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Robert "Bob" L. Svec, 53
Obituaries 7 June 2021
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Robert "Bob" L. Svec, age 53, of New Hampton, passed away unexpectedly of natural causes Monday, May 31, 2021, at MercyOne New Hampton Medical Center.
Funeral services were held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, June 5, 2021 at First United Methodist Church in New Hampton with Pastor Willie Mafuta officiating.
Burial will be held at New Hampton Cemetery.
Visitation was from 3 to 7 p.m. on Friday, June 4, 2021, at Conway-Markham Funeral Home in New Hampton and continued at the church one hour prior to the funeral service on Saturday.
Online condolences may be left at www.conway-markhamfh.com. Memorials may be directed to the family.
Bob was born Aug. 18, 1967, the youngest son of Verne and Virginia (Wilson) Svec at St. Luke's Hospital in Cedar Rapids.
As a child, Bob was often found riding dirt bike and as he grew he enjoyed playing the drums. He was a 1986 graduate of Marion High School.
After completing his education, Bob worked as a reserve officer for the Cedar Rapids Police Department before attending the Iowa Law Enforcement Academy in Johnston. Bob worked for Guttenburg and Cascade police departments.
While he was in Cascade, Bob met the love of his life, Jeree Claypool. The couple was united in marriage on April 16, 1994.
Immediately after their wedding, Bob and Jeree made the move to Clarinda where Bob spent the next seven years working for Clarinda P.D. While they were there they welcomed their son, Trevor.
The family would move to Lake Mills before making its home in New Hampton. Bob would finish his law enforcement career with the New Hampton Police Department and D.A.R.E. officer.
He retired in 2015 but continued to work with students at St. Joseph Community School and Immaculate Conception Catholic School in Charles City.
In the fall of 2017, Bob tried out his voice while DJ'ing at 95.1 the Bull. He quickly became a favorite in the area and earned his place on the morning show. Listeners could tune into their "Chubby Little Buddy, Bob," and join in on the Chicken Dance during the 10 O'clock Tickle. Bob, along with others, successfully organized the "World's Largest Chicken D ance."
Though his community meant a lot to him, Bob's family was his pride and joy. From cheering Trevor on in his activities or going for tractor rides with his father and brother, Bob rarely missed a moment.
He will forever be missed by his wife, Jeree; his son, Trevor of St. Louis; his parents, Verne and Virginia Svec of Cedar Rapids; his brother, Ray (Dawn) Svec of Urbandale; mother-in-law, Sandy Claypool of New Hampton; his brothers-in-law, Jeff (Kim) Claypool of Ottumwa, and Dan (Mindy) Claypool of St. Louis; and many nieces, nephews and extended family.
He was preceded in death by his father-in-law, Roger Claypool; his paternal and maternal grandparents and aunts and uncles.
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I made the old-fashioned peanut butter cookies (pictured) last weekend for Kerry to take into his co-workers. They received rave reviews and I would totally recommend if you are a fan of pb.
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What is it about university-based search engines that makes them — without exception — so frustratingly clumsy?
The latest entry from Carnegie-Mellon University — the Universal Digital Library aka The Million Book Project — should have us all jumping for joy. Then Million Book Project does exactly what it says — makes a million-plus volumes available for immediate online access.
Wow! This is a phenomenal accomplishment. Amazing. Undreamed of a mere two decades ago. The entire world now has instant access to a large research library, covering just about any topic under the sun, and in multiple languages too.
But just try using the danged thing, and you might find your enthusiasm quickly fading.
First off, the images aren't web-compatible, nor are they based on a common add-in like Adobe PDF. You need to download not one, but two, separate viewers in order to see the books themselves.
The viewer downloads don't happen automatically, when you try to view a book. Instead, your viewing attempt will simply fail, with no explanation of why. You need to find the instructions squirreled away in the FAQs, and go through the (unusually cumbersome…including a requirement to register) process for obtaining the software.
Ready to read Oliver Twist? Perhaps the book you click on will open, perhaps not. the volumes housed on the library's China server, in particular, seem to go through 45 minutes worth of firewalls before deciding whether to grant acces or not.
There's no way to access a chapter at a time or, heaven forbid, download the entire book.
Want to search within Oliver Twist for a particular passage you recall from your school days? Sorry. No in-the-book searching is available!
I don't mean to diminish the exceptional accomplishment of the Universal Digital Library…it really is a momentous achievement. But it just doesn't flow the way one has come to expect tools on the internet to flow. For some reason, university-based systems just don't seem able to manage the flow.
I've written before about the Making of America, and other digital content online at the University of Michigan. MoA is one of my favorite historic research tools, but it's so damned slow and cumbersome — right down to its unwieldy URLs — that it seems to be deliberately designed to hide itself from the research community, and to frustrate its users once they happen to find it.
The Internet Archive, which grew up at UC Berkeley, is another university-launched frustration. Without a doubt, this is one of the internet's great resources, but still, it's so hard to manuever around and search that it can make you crazy. They toyed with full-text search capabilities a few years ago, but it never worked well, and has long since disappeared from view (I can't even find it in the archive of the Archive!).
Like internet-savvy researchers everywhere, I've grown familiar with the fast, easy-access capabilities of in-the-book search engines like Amazon and Google Books, or commercial services like Questia. Perhaps I'm being unreasonable, but I expect to see these in any online collection, whether of library books, or web pages. Why can't universities seem to manage this?
Of course, the Universal Digital Library, MoA, and the Internet Archive all operate on a shoestring, and don't have the resources of Google or Amazon…or even tiny Questia…to add a lot of capabilities like a user-friendly design and full-text searching.
But somehow, the non-profit Wikipedia manages to do it!
I will now return you to the 20% whimsy portion of your program.
This entry was posted on Friday, November 30th, 2007 at 6:08 pm	by pafalafaga	and is filed under Research Resources. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
I had to laugh when i got the following result for the first book that came to mind: "Please provide a valid query (Word greater than length 3)" the book was "the old man and the sea".
It takes a lot of disk space to index all words, including those shorter than four characters, but it's worth it.
We currently have the same limitation with the search at Uclue, which is equally lame for the same reasons. When Google started up, they also failed to index small common words, but props to them for overcoming that limitation. In time we'll overcome it at Uclue too.
There's an old English saying "Don't spoil the ship for a halfpenny worth of tar", and I hope Carnegie-Mellon realizes that a ten percent increase in expenditure will yield a thousandfold improvement in the usability of the resource.
Some libraries at universities at least know about the problem. My niece is working to improve the website of the Cornell Law School library. I'll leave it to you to decide how success or how far along she's gotten.
Perhaps one problem is that the people involved and those using the site regularly have learned the system's quirks – may even like the idea that they have mastered the system and feel that it's okay, perhaps like you get around some government sites.
Hmm, we never did really decide why Woot took off.


Age UK is calling on all pensioners living on a low income with a partner of working age to urgently check their eligibility for Pension Credit and Housing Benefit, and put in a claim before the Government changes the rules on 15 May 2019.
Councils used to receive specific government funding for local welfare schemes but this stopped in 2015.
Age UK urges government to allow early access to the State Pension for those who are most in need.
One in four children aged between 10 and 15 are worried or sad about their families not having enough money.
People on low incomes want to see improvements to public services and living standards as a priority following Brexit.
Pay volatility is the norm, not the exception, across Britain's workforce, research finds.


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Refugees and Displacement in the Middle East
Marc Lynch, Laurie Brand
Project on Middle East Political Science
Summary: Refugee crises across the globe have had a transformative impact on every aspect of the politics, economies, societies, and states that have experienced these massive forced population movements.
Read the full collection
The Middle East has experienced a dramatic flood of refugees and forced migration over the last fifteen years. The UN High Commission on Refugees reports more than 16 million refugees and 60 million displaced persons around the world today, including asylum seekers and the internally displaced. The wars in Syria and Iraq have produced the greatest share of the Middle East's refugees in recent years, but many more have fled wars and failed states in Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen. Neighboring states have faced severe challenges in absorbing millions of refugees, while North African states and Turkey have emerged as key transit hubs for refugee flows into Europe.
To examine the situation of current refugees and exiles in and from the region, the Project on Middle East Political Science and the Middle East Studies Program at the University of Southern California with support from its Center for International Studies convened a workshop in February 2017 bringing together a dozen scholars from multiple disciplines. These scholars represent a new wave of scholars conducting original field research from refugee camps and communities in the Middle East, primarily in states bordering Syria and Iraq. Their research demonstrates the transformative impact on every aspect of politics, economies, societies and states of these massive forced population movements, both within and across borders.
Marc Lynch
Marc Lynch was a nonresident senior fellow in Carnegie's Middle East Program where his work focuses on the politics of the Arab world.
The workshop and papers raise a number of important research questions and challenges:
What is new about this wave of refugees?
The brutal realities of the last century suggest that there is nothing particularly novel about the large-scale forced movement of populations. What, if anything, makes this era different? Is it simply the number of people in motion? Is it their concentration in areas of conventional strategic and political interest? Is it the immediacy of social media? Is it because those refugees began to arrive on European shores in unparalleled numbers, as Achili suggests, and been made into a security issue in American politics?
While scholars of migration differ on whether the current period has produced the largest migration flows in human history, there is no question of the tremendous number of people involved. Much such population movement takes place within countries, often from rural to urban areas. Yet, the highest profile cases are those that involve the crossing of national boundaries, whether as the result of economic crises or proximity of physical danger.
These population movements should be placed at the center of political science and contemporary history. Across the globe the 20th century witnessed numerous, major population movements: the rise of nationalism, fascism and totalitarianism, the disintegration of empires, the emergence of modern nation-states, all led to large-scale forced movement of peoples.
Of course, inter-state wars are not the only triggers of large-scale population movement. Decolonization following World War II and the conflicts surrounding the Cold War also produced dramatic episodes of dislocation. The state-building that followed the withdrawal of the imperial powers from their former colonies often failed to secure the bases of sustainable economic and political development. As a result, labor recruitment ties established prior to independence were continued or reactivated to provide a safety value to lessen unemployment by exporting laborers to the global north. In other cases, interference by external powers, whether through internal subversion or direct military intervention prevented new leaderships from consolidating power. The resultant conflicts have also often created significant refugee flows. The process by which these new nations and states emerged generated new ideas about citizenship and helped drive the construction of international regimes governing migration and the treatment of refugees.
While refugee production is by no means particular to the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region, episodes of forced migration have shaped a good deal of its post-world war II history. The partition of Palestine in 1947 and the subsequent 1948 War generated one of the longest-lasting and most politically fateful refugee waves. Refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria as well as in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are constant reminders of the forced displacement of more than 700,000 Palestinians in 1947-48. The 1967 June War then displaced many of these 1948 refugees for a second time as it also added to their numbers.
The region has witnessed many other large-scale forced population movements. Modern Turkey was created through the dispossession of vast numbers of non-Turkish residents of the Ottoman Empire, most notably in the genocidal treatment of the Armenians. The liberation of Algeria from French rule drove hundreds of thousands of pieds noirs and harkis to mainland France. The Lebanese civil war (1975-91) led to the departure of some one-quarter of the Lebanese population. The 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and then Desert Storm saw a mass exodus of both Arab (overwhelmingly Palestinian) and non-Arab expatriate workers from Kuwait, as well as the expulsion from Saudi Arabia of hundreds of thousands of Yemeni workers. The brutal sanctions regime imposed on Iraq in the wake of the military conflict led many Iraqis to leave their homeland in the 1990s.
The current waves of refugees from the Levant can largely be traced to the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the subsequent civil war, which produced an estimated 6 million refugees and a similar number of internally displaced. The ethnic and sectarian transformation of Iraq triggered region-wide sectarianism and galvanized jihadist movements. The population movements put enormous strain on the infrastructure of Jordan, Syria and other neighboring states, while introducing a semi-permanent presence of international organizations into the everyday governance of these non-citizen populations.
These same regional dynamics then influenced the way the so-called Arab spring affected Syria, one of the most devastating elements of which has been a refugee crisis that dwarfs even that of Iraq. The U.N. estimates that more than 6 million Syrians have fled the country, while another 10 million have been internally displaced. The size of the displacement of the Syrian population, both internally and beyond the country's borders, can distract from other parallel catastrophes. The collapse of the Libyan state has produced a wave of Libyan refugees, while migrants from sub-Saharan Africa whose passsage Qaddafi once served to interdict continue to transit through Libya and depart from there and other parts of the North African littoral en route to Europe. The war in Yemen has also produced massive internal displacement, even if a naval and land blockade has prevented most from fleeing the country. The situation of these (and other) refugee populations in the region will continue to have an impact, not only on regional security, but also on the regional political economy and political development into the foreseeable future.
Are refugees changing the practice of sovereignty in the Middle East?
Several of the papers examine how the massive movement of peoples is challenging core elements of state sovereignty. The most obvious manifestation of this challenge relates to undocumented border crossings and what Diongi calls the softening of borders. Borders, as Arar, Hamdan and Mourad demonstrate, are not what they used to be. War economies and the provision of refugee support involve cross-border networks of people, goods, services and weapons. Borders filter these flows in varying ways, sometimes allowing nearly uninterrupted movement into war zones (as with Turkey during much of the Syrian war) and sometimes tightening them to choke off flows (as with Jordan during the Syrian war's later years.
Other less formal aspects of sovereignty are also under siege. States like Jordan and Lebanon, already poorly equipped to provide security and services—from education and health care to basic foodstuffs and affordable housing– to their citizens now face the demands of millions of non-nationals. In some cases, services required by refugees have been outsourced to or taken on by NGOs and international organizations, as Hamdan and Arar observe, creating structures resembling those of state. This poses serious conceptual and political questions when refugee populations in states such as Jordan and Lebanon, where refugee populations (Syrian, Iraqi and Palestinian) constitute well more than a quarter of the total population and most are not housed within geographically distinct refugee camps.
What political forms may emerge in these refugee diasporas
As it becomes clear that Syrian and other refugees will not soon return home, will they develop extraterritorial forms of political/national identity and activism? Will there someday be a Syrian equivalent of the Palestinian Liberation Organization? How will diaspora political institutions relate to the homelands and the delicate political arrangements emerging from theses wars?
The papers in this collection document surprising trends in activism and organization among refugee communities. Clarke and Khoury each point to forms of political activism within refugee camps in Jordan and Lebanon, examining the nature of refugee protests as well as ways in which political activism may be channeled into non-political activity. Sometimes these activities focus on the provision of services and the representation of refugee interests within camps, while other activism focuses on supporting the broader war. Zeno points to the centrality of narratives of humiliation and pride, thereby interrogating both changing identities as well as the possibilities for future national reconciliation But many refugees, as Sheldon observes among Iraqis in Jordan, will likely wish for nothing more than to forget politics and build new lives far from the destroyed homeland, raising the question of the lifespan of the desire for return and blurring the lines between refugee and exile.
What can become of the next generation?
Save the Children recently released a report documenting almost unbelievable trauma among Syrian children. Hundreds of thousands of these children have known nothing but war, death, dispossession and loss. Enrollment in primary education has dropped from 98 percent before the war to 61.5 percent this year, leading many observers to speculate that an entire generation risks being lost both in human terms as well as to Syria's future rebuilding. Significant research has been done globally on the experience of children in war zones that shows the daunting challenges for the next generation. Some of that research shows far greater resilience and adaptability than might be expected, however, particularly after the fighting ends. Political scientists should be working now on identifying the conditions and the mechanisms by which these displaced children might be best reintegrated politically and socially in the years to come.
How may the presence of refugees or refugee camps/concentrations contribute to security threats and radicalization?
Radicalization may not be the most important question for the lives of the millions of displaced citizens, but it is the one, which most interests governments around the world. Lichtenheld explores the underlying strategic logic of the decisions of militias in the Syrian conflict to uproot or displace certain populations. Many fear, based on past historical experience, that refugee camps and communities would become prime recruiting grounds for jihadist organizations and other extremists.
The securitization of the refugee issue, understanding the problem primarily through the lens of security threats and radicalization, carries many costs. As Pearlman has observed, radicalization captures very little of the lived experience of the vast majority of Syrian refugees. Most are ordinary people struggling to rebuild their lives from the ruins of overwhelming trauma. Treating these refugees primarily as potential security threats, whether through the destabilization of host countries or through recruitment into terrorism, does a profound injustice to their real problems. Researchers must find ways to take seriously the security challenges posed by large refugee and displaced communities without giving in to the unwarranted securitization of these populations.
What ethical obligations do political scientists have towards these refugees?
A final thread ran through the margins of the workshop. A significant body of new research has treated Syrian refugees as an available group of interview subjects for survey experiment research. This work is generally well intentioned, has produced important findings, and is the only plausible way to get access to Syrian opinion. Still, it raises troubling ethical questions. What are the ethical implications of treating traumatized, displaced populations primarily as objects of research? Are we qualified to conduct interviews with traumatized populations? Is it acceptable to conduct experiments of any kind on traumatized populations, or to use them for normal political science questions? What expectations of aid or concern are raised by the simple act of asking questions?
These fundamental questions of research ethics will only become more central to the practice of political science as the demand for research on and with refugees grows. Political scientists working in and studying the Middle East should learn from and remain constantly engaged with the vibrant literature and debates about research ethics in conflict areas.
Overall, the papers in the workshop represent an important window into a vitally important research area for the political science of the Middle East. The questions they raise are at the center of today's challenges to states and societies, and will become ever more so in the coming years.
This memo was originally published at the Project on Middle East Political Science.
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Ein Exokernel, auch als vertikal strukturiertes Betriebssystem bezeichnet, ist eine Art von Kernel und damit der zentrale Bestandteil eines Betriebssystems. Im Gegensatz zu den meisten anderen Kernels bietet er nur sehr wenig Abstraktion der Hardware für Programme und  beschränkt sich darauf Ressourcenkonflikte zu verhindern und Zugriffsrechte zu prüfen.

Man kann sich Exokernel als eine konsequente Weiterführung des Mikrokernel-Konzepts vorstellen. Im Gegensatz zu diesen sind sie aber noch rigider in der Wahl der angebotenen Mechanismen.

Geschichte
Das Konzept eines Exokernels existiert seit 1994 (Dissertation von Dawson Engler am MIT bei Frans Kaashoek), wurde allerdings (bis 2005) nur von dem Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) für mehrere Systeme eingesetzt, darunter ExOs.
Ein weiteres Konzept mit dem Namen Nemesis wurde von den Universitäten Cambridge und Glasgow, Cisco Systems und dem Swedish Institute of Computer Science entwickelt.

Funktion
Die meisten Kernel verbergen die Hardware des Computers durch eine Hardwareabstraktionsschicht vor der Software. So ist es mit virtuellem Speicher zum Beispiel möglich, Arbeitsspeicher für ein Programm zu reservieren, die genaue Speicheradresse kann allerdings nicht festgelegt werden.

Exokernel hingegen beschränken sich lediglich auf das Verteilen und Schützen von geteilten Ressourcen wie  Speicher, Ein-/Ausgabegeräte und Prozessoren. Sie erlauben Programmen nach Allokation durch den Kernel direkten Zugriff auf Speicherblöcke. Diese Freiheit kann dazu benutzt werden Programme zu beschleunigen, indem unnötige Abstraktionen (und damit Zwischenschichten) ausgelassen werden. Die Aufgabe des Exokernels ist es dabei, festzustellen, ob die gewünschte Ressource frei ist, also kein Ressourcenkonflikt vorliegt, und ob sie auch vom jeweiligen Programm benutzt werden darf.

Bibliotheken
Abstraktionen werden bei einem Exokernel-Betriebssystem außerhalb vom Kernel durch ein System von Bibliotheken (Library) bereitgestellt, die denen herkömmlicher Betriebssysteme gleichen, allerdings, bedingt durch die Eigenarten des Exokernels, flexibler sind. So ist es – zumindest theoretisch – möglich, verschiedene Betriebssysteme wie Windows oder Unix auf einem Exokernel laufen zu lassen, indem jedes von ihnen unterschiedliche Bibliotheken benutzt.

Literatur
 Frans Kaashoek, James W. O'Toole, Dawson Engler: Exokernel: An Operating System Architecture for Application-Level Resource Management, ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, Band 29, 1995, S. 251–266l

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Although the Wall St. Journal's front page had a positive story about the economy, "Economy Snaps Long Slump," it's clear we're not out of the woods yet.
Need more convincing? This morning's breaking news, Consumer Spending Tumbled, now appears on wsj.com above the story it now contradicts ("long slump").
That perhaps explains recent media moves:
"Time Inc. Is Expected to Eliminate More Jobs": The $100 million in cuts is expected to come largely from layoffs, which comes after 600 layoffs last year.
Forbes announced on Monday that it was dismissing 40 to 60 people from its editorial staff. According to an early Times story, "Depending on how you count, there are about 200 editorial employees at the magazine. And depending on who you talk to, at least 40 people could be cut, while one source who was not authorized to speak about the layoffs said the number could go as high as 60."
Wall St. Journal to close its Boston bureau, according to the Boston Globe. The bureau, which covers health care, education, and financial services, will close Dec. 31. The paper will shift most of the coverage to its New York office…According to Robert Christie, a Journal spokesman, said the paper does not plan to close any of its other 36 news bureaus. "We are not giving up on the beats; we are just relocating them,'' he said. "A lot of the companies that we used to cover are no longer in Boston and a lot of the jobs that were in Boston could be located anywhere in the US.''
What's interesting is that even as the Journal reported good news about the economy, it is continuing to look at ways to cut costs. Furthermore, the Journal also is beefing up its tech coverage, called Biz Tech Tuesdays. Guess it won't feature much New England tech.
I think if the Journal can close its Boston bureau, it and other papers will close other bureaus, too, especially those that can be covered by regional hubs. For example, expect that there could be consolidation of all the San Francisco and Silicon Valley bureaus out there.
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package org.owasp.dependencycheck.data.lucene;

import java.util.LinkedList;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenFilter;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenStream;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.tokenattributes.CharTermAttribute;

/**
 * An abstract tokenizing filter that can be used as the base for a tokenizing filter.
 *
 * @author Jeremy Long
 */
public abstract class AbstractTokenizingFilter extends TokenFilter {

    /**
     * The char term attribute.
     */
    private final CharTermAttribute termAtt = addAttribute(CharTermAttribute.class);

    /**
     * Gets the CharTermAttribute.
     *
     * @return the CharTermAttribute
     */
    protected CharTermAttribute getTermAtt() {
        return termAtt;
    }
    /**
     * A collection of tokens to add to the stream.
     */
    private final LinkedList<String> tokens;

    /**
     * Gets the list of tokens.
     *
     * @return the list of tokens
     */
    protected LinkedList<String> getTokens() {
        return tokens;
    }

    /**
     * Constructs a new AbstractTokenizingFilter.
     *
     * @param stream the TokenStream that this filter will process
     */
    public AbstractTokenizingFilter(TokenStream stream) {
        super(stream);
        tokens = new LinkedList<>();
    }

    /**
     * Adds a term, if one exists, from the tokens collection.
     *
     * @return whether or not a new term was added
     */
    protected boolean addTerm() {
        final boolean termAdded = !tokens.isEmpty();
        if (termAdded) {
            final String term = tokens.pop();
            clearAttributes();
            termAtt.append(term);
        }
        return termAdded;
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}

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Italian pet food producer Monge & C Spa has built an environmentally friendly international business, that delivers to over 8,000 customers.
#4d4e53 Business story
Eco enterprise
10/10/17 Text: Linda Thomsen Högfeldt Photo: Patrik Olsson
In the isolated province of Cuneo, Italian pet food producer Monge & C Spa has built an international business from an eco-cycle economy. Trucks are playing an important part, enabling efficient deliveries to 8,000 Italian customers.
From its home base in rural Italy, Monge & C Spa export pet food products to 82 countries.
It's a sunny afternoon at the Monge Group's facilities, located on the outskirts of the small village Monasterolo di Savigliano. The big factories that dominate the area are amongst the largest and most advanced in Europe for high quality pet food production, and totally self-sufficient due to an integrated production chain. The company does everything themselves, from the collection of fresh feedstock to the production of their own food and cans, to packaging and distribution within Italy. The solar panels that have been placed on the roof of every facility are one of many signs that this is a company that strives to be as eco-friendly as possible.
Domenico Monge (to the left) with his father Baldassare and daughter Christiana. "My father started this company and I've worked for it all my life. I don't know the difference between company and family."
The company produces 1,500,000 cans of pet food every day, three shifts, seven days a week.
"Environmental concern is embedded in the very nature of our business, since we recycle by-products from slaughterhouses and turn them into new products," explains Managing Director of the family company, Domenico Monge.
The history of the Monge Group started at this very spot back in 1963, when Domenico's father Baldassarre Monge founded a chicken poultry farm. The family had a dog who suffered from eating disorders and they were advised by a vet to feed him with chicken meat.
"I was just a small kid, but I remember how my father started preparing pet food in my mum's kitchen, cooking tiny cans on a pressure cooker. At some point, it dawned on him that there was a market for these products, and little by little we expanded the business," Domenico Monge recalls.
Domenico and his family have two dogs. The pet food they produce ranges from basic nutrition to products for animals with diseases or special tasks, such as police dogs.
For many years, poultry farming remained the core business, but when Domenico and his sisters came of age, they decided to develop the pet food production. It would prove a very successful strategy. Business has been booming for many years, sometimes doubling the revenues from one year to another. Today, the Monge Group is the third biggest pet food producer in Italy, and their products are exported to 82 countries. Yet even though they now employ 270 people, they remain a family company driven by their founder's ideas.
"Since the very beginning my father has been passing on his values to us children, our children and all our employees. Respect for the environment is part of his ethics and we constantly work to reduce our energy use. By taking energy-saving measures like using solar panels, lowering our water consumption and producing cans with thinner walls, we reduce our energy consumption by up to 50 per cent," Domenico Monge says and adds:
"The strong point of our company is the integrated production chain. Our logistics are tightly integrated with the production schedule and that increases our efficiency, cuts costs and gives better service to our customers. This is vital for us, since we are based far away from the markets for selling the finished goods."
Environmental concern is embedded in the very nature of our business.
Domenico Monge
Managing Director, Monge & C Spa
By taking energy-saving measures like using solar panels, lowering water consumption and producing cans with thinner walls, Monge & C Spa's energy consumption is being reduced by up to 50 per cent.
Baldassarre Monge founded a chicken poultry farm back in 1963. When his dog developed an eating disorder, it eventually led him to producing pet food too.
Located in an area often referred to as "the island of Cuneo" due to its poor road conditions and connections to Italy's main routes, running their own logistics has been pivotal for the Monge group since the very beginning. The company owns a firm called Monge Logistica with 48 vehicles, 40 of which are Volvos. The vehicles collect daily fresh feedstock and deliver it to the factories, but also transport goods to customer's transit points or hubs for the Italian market. This accounts for 30 per cent of the Group's total sales. High performance, fuel efficient vehicles are crucial due to the harsh driving conditions in Cuneo, with narrow roads and mountainous landscape.
"We bought our first Volvo trucks at the beginning of the eighties - two Volvo F720s that I drove myself. We chose Volvo because of the high quality and we are very happy with the trucks' performance. Volvo is now part of our tradition," says Domenico Monge.
When Baldassarre's son Domenico took over the family business, he decided to develop and expand their pet food production, and it quickly overtook poultry as their core business.
Even though the Monge Group are happy with their trucks, they are always looking to improve their environmental performance. Domenico is now planning to start buying LNG trucks from Volvo, and explains that this is in line with the desire to explore new solutions that is in his family company DNA:
"Research and development has always been a great part of our success. Using gas-filled vehicles would not only help the environment greatly. It would also benefit our company by cutting direct and indirect costs, since measures to cut fuel costs will surely be established. It would also help us put an end to our struggle against diesel thefts, as the LNG cannot be transferred", he says.
The Monge Group is also considering possibilities to improve their vehicles' aerodynamics through different solutions, and are educating their drivers on how to lower their fuel consumption. The company has set up their own document for their Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, in which care for the environment and an honest code of conduct are important elements. Every time the company hires a new person, he or she is trained to follow the CSR codex. Twice a year, the Monge Group organise training to make sure that the principles of good behaviour are passed on to their employees, customers and suppliers.
Using gas-filled vehicles would not only help the environment greatly. It would also benefit our company by cutting direct and indirect costs.
"We focus a lot on the behaviour of our truck drivers because they represent us towards our customers, they are our image in the market," says Domenico Monge.
"The CSR document represents the building blocks of our company. We focus a lot on the behaviour of our truck drivers because they represent us towards our customers, they are our image in the market. And they work closely with the retail outlets, because they deliver the products," says Domenico.
He believes that the spirit of belonging and the motivation to acquire new skills and professionalism has helped his company to enhance its dynamic growth. Now, the production capacity is almost fully absorbed, with 70,000 tonnes of food produced every year. However in 2018, the Monge Group will be opening a new facility, aiming for 150,000 tonnes a year.
"The story of this company is fantastic and we are very happy with the results. I hope we will go on developing like this," he says.
High performance, fuel efficient vehicles are crucial for Monge & C Spa, due to the harsh driving conditions in Cuneo, such as narrow roads and mountains.
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Monge & C Spa
Established in: 1963.
CEO: Baldassarre Monge.
Managing director: Domenico Monge.
Market share in Italy: 9.1 per cent.
Global coverage: Monge's products are exported to 82 different countries.
Turnover: 157 million euro (2016).
Number of employees: 270.
Number of pet food cans produced every day: 1,500,000.
Annual pet food can production capacity: 127,000 tonnes in 2017, expected to rise to 200,000 tonnes in 2018.
Vehicle fleet: 48 trucks, whereof 40 Volvo Trucks.
Retention time (usage before selling): Six years.
CO₂ saving by using solar panels: 1,059 tonnes of CO₂/year.
Amount of annual kW electricity produced with cogenerator high efficiency: 3,500,000 kW.
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The IT approach
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Cool deliveries
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The Department of Home Affairs is investigating the self-acclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri's South African home.
This comes after Bushiri and wife Mary were arrested and charged with fraud and money laundering then released on R100 000 bail.
Home Affairs spokesperson Siya Qoza says the investigation is part of assisting the law enforcement agency in crime prevention.
He says although he can't divulge much on the case, the department was approached to ascertain Bushiri's residency in the country to ensure that proper procedures were followed.
He confirms that Bushiri currently holds permanent residency status which allows him to take part in economic and social activities in South Africa.
The Department is working as part of the Justice and Crime Prevention Cluster. We are normally called upon to verify information to support the work of the law enforcement agency.
As we speak, Bushiri has permanent residency and when you have permanent residency you enjoy the benefits similar to those enjoyed by citizens except that you don't have the right vote.
The investigation is just to ensure that his residency is in line with the Immigration Act because when you apply for the permit there are certain requirements that you must meet and you also need to deliver certain obligations so we just need to make sure that is still the case.
Eusebius McKaiser wonders 'what might be wrong at home' that drives people to these 'prosperity churches'.
The spokesperson at Enlightened Christian Gathering Church Ephraim Nyondo explains who Bushiri is and what he stands for.
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Light cavalry unit available to Arab factions, not as fast as normal light cavalry but still cheaper and with better hitpoints.
Bonus damage versus light infantry and melee cavalry.
Attack penalty versus camel cavalry and elephants.
Although not as fast as light cavalry should be, Camel Raiders have one thing that makes them better than them: their high hitpoints score, and their reduced food cost. This means that they should be fairly useful in their use for raiding, since they can withstand attrition better than most other cavalry units. Their poor speed however means that as far as charging infantry goes, Camel Raiders are not necessarily a good bet, although they will work fairly well in melee against other cavalry units.
Float Like A Butterfly, Sting Like A Bee — Camel Raiders are meant to make quick and fast strikes on unarmoured foes.
Keep Away From Sharp Sticks — The bane of Camel Raiders units are spear-armed units such as Spearmen and Lancers — if you see any, run away!
Camel raiders are a common sight in Khitan armies in addition to other units, mostly cavalry. Kill these units at all costs in order to keep them from producing food to feed your foes.
Despite being slower and much less temperate than horses, camels had their uses. The first was their durability — on the march, camels can store all the fat and moisture that they will ever need in the hump on their body. The second was that their scent often spooked horses, which was both a blessing and a curse for the military-minded — it caused problems for enemies on horseback, but it could also cause problems if handling baggage, and keeping an army of camels and horses apart could sometimes pose problems. The earliest known instance of tactical exploitation of a camel's scent dates back from the conquest of Lydia by Persia, where the Persian Shah Cyrus deployed a detachment of camelry to spook his enemy's cavalry. When desert warfare experts were required, camel-riding nomads could be recruited as mercenaries, as was done in the wastes north of China, or in the arid sands of Africa and the Middle East.
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The Upshot|Why 2014 Isn't as Good as It Seems for the Republicans
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Midterm Calculus
Why 2014 Isn't as Good as It Seems for the Republicans
Credit...Yehteh
By Nate Cohn
The Republicans are looking forward to having a good week. They are favored to win the Senate, and they could pick up enough House seats to finish with their largest margin since 1928.
But perhaps more important to the party's long-term prospects than Tuesday's results is what unfolds in the presidential battleground states. If the night ends with tight races in Iowa, North Carolina, Colorado and Georgia, as the polls suggest, then the results will not be as great for Republicans as many analysts will surely proclaim.
Even if the Republicans win these states, which would all but ensure Senate control, it will probably be mostly because of low midterm turnout among Democratic-leaning young and nonwhite voters. The implication would be that Republican Senate candidates did not win many voters who supported President Obama in 2012. And it would suggest that Republicans have made little progress in attracting voters they would need to take back the White House.
If there were a time when the Republicans ought to be making inroads into the Obama coalition, this should be it. The economy remains mediocre in many respects; there is turmoil in much of the world; and the American public is decidedly downbeat about the state of the country under Mr. Obama. His approval ratings have sagged into the low 40s. A significant proportion of Democratic-leaning voters say they disapprove of his performance.
Historically, presidential ratings like these have permitted the party that does not hold the White House to make substantial gains. This year, however, Democratic Senate candidates in the battleground states have largely reassembled the coalition that supported Mr. Obama two years ago. Democratic candidates would probably win Colorado, North Carolina, Iowa and Georgia — along with control of the Senate — if those who vote were as young, diverse and Democratic as they were in 2012 or will be in 2016.
This is not to say that the Democratic coalition is invulnerable. Polls suggest that the party is not faring as well among young or Hispanic voters as in years past. But the inability of Republicans to secure additional gains is a telling indicator of how hardened political sentiments are in the post-Bush, late Obama era. It also shows the limited appeal of Republican candidates to the voters who supported Mr. Obama in 2012 but are dissatisfied with him now. Mr. Obama and his low approval ratings won't be on the ballot in 2016; the Republican Party and its even lower approval ratings will be.
Above all, the pattern is a reminder of how difficult it will be for Republicans to overcome the demographic and generational changes that have marginalized their traditional coalition in presidential elections. Republicans fare poorly among every large demographic group that is a growing share of the electorate, including Latinos, Asian-Americans and young adults.
Republicans need to compensate for that demographic change by picking up voters who have traditionally supported Democrats in presidential elections. To do so, they will need to broaden their appeal with different candidates and messages, or count on external forces — like a weak national economy, or an emboldened Democratic Party that takes increasingly liberal and unpopular stances.
To a certain extent, the Republicans are already compensating. They remain competitive nationally, despite the large demographic changes, because the Democrats have lost a huge share of support among white Southerners over the last decade. These losses have given the Republicans a decided advantage in the House, and are giving them an opportunity to win the Senate this year. But the Republican gains have done little good in the presidential battleground states, which are largely outside the South, putting Republicans at a slight disadvantage in the Electoral College.
The fact that the races in all of the presidential battleground states stayed close, despite an older and whiter electorate, suggests that Mr. Obama is not yet so unpopular as to cause the voters who remained Democratic-leaning through 2012 to vote Republicans into federal office.
This is perhaps most evident in Iowa, an overwhelmingly white state. It has tilted just slightly Democratic. If Republicans were going to gain voters who used to lean Democratic, Iowa would be the place where we would see it. Mr. Obama's approval ratings in Iowa are particularly weak, in part because the state is full of white voters without college degrees — the group where Mr. Obama's support has always been weakest.
The Democratic Senate candidate in Iowa, Bruce Braley, has not run a great campaign. He committed one of the more cringe-worthy gaffes of the cycle when he belittled Senator Charles E. Grassley for being "a farmer from Iowa who never went to law school" at a fund-raiser with a group of lawyers. Yet Mr. Braley is locked in a tight race with his Republican opponent, Joni Ernst. If Ms. Ernst wins by a margin of a point or two, that suggests she probably would have lost with a presidential-year electorate.
The story is perhaps even more troubling for Republicans in the South, where Democratic candidates are doing well among white voters.
If Republicans cannot maintain their exceptional margins among Southern white voters in the post-Obama era, their path to victory will get very narrow in states like Georgia and Florida. In both, the white share of the electorate has dropped by more than 10 percentage points since 2000.
The Republicans have their best shot at a breakthrough in Colorado, where polls show Cory Gardner, the Republican candidate, ahead by a modest margin in a state President Obama won comfortably in 2012. As in the other states, the off-year voters will probably be more favorable to Mr. Gardner than presidential-year voters, but the state now has universal mail voting, which should encourage more Democratic voters.
If turnout is high and Mr. Gardner wins by a modest margin, it will be a sign that he won voters who did not support Mitt Romney in 2012. That would be an impressive and important accomplishment against a Democratic incumbent in a state that the Democrats will be counting on to get to 270 electoral votes in 2016.


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Sze Tsung Leong
American / British
Sze Tsung Leong Edinburgh from the series Horizons 2007 © Sze Tsung Leong, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
Nationalities American
Sze Tsung Leong was born in Mexico City but grew up in the United States and Britain. From 1987-9 he attended Art Center College of Design, California, before going on to gain degrees in architecture at the University of California at Berkeley in 1993, and Harvard University in 1998. Leong's interest in architecture and in particular perspective drawing is visible in his photographic work. His Horizons series is an interchangeable sequence of photographs of natural and urban environments from around the world which, when hung together creates a potentially infinite landscape. Other projects include Cities, which depicts urban landscapes and History Images which focuses on cities as documents of history, a recording of history in urban form.
Sze Tsung Leong (born 1970) is an American and British photographer and artist interested in urban studies.
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Actress and former model Cameron Diaz (star of the hit movies: There's Something About Mary, The Mask, The Charlie's Angels series, and the Shrek series) has written her first book "The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body" where Diaz shares her formula for becoming happier, healthier, and stronger in this positive guide that is grounded in science and inspired by personal experience.
Beginning with nutrition, Diaz explains why instead of fearing hunger, women should embrace their body's instinct for fuel and satisfy it with whole and natural nutrient-dense foods.
Diaz also explains the essential role of consistent physical activity. Many women think about exercise in terms of pounds lost or muscle tone gained, but don't realize that working up a sweat is also essential for improving mood, boosting energy levels, and preventing disease. The book offers tips for choosing the right exercise program and shares her own workout strategies for looking and feeling your best.
Throughout her career, Cameron Diaz has been a role model for women, although by her own candid admission, this fit, glamorous, but down-to-earth star was not always health-conscious. Learning about the inseparable link between nutrition and the body was just one of the life-changing lessons that has fed Diaz's hunger to educate herself about the best ways to feed, move, and care for her body. In The Body Book, she shares what she has learned and continues to discover about nutrition, exercise, and the mind/body connection.
"The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body" is published by Harper Collins.


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Imperial Tobacco Group (now Imperial Brands). Designing a process for Bills of Material (BOMs) to make manufacturing more efficient.
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Imperial Tobacco Group (ITG) grew through a series of successful acquisitions but in doing so it inherited a wide range of processes and systems. The resulting variations in procedures for creating, controlling and modifying bills of material (BOM) and product specifications were causing a number of problems.
Product Development had already created a central system to hold details of tobacco blends, but the accountability for packaging specifications, artwork, design, and pack shape was less clear. The full BOM could be found only at each local factory. This was preventing managers from eliminating errors when transferring products between sites, from making the best use of available capacity to meet demand, and from standardising materials in the best way to reduce costs. The business was in the process of setting up standard systems - SAP for the supply chain processes and QAD for manufacturing - so there was a good opportunity to come up with one standard, 'failsafe' process for creating and controlling BOMs and product specifications for use throughout the group.
All the functions for manufacturing, supply chain and regulatory approval based in Hamburg and Bristol were involved, together with representative sites. They had different perspectives on what needed to be done. ITG asked Collinson Grant to work closely with them to come up with a proposal for the process, clear accountabilities and the requirements for a system to support it. The project was split into three phases:
Understand the 'current state' - to review existing processes and provide an overall critique, setting out the variations in approach, the potential risks, weaknesses, and elements of good practice. Process audits were carried out at a dozen factories in western and central Europe and the USA
Design the 'future state' - to run a series of workshops (of up to 20 people) with a project team from ITG to design a single, group-wide process with accountabilities and systems requirements
Set out a plan - to finalise and cost the systems requirements with a smaller team and to create a timeline for implementation.
A participant in the workshops said of the role played by Collinson Grant's consultants: 'There was a good balance between giving an expert external perspective and getting us to own our own ideas.' A senior ITG executive said afterwards that the business could not have completed the project on its own.
Neil Hickton, Project Manager, explained:
"The support given by CG enabled us to quickly gain an independent view of the current BOM processes in our company. Through the use of workshops, the partnering style of their consultants enabled the project team to formulate and own the final proposal."
The proposal was endorsed by the senior team and approval to implement has now been given.


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Der TVR Tuscan Speed 6 ist ein Sportwagen, der von TVR in Blackpool (England) von 1999 bis 2006 hergestellt wurde.
Bekanntheit erlangte er unter anderem auch durch seine Verwendung in dem Film Password Swordfish.

Daten

Motor
Es gab fünf verschiedene Reihensechszylindermotoren zur Auswahl. Vier davon waren Varianten des 4,0 l-R6 Speed Six mit unterschiedlichen Leistungs- und Drehmomentstufen. Der verbleibende war der 3,6 l-R6 Speed Six mit der gleichen Leistung wie der schwächste 4,0 l, wenn auch etwas geringerem Drehmoment.

Chassis
Obwohl es viele kleine Änderungen an Chassis und Radaufhängungen des Tuscan gegeben hat, haben sich Größe und Erscheinungsbild der einzelnen Varianten kaum geändert, wenn man einmal von kleineren aerodynamischen Hilfen für den S in Form einer "Untertasse" vorne und einem kleinen Heckspoiler absieht.

Im Oktober 2005 wurden die Mark-II-Version eingeführt, was aber nur ein kleines Facelift darstellte. Die Modifikationen beschränkten sich auf kosmetische Änderungen an Scheinwerfern, Rücklichtern, am Heckspoiler (Modell S) und der Frontspoiler wurde durch zwei "Winglets" ersetzt (Modell S) plus einigen kleineren Änderungen am Fahrwerk zur Verbesserung des Handlings. Zur gleichen Zeit führte man anstatt der Targa-Version ein Vollcabriolet ein.

Fahrleistungen
 0–50 km/h: 1,73 s
 0–100 km/h: 3,68 s
 0–160 km/h: 8,08 s

 160–0 km/h: 4,15 s

Bemerkenswert ist, dass diese Werte von einem Tuscan S (ab 2003) stammen, der weder ASR noch ABS besitzt. Die Philosophie von TVR sagt, dass solche technischen Systeme weder die Leistung noch die Sicherheit erhöhen, daher werden sie nicht eingebaut. TVR erkennt nicht an, dass diese Systeme, genauso wie Airbags, Sicherheitssysteme sind, und glaubt, dass ihre Autos, beruhend auf Tests und Erfahrungen, ohne sie sicherer seien als mit ihnen.

Trivia
 Der Tuscan wird im Film Password Swordfish vom Charakter Gabriel (dargestellt von John Travolta) gefahren, TVR bekam nach der Veröffentlichung des Films ca. 50 Anfragen täglich, wo man den Wagen in den USA kaufen könne. Der Tuscan ist jedoch in den USA nicht zugelassen, da er nicht den dortigen Emissionsregularien entspricht.

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This panel discussion features several seasoned SHS Diplomates and professionals. Join us to learn about their individual journeys within healthcare (changing jobs, locations, organizations, etc.); discuss hot topics (mentorship, leveraging experience, translation of lean leadership, relationship building and emotional intelligence, and diplomate designation); and, a spirited question and answer session. Session is open to all levels of experience and will be a great way to interact and share with other HSPI attendees.
The Healthcare Systems Process Improvement Conference is the source for the latest in operational and quality improvement tools, methods and concepts such as lean, Six Sigma, productivity, benchmarking, simulation and project management. Along with extensive learning opportunities, rich networking events are incorporated throughout the conference.


How well do you know The Winking Prawn?
So you know you love The Winking Prawn, but do you know how it came to be the restaurant it is today?
Well, The Winking Prawn actually dates back to the 1960s, although it was a little different back then. We know what you're thinking, Mark and Jane are looking good on 50 years at the WP, but they actually discovered this little corner of North Sands 20 years ago when it was called The Oasis, having gone by a number of different monikers, including a stint as North Sands Café, in the interim.
At the time they ran three restaurants in Poole and friends had told them this was somewhere they simply had to see. After a manic journey traversing the West Country in the days when the A38 still left a few things to be desired, and battling that characteristic Devon wind, they were just about to give up and turn around when they found this shack on the beach. Sitting on the wall looking at it, they fell in love, and the rest as they say, is history.
So now that you know the story behind The Winking Prawn we suppose you want to know about the other members of the Prawn family. Island Street Bar & Grill opened in 2010 and has been buckets of fun ever since. At Hannaford's Landing, we were late joining the party as the space was originally occupied by another restaurant, but once we got there we put our own stamp on the place with a little help from local artists including Mat McIvor who's responsible for the murals on the walls, Paper Bird Island for our bespoke coffee table, and Island Street Bar & Grill's own customers for the graffiti on the ceiling! As for its famous burgers and live music – you can thank Luke for those!
Next stop was Sailor V which opened in 2013. Many of you probably remember it as the former HSBC bank, but few are likely to be aware that way back in the 1920s it was actually called The Salcombe Coffee House – so it's come full circle! When we first got there, it had been left derelict for a couple of years, but with the help of a wonderful team we renovated some original features and added our own little touches to give it the speakeasy vibe that's there today!
The latest addition to the Prawn family, The Cracking Crab opened in May 2015 and has just celebrated its first birthday – woohoo! Funnily enough the Crab kinda followed in the footsteps of the Prawn, but this time it was Luke who did the travelling and saw serious potential on a surfing trip with Laurence to Polzeath. Always a family effort, the rest of the clan quickly followed suit and low and behold the fourth pillar of The Winking Prawn Group was born, welcoming manager Trudi and her partner Ryan, who works his socks off as our inspired chef with a magic touch when it comes to seafood!


Join our ambitious and rapidly growing research team, at the Dysons Singapore Technology Center, focused on building real robots to go into peoples homes.
Dyson is now seeking for someone to develop a pipeline for processing low-light images, based on end-to-end training of a fully-convolutional neural network.
You will be working on image and video processing within Deep Learning, experimenting with innovative techniques. You will be developing Python and deep learning frameworks (Tensorflow, PyTorch, solving real-world challenges.


ENUK editor Dom Sacco provides a quick recap of two big UK esports announcements today.
GAME has confirmed that Insomnia62 will be an official partner of the Call of Duty World League (CWL) 2018 season.
The UK gaming festival will welcome many of the world's best CoD players to the NEC for the Birmingham Open leg of the tournament, taking place during Easter Bank Holiday weekend next year (Friday March 30th to Monday April 2nd 2018).
Players entering the Birmingham Open will be competing on Call of Duty: WWII for a share of the $200,000 prize pool and 209,200 CWL points.
Sarah Whittaker, Head of Events at Multiplay Events, said: "We couldn't be more thrilled to be hosting part of the CWL 2018 season at Insomnia62.
"Multiplay Events has a great track record of hosting heart-pounding gaming tournaments, including the finals of the UK Masters at Insomnia61 earlier this year. It's fantastic that festival goers will experience the action of CWL at Insomnia62."
Gfinity announced that French esports org Team Vitality will be joining the Gfinity Elite Series for Season 3.
The news comes after Gfinity revealed earlier this week that Fnatic will also be participating in the tournament, as the number of teams increase from eight to ten.
The games for Season 3 will be FIFA, Rocket League and Street Fighter, with Gfinity instead running a separate Winter Series for CSGO.
It's great to see Gfinity add some more world-class orgs to the Elite Series which it promised back in Season 1, and to see a mix of established teams like the above and growing UK orgs with huge potential.
Nicolas Maurer, CEO at Team Vitality, said: "Team Vitality is thrilled to join the Gfinity Elite Series in London. The Elite Series has proven itself to be a world-class tournament and we welcome the opportunity to discover new european talent.
Neville Upton, CEO at Gfinity, added: "As the Elite Series fanbase grows significantly from series to series, we are challenging ourselves to showcase the best global esports talent and we are delighted to welcome Team Vitality.
"Not only are we signing the top french organisation, we are giving the best amateur gamers the chance to play alongside their heroes via the Gfinity Challenger Series which launches on January 8th."


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Quincy man arrested in connection to shots being fired at Fourth, Kentucky
September 22, 2022 | By Muddy River News
Troy Owsley | Photo courtesy of Quincy Police Department
QUINCY — A Quincy man was arrested Thursday and is lodged in the Adams County Jail after shots were fired around Fourth and Kentucky.
Officers from the Quincy Police Department were dispatched at 10:31 a.m. Thursday to Fourth and Kentucky. When officers arrived on scene, the parties involved had left. Officers began speaking to people in the area and learned about an argument that resulted in an accident and one subject firing one shot at another.
Officers eventually located Troy Owsley, 33, at his residence of 1524 State. He was taken into custody for a warrant. A search warrant was obtained for Owsley's residence, and a firearm was found.
He was charged with reckless discharge of a firearm, possession of a firearm by a felon, leaving the scene and driving while license suspended.
A 24-year-old male victim later was located. No injuries were reported.
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Chrissy Teigen, other celebs offer to bail out protesters in Minnesota and nationwide
Model Chrissy Teigen and other celebs like Steve Carell and Seth Rogen have offered contributions to bail out protesters in Minnesota and nationwide.
By ABC7.com staff
Model Chrissy Teigen has offered to spend $200,000 to bail out protesters across the country.
Teigen's promise made via Twitter was apparently a response to President Donald Trump making a reference to "MAGA night" at the White House. It wasn't clear what the president was referring to, but it was enough to provoke Teigen to first commit to paying $100,000 and then doubling the amount after receiving a number of negative comments on Twitter.
Ooo they might need more money then. Make it $200,000 https://t.co/axuJnazJkU
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) May 30, 2020
A number of people posted negative comments in response to Teigen's tweets, noting some of the protesters have been committing acts of violence, looting and arson.
One commenter said "You want to bail out people who burned down neighborhoods, looted stores, set cars on fire, hey go for it." Another wrote: "You mean releasing criminals who used this as an excuse to steal and destroy their own city."
Across the country hundreds, if not thousands, of people have been arrested at protests over the death of George Floyd.
Floyd died after a Minneapolis police officer placed a knee on his neck for an extended period of time in a video captured by a bystander.
Some of the protests have turned violent. In Minnesota, dozens of stores were looted and a police station was set on fire. In Los Angeles, buildings have been set on fire and police cars have been vandalized.
Friday night alone, Los Angeles police arrested more than 500 protesters after they failed to obey an order to disperse.
Teigen wasn't the only person offering to bail out protesters. A number of attorneys across the country posted on social media that they were willing to offer their services pro bono to anyone arrested for protesting.
Lawyers offering pro bono services for arrested protestors. Minneapolis, Houston, New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles. I know there are far more doing the same thing in other cities please add them to this thread pic.twitter.com/rRCODVDr8q
— Roy Wood Jr- Ex Jedi (@roywoodjr) May 30, 2020
And a number of celebrities were supporting and contributing to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which is helping protesters in that state.
Among those contributing to the Minnesota Freedom Fund were Seth Rogen, Steve Carell and Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Those living in privilege and wanna show solidarity . Here's a way . Donate . It's quick . https://t.co/ca4OzBp6sN
— Janelle Monáe, Cindi Mayweather (@JanelleMonae) May 28, 2020
Some organizations to which you can donate if you are heartsick waking up to the news:
Minnesota Freedom Fund:https://t.co/H1FIfpe0vd
Minnesota ACLU:https://t.co/CIiE1w2tlp
George Floyd's family gofundme:https://t.co/XWw0iGr6qZ
❤❤❤#JusticeForFloyd
— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) May 28, 2020
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When a member country borrows money from the IMF, its policies come under closer scrutiny. Once a country has completed its lending program, it may be subject to Post-Program Monitoring (PPM), which is an important part of the Fund's safeguard architecture. PPM is generally expected for all member countries that have substantial IMF credit outstanding following the expiration of their programs. The aim is to identify risks to such member countries' medium-term viability and provide early warnings on risks to the Fund's balance sheets. Should it become necessary, IMF staff will advise on policy actions to correct macroeconomic imbalances.
IMF financing provides member countries with the breathing space they need to correct their balance of payments problems. A policy program supported by IMF financing is designed by the national authorities in close cooperation with the IMF. Continued financial support is conditional on the effective implementation of the policy program. A country's return to economic and financial health during the program and in the medium term ensures that IMF funds are repaid, and can be made available to other member countries. Post-program monitoring helps support this process.
and it no longer has program involvement of any kind with the IMF.
In some cases, post-program monitoring might not be needed even if the country meets the criteria above. This can apply when a successor borrowing arrangement, PCI, PSI or a staff-monitored program is expected to be in place within six months of the expiration of the current program, or when the policies and external position of the member country are determined to be sufficiently strong that post-program monitoring would be unwarranted.
In other cases, post-program monitoring may be required even if the country's outstanding credit is below the above-specified thresholds. This occurs if economic developments call into question the country's progress toward external viability.
The IMF's 24-member Executive Board can decide on post-program monitoring for a country at any time during the program or after the program expires. However, the decision is normally taken at the time of the last program review if the country's outstanding credit is expected to exceed any of the above-specified thresholds.
Under post-program monitoring, countries undertake more frequent formal consultations with the IMF than is the case under the IMF's normal surveillance, with a particular focus on macroeconomic and structural policies and risks that have implications for the country's external viability and capacity to repay the IMF. There is normally one standalone post-program monitoring paper issued for Board consideration in a twelve-month period.
Post-program monitoring remains in effect until outstanding credit falls below the applicable thresholds above. Nonetheless, the IMF's Executive Board could agree to discontinue post program monitoring―even before outstanding credit falls below the thresholds―if strong policies are in place and the external position is sound. In cases where post-program monitoring is found to be required even though outstanding credit is below the above-specified thresholds, the monitoring will normally be carried out for an additional year.


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Administrative Buffoonery: Principal Poo Gets The Boot!
And we thought that the "crest-fallen bone-headed school administratrix" was a feces species found almost exclusively in American public schools:
A suspended Toronto elementary school principal has pleaded guilty to throwing feces (excrement) on a child.
Maria Pantalone, 49, was charged with two counts of assault - one against that child and one against another – but only admitted to one of the charges today.
"I couldn't take it any more," she testified, in describing the provocative circumstances leading up to the incident last June 30.
But she agreed it wasn't in any way justified.
Pantalone, who is the sister of Toronto Deputy Mayor Joe Pantalone, was principal of Keele Street Junior Public School and Mountview Alternative, which collectively have 500 students and operate out of the same building near Keele St. and Humberside Ave.
The names of the victims cannot be published owing to a ban imposed by provincial court Justice Howard Borenstein.
Neither were students at her school.
Since being charged last summer, she has been suspended with pay and ordered to stay away from anyone under the age of 16, unless under supervision.
Both Crown prosecutor John Ball and defence lawyer Michael Caroline jointly recommended that she receive an absolute discharge, which will leave her without a criminal record, and enter into a peace bond not to have contact with the two children.
Caroline submitted some 20 letters of support for his client, including one signed by 19 staff members at her school.
We can't help but wonder what juicy smelly details are being left out of this story... -----------------------------See our latest EduPosts.
Labels: Administrative Buffoonery, Knuckleheads
By:EdWonk ~ Permalink:4/04/2007
Let's Carnival!
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FILA Korea has just showcased their brand spanking new Pokémon sneaker collaboration, just in time for a fresh new look for Springtime. Containing five different designs the collection is adorned with Pokémon motifs referencing characters such as Pikachu, Charmander, Squirtle, and Bulbasaur on the tab of the heel.
The FILA x Pokémon sneaker collaboration in South Korea is loaded with some awesome looking footwear. Making use of the sportswear brand's classic Court Deluxe low-top, the silhouette flaunts a clean canvas while the focus is directed at the heels with call backs to Pokémon characters.
Each sneaker has a different colorway for every single Pokémon. Charmander comes with an orange and light green pair of colors, referencing the Pokémon's eyes. Pikachu has white, yellow, and red obviously. Bulbasaur gets light green, Squirtle has light blue, and Jigglypuff gets baby pink. Each of them come in their own individual special Poké Ball shoebox, as well.
Priced at 69,000 won (€45), the trainers are only for sale in South Korea. Sadly, no word yet of an international release.


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Q: quantile in scipy library I am confused what is quantile in scipy.stats.norm.pdf function.
Definition of quantile says that k-th of q-quantile is essentially value which divides population into k/q and (q-k)/q parts. But if I call
scipy.stats.norm.pdf([0,1,2,3,4], 2, 9)

then I will get vector v with 5 numbers. What v[i]' mean in this case? probability of normal RV been equali`?
Could you clarify it please?

A: You are calling the normal pdf, with parameters $\mu=2$ and $\sigma=9$, evaluated  at the points 0,1,2,3,4. It cannot be interpreted as a probability as is. Are you interested in probabilities or quantiles?
If you want quantiles, try
scipy.stats.norm.ppf( [.05,.5, .95], 2, 9)

will give you the quantiles at the points 0.05, .5 and .95. For example, the solution to $P( N_{2,9} < q ) = 0.05$ is scipy.stats.norm.ppf(.05, 2,9).

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Borís Borísovich Mélnikov –en ruso, Борис Борисович Мельников– (16 de mayo de 1938-5 de febrero de 2022) fue un deportista soviético que compitió en esgrima, especialista en la modalidad de sable.

Participó en los Juegos Olímpicos de Tokio 1964, obteniendo una medalla de oro en la prueba por equipos. Ganó dos medallas de oro en el Campeonato Mundial de Esgrima, en los años 1965 y 1967.

Palmarés internacional

Referencias

Esgrimidores de la Unión Soviética
Esgrimidores en los Juegos Olímpicos de Tokio 1964
Medallistas olímpicos de esgrima
Medallistas olímpicos de oro de la Unión Soviética
Medallistas olímpicos de oro de Tokio 1964
Campeones mundiales de esgrima
Nacidos en San Petersburgo
Fallecidos en San Petersburgo


Content marketing has been the most successful method of acquiring users for our startup Process Street. A number of people ask me about my process (no pun) for creating and marketing content that drives users to our product, so I wanted to give the Scoop.it readers the inside scoop (I will stop now).
A great content marketing system starts with writing consistent, compelling content. Scoop.it has published some great post on the topic here, here and here.
For this post, I will not be talking about how to create content, I will break down the system I used to build our blog to over 100,000 pageviews a month and some of my ideas on how I plan to scale it.
We are a small startup, we just finished AngelPad and are raising our seed round at the moment. Because of this we do not have the resources for a large team of content creators and marketers.
My team consists entirely of myself and two full time virtual assistants whose salaries are approximately $300/month each.
I do all the research and content creation and my two virtual assistants focus 100% on content promotion. When we finish up fund raising I will be scaling this team. I want a full-time editor (to reduce the time it takes me to create and edit posts), a designer (to make my posts pretty and reformat them into slides, ebooks etc) and two more virtual assistants (for promotion).
As you may have noticed, I am not planning on taking myself out of this role. Finding great content marketers is really really hard and the posts that do best are ones that draw from personal experience and learnings. Chances are you have more stories that relate to your customers than most of your employees. Because of this I plan to continue writing content for Process Street but systemize it so I can produce high quality content in short periods of time.
I will eventually want to hire someone for this role to scale, but I imagine I will still be involved at some level in content creation forever. Freelancers can also be an effective way to scale a content marketing team,something Scoop.it has done very effectively.
I use Trello to manage and track post ideas, I got this from Buffer who run an awesome blog.
I have a huge backlog of ideas for blog posts, enough material to last years. I have this because I am always thinking about content and I regularly add post ideas to our Trello board as I think of them. I do this quickly via the mobile app or chrome extension.
If you need some initial inspiration, check out this post from Buffer or use Scoop.it to discover and track great content ideas.
I have two main lists, "backlog" and "preferred ideas". Backlog is where I dump all my ideas, the preferred ones are moved to the preferred list and wait for me to start writing. I add any links or ideas I have for the post as comments on the card so I can access them when I start working on that post.
I don't stick to a strict schedule with my posts, the goal is to do a post every week, but I don't believe it is worth sacrificing quality to make sure you hit an arbitrary schedule so if I don't think I have enough time to really dedicate a solid half day to a post, I won't write one at all.
Bringing in an editor will help with this, as I should be able to do 2 posts back to back in that same period and hand them off to the editor to touch up and schedule, essentially doubling my capacity.
I move the Trello card down the lists, through "Work in progress", "Ready to publish" and "Published".
Content promotion is important and is a big piece of the puzzle I see lots of businesses miss. Founders get excited with the idea of starting a blog, but once they get everything set up and start posting, they don't see any traffic or results and give up. That's probably because they do not spend enough time, money or effort on actually promoting the content they create.
As mentioned above, I have two full time virtual assistants dedicated to promotion.
We use Process Street (shameless plug) to manage this process and it works great.
I have a template which is a slight modification of this content promotion checklist.
Then every time I publish a blog post, I run the checklist and assign it to one of my virtual assistants, they then get to work promoting the post. I can track the status of each post as my assistants work through the tasks promoting them.
The thing with promotion, there are high return activities (such as submitting the post to reddit or Hacker News) and lower return ones (such as commenting on other blogs) so we make sure we cover the high return activities on new posts first, then slowly work on the longtail. We are still promoting posts from 6 months ago and we are always promoting dozens of posts in parallel.
Ninja tip: We run a similar promotion process on posts on other peoples websites that link back to our product or our posts. This is a great way to build link authority and generate traffic back to your website. So if you link to Process Street or one of our posts, let me know and I will shove a bunch of traffic at the post.
And that is the system. Simple yet effective.
If you have any other tips, tools or resources on building a content marketing system I would love to hear them in the comments!
Editor's note: for more tips on how to make your content marketing strategy lean as an SMB, download our free ebook.