The mobile optimization of your website is an important aspect that should be done in the recent times. The most critical and beneficial reason for it is because it helps you target your site to the young generations like the millennial generation and the generation Z. Mobile is an essential aspect of the daily people's lives. Today for any person and almost every person, mobile devices have become a necessity. Having your website optimized to the mobile devices will help you in various ways. It will increase the overall time that is spent on the site. The maintenance cost of the site will be much lower, and that can come as a significant boon to the business.
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Faster Website Loading Speed – the mobile optimization will result in the quicker loading of the website pages. This will automatically rank you higher on the SERP. This is a beneficial aspect that you can gain from the mobile optimization of the website of your business.
Better Webmaster Tools Ranking – with the mobile optimization of your website, there will be a better ranking of your sites on the Webmaster tools like the Bing and Google platforms. These will in turn again help you have a better ranking through for enhanced SEO functions.
Lower Maintenance Costs – the costs of maintenance of the website also becomes much useful and balanced through the optimization of the website over the mobile devices. This can be a beneficial factor for the business as the saved capital can be better used for any other purposes, and the investment becomes more.
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These above ways are the benefits or advantages that mobile optimization of your website will have on you. They help your business in many different and dynamic ways. It also helps you engage with the users in a straightforward manner. The process of feedback mechanism is also robust, and that can also help the business to better their products and services.
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Juice It Up! franchisees are passionate about living healthy lifestyles and helping others do the same. That's why many of our customers eventually explore owning juice franchises: They love the difference Juice It Up! made in their lives and they want to spread the joy.
As business owners, they get to experience new benefits of being part of the Juice It Up! family. Our juice franchises use a proven business model that offers several advantages to entrepreneurs. Here's a look at some fundamentals that make Juice It Up! a great business to own.
Bowl, smoothie and juice margins are strong. While prices do vary on the fresh fruits and vegetables we use in our products, our experienced leadership team is able to form strong relationships with third-party vendors, negotiate for the lowest prices possible and pass the savings along to our franchisees.
Our small footprint also reduces commercial lease costs. Our juice and smoothie franchise fits neatly into the footprint of most inline real estate locations. This gives you maximum flexibility for choosing and negotiating locations. We've adjusted our minimum square footage on our latest store design, allowing Juice It Up! to fit into a location as small as 800 square feet (previously, our smallest locations were around 1,000 square feet at a minimum).
One of the great pluses to running a Juice It Up! franchise is that it's a happy business. You're not dealing with people fixing their cars or treating toothaches; you're working all day with people who are striving to live healthier, more vibrant lives.
A customer coming in for a smoothie bowl or a juice is already in a good mood because they're doing something good for themselves. And they're sure to leave even happier. Juice It Up! has a great vibe, and our team members are trained to help perpetuate an upbeat, fun working environment.
We provide nutritional guides for every item on our menu — not just calorie counts, but also a look at the macronutrients and micronutrients of the ingredients and how they can support various lifestyle goals. We make our nutritional expertise available to every member of your team, which allows them to support customers and win customer loyalty.
Speaking of staff, you'll be pleased to see how remarkably simple it is to manage a Juice It Up! compared to running a full-service restaurant. Training is easy. Since everything is fresh or frozen and no cooking is required, you don't have to train a chef. These factors mean you are able to hire entry-level workers, get them up to speed, and are likely to retain them for longer periods. Staffing needs are also minimal, keeping labor costs low.
Juice It Up! is still a medium-sized franchise, which creates two advantages. First, we have a lot of great territory available, with plenty of room for multi-unit franchisees to expand. Secondly, our leadership team is accessible and available for franchisees to tap.
Multi-unit owner Rasna Arora of Santa Clarita, CA, loves the ongoing support she can count on from Juice It Up!'s corporate headquarters. "Ever since I've been in this Juice It Up! franchise, any time I've asked for their help, the team will work on it. They'll give me all the materials that I can share on social media. Any time I have an operational issue, they're there," Arora says.
If you share our passion for healthy living, we invite you to fill out the form on this page. We'll send you a password for our proprietary Juice It Up! Franchise Information Center, which includes financial information, Q&As with longtime franchisees, tutorials for first-time franchise buyers and more. Meanwhile, please continue exploring our detailed research pages.


This man claims to be pro-life yet forced his mistress to have multiple abortions. He has no personal values, yet he can mock a little girl to charge his base.
Whether or not this is true what has it to do with him saying we have immigration laws that must be followed? Abortion is a totally separate issue. What he said about illegal immigration was the total truth.
He has no moral character and is obviously on his way out... So he made a classless answer in the face of a little girl to charge his extremist followers.
Disregard? He politely answered the question. Which laws should we disregard because the offender has children? Unlike the children who have parents sent to prison there are options here. Mom and child can move to the Fathers nation of origin.
Once again the law and law enforcement isn't the bad guy in this story. The bad guy is the illegal alien.
Disregard? He politely answered the question. Which laws should we disregard because the offender has children? Unlike the children who have parents sent to prison their are options here. Mom and child can move to the Fathers nation of origin.
get out of here... you flip-flip more than Romney tinman...I am not talking to you.
Keeping spinning the truth. It's fun to watch your desperation.
We will see when this guy is dissolved of his duty. The GOP is next.
What was classless about telling her the truth that we have immigration laws that must be abided by? What is extreme about desiring the enforcement of our immigration laws?
TACT ...look the word up.
He didn't ask about her personal situation, didn't care to address her story or ask about her mother. Nothing... he said what the Tennessee crowd wanted to hear.
Doesn't matter if he is or isn't. He still spoke the truth about illegal immigration and with civility. The GOP is next? You mean most Americans don't want our immigration laws respected and enforced? Really?
Who cares? Her father is an illegal and I'm glad he is being deported.


For two years now, (Professional Compounding Centers Of America) PCCA has been the proud sponsor of the Compounding Events (CEs) of several IPSF Regional Symposia and IPSF World Congresses. They have also sponsored several grants to IPSF member associations which helped them to organise their own CE in their country. IPSF is very grateful for this collaboration that helps to bring pharmacy students from around the world the chance to organise their own Compounding Event.
PCCA is an international company based in the USA which helps pharmacists and prescribers create personalized medicine that makes a difference in patients' lives. They are the complete resource for the independent compounding pharmacist, providing the highest-quality products, education and support. Their success comes from the success of their nearly 4,000 independent community pharmacists in the United States, Canada, Australia and other countries around the world.


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Fashion September 9, 2022
Exclusive: Fendi's Kim Jones Talks About Celebrating 25 Years of the Baguette with Marc Jacobs in New York
by Vogue Arabia
Sarah Jessica Parker who plays Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City with a Fendi Baguette. Photo: Instagram.com
"It's not a bag, it's a Baguette!" The memorable dialogue from Sex And The City has long been associated with Fendi's iconic arm candy designed by Silvia Venturini, which is turning 25 this month. To celebrate, the fashion house has traveled to New York, home to SATC's Carrie Bradshaw, to present an exciting collection by Kim Jones, Fendi's artistic director of womenswear. What's more, the collection is a joint effort between Jones and Marc Jacobs, that honors both the Baguette and Fendi.
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Ahead of the show on September 9, Jones spoke to Vogue Arabia exclusively about the show, the Baguette, and its relationship with the Big Apple.
Manuel Arnaut: It's like an army working here, it's exciting to see everyone.
Kim Jones: Yes, it's quite a lot of people. It's quite funny because we've got my cabin, and his [Marc Jacobs's] cabin working side by side, which is kind of like being in college again, since now you're working with another designer.
How did you decide to work with Marc Jacobs on this project?
The starting point is the true focus of Baguette. The Baguette became famous from Sex And The City, which is a New York show. So, the hype of it came in New York, and then I thought, 'Think big'. We'll do a collection, Marc [Jacobs] will design a collection and then get Tiffany & Co. to do some things as well, because I like the fact that Tiffany is uptown, Marc's is downtown. You know, New York for me was somewhere really exciting when I was young, and it's just capturing that energy… and we really looked at the point in time of when Baguette came out so stylistically we're looking at 1997, and that's when the point came from.
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When you started at Fendi did you gravitate towards the Baguette immediately, or it was just something that was part of the DNA?
It's one of the really strong bags, like when you hear the word 'Fendi', you instantly think of the Baguette. So, I thought it's just something to play around with and, it's just it's there, it's ever-present. It's funny because we have got so many Baguettes in this show, it's only Baguettes in those shapes and forms. Some looks have 12 Baguettes, so it probably gets a massive world record for the amount of bags in a fashion show. For the next show, we will probably show one Baguette.
What was it like to have Silvia Venturini also involved as a creator of the Baguette?
We worked directly with each other on everything. Silvia is a fountain of information and knowledge. I've worked for two houses, I've gone from Dior to Fendi which has a family there, an interesting way to work and think in different ways. So, we get on really well, we laugh a lot when we're working and it's just very straightforward.
It's amazing how she kind of lets go and allows other people to come in and evolve what she worked on before.
Well, I think the fact that they had Karl [Lagerfeld] there for 53 years, she grew up with having someone else there. So I'm lucky I've got the two generations of Fendis to talk to, and Delfina [Delettrez Fendi] is a real muse for me. It's how she wears her clothes and what she does, they inspire you.
Why do you think this bag is still not only a wardrobe staple, but also a pop culture phenomenon?
Clothes are quite emotional to lots of people, and I never really thought about how certain clothes make people feel good about themselves. I only realized that when I started at Dior and after years of working in the industry. So, I think people just fall in love with bags and items and pieces, you know, you gravitate towards them. It's a weird gravitational pull, but it's really practical and it's a bag that's really versatile, you can do lots of things to it.
Is there some sort of pressure you feel because it's a bag with 25 years of history, and so people will, of course, be looking very closely at whatever you are going to showcase? Do you feel that pressure?
No, not really. There are so many good people around me in this space. My main critique for me is always whether people will buy it. And if people like it, they buy it. And seeing people buying lots of Fendi is a nice thing, it means that you're doing your job properly.
Can you point out the looks from the show that you really like, and tell me why they're special?
I love Look 1, I love the mix of the fabrics, and there's a lot of different things going on there.
Fendi's latest show celebrating 25 years of the Baguette will take place today at New York Fashion Week.
Read Next: 10 Fashion Buys Inspired by Sex and the City 2

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The Cedar Park engineering department has scheduled traffic counts at the intersection of Nelson Ranch Road and Lakeline Blvd. for two days on Tuesday March 5th and Wednesday March 6th. The counts will be conducted by GRAM Traffic Counting Inc.
Residents can expect to see black tubes deployed during those two days near the intersection. The company will likely set up the tubes and counting equipment the day before, on the 4th, and pick them up on the 7th.
The data from the traffic counts will be used to determine whether or not the intersection meets State warrant criteria for a traffic signal. It will take approximately 30 days from the completion of the traffic counts to complete the analysis.
THANK YOU to all of the volunteers who put this event together! Santa in the Park is one of the most cherished events our community participates in each year and it wouldn't be possible without our neighbors giving their time to create a Santa wonderland.
Below are some of the pictures from the event. You can find even more on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/westsidehoa/. If you want a copy of your family or have other questions, please email president@westsidehoa.org.
It's that time of year again and Santa Claus is coming to Kay Redden Park! We are hosting a "Santa in the Park" event on Saturday, December 15th, 2018 for you and your family! We will have some great activities to enjoy including pictures with Santa, a petting zoo, smores, arts and crafts, and more! We will be helping out the Capital Area Food Bank with our canned food drive, so please remember to bring a can of food with you for a donation.
So put on those jingle bells and grab sleigh ride to meet Santa in the Park!
If you would like to volunteer to help with the event, please click here to sign up.
Come out and enjoy our Westside HOA Trunk or Treat Halloween Event on Sunday, 10/28/2018 starting at 4pm!
We are hosting our annual 4th of July Parade at Kay Redden Park for families and kiddos. Get ready to celebrate in patriotic splendor by decorating your wagons, bikes, scooters and baby strollers with red, white and blue and parading your awesome "wheels" around the neighborhood.


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Q: Is there a way to point a function/statement to itself? This isn't really a problem, more of just out of pure curiosity.
I am brand new to python and have seen that compared to C++ or Java, this language is really simple, and has a lot of shortcuts.
So is there a way to point something to itself? Let me clarify. For example, the following line:
line = line.lower()

Is there a way to not have the "line = " part? Is there a way to have the function/statement to modify itself and set it to the new value? My inspiration comes from the autofill text in pycharm that said
line.lower(self)

I doubt this is possible, but if anyone possibly knows a way, that would be pretty cool.

A: In-place operations are only possible for mutable objects like list. In Python, as in Java, strings are an immutable type. The operation line.lower() produces an entirely new and separate string object. Without the something = ... part, you would lose the reference to this new object, and line would happily go on being bound to the original uppercase string. If you reassign specifically to line rather than some other name, you will be rebinding that name to the new lowercased object. In CPython, that means that you will decrement the reference counter of the original line, and possibly garbage collect it.
That being said, there's nothing stopping you from writing a class that behaves as you want. It can be made mutable by maintaining an internal reference to a string. By implementing the correct dunder methods, you can simulate the entire interface of str. Here is a partial toy example to get you started:
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About NPA
RE-ESTABLISHING THE LOST CONNECTION
Nordic Youth Media Days
NYMD 2020 Handbook
See the online program here
NYMD postponed: See you in October
we ask:
How to stay relevant as a journalist?
It is old news that the media landscape has changed dramatically with the rise of the internet, and that editors at traditional media are firing staff due to decreasing sales. Trust in the work of journalists and media makers remain low, and at the same time other communicators such as citizen journalists, bloggers and debaters make their voices heard in the public debate.
Did journalists lose the connection to their audience? Which tasks can we say are especially journalistic and what contributions do they make - to democracy, transparency and public knowledge? At this seminar we come together to explore the changing role of the reporter through debates and practical workshops with case simulations.
6th - 11th of October 2020
During this year's seminar in Copenhagen, we delve into subjects such as; Storytelling and narrative techniques - fake information and objectivity – boundary work and the roles of other media makers - constructive reporting and communities - and much more!
This year's call for participants has been closed, and participants have been selected. Make sure to follow our channels to be notified of next year's call for participants.
Participation in Nordic Youth Media Days is all about media, new friends and Nordic exchange.
The seminar has already been held in Oslo, Helsinki, Stockholm and now for the second time in Copenhagen.
Deadline and process: Apply no later than 15. January by midnight. You will be notified on the result of your application by 5. February and then asked to confirm your participation, go over our info pack + book your train/flight tickets to and from Copenhagen.
Who?: Media makers and storytellers from Norway, Denmark, Finland and Sweden under the age of 30. We aim for diversity, and the program is open to everyone, who fulfills the age conditions. We select 10 participants from each country.
Expenses: Food, accommodation and transport during the seminar is all covered by Nordic Press Association funds. You will receive reimburse-ments for the tickets shortly after the seminar.
Expectations: We expect participants to come to the seminar with an open mind, a drive for discussion and a willingness to embrace diversity in both people and opinions. The point is to have constructive debates and learn from the process together. Therefore, it is important to go all in on the workshops, help your teammates and bring a positive attitude.
FAKE NEWS & SoMe VERIFICATION
+ Hands on workshop
GREAT NEW STORYTELLING
CONSTRUCTIVE & COMMUNITY BASED JOURNALISM
Henk Van Ess (read more)
Mr. Van Ess is a pioneer in web search and social media verification and is obsessed by finding stories in (big) data.
Member of the Bellingcat team and a Bellingcat workshop trainer. He is an assessor of Poynter's International Fact-Checking Network.
Jakob Fälling (read more)
Mr. Fälling considers drawning and storytelling as one of the many answers to the challenges in journalism.
Cand.scient.soc, freelance journalist and writer. Author to several books and writer for Euroman. See his journalistic illustrations on Instagram: @jakob.falling
Søren Schultz Jørgensen (read more)
Mr. Jørgensen has done tons of research in the media industry and recently narrowed down teen recommendations to make journalists stay relevant.
Journalist, media commentator and ph.d. in media sociology. Author of 'Den Journalistiske Forbindelse'.
Sweden (read more)
Engaged journalism is something the multinational media The Local has worked with. The editorial team behind the Swedish department, Emma Löfgren and Catherine Edwards, will give a presentation of the genre and their experience with engaged journalism under the covid-19 crisis.
Graversen (read more)
Ms. Graversen is examining how media can help both the marginalised neighborhoods and the surrounding society participate in a democratic constructive debate.
Journalist at Danish newspaper Berlingske and fellow at The Constructive Institute.
Katrine Pedersen (read more)
Ms. Pedersen is an expert in digital culture. She has her roots in Silicon Valley, and since 2012 she has written three books on the digital revolution, the human, the society, and the dark side of this development. Since 2017 she has led the teaching and dissemination-department of ARKEN Museum of Modern Art. In this talk she will focus on social media.
This year's debate
In this debate we will ask new communicators, how they use their voice to maintain a connection to an audience, about ethical dilemmas, social bobbles, and how they balance their subjectivity with objectivity. In the debate the following will participate:
Journalist Amalie Langballe, best known for her 2019-publication "Forsvindingsnumre" on loosing a relative and sorrow, where she uses her own experience.
Body- and fatactivist Tyrannosaurus_regs – also known as Regina – who is using Instagram to promote bodypositivism.
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Уильям д'Обиньи (; умер 1 февраля 1221 года в Италии) — английский аристократ, 3-й граф Арундел, сын Уильяма д'Обиньи, 2-го графа Арундела, и Мод де Сен-Хилар.

Биография
Уильям был единственным сыном своего отца и наследовал ему в 1193 году как граф Арундел. Во время восстания баронов против Джона Безземельного он остался верен королю и оставил свою подпись под Великой хартией вольностей в качестве одного из представителей монарха. Однако во время Первой баронской войны он перешел на сторону оппозиции.

В 1218 году вместе со своим шурином Ранульфом Честерским д'Обиньи отправился в крестовый поход и принял участие в осаде Дамиетты. Он умер на пути домой, не доехав до Рима. Тело графа Арундела было привезено в Англию и похоронено в аббатстве Вимондхем в Норфолке.

Семья
Третий граф Арундел был женат на Мабели, дочери Гуго Честерского. В этом браке родились:

 Ависа д'Обиньи (1196—1214); муж — Уильям де Моубрей
 Мод д'Обиньи (умерла после 1210); 1-й муж — Роберт де Татешаль; 2-й муж — Гилл Брайт, граф Стратерн
 Сесили д'Обиньи; муж — Роджер де Маго
 Колетт д'Обиньи (умерла после 1233)
 Уильям д'Обиньи, 4-й граф Арундел (около 1203—1224)
 Хью д'Обиньи, 5-й граф Арундел (около 1215—1243)
 Изабелла д'Обиньи; муж — Джон Фицалан, барон Освестри
 Николь д'Обиньи; муж — Роджер де Сомери
 Мабель д'Обиньи; муж — Роберт де Татешаль

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Impacto de los analgésicos en el crecimiento fetal de ratones.
» Impacto de los analgésicos en el crecimiento fetal de ratones.
Descripción: Alteración del crecimiento fetal con xilacina/ketamina, isoflurano, tribromoetanol, buprenorfina y meloxicam administrado en distintas fases de la gestación a ratonas.
Impact of anaesthetics and analgesics on fetal growth in the mouse.
Thaete LG, Levin SI, Dudley AT.
Common anaesthetic and analgesic agents used during pregnancy in mice have been observed to cause fetal growth restriction. We investigated the impact of therapeutic doses of three anaesthetics (ketamine/xylazine, isoflurane, and tribromoethanol) and two analgesics (buprenorphine and meloxicam) on fetal and placental growth.
Pregnant mice were treated with one of these agents at fertilization (E0), attachment (E4), beginning of organogenesis (E6), end of organogenesis (E12), or during the logarithmic growth phase (E15), or they were placed into an untreated control group. At term (E18), fetal and placental growth were evaluated, morphological analyses were performed, and skeletal measurements were conducted.
Fetal growth was reduced significantly (P < 0.01) by ketamine/xylazine treatment at E0, E4, E12, or E15, by isoflurane administered at E0 or E6, and by tribromoethanol administered at E6 or E12. Two-day treatment with buprenorphine beginning at E4 or E6, or with meloxicam at E0 also significantly reduced fetal growth (P < 0.01). Neither placental growth nor litter size was significantly affected by any of these agents. The occurrence of microphthalmia was nearly eight-fold higher (P < 0.05) in response to buprenorphine administration at E6 compared with controls. The length of the humerus was reduced at most gestation times in response to each of these agents and was correlated (P < 0.01) with fetal weight for ketamine/xylazine, tribromoethanol, and meloxicam.
These data reveal patterns of acceptable and detrimental anaesthetic and analgesic use during fetal development and have refined our capability to provide recommendations for the use of these agents during pregnancy in the mouse.


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Corps completes Broward County beach renourishment
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District completed final inspections recently on the Broward County Beach Erosion Control Project, which reconstructed approximately 5.1 miles of eroded shoreline.
The sand placement increases storm protection to upland development between the Hillsboro Inlet and Lauderdale by the Sea. A side benefit is that this sand renourishment also helps restore shorebird and marine turtle habitat. The work is in response to impacts from Hurricane Sandy's passage in 2012, and was 100% federally funded under the Flood Control and Coastal Emergency (FCCE) program.
Eastman Aggregate Enterprises, LLC of Lake Worth, Fla. started sand deliveries in early November, with crews placing approximately 126,700 cubic-yards of beach quality sand after trucking it from the E.R Jahan Ortona sand mine located in Moore Haven, Fla. An average of 130 trucks per day carried sand from the mine to the beach, each driver navigating two hours one-way to make a single delivery. The project required about 10,000 deliveries, which were all accident-free.
Corps Project Manager Cynthia Perez said the day-to-day operations were phenomenal and so was the community's involvement and cooperation. Some people went above and beyond to do the right stuff.
"One resident reported that people were rolling-out a sand dune in the project area. We coordinated with our contractor who had before-and-after beach construction photos, and sent them with a report to the Department of Environmental Protection policy compliance biologist for action," Perez said. DEP immediately began investigating the dune destruction. Dunes provide landward protection and animal habitat.
On another occasion, a Pompano Beach resident reported that sand wasn't placed in front of the Star Light Towers between the building and where residents had planted rows of sea grass to help protect the beach. The area contained a small walking path, but the contractor couldn't get vehicles through the area without destroying the vegetation.
The resident told Perez, "I'll yank the vegetation out if you want me to, as long as you deliver the sand." Perez requested that the area be inspected and quickly realized the low elevation between the towers and the vegetation would have a ponding-effect without the sand, which could potentially create an unsafe and unhealthy environment.
"I walked her through the DEP (Florida Department of Environmental Protection) permit process and within two days, DEP John 'Fritz' Wettstein reviewed and approved the vegetation's temporary removal. The next day after the vegetation was removed, Eastman went back to place several truck loads of sand. If our relationship with DEP and the contractor weren't so good, we couldn't have gotten this done so quickly," Perez said.
On another occasion, Eric Myers, Broward County Environmental Protection official, notified a resident that he had to move his catamaran from the beach so sand could be placed. Realizing the elderly man needed assistance, Myers along with Corps and Eastman employees relocated the catamaran off the beach. It was teamwork every step of the way, Perez said.
Jacksonville District is placing approximately 7.5 million cubic yards of sand on 38.5 miles of eroded beaches in Florida as part of the FCCE program.
susan.j.jackson@usace.army.mil
Release no. 14-014
renourishment


These are all beginners poses, but if you do have an injury or illness, or are in a wheelchair, then skip the ones you can't do and always seek advice before starting any exercise routine. If you are a complete beginner, it's a great idea to join a beginners' class, and if you are dealing with a particularly significant injury or illness, and would prefer private lessons, a yoga therapist is a great option to get you started. Certain classes, like restorative yoga, can often accommodate certain injuries, however, if, for example, you are in a wheelchair or largely immobile, a yoga therapist might be the best option.
Before we get to the physical asanas, let's look at one of the most important aspects of yoga – breath. There are lots of different pranayama (breath) techniques in yoga, with the most common being ujjayi, which is the one practiced during asanas and sequences. Ujjayi, which means 'victorious', is designed to be energizing and relaxing at the same time when practiced correctly. It should be long and smooth, and sounds like rolling ocean waves. This is accomplished by slightly constricting the throat, creating a subtle resistance to the passage of air. From there, you gently inhale the air, as if you are drawing it all the way into the bottom of your belly, and then gently pushing it out on an exhalation. The inhale and exhale should be the same or similar lengths and will ensure you oxygenate your whole body, instead of taking those shallow breaths that become common as we age, become busy and deal with everyday stress. Don't expect to have the perfect ujjayi breath on your first try – it takes time, and takes even longer to get used to practicing it during an asana sequence. Just keep practicing!
This is a fantastic little sequence that releases, warms up and lubricates the joints. You can either practice in a seated position, like in the video, or modify it as you need to. For example, if you are in a wheelchair (and have been given the all-clear by your doctor to practice the joint release series), you can do it sitting in the chair or even do what you can lying down.
This pose looks like you are just standing there, but there is actually a lot more going on than that. It is a very powerful pose that, when done correctly, can be grounding an energizing at the same time. To begin with, just get comfortable and stand up straight and tall. Roll your shoulders back and down and then let them relax into place. Allow your big toes to touch, with about an inch of space between your heels. Slightly tilt your tailbone down to lengthen the spine, and similarly, very subtly tuck your chin in to lengthen the top of the spine and the back of the neck. You will notice your abdominal muscles automatically become engaged when you elongate your spine. Lightly engage your thighs, lifting the knee caps and then practice a few rounds of ujjayi breath.
From mountain pose, bend forward with a flat back on an exhale, bending from the hips and leading with the heart (don't curl forward with the shoulders, compressing your chest). Slightly bend your knees to begin with, especially if you haven't warmed up, and focus on lengthening the front of the torso as you are folding forward. Depending on your natural flexibility, your hands might reach your thighs, shins, or the mat. If you can straighten your legs, then do so, but don't force it if it is painful. Once you have reached down to the point you are going to hold, you can relax a little more, lengthening the back. If you can't reach the mat or hold the backs of your ankles, then cross your forearms and hold your elbows. Your heels should be pressing firmly into the mat, with your seat bones lifting towards the ceiling. Try to relax in this pose as much as possible, noticing the release and stretch along the spine.
From forward bend, take your right leg back as far as possible, bending the left knee. Place the right knee down and place the fingers or palms down on the mat either side of your left foot. Open the chest and look forward or up. If you feel comfortable enough to release your hands from the mat, draw them up on an inhale, opening the chest even more and take a slight back bend if it feels good to do so. Hold for three to five breaths. Make sure you can feel a stretch at the top front of the right thigh and around the psoas muscle. Repeat with the left leg back for the same amount of breaths.
This one takes a bit of strength and if you are particularly unfit or recovering from an illness, you might find it difficult, and need to add it to your practice later on. If you are a beginner with no injuries or illness, however, then you can practice it straight away. From either equestrian pose or forward bend, step one foot back and then the others, standing on the balls of your feet and your hands with your heels pushing towards the back of the room. Make sure your wrists are directly underneath your shoulders and your back is straight. Don't let your buttocks drop down or lift up. To ensure you are straight, tighten your core and thigh muscles and make sure your buttocks is not pointing upwards. Breathe and hold this pose for a few breaths, increasing the time you hold it as you practice and gain more strength. If you have weak or injured wrists, you can practice plank pose on your forearms instead of your hands.
From plank pose, gently lower your knees to the ground and slowly lower your torso to the mat, keeping your elbows in by your sides. If you are skipping plank pose, start by lying on your belly. Release your feet so that the tops are on the mat and stretch your legs back. Place your hands, fingers spread, on the mat underneath your shoulders. Keeping your elbows by your sides, press the tops of your feet and thighs firmly into the mat, and, as you inhale, begin straightening your arms and lifting your chest off the floor. Move slowly and move to a height that is comfortable for your lower back – your elbows can be bent or straight. Keep your buttocks firm, but not completely hard and lift your pubis towards your naval. Release your shoulders back and down, away from your ears, but don't push your ribs forward too much, because this will put excess strain on the lower back. Ensure you are distributing the backbend evenly along the whole spine, not collapsing into the lower back. Take a few breaths here.
This is arguably the most important yoga asana in a sequence – especially in flow classes like vinyasa. From cobra pose, curl your toes underneath, keeping your palms firmly pressed into the mat with your fingers spread. As you exhale, lift your knees away from the floor, keeping them slightly bend with the heels off the mat. Lengthen your tailbone away from the back of your pelvis and lift your seat bones towards the ceiling. Push away from the mat with your hands, keeping your back straight and lifting your thighs up and back, pressing your heels towards the floor, but don't worry about getting them to reach or straightening your knees as a beginner. Downward facing dog takes a lot of practice to get right. The main thing to begin with is getting the upper body into the correct position. Firm the outer arms and widen shoulderblades to flatten your upper back, drawing them towards your tailbone. Keep your head between your arms, looking back towards your legs, but don't let your head and neck hang down.
Inversions are important parts of yoga. This is a very basic inversion that anyone can do, and doubles as a restorative pose. It relaxes the body, stretches the back, reverses blood flow from your feet and therefore gives your heart a rest. You can practice this pose against any flat or smooth wall. To move into this pose, sit sideways next to the wall. Slightly lift the glute closest to the wall up against it a little and then slowly and gently lift your legs up against the wall and lay your back on the floor. Don't worry if you aren't perfectly against the wall, or if your legs are a little bent at the knees – again this all takes time. Release your arms to either side of your body with your palms facing up and close your eyes. Check in with yourself to see if you are holding any tension – especially around the shoulders, back or neck, and if you are, use your exhales to release it. Relax in this pose for at least a couple of minutes, noticing your feet becoming light.
This is another wonderful restorative pose that twists the spine, making it more comfortable for you to relax into corpse pose. It also releases any tension that may be left in the lower back or hips. Twisting poses like this are also great for digestion. Start on your back and bend your right knee on an inhale. Spread your arms out to either side, palms facing down. On an exhale, gently drop your bend knee to the left, twisting from the hips and spine. Keep both shoulders on the mat and turn your gaze towards the right. You should feel a deep stretch around your right hip and glute and around your spine, while your chest should feel nice and open. Stay in this pose for at least 10 breaths and then repeat in the other direction.
If you feel that you are able to turn some of these poses into a sequence, surya namaskar, or, sun salutations, are a great place to start, and are particularly beneficial in the mornings to wake up the body and kick-start digestion, metabolism, lymphatic movement, circulation and flexibility.
Always finish your yoga practice with restorative poses and relaxation. Relax in either corpse pose or meditate in easy pose (sitting cross-legged), allowing yourself some stillness and quiet in the mind.


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World Long Drive Association Season Continues with "Ak-Chin Smash in the Sun," Tuesday, May 15 at 8 p.m. ET
By Golf Channel Public Relations
New Event Outside of Phoenix to Feature Open & Women's Divisions Airing Live in Primetime from Ak-Chin Indian Community in Maricopa, Ariz.
Field Features 29 of Top-30 in Open Division World Long Drive Rankings, Along with Sandra Carlborg, Alexis Belton in the Women's Division
Following last month's first televised World Long Drive Association (WLDA) event of 2018 at the Clash in the Canyonin Mesquite, Nev., the season continues next week at the Ak-Chin Smash in the Sun. The inaugural event will be staged within the Ak-Chin Indian Community adjacent to the UltraStar Multi-tainment Center at Ak-Chin Circle in Maricopa, Ariz.
The eventwill feature a 36-man field competing in the Open Division based on World Long Drive rankings, which will include 29 of the top-30 in the current rankings, along with a Women's Division field of 18 competitors, led by five-time – and defending – World champion Sandra Carlborg (Alingsas, Sweden) along with Alexis Belton (Ruston, La.), winner of last month's Clash in the Canyon. World No. 1 – and runner-up at the Clash in the Canyon – Justin James (Jacksonville, Fla.) leads the field in the Open Division, along with 2018 winners to-date, Will Hogue (Memphis, Tenn., Clash in the Canyon) and Justin Moose (Columbia, S.C., East Coast Classic).
COVERAGE: Live coverage of the Ak-Chin Smash in the Sun will air in primetime on Golf Channel from 8-10 p.m. ET on Tuesday, May 15, with Golf Centralpreviewing the event from 7-8 p.m. ET. An encore telecast is scheduled to air on Golf Channel from 10 p.m.-Midnight ET.
The production centering around live coverage of the competition will utilize six dedicated cameras, capturing all angles from the hitting platform and the landing grid, including a SuperMo camera as well as two craned-positioned cameras that will track the ball in flight once it leaves the competitor's clubface. New to 2018 is an overlaid graphic line on the grid, the "DXL Big Drive to Beat," (similar to the "1st & 10 line" made popular in football) displaying the longest drive during a given match to signify the driving distance an opposing competitor will need to surpass to take the lead. The telecast also will feature a custom graphics package suited to the anomalous swing data typically generated by Long Drive competitors, tracking club speed, ball speed and apex in real-time via Trackman. Trackman technology also will provide viewers with a sense of ball flight, tracing the arc of each drive from the moment of impact.
Morning Drive and Golf Central also will prepare viewers for the Ak-Chin Smash in the Sun through interviews and dedicated segments featuring competitors on-site in Maricopa.
OPEN DIVISION FIELD (in order of World Long Drive ranking): Justin James, Ryan Reisbeck, Maurice Allen, Will Hogue, Tim Burke, Trent Scruggs, Ryan Steenberg, Mitch Grassing, Paul Howell, Landon Gentry, Glenn Wilson Jr., Justin Moose, Kyle Berkshire, Tommy Hug, Nick Kiefer, Kevin Shook, Jason Eslinger, Troy Teal, Steve Monroe, Brady Torbitt, Jeff Gavin, Eddie Fernandes, Jeremy Easterly, Dan McIntosh, Scott Kalamar, Spencer McDaniel, Jim Waldron, Stephen Kois, Patrick Hopper, Josh Cassaday, Press LaBrie, Jeff Crittenden, Jeff Flagg, Mitch Dobbyn, Wes Patterson and Bryan Kelly.
WOMEN'S DIVISION FIELD: Hollie Bartsch, Alexis Belton, Monica Borowicz, Sandra Carlborg, Mary Driscol, Cierra Gaytan, Erin Hess, Jana Jones, Heather Manfredda, Phillis Meti, Rachel Miller, Troy Mullins, Debbie Peever, Alex Phillips, Erin Shireman, Haley Vandenberg, Lisa Vlooswyk and Katherine Wills.
FORMAT: The Open Division field will consist of 36 men broken into four "pods" of nine competitors across four three-minute sets of eight balls each, with a points system being used to identify four from each pod advancing to the Round of 16. From there, five sets of eight balls will determine the eight competitors advancing to take part in the single elimination match play bracket during the live telecast on Golf Channel. The Women's Division will feature 18 competitors broken into two groups of nine taking part in four sets of eight balls. The top four point-earners from each pod will advance to the single-elimination match play competition beginning with the quarterfinals, with the winners moving on to the semifinals which will play out on Tuesday night's telecast.
BROADCAST TEAM: A new voice to World Long Drive, veteran sports broadcaster Jonathan Coachman will conduct play-by-play at each of the five WLDA televised events on Golf Channel in 2018.Art Sellinger – World Long Drive pioneer and two-time World champion – will provide analysis, and Golf Channel's Jerry Foltz will offer reports from the teeing platform and conduct interviews with competitors in the field.
2018 VOLVIK WLD CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFYING & MASTERS DIVISION: As part of the event, the WLDA will stage preliminary and final qualifying for the Open Division on Friday-Saturday, May 11-12, which will award six exemptions into the 2018 Volvik World Long Drive Championship field later this year. Also taking place on Saturday, May 12 will be a Masters Division (ages 45+) competition, with a field of 16 that includes several past World Long Drive champions (Open & Masters Division). The Masters Division format will feature a points system, with each competitor completing five sets of eight balls. The top eight will advance to the single-elimination, match play head-to-head quarterfinals, semifinals and finals.
MASTERS DIVISION FIELD: Don Beck, Kevin Blenkhorn, Jeff Crittenden, Pat Dempsey, Eddie Fernandes, Jeff Gavin, Chris Hall, Kevin Hughes, Dan Lambert, Brian Lawler, Brian Pavlet, Tom Peppard, Bobby Peterson, Lance Reader, Roy Studley.
DIGITAL & SOCIAL MEDIA COVERAGE: Fans can stay up-to-date on all of the action surrounding the Ak-Chin Smash in the Sun by following @GolfChannel and @WorldLongDrive on social media. Golf Channel social media host Alexandra O'Laughlin will be on-site contributing to the social conversation as the event unfolds, and, the telecast will integrate social media-generated content during live coverage on Tuesday, May 15 using the hashtag, #WorldLongDrive.
In addition to the latest video and highlights from on-site, WorldLongDrive.com will feature real-time scoring for the duration of the event, May 11-15. Golf Channel Digital also will feature content from the Ak-Chin Smash in the Sun leading up to and immediately following the live telecast.
2018 WORLD LONG DRIVE ASSOCIATION SCHEDULE:
East Coast Classic
West Columbia, S.C.
Clash in the Canyon (*Golf Channel*)
Mesquite, Nev.
Ak-Chin Smash in the Sun (*Golf Channel*)
Maricopa, Ariz.
Atlantic City Boardwalk Bash (*Golf Channel*)
Atlantic City, N.J.
Bluff City Shootout
Memphis, Tenn.
Bash For Cash
Port Robinson, Ont., Canada
WinStar Midwest Slam
Thackerville, Okla.
Tennessee Big Shots benefitting Niswonger Children's Hospital (*Golf Channel*)
Kingsport, Tenn.
September 1-5
Volvik World Long Drive Championship (*Golf Channel*)
Showcasing the truly global nature of World Long Drive, several events will be staged in 2018 through officially sanctioned WLDA international partners, including stops in Germany, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa and the United Kingdom. Additionally, an all-encompassing international qualifier will be staged (late summer) featuring a minimum of four exemptions into the Open Division of the Volvik World Long Drive Championship in September.
Brooks to Bryson: I'm 2 majors shy of a 6-pack
BY Nick Menta
Gainey takes KFT opener for first win since '12
BY Will Gray
Phil: Play Champs when 'I stop hitting bombs'
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Q: Upgrading OpenSSL in CentOS 5.3 I want to use one IP to host many domains with individual SSL certificates (requires SNI). In CentOS 5.3, the latest version of OpenSSL I can find an RPM for is 0.9.8e, which does not support SNI.
I want to upgrade to 0.9.8k but I can't find an RPM. I could compile from source, but if I try to remove the existing OpenSSL package through yum, it wants me to remove all packages that depend on OpenSSL (100+ packages).
EDIT: I ended up installing 0.9.8k without overwriting the previous version. Now I both avoid breaking dependencies and can use SNI. Was this the best action?

A: If you've simply over-written the rpm-provided files you may have... some pain later on; at the very least it's misleading for anyone who looks at the system.
In your position I'd do one of two things:
1/ Download the srpm for Centos, do an rpm -i openssl-whatever.srpm
Edit the /usr/src/redhat/SPEC/openssl.spec file to update the version and source file to the version of openssl you want to build.
Do an rpmbuild -ba /usr/src/redhat/SPEC/openssl.spec to build a newer version of the RPM.  If all goes well you'll end up with some shiny new RPMs in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/$arch and you can just drop them in.
or
2/ Nab the openssl srpm from a newer release (such as Fedora 12), and do an rpmbuild --rebuild openssl-whatever.srpm
Again, all going well you'll get some RPMs, although this is probably less reliable (in the sense that the ABI and dependencies may have changed from RHEL 5 to Fedora 12, for example).

A: The best action is probably to compile OpenSSL 0.9.8k targeted to another directory, /usr/local or /opt, then compiling an appropriate version of Apache against that new OpenSSL rather than the one provided by the system. Unfortunately you'd lose the convenience of being able to upgrade via RPM, but it would give you the capability without causing problems with the other 100+ applications which depend on the current CentOS version of OpenSSL.

A: How did you end up installing the new version?  As long as your applications didn't break and they know the path the new version of SSL you installed it should be fine.

A: This is an old answer.
But there are a lot of people still running RHEL 5 / CentOS 5 for several reasons. Unfortunately RHEL 5 is out of support and additionally there was never a package with OpenSSL >= 1 for RHEL 5.
If you don't have any concerns about using a foreign repo then you can use "tuxad repo". It provides a different and more easy way to update OpenSSL of RHEL 5 to the one of RHEL 6 (which is still supported):

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*Install tuxad repo for RHEL 5: rpm -i http://www.tuxad.de/repo/5/tuxad.rpm

*Update packages: yum update

More details can be found here:
www.tuxad.de/blog/archives/2014/11/19/openssl_updatesenhancements_for_rhel__centos_5
www.tuxad.de/blog/archives/2018/07/21/tuxad_rh5_repo_now_with_phpopenssl1
This repo contains several packages which are rebuild against OpenSSL 1:

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*httpd (also include other enhancements like ECDH support)

*postfix

*dovecot

*curl

*lynx

*mutt

*vsftpd

*w3m

*wget

*php

*php from RHEL 6 backported (in separate repo "tuxad-php")


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The link between academia & industry is a broken one, not just in India but across the world. In fact, it never was built consciously in the first place, not even in the developed nations over the past many decades. Hugely inter-dependent and evolved sub-systems can surely be seen as in Boston/Massachusetts, California, Tel Aviv, Seoul, Tokyo, Beijing, Bengaluru, etc. However, those are mostly specific to an activity or two, such as innovation or start-up funding etc. These, in addition, have been cases of gradual evolution than an outcome-by-design.
Supply of young talent, nex-gen start-ups, cost-effective infra for research, development & training and high quality researchers are some of the riches that are available inside the academic institutions while the funds, demand for talent and innovation, cutting-edge knowledge relevant for new courses and an ability to commercialize knowledge are in abundance on the industry side.
Given these strong inter-dependencies, one would expect that a slew of collaborative activities such as student placements, industry internships, new course updation or launches, innovation collaboration, research funding, start-up conversations in a seamless and abundant manner, etc. However it does surprise why no one has been able to build a platform play for such a strong and potent opportunity. A bit of deeper thinking, conversations with stakeholders and on-ground observations throw up some interesting cause-effect debate.
Unlike in India, there is no real concept of campus placements in the US in that formal a way. Most of the heavy lifting is done by the students themselves with facilities and pointers available institutionally in various forms. Such a strong need or activity could have given birth to a start-up that could have gone on to scale it using technology over the past decades, much like other tech-giants of today.
Let me read the tea leaves and think aloud on what is likely to shape up in our own future!
In the current form, most assessment companies focus only on assessments. Only 5-15 percent of the aspirants get placed as they are seen as good enough by the recruiters. The rest of the aspirants are left to their fate even as the recruiters return empty handed and perpetuate the truth that there is no hire-worthy talent.
In such a context, adding booster training modules to help aspirants prepare for the tests is as critical as aspirants preparing for GATE, CAT, GMAT kind of programs. Training partnerships are beginning to emerge between assessments and training companies to make this happen.
The new world order in academia-industry collaboration will be aided by three other critical shifts over the next few years.
The time has come. This is one place where the world is truly and undeniably flat. Indian, Chinese, Korean and American markets are all discovering this compelling need at the same time. Some others are well underway in their journey of discovery. Most will follow suit. The success of AWS and the waking up of all the tech-giants including Microsoft, IBM, Apple, Google etc. will make this a hotly pursued sector. During the process, Ux-SAAS becoming a reality is something I would punt on. Some exciting pilots are underway across the globe. Coursera, Udacity, Udemy, 361DM, ed-Cast, etc. are having a go at it in their own ways. A couple of them or who knows, even someone else, as yet unknown, will emerge a winner here.
Democratised open innovation platforms that help students, researchers, founders, corporates etc. to collaborate seamlessly by staying in their respective places across the globe is the third disruptive movement whose time has come. WAIN-Connect, arguably, is the only platform doing this in a scaleable way with over 80,000 innovators, corporates, funders and mentors live today. Some parts of this effrt is being aided by initiatives such as start-up bootcamp (9 global locations), Y-combinator, TIE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) etc. But the end-to-end seamless tech-driven open collaboration is missing.
If one contrasts that with India, every higher education institution is measured hugely by her ability to deliver jobs as a part of her "campus placement" outcomes. The IITs, IIMs, NITs and other leading tech-institutes and b-schools lead this massive effort. Hence you also find some start-ups and other linked services such as e-litmus, co-cubes, aspiring minds, formistry, Tata-ion have taken birth over the past decade. Tata-ion is emerging as a compelling leader with the resources of TCS available to invest and scale. Ion NQT test has had over 280,000 test takers in 2018. That was about 150 percent higher than in 2017. Upon aggregation, if this number scales a million, it should surprise none of us.
If played right and across industry verticals, the branded NQT might become ubiquitous, not just in India but across countries around the globe. It could disrupt many micro-testing exercises that are sub-scale for many years now.
With a million jobs and more on offer in the IT and related sector alone and an equally large need from the other sectors such as auto, finance, consumer, infrastructure etc., India is likely to build out a world beating solution that will be a global highway between the institutions and the industry.
U-on-Cloud, Student skills training, placements and research/innovation collaboration are the four legs upon which the nex-gen higher education universities will be built over the coming decade. Over a hundred nations where the GER and university systems are fledgling will partner with a scaled-up movement such as this and leapfrog into the 21st century higher education architecture. This story will play out similar to the landline-mobile or bank-mBank generational change which played over the past decade at a blink-you-miss speed. Africa, Central Asia, Asia and Lat-Am will be the greatest beneficiaries from the game-changing innovation that is underway.
Stay cued in and watch the play.
The year 2017-18 started with our getting listed on March 31, 2017. Needless to say, this was—and will remain—one of the most cherished milestones for all of us at CL Educate. The team had toiled long and hard to cross this milestone that is a fantasy for any entrepreneur or founding group.
A new phase of entrepreneurship: 'A public start-up', referring to CL being listed while having the enthusiasm and energy of a start-up, is how I see the year gone by.
The end of life as a private-company entrepreneur also marked the beginning of a new chapter in our lives. As they say, you need to die to go to heaven. In a similar way, if we need to get to the nirvana of a large and respected listed company, we needed to go through the journey of the past one year.
During that period, the attributes, parameters, way to view the business have changed significantly in my mind. In many ways, we are getting healthier and stronger by the day. The focus on asset-lightness, ROCE, growth, etc., is of a different order now. Yet, we also are very mindful of the fact that in education, it is a medium- to long-term business. India continues to present a very significant opportunity for an education-services player, who has some of the above-mentioned attributes. I sincerely look forward to this challenging journey as a listed entity to make it a rewarding one for all, including the shareholders.
Together, GATE, CA, and Civil services add up to a market size of almost 2.0-2.5 million aspirants. The current mainstays of CL test-prep (MBA and Law), in comparison, add up to a market size of 250,000 (or 0.25 million). That's one big rock we have moved in the past year.
Post IPO, we added three significantly large segments of test-prep, including GATE (ICEGATE), CA, and IAS (ETEN). These acquisitions occurred at various points during the past year. The business and culture integrations on the ground, optimization of costs, including that of manpower, technology, and Go to Market, etc., have taken longer than what we had planned for.
The ETEN business has now been consolidated under the common Network Business Head; and all redundancies removed. We are also moving towards adoption of newer technologies, thus reducing bandwidth requirements and costs. With operations and network attrition having stabilized, and a rationalized operating structure in place by integrating the existing network and ETEN network under a common Business Head, we are looking towards cost rationalization, too.
On an annualized basis, these acquired businesses have aggregated to about INR 20 crore of revenues in 2017-18, of which only about INR 10 crore has accrued to CL (timing of the deal and minority adjusted). On the other hand, all the investments have happened as envisaged, whose benefits are likely to be visible over FY2019. In short, the above-mentioned test-prep acquisitions were in investment phase in three significantly large market segments. If executed well, these could turn into net cash-generating products in a year. At worst, two.
Over a three-year perspective, these three have the potential to overtake the revenue contribution by MBA and Law. More interesting ways of bulking of revenues and profits are a distinct possibility in the super-fragmented market that test-prep is.
We increased our stake in Accendere from 51% to 100%, invested in tech backbone, and taken this research collaboration platform to about 35,000 innovators now sourced from over 100 universities and a dozen corporates. The version2.0 of wainconnect platform was launched. This platform has already begun to contribute to margins. The growth of wainconnect will add a significant business size, as well as not-easy-to-replicate moat around our business. The implementation of National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) by the Government in 2016 has added a compelling factor into the behavior of colleges and universities. This business adds to our reach into the universities even for the core business.
The institutional and corporate business is looking more and more robust with continuous expansion of the client/customer base, and addition of many 1st time large & strategic customers. Our continuous endeavor for the past few years, of making investments in creating new technology products and owned IP property, has now started paying off. During the last year, we created two new properties: (i) Inquizitive Minds — one of the largest quiz shows in the country, with a reach to over 1000 schools and colleges; and (ii) Melting Pot. We continuously work towards enhancing our customer base and product offering to enable a robust and profitable growth over the next couple of years. For corporate business, we have expanded to 2 more international geographies, with opening of offices in Dubai and the US.
India's GDP is expected to double from US$ 2.5 trillion in 2018 to US$ 5 trillion in 2025; and per capita income would move from about US$ 1900 per person to about US$ 3600 per person. With such a dramatic increase in income, the disposable income for a large segment of the population would rise even more significantly; resulting in far greater spend on education and education-related services.
Consumption of educational, or test-prep, services will continue to rise in the light of more disposable incomes across various strata of the socio-economic pyramid. This spans both urban and rural geographies. The fact that education is culturally valued is an added sweetener for a consumer-driven company like CL.
In June 2018, India had an internet penetration of about 500 million people, out of which about 60% was claimed to be broadband with 3G or 4G connectivity. The number is expected to rise to about 830 million people with internet access by 2021; with a larger proportion of population being on 4G by 2021, and some selected population even on 5G.
In such a scenario, the ability to launch a program and take it to the consumers in different formats (at CL centers and into homes and mobile devices) becomes an easier proposition. These two segments (@center and @home/devices) are independent customer segments; and CL will stay focused on catering to both these groups with equal vigor and customization.
Newer courses, newer careers, newer exams, emerging professional certifications which may be termed continuous education/skill upgradation are all white spaces that will see sustained action over the next few years; as India grapples with challenges, such as, employability for the youth and continued employability of professionals. This is an opportunity for CL Educate by staying close to her knitting or strengths namely (i) understanding of subjects/exam patterns, (ii) pedagogy, (iii) delivery (physical and digital), and (iv) data analytics for better outcomes.
In sum, I would urge you to look at China as an economy, and the emergence of giants in education, such as New Oriental, TAL Education, VIPKID, etc., over the past decade. My belief is that India will also see the rise of such successful listed education-services companies over the coming 5-7 years. That might be a long perspective for a short-term investor. However, for a company like CL, that's the perspective that weighs heavily on my mind, when I am taking decisions on a day-to-day basis. At the same time, we are absolutely mindful that we need to win the battle every year to be able to see our progress to such heights.
India juggernaut pushes forward: 2018 is the year India's GDP overtakes France and UK in dollar terms. These are just the early tidings. Over the next decade, it would be a true juggernaut. The focus on education by every mother in India has been its secret weapon.
In 2018, I expect policy leaders to invest more in education. Currently, we are struggling at a poor 3 percent with an even poorer ability to implement in an incorruptible way. Yet, the Indian juggernaut moves on.
Startup, youth and innovation take centre stage: The shift in the youth mindset is tectonic. There was an era when going to a top university or getting a US green card was the biggest dream. This was as recently as 20 years ago. Today, the youth aspires to do its own thing. Many will succeed. Most will fail. But, as a nation and a society, we will be in a much better place where endeavour is celebrated more than entitlement.
2018 promises to make entrepreneurship a more central theme. NITI Aayog and the babus there are not the old era babus anymore. Everyone understands the importance of innovation and the power they hold to offer momentum to it.
NIRF-fired university action: 2018 promises to be a watershed year in the history of research and innovation by universities. One of the most under-celebrated successes of this nation is the implementation of NIRF (National Institutional Ranking Framework) that attaches weightage to the outcomes (rather than inputs) while ranking any university. Research outcomes and graduate outcomes make almost 60 percent of the ranking weightage.
Government policies linking attractive incentives to outcome-driven performance by universities is propelling the IITs, IIMs, central and state universities to wake up and run. This is going to be a huge enabler for India.
Politics will heat up: As we enter the second half of 2018, I expect significant realignments in alliances as well as policies. After the massive mandate, the inevitable pressure of "not done enough" will mount. The proverbial sacrificial lambs will happen. Token or real new heroes will get erected through reshuffles at the Centre. A bold move or two will be taken and projected in a big way. The opponents will, needless to say, latch on to every move with uber-critical view. We need to preserve our democracy and put the fear of performance in the minds of every politician regardless of his or her hue.
Sports and Bollywood more global: Will Julia Roberts and Richard Gere star in the next Baghbaan? Will Kohli & Co stay on top in the next 18 months of overseas tours? How will India's Olympic preparations progress? Where will IPL's market cap be? All of these, again, are manifestations of the coming of age of India. 2018 will push lots of these pieces forward with excitement and also bring in ample doses of disappointments. But the India narrative will gather more mass.
Conclusion: Lots of orbit changing successes are expected to come our way in diverse fields as we move forward. But, I expect you to build a healthy appetite for failures just as a sportsperson does.
While I hope, I don't expect disruptive entrepreneurship policy to happen in 2018 or any big-bang policy changes. Will India abolish income tax? Will the Budget 2018 announce 6 percent on education spend? I dearly wish, though unlikely. It might be a continued case of incremental innovation than disruption in 2018. Let's see.
Please note: The above article has been published on Business World, 4th January 2018.
Very early on in our entrepreneurship journey, about 15-16 years back, we sat down to define our raison d'être – aka – to outline our core purpose. After many years of being on the ground and post a few weeks of reflective sessions, our core purpose was clear: "Enabling youth to realise their potential and help their dreams come true". I am glad to see that this has not changed in the last decade and a half. Every single action by 1000s of CL-ites every day is aligned to this purpose.
Along with the sacrosanct core purpose, our core values – ROOHI – Risk Taking, Openness, Ownership, Honesty & Commitment and Innovation continue to hold us in good stead.
The only unchanging aspect of our business is our purpose and our core values. This has remained a magical potion of entrepreneurship for me.
Even as we wish to become a role model company for entrepreneurs, we have focused on learning valuable lessons by tracking some of our role model companies including HDFC, Infy, Google and GE, to name a few. As you know, GE has entered-exited-bought-sold over a 100 businesses since inception, to be good enough to celebrate 125 years of entrepreneurial journey this year. HDFC and Infy are closer-to-home role models that have attained leadership, high governance and high stakeholder returns. As a consumer brand, we would love to emulate FMCG companies in 3-5 years' time on the ROE parameter.
In short, we would like to emerge a winner as we move into the next phase of our journey.
We cater to the career and life dreams of young adults and youth in every family – from the bottom of the pyramid to the top high net worth families. Each product has its own seasonality. At an aggregate level, we have smoothened this out through product diversification.
Many new opportunities arise when the admissions or recruitment criteria change or when new careers take birth or gather mass and momentum. For example: MBA in early 2000s, Law for the last 5 years, Banking and PSU in the last couple of years and so on.
There is a term in CL called 'exam year' as a parallel to 'calendar-year' or 'financial-year'. We track our business on exam-year basis not just on a monthly basis or a quarterly basis. That is, CAT 2017 and CAT 2018 can be sold in a month and they move at different rhythms. In that sense, this is not strictly a Q-on-Q driven business.
Examinations, festivals, elections, etc. affect our business calendar more often than not. For instance, even as I write this note, the class XII board exams are underway. The CBSE exams finish this year (due to Elections in UP, Punjab, Goa etc.) only by the third week of April (unlike March every year). All the crash programs admissions for entrance examinations like Law, HM, BBA, IPM(IIM-Indore) move into April as parents like their children to focus on XII Board exams before shifting their attention to the entrance exam crash courses. Similarly, new batch launches for various exams are linked to the announcements of exams, PSU / Bank vacancy exams, and so on. Shifts of revenues by 30-60 days is quite normal.
Headwinds and tailwinds are integral to every flight. We believe we have learnt the art of making the tailwinds count even as we have withstood and beaten the industry performance during headwinds. For instance, our MBA tailwinds led growth was a 25X (2002-7), Law has grown a 100X (2004-2015) and enterprise business has grown 10X since 2009. On the other hand, when MBA headwinds played havoc (2008-2013) with most players, we managed to still grow 5X as a company due to our proactive diversification strategy.
In a curious way, CL Educate is an entrepreneurial eco-system that thrives on the energy, creativity and ownership of young entrepreneurs. The core business is built on the franchisee model (biz partner, in our parlance) which drives CL in over 100 locations. The core team focuses on R&D, technology, academics, brand, biz planning and reviews. The entrepreneurs drive their business to the best of their judgement with full focus on customer acquisition and deliver delightful fulfillment.
At the same time, CL Educate also has looked at new verticals by acquiring new start-ups by young, dynamic and creative entrepreneurs. Our entry into newer businesses through acquisitions of hidden pearls is now an acknowledged part of testprep industry in India.
I would like to move from CL Business101 to sharing some perspectives on how we plan to bring growth at CL.
The singular growth mantra will be to focus on knowledge/career services that have these attributes. We think there is a terrific future for these services. Organic, as well as inorganic, occur to us equally well for their own specific and compelling reasons. We will continue to pick the option that has superior chances of success in shorter time and that enhances growth and ROE.
Segments such as IAS, GATE, Engineering, and CA are Knowledge Product (KP) segments. Growing these organically and with select inorganic integrations will be one of the key initiatives as we move forward. The delivery mechanism for KPs has to be tech-backboned, driven and scalable. The ETEN acquisition, once complete, will provide this backbone for CA and IAS. We will add more over the coming quarters as this gathers volume.
The second year NIRF rankings of universities and colleges have been released. This movement of focus on research in India had triggered our majority stake acquisition in Accendere, the research incubating and services company. We have also launched the academia-industry research collaboration platform in Sep 2016 (www.wainconnect.com). We believe that this could be our significant growth driver. Arguably, Wainconnect has a potential to work with universities and corporations far beyond Indian shores at the next stage of growth.
Technology-pedagogy-learner outcomes (TePeLo) are the three dimensions of any effective innovation in education services. All three have to be blended appropriately to effect business growth in a sustainable way without losing sight of unit-economics and profitability. We believe that CL has this secret sauce. Our supported and curated start-up, 361degree minds, will be our vehicle for Ed-Tech led disruption over the next few years. 361DM is a nexgen curated-MOOC that understands the TePeLo equation very well along with a no-compromise attitude to unit economics.
Our internal research and tech-work led by Sujit is focused on AI, NLP, RPA, etc., and we will make it work in our industry at the same speed at which it is being discovered in other industries and other Geographies globally. From a business perspective, this will broaden and deepen the 'moat' and will improve profitability steadily.
This is just a reiteration rather than a new resolve. Our exit from asset heavy K12 and the release of funds will enhance two things favourably – additional capital available for growth in our core business and also enhance the management bandwidth. We look forward to these affecting CL Educate's performance measurables noticeably. The release from K12 would be about Rs 50 crores this year. We hold about 44 percent in the new K12 services company into which CLEIS has folded in. This is a profitable entity already and will not seek any more capital from CLEducate. We see our complete exit from this over the next two years when the capital is raised by this entity for its own growth. The sale of our Greater Noida campus should release about Rs 45 Crores in the coming 12 months.
In sum, we see a decisive exit from all asset heavy businesses and focus on asset-light services part making a visible impact on CL. As I wrap this blog, I wish to share one thought that has been my North Star for long.
Jack Welch, the celebrated GE leader, has said that an effective entrepreneurial leader works between 33% and 66% of data sufficiency. He has opined – "You are a clerk if you want more than 66% relevant data and you are a gambler if you are decisive with less than 33% of data". We, at CL, action this. An entrepreneur, similar to a sportsperson, plays by staying anchored in the future and yet totally focused on the 'here and now' (present). Yet, analysis and reflections serve as valuable inputs to improve oneself and to not repeat a mistake again. We have always owned our decisions regardless of their successes or failures. We have had our fair share of errors in the last 2 decades. Looking back, a small percentage of our decisions hit the bull's-eye but they have hit big time. But to minimize the impact of the rest of the decisions, we move in short but decisive steps and we quickly call it off when we see the need for course corrections. We constantly work to make that percentage better by staying rooted and staying open to feedback. We intend continuing in this spirit.
At the same time, we would like to build our reputation for our uncompromising ethical business practices and corporate governance standards as that alone is the saviour at all times – good as well as bad. Business outcomes may not always be in our control, however, a strong foundation based on intellectual honesty is. As I mentioned at the start, we are influencing the next generation, we are educators, knowledge disseminators and guides to those that are the future so a commitment to good governance in paramount.
As I conclude this version of 'satyaspeak', I would like to reiterate our welcome message. I would also leave you with an invitation to contribute proactively by contributing anything that you may have to offer. Remember, ours is a simple business and you, in your own way, are a CL Educate in your own world – i.e., enabling the career of a youngster to the best of your abilities.
I studied macroeconomics (economics itself, for that matter) for the first time in my post-graduation (IIM-Bangalore) during the 1991-1993 era. Remember, this was the India sunrise era and MMS was the FM.
Our professor was Prof. Indira Rajaraman (IR) who brought romance-with-Eco into the classroom through her lucidity and intellectual clarity. Her classes had over 100percent attendance as students from other sections would carry their chairs to come and sit it in our section when IR taught. As you can guess, most professors at IIMs struggle to have half their students to visit the class, occasionally. When she spoke, you lapped up every word. She could make an unlettered rickshaw puller understand fiscal deficit and M3. She was a nearest imagination to Goddess Saraswati. She was at her prime, too.
In short, the closest imagery that you can conjure up is that of a super-dignified Sushmita Sen surrounded by a hundred Shahrukh Khans of the 'main noon na' fame. Unknowingly, the love for the teacher translated into a life long love for the subject for most. I am one, too. Listening to the union budget on television (a new phenomenon at that time) and following it up with discussions (in-class and outside) was a part of our stay at IIMB. This was a 25th or 26th FM budget presentation that I have studied since. No subject has stuck with me like macro-economics, since! Incidentally, IR went on to be a member of the finance commission and serves on the board of RBI. She continues to be one of the most respected voices and minds in the world of economics.
I did my customary "keenly watch – actively listen – scrupulously note down" session today at 11am. The best news of the budget looks like "there is no bad news". There is an added cautionary inner voice saying "hope there is no bad news in the fine print".
Needless to day, it is unfair to criticise the finance minister as 90-min is too short a time to present the budget of a complex country as India. In the same breath, I am inclined to think that if you can't make a point in 10 or 20 or 90 mins, no amount of time is good enough for you!
1. I saw nothing substantive as a policy or initiative in any field though the FM did elaborate ground-setting in a bunch of areas including youth, infra, tax etc,.
2. No substantive schemes or programs or implementation plan anywhere except the abolition of FIPB and a one-bullet electoral bonds announcement.
3. The FM sounds so short on fluency and even stumbles so much (including on Urdu couplets) that I begin to think either economics/finance is not his comfort zone or he is reading the budget papers for the first time. Or, worse still, perhaps, both!!!
4. Some of the themes or topics were covered in half a sentence with such incoherence that he had better avoided them altogether. I am not even sure how many of the prolific note-taking viewers such as me took note of these – for eg, a two-tier exam for govt jobs and it was covered in the finance sector (!) or the mention of innovation and science content during education coverage!
The noted statistician, Roseling's study of economies over a century indicates that their rise is first enabled by improved health indicators followed by education indicators. The rest follow in the ensuing decades. Such simplicity in understanding is required for the FM of a hugely potential nation like India. The budget's thematic setting has to have Heath and Education as the bedrock. The rest of the themes such as defence, railways, infra, tax, etc, are a far more tactical themes, in my view. I realise that such N expectation of mine for high conceptual clarity is too far-fetched. I will correct myself.
The content spoken was so little and so short on end-clarity or execution path that even if I produce all of it, verbatim, it is unlikely to cross a 300 word mark. The FM blabbered something about science and innovation content, innovation fund and outcome based autonomy that it was over before it began!
The MOOC (massively open online courses) project, SWAYAM, one of the favourites of the new HRD minister found a brief mention and it is a worthy project to be executed in a "Sreedharan metro" style to help leapfrog into th next era. We have missed a couple of decades of proactive investments in education and intellectual capacity building. SWAYAM can leverage newer technology tools and solutions and bring access to newer courses from the best of teachers to all students regardless of their socia-economic status.
The setting up of an independent organisation to conduct entrance examinations is a worthy step too as assessments is a super-speciality area which needs 100pc focus as well as multi-functional competencies from technology to operations planning and exam-paper-setting. Also, it does two things for the overall system – it releases the bandwidth of the educational institutions and boards to focus on their core area (CBSE, IIM, IIT, etc) and brings an arms-length distance between institutions and exam-conducting process.
Our GER is as low as 20pc and the drop-outs have no real system of getting vocational education unlike in countries such as US, Germany, UK and so on. This needed to be addressed on a war footing. India needs a system of one massive vocational university or state which is a blended 21st century architecture using technology and real campus and that connects the employment education and the opportunity in the real world. The reference to 'Kaushal kendra' in 600 districts, SANKALP goals, tourism linked employment plans etc., was so sketchy and fleeting that I have very little to even describe the program.
In short, I am disappointed at the lack of substance when it comes to the coverage, clarity, initiatives on anything to do with education. However, it is also important to revisit a belief of mine that our budget-hoopla is a much more exaggerated over-celebration of an event than it deserves. The country runs 24×7. The govt runs 24×7. So, policy making, execution, course corrections all happen every day. At best, the 90-min session is a symbolic event that witnesses your signature as an FM or the Govt in power. May the other 364 days be better for the sake of education for the country! Happy execution.