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Women tech leaders: Know what drives them
In a space dominated by men, we zero down on six women who've shattered the gender barrier to rise to leadership positions in the tech space.
By Soumik Ghosh
CIO	 Mar 7, 2017 4:00 pm PST
Let's not turn away from the fact that a gender gap exists when it comes to women in tech.
The World Economic Forum predicts that it will take until 2133 to close the gender gap, given the rate at which we're progressing. According to a Reuters study, 30 percent of 450 technology executives stated that their groups had no women in leadership positions.
Given the current scenario, there's no denying the fact that it's a herculean task for women in the tech space to rise to leadership positions. On the occasion of International Women's Day, we spoke to six tech leaders who broke through the glass ceiling and emerged victorious.
We spoke to them about the technological innovations they drive at their organizations, and their takeaways for women who aspire to rise to leadership roles.
The technologies they drive
Nirmala Sridhar, CIO and GM – IT, Vijaya Bank, says that her organization used the digital medium in a big way, and digital is going to be the way forward as well. "We are focusing more on our mobile platform as well as e-wallets which we launched last year."
"We're laying a lot of focus on our technological initiatives, which include data warehousing, increased usage of analytics, and the massive shift from Finnacle 7 to Finnacle 10," says Sridhar.
Hemalatha Kayarat Rajan, the woman piloting IT for World Bank, South Asia says that the World Bank strategically plans to continue to blend in global technology trends like cloud computing, artificial intelligence, robotics, and mobility to move towards adaptive information security products to manage risks better.
Puneet Kaur Kohli, group EVP – IT Operations and technologies, Bajaj Capital, says that the focus in 2017 will predominantly be on cloud-based technologies. So, the focus will be on SaaS models, where there's complete interoperability among different customer segments.
"We'll be looking more toward Opex investments, where you have a pay-as-you-go concept. I believe this is the direction the world is heading in," says Kohli.
"With respect to our cloud strategy, we will be looking at an on-premise model, which could also include the hybrid cloud," she adds.
Kohli also reveals that Bajaj Capital is already harnessing cognitive computing, and also building a robo-advisory model. "I believe AI is the way forward, as we can completely avoid manual intervention," she says.
The IT division at IFFCO-Tokio General Insurance, also headed by a woman, is focusing majorly on mobility and cloud operations. "The mobility roadmap revolves around business-to-business interoperability. With respect to our cloud strategy, we're already on Microsoft Azure, and we're also hooked to the Oracle cloud," says Seema Gaur, EVP & Head IT, IFFCO-Tokio General Insurance.
"We're also exploring IBM SoftLayer for our infrastructure requirements this year. As far as our database is concerned, we're using Oracle, DB 2, and SQL server," adds Gaur.
Moving away from the BFSI space, we spoke with Jijy Oomen, Head IT, Wonderla Holidays. Wonderla is the first amusement park in India which implemented RFID-based wrist-bands called 'EZ Pay' for cashless transactions in park. The customers can transfer money to the digital wallet and then have cashless transactions at all point of sales.
"Being in the entertainment business, customer experience is a key focus area for Wonderla and in line with this strategic imperative, we have undertaken projects in the areas of analytics, cloud, and digital," says Oomen.
Words for their peers
Veena Vasanth, associate director–Systems, Biocon, acknowledges that IT is a challenging space, where men have always dominated, and continue to.
"Women have all the right qualities which includes: Utmost passion to perform, multitasking, efficiency in balancing personal and work life and empathy – to make it to the top," says Vasanth.
"Every mistake should be taken as a stepping stone for success to reach the top with fame and glory," Vasanth adds.
Hemalatha Kayarat Rajan, World Bank Group says that she truly believes that it's the right time for South Asian women in the tech field to apply their technical knowledge acquired over the years.
"With this, they can rise to leadership positions and excel in bringing positive outcomes to develop the world," she says.
Nirmala Sridhar, Vijaya Bank, on being asked about her take on women in tech says: "This field has a lot of challenges, and I think we should grab every opportunity that comes our way. These days, we have a lot more women engineers in the space, and they should make the most out of it."
Puneet Kaur Kohli, Bajaj Capital, gives us a more strategic view. "I believe it's very important to understand our business model. Technology for us is just a tool, we need to understand what businesses we are representing," she says.
What we need to bear in mind, though, is the fact that a woman often has to play the balancing act between the professional and personal fronts. Seema Gaur, IFFCO-Tokio General Insurance sheds more light on this saying: "We've to be focused – you cannot be good at everything at the same time. Because for women, a healthy work-home balance is required."
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Protest over 'Mary Poppins' basement scheme at Hampstead farmhouse immortalised by Constable
Plans for a 13-room basement extension at Grove Lodge in Hampstead have caused an outcry from neighbours - Credit: Archant
Plans to dig a 13-room basement under a landmark Grade II listed farmhouse in Hampstead, immortalised by painter John Constable, have caused an outcry from conservationists and divided neighbours.
Grove House, which adjoins the grand neighbouring Admirals House, in Admirals Walk, and dates back to 1700, was home to author John Galsworthy from 1918 to 1933 who penned his famous Forsyte sagas there. It has been painted by Constable three times.
Scenes from the Mary Poppins movie with Dick van Dyke were also filmed in the associated Admirals House.
Grove House's new owners, Caspar and Celia Berendsen, have applied for permission to demolish part of the building, once a service wing to Admirals House, and replace it with a new two storey side extension and rear extension, orangery and outbuilding and to dig a huge 13-room basement.
The plans, from NA architects, aim to "provide a more comfortable living environment for the applicant and his large and young family" and "to deliver a 21st century family home".
It is claimed the scheme will "bring the historic main building closer to the original design" with most of the extension hidden underground.
But John Gardiner, who has lived in adjoining Admirals House for 28 years, said: "This would be a disastrous destruction of Hampstead's, and indeed London's, historic heritage."
He said: "The sheer scale of the development creates a new mansion destroying the characteristics that presently remain of an early farmhouse."
He also points out that, along with building works to nearby Fleet House, the area will see months of heavy construction.
Actor Tom Conti, who lives in Hampstead, also objects to the plans. He said: "I'm radically opposed to basements on the grounds of inhumanity to those in the area of construction."
Two other neighbours, however, support the Berendsen's application.
Peter and Naoko Rading, of Fleet House, said it was not an overdevelopment. "We understand their needs as a large family," they wrote.
Two other neighbours, of Upper Terrace, described it as "a good example of sustainable, sympathetic redevelopment of a listed property".


The 3.0 TFSI turbocharged V6 engine produces 260 kW of power and 500 Nm of torque. Paired with an eight-speed tiptronic automatic transmission that features remarkably fast and smooth gear changes, the Audi SQ5 delivers a dynamic driving experience.
Audi quattro all-wheel drive with S-specific tuning delivers superb handling and traction, while enhancing stability on wet or low friction surfaces. The self-locking centre differential directs 40 percent of the torque to the front axle and 60 percent to the rear in normal driving conditions, with up to 85 percent directed to the rear wheels if the road conditions demand it. Even in fast cornering, the handling is precise, stable, and agile. The optional sport differential additionally improves handling by actively distributing the power between the rear wheels.


As many as 20 Chinese companies will invest $150 million in Salmas Special Economic Zone, located in West Azarbaijan, according to the head of the province's Investment Services Center, Mohammad Mousazadeh. Representatives of Chinese businesses visited the SEZ on Saturday to assess investment opportunities, IRNA reported. Investments will be made in three stages, the first of which, according to the representatives of China's SMI Company, will take place in January 2016. Chinese companies will fund projects in textile, information technology, mining and auto sectors as well as production of fertilizers and construction materials. Salmas is an under-construction SEZ that is planned to be completed in three phases. Construction of the first phase in 187,000 hectares of area will be completed by the end of the current Iranian year (March 19, 2016). Upon its completion, according to experts, Salmas could turn into a strategic economic hub in northwestern regions, due to its proximity to airports of Urmia and Tabriz, the capital cities of West and East Azarbaijan provinces respectively. The SEZ also has access to railroads and is close to Jolfa, Bazargan, Razi and Sarz border crossings.


2019 Ford Fusion Sport Review welcome to our web fordtrend.com here we provide various information about the latest ford cars such as: Review, Redesign, Specification, Rumor, Concept, Interior, Exterior, Price, Release Date and Pictures. We hope that the information we provide can help you and make our website become one of your sources in finding the latest car information. Happy nice day!
Good news: For a few years, during which the main family sedan of Vermont was offered only 4, Ford Fusion has another engine in V-6. The best news is that it's two with turbocharged 2.7-liter ekobust V-6, which makes 325 horsepower, the engine we saw earlier in the F-150 pick-up and the edge crossing. In thermonuclear fusion, it appears only under the hood of Sport, which joins platinum for the purpose of luxury as new models in the revised version for 2017.
The dedicated Ford supervisory organizations recognize this as a return to the hybrid sport introduced for 2010 and reset when the machine was redesigned for 2013. The mid-term update for "17" introduced some amendments, which do not necessarily improve our view, the external style, the redesigned inner part and, most appealing, the model of the sports model tested here.
The real Sharm Fusion sport is all under these surfaces. The power is translated to a distance of 60 miles per hour at 5.1 seconds and a quarter mile to 13.7 for 101 miles per hour. This is in a segment where 7.0 seconds to 60 miles per hour is considered quite good, and cars that are asked for almost nine seconds are considered acceptable. In accordance with the earlier rule, Honda, 278-HP V-6, was allocated to work on this heap, up to 60 mph, 5.8 seconds, and a quarter mile to 14.4 for 99. (soon after that, Chrysler 200 is a little better with its 295-HP natural Breath V-6.) While a high-speed Ford Ford is erasing concerns about merging onto the freeway or handing this truck with a dump truck on your favorite two lanes (check the remaining 30 to-50 and 50-70-miles per hour), the game has other hardware to Participation in the sports synthesis driver, especially a computer-controlled adaptive damping system.
Click the S button in the center of the new shift to sharpen your sports experience. It tautens the adaptive damping system, increases the steering force, speeds up the response, and reinforces artificially improved engine sounds. The S button also engages in a more aggressive shift from 6-speed automatic transmission (heavier than in other Fusion units) and provides greater control through standard missile controls. It automatically shifts at 6,000/min, regardless of what you do with the oar, but it will hold the gears through the corners and dovnshifts in the braking process. None of this has changed measurable performance, but it makes the car more entertaining. The dampers, especially, have done a lot of work in support of aggressive attacks on curved roads, preserving the quality of the drive, which is not alarming to your grandmother. Adaptive dampers are common in pricier, almost luxury sedans and many cross-vehicle vehicles, but they are overdue in the mass market.
With standard grandfather of all seasonal tyres, calibration 235/40r-19, for sport-specific aluminium wheels, lateral acceleration around our skidpad corresponds to 0.84 g, which is good for this class, but not especially sports. The stop from 70 miles an hour took 178 feet; Optional ($195) only the summer tyre allows for the braking distance to be 155 feet and to deliver 0.89 G side pens.
When the 2.7-litre double turbine of V-6, taken from F-150, is discarded and the border sports between the front wings of the synthesis of this sedan to 325 litres, make this the first modern medium-sized sedan family to snap the 300-HP wiring. This is a great start, but the fusion team has kept its heads to deliver a well packaged package to support the newly regained horse forces. 6-speed Auto mode is a heavier unit controlled by blades attached to the steering wheel wrapped in the skin. This is followed by a computer-controlled entire wheel consisting of a normal transaxial transosi, as well as a longitudinal driveshaft and a rear differential that deals with the demand for the clutch. The Crown touching is what Ford calls the constantly controlled damping. These computer-controlled dampers borrowed from the Lincoln Camp provide a synthesis of the legs needed for the sports league competition.
Original 2010 Fusion Sport used natural breathing 3.5-litres V-6, by making 263 horsepower, roughly the same as you found in V-6, then in Toyota Camry and Honda Accord, two Ford machines seem to be chasing the honors of selling in the category. . 6 account for all these developers, but every customer thinks you're competing for the crown of sale.
Outside, sport is indicated by a black grille with a chrome environment, slightly integrated dekklid spoiler, and four exhaust-gas balloons. In the interior, sport has a wooded grey ornament with leather, air, contrast, Matt-finished metal, and an artificial accent on carbon fiber. The plastics at the top of the cabin are well completed, but the lower parts of the remote control and the door panels look and feel cheaper. You were supposed to go to the Platinum model or Lincoln IUCN, if you're looking for a plush. And if the EPA 17 6 you in the city, read about the hybrid model.
The Ford commitment here is only to date, as evidenced by the absence of the RS or St. badging; The Ford experts weren't in the car. The steering sense is lakkluster, and the brake pedal has a great deal of travel and little feedback. And the car feels as heavy as 4128 pounds, measured on our scale. Ford needs to hurry with his lightweight research, a field where General Motors are much better. All that mass leaves the overall impression that the sporting merger is equivalent to a smaller version of the Taurus Sho, a car whose days are numbered, and even performance indicators are similar.
Internal trimming is available only in gray color. The sports environment provides something for everyone: skin, pronunciation, stapling, hard and soft plastic, matte-finished metal, several chrome dashes, and the necessary artificial fiber-carbon-fiber accent. One of the drawbacks is that there was no obvious attempt to equalize the gaps between the bar door, something that we noticed in some other Ford that we recently tested. We don't have these pens in the back seat. Pillows are chairlike, you can move the big feet behind the central console, and the central seating positions are useful for actual adults.
We hope that this will be successful to a large extent thanks to the modernization that Ford has invested in this basic model in 2017. In addition to several discrete external taps and improved light lights, optional sync 3 and entertainment systems are more intelligent than previous iterations, and offer both auto and Apple Karplaj connection. Buyers new to this category will be impressed by the extensive range of Ford Road assistance, including pedestrian collision detection, automatic emergency braking, adaptive control of cruise, rear-view mirror camera, A warning about blind spots and automatic guidance on parallel and perpendicular parking slots.
Our example was packaged with a complete set of Ford Motor vehicles, including a warning of collision detection, automated emergency braking, adaptive cruise control, rear-view camera, and warning of the blind, Automated manual in parallel mode, or perpendicular parking spaces, lane support, and the automatic driving lamps. We also activated voice navigation and 8.0-inch touchscreen touch screen with the ability to scroll and zoom using the latest version of the "Sync 3" system, which is much more convenient than before and compatible with Apple Karplaj and Android Auto. All of this put the bottom line from $34 450 of the base price to more than $40, although it should be noted that the promotion of 2017 thermonuclear sports dealers is less than $30 000. By leaving some gizmos, it may even reduce weight slightly.
Thermonuclear sports begin with $34 350 and, on an operational basis, for $40 with navigation, various drivers and a spark.


I do not have any New Year's resolutions. Of all the New Year resolutions I have seen so far, the most novel idea that makes sense to me is to boycott big banks and move your money to smaller banks such as credit unions and community banks.
My family always banked with credit unions and a small community bank. The last time we put significant money in a large national was almost ten years ago – with Wachovia.
Calls for boycotting big national banks are coming from the left and the right. The idea is to show 'our appreciation' to the likes of Bank of America, CitiBank, Wells Fargo, State Street by moving our money our money out for screwing our lives with their brilliant Ponzi schemes.
There is an interesting article in Christina Science Monitor on the same topic. Here is the link.
There is a grass roots movement to move money out of the big insitutions into smaller regional backs or coop's.


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Jumping the gun, perhaps?
Northrop Grumman announced the grounding breaking for its KC-45A tanker even though the Government Accountability Office hasn't rendered its decision on the Boeing protest of the tanker contract award by the USAF to Northrop.
This strikes us as incredibly premature and reminds us of another premature declaration:
Groundbreaking for the KC-45 Tanker Manufacturing Facilities
Set for June 28
Mobile, Alabama Site to Provide KC-45 Tankers to United States Air Force
WASHINGTON – May 13, 2008 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) and its key subcontractor, EADS North America, will join local, state and federal officials and the citizens of Mobile, Ala., in a groundbreaking ceremony on Saturday, June 28. Ground will be broken at Mobile's Brookley Field, where two adjacent manufacturing facilities will be built to produce the nation's new fleet of aerial refueling tanker aircraft.
The ceremony has been scheduled pending the outcome of the Government Accountability Office review of the tanker contract award. "We anticipate a favorable decision and look forward to starting construction on this historic facility," said Ronald D. Sugar, Northrop Grumman chairman and chief executive officer. "We're committed to transforming Mobile into the centerpiece of an expanding aerospace corridor."
"This event underscores the fact that we are ready to get to work now," Sugar said. "We need to move forward quickly to provide our men and women in uniform what the Air Force has identified as its number-one acquisition priority – the new refueling tankers they so desperately need."
Northrop Grumman and EADS North America are committed to the U.S. Air Force and also have contractual agreements in place with one another, the state of Alabama and the city of Mobile to ensure construction of the facilities is ready to move forward.
"We are excited that Brookley Field will once again be a hub of American military aircraft manufacturing," said Rep. Jo Bonner of Alabama's 1st Congressional District. "There is no doubt that Mobile is poised to be the crown jewel of a rapidly growing aerospace center of excellence in the Southeastern United States, bringing thousands of jobs and creating endless opportunities for our entire region."
EADS North America will deliver the KC-45 aircraft platform to Northrop Grumman. Airbus, an EADS company, is responsible for manufacturing at its Mobile final assembly facility and will assemble, test and certify the aircraft before delivery. Following delivery to Northrop Grumman, the aircraft will receive the necessary military modifications to turn the commercial airframe into a U.S. Air Force KC-45 Tanker. In keeping with U.S. Department of Defense requirements, only Northrop Grumman and U.S. government employees with appropriate security clearances will militarize the tanker aircraft.
"EADS North America is fully committed to providing Northrop Grumman with an aircraft built in the U.S.," said Ralph D. Crosby, Jr., EADS North America chairman and chief executive officer. "More importantly, our men and women in uniform require and deserve the most capable system available. They have been waiting far too long for a modern tanker. Our entire team is ready to get to work now."
Northrop Grumman's architectural and engineering firm for the facility, BRPH Companies Inc., was selected last year and is prepared for the construction phase. Northrop Grumman's facility is scheduled for completion and initial operation late next year. BRPH is leading a team consisting of KBR's Mobile office and Thompson Engineering, headquartered in Mobile.
The groundbreaking ceremony occurs just a few days after the 60th anniversary of the start of the Berlin Airlift. This is significant because Brookley Field was the base from which C-54 transport aircraft supported the airlift.
About the KC-45
The KC-45 Tanker aircraft will be assembled in Mobile, Ala., and the KC-45 team will employ 48,000 American workers at 230 U.S. companies in 49 states. It will be built by a world-class industrial team led by Northrop Grumman, and includes EADS North America, General Electric Aviation and Sargent Fletcher.
Northrop Grumman Corporation is a global defense and technology company whose 120,000 employees provide innovative systems, products, and solutions in information and services, electronics, aerospace and shipbuilding to government and commercial customers worldwide.
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One Comment on "Jumping the gun, perhaps?"
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I don't really see much here. The GAO is supposed to report back NLT 19 June. Groundbreaking is contigent on the report and scheduled for 28 June. If the buy is held up a month or 2, a few more airframes will come from Europe.
What is more concerning to me is the fact this facility is going right into the heart of Hurricane Alley. I haven't seen much about the steps being taken to reduce the effects of high winds and high water. Maybe an enterprising analyst or reporter will make a call to Northrop or EADS NA to inquire.
All you need to do is look at the airfield on Google Maps to see how close it is to the coast. Having been a resident of Florida most of my life, there is a saying heard around the gulf states. To paraphrase, once a storm rolls into the Gulf of Mexico, it WILL hit land.


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Man pleads guilty to tossing boy off Minnesota mall balcony
(Reuters) – A man who admitted hurling a 5-year-old boy off a third-floor balcony at Minnesota's Mall of America pleaded guilty on Tuesday to attempted murder, agreeing to a 19-year prison sentence.
The child, who was critically injured, inspired well-wishers to donate more than $1 million to a GoFundMe campaign titled "Help for Landen – Mall of America Attack Victim." The donations continued to grow as the attacker returned to court.
Emmanuel Aranda, 24, of Minneapolis, entered a plea deal in Hennepin County District Court. He agreed to be sentenced on June 3 to 19 years in prison, said Chuck Laszewski, spokesman for the Hennepin County District Attorney's Office.
Aranda pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree murder, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years behind bars.
His public defender, Paul Sellers, could not be reached for immediate comment.
Aranda, who was being held in lieu of $2 million bond, has a history of mental issues and arrests on minor charges.
He admitted dropping the boy nearly 40 feet (12 meters), telling investigators he had been visiting the mall for years to try to talk to women, but was rejected and became angry, prosecutors wrote in a criminal complaint. Aranda said he initially intended to kill an adult, but chose the boy instead.
The boy, who was initially listed as critical but whose condition had improved as of last month, was described on the donation site as a sweet, kind child who enjoyed soccer and playing hockey with his brother and sister.
Reporting by Barbara Goldberg in New York; editing by Bill BerkrotOur Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
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Mississippi XI: Bonnie Blue
Posted on July 17, 2020 by TonyAttwood
The Mississippi-series, part 11
by Jochen Markhorst
Like earlier "Desolation Row" and "Where Are You Tonight?", "Mississippi" can't really be dealt with in one article. Too grand, too majestic, too monumental. And, of course, such an extraordinary masterpiece deserves more than one paltry article. As the master says (not about "Mississippi", but about bluegrass, in the New York Times interview of June 2020): Its's mysterious and deep rooted and you almost have to be born playing it. […] It's harmonic and meditative, but it's out for blood.
XI Bonnie Blue
Well I got here followin' the southern star
I crossed that river just to be where you are
Only one thing I did wrong
Stayed in Mississippi a day too long
One of the few successful songs on one of Dylan's weakest albums, Down In The Groove (1988) is his version of the old folk song "Shenandoah". It is, of course, a beautiful nineteenth century song by itself – almost impossible to ruin.
The origin of "Shenandoah" is unclear. Alan Lomax guesses it's a sea-shanty, an old sailor's song of French-Canadian origin, probably originated around 1810. Given the lyrics, other musicologists conclude, it might be a "river-shanty", deriving its name from the Shenandoah River in Virginia. Why then the protagonist repeatedly sings he has to cross the Missouri River is unexplained, though – that particular river is almost a thousand miles away. "Shenandoah" is a singing, melodious name, that's probably the best explanation.
Oh Shenandoah, I love your daughter
Look away, you rollin' river
It was for her I'd cross the water.
Look away, we're bound away
Across the wide Missouri
Dylan sings the version in which the narrator so desperately seeks to reach "Sally", across the wide Missouri, and she is the "daughter of Shenandoah". Which could indicate an Indian tribe, or the name of the river where she lives, or, in the literal interpretation, the name of his future father-in-law. "Oh Shenandoah, I love your daughter," after all.
The Indian tribe-option is by far the most attractive to lay a line to "Mississippi". The Senedos, a tribe along the Shenandoah River, are the obvious candidates – all the more so since Shenandoah in their language means "daughter of the stars". Following the star, I crossed the river. Coincidence, of course, but certainly a nice coincidence.
The real link, however, is that ancient image of "crossing a river", the metaphor to represent the effort the man makes to reach the woman of his dreams. We sang that already in the Middle Ages:
Het waren twee koninghs kindren,
Sy hadden malkander soo lief;
Sy konden by malkander niet komen,
Het water was veel te diep.
There were two royal children,
Their love was turned to grief.
They could not come together
The water was too deep.
The "Song of the Two Royal Children", about the regal kids who are not allowed to see each other. One king puts his daughter in the monastery, on the banks of the wide river. She puts a candle on the balustrade at night so that the king's son on the other bank can orient himself as he swims towards her, in pitch darkness. An "evil nun" blows out the candle when he is halfway, the king's son drowns, and when his beloved finds the body the next morning, she commits suicide out of desperation.
A familiar story which, of course, goes back to the age-old Greek myth Hero and Leander, the story that inspired hundreds of artists from Antiquity to the twenty-first century – it's an ancient, popular and ineradicable image, the river separating lovers. Or as a metaphor for every figurative meaning of "border" at all; it is not a coincidence that watershed is synonymous with milestone, radical event, turning point. Which is how the poet Dylan uses river throughout his entire oeuvre. From "Watching The River Flow" to "Baby, Stop Crying" and from "Man In The Long Black Coat" to "Moonlight" and "Crossing The Rubicon"; the rivers symbolize turning points.
In "Mississippi" Dylan gives it an extra, mythical touch; the narrator follows the southern star that leads him to that turning point. Mythical, as a Southern star does not exist – unlike a North Star, Polaris, there is no fixed star in the southern sky. A less romantically inclined astronomer might argue that the Sun is "the star in the south", but in the arts it's usually a nickname (for a special diamond, for example, as in the film The Southern Star with Orson Welles and an Ursula Andress at her most beautiful, 1969). It's not really a household name, though.
Presumably the poet wants to avoid digressing – after all, the star in any other wind direction has additional meanings or associative consequences. The Star in the East leads to the Child Jesus, the aforementioned North Star, which is shining too in one of Joni Mitchell's breath-taking songs, "This Flight Tonight",
"Look out the left," the captain said
"The lights down there, that's where we'll land"
Saw a falling star burning
High above the Las Vegas sand
It wasn't the one that you gave to me
That night down south between the trailers
Not the early one that you wish upon
Not the northern one that guides in the sailors
…is an age-old orientation point. And a Western Star conjures up completely different images, obviously. So, all that's left is a "safe", a neutral southern star. At most it pushes the associations, especially in the light of Dylan's enigmatic statement that the song is about "the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights", towards the Civil War, to the Bonnie Blue Flag hoisted on the Capitol Dome of Mississippi in 1861.
That flag consists of a single, large, "Southern" star on a blue field. In the South it is popular, a hastily written song perpetuates its popularity and promotes the flag to become the first unofficial flag of the Confederate States of America:
We are a band of brothers, and native to the soil,
Fighting for our liberty with treasure, blood, and toil;
And when our rights were threatened, the cry rose near and far,
Hurrah! for the Bonnie Blue Flag, that bears a single star.
The song is sung in Gods And Generals (2003), the film for which Dylan writes the brilliant "Cross The Green Mountain" (well after "Mississippi") and the cinephile Dylan will have noticed the song earlier in Gone With The Wind – Rhett Butler lovingly calls his daughter Bonnie "Bonnie Blue", Melanie (Olivia de Havilland) says her eyes are "blue as the Bonnie Blue Flag".
Too bad the movie's in Georgia. And not in Mississippi.
The Bonnie Blue Flag – Gods and Generals
To be continued. Next up: Mississippi part XII: Roses Of Yesterday
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Larry Fyffe says:
You sure that's a correction interpretation of the song "Shenandoah".
I take it that the guy leaves Sally, the daughter of the Shenandoah, whom he loves dearly , and after an unsuccessful seven-year courtship, he heads out West to Missouri country, but there he still yearns for his love back in Virginia.
That is, the original Missouri focus of the song has been turned around.
The theme of Dylan's 'Red River Shore' is somewhat similar to that of the original interpretation of 'Shenandoah' – both have a Canadian connection.
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Prey Veng () es la capital de la provincia de Prey Veng, ubicada en el sureste de Camboya .

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La ciudad está ubicada en la carretera nacional 11 entre Nak Loeung y Kompung Cham. Se encuentra a unas 2 horas y media por carretera desde Nom Pen .

Esta pintoresca ciudad está fuera de la ruta turística habitual y no tiene mucha gente. Alberga varias casas antiguas de la época colonial de la Indochina francesa en ruinas.

Hay un gran lago estacional al oeste de la ciudad, que suele estar seco de marzo a agosto.

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Album of the Year winner to unveil new tracks in Aberdeen
By Sean Wallace - 2nd July 2018
Scottish Album of the Year winner Kathryn Joseph will launch her follow up to the acclaimed Bones You Have Thrown Me And Blood I've Spilled in Aberdeen this summer.
Dunecht-raised Joseph will unveil From When I Wake The Want Is at The Tunnels on Friday, August 17 with support from Rick Redbeard.
Joseph secured the acclaimed Album of the Year award in 2015 for her beguiling, beautiful debut.
Her much-anticipated follow-up, recorded at the Diving Bell Lounge with Marcus Mackay, has a harder sound than the debut and also utilises electronic details.
Joseph said: "I wanted it more metallic sounding and harder, with electronic details on it.
"That was really all I had in mind.
"With the song, It Will Lick You Clean, for example, I would never have imagined the beat on that, but I absolutely love it.
"I record my piano and vocals and then I leave Marcus alone and he does whatever he wants.
"I think of myself as someone who is very sure of what I want the music to sound like and for me to get it back and pretty much every song is like, yep, that's perfect, is amazing for me.
"Marcus is brilliant at what he does and I am very lucky.
"Music for me is often about the shape of things; I don't understand what key I'm playing in, but I know that shape I want the song to have."
From When I Wake The Want Is explores the heartache Joseph experienced following a break-up with her partner. However, there is also light as the relationship came full circle with a reunion.
Joseph said: "This record mostly came from the year of me feeling the most brokenhearted and miserable.
"Most of the songs are me trying to turn the black hell feeling into something else, even when it didn't feel like anything good was going to come from it.
"All of them are again my weird, creepy way of telling the truth. I am obsessed with truth in real life and in my music life.
"However, it is a weird circle shape because by the time the last songs on it were written I was back with the human I love."
From When I Wake The Want Is will be released on Rock Action Records, the label run by Scottish post-rock pioneers Mogwai.
It is home to diverse acts such as Part Chimp, Sacred Paws, Mugstar, Desalvo… and now Kathryn Joseph.
Joseph was introduced to Mogwai by James Graham of The Twilight Sad who she collaborated on with Mackay for last year's superb Out Lines album and community project.
She said: "To have a band be your record label is ideal.
"Although I feel like I don't deserve to be anywhere near them."
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With recipes forged from the hunger of the Great Leap Forward (1958-1960) and Socialist China, passed down through generations, Dr Weng and Mrs Li are revolutionising the Szechuan scene of the south-west with fresh, local ingredients and a true passion for feeding people. Their mantra passed down from his grandmother, remains "never forget those still in hunger"; don't forget to check them out. A Wriggle favourite.


Plant latin name: Morus alba L.
Mulberry extract have significantly high amounts of anthocyanins. Scientific studies have shown that consumption of mulberry extract has potential health effects against cancer, diabetes, bacterial infections and neurological diseases.
Mulberry extract contain resveratrol, another important polyphenol flavonoid. Resveratrol primarily makes blood vessels less prone to damage by angiotensin, which can cause blood vessel constriction. Resveratrol increases the production of nitric oxide, which relaxes blood vessels and reduces chances of blood clot formation and subsequent heart issues like strokes or heart attacks.
Meanwhile, mulberries are excellent sources of vitamin-C, which helps the body develop resistance against infectious agents, counter inflammation and scavenge harmful free radicals.
Further, mulberry extract also contains vitamin-A, and vitamin-E, lutein, zeaxanthin, ß-carotene and a-carotene. These compounds help protecting human body from harmful effects of oxygen-derived free radicals and reactive oxygen species that play a role in aging and various disease processes.
Zeaxanthin reduces oxidative stress on ocular cells, including the retinal macula lutea, also zeaxanthin acts as an antioxidant and prevents damage to the retina, including the free radicals that can cause macular degeneration and cataracts, and harmful ultraviolet rays through light-filtering actions.
Mulberry extract is an excellent source of iron (1.85mg/100g of fruits). As a component of hemoglobin inside the red blood cells, iron in mulberries can significantly increase the production of red blood cells. This helps the body increase its distribution of oxygen to important tissues and organs, thereby boosting metabolism and optimize the functionality of those systems.
Mulberries are also a good source of potassium, manganese, and magnesium. Potassium is an important component of cell and body fluids that helps controlling heart rate and blood pressure. The body uses manganese as a co-factor for the antioxidant enzyme, superoxide dismutase.
Mulberries are rich in B-complex group of vitamins, and vitamin K, vitamin B6, niacin, riboflavin and folic acid, which act as co-factors and help the human body in the metabolism of carbohydrates, protein, and fats.
Vitamin K, calcium, and iron are all beneficial for the creation and maintenance of bone tissue. As we get older, maintaining strong bones, speeding up the healing process or even reversing the damage of bone degradation is important to prevent osteoporosis or other age-related bone disorders.


Talk with your health care team about your immunizations and if there are any that they recommend you take. Let them know if you have questions about what is listed. Also let them know if you think something should be added. You want to make sure your health care team has all your health information. Having a complete health record gives your health care team information about you that may help them better meet your health care needs.
Using the VA Immunizations to partner with your health care team helps you take charge of your health. Use it to better understand your health and learn ways to improve your health.
You can use the VA Blue Button to view, print, or download your VA Immunizations. This information can be shared with your caregiver and/or non-VA provider. This may help them better understand your health.
Visit the VA Immunizations Frequently Asked Questions. This site has questions and answers that may help you understand more about the feature and how it can help you monitor your health.
*To get a My HealtheVet Premium account, you will need to go through authentication. This is a process by which VA verifies a Veterans' identity before allowing access to their VA health record. To learn more, go to: Upgrading your My HealtheVet account through In-Person or Online Authentication.
Note: If you find something missing in your VA health record you should talk to your VA health care team. If you think something is not accurate, contact the Release of Information Office at your local VA Medical Center.
If you had a reaction to a vaccine it may not show in your VA Immunizations record. If you had a reaction, the health care team may have recorded it in your VA Allergies. This is why it is always good, when you select VA Immunizations in VA Blue Button to also select VA Allergies. In addition, you should select your (self-entered) Allergies and Adverse Reactions and (self-entered) Immunizations.


In the news, James Hansen, dubbed the "father" of climate change awareness, has denounced the new Paris climate change agreement as a "fraud". But it's not exactly news for him to denounce a major climate change agreement. Mr. Hansen pronounced the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, the preceding international climate agreement, to be "ineffectual", and predicted no pathway for improvement "unless the public places strong pressure" on governments.
Anyway, if climate change it not controlled, then it's projected that it may imperil major cities across the world, including Paris, New York, London, and Dubai. Yet climate experts generally seem pessimistic about the new agreement – and there may be good reason for that. The Kyoto Protocol promised reduced greenhouse gas emissions for each year following the baseline year of 1990; but over the next 20+ years, emissions increased by more than 60 percent.
Members of the public are often less interested in climate experts than in celebrities. And in general, celebrities have not proposed any clear pathway for reversing climate change. Nevertheless, there is clarity coming from at least one celebrity.
Of course, Paul McCartney is known mainly as a star in the world of music, and his most recent hit song was recorded with Rihanna and Kanye West, titled FourFiveSeconds. In fact, that song title could be considered a metaphor – as climate change is projected to become irreversible as soon as the year 2020, if greenhouse gas emissions aren't reduced significantly in the next few years – which means that to do the needful, we may have four, five years at most.
In Sir Paul's assessment, people can start to reverse climate change immediately by enjoying delicious alternatives to animal-based foods. Such alternatives are becoming more widely available, made from grains, legumes, and nuts – such as peas, soybeans, and almonds – and they can be homemade too.
It is widely recognized that replacing animal-based foods with plant-based ones can have a large positive effect on climate change. Indeed, plant-based foods offer two major benefits: They not only reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but they also free up land on which we can grow more trees, which can draw down excess carbon from our atmosphere.
So far, governments' strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions have mainly involved replacing fossil fuel infrastructure with renewable energy infrastructure. In fact, governments worldwide have collectively spent billions of dollars on such strategies; yet emissions have risen ever higher since 1990.
Now, replacing enough fossil fuel infrastructure to reverse climate change is projected to take long past the projected "tipping point" of 2020. Specifically, it is estimated to take at least $36 trillion and 20 years. That would take us at least to the year 2035 – and such a timeline is unlikely, as it would be met only if massive investments not required by the new Paris agreement were quickly begun.
Yet already, negative impacts from climate change appear to be increasing in frequency and severity. This is most apparent in the part of the world's economy that depends on a stable climate more than any other sector; that's the agricultural sector. Indeed, droughts and other disruptive climate events have directly and increasingly caused large-scale die-offs of livestock and crops that feed them.
However, agriculture is not just a victim of climate change; it is also likely the primary cause of climate change, and animal agriculture is especially to blame.
At this point, it could be assumed that agricultural profits exceed losses – but the pork industry, for example, recently suffered through three years of net negative returns.
Presumably, at some point in the future, climate change will make it clear that there is a business case for replacing a significant amount of livestock products with plant-based ones. Yet some in the food industry are not waiting for that business case to be forced by climate change; they are acting on that business case already.
One basic reason for policymakers to meet at climate conferences is that it has been generally assumed that climate change can be addressed only with new policy, rather than a business case, given the huge costs of fast-tracking the replacement of fossil fuel infrastructure.
However, a business case for plant-based foods to reverse climate change appears to be gaining steam, and among those who have subscribed to it is Bill Gates. This business case reflects the cost of producing the vast amounts of crops needed to feed animals raised for food. It takes more than two pounds of crops – in fact, up to 6 pounds – to produce one pound of animal-based meat.
The biggest challenge may be to get people to try the latest alternatives and taste how delicious they can be. Yet if climate change continues to disrupt agriculture all over the world, then alternatives to animal-based foods may not even be much of a choice in the long run.
Nevertheless, by choosing plant-based foods voluntarily right now, we may be able to start reversing climate change before it's too late.
This does not mean that replacing livestock products with alternatives should be people's only concern regarding climate change. There is also a case for replacing fossil fuels.
However, replacing animal-based foods with better alternatives may be the only pragmatic way to start reversing climate change by 2020 as needed. Whereas it's practically impossible to replace fossil fuel infrastructure quickly, there is a long and strong track record of developing and marketing new food products quickly to respond to new scientific findings.
So regardless of skepticism about the new climate agreement, there is still hope to start reversing climate change – with our forks. Stay tuned to the encouragement that we will keep on providing on our Chomping Climate Change website and our Facebook page.
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We had a successful day conducting consultations for the project with local people at the Big Lunch event - the day was suitably chaotic, the crowds enabled us to get a good number of surveys completed. Still, there was a long way to go before we hit our target. So we decided to create our own golden opportunity to do a public consultation; we organised to set up a stand for the museum in the town's Civic Square, allowing us to spend an afternoon liaising with the locals about the project.
We arrived at the town square full of enthusiasm. We carted the displays over to the square and set up our colourful display, garnished with museum objects, children's dressing up clothes and some eye-catching promotional boards.
Unfortunately, our cheery smiles started to fade when we realised that a rogue gust of wind had blown the popups out of place and knocked over our bulky Window on the World board (apologies to the poor girls sitting nearby!) Still, after a speedy reshuffle of the displays and a touch of reinforcement added to the pesky pop-ups, our optimism was restored.
We were met with another challenge when we pulled out the surveys and looked for people to interview. It soon became apparent that a range of sneaky techniques were being used by passers-by to dodge our attention – some talked loudly with their mobiles stuck to their ears, others neglected to look our way as they strolled past, and many promptly changed direction having caught a glimpse of us with our clipboards.
Needless to say, this was going to be no easy task!
Thankfully, things soon started to look up. The heavy winds dropped. Blue skies and glints of sunlight peered through the cracks in the clouds. It seemed the change in weather triggered a subsequent shift in people's moods, as many curiously flocked to our stand. We met some genuinely lovely people who were more than happy to help us out. We even managed to scoop up a couple of contacts for our new Twentieth Century Voices oral history project. Result!
With the town centre being merely a stone's throw away from Ellesmere Port's Academy, swarms of students flooded the square at 3:30pm – an opportunity for us to bag some young perspectives!
After a brief moment of terror, (I narrowly escaped being ran over by a pack of pupils on bikes, cycling ferociously through the town centre!), the team made some serious progress with the survey count. We managed to accost a fair few students as they ran animatedly across the square towards the shops. It was rather refreshing to hear their candid views.
When asked about the museum and Window on the World, many offered helpful suggestions about what we could do to make it more appealing to them. Art and photography workshops and music events ranked high on the list of ideas – we certainly gained some valuable insights into what would encourage those often dubbed 'hard-to-reach' youngsters to pay a visit to the museum.
Despite a somewhat turbulent start, our afternoon turned out to be a real success! We managed to chat to all different kinds of people, of all ages about the museum and our plans to spruce it up with Window on the World. Hopefully we've also created a bigger awareness of the project amongst the local public.
A key aim of Window on the World is to encourage more people to visit the museum and engage with their waterways heritage. We want to provide an array of new exciting experiences for all to enjoy at the museum – the best way to develop this is to carry out as many consultations as we can with everybody and anybody who is willing to contribute.
Many thanks to all who stopped by our stand and gave their time to complete a survey with us that afternoon!


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Dreadlocks and Title VII's Definition of Race | Kalijarvi, Chuzi, Newman & Fitch, P.C.
Chastity Jones' employment with the customer service company Catastrophe Management Solutions (CMS) ended before it began when she refused to remove her dreadlocks. She charged discrimination based on race under Title VII, but the trial court dismissed the case under Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6). Last month, the Eleventh Circuit affirmed that decision, issuing an opinion that broke no new ground as to grooming policies under Title VII, but which raised substantial questions as to when a grooming policy may implicate the protections of Title VII.
Equal employment opportunity may be secured only when employers are barred from discriminating against employees on the basis of immutable characteristics, such as race and national origin….But a hiring policy that distinguishes on some other ground, such as grooming codes or length of hair, is related more closely to the employer's choice of how to run his business than to equality of employment opportunity…Hair length is not immutable and in the situation of employer vis a vis employee enjoys no constitutional protection. If the employee objects to the grooming code he has the right to reject it by looking elsewhere for employment, or alternatively he may choose to subordinate his preference by accepting the code along with the job.
Willingham v Macon Tel. Pub. Co. Relying on Willingham, the Eleventh Circuit in Catastrophe Management Solutions held that Ms. Jones' dreadlocks, like hair-length, were not immutable and were not protected under Title VII.
Plaintiff may be correct that an employer's policy prohibiting the "Afro/bush" style might offend Title VII and section 1981. But if so, this chiefly would be because banning a natural hairstyle would implicate the policies underlying the prohibition of discrimination on the basis of immutable characteristics.
An all-braided hair style is an "easily changed characteristic," and, even if socioculturally associated with a particular race or nationality, is not an impermissible basis for distinctions in the application of employment practices by an employer.
Rogers also noted that multiple courtshave upheld policies limiting male facial hair despite the fact that racially-linked differences made compliance with such policies more difficult for African Americans.
In Catastrophe Management Solutions, the Eleventh Circuit raised the distinction between hair texture and hair style seemingly in order to consider whether dreadlocks were a "natural hairstyle" — like the Afro in Rogers — and so protected as a physically immutable marker of race. It observed, however, that the plaintiff "did not allege that dreadlocks themselves are an immutable characteristic of black persons," and concluded that the fact that "dreadlocks are a 'natural outgrowth' of the texture of black hair does not make them an immutable characteristic of race." Accordingly, when CMS asked Ms. Jones to cut her dreadlocks, the court held, they did not intentionally discriminate against her based on race.
Without question, and as the court noted, "the distinction between immutable and mutable characteristics of race can sometimes be a fine (and difficult) [line]." In the end the Eleventh Circuit returned a decision in Catastrophe Management Solutions that was consistent with previous rulings on Title VII and hair style. Ms. Jones' dreadlocks were mutable and, therefore, if she wanted to work at CMS she could choose "to subordinate [her]preference by accepting the [grooming] code along with the job." Nevertheless, the court helpfully drew attention to a way forward for persons seeking Title VII protection for what are arguably "natural" hairstyles.


As the weekend came to an end, so did the inaugural NexLions Cup, where the Singapore Youth Selection team came in 4th after facing off against the likes of the U-19 sides of English giants Man United and Liverpool FC.
Coach Aide Iskandar, ex-national team captain, said that despite having only three and a half weeks to prepare for the tournament, he is proud of his boys.
Coach Aide believes that tournaments such as the NexLions Cup and the Lion City Cup will definitely benefit not just the Singapore youth footballers, but also their foreign counterparts, as the discomfort they felt with the humidity playing a huge part in grooming their players to play in harsh conditions away from home.
As for the Singapore Youth Selection, many of whom have little or no experience playing at a higher level, there is plenty to learn from their overseas counterparts. Learning the way they play, how quickly they move, the high intensity and finesse.
Indeed, seeing how the Singapore Youth Selection team faced off against these young professionals has restored my faith in local football and believe there is a future for the sport. These boys though smaller than the likes of Sporting Lisbon, Man Utd and Liverpool have proved their worth.
They played fearlessly and tried their best for every ball, having sheer determination. With hard work and determination the only thing missing from this concoction is the never dying support of fans.
Singapore football needs its fans. The future of Singapore football isn't when we produce a generation of great footballers. Singapore needs the support of its fans in order to produce great footballers.
So why not lend your support to our Singapore Lions? Beginning with the Suzuki Cup final where we have the chance to win for an unprecedented fourth time. So lend your cheers and support our boys in red. Oh, and don't forget to bring those scarves to any future matches as well.
For more information on the Singapore National Team, Lions XII and the Singapore Youth Selection, visit Singaporesports.sg facebook page or www.fas.org.sg.


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Second-quarter results at Avon Products Inc. certainly weren't its best, but there are indications of improvement, with the North American market possibly returning to profitability in 2015.
The company posted results for the period ended June 30 that saw a 40.4 percent decline in net income to $19 million, or 4 cents a diluted share, from $31.9 million, or 7 cents, a year ago. Total revenues fell 12.8 percent to $2.18 billion from $2.51 billion, which included a net sales drop of 13.3 percent to $2.14 billion from $2.47 billion.
Sheri McCoy, chief executive officer, in a conference call to Wall Street analysts, said, "We also continue to be negatively impacted by economic headwinds in several key markets. From a geographic perspective, North America, while declining in revenue, is making good progress on cost management and landed where we expected. [Europe, Middle East and Africa] performed slightly better than we anticipated, and Latin America was below our expectations. While we anticipated soft performance in Mexico, Brazil came in lower than we expected."
She also noted the company's actions, as previously stated, to reduce corporate overhead costs. "Along with the cost reductions, we've taken complexity out of the system and clarified roles and responsibilities across the market, regional and global corporate teams. Having this clarity simplifies how we work together. It will also help us to ensure that cost doesn't creep back into the system," the ceo said.
She reminded analysts that the company has said previously that the first half was expected to be challenging and, looking ahead, said, "As we move to the second half, we expect to show improved performance. This is based on our expectation for continued progress and representative engagement, particularly in a few key markets like Russia and Mexico."
McCoy also spent time discussing the approach the firm has taken in evaluating its performance in the U.K., one of its top markets. That includes analyzing whether the right management team is in place; execution of strategy such as activation of new customers and retention, and the ability to provide the field staff with the appropriate information and/or devices to connect with consumers. She said the company has been "systematically addressing" these areas across its top 12 markets, which represent 80 percent of its revenue.
The analysis of the U.K. operation started in late 2012, when the business there was declining midsingle digits. Changing the management team was one fix, and they needed about two quarters to "diagnose this situation," McCoy said. After determining the causes of certain performance issues, and then putting together a strategic plan — one part focused primarily on execution, which included face-to-face contact followed by phone and SMS contact, while another component called for improving data flow to the sales representatives in the field — early results show a 12 percent increase of those contacted after placing their first order, who then place a second order, while those contacted after placing a third order are more likely to place a fourth order.
In addition to improving execution in its top markets in field management and marketing, McCoy said the company has "improved our product offerings across our base business for strengthening new product introductions in our core categories, fragrance, color and skin care."
She also noted that the U.S. market remains an important region for Avon. "It's a large and important beauty market. We see a number of our direct-selling competitors doing well in this market and while there is a long road ahead to get this business back to where it needs to be, in 2015, I anticipate that the North American business will return to profitability and no longer be dilutive to Avon's operating margin."
The ceo also acknowledged that the "U.S. is starting from a far more challenged position. And so, it will take time as we fix the things most critical to our representatives. We now have a terrific management team in place, a team who has strong direct-selling capabilities, excellent leadership skills and also team members who bring in external perspectives."
McCoy concluded by noting that the U.S. issues were deeper than thought and there's been a greater influx of macro issues. "We still think these are the right goals and they are doable by 2016, but the degree of difficulty is greater today than when we set the goals in late 2012. We will know a lot more about how we are tracking against our goals over the next six months as we improve execution in our key markets and drive improved representative engagement. We will also have deeper insights into our progress in North America, which will also have an impact on the timing of reaching our goals. We will be in a better place as we close out the year to provide more information on how we are tracking," she said.
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In order to track the performance of my mutual funds, I have an email in draft mode where I write down the date I bought in, the number of shares and the NAVPS at that time. I would then check out the current NAVPS over at Sun Life or FAMI and then compute the value of my shares. It's a very low-tech system but it gets the job done. However, The Thrifty Chick showed me a much better and more efficient way to monitor my funds, through a website aptly named: Monitor My Funds.
Monitor My Funds allows you to keep track of the values of mutual funds and UITFs. You can see the past performances of funds in graphs. You can create an account and track all your funds in a single page. Check out the demo here.
Registration is also easy and takes all of 30 seconds.
To start, click the Add Fund to Portfolio link and input the necessary information.
I have made several investments in my Sun Life Balanced Fund for the past 2 years and you can see the corresponding gains/loss per investment made as well as the total gains.
I've only made one investment with First Metro Save and Learn Equity Fund, so that row is basically it.
Monitor My Funds also has a compare funds feature so you can see the past performance of the different funds.
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"What Canada is all about" says PM Trudeau as Syrian Refugees Arrive in Canada
December 17, 2015 by CIC News
"You are home. Welcome home."
These were the words that greeted 163 Syrian refugees after they landed at Toronto Pearson International Airport late at night on Thursday, December 10. For these families and individuals, immigration to Canada is both the end of a long journey and the beginning of a new life. The warm welcome was not just provided by airport staff, however, as Canada's new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was on hand to greet each of the weary newcomers.
"You're safe at home now," said Trudeau. "This is a wonderful night where we get to show not just a planeload of new Canadians what Canada is all about, but we get to show the world how to open our hearts and welcome people who are fleeing extraordinarily difficult straits.
"This is something that we are able to do in this country because we define a Canadian not by a skin colour or a language or a religion or a background, but by a shared set of values, aspirations, hopes and dreams that not just Canadians but people around the world share."
A long journey
For the individuals fortunate enough to immigrate to Canada, as well as the thousands more who will arrive over the holiday season and into 2016, safety is an almost forgotten concept. These are people who have known nothing but fear and distress since their homeland of Syria descended into chaos and civil war in 2011. These families and individuals have lost loved ones, homes, jobs, and other possessions, all the while not knowing where to run to or who to trust.
"We suffered a lot," said Kevork Jamkossian, a blacksmith who arrived in Toronto with his wife, Georgina Zires, and the couple's 16-month-old daughter, Madeleine, after eight long months living at a refugee camp in Lebanon.
"Now, we feel as if we got out of hell and we came to paradise."
Though Madeleine might not yet comprehend that the first few months of her life were not normal, her future prospects appear bright. Canada, after all, is a country that was recently first in the world for opportunity by the Social Progress Index, with stand-out results for tolerance for immigrants. Canada remains one of the most desirable places to live in the world, with the vast majority of immigrants from all backgrounds happy to be here.
The Jamkossian family was presented with winter coats, boots, hats and gloves, as well as a teddy bear for Madeleine that was presented by Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, who had also turned up for the occasion.
An opportunity to experience the Canadian Dream
While the majority of the passengers on this plane were bound for locations in Toronto, others were heading on to locations in British Columbia, Alberta, New Brunswick, and Southwest Ontario.
Each of the newcomers on this flight was sponsored by one of many private groups in Canada who have stepped forward to assist in the settlement of refugees across Canada. These sponsors have agreed to arrange the newcomers' housing, education and other settlement needs, and are required to have raised $28,000 Canadian dollars per refugee sponsored.
Within hours of arriving on Canadian soil, these new immigrants to Canada walk out of the terminal as permanent residents with social insurance numbers, provincial health cards and, eventually, the opportunity to become full Canadians.
Government drops lawsuit over refugee health care costs
In addition to speeding up the refugee settlement process and increasing the number of refugees who may settle over the coming weeks, months and years, the government of Canada has also announced that it is dropping a controversial lawsuit that was initiated by the previous government, led by Stephen Harper of the Conservative Party.
In the case of The Attorney General of Canada and the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration v. Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care et al, the Conservatives had appealed a Federal Court decision that found cuts to health coverage for some refugees and refugee claimants unconstitutional, adding that the move to curtail coverage was cruel and put lives at risk. The case resulted from the overhaul in 2012 of a program that covers health costs for refugees and refugee claimants.
While the Liberals say they won't pursue the appeal, they still have not reversed the cuts themselves, except for carving out an exemption for the 25,000 Syrians currently being resettled. Other adjustments are being considered.
A win-win for Canada
"If you juxtapose the new government of Canada's reaction to the ongoing refugee crisis with the sort of rhetoric in the United States, it reveals a stark contrast. While it would be naïve to think that none of the language and beliefs that exist south of the border can also be found in Canada, it exists only on the outer margins of society. The vast majority of Canadians are very much supportive of a welcoming attitude towards these individuals who have been through so much," says Attorney David Cohen.
"Even in my local community in Montreal I have met dozens of people who have stepped up and asked what they can do to help. They're not looking for recognition or credit or to be seen to be helping out, but rather they are observing a situation and seeing themselves as part of a solution. Passion and empathy are far more apparent across the country than apathy, and it's a relief to see a government that is prepared to tap into that spirit and take it forward with real, immediate action."
A special donation fund that the Campbell Cohen law firm established in partnership with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) last September remains open for new donations.
Click here to make a secure donation to the Campbell Cohen/UNHCR Syrian Refugee Fund.
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bryanboy says
Not fair they ree given Permanent resident status right away.. How about those people who are already here in CA, been working for a long time and paying their taxes and still its like an eternity for them in waiting their PR's.
مجد القداد says
I am civil engineer
Alastair Clarke says
Thus far, this Liberal government has been living up to its campaign promises. It was so nice to see JT at the airport welcoming refugees. He received international news and his government is restoring Canada's image as a humanitarian model for other countries. Well done!
Moron says
So vote bank politics is in effect in Canada now. Trudeau is going to get certain bucket of people. He came to power due to their vote.
O.O ^0^
CANADA ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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