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- The UK Automotive Industry and the EU
The UK Automotive Industry and the EU
Categories: Dissertation exemple, Dissertation Technologie, English
1 Introduction:
2 A market in decline?
3 – Threatened by the Brexit
4 Jaguar in the UK
5 Consumer trends in the British automotive market
6 Increase the electric cars autonomy
7 Create a range of car with vegan materials
8 Create a system for people who can not have access to car clubs services.
9 Autonomous car : why it represents the future of car industry.
10 2. New services
11 Car sharing clubs:
12 Ridesharing:
13 Why is car-pooling not an option for Jaguar?
14 -> A car club app (Manon):
15 Conclusion:
In 2017, the UK automotive market was the fourth automotive market in Europe in terms of production after Germany, Spain and France. This sector was profitable for the economy of the country since it yielded £21,7 billion. Also, it is essential to know that 18 of the world's top 20 automotive suppliers, are present and develop their activities in UK. That's why in a global perspective, the UK automotive market would be the 2nd market most important in the European Union.
Some key facts to better understand that market in UK:
The automotive sector represents on its own 4% of the GDP
In 2017, UK produced 1 682 156 cars
The British car manufacturers were nationally and internationally recognized for the good quality of their cars and their motors
The major part of the automotive industries in UK, is located in Midlands
Until the last few years, the UK automotive market can be considering as a flourishing market. Indeed, each year, British Companies invest around £1.7 billion in Research and Development for that sector. We can also observe an increase in car sales to emerging countries. The export of British cars to China was multiplied by 2 between 2008 and 2013.
The automotive market in UK is open to innovation and new tendencies. Actually autonomous vehicles are allowed, electric cars is a growth sector and the hydrogen cars production just start.
A market in decline?
– The fall of diesel
In 2017, the UK automotive sector was impacted by the fall of diesel. For the first time since 2011, the market meet its first annual drop. British new cars registration dropped 5.7%, which represent 219 309 registrations less than 2016.
This phenomenon would be due to the weaker consumer confidence over the future of diesel. New measures taken by the government in relation with polluting emissions, influenced the consumers to buy another type of car. The UK government set up a clean air strategy that clearly criticize the lack of action on diesel car. People are scared about having something which could be unsellable or unusable within a few years.
More and more consumers are also worry about the CO2 emissions and realize that there is not such a big difference between diesel and petrol: "If you focus on the CO2 emissions instead of on the fuel consumption, the diesel cars do not have such a big advantage over the petrol cars any more. If you look at modern petrol cars they
have about the same CO2 or in some cases even lower CO2 than a diesel car." said Peter Mock, EU Managing Director at the International Council for Clean Transportation.
– Threatened by the Brexit
We can also explain this decline in performance of the UK automotive market, by the vote in favour of the Brexit. Indeed, until May 2016, the British market showed a progress of more than 4% in comparison with the year before. But the slowing down of growth appeared after the vote, the 23th June 2016. The Brexit would bring about a rise in costs which could penalize both manufacturers and buyers. Tariff barriers set up by the Brexit would be harmful to UK automotive industry since a large part of vehicles assembled in UK depend on a stream of parts through frontiers.
Jaguar in the UK
The UK automotive market is the 2nd luxury vehicles producer in the European Union after Germany. Indeed, the country is the birthplace of many luxury cars brands since the 19th century.
Jaguar is one the first British car manufacturer. It is known as the emblematic supplier of the British Queen for four decades. This brand was created in 1922 as the Swallow Sidecar Company. It was recognized as the Jaguar Company only in 1940. Jaguar is part of the Indian Tata Motors group since 2008. The operations of Jaguar and those of Land Rover were merged to found in 2013 Jaguar Land Rover. The company insists on the fact that it has an international vision. More than 80% of the vehicles manufactured in the West Midlands are sent to 101 countries among which China, United States and Europe.
This luxury cars brand feel really threatened by the Brexit. A hard Brexit, would cost Jaguar £1.2 billion per year. This situation would force the company to reduce its activities in UK. To continue to flourish, the company need a free trade with the European Union and access to the single market without any restrictions. With the vote in favour of the Brexit, Jaguar already had to face up to an important drop in sales.
Jaguar has to cope with the competition, on that luxury vehicles market. On one hand, the brand has to compete with British brands like Rolls Royce, Bentley, Aston Martin, Morgan, Lotus, etc. And one the other hand, with international luxury brands like Porsche, Toyota, Mercedes or Tesla for example.
Consumer trends in the British automotive market
In June 2018 the stock of licensed vehicles in UK rose by 1% in comparison with the previous year. Among the 38.2 million vehicles licensed, 31.5 million were cars. We can observe an annual increase every year since the end of the Second World War except in 2017 when the UK automotive market experienced an important decrease. Following this logic, we imagine that in 15 years, the number of cars sold in UK will be much more important than today and normally, the car market has a great future in UK. However, the most common cars bought at the end of 2017 in UK are the Ford Fiesta with 1.5 million cars, the Ford Focus with 1.3 million cars and the Vauxhall Corsa with 1.1 million. To better adapt the automotive market in UK, it is relevant to know that the number of women registered as keepers of cars, increased by 61% since 1997 while the proportion of men only increased by 22%. This detail is essential to Jaguar which has to take it into account for the future of its company. Maybe, creating a more adapted range of cars for the female population. Obviously, Jaguar has to keep its positioning of luxury sport cars brand but trying to think about all that women who also like sport cars but are looking for something more adapted for them in terms of design. The number of that women is more and more important.
Nevertheless, we notice a decline in the proportion of British young adults (between 17 and 20 years-old) with a driving license. This phenomenon is due to higher prices than 30 years ago, what discouraged young people from learning. But also this can be explained by the fact that the driving test became more difficult to pass. The British young adult's attitude towards the driving license has changed too. Indeed, today a part of that population, clearly said that they aren't interested by driving. This could be a threat for Jaguar because at some point this population will represent the Jaguar market's target.
However, the car in UK still remains the principal mode of transport, in particular for people's daily travels. In 2017, 61% of trips were made by car. Indeed we can observe that on British roads, cars and taxis represent 78% of the all traffic. Especially to go to work, of the 26.5 million of workers in England and Wales, 16.7 million use a car that they drive themselves or they use the car sharing. In rural area, this percentage is quite important since it stands at 73.4%. Contrary to what we may think, for 29.8 % of the workers in London, the car is the most popular mode of travel.
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Increase the electric cars autonomy
Nowadays, more and more car brands develop electric vehicles whose purpose is to reduce atmospheric pollution, particularly high in developing world cities and greenhouse gas emissions, which remains the major cause of the average temperature increase.
The aim is to seduce people who are more and more aware of the environmental issues and of the negative effects that their car can have on the planet.
Jaguar is actually a late entrant into the electric car market, indeed, its first electric model, the I-Pace, had been launched in early 2018, while other brands, such as Renault, launched its Renault Zoé in 2012. However, it is the first brand to compete with Tesla on the field of high-end cars.
Jaguar could invest more in the search of electric batteries more autonomous. Indeed, even if its autonomy reaches 450 km, Tesla, its main competitor, offers a model with an autonomy of 600 km, that is 150 km more, which gives Tesla an enormous competitive advantage.
They also could work on the time the user needs to recharge the battery. Indeed, the fact of having to stop more than 45 minutes along the way can hamper prospects of purchasing this kind of product, especially for workers and company heads who spend a lot of time in their car.
The brand as well could develop its own charging network which would be allowed just for its clients and modernized it by inventing a wireless system to facilitate its use, following the example of the recharge of the QI mobile phone.
Despite of all the positive things that have being said about electric cars, recent studies have shown that this type of vehicle is not as "green" as it seems. Numerous elements such as the rare materials extraction and the electricity generation needed to produce this kind of car has a real ecologic impact tarnish its ecological balance, sometimes worse than a petrol or diesel car,
, Jaguar pourrait se tourner vers d'autres alternatives
Si cet élément est amené à disparaître car encore trop polluante, se tourner vers d'autres alternatives.
Une autre alternative, l'essence synthèse ?
Utilisation d'essence de synthèse qui présente de nombreuses qualités : un carburant sans pétrole, neutre en Co2. Des projets pilotes sont déjà mis en place par des marques concurrentes comme Audi et non pas les voitures électriques qui n'ont pas beaucoup d'autonomie et qui ne sont pas si verts que ça, on utilise en effet des matériaux exotiques et rares dont l\'exploitation n\'est pas sans dommage pour l\'environnement.
Create a range of car with vegan materials
To meet their clients and prospects needs, Jaguar has to follow very closely the British lifestyle changes and keep an eye on emerging trends, especially among young people who are tomorrow\'s adult consumers.
In the United Kingdom, the veganism is a trend that has grown significantly over the past few years, especially since 2016. It is one of the country in the world where this practice is more developed. Between 2006 and today, the number of vegans in this country rose by 360%, which represents 7% of the British, or more than 3.5 million people. This percentage is even higher among the 16 – 24 age group, indeed, 20% identify themselves as vegan. At this rate, we can easily imagine that this percentage will increase in a meaningful way in the next five or ten years. It would be a shame not to take advantage of this phenomenon, which is on the rise from year to year.
What Jaguar could do to meet this demand would be to create a range of car especially for vegan people, indeed, their "fight" concerns not only food, it is based on the refusal of animal exploitation in all its forms. For instance, most of them do not wear clothes or use cosmetic products whose components have been obtained from animals, like fur, leather, wool or silk. This is what we want to do with Jaguar. The brand could replace its traditional leather seats, wheel and gear lever for appropriate solutions for this category of persons, use other components which would approach aesthetically and qualitatively its already existing cars. They could for example use "muskin" leather, a biodegradable material extracts from the mushroom cap. Moreover, this skin already used for the manufacture of bags, belts, watch straps and shoe soles, do not use any chemical substance and is a non toxic product.
They could take inspiration from its main competitor, Tesla, which has stopped using genuine leather for synthetic leather for all its car seats since 2017.
Create a system for people who can not have access to car clubs services.
The mean problem with car clubs is that not everyone can have access to this system, indeed, only people from big cities can take advantage of it. In the United Kingdom, there is a lot of people who does not live in big cities such as London, Manchester or Glasgow. In order not to lose these prospective customers that represent several million people throughout the country, it would be advisable for the brand Jaguar to set-up a "car share" system. It would work exactly like house sharing, that is, sharing a luxury car between several persons, for a given period. Other brands have already bet on it, such as Japanese car manufacture, Nissan and its get & go Micra which offers since 2017, its own car share service. Jaguar could take the lead from Nissan and create its own online platform, a kind of social media, to contact the futur "carmates", directly on their smartphone. It would allow identifying people who live close to each other and who have complementary needs. Indeed, to make this system works, users needs to be in the same area and have different timetable. People could share their car with friends, family, colleagues or even complete strangers. The more persons there are, the lower the price, however for a question of organisation, the number of people who could rent the car, should not exceed five. This app would also allow people organize themselves
This would give people the opportunity to use a luxury car while reducing the total car of ownership which represents all the ancillary costs such as the insurance, the assistance, which would be shared between all the users of the car.
Not to forget the luxury side of the car, Jaguar could include in the package, free options that people could use whenever they want, a kind of VIP card that would provide benefits to its clientele.
De plus les utilisateurs auraient la possibilité de
Offrir des options en plus comme une carte qui permet d'avoir un petit déjeuner ou une autre collation inclus dans le forfait
Autonomous car : why it represents the future of car industry.
We know that Jaguar is already working on a prototype of a driverless car, and we think they should continue this process, and even accelerate their research in order to be the leader of a promising market.
Self-driving car could change our whole way to move, and the way people and goods are transported. It is the entire car experience that will be changed.
But there will be lot of challenges and obstacles to overcome in terms of security for example and mostly because of customer perception.
Autonomous vehicles is going to be a very flourishing market in United Kingdom, and according to a study, is estimated to be worth £28bn in 2035 and to represent 31% of the market.
Obviously, these figures are only forecasts, and some factors such as prices and consumer expectations are likely to influence the figures.
Autonomous vehicles have many advantages such as security. In fact, a study conducted by Exton Consulting revealed that Self-driving car could divide by two the numbers of traffic accidents. It's not a surprise when you consider that 90% of these accidents are in fact related to human error.
For Jaguar's clients, who are mostly people with a high purchasing power and a consistent budget, time is money. They are often people with a very busy professional life. Self-driving cars will allow them to have a little bit of free time. This is not insignificant when you know that British people most spend an average of 10 hours every week driving.
It represents 274 hours each year. So many hours which could be used differently. With you car doing all the driving, you will have all free time to work, talk to your loved-ones …
We all know that environmental issues are more and more important and will have a major influence on the future of the car industry. It's a real challenge to respond to all the environmental issues. More than just a trend, it's a true market demand.
Autonomous cars will be beneficial for the environment, first of all because of their more efficient driving style. Indeed autonomous vehicles provide a smoother and a more fuel effective driving. Furthermore, many autonomous vehicles are designed to be electric. The combination of these two characteristics shows that such vehicles would benefit the environment. Moreover, this type of vehicles will, if it replaces those of today, improve the traffic flow, which means less congestion on the road and less and therefore less pollution.
Autonomous vehicles could really be an opportunity for Jaguar, indeed, many of their customers are seniors and such vehicles will improve their mobility. It will be safer for them, and for those who have travel restrictive medical conditions ( like former Jaguar's owners too old to drive ), it could be a real solution.
Nowadays, Jaguar's vehicles are viewed as expensive, owned by wealthy people.
Most people do not even consider having a Jaguar because these vehicles are perceived as inaccessible. But with autonomous vehicles, the total cost of ownership will be less important and it will be more affordable to own a Jaguar.
Car insurance, for example, will be less expensive. Indeed, most of insurance are determined by human factor, and a reduction in the accidents ( As we said before, 90% of car accidents result from human mistakes ) will lower the cost of car insurance and make vehicle ownership more bearable.
And it can be verified : today the UK insurance industry offers a 10% discount for drivers who have a collision avoidance system.
It's crucial to communicate about the total cost of ownership, because financial costs and benefits are the main factor in the purchase process in the UK. And the Columbia University Earth Institute estimates that the cost of a fully autonomous car would be about 41 cents per mile, when normal vehicles have a total cost of 75 cents per mile. And it's a real opportunity for Jaguar, because it's the households with the highest income who will benefit more from this lower cost of ownership, because of their higher driving distances. And it's precisely these households that are targeted by Jaguar.
Furthermore, low-emission vehicles can have a plug-in grant in the UK, and we can assume that autonomous vehicles will also be eligible for a grant. Indeed, autonomous vehicles will help improve traffic flow. There is also another improvement that could convince the government to grant a financial help to the autonomous vehicles acquisition. Such vehicles will free up parking spaces, because cars will be able to park themselves outside of congested areas.
The UK is already getting ready to autonomous vehicles arrival, and they have a real desire to have a pioneering role in this market, in order to get ahead of their european rivals. To do so, they are already working on special laws, as old ones have to be adapted to new issues such as responsibility in case of an accident. The UK government has also authorized autonomous vehicles in UK roads in 2021. UK is ready to be a pioneer, and Jaguar should be too.
2. New services
Nowadays, the automotive industry is in constant change. These changes are the results of two factors: a global ecological awareness and the rising cost of car ownership. Moreover, the traditional way of owning a car is slowly becoming outdated and challenged by the popularity of a new sharing economy. That is why, in the last few decades new alternatives have appeared to reduce the cost of ownership in the car industry but also to reduce its environmental impact. These alternatives reconsider our whole traditional way to own cars mainly through sharing and renting cars services.
Among these services there are two emergent services:
Car sharing clubs
Ride sharing
Car sharing clubs:
Car sharing clubs are one of the most important change in our way to use cars. In the United Kingdom, there is an increasing number of cars on the roads but drivers are looking for a more flexible and economical use of cars. That is why car-sharing services such as car clubs are emerging fast. Thus, approximately 250,000 people are members of car sharing clubs in the United Kingdom. Car club is a popular service across the United Kingdom but a lot of clubs are based in big cities such as London, Manchester, Liverpool or Edinburgh, neglecting the countryside. The concept of car sharing clubs is simple and has the advantage of costing less than the cost of owning a personal car. Indeed, by temporarily hiring a car, drivers avoid all fees associated with buying, running and repairing a car. Usually, to rent a car, users have to register on a car sharing club's website or app. According to the company, fees can be paid either daily, weekly, monthly or annually. Renting a car through car clubs costs between £4.50 and £7.50 an hour. Car clubs' cars can be collected from various location and returned when and where the driver wants. Drivers just have to search a car on a car club website or app, choose the nearest location to collect the vehicle and then park back the car at a chosen location.
A pioneer actor in the car sharing and hiring industry is Zipcar that has more than 2,000 cars parked across the United Kingdom. Services such as Zipcar give drivers a lot of flexibility to use a car accordingly to their needs and budget. It's an alternative for people that occasionally need a car but don't want or can't buy one.
Yet, even if it doesn't include the act of buying a vehicle, car clubs are an opportunity for car manufacturers. Recently, groups such as Ford or BMW have invested or acquired already existing car clubs. Recently, a few brands such as BMW have created their own platform of car rental that offer driver the possibility to rent a BMW car. Thus, investing in the car sharing industry is a real opportunity for car manufacturer. It could enable brands such as Jaguar to reach a wider range of the population looking for a unique driving experience in specific cars. Exclusive cars could be proposed to rent for several hours or days. The cost of renting such a car as a Jaguar would be a bit more expensive than hiring a normal one but it could permit drivers to discover Jaguar's cars as if it were their own.
This idea of creating a rental platform could give car industrials a direct link with drivers that share values with the brand and that are passionate about luxurious cars even if they can't afford it. Thanks to car clubs, Jaguar's expertise would be within the reach of everybody, particularly younger population that are important actors of this new sharing economy. Providing cars to rent could enable Jaguar to attract and win the loyalty of a brand new audience without distorting its brand image. It could show that the brand is evolving at the market pace, adapting its offer to the new consumer needs.
Ridesharing:
The ride-sharing market (or ride-hailing market) is a growing market today all over the world. And the UK is no exception to it. Currently, the ride-hailing market in the UK is dominated by Uber. In 2018, there are 3.5 million Londoners using the app. Purchasing a car was once considered a rite of passage, however, studies are showing car ownership has declined over the years, particularly among the millennials. This represents a serious opportunity for any car manufacturer who has a strategy of acknowledgement of the need to listen to customers' growing expectations, and aiming to develop new services and wanting to stay close to the market trends. This is also, as we said, a strategy that should be taken into account when a company wants to target more efficiently millennials: indeed, today it appears that in addition of owning less and less cars, this generation favores ride-sharing.
The sharing and digital economies are in full swing, and this is why any car manufacturer should take advantage of it. And this is what BMW just did (and they have been successful in doing it) in the US. In 2018, BMW launched its free-floating ridesharing program, ReachNow. ReachNow was until recently just a car-sharing service available in Seattle and Portland in the US, and decided to expand into ridesharing in the city of Seattle in July 2018. The drivers are full-time employees (hired by third-party transportation companies), and passengers can customize their ride when they order a car: car temperature, radio station and even the driver\'s level of chattiness. The cost, at $2.40 per mile plus 40 cents a minute, is catering to a luxury conscious consumer base. The app aims to be the most convenient way to get from Point A to Point B, and each choice providing a consistent BMW brand experience. With this app, we can say that BMW clearly understood people\'s preferences on the US market, as well as the fact that car ownership in big cities is declining in favor of services like Uber or Lyft for example. And in this way, BMW was certainly right to launch this service, and is now trying to position itself at an advantage with this demographic in the future.
Why is car-pooling not an option for Jaguar?
When looking at the services that could work for Jaguar on the UK market, it appeared that car-pooling was not an option to take into consideration. Indeed, how could Jaguar implement a car-pooling service even though car-pooling is not even working in the UK? In addition, car-pooling is not an option for Jaguar as it would distort its brand image (a luxury brand with styling cars). But even if Jaguar would like to change its positioning to be more accessible, car-pooling is not working in the UK for different reasons, and Jaguar could hardly change that. The first reason is a cultural element: individuals in continental Europe are more comfortable sharing space in their car with people they don't know. They are more more collaborative and community-oriented people than in the UK. And secondly, a research made by Blablacar in the UK has found that the British are anxious about their car insurance, worried about the fact that taking a passenger may void their coverage, given that car-pooling is not a for-profit activity. And this is not Jaguar that could change that.
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-> A ride-hailing service for self-driving cars (self-driving cars that can pick up passengers) (Jeanne)
Ridesharing could be a serious opportunity to take into account for Jaguar in its approach to find new ways to diversify its offer and to find new markets. The only condition would be to take into consideration the fact that it has to be a luxury ridesharing service. Indeed, Jaguar can not offer its services to 'Average Joe', otherwise it could distort its brand image and create a problem about the brand's positioning.
Continuing in BMW's path, Jaguar could take advantage of it, but this time on the UK market. Designing its own app for a brand new ridesharing service could be an opportunity for Jaguar to reach millennials and even Generation Z drivers whose habits have been shaped by the transient economy built by Lyft, Uber and Airbnb.
However, after taking into account the different market trends, Jaguar should highly base its strategy on differentiating itself from the competition, and thus ensuring that it has a competitive advantage over others without changing its brand image and positioning. How? By combining both an innovative product that has not been yet democratized, and an existing service that is already part of people's lives today. Indeed, Jaguar should develop a ride-hailing service for self-driving cars. This means that Jaguar would use this idea of creating an app for a ride-sharing service, but using new technologies in a different way by creating the very first app aimed at making available for people self-driving cars that can pick them up. Besides mixing two hot trends in the automotive industry, it would compete directly with Uber, but the major difference would be that Jaguar's platform would be entirely made up of autonomous cars. In the same way, Jaguar could count on its brand image, as well as its reputation to sustainably enter the UK market, and could sell its new service as a chance to live a magical and unique experience for the passengers. This would be then a good opportunity to shake up the industry in a way that has never been seen before.
In addition, to continue with its luxury image, Jaguar will have with its app to offer several ride-hailing features in order to give a more personal experience. We can think of adding a mini-fridge in the car, or a TV, champagne, etc with the aim of making people using this service understand that it is a privilege, but at the same time that it is a more convenient way to get from one point to another. The interior would be designed for comfort with sofa-style seating, and it would also reflect Jaguar's luxury image with a tea set, heated seats, and the autonomous cars used for this service would also have displays as it has become vital for people nowadays to always be connected, and these displays could also show travel information for the passengers, as we can find in airplanes for example. Moreover, the car would have 360-degree windows. In this way, it could be a great option to use these cars for luxury tourists who want to enjoy the city and the landscape at the same time as getting from point A to point B, and enjoying every service that this car would have to offer them.
-> A car club app (Manon):
Similarly to the service of ride-sharing, Jaguar's new app could offer drivers the possibility to join a car club, dedicated to the rental of Jaguar cars.In this way, drivers that prefer driving themselves and that want to experience driving a Jaguar could have the opportunity to rent one through the app. As mentioned before, providing Jaguar's cars to rent to Jaguar lovers could enable the brand to create a link and offer its expertise to a wider range of customers. It could also give Jaguar a competitive advantage on the automotive market in the United Kingdom as it will be one of the first luxurious car maker that adapts its offer to the new consumer's needs by entering the sharing economy. To this extent, Jaguar could offer the rental of exclusive models so that this car sharing service could attract both customers and prospects. Indeed, by offering special models and encouraging drivers to try different cars, Jaguar could attract prospects that want to try new Jaguar cars but also customers that already have a Jaguar but that want to try latest models on the long term without having to support the cost of buying a new one. Jaguar's app could offer special models for the United Kingdom with different features in order to suit different budgets while remaining a luxurious service. The brand could offer its simplest models but also more luxurious models with features such as fridge and TV as in the car sharing service.
On the same model than services like Zipcar or ReachNow, drivers would have to download the brand's app, register on it, then search the car they want, for the duration they need, at the nearest location from them and finally they will just have to pay and unlock the car with the app thanks to the unlock button. Returning the car is as simple as taking it, the driver has to choose a car park and park the car there. All parks are managed by Jaguar and regroup the brand's cars available for rental.
So as to keep the experience of driving a Jaguar unique and in adequation with the brand's image, the rental service should be available in big cities where Jaguar is popular but also in wealthy countryside such as the south-east of the United Kingdom. The rental of a Jaguar should be limited to a week per customers to keep the uniqueness of the experience. Moreover, prices should be reflecting Jaguar's brand image and be higher than average car rental prices. Packages per hour and per week could be offered according to the customer need of a short-term rental for a special event or a long-term rental for a trip for example.
In the end, offering drivers the possibility to rent a Jaguar could lead the brand to reach a wider range of the population and more particularly a younger range of the population than its actual target audience. Indeed, by adapting its strategy to the sharing economy with flexible car rental, Jaguar will enable new customers interested in the brand to experiment the ownership of luxurious car for a short-term at a competitive price. The future of car-ownership is uncertain and is certainly going to change for future generation. Car sharing and rental is probably going to be the preferred way to own a car in the future. That is why, starting to develop services in this new economy is probably the one of the best alternative for Jaguar to reach future consumers.
In today's economy, businesses need to understand consumer behaviour faster than ever before in order to remain competitive. Car manufacturers fully understand this, and know that they need to pinpoint changing buying habits so they can react accordingly. What is more, they need to know about the unseen opportunities and threats that they could face in the future.
In this way, our study about Jaguar aims at recommending the firm what it could do in the future based on various market opportunities that we see for the firm, and on the competition.
Another key element to take into account for Jaguar is that strong brand associations are deeply embedded in the minds of consumers, and thus that Jaguar, which is synonymous with luxury and exclusivity, should never launch a product or a service that does not fit its brand image.

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If you would you like to have a professional website for your real estate, auto, insurance, or re-insurance business, a website that requires no technical expertise on your part, a website that you can customize and add listings anytime you wish, a website that is built, hosted, and maintained by someone else, a website that is surprisingly inexpensive, in short, a professional website that leaves you free to conduct business without costing you a bundle of money or time, then you have come to the right place!
Included For One Very Low Monthly Price!
The following is a summary of what you get when you lease a professional website from Electronic Creations. Remember, everything you see below is included for one very low monthy price, and there are never any hidden, unexpected, or "value-added" charges.
• Website Hosting Your website will be hosted on our own extremely fast and reliable company servers, which are monitored and maintained by our company technical staff. You will not have to deal with a third-party website hosting provider. Our web servers are located in a reputable data center in America, not overseas.
• Website Upgrades Your website will receive free software upgrades to all subsequent versions. We will build, upload, and apply all upgrades. You will not have to do anything. You will be notified of all upgrades which provide you with even more great tools within your Admin Control Panel.
• Website Back-Ups Your website and database will be automatically backed-up every night, 365 days per year. In the unlikely event of a catastrophic hardware failure on your web server, your website and e-mail will be back on-line, probably even before you know there was a problem.
In our 15 years of hosting websites, we have yet to experience a complete drive failure on one of our servers. But, we still take precautions that would greatly minimize down-time for our clients in the event of such an occurrence, by conducting nightly back-ups of all websites and databases.
• Website Maintenance Your website will be monitored and maintained on a regular basis, by our own in-house technical staff. We never sub-contract or out-source any of our work.
• Technical Support Your website is so easy to use, and is so technically stable, that you will probably not need technical support very often. However, if you ever need to contact us for any reason, we will almost always reply within 24 hours, including weekends.
• Your Website Control Panel This is one of the most exciting parts of your website and your leasing package. Your website comes with an easy-to-use Administration Control Panel, which allows you to customize and personalize your website to suit your individual needs and your taste.
One of the many great aspects of your website, is that you do not need to know how to build, edit, or upload web pages. You can make all your changes, and add all your listings, directly on-line, through your web browser, and from within your own website! No technical expertise is required!
We think you will be amazed at how much you can do with your website, and how easy it is to use! And, you will not have to wait on others, or rely on others, to make changes to your website or to upload new listings. You can do it all when you want, and exactly how you want. And, again, you will not need to learn anything about building websites or uploading web pages.
You will be provided a username and password with which you can log-in to your website's Admin Control Panel at any time, 24-7, and make many, many types of changes to your website. The Control Panel is also where you upload your current property or vehicle listings, which includes your pictures and descriptions of the properties or vehicles you have listed for sale or rent.
For much more information about your website's amazing Admin Control Panel, and to learn about the other features of your leasing package, please visit the links in the black menu bar at the top of this page.
• Domain Names Every website needs a domain name. You can use your own domain name, or you can use a great domain name already owned by Electronic Creations. If you use one of our domains, that will also be at no extra charge to you.
But, if you do not have a domain name, and if one of ours will not work for you, then we will help you acquire a suitable domain, either by registering a new domain name for you, or through buying one from the current owner.
Please note that we do not sell domain names.
We think you will be amazed at all you can do with your website, using your secure Admin Control Panel. You will also find that the Control Panel is extremely well organized, and is very easy to understand and use.
Following is a summary of the many capabilities you will have, to easily customize and personalize your website, and to keep it updated when you want and exactly how you want. Your website represents you and your office to the world, and you will have complete control over its content, and over the timeliness of any changes.
Your Admin Control Panel is divided into 6 easy-to-use sections.
This is the area in which you can choose the color scheme you would like to use for your website. You can choose from quite a few pre-defined color schemes. We will periodically add more color schemes, and will listen to requests from our users.
You can add text and pictures to the key pages of your website. You can also add links to community websites on your Home page. You can designate what information you wish to gather from your website visitors who write to you through your Contact Us page. You can also choose whether you want to use the About Us section in your website.
In this area, you can designate what type of listings you will have on your website, such as property for sale and/or property for rent on real estate websites. Here is where you can also select the geographical areas within the United States for which you provide services.
You will be able to have professional e-mail addresses @YourWebsite.com for your business. It makes a major difference for your clients and the public to see professional e-mail addresses associated with you, your staff, and your offices. No more GMail, Yahoo, Hotmail, ComCast, or other such e-mail addresses on your e-mails, business cards, letterhead, documents, and signs.
This area provides a form for you to modify your administrator password, e-mail address, and phone numbers.
You can add text and pictures about a new office, and its location, and its pertinent contact information.
You can make changes to your text and pictures about an existing office, and its location, and its pertinent contact information.
You can also remove an office from your website, if the need ever arises.
You can choose the order in which your offices will display within the About Us section of your website. Offices can be displayed in alphabetical order by office name, in random order, or you can select a display priority for each office in the list.
You can add text information and a picture about any new staff member in your office.
You can change the text and picture about any staff member already shown on your website.
You can also remove a staff member's profile from your website, if the need ever arises.
You can also choose the order in which staff members will display within the About Us section of your website. Staff members can be displayed in alphabetical order by first name, alphabetical order by last name, random order, or you can select a display priority for each staff member.
In this section, you can add a new listing, modify existing listing text information, add or delete pictures of a listing, or delete a listing.
You can add text information, and add one or more pictures, to show a new listing on your website.
You can change the text information, and change any of the pictures, to a listing already on your website.
When the time comes to remove a listing from your website, deleting it is extremely simple.
You can choose the number of listings that will display on a particular web page, and you can also select the default order in which the listings will display.
This is the section where you can view copies of all the e-mails sent to you through the Contact Us page on the website. These e-mails include all e-mail sent through the Contact Us page directly, as well as all staff member and office contacts, and all requests for an appointment.
The Control Panel allows you to archive or store any or all e-mails for future reference.
On the unusual occasion that you may need some form of technical support, your Control Panel is equipped with a Support page through which you can send your request directly to the staff at Electronic Creations. We will almost always respond within 24 hours, and probably sooner, including weekends.
Remember as you visit our Model Website, that the color scheme, text, pictures, and other layout specifications can be changed within your Admin Control Panel.
You will find that our prices are extremely reasonable, not only because you are getting a great professional website to take your business to the next level, but also because everything is included in one very low monthly price. You will never find yourself being billed for hidden or unexpected charges.
1. Does Electronic Creations sell websites or domain names?
Our business is strictly the leasing of great websites, and the leasing package may or may not include a domain name. If a lessee uses one of our domains as part of the leasing package, the domain is included at no extra charge. We do not sell websites or domain names. Domains are crucial for our business, therefore, we do not sell them.
2. I live and work outside the United States. Can I still lease a website?
Our websites are designed and built for individuals and businesses, and who are living and working in the United States. Our websites are customized for listings that are located within the geographical United States, and are further customized for the locale and service area of the particular lessee. If and when that changes, we will post such information accordingly.
3. Why should I lease a website? Why not just buy one?
A. Cost - A professional website of the depth, complexity, functionality, stability, caliber, and general quality which we offer, would cost a minimum of $25,000 or more to have custom built, in addition to your monthly costs for technical support and hosting services.
In stark contrast, the monthly cost to lease a high-quality website from Electronic Creations is extremely small, and everything is included at no extra charge.
Also, if you buy a high-quality custom website, and you then leave your business for some reason, you are stuck with an expensive website that you can neither use nor sell.
We invite you to shop around, and compare quality, stability, and cost. Be sure to ask for a demo before you buy or lease, and you will see the tremendous differences. Click on Pricing above for more specific information about our leasing packages.
B. Worry and Headaches - When you buy a website, you can either spend years to learn how to manage the underlying software and code, and to make any changes or upgrades you want by yourself, or you can hire a skilled programmer to be on-call 24-7 in case your website needs attention. You will also need to make sure that all your website data is backed-up every day, or at least every time you make a change.
In contrast, when you lease a website from us, we handle all software maintenance and upgrades, and web server hosting and functions, and daily back-ups of your website data, all at no extra charge. Also, your Admin Control Panel allows you to customize, personalize, make changes, and upload listings when you want, and exactly how you want, all very easily and quickly, and without any technical experience.
C. Time - Since we handle everything for you, then you will not spend hours every week dealing with your website, and you will, therefore, have more time to make money in your business. As you know so well, time is indeed money, especially in business.
4. If I lease a website, am I required to sign a lease for a year or more?
No, our lease agreement allows the lessee to rent the website on a month-to-month basis, at no extra charge. You can abandon the lease with only 30-days notice, and you will not be billed any further beyond that period.


We're planning to send a email with two PDF attachments from our in-house email delivery system. When we ran a Litmus checklist, we found that the Android 4.4 is displaying a completely blank email. We've tried sending a 'Hello World' message (no html, no styling), we've tried replacing the PDFs with dummy txt files, tried sending a standard email from Outlook and it still doesn't work. The weird thing is, one attachment works fine but two or more attachments does not work.
Has anyone else experienced this issue? It's very strange! Link to our Litmus preview for the 'Hello World' email is here.
Why not just host the pdf's online and link to them? I have always heard attachments negatively influence deliverability.
Believe me, that would be our first choice! Unfortunately, the client is adamant about having the PDFs as attachments (something about them being more immediate *rolls eyes*). We've sent it out as is now, but I still find it pretty strange that it is happening, especially with the fact that it's the number of attachments that causes it, not the attachments themselves.


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Still There: Space, The Final Fun -tier! (2021)
Brodie Cummins January 30, 2021 No Comments	21 views
In space no one can hear you recycle your pee.
2 Gameplay
4 Sound
6 Pros and Cons
In Still There you play as Karl, the keeper of the Bento space lighthouse. Your job is to provide data on various stars, carry out routine maintenance and screen radio broadcasts all while trying to recover from your past trauma on earth. Life on the Bento is simple, there are no windows and your AI Supervisor Gorky keeps you on task and acts as your only, if a little robotic, friend. That is until you receive a life-changing SOS message.
The story explores the ideas of isolation, grief and loss. The story of this game is definitely one of its best features and I don't want to ruin it by saying too much but the story is compelling and emotional. Even if it did sometimes lack a bit of subtlety.
Rather than developing the story's themes over time, the game has a tendency to give you information about Karl's backstory rather abruptly and talks about the themes rather openly for a character who is struggling with them. It was just a little too on the nose for me.
The story is told through in-game dialogue and environmental exploration; this, combined with the dark humour of this game was enough to keep me interested and engaged despite the extremely challenging puzzles I was tackling.
Being a classic point-and-click game the controls were incredibly simple, so much so in fact that the game only requires a mouse to play. The lighthouse has no windows so your game is centred on spinning around the beautifully drawn control room/living quarters to cook, eat, recycle your own bodily fluids and complete various challenges and puzzles.
The puzzles themselves are extremely challenging but always unique and interesting.You are given the option to have slightly easier versions of puzzles when faced with the games most challenging ones (even being able to skip some of them altogether) but it feels extremely rewarding to beat the game without doing this.
The puzzles rely on you using the environment around you; looking at post-it notes, objects and the lighthouse's technical manual. This aspect of gameplay definitely makes the challenges seem more realistic and sometimes twice as challenging. I will say, however, that if you do not have a scientific/logical thinking mind these puzzles may prove challenging to you, as they certainly were to me.
Thankfully the game does provide you with some assistance when things get too tough, with Gorky (Your AI Supervisor) giving out helpful hints if you require them. I do nevertheless wish these hints were sometimes a little more specific as even with help I sometimes struggled to complete puzzles.
The art style of this game is simply beautiful. The cartoon style of this game adds to its overall charm and it is a genuinely pleasing game to look at for hours on end. The dream sequences provide a slight break from the space you circle round in the lighthouses and are equally beautiful, with the developers showing off the knowledge of their craft. The simplicity of the game and the drawn art style meant that this game was
not graphically challenging and therefore always ran smoothly. I can't explain how beautifully drawn and detailed the graphics are for such a simple game.
The soundtrack of this game is lovely. The soundtrack is gentle and non-invasive by design – you can get stuck in the puzzles of the game for ages without the frustration of being annoyed by a repetitive soundtrack. It was also atmospheric and helped to express Karl's grief and struggle when needed.
There is a repeating challenge where you are required to connect and play a very small keyboard to send beacons to other ships, the challenge of playing the right music notes and melody was definitely one of my highlights. The ambient sounds were also great, none of which seemed out of place or strange. Overall the sound design of this game was flawless.
Overall, Still There is utterly charming.
The story is real and interesting, the gameplay very challenging and the soundtrack and graphics are stunning. However I do feel this is not a casual game, it requires a lot of technical knowledge and can last anywhere between 6-10 hours due to the complexity of it's puzzles.
The humour and interesting story easily make the frustration of the puzzles bearable and you find yourself coming back to experience more plus a game that doesn't hold your hand is also a rare find. If you are a fan of puzzles and environment led gameplay then I recommend keeping this game on your radar.
I will say, however, that the way the game explored its themes was just too in-your-face for me. I would have liked to explore Karl's grief and his reasons for isolating himself on a space lighthouse at a much slower pace, it didn't seem right for him to be so open about them when he was actively running away from them. This didn't detract from the fact the story was still moving and compelling and made for a very charming game.
Still There. Still There. Still There. Still There.
Available on Steam and for Nintendo Switch
Beautiful Art Style and Soundtrack
Challenging Puzzles
Explores Interesting Themes
Not a Casual Game
Themes Very 'On the Nose'
Help and Hints Not Specific Enough
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For more than 95 years, the Greater Pittston Chamber of Commerce has served as an organization that brings business professionals together.
The chamber was originally formed in 1920 to support the business needs of local merchants. Today, it continues to support local businesses through advocacy, communication and networking.
In other ways, the chamber has changed over the years.
Like other area chambers of commerce, the Greater Pittston Chamber has, for the most part, gotten out of the land development business.
Only two plots remain, including one in Duryea that received a Keystone Opportunity Zone 10-year extension. Once that land is developed, the chamber will not be in the real estate business, said Michelle Mikitish, who succeeded Rosemary Dessoye as the chamber's executive vice president.
For a long time, the chamber has owned land, has helped develop the Barnum, O'Hara and Grimes industrial parks and worked with Mericle Commercial Real Estate Services to help bring businesses to CenterPoint Commerce and Trade Park.
The chamber has received $8.75 million in grants from the state's Business in Our Sites program for infrastructure into CenterPoint East and West in Jenkins and Pittston townships. That resulted in the construction of more than 5.5 million square feet of industrial space, housing more than creating about 3,000 jobs in the last six years.
Chamber officials work with government officials such as sate Rep. Mike Carroll, D-118, Avoca and Sen. John Yudichak, D-14, Plymouth Twp., to advocate for businesses, Ms. Mikitish said.
They also work together with Career Link officials on workforce development and making sure its members take advantage of all resources available to make their businesses successful, she said.
The chamber has more than 450 members, including large and small businesses, and helps get them connected so they can flourish, she said. During the last few years, the chamber's Women's Network also has grown and now has 527 members.
Brandi Bartush, administrator and events coordinator at the Greater Pittston Chamber of Commerce, plans chamber breakfasts, dinners, ribbon-cutting ceremonies and Women's Network events including an upcoming St. Patrick's Day dinner and awards presentation on March 8 at Fox Hill Country Club in Exeter.
Its mission is to enhance the growth and development of businesses and to help keep its members informed and connected. The chamber also works with government officials to advocate for businesses, helps business professionals come together and is a marketing, communication and information resource.
For more information, call 570-655-1424.
■ June 26, 1920: Incorporation of Greater Pittston Chamber of Commerce to support the business needs of local merchants.
■ 1954: Incorporation of Pittston Area Industrial Development (PAID), the chamber's sister organization formed to help fund and promote industrial development in the area.
■ 1960s: Began processing applications for low-interest Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority(PIDA) loans which helped many local companies get a start in Pittston area.
■ 1970s: Barnum Industrial Park opens. Home to Party Time Manufacturing and Lady Carol Dress.
■ 1980s: O'Hara and Quackenbush Industrial Parks open. Home to Cook Brothers, UPS, WEPCO and Linde Corp.
■ 1990s: Grimes Industrial Park (formerly Vogelbacher Industrial Park) opens. Home to TJ Maxx and Fed-Ex.
■ 1993: Women's Network is formed. Currently, it has more than 550 members.
■ 2012: Hometown Heros monument erected in memory of local fallen heros.


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Q: create an array and stored selected value as key and value I am working in wordpress. And I have created one multiple selected dropdown.
My jQuery code is like this:
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                var int_val = [];
                var int_text = [];
                var selected = [];

                jQuery( ".tole_int option:selected" ).each(function() {
                    //int_val += jQuery( this ).text() + " ";
                    int_val.push(this.value);
                    int_text.push(this.text);

                });
                //jQuery( ".int_div" ).text( int_val );

                jQuery.ajax({
                    url:"<?php echo site_url().'/interests-with-stars'; ?>",
                    data:{int_val: int_val,text:int_text}
                    }).done(function(data){
                        //jQuery('.int_div').html(data);
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                });

Now,when I click on button then I have to stored selected value in an array as key and value.Morevover, i want to pass that array in post.So what jQuery I have to write?

A: Better you use this way, try this :
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Ajax data should be:
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DEMO - see console

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In this chapter, we'll explore Ruby's facilities for pattern-matching and text processing, centering around the use of regular expressions. A regular expression in Ruby serves the same purposes it does in other languages: it specifies a pattern of characters, a pattern that may or may not correctly predict (that is, match) a given string. Pattern-match operations are used for conditional branching (match/no match), pinpointing substrings (parts of a string that match parts of the pattern), and various text-filtering techniques.


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Monday: Jesus and John the Baptist
By James Boice
Theme: John the Baptist in John's Gospel
In this week's lessons, we consider how John the Baptist served as a faithful witness to Jesus, and what that means in our witnessing as well.
Scripture: John 1:19-51
In this series we are going to be studying the characters of John's Gospel who had encounters with the Lord Jesus Christ. Some of the best-known characters in the biblical story are found in this Gospel, and others that are found in the other Gospels as well receive fuller treatment in John.
We begin with John the Baptist and what strikes us immediately as we turn to his story at the very beginning of this Gospel is how extensive it is. It's not what we would expect, really. Here is the gospel about Jesus Christ, the Son of God. He's the one introduced to us in the opening verses, and no sooner is the Lord Jesus Christ introduced than John begins to talk about John the Baptist. We find him in verses 6 to 9, mentioned again in verse 15, and then beginning with verse 19, much of the rest of the first chapter deals with John's testimony and the result of it.
In addition, when we come to chapter 3, we find more extensive treatment of it beginning with verse 22. Then, in the fifth chapter, when Jesus is talking about the witnesses that are given to him, he mentions John in verses 33 through 35. So, there really is an enormous amount of attention given to this man who was Christ's forerunner.
Now that makes us ask why? The liberals, of course, have an answer for that. The answer comes from a little reference to the baptism of John that we find in the Book of Acts. In the eighteenth chapter of Acts, verse 24, there are some references to John the Baptist that carry on from the end of that chapter into the nineteenth chapter. It seems that at Ephesus there were people who knew only the baptism of John. They didn't understand much about the coming of Christ. They didn't know that John had been his forerunner and had pointed to him, and so, the kind of message that had been preached to these disciples was the message of repentance from sin in response to which, or as an evidence of which, they were baptized, and the baptism was called the baptism of John.
Now, the liberals loved to get hold of something like that. They built a whole theory out of that kind of a reference, and the theory goes like this. There was in the early church a cult of John the Baptist. He was considered by everybody to be a very important figure. And so when we find all this treatment of John the Baptist in John's Gospel, what John is doing is putting John the Baptist down. He's saying that John the Baptist is not that important because he's not the light. Jesus Christ is the light.
That kind of a treatment by liberal theologians reminds me of the sort of thing that Rudolf Bultmann has done in his Theology of the New Testament. Bultmann believes that very little can be known about the historical Jesus. As a matter of fact, all that really can be known about the historical Jesus, according to Rudolf Bultmann, is the fact that he existed. There was a person like that, but that's about all that he will say. So in his book Bultmann takes only thirty pages to discuss the teaching of Jesus Christ. And in most of those pages, he's dismissing it. But then, he spends the next 150 pages to develop the theology of the Gnostic movement in the early church, about which, apart from Rudolf Bultmann, we know absolutely nothing. Now, that's the kind of thing the liberals have done with John the Baptist.
I want to suggest that that is not at all the reason why John the Evangelist develops his testimony as extensively as he does in the opening chapters of his Gospel, and that by contrast the real reason is this: John the Baptist was a witness to Jesus Christ, and witnesses are necessary. What John the Evangelist is doing is unfolding this witness to say to us, as we come to the beginning of the Gospel, that we are to be witnesses, too.
Study Questions:
Review the passages in John's Gospel that talk about John the Baptist. What do you learn about him and his work?
What answer do liberal theologians give for why there is so much attention given to John the Baptist? What is a better explanation?
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Dan Siegel's career is one of the most storied in contemporary jazz and the wonderful thing is that it continues to flourish. With a discography that stretches back twenty albums to 1980, Siegel set the standards for the early days of smooth jazz. His releases include 'Going Home', 'Reflections' and of course the 1987 'Northern Lights' from which the still often played 'Rhapsody' is taken. He released the excellent 'Inside Out' in 2004 and followed that two years later with 'Departure' a collection that at the time was described as the ultimate "Siegel Unplugged" experience. Although leaning toward the subtle jazz trio approach, the joint production technique adopted by Siegel and Brian Bromberg (who also played acoustic bass) ensured the project was never shy to push out the boundaries.
Now, brand new for 2018, Siegel has again teamed with Bromberg for the CD 'Origins' from which the mellifluously superb 'After All' is taken. Smooth jazz on the relaxed melodic side is never a bad thing and in this respect this is just about as good as it gets.
Siegel was born in Seattle, Washington, and raised in Eugene, Oregon. He began piano lessons at the age of eight and within four years was performing professionally both as lead singer and guitarist in a rock band. While studying piano in Boston with the legendary Madam Chaloff Dan gained a BS in Music Composition and a MM in Jazz Studies.


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When you see a question you are interested in learning about, click on the square and either a description or an informative YouTube video will pop up.
I really love the sharing feature that is attached to each topic. If you use a digital classroom management/organizational system like Edmodo, Blackboard, Google Classroom (coming soon), etc. your students can provide the link to their topic in a threaded discussion. By giving students the freedom to choose a topic on Seriously Amazing to write about, they are given ownership of their learning and an opportunity to teach their peers about an interesting concept.


The U.S. Departments of Labor and Education today released the final rules to implement the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) The regulations support the modernization of the nation's workforce system, focusing on a more integrated, job-driven approach to support communities and expand job growth.
The WIOA Final Rules include reforms that will affect more than a dozen programs receiving $10 billion in annual training and education funding and programs that serve approximately 20 million Americans each year.
The final regulations include: a joint rule, issued by the departments of Labor and Education – in collaboration with the departments of Health and Human Services, Agriculture and Housing and Urban Development – implementing jointly administered state planning, performance accountability and one-stop delivery system requirements; a Department of Labor rule implementing activities under Titles I (WIOA Adult, Dislocated Worker, Youth, Job Corps and WIOA National Programs) and III (which amends the Wagner-Peyser Act); and three Department of Education rules implementing the requirements of Titles II (the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act) and IV (which amends the Rehabilitation Act of 1973).


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Q: Running JavaMail API in Gradle Project on Eclipse I have a Gradle project in my Eclipse IDE and I need to be able to send an e-mail receipt as part of a school project. I looked at this link http://www.tutorialspoint.com/java/java_sending_email.htm to try and create the most basic e-mail. I've tried the "sending a simple e-mail" example and I got this as my error:
Usage - java org.mortbay.jetty.Main [<addr>:]<port>
Usage - java org.mortbay.jetty.Main [<addr>:]<port> docroot
Usage - java org.mortbay.jetty.Main [<addr>:]<port> -webapp myapp.war
Usage - java org.mortbay.jetty.Main [<addr>:]<port> -webapps webapps
Usage - java -jar jetty-x.x.x-standalone.jar [<addr>:]<port>
Usage - java -jar jetty-x.x.x-standalone.jar [<addr>:]<port> docroot
Usage - java -jar jetty-x.x.x-standalone.jar [<addr>:]<port> -webapp myapp.war
Usage - java -jar jetty-x.x.x-standalone.jar [<addr>:]<port> -webapps webapps

I'm guessing I don't have the JavaMail API and Java Activation Framework (JAF) properly installed. I've followed some guides on how to do that. What I've done was right click gradle project -> Properties -> Java Build Path -> Libraries tab -> Add External JARs.. And I added the JAF and JavaMail jar files (activation-1.1.1.jar and mail-1.4.5.jar). I also added
compile group: 'javax.mail', name: 'mail', version: '1.4.5'
compile group: 'javax.activation', name: 'activation', version: '1.1.1'

to my build.gradle file. Any help on how to get this working would be greatly appreciated.
Here is the code I used.
// File Name SendEmail.java

import java.util.*;
import javax.mail.*;
import javax.mail.internet.*;
import javax.activation.*;

public class SendEmail
{
   public static void main(String [] args)
 {
      // Recipient's email ID needs to be mentioned.
  String to = "abcd@gmail.com";

  // Sender's email ID needs to be mentioned
  String from = "web@gmail.com";

  // Assuming you are sending email from localhost
  String host = "localhost";

  // Get system properties
  Properties properties = System.getProperties();

  // Setup mail server
  properties.setProperty("mail.smtp.host", host);

  // Get the default Session object.
  Session session = Session.getDefaultInstance(properties);

  try{
     // Create a default MimeMessage object.
     MimeMessage message = new MimeMessage(session);

     // Set From: header field of the header.
     message.setFrom(new InternetAddress(from));

     // Set To: header field of the header.
     message.addRecipient(Message.RecipientType.TO, new InternetAddress(to));

     // Set Subject: header field
     message.setSubject("This is the Subject Line!");

     // Now set the actual message
     message.setText("This is actual message");

     // Send message
     Transport.send(message);
     System.out.println("Sent message successfully....");
  }catch (MessagingException mex) {
     mex.printStackTrace();
  }
 }
}

A: You have to give proper settings to send email. like
String host = "localhost";  // instead of localhost you have to give your hostname.

If you want to send mail via gmail, use the following code:
SendEmail.java
import java.util.Properties;

import javax.mail.Message;
import javax.mail.MessagingException;
import javax.mail.PasswordAuthentication;
import javax.mail.Session;
import javax.mail.Transport;
import javax.mail.internet.InternetAddress;
import javax.mail.internet.MimeMessage;

public class SendEmail{

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        final String username = "username@gmail.com";
        final String password = "password";

        Properties props = new Properties();
        props.put("mail.smtp.auth", "true");
        props.put("mail.smtp.starttls.enable", "true");
        props.put("mail.smtp.host", "smtp.gmail.com");
        props.put("mail.smtp.port", "587");

        Session session = Session.getInstance(props,
          new javax.mail.Authenticator() {
            protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
                return new PasswordAuthentication(username, password);
            }
          });

        try {

            Message message = new MimeMessage(session);
            message.setFrom(new InternetAddress("from-email@gmail.com"));
            message.setRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO,
                InternetAddress.parse("to-email@gmail.com"));
            message.setSubject("Testing Subject");
            message.setText("Welcome Message");

            Transport.send(message);

            System.out.println("Mail Sent Successfully");

        } catch (MessagingException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
    }
}


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Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act
Published: Thu, Jan 23rd 2014 @ 11:59 am EST
Sponsored by: Rep. Joe Garcia [D-FL26] in the 113th congress
H.R. 15, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, was a massive immigration reform bill, introduced by Rep. Joe Garcia (D-Fla.) and was the House companion to the Gang of 8's S. 744. H.R. 15 would result in approximately 30 million new permanent work permits issued in the first 10 years if passed. The bill would grant legal status and worker permits to an estimated 11 million illegal aliens with an opportunity for green cards after 10 years and replace some family-based immigration categories with a merit-based points system.
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But elsewhere in Mass., employers are done cutting and ready to hire
Cori Simeon-Ohiri and co-worker Sara Silberstein (left) are hostesses at Scampo in Boston. Simeon-Ohiri was hired in November after a three-month job search. (Josh Reynolds for The Boston Globe)
By Katie Johnston Chase
Globe Staff / December 18, 2010
Dave Thompson hasn't been in the job market since he found a position at a Lexington software firm in April. But head hunters are more interested in him than ever, deluging the 34-year-old software engineer with news of job openings.
"I get e-mails constantly from recruiters,'' Thompson said. "It seems to still be picking up.''
As Thompson's experience shows, the number of job openings is on the rise in Massachusetts and across the country as the recession gradually loosens its grip and companies begin to rebuild workforces slashed during the downturn. Advertised job openings in Massachusetts have risen for nine consecutive months compared with a year earlier, while postings in Greater Boston last month soared 30 percent from November 2009, according to Monster.com, the online employment listings firm.
The increase in job openings indicates that companies, which have met increasing demand by squeezing more work from existing employees through much of the recovery, are reaching the point at which they need to add workers to keep up with the flow of new business, staffing specialists said. That's a promising sign for the still sluggish labor market.
"Companies have really relied on pushing productivity improvement much fur ther than they have in previous recessions,'' said Jerry Rubin, chief executive of Jewish Vocational Service of Boston, a nonprofit organization that provides job training and other employment services. "But there's limits to that. At some point you begin hurting your own growth possibilities if you're not putting new people to work.''
In Greater Boston, the surge in job openings is spread across several of the region's key employment sectors, including health care, higher education, life sciences, and hospitality, according to staffing specialists. But the real star is information technology.
IT contract openings are at their highest level since August 2000, the peak of the last tech boom, said Dave MacKeen, chief executive of the Wakefield-based IT staffing firm the Eliassen Group. "I think we're on the verge of a substantial growth cycle,'' MacKeen said.
MathWorks Inc., a Natick software company, is well into that cycle. With demand for its mathematical computing products growing, and revenues rising at a double digit percentage rate, the company needs more people, said director of recruiting Mike Cianciola. A year ago, MathWorks had 50 jobs open; this month, it has 250.
The small Lexington software company that hired Thompson is also on a hiring spree. Like many businesses, AccuRev took a beating during the recession. Revenues plummeted, and in March of 2009, chief executive Lorne Cooper laid off almost a third of his 73-member staff.
But revenues are on the rise this year, due in large part to rapidly changing technology in smartphones and other devices that use AccuRev's software. The company is almost back to its pre-recession employment level after hiring 16 employees this year. And it still has six slots to fill.
"A year ago, I felt like I had to hide, there were so many people calling me,'' Cooper said, referring to the horde of job seekers. "Now all of a sudden I'm trying to pull them out of jobs.''
Job openings have been increasing around the country, despite a national unemployment rate still hovering near 10 percent. At the end of October, employers advertised 3.4 million jobs, up 44 percent since the low point in July 2009 and the most since August of 2008, according to the US Labor Department.
In Massachusetts, openings in the three months ending in June jumped by more than 20,000, or 45 percent, from the same period a year ago, according to the state's most recent job vacancy survey. But the 70,000 openings reported in the second quarter were still significantly below the 92,000 at the end of 2007.
More postings doesn't mean all the jobs are being filled, however. The rate of hiring has not kept up with the rise in opportunities, keeping the unemployment rate stubbornly high.
"Either the businesses are not finding the skilled workers for these positions or they're just being very cautious about hiring people,'' said Tim Consedine, an economist with the Bureau of Labor Statistics office in Boston.
Cori Simeon-Ohiri discovered this during her three-month job search this fall. Simeon-Ohiri, 22, who graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in May, found plenty of openings at local hotels and restaurants, but only got a handful of callbacks from the hundreds of catering, waitressing, event planning, and front desk jobs she applied for, some of which required third and even fourth interviews. She finally landed a spot as a hostess at the chic Boston restaurant Scampo late last month.
"It was very competitive,'' said the Mattapan resident.
Health care, the state's largest industry, has remained a reliable source of jobs throughout the downturn. But for Best Doctors, a medical consultation company, 2010 has been a record year. Best Doctors has added 68 new nurses, customer service representatives, IT specialists, and sales staff at its Boston headquarters this year, double the number it hired in 2008 and 2009.
The 21-year-old firm, which has medical specialists review cases for clients as part of their employee benefits plan, has been in high demand as companies try to manage the rising costs of health care, said Best Doctors president Evan Falchuk.
Sheri Skeiber, a 34-year-old registered nurse from Pembroke, applied for a case manager position with Best Doctors in June — the first job she applied for during her search — and was offered the position two weeks later. "From my whole experience with looking for a job, finding a job,'' Skeiber said, "you'd never know there was a recession going on.''
Katie Johnston Chase can be reached at johnstonchase@globe.com.
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Redlands Unified School District - Citrus Valley High School
Citrus Valley High School is Redlands Unified School District's fourth high school, which opened in August of 2009. The school is located at 800 West Pioneer Avenue on the north side of Redlands, California.
Citrus Valley High School, named for the region's famed citrus industry, was constructed in multiple phases on 56 acres. Phase 1 allowed the school to open with just a freshman class and was constructed with funds approved by Measure R passed in 2002. Phase 2 was constructed with funds approved by Measure J approved in 2008 and allowed the school to accommodate the remaining classes of students. Phase 3 was a parking lot built in 2018 as a result of a land agreement with a local residental land owner.
This project was a collaboration with the prime consultant HMC Architects as well as Neff Construction and the City of Redlands. As part of the off-site requirements, Epic produced over 3,000 feet of 16" non-potable water plans as well as off-site Street Improvement plans for agency approval.
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News > Medscape Medical News > Conference News > SABCS 2019
'Remarkable' New Data on Menopausal Hormone Therapy
Dr Rowan T. Chlebowski
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS ― Two different types of menopausal hormone therapy — estrogen alone and estrogen plus progestin — have opposite effects on breast cancer incidence that persist long after stopping treatment, according to over 19 years of follow-up of the landmark Women's Health Initiative (WHI) released today.
The data indicate that use of conjugated equine estrogens (CEE) alone significantly decreases breast cancer incidence and deaths from breast cancer, while CEE plus medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) significantly increases the risk of developing the disease. In both instances, these effects linger for decades after discontinuation.
The data are "remarkable," said lead investigator Rowan T. Chlebowski, MD, PhD, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California. To date, "no one has been able to reconcile these findings," he acknowledged.
Chlebowski reported the findings at a press briefing here today at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) 2019.
Asked whether these data should influence current guidelines on menopausal hormone therapy, Chlebowski said, "Yes, I would hope so. Women considering estrogen alone should know it's safer and there may be a breast cancer benefit associated with its use," he said.
Women considering estrogen plus progestin have "a little more difficult dilemma because they have to be willing to accept a 20-year and maybe lifetime increased breast cancer risk [although] the absolute risk is very small," he said.
50 Years of Controversy, Lingering Questions
After a half-century, hormone therapy's influence on breast cancer "still remains controversial" with discordant findings from observational studies compared with randomized controlled trials, Chlebowski noted.
Most recently, in a meta-analysis of 58 observational studies, estrogen plus progestin and estrogen alone were both associated with a significantly increased risk of breast cancer. And in the Million Women Study, both estrogen plus progestin as well as estrogen alone were associated with a significantly increased risk of dying from breast cancer.
Against this backdrop, Chlebowski provided an update today on breast cancer findings from the WHI randomized controlled trials with more than 19 years of follow-up. The WHI is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
From 1993 to 1998, more than 27,000 postmenopausal women aged 50 to 79 years with no prior breast cancer enrolled in one of two randomized, placebo-controlled WHI trials implemented at 40 US centers, with follow-up through September 2016.
Women with an intact uterus received CEE (0.625 mg/day) plus MPA (2.5 mg/day) or placebo (n = 8102) for a median of 5.6 years. Women with prior hysterectomy received CEE alone (n = 5310) or placebo (n = 5429) for a median of 7.2 years.
After about 19 years of follow-up, CEE alone resulted in a significant 23% reduction in breast cancer incidence (hazard ratio [HR], 0.77; P = .005), whereas CEE+MPA resulted in a significant 29% increased risk of breast cancer (HR, 1.29; P < .001).
"A woman takes estrogen/progestin for 5 years and she is exposed to a 20-year risk of increasing breast cancer risk...and one could speculate that it will be a lifetime risk for short-term use," said Chlebowski.
In terms of deaths from breast cancer, there was 45% increase (borderline significance) with CEE+MPA (HR, 1.45; P = .06) and a significant 44% reduction with CEE alone (HR, 0.56; P = .02).
Chlebowski said it should be noted that "none of the approved agents for breast cancer risk reduction...have been able to demonstrate a reduction in deaths from breast cancer so this is a very unique finding." Chlebowski has been a consultant for AstraZeneca, Novartis, Amgen, Genentech, Pfizer, Puma, Immunomedics, and has received NIH grant funding.
Commenting on the new data for Medscape Medical News, Charles L. Shapiro, MD, professor of medicine, hematology and medical oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, said it's clear that the risk — "both positive and negative" — continues beyond using hormone therapy for at least 10 years.
"Women should be reassured if they had short-term estrogen exposure they are not at increased risk — in fact, the data suggest there is decreased risk," he said.
"Women who had conjugated estrogen and MPA in the past should be aware that their risk may be slightly higher and get their mammograms. Whether that should merit special screening, or more frequent screenings, I don't think we know that," added Shapiro.
San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium 2019: Abstract GS5-00. Presented December 13, 2019.
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Manchester United have worries in defence for Tuesday's Champions League last 16 tie at Inter Milan with manager Alex Ferguson running out of centre backs.
Northern Ireland's Jonny Evans limped off in Saturday's hard-fought 2-1 Premier League win over Blackburn Rovers at Old trafford with a recurrence of a recent ankle injury.
United racked up a 10th consecutive league victory but are now short of options for the trip to the San Siro.
"It's a bit sore," Evans told MUTV. "I kicked the ground when I tried to make a long clearance and now it's a bit tender.
"I don't know (if I'll be ready for Tuesday's game). The doctor said he'd have a look at it on Sunday. We'll have a better idea then."
Evans had been pencilled in to replace experienced Serb Nemanja Vidic, who is suspended following his sending off in FIFA's World Club Cup in December.
Wes Brown and Gary Neville have already been ruled out of the game against the Italian champions.
"We've got some injuries of course," Ferguson told Setanta Sports after the win against Rovers.
"I just hope I can get two centre backs but at this moment in time it's very doubtful. Jonny Evans would have played on Tuesday but he's very doubtful."
"I'm hoping I'll have John O'Shea fit as I won't have Vidic, Neville or Brown either," he added.
O'Shea injured his heel against Fulham last Wednesday but Ferguson is hoping he will recover to partner Rio Ferdinand in defence against Jose Mourinho's side.


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Use year-round to easily apply granular seed, fertilizer, and lawn chemical materials. In winter, use your spreader to apply sand, salt and other melting agents. The spreader features a durable steel frame and a fully-enclosed gear box.
The Brinly 42-inch Lawn Sweeper is a tow-behind tractor attachment that collects leaves and grass clippings into its high-capacity 20 cu. ft. hamper. The 5:1 gear ratio results in higher tip velocity, generating more force to lift leaves and debris up off the ground and into the hamper. Consistent brush to ground contact prevents the unit from "skipping" and passing over sections of leaves and grass clippings on the lawn. By incorporating 6 brush sections, brush to ground contact is significantly improved over traditional 4 brush designs. This is accomplished by reducing "Tip Lift" the time and distance that the brushes lift off the surface of the lawn between strokes. When not in use, the patented self-storing feature allows the unit to be stored upright to minimize the required storage space. Stop raking and put your mower to work with the Brinly 42-inch Lawn Sweeper.
The Pro-Lift T-5500 Lawn Mower Lift will help keep you ahead of the game with your routine lawn mower maintenance like belt replacement, blade sharpening, and debris removal in a safe and timely manner. The 6 ton hydraulic bottle jack ensures a front axle saddle lift capacity of 750 lbs. and wheel bracket lift capacity of 500. The wheel stirrups are adjustable from an inside bracket width of 20 in. to an outside width of 59 in. accommodating most garden tractor and Zero-Turn mowers in the market. The design of the T-5500 is raised by the operation of an effortless and convenient foot pump to 27 in. high, providing plenty of room to safely and freely access the mower undercarriage. While under the load, the added safety features are working for you with the professional premium grade 6 ton bottle jack and the automatic mechanical locking mechanisms that makes the T-5500 double as a safe maintenance stand as well.
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