SplashLearn Raises $18 Million in Series C Funding Round From Owl Ventures & Accel
SplashLearn, formerly Splash Math, creates engaging discovering experiences built to change children into courageous learners. Its PreK-5 game-based knowing program is curriculum-aligned and has an adaptive algorithm that offers each child a customized learning experience that is fun and immersive. It is presently used in 150+ countries and has actually benefitted more than 40 million kids around the world.
” SplashLearn is well poised to produce an unique modification in the digital knowing space with its unique blend of clinically developed curriculum and its pedagogical techniques with international appeal. SplashLearn suits our objective of supporting ingenious companies in the edtech space, assisting drive a paradigm shift in the method education is imparted, bringing it to scale” stated Amit A. Patel Managing Director, Owl Ventures, who would be signing up with the businesss board together with Abhinav Chaturvedi.
” We picture a world where every child would discover, fearlessly. The games within the program goal to shift the present narrative around learning, turning it into an experience that enhances the kids desire to learn by making learning itself rewarding for each child. Therefore minimizing their worry of failure, and developing what we like to call brave students” said Arpit Jain, CEO and co-founder, SplashLearn. “The funds will mainly be used for development and scaling our new vertical– tutoring”, he added.
SplashLearn, previously Splash Math, produces engaging discovering experiences built to transform children into fearless students.
About Owl Ventures.
SplashLearn, the US-headquartered learning company started 2021 on a high note raising $18 million in Series C funding round led by Owl Ventures. SplashLearn is a game-based knowing program that intelligently adjusts to each kids knowing ability and assists them master abilities at their own speed. In 2020, more than 10 million new users joined the SplashLearn program. In the latter half of 2020, SplashLearn broadened its offering beyond the mathematics program to consist of reading and also launched a tailored tutoring product, owing to growing need from teachers and moms and dads.
SplashLearn, the US-headquartered finding out business started 2021 on a high note raising $18 million in Series C financing round led by Owl Ventures. San Francisco based Owl Ventures is the biggest edtech sector-focused equity capital firm on the planet. Accel, who previously invested $7 million in Series B, also took part in this round.
SplashLearn is readily available throughout all digital platforms (iOS, Android and Web). To find out more, check out www.splashlearn.com. Follow SplashLearn on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
Accel is a global venture capital company that partners with exceptional founders with unique insights, from inception through all phases of private business development. Acko, Atlassian, Blackbuck, BookMyshow, Bounce, Braintree, BrowserStack, CrowdStrike, CureFit, Deliveroo, DJI, Dropbox, Etsy, Facebook, Flipkart, Freshworks, Jet, Kayak, Lynda.com, Qualtrics, Rovio, Slack, Spotify, Supercell, Swiggy, Tenable, UiPath, UrbanClap and Venmo are among the business the company has actually backed over the previous 35+ years.
” We are happy to partner and assistance SplashLearn which is producing an improvement in the digital learning space,” stated Abhinav Chaturvedi, Partner, Accel, who signed up with the businesss board in 2018
The bulk of the service comes from the United States and currently, trainees in one in every three schools in the nation use SplashLearn. SplashLearn is a game-based knowing program that intelligently adapts to each childs learning capability and assists them master abilities at their own pace.
With the beginning of Covid-19, SplashLearn saw a surge of nearly 3x in adoption, as more trainees turned online and families began seeking instructional support. In 2020, more than 10 million new users joined the SplashLearn program. The need was available in not just from the United States but also the UK, Australia, and Canada. In the latter half of 2020, SplashLearn broadened its offering beyond the math program to include reading and also introduced a customized tutoring item, owing to growing demand from instructors and parents.
eSchool News Staff.
Owl Ventures is the largest venture capital fund in the world focused on the education technology market with over $1.2 billion in properties under management. Owl Ventures has deep domain competence and leverages a global network of Limited Partners, investors, and strategic partners to assist business owners scale their businesses into transformative category-leading business.
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Active people’s participation in and contribution to social transformation & sustainable development
Motivate, Encourage and Strengthen community based organizations, civil society groups and social activists to work for social change, social cohesion and development.
The Social Development & Research Organization was established in 2004 to enhance civil society participation in development and local decision making process.
In course of time, SDRO has gradually identified its core competencies based on its own experience and feedback provided by stakeholders. Its identified areas of strength have been organizing campaigns, awareness creation and education programs to enable people to be able to claim and exercise their civil and
Preliminary submission by the SDRO to the Public Representation Commission .
This submission by the Social Development and Research Organization (SDRO) outlines its general views on federalism which demanded by Tamil people and sharing its general observations on the past mistakes and also we suggested power of handling investment must be devolve to north and eastern provinces because the authority of handling investment has been dominating by western province only


The past few weeks you’ve heard us mention my husband’s various interviews. Ironically, it all began the afternoon that we first began to have our photography adventures downtown. We were sitting inside Bojangles just chatting. We made the off handed comment “its not like we’re moving any time soon,” and husband received a phone call from a recruiting agency that had tried to contact him about a job before. This began us into a topsy turvy last few weeks of hopes, dreams, and anxiety, as we considered three different options for my husband’s career.
#1 Husband could choose to stay with the company he’d been at for 7 years. He knew the job and environment, had created great friendships among his coworkers, and it meant staying in the area. The problem was that he had encountered a glass ceiling which made it difficult to progress in his career (and move along with our lives).
#2 A great job offer that involved moving away from the community we’ve developed and in which we’ve just recently become church members. It was the kind of offer that meant a house, and progressing towards other expensive dreams.
#3 A contract job with a local industry. So staying in the same area, but with increased pay. With increased pay comes a new intense environment, and new coworkers.
For several weeks we prayed. I kept telling my husband that I trusted his judgment. In the end all I hoped for was that he would choose what was best for him (since he would be the one working there!). I tried to be supportive as I watched him progress through each option, weighing the risks and benefits. He’d decide one thing one day, and the next day reconsider the opportunities. It was scary realizing how much our lives could change based on those decisions. In the end we watched as all of the doors closed except for one. Husband said that he had peace, and I’d helped to create color coordinated pro/con lists.
He started at this new location yesterday, and I was so nervous. I’d tried to remain supportive throughout the weekend as we went to Carrabba’s out of town with friends. This dinner location was special to us since we’d been there over 4 years ago, when he asked me to marry him :0). (Not at the restaurant, btw).
I was entertained by the wildlife that we saw on the way there: a fawn in the yard near our friends’ house (yay for the incredible zoom on my pocket camera), and birds nesting in the restaurant’s letters.
Then, Sunday was a pool party with our Sunday School class. We ran into wal-mart to grab a snack/side. Witty husband decided to tease our pregnant co-leader with his version of pregnancy:
All day yesterday I couldn’t wait to hear how his first day had gone! That evening I finally got to hear it. He’d gone through the standard first day jazz, meeting everyone, learning about policy, waiting for permissions and equipment. I think the thing that most stuck out to me was how excited he was. It was as if a giant weight had been lifted from his shoulders! He told me about how nice everyone was, and what he’d learned about the job. Apparently, he’s like one of the younger guys there…which means that many people stick around. There was a really cool sound of hopes and dreams in his voice…that this is the kind of place that he could work at for awhile and we could really make a future :0) Now, we just have to be careful not to get too caught up with “what could happen” while we are careful over the next 6 months of his contract.
I am just simply so proud of him! I’m so happy for him to feel like he fits so well in this environment. I’m not proud over the fact that I could have made the weekend before less stressful, but I’m happy that we are growing together and becoming better functioning cogs each week as we learn better how to communicate. :0)


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Hey all...welcome to Black Friday. It's going to be extra black today.
I want to let you in on a little secret.
I struggled with the decision to talk about this here for like 3 whole minutes last night but I figure that my friends and family don't read this blog (unfortunate, I know) so what would I have to lose. I need to tell someone. This may get lengthy but fuck it...I just need to get it out. You can scroll past it if you wish, I don't mind.
First I should tell you that I have suffered from depression for as long as I can remember. If you were to dissect the trauma of my life you will see that I appear to handle isolated incidents in a healthy way. I mourn, I find the silver lining and I move on. It's not fake. I think at the time that I am feeling the pain of whatever happened, that I am finding a light or a way to move forward and that I am doing/thinking whatever feels necessary to be happy again. It seems, not only to others, but also to myself that everything is ok, or going to be ok, or at least bearable. I always felt guilty for being sad because even as a very young child, I knew that other people had it worse than me...I shouldn't be dwelling on my problems...it seemed selfish and cruel. I always moved on and I was even told by some that I was the strongest little girl they knew. Yea right.
It got to the point where I had become so good at "dealing" with the things that I felt and saw and experienced that I think I became numb. Nothing was a big deal. Nothing was too much to handle. Nothing deserved more than a day or two of attention. Not to me, and apparently not to anyone else.
Rape. Death. Molestation. Mind Control. He beat me. She forgot me. She ignored me. Cancer. Fat. Sick. Sad.
No big deal. It will pass.
I can't really remember if it was me not showing my pain and pushing it away that caused others to seem to do the same...or the other way around.
The first time I tried to kill myself, I was 8. My babysitter got into an argument with her mother and it got loud and nasty...somewhere in the middle of the chaos I locked myself in the bathroom and downed a bottle of bubble bath. I think my mom found out but i guess it was no big deal. No therapy. No visits from the church elders. Nothing.
Thinking back...that was a huge red flag, a really big sign of things to come. I should have been sent to get help. Something should have happened.
Suicide became my best kept secret. I would try to be happy all of the time and then something would change everything...I would spend a couple days in the dark and end with a suicide attempt. I would fail...sometimes on purpose...my family would yell/cry/console and then we all moved on. It happened so many times. I couldn't count how many times.
Pills. Razors. Bubble Bath. Broken Mirrors. Gun. Jump.
I had my son in 2002. It changed everything. I felt that now if I died...someone would miss me, someone would need me. My father died when I was young and it was so hard...I couldn't imagine my son having to deal with that...not to mention that he would probably be angry with me that I killed myself. I bear the thought.
All of the feelings of being insignificant, invisible, alone, unloved, ugly, fat, worthless...all of that disappeared with the birth of my son. I felt happy enough to live for a long time until things started to fall apart between his father and me.
I plunged back into darkness...smiling on the outside, dying on the inside. New thoughts buried the old...my son would be better off without me, I would be doing him a favor, I couldn't hope to ever be a good mother because I felt so worthless and stupid. I won't see his pain when I am dead, my son's pain won't affect me when I am dead...fuck it, just die.
I took every pill in my grandmother's drawer. I remember being the my last bottle...the big pills...and having to take them one at a time because I was already nauseous and drowsy. I sat on the floor of my balcony and the sun was shining on me and the last thing I remember was trying to take another pill but I didn't have the strength...I was taking what I thought was my last breath. It was and still is one of the most beautiful experiences I have ever had...I felt freedom from the demons that haunted me for so long.
My grandmother found me 7 hours later walking around naked from the waste down. I was rushed to the hospital, my stomach pumped and I was sent to the 5th floor for a 4 day suicide watch. The last pill, if taken would have killed me.
This time it was a big deal.
Everyone who ignored all of the signs were now crying for me, holding me, telling me that they didn't know it was so bad. I was sent to therapy. Friends acted dumb and unknowing. Mom felt guilty. Family felt angry. Everyone felt scared.
It was like a second child being born. I felt happy again...loved, cherished, hopeful, worth something.
I went to therapy and learned ways to deal without pushing aside and I did very well for a time. I felt stupid for being so selfish. I really felt like those days were over for me. I would never want to die like that again. I wanted to live.
Well, it's back. It's so fucking back. Everything repeating itself.
Wake up and walk around like a zombie until someone else wakes up/comes home/walks in. Smile. Be funny. Be cheerful. All day I do that until everyone goes to bed. Then I cry. I cry for hours. I can't figure out what has triggered it.
I am unemployed so I know there are feelings of failure from not being able to find a new job and also feeling like a loser for having to rely on others for financial support.
I did recently quit smoking pot which I think may have helped me for all of these years to "ignore" my thoughts and insecurities...and put me to sleep.
I told a friend today that I wanted to die and I needed help. He said "Oh you don't want to die, you will be ok. Did you edit my resume like I asked you to, I really need it now."
I told another friend the other day that I was very depressed and that I was worried about myself. She said "You always find a way Shandi, you will be ok. Want to get drunk this weekend, I am so stressed out and I need some alcohol?....actually, can I call you right back?" She didn't call back.
My "best" friend "joked" around with me after I told him I was in a "bad mood" to either stop complaining or kill myself. Fuck me! Fuck him.
I wrote in my "Radical Self Love Bible" that has since last night become a very dark and twisted book, pages stained with tears. I started to cry uncontrollably. I turned my TV up but I knew that my roommates (brother, sister, friend) would hear me. I kind of needed them to hear me because I couldn't stop. I woke up with broken capillaries all around my eyes. No one has asked me if I was ok. I am so broken.
I am looking right now to see if there are programs in my area to help me. I need help. I need new friends. I need to move away. I need to find a way to lift myself up if I have no one to help me. It's not their fault. They don't understand.
For now I will keep smiling. Keep forcing the happy until I break down at night. I'm really good at that.
See? I am good at something.
I think I am good at blogging too so I will keep on doing that. It keeps me afloat I think. That and my son.
Maybe when the snow melts I will feel better. But it's only a band aid. Depression is a disease...I know that. It's dangerous.
PS. I just need anybody reading to know that this is not a cry for help. I will help myself. Posting this on Into The Ninth is only a release and it felt good..thanks.
Eg elska thig.


He reached the bottom of the stairs and saw the two doors. One marked with a red cross and the other with a black moon. There was a choice to be made here and he did not want to rush it. The symbols were meaningless but from his conversation in the nightclub, he knew that one door led to the same as before. The familiar feeling of normality, of safety….of a mundane life and death.
The Other led to a life of uncertainty. One full of roller coaster highs and lows.
“It would be more exciting but could also break your heart”. That’s what she said to him, before she smiled and left the club.
He had already made his choice. Through one door he could return to being John Smith again. The other, he would stay as the Laird. Having hidden from that for so long, he knew that was never happening again.
He just had to pick a door.
Behind him, the Laird heard the sound of footsteps coming down another set of stairs. He had not seen those earlier but had come to accept that things were in flux here. Turning he saw a man he almost recognised appear. Clad in a military officers uniform, with a crest on the shoulder that looked familiar, the man approached him and stuck out his hand.
“Damn good to see you again.”
The Laird shook this strangers hand. Both men had a strong, firm grip, equally matched to each other.
“I’m sorry. I feel I know you but I cannot remember where from?” The Laird replied.
The Military man smiled and his pencil thin moustache wrinkled ever so slightly.
“We met in our local pub a while ago. Neither of us looked the way we do now. Its all smoke and mirrors Old Chap.”
He then stood to attention and saluted the Laird.
“Colonel Montgomery McSwine at your service Sir.”
The Laird smiled. He knew this man from before. He had served with this man back before the fall. Returning the salute, the Laird spoke proudly.
“The Laird of Darkness. Also at your service Sir.”
Both men dropped the salute and hugged.
“I did not think I would ever get back here,” McSwine whispered during the embrace, “I felt as though my whole life had been just a dream that I was never going to feel again.”
Breaking the hug, the Colonel looked at the doors and tapped them both with his military baton.
“So then Laird, which one are we going through? I assume you met our female counterpart too?”
So that was who it was.
“Well Colonel, I know that one door leads us back to the past and one leads us to the future. However I cannot decide which one is which?”
The colonel stroked his moustache and considered the options. He took out a pipe and filled it from a pouch in his jacket pocket. Lighting the sweet smelling tobacco, he drew a coupkle of times and then blew a key shaped smoke cloud into the air.
The Laird clapped, “Oh that is clever.”
“Thank you. Just a little trick I picked up from an Indian chap during the war. Very clever bugger he was. Saved my life a couple of times.”
The key flowed softly towards the space between the doors and crashed soundlessly upon the wall.
“Of course i saved his life more but you know, I don’t really like to talk about it.” The Colonel Smiled and unzipped a backpack that had appeared. From within, he drew out a white fluffy balero style jacket. Slipping it on, he stepped forward and pressed the wall in front of them. It swung open slowly, revealing a scene of chaos behind it.
“Right old chap. Time to go home.”
The Laird followed into the unknown. The decision had been made.


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CTbites was invited for an exclusive first look inside Chef Bill Taibe’s new restaurant, Kawa Ni, in Westport’s Bridge Square this week. Kawa Ni means “on the river,” an apt name for a restaurant in Saugatuck whose cuisine and service will take its cues from the informal Izakaya joints found in the Japanese cities of Kyoto and Osaka.
Is it an american restaurant with japanese aspirations? Or is it a japanese restaurant with american inspirations? Both, says Taibe, who distills his love of post war japanese culture and a farm house style approach to japanese food within the walls of the intimate Kawa Ni.
Equal parts food and drink, with a capital F-U-N atmosphere, the 40-seat Izakaya-inspired restaurant will get the party started by the end of the month.
What is Izakaya and how will Kawa Ni define its take on the Japanese-style tavern experience? At one end of the Japanese food spectrum is the highly constrained, food-centric and formal tradition of sushi. At the other end is Izakaya, a looser and occasionally raucous setting that is equal parts food and drink, heavy on the whiskey and beer, paired with small plates of food.
Kawa Ni’s menu will be filled with small plates of tofu, pickles, and dumplings, which are prep heavy so the service will be speedy. “You won’t need to come here to have an actual meal but you certainly could,” says Taibe.
Taibe and his executive chef and brother Jeff Taibe are still tweaking the menu, but we were promised it would celebrate their “love of tofu, lots of pickles, dumplings, and an experimentation with broths and ramen, as well as donburi.” Donburi, or rice bowls filled with raw fish, will be an important cornerstone of the menu, and Taibe will branch out from traditional pairings, borrowing heavily across cuisines, as traditional Izakaya often does.
Beverages will rise to the level of importance of the food at Kawa Ni, and in some cases, surpass it. Sake bombs, shots of sake poured into beer, will be de rigeur. Whiskey will figure prominently on the menu, focused on a slew of whiskey sour cocktails that leverage fresh fruit sour mixes. The sour mix is specially crafted from Carissa at The Stand juice bar. There will be much to look forward to on this side of the offerings, with Jeff Marron behind the stick.
Knotty cedar paneled walls, a tiled bar, and pops of floral wallpaper create a pleasantly busy textural experience punctuated by red metal pendant lights hanging over a central communal table. Scattered throughout the space you’ll see dozens of Japanese artifacts, such as the ubiquitous maneki-neko, the Japanese figurine meant to bring good luck to its owner, sake bowls used as planters, and a gorgeous vintage japanese tourist poster from 1929. In addition to table seating, there is ample bar seating both in front of the bartenders and additional slivers of bars to congregate alongside at the front window and along a wall.
With a trio of restaurants under his culinary control, Taibe explains his portfolio succinctly:
leFarm is a studio for cooking, it’s all about the food. Whelk is a bit more about the people and the scene. And Kawa Ni? It’s a party.
Kawa Ni 19 Bridge St. (Bridge St. between Riverside Ave. & Imperial Ave.), Westport.


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The City of Berlin celebrated its 775th Anniversary yesterday on Sunday, 28th and it was… not what I expected. Everything started with a fire installation by the world-renowned French fire poets Compagnie Carabosse in front of the Berlin City Hall and after that, the spectacle began…
Inspired by medieval visions of afterlife, the Titanick Theatre Collective had set up 13 individual situations and scenes, an adequate description of how the observer feels when they enter into this dream world, between the Neptun Fountain and the Television Tower.
It was weird but interesting and entertaining, it felt like they combined the Anniversary and Halloween into one single celebration, with success.
More than 5,200 cities and towns in 135 countries worldwide switched off their lights for Earth Hour 2011 alone, sending a powerful message for action on climate change. In 2012, a new record was set, with 150 countries and territories across 6,494 towns and cities around the world.
In Berlin, the Brandenburg Gate, the Television Tower and the Red City Hall went completely dark for one hour from 8:30pm – 9:30pm on Saturday 31.03.2012. As part of the event, a map of the world was created by the WWF, using hundreds of colored-paper-surrounded tealights in front of the Brandenburg Gate. In addition, lanterns designed like the earth were handed out to the audience.
It’s St. Patrick’s Day around the globe and everyone is celebrating this special day with lots of green and lots of beer. Also for the first time, landmarks throughout the world have been illuminated green to mark the day, for example, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Niagara Falls, the London Eye, the Burj al Arab hotel in Dubai, the Cibeles fountain in Madrid, the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, the Table Mountain in Cape Town and the Television Tower in Berlin.
Berlin had his very own St. Patrick’s Day parade and about one thousand Irish tourists and locals marched to bagpipe music through the city.


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Lisa Parks, a Democrat vying for the open State Senate seat in District 7, received the endorsement of all five incumbent Democratic officeholders in the region on Monday (Dec. 6).
Democratic State Representatives Megan Godfrey of Springdale and Denise Garner, David Whitaker, and Nicole Clowney of Fayetteville and State Senator Greg Leding of Fayetteville are all throwing their support behind Parks, they said in a press release from the Parks campaign.
“I have known Lisa for as long as I have been involved in politics and know that she will work harder than anyone else to represent the people of District 7. I’m proud to offer her my support in this special election,” Leding said.
The vacancy in the Senate seat is due to the resignation of Sen. Lance Eads, Republican of Springdale. Eads resigned his Senate seat in late October to join Capitol Consulting Firm as a senior consultant.
Parks is being challenged in the Democratic primary by Derek Van Voast.
Republican challengers include Jim Bob Duggar, Colby Fulfer, Edge Nowlin, and Steven Unger.
The special primary election is set for Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021. The special run-off election, which could only affect the Republican primary, is on Jan. 11, 2022. The special general election is Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022.
Senate District 7 includes Springdale, Johnson, Goshen and Elkins in eastern Washington County.


Downtown Los Angeles’ Rossoblu (almost 1-year old) tells the story of two places Executive Chef & Proprietor Steve Samson considers home: Los Angeles and Bologna. The restaurant is a homage to Samson’s heritage, inspired by childhood memories of summers spent in Bologna and its surrounding region, Emilia Romagna.
The menu features handmade pastas, market fresh produce, and an in-house butchery and salumi program. The wine list focuses on unique Italian and California varietals, with a sharp focus on Emilia Romagna’s famed Lambrusco. A true family owned and operated restaurant, Rossoblu is managed by Steve’s wife, Dina, and their management team whom they have worked with for the last ten plus years.
Located in Downtown’s City Market South, the site of Los Angeles’ original wholesale produce market, Rossoblu’s open kitchen with wood-fired rotisserie, marbled serpentine bar, and starry-lit vaulted dining room create a convivial dining environment.
Newly added is Saturday and Sunday Brunch. Think Nutella Stuffed French Toast and Frittata Bolognese.
Rossoblu will also host the premier event for the 2nd Annual Los Angeles Times Food Bowl on Monday evening, April 30th. Jonathan Gold (Los Angeles Times Food Critic) will be in the house.
We’ll check-in with Chef Steve Samson for an update.


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Last week, I wrote about the groundbreaking for two new mixed-use commercial buildings at Centennial Plaza in Old Town Clovis. Here’s a little more detail on what you might expect to see there.
The building on the northern end of the property, near Pollasky and Bullard avenues, will become a new office for Realty Concepts, Lending Concepts and RC Commercial. The brick building is designed to match the ambiance of Old Town and will have the rounded Realty Concepts windows seen on the company logo, said owner and broker John Shamshoian.
About 60 associates are expected to work out of the second and third floors, Shamshoian said. The hope is to have a restaurant take the entire first floor, he said. Construction is expected to take about a year.
“We are very, very excited to be part of Old Town Clovis,” Shamshoian said. “It’s our hope that our building will be one of the show pieces of what I believe is one of the most dynamic business settings in the San Joaquin Valley.”
Next door, Roger Peterson of the Peterson family and Roger Peterson Investments in Clovis is building a similar building. They also plan for office space on the top two floors and retail on the bottom floor.
No deals have been made yet, but Peterson expects to have three retailers including a restaurant and shops that sell clothing or other goods. Construction could finish by the end of the year.


Chambers Fine Art is delighted to announce its participation in ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, 2015. Dedicated since 2000 to the promotion of contemporary art from China, this year we are excited to exhibit a solo-presentation of new works by Wu Jian’an.
Born in Beijing in 1980, Wu Jian’an graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing in 2005. Since Daydreams, his first exhibition at Chambers Fine Art in 2006, he has won wide acclaim for the way in which he uses techniques derived from the traditional art of paper cutting in increasingly ambitious multi-layered works and installations.
In addition to his enthusiasm for “anything related to old China,” not the classical China of calligraphy and literati culture but paper cuts, shadow puppets, the Dunhuang Grottoes, frescoes, carved stones etc., Wu has also found inspiration in a wide range of esoteric visual and literary materials as he systematically elaborates the thematic content and technical complexity of his work. In contrast to The Heaven of Nine Levels (2008) and Transformation (2014), both of which responded to specific mythological and philosophical sources, the new group of paper cuts completed in 2015 refers to this material in more general terms.
Now it is the Energy behind these particular manifestations that Wu aims to express. Multiple layers of writhing figures and abstract forms, hand-dyed and dipped in wax, converge in brightly-hued pulsating forms against neutral backgrounds. Only partially attached to the flat surface of the mount, many of the hundreds of component parts project into three-dimensional space, further enlivening the vibrancy of Wu’s mysterious images. Differentiated only by presence or absence of color, central image and background are composed from identical elements and depend on each other. As revealed by the titles of the individual works, Wu draws attention to various kinds of energy, the energy of the heart, of colors and different sources uniting to create an even stronger force.
Wu Jian’an is currently Associate Professor and Vice-Chair of the Department of Experimental Art, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. His most recent exhibition was Transformation- A Tale of Contemporary Art and Intangible Cultural Heritage at Prince Gong’s Mansion, Beijing. His work is also currently featured in an exhibition of contemporary Chinese art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.


*After a long hiatus, fans are being treated to a double dose of new music from Jill Scott, reports Billboard.
“The Light of the Sun” — the singer/songwriter’s first album under her recently announced distribution deal with Warner Bros. — is due in early summer with first single “Shame” featuring Eve, which surfaced online today (Apr. 5).
The self-love anthem sees the Philly duo doing their thing over a horn-laced backing track. Listen below.
In the meantime, Scott’s former label Hidden Beach Recordings is ramping up the late spring arrival of “Just Before Dawn: Jill Scott From the Vault, Vol. 1.” The project’s lead single is a cover of Bill Withers’ classic, “Lovely Day.”
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|Project Name:||A Community Driven Model for Sustained Family Planning in Urban Slums|
|Nature of projects:||The project encompasses demand creation as well as service provision through a women entrepreneurship model in urban slums of 4 UCs of Rawalpindi. Community mobilizers, Noor worker are providing door-step counselling and short-term contraceptive services to Married Women of Reproductive Ages in Dhok Hassu, Dhok Mangtal and Fauji Colony. As an innovation, Noor also refer prospective clients to the identified private providers for Long Acting Reversible Contraceptives (LARC) for which they will be paid a referral fee. The business model of this initiative is driving an increase in contraceptive prevalence rate and facilitating self-sustaining growth in income and livelihood.|
|Program Location:||Dhok Hassu and Dhok Mangtal|
|Period of Intervention:||2017-18|
|Partner’s Name:||Akhter Hammed Khan Resource Center|
Highlights from the field
1. Capacity building of Noor Workers Conducted
Keeping in mind the overarching goal of increase in CPR by 10% in program areas, 36 Noor workers and 9 Social Mobilizers (6 Female and 3 Male) were hired. During the reported period, the basic element in sustainability of the project is the capacity building of the Noor workers who are actually part of this community. These skilled and trained women outreach will stay in the community well beyond the project duration. The project staff which includes Project Coordinator, Social Mobilizers and Noor Workers were given training on Entrepreneurship, Social Mobilization, Communication, Long Acting Reversible Contraceptives and Counseling. AHKRC also conducted 3 Refresher trainings on social mobilization for the Male SMS, on addressing Family Planning myths for all Noor, and training on using Tablets of 7 private providers have been included to join the Hamari Sehat Network, after signing of the MoUs.
2. Noor Workers Spearhead LARC Uptake
Thus far, Noor workers have visited a total 8636 households, higher than the target initially set for the First Quarter. A total 1590 women were referred to healthcare providers for different issues and services related to family planning, this includes 1150 news users. Referrals are confirmed after following-up with clients and collecting back the referral slips from Healthcare providers. So far, 526 individuals have been referred to different organizations for LARCs, among which most individuals opting for implant.
3. Health Camp Established
Health camps has also proved to be an effective strategy for converting more clients towards family planning, registering a total 43 new users and have succeeded of AHKRC office medical camp.
4. Community Awareness Services Arranged for Family Planning
Finally, a total 1118 community awareness session have also been conducted with primary focus to engage MWRAs and men for discussing about family planning and reducing myths and misconception about the method.
5. Cognitive Behavior Therapy-based Counselling Sessions organized
As part of the proposed 1-year intervention, AHKRC in partnership with NUST seeks to address unmet need and contraceptive uptake among urban poor through a holistic approach that creates demand for Family Planning in communities by providing information and counselling, overcoming myths and promoting Family Planning behavior as a norm through strategic behavior change approaches. During the Quarter 1&2, 1925 CBT based counseling session were conducted. This number is ahead of the target for the current quarter. Counseling is one the major component of the project where refusals, myths and misconceptions, and lack of knowledge is address through proper process. It has proved to be an effective strategy in achieving goals of the project.
6. Monitoring & Evaluation Visits Undertaken
To ensure swift and transparent implementation and transparency, AHKRC undertook 548 Social mobilizers supervision visits and an additional 512 number of Monitoring & Evaluation visits.


Paula Kerger, president and CEO of PBS, announced Wednesday that Betsy Gerdeman has been appointed PBS senior VP, Development Services.
Ms. Gerdeman will report to PBS chief operating officer Michael Jones and serve as a member of PBS’ senior leadership team.
She brings to PBS more than 20 years of development and fundraising experience working in public television and other nonprofits. Her tenure begins on Feb. 24, 2014.
Ms. Gerdeman (pictured above) will lead strategic efforts to ensure the long-term sustainability of PBS and its member stations.
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This includes working with PBS member stations to identify station fundraising needs, implementing and enhancing fundraising tactics and providing effective integrated tools, services, training and ongoing counsel to member stations in support of fundraising.
She will also collaborate across PBS to ensure best practices are incorporated into pledge programming policies and practices, as well as with PBS Digital to support the online fundraising system serving member stations.
PBS, with its over 350 member stations, offers all Americans the opportunity to explore new ideas and new worlds through television and online content.


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Juan Pablo Montoya topped the speed chart at 226.772 mph Sunday in the first day of testing at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Team Penske teammate Helio Castroneves was second at 226.468, and Simon Pagenaud gave the team three of the top with a fifth-place mark of 225.641.
The Chevrolet-powered Penske cars and 24 other cars were the track in the afternoon session as teams tested the new Chevrolet and Honda oval aero kits for the first time.
Seventeen cars hit the track during the morning refresher and rookie orientation sessions. Andretti Autosport's Justin Wilson topped the morning session at 223.989.
The Grand Prix of Indianapolis is Saturday on the road course and the Indianapolis 500 is May 24.


Incumbent may seek governor’s post
Feb. 19, 2009
By Greg Elias
Williston Selectboard member Chris Roy may run for secretary of state, the latest entry in a game of political musical chairs involving top statewide offices.
Roy, a Republican, said he is forming an exploratory committee, a preliminary step toward formally filing for election to the post currently held by Deb Markowitz, a Democrat whose term expires in 2010. Markowitz recently announced she is considering a bid for governor.
Roy said the secretary of state has “sort of an odd collection of duties,” including professional regulation and licensing, that dovetail with his experience as a lawyer with Downs Rachlin Martin in Burlington.
Roy said he would decide whether to run independent of Markowitz’s final call on entering the governor’s race. But he acknowledged that the lack of an incumbent in such a high-profile contest piqued his interest.
“It doesn’t take a great political figure to know Vermont likes its incumbents,” he said.
Markowitz’s potential departure after a decade as secretary of state has prompted interest among others. Former state Sen. Jim Condos, a Democrat, is also rumored to be considering a run for the office.
Meanwhile, state Sen. Doug Racine, a Democrat from Richmond, plans to run for governor. State Treasurer Jeb Spaulding ruled out a candidacy for governor earlier this month, but a number of other prominent Democrats have expressed an interest in challenging incumbent Gov. Jim Douglas.
Referring to his potential competitors, Douglas last week said political leaders should focus on the economic crisis, not campaigning. He said most Vermonters view as “perverse” runs for office so far ahead of an election
Kicking off a potential candidacy for statewide office 20 months before an election isn’t unusual in other states, Roy said, noting that it only seems premature in Vermont because of the relatively short two-year terms for statewide offices. He said getting word out early about a potential candidacy gives him a chance to build name recognition.
Roy, 44, was born and raised in Barre. He attended Harvard University, earning a degree in government before obtaining his law degree from Cornell University.
He has worked at Downs Rachlin Martin since 1990. His law practice has concentrated on commercial and property litigation.
Roy was elected to a two-year term on the Selectboard in March 2008. He has also served on the Vermont Environmental Board and the Vermont Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
Roy said he would have to resign his post at Downs Rachlin Martin if elected as secretary of state. But he left open the possibility of continuing on the Selectboard.
His Selectboard term ends in March 2010, eight months before the statewide election. He said he would likely run for re-election to the Selectboard and then decide whether to stay on if he becomes secretary of state.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.


What do you expect when you visit a sports bar (slash restaurant)? Any time we visit a spot that has a hook like beer pong, an alarm goes off. We weren’t expecting great food, but Ministry of Mussels surprised us.
Brand new from Infinity Entertainment Group, Ministry of Mussels has moved to the third floor of California Tower in Lan Kwai Fong. The 4,000-square-foot space can serve up to 125 people, and there are 11 large 4K television screens showing a number of different sport channels.
We started with the Thai spicy squid salad ($128), which contains fresh local squid mixed with typical Thai ingredients like coriander, garlic, chilli and kaffir lime leaves. This dish was our first, and it will be the first again on our next visit. It’s deliciously fresh and light, with a subtle “ma” from the Sichuan peppercorns.
The grilled halloumi beetroot quinoa salad ($148) would be a perfect accompaniment to balance any heavy mains, should the table need a salad option.
From the snacks menu, we were able to sample the coconut prawns ($128). Tiger prawns are coated with desiccated coconut and breadcrumbs and then deep-fried, served with a spicy mango salsa that has a lovely kick. The texture was great, and the prawns were well cooked and not at all oily, but a little low on flavour.
We all thoroughly enjoyed the Spread Your Wings and Fly ($138), Korean spicy chicken wings with a moreish sweet chilli sauce. Messy, but worth it.
The stars of the show have to be the mussels. As its name suggests, Ministry of Mussels offers a formidable mussels menu, all of which feature a broth served with the venue’s signature blue mussels from Australia. All mussels come with the option of toasted baguette, French fries or deep-fried mantou (steamed buns).
If you’re a fan of blue cheese, you must order the Italian formaggi mussels ($318) with thinly sliced sourdough toast. This version is made with four different types of cheese, so the blue cheese flavour is subtle in the gorgeous, fondue-like broth. This was our favourite dish alongside the spicy squid salad.
The Singapore chilli crab mussels ($318) are made with belacan shrimp paste, chilli sauce, Thai chillies and, of course, ketchup. This is best ordered with the deep-fried buns, which closely resemble the sweet white buns served with authentic Singapore chilli crab, perfect for soaking up the thick sauce.
The mussels were larger than average and fresh. We didn’t find any closed shells in either dish. Next visit, being big fans of Sichuan cuisine, we have our eyes on the kung pao mussels ($318), but we could possibly be persuaded to try the tom yum or Singapore laksa broths too. Find the entire menu here.
In case mussels aren’t your thing, the restaurant has a good selection of other options. The baby-back ribs ($298 for ½ rack or $588 for full rack) are fall-apart tender and come with plenty of fries.
Something we’d never before tried is the classic American fried steak ($248), which comes topped with béchamel sauce and red wine jus. New Zealand Angus steak is flattened and breaded, akin to schnitzel, but it’s slightly more juicy and tender – sports bar food done well.
And then it was time to meet the The Quaker ($388) – a mammoth dessert with nine scoops of various ice creams, along with meringue, crispy chocolate, marshmallows, strawberries, whipped cream, nuts, butterscotch and chocolate fudge. This is your Instagram dish!
For the thirsty, the drink menu is huge, with pages of options. Recommended to us were the alcoholic shakes ($110/$120), coming in four enticing flavours. We might try one on our next visit, if we can spare the calories.
Lots of choices here – except for beer. There are five commercial beers on tap, and they’re quite expensive. We enjoyed a pint of cold Brooklyn Defender IPA ($110/$85 HH), but we have become spoilt by some of the really fresh local IPAs available (for half the price) and would probably not choose beer here next time. For our game of pong, we opted to go with a Bombay Sapphire G&T ($90).
This pong table is high-tech! Sensors in each cup light up if you manage to get the ball in. The table comes with someone to help you to get started and make sure you drink your chosen beverage when you’re supposed to. Chaotic (and sometime uncoordinated) fun!
Overall, we were very pleasantly surprised by the high quality of the dishes here and will visit again for the food and fun atmosphere – especially at the weekend, when we can catch the UFC and the kids can play pong. On Saturdays and Sundays, kids under 10 eat for free, with some terms and conditions.
Whilst the food exceeded our expectations, the beer did not. It’s early days, and we have hopes that the beer choices will include some fresh HK beer alongside all the imports, offered at reasonable prices. Beer is a vital part of a sports bar (and it is on their logo, after all).
A good time to visit Ministry of Mussels is during happy hour (between 3–8pm every day), and also consider trying the weekday set lunch menu ($168 for 2 courses or $188 for 3 courses).
This write-up is based on a complimentary media tasting provided in exchange for an honest review and no monetary compensation. The opinions expressed here represent the author’s.
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United States Supreme Court
ROBINS DRY DOCK & REPAIR CO. v. DAHL, (1925)
Argued: December 4, 1924 Decided: January 5, 1925
[266 U.S. 449, 450]
Mr. A. G. Maul, of New York City, for plaintiff in error.
[266 U.S. 449, 452]
Mr. Ralph G. Barclay, of Brooklyn, N. Y., for defendant in error.
[266 U.S. 449, 454]
Mr. Justice McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the Court.
Defendant in error Dahl brought an action against the Robins Company- plaintiff in error-a New York corporation, in the Supreme Court, Kings County, New York, to recover damages for personal injuries. He alleged: That on February 2, 1920, while employed by the Robins Company and doing repair work on the steamer El Occident, then lying in navigable waters at Brooklyn, a plank scaffold on which he was walking or standing broke and caused him to fall into the hold. That he sustained serious injuries caused solely by and through negligence in that the company did not furnish a safe place to work and failed to provide a safe scaffold as required by the labor laws of the state of New York, but negligently and carelessly furnished an unsafe, inadequate and unsuitable scaffold and plank.
[266 U.S. 449, 455]
The trial court instructed the jury:
'This is what we call a maritime tort, an action in negligence that is governed by the maritime laws, the admiralty laws, the laws that pertain to navigable waters in this country. ... The law permits even a maritime case, such as should ordinarily be brought in the United States court, to be tried in a state court. But the maritime law is applied, and those maritime laws are known by lawyers as the common law. ...
'Under the common law the same rule applies in this case as the rules that I have laid down to you, that the burden is upon the plaintiff to prove that the defendant was negligent, and that he himself was free from any contributory negligence. In this case, however, comes a provision known as section 18 of the Labor Law, and section 18 of the Labor Law [Consol. Laws, c. 31] reads as follows: 'A person employing or directing another to perform labor of any kind in the erection, repairing, altering or painting of a house, building or structure shall not furnish or erect, or cause to be furnished or erected for the performance of such labor, scaffolding, hoists, stays, ladders or other mechanical contrivances which are unsafe, unsuitable or improper, and which are not so constructed, placed and operated as to give proper protection to the life and limb of a person so employed or engaged.'
'The decisions hold that section 18 of the Labor Law does not make an employer, as we term him, the 'master,' in this case the defendant, an insurer of the scaffold-and this plank within the meaning of the law is a scaffold-it does not make the master an insurer of the safety of the scaffold under all conditions; it requires the scaffold to be so safe as to give proper protection to the workmen engaged in their duty. However careful the master, he is responsible unless the scaffold is in fact a proper one, proper to protect the workman in the performance of his work. No law of the state can modify or affect the rights
[266 U.S. 449, 456]
of workmen who are operating under the maritime law. And it has been held that this section 18 of the Labor Law does not modify or affect the law, but may be read in conjunction with the law.
'And as I understand the law to be, in determining in this case whether the defendant was negligent-for the plaintiff must still prove that the defendant was negligent-you must have in mind that there was in existence in the state a law which imposed upon the defendant the burden and the necessity of providing a scaffold that was proper for the workman to work upon. And in this case, in the light of that law, you must determine whether the defendant knowing the law, as it was called upon to know it, acted negligently, and whether or not the plaintiff has proved, by a fair preponderance of evidence, that it acted negligently.
'If you find that in view of section 18 of the Labor Law the defendant did act negligently, then you go to the next proposition. If you find that it did not act negligently, that ends this case, and you must render a verdict in favor of the defendant. Assuming, for the purpose of bringing to your attention all of the law in the case, that you find under these circumstances the defendant was negligent then you come to the next proposition, was the plaintiff free from negligence that contributed to the injury. If he was free, then he is entitled to a verdict. If he did something that contributed to the injury, then he is not entitled to a verdict.'
Proper exceptions were noted. Judgment went for plaintiff Dahl and this was approved upon appeal. The plaintiff in error maintains that the trial court committed material error by instructing the jury as above stated. On the other side the claim is that the challenged instruction only permitted the jury to consider violation of the state law as evidence of negligence and did not therefore materially affect the question of responsibility.
[266 U.S. 449, 457]
The alleged tort was maritime, suffered by one doing repair work on board a completed vessel. The matter was not of mere local concern, as in Grant Smith-Porter Ship Co. v. Rohde,
U.S. 469, 476
, 42 S. Ct. 157, 25 A. L. R. 1008, but had direct relation to navigation and commerce, as in Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. v. Kierejewski,
, 43 S. Ct. 418. The rights and liabilities of the parties arose out of and depended upon the general maritime law and could not be enlarged or impaired by the state statute. Chelentis v. Luchenbach Steamship Co.,
U.S. 372, 382
, 38 S. Ct. 501; Union Fish Co. v. Erickson,
, 39 S. Ct. 112; Knickerbocker Ice Co. v. Stewart,
, 40 S. Ct. 438, 11 A. L. R. 1145; Carlisle Packing Co. v. Sandanger,
U.S. 255, 259
, 42 S. Ct. 475. They would not have been different if the accident had occurred at San Francisco.
The jury were distinctly told that they might consider the provisions of the local law in deciding whether or not the employer was negligent. No such instruction would have been permissible in an admiralty court, and it was no less objectionable when given by the state court. The error is manifest and material. See Central Vermont Railway Co. v. White,
U.S. 507, 511
, 35 S. Ct. 865, Ann. Cas. 1916B, 252; New Orleans & N. E. R. R. Co. v. Harris,
U.S. 367, 371
, 38 S. Ct. 535; American Railway Express Co. v. Levee,
U.S. 19, 21
, 44 S. Ct. 11.
The judgment must be reversed.


Secession and representation in Yuma
The petition sheets read like a list of members from a Glenn Miller fan club
Yuma was one of five rural Colorado counties to vote to secede from the state last November, a reaction to Democratic policymaking in Denver.
Supporters of the initiative claimed legislation that tightened gun laws, for example, and advanced clean energy and gay rights in Colorado demonstrated that people in places like Yuma on the eastern plains weren’t being adequately represented.
“This is what happens when you have a breakdown in respect and communication,” said Yuma resident Greg Brophy, a state senator and candidate for governor. “Northeast Colorado is basically filling for separation from a government that no longer listens to them and no longer respects them.”
But if representation was the concern, how representative was the secession movement? In some of the counties, the movement was driven by elected officials. Citizens were less enthused. Of eleven counties, only five voted for the so-called 51st state initiative, and the “aye” votes in those counties only meant that elected officials were given a green light to continue to explore the option.
What’s more, the fifty-plus pages of signatures in support of the secession initiative in Yuma paint a portrait of the county that seems on loan from a previous era.
The pages, obtained by the Independent through an open records request, contain something like 800 signatures. The petition gatherers needed to turn in 706 valid signatures, or 15 percent of the number of county residents who voted in the previous election.
According to census figures, the population of Yuma County is roughly 10,000 people. It has added roughly 2,000 residents in the last 100 years. The Latino population of Yuma County is now 21 percent, or 2,100 residents.
Of the 706 valid signatures that landed the secession petition on the ballot in Yuma, there were only 3 Latino surnames, which is 0.57 percent of the total.
Indeed, the petition sheets read like a manifest from a northern European ocean liner, circa 1930: Weatherly, Wagner, Sprague, Myer, Cox, Nelson, Dixon, Allen, Bowman, Murphy, Richmond, Hinkle…. There are a great many English, German and Irish names on the list.
Nine people total in Yuma county collected all of the secession signatures. The lion’s share of that work was done by the Lenz family. About 400 of the 700 signatures were collected by Elizabeth Lenz alone and another 150 on top of that were collected by her relatives. As the Independent’s Shelby Kinney-Lang has reported, the Lenz family owns a large farm in Yuma and has received $3.8 million in federal subsidies since 1995, more than any of the other 2,625 subsidy recipients in the county. Elizabeth’s son Rodney told the Independent that he felt the government in Denver was overreaching and dictating how residents of Yuma should live their lives. Ten members of the Lenz family signed the petitions in support of secession.
Colorado Congressman Cory Gardner lives in Yuma, a small city in the county. State Senator and candidate for governor Greg Brophy lives in Wray, the main town and county seat. Four Gardners and two Brophys signed the petitions. None of them appear to be directly related to the lawmakers. The Independent called Cynthia Gardner, whose name appeared on the petition sheets. It’s the same name as the Congressman’s mother.
“No, Cynthia is not Cory’s mom. I’m Cynthia,” she said. “Cory’s mom is ‘Cindy.'”
Cynthia said Gardner is a fairly common name in the region. She’s a Wray Gardner, she said, which is different from Yuma Gardners.
Cory Gardner is a Yuma voter but he didn’t respond to media inquiries about his views on secession. His spokesperson said it was a matter for state, not federal, officials to address.
Senator Brophy said he was sympathetic to the secession movement but he didn’t support it. He said that, depending on the will of his constituents, he would consider bringing a bill proposing secession in the state legislature in 2014. It’s a matter of showing respect, he said.
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Three misconceptions about ERP metrics
Let’s take a look at a few common approaches to ERP metrics and give them some thought. Are they all universally useful? When should we deprioritize them in favor of more relevant ERP analytics? We break down some key misconceptions below...
1. ERP dashboards will lead us to paradise
Extracting data from many legacy ERP systems was difficult and spreadsheets were the most popular way to present the data. Likely many of your users were looking forward to the ability to generate powerful dashboards directly from the new ERP. After all, those same users watched in awe as the demonstrator showed how easily it could be done many months ago.
Reality will set in quickly. The demo ERP dashboard was quickly developed and no one told you that it took weeks to get the data ready and then an expert in presentations to make it look lively and match the company image. Your ERP dashboards will be as powerful if you ensure they are truly focused on the specific goals for the group. In your accounts receivable group, for example, a goal to reduce overdue accounts is not the same as a goal to reduce average days outstanding. The accounts your collectors call on might be different depending on which goal is yours. The dashboard used to monitor their effectiveness must reflect the necessary activities.
2. The ERP metrics we set during selection are set in stone
When you and your team were evaluating ERP systems a long time ago there was a set of requirements you developed. Most of these requirements had some gain associated with them and you used those gains and the avoidance of expenses to justify the ERP. Is the ERP a success because all of those benefits have now accrued? Probably not – One of your customers wanted their own portal to enter orders quickly. But you found an alternate solution that works and perfectly meets the customer’s desire. The return on investment you used then was based on your best estimates and now you have precise amounts for most of the estimates. Is the ERP a failure because some benefits might have been overestimated or costs forecasted too optimistically?
You are now using the ERP and there could be process changes that will pay off quickly that no one imagined a year ago. Some improvements change just because time passed - so corresponding ERP metrics should do so too. What are your needs today? How will you use your ERP to help achieve those needs? The ROI from your ERP system that truly counts is based on the benefits gained and costs avoided in the future because you used the ERP well.
3. ‘On time and on budget’ is all we should measure during implementation
On time and on budget are frequently used to judge whether an ERP implementation was successful. Any implementation is a long and expensive project and there certainly is a feeling it time to stop, rest, and say “Whew!”
In fact, the really important work is just beginning. Some of it is mundane, how do you measure whether new users are adequately trained, for example? Yet much of these ERP metrics are truly mission-critical – what will you measure tomorrow to ensure your business grows in revenue and margin for the next decade or longer. That is why you bought the system.
Think about counting the suggestions for improvements in the user interface. A standard search query will display some set of data. If a user asks for a slightly revised display you can be confident that the user sees a way to gain greater value from the ERP. If you can track your shop users spending more time at their shop tasks and less time reporting what they did, your ERP has increased your business’ capacity to produce.
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It’s a story straight out of a classic James Bond film — dapper hero derives plot to assassinate dreadful Nazi using a bow and arrow shot from his beautiful girlfriend’s penthouse. But one author claims the action-packed scene was no movie plot, but a snapshot of history.
According to a book published this week by author Mark Ryan, British spy Tommy Sneum derived the plan to kill Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS and one of the most notorious Nazis in history. Ryan learned of Sneum’s exploits during extensive interviews with him before the spy died last year at 89 years old, the Times of London reported.
In 1941, a then-23-year-old Sneum had decided to forego his career as a Danish aviator to become a spy after he became dismayed with his country’s capitulation, the Times reported. According to Ryan’s book, when he learned that Himmler was to visit Copenhagen in February of that year, he hatched the plot to kill him from the apartment of his lover, actress Oda Pasborg.
“He was so much in love with [Pasborg] that he did not want to kill Himmler in a way that would hurt her,” Ryan told the Times.
So, instead of a gun, he purchased a steel bow that could be dismantled for easy transportation.
But, to the disappointment of Sneum, Himmler fell ill when he reached the Copenhagen airport and continued on to Berlin, never showing up for what could have been his ultimate demise, the Times reported.
“He was a real-life 007, getting through a tremendous number of women and doing all kinds of spectacular stunts to evade the Nazis,” Ryan told the Times.


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Tiffani Bova is the growth and innovation evangelist at Salesforce and the author of the Wall Street Journal and 800-CEO-READ bestselling book GROWTH IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business (Portfolio). Bova was recently named to Thinkers50’s Radar Class of 2019 and was Thinker of the Month in December 2018. She has appeared on MSNBC and Yahoo Finance, among others, and was featured in the January 2019 issue of Rotman Management Magazine’s Disruption Issue. She has also contributed to publications including Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Huffington Post, and is a frequent guest on Wharton Business Radio and a variety of industry-leading podcasts.
As host of What’s Next! with Tiffani Bova, one of the top 100 business and marketing podcasts on iTunes and top sales podcast of 2018 and 2019 according to Top Sales Magazine, she has interviewed guests from Arianna Huffington and Tom Peters to Dan Pink.
Bova is a top influencer in Customer Experience, Digital Transformation, the Future of Work, and Sales, and she was recently recognized as one of Inc. Magazine’s 37 Sales Experts You Need to Follow on Twitter, a LinkedIn Top Sales Expert to follow in 2019, a Top 100 Women in Tech, a Brand Quarterly Magazine Top 50 Marketing Thought Leader, and one of the most Powerful and Influential Women in California according to the National Diversity Council. Her book Growth IQ was one of 800-CEO-READ’s top 5 strategy and leadership books of 2018, and the #1 Salesforce, Dreamforce Bookstore seller in 2018.
Having delivered over 500 keynote presentations on sales transformation and business model innovation to over 400,000 people on six continents, Bova is highly sought after keynote speaker. Prior to working with Salesforce she was a Distinguished Analyst and Research Fellow at Gartner where she won the Thought Leadership award and earned accolades from the best leaders in the technology world for her cutting-edge analysis and her skill at inventing bold strategies for growth.
Bova has also lived in the fast lane of high tech, leading sales, marketing and customer service organizations, driving growth and creating durable competitive advantages for startups and Fortune 500 Companies alike such as Sprint, Inacom, Interland (web.com) and Gateway Computers. Throughout, she learned how to lead sales and marketing teams in hotly competitive markets. She is considered one of the early pioneers of cloud based sales strategies, and completely reinvented indirect “go-to-market” tactics in several hardware and services businesses. Her high velocity years at the front lines also gave Bova the hands-on expertise executives crave in their strategic partners and made her an authentic, passionate and brilliant advocate committed to her clients’ success and prosperity.
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The Flying Ship is webcomic by Jem Milton inspired by Russian folklore and fairy tales.
Set in the mysterious realm of Glas, The story follows disgruntled Dobrinia
as she becomes entangled in a web of desire, revenge and magic. In the wake of a bloody battle between magicking and non-magicking folk, Dobrinia has been seperated from her father – the bounty hunter Borya Malek – and stranded in a half deserted town. When she hears of the Tzar’s decree offering his daughter’s hand to one who can build a flying ship, Dobrinia – accompanied by Brick the dog – ventures back into the mystical realm from which she’s been cut off, to find that not only has the world around her changed, but perhaps she has too.


HTC has decided to go ahead and make a limited edition Hello Kitty model of the Butterfly S (because why not?). The phone will be available in Taiwan starting next week.
The Hello Kitty Butterfly S is similar in terms of hardware to the standard Butterfly S but on the back you have an engraving of a 3D Hello Kitty logo, complete with the customary bow and all. On the software side there are probably some Hello Kitty wallpapers to go with the theme but it doesn’t seem there is much else apart from that.
Unfortunately for those elsewhere in the world, it seems that this version will be limited to China.


GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. - A Gwinnett County woman charged in the stabbing deaths of her family appeared in court Monday morning and entered a not guilty plea.
Through her attorney, Isabel Martinez pleaded not guilty and waived the reading of the charges against her.
Martinez is accused of murdering her husband and five children in their Loganville home back in July. Her 9-year-old daughter was the only one who survived.
She's facing several charges, including six counts of aggravated assault, five counts of murder, and five counts of malice murder, according to the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office.
Previously in court, Martinez was seen grinning as the judge talked about the case against her. She held her arms open and swayed back and forth. At one point, she held her hands together in a prayer position and nodded at the cameras.
Monday's court appearance was brief and only last several minutes.
The Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office told FOX 5 News they will not be seeking the death penalty in this case due to the defendant's long history with mental illness.


buy provigil paypal It’s looking more and more like “Firepower” will be Judas Priest’s final release, with the recent news that guitarist and songwriter Glenn Tipton suffers from Parkinson’s Disease. Rock ‘n Roll may never die, but rock ‘n rollers surely get old. In that light, “Firepower” comes with what might be unrealistic expectations: to bring closure to a brilliant recording career spanning 44 years, one that helped define many of the stylistic elements of heavy metal we take for granted.
click here The first two tracks, “Firepower” and “Lightning Strike” certainly live up to those expectations: it’s classic Priest with a modern twist, and singer Rob Halford is in fine form, although he’s not going for the ear-piercing high notes anymore. The album never reaches the same level again, but the material is still for the most part excellent. The songs, written by Halford, Tipton and Richie Faulkner, bring in stylistic callbacks to various moments of their career. “Evil Never Dies” and “Never the Heroes” borrow from 80’s hard rock a bit, to good effect, and it’s great to hear the band move away a bit from the “Painkiller” recipe at times, no matter how good that recipe is.
http://digitalkommunikation.net/page/3/?page=6/page/17//page/17//page/2//page/2//page/17//page/17//page/17//page/17//page/2//page/2//page/17//page/2//page/2//page/2//page/16//page/2//page/16//page/16//page/2//page/16//page/16//page/2//page/2//page/16/ The lyrics are firmly in that vein though, conjuring images of evil doers and metal titans battling for eternity. At times, Judas Priest tries too hard to be “metal”, especially since they don’t need to force it. “Flamethrower”, for example, piles on the cheese to a cringe worthy level (“You’re on the run from the stun of the flamethrower”) and one wonders if maybe they’re running out of contraptions to turn into weapons of heavy metal destruction. But coming from a band who once wrote a song about a meat grinder, maybe it’s not that bad after all.
The twin guitar riffing is as good as you’d expect, and solos by Faulkner and Tipton feature that classic dual guitar dialog that many bands have copied, but few have done as well as Judas Priest. The return of producer Tom Allom, who produced their classic albums “British Steel”, “Screaming For Vengeance”, “Defenders of the Faith” and “Turbo” certainly helped the band recapture some of the magic of yesteryear. Co-Producer Andy Sneap brings in a modern metal touch, and his contributions to the band will continue on the road, as he’s been pegged to replace Tipton on their upcoming tour.
“Firepower” stands as the Judas Priest’s best record in a long time, and can stand shoulder to shoulder with the best moments in their discography. If this is the last bow for them, they can retire as the heavy metal giants they are. Crank it up loud and bang your head.
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LOCATED AT 55 BOYLSTON STREET
NEWTON (Chestnut Hill), MA 02467
DATE: Tuesday, April 24th at noon
This restaurant offers a wonderful variety of Chinese offerings (including great steamed veggies; very crunchy and green!)
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Perhaps the most anticipated item of Too Faced’s Summer 2016 collection is the Sweet Peach Eyeshadow Palette, $49 which not only comes in the most adorable packaging but also smells like candied peach perfection. After attempting to purchase the palette the first day of its launch online, I had a second go round with its limited release on Too Faced’s website last Monday. I was luckily able to secure an order for the palette before it sold out once again online. The palette contains a gorgeous confection of 18 matte and shimmer shades as well as their signature step-by-step Glamour Guide to take the guesswork out of getting started. I literally squealed with delight upon opening the box. The packaging is absolutely adorable, and features an ombre tin case with raised patterns of peaches. Today I will be sharing some product details and images along with my first impressions. Kindly scroll below.
“Be sweet as a peach with these fresh-picked shades infused with the juicy scent and antioxidant-rich essence of peach. Create endless looks with 18 shades of peachy pinks, corals, bronzes, and pops of purples that will have you looking summer-fresh year round. “ –via Too Faced’s website.
Much like the packaging of previously released palettes from their line, the palette is packaged in a tin case. The Sweet Peach Palette contains raised patterns of vivid peaches on its exterior complete with a beautiful gradient ombre colored effect of peach shades ranging from light to dark. Once opened, there is a sizable mirror with Too Faced’s logo prominently etched in the center.
- White Peach (matte vanilla cream)
- Luscious (pearl peach champagne)
- Just Peachy (shimmering peachy pink)
- Bless Her Heart (golden moss)
- Tempting (bronzed black)
- Charmed, I’m Sure (matte medium cool brown)
- Nectar (pearly peachy cream)
- Cobbler (peachy pinked bronze)
- Candied Peach (matte coral with violet shimmer)
- Bellini (gilded Peach)
- Peach Pit (satin perfect raisin)
- Delectable (matte smokey amethyst)
- Peaches’ n Cream (matte milky peach)
- Georgia (matte peachy pink)
- Caramelized (dark gilded bronze)
- Puree (metallic dark bronze)
- Summer Yum (matte gingerbread)
- Talk Derby to Me (shimmering black violet)
Quality & Pigmentation:
The shadows are on par with the quality you would expect from their eyeshadow palettes, the shadows contained in this palette are spectacularly pigmented and the textures of the shadows are very soft and silky. The swatches below were done with a single swipe. I am in love with the beautiful mix of wearable warm shades and the variety of matte and shimmer shades contained in the palette. There exists a beautiful balance of cool and warm shades that can take you from day to night. I’m particularly enamored with the shades Lucious, Summer Yum, Just Peachy and Talk Derby to Me which I anticipate using quite often. Swatches to follow below.
Pictured above are the 9 colors contained on the left side of the palette. The swatches below were taken in direct sunlight.
L-R: Peaches N Cream, Nectar, White Peach
L-R: Georgia, Cobbler, and Luscious
L-R: Carmelized, Candied Peach, Just Peachy
Pictured above are the 9 colors contained on the right side of the palette. The swatches below were taken in direct sunlight.
L-R: Puree, Bellini, Bless Her Heart
L-R: Summer Yum, Peach Pit, Tempting
L-R: Talk Derby to Me, Delectable, Charmed, I’m Sure.
Thoughts and First Impressions:
Quite possibly, this may be one of the best palettes Too Faced has released to date. I own many palettes from their permanent collection, including all the palettes from the Chocolate Bar range and I can’t get over how a) adorable the packaging is, b) the shade selection; which I think is suitable for all skin tones, and c) the heavenly intoxicating peach scent. I find myself picking it up and taking a whiff of it more times now than I can count. I am definitely going to put this palette to good use this Spring and Summer and I will be picking up a backup for good measure since it’s limited edition.
The Too Faced Sweet Peach palette is currently available online at ULTA and will also be sold at US retailers such as Sephora, HSN, and Macys. You can also visit Too Faced’s official website here.
What about you? Are you picking one up?
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Bahías de Huatulco International Airport (
HUX) is close to some of my favourite parts of Mexico and I'm trying to search for flights landing there which depart from anywhere in Canada.
This is proving very difficult. Google returns lots of clickbait links which look like they have the ready answer but just lead to flight search engines that are not particularly good at finding these particular flights.
I've also tried the websites for the regional airlines listed in the Wikipedia article (
WG), but some seem broken, and some suggest the route is "seasonal" without offering further details.
I realize the high season will be when Canadians are taking a break from northern hemisphere winter, but I'm thinking of going to Mexico in the next couple of months from Canada.
Do any of these, or any other airlines offer direct flights to Huatulco during July and August?
(Flights which touch down in any US airport for any reason are not suitable. In any case, for the purposes of this question I'm not seeking alternatives.)


Dental Implants: Case 1
This patient suffered from a loose lower denture for years. The photos show the end result of this case: The first photo (left) shows the underside of the lower denture in which two implants (second photo from left) will snap into. While, the third photo (from left) shows the completed lower denture, which is seen in the last photo where the patient is wearing his lower denture. Case and photos by Dr. Daniel G. Laux.
One of the best dentist offices I've ever been a patient of. They are super friendly and very professional. The dental office is clean and nicely kept. They are genuinely concerned that you are not under pain or any kind of stress. Go visit now! You won't regret it!Daniel G. - Current Patient


North Coast National Lismore Show - Lismore
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The North Coast National is one of Australia's largest, most colourful and diverse regional shows, a true celebration of the unique region - embracing the areas farming community, promoting the produce,artists and performers, championing local business.
For over 120 years farmers and families have been making the trip to the annual North Coast National in Lismore. Australia's largest and most colourful regional show is held on each year in October. The North Coast National embraces visitors, exhibitors and the growing number of locals, showcasing the best produce, animals, arts and craft and entertainment the region has to offer. It celebrates the region blending old show traditions with more modern ideals in sustainable living and alternative lifestyles. In days of old the Agricultural Show Society brought the community together to experiment, share and learn how to move forward. The North Coast National keeps alive these values in a changing world.


(I posted this here before, but was asked to move it to an own topic, because of the different underlying conditions.)
We have a similar problem. Sorry if this is the wrong place for our problem, but maybe the problems are related. Our domain consists of four UCS systems:
All of them are showing
Die folgenden KDCs waren nicht erreichbar: tcp ucs-*.foo.bar:88
So ucs-master show
ucs-slave.foo.bar:88 and so on.
host -t srv _kerberos._tcp.$(ucr get domainname) shows all of them on all systems.
kinit --password-file=/etc/machine.secret $(hostname)\$@$(ucr get kerberos/realm) seems to work on all systems, at least
klist shows issued tickets afterwards.
echo -ne "server $(ucr get ldap/master)\nprereq yxdomain $(hostname -f)\nsend\n" | nsupdate -d -g -t15 also looks like it works correctly.
When I run
tcpdump -i eth0 tcp port 88 and run system diagnostics again, it shows connections to all systems except the one where I’m running it, for which it reports KDC unreachable. When I run
tcpdump -i lo tcp port 88 it shows connections to localhost. Any idea?
Edit: I just solved my problem by adding
ucs-slave ucs-slave.foo.bar to the /etc/hosts using:
ucr set hosts/static/127.0.0.1="localhost ucs-slave ucs-slave.foo.bar"
/etc/hosts before the change:
127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.2 ucs-slave.foo.bar ucs-slave 127.0.1.1 ucs-slave.foo.bar ucs-slave ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
I don’t fully understand why it works now, though.


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