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Fuelling Performance In Fashion Retail Through Legitimate LeadershipJun 2019Share by Email
Fashion retail is a notoriously demanding industry as more and more brands compete for an ever-shrinking consumer purse. Converting 'window shoppers' into customers who fill their baskets rather than buy a single item, and come back again and again, is what it is all about.
Two well-known South African fashion brands embraced the Legitimate Leadership principles and practices to effect a step-change in the calibre of their leaders at three levels in their operations. Their focus on enabling those in the front line in their stores countrywide has impacted positively, not only on turnover but on all of their performance indicators. The intervention showed conclusively that you don't have to trade off between people and results. You can have both.
- INTRODUCING THE FRAMEWORK – FROM 'GETTING THE RESULTS ACHIEVED THROUGH OTHERS' TO 'CARING FOR AND GROWING PEOPLE'
A three-day breakaway is traditionally held every year by the business for its top 50+ people. On this occasion, the agenda was split between business strategy and leadership.
Legitimate Leadership facilitated a highly interactive session which engaged participants in a debate regarding what accounts for individual, team and organisational excellence.
Participants were introduced to this unique perspective on leadership and gained the key insight that leadership is not about what leaders can 'get' out of their people but rather what they can 'give' to their people to enable their above-and-beyond contribution and make them the best that they can be. The operations director for one of the brands led the way in demonstrating the 'mind shift' made by most of those present when, at the end of the session, he deleted his 30-slide presentation on the year's targets and instead showed a single slide. It read: "Everyone has a contribution to make. How can I help you make your contribution?" He received a standing ovation for his commitment to serving down the line. The next 18 months was about translating this into action.
- INITIAL LEADERSHIP ASSESSMENT – TO WHAT DEGREE ARE WE ALIGNED TO THE LEGITIMATE LEADERSHIP CRITERIA?
The initial leadership assessment (via leadership profiles) diagnosed the current state of leadership against the criteria for leadership excellence, thus holding up a mirror to leaders, and acting as a catalyst for change.
It provided a baseline measure, both individually and collectively, of the current degree of alignment against the criteria of Care, Means, Ability and Accountability as well as a reading of what was happening with respect to leadership 'on the ground'.
The overall picture was of an intensely results-driven environment, where people were the resources to achieve the results. More specifically the leadership audit revealed the following reality.
- Managers were not seen to care about the welfare of their people.
- People respected their managers but did not feel respected by them.
- Despite managers being in the field most days in the month, their people did not feel that they spent sufficient time with them.
- Store managers were not empowered to run their stores.
- The obsession with measurement meant that store managers were forced to report three times a day on the numbers.
- There was little coaching, guidance or support.
The 1.5-hour one-on-one feedback sessions on their profiles gave each leader clarity on the shifts in behaviour and leadership practice that they needed to make. The overall results also informed the choice of Application Modules and Review Sessions to be run on a drip-feed basis over the next six-month period.
- APPLICATION MODULES AND APPLICATION REVIEW SESSIONS – EFFECTING CRITICAL CHANGES IN LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOUR AND PRACTICE
Application Modules deepen leaders' understanding of the framework and provide the tools and skills to translate the model into practice. Between each workshop leaders are tasked with applying what they have learned in the workplace – they share their experience with their colleagues in a structured review session before engaging with another aspect of the framework. In this process of ongoing insight, practice and feedback they gain both competence and confidence in this way of leading.
The primary insights and behavioural shifts over the six months are outlined below.
LEGITIMATE LEADERSHIP APPLICATION MODULE, PRACTICE AND REVIEW PROCESS
||Primary Insights and Mindset Shifts
||Behavioural Shifts and Changes in Leadership Practice
|1. Earning Trust Through Care, Time And Attention – 'take care of your people and they will take care of your business'.
- People trust people who care about them.
- Care is definitely not a 'soft' and 'fluffy' thing.
- You can't care for someone if you don't know what makes them 'tick'.
- Care and growth are face-to-face activities – they happen in one-on-one and team meetings and when 'watching the game'.
- There should be equal time given to all direct reports but what the leader needs to 'give' will differ according to individuals' needs.
- Seeing and getting to know the human being behind the human resource.
- Spending time with the middle and small stores – not just the big or high-turnover stores.
- Giving people undivided attention by closing the laptop and switching off the phone when in the store.
- Making the focus the people not the KPIs.
- Demonstrating appropriate care (tough love).
- Having one-on-ones where the direct report sets the agenda not his/her manager.
|2. Increasing Impact By Clarifying Contribution – 'there is no such thing as a confused, productive employee'.
- Clarifying contribution is an enabler of contribution.
- People should be held accountable for their contribution – what they have control over.
- Those in leadership positions should be held accountable primarily for the care and growth of direct reports.
- Defining contribution for the next reporting period gives clarity, focus, enables proactivity and promotes business and individual growth.
- Communicating and helping direct reports to understand the business results; teaching the store managers how to analyse their numbers.
- Clarifying and agreeing the unique value add of each level in the hierarchy.
- Collaboratively agreeing quality deliverables for all direct reports.
- Holding leaders accountable, not for the KPIs, not for the state of the store or even for the performance of their staff in stores. Rather, holding them accountable for the calibre of their direct reports (e.g. accountable not for fixing a problem with merchandising but for enabling those in the stores to effectively manage the visuals in the store).
|3. Elevating Performance By Assessing, Enabling And Reviewing Contribution – 'it is fine for a manager to have the same people as a year ago but not the have the same people the same'.
- The measure of success of 'watching the game' is that the leader has a better understanding of what to GIVE the person to enable his/her contribution and growth.
- When the standard has not been met, find out why.
- Good leadership is about increasing the number of exemplary contributors and decreasing the number of poor contributors.
- Leadership and employee action should match the contribution made.
- Stopping store visits to examine only business performance and replacing them with store / area / regional manager visits with the focus on enabling and growing people.
- Asking managers to talk about their direct reports, not to talk about their KPIs.
- Finding out why people are failing and how to help them – rather than slapping them with a written warning for a poor audit.
- Stopping rescuing people and rather enabling them.
- Holding one-on-ones and team meetings where the focus is on progressing the person rather than progressing the work.
- 'Watching the game' more and auditing less.
|4. Cultivating Accountability by Handing Over Controls –' the purpose of empowerment is to grow people'.
- The more managers trust their people the more they are trusted.
- Empowerment means letting them decide and living with their decisions – not your decisions.
- The level of control which is exercised must be commensurate with the level of maturity of the person being empowered.
- Empowerment implies the incremental suspension of control in order to enable.
- Taking our hands off and starting to trust our people.
- Deliberately identifying and pushing decision-making authority down the line.
- Stopping doing our people's jobs for them.
- Following the 5 Steps To Empowerment when handing over accountability.
|5. Delivering A Step Change By Holding People Accountable – 'when the leaves on the tree turn yellow don't paint them green, water the roots'.
- You only engage people's will to contribute when you hold them accountable for their contribution.
- When you do not hold people accountable you have no option but to institute a control.
- People should be censured for carelessness and disciplined for deliberate malevolence.
- Praise 'careful'; reward 'the extra mile'.
- Finding the right balance between positive and negative accountability.
- Seeing what is 'right' not only what is 'wrong'.
- Holding people accountable rather than imposing a control on everyone.
- Removing people who are not capable from their roles.
- REPEAT LEADERSHIP ASSESSMENT – ARE WE MORE ALIGNED TO THE CRITERIA FOR LEGITIMATE POWER?
A second assessment via repeat Leadership Profiles was done at the end of the process to assess what shifts in leadership behaviour and practice had been made. The results were stunning; the highlights of the repeat assessment are shown below.
REPEAT AUDIT HIGHLIGHTS:
- The overall score had shifted by 0.5, which is significant especially given people's raised expectations of their leaders' alignment against the criteria.
- There was a positive shift in all four categories (Care, Means, Ability, Accountability), with the biggest improvement being in Care.
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Smelling aid
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InventorProfessor Farnsworth
Owner(s)Professor Farnsworth
First appearanceBender's Game
The smelling aid was invented by Professor Farnsworth. It helps him to smell things better. It is stuck into the nose and has two little satellite dishes turning around and bleeping all the time. He used it to find the anti-backwards crystal by sniffing for the odour it produces when a device is activated. It essentially is a portable version of the Smell-O-Scope.
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Expressions used in Everyday Spoken English in Social and Professional contexts
make ends meet
make ends meet
1) earn enough money to provide for basic needs
 - How to MemorizePopularity HighProfessional HighSocial
 - find a way to make ends meet
 - Analysis
 The expression 'to make ends meet' means to have enough money to cover basic needs and expenses. "More and more students are finding it difficult to make ends meet with spiralling rent costs." "Some nurses are resorting to food banks in order to make ends meet." This is a common expression often used to talk about social and economic problems.
 - Social Examples (Basic)
 1. When John lost his job, he and his wife had to figure out a way of making ends meet until he could find another one.
 2. The government's decision to raise taxes will make it even harder for lower-income families to make ends meet.
 - Professional Examples (Basic)
 1. I have decided to raise the rate of pay for all our employees to a living wage so that everyone who works for us should be able to make ends meet.
 2. Providing medical insurance for employees means they can still make ends meet if met with a long-term medical diagnosis.
 3. It's clear from the way our revenue is going that we won't be able to make ends meet if our outgoings aren't cut significantly.
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iVolunteer is our school based volunteering project.
vInspired is a nationally recognised organisation.
vInspired for schools – accreditation for all students who are volunteers.
What is it?
Each student has an online account where they log hours spent volunteering towards a vInspired award.
How does it work?
vInspired schools provides an opportunity for all young people who devote any of their own time volunteering for schools and other appropriate community activities to be recognised, whether this is attending a Student Voice meeting, helping to plan an assembly or organising a charity event.
Young people add hours to their online personal volunteering account. They include a referee (the name and contact details of an adult who is in charge of the activity e.g. the name of a teacher and their email address); this referee is used centrally to verify that volunteering has taken place. Volunteering hours build towards vInspired awards. These are v10, v50 and v100 certificates. The numbers are representative of the hours spent volunteering.
Does it extend to volunteering beyond New Mills School?
Yes! Students can log any volunteering that they do. For example, they may be involved with Scouts/ Guides or church organisations, to name a few. If students have a reference to verify the time that they have spent volunteering this can count towards their vInspired award. Older students can add time that they have spent volunteering to help to prepare them for future careers e.g. time spent in hospices, care homes etc. Students who are not currently involved with volunteering outside of NMS can also search for available opportunities through their membership of the scheme e.g. become an online mentor for primary school children.
What about after NMS?
vInspired schools is part of a wider charity called vInspired. This enables young people up to the age of 25 to continue to log their volunteering hours meaning that students can continue to build up a resume of what they have done. vInspired awards are recognised by UCAS and major employers as a way for students to formally quantify the volunteering that they have done.
If you are involved in any of the following activities within school you are eligible to register for vInspired.
 - Anti Bullying Ambassadors
 - Sports Leaders
 - Senior Students
 - Student Council Representatives
Register today or speak to Mrs Davies for more information.
Why Volunteer?
There are loads of benefits to doing something for a good cause. You learn new skills, meet new people, and help your career - all at the same time as doing some good in the world.
Into music? You could volunteer at a music festival and get a free ticket in return. Love sport? There's loads of local sports clubs looking for enthusiastic volunteers to help out. What about travelling? Try a different part of the world to expand your horizons. Or maybe you prefer to stay at home? No problem. You can sign up online and make a difference without moving off your sofa.
Wherever you want to go in life, volunteering can help you get there.
Volunteering hours will impress future employers!
73% of employers would recruit a candidate with volunteering experience over one without. 94% of volunteers got their first job or a promotion thanks to the experience.
Volunteering demonstrates transferable skills, which you'll need to get a job or impress at your university interview. By donating your time to others and showing off your vInspired Awards you become a skilled sort of someone that every employer wants on their team.


If you notice that the more money you have, the less money your brother has, you've discovered an inverse relationship: when your bank account increases, his decreases.
The word inverse traces back to the Latin inversus, from the past participle of invertere, meaning "turn upside down" or "turn about." It's a good word to use when you need to describe one of those topsy-turvy relationships in which when one thing goes up, the other goes down. It can also be used in a broader sense to mean "opposite." You've probably heard someone begin a sentence by saying, "And the inverse was true for so and so..." That just means the opposite was true.
Definitions of inverse
 1. adjective
 reversed (turned backward) in order or nature or effect
 synonyms: reverse
 directed or facing toward the back or rear
 2. adjective
 opposite in nature or effect or relation to another quantity
 of or relating to the multiplicative inverse of a quantity or function
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 similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity
 3. noun
 something inverted in sequence or character or effect
 "when the direct approach failed he tried the inverse
 synonyms: opposite
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 additive inverse
 multiplicative inverse, reciprocal
 type of:
 oppositeness, opposition
 the relation between opposed entities
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If a document uses a Managed Metadata field, is there a way to make the term set browser in Word 2010's Document Information Panel display the term sets in a language other than the default language of the Managed Metadata Service? For instance, even if the document comes from a document library on a site created in French and opened with Word 2010 whose default display language is French, if the default language of the Managed Metadata Service is English, the Document Information Panel will display metadata in English. If you change the default language of the Managed Metadata Service, Word 2010 will follow the new default.
Is there a less drastic way to select this language within the DIP?
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As far as I can test this, the answer is no. I have tried by checking the cache and playing with local language and remote language options and I cannot find a way around this. – Hugh Wood Nov 15 '12 at 13:51
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According to Nick Hobbs, page 10 in the reference below, Managed Meta Data are not "compatible" with the Document Information Panel.
Clearly, there are some obvious stengths in linguistic management within metadata mamagement, and it would be even stronger, if document infromation panel would comprehend this feature.
However, a possible scenario could be to associate the desired field programatically to the regional variations of the selected terms... maybe another too drastic approach?
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Some distinction can be made interpreting data in a spectrogram. An easier and quicker way to distinguish orders and quantify the acoustic emissions is an analysis based on orders (order analysis). NoiseImage 4 and the Order Analysis module allow to calculate acoustic maps via ordergram, order line selection in the spectrogram (Figure 1), or order spectrum (Figure 2). This gives way to fast analysis of all-sizes machines ranging from large scale infrastructure as shown to small items in the range of centimeters.
Based on the analysis results, you are enabled to quickly localize noise emissions and e. g. compare prototype iterations. The results also allow to narrow down regions of interest for more detailed testing including vibration analysis and troubleshooting of resonance effects.
The array used in this example can be used for testing on ground level as well as for suspended operation using a crane e. g. to cover the top view. It is foldable for transport.
The powerful data recorder collects data at 192 kS/s of up to hundreds of channels including individual microphones, accelerometers and rotational speed sensors. Analyses can be automated by the Project Manager. This NoiseImage module allows you to transfer measurement and analysis configurations to entire measurement campaigns.

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REFLECTIVE LATTICE STRIPS
Reflective strips can be divided into the reflective webbing, reflective lattice strips, reflective fabrics, which are widely used in reflective vests, reflective overalls, labor insurance garments, bags, shoes, umbrellas, raincoats, etc.
Reflective crystal lattice also known as reflective lattice strip is processed by reflective lattice sheet indentation. It has various specifications, stripes, and colors. When the light is directed to the reflective lattice strip, it will produce good reflection effect and improve nighttime visibility which can play a good warning role.
Reflective crystal lattice strips are mainly used as clothing accessories or jewelry materials and are widely used in traffic management, fire protection, sanitation, urban management, road rescue, road maintenance, etc., which are required to engage in field activities and nighttime workers' protective equipment. Apply to professional clothing, casual wear, sportswear, fashion, hats, gloves, backpacks, etc., can also produce all kinds of reflective products, jewelry.
Pressing pattern: W shape, diamond shape, etc.
Width: Conventional is 2.5cm, 5cm. Can be customized according to customer requirements, printing logo.
Regular color: fluorescent white, fluorescent yellow, orange, red or other colors required by the guest.
Features: Cold resistance: minus -30 degrees, extremely cold-resistant, no cracking at very low temperatures, maintaining flexibility
1. The reflective crystal lattice is mainly divided into two kinds of crystal lattices. One is a lattice belt.
Reflective crystal lattice (also known as the reflective sheet, mainly made of PVC plastic dissolved by special machine cooling, the reflective sheet and also
There are many different patterns of trademarks that can be made by the high-frequency mechanism. There are 24 common colors for reflective PVC tapes.
Reflective lattice strip (also known as lattice strip, mainly made of reflective sheet and PVC glass composite with the high-frequency machine)
2. The hardness of the reflective sheet is also normal:
Soft reflective sheets, also known as the cold resistant reflective sheet, are used in winter and cold regions, such as Russia, the Arctic, the Antarctic, and the winter in northern China.
Normal temperature, which is the current weather, is also commonly used, not soft or hard, suitable for Southeast Asia, summer springs in other places
Hard reflective sheets, also known as heat-resistant sheets, are used in some areas in summer.
So when the order is coming, we always asked what season they use.
3. The reflective lattice belt is mainly used in:
Clothing: police, traffic police, security, sanitation, petrol stations, miners, docks, and other work uniforms, etc.
Luggage: trolley case, shoulder bag, backpack, (now schoolbags for primary and secondary school students) and tool bags, tools Package, etc.
Shoes and hats: casual shoes, sports shoes, casual hats, work hats, hats worn by sanitation municipal personnel, etc.
Other: accessories, pet clothes, etc.
HANGZHOU CHINASTARS REFLECTIVE MATERIAL CO., LTD has been focusing on the production, research and development and sales of reflective materials and reflective garments for 15 years. It is currently the leading company in domestic reflective products. Product coverage: all kinds of reflective clothing, reflective hot stickers, reflective webbing, reflective edging, reflective vest, reflective raincoat, reflective jacket and so on. Products have passed the European and American international certification and are exported all over the world. So far, we have provided safety protection products for Petro China, Sinopec, China Eastern Airlines, Xiamen Airlines, China Railway Construction, Zhejiang Construction Group, and Hangzhou Metro.
The company will continue to adhere to the "integrity, cooperation, and win-win" business philosophy, provide good products to the society and contribute to the national traffic safety cause.


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Balance and adjust the number of posts
Depending on the Cycle Time and different Takt Time, we will be able to balance and adjust the number of operators on manual stations. There is 11 positions.
The overall cycle time for all of these positions is 868 seconds.
The theoretical calculation of the number of operators for the different takt time is as follows :
- High season : Takt = 2mn 36s soit 156s —> 868 / 156 = 5.5 so 6 operators
- Average season : Takt = 3mn 15s soit 195s —> 868 / 195 = 4.5 so 5 operators
- Low season : Takt = 4mn 20s soit 260s —> 868 / 260 = 3.3 so 4 operators
The assembly line is linear, and a length of at least 40m, balancing can be done only on contiguous positions. It is thus not possible to use the theoretical calculation.
The various balances are the following :
The number of operators, according to seasonality is from 8 to 5.


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Country Living Grain Mill
- Mill: 17.5"L, 12"W, 13.5"H.
- Clamp: 4.5"L, 5.5"W, 7"H.
- Power Bar: 8"L, 1"W.
- Heavy duty I-beam construction from cast aluminum.
- Double sealed bearings.
- FDA approved (food-grade) powder coating.
- Stainless steel shaft.
- High-carbon steel grinding plates.
- Adjustable output; from cracked wheat to pastry flour in one pass.
- Stainless steel spring auger designed for small grains. Large auger for corn or beans is sold separately.
- Can be modified to run on a 1/3 HP motor at no more than 115-120 RPM at the flywheel.
- Lifetime Warranty.
For grinding wheat and other grains for flour or meal. Not an oil press.
- Mill must be securely mounted to a solid base
- Do not operate without mill in the grain hopper.
- Do not get moisture on the plates or bearings.
- If plates are run tightly against one another (without grain), excess wear will occur.
- Moist or soft grains/beans will cause clogging. If moisture content is high, back off the adjustment knob for a coarser grind. This will produce grits that are less likely to clog.
- You will receive a mixture of flour and cracked grains when set for a coarse grind.
- Remove wooden handle from mill before motorizing.
- "Full liability and responsibility for complying to all Federal, State, and Local Safety Standards is assumed by any person or persons who modify or motorize the Country Living Grain Mill in any way. Motorized mills should be operated by adults only. Note: All belts and pulleys not driven by hand should be enclosed for safety." —Country Living Grain Mills
Lifetime Warranty includes all parts except the grinding plates which are a wear item. Plate longevity depends on usage—but expect several years of daily home use before replacement.


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Create nested repeaters in your form and integrate them into other lists in two minutes, using SPARK Forms Builder without the need to write a single line of code.
SPARK Forms Builder provides you a great controls such as Advanced Nested Repeaters, which is compatible with SharePoint 2019,2016, 2013 and Office 365 as well.
Repeaters represents repeating sections containing groups of controls that may need to be duplicated. A typical use is an expenses form where each row is an expense item. You only need to set up the controls once, and you will view them at runtime as one row, which can be replicated when users click "Add Item" icon in the repeater. In each column in the repeater, you can create a summary that performs various functions, such as counting the number of items or calculating the totals of values for each row. You can easily perform actions on the sections, like disabling or hiding the controls within each row.
With out-of-the-box SPARK functions, you can easily retrieve values from internal and external lists and represents (generates) them into a repeater at runtime. You can add row(s), delete row(s) to/from a repeater, you can show/hide "Add Item", you can show/hide Delete button, you can get number of rows in a repeater and much more. The designer can create unlimited number of nested repeaters, save their data to a column as an XML string structure, or through mapping them to other master - details lists.


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I posted earlier about a scenario-based conversation simulation that I created as part of a recent course. If you want to read about the simulation itself without the XML and AS code-ish techno garble stuff, click here to visit my previous post. You can also view the course itself within my online portfolio by clicking here.
In this post, I focus on how I used XML and AS3 to dynamically generate dialogs and interactions for the simulation as well as control of the branching logic. My goal is to give an overview of the technical structure, without getting too terribly deep in – however, this post is definitely aimed at people who develop using Flash, XML, and AS.
General Design Structure
I like to use Flash to design elements of my activity interfaces, but control almost everything else using AS3 and XML. This lets me take advantage of Flash's friendlier design environment while still keeping the logic of my activities flexible.
So, for example, for the dialog boxes in this simulation, I created a MovieClip in Flash with a background, text fields for the dialog title and content, and a Continue button.
Less than thrilling, right? However, with some XML and AS, it'll magically become more exciting.
In the XML for this section, I created an element for each dialog box and interaction. Here's an example of the XML for a standard dialog box:
Within the dialogBox element, the child elements id and launchNext define the simulation branching. The child elements title and description define the text that appears in the dialog box.
When the SWF for the course first loads, the AS for the loan officer simulation section loads and cycles through the XML to create all of the dialog boxes and interactions using the given elements and data. Each dialogBox element results in an AS generated dialog box, using my Flash created MovieClip. Same for the interactions and several other simulation objects.
For example, the AS uses the XML dialogBox element from the sample above to create the following dialog box in the course:
Clicking the Continue button moves the user to the dialog box or interaction defined in the launchNext element – in this case, the dialog box with the id Interface_Dialog.
I created interactions in the course using a similar framework, but the interaction elements contain more child elements, since user choices affect both the course variables and the simulation path in various ways.
Here's an example of the XML for an interaction :
For some options, I also added elements to introduce special variables to trigger events later in the scenario and other elements that would remove or add options to future interactions (these aren't shown in the example above).
The XML above results in the following interface in the loaded SWF:
Because the AS dynamically generates all of the dialog boxes and interactions when the SWF loads, I could happily edit, create, or remove dialog boxes and interactions to my heart's content, without ever editing the AS or republishing the SWF, except in the moments where I wanted to the logic of the simulation to move beyond simple branching (more on that later).
Planning Flow Charts
To plan the logic of the simulation, I created flow charts for each section. Here is an example of a flow chart, from the Promotion and Sales section of the simulation (click to view a larger version):
In total, there were five sections in this simulation: Promotion and Sales, Evaluation, Approval, Disbursement, and Collections and Recovery.
Beyond Simple Branching
I mentioned above that there were times that I wanted to move beyond simple branching, so the launchNext element alone wasn't adequate. I had a couple of additional XML elements that the AS would watch for and use to override the default launchNext. For example, in dialogBox element below, the checkPotentialEnds element triggers the AS to evaluate whether or not any of the key indicator variables had fallen low enough that the user simulation should end. If so, the user would be brought to one of several potential simulation ends, instead of being brought to the dialog box with id Application_Redo_Dialog.
Similarly, at the beginning of some sections, I wanted to vary the opening dialog that the user would see based on his or her past decisions. In the XML below, the variableLogic element would trigger the AS to evaluate the past decisions to decide which opening dialog to launch for the Application section.
If you want to take a closer look at how all of this looks in action, you can view the course within my online portfolio by clicking here.


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Taking hay fever tablets could land you with a huge fine and a driving ban.
Hay fever sufferers taking medicines used to treat the condition can suffer side-affects such as reduced vision, hearing and reaction times and could land you with a criminal record if you're in an accident.
Over-the-counter medication such as hay fever relief is covered under the same law as cocaine and cannabis that prohibits driving with drugs in your body if they impair your ability.
The offence carries a minimum one year driving ban and unlimited fine.
In serious cases you could be landed with a prison term and the criminal offence stays on your driving licence for 11 years.
Road Safety and breakdown organisation GEM Motoring Assist is warning hay fever sufferers to check their medicines carefully before getting behind the wheel, and to be aware of the possible effects these drugs can have on their driving.
Road safety officer Neil Worth said: "Some medicines, including those used to treat hay fever, can have an effect on your ability to drive safely. They can affect your vision, your hearing, your reaction time, your perception of risk and your ability to carry out a variety of tasks.
"You may feel sleepy, sick, dizzy or unable to move quickly. Your vision may be blurred, and you may also find it hard to focus or pay attention. Symptoms like this make you much more likely to be involved in a collision.
"The same road traffic laws apply to therapeutic drugs as to illicit substances, so if your driving is impaired and you cause a collision, you risk prosecution and the loss of your licence."
The organisation has put together a safety checklist for any driver likely to need a hay fever medicine:
- Ask your doctor or pharmacist if a medicine could affect your ability to drive. Be particularly careful if you are using a medicine for the first time.
- If you do experience potentially dangerous side effects from a medicine, don't drive. Organise a taxi or a lift from a friend if you need to travel.
- If you find a particular medicine is making you sleepy, consider asking if there is a non-sedating alternative available.
- It's not just prescription medicines that can cause drowsiness and other potentially dangerous side-effects. So, check with your pharmacist if you plan to use an over-the-counter drug.
- If you're unsure about the warning given on the medicine you're using, ask your doctor or pharmacist to explain any risks… before you drive anywhere.


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The reason behind this fish's name is apparent at first glance. The animal's entire body is a brilliant crimson red with dark half-moon shapes around the eyes and a dark band that runs parallel with the dorsal fin. Flame Hawkfish are predators, feeding mostly on small fish, invertebrates and crustaceans. Like most reef fish, they generally tolerate other marine species but will chase away other bottom-dwellers if they are intruding on its hunting grounds. Hawkfish live in harems, or large groups of females that are dominated by one large male. If this male disappears or dies, a female hawkfish will spontaneously change gender to replace him. Other fish like wrasses and angelfish have a similar ability.
Range & Habitat
The Flame Hawkfish is commonly found among coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean, from Japan south to Australia. It is a bottom-dweller, often using rocks and pieces of coral on which to perch before ambushing its prey.

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There are six types of meetings - regular, committee, special, joint, annual, and public input meetings. The following describes the purposes of each of these meeting types.
The Board of Education schedules a regular meeting on the third Thursday of each month, and further special meetings may be called as necessary. The regular place of meeting is the boardroom of the Administration Building. Any change in the date or place requires the unanimous approval of the board.
Every so often the School Board will appoint persons to function as a committee to discuss or investigate specific issues. These committees do not necessarily contain board members. Often times, the School Board will appoint interested community members to participate on these committess. An example of a committee is one regarding board policies or to investigate alternatives for staff insurance policies. These committee meetings occur only when needed and are usually posted in the newspaper or on this website.
In a special meeting, the board would discuss special issues not pertaining to regular business. An example of a special meeting would be one where redistricting or referendum issues would be discussed. The public may or may not be invited to attend certain special meetings due to the nature of the proceedings. The meetings where the public is not invited could be called closed sessions. Examples of closed sesssions would be ones where salary negotiations, student or staff disciplinary actions are discussed.
The School Board meets with the Chippewa Area Catholic Schools (CACS) to discuss issues such as bus transportation, calendar, distance learning, special classes, or any other type of shared services. These joint meetings occur only once per school year.
Typically during an annual meeting, new board members will be seated and officers elected. Annual meetings generally occur on the fourth Monday in April unless otherwise noted.
Public Input Meeting
A public input meeting is one that focuses on specific issues whereby the School Board wants input from the public. An example of a public input meeting would be one where the issue of funding is discussed.


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This paper studies whether the transition from a centrally planned to a market economy offers new perspectives for those who, in economic terms, were relatively deprived under the old regime. Previous empirical research on this question has been limited by the availability of representative longitudinal micro-data that track individuals' labour market careers across different political regimes. Our study seeks to fill this research gap by looking at the transition of Eastern Germany following German Unification. Using a unique large-scale German administrative data set, we measure individuals' relative economic position by exploiting information on whether individuals were in the bottom of the pre-unification wage distribution. We then address the question of how workers' low or high-wage status determines their wage and labour market status within and across different regimes. We document strong evidence of a dynamic selection process into low-wage employment after Unification. Furthermore, consistent with a weak connection between individuals' true productivity and their pre-unification low-wage status, the extent of across regime state dependence is found to be small in magnitude and appears to vanish over time. For males, the small extent of across regime dependence is found to be most pronounced among the medium and high-skilled, suggesting the depreciation of general human capital as a potential explanation.
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Before you can manage devices in Security Manager, you must prepare the devices so that communication between Security Manager and the devices is enabled, then add those devices to the Security Manager inventory.
This chapter contains the following topics:
Troubleshooting Device Communication Failures
If Security Manager fails to communicate with a device, e.g. by failing to log into it, during discovery, deployment, or other actions, look at these areas to identify and resolve the problem.
- Ensure the device is operational.
- Check which transport protocol is selected. You must select a protocol that the device is configured to accept. For most devices, the protocol is selected on the Device Properties General page. For IPS devices, the IPS RDEP mode is selected on the Credentials page.
Some methods of adding devices also allow you to select a non-default transport protocol. To configure the default transport protocols for classes of devices, select Tools > Security Manager Administration > Device Communications.
- On the Device Properties General page, ensure that the hostname, domain name, and IP address are correct. Keep in mind that the Hostname and Accounts and Credentials policies for the device define the actual names and credentials that get configured on the device. However, the policies are not used for device communication. If you make changes to the policies that affect the credentials you are using for device communication, you must also manually update the device properties.
- Make sure DNS names can be resolved from the Security Manager server. You might need to fix the DNS settings on the server.
- Check the credentials for the device in Security Manager and ensure that they are correct and that there is a route between the server and device. Right-click the device, select Device Properties, select the Credentials tab, and click the Test Connectivity button. If the connection fails, check error messages to determine whether the problem is connectivity or credentials. Update the credentials in the device properties if necessary.
When adding new devices the credentials are defined within the New Device wizard if your method of adding the device requires credentials. Keep the following in mind:
– The primary credentials are used for SSH and Telnet connections.
– The HTTP/HTTPS credentials are used for HTTP and SSL connections unless you select Use Primary Credentials, in which case the primary credentials are also used for these connections.
FAQs About Device Communication
This section answers the following questions about device communication:
Q. How does Security Manager connect to a Cisco IOS router that does not have a K8 or K9 crypto image?
By default, Security Manager connects to Cisco IOS routers using SSL. However, a device running IOS version 12.3 or later without a K8 or K9 crypto image will not be able to support SSL. Therefore, after you add the device to Security Manager, you must select Tools > Device Properties, then change the default transport protocol to Telnet.
Q. Why cannot Security Manager connect to a Cisco IOS router after configuration rollback?
This could occur because of one of the following reasons:
– At rollback, for some versions of Cisco IOS software and when necessary, the configurations are copied from the TFTP server to startup-config, then the Cisco IOS router is reloaded. This reload causes a temporary loss in device connectivity. Wait for the device to be reloaded completely, then try to connect to it again.
– The configuration contains a nonexisting or unauthorized username and password.
Security Certificate Rejected When Discovering Device
If an error occurs when you attempt to discover a device, and the error message states that the security certificate received from the device was rejected, you need to update the certificate. You can do this using one of the following methods:
- Manually enter the thumbprint required by the certificate by doing one of the following:
– Select Tools > Security Manager Administration > Device Communication. Click Add Certificate, enter the IP address of the device, then copy and paste the thumbprint displayed in the error message into the Certificate Thumbprint field.
– Right-click the device and select Device Properties > Credentials. Copy and paste the thumbprint displayed in the error message into the Authentication Certificate Thumbprint field.
You must manually enter the thumbprint whenever you add a new device using the Add New Device or Add From Configuration File options and when you perform rediscovery. It is not required when you add a new device using the Add New Device From Network or Add Device From File options.
- Configure the SSL certificate settings to automatically retrieve the certificate when adding devices. You can select different settings for IPS, router, and ASA/PIX/FWSM devices. To configure these settings, select Tools > Security Manager Administration > Device Communication, and look at the SSL Certificate Parameters group.
Invalid Certificate Error During Device Discovery
Problem If the time settings on the device and Security Manager are not in synchronization, an error message is displayed stating that the certificate is not yet valid when you try to discover a device.
Solution When the time set on the Security Manager server is lagging behind the time set on the device, Security Manager cannot validate the device certificate as the start time of the validity period is ahead of the Security Manager time setting. Even if the time zones configured on the device and Security Manager are the same, the invalid certificate error occurs if the daylight saving time (summertime) settings are different. To resolve this problem, make sure that the daylight saving time settings are the same on the device and Security Manager, regardless of whether the time zone is the same. After setting the daylight saving time, synchronize the clock on the device with Security Manager so that both of them display the same time.
To obtain best results, we recommend that you set the same time zone on the device and Security Manager, and modify the time zone after you discover the certificates at a later time, if necessary.
Deleting Configuration File When Deleting Security Context
Problem Deleting a security context from an FWSM device in Security Manager removes the security context from the running configuration of the device, but it does not delete the associated configuration file. This can create problems if you later add another security context with the same name as the one that you previously deleted.
Solution This is a known issue for this type of device and is not connected to the behavior of Security Manager. The workaround is to use the CLI to delete the configuration file from the device.
Simultaneous Operations on the Same Device
Problem Simultaneous operations performed on the same device (that is, devices with the same IP address) produce inconsistent results. For example, deployment to the first device succeeds, but deployment to the second device fails. These simultaneous operations may be a combination of jobs executed by Security Manager, such as a deployment job, and user-initiated operations, such as discovering a live device. Problems can occur whether the operations are contained in the same job or in multiple jobs that are executed at the same time.
Solution The device locking mechanism in Security Manager is based on the device name, not the IP address. As a result, operations such as discovery and deployment can run into problems if two devices share the same IP address. This is especially true if you attempt one of these operations on both devices at the same time.
For example, if a deployment job contains two devices with the same IP address, deployment will be executed to both devices because the names are different. However, doing so is not recommended, as it might result in an incomplete or failed deployment. To ensure consistent results, we recommend against defining more than one device with the same IP address.
Troubleshooting the Setup of Configuration Engine-Managed Devices
The following topics describe issues that might arise when you set up a device managed by a Cisco Configuration Engine (also known as CNS) and how to solve them:
Q. Why does Configuration Engine deployment fail?
Not all versions of Configuration Engine function in a compatible manner. Because Security Manager does not verify the software version running on a Configuration Engine when you add it to the device inventory, you can add unsupported versions to the inventory. Then, when you try to deploy, you can run into unpredictable errors. Ensure that you are running a supported version of Configuration Engine, such as 3.0. For support information, see the supported devices information at _URL_
Q. Why do I receive an InvalidParameterException when I click on an IOS device on the Configuration Engine web page?
This is the expected behavior. For IOS devices, Security Manager uses deployment jobs to deploy configurations to Configuration Engine instead of associating a configuration to the IOS device in Configuration Engine. Therefore, you do not see an associated configuration when you click the device name on the Configuration Engine web page. For PIX devices, Security Manager associates the configuration to the device in Configuration Engine. Therefore, clicking the device name displays the associated configuration.
Q. Why am I getting the following error: com.cisco.netmgmt.ce.websvc.exec.ExecServiceException: [002-01003]]deviceName does not exists?
This error indicates that the device has not been added to Configuration Engine. It appears if you have not performed rollback or deployment in Security Manager (both of which add the device automatically), and have not manually added the device to Configuration Engine.
Q. Why am I getting the following error: com.cisco.netmgmt.ce.websvc.config.ConfigServiceException: [002-01003]]Device device id is not connected
The answer depends on the type of setup you are performing:
– Event mode setup—Make sure that the Configuration Engine device ID defined in the Device Properties window in Security Manager matches the device ID configured on the router (using the cns id string command).
– Call home mode setup—The device is not connected to Configuration Engine in this mode; therefore, all Security Manager operations that require the retrieval of the device configuration using Configuration Engine are not supported. This includes discovery, preview configuration, display running configuration, and connectivity tests (and rollback, for IOS devices).
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|Sun altitude at solar noon on the 21st day.
- The average temperature in Sobral in January is hot at 26.7 °C (80.06 °F).
- Afternoons can be very, very hot with average high temperatures reaching 33.8 °C (92.8 °F).
- Overnight temperatures are generally fairly hot with an average low of 23.6 °C (74.5 °F).
- In January there is a variation/ range of daily average temperatures of 10.2 °C (18.4 °F).
- The weather in January is not exactly parched. Circa 101.6mm (4in) of H2Ois dumped.
- The shortest day is 12:16 long and the longest day is 12:19 long with an average length of 12:18.
Check the distance to and compare the Sobral January averages with somewhere beginning with:
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fix_latin - filters a data stream that is predominantly utf8 and 'fixes' any latin (ie: non-ASCII 8 bit) characters
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The script acts as a filter, taking source data which may contain a mix of ASCII, UTF8, ISO8859-1 and CP1252 characters, and producing output will be all ASCII/UTF8.
Multi-byte UTF8 characters will be passed through unchanged (although over-long UTF8 byte sequences will be converted to the shortest normal form). Single byte characters will be converted as follows:
 0x00 - 0x7F ASCII - passed through unchanged
 0x80 - 0x9F Converted to UTF8 using CP1252 mappings
 0xA0 - 0xFF Converted to UTF8 using Latin-1 mappings
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This script was originally written to assist in converting a Postgres database from SQL-ASCII encoding to UNICODE UTF8 encoding. The following examples illustrate its use in that context.
If you have a SQL format dump file that you would normally restore by piping into 'psql', you can simply filter the dump file through this script:
 fix_latin < dump_file | psql -d database
If you have a compressed dump file that you would normally restore using 'pg_restore', you can omit the '-d' option on pg_restore and pipe the resulting SQL through this script and into psql:
 pg_restore -O dump_file | fix_latin | psql -d database
To take a look at non-ASCII lines in the dump file:
 perl -ne '/^COPY (\S+)/ and $t = $1; print "$t:$_" if /[^\x00-\x7F]/' dump_file
This script is implemented using the Encoding::FixLatin Perl module. For more details see the module documentation with the command:
 perldoc Encoding::FixLatin
In particular you should read the 'LIMITATIONS' section to understand the circumstances under which data corruption might occur.
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What is the difference? With VHDs, it is a classification of virtual drive. The other two types have already been covered and now it is time to briefly cover what makes the difference VHD disk interesting.
Why does it exist? Perhaps the most obvious answer is that it could save space. The difference disk is actually linked to a parent disk. The parent disk represents a read-only copy of a VM. Technically it does not need to be a full copy but let's assume that it is to make it easy. Once the parent and child (difference disk) are bound, the parent VHD is no longer allowed to change. The child VHD has pointers to the parent VHD by using various name markers (relative/absolute, UNICODE/UTF-8). The link is not guaranteed and obviously it is possible for an admin/user to break the connection. It would be an easy mistake to make. The difference file could be moved to another system which has no access to the parent file.
What lives in the child disk? Only the written changes are kept in the virtual disk. Also, the changes are marked on a sector bitmap which shows which sectors are coming from the child and which ones are coming from the parent. From the operating system point of view, this is transparent. However, the VM player is responsible for splitting up the requests between the two virtual disks (parent and child). This also means that the two disks need to be opened when the VM is running.
The sector bitmap is actually at the front of the blocks in the VHD. In a dynamic disk, the sector bitmap shows which sectors have been written. For a difference disk, it shows the ownership of the sectors between child and parent.
I have been playing with difference disks over the last couple of weeks and now understand the nature of how this fits together. One key point is that this is happening at the sector level which would make it very hard to figure out which files had changed.
An annoying aspect of the sector bitmap is that it does not align with clusters. Because the first volume sector happens at 0x3F, the first eight sector cluster happens from 0x3F to 0×46. So, cluster zero maps to bits in three different bytes of the sector bitmap. Life would have been a bit easier if the clusters aligned with the sector bitmap bytes. Nevermind, this is really only annoying for people trying to correspond volume clusters to low-level sectors.
It is worth noting that the difference VHD disk has no intelligence about what is being written. In other words, it is highly likely that data written which happens to be the same as before will still trigger usage in the difference disk. Also of interest is that all VHD disks have no sense of what has been freed. This means that even if written data is freed by the file system, it will still be retained in the VHD. And finally, all data is treated equally so this means that even if the data is not worth keeping (temporary content) the VHD will do its best to hold onto it blindly. It appears that the pagefile fails into this category.
The greatest value of the difference disk would come from a template model. An admin could create a dynamic VHD disk for the work environment and then use the difference disk to create user copies. The benefit would be space savings and potentially faster transfer for remote use (assuming the template is already there). The missing piece is being able to update the template and have it take affect on the user difference disks. By the current definitions/standards, this will not work. The simple reason why is that it would be nearly impossible to merge the two together based on blocks changing on both the child and the parent. Since the VHD format has no knowledge of files and directories, it has no way of knowing what to merge.
The difference disk seems similar to linked clone technology. However, linked clone uses versioning which allows for the parent to move forward. Unfortunately, even linked clones have no knowledge of how to merge with an updated parent.


Objectives & Strategies
 1. To promote the positive growth and development of tennis in Barbados at all levels
 1. Increase knowledge of and exposure to the sport of tennis, at a reduced cost.
 2. Educate parents about the benefits and opportunities offered by involvement in the sport to assist in their ability to better contribute to the management of their children in the sport.
 3. Increase awareness of available infrastructure in Barbados
 4. Improve the use of the School Adoption Programme
 5. Improve the Junior Tennis Initiative (JTI) programme
 6. Develop a solid programme to support adult tennis.
 2. To facilitate the development of young players to world ranking
 1. Expand facilities
 2. Develop technical and physical strength of players
 3. Increase the percentage of girls who continue playing tennis in Barbados
 4. Encourage the continued advancement of the technical development of all coaches.
 5. Strengthen partnerships with all coaches who can assist in the identification of scholarship opportunities for our young players.
 6. Increase awareness and access to reputable tennis academies both regionally and internationally.
 3. To strengthen the Association's membership and to promote its active involvement in programmes and activities.
 1. Increase efficiency of membership administration
 2. Increase efficiency of Association administration.
 3. Re-establish the family culture of the National Tennis Centre.
 4. To enhance the image of the Association.
 1. Improve transparency, communication and overall governance.
 5. To be financially sustainable.
 1. Improve the planning efficiency of the Association to allow for better preparation by the various committees.
 2. Strengthen the sponsorship relationship by seeking to better understand the needs of the sponsor and to provide a report on juniors benefitting for the same.
 3. Grow the membership
 4. Improve the monitoring / management of and reporting by outsourced arrangements
 6. To participate actively in the international tennis and wider sporting communities.
 1. Create opportunities for participation in local, regional and international competitions.


Entity Framework Dynamically adding Interfaces to model
When working with existing model that is quite big and is being regenerated quite often in cases where abstraction needed it might be costly to manually go around redecorating model with interfaces. In such cases one might want to add some dynamic behavior to model generation.
Following example will show how automatically add interfaces on classes that have specific column names:
In your model go to.tt file modify the EntityClassOpening method in following way, this will add IPolicyNumber interface on entities that have POLICY_NO column, and IUniqueId on UNIQUE_ID
public string EntityClassOpening(EntityType entity)
 var stringsToMatch = new Dictionary { { "POLICY_NO", "IPolicyNumber" }, { "UNIQUE_ID", "IUniqueId" } };
 return string.Format(
 "{0} {1}partial class {2}{3}{4}",
 _code.StringBefore(" : ", _typeMapper.GetTypeName(entity.BaseType)),
 stringsToMatch.Any(o => entity.Properties.Any(n => n.Name == o.Key))? " : " + string.Join(", ", stringsToMatch.Join(entity.Properties, l => l.Key, r => r.Name, (l,r) => l.Value)) : string.Empty);
This is one specific case but it shows a power of being able to modify.tt templates.


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An efficient polynomial interpolation method is proposed to reduce the computational burden of the coregistration of synthetic aperture radar images in interferometric processing. The method can be viewed as an application of the Farrow interpolator technique and requires a series of 2-D fast Fourier transforms (FFTs). Mainly, it has two advantages relative to the usual coregistration procedure. First, it does not require to compute or store in memory any kernel sample. Second, it involves less floating-point operations than the conventional coregistration, with a clear advantage if the image needs to be oversampled. The efficiency of the method is based on the fact that the complexity of one 2-D FFT is much smaller than the complexity of one spatial convolution. These advantages are demonstrated by both analyzing the interpolation procedure itself and by defining an efficient code implementation.


Quick Answer: What Does A Unicorn With A Rainbow Mean?
What is a unicorn baby?
Unicorn usually just means perfect.
IVF girl born March 265 points · 5 years ago.
And rainbow baby means a baby after a previous loss, as far as I know..
What does the Unicorn emoji mean sexually?
What does a unicorn symbolize?
What does the 🦄 emoji mean?
What is a 🦄?
A 🦄 unicorn is something magical/ unique, you will rarely find one. However, the symbol is kind of taken over, where every milinial thinks he/she is unique, just like everyone else.
What do unicorns mean on Snapchat?
magicalGenerally the unicorn emoji means magical or mystical. As if someone were to say they're special in a positive type dynamic. It can also be used when someone is trying desperate to convince you that something that is fake is actually real. … Generally the unicorn emoji means magical or mystical.
How do I get the unicorns of my Emojis?
Tap the … next to the unicorns and make your Memoji, then you'll see those instead of the unicorns. the directions when you update tell you how to setup a "memoji" which is an emoji that looks like you. When YOU skipped these directions, it defaults to a unicorn.
What is the meaning of 100 emoji?
What do rainbows and unicorns represent?
The phrase "rainbows and unicorns" or "rainbows, butterflies, and unicorns" is a sarcastic way of describing a situation that has turned sour. Of course, you can also use it earnestly when your new relationship makes you feel like you're walking on clouds.


By now most public schools in around the Northland have announced their plans for the upcoming school year - with reopening plans dictated largely by the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It's those concerns that will see two less teachers in the Superior school district when students come back in September.
The Superior School Board accepted the resignations of five teachers at their most-recent meeting on August 10 - two of which specifically mentioned their concerns about COVID-19 as the reason behind their decision. The teachers in question are from the Superior High School and Northern Lights Elementary School.
In one case - the teacher from Northern Lights Elementary - the concern was based on the large number of students she comes in contact with throughout the day. Her position was a specialist - teaching music - and she had broad contact with most of the students in the building. The other teacher - at the high school - teaches in the English department. She cited that she worries about getting sick and also getting her family sick.
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All five of the teachers - the two citing COVID-19 and the other three who are leaving for other reasons - are being held liable for liquidated damages. According to news sources, those damages vary between "$750 and $1,500 depending on when they made their resignation request." The concept of liquidated damages is foreign to many outside of the education world, but it has become commonplace at most public school school districts and many private schools. Superior School District Administrator Amy Starzecki explains:
"We added liquidated damages to the contract a few years ago to make up for things that we lost out when a teacher left closer to the start of school. [Those items that the district takes a loss on] include[...] their health savings account contribution, the cost to recruit someone for the position and the cost of a long-term substitute teacher."
The Superior School Board did make adjustments to the liquidated damages assessed to one of the teachers; that teacher asked for "leniency" as a result of the unprecedented times we're going through.
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Nota di Lavoro, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei 75.2015
The article proposes a social network analysis of the main European capitalisms and its correspondence with an index of economic freedom. The analysis relates to two kinds of economic liberties taken from the concept of freedom formulated by Isaiah Berlin. While the first kind of freedom (negative freedom) depends on the external system (e.g. the constraints on the firm defined by the regulations), the second refers to the internal obligations within the business system itself that prevent the free exercise of business (positive freedom): specifically, the social network, in which the company is embedded. After an operationalization of the two concepts of freedom, the analysis of a comprehensive database allows us to explore the relationship between the two kinds of freedom.
Social Network Analysis Antitrust Policies Interlocking Directorates Europe Positive Freedom Negative Freedom


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The Distance from Bard to Vassar is an essential one to plan our travel. It helps to calculate the travel time to reach Vassar and bus fare from Bard. Our travel distance is from google map.
Bard to Vassar route map is integrated with google map. The blue line between Bard to Vassar indicate your travel route. The given travel route can be changed by changing way points using drag and drop option.
Bard to Vassar driving direction guides for your travel along the route. It shows the direction whether you have to go straight, turn left, turn right. or slight turn. The different shape arrow symbol indicate the direction to reach Vassar. The given Bard to Vassar direction is split into separate laps and the serial number has been given along with narration and distance in mile or kilometer. It also shows the highway number. The balloon A indicate the starting point Bard and the balloon B indicate the destination Vassar.
Bard to Vassar travel time has been given at the top of the driving direction. The given travel time has been calculated based on the distance and speed of the vehicle which you travel. The given travel time between Bard and Vassar may vary based on the vehicle consistant speed.
You can use our weather forecast for Bard and Vassar which has been integrated with google weather. It shows the weather forecast for most of the major places or cities. We are planning to provide more travel information based on the availability for the following, Bard to Vassar bus timings, Bard to Vassar tramin timings, Bard to Vassar bus fare, Bard to Vassar bus route numbers etc.


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fields of Forel
Pronunciation: fō-rel′
Definition: three circumscript, myelin-rich regions of the subthalamus known as H fields (from Haubenfelder): 1) field H1, corresponding to the thalamic fasciculus, a fiber stratum at the junction of the zona incerta and the overlying thalamus, is composed of pallidothalamic and cerebellothalamic fibers (brachium conjunctivum) and is separated by the zona incerta from the more ventrally placed field H2; 2) field H2, formed by the lenticular fasciculus and arching over the superior border of the subthalamic nucleus, is composed largely of pallidothalamic fibers; 3) field H3, or prerubral field, is a large field of intermingling gray and white matter immediately rostral to the red nucleus, uniting fields H1 and H2 around the medial margin of the zona incerta; its gray matter forms the prerubral nucleus.
Synonym(s): campi foreli, tegmental fields of Forel
See Also: lenticular loop


How Long Before Get To Yellow Belt Karate?
How long does it take to get belts in karate?
How long does it take to go from a white belt to a yellow belt?
How do you get a yellow belt in karate?
A yellow karate belt is awarded when a new student has demonstrated that they are opening their minds to the practice of karate and to their sensei's teachings.
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How good is a yellow belt in karate?
The yellow belt is representative of one's energy. In this mastery, the student has gained greater control over his body's energy. Stability is the symbol of an orange belt. Karate practice includes basic postures, punches, blocks and kicks.
What is the most useless martial art?
The 5 Least Effective Martial Arts
 - 5) Sumo.
 - 4) Capoeira.
 - 3) Shin-Kicking.
 - 2) Aikido.
 - 1) Tai Chi.
Is red belt better than black?
What belt comes after yellow in Taekwondo?
Belt Ranks at Akula Taekwondo
Color Rank
Yellow Belt 9th GUP
Orange Belt 8th GUP
Green Belt 7th GUP
Blue Belt 6th GUP
Is Red Belt higher than black belt?
How many stripes do you need for a yellow belt?
All students will be required to have all six (6) stripes on their belts before their test.
Can you skip belts in karate?
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What does a yellow belt in karate mean?
Yellow Belt − It symbolizes the first ray of sun light. In karate its meaning is that now the student's mind is open to accept more possible techniques and methods. Orange Belt − This light is an indication of spreading of light on the earth.
What is the lowest belt in karate?
What are the stages of belts in karate?
Is purple belt higher than black?
Does karate have a pink belt?
While pink is not an official designation in the martial arts scale, it does have special significance here. He has been conferring pink belts to kids and adults in order to promote cancer awareness and reduce some of the fears that go along with the group of diseases that sparks such fear and raises so many questions.
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COVID-19 and its impact on (inclusive) education
On 25 September 2020, PhoenixKM's CEO Karel Van Isacker will be one of the panel members of the virtual "International scientific conference on philosophy of mind and cognitive modelling in education – PCE2020 – Plenary lecture", starting at 10.00 a. m. CET. A detailed programme is available via the conference website.
The virtual conference will address the impact of COVID-19 on the educational system in various EU countries. Our focus will be on Belgium and Bulgaria, and especially how it has impacted inclusive education.
This event is organised by the University of Maribor, Slovenia.
Following topics will be addressed for Belgium and Bulgaria:
 1. Overall situation regarding the pandemic in your respective countries.
 2. How has the pandemic affected schoolwork; what kind of solutions have you come up with; what has been the response?
 3. What kind of preparations have you made for the current school year, and how did you start the year?
 4. What were the responses of the entire society and teaching profession to the proposed concept of school for the school year 2020/2021?
Presentations will be followed by short discussions.
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Answer: Taste with Their Legs
Some species of butterflies have a rather curious talent that we should all be glad humans do not possess: they can taste via their legs. These butterflies have special hairs on their legs called gustatory sensilla that are the same specialized hairs found on their mouths and antenna that function as taste receptors.
How does tasting via their legs help the butterflies? By tasting the leaves they alight on, they can immediately determine if the plant is a suitable host for their eggs. In a world where predators are many and dallying on a plant is dangerous, the ability to instantly determine if the plant they've landed on is hostile or an ideal spot to leave their young offers a huge advantage.
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See also: että, Etta, and -etta
From the digit ett (one)
etta c
 1. one; the digit or figure "1".
 2. first-grader; person who attends the first year of school
 3. a class of first-graders
 De barnen går i ettan.
 Those children are in first grade.
 5. (uncountable, mainly used in the definite) first gear
 6. a apartment with one room (and possibly a kitchen)
 7. winner of a competition; the person or team who ended up in the first position
 8. one; neutral element in multiplication
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$X_1$ and $X_2$ are independent random variables. $X_1$ and $Y = X_1 + X_2$ have $\chi^2$ distributions with $r_1$ and $r$ degrees of freedom and $r_1 < r$.
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Since $X_1$ and $X_2$ are independent, the characteristic function of $Y$ is the product of the characteristic functions of $X_1$ and $X_2$, the characteristic function of a $\chi^2$ distribution with $r$ degrees of freedom is $(1-2ik)^{-r/2}$ ($k$ is theFourier variable). Thus the characteristic function of $X_2$ is $(1-2ik)^{-(r-r_1)/2}$
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Class-Balancing Diffusion Models
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2023 (CVPR 2023)
Diffusion-based models have shown the merits in generating high-quality visual data while preserving better diversity in recent studies. However, such observation is only justified on curated data distribution, where the data samples are nicely pre-processed to be uniformly distributed in terms of their labels. In practice, a long-tailed data distribution appears more often and how diffusion models perform on such label-imbalanced data remains unknown. In this work, we first investigate this problem and observe significant degradation in both diversity and fidelity when the diffusion model is trained on datasets with imbalanced class distributions. Especially on tail classes, the generations largely lose diversity and we observe severe mode-collapse issues. To tackle this problem, we set from the hypothesis that the data distribution is not class-balanced, and propose Class-Balancing Diffusion models that are trained with a distribution adjustment regularizer as a solution. Experiments show that, with this simple solution, the generated image by CBDM exhibit higher diversity and quality in both quantitative and qualitative ways. Our method benchmarked the generation results on CIFAR100/CIFAR100LT dataset, and shows outstanding performance on the downstream recognition task.


Kahlua Shelf Life: Can It Go Bad?
If you're craving for a delicious adult beverage, there's no better way to scratch that itch than with a nice bottle of Kahlua.
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You reach into your cupboard to make your favorite White Russian and find the bottle of Kahlua from a party you had last Christmas. As you grab the bottle and look for an expiration date, you might be wondering, "does Kahlua go bad?"
Whether you buy Kahlua regularly for yourself or you only get it every now and then for entertainment, knowing the shelf life of Kahlua is important.
What is Kahlua?
Kahlua is a rum-based liqueur that is meant to taste just like coffee. It is commonly used in alcoholic cocktails and is a great way to add some flavor and excitement to your cocktail parties.
Kahlua contains ingredients such as rum, vanilla bean, arabica coffee, and sugar. It first came on the scene in 1936 and is named after the Veracruz Nahuatl word of the same name, which means "House of the Acolhua people."
The alcohol content of Kahlua is about 20%, although there are some special versions of Kahlua that offer a lower viscosity and a higher alcohol content. Because of this, they are usually less sweet, too.
Kahlua can be consumed by itself, usually neat or on ice, or it can be used in cocktails. It is often used in desserts and as a topping for ice cream, cheesecakes, and cakes, too. Since it's made out of coffee beans, it also contains caffeine. Kahlua is used in some of the following popular cocktails:
 - Espresso Martini
 - White and Black Russians
 - Baby Guinness
 - Colorado Bulldog
 - Spanish coffee
 - Mudslide
Kahlua Shelf Life
Kahlua doesn't have the same long shelf life as other spirits, like whiskey, vodka, Tequila or rum. However, its shelf life might surprise you – it's longer than you think.
Does Kahlua Expire?
To determine the shelf life of your Kahlua, start by determining its production date. Usually, this will be indicated on the back of the bottle, toward the lower edge of the label. The lot number will include a lengthy list that is a combination of letters and numbers.
The first four digits of this combination are what you need to pay attention to. The first four digits represent the year in which the Kahlua was bottled and sent to the stores.
Usually, you'll see the letter L as the first in the sequence, which simply standards for "the last digit of the production year," while the number immediately following that will represent the year. If the number is a 6, it means it was produced in 2016.
How Long Does Kahlua Last?
Once you know the production date, you can determine the shelf life. Original Kahlua has an average shelf life of four years, while Flavored Kahlua usually lasts around two years. Ready to Mix Kahlua has the shortest shelf life – it typically only lasts about a year.
What's important to note is that these dates are better indicators of freshness and quality than they are of safety. You can easily use the liquor after these dates, but it won't have the best possible flavors. Six-year-old Kahlua, if unopened, is probably safe to use, but it won't taste as good as a bottle that's brand new.
Once you open a bottle of Kahlua, these dates become expedited. If you have a bottle of four-year-old Kahlua that's been open for three weeks, it's not going to taste good as a fresh bottle that you just barely opened.
How to Store Kahlua
There are several types of Kahlua on the market, including Original, Flavored, and Ready-to-Drink. Luckily, you don't need to memorize different storage rules for all three – storing any type of Kahlua is usually the same.
When you have an unopened bottle of this liquor, you can store it in any dark, cool place – just as you would a bottle of rum. Usually, a pantry, basement, or cellar is a great option, but you could even stash it in the back of the liquor cabinet for the kitchen cupboard, too. Just keep it cool.
You are more than welcome to store Kahlua in the refrigerator, but if it has not been opened, this is not necessary.
Does Kahlua Need to Be Refrigerated After Opening?
While unopened Kahlua can easily be stored in any cool, dry location, Kahlua that has been opened needs to be stashed in a colder environment.
Once your bottle of Kahlua has been open for a few hours, it needs to be moved to the refrigerator. Not only will it taste best chilled, but this also preserves its shelf life, too.
Make sure you seal your bottle using the original cap. This will provide the best possible seal.
There are people out there who will tell you that Kahlua does not need to be refrigerated after opening. Technically, this is true, as you won't see a difference in how safe it is to drink if it is not refrigerated. However, if you use Kahlua on a regular basis, you are going to want to keep it in the fridge. Not only will it improve its taste and quality, but you won't have to chill it before each serving, either.
How to Tell if Kahlua Has Spoiled
Like other common types of alcohol-based liqueurs (such as amaretto), it's pretty uncommon for Kahlua to truly go bad.
The exception to this is if you are storing Kahlua for a lengthy period of time. If that's the case, you will want to keep an eye out for common signs of spoilage like a strange smell, discoloration, bad taste, or even mold. If you notice these, get rid of the liqueur immediately.
As long as the Kahlua seems normal, you're probably fine to give it a state. If it still has all of its original flavors and aromas, it's perfectly safe to drink.
Can you use Kahlua after the expiration date?
Kahlua, like many types of alcohol, often does not have an expiration date. Therefore, it can be difficult to determine whether it has actually gone bad or not. Instead of an expiration date, it might have a production date, a processing date, a packing date, or a bottling date that will tell you when the product was created.
Otherwise, most manufacturers recommend that Kahlua be consumed within four years of the production date.
Does Kahlua Mudslide go bad?
A Mudslide is simply a drink that is commonly made with Kahlua and other ingredients. There are also premade Mudslide blenders that include ingredients such as nondairy creamers. These mixers go bad a bit more quickly than regular Kahlua, so you will want to pay attention to the dates on the labels. In addition, watch out for signs of spoilage like chunks and odors, too.
Can old Kahlua make you sick?
It is rare for any kind of liqueur or cordial to go bad. The alcohol and the sugar will both serve as preservatives. The brown glass of the bottle can also help keep you safe, as it will prevent sunlight or heat from wreaking havoc with the contents. At the very worst, you might get an upset stomach by drinking old Kahlua.
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The Isle of Man Green Party has said extraction of gas from the Manx seabed would be 'incompatible' with the island's Climate Change Act and the Paris Climate Agreement.
In a statement, the party has called on the gov to stop the exploration process at the end of the four month extension granted to Crogga to allow it to complete surveys.
The party said that it had written to CoMin asking ministers not to extend Crogga's licence, which was due to expire on December 31 2021.
It said: 'In the knowledge that Phase B of the licence awarded to Crogga in 2018 to explore for fossil fuels in the Isle of Man seabed was coming to an end at the end of 2021, and it being understood that if certain obligations had not been met by Crogga the licence would expire and automatically cease, the Green Party wrote on December 14 2021 to each Minister of the Council of Ministers, including the Chief Minister, setting out cogent reasons why the licence should not be extended.
'The Green Party's letter set out the realities of how climate change is impacting the Isle of Man, including the increasing prevalence of droughts, extreme rainfall, and erosion from a more volatile and expanding Irish sea. It is clearly stated by the relevant science that extreme climate change in the Isle of Man and elsewhere is being caused by carbon emissions, that the consequences of the same will be hugely damaging to our community and communities globally, and that we must urgently decarbonise and transition to renewable forms of energy. Gas is a high carbon fuel that is contributing to extreme climate change; accordingly, the Government should be introducing policies to reduce its use in order to protect our island community.'
In the letter, which can be seen below, the party said that any extensions would be 'in direct contradiction to the Government's commitments, amongst other things, in respect of the United Nations Paris Agreement, to undertake efforts to keep global heating to 1.5°C, and the Government's climate change duties pursuant to the Climate Change Act 2021'.
They said that after the extension was granted, they wrote to DoI Minister Tim Crookall asking for an explanation, but that they had not received a response.
Its statement added: 'Given the promises of action that emanated from the members of this Government in the 2021 election, the Green Party hopes that the Government will now take decisive action to end the licence in its entirety upon the expiry of the extension, and immediately commence the much needed investment in renewable energy.'


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Quality of Life Comparison
If you lived in Nicaragua instead of Bermuda, you would:
live 7.5 years less
In Bermuda, the average life expectancy is 82 years (78 years for men, 85 years for women) as of 2020. In Nicaragua, that number is 74 years (72 years for men, 77 years for women) as of 2020.
make 94.1% less money
Bermuda has a GDP per capita of $99,400 as of 2016, while in Nicaragua, the GDP per capita is $5,900 as of 2017.
be 2.7 times more likely to live below the poverty line
In Bermuda, 11.0% live below the poverty line as of 2008. In Nicaragua, however, that number is 29.6% as of 2015.
have 52.7% more children
In Bermuda, there are approximately 11.2 babies per 1,000 people as of 2020. In Nicaragua, there are 17.1 babies per 1,000 people as of 2020.
be 6.6 times more likely to die during infancy
In Bermuda, approximately 2.5 children die before they reach the age of one as of 2020. In Nicaragua, on the other hand, 16.5 children do as of 2020.
Basic Needs
be 18.2% less likely to have access to electricity
In Bermuda, approximately 100% of the population has electricity access as of 2016. In Nicaragua, 82% of the population do as of 2016.
be 71.6% less likely to have internet access
In Bermuda, approximately 98.0% of the population has internet access as of 2016. In Nicaragua, about 27.9% do as of 2018.
be 16.9% less likely to have access to improved drinking water
In Bermuda, approximately 100% of people have improved drinking water access as of 2017. In Nicaragua, 83% of people do as of 2017.
spend 2.9 times more on education
Bermuda spends 1.5% of its total GDP on education as of 2017. Nicaragua spends 4.3% of total GDP on education as of 2017.
see 8.8 times more coastline
Bermuda has a total of 103 km of coastline. In Nicaragua, that number is 910 km.
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