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Chelsea fans have been chanting about it all season, and now Cesc Fabregas has proved that he does actually wear a magic hat.
The song 'Fabregas is magic, he wears a magic hat' has reverberated around Stamford Bridge since he joined from Barcelona in the summer.
And in scenes that could have been taken straight from an Arsenal fan's worst nightmares, the Spaniard paid tribute to the chant donning an actual magic hat during Chelsea's trophy presentation.


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Hearing begins when the outer ear, the visible portion of the ear, channels sound waves down the auditory canal, the tube-like passageway leading into the ear. The middle ear lies at the end of the auditory canal. It is composed of the eardrum and three small bones, commonly referred to as the hammer, the anvil and the stirrup. When sound waves hit the eardrum, it vibrates and, in turn, moves the hammer. The hammer moves the anvil, which moves the stirrup, transmitting the vibrations into the inner ear. The middle ear functions to amplify sound, which is why significant hearing loss can result from any disruption in any of the parts.
The type of hearing loss in any one person depends upon where in the ear the problem occur. The three main types are conducive, sensorineural, and mixed losses.
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Mixed: Sometimes, people will have problems both in the inner ear and in the outer or middle ear. This type of hearing loss is known as a mixed loss.
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Desecration Hardware, 2 (The Strand Antiqued Mirror Collection)
By Evan Calder Williams September 12, 2012
[prior chapter here]
CHAPTER 2.
RECALLING THE STREAMLINED SIMPLICITY OF FRENCH ART DECO FURNISHINGS, STRAND STRIKES A HARMONIOUS BALANCE BETWEEN UNDERSTATED GLAMOUR AND FUNCTIONAL DESIGN. CONSTRUCTED WITH WATERFALL EDGES, THE MIRRORED SURFACES ARE AGED FOR AN ANTIQUED PATINA THAT'S COMPLEMENTED WITH DARK METAL TRIM.
C-D. Strand Mirrored Table
48" Nesting Side Table $995
48" Coffee Table $1095
72" Coffee Table $1295 (Shown)
The relief we felt at having left behind the oppressive presence of the Montpellier armoire, coupled with a tinge of self-recriminating melancholy for having so misjudged its malign nature, was far from minor. We were, I'll admit, almost giddy. S. crept to the door – which also lacked a handle, although for our own sake we avoided thinking about its obvious similarity with the last unhandled door seen – with highly exaggerated tip-toeing, her calf muscles stretched taut from within the loose cuff of her blackened boot toward the equine knee. There she took hold of it and, supplying the creaking sound that it did not in fact make, craned her neck around with glacial slowness, as though to peer with wide owlish eyes into a room where excessive danger or knives lay. The whole effect was quite funny, and C. simply couldn't stop giggling, her small, loose teeth joyously chattering, even after having been informed by S., in a comically cheery voice, No worries, everybody, no armoires in here! In truth, we all had a good laugh as we entered.
Whereupon the laughter died in our throats, with a sound similar to that of sparrows drowning in a shallow pond.
The mirror. That awful mirror. There was no mistaking it. The door behind us couldn't be opened from this side – come to think of it, had we even opened it from the other, or had it just opened to us, waiting for a hand to come near so as to coddle the illusion of agency and the exertion of will upon mute matter? – and so we couldn't check. But there was no need. It was surely the same. How could there be two of it, even if the smudges and nicks on the etching didn't seem entirely identical but rather a sick imitation of some original accidents of time and handling?
We crept toward it, with not a whiff of comic exaggeration this time. In another context, the similarity between S.'s silly behavior a moment before and the deadly serious skill – which bore an intoxicating mix of estimable grace and baseline ferocity, I noted, with a flutter of remembered yearning for a certain afternoon many years ago – with which she moved now would have made for a great anecdote to be retold later, perhaps with identical pantomime to prove the point of similarity. But it wasn't remembered because, after all, there was the mirror.
However, being those unafraid to relearn what a particular reflective surface, or at least its kissing cousin, had told us once already this day, we pressed forward across the room, cast in that odd light the Germanic peoples call the Teufelstagesschimmer, or "devil's-day-glimmer," when the light of noon is doubled with the rosy hue of prismed glass. It belongs to that rare species of sublime experience that depends upon human construction and its effects, much like the intersection of an entire naval fleet, a tsunami, and a coastal city, or an architectural folly, in the form of a ruined temple of Diana, soaked in the wan light of both autumn moon and guttering napalm. Born at the hands of Sir Isaac Newton, the Teufelstagesschimmer achieved brief notoriety in certain portions of the world during the second decade of the last century, when the lightlock on chandelier-equipped pleasurehouses and casinos was not adequately secured, leading to a cross-pollution of light sources and producing that precise admixture that spells the final death of shadows. In our case, no heavy curtains were ready to put an end to this devil's light.
To complicate matters, there were the chandeliers themselves, which I noticed were actually composed of salvaged – or stolen – portions of a glass house. The implications of this were tremendous. Things were going from worse to worst. As I'm sure the reader has already grasped, likely with a small noise of sparrowish alarm struggling in the throat, this could only mean that the house in which we stood was not only vampire but cannibal and curator, trimming itself out with the ruins of past residences it had seduced, probably speaking of the alluring transparency of their "divinely angled" glass joists and beams, and summarily dismembered in the night.
Sure enough, no house, no us. It's like they say: vampires love company. (Is that true? A. had his doubts, for good reason I believe. But I suspect he was mostly hoping to use his newfound condition to excuse his life-long tendency to shun contact with members of either sex in favor of sitting in his fetid green house, staring vacantly at the heat-drowsied bees that came to accept him, and the thick-tongued space of his open mouth, as just one more large flower and its damp pistil.)
We decided to have a party. What else could we do but try and put a good face on the situation? And if we were in fact now immortal, there was certainly no reason to hurry. Besides, the room was growing on us. There was a soft blanket, some chairs. In particular, there were its tables, dull, grey, slightly speckled with patina. There were comforting objects, harmonious even, with that rare quality of a glamour that does not contravene its functionality but instead aids it, as if to say, yes, who was ever such a damn fool to believe that form should follow function or vice versa? When have they ever been other than twined together, grown as two tree trunks that, split from the same base, do not choke each other out in their chlorophyllic chase for the high sun but wind together in a heliotropic spiral, a serpentine embrace, each supporting the other to crest high above the canopy, far beyond what either alone could have managed? Yes, these were special objects, carefully thought through, even in their echo throughout the room, an echo not just in the fact that two furnishings displayed the same style, but that the second of these itself had an echo, smaller versions nesting within itself, so that it could be pulled out to make a small cascade of surfaces, a cascade which would therefore echo the waterfall edges of each one. M. made a joke, or perhaps just a comment, that it would be great to have a version that went ever smaller, like those dolls of which the Russians are so fond. Mice also deserve functional glamour! she yelled, almost angrily. We signaled our agreement with hearty laughter. She seemed angered further by this. I'm not fucking kidding! she yelled again.
Having extended the nesting cascade, we dumped all our cocaine out onto the tables. It was excessive, of course, to pour it all out like that, even if we were planning to have a real ball, because there was no way we could do it all in one sitting, even in a sitting room so comfortable as this one. But the tables had cheered us, and we felt as though we were somehow sharing it with them. Have a taste on us! Let's all have a ball! We cut it into thick lines, excessively, even obscenely large, knowing they would have to be cut again if we didn't want to introduce a dangerous eurythmia, because even if we couldn't die, an inconstantly vibrating heart is an awful sensation. But it was exciting to see it all out there, like snow drifts or simply not like anything, just what it was, a truly tremendous quantity of cocaine. S. made the groaning sound of the door again, which had become, without prompting, the cue to dig into the white.
The room shuddered and flashed, with a whoosing sound, as if a tremendous intake of breath. The bulbs of the chandelier exploded in unison, a shard of one catching M. in the left eye, which would from that point on be as useless as her right. We dropped to the floor and screamed.
When we stood up, we gasped, as we had several times already today. Something had done all the coke. Every last trace of it. Which, aside from posing a significant mystery, made it utterly clear that tonight was going to seriously blow. We looked around at each other, searching for tell-tale signs of a truly heroic ingestion of a stimulant. But with the exception of the quite explainable blood seeping from M.'s eye, nothing was amiss. We were beyond blame, for the moment, at least.
Three minutes later, the mirror came back on, casting the room in reverse. We wondered if the mirrors had been out throughout the whole neighborhood or just this house. We were still nowhere to be seen, but for the moment, the house – or at least this portion of it – seemed to be clear of any traces of that cursed disease.
It came back on in those tables as well, which had fooled us into thinking them functionally elegant and simply burnished metal, rather than – God, how foul – Strand Antiqued Mirrored Tables. We would have never spilled our whole stash out on them, and we certainly would never have described them in such glowing tones if we had been seen the palpable idiocy known as putting mirrors on the side of tables. (Unless, of course, one wanted to be able to continually monitor the wearing-in of one's shoes, which was partially understandable.) Still, this deception aside, no sign of the theft.
Until, that is, we heard the nesting tables grinding quietly against each other. And noticed that the 72" Strand Antiqued Mirrored Coffee Table would not stop tapping its foot.
Greedy bastards. Our whole night was gone, snorted up by bad-mannered surfaces. M., always the most fond of the pilfered drug and now in a literally blind fury, picked up the chair nearest her and brought it down on where she remembered the 72" Strand Antiqued Mirrored Coffee Table to be. It cracked with a sickening crunch, but there was no white under its shattered reflection. Just more table, without even the comfort of patina. We had lost it all to the inverted world.
On the wall, that mirror which refused to show us now had a nosebleed. Lacking a nose in particular at which point the flow could be stopped, it simply ran in ugly rivulets, down the wall onto the floor, where the black carpet did an admirable job of soaking it up, though not nearly admirable enough to stem the mirror's unabated pour.

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November 1, 2011 April 11, 2012 Creature with the Atom Brain
The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)
Martin (Harvey) lives with his mother in a grim housing estate where he becomes infatuated with the first Human Centipede film. Mentally disturbed, he obsesses over the fictional Dr. Heiter – from the first movie. Martin soon decides to make his dream of creating a twelve person centipede a reality.
Tom Six wrote and directed this sequel to his surprise shock cinema hit of 2009, The Human Centipede. In June 2011, the BBFC refused the film a certificate in the UK, in effect banning it from cinema or DVD release. Eventually realising that banning films in today's information sharing society is a futile endeavour together with a hefty amount of anti censorship pressure, the BBFC granted the film certificate in October with 2 minutes and 37 seconds of cuts.
Increasingly popular Shock Cinema combines pornography with ultra-violence and is the today's equivalent of the famed 70's and 80's Video Nasties. The Human Centipede II joins this sub genre, alongside films such as A Serbian film and Antichrist, pushing the moral and ethical boundaries of modern cinema.
Harvey does an outstanding job in his debut acting role as the pitiful and twisted Martin, executing an unsettling and terrifying performance, despite not having any dialogue throughout the film. Still, Overall, The Human Centipede II lacks the dark humour and originality of its predecessor and for the most part, feels like a tedious labour through depravity and perversion. The movie should succeed in making most viewers, at the very least uncomfortable, but it fails to surprise or build suspense between shocks. The pacing is painfully slow at times, although it does redeem itself somewhat in the last twenty minutes or so. Diehard fans of shock cinema will no doubt enjoy it, however, on the whole it is essentially drawn out torture porn without a climax.
Our Rating 5 / 10
5 - 5.9 (Okay)
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wordsfallfrommyeyes says:
I was in the video store the other day and picked this up & read the back! It looked absolutely gross – gave it a pass! But it was good to read a review on it. But you made me glad I didn't watch it!
ramonadepares says:
Oh nooooes, like one was not enough!! This ill definitely give a miss…
ericisaacs says:
I thought the first one was going to be repulsive, but it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. This looks absolutely disgusting (I have passed it up many times) and I think your review is all the world needs for this thing. Thanks for your public service work!
Ha! Thank you 🙂
Black Calavera says:
Another good article 🙂 I've watched the first one and I was shocked by the content, although the cinematography wasn't too bad.


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The Learning Center of South Park
7350 Futures Drive Orlando, FL 32819
The Learning Center Of South Park1 / 10
The Learning Center of South Park (TLCSP) offers full-time and part-time programs for children age six weeks through five years, including VPK. This preschool began serving families in the Orlando area in 2002. It's open Monday through Friday from 8:00am to 5:30pm, with after-care for students up to age eight.
The Learning Center of South Park implements the High Scope Curriculum for development of Sensory/Motor, Social/Emotional, Language/Communications and Cognitive skills. According to the school, "The fundamental premise of the High Scope Curriculum is that children are active learners – learning best from activities they plan and carry out themselves." To that end, the teachers' role "is to accompany children on their journey, clearing the path to obstacles and offering encouragement and guidance, not surging to the forefront to lead the way." Underlying the curriculum are elements of the Reggio Emilia approach, which is rooted in student-centered, experiential learning.
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The Learning Center of South Park serves children ages 6 weeks to 8 years.
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The Learning Center of South Park is open from 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM.
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Kinder Club Academy
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Confession: I have baked nearly a dozen pumpkin pies in my life, yet I have never actually cooked a fresh pumpkin.
That recently changed about a week ago.
This recipe for pumpkin soup calls for canned pumpkin, which is all well and good, but I did want to try my hand at making it with fresh roasted pumpkin and it turned out quite well!
I washed then cut the pie pumpkins in half.
Scoop out the guts and seeds (save the seeds for roasting if you wish or to add to the soup, I tossed ours outside for the birds to eat).
Place pumpkin halves cut side down in baking dishes and add 1/4 inch of water and bake in the oven at 350 degrees for 45 minutes to an hour. Cool, then scoop out the flesh with a metal spoon. You can store the cooked pumpkin flesh in the fridge for up to 5 days.
I found the fresh pumpkin to be preferable to the canned and I look forward to baking my very first fresh pumpkin pie this Thanksgiving. The scent held notes of squash and warm watery gourds and a touch of mellow sweetness akin to sweet potato.
- Peel and core apple, dice. Repeat with onion. Preheat stockpot on stove at medium. Melt butter and add apples and onions and sauté for about 8 minutes or until softened.
- Add pumpkin puree (or fresh scooped pumpkin!), chicken broth, salt, pepper and spices. Stir and simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and add half-and-half.
- Use either an immersion blender (stick blender) or food processor to blend the soup mixture. Place pot back on the stove at low heat to keep warm.
- Cut bread into 8 (1 inch) slices, arrange 4 slices on a cutting board. Thinly slice brie and place on the four slices, top with remaining four slices of bread. Butter the outsides. Basically, make a grilled brie sandwich. Cook the sandwiches in the pan on medium heat until golden brown, crisp and the brie is melty. Sprinkle with sea salt and thyme and slice into strips or serve alongside the soup.
Garnish the soup by sprinkling in the pepitas and adding a generous swirl of maple syrup. Throw in the brie croutons or serve on the side. Or both.
The girls do not enjoy pumpkin pie so when they heard I was making pumpkin soup there were some moans and groans. They were surprised (as was I) that they actually liked it. Adam enjoyed it too and so did my mom. I will be making this again next year. The brie. Mmmmmm! And if you are curious... the spice is minimal and not overly noticeable but adds nice flavor.
Pumpkin soup! What say you?
Oo I don't I know about pumpkin soup. I've always been hesitant but with this recipe I MAY be willing to give it a shot but the added apples just throw me off. Is it dessert or is it dinner.. hmm. Because I do love me some cooked apples.
It's always worth a shot especially as the cooler weather comes springing around the corner.
Surprisingly enough I haven't bought not one pumpkin this year. So unlike me!
LOL! Delineating between dessert and dinner in the south is no mean feat. Between Sweet Potato Casserole served up with a heap of brown sugared pecans and cream and desserts that call for chocolate and saltine crackers it just kind of all gets jumbled together. The apples are not noticeable in texture since everything is blended together but I do think it adds a nice lightness to the soup.
We are a little late in buying our pumpkins for carving. I think we will try sometime this week.
I say, soup and croutons are my love language. So is brie for that matter. I have done squash soup and sweet potato soup, but I haven't tried pumpkin. An immersion blender, nice, I wish! About how much would you say this made? Would one work? I have one garden pumpkin I might try with it because it may not get so big, don't have plans for it yet.
I was very comforted by that particular meal myself. It was a nice relaxing dinner. I would love to make some Butternut squash soup next. The immersion blender is an older KitchenAid one that was only around $30 at Walmart or some big box store like that. I don't have a lot of appliances, no toaster oven, no toaster, no electric can opener and no blender but I do love my stick blender. It is tiny and tucks away easy.
Mmm, that sounds fantastic. I love the addition of the little toasted cheese sandwich croutons as well - always elevates a soup a bit, I think. :) Definitely going to give this a try, thanks for the recipe.
I agree! I like the crunchy and cheesy texture against the liquid of the soup. And who doesn't like dipping things in soup?!
I hope if you try it you let me know what you think or if you add your own twist to it. Have fun in Disney! I am excited for you!


A picture has been released of a baby who was born on the motorway after his parents got stuck in traffic near Birmingham. She went into labour on the M42 after being caught in long delays between Junction 7A and 7 on Saturday (30 April) afternoon.
Her quick-thinking husband pulled over onto the hard shoulder to call for help, but after just 20 minutes, the woman gave birth to a healthy baby boy in the back of the couple's Vauxhall Zafira. With traffic gridlocked, paramedics struggled to reach them in time, but were able to offer assistance at a motorcycle museum nearby.
PC James Barry praised the baby's father for his swift actions under pressure. "By the time we arrived mum had done all the hard work and we there to make sure everyone was OK," he told Sky News.
"The husband did the right thing and pulled over onto the hard shoulder and called us for help. He told us that it had all happened so fast that within 20 minutes of his wife going into labour she had given birth.
"The ambulance crew were struggling to get to us as the motorway was blocked, so we blue-lighted the family to the motorcycle museum where the crew were able to meet us and take over," he said.
The mother and baby, who was named Tommy, are now said to be "doing well" after the very unexpected motorway delivery.


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These days in the market the power is in the hands of those businesses which have high capacities in the market data and information analysis. These businesses draw a right roadmap through analysis of these data and with that in mind, navigate a correct path in order to reach their final goal. Domestic businesses in our country are faced with different challenges in this field. Many of these businesses gain access to market data and information but are void of the power to use them correctly.
EMRC market research company by holding a training course on familiarization with the concepts of monitoring retail business has come to help businesses who are clients of this company. EMRC, through this training course which was held with the cooperation of AVV School, has trained its customers on data analysis and methods of applying the data. We interviewed Kamyar Emami, Managing Director EMRC on the details of this training course in order to gain information about the course. Emami responded to various questions.
Tell us about EMRC's performance and explain what the company offers to its clients with regard to monitoring information of retail business?
Review of the "market trend" is the most advantage brands can take from this product. EMRC carries out this monitoring in 24 major cities of Iran which cover about 50% of the urban population and the main competition between brands takes place there. The sample size of this monitoring is about 2550 different stores. The data of the monitoring is based on traditional trade because 90% of the Iranian market is operating traditionally and for data collection they should be monitored precisely. In the Iranian market, no company is capable of offering the information in the form as we do. EMRC customers take advantage of the information they receive on the marketing and sales sectors. Such information can have positive effect on the operation of these two sectors.
Why EMRC has embarked on holding a training course for its clients in order to familiarize them with the concepts of monitoring retail sellers?
After a while of providing information to our customers we realized that some of them were not capable of fully analyzing the information and could not exploit them completely. Therefore, we decided to hold international courses in order to familiarize them with the concepts of monitoring retail sellers and this increased the knowledge of our customers in this field. In the first step, we held the course for the customers who receive information form the EMRC Company and are somehow customers of the company. The participants in this training course are from the marketing and sales team which through sound analysis of the data on retail selling played an outstanding role in the progress and improvement of marketing strategies and planning.
Failure to make a correct data analysis could sometimes create differences between sales and marketing managers; what is your opinion?
I personally do not think that there will be any difference between these two groups. Only because information at the disposal of the two groups is different from each other, sometimes this interpretation is developed. Professional companies can prepare applied and managerial reports on the bases of the data on retail monitoring but some of the companies do not take advantage of all the details of the information and suffice to some part of it. Whereas, this course teaches them to have a comprehensive and complete look at the information they receive. This course helps the sales team to have a similar look like the marketing team to the market data and reach a common language in this regard.
Who were the participants in this course?
The participants in this course were from EMRC customers who have developed a specialized look at the retail monitoring. This training course was held in two days and on the second day the information related to each company was analyzed by the participants themselves and the audience by holding information about their own companies, asked different questions from the lecturer.
Of course in this term it was tried not to put the participants as rivals in order not to create any problem for anybody through the data and information which were provided. However, EMRC as a company for market research simultaneously has a number of customers from one domain of the market but due to confidentiality, preservation of the privacy of the customers and observance of the professional principles, it has always been trusted by its customers. Generally, the course has brought satisfactory outcomes both for EMRC and its customers and with regard to the positive feedbacks we received from holding these courses, we will try to hold another course in a near future.


Narayan Laksham, Founder & CEO Narayan Laksham, Founder and CEO of Ultriva, is adept at two things: pattern recognition in a multidimensional space and simplifying complex problems. In 1999 and 2000, as he walked through manufacturing floors across different industry segments and attended kaizen events around the world, he quickly saw a pattern of issues ailing the plant floors—excess inventory, non-standard production schedules, and lack of collaboration. Being an outsider with 20 years of experience in databases, CAD/ CAM systems, application infrastructure, and development tools, Laksham sought to bring a fresh perspective into manufacturing. He applied lean principles to supply chain processes and developed a solution that triumphs over the traditional Material Requirements Planning (MRP) syste ms and delivers more value.
Enter Ultriva—a company that is taking Kanban and lean manufacturing methodologies to the next level by systemizing them into a software and extending lean beyond the four walls of an organization. "Thinking outside the box is not just a phrase with Ultriva," beams Laksham. Under his leadership, the company utilized 'collaborative Kanban,' to develop lean manufacturing and end to end pull supply chain solutions. In this quickly growing $10 billion supply chain industry, Ultriva rises above the rest by focusing on the execution side of things, directly impacting the shop floor performance and effectively complementing existing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems which are primarily forecast driven. Ultriva dwells in the demand-driven replenishment arena. "We enable companies to transition from a forecast-driven business model to a demanddriven manufacturing model," remarks Laksham.
Today, Ultriva's solutions fit right into the manufacturing landscape. Gone are the days when inventory reduction was viewed as an ROI to sell software worth thousands of dollars. "Reduction of inventory has become a necessity and not an option in order to survive," expresses Laksham. Given the change of perspective, companies are looking at tools that systemize and sustain the discipline to improve inventory turns. The focus has shifted from inventory reduction to right sizing the inventory, in conjunction with the move away from typical MRP driven material replenishment, which depends on forecasts or planned demand. In the wake of these developments, Ultriva promotes a consumption driven replenishment methodology, which ultimately means—producing exactly what the customer wants and not what the forecast says.
Walking away from the legacy model alone is not sufficient. Today, most of the departments related to supply chain—planning, purchasing, procurement, material management, and shop floor scheduling—act as silos.
Each of them has different and often conflicting goals. Ultriva presents one version of truth across all these departments, while providing material movement visibility and actionable information. "Gaining visibility to where the material is, on a real-time basis, is an extremely critical piece of the supply chain puzzle and we can help you with that," assures Laksham. Being a cloud-based solution, any user with correct privileges can log in and gain access to real-time information, to make the right decision. This comes in very handy especially in the current scenario where CIOs are steadily adopting cloud technologies and are looking to collaborate beyond the four walls of business by integrating with their global suppliers, distribution centers, and customers.
With a number of companies in the supply chain arena still focusing on the supply side, Ultriva is "uniquely positioned with its Customer Demand Portal, which revolves around the demand side," he continues. The Demand Portal enables collaboration between manufacturing plants and the customer tiers such as distributors, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM), and end customers. Every day, hundreds of manufacturers and suppliers see stock-out alerts, gain clear visibility to their customer's on-hand inventory, and have a better understanding of material availability at each distribution center—courtesy of Ultriva's Demand and Supply Portals.
On an interesting note, Ultriva's unique supply chain loop driven architecture mimics the physical flow of materials, wherein the entire supply chain is constructed as series of interconnected loops. Such architecture enables Ultriva to easily identify a company's biggest pain point and then migrate upstream or downstream. The built-in methodology calculates the usage, loop size, safety stock, and variability of consumption and significantly reduces the bullwhip effect across the supply chain. "Ultriva provides a continuous improvement platform for manufacturing companies to start from wherever they are to a true demand-pull environment," states the polyglot Laksham.
The forecast driven DNA that is present in the ERP and MRP systems of major players like Oracle and SAP is very different from the "lean" DNA of Ultriva. In fact, its nature is quite the opposite. In essence, it is not simple for the competition to achieve something similar to Ultriva—create a sustainable solution and retain customers.
Headquartered in the beautiful city of Cupertino, CA, Ultriva claims to have an astonishing customer retention rate of 98 percent in the last 10 years. With Laksham at the helm, the company has brought many multi-billion dollar enterprises sub-one year ROI gains and has consistently helped customers to go live in less than 12 weeks.
On one such occasion, a Global Biotech/Pharmaceutical Leader (GBPL) that is an intravenous drug manufacturing division of one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies had no means of tracking and controlling its sterile equipment inventory across the production, cleaning and restocking loop, resulting in ramifications. GBPL then chose Ultriva's cloud-based Lean Factory Management (LFM) solution, which helped them gain control of its inventory by establishing a series of interconnected consumption-driven material replenishment loops between manufacturing usage and supply locations. "The entire application is automated through tablet devices on movable stations," affirms Laksham. Furthermore, a barcode labeling process was implemented, which sent a pull-based replenishment signal to material coordinators indicating them to replenish unsterile equipment with sterile units every time the barcoded equipment is scanned by the production. "Within 60 days of deploying Ultriva, GBPL's manufacturing services team improved on-time delivery rates from 62 percent to 82 percent, while eliminating stock-outs," claims Laksham. With Ultriva, GBPL continues to make strides towards improving on-time delivery and employee productivity.
Ultriva improves service levels on both sides of the supply chain. Suppliers increase their performance through collaboration, real-time information, and superior visibility and manufacturers improve their retention rate by right sizing the inventory and reducing lead times through the implementation of pull methodologies. In a similar vein, when a world leader in the commercial vehicle market was on the lookout for a "lean" solution that would increase inventory control and visibility, while engaging the suppliers—they turned to Ultriva's Collaborative Supply Portal (CSP) and Electronic Kanban. Not only did Ultriva provide the client with full inventory visibility, its web-based platform also gave easy accessibility to the company and its suppliers. At the end of the day, Ultriva's CSP featuring eKanban enabled the client to view and track inventory at every phase—the supplier, in transit, the receiving dock, and on to the customer. This real-time information allowed them to adjust inventory and run the most efficient lean material flow, providing customers with on-time delivery. The company recouped its investment in the Ultriva platform within just six months, and within one year, it realized a 28 percent gain in inventory turns and a 43 percent reduction in overall inventory.
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Q: Automatic backup of MySQL data in linux I've been searching for an easy script to backup MySQL data in Linux automatically (weekly basis) but couldn't find something clear to me. I am doing the back up manually:
mysqldump -u root -ppassword billing  -r "/file/private/billing_backup.sql

Can you please guide me to an easy script that perform the automatic backup?

A: I guess you can throw the command you provided yourself in a script, and add that to cron. See http://www.scrounge.org/linux/cron.html for instructions on how to do that.
This'll overwrite /file/private/billing_backup.sql every time; you can use timestamped filenames to avoid that

A: The attached bash script is what I use that runs in cron daily. The bash script will email you notification when the backup has completed. the backups are kept for 5 day and then removed after that. I also have this script send me notification on the server information such as memory and storage of my backup directory. Please feel free to modify this script to work with your needs. You will want to change some of the variables in the # variables section of the bash script.
The section for the email in the script will also need to be modify to use your email address in the NOTIFY_EMAIL="root@gmail.com".
You can add the mysql root user account information in my.cnf in the root directory or within the bash script under the # [ Define Variables ].
you will need to chmod the bash script with
$sudo chmod +x backupmysql.sh

This will allow you to run the script manually with the following command or use the crontab listed below to automate the MySQL backups.
$sudo ./backupmysql.sh

You can name the script whatever you like. In this example, I named it nightly_mysql_backup.sh.
Here is the nightly_mysql_backup.sh bash script:
#!/bin/bash
#
############################################################################
#
# Script:   nightly_mysql_backup.sh
# Date:     05-23-2018
# Author:
#
# Description:
#
# Usage:
#
# History:
#
############################################################################
#
# Variables
HOST=`hostname -s`
DELETE_BACKUPS_OLDER_THAN_DAYS=5
syslogtag=MySQL-Backup
DEST=/var/dba/backup/
DBS="$(mysql -u root -Bse 'show databases' | egrep -v '^Database$|hold$' | grep -v 'performance_schema\|information_schema')"
DATE=$(date +'%F')
MIN_BACKUP=1000 #NOTE: 1 Kilobit = 1000 bit
DAYS_KEPT=5

# Backup all existing databases.  Currently disabled, can be enabled to backup certain individual databases.
#DBS="$($MYSQL -u $MyUSER -h $MyHOST -p$MyPASS -Bse 'show databases')"
#DBS="$(mysql -u root -Bse 'show databases' | egrep -v '^Database$|hold$' | grep -v 'performance_schema\|information_schema')"
# Or specify which databases to backup
#DBS="mysql zarafa"

# DO NOT BACKUP these databases.  Currently disabled, can be enabled to not backup certain individual databases.
#NOBKDB="test"

# Send Result EMail can be toggled on or off
SEND_EMAIL=1
NOTIFY_EMAIL="root@gmail.com"
NOTIFY_SUBJECT="MariaDB Backup Notification on ${HOST}"

# Linux bin paths, change this if it can't be auto detected via which command
MYSQLDUMP="$(which mysqldump)"
GREP="$(which grep)"
CHOWN="$(which chown)"
CHMOD="$(which chmod)"
GZIP="$(which gzip)"
MAIL="$(which mail)"
FIND="$(which find)"
DF="$(which df)"
FREE="$(which free)"
DU="$(which du)"

# Function for generating Email
function gen_email {
DO_SEND=$1
TMP_FILE=$2
NEW_LINE=$3
LINE=$4
if [ $DO_SEND -eq 1 ]; then
if [ $NEW_LINE -eq 1 ]; then
echo "$LINE" >> $TMP_FILE
else
echo -n "$LINE" >> $TMP_FILE
fi
fi
}

# Temp Message file used for recording data on backup and cleanup
TMP_MSG_FILE="/tmp/$RANDOM.msg"
if [ $SEND_EMAIL -eq 1 -a -f "$TMP_MSG_FILE" ]; then
rm -f "$TMP_MSG_FILE"
fi

set -o pipefail

# Start backing up databases and check if today's backup already exists
STARTTIME=$(date +%s)
for db in ${DBS[@]};
do

skipdb=-1
if  [ "$NOBKDB" != "" ];
then
for i in $NOBKDB
do
[ "$db" == "$i" ] && skipdb=1 || :
done
fi

GZ_FILENAME=$HOST-$db-$DATE.sql.gz

if [[ -f ${DEST}${GZ_FILENAME} ]]; then
echo "Backup file ${DEST}$GZ_FILENAME already exists for today. Exiting."
gen_email $SEND_EMAIL $TMP_MSG_FILE 1 "Error: Backup files ${DEST}$GZ_FILENAME: already exists for today."
elif  [ "$skipdb" == "-1" ] ; then
# connect to mysql using mysqldump for select mysql database
# and pipe it out to gz file in backup dir
mysqldump -u root --quote-names --opt --single-transaction --quick $db | gzip -cf > $DEST$HOST-$db-$DATE.sql.gz
ERR=$?
if [ $ERR != 0 ]; then
NOTIFY_MESSAGE="Error: $ERR, while backing up database: $db"
logger -i -t ${syslogtag} "MySQL Database Backup FAILED; Database: $db"
else
NOTIFY_MESSAGE="Successfully backed up database: $db "
logger -i -t ${syslogtag} "MySQL Database Backup Successful; Database: $db"
fi
gen_email $SEND_EMAIL $TMP_MSG_FILE 1 "$NOTIFY_MESSAGE"
echo $NOTIFY_MESSAGE
fi
done

ENDTIME=$(date +%s)
DIFFTIME=$(( $ENDTIME - $STARTTIME ))
DUMPTIME="$(($DIFFTIME / 60)) minutes and $(($DIFFTIME % 60)) seconds."

# Empty line in email and stdout
gen_email $SEND_EMAIL $TMP_MSG_FILE 1 ""
echo ""

# Log Time
gen_email $SEND_EMAIL $TMP_MSG_FILE 1 "mysqldump took: ${DUMPTIME}"
echo "mysqldump took: ${DUMPTIME}"

# Empty line in email and stdout
gen_email $SEND_EMAIL $TMP_MSG_FILE 1 ""
echo ""

#Make sure we have a minimum number of files.  If we don't than e-mail.
DATABASE_COUNT=$(mysql -u root -e 'show databases;' | egrep -v '^Database$|hold$' | grep -v 'performance_schema\|information_schema'| wc -l)
BACKUP_COUNT=$(find ${DEST} -maxdepth 1 -iname '*.gz' | wc -l)
if [ $BACKUP_COUNT -eq 0 ]
then
NOTIFY_MESSAGE="No backup files exist in $DEST. total files: $BACKUP_COUNT  ERROR!!!!"
gen_email $SEND_EMAIL $TMP_MSG_FILE 1 "$NOTIFY_MESSAGE"
echo $NOTIFY_MESSAGE
elif  [ $BACKUP_COUNT -le  $((($DATABASE_COUNT) * ${DAYS_KEPT})) ]
then
NOTIFY_MESSAGE="Only found $BACKUP_COUNT backup files. No cleanup will be done at this time.";
gen_email $SEND_EMAIL $TMP_MSG_FILE 1 "$NOTIFY_MESSAGE"
echo $NOTIFY_MESSAGE
elif [ $BACKUP_COUNT -gt $((($DATABASE_COUNT) * ${DAYS_KEPT})) ]
then
NOTIFY_MESSAGE="$BACKUP_COUNT backup files over the amount. Cleanup to occur on $DEST"
gen_email $SEND_EMAIL $TMP_MSG_FILE 1 "$NOTIFY_MESSAGE"
echo $NOTIFY_MESSAGE
fi

# Empty line in email and stdout
gen_email $SEND_EMAIL $TMP_MSG_FILE 1 ""
echo ""

#Delete backups older than 5 days
total_backup=$(ls -tr $DEST | wc -l)
TO_DELETE=$(find ${DEST} -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname "*.sql.gz" -daystart -mtime +    $(($DELETE_BACKUPS_OLDER_THAN_DAYS-1)) -print | sort | head -n $total_backup)
if [ -n "$TO_DELETE" ]
then
echo "Deleting the following files: $TO_DELETE"
NOTIFY_MESSAGE="Deleting the following files: $TO_DELETE "
gen_email $SEND_EMAIL $TMP_MSG_FILE 1 "Deleting: $TO_DELETE: "
echo $TO_DELETE | xargs rm
echo "Files deleted."
NOTIFY_MESSAGE="OK: Files deleted."
else
NOTIFY_MESSAGE="No files to delete."
fi

gen_email $SEND_EMAIL $TMP_MSG_FILE 1 "$NOTIFY_MESSAGE"
echo "$NOTIFY_MESSAGE"

# Empty line in email and stdout
gen_email $SEND_EMAIL $TMP_MSG_FILE 1 ""
echo ""

for i in ${DEST}*.sql.gz
do
#Check to make sure we have a backup from today. If we don't then e-mail
if [[ ! -f ${DEST}/${GZ_FILENAME} ]]; then
echo "Today's backup file, ${DEST}/${GZ_FILENAME}, not found.";
NOTIFY_MESSAGE="Today's backup file, ${DEST}/${GZ_FILENAME}, not found.";
gen_email $SEND_EMAIL $TMP_MSG_FILE 1 "$NOTIFY_MESSAGE"
fi

#Make sure the backups has some reasonable size to it. If it doesn't then e-mail
SIZE_BYTES=$(stat -c%s ${i} )
SIZE=$(( SIZE_BYTES + 512 / 1024 ))
if [[ ! $SIZE -gt $MIN_BACKUP ]]; then
echo "Backup file: ${i} is smaller than the expected size.  Expecting > ${MIN_BACKUP} bit and got ${SIZE} bit";
NOTIFY_MESSAGE="Backup file: ${i} is smaller than the expected size.  Expecting > ${MIN_BACKUP} bit and got ${SIZE} bit";
gen_email $SEND_EMAIL $TMP_MSG_FILE 1 "$NOTIFY_MESSAGE"
fi
done

# Empty line in email and stdout
gen_email $SEND_EMAIL $TMP_MSG_FILE 1 ""
echo ""

# Disk space stats of backup file system
if [ $SEND_EMAIL -eq 1 ]; then
$DF -h "$DEST" >> "$TMP_MSG_FILE"
fi
$DF -h "$DEST"

# Empty line in email and stdout
gen_email $SEND_EMAIL $TMP_MSG_FILE 1 ""
echo ""

# Memory stats of file system
gen_email $SEND_EMAIL $TMP_MSG_FILE 1 "Memory status on $HOST: "
echo "Memory status on $HOST: "
if [ $SEND_EMAIL -eq 1 ]; then
$FREE -m -h >> "$TMP_MSG_FILE"
fi
$FREE -m -h

# Empty line in email and stdout
gen_email $SEND_EMAIL $TMP_MSG_FILE 1 ""
echo ""

# List of current backup files email and stdout
gen_email $SEND_EMAIL $TMP_MSG_FILE 1 "List of current backup files: "
echo "List of current backup files: "
if [ $SEND_EMAIL -eq 1 ]; then
$DU -hsc --time --apparent-size ${DEST}* >> "$TMP_MSG_FILE"
fi
$DU -hsc --time --apparent-size ${DEST}*

# Empty line in email and stdout
gen_email $SEND_EMAIL $TMP_MSG_FILE 1 ""
echo ""

# Sending notification email and cleanup of temporary file
if [ $SEND_EMAIL -eq 1 ]; then
$MAIL -s "$NOTIFY_SUBJECT" "$NOTIFY_EMAIL" < "$TMP_MSG_FILE"
rm -f "$TMP_MSG_FILE"
fi

exit

Set the crontab job to the following using crontab -e.  This will run every Sunday at Midnight.
$sudo crontab -e
0 0 * * 0 /path to backup file/nightly_mysql_backup.sh

You can use gunzip to uncompress the sql.gz file.

A: automysqlbackup is a fairly good tool for maintaining backups of mysql databases. Not sure if it can be directed to only do weekly backups, but it will rotate backups on weekly and monthly basis.

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Dongfeng Race Team, MAPFRE and Team SCA will face protest hearings when they finish Leg 7 in Lisbon on Wednesday. The ISAF-appointed independent international jury will be hearing four cases during the Lisbon stopover after alleged breaches of sailing rules during Leg 7 of the Volvo Ocean Race, it was announced today.
Team SCA are to answer two cases: that they sailed against the traffic flow in a Traffic Separation Scheme (TSS), and, additionally, into a Rhode Island Sound exclusion zone.
Dongfeng Race Team and MAPFRE are also facing protests that they sailed against the traffic flow in a TSS.
The Race Committee has brought all the cases to the jury, which has a range of penalties at its disposal from taking no action to disqualification.
No date has yet been set for the hearings although race organisers say they want to have them settled as soon as possible following the fleet's expected arrival in Lisbon on Wednesday (May 27).
Matt Knighton on Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing, reported in his blog on the 19 May that they watched on their nav computer as Dongfeng, Mapfre, and SCA sailed deeper and deeper into the Traffic Safety Separation Exclusion Zone against the traffic flow.
An informative and entertaining quiz show based on the race and life on board, presented to you by a host who will guide you through a 40 minute program. The public will be divided into 7 teams and compete by both answering questions (through voting-boxes), and participating in physical challenges.


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Ohio, Idaho and Delaware Report Equine WNV Cases
New cases of equine West Nile virus (WNV) have been reported in these states.
Three states have reported new cases of West Nile virus (WNV), with two of four reported as being euthanized.
The Delaware State Veterinarian has confirmed two cases of West Nile virus in Kent County.
A 3-year-old Standardbred mare at a private facility showed an onset of clinical signs on August 19, 2018, including ataxia. Diagnostic testing at the National Veterinary Services Laboratory confirmed WNV. The vaccination status of the horse is unknown.
An unvaccinated 2-year-old Thoroughbred filly at a private facility showed an onset of clinical signs on August 24, including fever, mild ataxia, pharyngeal paralysis, flaccid tongue, inability to swallow a nasogastric tube, and a stuporous demeanor. The horse is receiving treatment.
The Idaho State Veterinarian has confirmed a case of West Nile virus in Jerome County. A 10-year-old Quarter Horse stallion at a private facility showed an onset of neurological signs on August 24, including ataxia, subsequent recumbency and inability to rise. PCR on blood at University of California Davis confirmed WNV. Vaccination status is unknown and the horse was euthanized.
This is Idaho's third confirmed case of equine WNV in 2018.
The Ohio Department of Agriculture confirmed a case of West Nile virus in a 3-year-old Standardbred mare in Holmes County. On August 18, the horse exhibited stiffness, lip droop, tremors and ataxia over a five-day period and was unresponsive to medical therapy. The horse was euthanized on August 22.
After determining that brain tissue was negative for rabies, PCR assay at the Ohio ADDL detected WNV nucleic acid in brain stem tissue of this horse. The horse was not vaccinated against WNV.
This is the second WNV-positive horse from Holmes County and the fourth case in Ohio in 2018.
Ohio, Idaho And Delaware Reported New Cases Of West Nile Virus In August 2018
Wisconsin Reports New Equine WNV Cases
The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection confirmed three new cases of equine West Nile virus (WNV).
California and Ohio Equine WNV Confirmed
Four of six horses confirmed with West Nile virus (WNV) died or were euthanized.
California Reports Strangles and 21st Equine WNV Case for 2017
California has reported a strangles quarantine from late November and its 21st case of equine West Nile virus (WNV).
New York State Reports Five Equine WNV Cases
The New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets has confirmed five new cases of equine West Nile virus.
Washington State Reports Equine WNV Case
The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) reports that West Nile virus (WNV) has been confirmed in a horse in Kittitas County.
Equine WNV Reported in California, Virginia and Iowa
Confirmed cases of West Nile virus (WNV) were reported in horses from Virginia, Iowa and California.
Ontario Reports EEE and WNV Cases in Horse Population
Ontario, Canada, has reported additional cases of Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) and equine West Nile virus (WNV).
Wisconsin's 12th Equine EEE Case; Idaho Confirms More Equine WNV
Wisconsin reported an EEE death in a horse and Idaho reported another equine WNV case.
Wisconsin Reports Equine WNV and EEE
Wisconsin has new cases of Eastern equine encephalitis and West Nile virus in its horse population.


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Grimas Compact Powder is a compressed matt powder that can be used as basic make-up or for powdering off. Compact Powder can be applied directly to the skin or on top of Grimas Cake Make-up, Foundation, Camouflage Make-up Pure and Crème Make-up Pure to give the skin an even or matt finish, or to affect the colour further.
To model (shape) the face and emphasise the bone structure, use Grimas Compact Powder (no. 9).
Compact Powder is available in the system pack A4 (8 gram) + C1.
Compact Powder is available in white, off-white and various skin tones from light to dark.
Improper use: Assessed according to the standard of consuming regularly the content of the largest package size ( 8 g ) .
Take the Compact Powder out with a velour powder puff. Test the colour intensity on the hand. You apply the Compact Powder evenly from top to bottom. Work the base out properly, up into the hairline, and do not forget the ears and neck. This is how you avoid a mask-like effect.
You can remove the Compact Powder with Grimas Cleansing Milk. Cleanse the skin afterwards with Grimas Cleansing Lotion.


In the November 30 Day Challenge, I successfully painted 3 painting each day or more, at the end of the month I had made over 120 pieces of work all of the paintings were for sale, mostly at £30 each with 30% split between my three nominated Charities Compassion in World Farming, Mousehole Bird Hospital and Cornwall Wildlife Trust.
I have just posted 3 cheques to the charities each for £300 which gives me a great deal of pleasure as I would not have been able to donate that amount of money directly. I am very grateful to everyone who has followed and supported me throughout both of my challenges, many people offering kind words, encouragement and suggestions for subject matter. About half way through November I asked if anyone would like a dog painted, within minutes I was inundated with photos…I realised that if I was to paint them all in the November challenge I would not have been able to paint anything else, so I decided to paint the Dogs in December. I cant share them as some were commissioned for Christmas presents but will do in the new year.
At the beginning of November I tried to adopt a Greyhound from the Retired Greyhound Trust, but despite her settling in very quickly and being absolutely adorable from the minute I met her, I soon realised that my smallholding with low walls, croft land, feral cats (who run as soon as they see anything) and rabbits a plenty, would have meant a life on a lead for her. So I very sadly had to return her after a very short foster period. Knowing that I couldn't help the work of the Trust by adopting a dog, I decided to donate the 30% of the sale price of the Dog paintings to them and I have so far raised £160 for them, which is again brilliant.
You can have a look at my shop to see the remaining Challenge paintings for a little while longer (some of my favourites are still there!) and you can pop over to my website to see the paintings that I made in the September and November Challenges.
So the question is what should I do next?
Quite a few people asked if I would paint their cats, horses and other pets, so I may do this in the New Year, I am also planning a number of exhibitions and I hope that my work will be spreading its wings and going in to a few more galleries around the country before spring, I am planning a number of more immersive projects too and will let you know how they go.
I hope you all have a wonderful festive season and an inspired 2015.
Best wishes and many thanks for all your support.


Eve's back and she's shining brighter than ever! Christmas is coming early because ET has your exclusive first look at the full trailer for Life Size 2 before it premieres Sunday, Dec. 2 during Freeform's "25 Days of Christmas."
It's been eighteen years since Tyra Banks last stepped into Eve's perfectly accessorized heels, and we're pleased to see from this new trailer that she's just as perfectly precocious as we remember.


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Airlines decision between Boeing and Airbus usually have "government assistance" (1)
Government assistance to help Airbus or Boeing is not surprising. It just make the WTO case hypocritical as whether a company receives subsidies or get diplomatic assistance amounts to the same thing.
There are two examples of government assistance or lobby linked to A350 XWB.
Air France order from September/2011 for #25 787 and #25 A350 XWB
Les Echos wrote in 2011: As Air France is about to make the biggest order in its history (about 100 long-haul aircrafts), more and more pressure is being put on Air France's CEO Pierre-Henri Gourgeon, to pick Airbus' A350 XWB over Boeing 787. UMP deputy, Bernard Carayon, initiated a text aimed at pressuring Pierre-Henri Gourgeon to pick Airbus. The text insinuated that this decision would influence shareholders when deciding to re-elect him for another mandate. However, this threat is not credible, since the state only owns 15.7% of Air France's capital and has 3 trustees out of 15, leaving the government with little power to choose Air France's CEO.
In 2012, Bernard Carayon, the same politician of the conservative UMP party, said Gourgeon was fired because he was pushing for Air France to buy aircraft made by Boeing instead of planes assembled in France by Airbus, a unit of EADS. Carayon said he had been able to thwart that attempt by organizing a cross-party lobby of 186 French deputies.
Carayon intend to close the mouth of the former Air France CEO when described as "indecent" a EUR400,000 golden handshake for Pierre-Henri Gourgeon who was fired last year, at a time when the airline's personnel is threatened with job cuts. He called on Gourgeon to relinquish his claim to the departure bonus.


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Q: How to get timestamp like this : 0000-00-00 00:00:00.000000 in php How to output the current time like this 0000-00-00 00:00:00.000000 in php?
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Q: Could some please explain Date maxDate = list.stream().map(u -> u.date).max(Date::compareTo).get(); Could some one please explain this:
Date maxDate = list.stream().map(u -> u.date).max(Date::compareTo).get();

A: Date maxDate =
    list.stream() // create a Stream<TheElementTypeOfTheList>
        .map(u -> u.date) // map each element of a Date, thus creating a Stream<Date>
        .max(Date::compareTo) // find the max Date of the Stream
        .get(); // return that max Date (will throw an exception if the
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A: The easiest to understand would be to decompose that into smaller pieces. Imagine a class that holds a Date object:
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    public Date date;

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Stream<Date> s2 = s1.map(u -> u.date);

// consumes the stream by invoking max using the compareTo method
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Norway House Cree Nation Statement on COVID-19 Vaccines
by Jaiden Sandberg | Jan 11, 2021 | COVID-19, COVID-19 Vaccine, Media releases | 0 comments
To view this media release in a PDF format, please click here. Photo in banner is of Veronica Apetagon, one of the first Norway House Cree Nation residents to receive their COVID-19 vaccine.
Norway House Cree Nation receiving their first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines.
Treaty Five Territory, Norway House Cree Nation, MB – Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak (MKO) Inc. is issuing this statement on behalf of the Norway House Cree Nation (NHCN) to provide an update on COVID-19 vaccines. The Moderna vaccine started arriving in First Nation communities in Northern Manitoba on January 7, 2021.
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie and Veronica Apetagon were the first Norway House residents to receive their vaccines.
Chief Larson Anderson shared the following on behalf of his entire Council:
"The first 240 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Norway House Cree Nation on January 7. This batch is designated for Pinaow Wachi Personal Care Home Elders and staff; as well as Elders who are 70 years and older.
NHCN accepted the Moderna vaccine as it is more stable, mobile, and suitable for transporting in northern remote communities.
Early in the pandemic, NHCN imposed strict lockdown and isolation measures, knowing there were challenging conditions that could cause rapid spread with devastating outcomes. Shortage of housing, limited health care services, and underlying health issues are all part of the fight. We fought really hard to keep the virus out while trying to maintain a sense of balance mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Photo in banner is of Leslie Apetagon, one of the first Norway House Cree Nation residents to receive their COVID-19 vaccine.
As a new Chief of a First Nation, this experience is like being part of a crew on a boat in the vast ocean. Sadly, the boat has many leaks and damages and is in constant need of repairs. The pandemic is like a massive storm that is battering the boat and making an already dangerous situation more critical. NHCN is extremely fortunate to have a very resilient and determined crew to keep our nation afloat. As a result, we kept the COVID-19 virus out of our community for eight months. To date, we have had 48 positives in Norway House and in Winnipeg. Currently, we have five active cases in Winnipeg and no active ones in Norway House.
Now that we have the vaccine coming into our community, we see a light at the end of the tunnel. We will continue to practice all the fundamentals that have worked for us. Wear your mask! Stay six feet apart! Wash your hands! Stay home when you are sick!
Thank you for the prayers and everyone continue to stay safe! Ekosani."
Chief Larson Anderson
Florence Duncan, Director of Health
Melanie Ferris, MKO Communications
Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak Inc. (MKO) is a non-profit, political advocacy organization that has represented 26 First Nation communities in Manitoba's North since 1981. The MKO represents more than 72,000 First Nations people.


source: Whitby This Week July 8 2015 Edition.
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Why Is It Raining so Much This Year?
The atmosphere has been heaving rain at the eastern U.S. like kids lob water balloons at a water fight. The never-ending barrage of rain has left the Midwest flooded, the Gulf of Mexico primed for a huge dead zone, and New Yorkers who walk everywhere stuck with perennially soggy shoes.
And the rain won't stop soon.
Another five inches is in the forecast for the already waterlogged Midwest this week, and the threat of severe weather and locally heavy downpours extends to parts of the Ohio River Valley and Mid-Atlantic over the next few days. As I write this, rain is rattling off my window in Times Square. It's a familiar sound in this, the wettest 12-month period for the U.S. on record. I'm as sick of it as you are. So, what hell's the deal with this incessant rain?
Not surprisingly, there are a few factors at play. We've been unlucky enough to have a number of natural climate shifts all flip into positions that usher damp weather into the eastern U.S. The big three in question are El Niño, the Madden Julian Oscillation, and the North Atlantic Oscillation.
This Spring's Flooding Crisis Is Part of a Bigger Pattern for the U.S.
The United States has faced historic flooding this spring. From the Midwest to California to the…
The former two are pretty closely related and have had a strong influence on the jet stream, a river of air that comes rushing over the Pacific. In May, the jet stream was persistently aimed in a way that turned the month into an extension of rainy winter for normally dry-by-that-time California, in addition to helping whip up severe weather in the Midwest.
That's partly because of the Madden Julian Oscillation, a roving band of thunderstorms on the edge of the Indian and Pacific oceans that were grouped in a way that kicked the jet stream into high gear. Bob Henson, a meteorologist with The Weather Company's Weather Underground, told Earther the weak El Niño—a recurrent climate pattern characterized by warm waters in the eastern tropical Pacific "likely played a role" as well.
Then there's the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) characterized by the air pressure differences over Iceland and the Azores. When the NAO in a negative phase, it tends to send more storms streaming across the eastern U.S. As bad luck would have it, the NAO flipped to negative in May in a big way. In fact, it was the fourth biggest negative anomaly ever recorded according to the National Centers for Environmental Information. The NAO has stayed negative into June, which has kept the rain flowing (and also contributed to a major heat wave-induced melt across Greenland last week).
When all the natural switches flip to rain, climate change can help supercharge it. And warmer-than-usual oceans—one of the prime symptoms of climate change—on the Gulf and Pacific coasts have provided ample direct fuel for storms to come in hot and heavy.
Climate change in the Arctic could also be playing a role in driving the active weather pattern. Jennifer Francis, a senior scientist at Woods Hole Research Center who has studied how Arctic sea ice loss can affect weather to the south, told Earther two strong areas of high pressure have been camped out over the north Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Both have blocked the jet stream from moving out of its current configuration, helping ensure that the moisture tap keeps flowing.
"[S]ea ice extent is extremely low in the vicinity of the blocking highs, which suggests the warming associated with the low ice cover is helping sustain those blocking highs," she said. "This is all consistent with the proposed linkages between a rapidly warming Arctic and persistent weather patterns."
So basically, all the stars from natural climate patterns to our changing climate seem to have lined up against the U.S. But ironically, all the rain that's fallen is yet another reason why it's raining so much now.
Historic flooding has sent rivers overtopping banks and kept soils soaked like a sponge that's been sitting in a sink full of dishwater. That means that the already turbulent weather coming over the U.S. can tap the soggy soil, sucking more water up by evaporation and then dumping still more rain on the ground, kind of like wringing out that sponge.
"Often it takes a major, sustained shift in large-scale weather features to break the cycle, and we haven't had such a shift yet," Henson said.
Scientists Just Installed the World's Highest Weather Station in Mount Everest's 'Death Zone'
The US Just Set Yet Another Record for Being Extremely Wet
The Gulf of Mexico's 'Dead Zone' Could Balloon to Over 8,000 Square Miles This Summer


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CIE » Newsroom » BioTech leader asks New Zealand to dig deeper for Impact
BioTech leader asks New Zealand to dig deeper for Impact
University of Auckland alumna Ipshita Mandal-Johnson is the CEO of the Global Bio Fund, an impact fund with a world-leading approach to growing diverse entrepreneurs (especially women-led companies) addressing global challenges. She says that New Zealand is full of talent and innovation that the world is crying out for but needs to aim higher to share its gifts at scale globally and be impact driven.
Global Bio Fund (GBF) is building the world's first seed accelerator fund focused on the best diverse entrepreneurial teams addressing global challenges in healthcare, food security and climate change. It operates to serve a number of functions – building research and learning experiences through an open network of thought leaders and entrepreneurs, sharing knowledge through consulting and advisory services to raise capital or scale businesses, and directly investing through two vehicles: the Global Bio Xcellerator (GBX) and the Global Bio Fund (GBF). Ipshita says that GBF is driven by real challenges and values. "We need to build ideas, companies and ventures in the bio/ life sciences sector that are impact-focused. Value creation is evolving beyond current short-term shareholder returns and purely financial capitalistic models to a triple bottom line approach with people, planet and then profit."
The projects that GBF supports address audacious global challenges that require innovation, diversity and a passion for social and environmental justice – attributes that New Zealanders hold in abundance. However, Ipshita says the New Zealanders are held back by a limited approach to entrepreneurship. "Kiwi innovation is ingenious and creative, however it has lacked a growth mindset with limited access to markets and financial capital to scale up. Firstly, we are a small country so we need to strategise specific innovation areas of excellence and build up these Cores of Excellence as world-leading hotspots. Secondly, most kiwi start-ups are constrained to the New Zealand and Australian markets and need to be thinking of global markets from the outset to ensure they bring in like-minded experts, customers and investors." Ipshita also suggests that there is an area where New Zealand could particularly thrive. "Meeting local development needs and meeting environmental and social goals through innovative business models of social entrepreneurship and impact investing is the new global trend, and New Zealand needs to catch up if not be leading this space."
Ipshita herself is a great example of how proverbial mighty trees start from small seeds. She was a self-described "nerdy kid" who enjoyed digging up the garden to look for microbes and building periscopes to use in hide-and-seek missions. Though she was always interested in science, her interest in entrepreneurship was first planted at Mt Roskill Grammar School (Young Enterprise NZ) and the seed grew through involvement with Chiasma and the University of Auckland Business School's Velocity (then, Spark) entrepreneurship programme, which she participated in alongside her formal Biotechnology studies. As her knowledge and confidence grew, her networking and entrepreneurially-minded approach to life have opened up opportunities.
Ipshita hopped from the University of Auckland to Cambridge to Harvard. At Cambridge she presented her research work to 6 Nobel prize winners in biology and chemistry at the CEICS Nobel Campus. It's a moment in her biography which makes one wonder about the amount of confidence required for a presentation like that. Ipshita says that she gets her drive from putting purpose at the heart of her approach to life and leadership. "I've found that making leadership to be less about myself and more about personal values of impact, service to others, knowledge and wellbeing has brought the untapped energy or passion behind every project to solve the problem at stake." It's an approach that has worked. As a result of her team's presentation to the Nobel prize winners, the team won the Cambridge University Entrepreneurs Award and the technology has been further developed by corporates Astrazeneca and Cytiva.
Ipshita's ongoing list of achievements are staggering. At McKinsey New York she led one of the Top 5 Pharma M&A deals as Chief of Staff for a deal valued at $60B USD. She was one the first few employees at synthetic biology/chemistry start-up Nanna Therapeutics that was eventually bought by Astellas, a Japanese pharma giant, for an overall deal value of close to $90M USD to boost the development of drugs for age-related conditions and cancer. She also co-founded the highly impactful Global Biotech Revolution / GapSummit in 2012 – the world's first inter-generational platform for the bio-economy. The summits have brought together approximately 600 Leaders of Tomorrow from 72 countries to debate with over 300 Leaders of Today from industry, academia and government. In addition, the summits have generated over 120 venture teams and 18 have started companies, supported by more than 70 organisations including the WHO, UN, Nature, BBC, BIO, Facebook and Johnson and Johnson. Her passion to drive the summit highlights her belief in the power of community.
Ipshita is currently based in Boston. As well as leading the Global Bio Fund, Ipshita conducts research and teaching at Harvard School of Public Health. She is currently preparing to move back to New Zealand in the middle of 2021 where she plans to invest in early stage start-ups via GBF and contribute to New Zealand's knowledge economy. Going forward, she says she wants to continue to lobby for Bio Innovation, which she sees as having a unique role to play in solving challenges in healthcare, food security and climate change. "I want to keep serving at the intersection of bio, innovation and impact, addressing the planet, people, and then profit through my portfolio of work, especially through the Global Bio Fund."
Ipshita's top 3 tips for new founders
Team: "Build a founding team of diverse backgrounds and don't get caught up on share structures and positions too early – focus on building the idea/venture. Some of my best venture experiences have been with co-founders who share a vision, know how to have a good time together, and aren't afraid to challenge each other."
Market: "Take the time to build a market strategy for a platform technology/solution and test it as soon as possible with customers (B2B or B2C) to develop a phased growth plan and find like-minded early team members and investors. Many scientists and engineers try to perfect their product. I learnt that it was never too early to start talking to multiple stakeholders and get them involved in the development as early as possible."
Social capital: "The power of networking- across disciplines, industries and generational gaps. Also taking the time to deepen relationships and problem-solve around the next steps of venture growth with them. The openness and kindness of kiwis to have a coffee and connect you with anyone and everyone still strikes me as one of its best attributes of New Zealand."


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Terry Lucking, Belvoir
Terry Lucking is the award-winning owner of Belvoir Peterborough, Corby and Cambridge and also contributes to the world of franchising by chairing the Proud to Franchise Initiative Networking Group in Peterborough.
"I created the Networking Group in Peterborough in 2007, believing franchise owners would have a much more powerful voice if we pooled our resources.
"The purpose of the organisation is primarily to grow the value of our businesses by pulling franchise owners together, networking and sharing initiatives. We also aim to improve consumer confidence by raising the public's understanding and perceptions of franchising.
"We have 15 members actively involved in the group and I chair bi-monthly meetings, where we network and forward plan - including organising our Proud to Franchise quarterly exhibitions where we display our products and encourage the public to come and talk to us.
"I've also approached my local evening paper about creating a franchise page in order to raise the profile further. They took my idea on board and now print a monthly page dedicated to franchising.
"Investing in a franchise can have huge benefits over starting up alone - instead of being isolated you've got head office to guide and support you, plus access to the knowledge, expertise and energy of scores of other franchise owners in the same industry.
"I am proud of the Belvoir brand and, without a doubt, I'm proud to franchise."
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It's hard to believe that local performance artist Amanda Heng, 60, is holding her first ever solo exhibition after almost 20 years of creating thought-provoking artworks.
Her exhibition "Amanda Heng: Speak To Me, Walk With Me", spread across five galleries at the Singapore Art Museum at 8Q, features works like "Yours Truly, My Body", which is a video showing a younger Heng scrubbing a slab of pig meat with blood to symbolise the pain women go through to beautify themselves through cosmetic surgery.
In another exhibit, Heng hangs up white dresses for baby girls and red threads to commemorate female victims of infanticide in cultures that prefer sons over daughters.
Heng was conferred the Cultural Medallion award in 2010, the highest honour given to artists who have attained artistic excellence. The local contemporary artist is known for her pioneering explorations into gender and family issues in her art.
This exhibition surveys over two decades of her prolific career, presenting a body of work that covers photography, installation, performance and public art.
At a media tour of her exhibition, Heng cheekily talked about how one of her installations, "Tiger Balls, Myths and Chinese Man" was a response to a sexist comment made about women.
She had painted several basketballs with tiger stripes and laid them out on a traditional blanket used for Chinese weddings.
In 1991, fellow contemporary artist Tang Da Wu created an installation called "Tiger's Whip" to address the problem of Chinese men eating tiger penises as an aphrodisiac.
"Somebody made a comment after seeing Tiger's Whip saying it's all because of women's expectation of men that men have to resort to find aphrodisiac. I wanted to respond to that comment," said Heng, co-founder of Women in the Arts.
The art collective seeks to advance the feminist art movement in Singapore, a faction of art that is especially close to her heart.
"Often when there's anything negative, it's so convenient to blame it on the women. During the performance, Da Wu used the sound of a bouncing basketball to represent the sound of the heartbeat. So I took that as a reference and painted the basketballs with tiger stripes," she explained.
The artist in her silver-grey braids said she talks a lot about community identity and urges other Singaporean artists to find their uniqueness.
"Often, there's this misconception that when you deal with things that are very specific to Singapore, the international market will not be interested in it but we are all interested in British or American or German art because they have a certain uniqueness in them," she said.
"This is what we lack in Singapore and we have to work hard on that. ... When we put ourselves out there in the market, we are nowhere because we just can't compare to the people with very very strong uniqueness about them," she added.
"Amanda Heng: Speak To Me, Walk With Me" is open from 7 October 2011 to 1 January 2012 at the Singapore Art Museum. The admission fees are S$10 for adults and $5 for students, senior citizens and NSFs.


When it comes to getting the marine conservation message out, 2016 has been a busy year for the S.E.A. Aquarium team.
Working with Singapore's grassroots communities, the team took part in six community outreach events for the public at various locations around Singapore. It was especially heartening to see children engaging with the marine creatures and learning about marine life at these events.
So far, S.E.A. Aquarium has managed to share the importance of protecting the oceans with about 15,000 people, both young and old.
The final event of the year was held at Teck Ghee Constituency as part of their New Year's Eve Countdown Celebration. Residents got up-close with marine animals at the touch pool, made shark craft, and learnt about the importance of marine conservation through games.
Learning about various marine life and how humans can protect them.
Who said colouring is only for kids?
The event was a great opportunity for family bonding.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong getting hands-on at the marine touch-pool.


Morro & Jasp: Go Bake Yourself, produced in the Next Stage Theatre Festival, is a clown version of a cooking show. The first course is hors d'oeuvres, which is funny; the second course is comfort food, which is funnier still; the final course is a special homemade recipe which is ludicrously, laugh-a-nanosecond funny.
There is physical comedy and prop comedy galore, and audience interaction that is enjoyable, not painful (however, if you are extremely shy never sit in the front row at a clown show.) There is also a lot of mess, though it's (mostly) on the performers and the set, not the audience members. Hey, what do you expect from a couple of clowns in a kitchen?
And there is the moment of darkness: an aspect of this is essential to a clown play. In Morro & Jasp: Go Bake Yourself there is a moment where a loud chipper-sounding hubbub is created from words that, if you listen, tell a story of private despair. This is what gives clown its depth, as it colours everything that comes afterwards so that a simple jape can be profoundly sad underneath, which makes the joke itself more wickedly funny.
At the show I attended there was a little girl in the audience, who was involved in one of the audience participation pieces, and when it was over she loudly exclaimed, "That was the funniest show I've ever seen!" That's pretty high praise indeed.
Note for parents: If you are considering bringing a child to the show be aware that there is a couple of cannabis related jokes as well as the moment of darker material that I mentioned. I would recommend it for most ages, but I'm pretty liberal like that.


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Solar Award Nominations are Open
The Solar Heating and Cooling Award of the IEA SHC Programme celebrates the success of those working to increase the market impact of this renewable energy source.
New at IEA SHC: Solar neighbourhood planning
Case study reporting by research platform Solar Energy in Urban Planning has recently concluded with the publication of an interactive map showing 34 case studies altogether. They demonstrate that solar energy can be integrated successfully into new and existing urban areas.
IEA SHC Solar Academy: Solar Planning in Times of Rapid City Growth
Urban planning is a highly complex issue, especially if it involves low-carbon living solutions and environmental regulations. The main objective of the international group of researchers working in Task 51, Solar Energy in Urban Planning, has been to "support planners, architects, and local and national authorities in creating urban areas with architecturally integrated solar solutions in mind."
IEA SHC Task 51: Challenges in Urban Planner Education
Cities and large municipalities all around the world have taken the lead in sustainability, and urban planners find themselves in the important position of having to devise solutions for integrating renewable and energy efficiency measures at local level.
IEA SHC Task 51: German Summer School Educates Students on Solar Urban Planning
The summer school called City in Transition (Stadt im Wandel) ended with a public presentation of the project designs from four student groups on Monday, 26 September, in Berlin, Germany.
IEA SHC: Attractive Solar Solutions for Urban and Landscape Planning
How can urban planners be convinced to consider solar energy technologies in municipality projects? This is the key challenge faced by the international group of researchers of Task 51,
IEA SHC TASK 51: "Integrate Energy Perspectives into Spatial Planning of Urban Areas"
During COP21 in Paris last December, 1,000 mayors and local leaders pledged themselves to a 100 % renewable future of their municipalities by 2050.
Harmonizing Hashtags in Your Posts
Three major solar heating and cooling institutions – the European Solar Thermal Industry Federation (ESTIF), the IEA Solar Heating and Cooling Programme (IEA SHC) and solarthermalworld.org – have started a campaign to harmonize SHC hashtags on social media.
IEA SHC Task 51: Urban Planners Know Little about Solar Energy Potential
During IEA SHC Task 51, Solar Energy in Urban Planning, the project partners evaluated the legal, process and education issues of solar in urban planning across the twelve member countries.
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