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Naval Air Station Sanford and Its Impact on The United States and The City of Sanford, FL
Date(s): 1950 to 1968
Location(s): Seminole, Florida
Tag(s): Cold War, United States Navy, gentrification
Course: "United States Since 1945," Rollins College
Rating: 4 (1 votes)
Orlando Sanford airport stands east of state road 17-92 about twenty miles north of Orlando. Today the Orlando Sanford is a small commercial airport, dwarfed by Orlando International Airport only thirty miles away. While Orlando International may be bigger, it was a product of the Disney Empire, which moved in during the 1970s. Orlando Sanford Airport, however, was originally an important naval air base, and a direct byproduct of the Cold War. Its history is tied directly with its location and the time in which it was operational, and is an important look into Florida's Cold War history and impacted Sanford in the decades that followed.
Commissioned in 1942, Naval Air Station Sanford, or NAS for short, was chosen as a major training and staging area for carrier-bound aircraft. During the war it had supplied pilots to about half of the US navy. After the war, the base was decommissioned and the field opened to private businesses. While it was a public space between 1946 and 1950, the field hosted the New York Giants training camp, a retirement home, a hospital, and a clothing company.
The onset of the Korean War showed that the US government still had their eyes on the field. When it reopened in 1951, NAS became instrumental in the aeronautic war effort, as well as in the onset of the Cold War. The facilities were made permanent and the runways repaired, but the most substantial addition was the on-base living facilities built in the adjacent swampland. In 1961, NAS Sanford was responsible for the first flight of the RA-5C Vigilante: a carrier-based bomber that was one of the first designed to deliver nuclear ordinance from the sea. As the Vietnam War gained momentum, the Vigilante was repurposed as a reconnaissance strike craft.
The impact on the city of Sanford, however, was far more apparent. Prior to NAS, Sanford was a rural celery farming community made up of predominantly African American residents. When the base moved in during the war, racial tensions grew as black residents were being pushed out of their neighborhoods by enlisted whites and their families. During the Cold War, the demography turned away from the historically black county. In the 1940 census, half of the population of Sanford was black; by 1960 it was only 11 percent. When the NAS Sanford was decommissioned in 1968, it dealt a massive financial blow to Sanford. The base indirectly provided jobs for thousands of Sanford citizens, and the closure eventually lead to a migration of middle class whites away from Sanford and Seminole County as a whole.
The NAS was incredibly influential in the construction of modern day Sanford. NAS Sanford was important during the Cold War as a staging area, but had unforeseen effects as an important demography shaper. Without NAS Sanford's influence, Sanford would be a very different place than it is today.
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David pursues state and local policy change in the Northeast to improve land access for young farmers, and to help them be successful in growing their farm businesses. David previously served on former Iowa Senator Tom Harkin's staff, and in the Obama Administration under former USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack. He hails from the small town of Marble Rock, Iowa and holds a BA in political science from the University of Northern Iowa.


Baby Boomer Memory Lane: What Color Were Your Parents Checks?
My Dad was a feed grinder. Oh, he was a lot of other things too. Drove a rendering truck. Worked with his Uncle digging wells. Farmed a little here and there. Drove a milk truck, a road grader.
Turns out when you have a 7th grade education, you do a bit of everything to provide.
But for most of my 'growing up' years, he was a feed grinder.
The way he did it has been relegated to the corner of the dust bin of memory, back there with the village smithy, the 6-cent postage stamps, the 8-tracks and black and white TV's that got all of two channels and weighed a couple hundred pounds.
He had a feed grinder truck (in fact, a few through the years) and would go from farm to farm to farm, neighbor to neighbor to neighbor, and grind and mix the corn, oats, hay or whatever needed to be ground and mixed for the animals.
Now, this seems a little quaint, and maybe I'm wrong but...as I recall it was about $3.50 a wagon load? Well, whatever it was, once it was done, it was time to pay the bill.
In the cab of that feed grinder truck, he had check blanks scattered across the dash, all covered with grain dust, cigarette packs (his preference was Raleigh) and bits of this and that.
Yep. Each bank had it's own color check blank. My folks banked in Kenneth, Minnesota and there's was yellow/gold. As I recall (and as usual I may be wrong, but hey, it's my story) Chandler was white, Edgerton a kind of rose/pink and...well, each bank had it's own color. So if the farm neighbor said 'Chandler', he'd just find the white one and fill 'er out.
But whoa, whoa, whoa...hold on just a minute you old timer!
What about personal checks? Why didn't they use their personal checks?
Yeah, well...there was no such thing, least far as I know. That was some new-fangled thing that was up there somewhere in the future. And by the way, just how quaint and old-fashioned was this colored-check bank thing? Well, I recall more than a few times, Dad wouldn't have, say, an Edgerton check blank so...just take the Chandler Bank check, scratch out 'Chandler', write in 'Edgerton' and you were good to go! I swear, it would go through. This was small town, rural America. And I loved it.
Of course, these days not only are 'counter checks' a thing of the past, checks are quickly becoming a memory as well. I've talked to what I call 'young 'uns' who tell me they haven't written a check in years. It's all online now, automatic, the bills are paid without a pen and paper. Done.
But the memories aren't done, not for those of us who trod the planet in an older persons skin. I can still see those rainbows of checks setting on the dash of that feed grinder cab.
And just like the warm memory, you need to blow the dust off them.


Dear Dr. K: Do you have anything to share from your recent trip to the Southeastern Allergy meeting?
The meeting was excellent. The presentation I found most provocative was on allergy to medical devices. Unfortunately, this is becoming a more common source of allergic difficulty. The spectrum of reactions has included allergy to joint replacements, fracture-stabilizing metals, spine-straightening rods, cardiac pacemakers, defibrillators and their wires, coronary and other arterial stents and dental products, including implants and orthodontic materials.
Although some reactions are to glues and adhesives, it seems that metal allergy is the primary cause for these reactions. The reaction to metals is found more commonly in people who already have known metal allergy, such as nickel allergy to earring materials. In fact, nickel allergy is the most common metal allergy, followed by chromium and cobalt allergies.
People who have multiple body piercing sites have a greater likelihood of developing metal allergy. The American Academy of Allergy recommends avoiding ear or other piercings until age 10 to lessen the chance for developing metal allergy. It was once thought that titanium was allergenically inert but, unfortunately, allergic reactions are occurring to some titanium alloys.
The most common manifestation of the allergic reaction is a rash in the skin surrounding the implant site, or in the mucous membranes in the mouth in the case of dental allergy. In some patients there can also be sites of remote rash and other systemic symptoms, such as achiness and pain.
A special scenario can exist with arterial stent allergy. Sometimes the only manifestation is what is called rapid re-stenosis. That is, the artery that was reopened with the stent quickly closes again due to the allergic inflammation.
If someone has a known metal allergy and needs an implanted material, it is recommended that a patch test be done with the material prior to its being used. Unfortunately, there are not yet any standardized test kits, so the approach is more seat-of-your- pants in nature. Usually a small piece of the to-be implanted metal can be obtained and a patch test carried out. In some very special cases, instead of a patch test, the test metal is actually surgically placed in a superficial pocket below the skin for several weeks to see if an allergy develops. Obviously, this more invasive test is only undertaken in special high-risk cases.


Classical pluralism is the view that politics and choice making are situated primarily in the structure of federal government, however that lots of non-governmental groups utilize their resources to apply impact. Lines of dispute are several and moving as power is a constant bargaining procedure in between completing groups.
Pluralistic societies are those which contain a varied group of spiritual cultures and customs. Pluralistic societies exist worldwide, consisting of the United States. Pluralism usually consists of 4 parts, which at the most basic level are variety, interaction, tolerance and dedication. On the contrary, like other organizations the State is likewise one of the organizations of society. There the State does not schedule the authority to work out sovereignty according to his will. The Pluralistic state is, for that reason, "just a state where there exists no single source of authority". Inning accordance with Pluralists, sovereignty is unique and not indivisible". One the contrary it is a multiplicity in its essence and symptom, it is divisible in 2 parts and must be divided".
- Many cities in the United States have actually locations described as Little Italy or Chinatown, where individuals from those nations keep their cultural customs.
- JoAnne's moms and dads are from Lebanon, and though JoAnne has actually matured in the United States, she accepts her Lebanese roots. She has actually resided in Lebanon and frequently cooks conventional Lebanese meals.
- Amish individuals live together with those who are not Amish, however travel by horse and buggy, do not have electrical power, and have actually developed shops, schools, and other companies that are utilized by members of the Amish neighborhood.
- Native American people have different federal governments, religious beliefs, schools, and neighborhoods where they live and practice out their histories and customs.
- Born and raised in Mexico, Flor pertained to the United States as a teen. She aspired to find out English and to adjust to the culture around her, however she likewise continued to commemorate the customs she matured with and passed them on to her kids.
The logistical issues of having every person fulfill at one time to choose policies, political concerns need professional and constant attention, which the typical person does not have. Many individuals, he described, focus their time and energies on activities including work, household, health, relationship, entertainment, and the like. They fret that the typical individual does not have the virtues-- factor, intelligence, persistence-- for self-government and that direct democracy leads to anarchy and the loss of liberty. American society is a modern-day example of pluralism. In a pluralist society, power is held by numerous groups who complete for control of decision-making companies. Next, we will compare the 2 primary kinds of these effective groups in the United States: political celebrations and interest groups. Political pluralism is a participatory kind of federal government where the politics of the nation are specified by the wants and needs of numerous. Political pluralism is a federal government of individuals, by the individuals, and for individuals. This resembles the federal government of the United States of America.
Exactly what are you waiting for? Log on to our site and purchase your personalized Coursework today if you require constitutional law Coursework assistance. Pluralistic societies are those that consist of a varied group of spiritual cultures and customs. In a pluralist society, power is held by several groups who contend for control of decision-making companies. Pluralistic societies consist of lots of various spiritual groups. Pluralism likewise needs society's members to endure and comprehend those with various beliefs, which includes education about the different religious beliefs. A pluralistic society requires a high degree of tolerance amongst society members to keep the peace and lower the preconceived concepts and stereotypes.


New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg long sought to address a wide range of public health problems, including those associated with obesity and smoking. A number of his initiatives seem to have been behaviorally informed. Like many experts, he believes that soda is a contributing factor to increasing obesity rates and that large portion sizes are making the problem worse. In 2012, he proposed to ban the sale of sweetened drinks in containers larger than sixteen ounces at restaurants, delis, theaters, stadiums, and food courts. The New York City Board of Health approved the ban, though it was later struck down in court.
The ban does have an unmistakable behavioral logic. People tend to eat or drink whatever is put in front of them, and large portion sizes contribute to obesity. If the goal is to decrease the health risks associated with obesity, smaller portion sizes are a reasonable idea. Nonetheless, many people were outraged by what they saw as an egregious illustration of the nanny state in action. Why shouldn't people be allowed to choose a large bottle of Coca-Cola, if that's what they want?
The Center for Consumer Freedom responded with a vivid advertisement, depicting Mayor Bloomberg in a (scary) nanny outfit.
Was the proposed Big Gulp ban hard or soft? Did it involve means or ends? Neither question is easy to answer. We should be able to agree that the ban would not have been a mere nudge. Because it would have precluded people from purchasing sodas in large containers, it would not retain freedom of choice. On the other hand, it would hardly have been an aggressive form of paternalism. If people wanted to drink a lot of ounces of soda, they could certainly do that , simply by purchasing several containers. If we see a continuum from soft to hard paternalism, the Big Gulp initiative was relatively soft.
A plausible defense of the initiative would insist that it attempted to promote people's ends , not to overrule them1. People want to be healthy, and by reducing the risk of obesity, the initiative would do exactly that. Hardly anyone wants to be obese. But for reasons that we have explored, this argument is too simple. People's ends are not limited to health. They want to consume the drinks that they enjoy, in the sizes that they prefer. For choosers who sought soda in large containers, the ban would affect their ends, not simply their means to those ends.
What emerges is that Mayor Bloomberg ventured a relatively soft form of nonlibertarian paternalism, one that could not be defended as merely affecting people's means. Was his initiative defensible? In brief, the answer should turn on its costs and benefits. Its costs appear real but low, both to choosers and to providers. With respect to benefits, the question is whether it would have a significant impact on the obesity problem—a question on which we appear to lack much data. For these reasons, it is not obvious whether the initiative was a good one, and strong views either way are not easy to defend.
Let us compare another behaviorally informed initiative from Mayor Bloomberg, one that would prohibit the display of cigarettes in most retail shops. Under this approach, cigarettes could certainly be sold, but they would no longer be visible or salient to consumers. Here as well, the initiative has an unmistakable behavioral logic. As we have seen, salience greatly matters to people's choices. But unlike the Big Gulp ban, this approach is not merely a form of soft paternalism but also a genuine nudge, enlisting choice architecture on behalf of public health.
Mayor Bloomberg's approach here is not unlike that of Google , which found that its New York cafeteria , which offered a lot of high-calorie items, was producing a lot of unwanted pounds. In response to employee complaints, the company initiated a series of changes to nudge people toward more healthful choices. Large plates and takeout containers were exchanged for smaller sizes, and employees were encouraged to eat less with a sign stating , "People who take big plates tend to eat more." The redesigned cafeteria took a number of smart steps to make healthful choices simpler and more convenient (and to make less healthful choices less so). As a result, it helped to produce real reductions in both calories and fat consumed from candy. Google created a kind of Nudge Cafeteria, designed to increase healthful choices. Mayor Bloomberg took a broadly similar approach for cigarettes.
At the same time, it must be agreed that the prohibition on open display could affect ends as well as means, because purchasing cigarettes is, for some, a genuine end (at least if we are describing ends at a level of specificity). And in this case, as in that of the Big Gulp ban, the overall assessment should turn on both costs and benefits. That assessment would require a great deal of information about likely effects. But in view of the serious adverse health effects of smoking, and its addictive character, it is certainly plausible to think that this is an excellent nudge.
Excerpted from Why Nudge?: The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism by Cass Sunstein, published by Yale University Press. Copyright c 2014 by Cass Sunstein. Published by permission.


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Time-Based Competition in the Grocery Retail Industry
Evolution of Retail Grocery Industry Supply Chain
Efficient Consumer Response
Market Changes and Demand Uncertainties
Modern Logistic Management
One of the recently emerging operational strategies for firms in the modern economy is time-based competition (Inman, 2010 p 1). Time-based competition generally refers to a competitive strategy that emphasizes on efficient management of time as the key determinant of a company's attainment and sustenance of competitive advantage (Inman, 2010 p 1). This operational strategy is commonly utilized by companies to considerably minimize the time required for a company to manufacture and deliver its products to the consumers (Inman, 2010 p1).
To achieve the competitive advantage associated with efficient time management, a company has to improve its current processes and adjust its design structures used in the process of manufacturing and delivering the goods to the intended consumers (Inman, 2010 p1). Companies aiming at achieving fast production emphasize more on efficient response to consumer demands in the existing products while companies aiming at reducing the time taken to avail goods to the consumers focus more on logistic management (Inman, 2010 p1)
Wal-Mart Company, a major corporate retail company based in the United States has managed to retain competitiveness in the retail industry primarily due to its efficiency in implementing time-based competitive strategy in its operations. The company ensures that it replenishes its stores twice as first as its competitors in the retail industry (Inman, 2010 p1). The company's major focus is the reduction of time period ordering of goods and the delivery of these goods (Lead time).
For the company to deliver a new product into the market, it has to effectively manage its logistic networks throughout supply chain. Effectual logistic administration is principally concerned with the firm's capacity to deliver the right items to the clients at the exact time and place (Sparks & Fernie, n d, p 5). Wal-Mart management has to put into consideration the flow of products within the supply chain and in the wider supply chain to avail products to the consumers at the right time which entails efficient management of logistics in terms of product movement and demand management (Sparks & Fernie, n d, p 6). For the company to deliver its product in the market, the product must undergo the following processes;
Manufacturers [Wal-Mart would order napkins from manufacturing companies].
Inventory [Storage in regional distribution centers].
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Transportation [Transportation fleets such as trucks and trailers]
Unitization and packaging [Promotion of selling ability through packaging]
Communication [Effective information management and advertising]
In order to understand the progress that has been achieved in the retail grocery industry supply chain, we will look at the logistical advancement in the United Kingdom. The evolution of the retail grocery industry in the region took place over a short period (Sparks & Fernie, n d, p20). The industry orientation was significantly altered when the initial dominant method where manufacturers supplied to retailers directly from their factories and warehouses started changing towards a trend where retailers heavily invested in regional distribution centers to receive deliveries from suppliers and facilitate onward delivery to the store (Sparks & Fernie, n d, p 20).
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This initial change in the industry's supply chain led to the minimization of supplier's ultimate control of the supply chain with the distribution of products becoming the central function in retailing and logistical infrastructure (Sparks & Fernie, n d, p 20). This evolution further led to substantial improvement evidenced in overall reduction in lead time, minimizing inventory as well as promotion of greater availability of products to consumers (Sparks & Fernie, n d, p 20).
Another remarkable achievement in the industry was the introduction and implementation of the Just in Time model in the 90s, whereby retailers started emphasizing their primary distribution networks consequently demanding more frequent deliveries of smaller quantities (Sparks & Fernie, n d, P 20). This served to promote efficient delivery of goods to consumers as well as promotion of time-based competition in the industry which is especially vital since goods in the grocery industry have limited shelf life which calls for an understanding of exact real-time in delivery (Lowson et al, n d p3).
This is an operational strategy commonly utilized in the grocery retail sector in the modern economy to achieve time-based competitive advantage and utilizes such components as PoS data, EDI, fast re-estimation and reorders to drive supply to meet demand of the consumers (Lowson, n d, p 3). A simple demonstration would be a customer's order of frozen greens in a greengrocery shop. On receipt of the order, product data and information is transmitted to the manufacturer and the growers through electronic data interchange which enables efficient transmission of data throughout the supply chain allowing the store to link supply with real-time demand (Lowson, n d, p 3). This process is highly facilitated by advanced technology further promoting efficiency in terms of time and other resources.
Wal-Mart's association with other major companies such as Proctor was the pioneer of efficient consumer response in the United States (Sparks & Fernie, n d, p48). This move was highly influenced by increased competition in the traditional grocery industry in the 1990s as well as recession that had hit the region during the time (Sparks & Fernie, n d p 48).
Europe on the other hand adopted the efficient consumer response programs in 1993, where they conceptualized the operational strategy as a global movement in the grocery industry emphasizing the total supply chain which was inclusive of suppliers, manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers working together to effectively provide for the changing demands of the consumers at a convenient and efficient way (Sparks & Fernie, n d p48). Consequently, the region received remarkable sales turnover.
Initially, the strategy sought to ensure efficiencies in replenishment and standardization of materials and equipment and aimed at eliminating unnecessary handling through the supply chain (Sparks & Fernie, n d, p 49). Efficient consumer response later shifted its focus towards efficient consumer response management through category management, product replenishment and enabling technologies which were further broken down to other areas where improvements were made to enhance efficiency and ensure delivery of products on time to the consumers (Sparks & Fernie, n d, p48). On performing ECR activities, a company can evaluate its outcomes and performance through demand and supply–related indicators (Sparks & Fernie, n d p 52).
Demand-related indicators are concerned with sales and store variables as well as consumer and shopping measures (Sparks & Fernie, n d p 52). The supply-related indicators on the other hand are strongly concerned with issues regarding consumer satisfaction and can be classified further into logistics costs, logistics reliability as well as administrative accuracy (Sparks & Fernie, n d p 52).
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Grocery retail industry is becoming more advanced in their approach to demand and supply management and has evidently moved from the traditional organizational structure into a multi-functional team structure which has led to overall restructuring of the relationship between retailers and their suppliers (Sparks & Fernie, n d p 52). Category performance in the industry has been improved through enhancement of consumer experience by remerchandising traditional layouts and these approaches are continuously being adopted by diverse companies regardless of size, location and popularity (Sparks & Fernie, n d p 53).
In addition, the greengrocery industry highlights success in various regions in terms of category planning which has promoted time management in the supply chain and although logisticians would prefer a consistent flow of products through the supply chain, many retailers use tactical promotions as a way of their marketing strategy (Sparks & Fernie, n d p 53). Further, in order to integrate demand-side planning with continuous replenishment, collaborative planning is necessary and Wal-Mart and Warner Lambert are cited as the key partners in sales forecasts collaboration in the 90s which set a successful example for other companies to follow (Sparks & Fernie, n d p 53).
Retailers in the grocery industry can experience great losses especially because of sudden market changes as well as missed sale opportunities (Sparks & Fernie, n d p 53).General slowdowns in the market may result in consumer dissatisfaction which may significantly reduce sales in a company and lead to the accumulation of unsold stock causing further losses to the company. To counter these occurrences, retail companies may adopt the agile merchandise approach business framework commonly used in the fashion industry and incorporate outsourcing in other regions (Sparks & Fernie, n d p 53). Through agile merchandising, domestic manufacturers can be used to supply to those parts of the consumer base that are difficult to predict through the provision of smaller batches on the basis of real-time demand (Sparks & Fernie, n d, p 124).
Grocery retail companies may utilize overseas companies through outsourcing to meet cost requirements while it utilizes its local manufacturers to provide for quick replenishment orders and small batches in order to respond to unpredicted surges in demand (Sparks & Fernie, n d p 124). The goods supplied in the grocery retail industry have to further compete in the marketplace supply chain which calls for matching of lifecycle attributes of greengrocers as well as the characteristics of the product (Sparks & Fernie, n d p 124).
A study conducted in the UK revealed that careful matching between product lifecycle character, demand attributes and supply alternatives maximizes overall competitiveness of a company (Sparks & Fernie, n d, p 125). In addition, through this business framework, Retail Companies can significantly reduce the chances of negative implications which are associated with uncertainties in demand.
Agile merchandizing represents the incentive of simultaneously planning and controlling the supply network in such a way that the value chain complies with consumer expectations as well as the expectation of suppliers (Sparks & Fernie, n d, p 130). Consumer integration is the main driver of business network providing the information required to ensure that the value proposition offered to consumers conforms to the value that they are expecting to receive and as the market conditions changes, adjustment to the value propositions need to e carried out accordingly (Sparks & Fernie, nd, p 130).
However, agile supply chain focuses on fulfilling consumer demand rather than market mediation and consequently its main objective is directed towards planning the supply base rather than actively and accurately managing the complex planning and control activity involved in management of the value chain (Sparks & Fernie, n d, p 129).
The logistic sector in the United States has developed over the years with the emergence of new and advanced modes of transportation. The public sector in the country is advanced which serves to facilitate the movement of people and goods in the region (Nordahl, n d p 75). Numerous essential factors are put into consideration when developing the transit system with much focus being accorded to passenger enrichment as well as efficient transportation (Nordahl, n d, 116).
Transport decision-makers in various regions have recognized that transit vehicles considerably utilize public space and have consequently formulated strategies in line with ensuring that the design of the transit system is developed in such a way that it provides the experience afforded to the customers (Nordahl, n d, p 98). Consequently, developers aim at building an attractive transit system that not only promotes tourism in the region but also provides an efficient means of transport for both people and goods consequently enhancing the delivery of goods to customers (Nordahl, n d, p 115).
Further, due to improved technology and communication techniques being enjoyed y the modern-day economy, time-based competitive advantage can easily be achieved through demand forecasting which has been made possible through the numerous commercial software packages that have been invented for forecasting (Gung, 2002 p1). This serves to promote speed and responsiveness in the retail grocery industry and provides the companies with a major competitive advantage (Gung, 2002, p 1).
In addition, the mode of transaction in the modern economy is leaning more towards the business transaction where the buyer and the seller contract electronically and the buyer consequently expect to be availed with the product more efficiently as well as provision of adequate information regarding the availability of the product (Gung, 2002 p 1).
For a company to meet these demands, it must ensure that it adopts lean and efficient responsive measures towards addressing consumer demands by putting more effort into its logistics planning as well as promotion of business strategies (Gung, 2002 p 1). Demand forecasting is an initial step towards this achievement and also serves to enhance business implementation in the greengrocery industry (Gung, 2002 p 1).
Since the modern business environment is characterized by dynamism and may fail to follow a historical pattern of demand changes, future demand may not be accurately measured by past demand information alone (Gung, 2002, p 1). Demand can therefore be forecasted using models such as proprietary forecasting tools, forecasting using consumer surveys among other models to overcome challenges associated with sudden changes in demand in the retail grocery industry (Gung, 2002, p 1). In conclusion, grocery retail companies should focus on logistics and supply chain management as well as the implementation of business to enjoy advantages associated with time-based competitiveness.
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'There is a better way to do graphics, which is used in medicine and the sciences, and that is to make everything out of tiny little atoms instead of flat panels [polygons]. The problem is, this particular system uses up a lot of processing power' says the voice in the presentation video.
Then again, some folks like Notch, the developer of Minecraft, claim Unlimited Detail is a scam.
It's a very pretty and very impressive piece of technology, but they're carefully avoiding to mention any of the drawbacks, and they're pretending like what they're doing is something new and impressive. In reality, it's been done several times before.
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This post is based on yet another Hong Kong shopping trip. I wasn't lying when I said I did a lot of shopping! There are shopping malls as you come out of pretty much every underground (known as the MTR) stations so it is hard not to look.
I was going to have lunch with my family the other day but I was early and had time to kill so decided to have a shop around the shopping mall at the MTR station. All of a sudden I came across an optician with cool designs and unbelievably good prices!
The cheapest glasses start from $380HKD which equals to about £30! So for £30 you will get a pair of funky glasses along with your basic single vision lenses and you can pick them up in an hour! Now that is what I called efficiency! In Hong Kong everything is about speed and being efficient, yet another reason why I love that place.
You are probably thinking if they are that cheap they can't be great quality… well you are wrong! They are actually pretty good and not that bad at all. I mean of course you are not getting the best hinges etc but the designs and quality I think are pretty spot on and at that price you can afford to buy about four pairs. I didn't end up buying any just because I didn't have enough time to chose them but next time I am in Hong Kong I will be stocking up!
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"Her mother had died when Siobhán was only three." In this quiet story set in Dublin, a girl is left with a father so sad he never speaks to her about her mother. By the time she is 10, Siobhán can no longer remember her mother's face; it's an "empty space" that causes painful unhappiness. One day, Siobhán meets a beautiful woman who recognizes the girl's sadness and listens to her story.
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Being injured in an auto accident while pregnant led to Dr. Reichert's specialty in alternative injury and pain treatments.
Dr. Susan Reichert's medical practice was forever changed one fateful day. Reichert, a MD and practicing pediatrician, was pregnant when she was injured in a car accident. She didn't want to take medication or have invasive procedures while she was pregnant, so she looked for other ways to deal with her injury and pain. That search led her to more alternative treatments.
"I made my way to osteopathy and craniosacral therapy," she said. "It helped me immensely."
Until Reichert's car accident she was a traditional pediatrician. She is board certified in pediatrics and has a sub-specialty fellowship in child abuse and neglect. She received her MD from the University of Cincinnati and practiced in Denver and Oakland, California. Reichert came to Bend to take a position at the KIDS Center, a child abuse intervention center, where she spent six years as the medical director.
Reichert's experience as a patient receiving "hands-on" therapies changed the way she began treating her own patients. It didn't happen immediately, but over time she sought training in various "alternative" modalities including those that had helped her through her injury.
One of those trainings, taught in part by Janice Blumer, DO, was a rigorous course in cranial osteopathy. Blumer is an assistant professor and vice-chair at Western University's College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific – Northwest located in Lebanon, Oregon where Reichert herself recently assisted teaching a cranial course.
This therapy is based on the integration of the whole body. The head, brain and entire spine and sacrum are considered related and operating as one connected whole. Gentle manipulations of the head and spine are used to encourage the flow of cerebrospinal fluid and to release restrictions in the body.
"Susan is trying to bridge the gap between allopathic and osteopathic and is doing a great job of it," Blumer said.
Allopathic describes "western" medicine, which focuses on disease management through medication while osteopathic medicine emphasizes prevention and looks at the patient more holistically.
Blumer said Reichert also brings a variety of techniques to the table that are not osteopathic but that are complementary.
"Osteopathy is a kind of medicine that uses more manual therapies to encourage the body to use its own self-healing ability and it gives an alternative to medication and invasive procedures," Reichert said. "It's more like mind, body, spirit medicine."
Reichert feels she brings the best of both fields to her practice. "I grew up in western medicine and I discovered the osteopathic approach and I find that they marry very well together."
She says MDs and DOs are all on the same team and that there are some things that osteopathy treatment is better for and some things for which you need traditional medicine.
"You still need to take antibiotics for serious infections, you still need to have surgery when your appendix bursts, or your knee blows out," she added.
Reichert found that she loved using her hands to help people heal. "It allowed me to bring all that I am and all that I know as a western medicine physician but it gave my hands something to do to treat those people."
She sees children and adults in her practice now. She treats patients who are in pain or who experience a wide variety of physical, emotional and behavioral problems. Many of her patients do not want to take drugs.
Lactation consultants at St. Charles Health Systems may refer mothers to Reichert when their babies are not nursing very well.
Reichert said sometimes babies have had their necks turned in one position in utero and they can't move their neck around well enough to feed successfully. Sometimes there are also issues with their tongue or jaw that interferes with nursing.
"I can do a couple of very gentle treatments that can release the restrictions and allow them to feed better," she said.
Reichert said she loves supporting new mothers and offering them ways they can use gentle techniques to soothe, comfort and connect with their babies.
Reichert believes that our bodies have a tremendous ability to heal themselves. She helps patients access that ability.
"Susan continues to challenge herself and push the boundaries of helping patients find health — of searching for ways to bring somebody to health which is a very osteopathic way of thinking," said Blumer.
Reichert is part of a trend in medicine that is moving toward integrative practices. A major change in that direction occurred recently. A February press release titled, "Allopathic and Osteopathic Medical Communities Commit to a Single Graduate Medical Education Accreditation System," announced that both MDs and DOs would now have the same residency training.
"Up until now residency training for MDs and DOs has been a separate track but beginning next year, MDs now have the opportunity to learn osteopathic manipulations in their residency training program," said Blumer. "This change will likely have more people looking for osteopathic philosophy as well as techniques."
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BRUTAL DEATH FROM AUSTRALIA
12. It's introduction time. So what the fucking fuck are you doing in there, trying to catch my imaginary girlfriend? Give us the important points of your history/ biography, as well as what each well-rounded beer maniac should know to decently enter his tiny bed tonight.
The DEAD were formed in April 2005 due to strange circumstances – I (Scott Edgar – guitarz) was in a band called MISERY since 1991, Damon, our bassist/vocalist met a chick called Sharon who lives in Pittsburgh USA, she is also in a band called Derketa (Goddess of Death etc…) one thing led to another and Damon ended up moving to the USA which spelled the end of misery. We used to rehearse at a studio called Station 13 which is owned and operated by Chris Morse (Drums for THE DEAD) and when Chris heard of Damons departure asked me if I wanted to play some metal with him and his friend Adam Keleher (Bass). I was very interested as these guys are amazing musicians and wanted to do something a bit more extreme than misery. So we rehearsed for a couple of months and wrote the first demo. As luck would have it I ran into an old friend I had'nt seen in years at one of the final misery shows. It was Mike Yee (Vokills) he was in an old death band in the early nineties called OBFUSCATE MASS, I told him of our new band and he came along to a practice, we were blown away by his monstrous vocals. From then on we were THE DEAD.
11. As everyone noticed, this second question comes just after the 12th one... I'm afraid this could be pure necro... What initially motivated you to create this band, and is it the first name and first incarnation? Is it some kind of sub project for some bigger outfit and did you play in other bands before? Did some of the musicians already release something?
Man you are on the good drugs hey? As I said in the last answer we all just wanted to do something fresh and heavy as fuck but still retaining good song structures and memorable hooks, not just wanking off for the sake of it. It is the first and only incarnation, I don't think we would keep going as THE DEAD if any member left this band. This is our only band, we have currently no other side projects although I was still in Misery for a while in the early days when Damon was getting his shit together to move to the USA. We released five albums over our fifteen year career. Mike did a couple of demos with Obfuscate Mass and Chris & Adam have both played on many session recordings and various projects together.
10. What are/ were/ will be (!!) the influences of THE DEAD? Plus, give us at least 5 names of very obscure metal Demo-bands that influenced your music in a way (Héhé, it won't be so easy to answer... At least I hope so... Who said I tried to kill THE DEAD? lol).
When Mike first joined the band we asked him what his lyrics would be about… He replied… Just killing and shit! Mike works in an abboitoir, he is surrounded by slaughter and blood all day then he goes home and watches horror movies and shoots the fuck out of people on his Xbox. On the musical side we wanted it to be ultra heavy but clear so you can still hear all the riffs and blast beats whilst still retaining some kind of groove. We are not really influenced by other bands but some good Australian bands are Portal, Sadistik Exekution, Astriaal, Destroyer666 and Gospel of the Horns to name just a few.
9. Awaking the dead isn't necessarily easy; but sometimes we achieve to take them out from their paradoxical sleep, thanx to the brutal music we like... Why do you play a so brutal music with the goal to awake them? Do you plan to awake them all? Have you got a problem with the deads to disturb their sleep a so brutal way? After all, they can keep on sleeping eternally in their tombs, they didn't bother me... Hooo, maybe you had to face the hunger of the legendary tape eating zombie who devoured your demo collection! I could understand easily...
There is nothing like the adrenaline rush and muscle burn of shredding out some brutal head fucking metal.Especially when you get a connection with the audience and go into a trance like state. It is definitely not easy but that is why we do it. The tape eating zombie is a faggot, he was fucked up the arse and sent to hell to wake up all the other arse bandit zombies.
8. If THE DEAD wasn't a Death metal band, but an energetic drink for sportsmen, would you keep the same moniker?
Only if it contains alcohol, I think I need some. That's a fucking strange question!
7. It seems your music becomes more extreme, faster and a bit more disjoncted. Few other influences remain (Such as sludgy stoner) but the whole seems to be more straight to the kill. I guess it's a natural evolution... An evolution influenced by the increase of skills? Long hours of rehearshards? Or maybe you stopped listening to gay music to refocus everything on your Georges Michael collection? By the way, is there a particular goal for THE DEAD, or do you evolve naturally without much milk-shaking? (Be careful, the legions of French Milk-haters are numerous, be careful)
Well we have been doing this shit for a long long time, and Chris owning a rehearsal studio also helps. We are fairly self sufficient. The music just seems to evolve naturally, sometimes Adam or myself will write a complete song on our own and bring it in to rehearsal, other times we will write as a band. We always write the music first and record the practice on a 4 track, give it to Mike and he will write the lyrics at home and bring them in the following week. Then we fine tune the arrangements, Chris is particularly good at this. This method seems to work for us, we still like the sludge - it is boring to be too one dimensional. We will never stop listening to George Michael, he is truly Satanic and apparently quite a pot head.
6. Would a dead that revives or awakes necessarily be an undead? I mean, would it always strike back with its rotten, putrid, nauseous, incarcinerated and reeking of putrefaction of dead meat to devour us all and make some place left in this carcass earth? Or are there other pussybilities?
The DEAD are ALIVE!
5. How generally are the gigs of THE DEAD? Do you need electronic attributes such as drum-machines, synthesizers, samplers or computers to decently reproduce your music live? Or maybe a single computer is enough, as you simply press the "Play" button of Winamp, and the public could only see 4 metallers playing hair guitar on the scene? Did you share the stage with other Australian cool band such as SADISTIK EXEKUTION, CRUFICIRE/ ENCABULOS, IGNIVOMOUS, PSYCROPTIC (Or others... Give us their names) and did they appreciate your hair-guitar habilities? ;-)
We have no use for gadgetry on this side of the planet, just pure unadulterated string, percussive, vocal torture. There is quite a good growing metal scene here in Brisbane, it is not unusual to pull 400 people to a gig. We have shared the stage with many great acts including Obituary, Psycroptic… too many to mention, I don't know if they were impressed, other bands always say "Wicked show man" but that seems to be the standard line for "Yeah yeah fuck off I need to get to the bar" . You seem to be a little bit obsessed with hair bands is there something you need to tell us? it's ok to come out of the closet. ;-)
4. Give us the names of some cult (Forgotten?) Australian Death metal bands from the past! Since France is quite far, I guess some names didn't reach the hellish postal boxes of Europe at the time, and simply got erased by time and dust... What was the first Australian Death metal band as far as you know? First grindcore? First thrash metal? And by the way, what was the last Australian glam band? (If it ever polluted the kangaroo's battlefields... As you noticed, I said the last band, as I hope for you this poseur music is locally extincted since decades!)
The first Australian death metal bands were probably my old band MISERY and Mikes old band Obfuscate Mass formed in 1990 around that time there were also bands such as Armoured Angel and Psychrist . Grindcore was more prevalent in Melbourne with bands like Damaged and Blood Duster. Probably the first and best thrash band were Mortal Sin in the mid eighties. Not sure about the glam stuff… sorry.
3. Are you into interpuking and did you receive a lot of interpukes? (It's nice to see some bands are serial interpukers who never hesitate to multipuke the green bile on holy paper…). How do the promotion of your band band work and do you receive a lot of feedbacks? Did you receive a lot of reviews, demo orders? Underwear mail? Genital offerings? Are there a lot of paperpuke zines in Oztralia and maybe you miss something printed the real way (If you don't own a portable phone with Internet inside whatever…)
Our label OBSIDIAN RECORDS take care of lining up most of the promotional stuff here in Australia, we are starting to get more interest now that the album is recorded and due for release in December. There are quite a few zines here both electronic and old school paper. We try not to oversaturate just let them come to us if they are interested. If the product is good , the people will come.
2. How are the chicks in Australia? Is it easy to get a meat-party for free? In France, chicken are often bound to their factories, trying to make as many eggs as possible, and sometimes turning to transgenic meat... So it's not easy, and we have to find some interest in the cows (Some receive so many requests they turn crazy...).
Australia is a smorgasbord of beautiful women, no need for the cows, I thought bestiality was illegal in France.
1. This is the last question, so tell us everything concerning your future projects, available merchandising, welcomed fan-gitfs, and that's it. Good luck and keep in mind: POSEURS CAN'T KILL WHAT IS ALREADY DEAD!! HAILZ DEATH METAL!
We want to keep progressing steadily, maybe pick up some national tours within Australia and New Zealand with bigger International Bands, we are supporting BEHEMOTH soon. There is also talk of a possible European tour next year. The debut self titled album is coming out in December.
Tracks are: Hunting Humans, Onslaughter, Raging Violence, Nameless Enemy, The Dead, Drown in Sin, They Eat Their Wounded, A Killing Kind and The Doomsayer. We also have some shirts available. Contact THE DEAD: http://www.myspace.com/lordofthelivingdead
Thedead_@hotmail.com
Merch and CD:
info@obsidianrecords.com
www.obsidianrecords.com
Brisbane Queensland 4003
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How to Celebrate Kentucky Derby 2013 in Central Kentucky
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As every horse racing fan knows, Kentucky Derby celebrations aren't confined to Louisville.
Central Kentucky comes together for the Derby with events before Derby in Lexington, Midway, Versailles, and Frankfort. In Lexington, JustFundKy celebrates the Kentucky Derby on Derby Eve with their inaugural fundraiser, "Night of the Phoenix," at the Grand Reserve on Manchester Street from 8pm to 1a. Tickets are $125 and proceeds from ticket sales and auction bidding will go to fund equality projects and grants in the state of Kentucky. Go to www.justfundky.org for ticket sales and more details. Will this be the heir to the Madden Derby Eve party that Lexington has been looking for? Time will tell.
Starting on Friday, May 3rd, Keeneland invites the Bluegrass to spend Oaks Day in the Equestrian Room Dining or on the Keeneland Clubhouse Lawn with the 4th Annual Martinis on the Lawn for Filly Friday. Tickets for Martinis on the Lawn are $40 and starts at 3:30 to 7:30.
On Derby Day, Keeneland's Derby Bash starts at 10:30am at the Entertainment Center and Keene Barn and goes on all day. In Keeneland proper, the dining rooms are open with several dining options, TVs to watch simulcast racing, and activities for children.
Midway First Friday for May 3rd, 2013:
First Friday at Kennydid features the photographic art of Alexey Stiop, a Russian-born photographer now living in Georgetown, KY. Music provided by Chris Bowling and refreshments will be available. Extended hours due to The Kentucky Oaks. Midway is the place to be for First Friday.
Fashion Filly in Midway will celebrate the 139th Running of the Kentucky Oaks during the evening with refreshments and new products.
Lexington's Kentucky Horse Park is hosting the family-friendly Derby Days on Friday and Saturday, May 3 and 4, 2013. This is a new event in celebration of Kentucky's signature event for 139 years, the Kentucky Derby and gives guests a chance to see living Kentucky Derby-winning thoroughbreds up close. In addition to the activities going on inside the park, drive-thru wagering will be available for Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby. Derby Days is open with the Kentucky Horse Park's daily regular hours: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.
The Governor's Office and Downtown Frankfort
Saturday in the State Capitol of Frankfort is always a Derby Tradition.
Now in its third year, Governor Beshear and his wife, Jane, have taken the Governor's Derby breakfast and turned it into The Governor's Downtown Derby Celebration, Frankfort's community-wide celebration of the Derby on Broadway with local businesses and museums opening their doors, local restaurants serving Derby favorites, activities for children, Kentucky artisans, as well as Kentucky music on the Jim Beam stage.
First Lady Jane Beshear says of the move downtown, "It's reinvigorated. Engaging local businesses and community members allows the people of Frankfort to truly decide what the Governor's Downtown Derby Celebration is about, and we support the community in any way we can. The celebration also brings in many Kentuckians from outside of Frankfort and holding the event downtown gives the community a chance to showcase its many wonderful stores, restaurants and historical sites in a festive way." Mrs. Beshear says: "To me, one of the best parts of having this event downtown, it's more family-oriented than it was previously." Activities for children include The YMCA 'Derby Dash' for ages 2 to 12 on Broadway, stick horse races across the Old State Capitol Lawn, Derby hat making, inflatables, and Salato Wildlife Sanctuary will bring furry and feathered friends. At Broadway Clay children can throw their own pots in their studio for $5. Melanie Van Houten, owner of Josephine Sculpture Park, has a children's art activity planned in the Meeting Room of Completely Kentucky, also on Broadway. The Kentucky Historical Society sponsors two of the popular activities, the stick horse races across the Old State Capitol lawn and the Derby Hat Making. Julia Curry, Special Events Manager for the Kentucky Historical Society says "As many adults as children want to make Derby hats!" She also commented that they make 500-800 paper Derby hats during the celebration. Along with the activities on the Old State Capital lawn, the Thomas B. Walker History Center, the Kentucky Military Museum, and the Old State Capital will be open and free to visitors during the Downtown Derby Celebration as well. The Capital City Museum will bring a retired racing thoroughbred to visit. Disturbingthepeace will be on Ann Street next to the Capital City Museum and has pony rides for kids too. On a similar vein, the Kentucky Horse Park will offer carriage rides down Main Street in Frankfort on Derby Day.
"Pedal for the Posies"
Dubbed "the second most exciting 2 minutes in sports," by Stuart Harrod, owner of Folk Bike Recyclery on Lewis Street, this bike race appeals to the kids and the kid at heart. Stuart and Brittain Skinner, Executive Director of Downtown Frankfort Inc., for local businesses to get in the limelight and to get people downtown. "It's a fun social event that is more of a spectacle than serious" says Stuart. Pedal for the Posies involves local Frankfort business representatives riding very small kids' bikes supplied by Stuart and Folk Bike ReCyclery to the participants who then ride these bikes down Broadway for 1.25 miles, the same length as the Derby. Stuart says "It's really taken off; people decorate their bikes and dress in costume to celebrate." The winner receives a trophy made of bicycle parts. Only in its second year, Pedal for the Posies is a community favorite. "Pedal for the Posies is the best event of the Governor's Downtown Derby Celebration," says Rachael Peake, owner of Capital Cellars. Melanie Van Houten, manager of Completely Kentucky concurs, "It's a lot of fun down here."
Downtown Frankfort—the Community
Downtown Frankfort has many shops and restaurants that open their doors and welcomes everyone into their businesses with creating special projects, sales, food, and demonstrations. At Completely Kentucky, Kentucky artisans will be on hand to demonstrate jewelry making and William Rogers from Harrodsburg will carve wood. On the lawn of the Old State Capital, picnic tables get decorated with Derby themes; Jim Beam sponsors the music venue where local musicians play live music; Kentucky artisans demonstrate their work. Carlos Ceballos, assistant manager at Serafini comments "it's lively in downtown Frankfort with music playing, people eating at Derby tables. It's just part of the Kentucky Derby tradition." Leah Duvall, also assistant manager for Serafini, loves "all the Southern Bells dressed up walking by." Lizz Taylor, owner of Poor Richard's Books, loves the RJ Corman Kentucky Derby Dinner Train: "The passengers are dressed in their Derby garb and it's fun to people watch." Audrey Hammond, co-owner of Broadway Clay, also favors the train, "Something so romantic about it. I'm a sentimental native, " she laughs.
Brittain Skinner, Executive Director of Downtown Frankfort, Inc. says: "Derby Day is when all eyes are on Kentucky. It's our day to shine. Whatever your Derby tradition–whether you're headed to the track in your finery, celebrating the race at a party, or even just cheering the ponies from your couch–the Governor's Downtown Derby Celebration is the perfect way to kick off Derby Day and to be part of our Commonwealth's moment in the spotlight."
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Q. I have a web application where I am trying to make a Ajax call using XMLHttpRequest Object. But some times its not working. Seems like its a browser issue. Can you figure out for which browser its not working?
method - Type of request, it can be GET or POST.
serviceUrl - Url of the webservice or page URL.
isAsync - It will be either 'true' or 'false'. Pass true to make asynchronous webservice call. Add below code if your application calls webservice asynchronously. "onreadystatechange" stores the function that will process the response.
Step 3: Use "setRequestHeader" method to set header of the HTTP request. For example, while webservice call we need to pass xml data, so header value will be "text/xml; charset=utf-8" (Refer below code).
Step 4: Finally we have to prepare packet and call send() method. But be careful while creating packet because, a small mistake can waste a lots of time in debugging.
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Find 10 adjectives that can be used to describe people.
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Give your groups ten to fifteen minutes to ask each other questions, and then see who in your class figured out the most family member qualities!
Write a short paragraph and describe a person you and your partner know but don't say who it is. Your partner can guess!


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Q: How to find the factor which is more contributing to an event I have two datasets.
Dataset#1 consists of information of patients having one of the three diseases and the hospital they are  treated. Each patient will have only one disease.
Dataset 1:
Patient_id, Disease, Hospital
1, D_A, H_A
2, D_A, H_A
3, D_A, H_A
4, D_B, H_A
5, D_C, H_A
6, D_A, H_B
7, D_B, H_C
8, D_C, H_C

Second dataset has the death rate in the hospital caused by all of these three diseases. (Unfortunately no death rates are available for individual diseases)
Dataset 2
Hospital, Death per 1000
H_A, 12
H_B, 17
H_C, 22

I want to find out which of these three diseases causing more death assuming all the other factors influencing the death rate are constant. Can someone please help me to model this.


Check out all the Upcoming Events below!
With the snow last week, my whole week was thrown off! But the second deposit for Costa Rica ($200) was due this past Sunday. So I am pushing the deadline back to this upcoming Sunday, January 28th. Please turn in your deposit by then.
Also, if your student has not begun the process of applying for a passport, this needs to happen as soon as possible! Once you receive your passport, or if you have it already, make sure I have a copy of the front page of it! Thanks!
Join us on Sunday, February 4th to watch the biggest Football game of the year! There will be food, games, prizes and good time of hanging out!
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March 2017 - Cultivating Mindfulness
Taking on a science-based approach by combining neuroscience, mindfulness and emotional intelligence, find out more about the 2-day Search Inside Yourself workshop, aimed at gearing both non-profit and business leaders to do good, better.
February 2017 - Find that Perfect Match
"With great power comes great responsibility, and often some leaders find it lonely at the top." Take part in our quarterly poll to find out if leadership isolation is more than just a cliche. Also learn how you can navigate challenges with finesse by transforming leadership at the crux through CNPL's PeopleSearch solutions.
January 2017 - Transformation & Aspirations
Hear from Winifred Loh, Director, CNPL as she reflects on the year passed, counts her blessings, and shares with us what keeps her and the team going as well as her hopes for the future of non-profit leadership.
December 2016 – Mission to Serve (SPNM Reflections)
Aspired by many, and offered to only a few, Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management (SPNM) is an executive program by Harvard Business School dedicated to gathering the brightest sparks in the realm of non-profits globally. As part of a series, we hear from the first of these scholars, Dr Goh Wei Leong, Chairman & Co-Founder, Healthserve, a PVPA 2015 NPO winner, on his reflections on the programme.
November 2016 - LEADERS' LAB: Framework for Fundraising
CNPL recently conducted the 6th LEADERS' LAB session with a panel of non-profit Board members who have launched highly innovative and sustainable fund-raising programmes, led by Jane Binks, non-profit professional and former Director of Philanthropy at NHB.
October 2016 - Building (even more) Successful Partnerships – Upcoming Synergy Track Series
Synergy Track offers a new lens to understand the interactions and processes impacting everyday organisational life. In developing a systems view, participants grow in their capabilities in cultivating and deepening partnerships that bring success to their organisation. Join us, and transform the depth of your partnerships.
September 2016 - Strategy Track Workshop / Lessons in Leadership
We are back with our second Strategy Track for the year. The series commences on 14 October 2016 and is targeted towards non-profit leaders including Board Chairs, Board or Committee Members, ED/ CEO/ GMs and level one reportees. In this issue, we also speak to Mdm. Tuminah Sapawi, an exceptional teacher and leader, who left behind a successful career in the media to follow her passion in shaping young minds in the Malay-Muslim community.
Following the overwhelming response to our first CNPL LEADERS' LAB this year, a series of interactive forums by the Centre for Non-Profit Leadership, we are organising our second session this September. In this issue, we also introduce ExpertMatch; a programme that aims to facilitate senior leaders and domain experts to volunteer their knowledge and time with non-profits.
July 2016 - Laying the Foundation for the Future / Sixty years of Leadership Lessons
Centre for Non-Profit Leadership (CNPL) spoke to a panel of non-profit thought-leaders who work with youth, to understand their vision of the future of NPO leadership and the role youth can play in leading tomorrow's non-profits. Here are some very clear themes that emerged from our discussion. In this issue, we also spoke to Mdm. Rahayu Mohamad, President of PPIS (and Educational Consultant by profession) on the key lessons from PPIS's sixty years of community leadership.
June 2016 - The 6 Fs of Leadership at Family Life Society
In dedication to family month, our Centre for Non-Profit Leadership team caught up with a leader who has championed the spirit of giving and caring within this fundamental unit of our lives and society, in both personal and professional capacity.
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Roberto Cavalli's eyewear special edition collection for Autumn/Winter 2012, designed in collaboration with Marcolini, the leader company in manufacturing luxury glasses, reminds me of the aristocratic cats, a wild, noble combination.
The collection, entitled Wild Diva, was presented at Paris Fashion Week. Wild Diva is a tribute to women and femininity. The newly launched models are glamorous, iconic, for women who do not think of glasses as a mere object that protects their eyes, but as a precious accessory.
The front of the glasses, crafted in leather, and the bold, animal-print, oversized shapes, give the glasses a distinct, noble personality. Wild Diva comes in an impressive variety of colors, from black tobacco to purple and pink, violet, yellow and green, all with matching or contrasting shaded lenses.


The SLTC conference concerns all aspects of language technology, including natural language processing, speech technology, and relevant neighboring areas. In 2016, the conference will be organized by the Department of Computing Science of Umeå University. The scientific program will consist of invited lectures and presentations of papers selected by the international program committee.
Prof. Jill Burstein, Princeton. Prof. Burstein s research interests span discourse and sentiment analysis, argumentation mining, education policy, English language learning, and writing research. Her work has led to two extensively used commercial applications for English L2 learners; E-rater, ETS automated essay evaluation application, and the Language Muse Activity Palette, a new classroom tool that automatically generates language activities for classroom texts to support content comprehension.
Assoc. Prof. Marco Kuhlmann, Linköping University. An expert on efficient algorithms for NLP. He has served on the editorial boards of the journals Computational Linguistics and Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, and as the president of SIGMOL, the Association for Mathematics of Language. His work has been recognized with the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize of the Association for Logic, Language and Information, and with a Google Faculty Research Award.
Prof. Mehryar Mohri, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Previously at AT&T Labs-Research, Google Research, Ecole Normale Superieure, and Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques. Prof. Mohri s research interests cover ML, automata theory, and NLP. He is on the boards of several journals including the Journal of Machine Learning Research, Machine Learning journal, and the Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics. Finally, he has authored the textbook Foundations of Machine Learning.
Prof. Alessandro Moschitti, Qatar Computing Research Institute and the University of Trento. Previously at the Universities of Texas, Columbia, Colorado and John Hopkins, and at IBM Research. The only European faculty participating at the Jeopardy! challenge with IBM Watson. He is an expert on machine learning (ML) and has published about 220 scientific articles. Prof. Moschitti has received four IBM Faculty awards, one Google Faculty award, five best paper awards, and a best researcher award from the Trento University.
The organizers can be contacted via sltc2016@cs.umu.se.


Gossipy, passionate, packed with information, celebratory and chiding, letters sent between a Norfolk family helped write the history of our country. The Paston Letters are a vital resource for historians and the very earliest dates back to 1418.
Next year Norfolk will be at the centre of an international celebration of all things Paston – from the villages they lived in to the castles they owned and from the paintings they inspired to the tombs where they are buried.
Bacton – where the Paston estate included now-ruined Bromholm Priory.
Gresham – where the castle was owned by the Paston family.
Hellesdon – where the Duke of Suffolk laid siege to a manor house owned by the Paston family in the 15th century.
Paston – where the family began its rise from peasantry to aristocracy within just three generations. Clement Paston owned a small amount of land but saved enough money for his son to train as lawyer and become a judge. The family went on to acquire land across Norfolk.
Mautby – where Margaret Paston, the writer of the bulk of the letters, was born and where she is buried.
North Walsham – where Sir William Paston founded the school which still bears his name.
Norwich – where the Paston family had a home in Elm Hill from 1413 and where John and Margaret paid for the rebuilding of St Peter Hungate Church in 1458, financed the hammer-beam roofs in St Andrews and Blackfriars Halls. Their son lived in what is now Wensum Lodge.
Oxnead – which became the main family home from 1597 and where many of the Paston letters were found.
A collection of 10 heritage walks, pulling together Paston history, will be developed, with one per Paston place, and each community will also hold Paston themed events over the next three years, beginning with Mautby, near Yarmouth. It was here that Margaret Paston was born in 1422 and buried in 1484, and it is here, on Saturday, April 29, that Paston Footprints 600 will be launched.
Characters from the Paston past will be brought back to life by the costumed re-enactors of the Paston Heritage Society and the village church will host have-a-go activities including spinning, weaving, knitting, calligraphy and dyeing with herbs. The first of the 10 Paston Footprints 600 walks will also be launched, linking Mautby and Caister-on-sea, where Margaret's uncle, Sir John Fastolf, (possibly later transformed into Shakespeare's Falstaff) owned Caister Castle.
The Paston family acquired land and riches and as the men pursued power and money in royal courts and palaces, Margaret Paston looked after the family's land and interests across Norfolk and chronicled everything from the chaotic impact of plague and the Wars of the Roses raging across England, to her quest for good cinnamon and concerns about her seven children.
The letters are the earliest detailed private family correspondence to survive in Britain.
Each of the 10 Paston Fooprints 600 hubs will organise different events over the next three years, but all will include a permanent heritage walk. "We are going to make them appeal to families, so we will focus on the things which we hope will be the most interesting," said Rob. Castle sieges, battles, plague, money troubles, unsuitable marriages and family vendettas all feature.
There will also be a cycle route centred on Mannington Hall, near Aylsham, and linking places which feature in the Paston story including Baconsthorpe and Gresham castles and the halls at Sustead, Felbrigg, Blickling and Barningham.
The thee year project aims to reveal the 600-year-old Paston story to residents and visitors and make it a permanent part of the Norfolk landscape.
Shells, an ostrich egg, and an adored little girl are just some of the treasures of the Paston family, recorded in a 17th century painting on show at Norwich Castle Museum.
Next summer an exhibition will focus on the painting, called The Paston Treasure and, in partnership with experts from the Yale Centre for British Art in the USA, some of the 200-plus treasures collected by two generations of Pastons will be reunited.
One of the cups in the painting is already in Norwich Castle Museum; a silver-gilt flagon is coming from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York,and more objects will be lent by museums in Holland. The exhibition will also include other artefacts similar to those painted for the Pastons, plus paintings, sculpture and furnishings they might once have owned and which would once have filled glorious Oxnead Hall, near Aylsham, now itself just a single wing of the original mansion.
The Paston Treasure includes a portrait of young Mary Paston, holding a song sheet with words about death. She probably died during its completion. Around the same time the family was struggling with debt and the Pastons, who had risen to prominence in just three generations, virtually disappeared within half a century.