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package org.apache.geode.distributed.internal.membership.gms;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;

import org.apache.geode.distributed.internal.membership.api.MemberIdentifier;
import org.apache.geode.distributed.internal.membership.api.MembershipListener;
import org.apache.geode.distributed.internal.membership.api.MembershipView;

/**
 * MembershipListenerNoOp is the default implementation of MembershipListener. Construct and
 * install your own if you want to receive membership events.
 */
public class MembershipListenerNoOp<ID extends MemberIdentifier> implements MembershipListener<ID> {
  @Override
  public void viewInstalled(final MembershipView<ID> view) {

  }

  @Override
  public void quorumLost(final Set<ID> failures, final List<ID> remainingMembers) {

  }

  @Override
  public void newMemberConnected(final ID m) {

  }

  @Override
  public void memberDeparted(final ID id, final boolean crashed, final String reason) {

  }

  @Override
  public void memberSuspect(final ID suspect, final ID whoSuspected, final String reason) {

  }

  @Override
  public void membershipFailure(final String reason, final Throwable t) {

  }

  @Override
  public void saveConfig() {

  }
}


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For the cultures to have any effect, however, they must be alive and present in sufficient numbers. The National Yogurt Association's "Live and Active Cultures" seal ensures that the yogurt contains at least a minimum number of organisms at the time of manufacture. Plenty of other yogurts without the seal also state that they contain or are made with "live" or "active" cultures (the seal costs a lot of money to obtain), but it's hard to know how accurate this is. In some cases, yogurts without the seal may have even higher amounts of live, active organisms, as found in testing commissioned by the Cornucopia Institute; in other cases, they may have few, if any. Consumers have no practical way of knowing. Keep in mind also that even the National Yogurt Association's seal is misleading because it does not guarantee that the organisms are still living at the time you purchase or eat the product. Yogurts that are "heat treated" after culturing must state this on the labels, since this kills the cultures.
In any case, many of the health benefits of yogurt's probiotics are unsubstantiated or overstated. Some companies even give their own scientific-sounding names (like Bifidus Regularis) to proprietary strains of organisms, wanting you to think that they are somehow superior, despite a lack of evidence to back them. In recent years, class action lawsuits have forced Dannon in particular to stop making misleading claims—that its yogurts relieve bowel irregularity and decrease colds and flus—and pay millions of dollars in restitution to consumers who bought these higher-priced products.


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I just read an article by Frederick Schauer, The Failure of the Common Law, 36 Ariz. St. L.J. 765 (2004), in which he describes what he calls the increasing "precisification" of law, both statory and especially common law. In contrast to sweeping pronouncements of the sort found in the Sherman Act, modern statutes (think federal sentencing rules) are highly detailed, leaving little room for judicial discretion in application. Even when judges are vested with wide discretion, Schauer argues, they increasingly adopt rules to limit their own discretion.
Much as I dread the exercise of discretion by the right-wing ideologues currently being crammed onto the federal courts, or by some of the folks I've seen appointed to state benches, as a general principle I am troubled by an emphasis on rule-making over individual adjudication. The making of common law at the aporia where general rules meet singular disputes is a very different process from either legislation or rulemaking by experts and, in my opinion, should remain so. Schauer reminds us that the notion of judges "making" law with their decisions rather than "discovering" it is relatively novel; what we now see as discretion was once the product of scholarly research into universal rules of reason and justice. The death of that particular god left common law adjudication without any identifiable constraint beyond the judge's own subjective understanding, sympathy or bias.
Shortly before reading Schauer's article I read Pierre Schlag's A Brief Survey of Deconstruction, 27 Cardozo L. Rev. 741 (2005), a part of Cardozo Law School's Symposium commemorating Jacques Derrida. Schlag recounts the reception of deconstruction in the US legal academy with all its twists and turns, winding up with Derrida's Levinasian emphasis on deconstruction as justice--the infinite openness to the other. Schlag disappointingly concludes that deconstruction as openness to the other has little value for law.
I disagree with Schlag on this conclusion. I think that a deconstructive understanding of the aporia that must but can't be crossed when a case must be decided by the application of general rules to unique circumstances, the impossibility and necessity of decision, is a way to think about the process of adjudication and the value of the judge's role. Particularized rule-making of the sort described by Schauer attempts to determine singular cases in advance--to define the future as a species of the present instead of remaining open to the future to come.


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Home > Press Release: Music and the Post-COVID Church
For Immediate Release – June 3, 2021
The National Association of Pastoral Musicians (NPM) is the membership organization for all Catholic pastoral musicians serving in any liturgical capacity. NPM is ready and eager to help those who serve in ministry through this time of rebuilding and renewal.
"One cannot find anything more religious and more joyful in sacred celebrations than a whole congregation expressing its faith and devotion in song. Therefore, the active participation of the whole people, which is shown in singing, is to be carefully promoted." (Musicam Sacram 16)
Week after week, year after year, pastoral musicians have endlessly poured out our gift of song to stir the dwelling of God in every heart. Fourteen months ago, this age-old cycle was disrupted by a worldwide pandemic. The COVID-19 virus attacked the very core of music ministry: fostering full and active communal participation in the liturgy (see Sacrosanctum Concilium 14).
As the pandemic loosens its grip on society, church ministers and musicians find themselves faced with two challenges: logistics and renewal. The logistics of our ministry have been ravished and a great deal of time and effort will be needed to rebuild what has been lost. But we have to ask ourselves what this end product should look like. Jennifer Kluge, NPM Executive Director, knows this firsthand. She writes, "I joined NPM in January 2021 as the world was hopeful for widespread vaccines and for a communal renaissance. I understand the many challenges ahead of pastoral musicians and I'm humbled every day that our Association plays such an important role in our Church."
NPM is focused on this stage of renewal by sharing programming about the post-COVID Church, and by writing on this timely topic. As COVID-19 has radically halted many pastoral musicians' musical growth with their communities, NPM will offer an interactive workshop with Teresa Cobarrubia Yoder on June 7 for all National Convention registrants. Ms. Yoder will address how our next season in our ministry can feel daunting, draining, and unknown, after fourteen months with little to no choral singing, minimal congregational singing and decreased numbers of those attending liturgies in-person.
Jeremy Helmes, Chair of NPM's Board of Directors, remarked: "Music is a constitutive element of the Church's worship and our post-Covid future will require excellent leadership in sacred music for parishes throughout the U.S. NPM is eager to serve our members and all pastoral musicians as we together sing God's praise each and every Sunday."
The NPM 2021 National Convention (taking place in New Orleans, Louisiana, July 27-30) will feature dialogue and educational opportunities to re-build and re-envision ministry in a post-COVID world. Some of these opportunities will include digital workshops on post-COVID church ministry, as well as in-person workshops on the new technological needs of the Church.
NPM's leadership is available for further interviews, articles, and discussions. Together, through the guidance of the Holy Spirit, we pray that God will indeed "renew the face of the earth" (Psalm 104).
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Ryan Adams Apologizes To Mandy Moore And Other Women Who Accused Him Of Abuse
by frank July 5, 2020, 9:15 pm 1.7k Views
Singer-songwriter Ryan Adams — who was accused of sexual misconduct and psychological abuse last year by several women, including ex-wife Mandy Moore — apologized for his past "harmful behavior."
In a letter published in The Daily Mail Friday, the prolific musician expressed regret for how he "mistreated people throughout my life and career," adding that, after this "period of isolation and reflection," he's now sober and in therapy.
"All I can say is that I'm sorry. It's that simple," Adams wrote. "That being said, no amount of growth will ever take away the suffering I had caused. I will never be off the hook and I am fully accountable for my harmful behavior, and will be for my actions moving forward."
The New York Times published an expose in February 2019 detailing Adams' alleged pattern of manipulative and abusive behavior involving young female musicians. Seven women, including Moore and singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers, said he dangled career opportunities in front of them before pursuing them for sex, only to later retaliate against them professionally.
Moore, who was married to Adams from 2009 to 2016, said that "music was a point of control" in their marriage.
Adams was also accused of initiating sexually explicit communications with an underage fan, which prompted the FBI to open an investigation into the alleged texts. There's been no further news about the investigation since it was first reported in 2019.
At the time, Adams apologized for "unintentionally" causing pain. But his lawyer denied that he "ever engaged in inappropriate online sexual communications with someone he knew was underage."
The Grammy-nominated singer didn't address the accusations specifically in his statement. But Adams wrote that he's "truly realized the harm that I've caused" and vowed to "finally start to fix myself so I could be a better friend, a better partner, and a better man overall."
Adams acknowledged that many will consider his remarks the "same empty bullshit apology that I've always used when I was called out" but added that he's since made significant changes in his life, including seeking professional help and prioritizing his sobriety.
"There is no way to convince people that this time is truly different, but this is the albatross that I deserve to carry with me as a result of my actions," he wrote.
Adams scrapped multiple albums and a European tour in the wake of the accusations. He hinted that he might make a return to music in his statement, saying that he's written enough to "fill half a dozen albums" over the past year. Adams shared on Instagram on the day of his apology that he relaunched his website.
He concluded his apology: "I hope that the people I've hurt will heal. And I hope that they will find a way to forgive me."
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{-# LANGUAGE NoMonomorphismRestriction #-}
{-# LANGUAGE FlexibleContexts #-}
{-# LANGUAGE RankNTypes #-}
{-# LANGUAGE KindSignatures #-}

module TimeSeriesData.Expressions
  ( Expression (..)
  , parseExpression
  , evaluate
  , listTags
  ) where

import Prelude hiding (and, or)
import Text.Parsec
import Control.Monad.Reader
import TimeSeriesData.Types
import TimeSeriesData.Compares
import TimeSeriesData.Arithmetic
import TimeSeriesData.Counts

data Expression = TknTagName String
                | TknNumber Double
                | TknString String
                | TknData [TSPoint]
                | TknInvalid
                | TknAdd Expression Expression
                | TknMinus Expression Expression
                | TknMoreThan Expression Expression
                | TknMoreEqThan Expression Expression
                | TknLessThan Expression Expression
                | TknLessEqThan Expression Expression
                | TknEquals Expression Expression
                | TknNotEquals Expression Expression
                | TknAnd Expression Expression
                | TknOr Expression Expression
                | TknIntervals [TSInterval] deriving Show

parseExpression :: String -> Either ParseError Expression
parseExpression = parse expr "Invalid expression"

expr :: forall s u (m :: * -> *) . Stream s m Char
     => ParsecT s u m Expression
expr = do e <- logical
          eof
          return e

logical :: forall s u (m :: * -> *) . Stream s m Char
        => ParsecT s u m Expression
logical = chainl1 (logical' <|> comparison) op
  where op = (string "and" <|> string "AND" <|> string "or" <|> string "OR")
             >>= \ sym -> case sym of "and" -> return TknAnd
                                      "AND" -> return TknAnd
                                      "or"  -> return TknOr
                                      "OR"  -> return TknOr
                                      _     -> undefined

logical' :: forall s u (m :: * -> *) . Stream s m Char
         => ParsecT s u m Expression
logical' = do _ <- try $ spaces >> char '(' >> spaces
              a <- try logical
              _ <- try $ spaces >> char ')' >> spaces
              return a

comparison :: forall s u (m :: * -> *) . Stream s m Char
           => ParsecT s u m Expression
comparison = do t1 <- term
                sym <-     try (string ">=")
                       <|> try (string "<=")
                       <|> try (string "!=")
                       <|> try (string ">")
                       <|> try (string "<")
                       <|> try (string "=")
                t2 <- term
                let op = case sym of ">"  -> TknMoreThan
                                     ">=" -> TknMoreEqThan
                                     "<"  -> TknLessThan
                                     "<=" -> TknLessEqThan
                                     "="  -> TknEquals
                                     "!=" -> TknNotEquals
                                     _    -> undefined
                return (op t1 t2)

-- |A term represents a collection of values
term :: forall s u (m :: * -> *) . Stream s m Char
     => ParsecT s u m Expression
term = do spaces
          t <- try arith <|> tagName <|> num <|> str
          spaces
          return t

arith :: forall s u (m :: * -> *) . Stream s m Char
           => ParsecT s u m Expression
arith = chainl1 (tagName <|> num) op
  where op = do sym <- oneOf "+-"
                return $ case sym of '+' -> TknAdd
                                     '-' -> TknMinus
                                     _   -> undefined

tagName :: forall s u (m :: * -> *) . Stream s m Char
        => ParsecT s u m Expression
tagName = between (char '[') (char ']') (many1 $ alphaNum <|> oneOf "._")
          >>= return . TknTagName

num :: forall s u (m :: * -> *) . Stream s m Char
    => ParsecT s u m Expression
num = integer <++> decimal <++> expo >>= return . TknNumber . read
      where integer = (positive <|> negative <|> nums)
            positive = char '+' *> nums
            negative = (:) <$> char '-' <*> nums
            nums = many1 digit
            decimal = option "" $ char '.' <:> nums
            expo = option "" $ oneOf "eE" <:> integer
            (<++>) a b = (++) <$> a <*> b
            (<:>) a b = (:) <$> a <*> b

str :: forall s u (m :: * -> *) . Stream s m Char
    => ParsecT s u m Expression
str = between (char '"') (char '"') (many letter) >>= return . TknString

listTags :: Expression -> [String]
listTags (TknMoreThan c1 c2) = concat [listTags c1, listTags c2]
listTags (TknMoreEqThan c1 c2) = concat [listTags c1, listTags c2]
listTags (TknLessThan c1 c2) = concat [listTags c1, listTags c2]
listTags (TknLessEqThan c1 c2) = concat [listTags c1, listTags c2]
listTags (TknEquals c1 c2) = concat [listTags c1, listTags c2]
listTags (TknNotEquals c1 c2) = concat [listTags c1, listTags c2]
listTags (TknAdd c1 c2) = concat [listTags c1, listTags c2]
listTags (TknMinus c1 c2) = concat [listTags c1, listTags c2]
listTags (TknAnd c1 c2) = concat [listTags c1, listTags c2]
listTags (TknOr c1 c2) = concat [listTags c1, listTags c2]
listTags (TknTagName tn) = [tn]
listTags _ = []

evaluate :: Expression -> TSData -> [TSInterval]
evaluate expression tsData = case runReader (eval expression) tsData of
  TknIntervals intervals -> intervals
  _                      -> []

eval :: MonadReader TSData m => Expression -> m Expression

eval (TknTagName tn) = reader (lookup tn . dataOf)
                       >>= return . maybe TknInvalid TknData

eval (TknNumber n) = do start <- reader startOf
                        end   <- reader endOf
                        let v = Continuous n
                        return $ TknData $ [TSPoint start v, TSPoint end v]

eval (TknString n) = do start <- reader startOf
                        end   <- reader endOf
                        let v = Discrete n
                        return $ TknData $ [TSPoint start v, TSPoint end v]

eval (TknData points) = return $ TknData points

eval TknInvalid = return TknInvalid

eval (TknAdd (TknData d1) (TknData d2)) = return $
  TknData $ arithmetic (+) d1 d2

eval (TknMinus (TknData d1) (TknData d2)) = return $
  TknData $ arithmetic (-) d1 d2

eval (TknMoreThan (TknData d1) (TknData d2)) = return $ TknIntervals $
  fmap fst $ filter ((== (Just GT)) . snd) (compares d1 d2)

eval (TknMoreEqThan (TknData d1) (TknData d2)) = return $ TknIntervals $
  fmap fst $ filter f (compares d1 d2)
  where f (_, a) = a == (Just GT) || a == (Just EQ)

eval (TknLessThan (TknData d1) (TknData d2)) = return $ TknIntervals $
  fmap fst $ filter ((== (Just LT)) . snd) (compares d1 d2)

eval (TknLessEqThan (TknData d1) (TknData d2)) = return $ TknIntervals $
  fmap fst $ filter f (compares d1 d2)
  where f (_, a) = a == (Just LT) || a == (Just EQ)

eval (TknEquals (TknData d1) (TknData d2)) = return $ TknIntervals $
  fmap fst $ filter ((== (Just EQ)) . snd) (compares d1 d2)

eval (TknNotEquals (TknData d1) (TknData d2)) = return $ TknIntervals $
  fmap fst $ filter f (compares d1 d2)
  where f (_, a) = a == (Just LT) || a == (Just GT)

eval (TknAnd (TknIntervals s1) (TknIntervals s2)) =
  return $ TknIntervals $ map fst $ filter ((== 2) . snd) (counts [s1, s2])

eval (TknOr (TknIntervals s1) (TknIntervals s2)) =
  return $ TknIntervals $ map fst $ filter ((> 0) . snd) (counts [s1, s2])

eval (TknIntervals intervals) = return $ TknIntervals intervals

eval (TknAdd        TknInvalid _) = return TknInvalid
eval (TknMinus      TknInvalid _) = return TknInvalid
eval (TknMoreThan   TknInvalid _) = return TknInvalid
eval (TknMoreEqThan TknInvalid _) = return TknInvalid
eval (TknLessThan   TknInvalid _) = return TknInvalid
eval (TknLessEqThan TknInvalid _) = return TknInvalid
eval (TknEquals     TknInvalid _) = return TknInvalid
eval (TknNotEquals  TknInvalid _) = return TknInvalid
eval (TknAnd        TknInvalid _) = return TknInvalid
eval (TknOr         TknInvalid _) = return TknInvalid

eval (TknAdd        _ TknInvalid) = return TknInvalid
eval (TknMinus      _ TknInvalid) = return TknInvalid
eval (TknMoreThan   _ TknInvalid) = return TknInvalid
eval (TknMoreEqThan _ TknInvalid) = return TknInvalid
eval (TknLessThan   _ TknInvalid) = return TknInvalid
eval (TknLessEqThan _ TknInvalid) = return TknInvalid
eval (TknEquals     _ TknInvalid) = return TknInvalid
eval (TknNotEquals  _ TknInvalid) = return TknInvalid
eval (TknAnd        _ TknInvalid) = return TknInvalid
eval (TknOr         _ TknInvalid) = return TknInvalid

eval (TknAdd c1 c2) = do c1' <- eval c1
                         c2' <- eval c2
                         eval $ TknAdd c1' c2'
eval (TknMinus c1 c2) = do c1' <- eval c1
                           c2' <- eval c2
                           eval $ TknMinus c1' c2'
eval (TknMoreThan c1 c2) = do c1' <- eval c1
                              c2' <- eval c2
                              eval $ TknMoreThan c1' c2'
eval (TknMoreEqThan c1 c2) = do c1' <- eval c1
                                c2' <- eval c2
                                eval $ TknMoreEqThan c1' c2'
eval (TknLessThan c1 c2) = do c1' <- eval c1
                              c2' <- eval c2
                              eval $ TknLessThan c1' c2'
eval (TknLessEqThan c1 c2) = do c1' <- eval c1
                                c2' <- eval c2
                                eval $ TknLessEqThan c1' c2'
eval (TknEquals c1 c2) = do c1' <- eval c1
                            c2' <- eval c2
                            eval $ TknEquals c1' c2'
eval (TknNotEquals c1 c2) = do c1' <- eval c1
                               c2' <- eval c2
                               eval $ TknNotEquals c1' c2'
eval (TknAnd c1 c2) = do c1' <- eval c1
                         c2' <- eval c2
                         eval $ TknAnd c1' c2'
eval (TknOr c1 c2) = do c1' <- eval c1
                        c2' <- eval c2
                        eval $ TknOr c1' c2'

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During the Intervention project, I worked with two groups; I helped Jacqueline with her smile factory and I helped Christin with her 'punch Andrew Carnegie' project. In Jacqueline's group, I helped her acquire whatever material she needed and helped her mass produce the smiles; we both made the stamps with each other and then took turns stamping the masks.
For Christin's project, I spent a few hours creating two lid-size Andrew Carnegie Dummy Bodies. Afterwards, I helped Christin and Lindsey adjust any changes they wanted to make in the body and insert the speakers. Afterwards, I edited the documentation together to make one comprehensive film.


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Q: How to Retrieve and mail OLAP data in SSIS I have a mdx query that returns valid results in Sql Server Management Studio and would like to automate the execution of this query and put the result into an email.
SSIS seems to be the natural fit for this. I have been able to run the mdx in an "Execute SQL Task" and populate an object variable with the result, but I am unsure how to parse out that object into string or xml data that I can use in a Send Mail task.
Postings I have seen elsewhere on this type of thing end up going to using a "Script Task" Which would require me to change my C# thoughts into VB.NET and seem to be outside the spirit and utility of SSIS.
If there is another approach entirely that could work as well I am not married to SSIs but would like to stay within the MS SQL Server and .NET toolset.

A: You can execute C# in SSIS 2008 - when you first create the script task, select C# as the language before opening the code editor (I think it's default anyway).
If it's an object, that's your best bet for extracting data to variables for an email.
Alternatively, you could create a stored proc in SQL that performs your query and returns the data you want as output parameters. These output parameters can be mapped to variables on the execute SQL task.
Lastly, if it's a data flow type scenario (e.g. you're retrieving a result set and sending an email per row) have a look at using a data flow, perhaps with an OLEDB source or a custom script source (again, populated by a C# script)

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I love the capabilities films and books have for changing the world. They are roadmaps for our lives and infuse our days with knowledge and inspiration. If you love the planet and are interested in making a difference but don't know where to start - then the titles below can kickstart your environmental adventures. These titles can also add beauty and stoke to wherever you're at on your path. These have made me laugh, cry, and provoked me to do better along my journey. I hope you treasure them, find hope, seek solace, and gain what you need to move you to action.


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Cyborg Monday
So it is official. Thanksgiving is over, and the Christmas shopping season is upon us. Some folks - who are completely crazy by the way - ran out on Black Friday to snag deals in a shop-'til-you-drop marathon. Others waited until today (a.k.a Cyber Monday) to get started online. I don't know about you, but it's just not Christmas shopping if you simply sit in front of your PC and clickety-clackety your way down your naughty and nice lists. If you are like me, and I hope you're not, Christmas shopping means just one thing: toy stores. In my opinion, there is nothing like a toy store, and the bigger the better. Below are a few of my favorites which, if you ever get the chance to visit, also have timeshare rentals available nearby.
Starting out in the City by the Bay, San Francisco has two great independent toy stores. The Ark and Ambassador Toys both have downtown locations and feature "classic" toys, like the ones I played with back in the Paleolithic era. That is to say, made from wood, metal, and cloth. Although mine probably had lots of lead and asbestos in them too, the point is that they are durable, timeless, and simply fun. Don't get me wrong, there is a time and a place for some Wii bowling, but there is just something about a pedal car, a really good set of stacking blocks, or a quality hand-made doll. And I think it is more than simple nostalgia, judging by the throngs of young parents found at these stores who came of age in the plastic, play-with-it-once and toss it era. There are also many timeshare rental options available right in San Francisco, so you can do some shopping and dropping of your own.
At the complete opposite end of the spectrum, you will find Wacko in Los Angeles. As indicated by the name, this place is simply crazy. To call it a toy store would not be quite right. It's more like the largest collection of pop-culture-inspired ephemera in one place. Within that are some of the coolest retro and original collectible toys and accessories you've ever seen. Don't believe me? How about Pulp Fiction action figures? Or maybe a Fonzie lunch box? If you came of age in the 70s (a.k.a. the Plastic Age) this place is like a time portal back to your youth: bad haircuts and all. Nearby Anaheim is loaded with great timeshare rentals and a place called Disney that you might want to check out as well.
Of course, no review of toy stores would be complete without talking about the grand-daddy of them all: FAO Schwarz in New York City. The Toys 'R Us flagship store in NYC is now the largest toy store in the world (and totally awesome by the way), but FAO is legendary. Started in the 1860s in Baltimore, it is the oldest toy store in the U.S.A. and one of the oldest retailers of any kind. Did you ever see the movie Big with Tom Hanks? Remember the scene where he played "Heart & Soul" with his feet on the giant piano? That's the place, and it is even better in person. It's a true hands-on (and sometimes feet) experience. You are encouraged to play with the toys, and locals and tourists alike flock here to do just that. If you can get here to see this place decked out for the holidays, you really should. Try the Manhattan Club for a timeshare rental experience, NYC-style.
Well I am off to see if I can snag LEGO's new Ultimate Building Set. It's 405 pieces of colorful goodness in a durable plastic box, with a see-through lid. That way your little one can see the pieces they need without dumping them out all over the floor. It's perfect for the toddler on your list who is graduating from the Duplo stage LEGO block up to the big-boy leagues. Or, as in my case, an aging boomer whose collection is incomplete without it. It's madness I tell you, pure madness.
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Those Aren't Pillows
Did you ever see that John Candy/Steve Martin movie "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles"? They are an odd-couple of strangers, teamed up by accident, just trying to get home for Thanksgiving. But one funny disaster after the next befalls them along the way. In this one scene they have been relegated to a cheesy motel, sleeping in a single bed together. Martin's character, Neal, wakes first to discover that he and Candy's character, Del, are in a spooning position. Del, obviously thinking he is at home with his spouse, is holding his hand and cooing softly. Neal inquires, "Del, why are you holding my hand?", as Del dreamily awakes. Neal frowns and then asks "Where's your other hand?" Del - still waking up - replies, "Between two pillows." Neal breaks the silence of the moment with a shriek of "Those aren't pillows!". The two men jump out of bed and try to shake off an implication of inappropriate behavior with references to football and other manly pursuits. It's a hilarious flick if you've never seen it, and watching it has become a Thanksgiving tradition in my home.
Of course our original Thanksgiving traditions go all the way back to the first colonies of Plymouth, Massachusetts, and Jamestown, Virginia. If you have never been, I highly recommend both. At Plymouth (or Plimoth Planation as it was known), you will be treated to an educational and entertaining re-creation of the second permanent English colony in America, and the place from where our original Thanksgiving legend originated (I say legend because much of what we think we know about the first Thanksgiving is probably not quite right). For example, it is very unlikely that the Pilgrims and native Wampanoag tribe celebrated a meal together in 1621. It was noted in several journals and letters that the colonists celebrated their first harvest that fall, and that curious representatives of the Wampanoag dropped by. The fact is, the remaining Pilgrims were happy and lucky to still be alive (many of them were neither) and, understandably, the two groups of people were not on the best of terms. None of this should deter you from enjoying your visit, or continuing to celebrate this treasured piece of our cultural past. Quite the opposite, really. The English plantation is staffed with interpreters who dress in period clothing, and speak in period accents. You can ask them anything you want about their lives, and they will answer from a 17th century perspective. They never break character. The Wompanoag homestead, however, is staffed by modern day members of the tribe. They feel it would be inappropriate to reenact something they still feel culturally a part of and, that not talking about the hardship that befell them after the arrival of the English would be a disservice. I respect and admire both perspectives, and came away with a knowledge of this distant past not really available in any other format. If you visit, you can rent a timeshare in either Boston or Cape Cod. Plymouth is situated along the route between the two.
With our Thanksgiving tracing its routes to Plymouth, it is easy to forget that the Jamestown settlement predates it by thirteen years. On the shores of the Jamestown River you will find a beautiful museum, a re-creation of the English fort, replicas of the boats they sailed from England, and a native Powhatan village. After enjoying the extensive displays of artifacts, movies and galleries at the museum, you climb aboard the Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery, and see just what a hellish experience the trip from England must have been for those original 104 men and boys. Then you can take a tour of the fort and native village. Both groups of interpreters dress in period garb and occupy themselves with period tasks. But neither pretends to be in the past. So if you ask a Powhatan about their most famous daughter, Pocahontas, they are going to be aware of the Disney movie as well as real life details of the Indian princess. I'll tell you first-hand that they don't know why Mel Gibson was cast in a singing role as John Smith. Nobody does, really. When you go, be sure to rent a timeshare in nearby Williamsburg. It will put you in the heart of America's Historic Triangle of Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown, where the British finally called it quits in the Revolutionary War. The latter is why we watch football on Thanksgiving and not soccer, I suppose. I for one am thankful for that.
Well, I am off to get ready for my local Thanksgiving Day Turkey Trot. Do you know about these? Yeah, a bunch of people who are otherwise sedentary the other 364 days of the year participate in a 5k race on the morning of Thanksgiving. I guess it is a way to try to preemptively burn off the 10,000 calories awaiting them later in the day, and they typically raise money for charity too. But from a pure comedy standpoint, it's priceless and I like to reserve myself a spot right near the finish line. Do you remember the opening segment on Wide World of Sports when the announcer would say, "The thrill of victory, and the agony of defeat"? It's like that, without the victory.
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So did you catch the story last week about a mystery missile in California? Yeah, there's video of the thing circulating around the web, and it seems to clearly show an unidentified flying object leaving a giant trail in the sky. NORAD, The Pentagon, the FAA, and the DOD all denied being involved in any kind of a missile launch, but none could explain what the object - seen by thousands of people - could have been. Each insisted there was nothing to worry about and that there was absolutely no threat, terrestrial or otherwise. Which to me is not all that comforting on the heels of just saying you have no idea what it was. In the end, it would seem that things are not always as they appear. Seems that, due to the curvature of the earth, a commercial airplane leaving a horizontal contrail behind it can create the illusion that it is climbing straight up. But why let facts get in the way of a good UFO sighting?
So I was thinking it might be fun to see if there were timeshare rentals nearby famous UFO sightings that I could write about this week. But the green guys never turn up where lots of people (and cameras) are around to detect them, right? They don't fly right to the White House looking for our leader like they did in that movie Independence Day. Or do they? Turns out that a formation of orange lights was detected by D.C. air traffic controllers and thousands of people on the ground over the course of two nights in January 1952. The objects were verified by radar to be traveling over 900 m.p.h. Even President Truman was notified and kept abreast of the situation. Radio frequencies were scrambled in the Capitol and security threat levels were elevated. To date, no reasonable explanation has ever been offered and, officially, the flying objects remain "unknown". Man that's creepy! I mean, I am sure it was the Russians - or something we were building to use on the Russians - but what if aliens really did come in for a closer look at our capitol? Check out D.C. and decide for yourself by renting a timeshare at either Wyndham Vacation Resorts at National Harbor or Wyndham Old Town Alexandria.
When you think of Los Angeles I am sure that a long list of movies about UFOs comes to mind: like ET, Close Encounters, Alien, and so forth. But have you ever heard of the Battle of Los Angeles? No, it wasn't one of those awful 1950s martian invasion flicks, but an actual event that occurred in 1942. Just a few months after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the west coast was on high alert for more attacks from the air. On the evening of February 24, a giant flying object was spotted by thousands of people on the ground and by U.S. military installations. L.A. was put under blackout, and massive search lights locked in on the object. Soon the Army's 37th Coast Artillery Brigade opened fire on the object, striking it several times to no avail. In the end, it flew off and was last seen over Long Beach. They've even got a photo of the incident, available here. Are you kidding me?! I guess the nation was too consumed with having just entered World War II to even consider a war of the worlds. I think a trip to Southern California is in order, don't you? I suggest the numerous timeshares available in the Anaheim area as a base for your exploration.
Then there's the case of the Lubbock Lights in 1951. Now you may know Lubbock, TX, as the birthplace of Buddy Holly - or at least you do now. But this event had nothing to do with rock 'n roll. Over the course of several evenings in late August hundreds of people - which is saying something in a town the size of Lubbock - witnessed 20 to 30 objects flying in a V formation in the night sky. Among the observers were three professors from Texas Technical College, and a student of theirs who managed to get several photographs of the objects. The photos were so amazing that they appeared in Life magazine. And keeping with a theme, they remain "unidentified" to this day. Now I won't lie to you. There isn't a timeshare resort within a hundred miles of Lubbock, TX. In fact, there isn't one within 200 miles. But if you are willing to consider neighboring New Mexico... do you see where I am gong with this? That's right, the grand-daddy of all UFO incidents occurred in Roswell, NM. You can rent a timeshare in Ruidoso, NM - about an hour outside of Roswell - and have yourself a UFO-themed timeshare vacation. Sure, your friends will think you're nuts, but you know better.
Should you decide to embark on this quest, I would point out something that famed physicist Stephen Hawking recently had to say about alien encounters. They way he sees it, if extraterrestrials have already figured out how to travel here from the far reaches of outer space, they certainly possess the technology to liquidate us all in the blink of one of their giant black eyes. He makes a good argument for things not going so well for the home team in this scenario. But then again, would you rather be watching X-Files reruns when you get obliterated, or on vacation in the beautiful Southwest?
The last time I was in Miami Beach, it was all the rage to wear a tight T-shirt under an Armani jacket, white pants, and a pair of impossibly tight Italian loafers. Suffice it to say that this was not a good look for me, and I was never a candidate to replace Don Johnson on Miami Vice during his rift with his bosses at NBC. Besides, I could never get that permanent five o'clock shadow look down. I go from baby-face to werewolf in about twelve hours myself. But that was then, and this is now, and Miami Beach is hotter than ever.
Hey, did you know that Miami Beach was actually once just a sandbar off the city of Miami? Yeah, in the 1860s a couple of guys from New Jersey bought it from the U.S. government for 25 cents an acre with the hopes of operating a coconut plantation on it. They managed to get investors, and even produced some salable fruits. But getting it back to the mainland proved to be a nightmare. After raising a lot of money, and going bust a few times, they built the longest wooden bridge in the country to connect what is now known as Miami Beach to the rest of the country. But being eaten alive by mosquitos and overwhelming debt led to the end of the plantation phase, and the vacation resort concept was hatched. Under new management, plots of land were sold to wealthy northeasterners and a railroad was built to replace the bridge. In 1921, President-elect Warren Harding vacationed at the brand new Flamingo Hotel and put Miami Beach on the map. Then a massive hurricane struck and took it right back. The stock market craze of the Roaring Twenties saw a new boom in development, which was just as quickly crushed by the crash and the Great Depression. Are you sensing a pattern here? This booming and busting has been going on since the earliest days of settlement on this strip of sand, and if the off season signing of NBA great Lebron James is any indicator, we're in a big-time boom right now. Let's just hope history doesn't repeat itself while I am in town.
You may know Miami Beach for its famous South Beach (or SOBE, if you are in the know), chic restaurants, vibrant immigrant neighborhoods, and a nightlife scene without equal. But did you know it also has the largest collection of Art Deco buildings in the world? Yeah, from 1923-43 Miami was a flash point of this internationally acclaimed style. The Art Deco Historic District was featured heavily in both Scarface and The Birdcage, if you saw either of those films. Hey, wouldn't it be funny if they remade Scarface with Nathan Lane as Tony Montana instead of Al Pacino? "Say Hello to my little friend!" Maybe not.
Anywho, Miami Beach is also a fantastic spot to find timeshare rentals. I am staying at the Hilton Grand Vacation Club at South Beach. Located in the heart of the Art Deco District, this is a meticulously restored resort. It features a rooftop deck, whirlpool spa, recreation room, laundry and fitness facilities, and is within easy walking distance to superb restaurants and shopping. Oh, and its location on Ocean Drive -- better known as The American Riviera -- puts you just steps from the beach. You can get a rental at this fantastic resort for as little as $175/night.
Well I have to run. I have it on good authority that there is going to be a "Conchita the Chihuahua" sighting on the strip at South Beach today. Do you know about this pooch? Her former owner and heiress Gale Posner left a $3 million dollar trust fund and her mansion to this "tea-cup" chihuahua. A little bigger than a guinea pig, this canine is officially "The Most Pampered Dog In The World," and I want to see if I can get my picture taken with her. I'd really like to get a picture of Posner's son, Brett Carr, who essentially was left out of the will in favor of the dog. But he understandably keeps a low profile.
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Do you know what starts in Boston, stops in London and Berlin, blows through Chicago, and wraps up in New York? No, not an Elton John shopping spree, but the World Marathon Majors fall season. That's right, the 26.22 mile road race that has come to signify the epitome of human physical endurance wraps up its season with the NYC Marathon this Sunday; and I don't plan on missing it. I've logged too many miles not to be there. In fact, I haven't missed the NYC marathon in over 20 years -- as a fan, of course. You'd have to be out of your mind to run that far, unless something really big and hungry was chasing you. Heck, I drive to the mailbox to get my paper! But I love being part of the spectacle that is a world-class marathon, and NYC is the grand daddy of them all.
Hey, did you know that the first marathon is said to have been run by the Greek messenger Pheidippides? The Greeks had just defeated the Persians at Marathon and, having fought in the battle, this fellow ran all the way to Athens to deliver the good news. He proclaimed, "We have won!", or words to that effect, and then dropped dead. That's a really lousy story when you think about it, and why it inspired long-distance foot races is beyond me. You'd think the lesson learned there would be NOT to run 26 miles -- even under the best of circumstances -- but there you have it. These days, the world records for running this absurdly long distance is around 2:05 for men, and 2:15 for women. Are you kidding me?! My flight from Chicago is going to take longer than that, and we'll be cruising at 600 m.p.h.
While in Gotham, I am going to stay at one of my favorite spots to rent a timeshare: The Manhattan Club. I know I have talked about its incomparable elegance and sophistication in the past, so I won't go on and on about it. But seriously folks, this is what going to New York is all about. Right in the heart of midtown Manhattan, close to everything, ensconced in oak and marble, and starting as low as $200/night. It is not out of reach of everyday travelers. Besides, it's not every day the NYC Marathon comes to town.
Well, I have to run to get to another of my favorite NYC events. The New York Comedy Festival happens to coincide with the marathon, and I am equally enthusiastic about the comedy festival circuit. Rather than cheer on the participants -- as I do with the runners -- I prefer to heckle the comedians. I figure it keeps them sharp and their material fresh. They tend not to see it that way, and I am presently banned from Caroline's, The Comedy Factory, or from coming within 500 feet of Lewis CK. For comedians, some of these guys are really wound-up tight. Maybe they should take up running.
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The Problem with Setting Goals (and What to Set Instead)
This is Part II of II. If you missed Part I, read The Foraging Choice: The Choice That Makes or Breaks Our Work
I don't set goals. Not really.
I have an idea of what excites me. I love the work I do and want to constantly improve. I adore the journey most days (though not all days, because that's just reality, even for People Who Say Pithy Things For A Living.)
But this pithy little idea that success requires you to set and reach goals is simply not true. That's too broad, too simplistic, and too universal. There is no "one right way" to do most things in this wonderful work that we do. So instead of set goals, I set something else. It's something I first encountered in hosting Unthinkable and later codified in writing my book thanks to all these wonderful humans whose stories I was grateful to tell. It turns out they replace their goals with something else too. I call them aspirational anchors. But to understand what I mean, you first need to understand the foraging choice.
Yep. The foraging choice. Last week, most people reading this newsletter (perhaps you?) learned about the foraging choice just a few days after I did. (If you missed that, go back and read about it here.)
The foraging choice is the decision between exploiting your existing position and exploring other possibilities. This psychological concept was most recently explored in a research study at NYU which I was lucky enough to get my hands on before publication to the outside world, all thanks to my secret agent planted deep inside the psychology world. (She is also quite pretty and smart and charming and warm and married to me.)
Think back to last week's newsletter. Remember what causes us to exploit our current position rather than explore new and potentially better options? As the study observed, "chronic and acute stress" prompts us to cling more fiercely to options we know and reject the notion of exploring the unknown. As a result, we act like nervous squirrels insisting that there will be just a few more nuts left in this tree and OMG what if those other trees are barren or HOLY WALNUTS what if there are foxes and hawks out there? Let's just stay here. Yup-yup-YUPYUP! Here's good, here's good, here's good...
Oh boy. In the workplace, when we beat the ever-loving crap out of a tactic or do something merely because "that's how we do things around here," we're deciding to exploit rather than explore. So what can prompt us to explore? I don't believe setting goals is the answer.
In fact, I'd argue that goals add to our stress. Goals are like mile markers in a race. We want to reach THAT spot over THERE. But once we reach that goal, there's another, and another, and another. So we can't reach that spot fast enough. Worse, because everybody in our industry seems to be running this same race towards that same spot, it's so tempting to compare and contrast and get stressed out. They make the race look so effortless. They reached that mile marker so much faster than we did.
I think goals are a way to measure what we did in our work, not how we did it -- and how we do our work makes all the difference between exploitation and exploring. Goals anchor us to a spot in the distance, but they do little to adjust the course we take in the first place. In reality, they encourage us to take ANY course we can in the effort to reach that spot, and so, many of us look for cheats, hacks, tips, tricks, blueprints, and gurus who promise get-there-quick tactics. If we bring our own sensibilities and personalities to our goals, that's great, but they're not automatically a part of our work. I think that's broken. I think setting a goal should somehow incorporate how we operate, not just where we want to go.
That's why I believe in setting aspirational anchors.
Aspirational anchors are personal or team-based mission statements that focus us on the change in our behavior, not the outcome of that behavior. They add in the "how" in a powerful way. For instance, when we set a goal, we might say, "Let's grow our subscribers 50% month over month," and that may encourage us to repeat the old playbook with more urgency or adopt any and all tactics that profess to grow traffic fast. All we focus on is reaching THAT spot over THERE, and we find ourselves in a similar race to everyone else. But what if we set an aspirational anchor like "Let's show the world how fun and relevant we really are" instead? What if we said THAT to ourselves or our teams? We might encourage everyone to consider how we're operating now and what change we'd like to make in ourselves. We're no longer interested in purely the mile marker. We're interested in the course we take. The how. The change. In focusing on that, we can run our own race, too.
Aspirational anchors combine two powerful things about our unique situations: our intent for the future and some kind of hunger we have today. Goals omit the latter, and so we never feel inspired enough to go exploring with confidence. If we're trying to fix a bland and boring blog in order to generate more subscribers, a goal would merely articulate our intent for the future. "We want to grow our subscribers 50% month over month." We're not inspiring anyone, least of all ourselves. But if we add in some hunger, some dissatisfaction with our behavior, our company, or our industry, then suddenly it becomes an aspirational anchor.
What's your intent? To grow subscribers. What's dissatisfying about your work today in trying to do that? We have to dig deeper to answer that. Maybe we realize our tone of voice is too bland, or that we're so focused on results that we're copying too much, or that we're serving "leads" instead of customers. Whatever the case, adding the hunger part makes the anchor aspirational enough to prompt reflection and change.
Intent: Grow our subscribers. Hunger: Our voice is too bland. Aspirational anchor: So let's show the world how fun and relevant we really are!
If our goal was to create the industry's most fun-and-relevant blog, instead of merely to grow our email list, suddenly our behavior might change. We'd stop googling or asking people on social media for tips, tricks, cheats, and hacks, and we'd develop more self-awareness and situational awareness. We'd look more intently at our environment for the answers. This, according to the NYU study, is that precursor to making good foraging choices: knowing our environment enough to make informed, confident decisions to explore, not merely exploit.
Aspirational anchors thus provide a sort of first-filter before we make our choices at work. They help us vet all that information out there more quickly, with more clarity and more confidence. Some ideas or some best practices get through our filter because they make sense for our specific aspiration. Some things get stuck and thus we ignore them, even if they were spoken by an industry expert we admire. But the only way we can make these decisions is if we know what we aspire to do.
These statements are also personal. Aspirational anchors give us a reason to apply who we are in our work, because make no mistake, who we are is the ONE thing competitors can't access. Who we are is our unfair advantage. Are you using that advantage to its full extent in your work?
So if we want to do our best work, and if we believe we can't merely cling to the past precedent or the latest trend, we need to explore rather than exploit. But when we're stressed, we rarely decide to do so. Aspirational anchors provide the necessary inspiration and direction for an individual or group to see their environment more clearly. If we're trying to reach THAT spot over THERE .... AND .... we want to take THAT course forward ... then we need to change our current course. We can make decisions based on what works FOR US rather than the general wisdom or advice. We realize we can stop exploiting and begin to investigate new and better possibilities. This spot's no good! Gotta go!
Ask yourself: "What is my aspirational anchor? What is my intent for the future? And what is the hunger I feel today, some dissatisfaction with my or our work? How does that lead me to create an aspirational anchor?"
What is your personal or team-based mission statement? Can you focus less on the mile-markers and more on the behavior change you need? Best of all, how can you make your work more personal so you're running your own race entirely? Even if a whole pack of competitors races down the same path, you might waltz the other way, because you have the clarity and confidence to know what works best FOR YOU.
What is your aspirational anchor? If you can articulate it, you'll step back from that endless cycle of best practices, conventional thinking, and trendy new tactics. You'll realize just how much you or others get caught in exploitation mode, and with confidence and clarity, you'll inspire yourself and those around you to do something exceptional instead.
Let's go exploring...
To learn more about how to make better decisions in your work (regardless of the "best practice"), explore Break the Wheel. Available everywhere Oct. 16, but readers in the U.S. can pre-order signed copies at jayacunzo.com/book


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Some issues may need to be clarified
The Philippine government informed the United States government last February 11 that it was terminating the two countries' Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), after the US cancelled the US visa of former Philippine National Police chief, now Senator, Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa.
The move raised some questions, principally one on the wisdom of ending an agreement that assured American support in case of a military threat to the country. The Americans came in 1898 in the course of the worldwide Spanish-American war, but even after Philippine independence in 1946, the US has been a key part of the Philippine defense posture.
President Duterte won election in May,2016, and declared he would pursue an independent foreign policy, including an alliance with Russia and China. Last February, the Philippine government sent a letter to the US government, through its Manila Embassy, that it was ending the FVA, effective this coming August.
Last Wednesday, June 3, the Philippine government made another unexpected move – Secretary of Foreign Affairs Teodoro Locsin Jr. said he had sent the US government, on instruction of President Duterte, announcing the suspension of the Philippine decision to terminate the FVA.
He gave no reasons for the decision, only a statement that "in the vast and swiftly changing circumstances of the world, in the time of pandemic and heightened superpower tensions, a world leader must be of be quickened mind and fast on his feet for the safety of our nation and the peace of the world." We would appreciate a clearer explanation on how the pandemic and superpower tensions have affected the decision to scrap the VFA.
At the time of the original decision to scrap the FVA in February, the Senate raised another point. The Constitution requires the concurrence of the Senate in any treaty with another country. It is, however, silent on whether the executive can abrogate such a treaty without the same Senate concurrence.
The Senate raised the issue to the Supreme Court on March nd the court ordered the respondents to submit their comments. The President may have changed his mind about the VFA but the case in the SC still stands and should be decided, Sen. Franklin Drilon said.
This second issue of whether the executive can abrogate any international agreement without Senate concurrence must b resolved to clarify a provision of the Constitution.
But the more basic issue is whether we should now end our close ties with the US, starting with the abrogation of the Visiting Forces Agreement. Our ties with the US have been a basic part of all Philippine governments since our independence in 1946.
President Duterte began the cutting process in February 11 but on June 3 , he changed his mind and suspended the original decision to scrap the VFA. A forthright statement should clarify all issues that may be in the minds of some senators or some other officials on this matter of such great national importance.
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The Modern Slavery Act 2015 came into effect on 29th October 2015. This law requires manufacturers and retailers doing business in the UK which supply goods or services and have an annual turnover exceeding £36 million to disclose information regarding their policies to eradicate slavery and human trafficking from their supply chain and within their business.
Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains Ltd (HPP) is proud of the integrity measures it takes in this regard.
HPP's efforts to eradicate slavery and human trafficking in its supply chain and own business include the following:-
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HPP maintains written policies that strictly prohibit the use of slavery or human trafficking in its direct supply chain. These include the brochure entitled "Ethical Business – Our Shared Responsibility" in which we communicate our ethical principles and associated expectations to our supply chain. Our supplier code of conduct requires all suppliers to sign up to a sustainability clause which details all requirements around forced labour, slavery and human trafficking. This can be found on the supplier portal as follows;
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Celebrating excellent doctors on their day!
On Wednesday, March 30, Beebe celebrated National Doctors Day which provides an excellent opportunity to extend a special thank you to our area physicians for saving and changing lives every day at Beebe. As you have read in the Celebrate Excellent Care articles every Tuesday, our physicians in Sussex County make a tremendous difference in the lives of countless patients and family members.
The Beebe doctors lead numerous state-of-the-art programs at Beebe Healthcare. We have the great privilege of collaborating with a number of specialists, medical directors and physicians throughout Sussex County and the Delmarva Peninsula.
The entire leadership and staff of the Beebe Medical Foundation are so grateful to have the chance to publicly recognize and thank our physicians for their impressive commitment to "Excellent Care." Because of them, residents of Sussex County are able to receive the very best healthcare here at home. We were very happy to host a small appreciation reception for them on Doctors Day. It was a great time for them to relax and also share camaraderie.
Since our "Celebrate Excellent Care" grateful patient program was introduced nearly a year ago, more than 100 physicians, specialists, and medical directors have been honored with a donation made in their name by Beebe Healthcare patients. This does not include the countless patients who have written letters to the president of Beebe Healthcare or the physicians themselves. The number of patients in our community who have taken the time to say thank you for the care they received speaks volumes about the excellent care our physicians are providing.
During the past year, I have been blessed with overseeing the Beebe Medical Foundation's grateful patient program, "Celebrate Excellent Care." I say that with conviction. In my ventures overseeing the program, I have been fortunate enough to meet some of the most wonderful people in our local community, both Beebe patients, and team members, including many physicians. Their tremendous stories are inspiring and their gratitude, care, and admiration for one another leaves me in awe. The Celebrate Excellent Care program has been a great success, and I attribute this to our physicians and team members who provide excellent care each and every day. It is so obvious that people love their doctors, and their doctors love them!
Dr. Alberto Rosa, Board Certified in Cardiology, said, "It is the gratitude of patients and their families that makes anything we do in medicine worthwhile and rewarding! I am proud to be a physician in this community."
To learn more about how you can Celebrate Excellent Care, contact the Beebe Medical Foundation at (302)644-2900 or write to foundation@beebehealthcareevents.org.


Home » Topics » Bioinformatics » Research » Chronology of emergence of the genus Leptospira and over-representation of gene families enriched by vitamin B2, B12 biosynthesis, cell adhesion and external encapsulating structure in L. interrogans isolates from asymptomatic dogs.
Summary of "Chronology of emergence of the genus Leptospira and over-representation of gene families enriched by vitamin B2, B12 biosynthesis, cell adhesion and external encapsulating structure in L. interrogans isolates from asymptomatic dogs."
The spirochete species Leptospira interrogans is the most common cause of leptospirosis, producing acute to chronic infections in most mammalian species. This pathogenic bacterium has an ability to evolve in many ways to occupy various environments and hosts. In this study, we performed chronology analysis to look for insight into the emergence of Leptospira species, focusing on L. interrogans, and investigated gene gain and loss related to their adaptation in strains isolated from asymptomatic dogs. Chronology analysis revealed that the emergence of L. interrogans was around 53.7 million years ago (MYA), corresponding to the Paleogene period that coincided with an optimal climatic temperature and the evolution of suitable mammalian hosts. Gene families encoding for vitamin B2, B12 biosynthesis, cell adhesion and external encapsulating structure were found to be enriched in L. interrogans isolated from the urine of asymptomatic dogs. The activity of these gene families may have favored adaptations resulting in chronic infections.
Do molecular phylogenies unravel the relationships among the evolutionary young "Brafordian" families (Copepoda; Calanoida)?
A serovar of the bacterial species LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS, characteristically associated with a severe zoonotic disease in humans.
A serovar of the bacterial species LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS, whose primary hosts include CATTLE and SWINE.
A serovar of the bacterial species LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS, whose natural host is DOGS where disease is characterized by GASTROENTERITIS, and INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS.
A serovar of the bacterial species LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS, whose primary host is the MOUSE.
A serovar of the bacterial species LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS, whose frequent host is CATTLE.


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Overview of Vietnam's electricity industry
Tuesday 08, 03 2022
Hydropower was the electricity industry segment with the strongest growth in Vietnam in 2021. In 2022, the market is anticipated to undergo major changes, with favors leaning towards renewable energy, wind power in particular.
Vietnam's electricity industry in 2021
According to data from the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN), in 11 months of 2021, the electricity production output of the whole system reached 233.67 billion kWh, up 3.6% over the same period in the previous year.
In particular, electricity produced by EVN and power generation corporations, including joint-stock companies, reached 113.48 billion kWh, accounting for 48.56% of the electricity production of the whole system.
(Source: EVN)
2021 was a year of hydropower companies in Vietnam when the segment recorded strong growth in revenue and profit. On the contrary, thermal power companies did not share such success.
Vietnam's hydropower companies had significant growth in 2021. Hydroelectricity reached 72.04 billion kWh, accounting for 30.8% of the total electricity output of the whole system.
A notable example was Thac Mo Hydropower Company, which recorded nearly 750 billion VND in net revenue in 2021, up 69%, and profit after tax reached 363 billion VND, double the level of 2020.
Can Don Hydropower Company, another hydropower company, also announced an increase in profit after tax by 60%, reaching 159 billion VND; net sales grew 28% to 425 billion VND.
Leading in terms of revenue and profit among hydropower companies on the stock exchange is Da Nhim - Ham Thuan - Da Mi Hydropower Company. Accordingly, in 2021, this company earned 2,476 billion VND in net revenue, up 47% compared to the previous year; profit after tax doubled in the same period to 1,374 billion VND and exceeded 113% of the profit target assigned for the whole year.
Coal power and gas power
Contrary to the positive developments of hydropower companies, thermal power companies recorded a slightly unsatisfactory performance in 2021.
Hai Phong Thermal Power Company, which is operating two coal-fired thermal power plants, Hai Phong 1 and Hai Phong 2, ended 2021 with net revenue of 9,026 billion VND, down 17% compared to the same period in the previous year.
Quang Ninh Thermal Power Company has also experienced a gloomy year with net revenue and profit after tax decreasing by 8% and 63% respectively compared to 2020, reaching 8,455 billion VND and 477 billion VND, respectively.
As for gas power, Petrovietnam Power Nhon Trach 2 Company's profit after tax in 2021 reached 534 billion VND, down nearly 15% compared to 2020 results but still exceeding 15% compared to the year plan. Net sales of NT2 grew slightly during the year, but still lower than the increase in the cost of goods, causing gross profit to drop 24% during the period.
2021 marked the end of the race for wind power in Vietnam, with 84 plants recognized for commercial operation date (COD), readied to operate before November 1, 2021, and enjoying the FIT incentive, equaling a total capacity of 3,980 MW.
In addition, 4 projects did not make the COD, and 62 projects that signed power sales contracts but have not been completed or not yet deployed. Such projects that did not receive the FIT are expected to be transferred to the auction mechanism.
Electricity market outlook for 2022
In the short term, weather conditions will affect Vietnam's electricity production. The late-coming La Niña will give advantages to hydropower plants in the Southern area for the first half of 2022.
El Niño will possibly return from August 2022 will lower the water accumulation capacity of hydropower plants in the Northern and Central areas. The ability of thermal power plants to continue to be mobilized will be enhanced during this period.
Gas-fired will be competing with renewable power and big thermal power projects. Gas-fired power plants in Vietnam are located mostly in the Southern provinces. Since renewable energy sources are constantly increasing in the same region, gas-fired will compete with this electricity source in the short term.
In the long term, the commitment Vietnam made at COP26 and the draft Power Master Plan 8 will affect the whole electricity market of the country.
Commitment to net emissions to zero by 2050 at COP26 will promote strong investment in liquefied natural gas and renewable energy, especially offshore wind power. That will be a big opportunity for renewable energy companies in the long term.
Power Master Plan 8 emphasizes the role of renewable energy. In particular, from now to 2030, there will be almost no further development of solar power, mainly wind power development. Offshore wind power projects will be promoted in the period from 2031 to 2045.
Source: vietnamfinance, VCBS, EVN
Compiled by VietnamCredit
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I feel that I am uniquely educated and experienced in a way that makes me the ideal candidate to explore this content. I consider myself a student of humanity, from the physiological, through the psychology and into the broader cultural and social. I want to help people, and this is a way I feel that I can do that. Whether you are a new user with no complaints, someone with anxiety, depression, and pain issues, or a medicinal client due to other spasticity or cancer-related issue, I can help in some small way at least.
Beyond explaining dense research in ways that will help you in your life, I want to help new and old users alike navigate all aspects of our lives while practicing responsible and informed use. I want to help people avoid the panic attacks, negative intrusive thoughts, and physical discomforts. I want to help people learn more about their values, beliefs, moods, and behaviors to see the impact of these on our mental health and well-being.
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Enter Fortune Favors the Bold—Mastercard's podcast created in collaboration with Gimlet Creative. The complete second season is live, and with it, we're breaking down the barrier between people's money hang-ups and the achievement of real financial fluency.
Fortune Favors the Bold is not your typical financial literacy podcast. We don't talk about budgets, APRs or stock tips. Each episode is dedicated to exploring the assumptions, perceptions and unwritten rules that seem to govern how we think about money—and about the people and companies daring to break them and then break through to better opportunities. But the first step to tearing down these long-established ways of thinking? It's talking.
"Even though people are hesitant to talk about money, what you're going to find out really quickly is that people want to talk about money," said Ashley C. Ford, in Fortune Favors the Bold, Season Two, Episode One: Upward Mobility.
Season One (also ripe for a binge-listen) asked questions about what happens when we take risks, take control, and redefine our relationship with money. We took on the future of work, talked to companies that have been defining what it means to do well by doing good, and explored how digital identities are key to accessing the digital economy, among other topics.
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Mona Chalabi, a data journalist known for her unique data visualizations, debuts as this season's host.
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Kosovo is going through a difficult situation of power supply
By Elton Tota / 23/07/2015 / Comments Off on Kosovo is going through a difficult situation of power supply
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By Elton Tota
At the present, Kosovo is going through a very difficult energy situation, due to the unplanned suspensions of production by Kosovo Energy Corporation (KEK).
Due to the many problems in "Kosovo A" power plant, the situation with the distribution of power supply is worse than last year.
This was announced today by the distribution company KESCO, which states that it has been obliged to import the electricity available in the market at a price seven times higher than the normal price.
"Although it's not KESCO's job, we're importing energy which is seven times more expensive than the normal price (130 euros per megawatt) in order to overcome this situation. However, this is not sufficient for a normal supply of power and cannot be sustained for a long time", reads the statement.
"In order not to cause the system to collapse, we're obliged to suspend power supply due to the lack of energy capacities in the country. We have informed all third parties and other operators for the current situation", the statement says. /ibna/
Published: 5 years ago on 23/07/2015
By: Elton Tota
Last Modified: July 23, 2015 @ 2:14 pm
Filed Under: Energy, Kosovo, XK Energy
Tagged With: KEK, KESCO, Kosov o, power supply
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El tinamú tizón o tinamú (o Inambú) de Berlepsch (Crypturellus berlepschi) es una especie de ave tinamiforme de la familia Tinamidae, que se encuentra en los bosques húmedos del noroeste de Colombia y Ecuador.
Este animal lleva el nombre de Hans von Berlepsch en su memoria.

Descripción
El tinamú de Berlepsch es de un color entre gris y marrón con manchas rojizas en la corona y la nuca. Posee un tamaño de entre 29 y 32 cm. La hembra es algo más pesada (512-615 g) que el macho (430-527 g).

Rango y hábitat
Habita en el bosque húmedo de tierras bajas en las regiones tropicales y subtropicales. También ha demostrado que puede sobrevivir en los bosques que han sido talados. Está establecido en el noroeste de Colombia, y de Ecuador.

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Aves de Colombia
Aves de Ecuador
Animales descritos en 1897
Taxones descritos por Lionel Walter Rothschild

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