We wanted to ensure that you were aware of an update to the state of California's Prop 65 law. While you may not manufacture products in California, the law applies to all products sold in California, even if produced elsewhere. This notice will give you a very broad overview of the law and is not meant to cover all aspects of your obligations, nor is it intended to provide advice. If you have not done so, please seek expert legal assistance on the subject.
In summary, Prop 65 requires businesses to notify their California customers about certain chemicals that are contained in or that may have a certain threshold of emissions from the products they purchase. In addition, Prop 65 requires the State of California to publish a list of chemicals known to the state to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm. This list, which must be updated at least once a year, has grown to include approximately 800 chemicals since it was first published in 1987. Ethyl benzene, used to make styrene (which is found in some AOC resins), has been on the list since 2004. Styrene was added to the Prop 65 list in April 2016.
Broadly speaking, composite products made with unsaturated polyester or vinyl ester resins, even after the article has been cured, could emit trace amounts of styrene. These amounts of styrene generally are well below any established human exposure levels. Therefore, in most cases, the finished composite products do not require a Safety Data Sheet (SDS). However, under the provisions of Prop 65, a composite product made or sold in the State of California containing styrene requires a "warning" to consumers by the manufacturer if use of the product could result in exposures above a "No Significant Risk Level" as published by the state.
As your supplier of unsaturated polyester, vinyl ester resins or gelcoats, we wanted to alert you to the warning deadline and encourage you to evaluate your options in order to have a clear strategy in place prior to April 22, 2017. Again, if you have not done so, please seek expert legal advice on the subject. Thank you for your business.


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Peter Šenk (born 19 May 1994) is a Slovak football defender who currently plays for FC Slovan Rosice on loan from Czech Second League club SK Líšeň.

Club career
Kosorin played his first match for Senica on 26 May 2013 against FC Nitra.

External links

 FK Senica profile
 Corgoň Liga profile

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1994 births
Living people
Slovak footballers
Slovak expatriate footballers
Association football defenders
FK Senica players
FK Pohronie players
SK Líšeň players
MFK Skalica players
OTJ Palárikovo players
FK Fotbal Třinec players
FC Slovan Rosice players
Czech National Football League players
Slovak Super Liga players
2. Liga (Slovakia) players
3. Liga (Slovakia) players
Czech Fourth Division players
Expatriate footballers in the Czech Republic
Slovak expatriate sportspeople in the Czech Republic

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Yoshitaka Amano
Yoshitaka Amano is a Japanese artist and character designer. He is internationally acclaimed with unique art style and notable works such as Final Fantasy series.
https://gibiate.com/
Yoshitaka Amano is a legendary Japanese artist, illustrator, and character designer. He joined Tatsunoko Production at the age of 15, where he provided character design for anime titles such as Time Bokan and Science Ninja Team Gatchaman. After becoming a freelance artist, he took charge of illustrations for the Final Fantasy series, which made him internationally popular. With his delicate and fantastic art style, Yoshitaka Amano is highly reputed across the globe and an inspiration to many successful creators. In the late 1990s, Amano started to focus on works of fine art, holding solo exhibitions in France, the United States, Germany, and many other regions.
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National Insurance: Greater London
Lyn Brown
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many new national insurance numbers excluding those generated automatically at the age of 16 have been issued to residents of the London Borough of (a) Newham, (b) Tower Hamlets, (c) Waltham Forest, (d) Hackney, (e) Barking and Dagenham and (f) Greenwich in each of the last five years. (270230)
Jim Knight
The available information is in the following table.
The national insurance number statistics show the total number of NINOs allocated—not the number of migrants living in the UK. We know that many people come to work for a short period then return—the statistics do not distinguish between transient/short term working and longer-term workers.
National insurance number registrations issued to adult overseas nationals entering the UK
UK total
1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10 and displayed in thousands. Some additional disclosure control has been applied.
2. Registration date is derived from the date at which a national insurance number (NINO) is maintained on the National Insurance Recording System.
3. Totals do not include adult UK nationals issued with NINOs.
4. Geographical counts are based on the most recently recorded address of the NINO recipient.
100 per cent. extract from National Insurance Recording System.
Improvements have been made to the allocation of migrants whose residential address is incomplete. Figures reflect the best estimate of an overseas national's locality at the time of registering for a NINO.
The latest year that full data are available is 2007-08. In the six months April to September 2008, 342,800 NINO registrations were issued to adult overseas nationals, broken down as follows:


If you have been trying to save money by cutting back on seemingly unnecessary garage door maintenance, you may be interested to know that for each task you delay, you could be creating a bigger, more expensive problem in the future. A system that is always properly maintained will likely never need to undergo any serious and expensive repairs, so if you would like to save more money in the long run, consider staying on top of your system's maintenance tasks.
Opener repair is often only necessary when an obvious problem has been ignored for too long, although accidents and power surges can play their part as well. Either way, keeping a close eye on the condition of your door's motor is essential for those who want to avoid the cost of repairs at a later stage. Should its operation not be smooth enough or if it's making too much noise, you should have it checked by a professional before the problem becomes a seriously expensive one.
Ensure that the door itself is always adequately protected by the elements by giving it a protective coat of varnish or paint. This will help it combat the effects of harsh weather, whether it is damp or sunny. An unprotected door can quickly have its structural integrity compromised and will eventually have you needing to replace various door parts, at a far greater rate - and, consequently, cost - than what simple maintenance can offer.
Maintenance on your system involves looking after a great number of smaller, unnoticed components. Trolleys, bearings, and tracks all have moving parts which will get worn down over time, and so they should be well lubricated on a regular basis.
Your springs are responsible for balancing and supporting your system, and the pressure under which they operate can take its toll over time. In order to avoid the need for untimely repairs, it is essential that you routinely examine your garage door springs and get them replaced whenever they show signs of trouble. The dangers you'll avoid will be well worth the costs.
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The invention of the jori, "couple," is attributed in Sikh lore to the 5th Guru Arjan (1563-1609). Its predecessor in Sikh devotional practice was the pakhawaj, the pre-eminent barrel drum of the Indo-Persian courts and of contemporary dhrupad music. During Arjan's time, the jori became a specialty of practitioners of gurbani kirtan in the city of Amritsar, which by 1604 had become the capital of Sikh devotionalism. According to Bhai Baldeep Singh's research, the distinctive sound of the jori became associated with the city and became known as the Amritsari baaj, the musical style of Amritsar. This style has now been all but forgotten and his project is to revive its structures, instruments, and sounds.
The left-hand drum, the dhamma, is larger, much heavier and taller, and is fashioned more like an oversized tabla than like the modern bayan of the tabla pair.The dhamma produced deeper base sounds that are strong, expansive and resonating, unequaled by any other Indian drum.
Drum Skin Size: 9.25 Inches To 9.5 Inches.
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Dhama Drum: 7 KG. To 8 KG.
Note: The Weight is approximate. Because this is a handmade product, weight can fluctuate.


Co-located with ICSOC 2017, we organized a workshop on Smart Data Systems and Applications at the University of Malaga. Smart data systems and applications support the processing and integration of data into a unified view from disparate Big Data sources, data warehouses, sensors and devices in the Internet of Things, social platforms, and databases, whether on-premises or cloud, structured or unstructured and software-as-a-service applications to support Big Data analytics. An international audience of about 30 researchers and professionals from Asia, Australia and Europe provided their position statements and contributed to a lively discussion.
The group will continue to interact loosely driven by the aim to share research findings and search for funding opportunities.


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Ecosystm Predicts: The Top 5 Trends for the Digital Workplace in 2022
The first impact of the pandemic and the disruption it caused, was organisations scrambling to empower their remote employees. Over the last 2 years, significant investments have been made on collaboration platforms and tools. Now organisations are having to work towards making these workplaces truly hybrid where organisations have to ensure that all employees get the same experience, irrespective of where they choose to work from.
In 2022, organisations will continue to invest in building the Digital Workplace and address the associated technology, people, and process challenges.
Read on to find out what Ecosystm Analysts, Audrey William, Tim Sheedy and Venu Reddy think will be the key trends for the Digital Workplace in 2022.
Click here to download Ecosystm Predicts: The Top 5 Trends for the Digital Workplace in 2022 as PDF
Salesforce Backs BetterUp
BetterUp, a mobile-based professional learning and wellness platform that connects employees with career experts recently raised USD 125 million Series D funding backed by Salesforce Ventures, in partnership with ICONIQ Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Threshold Ventures, and Sapphire Ventures among others, bringing the company's valuation to USD 1.73 billion. Previously in 2012, the company had raised USD 43 million in venture capital funding with an additional Series B funding of USD 30 million in March 2018. The BetterUp platform combines behavioural science, AI, and human interaction to enhance employees' personal and professional well-being. Recently, the company also revealed two new products – Identify AI, to help organisations determine the right people to invest in and the appropriate coaching needed through the use of AI; and Coaching Cloud for customised training for frontline, professional, and executive employees.
This announcement comes on the back of several wins for BetterUp. To boost employee performance and organisational growth NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) partnered with BetterUp to support new ways of coaching and preparing a workforce for change. The world's largest brewer, AB InBev has partnered with BetterUp to strengthen diversity and inclusion through BetterUp's coaching platform.
The Need to Improve Employee Experience
The pandemic changed the working arrangement of millions of employees and industries across the globe who are now working remotely or in a hybrid environment.
Ecosystm Principal Advisor, Audrey William says, "Driving better employee experience (EX) should take centre stage this year with enterprises putting employees at the centre of all initiatives. We will see EX platforms get integrated further and deeper into workplace collaboration and HR applications. In the last 12 months, we have seen apps monitoring wellness and sleep, training and coaching, meditation, employee motivation, and so on sit within larger collaboration platforms such as Slack, Zoom, Microsoft, Cisco and others."
While the primary focus has been on optimising the work environment, it is time for organisations to start focusing on employee well-being. Ecosystm research shows that organisations implemented several measures to empower a remote workforce last year when the pandemic hit. But there was not enough focus on employee well-being (Figure 1).
William says, "A hybrid work environment may have negative impact on your employees. You may face issues such as longer working hours, employee burnout, lesser social engagements and connection, loneliness – and mental and emotional issues and depression".
"Organisations that place an emphasis on the employees will see their revenues grow and also see less attrition. The more you invest in your people, the more you will get back in return. It is as simple as that! You can see that now in some organisations where employees are being given more flexibility, employers are not dictating how they should work, diversity and inclusion efforts have become mainstream, and efforts are being made to make employees feel like they belong."
William adds, "However, Ecosystm research finds that organisations have gone back to putting customers and business growth first – losing focus on their employees. Only 27% of organisations globally say that they have improving employee experience as a key business priority in 2021. It is time for this culture and mindset to change. And solutions such as BetterUp can make a difference."
Transform and be better prepared for future disruption, and the ever-changing competitive environment and customer, employee or partner demands in 2021. Download Ecosystm Predicts: The top 5 Future of Work Trends For 2021.
Author: Team Ecosystm | Posted: Mar 17, 2021
Industry Spotlight for August – Future of Work
The Future of Work is here, now. Organisations were faced with unprecedented challenges of coping with the work-from-home model, when COVID-19 hit earlier this year. Many organisations managed the pivot very successfully, but all organisations were impacted in some way. Various trends have emerged over the last few months, that are likely to persist long after the immediate COVID-19 measures are removed by countries. In the Ecosystm Digital Priorities in the New Normal study, we find that organisations will continue to cater for remote employees (Figure 1) and keep a firm eye on employee experience (EX).
August has seen these clear trends in the Future of Work
#1 Tech companies leading from the front in embracing the Future of Work
As the pandemic continued to spread across the globe, various companies adopted the work from home model at a scale never seen before. While it is still unclear how the work model will look like, many companies continue to extend their remote working policies for the remaining year, and some are even thinking of making it a permanent move.
Tech companies appear to be the most proactive in extending remote working. Google, Microsoft, and AWS have all extended their work from home model till the end of the year or till the middle of next year. Earlier in the month Facebook extended its work from home program until mid-2021 and are also giving employees USD 1,000 to equip their home offices. This appears to be a long-term policy, with the company announcing in May that in the next 5-10 years, they expect 50% of their employees to be remote. Similarly, Salesforce and Uber also announced that they would be extending remote working till the mid-next year, and are providing funding for employees to set up the right work environment.
In Australia, Atlassian has made work from home a permanent option for their employees. They will continue to operate their physical offices but have given employees the option to choose where they want to work from.
Some organisations have gone beyond announcing these measures. Slack has talked about how they are evolving their corporate culture. For example, they have evolved their hiring policies and most new roles are open to remote candidates. Going forward, they are evaluating a more asynchronous work environment where employees can work the hours that make sense for them. In their communique, they are open about the fluid nature of the work environment and the challenges that employees and organisations might face as their shift their work models.
Organisations will have to evaluate multiple factors before coming up with the right model that suits their corporate culture and nature of work, but it appears that tech companies are showing the industry how it can be done.
#2 Tech companies evolve their capabilities to enable the Future of Work
Right from the start of the crisis, we have seen organisations make technology-led pivots. Technology providers are responding – and fast – to the changing environment and are evolving their capabilities to help their customers embrace the digital Future of Work.
Many of these responses have included strengthening their ecosystems and collaborating with other technology providers. Wipro and Intel announced a collaboration between Wipro's LIVE Workspace digital workspace solution and the Intel vPro platform to enable remote IT support and solution. The solution provides enhanced protection and security against firmware-level attacks. Slack and Atlassian strengthened their alliance with app integrations and an account 'passport' in a joint go-to-market move, to reduce the time spent logging into separate services and products. This will enable both vendors to focus on their strengths in remote working tools and provide seamless services to their customers.
Tech companies have also announced product enhancements and new capabilities. CBTS has evolved their cloud-based unified communications, collaboration and networking solutions, with an AI-powered Secure Remote Collaboration solution, powered by Cisco Webex. With seamless integration of Cisco Webex software, Cisco Security software, and endpoints that combine high-definition cameras, microphones, and speakers, with automatic noise reduction, the solution now offers features such real-time transcription, closed captioning, and recording for post-meeting transcripts.
Communication and Collaboration tools have been in the limelight since the start of the crisis with providers such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Slack introducing new features throughout. In August Microsoft enhanced the capabilities of Teams and introduced a range of new features to the Teams Business Communications System. It now offers the option to host calls of up to 20,000 participants with a limit to 1,000 for interactive meetings, after which the call automatically shifts to a "view only" mode. With the possibility of remote working becoming a reality even after the crisis is over, Microsoft is looking to make Teams relevant for a range of meeting needs – from one-on-one meetings up to large events and conferences. In the near future, the solution will also allow organisations to add corporate branding, starting with branded meeting lobbies, followed by branded meeting experiences.
While many of these solutions are aimed at large enterprises, tech providers are also aware that they are now receiving a lot of business from small and medium enterprises (SMEs), struggling to make changes to their technology environment with limited resources. Juniper has expanded their WiFi 6 access points to include 4 new access points aimed at outdoor environments, SMEs, retail sites, K-12 schools, medical clinics and even the individual remote worker. While WiFi 6 is designed for high-density public or private environments, it is also designed for IoT deployments and in workplaces that use videoconferencing and other applications that require high bandwidth.
#3 The Future of Work is driving up hardware sales
Ecosystm research shows that at the start of the crisis, 76% of organisations increased investments in hardware – including PCs, devices, headsets, and conferencing units – and 67% of organisations expect their hardware spending to go up in 2020-21. Remote working remains a reality across enterprises. Despite the huge increase in demand, it became difficult for hardware providers to fulfil orders initially, with a disrupted supply chain, store closures and a rapid shift to eCommerce channels. This quarter has seen a steady rise in hardware sales, as providers overcome some of their initial challenges.
Apart from enterprise sales, there has been a surge in the consumer demand for PCs and devices. While remote working is a key contributor, online education and entertainment are mostly prompting homebound people to invest more in hardware. Even accessories such as joysticks are in short supply – a trend that seems to have been accelerated by the Microsoft Flight Simulator launch earlier this month.
The demand for both iPad and Mac saw double-digit growth in this quarter. Around half of the customers purchasing these devices were new to the product. Apple sees the rise in demand from remote workers and students. Lenovo reported a 31% increase in Q1 net profits with demand surges in China, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
#4 The impact on Real Estate is beginning to show
The demand for prime real estate has been hit by remote working and organisations not renewing leases or downsizing – both because most employees are working remotely and because of operational cost optimisation during the crisis. This is going to have a longer-term impact on the market, as organisations re-evaluate their need for physical office space. Some organisations will reduce office space, and many will re-design their offices to cater to virtual interactions (Figure 1). While now, Ecosystm research shows that only 16% of enterprises are expecting a reduction of commercial space, this might well change over the months to come. Organisations might even feel the need to have multiple offices in suburbs to make it convenient for their hybrid workers to commute to work on the days they have to. Amazon is offering employees additional choices for smaller offices outside the city of Seattle.
But the Future of Work and the rise of a distributed workforce is beginning to show an initial impact on the real estate industry. Last week saw Pinterest cancel a large office lease at a building to be constructed near its headquarters in San Francisco. The company felt that it might not be the right time to go ahead with the deal, as they are re-evaluating where employees would like to work from in the future. Even the termination fees of USD 89.5 million did not discourage them. They will continue to maintain their existing work premises but do not see feel that it is the right time to make additional real estate investments, as they re-evaluate where employees would like to work from in the future.
There is a need for organisations to prepare themselves for the Future of Work – now! Ecosystm has launched a new 360o Future of Work practice, leveraging real-time market data from our platform combined with insights from our industry practitioners and experienced analysts, to guide organisations as they shift and define their new workplace strategies.
Ecosystm Principal Advisors; Tim Sheedy (Technology), Ravi Bhogaraju (People & Organisations), and Mike Zamora (Infrastructure & Offices) provided holistic view of what the Future of Work will look like.
Author: Team Ecosystm | Posted: Sep 04, 2020
AWS and Slack Partnership Announced
5/5	(1)	As organisations aim to maintain operations during the ongoing crisis, there has been an exponential increase in employees working from home and relying on the Workplace of the Future technologies. 41% of organisations in an ongoing Ecosystm study on the Digital Priorities in the New Normal cited making remote working possible as a key organisational measure introduced to combat current workplace challenges.
Ecosystm Principal Advisor, Audrey William says, "During the COVID-19 pandemic, people have become reliant on voice, video and collaboration tools and even when things go back to normal in the coming months, the blended way of work will be the norm. There has been a surge of video and collaboration technologies. The need to have good communication and collaboration tools whether at home or in the office has become a basic expectation especially when working from home. It has become non-negotiable."
William also notes, "We are living in an 'Experience Economy' – if the user experience around voice, video and collaboration is poor, customers will find a platform that gives them the experience they like. To get that equation right is not easy and there is a lot of R&D, partnerships and user experience design involved."
AWS and Slack Partnership
Amid a rapid increase in remote working requirements, AWS and Slack announced a multi-year partnership to collaborate on solutions to enable the Workplace of the Future. This will give Slack users the ability to manage their AWS resources within Slack, as well as replace Slack's voice and video call features with AWS's Amazon Chime. And AWS will be using Slack for their internal communication and collaboration.
Slack already uses AWS cloud infrastructure to support enterprise customers and have committed to spend USD 50 million a year over five years with AWS. However, the extended partnership is promising a new breed of solutions for the future workforce.
Slack and AWS are also planning to tightly integrate key features such as: AWS Key Management Service with Slack Enterprise Key Management (EKM) for better security and encryption; AWS Chatbot to push AWS Virtual machines notifications to Slack users; and AWS AppFlow to secure data flow between Slack, AWS S3 Storage and AWS Redshift data warehouse.
William says, "It's a win-win for both vendors. AWS has sealed a good partnership for its Chime solution and other AWS cloud services. This ensures that Amazon Chime is used alongside a vendor with a reputation in the collaboration space. On the other hand, Slack gets the benefits of a robust cloud architecture including reliability and security and can now embed its collaboration offering with voice and video capabilities for its customers."
The Competitive Landscape
The partnership between AWS and Slack has enabled Slack to scale and compete with more tools in its arsenal. The enterprise communication and collaboration market is heating up with announcements such as Zoom ramping up its infrastructure on Oracle Cloud. The other major cloud platform players already have their own collaboration offerings, with Microsoft Teams and Google Meet. The AWS-Slack announcement is another example of industry players looking to improve their offerings through partnership agreements. Slack is already integrated with a number of Microsoft services such as OneDrive, Outlook and SharePoint and there was talk of being integrated with Microsoft Teams earlier this year. Similarly, Slack has also integrated some GSuite tools on its platform.
"There is a battle going on now in the voice, video and collaboration space and there are many players that offer rich enterprise grade capabilities in this space. AWS is already Slack's "preferred" cloud infrastructure provider, and the two companies have a common rival in Microsoft, competing with its Azure and Teams products, respectively," says William.
The Single Platform Approach
The competition in the video, voice and collaboration market in becoming increasingly intense and the ability to make it easy for users across all functions on one common platform is the ideal situation. This explains why we have seen vendors in recent months adding greater capabilities to their offerings. For instance, Zoom added Zoom phone functionality to expand its offerings to users. Avaya released Spaces – an integrated cloud meeting and team collaboration solution with chat, voice, video, online meetings, and content sharing capabilities. The market also has Cisco as an established presence, providing video and voice solutions to many large organisations.
Organisations want an all-in-one platform for voice, video and collaboration if possible as it makes it easier for management. Microsoft Teams is a single platform for enterprise communications and collaboration. William says, "Teams has seen steady uptake since its launch and for many IT managers the ability to capture all feedback, issues/logs on one platform is important. Other vendors are pushing the one vendor platform option heavily; for example, 8×8 has been able to secure wins in the market because of the one vendor platform push."
"As the competition heats up, we can expect more acquisitions and partnerships in the communications and collaboration space, in an effort to provide all functions on a single platform," says William. "However, irrespective of what IT Teams want, we are still seeing organisations use different platforms from multiple vendors. This is a clear indication that in the end there is only one benefit that organisations seek – quality of experience."
Author: Team Ecosystm | Posted: Jun 12, 2020


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Starting a Business with your Sister: Lessons Learned
Sisters: what would we do without them? A constant source of support, belly laughs, arguments and, on occasion, stolen clothes.... In the case of Joeyband™, sisters Hayley and Ashley went a step beyond all this, and launched a business together.
Here's how Joeyband™ came to exist, and the lessons sister duo Hayley and Ashley have learnt along the way.
How did the idea for the Joeyband™ first come about?
Hayley: I dropped my daughter. It was terrifying - every parent's nightmare. When my daughter was born, she was immediately placed skin-to-skin; through this, I immediately knew she was happiest on my chest. Two weeks to the day she was born, she was asleep on me in the early morning. I took my hands off of her for a split second, she startled, and hit the floor.
My husband and I took her to the hospital thinking, "We've damaged her, we've ruined her life, they're going to take her away from us", and the doctor simply told us: "This happens all the time." Not wanting it to happen again, however, we tried every product on the market – wraps, slings, buckle carriers, and shirts… nothing did what I wanted it to do - which was to simply and easily belt my baby to me while she was sleeping.
Hayley, what made you choose Ashley as a business partner?
Hayley: At the time, it was a no-brainer. Never mind that she was my best friend; we'd worked well together in the past, and she and her husband have great minds for business.
Ash works a lot with Wade & Co, which is their family office, so there are resources and connections most new businesses can only dream of. She believed in the idea, the product, and as a mom of four, deeply understood the need for Joeyband™ in the market.
What would you say the biggest benefits of working alongside your sister have been?
Ashley: We definitely understand what helps the other reach their potential, while understanding what makes the other person "tick"! For example, I learned at a young age to let Hayley have her eight hours of sleep!
Jokes aside, several years ago, my husband and I made one of our biggest decisions, which was to leave Ontario and move with my family to California. Timing was everything, because this was when we luckily (gratefully!) met our other Co-Founder, Sarah Cox, who is highly experienced in business building.
Because I was leaving so soon, I had to cement a relationship quickly with Sarah, before I moved away. Now, we've all gotten to know each other and joke that Sarah is basically one of us - but she really is! The biggest benefit is spending time with the people you love most - we're there for each other and all the moments. Big or small.
Family dynamics can be tricky to navigate at the best of times! What sort of challenges have you encountered along the way, and how have you overcome them?
Hayley: Because we're family, some things are assumed rather than spelled out, which can be tricky. I'm also Ash's younger sister, and I don't know many older sisters who like to (sometimes) take business orders from their little sister - so we had to learn to create a bit of a new dynamic between the two of us.
We're also dealing with physical distance (Toronto to Laguna Beach), which can lead to feeling "out of the loop" more so than if we were in the same city. Thankfully we have the same taste in restaurants and food, because in the early days this was where we would get to work through a lot of our hiccups - over good food, in a relaxed environment with real conversations and some laughs.
How would you say your family values are reflected in how you run Joeyband™?
Hayley: We run the business with honesty, humour and compassion – for our customers, team, and partners. We've all seen each other cry and laugh until our stomachs ached and we've been together through the worst days and some of our best days.
Sisterhood, for Ash and I, is accepting who we are no matter how we're feeling that day. We believe this type of unconditional support is reflected at Joeyband™, and all three partners encourage people to be uniquely themselves, and bring the values they hold dear.
What kind of structures do you have in place to deal with any potential conflict?
Hayley: Trust is key. As we mentioned, we also have another Co-Founder in the business - Sarah - who joined three years ago. The three of us intuitively know where each other's skillsets lie, and if it's an important topic, we present our sides, all the data, and go to a vote.
We're running a company, so we need to move through challenges quickly, effectively and never really bring any sister disagreements into our working environment. That said, it's kind of special when the three of us hop on call. We'll go from talking about sales and new partnerships to my sister saying "Hayl, should I mail my nieces their Christmas gifts, or wait until I see them in January?"
We're grateful to have Sarah - she's a rockstar with a brilliant mind, and at the same time she patiently and lovingly blends in with our family dynamic. We always have a spot for her at our family dinner table!
How would you say your different skills complement each other, and how have they worked together to benefit your business?
Ashley: We all just fell into our roles very intuitively. I'm the hype woman with big visions, and I love to celebrate the wins. Hayl is more introverted and the information Queen. Seriously, if you want to find something out, go to Hayley.
Because of this, Hayley oversees the backend (product and manufacturing relationships and management), while Sarah does mostly front-end (business development, sales and management). Together, the three of us work on finances, marketing and high level strategy.
Hayley and Sarah are the builders who are heads down, in the weeds, so I like to make sure they're taking time to breathe and relax. We've done spa days in the past, and quite often like to go to dinner when we're together. I'm pretty proud of all the hustle my sister and Sarah have.
Hayley: Yeah, Sarah and I always joke and say Ash is our beacon of light that comes down when we need it most. Her energy and positivity is contagious.
What has been the biggest lesson you've learnt from going into business with your sister?
Hayley: That we can't read each other's minds, and we may have very different ideas of how things will run. Communication is key when it comes to business, as it is with family, and it's important to make sure our expectations are aligned.
Ashley: That business is going to bleed into our family events. When we're together, quite often we're talking business. It takes a deep conscious effort to make sure we carve out sister time, like going to the beach, being there for each other's kids or heading for a shop - making sure we have a "sister day"!
Do you have any hilarious/ridiculous short stories from working together?
Hayley: None that we want to share publicly! We used to have a lot of fun during trade shows and travelling.
What would your advice be to others considering launching a family-run business?
Hayley: Define expectations; with each other, your team, and financial partners. Take time to set the business up properly with agreements, too. It may seem awkward but it saves a lot of headache down the road.
Ashley: Our families, including my husband, have always done business together, so it became a way of life for us - but it's not for the faint of heart. There's no escaping your colleagues, so make sure you really can work well with them and trust each other.


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virtualenv: Too many levels of symbolic links
 Kuldeeps-MacBook-Pro:trydjango kuldeep$ pip freeze

  branca==0.3.0
  certifi==2018.8.24
  chardet==3.0.4
  folium==0.6.0+11.g71ab988
  idna==2.7
  Jinja2==2.10
  MarkupSafe==1.0
  numpy==1.15.1
  requests==2.19.1
  six==1.11.0
  urllib3==1.23
  virtualenv==16.1.0

Kuldeeps-MacBook-Pro:trydjango kuldeep$ source bin/activate

(trydjango) Kuldeeps-MacBook-Pro:trydjango kuldeep$ ls

bin     db.sqlite3  include     lib     manage.py   src     trydjango

(trydjango) Kuldeeps-MacBook-Pro:trydjango kuldeep$ pip freeze

-bash: /Users/kuldeep/Dev/trydjango/bin/pip: /Users/kuldeep/Dev/trydjango/bin/python3: bad interpreter: Too many levels of symbolic links

ls -l says into bin folder:
drwxr-xr-x  3 kuldeep  staff    96 Mar 21 21:57 __pycache__
-rw-r--r--@ 1 kuldeep  staff  2087 Mar 31 20:19 activate
-rw-r--r--  1 kuldeep  staff  1114 Mar 21 21:56 activate.csh
-rw-r--r--  1 kuldeep  staff  2188 Mar 21 21:56 activate.fish
-rw-r--r--  1 kuldeep  staff  8321 Mar 21 21:56 activate.ps1
-rw-r--r--  1 kuldeep  staff  1143 Mar 21 21:56 activate_this.py
-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 kuldeep  staff   290 Mar 21 21:57 django-admin
-rwxr-xr-x  1 kuldeep  staff   149 Mar 21 21:57 django-admin.py
-rwxr-xr-x  1 kuldeep  staff   258 Mar 31 20:08 easy_install
-rwxr-xr-x  1 kuldeep  staff   258 Mar 31 20:08 easy_install-3.7
-rwxr-xr-x  1 kuldeep  staff   240 Mar 31 20:08 pip
-rwxr-xr-x  1 kuldeep  staff   240 Mar 31 20:08 pip3
-rwxr-xr-x  1 kuldeep  staff   240 Mar 31 20:08 pip3.7
lrwxr-xr-x  1 kuldeep  staff     9 Apr 23 10:55 python -> python3.7
-rwxr-xr-x  1 kuldeep  staff  2346 Mar 21 21:56 python-config
lrwxr-xr-x  1 kuldeep  staff     9 Apr 23 10:55 python3 -> python3.7
lrwxr-xr-x  1 kuldeep  staff     7 Mar 31 20:07 python3.7 -> python3
-rwxr-xr-x  1 kuldeep  staff   236 Mar 31 20:08 wheel

Snapshot of Terminal with -bash Error

A: This is the problem:
python3 -> python3.7
python3.7 -> python3

python3 is symlinked to python3.7, but python3.7 is symlinked back to python3. This is symlink loop.
I recommend to remove and recreate the virtualenv. Or at least break the loop by removing python3.7 symlink and linking python3.7 to the real python3.7 binary.

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Sam Falco
Think. Create. Teach.
Scrum for Writers: The Scrum Board
March 29, 2021 Sam Falco
It's not easy to see how all the pieces fit together when using Scrum for writing. This week, I pause my exploration of the mechanics of Scrum to elaborate on how the Goals and Backlogs can be made visible in "Using a Scrum Board for Writers."
Agile, fiction, Scrum, Writing
New Fiction: "Simpatico"
February 16, 2021 Sam Falco
This week's flash fiction on Medium was inspired by a prompt to write about two people who have such a close relationship that they can almost read each other's minds. I chose not to write about two people in love, but two coworkers who are strongly simpatico even though one is ambitious and the other is not. I hope you'll enjoy reading "Simpatico."
fiction, Friendship, work
New Fiction: "The Garveys"
February 1, 2021 Sam Falco
This week's piece on Medium is a vignette I wrote in response to an exercise prompt: describe a happy marriage. Meet "The Garveys."
fictionconflict, fiction, marriage
New/Old Fiction: Outlaw
January 4, 2021 Sam Falco1 Comment
I wrote "Outlaw" almost a decade ago, and it was published in Grift Magazine #2 in 2013. Unfortunately, gun violence has only gotten worse in America since I wrote it. I've republished it on Medium today.
fiction, Gun Violence
Sylvie's Desk
May 15, 2020 Sam Falco
Photo by Casey Horner on Unsplash
I found this vignette in one of my notebooks. I have no memory of writing it and I certainly have no idea where I was going with it, but it's cute, so I thought I'd share it.
Sylvie's desk was in the back of the classroom. Wood top, plastic seat, metal legs. The desktop bore the scars of many years of service. Scratches, gouges, and names carved into it surface. When Sylvie spilled water on it one day, a lot of it soaked right in before she could get a wad of paper towels to clean it up.
The next day when she came in, a branch had sprouted from the spot where she'd spilled the water. It stuck up and blocked her vision of her teacher. She wanted to move but the class was full and there was no place to sit but on the floor. Instead, she bent the branch down out of her way so she could see. Every time the leaves rustled, the teacher scowled at her.
The day after that, Sylvie came prepared. She had stolen a pair of her mother's pruning shears so she could cut the branch off. But the branch had grown into a shrub. She tried to trim away enough twigs and leaves to look through. With every soft snip of her shears, her classmates gave her dirty looks. And it was no use. New branches grew in as fast as she could clip them. And every twig that fell to the floor sprouted its own growth. By the end of the day, a forest surrounded Sylvie that was so thick that she wasn't even sure she was still in school.
Create, fiction, Uncategorizedmagicalrealism
Revision under way
January 26, 2020 Sam Falco
Just after the new year, I finished the first draft of my last novel, as yet untitled. (It had a title, but the story that emerged made the title obsolete, so I'm still in search of a new one.) I deliberately set it aside for a few weeks to get some distance. Yesterday, I decided it was time to start.
I made some changes late in the novel that will require me to re-arrange the beginning. Some scenes need to be rewritten. Some will be replaced with new ones; others will be cut entirely. I wanted to make the structure visible so it would be easier to understand how changing one scene would affect others.
I first thought I would use the blank wall in my home office to map the structure. Color-coded sticky notes and swim lanes would do the trick. Trouble was, I ran out of wall 1/3 of the way in. Today I transferred the physical notes into a spreadsheet. Manipulating cells isn't as enjoyable as having something I can touch and feel, but at least this is portable, which will be good when I travel on business.
Tomorrow, I'll print the entire draft and start reading it and marking it up. For the first time, I'm eager to revise. Usually, I'm so sick of a story by the time I finish the first draft that revision is a torment. I don't know why this feels different.
fiction, Writingfiction, revision, writing
The Apology
December 22, 2017 Sam Falco1 Comment
Nehemiah stared into the diner from the safety of the unlit sidewalk, watching Margo wrap napkins around silverware. No customers so late on a Monday. That's why he'd chosen this night. But even without an audience, his stomach gnawed on itself like an animal chewing its way out of a trap.
You need a drink, friend. Steady your nerves.
He recognized the whisper in his mind for what it was. He squeezed his eyes tight.
"Go to hell, Whiskey," he said.
He ignored the throaty chuckle of his eternal enemy and pushed the door open. The clank of cowbells announced his entrance. Margo looked up, her eyes as big as a startled owl's.
Her walnut hair was shot through with silver. The harsh, fluorescent lighting made every line on her face look chiseled in.
She was too young to look so old.
How had two years changed her so much? Or had the amber haze he'd lived in for so long before she left made him unable to see her?
"What do you want, Nehemiah?" she spat. The muscles on her neck stood out, cord-like against her skin. Her disgust deepened his shame. Even in his thrift-store jacket, t-shirt, and blue jeans, he felt naked.
He let the door swing shut behind him. The bells clanked again. The place smelled of decades of eggs, bacon grease, and coffee.
"Nothing bad. I ain't here to cause a scene." It sickened him to have to say it. His hands trembled, and he hid them in his pockets. "I only want to talk."
"Well, I don't want to talk to you." She finished wrapping a paper napkin around the silverware in her left hand and dropped the bundle into a grey, plastic tub. "You go on and get, or I'll call the cops." She picked up the handset of the old red phone on the wall behind the counter.
"Go ahead, if it will make you feel better. I can say what I need to before they get here, anyway."
She stared at him a long time, brown eyes underlined by dark smudges. She remained still until the dial tone gave way to angry beeping.
"I let you say your piece, you'll go on and go?"
She hung up the phone. Then she braced her hands on the counter, wide to the sides so that the crooks of her elbows showed.
"Get it over with, then."
He pointed at one of the counter stools, bolted to the floor as though they might flee if given the opportunity.
"Can I… can I sit down?"
"You stand right there. That way you won't have so far to walk when you're done."
She ain't making this easy, Whiskey whispered. Nehemiah ignored it.
What have I ever done to deserve easy, he thought.
"I, uh, I came to say—" he began, but his words failed him. He'd written it out this afternoon. Memorized it, so when the time came, this wouldn't happen.
"Let me guess. You came to apologize. Twelve-stepping it. Is that it?"
"No. I mean, yes. I mean, I'm not doing twelve steps, but—"
"So you're still a drunk."
Her words ran up and down his spine like cockroaches.
"I am not. I ain't had a drop since—"
Since he hurled the bottle at the door after she slammed it for the last time. He had sliced his fingers to ribbons picking up broken glass with shaking hands.
"I don't even want it anymore."
"Liar," she said.
Liar, Whiskey said.
"I don't," he whispered. "You ain't me. Not anymore."
"Who are you talking to?" She narrowed her eyes. "Oh. Whiskey. Like always." She crossed her arms and dug her fists into her ribs. "Like it's some other person inside of you, making you do things."
His face burned.
The hell with her. Let's get out of here. You know they've missed you at Charlie's.
No. He was never going to be that man again. He breathed in deep, through his nose.
"I only blame myself." And then the words he'd memorized came back to him in a torrent, rising so fast he feared they would choke him if he didn't let them out.
"I did wrong by you. I treated you worse than anyone deserves. I ought not have said the things I said. I had no right. You never gave me anything but kindness and I repaid it with cruelty. I spent the last two years thinking about that. Regretting it. And now, I'm here to say… to say I'm sorry, Margo. I'm sorry for everything."
Silence pressed down on him like a sack of gravel draped across his shoulders. He had thought he would feel better once he got it out, but his guts still twisted.
Margo pressed her lips into a bloodless line.
"That it?"
"Then you can leave, now." She plucked a knife, spoon, and fork from a tray and started wrapping them in a napkin.
The cockroach sensation ran up and down his spine again, then down into his legs.
She didn't even listen.
"You didn't listen to a word I said!"
"I heard every word you said." The words ricocheted off the counter, the walls, the floor. "And I heard all the things you didn't say." Her eyes shimmered.
"You think I owe you something now. Don't you? I'm supposed to tell you I forgive you, and you can go on and feel better about yourself. Is that it?" She slammed the silverware bundle into the tub so hard it bounced out. She drew the back of her hand across her eyes, but new tears bubbled up to replace the ones she wiped away.
His mouth gaped, and his mind whirled.
"Well, now you can listen to me. You put me through fifteen years of hell." She thrust her finger toward the door. "So, you turn around and march yourself out that door, and you keep thinking about that for another thirteen years before you come back and apologize to me."
All you wanted to do was apologize.
"All I wanted to do was… set things right."
"Set things right?" She slammed her hands down onto the counter. The tray of silverware rattled.
"You can't set things right, Nehemiah. Some things, you break them, you can't fix them." She sucked in a deep ragged breath.
"Get out!" she screamed.
He slipped out into the night. He looked back, over his shoulder. Margo was slumped over the counter, her face in her hands. Her shoulders shook.
A plume of steam escaped Nehemiah's nostrils.
Where you headed, friend?
He looked down the street. The neon lights of Charlie's beckoned. He turned his back on them.
"I'm going home, Whiskey." He started walking.
"I got another thirteen years of thinking to do."
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November 13, 2017 November 13, 2017 Sam Falco
I flew home today from visiting my family in Colorado. Unlike Friday's flight out, when I had extra legroom and an empty seat next to me, I couldn't write. Wedged into a cramped airline seat next to a guy as big as I am, I couldn't get to my computer to get it out. Even if I could have extracted it from my bag, I couldn't have used it. The woman in front of my tilted her seat back as soon as we got off the ground, and the keyboard would have been crammed into my stomach.
Instead of writing, I read. I had brought Salman Rushdie's latest novel, The Golden House, which I had started reading a couple of weeks or so ago before I got distracted. Other than discomfort, there were no distractions in the sky, so I finished the book. One line jumped out at me:
I need to think and the city is full of noise.
It occurred to me that my life is full of noise, and that noise makes it hard for me to think. Social media. Television. Even work. Noise, noise, noise. If, as journalist William Wheeler said, "Good writing is clear thinking made visible," then I'm going to continue to struggle to write well as long as I am too distracted to think clearly.
I need to find space and time in which to think so that I can write well. Maybe a repeat of last year's social media sabbatical is in order. Maybe I should cut back on television. I definitely need to set aside more time for meditation and reflection.
fiction, Travel, Writingnoise, quiet, thinking
Revising Target Striker
November 3, 2017 November 3, 2017 Sam Falco
I thought I'd be done with Target Striker by now.
I started writing the novel last year after three months of preparation and research. I began the first draft on June 15, 2016. I finished it 108 days later. Other novels had taken much longer (almost three years for the previous one) and weren't very good. This time, I was happy with what I'd written. Target Striker was my best first draft yet.
I hired a freelance editor to critique it, and her response encouraged me. The story had good bones, the protagonist was likeable, the supporting cast well drawn. Her biggest criticism was that the financial fraud subplot didn't make sense. I realized that it had to go. I'd be done in another three months. Four, tops.
If only.
As bad as the fraud subplot was, I'd woven it into the story very tightly. Removing even one scene meant having to change others, which required still more changes. Plus, without the fraud subplot, there was one less red herring for my protagonist to chase. He's a bright fellow. He would solve the crime by page seventy.
Three months stretched into ten months. Granted, I set it aside for six weeks while I prepared my Agile 2017 presentation, but still. I thought that by now, I'd be pitching it to agents while working on something else.
The good news is that I have gotten some traction. A new first chapter works well, and I've come up with a replacement subplot that makes more sense and fits in well with the main plot. I hope to be done by the end of the year.
Only a Kiss
September 25, 2017 September 25, 2017 Sam Falco
I have a new piece of flash fiction up on Medium. Read "Only a Kiss" and let me know what you think!
fiction, Writingfiction, grief, relationships


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Our message is delivered through radio interviews (local, state and national), newspaper articles and speaking to community organisations on a variety of topics relevant to the difficulties of being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.
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PFLAG made a submission to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission inquiry into Economic Discrimination of Same Sex Couples, where three parents were asked to speak at the Hearing in Brisbane which was led by Graham Innes. In November 2008 the Senate passed legislation that removed Economic Discrimination for same sex couples. Thanks to the dedication of the national gay lobby groups, our sons and daughters are now being recognised federally and the hard work by everyone over the years is finally beginning to show results.
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Lerna
For other uses, see Lerna (disambiguation).
Shown within Greece
Myloi, Peloponnese, Greece
2500 BCE
Early Helladic II to Mycenean
4th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities
In classical Greece, Lerna[1] (Greek: Λέρνη) was a region of springs and a former lake near the east coast of the Peloponnesus, south of Argos. Its site near the village Mili at the Argolic Gulf is most famous as the lair of the Lernaean Hydra, the chthonic many-headed water snake, a creature of great antiquity when Heracles killed it, as the second of his labors. The strong Karstic springs remained; the lake, diminished to a silt lagoon by the 19th century, has vanished.
Lerna is notable for several archaeological sites, including an Early Bronze Age structure known as House of the Tiles, dating to the Early Helladic period II (2500–2300 BC).
1 Mythos
3 Etymology
The secret of the Lernaean spring was the gift of Poseidon when he lay with the "blameless" daughter[2] of Danaus, Amymone. The geographer Strabo attests that the Lernaean waters were considered healing:
Lake Lerna, the scene of the story of the Hydra, lies in Argeia and the Mycenaean territory; and on account of the cleansings that take place in it there arose a proverb, 'A Lerna of ills.' Now writers agree that the county has plenty of water, and that, although the city itself lies in a waterless district, it has an abundance of wells. These wells they ascribe to the daughters of Danaus, believing that they discovered them ... but they add that four of the wells not only were designated as sacred but are especially revered, thus introducing the false notion that there is a lack of water where there is an abundance of it.[3]
Lerna was one of the entrances to the Underworld, and the ancient Lernaean Mysteries, sacred to Demeter, were celebrated there. Pausanias (2.37.1) says that the mysteries were initiated by Philammon, the twin "other" of Autolycus. At the Alcyonian Lake, entry to the netherworld could be achieved by a hero who dared, such as Dionysus, who, guided by Prosymnus, went that way in search of his mother Semele. For mortals the lake was perilous; Pausanias writes:
There is no limit to the depth of the Alcyonian Lake, and I know of nobody who by any contrivance has been able to reach the bottom of it since not even Nero, who had ropes made several stades long and fastened them together, tying lead to them, and omitting nothing that might help his experiment, was able to discover any limit to its depth. This, too, I heard. The water of the lake is, to all appearance, calm and quiet but, although it is such to look at, every swimmer who ventures to cross it is dragged down, sucked into the depths, and swept away.[4]
At Lerna, Plutarch knew (Isis and Osiris), Dionysus was summoned as "Bugenes", "son of the Bull" with a strange archaic trumpet called a salpinx, while a lamb was cast into the waters as an offering for the "Keeper of the Gate." The keeper of the gate to the Underworld that lay in the waters of Lerna was the Hydra.
Stairs to an upper floor in the Early Helladic House of the Tiles
Excavations at the site were initiated under John L. Caskey in 1952, whose efforts initiated the series of publications of Bronze Age Lerna, Lerna I-V, inspiring many other publications.
Lerna was occupied in Neolithic times, as early as the fifth millennium BCE, then was abandoned for a time before the sequence of occupation from the Early Bronze Age (Helladic period through the Mycenaean). On-site techniques of flint-knapping with imported obsidian and chert attest to cultural continuity over this long stretch of time, with reduction in the supply of obsidian from Melos testifying to reduced long-distance trade at the end of Early Helladic III, corresponding to Lerna IV.[5]
Lerna has one of the largest prehistoric tumuli of Greece, accumulated during a long Neolithic occupation; then its crest was levelled and extended — as at Early Helladic Eutresis and Orchomenus[6]— in a new settlement: this stratum, called Lerna III in the site's stratigraphy, corresponds with Early Helladic II at other sites. Lerna III lacks signs of continuity with the previous occupation; it is the site of a two-storey palace or administrative center[7] that is referred to as House of the Tiles, for the terracotta tiles that sheathed its roof (an early example of tile roofing). This strongly fortified[8] power center dates to the Early Bronze Age culture called Early Helladic, ca 2500 - 2200 BCE. Though five stages of occupation at Lerna have been identified, the site of "House of the Tiles", after it had been destroyed by fire,[9] was not rebuilt upon, whether through respect[10] or fear, until, at the end of the Middle Helladic period, shaft graves were cut into the tumulus of the House of Tiles, indicating that the significance of that monument had been forgotten. Lerna was used as a cemetery during the Mycenaean age, but was abandoned about 1250 BCE.
Ceramics of Lerna III include the hallmark spouted vessels that archaeologists name "sauceboats", with rims that sweep upwards into a curved spout, as well as bowls with incurving rims, both flat-bottomed and with ring bases, and wide saucers, sometimes with glazed rims, more pleasant for the drinker's lips. Jars and hydria have swelling curves. Painted decoration is sparse; stamped sealing form decorative patterns on some pieces, or rolled scribed cylinders have been used to make banded patterns. Remarkably, banded patterns made with the self-same seal have been found at Lerna, Tiryns and Zygouries.[11] The burning of the House of Tiles brought the Third Period at Lerna to a decisive close; a low round tumulus marked its undisturbed, apparently sacrosanct site.
Lerna IV (Early Helladic III) marked a fresh start, not as a fortified seat of central authority this time, but as a small town, with houses of two and three rooms with walls of crude brick set upon stone foundations; several had central circular hearths. Narrow lanes separated houses. A great profusion of unlined pits (bothroi) was characteristic of this phase: eventually they became filled with waste matter, bones, potsherds, even whole pots. The pottery, markedly discontinuous with Lerna III, shows a range of new forms, and the first signs— regular spiral grooves in bases and parallel incised lines— marking the increasing use of the potter's wheel. Painted linear decoration in dark glaze on the pale body is characteristic of Lerna IV. Caskey identified[12] early examples of the ware that in Middle Helladic contexts would be recognized as Minyan ware, and, among the few examples of imported pottery, a winged jar characteristic of Troy, perhaps Troy IV.
Lerna V is continuous with the preceding phase, distinguished largely by new styles in pottery with the sudden, peaceful introduction of matte-painted ware, the thick-slipped Argive version of gray Minyan ware, and a vigorous increase in the kinds of imported wares, coming from the Cyclades and Crete (Middle Minoan IA). A new custom of burying the dead in excavations within the houses or between them is universal at the period.
Modern geological techniques such as core drilling have identified the site of the vanished sacred Lake Lerna, which was a freshwater lagoon, separated by barrier dunes from the Aegean. In the Early Bronze Age Lake Lerna had an estimated diameter of 4.7 km. Deforestation increased the rate of silt deposits and the lake became a malarial marsh, of which the last remnants were drained in the nineteenth century.
The name Lerna is suggested to be connected with the Hattic plural prefix le- plus arinna, arna 'spring', 'pool', 'well', 'source'.[13]
↑ Corinthian Lerna was a summer resort near Corinth.
↑ Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, 3rd ed. 1922:334; Jane Ellen Harrison credited Gilbert Murray with the observation concerning that "blameless" (άμύμων) was an epithet of the heroized dead, who were venerated and appeased at shrines. Zeus even applies the epithet to Aegisthus, the usurper, Harrison observes.
"The epithet άμύμων in Homer is applied to individual heroes, to a hero's tomb [Odyssey xxiv.80], to magical, half-mythical peoples like the Phaeacians and Aethiopians [Iliad x.423] who to the popular imagination are half canonized, to the magic island [Odyssey xii.261] of the god Helios, to the imaginary half-magical Good Old King [Odyssey xix.109]. It is used also of the 'convoy' [Iliad vi.171] sent by the gods, which of course is magical in character; it is never, I believe, an epithet of the Olympians themselves. There is about the word a touch of what is magical and demonic rather than actually divine."
↑ Strabo, Geography 8.6.8.
↑ Pausanias, 2.37.4.
↑ Britt Hartenberger and Curtis Runnels, "The Organization of Flaked Stone Production at Bronze Age Lerna" Hesperia 70.3 (July 2001:255-283).
↑ John L. Caskey, "The Early Helladic Period in the Argolid" Hesperia' 29.3 (July 1960:285-303); Caskey, the excavator, offers an overview of Lerna.
↑ Its walls were just under a meter thick; the structure measured 12 m wide by 25 m long; only the great tholos at Tiryns. 28 m. in diameter, compares with its scale (Caskey 1960:288).
↑ A double ring of defensive walling, with towers, enclosed the site (Caskey 1960:289).
↑ "Violent destruction appears... to have occurred about the same time at Lerna, Tiryns, Asine, Zygouries, Aghias Kosmas and perhaps at Corinth. Stratigraphic evidence for this period is inadequate at Asea, Prosymne and Mycenae" (Caskey 1960:301
↑ The "quite extraordinary respect paid to its ruins" is noted in Caskey 1960:301, who concludes "that a foreign invasion created widespread havoc in this region."
↑ Caskey 1960:293.
↑ Forrer, Glotta Volume 26, 1938
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Home Research > Members > 1790-1820 > BROADHEAD, Theodore Henry (1767-1820)
BROADHEAD, Theodore Henry (1767-1820), of Holly Grove, Windsor, Berks.
YARMOUTH I.O.W.
1820 - 12 Dec. 1820
b. 3 Dec. 1767, 1st s. of Theodore Henry Broadhead of Bretton, Yorks. and Carshalton, Surr. by Mary, da. of John Bingley of Goldthorne, Bolton on Deane, Yorks. educ. Eton 1776-83; Emmanuel, Camb, 1784. m. 11 May 1797, Elizabeth, da. of William Gordon Macdougall of St. George's Hanover Square, Mdx., 8s. 4da. suc. fa. 1810.
Cornet, 1 Life Gds. 1790; lt. W. Yorks. militia 1791, capt.-lt. 1792, capt. 1794; lt. Marylebone vols. 1798.
Broadhead was descended from a Hanoverian court page named Brinckman. His father changed his name in accordance with the will of a brewer uncle, Henry Broadhead (d.1754), thereby acquiring property at Monk Bretton, Yorkshire and elsewhere, and in 1791 applied to Pitt for a baronetcy, after previous attempts through the mediation of Lords Grantley and Abercorn. The latter was informed, the same year, that Broadhead was ready to offer £3,000 for a seat in Parliament and to support government, though he feared that his son might become a convert to opposition. Renewing his application in 1794, he referred to his support of Pitt's administration, to the 'very superior abilities' of his heir and to his two other sons in the King's service. In 1806 it would appear that the Prince of Wales was prepared to urge Broadhead's claims for a baronetcy, for Lord Moira assured the Prince that he had urged Lord Grenville to procure him one, but left his name off a list he handed to Grenville.1 Broadhead died in 1810, his unfulfilled ambition being taken up by his heir.
Broadhead purchased a seat in Parliament from his Clifford Street neighbour, John Calcraft*, in 1812. Calcraft had been urged to return Whigs, but there seems to have been no political stipulation. Broadhead was not on the Treasury list after the election. He voted with the minorities against the vice-chancellor bill, 11 Feb. 1813, and against the joint paymaster-general's salary, 8 Mar. On 29 Mar. he was in the majority in favour of the sinecure regulation bill. He supported Catholic relief steadily in 1813 and, despite his grumbling later that year that the Catholics were spoiling their own cause,2 did so again on 21 May 1816. He was in the majorities in favour of Christian missions to India, 22 June and 1 July 1813. He appears at this time to have been a follower of Canning, and in July 1814 when Canning had a list of five names of candidates for two baronetcies ready to press on Lord Liverpool in his negotiation with him, Broadhead was fourth on the list.3 He did not obtain one, but it was possibly with a view to deserving one that he suddenly surfaced in debate. On 20 May 1814 he favoured the corn trade committee and on 6 June said that the agricultural interest had no need of protection. On 10 June he claimed that the honour of the House was damaged by the conviction for fraud on the Stock Exchange of two of its Members. On 13 June he moved for a copy of their conviction and on 24 June for their attendance to answer to it. On 5 July he called for action to be taken against them: they were duly expelled.
From 1815 Broadhead voted silently with government. His voting with them on 1 Mar. 1815 on the treatment of the Spanish Liberals was denied in the Morning Chronicle, but there was no doubt of his having done so when present thereafter until the end of the session of 1816. He was inactive for the rest of the Parliament, possibly disillusioned. He did not seek re-election in 1818. In 1820 he came in for another close borough, but died soon afterwards, 12 Dec. 1820. His son of the same name replaced him and obtained the coveted baronetcy in 1831.
1. Gent. Mag. (1810), i. 391; E. T. Evans, Hendon, 130; PRO 30/8/116, ff. 163, 165; PRO NI, Abercorn mss IB3/2/38, Barnard to Abercorn, 28 Aug. [1791]; Prince of Wales Corresp. v. 2216, 2275.
2. Northumb. RO. Wallace (Belsay) mss S76/9/50, Broadhead to Wallace, 20 Dec. 1813.
3. Harewood mss, Canning to his wife, 14 July 1814.


Food for Thought: FIRST THING FIRST.
I had an encounter with a final year university student who is rapaciously chasing money illegally at the expense of his academics during the week. From our discussion, it occurred to me that majority fail in life because they do not get their priorities right. Here's a brilliant young man from a poor background who could be leading his class academically but who is unfortunately heading towards doom. He told me of his determination to buy a car and a mansion before he graduates and I laughed hysterically. Clearly, he lacks understanding. To me, he's simply chasing "the end" instead of "securing the means to the end". He's chasing the things money can buy instead of being empowered to make money legitimately. He wants to reach the top without having to climb the ladder of success. He wants to tap palm wine without having to climb the palm wine tree. Even if he succeeds with his plan, I can bet that his accomplishment will be short-lived because lasting success with peace of mind cannot be secured with his approach. Rather, what he needs to do, considering his background, is to face his academics squarely so that he can get good grades (with his determination, I can tell that he'll lead his class). With good grades, he'll be able to secure a good job after school. And with a good job, he'll be able to buy all the good things money can buy. He can even start his own company someday if he so wishes by then. But, he won't just listen!
Tell me…what came first for a gold medalist in an Olympic tournament… the rigorous training prior to the competition or the medal and fame after the competition? Judge. What came first for a serving president of a country… the grandeur and privileges associated with the office or the years of planning and political tussle before the election? Judge.
One step at a time, first thing first – that's how things work. If you want to build a structure for instance, ordering for roofing sheets should not be the first thing to be done. You should first acquire some piece of land where the building will be erected. After that, you can then draw the plan of the structure to be erected taking into cognizance the size and shape of the land. It is based on the plan that the requirements for the building to be erected will be calculated (the number of blocks to be used, cement, roofing sheets, iron rods, to name a few). Anything short of that will be messy.
Whatever the plan is, ensure you're on the right rung of the ladder. Even if you have made terrible mistakes in the past, retrace your steps; swallow your pride and set things right. Prioritize right. Using the scale of preference, list your goals and map out the best plan to bring them to fruition. Then, concentrate on the most important thing and channel all your energies towards its realization. The rest will then be possible.
Deny yourself of some luxuries now so that you can enjoy them on a larger scale for much longer later. Be wise, some things can wait!


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Metal-Organic Framework and Metal Oxide Composite 金屬有機骨架與金屬氧化物複合材料製備及應用
王誠佑 教授
主持人:游聲盛教授 發佈人:謝馨瑩
講者:王誠佑 教授
講題:Metal-Organic Framework and Metal Oxide Composite 金屬有機骨架與金屬氧化物複合材料製備及應用
Because of the intrinsic basic property, metal oxides can be applied in catalysis and CO2 capture. It is important to have good metal oxide dispersion for the applications. For this purpose, we utilize metal-organic framework (MOF) to support metal oxides. Metal cations are loaded in preformed MOFs in a basic solution to form metal hydroxide, which is further dehydrated to form metal oxide confined in MOF microporosity. In the first part of the presentation, we incorporate MgO nanoparticles in ZIF-8 (MgO@ZIF-8) as the catalyst for transesterification reaction. The synergistic effect between basic MgO and acidic ZIF-8 makes the composite effective in the reaction. Later, we prepare MgO@ZIF-8 and ZnO@ZIF-8 for CO2 capture. Compared to ZnO which cannot be confined in MOFs, MgO@ZIF-8 shows well-dispersed MgO, and the CO2 adsorption is much higher than the combination of MgO and ZIF-8 individually. Lastly, by MOF pyrolysis, we try to prepare metal oxide nanoparticles on MOF-derived carbon for CO2 capture and storage.
2009~2014, Ph.D., Energy and Mineral Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
2002~2004, M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, National Taiwan University
1998~2002, B.S., Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University
Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU)
Aug. 2017-Present, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, National Chiao Tung University (NCTU)
Feb. 2017-Jul. 2020, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, National Chiao Tung University (NCTU)
Feb. 2017-Present, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering at the Feng Chia University (FCU)
Aug. 2015-Feb. 2017, Taichung, Taiwan
Postdoctoral Scholar, Energy Institute at the Pennsylvania State University (PSU)
Dec. 2014-Aug. 2015, University Park, PA, USA
Deputy Engineer, Institute of Nuclear Energy Research (INER), Taoyuan, Taiwan
Oct. 2004-May 2009, Taoyuan, Taiwan


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Какао-масло (масло какао, какаовое масло) — жир, выжимаемый из тёртого какао — молотых зёрен плодов шоколадного дерева. Основа для производства шоколада. Также используется в фармацевтической и косметической промышленности, где оно ценится за температуру плавления, близкую к температуре тела человека, и стабильность: благодаря входящим в состав антиоксидантам, предотвращающим прогорклость, масло какао имеет продолжительный срок хранения.

Беловато-жёлтого цвета (при прогоркании белеет), имеет твёрдую и ломкую консистенцию при комнатной температуре, характерный приятный запах. Различают натуральное какао-масло и масло дезодорированное, которое подвергается дополнительной переработке.

Состав и физические свойства
Химический состав — диглицериды и триглицериды, смешанные с жирными кислотами. Содержание жирных кислот:
 Олеиновая кислота — до 43 %;
 Стеариновая кислота — до 34 %;
 Лауриновая и пальмитиновая кислоты — до 25 %;
 Линолевая кислота — 2 %;
 Арахиновая кислота — следы.

При температуре 16-18 °C масло по консистенции твёрдое и ломкое. Температура плавления — 32-35 °C. При 40 °C масло прозрачное. Цвет — от светло-жёлтого до коричневого. Масло имеет запах какао.

Применение
Какао-масло используется как жировая основа для производства шоколада и других кондитерских изделий, а также в парфюмерной и фармацевтической промышленностях. В частности, служит основой для приготовления суппозиториев (слабительных и обезболивающих свечей), различных лечебных мазей. Широкое применение находит оно и в косметологии, поскольку имеет заживляющее и тонизирующее действие благодаря наличию в своём составе метилксантина, танинов.

Медицинские аспекты

Масло какао эффективно при лечении ожогов, высыпаний на коже, кашля, сухих губ, а также при простудных заболеваниях.

Треть всех жиров, содержащихся в масле, приходится на долю стеариновой кислоты, которая не приводит к повышению уровня холестерина в крови. Ещё треть — на долю мононенасыщенной олеиновой кислоты, которая уменьшает содержание холестерина.

Производители шоколада и сходных продуктов часто используют вместо масла какао его заменители — гидрогенизированные соевое, рапсовое, хлопковое или пальмовое масла, которые содержат вредные для здоровья трансжиры.

Примечания

Литература

Пищевые масла
Какао


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