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AMD has been playing second fiddle to Intel for a long time now, and it just couldn't get over that hump. But the release of the Ryzen 3900X and the Ryzen 3950X in September this year, Intel has reasons to worry.
Analysts agree that it's one of the best chips–if not the best–in the market today, especially with the PCIe 4.0. For instance, Kevin Cassidy, an analyst specializing in semiconductor equities, claimed that the release of the 3900X presents a clear challenge to Intel. It's due to the combination of high performance, low-power usage, and affordability.
He said that in its 5-decade history, it's the first time that Intel's hold on the CPU process-tech has been overtaken. In fact, presently, AMD chips are already selling twice as many as Intel chips, according to market data.
The Ryzen 3900X was released on July 7 and featured 12 cores and 24 threads. However, you may need the latest X570 to unlock the PCle 4.0 potential. You can potentially enjoy twice the bandwidth from the market standard of PCle 3.0. The PCle 4.0 delivers 42% faster performance for the SSD and as much as 69% boost in graphics performance. However, the numbers are exclusive to AMD video cards.
With that said, the 3900X is compatible with AM4 motherboards, particularly the 300-series and the 400-series.
The Zen 2 architecture in the Ryzen 3900X, which is built on the 7nm process, allows this chip to boot from 3.8GHz to 4.6GHz. This is basically the highest clocking chip out of the Ryzen lineup.
Of course, that won't last long with the anticipated arrival of the Ryzen 3950X in September this year. That one already broke overclocking records when it was unveiled during the E3. That chip can boot up to 4.7GHz when you fire it up. However, it can reach up to 5.0GHz at 1.6V.
The best part about the Ryzen 3900X is the price tag. This is why AMD poses a threat to Intel. For instance, this cost of this processor is about the same as the Intel Core i9-9900K. That one only features eight cores and 16 threads. Of course, it should be noted that AMD has yet to solve the puzzle of trumping Intel chip's single-core performance.
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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., March 19, 2019 /3BL Media/— The United Nations Global Compact is pleased to announce today two new Members to its Board, appointed by UN Secretary-General António Guterres. Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women and Mr. Anand Mahindra, Chairman, Mahindra Group join more than 20 other members on the UN Global Compact Board, which is chaired by the UN Secretary-General.
Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro is a social activist and theologian who is globally recognized for her leadership of organizations and initiatives that advance human rights, and philanthropy for women and girls. She is currently President and CEO of Global Fund for Women, one of the world's leading publicly-supported foundations for gender equality. She has received several notable recognitions and honorary degrees over the years. In 2015, Forbes magazine named her one of ten women "power brands" working for gender equality. In 2016 she was recognized on a list of "Forty over 40 – women who are reinventing, and disrupting and making an impact". Dr. Kanyoro was also named as one of the top 100 people making a difference in gender policy and as one of the nine most powerful people changing the planet.
Mr. Anand Mahindra is the Chairman of the Mahindra Group and the Executive Chairman of Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. His tenure has seen the Group expand domestically and internationally into a range of major industrial sectors from automobiles and agriculture to IT and aerospace. He has served on several influential bodies globally, including the Global Board of Advisors of the Council on Foreign Relations, New York, and the International Advisory Council of Singapore's Economic Development Board. He is currently on the board of Invest India, the National Investment Promotion and Facilitation Agency. Mr. Mahindra has been named in Barron's List of Top 30 CEOs worldwide (2016) and Fortune Magazine's list of the World's 50 Greatest Leaders (2014). Mr. Mahindra was appointed 'Knight in the National Order of the Legion of Honour' by the President of the French Republic (2016).
The UN Global Compact Board plays an important role in shaping the strategy and policy of the initiative, which acts as the United Nations flagship for responsible business action. Designed as a multi-stakeholder body, the Board provides ongoing strategic and policy advice for the initiative. Board members are considered champions who are willing and able to advance the mission of the UN Global Compact. They act in a personal, honorary and unpaid capacity.
As the world approaches the fourth anniversary of the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals, the UN Global Compact Board will be instrumental in helping to bring business to the table in support of Agenda 2030.


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Armed Forces Day celebrations coming to Dagenham
Tom Horton
Published: 8:09 AM June 27, 2018 Updated: 7:20 AM October 14, 2020
V2 bomb pictured in Pondfield Road, Dagenham. Picture: LBBD - Credit: LBBD
A celebration of Armed Forces Day is coming to Valence House in Dagenham next weekend.
Remnants of a V2 bomb that fell in Barking, Pathé newsreels, reprinted book 'Danger Over Dagenham' and Barking and Dagenham's 'Book of Remembrance', which records the war efforts of all that have lived here, will be on display.
There will be a talk on how the First World War and Second World War affected families in Barking and Dagenham and a lunchtime performance by the Women's Institute Choir.
Archive material, including first hand accounts of the Dunkirk invasion, will also be on show.
Deputy council leader Saima Ashraf said: "This year's Armed Forces Day is set to be the best yet, with a fantastic array of historical displays on offer.
"I would encourage everyone to come down to Valence House and get involved in one of the borough's most informative and insightful events."
The event runs from 10am to 4pm on Saturday, June 30.

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This article by Pranesh Prakash was published in Yojana, Issue: August 2013.
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Each of you reading this article is a criminal and should be jailed for up to three years. Yes, you. "Why?," you may ask.
Have you ever whistled a tune or sung a film song aloud? Have you ever retold a joke? Have you replied to an e-mail without deleting the copy of that e-mail that automatically added to the reply? Or photocopied pages from a book? Have you ever used an image from the Internet in presentation? Have you ever surfed the Internet at work, used the the 'share' button on a website, or retweeted anything on Twitter? And before 2012, did you ever use a search engine?
If you have done any of the above without the permission of the copyright holder, you might well have been in violation of the Indian Copyright Act, since in each of those examples you're creating a copy or are otherwise infringing the rights of the copyright holder. Interestingly, it was only through an amendment in 2012 that search engines (like Google and Yahoo) were legalized.
Traditional Justifications for Copyright
Copyright is one among the many forms of intellectual property rights. Across differing theories of copyright, two broad categories may be made. The first category would be those countries where copyright is intended to benefit society, the other where it is intended to benefit the author. Within the second category, there can again be two subcategories: those that see the need to benefit the author due to notions of natural justice and those that see the need to provide incentives for authors to create. Incentives to create are necessary only when the act of creation itself is valuable (and more so than the creator). The act of creation is valued highly as it directly benefits society. Thus, it is seen that the second sub-category is closer to the societal benefit theory than the natural justice sub-category. In the United States, the wording of the Progress Clause makes things clear that copyright is for the benefit of the public, and the author is only given secondary consideration. It is in light of this that the U.S. Supreme Court said,
"The monopoly privileges that Congress may authorize are neither unlimited nor primarily designed to provide a special private benefit. Rather, the limited grant is a means by which an important public purpose may be achieved. It is intended to motivate the creative activity of authors and inventors by the provision of a special reward, and to allow the public access to the products of their genius after the limited period of exclusive control has expired."
Economic theories of copyright see copyright as an incentive mechanism, designed to encourage creators to produce material because they would be able to recover costs and make a profit due to the exclusionary rights that copyright law grants. Thus, the ideal period of copyright for any material, under the economic theory would be the minimum period required for a person to recoup the costs that go into the production of that material. Allowing for the great-grandchildren of the author to benefit from the author's work would actually go against the incentive mechanism. Even if the author is motivated enough to put in even more hard work to provide for her great-grandchildren, her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren wouldn't have any incentive to create for themselves (as the incentive is seen purely in terms of economics, and not in terms of creative urge, etc.), as they are already provided for by copyright. Thus, in a sense, the shift towards longer periods of copyright terms that we are seeing today can be seen as a shift from the incentive-based model to a rewards-based model of copyright.
The other standard theory of copyright justification is the natural rights theory, which deems intellectual property the fruit of the author's labour, thus entitling them to complete control over that fruit. This brings us to the conception of property itself, and the Lockean and Hegelian justifications for personal property is what is most often used to back such an argument up.
There are many problems with the natural rights theory of intellectual property. If that theory were to hold water, copyright law would accord greater precedence to authors than to publishers. Yet, we see that it is publishers primarily, and not authors, who get benefit of copyright. The "work for hire" doctrine, embodied in Section 17 of the Copyright Act, holds that it is the employer who is treated as the owner of copyright, not the author. This plainly contradicts that natural rights theory. And it also raises the question of why we should protect certain kinds of knowledge investments in the first place. Publishing is a business, and all risks inherent with other businesses should come along with publishing. There is no reason that the State should safeguard their investment by vesting in them a right while safeguarding the investments of any other business only occasionally, and that too as an act of munificence. This problem arises because of the free transferability of copyright. This leads us to the larger problem, which is of course that of treating knowledge as a form of property. Property, as we have traditionally understood it, has a few features like excludability. Knowledge, however, does not share that feature with property. Once you know something that I created, I can't exclude you from that knowledge that (unlike my ability to take back an apple you have stolen from me). This analysis also has the pernicious effect of excluding free speech analysis of copyright laws. An incorrect analogy is often drawn to explain why free speech analysis doesn't work on property: you may wish to exercise your right to free speech on my front lawn, yet the State may decree that I am in full right to throw you off my property, without being accused of abridging your right to freedom of speech. So, the argument goes, enforcement of property rights is not an affront to freedom of speech. The problems with this analogy are obvious enough: the two forms of "property" cannot be equated. If you take the location of speech away, I can still speak. If, on the other hand, you restrict my ideas/expression, then I can no longer be said to have the freedom of expression.
It is easy to see that copyright is an ill-fit for all the things that it now covers. Copyright in its present form is a historical accident, which evolved into the state it is in a very haphazard fashion. It is a colonial imposition on developing countries. It does not value that which we often value in Indian culture: tradition. Instead, copyright law values modernity and newness. It can also be seen as a trade issue imposed on us through the Trade-Related Intellectual Property Agreement (TRIPS Agreements) as part of the World Trade Organization.
Importantly, copyright is not a single well-planned scheme. In some cases — for literature, visual art works, lyrics, musical tunes, etc. — it provides rights to the artist, while in other cases — for recordings of those musical tunes, and for films — it provides rights to the producers. What are the legal reasons for this distinction? There aren't any; the distinction is a historical one (with sound recordings and films getting copyright protection after literature, etc.). At one point of time only exact copies were governed by copyright law. Hence, translations of a work were considered not to be infringement of that work (or a "derivative work"), but new independent works, since after all it takes considerable artistic effort to create a good translation of a work. However now even creating an encyclopedia based on Harry Potter (as the Harry Potter Lexicon was), is covered as infringement of the exclusive rights of the author. At one point of time photographs were not provided any copyright, being as they are, 'mere' mechanical reproductions. They were seen as not being 'creative' enough. However, around the turn of the twentieth century, that position changed, and hence every photograph you've taken of your dog is now copyrighted. According to a recent Supreme Court decision, merely adding paragraph numbering to court judgments is considered to be 'creative' enough to merit copyright protection! At one point of time, copyright existed for 14 years. Now, with the international minimum being "fifty years after the death of the author", it lasts for an average of more than a century! Once upon a time, copyright was only granted to those who wanted it and applied for it. That has now changed, and you have copyright over every single original thing that you have ever written, recorded, or otherwise affixed to a medium.
Copyright in the Digital Era
All digital activities violate copyright, since automatically copies are created on the computer's RAM, cache, etc. Because now everything is copyrighted, and copyrighted seemingly forever, each one of us violates copyright on a day-to-day basis. It is a mockery of the law when everyone is a criminal. The US President Barack Obama violated copyright law when he presented UK's Queen Elizabeth II an iPod filled with 40 songs from popular musicals like West Side Story and the King and I. When even presidents, with legal advisers cannot navigate copyright law successfully, what hopes have we ordinary people?
There is no shortage of similar examples to show that copyright law has gone out of control.
Take extradition, for instance. Augusto Pinochet was extradited, Charles Shobraj was sought to be extradited. Added to their ranks is the pimply teenager who runs TVShark, who British courts have cleared for extradition to the USA for potential violation of copyright law. The extreme injustice of copyright is easily observable if one sees the contorted map depicting net royalty inflows available on Worldmapper.org: there are a sum total of less than a dozen countries which are net exporters of IP; all other countries, including India, are net importers of IP. IP law is one area where both those who talk about social justice and those who talk about individual liberties find common ground in the monopolistic or exclusionary rights granted under copyright law. Copyright acts as a barrier to free trade, thus allowing Nelson Mandela's autobiography to be more expensive in South Africa than the United Kingdom because South Africa is prohibited by the UK publisher from importing the book from India. Mark Getty, the heir to the Getty Images fortune, once presciently observed that "IP is the oil of the 21st century".
Government Copyright
In the ivory towers of academia, there has in recent times been a clarion call that's resounding strongly: the call for open access. As the Public Library of Science states, "open access is a stands for unrestricted access and unrestricted reuse". Why is it important? "Most publishers own the rights to the articles in their journals. Anyone who wants to read the articles must pay to access them. Anyone who wants to use the articles in any way must obtain permission from the publisher and is often required to pay an additional fee. Although many researchers can access the journals they need via their institution and think that their access is free, in reality it is not. The institution has often been involved in lengthy negotiations around the price of their site license, and re-use of this content is limited." Importantly, the writers of articles (scholars) do not get paid by the publishers for their articles, and most developing countries are not able to afford the costs imposed by these scholarly publishers. Even India's premier scientific research agency, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, recently declared that the costs of scientific journals was beyond its means.
Why is this important? Because apart from establishing the idea of informational equity and justice, it also establishes the idea that taxpayer-funded research (as most scientific and much of academic research is) ought to belong to the public domain, and be available freely. This principle, seemingly uncontroversial, is very unfortunately not embodied in the Indian Copyright Act. Most public servants do not realize that that which they create may not be freely used by the public whom they serve.
Under the Indian Copyright Act, all creations of the government, whether by the executive, judiciary, or legislature, is by default copyrighted. This does not make sense under either of the two theories of copyright that we examined above. The government is not an 'author' who can have any form of 'natural rights' over its labour. Nor is the government incentivised to create more works if it has copyright over them. Most of the copyrighted works, such as various reports, the Gazette of India, etc., that the government creates are required to be created, and the cultural works it creates are for cultural promotion and not for commercial exploitation. Hence it makes absolutely no sense to continue with the colonial regime of 'crown copyright', when countries like the USA have suffered no ill effects by legally placing all government works in the public domain.
While there are a limited set of exceptions to government copyright provided for in the law, those are very minimal. This means that even though you are legally allowed to get a document through the Right to Information Act, publicising that document on the Internet could potentially get you jailed under the Copyright Act. This is obviously not what any government official would want. If instead of the four sub-sections that form the exception, the exception was merely one line and allowed for "the reproduction, communication to the public, or publication of any government work", then that itself would elegantly take care of the problem. This would also remove the ambiguities inherent currently in the Data.gov.in, where the central government is publishing information that it wants civil society, entrepreneurs, and other government departments to use, however there is no clarity on whether they are legally allowed to do so.
Recently, the member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization passed a treaty that would facilitate blind persons' access to books. On that occasion, at Marrakesh, I noted that intellectual property must not be seen as a good in itself, but as an instrumentalist tool which may be selectively deployed to achieve societally desirable objectives. I said: It is historic that today WIPO and its members have collectively recognized in a treaty that copyright isn't just an "engine of free expression" but can pose a significant barrier to access to knowledge. Today we recognize that blind writers are currently curtailed more by copyright law than protected by it. Today we recognize that copyright not only may be curtailed in some circumstances, but that it must be curtailed in some circumstances, even beyond the few that have been listed in the Berne Convention. One of the original framers of the Berne Convention, Swiss jurist and president, Numa Droz, recognized this in 1884 when he emphasized that "limits to absolute protection are rightly set by the public interest". And as Debabrata Saha, India's delegate to WIPO during the adoption of the WIPO Development Agenda noted, "intellectual property rights have to be viewed not as a self contained and distinct domain, but rather as an effective policy instrument for wide ranging socio-economic and technological development. The primary objective of this instrument is to maximize public welfare." When copyright doesn't serve public welfare, states must intervene, and the law must change to promote human rights, the freedom of expression and to receive and impart information, and to protect authors and consumers. Importantly, markets alone cannot be relied upon to achieve a just allocation of informational resources, as we have seen clearly from the book famine that the blind are experiencing. Marrakesh was the city in which, as Debabrata Saha noted, "the damage [of] TRIPS [was] wrought on developing countries". Now it has redeemed itself through this treaty.
The Indian government needs to similarly redeem itself by freeing governmental works, including the scientific research it funds, the archives of All India Radio, the movies that it produces through Prasar Bharati, and all other tax-payer funded works, and by returning them to the public domain, where they belong.
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Our most threatened butterflies and moths are often dependent for their survival on habitats, such as deciduous woodland or chalk downland, which are increasingly rare in the UK's countryside. In such places butterflies and moths can find all the resources they need, including nectar for the adults and the right plants for their caterpillars to eat.
However, if those sites are small they can only ever support small numbers of butterflies and moths and are very vulnerable to extinction. An accidental fire on a small heathland for example, could easily destroy all the habitat for the Silver-studded Blue butterfly, whereas on a larger site, some of the habitat might remain unburnt allowing some of the butterflies to survive until the vegetation recovers.
Our countryside is increasingly fragmented, with the best wildlife sites often occurring in a 'sea' of unsuitable habitat and so if a site is isolated as well small, the chances of it being recolonised by the butterfly or moth following an extinction are pretty small.
With our improved understanding of butterfly and moth populations, we now know it is best to concentrate our conservation efforts on multiple sites which are reasonably close together rather than on single isolated sites. In other words a landscape-scale approach.
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The report, Landscape-scale conservation for butterflies and moths: lessons from the UK, provides concrete evidence that action aimed at conserving butterflies and moths at a landscape-scale have enabled threatened species to flourish after decades of decline.


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New York Film Festival Review: Serge Bozon's 'Madame Hyde'
By Demi Kampakis on September 28, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )
Throughout her long and illustrious career, Isabelle Huppert has never shied away from playing dysfunctional female characters whose near-fetishistic penchant for torrent displays of emotion are often grounded in the psychosexual. From Michael Haneke's Piano Teacher to Paul Verhoeven's 2016 hit Elle, and to a lesser extent Catherine Breillat's Abuse of Weakness, Huppert has breathed life into fictional heroines who aren't afraid to plumb the primal depths of their psyche and tap into a raw visceral vein, one whose compulsions are physically externalized through palpable, uninhibited and draining throes of ecstasy and agony. Whether she's playing a piano teacher with macabre sexual fixations, an elusive and discomfiting video game developer or an emotionally dependent film director, Huppert seems to welcome the opportunity to play layered characters whose sadomasochistic tendencies are rich with Freudian subtext. In fact, the veteran actress has mastered the art of inhabiting roles that embody the human id laid bare, playing characters that are at once obsessive and gripping, steely and vulnerable. All of which makes her transformation into Mrs. Hyde in director Serge Bozon's new absurdist film somewhat tepid, for the character never fully taps into its literary predecessor's maniacal id, and the same goes for Huppert's unparalleled range.
Loosely adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Madame Hyde only tangentially recalls the classic 19th century novella, insofar as it concerns a scientifically minded protagonist who undergoes a considerable and consequential metamorphosis. It is for this reason that Bozon's deadpan comedy marks somewhat of a sober detour — though not a full departure — for Huppert, who in this film operates within a more reserved register that never reaches the same fever-pitch crescendo as her previous roles, yet she still affords her character a compelling and uncompromising fortitude. Huppert plays Marie Géquil, a rather timid yet very bright physics teacher at a technical high school whose teaching methods and genuine, eager desire to enrich her students' education go unappreciated, at the very least. No matter what Madame Géquil does, she can never catch a break, and her efforts are endlessly met with ridicule and contempt from colleagues, but most especially her rowdy students. She quickly takes a liking to a handicapped young man named Malik, for whom Madame Géquil sees a great deal of potential. She knows he possesses a strong aptitude for absorbing information, so all Géquil wants to do is teach him how to think and argue critically — connect all the dots, essentially. The problem is that Malik has no desire to learn, and his disdain for school shows in the daily aggravation he gives his teacher during class, playing up his role as chief agitator.
Though seemingly insignificant, the conspicuous ethnic diversity of Géquil's class — Malik himself is of Arab descent — injects a subtle layer of social commentary into the film that provides context for these students' raucous behavior. To these marginalized young adults, Géquil represents the face of an institution that has let them down. As a result, she becomes the unwitting target of their collective outrage against a problematic system. Bozon reinforces this commentary throughout by periodically visiting the public housing projects where several resident dropouts gather to let off steam in the form of rap, with Malik taking a particular interest in joining this hardened group and rapping alongside them. From this perspective, Malik's relentless defiance becomes more sympathetic: feeling singled out by his handicap and ethnicity, he just wants to belong, and being the class clown comes with the social perks of attention and approval.
As much as Madame Géquil finds reprieve in the tranquil domesticity shared with her kind and doting stay-at-home husband, come morning the cycle of work-induced dread and frustration begins yet again. That is, until the day she gets struck by lightning during a thunderstorm, and undergoes a transformation that cracks the shell of her placid existence and disposition. Finding an inner strength that empowers her to be more confident, inspired and (sexually) voracious, Géquil slowly assumes the persona of her Mrs. Hyde alter ego, and the physical aspect of her metamorphosis is rendered in the form of a golden aura that radiates throughout her body as she roams the streets at night in a trance-like state. Resembling a sleepwalking jack-o-lantern, Bozon's vision of Hyde's appearance reflects the internal change her character experiences, and there is a certain dream logic to the magical realism of these scenes. Unlike the mousy Géquil, Hyde is an inferno of self-assertion and purpose, and the ember glow emanating from her is that of confidence and competence. And in a nice touch, Bozon's aesthetic rendering of Géquil's transformation recalls an early lecture she gives on potential and kinetic energy: like a lit Bunsen burner, Géquil's dormant rage — her "potential energy" — is transformed into both a figurative and literal thermal energy, by way of her newfound authority, and in her molten body heat that sets ablaze everything it touches.
At first, Géquil's nascent abilities enable her to become a more effective teacher and communicator, and she learns ways to connect with her students and engage their academic curiosities. She even manages to stimulate Malik's scientific interests, and he takes advantage of his privileged access to the physics lab during after school hours to work on personal research projects — even becoming a tutor to his crush. Through Géquil and Malik's parallel arcs — as the former becomes a better teacher through Madame Hyde, Malik becomes a better student — the film becomes not only a character study, but a parable about society's attitudes towards learning and the value of receiving an education.
Yet as Madame Géquil further slips into Mrs. Hyde's volcanic mindset, she finds herself unable to control her increasingly dangerous and destructive powers. In a recent interview, Bozon said this internal Géquil v. Hyde conflict illustrates the "interplay between good and evil" that exists in everyone, and nowhere is this struggle more profoundly rendered than in a heartbreaking and rambling monologue Géquil delivers to her class late in the film. Stammering and barely able to stand, her nearly incoherent speech encapsulates her character's struggles as an educator, and the film's view of the solitary nature of teaching and learning. And despite some uneven narrative patches and a few dangling subplots, as the individual stories of teacher and pupil come full circle, Madame Hyde crystallizes its views about the absurd limitations in trying to communicate the abstract gift of knowledge. If nothing else, Géquil's breakdown cautions viewers to consider the point at which academic passion and the thirst for knowledge becomes obsessive and self-destructive — and Bozon deftly communicates his belief that although personal transformation is often a noble means to success and enlightenment, one can never predict how far these changes will ultimately go.
Demitra "Demi" Kampakis (@DemionFilm) is a Cinema Studies major who graduated with a Bachelors of Science degree in Biology. She is a Brooklyn-based neurotic film fiend with a soft spot for any auteur-driven psychological fare. As the current film editor for Posture Magazine, Demi has also written for Indiewire and Film Comment, and she uses her spare time to manage her own website Cinefiles of a Cinephile.
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Developing a 'chief facilities officer' mindset
Iona Canada, George A. "Skip" Smith CHFM, SASHE, and Donald E. Wojtkowski P.E., FASHE
Hospital administrators always have recognized the important contributions that facilities engineers make to the success of the health care organizations they serve. After all, everyone knows that the "facilities guys" keep the lights on, the water running, the boiler boiling and the chiller chilling so the medical professionals can concentrate on taking care of patients.
But the role of the facilities department leader has evolved steadily over the past two decades. Today, many health care organizations have made their facilities leader a fully functioning member of the management team with the opportunity to help shape hospital strategy and influence decisions well beyond the confines of the power plant.
The elevation of the role of the facilities leader has been a positive development both for the health care industry and facilities management profession, providing opportunities for many facilities managers to grow and develop in their careers and increase the level of contribution to their organizations' success.
Achieving recognition
There are a variety of reasons why the role of the facilities leader has been elevated in recent years. For starters, the facilities manager now oversees or at least influences multimillion-dollar or even billion-dollar capital programs that can make or break a health care organization. They often manage bigger budgets than anyone outside the hospital's C-suite.
Meanwhile, the body of evidence has mounted linking the physical environment of care to health care quality and positive patient outcomes. For example, the Center for Health Design reviewed more than 100 studies on the subject before concluding that hospitals create a better environment of care when they monitor and control such factors as temperature, humidity and indoor air quality. Ninety-six percent of hospital executives in a 2009–2010 survey by Trane, Davidson, N.C., said there is an undeniable link between a hospital's physical environment and quality of care, and 93 percent said their hospital's physical environment has an important influence on the total patient experience.
Along with this has come the recognition that facilities managers and their teams have more daily opportunities to ensure that the hospital is a safe, comfortable and healing place than any other group. At SSM Health Care–St. Louis, this idea inspired the facilities team's unofficial motto, "A healing environment is any environment that inspires the confidence of patients that they are in the right place at the right time receiving the right treatment by the right people." The physical environment plays an important part in reinforcing this concept.
Finally, improving the health, comfort and safety of their facilities helps hospitals attract and retain patients, caregivers and administrative staff, which can lead to a healthier bottom line.
The research company Harris Interactive, New York, found that patients rate a hospital's physical environment as the second most important factor in their satisfaction, behind clinical care. Additionally, a study by New York-based PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) recently concluded that well-designed and maintained facilities enhance caregivers' performance and motivation, which leads to better patient outcomes. PwC also found that nurses consider a hospital's physical environment when choosing an employer.
Recognizing that physicians often choose a hospital based in part on the environment of care, consulting firm Merritt, Hawkins & Associates, Irving, Texas, noted that attracting an affiliated cardiologist can add $2.5 million to a facility's annual revenue.
A strategic role
Some health care organizations consider the facilities department to be an essential service group, but have not yet recognized the full potential of engaging the facilities leader as a functioning member of the senior leadership team. As a result, hospital administrators and their staffs miss out on the unique perspective that a facilities professional can bring.
For example, health care reform is creating a wide range of challenges for health care organizations nationwide. Key among them is the drive to reduce costs and improve productivity without adversely affecting the quality of care provided to patients. A recent survey by McKinsey & Company, New York, estimated that about three-fourths of hospital executives are focused on reducing costs and more than half also are looking for productivity improvements.
With cost pressures mounting, there are fewer hospital construction projects on the drawing board than in recent memory. As a result, many hospitals will need to meet the challenges of increasing regulation, shrinking budgets, changing demographics and expanding patient loads without investing in new buildings or major modifications.
At Catholic Health Initiatives, Englewood, Colo., for example, the facilities teams are focused on making sure that the hospital system's infrastructure is serviceable and on investing capital resources in ways that contribute to improvements in quality of care and patient outcomes.
Facilities managers are uniquely qualified to weigh in on these critical decisions and their broader implications for the organization and its ability to fulfill its patient care mission. They are experts on systems reliability, life-cycle operating costs, deferred maintenance, energy conservation, environmental compliance and a wide range of other relevant topics.
They also have the information and credibility to make the case for prudent, targeted capital spending, even during challenging and uncertain times for the health care industry. For example, facilities professionals are taking a leadership role in implementing high-performance hospital strategies that can improve operating effectiveness, reduce total life-cycle cost of ownership and pay for themselves many times over during the decades-long life of a typical hospital building.
Finally, the expanding role of the health care facilities manager has opened new doors for personal and professional development. Whether they are members of the senior management team, advisers to hospital decision-makers or implementers of tactics that directly support the hospital mission, facilities leaders have a front-row seat to the decision-making process and the opportunity to make a real difference for their organization and its stakeholders.
Opportunities to expand
Facilities managers cannot sit back and wait for their organizational role to expand and mature. Most senior facilities leaders have found that the best way to build influence, add value and ultimately advance in the organization is to adopt a "chief facilities officer" mindset, regardless of their actual title or position on the organizational chart.
Following are some strategies that health care facilities managers can adopt if they want to have a greater impact on their organizations:
Build credibility with excellent performance. There is no substitute for doing a great job. Facilities managers gain respect and influence in their organizations by being good supervisors, communicators, planners, budgeters and problem solvers.
Grow continuously in technical expertise. The facilities manager should be the organization's thought leader on a wide range of subjects from high-performance hospital concepts to the latest paving materials and beyond. He or she must stay current on new technologies and trends, read extensively, pursue relevant degrees and certifications, and attend courses sponsored by the American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) and other professional societies.
Become an innovator. The best managers single themselves out as top performers by speaking up and taking on tough assignments that contribute to the organization's success. They stay on top of industry trends, think outside the box and look for new and innovative ways to apply the expertise of the facilities department to achieve larger organizational goals.
Understand the big picture. It is impossible for facilities leaders to demonstrate their right to a seat at the executive table unless they fully understand the organization's vision, mission and goals. Facilities managers must be able to directly relate everything their department does to the organization's bigger picture.
Get down to business. The most effective facilities leaders understand important business concepts and are able to present their ideas in ways that resonate with decision-makers. They are able to use data to show how their recommendations make sense in the larger scheme of things and position the organization for success.
Get involved. Facilities managers seldom get ahead by hanging out in the boiler room. They need to meet regularly with stakeholders to understand their needs better and look for early warning signs of problems. They need to build productive relationships inside and outside the health care organization. It is also a good idea for facility managers to join professional organizations such as ASHE to find mentors and to get involved in community organizations to broaden their view of the world and expose themselves to different perspectives.
Enormous opportunities
Today's hospitals and health care systems expect more of their facilities leaders than ever before. The financial pressures caused by health care reform and other factors have focused attention on opportunities to reduce life-cycle energy and operating costs while also improving the physical environment of care.
Social pressures and good citizenship make improving environmental performance an imperative for responsible health care organizations. Hospitals also recognize the role of facilities professionals in creating a safer, healthier, more comfortable physical environment that will meet the needs of patients, medical staff and hospital employees.
As operating costs and budgets shrink, these and other factors make these challenging times for today's health facilities professionals. But they also create enormous opportunities for proactive facilities managers to demonstrate value to their organizations and advance their careers by embracing "chief facilities officer" thinking.
Iona Canada is corporate manager of health care business development for Trane, a global provider of indoor comfort systems and services and a brand of Ingersoll Rand,Davidson, N.C. George "Skip" Smith, CHFM, SASHE, is president of the American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) and vice president, supply chain/clinical engineering and facility management, for Catholic Health Initiatives in Denver. Donald E. Wojtkowski, P.E., FASHE, is an ASHE past president and executive director of design, construction and facilities management for SSM Health Care—St. Louis. They can be reached at ICanada@trane.com, skipsmith@catholichealth.net and Donald_Wojtkowski@ssmhc.com, respectively.
Sidebar - Speaking the language of business
Many facilities managers have engineering degrees and most have years — sometimes decades — of technical experience. As a result, they tend to speak the language of operating parameters and electrical resistivity. They also need to become fluent in the language of business.
Proposing innovative ideas or capital improvements with multimillion-dollar price tags requires facilities managers to build and present an effective business case to chief executive officers, chief financial officers and other decision-makers who most likely have extensive business training and experience.
The principles of effective communication require that the presenter use an audience-centric approach, which means emphasizing concepts and developing proof-points that will resonate with a business audience.
By necessity, the most effective facilities managers become adept at identifying a problem or opportunity, gathering and analyzing relevant information, developing options based on the data, estimating implementation costs, justifying and recommending a preferred path forward, and asking for approval to proceed.
Most importantly, managers must be able to describe clearly how their recommended approach supports broader organizational goals and makes sense for a particular audience.
For example, an executive with a strong financial background is more likely to support a proposal that emphasizes an attractive return on investment than one that focuses on saving kilowatts. On the other hand, a lawyer probably would be more impressed by data that shows how air-quality improvement will reduce legal exposure than by the size of the microbes the new filters will trap.
There are many ways that facilities managers can expand their general business knowledge, including taking business, management or financial courses at local colleges or universities, many of which offer specific courses for nonfinancial professionals. It also may be helpful to seek the advice of marketing, finance and legal colleagues.
Sidebar - Linking department goals to the hospital mission
In successful health care organizations, facilities managers must become adept at linking their department's goals to outcomes that support the hospital's ability to achieve its mission.
To do this, facilities managers need to gather and study such important documents as vision and mission statements, strategic plans and annual operating plans. They also can benefit from focused discussions with senior executives, department heads and other stakeholders who can help them to better understand the organization's top priorities and how the facilities department can contribute to achieving them.
Facilities managers are missing an opportunity if they cannot directly trace each goal in their annual and multiyear facilities plans to their respective organization's mission, goals and priorities.
The notion of tying facilities department activities to the hospital's ability to carry out its primary mission is the essence of the high-performance hospital concept. As part of the process of developing a high-performance hospital building approach, the facilities team identifies mission-critical building systems such as electrical; plumbing; heating,
ventilating and air conditioning; and other systems. Mission-critical systems are those that seriously would disrupt critical hospital operations if they were allowed to fail.
The team then calculates the costs of a system failure, including the cost of repair or replacement of a major system. But the "real" costs also include the disruption caused by an unplanned system failure that could cause a hospital to close a department, a floor or a whole wing for hours or even days.
Such calculations help the facilities manager put decisions to defer maintenance,
for example, into perspective by helping the organization realize the potential impact of an unplanned system failure on the hospital's bottom line and, more importantly, on standards of care.
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Admin can also manage the leave application(approve and not approve).
Every time when an employee applies for leave admin will get a notification.
Admin can change own password after login.
Employee can login with the valid email and password.


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Ерік Аксель Карлфельдт (,  20 липня 1864 —  8 квітня 1931) — шведський поет. Лауреат Нобелівської премії з літератури 1931 року (посмертно) з аргументацією «за його поезію».

Основні твори
 Пісні про пустище та любов (1895)
 Пісні Фрідоліна (1898)
 Сад Фрідоліна (1901)

Література
 Bergstrand, Arne: Karlfeldt: musiken. — Malung, Dalaförl., 1996
 Fogelqvist, Torsten: Erik Axel Karlfeldt. — Stockholm, Norstedt, 1931

Джерела

 Біографія на сайті Нобелівського комітету
 КАРЛФЕЛЬДТ (Karlfeldt), Эрик

Примітки

Посилання

Шведські письменники
Члени Шведської королівської академії наук
Шведські поети

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John hails from Bakersfield California. From 2004-2007 he served as the Worship and Young adults Pastor in Windsor California. From 2007-2017 he was the Worship, Young Adults, and Youth Pastor in Cotati California. In 2017 He heard God tell him he was going to serve Re:Church. He is excited to see the move of the Holy Spirit in this community.
Favorite Team: Soccer: Chelsea FC and LA Galaxy. Football: Green Bay Packers and any team that is playing against the Niners, Raiders, and Patriots.
Favorite Places: Any Beach other than Bodega Bay coastline. It's pretty, but always cold and windy.
Favorite Activities: Sailing, crabbing, doing any activity near the ocean, riding roller coasters with my daughter, building Lego spaceships with my son, going on dates with my wife, and watching movies.
Favorite Books: I still love The Bible, Praise Habit: Finding God in Sunsets and Sushi by David Crowder, Love is _____. by Judah Smith, If: Trading if only regrets for God's What if Possibilities Mark Batterson, God's Favorite House by Tommy Tenney.
Gift Card Preferences: Pete's Coffee, Wienerschnitzel, and Walmart.


Engage museum guests using knowledge of exhibits and programs and how they apply to real life scenarios.
Maintain a professional attitude and appearance while demonstrating a superior level of hospitality when working with the public, volunteers, and other staff.
Be familiar with all museum safety and security procedures.
Maintain a clean, safe, enjoyable and helpful atmosphere for visitors and staff.
Ensure that all exhibits and surrounding areas are kept tidy so that all guests see the museum in prime condition. This would include, but is not limited to; making sure trash cans are emptied, cleaning bathrooms, and picking up litter and debris.
Complete all assigned tasks relating to opening and closing the museum each day.
Complete other cleaning/maintenance tasks as requested.
After being trained, VSS should have enough knowledge of these areas so that they can be scheduled as a backup, placed on call or cover a lunch break for the assigned employee of those areas.
Assist with the successful implementation of Discovery Center rentals and events. This can include but is not limited to; setup, cleaning, parking and assisting other staff with requested task implementation including tasks that help make Discovery Center rentals and events quality experiences for guests.
After being trained, VSS should be able to use the animals for Animal themed birthday parties or for "animal shows" during normal business hours.
VSS will run birthday parties onsite and offsite according to the Discovery Center birthday party guidelines to ensure guests have the best possible experience.
Assist with the implementation of public programs as needed under the direction of the Programs Coordinator.
Assist with field studies and mobile labs as needed under the direction of the Onsite and Mobile Education Coordinators.
VSS will assist with other duties in the museum as assigned.
Ability to interact effectively, professionally, and courteously with visitors, staff and volunteers.
Ability to relate to persons of all ages, diverse backgrounds, skills and abilities.
Must be able to handle multiple tasks.
Comply with a flexible work schedule.
This job requires periods of standing, sitting, walking, use of hands and arms, bending, lifting, use of computer and keyboard, listening and speaking in person and on the phone.


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Q: Edit css selectors in Rails So we have users who can define their own templates. However. It's turning out that these templates can live on the same page for a short time, which means the css in template 1 that targets h1 would also affect any h1s in template 2.
Now, if I were writing the CSS, it would be trivial to change code like this:
h1 {
  font-family: 'Comic Sans';
}

to this:
#template-1 h1{
  font-family: 'Comic Sans';
}

What I'd like to do, however, is read in all of the CSS, and prepend the template ID to each CSS declaration as I've outlined above. Each template has a slug, so we'll wrap the template in a div with the slug as an ID.
Is there a simple way to prefix selectors with an ID in rails, without using a CSS regex? And if so, are there any gotchas I should be aware of when adding said prefix?
EDIT:
SCSS seems like the way to go. So how do I process something stored in the DB as scss?

A: With SCSS:
#template-1 {
  h1 {
    font-family: 'Comic Sans';
  }

  ...
}

With SASS:
#template-1
  h1
    font-family: 'Comic Sans'

  ...

A: I think I understand. You want css to be dynamically generated?
You have a model something like?
class Template < ActiveRecord::Base
  attr_accessible :css
end

In production, your assets would already be pre-compiled. Sass by default is only included in the assets group by default. This means that they will run on heroku only when you push you project and compile the assets.
You could move sass-rails out of the assets group, but I have no idea how you would make it process data from your db.
I would possibly store the contents in the database as css and embed it on the view template of your page.

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