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Sacred Art In Sardonic Times: A New Exhibition On 18th Century Parisian Religious Art
June 20, 2017 June 20, 2017 / William Newton
For the most part, I'm not hugely interested in the majority of 18th century French painting. I find scraggly landscapes populated with cavorting shepherds, and mythological scenes featuring flower-bedecked nymphs the color of raw prawns to be rather ho-hum. Perhaps because the French taste was so de rigueur at European courts during this period, and frivolous, often sardonic images covered walls, furniture, snuff boxes, and just about everything else, it became overly diluted and, to me, very boring.
So it was interesting to scroll through this article in Apollo Magazine and learn a bit more about some of the religious paintings of the era, which are featured in a new exhibition at the Petit Palais in Paris, "Baroque during the Enlightenment: 18th Century Masterpieces in Paris Churches". As I've often commented in these pages, one of the joys of art history is that there is always something new to learn: just when you think you've tapped out a particular area of enquiry, something new appears on the radar. A quick run through this PDF press release, which features images of the works included in the exhibition, shows why this is the case.
As Apollo correctly points out, the title of the exhibition is a bit of a misnomer, for most of the images in the show are not really examples of Baroque art. Many of them feature pastel palettes and sweet expressions employed by artists such as Francois Boucher in decorating the boudoirs of royal mistresses like La Pompadour. Some of the images look like still lives of the dainty figurines being produced during the same time period by European porcelain factories like Sèvres or Meissen.
At the same time, for all of the Rococo frou-frou of Nicolas Largillière's "Nativity" (1730) from Saint-Suplice, there are some works which, when examined individually, are more interesting compositions than one would normally associate with the general frivolity of 18th century French art. David's physically powerful and visually stark "Christ on the Cross" (1782) for example, now in the Cathedral of Mâcon, is something of a surprise, since David rarely ventured into the realm of sacred art. He is better-known as a history painter, an enthusiastic supporter of the Revolution, and later as Napoleon's chief artistic propagandist.
While his depiction of the Crucifixion is more focused on capturing the human form – albeit with strangely disproportionate arms – than in conveying themes such as suffering and redemption, at the same time the artist is consciously harkening back to the work of Baroque artists, particularly the Tenebrists, who specialized in this kind of intense, stripped-down imagery.
Similarly, Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre's "Martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket" (1748) harkens back to late Renaissance and Baroque models, in particular showing the influence of much earlier Venetian artists such as Veronese for both its composition and coloring.
Like David however, Pierre doesn't quite get the details right. The effect of his altarpiece is somewhat spoilt by the overly decorative and frilly French uniforms of the supposedly English henchmen shown attaching the aged Archbishop at Mass. Moreover the expression on the chief attacker's face is also more comical and pantomime-ish than threatening.
Taken as a whole, these paintings show how the Enlightenment had a pernicious effect on the elites who commissioned them. While some of these pieces are charming and beautifully executed, none of them is particularly inspiring. What we are seeing is mostly play-acting, with the costumes and settings being more important than the story.
Perhaps the only really moving piece in the entire show is Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié's painting of the Baroque "Calvary Chapel Of The Church of Saint-Roch" (1765), which shows a hauntingly beautiful sculptural-architectural creation from the end of the Baroque era that was later destroyed by leftists (of course) during the French Revolution. Really, this chapel should be copied and recreated elsewhere. I can't quite get my mind off that beautifully simple pose of the statue of the Virgin Mary at the foot of the Cross:
While some of the works in this show are now in museums, others are normally still hanging in the churches for which they were originally created. If you know anything about art history, you know that this is something of a rarity, since most works of art at some point end up getting stolen from the Church and shipped off to the national collection under some pretext. To see these examples displayed together therefore, is a rare occurrence, and no doubt worth your time should you happen to find yourself in Paris this summer.
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A celebration of the life of Jack Jay Kramer was held on March 30, 2019 at the St Augustine First Church of the Nazarene where he was a member for over 40 years. He is survived by Eleanor "Joey" Urey best friend and life partner with whom he traveled the US and Europe. He was born in Dayton, Ohio to Ralph and Helen Kramer (deceased). While in Ohio the Kramer family were members of the Parkview Church of the Nazarene. Jack lived in Ohio until the mid-1970's when he moved his family to St. Augustine, FL. Wife Janine (deceased), daughter Janet Patterson and son, Rev. Jeffrey Kramer both of St. Augustine. Jack's extended family includes sister, Joyce and husband Brian Goldbeck of Okeechobee, FL and brother, Joseph Kramer of Astoria, OR. Four granddaughters, Evelyn, Amanda, Cassie and Brittany and their children all of St. Augustine. Jerri and Bob Pierpont, Rick Smith and Tom Smith (Janine's siblings). Ross and Jane Kramer, Uncle and Aunt, of Deland, FL., Cousins, nieces, nephews and lifelong friends are spread around the entire US.
St. Augustine First Church of the Nazarene was the church home to Jack and his entire family where he served in many capacities including Sunday School teacher, currently church board member and many other positions. Jack inspired many people with Christian values, morals and a true Love of his God. He will be truly missed.
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The Academy Apilus training program is now available in Netherlands. Through a newly established partnership with the Hague University, Dutch aestheticians will now have access to the most advanced electrolysis program: the Apilus Masterclass. This new learning tool will enable students to learn the theory online and to get the practice at the university. It's a major step forward for the advancement of the electrolysis profession in the Netherlands.


Warner Music Group Corp. today announced its second-quarter financial results for the period ended on 31 March 2018. As a result, the giant record company witnessed a growth of 16.7% in the total revenue. The digital revenue grows to 24.6%, whereas the net loss is $1 million versus net income of $20 million in the prior-year quarter. Revenue has increased in all regions. Operating income of WMG was $83 million compared to $78 million in the prior-year quarter.
Interestingly, less than a week after Sony Music sold approximately 50% of its shares in Spotify, Warner Music Group Crop. sells $400 million of Spotify stock worth around three-quarters of its total equity in the streaming company.
According to Warner Music Group's CEO Steve Cooper, the record company is having another excellent year with strong momentum around the world in both recorded music and music publishing. "We're investing heavily in A&R, digital innovation and the transformation of our operations to ensure that we are positioned for long-term success," said Cooper.
Now that Spotify's equity is banked by WMG, Warner's sale transaction suggests that Warner's total pre-sale shareholding in Spotify was worth somewhere between $500 million and $550 million. "We'll share these proceeds [the same way] we share revenue from actual streams and so-called digital breakage. In addition, we will be sharing equity proceeds with distributed labels – if [this is] included in their agreements with us," said Cooper to MBW.


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10 Predictions About Cybersecurity Threats in 2022
The number of ransomware attacks continues to grow, and that trend will likely continue in 2022. Organizations will be attacked, files will be encrypted, and victims will need to decide whether to pay ransom or try to implement expensive and painful recovery techniques on their own.
That much, unfortunately, should come as no surprise, but what will be different is how those attacks are carried out. Egnyte anticipates a broader approach to cyber-extortion in 2022, as criminals experiment with a wide array of attacks that can be combined with basic encryption threats. Attackers will look to expand their impact and increase revenue, so businesses need to be prepared for what's on the horizon.
Here is our list of predictions about how cybersecurity threats will change in 2022.
1. New File Disruption Techniques Will Emerge
Attackers have long used standard encryption algorithms and applied them against files with well-known user extensions (.doc, .xls, .pdf, etc.). To remain undetected for longer time periods, newer attacks encrypt only alternate bytes or sections in a file, or they start by encrypting the older, less used files first. They also re-encrypt after another week goes by to try to make sure the backups are encrypted as well.
In 2022, this trend will continue as attackers begin to target macros within files, file names, and folder locations in order to disrupt business workflows and the files themselves. This attack model is much more difficult to untangle than when organizations simply try to restore their files from backups.
2. Supply Chains and Insider Threats Will be a Bigger Focus
The attack surface will continue to expand into supply chain-focused and insider attacks. We're already in the midst of a supply-chain crisis that has shown the impacts of disruption, so expect attackers to seize the opportunity to exploit an already beleaguered system.
Insider threats will also be on the rise, as attackers are increasingly trying to persuade (or pay) disgruntled employees to assist in their efforts.
3. Attackers Will Find New Ways to Hide Logic Bombs
Attackers will use new techniques to implement logic bombs and threaten to delete files if their demands are not met. Code hidden in a machine will be set to "detonate" and delete all files on a certain date and time unless ransom demands are met. As more third-party contractors assist in developing and maintaining internal systems, the opportunity to implant these logic bombs will increase.
4. Expect More Doxing
In addition to encrypting files, cyber attackers threaten to expose sensitive information on the dark web unless a ransom is paid, and that trend will continue in 2022. We have already seen an increase in doxing over the last few months of 2021 because it is an additional way for attackers to extract money from victims. Companies who restore backups to avoid paying a ransom may still pay to keep their information private.
5. 'Access for Sale' Attacks Will Pose Extended Risks
Ransomware gangs on the dark web have begun to offer "access for sale" to infiltrated victims' networks after an attack. This indicates that cyber attackers can maintain persistence in the victims' networks to launch subsequent attacks, extending their window for extorting victims. This will also introduce new revenue streams for attackers, who can sell access to an organization to other attackers.
6. Copycats Will Turn to Reputational Attacks
In 2021, attackers noticed that major data breaches or ransomware attacks could influence a company's stock and brand reputation. Furthermore, public announcements could disrupt customers, partners, and business markets.
In addition to seeking to collect ransoms in 2022, attackers will look to make profits trading on the information or threatening to announce attacks publicly. Ransomware attacks may even be timed to coincide with quarterly earnings announcements or other events.
7. DDoS Attacks Aren't Going Away
While distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have declined in 2021, don't expect them to go away in 2022. In fact, many of the attacks will migrate from simple web site disruptions to more sophisticated business process disruptions.
In addition, the first wave of legacy IoT devices are now almost 10 years old. Many have been forgotten or abandoned unpatched devices, thus expanding the attack surface of many organizations.
8. Data Integrity Compromise Attacks Will Increase
Cybersecurity professionals are familiar with the CIA triad in describing data risk: confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Traditional ransomware jeopardized availability by removing access to data. Other attacks impact confidentiality by publishing organizations' sensitive data. Egnyte expects the third component, integrity, to be exploited by attackers in 2022.
In this case, attackers use scripts to insert false files and/or transactions into victims' systems. A determined cyber attacker may even try to change terms in contracts or shipping schedules. These disruptions could be devastating to an organization, because only the attacker knows which data is real and which has been changed.
9. Attackers Will Embrace AI and Machine Learning
Organized cybercriminals will use cloud-based AI and machine learning services to mount effective attacks more quickly and stealthily. For example, brute-force password spraying attacks will become more "intelligent," improving their success rate.
10. Anticipate More Kubernetes and Novel Hypervisor Attacks
As more companies move their computing resources to the cloud, new waves of cyberattacks will be mounted directly against cloud-hosted resources. For example, containers, a popular choice for deploying cloud-based software, often include vulnerabilities or misconfigurations. Expect attackers to target Kubernetes, a container orchestration software, and use other novel hypervisor attacks that prey on IT teams' assumption that the cloud is a free pass for improved security.
Take the Necessary Steps To Protect Your Assets
No matter what happens, the cybersecurity world is expected to become more complex in 2022. Old attack vectors will fade as new ones emerge, so it's important that your business remains vigilant.
Implement highly granular user access permissions. This can help limit the blast radius to only the files where the user possesses ownership rights. You can also use services, including Egnyte, that detect and alert admins to abnormal behavior—such as user accessing or deleting an unusual number of files—and temporarily block user access until the problem is resolved.
You can also look for capabilities, like Egnyte's forthcoming Content Safeguard, that limit an outsider's ability to download and expose sensitive information externally. And make sure you're using multi-factor authentication and backing up files to minimize potential threats.
You can find more information about Egnyte's security capabilities here. And check out the second part of our 2022 predictions, which addresses potential regulatory changes in the year ahead.
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In a bold move to better serve their clients, Wunderman and J. Walter Thompson have joined forces to form Wunderman Thompson, a creative, data and technology agency built to inspire growth. With 20,000 people in 90 markets around the world, Wunderman Thompson is uniquely positioned to rethink business, culture and brand experiences, owning delivery from end-to-end. To learn more, visit Wunderman Thompson.
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Whether transforming an existing digital strategy or developing a new plan for the future, we build brands for digital. At the intersection of innovation, creative and analytics, we solve problems and deliver a measurable impact on our clients' business.
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We connect consumers with brands in ways that transcend conventional means of interaction. These experiences result in immersive experiences leveraging VR or Artificial Intelligence, as well as interactive live entertainment or IOT innovations. We aim to connect people to brands in a way that inspires and requires action.
Our in-house research unit, SONAR, develops and exploits new quantitative and qualitative research techniques to understand cultures, brands and consumer motivation around the world.
People join cultures, not companies. When companies understand, live and share their own culture, they naturally attract the best talent, and inspire and empower employees to own, innovate and drive business results. We help shape culture.
Forging strong relationships between brands and consumers, our deep partnerships with social platforms give our clients a leading edge when developing interactive plans. Building on that knowledge, we use insights from social data to develop social strategies, run campaigns, deliver contagious content, manage communities and measure success.
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We are always exploring cultural shifts and converting them into opportunities for brands.
Our in-house analytics department focuses on the innovative application of data and technology to inform and inspire new marketing solutions. It offers a suite of bespoke analytics tools.
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We grow our clients' business by building brands. Finding solutions that are global when needed, or as singular as a simple human emotion. We use creativity to solve business challenges and reimagine our client's future. We exist to help companies navigate the market, and drive long-term growth.
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Matt started his J. Walter Thompson career in London. In 2012 he moved with the agency to Hong Kong and after four years transferred to Shanghai to lead JWT's multi-national business division. In January 2019 Matt returned to Hong Kong to take up the role of Managing Director. Matt is passionate about developing talent within our industry, and about bringing the very best people and capabilities together to deliver the most effective solutions for our clients.
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Recognized as one of Campaign Asia's 40 under 40, Carlos is the youngest and most awarded Latin American ECD to undertake creative leadership in two Asian markets: Vietnam & China and now Hong Kong. He has won major awards in every local, regional and global advertising festivals across different disciplines: Creative, Social, Digital, Mobile, Effectiveness. He has also participated in the jury pools of advertising festivals in USA, Latin America, Europe & Asia. Apart from creativity, he has an entrepreneurial spirit, which he has fully utilized by creating his own brand of coffee and his own chain of architecturally-awarded restaurants.
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A University of Newcastle proposal to cut positions from its business school will leave it with "significantly weakened teaching, research and administrative capability", according to the union fighting the plan. The National Tertiary Education Union's Newcastle branch has started a petition in response to the proposal, which could affect 12 academic positions. It is understood seven roles could be cut. A source said "morale is through the basement". Related: Philosophy, ancient history face axe as study majors at University of Newcastle UON Pro Vice-Chancellor, Faculty of Business and Law, Professor Tony Travaglione, said proposed changes to the staffing structure would "scale back some discipline areas where demand is forecast to fall, to allow for potential scale up in areas where demand is growing". "It's our absolute responsibility to continually review our program offerings to ensure we are adequately resourcing areas of greatest demand." He said the consultation process would look at a range of options before the final structure is proposed and the end number impacted was "expected to be much lower". Related: Philosophy, classics cuts would mark 'demise' of University of Newcastle: union The source said staff were told a projected drop off in online enrolments would produce a shortfall of more than $3 million, of which half could be recouped by cutting positions. "But there's a bunch of other ways you could tackle the problem," the source said. "You could go into deficit, borrow money, pay it off later, wait till enrolments pick up again, or divert less to the Vice-Chancellor's Office." Professor Travaglione said available support included the employee assistance program, chaplaincy services and human resources specialists. Staff affected by organisational change can opt for a "voluntary separation package" or seek redeployment. NTEU Newcastle branch president Emma Joel said the union had lodged an industrial dispute, but remained "hopeful" of finding alternatives. "We weren't expecting this change to be launched. "What we're seeing across the board is staff are being asked to do more with less. "We're concerned there will be impact on workload, which will impact on student experience." While you're with us, did you know the Newcastle Herald offers breaking news alerts, daily email newsletters and more? Keep up to date with all the local news - sign up here. IN THE NEWS
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A University of Newcastle proposal to cut positions from its business school will leave it with "significantly weakened teaching, research and administrative capability", according to the union fighting the plan.
The National Tertiary Education Union's Newcastle branch has started a petition in response to the proposal, which could affect 12 academic positions.
It is understood seven roles could be cut. A source said "morale is through the basement".
Related: Philosophy, ancient history face axe as study majors at University of Newcastle
UON Pro Vice-Chancellor, Faculty of Business and Law, Professor Tony Travaglione, said proposed changes to the staffing structure would "scale back some discipline areas where demand is forecast to fall, to allow for potential scale up in areas where demand is growing".
"It's our absolute responsibility to continually review our program offerings to ensure we are adequately resourcing areas of greatest demand."
He said the consultation process would look at a range of options before the final structure is proposed and the end number impacted was "expected to be much lower".
Related: Philosophy, classics cuts would mark 'demise' of University of Newcastle: union
The source said staff were told a projected drop off in online enrolments would produce a shortfall of more than $3 million, of which half could be recouped by cutting positions.
"But there's a bunch of other ways you could tackle the problem," the source said.
"You could go into deficit, borrow money, pay it off later, wait till enrolments pick up again, or divert less to the Vice-Chancellor's Office."
Professor Travaglione said available support included the employee assistance program, chaplaincy services and human resources specialists.
Staff affected by organisational change can opt for a "voluntary separation package" or seek redeployment.
NTEU Newcastle branch president Emma Joel said the union had lodged an industrial dispute, but remained "hopeful" of finding alternatives.
"We weren't expecting this change to be launched.
"What we're seeing across the board is staff are being asked to do more with less.
"We're concerned there will be impact on workload, which will impact on student experience."
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Check out the whopper and revisionist history being touted in Louisiana. Murray Lloyd–co-founder and former president of the Black Bear Conservation Committee, since renamed the Black Bear Conservation Coalition, an organization dedicated to protecting the endangered Louisiana black bear–claims the Coalition is a model of landowner-friendly, consensus-based endangered species conservation.
Now for a reality-based look at the Black Bear Conservation Coalition, the conservation of the Louisiana black bear, and Candidate Conservation Agreements.
The initial work undertaken by the Black Bear Conservation Coalition over twenty years ago represents the prototype Candidate Conservation Agreement, an initiative under the Endangered Species Act that has become increasingly popular because it's touted as a voluntary, non-regulatory way to prevent species from being listed under the Act. In reality, Candidate Conservation Agreements rely on the threat of the Endangered Species Act's fearsome regulations to gain "voluntary" compliance, as Murray Lloyd admitted before Congress almost twenty years ago. But first some background on the Black Bear Conservation Coalition.
After the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to list the Louisiana black bear in 1990 under the Endangered Species Act, the Black Bear Conservation Coalition initiated their prototype Candidate Conservation Agreement to try to prevent listing. (This is the same black bear subspecies that gave rise to the term "teddy bear" because when President Teddy Roosevelt was on a hunting trip in Mississippi in 1902 he refused to shoot a bear under what he thought were unsporting conditions.) Despite that Fish and Wildlife listed the bear in 1992, the Coalition, which is still going strong, continues to garner widespread praise as an example of innovative, win-win endangered species conservation, focused on finding practical solutions to the conflict-ridden Endangered Species Act that protect landowners' property rights.
The Black Bear Conservation Coalition promotes itself as an effort to preempt Endangered Species Act regulation by formulating a proactive habitat management plan among all "stakeholders," especially private forest owners because they have most of the bear's habitat. The management plan combines elements of a Candidate Conservation Agreement and an informal Habitat Conservation Plan, another so-called voluntary initiative under the Endangered Species Act in which landowners agree to put off limits some of their land in exchange for the feds giving them the green-light to use the rest of their land; thereby turning the off limits private land into a defacto federal wildlife refuge, even though if the government wants to acquire private land for any purpose it is required to compensate landowners under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.
The Black Bear Conservation Coalition's main accomplishments to date have been to write the management plan, which was adopted by the Fish and Wildlife Service as the official recovery plan, educate the public, and push federal and state agencies to conserve the bear. The Coalition's proactive, landowner-friendly image has been hailed by the Mississippi Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Sand County Foundation, Wildlife Management Institute and others as an innovative, win-win solution preferable to the usual command-and-control property restrictions imposed by the Endangered Species Act. All of which sounds great.
Although the agreement was achieved with the threat of being whacked by the Endangered Species Act, during the same 1995 hearing at which he spilled the beans about the so-called voluntary agreement, Lloyd called the Black Bear Conservation Coalition "a model for natural resource conflict resolution." Fast forward nineteen years and Murray Lloyd is still telling the same misleading and farcical tale. Unfortunately, others have swallowed this tale hook, line and sinker. Lloyd's two-by-four analogy is very apt because it encapsulates how the Endangered Species Act often works; people are threatened and intimidated with getting clobbered by law in order to gain their "voluntary" compliance.
After separating myth from reality, there is one important lesson to be learned from efforts to conserve the teddy bear. The Endangered Species Act is the application of Teddy Roosevelt's famous saying about how he conducted foreign policy–"speak softly and carry and big stick"–to conservation. Any reasonable person, upon learning of Murray Lloyd's cocked two-by-four admission, or those knowledgeable about how the Endangered Species Act truly works, would not call this process voluntary, non-regulatory, or a model for conflict resolution and public-private partnerships to conserve endangered species.


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Q: cant display images in cakephp layout I am trying to get the images to display in my cakephp website. My task is simple to get the website labelled below 1) which is a cakephp website to look like the website labelled 2) which is a freeware website. The layout of website 1) has the cakephp code which just calls in a view for the middle'blue section'
I am getting the paths wrong to display images/js. I am not seeing what I doing wring with loading images and js
I load images like this
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I load Js like 2 ways an neither seem to have any effect.
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// cant see images on website  1) that should appear from website 2). I have loaded all the files,images into the webroot img/js  dir
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A: The original (missing?) answer is confusing as it mentions unnecessary file paths and it is a cakephp question as cakephp requires the css,js,image files to be referenced a certain way. Paths of files dont need to be included if placed in folders of the webroot folder.
In each of the css files the reference to image paths also need to be changed
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Monica Raymund
Gabriela Dawson
Monica Raymund is an American actress best known for her starring role as Ria Torres, a "natural" at deception detection, in the television drama series Lie to Me, from 2009-2011
Lauren German is an American actress best known for her role as the hitchhiker in the 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, as well as for starring in the 2007 film Hostel: Part II, in which she plays one of the lead characters
Charlie Barnett is an American actor best known for his starring role as Peter Mills, a young new academy graduate who follows a long line of multi-generational firefighters, in the procedural drama television series Chicago Fire.
David Eigenberg
Christopher Herrmann
David Eigenberg is an American actor best known for his role as Steve Brady on the television comedy Sex and the City, from 1999-2004
Teri Reeves
Hallie Casey
Teri Reeves is an American actress best known for her starring roles in the television series Battleground and Chicago Fire.
Eamonn Walker
Chief Wallace Boden
Eamonn Walker is an English actor best known for his role as Kareem Said in the HBO prison drama television series Oz, from 1997-2003
Yuri Sardarov
Yuri Sardarov is an American actor best known for his starring (initially recurring) role as firefighter Brian Otis Zvonecek, who is eager to move up the ranks within the firehouse but often feels overlooked and unappreciated by the rest of the fire personnel, in the procedural drama series Chicago Fire
Joe Minoso
Joe Minoso is an American actor best known for his starring (initially recurring) role as Joe Cruz, a firefighter haunted by a decision he made on the job related to his brother that later effects his own safety and the safety of his fellow firemen, in the procedural drama television series Chicago Fire
Christian Stolte
Christian Stolte is an American actor best known for his starring (initially recurring) role as firefighter Randy Mouch McHolland, who gained his nickname due to the fact that he can almost always be found watching television when not on a call (half man, half couch), in the procedural drama series Chicago Fire
Kara Killmer
Sylvie Brett
Kara Killmer is an American actress best known for her starring role as Paramedic Sylvie Brett, who took over as the new Paramedic for Ambulance No.61 following Leslie Shay's death, in the police prodcedural television series Chicago Fire.
Dora Madison Burge
Jessica 'Chili' Chilton
Dora Madison Burge is an American actress best known for her role as Becky Sproles in the football drama television series Friday Night Lights.
Jimmy Borelli
Steven R. McQueen is an American actor best known for his starring role as Jeremy Gilbert, a troubled teen on a dangerous and self-destructive path since the death of his parents, in the supernatural television series The Vampire Diaries.
Miranda Rae Mayo
Stella Kidd
Miranda Rae Mayo is an American actress best known for her role as firefighter Stella Kidd on the action-drama series Chicago Fire.


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Major News
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Historic Gems
Another Shark incident
COVID-19 cases increase by 1, active ones still low
Man remanded for rape
Prince Swanny distances self from gang plot
Unlikely heroes Sundar, Thakur drag India back into fourth Test
St. Kitts Teachers Union Supporting Campaign for Free Quality Public Education in Haiti
CNEH is made up of the thirteen (13) Teachers' Federations which represent teachers in Haiti. The Teachers' Union believes that it is the right time for the Haitian Government to place at the top of its agenda for the reconstruction of the country the provision of free quality public education. Education is accepted as the foundation on which a democratic, peaceful, just and equitable society is built and it is the engine for the building of sustained economic and social development, says the St. Kitts Teachers Union.
The Teachers' Union says it is calling on CARICOM to ensure that the provision of free quality public education is high on the agenda in the reconstruction efforts of Haiti.
The Caribbean Union of Teachers (CUT) is the umbrella organization for the twenty-four (24) teachers' unions in the Caribbean. Together, they have a total membership of 70,000 teachers. The CUT has a special relationship with Education International which represents over 30 million teachers from 400 member organizations in 170 countries around the world.
The CUT believes that CARICOM should not "drop the ball" in insisting that the Government of Haiti provide free access to quality public education in Haiti.
Condor Reflects on Past 50 Years of National Development
Police: Likely suicide try by referee
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Discussion in 'Ask the Rules Team' started by Labman, Feb 28, 2008.
Lets say I use Venemoth (SW)'s Disturbance Dive attack.
During my opponents turn, he/she uses Banette (SW) 's Spiteful Pain attack.
So if my opponent does indeed have a Banette in discard, does the added effect of 40 extra damage still apply? In other words, is the added damage an effect that is being done to Venemoth or to Banette?
It is damage, it is not an effect done to either Pokemon. It's just a calculation.
Also, the effect of shuffling the Banette back into the deck, while an effect, is not done to Venomoth, and so is also done.


This article is the first in a new series by the RSA, exploring the forces that will reshape public services in the decades to come.
Following the referendum, Brexit has predictably become the dominant project of this Government. The impacts of Brexit will reach into all corners of how government operates, and managing the transition will extend well into the 2020s. But the UK's public sector faces a range of challenges in addressing the changing needs of the society it serves; some are long-standing and others are emergent. It is the responsibility of civil society - including organisations like the RSA - to contribute positively, especially at a time when government's capacity to think and plan strategically is constrained.
Reshaping (turbocharging?) our economic growth model in order to maintain our current model of financing public services. (Arguably, we have a track record of trying and failing to do this; at least within the current economic cycle).
Becoming more tolerant of a general decline in public service quality: it is likely impacts would be felt disproportionately on those who rely to a greater extent on public services to support quality of life, with the retrenchment of public services so as to prioritise those with the greatest need.
A drastic reprofiling of how public services operate, accompanied by a shift in public opinion and common perceptions on what public services are for.
This blog series will focus on 'option 3', which we have long argued offers the best chance of ensuring people can live the best lives possible.
We predicted in 2014 that by 2020, public services would be more about managing demand for services than managing the services themselves. We have an opportunity to reflect on the challenge we set ourselves four years ago: with the benefit of recent experience in working with councils and public services, we are now able to go beyond a technocratic study of how to reduce and manage demand, and invite a political debate about what public services are there to do, taking a long-term view.
This first blog post simply proposes and invites feedback on a new broad framework for public services. As we develop and share ideas over the coming months, this should help us to consider the breadth and diversity of what we mean when we talk about public services.
Core public services are areas of society in which markets are inappropriate or insufficient, because the logic of universal public protection is strong. Core services tend to ensure people have their fundamental human rights: health, education, safety and justice. These are both the everyday local services like waste management and maintaining roads, and services we all look to in emergencies (although we need them to be available there every day), to reduce and eliminate risks and threats, and to ensure equitable treatment for all in markets.
Auxiliary public services are what we decide, through democracy, tax and expenditure, to organise for citizens that helps support people in their lives when they are in need: a social security safety net. Ideally, we wouldn't want to ever have to access auxiliary services, but they are best organised as large collectives, which pool risk. Charities also provide many auxiliary services, from advice (e.g. Citizens Advice) to food banks to hospice care.
Regenerative public services are where we look to the public sector to organise activity that improves the fundamental capacity of society (at many scales, including local communities).
From the point of view of strained public services, many regenerative approaches might be considered to be 'early intervention' or 'preventative' in their approach.
But in using the term 'regenerative' we want to think more strategically about the context in which a need for public services arises. People are the 'renewable energy' of public services, and efforts of the public sector to boost this potential - including community development, capacity building and economic development - are regenerative in that they seek to catalyse stronger self-organisation among a range of different communities.
The productive potential of people to create products and services of value is also, in the main, self-organised but relies on governments to govern, to regulate and to coordinate basic infrastructure, upon which a market economy can thrive. And, of course, when it comes to the ultimate goal of good health and wellbeing, most care and support for this is provided without state involvement: as self-care, care from friends and family and neighbours and mutual care within communities. Some describe this as the 'core economy' to recognise the value and status of this work.
Here is why we think this framework is useful: the more you think about a public service, the more you realise that in reality, to be successful a public service actually needs to have mini-services across all three elements of the framework. And when we realise that, our natural human instinct to problem solve, to avoid waste, to find communal solutions and socially regulated behaviours kicks into gear.
We start thinking of a service as a series of mini-services. Each helps us to achieve better lives, within the complex and messy systems of everyday life. Each one does different things. And public services inevitably struggle when the mini-services don't work well together. It is for this reason service design is an increasingly popular methodology across public services.
And it is why our Inclusive Growth Commission concluded that to underpin an inclusive economy, good social policy and investment in social infrastructure can't be 'preoccupied and paralysed by existing systems'.
Think about bin collection. Everyone creates rubbish. For most of us, we put stuff in a rubbish bin and a recycling bin, and then barely think about it again. Indeed, usually we only engage our brains when something has gone wrong in the bin collection system. Everyone uses this public service - organised by local councils - and it perhaps dominates our basic understanding of what our local council does. Bin collection is a core public service, and even during the grips of an austerity drive, central government created a £250m fund in 2011 to support local councils to maintain weekly bin collections.
But look at the big picture: collecting bins is just one part of a system of waste management. Waste management isn't really a service, it is a series of mini-services. At the core are the visible elements: people employed to pick litter, collect bins, and drive waste to landfill and recycling centres. But there is an auxiliary element, which introduces special service and charges to manage waste at scale - beyond the everyday flows through the household.
This includes the collection of bulky or specialist items which need special handling. Waste from businesses - whether manufacturers, building sites or high street shops and restaurants - operates under separate commercial contracts. But where is the biggest potential to address the 556,000 tons of waste produced every day? It is in regenerative approaches.
Recycling is not regenerative - it is the recovery of waste material. The ultimate system lever is encouraging people up the familiar reduce>reuse>recycle hierarchy. Sending less stuff to landfill lowers the material and environmental footprint of the things we decide to consume in order to lead good lives.
In short, the route to managing waste as a system, rather than waste management as a service, is harnessing our collective energy across society to reduce waste - which tracking back to initiatives which regenerate our ability to live better while consuming less.
We need to consider the anti-consumerist movement Buy Nothing Day through to the the conscious consumer models of Carrotmob, to the mending and reuse of stuff, to the collaborative consumption of Streetbank, Freecycle and Library of Things.
This is before we even get to 'nudging' campaigns like Keep Britain Tidy, or the efforts of the waste management authority (the local council) itself to educate the public about the financial cost of waste generated (reinforced through the Landfill Tax); for example through issuing warning notices to households who aren't separating landfill rubbish from recyclables.
The most famous public service we have is the National Health Service. But really, it quite obviously isn't a single service. For example, vaccinations at birth against common diseases are a core (mini) public service delivered by GPs, at the prompt of health visiting services, and under the supervision of Public Health England (and equivalent bodies).
Through history, this system has evolved, and, basically, worked: vaccination take-up is almost universal, many diseases have been marginalised, and some completely eradicated. This is perhaps the biggest achievement in the history of public health. But each of those service bodies operate in a diversity of ways, too.
GPs are largely an auxiliary service - we seek treatment when we are sick. Health visitors largely have a regenerative role: they would see their principle objective as ensuring babies are healthy by building the capacity of parents.
Using England as an example, PHE do a bit of everything: they are an auxiliary response to emergencies such as the Ebola epidemic, they are also regenerative in that they seek to encourage healthy behaviours in diet and exercise.
And with that difference comes a different relationship to the wider systems that keep the public healthy - beyond public services. On Ebola, PHE was at the forefront of coordination, providing professional advice to local health services, relevant organisations such as airlines, and the general public.
In seeking to reduce obesity, PHE works on many fronts: Change4Life is a public education campaign, the sugar reduction programme includes work with food and drink manufacturers and retailers, as well as schools. Obesity is a classic example of where positive change seems just as likely to come from a social movement as much as a silver bullet 'policy presumption' mentality; obesity reduction is simply too systemic, as a challenge, to be reduced to a public service.
In the criminal justice setting, there is far too great a focus on the "core" and the "auxiliary". Popular calls for more and more police patrolling the streets (the core), and a reactive approach to crime resulting in ever growing prison numbers (the auxiliary) have been able to prioritise public debate.
In this setting they are the politically easy solution to difficult problems. It feels like a good idea to focus on the punitive, for example campaigns to lengthen minimum prison sentences for animal cruelty offences have often ignored the evidence on the effectiveness of prison in reducing future crime. Making sentences longer and tougher instead of looking at how we might prevent these crimes in the first place (including supporting rehabilitation) has created a system in crisis.
Our current prison system cannot safely accommodate 86,000 people at any one time but, for political and sometimes ideological reasons, no recent government has been willing to make the case for locking up fewer people. The regenerative work of crime prevention that would mean fewer victims and fewer people committing crimes has not been a priority for our political leaders and, as it stands, the balance of core, auxiliary and regenerative is out of kilter.
In 10 years since the financial crash, through subsequent recession, changes in public service provision have been most obvious in services which are primarily considered 'regenerative', using our framework. Although the economy has grown and employment has risen, with rising in-work poverty and larger numbers of people in poor health (especially in old age), spending on welfare benefits - 'social protection' - has risen, overall, too - even as specific rates for individuals have been frozen.
With successive central government policies of overall spending restraint and austerity, spending cuts have fallen on services which aren't legally mandated or related to more critical or urgent care and support. A lot of such non-statutory services are typically provided by local councils, but there is no legal obligation to do so.
Things have varied between localities, but services typically facing the most significant cuts have included public transport, libraries, arts and cultural provision, parks, youth work and youth clubs, careers advice, libraries and multi-purpose community centres, as well as administrative functions planning departments and enforcement of regulation.
The value of these services is particularly hard to evaluate, as often regenerative services are about building people's capabilities for the long-term, in the hope that they lead to more productive, rewarding, healthier and happier lives than they would have likely done otherwise. When faced with shrinking budgets and difficult choices, cutting public spending on community festivals and fireworks displays might be the least unpopular option. Frontline services are the most visible, and there is public support to protect them.
The challenge is that negative impacts - in communities where play spaces and activities for young people are insufficient, where literacy support and English language courses can't reach marginalised adults, or where planning teams that can no longer afford to make plans for how development can best benefit town centres and neighbourhoods - are hard to understand, let alone measure; the impacts are often felt only by a small number of less powerful residents, and it can be hard to differentiate in a complex and changing world where lots of stuff is changing all the time. But clearly, in the long-term, achieving inclusive growth depends on investing in social infrastructure and social outcomes.
What is key is to get the right balance between the core, auxiliary and regenerative when designing public sector interventions. Most of society's problems - crime, poverty, mental health problems, homelessness etc - need a combination of approaches, but the mix is often not ideal for the contemporary challenge.
The mix will be influenced by history, and deeply held views and values. The mix is political, but it is our contention that public engagement and involvement in the complex decisions between central and local government, between dozens of departments, is insufficient to get the best outcomes.
We need to be much more pro-active to better involve citizens in shaping inclusive strategies for their place. Public services are at the heart of this. That is why the RSA has examined how local service redesign can be best shaped with the involvement of local people, and why we are piloting deliberative approaches to policy-making. Interestingly, some councils have empowered a network of community organisations as strategic partners, devolving decisions about what neighbourhood services should look like closer to the neighbourhood level. What all these initiatives have in common is that they are experiments in whether giving citizens more say leads citizens to prioritise regenerative approaches.
When you think regeneratively, you start to think: why do we have public services in the first place? Can't we all just take care of ourselves and each other? Is that what we should be working towards? It is a cliche of those working in regeneration that they are working to put themselves out of a job.
There are many parts of the world - and many pockets of the UK - where community, household and individual self-reliance is much more prominent than the role of government and public services. But, for the most part, the history of civilisation and government is intimately linked. The earliest civilisations saw farmers build shared irrigation systems.
The first public services, over 4000 years ago, were basically government projects to build regional scale canal infrastructure, supplying water to farms and growing cities. Organising improvements to the built environment, with wide public benefit but beyond the capabilities of households, businesses and local communities, led to the municipal projects of street lighting, sewer systems and public transport services which shaped Victorian British cities. Core public services of police and fire were created first in London and Edinburgh, respectively, in the 1820s.
As people came to live in larger communities, connected to each other in increasingly fast and dense networks, the potential for anonymity grew, with people feeling distant and alienated from the complex systems of services on which they came to rely. For example, it is no longer necessary to know how to grow food or cook food in order to eat well: all you need, essentially, is money.
Part of the neoliberal ideology is a critique of the role of government in fostering such sentiment: best expressed in the phrase 'nanny state', in which the government's complex array of services is framed as interfering and inhibiting the development of autonomy and self-reliance which are seen as desirable character traits in individuals.
The principle of services funded publicly through government taxation remains contentious for neoliberal politicians. The contracting and commissioning of public services, and the appropriate role of the private sector, is a live political debate across the world's countries. We hope that our framework can help people consider their views on these contemporary challenges.
So, how do we ensure the right mix between core, auxiliary and regenerative? And how can public services of the future use this framework, and the RSA's wider experience, as their challenges and priorities change?
That will be the subject of blogs from different members of our Public Services and Communities team. Next up, we will highlight 10 examples of new public services, which demonstrate how our expectations of what public services are there to do are rapidly shifting.


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Northwest Adds New West Coast Service
by Susan J. Young
Northwest Airlines announced an expansion of its Indianapolis flight schedule with plans to provide new nonstop service to San Francisco, an additional daily flight to Los Angeles, the return of seasonal service to Seattle and improvements to its schedule to New York's LaGuardia Airport. When the last of the new flights start on June 8, 2006, Northwest's Indianapolis schedule will feature 44 flights a day to 18 destinations.
Susan J. Young
https://twitter.com/travlsusan


Candex facilitates communication for business - within or between companies. It's private, secure and free to use for as long as you like.
Candex is the first communication tool designed specifically for group collaboration both within and between companies.


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<?php

namespace Google\Cloud\Core\Tests\Unit\Lock;

use Google\Cloud\Core\Lock\SemaphoreLock;
use Google\Cloud\Core\SysvTrait;
use Google\Cloud\Core\Testing\Lock\MockValues;
use Yoast\PHPUnitPolyfills\TestCases\TestCase;

/**
 * @group core
 * @group lock
 */
class SemaphoreLockTest extends TestCase
{
    use CommonLockTrait;
    use SysvTrait;

    const LOCK_NAME = 'test';

    public function set_up()
    {
        if (!$this->isSysvIPCLoaded()) {
            $this->markTestSkipped(
                'Skipping because SystemV IPC extensions are not loaded'
            );
        }

        $this->setLock(new SemaphoreLock(1));
        MockValues::initialize();
    }

    public function testThrowsExceptionWithInvalidKey()
    {
        $this->expectException('\InvalidArgumentException');

        new SemaphoreLock('abc');
    }

    public function testThrowsExceptionWhenSemAcquireFailsOnAcquire()
    {
        $this->expectException('\RuntimeException');
        $this->expectExceptionMessage('Failed to acquire lock.');

        MockValues::$sem_acquireReturnValue = false;
        $this->lock->acquire();
    }

    public function testThrowsExceptionWhenSemReleaseFailsOnRelease()
    {
        $this->expectException('\RuntimeException');
        $this->expectExceptionMessage('Failed to release lock.');

        $this->lock->acquire();
        MockValues::$sem_releaseReturnValue = false;
        $this->lock->release();
    }

    public function testThrowsExceptionWhenSemGetFails()
    {
        $this->expectException('\RuntimeException');
        $this->expectExceptionMessage('Failed to generate semaphore ID.');

        MockValues::$sem_getReturnValue = false;
        $this->lock->acquire();
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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17,000 Scuba Hoses Recalled Due to Drowning Hazard
Santa Ana-based importer and distributor XS Scuba has announced a recall of 17,000 high pressure scuba diving hoses produced by an Italian company called Miflex 2. The recall affects units that came in three different types of package: as part of a rebreather kit, a two-gauge console, and with a deluxe cylinder equalizer. All hoses will have MFX stamped on the metal at the end of the hose.
The item is used to keep tabs on cylinder pressure so as to maintain a steady air supply. The defect involves a possible rupture that compromises the flow of air to the submerged diver. This creates a drowning hazard. There have already been a somewhat staggering 189 reports of this defect occurring, but luckily there have yet to be any injuries reported.
The hoses were available from May 2009 to just this month at a number of scuba retailers across the country. They sold for between $44 and $60. Consumers are being advised not to dive with the hoses, but to instead contact Scuba XS about getting the unit replaced.
As a Ventura personal injury lawyer, I'm used to reading about recalls, but not many of them pose a drowning hazard. I guess that's what you get though when you're dealing with a system used during scuba diving. It's my wish as a Fresno personal injury attorney that the thousands of persons who own this equipment are able to promptly return the item.


It may feel like Donald Trump and Ron Johnson are doing our campaign work for us, but there's more to this election than the 2016 results, as vital as that is..
It's also a chance to start building momentum for the crucial statewide elections of 2018.
The Combined Campaign is now operating out of our neighbors' homes in Wauwatosa, giving us a chance to identify and build relationships with the people who can help us win in November and beyond.
Please join us in reaching our fellow Tosans by phone banking and canvassing door to door!
There will be more opportunities to get involved so check online often or watch for notifications from Grassroots Tosa.


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Q: Finding a $\mathbb{R}^3$ vector field whose components are with continuous partial derivatives and whose divergence is 1 I'm trying to solve an exercise that asks to find a vector field in $\mathbb{R}^3$ satisfying the following:

*

*The components of the vector field must have continuous partial derivatives up to at least order 2 on $\mathbb{R}^3$.

*The divergence of the vector field must be 1.

A: Consider the vector field $F : \mathbb{R}^3 \to \mathbb{R^3}$, defined by $F(x,y,z) = (x,0,0)$. Then  $F$ is in fact $\mathcal{C^{\infty}}$, and it is pretty clear that $\text{div}(F) = 1$ identically on all of $\mathbb{R^3}$.


Is Java the Next Latin?
There has been growing anxiety among many in the U. S. software industry over the last several years. As more developers hear of software jobs being outsourced overseas, perhaps even losing their own jobs to lower cost producers in other countries, their concerns about the future have deepened, even as the overall American economy has experienced sustained growth.
Outsourcing software development projects to companies in other countries (India, for example) is attractive to Corporate Information Officers because it offers the prospect of dramatically lower costs. Software development is a labor intensive activity, and it can be all too easy for financial analysts to focus on the wage differences from one country to another. Those wage differences are certain to have a significant effect on the U. S. software industry for years to come. Now hold that thought for a moment, while we shift to a topic that at first appears to be completely unrelated.
For the centuries that the Roman Empire ruled much of the world, Latin was of course the language of government and commerce. But its influence extended centuries beyond the time of the last Emperor in Rome. Throughout the Middle Ages and to the modern era, to be considered truly educated a person had to have some knowledge of Latin. Although it wasn't the everyday language of life, Latin did provide access to the knowledge and wisdom of the ancient world. The language of Cicero and Virgil was still widely taught in public schools through much of the 20th century. Even today, many private schools include Latin in their curriculum, and Latin course materials for homeschoolers are readily available.
So what does a "not-so-dead" language have to do with outsourcing IT?
Well, one problem faced by CIOs seeking to outsource software development is the need to clearly define the requirements for a specific project. Actually, that is a problem for any software project, but the difficulties are amplified when the team members are from different cultures and bring different presuppositions to the project. The problem faced by any organization that seeks to off-shore software development is the need to communicate requirements unambiguously.
An American requirements analyst working in Silicon Valley thinks she has clearly described the system's architecture, but her team members in New Dehli, despite speaking impeccable English, read her words to mean something significantly different from what she had in mind. The premise of off-shoring software development is that if a specification has been written that clearly defines the system's requirements, and if a design has been developed that is thoroughly informed by a deep knowledge of the problem domain, then there are likely to be many people in the world who can write the code to implement the system, at a significant cost advantage. However, the difficulty of achieving such specifications is not to be underestimated.
One scenario of what the near-term future holds for software developers in the U. S. is that they will find themselves spending less time coding and more time specifying and continuously clarifying requirements. Understanding the specific needs of the customer and translating them into the available technology have always been among the toughest challenges of software development, and those challenges will only grow as advancing technology allows the industry to tackle ever harder problems.
In this scenario, the next generation of American developers will still learn Java, not so much so they can write code in it, but so they understand what can be coded by their overseas teammates. Thus Java (or some other computer language) becomes a means of communication between those specifying the software and those coding it.
Software artifacts tend to have a life much longer than their developers ever anticipate; witness the enormous body of Cobol and Fortran code that still runs daily. Once a particular problem has been solved and solved well, it is not uncommon for the code to be passed along from one project to another.
It is not difficult to imagine snippets of Java used as idioms for communicating design intent long after the language itself has become obsolete as a primary tool for system development. Therefore, just as Latin had a utility for scholars long after it had ceased to be commonly used, Java could become a type of lingua franca for communicating design intent among team members who differ widely in their native natural languages.
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"Operation Strategy and Competitiveness" Please respond to the following:Choose one existing business operation and analyze its strategy. Suggest the competitive priorities that the business used in the development of its operations strategy. Evaluate how well or how poorly the chosen strategy supports that business' vision, mission, and business plan. Provide support for your rationale.
"SCM" Please respond to the following:Select three (3) problems that brick-and-mortar organizations face as they transition toward becoming virtual organizations. Debate whether the operations of virtual organizations exacerbate brick-and-mortar organizations' existing problems or whether they create new problems. Provide specific examples to support your rationale.


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package com.draga.background;

import com.badlogic.gdx.assets.AssetLoaderParameters;

public class BackgroundParameters extends AssetLoaderParameters<Background>
{
    public int   layerCount;
    public int   starsCount;
    public float minParallax;
    public float maxParallax;
    public float starMaxDiameterScale;

    public BackgroundParameters(
        int layerCount,
        int starsCount,
        float minParallax,
        float maxParallax,
        float starMaxDiameterScale)
    {
        this.layerCount = layerCount;
        this.starsCount = starsCount;
        this.minParallax = minParallax;
        this.maxParallax = maxParallax;
        this.starMaxDiameterScale = starMaxDiameterScale;
    }
}


PLEASE NOTE: Many of our events are member-only events. If you are not a member and are unable to register for an event, it is likely a members-only event.
Join us Tuesday, Apr 23 at 10 am for a hike along the Falls Branch trail located in Lake Catherine State park.
The trail begins near the campground and winds through the pine/hardwood forest of the park, crossing Little Canyon Creek several times. It eventually leads to a seasonal scenic waterfall on Falls Creek and works its way back to the trail head.
The trail is about 2 miles long and will take 1 1/2 to 2 hours to hike. Our hikes are easy to moderate, and our pace is casual.
The park is south and east of Hot Springs, about an hour drive from the village.
Turn left on Malvern and follow it to Carpenter Dam Rd. Turn right (south) and go about 2 miles south to 290. This road is about 1000 ft past the entrance to Garvan Gardens.
Turn left (east) on 290 and follow it until it ends at highway 171. Turn left and follow this east past until you enter the park. Continue on this road and follow the signs to Camp area C and the Amphitheater. The trail head is just past the Amphitheater.
Click on the link below for the map of the park.
All Boomers members are welcome to come along! We do ask that you register so that we know who is coming and who we should notify if there is a weather delay. If there is a delay, you will receive an email by 7:30 am.
This event is exclusive to Boomers Rock members and their guests on a "try before you buy" Basis.
Molly O'Brien's, 8913 Park Ave.
Join us on the fourth Wednesday of every month for Bunco for Boomers!
Cost is $5.00 per person cash, due at the door. There are 4 chances to win your money back!
This is a new location. Our menu will consist of salad bar/pizza buffet. If you prefer something different, you can call ahead to Molly's and pre-order your meal off of the menu. No outside food or drink will be permitted.
If you would like to play this month, please register.
For more information, please contact Barbara Roberts at Brobertsargyle@yahoo.com.
Join us on the last Friday of the month for Bowling for Boomers! This is a for-fun-only group. Teams will be formed onsite. Fun prizes for all level of bowlers.
All Boomers Rock members are welcome to come! However, only bowlers are asked to register each month, so that we know how many lanes to reserve.
This event is exclusive to Boomers Rock members, and their guests on a "try before you buy" basis.
It's time to party with your fellow Boomers Rock Members!
Mixin' (drinks that is), Minglin', & Munchin' - it just doesn't get any better than that!
Meet up with your fellow Boomers for a fun evening with beverages and dinner as an option. This will be a great time to meet other Boomers or get to know some of your Boomer friends better. If you have friends that are interested in joining Boomers, bring them along as guests.
We ask that you register yourself and your guests so that we have an idea of how many people to expect.
Join us Tuesday, April 30th at 9 am for our hike on the Balboa Trail.
Meet at the trail head located at the end of the Balboa beach parking lot. We will hike to the end, turn around, and hike back. Total for the Balboa trail is 2.1 miles.
Maps to the trails can be found on the POA website.
All Boomers members are welcome to come along! We do ask that you register so that we know who is coming and who we should notify if there is a weather delay. If there is you will receive an email by 7:30 am.
Boomers Rock is happy to partner with the Beehive to provide this awesome event.
Painting with a Twist painting sessions are fun art, not fine art. Gather with your Boomer friends to sip your favorite beverage and enjoy step-by-step instructions from experienced and enthusiastic local artists. It's a colorful, casual party atmosphere where you will create your one-of-a-kind painting.
Come early and join your friends for lunch. Remember to wear your Boomers Rock name tag to receive a 10% discount on your lunch.
Call the Beehive today at 501-777-8176 to reserve your spot. Cost is $40.
The scramble will be held the 2nd Sunday of the month at one of the HSV courses and the format will be a four person, 18 hole scramble.
There will be a fee of $5 for prizes: closest to the pin; and 1st, 2nd, 3rd place. Participants pay the $5 at the course and each person is responsible for the cost of their golf. Tee times begin at 1:00 PM and players are asked to check in at least 30 minutes before their tee times.
Players are asked to submit their GHIN or what their typical score is for 18 holes. Teams will be chosen as fairly as possible based on their handicaps.
Play will be a step aside format; meaning you can not use 2 consecutive shots by the same person. There is no step aside for putts.
The maximum drives that can be used by one person is 6. No more than 2 putts per hole.
If there are only 3 players on a team, a "Bubba" will fill out the foursome. "Bubba" will hit the fourth shot for the team on each hole, the entire hole, and the player "Bubba" will rotate among the three players. Each of the team's three players will be the "Bubba" on six holes each.
All interested players must register on the Boomers Rock website. There is a maximum of 24 players. If a non playing guest is joining you for dinner, do not register them. Please mark them as joining you for dinner on your registration form.
This is a social group so each month the teams will be rotated/shuffled so players won't be choosing partners. This will allow everyone the opportunity to get to know all the players.
We will be meet in the Granada Grill after golf for food, drinks and prizes. Since Granada Grill requires us to have at least 24 persons, we will relocate our celebration to another location if we do not have 24 staying.
If you are interested in joining the group or need more information, contact Jody Klem at klem1@swbell.net.
If you need to cancel your tee time, please contact Jody and the golf course. She is controlling the teams and the tee times so she needs to know who is showing up to play. We have had a waitlist every time we have played. Please let us know as soon as possible if you can not make it so we can let someone take your place.
This is for members only. Every player needs to be an active member of Boomers Rock.
To be a part of this Small Group, edit your membership profile to include Boomer Golf under Small Group Participation.
Join us for our monthly Wednesday night Disco celebration at the Beehive! Your Boomers Rock friends will be grooving to the Disco sounds.
Your only cost is whatever you eat / drink off the menu. The Beehive has Digital Rockbot' so our disco music will last all evening.
Come early, Serena will be instructing members on disco line dancing at 7:00. Remember to bring your name tag so you can enjoy culinary delights at a 10% discount. Wednesday is happy hour all day.
Mark your calendar for a fabulous night of food, drink, music and gambling.


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Difficult Children to Eat, Can Be Careful by Drink Milk Continuously?
Difficult Children, to Eat, can Be Careful by Drink Milk Continuously? - Children who don't want to eat will definitely make your head wriggle. Especially if you want to just drink milk constantly. In fact, children still need to eat to stay healthy. Is milk enough to meet the nutritional needs of children who have difficulty eating?
Difficult Children, to Eat, can Be Careful by Drink Milk Continuously?
Can you replace food with milk?
Cow's milk is called a natural food that is almost perfect because it contains complete nutrition. From calories, protein, sugar, carbohydrates, folic acid, fat, to vitamins and minerals such as calcium and phosphorus, everything is in a glass of cow's milk.
But despite dense nutrition, milk cannot be used as a substitute for food because as you get older the child's nutritional needs will be more and more diverse. A glass of milk is still unable to meet the nutritional variation needs in one day.
Difficult Children to Eat can Be Careful by Drink Milk Continuously - Here's an example of a case: a glass of cow's milk usually only contains 8 grams of protein, while the average small child needs around 18-30 grams of protein every day. Now from here, it can be seen that drinking three glasses of cow's milk in a day has not been able to meet the child's protein needs.
Moreover, milk is low in vitamin C and fiber. This unbalanced content is certainly not good for a child's body. If the child only wants to drink milk, it is not impossible that he will be malnourished. Many diseases can attack children due to lack of certain vitamins or minerals. His body becomes less powerful and less active as usual.
In addition, cow's milk is very high in sugar. Most drink milk for a long time can make his weight increase and his growth becomes disturbed.
So, how do you deal with children not eating?
Serving milk when a child doesn't want to eat is actually okay, as long as you can make sure he keeps eating at the next meal, instead of drinking milk again.
Remember the portion of milk per day for children is two glasses of 250 ml size. May not be more than the recommended dosage.
Offer several other foods and let the child choose the food he wants to enjoy. However, make sure the food you offer is healthy and nutritious.
Don't force him to eat. Forcing him to eat will make his mood worse and more difficult to control. Don't lure children with sweets or other sweet foods so they want to eat because this will increase calorie intake.
Invite friends or relatives to eat together. Usually, children like to follow what other people do and will eat more ravenously.
In situations like this, don't give food menus that your child doesn't like for a while. You can give this menu later.
Vary the food menu to be more attractive and make children interested in eating it. You can invite children to shop and cook food together, so he is more enthusiastic about eating.


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Xi aims to turn CCP into 'state party': expert
'XI JINPING THOUGHT':Xi's policy of merging the CCP and the government at different levels signals a departure from Deng Xiaoping's policies, John Burns said
Staff writer, with CNA
John Burns, former chair professor of politics and public Administration at the University of Hong Kong, delivers a lecture for the Lung Ying-tai Cultural Foundation's "Taipei Salon" series in Taipei on Saturday.
Photo: CNA
Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) aims to turn the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) into a "state party," which, as it builds a Chinese model of development, requires meritocracy, a Chinese politics expert said in Taipei on Saturday.
Xi is set to begin his second five-year term as CCP general secretary with so-called "Xi Jinping thought" expected to be incorporated into the party's constitution at the CCP's ongoing 19th National Congress this week.
In a lecture for the Lung Ying-tai Cultural Foundation's "Taipei Salon" series, John Burns, a former chair professor of politics and public administration at the University of Hong Kong, offered his reading of the vision for China laid out by Xi in his work report presented at the congress on Wednesday.
Burns said there are several significant differences between Xi's work report and earlier ones.
One point that has attracted little, if any, attention is an indication that the CCP and the Chinese government will be merged at provincial, prefectural and county levels where they perform the same functions, Burns said.
"This is a step toward creating a 'state party.' This is the clue. This is exactly where the [Chinese] Communist Party is going," he said. "This is not a small paragraph. It's a major departure from the policies [former Chinese leader] Deng Xiaoping (鄧小平) has championed since the 1980s."
Instead of using the term "party state," which is often used to refer to China, Burns said: "We should be talking about the Communist Party as a 'state party.'"
Burns said he believes turning the CCP into a "state party" is Xi's ultimate goal.
Xi's vision for China as a global leader in terms of national strength and international influence was a "dramatic declaration," he added.
When Xi came to power in 2012, the CCP was riddled with systematic syndicated corruption and its leadership was fractured into many factions, each led by a strongman competing for power, but the massive anti-corruption campaign waged by Xi has enabled him to build a "coherent, unified" party, Burns said.
Burns said he considers Xi's rooting out corruption in the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) to be his "No. 1 achievement," because the problem was so severe that Xi saw it as a military that "cannot fight."
The progress Xi has made at home in fighting corruption has allowed him to punish political enemies, identify loyal supporters and, most significantly, regain central control of the PLA, Burns said.
Those achievements, together with China's increasing global presence partly to do with the global leadership vacuum created by US President Donald Trump, have made Xi "the world's most powerful man," Burns said.
Burns said that the concentration of such vast power in the hands of one person is by no means without risks.
"There are dangers ahead," he said. "And we see nothing [in Xi's work report] to reform the economy that is new."
"But please remember, China's model of development requires meritocracy," he said.
Answering a question from German Institute Taipei Director-General Martin Eberts on China's economy, Burns said that he saw "contradictions between party control and the market" and that he doubts Xi's ideas in this area will work in the long term.
Xi believes that the Soviet Communist Party's downfall came about after it gave up control of the economy, and that is why he insists on tighter control of Chinese state-owned enterprises, directing private investments from large numbers of billionaires in state-owned enterprises and encouraging the state to invest in private businesses, Burns said.


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Q: Is it grammatically and semantically correct to use "didn't much like" as a phrase? Does "didn't much like" accurately express the idea that the writer did not like it as much as she would have desired.  Would it be actually wrong, or would it be better if it is expressed as "didn't like it much".

I didn't much like ongoing conversations among the group of people I interacted with.

is the sentence that intrigued me
Is it correct to write "didn't much like" I am not sure but the word much seems redundant and in some ways trying to measure something non-measurable?  I did see that a few bloggers have used this in their articles, but not entirely sure if it's sufficiently authoritative to consider correct.

A: I learnt from recent searches that didn't much like is acceptable as it qualifies the liking.  Another form that is commonly found in usage is didn't particularly like.


For the study, a team of more than 40 scientists at institutions in the United States and South Korea was led by four senior authors including IU School of Medicine's Maria B. Grant, MD, Marilyn Glick Professor of Ophthalmology and co-corresponding author; Mervin C. Yoder, MD, IU Distinguished Professor, Richard and Pauline Klingler Professor of Pediatrics, associate dean for entrepreneurial research at IU School of Medicine, director of the Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research and co-corresponding author; and Fletcher A. White, PhD, Vergil K. Stoelting Chair of Anesthesia, professor of anesthesia, pharmacology and toxicology.
The researchers performed a series of lab tests involving humans, horses and rodents that follow the effects of electroacupuncture from the stimulus of the needle all the way to the brain, resulting in the release of reparative mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) into the bloodstream.
Depending on the species, electroacupuncture led to activation of the hypothalamus—a part of the brain that controls the nervous system and involuntary bodily functions such as heart rate and digestion—within nine to 22 minutes. The stem cells were mobilized within two hours.
Dr. White said these findings could lead to new strategies for tissue repair and pain management related to injuries.
"We could potentially capture the MSCs from an individual's blood following electroacupuncture and save the cells for future re-introduction in the patient post-surgery or to treat chronic pain due to an injury," he said.


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I absolutely believe every word of his recent letter ("Setting the record straight," June 1, The Aspen Times) explaining his position in the recent "misunderstanding" during the selling of his property. I'm personally glad he's been here and that I've had dealings with him businesswise. I hope he enjoys to the fullest his retirement.


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