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WORLD WATCH MONTHLY: United Kingdom
With a 2011 GDP of about $2.28 trillion, the United Kingdom had the ninth-largest economy in the world and the second-largest in Europe, behind Germany. It is recognized for machine tools, automation equipment, electric power equipment, shipbuilding, textiles and more.
An austerity program aims to reduce the country's budget deficit from more than 10 percent of GDP in 2010 to nearly 1 percent of GDP by 2015, according to the CIA's World Factbook.
The United Kingdom had a 2011 unemployment rate of 8.1 percent, on par with that of the U.S.
Agriculture remains integral to the economy, producing almost 60 percent of the country's food with less than 2 percent of the labor force.
Crain's monthly World Watch report showcases Michigan companies leading the way in international business, as well as those expanding their global operations.
Each World Watch Monthly features a different country. If you know of a Michigan company that exports, manufactures abroad or has facilities abroad, email Jennette Smith, managing editor, at [email protected]
• March: Netherlands
• April: Saudi Arabia
Beringea LLC's London office
Beringea LLC
Based: Farmington Hills
U.K. operations: London, England
Products: Late-stage venture capital, growth capital and mezzanine debt financing
Top executive: Malcolm Moss, co-founder and senior managing director
More information: Beringea is an international private equity firm that offers advice, guidance and capital to growing businesses. Portfolio companies range from health care and life sciences to clean technology, advanced manufacturing, media and Internet technologies. Beringea in the U.K. manages the ProVen Venture Capital Trusts.
Bissell Homecare Inc.
Based: Grand Rapids
U.K. operations: Berkshire, England
Products: Subsidiary Bissell U.K. distributes vacuum cleaners, carpet washers, sweepers, steam cleaners and hard-floor units. The Berkshire location also focuses on sales and marketing.
Top executive: Alistair Roberts, managing director, U.K.
More information: Bissell is the fastest-growing floor care brand in the U.K.
Compuware Corp.
Based: Detroit
U.K. operations: Compuware Ltd. is in Berkshire, England
Products: Marketing, sales and customer support for proprietary software products, Covisint cloud services, Compuware application performance management solutions and mainframe products
Top executive: Philippe Llorens, senior vice president, Europe, Middle East and Africa
Eagle Ottawa LLC's office in Coventry
Eagle Ottawa LLC
Based: Auburn Hills
U.K. operations: Sales office in Coventry, England
Employees: Nine
Products: Luxury automotive leather interiors
Top executive: Jeff Creese, director of sales and design
More information: Eagle also has production facilities in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. Eagle Ottawa leather is used in more than 100 vehicles globally.
Edwards Brothers Inc.
Based: Ann Arbor
U.K. operations: Digital book manufacturing center in Plymouth, England
Employees: Three
Products: Softcover books for NBN International, trade publishing for university presses and education publishers in the U.K.
Industries served: Trade, scholarly and education market publishers
Top executive: Pete Shima, director of customer service, pre-press and digital operations
More information: Recently formed a global distributed print partnership, Global Print Solutions, with three other leading book and journal manufacturers, including CPI Group.
Ford Motor Co.
Based: Dearborn
U.K. operations: Ford of Britain, the British subsidiary of Ford of Europe, has around 550 dealerships, a commercial vehicle assembly plant in Southampton, England; a stamping plant and engine plant in Dagenham, England; a transmission plant in Halewood, England; an engine plant in Bridgend, Wales; and a research and development facility in Dunton, England. Ford of Britain's headquarters is in Brentwood, England.
Employees: 14,500
Products: Ford Transit, panels, subassemblies, engines, transaxles and transmissions
Top executive: Joe Greenwell, chairman, Ford of Britain
ForeSee Results Inc.
Employees: Eight
Products: Satisfaction analytics for the Web, mobile, store, contact centers, customer relationships and social media
Top executive: Larry Freed, president and CEO
General Motors Co.
U.K. operations: GM has manufacturing plants in Luton, England, and Ellesmere Port, England; a parts warehouse in Toddington, England; headquarters in Luton, England that house sales and marketing operations; and the Millbrook Proving Ground in Millbrook, England.
Employees: 4,000
Products: Vauxhall manufactures the Astra five-door, Astra Sports Tourer and the light commercial vehicle Vauxhall/Opel Vivaro. It also sells the full European Opel/Vauxhall product portfolio badged as Vauxhall Motors Ltd.
Top executive: Duncan Aldred, chairman and managing director, Vauxhall Motors
More information: In 2012, the U.K. secured lead manufacturing plant status in GM Europe for the next-generation Astra in 2015 and the next-generation Vivaro in 2014. The Luton plant is the only commercial vehicle manufacturing plant in GM Europe's portfolio.
Staff members meet at George P. Johnson Co. in Kingston Upon Thames.
George P. Johnson Co.
U.K. operations: Full-service creative studio and event operations hub in Kingston upon Thames, England
Products and services: Account management and an event operations team that creates public and business-to-business marketing campaigns. Events include festivals, sponsorship and B2B events ranging from trade shows and conferences to briefing centers and road shows.
Top executive: Laurence S. Vallee, president and CEO, Project: WorldWide EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa)
More information: Targeted industries include consumer packaged goods, automotive, technology, financial services and life sciences
Guardian Industries Inc.
U.K. operations: Yorkshire, England, the location of Guardian's U.K. glass division
Products: Clear float glass, laminated glass, sound control laminated glass, energy-efficient "low-e" glass, mirrors and more
Top executives: Pablo Isasmendi, managing director, and Mark Bristow, regional manager for the U.K. and Ireland
Herman Miller Inc.
Based: Zeeland
U.K. operations: Bath and Chippenham, England
Products: Full range of furniture
Top executive: Andy Lock, president of Herman Miller International
International Automotive Components Group
Based: Global headquarters in Luxembourg; North American headquarters in Southfield.
U.K. operations: Manufacturing plants in Coleshill, Elmdon, Halewood, Scunthorpe and Sunderland, England; customer center in Basildon, England
Products: Trunk liners, trim, interior parts
Top executive: Jonas Nilsson, senior vice president of operations for IAC Europe
More information: IAC Group's clients include The Land Rover brand of Tata Motors Ltd., Jaguar, Nissan Motor Co., Toyota Motor Co., Honda Motor Co. and Vauxhall Motors Ltd.
Meritor Inc.
Based: Troy
U.K. operations: Technical center and production plant in Cwmbran, Wales; aftermarket-remanufacturing site in Redditch, England
Products: Heavy-vehicle braking systems, remanufactured brakes
Top executive: Dietrich Zaps, general manager
MSX International Inc.
Based: Warren
U.K. operations: Headquarters in Colchester, England
Products: Parts and accessories sales programs, dealer standards and process improvement, training, technical support services and warranty solutions to vehicle manufacturers, workforce management assistance, vendor management system
Top executives: Felix Serrano, managing director of retail network solutions division for U.K., Iberia and South America; Paul Dyer, U.K. operations director for retail network solutions division; James Lever, U.K. business development director for retail network solutions division; David Ballew, European director of human capital solutions sector
More information: Customers include Ford Motor Co., Jaguar Land Rover Group of Tata Motors Ltd., Peugeot Citroen, BMW, Fiat and Volvo Car Corp. and Mondelez International.


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Die Nattern (Colubridae), von mittelhochdeutsch nāter ("Natter", auch "Schlange"), bilden mit fast 2000 Arten, das sind fast 60 % der heute lebenden Schlangenarten, die mit Abstand artenreichste Familie unter den Schlangen. Sie haben, mit Ausnahme des Meeres, alle für Reptilien zugänglichen Biotope besiedelt und leben in gemäßigten, subtropischen und tropischen Regionen Eurasiens, Afrikas, Nord- und Südamerikas. Unter den Nattern gibt es auf dem Erdboden lebende, grabende und kletternde Arten. Schmuckbaumnattern (Chrysopelea) können von Baum zu Baum gleitfliegen, indem sie ihre Rippen spreizen und so aus ihrem gesamten Körper eine Tragfläche machen.

In Deutschland, der Schweiz und Österreich kommen sieben Natterarten vor. Die Äskulapnatter, die Schlingnatter und die Gelbgrüne Zornnatter gehören zu den Eigentlichen Nattern (Colubrinae). Die Ringelnatter, die Barrenringelnatter, der 2017 Artstatus zuerkannt wurde, die Würfelnatter und die Vipernatter gehören zu den Wassernattern (Natricinae). Die Gelbgrüne Zornnatter und die Vipernatter kommen in Deutschland und Österreich nicht vor. Diese sieben Nattern unterscheiden sich äußerlich durch ihre runden Pupillen von den einheimischen Giftschlangen (Europäische Hornotter, Kreuzotter, Aspisviper und Wiesenotter).

Merkmale

Nattern sind überwiegend schlanke und langschwänzige Schlangen, deren Körper von relativ großen Schuppen bedeckt ist. Der Kopf ist in den meisten Fällen vom Hals abgesetzt und kann lang und schmal, aber auch kurz und stumpf sein. Die Augen sind, außer bei einigen wühlenden Arten, groß, die Pupillen sind rund oder oval. Die Maulspalte reicht bis weit hinter die Augen. Die bei den Nattern besonders langen Oberkieferknochen können nicht, wie bei den Vipern, in eine zum Gesichtsschädel senkrechte Stellung gebracht werden. Bei opistoglyphen Arten der Familie, den sogenannten Trugnattern, liegen die Giftzähne im hinteren Teil des Oberkiefers, aglyphe oder auch "Echte Nattern" haben dagegen keine Giftzähne.

Ernährung
Nattern haben ein reiches Beutespektrum, das Kleinsäuger, Vögel, Echsen, Amphibien, Fische, Gliederfüßer und Weichtiere umfasst. Einige Nattern sind Nahrungsspezialisten, wie die Afrikanischen und Indischen Eierschlangen, die sich ausschließlich von Vogeleiern ernähren.

Giftigkeit
Die meisten Nattern besitzen weder hohle noch gefurchte Giftzähne. Bei einigen Arten, zum Beispiel bei der Ringelnatter, befindet sich im Speichel ein sehr schwaches Gift, das kleine Beutetiere lähmen kann, jedoch vermutlich in erster Linie der Vorverdauung dient.

Die Trugnattern sind keine eigene taxonomische Gruppe, es handelt sich vielmehr um eine Reihe von Arten innerhalb der Nattern. Sie besitzen im hinteren Bereich des Oberkiefers gefurchte Giftzähne, über deren Außenfurche das Gift mit kauenden Bewegungen in die Bisswunde eines Beutetiers geleitet wird. Für größere Tiere sind Trugnattern jedoch in der Regel ungefährlich, da zum einen durch die Stellung der Giftzähne diese bei einem Biss ihr Opfer nicht erreichen und zum anderen das Gift der Trugnattern im Vergleich zu Vipern und Giftnattern relativ schwach ist. Bei einzelnen Trugnatterarten, zum Beispiel der Boomslang (südliches Afrika) oder der Mangroven-Nachtbaumnatter (Südostasien), kann der Biss jedoch auch für Menschen lebensgefährlich sein.

Giftnattern (Elapidae) gehören trotz ihres Namens nicht zu den Nattern, sondern bilden eine eigene Schlangenfamilie.

Giftarten
Zur Bestimmung der Giftarten wird nach adäquater Probenvorbereitung die MALDI-TOF-Technik eingesetzt. Auch die Kopplung der HPLC mit der Massenspektrometrie kommt zum Einsatz.

Fortpflanzung
Nattern sind bis auf wenige Ausnahmen – wie z. B. die in Mitteleuropa heimische, lebendgebärende Schlingnatter – eierlegend.

Systematik
Die Familie der Nattern (Colubridae) wurde im Jahr 1811 durch den deutschen Herpetologen Nikolaus Michael Oppel eingeführt. Je nach Autor wurden sie in 5 bis 7 verschiedene Unterfamilien unterteilt. Einige dieser Unterfamilien gelten jetzt als eigenständige Familien, z. B. die Wassertrugnattern (Homalopsidae) und die Pareidae oder die Lamprophiidae, Psammophiidae und Pseudoxyrhophiidae, die näher mit den Giftnattern (Elapidae) verwandt sind als mit den Nattern. Die Unterfamilie Aparallactinae wurden den Erdvipern (Atractaspididae) zugeordnet. Ursprünglich bildeten die Vipern (Viperidae), die Nattern, die Giftnattern und andere den Nattern ähnliche Familien zusammen die Überfamilie Colubroidea, heute sind die Nattern die einzige Familie dieser Überfamilie. Die Giftnattern und die näher mit ihnen als mit den Nattern verwandten Familien werden in die Überfamilie Elapoidea gestellt.

Das folgende Kladogramm nach Zaher et al. zeigt die verwandtschaftlichen Beziehungen zwischen den Nattern, anderen, den Nattern ähnlichen Familien, den Giftnattern und den Vipern:

Die Familie der Nattern selbst wird aktuell in acht Unterfamilien unterteilt. Die taxonomische Stellung der einzelnen Unterfamilien zueinander ist weniger gut gesichert als die der äußeren Systematik. Nach Zaher et al. ergibt sich folgende innere Systematik:

Die Schlangen aus der Unterfamilie Colubrinae haben einen asymmetrischen Hemipenis mit einem einzigen Sulcus spermaticus. Die Unterfamilie Scaphiodontophiinae wurde 2010 von Pyron et al. eingeführt, später dann der Prioritätsregel folgend auf Sibynophiinae geändert. Die Schwestergruppe der Colubrinae sind die Ahaetullinae, die erst im Jahr 2016 neu beschrieben wurde. Die Calamariinae unterscheiden sich von den anderen Nattern durch ihren Knochenbau: Das Augenloch wird nur durch das Stirnbein und das Parasphenoid geformt, das Scheitelbein ist nicht beteiligt. Diagnostisches Merkmal der nur in Asien vorkommenden Pseudoxenodontinae ist der sehr tief gegabelte Hemipenis. Deren Schwestertaxon sind die Dipsadinae, die in Amerika leben und typischerweise einen gegabelten Sulcus spermaticus haben. Die Wassernattern (Natricinae) zeichnen sich durch einen markanten Hemipenis aus, dessen Sulcus spermaticus stark gekrümmt ist.

Literatur
 Wilfried Westheide, Reinhard Rieger: Spezielle Zoologie. Teil 2: Wirbel- und Schädeltiere. 1. Auflage. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag Heidelberg, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-8274-0307-3.
 Kurt Deckert, Gisela Deckert, Günther E. Freytag, G. Peters, G. Sterba: Urania Tierreich, Fische, Lurche, Kriechtiere. Urania-Verlag, 1991, ISBN 3-332-00376-3.

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So sometimes I like to list movies that have emotionally ruined me at some point in my life, just to perk my day up and destroy any hope I have of true happiness. It's cathartic and totally normal so I would really appreciate your support right now! Listening to Adele and pre crack Whitney (her cool down Disc 1 album!) doesn't quite do it for me these days. I need to channel my hormonal mess into films that reduce me to magnificent salty tears! So here are my top 5 pick for sad films that are truly wonderful… but will successfully leave you broken by the time the credits roll. Enjoy!


I've read a number of Sontag's important essays and have a copy of her novel, which I have wanted to read it for some time, so thanks for the inspiration, not to mention your detailed review and the wonderful links. Sounds like you put together a great course.
I did enjoy it very much, Elaine. I stay at theses OLLIs because the "student" (they are people in their 50s to 80s, many of them in previous life professionals who reached a high life — lawyers, ex-judges, psychiatrists, all sorts) body are so enthusiastic and seem to appreciate what I bring. For myself for the first time in a long time I'm getting to put together courses that make literary sense and I enjoy doing.
You see sometimes I think of trying again at Georgetown for an ordinary adjunct position (I had one and gave it up that first few months) but it would be drudgery to some extent, I'd be so constrained on what I could present and I'm not getting any younger — and I think it would be more satisfying to help younger people get degrees. Real tests and papers make the whole experience more serious, realer. but maybe this is sentimentalism.
How much life have I left? What do I want to do with it. I can't do what I could have tried had Jim lived. Within the small rounds of this area what is available? So as long as I don't need the money ….
They teach me too. It's a different kind of experience, I'm among equals, interacting as much as teaching contemporaries.
Kathryn Winslow: "I've always thought Susan Sontag was a remarkable person, and I agree with many of her ideas, but I couldn't relate to her fiction.
Me: I used to think her non-fiction essays much better and more influential and far reaching than the small amount of her fiction I'd read, but since reading this book I've discovered she wrote a number of novels, one garnered a Pulitzer Prize (her era is just before this double decade of prizes for everyone), she directed four films. The Volcano Lover as historical fiction is indirect.


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WORLD New York Times journalists, other workers on 24-hour strike
Hundreds of New York Times journalists and other staff protest outside the Times' office after walking off the job for 24 hours, frustrated by contract negotiations that have dragged on for months in the newspaper's biggest labor dispute in more than 40 years, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022, in New York. (Photo: AP)
"I'm not angry. I'm just deeply disappointed in our company," said Nikole Hannah Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who spoke at the rally. "You shouldn't have to struggle financially to work at a place like The New York Times no matter what your position is."
In an email to the newsroom, Executive Editor Joe Kahn said he was disappointed in the decision to strike when negotiations are not at an impasse, the Times reported in its own story on the walkout. Kahn said Thursday's report would be "robust" but that producing it "will be harder than usual."
Those who participated included members of the fast-paced live news desk, which covers breaking news for the digital publication. That feature was operating Thursday, focusing on the U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner's release from Russian prison as part of a prisoner exchange. For some news, the Times relied on updating copy pre-written by reporters now on strike.
"A news alert with my name on it just went out. It was a pre-written story ahead of an expected vote. I stand with the guild!" tweeted Times congressional correspondent Annie Karni, whose byline appeared story on the House's approval of a bill protecting same-sex marriage.
The Times, which has grown its subscriber base in recent years, projected an adjusted operating profit of between $320 million and $330 million for 2022 in its most recent earnings report. However, Times Chief Executive Meredith Kopit Levien said in a companywide email that profits are still not what they were a decade ago, the Times reported.
In a note sent to guild-represented staff Tuesday night, Deputy Managing Editor Cliff Levy called the planned strike "puzzling" and an "unsettling moment in negotiations over a new contract."
"But if talks stall again we will be asking you for your trust and support for further actions," Cowley told the crowd, which shouted back, "Whatever it takes!"
The NewsGuild said via Twitter that "management walked away from the table with five hours to go" before the planned strike. New York Times spokesperson Danielle Rhoades Ha said in a statement that negotiations were ongoing when the company was told that the strike was happening.
The company has offered to raise wages by 5.5% upon ratification of the contract, followed by 3% increases in 2023 and 2024. That would be an increase from the 2.2% annual increases in the expired contract. The union is seeking 10% pay raises at ratification, and 5.5% raises in 2023 and 2024.
Journalists with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, meanwhile, are in their second week of a strike over contract negotiations about pay and other policies. Of the 32 staff at the paper, 21 are on strike, according to the Fort Worth NewsGuild. The union says the paper's parent company, McClatchy, refused to bargain in good faith. Steve Coffman, executive editor of the Star-Telegram, denied that and said the company looks forward to reaching an agreement.

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Multimodal Literacy
Classroom Resources | Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Unit
An Exploration of Romanticism Through Art and Poetry
Students use art and poetry to explore and understand major characteristics of the Romantic period.
Audio Broadcasts and Podcasts: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization
After exploring Orson Welles' 1938 broadcast of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds, students create their own audio dramatization of a text they have read.
Comparing William Carlos Williams's Poetry with Cubist Paintings
Through discussion, drawing, and writing, students compare how William Carlos Williams's poetry and Cubist and Precisionist painting employ similar artistic strategies, enhancing their understanding of both kinds of text.
Connecting Past and Present: A Local Research Project
In this unit, students become active archivists, gathering photos, artifacts, and stories for a museum exhibit that highlights one decade in their school's history.
Designing Museum Exhibits for The Grapes of Wrath: A Multigenre Project
Using The Grapes of Wrath as a backdrop, students conduct research on issues that the novel addresses, publishing their findings in a multigenre museum exhibit.
Examining Transcendentalism through Popular Culture
Using excerpts from the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, comics, and songs from different musical genres, students examine the characteristics of transcendentalism.
It's My Life: Multimodal Autobiography Project
Students express themselves verbally, visually, and musically by creating multimodal autobiographies, exchanging ideas with other students and sharing important events in their lives through PowerPoint presentations.
I've Got the Literacy Blues
Students will be singing the blues in this lesson in which they identify themes from "The Gift of the Magi" and write and present blues poetry based on those themes.
Literary Scrapbooks Online: An Electronic Reader-Response Project
Students capture scraps of information from a variety of Web resources and use them to create an electronic scrapbook. Emphasis is placed on evaluating and citing resources.
Love of War in Tim O'Brien's "How to Tell a True War Story"
Students explore the theme of love of war through texts on camaraderie among soldiers. They then compose a visual collage depicting their beliefs about the relationship between love and war.


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Syria: Christians in Fear, but Don't Want to Flee Homeland
By ACN-USA News on	 March 21, 2014 Featured, Those in Need
In spite of an uncertain future, Christians in Syria do not want to leave. This was the message of a local Catholic leader, who said, "We Christians are living in fear, the future is uncertain, but we want to stay in our homeland."
The statement came from the Melkite Greek-Catholic Archbishop of Homs, Hama and Yabrud, Msgr. Jean Abdo Arbach, in an interview with international Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN).
Despite reports to the contrary, the 61-year-old native Syrian said, 20,000 Christians of various denominations currently live in Homs close to the border with Lebanon and about 200,000 in the Homs region.
Many of the faithful, including Melkite, Greek-Catholic, Syrian-Catholic, Maronite, Greek-Orthodox and Orthodox, have now returned to the city of Homs, according to the prelate.
"The situation in and around Homs is calm. Government troops have almost complete control over the region and the rebels control only four to five districts."
"The main fighting is taking place in the cities of Yabrud and Hama," said the archbishop, who is committed to staying in Homs.
"For the faithful it is important that their priests and their bishop bear the suffering and persevere like everyone else," he added.
He reported that news coming from the north of Syria, which is controlled by the rebels, is alarming.
"Islamic law is to be applied, while all Christian symbols which are publicly visible are to be destroyed. Also, Christians who wish to remain will in future have to pay a special tax."
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Pronghorn are found in the Great Plains area and further west into the drier areas of North America. They are one of the fastest animals in North America. A newborn pronghorn can outrun a human after just a few days of birth. They can run more than 87 Kilometers (53 miles) an hour. They are also great distance runners; they can travel for miles at half that speed.
They have reddish brown hair, with white stomachs, wide white stripes on their throats and white rumps. Pronghorn are about 1 meter (3 feet) tall at the shoulders. When they are startled they raise the hair on their rump to display a white warning patch that can be seen for a great distance.
Both bucks and does have impressive backward-curving horns. The horns split toward the middle of their horns, forming prongs; this is where they get their name. Some have horns that are more than a 30 centimeters (11.8 inches) long. Pronghorn eat mostly grass, sagebrush and other plants. Pronghorn chew their cud, which is their own partially digested food, like other even-toed hoofed animals.
Pronghorn mate each fall. Bucks gather several females and protect them, sometimes battling rivals in dangerous fights. In the spring, does give birth to one or two young.


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PepsiCo Reorganizes Top Ranks of Global Marketing Groups
Hansen Moved to Snacks, Jakeman Takes on Role Previously Held by d'Amore
By Natalie Zmuda. Published on May 10, 2012.
PepsiCo is shaking up its top marketers yet again as it looks to shore up leadership for its fledgling global groups.
The company today announced internally a number of executive changes in its global groups organization, established earlier this year. The groups report to John Compton, president-PepsiCo.
Salman Amin has been named global chief marketing officer of PepsiCo. Brad Jakeman, president-global enjoyment and chief creative officer, will take on the role of president-global beverages group. That role was held by Massimo d'Amore before his departure in February.
Lorraine Hansen, global chief marketing officer-hydration, will move to president-global snacks group. Enderson Guimares will take on the job of president-global nutrition group.
Sarah Robb O'Hagan has been named president-global sports nutrition group and will continue as president of Gatorade North America. Brian Newman has been named senior VP-strategy and finance.
Global group leaders for human resources and communications will be announced in the coming weeks, according to an internal memo obtained by Ad Age . PepsiCo has developed a "100-day rollout plan" to align employees around its vision and approach to operating as a global company.
"We are still at the beginning of this journey," Mr. Compton said in the memo.
Execs have called PepsiCo's global approach a "rite of passage." They also believe a global structure -- as opposed to the previous, multiregional one -- will allow it to be more innovative and forward-thinking in its marketing. Just this week brand Pepsi launched its first global campaign. It was steered by Mr. Jakeman in cooperation with Simon Lowden, CMO-PepsiCo Americas Beverages, and marketing chiefs from other regions around the world.
It's clear the company aspires to execute global campaigns across its other mega brands. It boasts 22 billion-dollar brands throughout its beverage, snacks and nutrition portfolios. Snacks has become an increasingly important division for PepsiCo. It is forecast to overtake beverages by 2016, growing to 52% of overall revenue from 48%.
With brands such as Lay's, Doritos and Cheetos, PepsiCo dominates the global savory-snacks category. In 2010 it had sales of $29.9 billion, far ahead of No. 2 Kraft at $5.3 billion. PepsiCo's snack revenue grew 9% last year, and volume was up 4%. In North America, Pepsi plans to boost advertising and marketing on snacks by 35%, while ramping up its "Power of One" effort to market snacks and beverages together.
PepsiCo has said that it will spend an additional $500 million to $600 million to market a dozen core brands in 2012. They include Pepsi, Gatorade, Tropicana, Mtn Dew, Sierra Mist, Lipton, Mirinda, Lay's, Sun Chips, Cheetos, Doritos and Quaker. Last year PepsiCo reported $66.5 billion in annual sales and spent $3.5 billion globally marketing its brands.
Contributing: EJ Schultz
Natalie Zmuda
Natalie Zmuda oversees the CMO Strategy section and is responsible for identifying and analyzing the latest trends impacting chief marketers. Natalie also covers the retail and non-alcoholic beverage categories. She joined Advertising Age in 2008, following five years covering the retail and fashion industries for Conde Nast Publications.


One of the main arguments against a Stateless society is, "But how can you prevent monopolies from forming without government there to stop them?" The problems with this unjustified fear are manifold. First in our Statist society monopolies, in the sense that we all understand them, are only possible when they are artificially supported by taxpayer money and fiat currency and protected through regulatory capture, rent seeking, and legal immunity derived by protectionist laws. Second, in a free society, monopolies would never form due to diversity of wants, substitutions, and competition. For the same reasons cartels, or collusion between various companies for monopolistic purposes, are equally as unrealistic.
Modern monopolies as we know them began in the monarchies of Europe. Back then it was known as Mercantilism and it reached its zenith in the 17th and 18th centuries. This was just another name for what we know of today as Corporate Fascism, the merger of corporate and State power to the mutual benefit of both. According to Rothbard, Mercantilism was "a system of Statism which employed economic fallacy to build up a structure of imperial state power, as well as special subsidy and monopolistic privilege to individuals or groups favored by the state." It is amusing that when debating the impracticality of Anarchy, one will claim the formation of monopolies yet historically it is demonstrated that they have only come about through the blessing and protection of the State.
In a free society, coerced monopolies as we understand them would never form. It is important to distinguish between coerced and non-coerced monopolies. The former comes about through special interest status, lobbying/bribery, and protectionist laws. The latter comes about through the offering of a superior product at an affordable price that drives inefficient competitors out of business. This latter situation is a monopoly that is at once quite favorable to society and impels other entrepreneurs to innovate and create a better product to compete. Even if such awkwardly large non-coerced monopoly were to come about, their existence would be short-lived as their upkeep would become costly and inefficient. If, in their monopolistic state they decide to artificially raise prices on their customers a few things could happen; another small business could appear to undercut its prices thereby siphoning away its customer base, customers could substitute their product for another or simply rearrange their lifestyle to accommodate for the absence of said product.
Therefore we must conclude this Statist fear to not only be unwarranted but also abundantly reflective of the genuine lack of understanding of the nature of "government" and its relation to the mutant businesses that arise from Corporate Fascism. Thinking "government" can solve any problem is an open admission that such a person is willing to use violence to solve problems in his daily life. Only an insane sociopath would admit to such a notion.


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Labour Beyond Cosatu
Wits University Press and the Society, Work and Development Institute launched Labour Beyond Cosatu: Mapping the Rupture in South Africa's Labour Landscape edited by Andries Bezuidenhout and Malehoko Tshoaedi. The book surveys the opinions and lifestyles of members of trade unions affiliated to the Congress of South African Trade Unions.
6 September 2017 / Senate Room Solomon Mahlangu House, Wits University
Wits University Press and the Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP) launched Labour Beyond Cosato Mapping the Rupture in South Africa's Labour Landscape, edited by Andries Bezuidenhout and Malehoko Tshoaedi. Labour Beyond Cosatu is an analysis of surveys of the opinions, attitudes and lifestyles of members of trade unions affiliated to the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu). It shows that Cosatu, fragmented and weakened through fissures in its alliance with the African National Congress, is no longer the only dominant force influencing South Africa's labour landscape.
The Johannesburg launch of Labour Beyond Cosatu: Mapping the Rupture in South Africa's Labour Landscape published by Wits University Press was held at Wits University on the 6 September 2017. Chaired by Crispen Chinguno of the Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP). Edward Webster, Professor Emeritus in the Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP) at Wits, who pioneered the study of labour in South Africa was the main speaker with respondents Malehoko Tshoaedi and Andries Bezuidenhout who reflected on the current state of the South African working class and new issues in South Africa's labour and employment relations landscape.
The book includes three chapters co-authored by Christine Bischoff, Wits City Institute Manager and contributing author.
Bezuidenhout, A., Bischoff C. and N. Nthejane (2017) 'Is COSATU still a working class movement?'
Bischoff, C. and Maree, J. (2017). 'Public sector unions in COSATU'.
Bischoff, C. and Tame, B. (2017). 'Labour aristocracy or marginal labour elite? COSATU members' income, other sources of livelihood and household support?'
Labour Beyond Cosatu is the fifth publication in the Taking Democracy Seriously project which started in 1994 and comprises of surveys of the opinions, attitudes and lifestyles of members of trade unions affiliated to the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu). This survey was conducted shortly before the elections in 2014, in a context in which government economic policy had not fundamentally shifted to the left and the massacre of 34 mineworkers at Marikana by the South African Police Service had fundamentally shaken the labour landscape, with mineworkers not only striking against their employers, but also their union, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). Cosatu leaders had started to openly criticise levels of corruption in the State, while a 'tectonic shift' took place when the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) was expelled from Cosatu at the end of 2014.
In its analysis of the survey, Labour Beyond Cosatu shows that Cosatu, fragmented and weakened through fissures in its alliance with the African National Congress, is no longer the only dominant force influencing South Africa's labour landscape. Contributors also examine aspects such as changing patterns of class; workers' incomes and their lifestyles; workers' relationship to civil society movements and service delivery protests; and the politics of male power and privilege in trade unions.
The trenchant analysis in Labour Beyond Cosatu exhibits fiercely independent and critically engaged labour scholarship, in the face of shifting alliances currently shaping the contestation between authoritarianism and democracy.
An excerpt from Labour Beyond Cosatu (the article is based on an extract from a chapter by Andries Bezuidenhout, Christine Bischoff and Ntsehiseng Nthejane) has been published in The Conversation, the article has also been published in The Citizen, as well as in News24 and EWN.
Labour Beyond Cosatu goes well beyond the previous volumes of the Taking Democracy Seriously project in some of its sorties, and is not shy of pulling its punches in what is now a highly charged environment. Deeply sympathetic to the project of organised labour yet highly critical of its present trajectory, this collection deserves to attract wide attention internationally as well as domestically.
— Roger Southall, Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
South Africa's working class movement is still powerful, but pressurised and polarised due to major shifts in its structure, base and forms of struggle. This timely, rigorously researched collection draws attention to key developments within Cosatu and beyond … Highly recommended.
— Lucien van der Walt, Professor of Sociology, Rhodes University, South Africa
Supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.


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Klösel begann im Alter von acht Jahren mit dem Tennissport. 1995 wurde sie Profispielerin, 1996 feierte sie in Berlin gegen die Amerikanerin Nicole Arendt ihren ersten Sieg auf ITF-Ebene.

Bei den US Open erreichte sie 1999 als Qualifikantin die dritte Runde, in der sie gegen Martina Hingis ausschied. 2002 folgten Siege bei den ITF-Turnieren in Belfort, Cholet, Taranto, Darmstadt und Hechingen. In ihrer Karriere gewann sie acht Einzel- und sechs Doppeltitel auf dem ITF Women's Circuit. Weitere Erfolge feierte sie mit Viertelfinalteilnahmen bei den WTA-Turnieren in Fès (2007), Hasselt (2006) und Makarska (1998).

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2009 beendete Sandra Kösel ihre Profikarriere. Seit 2010 arbeitet sie als Heilpraktikerin.

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A small group of EMHS's Journalism class went to the Virginia Transportation Museum. The museum curator, Deena Sasser, welcomed us on a personal tour of the expansive museum. It was originally called the Roanoke Museum, but while it still has the Roanoke flare, it was given the name Virginia Transportation Museum. The museum is approximately 100 years old. It wasn't the only transportation museum in Virginia; an old museum in Wasena was lost in the 1985 flood, so they changed to the current building in Roanoke. In 2000, the government cut a great deal of funding, and many staff positions were lost. Now, they are bringing in more volunteers to help.
The train model of Roanoke.
The first exhibit that caught our eye was the train model that is is maintained by volunteers. It is meant to represent the downtown areas within Virginia like Roanoke, Lynchburg and Bluefield. After seeing the train model, the group went into Star Cars of Hollywood before visiting a room of airplanes and trains. Lastly, the group went outside to the back of the museum and learned more about the history of trains. There, the group saw train 1218, train 611, and train 2156. The Virginia Museum of Transportation holds the 611 train, which was built in 1950. 611 was used from 2015 to 2017 in order to raise money so that they could restore another train. In the end, they made around $18 million.
In Star Cars of Hollywood, there were very unique and popular attractions. The two most popular attractions were the Batmobile (1966 Batman) and the Ectomobile (1984 Ghostbusters), which are both on loan until January, 2019. Other attractions include the 7 Dodge Charger from the movies Fast & Furious 4 and 5, DeLorean DMC from Back To The Future, and the Dodge Charger "General Lee" from The Dukes of Hazzard.
The train exhibit was astonishing and full of history. The Roanoke, Norfolk, and Western Engines were built here. In the museum, there was a special gallery dedicated to the African American people who worked on the most dangerous parts of the railroad. This job had no safety precautions and it was unpromotable. Historic photographs show the discrepancies in treatment between white and African Americans in both dress, promotions, and visible segregation. Despite segregation, the railroad remained one of the most prestigious and well paying jobs with good retirement for many workers in the area. The museum has interactive tablets for more background providing oral histories.
The plane exhibit was filled with engines and models of planes. Our group learned that there are 8 commercial airports in Virginia. One impressive feature was Carilion's helicopter display- Virginia's first air medical service is our regions only level 1 trauma center. There were mannequins that displayed old flight attendant uniforms. We also learned that flight attendants were originally nurses. A famous Virginian aviator, Wes Hillman, had a display that showcased his aviation history and accomplishments training many Virginians to fly. The flight oral history kiosks have audio and videos of famous pilots for hands on learning.
Some schools visit this museum, however, more should visit. The reason for this is to learn the history of transportation and learn about the changes of transportation still occurring today. Visitors get to see a few cars from the 1900s and they can climb the insides of some airplanes and trains to see what they were like in the past.
In conclusion, our local VA Museum of Transportation in Roanoke has so much to see and learn. We recommend visiting in December when they have large crowds for the holidays and you can ride on featured trains. Don't miss the current car collection that is on display and will leave for another museum in January.


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Strýtan is the only hydrothermal chimney that is possible for scuba diving yet discovered. The other known chimneys like this are at 2000 – 6000 m depth. Strýtan stands tall and alone in the middle of Eyjafjörður, it rises from 65 m to 15 m. It was formed over 10.000 years ago or after the last ice age and you can see in some areas where it's still building. There are around 100 L of 72°C freshwater coming from the chimney every second. Scientists say that the water is around 11.000 years old.
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In 2015 we had physicist Brian Cox coming over and he, along with his team from BBC, Erlendur Bogason and Árni Halldórsson, made a remake of how they found the chimneys almost 20 years ago for their TV series Forces of Nature. The episode is called the Moth and the Flame. Brian claims that all life on earth might have started with hydrothermal chimneys on a shallow depth, just like Strýtan, million of years ago. So technically you could say that after this dive you have dived "in the beginning of life on earth".
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Q: Angular input and tab issues I'm displaying a two dimensional array (Matrix) on the screen as separate input fields.
When I type a number for example "35", "3" is displayed on the screen, the cursor disappears and the "5" is not displayed at all.
What am I doing wrong?
Here is the definition of the matrix in the .ts file - matrix: string[][] ;
It could also be defined as a number but the behaviour stays the same.
Here is the HTML code

    <input type="text" [(ngModel)]="matrix[r][c]" maxlength="3" size="3">

removing "maxlength="3" size="3"" does not change the behaviour.
on the screen I get something like this;
1   2    3
4   5    6
7   8    9
If I want to replay the "1" with 35 after clicking 35 I get
3   2    3
4   5    6
7   8    9
Thanks
Moshik

A: Because you are using [(ngModel)], this is so called "2 ways bindings" in angular, so when you enter a value into the input, it will also update your matrix variable.
By default, with ngFor, when you change the collection (matrix in this case), it doesn't know what value changed, so it updates the whole thing => re-render the whole template => the input lost focus => you can only enter 1 value at a time.
To fix this issue, we make sure that Angular knows exactly what value is getting updated. And Angular provides us the trackBy function

A function optionally passed into the NgForOf directive to customize
how NgForOf uniquely identifies items in an iterable.

I also provide another way, which is clone your matrix to another variable, use this variable to display in the template, while all the changes are made in the matrix itself. In the link below I named that variable "display". You can see both implementations. The recommended way is ofcourse using the TrackByFn as it built-in and doesn't require another duplicated variable.
https://stackblitz.com/edit/angular-ivy-neezfj?file=src/app/app.component.html

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We all know the best place to start a story is at the very beginning!
After a long, long time of talking, planning and training our bags were finally packed and at some ridiculous hour on the morning of Friday, 6th July we were on our way to the airport to meet up with some of the team members and to catch our 6:30am flight to Johannesburg.
We have all shared photos of our journey and I'm grateful for my fellow team members for allowing me to use some for this blog. I found this amongst Donna's photo's, like me she was up late the night before we left (into the early hours of the morning) doing last-minute things, this picture was taken at about 12:30am and it shows the countdown on my blog ~ At 6 hours to go I was busy on my blog, typing my final blog post "I Don't Need Easy, I Just Need Possible" to you all before I left. Seeing this picture makes me remember the excitement I felt as finally the countdown was no longer months, weeks or days, it was finally down to hours. I wish I had thought of taking a photo of it, but I'm glad Donna did!
We left home around 5am and even at this ridiculous early morning hour, my parents and my best friend all made it to the airport to see me off. We met Thomas first and then before we knew it Donna and Judi had arrived too. We were lucky enough to have checked in online so all that needed doing was checking our bags in.
With a sigh of relief my main bag was sitting just below 20kg's and without a hitch it made its way to the plane. Another sigh of relief came when they didn't weigh my hand luggage!
The buzz in the air was electric and the cameras were snapping. I don't think many people have seen such big smiles so early in the morning and people would be forgiven for thinking somebody famous was in the airport because with all the flashes going off it looked like the paparazzi were on the scene!
Judi, Thomas, Donna and I met at Cape Town International Airport ~ Our journey was about to begin.
After countless weekend mornings awake before the rest of the world for hikes to prepare us for this trip, the time had finally arrived and Donna and I were so ready!
As our friends have come to know, Donna and I are huge fans of self-timer photographs when we do our hiking trips as this allows everyone to be in the picture so we were delighted when Judi informed us that she had made signs for various parts of the trip ~ We hadn't even left yet and I knew our group was going to get along fabulously!
Our first sign for our group made by Judi. Photo by Donna McTaggart.
After much excited chatter and laughter, it was time to say our goodbye's to our loved ones and make our way through to the boarding gates. It was finally happening, we were making our way to Kilimanjaro!
The 2-hour flight to Johannesburg was spent catching up on some sleep, considering I had only made it to bed around 3am and had to wake up again at 4am! Little did I know that these little amounts of sleep were no doubt just preparing me for life on the mountain. Arriving in Johannesburg, we had plenty of time before our next flight and decided to head off to Spur (I'm on holiday 5 minutes and I'm still involved with the company I work for!) for their yummy breakfast. We sat there for ages, catching up on last-minute messages, excited last-minute goodbye "wish I was coming too" phone calls and naturally excited chatter about our upcoming adventure. It was while at breakfast I took my first Diamox, mentally preparing myself to begin the journey of emptying my bladder every five minutes when the tablet finally kicked in. I am, however, happy to report that testing the tablet before I left seemed to do wonders for me. Compared to the first time I took it on the test run a few weeks ago, nothing happened. I didn't have that urge to empty my bladder constantly. Maybe it really was just mind-over-matter!
With a couple of hours to go before our plane was due to take off, we started making our way to International Departures to check in for our next flight.
Our flight to Dar-es-Saleem scheduled to leave at 13h30 and appearing to be on time.
We checked in at the kiosks at the side of the terminal, booked our seats and all we had to do was check in our luggage. This is where the fun started and this was to take longer than we anticipated! Before we even got to the counter there on floor was this big, gigantic scale. Feeling confident my baggage made it through Cape Town ok, I didn't have any concerns. That was until my main luggage and my hand luggage both landed up on the scale.
My main luggage had suddenly jumped up to over 21kg's and the staff was not happy! Not quite sure how that happened but maybe as soon as you leave sea level everything gets heavier! I did take a gulp when I weighed my hand luggage coming in somewhere way over 12kg's. Judi and Thomas made it through the luggage weigh-in unscathed but Donna appeared to be having the same problem as me! We were both told to go to the side and remove items from our bag as there was no ways it was getting on the plane like it was. It was too heavy they said. So there our group stood repacking our bags, which merely consisted of us removing our Lonely Planet Guide books and any other heavy book or item we had and neatly put them down on the ground or in a jacket pocket. Luckily the staff didn't seem to pay too much attention to our repacking skills and when we weighed our luggage in a second time we were allowed to move on to the check-in counter, only to put all the same stuff back into our bags! Good thing Judi and Thomas's bags were under weight as this just made up for ours. Although I do still think the scale were completely off whack!
Bag finally through, it was time to check in.
It was while checking in, seemingly out of nowhere, two men appeared to my right and ask me if one of us was Donna. Smiling I looked over to where Donna was standing at the counter checking in, pointed and said "That's Donna over there." Thinking it's someone she knows, I watch her as she tried to compute who this man was that was asking after her…. Our group intrigued, watched as the events unfolded. It turns out the two men, Simon and Anthony (who are brothers) and who happened to be checking into Precision Air and heading to Kilimanjaro as well, took a chance and asked for Donna. You see just a short while ago, Simon's mother was in a chemist somewhere in Johannesburg and got chatting to another lady who was in the chemist and happened to mention that her son was off to climb Kilimanjaro, to which this lady responded something along the lines of "My cousin is also leaving for Kilimanjaro today!" So a phone call to Simon in which information was relayed about a girl heading off to Kilimanjaro today by the name of Donna. The good thing is we obviously looked the part of mountain climbers and so came about the chance meeting that unfolded at the airport check-in desk.
The moment seemed to come out of nowhere by pure chance, and could even be referred to as a mere coincidence. Prior to the unforeseen occurrence, one might think such a moment was not even possible or probable to take place. This is both the wonder and awe of what we call serendipity! Maybe in the end it was fated that suddenly our luggage was overweight, thereby delaying us and putting us all on a direction collision course!
In chatting with Simon and Anthony we found out that they had not booked onto any trip going up the mountain and they were just heading out that way to see what they could find on offer in Tanzania. Donna and I were winging most of our holiday after Kilimanjaro, but there guys were really winging it! After checking in we waved farewell to the boys, went through customs and headed into the world of Duty Free, where naturally it was time for our next photo.
We had arrived in Johannesburg ~ We were now upcountry!
Our next sign ~ We were officially upcountry. Photo by Donna McTaggart.
After some wandering around in Duty Free we headed to our check-in gate and found some comfy couches to wait for our plane, which hadn't yet arrived from Tanzania. This was the first sign our flight was going to be delayed.
This was not our plane but we were waiting for one just like it to arrive from Tanzania ~ taking pics of this one just helped us pass the time!
As we waited, Simon and Anthony arrived at the gate and came to join us as we waited. They chatted to Thomas about his tour and prices up the mountain and a business card was exchanged and once in Tanzania, having checked out what was on offer, they would let Thomas know if they were going to join our trip up the mountain. They just had to let him know by Saturday (the next day) lunch time if they would join us so that extra tents, food and equipment could be arranged.
Surprisingly, after not too long, our plane arrived and after a quick clean we were called to board. Upon boarding we met a lovely lady who obliged when asked how to say hello in Swahili. Little did we know upon our return to South Africa, Donna and I would be greeted by this very same lady as we stepped off the plane, and big hugs would be shared between us! Unknowingly, it was a sign of how our holiday was to go, beautiful souls crossing our paths, chance encounters and many moments that would make us smile with people who we met as we left for our journey, and only to have them meet us as we returned, as if to welcome us home again!
Winging our way to Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania.
The plane ride over to Dar-es-Salaam was entertaining! We were looked after by Raphael, who again would be another that Donna and I would meet on our return trip home. Raphael was amazing and upon a request that I am sure was really just meant as a joke, Raphael obliged and went about "borrowing" champagne from first class to serve us! (Apparently First Class was rather empty) Yes we were only in economy class and you would be forgiven thinking we had been upgraded to first class, only difference was we were still drinking out of plastic cups, but who cared, we were drinking champagne and we were on our way to climb Kilimanjaro!
Raphael ~ Precision Air's most amazing Cabin Crew member ~ about to serve us champagne.
Champagne and orange juice ~ spoilt for choice!
Drinking champagne and about to climb Kilimanjaro ~ it doesn't get much better than this!
I haven't yet decided if this was a good thing or not, but as luck would have it we found Simon and Anthony sitting right in front of us. Simon was sitting in front of Judi and Thomas and Anthony was in front of Dons and me. They got an opportunity to suss our group out in our rawest form!
Donna and I also got to meet some guys, who we affectionately named the Jagermeister boys. They had these funky, brightly coloured orange Jagermeister bandana's around their necks and crazy orange sunglasses! They were from Johannesburg and they were also on their way to climb Kilimanjaro. The only difference is they were drinking copious amount of beer and were starting their climb the very next day!
Flying above the clouds, watching the sun about to sink below.
Without realising, our plane flew via Zanzibar to pick up and drop off a few passengers, allowing us to get our first glimpse of the island that we would in a few weeks be visiting.
Flying to Zanzibar for a short stop en-route to Dar-es-Salaam.
Beautiful views below as we made our way over to Zanzibar for a quick stop.
Sunset from Zanzibar airport as we wait to take off one last time.
Doors sealed again, we took off and a short 20 minutes later we finally touched down in Dar-es-Salaam.
Touch down Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania ~ We had arrived! Photo by Donna McTaggart.
Again we found ourselves saying goodbye to Simon and Anthony, knowing we were probably not going to see them again and wished them well on their journey up the mountain. Stepping off the plane, the air was hot and it felt so good to be back in a summer climate!
The picture that gets you into trouble with airport authorities!
Visa's in hand ~ We had arrived!
Outside the airport in Dar-es-Saleem, getting our taxi to the hotel.
At the airport we met up with Sean, who was also joining our trip up the mountain. Baggage collected, fingerprints and photo's taken, visa's obtained and we were ready to head to the hotel, sorry motel, which was not far from the airport as we would be back at the airport again early tomorrow morning to catch our next flight. We checked into the aptly named Transit Motel, where we would go on to have an interesting night with five in a room. Don't ask!
It was before we decided to go and get dinner that it was time for our first self-timer photograph. We found a perfect stand to set up our cameras, on the tv, got everyone onto the bed, sign in hand, set up the self-timers on our camera and pushed go!
Our first self-timer picture ~ Five in a room at the Transit Motel.
Now to put you in the picture a bit, this is what happens. Once you push the "go" button you have 10 seconds to get into position before the photo takes so there is usually some mad running and jumping into place ~ but we do this often and have become pro's at this. Well mostly anyway ~ sometimes we just don't get it right. You see this time, as we pushed the "go" button on our cameras and started running, Donna knocked her camera (which was actually her sisters camera), which sent the camera crashing to the floor. One camera still up we managed to get this shot!
Upon closer inspection of Donna's (sisters) camera, it was found that the lens had been bent out of shape and would no longer close or even turn on. It was only our first night of our trip and Donna was minus a camera. The funny thing (or should I really be saying the not so funny thing) about this is that this is not the first time Donna has broken a camera in this way!
Luckily, I had a spare camera with me. I know seriously, who travels with a spare camera! Spare batteries maybe but seriously, a spare camera?!! The reason why I took this older spare camera with me was for the fact that my own camera had a small issue. You see the cover for the battery doesn't close anymore and so some first aid with the help of my dad we had managed to put a small screw and plate into my camera to hold this close. However, even though it held the batteries in place, it still didn't close completely and I was worried at high altitudes on the mountain, where batteries lose power rapidly due to the extreme cold, I wanted to make sure I had a back-up, just in case anything happened that my camera was no longer useable. All I knew is that I didn't want to miss out on any photo's while I was on the mountain. I didn't think we would have a need for this camera so soon, but five in a room and not even in the country for more than 2 hours and suddenly that spare camera was a God-send and Donna was back in business with a camera to use again!
We all spent the rest of the night getting to know each other over dinner outside in the courtyard and finally upon retiring back to our room it was three ladies to the bed and the two men on the floor.


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Мэрилин Эстер Джекокс (; 1929—2013) — американский учёный, известная работами по физической химии о структуре и свойствах свободных радикалов и молекулярных ионов. Работала в Национальном институте стандартов и технологий.

Биография
Джекокс родилась 26 апреля 1929 года в Ютике, штат Нью-Йорк. В 1951 году она закончила бакалавриат по химии в университете Сиракуз. Она переехала в Корнуэльский университет для работы с Симоном Бауэром. В 1956 году она защитила кандидатскую диссертацию (PhD) на тему «Обмен энергией при столкновениях в газах: использование спектрофона для изучения релаксационных процессов в углекислом газе». Затем Джекокс два года привела в Университете Северной Каролины, работая с Оскаром Райсом.

В 1958 году Джекокс присоединилась к Институту индустриальных исследований Меллона в Питтсбурге как независимый исследователь. Она начала работать с  над исследованием поведения свободных радикалов с использованием метода матричной изоляции. Они продолжили свои исследования в Национальном институте стандартов и технологий. В результате им удалось синтезировать и разделить множество разных свободных радикалов и ионов молекул с использованием низкотемпературной техники матричной изоляции. Полученные молекулы были исследованы с помощью инфракрасной спектроскопии. Их многие публикации стали фундаментом для последующего изучения свободных радикалов.

Миллиган скончался в 1973 году, а Джекокс возглавила отдел фотохимических процессов, а затем и отдел химических процессов в окружающей среде, где проработала до 1978 года. Она разработала новый метод, основанный на разряде неона, который расширил количество изучаемых ионов. Также Джекокс предложила метод контролируемого фотолизиса в матрице. Её признавали как одну из крупных специалистов по колебательной спектроскопии.
Одновременно с исследовательскими проектами Джекокс собирала библиографию опубликованных спектроскопических данных о малых переходных молекулах. В 1994 году она опубликовала книгу «Колебательные и электронные уровни полиатомных переходных молекул». Джекокс постоянно обновляла базу данных колебательных спектров, она стала доступна онлайн в 1998 году. Являлась фелло Американской ассоциации содействия развитию науки и Американского физического общества. Умерла в 2013 году после непродолжительной болезни.

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HOA 2019 Dates Announced!
The famed Heart of America is back again! Once one of the great tournaments in the nation, the Heart of America Classic has been restored.
The Penn Mutual Collegiate Rugby Championship is the crown jewel of American Rugby. Since 2010, the top collegiate programs in the country have been showcased live on NBC and NBC Sports Network each spring. 2017 was the inaugural year for the open Midwest qualifier for the CRC, at the Heart of America Tournament in the Paris of the Plains, Kansas City.
Some of the top College teams in the nation will battle at the CRC qualifier division of the HOA March 29-31 in Kansas City. The champion earns an automatic bid into the big dance in June 2019 at Talen Energy Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The only other open qualifier for the CRC has been the Las Vegas Invitational, the largest annual tournament in the Western Hemisphere. Now, the inclusion of a CRC qualifier at the Heart of America provides ambitious clubs throughout the Midwest and the rest of the country the unique opportunity to win their way onto national television.
We will have knockout divisions for men's college 15's and for the younger folk, we have the High School Challenge Division, where we'll pit HS teams from all over the Midwest against one another on Saturday and Sunday. We promise a competitive match against teams you don't regularly play.
The Heart of America brings teams looking for either old-fashioned rugby fun, a competitive hit-out against new foe, or both. We look to bring you to the tournament experience you're yearning for, with quality facilities and administration you'll be proud to have your friends and family take part in.
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Non-compliant restraints for air-conditioning, telecommunications and other fittings likely caused damage to commercial buildings in Wellington during this month's Kaikoura earthquake, according to the Insurance Council of New Zealand (ICNZ).
"We believe many buildings have had these systems installed and [they] do not comply with New Zealand standard guidelines set for their installation," CEO Tim Grafton said.
Non-structural seismic restraints hold air-conditioning, fire prevention, telecommunications, electricity and lighting equipment in ceiling cavities and other parts of a building. They can collapse and pose risks to life and property, ICNZ says.
Modeller AIR Worldwide estimates insured losses from the magnitude-7.8 quake on November 14 could range from $NZ1.15-$NZ5.3 billion ($1.05-$4.9 billion).
Vero says it has received more than 1000 claims and has set up an office in Kaikoura.
"It's important we have a presence in Kaikoura so we can meet with our customers and arrange property assessments as soon as possible," EGM Claims Jimmy Higgins said.
Mr Higgins says it is too soon to assess costs arising from the Kaikoura quake, but Vero – part of Suncorp Group – has reinsurance arrangements in place to cover all expected claims.
The Earthquake Commission (EQC) says its remedial work in Canterbury will be largely unaffected by the Kaikoura events. At the end of last month the EQC had about 5000 outstanding remedial requests, which it expected to reduce to about 3500 by the end of the year.
"The EQC is keeping its focus on remedial and other repair work in Canterbury, despite the need to also start planning for settling claims from the Kaikoura earthquakes," GM Customer and Claims Trish Keith said.


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Schneider Electric Patches Several Flaws in IGSS Products
Schneider Electric informed customers recently that several vulnerabilities have been found in its IGSS automation product, including in the SCADA software and mobile applications.
Ivan Sanchez of Nullcode discovered that the IGSS SCADA software is affected by a configuration issue that leads to Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution Prevention (DEP) mitigations not being implemented properly.
The flaw, tracked as CVE-2017-9967 and classified as high severity, affects version 12 and earlier of the IGSS SCADA software. The issue has been addressed with the release of version 13.
Another advisory published recently by Schneider Electric describes two medium severity vulnerabilities discovered by researchers in the IGSS Mobile applications for Android and iOS.
One of the flaws, CVE-2017-9968, is related to the lack of certificate pinning when the apps establish a TLS/SSL connection, which makes it easier to launch man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks.
The second weakness, CVE-2017-9969, allows an attacker to obtain app passwords and other potentially sensitive data from a configuration file, where the information is stored in clear text.
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The security holes affect IGSS Mobile for Android and iOS versions 3.0 and prior, and they have been patched by Schneider with the release of version 3.1.1.
The IGSS Mobile vulnerabilities were discovered by researchers at IOActive and Embedi as part of a project that targeted SCADA mobile apps from 34 vendors.
In a report published last month, the companies revealed that flaws had been identified in a vast majority of the tested SCADA applications, including issues that can be exploited to influence industrial processes.
The project focused on Android applications, but Schneider Electric apparently determined that the iOS version of its IGSS app was also impacted by the vulnerabilities discovered by IOActive and Embedi researchers.
Schneider Electric also informed customers last week of a high severity remote code execution vulnerability affecting its StruxureOn Gateway product.
"Uploading a zip which contains carefully crafted metadata allows for the file to be uploaded to any directory on the host machine information which could lead to remote code execution," the vendor said in its advisory.
The flaw, tracked as CVE-2017-9970, affects StruxureOn Gateway 1.0.0 through 1.1.3 and it has been patched with the release of version 1.2.
Schneider Electric admitted recently that the Triton/Trisis malware, whose existence was brought to light in mid-December, exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the company's Triconex Safety Instrumented System (SIS) controllers.
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Sound Devices Announces Promotion of Ed Capp to Vice President of Sales
Company Veteran Brings High Level of Technical Expertise and Leadership to New Position
REEDSBURG, WI, DECEMBER 9, 2014 — Sound Devices, specialists in audio and video products, announced today that Ed Capp has been named Vice President of Sales. In his new role, Capp will oversee and manage the Sound Devices global sales team, further promoting the company's entire range of products while continuing to strengthen the Sound Devices reseller and distributor network.
"I am very pleased to announce the promotion of Ed Capp to Vice President of Sales," says Matt Anderson, President of Sound Devices. "Ed has worked with us for 12 years, and has always been a solid member of our sales team and company. We look forward to his continuing leadership and commitment to fostering big growth for Sound Devices."
During his tenure with Sound Devices, Capp has been instrumental in significantly expanding the company's reach around the world. In addition to developing the important Southern California markets in the U.S., he has played a critical role in cultivating Sound Devices' strong presence in Asia, making it one of the most sought-after audio brands in the region.
Thanks to Sound Devices' strong customer base, what began as a small company has today evolved into a global brand, focused not only on audio but video as well. To support this transition, Sound Devices launched its Video Devices brand earlier this year. Capp played a key role in this process, working diligently to expand the company's global sales network and develop the right sales channels to address this new market. In addition, Capp was also tasked with working more closely on the company's overall sales management strategy and customer service to ensure that it could support and meet its growing customer needs.
Prior to Sound Devices, Capp held a myriad of positions in a range of AV-related industries, including large corporate AV meetings or events and sound mixing for broadcast and live events. He also served as the U.S. regional sales manager for Shure. Capp holds a communications degree from Emerson College in Boston, MA.
Sound Devices, LLC designs and manufactures portable audio mixers, digital audio recorders and related equipment for feature film, episodic television, documentary, news-gathering, live event and acoustical test and measurement applications. Video Devices, a brand of Sound Devices, produces digital video recorders and related products that address a range of multiple-source video productions, including fast-paced, mission-critical studio applications, live sports, live events and mobile production.
Founded in 1998, the company designs and manufactures both brands from their Reedsburg, Wisconsin headquarters with additional offices in Madison, WI. For more information, visit the Sound Devices and Video Devices websites, www.sounddevices.com; www.videodevices.com.
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Body Balance Strength & Wellness moving to…
Body Balance Strength & Wellness moving to new Walnut location
By Lucas High | BizWest/Longmont Times-Call
PUBLISHED: August 19, 2020 at 3:21 p.m. | UPDATED: August 19, 2020 at 3:22 p.m.
Faced with unprecedented challenges presented by COVID-19, Body Balance Strength & Wellness is moving the gym from its longtime Iris Avenue location to similarly sized but less costly space on Walnut Street.
"I've never seen an industry gutted overnight," Body Balance owner Jason Busch said of the pandemic's impact on the fitness realm.
"Ultimately, we'd be out of business if we stayed put," he said. "We'd eventually be sucked dry."
Thankfully for Busch, "when you're a small business and an owner operator, you can pivot on a dime," he said.
The personal training gym is moving to a roughly 3,400-square-foot space at 4735 Walnut Street, which is "significantly less expensive" than the current high-visibility, 3,700-square-foot location at 2747 Iris Ave. The move is expected to happen in January.
A use review application for the new business location will be reviewed Thursday by Boulder's Planning Board.
"Our facility is unique in Boulder in that we have a group of professionals who come together to help our customers and clients. People come to us who have a goal. Get stronger, decrease pain, increase mobility, and help achieve something important to them," according to a memo submitted by Busch to Boulder planners. "I like to say we have a community of like-minded individuals all focused on helping the client achieve wants and needs."
The Walnut Street Body Balance Strength & Wellness will employ two full-time workers and as many as 14 part-time contractors, planning documents show.
"Our group of professionals includes a chiropractor, physical therapist, personal trainers, yoga therapists, and myofascial release therapists," the application said.
The gym will serve personal training clients on an individual basis, as well as in small groups. It will be open for self-directed workouts 24 hours a day.
"We will have a full strength area focusing on functional training and athleticism development. There will be offices for the professionals and open floor space for the strength area," the planning memo said. "Once that plan is determined then the client will start where needed based upon the assessment."
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Design thinking: Can good design begin with the question of needs? – Andrew James Taggart, Practical Philosopher, Ph.D.
Design thinking: Can good design begin with the question of needs?
This post can be regarded as a further thought about design thinking. I may have something else to say about problem-based solution thinking in a couple of days.
The innovative design thinker, Tim Brown of IDEO, suggests in a number of places that design thinking occurs at the intersection of desirability, viability, and feasibility, with desirability being foundational. He identifies desirability in his TED talk with human needs and on IDEO's website it is implicitly defined in terms of 'latent needs, behaviors, and desires.' Viability relates to economic considerations and feasibility to technological considerations. Rightly, he wants to center design thinking on the lives of human beings, for neither financial viability nor technological feasibility can be a foundation of good design. We know that profitable design may pollute local groundwater (hence what is profitable may not be desirable), and a newer, sleeker espresso maker may not be a significant improvement on the already-existing ones that work just fine (hence what is feasible may not be genuinely desirable).
Now, we might inquire whether needs–be they explicit or latent–can be a basis for good design. To see whether they can, we do well to first consider the following questions: what are needs, and how do we distinguish needs from mere preferences? 'By ''needs," the philosopher Charles Larmore writes, 'I shall mean desires that are ours not in virtue of our having adopted them, but rather in virtue of our being the sort of beings we all are (so desires for food and sleep, for example, would be needs). Preferences, by contrast, are desires we have because we have adopted them" (Patterns of Moral Complexity 139).
So, needs are 'givens' whereas preferences are voluntarily adopted. To remove needs from being human would, in the end, make it impossible for one to be a human being. To minimize our preferences, however, would do no such thing: should I no longer prefer Gucci bags to Hermes bags, this lack of preference would make no crucial difference to my life. But is a human life identical with or reducible to a set of needs?
Which is to say: can design thinking take its point of departure from needs? I do not think so. Human beings may have all their needs fulfilled and still not care about how their lives are to go. One fairly simple thought experiment could run that a State could administer to all of its citizens' needs, yet no human being would have a reason to get up in the morning. One form of dystopia would not, as it were, be hell on earth but would involve living without caring about how one is to live.
It seems clear that design thinking cannot begin with what needs are not being fulfilled but with the more basic question: why bother? What, ultimately, makes life worthwhile? It is essential or, indeed, vital for human beings to live in accordance with a robust conception of the good life. Given such a conception, we would have plenty of motivation to deliberate about what would best satisfy our needs.