Over two thirds or the home health care population consists of adults over the age of 65, approximately 36% have some form of cognitive impairment, including dementia. According to the Institute of Medicine, the number of home health care (HHC) providers qualified to properly care for the older adults, including those with dementia, is inadequate.
Seeing the need to fill the knowledge gap, Abraham Brody, PhD, RN, GNP-BC, an assistant professor at the New York University College of Nursing (NYUCN) and associate director, Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing (HIGN), recently developed the Dementia Symptom Management at Home (DSM-H). The intent of the program is to help home healthcare agencies to improve the quality of care they provide to patients living with dementia (PLWD) and reduce caregiver stress and burnout.
The DSM-H is a synergistic combination of elements from several interprofessional training programs** utilizing both online education, off-line mentoring, and evidence-based assessment tools and care plans to provide a structured way for HHC agencies to assess and manage pain and behavioral symptoms such as agitation, verbal and physical aggression, delusions, hallucinations, and sleep problems in PLWD and to also decrease their caregivers' stress, burnout, and burden of care.
"The DSM-H program strives to improve the care confidence of HHC clinicians, and in turn, the quality of care delivered to people living with dementia," said Dr. Brody. "We developed the DSM-H primarily for the HHC interprofessional team of RNs, physical therapists, and occupational therapists, as they are the largest provider groups in HHC and provide complimentary but different care to people living with dementia utilizing different bases of knowledge and expertise."
The development and implementation of the DSM-H is detailed in a study published in Geriatric Nursing, in which researchers tested the ability of their program to improve the knowledge, confidence, and attitudes of the HHC team members in assessing and managing pain, depression, and other behavioral symptoms in people living with dementia. The study, "Development and testing of the Dementia Symptom Management at Home (DSM-H) Program: An interprofessional home healthcare intervention to improve the quality of life for persons with dementia and their caregivers," also sought to examine if the DSM-H is a feasible resource to be used by interprofessional HHC teams.
The online interactive education modules were broken up into 45-90 minute blocks (total training time 4.5 hours) for ease of learning and to limit interference with work hours, and they were designed with a mixture of imagery and text with narrative voiceover. Content-specific questions that users had to correctly answer in order to proceed were included to reinforce the learning objectives of the modules.
"Education can change practice, but systems supporting the practice change help to embed and sustain that change," comments Tara A. Cortes, PhD, RN, FAAN, clinical professor of nursing, and executive director, HIGN at NYUCN. "To that end, we developed additional components for use in the DSM-H to reinforce the evidence based practices taught in the online training program."
Among these components, a "champions program" was implemented to develop clinical leads and mentors within the agency. Champions were identified as those with an interest in the clinical care of dementia patients, who were well-respected role models to their peers within their respective fields and organizations, analogous to the Geriatric Resource Nurse Model used by NYU Nursing's NICHE Program.
Champions received about 15 hours of in-person training provided by two experts in the assessment and management of dementia. All clinicians receiving the online training were notified of the identity and role of the champions within the online training program.
In the study, knowledge, confidence and attitudes regarding the assessment and management of behavioral symptoms in PLWD was measured before and after completion of the online training portion of the DSM-H. The pre-assessment showed clinicians to have limited initial knowledge and confidence toward identifying and managing pain, depression, and behavioral symptoms. The research noted that occupational therapists showed the greatest knowledge, attitudes and confidence prior to implementation, and physical therapists the least.
The researchers noted that an extraordinarily high number of people who were approached were willing to participate in the pilot. Overall, 191 RNs, physical therapists, and occupational therapists saw the DSM-H through to completion, 83 of whom also completed the research survey associated with it. When comparing the before and after, there was significant improvement in pain knowledge (5.9%) and confidence (26.5%), depression knowledge (14.8%) and confidence (36.1%), and neuropsychiatric symptom general knowledge (16.8%), intervention knowledge (20.9%), attitudes (3.4%) and confidence (27.1%).
"We know that when clinicians aren't confident, they revert back to what they normally do, which can inhibit practice change when there isn't confidence behind their knowledge," explains Dr. Brody. "Our study shows this disseminable program proved to be implementable and improve clinician's confidence and knowledge in caring for PLWD."
"We encountered very high levels of enthusiasm," said Dr. Brody. "There's a significant need and nothing out there for HHCs in geriatrics, let alone dementia. One of the post-test questions was how well was the knowledge was directly applicable to their practice, and 97% said they found applicable and would use in their practice."
The researchers note that there is a significant need within HHC agencies to improve the care provided to PLWD, a fast growing segment of the population with specific care needs. The DSM-H may help HHC agencies to fulfill this need, and therefore requires further study to test its ability to improve patient and caregiver outcomes.
"Sadly, the number of people living with dementia is only expected to rise over the next several decades," says Dr. Brody. "This underscores the need to provide evidence-based, patient and caregiver centered care to this population to prevent institutionalization and hospitalization."
The DSM-H was created by combining complementary elements of two interprofessional educational and training programs developed and validated by one of the authors (JEG) the Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystems Elderly program developed by the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at NYU, the NIA/NINR developed and VA implemented Resources for Enhancing Alzheimer's Caregiver Health (REACH) program, and the Care of Persons with Dementia in their Environments (COPE) intervention developed by Gitlin and colleagues. The content was further informed by a systematic review conducted using the Cochrane Handbook methodology, and through examining current evidence-based guidelines and translating them for use in the HHC setting. Additionally, a structured communication module using the Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation (SBAR) technique was developed in order to ensure appropriate communication between HHC clinicians and the primary care provider. This was included as research suggests that poor communication is a major stumbling block to effective and coordinated provision of HHC services. Through this exhaustive process, the DSM-H was developed as an interprofessional, multi-modal, training and behavior change intervention using elements as described in the next sections--see study here.
Researcher Affiliations: Abraham A. Brody, RN, PhD, GNP-BC a,b, Carrie Guan, BSN, RN a, Tara Cortes, PhD, RN, FAAN a, James E. Galvin, MD, MPH c,d.
Acknowledgements: The authors would like to thank the National Palliative Care Research Center for its generous funding of the study.
The mission of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing (HIGN) is to ensure older adults achieve optimal health and quality of life. The commitment to this mission exhibited by the dedicated Hartford Institute leadership, staff and affiliate organizations has made the HIGN today a globally recognized geriatric presence. The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing is the geriatric arm of the NYU College of Nursing, and has become, over the years, a beacon for all those who wish to advance geriatrics in nursing.


Glasgow is paving the way for the next wave of internet technology, the Internet of Things (IoT), thanks to a collaborative project involving Stream Technologies, Semtech Inc., Boston Networks and CENSIS. The consortium concluded an agreement at Mobile World Congress in Shanghai in June 2016 to roll out the next phase of the scheme's evolution.
Working with Glasgow University, Strathclyde University and Glasgow Caledonian University, the group has installed a wireless IoT network covering 12km2 across the city, including the commercial city centre, Merchant City, West End and south west across the River Clyde towards the Braehead area.
The network will enable the development and use of devices such as building and indoor environmental monitors, pollution sensors, tags for tracking valuable assets and social care devices designed to support independent living.
Currently being used to monitor air quality and enhance intelligent transport systems, the introduction of Semtech's LoRa™ geolocation solution is helping deliver the next phase of the technology, with capabilities not previously available.
The network can now identify the location of devices without requiring more battery power, opening up a host of new applications. The system provides a much lower power and cheaper way of connecting previously isolated devices, giving the public, developers and businesses the ability to create their own IoT infrastructure to develop and demonstrate new business solutions.
The low power wide area network technology, known as LoRaWAN™ , can be used in circumstances as diverse as healthcare providers tracking the behaviour of patients living with dementia, or by waste operators to monitor the location of their skips across a city. The combination of three-kilometer urban range, five-year battery life potential and location determination without power drain, will be transformative in enabling IoT connectivity to new types of device and application.
Nigel Chadwick, CEO of Stream Technologies, said: "This is an exciting development in the story of the IoT and the next wave of internet technology. The LoRaWAN™ network we've set up in Glasgow is one of the most advanced in the world – and is the perfect demonstrator for how it can be rolled out across other cities.
Mark Begbie, Business Development Director at CENSIS, added: "This isn't about providing faster broadband to businesses – it's about connecting devices that are currently excluded from the internet and providing services which are not currently possible.LoRa™ technology is set to address some of the key challenges in the IoT, making long-term battery-powered wireless monitoring possible, with the additional benefit of real-time location information.


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Scott Foundas April 5, 2006
One of the highlights of the closing weekend of this year's City of Lights, City of Angels film festival, Love Is in the Air keeps its feet planted firmly on the ground — or at least within the relative calm of a flight simulator. Writer-director Rémi Bezançon's debut feature offers the story of 30-something Yann (Vincent Elbaz), whose lifelong fear of flying has cost him more than one romantic relationship, including one with the beautiful Charlotte (Elsa Kikoine), who may just have been the girl of his dreams. (Ten years ago, she got on a plane for a vacation in Australia; he didn't.) Now, Yann has become (get this) an aviation-security expert, poised to settle down with Alice (Marion Cotillard) — the first woman in a long time who hasn't made him pine for his ex — when, lo and behold, guess who walks back into Yann's life. The turbulence that follows won't come as much of a surprise to anyone who's ever seen a romantic comedy before, but Love Is in the Air stays buoyant thanks to its enormously appealing performers (particularly Elbaz, who's like a cross between Jerry Seinfeld and John Turturro), Bezançon's peppy wide-screen visuals (which have the crisp, clean lines and vivid colors of comic-book panels) and an assortment of delightfully off-kilter supporting characters. (My personal favorites were the pilot who's great in a real crisis but terrible in a simulated one, and the former sound engineer who literally can't string two words together.)
Meanwhile, for those seeking actual feats of aerial derring-do, Gérard Pirès' Sky Fighters may fit the bill. It is, as advertised, the French equivalent of Top Gun, though with its indecipherable plot about illicit international arms dealing, and the modest novelty of having two of its hot-dogging flyboys turn out to be strapping flygirls, it may more closely resemble last summer's misbegotten Stealth. The big sell here is that all of the film's airborne sequences were supposedly accomplished without the aid of CGI, with the use of four 35mm cameras mounted onto one of the French air force's Mirage 2000 combat fighters. Fair enough, though it's a measure of just how far CGI has come that I could hardly tell the difference.
Sky Fighters isn't very good, even on its own terms, but what it shares with Love Is in the Air (beyond their common interest in the art of flight) is that they're both exactly the sort of commercial, highly accessible French movies more likely to be remade in America than released here — where art-house patrons would likely turn up their noses at them for being too lowbrow. And yet, as one who's guilty of championing the occasional highbrow affair (French or otherwise), I confess to finding even Sky Fighters preferable to the petrified pretension of Patrice Chéreau's Gabrielle, an adaptation on Joseph Conrad's short story "The Return," in which a bourgeois couple's long, loveless marriage finally unravels after the wife (Isabelle Huppert) confesses to having had an affair. There are some fine performances here, chief among them the always fascinating Huppert, whose lonely passion is so deeply felt that she comes to resemble a wilting flower craving sunlight. But it's not enough to supplant the arch airlessness of the piece, or Chéreau's greater interest in his whirling-dervish camera than in the human lives under its scrutiny.
As long as I'm on track to cement my Philistine status, I might as well say a few words in favor of Palais Royal!, a slapstick farce about the chaos that ensues when, thanks to a technicality, a pot-smoking fop (Lambert Wilson) ascends to the throne of a fictitious country that looks an awful lot like England, but where everybody speaks French. The movie, which marks the directorial debut of actress Valérie Lemercier (seen earlier in this year's CoLCoA program as one of the stars of Orchestra Seats), was reportedly greeted with stunned silence by the audience at a recent New York press screening, their shock no doubt stemming from the proliferation of jokes involving pies to the face, crowns falling into bowls of pea soup and Luciano Pavarotti bungee-jumping for charity. (Quel horreur!) No matter: Palais Royal! is broad and one-note, but often quite funny, and never less than a fitting celebration of the fabulous Ms. Lemercier, who plays a surprisingly shrewd Princess to Catherine Deneuve's Queen and who ranks among the most gracefully graceless physical comedians on movie screens today.
Finally, on the same weekend that sees the arrival of the American Cinematheque's annual salute to film noir, CoLCoA offers its own triple feature of contemporary stabs at that uniquely Franco-American genre: Stéphan Guérin-Tillié's Edy, with the ace character-actor François Berléand (Mon Idole, The Transporter) as an aging hit man trying to call it quits; Anne Fontaine's In His Hands, in which a pert insurance adjuster (Isabelle Carré) finds herself falling for a client (Benoît Poelvoorde) who may be a serial killer — well acted, but something of a watched pot that never boils; and, the best of the trio, The Black Box, directed by actor Richard Berry and starring the brilliant José Garcia (The Ax) as the victim of a violent road accident who awakens from a coma and begins reassembling the jigsaw fragments of memory that may hold the answer to a long-suppressed childhood mystery. The ultimate reveal here isn't half as gripping as the various twists and turns along the way, but, like all of the best noirs, The Black Box is less a case of whodunnit than it is a cynical portrait of an entire society steaming with thinly veiled corruption.
CITY OF LIGHTS, CITY OF ANGELS | At the Directors Guild of America | Through April 9 | www.colcoa.com

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Danvers é uma vila localizada no estado americano de Illinois, no Condado de McLean.

Demografia
Segundo o censo americano de 2000, a sua população era de 1183 habitantes.
Em 2006, foi estimada uma população de 1137, um decréscimo de 46 (-3.9%).

Geografia
De acordo com o United States Census Bureau tem uma área de
2,2 km², dos quais 2,2 km² cobertos por terra e 0,0 km² cobertos por água. Danvers localiza-se a aproximadamente 235 m acima do nível do mar.

Localidades na vizinhança
O diagrama seguinte representa as localidades num raio de 16 km ao redor de Danvers.

Ligações externas

Cidades de Illinois

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Well done to all participants in the football blitz last Friday held at Ravens' pitch. A great day was had by all. Visiting teams included Oldtown, Ballyboughal and Garristown.


With parallel coordinates, the perceptual barrier imposed by our 3-dimensional habitation is breached, enabling the visualization of multidimensional spaces and problems. In this workshop, a panorama of highlights from the foundations to the most recent results, interlaced with applications, are intuitively developed. The parallel coordinates methodology is used in collision avoidance and conflict resolution algorithms in air traffic control (3 USA patents), computer vision (USA patent), data mining (USA patent) for data exploration and automatic classification, optimization, process control and elsewhere. Parallel coordinates are included in hundreds of commercial and free software and are taught in numerous courses.
We invite all who are interested in joining us in the workshop. Participants may bring their own datasets. Depending on the available time, 2-3 will be chosen for joint exploration. Please contact Mandy Keck <mandy.keck@tu-dresden.de> for further information.
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В этой статье описываются кенассы, которые располагаются или располагались на территории современной Украины.

В 1879-80-х годах была проведена перепись прихожан караимских молитвенных домов. Их к тому времени было 28, с количеством прихожан 8588 человек.

В конце XIX века в Российской империи насчитывалось всего 20 действующих кенасс, 9 из которых находились в Крыму. В 1918 году в Крыму насчитывалось 9 караимских общин и 11 кенасс.

В настоящее время в Крыму сохранились здания 7 кенасс: две в Чуфут-Кале, две в Евпатории, одна в Симферополе, одна в Севастополе, одна в Бахчисарае. Все сохранившиеся крымские кенассы являются памятниками архитектуры. Разрушенные кенассы — кенасса на Мангуп-Кале, Феодосийская кенасса, Ялтинская кенасса, кенассы в Солхате, кенассы в Армянске, кенассы в Перекопе, кенассы в Карасубазаре. Самые старые из сохранившихся крымских кенасс — кенассы в Чуфут-Кале.

Кроме Крыма, кенассы располагались в Луцке, Киеве, Харькове, Бердянске, Николаеве, Херсоне, Екатеринославе, Одессе и Галиче.

Список кенасс Украины

 Кенасса на Мангуп-Кале — разрушена в 1793 году, координаты — .
 Ялтинская кенасса — разрушена. Последний газзан — Соломон Иосифович Гумуш.
 Кенассы в Армянске — разрушены, в 1880 году старший газзан армянской кенассы — Зарах Харченко.

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Ohio business owners optimistic on Trump's reign
Adrian Burns
Entrepreneurs are generally an optimistic bunch, but many say the business outlook is getting even brighter with the election of Donald Trump.
Citing campaign promises and Republican touchstones - along with Trump's background as a businessman rather than a politician - business leaders from around the state are expecting lower taxes, fewer regulations and a generally business friendly federal government over the next four years.
"I think the president can make a big difference, and I'm encouraged that he got in," said Scott Carter, CEO of Mansfield-based Rable Machine Inc., an employee-owned machine shop that employs 91. "He has a good understanding of business and I like the fact that he doesn't really owe his success to many of the typical folks in Washington."
Indeed, a sentiment of hope has spread across the business community since Trump was elected in a surprise victory Nov. 8. A December survey by the National Federation of Independent Business found that perceptions of the business environment, the view of the political climate as it relates to business and feelings of uncertainty had all improved significantly following the election, said Roger Geiger, executive director of NFIB Ohio, which has 25,000 small business members in the state.
"The last eight years were probably some of the toughest I've seen," Geiger said. "Not only because of the economic crash but there has been this really deep deep concern about overtaxation and overregulation."
Lancaster Economic Development Director Mike Pettit said he is no expert on Trump's strategy. But he said everything he reads looks to Trump being business friendly.
The hope is that with Trump in office, federal lawmakers will begin to make reforms that will make it easier for businesses to prosper, he said.
Too many regulations can bog down a small business, and some relief would be welcomed, said Bill Huston, owner of Huston Farms, a 200-acre produce growing operation in Dresden. Huston said he voted for Trump.
"In the next four to eight years, I do think that things will probably be less restrictive, and I do think that is a good thing," he said. "I spend all day almost every Sunday on paperwork."
Regulations, some of which Huston considers superfluous, permeate the farming industry, Huston said. For instance, Huston said he's required to put tape over his tractor's headlights to hold the lens glass together should one break in the field.
"It's stupid stuff, like when I haul tomatoes out of the field I have to tarp them so that a bird won't fly over the wagon and go to the bathroom on them," Huston said. "The plants have been out there for three months, I'm sure there have been thousands of birds that have flown over."
All tomatoes are washed at the farm when they come in from the fields, he said.
Trump can spur a host of regulatory changes that would benefit Screen Machine Industries, a western Licking County based manufacturer of heavy equipment used in mining and other industries, said President Steve Cohen. The company employs just under 100 at its factory and office facility.
For example, new machines must have engines that use a specific type of diesel fuel that produces fewer emissions if the equipment is to be sold in the U.S., Cohen said. But the fuel requirements for the machines make them unmarketable in some parts of the world where demand could otherwise be strong, he said.
"This fuel is not found in many parts of the world," he said. "So we automatically lose the deal."
Trump could also shepherd through a rule change that would allow companies to write off expensive machinery purchases more quickly, which could spur sales for Screen Machine, he said. Other efforts could include trade deals that are fairer to U.S. manufacturers, Cohen said.
The expectation of such changes is leading businesses to be more optimistic about their financial futures, he said. Good feelings about the future are what lead businesses to make decisions to grow or to spend money, Cohen said.
"It determines whether or not you're going to expand or not," he said. "It depends on where you feel the economy is going to, and what is going to happen in the next year or two or three."
While he is a Republican, Cohen said he doesn't disclose who he has voted for.
Melissa Walker, owner of Walker's Shoe Center in Lancaster, said she didn't vote for Trump or Hillary Clinton, but that she is feeling good about the future.
"People feel that because (Trump) is a business man he is going to be business friendly, so to me it seems that could be optimistic," she said. But the company, which has been in business since 1836, has developed a culture that doesn't put much stock in who is in office, Walker said.
"The bottom line is that you have to take care of every customer that walks through your door," she said.
John Dye, owner of Oswalt Office Furniture in Mansfield, takes a similar view. In the business since 1971, he has seen many presidents come and go, and believes local leaders are more critical to a community's business prospects, he said.
"After 45 years I've learned that every four to eight years you're going to get someone new, so why worry about who is in office, he'll be gone eventually," Dye said. He said he voted for Clinton, calling her "the lesser of two evils."


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Q: translate android java to xamarin c# I'm trying to make an android app with a webview which can upload images to a html page.
I think i found a solution here: Android ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE Intent
but i'm having trouble translating everything to Xamarin c#, any can help me here? the code i'm interestet in is:
       File imageDirectory = new File("/sdcard/signifio");
       String path = imageDirectory.toString().toLowerCase();
       String name = imageDirectory.getName().toLowerCase();

        ContentValues values = new ContentValues();
        values.put(Media.TITLE, "Image");
        values.put(Images.Media.BUCKET_ID, path.hashCode());
        values.put(Images.Media.BUCKET_DISPLAY_NAME,name);

        values.put(Images.Media.MIME_TYPE, "image/jpeg");
        values.put(Media.DESCRIPTION, "Image capture by camera");
       values.put("_data", "/sdcard/signifio/1111.jpg");
     uri = getContentResolver().insert( Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI , values);
        Intent i = new Intent("android.media.action.IMAGE_CAPTURE");

        i.putExtra(MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT, uri);

        startActivityForResult(i, 0);

more specific it's what classes i have to import to find Media.TITLE, Images.Media.BUCKET_ID.... and so forth.

A: Try Android.Provider.MediaStore
If they aren't in their you could use the actual strings instead, see the Android documentation
Here's the call to getContentResolver Xamarin style:
this.ContentResolver.Insert(Android.Provider.MediaStore.Images.Media.ExternalContentUri, values);

For the location of the file use:
Environment.GetExternalStoragePublicDirectory(Environment.DirectoryPictures), "CameraAppDemo");

There is a recipe for using a camera intent in the Xamarin documentation.

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The State owned National Communications Network and the Government Information Agency might find themselves again facing serious cuts in the budget.
Last year, the Opposition parties in parliament used their majority to reduce the budgetary allocations to the two entities to just $1 each. That move was made as the Opposition hoped that it would have triggered some change in the coverage they receive from the state media.
The coverage has not changed much according to Opposition Leader David Granger who said while NCN has been making some efforts to improve its quality of coverage of the Opposition, GINA has refused to do the same.
The Opposition leader told News Source that the bosses at GINA need to understand that the Government is not limited to the Executive and therefore the voices of the opposition must be given a hearing also through the state media.
In the past the Opposition APNU has compiled a dossier on coverage by the state owned media of the opposition. When there is coverage, Granger said it is mostly in a negative light. That he believes must change.
Just last week the Speaker of the National Assembly was forced to warn and threaten the Guyana Chronicle and I-News with sanctions after the two carried a false report of the budget presentation made by an APNU Member of Parliament.
The Chronicle apologized for the report. The opposition parties have been complaining for years about the way the state media handles matters concerning the Opposition.
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At Mobile Word Congress 2014 (MWC14), Nokia had officially announced its three new first-ever 'Android' operating system powered smartphones known as Nokia X+ Plus Smartphone, Nokia X Smartphone and Nokia XL Smartphone. In this article we are going to Review of Nokia X+ Plus 'Android' Smartphone Specifications, Features, Availability and Price details.
Nokia X+ Plus is also a Dual SIM smartphone having technical hardware and software specification and features similar to Nokia X 'Android' Smartphone and the only difference between two smartphone is 768 MB RAM. Additionally, Nokia X+ Plus has Processor - 1GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 8225, Display - 4.00-inch, 480x800 pixels, RAM - 768 MB, Storage - 4GB + SD Card support upto 32 GB, Front Camera - No, Battery - 1500 mAh, OS - Nokia X platform 1.0 based on AOSP 4.1.2, Rear Camera - 3-megapixel.
Nokia X+ Plus is also a 3G certified smartphone and also come with Nokia apps like Here Maps for offline, turn-by-turn navigation and Nokia MixRadio. Nokia X+ Plus is running Android OS, v4.1.2 (Jelly Bean) mobile operating system but excluding Google services like Google Play Store etc. Nokia X+ Plus User Interface (UI) is somehow a mixture of Windows Phone UI and Android UI, so buyers can experience two different mobile OS UI i.e. Windows Phone and Android under single smartphone.
You can watch full Nokia X+ Plus official video review.
You can read full Nokia X+ Plus specification and features.
The official release date of Nokia X+ Plus is Q2 2014 and the official price of Nokia X+ Plus is approx. €99 Euros Or $136 Dollars and it's officially available to buyers worldwide including Asian developing markets such Pakistan, India etc.


Minnesota-based ensemble the Consortium Carissimi uncovers and presents to modern audiences the long-forgotten Italian Baroque music of the 16th and 17th centuries through live concerts, master classes, publications and recordings like this album dedicated to Bonifazio Graziani. The maestro di cappella at the Jesuit Church in Rome, Graziani is now emerging as one of the most eminent figures of the mid-17th century Roman Baroque period, the so-called Scuola romana. Like his great contemporary Giacomo Carissimi, Graziani favoured the genre of the solo cantata for one, two, three and four voices. The liturgical cantatas, or motets, presented here are notable for their tremendously varied subject matter, ranging from Lenten penitential and Christmas themes to philosophical discourse on the meaning of life.


On Tuesday night, Howard Beach's Vetro, got a chance to celebrate. The Italian restaurant threw a party for their friends and family, as they reopened a month after Hurricane Sandy.
Mark Sweeney, one of the owners, said they hosted a soft opening in their main hall, and will be open to the public on Thursday. "Our focus is to open and keep supporting the community," he said.
The chefs at Vetro spent most of the hurricane aftermath taking care of their neighbors. Sweeney said they cooked over 1,000 pasta meals for the surrounding neighborhood, brought about 300 meals to Broad Channel, and fed the policemen and firemen in Far Rockaway.
All through December, meals will be 15 percent off — "to help everyone get back on their feet" — and a festive night of dancing will take place on Thursday in the lounge.
Joe's Crab Shack in Oceanside opened for the first time this morning. They celebrated by giving the first 100 patrons free crab for a year (!) and management will hold a two-week-long donation drive.
Joe's sustained two feet of flooding and as a result had an "extensive remodel," said Kevin Goggins, the Director of Operations at Joe's. "We weren't prepared to wait as long as we had to." But they made good use of the waiting time. The chain restaurant with outposts all over the country became a community meeting spot in Oceanside.
"I brought 15 containers of gas down from Albany," Goggins said. Employees and customers could come to Joe's to fill up their tanks. "We bought a bunch of grills and cooked food at the Long Beach train station." All together, Goggins estimated they served about 4,200 meals.


At its stand (Hall 15, stand B113), FPT Industrial displayed N45 and F36 engines, that stand out for their best-in-class features, such as efficiency, lightness and easy maintenance. Both engines use HI-eSCR2, the second generation of the company's exclusive after-treatment system.
The N45 is one of the highlights of the NEF family, which has been a mark of FPT Industrial's technological excellence since 2001. The 4.5-liter engine has a 4-cylinder configuration and delivers maximum power of 204hp, an increase of 15% compared to the previous version.
The dimensions and layout of the N45 Stage V are kept the same as the Stage IV version, preserving the unit's lean design, which also results in the same packaging and the same cooling requirement as the previous model. Additional improvements ensure fuel efficiency, and advances in filters and the clogging sensor have led to a doubling of the service interval to 1,200 hours.
Designed specifically for off-road applications which require extreme compactness and versatility, the F36 is easily adapted to different machines and installations. The Stage V version of the engine has a 3.6-liter displacement and benefits from a new turbocharger and optimized piston design to deliver more performance than its predecessor. Consequently, a 14% increase in maximum power, now up to 143hp, and 20% more torque, now up to 600 Nm are available. The injection system has been redesigned to ensure low noise, reduced transitory emissions, fuel economy, optimized combustion and performance.


I particularly like Doug Kessler's succinct suggestion to create great content that addresses what prospects care most about and where your company excels - i.e, the "overlap zone" - and Katie McKaskey's "think like the shopkeeper from yesteryear".
I like what Joe Pulizzi described in last week's post about getting people and content together in a room to discuss how customers and content relate. Getting started with content marketing requires understanding what assets and processes already exist and how and why they are used to build relationships with customers.
That then triggers discussion about the marketplace and how the company creates value for customers.
From there, you can start to piece together a bigger picture perspective, a content strategy, a rough content calendar and a strong sense for where gaps and opportunities exist for content marketing.
What is your take on the question? How would you get started in content marketing?
Back to regularly scheduled posts! Here are the latest links and resources shared on Twitter and tagged #practicalmktr grouped here together in Practical Simple Marketing In The News.
Fantastic #practicalmktr wisdom fr Scott Stratten at Blogworld http://bit.ly/cnQ4uc Were U there? Rxns?
Here's a link to the previous editions of Practical Simple Marketing In the News.


Around the world, government is turning into e-government, as local, state, and federal government entities move more of their content and services onto the Web. Although the public sector lags behind the private sector in implementing Internet technologies, e-government projects have benefited from the lessons of e-commerce pioneers, and many governments now offer interactive, transaction-oriented Web sites. Some governments, as in the United Kingdom, are even experimenting with voting online. In the process, government is undergoing a shift toward a more customer-centric, service-oriented model—a transformation that may lead to profound changes in the way we think about government and democracy.
One of the most headline-grabbing e-government topics of the past few years has been online voting. That's no surprise—in the wake of the U.S. presidential election in 2000, many people are eager to replace hanging chads and butterfly ballots with something that's both easier to use and more reliable. "Obviously, Florida in 2000 was an accelerator toward people wanting more sophisticated election technology," says Deborah Brunton, vice president of public affairs for VoteHere, a provider of kiosk-based and online voting products (Cisco is a minority investor in VoteHere).
"The whole idea of Internet voting hasn't yet taken off," says Michele Grisham, practice lead for state and local government in Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG), which advises governments on setting e-government strategies.
Computer security and cryptography experts are even more skeptical. "The fundamentals of computer science as we know it today won't make [online voting] secure enough," says Bruce Schneier, founder and chief technology officer at Counterpane Internet Security, Inc., in Cupertino, California.
"Without more secure platforms, it's not going to happen," agrees Avi Rubin, a research scientist at AT&T Labs and author of the book White Hat Security Arsenal from Addison-Wesley. "I don't see platforms secure enough coming into existence in the foreseeable future," he adds.
Still, experimentation with computer-assisted voting continues. In the United Kingdom's May 2002 elections, 50 townships will offer a variety of high-tech voting alternatives as part of a pilot program. Among the experiments are Web-based voting for citizens living in Swindon Township (where VoteHere is supplying the online voting system) and mobile phone voting via short message service (SMS) in Sheffield. "This marks an important first step toward e-voting across the country," says local government minister Nick Raynsford.
An election reform bill currently being considered by Congress could put $2.65 billion into election technologies.
The State of California just passed a $200 million election reform bond to upgrade voting systems in the state.
Many counties are already using or investigating voting systems that use optical scanners and computer tabulation to count paper ballots. The State of Georgia has recently issued a request for proposal to upgrade the entire state's voting systems to touch-screen systems.
VoteHere is involved with several states' pilot projects to offer online voting to overseas military personnel.
While widespread online voting may be a distant dream, experiments will continue. According to VoteHere's Brunton, many localities will start with touch-screen voting at their usual polling places, then move touch-screen polls to new locations, such as libraries, courthouses, and even malls. Eventually, Brunton says, this evolution will lead people to become more comfortable with the idea of voting at home via their PCs.
One thing that citizens already seem comfortable doing from home is accessing government services and information. Many states have implemented e-government portals that provide one-stop access to a host of government services, agencies, and departments. "Portals have been really hot for a while. Now most of the states have one," says Cisco's Grisham.
For example, the State of Michigan launched an e-government portal in July 2001. Using the portal, online visitors can make reservations for state park campgrounds, buy hunting and fishing licenses, look up state-certified daycare centers and nursing homes, and get information about local schools. The portal, built by Deloitte Consulting, started with a few basic services. Subsequently, over 150 Web sites from 43 different Michigan agencies are being migrated to the portal's Vignette and IBM WebSphere-based technology platform, with the goal of completing the migration by May 2002.
In the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Tony Blair has ordered that all government services be available online by 2005. Government ministries have responded with a wide range of online services. For example, a new cyber-court launched in the United Kingdom in February 2002 gives citizens the ability to make debt claims of up to £100,000 online (for instance, a landlord might use the system to sue for rent money owed by a tenant). And participants in court trials in England can get updates about the status of their trials via SMS, e-mail, or pager.
Just keeping track of all the services and content on an e-government portal is a major challenge. Accordingly, content management software figures large. "Content management is the killer app for e-government today," says Greg Pellegrino, a partner at Deloitte Consulting and the leader of the company's global e-government practice. Such software allows nontechnical government workers to update content as needed, while providing a common management platform.
E-government portals are changing the way governments think about providing services to their constituents. A portal can make Web site visitors feel like customers, enabling citizens to focus on the services they're interested in rather than being forced to negotiate Byzantine government bureaucracies. "It's definitely the case that we're in the transition phase from the e-government experimental era to one of much greater interactivity, and a much greater emphasis on enterprise transformation," Pellegrino says.
This will eventually lead to the notion of a "seamless government," says Mark Badger, Ph.D., the international government practice lead for Cisco IBSG. When government processes and services are streamlined, it's easier to focus on the social goals behind those systems, Badger says. "It's opening up the process for people to participate in actually building a better society," he says.
Seamless government may also make life a little easier. For instance, in Ontario, Canada, the government is implementing a new electronic strategy. Once the new system is in place, when a citizen fills out a police report for a lost wallet, the information will automatically be routed to different ministries so that the person can request a replacement driver's license, health care ID card, and even fishing license—all without having to fill out any additional paperwork.
While portals present a simplified front end, governments are also looking for smoother exchange of information behind the scenes. With better information sharing between agencies and departments, it's easier, for example, for the FBI to alert a state agency that it shouldn't provide a driver's license or identification card to a certain person.
"[Governments] want instantaneous access to information that is in hundreds of databases. The only way you can achieve that kind of integration in any cost-effective way is to leverage Web technologies," says Cisco's Grisham.
E-government can stimulate economic development, according to Cisco's Badger. "On the Pacific Rim, countries such as New Zealand and Singapore are setting up smart e-government environments, so it's easy to transact business there," he says.
If a company can fill out incorporation documents or import/export forms online, that can translate directly into cost savings. The availability of a good underlying Internet infrastructure and of an educated, Net-savvy workforce is also attractive to business.
Ultimately, e-government may lead to a loftier notion: e-democracy. "The notion of more open access to democracy is a theme for e-government," says Deloitte's Pellegrino. In the United Kingdom, the Office of the e-Envoy is charged with not only getting government services online, but also using technology to encourage greater participation in government by the citizens.
The Hansard Society, a nonprofit organization promoting parliamentary democracy, has worked with the U.K. Parliament in various pilot projects aimed at including more citizens in policy-making decisions. These projects have been well-received by citizens and members of parliament alike—in a recent consultation aimed at collecting input on government benefits, 94% of participants said they would be willing to participate in another such project. But the Hansard Society points out that obstacles remain. For instance, how do you increase citizen access to government via the Internet, when only 32% of British households have access to the Internet?


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Tag: cultural UNESCO sites
World Heritage Sites by country
A World Heritage Site is a natural or cultural site that demonstrates influence or significance in a global context (i.e., has "Outstanding Universal Value"), and has been inscribed on the World Heritage List by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) World Heritage Committee.
Top 5 Countries with Highest Number of UNESCO World Heritage…
China. China has 56 UNESCO World Heritage Sites with The Great Wall of China as the most popular one. …
Italy. With 58 UNESCO sites, Italy shares the first position with China in the list of countries with most sites. …
Germany. …
Spain. …
France.
As of August 2022, there are a total of 1,154 World Heritage Sites located in 167 States Parties (countries that have adhered to the World Heritage Convention, including the non-member state of the Holy See), of which 897 are cultural, 218 are natural and 39 are mixed properties. The countries have been divided by the World Heritage Committee into five geographic zones: Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and North America, and Latin America and the Caribbean. Italy, with 58 entries, has the highest number of World Heritage Sites. 27 state parties have no properties inscribed on the World Heritage List: Bahamas, Bhutan, Brunei, Burundi, Comoros, Cook Islands, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Grenada, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Kuwait, Liberia, Maldives, Monaco, Niue, Rwanda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Timor-Leste, Tonga, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Albania: Perfect Fit for Americans
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Silver earrings, handmade in Oslo.
Note! This product is Made To Order, which means that it is produced for YOU and only after confirmed order. It will take Madelen approximately 2-3 weeks to make your product, so remember to add this to the shipping time.


This OSKA shirt with its slight A-silhouette is a summer basic and easily combined with all types of trousers and skirts. Accompanied with choice accessories, it also cuts a fine figure in the evening. Small rolled edges on the hems and sleeve cuffs are pretty eye-catchers.


Sleep had come naturally, though in fits, while I was aboard the M.S. Trollfjord. When I awoke, it was clear it had rained overnight.
Throughout my three days in Tromsø, it hadn't rained while I was outside. It had sprinkled a little on my last day (the museum day), but not like this; most of the mountains on either side of the boat remained shrouded in fog and clouds during the rest of the trip.


Overview Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common congenital disorder in newborns.
Pulmonary hypertension is present when mean pulmonary artery pressure exceeds 25mm Hg at rest or 30 mm Hg with exercise. ECG findings include: RVH or strain, RAD, p-pulmonale, tall R waves in V1.
Overview Most common congenital heart defect. It occurs in almost 50 percent of all patients with congenital heart disease.
Overview Normally ductus arteriosus closes and become ligamentum arteriosus. Patent ductus arteriosss is where the ductus arteriosus persists post partum for more than 3months. Patent ductus arteriosus creates a Left to right shunt. This occurs in 1 in 2000 live births.
Overview A stricture is present in the aorta which leads to restricted blood flow to the lower part of circulation. BP in head and UL's is high, whilst that in the LL's is low. Heart failure may develop Surgical repair is needed in most cases.
hypertrophied. Correction with baloon valvuloplasty or surgery.
Pulmonary stenosis Pulmonary valve is thickened and narrowed leading to development of abnormally high pressure in RV. RV becomes hypertrophied If severe, treated with balloon catheter to dilate narrowing.
Side Note there are a number of associated anatomical features associated with TOF including right aortic arch, left anterior descending from the right coronary artery, patent ductus arteriosus.
"Tet spells" – Periods of increased oxygen demand/ultilisatio. Near occlusion of the right ventricular outflow tract with profound cyanosis.
Side note Children with cyanotic congential heart disease often squat. This kinks the femoral artery increasing peripheral resistance. This in turn increases left-sided ventricular resistance which lessens the burden of right-eft shunt.
May be asymptomatic until hypercyanotic (tet) spells.
Cardiac catheterisation to further delineate structural abnormalities.


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Tag: Uhuru Kenyatta
55 YEARS AFTER INDEPENDENCE, MOST KENYANS ARE BIG THIEVES AT HEART.
It's sad that, in this country, big money thieves are adored and revered to an extent that they're considered heroes in their backyards, instead of being shunned and treated as pariahs. Those who have been mentioned in mega scandals, involving millions or billions of taxpayers money, are even more feared and respected here. We even defend them as "mwizi wetu!" In countries like China, they are hanged or shot in a public arena, while in Japan they commit suicide due to the immense shame that will hang over their families, like an ominous cloud, for generations.
IS THE SPIRITED PURGE ON CORRUPTION A PLOY TO FINISH RUTO?
Whatever Dr Ndii's motive was, when he aptly described what the sudden surge in unearthing the rampant looting in the Jubilee government is all about, during a recent appearance on KTN's #CheckPoint; one thing is clear: it's a very difficult time to be William Ruto, if he is indeed targeted.
THE INTRIGUES BEHIND SONKO'S NOMINATION OF MIGUNA AS HIS DG
Sonko's move to appoint Miguna Miguna is a bold flash of the middle finger in the eyes of the Mount Kenya fraternity which has been silently but viciously fighting him in Nairobi. But he isn't alone in this scheme. Sonko is a valuable player in one of the two emerging Jubilee camps. His political godfather in Jubilee is well known. Sonko is one of the main strikers in the Hustler team.
UHURU GLOBAL CHAMPION FOR WHAT AGAIN?
If one may ask, What is so different between Uhuru Kenyatta and Robert Mugabe in terms of their human rights record? As a Kenyan, I feel disappointed and cheated by UNICEF's appointment of Mr Kenyatta especially at a time when the ratings of his human rights record back home are at an all-time low!
WAS HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST KEN WAFULA ELIMINATED?
This became quite evident when an attempt was made on the life of Yebei's widow; a hapless mother of three, all aged below seven years by then. It was an utterly horrendous attack. I know it because I was by then living in the same compound with the lady in Eldoret. She was just two weeks old in our compound, having moved from another neighbourhood on discovering that suspicious characters were constantly trailing her car.


Long, but interesting read about how membership programs should move out of the development department, and live more fully in organizations.
Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman has thoughts about how electoral tech producers are failing us in their design efforts, and what to do to fix it.
The NLRA just took a whack at baggage handling workers who had voted to join the IAM, potentially threatening the unionization of airport workers around the country.
What turns someone from a very-skilled hobbyist into a professional? WaPo looks at a new study that says participation in online crafting forums can be a key indicator and confidence-builder.
Lyft has announced changes to their driver policies, including that the app will default to a five-star rating for a ride that is not rated by the rider.
Almost 70% of ride-share drivers went on strike in Mumbai this weekend, and then marched to deliver a message to the state legislative session on Monday.
A recent decision by Australia's Fair Work Commission may put the independent contractor model of delivery apps at risk.
NELP and the NWLC are co-hosting a webinar about how advocates can fight forced arbitration clauses and other waivers at work. Tuesday, 12/4 at 3 eastern.
What I didn't know I needed for Christmas—the Sorry to Bother You study guide.
CityLab takes a look at how corporate America—particularly big box stores—is fighting paying property taxes through "dark store theory," which compares the value of stores that are open to ones that have shuttered, instead of other open stores.
Add Cook County, IL to the list of locations that have decided to invest in worker-owned cooperatives.
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The Freelancers Union just put out their annual report on the freelance workforce, in conjunction with Upwork.
Florida farmworkers are subject to greater health risks at work, thanks to climate change.
You probably saw that nearly 20,000 Google employees walked out last week, from offices all over the world. Here are the organizers, on what their demands are.
"You're not an Amazon driver if you haven't run a stop sign." On the workers who AREN'T getting $15/hour, in Amazon's new pay regime.
If, like me, you're annoyed by stores playing Christmas music before December 1st, imagine what it's like to work in one of those stores.
"The fact that we're able to put the technology in the hands of people with a low income–that is really a useful way of resisting this weaponization of income," so says the founder of an app that is helping people apply for citizenship.
Investors are already lining up to buy housing stock in whatever city "wins" Amazon's HQ2.
On the ballot in LA today? Whether or not the city should create a public bank.
Sarah Jaffe, on how the strikes of the past year are helping build power for teachers' unions around the country.
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I need additional souches / sheets. Order.
My Carnet is lost, stolen or destroyed.
I want to return my Carnet.
My Carnet is expiring. I need a replacement. Order.
I can't get my vehicle back prior to the carnet's expiration date.


Strengthen your existing relationships with corporate clients and your investors by utilizing state-of-the art integration capabilities, and an intuitive interface. Backed by cloud computing and configurable functionalities, ensure more productivity with zero maintenance.
21st century capital markets demand tools that have the right balance of intuitive UI and core power tools. Whether it's online or offline, access to client data is done in real-time using a cloud-enabled banking CRM, and without any down-time issues.
Efficiently aggregate your client accounts, their personal holdings, and risk up corporate hierarchies to accurately measure their individual profitability. Understand your best-performing clients, and allocate your resources for maximum value.
Streamline your information flow and improve your communications across multiple teams, regions or even countries. Nurture relationships amongst your relationship managers, boost product lines, and put your specialists in the spotlight with our cloud banking CRM platform.
Kapture's banking CRM is a platform that primarily focuses on flexibility. Integrate critical services and applications within Kapture so that it works for you. From importing market data to integrating legacy back-office systems, simplify your operations with a few clicks.
Regulate data sharing between sales executives with the right filters in place, and make sure all compliances are in order. Utilize your team's strengths to drive your business, while we keep the background compliances in order and the machinery well-oiled and running.
Manage, evaluate and track opportunities, as well as acquire leads from potential prospects using Kapture's banking CRM platform. This is all possible with a built-in reporting engine and dashboards that present with you digestible information through a simple glance.
Why you would require commercial banking software?
The commercial banking can easily get complicated with a large volume of data required to handle with great speed and fail-proof security. A Commercial Banking CRM can help you achieve these objectives within a single platform.
The commercial banking CRM software lets you manage the different touch points involved throughout your entire banking operations.
Here are some of the benefits of using a commercial banking solution to improve your banking experience.
1. Personalized communications - By implementing a commercial banking solution, you can personalize your entire range of communications with the customer.
2. Managing salary accounts - The enterprise banking software will allow you to handle large accounts and handle personalized communications.
3. Set compliance rules – create specific team access levels for information management. Now you can create a better way to manage the entire client interactions.
4. Manage intelligent reports – Set and manage intelligent reports based on the collected data.
In short, the commercial banking CRM solution enables you to collaborate and consolidate your banking operations in a better way.
What is a commercial banking software and How Can It Help You?
What is a commercial Banking software?
The commercial banking software can easily get complicated with a large volume of data required to handle with great speed and fail-proof security. A Commercial Banking software can help you achieve these objectives within a single platform.
The corporate banking system lets you manage the different touch points involved throughout your entire banking operations.
Here are some of the benefits of using a corporate banking software to improve your banking experience.
Personalized communications - By implementing a commercial banking software, you can personalize your entire range of communications with the customer.
Managing salary accounts - The enterprise banking software will allow you to handle large accounts and handle personalized communications.
Set compliance rules – create specific team access levels for information management. Now you can create a better way to manage the entire client interactions.
Manage intelligent reports – Set and manage intelligent reports based on the collected data.
What are the best features of Kapture's Commercial Banking software?
A corporate banking software strengthens your existing relationships with corporate clients and your investors by utilizing state-of-the art integration capabilities, and an intuitive interface.
Backed by cloud computing and configurable functionalities the corporate banking CRM ensures more productivity with zero maintenance.
Whether it's online or offline, access to client data is done in real-time using a corporate banking CRM, and without any down-time issues.
Efficiently aggregate your client accounts, their personal holdings, and risk up corporate hierarchies to accurately measure their individual profitability.
Streamline your information flow and improve your communications across multiple teams, regions or even countries.
What are the benefits of using a Commercial Banking Software?
Nurture relationships amongst your relationship managers, boost product lines, and put your specialists in the spotlight with our corporate banking CRM platform.
Kapture's commercial banking CRM is a platform that primarily focuses on flexibility. Integrate critical services and applications within Kapture so that it works for you.
Regulate data sharing between sales executives with the right filters in place, and make sure all compliances are in order.
Manage, evaluate and track opportunities, as well as acquire leads from potential prospects using Kapture's commercial banking CRM platform.
How to choose the Banking Software Solution?
You should be able to personalize the entire range of communications with your customer using the commercial banking CRM.
You should be able to handle large accounts using the banking software to handle all personal communications.
You should be able to create specific levels where only certain parts of your team can access the corporate banking CRM.
You should be able to set and manage intelligent reports based on collected data.


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Atlantic Coast Route: Ft. Kent, ME to Key West, FL
Atlantic Coast motorcycle route from Ft. Kent in Maine to Key West on the southern tip of Florida in a series of five maps covering motorcycle routes across the USA: along the Atlantic or the Pacific coasts, east-west across the northern or the southern states, and Route 66, produced in cooperation with Harley-Davidson and filled with extensive tourist information.
Pacific Coast Route: Seattle to San Diego
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Pacific Coast Route from Seattle to San Diego in a series of five maps covering motorcycle routes across the USA: along the Atlantic or the Pacific coasts, east-west across the northern or the southern states, and Route 66, produced in cooperation with Harley-Davidson and filled with extensive tourist information.
Northern Cross-Country Route: Boston to Newport, OR
Northern Cross-Country motorcycle route from Boston to Newport in Oregon in a series of five maps covering motorcycle routes across the USA: along the Atlantic or the Pacific coasts, east-west across the northern or the southern states, and Route 66, produced in cooperation with Harley-Davidson and filled with extensive tourist information.
Southern Cross-Country Route: Savannah, GA to San Diego
Southern Cross-Country Route from Savannah in Georgia to San Diego in California in a series of five maps covering motorcycle routes across the USA: along the Atlantic or the Pacific coasts, east-west across the northern or the southern states, and Route 66, produced in cooperation with Harley-Davidson and filled with extensive tourist information.
Historic Route 66: America's Mother Road, Chicago to Los Angeles
The Historic Route 66, "America's Mother Road" from Chicago to Los Angeles, presented in detail on a waterproof and tear-resistant, double-sided map from the San Francisco-based Mad Maps. The map provides a general overview of the whole route and then presents it in more detail on four panels breaking it into five shorter stages and showing the route highlighted across the network of local roads and cross-r...
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|Murakami Haruki|extra=born January 12, 1949}} is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been bestsellers in Japan as well as internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and selling millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Gunzou Prize for New Writers, the World Fantasy Award, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, and the Jerusalem Prize, whose previous recipients include J.M. Coetzee, Milan Kundera, and V.S. Naipaul.
Growing up in Kobe before moving to Tokyo to attend Waseda University, he published his first novel ''Hear the Wind Sing'' (1979) after working as the owner of a small jazz bar for seven years. His notable works include the novels ''Norwegian Wood'' (1987), ''The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle'' (1994–95), ''Kafka on the Shore'' (2002), and ''1Q84'' (2009–10), with ''1Q84'' ranked as the best work of Japan's Heisei era (1989-2019) by the national newspaper ''Asahi Shimbun'' survey of literary experts. His work spans genres including science fiction, fantasy, and crime fiction, and has become known for its use of magical realist elements. His official website lists Raymond Chandler, Kurt Vonnegut, and Richard Brautigan as key inspirations to his work, while Murakami himself has cited Kazuo Ishiguro, Cormac McCarthy, and Dag Solstad as his favourite currently active writers. Murakami has also published five short story collections, including his most recently published work, ''First Person Singular'' (2020), and non-fiction works including ''Underground'' (1997), inspired by personal interviews Murakami conducted with victims of the Tokyo subway sarin attack, and ''What I Talk About When I Talk About Running'' (2007), a series of personal essays about his experience as a marathon runner.
His fiction has polarized literary critics and the reading public. He has sometimes been criticised by Japan's literary establishment as un-Japanese, leading to Murakami's recalling that he was a "black sheep in the Japanese literary world". Meanwhile, Murakami has been described by Gary Fisketjon, the editor of Murakami's collection ''The Elephant Vanishes'' (1993), as a "truly extraordinary writer", while Steven Poole of ''The Guardian'' praised Murakami as "among the world's greatest living novelists" for his oeuvre and achievements. Provided by Wikipedia
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Contemplating, pondering, musing, considering, examining…effectively chewing on all curiosities.
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Movie Monday: Why Pay Rent? 1935
Image Credit: imdb.com & amazon.com
Eighty-five years ago, today, the black & white short comedy Why Pay Rent? was released. Directed by Lloyd French and, co-written by Dolph Singer & Jack Henley, it starred Roscoe Ates, Shemp Howard, Billie Leonard, Ethel Sykes and Ron Le May.
Elmer (Roscoe Ates) fixes up a room for his just-married, freeloading brother-in-law and wife. When the newlyweds show up, Henry (Shemp Howard) brings a surprise in the form of stepson Junior. The apartment is now too small so, Henry decides that they'll buy a lot and build a do-it-yourself home, a disaster in the making when Junior switches the house's part numbers. It doesn't help matters that Elmer, Henry and the wives are all incompetent.
In the 1930s, the Vitaphone division of Warner Brothers made a bunch of very uninspired and, often, unfunny comedy shorts. One of them, Why Pay Rent? is a bit like One Week (with Buster Keaton) but, only if the folks building the house were dumber than a pile of bricks. In many ways, this might have worked better as a Three Stooges short, which is interesting because Shemp Howard stars in this one, as well as Roscoe Ates, an incredibly unfunny comedian whose shtick was stuttering…which was annoying rather and cruel.
This film isn't listed as lost but, I couldn't find any video clips of it. I did find some stills of Elmer painting himself into a corner on Getty Images. ~Vic
Trivia Bit:
♦ Some of the construction sight gags, including the final scene, were re-done two years later by Moe, Larry and Curly in The Sitter Downers.
Shemp Howard Review (DVD Talk)
Why Pay Rent? (IMDB)
Why Pay Rent? (1935) (The Three Stooges Online Filmography)
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Flashback Friday: Schrödinger's Cat 1935
Image Credit: chillingcompetition.com
Eight-four years ago, today, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger published his first of three essays on a Thought Experiment regarding a hypothetical cat:
[A] cat, a flask of poison and a radioactive source are placed in a sealed box. If an internal monitor (e.g. Geiger counter) detects radioactivity (i.e. a single atom decaying), the flask is shattered, releasing the poison, which kills the cat. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that, after a while, the cat is simultaneously alive and dead. Yet, when one looks in the box, one sees the cat either alive or dead, not both alive and dead. This poses the question of when, exactly, quantum superposition ends and reality collapses into one possibility or the other.
[Schrödinger] intended the example [above] to illustrate the absurdity of the existing view of quantum mechanics:
One can even set up quite ridiculous cases. A cat is penned up in a steel chamber, along with the following device (which must be secured against direct interference by the cat): in a Geiger counter, there is a tiny bit of radioactive substance, so small, that perhaps in the course of the hour one of the atoms decays, but also, with equal probability, perhaps none. [If] it happens, the counter tube discharges and, through a relay, releases a hammer that shatters a small flask of hydrocyanic acid. If one has left this entire system to itself for an hour, one would say that the cat still lives if, meanwhile, no atom has decayed. The first atomic decay would have poisoned it. The psi-function of the entire system would express this by having in it the living and dead cat (pardon the expression) mixed or smeared out in equal parts.
It is typical of these cases that an indeterminacy originally restricted to the atomic domain becomes transformed into macroscopic indeterminacy, which can then be resolved by direct observation. That prevents us from so naively accepting as valid a "blurred model" for representing reality. In itself, it would not embody anything unclear or contradictory. There is a difference between a shaky or out-of-focus photograph and a snapshot of clouds and fog banks.
Schrödinger's famous thought experiment poses the question, "when does a quantum system stop existing as a superposition of states and become one or the other?"
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The EPR Paradox was a thought experiment proposed by physicists Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen (EPR) that they interpreted as indicating that the explanation of physical reality provided by quantum mechanics was incomplete (PDF).
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11/01/2017�� Do smart drugs like the limitless pill NZT-48 exist in real life? CogniTune explores the idea of nootropics and smart pills unlocking 100% of your brain. CogniTune explores the idea of nootropics... NZT-48 is introduced as a pill that lets you access 80% of your brain. The movie assumes that we, as humans, use only 10% of our intellectual capacity. The Limitless drug is said to enhance memory to a flawless level, intelligence to superhuman levels and basically eliminates anxiety and depression.
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Just like the NZT 48 pill, nootropics reduce stress levels. They achieve that by regulating cortisol � a hormone that influences stress and relaxation. A ripple benefit of reduced stress is that much as you will be a very hardworking person when it's time to work, you will also get sufficient sleep when you go to bed because you won't be stressed out and unable to relax. #3: For medical... nzt-48 Dealers claim it unlocks 100% of the brain, referencing the oft repeated myth that only �20%� of our brains are normally used. It increases intelligence to superhuman levels and results in perfect recall for the extent of its activity.
When all this is taking into consideration, a NZT person is possible but not with a simple pill alone. They'd need to be biologically or/and cybernetically enhanced. So NZT-48 could never exist as depicted in the movie Limitless.
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Poor sanitation is estimated to cause 280,000 deaths per year worldwide, despite the existence of simple, effective solutions. Governments and major development institutions have dedicated substantial resources and attention to improving sanitation in developing countries, but there has been little rigorous research on how best to increase sanitation coverage. This evaluation in Bangladesh found that subsidies for hygienic latrines targeted to the poor substantially increased latrine coverage and reduced open defecation. However, a commonly used community-motivation model, did not increase adoption of hygienic latrines when implemented alone, nor did providing information and technical support to community members. Results also suggest that adoption of improved latrines spurred adoption among neighbors, suggesting improved sanitation triggers a virtuous cycle.
One billion people, or about 15 percent of the world's population, currently practice open defecation, and another 1.5 billion do not have access to a hygienic latrine or toilet.1 In spite of the existence of simple, effective solutions, such as pour-flush latrines, poor sanitation is estimated to cause 280,000 deaths per year, and may also contribute to serious long-term health conditions.2 Given the scope of the problem, governments and major development institutions have devoted substantial resources to improving sanitation in developing countries.3 However, significant disagreement remains over how best to increase sanitation coverage. Is it more effective to focus on demand generation through information campaigns and behavior change programs, or should governments focus on directly providing toilets to schools or households? Or is it better to subsidize private investment in sanitation? Do subsidies hurt intrinsic motivation? Researchers investigated these questions in Bangladesh.
This research was conducted in relatively dense rural areas of Tanore, a sub-district in northwest Bangladesh, the poorest region of the country. Although sanitation coverage has increased dramatically in rural Bangladesh in recent decades, progress in Tanore has been slower. Prior to the start of the study, 31 percent of households reported that they either lacked a latrine or used an unimproved latrine. Only 50 percent had regular access to an improved sanitation facility, defined as a toilet or latrine that separates human excreta from human contact.
Researchers partnered with WaterAid Bangladesh and Village Education Resource Center to measure the impact of different policies designed to increase community-level latrine coverage on actual latrine coverage, investment in hygienic latrines, and the prevalence of open defecation. This research also aimed to provide insight into the household- and community-level behavioral mechanisms driving any effects.
Researchers randomly assigned 380 neighborhood communities, which included 18,254 households, to one of four groups:
1) Latrine Promotion Program (LPP) – Communities were invited to participate in a multi-day, neighborhood-level exercise to raise awareness of the problems caused by poor sanitation, and to motivate the community to increase coverage of hygienic latrines. The design of LPP followed that of Community-Led Total Sanitation, which focuses on behavioral change and community mobilization in eliminating open defecation. The approach has been implemented in over 60 countries worldwide.
2) LPP combined with subsidies – Communities were invited to participate in LPP and households were randomly selected via a public lottery to receive discount vouchers for the purchase of hygienic latrines. The vouchers provided a 75 percent discount on any of three available models of latrine, priced (after subsidy) US$5.5, US$6.5 and US$12. Households were responsible for delivery and installation costs of US$7-10. The richest 25 percent of households were not eligible for vouchers.
3) Information and technical support – "Latrine Sales Agents" were hired and trained from these communities and linked to local masons that built latrines. The agents acted as a resource for community members and also offered technical support for latrine installation.
4) Comparison group - No intervention
Adoption of latrines: Community motivation alone (LPP only) did not significantly increase adoption of hygienic latrines or reduce open defection relative to the comparison group. Providing information and technical support to community members also had no impact on adoption of latrines or open defecation.
However, LPP combined with the subsidy had substantial effects, increasing latrine coverage by 22 percentage points among subsidized households and 8.5 percentage points among their unsubsidized neighbors, for an average village increase of 29-36 percent (14-15 percentage point), relative to villages where no subsidies were offered.
Open defecation: Community motivation (LPP-only) did not significantly reduce open defection, nor did information and technical support. However, adding subsidies to LPP reduced open defection rates by 9 percentage points among adults in villages that received subsidies (including households that did not receive subsidies), representing a 22 percent reduction relative to the comparison group.
Social multipliers: A household was more likely to use the subsidy voucher to invest in a latrine if a larger share of their neighbors also received vouchers. A voucher winner in a neighborhood with medium coverage was 7 percentage points more likely to own a hygienic latrine than a voucher winner in a low coverage neighborhood, and 21 percentage points more likely to own a hygienic latrine relative to households in LPP-only neighborhoods. There was no detectable difference in hygienic latrine ownership between winners in neighborhoods with medium and high coverage.
Overall, these results are consistent with a growing body of research showing price is a primary barrier to adoption of health products. The results counter a commonly held belief that community-based motivation is the most effective way to move households away from open defection and toward basic latrines. Finally, this study presents evidence of the importance of social influence, and the possibility of a virtuous cycle where adoption of improved latrines spurs further adoption.
1. WHO/UNICEF, "Progress on Drinking Water and Sanitation - 2014 Update", tech. rep. (WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation, Luxembourg, 2014).
2. E.g. A. Lin et al., The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 89, 130–137 (July 2013).
3. For example, in 2012 UNICEF spent US$380 million on programs focused on water, sanitation, and hygiene for children, which it estimates helped 10.6 million people gain access to improved sanitation. The World Bank's Water and Sanitation Program plans to direct US$200 million in government and private funds to improve sanitation for 50 million people during the 2011-2015 period.
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Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) Nuclear Operations unit has been awarded two US naval reactors programme contracts, valued at nearly $36m.
Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) Nuclear Operations unit has been awarded two US naval reactors programme contracts valued at nearly $36m.
Under the first $32m contract, B&W will carry out assembly of nuclear propulsion components for the US Navy's Virginia-class submarines.
Work under the contract will be carried out over a period of four years at B&W's facility in Lynchburg, Virginia, US.
The second award, amounting to approximately $4m, includes the procurement of long-lead materials that are associated with manufacturing of nuclear components in support of the navy's Virginia-class submarines.
B&W has been supporting the US Navy submarines and aircraft carriers by providing a range of nuclear components and services, which include manufacture of nuclear reactor components, other nuclear and non-nuclear research and development, as well as component production.
"The Virginia-class submarines feature anechoic coatings, isolated deck structures and a new design of propulsion to enable a low acoustic signature."
The company has also received contracts totalling more than $510m for delivery of nuclear components in support of the US defence programmes, as well as naval nuclear power systems for submarines and aircraft carriers.
Integrated with AN/WLY-1 acoustic countermeasures system, mast-mounted AN/BLQ-10 electronic support measures (ESM) and Sperry Marine AN/BPS-16(V)4 navigation radar, the Virginia-class submarines feature anechoic coatings, isolated deck structures and a new design of propulsion to enable a low acoustic signature.
Built by General Dynamics Electric Boat and Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), the nuclear-powered advanced stealth multi-mission submarines have a beam of 34ft, can cruise at a submerged speed of 25k and carry a crew of 134.
Equipped with 12 vertical missile launch tubes and four 533mm torpedo tubes, the submarines are capable of firing up to 26 Mk48 ADCAP mod 6 heavyweight torpedoes and sub-harpoon anti-ship missiles from the 21in torpedo tubes.
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Sounds simple, but why have sales that are not contributing profits to your company. I have had to go into many companies over my 30 years in the industry, and it still surprises me to how many sales contracts or projects are unprofitable. If you do not have a sales compensation plan that is tied in with profitability (gross or net) we need to put one in place as part of the sales plan.
This is by far the most critical early step in developing a STRATEGIC sales plan. There is no reason to start planning for new sales if you are not sure where your most consistently profitable sales or contracts are now. If you don't have systems in place that will give you this data, you are going to need to put them in place – Knowing your past will guide your future. If you have to pull this data together from multiple sources to get this information then take your time to do so. We here at Cross Points Consulting Group have data analytical tools available that can pull together a lot of disconnected data that will help to determine this information. It may seem like a large investment of time now, but think of what it will do for your company for years to come.
Again, the difference between a Strategic Sales Plan and just a new business development plan is the most fundamental principle of Sales 101: your existing customers are easier to sell to than new prospects. The information from analyzing your existing data is really going to be crucial here. If you have sales, contracts or projects that are not as profitable as they should be you need to find out why. Classify these sales into different categories depending on the reasons you determined that they are under performing. The categories may be based on various reasons such as: production, contract structure, service expectations, changes in site conditions, or they were just plain bid incorrectly or undersold. Each category will need to have a plan to correct the issues, if there are reasons the sales can't be improved you will have to look for ways to renegotiate the contracts. If you have performed well on your contract properties or projects, having an honest conversation with the customer that the contract needs to be adjusted is something that has to be done. I have been in these situations before and as unpleasant as they can be, continually losing money on them is by far worse.
Once again, your easiest sales are going to be to your existing customers. If you have contract sales, those sales are usually based on providing basic services. As easy as it seems regularly inspecting properties, meeting customers, and talking to your staff performing the contract work is the best way to come up with pro-active enhancement sales. Setting a very specific schedule to these activities is the only way they will get completed. If you do not have the staff with the training or abilities to perform these functions it may be one of the first sales hiring you make.
Who are your best customers and contracts now? After your analysis process you should have a better idea of what work is profitable and which isn't. All your new sales need to be clones of those profitable sales and contracts. For new business development your company needs to be laser focused on sales and contracts that match that 'clone' template. Processes, training, and systems will revolve around the development of these new sales.
Be specific on the prospects, accounts, properties, and customers that meet your new sales template(s). There may be more than one template that prospects will match, just changing contract terms may move a prospect into one of your desirable classifications. Developing a list provides the initial focus and guidance on where to direct your company's resources and time. Invest in a good CRM and sales management system that enhances your sales efforts. The list should stretch and grow over time but should also have a tight control system; new prospects added to the system should be categorized so that the best prospects receive the highest amount of resources.
Every sales process should revolve around the ability to deliver solutions to your prospects needs based on your overall value proposition. This value proposition should answer the questions as to why someone would want to do business with you and how you are best at solving your prospects' problems based on your company's services or products. The sales process used by your sales staff should be developed to provide sales solutions that emphasize your value proposition as the best way to meet your prospects' needs. Determining the best sales methods, systems, and responsibilities will be a crucial part of developing an efficient and successful sales process. Develop a sales training process that revolves around these methods and emphasizes the desired results of obtaining qualified sales and contracts.
Create various forms of content in support of your Value Proposition that can be viewed, sent or discussed with prospects. Remember, in the new sales world we live in, prospects want to be educated during their research and discovery process when they are looking for new business partners and service providers. Developing ongoing, fresh and high quality educational content that supports this value proposition is key to meeting those needs. This supporting content material can be utilized in newsletters, blogs, whitepapers, websites, videos, webinars or other content inbound or outbound marketing pieces.
In many service industries there will always be many forms of sales opportunities, keeping your business focused on the right opportunities will be the most important role of a sales leader(s). By starting with a strategic sales plan that is transparent and objective in nature will go a long way in getting not just the sales team, but your entire organization on board with your processes and desired goals. Supporting and leading a sales team is far more enjoyable and efficient than trying to manage one, and will always be far more successful in the long run.