In this episode of The Executive Innovation Show Podcast, Carrie Chitsey and Daniel Miller speak with Will Kiefer. Kiefer is the Founder and Executive Director of Bench Mark Program in Lancaster, PA. He started the organization as a college student in 2014 and has since been recognized by the PA State Secretary of the Commonwealth, the PA State Secretary of Corrections, named a PA Midstate Millennial, Lancaster Young Influencer, and received the Distinguished Service Award for his work in State Juvenile Detention Facilities.
Learn more about Will Kiefer, why he wants to help at-risk teens and what made him start the Bench Mark Program.
Listen as Will describes how they use weight lifting to mentor young teens in the gym, by having mentors that look like them and come from the same neighborhood. Hear how standard mental health therapy in a "four wall office" doesn't work for this demographic.
Has the Opioid Crisis impacted the most hard-hit neighborhoods of at-risk teens? Does the money in prescription pills and heroine drove more wrong decisions for an already troubled demographic?
How is Bench Mark making an effort to find alternatives for teens to make money instead of the drug trade? While teaching them resume and interview skills to working with local businesses to find blue collar jobs and access to another talent pool.
What is on the roadmap for the Bench Mark Program in 2019 for expansion into more school districts and communities.
To learn more about the Bench Mark Program list their website, watch their video or read this article!
Learn more about Humans Helping Humans and how to incorporate digital communications and impacting the lives of at-risk youth.
All content © 2019 Executive Innovation Show.


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5:40am i continue to regret the highly yelped hole in the wall Mexican place i tried the night before. As I lay in bed recovering from the aftermath, i begin to think of all the bills i've procrastinated paying.
I debate whether or not I should get up and plan out the morning in my brain. Thirty minutes later I bite the bullet to get up and just begin the day.
My daughter is awake and whimpering at the window as my mom drives away to work. I speak quietly to her and convince her to lay back down since it's still dark out.
I decide to make a nice breakfast for the kids – and m'self – and serve it up piping hot and yummy.
Just to continue the rainbows and butterflies, everyone actually EATS the food! It's like i've woken up in an alternate universe! The kids even have some extra play time before school drop off. My son coaxes his sister in his room and wants to show her Thundercats on his TV. They play well for about twenty minutes. Then reality kicks everyone in the arse.
I hear him yelling at her "Say you're sorry! Say YOU'RE SOOORRRRYYYY!!!!" and she's chuckling at him.
I go and break it up and all hell breaks loose. He tries to whip a toy snake at me, which i promptly remove from his white-knuckled grip.
A few minutes later he daringly exits his room. I tell him calmly to go back and finish picking up his cell room.
Amazingly, the glow from the morning success is still fresh in my brain and I haven't lost my patience yet. I'm still calmly talking to him despite his eyes turning red and his tongue forking.
It's at the point he decides to sass me back and wisely turns and runs away.
I call him back to me to face me and he begins yelling louder and louder, I take the bait and begin shouting, and the tornado of doom looms and surrounds us.
….. we go through the apology & consequence rigamaroll and finish getting ready for school.
It's fantastic to send your kid to school fresh off a loud and chaotic time out/lecture episode. The whole way i'm trying to remain calm and send him off reasonably well.
Like, seriously. I know there's a window or sliding door cracked the duration of all the yelling. It's really no wonder the neighbors do not speak to me anymore. They do not respond to birthday party invites for the kids, either. They look at me and speak to me like they have one foot in their front door and one hand on the phone ready to call CPS.
Or maybe it's just my imagination.
I'm about at the end of my CPS scenario when i pull into my driveway. I see an older woman walking with an elderly man down the sidewalk and think nothing of it. I push my button to open my daughter's door as i begin to get out of the van.
Not words i expected to hear. I shut the door just as the man walks up to her door.
… . … seriously?! This is how the day is really going to go?
I almost looked around for cameras, as i'm simultaneously trying not to panic. When did i get training for this scenario?! Thankfully my daughter was busily playing with a toy in her carseat.
The car is covered in rain from last night. The man takes his hand and wipes away the water on the window so i can see him and he can see me even better. So now he repeats himself and it's all happening in HD to me. His gnarled aged hands, his thick square brown-rimmed glasses, his big gapped teeth with a desperate and lost hallow expression on his face pressed to my passenger window.
and just as calmly as he's pleaded with me, he begins to open the passenger door… because it unlocked when i opened my daughter's door and i was trying not to be paranoid, trying not to panic, and trying not to do anything to set Grandpa Loon off even more. As i said, as sad as the whole thing was, he was pretty calm.
I just said, "No no no. Shut it." The woman gently took his arm and shut the door, to which i promptly locked it. three times.
and the caretaker was able to walk him away from my driveway and down the street. Yes. They were walking now in the middle of the road. I watched them go as he tried to shove the woman away from him. I waited until he was far enough away to give me time to get my kid out of her car seat and into the house where we dead bolted the door.
And as i flipped my lock I realized what the universe was showing me. There's crazy, and then there's KrAzY. It's so sad to look into the eyes of desperate desolation. For his own protection, his mind was trying to help him cope with a reality that was obviously not appealing. I hope he really wasn't being held against his will by an Eastern European Scientific Experimental Senior Home in a residential neighborhood in the Northwest.
I bet they planned their location because of all the hooplah and noise my family creates! No one will hear the machines and screams over my 7 year old in a time out battle with his mom. .. or his sister.. or his dad or grandma or dog or TV!


Goldsmith Agio Helms Completes the Sale of Permatex, Inc. to Illinois Tool Works Inc.
MINNEAPOLIS -- Goldsmith Agio Helms announced the completed sale of its client, Permatex, Inc., a portfolio company of The Jordan Company, L.P., to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (NYSE:ITW - News). Permatex is a leading manufacturer and distributor of premium branded specialty-chemical products sold primarily in the automotive aftermarket. The Company's broad line of consumer products are sold through multiple retail channels including specialty retailers, mass merchandisers, club stores and home centers.
Mike McFadden, a managing director and partner of Goldsmith Agio Helms, commented, "The sale of Permatex is another example of Goldsmith Agio Helms' growing presence in the consumer market. This transaction represents our firm's 93rd M&A transaction in the consumer sector and marks our 12th completed consumer deal in 2004." Joe Conte, a managing director of Goldsmith Agio Helms, added, "The Permatex transaction signifies a terrific result for all parties. The transaction represents another successful exit for The Jordan Company, and the addition of an outstanding company for Illinois Tool Works."
Illinois Tool Works Inc. is a leading designer and manufacturer of highly engineered fasteners and components, equipment and consumable systems, and specialty products and equipment for customers around the world. The Company's 625 decentralized business units operate in 44 countries, designing and manufacturing a wide range of products used in the automotive, construction, paper products, and food and beverage industries. Illinois Tool Works was founded in 1912 and is a Fortune 200 company. It trades on the NTSE under the symbol ITW.
Permatex, Inc. is a leading manufacturer and distributor of premium branded specialty-chemical products sold in the automotive aftermarket and the industrial maintenance and repair market. The Company's product lines include adhesives and sealants, waterless hand cleaners, lubricants and cleaners, appearance and performance products, and other specialty maintenance and repair products. Permatex's specialty-chemical products are sold under a number of highly recognized and market-leading brands including Permatex, Right Stuff, Ultra Series, Fast Orange, No Touch, and NOS.
The Jordan Company L.P. is a New York based private equity group that invests in a broad array of industries alongside management. Since 1974, partners of The Jordan Company and its affiliate, The Jordan/Zalaznick Capital Company, have successfully completed more than 300 acquisitions. Today, The Jordan Company has a portfolio of companies with aggregate revenues in excess of $4.0 billion. The Jordan Company has over $2.5 billion in capital in its affiliated funds, partnerships, and portfolio companies, anchored by the $1.5 billion Resolute Fund, L.P.
Goldsmith Agio Helms is one of the nation's leading private investment banking firms providing financial advisory services to middle market businesses. The firm's services include mergers and acquisitions, distressed advisory and restructuring, valuations and fairness opinions, and private placements of debt and equity. The firm has offices in Minneapolis, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and London.
Note: This News Release contains certain forward-looking statements. Additional written and oral forward-looking statements may be made by the Company from time to time in Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings and otherwise. The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a safe-harbor for forward-looking statements. These statements may be identified by the use of forward-looking words or phrases including, but not limited to, "anticipate," "believe," "expect," "intend," "may," "planned," "potential," "should," "will" or "would." The Company cautions readers that results predicted by forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, those relating to the Company's future business prospects, revenues, working capital, liquidity, capital needs, interest costs and income are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements.


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Obwohl Visual Studio 2008 noch nichtmal offiziell gelaunched wurde, gibt es bereits die ersten Erweiterungs CTPs, die auf der 2008er Version basieren.

1. Microsoft Parallel Extensions to .NET Framework 3.5 Dec 07 CTP

[Durch](http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e848dc1d-5be3-4941-8705-024bc7f180ba&DisplayLang=en) die Parallel Extension werden die Fähigkeiten des .NET Fameworks Aufgaben gleichzeitig abzuarbeiten stark erweitert.

[http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e848dc1d-5be3-4941-8705-024bc7f180ba&DisplayLang=en](http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e848dc1d-5be3-4941-8705-024bc7f180ba&DisplayLang=en)

2. ADO.Net Entity Framework Beta 3

Das ADO.NET Entity Framework (früher ADO.NET vNext) ist Microsofts leistungsfähiger O/R Mapper, der die Abbildung von Datenbankstrukturen auf .NET Objekte ermöglicht

3. ADO.Net Entity Framework Tools Dec 07 CTP

Erweitert Visual Studio 2008 um Projekttemplates, Designer uvm. für das ADO.NET Entity Framework!

Nach wie vor werden keine 64-Bit Versionen von Windows unterstützt :(

[http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d8ae4404-8e05-41fc-94c8-c73d9e238f82&DisplayLang=en](http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d8ae4404-8e05-41fc-94c8-c73d9e238f82&DisplayLang=en)

4. Microsoft Sync Framework FINAL

Das Microsoft Sync Framework ist eine Plattform für die Synchronisierugn von Anwendungen, Diensten und mobilen Endgeräten. Durch das Sync Framework wird der Onlinezugriff auf gemeinsam verwendete Resourcen stark vereinfacht.

[http://msdn2.microsoft.com/de-de/sync/bb821992.aspx](http://msdn2.microsoft.com/de-de/sync/bb821992.aspx "http://msdn2.microsoft.com/de-de/sync/bb821992.aspx")

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Minnesota corrections officers tell 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS they are being forced to pick up more overtime than normal because facilities are short-staffed.
This comes at the end of a violent year of attacks in prisons around the state, including the deaths of two corrections officers.
Inside the walls of the Stillwater Correctional Facility, officers describe a prison with low staffing and even lower morale.
This source said a coworker at Stillwater has been forced to work an extra shift each week for now 14 weeks straight.
Sarah Fitzgerald, the Department of Corrections spokesperson, said they can not share staffing numbers due to security and safety concerns, but this summer the department said it needed more than 150 additional officers.
Fitzgerald went on to say that forced overtime is sometimes necessary to fill shifts, and added that many appreciate and welcome the opportunity to pick up additional shifts.
The union contract with DOC allows officers to pick up overtime shifts once every five days.
This summer union representatives sounded the alarm over staffing concerns, as tensions continued to build between officers and inmates.
On Thursday, four officers suffered injuries after an inmate attack at the facility in St. Cloud.
In in the initial weeks of the next legislative session, Rep. Jack Considine plans to present a solution.
"My bill, which will be named after Officer Gomm, is to increase the staffing levels in the prison. I believe this is necessary to protect the inmates and the staff from the violence," he said.
Considine's bill would call for 324 additional positions to be funded. The funding would be spread out over four years.


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CE steht für:

 Ceará, ein brasilianischer Bundesstaat
 CE-Wert (Kohlenstoffequivalent-Wert), ein Wert, der den Einfluss anderer Legierungselemente wie Silizium oder Phosphor auf die Kohlenstoffausbildung bei Eisenwerkstoffen beschreibt
 Charismatische Erneuerung, eine innerkirchliche Bewegung
 CIR-ELKE, eine Funktionalität der linienförmigen Zugbeeinflussung
 CityExpress, eine Art der Busverbindung im öffentlichen Personennahverkehr
 CE-Kennzeichnung, das grafische Symbol der Kennzeichnung nach EU-Recht für Produkte
 China Export, siehe CE-Kennzeichnung#Missbräuchliche Verwendung
 engl.: Christian Era, Common Era oder Current Era, ein Bezug der Jahreszeitrechnung, siehe v. u. Z.
 Colektomie
 Computational Engineering, ein Studiengang
 Computer Engineering (deutsch Technische Informatik), ein Studiengang
 Constitución española de 1978, die Verfassung des Königreichs Spanien
 (engl.: Capillary Electrophoresis), s. Kapillarelektrophorese, eine analytische Trennmethode
 Consumer Electronics (Begriffsklärung)
 die EU-Führerscheinklasse CE, die zum Führen von Lastzügen erforderlich ist, siehe Führerschein und Fahrerlaubnis (Europäische Union)#EU-Fahrerlaubnisklassen
 clear entry resp. clear error, eine Funktion bei einem Taschenrechner, die eine Korrektur der letzten Zahleneingabe erlaubt
 Close Encounter (Nahbegegnung mit einem UFO), siehe J. Allen Hynek#Hyneks Klassifizierung von UFO-Sichtungen
 Microsoft Windows CE, ein mobiles Betriebssystem für Handhelds
 Combustion Engineering (häufiger abgekürzt als C-E), ein US-amerikanischer Hersteller von Dampferzeugern
 Concurrent Engineering, eine Vorgehensweise der Produktentwicklung
 Central African Airways (IATA- und ICAO-Code), südrhodesische Fluggesellschaft

CE als Unterscheidungszeichen auf Kfz-Kennzeichen:

 Deutschland: Landkreis Celle
 Großbritannien: Cardiff
 Irland: County Clare/An Clár
 Italien: Provinz Caserta
 Norwegen: Romerike in der Provinz Viken
 Schweden: Diplomatenkennzeichen für Laos
 Slowenien: Celje, deutsch: Cilli
 Spanien: Ceuta (auslaufend)
 Tschechien: České Budějovice, deutsch: (Böhmisch) Budweis (auslaufend)
 Türkei:
 Diplomatisches Korps (grüne Schrift auf weißem Grund)
 Konsularisches Korps (weiße Schrift auf türkisfarbenem Grund)
 Ukraine: Oblast Tscherniwzi (Czernowitz)

Ce steht für:

 Cer, als chemisches Symbol
 verschiedene Elektrolokomotiven in der Schweiz, siehe Liste der Lokomotiven und Triebwagen der SBB

Cé
ist der Familienname folgender Personen:
 Gabriela Cé (* 1993), brasilianische Tennisspielerin
 Marco Cé (1925–2014), italienischer Geistlicher, Patriarch von Venedig

bezeichnet:
 Cé (Allier), Fluss in Frankreich, Nebenfluss des Allier

Čê ist:

 der 19. Buchstabe des armenischen Alphabets, siehe Ճ

ce steht für:

 die tschetschenische Sprache (nach ISO 639-1)

Siehe auch:

CE

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Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service sign the Swansea Bay Healthy Travel Charter
Today our Chief Fire Officer officially signed up to the Swansea Bay Healthy Travel Charter on behalf of the Service at our Southern Division Headquarters in Morriston.
The Charter has been signed by several Organisations in the Swansea area which include, Swansea Bay University Health Board, Natural Resources Wales, the DVLA, Gower College, National Waterfront Museum, Swansea Council, Neath Port Talbot Council for Voluntary Service, Coastal Housing and Pobl.
CFO Roger Thomas said:
"Signing the Swansea Bay Healthy Travel Charter, not only shows our commitment as a Service to endorse sustainable travel, but hopefully will encourage our staff to take action as well. With our cycle to work scheme, agile working policy and our fleet of electrical vehicles, this is definitely the way forward"
The Charter promotes healthy and sustainable travel through 17 ambitious actions which include encouraging sustainable travel, offering and promoting the cycle to work scheme, reviewing fleet arrangements to allow for ultra low emission vehicles and supporting flexible working.
The signatories of the Charter have made this commitment as they appreciate the urgency needed to tackle climate change.
The co-chair of the IPCC's working group said in February 2022 that "the scientific evidence is unequivocal: climate change is a threat to human wellbeing and the health of the planet. Any further delay in concerted global action will miss a brief and rapidly closing window to secure a liveable future."
The Swansea Bay Healthy Travel Charter is the fifth Charter to launch in Wales, following similar initiatives in Cardiff, the Vale of Glamorgan and Gwent.
More information on the Charter is available at healthytravel.wales/swanseabay


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SBS dads' doing it their way
Modern parenting is all about equal responsibility, flexibility and robot dancing, according to these School of Biomedical Sciences dads, who have recently taken advantage of the University's parental leave scheme.
Did you know the University of Melbourne provides fathers 14 weeks of paid parental leave and 28 weeks for those with more than five years of service? It also offers a return to work benefit – 12 weeks salary – which can be used to cover childcare costs.
A recent study co-authored by McKinsey explored the experiences of new fathers who had taken extended paternity leave. The results were overwhelmingly positive. From improving families' relationships and finances, to generating increased enthusiasm among fathers for the employers that supported them, the benefits of paternity leave extend from the home to the workplace, and beyond.
Some of the findings from the report include:
Paternity leave is associated with greater relationship stability, with 90 per cent of respondents noticing an improvement in their relationship with their partner.
Paternity leave was shown to level the playing field for working mothers and reduce the gender wage gap within households. Mothers' incomes rose about seven per cent for each month that a father spent at home on paternity leave.
Many fathers felt more motivated after taking leave and they are considering staying in their organisation longer.
Respondents reported that paternity leave led them to change the way they work, becoming more productive and prioritising their time better.
Fathers were able to build stronger relationships with their children, which will last long into the future.
100 per cent of respondents were glad they took the leave and would do so again.
With Father's Day approaching it seemed an opportune time to talk with a few of our own 'new dads'…
(Right) Dr Maximilien Evrard with partner Junyun, also an early career researcher working at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, and their daughter Eloise.
"I feel the University of Melbourne is setting a great example and I hope this inspires other institutes to implement similar policies," says Dr Maximilien Evrard, a Research Fellow in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and proud dad to 6 month old daughter, Eloise.
"I think it's important to normalise dads taking parental leave," says the McKenzie Fellow in the Mackay Laboratory. "Being a primary carer has given me a better appreciation of the challenges many parents, and especially women, face when trying to juggle traditional gender roles and their careers."
(Left) Dr Hamish McWilliam with son Atlas and newborn daughter Sunday.
Dr Hamish McWilliam, who works across both the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology, adds dads taking parental leave is a step towards reducing the career gap between women who are primary carers and fathers or partners who continue working after childbirth.
"It may not be possible for every situation, but if you are a dad-to-be and work at the University, it is worth exploring your options," says the Group Leader in the Villadangos Laboratory, which investigates how bodies recognise microbes in order to initiate immune responses.
"I first took three months in late 2019 after the birth of my son Atlas, and I am about to take six months from September 2022 as we have recently had a little girl, Sunday."
(Right) Dr Brendon Chua with son Ollie.
Dr Brendon Chua, a Research Fellow in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, took four months parental leave a month after his son Ollie was born in late 2020, and another three months when his wife returned to work in 2021.
He says shared parenting responsibilities has made for a positive and equitable family environment. "Sharing primary care-giving duties has also helped our son form strong connections with both us."
Dr Chua encourages parents-to-be to consider what type of leave would be most useful for you, your partner and the circumstances. "Being transparent about this to supervisors, especially about the leave duration and if flexible arrangements are needed, is also important."
"The highlight for me is seeing Ollie develop; forming his first smile and laugh, worshipping the moon together and more recently robot dancing after his baths!"
(Left) Stephan Kaiser with son Maximilian in Germany.
Stephan Kaiser, Senior Administrative Officer in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, began six-month full-time leave on 1 August this year.
His young family recently travelled to Germany to visit family and friends. "We had such an amazing time and loved seeing our son Maximilian take it all in in awe."
"Being a full-time parent now that my wife is back at work is demanding on a day-by-day basis, not to mention the overnight feeds. However, we've been able to more evenly share the joy and responsibility of raising our son. Plus, I'm a lot more appreciative of how hard it was for my wife in the first six months after our son was born, she made it look so easy."
"I encourage staff to take leave when you are starting a family and make sure you know about all the leave entitlements."
To find out more visit: University of Melbourne Parental Leave.
By Harriet Edmund


My wife's started jogging again.
"Great news", you say, "good for her, she'll feel much better for it". Which is of course true, but then it leaves me with a bit of a dilemma in that I'm most certainly not jogging at the moment. Nor ever in fact. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed sports as a whipper snapper, loved it even, but running any sort of distance was a by-product of whatever it was I was doing. It got me where I needed to go that bit quicker.
Needless to say, my enthusiasm still hasn't taken root even as I entered my 40's last year. I admire those that do, but it's just not for me, I'm just not wired up that way.
Still, as I stood there, scratching the back of my head thinking about what the heck to make for diner in her absence, a sense of guilt did cross my mind. Momentarily, you understand. This dish was then a last minute vain attempt to feel remotely virtuous I suppose and I can say with all certainty as she came back into the kitchen panting (but happy), no, it didn't work.
So: kale, lentils (again, sorry), shallots, mushrooms, lean chicken? The very stuff of athletes. Single cream, mustard and chorizo picante? No so much, but hey, an old injury forced me out of the Olympics next year anyway….
Olympics again NEXT year? Where does the time go?
Preheat an oven to 160ºC/320ºF.
Get the lentils simmering in the chicken stock first. They'll take about 20-30 minutes in a pan with a lid on.
After 10 minutes, gently fry the shallots and chorizo in a small pan, and add the mushrooms to soften.
Meanwhile, heat an oven proof frying pan with a little oil and sear one side of the chicken until well coloured. Flip over, seasoning both sides and place in an oven at 160ºC/320ºF for about 10-15 minutes depending on the size of your breasts (no sniggering at the back), until it reaches 60-65ºC/140-150ºF in the middle. Remove and leave to rest once done.
The lentils should be just about done so pour about 300 ml of the cooking stock into the pan with the shallots, chorizo and mushroom, and place the kale on top. Put a lid on and simmer until the kale is just wilted.
Stir in the the mustard and cream, simmer a little longer and season to taste. That's it, serve it up with a drink of whatever you fancy and talk about past sporting glories as compensation….
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Tell me about it MD, I go through a series of physical challenges with them (they call it 'playing') when I step through the door in the evening – good point!
Why, thanks Georgina. I completely agree with you: healthy, versatile, bags of flavour – what's more to like?
You need to get into the bike riding. It's perfect for older chaps and if you do enough of it, you can and will eat all around you without doing any damage. An average spin on the weekend for me will burn between 1,500 and 2,000 calories. They need replacing! I could easily have this chicken as part of my diet. Lovely.
Thanks Conor. I should – I must admit as an ever so slightly younger chap, I did enjoy a Coast to Coast ride with some good friends and my bike is gathering dust…Not the most cycle friendly of places round my way though unfortunately (in that you're stopping every 2 minutes for lights/roundabouts/junctions), so I'd need to get in the car to find somewhere a little more inspiring to cycle. Time to move maybe….
Cycling is great (I read Conor's post) but after quite a few years of doing it – mostly for charitable groups, like MS 150, for example, I nearly got sideswiped by a minivan's side mirror, and it scared me so much that I hung up my clips and gave my bike away. I don't live in a bicycle friendly area. If you've read any of Lance Armstrong's books, back when he was likable, he talked about many bad experiences in Texas. But it way more doable than running for me as well. Love this dish, and next time I'm going to use a thumb's worth of chorizo, so because I can!


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Here is all the information you need about "The Empress Ki" on Netflix in the UK. Details include the date it was added to UK Netflix, any known expiry dates and new episodes/seasons, the ratings and cast etc. So scroll down for more information or share the link on social media to let your friends know what you're watching.
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The Empress Ki
Date Added: 27th February 2019
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A woman born in Korea navigates her way through love, war, politics and national loyalties to become a powerful empress in China's Yuan dynasty.
Certificate: GUIDANCE Parental guidance suggested.
Duration: 1 Season
Available Seasons: Season 1 (51 Ep)
Audio: Korean [Original]
Subtitles: Arabic, English, French, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
Cast: Ha Ji-won, Joo Jin-mo, Ji Chang-wook, Baek Jin-hee, Kim Seo-hyung, Jeon Guk-hwan, Lee Won-jong, Lee Moon-sik, Kwon Oh-jung, Choi Moo-sung
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Served iced or hot, tea is a refreshing beverage no matter the season. But beyond refreshment, tea also offers plenty of health benefits. It's rich in antioxidants. It can help you lose a small amount of weight if you pair it with a healthy diet and exercise. It can even help reduce cavities and plaque. Heart health tea is even supported by numerous studies showing its cardiovascular benefits.
Here, we'll take a look at some of those studies and also give you some tips on how to choose and brew teas optimal for heart health.
In a previous post, we talked about how tea drinking should be a daily habit instead of only when you're sick. We also mentioned trying different types of tea to get specific health benefits (e.g. oolong for bad cholesterol levels and green tea for cancer prevention).
As for heart health tea, it's been found to lower cardiovascular events according to a recent study published online by The American Journal of Medicine. Compared to non-tea drinkers, people who sipped at least one cup of tea daily experienced less plaque buildup in their arteries.
The study also showed that compared to coffee drinkers, tea drinkers have a 29 percent lower incidence of heart attack, stroke, and death from heart disease.
6,508 middle-aged and older adults participated in the study. Researchers adjusted for factors such as age, body weight, and smoking habits, which might skew the results.
The thin membrane that lines the inside of the heart and blood vessels is called the endothelium. Cells in the endothelium control vascular relaxation and contraction by releasing specific substances.
Endothelial cells also release enzymes for blood clot control, immune function, and platelet adhesion.
One way to predict strokes and heart attacks is to test for endothelial dysfunction, which could result from diabetes, high cholesterol, smoking, and high blood pressure.
Endothelial dysfunction also precedes atherosclerosis, an abnormal thickening and hardening of the arterial walls.
As we age, endothelial function naturally declines. But one study showed that older Chinese people (ages 60 and above) don't have progressive endothelial dysfunction. In fact, their arterial function is comparable to people in their 20s.
One reason for this finding is the inclusion of green tea in traditional Chinese diets. Within 30 minutes of consumption, green tea has an acute beneficial effect on endothelial function, most likely due to its being rich in flavonoid phytonutrients.
Being overweight puts you at greater risk to develop coronary heart disease.
When you're significantly above your ideal weight, your body cannot efficiently circulate blood or manage your fluid levels. Aside from heart disease, being overweight increases your chance of developing diabetes, certain cancers, and sleep apnea.
If you're not severely obese, you don't need weight loss surgery. Lifestyle modifications such as eating right and working out are your first steps to losing those extra pounds.
But if you want to boost weight loss, you should consider drinking eight to 10 cups of green tea a day.
This is based on a study conducted by researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences. The 16-week study used mice on a high-fat diet, giving them decaffeinated green tea extract and putting them on a regular exercise regimen.
Final results show a 27.1 percent reduction in body mass, as well as 36.6 percent average reduction in abdominal fat mass.
The researchers believe that similar results could be replicated in humans. Consider drinking a heart health tea, such as green tea, if you want to reap the cardiovascular benefits associated with healthy weight management.
As we've said before, there are over 20,000 different teas in the world. But don't worry. We'll narrow them down to the best teas for heart health.
One of the most common tea types, green tea has a yellow-green color when brewed and tastes fresh and smooth. If you opt for a higher-grade green tea, you get to enjoy a more complex flavor that's both light and delicate.
There's an art to brewing green tea. If you don't get the temperature right, you could end up with a tea that tastes bitter. You should also make sure that you consume the tea within a year after it's been harvested. Older teas can lose flavor.
As for heart health benefits, green tea doesn't just help you keep a healthy weight. It can also help lower LDL cholesterol and triglycerides, leading to a reduced risk of death from heart disease and stroke.
White tea comes primarily from China, but you can also get it from India, Taiwan, Nepal, and Thailand. Compared to other teas, white tea is lighter in terms of both flavor and color.
In one Spanish study, white tea was found to reverse the damage done to heart cells by adriamycin. This is most likely due to its high antioxidant content.
Other benefits of this heart health tea include lower cholesterol levels, reduced blood pressure, and improved blood vessel function.
As there are different types of white tea, there's no one standard way to brew it. A general rule of thumb to follow, though, is to use two tablespoons for light and fluffy leaves and two teaspoons if the tea consists of buds only.
What's great about oolong tea is you get to enjoy different flavors. Some are sweet and fruity, while others are woody and thick. If you like both green and black tea, you'll definitely enjoy oolong tea. Its flavor profile is right in between the two.
Like green tea and white tea, oolong tea promotes heart health by reducing cholesterol levels.
Since it is semi-oxidized, the polyphenol molecules it produces are perfectly sized. This means it's capable of activating lipase, an enzyme that can dissolve body fat.
Looking for the Best Heart Health Tea?
You've come to the right place. Don't forget to check our list of tea shops around the globe. Feel free to browse our site to find tea growers, wholesalers, distributors, and organizations.
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Peter M. Färbinger, Editor-in-Chief FarbingerM
ERP Is Dead
Peter M. Färbinger, Editor-in-Chief
The Intelligent Enterprise no longer has a future. No amount of artificial intelligence (AI) can save SAP's concept anymore.
I am a computer scientist. I studied at the Vienna University of Technology. So the statement "ERP is dead" has to be seen from an IT perspective. Enterprise Resource Planning, the holistic management of operating resources, can only be one aspect of the bigger picture, digital transformation. Abandoning concepts for a business warehouse, predictive analytics, machine learning, blockchain, or IoT would be foolish. On-prem, virtualization and cloud operating models have and will continue to have their place. But customers need an enterprise operating system that responds in real time – an enterprise RTOS.
Former SAP chief technology officer Vishal Sikka shared this belief. He recognized the need to respond in real time. In a 24/7 world, there is little time for analysis. The first step in that direction at SAP was the Hana database platform. It allows deep and comprehensive analyses to be completed in a fraction of the time compared to traditional databases.
SAP executives, according to Vishal Sikka, did not understand the real-time concept of Hana. Instead of building on the Hana database platform to replace the outdated ERP and turn Hana into a real-time operating system for the enterprise, SAP got bogged down in cloud computing. But the idea of an enterprise operating system is not dead. The former SAP partner Celonis is currently attempting to build this operating system platform for digital transformation through partnerships with IBM and ServiceNow. The important real-time component is still missing, though – an opportunity for SAP: Hana becomes an enterprise RTOS!
A colorful user interface is nice to have. Inexpensive cloud storage is beneficial. Business process analysis and repair can save resources. But we will survive only if we find real-time verified answers to the problems at hand. Computer scientists speak of real-time when an answer to a problem is available at the exact moment when the answer is relevant to the solution. The enterprise real-time operating system provides answers in the time of greatest need, when solutions become critical to survival.
ERP, and by its very nature S/4, is dead. Those already running Hana and S/4 have done nothing wrong, as S/4 is a worthy successor to ERP/ECC 6.0. However, migrating to S/4 in the coming years under the given circumstances and challenges would be negligent. S/4 is a very good ERP system, but all ERP systems are no longer capable of providing the necessary answers for digital transformation. Digital transformation needs an enterprise RTOS.
The enterprise operating system is the new ERP. This also makes concepts like the Intelligent Enterprise obsolete, because an enterprise operating system is by definition the platform for IoT, machine learning, analytics, sustainability, blockchain, finance and all other enterprise functions. The challenge is to sustainably manage, in real time, the valuable resources and assets of our world.
E-3 Magazine November 2021 (German)
Peter M. Färbinger is Editor-in-Chief and Publisher at E-3 Magazine, B4Bmedia.net AG, Munich, Germany. He can be reached at pmf@b4bmedia.net
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Q: GoogleScript - Google Sheets - Need to modify script to skip any lines of text that have matching variable I have some code that I need help with.
Right now when I run the script it fires regardless if the status is BLANK or set to SENT. I need to make sure the script does not run through SENT rows more than once.
I'm not an expert with Google Apps script and don't want to break the script's functionality.
function sendSms(to, body) {
  var messages_url = "https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/MY_ID/Messages.json";

  var payload = {
    "To": to,
    "Body" : body,
    "From" : "+1PHONENUMBER"
  };

  var options = {
    "method" : "post",
    "payload" : payload
  };

  options.headers = {
    "Authorization" : "Basic " + Utilities.base64Encode("MY_API:MY_API_TOKEN")
  };

  UrlFetchApp.fetch(messages_url, options);
}

function sendAll() {
  var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
  var startRow = 2;
  var numRows = sheet.getLastRow() - 1;
  var dataRange = sheet.getRange(startRow, 1, numRows, 2)
  var data = dataRange.getValues();

  for (i in data) {
    var row = data[i];
    try {
      response_data = sendSms(row[0], row[1]);
      status = "sent";
    } catch(err) {
      Logger.log(err);
      status = "error";
    }
    sheet.getRange(startRow + Number(i), 3).setValue(status);
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function myFunction() {
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*You want to run sendSms() when the value of columns "C" is not sent.

If my understanding is correct, how about this modification? In this modification, the function of sendAll() was modified.
Modified script:
function sendAll() {
  var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
  var startRow = 2;
  var numRows = sheet.getLastRow() - 1;
  var dataRange = sheet.getRange(startRow, 1, numRows, 3); // Modified
  var data = dataRange.getValues();

  for (i in data) {
    var row = data[i];
    if (row[2].toLowerCase() != "sent") { // Added
      try {
        response_data = sendSms(row[0], row[1]);
        status = "sent";
      } catch(err) {
        Logger.log(err);
        status = "error";
      }
      sheet.getRange(startRow + Number(i), 3).setValue(status);
    }
  }
}

If this was not the result you want, I apologize. At that time, in order to correctly understand your situation, can you provide a sample Spreadsheet for replicating your situation? By this, I would like to modify the script.

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You are here: CollectionsOnline / [2] Preliminary design for the inner (west) elevation of the park range of the Privy Court, showing the central pavilion, the north side of range, the section through cloister and a part-section through the rest of north range
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SM, volume 110/1a
[2] Preliminary design for the inner (west) elevation of the park range of the Privy Court, showing the central pavilion, the north side of range, the section through cloister and a part-section through the rest of north range
Elevation and part-section
20 feet to 1 inch
Inscribed
By Hawksmoor, in ink, top right: + Inside front of the privy Court / b the thorow Visto's passing / thorogh which you come / upon ye Canall / C privy Gall between ye K & [Q] / d the Queens Closett looking / into ye pryvy Court / E the Queens Back Stair / F belong to the back Stair / G the Cloyster round, with corresponding letters on elevation; and in graphite, below central pavilion: 90 – 0
Signed and dated
Undated, but datable March 1689
Medium and dimensions
Graphite over incised lines with inscriptions in brown ink; on laid paper, bottom right corner repaired (C18-19); laid down, but with 93 x 137mm gap in centre to expose sketch on verso; 180 x 298
In centre of sheet, to same scale and in same hand: dimensioned sketch survey plan, in graphite, of one bay of Great Hall and parts of what appear to be the ranges to west and east.
Countermark: RDTI (?)
This courtyard elevation coincides closely with the front elevation towards the park (3, below; 110/1b). The central pavilion has a giant order of pilasters rather than half-columns but these are 36 ½ rather than 35 ½ feet high and there is some indecision in the height of the attic . The significance of the principal west-east axis is underlined by Hawksmoor's note b on the alignment three central openings on the canal. His note d identifies a second, larger Queen's closet on the Privy Court side, which may have been intended to link across the central corridor of the plan (AS II.116*) with the smaller, one-bay closet next to the Queen's Lesser Bedchamber on the main park front. The corner stair tower, here the Queens Back Stair, is an ingenious element of the plan, allowing private communication around the inner and more private courtyard side of the palace range.The small sketch on the verso appears to show one bay of the hall, with its buttress projections, and some dimensions in width, including 35 feet and an additional space of about 5 feet, creating an overall width of 40 feet. The hall is in fact nearer to 40 feet 6 inches wide, the dimension marked as the width of the room space in the upper part of the sketch. The sketch below gives dimensions of a room 27 feet wide, but this does not correspond to the widths of any rooms adjacent to the hall in the existing building.
Sekler, 1956, pp. 161-2; Whinney, 1971, pp. 163-7; Thurley, 2003, pp. 153-63; Wren Society, vol. IV, pl. 11, bottom
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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect's collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane's own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.
Browse (via the vertical menu to the left) and search results for Drawings include a mixture of Concise catalogue records – drawn from an outline list of the collection – and fuller records where drawings have been catalogued in more detail (an ongoing process).


My 6th graders in "Technology Applications" just completed their first unit in Graphic Design. Using Microsoft Word 2016 as a medium, students had to learn, know and master a number of beginning, intermediate and advanced features of the program.
For many students who had little or no experience with a Word Processing program or Microsoft Word specifically, these students did a fantastic job of creating their projects.
Wow!! Great job. Mr. Corona to all your 6th graders.