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Daniel Czapiewski (ur. 29 stycznia 1968, zm. 3 grudnia 2013 w Starogardzie Gdańskim) – polski przedsiębiorca i społecznik, animator życia kulturalnego na Kaszubach.

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Nazywany był Kaszubskim Stolemem. Był synem Jana Czapiewskiego, inżyniera rolnika i posła na Sejm VIII kadencji i Heleny, nauczycielki. Zainteresowanie historią Polski i małej ojczyzny – Ziemi Kaszubskiej – zmaterializowały się w jego dwóch przedsięwzięciach: założonej w latach 90. XX wieku firmie Danmar (produkującej drewniane domy, nawiązujące do budownictwa na Kaszubach) oraz Centrum Edukacji i Promocji Regionu w Szymbarku, gdzie w interesujący sposób pokazana jest historia Kaszub i historia Polski. Centrum ma uczyć i bawić. Sprowadził do niego XIX-wieczny Dom Sybiraka spod Irkucka, 150-letnią Zagrodę Kaszuby Trapera z kanadyjskiego Wilna i Dom Powstańca Polskiego z tureckiego Adampola, zbudował replikę bunkra, w którym stacjonowali podczas wojny dowódcy grup Tajnej Organizacji Wojskowej Gryf Pomorski.  Na terenie Centrum odbywają się różne imprezy, m.in. Światowy Dzień Sybiraka czy  Majówka Przedsiębiorców Pomorskich. Odwiedzane jest ono przez kilkadziesiąt tys. osób rocznie.

Działał na rzecz kultywowania polskiej i kaszubskiej tradycji,  patriotyzmu, a przede wszystkim pamięci o Sybirakach, Żołnierzach Wyklętych,  Polonii na obczyźnie. Za swoją działalność na rzecz kultury i promocji regionu był nagradzany, między innymi został laureatem Superperły Kaszub. Został też wybrany Człowiekiem Roku 2010 w plebiscycie Dziennika Bałtyckiego.

7 grudnia 2013 został pochowany na cmentarzu w Somoninie, żegnany m.in. przez  działaczy kaszubskich, przedstawicieli władz województwa i regionu, byłego prezydenta Lecha Wałęsę, kanadyjskich Kaszubów, gości z Adampola, sybiraków.

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Linki zewnętrzne
 – Janina Stefanowska – Wspomnienia. Daniel Czapiewski – Kaszuba, który postawił świat na głowie Dziennik Bałtycki, 2013-12-05 [dostęp 2013-12-07

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It's that time of year again. The cold winter winds are warming up, the rain is receding, and the sun is begrudgingly emerging from its Pacific Northwest prison. As we make our way into Spring, it will soon be prime time for RV travel and making memories out in the wild frontier.
With Seattle's ever-growing populace, it's become even more desirable to get the family and kids out of the city to enjoy a slice of nature!
But just as you'll be a hero for planning the greatest RV trip of all time, you'll be condemned as a villain if the trip turns sour. Can you already hear the nagging?
As Seattle's top RV experts, we want to make sure that your RV trip ends in triumph as opposed to your Class-C Motorhome causing a "Class-A bad time". So we'll talk to you about the potential pitfalls of an RV vacation and how to avoid them. Here's some surefire ways to ruin your next RV vacation.
What's worse than being stuck at home with no food? Being stuck in the middle of the wilderness with no food, of course.
You'd surely be up a creek without a paddle if there's not a single crumb of food left in the massive cabinets in your diesel pusher RV. Can't you just hear the moaning and groaning already?
And what's more, you'll be the lucky one who gets to drive into the nearest town to find some unusual, off-brand food products in order to appease your clan. This subtracts valuable time from enjoying your RV Washington relaxation.
Here's your list of essentials to get you started.
Sandwich fixings – Who would say no to a good sandwich? Stock up on some deli meats, some spreads, and some Dave's Killer Bread and you'll keep everybody happier than a used class-A motorhome after a fresh tune up!
Granola bars – These ones are a no-brainer. Sure, they may not be as satisfying as a full meal…but they'll tide everybody over until it's time to pop out the canopy on the ol' Class-C diesel motorhome for a sunset barbeque.
A feast – Deliver a Thanksgiving-style feast for one night of the trip. They'll never see stuffing and turkey coming in the middle of July! Putting on one massive banquet essentially grants you a free pass to phone in on the rest of the RV trip's meals!
But of course, you know what your family likes best. Be sure to stock up on all the favorites!
Okay, we'll admit it. You're the coolest cat in the whole lot with that used diesel pusher motorhome. Hands down!
That is…until the gravel in campsite crackles, and up pulls a rival family with their NON-used fifth wheel motorhome. Who do they think they are, trying to show everyone up like that? Their fifth wheel motorhome isn't so special.
Maybe it's just a classic case of keeping up with the Jones'. Just because somebody's RV is a little fancier is no need for alarm; each RV is special. We should know; we have one of the largest selections of used RVs in Seattle and we love them all dearly.
But if you're really determined to be the BMOC (big man on campsite), come visit us and check out our wide array of diesel pusher motorhomes, used trailers, and fifth wheel motorhomes for sale. May you never be shown up again.
Having to call for roadside assistance ranks worse than having to ask for directions; most men would agree. Taking the time to bring in your RV and make sure that it's been serviced before your big vacation can make all the difference.
It's reasonable to suspect that something may go wrong. Our service team can help keep your used or non-used RV in Seattle at its absolute peak. AAA is overrated anyway.
When you've got that good food cooking up, it's expected that mosquitos and ants will try to get in on the fun. If they catch a whiff of that lavish banquet you're serving up, you can bet they'll be along for a taste.
When buying a used RV, it's important to make sure that it's pest proof. No cracks, loose windows, and a good canopy to hang a bug screen from. It's not too hard to outsmart an insect, it just takes a little bit of diligence!
Also, be sure to keep food well-contained and not laying around the campsite. If there are tasty scents emanating from your Class-C motorhome, there's a good chance that you may have some more aggressive guests pop into the campsite, as seen on the right!
This may be the simplest one to avoid, but it seems that there are many people who get hung up on their lives back in the city during what is supposed to be a retreat away from it!
When you've taken your RV out of Seattle to go enjoy the rest of Washington, it's important that you leave all of the personal baggage behind. Trust us, it will be there when you get back.
Here's a few suggestions to help make your trip out of town a relaxing one.
Limit your amount of screen time.
Don't take any work documents or devices with you.
Keep conversation away from your busy lives; focus on the moment!
Have a bonfire. There's something relaxing and hypnotic about them.
Take a hike. Getting out into nature and using those stiff muscles will help clear your head and remind you of the important things in life.
Whether you're gearing up your Class-A motorhomes, Diesel Pusher RV, or red Radio Flyer wagon, make sure that the only baggage you're bringing is the kind that fits in a suitcase or cooler.
Consider us your #1 RV advisors. We want to see you get out there and enjoy a beautiful season in your RV here in Washington. If you're in need of any service on your RV prior to the big trip this year, or want to know a little more about buying a used RV, give us a shout! We're here to help.


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Inaugural Cboe Risk Management Conference (RMC) Tel Aviv Features Packed Program, Strong Attendance
By Matt Moran
More than 150 financial professionals, including top traders, strategists and researchers attended the inaugural Cboe Risk Management Conference (RMC) in Tel Aviv, Israel on November 6. A variety of topics related to the management of risk and return in investment portfolios were discussed by 17 speakers at RMC Israel, including the three speakers pictured below: Sheldon Natenberg (left), Andy Lowenthal (center), and David Blitzer (right).
A sampling of comments and topics covered by the 17 speakers follows:
Andy Lowenthal, EVP and Co-Head Markets Division, Cboe Global Markets, delivered welcome remarks and provided an update on developments at Cboe Global Markets. He noted that: "For three decades, Cboe RMC has delivered a premier financial industry conference for institutional users of equity derivatives and volatility products across the globe. We are excited to expand the reach of our global RMC series into Tel Aviv, a region where we are seeing a growing customer base and an increasing demand for education around these products and strategies."
David M. Blitzer, Managing Director and Chairman of the Index Committee, S&P Dow Jones Indices ("S&P DJI") delivered the Keynote Speech, "The Economic Climate Heats Up."
Points made by Mr. Blitzer included: (1) Central banks are shifting from stimulus to restraint, while fiscal and trade policies are driven by populist politics in the U.S. and parts of Europe, (2) The U.S. is enjoying faster growth but faces long-term risks, (3) Europe and England are approaching the Brexit deadline, (4) Japan must nurture its nascent recovery, and (4) China may decide how open its markets will be.
Author Sheldon Natenberg delivered a presentation on "Options and Volatility Pricing and Trading."
Matt Moran, Head of Global Benchmark Indexes Advancement, Cboe Global Markets, delivered a presentation on "Options-Based Performance," and design and performance of options-based strategy indexes. Links to white papers and information on more than 30 options-based benchmark indexes are at www.cboe.com/benchmarks.
Samuel Vazquez, Ph.D., Senior Research Manager, Capital Fund Management (CFM), delivered a presentation on "Volatility Futures Structure and Trading."
Natasha Jhunjhunwala, Executive Director, Equity Derivatives Structuring, at Goldman Sachs in London, delivered a presentation on "Considerations for Constructing Short Volatility Strategies," in which she discussed (1) Equity volatility risk premia strategies across regions, (2) Passive versus active approaches, and (3) Managing drawdowns in times of market stress.
Oyetola Oyeleye, Quantitative Researcher, Fulcrum Asset Management, delivered a presentation on "Managing Multi-Asset Short Volatility Portfolios," in which he discussed: (1) Optimal delta-hedging in short volatility strategies, (2) A look at theory and empirical study across asset classes, and (3) Buffering as an effective way to reduce costs.
Mark Richardson, Portfolio Manager, Janus Henderson, delivered a presentation on "A Framework For Options-Based View Expression," in which he discussed: (1) Options market implied probability distributions, (2) Investors view distributions, and (3) Combining the two for a resultant trading strategy.
Emmanuel Naim, Managing Director, Head of Americas Equity Structuring at JP Morgan, delivered a presentation on "Managing Downside Equity Risk," in which he discussed (1) Main approaches to hedging, (2) Tail risk hedging and why this matters for long-term investors, and (3) New developments and integration of momentum strategies within a hedging framework.
A panel of experts discussed "The Future of Equity Derivative Markets" and how market dynamics have changed since February, and strategies for navigating volatility. The panel was moderated by Eric Frait, SVP, Options Advancement and Strategy, Cboe Global Markets, with three panelists:
William J. Ellington, Managing Partner, X-Change Financial Access LLC
Uri Geller, Co-Founder and CIO, Granite M.S.A. Ltd.
Wilrik Sinia, Portfolio Manager, Mint Tower Capital Management
Points made during the panel discussion included:
There has been a huge divergence between volatility in U.S. and in Europe;
A panelist provided a comparison of the volatility spikes in February 2018 (extreme) and October 2018 (more orderly);
In recent months we are seeing more cross-asset trading and more diversity in the instruments;
S&P products often have dream liquidity, but some of the older indexes for other countries are fading away in terms of liquidity;
Weeklys options can be very helpful and flexible when there is an upcoming event; short-term use of weekly options often is driven by events and announcements;
The volatility regime is changing;
Signals we look at include historical and implied volatilities, and premium levels;
Possible inflation and the Italian budget situation are factors that are of great concern;
Some customers discuss factors such as the trade situation and interest rates.
A panel of experts discussed "Digital Assets and the Future of Finance" moderated by John Tornatore, Director, Global Client Services, Cboe Global Markets. The three panelists were:
Xen Baynham-Herd, Head of Strategy & Markets, Blockchain
Lucas Friss, Head of Business Development, London, Cumberland
Ilan Sterk, Vice President Trading, Hexa Group/Orbs
Cboe Futures Exchange, LLC (CFE) launched trading in Cboe Bitcoin futures on December 10, 2017, under the ticker symbol XBT. www.cboe.com/XBT.
Discussion points included:
The volatility of cryptocurrencies can be appealing to traders but off-putting to tech people;
While bitcoin is perceived as being very volatile, during the last month equities had more volatility than bitcoin;
There are considerations in deciding whether to invest in a crypto fund or to invest directly in spot crypto;
A few firms have the capability to (efficiently) engage in cryptocurrency arbitrage among worldwide exchanges;
There is some crypto market fragmentation, and the displayed spot crypto liquidity on screens might not be as good as it appears;
Cboe Futures Exchange implemented a new fee schedule;
If and when bitcoin volatility spikes, there is potential for higher volume in bitcoin futures;
There are some barriers to more crypto growth – custody and regulatory; there are no widely accepted worldwide regulations (for non-exchange traded products);
Millions of people own cryptocurrencies, which are a decentralized asset class, and there is potential for new investment by millions of consumers in the future.
CONCLUSION AND THANK YOU
The conference ended with a cocktail reception. Cboe was pleased to host this event, which allowed the user community in the region to meet and discuss their various outlooks and uses of the Cboe's proprietary product line. Cboe appreciates the enthusiasm and participation of the community and looks forward to more educational events in the coming years.
Cboe especially thanks the conference sponsors: Israel Interactive Trading, X-FA and WEX.
More information about Cboe RMC Tel Aviv is available at www.cboermctelaviv.com, including the full agenda and speakers' biographies. Videos from Cboe RMC Tel Aviv will be uploaded to the Cboe Video Hub at www.cboe.com/video in the next month.
To learn more about ways in which index options and volatility products can be used in portfolio management, please visit these links –
www.cboe.com/SPX S&P 500 index options
www.cboe.com/benchmarks Cboe's strategy benchmark indexes, and related research papers by Wilshire and other firms.
www.cboe.com/funds Funds that use options
www.cboe.com/strategies Options strategies
www.cboe.com/education Options education
www.cboeRMC.com Cboe Risk Management Conferences in Europe, Asia and the U.S.
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Customer: The Spanish Society of Rheumatology had already requested a website to 2mdc. Later on, its nursing workgroup Gteser asks 2mdc for its own microsite to publicize their activities, events and participating members.
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Santos Tour Down Under Preview - our guide to the WorldTour season opener
by Simon MacMichael January 17 2014
2014 season gets underway in South Australia next week - can anyone stop Gerrans in the GC and Greipel in the sprints?
The 2014 riders, bikes and kits have been presented, and the UCI WorldTour heads into a new season next week with the Santos Tour Down Under, which begins on Tuesday and ends the following Sunday – Australia Day. It's also the first event in our season-long Fantasy Cycling competition, with some terrific prizes to be won courtesy of Wiggle. Here's our preview of the race.
With South Australia's coast and vineyards providing much of the backdrop, the six stages include a mixture of sprinter-friendly circuits, as well as a penultimate day that will see the peloton twice tackle the climb of Old Willunga Hill, which has proved decisive for settling the overall standings since its introduction two years ago.
Last year, Team Sky's Geraint Thomas, went into that stage with a five-second over Blanco's Tom-Jelte Slagter, and was dropped with a little over half a kilometre left. The 2012 champion, Orica-GreenEdge's Simon Gerrans won the stage, while Slagter sealed the overall win the following day.
Slagter congratulates Gerrans (Santos Tour Down Under/Regallo)
While Old Willunga Hill should once again settle the overall, it's likely that the climb of Corkscrew Hill on Stage 3 will determine which riders go into that penultimate day with a chance of winning the race.
Adelaide was the hottest place on earth on Thursday, with the temperature hitting 44.2 degrees Celsius, topping the 42 degrees experienced during the 2006 edition, causing road surfaces to melt; the temperature is expected to drop to the low 30s next week.
Some Europe-based riders may still find that tough going, especially as it's the first race of the season – Team Sky have spent a fortnight acclimatising to the Australian summer. And as the 2014 season opener, for many riders the event will be about getting back into racing, rather than looking to challenge for the GC or stage wins.
Gerrans is a strong favourite for the overall, and with good reason. He's looking to become the first man to win the Tour Down Under three times, and his 2012 victory came after he finished a narrow second to Movistar's Alejandro Valverde on Old Willunga Hill. The Australian went into that race having just become national road champion – and last weekend, he won that title back.
Among other big names present are 2011 Tour de France winner and former world champion Cadel Evans of BMC Racing and Team Sky's Richie Porte, both of whom are targeting the Giro d'Italia this year - they finished second and third respectively to Gerrans at the nationals. Meanwhile, Fränk Schleck resumes his racing career with Trek Factory Racing following his doping ban.
Javier Moreno of Movistar and Team Sky's Thomas, who completed the podium last year along with Slagter – he won't defend his title, since his wife is due to give birth – could well figure among the contenders again this time round.
Another Movistar rider, Giovanni Visconti, has the attacking style that could set him up for a tilt at the General Classification, and also fancied is Garmin-Sharp's Rohan Dennis – two years ago, at the age of 21, he finished fifth overall.
Kangaroo sign (Tour Down Under/Regallo)
Two young riders of whom great things are expected, both aged 19, are Caleb Ewan, who will be joining Orica-GreenEdge later this season and rides here for UniSA-Australia, and another WorldTour debutant, Cannondale's Matej Mohoric – the Slovenian is the reigning World Road Champion at Under-23 level.
In the stages that should come down to a sprint, the standout names are two-time Tour Down Under winner André Greipel of Lotto-Belisol, winner of a record 14 stages in the race, and fellow German Marcel Kittel of Giant-Shimano, who took four Tour de France stages last year.
André Greipel wins again in Adelaide (Tour Down Under/Regallo)
There's a lot of other top sprinting talent that will be trying to get in on the act, though, including Cannondale's Elia Viviani, Lampre-Merida's Roberto Ferrari and Orica-GreenEdge's Matt Goss.
Besides Slagter, among notable absentees this year is Europcar's Thomas Voeckler who broke his collarbone training for the race in Australia this week.
Allan Davis is the only man to have ridden all 15 editions of the race since it was launched in 1999 – he won it in 2009 – but he's without a team after Orica-GreenEdge released him at the end of last season, so he'll be missing this year.
Nuriootpa to Angaston – 135km
The opening day isn't the toughest stage of the race, and it should end with a bunch sprint, but with the climb of Mengler's Hill coming 14km from the end, some of the big-name sprinters won't be around to contest it. Those who are will fight to become the first wearer of the leader's ochre jersey this year.
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Prospect to Stirling – 150km
Stirling hosts a stage finish for the sixth year running, and a hilly profile in the last couple of laps means it's likely to be a select bunch that contests the finish. Last year, Slagter won here, the bonus seconds he took putting him within 5 seconds of the race lead and helping set up his eventual overall victory.
Thursday, January 23
Norwood to Campbelltown – 145km
The Category 1 climb of Corkscrew Road, averaging 8 per cent in its final 2.5km, made its debut in last year's race, Sky's Thomas cresting it first on his way to the stage win and the leader's ochre jersey. He won from a four-man sprint, with a group of 11 riders just behind, on a day that produced the overall contenders.
Unley to Victor Harbor – 148.5km
This is one of two stages that look certain to end in a bunch sprint, with a finish on the seafront at Victor Harbor. Greipel has proved time and again at the Tour Down Under that he is consistently the quickest man at this early stage of the season – can anyone challenge him?
McLaren Vale to Willunga Hill – 151.5km
Second here in 2012 and winner of this stage last year, the climb - tackled twice, and 3.5km long with an average gradient of 7 per cent but a maximum of 16 per cent – is perfect for Gerrans. If he made the selection on Stage 2, he could clinch the overall. In any event, the race winner should be among the first across today.
Adelaide to Adelaide – 85.5km (18 x 4.75km laps)
If things are tight on GC, this could be a gripping stage in Adelaide. In 2012, Valverde failed to get the bonus seconds he needed to pip Gerrans to the overall. Last year, Thomas moved from fifth overall to a third-place podium spot, and even edged out Greipel – who won the stage – for the sprinter's jersey.
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Santos Tour Down Under 2014
Simon MacMichael
Born in Scotland, Simon moved to London aged seven and now lives in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds with his miniature schnauzer, Elodie. He fell in love with cycling one Saturday morning in 1994 while living in Italy when Milan-San Remo went past his front door. A daily cycle commuter in London back before riding to work started to boom, he's been news editor at road.cc since 2009. Handily for work, he speaks French and Italian. He doesn't get to ride his Colnago as often as he'd like, and freely admits he's much more adept at cooking than fettling with bikes.
Fuelling for epic rides — how to get the right food to keep your energy levels up and avoid the dreaded bonk
Six bikes that won't win the Tour de France... but deserve to
How to look after disc brakes and get the best performance out of them
New Cannondale CAAD13 First Ride - Can aluminium still cut it?
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This file is used to list changes made in each version of the push-jobs cookbook.

v2.6.0 (2015-10-13)
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- Use chefdk version of berks for travis.
- #54 Unbreak chef-ingredient installs, and improve version
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v2.5.0 (2015-10-06)
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- #53 - Allow node\_name and chef\_server\_url to be overridden
- #49 - Support the name changes in 1.3x and 2.0 push client,
  especially on windows
- #52 - More updates for newer rubocop and foodcritic
- #50 - Allow ssl to be disabled
- Cleanups for travis testing and general hygiene
  - test on modern ruby
  - update kitchen.yml boxes
  - bump gem versions
  - rubocop update, use standard rules, misc fixes
  - foodcritic fixes
  - update README CONTRIBUTING
  - update urls/emails

v2.4.2 (2015-09-08)
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- #42 - Windows push client to use own config
- #43 - Include version in package name for idempotency
- #46 - debug flag to logging level flag

v2.4.1 (2015-07-29)
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- #41 - fix client path and node_name

v2.4.0 (2015-07-20)
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- Using chef-ingredient
- service_container recipe

v2.3.0 (2015-06-18)
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- Support environment variables in config file
- Correctly generate the chef client config.rb path on windows boxes.
- Greatly improved README

v2.2.1 (2014-07-09)
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- Refactored the service creation in the same manner as chef-client cookbook.
- Changed up the kitchen file to remove CentOS 5.9 and switched out Ubuntu 10.04 for Ubuntu 14.04.

v2.2.0 (2014-03-07)
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- Move config and service resources to separate recipes
- Add new helper methods for config path
- Update ChefSpec to v3 and specs to match

v2.0.1 (2014-02-20)
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- Make whitelist rendering is more robust
- Ensure `node['push_jobs']['whitelist']` is a Hash (or subclass
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  `node['push_jobs']['package_checksum']` are now required when
  installing the client package.  The previous version of this
  cookbook automatically determined the proper values for the node if
  values were not supplied.

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CB&I Announces Technology and Development Contract for Residue Upgrading Complex in Sweden
CB&I announced Chevron Lummus Global, a joint venture between CB&I and Chevron, has been awarded a contract by Beowulf Energy Sweden LLC, who recently signed a cooperation agreement with Preem, for the technology license and development of a residue upgrading complex in Lysekil, Sweden. The scope of the contract includes the license of Chevron Lummus Global's LC-Slurry® technology with integrated ISOCRACKING® and ancillary units. Under the agreement, CB&I also will develop a detailed cost estimate and execution plan for the engineering, procurement and construction phase of the project.
"We look forward to this new partnership with Beowulf, as well as continuing our long-standing relationship with Preem," said Daniel McCarthy, President of CB&I's Technology operating group. "This award marks the first LC-Slurry license since adding the maximum residue conversion technology to our CLG portfolio last year."
CB&I (NYSE:CBI) is a leading provider of technology and infrastructure for the energy industry. With over 125 years of experience and the expertise of more than 40,000 employees, CB&I provides reliable solutions to our customers around the world while maintaining a relentless focus on safety and an uncompromising standard of quality.


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Alabama Senate passes bill to remove school board elections
Alabamians currently vote for their state school board members who make critical decisions regarding Alabama K-12 public schools. (Source: WSFA 12 News)
By Lydia Nusbaum | May 17, 2019 at 2:42 PM CDT - Updated May 18 at 10:48 AM
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Alabamians currently vote for their state school board members who make critical decisions regarding Alabama K-12 public schools.
The Alabama state Senate passed a bill 30 to 0 Thursday that would scrap school board member elections and make it an appointed seat. Alabama Senators echoed how they were fed up with seeing low rankings, including the recent U.S. and World news report ranking Alabama's education 50th in the country.
If it passed the state legislature, it would need to go to the voters for approval since it is a constitutional amendment.
Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh, R-Anniston, sponsored the bill and said better education begins with new governance. Marsh's spokesperson said Alabama is one of six states that has a fully elected board.
"It's our job, if the people go this route, to get competent state school board members through this process of appointments and confirmations where we ask those hard questions and make sure we are on the same page," Marsh said.
The bill would change the current board's name to the Alabama Commission of Elementary and Secondary Education and make the members appointed by the governor. The current state superintendent's title would be changed to the Secretary of Elementary and Secondary Education who would be appointed by the board.
Gov. Kay Ivey praised the Senate for passing the bill.
"Since day one, I have sought out the best ways for Alabama to offer the highest quality educational opportunities for every student across the state," said Ivey. "We need a bold plan that works for Alabama, which is exactly what this constitutional amendment will provide our students."
Marsh said minorities could have a bigger seat at the table. The bill outlines that the governor would need to make sure that all commission members reflect the gender and racial diversity of students.
"I think what is important is that the board makes up the state of Alabama, and we all that have a stake in education should participate in that," said Marsh. "Everybody can say they have equal representation at the table."
Yvette Richardson is a current board member and has worked with the Fairfield City School System in various leadership roles for 29 years.
"The satisfaction of this proposed amendment is that it will go before the voters," said Richardson. "So it gives them the opportunity to if it is perhaps best to have someone appointed by Gov. Ivey, or if they choose that it would be more democratic for them to choose who represents them on the Alabama state Board of Education."
School Superintendents of Alabama said they are neutral on the bill and would support what the voters decide.
The Alabama Association of School Boards supports the proposed legislation.
"Fundamentally, we believe it is important the people of Alabama have an opportunity to vote on this dramatic change and that such change is needed to drive significant, sustained improvement in our schools across the state," the AASB said in a statement.
Political Reporter
Political Reporter Lydia Nusbaum joined WSFA and the Raycom family in June 2018.
New law aims to minimize criminals' profit off of violent crimes
Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law a bill that supporters say will "tip the scales" and help victims not re-live a crime all over again.
Mississippi candidate for governor denies female reporter access
Robert Foster, a DeSoto County state representative and Republican candidate for governor, denied giving a female reporter access to him on the campaign trail unless she brought a male colleague with her.
Brandon Richard
AP FACT CHECK: Dems' missteps on climate, wages in debate
Published June 26, 2019 at 11:16 PM
SPECIAL SESSION: Prison reform likely to spark Gov. Ivey to call in lawmakers
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It's the first of February so I thought it was a good time to check back in with my intentions for Flourish, my One Little Word for 2019.
At the start of January, I shared my word here. My intentions for my word included focussing on my health, my relationships, our new home & my true self. Throughout the month, I fleshed out my intentions for my word in much greater detail & what I have come up with are actions under each topic. I won't share them all in one go here but I will share them as I go along & make progress with them.
Quarterly check-ins where I ask myself if my word is working for me or if I need to adjust my goals. I'll also be checking what goals I have met.
Monthly quotes or images. 1 each month to guide my plan for that month.
Read from a themed reading list. Obviously I'll be reading books just for entertainment but in between I've a list of books that encourage me to flourish in different ways.
The quote I've chosen for this month (above) is "Flourish – to grow or develop in a healthy or vigorous way, especially as the result of a particularly favourable environment". Last month I focussed on my word overall and my plans for it. This month we've gotten the keys to our first house and I'm focussing on turning the house into a home. In other words, flourishing in a particularly favourable environment.
Finally, in January I started writing something in a diary each day about how I've worked towards my word that day and in the whole month, I only missed 1 day. I've enjoyed this process so I'm going to continue it throughout the year.
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What Are the Origins of the Amish, Quakers & Mennonites?
By Edwin Thomas ; Updated September 29, 2017
Three sects of Protestant pacifists came together in colonial Pennsylvania to give it a character that continues to color the state today: the Quakers, the Mennonites and the Amish. All three share a common origin because they faced religious persecution by dissenting from religious conformity in the 16th and 17th centuries. However, that aside, the origins of the Mennonites and Amish are quite distinct from that of the Quakers.
The Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, began as a movement of nonconformists. This was a general movement of Protestants who wanted to break out of the English brand of Puritanism. From their foundation in the 1650s, the Quakers were persecuted in the British Isles and the New England colonies. Then term "Quaker" stems from a patronizing jibe on the part of an English judge that the Friends "tremble at the word of God." The Friends turned it around and started using the term themselves, although their formal name has always remained the same. Quaker core beliefs include "testifying" to four ideals in everyday life: pacifism, simplicity, equality and honesty.
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The Mennonites are named for their founder Menno Simons. They evolved from the Anabaptist movement of Holland and Germany during the violent years of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. Simons was a Dutch Catholic priest who left the church in 1536 and became an Anabaptist leader. His writings in many ways codified Anabaptist beliefs. Despite all Mennonites taking their name from this one figure, from the very beginning of the Mennonite faith, the movement was split between Dutch and Swiss-German groups, and later fragmented further still. Mennonites are pacifists, and are practitioners of the 3-fold Believer's Baptism: baptism by spirit, baptism by water and baptism by blood (martyrdom or ascetic lifestyle). Also, the Lord's Supper (Communion) is understood as a memorial instead of as a sacrament.
The Amish are the heirs of Jacob Amman, a reformer who tried to convince the larger German Mennonite faith to embrace certain changes. Among other things, he wanted to strengthen the discipline of the church to include excommunication and ostracism. This lead to a severe split in the Swiss Mennonite community in particular. It is widely believed that the Amish are anti-technology or regard it as sinful, which is a gross over-simplification and largely untrue. Instead, they have adopted certain practices in keeping with their communitarian values and to shun people from outside their community. The attitude of different Amish communities towards modern devices can vary markedly.
The Quakers were banished from New England and faced death if they dared to return, and were banned by law in the United Kingdom. William Penn established the colony of Pennsylvania in 1681 largely as a safe haven for Quakers. Penn began soliciting other persecuted Protestant groups to join the Quakers in his new colony, starting with the first German Mennonites settling in Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1683. Roughly 100,000 Germans from the Palatinate region immigrated to Pennsylvania in the 18th Century, with about 3,000 of them being Mennonites and Amish.
All three faiths are alive and well in modern times. In 2006, there were almost 1.5 million practicing Mennonites. In 2008, there were about 225,000 Amish. No one knows exactly how many Quakers there are, but it is an international faith and their numbers were estimated at over 300,000 in 2007.
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On 20 January 2011, i.e. 10 years ago, LAUDA, the world market leader in temperature control equipment and systems, acquired a plant for industrial circulation chillers in Terrassa near Barcelona, Spain. Owing to the continuous positive development of the Spanish subsidiary, the temperature control specialist was able to celebrate the laying of the foundation stone for a new production facility there at the beginning of the year. The new building of LAUDA's subsidiary LAUDA Ultracool, SL will more than double the production capacity of LAUDA circulation chillers to meet the growing global demand for energy-efficient temperature control solutions. For LAUDA, this is not only the first construction project abroad in the company's 65-year history but also the first complete new building "on a greenfield site". Around 4,000 m² of new production space and more than 850 m² of office space will be created on a 9,000 m² site in the direct vicinity of the existing company headquarters. The Spanish sales company LAUDA Ibérica Soluciones Técnicas will also move into the new building.
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A new technology under development at the Georgia Institute of Technology could one day provide more efficient delivery of the bone regenerating growth factors with greater accuracy and at a lower cost.
In a recent study, researchers bound the most clinically-used growth factor with microparticles of the drug heparin at concentrations up to 1,000-fold higher than previously reported. The growth factor, called bone morphogenetic protein-2 (BMP-2), also remained bioactive after long periods of time spent bound to the microparticles.
"The net result is more efficient and spatially controlled delivery of this very potent and very valuable protein," said Todd McDevitt, an associate professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. McDevitt is also the director of Georgia Tech's Stem Cell Engineering Center.
The study was sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). The research results were published May 28 in the online edition of the journal Biomaterials. The work was a joint effort of several labs that are part of Georgia Tech's Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience. Marian Hettiaratchi, a graduate student in McDevitt's lab, was the paper's lead author.
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The research team developed a method of fabricating pure heparin microparticles from a modified heparin methacrylamide species that can be thermally cross-linked to growth factors. The technology avoids the bulky materials currently used to deliver growth factors.
Heparin is a widely used anticoagulant with chemical properties that make it ideal for binding to growth factors. The researchers found that heparin microparticles bound BMP-2 with high affinity, exceeding the maximum reported growth factor binding capacity of other heparin-containing biomaterials by greater than 1,000-fold.
Current BMP-2 delivery techniques use a collagen sponge, which releases large amounts of the drug in an initial burst. To compensate for the high initial dose, excess growth factor is loaded into the sponge, leading to non-specific and inefficient delivery of the drug. The new study reported that BMP-2 stayed tightly bound to the heparin microparticles, so it is released slowly over time. After 28 days, just 25 percent of the growth factor had been released from the microparticles.
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BMP-2 also maintained its bioactivity as it was released from microparticles during an in vitro assay. BMP-2-loaded microparticles in physical contact with cell culture also stimulated an increase in the number of cells.
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This research is supported by a Transformative Research Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), award number (TR01 AR062006), and the National Science Foundation (NSF), under award number DMR 1207045. Any conclusions or opinions are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the sponsoring agencies.


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PSG set eye-watering Neymar price as Barcelona consider next move
PSG want to recoup the €222 million fee they paid for Neymar two years ago if he is sold this summer, say reports.
The Brazil international failed to turn up to the first day of pre-season training on Monday and the Ligue 1 champions' sporting director Leonardo has admitted that they are willing to sell the player "if there is an offer that suits everyone".
Barcelona have been heavily linked with a move to re-sign the forward, but the French club's high demands could be a stumbling block.
PSG will consider a bid worth around £200 million for the 27-year-old and are not interested in a deal involving Philippe Coutinho or Ousmane Dembele, Marca reports.
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Henryk Magnuski (ur. 30 stycznia 1909 w Warszawie, zm. 4 maja 1978 w Glenview) – polski inżynier, konstruktor, projektant i wynalazca pracujący w Stanach Zjednoczonych, pracownik amerykańskiego koncernu telekomunikacyjnego Motorola, twórca jednego z pierwszych walkie-talkie.

Życiorys
Urodził się w Warszawie, w 1926 zdał maturę w gimnazjum im. Stanisława Staszica w Warszawie w 1934 roku ukończył studia na Politechnice Warszawskiej i rozpoczął pracę w Państwowych Zakładach Tele i Radiotechnicznych. W 1935 zgłosił, a w 1936 uzyskał patent na Urządzenie do szybkiego nawiązywania łączności radiotelegraficznej lub radiotelefonicznej.. W czerwcu 1939 został wysłany na szkolenie do Nowego Jorku. Wybuch II wojny światowej uniemożliwił mu powrót do kraju.

W 1940 rozpoczął pracę w Motoroli (do 1947 firma nazywała się Galvin Manufacturing Corporation). Opracował m.in. projekt radia Walkie-Talkie Motoroli SCR-300, powszechnie używanego przez najniższe szczeble dowodzenia amerykańskich sił zbrojnych w Europie, a także na Pacyfiku. Ciężar tej lampowej, mieszczącej się w plecaku radiostacji wynosił 17 kg. Urządzenie mające zasięg blisko 15 km, umożliwiało komunikację piechoty, artylerii oraz broni pancernych. Stabilność częstotliwości SCR-300 była duża, przy czym istniała możliwość dostrajania radiostacji do różnych częstotliwości. Przez blisko dwa lata – od 1943 roku do końca wojny – firma Motorola wyprodukowała 43 tys. urządzeń.

Był autorem wielu publikacji w języku angielskim dotyczących techniki telekomunikacyjnej, autor 30 patentów USA z tej dziedziny. Wniósł duży wkład w dziedzinę łączności wojskowej, techniki radiowej i telekomunikacji. Był członkiem IEEE.

Zmarł na raka w swoim domu w Glenview w stanie Illinois.

6.10.2006 r. włączony do Illinois Engineering Hall of Fame.

Publikacje
 Cavity Resonators in Mobile Communications. Communications, August, 1949
 Application of Microwave Relay to Commercial Communication Systems. 1949 Southwestern I.R.E. Conference – Dallas, Texas
 Private Line Microwave Systems. IRE Professional Group on Vehicular Communications National Meeting – Detroit, Michigan, November 3rd, 1950
 Adjacent Channel Rejection Receiver.	Electronics Magazine, January, 1951
 The Microwave Relay Communication System – General Technical Philosophy & Specific Engineering Solution. Fourth Southwestern IRE Conference – Houston Texas, May 17, 1952
 Passive Repeater Bends Microwave Beam. Electronics Magazine, February, 1953 (współaut. Theodore F. Koch)
 Packaged Microwave Relay Systems. Radio Electronic Engineering, March, 1953 (współaut. Harold A. Jones)
 The Microwave Relay and its Relationship to VHF Vehicular Communication. I.R.E. Convention – Washington, D.C., June 23, 1953
 Modulation Sideband Splatter of VHF and UHF Transmitters. Proceedings of the National Electronic Conference, Vol 10 February, 1955 (współaut. William L. Firestone, Angus MacDonald)
 An Explanation of Fading in Microwave Relay Systems. IRE National Convention, March 21, 1955
 An Explanation of Microwave Fading and Its Correction by Frequency Diversity. Winter General Meeting of the AIEE, January 30, 1956
 Comparison of SSB and FM for VHF Mobile Service. Proceedings of the I.R.E, Vol. 44 No. 12, December, 1956
 Comparison of SSB and FM for VHF Mobile Service. IRE Transactions on Vehicular Communications, PGVC-9, June, 1957
 Single Sideband for Mobile Applications. AIEE Fall General Meeting – Chicago, Illinois, October 11, 1957 (współaut. William L. Firestone, Roy A. Richardson)
 Synchronous SSB for Communications. Electronic Industries, April, 1958 (współaut. William L. Firestone, A. A. MacDonald, R. A. Richardson)
 Report on Single Sideband Communications. New York Section of AIEE, April 30, 1958 (współaut. William L. Firestone)
 SSB for Spectrum Conservation. Globe Com II – St. Petersburg, Florida, December 3, 1958 (współaut. William L. Firestone)
 Single Sideband for Communications.	CMEC Communications Symposium, June 11, 1959
 Jamming of Communications Systems Using FM, AM and SSB Modulation. IRE Transactions on Military Electronics, MIL-5 No. 1 8-11, January, 1961
 Wideband Channel for Emergency Communications. IRE Transactions on Vehicular Communications, Vol. VC-10 No. 2, August, 1961
 Analysis of Random Access Discrete Address System. IRE Eighth National Communications Symposium, October, 1962 (współaut. Willis DeHart)
 RADA and Satellite Communications. 1962 National Symposium on Space Electronics and Telemetry – Miami Beach, October 2, 1962
 RADAS – A New Concept in Communications Systems. Motorola Engineering Bulletin, Vol. 11, Issues 1 and 2, 1963
 Anti-Jamming Characteristics of RADAS. IRE Winter Convention on Military Electronics – Los Angeles, February, 1963
 RADAS and Satellite Communication. National Symposium on Space Electronics and Telemetry, October 2, 1962
 Microwave Fading and its Correction by Diversity Reception. Wire and Radio Communications, November, 1964
 Delta-Multiplex for Long Tropo Scatter Links. IEEE International Convention, 1965 (współaut. W. Braun, L. Engelbrecht, F. R. Steel)
 Deltaplex – A Novel Solution to Troposcatter Communications Problems. Fourth Canadian Symposium on Communications, October 14, 1966
 Digital Techniques Promise New Applications for Tropo. Signal Magazine, 1967 (współaut. L. Engelbrecht, W. E. Yost, Jr.)
 Upgrading the Tropo Span. Motorola Engineering Bulletin. April 4, 1967
 The Principles of Vehicular Communication Systems Design. IEEE First Symposium on Vehicular Communications Systems, May 25, 1967
 Chapter 18 – Address Communication Systems. Communication System Engineering Handbook – Donald. H. Hamsher, Ed., June, 1967, McGraw-Hill, NY.
 A Novel Solution to Troposcatter Communication Problems. Telecommunications, January, 1968

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Ludzie związani z XIV Liceum Ogólnokształcącym im. Stanisława Staszica w Warszawie
Polscy inżynierowie
Polscy wynalazcy
Amerykańscy inżynierowie
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Urodzeni w 1909
Zmarli w 1978
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Waiting times in accident and emergency departments are getting longer, according to figures released today by the healthcare regulator.
A major report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) found that a third of patients spent more than four hours in A&E, compared to 23 per cent in 2004, it said.
In addition, 33 per cent of patients reported waiting more than half an hour before they were seen by a doctor or a nurse – up from 24 per cent in 2004.
The survey of 46,000 patients found that nearly a quarter of those who arrived by ambulance had to wait more than 15 minutes with the ambulance crew for their care to be transferred to A&E staff. Five per cent had to wait more than an hour.
Government targets say no more than 5 per cent of patients should breach the four-hour limit.
The research, conducted across 147 NHS trusts with major accident and emergency departments, also found that 59 per cent of people were not told how long they would have to wait to be examined, up three percent from 2004.
Furthermore, almost half of patients who were prescribed medicines said they were not warned about possible side-effects.
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But Christina McAnea, head of health at union Unison, said: 'This survey shows that Tory claims that they are protecting our health service are worthless.
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As a student, getting a credit card was not as easy as my parents made it out to be. And recently, most credit card companies have changed their ways to reflect the CARD Act so that many do not award credit cards to students under 21. The CARD Act of 2009 (Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, And Disclosure Act) requires consumers under the age of 21 to have a cosigner or steady income to obtain a credit card.
Alas, below is a shortlist of credit cards I recommend you check out if you are a student seeking a new credit card this year to start building your credit. …
How Walmart Should Better Market Walmart+ To Compete With Amazon Prime
A few months ago, Walmart released its highly anticipated competitor to Amazon Prime, Walmart+. While the service is slowly becoming a success for the company, studies show that only 11% of US shoppers have signed up for Walmart+. Meaning millions of Walmart customers still have not subscribed to Walmart+.
Understandably so, many consumers question why they would pay for Walmart+ when they could receive the same benefits plus more from Amazon Prime.
Compared to Amazon Prime, Walmart+'s valuation proposition is nowhere near Prime's when compared side-to-side. Amazon Prime includes many more benefits than Walmart+ and recently released a new pharmacy option for its members. …
Published in Making of a Millionaire
How I use Sorted 3 to Schedule My Day Like Elon Musk
This article is a direct successor to the recent product review I did on the IOS time-blocking app, Sorted 3. Again I want to state that I have no direct affiliation with the Sorted team. I am only a daily user of this app. Sorted 3 has added an enormous amount of value through effectiveness to my life. Below I continue to share my experience and how I utilize Sorted 3's functions for total daily productivity.
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Elon Musk and "Time-Blocking"
Like previously mentioned, time-blocking is a scheduling method used by professionals to maximize productivity. Those who utilize the time-blocking method know that to maximize productivity fully, you schedule something productive for every waking hour of your day. …
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Topgolf — The Future 'Peloton' of Golf
Determining the long-term value of a party-like driving range company in its early stages is difficult to do. Especially when Topgolf International Inc. was planning to IPO at $4 billion earlier this year but put those plans on hold due to COVID-19. Now, Callaway Golf Co has announced that it plans to buy the remainder of Topgolf Entertainment Holdings.
Bloomberg says the deal values Topgolf at roughly $2 billion, a significant drop from the $4 billion price tag it was searching for in its IPO earlier this year. Callaway, known for its drivers and other golf equipment, already owned about 14% of Topgolf. …
Snapchat Rises to Near 250 Million Daily Active Users
Snap Inc surged over 24% after the software company reported well ahead of analysts' estimates on quarterly revenue and user growth. Snap's revenue jumped 52% to $678.7 million and reported 249 million daily active users during the quarter.
Winning Streaks
Snap attracted more advertisers this quarter because of a rise in spending and increased usage of mobile devices for communication and entertainment during the pandemic. Snap's CEO, Evan Spiegel, was pleased with this quarter's results and noted that the company would be further investing long-term on things including augmented reality for its app.
Specific consumer stats:
- The average number of Snaps created every day grew 25%…
Sorted 3 — an App to Schedule Your Day like Elon Musk
Before reading this product review, I wanted to state that I have no direct affiliation with the Sorted team. I am only a daily user of the app. I also wanted to say that this is my first ever product review. And I want anyone reading this to know I will only ever recommend products that I have used for more than three months, as I believe I have created a strong enough opinion on said product. And if a said product has provided immense value to my life, I will write about it. …
·May 29, 2020
The Intended Netflixation of Spotify
Let's paint a picture: Two standalone streaming platforms, one serves users movie and tv content while the other music and podcasts. Each is dominant in their perspective platforms, with more than 100 million subscribers each, and competitors looking to defeat them with any angle. You may have guessed it, but today I am writing about Netflix and Spotify, two digital streaming companies that look very similar on the outside but are entirely different on the inside.
Below, I break down how different Spotify is from Netflix, Spotify's money-saving playlist algorithm, and exactly how Spotify's move to buy the popular podcaster, Joe Rogan, is Spotify showing its hand that it aspires to become more like Netflix. …
Disney's all-encompassing strategy to win the content war
Two weeks ago, Disney announced that its new streaming service, Disney Plus, had surpassed 50 million subscribers. This news came only a little more than two months following Disney reporting just 28 million subscribers in February.
At the same time, content rival Netflix reported a similar jump in numbers picking up nearly 16 million subscribers over the last quarter. Both of these subscriber jumps are partially due to the extensive government stay-at-home orders brought about because of this year's COVID-19 pandemic.
While almost doubling its Disney Plus subscribers, many of the major news outlets have failed to mention and carefully review Disney's all-encompassing content strategy. Below is a small, yet comprehensive analysis of how Disney expects to prevail in all areas of streaming (not just family-friendly) for the next decade. …
·Apr 8, 2020
Two lessons on problem-solving to learn from Bill Gates, as he aids work towards a Coronavirus vaccine
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Over the past few weeks, America's "favorite" billionaire started showing up in various media platforms after an old TED talk he gave in March 2015 resurfaced. Just five years ago, Bill Gates shared a fortune most were short of throwing away rather than reread or align themselves and their leadership with.
He said (speaking of a future outbreak), "We're not ready."
And Gates was unbelievably right. The coronavirus pandemic will be something that changes the way countries think about mass disease, business, and society for ages to come.
So what has the Microsoft cofounder and problem-solving machine decided to spend his time on besides going on air to say, "I told you so?" Gates has developed a plan to spend billions in fighting the Coronavirus. Just this week, Gates announced that his foundation would spend billions on building seven factories for the makers of the most promising efforts in finishing a Coronavirus vaccine. …
Writing is the top skill remote workers need during the Coronavirus Epidemic
Being able to write has always been important in any job, but it is in-fact crucial for distributed teams and more significant companies to be successful during this epidemic and on. Already billions of dollars are lost every year due to the cost of poor communication, and COVID 19 has made certain market situations dire.
Organizations and individuals that are now required to adapt to remote work should be focusing on their written communication skills. Below is a brief but essential lesson on why effectively communicating writing is vital to your success over the next few months.
You may think that your ability to chat via a few messages a day on Slack and send a few emails is enough to make you a good remote worker. But picture yourself working the next two months relying mostly on written communication — because that is eventually what will happen to your new remote team. …
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I am an Ariel, an Ariel from before the Disney onslaught. I live in the coastal barrens of Nova Scotia in a house called Farfara, where I'm an academic and cultural omnivore. My mother once told me that if I ever felt at sea in a strange place, I should just imagine that I'm the heroine of a novel and proceed from there. I may have taken this advice too much to heart, and it's seldom now that I find a place anything but strange. My grandmother, who found that advice to be nonsensical, told me that the best cure for heartache was to spend the day cracking nuts by hand. Lacking an old-fashioned nutcracker, she offered up a set of china she'd thought better of. My father raised me to be a feminist, my grandfather taught me to be a classicist. And D, my partner, wants to know why I'm compelled to talk to people I've never met on the internet.
Here's the advice I give myself most often, though: Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises, sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not.


Joensuu is the vibrant capital of the North Karelia region, and with almost one third of its population being made up of students it is a town where there is always something happening. The biggest event in the calendar is the Ilosaarirock Festival which attracts big international and national acts from the rock and pop world.
Meaning 'the mouth of the river', the city of Joensuu, which was founded by the Czar Nikolai I of Russia in 1848, has grown to become the regional capital of North Karelia, and its second largest city. Much of its importance is due to improvements in water traffic when the Saimaa Canal was completed in 1870, which has allowed a lively regional trade, and linked to the city to St. Petersburg in Russia, and via the Volga to both the Black and Caspian seas.
Every summer flocks of young Finns make their way here for the Ilosaarirock Festival in July, an open air event that attracts some of the biggest national and international rock acts. Folk enthusiasts should check out the music festival Kihaus, organised in Rääkkylä, just 30km from the city.
Visitors to Joensuu will find that there is always something to do and see, and of the treats available a day spent in Perhos-Botania, the University Botanical Gardens, is highly recommended. Comprised of five greenhouse complexes, the visitor can travel through a variety of climates on Earth, from arid desert to tropical rain forest, and see a thousand exotic species from all over the globe. Particularly captivating are the giant butterflies which fly freely about the place. Joensuu also houses the Bunker Museum, and the Carelicum or North Karelian Museum, and scattered around are many old wooden churches like the pseudogothic Kirkkokatu cathedral.


Established in September of 2005 by Jim Ogg and Anthony Adamcik, and joined by Scott Ogg in 2006, tradition --- the cabinet shop, is a relative new comer on the block. We are, however, fully equipped with state-of-the-art technologies. From our computerized design capabilities to the precision equipment in our shop, we can take you from your dream to reality in first-class fashion.
Although we are a young business, the principal owners bring a combined total of more than 30 years of experience in custom cabinet design, construction and installation to the cabinet industry. We share an even longer resumé of business ownership, management and community service.
Jim, a Marble Falls High School graduate (1972) has been in and around the wood working industry most of his life; Anthony, Burnet High School Salutatorian (1989) cut his teeth in cabinet design at a major retail distributor while attending Texas A&M University; and Scott, MFHS (1997) worked his way to a degree at Texas A&M (2006) as a trim carpenter.
All three came together and honed their skills at a local cabinet shop before joining forces at tradition.
Although, their paths to tradition were somewhat varied, the three partners objectives as a company are quite the same.
At tradition, we have a genuine passion for our craft and are committed to giving our customers the best we have to offer. We fully understand that while building or remodeling a home can be one of the most important and exciting things our customers may ever do, it can also be confusing and stressful. It is our goal to make that process as easy as possible for everybody involved.
We specialize in traditional face-frame style cabinetry. We believe it to be a stronger, more durable product than a pure European-style cabinet. We can, however, provide what we call a hybrid-style that combines the strength of the face frame cabinet, with the clean, simple lines of a Euro design.
We use the best quality materials including solid pine for our drawer boxes and all wood veneer-core sheet products. We never use particle board or laminated plastic. We purchase all of our materials from distributors in central Texas who carefully select solid wood and sheet products from the finest mills in the United States and abroad.
Wood species we are using the most include Alder (rustic and clear), Hickory, Cherry, Maple, Red Oak, White Oak and Poplar (for our paint grade cabinets). Of course we will build your cabinets out of any species of wood you want, depending on availability.
We offer a variety of door styles, all produced in our shop, including raised panel, flat panel and shaker. Multiple panel, glass and oval top doors are also available.
We use only top-quality, full extension drawer slides and fully concealed hinges for our doors. We can provide a full line of specialty features such as Lazy Susans, spice racks, trash roll-outs, and cookie tray dividers, to name a few.
we at tradition want to help make the entire process as enjoyable as possible.
In our photo galleries, you will see pictures of some of our work. You will get a better idea of the different styles we are capable of building, but remember that we are definitely not limited to just these. Bring us your idea, or let us show you some others we have. Either way, let's "Build with tradition" together.


Over the last few articles, we've explored groups of untapped potential farmers. These are groups of people who derive additional benefit from aquaponics farming beyond the food itself. These groups use their gardens for purposes like education, rehabilitation, and job training. So far we've discussed schools using aquaponics to teach a wide range of topics with cutting edge technology. We've also explored our experiences working with the developmentally disabled and the Arc, a nationwide organization who provides job-training activities to this population. This month, we are going to take a look at a new hidden group of farmers, prisoners and ex-convicts.
To our national shame, incarceration is a booming industry in the United States. Nearly one of every four prisoners worldwide is held in American confinement. That is 2.3 million US prisoners of 10.1 million worldwide, as of 2010. That means roughly one of every one-hundred Americans is a prisoner. The cost to operate these prisons is over $74 billion dollars, every year, with the taxpayers footing $37 billion dollars of that bill.
So what do the American taxpayers receive for their money? A system that churns out repeat offenders really does not do much for society except burden it. A full 67.5% of prisoners released in 1994 were rearrested within 3 years with 51.8% actually returning to jail.
Without debating all of the reasons why America has such a disproportional prisoner population compared to the rest of the world, it is easy to see that the prison system itself has its faults. It costs the taxpayer billions of dollars, burdening you and I with the cost of caring for criminals. Additionally, prison itself seems to be relatively ineffective, with over half of all released prisoners returning to prison within 3 years.
Alternatives to the industrial prison system have been gaining popularity in modern times, ranging from prison reforms, such as transitioning the purpose of imprisonment from punishment to rehabilitation, to outright abolishment of the prison system. However, there is one novel solution that has actually been around for a very long time.
With the rest of this article, we will explore the reasons why prison farms, and prison aquaponics farms specifically, present such an amazing opportunity to unlock a new segment of hidden farmers.
There was a point in time when prison was really intended to be a punishment on those foolish enough to commit a crime. The indecency of the whole experience was intended to deter would-be criminals from their evil ways. Recently, sentiments have changed and the thinking behind imprisonment has become more compassionate for the state of being that causes one to commit a crime.
Instead of punishment and deterrence, prisons are now looking to rehabilitate their inmates and prepare them for a law abiding life once they return back to free society. This includes repaying their debt to society for their crime.
Growing food for the local community with in-prison aquaponics systems creates a meaningful method of giving back to the community they harmed by their crime. Providing a stable base of food for the surrounding area helps lessen the burden on taxpayers with low-cost healthy food options.
Prison labor is already being used in many industries to get dirt-cheap labor because prisoners are not entitled to the federal minimum wage. Harnessing the prisoners' energy to provide food, a basic human need, lessens tax burdens by directly affecting the price of local food, while simultaneously providing the prisoner with a source of pride in helping their community. This puts them on the path to healthy rehabilitation.
Prisoners have shown remarkable changes in behavior through gardening programs. An amazing story from the Telegraph in the United Kingdom references the Dartmoor prison which has been using gardening for rehabilitation programming since 2007. Prisoners tend raised beds, chickens, and make compost from kitchen scraps. A portion of their production stays on-premises and is used by the prison kitchen, and another portion is sold to the community.
Healthy eating habits are vital to a sound mind as well as body. Prison nutrition has been receiving attention lately for this reason. Additionally, caring for living things like plants, chickens, or fish in the case of aquaponics, has been shown to increase compassion in prisoners. One famous example of this interaction is with the Puppies Behind Bars program. Puppies Behind Bars teaches inmates to train young puppies while the prisoners themselves receive the therapeutic benefit of playing with the cute dogs!
Dartmoor prison uses gardening in its "resettlement program" which prepares prisoners with two years left on their sentence to reenter the free world. They've found that it helps the prisoners learn patience, how to care for living things, and other beneficial skills.
Aquaponics can provide these benefits and teach a valuable job-skill too. With urban farming and aquaponics on the rise, prisoners growing with aquaponics will be ready to rejoin society with meaningful career opportunities. This will reduce recidivism, or returning to old habits of crime, by offering a new life path they didn't have when they first entered prison.
FastCo magazine and Business Insider both site aquaponics as one of the top industries in 2030, and the urban farming industry is just now starting to really take form. Prisoners trained in aquaponics techniques may make a truly meaningful impact on society upon their release by bringing their skills to the job market. With a meaningful job, prisoners are much less likely to fall back on illicit activity.
criminal requires to change their harmful ways. Don't prisoners deserve our loving care as our fellow humans? If given the chance, don't they deserve to repay their debt to the community in a meaningful way, while deriving therapeutic benefits for themselves?
I believe bringing aquaponics to our prisons addresses local community food security issues and will also reduce the rate at which prisoners return to prison after being released.
Aquaponics is already being used in a Denver Colorado jail to sustainably grow food. http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_26759867/denver-jail-sustainably-growing-food-through-aquaponics. As this trend catches on, our prisoner population may not only provide a level of food security within their communities and reduce the burden of prisoners on the taxpaying population.


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Q: php code that saves data to the database and sends an email works on chrome but not safari So I have a page that requests visitors to enter their details to get a discount coupon. The form has a submit button that runs php code that sends emails to the visitor and also updates the database with their details. It also fetched a coupon code from the database.
This code works perfectly on chrome but not on safari. On safari the "register-thanks.html" is displayed after submitting the form, but no emails are send and no data is stored in the database.
The code below is in a registration page:
                        <form id="formsb" method="POST" name="contactform" action="registration-handler.php" class="contact-form2">
                            <fieldset>

                                        <input class="form-control" type="text" name="name" placeholder="Name*">

                                        <input class="form-control" type="email" name="email" placeholder="E-mail *">

                                        <select class="form-control" type="text" name="subject">
                                            <option disabled selected>How did you hear about Luminicious </option>
                                            <option value="Amazon Search">Amazon Search</option>
                                            <option value="Google Search">Google Search </option>
                                            <option value="Bing Search">Bing Search</option>
                                            <option value="Facebook">Facebook</option>
                                            <option value="Instagram">Instagram</option>
                                            <option value="Twitter">Twitter</option>
                                            <option value="Friend or Family">Friend or Family</option>
                                            <option value="Other">Other</option>
                                        </select>

                                        <input class="form-control" type="text" name="improve" placeholder="What candlee set would you like us create (colur?,size?,number of candles?) *">

                                        <input type="checkbox" value="true" name="check"> I am happy to receive emails of offers and new products form luminicious

                                        <input class="btn-more btn" type="submit" value="SEND ME MY DISCOUNT COUPON" id="email_form">

                            </fieldset>
                        </form>

There is also this javascript to submit the form

And the php file containing the code to be run when submit button is clicked is here:
<?php
$errors = '';
$myemail = 'xxx@yyyyyyy.com';//<-----I removed my email from this
if(empty($_POST['name'])  ||
   empty($_POST['email']))
{
    $errors .= "\n Error: all fields are required";
}

$name = $_POST['name'];
$email_address = $_POST['email'];
$subject = $_POST['subject'];
$improve = $_POST['improve'];
$check = $_POST['check'];

if (!preg_match(
"/^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$/i",
$email_address))
{
    $errors .= "\n Error: Invalid email address";
}

if( empty($errors))
{

    $headers = "From: $myemail\n";
    $headers .= "Reply-To: $email_address";
    $from = $myemail;
    $to = $myemail;

    // Create connection
    $config = parse_ini_file('/home/xxxxxx/public_html/yyy/db.ini');
    $conn = new mysqli("localhost",$config['username'],$config['password'],$config['db']);
    //$conn = mysqli_connect("localhost",$config['username'],$config['password'],$config['db']);

    // Check connection
    if ($conn->connect_error) {
        die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);

        $email_subject = "ERROR connecting to Database / Claim 15";
        $email_body = "No Coupons in Database Table";
        mail($to,$email_subject,$email_body,$headers);
    }

    // Insert info of new customer into database
    $sql = "insert into Contacts(Name,Email,Source,Improve,SendUpdates)values('$name','$email_address','$subject','$improve', $check)";
    if ($conn->query($sql) === FALSE) {
        $email_subject = "ERROR in PHP Script / Claim discount";
        $email_body = "Error inserting new customer details in Database Table" . $conn->error;
        mail($to,$email_subject,$email_body,$headers);
    }

    // Get Coupon Code
    $sql = "SELECT * FROM Coupons Where SentFlag = 0 Order By CouponId ";
    $result = $conn->query($sql);

    if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
        // output data of each row
        $row = $result->fetch_assoc();
        $CouponId = $row["CouponId"];
        $CouponCode = $row["CouponCode"];

        // Prepare email to be sent to customer
        // Get next Coupon which is not yet sent to customer
        $headers = "From: $myemail\n";
        $headers .= "Reply-To: $email_address";
        $from = $myemail;
        $to = $email_address;
        $email_subject = "Your Luminicious Discount Coupon";
        $email_body = "Welcome to the Luminicious Family......We hope you are enjoying your Candles.".
        " Below is your coupon code. You can use this to buy any of the Luminicious Candles for the next 3 months.".
        " Your Coupon Code is : $CouponCode ";

        mail($to,$email_subject,$email_body,$headers);

        // Update details of Coupon (set as sent) to database
        $date = date('Y-m-d H:i:s');
        $sql = "UPDATE Coupons SET SentFlag = 1, DateSent = '$date', SentToEmail = '$email_address' WHERE CouponId = $CouponId ";

        if ($conn->query($sql) === FALSE) {
            $email_subject = "ERROR in PHP Script / Claim 15";
            $email_body = "Error updating the Coupons Table" . $conn->error;
            mail($to,$email_subject,$email_body,$headers);
        }

    }
    else {
        $CouponCode = " NONE FOUND - EMAIL NOT SENT";

        $email_subject = "ERROR in PHP Script / Claim disc - No Coupons found";
        $email_body = "No Coupons in Database Table";
        mail($to,$email_subject,$email_body,$headers);
    }

    // Send email to Luminicious Admin Account
    $headers = "From: $myemail\n";
    $headers .= "Reply-To: $email_address";
    $from = $myemail;
    $to = $myemail;
    $email_subject = "New Claim disc registration";
    $email_body = "A new Claim disc registration from: $name".
    " Here are the details:\n Name: $name \n Email: $email_address \n Source: $subject \n Improve: $improve \n Send Updates: $check \n Coupon Code: $CouponCode";

    mail($to,$email_subject,$email_body,$headers);

    $conn->close();

    //redirect to the 'thank you' page
    header('Location: register-thanks.html');
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

    <title>Registration form handler</title>

<?php
echo nl2br($errors);
$conn->close();
?>

A: Since you are using jQuery why not refactor your submit JS to this:
$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#email_form').click(function() {
        $('#formsb').submit();
    });
});

The redirection should only be executed if the submit was successful, remember the Javascript is asynch so the redirection statement in your code above will not wait for the submit to finish.

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The Raconteurs – [DVD]
Anybody who has ever seen The White Stripes live knows that, as big a fan as any concertgoer might be, te band's live shows leave a pretty significant amount to be desired. No matter how hard the band tries, their shortcomings seem to be inescapable; Jack White's voice can be incredibly pitchy onstage and, if he's feeling the audience enough to really start playing hard, it doesn't take long for the guitarist to throttle his instrument out of tune which means the sound of it quickly degenerates into a molten mass of atonal noise. Those are moments which are incredibly hard to hear – but they're also the moments when questioning whether the problem is with the player, the performance or the songs becomes valid. Those questions have come up so often now that it's almost an act of reflex – which is exactly why people will be asking how The Raconteurs are going to sound before they hear a note of the band's performance at the Montreux Jazz festival, now released on DVD. The answer becomes self-evident as White opens the band's show with a warming eruption of ground-out feedback but then, like a cloud burst, the rest of the band )singer/guitarist Brendan Benson, bassist Patrick Keelor and drummer Jack Lawrence) all blow in together, temper White and introduce an all-new senseation with "Consoler Of The Lonely." There, The Raconteurs present an all-new vision on an old theme; a little bit loose and all rootsy rock n' roll, the quartet straddles the lines between new and old as they join sweet vocal harmonies with abrasive blooz guitars, soulful keys and simple, to-the-point drumming in a way that sounds awfully familiar but also sounds brand new. On this performance of "Consoler Of The Lonely," Jack White proves that he's at his best when he's thinking big (read: a bigger band than just two players) and that first impression guarantees that viewers will be interested – but the band holds that interest easily as Benson and White trade off on vocals by the stanza on "Hold Up," rock the pants off the capacity Montreux crowd with "You Don't Understand Me" and then ascend to a truly unprecedented level of nu-roots-rock grandeur with (appropriately enough) "Top Yourself." Each of those turns reveals that, to this point, the problem was not with White at all because what's here is awesome – the problem was with what he was trying to present before; The White Stripes was a trifle compared to The Raconteurs and that fact is proven early on this DVD. Here – clearly a little more comfortable and not trying to be cool, Jack White overshadows the work which made him a star easily and proves (finally) that he is deserving of the praise he has received for so long.
As it continues on, The Raconteurs' set never flags or fades into the background as the backwoods in them makes itself felt on "Old Enough" before the band totally transcends belief with the methodical build-into-ecstasy that is "Level" and then turns lyrical conventions for the blues on their collective head for "Rich Kid Blues" for a bombastic slab of mock rock n' soul. In each of those cases (and more), viewers will find more and more reasons to love Jack White, Brendan Benson and The Raconteurs that were just never there before; while the other acts with which they are associated have never really helped to promote the members of The Raconteurs as great performers before, they come together in the most inspired ways here and effortlessly promote themselves and, by extension, this DVD as a show to see.
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