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As an industry-leading cannabis asset manager, Measure 8 will seek to achieve superior absolute returns through a full-spectrum approach to cannabis investing. The firm allocates to the public and private markets.
Measure 8 employs both a long and short-term investment horizon to leverage their knowledge of individual businesses and the significance of industry developments to capture the complete opportunity.
"To date, I have already received an investment from a family office that originated from FINTRX that I had no prior connection to whatsoever."
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As an industry-leading cannabis asset manager, Measure 8 will seek to achieve superior absolute returns through a full-spectrum approach to cannabis investing.
Like many others, Measure 8 Venture Partners were finding it particularly difficult to reach those in the family office space. Historically, family offices have been harder to find and connect with than the average investor.
As a venture capital fund focused on the emerging cannabis industry, they were looking for family offices that were well-matched to their industry focus. According to FINTRX seat holder and COO/Director of Business Development at Measure 8, Kevin Gahwyler, they were looking for "access to groups that I do not have direct contact with from my rolodex." They reached out to FINTRX, and we immediately connected them with several suitable family offices to help expand their investor base.
When speaking with Gahwyler, Measure 8 had two primary objectives when choosing to work with FINTRX. The first was to "gain access to unknown family offices." While the family office industry is trending towards being more forward-facing, many are still keeping a more hidden profile. For that reason, FINTRX provides clients with an extensive network of family offices they would not otherwise have prior access to.
From there, Measure 8's goal when choosing FINTRX's extensive database, was to "ultimately gain new investors", says Gahwyler. This was a goal that was quickly accomplished with the help of the FINTRX database.
Today, Measure 8 has received an investment from a family office on the FINTRX platform. By providing the firm with significant and wide-ranging access to thousands of family offices worldwide, they could find investors that best matched their unique use case. Ultimately, this is what every capital-raiser strives to achieve.
"To receive funding from well-suited investors within a powerful platform, ensuring that our fund is as successful as possible... This is the power of FINTRX." - Kevin S. Gahwyler, COO/Director of Business Development at Measure 8 Venture Partners


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The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has released the latest data showing the number of stillbirths which occured between January and September 2020.
In England and Wales, the stillbirth rate decreased from 4.0 stillbirths per 1,000 total births in 2019 to 3.9 in the first three quarters (Jan to Sept) of 2020, in line with the long-term trend.
There were 1,835 stillbirths in the first three quarters (Jan to Sept) of 2020, 130 fewer than in the first three quarters of 2019.
Commenting on the ONS data, Dr Edward Morris, President of The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said:
"It's encouraging to see that the number of stillbirths happening in England and Wales is continuing to fall.
"The COVID-19 pandemic has put huge pressure on all healthcare services. This continued decline in stillbirths is testament to the amazing efforts from maternity staff and NHS leaders to maintain a high standard of care, despite the challenges.
"We understand the pandemic has made many expectant parents very anxious and concerned about what their experience giving birth will be like. We hope this news will reassure them that maternity services are open and staff are working to provide services in a safe way.
"While these figures demonstrate progress in reducing stillbirth rates, the death of any baby is a tragedy. Much more needs to be done to ensure the safest possible maternity care for all women and their babies. Stillbirth rates are still higher in the UK than many other high-income countries and vary widely across the UK. The NHS Long Term plan has set a target of reducing stillbirths by 50% by 2025, and maternity services continue to work towards this goal.
"We continue to advise women who have concerns or worries about their or their baby's health – including the baby's movements - to seek medical advice from their midwife or hospital as soon as possible."
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OTTAWA — The department that oversees the federal social safety net has quietly started testing artificial-intelligence systems that could one day make it faster and easier to get answers about benefits and services.
A small team inside Employment and Social Development Canada is experimenting with ways to simplify navigating one of the largest service organizations in the country, handling public pensions, employment insurance, family benefits and disability supports. The department has a mix of offices, call centres and correspondence centres.
It's hoping to have people directly interact with bots instead of humans, including in online chats for people seeking information about government programs.
An early draft of the department's artificial-intelligence strategy, obtained by The Canadian Press under access-to-information laws, suggests the risks of chatbots, in particular, include "providing incorrect information to Canadians," "producing incoherent content," "or the reproduction of undesirable behaviour."
The worst-case scenario? Internally, a chatbot could tell an employee to "explore a 'catastrophic' action"—think a Terminator-like order to kill all humans—while externally a bot could start replicating hate speech. A Microsoft-created Twitter bot did that three years ago after interacting with enough users and "learning" to mimic things they wrote. The decline was driven by people deliberately messing with the bot but it took only one day.
The strategy notes that ESDC needs to manage legal risks, ethical questions and logistical issues, not to mention "public perception"—and rapid technological advances that mean "the answers to these risks are moving targets."
"We have a higher standard. We must meet a higher standard. Like it or not, I can decide not to go buy stuff (at one store) and go (to another). That's not an option with government," Sandy Kyriakatos, the department's chief data officer, said in a recent interview.
On Monday, the government set the ground rules for how departments and agencies can use artificial intelligence to make decisions about benefits and services, or finding new uses for the technology for long-term projects like preserving and teaching Indigenous languages.
Talking at a conference of government workers Monday morning—hours before she resigned from cabinet—Treasury Board President Jane Philpott said anyone who thinks the era of artificial intelligence is just on the horizon is mistaken and Canadians are ready to get answers from machines about government services.
"When people go online and do their Christmas shopping, AI is influencing how they do their Christmas shopping," she said after her morning talk. "We in government want to make sure we take advantage of the same kinds of tools to provide good services for people, but be extremely open in how it's done."
In setting new rules, Philpott said departments will have to be able to explain why a decision was made on a particular file, beyond saying it was up to a computer. Human beings won't be eliminated from the process entirely, Philpott said, and will make sure decisions spewed out by machines are fair, consistent and just.
At ESDC, Kyriakatos's team has started small by trying to create services used by government employees themselves, so they can be tested carefully before going to the public. The first test targets new hires with a chatbot that offers help with questions about working at the sprawling department.
Her team also considered whether virtual-assistant bots could automate some tasks, "freeing up time for higher value work," and continue to learn to see what works, what doesn't and how services can be improved.
There has also been outreach to, as the strategy says, demystify AI for the department, considering the anxiety some workers feel about the potential for being replaced by a machine. Kyriakatos said department workers who deal with her team have become more data-literate and "aware of what AI can and can't do."
"There is no plan to automate decision-making, there is no plan to put AI into people's work," she said.
"There is this idea, that Hollywood idea of AI, that you're going to build the thing and suddenly it's going to get up and do something else. That's not how AI works. It's very task-specific. You have to train it do something very particular and when people see how it can work, they get very excited about it."
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Im mathematischen Teilgebiet der Funktionalanalysis ist das maximale Tensorprodukt von C*-Algebren eine Konstruktion, mit der man aus zwei C*-Algebren  und  eine neue mit  bezeichnete C*-Algebra erhält. Es handelt sich dabei um die Vervollständigung des mit einer geeigneten Norm versehenen algebraischen Tensorproduktes aus  und . Die unten vorgestellte Konstruktion geht auf A. Guichardet zurück.

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Es seien  und  zwei C*-Algebren. Eine C*-Halborm auf dem algebraischen Tensorprodukt  ist eine Halbnorm , so dass
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Man kann zeigen, dass  für alle  und . Für ein Element  folgt daher  für jede C*-Halbnorm.
Deshalb ist , wobei  alle C*-Halbnormen durchläuft, endlich, und man bestätigt leicht, dass  eine C*-Halbnorm ist, und nach Konstruktion die größte auf . Es handelt sich sogar um eine Norm, denn unter den C*-Halbnormen befindet sich die räumliche C*-Norm.

Die Vervollständigung von  bezüglich dieser maximalen C*-Norm heißt das maximale Tensorprodukt aus  und  und wird mit  bezeichnet,
andere Autoren schreiben dafür  .

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Das maximale Tensorprodukt hat folgende nützliche Eigenschaft:

Es seien ,  und  C*-Algebren und  sowie  zwei *-Homomorphismen mit vertauschenden Bildern, das heißt  für alle  und . Dann gibt es genau einen *-Homomorphismus  mit  für alle  und .

Sind  und  C*-Algebren, so heißt ein Paar  ein vertauschendes Paar von Darstellungen von , falls  und  Hilbertraum-Darstellungen auf demselben Hilbertraum  sind und  für alle  und  gilt. Mit dieser Begriffsbildung kann man folgende Formel für die maximale C*-Norm aufstellen:

Für zwei C*-Algebren  und  und  aus dem algebraischen Tensorprodukt  gilt

Siehe auch
 Räumliches Tensorprodukt
 Nukleare C*-Algebra

Einzelnachweise

Literatur
 Gerald. J. Murphy: C*-Algebras and Operator Theory, Academic Press Inc. (1990), ISBN 0-1251-1360-9
 R.V. Kadison, J. R. Ringrose: Fundamentals of the Theory of Operator Algebras II, 1983, ISBN 0-1239-3302-1

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GSM Mobile Phone Tracking System
With GSM mobile phone tracking system, or GSM localization - to put it technically, it is possible to determine the location of a particular mobile phone (and thus its user) by computation of the data acquired from the network.
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GSM localization is a cell phone tracking system which uses the hyperbolic positioning process to determine the exact location of a GSM enabled cell phone, thus indirectly tracking its user. In hyperbolic positioning, a particular object is accurately located by computing the time difference in arrival of the signals that are emitted from the object to three or more receivers. There are three methods of GSM mobile phone tracking; each of which are discussed below.
Network-based Method
In network based mobile phone tracking, the service providers network infrastructure is used to determine the exact location of the GSM enabled handset. The levels of accuracy in network-based techniques vary, and most often rely on the concentration of base station cells. While cell identification method is considered the least accurate method of network-based tracking, newer methods like the Advanced Forward Link Trilateration (AFLT) are considered to be the most accurate of them all.
Pros: A non-intrusive method which means you don't require to tamper with the said handset.
Cons: You will have to take the help of service provider, and to make sure that the service provider co-operates you will have to contact the law enforcement agencies.
Handset-based Method
In the handset-based technique, the location of the handset is determined on the basis of cell identification and by computing the strength of the signals coming from cell phone towers and other cell phones in the neighborhood. The calculations are sent to the location server for precise information about the user's location. If the handset is equipped with GPS, it is possible to determine its location using the latitudinal and longitudinal demarcation.
Pros: Your best bet if you intend to monitor the whereabouts of your children or family members.
Cons: This technology requires the installation of a client software on the mobile phone, which acts as its biggest drawback, since it is difficult to do this without the user's consent. At the same time, the software has to be compatible with various operating systems. And lastly, the technique works only on smartphones, which is again a major drawback of this system.
Hybrid Method
A combination of various techniques used in network-based and handset-based methods is used for phone tracking in the hybrid method of phone tracking. The Assisted-GPS (A-GPS) feature, for instance, uses both GPS and network data to determine the exact location of the user.
Pros: Highly accurate as it relies on both network data and handset data.
Cons: Though this method gives the most accurate information, its advantages are at times overshadowed by the individual limitations and challenges faced by network-based and handset-based techniques, which together form the hybrid method.
Yet another method of GSM mobile phone tracking is the relatively less used SIM-based phone tracking method. In this case, the data collected from the SIM card, like the round trip time and signal strength, is obtained and calculated to determine the exact location of the cell phone.
With the introduction of numerous tracking devices, cell phone tracking has become much easier over the years; but the privacy issues are also mushrooming with many people complaining that it hampers their privacy. In order to tackle these very issues and to make phone tracking safe and suitable, the extent to which this technology can be used has been demarcated by a legal framework.
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is a district located in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.

As of the March 20, 2006 merger but with 2003 population statistics, the district has an estimated population of 78,882 and a density of 84.4 persons per km2. The total area is 934.10 km2.

Towns and villages
Amagi
China
Isen
Kikai
Setouchi
Tatsugō
Tokunoshima
Wadomari
Yoron
Uken
Yamato

District timeline (after WWII)
 February 28, 1946 – The district fell under United States Army control except for the current village of Mishima areas.
 July 1, 1946 – The town of Naze gained city status.
 September 1, 1946 – The village of China gained town status.
 February 4, 1952 – Japan regains the current village of Toshima areas.
 February 10, 1952 – The village of Mishima broke off from the village of Toshima.
 December 25, 1953 – The remaining parts of the district returned to Japan.
 February 1, 1955 – The village of Mikata merged into the city of Naze.
 September 1, 1956 – The town of Koniya, and the villages of Chinzei, Saneku, and Nishikata merged to form the town of Setouchi.
 September 10, 1956 – The town of Kikai and the village of Sōmachi merged to form the town of Kikai.
 April 1, 1958 – The town of Kametsu and the village of Higashiamagi merged to form the town of Tokunoshima.
 January 1, 1961
 The village of Kasari gained town status.
 The village of Amagi gained town status.
 January 1, 1962 – The village of Isen gained town status.
 January 1, 1963 – The village of Yoron gained town status.
 April 1, 1973 – The district transferred the villages of Mishima and Toshima to Kagoshima District.
 February 10, 1975 – The village of Tatsugō gained town status.
 March 20, 2006 – The village of Sumiyō and town of Kasari merged with the city of Naze to form the new city of Amami.

Transportation
Kikai Airport is located in the district.

Amami Reversion Movement
The "restoration of Ōshima District of Kagoshima Prefecture" was a slogan of the Amami reversion movement during the United States military occupation of the Amami Islands from 1945/6 to 1953. An overwhelming majority of people of Amami, including those in mainland Japan, urged the immediate return of the islands to Japan. The reversion movements except those by leftist minorities tried to differentiate Amami from Okinawa because the U.S. seemingly intended permanent control of Okinawa. They opposed the name "Northern Ryukyu" occasionally labeled by the U.S. occupiers. Instead they used "Ōshima District, Kagoshima Prefecture" as a symbol of national belongingness.

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By Samuel Greengard
Communications of the ACM, September 2017, Vol. 60 No. 9, Pages 13-15
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Discovering the secrets of the universe is not a task for the timid and the impatient; there's a need to peer into the deepest reaches of outer space and try to make sense of distant galaxies, stars, gas clouds, quasars, halos, and black holes. "Understanding how these objects behave and how they interact gives us answers to how the universe was formed and how it works," says Kevin Schawinski, an astrophysicist and assistant professor in the Institute for Astronomy at ETH Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
The problem is that traditional tools such as telescopes can see only so far, even with radical advances in optics and the placement of observatories in space, where they are free of the light and dust of Earth. For instance, the Hubble Telescope changed the way astrophysicists and astronomers viewed deep space by delivering far clearer images than previously possible. Of course, in this context, distance and time are inextricably linked. "But the images still do not allow us to see as far back in time as we would like," Schawinski says. "The farther we can see, the more we can understand about the origins of the universe and how it has evolved."
Enter computer image recognition, artificial neural networks, and data science; together, they are changing the equation. As huge volumes of data stream in, they are able to find answers to previously unfathomable questions. In recent years, scientists have begun to train neural nets to analyze data from images captured by cameras in telescopes located on Earth and in space. In many cases, the resulting machine-based algorithms can sharpen blurs and identify distant objects better than humans can.
"Data science and big data are revolutionizing many areas of astrophysics," says François Lanusse, a post-doctoral researcher in the McWilliams Center for Cosmology at Carnegie Mellon University.
Indeed, the combination of more data, advances in data science, and new methods that allow researchers to easily and cheaply train neural networks is allowing scientists to boldly see where they have never seen before. No less important, these advances are not limited to astrophysics and astronomy; they have touched an array of other fields and have advanced autonomous vehicles, robots, drones, smart-phones and more. They're also being used to better understand everything from how linguistic patterns contribute to racism to identifying the potential severity of hurricanes as they form.
Says Jeff Clune, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Wyoming, "Until very recently, computers did not see and understand the world very well. The ability to train neural nets quickly and easily is transforming image recognition and enabling remarkable breakthroughs."
Artificial neural nets are nothing new. The concept originated in the 1940s and researchers have experimented with them for the last quarter-century. Yet it was only over the last few years that the technology has matured to the point where computer image recognition and other artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities have become viable. Using anywhere from one to sometimes hundreds of graphical processing units (GPUs), these training networkswhich function in a similar way to neural pathways in the human brainrecognize patterns in data that other computing systems cannot. Layered nodes learn from each otherand from other networksmuch like the way children learn. Remarkably, because of their overall complexity, nobody knows exactly how each trained artificial neural net produces its useful results.
Rapid advancements in neural nets and deep learning are a result of several factors, including faster and better GPUs, larger nets with deeper layers, huge labeled datasets to train on, new and different types of neural nets, and improved algorithms. Typically, for computer image recognition, researchers feed lots of pictures of thingsmotorcycles, chimpanzees, trees, or space objects, for exampleinto the system so the neural net can learn what an object looks like and how to differentiate it from others. If a researcher is training the neural net to recognize animals, the system tends to learn faster and better if old data is transferred to the new task. For instance, if the original task was to identify lions and zebras, adding this data to the job of identifying elk and bears will help.
The system succeeds because there is now a shared knowledge between the two paths. "Already being good at one task makes a neural network faster and better at learning the second task," Clune explains. "The system already has a basic understanding of things that are common to both tasks, such as eyes, ears, legs, and fur." As training proceeds and a neural net becomes smarter, it can identify photos and other images it has never seen before. For example, Clune has achieved an accuracy rate as high as the 96.6% in the neural net compared to the 40,000+ humans who volunteered to label the same images. Others have found that the neural nets actually outperform humans. Remarkably, "In most cases, we can train a neural net within a couple of days," he says.
Of course, this doesn't mean that all systems are equally effectiveand that the results are consistently useful. There's also the goal of pushing the boundaries of computer image recognition further. At present, researchers train systems using labels. This means designating images for one type of animal 'a lion' and another 'a zebra,' or one galaxy 'a spiral' and another 'an elliptical.' The problem with this approach is that it's time consuming and sometimes expensive. What is more, "sometimes you don't have labels, or they are noisy labels," says Ce Zhang, an assistant professor in the Systems Group at ETH Zurich. For instance, a "cougar" label might confuse the system if it is presented with both the car and the animal.
Researchers are turning to convolutional systems modeled from human visual processing, and generative systems that rely on a statistical approach.
Consequently, researchers are interested in an emerging area of deep learning that relies on different training methods, as well as unsupervised learning. University researchers as well as companies such as Alphabet, which operates Google Brain and DeepMind, have begun to study this space. They are turning to convolutional systems modeled after the visual processing that takes place in humans, and generative systems that rely on a more conventional statistical-based approach to learn the features of a dataset.
The end goal? "We want to just hand the computer the data and the algorithm and have it deliver results," Schawinski says. "This type of capability would revolutionize astrophysics, but also science in general."
A Sharper Focus
Advances in AI are now pushing the boundaries of neural nets and deep learning into an almost sci-fi realm, though the results produced by these systems are very real. Consider: Clune now uses generative systems to produce artificial images that look completely real to the human eye. These photo-realistic images range from birds and insects to mountains and even vehicles. He describes the technology as a "game changer." Remarkably, over time, certain neurons in the deep learning network become better than others at recognizing and generating specific things, such as eyes, noses, bugs, or volcanoes. "The system actually figures out what it needs to recognize and know and allocates neurons to these concepts automatically," he says.
To be sure, generative networks have value that extends beyond producing artificial images for art, video games, or augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR). Researchers have begun to use generative networks in competition with image-recognition networks to generate even more accurate results. Within this scenario, the generator network creates fake images and the image recognition network, known as a discriminator, analyzes the images and attempts to separate the real from the fake images. The discriminator later checks the validity of its findings and uses those results to further refine its algorithm. Over time, the discriminator becomes smarter and tells the generator how to adapt its output to generate even more realistic images.
The advantage of this approach is that the discriminator, referred to as a generative adversarial net (GAN), learns over time what matters most in the image, Zhang says. At a certain point, the system displays almost human-like intuition, he says; "results improve significantly." Interestingly, this approach not only improves the quality of image detection, it may also trim the time required to train a network by reducing the number of imagesessentially the volume of datarequired to obtain useful results. Says Zhang: "An interesting question is how can we lower the requirement of a neural network in terms of how much data it needs to achieve the current level of quality?"
Another step is to make today's artificial neural nets easier to use. The technology is still in its infancy and researchers often struggle to use tools and technology effectively. In some cases, they have to work with multiple nets in an iterative fashion to find one that works best. As a result, Zhang has developed a software program, ease.ml, that configures deep learning neural networks in a more automated and efficient way. This includes optimizing components such as CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs and providing a declarative language for better managing algorithms.
"Right now, the user needs to deal with a lot of different decisions, including the type of neural net they want to use. There may be 20 different neural nets available for the same task. Choosing the right model and reducing complexity is important," he explains.
Already, the software, combined with other deep learning techniquesincluding an algorithm called ZipML that reduces data representation without reducing accuracyhas cut noise and sharpened images significantly for the astrophysics group at ETH Zurich. As a result, Schawinski and others can now peer more deeply into the universe.
"Unlike other areas of science, we cannot run experiments in a lab and simply analyze the results," ETH Zurich explains. "We are dependent on telescopes and images to look back in time. We have to piece together all these fixed snapshotsessentially huge datasetsto gain insight and knowledge."
Adds Lanusse: "Classical methods of astronomy and astrophysics are rapidly being superseded by data science and machine learning. They not only do a job better, but they also offer new ways of looking at the data."
The view into the future is equally compelling. Lanusse says that in the coming years neural networks will drive enormous advances in fields beyond astrophysics. These systems will not only detect, recognize, and classify objects, they will understand what is taking place in an image or in a scene in real time. This, of course, could profoundly impact everything from the way autonomous vehicles operate to how medical diagnostics work. Ultimately, they will help us unlock the mysteries of our planet and the universe. They will deliver a level of understanding that wouldn't have been imaginable only a few years ago.
Says Lanusse, "Computer image recognition is advancing rapidly. We are finding ways to train networks faster and better. Every gain in speed and accuracy of even a few percent makes a profound difference in the real-world impact."
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Samuel Greengard is an author and journalist based in West Linn, OR.
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a16z Podcast: The Datacenter Needs an Operating System
by	Benjamin Hindman and Steven Sinofsky
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With developers today building a new class of applications (which are really distributed systems), it's time for a new level of abstraction for building and running them. Machines are the wrong abstraction — it's time for a new operating system just for datacenters. But what does this look like? And what can we learn from previous OS experiences?
Mesosphere's Benjamin Hindman, the co-creator of Apache Mesos (which came out of the U.C. Berkeley AMPLab), joins Steven Sinofsky, a16z board partner (who formerly oversaw the Windows division at Microsoft) for a discussion about all-things-OS.
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Former England captain Nasser Hussain came quickly to the defence of Joe Root this week following the controversy surrounding the latter's 'mic-drop' celebration against India on Tuesday.
The current Test captain came under scrutiny following the gesture, with some branding the celebration as 'boastful' and 'provocative'.
Root had just scored a century - and the winning runs - helping his side to a 2-1 victory over India at Headingley and yet another one-day series win.
As the ball sailed over the boundary to bring up an English rout of their sub-continent rivals, Root held his bat horizontally above his head before allowing it to fall to the floor in a grandiose nod to both his individual achievement as well as his team's.
But surprisingly the celebration did not go down well in some quarters, prompting Hussain to defend Root.
"How can you find THAT offensive?" he said on Sky Sports on Friday night.
"What I find offensive is sometimes characterless cricketers who turn their bat sponsor and, you know, show that to the crowd etc'.
"I think we need cricketers with character. He's the lad (Root) who sat in the dressing room at Trent Bridge with a Bob Willis mask on.
"We all worried that becoming Test captain we'd lose that cheeky chappy in him."
Nasser is clearly not one to sit on the fence.
Despite Hussain coming to Root's aid, the man at the centre of the controversy had already back-peddled on the incident.
Speaking after the match, Root seemed to be ashamed of his celebration and suggested that in hindsight it was an inappropriate response to winning a match for your country with a century.
"It was a car crash. I've not heard the end of it. It was something I immediately regretted.
"You'd think if you were going to do a celebration like that you'd have smacked it 30 yards out of the ground but it didn't really get there did it?
"It was the most embarrassing thing I've done on a cricket field."
Root's apparent regret was somewhat confusing giving the overwhelming mystification that greeted the dim chorus of offended voices.
Perhaps Root would do better to heed the words of Nasser Hussain, embrace his inner cheeky-chappy and carry on entertaining the English crowds in whatever way he sees fit.


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Rose's Christmas Cookies
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James Beard Award: Rose's Christmas Cookies, Baking and Desserts, 1991
"In my experience, truly great teachers are great because of their sensitivity to and love for others. Your warmth and openness comes through in your books. Thank you so much for the gift of your books and for the new world they have opened for me." --Rosary I., New York
Rose's Christmas Cookies (1991)
One food editor took issue with a jewish woman writing a book about Christmas, but another in Rhode Island gave me one of the most profound compliments of my life, writing that the introduction to this book contained the best prose ever written about Christmas.
It was my friend Jeanne Bauer who encouraged me to write this book by giving me all of her mother's favorite recipes. She said that every Christmas when she returned home for a visit, her mother would always have saved some dough so that they could make cookies together. Jeanne said that when one's hands are busy it somehow makes it possible to say things one might not otherwise feel comfortable sharing.
This book, however, is more than just for Christmas. Of course there are classic Christmas cookies but most of the cookies can be made year 'round. My brother Michael, owner of Pet Food Express in California, insisted that I include a cookie for dogs and a friend from Maine contributed the "Bona Fidos." There's even a Nôtre Dame cookie cathedral in gingerbread with flying buttresses and candy stained glass windows. The original was displayed in the window of Scribner's book store on Fifth Avenue in New York City along with many copies of the book. Growing up in NYC it was a moment of glory!
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This Weekend's Can't-Miss Shopping Sales
In the mood for some retail therapy? Don't skip these two sales.
By Megan McDonald April 14, 2016
Fashionistas, take note--there are two huge sales happening this weekend that you don't want to miss.
Image: Courtesy of Designing Women Boutique
High-end consignment shop Designing Women Boutique's spring clearance sale kicks off this weekend, with markdowns up to 60 percent off on clothing, accessories, art and furniture. The sale will help make way for new donations and consignments; proceeds benefit DWB's grant pool for arts and human services. Hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. today, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday; find out more here.
Image: Courtesy of L. Boutique
Meanwhile, in Burns Court, the 8th annual Neighborhood Sidewalk Sale is happening on Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Participating merchants include Awesome Orchids, Ally Cat, Pineapple Bay Trading Co., Starflower, Farmhouse Frocks, Treat Boutique, Nessentials, Blank Slate Gallery, Clever Rose, Rustic Rooster and L.Boutique (where you can find discounts up to 80 percent, as well as a $30 clothing and shoe rack).
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Department of Needed Translations: Ernst Bloch's Subject/Object | Criticism &c.
Ernst Bloch (1885-1977) can be called the outsider of German Marxist thought. While the members of the Frankfurt School and its extended circle have practically become household names in American academia, Bloch's highly individualistic blend of Expressionism, Marxism, "Left" Aristotleanism, and messianism remains acknowledged by, but not assimilated into, the academic canon of Critical Theory.
There is no dearth of availability of Bloch's work in English. Stanford University Press published Traces in 2006, the first time this work has appeared in English, and Verso made his Atheism in Christianity available again in a new edition last year.
Even with these welcome efforts, however, Bloch has at least one major work that has yet to be translated, a major study of Hegel and dialectics originally published in 1951 titled Subjekt-Objekt. Two chapters of the book have been published in academic journals ("Dialectics and Hope," translated by Mark Ritter in New German Critique in 1976 and "The Dialectical Method," translated by John Lamb in Man and World in 1983), but, unfortunately, the work as a whole remains unknown to the English-speaking world.
As a contribution towards bringing some much-needed attention to this important work, I am providing a brief excerpt (the first paragraph) from "The Dialectical Method" below.
The idiot never notices that everything has two side. He works with wooden ideas, with simple uniform ideas at which he can stop for breath and in which nothing happens. If he were to think a thought through to its end, he would notice that a struggle is taking place, that objections arise within which enrich it and disarrange its content. A is not always A, B must also be posited, and it it precisely consistency which shows B to be the contradiction. Above the consequent span C arises as apex and unity; that is until C splits too, and a new unity of contradictions emerges in irresistible dialectical development. Actual thought never runs in straight lines, like thought which is fixed, cut and dried, in which nothing expands or changes and which is therefore incapable of doing justice to transformation. Thought moves in triangles. These triangles, consisting of contradiction, unity, new contradiction, new unity, and so on, do not need to be schematically traced out each time. That would be incompatible with the free agility of elastic thought. Indeed, the triangle is not the only possible form, more contradictions than just this A and B are possible and they do not all have to refer to the same point of unity. But reliable, actual thought never takes a straight course, rigid and unchanged, like the rhythm of the nodding head of the pagoda or the dreadful, monomaniac, thoroughly undialectical thought of the madman. A man who continually entangles himself in contradictions is not for that a dialectician. If he cannot find his way out of the contradictions, he is much more a charlatan and, in the end, a perfect image of chaos. But thought which seeks a viable course, set on finding solutions, without going through the dialectical turn in which no determination is complete in itself, lands in chaos from the other side, namely in the chaos of rigidity. It cannot comprehend what is living and on the terrain of transformation—there is no other—with its fixed clumsiness, it will always stumble.
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We spent the day today taking down some of the titles that have been hanging around here for a while and putting some more great books on the shelves. We've brought in tons of recent titles into our used section that you'll want to get your hands on as we head into fall.
Wait. Fall's already here, right? Well soon the temperatures will follow and you'll want to grab a blanket, a coffee and a great book for sure. Hygge it all up in the place.
We've also refilled the sale rack, so there are some really great titles on there for just $1.95.
May 14, 2015 New to the secondhand shelves – and mystery book sale coming soon!


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Public healing space by and for survivors of rape and abuse.
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Force: Upsetting Rape Culture | August 20, 2014
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On Tuesdays August 20, visitors to Daley Plaza witnessed 225 stories from survivors of rape and abuse. Spread across the plaza were 200 bright, red quilt squares laid out to create public healing space for survivors. The Monument Quilt aims to change US culture from a culture that publicly shames survivors to a culture that publicly support survivors.
"I've been describing the quilt as a punch in the gut. I felt like my breath was taken away by the power of those pieces. By how painful they are and how powerful they are and how joyful. The power of these testimonials is the power to move people," said Sharmili Majmudar, Director of Rape Victim Advocates. "And hopefully get past what people have as their pre-conceptions about sexual violence. What is means to be a survivor, who survivors are and all those things and instead really connect on an emotional level."
Visitor to the display Emily Sha stated, "On one hand its really overwhelming to see how many pieces there are. The sheer number and the collective pain. But at the same times its so encouraging to see how much strength there is."
Sha went on to say, "I've never been in a space thats been this public, where I've felt safe to say that I am a survivor and not expect you to run away. I feel, as a lot of other people feel, that when you tell your story its a burden, especially stories of sexual violence, especially childhood sexual abuse. So it becomes the burden of the survivor to figure out who to tell and how much to tell. And that can be such a painful process to feel like that facet of you is too much for anyone else to hold. So I think a space like this, with such a diversity of stories, is really needed."
When asked about the importance of the quilt coming to Chicago Majmudar of RVA stated, "In chicago, like many cities, we continue to have few spaces that are truly supportive of survivors and that have survivors' healing as central. Chicago is an incredibly diverse city and it is also an incredibly segregated city. There are many communities that are and feel invisible. And resources are not divied up in equitable ways. I think that a piece of what the quilt does is to bring all of those stories forward. So its not just stories that we are used to hearing, but also stories that we don't hear."
Yesterday's event was organized in partnership with Chicago Taskforce on Violence Against Girls and Young Women, Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Mujeres Latinas en Accion, Project&, Project NIA, Rape Advocacy, Counseling & Education Services, and Rape Victim Advocates.
Each quilt is completely different, like each individual experience with sexual violence.
One survivor wrote, "It was men who taught me that assault only happens to women, robbing me of the language I needed to name and process my experience."
Sewn onto one quilt square are the shorts and t-shirt the survivor was wearing at the time of their assault. The square simply states, "STRONG".
People who are interested in adding their own quilt square to the project can find instructions here.
The Chicago display was the eigth stop on a 13-city US tour. The Monument quilt will continue traveling this month to visit Chicago, IL; Pittsburgh, PA; Queens, NY; Durham, NC; Baltimore, MD; and Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT.
The 100 x 100 foot quilt displayed in Chicago Tuesday is only the beginning. Over the next two years, more stories will be added to The Monument Quilt. In a final display, The Monument Quilt will blanket over one mile of the National Mall with thousands of quilt squares to spell "NOT ALONE."
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Journal Global Business Page 3
Commercial Banking and Treasury Management in Mexico
For today's treasury professional, the Mexican banking market may offer a few new challenges, but many familiar products and services will be readily available.
By D.J. Masson, PHD, CTP, Cert ICM
Commercial Banking in the U.S. Versus Canada
While banking in the U.S. and Canada are alike in many ways, there are also critical differences between banking laws, regulations, and practices.
To Tell or Not to Tell?
A relationship between disclosure decisions and cultural values is explored, followed by implications for creating organizational cultures that sustain learning and growth.
By Anthony J. Culpepper, EdD and J. Goosby Smith, PhD
What You Need to Know about Labor Shortages
Doing due diligence by assessing multiple labor market options is no longer just for the Fortune 500 companies.
By Donald M. Atwater, PhD and Heather Klass
An investigation of how the Japanese economic system, which is beginning to show signs of revitalization, is changing to favor the emergence of female entrepreneurship.
By Charla Griffy-Brown, PhD and Noriko Oakland
Fair Trade or Strategic Concern: The Unocal War
The war over Unocal has underlined the tense relationship between the U.S. and China.
By Peggy J. Crawford, PhD and Terry Young, PhD
Antitrust Law in the European Union
Major differences have existed in U.S. and European antitrust law but new regulations could have significant impact on business decisions for global companies.
By Larry Bumgardner, JD
Will China Float the Yuan?
The time is ripe for China to move towards a more flexible exchange rate given its strong economic growth and current account surplus.
An Uphill Battle
If your company is interested in expanding its operations to China, are you aware of the existing e-commerce development challenges that await you?
By Mark Chun, PhD, Gina Honda and Caroline Schwane
Global Business, Information Management/Technology (IT)
Managing in an Era of Multiple Cultures
In today's global economy, managers must be able to identify and work with the many types of cultures that exist simultaneously within an organization or a business network.
By Margaret E. Phillips, PhD and Sonja A. Sackmann, PhD
Global Business, Management
Language, Culture and Global Business
The choice of an interpreter may be one of the most important choices you make when conducting business globally.
By Jennifer Roney, PhD
Re-Assessing the Health of the Asian Tigers
Because of the global nature of the economy, changes in the the East Asian economies affected many businesses throughout the world.
By Terry Young, PhD
Russia at the Crossroads
When Russia defaulted on her debts and devalued the ruble last August, Americans felt the effects as well.
By L. Wayne Gertmenian, PhD, Nikolai V. Chuvakhin and Steven T. Ekstrand
GBR Case Study
As tariffs became less of a factor in the market, the profit margins of Canadian firms were being severely squeezed.
By William R. Smith, PhD
Cultural Insights on Doing Business in China
The hidden obstacles of tradition, social structure, and thought patterns require extensive, time-consuming experience to overcome when doing business in China.
By L. Wayne Gertmenian, PhD


The background music is nice – it disappears into the background and never really bothers you that much, but manages to turn perceptibly more menacing when any enemies are nearby. The melody is very repetitive if you actually stop to listen to it, but that's not the point of in-game music, anyway.
Upon starting your first game, you will immediately be struck by how the game merely allows you to choose the name of your hero and nothing else. You cannot choose your hero's build, his hair-color, his facial features and not even his gender. What's more, there are no professions or classes to pick - instead, you are stuck with playing a standard character who will develop his skills as the game continues. As far as role-playing goes, this is a major drawback. In order to actually get into the role of a character, most computer RPG players want to have at least some say in what their character will look like. Now, the only way you can affect the look of your hero is to choose what clothes and armor he will wear. Your choices are restricted by the obvious need to wear the best stuff possible, so this is a poor man's choice at best.
However, clothes and appearance is something that you can be forgiving about if the rest of the game delivers. That is, if you can exercise your role-playing extensively enough in the rest of the game. Unfortunately, you'll find some pretty excessive restrictions in this area too.
The promised non-linear gameplay seems to refer to the fact that you can run back to previous areas to explore them further. Other than that, you are pretty restricted to the few scarce plot lines that you have to follow. In fact, until you reach the city of Arkanar, thins are very linear indeed. Simple missions follow after simple missions, some of which you could pass, but have to do anyway because you need to grind up your levels in order to survive the future missions. You only get some semblance of non-linearity when you reach Arkanar, but also then it is just the fact that you have a few more missions to perform – the main plot still takes you into one direction only and even stops you from leaving certain areas if you haven't performed all the necessary actions yet.
I can only assume that some forks in the storyline are available later in the game, as promised by the developers, but it seems that you have to tread through a long linear story before any of those appear. This also transfers to the map that you explore – simple fences will stop you, as well as low hills, so you can only travel along a clearly defined path. And never try to climb stairs or other such contraptions in order to enter a house – your hero is simply unable to raise his foot enough to use steps and stairs, or climb over tree trunks. So much for non-linearity and the freedom to explore.
It doesn't cease to baffle me what went wrong when the developers hired a writer to write up the dialogue and the actors to deliver it. First, even though the NPCs have voice actors, they don't seem to be too special in their craft. The delivery is monotonous and sometimes you wonder if it could be just one actor pulling off all the male roles in the game. One character especially has an annoying nasal intonation – clearly intentional and acted, though - that makes you pull off your headphones and read the text instead. But the text isn't that much better. It surprises me how the actors managed to speak their lines even so well, when the text is filled with grammar errors and typos. The flow of the dialogue seems halting and the logical conclusions that the characters make based on the evidence they have are not well founded. Some of the dialogue is clearly intended to be humorous banter between the protagonist and the NPCs, but none of the humor gets across in the delivery.


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Government 'seriously considering' instant fines for drivers who leave engines idling
Leaving engines running without good reason is already illegal
Libby McBride
Amardeep Bassey
Instant fines could be issued to drivers who leave engines idling when stationary with the government set to meet local councils to discuss its proposed new policy.
The Department for Transport (DfT) is "seriously considering" on-the-spot fines for drivers who leave their engines idling, a minister has told Auto Express.
Environment secretary Michael Gove said he supported calls from some London councils to introduce stronger measures to tackle the problem which can cause more pollution than when a car is moving.
Leaving engines running without good reason is already illegal, with the Highway Code stating drivers "must not leave a vehicle engine running unnecessarily while that vehicle is stationary on a public road."
This rule is backed up by the Road Traffic Act of 1988 and fines for the offence are £20 by default, but can increase to £80, the Mirror reports.
Currently officers are unable to impose penalties unless drivers ignore an initial warning and remain parked for another minute - but councils have called for tougher laws.
Westminster Council's Conservative leader, Nickie Aiken, wants the power to issue fines immediately to repeat offenders.
"Fines are our last resort but when we establish a pattern of persistent idling we need to be able to send a message," she told The Times.
Westminster City Council carries out far more enforcement than most other authorities but issued only 20 fines last year.
Ms Aikens said fines for company vehicles, such as supermarket delivery vans, caught idling need to be a "four-figure sum" to be a sufficient deterrant.
Deterrent
Environment secretary Michael Gove is supporting the council's call, but stressed that any new powers should be used proportionately by councils.
According to Westminster City Council, an idling car produces enough exhaust emissions to fill 150 balloons a minute.
It has called on the public to report unnecessary engine idling through its website, as the borough suffers from the worst air pollution in the country.
Motoring law solicitor Paul Loughlin, from Stephensons Solicitors LLP, said: "These powers are likely to prove an effective deterrent and will go some way to reducing the pollution levels in our towns and cities, however it remains unclear how local authorities will enforce them.
"There is an onus on the Government to spell out how these powers will be used as well as making it clear for drivers to turn off their engines while parked.
"The fines, some of which stretching to £1,000 for repeat offenders, will be keenly felt in particular by businesses and couriers, who often leave their vehicles running while making deliveries."
Up to 18 local authorities in London have been involved in so-called "idling action events", with drivers approached and asked to switch off their engines when parked with Islington council saying that 80% of drivers switch off if requested in a friendly and non-judgmental manner.
Many local authorities, including the City of London, Camden, Croydon, Reading, Norwich and Canterbury did not issue any fines for idling last year.
Camden Council, which is also calling for instant fines, has warned more than 400 drivers but issued no fines since giving enforcement officers the power to issue fixed penalties in March last year.
A spokesperson for The Department for Transport said: "We are determined to reduce the damaging environmental impacts of drivers who keep their engines running while stationary, especially those in school zones.
"This is why we are making guidance for local authorities clearer, so that they know how and when to target drivers falling foul of the law. We will be polling local authorities to understand how any potential review of these powers may look in the future."


Director Mike Leigh on the set of PETERLOO. ©Amazon Studios.
PETERLOO stars David Bamber as Magistrate Rev. John Mallory, Al Weaver as Magistrate Hulton, David Fielder as Magistrate Rev. George Cotteridge, and Jeff Rawle as Magistrate Rev. Hay. ©Amazon Studios.
David Moorst as Joseph in PETERLOO. ©Amazon Studios. CR: Simon Mein.
PETERLOO features John-Paul Hurley as John Thacker Saxton, Joseph Kloska as Richard Carlile, Victoria Moseley as Susanna Saxton, and Dorothy Duffy as Mary Fildes. ©Amazon Studios. CR: Simon Mein.


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PIR adds 3 new members to the executive team
Konstantinos Zournas March 5, 2019	Domain Name News 1 Comment
Public Interest Registry (PIR), the .org registry, today announced the addition of three new members to the organisation's executive team – Judy Song-Marshall, Chief of Staff; Joe Abley, Chief Technology Officer and Anand Vora, Vice President of Business Affairs.
"The new hires, starting throughout March and April of 2019, will bring enhanced operational and technology capabilities to Public Interest Registry in support of the organisation's drive for continued growth of quality domains under management and its enhanced educational and outreach initiatives. The broadening of the executive team comes on the heels of Public Interest Registry's appointment of Jon Nevett as President and CEO and will be instrumental to the advancement of the organisation's advocacy in support of collaboration, safety and trust on the internet."
"Our latest executive appointments are some of the most well-respected professionals in the domain industry and true experts in their respective fields," said Jon Nevett, President and CEO of Public Interest Registry. "I'm thrilled to welcome them to the Public Interest Registry team and am confident they will help us achieve our goals while, most importantly, upholding the impressive legacy of the .org domain."
The three new hires will join the existing Public Interest Registry executive team consisting of Jon Nevett, President and CEO; Brian Cimbolic, Vice President and General Counsel; Paul Diaz, Vice President of Policy and Mary Cornwell, Senior Director of Human Resources. Public Interest Registry also currently is accepting applications for a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to round out the organisation's leadership team.
New Executive Team Hires
Judy Song-Marshall – Chief of Staff
Judy Song-Marshall brings more than a decade of domain name industry experience working alongside executive management teams. At Public Interest Registry, she will serve as an extension to the president, and leverage her experience to drive strategic, operational and budgetary initiatives. Judy currently works as the Director of Registry Services at Neustar, overseeing the Policy, Industry Affairs, and Compliance teams. Judy also led the marketing team that successfully launched the .nyc top-level domain (TLD) and rebranded the .us country code top-level domain (ccTLD). Judy serves on the ICANNWiki Board and is the Treasurer and a former board member of The Domain Name Association.
Joe Abley – Chief Technology Officer
Joe Abley has more than twenty years of experience working with internet infrastructure in a variety of capacities including in the domain name system. At Public Interest Registry, Joe will be responsible for the organisation's overall technology strategy including managing information security, business intelligence, software development and technical research. Joe previously served as an Infrastructure Scientist for Afilias and as a Director of Domain Names System (DNS) Operations at Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) where he provided direction for the operation of ICANN's production DNS services, including the L Root Server and the systems and processes used to manage Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) in the root zone of the DNS. Joe also actively promotes technology education efforts in developing regions and is a long-standing participant in standards bodies and technical operator communities.
Anand Vora – Vice President, Business Affairs
Anand Vora is a seasoned strategy and business development executive with a decade of experience working in the domain name and internet industries. Anand will be rejoining Public Interest Registry, where his career in the industry began, to oversee business development, channel services, marketing, registry services, and customer operations. In this role, Anand will help expand Public Interest Registry's presence in the marketplace and continue to foster customer and registrar relations. Previously, Anand served as the Director of Business Development at Donuts Inc., where he led the identification, development, creation, and execution of go-to-market strategy. At Donuts, Anand focused primarily on international markets including spearheading Donuts' China operations.
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Volume No. 0205/16
ATLAS Mara Limited Announces Buyback of Shares - 11/07/2019
Atlas Mara Repurchase of Shares and Total Voting Rights Update
TORTOLA / ACCESSWIRE / July 11, 2019 / Atlas Mara Limited ('Atlas Mara' or the 'Company' and, including its subsidiaries, the 'Group'), the sub-Sahara African financial services group, today announces that on 10 July 2019, the Company repurchased 8,020 shares, all of which were purchased at an average price of $1.38 and will be held as treasury shares.
Atlas Mara repurchased shares pursuant to the authority granted by its Board of Directors, announced in its Q3 2018 Results RNS, to reinstate a lapsed share purchase program. The granted authority is for Atlas Mara to repurchase the Company's issued share capital up to an aggregate market value equivalent to $10 million by way of its nominated brokers.
As a result of the repurchase of shares, Atlas Mara's total number of ordinary shares in issue is 174,618,767 of which 1,440,469 are now held in treasury with an additional 3,298,298 ordinary shares held in escrow as part of the contingent consideration for the acquisition of FBZ. Atlas Mara hereby notifies the market that the total number of voting rights in Atlas Mara is 169,880,000. In accordance with rule 5.6.1 of the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules ('DTRs'), this figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, Atlas Mara under the DTRs.
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Anthony Silverman, +44 (0)7818 036 579
About Atlas Mara
Atlas Mara Limited (LON: ATMA) is a financial services institution founded by Bob Diamond and listed on the London Stock Exchange. With a presence in seven sub-Saharan countries, Atlas Mara aims to be a positive disruptive force in the markets in which we operate by leveraging technology to provide innovative and differentiated product offerings, deliver excellent customer service and accelerate financial inclusion. For more information, visit www.atlasmara.com.
SOURCE: Atlas Mara Limited
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Breaking Unions: Ending Marxism's intrusion into work place relationships.
Breaking Unions means breaking the very reason Organized Labor was originally Organized: to provide a path to violent revolution.
"In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things.
"In all these movements, they bring to the front, as the leading question in each, the property question, no matter what its degree of development at the time.
"Finally, they labor everywhere for the union and agreement of the democratic parties of all countries.
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United Airlines Resuming Flights To China In July
by SharonKurheg July 1, 2020
After suspending service to China in February due to the coronavirus outbreak, United Airlines will resume flights to the country in early July.
Effective July 8, United will operate flights between San Francisco and Shanghai's Pudong International Airport via Seoul's Incheon International Airport, twice a week. The flights from San Francisco to Shanghai will depart on Wednesdays and Saturdays. The return flights will arrive in California from Shanghai on Thursdays and Sundays.
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Before coronavirus pandemic placing nearly all of the airline industry on "pause," United had been the largest U.S. carrier to serve China, with five flights per day between Shanghai and its hubs in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York/Newark.
"United's service to mainland China has been a point of pride for our employees and customers for more than 30 years," said Patrick Quayle, United's vice president of International Network and Alliances. "Resuming service to Shanghai from the United States is a significant step in rebuilding our international network."
On June 25, Delta was the first U.S. carrier to resume flights between America and China since the pandemic began.
CNN reported on June 16 that spokesperson for American Airlines said that its flights are scheduled to resume to Beijing and Shanghai in October.
Even if the number of flights between the U.S. and China isn't anywhere near what we were previously used to, any new addition is another step towards "normal." For that, I'm grateful.
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Personality test vs behaviour assessment in pre-employment screening
This article is brought to you by Fourlead.
Malaysia's latest job portal, Fourlead, provides practical insights into making smarter recruiting decisions by clearing up common misunderstandings about behaviour and personality (hint: they are not the same!).
One of the common misunderstandings about behaviour and personality is they are the same. No, they are not, and in fact, they are distinctively different. For years, many organisations have used the personality test as part of the pre-employment and interview process. There are more than 2,000 personality tests in the market, and the industry is estimated to worth between US$500m and US$4bn.
The definition of personality, according to WordWeb Online, is "the complex of all the attributes – behavioural, temperamental, emotional and mental – that characterise a unique individual". In most cases, personality covers a wide range of attributes and summarises a person's characteristics. There is a Chinese saying, "three years fixes eighty", meaning a child forms character and personality at the age of three, which remain the same until the age of 80. This implies personality does not change after it is fixed at an incredibly young age.
Since personality does not change after the age of three, then should it be a piece of useful information to gauge a person's fit in a job and company culture? No, because using personality (fixed) data on an ever-changing environment and people will not be accurate. Especially during this point in time when the COVID-19 pandemic has hit global economies badly, most businesses have taken drastic measures and changes to make it through these trying times.
Several studies cite that personality is not the right measure to indicate if a person is well fit or suited to a particular workplace. One of the clear examples is by award-winning psychologist Annie Murphy Paul. She has written about how personality tests are leading us to miseducate our children, mismanage our companies and misunderstand ourselves. She said she wants to appraise workers and students to focus on gauging specific abilities. This gauge can be done more effectively by talking to people, learning details of their past and observing their current behaviour.
Let's take an example. Orisayemi, a nurse in the US, has worked in Emergency Nursing for 30 years to date. She has done well with excellent performance and promotions to her name.
Back in 2000, due to a buy-out, the purchasing company laid her off because there was an incumbent from the buying company. When she applied for the same position elsewhere, she had to take a personality test, but the result stated that she wasn't suited for the job. She did not even get an interview. So, despite her 10 years of experience at that point as a registered nurse, she did not get an interview when she applied with a personality test. What do you think?
Public behaviour is how others see you. Knowing this will help you to improve interpersonal relationships in the workplace. Private behaviour is how you see yourself. Knowing this will help you to create a better job-fit and culture-fit for yourself.
What is behaviour?
Based on what we understand from the extensive and years of research and findings from psychologists – personality does not change after the age of three to five. What changes then? Behaviour – we change our behaviour according to the environment over time. Thus, behaviour can be described, observed, and measured.
According to Oxford, behaviour is how one acts or conducts oneself, especially towards others – people. Behaviour also means how a person behaves in response to a particular situation or stimulus – work. To put this in a macro view, how we tend to behave when we are at home, school, or workplace is different. If we were to look into each environment, we deal with both people and work.
Behaviour is highly relevant to the workplace as we deal with people and work all the time. A company is made up of its workforce, and the workforce shapes the organisation culture, which then translates to how people should work and interact in the company – people. An employee's job in the company is to monitor, manage and execute all the tasks and responsibility given to you – work. Thus, at the screening stage, accurate and comprehensive behaviour information will allow the hiring manager to gauge if the candidate is fit for the job and the culture from the behaviour aspect.
According to Professor Robin Stuart-Kotze, there is a set of behavioural demands for every job. Hence, a hiring manager must advise the HR team on what type of behaviour fits the role.
The assessment tool
Fourlead provides free workplace behaviour assessment for both experienced professionals and fresh graduates. The assessment generates two reports – public and private behaviour.
What does this mean? Public behaviour is how others see you. Knowing this will help you to improve interpersonal relationships in the workplace. Private behaviour is how you see yourself. Knowing this will help you to create a better job-fit and culture-fit for yourself.
There are 16 behaviour types in total. The hiring manager has to select one to two key traits for the job.
Dominance (D)
Determined, driving, ambitious, pioneering, serious, and controlling.
Influence (I)
Sociable, optimistic, persuasive, warm, enthusiastic, and charismatic.
Steady (S)
Supportive, loyal, patient, stable, friendly, and passive.
Compliant (C)
Critical, cautious, detailed, accurate, analytical, and tactful
Alternatively, he/she can select based on job specific guidelines as listed below.
Product-centric (D or I)
Fast-paced, outgoing, active, extrovert, optimistic, direct, impatient, and competitive.
People-centric (I or S)
Caring, sharing, relationship, emotions, opened, relaxed, and warm.
Process-centric (S or C)
Steady-paced, realistic, reserved, withdrawn, introvert, indirect, patient, and cooperative.
Task-centric (C or D)
Plan, progress, projects, projects, program, guarded, proper, and specific.
The HR department can use this assessment to assess their current employees' behaviours to match with their current role. The superior can perform a job-fit analysis efficiently using such a tool. If a task-centric person is doing a people-centric role, it is a mismatch. There are two options for this scenario, a change of the role/specialisation or change of workplace behaviour. If neither is done, there's a potential risk of performance issues or resignation.
Having the right fit is more important than ever now. Sign up to send unlimited invites and track unlimited responses. Visit Fourlead for more information, or head straight here to try out the behaviour assessment.
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Q: Hover father div > show child div. OnMouseOut > hide child div after X seconds Trying to show the  when mouseover the
 and after 5 seconds hide the . Can't get this to work.

$(document).ready(function() {
  altDiv = $(this).attr('alt');
  var timeout;
  $('.ShowCat').on("mouseover", function(e) {
    $('#' + altDiv).show();
    clearTimeout(timeout);
  });
  $('.ShowCat').on("mouseout", function() {
    timeout = setTimeout(function() {
      $('#' + altDiv).hide();
    }, 5000);
  });
});
.hide {
  background-color: red;
  display: none;
}

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A: your code does work, you are assigning the value of altDiv in the wrong place...
change your JS to:
$(document).ready(function () {
        let altDiv = ""
        var timeout;
    $('.ShowCat').on("mouseover", function(e) {
        altDiv = $(this).attr('alt');
        //console.log(altDiv);
        $('#' + altDiv).show();
            clearTimeout(timeout);
    });
    $('.ShowCat').on("mouseout", function() {
         timeout = setTimeout(function() { $('#' + altDiv).hide(); }, 5000);
    });
 });

A: No need to reference the ID of the  in the
 if the markup is always going to be a
 followed by a . Use jQuery next() method to get the immediate next sibling element.

var $show = $( '.ShowCat' );

$show.on( 'mouseover', function ( e ) {

    var $this = $( this );

    clearTimeout( $this.data( 'tID' ) );

    $this.next().show();

} );

$show.on( 'mouseout', function ( e ) {

    var $this = $( this );

    $this.data( 'tID', setTimeout( function () {
      $this.next().hide();
    }, 5000 ) );

} );
.hide {
  background-color: red;
  display: none;
}

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With my solution I'm assuming you always want the  to hide five seconds after they mouseout the
. To do this I had to re-work how setTimeout() was being handled. Your original code was canceling the five second setTimeout() whenever another .ShowCat was hovered, effectively leaving it visible.
Example of Original Side Effect

var $show = $( '.ShowCat' ),
    tID;

$show.on( 'mouseover', function ( e ) {

    var $this = $( this );

    clearTimeout( tID );

    $this.next().show();

} );

$show.on( 'mouseout', function ( e ) {

    var $this = $( this );

    tID = setTimeout( function () {
      $this.next().hide();
    }, 5000 );

} );
.hide {
  background-color: red;
  display: none;
}

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Hover the first
 then hover the second
 without re-hovering the first
, first  stays red while second  disappears.
If you do need to reference the  ID on the
 I'd recommend using a data- attribute as alt is not a valid attribute for a
. alt is valid for the following elements: <applet>, <area>, , <input>.

A: This line of code
altDiv = $(this).attr('alt');

is not doing what you think. this points to the parent function scope, in this case, the function that .ready is calling; it is not referencing the element that you are hovering. Instead, you should capture the value of the alt attribute within your handler:
$('.ShowCat').on("mouseover", function(e) {
  var altDiv = $(this).attr('alt');
  $('#' + altDiv).show();
  clearTimeout(timeout);
});

Note alt attribute on the div element is invalid, so I'd recommend instead using data-alt="..." and getting it with .data instead:
var altDiv = $(this).data('alt');

A: In this solution a timeout is associated to each ShowCat element, not sure if this applies to your requirements:

$(document).ready(function () {
    $('.ShowCat').on("mouseover", function(e) {
  var timeout = $(this).data('timeout');
  clearTimeout(timeout);
  var altDiv = $(this).attr('alt');
    $('#' + altDiv).show();
    });
    $('.ShowCat').on("mouseout", function() {
        var altDiv = $(this).attr('alt');
        var timeout = setTimeout(function() { $('#' + altDiv).hide(); }, 5000);
        $(this).data('timeout', timeout);
    });
});
.hide {
  background-color: red;
  display: none;
}

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