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O Banco do Estado de Santa Catarina S.A. (BESC) foi um banco brasileiro, com base em Santa Catarina. Fundado nos anos 1960, tinha, em seu auge, tinha 390 agências, com pelo menos uma em cada cidade catarinense.

Após anos de gestões problemáticas, CPIs, ameaças de liquidação, privatização e intervenções do Banco Central, o BESC passou a ser administrado pelo governo federal em 1999 e acabou sendo progressivamente incorporado pelo Banco do Brasil, processo que terminou em abril de 2009 e que serviu de modelo para outras incorporações como a do Banco do Estado do Piauí e da Nossa Caixa.

História
O banco foi fundado em 21 de julho de 1962, por famílias alemãs que aclamavam pela organização e o progresso de um bom banco estadual.

Devido aos problemas econômicos durante o Regime Militar, o banco começou a entrar em decadência e suas agências se viam antigas e desestruturadas se comparadas às de outros bancos. Em 1983 a Assembleia Legislativa de Santa Catarina cria uma Comissão Parlamentar de Inquérito para investigar irregularidades, sendo arquivada dois anos depois, Uma intervenção de treze meses foi feita pelo Banco Central do Brasil entre 1987 e 1988. Acusações de uso partidário do banco decorrem desse período, quando o estado era governado por Esperidião Amin, vindo a tona na época que Amin se candidatou a presidente em 1994.

Ameaça de privatização e federalização
O banco esteve, por muito tempo, ameaçado de privatização por parte do governo catarinense. Em 1999, o BESC, que estava perto da liquidação, era investigado por uma nova CPI, e Esperidião Amin, que tinha virado governador mais uma vez, iniciou a retirada dos entraves burocráticos que impediam a privatização, passando na Assembleia Legislativa de Santa Catarina uma alteração na lei que impedia a privatização na constituição do estado e aos poucos eliminando a estabilidade dos trabalhadores do banco com um plano de demissão incentivada. Além disso, o controle do banco passou pra o governo federal, evitando a liquidação, mas também preparando para a privatização com o apoio de Brasília, sendo, na prática, federalizado.

Em 2002, candidatos de oposição aos governos federal e estadual vigentes - Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva e Luis Henrique da Silveira - prometeram que não iriam privatizar o banco e saíram vencedores das eleições. Amin, que tentava se reeleger, foi derrotado no pleito.

Incorporação pelo Banco do Brasil
Após as eleições, Eurides Mescolotto foi indicado como presidente do banco pelo governo federal e o assunto privatização desapareceu. Em 2003, a sede do banco na rodovia SC-401, em Florianópolis, foi vendida ao governo do Santa Catarina e convertida no novo Centro Administrativo do Governo.

Em 2006 o governador Luis Henrique da Silveira envia a Assembleia Legislativa de Santa Catarina um projeto para possibilitar a desobrigação das contas do governo estadual e do funcionalismo catarinense serem no BESC, que era a última relação legal que o Governo de Santa Catarina ainda mantinha com o banco. O projeto foi polêmico e foi aprovado sob vaias de funcionários e sindicalistas. Um vez aprovado, o governo leiloa a concessão das contas, com a vitória do Bradesco, que tinha interesse em adquirir o próprio BESC. Entretanto, o governo federal barra a concessão, pois o contrato de federalização previa a manutenção das contas no BESC. A justificativa: o governo federal queria comprar o banco estadual através do Banco do Brasil, com a perspectiva de manter os bancos públicos como agentes dentro da política de desenvolvimento econômico, além de afastar o concorrente direto, o Bradesco, que, caso absorvesse o BESC, passaria o BB e se tornaria o banco com maior presença em Santa Catarina.

A incorporação foi uma operação inédita no país. Outras aquisições posteriores do Banco do Brasil, como a da Nossa Caixa, de São Paulo, e a do Banco do Estado do Piauí, seguiram o modelo da incorporação do BESC.

Os trâmites levaram mais de um ano e meio, com a operação tendo que ser aprovada pelo Senado Federal e pelas próprias partes, que divergiam em vários assuntos, como o tempo de manutenção da marca BESC - o Banco do Brasil queria mantê-la por um ano, mas acabou cedendo a vontade do governo catarinense e manteve a marca por cinco anos até a absorção completa. Os funcionários do BESC foram absorvidos pelo BB e as agências mantidas. O BESCRI, voltado a crédito imobiliário, também foi absorvido. Já o governo do estado recebeu o equivalente à venda do banco.

Serviços
O BESC possuía em seu auge 390 agências e 219 postos de atendimento bancário, totalizando 475 pontos de atendimento. O BESC possuía agências em todo o sul do país e em alguns em outros estados (Brasília, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Porto Alegre, Curitiba, Campinas e Ribeirão Preto). No momento da incorporação pelo Banco do Brasil, eram 252 agências, sendo 248 em Santa Catarina, e ainda quatro fora do estado - no Rio de Janeiro, em Brasília, em Porto Alegre e em Curitiba, e era o maior banco em Santa Catarina, com rede de agências 25% maior que o Banco do Brasil e 110% maior que o Bradesco.

Em 2006, possuía uma agência em cada cidade catarinense, o que foi amplamente divulgado na época. Sendo um banco regional, era a única instituição bancária de alguns municípios catarinenses. Além da carteira comercial, também possuía uma carteira de investimentos e aplicações em Santa Catarina.

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Bancos históricos do Banco do Brasil
Estado Santa Catarina
Empresas estatais extintas do Brasil
Empresas extintas de Santa Catarina
Bancos fundados em 1962
Bancos extintos em 2009
Fundações em Santa Catarina em 1962

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I weep and press my pain into the page, as though it were flowers I could dry and look at, in a year from now, with equal parts fondness, frustration and warmth. Like a photograph of splattering emotions.
Sensations cascade throughout my entire body.
Tears come freely, as they land--each one becomes a word.
"I wouldn't choose this", I think to myself.
Except I totally would. Life is rich. Emotions are rivers. My heart roars the wildness of nature. Colors are bright. I love so deeply. I feel so much.
But it feels like sh*t, too. Like I have no skin. Like other people's energy ripples through me. Like I can taste what they're feeling, too. Like I know things that make no sense to my mind, but my soul understands it, somehow, in a language that is beyond time, beyond thought, beyond life, beyond death.
And that's when it's really hard.
Hard to manage. Hard to breathe. Hard to sit still without dropping into what feels like a black hole. It's like I'm on the precipice of something that I doubt anyone would understand.
It's like I am an island, all by myself.
Goosebumps emerge, and it's like I feel the universe in my throat, there is so much love and so much beauty and so much hurt, but I don't know if I can hold it all.
Because sometimes, it feels like the world rips me in two, just from walking out the door. In the hateful ways that people act, the stinging things they say, the way society stomps on women, the way people suffer, the way children go hungry.
I feel it. I can't pretend that it's ever been any other way.
I've tried numbness--and it's a false banner made of cheap plastic, for feelings also seep over the edges. They always plunge into my life somehow.
For being sensitive is actually my great act of rebellion---because wouldn't it be so easy to just armor up, and create a facade that isn't so real, but seems sparkly and ferocious.
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I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay, a screenplay by Harlan Ellison based the Robot fixup novel by Isaac Asimov.
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For more than 25 years, numerous attempts were made to adapt Isaac Asimov's classic story-cycle, I, Robot, to the motion picture medium. All efforts failed. The magical, memorable tales of mechanized servitors with positronic brains, and the ways in which such amazing creations would forever alter human society through the justly famous Three Laws of Robotics, defied the most cunning efforts of scenarists and filmmakers.
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Elizabeth divulges what Regina discovered in Europe, upending affairs for Sarah and George. Andrew offers Olivia a solution to her predicament, but she must weigh its potential cost.
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The City of Miami will extend their iconic trolley routes in order to provide free transportation for Art of Black Miami participants around heritage neighborhoods. Community pockets within Miami and The Beaches are embracing the event with specially programmed exhibits such as "Soul Basel" in historic Overtown and TIZITA (Ti-zee-ta) a fine art group exhibition featuring Ethiopian and African Diaspora art on Miami Beach.
At the Historic Lyric Theatre Cultural Arts Complex, Soul Basel runs from Dec. 2 – 6; Art Africa Miami Arts Fair will feature a multidisciplinary exhibition of fine contemporary art from the global African Diaspora. The central idea of Art Africa Miami is to present an array of visual works that pay homage to the centrality of Africa and its descendants' contribution to the modern art world.
Miami's Yeelen Gallery in Little Haiti feature "What's Inside Her Never Dies… A Black Woman's Legacy" – Being a black woman is a journey oftentimes taxed with a history of ruined and objectified bodies that recall and carry on complex legacies of suffering and struggle. Through painting, drawing, photography, and sculpture, "What's Inside Her Never Dies… A Black Women's Legacy" presents the dignity, distress, and character of these heroes who affect us generation after generation.
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PEREZ ART MUSEUM MIAMI Presents "No Boundaries: Aboriginal Australian Contemporary Abstract Painting" brings together the work of nine Aboriginal Australian artists who are leaders within their community and while they began painting late in life, their works explore complex and innovative modes of abstraction. Relating to cultural systems, religious beliefs, and social structures, these intricate works are at once distinctly grounded in the context of Aboriginal life and profoundly resonant with abstract painting of the 20th and 21st centuries.


I'm a student at UCF for a living and will be interning next semester at a hospital.
Oftentimes I think about my health.
I used to hate the way I ate but now I've cut back on a lot of unhealthy foods. Though, I still have some improving to do.
I was extremely active when I was younger. I used to run a lot, jump rope, ride bikes, play football, and basketball with my brother and cousins. I had and loved P.E.
My ultimate dream in life is to be in a position to travel the world & volunteer. I am working towards that dream.
My life is surprisingly not that stressful right now.
I cope with my stress by either volunteering, playing video games, eating, talking to my mom, or watching YouTube videos.
Yes, I know how to exercise properly.
I know HOW to eat healthy, I just need to work on putting in more of an effort.
I would love to see cheaper prices for healthier foods and the same amount (or more) healthy commercials rather than for fast food. Also, if they could cut down on medical expenses, that'd be great.
10. Do you think being healthy will ever be at the forefront in society?
I don't think being healthy will ever fully be at the forefront in society but people are becoming more aware of what they eat and I've been noticing more people (especially my age) going to the gym.


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The official account of the US-led Coalition – delivered by the Pentagon – syncs up with what some Syrian military sources referred to as only 'light' and 'symbolic' airstrikes by Western jets that appeared to not actually be hitting troops or positions on the ground.
On Sunday, Syrian pro-government forces carried out a sudden attack against US-backed forces on the eastern shore of the Euphrates in Deir Ezzor province, temporarily capturing four or five towns and villages before retreating from all gains after several hours.


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How do I listen to Kindle books on my Android Phone?
I explain here how blind people can remove the DRM from Kindle books for use on Android and other devices. These instructions are permitted only for personal use so that people with disabilities can have the same level of access to ebooks as is already available to the sighted.
Certain legal ramifications should be kept in mind. While the Department of Justice has said that it will take no action against those who break DRM to make file content accessible to people with disabilities, the DOJ has also said that it will take legal action if people sell, give away or loan such files outside their immediate households. Also, carelessness with respect to the rights of authors and publishers may cause the DOJ to rethink its stand and Amazon to plug this hole in its DRM.
Given all of this, I recommend against doing the work for other blind people, even if they buy the original source from Amazon. Instead, I suggest pointing them to tutorials like this one, which describe the tools and procedure for setting up an environment that allows them to make their purchases accessible for themselves.
A number of tools are needed to support this process or help set up the environment. All are listed at the end of this article along with links to sources, and all are free.
The first item is the EBook DRM removal Kit.
This is a Torrent file. I used BitTorrent for the download. The file contains zip and rar files. Both can be unpacked by 7zip.
The file is a set of instructions, Python scripts and related executables for removing the DRM from Kindle and other file types. The basic DRM removal doesn't require a python interpreter, but the scripts for topaz file handling do require python 2.6 or 2.7.
The second item is the Kindle for PC with accessibility plugin from Amazon. The K4PC gives you access to the files you purchase and brings them to your PC. The files will appear in your "My Kindle Content" directory, which is created during installation, and they will have an .azw (Amazon.com wrapper) extension.
Note that this version of Kindle for PC requires that you have a screen reader installed. The Amazon page describing this version of K4PC includes a list of shortcuts for the accessible Kindle Application and a list of screen readers known to work with it. If you are using a screen reader that is not listed, download the program, install it, and check to find out if it works anyway. If it doesn't, contact Amazon to tell them which one you are using and request that they add it to the list of compatible screen readers.
The third item is Calibre, a set of tools for translating ebooks from one format to another.
Note that the torrent does contain the installation executable for Kindle for PC, but that version is not accessible. Instead, use the special version directly from Amazon.
1. Create a special SKindle directory on the hard drive, where the My Kindle Content directory is also located. This is usually the system drive c:. I created the SKindle directory on my c:\ drive, but you can put it anywhere else on the drive.
2. Create two sub directories in the SKindle directory. Their names are Input and Output.
3. Into the SKindle directory, copy LZSkindle4PCv1_1.exe and skindle.exe, each of which is found in different subdirectories of the Torrent.
4. copy the .azw file from your "My Kindle Content" directory into the input directory in SKindle and execute LZSkindle4PCv1_1.exe. This is the step that actually removes the DRM from the Kindle book.
• No conversion is done since the file is an unencrypted mobi file. The file remains in the input directory.
• The file is converted, the version without DRM appearing in the output subdirectory.
• The file version without DRM appears in the output file with a changed extension.
The goal is the first or second option. The third is a problem as it represents the case of a topaz ebook. The set of scripts do include python scripts for dealing with topaz books, but the results are said to be unsatisfactory. Since most Amazon books are mobi, I'll leave the handling of topaz books until I need to attempt to read one.
Note: While the DRM removal tools were running, I noticed that K4PC uses both the user account name on the PC and the serial number of the disk drive as part of the encryption. That means these scripts will work only if you log onto your computer using the same user account (login name)that was used when the book was downloaded from Amazon and that the SKindle directory must be on the same physical drive as the "My Kindle Content" directory.
1. Create a directory named Calibre in the root directory of the drive that contains the SKindle and "My Kindle Content" directories.
2. Copy the .azw file with the DRM removed into the Calibre directory.
Note that these are separate commands and should appear on different lines of the batch file. Also note that the assumption here is that the "My Kindle Content" directory will be on the C drive. This is the normal case, but advanced users can move it to another drive, in which case, the drive letter in the following needs to be changed.
4. Save this file as Calibre.bat in the Calibre directory.
5. If you need to edit the batch file, either open Notepad directly and use the file menu to open, or right click on the batch file name in Windows Explorer and select Edit from the context menu.
6. Execute the file by left clicking on the batch file name in Windows Explorer.
• In this tutorial, when a modified command line is specified, the idea is that you modify the line in the batch file. Running the command line outside its' normal context does not produce the desired result.
2. Save the modified batch file.
3. Execute Calibre.bat by doing a left click on the file name in the Windows Explorer.
4. Open the resulting document in word and either mark chapters or insert headings every 10 to 15 pages.
a. To find existing chapters, use Find (ctrl+f) to locate the word "chapter" or some other word or character that seems unique to chapter headings in the book.
b. To insert arbitrary chapter breaks, Use Edit/GoTo (or ctrl+g) and enter a page number about 10 to 15 pages ahead of your current position, do a skim of the area where you land to find a suitable point for a chapter break, and insert text like "Chapter ##."
c. Once the existing chapter has been found or an arbitrary break has been inserted, highlight the title text and press alt+ctrl+1 to make it a heading at level 1 . Then repeat the process throughout the book. Note that pressing alt+ctrl+1 to alt+ctrl+6 turns highlighted text into a heading at levels 1 through 6.
5. Use the caliber batch file to convert the modified rtf file back into an epub after all chapter breaks have been marked or inserted.
c. Save the batch file and exit notepad.
6. Left click on the caliber.bat file in Windows Explorer to run the batch file, resulting in a conversion of the file from rtf format to an epub book.
Now that the DRM has been removed and the book is an ordinary ePub file, the only step left is to copy it to the phone's SD card. The usual procedure is to connect the phone to the PC with the USB cable provided, mount the SD card/turn on USB Mass Storage Mode, and copy the files from the computer to the SD card. If a reader is already installed on the phone, a directory named Books is on the root of the SD card. That is the directory where ePub files are to be copied. Once the ebook is in that folder, you are ready to enjoy your book with an accessible reader like Moon Reader+ Pro.
• Copy the desired book from "My Kindle Content" to SKindle/input.
• Run LZSkindle4PCv1 to remove the DRM.
• Copy the file from either SKindle\output or SKindle\Input, depending on the case, into c:\calibre.
• Change the file name to "book.azw" in the c:\calibre directory. You can edit file names in the Windows Explorer by hitting the F2 key while the file name is selected and then type a new name.
• Use the base name "book" in all subsequent processing.
• When the epub is finished, change its name from "book.epub" to reflect the content (e.g., "Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind.epub").
This modified approach lets you perform the needed processing on many books without needing to modify the batch scripts for each book.
To summarize, blind and visually impaired users can legally remove DRM from Kindle files to access the content as long as they do so for their own personal use. The actual file conversion process is easy and straight forward. The hard part is finding information on removing the DRM. It's available on the web for people without disabilities, but it's scarcer when the tool set to complete the process needs to be accessible too. It took me a good deal of research to find a tool set that works for blind people. I am sharing what I've found with other Android users to keep them from reinventing the wheel.
Now that I can access them, I'm looking forward to Kindle books. My first choice for reading material is still Bookshare, but due to the time it takes me to download from BARD (an hour or more at my download speed), my second choice will probably be Amazon via my Android.
The following are referred to in this tutorial. Hyperlinks have been included in the text for your convenience, but URLs are listed here in case you wish to keep them in your records.
i will search this option from Google when i replay you about this topic because i don't have kindle because kindle is not available in our country.
The accessibility is pretty nice.
I would love you forever if you do a youtube video showing how to do these steps. I am not nearly as tech savvy as you but I really would like to be able to listen to my ebooks.
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It looks as though most of the required tools are also able to run on Linux. However, Kindle4PC is specific to Windows, both with and without the accessibility plugin, and either way, although Wine will likely run Kindle4PC, it is incompatible with Orca, the Linux GUI screen reader. Is there any replacement for Kindle4PC that will allow a blind Linux user to remove the restrictions from Kindle books so that they can be read in EPub format on an Android phone? The DRM removal tools are Python scripts, so most likely they will run, and I know Calibre works, as I just found it in my application repository. My only problem with doing this would seem to be the need to replace Kindle4PC somehow.
They are made from two pieces of hard material and snap around the phone to provide complete protection. Faceplates are another type of cell phone cover that fit the front of your device. Faceplates usually are made of hard plastic and are considered a more permanent accessory, simply because they require installation.
FBreader is a free 3rd-party app to help people listent to eBooks, including Kindle MOBI titles on Android device.
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1555 Johann Arndt, devotional writer, was born in Edderitz near Ballenstedt am Harz (d. 11 May 1621, Celle).
1719 Joshua von Kocherthal, early Lutheran pastor in New York, died (b. ca. 1669/70).
1742 Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711–1787) was recognized as the duly appointed pastor of the Lutheran churches in America at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, Philadelphia.
1784 In Baltimore, Maryland, at the first general conference held in America, Francis Asbury (1745–1816) was ordained the first American bishop of the Methodist Church.
1797 Charles Hodge, the leading American Reformed theologian of the nineteenth century, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1878).
1800 Sir John Goss, composer, was born at Fareham, Hants, England (d. 10 May 1880, London, England).
1809 John Edgar Freedom, Presbyterian missionary to India, was born in New York City (d. 13 June 1857).
1835 August Rohrlack, Missouri Synod secretary, was born in Neu-Ruppin, Prussia, Germany (d. 26 November 1913).
1846 August Friedrich Craemer (1812–1891) baptized the first Chippewa Indians as part of the Lutheran mission effort in Michigan.
1855 Josiah Conder, hymnist, died at Hampstead, Middlesex, England (b. 17 September 1789, Falcon Street, London).
1869 The composing room at Concordia Publishing House (on the campus of Concordia Seminary in Saint Louis) was put into operation.
1870 Walter Erich Koehler, German church historian, was born at Elberfeld, Germany (d. 1946).
1875 Lars Wilhelm Boe, Norwegian Lutheran church leader, was born in Calumet, Michigan (d. on the same date, 1942).
1877 The first Lutheran Diet in America was held in Philadelphia (through 28 December).
1893 Samuel Shoemaker, American Episcopal clergyman and writer who helped Alcoholics Anonymous develop its Twelve Steps formula, was born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 30 October 1963, Baltimore).
1894 Herman Ottoman Alfred Keinath, professor at Concordia Teachers College (Seward, Nebraska) and at Concordia Teachers College (River Forest, Illinois), was born in Richville, Michigan (d. 13 June 1952).
1898 The Third Lutheran Diet in America was held in Philadelphia (through 29 December).
1899 American temperance leader Carrie Nation (1846–1911) raided and wrecked her first saloon in Medicine Lodge, Kansas.
1902 Richard F. Weymouth (b. 1822), English Baptist philologist and New Testament scholar, died.
1931 Peter C. Lutkin (b. 27 March 1858, Thompsonville, Wisconsin), American Episcopal choral director and organist, died at Evanston, Illinois.
1942 Lars Wilhelm Boe died (see above under 1875).
1947 John W. Boehne, congressman, member of the Missouri Synod Board of Directors and founder of the Lutheran Laymen's League, died (b. 28 October 1856).
1963 Frederick Roth Webber died in Mount Vernon, New York (b. 26 January 1887, Decatur, Illinois). He graduated from the Lutheran School of Theology (Maywood, Illinois) in 1914 and was ordained in Racine, Wisconsin, in June of that year, accepting a call from the First Lutheran Church (Beloit, Wisconsin). From 1915 to 1917 he was a missionary to stations and congregations in Wisconsin and Chicago. In 1918 he accepted a call from Faith Lutheran Church (Cleveland, Ohio) and remained there until 1937. He served on the Architectural Committee of the English District of the Missouri Synod, writing articles for various periodicals. In 1927 he published his magnum opus, Church Symbolism. He also wrote the three-volume History of Preaching in Britain and America. He spent much of his time with archeological research in England.
1964 Saint John Lutheran School, Rennie's Mill, Hong Kong, was dedicated.
1986 Hulda A. Maier, widow of Walter A. Maier Sr., founder and first speaker for The Lutheran Hour radio broadcast, died on her 96th birthday. Her husband died in 1950, shortly after the couple had marked twenty-five years of marriage. Throughout their marriage, Hulda Maier took an active role in her husband's career as editor, professor, author, internationally known radio speaker and counselor.


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The ASX unveils new digital brand identity via North
The innovation studio was appointed to "reinvigorate" the ASX brand from its conservative, traditional securities exchange look, to a more progressive and user-friendly interface.
The ASX has unveiled a new digital brand identity created by digital transformation specialists, North.
With up to two million users each month, the ASX website is a key source of trusted information for investors, issuers and market participants, and formed the cornerstone of the project.
North was tasked with re-imagining the digital interface and visual language to create a consistent experience framework that expressed ASX's leadership in technology-led innovation.
It created a visual design strategy that optimised the user experience which then informed the overall design.
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The new experience features redesigned company pages with rich interactive charting and analysis tools; dynamic market data displays designed to work on any device and smart text and a daily market wrap to track market movers.
"Going deep into the core values of ASX and their brand personality was crucial to the success of the project," North creative director and managing partner Ian Howarth says.
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North launched in 2018 following the merger of Howarth's North Collective with UX director's Chris Abbott's design sprint company, Lean Design Labs.
Both had worked in leadership roles together at Deloitte Digital in Sydney.
Since opening, North has led a number of projects from large digital transformations to new product innovations for clients including Virgin Money, Pepper, Australian Institute of Company Directors, Torrens University and Uno Home Loans.
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2 top value stocks I'd buy today
Peter Stephens | Wednesday, 17th January, 2018 | More on: CINE MRW
The outlook for the UK economy is clearly uncertain. Brexit talks may now be progressing reasonably well, but there is no guarantee that they will deliver a favourable agreement for the UK. So investor, consumer and business confidence may weaken in the coming months, and this may cause UK-focused stocks to come under a degree of pressure.
However, this could also be an opportunity to buy such companies when they offer a wide margin of safety. In fact, here are two stocks which seem to offer good value for money as well as the prospect of increasing earnings in the medium term.
Changing business
Cinema operator Cineworld (LSE: CINE) released a trading update for the 2017 financial year on Wednesday. It showed that it continues to make encouraging progress, with its total revenue increasing by 7.9% on a constant currency basis. The UK & Ireland growth rate was 5.9%, while its international operations saw sales increase by 10.9%. The performance of its UK operations was highly encouraging and shows that consumer confidence may not be quite as low as recent data suggests.
The company also released confirmation of a rights issue as it seeks to acquire one of the largest cinema operators in the US, Regal. The rights issue is expected to raise £1.7bn on a four new shares for every one old share basis. The proceeds will be used to part-fund the £2.6bn acquisition, which would make the combined company one of the major players in the international cinema operator business.
This improved geographic diversity could reduce Cineworld's overall risk should Brexit talks turn sour. The company is expected to report a rise in its bottom line of 9% this year, followed by further growth of 8% next year. With it trading on a price-to-earnings growth (PEG) ratio of 1.6, it seems to offer good value for money for the long run.
Excellent strategy
Also having significant exposure to the UK economy is Morrisons (LSE: MRW). The company has experienced a challenging period since the financial crisis, but now seems to have found the right strategy to deliver growth.
It is focusing on methods of increasing sales and profitability which do not require large upfront investment. For example, it has tapped into the growth in convenience store sales by reviving the Safeway brand and signing a deal for its products to be sold in a range of such stores. It has also leveraged its status as a major food supplier to work with Amazon on its online grocery offering.
These changes are expected to result in a rise in earnings of 8% this year and 9% next year. With Morrisons trading on a PEG ratio of 1.8, it seems to offer upside potential. While competition in the UK supermarket sector may be high, the stock could be a surprisingly strong performer. Therefore, while its shares may be volatile, they could rise significantly in the long run.
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CHAPEL HILL — The Wake Forest basketball team has come a long way since starting the year in ominous fashion with consecutive losses to Georgia Southern, Liberty and Drake.
But even after turning things around with six straight victories, the Deacons have shown over their past two games that they still have work to do to finish their season comeback.
Specifically, by doing a better job of closing out games.
Their chances at an upset of No. 21 Tennessee on Dec. 23 came to an end when they went scoreless over the final 4½ minutes, allowing the Volunteers to score the game's final 13 points.
Saturday, coach Danny Manning's team repeated the pattern in even more frustrating fashion by getting outscored 8-0 over the final 2½ minutes to see a four-point lead turn into a 73-69 loss at rival North Carolina in its ACC opener.
If one is an incident and two is a pattern, then Manning knows exactly what his team needs to do in order to prevent its recent late-game woes to develop into a trend.
Though it sounds like a simplistic explanation, the stat sheets from the Tennessee and UNC games back Manning up.
Against the Vols at Joel Coliseum, Wake missed its final four field goal attempts and the front end of two one-and-ones over its final six possessions.
Against the Tar Heels, Brandon Childress and Bryant Crawford both missed 3-pointers with a chance to put the game away before big man Doral Moore missed a key free throw with the score tied and 34 seconds remaining. The outcome was finally decided when Keyshawn Woods misfired on a 3-pointer in transition as the clock ran down.
The Deacons (7-6, 0-1) made six of their first 10 3-pointers to start the second half before missing their final five attempts.
It also didn't help that Wake got outrebounded 49-34 by UNC, including a 14-4 margin on the offensive glass. The Deacons didn't score a single second-chance point and were outscored 33-18 in the paint.
That and those late-game hiccups aside, Manning and his players have to be encouraged by the growth they've shown since their near-disastrous start and by the way they battled the defending national champion Tar Heels for the first 37½ minutes at the Smith Center.
They forced UNC into 39 percent shooting, forced 12 turnovers, blocked seven shots and outscored their usually fast-paced opponent 15-5 on fastbreak points.
The Deacons also showed some grit and resilience that could benefit them as the season progresses by refusing to go down quietly after falling behind by nine with just over nine minutes remaining. They battled back to outscore UNC 18-5 to go ahead 69-65 with 2:24 to play.
Little things like rebounding, consistency, defending the lane off the dribble and, of course, making some shots late in games.


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With all the concrete and steel and hustle and bustle of urban life, sometimes we city dwellers forget about all those creepy, crawly, miniature members of society—that is until a giant, menacing spider rappels down from the ceiling and dangles in front of your eyes, causing you to run screaming in the other direction.
With the weather warming up, most of us are venturing forth from the confines of our winter habitats to take advantage of fresh air and get back in touch with Mother Nature. That means we're spending more time with not just our four-legged friends, but also critters with eight legs and more. Instead of declaring a war on bugs this summer, why not take a more peaceful approach? Our insect brethren have just as much right to picnic on Earth as we do. Tails encourages you to ditch that fly swatter this summer and check out these tips to advance a more humane bug-human relationship. After all, July 10 is Don't Step on a Bee Day.
Deterrence: This is the first and best line of defense. Bugs can't bother you if they don't want to be there in the first place. Begin by keeping things clean. Get rid of crumbs, sugar, and standing water (particularly overnight). Wash your countertops, cabinets, and floors with vinegar and water or a citrus-based cleaner. And keep your food stored in securely sealed containers.
Next, hit up your spice cabinet for some natural remedies for keeping insect invasions at bay. According to Compassionate Action Institute (PleaseBeKind.com), ants loathe cream of tartar, red chili powder, paprika, and dried peppermint. Sprinkle a small line at the entry point of your home, and they won't cross it. EarthEasy.com also suggests using cucumber peels, citrus oil (which can be soaked into a piece of string), lemon juice, cinnamon, or coffee grounds. Cucumber can also work to repel cockroaches, as do bay leaves and catnip (just don't leave a bunch of catnip around if you have a feline resident).
Removal: If a spider or other wayward bug comes your way, go with the tried and true inverted jar trap and release them safely outside. Or invest $25 in a BugZooka (BugZooka.com), a contraption that uses suction to safely capture the offending insect in a removable container and allows you to transport him safely outdoors.
Coexistence: Remember that even though they're creepy, crawly, and sometimes might sting or bite, insects are part of nature. Teaching children (and adults too!) to look and not touch is one way to keep relations harmonious. Chances are that loner ant traipsing across your picnic blanket isn't going to harm you. That fly buzzing around your head is really more annoying than anything else. And those bees passing by might be responsible for that local honey you're enjoying on your peanut butter and banana sandwich.


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Notre Dame players eager for 'old-fashioned' rivalry game vs. Miami
By LaMond Pope
Nov 10, 2017 | 10:05 AM
| SOUTH BEND, Ind.
Hurricanes coach Mark Richt discusses Miami's next opponent, Notre Dame.
Nyles Morgan gave the ESPN film "Catholics vs. Convicts," which centers on the 1988 Notre Dame-Miami game, a positive review.
"The whole thing was a learning process for me," the Notre Dame senior linebacker said. "I've heard about it, obviously, but when they had the '30 for 30,' they broke down the details of (the rivalry) and how nasty it really got.
"I was like, 'Dang.' But that was something very interesting to watch."
Watching is one thing. Now Morgan gets to participate in a high-stakes game against the Hurricanes.
The third-ranked Irish (8-1) visit No. 7 Miami (8-0) on Saturday night in Miami Gardens, Fla. ESPN's "College GameDay" will be broadcasting from Hard Rock Stadium to add to the buzz.
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"The rivalry is really embedded," said Morgan, a Crete-Monee alumnus. "That just brings more into the hype of the game. But it has nothing to do with us because our motto on defense is 'nameless and faceless.'
"All that stuff is cool and it's all glamorous and builds more hype and more attention, but we're just worried about winning the game."
Morgan tied for the team high with nine tackles and had two sacks in last year's 30-27 victory against the Hurricanes in South Bend.
That game was played on Oct. 29, 2016, under much different circumstances. Both teams were struggling. The Irish had lost four of five and were on their way to a 4-8 season. The Hurricanes entered on a three-game losing streak.
Saturday's game takes on much more significance.
Miami's Braxton Berrios (8) celebrates his touchdown with KC McDermott during the second half against North Carolina. (Gerry Broome / AP)
"This week, it's old-fashioned," Notre Dame left tackle Mike McGlinchey said. "It's where these programs should be. It's what college football wants, and in some ways it's what it needs."
Miami hasn't lost since the defeat at Notre Dame Stadium. The Hurricanes' 13-game winning streak is the longest active one in the Football Bowl Subdivision.
They have relied on a defense that ranks first nationally in tackles for a loss (8.8 per game) and fifth in sacks (3.5 per game).
"We're designed to attack," coach Mark Richt said.
The Hurricanes have created 20 turnovers. They had 19 takeaways all of last season.
A similar turnover boost has sparked Notre Dame. The Irish have 19 takeaways after totaling only 14 last year.
"In big games like this, defense wins the game," Notre Dame linebacker Drue Tranquill said. "Whoever plays better defense on Saturday is going to win. And we're preparing with that mindset. We have to take the ball over on the road (and) put our offense in favorable situations to score."
Saturday's winner will remain on the playoff path while adding its personal stamp to the series.
"The rivalry that we share with them is definitely one of a lot of intensity and a lot of fire," McGlinchey said. "And I'm excited to finally be part of what looks to be a pretty classical Notre Dame-Miami game."
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This site illustrates a few interesting aspects of the architecture of the World Wide Web. For more information on the Web's architecture, read The Architecture of the World Wide Web and also various Findings of the World Wide Web Consortium Technical Architecture Group (TAG). Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web design issues writings give a fascinating perspective from the man who invented the Web.
A very simple Web page. This shows the basic HTTP GET interaction between a Web browser and a server. When you click the link labeled "simple", your browser will issue an HTTP GET to ./demo1/test.html. A very simple HTML Web page should be served in response to that. You can use tools like View Page Source or View Page Info in your browser to see more about what happened.
Shows how Web applications become much more powerful if each resource has its own URI.
HTTP provides methods such as GET, PUT and POST. These demonstrations illustrate some of the reasons that using these methods properly is very important. In fact, the 2nd version of the demo above correctly assigned URIs to each resource, but it mistakenly used GET to create a reservation. These demos show how to do better.
The link for this demo is to http://rte.noahdemo.com/Clock/clock.php, which is the URI for a resource that happens to be a clock. The URI identifies the resource, which is the abstract clock. The HTML file that comes back to the browser is a representation of the state of the clock at the time you did the GET.
When you retrieve a representation of a resource using HTTP, it's accompanied by metadata that gives the media-type (e.g. text/html or image/jpeg), and other important information. It's very important that user agents such as browsers respect this metadata, but even some very widely used browsers do not do this correctly. When you write applications, it's important not only that they work with popular browsers, but that they use the web correctly.


Mao in Wuhan in 1927 Mao Zedong (1893-1976) was one of the major figures of the 20th century. "If power is measured by impact on people's lives," Emily MacFarquhar wrote in U.S. News and World Report, "Mao Zedong was the most powerful man in history. The wars and revolution and political campaigns he led left no one untouched in a country of hundreds of millions. His quixotic crusades may have killed more people than the mass exterminations of Hitler and Stalin combined. In his lifetime, he was worshiped as a god and his books sold better than the Bible. After his death, he was demystified and dethroned. Today, he is the object of a pop culture cult."
Mao's biography, Mao: the Unknown Story , by Jung Chang and John Halliday begins in a similar vein: "Mao...who for decades held absolute power over the lives of one quarter of the world's population, was responsible for well over 70 million deaths in peacetime, more than any other 20th century leader." Henry Kissinger wrote that a "recent biography" of Mao (presumably Mao: The Unknown Story ) was interesting but "one-sided."
On the positive side, Mao was a brilliant political tactician, a clever, charismatic and persuasive leader, a survivor who time and again outmaneuvered his rivals, and a prolific writer who described himself as an "indefatigable teacher." He showed his toughness and patience during the Long March and again in his resistance against the Japanese. On the negative side he was obsessed with power and eliminating his enemies and many of his ideas such as the Great Leap Forward were half baked.
Mao Zedong was born in December, 1893 on a canopy bed in his family's tidy, 13-room farm house, set in a beautiful location outside Shaoshan, Hunan Province. During the Cultural Revolution, the Red Guard chanted "The sun rises in Shaoshan" and some Chinese changed their name to Shaoshan in Mao's honor. In the 1960s, three million people a year visited Mao's house, with as many as 120,000 showing up on a single day. Some treated it as a of pilgrimage site, trekking their on foot from some far off place. Today only a handful of people visit Mao's house each day and the train to Shaoshan is often half empty.
Mao's family houseMao was the oldest surviving child in his family. He had two younger brothers. Mao was large for his age. He liked to eat fermented tofu and compose poetry, According to one story he read history books while he swam in the Xiang River. He reportedly developed his love for swimming in the fish pond in front of his childhood home.
Mao attended primary school in Shaoshan from ages 8 to 13. Shaoshan was a typical farming village where many people struggled with poverty and hunger. Mao left his hometown as a teenager and as far as anyone knows only returned twice. At the age of 16, he went to Changsa, near Shaoshan, to attend secondary school. He was trained in Confucian classics and worked as an accountant in his father's business while in school.
One of Mao's greatest heros when he was young was Qin Shi Huangdi, the first emperor of China. Not yet a radical he wrote that: "I considered the emperor as well as most officials to be honest, good and clever men." As he got older Mao became more radical. His favorite novel reportedly was The Water Margin, an epic story about a group of insurgents who lived during the Song dynasty.
Mao's father was a "relatively rich peasant" who as a young man had his land taken away and was forced to serve in the army to pay off some large debts. After being released from the army he worked and saved enough money to buy back his land. He became a "rich peasant" by selling surplus rice and buying up rice from poor farmers and selling it a higher price to rice merchants. When Mao was a teenager, his father made a killing by village standards by buying up mortgages from poor peasants and making a profit on the interest the peasants paid him.
Mao was close to his mother. She studied Buddhism and had bound feet. He regarded his father as a disciplinarian whom he once said, "I learned to hate." According to one fable, Mao was accused of being lazy and fat and slugged by his father in front of guests at a house party. Mao reportedly told his father to go to hell but then allowed him to save face by saying, "Confucius says elders must be kind and affectionate to the young. However I will kowtow on one knee if you promise not beat me."
Mao's 1st wife Yao Ka in 1924 When Mao was a young boy a severe famine hit the Hunan province and the Manchu governor was killed in a food riot. Mao wrote he "felt that there with the rebels were ordinary people like my own family and I deeply resented the injustice in the treatment given to them." Around the same time Mao wrote he was impressed by the tactics used by some rebels in the hills around Shaoshan to fight rich landowners and was also taken with a radical school teacher who argued that Buddhist temples should be converted into schools.
After the collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1911, Mao joined the Chinese army but quit six months later. Between 1913 and 1918, Mao attended the Hunan No. 1 Teacher's Training School in Changsa and returned there in 1920 to work for a year as a teacher. In Changsa, Mao was exposed to the revolutionary ideas preached by Sun Yat-sen, heard about the Canton and Wuhan uprisings and read about socialism in Russia in the newspapers.
Mao started a night school for farmers in 1917. Describing his early years in Changsa, Mao wrote, "At this time my mind was a curious mixture of ideas of liberalism, democratic reformism and utopia socialism...and I was definitely antimilitarist and anti-imperialist."
In 1918 Mao worked as an assistant to the chief librarian of the University of Beijing, where he first began to study Marxism seriously and where he met with many of the founders of the Communist Party. When Mao returned to Changsa, he wrote, "I became more and more convinced that only mass political power, secured through mass action, could guarantee the realization of dynamic reforms."
In Changsa, Mao became editor of a radical student newspaper called the Xiang River Review. In 1920 he began organizing workers and calling himself a Marxist. He recruited new members for the Communist Party with an ad in the local Changsa newspaper "inviting young men interested in patriotic work to make contact with me." This is how Mao met Liu Shaoqi, later an important general in the Long March and a president of China, and Xiao Chen, a founding member of the Communist Party.
In 1921, Mao attended the founding meeting of the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai. In 1922 he organized the Hunan provincial branch of the Communist Party and set up labor and student unions. His revolutionary activities among peasant angered landlords in Hunan and Mao was forced to flee to Canton, where the Kuomintang and Communists held power as allies. With the 1927 split between the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the CCP began to engage in armed struggle against the Chiang regime. The Red Army was established in 1927, and after a series of uprisings and internal political struggles, the CCP announced the establishment in 1931 of the Chinese Soviet Republic under the chairmanship of Mao in Jiangxi Province in south-central China.
Mao in the 1930s In 1927, Mao led a group of Hunan peasants in the mountains of Jiangxi Province, where they created a Soviet-style government and started building a guerilla force. By 1930 the Jiangxi Soviet controlled several million people and the Red Army numbered 200,000. In the meantime the Kuomintang began a campaign to exterminate the Communists.
In the 1930s Mao traveled to villages, where peasants grew rice for wealthy landlords and ate nothing but potatoes themselves, and called on them to take up arms and take the land for themselves.
At that time Mao was described as tall, rangy and good looking. He chain smoked and looked people directly in the eye, exuded coincidence and persuaded peasants with his logic and charisma.
Mao received trunks full of Mexican silver dollars and instructions from Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, without which many historians have argued the Long March would not have been possible. Stalin is said to have played a major role in Mao's rise. Betrayal and intra party rivalry led to frequent purges. Blunders by Mao led to the unnecessary loss of thousands in hopeless battles.
Against the advise of Mao and his followers, Li Lisan, leader of the Communist Party at that time, committed 180,000 men to a series of great battles in the early 1930s against the Kuomintang, who was being advised by Prussian officers who taught the Kuomintang how to build forts and fortify supply lines to entrap their enemy. The Communists lost the battles and their movement almost collapsed.
Mao took control of the Communist Party after he refused Li's orders to lead a major offensive against Changsa. During the Long March Mao consolidated his hold over the CCP. Shortly after the march began, Mao was elected chairman of the Communist Party at a politburo conference in Kweichow in 1935. With Mao at the helm, the Communists stuck to guerilla warfare and avoided large battles.
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