2016. On a GAAP basis, Cadence recognized net income of $68 million, or $0.25 per share on a diluted basis, in the first quarter of 2017, compared to net income of $51 million, or $0.17 per share on a diluted basis, for the same period in 2016.
Using the non-GAAP measure defined below, net income in the first quarter of 2017 was $89 million, or $0.32 per share on a diluted basis, as compared to net income of $86 million, or $0.28 per share on a diluted basis, for the same period in 2016.
"Consistent execution enabled Cadence to deliver strong results. Innovation is at the heart of our success and we have introduced three significant new products so far in 2017: Xcelium™ for parallel logic simulation, Protium™ S1 for advanced FPGA-based prototyping and Pegasus™ Verification System, a next generation physical verification solution," said Lip-Bu Tan, president and chief executive officer. "Additionally, our digital and signoff solutions continue to proliferate with market-shaping customers for the most complex designs at the most advanced nodes."
"Cadence met or exceeded its key operating metrics in the first quarter, and we are maintaining our outlook for the fiscal year," said Geoff Ribar, senior vice president and chief financial officer.
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Commentary on the first quarter 2017 financial results by Geoff Ribar, senior vice president and chief financial officer, is available at www.cadence.com/cadence/investor_relations.
For the second quarter of 2017, the company expects total revenue in the range of $470 million to $480 million. Second quarter GAAP net income per diluted share is expected to be in the range of $0.20 to $0.22. Net income per diluted share using the non-GAAP measure defined below is expected to be in the range of $0.31 to $0.33.
For 2017, the company expects total revenue in the range of $1.900 billion to $1.950 billion. On a GAAP basis, net income per diluted share for 2017 is expected to be in the range of $0.93 to $1.03. Using the non-GAAP measure defined below, net income per diluted share for 2017 is expected to be in the range of $1.32 to $1.42.
A schedule showing a reconciliation of the business outlook from GAAP net income and diluted net income per share to non-GAAP net income and diluted net income per share is included in this release.
Click here for the Q1 2017 Financial Schedules.
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Lip-Bu Tan, president and chief executive officer, and Geoff Ribar, senior vice president and chief financial officer, will host a first quarter 2017 financial results audio webcast today, April 24, 2017, at 2 p.m. (Pacific) / 5 p.m. (Eastern). Attendees are asked to register at the website at least 10 minutes prior to the scheduled webcast. An archive of the webcast will be available starting April 24, 2017 at 5 p.m. (Pacific) and ending June 16, 2017 at 5 p.m. (Pacific). Webcast access<|fim_middle|> The company is headquartered in San Jose, California, with sales offices, design centers, and research facilities around the world to serve the global electronics industry. More information about the company and its products and services is available at www.cadence.com.
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Corn Tortillas, toasted in a non-stick frying pan until firm and crispy.
Heat approx 2 Tbsp Olive Oil over medium heat and add the onion and garlic. Saute until translucent.
Add all the spices, stirring rapidly to avoid burning.
Add the butternut squash, again stirring rapidly to incorporate all ingredients while avoiding burning.
Add tomatoes, lentils, black beans and chicken stock. Bring to a boil, then simmer.
Simmer, covered, over low heat for one hour.
After the chili has cooked for one hour, add the quinoa, simmer again, then cook, covered, another thirty minutes. | weekend of unusually heavy eating. Plus, it was prepared over a week ago, portioned out and frozen. Pretty perfect for an evening following a day of catch-up, which post-holiday (/all) Mondays always are.
This recipe is Paul's invention, and is a classic example of the make it on Sunday, eat a serving and save the rest for later | 73 |
Glen Campbell Earns Oscar Nomination for 'I'm Not Gonna Miss You<|fim_middle|>Christina Vinson
Glen Campbell's poignant song 'I'm Not Gonna Miss You' has received an Oscar nomination in the Original Song category.
Other Original Song nominees are John Legend's 'Glory' (from 'Selma'); Tegan and Sara and the Lonely Island's 'Everything is Awesome' (from 'The Lego Movie'); Adam Levine's 'Lost Stars' (from 'Begin Again') and Rita Ora's 'Grateful' (from 'Beyond the Lights').
'I'm Not Gonna Miss You' is from the documentary 'Glen Campbell ... I'll Be Me,' which chronicles the singer's life, farewell tour and experience with Alzheimer's, which he was diagnosed with in 2011. He wrote 'I'm Not Gonna Miss You' with songwriter and producer Julian Raymond, recording the tune as a farewell to his legendary career.
The documentary gives an intimate, honest and at times heartbreaking look at Campbell's struggle with his diagnosis. The film's soundtrack includes five of Campbell's songs: 'I'm Not Gonna Miss You,' 'Wichita Lineman,' 'A Better Place,' 'Home Again' and 'Gentle on My Mind.'
'I'm Not Gonna Miss You' also received two Grammy nominations this year. Cambell released a music video for the song in October.
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A Proud Moment For Me - Brierley
Ethan Brierley says it was a proud moment for him to play for Rochdale at the Crown Oil Arena for the first time on Tuesday night.
The scholar and lifelong Dale fan started against Manchester United Under-21s in the EFL Trophy during the week, having made his professional debut and league debuts so far this campaign.
"It was great," said Brierley.
"I've supported this Club since I was very young – since I was three years old. So, to finally get on<|fim_middle|>. I'm enjoying it.
"They are all really good with me. If I do something wrong in training, they'll tell me and I'll try to put it right. I like it when they're honest with me because that will make me a better player. Whereas if they let it go a bit, I won't progress as a player as much.
"I'm just going to keep working hard, keep doing what I'm doing, and hopefully I will get more chances like this."
Brierley was replaced by his fellow scholar and good friend Kacper Mialkowski late on in the game, which saw the latter make his professional debut, something Brierley was proud to see.
"He's been coming to the game as well for quite a while. We used to stand behind the Sandy Lane together for quite a few years. So for both of us to get a run out tonight is great."
Watch the full interview with Brierley on iFollow for FREE! Click HERE to watch. | to the pitch is a great achievement for me. I'm over the moon!
"I've been coming since I was three, so to step out on the pitch is amazing. My parents are proud and I'm just over the moon."
The 16-year-old was involved in a number of first team squads last season but has now progressed to training regularly with the first team.
"It's great just to be around the first team at this age. They've all been really good with me. Every day in training I'm enjoying it and learning new things.
"It's all going good. I think I'm settling in well. I'm mates with all the lads | 134 |
Wishing a happy birthday to your niece should be sweet and lovely enough to convey the love you have for her. Whether you are the uncle or the aunt, we have beautiful birthday wishes and quotes that you can share with your niece. You can send a message saying Happy Birthday or share one of this with her on the social network.
Birthdays are a special occasion for everyone. When you have a niece who is still young, you can expect that they are hoping for lovely wishes from everyone – even their uncles and aunts! When you want to write up special birthday wishes for niece, you can choose to keep it short and sweet. These happy birthday quotes will surely be easier for your niece to remember than the lengthy ones.
When you read the below happy birthday wishes for your niece, try to remember the unique ones which can relate well to your niece. Feel free to combine several quotes together to create your own birthday wish as well!
If you'd like, you can even print the quotes with the colorful illustrations below and share it with her on her birthday, and let her pick her favorite birthday wish! Either way, we'd like to celebrate the occasion with you, and we wish your lovely niece a happy birthday!
1. Aren't you lucky you have such a beautiful auntie celebrating your birthday with you? Happy birthday!
2. I'm so lucky to have such a cute niece to celebrate a birthday for. Happy birthday!
3. May you be blessed with everything that you could possibly wish for in your life. Happy birthday!
4. My dear niece, I hope that you will never lose the beautiful twinkle in your eyes. Happy birthday, my little angel.
5. Words can't express how happy I am to be celebrating your birthday with you dear, happy birthday!
6. I'm sure that your parents have given you a fantastic birthday party, so here's some gifts from your auntie!
7. Happy birthday my little niece, may you grow up as sweet and loving as you are now!
8. I'm proud to say that I have the best niece in the world! Happy birthday and have fun dear!
9. My dear, I hope that you will always be happy and joyful for every birthday you have. Happy birthday.
10. The most awesome niece deserves nothing less than the best birthday celebration. Happy birthday from your aunt!
Birthday wishes for niece can be difficult to think up, especially when you have such a lovely niece that you want to celebrate! Fear not, however, because we have compiled a list of beautiful and loving birthday wishes for niece that you can share on her special day. Just keep reading and personalize the birthday wishes that you like!
11. Dear child, you are still young and have plenty to look forward to. I wish you nothing but the best!
12. What an honor it is to be celebrating your birthday with your family. Happy birthday and God bless!
13. You have so much to look forward to with your bright & loving personality. Happy Birthday!
14. Happy birthday little one! I might not be your parent but you can consider me your fairy godmother. Here's your gifts!
15. Dear niece of mine, how lucky you must feel to have. Everyone loves you so much! Happy Birthday!
Be sure to accompany the lovely birthday wishes for niece with a nice present as well! A special gift for a special niece, accompanied with a lovingly crafted unique birthday wish will be sure to brighten up her day! Just be sure to get the age and names right when you open the wishes down on your chosen birthday card, and you'll be just fine. Here are some messages and quotes you can text your niece to wish her a special day.
16. My dear, nothing would make me happier than seeing you celebrate your birthday happily today.
17. My sweet little niece is growing up so beautifully each day! Happy birthday and I love you!
18. A dozen roses & a dozen smiles, a dozen reasons to remember how you make<|fim_middle|>! May your bright little smile always stay with you through the days to come.
20. You are the best niece anyone could possibly ask for! Happy birthday sweet child, I love you!
Did you find any birthday wishes for niece that you like? Remember to write it all down and attach it with the gift for your niece, and don't forget to bring it to her birthday celebration! While you are there, let's give her a memorable birthday celebration that she will never forget even when she grows up! | my heart swell. Happy Birthday!
19. My dear niece, happy birthday | 16 |
Find Economics Definition Of Supply. Examine Now.
Term resource allocation Definition: The process of dividing up and distributing available, limited resources to competing, alternative uses that satisfy unlimited wants and needs.Given that world is rampant with scarcity (unlimited wants and needs, but limited resources), every want and need cannot be satisfied with<|fim_middle|>, and consumption, both individually and collectively. | available resources.
Allocation in economics is an analysis of how limited resources, also called factors of production, are distributed among producers, and how scarce goods and services are divided among consumers. Accounting cost, opportunity cost, economic cost and other costs are considered in this analysis.
Although there are different standards of evaluation for the concept of allocative efficiency, the basic principle asserts that in any economic system, choices in resource allocation produce both "winners" and "losers" relative to the choice being evaluated.
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Economics is the study of how people allocate scarce resources for production, distribution | 141 |
Farm Lease Program Set
Much like residential and commercial leasing, the leasing of farms continues to evolve. Next Thursday, November 6th,. Missouri Extension will conduct a farm lease program at the Adair County Extension Center. There is a registration fee, which includes one set of materials and a light meal. Pre-registration is required by November 3rd.
Darla Campbell, an agricultural business specialist with University of Missouri Extension, says the program includes discussions of current cash rents in Missouri and trends, which items to discuss and agree on in a lease, how to end a farm lease, cautions concerning recreational leases and keeping livestock and crop share arrangements fair for both sides.
Oct. 30, 2014 at 7:47 am
Highway patrol planning crackdown
The Missouri State Highway Patrol is cracking down on drunk drivers. The patrol has announced that sometime next month, Troop B officers will conduct three DWI enforcement saturations throughout the Troop B area. During these operations, troopers will focus on detecting intoxicated drivers, hazardous moving violations, speed, and other traffic violations that cause traffic crashes.
Oct. 29, 2014 at 11:19 am
Hazardous and E-Waste Dropoff Set for Saturday
A free hazardous waste drop-off event is planned soon in Macon. The event is Saturday morning from 9am to 1pm at Macon County Park. Not only will officials be accepting household hazardous wastes such as paints, used oil, anti-freeze and batteries, but they'll also accept e-waste — almost anything with a cord except appliances. Some e-waste examples include computers, monitors, TV's stereos and printers. The drop-off event Saturday will be held rain or shine. If you need to know more, call Cindy Hultz at 573-565-2203.
Blood drive set in honor of crash victim
If you haven't donated blood in a while, mark November 8th on your calendar. That's the date of the annual Red Cross blood drive, held in memory of a local woman who died after a car accident in 2010. Bridget Kurz was 24 when she died following a car acident and subsequent surgery. She received blood transfusions in an attempt to save her life. Her sister, Mindy Kurz, says holding the blood drive makes the family feel like they're giving back to those who helped Bridget. The blood drive is set for Saturday November 8th, from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m., at Mary Immaculate Catholic Church, which is at 716 East Washington in Kirksville. All blood types are needed.
Boil water advisory in effect for some
An area of Kirksville is under a 48-hour boil water advisory. The advisory started at 9:30 a.m. today and is in effect until 9:30 a.m. Friday. It applies to people who live on Elson between Porter and Elizabeth.
Oct. 22, 2014 at 3:49 pm
Kirksvile Council Discusses Pay
There<|fim_middle|> nothing could be done. The driver who hit the student was identified as a 41 year old man from Tennessee, but no other information given. The investigation into how it happened continues.
Truman Student killed | are a number of other cities Kirksville's size in the region where city council members receive more of a stipend for their work than do the council members here. That has part of the council pushing to implement pay raises for future council members in Kirksville. The idea was raised recently at a study session, and came up again during this week's regular meeting. Right now, council members receive $50 for each regular or special meeting they attend where city business is discussed and a vote is taken. The proposal is to up that to $200 a month for council members and $300 a month for the mayor; Richard Detwiler flatly opposed both ideas, as did Jerry Mills. The proposal came from Mayor Glen Moritz with support from Bob Russell. While Richard Steele offered the numbers, he said initially he was on the fence about it, then said he rally was leaning toward it. That was enough to get the matter on a future agenda for a formal vote.
Kirksville Water Rate Hike Approved
We'd told you earlier this was coming, and Kirksville city leaders have followed through with their plan to hike local utility rates. On a split vote, the council last night approved an increase in water bills that ranges from 10-percent to almost 11-percent based on your water usage, with the largest percentage increase for the lower usage levels. Water bills will continue to rise, council members remind, because they passed a plan last year to provide a stable funding source for the system. That plan includes nearly automatic price hikes annually. For the average household it means an increase of about $3.00 a month this year.
Kirksville gets set for veteran event
An event we're looking ahead to next month: The Adair County Veterans organizations and Disabled American Veterans' chapter 48 will host the community Veterans' Day ceremony on Tuesday November 11th at 11 a.m. at VFW post 2508, at 21464 Parallel Road in Kirksville. The featured speaker will be Glenn Ballew, director of the Kirksville Regional Airport, and a U.S. army veteran.
Truman State Student killed
A Truman State University student was killed Saturday night in Kirksville. The student was a 19 year old who was hit by a vehicle near Jefferson and Fible. The victim was found several blocks away, and was taken to the hospital, but | 504 |
While not part of my original design adventure I have been able to be involved with a good number of projects<|fim_middle|> is graphics for clothing. These have included branded items for a new company and event t-shirts for a entertainment venue.
Even in a mostly digital world print is a strong way for a brand to interact with consumers. It is a low-tech product opportunity to express the value of a brand or product that can last a long time. Print projects cover typography, photo manipulation, page layouts and can range in size from business cards to large signage.
I used Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat PDF, InDesign software to produce these projects.
These projects fall into the traditional idea of print projects. These are for a mix of clients and were done for magazines, flyers and other paper-based applications. For a few I was part of a design team, most I was the sole designer.
Several print projects that I was a part of were about using print on clothing to showcase an event or to increase brand awareness. Event shirts are a way for consumers to have a connection and remember it. Brands can use print as part of their promotional or advertising process. | that were in the realm of print. Not all of them involved being printed on paper. I have produced advertisements to go into a range of publications, these have included both business and non profit organizations. The more traditional projects include pages for a sales catalog, and product detail sheets. One unique part of the print category | 63 |
Detached<|fim_middle|> with substantial quantities of the historic or original fabric, both to the exterior and to the interior where contemporary joinery; Classical wall monuments commemorating the Jacob family of Bushville (see 15704805) and the Meadows family of Thorn Ville (see 15704763); jewel-like thirteenth-century French Gothic-style stained glass 'placed to the memory of Percy S. [Swan] Waddy MD [d. 1866]'; and sleek plasterwork refinements, all highlight the artistic potential of a church making a pleasing visual statement in a wooded setting: meanwhile, a benchmark remains of additional interest for the connections with cartography and the preparation of maps by the Ordnance Survey (established 1824). | four-bay double-height single-cell Board of First Fruits Church of Ireland church, built 1828, on a rectangular plan with single-bay two-stage tower to entrance (west) front on a square plan. Pitched slate roofs including pitched (gabled) slate roof (tower) with lichen-covered clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone coping to gables, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron octagonal or ogee hoppers and downpipes. Part repointed coursed rubble stone walls on cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on plinth with cut-limestone flush quoins to corners; part repointed coursed or snecked limestone surface finish to tower on cut-limestone chamfered cushion course on plinth with cut-limestone chamfered stringcourse (bell stage) supporting limestone ashlar piers to corners. Lancet window openings with timber Y-mullions, and cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having cast-iron lattice glazing bars with iron mesh storm panels (east) over fixed-pane fittings having leaded stained glass panels. Tudor-headed window opening to chancel (east) with timber Y-mullions, and cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having square glazing bars. Lancet window opening to tower (first stage) with timber Y-mullion, and cut-limestone block-and-start surround having chamfered reveals framing fixed-pane fittings having cast-iron lattice glazing bars. Square-headed openings (bell stage) with cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds having chamfered reveals framing louvered fittings. Interior including vestibule (west); Tudor-headed door opening into nave with concealed dressings framing timber boarded double doors; full-height interior with carpeted central aisle between timber pews, cut-white marble Classical-style wall monuments (ob. 1843; 1911), pair of stained glass memorial windows (east), Gothic-style timber pulpit on an octagonal plan with Gothic-style timber clerk's desk, carpeted stepped dais to chancel (east) with wrought iron-detailed barley twist balusters supporting carved timber communion railing centred on cloaked altar below frosted glass "East Window", and moulded plasterwork cornice to ceiling centred on moulded plasterwork roundels. Set in wooded grounds with rendered piers to perimeter having cut-granite shallow pyramidal capping supporting wrought iron double gates.
A church erected with financial support from the Board of First Fruits (fl. 1711-1833) representing an important component of the early nineteenth-century ecclesiastical heritage of south County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition suggested by such attributes as the standardised nave-with-entrance tower plan form, aligned along a liturgically-correct axis; and the slender profile of the openings underpinning a "medieval" Gothic theme with the chancel defined by a handsome "East Window": meanwhile, aspects of the composition, in particular the truncated tower, illustrate the repairs necessary to make good a church described as 'a plain modern structure with a tower…latterly condemned as unsafe' (Lewis 1837 II, 149). Having been well maintained, the elementary form and massing survive intact together | 697 |
OBJECTIVE: Given the familial influences on schizophrenia, it may be hypothesized that specific symptom domains also cluster within families, and that this applies to both clinical and subclinical levels of expression. This hypothesis was put to the test in a group of patients with a DSM-IV diagnosis of psychotic disorder together with their unaffected siblings, and a group of healthy sib-pairs.
METHOD: Subclinical positive, negative and depressive symptoms in relatives and healthy controls were assessed with the Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences (CAPE). Positive and negative sch<|fim_middle|> families (N = 136 pairs) and healthy control sib-pairs (N = 58 pairs).
RESULTS: Familial clustering of symptoms was found in all three groups. Effect sizes were largest in healthy control sib-pairs, smallest in patient-relative sib-pairs and intermediate in healthy sib-pairs of affected families.
CONCLUSION: Studies of sibling associations in genetic studies of psychometric expression of psychosis liability need to take into account the fact that the higher levels of background genetic risk and presence of diagnosed illness are inversely associated with sibling associations. | izotypy in relatives and controls was measured with the Structured Interview for Schizotypy-Revised. Multilevel linear regression analyses were conducted to investigate clustering of symptom dimensions within patient-relative sib-pairs (N = 811 pairs), healthy sib-pairs of affected | 59 |
Per Diem Pay
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What does an employer cover when employees are paid per diem?
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By Susan M. Heathfield
Per diem is Latin for per day or for each day. While per diem has several meanings, in relation to Human Resources, it is the daily allowance paid to employees for expenses incurred while traveling for business. These expenses could be for lodging, meals, tips, taxi, and other ground transportation fees. Incidental per diem traveling expenses also include such things as dry cleaning, laundry, phone use, WiFi, and room attendant tips.
When Per Diem Rates Do Not Apply
What a per diem rate does not cover is the cost of transportation to and from an employee's place of employment. In that case, employers either pay transportation costs separately—usually directly to the airline, train, bus, and so forth—or, the employees use their own personal source of transportation and are reimbursed according to the IRS mileage reimbursement rate.
Examples of Employer Reimbursement for Travel
Employers will pay an employee's transportation costs separately when an employee works at a location for the same company that is different from the location where the employee usually works. For instance, an employee's job and office are located in Michigan but, once a month they<|fim_middle|> don't spend while traveling which can encourage thrift and discourage overspending.
The employer benefits because they don't have to invest staff time reviewing expenses, vetting the amount of money spent, and the employee's time spent filling out paperwork. In essence, the employer is saying that they have budgeted the amount of money they are willing to spend on employee travel and the employee was notified before they incurred the expenses.
The per diem process can result in substantial savings for the employer as opposed to businesses that pay actual employee expenses. And of course, it is unwise and anti-employee to expect employees to cover their own expenses when they travel on legitimate business pursuits.
Per Diem Employment
In some occupations and industries, per diem can also refer to short-term, temporary employment. This daily schedule usually consists of several days of employment for a per diem employee asked to fill in for a sick or vacationing employee. Two examples are substitute teachers and health care workers that are paid by the day.
Examples of Employer Reimbursement
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Use This Sample Letter to Write a Job Offer to a Sales Representative | travel to Pennsylvania to work out of a different regional office for several days.
Another example is if an employee trains new employees at their company's locations all over the country and an overnight stay is required at each location. Yet another example is an HR staff person who usually works at the company's main headquarters but each time the company opens a new location she works for a period of time at the new location while she hires and brings staff onboard.
All three of these situations would work well with the company paying the employee a per diem because the travel is frequent or lengthy. As such, employees are happy because they don't have to record all expenditures and save receipts as proof. Nor do they need to spend time filling out expense reports.
Setting Per Diem Rates
An employer sets per diem rates based on a number of factors. These include the cost of travel-related expenses at various locations, the length of time the employee travels away from the office, and the current Federal per diem rate.
Most employers use the Federal per diem rate and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) is the governing body that establishes Federal per diem rates each year on October 1.
The GSA establishes travel policy including per diem rates (but only) for federal employees on official travel away from their local station, or areas of job location, as defined by their agency. Companies tend to use the Federal per diem rate because per diem payments above the Federal rate are taxable income for employees on their W-2 forms. For more about the intricacies of per diems and taxation, see per diem rates at U.S. Business Law and Taxes.
Understandably, the per diem rates of employers are normally set at different amounts for different locations and vary by the level of travel expenses the employee will experience. Employees traveling to Las Vegas, NV, for example, receive approximately one-third the per diem reimbursement that an employee traveling to New York City would receive based on local expenses (in Federal rates).
Benefits of the Per Diem Rate
Employees are spared the time that they would otherwise invest in keeping track of expenses, saving receipts, and filling out expense reports when they return to the office. Employees are allowed to keep the money that they | 456 |
USANA Receives International Awards for Product Quality and Corporate Excellence
BY DSN Staff Writer | June 21, 2021 | read / Daily News
USANA was honored by the Asia Pacific Stevie Awards, Korea Medical Healthcare Awards and Global Health and Pharma (GHP) Excellence Awards for corporate excellence, executive achievement and product quality. The company experienced active customer and net sales growth within its Northeast Asia, Europe and Southeast Asia Pacific markets, contributing to the company's $1.135 billion net sales in 2020.
"After a year like 2020, it's gratifying to see how we were able to<|fim_middle|> Development: 2020 Mood Support Line—Gold
Excellence in Corporate Innovation: USANA 2020—Gold
The company's Korea Medical Healthcare Awards include:
Multivitamin category—HealthPak
Weight Management category—Nutrimeal
USANA was also honored as the "Most Trusted Provider of Nutritional Products" at the Global Excellence Awards by England-based publication Global Health & Pharma magazine.
"I am so pleased to see these awards given for a diversity of markets and categories," Mulham said. "Every single market is vitally important to the company, and I am so proud of all we accomplished in 2020. I am also very humbled to be honored by the AP Stevie Awards. This award represents the incredible efforts of our Global sales leadership teams who deserve the credit for achieving such a high level of performance during an extremely tough year."
Posted in Daily News and tagged Jim Brown, Stevie Awards, USANA. | push through and produce such impressive results," says Jim Brown, president of USANA. "Each of these awards is a reflection of the growth and success happening at USANA around the world. I would like to thank our leaders, employees, associates, and customers in all 24 markets for their amazing work this past year. I also want to congratulate David Mulham for his Stevie Award for Innovation in Management. David is an exceptional leader across multiple regions and has been a great driver of growth for USANA."
At the Asia Pacific Stevie Awards, USANA received:
Innovation in Management: David Mulham, Chief Sales Officer—Bronze
Innovation in Product Design and | 138 |
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St Teresa's Inflatable Colour Run Challenge – Completed!
On Sunday <|fim_middle|> Hospice Jane Bradshaw announced the charity had become the first hospice in the region, and one of the first in the country, to be added to the national 999/111 Directory of Services.
Well done the team for taking on the challenge and thank you to everyone who donated and supported them – we can't wait for the next challenge!
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I would like to receive further communications from Heritage Healthcare for regular emails on the latest news and advice. | 14th July, Marketing Assistant, Zoe James and Finance Assistant, Claire Atherton, took on the Inflatable Colour Run Challenge for St Teresa's Hospice!
Hosted at Longfield Academy in Darlington, the duo – who were also joined by Zoe's sister and Claire's daughter – tackled the 10 inflatable obstacle course whilst being covered in bright powder paint.
Starting with a warm-up from Snap Fitness, the team ran (and sometimes walked) to each obstacle around the playing field. The obstacles included hurdles to jump over, tunnels to crawl through and finishing with a slide that required the team to climb up before the final stretch to the finish line.
Heritage Healthcare has been an avid supporter of St Teresa's Hospice for over 17 years. The Annual Charity Golf Day has raised to date in excess of £220,000 and will take place again for the 18th year on 6th September. The team have also taken part in the 'It's a Knockout' challenge with St Teresa's Hospice in Summer 2017.
St Teresa's Hospice is a fantastic charity, providing palliative and end-of-life care for residents of South Durham and North Yorkshire and their families. They help anyone with a life-threatening illness which is no longer responding to curative treatments and provide high-quality holistic support with dignity and comfort.
Over recent years, St Teresa's Hospice has funded a purpose-built in-patient unit which has seen over 200 patient admissions since opening three years ago. It offers a full service of complimentary, feel-good and counselling therapies and an innovative rapid response nursing team which respond within one hour of a call to patients at home. During last year's Charity Golf Day, Chief Executive of St Teresa's | 362 |
Located in picturesque northwestern California, Trinity County offers visitors rugged mountains, forested terrain and the state's third-largest reservoir, Trinity Lake. Outdoor enthusiasts flock to the region for camping, backpacking and fishing. Trinity County also offers Gold Rush-era architecture along Weaverville's charming Main Street, which is on the National Register of Historic Places.
This fifth-generation Trinity County rancher's life includes raising cattle, harvesting timber and growing hay. It also includes teaching agriculture at the local high school. Rourke follows in the footsteps of his father and his father's father, both of whom served the community as agriculture teachers. It's his passion, he said: "I can teach science and shop classes, and inspire kids."
Nestled alongside the scenic Trinity River, the café features American-style cuisine and regional wine and beer. Chef Scott Boone describes his offerings as "scratch cooking, a seasonal menu and delicious food." This time of year, the menu features entrees and desserts made with fresh blackberries grown on the property.
Head to historic<|fim_middle|> nation will sell wares such as antique furniture, bottles, tools and toys, while artists will display stained glass, jewelry, carvings and more. Other highlights: food, wine tasting and live entertainment.
Vacationers reside in rustic cabins spread across 90 acres of forestland and mountains, and enjoy activities ranging from horseshoes and gold panning to sing-alongs. Although there's a long wait list for lodging during peak season, the resort also hosts weddings, retreats and seminars.
Step back in time at the Jake Jackson Memorial Museum and History Center. Managed by the Trinity County Historical Society, the center features artifacts and exhibits including a historic sawmill still used on the museum grounds, blacksmith shop and ditch tender's cabin. | Lewiston June 3 for an old-fashioned street fair. Vendors from across the | 17 |
After completing this section, you should have an appreciation that SN1 and SN2 mechanisms exist and are well-known in biological chemistry.
In biological reactions, we do not often see halides serving as leaving groups (in fact, outside of some marine organisms, halogens are fairly unusual in biological molecules). More common leaving groups in biochemical reactions are phosphates, water, alcohols, and thiols. In many cases, the leaving group is protonated by an acidic group on the enzyme as bond-breaking occurs. For example, hydroxide ion itself seldom acts as a leaving group – it is simply too high in energy (too basic). Rather, the hydroxide oxygen is generally protonated by an enzymatic acid before or during the bond-breaking event, resulting in a (very stable) water leaving group.
More often, however, the hydroxyl group of an alcohol is first converted enzymatically to a phosphate ester in order to create a better leaving group. This phosphate ester can take the form of a simple monophosphate (arrow 1 in the figure below), a diphosphate (arrow 2<|fim_middle|> each case, an alcohol has been converted into a much better leaving group, and is now primed for a nucleophilic substitution reaction. | ), or a nucleotide monophosphate (arrow 3).
Due to resonance delocalization of the developing negative charge, phosphates are excellent leaving groups.
Here, the OH group on ribofuranose is converted to a diphosphate, a much better leaving group. Ammonia is the nucleophile in the second step of this SN1-like reaction.
We will learn much more about phosphates in chapter 10. What is important for now is that in | 96 |
Istanbul, Turkey – May 29 2014 – DyStar is a leading provider of dyes, chemicals, effects and services for the textile industry. A firm believer in focusing on research and development to uncover sustainable solutions, DyStar will be showcasing products based on patented new chemistry at the Interdye & Printing Eurasia 2014 held in Istanbul's Expo Center on June 5-7, 2014.
DyStar will be launching Remazol® SAM, a new range of Reactive dyes for pale to deep shades, which provides a high color yield and build-up, high fixation yield and good fastness levels.
In response to increasing ecological pressure on Mordant Black dyes for wool, DyStar is now launching the new patented Realan Black MF-PV, which provides a completely metal free dyeing process. Realan Black MF-PV provides the highest wet processing fastnesses, even higher than Mordant Black 9 types and far superior to Reactive Black 5 types for wool black.
Shade and metamerism are identical to CI Mordant Black 9 types (e. g. Black PV types) with excellent build-up. Fibre coverage of Realan Black MF-PV is by far superior to CI Reactive Black 5 types and even exceeds Black PV types. Realan Black MF-PV is APEO and AOX free, in full compliance with Oeko Tex Standard 100 and meets all relevant Restricted Substance Lists (RSL).
Visitors can<|fim_middle|>ulosic: Remazol Onyx RGB, Remazol Midnight Black RGB, Remazol Ultra Crimson RGB 150% and Remazol Ultra Rubine RGB. In the Vat dye range, Indanthren® Navy SR-N Colloisol, a newly patented and high performing navy blue was recently introduced to the market too. As for polyamide apparel exhaust dyeing and continuous polyamide carpet dyeing, the new Telon Red M-CP closes a critical gap in the Telon range.
DyStar will also be showcasing Lava Cell NSB, a new cold, neutral bio-polish enzyme, which gives a superior bio-polish performance at cold temperatures of 30-40 °C.
For further updates on the event, please visit our DyStar Facebook page. | also expect to learn more about the latest range of Dianix XF2 dyes. These five new dyes have been designed to offer excellent wet fastness performance on critical fabrics. DyStar also launched several new products for cell | 46 |
The theme was illustrated by the reading of the story of a foreigner in an African village who set up a game for the children—the first one to win the race would get a basket of candy. He was surprised to see that the children, instead of racing off to win the prize, joined hands and all skipped to the basket together,<|fim_middle|> that would make the losing children sad, and how could they be happy when their friends were sad? This is an interesting comparison of a culture based on competition and greed with one based on sharing and caring for each other!
We'd like to thank everyone who made this evening so special. First, Inter-spiritual minister, Rev. Joni Carley, who emceed the evening and brought all the pieces of this magical event together; the other celebrants, African priestess / shaman / drummer Nana Korantemaa, and Sufi dancer / whirling dervish Ibrahim Miari, for their powerful contributions; the band members, including percussionists Jan‑Jeffries & Marcy Francis, awe-inspiring gong player Katryn Lavanture, and the band leader, legendary jazz keyboardist, Dave Posmontier; the Solstice Singers, a dedicated group of individuals who came together for their love of singing and perfected songs and harmonies with very few rehearsals; the volunteers who helped with set-up, logistics and clean up; and the audience who enthusiastically joined into the moving ceremony. We are also grateful to the Unitarian Universalist Church for graciously offering their lovely sanctuary in which to hold the event.
For all who came, thank you for sharing this evening with us. If you missed it, here are a few pictures to entice you to come next year! | then sat sharing the candy and laughing happily. Puzzled, he asked the children why they didn't run to claim the candy all for themselves, they explained that | 33 |
1. Place the 3 cups of coconut in an 11 cup food<|fim_middle|> the side onto the parchment, it is so delicious. The more maple you use, the more crispies – but too much makes them hard to handle. Add a sprinkle of cinnamon and the tiniest sprinkling of sea salt on each cookie.
7. Bake at 350 for 15-17 minutes.
These sound really delicious. I'll have to try them! Thanks for posting.
Can't wait to try them! I love your kale banner. It strikes the perfect "simpleandmerry" tone.
I just made these and they ran all over the cookie sheet and off the side onto the bottom of the oven. I used the coconut cream concentrate. Did you mean 1/2 cup of coconut flour instead of coconut? I used finely shredded coconut, maybe that was the problem?
Thank you so much for this recipe. I had a tiny bit of sugar over the holidays and am now craving it like crazy. So these cookies will ease me back into the no sugar zone I hope! I am counting down the minutes until they are done, the batter tastes delicious!
Love your recipes. Just found them yesterday, and already made a bunch of winners today!
Hello, Looks great – I'd like to try to make it.
Is there a reason is listed separately? Should I just use 3 1/2 cups in total?
Hey Sharon – if you look at the directions, the first 3 cups is ground into a very fine paste. The added half cup is then added for texture with the other ingredients. I hope that makes sense and enjoy! | processor with an "S" Blade, and process for 5 minutes.
2. Turn the machine off, and let rest for 5 minutes.
3. Turn the machine on, and process again for 5 minutes. The coconut should be liquefied at this point. If you are subbing the melted coconut cream concentrate, start here.
4. Add the remaining ingredients. Process until it comes together, scrape the sides down, then process again.
5. Place by tablespoonfuls on a cookie sheet. Mine was lined with parchment. I made about 12 – if you make them a different size, just adjust the baking time.
6. To make the maple crispies – drizzle maple syrup on the raw formed cookies. If you let it drizzle down | 157 |
Health Minister warns NI could face more Covid restrictions
The Health Minister has warned more coronavirus restrictions could be implemented in Northern Ireland as the Executive attempts to keep the R number below<|fim_middle|> room for complacency.
Read more: Sixteen more coronavirus-related deaths recorded in NI | one.
Robin Swann revealed almost 5% of the population has been vaccinated - putting Northern Ireland fourth or fifth in the world per head of population.
However, he stressed that it remains crucial everyone still follows the regulations.
In the eye of the Covid-19 storm, both the Health Minister and the Chief Medical Officer warned Stormont's health committee that the Covid variant that has been in the region since before Christmas is present in increasing amounts and has established a foothold in the Republic of Ireland.
Even those who are vaccinated need to stick by restrictions – it will be the spring before we see the impact of the vaccine. We must do all we can to protect our loved ones and the NHS.
Health Minister Robin Swann
The Health Minister was clear - tighter restrictions could be on the way.
"We are not putting all our eggs in the vaccine basket," Mr Swann said.
"The vaccine is not going to be the sole answer straight away. We still have to follow the restrictions and we may have to introduce more restrictions to keep the R number below one."
Revealing that 4.8% of the population has now received the vaccine, he added that there will be a more regular vaccine delivery pattern from next week which will help with the roll-out to priority groups.
Read more: More than 100,000 Covid vaccinations given in NI
MLAs said some health workers are unhappy with the delay in the first and second dose of the Pfzier vaccine in order to increase the number of people who can be given the jab - which the Chief Medical Officer says gives between 70% and 90% protection from the virus.
"This is actually about saving lives, this is about preventing severe disease and preventing hospitalisation," Dr Michael McBride said.
Read more: New rapid Covid test to be used in NI's Emergency Departments
The health committee heard that, while there is still sustained pressure on Northern Ireland's health care system, there is light at the end of the tunnel.
But, as the pandemic reaches its height, there remains no | 418 |
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Müller R.D., Seton, M., Zahirovic, S<|fim_middle|>., 2016. Ocean basin evolution and global-scale plate reorganization events since Pangea breakup, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Vol 44, 107-138. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-060115-012211.
Tonight was the annual School of Geosciences Awards Evening held at the Macleay Museum. Congratulations to EarthByters Mike Tetley, Dr Sabin Zahirovic, Andrew Merdith, Sarah MacLeod, Carmen Braz, Luke Hardiman and Serena Yeung for receiving academic and School service awards! Dr Maral Hosseinpour was photographer for the evening and took some brilliant photos!
Congratulations to Maral Hosseinpour who submitted her PhD thesis today.
EarthByte warmly welcomes new PhD student Maral Hoseinpour who has started her PhD on plate deformation models of passive margins. | ., Williams, S.E., Matthews, K.J., Wright, N.M., Shephard, G.E., Maloney, K.T., Barnett-Moore, N., Hosseinpour, M., Bower, D.J., Cannon, J | 52 |
Former deputy mayor Justin Swandel and Winnipeg developer Terracon were in communication about a contentious industrial land development both while he was in office and after he left to work for the company, according to court filings.
There are no rules preventing Winnipeg councillors or the mayor from going to work for, and lobby on behalf of, developers once they leave city hall.
Mayor Brian Bowman called for a cooling-off period in 2017, but on Tuesday, the city said it's waiting for the province to amend Manitoba's conflict of interest law before it suggests its own legislation.
Swandel, who was elected as councillor for St. Norbert in 2005, started receiving emails from Terracon executives about the Prairie Industrial Park joint venture in November 2014, a month after he left office.
He started receiving emails from city bureaucrats about the project in December 2014, and organized meetings with city officials starting in March, according to a list of documents filed in a lawsuit initiated by Terracon after city council cancelled the deal in July 2015.
The emails Swandel received from Terracon shortly before and after he left office appear to be<|fim_middle|> negotiation from 2008 to 2015. The city cancelled the deal in 2015, claiming it wasn't good for taxpayers. The developer filed a lawsuit in 2016 alleging breach of contract.
The court documents show Swandel exchanged nine emails with Terracon executives while on council. He sent or received more than 150 emails about the project from Nov. 24, 2014, to Oct. 5, 2015, the documents show.
Swandel, who served the majority of his time on council as deputy mayor and a member of executive policy committee, went on to work for Terracon.
His last day as councillor was the Oct. 22, 2014, civic election day. By Christmas, Swandel posed for Terracon's 2014 staff holiday photo.
"There is clearly a potential for conflict of interest when elected officials are interacting with these companies," said Aaron Moore, an associate professor of political science at the University of Winnipeg.
"It's a problem when you have somebody who has been representing the city immediately going and working for one of them, and bringing all of that internal knowledge of the government to the private entity," said Moore.
"There have been a number of councillors, as you know, who've gone on to [other] work and we've seen [them] at city hall," Bowman said in 2017, when he called for the cooling-off period to restrict departing elected officials from lobbying city hall, and from taking certain jobs right after leaving office.
"Certainly former councillor Justin Swandel has presented to [executive policy committee] and has advocated on behalf of a company," Bowman said.
Terracon is the same company whose U.S. division entered into a land investment with former mayor Sam Katz weeks after he left office.
In order for the city to have its own cooling-off period regulations, the province has to change legislation that governs city hall. That hasn't happened yet, because the city is waiting for the province to modernize the rules that apply to provincial officials.
Bowman stands behind his original call for changes.
"We don't have a cooling-off period, so the day after you leave office, any member of council or the mayor can engage in activity, which I think could offend Winnipeg taxpayers and Winnipeg constituents," Bowman said at a press conference Tuesday.
"Those rules are in place at the provincial [level] — there is a one-year cooling-off period."
The province is expected to introduce its new conflict of interest legislation this session. The current version includes cooling-off provisions.
The province says it's working with the City of Winnipeg on how to enact a cooling-off period into law.
"Senior officials from the province and the city have been communicating on this and those discussions continue," said a spokesperson from the province's municipal relations department.
Justin Swandel did not respond to requests for comment.
Terracon's lawyer, Robert Tapper, declined to comment on this story.
Got a tip for the CBC I-Team? Email us or call the confidential tip line at 204-788-3744. | about pavement at the industrial park, according to the court document — which lists the subject lines of the emails, but does not provide their entire contents.
Swandel was deputy mayor when city council's executive policy committee approved an agreement for road improvements for Prairie Industrial Park in 2009.
In 2013, as member of the property committee, he moved a motion to support the city entering into a joint venture with Terracon to develop 95 hectares of land in St. Boniface and turn it into the Prairie Industrial Park.
He was chair of the city's Riel community committee, which amended city planning recommendations and passed Terracon's application to change the way the land is used.
The joint venture between the city and Terracon was under | 154 |
This script adds functionality for handling external Note Files which are associated with an object.
It also adds Note Sections to your notes, allowing you to partition your note into different sections and quickly retrieve a block of text inside the notebox without having to parse the entire note yourself.
External note files allow you to manage all extra notes in an organized fashion.
This script should be placed above custom materials.
Many objects now have a note field, which you can manage using the built-in note boxes, or alternatively an external note file.
After testplaying your project for the first time, you should go to your Data folder and see a new Notes folder. Many folders will be created inside this Notes folder, and they should correspond to the different objects in your project.
All of the note files are named based on the ID of the object. You can open the text files in any text editor, and tag them the same way you would tag a note box.
Events note files are stored inside their map folder.
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The 1 means you are adding this to the first drop item.
Now you want to actually do<|fim_middle|> text files, but it did create the folders.
sorry ignore this, I was continuing what I said earlier but didn't click the reply button. I can't edit or delete post, so that's why it's still there.
Hey Hime, I've been looking about your script and trying to find a way to convert it to RMXP by using names instead as RMXP doesn't have a note section like RMVX or RMVXAce. So my question is, how did you get it to find the note section automatically as I see no where in the code it does that. Hopefully that makes sense.
sorry not the external notes, but the notebox inside the database. I have remove every line of code and kept the ones that would create the folders and that's where I'm running into the issue.
I think I'm going to have to just create a class/modules for this stuff, otherwise learn how to create a tool in visual studios as RPG Maker is getting on my nerves. Thanks anyway.
I finally figured it out RMXP was having an issue with your method "NoteManager::make_notes", so I removed the last to parameters and I stop getting the error. Thanks again for the script. | something with the note, as you would with any other note parsing.
This will create a note for the second action.
This script supports external note files that are referenced in an object's note box.
You can have multiple external note references in a single note box.
All notes are located at "Data/Notes", and supports subfolders.
This script also provides functionality for developers that wish to define their own note sections. Actually, there isn't much to it.
You can decide how you want to work with this data. I don't have any ideas beyond enemy drop items and enemy actions so I can't give much help here.
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About 7 in 10 respondents in a survey said they were "somewhat confident" that their data stored in a national electronic health record (NEHR) system would be secure and not be misused.
While majority believed that such a system could improve medical care, many still have reservations about who has access to their data.
This was according to results from a survey conducted by the Academy of Medicine, the College of Family Physicians and the Singapore Medical Association. Findings were based on responses from 2,100 participants.
The survey was conducted between March and April 2018, and experts said sentiments may have changed since the SingHealth hack in July, in which about 1.5 million SingHealth patients had their personal data stolen in a cyber attack.
According to a report by Straits Times, only three in 10 respondents had no reservations at all about storing their records in the NEHR. Half of the respondents were in favour of the scheme, but didn't want healthcare providers to have access to their data without explicit consent, except during emergencies.
Most people didn't have no issues with uploading general medical information, but were more conscious when it came to more sensitive data. Majority also indicated concerns about MOH using their medical information for "matters of public interest" without their consent.
The survey organisers noted<|fim_middle|> patient himself decide," they said. | that public sentiments might have changed since the SingHealth hack which occurred after the survey was conducted. They added that "the most important stakeholder is still the patient".
Some information, such as vaccination records and drug allergies, is almost always non-sensitive, but everything else could differ from patient to patient. "What is sensitive to one patient may not be sensitive to another, so it is better to let the | 81 |
There is only one reason we chose Ambergris Caye as our current global home base: The Water. Our reason for moving here was so simple we didn't have to think about it very long: we wanted to play on white sand and swim in crystal clear water with great marine life. That's it. That was our reason. A few weeks ago we were able to enjoy the beautiful Caribbean waters with<|fim_middle|> be on our list of MUST DO in Belize, for sure!
S holding a fresh, prickly lobster. | a full day of snorkeling, swimming with sharks (yes, sharks!), and eating fresh seafood. The visibility in this part of the ocean can be up to 300 feet, making diving and snorkeling awe-inspiring.
We went on a full day snorkeling excursion, stopping at four great snorkeling spots with a delicious, fresh fish lunch on the boat. We were picked up in a golf cart at 9 am by our tour operator and driven to the dock where our boat and 4 other snorkelers were waiting for us. It was nice to have a small group. Five minutes sailing out onto the ocean and I think I said "Wow, look at the color of that water!" about twenty times. I was starting to sound like a broken record, but I couldn't help it. The azure water is mesmerizing. It's the kind of water that you only see on postcards.
Belize has the second largest barrier reef in the world, and from the small part that we were able to see, it was amazing. The reef is only a few hundred meters away from the shores of Ambergris Caye. From our condo, we see the waves breaking over it every day so we were really excited to finally go there.
Our first stop was the Coral Gardens near Caye Caulker. We strapped on our snorkeling equipment and since Isla was sleeping, we left her on the boat with Luis, our captain. The three of us jumped into the water. K and S swimming pulling G in his boat floaty. The current was strong and it took a lot of effort to swim against it. My fin kept falling off and after 30 minutes of getting nowhere, I gave up and swam back to the boat, towing G. K went on to meet up with our group and said he saw lots of beautiful, colorful fish. Good for him, bad for me.
Our next stop I was able to snorkel with the group while K stayed on the boat with kids. We watched our guide, Giovanni, spear fish. He dived down deep, twisting & turning upside down to look underneath rocks and coral in search of lobster. Crazy, but quite successful. He caught three nice sized lobsters, each time handing them to me. None of the other snorkelers wanted to hold them. In fact, they were very spiny and hurt my hand a bit, but the novelty of holding a freshly caught lobster won over pain in my fingers. He also caught a conch – which is a tropical mollusk in a beautiful spiral shell.
After our second stop, it was time for lunch: a delicious spread with fresh snapper in a tomato, mayo, mustard sauce, coconut rice, cucumbers, tomato slices, and flour tortillas. Everything tasted so good, we went back for seconds. We also had some conch ceviche from the conch that Giovanni caught – talk about fresh! Oh, and did we mention that we had an endless supply of Rum Punch for the whole trip! A refreshing drink made of, you guessed it, local rum and fruit punch. At first, Giovanni was serving us drinks when we asked, but towards the end of our trip we were helping ourselves. After stuffing ourselves, a nap would have been nice, but on to our next stop.
So, does taking a 3 year old and 1 year old into the ocean to swim with sharks sound like a bad idea?
Our third stop was the infamous Shark Ray Alley, where the opportunity to swim with sharks and stingrays beckons . Giovanni prepared sardines for us to feed to the sharks. I don't think the sardines touched the water before they were gobbled up by the sharks. And we were going to swim with these? Yes. These were nurse sharks. They are bottom feeders and don't care to eat humans, so we felt perfectly safe. Swimming among the nurse sharks was incredible. They are strong, yet gentle giants. I watched them rest on the bottom of the ocean before swimming up to them to take some photos. We were even able to pet them. Their skin felt gritty, like wet sand paper. K even held one, and G was able to pet them as well and get in the water with them. I was very proud of 3 yr old G for wanting to swim with the sharks!
We also were able to pet and swim with Southern Stingrays. They were very friendly and do have some sharp barbs on their tails but not poisonous. The sting rays were more slimy than the sharks, but smooth and slippery. I loved watching them flow through the water. They are such interesting looking creatures. They are also bottom feeders and were going after any fish that might have been missed by the sharks and the hundreds of Jack fish, which are in the background of the picture below.
Problems with a fogged up snorkel mask? Simply grab a piece of seaweed and rub the inside and outside of your mask with it. Fog is gone and stays gone.
Would we go again? Most Definitely!
Swimming in this azure underwater paradise was a welcome change from the weeks we've had of moving, adjusting to our new home, and finding our bearings. We enjoyed this day to the fullest! We plan on taking advantage of every opporutnity we get to kayak or boat and be awed by this underworld. The water was so clear, the marine life so abundant and the rum punch so good! This would | 1,119 |
Check out all event details on the event's Facebook page, and register online here!
Join us for the 4th Annual Delta Board Meeting at Riverview Park on June 23-24th! Competitors in big air, freestyle, and an all new RELAY EVENT will be judged by the "Board of Directors."
Cash prize purse is $5,000 and we have other great prizes from our sponsors!
Each discipline is limited to 50 entries, so register early to secure your spot!
Thank to our participating sponsors E.J. Phair Brewing Company, Axis, Aloha, Cabrina, Woo, Ozone, Manera, Best, Sierra Snowkite Center, iKitesurf.com, City of Pittsburg, The Kiteboarder, Kiteworld Magazine, LXMI and Delta Wind Sports.
This event is FREE for the public. Competitors, register here for $90 pre-registration price. Day-of registration is $110.
Food trucks by Taste of the World Market will be available to competitors and the public both Saturday and Sunday. Grab a lawn chair and spend a beautiful sunny weekend at the spectacular Riverview Park.
Competitors are<|fim_middle|> that due to launch site constraints, use of foilboards is not recommended.
We highly recommend that you check out the launch site the day before the event and make decision what board to use prior to the event.
The daily schedule of each discipline will be decided based on the wind conditions and announced at the Competitors meeting each morning.
We recommend staying at the Hampton Inn Pittsburg. | free to use any equipment of their choice. Please note | 11 |
Crystal Ocean snapped up by Coolmore
Top-class performer to stand as National Hunt stallion
Crystal Ocean has been bought by Coolmore and will stand under its National Hunt banner at The Beeches Stud in 2020.
The five-year-old suffered a career-ending injury on the gallops last month, bowing out with an official rating of 127 after a succession of fine performances.
He won the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot for Sir Michael Stoute back in June, before pushing Enable all the way in an epic battle for the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes and finishing just a short head behind Japan in the Juddmonte International on what proved to be his final start.
The son of Sea The Stars bowed out with seven Group race victories to his name, never finishing out of the first three in his 17 career starts in the colours of Sir Evelyn de Rothschild.
Stoute told www.coolmore.com: "If you look at his race record, it's quite amazing. He has a lovely<|fim_middle|>: "We've been lucky enough to get some great horses over the years, but Crystal Ocean could be the best of the lot.
"He's a great outcross option for the many good mares from the Sadler's Wells line."
Paul Quigley's US Racing Preview
Paul nailed a four-timer at Mahoning Valley on Monday including winners at 18-1 & 11-2. Our US...
20:43 - Delta Downs, 6½f - 10 run
20:45 - Monticello Harness, 1m - 7 run | temperament and is a joy to train."
The Beeches manager Bobby McCarthy has high hopes for Crystal Ocean at stud.
He added | 25 |
Meet the staff at CAARS - Fueled by our passion for auto repair.
At CAARS, having ASE Certified Technicians is our way of ensuring that qualified and knowledgeable expert technicians are working on your automobile.
You wouldn't see a doctor who's not an M.D., so we believe the same discretion applies to the person who repairs your car. ASE is the National Institute for<|fim_middle|> here. An ASE Certified Master Automotive Technician and Advanced Engine Performance Specialist & Service consultant, Vince has over 30 years of automotive repair experience.
A large part of his experience was spent in dealerships, including 8 years with Acura as a Master Technician and 7 years with Saturn where he worked his way to Service Manager. Vince continues to attend training seminars around the country to keep up with the evolving automotive industry. | Automotive Service Excellence. An ASE certified technician has undergone extensive testing and certification in vehicle service and repair. Before any technician can qualify to be ASE certified, they are required to have two years of automotive experience, or one year of experience and a two-year degree in automotive repair. ASE offers more than 40 different exams designed to accurately measure the competency and knowledge of the technician seeking certification. Certification is not for life. To remain certified, ASE specialists must retest every five years to keep up with advancing automotive technology.
The next time you see the ASE patch on one of our tech's uniform, you'll know you have a qualified person at the helm.
A part of the San Juan Capistrano community for more than 20 years, Vince moved to South Orange County in his teenage years and is raising his two daughters | 166 |
On top of that, the N79 completes the Nokia N85 in the sense that it acts as a less sophisticated version of the latter for those who aren't into sliding phones. Compared the N85, it packs in an inferior display and fewer options in its sales package, but as far as hardware and features go, they aren't all that different. The bottom line is that the Nokia N79 is for those people who are looking for the best price to quality ratio and in that respect the N79 is second to none for its 350 euro price bracket, furthermore it won't relinquish this status during 2009. The only question remains, however<|fim_middle|>, and that's about it. Let's call it a "contemporary" way.
The Nokia N79 is the first phone to feature a full-fledged N-Gage client - a tad later its localized editions will become available world-wide. The handset comes boxed with fifteen Try&Buy games, although you can pick one of them and get a full version free of charge using the activation code the N79 ships with.
Call quality was never an issue with the N79, as it easily lived up to our expectations of a Nokia-branded phone. Ring tones sounded quite loud thanks to the handset's dual speakers. The vibrating alert was on the stronger side all thanks to the N79's balanced casing. | , is whether it will surpass the N73's sales – we think it's more thank likely to.
The handset utilizes a 1200 mAh Li-Ion battery (BL-6F), similar to that employed in the Nokia N85. The N79 is rated for 5.5 hours of talk time and 372 hours of standby. Music time - up to 30 hours, video recording time (top resolution and quality settings) - up to 280 minutes, video playback time - up to 320 minutess.
The handset's battery life averaged 3 days in our tests, when we used the N79 for about two hours of calls, a dozen or two snaps, several minutes of video, and around an hour of music/radio. It takes the N79 around two hours to charge from empty to full.
The top speed you can get with the N79's Bluetooth connection is around 100 Kb/s. We also tested its A2DP profile in pair with the Sony Ericsson DS970 headset, which worked just fine - we managed our play list, skipped within tracks and adjusted volume seamlessly, however we couldn't make current track's title show up on the headset's display.
There is also a Wi-Fi wizard available in the N79 - it can keep looking for enabled networks in the background mode and tap into them.
The handset comes bundled with a 5 Mpix CMOS camera, similar to that found in the Nokia N85 and some other Nokia-branded phones. The N79 features a two-section LED flash that can make some difference when taking a picture from 1-2 meters away. While the N79's flash does better at shooting sceneries rather than people, it's still debatable which kind of flash is superior - Xenon or LED. Perhaps the Sony Ericsson K850i answers this question in a certain way, utilizing both the Xenon and LED flash types.
The picture quality put up by the N79 only loses to that of the Motorola MOTOZINE ZN5, although some people still like it better. For those wondering whether the brand new N79 is any different from the Nokia N82 in terms of camera - it's not, or, at least, not in the way you will notice.
Color tones. Since these overlays can be applied to any snap in a standard graphics editor, it won't be wise of you to enable them for taking a snap on the N79. There are four effects available - Sepia, Black & White, Vivid, Negative.
White balance. The N79's camera does very well in the auto mode, though you can manually adjust the white balance and choose one of the following settings - Sunny, Cloudy, Incandescent, Fluorescent.
Video recording. When recording video with N79, there are considerably fewer settings, than in the still image mode. There is a software image stabilizer that was first introduced in the Nokia N80. You can adjust the white balance, choosing from Automatic, Sun, Cloudy, Incandescent, Fluorescent. The overlay pool includes Sepia, Black&White, Negative. There are only two shooting modes - auto or night mode. Maximum resolution - 640x480 pixels (mpeg4), you can also mute sound, although there is no way you can adjust the N79's FPS, which is locked at 30. The handset allows recording videos until you run out of free memory.
The major update to this department is the new version of Nokia Maps, which you can learn more about in our review of the FP2. Also, we would like to note that the application has become even speedier, the cold start time makes around 4-5 minutes, and we felt that the gears were spinning faster, so to speak. To my mind, the N79 is a tidy navigation-savvy solution, it does the job hands down. But, unfortunately, as far as battery life goes, the N79 doesn't improve over the predecessors.
All applications that have something to do with the N79's music department (music player, radio, Internet radio) have been carried over from the FP2's standard suite of features and are basically nothing to out of the ordinary. The handset ships with a remote control, the same as that found in the box with the Nokia N78; the bundled earphones are nothing to shout about, so you should definitely replace them with something me capable.
On the downside, its FM transmitter that can beams music, didn't manage to impress us. It is a quaint feat that may even settle down on Nokia's solutions, but by and large it is of no real use. Unfortunately, this decent idea is drowned by poor technical implementation, which is not the letdown of this particular handset, but rather all devices of this type. This weakish transmitter can't make for a stable and strong signal, therefore allowing noise and static to slip into your broadcasts, that's why even audio books get pretty irritating to listen (as far as using the transmitter in the car goes).
The current version sports only six pages, whose order of appearance may be easily varied - by the default, the first tab you see is all about music (with this tab on, you can check out your library, start random playback of your tracks or view podcasts). The Games tab proposes exactly the same options as the N-Gage section. The Gallery allows you to view your last captured shot and calls up the Album. You can submit some entries to the Contacts tab, so it acts like a speed dial menu, which may come in handy on certain occasions. Internet - links to your favorite pages, Maps - points of interests and locations.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to notice that there are a whole lot of functions typical of stand-alone apps duplicated in the N82 - in the multimedia menu you can add new bookmarks, but the browser can serve the same purposes as well. You can throw some contacts into this menu, but adding them to the list of Fast dial makes more sense. Ergonomics-wise, this menu is a complete blank, bringing nothing new to the table. It is just another way to display the phone's contents | 1,301 |
Race Preview 2 years agoby Sam Wiebe
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Rob Britton Holds Yellow in Snowbird Showdown
Rob Britton Smashes Time Trial, Takes Lead in Utah | Rob Britton Ready for Final General Classification Fight in Utah
Rally Cycling Aims for Overall Victory as Tour of Utah Enters Final Stages
Rally Cycling charges into the final weekend of the Tour of Utah, determined to deliver Rob Britton to the steps of the State Capitol as the winner of America's Toughest Stage Race. After five days of racing and almost 30,000 ft of climbing, the 2017 edition of the Tour of Utah will conclude this weekend with two exciting stages. Saturday's queen stage will end with the notorious 32-kilometer, 4,000 ft ascent to Snowbird Resort. The Tour of Utah wraps on Sunday with a fast and technical circuit race through the streets of Salt Lake City, but it is by no means a parade through town.
"The team has been fantastic," said race leader Britton. "There a lot of guys that are still close on general classification, and others a little further back with nothing to lose, so there is a lot of work ahead. Tomorrow is key to winning the overall, and the team is ready. We have four guys to get us to the base of Sundance, and hopefully, Huffman can get us all the way to the base of Snowbird. For the final ascent, we have Emerson (Oronte), Adam (de Vos), Sepp (Kuss) and myself, four of the strongest climbers in the race. Our plan for the final climb – well that's a secret!"
Rob Britton powers his way to the overall lead in the stage three time trial
Britton took the overall lead with a stellar performance in stage three's uphill time trial up Big Cottonwood Canyon. Britton flew up the steep mountain road in a time of 18:26, 13 seconds faster than runner-up Serghei Tvetcov (Jelly Belly-Maxxis) and 26 seconds faster than third-place Gavin Mannion (UnitedHealthcare). Britton's impressive ride gave him a 26 second lead in the general classification over Mannion, with Tvetcov a further two seconds back.
With the yellow jersey in hand, the team started Thursday's stage four dedicated to defending Britton's overall lead. The team rode well in sweltering heat, controlled the race, and safely delivered Britton across the line with his 26-second lead intact. In addition to protecting Britton's overall lead, the team showed its depth and dedication to each other. After riding on the front of the peloton all day, Colin Joyce sprinted to a strong fourth place while Tour of Utah fans voted Eric Young, Best Sprinter. The award had extra meaning for Young – the two-time Tour of Utah stage winner sacrificed his chance for victory to help protect Britton's yellow jersey.
Rally Cycling is dedicated to delivering Britton to the overall title
Friday's stage five into Bountiful again saw the team successfully defend yellow, with an excellent display of teamwork. Throughout the day the team kept Britton safe and near the front of the peloton. The stage ended with two demanding circuits that featured a steep climb and technical descent. With attacks coming fast and furious in the final kilometers, Sepp Kuss and Adam de Vos showed their strength and maturity, setting tempo and reeling in any rider that tried to escape. Britton finished in the front group for seventh on the stage and remains safely atop the standings.
So far, so good," said Team Director Pat McCarty. "Our plan for defending is focused on being smart and applying pressure when needed. The guys have been doing an excellent job of making sure that general classification riders don't go up the road. Tomorrow on Snowbird is going to be a throw down – it is the biggest day for the general classification. We have a fantastic team, four of the best climbers in the race, and the whole team is ready to lay it down for Rob."
Tune into Tour Tracker and watch Rally Cycling defend yellow.
Stage 6 - Heber Valley - Snowbird Resort (1:10 pm - 4:20 pm MDT)
Stage 7 - Salt Lake City - Salt Lake City (1:00 pm - 4:20 pm MDT)
Tour of Utah General Classification After Stage 5
3. Serghei Tvetcov (Jelly Belly p/b Maxxis)
4. Neilson Powless (Axeon Hagens Berman)
7. Robin Carpenter (Holowesko-Citadel)
8. Jonathan Clarke (UnitedHealthcare)
10. Ficara Pierpaolo (Am | 947 |
Innsat.TV war ein oberösterreichischer lokaler Fernsehsender aus dem Innviertel und von 1. Juni 2007 bis Februar 2013 auf Sendung. Der Unternehmenssitz befand sich in Ried<|fim_middle|> gegründet, im Juni 2007. Der Sender setzte auf eine Wochendauerschleife und ein einfaches, unzeitgemäßes Design. Wirtschaftlich war der Sender nicht erfolgreich, im September 2008 wurde er relauncht. Das Programm wurde tagesaktuell aufbereitet, das Design gänzlich überarbeitet und Georg Feichtenschlager als neuer Leiter präsentiert. Aufgrund der erneut schwierigen wirtschaftlichen Situation verkauften die Gesellschafter im Frühjahr 2009 ihre Anteile großteils an die Invest AG. Mit Wolfgang Gabler kehrte auch wieder das alte Programmschema und Design zurück.
Im Februar 2013 stellte der Sender wegen Zahlungsunfähigkeit sein Programm ein. Am Landesgericht Ried wurde Insolvenzantrag eingebracht, die Forderungen der Gläubiger belaufen sich auf 1,248 Millionen Euro.
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Der Sender zeigte eine Wochendauerschleife samt Werbung, die um 11, 14, 17 und 21 Uhr wiederholt wurde. Diese bestand aus Vor-Ort-Berichten und Werbung. Dazwischen zeigte der Linzer Sender LT1 sein Programm.
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Deutschsprachiger Fernsehsender | im Innkreis.
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Das Programm wurde mehrere Stunden täglich auf der Frequenz des Linzer Lokalsenders LT1 über Astra Digital ausgestrahlt.
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Verantwortlicher Leiter und Geschäftsführer war Wolfgang Gabler, der seit 1. April 2009 den Sender in eigener wirtschaftlicher
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"I just don't get it." I was staring at the email thread on my screen. I was in utter disbelief as to what it was telling me. Like pulling on a single loose thread unravels a cartoon sweater, this one email thread had just unraveled three months of my hard work on the Jericho project. I felt like the walls were falling in on me and a part of me was hoping the building would collapse and crush me so I didn't have to deal with the fallout.
Turning in my seat I stared out my window taking in the inky black of a moonless night. Jake's email had started the thread innocently enough. He wanted to make sure we'd addressed the dependency with the data team before he started work. Donald's reply pointed to a dependency with the release operations team and capabilities of that datacenter. This led to a ever growing cascade of dependency and communication issues that were culminating in a pretty simple message, the project was dead before it ever laid the first brick of its foundation.
Why did I ask a question? Didn't I know exactly what would happen if I asked rhetorical question?
"Seriously?!" I just stared at him. I had most definitely met with my key stakeholders. Heck, half of them I met before the project even started.
"Having coffee with Jake doesn't count as meeting your stakeholder." Hogarth scolded.
The Internal Customer Interview has been a staple tool in my project tool box for years. I first adapted it from Manager-Tools.com and over the years have tweaked it and discovered its value beyond just when starting a new job.
Now stakeholder meetings are nothing new. Even the Hogarth me knew to have meetings with the stakeholders. The secret to why the ICI tool works over standard relationship building meetings is in its consistency. If you don't have consistency across your reviews, you're not getting proper value out of your interviews.
Say you meet with ten stakeholders and with each of them you have a different agenda and questions, then you only gain the context of that stakeholder in that stakeholder's domain. You are less likely to pick up on trends that crossing the organization.
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2a- How well are you doing at meeting the commitments in the planned work?
2b- Was new work added to the release plan after planning close and if yes, what percentage of overall backlog changed?
3- How well are you doing at delivering of working, "accepted" product to the end customer? Is it high quality, is it delivering value to the customer?
4- How well do you think <your company> recognizes problems and opportunities for improvement? With it's Products (internal and external)? With it's processes?
4a- How well are you at executing on these opportunities for improvement?
5- Do you feel you are getting sufficient support to fulfill your job role?
6- What are your biggest pain points in your job (or what keeps you awake at night).
While the questions are the secret to a successful series of interviews, you need to make sure you set things up for that success.
Invitation: Contact each stakeholder individually. Request 30 minutes of their times to ask for them questions related to X (new job role, project, initiative). In the invitation include the one slide overview (see below) and a copy of the questions you will be asking. Never send this out as a broadcast message. Each person should be contacted individually.
Mission Statement/ Goal Statement- What is being attempted?
How Statement (Optional)- It may be helpful to include how something is going to be done in some instances. For example the Goal focuses on improving predictability, and the How states this will be done through the rollout of agile governance (for example).
Plan– For a new job this is usually the 90 day plan. For a project or initiative this should be the next steps planning, not a detailed list. There should be no more than 5-6 bullets.
The Questions: Have them prepared before hand and let your stakeholders see them before you meet with them. For about half your audience, they won't ever look at them. However the other half will look at them and be much better prepared to answer them in the interview because you gave them a chance to think about them before hand.
Stakeholder interviews are too important to go in off the cuff. Take some time to plan them and you'll get a lot more value from them. | repeated asking of the same questions.
An interview shouldn't be more than 30 minutes, so generally you want to limit yourself to five or six questions.
These six questions are what I used when would start a new PMO job or major new PMO project.
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2‐ What metrics do you use to assess us?
3‐ How have we done relative to your needs?
4‐ What's your perception of our org in general, that perhaps the numbers don't show?
5‐ What feedback and/or guidance do you have for me/my role/my team?
6- What are your biggest pain points?
I developed these questions working for LeadingAgile. They are designed to evaluate where company is with its agile transformation (or preparing for an agile transformation). It extends beyond the recommended number of questions because of the sub-questions. It still fits into 30 minutes though, since the follow-up questions are generally shorter answers, so it still fits the model.
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1951 - Born in Scotland in 1951, Vettriano left school at sixteen to become a mining engineer in the local coalfields. For his twenty-first birthday a girlfriend gave him a set of watercolour paints and, from then on, he spent much of his spare time teaching himself to paint. The local art gallery, The Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery, with its renowned collection of 19th and 20th century Scottish paintings, was particularly inspirational. It was fourteen years before Vettriano felt ready to show any of his work in public. In 1989 he offered two works to the Royal Scottish Academy's annual exhibition; both were accepted and sold on the first day. The following year, an equally enthusiastic reaction greeted the three paintings, which he entered for the prestigious Summer Exhibition at London's Royal Academy. In the last nine years interest in, and desire for his work, has grown rapidly. There have been sell-out solo exhibitions in Edinburgh, London, Hong Kong and Johannesburg. In November 1999, Vettriano's work was shown for the first time in New York, when twenty paintings were displayed at The International 20th Century Arts Fair at The Armory. Fifty collectors from the UK flew out for the opening night of the Fair and all twenty paintings were sold out within an hour of the opening. Aside from his exhibitions, Vettriano has acquired a vast following of fans through the posters and prints of his paintings that are distributed worldwide. Paintings by Jack Vettriano can be found in private, corporate and public collections worldwide.
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"Imaginal Worlds" No. M1a [with Imaginal Worlds text], No. M1b [no text].
"Imaginal Worlds" is the title of this triptych by Hanifa & Jamaludeen Macfarlane. It is the motif which brings together both of their styles in an imaginary landscape. A dhow drifts on a serene sunny sea; an Ocean of Secrets with an endless shore where distant icy peaks bespeak of another world. Neither here nor there, an Imaginal World where all is familiar yet all is strange. It draws on the Persian miniature genre in its arabesque landforms and the geometric designs of Islamic art to produce symbolic patterns. The central motif, a sphere of Qur'anic calligraphy, being the most spiritual of Islamic arts, floats in the zenith of a dazzling, pulsating, starry sky. Sun and moon swim along above a peaceful, multiform world bathed in light.
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Each year for Ramadan I do a meditation piece. It can be needlepoint, longstitch, random longstitch or a combination of these. This one is simple longstitch as this was the second one I did in the same year. Each stitch is done with the chant.
For this piece it was "Allah Hu".
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This image, taken at sunset in Han<|fim_middle|> with the beautiful Islamic geometric pattern known as The Breath of The Merciful [credit Dawud Sutton, Wooden Books "Islamic Designs".] for its expanding & contracting form. The arch symbolises a gateway to Paradise & is a theme found in much Islamic Art.
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"In the Name of Allah, , The Compassionate The Merciful.
Absolute praise is for Allah Alone, the Lord of All Domains of Existence.
You Alone we worship, and to You Alone we pray for help.
Guide us on the Right Path.
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6. Ayat al Kursi/ The Verse/Sign of the Throne from the Holy Qur'an.
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This work depicts the declaration made to embrace Islam as an undulating 8 fold star. The central star is the Name Allah in an artistic Kufic calligraphic device.
Surat Ya Seen from the Holy Qur'an in the tradition style associated with the time of the Holy Prophet Muhammad saws. This elegant script on goatskin was loaned to the exhibition by Murshid F.A.Ali ElSenossi, Spiritual Director of the Almiraj Sufi & Islamic Study Centre.
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This much loved art form has been rendered on beautiful images of the firmament, matched in colour & written in Arabic calligraphy. It is a work for deep contemplation. The Names have been placed on galaxies, nebulae & heavenly bodies because of the Holy Saying; "If not for you O! Muhammad, I would not have created the celestial spheres."
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A collection of beauties from everyday life in Egypt. In the background The Mystical Hu, an indication to the Essence.
Views of the faces of the White Mosque. Visit the Home page to see large images of the Mosque installations. | ifa's garden, is enhanced | 6 |
Best 32-inch TVs 2020: great cheap TVs for your second room
Need a great second room TVs that don't cost the earth - these best 32-inch TVs are for you.
By John Archer
Sales trends<|fim_middle|> tripod stand. It also boasts one of the most comprehensive and effect smart hub interfaces you can find on a 32-inch TV, complete with control via mobile phone and video streaming apps galore. | suggest most of us want ever-bigger TVs in our living rooms. But there is still a place for the best 32-inch TV in our hearts. Or rather, in our kitchens, bedrooms, studies and conservatories.
Unfortunately, that most 32-inch TVs are destined to become a household's second TV has seen them becoming increasingly homogenous and commoditised. Manufacturers focus more on making them affordable than particularly good, which means they will never get into our best TV list.
This is a shame. You usually want the same features as your main TV, and these sets often have to contend with a lot of ambient light, which downgrades the image quality level they actually achieve.
Fortunately there are still a few superior 32-inch TVs to be had if you know where to look. Here's a selection of what we consider to be the strongest 32-inch TVs you can buy today, including options selected their value, picture quality and smart features.
Upvote your favourite, and let us know at the bottom if you think we've missed a solid gold 32-inch TV.
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1. Sony Bravia KDL-32WD754BU
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Sony has traditionally cared more than most brands about ensuring that there's still some genuine quality in the small screen TV market. The £349 32WD754BU perfectly exemplifies this. It's a superb all-round package.
The colour- and contrast-rich full HD picture is partnered by the best motion processing in the small-screen TV world, making the 32WD754BU a great option for films, video gaming and sports. Smart features include all the key UK catch up TV platforms and subscription streaming services, while the sleek design is far superior to the 'functional' look of many rivals.
2. LG 32LK6100
Thanks to its webOS interface, this is easily the smartest and most user-friendly TV 32-inch TV around right now. Especially as its webOS version even supports voice control via both Google Assistant and LG's own ThinQ AI system.
The LG 32LK6100 also stands out from the crowd by supporting high dynamic range playback, a full HD resolution and three HDMIs - pretty amazing for £199. Its LCD panel type limits its contrast a little, but also provides wide viewing angles - a trade off that could work very well in many second room settings.
3. Panasonic TX-32FS500B
This Panasonic 32-inch is an 'HD Ready' TV with 720 lines of pixels rather than the full HD 1080. Following recent price drops, though, Panasonic's set is available for just £199 - a startling price for a TV that combines a premium design with catch-up TV and streaming apps and the sort of natural, polished, contrast-rich picture quality that's long been a Panasonic trademark.
The 32FS500B also joins the LG 32LG6100 in supporting high dynamic range, making it another appealing model for PS4 and Xbox One S/X gamers.
4. Philips 32PHT4503/05
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This one is an oddity on this list in that it doesn't carry any smart/streaming features. It's also probably the least glamorous looking set we've featured.
There is substantial compensation for these limitations, though, in that the set delivers a much richer, cleaner, sharper picture than you've any right to expect for just £180. So it's definitely one to consider if picture quality for your buck is your main requirement.
5. Hisense H32A5600UK
Despite being essentially the same price as the Philips 32PHT4503/05, this Hisense adds a much prettier design and a solid set of smart features to the deal (including Netflix, plus all the key UK catch-up TV services helpfully tucked within a Freeview Play 'enhanced browser' interface).
The trade off for these extra features is that its picture quality isn't quite as all-round pristine. Though it does still deliver more contrast and sharpness than the majority of its similarly priced peers.
6. Samsung UE32M5520
The £297 UE32M5520 joins the Sony 32WD754BU in focusing on performance over cheapness. Its pictures are exceptionally punchy and rich, by 32-inch TV standards, making it a particularly effective option if you're looking for a TV to go into a bright room such as a conservatory or kitchen.
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Ida Kläppevik gets the award of 10 000 SEK and a diploma for her thesis "Analysis, construction and evaluation of radial power<|fim_middle|>25, handed over to them by Johan Carlert, chairman of Microwave Road.
A leading ICT player Ericsson is a world-leading provider of telecommunications equipment and services to mobile and fixed network operators. Over 1,000 networks in more than 180 countries use our network equipment, and more than 40 percent of the world's mobile traffic passes through Ericsson networks. We are one of the few companies worldwide that can offer end-to-end solutions for all major mobile communication standards. Our networks, telecom services and multimedia solutions make it easier for people, across the world, to communicate. And as communication changes the way we live and work, Ericsson is playing a key role in this evolution. Using innovation to empower people, business and society, we are working towards the Networked Society, in which everything that can benefit from a connection will have one. Our vision is to be the prime driver in an all-communicating world. | divider/combiner". Johan Bremer is awarded for his thesis "Compensation of thermal effects by dynamic bias in low noise amplifiers". The winners got their scholarships at the Microwave Road seminar on Space and Satellite on April | 45 |
Written by two Ivy League graduates who struggled with learning disabilities and ADHD, Learning Outside the Lines teaches students how to take control of their education and find true success with brilliant and easy study suggestions and tips.Every day, your school, your teachers, and even your peers draw lines to measure and standardize intelligence. They decide what criteria make one person smart and another person stupid. They decide who will succeed and who will just get by. Perhaps<|fim_middle|> of several books, is a dyslexic student who did not learn to read until he was twelve years old. After attending Loyola Marymount University for one year, he transferred to Brown University, where he graduated with an honors degree in English. He is the recipient of the distinguished Truman Fellowship for graduate study in the field of learning disabilities and special education. His work has been featured inthe New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, HBO, NPR, ABC News, New York Magazine, Washington Post, and the Boston Globe. He continues to speak across the nation about neurological and physical diversity, inspiring those who live with differences and advocating for change. | you find yourself outside the norm, because you learn differently—but, unlike your classmates, you have no system in place that consistently supports your ability and desire to learn. Simply put, you are considered lazy and stupid. You are expected to fail. Learning Outside the Lines is written by two such "academic failures"—that is, two academic failures who graduated from Brown University at the top of their class. Jonathan Mooney and David Cole teach you how to take control of your education and find true success—and they offer all the reasons why you should persevere. Witty, bold, and disarmingly honest, Learning Outside the Lines takes you on a journey toward personal empowerment and profound educational change, proving once again that rules sometimes need to be broken.
Written by two Ivy League graduates who struggled with learning disabilities and ADHD, Learning Outside the Lines teaches students how to take control of their education and find true success with brilliant and easy study suggestions and tips.
Every day, your school, your teachers, and even your peers draw lines to measure and standardize intelligence. They decide what criteria make one person smart and another person stupid. They decide who will succeed and who will just get by. Perhaps you find yourself outside the norm, because you learn differently—but, unlike your classmates, you have no system in place that consistently supports your ability and desire to learn. Simply put, you are considered lazy and stupid. You are expected to fail.
Learning Outside the Lines is written by two such "academic failures"—that is, two academic failures who graduated from Brown University at the top of their class. Jonathan Mooney and David Cole teach you how to take control of your education and find true success—and they offer all the reasons why you should persevere. Witty, bold, and disarmingly honest, Learning Outside the Lines takes you on a journey toward personal empowerment and profound educational change, proving once again that rules sometimes need to be broken.
Jonathan Mooney, the author | 392 |
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The son of a Major League pitcher and a former college baseball player himself, Chiefs' quarterback Patrick Mahomes returned to the mound last week to throw out the first pitch at a Royals' game.
The season continues to inch closer by the day as the first round of Organized Team Activities (OTAs) got underway on Tuesday. In anticipation of the three-day practice period, we continued to preview the competition at a handful of position groups.
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Read the rest of Alex's improbable journey here. | meetings took place in Atlanta last week, where NFL owners adopted two new rules for the 2018 season. One of those rules is going to be obvious to everyone from the very first kick of the game, as there will be a major change to how kickoffs look in the NFL next season.
Chiefs' Head Coach Andy Reid and a handful of players spoke to the media on Thursday following OTAs. Before answering questions, Reid provided an update on the three players held back from the practices due to injuries.
For a full transcript from Reid's presser, click here. And for see what safety Eric Berry, linebacker Justin Houston, quarterback Patrick Mahomes and tailback Kareem Hunt had to say following practice, click here.
There was plenty to be excited about throughout the first round of practices, including the flashes of talent from Chiefs' second-year quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
Last year, Patrick Mahomes, who was fresh off becoming the Chiefs' first quarterback selected in the first round of the NFL Draft in more than 30 years, spent his time at OTAs learning from Alex Smith and trying to understand the verbiage of the play calls.
It started with learning the protections and how to adjust, then reading the defense and how the routes changed with what the defense was showing, and many of the other "big picture" things that go along with playing quarterback in this offense.
And on Thursday afternoon, which featured both sides of Mahomes—the arm talent, and also the development that'll come, there were a handful of small things that showed his comfortability in the offense.
For more observations from OTAs, click here.
Another source of excitement from the practice period was the presence of safety Eric Berry, who missed almost all of last season with a ruptured Achilles tendon.
Off the field, 10-year-old cancer survivor Alex Goodwin toured Arrowhead Stadium earlier this week. The University of Kansas Health System was the only place in the world that told Alex, a native of the United Kingdom, that they could help him beat a Ewing's sarcoma diagnosis two years ago.
You see, Alex, a native of the United Kingdom, was told he was going to die. There was nothing the doctors could do after a six-month misdiagnosis revealed itself as Ewing's sarcoma.
An incredibly rare condition, Ewing's sarcoma affects less than 300 children in the United States – and less than 30 in Britain – each year. Its scarcity means that treatment is underfunded and, such as it is in the U.K., very difficult to find.
That lack of services compounded with Alex's late diagnosis meant the odds of survival were virtually nonexistent.
It was a reality that Jeff, a police officer, was simply not going to accept. And as fate would have it, a tragedy a world away was going to lead his family to the only place capable of pulling off the seemingly impossible | 594 |
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Day 1 — Piraeus
It's no wonder that all roads lead to the fascinating and maddening metropolis of Athens. Lift your eyes 200 feet above the city to the Parthenon, its honey-color marble columns rising from a<|fim_middle|> between 1573 and 1925. There has been too much speculation about the identification of Santorini with the mythical Atlantis, mentioned in Egyptian papyri and by Plato (who says it's in the Atlantic), but myths are hard to pin down. This is not true of old arguments about whether tidal waves from Santorini's cataclysmic explosion destroyed Minoan civilization on Crete, 113 km (70 mi) away. The latest carbon-dating evidence, which points to a few years before 1600 BC for the eruption, clearly indicates that the Minoans outlasted the eruption by a couple of hundred years, but most probably in a weakened state. In fact, the island still endures hardships: since antiquity, Santorini has depended on rain collected in cisterns for drinking and irrigating—the well water is often brackish—and the serious shortage is alleviated by the importation of water. However, the volcanic soil also yields riches: small, intense tomatoes with tough skins used for tomato paste (good restaurants here serve them); the famous Santorini fava beans, which have a light, fresh taste; barley; wheat; and white-skin eggplants.
Day 4 — Argostoli
Picturesque view of city of Argostoli on lakeside, Kefalonia, Greece
Ground literally to ashes in World War II and wracked by a massive earthquake a decade later, the capital of Kefalonia once more shows pride in its native spirit and natural beauty. The vast harbor on Argostoli's east side makes an especially attractive port for cruise ships full of visitors who never seem to tire of strolling the cobbled seaside promenade, sipping ouzos in cafés, and stocking up on the succulent Mediterranean fruits in the outdoor markets.
Day 5 — Corfu
Beautiful view of the beach in an old village of Corfu Island
Corfu town today is a vivid tapestry of cultures—a sophisticated weave, where charm, history, and natural beauty blend. Located about midway along the island's east coast, this spectacularly lively capital is the cultural heart of Corfu and has a remarkable historic center that UNESCO designated as a World Heritage Site in 2007. All ships and planes dock or land near Corfu town, which occupies a small peninsula jutting into the Ionian Sea.Whether arriving by ferry from mainland Greece or Italy, from another island, or directly by plane, catch your breath by first relaxing with a coffee or a gelato in Corfu town's shaded Liston Arcade, then stroll the narrow lanes of its pedestrians-only quarter. For an overview of the immediate area, and a quick tour of Mon Repos palace, hop on the little tourist train that runs from May to September. Corfu town has a different feel at night, so book a table at one of its famed tavernas to savor the island's unique cuisine.The best way to get around Corfu town is on foot. The town is small enough so that you can easily walk to every sight. There are local buses, but they do not thread their way into the streets (many now car-free) of the historic center. If you are arriving by ferry or plane, it's best to take a taxi to your hotel. Expect to pay about €10 from the airport or ferry terminal to a hotel in Corfu town. If there are no taxis waiting, you can call for one.
Day 6 — Hvar Island
The Croatian island of Hvar bills itself as the "sunniest island in the Adriatic." Not only does it have the figures to back up this claim—an annual average of 2,724 hours of sunshine—but it also makes visitors a sporting proposition, offering them a money-back guarantee if there are seven consecutive days of snow (snow has been known to fall here; the last time being February 2012).
Day 7 to 8 — Venice
Venice is a city unlike any other. No matter how often you've seen it in photos and films, the real thing is more dreamlike than you could imagine. With canals where streets should be, water shimmers everywhere. The fabulous palaces and churches reflect centuries of history in what was a wealthy trading center between Europe and the Orient. Getting lost in the narrow alleyways is a quintessential part of exploring Venice, but at some point you'll almost surely end up in Piazza San Marco, where tourists and locals congregate for a coffee or an aperitif.
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See more about Silver Whisper | massive limestone base, and you behold architectural perfection that has not been surpassed in 2,500 years. But, today, this shrine of classical form dominates a 21st-century boomtown. To experience Athens—Athína in Greek—fully is to understand the essence of Greece: ancient monuments surviving in a sea of cement, startling beauty amid the squalor, tradition juxtaposed with modernity. Locals depend on humor and flexibility to deal with the chaos; you should do the same. The rewards are immense. Although Athens covers a huge area, the major landmarks of the ancient Greek, Roman, and Byzantine periods are close to the modern city center. You can easily walk from the Acropolis to many other key sites, taking time to browse in shops and relax in cafés and tavernas along the way. From many quarters of the city you can glimpse "the glory that was Greece" in the form of the Acropolis looming above the horizon, but only by actually climbing that rocky precipice can you feel the impact of the ancient settlement. The Acropolis and Filopappou, two craggy hills sitting side by side; the ancient Agora (marketplace); and Kerameikos, the first cemetery, form the core of ancient and Roman Athens. Along the Unification of Archaeological Sites promenade, you can follow stone-paved, tree-lined walkways from site to site, undisturbed by traffic. Cars have also been banned or reduced in other streets in the historical center. In the National Archaeological Museum, vast numbers of artifacts illustrate the many millennia of Greek civilization; smaller museums such as the Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art Museum and the Byzantine and Christian Museum illuminate the history of particular regions or periods. Athens may seem like one huge city, but it is really a conglomeration of neighborhoods with distinctive characters. The Eastern influences that prevailed during the 400-year rule of the Ottoman Empire are still evident in Monastiraki, the bazaar area near the foot of the Acropolis. On the northern slope of the Acropolis, stroll through Plaka (if possible by moonlight), an area of tranquil streets lined with renovated mansions, to get the flavor of the 19th-century's gracious lifestyle. The narrow lanes of Anafiotika, a section of Plaka, thread past tiny churches and small, color-washed houses with wooden upper stories, recalling a Cycladic island village. In this maze of winding streets, vestiges of the older city are everywhere: crumbling stairways lined with festive tavernas; dank cellars filled with wine vats; occasionally a court or diminutive garden, enclosed within high walls and filled with magnolia trees and the flaming trumpet-shaped flowers of hibiscus bushes. Formerly run-down old quarters, such as Thission, Gazi and Psirri, popular nightlife areas filled with bars and mezedopoleia (similar to tapas bars), are now in the process of gentrification, although they still retain much of their original charm, as does the colorful produce and meat market on Athinas. The area around Syntagma Square, the tourist hub, and Omonia Square, the commercial heart of the city about 1 km (½ mi) northwest, is distinctly European, having been designed by the court architects of King Otho, a Bavarian, in the 19th century. The chic shops and bistros of ritzy Kolonaki nestle at the foot of Mt. Lycabettus, Athens's highest hill (909 feet). Each of Athens's outlying suburbs has a distinctive character: in the north is wealthy, tree-lined Kifissia, once a summer resort for aristocratic Athenians, and in the south and southeast lie Glyfada, Voula, and Vouliagmeni, with their sandy beaches, seaside bars, and lively summer nightlife. Just beyond the city's southern fringes is Piraeus, a bustling port city of waterside fish tavernas and Saronic Gulf views.
Day 2 — Réthymnon, Crete
Rethymnon is Crete's third-largest town, after Heraklion and Hania. The population (about 30,000) steadily increases as the town expands—a new quarter follows the coast to the east of the Old Town, where the beachfront has been tastelessly developed with large hotels and other resort facilities catering to tourists on package vacations. However, much of Rethymnon's charm perseveres in the old Venetian quarter, which is crowded onto a compact peninsula dominated by the huge, fortified Venetian castle known as the Fortezza. Wandering through the narrow alleyways, you come across handsome carved-stone Renaissance doorways belonging to vanished mansions, fountains, archways, and wooden Turkish houses with latticework screens on the balconies to protect the women of the house from prying eyes.
Day 3 — Santorini
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Undoubtedly the most extraordinary island in the Aegean, crescent-shape Santorini remains a mandatory stop on the Cycladic tourist route—even if it's necessary to enjoy the sensational sunsets from Ia, the fascinating excavations, and the dazzling white towns with a million other travelers. Called Kállisti (the "Loveliest") when first settled, the island has now reverted to its subsequent name of Thira, after the 9th-century-BC Dorian colonizer Thiras. The place is better known, however, these days as Santorini, a name derived from its patroness, St. Irene of Thessaloniki, the Byzantine empress who restored icons to Orthodoxy and died in 802. You can fly conveniently to Santorini, but to enjoy a true Santorini rite of passage, opt instead for the boat trip here, which provides a spectacular introduction. After the boat sails between Sikinos and Ios, your deck-side perch approaches two close islands with a passage between them. The bigger one on the left is Santorini, and the smaller on the right is Thirassia. Passing between them, you see the village of Ia adorning Santorini's northernmost cliff like a white geometric beehive. You are in the caldera (volcanic crater), one of the world's truly breathtaking sights: a demilune of cliffs rising 1,100 feet, with the white clusters of the towns of Fira and Ia perched along the top. The bay, once the high center of the island, is 1,300 feet in some places, so deep that when boats dock in Santorini's shabby little port of Athinios, they do not drop anchor. The encircling cliffs are the ancient rim of a still-active volcano, and you are sailing east across its flooded caldera. On your right are the Burnt isles, the White isle, and other volcanic remnants, all lined up as if some outsize display in a geology museum. Hephaestus's subterranean fires smolder still—the volcano erupted in 198 BC, about 735, and there was an earthquake in 1956. Indeed, Santorini and its four neighboring islets are the fragmentary remains of a larger landmass that exploded about 1600 BC: the volcano's core blew sky high, and the sea rushed into the abyss to create the great bay, which measures 10 km by 7 km (6 mi by 4½ mi) and is 1,292 feet deep. The other pieces of the rim, which broke off in later eruptions, are Thirassia, where a few hundred people live, and deserted little Aspronissi ("White isle"). In the center of the bay, black and uninhabited, two cones, the Burnt Isles of Palea Kameni and Nea Kameni, appeared | 1,672 |
Jharbandh is a town in Bargarh district in the Indian state of Odisha. Jharbandh comes under the padmapur Vidhan Sabha in Odisha state and is under the Bargarh Lok Sabha constituency in India
Geography
Jharbandh is located at . It has an average elevation of . It is almost from its district headquarters, Bargarh. It is about from its capital city of Bhubaneshwar.
Jharbandh is a block of Padampur subdivision, distance from Jharbandh to Padampur is about .
The area around Jharbandh is rain-fed and hence is prone to frequent droughts. The Gandhamardhan hills is about away and forms the borders between Bargarh and Balangir districts. To date, the beautiful locale has not been spoiled by industrialisation, but the per capita income is very low.
Nrusinghanath Temple of Gandhamardhan hills is famous in all over the Odisha for lord Nrusingha.
Demographics
India census, Jharbandh had a population of 2200. Jharbandh has a literacy rate of about nearly 61%.
<|fim_middle|> and for JD in 1995 and in 1990. Other previous MLAs from this seat were Satya Narayan Sahu of INC who won this seat in 2004, in 1985 for INC and in 1980 representing INC(I).
References
Cities and towns in Bargarh district | Jharbandh Block
Jharbandh is the Panchayat Samiti headquarters consisting of 14 grampanchayats.
The grampanchayats are:
Bhandarpuri
Dava
Chhotanki
Kurlupali
Bhainsadarha
Amthi
Bilaspur
Chandibhata
Gothuguda
Jagdalpur
Kandadangar
Kumir
Laudidarha
Jharbandh
Politics
Current MLA from Padmapur Assembly Constituency is Pradip Purohit of BJP who won the seat in State elections in 2014. He has won this seat for the first time. He was succeeded by Bijaya Ranjan Singh Bariha of BJD, who won the seat in State elections in 2009.
He also won this seat earlier for BJD in 2000 | 190 |
Over 50s struggling to understand retirement options
By Duncan Ferris
More than a quarter (26 per cent) of people in their 5<|fim_middle|> introducing compulsory consultation with a financial adviser.
Almost a third (31 per cent) of those in their 50s believed that it was right for people to have control over their money, higher than the 29 per cent figure registered by the total population.
Fidelity International director of workplace investing, Maike Currie, said: "Five years of pension freedoms also marks five years of pension confusion as people struggle to fit all the pieces together.
"Deciding how to access a lifetime's worth of savings is no easy feat and this must be matched with desired income level, life expectancy, tax considerations and unexpected costs as life takes its various twists and turns."
Currie said it was "no surprise" that many people had still not made any changes to their retirement plans as they were still "confused by the options available to them".
"This anniversary presents an opportunity. Nearly one million people will reach age 55 in 2020 and the industry now has five years' worth of learnings. This a chance to further simplify the options available to people, introduce new initiatives like the pension dashboard, increase education and ultimately support more people on their retirement journey, whatever that may be," added Currie. | 0s don't understand the retirement options available to them from age 55, according to Fidelity research.
Survey results, which come ahead of April's five year anniversary of pension freedoms, showed that almost a quarter (24 per cent) had not altered their retirement plans in the wake of the reforms.
One in four (25 per cent) of those in their 50s thought the freedoms had encouraged too many people to take their money as a lump sum and risk their future income, now that annuity purchases are not required.
More than a quarter (26 per cent) believed that reforms were a positive step but more education is needed, while 15 per cent thought poor decision making could be avoided by | 148 |
What: It's a battle for the Dakotas as the Storm visit the Bucks.
When: Saturday, March 16 at 4:05 p.m. pacific (6:05 p.m. central).
Where: Bismarck Event Center; Bismarck, North Dakota.
2019 Head to Head<|fim_middle|> in the IFL. Defensive back Antwan Smith has 15 total tackles and a blocked kick. DB Joseph Blount, Jr. had 12 in his only appearance of the season, last week against the Sugar Skulls. The Bucks have yet to record a sack in 2019. Blake Levin is five of seven on extra point attempts, and was unsuccessful on his only field goal try of the season.
Storm lead 31-0 with 14 minutes left in the second quarter.
Sorry to be late. Had an appointment earlier which ran long.
Touchdown Sioux Falls. Darrian Miler 5 yard run. Miles Bergner kick.
Touchdown Sioux Falls. Damien Ford 17 yard pass from Lorenzo Brown. Miles Bergner kick.
Touchdown Bismarck. Mike Tatum pass from Homer Causey. Blake Levin kick.
Touchdown Sioux Falls. 15 yard pass from Lorenzo Brown. Miles Bergner kick.
Touchdown Bismarck. Homer Causey 7 yard run. 2pt rush by Homer Causey. | : April 6 - Storm at Bucks. June 15 - Bucks at Storm.
Note: This is the home opener for the Bucks, who were on the road in weeks 1 and 3, and were on a bye in week 2.
The Storm are 2-0 overall and 2-0 on the road. They are coming off a 55-36 road win over the Nebraska Danger on March 9. The Bucks are 0-2 overall and 0-0 at home. They are coming off a 62-42 road loss to the Tucson Sugar Skulls on March 10.
Bucks QB Homer Causey (left).
Though it may be premature to dub this the Battle for the Dakotas, there is definitely the possibility of this being a regional rivalry. This meeting almost could have come a year ago when the Storm made a verbal commitment to join the IFL following the 2017 season, but headed back to the IFL shortly thereafter.Sioux Falls has been solid thus far, escaping with a 47-44 win against the Cedar Rapids River Kings in week 1, then following that up with their week 3 blowout of the Nebraska Danger. The Storm may just be the most experienced team in the league. The Bucks have had a rough go of it in their first two games, but had some bright spots en route to averaging 43.0 points per game on offense. The problem is, they are allowing 64 points per game. The key to a Bismarck victory will likely be contingent on how the defense fares. The unit will have to step up against a potent Sioux Falls offense. This is the Bucks' IFL home opener.
It's difficult to put into words the impact Lorenzo Brown Jr. has on this Storm team. Even on those rare occasions when it looks like they might stumble in a particular game, Brown seems to find a way to rally the troops. In last week's win over the Danger, he rushed for his 100th career IFL touchdown and is, by far, the all-time IFL leader in that category. Brown is completing 59.5 percent of his passes with three touchdowns and zero interceptions. Darrian Miller has become a reliable rusher, averaging 45.5 yards per game with three touchdowns on the season. Through the Storm's two games, Brandon Sheperd has 10 receptions for 145 yards and a touchdown, and Damian Ford has caught five passes for 83 yards and two scores. Defensive back DeAndre Scott has recorded 13 total tackles, while LB T.J. Neal and DL Charles Williams each have added 11. Williams also has a sack, fumble recovery and blocked kick to his credit. Linebacker Daelin Young and DL Kanyia Anderson each have also recorded a sack. Miles Bergner is one of the best in the business. He has hit all 12 of his extra point attempts, and six of eight field goals with a long of 54 yards.
The Bucks are still looking for their first IFL win. They have stumbled in their first two games, both on the road. Bismarck dropped their opener at Nebraska and, following a week 2 bye, fell to the expansion Sugar Skulls in Tucson. John Gibbs started in the opener, completing 48.4 percent of his passes for 216 yards with two touchdowns and an interception. Homer Causey got the start last week. He completed 61.1 percent of his tosses with four touchdowns and a pick. The duo are also the top rushers on the team, with Gibbs tallying 48 yards and four scores, and Causey coming in at 51 yards and a touchdown. Who gets the start in this game is head coach Rod Miller's to make, and may not be made until shortly prior to game time. Mike Tatum is among the best in the business. The veteran receiver's 77 yards per game is second | 838 |
There are years that break us and years that make us.
In the breaking, we feel diminished, in the making our character becomes alive, fresh with the hope that after all, our struggles do make sense. It is time for another year to be closed and I find myself asking the question: How do I close the year that was intended to be opening my heart?
The answer is lurking just around the corner, tucked behind the blue mountains as I say good bye to them. Our boxes are packed and I shed some tears before I finally drive out of this hidden beauty where I resuscitated my heart from a three-year long desperate search for it. The frustration was not only mine, I heard more people than ever asking the same question this year: What if the life I want is not what Life wants me to lead?
<|fim_middle|> am transitioning again and it always feels disorientating, no matter how many times I do it.
You only have control over the drive on the path. The rest is unpredictable.
Our ego is clever, it makes up rules and ideals of how we should or could live. It creates facades, even a strong sense of self. But our heart, oh dear, that cannot be fooled. This soft, sensitive organ cannot be taken for granted too long. It will speak and when it does, we all become speechless.
I spent 18 months doing nothing but listening, deconstructing, observing my own story, searching for patterns, tearing apart my failures and successes. I spent these months swinging between unspeakable joy and heart wrenching sadness, often holding both in equal measure because I figured this was the only way to live life.
In this sweet silence I recognized what I can only call my soul, the way Parker Palmer describes it: "The soul is like a wild animal, tough, resilient, savvy, self-sufficient, yet exceedingly shy". I agree with most of it, except…. we are not self-sufficient. We need soul food, be it nature or connection that feeds it and most importantly it needs listening. In the listening we open to possibilities, we gather courage, we dare to plan our next steps, we dare to jump for whatever is important in our life.
The manuscript of my book, the one project that pumped the blood into my life is winking at me from a box cheerfully. It is ready to be launched into the world in the next few weeks.
I am not only closing 2015 today. I am closing a chapter of my life that stretched me, changed me and challenged me in immeasurable ways. I cannot wait to see what is next!
What is it that You are looking forward to in 2016? | The sun is crisp and it bestows the flickering hope upon us as I drive along the ridge of the mountains. I | 25 |
Soilmec Newsletter 7/2015
Soilmec win Health & Safety Award at GE Awards 2015
Soilmec Ltd in collaboration with Bachy Soletanche, a leading geotechnical contractor operating worldwide, collected the Health & Safety Award at the 2015 GE Awards.
The deserving winners of the 2015 GE Awards were announced on 10 June at the Hilton Park Lane, London. The GE Awards brought together over 700 leaders in consultancy and contracting in the geotechnical engineering industry for a glittering afternoon of celebration, recognition and networking.
After review by the GE panel of 43 expert judges, the Soilmec Ltd and Bachy Soletanche collaboration won in recognition of the Remote Control Unloading for Piling Rigs. Soilmec's dedication to innovative design and the collaboration with clients in research, design and manufacture of drilling equipment has been a big step forward in the transportation of piling rigs.
The project involved developing a unique remote control solution for the loading and unloading of 20-140 ton class rigs, eliminating a number of risks to on-site teams and ensuring the safety of personnel. The Soilmec remote control tracking system requires no access to the cab and the machine panels to start the unloading procedure. The engine ignition and tracking operation are both located on a radio remote control unit.
EN16228 Safety Improvements
Since February 2015 the safety for machinery manufacturers is becoming one of the most important aspect in the design of new piling and drilling rigs. The new European Standard EN16228-2014, in terms of safety for Drilling and Foundation equipment, is the new harmonized standard with the Machinery Directive 2006/42/CE that replaces the previous EN791 Drilling equipment - Safety and EN996 Piling Equipment - Safety.
The new code includes three main<|fim_middle|> access ladder and the guard rails on the upper side of the machine to give a safe access for operator and maintenance operations.
A radio remote control has been specifically designed to load and download the rig from the truck without the need for the operator to remain inside the cab during these risky phases; new anchor points have been designed and located on the rigs undercarriage for machine transport. The camera and mirrors kit are properly located for 360° visibility all around the rig. Special led lights have been installed to operate in dark conditions. PLC safety control device, additional limit switches, new rubber guard protections and automatic alarm system during the rotation of the rig upper structure are installed to increase the safety of the workers all around the machine.
The maintenance operations are facilitated thanks to a cleaning mast guide system with scrapers and a quick coupling system for conveying contaminated liquids in appropriate gatherers.
New instructions have been implemented for the new prototype test, with regard to direct and indirect visibility, noise emission, warning device and mechanical performance (load test and torque measuring) tests, and many others.
Use and maintenance rig manuals have been upgraded to guarantee the best reliability and a top quality maintenance service.
While currently the EN16228 is a code compulsory only in Europe it is expected to became soon an ISO Standard. | topics: a series of components and devices designed to maximize the safety of those who have to work on and around the rig, the rules for prototype & series tests and the specifications for use & maintenance information. The most notable rig improvements in the foundation field, that come together with the new Soilmec EC Kit are: the cabin footplate with frontal | 70 |
Identity redesign for the Romanian Rugby Federation and national rugby team. The new management of the Federation—mostly former rugby players—made a convincing case for bringing the national team back in the game and to its former glory. A pro bono project.
The main challenge raised was to design something unique yet not departing from Romanian Rugby's already popular and traditional symbol: the oak leaf, which understandably they wanted to<|fim_middle|> Design Annual Competition winner in 2010. | keep. The oak leaf is a Romanian symbol of force and endurance which can be found in heraldic and institutions' emblems. Design was employed to enhance originality by subtly embedding the form of the oval rugby ball into the symbol.
The new corporate identity got them so excited it made them implement it by the book. Applications were designed in a straight forward manner but with a powerful stance using sport illustrations treated in a sketch-like manner. It all worked like a lucky charm.
The new identity was launched on November 4th, 2010 and three weeks later the team qualified for the World Cup in New Zealand by defeating Uruguay in a play-off match.
• Graphis Merit Award at Branding 6 Competition in 2012.
• Transform Silver Award in 2010.
• Wolda Worldwide Logo | 170 |
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Our latest release is a single called 'Blinded by their faith', and we consider it to be old school death metal genre. We are leaning toward that sound now in general because all three of us like it, and that's sour common ground. There will always be influences of other genres that we listen to, like black and thrash metal, for example, but the core is old school death metal.
We think that title speaks for the whole song about the behaviour of people who represent themselves as believers and god obeying people while doing the total opposite of everything their religion is telling them. Also, they are quick to judge others, defend their beliefs, and blindly follow everything that the church tells them. And we don't mean it only for Christianity, but we live in an environment where there are most Christians, and they seem to be the loudest about that, so we are pointing to their hypocrisy. We've been the target of that hypocrisy, and this is our response.
The roots of that motivation can be found in our childhood in elementary school, where we looked up to our idols and wanted to be like them. We loved the sound and wanted to create our music, simple as that. We were together in a band that split up, but we unofficially formed Rikavac even before that. Right after that band split up, we started creating, and we are not stopping for seven years now.
The main influence is growing up like this, being an outcast of society and going the harder path forward. Also, the struggle we've been through years and everything we overcame together made us more bonded and determined to do work. It's like, despite life. Sometimes we drink at rehearsals, but it's not the thing that 'drive us' into creating new songs. Sometimes when we finish new material and rehearse in front of friends, they tell us our opinion on it, and we drink together to 'celebrate'.
The lyrical concept depends on the inspiration for every song individually because there are various topics we cover in our work; we don't want to have only one thing we sing about. It's usual criticism, hatred and mocking, but there are some serious lyrics as well.
The artwork for our first album was made by our friend David Husić, and he is an excellent and very talented artist from Bar. He offered to do it, and we were happy with the final result. Of course, we also helped him develop the idea, but all the work is on him. The album's concept is various; we didn't have anything in particular, just a wish to release it and | 564 |
Why Katy Perry and<|fim_middle|> pop music, especially given the collapse of physical music sales and the modest earnings of digital streaming earnings.
ARIA figures reveal the wholesale value of album sales dropped more than 57 per cent between 2006 and 2015.
According to America's Degy Entertainment, the big headline acts like Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift pull in more than US$1million per concert.
Katy Perry falls into the tier below, earning between US$500,000 and US$750,000 per show, around the same as Pink and Celine Dion.
Last year's Adele tour of Australia was attended by a staggering 600,000 people across the country, smashing all previous records for a visiting artist.
Adele in Melbourne last May. Credit:Leigh Henningham
The total global earnings of the tour were US$252 million including ticket, merch and other souvenir sales.
The touring company took US$128 million of that while Adele pocketed US$74 million, a fair whack of it from her Australian fans. Adele reportedly made between $1-$2 million per show during her Australian tour, on top of earning a percentage of ticket sales once enough units had been shifted, which she did comfortably.
Compare that to having one's music streamed, with services such as Spotify reportedly paying less than one cent per play to the publisher of the music, which is then split between the artist, label and creator of the music.
Billboard's annual Money Makers report, which ranks the earnings of the top 50 music acts based on their US concert grosses and royalties generated from domestic sales, streaming and publishing in 2017, reveals that the collective take home pay for these artists grew 12.9 percent to almost $961 million, up from $851 million for the previous year.
Touring accounts for almost 80 percent of their total income.
No wonder the likes of Katy Perry and Co are singing for their supper in Sydney.
Andrew Hornery
Andrew Hornery is a senior journalist and Private Sydney columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald. | co sing for their supper in Sydney
Private Sydney
By Andrew Hornery
August 18, 2018 — 11.45pm
We've come a long way since the days of Suzy Quatro turning up in Sydney with little more than her leather jacket, base guitar, amp and hairbrush.
Katy Perry in Sydney on Tuesday. Credit:Wolter Peeters
Over the past few days Sydney has hosted the Holy Trinity of big-name international acts: Pink, Celine Dion and Katy Perry.
Their shows are on a scale Quatro could never have dreamed of, involving tonnes of equipment and many months of planning and coordination.
There are small armies of technicians, roadies, dressers, dancers, musicians, computer programmers, make-up artists, stylists, hairdressers, lighting and sound crews enlisted to pull them off.
We've seen Pink ricochet like a human yo yo around the huge arena spaces she continues to fill, even after her bout of gastro.
Pink soars above the crowd in her Beautiful Trauma tour, at her Perth show. Credit:Sean Finney
Katy Perry pulled out every high tech gizmo and gadget in the book at Olympic Park, including sitting atop her own orbiting planet which soared high above the crowd during her show.
And what Celine Dion lacked in high wire acts and interstellar gadgetry, she made up for in over-stuffed ball gowns and her unique brand of schmaltz, for which locals were keen to pay big bucks to hear.
Celine Dion performing in her Live 2018 Australian tour.
Yep, we lapped it up.
Collectively such shows represent a multi-million-dollar investment on behalf of the artists and the promoters bringing them all the way to Australia.
And given that they keep on coming, with the likes of Cher, Taylor Swift and even dear old Bob Dylan, all due here, there is clearly money to be made.
The big question is, exactly how much?
In Perry's case, a fortune in illuminated cat's ears alone. Sitting in the crowd of her Sydney show this week, the arena was glowing with the cat's ear headbands which Perry's crew were selling for $35 a pop at the "merch" stand.
The most recent figures available from Live Performance Australia reveals that in 2016 5.66million Australians attended a contemporary music performance, spending $440.08million on tickets alone.
Touring far off lands like Australia has become quite a nice little earner for the big names of global | 530 |
My 10-year old son understands that body temperature is related to the speeds/ki…
April 28, 2003 April 28, 2003 Lou Bloomfield wheels
My 10-year old son understands that body temperature is related to the speeds/kinetic energies of the molecules inside you, but does friction play a role as well? — MR
You're both right about temperature being associated with kinetic energy in molecules: the more kinetic energy each molecule has, the hotter the substance (e.g. a person) is. But not all kinetic energy "counts" in establishing temperature. Only the disordered kinetic energy, the tiny chucks of kinetic energy that belong to individual particles in a material contributes to that material's temperature. Ordered kinetic energy, such as the energy in a whole person who's running, is not involved in temperature. Whether an ice cube is sitting still on a table or flying through the air makes no difference to its temperature. It's still quite cold.
Friction's role with respect to temperature is in raising that temperature. Friction is a great disorderer. If a person running down the track falls and sk<|fim_middle|> effect, it makes things hot. It doesn't keep them hot; they do that all by themselves.
If you have a deck that is snow covered with a very light, fluffy snow, and no o…
Why are physicists so skeptical about peoples' claims to have invented motors th… | ids along the ground, friction will turn that person's ordered kinetic energy into disordered kinetic energy and the person will get slightly hotter. No energy was created or destroyed in the fall and skid, but lots of formerly orderly kinetic energy became disordered kinetic energy—what I often call "thermal kinetic energy."
The overall story is naturally a bit more complicated, but the basic idea here is correct. Once energy is in the form of thermal kinetic energy, it's stuck… like a glass vase that has been dropped and shattered into countless pieces, thermal kinetic energy can't be entirely reconstituted into orderly kinetic energy. Once energy has been distributed to all the individual molecules and atoms, getting them all to return their chunks of thermal kinetic energy is hopeless. Friction, even at the molecular level, isn't important at this point because the energy has already been fragmented and the most that any type of friction can do is pass that fragmented energy about between particles. So friction creates thermal kinetic energy (out of ordered energies of various types)… in | 210 |
A deer tick; photo credit: Frankie Leon via Flickr
Tick Bite or COVID? Officials Warn Symptoms Overlap
July 23, 2020 | By Mary Murphy
Home » News » Tick Bite or COVID? Officials Warn Symptoms Overlap
The CDC has reported a rise in Lyme disease cases. Here's why that's a problem for outdoor enthusiasts.
With shelter-in-place orders and travel bans still in effect, many of us have found solace exploring trails closer to home. Still, there are risks involved. According to recent CDC data, ticks pose a higher risk than usual for those recreating outdoors.
"With an active pandemic gripping the globe, it's even more important to know the signs and symptoms of Lyme disease to ensure it is treated promptly. It presents with many similar symptoms to that of COVID-19, such as muscle aches, headaches and fever.
"The major discernible difference is that Lyme disease usually also presents with a red, bulls-eye rash," said Jorge Parada, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.P., F.I.D.S.A., F.S.H.E.A, a medical advisor for the National Pest Management Association (NPMA).
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American dog tick: Also known as the wood tick, it lives throughout most of the U.S. and is identified by its brown body and white-gray markings. It prefers to feed on domestic dogs but will also feed on humans and is a vector of Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
To add to the confusion, not all tick bites result in a rash. And multiple species exist that can cause different illnesses across different geographic regions. Check out our extensive guide on tick facts and safety here. It will tell you what to watch for, how to properly check for the buggers, and more.
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Frame Failure: Rocky Mountain Recalls Thousands of Bikes | The NPMA is a nonprofit that works to support pest management and track outbreaks of pests/diseases that could threaten public health.
"Be sure to monitor for flu-like [and other] symptoms after spending time outdoors, and seek medical attention immediately if you think you've been bitten," Parada suggested.
Most Dangerous Ticks
Perhaps more alarming, according to the CDC, the number of counties in the U.S. that harbor the black-legged tick (deer tick) — the parasite responsible for most Lyme disease cases — has more than doubled in the past 20 years. But these aren't the only threat to humans. The NPMA identified three other major types of ticks people (and their pets) should watch out for.
Lone star tick: You will find this tick mostly throughout the eastern and southeastern U.S. Its name comes from the single silvery-white spot located on the female's back. It attacks humans more frequently than any other tick species in those regions and is a vector of many dangerous diseases.
Rocky Mountain wood tick: These reside primarily in the Rocky Mountain region of the U.S., such as Colorado, Idaho, and Montana. It can transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever, a potentially fatal disease, and turns gray after feeding on a host | 254 |
So I turn 53 in 8 days and I am amazed at how long it took me to find out my so called purpose in life. My purpose is not always noticed, by myself but noticed by others. I have many talents and I have never realized how many people I have help, motivated, encouraged, and gave a sense of direction. I have been<|fim_middle|> have and continue to live and enjoy my life. If I were to die tomorrow, I have lived a fulfilling life. You only have one life to live, make it count, stop worrying about how people may view you. Be happy with who you are and with what you have accomplished, and keep striving for better. Remember your purpose is not always visible or known, you may be living it daily. | through my fair share of trials and tribulation, and they have been my stepping stone to learn and do better in life.
I have been that single mother, who has had children out of wedlock at an early age. I have raise other people's kids, out of fear of them being put in a foster home and separated. I have dated the wrong man, who has put me in a bad situation that could have cost me my life. I have lost a child and at the same time, was unable to see a grandchild. I have been hurting financially as well as emotionally. But not everything in my life was bad or negative, and I learned from all of that which was. I received promotion after promotion, had great paying jobs. I met my best friend, who turned out to be the best husband I could have ever asked for. We put a child through college, while watching another get married and have a family of her own.
I say all of this to say that sometimes in life you touch people's lives, without realizing how much of an impact you were on them. I realized that my purpose was my talent, and that I have multiple talents. I would not change anything in my life, because those mishaps made me the person that I am today. I can honestly say that I | 265 |
EURUSD is forming the first descending impulse. Today, the pair may grow to reach 1.1455 and then form one more descending structure towards 1.1410. After that, the instrument may be corrected to return to 1.1455 and then resume trading inside the downtrend with the first target at 1.1320.
GBPUSD is also forming the first descending impulse. Possibly, today the pair may reach 1.3046 and then grow towards 1.3110. Later<|fim_middle|>.05; if to the upside – resume trading inside the uptrend with the target at 1252.30.
Brent is still consolidating near the lows. Possibly, today the price may grow to break 73.64 and then continue trading upwards with the first target at 75.88. The market is expected to start a new correctional wave. | , the market may resume falling with the first target at 1.2915.
USDCHF is growing towards 1.0038. Today, the pair may reach this level and then start a new correction with the target at 0.9992. After that, the instrument may form one more ascending structure towards 1.0089.
USDJPY is trading upwards to reach 112.95. The target of this structure is at 113.82. Later, the market may form a new descending structure to reach the first target at 112.58.
AUDUSD has completed the descending impulse along with the correction. Today, the pair may fall to break 0.7264. The target is at 0.7211. Later, the market may be corrected towards 0.7257.
USDRUB is trading above 65.60. Possibly, today the price may form one more ascending structure towards 66.40 and then resume falling with the target at 65.60. After that, the instrument may start another growth to reach 66.00.
Gold is trading downwards. Possibly, the price may reach 1221.57 and then resume growing towards 1229.07, thus forming the Triangle pattern. If later the price breaks the pattern to the downside, the instrument may continue falling towards 1206 | 315 |
Q: Is there a PowerShell equivalent for Python's doctest module? I've just come across the doctest module in Python, which helps you perform automated testing against example code that's embedded within Python doc-strings. This ultimately helps ensure consistency between the documentation for a Python module, and the module's actual behavior.
Is there an equivalent capability in PowerShell, so I can test examples in the .EXAMPLE sections of PowerShell's built-in help?
This is an example of what I would be trying to do:
function MyFunction ($x, $y) {
<#
.EXAMPLE
> MyFunction -x 2 -y 2
4
#>
return $x + $y
}
MyFunction -x 2 -y 2
A: You could do this, although I'm not aware of any all-in-one built-in way to do it.
Method 1 - Create a scriptblock and execute it
Help documentation is an object, so can be leveraged to index into examples and their code. Below is the simplest example I could think of which executes your example code.
I'm not sure if this is what doctest does - it seems a bit dangerous to me but it might be what you're after! It's the simplest solution and I think will give you the most accurate results.
Function Test-Example {
param (
$Module
)
# Get the examples
$examples = Get-Help $Module -Examples
# Loop over the code of each example
foreach ($exampleCode in $examples.examples.example.code) {
# create a scriptblock of your code
$scriptBlock = [scriptblock]::Create($exampleCode)
# execute the scriptblock
$scriptBlock.Invoke()
}
}
Method 2 - Parse the example/function and make manual assertions
I think a potentially better way to this would be to parse your example and parse the function to make sure it's valid. The downside is this can get quite complex, especially if you're writing complex functions.
Here's some code that checks the example has the correct function name, parameters and valid values. It could probably be refactored (first time dealing with [System.Management.Automation.Language.Parser]) and doesn't deal with advanced functions at all.
If you care about things like Mandatory, ParameterSetName, ValidatePattern etc this probably isn't a good solution as it will require a lot of extension.
Function Check-Example {
param (
$Function
)
# we'll use this to get the example command later
# source: https://vexx32.github.io/2018/12/20/Searching-PowerShell-Abstract-Syntax-Tree/
$commandAstPredicate = {
param([System.Management.Automation.Language.Ast]$AstObject)
return ($AstObject -is [System.Management.Automation.Language.CommandAst])
}
# Get the examples
$examples = Get-Help $Function -Examples
# Parse the function
$parsedFunction =<|fim_middle|>maybe out of scope)
I think this one is a bit off topic, but worth mentioning. Pester is the test framework for PowerShell and has features that could be helpful here. You could have a generic test that takes a script/function as argument and runs tests against the parsed examples/functions.
This is could involve executing the script like in method 1 or checking the parameters like in method 2. Pester has a HaveParameter assertion that allows you to check certain things about your function.
HaveParameter documenation, copied from link above:
Get-Command "Invoke-WebRequest" | Should -HaveParameter Uri -Mandatory
function f ([String] $Value = 8) { }
Get-Command f | Should -HaveParameter Value -Type String
Get-Command f | Should -Not -HaveParameter Name
Get-Command f | Should -HaveParameter Value -DefaultValue 8
Get-Command f | Should -HaveParameter Value -Not -Mandatory
| [System.Management.Automation.Language.Parser]::ParseInput((Get-Content Function:$Function), [ref]$null, [ref]$null)
# Loop over the code of each example
foreach ($exampleCode in $examples.examples.example.code) {
# parse the example code
$parsedExample = [System.Management.Automation.Language.Parser]::ParseInput($exampleCode, [ref]$null, [ref]$null)
# get the command, which gives us useful properties we can use
$parsedExampleCommand = $parsedExample.Find($commandAstPredicate,$true).CommandElements
# check the command name is correct
"Function is correctly named: $($parsedExampleCommand[0].Value -eq $Function)"
# loop over the command elements. skip the first one, which we assume is the function name
foreach ($element in ($parsedExampleCommand | select -Skip 1)) {
"" # new line
# check parameter in example exists in function definition
if ($element.ParameterName) {
"Checking parameter $($element.ParameterName)"
$parameterDefinition = $parsedFunction.ParamBlock.Parameters | where {$_.Name.VariablePath.Userpath -eq $element.ParameterName}
if ($parameterDefinition) {
"Parameter $($element.ParameterName) exists"
# store the parameter name so we can use it to check the value, which we should find in the next loop
# this falls apart for switches, which have no value so they'll need some additional logic
$previousParameterName = $element.ParameterName
}
}
# check the value has the same type as defined in the function, or can at least be cast to it.
elseif ($element.Value) {
"Checking value $($element.Value) of parameter $previousParameterName"
$parameterDefinition = $parsedFunction.ParamBlock.Parameters | where {$_.Name.VariablePath.Userpath -eq $previousParameterName}
"Parameter $previousParameterName has the same type: $($element.StaticType.Name -eq $parameterDefinition.StaticType.Name)"
"Parameter $previousParameterName can be cast to correct type: $(-not [string]::IsNullOrEmpty($element.Value -as $parameterDefinition.StaticType))"
}
else {
"Unexpected command element:"
$element
}
}
}
}
Method 3 - Use Pester ( | 490 |
Carpool, trip logs and route maps included in new digital platform
February 8, 2017 By cmsadmin
A web-based platform by RideAmigos will include route maps, showing expedient ways to get around Missoula without a vehicle. Missoula In Motion plans to roll out the new program this spring. (Martin Kidston/Missoula Current)
By Martin Kidston/Missoula Current
Missoula In Motion plans to unveil a new website this spring to help commuters plan their non-motorized trips, log their miles and build carpool clubs – all designed to cut down on traffic congestion and improve air quality.
On Wednesday, the City Council's Public Works Committee approved Missoula In Motion's request to secure a $16,000 annual contract with RideAmigos, a digital platform that permits interactive trip planning and enables users to track their transportation habits.
"The tool is user friendly and easy to integrate into the things you're already doing," said Linzie Norman, program specialist with MIM. "We're confident this will increase sustainable transportation, reduce single-occupancy vehicle use, and ultimately reduce our carbon footprint."
Jessica Morriss, the city's transportation planning manager, said MIM selected RideAmigos after a lengthy search. The web-based platform offers a number of tools, including the most efficient bike routes to certain locations around the city.
It also enables mobile-friendly trip logging and creates networking opportunities. That, Morriss said, will enable businesses to implement their own incentives, encouraging employees to leave their car at home and find another way to get to work.
Morriss said Missoula in Motion plans to implement the platform in April or May.
"We're trying to get everything launched and beta tested prior to that," she said. "We're going to work with some of our partners to beta<|fim_middle|> platform to follow.
Contact reporter Martin Kidston at info@missoulacurrent.com | test. From a larger public perspective, we'll have some marketing that will go along with the rollout."
For those who cannot bike to work, the platform also offers a carpool matching service, helping users identify and connect with others whose commute aligns with their own. MIM believes the function may be one of the most popular features.
"Out of all the things this platform does, the biggest thing is carpool matching and the ability to set up networks," said Morriss. "Right now, one of the main components of MIM is to work with businesses and employers to try to get their employees to use different transportation options."
While the committee approved MIM's contract with RideAmigos, the vote wasn't unanimous. Ward 1 council member Heidi West opposed it.
"I'm skeptical this is going to create behavior change," said West. "People have the tools to use alternative transportation now, and it's not so much an app or website that's going to change that. It's going to take a bigger change in our expectations."
Ward 2 council member Jordan Hess disagreed, saying conservation costs less than downtown parking garages and wider roads.
"This is a great way to make commuting social, to use game theory and to engage people on a deeper level than we do right now," said Hess. "The cost of this service is less than the cost of building one parking space. It's a relatively cheap way to get value."
Morriss said the function will also enable MIM to provide accurate figures as it applies for future grants. The organization's current website is several years old and has become obsolete to users accustomed to newer software.
The platform's unveiling will coincide with the annual Commuter Challenge this spring, which engages 75 local businesses and 1,500 participants. Katherine Auge with Missoula in Motion expects participation in the new | 379 |
Visualizing the Random, Rare, and Jackpot Nature of Genetic Mutations--A Self Portrait
Emily F. Kauvar
Division: Humanities
Dept/Program: Visual Studies
Mentor(s): Jackie Tileston
Many contemporary artists have drawn upon scientific concepts and phenomena as source material and inspiration for their works. This self-portrait is a visual manifestation and expression of the random, relatively rare, and jackpot nature of genetic mutations over time. The highly repetitive and frequent occurrence of cellular replication inevitably allows for mutations, or alterations in the DNA, to randomly occur according to a small statistical probability that is embedded in every juncture of replication. In turn, these mutations are passed on, resulting in a jackpot or concentrated distribution in successive generations.
My grade school pictures stand in for replicating cells, as they document my physical progression in a relatively standard, uniform format. Successive generations accumulate in a linear fashion, from left to right and top to bottom. The content of the images is used to delineate the potentially positive, negative, and neutral effects of innate spontaneous mutations, prompted by a random number generator with a mutation rate of 0.2% for each type of mutation or an overall general rate of 0.6%. The model for positive change includes growth and positive evolution, as illustrated by the next year's school picture. The model for negative change involves regression and deviation from<|fim_middle|>ated by flipping the image across the vertical axis. An external mutagen was also introduced by blurring an image every time my phone rang during the production process. As a final piece, it is the random, rare, and jackpot nature of mutations that create the art and visual pattern.
Kauvar, Emily F., "Visualizing the Random, Rare, and Jackpot Nature of Genetic Mutations--A Self Portrait" 21 April 2006. CUREJ: College Undergraduate Research Electronic Journal, University of Pennsylvania, https://repository.upenn.edu/curej/44.
Date Posted: 08 November 2006 | the standard pose, as expressed by an earlier age's formal portrait. The model for neutral change involves an alteration in the image that does not palpably change the visual information, as deline | 37 |
Friday of Week 9 is a day that people have been talking about now and again ever since leaving the Rockies at the end of Week 4. Today's ride included the greatest elevation gain of the whole tour in a single day (our detour up Mt Evans was significantly more but was optional). After my 3 hour nap the day before and quite a bit of sleep again at night when things at camp started to get moving around 5:30 am I just gave<|fim_middle|> in SeatoSea
The end of New York
The final morning… | up trying to sleep, got up, packed up and was in line for breakfast at 6:05 am. I had quite a few comments to deal with from all of the early risers who I like to give a hard time to… and good for them, they were right, it was too early for me to be up.
Josh Nyenhuis, Eritia Smit and Nathan Beach were to be my riding partners for the day and we rolled out of camp around 7:40 am. The very first thing we did was climb a 200 foot hill that was probably an 8% grade and I said to Nathan that this ride was going to be going down in the history books. 30 years out from now when I look back on this tour I won't be able to remember every day but this one is one I'd remember forever. Indeed that continued to be the case for the rest of the day as there were so many amazing bits and pieces slapped back-to-back-to-back-to-back.
The hills were steep on the uphill and on the downhill and even though we left rather far back with respect to the group we had passed the vast majority of riders within the first 50 kms because we were taking very few stops (well – no stops I guess). After climbing a 1000 foot hill out of Carbondale PA we blasted down through a little town called Canaan which had a huge jail. From there for the next 22 kms the downhills were ever so slightly longer than the uphills and it seemed like I could ride at a blistering pace forever. I still have no computer so I don't exactly know how fast we were going but it felt faster than whatever we were actually doing. The trees were overhanging the road, the sky was overcast and it was easy to keep the body temperature down. The road was full of curves and I had a fantastic group of riders to push the pace with. I filmed a video of the descent which hopefully will end up on YouTube sometime in the not-so-distant-future.
The road changed from the little two lane with no shoulders and no traffic to a larger highway for the next big portion of the ride. The hills stretched out a bit longer than earlier in the day and it was finally possible to get into climbing mode on each one rather than the pseudo-sprint method of doing the short rollers that we'd been using all morning. Nathan and Josh are on the "leaner" or "more slender" or "lighter" end of the spectrum. (I'm trying to avoid the term skinny because it's not appreciated even though it might be somewhat accurate.) That means they dropped both Eritia and myself on each of the climbs and we'd catch them on the downhills. Eritia because she is the most aerodynamic person when all tucked in, and myself just because I've got body size to my advantage and don't flutter like a leaf in the wind.
Those longer rollers came to an end with a blazing fast downhill into the town of Milford that went on for a whole 5 miles and I'm sure we did most of it between 50 and 60 kph. We then had a nice flat-ish section along the bottom of the valley and our team of 4 locked into a big line behind myself as we cruised along in the upper 40s (according to the only working computer in our group of 4!). We then checked off our last state-line of the summer entering New Jersey just on the edge of town.
The last stretch into the town of Sussex included a big climb up to High Point which is the highest place in the State. It was about 3 miles of sustained climbing somewhere between 6 and 7 percent. Almost made me feel like we were in the early weeks of the tour, I forgot what it was like to have a hill go on and on for more than a few minutes. All good things come to an end though and we did summit the pass and were greeted by a little girl (5 yrs perhaps) Anika who was giving out cookies and watermelon and lemonade as she waited for her Mom, one of the other cyclists, to arrive. We probably could have coasted all the way into Sussex from the top of that pass but that wouldn't be quite as fun as hammering along the road and expending every lastr bit of strength that the day of climbing had sapped from us. Again we tore along down the road with Pieter Pereboom who also does well with the downhills as he's got body-size to his advantage just like me. I was behind him for a stretch of the downhill that really was crazy steep and could smell his brakes smoking.
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Hi<|fim_middle|> school (Japanese – though all I can do now is recognise Hiragana and Katakana) and later in university (French).
I'm currently learning German, in preparation for a mission trip in December. | ! My name is Wei Lin, but I usually go by my initials WL. I'm a software engineer from Singapore.
This is my personal blog devoted to language learning.
I believe that anyone can learn a new language at any stage of their lives if they develop the habits that can help them.
I write about resources, the mindset, productivity, the habits, developing habits, setting goals, and other things relating to language learning.
I'm an introvert, and my biggest challenge with learning any language is speaking. Reading comprehension and grammar are my strong points. I'm pretty decent with vocabulary.
I post a new post every Tuesday.
Additional vocabulary-related posts (for the language I am currently focusing on learning) are on Thursdays and Sundays.
I grew up speaking two languages (English and Mandarin Chinese), understanding a third (Cantonese) from eavesdropping on conversations between my mother and my grandmother, and had the opportunity to learn others in | 191 |
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