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Head of Commercial Sales
Starting salary will be in the range of £50,000pa - £55,000pa (Grade 6)
Senior Management & Heads of Department, Heads of Department
Department: Estates & Facilities - Business Services
Salary: Starting salary will be in the range of £50,000pa - £55,000pa (Grade 6)
Location: Mile End
Closing date: 21-Jul-2019
Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) is one of the UK's leading research-focused higher education institutions. With more than 25,000 students, 4,500 staff and an annual turnover of £430m, we teach and research across a wide range of subjects in humanities and social sciences, medicine and dentistry, and science and engineering. Based in a creative and culturally diverse area of east London, we are the only London University able to offer a completely integrated residential campus, with c. 2700 student bedrooms.
Reporting to the Assistant Director of Commercial Services, the Head of Commercial Sales will develop a conferencing, events and summer business strategy to drive forward a range of additional income generating activities.
You will lead the strategic plan to manage the event and conferencing programme ensuring a balance in academic and commercial activities. This role offers a unique opportunity to work at a strategic and influential level and is integral to the continued success of the University.
We are seeking an enthusiastic, proactive, entrepreneurial and commercially minded individual. The successful candidate will have a proven track record in developing a unique commercial offering and service design, producing and delivering against a detailed marketing and sales strategy. The successful candidate will have experience of working at a senior management level with the ability to forge long term relationships with internal and external stakeholders. You will demonstrate a strong commercial acumen with a track record of delivering in sales based environment ideally within the hospitality or education sector.
The post is full time and permanent. Starting salary will be in the range £50,000pa - £55,000pa per annum inclusive of London Allowance. Benefits include 30 days annual leave, pension scheme and interest-free season ticket loan.
Candidates must be able to demonstrate their eligibility to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006. Where required this may include entry clearance or continued leave to remain under the Points Based Immigration Scheme.
For a confidential discussion and/or the full job description please contact our retained advisor Hayley Mintern (hayley.mintern@mrgpeople.co.uk) of The Management Recruitment Group on 0208 892 0115. Applications should consist of a CV and covering letter and should be sent to hayley.mintern@mrgpeople.co.uk.
Reference 14754.
The closing date for all applications is: 21st July 2019.
Interviews are expected to take place shortly thereafter.
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£56,397 per annum, inclusive of £3,223 per annum London Allowance
Head of Web Development
£46,489 - £51,899 per annum inclusive of London Allowance (Grade 6)


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Checking In On… the Atlantic 10
Posted by Joe Dzuback on January 1st, 2014
Joe Dzuback is the RTC correspondent for the Atlantic 10. You can also find his musings online at Villanova by the Numbers or on Twitter @vtbnblog.
All-Conference — Midseason Edition
With about a third of the 2013-14 season in the books and conference play coming next week, it is time to review the strongest candidates for a midseason All-Conference Team. Some of the same players show up a second year in a row. Chaz Williams, for example, is doing what everyone thought he would… just better. Other names (Cady Lalanne and Cedrick Lindsay) might be new to the list, but fans of the Minutemen and Spiders know who they are.
The RTC "Pre-A10 season" first team consists on an eclectic group of standouts.
Guard — Chaz Williams, Massachusetts. With the resurgence of the Minutemen program, Williams stands an excellent chance to take Player of the Year honors at season's end. The senior guard leads the conference in total assists (82) and assists per game (7.8),and leads Massachusetts in scoring (173) and points per game (15.7).
Guard — Cedrick Lindsay, Richmond. The junior point guard leads the Spiders in points scored (205), points per game (18.6), assists (54) and minutes played (378). Given Chris Mooney's preference for a deep rotation, the last statistic is especially impressive as it represents 76.3 percent of the available minutes at Richmond's point guard spot. With three games left before they start conference play — two of them very winnable — the chances are good that Richmond will start conference play with at least 10 wins in the book.
Guard — Treveon Graham, VCU. The 6′ 6″ off guard leads Shaka Smart's squad in scoring (203) and points per game (15.6) and is second in rebounding (85).
Forward — Dwayne Evans, St. Louis. Evans was named to the preseason All-Conference First Team along with Chaz Williams, and like his UMass rival, Evans has not disappointed. The 6'6″ senior forward leads the Billikens in points scored (207) and has been a crucial piece in their 11-2 season.
Center — Cady Lalanne, Massachusetts. The 6'10" center might be Williams' teammate but also his biggest competitor for Player of the Year honors. Lalanne and Williams have both been named Player of the Week twice. The junior has started all 11 games for UMass, averages a double-double (14.0 PPG, 10.1 RPG), and leads the conference in blocked shots (32).
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UMass in Great NCAA Tourney Position With Its Early Resume
Posted by Nicholas Patrick on December 12th, 2013
Derek Kellogg's UMass team was picked to finish fourth in the new-look Atlantic 10 this season, which would seem to position the Minutemen squarely on the bubble in pursuit of their first NCAA Tournament berth since 1998. In recent years, UMass has missed nearly every key opportunity to strengthen its non-conference resume (losing to Boston College, Seton Hall, Florida State, North Carolina State, Tennessee, and Miami twice), but this squad has garnered national attention by passing every tough test. Through eight games, UMass remains perfect, collecting wins over four power-conference teams (Boston College, LSU, Nebraska, and Clemson), along with high-mids New Mexico and BYU, and earning a championship in the Charleston Classic. What's more impressive — aside from overcoming a nine-point second-half deficit to defeat Boston College, UMass has been in complete control of each of its other games. The Minutemen find themselves ranked in both major polls (#22 AP; #20 Coaches), and are currently ranked #1 in the RPI.
Senior guard Chaz Williams is living up to his preseason all-conference accolades (umassathletics.com).
Senior guard Chaz Williams, a preseason first team all-A-10 selection, has led the attack – averaging 17.5 points per game, thanks in part to shooting 44 percent beyond the arc. When he's not scoring, he's helping others do so, as Williams ranks 20th nationally in assist rate. He finished the BYU game with a ridiculous 15:1 assist/turnover ratio, and all of it has led to a balanced and potent offense, as three other Minutemen are also averaging 12 points or more per game: Cady Lalanne (15.0 PPG, to go along with 10.4 rebounds per game), Sampson Carter (13.8 PPG), and Raphiael Putney (12.6 PPG). To boot, each of these contributors is 6'8″ or taller, constantly testing opponents' interior defense.
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Posted by Joe Dzuback on November 28th, 2013
Highlights and Lowlights From the Week (from highest to lowest)
Looking for high profile wins in the early season invitational tournaments and traditional home-away settings, the conference had some bright spots but overall the results were mixed:
Big man Cady Lalanne has been outstanding for UMass. (Maria Uminski/ Massachusetts Daily Collegian)
Massachusetts — The Minutemen were voted #24 in the AP's Top 25 on the strength of their weekend at the Charleston Classic. Coach Derek Kellogg's squad ran their winning streak to six with wins over power conference representatives Nebraska (81-65) and Clemson (62-56) and (then) #19 New Mexico over the course of the Charleston weekend. Center Cady Lalanne became the much anticipated low post beast, scoring 47 points on 17-of-36 (13-of-16 from the line) shooting while grabbing 35 rebounds over the three game run. He logged two double-doubles in the three game set. Chaz Williams is the guiding force for the squad (and he did not disappoint in Charleston either), but if Lalanne (along with Maxie Esho and Raphiael Putney) emerge as legitimate threats game-to-game, this Massachusetts squad will challenge for the conference title. Read the rest of this entry »
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CIO… the Atlantic 10 Conference
Posted by Brian Goodman on March 7th, 2013
Joe Dzuback is the RTC correspondent for the Atlantic-10. You can also find his musings online at Villanova by the Numbers or on Twitter @vtbnblog.
128 Games, 59 Days, 16 Teams, 12 Seeds – For this season the Atlantic 10 decided to expand the conference tournament to a fourth round at the tournament site, to be held at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Four of the conference's 16 members will not be seeded in the field. Going into the last week of the regular season one of the 12 tickets to Brooklyn has yet to be won and the games this week will decide which of the three "bubble teams" will get their tickets punched… and which will not.
IN – While the conference tournament has yet to settle seeds #2 through #11 precisely, Saint Louis, Virginia Commonwealth, La Salle, Butler, Temple, Massachusetts, Xavier, Saint Bonaventure and Richmond are guaranteed (to varying degrees) a seed.
OUT – Duquesne, Fordham and Rhode Island, currently #14-#16 in conference standings, will not be in the field. Rhode Island's three-game losing streak in the past two weeks effectively ended any discussion of a late season surge and a tournament seed.
BUBBLE – Saint Joseph's, Charlotte, Dayton and George Washington will rely on games this week to decide if they make the tournament field. Of the four bubblers, the Hawks, are best positioned to make the field. The most likely scenario has the George Washington – Dayton match-up Saturday becoming a one-game play-in to the conference tournament.
More Conference Alignment Rumors – About 10 minutes after the Catholic 7 announced their secession from the Big East Conference last October, Xavier and Butler (and a variety of others) were rumored to be ready join the new basketball-focused association when the conference details were settled. As of last weekend however, though the Catholic 7 appear on the verge of securing the Big East name, a TV deal and the immediate rights for a conference tournament in Madison Square Garden, Butler and Xavier have yet (according to commissioner Bernadette McGlade) to notify the A-10 that they intend to withdraw from the conference. Charlotte (to CUSA) and Temple (to Conference TBD) are slated to leave in July, losing two more would place membership numbers at 12 going into July and beyond. Though committed to maintaining a strong basketball-focused conference, the front office has been short on details and candidates to replace the lost members or protect itself from even more exits as newly consecrated Big East looks to pick up other members.
NBC Sports Network Will Televise Thursday Rounds – McGlade announced that the NBC Sports Network will televise all four of the games that will open the Conference Tournament on Thursday, March 14. CBS has committed to televise Saturday's semifinal games and Sunday's Championship game as part of their Selection Sunday coverage.
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Morning Five: 12.04.12 Edition
Posted by nvr1983 on December 4th, 2012
In the aftermath of the outpouring of support for Rick Majerus it seems appropriate that Utah announced that it will hang a replica Majerus sweater from its rafters. The decision to do so comes as part of a larger celebration to remember Majerus with the first part being at Wednesday's game where the school will have a moment of silence followed by a video honoring Majerus. In addition to the ceremony the team will wear black patches on their uniforms for the rest of the season and the team will raise Majerus' sweater to the rafters at a date later in the season.
We have hit December–the second month of the college basketball season–so some of the regular columns that you are used to seeing here such as Seth Davis' weekly Hoops Thoughts column will start appearing on a more regular basis. In the first column of the season, Davis takes an overview of the past week highlighting the best and worst of the week to go along with a brief interview with Jim Boeheim and a mailbag full of questions/comments from a nation full of angry fans of disrespected teams (mostly for good reason).
It wouldn't really be a weekend without a college basketball player getting in trouble and this weekend's contribution comes from Massachusetts' Cady Lalanne who was arrested on Saturday night at the school's student union on charges of disorderly conduct and followed it up with assault and battery on the arresting police officer with a resisting arrest charge thrown in for good measure (see the entry from 2121 near the bottom of the page). Lalanne, who starts at center and averages 4.8 points, 5.3 rebounds, and 1.8 blocks per game, did not practice with the team yesterday and will not come with the team to their game tonight at Northeastern. We aren't sure how long Lalanne will be out, but with that assault and battery on an officer charge we are guessing he will be out for a while.
At the beginning of the season we linked to a column highlighting the injuries/suspensions at nearly every program in the country. While the injury report put together by Rob Dauster isn't as comprehensive it does provide a nice in-depth look at the most important injuries across the nation. You are probably aware of most of the major injuries on the list, but there are several key players who are still playing through their injuries and it does provide some useful updates on potential return dates for some players.
When we first saw Charles Pierce had written a column on the rebirth of Indiana basketball we thought we were going to get a phenomenal piece. We will be honest and admit that in our opinion it falls short of that, but it does offer some very good anecdotes (about Majerus, Tom Crean, Bob Knight, and Al McGuire) that is still worth a read even if it is not as well-connected as we would have expected from a writer of Pierce's caliber and pedigree.
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RTC Conference Primers: #8 – Atlantic 10
Posted by Brian Goodman on October 30th, 2011
Joe Dzuback of Villanova by the Numbers is the RTC correspondent for the Atlantic 10 Conference. You can find him on Twitter @vbtnBlog.
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The A-10 has earned three invitations to the NCAA Tournament in each of the last four seasons. Xavier and Temple, as they have for the past two seasons, will claim two bids.
Top Storylines
Xavier's Honors/Recognition: The Musketeers were eliminated in the second round of the NCAA Tournament last March, but have garnered quite a bit of recognition and more than a few awards since last March. Tu Holloway won the 2010-11 Conference Player of the Year award, earned a place on the Wooden Award Preseason Watch List and drew a nod as a member of the preseason A-10 All-Conference First Team. Four of Holloway's teammates, Mark Lyon, Kenny Frease, Dezmine Wells and Justin Martin, all earned places on several preseason All-Conference teams. Xavier Athletic Director Michael Bobinski will chair the NCAA Mens Tournament Selection Committee for the 2012-13 tournament. Bobinski will succeed Jeff Hathaway, Consultant to Big East Commissioner John Marinatto for Men's Basketball (yes, that really is his title).
Xavier's Tu Holloway Is A First-Team All-American Candidate And One Of The Nation's Best Seniors
A-10 to Barclays in 2013: Barclays Center, under construction in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, is in the market for multi-day sporting events while the Atlantic 10 is looking for a bigger stage for their post season tournament — a perfect match perhaps? The two announced a deal late last month that will move the 2012-13 A-10 Conference Tournament to the 675,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art sports and entertainment venue that will feature an 18,000 seat arena for basketball. The Atlantic 10 has vacillated between rotating campus sites and a "permanent neutral" site since the first conference tournament in 1976-77. The current location since the 2006-07 tournament, Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, is a 10,500 seat amphitheater. While technically neutral, the attendance is up when one or more of the Philadelphia contingent (La Salle, Saint Joseph's and/or Temple) advances to the quarterfinal round and beyond, and down when they do not. The conference will return to Boardwalk Hall for their 2011-12 tournament, then move over to Barclays Center the following season.
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RTC Summer Updates: Atlantic 10 Conference
Posted by Brian Goodman on August 3rd, 2011
With the completion of the NBA Draft and the annual coaching and transfer carousels nearing their ends, RTC is rolling out a new series, RTC Summer Updates, to give you a crash course on each Division I conference during the summer months. Our latest update comes courtesy of our Atlantic 10 correspondent, Joe Dzuback. You can read more of his in-depth writing and analysis at Villanova By The Numbers.
Summer Storylines
Bobinski to Chair NCAA Selection Committee: While the conference again sent seven teams, half of its membership, to the postseason — three to the NCAA, one to the NIT and three to the CBI, the Final Four runs by Butler (Horizon League) and Virginia Commonwealth (Colonial Athletic Association) overshadowed a showing, Xavier's loss to Marquette excepted, that exceeded 2010's NCAA results. The NCAA announced that Xavier Athletic Director Mike Bobinski will succeed Connecticut's Jeff Hathaway as Chairman of the 2012 NCAA Tournament Selection Committee. Bobinski just completed his third year of a five-year term on the Selection Committee. While the Atlantic 10 has been the most successful non-BCS conference in placing teams in the tournament field (with 20 NCAA bids allotted to six teams since 2004), its representatives have tended to draw the short straw when it comes to seeding, and Bobinski will likely lobby hard for that cause.
The Coaching Carousel: The conference had two coaching vacancies during the early phase of the coaching carousel. If the 2010 offseason saw coaching turnovers due to firings, the 2011 offseason saw suitors come to call on the Atlantic 10 coaching fraternity. Tennessee, having fired Bruce Pearl on March 21, made its first call to Xavier to talk with Chris Mack. Mack reportedly turned aside an offer of $2 million per year to coach the Volunteers in favor of staying in Cincinnati with the Musketeers. Richmond's Chris Mooney signed a 10-year contract extension, his second extension in two years, ending Georgia Tech's courtship. Mooney's decision triggered a spate of articles (see "Old coaching assumptions are fading" by Dana O'Neil for example) about non-BCS coaches who pass on BCS offers to stay with their programs. The Yellow Jackets turned their attention to Dayton's Brian Gregory, who succumbed to the lure of the BCS and packed his bags for Atlanta on March 28. Dayton conducted a six-day search and hired Archie Miller, brother of former Xavier head man Sean Miller, away from Arizona to succeed Gregory. In late April, George Washington's Athletic Director, Patrick Nero, fired 10-year veteran Karl Hobbs. Nero, who succeeded retiring AD Jack Kvancz on June 30, was hired on April 20, and wasted no time in turning over the men's basketball staff. Nero reached into his old stomping grounds, the American East Conference, and hired the league's premier head basketball coach, Mike Lonergan of Vermont, on May 6 to replace Hobbs. The resignation of Penn State head coach Ed DeChellis on May 24 (DeChellis took over the Navy program) triggered a few tense days among the Duquesne faithful as coach Ron Everhart landed an interview for the Happy Valley position. The Dukes exhaled on June 1 when Everhart withdrew his name from consideration in favor of staying with the Pittsburgh school next season.
Media Coverage: The Atlantic 10 and ESPN renewed their deal to have eight games (selected by ESPN) televised on either ESPN or ESPN2 in each of the next two seasons. The ESPN networks are committed to broadcasting the Women's Championship and up to 32 appearances in each of the next two seasons.
Tu Holloway Makes the XU Offense Go
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i) Vedanta Aluminum Limited (VAL) : Details of construction supervision & Quality Inspection, Audit and Certification for the Expansion Project of Vedanta Aluminum Limited (VAL) with aluminum smelter plant of 1.25 MTPA and Power Plant of 4x600 MW with 04 no's of Pot Room of 1200 meter of length, FTP (Fume Treatment Plant) including chimney (80 Mtr) and Silos, GAP (Green Anode Plant), Bake Oven, Pet coke shed, Carbon Area, Alumina handling Silos, Switchyard, 33/11 KV Building & Infrastructures.
ii) Jindal Steel and Power Plant(JSPL) :Construction Supervision and Quality inspection at different stages of manufacturing and construction. Controls of quality document, Quality audit, certification of contractor running bills and reconcile the clients free issue material. Quality inspection at lab as well as site .Project include various sites are DRI, SMS, CGP, Plate mill , Oxygen plant, LDP, Central Utility, RMHS, Infrastructure, Raw water reservoir ( capacity 9lacks cusec ) and Ash pond.
i) Include regular inspection of all industrial civil structures as per drawings and specifications.
ii) Acquiring the quality certification and managing the audit of various civil works.
iii) Recording the daily progress of setting out for civil and structural work.
iv) Construction supervision of township, reservoir lining work etc.
v) Certification of contractors running bill.
vi) Preparation of BOQ,SOR for JSPL.
vii) Reconcile the free issue material.
viii) Coordinate and interact with concern departments.
ix) Verify and improvement of the sub-ordinate performance.
x) Prepare and submitted the monthly progress and review report.
xi) Improve and develop the business scope.
Construction of 4/6 Lanes and Strengthening of two lanes Carriageway of NH-5 in the state of Orissa from KM 338 / 642 to Km387/700(Sunakhala- Khurda) Section, contract Package OR-VI (V – B Section), Under Prime Minister Golden Quadrangle Project.
Supervision for construction of four to six lining of NH-5 (52 km )include 2nos major bridge, 79nos minor bridge, 2nos underpass etc.
i) Inspection of contractor's daily ongoing activity at site .
ii) Selection of material & material source.
iv) Ensure the Level, Quality & Quantity of each and individual different layer.
v) Ensure the quality of finished product.
vi) Corrective and preventive action.
vii) Conducted Quality & Progress review meeting and presented advanced concepts to improve quality at site.
viii) Control overall project document .
ix) Certification of material advance.
withM/s Reliance Engineering Associated ltd.(REAL) Through Mafoi management.
Construction of Main MCN (Media conversion Node) building , staff quarter and cable laying Approximate 185 km for Reliance InfoTech at Berhampur in the state of Orissa.
ii) Inspection for Daily ongoing activity by the contractor.
iv) Joint Measurement and bill certification.
vi) Rate of analysis for extra items.
vii) Monthly Physical and financial progress report.
viii) Shuttered out various local hindrance.
ix) Liaison with government and private department.
With M/s VIMAL construction pvt ltd.
Constructions of Runway Extension project at Biju pattnaik international Air Port, Bhubaneswar, and Orissa.
i) Monitoring and tracking day to day activities as per schedule.
ii) Deployment of labor and Machinery.
iii) Control over various activity related quality.
iv) Planning the daily work as per Micro planning.
v) Preparation of running bill.
vi) Coordinate with client and consultant.
vii) Preparation of daily progress report .
i) Construction of 40nos core house at Patrapada, Bhubaneswar.
ii) Construction of 25nos Duplex house at Khandagiri, Bhubaneswar.
i) Preparation of job schedule.
ii) Managed all man and machine power.
iii) Joint measurement for sub contractor.
iv) Ensure quality of material, quality construction at various stages.
v) Identify and Selection of material and material sour ace.
vi) Preparation of daily progress report.
vii) Control over cost effective.
viii)Coordinate with consultant as well as head office.
Construction supervision of different residential building at Cuttack and Bhubaneswar.
i) Conducting regular inspection of various residential building structures as per drawings and Design.
ii) Receiving the quality related certification and auditing various civil works.
iii) Monitoring daily progress of setting out for civil and structural work.
iv) Preparation of client and subcontractor bill.
v) Verified quality of materials, pre work measurements by taking drawing and design.
vi) Prepare Estimate for various residential buildings.
Could operate effectively with Microsoft office tools namely word, excel, power point, access and worked with various operating systems.
i) Diploma in civil Engineering from BOSE Cuttack.
ii) B.Tech Civil from Presidency college ,Berhampur.
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Businesses on Isla Mujeres proposing new security filters at maritime terminals
Isla Mujeres, Q.R. — Businesses on Isla Mujeres are looking to propose security filters be placed at each of the maritime terminals to screen those who arrive on the island.
The proposal comes on the heels of a recent robbery when 80,000 peso was stolen from an island pharmacy. Reports say that the robbery occurred 200 meters from another recent robbery where violence was involved. There have yet to be any arrests in both cases.
Island businessmen will propose that the security checks could be the responsibility of the navy or Military Police, since the new military city is located on mainland Isla Mujeres. They say that the arrival of troops opens the possibility of adding security filters in each of the maritime terminals which would provide greater control over who and what enters the island.
Entrepreneurs are also beginning to think about the implementation of new security measures such as the installation of security cameras, something not all businesses have.
"While this cannot prevent theft, it can help in the recognition of criminals," commented a concerned businessmen. He says that although the Port Administration of Quintana Roo has security cameras, there should be a security filter with metal detection for things such as weapons.
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Neurological complications of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine
By Neha MathurJan 24 2022Reviewed by Danielle Ellis, B.Sc.
In a study published in the latest issue of the journal Neurological Sciences, a team of researchers described a three-patient case series presenting with neurological manifestations after the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination, followed by a literature review, to propose hypotheses on how neurological symptoms might develop after vaccination.
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Vaccination for COVID-19 is vital to reduce the spread of this deadly infectious disease and control fatality rates. Equally important is to evaluate the risk of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection vs. risks of COVID-19 vaccination.
Multiple studies have reported neurological symptoms in patients with SARS-CoV-2-infection, but information about neurological complications after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination is sparse.
Also, studies have not provided enough evidence that episodes of bradyphrenia and focal neurological symptoms observed in some patients post COVID-19 vaccination are directly related to vaccination.
Clinical representation of cases A, B, and C
The present case study described three cases, namely case A, case B, and case C.
Case A patient, an 87-year-old man with hypertension, contracted COVID-19 in November 2020. Thirteen days after the onset of the initial, mild flu-like symptoms, he developed a bilateral disabling, progressive myoclonus with mild dysarthria, for which laboratory tests showed no metabolic cause. His brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed np structural lesions, and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis showed no abnormalities, while anti-neuronal antibodies in serum were negative. He also tested reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)- negative. The doctors treated him with levetiracetam, clonazepam, and pulse therapy methylprednisolone. After three months of primary SARS-CoV-2 infection, although the symptoms persisted, action-induced myoclonus turned mild.
Two months after primary SARS-CoV-2 infection, this patient received the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. After the first vaccine dose, although initially, the myoclonus symptoms progressed for a day, they subsided within the next few days. His symptoms did not worsen after the second dose of vaccine, administered 30 days after his first vaccine.
Case B patient was a 62-year-old woman with a medical history of ocular melanoma. She complained of a thunderclap headache suddenly after her SARS-CoV-2 vaccination (Pfizer/BioNTech). The headache spontaneously improved after one day. She had a brief loss of consciousness without head trauma, directly followed by the second episode of thunderclap headache 10 days after her COVID-19 vaccination. Neurological examination showed a bradyphrenia with motoric dysphasia and mild dysmetria in all extremities. Her laboratory test results, including brain computed tomography (CT) and MRI, electroencephalography (EEG), and CSF analysis, looked normal. In addition, her blood pigment, cytology analysis, and cardiological workup showed no abnormalities. The doctors could not diagnose a cause for the headache, including any signs of cerebral reversible vasoconstriction syndrome, and her symptoms spontaneously vanished within a few days. After receiving the second dose of vaccination, the patient experienced another episode of thunderclap headache but no neurological deficits.
The case C patient was a 21-year-old woman who developed general malaise with subfebrile temperature within two hours of receiving her first COVID-19 vaccination (Oxford/AstraZeneca). She had a thunderclap headache, nausea, and vomiting within six hours. Although her neurological tests, blood analysis, and brain CT, including CT-angiography and venography, were normal, she was restless and suffered from tachycardia and hypertension. The doctors prescribed non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), paracetamol, intravenous morphine, and oxygen therapy. Although her headache reduced within 24 hours, it took her a few days to recover.
Post-SARS-CoV-2 vaccination, para-infectious myoclonus was observed in case A, which researchers hypothesized were autoimmune-mediated. Presumably, antibodies produced by the activated immune system bound to SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins also cross-reacted with some parts of the nervous system manifesting as neurological symptoms.
Due to the relatively short time between the first and second vaccination, the case A patient still had an activated immune system which explained why his symptoms did not worsen after the second vaccine. Overall, the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying the neurological symptoms of the case A patient was not entirely clear.
Patients of cases B and C had never contracted SARS-CoV-2 infection, which made the authors presume that the cause for their post-vaccination thunderclap headache was different. Moreover, the onset of symptoms in these patients occurred shortly after vaccination, suggesting a direct correlation with COVID-19 vaccination.
Subsequently, the authors have proposed three different hypotheses on how neurological symptoms might develop after vaccination. According to their first hypothesis, headache is common among patients suffering from respiratory virus infections or those who have received a vaccination, including SARS-CoV-2-vaccination, since the underlying pathophysiological mechanism behind both is the same. Although not completely understood, it may be attributable to fever, activation of immunoinflammatory mediators, or a direct effect of specific microorganisms. This hypothesis also explains post-vaccination thunderclap headache and the signs of malaise and subfebrile temperature in the case C patient.
The second hypothesis states that neurological symptoms after vaccination might be due to reactivation of the immune system in patients previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 or a related pathogen. However, this hypothesis could not explain this phenomenon based on the medical history of patients B and C unless their symptoms were subclinical.
In the third hypothesis, the authors proposed that headache and encephalopathy are known neurological manifestations of SARS-CoV-2-infection due to virus-induced systemic hyper inflammation by an extensive cytokine release. This does not explicitly explain the symptoms of case B and C patients because their COVID-19 symptoms were relatively mild, and they were COVID-19 vaccinated without preceding SARS-CoV-2 infection.
To summarize, this case study demonstrated new-onset or deterioration of neurological symptoms shortly after the SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. Although the study could not establish a direct relationship, it showed a temporal relationship between vaccination and neurological symptoms, excluding other causes of those symptoms after extensive medical examination and the known pathophysiological mechanisms to support the hypotheses.
Taken together, this suggests that after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination, a reactivation of the immune system causes neurological symptoms. However, further research is warranted to provide more insights into the hypotheses outlined in this study. In addition, future studies should focus on establishing a direct relationship between COVID-19 vaccination and neurological symptoms, simultaneously excluding other etiologies.
SARS-CoV-2 vaccine-related neurological complications, Nicol G. M. Oonk, Anne Rozemarijn Ettema, Heleen van Berghem, Jabke J. de Klerk, Joyce P. M. van der Vegt, Matthijs van der Meulen , Neurol Sci (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-022-05898-z, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10072-022-05898-z
Posted in: Men's Health News | Medical Research News | Medical Condition News | Women's Health News | Disease/Infection News
Tags: Angiography, Antibodies, Anti-Inflammatory, Blood, Brain, Computed Tomography, Coronavirus, Coronavirus Disease COVID-19, CT, Cytokine, Cytology, Drugs, Dysarthria, Dysphasia, Encephalopathy, Fever, Flu, Head Trauma, Headache, Imaging, Immune System, Inflammation, Laboratory, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Melanoma, Morphine, Myoclonus, Nausea, Nervous System, Ocular Melanoma, Oxygen, Oxygen Therapy, Paracetamol, Pathogen, Polymerase, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Research, Respiratory, Respiratory Virus, Reverse Transcriptase, SARS, SARS-CoV-2, Severe Acute Respiratory, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Syndrome, Tomography, Trauma, Vaccine, Venography, Virus, Vomiting
Neha Mathur
Neha is a digital marketing professional based in Gurugram, India. She has a Master's degree from the University of Rajasthan with a specialization in Biotechnology in 2008. She has experience in pre-clinical research as part of her research project in The Department of Toxicology at the prestigious Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow, India. She also holds a certification in C++ programming.
Mathur, Neha. (2022, January 24). Neurological complications of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. News-Medical. Retrieved on January 31, 2023 from https://www.news-medical.net/news/20220124/Neurological-complications-of-the-SARS-CoV-2-vaccine.aspx.
Mathur, Neha. "Neurological complications of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine". News-Medical. 31 January 2023. <https://www.news-medical.net/news/20220124/Neurological-complications-of-the-SARS-CoV-2-vaccine.aspx>.
Mathur, Neha. "Neurological complications of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine". News-Medical. https://www.news-medical.net/news/20220124/Neurological-complications-of-the-SARS-CoV-2-vaccine.aspx. (accessed January 31, 2023).
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Interesting read, very technical
Luke Davids says:
While this was very interesting, it took me a while to get through because I had to look for the definitions of some of the medical terms used, would have been nice for us layman folk for the author to have added some basic explanations for these terms


Finally we made it to this huge Indoor Playground in Prague - Cestlice, close to the famous Aquapalace aqua park. And…. spent a fortune there; what looked so innocent at the beginning turned out to be quite an investment. Yet this is one of the 2 biggest indoor playgrounds in Prague and it's worth spending a minimum half day here. The playground has both indoor and outdoor attractions over an area of 8000m2.
Firstly, if you buy your tickets via their website you get a 10% discount. All you have to do is present the email confirmation to them. I did it on the way there in the car. Easy. Here is the direct link where you can buy the discounted tickets - click on the first option: Individualni vstup (individual entry).
Sure kids had so much fun, but this isn't a place I would go to every week. Seriously, I am not sure how long they can operate like this. Maybe because they are new people like to go and don't mind the extra charges, but if I compare it to Beckiland where you pay just an entrance fee and all attractions including the go-carts and kids train are free - it seems to me overpriced.
We were with 3 kids - so 60czk went every 3 minutes not calculating the food and drinks.
Otherwise, the place is fantastic. They have proper, tasty meals, a nice cafe with a big variety of cakes and ice-creams, a fresh bar and lots of space and everything is well maintained.
The biggest monkey bars in Europe, around 2000 m3 is the flagship of the fun park. This favourite five-storey attraction consists of many passages, chutes and slides, climbing walls, nets, wading pools with balls and more. It also includes a large "war" room with air-powered guns that shoot foam balls.
We couldn't miss out the 5D cinema. It is a bit of a rip-off though. You pay 110czk per person and it lasts around 11 minutes although they say it's 15 min. You can choose 2 different movies that are listed on the wall. Watch out - the pictures do not sometimes match the content. For example, my boys wanted the 5D car race… so on the picture we have chosen a movie with cars. To our surprise it was a floating boat race and wasn't very exiting. We went to this cinema 3x and the best movie was the Desert Race in Star Wars type space ships. We avoided the Zombie Movies and Disastrous - so am not sure what they are like. You can also buy the tickets to the cinema on-line, on their web for 99czk.
This is the only place in Prague with not only huge Indoor attractions but also a big outdoor playground with different bouncy castles. At least 5 of them! I wasn't expecting this outdoor space when we first got there and it was a nice surprise.
They have 3 separate birthdays rooms but I noticed all of the parties were actually held downstairs right next to the attractions area. That probably depends on you. You can expect the kids to be gone playing most of the time if you sit downstairs. If you want to have it more private, reserve a birthday room.
This is possible only with a reservation although you might be lucky and walk and manage to get the babysitter, but they told me it is safer to call 1 day ahead or write them an email. It costs 150czk for the first hour and each additional hour is charged at 50czk.
This might be handy in case you wanted to nip out to the cosmetic studio LOTO that is on the first floor of the funpark. They do manicure, pedicure, hair, cosmetics and they work with PHYRIS cosmetics. You have to make a phone reservation: 776 606 860 because they do not have all the professionals in at the one time. I have been told by the staff that their contract with Zirafa Funpark is valid till the end of September 2014 and they will then decide if they will continue on.
DIRECTIONS: By Public Transport: Take Metro C (red line) to Opatov then change to Bus no's. 385, 363 or 328 to Čestlice. By Car: Take the D1 Freeway in the direction of Brno, turn off at Exit 6 (Pruhonice). Make a right hand turn at the roundabout which will take you underneath the D1 and then right at the next roundabout which leads you into the main street of Čestlice. The playground is close to Aquapalace aqua park.


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Small charities could be facing a 'slow death' due to Covid-19
Thousands of smaller charities face a "slow death", experts fear, amid declining donations and limited grants.
By Shelley Marriott
6th Nov 2020, 8:00am
Lots of events have been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic
There are 322 charities in West Lindsey, 147 micro charities, 116 small charities, 25 medium charities, two large and one major.
The cancellation of all participation events since March has seen overall donations to non-NHS charities drop by 46 per cent on a leading fundraising site.
But analysis by the BBC has found that smaller charities, without the reserve levels of their larger counterparts, are at far greater risk of having to cease operating entirely.
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The leader of the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) said the declining income from collection tins, charity shops and community events such as fetes and raffles had already hit the incomes of smaller operations by "hundreds of millions of pounds".
Even though he said overall giving in 2020 was up by £800 million compared to 2019 - the majority of those funds were absorbed by NHS charities.
The total income from all West Lindsey charities is £53,140,294 with small and micro charities currently at £4,244,111.
Neil Heslop, chief executive, Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), said: "The sector as a whole has been hit and the fundamental paradox they face is one of spiralling demand amidst a time of collapsing income.
"The challenge has really been for many other charities, especially the smaller ones that do not have much by way of reserves, that saw their normal fundraising drives completely shut down.
"They now find themselves at risk of shutting down because of all those sponsored runs and walks that have been cancelled, the collection tins that bring in spare change at the rail station, all those small amounts of money which are collected at spring fetes for so many good, local causes that add up to hundreds of millions of pounds.
"It's important to remember that even small charities that rely on an army of volunteers to deliver their services all still have to pay the rent and the electric bill at the end of the month and those funds just aren't there for them right now."
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Bewley's: Four Harry Clarke stained glass windows 'part and parcel' of Johnny Ronan's building, court rules
Six windows are said to be worth €1 million, with court ruling two are property of tenant and café operator
Some of the Harry Clarke windows in Bewley's café on Grafton Street, Dublin. Photograph: Joe St Leger/The Irish Times
Fri Jan 20 2023 - 13:46
The High Court has ruled that four of the Harry Clarke stained glass windows in Bewley's café on Grafton Street in Dublin form "part and parcel" of the building.
However, two of the windows are the property of the tenant and operator of the café, Mr Justice Denis McDonald said on Friday. The windows are said to be worth €1 million.
The judge was giving his decision in a dispute between the landlord, RGRE Grafton Ltd, a company of developer Johnny Ronan, and the tenant, Bewley's Café Grafton Street (BCGS) Ltd and its subsidiary Bewley's Ltd, in a dispute with its origins in the non-payment of rent due to difficulties created by Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns.
In 2020, BCGS transferred its interest in the windows to Bewley's Ltd which in turn licensed BCGS to continue to use the windows. RGRE sought possession of the café premises that year over non-payment of rent, but this was resolved after mediation, leading to €749,000 being paid.
There followed a dispute in which Bewley's sought to offset further rent payments by offering to sell the Harry Clarke windows to RGRE. Bewley's argued the windows were never part of the property and have from time to time, subject to statutory requirements, been moved freely within the premises and are owned by it.
It said the windows were commissioned from Harry Clarke by the original tenant in the 1920s and are tenant's fixtures.
Bewley's previously owned the premises before it was sold in 1987 to Royal Insurance, which then leased the café back to Bewleys. Royal Insurance later sold the premises and they later ended up with the Ronan company. Ownership of the windows did not transfer during the Royal Insurance sale, Bewley's argued.
RGRE said the windows were part and parcel of the structure sold when RGRE bought it from the previous owner. Bewley's could not sell it what it already owned, RGRE said.
In his decision on Friday, Mr Justice McDonald said four of the windows, known as the Four Orders works, were "not only windows but also works of art".
Case law makes no distinction between windows or doors that also have artistic merit and those that have none, and these works became part and parcel of the premises in the same way as any other window that functions as a part of the external shell of the premises, he said.
The judge was not persuaded by RGRE's submissions regarding two windows, known as the Swan Yard works, which were moved in 1987 to a new internal wall separating the café from a new fire escape.
The Swan Yard pair, originally fitted in 1928, had in reality become light boxes within the new internal wall of the building, making them "purely mock windows". Their removal would not have interfered in any real way with the convenient use of the café premises, he said.
In circumstances where the Swan Yard works were installed parallel to existing windows, they were properly classified as additions to the structure or fabric of the café, he said.
RGRE was entitled to an order setting aside the purported transfer of the Four Orders works from BCGS to Bewley's Ltd, he said. However, RGRE failed to prove its case in relation to the Swan Yard works and that element of its claim must be dismissed. The defendants succeeded in establishing that the Swan Yard works constitute tenant's fixtures and is entitled to a declaration that Bewley's is the owner of these, he said.
The judge said he could not be influenced by concern that his decision may eventually result in the break-up of two suites of Harry Clarke's works which can currently be viewed together in their original setting.
"As a resident of Dublin, I fully understand that many people may have that concern but it is not something that I can take into account as a judge required to decide the case on the evidence before me," he said.
The case comes back before the judge for final orders next month.
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The center organizes and promotes corporate events—workshops, conferences, presentations, award ceremonies, commemorations, etc.—which offer families in business first-hand experience and a far-reaching network of contacts.
"Personal philanthropy profiles in Spain" - CaixaBank Talks
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With the intervention of the authors of the study
Cristina Cruz - Professor of Entrepreneurship and Academic Director of the IE Center for Families in Business
Rachida Justo - Professor of Social Entrepreneurship and Director of the Department of Entrepreneurship at IE University
The aim of this conference is to bring the figure of the great donor closer to society and to highlight its contribution. The meeting will discuss the ecosystem, the challenges and areas for improvement, good practices and references from other countries.
We will also be accompanied by two philanthropists who have participated in the study.
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Sixth edition of the European Family Business Summit
November 19th -20th, 2019
A 2-day event organised by European Family Businesses ,the EU federation of national associations which represents long-term family owned enterprise.
This edition held in Madrid served not only to highlight the importance of family businesses but also to address and discuss the main challenges affecting business families in a changing and disruptive European context.
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October 14th -15th, 2019
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Families in Business: How to Create Value across Generations
Next edition: 29 May - 05 July 2019
Spanish / On-line / 5 weeks
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Family Governance and the Role of Women in the Family Business
On Tuesday, 2 April, the "Family Governance and the Role of Women in the Family Business" conference was held. The event was organised by the Center for Families in Business of the ESE Business School of the Universidad de los Andes and sponsored by Credit Suisse.
The keynote speaker was Cristina Cruz, Director of the Center Families in Business at IE. María José Bosch, a scholar and distinguished researcher and director at the Work and Family Center at the ESE Business School, also spoke.
The conference was held at the ESE Business School of the Universidad de los Andes.
Innovation in Entrepreneurship & Family Business con Adriana Cisneros
Adriana Cisneros is the executive director of the Cisneros Group, a family business with a global presence focused on media and entertainment, digital advertising solutions, real estate and social leadership. She is also the chairperson of the Cisneros Foundation.
Adriana Cisneros shared her perspective on the challenges of innovation, the entrepreneurial mind-set and family companies, along with Paris de l'Etraz, Managing Director of the IE Venture Lab, and Cristina Cruz, Director of the Center Families in Business at IE.
The Challenge of Reinventing Europe - Center for Families in Business
In an environment where Europe faces an unprecedented crisis in which it competes with younger and more dynamic emerging economies, value must be placed on the role that families in business, the driving force behind the European economy, play in the construction of the new European model.
Europa needs to reinvent itself while preserving its identity and its values. And the experts on this are the successful European families in business that have learned to innovate from tradition, adapting their business models across generations.
This event led by the IE Center for Families in Business allowed for reflection on the challenges European families in business face in their capacity as a force for change in the transformation of Europe.
The event featured the following speakers:
18:30 - Welcome - Carlos Mas, Chairman of the Center Families in Business at IE.
18:45 - Family, Values and Entrepreneurship: Keys to success of European families in business - Cristina Cruz, Director of the Center Families in Business at IE.
19:15 - Round Table: European families' contribution to the transformation of Europe: Present, Past and Future - Alfonso Líbano Daurella, Chairperson of the European Family Business Network, Member of the Board of Directors of Coca-Cola European Partners and Vice-Chairperson of Cobega, S.A., Carlos March Delgado, Co-Chairperson of Corporación Financiera Alba and Director of Banca March.
IE FAMILY BUSINESS CLUB
The Family Business Club is a student body initiative. The club, which each year elects a new chairperson and coordinating team among the students, is one of the most active and emblematic clubs on the IE campus and is supported by the IE Center for Families in Business.
The Club has an extensive network of students and alumni who belong to families in business or who have interests in their activity.


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Lady Falcons fall short against Lady Warriors 57-53
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By Shawn Robinson - WNJ Sports Writer
ADAMS TOWNSHIP – Clinton-Massie stormed out of a 16-point hole at Brian P. Mudd Court Saturday versus SBAAC American Division rival Goshen to within one posssession of tying or taking the lead only to fall 57-53.
Massie's last four losses are by a combined 11 points.
"We just fell short again," CM head coach Hilma Crawford said. "It's frustrating."
The Falcons (1-5, 0-2) trailed 53-37 with 5:34 left in the game. McKenna Branham sparked a 14-0 run with a three to pull Massie to within 53-51 with 1:46 left in the game. The spurt also included a bucket and a pair of free throws by Aidan Eades who led the Falcons with 18 points, another free throw from Branham, an offensive putback and pull-up jumper by Miranda Crawford, and a layup by Sydney Crowe.
"They let us get within two and we should've taken advantage more of it," Crawford said.
Katrina Hopper's baseline jumper stopped the run and put the Warriors (3-3, 2-1) up 55-51 with 90 seconds left in the contest. Hopper led all scorers with 19 points.
The teams traded turnovers until Goshen's Peyton Shafer hit a pair of free throws with :28.9 left to provide some breathing room.
"We have to learn situations in the game, especially when it gets close," Crawford said. "We have to know when to foul. When we made a bucket, we need to find our man."
Goshen built its cushion with a 12-2 run to end the first quarter with a 20-9 advantage. The Warriors also scored nine of the first 11 points in the build their largest lead of the evening, 29-11 with 4:32 left in the first half. And then the Warriors, as head coach Mark Short said, "Hung on for dear life."
"We haven't been in a situation like that yet this year. They have several times. We told our kids several times coming into tonight, no matter what the score is, their kids are going to play hard all the way through," Short said. "And their kids did, and I don't think we did. I just thought we stopped. We thought we had it won. We're young. We haven't been in a lot of close games like that. It's something we needed to go through, I guess. As a coach you don't like it.
"When you have a chance to step on somebody's throat, you do it. And we didn't. When it does get a little tighter, you have to learn how to run your offense, get good shots, don't force, play defense. We let them dribble right through us. Don't commit silly fouls. There was a multitude of things we did wrong. Hopefully we can learn from all of those."
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(57) GOSHEN (fg-ft-tp) Hopper 6-4-19, Hamilton 0-0-0, Shafer 5-3-15, Noland 0-0-0, Smiley 2-0-4, Strunk 1-2-4, Dehler 0-0-0, Hoffrogge 1-0-2, Mathewson 0-0-0, Myers 1-0-3, Maco 1-0-2, Geary 4-0-8. Total 21-9-57. 3-point goals: 6 (Hoffer 3, Shafer 2, Myers). FTM-FTA 9-11, 82 percent.
(53) CLINTON-MASSIE (fg-ft-tp) Crowe 1-1-3, Eades 6-6-18, Crawford 4-1-9, Avery 4-0-9, Branham 3-2-9, Jamarillo 0-0-0, Roberts 1-1-3, Davis 1-0-2. Total 20-11-53. 3-point goals: 2 (Avery, Branham). FTM-FTA 11-19, 58 percent.
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Like so many people with very little firsthand experience of creating and using defence capability at any sophisticated level, Nic Stuart has effortlessly come up with yet another answer to the financial problems of Defence—Reserve manpower.
Although he does not state it directly, the only fair conclusion from how Nic structured his article is that he believes that the use of reserve manpower was successful in the past, we had too much manpower in WWII, two-year national service was all that was needed in Vietnam, the only thing that we face in the future is an invasion of the continent (and there isn't much chance of that), and in these financially tight times, greater use of Reserve manpower would enable the RAAF to buy the JSF and the RAN to buy the future submarine. There are, to risk massive understatement, some problems with this line of logic.
What produces quality Australian soldiers, sailors, and airmen and women is not whether they are full or part time, regular or reserve, it is the quality of the recruits combined with first class equipment, quality leadership and realistic training. If a Reserve serviceman or woman does a few weeks per year of training, and so likely never reaches any real level of individual or group deployable operational capability, then you get exactly what you are paying for—not much. I wonder if Nic thinks that being capable in combat is so simple that anyone can do it with just a few weeks' training per year.
Regular manpower is expensive because it is trained and can be used at short notice. Reserve manpower is not so expensive because it is barely trained and would need to undergo extensive and expensive training before it can be used. There is some leakage into the Reserve from the Regular forces, which is great, but given the size of the ADF, it isn't possible to generate anything like the numbers of ex-ADF in Australian Reserves, to the extent that the UK or the US employs theirs.
We could happily lessen the amount of full time manpower if we fell for the dangerously simplistic line that peace will break out following our withdrawal from Afghanistan, just because we had a long period of no-conflict after Vietnam. There's nothing to indicate that this is going to be the case after 2014 except the wishes of those who search for simplistic answers to defence. In fact there's everything to indicate that we are going into a uniquely unpredictable period, and whatever the future might hold for the world, it's likely to occur much closer to Australia than in the past 50 years, and it might occur when the relative power of our great and powerful ally has been reduced.
There's only one thing simple about the defence problem that faces Australia. You must start with the Need. What is it that you want the ADF to do in the future to meet the Need (the strategic environment) and what is the structure that enables you to do it? Policy and strategy must be linked directly with force structure and tactics. It has never been thus in Australia since the first White Paper in 1976.
To rush so fast to considering ways of cutting costs to meet a blatantly irresponsible level of government spending is to surrender before the battle has begun. The most common fault currently with the defence debate is to concentrate so hard on how to lower inputs to defence (such as personnel costs), that the output of defence is forgotten. We see this regularly when government and bureaucrats concentrate so hard on so-called efficiencies that they fail to look at effectiveness.
The level of defence spending and the structure of the ADF must be decided by the Need. If any government decides that it will fund defence at a level below the Need, and so increase strategic risk, then it has every right to do so. But the Need must be publicly stated so that every voter can assess the level of risk that the government is taking with our national security, so that voters can make informed choices at the ballot box.
We in the commentariat have not yet made the link between the Need and what the ADF must be able to do, so it is the most nugatory and dangerous of activities to rush to pet input solutions, without considering what the output of defence should be. I agree with Nic that the choices that we will have to make will need to be hard choices, but they should also be smart ones.
Jim Molan is a retired Major General in the Australian Army and is a commentator on defence and security issues. Image courtesy of Department of Defence.


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Q: In bash, sed will add "\r" in the end of line, which makes some problem in for loop When I use sed to find some lines in a file, and then use for loop to do other things.
I find there's a "\r" in the end of sed reuslt. So I have to use slice like ${var: 0: -1} to remove the "\r".
I think it's not reasonable, and the high probability is my own reason. So, can you help me to find the problem?
My environment:
Kernel: 5.15.0-56-generic x86_64
bits: 64
Distro: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS (Focal Fossa)
shell: zsh

My bash script:

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*The problem is in echo `count_items_in_segment $seg`
#!/bin/bash

input_file="my.config"

function get_all_segment
{
    echo `sed -n -E -e "/\[.*\]/p" $input_file | sed -E -e "s/\[|\]//g"`
}

function count_items_in_segment
{
    sed -n "/\[$1\]/,/\[.*\]/p" $input_file | sed -n -E -e "/^#/d" -e "/^\s+$/d" -e "/\[.*\]/d" -e "p" | wc -l
}

index=1
for seg in `get_all_segment`
do
    echo "$index: $seg"
    echo `count_items_in_segment $seg`
    ((index++))
done

printf `get_all_segment`

my.config
[client]
database =  test
user =  test
password = pwd
default-character-set = utf8
host = 192.168.0.1
port = 3306
# comment

[client1]
database =  test
default-character-set = utf8
host = 192.168.0.1
port = 3306

[client2]
database =  test
user =  test
default-character-set = utf8
host = 192.168.0.1
port = 3306
[client3]
database =  test

I have made sure there is a "\n" in the end of line.
Like this
cat my.config | sed -n -e "/\[.*\]/p" > test.txt
cat test.txt -A

The result is

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*In cat -A , ^M  represents \r
[client]^M$
[client1]^M$
[client2]^M$
[client3]^M$

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Q: Mail::Sendmail with attachments and embed Perl in Bash script 1> I want to embed below Perl script in BASH script, and the Message should read from a message.txt file. How to realize this?
  use Mail::Sendmail;

  %mail = ( To      => 'you@there.com',
            From    => 'me@here.com',
            Message => "This is a very short message"
           );

  sendmail(%mail) or die $Mail::Sendmail::error;

  print "OK. Log says:\n", $Mail::Sendmail::log;

2> How to attach log files via Perl script?

A: If you are going to do it in a bash script, then maybe you can do without Perl. In your bash script have something like:
mutt -F $HOME/.muttrc.me -x -a attachment.file -- you@there.com < message.txt

This needs mutt and you can have a custom .muttrc file ($HOME/.muttrc.me in this case) to control the From: header:
my_hdr From: "Me Here" <me@here.com>
my_hdr Reply-To: me@here.com

A: The way @adamo told works fine, here's another, perhaps more performant one if there are lots of recipients:
cat message.txt | mail -a 'From: me@here.com' -a 'To: you@there.com' -s 'Subject for the message' you@there.com


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Doohan M, Rainbow V (1971) Determination of dry weights on small Aschelminthes.
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Ahmadinejad, Medvedev agree to boost ties: report
Breitbart (Link) - AFP (January 17, 2011)
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev agreed to boost ties between their countries, in a a telephone conversation, state media reported on Monday.
The call came after Russia snubbed Iran�s invitation to visit two atomic sites in the Islamic republic that were thrown open to a group of foreign diplomats on Saturday and Sunday.
Iran and Russia must always be �friends and colleagues,� state television quoted Ahmadinejad as telling Medvedev. �The Islamic republic of Iran welcomes an increase of ties in all areas between the two countries.�
Its website said Medvedev echoed the Iranian hardliner�s views.
Medvedev, according to the report which did not give a date for the call, said the two long-standing allies could boost ties in energy, fuel, transportation and other commercial areas.
�Russia is ready for all cooperation with the Islamic Republic of Iran,� Medvedev was quoted as saying.
On Saturday and Sunday, Iran opened up two atomic installations to a group of foreign envoys, including some representatives of the UN atomic watchdog.
It had invited Russia and China to participate in the visit to its main uranium enrichment facility at Natanz and the heavy water facility in Arak. But both Russia and China, considered close to Iran, turned down the invitation.
Russia and China backed a fourth set of UN sanctions against Iran approved in June 2009. The sanctions were imposed to stop Iran�s nuclear programme, which the West suspects is masking a weapons drive, a charge Tehran denies. �
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Bevin 'Bans Box' For Criminal Records On State Job Applications
By Ryland Barton
Photo: J. Tyler Franklin
Gov. Matt Bevin has signed an executive order that would remove questions about criminal convictions from job applications to work in the state executive branch.
The state would still conduct criminal background checks on applicants. Bevin encouraged private employers to do the same thing, saying the state would "lead by example."
"Let Kentucky become an example to the nation for all the right reasons," Bevin said. "I am challenging you as a private employer in Kentucky, join me in leading by example. Let us do what we can to restore opportunity, level the playing field and create new chances for people who have made mistakes, paid their dues and want to mainstream back into society."
Kentucky Justice and Public Protection Secretary John Tilley said the order could affect hundreds of thousands of Kentuckians and 70 million U.S. citizens who have been convicted of crimes.
Last year, the state legislature approved a bill allowing people with some non-violent felony convictions to clear their criminal records five years after the completion of their sentences. Bevin signed the bill into law.
Kentucky's Felony Expungement Bill Nears Final Passage
On Wednesday, Bevin called the executive order "historic" and said it followed principles of redemption set out by the founders of the country.
"Although it bothers many to think that such a thing could be true, it is indeed true that this nation was founded on core Christian principles. And those principles are principles that understand the concept of mercy and redemption and second chances," Bevin said.
Michael Hiser, a criminal justice reform advocate and counselor from Shepherdsville, said the action could help those with criminal records get a second chance.
"They committed a crime, they want to change their lives and we've been holding them back with these boxes, with these background checks that go back 20 years," Hiser said. "I'm sorry, but if somebody hasn't committed a crime in five, 10 years, the likelihood that they will is extremely decreased."
Hiser received his first felony conviction when he was 16 and racked up several drug convictions over 25 years. Sober for 12 years and done with parole since 2012, Hiser received a full pardon from former Gov. Steve Beshear in 2015 — restoring his right to vote, serve on a jury and run for elected office.
Hiser called Bevin's action a good "first step" but said the governor and legislature should restore voting rights to those with felony records once they've completed their punishment.
"The problem that we have here is that people are paying taxes, they're getting jobs, they're trying to go on with their life but they have no voice in Kentucky," Hiser said.
When he took office in December 2015, Bevin rescinded an executive order made by Beshear that restored voting rights to about 180,000 Kentuckians with non-violent felony convictions.
On Wednesday, Bevin said he would support a felon voting bill if it were approved by the legislature.
"If we can come to terms in the legislature where the people's voice is most clearly heard, where the people have their greatest connection to government, I would be supportive of such an effort, I really would," Bevin said.
Felon voting rights bills passed out of the state House of Representatives for years when it was controlled by Democrats, but none were approved by the Republican-controlled Senate.
Ryland Barton @RylandKY
Ryland Barton is the Capitol bureau chief for Kentucky Public Radio.
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Camden Hills Regional High School announces top scholars
Camden Hills Regional High School has announced its top scholars for 2012-2013. Sarah Scott is valedictorian of the class of 2013. She plans to attend Middlebury College in Vermont to pursue a degree in linguistics. Sarah Mayberry, 2013 salutatorian, plans to attend Brandeis University in Massachusetts and study biology. The top 10 percent of the graduating class of 2013, in no particular order, includes Alex ...
By Dwight Collins
Sarah Scott, left, is valedictorian of the class of 2013. She plans to attend Middlebury College in Vermont to pursue a degree in linguistics. Sarah Mayberry, 2013 salutatorian, plans to attend Brandeis University in Massachusetts and study biology. Dwight Collins
Camden Hills Regional High School has announced its top scholars for 2012-2013.
Sarah Scott is valedictorian of the class of 2013. She plans to attend Middlebury College in Vermont to pursue a degree in linguistics. Sarah Mayberry, 2013 salutatorian, plans to attend Brandeis University in Massachusetts and study biology.
The top 10 percent of the graduating class of 2013, in no particular order, includes Alex Wilder, Cole Ellison, James O'Connor, Will Conover, Gabe Doble, Calvin Robbins, Sarah Mayberry, Eben Kopp, Alice Richardson, Camilla Walker, Autumn Coyle, Alex Crans, Sarah Scott, Chelsea Hunter and Elazar Allwine.
Seniors James O'Connor and Alden Parker are 2013 National Merit Finalists and are eligible to compete for the approximately 8,300 scholarships that will be awarded by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
In addition, both O'Connor and Parker have been named as U.S. Presidential Scholars and are eligible to be chosen to represent Maine in Washington, D.C. in June. O'Connor plans to attend Amherst College in Massachusetts and pursue a degree in education and Parker plans to attend Middlebury College in Vermont.
Juniors Max Geffken, Clark Thomas, Kiera Haining, Crockett Lalor, Jack Orne, Sean Peirce and Duncan Hall are National Merit Qualifiers for 2013. These juniors are among the top 50,000 highest scoring participants out of 1.5 million program entrants.


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This Former Naval Officer Retired At 41 And Despite Two Recessions Has Seen His Portfolio Triple Over 17 Years
When Doug Nordman told his fellow friends in the Navy that he planned to retire after his 20 years of service ended, they looked at him incredulously, asking him 'What are you going to do, surf all day?'
It's a running joke for him. At the time he didn't surf. But the day the 20 years of service ended, as he stepped into retirement at the ripe young age of 41, he decided to go surfing for a laugh. Nordman didn't expect, 17 years later, that he would still ride waves most mornings after getting "hooked on it" during that first lesson, he said.
He also got hooked on retirement. Despite stepping away from his day job during the popping of the technology bubble in 2002, which only served as a precursor to the Great Recession six years later, Nordman's retirement portfolio sits around three times larger than when he first quit the service.
Doug Nordman retired at 41 after serving 20 years in the Navy. After 17 years and two recessions, his portfolio has tripled in value.
Doug Nordman
When people hear that someone plans to retire at an extreme age, it's often met with skepticism. And there are legitimate questions to ask about whether the person has saved enough, will they remain frugal for the next 40 years or more and will their portfolio survive downturns.
But part of the skepticism comes from the uniqueness of the decision to quit the day job with decades of working life left. It's the retirement road less traveled, so to speak. In Nordman's case, he has not only survived, but thrived.
Due in part to the recent success of the stock market, his family's expenses have risen from around $60,000 a year to over $100,000, yet he's taking less and less percentage of his portfolio out to pay for the expenses. He's turned his regular FIRE (financial independence, retire early) into what is dubbed FatFire, or someone that has a lot of money to spend in his extreme early retirement. And he has sidestepped multiple recessions in the process.
He Keeps A Large Cash Reserve
Nordman and his wife, Marge (who retired from the Navy Reserve in 2008), always keep two years of cash on hand. It's a tactic that serves as a stopgap, instead of pulling funds from the portfolio during a downswing.
"When we hit 2008, we kept our normal spending," said Nordman. "Instead of cashing out [the portfolio], we kept spending the cash."
By 2009, the market hadn't yet corrected, so they kept using cash. If things had continued longer, then they would have had to start looking at selling some of the depleted shares of funds. But the market hit the bottom in March 2019. At the time, Nordman's portfolio had fallen around 50%.
While it would take a few more years for the stock market to recover all of the losses seen in the 2008 fall, Nordman's portfolio survived due to the cash reserves.
When they began to pull from the portfolio again, they adhered to the strict 4% rule, which states if you withdraw 4% of the portfolio in retirement then you have almost 100% chance that the portfolio will last (for extreme early retirees, though, 3.5% might be better). As they did, they began to refill their cash reserves again, in preparation for the next downturn.
That downturn hasn't hit yet, and due to the market returns, they could very well soon live off of just 2% of the portfolio a year. At the moment, it's nearly "low enough to live just off the dividends," Nordman said, giving his portfolio a buffer, so it can last into his twilight years.
He Has A High Rate Of Stock Exposure
Nordman receives a pension for his 20 years of service working on submarines for the Navy (more on this below) and his wife will begin receiving a pension for her reserve service in 2022. This gives them a secure annuity.
Since retiring, Nordman has discovered a love of surfing. His regular FIRE has turned into fatFIRE, due to the help of his Naval pension.
He takes advantage of this reliable source of cash to invest almost entirely – often above 90% – in stocks. It means his portfolio will drop significantly when the market falls (he's primarily in a total market index fund). But it also allows him to capture all the upside.
You don't need to go 90% or more equity in order to capture every bit of upside in the market. Most people won't have the pension, so utilizing a 80% stock fund, 20% bond fund can help during the accumulation phase, while a 60% stock, 40% bond fund can provide you some downside safety once you're living off the portfolio.
Even with the more risk-adverse portfolio, you can find yourself ahead. Researcher and financial advisor Michael Kitces found that using a 3.5% withdrawal rate on a $1 million portfolio with a 60/40 mix, gives you a 90% chance of the portfolio tripling to $3 million, with a 50-year time horizon, a common length of time for extreme retirees.
He Benefits From His Military Life
In his retirement, Nordman has become a voice for financial independence for those serving in the military. He's written a book, The Military Guide to Financial Independence and Retirement, where he expands on the topics he covers on his blog, The Military Guide. And you can't ignore the benefits he earned through the 20 years of service.
The biggest benefit? The pension. It provides an extra layer of security that essentially serves as an annuity, buffering his need to tap the portfolio. When he retired in 2002, he could have done so without the pension. But now that he's in retirement, using the pension to restock his cash savings, cover any costs if the portfolio falls, or even simply reinvesting the funds, provides him with an extra layer of safety.
The key for retiring on a military income is a high savings rate. Even before he had ever heard of FIRE, Nordman had a savings rate of at least 40% while working. This funneled cash into his portfolio, and he could use the pension as a submarine-sized backup.
Due to this pension, "spending has gone up" in retirement, said Nordman. It's a big reason why he now considers himself "FatFIRE," after 17 years.
It wouldn't have happened, though, without planning for regular FIRE through his portfolio.
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Optimizing Your Use Of Time


This first part of that definition is fine; an exchange of diverging or opposite views is simply a discussion. It is the latter portion of that definition that should (and can) be avoided. A "heated or angry" exchange makes it difficult to take turns listening to each other and solving the problem at hand. A discussion should be both of you against a problem, not both of you against each other.
Because I believe that you can be in a healthy relationship and still not fight with each other, I've listed my top suggestions when it comes to having successful communication in a relationship. I also should mention that by no means do Caleb and I follow these perfectly. We're human! Our discussions aren't all rainbows and butterflies. Sometimes we tend to become walls and bring up the past or criticize. Tears are often shed (by me haha). But we don't talk angrily to each other. Why would you talk to someone you love like that? You aren't against each other; you're a team.
Sometimes we tend to think that our exasperation will lead the other person understanding what it was that we want. We get upset because they don't take out the trash, do the dishes, or they complain too much. But there's a simple solution: Just use your words. Kindly express what your expectations are without attacking them. They aren't mind readers.
I also heard of this saying, which I find very true: 10% of conflicts is due to difference in opinion and 90% is due to the wrong tone of voice. Think about that.
Sit up, face them, and make eye contact when speaking. Don't cross your arms or roll your eyes. Let them know you're listening and that you really care.
If need be, take a short 10 minute break to calm down before talking. But withdrawing from interactions and refusing to communicate at all will only amplify the problem at hand and drag it on. Couples need to communicate about their issues. Giving the other person the silent treatment is about as useful as a goldfish with a bicycle.
Little lies turn into big lies. Hiding things from your partner can lead to distrust and even more relationship problems.
Going along with #2 up above, don't attack their personality or character with accusation and blame. Not only is that hurtful, but it doesn't help solve the problem at hand.
7. DO listen and force yourself to hear.
Really listen. Sometimes we can let words go in one ear and out the other without truly hearing what it is the other is saying. Rather than using the time to decide what it is you're going to say next, stop and force yourself to hear what they're saying. You might find that the discussion will end a lot sooner with both of you hearing one another.
Stay focused in the here and now. It's easy to veer off the road and talk about everything but what the discussion really is about. Whether or not things were resolved in the past, this is not the time to bring up another discussion from the past. If it wasn't resolved, bring it up at another time.
You are both different people with different backgrounds and different ways of seeing the world. Sometimes these differences can get in the way when one person expects the other to behave a certain way. Understand that what one person might find as normal, the other might not understand. Communicate these differences to each other and put yourself in their shoes sometimes.
When you really listen with an open heart and ears, you might find that you're the one who needs to make a change in your life. Admit to it, and work hard on changing that. Sometimes it can be difficult, but it's definitely worth it.
What do you think? Can an argument free relationship exist? What are some other ways to improve communication?