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Gathering Talent For Your Convenience
by Andrew Goff
In our YouTube era, bemoaning the shortening American attention span has... Whoa, speaking of which, did you guys see that crazy in-and-out dunk this week on YouTube? So crazy! Anyway, where was I? Oh, right. It takes a lot to hold our gaze these days. Mixing it up never hurts.
Taking the "variety is the spice of life" idiom to heart, this Thursday, Feb. 3, at 8 p.m., the Arcata Playhouse hosts the first monthly Humboldt VarietyVille. Like Humboldt's own Ed Sullivan Show, the evening promises an array of visual delights provided by local performing artists; show promoters promise that no installment will be like the previous. The first VarietyVille outing features performances by local jugglenauts The Poetic Motion Machine, the sensually seductive ladies of Blue Angel Burlesque and the instant-party-to-go drum-a-thon that is SambAmore. That's a lot of spice for $5.
Need more proof that local talent exists? This Saturday, Feb. 5, Blue Lake Casino's Sapphire Palace plays host to the North Coast's Got Talent competition. Guest judges DJ Leonard, cellphone king Corky Cornwell and KIEM's Betsy Lambert hold the fates of Humboldt fame-seekers in their hands. One lucky contestant will receive a guaranteed audition in Tacoma, Wash., with America's Got Talent producers in February. If you want to stop by and watch the auditions for the audition from 11 a.m.-11 p.m., keep in mind that space is limited. Hopefully, local aspiring talent noticed the reminder to sign up for the show in last week's Journal, as that deadline has come and gone. If you missed it, try to stay talented until next year.
Of course, just the phrase "Humboldt's Got Talent" is kind of like saying "Humboldt's Got Weed." In other words, duh. Many of you may have seen the "Be a not-so-struggling artist" feature on our local art community in this month's Sunset magazine. Rep Hum, baby! You can celebrate some of that homegrown creativity this Saturday, Feb. 5, when -- after a month on hiatus because of the first Saturday in January falling on the first of that month -- Arts Alive returns for its first 2011 installment in Old Town, Eureka from 6-9 p.m.
But why should talented folks hog the spotlight? Even less-than-talented Humboldtians have an opportunity to shine this weekend when The Alibi's Eureka location joins Humboldt's karaoke klub. Avast, ye maties! Humboldt Pirate Radio is host for the pirate-themed 'oke fundraiser called Rock The Plank on Saturday, Feb. 5, starting as Arts Alive! ends at 9 p.m. Cash prizes, eye patches and booty galore! No talent required.


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SECOND WAVE?
'Recovered' coronavirus patients in South Korea test positive again – sparking fears of 'reactivated' infections
Gemma Mullin, Digital Health Reporter
Apr 13 2020, 8:29 ET
PATIENTS who were thought to have recovered from coronavirus in South Korea have reportedly tested positive again.
Officials said at least 116 people who were initially cleared of the infection have tested positive for Covid-19 days later.
Patients who were thought to have recovered from coronavirus in South Korea have reportedly tested positive againCredit: AFP or licensors
It's thought the virus may have been "reactivated" in patients rather than them being "re-infected".
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said it is looking into the reports while South Korean health officials are also launching epidemiological investigations into the cases.
Jeong Eun-kyeong, director of the Korea Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC), told a press briefing the virus may have been reactivated as opposed to the patients being re-infected.
He said: "While we are putting more weight on reactivation as the possible cause, we are conducting a comprehensive study on this.
"There have been many cases when a patient during treatment will test negative one day and positive another."
Other experts said faulty tests may be playing a role, or remnants of the virus may still be in patients' systems but not be infectious or of danger to the host or others.
Guidelines from the WHO state that before being discharged from hospital, a clinically recovered Covid-19 patient should test negative for the virus twice - with tests carried out at least 24 hours apart.
The Covid-19 patients in South Korea were being considered for discharge after testing negative for the disease - however, tests administered later showed positive results.
Growing trend
Last week, the number of patients who were believed to have tested positive for a second time was 51 - but this jumped to 91 on Friday.
Soon after, the WHO announced it would begin looking into the trend.
The agency said in a statement: "We are closely liaising with our clinical experts and working hard to get more information on those individual cases. It is important to make sure that when samples are collected for testing on suspected patients, procedures are followed properly."
According to WHO, current studies show that patients with mild Covid-19 experience a period of about two weeks between the onset of symptoms and clinical recovery.
But it remains unclear why these patients are testing positive after they were believed to have recovered.
The statement added: "As Covid-19 is a new disease, we need more epidemiological data to draw any conclusions."
China's 'second wave'
It comes after officials in China feared a second wave of cases from people returning from other countries as lockdown measures were lifted.
Research from doctors on the frontline of the outbreak in Wuhan - where the virus originated - reported that between three and 10 per cent of cured patients tested positive again.
Tongji Hospital, which identified the first Covid-19 case, confirmed that five out of 145 patients — a little over three per cent — tested positive again in nucleic acid tests, according to state broadcaster CCTV.
Wang Wei, the hospital's president, said: "So far there is no evidence to suggest that they are infectious."
Meanwhile, the South Korean government has hinted the social distancing restrictions could soon be lifted.
Residents have been urged to stick to strict lockdown rules until at least April 19.
But as cases have dropped and the weather has improved, a growing number of people have been flouting the guidelines.
Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun said the government would soon be looking to loosen the guidelines, which call for people to stay at home, avoid social gatherings of any type, and only go out for essential reasons.
Speaking at a meeting on disaster management on Monday, he said: "Later this week, we plan to review our intensive social distancing campaign that we have carried out so far and discuss whether we will switch to routine safety measures."
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Some local governments have imposed stricter measures, including closing bars and nightclubs, banning large demonstrations, and limiting church services.
Chung cautioned that even when the restrictions are eased, the country will not return to life as before the outbreak.
He said: "We need a very cautious approach because any premature easing of social distancing could bring irreversible consequences, and have to ponder deeply about when and how we switch to the new system."
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Tow Truck is the third album from The Perpetrators. The follow-up to the 2005's The Gas and The Clutch, it is the first Perpetrators album to feature Chris "MAMA" Bauer on drums (and guitar on his composition, "R.Cowboy," which features J Nowicki on the drumkit) alongside founding members, Nowicki and Ryan Menard.

Guest musicians featured on the disc include (original band member) Chris Saywell and Donny Zeuff of the D. Rangers; Sarah Dugas and Andrina Turenne of Madrigaia; Damon Mitchell Nathan and the New Meanies; Grant Siemens of the Corb Lund Band; Joanna Miller of the Scott Nolan Band; Andrew Neville and Rob Vaarmeyer of the Poor Choices; Alice Ramsay and Billy Merritt.

The album was recorded by Len Milne at Bedside Studios in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Track listing
 "The Z-Rays Cured My Hangover"
 "Movin' Right Along"
 "I Can't See"
 "You're Gonna Kill Me"
 "Call Me"
 "Happy Friday"
 "Carly Song"
 "Honeypie"
 "R. Cowboy"
 "I Saw You Leaving"
 "Josco"
 "Toe Stub"
 "Baltimore"
 "Woman of My Dreams"
 "(Tow Truck)"

References

2007 albums
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Man City new boy Ilkay Gundogan looked in good spirits as he went house hunting in Manchester city centre.
New Manchester City midfielder Ilkay Gundogan probably won't need to ask his mum and dad to help him out with the deposit when he buys a new home in the city.
But that didn't stop him taking his parents along when he did a spot of house hunting.
The Blues' German acquisition was spotted checking out properties in a city centre estate agent.
And the pictures show he is some way off being ready for any kind of playing action.
Gundogan, who is believed to have costs the Blues around £20m when he moved from Borussia Dortmund, was using crutches to get around.
He dislocated his knee earlier this year and is hoping to be in action for his new club shortly after the start of the Premier League season in August after undergoing surgery last month.
24.6.16.... Man City's newest signing Ilkay Gundogan goes hoese hunting in Manchester city centre with his parents on Friday afternonn.Gundogan still on crutches looks in estate agents on Deansgate which specialise in city centre apartments on Friday afternoon.
Pep Guardiola 's first signing, who has missed out on the Euros, was wearing a support on his damaged knee.
But he looked happy and relaxed as he browsed on Deansgate and if he finds the right city centre pad, he could have his new boss as a neighbour.
Guardiola is said to be keen to live in the city centre after he officially takes up his post on next week.


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SHEIKH ZAYED BOOK AWARD 2018 – CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
Abu Dhabi, 29 May 2017
Abu Dhabi, May 29, 2017 - The Sheikh Zayed Book Award has announced it is now accepting nominations for its 2018 edition, with submissions accepted until October 1st 2017. The announcement was made during a meeting of the Award's Committee during the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair. The call for nominations comes after the successful concluding of the Award's grand ceremony to celebrate the winners of its 11th edition. Writers, and their publishers and agents from across the world are invited to apply across all nine categories of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award, with AED 7 Million in prize money available for the winners. Notably, The 'Arab culture in Other Language' category accepts written works about Arabic civilisation and culture, in the fields of humanities, fine arts, and literature throughout its historical eras, in five languages; English, French, German, Spanish and Italian. The nomination forms and the full details on the rules and regulations for all categories can be viewed and downloaded from the Award's website www.zayedaward.ae A total of eight awards were handed out across the Award's categories for the 2017 edition, with the Moroccan historian and scholar Abullah Laroui being named 'Cultural Personality of the Year'. The 'Literature' Award went to the Lebanese author Abbas Beydoun for his novel 'Khareef al Bara'a' (The Autumn of Innocence) published by Dar Al Saqi (2016); Lateefa Butti from Kuwait won the 'Children's Literature' Award for her book 'Bila qubba'a' (Hatless) published by Seedan Media – Kuwait (2015); the 'Contribution to the Development of Nations' Award went to Mohammad Chahrour from Syria for his book 'Al Islam wal Insan' (Islam and the Human Being), published by Dar Al Saqi (2016); the 'Translation' Award went to Lebanese / French national Ziad Bou Akel for his translation from Arabic to French 'Averroés: Le Philosophe Et La Loi' Ibn Rushd', published by De Gruyter, Berlin (2015); Iraqi/Australian scholar Said Al Ghanimi won the 'Literary and Art Criticism' Award for the book 'Faa'liah Alkhayal Ala'dbi' (the Validity of Literary Fiction) published by Al Kamel Verlag (2015); David Wirmer from Germany won the 'Arabic Culture in Other Languages' Award for his work 'Vom Denken der Natur zur Natur des Denkens'; and lastly the 'Publishing and Technology' Award went to 'Kalimat Group', Sharjah, UAE. The award for the 'Young Author' category was withheld as the submitted works did not meet the Award's standards and criteria. The Sheikh Zayed Book Award's first installment was in 2007, with the intention to promote scholarship and creativity in the Arab World.


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How These Major Companies Are Getting Equal Pay Right
BYJennifer Calfas
April 9, 2018, 2:38 PM UTC
Fifty-five years after the Equal Pay Act passed, women earn about $0.80 on the dollar to their male colleagues.
Progress on wage equality for women in the United States has been demonstrably slow in recent years — but a number of companies have taken matters into their own hands. High-profile companies like Starbucks, Apple, Salesforce, Intel and Adobe, among others, have recently reached full pay parity for women and underrepresented minorities in the United States. These companies are also taking steps toward creating a better workplace for women and minorities to thrive, advance their careers and move into more leadership roles.
"If you fundamentally believe that people are the most important asset to your company, why wouldn't you seek to establish practices and programs, and have a principal that you should compensate fairly based on their contribution?" Donna Morris, executive vice president of customer and employee experience at Adobe, recently told Fortune.
Pay equity practices come from a combination of payroll audits, committed leadership and policies that promote equality and diversity in the workplace. In Adobe's case, a third-party review of the company's pay practices in 2016 found U.S.-based female employees were paid $0.99 on the dollar of their male coworkers. While not a stunning difference, it was still a wage gap, Morris said, and the company closed it by 2017.
"It's not sufficient for companies to not address pay anomalies that exist between men and women or between ethnic groups," Morris said. Adobe also closed the pay gap that existed for its workforce based in India earlier this year.
More recently, Starbucks announced it reached 100 percent pay equity for women, men and underrepresented minorities — ending a 10-year process to end pay differences among its employees. Back in 2015, Salesforce, a San Francisco-based cloud computing company, announced a $3 million initiative to close its gender pay gap after analyzing its payroll. After the company acquired several others, Salesforce combed through those new employees' salaries to ensure any pay gap was entirely eliminated.
"Every CEO needs to look at if they're paying men and women the same. That is something that every single CEO can do today." Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said at the World Economic Forum in January 2017. "We all have modern human resource management systems, but as a CEO are you willing to step up and say I pay men and women the same?"
In 2015 and 2016, more than 100 companies — including Salesforce, Adobe, Apple, Facebook, Intel and more — signed former President Barack Obama's Equal Pay Pledge. The initiative required companies to review their hiring practices, create policies to ensure equal pay and conduct an annual analysis on the gender wage gap.
Recently formed companies are also taking notice of the push toward equality in the workplace. Companies like Rent the Runway, the online rental service founded and run by women, had equal pay practices from the get-go when it launched in 2009.
Movements like #MeToo and #TimesUp have also put the onus on companies to change their policies and practices to better create workplaces that value women and people of color. And equal pay, for that matter, will be expected from the future employees growing up in this era, said Jennifer Hyman, the CEO of Rent the Runway.
"Unless business leaders understand the future of their employee base is not willing to accept the unequal environment that has perpetuated in the past," Hyman said, "they're not going to be around in the future."


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Battery, Coronavirus, Health & Fitness, Science & Technology News
LG unveils a battery-powered air purifier you strap to your face
LG is releasing a face-mounted, battery-powered air purifier
Korean electronics giant LG has adapted its home air purifying technology into a battery-powered, air purifying face mask with twin H13 HEPA filters, multi-speed fans and a UV-LED sterilizing case. But there's still a lot we don't know.
The PuriCare Wearable Air Purifier, as LG is calling it, appears quite a remarkable device. It straps to the face with straps behind the ears like a regular face mask, but carries an 820-mAh battery to run an active air filtration and purification system for up to eight hours on low mode and two hours on high.
Continue reading… "LG unveils a battery-powered air purifier you strap to your face"


Serving in the Kingdom of God is a privilege and opens to door to a much more fulfilled life. In Pauls letter to Timothy, Paul says; "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth" (2 Tim 2:15 NKJV).
The Unite180 Home Run Series is a combination live lecture modules and discussions which were designed to assist believers in becoming more effective in their service of the God. Going far beyond being a mere church orientation course, we pull on your personal calling, so creating a hunger within you for Gods purpose in your life.
Once you've reached and completed the Homebase you receive a certificate of completion in one of our Unite180 services, as we celebrate with you that you have moved forward in your understanding and knowledge of God.
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Head of Communication Board & Press Test Cars
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A 160 CDI and B 200 CDI: Mercedes-Benz is awarded the prestigious Car Environment Certificate
The internationally renowned environmental institute Öko Trend has awarded its Car Environment Certificate to two Mercedes Benz models. Both the A 160 CDI and the B 200 CDI manufactured by the Stuttgart brand achieved top marks during an extensive and critical analysis by specialists at the independent institute.
The two Mercedes-Benz models concerned achieved well-above-average results in all areas. In the view of the institute, they not only achieve excellent values with respect to fuel consumption and exhaust/noise emissions, but also excel by virtue of environmentally friendly production, materials and logistics.
The Öko-Trend institute was full of praise for these impressive results: "The Mercedes A 160 CDI may be seen as one of the most eco-friendly vehicles with a conventional drive system," the experts found. "The development phase for this compact car was already based on a comprehensive environmental concept which takes the entire lifecycle of the vehicle into consideration. Numerous specific measures have reduced emissions during the production and operation of the new A-Class by approximately 17 percent compared to the preceding model. All in all, Mercedes has set new ecological standards for conventionally powered vehicles with the new A-Class." The A 160 CDI consumes 4.9 litres of fuel per 100 kilometres, which corresponds to a CO2 value of 128 grams.
According to the findings of Öko-Trend, the Mercedes-Benz B-Class is distinguished by "a high degree of variability and spaciousness, as well as convincing environmental credentials". The Öko-Trend institute had special praise for the power unit of the B 200 CDI: "The 140-hp diesel engine is equipped with a particulate filter as standard. Thanks to a high torque of 300 Nm, which is already available from 1600 rpm, this engine allows a relaxed style of driving and early upshifts. A fuel consumption of six litres per 100 km is feasible in practice. All in all, therefore, the Mercedes B 200 CDI achieves a very good environmental rating." The institute also emphasised the high ecological standards that generally apply at Mercedes-Benz.
The "Öko-Trend Institute for Environmental Research" founded by the Bergische University of Wuppertal has been publishing research reports about the eco-friendliness of car models since 1997. Last year the environmental specialists at this financially independent and neutral institute expanded their analytical activities, and began to issue their internationally renowned Öko-Trend Car Environment Certificate, which is only awarded to vehicles which meet particularly high environmental standards. In making their assessment, the specialists take not only vehicle-specific criteria such as fuel consumption and exhaust/noise emissions into account, but also environmental parameters relating to production, logistics, recyclability and the manufacturer's environmental management systems. The certificate is only awarded to vehicles which achieve at least 90 percent of the maximum score in all assessment criteria.
To date only 15 car models worldwide have been awarded the Certificate, among them the recently certificated Mercedes-Benz model A 160 CDI in the compact class and the B 200 CDI in the compact van class.
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By Brian Volck
If, as is the case, the word "anthology" derives from a combination of Greek words meaning, "gathering of flowers," then most poetry anthologies might best be described as mixed bouquets. Readers search them for a few spectacular roses and lilies amid the humbler baby's breath and fern fronds that fill out the collection. Yet I suspect it's far easier for twenty people to agree on the beauty of a particular flower than the merits of a recently written poem. Contemporary poetry is a genre sufficiently vast and varied to include verse so libre it borders on the anarchic as well as the most exacting of formalisms. Poetry can, of course, be about anything, but not everything written in verse merits the term, "poem." Emily Dickinson famously wrote, "If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry," but a poem may cleanly remove one reader's scalp while barely mussing the hair of another. Editors, then, must accommodate a diversity of tastes when curating an anthology.
Two new anthologies of what might be called "spiritual verse," one released this fall and the other due to be published early next year, are noteworthy for their variety and quality. Christian Poetry in America Since 1940 (Paraclete Press, 2022), edited by Micah Mattix and Sally Thomas, begins with an explanation of how and why the poems were chosen. In his insightful introduction, Mattix offers a provisional answer to the question, "what exactly is Christian poetry?" He agrees with C.S. Lewis that, while there is no such thing as "Christian literature," there may be an identifiably "Christian approach to literature." In contrast to what Lewis calls the "modern" approach, in which originality and self-expression are prized, a Christian approach (according to Lewis) values mimesis, an imitation of the created order of which humanity is merely a contingent and dependent part. For the Christian writer, self-expression is not an end, but a means toward a particular and self-transcending representation of that created order.
Choosing not to cast an overly broad net, Mattix and Thomas include only American poets born on or after 1940 whose work explicitly engages Christian belief and practice. That leaves out prominent older poets like Wendell Berry and Luci Shaw as well as those whose Christian content remains largely implicit, such as Louise Erdrich, Carolyn Forché, and Martha Serpas. Lamentable as these omissions are, the more than thirty poets chosen present a dazzling variety of styles, sensibilities, and degrees of religious conviction.
Faith and uncertainty coexist—as they must in any mature believer—providing a fertile tension these writers creatively exploit. Paul Mariani, for example, writes in "Quid Pro Quo" of his anger toward God after his wife's second miscarriage in four months, giving a middle finger salute toward the heavens. By the poem's end, however, Mariani ponders the meanings implicit in the subsequent live birth of a son who is later ordained a priest, wondering "How does one bargain / with a God like this who, quid pro quo, ups / the ante each time he answers one sign with another?"
In an explicit response to Philip Larkin's famous poetic reflection on waning religious faith, "Churchgoing," Marilyn Nelson joins Lutherans sitting "stolidly in rows," and contrasts centuries of hypocrisy by white, slaveholding Christians with the faithfulness of enslaved persons and their descendants:
Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble
who believe most, who so much have lost.
To be a Christian one must bear a cross.
I think belief is given to the simple
As recompense for what they do not know.
Some of the poets included here will be familiar to Christian readers of poetry: Scott Cairns (represented by two of his most devastating poetic self-interrogations, "Possible Answers to Prayer," and "Bad Theology (A Quiz)"), Jeanne Murray Walker, Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, and Christian Wiman. Others may be new names to pay attention to: Benjamin Myers (whose "The Reverend on Natural Theology" is a small masterpiece of anti-sentimentality), Ryan Williams, and Chelsea Wagenaar. There's much to enjoy and learn from in this welcome and well-curated volume.
Between Heaven and Earth: Eve Poems (scheduled for publication in April, 2023 by Orison Books) has a narrower focus and a broader range of sensibilities. Editors Nomi Stone and Luke Hankins have gathered recent poems about the Biblical figure of Eve that variously portray their subject as penitent, renegade, feminist, heretic, liberator, and genderqueer subversive. Several poets here are, contrary to Blake's assessment of Milton, fully conscious as being of the Devil's party, denouncing a perceived repressive Jewish-Christian patriarchy. In Ansel Elkins's "Autobiography of Eve" the speaker summarizes her exile from Paradise with the pronouncement, "Let it be known; I did not fall from grace // I leapt / to freedom." Ona Gritz's "Eden" is more ambiguous. Here, an increasingly restless Eve looks forward to talking with her "new friend…curled around / a tree limb," who asks unexpected questions and from whom Eve learns startling new words: "sorrow," "longing," and "I want."
This anthology features some famous names such as Lucille Clifton, Rita Dove, Ada Limón, and Toni Morrison, and their work is exemplary. It's the lesser known but remarkably talented poets, however, who repeatedly caught my eye. Michael Dechane's "Dressing," is ostensibly a midrash on God's fashioning "garments of skins" to clothe the newly self-conscious first couple. Below the surface, though, lurks a fascinating meditation on the violence humans rely upon to live in creation. At first appalled by God's slaughter of "the sheep who came on their own," Adam and Eve simultaneously reject and covet God's offer of sheepskin clothing, but when asked what else they might need in their banishment, Adam utters a surprising new word, "knife."
Jessica Jacobs's exquisite "Sleepwalkers in the Garden" braids the story of the Fall with her grandmother's last days, pondering "Why had it taken me until then to see? Paradise / is every moment we've ever left, all the small / unnoticed gardens we can never again enter." Those fortunate to know Frank Paino's work will recognize in "After the First Bite," his blend of rich sensual detail and haunting inquiry into human behavior as a sullen Adam, having freely accepted Eve's dubious gift:
…slouched into the leaves
already tarnished
with the rumor of their falling,
embraced the awful legacy
of what he knew he'd started
when he took the gift,
then laid the blame.
If you don't already recognize the names of these emerging poetic voices, I urge you to remedy that fault.
The content and quality of these two anthologies reflect the small presses that publish them. According to its website, Paraclete Press "presents a full expression of Christian belief and practice—Catholic, evangelical, mainline Protestant, Orthodox." Orison Books "actively pursues spiritual and religious perspectives without subscribing to a particular ideological standpoint, and…emphasizes…the metaphysical and existential underpinnings of work that may not, on its surface, always seem 'spiritual.'" Given the precarious state of small publishing houses today, both deserve to be better known. These anthologies provide an ideal introduction.
Brian Volck is a pediatrician and writer living in Baltimore. He is the author of a poetry collection, Flesh Becomes Word, and a memoir, Attending Others: A Doctor's Education in Bodies and Words. His website is Brianvolck.com
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*MC-94997sPC1^004441182.dwg

*LC-94399s101-R.dwg

*LC-94399s25^003687250.dwg

From these the file names would be:
102-AG,
8A,
PC1,
101-R,
25,
Sub GetIssued()
Dim objFSO As Object
Dim objFolder As Object
Dim objFile As Object

Dim openPos As Integer
Dim closePos As Integer

Dim sh As Object

Dim drwn, SheetNum

Set objFSO = CreateObject("scripting.FileSystemObject")

r = 14

fle = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Header Info").Range("D11") &
"\Design\Substation\CADD\Working\COMM\"

Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(fle)

Set x1Book = ActiveWorkbook 'Using this Activeworkbook
Set sh = x1Book.Sheets("TELECOM") 'Using this particular sheet
With Sheets("TELECOM")
.Range("A14", "I305").ClearContents
For Each objFile In objFolder.Files
On Error Resume Next

If InStr(objFile.Name, "LC-9") > 0 And InStr(objFile.Type, "DWG
File") > 0 Then 'PEDs, Single Line, Cable and Wiring, Jumper and
Interconnection
        .Cells(r, 9) = objFile.Name 'Testing Purposes
        drwn = Array(.Cells(r, 9).Value)
        .Cells(r, 2) = Left(drwn, InStr(1, drwn, "s") - 1) 'Get the
drawing number and placing it here

        '-----------------------------------------------------------
        'Trying to Insert InstrMacro here
        '------------------------------------------------------------

        r = r + 1

        ElseIf InStr(objFile.Name, "MC-9") > 0 And InStr(objFile.Type, "DWG File") > 0 Then 'Cable List
        .Cells(r, 9) = objFile.Name 'Testing Purposes
        drwn = .Cells(r, 9).Value
        .Cells(r, 2) = Left(drwn, InStr(1, drwn, "s") - 1) 'Get the drawing number and placing it here

        '-----------------------------------------------------------
        'Trying to Insert InstrMacro here
        '------------------------------------------------------------

        r = r + 1

        ElseIf InStr(objFile.Name, "BMC-") > 0 And InStr(objFile.Type, "Adobe Acrobat Document") > 0 Then 'Bill of Materials
        .Cells(r, 9) = objFile.Name 'Testing Purposes
        drwn = .Cells(r, 9).Value
        .Cells(r, 2) = Left(drwn, InStr(1, drwn, "s") - 1) 'Get the drawing number and placing it here

        '-----------------------------------------------------------
        'Trying to Insert InstrMacro here
        '------------------------------------------------------------

        r = r + 1

        ElseIf InStr(objFile.Name, "CSR") > 0 And InStr(objFile.Type, "DWG") > 0 Then 'Single Line Diagram
        .Cells(r, 9) = objFile.Name 'Testing Purposes
        drwn = .Cells(r, 9).Value
        .Cells(r, 2) = Left(drwn, InStr(1, drwn, "s") - 1) 'Get the drawing number and placing it here

        '---------------------------------------------------------
        'Trying to Insert InstrMacro here
        '------------------------------------------------------------

        r = r + 1
    End If
Next
End With

 Range("A13:F305").HorizontalAlignment = xlCenter
 Range("A1").Select

 End Sub

The marco that I have working can be seen here:
Sub InstrMacro()

Dim openPos As Integer
Dim closePos As Integer

Dim drwn, SheetNum
drwn = Range("E9") ' String to search in the sheet aka: the hot seat

'Performing a test to see if this is a new drawing or not
SheetNum = InStr(drwn, "^")

openPos = InStr(drwn, "s") 'True reguardless of the condition of the drawing

If SheetNum = 0 Then 'Assuming it is a new drawing
closePos = InStr(drwn, ".")
SheetNum = Mid(drwn, openPos + 1, closePos - openPos - 1)
Else

If SheetNum > 0 Then 'Assuming is NOT a new drawing
closePos = InStr(drwn, "^")
SheetNum = Mid(drwn, openPos + 1, closePos - openPos - 1)

End If
End If

Range("G20").Value = SheetNum

End Sub

A picture for this macro can be seen here.

I have tried making a separate macro the runs and can get the sheet number, but it seems that excel is just skipping this step and running through the rest of the program
I would like to put the drawing number in column B and the sheet number in sheet number in column c.
Edit 04/07/2019:
I have a function kudos to Rawrplus. But I am unsure how to include this into my main sub. Can someone give me any insights? Thanks!
r = 14

fle = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Header Info").Range("D11") &     "\Design\Substation\CADD\Working\COMM\"

Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(fle)

Set x1Book = ActiveWorkbook 'Using this Activeworkbook
Set sh = x1Book.Sheets("TELECOM") 'Using this particular sheet
With Sheets("TELECOM")
.Range("A14", "I305").ClearContents
For Each objFile In objFolder.Files
On Error Resume Next
        If InStr(objFile.Name, "LC-9") > 0 And InStr(objFile.Type, "DWG File") > 0 Then 'PEDs, Single Line, Cable and Wiring, Jumper and Interconnection
        .Cells(r, 9) = objFile.Name 'Testing Purposes
        drwn = Array(.Cells(r, 9).Value)
        .Cells(r, 2) = Left(drwn, InStr(1, drwn, "s") - 1) 'Get the drawing number and placing it here

        '-----------------------------------------------------------
        Call getFileName(drwn)

        '------------------------------------------------------------

        r = r + 1
        End If
Next
End With

A: This is presuming from the example data you've provided that the:

*

*File name is always preceded with the letter s

*and is always trailed by either . or ^
Private Function getFileName(ByVal from As String)

Dim i As Integer
Dim pos As Integer
Dim temp As String

For i = Len(from) To 1 Step -1
    If Mid(from, i, 1) = "s" Then ' first we find rightmost "s"
        pos = i
    End If
Next i

For i = pos + 1 To Len(from)
    If Mid(from, i, 1) = "^" Or Mid(from, i, 1) = "." Then
        Exit For
    End If
    temp = temp + Mid(from, i, 1)
Next i

    getFileName = temp

End Function

Returns the desired result:

A: Try this
Function GetShtNum(strng As String) As String
    GetShtNum = Split(Split(Split(strng, ".")(0), "s")(1), "^")(0)
End Function

A: This quick regular expression user defined function will retrieve either the drawing or sheet number depending on the optional argument passed into it.
Option Explicit

Function stripPieces(str As String, Optional pc As Integer = 1)

    Static rgx As Object

    stripPieces = CVErr(xlErrNA)

    If Right(LCase(str), 4) <> ".dwg" Then Exit Function

    If rgx Is Nothing Then Set rgx = CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp")

    With rgx
        .IgnoreCase = False
        Select Case pc
          Case 1
            .Pattern = "[A-Z]{2}\-[0-9]{5}s"
            If .Test(str) Then
                str = .Execute(str).Item(0)
                stripPieces = Left(str, Len(str) - 1)
            End If
          Case 2
            .Pattern = "s[A-Z0-9\-]{2,9}"
            If .Test(str) Then
                str = .Execute(str).Item(0)
                stripPieces = Mid(str, 2)
            End If
          Case Else
            stripPieces = CVErr(xlErrValue)
        End Select
    End With

End Function

'use on worksheet like
=stripPieces($E2, 1)    'for dwg
=stripPieces($E2, 2)    'for sheet

A: I think you are over complicating the problem.
To get this:

Use the code below (make sure you reference the Microsoft Scripting Runtime, as seen in this post):
Public Sub GetDrawingInfo()

    Dim fso As New FileSystemObject

    'Find the folder where the drawings exist
    Dim fld As Folder
    Set fld = fso.GetFolder(ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Header Info").Range("D11") & _
                                            "\Design\Substation\CADD\Working\COMM\")

    ' Set the target cells to fill the table. Mine started at D12
    Dim target As Range
    Set target = Range("D12")

    Dim f As File
    ' this will tell us what row we are in
    Dim count As Long
    count = 0
    For Each f In fld.Files
        If LCase(fso.GetExtensionName(f.Name)) = "dwg" Then
            ' We found a .dwg file
            count = count + 1
            ' write filename in first column
            target.Cells(count, 1).Value = f.Name
            ' Get filename without extension
            Dim fname As String
            fname = fso.GetBaseName(f.Name)
            ' Split the filename at the "s"
            Dim parts() As String
            parts = Strings.Split(fname, "s", , vbTextCompare)
            ' The fist part is the code? Like LC-94399
            target.Cells(count, 2).Value = parts(0)
            ' Split the second part at the "^"
            parts = Strings.Split(parts(1), "^", , vbTextCompare)
            ' The first part is the drawing number
            ' Set drawing number as text
            target.Cells(count, 3).NumberFormat = "@"
            target.Cells(count, 3).Value = parts(0)
            ' If a second part exists, it is the sheet number
            If UBound(parts) = 1 Then
                target.Cells(count, 4).Value = parts(1)
            End If
        End If
    Next

End Sub


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Кля̀зма е река в Европейска Русия, ляв приток на Ока от басейна на Волга.

Дължината ѝ е 686 km, която ѝ отрежда 103-то място по дължина сред реките на Русия.

География

Течение
Река Клязма води началото си от централната част на Московското възвишение, на 247 m н.в., на 8 km източно от езерото Сенеж, Московска област. В началото тече на югозапад, юг и югоизток през Солнечногорски район на Московска област, а при село Черкизово завива на изток и запазва това генерално направление до устието си. В този участък долината ѝ е тясна, а бреговете ѝ са високи. При вливането си в Клязминското водохранилище ширината на коритото ѝ достига до 12 m. По-нататък протича през Клязминското и Пироговското водохранилища, където водите ѝ се смесват с тези идващи от Волга по канала Москва-Волга, а след изтичането си от тях ширината на коритото ѝ нараства до 20 m. Оттук до устието си Клязма протича по най-северната част на Окско-донската равнина, известна като Мещерска низина. В района на низината левият ѝ, северен бряг е значително по висок от десния. След устието на река Теза (ляв приток) при 135 km левият ѝ бряг става нисък и оттам започва Балахнинската низина. Десният бряг е висок (на места до 90 m) и огражда от север Гороховецкия рид на Цнинското възвишение. Ширината на коритото ѝ постепенно се увеличава – от 50 m при град Ногинск до 130 m при град Владимир, а на някои места и до 200 m. Средната дълбочина е 1 – 2 m, максималната до 8 m, а дъното е глинесто, на места пясъчно. Влива се отляво в река Ока при нейния 87 km, на 4 km източно от село Крилово, Гороховецки район, Владимирска област, на 67 m н.в.

Водосборен басейн
Водосборният басейн на реката обхваща площ от 42 500 km2, което представлява 17,35% от водосборния басейн на река Ока. Във водосборния басейн на реката попадат части от териториите на Владимирска, Ивановска, Московска, Нижегородска и Ярославска област.

Границите на водосборния басейн на реката са следните:
 на юг – водосборните басейни на река Пра и други по малки леви притоци на река Ока;
 на югозапад – водосборният басейн на река Москва, ляв приток на река Ока;
 на северозапад, север и североизток – водосборните басейни на реките Дубна, Нерл, Которосъл и други по малки, десни притоци на река Волга.

Река Клязма получава 36 притока с дължина над 20 km, като 10 от тях са дължина над 100 km. По-долу са изброени всичките тези 3 реки, за които е показано на кой километър по течението на реката се вливат, дали са леви (→) или (←), тяхната дължина, площта на водосборния им басейн (в km2) и мястото, където се вливат.
 551 → Воря 108 / 1220, при град Лосино-Петровски, Московска област
 459 → Киржач 133 / 1770, при посьолок Городищи, Владимирска област
 396 → Пекша 127 / 1010, при село Напутново, Владимирска област
 326 → Колокша 146 / 1430, при село Угор, Владимирска област
 269 → Нерл 284 / 6780, при село Боголюбово, Владимирска област
 244 ← Судогда 116 / 1900, при село Спас-Купалище, Владимирска област
 173 → Увод 185 / 3770, при село Глебово, Владимирска област
 135 → Теза 192 / 3450, на 4 km югоизточно от село Сергеево, Ивановска област
 68 → Лух 240 / 4450, на 2 km северно от село Перово, Владимирска област
 14 ← Суворощ 126 / 1390, на 2,5 km източно от посьолок Галици, Владимирска област

Хидрология
Подхранването на река Клязма е смесено, като преобладава снежното. Среден годишен отток при град Ковров, Владимирска област, на 185 km от устието – 147 m3/s. Замръзва през ноември, а се размразява в първата половина на април.

Селища
На река Клязма са разположени множество селища, в т.ч. 13 града:
 Московска област – Долгопрудни, Шчолково, Корольов, Лосино-Петровски, Ногинск, Павловски Посад, Орехово-Зуево;
 Владимирска област – Петушки, Собинка, Владимир, Ковров, Вязники, Гороховец.

Корабоплаване
На реката са изградени 3 водохранилища (Клязминско, Акуловско и Пестовско), водите на които се използват за производство на електроенергия и за водоснабдяване на част от град Москва и селищата разположени северно и североизточно от града. През 1937 г. е изграден каналът Москва – Волга, част от който представлява Клязминското водохранилище и по който постъпва вода от река Волга.

При пълноводие реката е плавателна до град Владимир на 267 km от устието, като въпреки това корабоплаването е затруднено между посьолок Мстьора и град Ковров поради малката дълбочина и каменистото дъно. Регулярно корабоплаване се извършва до посьолок Мстьора, Владимирска област, на 120 km от устието.

Вижте също
 Списък на реките в Русия
 Списък на реките в Русия (водосборни басейни на безотточните области)
 Списък на реките в Русия по дължина

Източници

 Большие реки России
 Большая Советская Энциклопедия
 Государственный водный реестр России

Реки в Московска област
Реки във Владимирска област
География на Ивановска област
Реки в Нижегородска област
Водосборен басейн на Ока (приток на Волга)


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TikTok Adds David Bowie's Full Music Catalog On His Birthday
On what would have been David Bowie's 74th birthday on January 8th, TikTok has added the iconic British artist's full music catalog to the app.
Tracks now available to incorporate into their videos include such Bowie hits as "Heroes," "Space Oddity," "Let's Dance," "Fame," "Rebel Rebel," "Life on Mars?", "Ashes to Ashes" and more. For those eager to start using the tunes, they're available in a dedicated playlist on the TikTok Sounds page.
In partnership with Warner Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and the David Bowie estate, an account has been established in Bowie's memory and the channel features videos from his life and work across over five decades.
"A pioneer in music and fashion, David was — and remains — a cultural icon," TikTok said in a statement. "He was never afraid to push boundaries and was always first to embrace new technology to reach his global fan base." Over the past few months, the social media app has been adding tracks from other notable British artists including the works of Queen, John Lennon and George Michael.
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Gonadal Tissue Cryopreservation is a revolutionary method in the field of Assisted Reproduction and aims at the preservation of the reproductive ability and the possibility to use it in the future.
IVF Athens Center is proud that in 2008 gave birth to the first child in Greece following the vitrification method and since then has performed more than 500 embryo transfers in cycles after cryo-preservation and thawing of blastocysts. Success rates are consistently high and corresponding to the international ones!


Laurent Ach manages Cantoche's technical team that engages in research and development of the Living Actor™ software suite. After graduating from Ecole Centrale de Lyon in 1990, he worked in the Simulation and Virtual Reality Group of Thales, for Visiospace and for Sagem Télécommunications. He participated in several research projects and is lead partner of the MyPresentingAvatar project.
MyPresentingAvatar is a project whose goal is to automatically generate presentations provided by an avatar starting solely from a document. The goal is not to have the avatar simply repeat the written speech but to gracefully create the form and content of avatar intervention by selecting text and accompanying gestures that are appropriate for presenting the original text. The project is co-funded by the French Ministry of Finance through the "Web 2.0" call for projects. The partners include Lingway, Telecom ParisTech CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) and Cantoche.
Lingway's semantic analysis of a text input source automatically produces structured data that allow creating the speech for the avatar as well as indications about the avatar's non verbal behavior. The Greta software program, developed by Telecom ParisTech, is responsible for processing these indications and choosing avatar gestures and attitudes, synchronized with speech. Finally, Living Actor™ technology generates video sequences where the avatar speaks with the specified behavior.
These three components of semantic analysis, behavior management and avatar animation are integrated in an online application developed by Cantoche, and compose an automatic production line of avatar presentations.
Automation of avatar speech and behavior must not prevent the user from fully controlling the final presentation. Thus, Cantoche developed a user interface for editing the dynamically generated parts of speech, reorganizing the sequences and changing expressive animations selected by the behavior management module.
The two-years project will be finished end of 2011. The first prototype of the MyPresentingAvatar application automatically generates presentations of potential candidates for job offers, starting from their resumes. The second version of the prototype will automatically generate a presentation of the statistical results about the most observed discussion subjects on the Internet during particular periods of time. The first version is now finished and a mockup of the second version can be seen online on Lingway's blog.
The project outcomes are very interesting for future commercial applications based on the use cases of these prototypes. In addition, certain parts of the project results will be integrated into the Living Actor™ technology. For instance, the Living Actor Presenter online application will include some user interface components based on the work done on the avatar animation timeline.
Self-generated personal presentations, analysis of web usage trends and automatic content generation… The avatars' uses continue to increase and not only in the field of graphic representations but also as real alter-egos or assistants in many situations.
What will be the major applications for avatars in the coming years?


This impressive school building in Brighouse, thought to date back to around 1850, was in need of a complete re-roof.
The Yorkshire stone roof on both the farmhouse and barn was insulated and turned. Completed on schedule and in time for pupils to return to school after the summer break.
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"David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40) presents the most important account of skepticism in the history of modern philosophy. In this lucid and thorough introduction to the work, John P. Wright examines the development of Hume's ideas in the Treatise, their relation to eighteenth-century theories of the imagination and passions, and the reception they received when Hume published the Treatise. He explains Hume's arguments concerning the inability of reason to establish the basic beliefs which underlie science and morals, as well as his arguments showing why we are nevertheless psychologically compelled to accept such beliefs. The book will be a valuable guide for those seeking to understand the nature of modern skepticism and its connection with the founding of the human sciences during the Enlightenment"--Provided by publisher.


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In our constant pursuit of success, we are supported by pillars of strength that form
the structure of the organisation, while also leading our journey to the top.
Dato' Ir Goh Chye Koon
Chairman & Independent Non-Executive Director
Malaysian, Aged 70, Male
Date Appointed to the Board: 17 October 2014
Years of Directorship: 5.5 years
Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) degree in Civil Engineering from
the University of Malaya
Professional Engineer (P.Eng) and a Member of the Institution of
Engineers Malaysia (MIEM)
Advisory Peer Group Member of the School of Science and Technology
at Wawasan Open University
Membership of Board Committees:
Directorships of Other Public Companies and Listed Issuers: Nil
Skills, Working Experience and Expertise:
Dato' Ir Goh began his career as an engineer in the Ministry of Works, where he served for
11 years rising to the position of Superintending Engineer prior to joining IJM Corporation
Berhad as a Senior Engineer in 1984. He was promoted as General Manager (Central Region)
in 1986 and subsequently appointed as Alternate Director in 1995 before assuming the
position of Deputy Group Managing Director in 1997. He was redesignated Deputy Chief Executive
Officer and Deputy Managing Director in 2004 and upon his retirement in 2008, Dato' Ir Goh
continued to serve as Executive Director of IJM Corporation Berhad until June 2009 and thereafter
Non-Executive Director from July 2009 until June 2013.
He was a member of the Presidential Consultative Council of the Board of Engineers Malaysia
(2002 – 2004) and also a member of the Construction Consultative Panel of Malaysia Productivity
Corporation (2003 – 2009). He was the Chairman of the Building Industry Presidents' Council
and President of the Master Builders Association Malaysia for the session 2004/2006 and has
served as its Deputy President, Vice President and Deputy Secretary General.
Dato' Ir Goh was a board member of the Construction Industry Development Board Malaysia (CIDB)
from 2004 to 2006 and served as a Main Committee Member (2001 – 2009) and Chairman of the
Working Group for construction projects (Local and Foreign) (2003 – 2009)
in the Construction Industry Master Plan of CIDB.
Dato' Dr Ir Johari Bin Basri
Senior Independent Non-Executive Director
Dato Dr. Ir Johari Bin Basri
PhD. in Process Safety from the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
MSc. in Terotechnology from Manchester University, United Kingdom
Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from University Technology Malaysia
Fellow of the Institute of Engineers Malaysia (IEM)
Associate Fellow of The Institution of Chemical Engineers (U.K.)
Professional Engineer registered with the Board of Engineers Malaysia
Life member of The Malaysian Society for Occupational Safety and Health (MSOSH)
Nomination and Remuneration Committee (Chairman)
Dato' Dr Ir Johari joined the Factories and Machinery Department of Malaysia, which is now
known as Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH), as a Factories and
Machinery Inspector (Engineer) in 1977. He was then promoted as Director of Industrial Safety
Division of DOSH in 1997.
In 2000 and 2004, Dato' Dr Ir Johari was seconded from DOSH to be the Executive Director of
National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Malaysia. He was the Executive
Director of NIOSH Malaysia for years 2000 – 2002 and 2004 – 2007. In between that period,
he returned to DOSH and assumed the role of Director General where he was responsible for the
overall planning and implementation of the core activities of DOSH. Concurrently during his tenure
in NIOSH Malaysia from 2004 to 2007, he was the Executive Director of ASEANOSHNET, the
regional grouping of 10 ASEAN member countries working together towards improving the safety
and health of the workers. In 2007, he returned to DOSH to resume the role of Director General
until his retirement in June 2014.
Dato' Dr Ir Johari was also a member of the board of directors of NIOSH (2007 – 2014), board of
member of CIDB (2007 – 2014), Chairman for the Industrial Standard Committee of Occupational
Safety and Health (ISCW) SIRIM Berhad (2007 – 2014) and Member for Malaysian National Standards
Committees (MyNSC) Standards Malaysia (2007 – 2014).
Dato' Siow Kim Lun
• Master in Business Administration from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
• Bachelor of Economics (Hons) degree from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
• Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School
• Audit Committee (Chairman)
• Nomination and Remuneration Committee
• Risk Management Committee
Directorships of Other Public Companies
and Listed Issuers:
• EITA Resources Berhad
• Hong Leong Assurance Berhad
• Eco World International Berhad
• Radiant Globaltech Berhad
• RHB Investment Bank Berhad
Dato' Siow has over 30 years of working experience in investment banking,
corporate finance and regulatory oversight of the Malaysian Capital Markets.
He began his career in investment banking with Malaysian International
Merchant Bankers Berhad in 1981. From 1985 to 1993, he was with Permata
Chartered Merchant Bank Berhad (now known as Affin Hwang Investment Bank Berhad)
first as a manager and later as the Divisional Head of its Corporate Finance Division.
Between 1993 and 2006, he was with the Securities Commission Malaysia ("SC") and
has served in several positions at the SC including that of the Director of its Issues and
Investment Division and the Director of its Market Supervision Division.
He has also served as a director of MainStreet Advisers Sdn Bhd, a licensed corporate
finance advisory firm, from 2008 to 2019.
Dr Sarinder Kumari
Dr Sarinder Kumari A/P OAM Parkash
Malaysian, Aged 63, Female
Date Appointed to the Board: 1 March 2018
Ph.D. in Financial Economics from University Putra Malaysia
Masters in Economics from George Washington University
Risk Management Committee (Chairperson)
Dr Sarinder has over 30 years of experience in policy and strategic planning,
trade negotiations, regulatory and Government affairs. She has previously
served in various portfolios with the Ministry of Finance (MOF), Ministry of
International Trade and Industry (MITI) and the Performance Management
and Delivery Unit under the Prime Minister's Department in Malaysia.
In MOF, she was involved in the raising of Federal Government loans from the
international capital and bond markets, debt management and privatisation projects.
Her portfolio in MITI included the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Strategic
Planning and Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) Policy and Negotiations. She was also
the lead negotiator for Services for Malaysia's first Bilateral FTA.
In PEMANDU she provided strategic direction on the planning and implementation
of the Tourism-related initiatives under Malaysia's National Transformation Programme.
She was also responsible for the Strategic Reform Initiative encompassing the
Competition Act, Adoption and Development of International Standards and the
Liberalisation of Services. She developed the performance assessment and management
system for the performance assessment of all Ministers by the Prime Minister.
Dr Sarinder joined PEMANDU Associates in March 2017 and she is currently responsible
for business development activities with a focus on public sector transformation and
business turnaround.
Tan Sri Dato' (Dr.) Chew Chee Kin
Bachelor of Economics (Hons) Degree from the University of Malaya
Program in Management Development at Harvard Business School
Directorships of Other Public Companies and Listed Issuers:
Sunway Berhad
Gopeng Berhad
Tan Sri Dato' (Dr.) Chew started his career as a Trainee Executive in UMW (Malaya) Sdn. Bhd. in 1974.
Prior to joining Sunway Group, he was the General Manager of UMW (Malaya) Sdn. Bhd.
He joined the Sunway Group in 1981 as the Group General Manager (Operations) and
was subsequently promoted to Deputy Group Managing Director (Operations) of the
Sunway Holdings Berhad Group in 1989. In 1995, he was promoted to Group Managing
Director of the Sunway Holdings Berhad Group and to President of the Sunway Holdings
Berhad Group in 1999.
Upon the completion of the merger of Sunway City Berhad and Sunway Holdings Berhad
in 2011, Tan Sri Dato' (Dr.) Chew was designated as the President of Sunway Berhad. He has more than
30 years' experience in general management, quarrying, construction, building materials,
trading and manufacturing businesses.
Evan Cheah Yean Shin
Date Appointed to the Board: 18 September 2014
Bachelor of Commerce Degree and Bachelor of Business System Degree from Monash University
Chartered Financial Analyst Charterholder
Certified Practising Accountant
Member of Malaysian Institute of Accountants
Evan Cheah joined the Sunway Group following his graduation as an Executive
Assistant and was attached to the Sunway Group Finance division from 2001 to
2002, with key roles in investment analysis, due diligence, corporate finance,
management accounting and group procurement. In 2003, he was promoted
and rotated to Sunway Construction where he was the Finance Manager.
In 2006, he became the General Manager, Business Development of Sunway
Group's Trading & Manufacturing division. In 2010, he was promoted to be
the Executive Director of Sunway Mas Sdn. Bhd., a property development
company within Sunway Group, in charge of operation matters.
In 2011, Mr Evan was designated Chief Executive Officer of Sunway Group's China
operations, responsible for the China Corporate Office and the development of new
business opportunities for the Sunway Group in China. In 2013, he assumed the
additional role of Executive Director in the President's Office of Sunway, assisting
the Group President in overseeing the Trading & Manufacturing, Building Materials,
Quarry & Information Technology businesses.
Effective 1 March 2015, Mr Evan was redesignated as Executive Vice President –
President Office with additional role of assisting the President's Office to identify
potential business growth opportunities for Sunway Group and driving the group's
synergy.
Chung Soo Kiong
Group Managing Director & Non-Independent Executive Director
Date Appointed to the Board: 1 November 2015
Bachelor of Science (Hons) Degree in Quantity Surveying from the University of
Abertay Dundee
Diploma in Building (Technology) from Tunku Abdul Rahman College
Mr Chung Soo Kiong graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Hons) degree in Quantity
Surveying from the University of Abertay Dundee in 1995 and also holds a Diploma in
Building (Technology) from Tunku Abdul Rahman College, which he obtained in 1990.
He began his career with Taisei Corporation in 1990 where over a period of seven years
he rose to the position of Section Manager – Quantity Surveying. In 1997, he joined
Sunway Construction Sdn. Bhd. and served as the Contract Manager of Business Development
& Marketing Department. Thereafter, Mr Chung acted as the Country Manager/Project Director
of Sunway Innopave Sdn. Bhd. (Abu Dhabi Branch) for the period from 2007 to 2013.
After his stint in Abu Dhabi, Mr Chung took up the role of Deputy Managing Director of
Sunway Construction Sdn. Bhd. since 2013 before he was promoted to the position as
Managing Director of the Company in November 2015. He was further promoted to
Group Managing Director of the Company in January 2020. Mr Chung has over 20 years
of experience in the construction sector.
Liew Kok Wing
Alternate Director to Chung Soo Kiong &
Managing Director of Sunway Construction Sdn Bhd
Date Appointed to the Board: 7 January 2020
Years of Directorship: Less than a year
Master of Science Degree in Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore
Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore
Mr Liew began his career with L&M Geotechnic in Singapore in 1993, as a Project Engineer
at various construction projects in Singapore. In 1996, he was transferred to L&M Systems,
Thailand as a Project Manager. In the same year, he left to join Taylor Woodrow Projects (M)
Bhd. before joining SunCon as Senior Geotechnical Engineer from 1996 to 1998. Thereafter,
he joined Nishimatsu Construction Company Singapore.
He rejoined SunCon in 2000 and was promoted during the course of overseeing various projects
in Malaysia and India to the position of Senior General Manager, heading the Civil Engineering
Division in 2013. He was further promoted as the Deputy Managing Director in 2016 and as the
Managing Director of Sunway Construction Sdn. Bhd. on 7 January 2020.
He has over 20 years of experience in the construction industry.
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Jalan Lagoon Timur, Bandar Sunway,
47500 Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
© Sunway Construction Group Berhad ( Company No: 201401032422 ( 1108506-W )). All Rights Reserved.


New York, NY – August 22, 2018 – The New York School of Interior Design is pleased to announce the opening of 1:1 drawing, design, and communication, on view September 13 – November 10, at NYSID Gallery, 161 East 69 Street, New York City.
Curated by Darling Green with curatorial consultant Judith Gura, the exhibition includes drawings, instructions, objects and interiors from over 20 designers, both historic and contemporary, including Piranese, Gerrit Rietveld, Enzo Mari, Max Lamb, Josef Hoffmann, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Josef Frank, and Katie Stout. This diverse group of designers have made the innovative communication of form central to their practice, and many continue to push the limits of drawing as a medium — branching into three dimensional space, digital renderings, code-based design and beyond. The show will expose both NYSID students and the general public to the varied ways designers have approached communication over the centuries, with a specific focus on the necessities of communicating designs for production and presentation, both for clients and the public at large.


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Basketball: LeBron James highest-paid player in NBA
Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James becomes highest-paid player for 6th straight year
Los Angeles Lakers power forward LeBron James became the highest-paid player of this season earning $92.4 million in salary and endorsements.
According to Forbes, the 34-year-old player earned $55 million from endorsements in 2019-20.
"It is a record haul for an active basketball player. Nike is his biggest backer, and the company is naming a new research lab at its Beaverton, Oregon, corporate campus after James. Last month, the 17th iteration of his Nike signature shoe, the LeBron XVII, hit stores," said Forbes.
Stephen Curry came in second at $85.2 million while Kevin Durant took the third place at $73.2 million.
The top 10 highest-paid players are:
1. LeBron James (Los Angeles Lakers): $92.4 million
2. Stephen Curry (Golden State Warriors): $85.2 million
3. Kevin Durant (Brooklyn Nets): $73.2 million
4. Russell Westbrook (Houston Rockets): $56.5 million
5. James Harden (Houston Rockets): $55.2 million
6. Kyrie Irving (Brooklyn Nets): $51.7 million
7. Klay Thompson (Golden State Warriors): $47.7 million
8. Chris Paul (Oklahoma City Thunder): $46.5 million
9. Giannis Antetokounmpo (Milwaukee Bucks): $45.8 million
10. Damian Lillard (Portland Trail Blazers): $43.8 million
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Q: What causes this strange result in Python when assigning to values in a dictionary? I recently reduced a bug in some code to being a result of the following behaviour:
>>> arr = np.zeros(10)
>>> value = 0
>>> dictionary = {"key":[arr,value]}
>>> dictionary["key"][0]
array([ 0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.,  0.])
>>> dictionary["key"][1]
0
>>> dictionary["key"][0]+=1
>>> dictionary["key"][1]+=1
>>> dictionary["key"][0]
array([ 1.,  1.,  1.,  1.,  1.,  1.,  1.,  1.,  1.,  1.])
>>> dictionary["key"][1]
1
>>> arr
array([ 1.,  1.,  1.,  1.,  1.,  1.,  1.,  1.,  1.,  1.])
>>> value
0

Resulting in:
>>> dictionary["key"][0] is arr
True
>>> dictionary["key"][1] is value
False

Probably a silly question, but what causes this?

A: In the case of the numpy array, you have the same object assigned with the name arr and inside your dictionary. As such, when you modify it you see the change appear for both, they're the same object after all, and numpy arrays are mutable.
For the integer, when you do dictionary["key"][1]+=1 you are creating a new integer inside the dictionary, this is because integers are immutable [1]. This means that the two integers (value and dictionary["key"][1]) are different objects, and so one is modified but the other is not.
[1] It might look like x = 2; x += 1 is operating on the same object, after all += should do "in-place" operations, but it's not because of the immutability. Behind the scenes you're actually re-binding x with a new integer object, as such they have the same name, but are different objects.

A: The answer lies with the difference between a numpy array (mutable) and an integer (immutable).  When you performed this:
dictionary["key"][0]+=1

This mutated the numpy array in-place, and is therefore still the same object.
When you performed this:
dictionary["key"][1]+=1

That cannot mutate an integer in-place (being immutable), and therefore allocated a new object (which is why is returns False).


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