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Ray Nayak launches entrepreneurial venture House of Cheer
The company's tagline is Create. Curate. Consult.
03 Sep, 2019 - 09:34 AM IST | By indiantelevision.com Team
MUMBAI: In his inimitable cheerful style, former Viacom18 COO Raj Nayak has launched his debut entrepreneurial venture House of Cheer. It goes with the tagline 'Create. Curate. Consult'. However, Nayak did not reveal any more information about his venture.
Nayak has had an illustrious career of nearly three decades. Before Viacom18, he was the founder and managing director of Aidem Ventures, a media sales and marketing company. He was also the CEO of NDTV Media. He started his career in 1993 as EVP sales and marketing at Star India. He looked after the strategy, packaging and marketing of all the channels under the Star umbrella.
During his time at Colors as the channel CEO, he was responsible for bringing to the channel its highlight shows such as Big Boss, 24, Rising Star and several award shows.
In February 2019, Nayak quit Viacom18 after a 7-year stint to pursue his own interests
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Jarryd Hayne has sensationally left the Parramatta Eels to pursue an NFL career in the United States.
The 26-year-old joint-Dally M winner had been named in the Kangaroos' Four Nations squad to play New Zealand on October 25, but has withdrawn from the Australian squad to head to the US to trial for a contract in American football.
In a statement on the Eels' website, Hayne said he had been granted a conditional release from Parramatta to pursue the chance to play American football.
"Today I can officially announce that I will be heading to the United States to pursue an opportunity to play American football," Hayne said in the statement.
"I will be withdrawing from the Kangaroos Four Nations side immediately, and accepting a conditional release from the Eels to make the move overseas.
"It's always been a dream of mine to play in the NFL, and at my age, this is my one and only chance at having a crack at playing there.
"I'm excited about the potential opportunities that lie ahead. I've known the deadline has been looming for me to make this call, and I believe the right time is now.
"I'm so passionate about the challenge that lies ahead for me, not only as an athlete but more so as a person. It's the hardest decision I have ever had to make in my life.
"I'm leaving my team-mates, friends, and most importantly my family; but for me to grow as an athlete and a person I feel this is the right step to take."
Look back at the best reaction from social media after Jarryd Hayne announced his decision to pursue an NFL career.
The NFL has just finished week six of a 16-game regular season, so teams have already set their rosters for the season.
The regular season begins in September each year, so in order to try to crack the NFL Hayne will have to miss the entire 2015 NRL season at least.
An emotional Hayne said that his challenge to make the league, starting out as a free-agent, was "ultimately a 12-month plan".
"It's not going to be easy. I don't have any experience in NFL, I don't have a contract, I haven't signed with anyone," Hayne told a media gathering.
I'm so passionate about the challenge that lies ahead for me, not only as an athlete but more so as a person. It's the hardest decision I have ever had to make in my life.
"I'll be a free agent, it will give me the opportunity to go over there and train and potentially, hopefully, play NFL one day.
"That's the dream, that's the challenge I've set myself. I'm excited."
Hayne believes he has the requisite skills to make it as either a punt returner or kick returner.
"I believe I have the speed, I'm a quick learner, I feel things out really quickly. I have no doubt it's going to be tough," he said.
"Whether I'm offence or defence, I'm not sure yet. I'm giving myself the opportunity to make it.
"The easiest transition would be a punt returner or kick returner. Ultimately I think offence will be the easiest transition.
"I'm over there for the opportunity to play the game, wherever that may be.
"Ultimately it's a 12 month plan, going over there and trying to make a train-on team. That's the immediate plan.
"Overall, it's the next season, for me to do that I need to start preparing for that around January or February."
Hayne had a year remaining on his Eels NRL contract and was in line to renegotiate his deal en route to becoming the league's top earner.
Instead, he is pursuing a gridiron dream with no guarantee of success, and for a likely significant decrease in pay.
"I was about to become the highest paid player in the NRL, in rugby league," he said.
"I have definitely had a lot more offers and more money thrown at me but ... I achieved what I wanted to achieve financially when I bought my mum a house.
"Everything else has been a bonus and I would never leave a game for those motives.
"It is a huge step and something that has never been done before. I am taking ground where no-one has ever taken ground before.
"I am risking a lot, putting a lot on the line but where there is no risk, there is no reward."
In September, the Eels full-back travelled to the United States for a personal tour of the Seattle Seahawks and University of Washington Huskies' operations.
The tour was originally thought to be a simple precursor to the Eels' Seattle-based training trip in November, but his 10 day stay in Washington state seems to have laid the foundations for a stunning move to gridiron football.
Hayne shared the 2014 Dally M medal with Cowboys playmaker Johnathan Thurston after scoring 20 tries for the Eels in the recent NRL season.
He was also named the NRL's full-back of the year and representative player of the year after helping New South Wales break its State of Origin title drought against Queensland in July.
Hayne's loss may not hurt the Kangaroos in the short term with Rabbitohs star Greg Inglis always likely to slot in at full-back for the national team, while Penrith full-back Matt Moylan has also earned a call up thanks to Hayne's move, but it will certainly hamper Parramatta after agonisingly missing out on the NRL finals.
The Eels were written off as wooden-spoon contenders prior to the 2014 season, but Hayne's efforts in topping the NRL's try-scoring charts saw Parramatta finish 10th, level on points with eighth-placed Brisbane but heavily trailing in for-and-against.
Hayne has played 176 NRL games, scoring 103 tries in his career with Parramatta.
His departure from the NRL follows the loss of stars Sam Burgess and Sonny Bill Williams to rugby union. But Hayne said they left the game for different reasons.
"I am going for the challenge and to test myself," he said.
"I don't think any other players are doing it for that. I am going and playing a different sport and doing something no-one has ever done before and I have had a lot of time to think about it and to base my decision around that."
For the past 24 months I've been thinking about having a crack in the NFL, and over the last 12 months I've been seriously considering it.
Today I can officially announce that I will be heading to the United States to pursue an opportunity to play American football.
I will be withdrawing from the Kangaroos Four Nations side immediately, and accepting a conditional release from the Eels to make the move overseas.
The reason I didn't make this decision any earlier was because of the part I played in getting Brad to the club and the way we finished the season. I felt I owed the Club one more year and I gave it everything I could.
It's always been a dream of mine to play in the NFL, and at my age, this is my one and only chance at having a crack at playing there.
I'm excited about the potential opportunities that lie ahead. I've known the deadline has been looming for me to make this call, and I believe the right time is now.
I'm so passionate about the challenge that lies ahead for me, not only as an athlete but more so as a person. It's the hardest decision I have ever had to make in my life. I'm leaving my team-mates, friends, and most importantly my family; but for me to grow as an athlete and a person I feel this is the right step to take.
It hasn't been an easy decision for me to leave the Eels, the club's been my home and family since I was 13, and I've always been proud to pull on the Blue and Gold jersey with my team-mates.
The hardest thing about leaving the club is there's stability for the first time in a long time, but I know where my heart lies and I'm following that.
I'm always telling people to chase their dreams and follow their hearts, if I don't live by that I'm not being honest with myself.
I'm leaving knowing that I have signed a 'lifetime agreement' with the Eels, so if I return to the NRL, it will be to Parramatta.
I'm grateful to all of you for the support you've shown me at this club, thank you.


tomorrow is st pattys day and we usually celebrate with drinking lots of guiness etc. not this year.
I am abstaining for lent. really it is just to help lose this god awful amount of weight gain.
I gained seriously 50 pounds in 3 years.
Still Alcohol free since ash wednesday 11 days.
Thinking about drinking but not drinking gives me a sense of control.
Tomorrow is a new day. I will only take one benzo if I feel withdrawal after 4 day binge.
My mom wanted me to stay until her shift was over because she was afraid people would harass her. I want to protect my mom but I was high and didn't want her to know or anyone else to know so I left. Now I'm sitting here, high.. but the high doesn't feel good anymore.. It feels wrong.. morally now..
Tomorrow I will take vyvanse in the morning and no concerta.. I will be very tired and a little agitated but I will study and finish my essay. Not sure how well I'm going to sleep tonight but I hope I sleep well..
I guess soon I will have to realize that I am an addict and have to count days that I am sober.. I thought I was different and could defeat this problem but I'm just like everyone else.. as we all learn "It won't happen to me", but it does.. The cycle continues to everyone that will ever get addicted.. some will die.. some will live to tell their story.. my story shouldn't exist.. I should be dead.. But here I am.. Living.. life is what it is.. too much to explain about it..
I wish you all a good recovery, use your will power.. the will power that I thought was easy.. but chasing a high is like fighting demons.. they sneak up on you and ruin your life and everyone around you is affected by it..
My mom trusted me with my controlled substances because I wasn't addicted at the time.. I let her down.. I let her and my doctor and treatment team down by buying xanax and ketamine, dmt, mdma... I failed..
Like you said, tomorrow is a new day. I believe you can change if you want to bad enough.
Haven't checked in for a few days. 631 days and counting. I stay vigilant because I know about the false sense of security, but haven't really had any urges for a while. I routinely ignore potential temptation, not skipping work socials or other events and not feeling self conscious about not drinking.
and are worthy of this effort.
Just realized that I passed the 5 month mark. I'm kind of happy I didn't notice the anniversary because it means I'm not obsessing about alcohol all the time.
I only obsess about alcohol when I am doing trauma work. It seems it's connected stuffing those feelings down with a drink. It's a coping mechanism that in did for 18 years of my life...I was so used to it became my friend, my confidant, my lover and my enemy. I was watching the news yesterday and it was scrolling down on the screen it "costs alcoholics who are Canadians 15$M a year for the cost of buying it" not what it costs to get them clean or help them stay clean or how much money they save when they stop. But I watched a report on tv saying how alcohol has become fashionable now for females and that there is more females who drink larger quantities then males. It's not a fad they said it's the truth. And when us as females try to get help for alcohol we are made to be ashamed and feel ashamed but why? It's this society stigma that men are suppose to be the raging alcoholic not females. The society of ours needs to change because of it doesn't then **** happens that's not good.
My first time having a look at this thread. Wishing you all much luck with beating this monster.
Way to go childofchaos, you're coming up on 2 months. Keep it up.
Saw my addictions Dr. yesterday, and she's really happy with how I'm doing. I told her that most of my cravings were driven by my clonazepam taper and adding valium into the mix. She said that all my sense, and was glad that I was able to dissmiss the cravings as just my brain chemistry changing.


Family gatherings with the Bonanno side of the family would not be complete without my great Aunt Connie's Pizzelle Cookies. She would make tons of these for every holiday, birthday or get together. These crisp anise flavored cookies hold many memories for me. My Aunt Connie hasn't made these in a long time (she is now in her 90s!) and although she passed down her pizzelle recipe we had not attempted to recreate these until this Christmas. My Dad made a quick trip to the King Arthur Flour store (have I told you how much I love that store????) to buy a pizzelle iron. They are fairly inexpensive (under $50). My mom and I had a fun time making these together. It was nostaglic and sweet as we talked about my great Aunt Connie. Unfortunately we couldn't seem to get these pizzelles crispy like we remembered them. After making 6 batches we figured out that you needed to crisp them up in the oven. The magic trick. It worked out well that we made so many batches since I had a cookie swap I needed 48 cookies for! I packaged these in stacks with a ribbon, they made a beautiful display.
1) Beat the eggs, sugar, salt, and anise extract until well combined.
2) Sift together the remaining dry ingredients and add to egg mixture, mixing until smooth.
3) Add the melted butter, again mixing till smooth.
4) Heat your pizzelle iron. As it heats, the batter will stiffen.
5) Brush your pizzelle iron with canola oil (only do this step once). Drop one tablespoon of batter on iron for each pizzelle. Cook the pizzelle according to the instructions that came with your iron. Mine took 20-25 seconds to brown. Make sure you set a timer!
6) Remove the pizzelle from the iron, and cool on a rack. If desired, use a pair of scissors to trim any ragged edges.
7) Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Crisp up pizzelle if they are too soft on cookie sheet for 4 minutes in oven.
7) Dust cooled pizzelle with confectioners' sugar, if desired. Store pizzelles in a tin or brown bag - do not place in ziplock or airtight container as they will soften!
They do look very nice! Are there any left?


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Herbsaint is a brand name of anise-flavored liqueur originally created as an absinthe-substitute in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1934, and currently produced by the Sazerac Company.

It was developed by J. Marion Legendre and Reginald Parker of the city, who had learned how to make absinthe while in France during World War I. It was originally produced under the name "Legendre Absinthe", although it never contained absinthe's essential ingredient, Grande Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium).  It first went on sale following the repeal of Prohibition, and was unique in its category as an absinthe substitute, as opposed to a pastis.    The Federal Alcohol Control Administration soon objected to Legendre's use of the word "absinthe", so the name was changed to "Legendre Herbsaint",  French/Creole for "Herbe Sainte" (Sacred Herb), the Artemisia absinthium.

The Sazerac Company bought J.M. Legendre & Co. in June 1949. Herbsaint was originally bottled at 120 proof, but this was later reduced to 100 proof, then changed to a different 90 proof recipe in the mid-1950s. By the early 1970s only the 90 proof remained. In December 2009, the Sazerac Company reintroduced J.M. Legendre's original 100 proof recipe as Herbsaint Original.

Cocktails

Herbsaint was and still is used in several cocktails, including:

 Herbsaint frappé
 Pour two ounces of Herbsaint into a thin six-ounce glass.
 Fill the glass three-quarters full with cracked ice.
 Add a half teaspoon of simple syrup or sugar and two ounces of carbonated or plain water, then fill glass with more cracked ice.
 Stir, using a long-handled spoon with up and down motion until outside of glass is well frosted.
 Strain into another glass that has been chilled.
 Remove the ice from the original glass.
 Pour back into the well frosted glass and serve.

It is also sometimes used in the Sazerac cocktail as a substitute for absinthe.

See also
 Cuisine of New Orleans

References

External links
 The History of Legendre Herbsaint
 1944 promotional booklet for Legendre Herbsaint — Cocktail recipes and a brief history of Legendre herbsaint and the old absinthe house in New Orleans (1.76MB PDF format)

Absinthe
Cocktails with absinthe
Anise liqueurs and spirits
Sazerac Company brands
New Orleans cocktails

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Summary: Non-signatory Armenia says it cannot accede to the convention until its dispute with Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh and other occupied territories is resolved. Armenia has participated in several meetings of the convention, but not since 2014. Armenia again abstained from the vote on a key United Nations (UN) resolution promoting the convention in December 2018.
Armenia reported in 2012 that it does not produce, export, stockpile, or use cluster munitions, and has no intent to do so. There is credible evidence that cluster munitions were used in Nagorno-Karabakh in April 2016, but Armenia denied using the weapons and accused Azerbaijan of using them.
The Republic of Armenia has not acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
Armenia has consistently stated that it cannot consider joining the convention unless Azerbaijan also does so and until a settlement to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is reached. [1] Nagorno-Karabakh is claimed by Azerbaijan but under the control of a breakaway governing authority. Armenia has provided this information to States Parties on several occasions, most recently in 2014. [2]
Armenia did not participate in the Oslo Process that created the Convention on Cluster Munitions. [3]
Armenia participated as an observer in some of the convention's Meetings of States Parties, but not since 2014. [4]
In December 2018, Armenia abstained from the vote on a UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolution that calls on states outside the Convention on Cluster Munitions to "join as soon as possible." [5] It has repeatedly abstained from voting on this annual UNGA resolution, which was first introduced in 2015.
Armenia has expressed concern at use of cluster munitions, describing it as "a grave violation" of international humanitarian law. [6]
Armenia has not joined the Mine Ban Treaty or the Convention on Conventional Weapons.
Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling
Since 2012, Armenia stated several times that it does not produce, export, stockpile, or use cluster munitions, and does not intend to do so. [7] According to independent arms trade research organizations and local media, Armenia acquired six BM-30 Smerch multi-barrel rocket launchers from Russia in 2016 and 2017, but it's not known if the deal included cluster munition rockets. [8]
Cluster munition contamination has been identified in Nagorno-Karabakh, from the 1988–1994 conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia. [9] There are reports of contamination in other parts of occupied Azerbaijan, adjacent to Nagorno-Karabakh, which are under the control of Armenian forces. [10]
There is evidence that at least two types of ground-fired cluster munition rockets were used in Nagorno-Karabakh during the first week of April 2016, during fighting across the line of contact separating local Armenian-backed separatists and Azerbaijani forces. A spokesperson from Armenia's Ministry of Defense issued photographs showing the remnants of 300mm Smerch cluster munition rockets that he claimed Azerbaijan fired into Nagorno-Karabakh. The article stated that Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh "do not possess weaponry of this kind." [11]
Cluster Munition Monitor was not able to conduct an independent investigation to make a conclusive determination about responsibility for this cluster munition use.
(See the separate profile on Nagorno-Karabakh.)
[1] Letter No. 19/06300 from Armen Yedigarian, Director, Department of Arms Control and International Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 29 April 2010; and Letter No. 13/15938 from Arman Kirakosian, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC), 5 November 2008. Both letters assert that Azerbaijan "still stores a significant quantity and uses the Cluster Munitions." As of May 2018, the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia stated, "Azerbaijan is a country which still stores a significant quantity of cluster munitions."
[2] In 2014, Armenia said it hopes to join the convention, but not at this time due to the security situation in the southern Caucasus and the "war-like attitude of Azerbaijan." Statement of Armenia, Convention on Cluster Munitions Fifth Meeting of States Parties, San Jose, 3 September 2014. Notes by the CMC.
[3] For details on Armenia's policy and practice regarding cluster munitions through early 2010, see ICBL, Cluster Munition Monitor 2010 (Ottawa: Mines Action Canada, October 2010), pp. 193–194.
[4] Armenia participated as an observer in the convention's Meetings of States Parties in 2011–2012 and 2014, as well as intersessional meetings in 2013.
[6] Statement of Armenia, Convention on Cluster Munitions Fifth Meeting of States Parties, San Jose, 3 September 2014. Notes by the CMC.
[7] Letter from Samvel Mkrtchian, Department of Arms Control and International Security, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 13 March 2012; statement of Armenia, Convention on Cluster Munitions Intersessional Meetings, Geneva, 16 April 2013; and statement of Armenia, Convention on Cluster Munitions Fifth Meeting of States Parties, San Jose, 3 September 2014. Notes by the CMC.
[8] Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Arms Trade database report for Armenia by supplier, 2010–2017; and Emil Danielyan, "Russia details fresh arms supply to Armenia," Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 19 February 2016.
[9] Nagorno-Karabakh is not recognized by any UN member state. Prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the parliament of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Province voted in 1988 to secede from the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR) and join the Armenian SSR, which resulted in armed conflict from 1988–1994. The region declared independence as the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic in 1991.
[10] There are reports of contamination in the Fizuli, Terter, and Tovuz districts. Azerbaijan Campaign to Ban Landmines, "Cluster Munitions in Azerbaijan," undated.
[11] "Armenian MOD provides factual proof of prohibited cluster missile use by Azerbaijani army," ArmenPress, 6 April 2016.
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The 2018–19 Toto Cup Al is the 34th season of the third-important football tournament in Israel since its introduction and the 13th tournament involving Israeli Premier League clubs only.

Maccabi Tel Aviv are the defending champions.

Format changes
The four clubs playing in the Champions League and Europa League (Hapoel Be'er Sheva, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Beitar Jerusalem and Hapoel Haifa) will not take part in the group stage, while the remaining ten clubs were divided into two groups of five clubs. At the end of the group stage each of the group winners will qualify to the semi-finals. Hapoel Be'er Sheva and Hapoel Haifa will play (in the 2018 Israel Super Cup match) for a place in one of the semi-finals (meeting the group winner with the fewest points accumulated), while Maccabi Tel Aviv and Beitar Jerusalem will play for a place in the other semi-final (meeting the group winner with the most points accumulated). All the clubs will participate in classification play-offs.

Group stage
Groups were allocated according to geographic distribution of the clubs, with the northern clubs allocated to Group A, and the southern clubs allocated to Group B. Each club will play the other clubs once.

The matches are scheduled to start on 28 July 2018.

Group A

Group B

European qualification route

Israel Super Cup

UEFA qualifiers match

Classification play-offs

13-14th classification match

11-12th classification match

9-10th classification match

7-8th classification match

5-6th classification match

Semi-finals

Final

Final rankings

References

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March 02, 2006 | Judicial Watch
Hillary Clinton Endorsed Communist Control Of U.S. Ports
During a cross country tour to blast the controversial port management deal with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and announce her plan to introduce legislation to block it, Hillary Clinton has failed to mention a few important details.
First, is that her fear of port security in the hands of a foreign government–in this case the Arabs – should not stop the flow of money to her husband, who happens to be in the UAE creating a scholarship program for the Bill Clinton Foundation. The Dubai government is said to be donating big bucks.
Secondly, the New York senator has left out how, despite objections from the intelligence community, her husband pushed for deals with communist China after he received campaign contributions from renowned Chinese lobbyist Johnny Chung.
This includes a deal Bill Clinton made with Chinese company, Hutchinson Whampoa, to run the Panama Canal and its ports as well as the administration's endorsement of another Chinese company, China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO), to run the Long Beach Naval base in California.
Now Hillary is singing a different tune, saying that "Port security is national security and national security is port security."
Red State Son believes Hillary and her liberal pals are using the port deal as an opportunity to flex their fantasy muscle and that the rabid yowling has nothing to do with national security and everything to do with taking full advantage of a political opening.


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Jean Toth (né le  à Enying en Hongrie et mort le  à Paris ) est un peintre et dessinateur français d'origine hongroise.

Biographie
, mais sa vocation est de peindre. À 19 ans, il part de Hongrie en passant par la Pologne et vient s'installer après un long voyage à Paris en 1921. Il fréquente alors La Grande-Chaumière dans le quartier du Montparnasse, où il côtoie Antoine Bourdelle et Roger Bissière. Il se rend célèbre dans la première moitié du  pour ses dessins et aquarelles dédiés à la danse, qui sera une source d'inspiration durant toute sa vie, notamment pour une série réalisée pour l'Opéra Garnier dans les années 1930.

En 1939, il s'engage dans la Légion étrangère et part pour Colomb-Béchar. Démobilisé en 1940, il passe les premières années de guerre à Roanne et revient à Paris en 1943. Après guerre, il continue son activité de peintre de la danse dans son atelier de la rue Vercingétorix et collabore également avec différents artistes, dont le décorateur sur porcelaine Camille Le Tallec.

L'œuvre de Jean Toth est présente dans de nombreuses collections françaises et étrangères. L'opéra de Paris lui a acheté près de 250 dessins et peintures pour sa bibliothèque et lui a rendu un hommage post mortem.

Expositions
 1948 : Les visages de la danse, Galerie Barbedienne, Paris.
 2010 : Hommage à la danse, Galerie Broohead Junker, Deauville

Notes et références

Liens externes

 Jean Toth - Galerie Béatrice Bellat

Peintre français du XXe siècle
Peintre hongrois
Naissance en juillet 1900
Naissance dans le comitat de Fejér
Décès en mars 1967
Décès dans le 18e arrondissement de Paris
Décès à 66 ans


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Mathematics is an iceberg on which the Titanic of modern empiricism founders. It is good now and then to remind ourselves why, and Gottlob Frege's famous critique of John Stuart Mill in The Foundations of Arithmetic is a useful starting point. Whether Frege is entirely fair to Mill is a matter of debate. Still, the fallacies he attributes to Mill are often committed by others. For example, occasionally a student will suggest that the proposition that 2 + 2 = 4 is really just a generalization from our experience of finding four things present after we put one pair next to another – and that if somehow a fifth thing regularly appeared whenever we did so, then 2 and 2 would make 5.
A comparable thesis from Mill that is criticized by Frege is the claim that the proposition that 1 + 2 = 3 is made true by our experience of finding that a group of objects that looks like OOO can be separated into two groups that look like O and OO. Frege jokes that in that case it is a good thing that all the objects in the world aren't nailed down, otherwise we wouldn't be able to separate them and thus it wouldn't be true that 1 + 2 = 3. In fact, of course, 1 + 2 = 3 would still be true even in this scenario, in which case Mill's account is wrong.
Someone might accuse Frege of begging the question here, but he is not. Consider again my imagined student's suggestion that if whenever we put two pairs of things together we regularly found that this left us with five things, we would judge that 2 + 2 = 5. A little reflection shows that this is not necessarily the case. For there are at least two ways we might describe such a scenario. We might, as the student proposes, characterize it as a world in which 2 + 2 = 5. But we might instead characterize it as a world in which 2 + 2 = 4 but where there is a strange causal law operating that ensures that bringing two pairs of things together to make a collection of four will immediately generate a fifth thing.
Now, which of these is the correct description of the student's scenario? Experience itself cannot tell us, because any set of experiences is consistent with either description. I would say, and Frege would say, that we can know a priori that the first description is wrong, because the proposition that 2 + 2 = 5 is just nonsense. But put that aside for present purposes. What matters is the fact that we can make sense of the difference between these two alternative descriptions of the scenario despite the fact that experience cannot tell in favor of one rather than the other. And that entails that there is more to the content of the proposition that 2 + 2 = 4 than a mere description of what we happen to experience.
That, I submit, is Frege's point. The proposition that 2 + 2 = 4 says more than merely that putting two pairs of things together will regularly give you four things, because we can describe a scenario in which it is still true that 2 + 2 = 4 even when putting two pairs of things together will regularly give you five things. That scenario would not by itself entail that 2 + 2 = 5, as opposed to merely entailing the operation of a weird causal law. And by the same token (and to return to Frege's own example), the proposition that 1 + 2 = 3 says more than merely that a collection that looks like OOO can be separated into parts that look like O and OO, because we can describe a scenario in which no such separation is physically possible and yet it is still the case that 1 + 2 = 3. Mill's account fails to capture even the meaning of the proposition that 1 + 2 = 3, let alone the grounds for judging it true.
A second and related problem with Mill's view, notes Frege, is that it cannot account for examples that don't involve collections of physical objects which we might know via sensory perception and separate into smaller parts. He gives the example of there being three methods of solving a certain equation. Methods of solving an equation are not physical objects that we might literally perceive to be lumped together as a collection, or which we might physically separate into parts (one part consisting of two of the methods, with the other part being the remaining method sitting off by itself).
A third problem is that Mill's account is a non-starter when applied to facts concerning large numbers like 777,864. Obviously, it is absurd to suppose that our grasp of the proposition that 770,001 + 7,863 = 777,864 is grounded in experience of finding that whenever groups of 770,001 things are lumped together with groups of 7,863 things, we find that the resulting collection has 777,864 things in it.
Mill says several other things which Frege shows cannot be right. For example, there is the claim that number is merely a property that a bundle of things has, alongside its color, shape, or the like. Hence a pile of ten red pens can be said to be ten, just as it can be said to be red. As Frege would ask, why say that the pile has the property of being ten, as opposed to being twenty (on the grounds that if we distinguish the pens from their pen caps, we get twenty things)? Or why not say that it has the property of being in the billions (on the grounds that we get such a number when we distinguish the particles out of which the pens are composed)?
Furthermore, Frege points out, 1,000 grains of wheat remain 1,000 grains even after they are sown far and wide and no longer form a bundle. Nor would Mill's account explain what the number 0 is, since it obviously can't be a property that a pile of pens or a bundle of grains of wheat has, the way Mill thinks being ten and being a thousand are properties of such collections. And then there is the fact that we can apply number to things that are not physical objects that might be lumped together into a bundle (for example, the number of ways to prove a theorem, the number of concepts one entertained Wednesday morning, or the number of events occurring right now).
Mill also says that even 1 = 1 can be false, insofar as one one-pound weight does not always weigh exactly the same as another. This is like the fallacy committed by the student who thinks that 2 + 2 = 4 is merely a generalization of the observation that when we put pairs of things together we typically find that the result is a collection of four things. As Frege says, it simply gets wrong what a claim like 1 = 1 is asserting. It isn't an empirical claim to the effect that, as a matter of contingent fact, any item that we happen to characterize as weighing one pound will always be exactly equal in weight to any other item we happen to characterize as weighing one pound. One reason why this is a mistake is, of course, that typically we are only approximating when we characterize something as weighing a pound. But the deeper point is that, even if we were not speaking merely approximately, the claim would not be a mere description of the empirical facts. If it turned out that no two things were ever exactly of the same weight, that would not entail that it is false that 1 = 1. It would entail only that this arithmetical truth does not strictly describe anything in the empirical world.
As Frege says, Mill's error is to suppose that arithmetical claims are inductive generalizations from particular cases, and to confuse what are in fact applications of arithmetical truths with empirical evidence for those truths. When we stick one pair of apples next to another to yield four apples, we are not assembling one further bit of empirical evidence in a way that gives additional inductive support for a contingent general claim to the effect that 2 + 2 = 4. Rather, we are applying a necessary truth, and one that is already known a priori, to a specific case. And the same thing is true of our application of the proposition that 1 = 1 to the comparison of two weights and the like.
Again, it would be a mistake to accuse Frege of begging the question against Mill. He isn't stomping his foot and refusing to listen to empirical evidence against a contingent generalization to the effect that 1 = 1. Indeed, it would beg the question against Frege to characterize the situation that way, because his point is precisely that the proposition that 1 = 1 is not a contingent empirical generalization in the first place. His point is that when Mill characterizes arithmetical statements that way, he is changing the subject. He is no longer talking about the proposition usually expressed by "1 = 1," but rather about some empiricist-friendly ersatz. Mill is really just ignoringthe arithmetical truth that 1 = 1 and talking instead about a very different sort of claim while using the same symbols.
The actual situation, for Frege, is that it is only because we already have an independent grasp of the meaning and truth of arithmetical propositions that we know how to apply them to concrete empirical cases. Frege gives the example of pouring 2 unit volumes of liquid into 5 unit volumes of liquid. We judge that this will yield 7 unit volumes of liquid only given the absence of some chemical reaction or other causal factor that might alter the volume. We don't "work up" from the specific empirical cases to the general arithmetical proposition but rather "work down" from the arithmetical proposition to a description of what is really going on in the specific empirical cases.


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On Thursday, August 25, 2016 Presidential Candidate Hilary Clinton accused her opponent Donald Trump of having the backing of the "alt-right," a label which has confused many of her supporters as well as her detractors. The expression "alt-right" is not exactly a household political term, and media commentators went scurrying to try to define it in relationship to the traditional right. Clinton sought to identify it closely with white supremacy movements and white nationalism, and some commentators picked up on this association. However, most media pundits seem to have been stymied in characterizing what has so far been a rather murky, complex, and arcane phenomenon investigated to date by only a few political scientists and theorists.
America's political journalists, pundits and collective talking heads have all failed at predicting the successful rise of Donald Trump. The unanimous consensus of the impossibility of Trump's success cuts both across the political spectrum and through all major news and media outlets of MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, Vox, and of course, the New York Times.
The failure of all nationally recognized political pundits to underestimate Trump is not notable from the mere observation that "sometimes people fail at political prediction". It is an obvious observation that mistaken political prognostications are often par for the course in the world of punditry.
Glenn Greenwald and Zaid Jilani lament in The Intercept that the failure of "pundits who issued such definitive, hubristic certainties—that turned out to be totally, fundamentally wrong—owe some self-accounting and a serious self-analysis about how and why they went so wrong." They "have an inclination to prefer status quo preservation". Credit is due to Greenwald and Jaini for the courage to admit to the bias of established political journalists, but that is something that the "mass of voters" have recognized all along.
The conglomerate American mainstream media (MSM) industry is in steep decline. Printed news is, according to Pew Research, slowly going the way of the typewriter. Even the cable news networks are losing their audience. And the trust of the American public towards their MSM is plummeting down to a "historical low", according to a 2015 Gallup Poll, which notes that only 4 out of every 10 Americans will put trust into the news they receive from the MSM.
Rhodes did not have a high opinion of American political journalists: "The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That's a sea change. They literally know nothing." American journalists, according to Rhodes, are naïve and woefully ignorant. And Donald Trump is all too well aware of this growing public sentiment.
The "dishonest" and "failing New York Times" is how Trump describes America's premier newspaper in his viral Tweet. Trump has sidestepped reliance on the MSM by using Twitter to disseminate his campaign's message, waging an unconventional information warfare that has bested all his political rivals. Composing his own tweets, Trump has become a Twitter god. Trump's acolytes—who number 8.69 Million strong—perpetually re-Tweet Trump's digitized image throughout the day and night as an eternal paean of globalized praise.
Social media has replaced the mass media, and this transition is signified by the success of Trump. The majority of the adults in the United States—62% according to Pew—get their political information not from the MSM but rather from social media sites such as Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, and Snapchat. The Internet subcultures of Instagram and Youtube personalities have more of an effect on shaping popular American public discourse than elite newspaper columnists and cable television.
The replacement of the mainstream media by social media is creating deep cultural and political transformation in the United States, in particular ones that favor dissident and radical positions. It is said that Twitter played a crucial role in the Arab Spring. Now one can say, as did tech entrepreneur Naval Ravikant, that because of social media we are witnessing an "American Spring" of direct democracy. Yet because this may mean the election of Trump to POTUS, to countless others this may become an "American Winter".
Andrew Sullivan, identifying what he considers the "truly revolutionary form" that "media democracy" has played against elite structures of information control, greatly fears that American democracy has in fact become too democratic and is now ripe as a "breeding ground for Tyranny" in the figure of Trump mobilized by the aggrieved cohort driving support for Trump, that of the blue-collar, white working class. Sullivan writes that "Much of the newly energized left has come to see the white working class not as allies but primarily as bigots, misogynists, racists, homophobes, thereby condemning those often at the near-bottom rung of the economy to the bottom rung of culture as well".
A struggling white man in the heartland is now told to "check his privilege'"by students at Ivy League colleges." This repressed class of a "bottom rung of culture" has now returned to the fore of America public discourse with a vengeance as "sub-cultural reform movements", and they are harnessing the power of the Internet as a weaponized social media to form networks of political identities that disseminate their ideas and message (I use "reform" in a neutral sense. A reformation is only a beneficial improvement to those who endorse the proposed reforms. After all, the Protestant Reformation was no 'reformation' for Roman Catholics, but rather deviation).
Placing them within a big tent, these sub-cultural reform movements represent various political positions and ideologies that can be positioned on both the Left and Right spectrum. Broadly speaking, they are nationalists, opposing multiculturalism, globalism, and mass immigration. They are anti-establishment, rejecting both the Democrats and Republicans, despising both Bush and the Clintons alike.
This motley crew of sub-cultural political identities consists of conservatives, identitarians, dissidents, radicals, outcasts, anarchists, libertarians, neo-reactionaries, and other curious political formations. But at the center of these movements in support of Trump though is the vanguard of what is known by social theorists who dig into these trends as the the Alt-Right ("Alternative Right").
The term Alt-Right was coined by white nationalist identitarian Richard B. Spencer around 2008, whose theories on nationalism and white European identity can be found in the Radix Journal that he founded. The Alt-right shares ideological commitments with the identitarian movements that are presently growing in Europe, such as the Generation Identitaire in France, or the Identitäre Bewegung Österreichs in Austria. In fact, the @AltRight_ twitter handle of Radix Journal features as its profile pic Marion Marechal-Le Pen of Front National in France.
Like their European counterparts, the Alt-Right are young, usually not older than the late thirties or early 40's at most. They are Internet savvy, and create memes to troll their opponents and vines to spread their message. They make their political message hip and blasphemous. Pepe the Frog is their symbolic banner that they display throughout the realms of social media, and it is this realm in which they excel in spreading their message.
The MIT Media Lab recently released a study ranking the top "election influencers who loom large at the intersection of news and social media". Ranking in at #107 is the Alt-Right Twitter personality @ricky_vaughn99, who single handedly beat major outlets such Ezra Klein's Vox, NYT Politics, and NBC News in having more influence on the current discourse within the American presidential election.
Though the subcultural reform movements encompass various political positions, the Alt-Right is at the center of provocations. Despite their moral differences within the varieties of dissidence, the thread that unites these movements together is their collective opposition to what they perceive as the greatest threat to their existence and to the flourishing of the United States, namely, progressivist social justice censorship.
Trump is held up as their political Icon and mobilized as their wrecking ball for their sacred value of 'Free Speech' against what they call "Social Justice Warriors" ("SJW"s). A "Social Justice Warrior" is a debated, politically charged term that is pejorative in its usage. But its common currency in contemporary public discourse within Internet subcultures is shaping the Presidential election in favor towards Trump, so it stands to be briefly analyzed and understood.
Within the perspective of the emerging American subcultural reform movements, SJW's are arguably defined as activists whose politically progressive point of view on matters of sexuality, gender, identity and other concomitants of anthropology legitimizes their political actions to censor any rival points of views. SJW's usually implement censorship through Internet shaming on social media and 'doxing' their chosen thought criminal. They will often make "demands" for an apology to be issued from the perpetrator in question, and if no apology is released they threaten him or her with economic consequences. They usually push for the transgressor to be fired from his or her employment.
Referenced and shared within the social media of these subculture reformists are common examples of what they consider SJW censorship. They often cite Nobel Prize winner Sir Tim Hunt, who was forced to resign from the University College London, the British Royal Society and the European Research Council due to a misogynistic joke he cracked during his toast at luncheon in Korea, or the American late night TV host Stephen Colbert, who because of his satirical tweet on Asian Americans, was accused of racism and was unsuccessfully pressured to have his show cancelled through the viral hashtag #cancelcolbert.
In reaction to the perceived hostilities and ideologies of SJW's, the motley American sub-cultural reform movements reject any moral shaming wielded against them in social media and public discourse. They are shameless, and in this shamelessness therein resides their strongest line of defense. Applying terms such as sexist, racist, misogynist, bigot, fascist, Nazi, xenophobic, and fundamentalist to their movement simply has no negative effect on their outcome, nor any detrimental consequence for their growth, and they thrive on it.
The more they are accused and criticized with these descriptions, the more they seem to grow in strength and popularity. This is partly why they support Trump, for in Trump they see their own image as a reform movement. Not only is Trump able to withstand criticism of his scandalous remarks he has made regarding Mexicans, Muslims and Megyn Kelly, but Trump ends up becoming more popular in the polls each time he outrages his opponents with his morally offensive language.
Trump and the new sub-cultural reform movements that support him gain from moral disorder and chaos. Because of such, these sub-cultural reform movements reflect what Nassim Nicholas Taleb calls 'Anti-Fragility' in our age of political uncertainty.
Joshua Ramos, a past fellow with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Vienna and a visiting scholar with the European Union Institute in Florence, Italy is finishing his doctoral studies at the University of Denver. His research and publications focus on religion, demography, and globalization.


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Q: How shell executes this code 'cd $dir && php -f test_loop.php &' I wonder how shell executes this code in .sh file(like test.sh):
while true
do
    # check php process. If not running, run it.
    cd $some_dir && php -f some_file.php &
    # sleep 1s
done

Some output:
ps -ef|grep test|grep -v grep
root     10963  3040  0 11:13 pts/19   00:00:00 /bin/bash ./test.sh start
root     10973 10963  0 11:13 pts/19   00:00:00 /bin/bash ./test.sh start
root     10975 10973  0 11:13 pts/19   00:00:00 php -f test_loop.php

In my case, there are three processes, including 2 test.sh and 1 php.
But if use the following code, that is, in two lines or parentheses, it's ok:
cd $some_dir && (php -f some_file.php &)

or
cd $some_dir
php -f some_file.php &

output:
ps -ef|grep test|grep -v grep
root     11112  3040  0 11:14 pts/19   00:00:00 /bin/bash ./test.sh start
root     11122 11112  0 11:14 pts/19   00:00:00 php -f test_loop.php

In this case, two kinds of codes are executed in a subshell, which is what we expect.
In the first case, it seems that there is an intermediate process between the original process and php process. So what's it and why is it created?

A: The statement
cd $some_dir && php -f some_file.php &

runs in a subshell and that's the reason you see an extra process.  In your output, PID 10963 is the original (parent) shell and 10973 is the subshell whose child is the PHP process.  The grandparent (PID 10963) is active because of the infinite loop.
When you remove &&, the two statements run in the parent shell itself and hence you don't see the extra process.

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O parentesco cognático é um modo de descendência calculado a partir de um ancestral ou ancestral contado através de qualquer combinação de vínculos masculino e feminino, ou um sistema de parentesco bilateral em que as relações são traçadas por pai e mãe. Tais parentes podem ser conhecidos como cognatos.

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There really is no better time to build a home at McKinley Beach. The favourable Okanagan real estate market, a growing arts and culture district, and a vibrant technology sector that is attractive to both employers and employees are just a few of the reasons so many people relocate to the area.
Before we go too far . . . the McKinley Beach community hosts numerous amenities including hiking trails, rock climbing, beachfront cooking, and lake activities. The new private 92-slip marina is now open to residents and beach rentals will soon be available for all.
Located in the Downtown Core is a thriving cultural district complete with museums, theatres, an art centre, and galleries. The Rotary Centre for the Arts hosts shows and events and the Kelowna Community Theatre and Kelowna Actors Studio bring live music, variety entertainment shows, and theatrical performances to Kelowna throughout the year.
Located a short 15 minute drive from McKinley Beach, the Kelowna Downtown core features boutique shopping and fine dining. The boardwalk runs from City Park, down past the Grand Hotel, and through the local bird sanctuary. Throughout the summer months, Parks Alive host music and entertainment at various locations along the downtown waterfront.
Located a short 15 minute drive from McKinley Beach, the Kelowna International Airport provides daily non-stop commercial flights all over the world. Whether you're traveling for business or pleasure, the gateway to the rest of the world is only minutes away.
Kelowna's thriving tech community includes Disney Interactive, Bardel, and the brand new Okanagan Centre for Innovation, all supported by the local tech council. As a city, Kelowna is very supportive of technology companies and is constantly working to build the infrastructure to help nurture and grow various tech sectors in the area.
Nestled on the Downtown Kelowna Beachfront, City Park is a multi-faceted location that appeals to all ages. Here you can find lawn bowling, a picnic area, sports field, playground, and a water park. Park vendors sell local arts and crafts along the boardwalk during the summer months and the downtown marina is a great place to gas up your watercraft. You can also find the statue of our famous lake monster 'Ogopogo' living in the park.
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Bob 'Bobby' Allan, famed lacrosse player and coach, was named one of six new members of the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, a richly deserved honour for a man who's outstanding achievements in sport are well documented.
In his heyday, Allan was in a class by himself as one of the flashiest stickhandlers and finest lacrosse player in Canada. His consummate skill, agility and adroitness in faking a move made him one-of-a-kind. His backhand shot was a prototype move.
Allan played two years of Junior A lacrosse in Peterborough, leading the league in scoring during the 1953 season with 67 points (38 g, 29 a) in 20 games. He moved on to Peterborough senior squad the following season, winning his first Mann Cup. It marked the start of a stellar 13-year senior amateur career in which he captured three more Mann Cup championships (Nanaimo, 1956; New Westminster, 1962; and Peterborough, 1966) and played in another four Mann Cup finals.
During his career, he won three league scoring titles, three league MVP awards, and the Mike Kelly Award as Mann Cup MVP. He scored an astonishing 89 goals in 29 games in 1956 with Nanaimo, a record that still stands today.
Allan later moved into coaching, which included stints in the senior amateur ranks in Peterborough, where he won a Mann Cup in 1973, and in the professional ranks in Philadelphia, where he guided the first incarnation of the Wings franchise. He also coached field lacrosse, helping the Canadian national team capture a gold medal at the 1978 world championship in England.
He's already a member of the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame and the Peterborough and District Sports Hall of Fame, and was also one of 55 members of the Canadian lacrosse community honoured with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal back in 2012.
Allan will be inducted into the Hall alongside Paul Coffey (Hockey), John Campbell (Harness Racing), Marnie McBean (Rower), Bob Gainey (Hockey) and John Hiller (Baseball).
The Class of 2017 will be honoured at the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame 2017 Induction Ceremony & Awards Gala in Toronto at The Westin Harbour Castle (Metropolitan Ballroom) on October 2, 2017.


How will Facebook give me a return on my investment?
With any marketing strategy, the question that many people want to know is "how is this actually going to create a return on my investment?" This can be answered in two ways: 1.) By having a Facebook page that is well maintained, that makes regular posts, and engages with people, this will serve to help your site be better optimized with the search engines. With that, it is difficult to put a dollar amount on the value of it, simply because how can you equate ranking higher with cold hard cash. Essentially, that is one benefit.
The simple answer to this question is yes. It doesn't really matter what industry you represent, Facebook is a vehicle that is becoming more and more popular that can help you better brand your business and create a relationship with potentially new consumers. Facebook utilizes what is known as pull marketing. When individuals have business profiles on Facebook, people opt into wanting more information about their business and have essentially stated "I am interested in what you do, give me more information." As you can probably guess, this is more effective than television advertising, cold calling, spam emailing and other forms of intrusive marketing ploys. Bottom line, people want to do business with individuals that they have a relationship with and trust. While you may not exactly be having people who are fans of you Facebook over for dinner, through Facebook, businesses can begin to create a relationship with people. This facilitates a foundation of trust, familiarity and competency. Through interesting articles that are posted, businesses can position themselves as a leader of thought on any particular industry.
What is my time commitment if I decide to pursue Facebook with Media Marketing Solution?
If you decide to expand your marketing with one of our social media marketing packages, the level of time and commitment that is involved on your behalf is virtually nothing. Many of our clients do not have personal Facebook pages and really don't care to get involved with their Facebook marketing.
Why can't I just manage my Facebook page myself?
This is a common question that a lot of people have, and our response at Media Marketing Solution is "well, if you have the time, energy and the know how – go for it". We are not going to tell you that you shouldn't manage your own social media portfolio, in fact we encourage all of our clients that even while we are managing theirs, that they should still be involved. However, it really boils down to consistency as well as knowing the industry inside and out.


This page is about travelling, exploring and fishing in the far north. It started with a bunch of friends doing fishing trips around in Norway. In 2010 we did the "Ingstad Creek Expedition 2010" The goal was to find the great explorer Helge Ingstads Tundracamp east of Great Slave Lake in Canada. We had a great trip, but did not find the camp. Again, in 2013, "The Sandy Lake Expedition"finally found the Tundracamp. In 2017, we are planning to revisit the area, and the name of the expedition is named "Thaidene Nene". This is the name of the area today, and we use the name with permission from Thaidene Nene.
Great Northern Expeditions do also have a Facebook page that will keep you updated on Thaidene Nene expedition 2017. You will find it by searching "Great Northern Expeditions" on FB.
See also the FB pages: The Sandy Lake Expedition and The Ingstad Creek Expedition.


Details of the Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force's six-point plan to enhance public safety was shared with residents on Wednesday (July 15) by the Prime Minister and Minister of National Security Dr. the Honourable Timothy Harris.
The multi-pronged approach stresses i) Crime Prevention ii) Intelligence-led Policing iii) Targeted Operations iv) Collaboration with other Agencies v) Engagement of Stakeholders and vi) Improvement in Administration.
Crime Prevention calls for greater use of the Mobile Command Unit in various communities, high visibility policing, reinstating the Police Boys Club and strengthening the Teens and Police Service (TAPS) Academy and the Mentoring, Advising, Guiding and Instructing Children (MAGIC) programmes. Intelligence-led Policing involves developing new databases, expanding CCTV coverage and other forms of surveillance. Joint operations with sister law enforcement agencies, traffic enforcement exercises and increased use of K9 officers are outlined under the Targeted Operations heading.
Collaboration with Other Agencies will see closer partnerships with the judiciary to reduce prosecution delays. The Ministries of Health, Education and Social Services as well as the Department of Public Works will be engaged to ensure matters related to their field that impact public safety such as truancy are addressed. Engagement of Stakeholders focuses mainly on communities around St. Kitts and Nevis, forging relations with non-governmental agencies, encouraging neighborhood watches and having regular media appearances to update the public. Under Administration, performance appraisals for all ranks will be reviewed, best practices from other organizations adopted and revision of applicable laws, regulations and Standing Orders within the force.
That commitment was recently demonstrated when a request was made by law enforcement to acquire a microscope to be used for forensic investigations. The price tag was close to half a million dollars and its purchase was not covered in the budget. The cabinet acted promptly to approve the necessary funds.
"Not a day is to be wasted in terms of the fight and the commitment of this government to this matter of crime because we recognize that we are at a critical stage and the sooner we act the better," emphasized the Prime Minister.
The six-point plan will buttress the increased actions of the police which in the past weeks have seen a number of stop and searches, abandon lots and derelict vehicle searches, and other security-related operations. The activities recorded a number of successes that has resulted in several arrests.


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Azerbaijan manufactured machinery and equipment, transport facilities, cars and trailers worth AZN 34.5 mln in January-February 2019.
The State Statistical Committee told Report that car manufacturing tripled, machinery and equipment rose by 80.8%, and production of other transport facilities slipped 4.5%.
Azerbaijan manufactured no air-conditioners, 288 tractors, up 2.1-fold from the previous year.
176 private cars were manufactured in the reporting period.


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It is no surprise that poor customer service result to major business losses in most companies. This is why improving and maintaining quality customer service should be one of the topmost priorities to keep your business growing.
However, running a business consists of diverse functions and while customer care is vital, it is not the main element. For this reason, companies look for ways on how to provide excellent customer service without deviating from their core functions. And here is where outsourcing plays an important role.
Many UK companies are maximizing the benefits of outsourcing to improve their customer service, where 48% of survey results by KPMG—a globally known professional services offering audit, assurance, tax, consulting, advisory, actuarial, corporate finance, and legal services—say they aim to develop their service levels. But there's 56% who mentioned that there is a need to access skills through outsourcing, since it is evident that the cutbacks in the past years caused a shortage of key people in the company.
KPMG study also showed that 77% of the respondents plan to keep, if not increase, the levels of outsourcing rate, and 45% will most likely boost their IT outsourcing over the next 12 months.
The trend of using cloud technologies to complement outsourcing levels is significantly growing among businesses as well and will show heightened development by 2014.
The increasing demand from customers and the declining competence of the staff to meet these demands put customer service delivery to a greater expectation than in the past years, according to Jason Sahota, Director in KPMG's Shared Services and Outsourcing Advisory team.
Quality in service delivery – Be it customer service, IT, or marketing, outsourcing helps your company accomplish tasks a lot better, way faster, and much cheaper by tapping into greater resource and expertise through people and systems. Outsourcing companies have years of experience and expertise in various industries and have implemented processes that are tested through time.
Accessibility – Especially if you have an international client base, being available 24/7 through outsourcing definitely upgrades your customer service and boosts customer satisfaction. While this may be done in-house, the cost and effort will be detrimental to your company budget.
Business concentration – Outsourcing gets your hands free from these additional functions—customer service, marketing, and IT. By freeing yourself from those responsibilities, you're able to focus better in the specific fields and operations that are essential in running and growing your company.
Outsourcing has provided various benefits to companies in delivering quality customer service to their clients. Discern your company's customer service outsourcing options and select the best suitable mold for your business.
Indeed, outsourcing can help improve customer service. That dedicated team of customer service agents can be on standby 24/7 to turn your business into a round-the-clock operation that will communicate with clients no matter what time of day or night.
Moreover, that same team can be composed of well-trained and friendly experts who can attend to client needs with te utmost care and accuracy. It's a win-win scenario.


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Applications will be available across all devices from 2016
Thursday 5th September 2013
As businesses shifted towards technology there was a time over the last 20 years when getting things done meant you had to be tied to the office. However, these days smartphones and tablets are as capable as a laptop or PC for meeting this demand.
In smartphones, user interfaces, support, connectivity and a raft of other features make them as useful as laptops.
For this reason, business applications have had to be developed so that they can accommodate all devices, making them versatile enough for companies to use.
Gartner predicts that by the year 2016, the average personal cloud will be operational across at least six different types of device.
In fact, it is the use of the personal cloud in business that is aiding in the need for applications to be available across devices.
Research vice president at Gartner Monica Basso said: "Mobile devices enable a new generation of collaboration and three trends are rapidly boosting mobile collaboration strategies and investments in organisations. These are: bring your own device (BYOD), personal cloud file sharing and the increasing availability of mobile applications,"
The benefits for companies looking to adopt BYOD have been well documented. Firstly, it allows more options for flexible working for employees as allowing them to use their own smartphone, tablet or laptop gives them the option to work from anywhere at any time.
Secondly, of course, there is the cost advantage to outsourcing IT equipment to employees.
But one of the most notable advantages to BYOD that could help businesses is the effect that it has on employees. Studies show that giving a worker a choice of devices to use tends to increase job satisfaction and creativity, which gives businesses more power to innovate.
Certainly this is a point that Gartner picked up on, noting how creating applications that can work across devices can be a boon for businesses.
Ms Basso added: "Empowering workers with mobile collaboration capabilities through smart devices, personal cloud sharing and mobile apps is a smart move for organisations to innovate in the workplace and stay competitive."
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