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About the Cost Breakdown Structure Template
When talking about a project's financial aspects, a company or an organization has to create a structure to lay out and apply measurable cost controls.
Organizations also call this CBS. This is a hierarchical representation or a breakdown of various costs in a specific project. It represents the costs of components in the WBS or the Work Breakdown Structure. A solid structure like CBS allows an easier understanding of how a project is tracking against a plan.
Why is cost breakdown structure important?
Budget or finances are an integral element in a project; thus, thorough planning and structure to avoid leaving out any essential aspect in the whole project. The following are some key points explaining the essence of CBS in a project.
- You can have better control over your budget and other costs. Splitting spending into categories allows you to have a clearer view and management of project costs. You can have an overview of what you are committing to concerning the specific spending cost within the cost category.
- Having an excellent CBS gives you better insights into how much you are allocating within different cost categories. This will provide you with ideas on the financing aspect and when making vital business decisions for the project.
- You can have the CBS as a reference for pricing. Having an excellent background into the actual cost from an earlier budget increases the quality of the project's cost estimate.
- With CBS, you will have a clearer view and understanding of underspending or overspending. Also, when you see strange trends in your project plan in the costing aspect, you can immediately make decisions for improvement.
What is the difference between CBS and WBS?
Cost Breakdown Structure or CBS is closely related to Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). The WBS illustrates all the tasks that need to be accomplished within a project. Meanwhile, the CBS tackles all about the cost aspects that must be purchased within tasks. These two must go hand in hand for better project outcomes. There can be instances when organizations do not utilize CBS, leaving the WBS to function as both the operational and financial hierarchy of a project. While using a single hierarchy for both can be feasible, it is also prone to project failures. Organizations tend to compromise on both sides, making project performance suffer.
How to create a cost breakdown structure?
You can utilize a built-in cost breakdown structure template and formula-driven estimation tools in creating project budgets. The first step in creating an efficient project cost structure is to determine the following key elements:
- Cost drivers: specific units, items, specific works, or services
- Amounts: the amount of work or time, number of items, amounts of materials
- Hidden or overhead costs: these are costs that do not bring any direct value; however, they will indirectly influence work processes.
You can also group the cost data into two parameters:
- By time periods: Organizations can use this data grouping in their CBS to estimate weekly, monthly, and quarterly costs. This is usually combined with the workflow steps and provides a total for the entire project.
- By cost types: This approach is used when the purpose is to define the manageability of specific cost elements and to figure out ways to decrease total costs.
Cost types can also come in various categories in building CBS:
- Labor costs
- Outsourcing and subcontracting costs
- Material costs
- Overhead costs
- Logistics costs
Creating an effective and efficient cost breakdown structure can be a handful and a tedious task. However, this structure is essential for future communication with your clients and better understanding how to manage costs in the project process.


Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Geography and Morality in Shi'ite South Beirut
How the rise of leisure is changing contemporary Lebanon
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South Beirut has recently become a vibrant leisure destination with a plethora of cafés and restaurants that cater to the young, fashionable, and pious. What effects have these establishments had on the moral norms, spatial practices, and urban experiences of this Lebanese community? From the diverse voices of young Shi'i Muslims searching for places to hang out, to the Hezbollah officials who want this media-savvy generation to be more politically involved, to the religious leaders worried that Lebanese youth are losing their moral compasses, Leisurely Islam provides a sophisticated and original look at leisure in the Lebanese capital.
What makes a café morally appropriate? How do people negotiate morality in relation to different places? And under what circumstances might a pious Muslim go to a café that serves alcohol? Lara Deeb and Mona Harb highlight tensions and complexities exacerbated by the presence of multiple religious authorities, a fraught sectarian political context, class mobility, and a generation that takes religion for granted but wants to have fun. The authors elucidate the political, economic, religious, and social changes that have taken place since 2000, and examine leisure's influence on Lebanese sociopolitical and urban situations.
Asserting that morality and geography cannot be fully understood in isolation from one another, Leisurely Islam offers a colorful new understanding of the most powerful community in Lebanon today.
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 - One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014


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Patient and Family Centered Care is the core of the San Leandro Hospital care philosophy. We are centered on the needs of our patients and their families through a welcomed partnership between patient, family and the health care team. We develop programs, policies and processes that improve the patient experience and give patients and their families the opportunity to make informed choices about their care and the delivery process.
We pledge to patients and their families a daily commitment to the values and standards of Patient and Family Centered Care:
- We know, accept and respect that every patient is different and comes with his/ her own set of expectations.
- We understand and honor patients' personal preferences, cultural beliefs, values, choices, decisions, lifestyles and family situations.
- We involve patients and family members in the decision making process as a joint partner of the care team.
- We empower patients and family members to monitor and provide input to their clinical care and decisions, allowing them to decide their span of control.
- We ensure the patient transitions between staff, providers, departments and campuses are efficient, timely and coordinated.
- We provide a welcoming, supportive environment for healing and wellness.
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Quality and Safety at San Leandro Hospital
No Matter How You Define Quality – It's Built on a Foundation of Patient Safety
Patients and families know quality care when they experience it. A nurse's quick, timely, and caring response, a doctor's bedside manner, the hospital's cleanliness and comfort, a safe and clean environment – all these things affect how people feel about the quality of their health care.
At San Leandro Hospital, we believe that the highest quality and the best clinical outcomes cannot be achieved without establishing the safest possible environment for our patients. Patient safety is the foundation for how we provide care.
We believe that quality health care is:
- Safe: Avoiding and ultimately eliminating errors and/or injuries to patients from the care that is intended to help them.
- Effective: Providing care and services based on scientific knowledge and best practices.
- Patient and Family Centered: Providing care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient and family preferences, needs and values, ensuring that patients' values guide all clinical decisions.
- Timely: Reducing waits and sometimes harmful delays for both those who receive and provide care.
- Efficient: Maximizing value and avoiding waste, including waste of equipment, supplies, ideas and energy.
- Equitable: Providing care that does not vary in quality because of personal characteristics such as gender, orientation, ethnicity, geographic location, and socioeconomic status.
We are passionate about our commitment to continuously improving all of these important aspects of quality health care.
How Quality is Measured
Quality data comes in many forms. Information can be pulled from clinical records, billing information or administrative codes that are used to classify diagnoses and conditions. The data is run through complex math models to try to make it meaningful.
Because quality data is pulled from multiple sources, documentation plays a crucial role in measurement. When treating a patient, a practitioner needs to accurately and consistently report the specific diagnosis and document the treatment the patient receives.
If the practitioner makes an error in the documentation process, it can have a negative effect on the hospital's performance rating – even if the patient's clinical outcome is optimal.
San Leandro Hospital has implemented an electronic documentation system and trained our health care practitioners to ensure that documentation is accurate and specific. Accurate documentation helps to limit reporting errors, so our clinical and administrative staff can better identify true clinical improvement opportunities.

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In the United States and Canada we love our fireworks like anyone else, but one city in Mexico makes us all look like amateurs.
Tultepec is the center of the fireworks industry in Mexico, and every year the city hosts Mexico's National Pyrotechnic Festival. The festival began in 1989, after a fireworks accident in 1988 led to the banning of the production of fireworks within city limits. From its first year, the festival has been a rousing success, with the highlight being the pamplonada—hundreds of bulls are made from wood and paper maché, filled with fireworks and then set alight after being paraded through the town.
Did you know?
 1. Between 50-80% of the fireworks in Mexico are made in the region of Tultepec—a town near Mexico City.
 2. Fireworks crafting is a family tradition going back generations, with many people making fireworks in their own homes.
 3. The Patron saint of the town, San Juan de Dios, is also the patron saint of fireworks and firefighters.
 4. Tultepec isn't known only for its fireworks making; they helped invent the sparkler, made star and rocket design advancements along with new colors and color enhancements.
 5. The National Pyrotechnic Festival brings up to 100,000 people to Tultepec to witness the gunpowder artistry.
 6. Unfortunately, fireworks bring tragedy along with magic to the town. In December 2016, a chain of explosions in the open-air fireworks market killed 42 people and injured dozens more.
 7. In response, safety regulations were improved, but this was the third fireworks accident in the town in 12 years.
 8. In March of this year, the dead and injured were commemorated with a fireworks display.
 9. Over the past 20 years, over 100 people have died in Tultepec as a result of firework production and sales, with the town's open-air market having been destroyed twice.
 10. Speaking with the AP in 2016, Tultepec's mayor said, "We know it is high-risk, we regret this greatly, but unfortunately many people's livelihoods depend on this activity."


Sermon June 21: The Fear of Suffering
Sermon given by the Rev. Andy James at Choctaw United Methodist Church on Sunday, June 21, "The Fear of Suffering."
Scripture 1: Romans 5:1-8
Scripture 2: 1 Peter 4:12-19
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Dryopteris clintoniana (Dryopteris cristata var. clintoniana)
Clinton's woodfern originated as a hybrid of Goldie's fern and crested woodfern, and its characteristics are mostly intermediate between the two parents. The fertile fronds of Clinton's woodfern are taller, narrower, and more upright than its sterile fronds, but the difference is less pronounced than it is in crested woodfern. Like crested woodfern, Clinton's woodfern's lowest leaflets are broadly triangular. The fronds are wider than crested woodfern fronds, but narrower than Goldie's fern fronds.
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The Meeting Room Makeover: Is Your Collaboration Space Adaptable for the New Normal?
As you consider reopening offices (or plan to institute WFH indefinitely), you need a meeting room system that goes the distance. Whether connecting on-premise employees or talking to international clients, whether empowering power users at home or making huddle rooms safer, an integrated meeting room solution that makes life easier for IT is the need of the hour.
Here is a handy checklist that can help gauge your readiness:
 - Licensing - Do you need additional licensing costs for every room? How do licenses scale as your WFH workforce grows?
 - Self-service - What is the degree of touch dependence? Do employees need shared buttons or touch screens to reserved meeting spaces and slots?
 - Compatibility - Does your meeting room integrate smoothly with third-party systems? Given that most companies use 3+ platforms, do you have native compatibility?
 - Scale - What happens when you need to conduct large, office-wide, or department meetings? What is your hardware and software's participant threshold?
 - Collaboration - What capabilities are present for sharing content? Are pro features like dual display and wired content sharing ready at hand?
 - Telephony - Can your meeting room double up as a telephony system for external clients/stakeholders? Can you integrate PBX, if it isn't natively available?
 - Setup - Does the system include all your basics like a control hub, touch interface, audio, and camera? How much effort will it take IT (or an employee) to set it up?
GoToRoom by LogMeIn is an out of the box meeting room solution that is purpose-built for your needs. It scales up or down to meet huddle room, home office, conference room, or board room configurations, powered by industry-leading hardware from Polly, Logitech, and Dolby
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How can an object control its own reproduction?
The information surrounding the production of a typical product tends to be quite guarded: plans and techniques are protected by patent and "owned" as the intellectual property of a single company or manufacturer.
Cloning Objects presents an alternative scenario in which a collection of products are each embedded with all of the information needed for their own reproduction. Scanning the object with a software interface allows a user to "inspect" the components of an object, revealing the digital 3D-definition, files for reproduction with digital fabrication tools, information and schematics for electronic components, and the source-code for any software used to control the object.
Distributing this information within the objects allows them to be reproduced and distributed without a structured, formal network. The autonomous objects and their components are made accessible on an individual level, and can be freely shared, modified, and redistributed.
Cloning objects is made in collaboration with Leonaro Amico, Tilen Sepič, and Thibault Brevet. It is an extension of the Hacking Households project originally presented at BIO 50. The project was made possible with support from Timelab and the Creative Industries Fund NL.
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Vishuci, Viṣūci, Visūcī: 7 definitions
The Sanskrit term Viṣūci can be transliterated into English as Visuci or Vishuci, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
Alternative spellings of this word include Vishuchi.
In Hinduism
Purana and Itihasa (epic history)
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: The Purana Index
Viṣūci (विषूचि).—Queen of Viraja, and mother of a hundred sons and one daughter.1 Mother of Viṣvaksena.2
 - 1) Bhāgavata-purāṇa V. 15. 15.
 - 2) Ib. VIII. 13. 23.
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Rasashastra (chemistry and alchemy)
Source: Wisdom Library: Rasa-śāstra
Visūcī (विसूची) refers to "cholera" and is caused by āmājīrṇa type of indigestion (ajīrṇa), as defined in the fourth volume of the Rasajalanidhi (chapter 4).—Accordingly, "in visūcī disease, vāyu (wind), vehementhy in excess, due to indigestion, gives rise to pricking sensation all over the body. Those who are acquainted with the principles of hygiene and medicine and follow them strictly are rarely attacked with this disease (except by infection). The victims of this disease are generally those persons who cannot control their desire and are greedy.".
Symptoms of visūcī:—"loss of consciousness, severe movement of the bowels, vomiting, thirst, pain resembling colic in the abdomen, giddiness, cramps in the hands and the feet, yawning, sensation of heat, discolouration, shivering, and pain in the breast and the head".
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Sanskrit dictionary
Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary
Viṣūci (विषूचि).—Mind (manas); अन्तःपुरं च हृदयं विषूचिर्मन उच्यते (antaḥpuraṃ ca hṛdayaṃ viṣūcirmana ucyate) Bhāg.4.29.16.
Derivable forms: viṣūciḥ (विषूचिः).
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Visūcī (विसूची).—Cholera; सूचीभिरिव गात्राणि तुदन् संतिष्ठतेऽनिलः । यस्याजीर्णेन सा वैद्यैर्विसूचीति निगद्यते (sūcībhiriva gātrāṇi tudan saṃtiṣṭhate'nilaḥ | yasyājīrṇena sā vaidyairvisūcīti nigadyate) Bhāva P.
See also (synonyms): visūcikā.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary
Viṣūcī (विषूची).—v. viṣvañc.
1) Viṣūci (विषूचि):—[from viṣu] m. or f. = manas, [Bhāgavata-purāṇa]
2) Viṣūcī (विषूची):—[from viṣu] a f. See under viṣvañc, [column]2.
3) [from viṣvañc > viṣu] b f. the cholera (= viṣūcikā q.v.), [Suśruta; Śārṅgadhara-saṃhitā]
4) Visūcī (विसूची):—[=vi-sūcī] [from vi-sūcana] [wrong reading] for vi-ṣ.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary
Viṣuci (विषुचि):—(ciḥ) 2. m. The mind.
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Viṣūci (विषूचि):—= viṣūcīna Bez. des überall hindringenden Manas [Bhāgavatapurāṇa 4, 29, 16] (ed. Bomb. fälschlich viṣūcīrmanaḥ).
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Viṣūcī (विषूची):—s. viṣvañc.
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PURPOSE The learning health care system (LHS) was designed to enable real-time learning and research by harnessing data generated during patients' clinical encounters. This novel approach begets ethical questions regarding the oversight of users and uses of patient data. Understanding patients' perspectives is vitally important. MATERIALS AND METHODS We conducted democratic deliberation sessions focused on CancerLinQ, a real-world LHS. Experts presented educational content, and then small group discussions were held to elicit viewpoints. The deliberations centered around whether policies should permit or deny certain users and uses of secondary data. De-identified transcripts of the discussions were examined by using thematic analysis. RESULTS Analysis identified two thematic clusters: expectations and concerns, which seemed to inform LHS governance recommendations. Participants expected to benefit from the LHS through the advancement of medical knowledge, which they hoped would improve treatments and the quality of their care. They were concerned that profit-driven users might manipulate the data in ways that could burden or exploit patients, hinder medical decisions, or compromise patient-provider communication. It was recommended that restricted access, user fees, and penalties should be imposed to prevent users, especially for-profit entities, from misusing data. Another suggestion was that patients should be notified of potential ethical issues and included on diverse, unbiased governing boards. CONCLUSION If patients are to trust and support LHS endeavors, their concerns about for-profit users must be addressed. The ethical implementation of such systems should consist of patient representation on governing boards, transparency, and strict oversight of for-profit users.
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PEP Class studies DNA.
Ms. Julie from the Colfax County Extension Office came to talk to Mrs. Cropp and Mrs. Kabes PEP class 4 times about DNA. The students were able to make strands of DNA with licorice, marshmallows, and toothpicks, they were able to remove DNA from strawberries, and they were able to find their own fingerprints. The students thought they were detectives when they were able to find their fingerprints with cocoa powder. We can't wait to have Ms. Julie back for our next lesson!


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There is considerable evidence that more rational damage criteria need to be generated with regard to low-rise structures subjected to seismic ground motions. There is not sufficient basis for specifying a maximum ground particle velocity criterion, such as 2 in/sec. A peak ground velocity guideline does not currently take into account a number of important parameters, including the predominant frequencies of the ground motion excitation and the structure being excited. Although a number of states have adopted peak-velocity criteria, such criteria have been ruled inadequate in certain legal decisions affecting blasting operations. The development of more rational damage criteria is thus of significant importance. Such criteria must necessarily consider the dynamic characteristics of seismic ground motions, i.e., pertinent and dominant frequency characteristics, response and Fourier spectra, etc. Very little analysis has been done with regard to determining the dynamic characteristics of blasting ground motions, however.
This paper describes a research effort concerned with the determination of these characteristics for a sizeable number of actual blasting records using appropriate theoretical and computer analyses. Peak ground motion versus charge and distance relationships were derived, as well as pertinent response spectra. Statistical representations of the latter were also obtained using some 200 ground motions.


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What are the advantages of getting married to a foreigner? If you think you are ready to tie the knot with a overseas national, you are at the appropriate place. This post will tell you the huge benefits of getting wedded to an individual outside your country. It will likewise help you understand what the drawbacks would be if you choose to get married in another country.
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11 June 2008
On behalf of the Government of Canada and all Canadians, Prime Minister Stephen Harper offered an historic formal apology today to former students of Indian Residential Schools and sought forgiveness for the students' suffering and for the damaging impact the schools had on Aboriginal culture, heritage and language.
"The treatment of children in Indian Residential Schools is a sad chapter in our history," Prime Minister Harper said. "Today, we recognize this policy of assimilation was wrong, has caused great harm, and has no place in our country. The Government of Canada sincerely apologizes and asks the forgiveness of the Aboriginal peoples of this country for failing them so profoundly."
Today's apology reinforces numerous other government initiatives designed to address the tragic legacy of Indian Residential Schools, including the ongoing implementation of the historic Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement which includes: a Common Experience Payment; an Independent Assessment Process; Commemoration Activities; measures to support healing; and the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
"The Government recognizes that the absence of an apology has been an impediment to healing and reconciliation," said Prime Minister Harper. "Years of work by survivors, communities and Aboriginal organizations culminated in an Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. These are the foundations of a new relationship between Aboriginal people and other Canadians, a relationship based on knowledge of our shared history, a respect for each other and a desire to move forward together with a renewed understanding that strong families, strong communities and vibrant cultures and traditions will contribute to a stronger Canada for all of us."


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Windshield streaks often occur due to windshield wipers working on rainy days, but their removal is simple. Grab your favorite glass cleaner and a microfiber towel -- as well as some elbow grease -- and follow the instructions in this article.
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3Use the clean microfiber towel to clean the glass, using strong motions and pushing deeply into the cloth. Make sure you start at the top of the windshield and use up-and-down motions that span the length of your windshield, making your way across the entire windshield.
- Using simple, straight up-and-down motions ensures complete coverage and minimizes additional streaking.
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- Replace your windshield wipers when they are worn. Otherwise, the metal may dig into the surface of the windshield when it operates.
- These steps are also effective for cleaning car windows.
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- Make sure you're getting a good scrub out of the microfiber towel when you clean your windshield. Don't just wipe the cleaner off!
- Purchasing a windshield cleaner from an auto supply store may provide more effective results than using a generic glass cleaner. Windshields are slightly thicker than most windows.
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Personal Branding is identifying your assets, characteristics, strengths, and skills as an individual. Understanding Personal Branding will provide advantages in your personal and professional life. Branding is a mix of how you present yourself and how others see you. It is important to be aware of how you are viewed.
With our Personal Branding course you will be able to share your vision and passions with others in your company. Utilize this knowledge through Social Media to define and influence how others see you. You are your brand so protect it. Live it.
By the end of this workshop, you should be able to:
- Define your image.
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Discover the Spotify model
What the most popular music technology company can teach us about scaling agile
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Spotify is the largest and most popular audio streaming subscription service in the world, with an estimated 286 million users. A key part of Spotify's success is driven by the company's unique approach to organizing around work to enhance team agility. As Spotify's engineering teams traveled down the path towards improved agility, they documented their experience, shared it with the world, and ultimately influenced the way many technology companies organize around work. It is now known as the Spotify model.
What is the Spotify model?
The Spotify model is a people-driven, autonomous approach for scaling agile that emphasizes the importance of culture and network. It has helped Spotify and other organizations increase innovation and productivity by focusing on autonomy, communication, accountability, and quality.
The Spotify model isn't a framework, as Spotify coach Henrik Kniberg noted, since it represents Spotify's view on scaling from both a technical and cultural perspective. It's one example of organizing multiple teams in a product development organization and stresses the need for culture and networks.
…the Spotify model focuses on how we structure an organization to enable agility.
The Spotify model was first introduced to the world in 2012, when Henrik Kniberg and Anders Ivarsson published the whitepaper Scaling Agile @ Spotify, which introduced the radically simple way Spotify approached agility. Since then, the Spotify model generated a lot of buzz and became popular in the agile transformation space. Part of its appeal is that it focuses on organizing around work rather than following a specific set of practices. In traditional scaling frameworks, specific practices (e.g. daily standups) are how the framework is executed, whereas the Spotify model focuses on how businesses can structure an organization to enable agility.
The Spotify model champions team autonomy, so that each team (or Squad) selects their framework (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, etc.). Squads are organized into Tribes and Guilds to help keep people aligned and cross-pollinate knowledge.
Now, let's demystify some of these terms…
Key elements of the Spotify model
The Spotify model is centered around simplicity. When Spotify began organizing around their work, they identified a handful of important elements on how people and teams should be structured.
Similar to a scrum team, Squads are cross-functional, autonomous teams (typically 6-12 individuals) that focus on one feature area. Each Squad has a unique mission that guides the work they do, an agile coach for support, and a product owner for guidance. Squads determine which agile methodology/framework will be used.
When multiple Squads coordinate within each other on the same feature area, they form a Tribe. Tribes help build alignment across Squads and typically consist of 40 - 150 people in order to maintain alignment (leveraging what we call Dunbar's Number). Each Tribe has a Tribe Lead who is responsible for helping coordinate across Squads and for encouraging collaboration.
Even though Squads are autonomous, it's important that specialists (e.g. Javascript Developer, DBAs) align on best practices. Chapters are the family that each specialist has, helping to keep engineering standards in place across a discipline. Chapters are typically led by a senior technology lead, who may also be the manager for the team members in that Chapter.
Team members who are passionate about a topic can form a Guild, which essentially is a community of interest. Anyone can join a Guild and they are completely voluntary. Whereas Chapters belong to a Tribe, Guilds can cross different Tribes. There is no formal leader of a Guild. Rather, someone raises their hand to be the Guild Coordinator and help bring people together.
The Trio (aka TPD Trio) is a combination of a Tribe Lead, product lead, and design lead. Each Tribe has a Trio in place to ensure there is continuous alignment between these three perspectives when working on features areas.
As organizations scale, sometimes multiple Tribes need to closely work together to accomplish a goal. Alliances are a combination of Tribe Trios (typically three or more) that work together to help their Tribes collaborate on a goal that is bigger than any one Tribe.
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That's it. There are not a lot of practices that need to be followed or ceremonies that need to happen. Squads may have ceremonies like sprint planning and retrospectives, but the focus of the Spotify model is on how teams organize around work. It's up to Squads to figure out the best way to get the job done.
The benefits of the Spotify model
When Spotify changed the way they scaled agile they wanted to enable Squads to move fast, ship software quickly, and do so all with minimum pain and overhead. They realized these benefits and more as they took their model and evolved it. The organizational benefits of implementing the Spotify model include:
Less formal process and ceremony
The Spotify model focuses on organizing around work and not necessarily processes and ceremonies. This gives an organization greater flexibility when it comes to how Squads work. Instead of requiring Squads to change how they do their work ("you must do scrum"), it focuses on aligning them with each other and driving towards individual team outcomes.
More self-management and autonomy
The Spotify model encourages autonomy and creativity by trusting people to complete the work they are doing in the way they see fit. Do you need to ship software? That's up to the Squad. Do you need to change direction? That's also up to the Squad. The Spotify model focuses on decentralizing decision making and transferring that responsibility to Squads, Tribes, Chapters, and Guilds.
"Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement."
- Dan Pink, Author, "Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us"
The Spotify model can offer increased transparency across the work being done and grow a more experimentation-based approach to problem solving in a high trust environment. All this can lead to things like better products, happier customers, and more engaged employees. However, not everyone will experience these outcomes.
The challenges of the Spotify model
The Spotify model was based on one organization's way of working. Many organizations desire the same benefits of the Spotify model, so they attempt to emulate what Spotify did. Some organizations experienced more success than others, but it's likely no organization experienced the same success as Spotify. The reason? Like any way of working, an organization's current culture and structure need to be taken into account. The model is simple, but the environment it's implemented in is complex.
Wise executives tailor their approach to fit the complexity of the circumstances they face.
- Dave Snowden, Management Consultant
Unfortunately, many organizations try to copy the Spotify model. To some, it may seem like a simple matrix organizational structure where people report to a functional area (Chapter), but work with a cross-functional team (Squad). However, it's more complex than that. Although it may look like a matrix organization, the key cultural elements of the model need to be in place to allow the structure to thrive, such as trust and autonomy. If an organization doesn't shift its behaviors (and ultimately its culture), the benefits of the Spotify model will never be realized. If you simply rename teams to Squads, you're just putting lipstick on a pig.
Spotify model best practices
If you're looking to enable a culture of trust, autonomy, and rapid learning, you can't go wrong looking to the Spotify model for inspiration. If your organization is looking at the Spotify model as a means to help you approach agile at scale, the following is a list of best practices to keep in mind.
Don't copy the model
Seek to understand the structure, practices, and mindset behind Spotify's approach. With that understanding, tweak the aspects of the model to fit your own environment. Your goal is not to be Spotify, but to leverage their model to improve how your organization works together.
Autonomy and trust is key
Spotify gave as much autonomy as possible to their people in order to help them pivot quickly. Allowing teams to pick their own development tools and modify another team's code are just some examples. Within your organization, determine if there are decisions that can be pushed to the teams instead of being mandated by parts of the organization that are disconnected from the day-to-day work.
Transparency with community
Spotify's success is credited to their focus on building community and transparency around their work. Establish your first Guild around the Spotify model adoption and encourage participation from everyone in the organization. Build trust by creating transparent, inclusive ways to gather feedback, and gain alignment on how your organization wants to work in the future.
Encourage mistakes
You will fall down and stumble in this journey. But that's okay. Improvement involves experimenting and learning from both our successes and failures. Spotify went through many iterations before they attained the model we know today, and have since continued to experiment to constantly look for new ways to improve the way they work. Encourage the same within your organization!
If you focus on these practices you'll see positive impacts on how your organization collaborates and aligns, whether or not you use the Spotify model as a guide.
In conclusion…
The Spotify model is a great source of inspiration if you're looking to build an organization focused on moving quickly with autonomy and purpose. Even more formal scaling frameworks, such as Scrum@Scale, have gained inspiration from the model (and vice versa). It's important to remember that the Spotify model is not a destination. Ironically enough, Spotify doesn't leverage the original implementation of the Spotify model anymore; they evolved and adapted the model to fit their changing organization. Trios and Alliances are actually newer elements in Spotify as they were brought about to solve new problems the organization faced as it grew larger. Starting with the key elements of the


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I have a datastore that is querying a database and outputting JSon... something like this:
$data[] = array('id' => $i, 'prod_id' => $product_id, 'link' => $link);
I'm wondering how you can pass back a link using the $link variable. If I had this for example:
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The datagrid would display Clicky and not the actual html link... Is there anyway to pass back html?
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I would suggest passing the link URL and the link text separately, then reconstructing them into an anchor link in JavaScript on the client-side.
You could also try escaping the HTML, then unescaping on the client-side.
I have no idea why it won't send linksperhaps the browser is trying to parse the sent HTML too early?
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You can use formatter in dojo grid to format the HTML displayed in each cell. When creating the grid, you can set a formatter for each column. The formatter is a JavaScript function that takes two parameters, the first one value means the value of the cell, the second one rowIndex means the index of current row. The return value of the formatter function is the HTML content displayed in the cell.
For your case, I would suggest that you use a single column for both the link URL and anchor text. You can use a simple encoding, like _URL_$$$Clicky, where $$$ is used to separate these two fields. The PHP code would be:
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Then in your formatter function, you can use :
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If you prefer to use one column for each field, e.g. url for URL and anchorText for the anchor text. Then you need to get the value of another column when formatting the cell. Suppose the grid uses the url field. Then the formatter function may look like below:
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Thanks for the awesome explanation. I ended up using the escapeHTMLInData="false", however.. but will keep the formatter function in mind for later! :) – Paul Dec 1 '10 at 22:48
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Research has shown that listening to music during pregnancy especially soothing music is known to have a very calming effect on both the mother and the child within her womb. Babies tend to usually hear sounds from outside the mother's womb when they reach the 20th week of pregnancy. Hence doctors also recommend that from the 20th week of pregnancy the mother should listen to soothing music especially western classical or Indian classical. Women should not listen to loud music during pregnancy as that may have an adverse effect on the development of the child and its overall personality. It has been observed that listening to a few minutes of soothing music during pregnancy is an effective, safe and cheap way to de-stress and relax both the mother and the child. It is advisable to listen to music at a tempo of not more that 60 beats per minute as this is most beneficial to reach an optimum heart rate. In time the mother will find herself relaxing and the breathing also becomes slow in time with the music and shortly enough the heart rate follows. Doctors have said that the baby is able to feel maternal stress as early as 17 weeks into the pregnancy and if the mother experiences high levels of stress it can be detrimental to the mental and physical strength of the child.
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Next year's census will be unlike any other done before because it will use handheld computers with GPS tracking devices to take home and address information. Philadelphia Regional Census Center Deputy Regional Director Ted Roman says the 2000 census was taken on all paper, including paper forms and paper maps. Pittsburgh is a part of the Philadelphia Regional Census Center. The computers are being used in order to create the most accurate data possible. Roman says the information entered will be transmitted on an hourly basis to the control database as encrypted files to ensure security and anonymity. Keeping information security is a primary goal for the Census Bureau. The questionnaires, which will be sent to all valid addresses in March 2010, will list seven simple topics that include name, race and age.


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In an effort to bolster our ability to identify some of New Zealand's most widespread and commonly cultivated trees, Leon Perrie, Curator of Botany and I attended a workshop for identifying Eucalyptus, Corymbia and Pinus species this month.
The workshop was presented by Chris Ecroyd, a long standing member of New Zealand's botanical community who worked as Curator of New Zealand's Forest Research Institute Herbarium (NZFRI) at Scion NewZealand, before retiring last year. The workshop was also supported by Scion and Wellington City Council.
Eucalyptus and Corymbia are part of the family Myrtaceae. Commonly known members of this family native to New Zealand include rata and pohutukawa (Metrosideros species), kanuka (Kunzea species) and manuka (Leptospermum scoparium). However the Australian members of the Myrtaceae family are much more difficult to tell apart, principally because there are so many of them.Mallee is the term used to describe a gum that is a shrub or tree less than 10m in height and is multi-stemmed from ground level. We learnt that all mallees are in the Eucalyptus genus, like Eucalyptus stricta above, although these would be rare or non-existent outside gardens in New Zealand.
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The identification skills we picked up at the workshop will enable us to develop the collection of these genera within Te Papa's herbarium (WELT). At WELT we are interested in collecting cultivated plants as well as native plants and have a responsibility, as part of New Zealand's herbaria community, to collect representatives of all known cultivated species within the central New Zealand region. This group still requires significant development at WELT.
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Here you will learn the basic steps to Michael Jackson's Thriller dance.
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 Take four steps forward starting with your right foot first. Then take four steps back with your right foot first. Repeat.
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 Nod your head to one side on beat 1 and skip on 2 and again on beat 3 and 4. This part should begin right when MJ starts to sing.
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The work performed during the Helix Nebula initiative during its two years pilot phase has shown that cloud services are suitable for scientific workloads performed by public research organisations and they are now prepared to consider procuring commercial cloud services on a significant scale.
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core drilling team in the Spring of 1963. While drilling through
40 feet of solid limestone, the bit broke into what is now known
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By Emma Beswick
Here's how to say the Hogwarts houses in other languages
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The Harry Potter franchise is a global sensation and the books have been translated from British English into around 73 languages.
While some translators have stayed true to the original English spelling and pronunciation, others have changed the names of characters and places for their audience.
The Hogwarts houses, named after the four founders of the school of witchcraft and wizardry, are at the core of the books and films.
In the English versions, the four houses are called Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin, and while their pronunciations may vary, these names have been kept in the Portuguese, German, Spanish and Turkish translations.
Despite using a different alphabet, the Arabic and Greek translations keep the same pronunciation of all the Hogwarts houses, with "Gryffindor" written غودريك غريفندور and Γκρίφιντορ, but pronounced the same as in English.
Italian, French, Welsh and Hungarian have completely changed some of the houses to make their onomatopoeic quality more obvious for their audience.
"Slytherin" became "Serpentard" in French and in Welsh, translators went for the descriptive "Slaffenog".
"Hufflepuff", the house represented by a badger, became "Tassorosso" in Italian, "Poufsouffle" in French and "Wfftiwff" in Welsh.


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Ring Lardner
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BornRinggold Wilmer Lardner
(1885-03-05)March 5, 1885
Niles, Michigan, United States
DiedSeptember 25, 1933(1933-09-25) (aged 48)
East Hampton, New York, United States
OccupationWriter, journalist
SpouseEllis Abbot
Children John, James, Ring Jr., and David.
Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" Lardner (March 5, 1885 [1] – September 25, 1933) was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre. His contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, and F. Scott Fitzgerald all professed strong admiration for his writing, and author John O'Hara directly attributed his understanding of dialogue to him.
Syndicated writing
Lardner started his writing career as a sports columnist, finding work with the newspaper South Bend Times in 1905. In 1907, he relocated to Chicago, where he got a job with the Inter-Ocean. Within a year, he quit to work for the Chicago Examiner, and then for the Tribune. [2] Two years later, Lardner was in St. Louis, writing the humorous baseball column Pullman Pastimes for Taylor Spink and the Sporting News. Some of this work was the basis for his book You Know Me, Al. Within three months, he was an employee of the Boston American.
In 1913, Lardner returned to the Chicago Tribune, which became the home newspaper for his syndicated column In the Wake of the News (started by Hugh Keough, who had died in 1912). The column appeared in more than 100 newspapers, and is still published in the Tribune. Lardner's Tribune and syndicated writing was not exclusively sports related: his dispatches from/near the World War One front were collected in the book My Four Weeks in France, and his immersive coverage of the 1920 Democratic Convention resulted in Lardner receiving 0.5 votes on the 23rd ballot.
Books and stories
In 1916, Lardner published his first successful book, You Know Me Al, an epistolary novel written in the form of letters by "Jack Keefe", a bush-league baseball player, to a friend back home. The letters made much use of the fictional author's idiosyncratic vernacular. It had initially been published as six separate but interrelated short stories in The Saturday Evening Post, causing some to classify the book as a collection of stories, others as a novel. Like most of Lardner's stories, You Know Me Al employs satire, in this case, to show the stupidity and avarice of a certain type of athlete. The journalist Andrew Ferguson wrote that "Ring Lardner thought of himself as primarily a sports columnist whose stuff wasn't destined to last, and he held to that absurd belief even after his first masterpiece, You Know Me Al, was published in 1916 and earned the awed appreciation of Virginia Woolf, among other very serious, unfunny people." Ferguson termed the book one of the top five pieces of American humor writing. [3]
Sarah Bembrey has written about a singular event in Lardner's sportswriting experience: "In 1919 something happened that changed his way of reporting about sports and changed his love for baseball. This was the Black Sox scandal when the Chicago White Sox sold out the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. Ring was exceptionally close to the White Sox and felt he was betrayed by the team. After the scandal, Ring always wrote about sports as if there were some kink to the outcome." [2] Lardner's last fictional baseball writing was collected in the book Lose with a Smile (1933).
Lardner later published such stories as "Haircut", "Some Like Them Cold", "The Golden Honeymoon", "Alibi Ike", and "A Day with Conrad Green." He also continued to write follow-up stories to You Know Me Al, with the protagonist of that book, the headstrong but gullible Jack Keefe, experiencing various ups and downs in his major league career and in his personal life. Private Keefe's World War I training camp letters home to his friend Al were collected in the book Treat 'Em Rough: Letters From Jack the Kaiser Killer. The sequel, The Real Dope, followed Keefe overseas to the trenches in France.
Theatre and music
Lardner also had a lifelong fascination with the theatre, although his only Broadway three-act successes were the thrice-filmed Elmer The Great, co-written with George M. Cohan, and June Moon, a comedy authored with Broadway veteran George S. Kaufman. Lardner also wrote skits for the Ziegfeld Follies. and a series of brief nonsense plays that ridiculed the conventions of the theatre using zany humor and outrageous, impossible stage directions, such as "The curtain is lowered for seven days to denote the lapse of a week."
He was a dedicated composer and lyricist: both his first – Zanzibar (1903) – and last – June Moon (1929) – published stage works included several Lardner tunes. He wrote at least one recorded song for Bert Williams, co-wrote one for Nora Bayes, and provided the lyrics for the song "That Old Quartet" (1913) by Nathaniel D. Mann. Other collaborators of note included Aubrey Stauffer, Jerome Kern on Very Good Eddie (1915), and Vincent Youmans – with whom he toiled on the Ziegfeld - Marilyn Miller - Astaires musical, Smiles (1930).
Lardner's books were published by Maxwell Perkins, who also edited Lardner's most important contemporaries, including Fitzgerald who, unlike Hemingway, [4] also became Lardner's friend. Although Lardner held his own short stories in sufficiently low regard, he did not save copies, and had to get copies from the magazines who had first published them to compile a book, [5] Lardner influenced several of his more famous peers:
Cultural references
Personal life
Born in Niles, Michigan, Ring Lardner was the son of wealthy parents, Henry and Lena Phillips Lardner. He was the youngest of nine children. Lardner's name came from a cousin of the same name. The cousin had been named by Lardner's uncle, Rear Admiral James L. Lardner, who had decided to name his son after a friend, Rear Admiral Cadwalader Ringgold, who was from a distinguished military family. Lardner never liked his given name and abbreviated it to Ring, naming one of his sons Ring Jr.
In childhood he wore a brace for his deformed foot until he was eleven. He also had a passion for baseball, stage, and music. [1] He later attended the Armour Institute in Chicago. [1]
Lardner married Ellis Abbott of Goshen, Indiana, in 1911. They had four sons, John, James, Ring Jr., and David, all of whom became professional writers.
Lardner died on September 25, 1933, at the age of 48 in East Hampton, New York, of a heart attack due to complications from tuberculosis. [2]
Sons and great-nephew
Essays and other contributions
 1. 1 2 3 Lardner, Ring. Ring Lardner Reader. Scribners.p. xiv
 2. 1 2 3 Bembrey, Sarah, ed. (Fall 1999). "Ring Lardner, Sr". The Lardner Dynasty. Interactive Media Lab, University of Florida.
 3. Ferguson, Andrew (2 December 2006). "Five Best: Laughter that Lasts". The Wall Street Journal. p. P8. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 3 December 2006.
 4. Bruccoli, Matthew J., ed. (1996). The Only Thing That Counts: The Ernest Hemingway - Maxwell Perkins Correspondence. Scribner.
 5. Berg, A. Scott (1978). Max Perkins, Editor of Genius. New American Library. p. 77. ISBN 978-0-399-58483-1.
 6. Gelfant, Blanche H. (and Lawrence Graver) (2004) The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-century American Short Story, Columbia University Press. (See Ring Lardner, p.322)
 7. "Lardner Connections: Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Leyner, McMillan, Newman". tridget.com. 18 March 2006.
 8. O'Hara, 1952, foreword to Appointment in Samarra, The Modern Library, 1994.
 9. Booth, Wayne C. (1983). The Rhetoric of Fiction, 2nd ed. University of Chicago Press. pp. 3–20. ISBN 0-226-06556-1.
 10. Eight Men Out Movie Review, DVD Release Archived 2008-03-10 at the Wayback Machine, Filmcritic.com
 11. "Ring Lardner". Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. 2016.


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This paper makes two contributions to the empirical literature on agglomeration economies. First, the paper uses a unique and rich database in conjunction with mapping software to measure the geographic extent of agglomerative externalities. Previous papers have been forced to assume that agglomeration economies are club goods that operate at a metropolitan scale. Second, the paper tests for the existence of organizational agglomeration economies of the kind studied qualitatively by Saxenian (1994). This is a potentially important source of increasing returns that previous empirical work has not considered. Results indicate that localization economies attenuate rapidly and that industrial organization affects the benefits of agglomeration.
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Reference and Simulation Costing is a tool for planning costs and setting prices, with which you manually enter the costing items in spreadsheet form in aunit cost estimate.
With this component, you can create base planning objects. A base planning object is a reference object of Product Cost Planning which you create in Reference and Simulation Costing, in order to plan costs for a new product or service and simulate changes to existing cost estimates.
In base object costing, you can access data in the Controlling, Materials Management and Production Planning modules.
You can access data that already exists in the R/3 System, such as:
For further information,seeMaster Data for Unit Costing.
You create base planning objects to plan new products or services. They provide the data required for management decisions as to the manufacture of products, the provision of services, or whether the product should be produced internally or externally.
You enter the additive costs manually in the form of a unit cost estimate.
You can use the base planning object as follows:
You can use a base planning object in the costing of the following objects in the R/3 System:
As a Spreadsheet Without Accessing Data in the R/3 System
In the first stage of a feasibility study, you create a cost estimate. In this cost estimate, you create an item consisting of a quantity, a unit of measure, and a price, for each operation to be carried out. The sum of the item values is the total costs of the undertaking.
At a later stage, you can expand this costing template with detailed information from the R/3 System on the materials to be used and activities to be provided.
Spreadsheet with Access to Data in the R/3 System
In a base object cost estimate, you list all the materials and activity types required to carry out a specific process. The R/3 System valuates them using prices from the material master records, and the activity prices from Cost Center Accounting. The total costs of the process are produced from the total of the costing items.
You can use this cost estimate later as a reference when carrying out cost planning for an order or a project.
Item in Another Cost Estimate
You create three base object cost estimates containing the materials, internal activities and external activities that are regularly used. When processing a quotation, you enter these base object cost estimates in the cost estimate for the quotation and add further costing items specific to that customer's requirements. This gives you a basis for the quotation price in Sales (SD).
Reference when Planning Specific Reference Objects in the R/3 System
You create a base object cost estimate in which you list all the activities generally carried out by the marketing department during a trade fair. When you open an internal order for collecting the costs of a particular trade fair, you can copy the relevant costing items to the order and use them as a basis for planning the order.
You can create multiple base object cost estimates in which you plan the expected costs for the various components of a standard product. When you enter a quotation for a particular variant of this product in Sales and Distribution (SD), you can select the relevant costing items from the base object cost estimate, transfer them into the quotation and use them to process the quotation in SD.


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Decoding the Genome Canada Research Network : an institutional analysis
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The rise of high-technological innovations in the midto late- 20th and early 21st centuries has required the establishment of equally innovative agencies and institutions to guide these technological innovations. This thesis examines the emergence and evolution of Genome Canada, which was created to oversee the proliferation and direction of genomic research within Canada. This thesis examines how genomic research developed in Canada throughout the late 1980s to early 2000s, why it became necessary to create Genome Canada, how the networked model chosen was seen as the preferred model, and how Genome Canada has evolved to date. This case study of Genome Canada is important because it reveals how public institutions that guide innovation emerge and how they evolve over time. As well, it is important because it reveals how the model used in the genome policy sector may be used again in the future as a framework for establishing other similar institutions.
DegreeMaster of Arts (M.A.)
SupervisorGarcea, Joseph O.
CommitteePhillips, Peter W.; McLeod, Allan; Smyth, Stuart
Copyright DateNovember 2011
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Chinese Luogu Percussion Ensembles
The Lion's Roar is an exciting introduction to the fire and fury of traditional percussion ensembles. For the first time in English, readers are presented with the cultural and historical background of the tradition, an overview of instruments, and transcriptions for eleven ensembles, four of which include songs featuring melody instruments and Chinese words.
The text is engaging and easy to follow, and the ensembles are appropriate for use by groups from elementary school through adult. Music and social studies faculty, students of Chinese music and culture, and ethnomusicologists will find The Lion's Roar fascinating, thorough and very accessible.
Ensembles include: Lion Dances, Dragon Dance, Festival Parade, Flower-ball Dance, processionals, and others.
The 8.5" x 11" book includes:
- Copy-OK transcriptions for each piece
- Mnemonics (chanted rhythm patterns) for each piece
- Step-by-step guide to mastery and performance
- Cultural Context
- Guides for adapting classroom instruments
- 16 photographs; paper-cuts, drawings
- Glossary and Pronunciation Guide
The companion audio recording includes:
- Chinese ensemble directed by Han
- Mnemonics and performances as written in the book
- Every selection in the book is on the recording
Set of 13 full color downloadable images (created from the original slides) with teacher's guide includes photos of:
- Traditional Chinese instruments
- Performing ensembles
- Lion Dance
Downloadable PDFs, Performance/
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Super simple Arduino TFT SD Card reader tutorial plus alternative to Arduinos default library…
- Connect the SD card module with Arduino according to following connection table:
Arduino SD Card reader 4 CS 13 SCK 11 MOSI 12 MISO 5V Vcc GND GND
- Insert SD card into the reader
- Open Arduino IDE
- Connect Arduino with computer.
- Select CardInfo example sketch:
- Upload sketch and open Serial Monitor
- If everything is working correctly the output will be similar to this:
- Next test ReadWrite example script, output should be following:
- And thats it for basic use of SD card.
Now Arduinos default library is quite basic. For more feature rich library use: _URL_
SdFat features functions like speed test, formatting and much more.


Living with Hope in Hard Times
Ryan Troglin | August 13, 2015
Assurance can be a struggle for believers. Certain situations, temperaments, and inclinations will cause some of us to wrestle with it more than others. Through the pendulum swings of life, we feel our spirits wax and wane within us. But Christians are a people who live not in the ebb and flow of our circumstances, but in the concreteness of our future glory and liberation.
But how? How do we anchor ourselves to this objective activity of the Holy Spirit? What does the Bible say about the certainty of our salvation amid hard times? Why did God pick suffering as the pathway to Christlikeness? How should we interpret our experience of disappointment as Christians? How can we rest assured we stand on a certain faith and not a failing one? To consider these questions and more, TGC's Mark Mellinger sat down with Ligon Duncan, chancellor of Reformed Theological Seminary.
In this nine-minute video, Duncan shows how Paul deals with this issue in Romans 8:16–25 and how we can live in the hope we have in Christ, even in hard times. Though we may feel tossed around in our hearts, the work of the Spirit inside us never wavers. Even when we can't feel it, we can bank on his steady hand.
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California Yellowtail are found and caught commercially off California and Baja California, Mexico. They reach sexual maturity at an early age, but are relatively slow growing and known to form spawning aggregations, making them vulnerable to fishing pressure.
Catches of California Yellowtail have fluctuated greatly over the years, tending to be greater during El Nino events when waters are warmer and much less during cool, La Nina events.
Abundance levels of California Yellowtail populations are not known, but catches in recent years have been low. California Yellowtail are captured with both set and drift gillnets and hook-and-line. Drift gillnets and hook-and-line cause minimal habitat damage while set gillnets may cause moderate habitat damage. Bycatch in these fisheries is likely moderate.
Some management regulations are in place for the California fisheries, such as a minimum size limit and restricted fishing areas, but regulations are not in place for Mexico fisheries.


Learning from the elders
The peculiar program of the Grand École du Droit (GED) encourages its students to choose at an early stage the legal field they want to study later on. Indeed, once we come back from our LLM year, we have to apply for our « Masters 2 », which mean that it's necessary for us to know very early what we appreciate or not.
However, when you're a second-year law school student, it's quite difficult to determine which legal area is interesting or not. Being a GED student means living in the fast lane (_URL_ it also means taking important decisions before other students, and this can become confusing.
Fortunately, being a GED student implies benefiting from a cooperation spirit and from an alumni network, which often facilitate our lives. Concerned about our worries and academic guidance, several former GED students came to advise us! Some are still studying (masters 2, bar school …), others have already begun their career, but all of them have endured these 3 years as GED students and lived an LLM experience. Through short meetings of an hour with the current GED students (GED 1, 2 & 3), each of them presented their academic background and the courses that composed their LLM as well as their masters 2. Lire la suite
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E. Cobham Brewer _PHONE_. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
stands for 300. Scit B. trecentum sibi cogntum retinre. And, again, Et B. trecentum per se retinere videtur. But with a line above, it denotes 3,000.
For Becarre and Bemol (French for B sharp and B flat), see BECARRE.
Marked with a B (French), i.e. a poor thing. In the French language almost all personal defects begin with the letter B; e.g. bigle (squint-eyed), borgne (one-eyed), bossu (humpty), boiteux (lame), etc.
Not to know B from a battledoor. To be quite illiterate, not to know even his letters. Miege tells us that hornbooks used to be called battledoors. The phrase might therefore originally mean not to know the B of, from, or out of, your hornbook. But its more general meaning is not able to distinguish one letter from another.
He knoweth not a B from a battledoore.Howell; English Proverbs.
Distinguish a B from a battledore.Dekker: Guls Hornebook.
I know B from a Bulls foot. Similar to the proverb, I know a hawk from a hernshaw. (See HAWK.) The bulls parted hoof somewhat resembles a B.
There were members who scarcely knew B from a bulls foot.Brackenbridge: Modern Chivalry.


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how to draw a chinese sky dragon
How to Draw a Chinese Sky Dragon
how to draw a chinese sky dragon step 1
So first draw a circle which will be the head. Then make a big "S" shape which will soon be the body. Afterwards, draw 4 smaller circles, 2 close to the head and 2 close to the rear of the body. These will be the shoulders of the dragon. Finally draw lines from the shoulder circles that outline the position of the legs.
how to draw a chinese sky dragon step 2
Now, draw the basic shape of the head and the eye. Draw the body around the big "S" shape you did in step 1. Then draw the shape of the legs around the lines coming off the shoulder circles that you also drew in step 1. Then finally draw rectangles for the fingers.
how to draw a chinese sky dragon step 3
Now, draw the shape of the nose and don't forget the whiskers coming off it. Outline the mouth with some sort of lips and make the snout wrinkly. Then add the teeth in the mouth and have the tongue coming out of it. Afterwards draw the horns on the back of the head and then put claws on the end of the fingers and toes.
how to draw a chinese sky dragon step 4
First draw the underbelly of the dragon which resembles some kind of armored plates overlapping each other. Then add the sharp row of spines going down the back all the way to the tail. Then move back up to the head and draw the hair on the back of the head, then on the knees and elbows. Finally finish up with the hair on the tail.
how to draw a chinese sky dragon step 5
Now, draw theses swirly things on the elbows and knees. I don't know what they are besides a decorative thing that really isn't necessarily, but looks awesome. Then, draw the scales. Don't draw every single scale, but draw groups of scales and it will generate the effect that you actually had drawn all the scales. Also, make the scales smaller on the face than on the body.
how to draw a chinese sky dragon step 6
Finally, draw all the clouds in. I did this by hand which took almost as long as the scales did. But if there are other ways of putting clouds there, feel free to do whatever you want! I'm not here to judge. Then have fun coloring the dragon any way you like!


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RPi Tutorial EGHS:12V relay driver
- GPIO Protection Circuits
- Basic Circuits: LED output - DC motor - Switch Input - Analogue Sensor
- Intermediate Circuits: Shift Registers - Analogue to Digital - Driving Circuit - Alpha-Numeric Display
- Advanced Circuits: Control Hardware Over The Internet
This page is part of a work in progress.
While most of these circuits may interface directly to the RPi, the use of a buffered interface (such as the one supplied by the Gertboard) is recommended which will help protect against damage. Alternatively, experiment with one of the Alternative Test Platforms.
Extreme caution should be exercised when interfacing hardware at a low level, you may damage your RPi, your equipment and potentially yourself and others. Doing so is at your own risk!
Note: The 12V relay driver circuit has been tested with real RPi device and was working properly.
The 12V relay driver circuit combines protection circuits described in GPIO Protection Circuits. Design was done with respect to maximize GPIO protection and minimize GPIO current withdraw.


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By Robin Lawless on This Dish Is Veg
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) announced last week that China and Russia have agreed to create a protected area on their shared border to use as a habitat for the endangered Siberian tiger. The transboundary protected area will double the range the tigers roam.
The Siberian tiger, also know as the Amur tiger, is the largest of the tiger subspecies and is highly endangered with an estimated population of only 500.
"Since both countries play a crucial role in terms of global tiger recovery, a future transboundary network would represent a big step in WWF's global tiger conservation effort," said Dr. Sergey Aramilev, the biodiversity coordinator for the Amur Branch of WWF-Russia.
The agreement marks a great achievement during the Chinese Year of the Tiger.
Earlier this year, WWF launched the TX2 campaign to double the number of wild tigers by the next Year of the Tiger, which occurs in 2022.
The agreed upon transboundary area will also be a protected habitat for other endangered species like the Far East leopard, musk deer and goral.


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In D'Blossiers Tovey's fascinating 1738 work which deals with the archaelogical remnants of English Jewry before the expulsion of 1290, Anglia Judaica, about the "the history and antiquities of the Jews in England, collected from all our historians, both printed and manuscript, as also from the records in the Tower, and other publick repositories," he reproduces an image of a vase or an urn of sorts with a Hebrew inscription. Explaining that it was found in a brook about 40 years earlier (about 1700), he asked Jews what it was used for, but they didn't know:
Tovey's own (way off track) guess was that it was meant to store documents. But my guess is that it was a 'tzedakah box.' צדקה תציל ממות.
What's your interpretation?