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Sierra Leone Women And Sport Commission Hopes For Brighter Future
In the course of the International women's day celebration members of Women and Sport Commission Sierra Leone glanced at their past as athletes, coaches and administrators during their active days in sport and think about the future of the current crop of female athletes.
In the past women's participation in sport was overshadowed by their male counterpart and most of them were neglected by their parents, discriminated by friends and in most cases dropped out of school for no good reason.
These were the factors that forced most female athletes to end their career in the time when they are needed most. Because of such pressures majority of quality athletes by then forcefully left sport and concentrated on other things which are totally differ from their actual talents.
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Those athletes that we supposed to be seeing at world level were unable to achieve their goal of representing the country at national and international sporting events.
But today things have changed and the whole scenario has become a thing of the past. Female athletes in the various sporting disciplines are performing extremely well in both national and international assignment.
This has made them more influential and most junior athletes do admire them and think of doing exactly as they do.
For instance, the female volleyball team has on several occasion raise the country's flag high in competitions hosted here in Sierra Leone and outside the country. A wrestler known as Hajaratu Kamara returned home with bronze medals on two occasions.
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And quite recently the female national cricket team won the maiden edition of the North West Africa Cricket Council Tournament in the
Gambia after winning all their matches against their counterpart. They did not only bring home the championship trophy but also 4 individual trophies were won by Ann Marie Monica Kamara, Janet Kowa, Aminata Kamara and Linda Bull.
In addition to that Sierra Leone Lawn Tennis starlet Mattu Kamara who is currently based in Thailand on a four year scholarship to continue her education and tennis career won silver medal in the mix doubles at the ITF/CAT junior tennis championship recently hosted in Abuja Nigeria.
In 2012 Ola Sesay became the first female athlete to officially qualify for an Olympic event (Long jump) in the history of the country. She did compete in the London 2012 Olympic Games but she was unable to reach the centre stage of the competition.
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Quite recently the Confederation of Africa Football (CAF) appointed Madam Elizabeth French and the current FA president Isha Johansen as match commissioner for the period of 2016-2018.
Madam French like other women has served in various capacities as coach, starter, recorder, former FIFA assistant referee and the only female umpire West Africa can boost off and she is also one of the two in the entire Africa.
With all these successes gained by womenfolk's in Sierra Leone sport the commission is looking forward to a brighter future that will create more opportunity for female athletes, coaches and administrators to achieve their dreams.
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Why it is important for the waste and recycling industry to become more agile
AMCS Platform solutions support quick response to fast changing situations such as Covid-19
In a rapidly changing world, for the waste and recycling industry, agility is vital to thrive in times of great complexity and uncertainty. It provides companies with the instruments to adapt to changes quickly and to succeed in a dynamic and fast-moving environment. At the same time, agility enables waste and recycling companies to strengthen their market position as well as further increase their competitive edge.
This is evident from the AMCS webinar 'How to become agile' hosted by Conor Dowd, Enterprise Sales Manager Commercial Waste, and Pat Murray, Pre-sales Manager Commercial Waste. Among other things they tune into the importance of agility for the waste and recycling industry and explain the core business drivers contributing to agile operations.
A principal added value of agility is that it allows companies to become innovative by transforming into a digital organisation, through automating paper and manual processes. Down the line, this shift has major positive impacts on operational business processes. For instance, the waste and recycling industry can deliver services faster while being more tuned-in to the customer's needs.
As a result of this, companies can develop a more customer-centric mindset and build service processes from a customer perspective. Ultimately that will delight customers and increase customer loyalty. Since this prevents customers from changing providers, in the long run, developing into an agile organisation secures future turnover.
Agility shows a way out of the Covid-19 pandemic
In these strange times, agility also shows waste and recycling companies a way out in their response to the current pandemic, something that became apparent during the webinar. An example of agility in the current COVID 19 situation is quickly moving from taking cash payments to receiving online card payments, assuring better adherence to social distancing guidelines.
Also mentioned were automating the weighing process to enable unmanned weighing and replacing paperwork like weighing slips for the digital exchange of the weight through a web-based portal. Due to digitisation, agility also has contributed significantly to the growing remote working trend, which empowers employees to work safely and effectively from home.
State-of-the-art technologies drive agility in the waste and recycling industry
The examples explained during the webinar relate to companies who have set far-reaching goals to become agile and flexible. Operations for many others in the industry are still determined by manual and paper processes. Those face several adverse business outcomes such as disparate systems with multiple points of failure and, as a result, greater risk of revenue leakage between those disparate systems.
According to the webinar, other challenges include the difficulty in centralising core functions, and the lack of coherent end-to-end process flows which can extend the order-to-cash cycle - ultimately affecting cashflow. These barriers to agility put tremendous pressure on waste and recycling companies to maximise utilisation against the backdrop of ever-increasing customer service expectations.
The way out is to drive agility through the use of state-of-the-art technologies such as AMCS Platform. The cloud-based, SaaS, end-to-end solution integrates industry-specific solutions such as enterprise management, mobile workforce, digital engagement, powerful contract and pricing engines, analytics, and intelligent optimisation to (re) plan and (re) optimise waste collecting routes thanks to cutting-edge algorithms.
Intelligent optimisation to meet the high standard customers demand
One of the key drivers for agility is intelligent optimisation, an agile planning and transport optimisation solution, as per Conor's explanation during the webinar. It is a modern and next generation technology extensively used by companies in need of very specific, highly automated continuity, where customers want to pick exact time slots and want service notifications.
Due to the in-built super-fast calculating algorithms, the solutions can plan and optimise transport routes several days in advance, including distance and time calculation and taking multiple factors into consideration such as specific customer time windows, distance, and traffic congestion areas. The algorithms build and rebuild the routes daily, without a lockdown time, and they include factors such as allocation of resource like fleet and workforce, tracking of orders on the day of execution, and making changes on the fly.
Contract and pricing engine acts as a revenue protector
One of the key components in becoming agile is revenue protection with the support of a powerful contract and pricing engine, said Conor Dowd and Pat Murray during the webinar. For instance, the system enables per visit charging. This reduces revenue loss when, for example, the driver arrives at the customer's site but can't collect or empty a bin because of a blocked access.
One of the other key values they mentioned is the minimum bill level charging, allowing the waste operation to always bill for at least a specific number of bin lifts to cover the costs of a visit. And third is the possibility for service charging to bill customers in advance for an expected number of lifts in a period, thereby reducing exposure to bad debt and improving cashflow.
The key message, according to the webinar, is to enable the service provider to charge on planned activities and minimum contracted order quantities. This ensures heavy bins and additional services are billed accurately, which passes the risk from the service provider to the customer.
Mobile solutions solve a series of problems
The mobile solution, AMCS Mobile Workforce, solve a series of challenges for waste and recycling companies, as is apparent from the webinar. For instance, through digitisation and automation of route and order delivery to the in-cab device of the driver, it reduces errors in manual entry and prevents inaccuracies by providing accurate and auditable customer service data. Furthermore, it overcomes the lack of adaptability by enabling dynamic adding of orders to the mobile workforce route in real-time.
Additionally, by tracking all mobile workforce, the progress of the order fulfilment and providing verification of service, AMCS Mobile Workforce reduces the extra costs of missed collections. As a result, this reduces revenue leakage, especially when combined with RFID and weighing. On balance, the integrated solutions of AMCS Platform down the line leads to an increase of the major business drivers for waste and recycling industries, such as turnover and margin growth, risk and cost reduction while at the same time improving customer service and customer satisfaction.
If you are interested in knowing more about the solutions AMCS Platform provides, please have a look at the website which also includes an overall Platform video.
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AMCS is the first software company in the waste management and recycling sector to obtain SOC 1 Type II accreditation
AMCS, the leading global supplier of integrated software and vehicle technology for the waste, recycling and resource industries, today announced that it has attained SOC I Type II compliance. The accreditation highlights that AMCS operates best practice controls and procedures in ensuring a customer-centric approach to operations.
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In the past, this was as easy as adding an rule like
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT

I went to restart my iptables service and there is none.  I went to install iptables and yum says it's installed and up to date (version 1.4.x)
How do I get the service?
EDIT: The answer is below, but I also wanted to let people know, if you're having trouble adding the rule to the /etc/sysconfig/iptables config... I would recommend using the $> system-config-firewall command to bring up a gui port editor that appears to work with the command below to restart the ipstables service via systemctl

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Microsoft's latest version of Office 2011 is due out in October of 2011. It features many improvements over previous versions and comes in the following flavors:
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Our kitchen faucet displays are the best in the entire region! You will use your kitchen faucet more every day than you will use your stove, refrigerator and microwave combined. Studies have shown that a kitchen faucet will be operated an average of 70 times a day in a family of four household. To really get a feel for how a particular kitchen faucet will look and operate in your home, you need to be able to actually test-drive the handle, spout and sprayer for yourself. Handy Man's kitchen faucets are displayed at floor level, just like in your home, not mounted up on a wall high above your head like at the big-box stores. We invite you to come and try out the display faucets in our showroom so that you can personally test the functionality of the kitchen faucet that you are interested in. We have several kitchen faucets installed with running water that enable you to see and experience the action in a realistic environment. Come into our store and try out the pull-out spray heads, the touch-less or touch faucets and the one or two handle designs. You won't find a better selection of kitchen faucets to choose from than at Handy Man.
Our expert staff will help to make sure that you end up with the kitchen faucet that best suits your needs. Handy Man's staff is friendly and smart and we want to help you select the kitchen faucet that is right for you. We try to greet every customer that comes through the door and ask them if we can help, but we respect your personal space too, realizing that sometimes you just want to look around on your own. If we don't have the right answer for your project, we will do our best to help you find it! Handy Man sells thousands of kitchen faucets every year, we are your local experts!
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reHub will take part of the Arduino Day 2017 in Milan at LogIn – WeMake malkerspace's partner- in Via Stefanardo da Vimercate 28, on Saturday 1st of April.
The event will start at 2.30pm, 50 minutes later we will present reHub to the Arduino community.
reHub team, during Arduino Day 2017, will introduce both the glove and future developments planned for the project .
The new reHub platform offers you a way to integrate the wearable to your project and transfer motion data from your hands to the connected devices.
Building the glove will be easy starting from the kit that reHub team is making.
During of the Arduino Day 2017 you will see the glove and the software demo for data collection.


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Quiz time: What percentage of dot-com startups have failed?
The misperceptions are understandable. Fresh are the memories of such mega-failures as Webvan and eToys, along with the Nasdaq's staggering $4.4 trillion drop in market capitalization over the course of the 30 months between its peak in March 2000 and that September 2002 nadir. We now know that the collective business psyche overreacted to the market potential of the Internet, and that led to an inevitable correction. Some pundits are starting to proclaim a new "Web 2.0" era, arguing that we overreacted on the downside as well.
Karl Marx once said that "history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce." But understanding the lessons of the early dot-com era may help us avoid both tragedy and farce in the face of the next emerging opportunity — whether it be nanotechnology, green energy, globalization, or Internet Boom 2.0. Many of the lessons are counterintuitive, which may explain why history has indeed repeated itself all too often.
The 50 percent failure rate of the dot-com era still seems high, until we put it into perspective. Compare the dot-coms to other business realms: From 1996 to 1998, for example, the survival rate for independent restaurants open for three years ran 39 percent. That is, a form of business with a very measurable market, using cooking technology that has existed for decades or more, failed 61 percent of the time. By omparison, the failure rate of Internet-based businesses tapping unknowable market opportunities with an unproven technology platform seems far more tame.
Perhaps this data simply suggests that the dot-com era was an overall success. Despite the trillions of dollars of market capitalization lost when the Internet bubble burst, maybe one should celebrate that the losses were not greater. But we disagree with this perspective. In fact, we bemoan the low failure rate.
To be clear, we do not wish that more startups had failed. Rather, to us, the low failure rate indicates that too few entrepreneurs were funded and too few new ventures launched. Had twice as many been launched, the short-term failure rate for individual businesses might have been higher, but a larger number of successful business models would probably have emerged, and these would have led to more enduring businesses in the long run.
As Kenichi Ohmae suggested in The Invisible Continent: Four Strategic Imperatives of the New Economy (HarperBusiness, 2000), the dot-com era was like the exploration boom that launched the United States' westward movement in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Internet opened up an entirely new continent for colonization. Many venture pioneers sought to settle this new land. Upon reflection, the fact that so many companies survived suggests that the first wave of the dot-com revolution suffered from too little entry, not too much. The hype-happy phase of the bubble created a land-grab mentality, with early entrants seeking to control the high ground rather than continue exploring. And, when the bubble burst, new explorers could not get the funding to start a new expedition of the remaining uncharted territory. Had the fall not been so dramatic, more firms could have sought to productively exploit the new terrain.
A key contributor to the land-rush mentality was the first-mover fallacy: a belief that the winners would be the ones who got there first and got big fast. Conventional wisdom argues that the first company to stake out a position will dominate its industry — especially during a rapid growth period like the early days of the Internet. But history has proven that the opposite is often true: Commodore, Osborne, and Kaypro pioneered the personal computer industry in the early 1980s but did not establish dominant positions. Rigorous academic research has shown that early movers may achieve a market share advantage, but they do not systematically achieve greater profits or a higher survival rate.
A look at Internet retailing substantiates the idea that you don't have to be a first mover to succeed. Founded in 1994, Amazon is the clear leader in Internet sales, but it did not achieve full-year profitability until 2003. Although it remains marginally profitable today (4.2 percent net income for 2005), Amazon still has cumulative net income of negative $2 billion. Another early "e-tailer," eToys, fared even worse. Founded in 1996, eToys went public in 1999 and declared bankruptcy in 2001. By contrast, Newegg, which sells new and used computer and electronic equipment, didn't launch until 2001 and is now the second-largest pure-play Internet retailer, with 2005 sales of $1.3 billion.
First movers do not necessarily find the most fertile ground. Those who wait to explore later, or more patiently, benefit from the experiences of earlier settlers. They can bypass the hulking shells of unsustainable structures built by the first-generation pioneers and salvage the best ideas buried in the wreckage. Consider FreshDirect, the online grocer, which offers a direct delivery model much like that of Webvan. FreshDirect serves 250,000 customers in the greater New York City area from a central distribution center in Queens, just outside midtown Manhattan. A privately held company with an estimated $150 million in annual sales, FreshDirect ranked 68th among American Internet retailers in 2005, and (according to Forbes magazine's September 18, 2006, issue) became profitable within the past year.
During the early days of the New Economy, previous models of success were easily dismissed. Dot-com businesses were not supposed to operate by the same rules as traditional firms. The new calculus posited that the Internet generated "network effects," which made the first-mover strategy critical. The fate of early personal computer hardware companies was irrelevant; the example of Microsoft setting the industry standard for PC operating systems offered a more relevant example. The pundits proclaimed that "network effects" would rule the new "network economy." Unfortunately, many investors learned that just because the Internet is a network doesn't mean it offers significant network effects to every business.
The phrase network effects — or its more formal economic equivalent, network externalities — refers to the phenomenon of a network's value increasing as more members join. Consider the network effects of Skype, the Internet communications company that enables free voice and video communications among its members. As each new member joins, the value increases for existing members because each member now has additional potential points of contact.
Bob Metcalfe, founder of The 3Com Corporation and developer of the Ethernet technology for networking computers, adapted the theory to technology businesses in what became known as Metcalfe's Law. He argued that the value of a network grows as the square of the number of users. (See "The Big, the Bad, and the Beautiful," by Tim Laseter, Martha Turner, and Ron Wilcox, s+b, Winter 2003.) Online auction mecca eBay, another company that clearly benefits from network effects, acquired Skype for $2.6 billion in September 2005, when the company boasted 54 million users. A year later, the network had more than doubled to 113 million users spread across virtually every country in the world.
Intellectually appealing in its simplicity, Metcalfe's Law seemed to offer a justification for the astronomical valuation of early dot-coms and provided a mandate to move first and get big fast. Simple insights generally prove more useful than complex theories. But simplistic application of a concept replaces critical thinking far too often. In the end, the value of a network effect depends on the business model. It obviously works for eBay: More individual buyers bring on more individual sellers who bring on more buyers in a virtuous circle. But a retailer of new products — using traditional stores or the Internet — doesn't experience this same network advantage.
Independent of network effects, a "get big fast" strategy offers both benefits and risks. On the one hand, scale economies certainly accrue to a big company. Wal-Mart can buy and then transport goods at a lower cost because it sells more than $300 billion in goods each year. In addition to having the resources to scour the world in search of the lowest-cost suppliers, Wal-Mart can invest in state-of-the-art radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to run its distribution network. The distribution network has enough density for economical cross-docking operations, which transfer goods between trucks without the extra cost of storing them for long periods of time. As a result, Wal-Mart turns its inventory eight times per year versus a median of four times for the industry as a whole.
But a "get big fast" strategy in pursuit of scale economies has a dark side, especially in unpredictable markets. Webvan, for example, was founded in 1996, went public in 1999, and filed for bankruptcy protection in 2001. In the summer of 1999 it reported that revenues from the six months ending in June totaled $395,000, with net losses of $35.1 million. Despite those financial results, the company signed a $1 billion contract with Bechtel Corporation to build 26 distribution centers across the country, modeled on its unproven pilot operation in Oakland, Calif.
Webvan ultimately built three of the highly automated, large-scale distribution centers, and none of them reached break-even utilization levels. Each distribution center offered sales potential equivalent to 18 traditional grocery stores — a huge amount of capacity to bring online at one time in a mature industry. Webvan's projections had estimated costs based on high utilization rates; but at the 30 to 40 percent utilization rates actually achieved by the facilities, the company's costs were well above those of the traditional model, and its cash quickly dissipated.
By contrast, Wal-Mart achieved its scale over a very long time. Sam and Bud Walton opened the first Wal-Mart in 1962, but only after Sam had spent a dozen years running five-and-dime stores for the Ben Franklin chain. Eight years later, in 1970, Wal-Mart went public with $44 million in sales from 18 stores. It also opened its first distribution center that year. Sam Walton expanded much more slowly and only after proving the profitability of the small-town discount store strategy. Webvan tried to grow rapidly while struggling with the complexity of a highly automated business model and uncertain demand. Even though the model might have proven advantageous over time — with more experimentation — the "get big fast" thinking created a risk profile that was simply too extreme.
Why did so many companies try to be the first mover and pursue a "get big fast" strategy despite the questionable economic and strategic logic of that approach? Part of the blame clearly falls at the feet of the venture capitalists. Venture capitalists play a critical role in the economy by funding business ideas early in the life cycle when the risk of failure is high. By having a portfolio of such investments, venture-capital funds offer extraordinary returns even when only a small fraction of the businesses succeed. In normal times, venture-capital firms view thousands of ideas from passionate entrepreneurs, but generally fund just a handful of businesses each year. Furthermore, they parcel out the money gradually as the companies prove the viability of their business models.
But during the heady days of the dot-com era, the venture capitalists found themselves with a surfeit of money as more and more investors wanted a piece of the action. Although far more projects were chasing those funds than had been the case in past years, the venture-capital firms did not necessarily have the resources to screen all of those ideas with consistent rigor. Since investors couldn't maintain their formerly high levels of fundamental due diligence at the faster pace of the bubble years, they began to make investment decisions by looking to the decisions of other venture investors. As with the buffalo on the prairie, a few leading examples charging off with abandon can create a stampede. And when no one knows with confidence where to go, the safest path is to follow the herd.
Sociologists have a fancy name for this herd instinct: mimetic isomorphism. They have documented its prevalence in industries as varied as trucking and banking. That research has also demonstrated the rationality of copying others. Although copying rarely produces a breakthrough outcome, it does keep an organization from being left behind. Only a brave buffalo goes against the stampede. And unless that buffalo is extremely agile, it may well be crushed by the herd.
Unfortunately, once the process of mimetic isomorphism gets started, it is hard to stop. The only way to get funding during the dot-com heyday was to identify a new market and promise exponential growth (à la Metcalfe's Law). That exponential growth required huge funds that siphoned money away from potential late starters who could learn from the initial failures. The "get big fast" strategy produced more losses as companies focused on market share rather than profits. But the venture capitalists — and then the capital markets — agreed to fund the massive investments and simultaneous losses. The only way to avoid the day of reckoning on profits was to continue promising more growth and seeking more money to fund it. Even before it went public, Webvan scored a $1 billion market capitalization by promising exponential growth from a mere $4 million in revenues — less than one-fourth of the annual sales of a single grocery store.
The biggest risk of the herd instinct comes when the stampede turns and heads in the opposite direction with equal abandon. When the dot-com craze reversed itself, millions of investors lost a large proportion of their retirement accounts. And more than 100,000 dot-com employees lost their jobs in the 10 months from October 2000 to July 2001. When bubbles pop, many people get hurt.
To avoid the bubble, we recommend lots of little experiments that send the herd in many different directions. Avoiding the "get big fast" strategy and the herd instinct allows for a more thorough investigation of the terrain. Many members of the herd will fall upon barren terrain and die, but in the long run, careful nurturing of the fruitful routes will produce a greater herd than overgrazing of the fertile patches discovered by the lucky few.
There's already evidence that history will repeat itself, in the form of new business bubbles. Consider nanotechnology, the science of controlling materials and devices at a molecular scale. In March 2001, the National Science Foundation issued a report forecasting a nanotechnology market of $1 trillion by 2015. Products already employing nanotechnology include stain- and wrinkle-resistant fabric, digital cameras, and tennis equipment. Could nanotechnology produce another bubble economy with overhyped expectations followed by a painful correction? A recent report identified more than 800 companies involved in nanotechnology, including many public companies. Does that figure represent enough experimentation for a market estimated to grow at 44 percent per year for the next dozen years?
Renewable ("green," or non-fossil-fuel-based) energy represents another example of promising but unknowable market potential that would benefit from lots of experimentation. In 2000, Clean Energy Incorporated forecast a market of $23 billion by 2005; the actual market was $24.2 billion. Although reasonably accurate overall, the forecasts overestimated the potential for fuel cells by a factor of two while significantly underestimating the potential for solar energy. Current forecasts are for nearly fivefold growth over the next decade, but the question remains: Will the growth come from fuel cells, solar devices, wind energy, or other new forms of renewable energy? Given such uncertainty, lots of little bets are likely the best course.
The phenomenal growth in business process outsourcing (BPO) and offshoring may be the latest example of a herd already in a stampede. The International Data Corporation estimated the 2005 BPO market at $627 billion, growing from a market of $60 billion seven years ago. India, a country with a GDP of just over $500 billion, "exported" $16.1 billion in IT services and $5.1 billion in BPO services in 2006, according to Plunkett Research Ltd. The cost savings potential from outsourcing and offshoring clearly warrants serious managerial attention, but how many of these decisions reflect a herd mentality rather than serious consideration of the long-term strategic implications? The worldwide market for offshored research and engineering services now tops $18 billion. Can the developed world afford to give up critical competencies in intellectual property creation? Can businesses afford not to tap into the intellectual resources available from developing countries? One thing is certain: The best results will come from serious reflection and experimentation that challenges our assumptions, not from simply following the herd.
Finally, the market for RFID tags plus the supporting systems and services totaled $2.7 billion in 2006, and forecasts predict growth to $26.2 billion over the coming decade. Since the invention of the technology, nearly 2.4 billion RFID tags have been sold across a wide range of industries. But few people realize that the invention dates back to 1944. Many small bets with a mix of successes and failures have occurred during the intervening years. Wal-Mart's commitment to RFID technology may now produce the tipping point that triggers widespread adoption. This could lead to bigger bets going forward. At the same time, 62 years of exploration have already identified the most fertile terrain, and the competitive gains from RFID may not be as massive as many observers predict.
During the dot-com bubble, large sums of money went toward big bets on first movers intent on getting big fast. Observing some big successes in businesses with network effects or scale economies, investors concluded that all of the swans were white. In reality there were also black swans — and a fair number of geese, ducks, and egrets as well. The market results — and societal results — would have been better had the capital been more patient and had it gone into a more diverse range of exploratory investments. Although more businesses would have failed, the failures would have been smaller and would have provided less costly lessons. Multiple smaller experiments would have generated far more insight into the real drivers of value creation on the Internet and produced more exploration of the undiscovered terrain.
Uncertain times abound; despite Marx's claim of inevitability, business managers can avoid repeating the past. The dot-com era taught us that testing ideas with small bets and constantly challenging conventional wisdom offer the best path to finding the right market timing. Whatever the current uncertainties facing your market — nanotechnology, green energy, Indian and Chinese enterprise, or something else altogether — don't allow your future to become tragic or farcical. History does not have to repeat itself.
David Kirsch (dkirsch@rhsmith.umd.edu) is assistant professor of management and entrepreneurship at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. He is the author of The Electric Vehicle and the Burden of History (Rutgers University Press, 2000), a study of the electric car. He also directs the Web site www.businessplanarchive.org, a collection of documents about the birth of the dot-com era.
Brent Goldfarb (bgoldfarb@rhsmith.umd.edu) is assistant professor of management and entrepreneurship at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. He is the author of several academic articles on the economics of new technologies and markets.
Also contributing to this article was Angela Huang, an associate with Booz Allen Hamilton in Cleveland.


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Cher, Reba McEntire and 'Hamilton' to receive Kennedy Center Honors
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Cher, Reba McEntire, composer Philip Glass and jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter will receive this year's Kennedy Center Honors, the organization announced Wednesday. In addition, "Hamilton" will be recognized with a special award, marking the first time in the show's 41-year history that an honor is being bestowed on a work of art and not an individual. The "Hamilton" creative team, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail, Andy Blankenbuehler and Alex Lacamoire, will accept the award.
"The world looks to America for its creative instincts and artistic courage," Kennedy Center President Deborah F. Rutter said in a statement. "This year's slate of Honorees represents the pinnacle of our nation's originality and the rich mosaic of diverse perspectives and art forms that have come to define who we are as a people. As the national cultural center, the Kennedy Center is guided by its artistic mission to pay tribute to the past, to offer a platform for artists making transformative impact in the present, and to shepherd creative innovators as we look toward the future.
"Historically, the Kennedy Center Honors have celebrated lifetime achievement," she continued. "In recognizing 'Hamilton' and its co-creators, the Kennedy Center is making an unprecedented statement about an unprecedented work – a work that transcends cultural boundaries and tells America's story in a powerful and contemporary way."
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TIGTA is initiating a review of the IRS's oversight of the IRS's Information Technology organization's oversight of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) funding. ARPA is the latest in a series of coronavirus pandemic-related relief and economic stimulus legislation. It includes approximately $1.9 trillion in economic relief and stimulus to address the continuing impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the economy, public health, state and local governments, individuals, and businesses. ARPA provides the IRS with approximately $1.8 billion for the implementation of numerous tax-related provisions intended to provide relief to individuals and businesses and to modernize and secure its systems. The IT organization was allocated approximately $1 billion of these funds for the systems work.
The Taxpayer Advocate Service Assisted Thousands of Taxpayers With CARES Act Issues but Faced Challenges in Identifying and Tracking Applicable Cases
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Review of IRS's Customer Service Efforts to Assist Taxpayers With the Child Tax Credit Portal and Non-Portal Updates
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration is initiating a review of the Internal Revenue Service's customer service efforts to assist taxpayers in determining their eligibility and updating their personal information in order to qualify for advance payments of the Child Tax Credit. The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, which became law on March 11, 2021, increases the amount of the Child Tax Credit from $2,000 to $3,000 per child under the age of 18 ($3,600 for children under 6). The American Rescue Plan Act also requires the IRS to develop an online portal, known as the Child Tax Credit Update Portal. Taxpayers that do not have access to the Internet will be able to contact the IRS using a dedicated phone line or visit a Taxpayer Assistance Center to either opt-out or update their information.


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My first teaching job was at the Coast Guard Academy, teaching chemistry. I think what really turned me into a teacher was not just being there, but talking to the students about the fact that they either loved chemistry or they hated it, but they had to take it. I quickly realized that a big part of their reaction to science had to do with the kinds of teachers they'd had in the past. That was when I decided that I really wanted to be a teacher, and that the age I wanted to teach was middle school. I want to be that teacher that helps students love what they are learning.
What do you think works well about the Bryn Mawr Middle School science curriculum?
I think it is the realization that it's not the content that drives what we teach, but rather the basic science skills and the love of learning science, and that the content is the vehicle that allows us to do that. We have the freedom to play with our content in a way that really makes it interesting for students. We can do a lot of hands-on activities, and we keep the focus on the skills.
You have been at Bryn Mawr for more than a decade. What has it been like watching girls grow through the Middle and Upper Schools and go out into the world – and, in some cases, come back as teachers?
It makes me smile. I love seeing students come back, or meeting them in different places. We just took the seventh grade to Genesee Valley, and one of my former students (Ally McGill '09) was the lead facilitator for the girls. It really makes me feel proud to see our girls out in the world, because you know that they are going to succeed and make a difference.
My teaching philosophy is really about teaching girls to make wise choices. Our curriculum has changed a great deal over the time that I've been here, but I feel that no matter what the curriculum, we can teach them how to make good choices about themselves, their environment and their relationships.


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The Ramayana Revisited: A Tale of Love and Adventure
Storytelling performances at The Peranakan Museum
Special storytelling performances for the museum's year long exhibition
6 Mar 2010 – 27 Feb 2011
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For The Peranakan Museum, Singapore
Kamini was commissioned to create storytelling content for The Ramayana Revisited: A Tale of Love and Adventure exhibition held at The Peranakan Museum.
She trained a team of 6 storytellers, to tell each of the six chapters of the great epic.
The storytellers were stationed at different locations within the museum to bring alive, expound upon and enhance a particular segment of the overall exhibition. Stories were told concurrently, repeated every 15-mins so that a fluid, moving audience would enjoy and benefit from listening to all six chapters as a moving storytelling experience throughout the 2-levels of the exhibition.
A variety of relevant props were incorporated in the storytelling as well as audience participation where possible.
The team of storytellers shared The Ramayana stories with members of the public during the museum's Open House weekends in March 2010, July 2010, August 2010 as well as February 2011 - a total of 8 days telling the greatest epic story in the world!
The team also provided their storytelling services for a private engagement for the IIT Alumni in Singapore on 18 July 2010 as part of their Family Day celebrations held at the musuem.
Photos courtesy of The Peranakan Museum.
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Home News Why things are difficult for firstborn children- Pastor Adeboye
Why things are difficult for firstborn children- Pastor Adeboye
The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye has given insight into why things are difficult for firstborn children even as he requested that serious intercession be made for them.
Adeboye gave the insight at a thanksgiving service on Sunday, February 6 at the Church's headquarters in Lagos
Drawing several allusions from the Bible, the RCCG said it is common to see many first-born children with several challenges.
He said first-born children belong to God according to the Bible, but most parents want to lay claim to them adding that their problems stem from their inability to walk in tandem with God's will for their lives.
Adeboye explained that those who do redemption of their firstborn children do so because they understand spiritual laws guiding the place of the firstborn.
Though he refrained from making further comment on the redemption of the firstborn, he said destinies could be transformed for good or for worse.
He mentioned several instances where God dealt with firstborn children in the Bible and also how God restored some of them to their glorious destinies.
Read also: Why we should be careful about Old Testament-Bishop Olaleye: https://churchtimesnigeria.net/old-testament-church-olaleye/
Firstborn: The transformation of Levi
According to him, no man can question God. 'He does as he pleases. You better understand that God does as he pleases else you won't enjoy yourself. But as great as God is, he gives man the opportunity to decide whether to do his will or not. Your destiny depends on whose side you are.' he said.
The RCCG overseer gave the instance of Levi and Manasseh in the Bible who were earlier despised. He however noted that because the children of Levi were the ones who stood on the side of the Lord when Moses made a call after the idolatry of the children of Israel, God gave them the position of the firstborn.
He said Manasseh was older than Ephraim. But when Jacob was to bless the children of Joseph, the preferred Ephraim to Manasseh. But in course of time, Ephraim joined himself to an idol and lost that honour. Manasseh was eventually restored and given a vantage position as recorded in the book of Revelation.
Adeboye: English was my best subject
Adeboye who spoke on the topic, The transformed destiny, took time to explore the meaning of the word transformed. He noted that it's a combination of two words, trans and formed.
Trans in his words means to change from one form to the other. He gave several instances of the use of trans. He said also that English was his best subject when he was in secondary school. But he opted to study Mathematics because that was the course that was available for scholarship.
Why humility is important
The RCCG pastor also talked about the imperative of humility. He recalled how God asked him to draw a human being and at the same time asked him to wipe it off.
"God asked me to draw a man, which I did. That was after the glorious crusade we had in Lekki called Lekki 98.
"I was thanking God and really praising him when suddenly He asked me to bend down. He asked me to draw a human being. I did, he then asked me to wipe it off. And he told me the day I allow pride in my life, he would wipe me off and I nobody would know I ever existed."
He then cautioned his listeners not to allow pride to get into their lives no matter their attainment in life.
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Every couple has those questions they don't know how or whom to ask! Sexual Intimacy in Marriage discusses the basics, like the definition of marriage, and the not-so-basic topics, such as achieving sexual pleasure and biblically "OK" sexual activity. This highly acclaimed, medically and biblically accurate book covers all the bases about sex in marriage with a sensitivity and frankness that every couple will appreciate. Third edition. Forward by Tony and Lois Evans.
Sandra Glahn, ThM, is adjunct professor at Dallas Theological Seminary, her alma mater. She is the coauthor of eight books, including the CBA bestseller and Christy Award finalist, Lethal Harvest. Sandra is also editor-in-chief of the award-winning magazine Kindred Spirit.
William R. Cutrer, M.D., is an OB/GYN and an ordained minister. He is the Gheens Professor of Christian Ministry and the director of the Gheens Center for Marriage and Family at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He serves as the medical director at A Woman's Choice Pregnancy Resource Center. He is the author of Choice Today: A Pregnancy Resource and Under the Fig Leaves, and coauthor of Sexual Intimacy in Marriage and The Infertility Companion. He has also coauthored the novels Lethal Harvest, Deadly Cure, and False Positive.
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Legislation that points consumers toward "retail clinics" is bad for health, and health insurance.
Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) allow individuals to use pre-tax dollars to pay for high deductibles and other uncovered medical expenses. Currently, individuals are ineligible for tax-advantaged HSA contributions if they have "other" coverage in addition to a High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP.) Expanding HSAs to fund out-of-pocket expenses for routine healthcare places control directly in the hands of patients, a move that could bring down health expenditures. Large corporations are wrestling for control to direct where patients spend their hard-earned money.
A group of lawmakers recently introduced the "bipartisan" Health Savings Account Improvement Act of 2018 (H.R. 5138). This bill allegedly "expands" HSA coverage to allow use at "retail-based" (think CVS/Target) or "employer-owned" clinics (think Amazon) without losing eligibility to make tax-advantaged contributions to their HSAs. Increasing the flexibility of HSAs is a laudable goal yet, this legislation herds Americans like sheep into "minute clinics" for the benefit of corporate shareholders.
This bill should not become law. If HR 5138 passes, retail and employer-based clinics will become profit centers. Alternative legislation, known as the Primary Care Enhancement Act (H.R. 365), amends the definition of "qualified medical expenses" to include fees paid to physicians as part of a "primary care service arrangement." This common-sense legislation flounders in Congress every year.
A "minute clinic" seems convenient, but that is an illusion. In my experience, approximately one-third of patients are misdiagnosed at retail-based clinics, which drives up cost exponentially. Many years ago, a little girl was seen twice at a retail clinic without improvement. Presenting initially with abdominal pain, she was diagnosed with a urinary tract infection. She returned the next day with a rash and was examined by a different "provider." He concluded her rash was caused by an allergy to an antibiotic.
On Monday morning, the mother brought her daughter in to my clinic. She did not have hives. She had petechiae — purplish spots that do not blanch — covering the lower half of her body. She had an uncommon pediatric condition known as Henoch-Schonlein purpura, an auto-immune condition, which causes complications when it goes unrecognized. How many visits to the retail clinic would be necessary to get it right? I do not want to know.
The lawmakers sponsoring this misguided legislation are Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Penn.), Rep. Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-Penn.), Rep. Blumenauer (D-Ore.), Rep. Erik Paulsen (R-Minn.), Rep. Ron Kind (D-Wisc.), and Rep Terri Sewell (D-Ala.). Why are lawmakers giving "retail clinics" a leg up on the competition? It appears they have been either Target-ed or Amazon-ed.
Representatives Kelly and Fitzpatrick appear to be afflicted with Amazon fever; two cities in their great state of Pennsylvania are currently under consideration as Amazon HeadQuarters 2. Rep. Paulsen hails from Minnesota, where two of the nations' leading retailers, Target and Best Buy, have their corporate headquarters. The Target Corporation is the top contributor for his entire legislative career. The Target Corporation also contributes heavily to Rep. Kind from Wisconsin.
HSA expansion will be a bonanza for the banking, finance and credit industries, who hold and service HSA funds. Rep. Sewell has close ties to these sectors, which make up some of her best contributors when separated by industry. Rep. Blumenauer is strongly supported by the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA,) a trade group for the world's largest retailers and distribution centers (translation: Amazon). In the financial sector, Berkshire Hathaway, a multinational holding company, is a top contributor to the Blumenauer re-election campaign.
Our government should be of the people, by the people and for the people – not of Target, by Amazon, and for Berkshire Hathaway.
Being seen by a midlevel provider at a big box retailer cannot save money. Lawmakers sponsoring H.R 5138 are doing the nation a grave disservice by sponsoring this atrocious legislation. The playing field should, at least, be level. Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) must be expanded to allow patients to choose independent physicians, direct primary care practices, retail-based, or employer-based clinics. Americans are quite capable of spending their healthcare dollars wisely.


There are only six weeks until we welcome 20 students from Moore Theological College to join our church for over a week of mission to the communities of Oak Flats and Jamberoo.
Under the leadership of Moore College lecturer, Lionel Windsor, we will be engaging in a number of initiatives to bring the gospel of Jesus to our local region.
Over the two weekends of 14-15 and 21-22 May, we will be having guest preachers at all our church services, along with opportunities to hear about the way that knowing Jesus has changed the lives of the team members.
We're also going to be doing ministry in the local schools, shops, as well as events on our own church grounds.
Please be praying that many of the people of our region who don't know Jesus would hear of his love and follow his lead as Lord.
Pray that the Mission week would bring a great burst of evangelistic energy into our churches, as well as provide encouragement and training to the students of Moore College who are preparing for ministry.
Start thinking about who you might be able to bring along to one of the many outreach events over that week… and pray that God's Spirit would do awesome things as people hear the word of God.


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Q: How to return value from For loop in python? I have a function :
 def getvalues():
       global avalue
       global bvalue
       dictt = getresults()
       for key , value in dictt.iteritems():
            avalue = key
            bvalue = dictt[key]
            print avalue , bvalue

This prints the value of avalue , bvalue
Output:
C123 1
C245 2
C456 2
C565 3
C654 1

but , returning the values outside for loop doesn't iterate over.Like this:
 def getvalues():
       global avalue
       global bvalue
       dictt = getresults()
       for key , value in dictt.iteritems():
            avalue = key
            bvalue = dictt[key]
       return avalue , bvalue

I need avalue , bvalue to be used outside this function.How can this be done??
If i use return i get the output as
C654 1

I need the same output of above with all avalue , bvalue that i can use in other function

A: def getvalues():
    values = []
    dictt = getvalues()
    for key , value in getvalues.iteritems():
         values.append((key, getvalues[key]))
    return values