You've got your certification in hand and are ready to break into the dog grooming industry. But you can't just start your business anywhere! With any business, you need to appeal to your target market. If there's no demand for what you do, chances are, and you may not be able to turn grooming into anything more than just a hobby. The great news is that you can create opportunities for yourself! When you understand the industry landscape where you're planning to work, you can modify your business plans to ensure your best chance at success.
We've gone ahead and did the legwork for you. If you live in the gorgeous city of London, here's what you need to know to become a dog groomer!
The pet grooming industry around the world is prospering. As dogs shift from servicing us to becoming full-time members of our families, big cities around the world are more accommodating than ever. The global pet grooming market is expected to grow by 4.7% between 2015 and 2025. In fact, global spending exceeded $100 billion back in 2014.
Americans alone spend $5.4 billion dollars a year (yes, that's right, billion) on boarding and grooming services for dogs. They even expect that employment rates will grow by 11% by 2023—faster than the expected average growth rate for all other careers in their economy! This trend extends around the world. These multi-billion dollar industries shouldn't be overlooked.
With 8.5 million dogs in the UK, it's no wonder that Britons spent over £4.6 billion or $7 billion dollars on their pets in 2015. They spend an average of £95 a month on their pets! This isn't hard to believe since 95% of dog owners consider their dogs to be an integral part of the family.
Londoners earn an average salary of £48,023! This increases when you move to more affluent boroughs like Kensington and Chelsea; which see salaries of around £94,000. Wealthy dog owners are more likely to spend more to keep their pooches happy and healthy. This can lead to higher earning potential for groomers!
The estimated salary of dog groomers in the UK is around £18,000. Skilled dog groomers can earn upwards of £20,000/year. 37% of groomers work full-time (35-40 hours), with 34% working part-time, and the other 29% are self-employed. Pet shops, boarding kennels, grooming salons, and mobile businesses are the top areas for employment.
According to the BBC, the top three breeds in London are the Staffordshire bull terrier, the Jack Russell Terrier, and the Labrador retriever. The latter is the top breed in the entirety of the UK—they're great working dogs in addition to being the epitome of the "man's best friend" title. These top breeds are easy to train, suitable for families and individuals, and incredibly loyal. In central London, you'll see smaller dogs compared to the countryside. This fact is due to smaller dogs' size and comfort with living in close quarters.
We mentioned that smaller dogs are popular in this world-class city. Their "portable" nature means they'll be able to accompany their owners to the local restaurants and pubs. There are eight off-leash parks in the London area. This doesn't include the other parks and beaches of mixed use where dogs can attend with their owners. Take the 200-acre Battersea Park. It's home to the UK's oldest animal rescues and the greenery and lake make it a relaxing spot for both human and canine.
So how does all this help your career? As more people see their dogs as their inseparable companions, more facilities are becoming more accommodating. Knowing exactly where these key places are is a large part of your marketing strategy.
When you're starting out, you may not have the network of professionals and resources other successful groomers have. But when you reach out to related businesses and canvas your skills appropriately, you can grow your client list fast. Knowing the habits of owners is great, too. The busy life of Londoners can help you carve out the best times to open for business and the extent of services you should offer.
Despite strong job growth rates, you still need to work hard to make it in the grooming business. If you're thinking about opening a grooming salon, consider turning it into a goods shop as well. Trends in natural pet products and the filler-free food is a great place to start. These products will always be in demand. Then, move onto delicious treats, special collars, and toys! If you're a one-stop shop, you'll be able to increase your revenue and attract repeat customers.
You may even want to upgrade your business to a full-on pet boutique and spa. If there's a demand for high-end services for dogs, take the bull by its horns! Instead of offering the standard bath, luxury dog spas offer stress-relieving shampoo baths. Simple nail trims become full-on paw-dicures. And don't get us started on the massages and facials!
While the UK doesn't have a no-kill law in place, you can do your part to help dogs in need. While many pet shops offer grooming services, most rescues in the city don't. We've already discussed the benefits of grooming dogs at an animal rescue, but rewards reaped for rescues exceed just the health and aesthetic benefits. You'd be amazed at how fast groomed dogs are able to find a good home after a coat trim and a nice bath!
Any other helpful tips for London dog groomers we missed? Share them below!
Don't live in London? Here are other cities you'll be able to launch a successful dog grooming career in!


Barcelona, Spain, February 16, 2006 - AirNet Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: ANCC), the technology leader in software defined base station products for wireless communications, today announced that its SuperCapacity™, adaptive array base station has been recognized by the GSM Association as the Best Radio Access Product for 2006 at the 3GSM World Congress & Exhibition in Barcelona. Nominated by MBO Wireless where it has been commercially deployed in Oklahoma since September 2004, this recognition as the Best Radio Access Product for 2006 marks the second time that the GSM Association has given one of their prestigious World awards to an AirNet Communications product. In 1998, AirNet's AdaptaCell®, broadband, SDR base station and AirSite® Backhaul Free™ base station were recognized as Best Technical Innovation. The same SuperCapacity, adaptive array base station to win the Best Radio Product is also currently being evaluated in an ongoing field trial by an undisclosed, tier 1 large operator in a dense urban, major metropolitan market.
The Best Radio Access Product Award acknowledges the innovation and contribution of products or services developed to assist operators maximize the use and performance of their network assets. Entries for this category were focused on delivering operational, technical or commercial network optimization benefits. Maximizing operational service performance is fundamental to producing the best return from network investments. Optimizing every element - hardware, software, antennas, as well as the network design itself is necessary to produce the very best results.
Visit AirNet Communications at the 3GSM World Congress in Hall 2, Booth E08 in Barcelona.
Improvement of GPRS and EDGE coverage and data rates.
AirNet Communications Corporation is a leader in wireless base stations and other telecommunications equipment that allow service operators to cost-effectively and simultaneously offer high-speed wireless data and voice services to mobile subscribers. AirNet's patented broadband, software-defined AdaptaCell® SuperCapacity™ adaptive array base station solution provides a high-capacity base station with a software upgrade path to high-speed data. The Company's RapidCell™ base station provides government communications users with up to 96 voice and data channels in a compact, rapidly deployable design capable of processing multiple GSM protocols simultaneously. The Company's AirSite® Backhaul Free™ base station carries wireless voice and data signals back to the wireline network, eliminating the need for a physical backhaul link, thus reducing operating costs. AirNet has 68 patents issued or filed and has received the coveted World Award for Best Radio Access Product in 2006 and for Best Technical Innovation in 1998 from the GSM Association, representing over 400 operators around the world. More information about AirNet may be obtained by visiting the AirNet Web site at www.airnetcom.com.
Certain statements in this news release may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (the Reform Act), Section 27A of the United States Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the United States Securities and Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements may relate to anticipated financial performance, management's plans and objectives for future operations, business prospects, market conditions, financial forecasts and other matters. All statements contained in this news release that do not relate to matters of historical fact should be considered forward-looking statements, and are generally identified by words such as "anticipate,'' "believe,'' "hope," "estimate,'' "expect,'' "intend,'' "plan'' and "objective'' and other similar expressions. Readers should not place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements contained in this news release. Such statements are based on management's beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to management and are subject to risks, uncertainties and changes in condition, significance, value and effect. Such risks include the risk that AirNet may not be successful in completing the previously announced field trial; that our SuperCapacity, adaptive array product may not be accepted by the market; and that our products and technology may not work in a dense, urban, multi-path environment. Other risks include the inability by AirNet and its suppliers to demonstrate satisfactory performance improvements and intense competition. If we are unable to raise sufficient new additional capital or to generate sufficient new sales, we may not be able to support changing protocols and standards, or continue to operate as a going concern. Receipt of the GSM World Award for Best Radio Product may not result in any additional future sales. These and other risks are detailed in reports and documents filed by AirNet with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Such risks, uncertainties and changes in condition, significance, value and effect, many of which are beyond AirNet's control, could cause AirNet's actual results and other future events to differ materially from those anticipated. AirNet does not, however, assume any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect actual results, changes in assumptions or changes in other factors affecting such forward-looking statements..
The stylized AirNet mark, AirNet®, AdaptaCell® and AirSite® are registered trademarks with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. SuperCapacity™, RapidCell™ and Backhaul Free™ are trademarks of AirNet Communications Corporation. Other names are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective companies or organizations.


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Forgive Obasanjo and move on, Bode George tells Fayose
A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode George, has advised the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, to forgive former President Olusegun Obasanjo and move on.
George said this during an interview with our correspondent on Friday.
He told Fayose that God had already fought for him by allowing him to return as governor of Ekiti eight years after his impeachment.
George said he was aware that his imprisonment for financial impropriety was "nothing but political persecution" and that was why he was later exonerated by the Supreme Court.
He, however, said he never had the intention of becoming the Chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees and therefore doubted if that was the reason for his incarceration.
George said, "My advice to my younger brother in Ekiti State is that it is time for him to forgive and forget and let sleeping dogs lie. He was impeached but God reinstated him as governor after eight years. What more can a man ask for?
"He should forgive and forget. We should not wash our dirty linen in public.
"I have always said that my imprisonment was nothing but persecution and I have been vindicated by the highest court in the land. I never wanted to become BoT Chairman so I doubt if that was the reason why I was treated that way. The BoT chairman is chosen from among the elders within the party and not by other organs."
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April 2006 - Blabbermouth Archive
CHILDREN OF BODOM Keyboardist To Guest On Finnish Pop Album
According to a posting on the CHILDREN OF BODOM fan site Scythes-of-Bodom.com, the band's keyboardist Janne Warman will appear on one song on the new album from Finnish pop/rock queen Jonna Kosonen. Kosonen, who was previously a member of the multiplatinum-selling Finnish female pop duo NYLON BEAT, had contributed her vocals to CHILDREN ...
DESTRUCTION's Booking Agent Defends Band's Decision To Cancel South American Tour Dates
DESTRUCTION's booking agent, Jörg "Schrörg" Düsedau of Dragon Productions, has issued the following statement regarding the band's decision to call off the last few gigs of their South American tour: "Due the complications with equipment, transportation and health, we were forced to stop the Latin American tour after the sold-out show in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ...
Former DEATH, MASSACRE, NASTY SAVAGE Members Join Forces In DENIAL FIEND
Former DEATH/MASSACRE members Kam Lee (vocals) and Terry Butler (bass; also in SIX FEET UNDER) have joined forces with ex-NASTY SAVAGE drummer Curtis Beeson and former DOWN BY LAW guitarist Sam Williams in a brand new Tampa, Florida-based band called DENIAL FIEND. According to the group's official bio, "DENIAL FIEND began only a few months ...
ANUBIS GATE Launch Online Studio Diary
Danish melodic progressive power metal band ANUBIS GATE will enter the studio this summer to record their third album. The CD will be produced by Jacob Hansen (RAUNCHY, INVOCATOR), who is also the new lead singer in the band. This will be Jacob's first vocal preformance with ANUBIS GATE. An online diary tracking the progress ...
ENUFF Z'NUFF's DONNIE VIE To Guest On KNAC.COM
ENUFF Z'NUFF's Donnie Vie will be the featured guest on KNAC.COM on Saturday, May 6 at 4:00 p.m. PST. ENUFF Z'NUFF will be performing at this weekend's Rock The Boat two-day floating rock festival traveling between Oslo, Norway and Fredrikshavn, Denmark. They wll also be playing a number of U.S. dates during late spring/early summer. ...
BLIND GUARDIAN To Release Orchestral Album In 2008
Guitarist Andre Olbrich of the German power metal giants BLIND GUARDIAN revealed in an interview with Metal Temple magazine's Michael Dalakos that the band has been working on a strictly orchestral album, due for release in 2008. An excerpt from the interview follows: Metal Temple: Virgin never really took care of releasing your ...
THE DARKNESS: 'Girlfriend' Video Posted Online
THE DARKNESS's video for their latest single, "Girlfriend", has been posted online at TheDarknessRock.com. The track comes off the British group's second studio album, "One Way Ticket to Hell …and Back", which was released last November. The album was the follow-up to THE DARKNESS' 2003 debut, "Permission to Land", (Must Destroy/Atlantic), which was ...
Former NIGHTWISH Singer Signs Solo Deal With Germany's UNIVERSAL MUSIC
Former NIGHTWISH frontwoman Tarja Turunen has posted the following message on her official web site: "I am glad to announce my plans for the rest of this year. "Some new concerts have been added to the 'Concerts' section of this web page. Please check them there. By the way, we are also working on the ...
LED ZEPPELIN's ROBERT PLANT, JIMMY PAGE To Perform Together At MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL
According to a posting on Led-Zeppelin.com, LED ZEPPELIN legends Jimmy Page and Robert Plant are scheduled to perform together at the upcoming Montreux Jazz Festival on June 30, 2006 in Montreux, Switzerland as part of a tribute to Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun. Also scheduled to appear are Jeff Beck, Solomon Burke, Ben ...
VINNIE PAUL Talks About Honoring DIMEBAG: Audio Available
Several audio clips of former PANTERA/DAMAGEPLAN drummer Vinnie Paul talking about running his new record label, Big Vin Records; honoring his late brother "Dimebag" Darrell; and on the possibility of being in a band again, among other topics, can be found at DallasNews.com. Speaking to The Dallas Morning News, Vinnie Paul ...
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I've been a fan of SUPERNATURAL for some time now.
If you have never seen supernatural dvd, then by all means to begin to pick up the series in boxes. A basic background for the uninitiated is that the brothers Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Ackles Jason) are monster hunters. When the series began, Sam had abandoned the family business and went to college just to be his girlfriend die the death of his mother even had years ago, the ceiling and engulfed in flames by a demon in the eyes yellow. navy NCIS dvd box set Now Sam wants revenge and joined with his sister to kill all monsters and demons they face.
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Jason Hirthler is a writer, political commentator, and veteran of the digital media industry. He has written for many political communities. He is the recent author of Imperial Fictions, a collection of essays from between 2015-2017. He lives in New York City and can be reached at jasonhirthler@gmail.com.


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1. Recuerda tomar nota del tiempo total en minutos (o en horas y minutos) que dedicas a realizar la actividad.

2. Clona de mi página de GitHub el repositorio `bouncing-balls` en una carpeta llamada `0100`.

2. Para entender cómo funciona este proyecto, crea un objeto de la clase `BallDemo` e invoca su método `bounce`.

3. Se pide que modifiques el método `bounce` de la clase `BallDemo` para que el usuario introduzca por parámetro cuántas bolas quiere que aparezcan en pantalla teniendo en cuenta que:

    - El radio y color de las bolas debe ser aleatorio.
    - La posicion de inicio de las bolas también debe ser aleatoria en los dos ejes, pero siempre en el cuadrante superior izquierdo de la pantalla.
    - La animación debe terminar cuando alguna bola se salga del suelo por la derecha.
    - Por cada avance significativo que des en tu aplicación debes realizar un commit.

4. Cuando hayas terminado la actividad sube tu proyecto a tu página de GitHub.

5. Haz un comentario público indicando:

    - El tiempo en horas y minutos que has tardado en completar la actividad.
    - El grado de dificultad que has apreciado.
    - Aquello que más te ha costado de la actividad.
    - El hash de 7 caracteres del último commit.

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    - La URL de la pantalla de Github del último commit
    - La URL de la pantalla del listado de commits de Github.
    - La URL de un video de Youtube donde se muestre la aplicación funcionando correctamente.
    - Un comentario privado con el mismo contenido que el comentario público anterior.

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This year for my summer holiday I went to the "Wood and Straw festival" in Tavankut, Serbia as a volunteer with VSI, the Irish branch of SCI. I choose Serbia because I knew so little about that part of Eastern Europe and it was outside the EU. In July I travelled through Budapest and after joining the wrong queue several times I eventually got the train to Subotica, Serbia. There in the bus station I met the other travelling volunteers, there were twelve in all and we got the bus to a little village called Tavankut. We were given a warm welcome and shown to our accommodation which was a biology classroom in the local school (complete with skeleton!!). The school was a square with a lovely courtyard including a pond with turtles and a resident hedgehog. It was a nice place to hang out. All our food was cooked in the kitchen and we took turns to be on kitchen duty.
The first week we worked on the first international straw congress which brought straw artists from all over the world, mostly we were preparing the rooms but we had a try at making straw pictures and learning about straw techniques which was fun. It took the professionals up to thirty days to make a 3d straw picture so our efforts in one afternoon probably won't be displayed at the Guggenheim. There were concerts to celebrate the congress and we helped to clean and prepare the area. There were very strong traditions in Tavankut all of which were well practiced and performed at the concert. It was nice to see these different cultural traditions.
In the second week was the wood part, there was a beautiful wooded area about 5km from the school. Together as a group we devised, designed and made signposts for the forest to help trekkers find their way along paths. Our sign was a blue foot, I liked this and we argued and cajoled about whose foot should be the "model" for the sign. We broke into groups and erected the signs using tools from the village.
The best part of the holiday was getting to know the other volunteers, there was a fantastic mix of nationalities, I am Irish but there were Swiss, Belgian, Czech, Basque, Polish, German, Dutch, Catalan, Serbian, Spanish and Russian all together. We found that we had plenty to talk about. I feel in Ireland we often view Europe as a big continental block, but meeting all these people reminded me that Europe is hugely diverse. And, as individuals, we have a lot more in common than we have differences. Serbia was beautiful with fields and fields of peaches, nectarines, plums and cherries. They don't realise different this is to northern climates like Ireland. Serbia is also a real crossroads, with Russia to the east, Germany to the north, Italy and Croatia to the west and Turkey to the south. I could see the influences of all these cultures in the daily Serbian life. I would recommend anybody to contact VSI and partake in a voluntary work camp. You never know what you will learn about yourself or the world we live in.


The Make-A-Wish San Diego Tuna Challenge is in its 26th year, and it's not only the largest tuna-fishing tournament in the United States, but it's one of the largest fundraisers for Make-A-Wish San Diego. This year's event is Aug. 28-30 and again takes place at the Silver Gate Yacht Club (2091 Shelter Island Drive, San Diego). Since 1991 the event has raised more than $3.2 million and when you participate, you will help Make-A-Wish San Diego grant wishes for local children facing critical illnesses.
Registration for the event is now open. Fees are $90 for adults and $30 for kids 15 and under. The event starts with a captains meeting on Friday, Aug. 28 at 6 p.m. On Aug. 29, the lines go into the water starting at 5 a.m.
All eligible fish must be weighed in from the boat of entry at either the San Diego Marlin Club or the Dana Landing Market and Fuel Dock in Mission Bay no later than 9:00 a.m. on Sunday, prior to the start of the awards banquet. Last year, 336 anglers fished on 76 boats and teams weighed in 288 yellowfin, 14 Dorado, 11 yellowtail and eight bluefin. There were two marlin caught and released.
An awards banquet starts at 10 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 30. The public is invited to support the event's culmination banquet at the Silver Gate Yacht Club. The banquet will include raffles, auctions, live entertainment, tournament awards and lunch.
Banquet tickets for this event are only $15 per person. Raffle tickets are $2 each. There will also be progressive raffles with exceptional prizes at the $100, $200, $300 and $500 levels. There are special books of raffle tickets that will make it so much easier to keep track of your raffle ticket numbers.
Even if you don't fish, there are still ways for you to support Make-A-Wish San Diego such as volunteering at the event or making a donation. If you have questions about the event, you can send an e-mail to jplymesser@hotmail.com.
Whether your boat will be out on the water for the tournament or it's sitting unused in the driveway, it can help Make-A-Wish San Diego bring hope, strength and joy to children in San Diego. How can an old, unused boat make a difference? You can give it new life when you donate it to Wheels For Wishes, benefiting Make-A-Wish San Diego! While doing so, you can help children in San Diego, Escondido, Carlsbad, Chula Vista and Oceanside, and throughout San Diego and Imperial counties. Your vehicle donation can help grant wishes to children with a critical illness.
When you donate your boat, car, RV, Jet Ski or motorcycle to Wheels For Wishes, we turn it into a wish for a child in your community by giving the proceeds to Make-A-Wish. If you never use your boat, turn it into so much more than a boat by calling 1-877-431-9474 or filling out an easy online vehicle donation form.


Have a small yard and not enough money for a regular pool? You respite from the summertime heat might be a stock tank pool.
Summer in Philadelphia is sweltering hot. With today being the first official day of summer, I'll bet that you've figured that fact out already. By now, you are undoubtedly desperate for a way to cool off. If you are lucky enough to live in a post condo, it's possible that your building has a pool. But Philadelphia's real estate landscape is stocked with cozy townhomes that have only a tiny strip of backyard. A regular pool is out of the question. On top of which, pools are a major hassle. There are chemicals to balance, leaves and other debris to skim constantly, and finicky filter components to maintain. You don't need all that nonsense. What you need is a stock tank pool.
Stock tank pools are exactly what it says on the label – they are made of a stock tank, or a wide tub meant to water livestock. At their very biggest, stock tanks are only 8 feet across. They are, on average, about two feet deep, so there's no diving allowed, but there is just enough room for two adults or a few kids to splash around and escape the heat. The stock tank pool is a very hip thing right now, with tons of Pinterest and Instagram appeal. It's interesting to note, however, that as long as there have been farms and farmkids, there have been little ones bathing in animal troughs.
Setting up your own stock tank pool is easy enough. You can order a kit online, or assemble everything yourself as a weekend project. Make sure you buy a tank with a spigot to drain the water if needed, or else you're going to need a drain kit. You want a tank made of weatherproof galvanized metal so that your little pool will last from year to year. Once you get your stock tank, which you can find at a local farm and seed supply store's online site, you just need a small filter (to keep the water moving so it doesn't attract mosquitoes) and a modest chemical set-up. Talk to your local pool supply to find out what chemicals you need to keep your stock tank pool running cleanly.


Ideannovaship - Innovate and Ideate for Social Entrepreneurship is an Erasmus+ Project funded by the European Union. Antalya Bilim University is a partner of the project since March, 2016. There are six partner institutions from six different countries for the project. The main aim of the project is to support youth regarding social entrepreneurship. In that sense, the project aims to train trainers and develop a specific training program for social entrepreneurs and ultimately, guide and support young people for their social ventures.
In December 2016, participants from six partner institutions had a meeting in Valencia at the I-BOX facilities. The main aim of the meeting in Valencia is to train trainers for social entrepreneurship. In total, 11 youth trainers were trained by 6 teachers. After this event, each partner institution held an "Info Day" in their home countries.
In March, 2017, partners and trainers from Antalya Bilim University held an Info Day at Antalya Bilim University conference hall. The aim of the Info Day was to introduce the Ideannovaship Project to participants and promote social entrepreneurship. There were more than 50 participants for the Info Day. The rector of Antalya Bilim University Prof. Dr. İsmail Yüksek made the opening speech and during Info Day, speakers from our University and KOSGEB (small and medium enterprises development organization) made their presentations. At the end, young students played the "Spaghetti Tower" game and received their certificates.
From the 19th to the 23rd of June 2017, the IDEANNOVASHIP project moved to Volos (Greece) for the second training that was attended by about 20 young aspiring social entrepreneurs who met for 5 days to test the IDEANNOVASHIP methodology and think about new ideas to create social enterprises.
The project IDEANNOVASHIP is funded by the Erasmus+ programme KA2 Strategic Partnerships for Youth. The project involves six partners from six different countries: the Centre for Creative Development Danilo Dolci for Italy, the National Association of Municipal Clerks in Bulgaria (coordinator) from Bulgaria, GEA College – Fakulteta za podjetnistvo (Slovenia), IBOX CREATE (Spain), Antalya International University (Turkey) and University of Thessaly (Greece).
During training in Greece, the partners also met to check the project progress and the educational materials that have so far been developed by the consortium. During the training in Volos, the practical guide for the organisation of camps to train social entrepreneurs was used, a guide aimed at young people who want to stimulate other young people to take the road to social entrepreneurship. In Greece, various ideas of social enterprise emerged, thanks to the cooperation of the different groups of young people who elaborated a Business Model Canvas by developing some of the ideas presented by colleagues from other countries. A final presentation with the 4 best ideas concluded the 5-day creative process that registered the interest and participation of the young participants.
In January 2018, the partners from six countries had the last meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria for the closing conference. More than 30 students participated the event and speakers from partner countries as well as a guest speaker as a social entrepreneur made their presentations. At the end of the Closing Conference, participants received their certificates.


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Senator Gershaw learning to 'Go Green' with compost initiative
Posted on January 14, 2020 by 40 Mile Commentator
Photo submitted by Scott Angle Senator Gershaw School principal Scott Angle receiving the Environmental Ambassador banner from Fortis Alberta's Paula Kot last week.
By Justin Seward
Commentator/Courier
Senator Gershaw School has had a greenhouse for over a year and wanted to expand their knowledge by adding a composting initiative to the fold for the facility.
Fortis Alberta recognized the school as an Environmental Ambassador last week with their commitment to the environment and was the recipient of a $1,000 green UP grant to help with composting material for the school.
"We have the greenhouse and it's like OK how can we enrich the soil and also how can we reduce the amount of garbage we're sending out," said Scott Angle, school principal.
"It's pretty obvious landfills are getting full. Our hope is that we can educate our students on how to reduce some of that waste."
There is compost bins inside the greenhouse and the students will take the school's waste and enrich the soil in the greenhouse, he added.
Angle says the initiative will run across both Senator Gershaw and Bow Island Elementary Schools.
"If they learn how to reduce waste early on then they can continue on all the way through their schooling," said Angle.
"Everyone is going to be using it. We're not there yet but this will help purchase some of those items that were needed to get that going farther than where it is now."The idea came about last year because the school's science curriculum includes a focus on waste.
"We do have programs that have food required, that there's some food that probably could be composted," said Angle.
"It came more about from an education standpoint and a good portion of the science curriculum is reducing waste and recycling, reducing and reusing. This helps to put a real world spin on what we learn in textbooks."
Angle says with the grant there will be discussions of where the best use of the money goes and how to get the students involved and the community.
"It's a work in progress right now," he said.
"I wouldn't say we have definite plan of this is how we're going to do it across community."


Professional Dental Cleaning, also known as Scaling, is the process whereby accumulated build-up of plaque, calculus and food debris is removed from areas around the teeth which cannot easily be cleaned with the help of a toothbrush. Interdental areas, and those near the gum line are most susceptible to plaque and bacterial build-ups because these areas frequently get neglected during daily cleaning.
Scaling is done with the help of a mechanical hand-piece fitted with a scaler, or a specialized tip, which when vibrates at high speeds, can effectively remove calculus from every exposed surface of the tooth and from below the gum. Once the calculus has been removed, the symptoms gradually disappear and the gums regain their health.
Dental surgeons advise patients to get their Scaling done at least twice a year to ensure optimal cleaning, and prevention of many dental and periodontal infections. The procedure is relatively painless, non-invasive and can be completed during a single visit. Patients may experience mild to moderate dental sensitivity following the treatment, but it is normal, and subsides without medication within a week.
If you are experiencing gum-related problems or are worried about bleeding during brushing, get in touch with our team at Jester Village Dental today to learn more about Scaling and at-home cleaning techniques.


My daughter has been quoted by her local Mini dealer £2,000 to replace the oxygen sensor, the vanos solenoid and the vanos actuator on her 07 mini hatch. Seems excessive to me or is that a fair price? If so will end up scrapping it.
the 02 sensors are £100 for genuine take twenty minutes to replace.
or diy the chain kit for full kit with new vanos sprockets £225 for the bits.
Thanks Mike. It's on 66,000 miles so could prob do with timing chain replacement. Dealer said because of where the solenoids were positioned the timing chain would have to be removed to get to them and so they would recommend replacing the chain but that would cost extra to what she was quoted for solenoids and O2 sensors. Sounds like BS to me but don't know enough to know if that's the case.
Utter tosh that access to the solenoids requires timing chain removal... or actuator (and probably nothing wrong with the actuator anyway) as above, timing chain kit replacement will more than likely be all that is required.
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staff April 1, 2020 at 9:02 am EST
One of the world's biggest hotel chain, Marriott, has announced that a data breach from guests have been going since mid-January and they are now investigating it now.
According to their official statement regarding the matter, guests' name, loyalty account information, preferences, partnerships and affiliations along with some other personal details were accessed.
Marriott hit by second data breach exposing "up to" 5.2 million people https://t.co/xTXa3zgPIG
(I guess a positive on the whole hotel industry going down the pan is that they'll be collecting less of our data for a while)
— Graham Cluley (@gcluley) March 31, 2020
Marriott hotels have been pummeled by the coronavirus. Now the company is investigating a data breach that could affect 5.2 million guests https://t.co/R9G4ecPUhY
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) March 31, 2020
They noticed and identified that an unprecedented amount of guest information has been going around in February of this year. The activity was tracked and login credentials of two employees from a franchise property was being used.
Although they assured that other sensitive information like Marriott Bonvoy account passwords or PINs, payment card information, passport information or any other Identification were involved in the leakage of data.
Marriott also remains committed to further strengthening its protections to detect and remediate incidents such as this in the future
Part of Marriott's response to the situation
This is the second time that Marriott has experience such huge data breach within a span of two years because in November 2018, they also had a massive data breach where hackers got into information to 383 million guests from their database.
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On April 8, 1947, Dr. Alfred Kinsey and his research team incorporated as the Institute for Sex Research. ISR had two primary goals: to continue the team's research on human sexual behavior; and to administer research resources, including research materials, a library, case histories, and other related materials.
In 1981, 25 years after Dr. Kinsey's death, the Institute for Sex Research was renamed The Kinsey Institute for Sex Research.
Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey
Dr. Alfred Charles Kinsey was an American biologist, professor of entomology and zoology, and sexologist. Known as the father of the sexual revolution, Dr. Kinsey's work has influenced social and cultural values in the United States and around the world.
Kinsey Institute Directors
Paul Gebhard
June Reinisch
Stephanie Sanders
1993–95, 2014
John Bancroft
Julia Heiman
Sue Carter
Current Diretor:
The Kinsey era
Dr. Kinsey was at the helm of the Institute for Sex Research from its incorporation on April 8, 1947 until his death on August 25, 1956. In that time: the Kinsey Reports entered the public consciousness (1948 and 1953); ISR moved from Swain Hall East to Wylie Hall and then Jordan Hall; and Dr. Kinsey took 7,985 of the approximately 18,000 sex histories gathered by the research team.
After Kinsey's death in 1956, direction of the institute was split between Dr. Paul Gebhard as executive director and Dr. Wardell Pomeroy as director of field research.
Past Directors + Major Milestones
Since 1957, the Kinsey Institute has had eight directors—each bringing new focus and vision to the study of sexuality, relationships, gender, reproduction, and love.
Dr. Paul Gebhard, 1956–82
Dr. Paul Gebhard, a Harvard trained anthropologist who joined the team in 1947, took over as executive director after Kinsey's untimely death. The ISR faced several difficulties at the time, including a protracted and expensive legal battle with U.S. Customs, the need to find new sources of funding, and several incomplete projects. Over the next 25 years, Gebhard succeeded in opening the institute's doors to scholars around the world, making it a leading resource center for those interested in all facets of human sexuality.
The Customs Case: U.S. v. 31 Photographs settled in ISR's favor, granting an exception to laws banning the import of erotic and pornographic material. The case helped establish the legal support for academic and intellectual freedom for researchers and scholars of human sexuality.
Funded: ISR receives first grant from the National Institute of Mental Health
Published: Pregnancy, Birth, and Abortion (Harper/Hoeber)
Published: Sex Offenders: An Analysis of Types (Harper/Hoeber)
Established: Information Services Department begins providing reference and referral information
Published: Homosexualities: A Study of Diversity Among Men and Women (Simon & Schuster)
Renamed: The Institute for Sex Research becomes The Kinsey Institute for Sex Research at a conference commemorating the 25th anniversary of Dr. Kinsey's death.
See Staff Publications for the list of articles, books, and book chapters published during the Gebhard era.
Dr. June Reinisch, 1982–93
Dr. June Reinisch, a psychologist from Columbia University, was appointed director after Gebhard's retirement. Under her directorship, the institute—which was renamed Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction—expanded its vision and broadened its public impact. It also found its fourth home at Morrison Hall on the IU Bloomington campus. By 1990, the Kinsey Institute had grown enough to launch the first full cataloguing and exhibition of art collections.
Published: "The Kinsey Report," an internationally syndicated newspaper column, delivers research-based information to the general public
Published: Masculinity/Femininity (Oxford University Press), the inaugural volume in "The Kinsey Institute Series"
Published: The Kinsey Institute New Report on Sex: What You Must Know to be Sexually Literate (St. Martin's Press), the first institute publication written for the general public
Exhibited: Selections from the Collections of The Kinsey Institute, the institute's first art exhibit, serves as the catalyst project for the establishment of permanent gallery spaces within The Kinsey Institute and the development of future exhibitions
See Staff Publications for the list of articles, books, and book chapters published during the Reinisch era.
Dr. Stephanie Sanders, 1993–95
Dr. Stephanie Sanders, who joined the institute as a researcher in 1982, served as interim director for two years. Visit Dr. Sanders' profile to learn more about her research at the Kinsey Institute and beyond.
See Staff Publications for the list of articles, books, and book chapters published during the first Sanders era.
Dr. John Bancroft, 1995–2004
Dr. John Bancroft is the first and only medical doctor to serve as executive director. During his tenure, the Kinsey Institute stepped into clinical research, as well as the digital age. Bancroft also drove the institute to reflect on its mission and its original publications with celebrations of the 50th anniversaries of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. Institute staff also expanded their impact during this period by hosting symposiums, numerous art exhibits, and public facility tours.
Established: Kinsey Institute clinics for sexual health and menstrual cycle problems
Online: KICAT, the institute's online public access catalog, KICAT, is available on the Internet
Celebrated: 50th anniversary of the incorporation of the Institute for Sex Research
Published: Researching Sexual Behavior: Methodological Issues (Indiana University Press)
Reprinted: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (IU Press) with a new introduction by Bancroft
Launched: The Kinsey Institute Sexuality Information Service for Students (KISISS), an online Q&A service targeting Indiana University students.
Syndicated: The KISISS Report (now Kinsey Confidential) appears as a weekly column in the Indiana Daily Student
Published: Distress about sex: A National Survey of Women in Heterosexual Relationships; Sexual development in childhood.
See Staff Publications for the list of articles, books, and book chapters published during the Bancroft era.
Dr. Julia Heiman, 2004–13
Dr. Julia Heiman's tenure saw significant growth in research and the collections. Under her guidance, institute researchers produced findings on a number of topics, including: arousal response in bisexual men; sexual satisfaction & relationship happiness in midlife couples; infidelity in heterosexual couples; the effects of hormonal contraceptives on women's sexual experience, and effective condom fit. The institute also hosted a number of art exhibitions and established the Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show.
Debuted: Kinsey, a feature film starring Liam Nelson and Laura Linney
Exhibited: The institute hosts the first Juried Erotic Art Show
Celebrated: 60th anniversary of the founding of the Institute for Sex Research (now he Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction)
Awarded: Sarah Lindsley named inaugural John Money Fellow
Archived: Kinsey Institute receives archives of noted sex research pioneers Virginia Johnson & William Masters
See Staff Publications for the list of articles, books, and book chapters published during the Heiman era.
Dr. Stephanie Sanders, 2014
Dr. Sanders acted as interim director until the appointment of Dr. Sue Carter in fall 2014.
Launched: Kinsey Reporter app released in collaboration with the IU School of Informatics and Computing
See Staff Publications for the list of articles, books, and book chapters published during the second Sanders era.
Dr. Sue Carter, 2014-2019
During Dr. Carter's directorship, the Kinsey Institute expanded its research to examine sexuality and intimacy within the dynamics of relationships. She established the Kinsey Institute Traumatic Stress Research Consortium which is is pioneering collaborative research with clinicians on long-term changes to physiology, physical health, and emotional wellbeing in the aftermath of trauma. Following a serious water pipe break in 2016 in the Institute's home in Morrison Hall, a massive undertaking began to transfer the Kinsey Institute Special Collections to the new Indiana University Libraries Auxiliary Library Storage Facilities (ALF), and the institute began a multi-phase move to a new home in Lindley Hall. Dr. Carter also spearheaded various new outreach initiatives, including the Travelling Exhibitions Program which collaborated with national and international museums and galleries to exhibit Kinsey Institute archival and art items for audiences worldwide, and starting work on a continuing education program which launched in the fall of 2019.
Rebranding effort including new website and logo, the flower of aphrodite
Launch of Travelling Exhibitions program with exhibition at Intuit in Chicago
Kinsey Institute celebrates 70th anniversary with open house and historical exhibition
Kinsey Institute exhibition premiers at WEAM during Art Basel in Miami
Traumatic Stress Research Consortium (KI-TSRC) established
Phase 1 of multi-year move brings administrative and research offices to Lindley Hall
Sensual/Sexual/Social joint exhibition with the IMA at Newfields - the first major retrospective of work by photographer George Platt Lynes
Dr. Janet Hyde receives inaugural Alfred C. Kinsey Distinguished Researcher Award
See Staff Publications for the list of articles, books, and book chapters published during the Carter era.
Current Director
Dr. Justin Garcia, 2019-Current
Dr. Justin Garcia was appointed Acting Executive Director in July 2019, during a period of transition and consolidation. The institute continued its move out of Morrison Hall, and finalized various projects that had been under development in previous years, including the launch of a brand new online sex education initiative, and transferring the Special Collections to the IU Libraries ALF facilities.
In 2020, Dr. Garcia was appointed Executive Director. The beginning of his direction of the institute was marked by the worldwide Coronavirus pandemic, when the Kinsey Institute pivoted quickly to launch a dedicated COVID-19 research program and provide information and guidance about the impact of the disease on sex and relationships. The Institute also launched new online outreach initiatives including a social media campaign featuring items from the Special Collections on Instagram and Facebook, an online symposium on censorship and obscenity, and a new online format for the Kinsey Institute Discussion Series.
Launch of Kinsey Institute Continuing Education online program
Phase 2 of multi-year move transfers Collections materials out of Morrison Hall to secure and climate-controlled facilities on the Bloomington IU Campus
Establishment of collaboration with The Trevor Project
Launch of new COVID-19 research program during the novel coronavirus pandemic
Online symposium: "31 Photographs: 'Obscenity,' Censorship, and Academic Freedom"
Social media Art Wednesday campaign features collections materials
Launch of streaming content via the Kinsey Institute Discussion Series on Facebook Live
New research collaborations with industry partners including Hearst Corporation magazines Cosmo & Esquire, and sex toy distributor Lovehoney.com
New gallery and reading room established in Lindley Hall
See Staff Publications for the list of articles, books, and book chapters published during the Garcia era.
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Q: owin + oauth + bearer token authentication: full picture I've read articles and seen example projects. I know owin allows to decouple application from web-server specific code, oauth allows third party clients to get access to application resources, and bearer token - client can get security token by login and password and use it as key for access to application resources.
I know that for simple cookie authentication using owin it's enough UseCookieAuthentication. But owin has this extensions: UseOAuthAuthorizationServer, UseOAuthBearerAuthentication, UseExternalCookieAuthentication, UseOAuthBearerAuthentication and I don't understand the full picture.

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*Could I use oauth without oauth bearer token (does it make sence)?

*What are use cases for external cookie?

*What are use cases for oauth (is it required only in case of client and server work in different domains using some api)?

*What are use cases for oauth bearer token authentication?

*Is it required oauth and bearer token authentication for web api only and for classic asp.net mvc applications it's no need?

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Paid Parental Leave, Sensibly Applied, Benefits Working Mothers the Most
By Abby M. McCloskey
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The evidence shows that short periods of it help parents, children, and the economy.
Some of the biggest critics of President Trump's plan for paid parental leave have been conservatives. It is "a new national entitlement . . . potentially costing hundreds of billions of dollars a year," the Heritage Foundation warned in a recent paper. Others on the right have pointed out how paid leave could hold women back economically, result in discrimination, and burden businesses.
To be sure, these are possible if not probable effects of expansive paid-leave programs, the consequences of which are too often overlooked or minimized by the Left. But there's little if any evidence that such effects would accrue from a limited paid-parental-leave plan such as the White House has proposed.
Take the most common critique of the administration's paid-parental-leave plan: that it will harm the very people it is likely to help, working women. Two studies are oft cited on this front. Economist Jenna Strearns finds that expanded paid leave resulted in "fewer women holding management positions and other jobs with the potential for promotion." And in a 2013 study, economists Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn found that paid leave and other family-friendly policies "leave women less likely to be considered for high-level positions."
But details matter. Stearns was researching the impact of a year's worth of job protection and six months of wage replacement. Blau and Kahn were assessing labor-market consequences in OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) countries, whose paid-leave policies average 57 weeks. Both packages of benefits are a far cry from the six weeks of paid parental leave proposed by the Trump administration.
In our bipartisan AEI-Brookings paper on paid leave, we document data from currently implemented state-based paid-family-leave programs, the longest of which runs six weeks — a more apples-to-apples comparison with the Trump plan. The research reveals that the biggest beneficiaries of paid leave are indeed working mothers.
Short periods of paid leave have been found to boost work and wages for mothers by as much as 10 percent, significantly increasing their economic opportunity and even reducing reliance on other government benefits such as food stamps, while helping to improve the health outcomes of children and parents. There is no evidence of compromised promotion potential with short periods of paid leave.
Others have pointed out the risk of discrimination, especially for women of childbearing age. The logic is that a firm is less likely to hire young women in the first place if it thinks they might take extended time off.
Discrimination is a possible and concerning outcome of extended periods of leave. But again, it has not consistently shown up in the research for shorter periods of parental leave, despite over a decade's worth of data on public programs in the U.S. Rather, paid family leave is associated with higher labor-force participation rates and wages for women, which is good news for their professional advancement.
Others have focused on the consequences of a new business mandate, the burden of which falls on employees, that reduces wages and employment. These effects should be avoided, which is why the AEI-Brookings working group unanimously rejected an employer mandate that would force businesses to provide and pay for paid leave.
It's also likely why the administration decided not to pursue an employer mandate. The plan is structured as a public benefit — a safety net for people who don't have access to paid leave from their employers — with no additional job protection beyond that provided in the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. That's a big difference.
Of course, with a public benefit, significant effects on employers still remain, such as the increased likelihood that employees will take time away from work. But there are data to rely on here, too. Polling from California reveals that 90 percent of employers have reported a positive impact or no impact from the introduction of the policy, and many have benefited from reduced turnover costs as workers have returned to their same jobs.
That said, we have almost no evidence about the effects on employers for paid-family-leave plans extending beyond six weeks. We will eventually know more with the implementation of the policies of New York and Washington states. They stretch to 12 and 16 weeks respectively, but our ability to assess their impact is years away. That should serve as a caution to anyone trying to advance longer periods of leave as a national minimum.
As for disrupting existing employer paid-leave policies, only 12 percent of private-sector employees have access to paid family leave from their employer, meaning that it is not a widespread benefit to begin with. And the average private-sector policy runs six weeks, which is what the Trump administration has proposed. A federal (or state) plan more generous than this would greatly increase the risk that employers would drop their plans for the public option.
After years of crusading for paid leave, some have managed to portray six weeks as barbaric, even though it is a clear improvement over the status quo.
Lastly, there's the argument that paid leave is the beginning of a downward fiscal spiral — "a bidding war for government family benefits," the Wall Street Journal editorial board writes. The effect of this slippery-slope logic is to handcuff politicians so they can't put forward any new policy, regardless of its economic benefits or of the needs of today's work force. Instead, they need to do the hard work of reprioritizing spending or reforming existing entitlements that are structurally unsound.
The fight should be to block benefit expansions beyond what the evidence supports, not to block any new benefit to begin with.
Especially a modest one. The Trump administration's proposed plan is estimated to cost $25 billion over ten years, or $2.5 billion a year. This is 0.1 percent of existing entitlement spending and approximately 3 percent the size of the Democrats' Family Act, which is the likely outcome if Republicans don't provide a convincing alternative.
There's no reason a policy of this size couldn't be paid for out of reforms to existing spending, not by growing the size of government or levying new taxes. Moreover, as Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen recently noted, paid leave and other family-friendly policies could help to counter some of the biggest economic challenges that face our country — weak economic growth and low work force participation — and that are exacerbating our fiscal issues.
Of course, liberals, too, have introduced plenty of bogeymen to the paid-leave debate. After years of crusading for paid leave, some have managed to portray six weeks as barbaric, even though it is a clear improvement over the status quo and closely resembles the length and the average wage-replacement rate in the longest-running paid-family-leave program, in America's largest blue state.
And some on the left have continued to push the Family Act as the only reasonable solution, despite little evidence of the economic effects of such an expansive policy on workers and business — all while tending to rely on cost estimates well below what's reasonable, hiding the true necessary tax hike for workers.
The majority of American parents have access to zero days of paid family leave upon the birth or adoption of a child. Most people on the right and on the left want that to change. The question is how.
There is plenty to debate about Trump's paid-parental-leave plan and crucial details that are missing, which I've written about on these pages and elsewhere. But these conversations are best had based on evidence. Fortunately, there's plenty to go by.
The Paternalism of Paid Parental Leave
Don't Force Employers to Provide Paid Parental Leave
The American Dream Hinges on Family
Abby M. McCloskey is an economist, is founder of McCloskey Policy LLC, and has advised numerous presidential campaigns. She is a member of the AEI-Brookings Working Group on Paid Leave.


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CBRE's 2019 "Scoring Tech Talent Report": Nashville Stands Out in Tech Labor Pool Growth, Millennial Population, and Brain Gain
Nashville, TN | July 17, 2019
Nashville – July 17, 2019 – Nashville continues to show strong fundamentals in CBRE's annual Scoring Tech Talent Report, which ranks 50 U.S. and Canadian markets according to their ability to attract and grow tech talent. Among small tech talent markets – those with fewer than 50,000 tech workers – Nashville grew its tech talent pool at the seventh-fastest pace, a 28% increase in the last five years (2013-2018). Nashville has a tech talent labor pool of 29,120, or 3% of its total employment, compared to the national average of 3.7 percent. With recent announcements from major tech companies entering the Nashville market, tech talent growth is expected to accelerate in the coming years.
The city also ranked #8 among small markets by growing its twentysomething population by 5.7%, compared to the U.S. average of 2.5%. Additionally, the number of tech degree graduates were compared with tech talent job creation in each market to determine brain gains or brain drains. Nashville added 6,370 tech jobs within the last five years, a brain gain of 2,470 when compared to the number of tech degrees the market produced – that is the 14th-largest brain gain among all 50 markets, ahead of similar sized markets like Orlando and Austin.
Nashville stood out in the report in a number of other key areas:
With an increase of 41% in office rental rates over the last five years, Nashville ranks #3 among all 50 markets, only behind Portland, and Orange County, CA.
Nashville's urban population shows a higher than U.S. average educational attainment, meaning the amount of people 25 years and older with a Bachelor's degree or higher. The city's educational attainment is at 41.2% as opposed to the U.S. average of 31.3%.
Nashville ranks among the top 10 markets for gender diversity in tech occupations. As one of the most diverse markets, the city's tech workforce consists of 69.8% male and 30.2% female workers.
View the full report here. To view individual market statistics and rankings, including rankings on the Scorecard, access CBRE's Tech Talent Analyzer.
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use Doctrine\ORM\EntityManagerInterface;
use Doctrine\ORM\Query\ResultSetMapping;

class DummyEntityManager implements EntityManagerInterface
{
    public function getCache()
    {
        // TODO: Implement getCache() method.
    }

    public function getConnection()
    {
        // TODO: Implement getConnection() method.
    }

    public function getExpressionBuilder()
    {
        // TODO: Implement getExpressionBuilder() method.
    }

    public function beginTransaction()
    {
        // TODO: Implement beginTransaction() method.
    }

    public function transactional($func)
    {
        // TODO: Implement transactional() method.
    }

    public function commit()
    {
        // TODO: Implement commit() method.
    }

    public function rollback()
    {
        // TODO: Implement rollback() method.
    }

    public function createQuery($dql = '')
    {
        // TODO: Implement createQuery() method.
    }

    public function createNamedQuery($name)
    {
        // TODO: Implement createNamedQuery() method.
    }

    public function createNativeQuery($sql, ResultSetMapping $rsm)
    {
        // TODO: Implement createNativeQuery() method.
    }

    public function createNamedNativeQuery($name)
    {
        // TODO: Implement createNamedNativeQuery() method.
    }

    public function createQueryBuilder()
    {
        // TODO: Implement createQueryBuilder() method.
    }

    public function getReference($entityName, $id)
    {
        // TODO: Implement getReference() method.
    }

    public function getPartialReference($entityName, $identifier)
    {
        // TODO: Implement getPartialReference() method.
    }

    public function close()
    {
        // TODO: Implement close() method.
    }

    public function copy($entity, $deep = false)
    {
        // TODO: Implement copy() method.
    }

    public function lock($entity, $lockMode, $lockVersion = null)
    {
        // TODO: Implement lock() method.
    }

    public function getEventManager()
    {
        // TODO: Implement getEventManager() method.
    }

    public function getConfiguration()
    {
        // TODO: Implement getConfiguration() method.
    }

    public function isOpen()
    {
        // TODO: Implement isOpen() method.
    }

    public function getUnitOfWork()
    {
        // TODO: Implement getUnitOfWork() method.
    }

    public function getHydrator($hydrationMode)
    {
        // TODO: Implement getHydrator() method.
    }

    public function newHydrator($hydrationMode)
    {
        // TODO: Implement newHydrator() method.
    }

    public function getProxyFactory()
    {
        // TODO: Implement getProxyFactory() method.
    }

    public function getFilters()
    {
        // TODO: Implement getFilters() method.
    }

    public function isFiltersStateClean()
    {
        // TODO: Implement isFiltersStateClean() method.
    }

    public function hasFilters()
    {
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est un homme politique japonais de l'ère Meiji.

Biographie
Fils de Iwamura Hidetoshi, un samouraï au service du domaine de Tosa, Hayashi nait dans la province de Tosa (actuelle préfecture de Kōchi). Son frère aîné est Iwamura Michitoshi et son frère cadet, Iwamura Takatoshi, deux politiciens du gouvernement de Meiji. Il est adopté par la famille Hayashi pendant son enfance. Pendant la guerre de Boshin, il combat contre les forces du shogunat Tokugawa dans la province d'Echigo. Après la restauration de Meiji, il travaille avec Itagaki Taisuke mais est rapidement arrêté pour avoir tenté de rassembler une armée visant à aider Saigō Takamori durant la rébellion de Satsuma.

Après sa libération, il rejoint Itagaki Taisuke et devient membre du parti Jiyūtō. Il remporte un siège à la chambre des représentants de la Diète du Japon lors des élections législatives japonaises de 1890 et est par la suite réélu huit fois au même siège. Hayashi est nommé ministre des Communications en 1898 dans le premier gouvernement d'Ōkuma Shigenobu. Il est plus tard nommé ministre de l'Agriculture et du Commerce en 1900 dans le quatrième gouvernement d'Itō Hirobumi. Il se retire de la fonction publique en 1908.

De retour dans sa préfecture de Kōchi natale, il devient entrepreneur et fonde une entreprise de perle de culture. Il meurt en 1921 à l'âge de 79 ans et est enterré à Sukumo.

Notes et références

Naissance en septembre 1842
Décès en décembre 1921
Samouraï du XIXe siècle
Samouraï du XXe siècle
Naissance dans la préfecture de Kōchi
Ministre japonais
Personnalité de la guerre de Boshin
Décès à 79 ans

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Chile, like other Latin American nations, follows the civil law tradition. Civil law, which has its roots in Roman law, features reliance on codified law, rather than precedential case law. A helpful introduction to the civil law tradition is noted below.
In general, locating and then interpreting sources of Chilean law can be challenging, particularly for non-Spanish speaking researchers. Keep in mind that, when approaching a question related to Chilean law (or foreign law generally), it is often advantageous to start with a secondary source. There are several online guides in English that can serve as introductions to understanding and researching Chilean law. These resources are listed at right.
On September 26, 2015, then Chilean President Michelle Bachelet spoke on the topic of "Challenges of Our Democracy: 25 Years After" at Columbia University's Law Library. The video is posted on YouTube.
The Fall 2013 issue of NACLA Report on the Americas was dedicated to the topic of "Chile 40 Years Later: The Politics of Memory and the Memory of Politics." LUC patrons may gain access to this issue via the LUC Libraries' subscription database, Academic Search Complete.
An excellent introduction to civil law systems is available via the WWW link listed below. Other books on civil law may be located using the LUC Libraries' online catalog (see the "Books" tab for more info).
Rafael Blanco, Richard Hutt, & Hugo Rojas, Reform to the Criminal Justice System in Chile: Evaluation and Challenges," 2.2 LOY. U. CHI. INT'L L. REV. 253 (2004-2005).
There are several websites that provide introductions to Chilean law and Chilean legal research. Note that a number of U.S. law libraries offer webliographies for Chile. Try Googling "legal research" and "Chile" to locate these pages. See also the "Databases" tab for information on several commercial databases that also provide introductions and descriptions of Chilean law and legal resources.
This is a comprehensive webliography of Chilean legal resources available in digital format. The annotated list includes links to various portals, legislation by topic (primarily in Spanish), court sites, and secondary material. Compiled by librarians at the Lillian Goldman Law Library (Yale University).
Published in May 2010, the article provides a general overview of the Chilean legal system, including an explanation of the various types of legislation. Information sources on Chilean law are also provided, including lists of Chilean law journals, legal blogs, and law schools. Authors of the article are Sergio Endress, Fernando Fernández-Acevedo, and Radoslov Depolo, all Chilean attorneys.
Published in 2013, this book is a compilation of essays on the history, culture, and politics of Chile. Essay authors include Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral, Andrés Bello, Salvador Allende, and Patricio Aylwin. One chapter is dedicated to "Returning to Democracy: Transition and Community."
The 2008 PBS documentary, The Judge and the General, follows Chilean judge Juan Guzmán's investigations of two criminal cases brought against former Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet. The first case focused on the 1973 death of Manuel Donoso, a sociology professor who was killed near Arica, Chile as part of Pinochet's infamous "Caravan of Death." The first volume of the investigative dossier of this case is held in the Law Library's Dan K. Webb Rare Books Room. The second case chronicled in the film involved the disappearance of Cecilia Castro, a young Chilean law student and political activist. For more information on the film and its creators, Elizabeth Farnsworth and Patricio Lanfranco, see http://www.pbs.org/pov/judgeandthegeneral/.
No is a 2012 Chilean film, directed by Pablo Larraín, starring Gael García Bernal. The film depicts the advertising campaign utilized during the 1988 plebiscite held to decide whether Augusto Pinochet should be granted another 8-year term as President. In 2013, No was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Both films are currently held on permanent reserve behind the Circulation Desk.
The Loyola University Chicago School of Law currently sponsors a formal exchange program with the Law School of the Universidad Alberto Hurtado (UAH) in Santiago, Chile. Each year, several UAH law faculty and students visit Chicago, and a seminar class from Loyola travels to Santiago during Spring Break.
Since the program's inception, UAH has periodically donated items related to Chilean law to the Law Library. Grouped together as the "Universidad Alberto Hurtado Collection," these materials are housed in the Rare Books Room, and currently total over 20 items. The items, which are primarily in Spanish, range from copies of UAH Law School periodicals, to an investigative dossier of former Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet.
Use of the materials in the "Universidad Alberto Hurtado Collection" is limited to Loyola Law School faculty, staff, current students, and alumni. Individuals wishing to review any of the UAH items are asked to call the Reference Desk at 312.915.7205 to schedule an appointment.
English translations of Latin American legal materials are often difficult to locate and can be unreliable. Only in rare instances are authoritative English translations available. If authoritative versions are not available, look for "official" translations that are created by, or for, a government organization. Further, look for synoptic translations, which allow for side-by-side comparisons of the vernacular with the English translation. Some types of Latin American legal materials are translated into English more often than others, such as those pertaining to commercial law.
This article provides an overview of "the right to contract" from both the Chilean and U.S. perspectives.
Dante Figueroa & Arturo Fermandois, Comparative Constitutional Protection of Contracts in the United States and Chile, International Legal Research Informer 5 (Summer 2012).
The second set of PowerPoint slides was prepared for the LUC Law School course, "Comparative Law Seminar: Legal Systems in the Americas."
Prepared in the summer of 2009, updated in February 2012, this 23-page guide offers instructions and tips on how to research foreign, comparative, and international law at the LUC Law Library. The annotated guide lists print reference sources, subscription databases, free websites, and current awareness sources that may be useful when approaching foreign, comparative, and international law questions.


Small businesses are losing valuable revenue generating opportunities because of their poor website strategies, according to a new study released by Online Marketing Coach.
The Small Business B2B Call to Action study examined 200 U.S. small businesses in a variety of B2B industries. The findings reveal that 70 percent of small businesses don't display clear call to actions for conversion opportunities on their home pages, such as specials, email newsletters, demos and interactive tools. In addition, 96 percent of small businesses don't offer how-to-guides, white papers or other thought leadership reports on their home pages – all of which can help businesses acquire leads and convert prospects.
"We created the study to get a sense of how small business owners try to convert visitors into leads," says Mike Murray, president of Online Marketing Coach. "Unfortunately, they're falling short at every turn. Too often, the basics are lacking, such as a phone number that's tough to find or a company contact reference that may not stand out in the navigation. Relatively easy changes could make a dramatic improvement."
Other notable stats reveal that 72 percent of the small businesses analyzed didn't have any calls to action on their interior pages, while 82 percent didn't reference their social media profiles (with text or images) at all. Furthermore, 27 percent of the small businesses didn't include a phone number on their home pages and 68 percent didn't include an email address. Out of the businesses that did include this important contact information on their home pages, 70 percent didn't display their phone number in a prominent place and 38 percent buried their email address on the page – typically in the footer.
The Small Business B2B Call To Action study also provides examples of call to actions that aren't effective and gives tips for what small businesses should avoid in site design, as well as what to emulate. For example, the study notes that small businesses should always keep important content updated, display their specials prominently on the home page and place the "Contact Us" section in a place where people can easily find it.


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Q: Git: How to point to a previous commit without losing current commit? I use git in a fairly linear and basic manner, but I ran into an issue that I rarely run into and I am unsure of how to fix.
I committed something too early in one of my branches. It will get launched soon, but I am not ready to have it launched yet. I am trying to figure out the best way to go about having the branch I am working on point to a previous commit before I merge this branch into the master branch, so that when this branch is merged into the master branch it is not referencing the most recent commit.
Using git log (git log --oneline), I have the following:
d17be71 (HEAD -> qa, origin/qa) Fix footer in jsp.
bc6dde8 (featureBranch1) Correct company logo.

So d17be71 was accidentally added to qa, and qa will be merged into master. I don't want these changes to be merged into master, but I don't want to lose them. I want bc6dde8 to be merged into master, and after this code launches successfully, then I will incorporate d17be71 back into qa, then merge that into master, then launch that as well.
Doing some reading on merging, branching, and HEAD:
Branching and Merging
Detached HEAD
Rewriting History
But I'm still a little lost as to what the correct approach should be. I am assuming that I can just point the HEAD to bc6dde8, and that will act as the last commit so that when I merge into master, d17be71 will not be merged into master but still exist on my qa branch, but I haven't read anything that confirms this will actually happen.
I guess I could create a new branch off of qa, then go back to qa and revert back to bc6dde8 and erase my last commit, then merge back into qa after launching, but I am assuming I don't have to do that. Just having a difficult time figuring out what exactly it is I am supposed to do if not that.
How should I go about correcting this mistake?

A: I guess the simplest solution would be
git checkout master
git merge qa^

(Note the ^, which tells git you're merging the parent commit of the commit referenced by qa.)
In my tests, git sees what I'm doing and even modifies the default merge message to say
Merge branch 'qa'  (early part)

(Of course you could delete the text (early part) if you want this to end up looking (mostly) like the merge had occurred before the excluded commit had been added to the qa branch.  Or you could change the commit message in whatever way you normally would for merge commits, for that matter.)
Your solution of creating a new branch and resetting the qa branch also works and isn't that much extra work since git branches are pretty light-weight.   (Note the terminology, though; this is a reset.  To revert is to create new commits that undo the changes from previous commits.  While that is another user's suggested answer, I don't recommend it, because it puts unnecessary clutter in history.[1])  The main trick to doing that is, you'd want the re-merge of d17be71 to be a fast-forward; but that's not such a trick, because it should be the default behavior as long as nothing else is added to qa in the meantime.
There are many other possible solutions as well.  A variation on your solution, using the reflog instead of a temporary branch, for example:
git checkout qa
git reset --hard HEAD^
git checkout master
git merge qa
git checkout qa
git reset --hard qa@{1}

[1] : There are times when revert makes sense instead of reset.  The main reason would be to avoid editing a shared history.  But that only really matters if you're going to share the history edit, which isn't the case here because the history edit is temporary.

A: You could simply git revert d17be71. It won't erase d17be71, but instead generating a reverting commit that essentially cancels out d17be71. Make a note of the hash of that reverting commit. After qa is merged into master, run another git revert the-revert-commit-hash, it'll cancel out the revert, and effectively reinstate the d17be71 changes.


Many of them are unimportant, really quite inconsequential actually, so they're easy to overlook.
Oh, I try. I try SO hard. Control is something I find very hard to relinquish.
Often giving my best effort on the agenda. Putting in safe guards wherever I can think of them. Trying to do everything by the book.
Except often the self-righteous, independent mode kicks in.
In the morning it's a prayer, "how much I need you today Lord," but the afternoon may show quite a different story.
Today, I had to fully surrender. Again.
Another person's willingness to work together.
A hope & a promise that I'm still waiting on.
A dream that God put in my heart years ago, but the calendar is still turning and I'm not seeing anything.
Turn to the One who controls it all.
I would feel the same way...good for you for leaving the room! Better than the alternative, isn't it?! As usual, thanks for stopping by :) Such a fun link up!!!
God is enough. I'm learning this. Thank you for sharing.