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Consumer Tech: The New Complexity Add
Fitting the iPhone, MySpace and Facebook into the enterprise increases complexity.
By Galen Gruman
CIO Nov 26, 2007 7:00 am PST
The nutty pace of technology change is old news, but now a whole new stream of change is aimed at the CIO: the consumer technologies that increasingly are being used by both employees and customers. "In a few years, 100 percent of people in the most attractive demographic—18- to 35-year-olds—will be digital natives, and their expectations are being set in that environment," says Mark McDonald, group VP for executive programs at Gartner. That means MySpace, Facebook, iPods, iPhones, Google Maps, instant messaging, blogs. And the list goes on.
The problem with consumer tech is that it's rarely designed with enterprise systems in mind, so to fit it into the enterprise architecture adds complexity. An iPhone, for example, doesn't have disk encryption, creating a security hole. "For consumer-oriented technologies, one of the biggest issues is data security since these technologies are so easily lost or stolen," says John Petrey, CIO of TD Banknorth. "There's added complexity to support the various technologies used to connect and sync with corporate systems."
The key to embracing consumer tech in the enterprise is to change the terms of engagement, McDonald says. After all, what the CIO wants is a consistent set of processes and technologies to manage; whether they come in the form of an iPhone, BlackBerry or Treo shouldn't matter.
McDonald cites the wireless LAN market as a historic example. Once there was a reliable standard (802.11b), enterprises could manage the technology, and wireless devices became commonplace.
McDonald admits that consumer tech vendors, as they jockey for lock-in advantage, typically don't adhere to such standards—and their customers couldn't care less. But he sees a tipping point emerging where such standards will be developed either by vendors seeking to broaden their sales or by decisions CIOs make that push the vendors to respond in kind.
CIOs need to assume that many consumer technologies will become mainstream in the enterprise, just as the Web has.
"I like to think of it as an opportunity to reduce, not add, complexity," says Motorola CIO Patty Morrison. "Enterprises that leverage consumer technologies allow their people to better manage the convergence of personal and professional demands. These are the enterprises that will win.
"It really changes the existing paradigms of end-user services within the enterprise," she says—challenges such as integration and security notwithstanding.


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Mischa Anne Marsden Barton (ur. 24 stycznia 1986 w Londynie) – amerykańska aktorka i modelka pochodzenia angielskiego i irlandzkiego, która wystąpiła m.in. jako Marissa Cooper z serialu Życie na fali (The O.C.).

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Wczesne lata
Urodziła się w Londynie w rodzinie rzymskokatolickiej jako córka Paula Marsdena Bartona, pośrednika międzynarodowych wymian, i fotografki Naula (z domu Quinn), z pochodzenia Irlandki. Jej dziadek ze strony matki, Hugh Quinn, był profesorem języka irlandzkiego, który żył i zmarł w Sion Mills, niedaleko Strabane. Ma dwie młodsze siostry: Hanie (ur. 1988) i Zoe. Kiedy miała cztery lata, jej rodzina przeniosła się do Nowego Jorku. W 2004 ukończyła Professional Children's School na Manhattanie. Chodziła do klasy o profilu aktorskim. W 2006 uczęszczała do The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Kariera aktorska
Karierę zaczęła w wieku dziewięciu lat na scenie off-Broadwayu w przedstawieniu Tony'ego Kushnera Slavs! w głównej roli z Marisą Tomei. Następnie trafiła na Broadway w takich sztukach jak: Gdzie leży prawda (Where the Truth Lies), One Flea Spare i Twelve Dreams, a także w Shakespeare Festiwal w Nowym Jorku.

W 1996 roku debiutowała na szklanym ekranie w roli Lilly w operze mydlanej ABC Wszystkie moje dzieci (All My Children). W 1997 wystąpiła w swoim pierwszym pełnometrażowym filmie New York Crossing.

Rozgłos przyniosła jej rola Rocky, która ze swoim chłopakiem napada na bank w uwspółcześnionej wersji Bonnie i Clyde'a - niezależnym dramacie kryminalnym Szczeniaki (Pups, 1999) u boku Burta Reynoldsa. Pojawiła się też w dreszczowcu Szósty zmysł (1999), komedii romantycznej Notting Hill (1999) obok takich gwiazd jak: Hugh Grant, Bruce Willis i Julia Roberts, Bezwiedne figle – O czym się nie mówi (Skipped Parts, 2000) z Drew Barrymore i Alison Pill, Bestia (Paranoid, 2000) oraz Frankie i Hazel (2000) w tytułowej roli Frankie.

Sławę przyniosła jej rola Mary "Myszy" w kanadyjskim dramacie młodzieżowym Zagubione (Lost and Delirious, 2001) o zakazanej miłości dwóch nastolatek. Po występie w Tart (2001) i Julie Johnson (2001), dużą popularność przyniosła jej rola Marissy Cooper w serialu dla młodzieży Życie na fali (The O.C., 2003).

Modeling
Barton jest również modelką. Reklamowała serię kosmetyków Neutrogena, jest jedną z modelek agencji IMG Models. Brała udział w kampaniach dla firm takich jak Calvin Klein, Bebe Stores, Aéropostale, Monsoon Accessorize, Dooney & Bourke, JC (Jeans and Clothes).

Filmografia
 1995: Polio Water jako Diane
 1996: Angelo a New York, Un jako Drummond
 1997: Świerszcze w trawie jako Devon Stockard
 1999: Szósty zmysł jako Kyra Collins
 1999: Szczeniaki jako Rocky
 1999: Notting Hill jako 12-letnia aktorka
 2000: Bestia jako Theresa
 2000: Frankie i Hazel jako Francesca'Frankie' Humphries
 2000: Bezwiedne figle – O czym się nie mówi jako Maurey Pierce
 2001: Julie Johnson jako Lisa Johnson
 2001: Zagubione jako Mary 'Mouse' Bradford
 2001: Naiwna jako Grace Bailey
 2002: Światło wieczne jako Vicky
 2003: Krwawa jazda jako Natasha 'Nat' Wilson
 2006: Niespełnione pragnienia jako Kristen
 2007: Dekameron (Virgin Territory) jako Pampinea
 2007: Znak miłości jako Młoda Ethel Ann
 2007: Dziewczyny z St. Trinian jako JJ French
 2008: Szkoła zgorszenia jako Francesca
 2009: Powrót do domu (Homecoming) jako Shelby
 2009: Zamurowani jako Sam Walczak
 2010: Don't Fade Away jako Kat
 2011: Into the Darkness jako Allie
 2011: Ben Banks jako Amy
 2011: The Sibling jako Jessie
 2011: You and I jako Lana Starkova
 2012: Prześladowca jako Aiden Ashley
 2012: The Science of Cool jako Jane
 2012: Apartment 1303 3D jako Lara
 2013: A Resurrection jako Jessie
 2014: Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain jako Eva
 2014: Zombie Killers: Elephant's Graveyard jako Toni
 2014: Mining for Ruby jako Jessica King
 2014: Hope Lost jako Alina
 2015: L.A. Slasher jako The Actress[99]
 2015: Checkmate jako Lauren Campbell
 2015: The Hoarder jako Ella
 2015: Swat Unit: 877 jako Agent Melanie Hamlin
 2015: American Beach House jako Ms. Maureen
 2015: Starcrossed jako Kat
 2015: Na linii jako Pamela Miller
 2016: Deserted jako Jae
 2017: The Basement jako Kelly Owen
 2017: Monsters at Large jako Katie Parker
 2017: The Executor jako Tara
 2018: The Malevolent jako Ms Lowell
 2018: Toybox: Przyczajone zło jako Samantha
 2018: Ouija House jako Samantha
 2018: Papa jako Jennifer
 2018: Painkillers jako Dziewczyna
 2018: The Cat and the Moon jako Jessica Petersen
 2020: Spree jako London Sachs

Seriale TV
 1995: Wszystkie moje dzieci jako Lilith 'Lily' Benton Montgomery (1 odcinek)
 2001–02: Once and Again jako Katie Singer (8 odcinków)
 2003: Gliniarze bez odznak jako Simone Collins (1 odcinek)
 2003–2006: Życie na fali (The O.C.) jako Marissa Cooper (główna rola)
 2009: The Beautiful Life: TBL jako Sonja Stone (5 odcinków)

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Linki zewnętrzne

Absolwenci Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Brytyjskie aktorki filmowe
Amerykańskie aktorki filmowe
Brytyjskie aktorki telewizyjne
Amerykańskie aktorki telewizyjne
Brytyjskie aktorki teatralne
Amerykańskie aktorki teatralne
Brytyjskie modelki
Amerykańskie modelki
Amerykańskie aktorki dziecięce
Ludzie urodzeni w Londynie
Urodzeni w 1986

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This is what drives me crazy, if you care about the Syrian Refugees so much (I'm referring to people in general with "you" not Diane specifically) why not pressure your governments (US and Europe) to stop helping and arming the Syrian "moderate" rebels and trying to overthrow Assad?
Watch this Syrian woman's excellent videos of the situation.
And I really think the United States suffers from a bias that anywhere not the US or Western Europe is some squalid, third world hellhole and not letting in anyone who wants to come here is akin to condemning people to hell. Syria is a nice place to live from what I hear, its just not very habitable when our government arms ISIS and tries to overthrow the legitimate government of Syria.
But how do you know if they are as you described or they are former al-Nusra fighters? I have no faith the US government can vet them.
Because people are dumb. They get more angry about a dead lion with a anthropomorphic name or a vide of a dog that gets kicked than millions of homeless people. A classic example of this is Anne Frank. She humanized the victims of the Holocaust. As Stalin said "one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic".
Not Japan, not South Korea. I believe they've taken some but a drop in the bucket compared to Europe or the United States. And not Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Nations which is particularly shameless since they fund ISIS/al-Nusra and other groups trying to overthrow Assad and have created the crisis that forced these people to flee in the first place.


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A Cruise through the Maldives
A country of two versions
(Click on any photo or map for a blow up)
There are more than a hundred resorts in the Maldives. Most of them are off limits to cruisers, including anchoring even without going ashore, which is a shame as there are very few protected anchorages around. It is simply either too deep or too exposed. Read more about this phenomenon in our earlier story: Cruiser's Paradise Lost?
A typical Maldivian resort. Bungalows on stilts are built on the reef.
From Uligan we sailed south towards the Capital Male where we had to apply for an extension to our cruising permit within 30 days. The distance, as the bird flies, is around 200 nm, which we covered day hopping. For anybody planning to sail in these waters we have mentioned all our anchorages in the Past Anchorages section, including waypoints and some local information.
The harbour at Thulusdhoo with the Coca-Cola factory's dock in the centre
Our favourite location was Thulusdhoo island. There is a real village and no resort. With only 1,400 inhabitants, 200 of which have been relocated there after the 2004 tsunami, it is actually the administrative centre of Kaafu (North and South Male Atolls), excluding the city of Male itself, which forms it's own district.
Rush hour at Thulusdhoo, but no cars.
There's plenty of wrecks around
Collecting sand by bags for making cement
Thulusdhoo is an industrious island, with a Coca Cola factory, a customs warehouse for dried fish for export and boat building yards. Apparently this is the only place in the world where they make Coke from desalinated water. In the two photos below to the left we are being shown the mold where they were building a 30 metre cargo ship. The fishing boat on the photo to the right is of a traditional, shallow wide stern, design, but made from fibre glass. Thulusdhoo is also one of the surf centres of the Maldives with two surf breaks, one of which is named Cola after the bottling factory, and nicknamed Coke, what else.
Just 12 nm south of Thulusdhoo lies the Capital Male with a population of around 200,000. We liked Male a lot, it has a vibrant atmosphere with lively markets and gives a chance to get a real feeling for the Maldivians. It is a densly crowded and extraordinary place, notably mainly because its stark contrast to the laid-back pace of island life elsewhere in the country, for instance Thulusdhoo, just 12 nm north. Visually it reminded us a lot of Valletta in Malta.
Downtown Male
Who's got the right of way?
Honey money.
Their dinghy is a Riva!
And there's a helicopter ..
Click on it!
Satellite view of Male and Hulumale
As Male is unable to extend any further, the government has been developing the nearby airport island of Hulumale. On the other side of the runway a completely manmade island of about 2 sq km has been built upon the reef. When the first-phase land is fully developed by 2020 it will accommodate 50,000 people and have waterfront esplanades, light industrial areas, government offices, shopping centres, boulevards of palm trees, a marina and a national stadium. Some of the earth masses were aquired by dredging the lagoon NE of the runway (see satellite photo above), which now serves as the main anchorage for dive boats and other crewed charter yachts. It is accessed through a pass that has been blasted through the fringing reef (just N of the north end of the runway).
Male markets
We anchored Scorpio in Hulumale harbour during our visit to the Capital. Ferries run between Male and Hulumale around the clock and it is only a 20 min trip. We also received guests from back home, old friends Bengt and Nina who wanted to escape the cold North. We celebrated Ninas Big Birthday at a restaurant of Hulhulé Island Hotel, the only place in the Maldives, outside of the resorts, where one can get alcoholic beverages. Last time Nina celebrated a Big one, 10 years ago, we also had the honour of having her and Bengt aboard Scorpio - at St Martin in the Leeward Islands of the Caribbean.
Celebrating Nina's birthday
Relaxing on Scorpio's terrace
During the third week of March we started to look for weather for our upcoming return to Thailand. Read more about the weather picture in: The Countdown has started.
Stay tuned for our next report, it will be about the trip from Male to Phuket.
View the photos of this report as a (manual) slide show HERE.

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A schoolboy from India suffers from a rare condition known as 'werewolf syndrome' which has left his entire face blanketed in hair.
Lalit Patidar, aged 13 from Ratlam in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, was born with hypertrichosis.
The condition causes abnormal amounts of hair growth on a person's face, arms and other parts of their body.
Despite his condition, Lalit says he lives a happy life and dreams of one day supporting his parents by becoming a policeman.
There are various types of hypertrichosis, with the congenital (present from birth) form of it the rarest.
It is not known how many people suffer from this type of the bizarre disorder but estimates online suggest only around 50 people have ever been diagnosed.
Short, fine hairs are generally associated with the condition and can grow to be up to 5cm long.
Children affected by genetic hypertrichosis are believed to inherit it, although it may come from a parent who doesn't have the condition themselves.
Other more common forms of the disorder may develop later on in a person's life.


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Bajo sospecha (en inglés: Under Suspicion''') es una película de cine estadounidense basada en el libro Brainwash'' de John Wainwright.

Argumento
Bajo Sospecha trata de un caso policial no resuelto en el cual es involucrado Henry Hearst (Gene Hackman), abogado rico e influyente en la Isla de Puerto Rico, casado con una bellísima mujer de nombre Chantal (Monica Bellucci).

Cuando va a acudir a una fiesta de beneficencia, le llama el Capitán de la policía Víctor Benezet (Morgan Freeman), amigo suyo de hacía mucho tiempo, con el ruego de que pase a verlo antes de ir a la reunión, para ayudarle a aclarar una investigación que se está llevando a cabo. Henry se presenta en la delegación policial con la convicción de que el asunto no le demorará más de 10 minutos. Sin embargo, el capitán de policía, secundado por su ayudante, el torpe oficial Owens, va alargando la conversación, que gira en torno al asesinato de una niña.
Lo que empieza como una amable entrevista se va convirtiendo en un espeso interrogatorio íntimo de la vida personal del abogado así como de los secretos de su relación marital con su bella mujer. Víctor Benezet inteligentemente va conduciendo a Hearst a la verdad hasta el punto de  obligarle a que confiese que es el responsable de no solo un asesinato sino de dos crímenes ocurridos en tan solo 16 días antes de la fiesta, las pruebas, las confesiones, todo calza; sin embargo, un hecho inusitado hace que todo se salga de madre.

Referencias

Películas dramáticas de Estados Unidos
Películas dramáticas de los años 2000
Películas policíacas de los años 2000
Películas policíacas de Estados Unidos
Películas basadas en libros


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FC Halifax Town would like to pass on their condolences to the family and friends of former Halifax Town midfielder Mick Kennedy.
He started his career with the Shaymen making his debut in the 1978-79 season and went onto make 76 appearances for the Club including playing in the 1-0 FA Cup win over Manchester City in Jan 1980.
He went onto to play over 500 games in his career playing for Huddersfield Town, MIddlesborough, Portsmouth, Bradford City, Leicester City, Luton Town, Stoke City, Chesterfield and Wigan Athletic.


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WJCS> Vol.2 No.4, December 2012
Advances in Angioscopic Imaging of Vascular Disease
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Yasumi Uchida, Yasuto Uchida
Department of Cardiology, Toho University Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan.
President, Japanese Foundation for Cardiovascular Research, Funabashi, Japan.
Percutaneous angioscopy, using high resolution fiberoptic imaging, allows direct and two-dimensional visualization of the vascular interior, thereby enabling macroscopic pathological diagnosis. Percutaneous angioscopy has revealed that the vascular luminal surface exhibits various colors and morphologies characteristic of different vascular diseases. This imaging technique is used for evaluation of the severity of vascular diseases, staging of atherosclerosis, analysis of thrombus composition, evaluation of interventional and surgical therapies, and for guidance of intravascular interventions such as angioplasty, venous valvuloplasty and aortic stentgrafting. Recently, dye-image angioscopy has been used clinically for analyses of thrombus composition, endothelial damage and plaque composition. Intravascular microscopy was also developed for cellular imaging of vascular disease. Furthermore, fluorescent angioscopy was developed for molecular imaging of substances comprising atherosclerotic plaques. In this article, we describe the history of the development of angioscopy, angioscopic systems and techniques, angioscopic changes associated with vascular diseases, angioscope-guided intravascular therapies, and evaluation of intravascular and surgical therapies. Angioscopic pictures, except those of the coronary arteries, have rarely been published in the literature, so we have included many representative angioscopic pictures obtained by the authors in this article.
Angioscope-Guided Intravascular Interventions; Evaluation of Interventional and Surgical Therapies;
Y. Uchida and Y. Uchida, "Advances in Angioscopic Imaging of Vascular Disease," World Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol. 2 No. 4, 2012, pp. 114-131. doi: 10.4236/wjcs.2012.24021.
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Alan Krashesky Illness: ABC 7 Reporter Announces Retirement After 40 Years of Service!
Alan Krashesky is one of the most prominent news anchors. WLS-TV, an American broadcasting corporation, is where he currently holds a position. Since 1982, he has been a member of the ABC 7 news team, where he currently serves as an anchor for the weekday newscasts that air at 5 pm, 6 pm, and 10 pm. Since May 2016, he has been a co-anchor for the newscast that airs at 10:00 pm.
Who is Alan Krashesky?
Alan Krashesky is a newscaster, journalist, and host. On October 19, 1960, Alan Krashesky was born. Most people want to know how much money Alan Krashesky has. So, we've changed the information here. Some people will like to learn more about the lives of their favourite famous people. People are also now looking for Alan Krashesky Net Worth. Alan Krashesky Illness. Let's go into more depth to find out more.
Alan Krashesky Career, Retirement & Family
Alan Krashesky, the host of the station's most popular news shows at 5, 6, and 10 p.m. and a reporter who covered big stories in the area and around the world, has announced that he is retiring. Krashesky will host his last newscast on Tuesday, November 22.
Krashesky started working at ABC 7 as a general assignment reporter on October 4, 1982. On the same date, 40 years later, he is announcing his retirement. He was the first person to give the morning news on ABC 7. Since then, every news show he has led has been rated No. 1.
Krashesky said, "This job is the fulfilment of the dream I had when I first walked in the door at WLS-TV when I was 21." "Over the past four decades, I've been fortunate to work with some of the best broadcast journalists in the business. I'm grateful that the people of the Chicago area chose to trust us and let us into their homes."
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John Idler, President and General Manager of ABC 7 Chicago, says, "Alan Krashesky's career is a good example for anyone who wants to be a reporter. His professionalism, skill as an anchor, and fairness as a reporter have won him many awards and the respect of our viewers and his ABC 7 colleagues. We want to thank him for his amazing career and wish him the best. Everyone will miss him."
Vice President of News at ABC 7 Chicago, Jennifer Graves, said, "Alan Krashesky is the best of what Chicago journalism offers. He has integrity, class, and humility in everything he does. And when big news comes out, no one is more trusted. Alan is happy that our viewers and his ABC 7 family love and respect him. There's no better way to remember someone."
Krashesky's work has won many awards, including a Peter Lisagor Award and two Chicago Midwest Emmys. His well-known reporting has taken him to Rome to cover the crucial moments of three popes and to Poland to cover the emotional return of Fritzie Fritzshall, President of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and a survivor of Auschwitz.
At the beginning of his career, Krashesky worked for KTBC-TV in Austin, Texas, as a news reporter and weather person. He also worked on-air at WBNG-TV in Binghamton, NY, doing news, weather, and sports. In college, he worked as a news anchor on a radio station in Ithaca, New York, called WICB-FM.
Krashesky was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but he went to the Milton Hershey School in Hershey, Pennsylvania. This was a residential school for children with financial and social needs. In 2005, he was named Alumnus of the Year by his school. He got his Bachelor of Science in Communications Management from Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, with high marks. In 1992, Ithaca named him Outstanding Young Alumnus.
He and his wife, Colleen, have three grown children and three grandchildren.
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Alan Krashesky is doing well at this time. After receiving a diagnosis of an unspecified sickness in November 2020, he underwent a prearranged surgical operation and resided in a facility for his recovery. According to him, in December 2020,
"I underwent an anticipated operation, and I'm currently healing at home and doing well. I would like to express my gratitude to everyone for their good wishes and prayers, and I am looking forward to returning to the anchor desk at ABC 7 sometime in January. We would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our viewers a joyful and peaceful Christmas season.
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Call for Proposals – Third International Berkeley Conference on Film and Media
On February 26-28, the Department of Film & Media at the University of California Berkeley will host the Third International Berkeley Conference on Film and Media: Serialities 1915/2015.
Building on the success of the two previous silent-film conferences held at Berkeley in 2011 and 2013, the Department of Film & Media has decided to widen the scope of our biennial conference to include comparative historical inquiry.
The conference will reflect on the emergence of serial cultures from various angles: then and now, nationally and transnationally, across old and new media platforms. Why does seriality flourish at particular moments? What are its causes and consequences, economic foundations and stylistic forms? What does it afford? The dates, 1915 and 2015, are not meant as strict boundaries, but simply to signal two important "moments" when multiple forms of seriality have seemed to mark an era–one before film lengths were standardized, the other after television serials have challenged that very standard. We welcome papers that compare these eras or that explore serial production and consumption in its broadest sense in any applicable time period. Types of seriality could be non-narrative, as in the case of panoramas and serial motion studies, or narrative as in the case of the industrialization of literature in the roman-feuilletons, the adaptation of these feuilletons into film serials of the teens and twenties, radio serials, television serials, and new streaming platforms, videogames and online media. We encourage participation from a variety of disciplines, including philosophy, music, architecture, literature, art history, theater, dance and performance studies, as well as perspectives that are international and comparative.
Proposals should include a title, an abstract of no more than 300 words, a short 100 word bio and any A/V needs submitted no later than October 31, 2014. Notification will follow within a month. Send to theconference@berkeley.edu.


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Liverpool's Jurgen Klopp – No club can afford Kylian Mbappe
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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has ruled out a move for Kylian Mbappe by the European champions, insisting that no club in the world could afford to sign the Paris Saint-Germain striker.
"Buying this calibre of player is difficult," Klopp told reporters ahead of Sunday's crucial Premier League clash with Manchester City.
"I don't see any club at the moment who can buy Kylian Mbappe from PSG. I don't see any club, that is how it is. And we are involved in the clubs that cannot do it. It is as easy as that.
"OK, from a sporting point of view, there are not a lot of reasons to not sign him. What a player he is, but it is about the money of course. No chance. Absolutely no chance. Sorry for killing that story."
Mbappe, 20, was one of world football's most coveted players when he emerged as a teenager at Monaco, and it was PSG who beat clubs such as Real Madrid and Liverpool to his signature in 2017.
The World Cup winner has remained consistently linked with a move to Real Madrid since his transfer to PSG. Former Monaco vice president Vadim Vasilyev said earlier this week that he believes Mbappe will move to the Bernabeu eventually, while PSG sporting director Leonardo responded angrily after Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane spoke about the France international's childhood dream to play for the Spanish giants.
Despite his insistence that a move for Mbappe is out of his club's grasp, Klopp said he remains confident that Liverpool can attract the right calibre of player to strengthen his squad when required.
"I don't think we struggle with convincing players," he said. "When you speak to a player you can feel it, this year, last year, even three years ago, you can see in the eyes of a player — I am not sure if honour is the right word — that it is good that we speak to them.
"The club is in a very good position. Image-wise, it maybe always was, but now I think it is easier to live the life of a Liverpool supporter and that means automatically being in a situation to sign the players you want to sign."
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Why Obama Has Room to Maneuver on Iran
A war-weary public is willing to cut the president some slack on diplomatic initiatives. But it's not willing to do so on his domestic priorities.
By Ronald Brownstein and National Journal
President Obama waves off a question from the media during a meeting with Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office, September 30, 2013 in Washington, DC. President Obama was meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister to discuss the situation in Syria and Iran. (National Journal)
The top domestic and foreign policy priorities likely to dominate the remainder of President Obama's term underscore how much the choices of even the world's most powerful person are shaped by the conditions he inherits.
The political environment Obama inherited on foreign policy is expanding his running room as he pursues a nuclear-disarmament deal with Iran, now his top international priority. Conversely, the domestic political environment that greeted Obama — and his failure to reshape it through his first term or reelection — has narrowed his margin of error for steadying his beleaguered health reform law, his top priority at home.
Obama has room to maneuver on the nuclear initiative not because Americans trust the new Iranian government, or the president's diplomatic skills, or are particularly confident that diplomacy will succeed. Obama's advantage, rather, is that the alternative has been discredited. Amid widespread disillusionment over the American military interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq, Obama is benefiting from the shattered public belief that American force can pacify the Middle East.
That's the key new element in a debate that otherwise settled quickly into familiar grooves after the agreement last weekend with Iran to curb its nuclear program in return for a temporary relaxation in economic sanctions. Since the U.S. and five other powers concluded the deal with Iran, conservative critics have besieged Obama with accusations that he is naive and weak, complete with the inevitable references to Munich and appeasement of Nazi Germany before World War II. Plenty of congressional Democrats, plus key Mideast allies such as Saudi Arabia and Israel, are leery (if not openly hostile), too.
Obama can't ignore this crossfire. But the odds remain high that he can contain it and advance negotiations long enough to test whether Iran is genuinely willing to shelve its nuclear program (a question that remains very much unanswered as longer-term talks begin). The failure of George W. Bush's attempt to transform the Middle East through American-led force has provided Obama more leeway to pursue an approach more modest in both means and ends: diplomacy that aims, in a fashion George Kennan would recognize, more to avoid the worst outcomes with Iran than to achieve the ideal.
While polls show that Americans would ultimately use force to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, the bipartisan congressional and public recoil against military action in Syria this fall probably offers a more revealing picture of the nation's mood after Afghanistan and Iraq. "I think from the public's standpoint, we are back to where we were in the mid-1970s [after Vietnam]," said Bill Galston, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute. "That skepticism about overseas involvement in general and military involvement in particular is going to last for some years now." And that means most Americans are likely to give Obama a long rope on diplomacy before they conclude force is the only option left for deterring Iran.
If the public mood Obama inherited has broadened his opportunities in Iran, it has constrained him on health care. From the start, the debate over the health care law has unfolded in an atmosphere of pervasive skepticism about government. When Lyndon Johnson passed Medicare in 1965, more than three-fifths of Americans said they trusted Washington to usually do the right thing; in the decades since, scandal, war, and economic struggle steadily corroded that number, to around one in four by the time Obama passed the health reform law in 2010. (After three more years of economic stagnation and political gridlock, those numbers have fallen still further.) That's the sheer wall of skepticism, especially among whites, that Obama must scale to build support for expanding government's role in health care.
Since taking office, Obama has made the case for activist government more aggressively than Bill Clinton did. But Obama never formulated a clear strategy for rebuilding trust in Washington. On the one hand, he didn't focus as much as Clinton did on reforms (like work for welfare recipients or shrinking the federal workforce) that might reassure skeptical voters about government's capacity and efficiency. On the other, he (correctly) discarded as politically unrealistic bright-line transformative ideas such as single-payer health care or breaking up big banks. That vastly increased his chances of passing legislation but meant that even his successes (like health care and financial reform) produced programs of dizzying intricacy that require government to "thread the needle" between contending interests, as Yale University political scientist Stephen Skowronek says. "You can't mobilize around these things. They are just problem-solving."
The health law's difficulties show the vulnerabilities inherent in such precariously constructed enterprises. Obamacare's early struggles don't guarantee its collapse; it is already gaining momentum in some key blue states. But the program's troubles and complexity make it more likely to deepen than dispel public doubts about Washington. With success in Iran, Obama could solidify a shift in public opinion (from force to diplomacy) already moving toward him. But unless he stabilizes his health care plan, Obama will bequeath the next president even greater suspicion of Washington than he inherited.


We promote the very best in contemporary African art, finding talented young artists and bringing their work to a wider audience.
We also promote artists from elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa who work in a wide range of media from oils to scrap metal.
At Guruve, we believe in doing business the right way. We treat artists with the respect they deserve, building long-term relationships based on friendship and trust.
Guruve, pronounced g-roo-vy, is a small town in northern Zimbabwe famous locally for its pink Moroccan-style hotel. It is also close to Tengenenge, an established sculpture community, which is how we found it on the map when researching stone sculpture in Zimbabwe (the 'Shona art movement'). An African spelling of 'groovy' was the perfect name for a company founded to bring the best young, fresh, funky African art and artists to a wider audience.
Guruve was established in 2000 to promote the very best in contemporary African art. A whole continent's creativity has been largely ignored by outsiders and we want to change that. But we are also an ethical business - we want to convince African artists that some international patrons can be fantastic people to deal with, who bring good business and build strong friendships.
More controversially, we are also not convinced that development aid money is always the best cure for all ills. Guruve know that an artist (or anybody else!) in Africa who has produced a wonderful piece of work and receives a high price for it feels proud and fulfilled, can provide for their extended family, and is much more motivated to work hard in the future than is anyone who has received something for free.
Nevertheless, we are also committed to bringing some of the income from sales back to the artists we promote, and to funding opportunities for young aspiring artists. We have made various donations to African artist groups, of materials and tools, food, etc. In fact, we have even sponsored workshops for children in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe with the help of established local artists. We have very strong relationships with many Zimbabweans and will continue to support them through these difficult times.
Tim and Emma, co-founders of Guruve, are two young ex-professionals who have exchanged impersonal office jobs for the challenge of running an ethical business that improves the lives of the talented individuals we promote. We brought with us commitment, integrity and a strong service ethic and added our own warm personalities and a passion for Africa.
All the African artists we promote have remarked on how nice we are to do business with, confirming that our business ethics work - indeed, artists often make their best pieces especially for us as they know they will get an extremely good price. So you benefit from a choice of the highest quality original artworks, and you can trust that your money will be invested back into Africa for the benefit of aspiring artists of current and future generations.
Affordable Art - At home or in the office, indoors or outdoors, these works make a striking addition to anyone's living space.
We offer beautiful and unique sculpture, paintings, prints and more. Graceful stone sculptures from Zimbabwe provide the perfect finishing touch to a modern interior, and they are also fantastic centrepieces for any garden. Original oil paintings, powerful metal sculptures or framed prints will transform your home or office. Guruve also provides limited edition prints on canvas of some of the more prestigious artists' oils to make these works more accessible.
Each piece is signed by the artist and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity, the artist's biography and lots of background information.
These unique works make an original gift. Whatever your budget, you'll find lots of gift ideas among Guruve's wide range of contemporary African art.
If you are looking for something special, Guruve can provide the answer at a very reasonable price.
Only a small number of available works are displayed in the gallery. If you are looking for something specific and can't find anything suitable in our gallery, just ask us. Let us know what you are looking for - sculpture or pictures, figurative or abstract, or a particular artist or style. We can send digital images of any promising candidates to you by email, enabling you to choose from a personalised gallery selection in the comfort of your own home or office.
Not all of the works available are displayed in the web gallery. If you are looking for something specific and can't find anything suitable in our gallery, just ask us. Let us know what you are looking for - sculpture or pictures, figurative or abstract, or a particular artist or style. We can send digital images of any potential pieces to you by email, enabling you to choose from a personalised gallery selection in the comfort of your own home or office. Please include your name and phone number, and if you want a shipping or delivery quote please also provide us with your full address including postcode or zip code. Thanks.


Founded in 1976 by Montessori educator Portia Sperr, Please Touch Museum began as a 2,200-square-foot pilot project nestled among the dinosaur skeletons and woolly mammoths in Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences.
In 1978 Please Touch Museum expanded our hours and relocated to a larger space on Cherry Street.
In 1983, only seven years after our founding, Please Touch Museum purchased and renovated a three-story, 30,000-square-foot building on North 21st Street, in the heart of Philadelphia's museum district. During the next nine years, attendance and membership grew while we were accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, launched the first publishing award that honored books for young children and purchased the building next door to expand exhibit space.
In 2005, Please Touch Museum began an extensive, three-year restoration of Memorial Hall, which was constructed as the art gallery for the 1876 Centennial International Exhibition, the first World's Fair in the United States. This historic building has been our home since our grand opening in 2008.
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May 29, 2020 May 30, 2020 Oleg Komlik
How Did Corporations Spread CSR from the US to the Rest of the World?
by Rami Kaplan & Daniel Kinderman*
Why do firms adopt Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices? How does CSR spread across the globe? Our paper "The Business-Led Globalization of CSR" provides surprising answers to these most fundamental questions, based on the comparative historical study of the world's earliest non-U.S. countries where CSR has become a diffused, institutionalized practice: Venezuela and Britain.
Why do firms adopt CSR?
CSR is widely recognized as a "nonmarket strategy" that addresses challenges in the firm's sociopolitical environment. We expand this notion by distinguishing between reactive CSR strategies, in which the individual firm conforms to external expectations of it to become socially responsible (e.g., as transmitted through activists' attacks or certification schemes), and proactive CSR strategies that shape the external environment. With the latter, as we show, corporations try to gain control over social change based on collective adoptions of selected CSR practices.
Thus, we show that, in the mid-1960s Venezuela, hundreds of corporations confronted existential threats to corporate capitalism by collectively adopting community development practices. CSR practices were instrumentalized to undercut communist insurgency, check governmental intervention in the economy, and improve the public image of the business community.
Similarly, in the late-1970s Britain, corporations engaged in urban development and unemployment mitigation because they were facing social unrest, political radicalization, and labor militancy. With the rise of the Thatcher administration, the threat turned into an opportunity. Following lobbying by a group of multinationals led by Shell, the Thatcher government integrated CSR into its revamped, neoliberal employment policy. It was in the context of this neoliberal revolution that Business in the Community (BITC) and modern British CSR emerged.
How does CSR spread globally?
While scholars tend to assume that CSR diffusion is driven by isomorphic pressure exerted by the institutional environment of firms, we advance an alternative view of the global diffusion of CSR. We understand CSR adoption as originating from "channels of diffusion" that transmit the aforementioned inter-firm proactive CSR strategies from one country to the other.
These channels are composed of business elites and experts who function as "exporters" and "importers" of the strategy. The importers learn from the exporters about the utility of the strategy and about how to implement it. The channels are driven by the interests of the actors composing them. For example, the solicitation and instruction of American oil multinationals acting as exporters was highly instrumental for the adoption of CSR by the Venezuelan business community. Similarly, among multiple other channels of diffusion that we trace, IBM UK was the pioneer organizer of inter-firm collective action on CSR in Britain. In both cases, the source country of CSR (of modern CSR, that is) was the U.S.
Notably, in both Venezuela and Britain, the exporters-importers established CSR-specialized national business associations (NCSRAs)—the Venezuelan Dividendo and the British BITC—to organize the diffusion of CSR practices throughout the importing country. Remarkably, Dividendo and BITC were world pioneering embodiments of what would become a world-spanning institution (by 2010, NCSRAs existed in 72 countries). This suggests the likely importance of our channels of diffusion theory to the understanding of how CSR has entered many other countries and become a global phenomenon.
More generally, our paper implies a grand perspective on the global rise of CSR, as a business-led process originating from the U.S. whereby global corporate capitalism as a whole has strategically reshaped itself and its environment so as to bolster and extend corporate hegemony in our societies.
— Kaplan, Rami and Daniel Kinderman. 2020. "The Business-Led Globalization of CSR: Channels of Diffusion From the United States Into Venezuela and Britain, 1962-1981." Business & Society 59(3): 439-488.
* Rami Kaplan (Tel Aviv University) is an organizational and economic sociologist studying CSR and sustainable development. Daniel Kinderman (University of Delaware) specializes in comparative political economy and CSR, with a focus on Europe. This post was originally published on Business & Society blog on April 28, 2020. The emphases added by the editor.
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Home › Madrid Royal Palace 3 Hours Half Day Tour- Tickets Included
Madrid Royal Palace 3 Hours Half Day Tour- Tickets Included
Regular price €299,00 Sale price €0,00 Unit price /per
Get to know the secrets of this unique monument and the Spanish Monarchy!
The Royal Palace of Madrid is the Official Residence of the Spanish Royal Family. It has 135, 000 m2 (1, 450, 000 sq ft) of floor space and contains 3, 418 rooms, it is the largest functioning royal palace and the largest by floor area in Europe.
But this could be the least important thing about it. I want to explain to you about the Spanish Monarchy, when did it start, why the Royal Palace is in its current location, the reasons to build it, and its relationship with the origins of Madrid. How many palaces have there been on the same spot over the last 1000 years? Why? What is the relationship between the American Dollar and Spain? This is one of the secrets that I will explain to you here.
The current palace was finished by the end of the '60s of the XVIII century when the young United States started fighting the English Crown (with some Spanish help), and when James Cook officially discovered Australia! Come with me to know more about this magnificent building and some of the legends around it!
Start point: hotel or the Royal Palace area. Walk to the Palace.
Plaza de Oriente square, outside the Royal Palace.
At the entrance there is a Hand Sanitizer at your disposal, our body temperature will be checked and before going through the metal detector, we must let our personal belongings through the X-ray machine, for security reasons. Apart from being a Museum, it is an official building that receives the King, ambassadors, and many official receptions. Security first.
We'll go inside the Royal Palace square and official chambers: the King's apartments, the Throne Room, the Porcelaine chamber, among many others, where the tourist visit co-exists with the use of the Royal Palace by the Spanish authorities when needed.
Royal Armoury, the second one in importance in Europe
Having done that, there are some nice places around the area to enjoy a few drinks, of coffee and cake. You choose!
The itinerary can be adapted to traveler's interests: do not hesitate to contact me for a customized tour
MEETING POINT + TOUR DURATION
Meeting Point Options: Monument/Building, Suggested by Guide: Plaza de Oriente 4, outside (or inside if you want) the LA BOTILLERIA restaurant. They open around 10:30
Guiding Services
Other: Guiding fee, reservation fee and admission tickets from Monday to Friday between March and October. If you want to tour on Weekends or Bank Holidays between March and end of October, contact me.
ESTIMATED LOCAL CASH NEEDED
10 Euros - Depending on where your accommodation is, you'll need to get a taxi or subway to the Palace, prices vary from 2 euros on.
After that, you don't need any money unless you want to buy a souvenir or postcard after the tour is over. During the tour, you don't really need any cash.
WHAT'S EXTRA
Public Transportation Tickets
Food, Drinks, Snacks
Other: Depending on where your accommodation is, you'll need to get a taxi or subway to the Palace, prices vary from 2 euros on.


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East Neuk 50 Sustainable Tourism Cycle Route
a journey through Fife to Dundee by rail and bike
Story of the East Neuk 50 Cycle Route
Titled tourist route creates a 'Destination' experience
Starts and ends at railway stations; Kirkcaldy & Dundee. Accessible from almost whole of Britain
Creates desirable alternative for people who would prefer not to travel by car
Promoted as weekend or week long trip
A route that has plenty of interest to stop and see
Named 'destination' routes have become popular in recent years. While this concept is not new for walkers in Scotland, it is relatively new for road users. Perhaps the most widely known route is now the North Coast 500. The East Neuk 50 is intended a little less hardcore in terms of length, landscape, and road use. And the East Neuk 50 is a lot more accessible. It also has one further significant difference in concept: it is proposed to be largely segregated from motor vehicles. Its intention is to be away from the road for the majority of the route; following new and existing cycle paths created as part of the project.
The proposed route is 50 miles long. An outline route has been identified that utilises the disused railway line as much as feasible. The route is intended to be away from the road for the majority of its length.
The map above can be viewed in more detail online at bit.ly/eastneuk50map
The route begins at Kirkcaldy Railway Station, and proceeds east along the coast to the East Neuk. It goes through those villages from Earlsferry through to Crail, before turning north for St Andrews via Kingsbarns. From St Andrews it to Leuchars Railway Station via Guardbridge, and then to Tayport. Finally it crosses the Tay Bridge emerging by the V&A North and thence to Dundee Railway Station.
Much of the proposed route does not currently exist as an established cycle path. Some sections are Core Paths, and some pass along the disused railway through agricultural land and forestry. The route embraces various local cycle path projects such as those in Pittenweem, Kilrenny and Crail to St Andrews.
While St Andrews is obviously an established tourist destination and the V&A is likely to become one, elsewhere along the route there are numerous other fantastic tourist opportunities that are
un-crowded and welcoming. These tourist opportunities range from the beaches and coastline, cultural and heritage venues, fishing villages, industrial heritage, whisky & gin, local food, and arts & crafts. The opportunities are coupled with local capacity for accommodation and food.
Cyclists use local services as they don't bring a car boot full of provisions from home.
The East Neuk 50 has additional attractions:
eco-friendly cycle tourism
intentionally focus as an alternative vehicle-based tourism
can be accessed from almost anywhere in Britain, including by sleeper trains from London
The East Neuk 50 can be used as a destination for visits of various lengths. Of course it could be covered in a day, but that is not the point. The point is clearly the journey, and all it has to offer.
It is proposed that the route is promoted for:
short trip; long weekend, 2-3 nights
regular trip; one week, 5-8 nights
Utility Paths
While this initiative seeks to develop sustainable cycle tourism, it should not be considered a leisure initiative. Rather, it is a local economic initiative focused on helping business to become more sustainable. It follows utility routes to get customers to tourist-focussed businesses in a more sustainable manner. In this way it compliments the normal use that we understand for utility paths.
Being a utility route also means that there is significant opportunity for subsidiary benefits such as active travel and other benefits to the communities on the route.
Sustainable tourism is an opportunity for the area, and a new market that has not been well considered until now. Clearly this is an ambitious project. However it has strength in that it firmly links a sustainable local economy with cycle paths and sustainable transport. This helps make a strong case to local business for good quality cycle paths.
Following its initiation, the project is now engaging with, and building a stakeholder group. It is intended to create an incorporated organisation to take the East Neuk 50 project forward, and apply for development funding.
Stakeholders and Governance
Local and national stakeholders have been identified. We are seeking to create a Steering Group for the project drawn from these stakeholders.
The project has received written support from local politicians, MSPs, and MP.
East Neuk 50 Cycle Route Community Interest Company is a collaborative initiative working with community organisations on the route. It has a Board of Directors comprising members drawn from along the whole route.
The name 'East Neuk 50' and the logo device are trademarks; copyright 2017-19


Hodnett Cooper Vacation Rentals is proud to present this one-bedroom, one-bath oceanfront condominium at the St. Simons Beach Club on St. Simons Island.
Beach Club 305 includes a fully-equipped kitchen, private balcony and combined living and dining area.
Very clean and the property is very well kept. Perfect location, only a mile from shops and restaurants. The beach service staff was very nice. We can't wait to go back!
I had a great stay! The condo was just perfect fit for me. It was comfortable and accommodating with a pleasant, updated decor. From the pictures, I wasn't sure if the green on the table was painted on or what it was. Well, they a place mats in the shape of a leaf. I'm average size, but the tub/shower felt a bit narrow/tight for me, so beware if you are a larger size person. The sofa felt a bit saggy in spots. A couple a dish washing tablets are provided, but no liquid dish soap. The liquid soap would be helpful to wash out a glass or plate to reuse because the plates and glassware supply provided are a bit limited to fill up dishwasher. I hope to return to my beloved St. Simons soon!!!
Jeanna, so pleased you enjoyed your stay! Thank you for the feedback. For others reading, online, we do have information on what is provided and what to bring (http://www.hodnettcooper.com/st-simons-island/what-to-bring/). Because of your suggestions, along with others, we're examining cost efficient ways to provide additional supplies and hope to have an update soon. Until then, thank you for visiting and we can't wait for your return!
A great place to recharge your spirit and golf game during the cold north winter and spring. A walk on the beach is great.


Keep the common space of your family free from chaos. Follow these simple and easy steps to clear clutter and organize your living room to achieve an ever beautiful space.
If trash often accumulates in your living room, welcoming a wastebasket may minimize the clutter. Some living rooms have a trash bin in them but they can smell and often not attractive. However, you can counteract this by selecting a wastebasket that can fit the decoration of your living room. If you have kids in the family and know that food will be sometimes thrown away in the wastebasket, you can buy one with a lid as well as some deodorizing trash bags to minimize the smell.
Books, brochures, papers and magazines tend to pile on flat surfaces in your living – and sometimes all around your house. According to organizing experts, you will need to have an information center in your home and your living room might be where that happens. As a matter of fact, your family room is even more cluttered since it is the center of your house and serves as a gathering place. A 2 drawer lateral file is an expert's recommendation. However, if you do not have space on the floor, a stackable file cart also works perfectly fine.
Try to make a quick sweep of your living room's flat surfaces by piling all papers in a tray, then purging and sorting as needed. Make it a habit and try to convince your family to practice it also. Ask them to place papers in files or drawers rather than on the chair or coffee table.
Until all technology goes wireless, we will forever be in contact with hard to control behind our entertainment stuffs. Good thing, there are several choices for taming cords in your living room. There is a cable holder that neatly coils cord of up to 6 feet long and has an adhesive backing, which sticks onto nearly all surfaces. A cable caddy often sticks behind the TV console or onto a desktop and has an area for several cords to clamp into. Your cables will still freely dangle. There is also a cable zipper available in the market that encloses all the cords in a tube and it remains as the best bet of most households nowadays.
When toys are taking over the living room, it is time to give them a break. Unused corners of your living room can be transformed into great play areas since the walls are there to block encroaching toy clutter. In the corners of your living room, you can also put a small children's table or bookcase. Add rolling bins for storing toys so that your kid does not have to feel confined. However, it is encouraged that you teach the children to pick up and pack away the toys after they are done playing.
If your living room has a coffee table or you simply forgot you had one because of the clutter, it is time to reassess its capacity to help your living room organized. Coffee tables that are attractive yet do not have any storage capacity for remote controls, magazines or even drink coasters can only make your life more difficult. If buying a new one is not an option for you, consider adding rolling baskets, low storage cubes or bins that you can stick under the coffee table.
If you have many small photo frames that only adds up to the clutter in your living room, it is the right time to utilize them by displaying them in a more unique way. Collage frames and photo albums are great options for storing many photos at once, while a digital photo frame is handier specifically for those people who do not like to use film. Do not just use the side tables or mantel; make use of the wall's vertical space to display your precious memories in a nice way. Organizing your pictures by occasion or date in photo boxes is also helpful for those people who like to scrapbook since it can be kept in one location on a bookshelf in your living room.
You can organize extra pillows, candles and blankets in an accessible space – behind your sofa. It is actually a great spot to put a cabinet, low bookcase or a trunk. In addition to that, it gives you another space to show off some treasured items or to put a lamp.
Your living room will never be organized if it accumulates dirt. Make sure that you clean your living room regularly by dusting off your furniture, entertainment systems and carpets if you have carpeted flooring. If you need a professional carpet cleaning service, trust only the experts. Trust http://www.safecarpetcleaning.com.
Nothing compares to the luxurious, soft feeling of carpet on your feet. Carpet flooring provides a comfortable and safe spot for children to play around and can even reduce the risk of getting an injury if someone will fall. It is true that carpet flooring needs more maintenance compared to tile or vinyl, however there is simply no substitute when it comes to warmth, sound absorption, as well as overall comfort.
With a lot of different materials, designs and colors available in the market nowadays, it can be challenging to select the best type of carpet for your house. Some carpet materials might require to be cleaned often and this simply would not fit into your hectic schedule. Other carpet materials come with a really high price and some other carpet may have negative effect on your health. Other carpet can also wear out fast, show or fade stains that stubbornly resist all your best cleaning procedures. In this article, you will learn some tips on how to protect your investment and select the best carpet for your house.
Do not be tempted not to buy carpet padding, or to choose the one with the lowest quality just to save a few dollars. A building needs a good foundation in order for it to be used effectively, prevent it from falling down, and for it to last for many years. Same goes with the padding. Carpet flooring relies heavily on padding layers for strength, a bit of extra cushioning, as well as overall support. While it is true that you cannot see the padding when you already have laid your carpet out, it is still a very important factor that contributes to the overall functionality of your carpet. If you do not use carpet padding or choose a low quality one, you will definitely be able to spot your new carpet's extra wear and tear.
Carpet padding is made from foam or rubber materials. It conceals the imperfection of the floor in order to improve the carpet flooring's appearance. Carpet padding can also contribute to carpet flooring's insulation to help control your home's temperature. It can also absorb sound that helps eliminate the noise coming from your neighbor, and protects your privacy as well. Most importantly, carpet padding supports your carpet flooring through many years of usage because it prevents the fibers and backing of carpet from coming apart through time.
You can consult the manufacturer of your carpet if they have any advice and recommendations with regards to choosing the right padding for your carpet. Most of the time, high traffic places require dense and firm padding, while light traffic rooms such as guest bedrooms may only need less protection. It is also vital to make sure that the padding matches to the kind of carpet you are planning to use. Experts recommend a 11 millimeter (7/16 inch) padding with 2.7 kilograms (6 lbs.) of density per cubic feet in order to support cut loop or cut pile carpeting. For thin loop rugs, experts recommend that you buy a 9.5 millimeter (3/8 inch) pad or much thinner than that, with 3.6 kilograms (8 lbs.) of density per cubic foot.
Carpet comes in various styles, including frieze, textured, Berber, Saxony and plush. These terms are used to refer to its pile (the carpet surface you see), made from yarn tufts, which are either cut straight across, folded over into loops, or both. While each carpet style has a distinctive appearance, it should not be your primary consideration. Instead, try to look at how your lifestyle matches a particular carpet design. For example, plush carpeting is thick, inviting and soft, as it is created from tightly twisted pile. However, it can also show vacuum tracks and footprints, and can be able to develop something that is called "'pooling." Pooling happens when some areas appear shaded because the carpet's normal direction has been reversed. The most popular type of carpet is Saxony. It is quite similar to plush. This carpet style perfectly fits low traffic areas such as master bedrooms and formal living rooms.
On the other hand, Berber carpet is flat, dense and made from continuous fiber loops. It can have a cut and loop, level loop, or multi-level loop style. All of these features mean Berber is highly durable and does not show soil, stains or tracks. It is mostly used in high traffic areas.
Textured carpeting is created from fibers and is cut to different heights that cause them to reflect light. Light reflection makes it hard to see dirt and tracks. Therefore, this carpet type is great for high traffic spaces.
Friezes are created from slightly twisted fiber and are cut pile. The look is not completely formal compared to plush, yet fancier than Berber or any textured pieces. This carpet style feels soft to touch, but its fuzziness hides dirt and footprints well.


Sara Skorgan Teigen (1984, Oslo, Norway) studied at Fatamorgana, The Danish School of Art Photography (Cph, DK) and at ICP, International Center of Photography (NYC, USA). She has exhibited internationally at galleries in USA, Italy, Sweden, France, Denmark, Switzerland, Spain, Mexico, Tokyo and Norway. Her book Fractal State of Being (Journal) was shortlisted for 1st photobook at the Paris Photo-Aperture PhotoBook Prize 2014, and for Les Rencontres de la photographie, Arles 2015 in the category The Author Book Award, and for the PHE15 Best Photography Book of the year in Espana Photofestival 2015. She works with photography and drawing, often in the form of collage, installations or in book form. She is co-founder and editor at Studio Studio in Oslo, Norway where she currently lives and work.


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Ineb Hedj (La fortalesa blanca) fou el nom del nomós I del Baix Egipte. La capital fou Inebhedj (Ineb Hedj) o Mennefer (Memfis, avui Mit Rahim). El nomós ja existia vers el 3000 aC i va subsistir fins al nou regne. La seva capital, fou un centre administratiu destacat a través dels segles. El nom volia dir "Muralles blanques". El nom grec Memfis fou una deformació del nom egipci de la piràmide de Mennefer (del rei Pepi I). En copte el nom va esdevenir Menfe. Un altre nom egipci, durant l'Imperi mitjà, fou Ankh Tawy (la que equilibra les dues terres) per la seva posició estratègica entre el Baix i l'Alt Egipte

Els déus principals foren Ptah, Hathor, (cadascun amb un temple dedicat a la capital, el de Ptah anomenat Hi-Ka-Ptah que vol dir Temple del Ka de Ptah, i aquest nom, deformat pels grecs hauria acabat com Aegyptos donant nom al país), Sokar i Apis. Altres cultes destacats foren el de la deessa Sakhmet i el seu fill Nefertum (que amb Ptah formaven l'anomenada triada memfita). Un centre de culte de Sokar (o Sokaris) es trobava a Saqqara.

El nomós ocupava la part esquerra del riu entre Gizeh al nord i Dashur al sud (per tant al sud-oest de la moderna ciutat del Cairo) i eren part del seu territori les modernes Saqqara i Mit Rahim entre d'altres. Els limits no són prou definits però sembla que Memfis ocupava una posició central dins el territori.

Nomós d'Egipte


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package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"io/ioutil"
	"net/http"
	"net/http/httptest"
	"os"
	"strings"
	"testing"
)

func TestScriptHanlderErrorsNoBucket(t *testing.T) {
	original := os.Getenv("GCLOUD_REPORT_BUCKET")
	os.Unsetenv("GCLOUD_REPORT_BUCKET")
	defer os.Setenv("GCLOUD_REPORT_BUCKET", original)

	req := httptest.NewRequest("GET", "/", nil)
	rr := httptest.NewRecorder()
	logBytes := callHandler(scriptHandler, rr, req, t)

	want := "gcloud-report: 'GCLOUD_REPORT_BUCKET' not found"
	if got := string(logBytes); !strings.Contains(got, want) {
		t.Errorf("logs: got %q, want %q", got, want)
	}

	if got, want := rr.Result().StatusCode, http.StatusInternalServerError; got != want {
		t.Errorf("status code: got %q, want %q", got, want)
	}
}

func TestScriptHandler(t *testing.T) {
	tests := []struct {
		input string
		want  string
	}{
		{
			// Test empty search parameter can be used.
			input: "",
			want:  fmt.Sprintf("Wrote report to gs://%s/report-.-", os.Getenv("GCLOUD_REPORT_BUCKET")),
		},
		{
			// Test a valid name string can be used.
			input: "name",
			want:  fmt.Sprintf("Wrote report to gs://%s/report-name-", os.Getenv("GCLOUD_REPORT_BUCKET")),
		},
		{
			// Test that default value can be explicitly passed.
			input: ".",
			want:  fmt.Sprintf("Wrote report to gs://%s/report-.-", os.Getenv("GCLOUD_REPORT_BUCKET")),
		},
		{
			// Test that invalid characters are defaulted to wildcard.
			input: ";",
			want:  fmt.Sprintf("Wrote report to gs://%s/report-.-", os.Getenv("GCLOUD_REPORT_BUCKET")),
		},
	}

	for _, test := range tests {
		req := httptest.NewRequest("GET", "/", nil)
		q := req.URL.Query()
		q.Add("search", test.input)
		req.URL.RawQuery = q.Encode()
		rr := httptest.NewRecorder()

		scriptHandler(rr, req)

		if got := rr.Body.String(); !strings.Contains(got, test.want) {
			t.Errorf("Search(%s): got %q, want %q", test.input, got, test.want)
		}
	}
}

// callHandler calls an HTTP handler with the provided request and returns the log output.
func callHandler(h func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request), rr http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request, t *testing.T) []byte {
	t.Helper()

	// Rewrite stdout and stderr to an io.ReadCloser.
	// Allows capturing both golang and shell log output.
	r, scriptWriter, _ := os.Pipe()
	originalStderr := os.Stderr
	originalStdout := os.Stdout
	os.Stderr = scriptWriter
	os.Stdout = scriptWriter
	defer func() {
		os.Stderr = originalStderr
		os.Stdout = originalStdout
	}()

	h(rr, req)
	scriptWriter.Close()

	out, err := ioutil.ReadAll(r)
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatalf("ioutil.ReadAll: %v", err)
	}

	return out
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


This is an overview of the types of costs involved in becoming a direct market consumer. However, they are estimates and the list is not exhaustive. Costs will vary depending on your own due diligence and needs.
Legal fees associated with reviewing contracts, rules, etc.


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<!-- This is a quick lookup file to match UI urls to config to service tenants (maynot need the service info in here) -->
<collection-space>
<tenants>
	<tenant>
		<ui-url>/ui/html/</ui-url>
		<ui-name>Default</ui-name>
		<service-id>1</service-id>
		<configname>default.xml</configname>
	</tenant>
	<tenant>
		<ui-url>/ui/pamha/</ui-url>
		<ui-name>Hearst Museum</ui-name>
		<service-id>2</service-id>
		<configname>tenant1.xml</configname>
	</tenant>
	<tenant>
		<ui-url>/ui/foobar/</ui-url>
		<ui-name>Tenant the Third</ui-name>
		<service-id>3</service-id>
		<configname>tenant2.xml</configname>
	</tenant>

</tenants>
</collection-space>


After World War II, needle tufting developed, employing a prewoven backing for the basic construction, and the major portion of carpeting manufactured in the U.S. was produced by this system. Some tufted carpet manufacturers even began to produce outdoor carpets and imitation lawns.
…of yarn feed to the tufting needles.


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Caspar Mathias Spoo (Echternach, 7 januari 1837 - 17 maart 1914, Esch-sur-Alzette) was een Luxemburgs grootindustrieel, dichter, en politicus. Hij wordt beschouwd als de vader van het socialisme in het groothertogdom Luxemburg.

Biografie

Spoo stichtte samen met André Duchscher een werkplaats voor het herstel van landbouwmachines te Wecker. In 1890 stichtte hij een eigen werkplaats in Esch-sur-Alzette (Maschinenfabrik Spoo & Co.). Als directeur van zijn werkplaatsen zorgde hij voor goede werkomstandigheden voor zijn personeel.

Spoo was diep bewogen door de leefomstandigheden van de arbeiders in de staalindustrie van het kanton Esch-sur-Alzette. Met gelijkgestemden, zoals Michel Welter en Bernard Krach, stelde Spoo een programma op waarin betere arbeidsvoorwaarden en sociale voorzieningen de boventoon voerden. In 1896 besloot Spoo zich als onafhankelijke socialist te kandideren voor de parlementsverkiezingen van dat jaar. Spoo werd in de Kamer van Afgevaardigden gekozen voor het kanton Esch-sur-Alzette. Spoo hield zijn inaugurale rede in het Luxemburgs (Lëtzebuergesch). Op 8 december 1896 werd er gestemd om een door Spoo ingediend wetsvoorstel om de Luxemburgse taal te erkennen als een officiële taal. Spoo hield een krachtige rede waarin hij zijn wetsvoorstel toelichtte, en mede hierdoor stemden alle Kamerleden, met uitzondering van Joseph Bitencourt, vóór het wetsvoorstel.

In 1912 werd de Schoolwet door de Kamer van Afgevaardigden aangenomen. Mede dankzij de inzet van Spoo werd het Luxemburgs een verplicht te leren taal voor kinderen op de lagere school.

Spoo overleed op 17 maart 1914 op 77-jarige leeftijd. Bij zijn begrafenis op het Sint Jozef Kerkhof werd de lijkrede gehouden door de socialistische leider Michel Welter. Welter noemde hem het "geweten van het Luxemburgse socialisme".

Zijn zoon Armand Spoo was van 1909 tot 1911 burgemeester van Esch-sur-Alzette.

Ideologie
Spoo geloofde in een praktisch socialisme. Anders dan bijvoorbeeld Welter was Spoo geen marxist en hield hij zich niet bezig met socialistische theorieën. Naast socialist was hij ook een nationalist. Hij zette zich in voor de erkenning van de Luxemburgse taal.

Spoo was een groot bewonderaar en vriend van de schrijver Michel Rodange (1827-1876). Hij was prominent aanwezig op de zogenoemde Rodange Avonden, waarop hij voordroeg uit Rodanges bekendste werk Renert oder de Fuuss am Frack an a Maansgréisst (Van den vos Reynaerde). Net als Rodange schreef Spoo gedichten in het Luxemburgs. Van Spoos hand verschenen enkele dichtbundels.

Zie ook
 Michel Welter
 Parti Social Démocrate (Luxemburg)

Luxemburgs parlementslid
Luxemburgs burgemeester
Luxemburgs socialist
Luxemburgs dichter
Luxemburgs ondernemer
Luxemburgs persoon in de 19e eeuw
Schrijver in het Luxemburgs


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67th Annual NWBA National Championships Return to Louisville April 16-19
2015 event largest in NWBA tournament history
Louisville, Ky. – April 9, 2015 – The action returns to the Kentucky Expo Center on April 16-19 for the 67th Annual National Wheelchair Basketball Association National Championships. This year's tournament will feature more than 1,000 athletes, 90 teams and more than 200 coaches, making it the largest national championship the NWBA has produced.
"The NWBA, its board of directors and members are thrilled to return to Louisville for our 2015 National Championships," said NWBA Executive Director Randy Schubert. "We are proud of our strong partnership with the Commonwealth of Kentucky and Louisville Metro in producing a world-class sporting event where thousands of people come together to celebrate and enjoy great competition. This event provides players a platform to showcase their skills and athleticism, which fulfills the NWBA mission of transforming lives through the power of sport."
The NWBA's four-day National Championships is the world's largest wheelchair sporting event; this year's event will be the largest wheelchair basketball tournament in history. The NWBA's National Championships was recognized in 2014 as the SportsTravel Award for Best Amateur Single-Sport Event for its achievement of excellence in organization and management.
The tournament will include the first annual Veterans Clinic and Competition presented by PNC Bank. The clinic will feature 40 military athletes from across the U.S. who will participate in instructional clinics and exclusive veteran playoff games. Other highlights of the tournament include: KentuckyOne Health VIP Game, ABC Medical All-Star Game, Per4Max Shootout and demonstration, Paralympic Junior Clinic presented by Invacare Top End, NWBA Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, and a Junior and Prep banquet that will recognize youth for athletic and scholastic excellence.
The tournament includes the Championship Division, Division III, Junior Prep Division and Junior 10' Division (NIT and Varsity) and Veteran's Division. The Championship Division and Division III consist of adults, including co-ed teams. The Junior 10' Division (NIT and Varsity) features high school and middle school athletes, and Junior Prep Division features middle school and grade school athletes. The Veteran's Division consists of active or retired military personnel.
A celebrity wheelchair basketball game will be held on April 16, at 10:30 a.m. It will feature Paralympic athletes and currently includes the following local VIPs and celebrities:
Roger Burkman, Spalding University Athletics Director
Kendrick Haskins, WAVE-3 Sports Anchor
Chip Heuser, Heuser Health / elite pole vaulter
Will Heuser, Heuser Health / TV personality, Big Brother 14
Tom Lane, WDRB Sports Anchor
Jeff Ramsey, Lite 106.9
Eddie Ray, New Country Q103.1
Kent Spencer, WHAS-11 Sports Anchor
Kent Taylor, WAVE-3 Sports Anchor
Kristin Walls, WHAS-11 Meteorologist
Tickets are $5 per day, or $15 for the entire tournament and can be purchased at the door.
Local sponsors of the event include Frazier Rehab Institute, KentuckyOne Health, Louisville Convention & Visitors Bureau, Louisville Sport Commission and Louisville Metro Parks and Recreation.


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2021 Atlantic hurricane season ends as third most active on record
With 21 named storms, this year's Atlantic hurricane season was considered busy, but was not on par with the recording breaking 2020 hurricane season.
| Posted on December 1, 2021, 8:16 AM
Homes are surrounded by water from the flooded Brazos River in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey Friday, Sept. 1, 2017, in Freeport, Texas.
Tuesday marks the end of the 2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season, which started on June 1.
"It was an active season," said Texas state climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon. "We've had 21 named storms. Usually, it's in the lower teens on average and seven of those made it to hurricane status, with four major hurricanes. For the most part it stayed away from the United States, except unfortunately for Hurricane Ida which slammed into Louisiana."
That's in line with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's updated forecast released in August. It said there would be 15 to 21 named storms, 7 to 10 hurricanes, and three to five major hurricanes.
But, even though 21 named storms are considered a busy season, that's still not as many as last year.
"There were 30 named storms last year so that broke the record," said Dan Reilly, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Houston. "2005 was fairly close to 2020. That was the only season that was anywhere near what we saw last year. 2005 had Rita, Katrina, and other storms, and there were actually more hurricanes in 2005 than 2020. But, in terms of the number of named storms, 2020 broke the record."
In 2005, there were 28 storms. That makes the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season the third most active on record. Reilly called it "remarkable" to have two back-to-back active hurricane seasons.
He said the most powerful named storm of this year's season was Hurricane Ida, which made landfall in Louisiana in late August. The only storm to impact Texas was Nicholas, a Category 1 hurricane that hit the coast in mid-September along the eastern part of the Matagorda Peninsula.
Nicholas later weakened to a tropical storm and ended up downgrading to a tropical depression.
"Even though Nicholas produced a lot of wind and power outages, it was a tropical storm as it moved through the Houston area. So in some ways Houston dodged a bullet again in that we didn't get a stronger hurricane and get a more direct hit," said Reilly, who added it could have been worse for Texas.
He said while coastal communities like Lake Jackson and Sargent were hard hit, "All in all we were spared this year."
While the official end to hurricane season is Nov. 30, Reilly said it's always a possibility that there could be additional storms in December, though it's rare.
Charlie Riedel/AP
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