Jim Amos: Small business drives the economy, and making it easier for people to start a business should be the top priority for anyone interested in job creation.
The lending and regulatory environment continued to weigh on franchising in 2012. The International Franchise Association recently lowered its expectations for the year, saying it expects 11,000 new franchise locations to open by Dec. 31, down from an earlier projection of 14,000.
Tight lending continues to be the major obstacle holding back the creation of new franchise businesses, particularly for the smaller franchise organizations that make up 80 percent of the industry. Lending is likely to remain restrained in 2013, and an IFA think tank of franchisors and franchisees is exploring the ramifications.
One thing is certain, though: Small franchise systems will continue to struggle. Based on my 30 years of experience working with franchisees, I can tell you that half of the people who are qualified and who could make great franchise owners are not getting the chance because banks are reluctant to lend.
The lending environment creates a huge advantage for large franchisors like McDonald's, Subway or Papa John's, which are able to self-finance new franchisees, waive fees or defray startup costs. Large franchisors will continue to scale up their operations. Larger franchise systems have another advantage: long track records. To the extent that bankers are willing to lend, they're more comfortable lending to franchisees who are joining an already well-established brand.
One way to lower the lending barrier is to reduce startup costs, making a new franchise more affordable to buy. Retail franchises are responding by shrinking the footprints of their stores and increasing customer traffic per square foot. Commercial real estate agents have typically focused on spaces of about 1,200 square feet, but with careful planning, some franchises can make do with significantly less space. As an example, we recently put three small Tasti D-Lite/Planet Smoothie locations inside Wal-Mart stores in the Nashville area, and 8 more are set to open inside Wal-Mart stores in early 2013.
Lowering expenses has two big benefits: First, it allows more people to qualify for financing and start their own businesses. Second, it means they'll have less debt to pay back, which makes it easier for them to succeed.
Bank lending will eventually recover, but that is likely to take another year or two. In the meantime, the IFA has put together a think tank of franchisors and franchisees to help identify new financing options for people who want to start a business, and there are some wonderful conversations taking place.
It's not just franchisees who can use lending help. Small franchise systems seeking to grow have also had trouble obtaining funds to drive expansion efforts. This is a huge problem for the industry because 80 percent of franchise systems are small companies. The next worldwide brand is somewhere in that pool of entrepreneurs, but it needs loans.
I expect the market to respond. Private equity and/or venture capitalists can pool their resources to invest in an umbrella of companies, splitting the risk that some companies will fail while reaping the benefits as others become giants. As private equity, venture capitalists and other lending resources respond to the marketplace's need, you will soon see an explosion of small- and medium-sized business lending due to pent up demand.
The Franchise Disclosure Document needs to be revisited in its entirety. Its 23 disclosable items have barely changed since the 1970s, and the FDD tends to drive the franchisor-franchisee relationship through audits and compliance rather than trust and open communication.
The industry needs to look at the relationship and analyze what's best for both parties, then look at ways to build a new framework. Companies like McDonald's or The UPS Store need to be governed, but they don't necessarily have the same goals or outcomes, and a one-size-fits-all FDD doesn't make sense.
Can't we agree on a half-dozen things that are most important, such as rules for transferring ownership of a franchise, territory rules, startup costs and ownership of trademarks? Franchisees have access to a wealth of information thanks to the internet and can compare franchisors before making investments, so franchisors that are open with their information will be rewarded. Transparency is king and those companies that employ social media leverage win. At this point, the FDD mainly serves as a regulatory burden that is an ill-fitting suit for many franchises.
Tasti D-Lite chairman and CEO Jim Amos has more than 30 years of experience guiding successful franchise companies such as Mail Boxes Etc. He was inducted into the International Franchise Association's Hall of Fame in February and is co-author of the newly-released book The Tasti D-Lite Way: Social Media Marketing Lessons for Building Loyalty and a Brand Customers Crave (McGraw-Hill).


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Joey Wozniak, painter, whose exhibit "Urban Flowers" is now showing at the Eyeporium Gallery (1431 N. Milwaukee), heads out for:
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Chicago's prairie gardens In the summer I find myself on my bike a lot, more looking for inspiration than the need for exercise. My rides have taken me over to two northwest-side parks. River Park at 5100 N. Francisco and Winnemac Park at Damen and Foster. Both have prairie gardens, or areas that have been let go back to a more natural state. I see these prairies as abstract paintings ready to be found, and I love the forms of the flowers themselves.
Ed Gero, the actor currently playing Mark Rothko in Goodman Theater's Red, studied:
Mark Rothko by James E.B. Breslin
Most of my reading of late has been research related to Rothko's life and work. In that regard Mark Rothko: A Biography, by James E. B. Breslin, is definitive, and provided the psychological and historical foundation for all the character work I've done on the play. It is a comprehensive and meticulously detailed work of some 700 pages, including annotation. It was enormously helpful in gaining insight into Rothko's formative years: migration from Russia, loss of his father at an early age, his sense of being an outsider as child and into his young adulthood, leaving Yale. That was really helpful in getting a handle on his character traits, his ego, his sense of loneliness and drive. Historically, it is a rich work that beautifully sets out the New York art scene of the 30s, 40s, and 50s, giving a palpable sense of this complex, conflicted artistic genius and monumental ego, his colleagues and his period.
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Eiko & Koma
Since my days in NYC during the 1980s attending Brooklyn Academy of Music performances, I have been a fan of dance. While catching up with summer exhibitions, I was thrilled to see Eiko & Koma's installation, Time Is Not Even, Space Is Not Empty, now at the MCA until November 13. Experiencing the empty set and seeing the costumes close-up was intriguing and brought back memories of attending their performances in the past.
The endurance and intensity of the performance can test one's own meditative abilities and remained with me for a long time. It is a chance to experience a unique and amazing partnership in form and movement.
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On Oct. 27 the One Act Team competed at State. They won first place and earned the title of State One Act Champions.
The group performed "The Yellow Boat" by David Saar. "The Yellow Boat" is based on a true story. The author is the father of the main character, Benjamin. It's about a boy that has congenital hemophilia. He contracted AIDS at the age of eight.
Junior Benjamin Lee played Benjamin, senior Dru Denny played Benjamin's mother and senior Logan Wieberdink played his father.
State was held at Owasso High School. At State, the one act performance must only be 45 minutes including setting up, the whole performance and tear down.
Drama's next production is the school musical in the spring. They are performing Disney's Mary Poppins in March.


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On february 22nd till 24th the North Atlantic Handmade Bicycle Show took part in Denver, Colorado. Being one of the most inspiring bike fairs, it is much more closer to the trend and the real cyclist than the commercial fairs serving their own needs and a stereotypic rider that doesn't exist.
Summary: Cyclocrossers are coming back straight from over 110 years ago. And they are still fast. Beside the 29er trend and the fat-bikes as well the re-growing popularity of CX-bikes started several years ago and is still unstoppable. Being first recognized as a small niche of mainly singlespeed Monster-Crossers out there, the re-reborn CXs are combining Monster-Crossers with a versatile and durable do-it-all-every-day-ride.
Internal gear hubs are used to keep it clean and looking like a singlespeed. Drop bars? Of course. Disc-brakes are the coming standard on crossers (some street-, commuter and travel-bikes have them too).
So the pic above is what we've get used to see the next years as the new growing type of bike, the new-age Cyclocrossers, hopefully making the faceless industry-driven 29er obsolete.
Multi-purpose do everything, everyday. Big tires, therefore no suspension, internal gears, disc-brakes, drop-bar. Looking awesome, rides like a dream, faster pussycat, kill kill!
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Q: How to set a Port on Pjsip I am implementing a simple VoIP application using PJSIP library. Sending invite message is working but when the other peer sends TRYING msg, it sends on different port instead of the default 5060 as shown in the figure. Is there a way to set it to default 5060 port?

A: See how pjsua --local-port option is implemented.
But... why would you want to change it? Typically this would be important only for no registration and/or direct IP calls. With fixed listen port you are risking port conflict.

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Recently, I tried a new technique to improve my openness to hearing the voice of God.
This summer I attended the Christians Practicing Yoga retreat in New York, where I meditated twice a day for 20 minutes after each yoga class. The extended meditation was new for me. I usually meditate for 5 minutes at the end of the weekly yoga classes I teach.
I was amazed at how I heard from God during those quiet times of meditation. My mind was not flooded with my daily activities and to-do lists. So now, back at home, I thought I would try this extended meditational time. My usual morning routine begins with a cup of tea and reading from a devotional book. Personally, I like The Power of a Praying Parent and The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie Omartian. After the retreat, however, I decided to try meditating instead.
I sat in my chair but with my legs crossed. I set the timer on my phone for 8 minutes; I didn't want to bite off 20 minutes right away. I planned to increase the time each time I meditated. I focused on my breathing and the rising and falling of my chest. I opened my mind and heart to God.
I was pleasantly surprised when God gave me four different directives during this time. It was like my mind was finally quiet, and I wasn't praying and listing all of my prayer requests. During this 8 minutes of silence, God spoke to me.
On this first day, I was struggling with feelings of depression because my daughter had left for her first year of college the previous day. This was a difficult life transition for both of us. I did not have the opportunity to take our daughter to college; her dad did because our youngest daughter was starting high school the same day, and someone needed to stay home with her.
During that 8 minutes of silence, God spoke life into my heart. He told me to cry and express my emotions whenever I felt like it and not to hold them in because if I did the sadness would make me into a person I did not want to be. He said that I would gain strength through my weakness. I believe crying is a form of healing and helps a person to process their sadness through expressing their emotions.
God also urged me to go to my daughter's convocation at the University of Florida, which would be in four days. After being unable to take her to college, I would be able to visit with my daughter on campus.
God suggested that I find in my journal where my daughter had accepted Christ and to share that with her as she had been asking about it a few days before.
God told me all of this in that eight-minute time period. Can you spare a few minutes to spend time with him?
This site, ChristiansPracticingYoga.com, has a page on Christian Meditation that will help you get started.


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Q: How does this creation of graph using stl library work? I have a doubt in a line given below of this code:
cout<<"("<<c<<","<<(*i).get_vertex()<<") value of this pair : "<<(*i).get_weight()<<", ";
How this get_vertex and get_weight work without the help of class edge object. The code compiled successfully and it's working too but I can't figure out how the above line is working.
Output of the code is:
 Pairs for 0 are -> (0,1) value of this pair : 2, (0,2) value of this pair : 3, (0,3) value of this pair : 4,
 Pairs for 1 are -> (1,2) value of this pair : 5, (1,0) value of this pair : 2,
 Pairs for 2 are -> (2,3) value of this pair : 8, (2,1) value of this pair : 5,
 Pairs for 3 are -> (3,0) value of this pair : 4, (3,2) value of this pair : 8,

Code is given below:
#include<bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;

class edge{

  int weight,vertex;
  public:
    edge(int w , int v){
        weight = w;
        vertex = v;
    }

    int get_weight()const{
        return weight;
    }

    int get_vertex()const{
        return vertex;
    }

};

int main(){

    int n = 4;
    int c = 0;

    vector<list<edge>>adj(n) ;

    adj[0].push_back(edge(2,1));
    adj[0].push_back(edge(3,2));
    adj[0].push_back(edge(4,3));

    adj[1].push_back(edge(5,2));
    adj[1].push_back(edge(2,0));

    adj[2].push_back(edge(8,3));
    adj[2].push_back(edge(5,1));

    adj[3].push_back(edge(4,0));
    adj[3].push_back(edge(8,2));

    vector<list<edge>>:: iterator it ;

    for(it=adj.begin();it!=adj.end();it++){

        cout<<" Pairs for "<<c<<" are -> ";
        list<edge>li = *it;
        list<edge>::iterator i;
        for(i=li.begin();i!=li.end();i++){

            cout<<"("<<c<<","<<(*i).get_vertex()<<") value of this pair : "<<(*i).get_weight()<<", ";
        }
        cout<<endl;
        c++;
    }

}

A: Break it into chunks.
Add whitespace:
cout << "("
     << c
     << ","
     << (*i).get_vertex()
     << ") value of this pair : "
     << (*i).get_weight()
     << ", ";

Does that make more sense?


U.S. Treasury bonds which are issued against the national debt, are the most stable investments in the world. Anyone with an IRA, 401k, etc., who has any portion of their investments in stable funds owns treasury bonds. You can go to your bank and buy Treasury Bonds.
U.S. treasury Bonds are bought by other nations as well.
A portion of may American's retirement is from the maturation of treasury bonds.
Obviously that doesn't help answer the question regarding other nations and their debt, but as for America, there's your answer. And it's why the national debt will never be zero.
The economies of many nations are nothing but a scam. The USA is one of the worst there is.
Let the best deceivers rule the world is the motto we should adopt.
Yup, so the intrest goes to the creators of the money... out of thin air.
Now who has the right to create money? That must be the people right? Or at least the government?
I know the answer.. And i don't like it.
No the interest goes to the people who buy the debt. The government who create the money pay it.
You are not saying who. You are being as elusive as the creditors. Tell us WHO then. Name them, name their companies.
I can't. I have tried.
We know about all the out in the open stuff. It is there in clear daylight. I want to know how much profit Agnelli and Rothschild make PERSONALLY out of the national debts of the nations. We have a right to know that in a democracy. I demand TRANSPARENCY. I want to know all about them. I want to know the names of them and their companies, ALL OF THEM.
Can anybody tell me? Or must I continue to make assumptions based on calculated guesses of observation?
I expect all I will get is a bullet for asking questions like that too often.
Revolution9, just about a week or so ago you went on a pro-Israel rant saying that you would love to work for the Rothschilds. Now this?
I have asked this question many, many times and have come to the conclusion that it's a very big secretive scam.
The money borrowed in the first place and the cumulative debt, including interest was justified, I'll come back to that word, by the IMF.
Now justified means they didn't actually borrow any money just the right to spend more money than they had.
Now the answer you're looking for (and it's the big con) just who is the IMF. Well it's your own country, well 189 countries to be precise. So they are borrowing money off themselves at a higher rate than payback therefore creating the illusion that your country is in massive debt to someone else. Easy aint it.
Quite as easily they could decide as a whole to wipe everyone's debt out, but that would ruin their deception and ruin their reason to tax you to the hilt to pay off the debt instead of using your taxes to better your country.
Anybody who buys a T-bill gets interest. It's not much because interest rates are at historical lows.
Are you seriously this ignorant?
The fed creates bonds and auctions them off to raise money. The institutions that buy the bonds do so to get a safe investment that pays interest. Most bonds are bought up by insurance companies, mutual funds, and pension plans.
So if the interest doesn't get paid who suffers, ordinary Americans for the most part, their insurance rates will go up, their pensions will disappear, and taxpayers may very well be made to bail out the organizations that were counting on this interest being paid to them.
A fair amount of these bonds are held by foreign governments, but the majority are owned by American companies and individuals and the Social Security fund.
None of this information is hidden it's basic economics.


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Q: OpenCL: Better to use more registers, or to pack values using bit-shift operators? In OpenCL, on GPUs, register pressure will reduce occupation rates, so we want to reduce the number of registers used.
In my program, I have tons of values, that are not known at compile time, but are typically in the range 0 to 127.  I'm wondering whether it might be better to pack these into a smaller number of registers, using bit-shift operators, rather than use tons of registers for these?
eg, maybe create some macros like:
#define posToRow( pos ) ( ( pos >> 10 ) & ((1<<10)-1) )
#define posToCol( pos ) ( ( pos ) & ((1<<10)-1) )
#define rowColToPos( row, col ) ( ( row << 10 ) | col )
#define linearIdToPos( linearId, base ) ( rowColToPos( ( linearId / base ), ( linearId % base )  ) )

Thoughts on this?  Any experiences with this?  It would seem that the advantages/disadvantages are:

*

*using bitshift involves slightly more computation (but: bitshifts are fast?)

*... but fewer registers?

A: This will probably not answer your question the way you want it.

In OpenCL, on GPUs, register pressure will reduce occupation rates, so we want to reduce the number of registers used.

Register pressure will indeed reduce occupancy, but that does not imply it will reduce performance as a consequence: it depends on many other factors. If you haven't read it yet, I strongly encourage you to read Vasily Volkov's Better Performance at Lower Occupancy.

I'm wondering whether it might be better to pack these into a smaller number of registers, using bit-shift operators, rather than use tons of registers for these?

A very important rule in a developer's life is "don't optimize yet". This rule still stands even in high-performance code:

*

*First, get your code to work correctly.

*Then, if you find that performance is unsatisfactory and/or could be improved, profile it.

*And then, identify the bottleneck and try to find a solution.

All in all, it is pointless to try to guess in advance about what may or may not create register pressure. Implement, measure, act. Don't try to forecast issues that do not exist yet and may very well never exist at all.
That being said, most of the time (if not always), when writing high-performance code (even "standard" code, actually), the only way to know which option is the fastest between several is to implement all of them and benchmark them. As such, I am afraid your question will have no definitive answer until you do such a benchmark.

A: As most of the answers above already mentioned, be aware not to overoptimize your code.
Are your values typically between 0 and 127 or are these values ALWAYS within this range. Otherwise (you did not mention, if you had already tried): why don't you turn to vector data (unsigned char16)?


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Q: Specific Database Structuring For Fitness Tracking I've been trying to wrap my head around how exactly this database should be modeled. I'm using Ruby on Rails to do a fitness tracking site. What I want is for users to be able to maintain a list of Exercises that they can then use to build and maintain their list of Routines. Then when they actually complete that routine it would make a Workout which would record the information for that one time they did the Routine.
So, the Exercises and Routines are more like templates that a user can use so they don't have to re-enter all the information every time they do it. Where I'm getting confused is how to put this all together. A Routine can have a variable number of Exercises so I know I would need another table just to hold the association between them. My question is how would I be able to record the information each time in the Workout table? I hope this question is clear and below is my current idea for how to model this setup.
Exercise
type:string (will be limited to "strength" or "cardio")
reps:int
weight:float
sets:int
distance:float
totalTime:time

Routine
title:string

Workout
dateTime:dateTime
???
I'm not sure how the recording of actual workout data can go. I can build the templates all day, but the rest eludes me. Any help is appreciated.

A: [Disclaimer: I'm not familiar with Ruby on Rails, so this answer is purely from the database modeling perspective.]
Looks like you need a database structure similar to this:

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*The diagram above only shows the crucial fields for modeling the relationships between tables. Add "meat" on this "skeleton" as required.

*There is a many-to-many relationship between ROUTINE and EXERCISE, so several routines can contain the same exercise (and vice-verse). The model currently allows for exercises to be shared among different users as well - let me know if that's not desirable.

*The ROUTINE_EXERCISE.EXERCISE_NO defines the order of exercises within the given routine. At the same time, ROUTINE_EXERCISE.EXERCISE_ID is not within primary key, allowing for the same exercise to be repeated at multiple "places" within the same routine.

*Routines are currently "private" to the user. If they should be shareable among the users, there would need to be an additional junction table between USER and ROUTINE, and the restriction on who can workout a given routine described below would need to be changed.

*The ROUTINE uses an identifying relationship (ROUTINE.USER_ID is both FK and part of the PK), so when WORKOUT references USER and ROUTINE, it can migrate USER_ID from both of them. This ensures a user cannot do a workout of a routine that belongs to a different user.

*The ROUTINE.ROUTINE_NAME is a human-readable name of the routine, that is unique at the level of the given user, but different users can "reuse" the same name. You could use something like an integer ROUTINE_NO instead, to keep the referencing tables slimmer.

*The WORKOUT's primary key is useful for clustering - essentially, all workouts belonging to the same user will be stored physically close together in the database. Presumably, the WORKOUT table is the one that will grow the most, so having everything nicely "pre-grouped" (by user) and "pre-sorted" (by date/time, for the given user) can benefit performance.

*The WORKOUT.ROUTINE_NAME is NULL-able, so when user changes or deletes a routine, the WORKOUT can be disconnected from it, without being deleted itself. The alternative would be to never modify or delete the ROUTINE, and instead use some form of versioning (for modifications) and a DELETED flag (for deletions). Something along these lines, but simpler.


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Among the arthropods, ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) are an especially diverse and ecologically important group whose social behavior and ecological dominance have been the subject of intense biological study. However, species-level identification by non-specialists are notoriously difficult and present a major impediment to both greater understanding of the roles ant play in the natural world - and access to the fine-grain biodiversity information that ants would provide. This DNA barcoding initiative will speed identifications, and enable confident association of reproductive males and females and permit a greater understanding (and dissemination of that understanding) of ant biology.
DNA barcoding is a scientific proposition based on the hypothesis that a short, standardized segment of the genome can enable species identification and discovery. There is clear evidence that a ca. 650-bp segment positioned near the 5' terminus of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) gene is extraordinarily effective in discriminating members of the animal kingdom, allowing unambiguous identification of a large proportion of animal species in studies that have examined a wide range of taxonomic groups.
A large-scale initiative to identify ant species utilizing COI sequences has been launched by the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario (BIO) at the University of Guelph, and the California Academy of Sciences (CAS) in San Francisco. In order to develop this approach to the identification of ants, a COI barcode reference library must first be established from expertly identified specimens. Once a COI barcode is linked with a named species, query sequences from unidentified specimens can be compared with the reference barcode and identifications are generated based on the result. This initiative has been initiated with programs to identify all ant species in North America as well as generating a database for all invasive (or tramp) ant species globally.
Because there are more than 12,000 species of ant worldwide, no single researcher or institute can carry out this project. However, the task can be completed through an international collaboration involving museum collections and curators, ant ecologists, and ant systematists. Our goal is that all collaborators will benefit from the results of this project - barcode sequences will advance our understanding of ant biology by discovering cryptic species, revealing cases of oversplitting, aiding the description of new species, associating life stages, tracing dispersion histories, and ultimately through the creation of a system for the identification of any life stage of any species.
As part of the "Ant Barcode of Life" campaign, this website serves as a communication platform for myrmecologists, researchers of other domains, amateurs, and all people who are fascinated by these amazing animals. Through this website, one is able to oversee the progress of the barcoding projects and benefit from the reference barcodes that have been deposited in the BOLD systems.
The "Ant Barcode of Life" campaign will be divided into smaller, manageable projects. Depending on the needs of individual campaign participants, ant barcoding projects can be organized based on taxonomy (e.g., world Pheidol), geographic regions (e.g., Ants of North America), or collections (either of a museum or a specific collaborator). Here are a few examples:
Campaign participants can create and manage their own projects on BOLD. As part of the world campaign, the individual project is automatically integrated to the global project and its progress is reported on this website. Project managers can analyze their data using web-based tools provided by BOLD. They have controls on the distribution of data and how and when to publish the projects.
The campaign coordinator is responsible for coordinating projects created by campaign participants from various regions of the world. As the campaign coordinator automatically has access to all ant barcoding projects that are members of the campaign, he/she has the privilege and responsibility to analyze barcode data collected from broader geographic regions and/or on larger taxonomic scales. This allows him/her to communicate with individual project managers and facilitates his/her ability to point out findings such as genetic divergence of species with wide geographic distributions, potential cryptic species, life-stage associations. Sequence data are kept confidential between project managers, project participants, and the campaign coordinator. Project managers maintain authorship to their own data.
The Ant Barcode of Life campaign is being coordinated at the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario (BIO), University of Guelph, Canada and the California Academy of Sciences. The costs for DNA analysis incurred by the campaign are supported by grants towards the International Barcode of Life (iBOL) initiative (www.dnabarcoding.org).
© International Barcode of Life Project, 2010


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This Mysterious 'Maniac' Drug Is Key To Understanding The Whole Show
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By Taylor Maple
Emma Stone and Jonah Hill are the faces of Netflix's new sci-fi series, Maniac, and it's clear from the get-go that their characters are in for a bumpy ride. As Annie (Stone) and Owen (Hill), they play two people so desperate to battle their inner demons that they fall into the supposedly well-intentioned clutches of a weird pharmaceutical drug trial. It's enough to give anyone trippy nightmares, but is U.L.P. from Maniac a real drug?
As you might expect, all signs point to "no," which is great considering that the drug sends Annie and Owen's consciousnesses spiraling into strange alternate dimensions. A fake promotional video for Neberdine Pharmaceutical Biotech — the fictional drug company behind the trial — outlines all the effects U.L.P. is supposed to have on its patients, and while the idea seems nice in theory, it also feels highly suspicious.
According to Dr. James K. Mantleray and his associate, Robert Muramoto, conditions like teeth-grinding, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, body dysmorphia, hypoactive sexual desire, and just "the blues" can all apparently be cured by taking the drug. However, other than promising U.L.P. "can fix you," the characters fail to give any other information about what the drug actually is, or, for that matter, what its name stands for.
They do promise that the drug will take effect in just three days, alleviating the need for years of counseling, therapy, or other time-consuming methods of healing and recovery. "It takes decades for therapy to even make a dent," Mantleray, played by Justin Theroux, says in the trailer. "Who has the time? The U.L.P. can make you happy, healthy, and normal in three days."
Of course, as he makes these grand proclamations, a message quickly flashes along the bottom of the screen assuring viewers the statements are "not evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration." Things look sketchy for this trial, to say the least.
But while Mantleray and co. seem pretty obviously nefarious, Theroux seemed to imply an interview with the Telegraph that his character has at least some sympathetic aspects to his personality. "He's one of those people that I like to describe as beautiful losers," he told the outlet. "He means well but he's just covered in flaws. He'd like to think that he presents himself as very put together but he's such a car accident of a man. He's vain, he's fame-seeking, he does that horrible thing of pretending to be altruistic when he wants approval more than anything."
Theroux went on to say that he doesn't think it's unrealistic for Maniac's characters to be intrigued by a far-fetched medicine like U.L.P. "If it worked, of course I would take a pill. If I could take three pills in sequence and cure myself of all my anxieties, pains and anguish, yeah. Wouldn't you?" the actor continued. "If you have a headache, you take a pill."
If your first instinct is to balk at the advertisement for U.L.P. and think you'd never be lured in by such lofty promises, that's understandable. But one of the points of Maniac seems to be that when people are in severe enough pain or confusion, they'll try anything to gain a little clarity — including a potentially dangerous, experimental cure. Based on the above trailer, that miracle fix might not be as easy for Annie and Owen to gain as the doctors insist, but they're willing to give it a shot. As for the mysteries of U.L.P., you'll have to tune into Maniac to find out the truth about its effects.


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Blueberry Pie is definitely a favorite at my house. . This pie does not last much over a day whenever I make it for my family. This pie is perfect for any family gathering, holiday or event. An easy recipe and one you will make time and again. Make two and give one to a friend. Blueberries are next to blackberries when it comes to my favorite fruits. If I have them in the house I can't leave them alone and they are good for you, too! You might like to check out and enjoy my recipe for peach and blueberry pie.
In a large bowl beat sour cream, flour, sugar, vanilla, salt, egg, lemon juice and cinnamon together with mixer. Fold in blueberries and pour into pie crust.
Bake pie in preheated 400 degree oven for 30 to 35 minutes. Let cool. Enjoy!
Don't Forget to Pin Blueberry Pie!
I have fixed this pie twice now. It is just wonderful. It got rave reviews both times and was devoured quickly. The last time I made it for a sick friend, who said that she thinks it is the best pie she ever had. That just made my day. The recipe is a keeper for sure.
Thank you so much Joy. Now, you have made my day. I am so happy you enjoyed this pie along with your friends. Thank you for letting me know and have a great week.
I tried this today with peaches instead of blueberries. It came out really good. Thank You so much for the recipe!
Made this pie this morning. Just had a piece topped with a little ice cream. Very good! I used a tsp of almond flavoring to replace one of the tsp of vanilla and almonds in place of the walnuts. I love almond and blueberry together. Thanks for the recipe it's great!
Love blueberry pie!! I had made the pie and had bought the frozen pie crust. If anybody uses the frozen pi crust as I did. The deep dish is needed because it will boil over. I am glad I had a cookie sheet under it. Other then that it was deliicious!!!
I can see why this goes so fast. That picture of the slice is just pretty with the topping cracked, oh my!


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Ashley Ayette eyes the ball against Charlotte's varsity team last week. Ayette and the B team beat Charlotte's varsity team, 6-1, and are 6-0-1 this season playing against mostly varsity competition — a first for the JV team.
Sarah Freddolino is one of several Lady Indians on the B team who could be playing varsity for several other teams in the area. Freddolino has been called up sporadically to the A team this season, winning 'Man of the Match' in a showcase match for the team.
Indians' JV team excelling against varsity schedule
By VINNIE PORTELL Sports Editor
Editor's Note: This story was written prior to the Venice girls soccer B team's match against Parrish High on Tuesday night.
For the past two seasons, the junior varsity Venice girls soccer team did not allow a single goal as the team steamrolled its opponents on the way to back-to-back undefeated seasons.
While it could be fun at times — players got to try new positions, including defenders scoring goals — there wasn't much motivation when the Lady Indians knew they would win every single game they played.
"What was happening was the past couple of years, the JV team was beating teams 8-0 and you could see these players were losing interest," Venice girls soccer coach Gary Bolyard said. "It was, 'Is it worth my time being out here if I'm not being challenged?'
"They were going through the motions of it, so we wanted to find a way to step up the challenge for them."
This season, Bolyard and associate head coach Lynley Hilligoss wanted to do something different to engage their JV squad. Rather than playing other junior varsity teams, this year's team is now referred to as the "B" team — playing almost exclusively against varsity competition.
Even with the competition level raised, Venice's second team is still reeling off another standout season with a 6-0-1 record and just two goals allowed all year in a 2-2 tie with Bishop Verot's JV team.
Last week, the B team beat Charlotte's varsity team 6-1, and soon some of them will be called up to help the varsity team on its quest for a state championship.
"We played Charlotte and they played the varsity team last year. So we got to see how we could hold our own," B team player Ashley Ayette said.
"Some of the teams haven't been too excited to play us, though."
It hasn't been easy for Bolyard and the Indians to put together a complete schedule this season as some schools have balked at the idea of their varsity teams playing a JV team.
Other schools appeared open to the idea before canceling scheduled matches.
But enough schools have agreed to the plan that the Lady Indians could assemble a schedule that would challenge them. And the light schedule has allowed several B team members to play up with the varsity squad in several matches and even some collegiate showcases.
"It can get frustrating at times," Ayette said of being down on JV despite having the talent to play with most varsity teams in the area. "But with the way our schedule is, a lot of us girls get to play up with the varsity team, so it's not too bad."
After playing five varsity teams already, they will wrap up their season within two weeks' time. Then, about six of them will be called up to the "A" team to bolster the varsity depth as the Indians eye their first state title in program history.
"It's tough because these girls are really just biding their time playing behind some of the best players in the state of Florida," Bolyard said of his B team.
"They want to stay around here and work because they want to be where the varsity team is now."


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As an Ambassador of the SWITCH Forum, Albion would like to encourage attendance at focus group sessions. Please see below information from the SWITCH Forum.
Following the successful launch of the competence framework and supporting tools, the SWITCH forum (Scottish Waste Industry Training, Competence and Health & Safety forum) has been exploring the concept of a passport scheme for the resource management industry in Scotland.
We are seeking to establish a passport scheme that is designed for our industry, to provide quality assured, on-site evidence that an individual has demonstrated an appropriate level of knowledge on health, safety and environmental awareness issues, as determined by SWITCH. The scheme will provide consistency of standards for safety and induction training, and can reduce duplication/repetition of core health and safety training across the industry.
A passport scheme will support our industry on its continuing journey to increase the competence levels of our workforce and hence our safety.
To aid the development of the scheme and to ensure it meets industry needs, we would like to invite to you attend a focus group session which will look at the benefits, barriers and design principles. We are keen to ensure that any scheme introduced is designed by industry for industry, so we are seeking to involve as wide a selection of people as possible at this stage.
Places at each focus group will be limited – if you, or one of your colleagues would like to attend one of the focus groups, please email Rebecca.clay@euskills.co.uk to register your interest by 24th February, stating which venue you would prefer. We will get back in touch to confirm event details once numbers for each location have been finalised.
We very much look forward to seeing you at one of these events.


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Bowl Shake, an acai bowl shop, has opened for business in Cliffside Park.
The menu (View Menu) includes a mix of bowls, juice, smoothies and shakes. Ingredients include organic acai and pitaya with many other mix-ins like fruits, granola, honey, agave, milks (including non-dairy like coconut and almond).
According to Google, they are open sevens days a week.


Our Malika Dudley interviewed a young boy who has experienced bullying here on Maui. His story is not unique, as more than 1 in 5 children experience being bullied each year, but at just six years old Lawaia Uwekoolani is wise beyond his years. The first grader is hoping to spread awareness and encourage empathy.
October is National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month. This month, Maui Now is committed to spreading awareness by providing information and resources to those who need them.
According to STOMP Out Bullying, the leading national nonprofit dedicated to changing the culture for all students, bullying can take on many different forms.
Physical Bullying is the most obvious form of intimidation and can consist of kicking, hitting, biting, pinching, hair pulling, and making threats. A bully may threaten to punch you if you don't give up your money, your lunch, etc.
Verbal Bullying often accompanies physical behavior. This can include name calling, spreading rumors, and persistent teasing.
Emotional Intimidation is closely related to these two types of bullying. A bully may deliberately exclude you from a group activity such as a party or school outing.
Racist Bullying can take many forms: making racial slurs, spray painting graffiti, mocking the victim's cultural customs, and making offensive gestures.
Sexual Bullying is unwanted physical contact or abusive comments.
Cyberbullying is one or a group of kids or teens using electronic means via computers and mobile phones (emails, Web sites, chat rooms, instant messaging and texting) to torment, threaten, harass, humiliate, embarrass or target another kid or teen.
Takes courage – Telling a friend who is bullying to stop is hard. They may be mad at you. But at least you won't feel guilt for being silent and allowing the bullying to continue. And you will be doing your friend a huge favor in the end by helping them stop really hurtful behavior.
Takes action – Doing something that does not support the bullying can be a really small intervention with big results! Two words – "That's bullying" – can open others eyes to recognize the problem.
Takes assertiveness – Telling a friend how their behavior makes you feel and how it affects others requires being able to use your voice!
Takes compassion – Upstanders have the gift of compassion. They recognize when someone is hurt and take steps to help.
Takes leadership – Upstanders are leaders in their social group, helping others to recognize ways to get along and be supportive to others.
Ask The Mayor: What's Being Done About Bullying?


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The Journal of Hebrew Scriptures
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Christophe Nihan - General Editor
Anna Angelini
Ian D. Wilson
Peter Altmann (Zurich)
Ehud Ben Zvi (Alberta)
Adele Berlin (Maryland)
Mark J. Boda (McMaster)
Michael V. Fox (Wisconsin, Madison)
William K. Gilders (Emory)
Robert A. Kugler (Lewis & Clark)
Francis Landy (Alberta)
Niels Peter Lemche (Copenhagen)
Mark Leuchter (Temple, Philadelphia)
Oded Lipschits (Tel Aviv)
Hanna Liss (Heidelberg)
John L. McLaughlin (St. Michael's College, Toronto)
Reinhard Müller (Münster)
Hindy Najman (Oxford)
Christophe Nihan (Lausanne)
Scott B. Noegel (Washington)
Maria-Teresa Ortega Monasterio (CSIC, Madrid)
Gary A. Rendsburg (Rutgers, New Jersey)
Konrad Schmid (Zurich)
Jacob L. Wright (Emory)
Christophe Nihan
Book Review Editors
Mark J. Boda
Review Editor for books published in North America or anywhere in the English speaking world.
Maria-Teresa Ortega Monasterio
Review Editor for books published in Spanish, whether in Spain or anywhere in the world.
Konrad Schmid and Peter Altmann
Review Editor for books published in ("continental") Europe in any language except Spanish.
Important Note: Publishers in the UK and Ireland may send books for review to either Mark J. Boda or Konrad Schmid. Publishers of books in Catalan, Portuguese, or any other language spoken in the Iberian peninsula may send books to Maria-Teresa Ortega Monasterio. Publishers in Asia, Africa are encouraged to send books for review to Mark J. Boda, but should they wish, they may send books to any of the other review editors.
The regular publication of the Journal is supported by a grant of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and is made possible by the work of many volunteers in different areas. It is impossible to name them all here, but in terms of technical production the contribution of Melanie Marvin is so prominent that she deserves a specific mention. We also want to acknowledge the work of Aurélie Bischofberger (from the Swiss-French Institute for Biblical Studies in Lausanne) for her significant contribution to the preparation and editing of the articles published by the journal.The Board of JHS and its readers thank them all.
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Cast on 32 stitches onto 4 double-pointed needles (8 stitches on each needle). Join to work in the round. Begin knitting in 2x2 rib. Continue 2x2 rib for 2 inches.
Next row: K14, place next 10 stitches on scrap piece of yarn. Cast on one new stitch over gap (using backward loop method) and continue to knit to end of round. (29 active stitches) Continue knitting hand portion of mitten until it reaches tip of pinky.
Knit one round without decreases. Repeat decrease round. (20 stitches) Knit one more round without decreases. Repeat decrease round again. (16 stitches) Repeat decrease round twice more. (8 stitches) Pull yarn through remaining stitches, pull to close top of mitten.
Move first two stitches of thumb gusset from scrap yarn onto first needle. Place next 4 on second needle and final 4 on third needle. With fourth needle pick up two stitches over gap and knit the two stitches from needle one. Continue to knit around (12 stitches on 3 needles) until only tip of thumb sticks out of thumbhole.
Knit one round without decreases. Repeat decrease round. (6 stitches) Pull yarn through remaining stitches, pull to close top of thumb.
Weave in ends and enjoy your warm "plaid" mittens!
You want flip-top mittens?? See Megan's alterations to this pattern!
You know what would go great with these mittens? A Plaid neckwarmer. One ball should do. Cast on 60 stitches instead of 85 and follow pattern as written.


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Portland Trail Blazers at Utah Jazz Preview
The Blazers travel to Utah looking for a win.
By L. Hostetler Dec 25, 2019, 10:41pm PST
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Portland Trail Blazers (14-17) at Utah Jazz (18-12)
December 26, 2019 - 7:30 p.m. PT
Blazers injuries: Rodney Hood (out), Zach Collins (out), Jusuf Nurkic (out)
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The Portland Trail Blazers travel to Salt Lake City to face the Utah Jazz following a loss to the New Orleans Pelicans 102-94. Carmelo Anthony had 23 points along with nine rebounds, while Hassan Whiteside had another double-double with 16 rebounds and 11 points. The Blazers struggled from beyond the arc, managing only 13.8 percent from the three-point line.
The Utah Jazz welcome the Blazers after a loss to the Miami Heat 107-104. Joe Ingles led the Jazz with 27 points, a season high. Alongside five blocks, big man Rudy Gobert contributed 18 points and 20 rebounds for a double-double, while Bojan Bogdanovic had 19 points.
Getting hot. After a cold night of shooting by Damian Lillard, it stands to reason that he will regress towards the mean, which signifies one thing: he will torch the Jazz from range. Lillard always has a chip on his shoulder after a disappointing performance, and it is reasonable to expect that he will wear that chip proudly against Utah.
Energy. The Jazz are fresh off of a three-game road trip to the East Coast, while the Blazers arrive in Utah following a four-game homestand. Whichever team comes out with the most energy — and a lack of a Christmas hangover — will likely be successful.
Battle of the big men. Watching Defensive Player of the Year Rudy Gobert go up against Hassan Whiteside will certainly be entertaining, but who controls the paint will be crucial. Whoever can dominate inside, gobble up boards, and block the most shots will come out on top.
Mike Conley of the Jazz has struggled with a hamstring injury, and over at SLC Dunk, Taylor Griffin gets into how Utah's role players need to step up.
Conley missed a handful of the past few games due to the same hamstring injury, but the Jazz stayed afloat due to some favorable games as of late, as well as some tremendous play from their main guys. Donovan Mitchell has been playing like an All-Star. Bojan Bogdanovic has exceeded expectations and is playing like a borderline All-Star himself. Rudy Gobert is, well, Rudy Gobert, dominating the game the way only Rudy can. At this point of the season and their respective careers, you know what you're going to get out of those three. They are doing their thing. But in order to hit their stride as a team and really start playing consistent winning basketball, the Jazz are going to need more from their role players.
Sarah Todd of the Deseret News spent far too much time analyzing Jazz games so we didn't have to, providing several nuggets of analysis, including Rudy Gobert's strengths.
The reasoning behind the Jazz being lauded for their defensive prowess and Rudy Gobert winning two Defensive Player of the Year awards is abundantly clear to me, now more than ever. There is something to be said for the elevated level of attention to detail on the defensive end that is so present with an elite defensive team. That's not to say that they have been perfect, just that the defensive principles in place are impressive.
Andy Larsen of the Salt Lake City Tribune explains where Utah's bench stands now after recent roster moves.
The Jazz's bench is extremely inexperienced: their 11th man on the roster is now Tony Bradley, who has played 231 minutes. The six players behind him, all rookies, have played a combined 48 minutes in their careers. If there are any further injuries, those rookies would have to step up. Among those rookies, Tucker and 6-foot-7 big Juwan Morgan have had the best G-League seasons so far. Jarrell Brantley is still learning the nuances of the game and how to stay tactically disciplined, Justin Wright-Foreman is a talented scorer but a developing passer and defender, Miye Oni is struggling with his outside shot right now (making just 16% from deep), and Nigel Williams-Goss is a floor manager at even the G-League level.


Often patients leave their GP practice feeling as though they have been rushed through their appointment, haven't been listened to and consequently haven't got to the bottom of their health problem.
Homeopathic consultations are in-depth, with the initial consultation lasting an hour, during which Josephine will get a detailed understanding of who you are, any ailments you are suffering from, your past medical history, any medications you are taking and any lifestyle issues which you feel may be effecting your health. This information, treated in the strictest confidence, will enable Josephine to prescribe the right remedy for you as an individual.
Teatment is usually in the form of a homeopathic remedy (or remedies) in tablet form. Clear instructions on how to take the remedy will be given and a follow-up appointment is usually recommended 4 to 6 weeks later.


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DEPA's Group Structure
Subsidiary Companies / Participations
National Legal and Regulatory Framework
European Regulatory Framework
Operation of the liberalized natural gas market
Requirements of REMIT
Company's Data
Natural Gas Commerce
Corporate Development Projects
Small Scale LNG
Hydrogen and Biomethane
International Infrastructures
Announcements 2023
Ensuring natural gas wholesale market integrity and the trust of the market participants and consumers depends to a big extent on the increased transparency of the key demand and supply elements. The EU Regulation on Energy Wholesale Markets Integrity and Transparency (REMIT) aims at setting up a legal framework to achieve this goal. DEPA SA supports the effort to ensure natural gas wholesale market integrity and transparency by posting on the website useful information.
1. What is REMIT?
European Regulation (EU) No 1227/2011, as supplemented with Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1348/2014, which establishes a control framework of wholesale energy markets (hereinafter "REMIT").
REMIT forbids market manipulation and inside information exploiting. More specifically:
It sets out what behaviour of the participants in said markets are abusive, i.e. market manipulation or any attempt to manipulation, exploitation of inside information etc.
It explicitly forbids the above abusive behavours and foresees the enactment of rules for penalties if the provisions of the Regulation are violated.
It imposes the obligation on market participants to publicly disclose in an effective and timely manner inside information that can significantly affect the prices of related energy products and
It imposes the obligation on any person professionally arranging transactions in wholesale energy products to report any suspicious transaction.
2. What is the aim of REMIT?
Ensuring the integrity and transparency in energy markets via providing ACER and RAE (and/or other regulatory authorities, i.e. Securities and Exchange Commission, Competition Commission etc) with detailed data related to said wholesale market transactions.
Strengthening the trust of market participants.
Establishing an environment of objective and competitive prices of the relevant products to the benefit of the consumers.
3. Who is governed by REMIT reporting obligations?
Anyone arranging transactions in one or more wholesale markets within the EU, including participants with registered offices within EU and participants with registered offices in non-EU states or non-EEA states and are active in an EU member state making deliveries in the EU.
Indicatively, the following can be considered participants:
electricity and natural gas suppliers & traders
electricity and natural gas producers
natural gas shippers
companies proving system balancing services
end consumers who, as single economic entity, have total annual consumption more than 600GWh
system operators
operators of storage facilities
operators of LNG facilities
investment companies in the meaning of article 4(1), Νο. 1 of Directive 2004/39.
The above participants should be registered as "market participants" in the Centralised European Registry for Energy Market Participants (CEREMP). More information about the registration procedure can be found at: https://www.acer-remit.eu/ceremp/home?nraShortName=11&lang=el_GR.
4. Which wholesale energy products are governed by the obligation of transaction reporting in the REMIT framework?
The REMIT framework covers the wholesale energy products in trading and derivative markets, regulated markets, standard contracts (electricity and natural gas contracts traded in an organized market) and non-standard contracts (all other electricity and natural gas contracts between two parties [i.e. bilateral contracts] not traded in an organized market), i.e. the following:
Contracts for the supply of electricity and natural gas where delivery (of any given duration) is in the EU
Options, future contracts, exchange contracts and all derivatives related to electricity and natural gas produced, traded or delivered in the EU
Contracts relating to the transmission (of any given duration) of electricity or natural gas in the EU between participants in secondary markets (including reselling or transfer of said contracts)
Options, future contracts, exchange contracts and all derivatives related to the transmission of electricity and natural gas in the EU and
contracts for the supply and distribution of electricity and natural gas for end users with annual consumption capacity more than 600 GWh. According to Article 3.2 of the Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1348/2014, in order to facilitate reporting, all end customers with a technical capacity more than the above threshold should notify the competent counterparty (their supplier(s)) about the technical consumption capacity from the specific consumption unit.
Intergroup contracts, contracts for electricity and natural gas balancing services, contracts for delivery of electricity produced by a plant with capacity <= 10MW and contracts for delivery of natural gas produced by a plant with capacity <= 20MW are reported only following a request of ACER in special cases.
REMIT does not cover wholesale energy products that are broker products covered by Directive 2014/57/EU relating to penalties in case of market abuse.
5. What are the reporting times for the transactions based on REMIT?
The deadline for the reporting of said transactions differs depending on the category of energy products:
standard contracts must be reported the latest up to the next working day from the conclusion of the relevant contract (or its amendment, termination, annulment)
non-standard contracts must be reported the latest within one month from the conclusion (or the amendment, termination) of the contract.
6. When does the reporting obligation under REMIT start?
REMIT entered into force on December 28, 2011.
Gradual implementation of the reporting obligation:
standard contracts: 7 October 2015
non-standard contracts: 7 April 2016.
For more information about the rules, procedures, techniques and organization requirements and responsibility for data reporting, please visit the special section REMIT info (http://www.rae.gr/site/categories_new/remit/remit1.csp) at RAE's site and the specialized REMIT portal (https://www.acer-remit.eu/portal/home) at ACER's site, where you can find a series of texts with non-binding instruactions for the application of the regulations, supportive instructions about the registration procedure of the participants and the recording procedures of the transaction as well as a Q&A section (on a monthly basis).
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Dimitrios Manolis
Ioannis Papadopoulos
Giannis is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of DEPA SA, the largest natural gas company in Greece, since August 2019.
Giannis is a Senior Partner and a member of the founding team of EOS Capital Partners. He has over 20 years of experience in Private Equity – Venture Capital industry in Greece, being involved in more than 20 investments, with successful exits, IPO's, co investments, and more than € 200MM total investments. Prior to his current role, Giannis was the co-founder and CEO of Attica Ventures, a venture capital investment firm that invested in Greek SMEs. In the context of his more than 20 years presence in the investment market, Giannis has acquired specialized experience in mergers and acquisitions, business development, reorganization, and implementation of large investment projects.
He has also participated in more than 20 Boards of Directors of listed companies of ATHEX, investment companies, and public organizations and has gained significant and many years of experience in the management of large companies by participating in their BoDs (ETEAN 2012-2015, PPC 2009, ETAD 2007-2009, STASI 2004-2007).
He is the Chairman of the Hellenic Association of Venture Capital (HVCA), member of the Advisory Committee of the Hellenic Capital Market Commission and of the Alternative Market Advisory Committee of the Athens Stock Exchange, as well as member of the MBA International Business Council of the Athens University of Economics and Business.
He holds both a Degree in Mechanical Engineering, with a specialization in Production Engineering and Management, at the National Technical University of Athens, as well as an MBA from Bayes Business School London (ex. Cass Business School).
Jordan Prokopidis
Mr. Iordanis Prokopidis is the Vice President of DEPA Commercial.
He is a Certified Mechanical Engineer, and graduated from the National Technical University of Athens.
He has a vast experience in Management, Engineering, Procurement and Construction, while he has demonstrated excellent skills in Management, Communication, Organization, Analysis, Negotiation, Troubleshooting Initiatives and Crisis Management as well as in leadership, guidance and coordination skills in multiple operational services.
At the same time he is familiar with important demanding and complex industrial projects as well as to the general context of the Energy Sector (Production, Transport, Distribution, Energy, Oil and Gas Markets).He belongs to the 4th Class (Supreme) in the Register of Construction Experience of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport in the following categories of projects: Energy, industrial, electromechanical and Hydraulic Under Pressure.ENERGY MARKET:Since 2005, as an executive of Hellenic Subsidiary of IBERDROLA RENOVABLES SA (one of the largest renewable energy companies), he has profound knowlegde of the terms, legal framework, and all the parameters and components in general of the Energy Market.
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:From 1991 to 1994 he was the Factory Manager (Metal Constructions and Mechanical Equipment) of MEKASOL SA. in Ptolemaida, while in 1999, he took over the position of General Manager of the company until 2003.That year he became the Project Manager in Greece of the Dutch company DEBOER, responsible for the execution of various specialized Olympic Projects until 2004.From 2005 to June 2008, he was the General Manager of Electromechanical Works of the company H. ROKAS SA, a 100% subsidiary of IBERDROLA SA.
From July 2008 to December 2020 he served as Chairman of the BOD and CEO of ROKAS CONSTRUCTIONS SA, a 100% subsidiary of IBERDROLA SA.
He was a founding member and member of the first BOD of the Greek Association of Electricity Producers (HELAS).
SUMMARY OF PROJECTSSince 1991 he has undertaken and fulfilled a number of projects for PPC, ALSTOM, ANSALDO, EL.PE, METKA, TITAN, IBERDROLA, TECHNOPROMEXPORT, AUSTRIAN ENERGY, ABB, MINISTRY OF ATHLETIC and others.In the course of his duties and under his responsibility, among others, were the preparation of the initial offer, the negotiations of the terms of the relevant Contract, the execution of the Project, the negotiations of any new and / or additional works and the corresponding additional price, the preparation of any Additions to the Contract and the Final Delivery of the Projects. SPECIAL PROJECTS:From 2003 to 2004 as Project Manager in Greece of the Dutch company DEBOER, he was responsible for the execution of various specialized Olympic Projects – training centers & indoor gyms – which were designed, constructed and delivered for operation in the record timeframe of seven (7) months.
EXTRA PROJECTS:
From 2005 to 2013 he was the exclusive representative in Greece of the German company FAM GmbH, which specializes in the Design and Development of open mines as well as in the Design, Construction and Upgrading of Mechanical Equipment for these mines.
He is fluent in English.
Dr. Kostas Karayannakos
Dimitrios Skalaios
Dimitrios Samolis
2020 Executive Director Human Resources & Administration
1985 SATO SA, Sales Department
1987 Walsh Pharmaceutical Company, Marketing Department
1987 Barclays Bank, Corporate Division
1989 Procurement Department, DEPA
1994 Manager, Personnel Department, DEPA
1997 Deputy Director, Human Recourses & Administration, DEPA
2001 Director, Human Resources & Administration, DEPA
2004 Director, Organization & Processes, DEPA
2007 Director, Subsidiaries, DEPA
2010 Head, Corporate & Regulatory Affairs, DEPA
2016 Division Head Communication, Public Relations & Corporate Social Responsibility
School of Economic Science, University of Piraeus
Executive Leadership Program, Economic University of Athens
MIS Diploma, Hellenic Management Association
In September 2019, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of DEPA at a crucial turning point for the company in view of the privatization process. Under his leadership, both the privatization preparatory stage and the corporate transformation in 3 distinct companies (DEPA Commercial, DEPA International Projects, DEPA Infrastructure) were successfully completed. At the same time, the renegotiation of all supply contracts was implemented, along with the entrance in the RES market through the acquisition of 49% of North Solar's share capital increasing, thus, the company's competitiveness. All the aforementioned steps enabled DEPA to upgrade to an integrated energy company with competitive products, and to proceed to the implementation of critical decisions which helped key projects move forward. Today, DEPA Commercial has significant international activity through projects, such as the Eastern Mediterranean Pipeline, the IGB Interconnector, the Poseidon Pipeline Project, as well as the company's participation in the construction of the new LNG Terminal in Alexandroupolis – all of which have showcased the strategic role of the company in the energy landscape of the wider region of Southeastern Europe and the East Mediterranean.
At the same time, Mr. Xifaras has been leading the effort to expand the company's activities through the use of state-of-the-art smart technologies (Small Scale LNG, Remote CNG), the spread of the use of CNG as a vehicle fuel through FISIKON refueling stations network, and the promotion of natural gas as a marine fuel with innovative development programs such as Poseidon Med II, BlueHUBS and SUPERGREEN. His vision includes the company's further penetration in RES and other reliable alternative energy sources markets, such as hydrogen and biomethane.


Kazakhstan debuts, and makes it 19 countries for JESC in Minsk!
The EBU has just announced that a record number of countries – 19, are going to be taking part in the 2018 Junior Eurovision Song Contest, which will take place in Minsk this November.
Three countries are making their come-back to the Junior Eurovision Song Contest this year – Azerbaijan, France, and Israel, while two countries are going to have their debut – Wales, and Kazakhstan! This will be the first ever participation of Kazakhstan in a Eurovision event.
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2018 will take place in Minsk, on the 25th of November.
X Factor Malta reaches its second stage!
Lee Lin Chin leaves SBS!


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K2 LLC
JP: FromSoftware
WW: Microsoft Game Studios
Kiyoji Tomita
Masanori Takeuchi
Tadao Maruta
Shinichi Shimizu
Osamu Matsuki
Kazufumi Yoshida
Masato Ōbuchi
Hiroshi Kondo
JP: October 5, 2006
NA: June 12, 2007
AU: June 21, 2007
EU: June 29, 2007
Action-adventure, stealth
Single-player, co-op
Tenchu Z[a] is an action-adventure stealth video game developed by K2 LLC and published by FromSoftware in Japan and Microsoft Game Studios worldwide for the Xbox 360 in 2006.
It is different from previous games in the series in that the player creates their own ninja characters, then builds up their skills as they play through the game rather than choosing from a small selection of pre-made characters, as they take orders from the series' previous main male character, Rikimaru. It also features four-player cooperative play through Xbox Live.
The House of Gohda, where the Azuma Ninja Clan reside under the service of Lord Gohda, is on the brink of war with the neighboring country of Ogawara. As a new recruit in the Azuma Ninja Clan, the protagonist is sent to assassinate those who are assisting the country of Ogawara, including army generals and spies who have infiltrated the House of Gohda, as well as recover stolen items and rescue prisoners. In between thwarting the country of Ogawara's plans, the protagonist also receives missions in which he or she eliminates evil people such as abusive monks and greedy merchants.
There is no connection between Tenchu Z's plot and those in the previous games, nor are there any returning characters with the exceptions of Rikimaru and Lord Gohda.
Gameplay[edit]
Tenchu Z is the largest game in the series to date, containing 50 missions with different difficulty settings and objectives. Characters also have different attributes (which are strength, agility, and health) that can be altered to make a ninja all your own.
The game's character edit features are quite in-depth, allowing the player to use gold obtained by doing well in missions both in single player and multiplayer to purchase new aesthetic styles for your ninja, new abilities, items to use during missions and different special attacks to use in combat, in addition to combo-editing abilities.
Gameplay is relatively the same as the previous games in the series. The main difference is that, as mentioned above, players create their own character and unlock new skills, items and clothing for him or her as the game progresses. Only one fighting style is available: a Ninjato that can either be set with slower but more damaging attacks (the same as Rikimaru's in previous games) or faster and weaker attacks with different animations. The unlockable skills however are more varied, with most of them making their first appearance in the series while others return from previous games with some tweaks. Certain skills can be upgraded twice, enhancing the protagonist's abilities beyond those of the characters from previous games.
Enemies can now hear the protagonist's footsteps if he or she runs too close to them, and they may hear the footsteps from a greater distance if the protagonist runs on noisy surfaces such as a puddle of water. They can also smell the protagonist if he or she falls into a cesspool (only found during some missions; after the protagonist emerges from the cesspool, a brown haze surrounds him or her, indicating that he or she can be detected by smell at a certain distance) or is covered with blood from an earlier fight. Unlike the previous games, lighting is also a factor here as the protagonist is less likely to be spotted while standing or crouching in a dark area.
Aggregate score
1UP.com C+[2]
Edge 6/10[3]
Eurogamer 3/10[4]
Game Informer 6.5/10[5]
Game Revolution D[7]
GamePro [6]
GameSpot 4.9/10[8]
GameSpy [9]
GameTrailers 5.9/10[10]
GameZone 5.5/10[11]
IGN 5.2/10[12]
OXM (US) 5/10[13]
The A.V. Club C[14]
This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (August 2013)
Tenchu Z received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.[1]
^ Tenchu Senran (天誅 千乱, Tenchū Senran, lit. "Divine Retribution: Disturbance")
^ a b "Tenchu Z for Xbox 360 Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved August 11, 2013.
^ Mielke, James (June 12, 2007). "Tenchu Z (Xbox 360)". 1UP.com. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
^ Edge staff (September 2007). "Tenchu Z". Edge (179): 95.
^ Whitehead, Dan (June 26, 2007). "Tenchu Z Review". Eurogamer. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
^ Bertz, Matt (August 2007). "Tenchu Z". Game Informer. Archived from the original on January 17, 2008. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
^ Papa Frog (June 19, 2007). "Review: Tenchu Z". GamePro. Archived from the original on June 24, 2007. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
^ Hurh, JP (June 13, 2007). "Tenchu Z Review". Game Revolution. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
^ Thomas, Aaron (June 12, 2007). "Tenchu Z Review". GameSpot. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
^ Graziani, Gabe (June 28, 2007). "GameSpy: Tenchu Z". GameSpy. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
^ "Tenchu Z, Review". GameTrailers. June 18, 2007. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
^ Hopper, Steven (June 18, 2007). "Tenchu Z - 360 - Review". GameZone. Archived from the original on October 9, 2008. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
^ Irwin, Mary Jane (June 19, 2007). "Tenchu Z Review". IGN. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
^ "Review: Tenchu Z (X360)". Official Xbox Magazine: 82. August 2007.
^ Mastrapa, Gus (July 2, 2007). "Tenchu Z". The A.V. Club. Archived from the original on July 5, 2007. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
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« Ocean acidification affects fish spawning but not paternity at CO2 seeps
Increasing ocean acidity could impact fish spawning »
First evidence of ocean acidification's impact on reproductive behavior in wild fish (text & video)
Published 28 July 2016 Press releases Closed
Ocean acidification could have a major impact on the reproductive behaviour of fish living in affected waters, a new study shows.
Research conducted close to volcanic vents off the coast of Southern Italy demonstrated marked reproductive differences in species of ocellated wrasse (Symphodus ocellatus).
Key mating behaviours such as dominant male courtship and nest defence did not differ between sites with ambient versus elevated CO2 concentrations. Dominant males, however, did experience significantly lower rates of pair spawning at elevated CO2 levels, but a sizeable increase in their mating success.
Scientists say that while previous research has shown fish exhibit impaired sensory function and altered behaviour at high levels of ocean acidification, this study – conducted using cameras at nest sites followed by paternity tests in laboratories – provides the first evidence of the effects of ocean acidification on the reproductive behaviour of fish in the wild.
Professor Marco Milazzo, of the University of Palermo, said: "Given the importance of fish for food security and ecosystem stability, these results highlight the need for further targeted research into the effects of rising CO2 levels on their reproduction."
Symphodus ocellatus is a widespread wrasse in the rocky subtidal of the Mediterranean Sea with an annual breeding season lasting from late April to July. It comprises three types of male – dominants (who build nests, court females and provide defence), satellites (who cooperate with dominant males and help with courting), and sneakers (who hover around nests and try to join the females during spawning).
Film footage captured for this study, published in Royal Society Proceedings B, demonstrated that dominant male pair spawning was reduced by almost two thirds in areas of high CO2 concentrations compared to ambient sites, with the time spent courting also significantly decreased. However, genetic testing showed dominant male parentage increased from 38% in ambient areas to more than 58% in areas of high concentration.
Professor Jason Hall-Spencer, of Plymouth University, said: "We had predicted that dominant males would lose out due to increased competition, but our genetic paternity tests showed that they did not. In fact they fertilized more of the eggs than the other types of males and it was the sneaky males that lost out. Even though the sneakers produced more sperm and spawned on the eggs more often, they did not end up fertilizing more eggs."
Alan Williams, University of Plymouth, via EurekAlert, 26 July 2016. Press release.