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Q: spring integration redis poller with transaction i use spring integeration redis,poll message from redis, like this:
@Bean
public PseudoTransactionManager transactionManager() {
    final PseudoTransactionManager pseudoTransactionManager = new PseudoTransactionManager();
    return pseudoTransactionManager;
}

@Bean
public TransactionSynchronizationFactory transactionSynchronizationFactory() {
    ExpressionEvaluatingTransactionSynchronizationProcessor transactionSynchronizationProcessor = new ExpressionEvaluatingTransactionSynchronizationProcessor();
    transactionSynchronizationProcessor.setAfterCommitExpression(this.PARSER.parseExpression("#store.rename('commit')"));
    transactionSynchronizationProcessor.setAfterRollbackExpression(this.PARSER.parseExpression("#store.rename('roll')"));
    DefaultTransactionSynchronizationFactory transactionSynchronizationFactory = new DefaultTransactionSynchronizationFactory(transactionSynchronizationProcessor);
    return transactionSynchronizationFactory;
}

@Bean
public SourcePollingChannelAdapterFactoryBean sourcePollingChannelAdapter(RedisStoreMessageSource redisStoreMessageSource, TransactionSynchronizationFactory transactionSynchronizationFactory) {

    SourcePollingChannelAdapterFactoryBean sourcePollingChannelAdapterFactoryBean = new SourcePollingChannelAdapterFactoryBean();
    sourcePollingChannelAdapterFactoryBean.setAutoStartup(true);
    sourcePollingChannelAdapterFactoryBean.setOutputChannelName("mail-delivery-status-route-channel");
    sourcePollingChannelAdapterFactoryBean.setSource(redisStoreMessageSource);
    PollerMetadata pollerMetadata = new PollerMetadata();
    pollerMetadata.setMaxMessagesPerPoll(10);
    pollerMetadata.setTransactionSynchronizationFactory(transactionSynchronizationFactory);
    PeriodicTrigger periodicTrigger = new PeriodicTrigger(2000);
    pollerMetadata.setTrigger(periodicTrigger);
    sourcePollingChannelAdapterFactoryBean.setPollerMetadata(pollerMetadata);

    return sourcePollingChannelAdapterFactoryBean;
}

@Bean
public TestHandler testHandler() {

    return new TestHandler();
}

@Bean
public IntegrationFlow trans() {
    return flow -> flow.channel("mail-delivery-status-route-channel").handle(testHandler());
}

Normally, after the process is complete, the afterCommit #store.rename('commit') operation will be performed, but it is not doing it now, and will continue polling , i debug ,find that:  AbstractPollingEndpoint#bindResourceHolderIfNecessary TransactionSynchronizationManager.isActualTransactionActive() is always false.
How can I improve the program.

A: The pollerMetadata.setTransactionSynchronizationFactory(transactionSynchronizationFactory); is not enough. You are missing to add an adviceChain into the PollerMetadata, where one of them should be TransactionInterceptor. See TransactionInterceptorBuilder for convenience.
Although it's fully unclear why would one use SourcePollingChannelAdapterFactoryBean manually if there is a Java DSL already in the project and the IntegrationFlow can handle all the boilerplate code for you. I mean you need to look into the:
/**
 * Populate the provided {@link MessageSource} object to the {@link IntegrationFlowBuilder} chain.
 * The {@link org.springframework.integration.dsl.IntegrationFlow} {@code startMessageSource}.
 * In addition use {@link SourcePollingChannelAdapterSpec} to provide options for the underlying
 * {@link org.springframework.integration.endpoint.SourcePollingChannelAdapter} endpoint.
 * @param messageSource the {@link MessageSource} to populate.
 * @param endpointConfigurer the {@link Consumer} to provide more options for the
 * {@link org.springframework.integration.config.SourcePollingChannelAdapterFactoryBean}.
 * @return new {@link IntegrationFlowBuilder}.
 * @see MessageSource
 * @see SourcePollingChannelAdapterSpec
 */
public static IntegrationFlowBuilder from(MessageSource<?> messageSource,
        Consumer<SourcePollingChannelAdapterSpec> endpointConfigurer) {

And configure .transactional() and transactionSynchronizationFactory() there on the PollerSpec.


The story of Nafed's turnaround has led to hopes gushing over many weak and failing cooperatives and Fishcopfed-the apex body of fisheries co-operatives is one of them. If Nafed could rise from the ashes why not us, asks its Managing Director B K Mishra.
It bears recall that Nafed paid all dues to lenders recently out of own pocket i .e, from earnings made from service-charges for its procurement of grains- a situation similar to Fishcopfed's.
Until the last few years Fishcopfed always got a clean bill of health but it began to face trouble when the service charges for insuring fishermen were held-up in the government files. For the past five years, the co-op federation has been facing difficulties paying the staff and running offices spread across the country.
It bears recall that Fishcopfed is the nodal agency for insuring fishermen and had done the remarkable job of insuring close to 42 lakh of them till this financial year. It plans to add more than 4 lakh by the next year, claimed its MD Mishra.
Buoyed up with the success of its insurance scheme, it began expanding and setting up offices in 8 states with more than 40 staff members to run them. "We are not like the apex co-op federations of labour or urban cooperative banks which have just one office, we have eight offices and it is indeed difficult to run them without the govt support" stated the MD.
But the MD is quick to point out that he is not seeking any grant or favour. I only request the govt to get us our dues which are pending for five years now. The issue of service charge was approved by the govt only, he added.
"Today it feels good to know that Nafed has been revived. Its majestic building at Ashram Chowk in Delhi has always filled us up with cooperative pride. But it could be revived only when the govt gave it procurement contracts and paid service charge for the same. We are also asking for just one rupee per person service charge, as approved by the Ministry, Mishra stated.
Despite several meetings with Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh, Fishcopfed has failed to get service charge released from the govt, sources say. They point out that the Union Agriculture Minister's instructions in the matter have yet to be carried out by the ministry. They blame it on the obstinate bureaucracy.
"If the NDA Government wants to bring about Blue Revolution in the country till 2020, Fishcopfed can play an important role in this," Mishra claimed.


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(CNN) -- Two journalists covering civil unrest following a fatal shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, said they were briefly arrested Wednesday night inside a McDonald's in the community.
Elsewhere in the area on Wednesday evening, a number of reporters said they were doused with tear gas when authorities tried to disperse crowds. Ash-Har Quraishi, a correspondent for Al Jazeera America who previously worked for CNN, said his crew was in a place "we believed to be safe" when people started running toward them.
"Rubber bullets were fired on us, and then a canister," he said. "We had to retreat into the neighborhood."
In a statement about the "worsening situation in Ferguson," Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon urged law enforcement agencies "to keep the peace and respect the rights of residents and the press during this difficult time."
Officials at both The Washington Post and The Huffington Post issued statements that assailed the reporter arrests.
Martin Baron, the executive editor of The Washington Post, said in a statement Wednesday night that "there was absolutely no justification" for Lowery's arrest.
Baron noted that the reporter was "illegally instructed to stop taking video of officers. Then he followed officers' instructions to leave a McDonald's -- and after contradictory instructions on how to exit, he was slammed against a soda machine and then handcuffed. That behavior was wholly unwarranted and an assault on the freedom of the press to cover the news."
Ryan Grim, The Huffington Post's Washington bureau chief, noted in a statement that Reilly "has reported multiple times from Guantanamo Bay." According to Grim, Reilly "said that the police resembled soldiers more than officers, and treated those inside the McDonald's as 'enemy combatants.'"
Grim concluded his statement by saying, "Police militarization has been among the most consequential and unnoticed developments of our time, and it is now beginning to affect press freedom."


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The year of 1956 is often referred to as the end of the postwar era in Japan. It was also the year that Parisian art critic and collector Michel Tapie brought an influential collection of Western "art informel" abstract art to Japan.
The National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto is hosting a special exhibition of a wide range of Japanese abstract paintings and sculptures that follow what Tapie promoted: gestural styles that broke with artistic tradition. Around 100 works are being featured, including both Western-style and Japanese-style paintings, ceramics and even art-informel-influenced ikebana.
The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Okazaki Enshoji-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto. Higashiyama Stn. 9:30 a.m. -5 p.m. (Fri. till 8 p.m.). ¥900. Closed Mon. 075-761-4111; www.momak.go.jp/English
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High class tennis action this week with the ATP Masters Series/WTA Premier Mandatory tournament this week in Miami. The finest tennis data analysis around can be found via Dan Weston, @tennisratings, and his website TennisRatings. It is so much more than basic tips and odds discussion!
It's day two of the Miami Masters/Premier Mandatory tournament and the men's event commences today after the women started yesterday.
With 16 men's matches and 20 women's matches on the schedule, there's plenty for traders to get involved with and there's also some very intriguing matches.
As I mentioned in yesterday's preview, the courts in Miami tend to play slow and last year this affected the ATP more than the WTA with service hold mean being just 72.9%, 5.4% below hard court average.
This slow surface should suit those who favour clay and one of those is Albert Montanes.
The Spanish veteran has atrocious hard court stats in the past 2 years, failing to win a single match at main tour level, and losing eight. In those he's held 61.6% and broken 8.2% which illustrate why he's had difficulty!
Today he faces the limited Michal Przysiezny with the Pole starting at 1.57. This looks some value and with Montanes' projected hold unsurprisingly low (even against a player who doesn't have a good return game), laying Montanes' serve is viable in almost all circumstances, according to the Rolling Projected Holds in today's daily spreadsheet.
With the courts likely to play slowly, as mentioned, there are a number of men's matches today which feature low projected holds for both players.
David Goffin's matches usually make for excellent trading material and today he faces the Argentine clay courter, Horacio Zeballos.
Projected holds make this much closer than the 1.36 prematch price on qualifier Goffin's suggests, and I feel the Belgian is likely to trade higher here.
I feel laying his serve should have high positive expectation.
Alejandro Falla looks some value at just over evens against Marinko Matosevic with the Australian journeyman not a fan of slow surfaces.
The Columbian edges two low projected holds and taking on Matosevic's serve works for me.
Several players worth laying a break up include Thiemo De Bakker against Victor Hanescu - the Dutchman has lost a break lead 50.0% of the time in the last 12 months - and Jeremy Chardy who faces Juan Monaco.
These courts should be much more to the Argentine's liking than the average hard court and with Chardy losing a break lead 33.3% and Monaco recovering that deficit 50.0%, this takes the combined score on Chardy when a break up to 83.3 - above the required 75 in the ATP.
In women's action, I like the chances of Victoria Duval against qualifier Kiki Bertens.
The American youngster has impressive stats from her qualifying matches on hard court in the past 12 months - winning 13/16 - and this should make her a player of decent potential.
Bertens has flattered to deceive for a while and is better on clay in any case, and I feel Bertens is a false favourite at 1.63.
Projected holds are both low and I feel opposing the Bertens serve is a great strategy here.
Other good matches with high swing trading potential include Maria-Teresa Torro-Flor versus Andrea Petkovic with projected holds both low.
The German recovers a break deficit an impressive 61.6% of the time and this is enough to take the combined score on Torro-Flor to be over the required 105 in the WTA - she loses a break lead 46.7%.
Also in this bracket is Yvonne Meusburger's match with Lourdes Domingues Lino.
Against a good returner, Lino's projected hold is very low indeed and her serve can be laid whenever the price realistically allows.
Furthermore, with her losing a break lead 61.3% and Meusburger's recovery percentage being decent at 54.6%, laying Lino a break up also appeals.
Finally, Kimiko Date-Krumm has one of the worst percentages in the WTA for holding onto break leads at 67.4% although stats show her to not be without a chance at 2.72 against the talented young Croatian, Donna Vekic.
I said a while back that if Vekic can improve her clutch play and take and save more break points, in line with her expectation, that she is a player of immense potential, and this still looks to be the case.
Good luck in the markets and there will be more tomorrow!


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For all of you that have heard or are experiencing the brutal arctic front, I feel for you. I've been a wimp for the past couple of days, barely making it from my car to school, work or home. Lately I've felt like just curling up with a good book and a big mug of hot chocolate all day long. 50 below seems to have that effect on people, though kudos to my crazy dad who still insists on riding to work..
Although I haven't been cross country skiing since the cold snap, I've become more active in other cross training activities during these cold times. Last night I meet up with a couple of friends for some indoor rock climbing action. A couple hours of monkeying around ...hehe, (I know, I'm lame too) definitely helps to take your mind off the weather. After taking some time off of climbing, I've really been enjoying getting back into it this past winter as it's something completely different than cycling..and my fingerprints are finally starting to grow back too.
Hoping this weekend to head out for a ski of the Cookie Race loop in the Kananaskis, which is a 42 km classic ski loop. Super fun with lots of hills and lots of fresh snow.
Surviving my first couple days of school haven't been that bad, I only have two courses left to graduate, so I definitely can't complain. Contaminant Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology (a course somewhat designed to help geologists and engineers communicate with eachother better).
I have discovered one big problem though, I'm going to miss all of my final exams during my trip to Europe to do the World Cup events...hehe. Not that I'm really upset about that, but I am really hoping that I can work something out to write them at a different date so I can at least gradute. I'm making the trip to Dean's office tomorrow to try and plead my case for a deferral.....oh to be done with school :) Wish me luck.


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Q: Access Overflow Error Doing statistical work with the Lahman database and MS-Access 2013.  I have several views created to calculate linear weights of batting events as an intermediate step in calculating advanced statistics such as wOBA, wRC, etc. These views take the entire universe of baseball statistics and group them by year.  The last of these views (RunValues2) has a calculated field that returns values with no issue.  That field is runMinus as shown in the abbreviated query below (Pls ignore the unnecessary join unless it's the reason this one works):
SELECT RunValues.yearID
, RunValues.RperOut
, RunValues.runBB
, RunValues.runHB
, RunValues.run1B
, RunValues.run2B
, RunValues.run3B
, RunValues.runHR
, RunValues.runSB
, RunValues.runCS
, Sum([runBB]*([BB]-nz([ibb]))+[runHB]*nz([HBP])+[run1B]*([H]-[2b]-[3b]-[HR])+[run2B]
*[2b]+[run3B]*[3b]+1.4*[HR]+[runSB]*nz([SB])-[runCS]*nz([CS]))/Sum([ab]-[h]+nz([SF]))
AS runMinus
FROM RunValues INNER JOIN (Batting INNER JOIN v_PrimaryPos ON Batting.playerID = v_PrimaryPos.playerID) ON RunValues.yearID = Batting.yearID
GROUP BY RunValues.yearID, RunValues.RperOut, RunValues.runBB, RunValues.runHB, RunValues.run1B, RunValues.run2B, RunValues.run3B, RunValues.runHR, RunValues.runSB, RunValues.runCS
ORDER BY RunValues.yearID DESC;

I am re-creating these views with the totals grouped by league.  Otherwise, the views are the same, just referencing different views with the same field names.
SELECT rvl.yearID
, rvl.lgID
, rvl.RperOut
, rvl.runBB
, rvl.runHB
, rvl.run1B
, rvl.run2B
, rvl.run3B
, rvl.runHR
, rvl.runSB
, rvl.runCS
, Sum([runBB]*([BB]-nz([ibb]))+[runHB]*nz([HBP])+[run1B]*([H]-[2b]-[3b]-[HR])+[run2B]
*[2b]+[run3B]*[3b]+1.4*[HR]+[runSB]*nz([SB])-[runCS]*nz([CS]))
/IIF(Sum([ab]-[h]+nz([SF]))=0,1,Sum([ab]-[h]+nz([SF]))) AS runMinus

FROM RunValuesLeague rvl INNER JOIN BattingLg ON rvl.yearID = BattingLg.yearID AND rvl.lgID=BattingLg.lgID
GROUP BY rvl.yearID, rvl.lgID, rvl.RperOut, rvl.runBB, rvl.runHB, rvl.run1B, rvl.run2B, rvl.run3B, rvl.runHR, rvl.runSB, rvl.runCS
ORDER BY rvl.yearID DESC;

When creating the new views, I get an Overload error with no number.  Having read this answer, you'll see I added an IIF function to make sure I was not dividing by zero.  That did not resolve the issue.
Apologies for the length of this question, but I am stumped and wanted to give as much info as possible.  Thanks!

A: Overflow typically means overflow of an Integer.
So, as already noted, first force a numeric value from Nz, then convert all values to currency (if four decimals or less) or double:
Sum(CCur([runBB])*(CCur([BB])-CCur(Nz([ibb],0)))+ ...

A: By second thought, I believe you can reduce it to:
SELECT rvl.yearID
, rvl.lgID
, rvl.RperOut
, rvl.runBB
, rvl.runHB
, rvl.run1B
, rvl.run2B
, rvl.run3B
, rvl.runHR
, rvl.runSB
, rvl.runCS
, ([runBB]*([BB]-Nz([ibb],0))+[runHB]*Nz([HBP],0)+[run1B]*([H]-[2b]-[3b]-[HR])+[run2B]
*[2b]+[run3B]*[3b]+1.4*[HR]+[runSB]*Nz([SB],0)-[runCS]*Nz([CS],0))
/IIF(([ab]-[h]+Nz([SF],0))=0,1,([ab]-[h]+Nz([SF],0))) AS runMinus

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Social media has changed the definition of friendship dramatically. I used to think this was a bad thing. Indeed, I believed it to be a horrible thing. As a psychologist, I was sure that people interacting mostly online rather than face-to-face would cause all kinds of stunted growth and twisted relationships.
And I'm sure that in some cases it does contributed to such stunting and twisting, but probably only in people who already had a predisposition to be stunted or twisted to begin with. And certainly the anonymity that is possible on social media has brought out the worst in a lot of people who think that bullying and trolling are great sport.
But I've made an amazing discovery.
As a writer, I had to get on social media, whether I liked the idea or not. And I didn't like the idea, mostly because I'm rather technologically challenged. Besides, I'm an outgoing person, so I already had a large circle of friends, acquaintances and family members to keep up with.
But everyone kept telling me I needed a social media platform, whatever that was. So I got on Twitter and Pinterest and Facebook (technically I'm on Google+ but I don't do much over there). Twitter and Pinterest are okay. I pop in there every few days.
The big discovery, though, has been that I love Facebook. Maybe it's because, early on, an in-real-life friend got me into a closed writers' group on FB, and they are so awesome! Their name says it all, the WANAs, which stands for We Are Not Alone. Their encouragement, support and unconditional acceptance has made a huge difference in my professional and personal life.
But I also found that I really liked Facebook as a way to stay in touch with in-real-life (IRL) friends and family, and as a way to make connections with new people.
I currently have 326 friends and 27 followers on Facebook (this is on my personal profile, not my author page). I just went through the list and figured out who was who. Out of those 326 FB friends, 63 are IRL friends, acquaintances and family members.
Nineteen are folks whom I know to be fans of my books, and about fifty-four of them are random people who have sent me "friend" requests. I suspect a lot of those are also fans of my books (and probably most of the 27 followers as well).
And 173 of my FB friends are authors I have met online since starting this writing journey. Fourteen of these folks I have now gotten together with in person as well.
Sounds like a lot of virtual (and I mean that both ways) strangers to deal with, doesn't it? But you know what… about fifteen percent of those authors, fans and random folks have truly become friends of mine through our interactions on FB.
I feel like I "know" these folks as well as, if not better than some of my IRL friends and family. I cry when bad things happen in their lives and I cheer when things are going well. And I know I can count on them to have my back! I can describe their personalities, tell you whether they're coupled or single, and whether they're a dog or a cat person (if they're into snakes, I am NOT going out of my way to meet them IRL…lol).
I've shared things with them (in closed groups, private messages and emails) that only my closest IRL friends know about. And I've gotten the same quality of support back from them as I get from my fabulous IRL friends.
I've also discovered a couple of people who turned out to live within an easy drive from my home, and they are now IRL friends!
So my attitude has changed dramatically about social media. Oh, I still hate that the trolls and the haters misuse it. But overall I think it's a great way to make and maintain connections with people.
And I'm inviting all of you, as well as all of my FB friends, to come to a Facebook party today to celebrate something really important to me! Book 1 in my new series is officially being launched today. The series is about a young woman who trains service dogs for combat veterans with PTSD.
I'm so excited about this series!!
There will be games and prizes and all sorts of fun interactions. It's happening TODAY between 2 and 8 p.m. EDT, at this link. Please click over and join us!!
Has social media changed your friendships? Has it been for better or worse, or some of both?
This entry was posted in Announcements, New Releases, Giveaways & Contests, Mental Health Musings, Relationships and tagged Facebook party, free books, friendship, Kassandra Lamb, mental health, misterio press, mystery novels, mystery series, new release, relationships, social media on April 12, 2016 by Kassandra Lamb.


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El xeic Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum () (13 de novembre de 1982) és el príncep hereu de Dubai.

Orígens familiars
Fill del xeic Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, governador de Dubai i vicepresident de la Unió dels Emirats Àrabs, i la seva primera muller, la xeic Hind bint Maktoum bin Juma al-Maktoum, la cinquena família reial més rica del món des de l'1 de febrer del 2008. President del Consell Executiu de Dubai. Segons l'edició del 2008 de Forbes, és el tercer príncep (mascle) més desitjat després dels prínceps d'Anglaterra.

Estudis
El xeic Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum va fer els seus estudis a l'Escola Rashid per a nens de Dubai, i després va viatjar al Regne Unit, on va estudiar a la Reial Acadèmia Militar de Sandhurst, on es va graduar el 2001. Acabà els seus estudis universitaris estudiant a la London School of Economics.

Hamdan i el seu pare, el xeic Hamdan bin Mohammed, va aprendre del seu pare, el xeic Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, la poesia, l'equitació, la literatura i la presència, ja que el príncep l'acompanyava en la majoria dels tours, visites i trobades privades i oficials, tant a nivell local com a l'exterior.

Príncep hereu
El primer de febrer del 2008, el xeic Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rasid va ser nomenat príncep hereu de l'emirat de Dubai. per un decret del seu pare.

Fazza, el poeta
Sa Altesa va començar a compondre poesia nabati des de jove, inspirant-se en la poesia que altres xeics, avantpassats seus (com per exemple Sa Altesa el xeic Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, i el seu propi pare, Sa Altesa el xeic Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum). Els seus poemes tracten sobre el seu país, el patrimoni, la generositat, l'amor, n'hi ha de caràcter romàntic, i també parlen sobre el seu orgull per les seves arrels familiars, avis i governants dels Emirats. També escriu sobre el que ha aconseguit el seu país tot i la seva curta vida. També, en la seva poesia, assenyala els temes socials dels individus; la seva preocupació per aquests, a qui motiva a tenir cura de la gent i a ajudar quan sigui necessari.

Aquests poemes, signats sota el pseudònim de "Fazza", són coneguts arreu del món, especialment en els països àrabs. Als Emirats, gràcies a l'èxit de "Fazza", s'ha creat una nova escola de poesia, que segueix les característiques i trets distintius de la poesia de Hamdan, i ha servit de model per a cantants i altres poetes de llengua àrab.(فزاع)

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El xeic Hamdan participa en cèlebres competicions de cavalls i ha guanyat la medalla d'or en Hípica en els Jocs Asiàtics del 2006, i va ser el campió de la Copa del President dels Emirats(2008). Posseeix gran nombre de cavalls i camells que fa participar en carreres al l'hipòdrom i al desert

Títols nobiliaris
El príncep hereu de Dubai.
 President de la Junta Executiva del Govern de Dubai.
 President del Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Establishment for Young Business Leaders.
 President del Consell Superior d'Esports de Dubai i president de CrossFit.
 President del Banc de Dubai.
 President del Centre d'Autisme de Dubai.
 President de l'Al-Ahli Club de Dubai.

Referències

Enllaços externs
 http://www.losmasricos.info/2009/06/01/las-personas-mas-ricas-del-mundo/
 http://www.esmas.com/noticierostelevisa/internacionales/736255.html
 http://buscador.emol.com/noticias/Mohammed+Bin+Rashid

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Alumnes de la London School of Economics
Alumnes de la Reial Acadèmia Militar de Sandhurst
Polítics dels Emirats Àrabs Units
Esportistes als Jocs Asiàtics de 2006
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Cumbre Vieja volcano celebrates 50 days with no signs of an end to its eruption
volcano eruption old summit, on an island palmAnd It has been active for 50 days with no data indicating short-term termination.
The natural hazard that began on September 19, 2021 led to the evacuation of more than 7 thousand residents from neighboring areas, more than two thousand of them directly. They are affected by their stay within the vicinity of the volcano.
Of those people with homes in the blast area, 1,576 are residents of Los Llanos de Aridane, 391 are from El Paso and 122 are residents of the municipality of Tazarote.
According to the latest Copernicus observational update, which was made on Saturday afternoon, The lava has covered a total of 992.4 hectares since the eruption of the volcano on September 192,719 buildings and infrastructure have been damaged or destroyed so far.
For its part, out of 2,719 infrastructure damaged by lava, 2000 587 were destroyed and 132 were damaged; In terms of roads, 73.4 kilometers of roads are destroyed and another 3.3 kilometers can be damaged.
While, Air quality is particularly unfavorable during this weekend in Municipalities near the volcano: El Paso, Fuencaliente, Tegaravi and Los Llanos de Aridan.
However, according to the latest report from the National Directorate of Security (DSN), which was published at 08:00 this Sunday, Meteorology remains favorable for sea and air operations.
The seismic swarm has been recorded
As for earthquakes, The seismic swarm is still active south of Cumber Vega, where is the Earthquakes occur at depths between 10 and 15 km especially.
See also Nayeb Bukele threatens to continue isolating officials in El Salvador
However, the volcanic process continues and the lava passes towards the northwest without affecting the new surfaces. In general, all castings are currently almost without movement.
finally, The Canary Islands Volcanic Emergency Plan (Pivolca) does not consider that there are data to suggest that the end of the eruption will occur in the short termThe decrease in seismic activity is relevant despite the quake, which was 4.5 to 36 km deep at the end of Saturday.
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Going Virtual with Casual Games: Strategies for Teaching during a Pandemic
An Eight Part Series. Part 4
David Seelow, PhD©
Many of us fondly remember our first experience running a business: The Lemonade Stand in front of our house. Small business operators, and tiny entrepreneurs, we were usually helped- by our small business owning parents. School did not add much to these early ventures- in my day females took Home Economics and boys, Shop, entirely stereotypical. Rarely did one take a business course if they were on a so called academic track. Already we see here numerous educational red flags: gender segregation and segregation between academic subjects and vocational subjects. Business does not fit clearly on either side. Even in college, a business major has some split between the classroom academic world and the practical world served by internships and field placements.
Games and simulations can help bridge many of these unhealthy educational divisions. and do so beginning in the elementary grades and continuing into post graduate professional programs like the infamous MBA. In a game, players can learn critical on the job skills in a safe and fun environment. A child can run a virtual lemonade stand or even a real estate tower. Games can simulate business operations from sole proprietorships to large corporations. Students are more likely to become small business owners- and these businesses drive the day to day economy, so I want to suggest four small, causal games that can be played online in short burst from elementary school through college and well into adulthood. I play all four and I am rather late into adulthood.
Papa's Pizzeria to Go
Who does not love pizza? In a pandemic pizza remains a premiere delivery option for food. For any student, there will most likely be a pizza parlor or pizzeria nearby. The mobile version of the wonderful Flipline Studios (2014) Papa Louie's small business simulation franchise has you playing Roy who must cover the pizzeria while Louie is away (business must be good for Louie). Running a pizzeria is no easy task. Why? Everyone wants pizza. It is all about time management and keeping the constant stream of customers happy. You go through a hectic week managing four stations: "The Order Station," "The Topping Station," "The Baking Station," and "The Cutting Station." Perfect for a smart phone or tablet, you drag toppings onto the pie with your finger, slide the pie into and out of the oven and cut the pizza with two fingers. You get a satisfaction score and, hopefully, tips.
What makes the game a challenge, and fun, revolves around those crazy customers who might want any number of toppings: six banana peppers, and eight pepperonis, cut in six slices. It must be cooked just long enough and served hot, on time. These customers are hungry! The more customers the more challenging the game. Thankful for customers past, I never worked in a pizzeria. My tips would not fill any child's piggy bank.
The game helps players build important time management skills and cultivate the customer service skills sorely missing from much of today's economy.
Tiny Tower
In Tiny Tower (NimbleBit, 2011) you move up from small business operator to running a more corporate like business, the eponymous real estate tower. Much like towers in large cities like New York or Chicago, the 'tiny' tower has many floors serving many different purposes. Some floors are residential and some commercial. The commercial floors offer retail, creative, recreational, food, and service. Capitalism in a microcosm, your goal in the game is to turn a profit, but that profit depends on keeping workers happy.
Each worker has a skill set you need to hone, and a dream job you would like the bitizen to have. There are little pop up quests to perform, but overall, you must collect coins or the in-game currency Bux- which makes play easier- and build floors. However, spending real money is not necessary. Gameplay primary revolves around taking bitizens up the elevator to their desired floor, managing the workers- 3 items can be sold per store, and building your tower. You can easily play the game in short bursts of time and lose on quality in gameplay.
Tiny Tower Screen Shot
The game simplifies managing a real estate building, but the game can be played in elementary school, so such simplification makes sense. Furthermore, the skills carry along to older students as well. One natural tendency will be to build a tower higher and higher which necessarily complicates the game. That tendency can be, and should be, for the most part resisted. Over building and over development is a capitalist function that in the long run rarely serves any one well. Likewise, rampant consumerism has deleterious long term consequences that the game allows to emerge and help spur classroom discussion of capitalism's benefits, but also its significant limitations.
For me, the game's value consists in the need to balance happiness or satisfaction with financial stability. Allow students to play the game over a few weeks and then bring their experience into whole class discussion about financial success and consumer or citizen satisfaction. How does building affect the larger community? Should one run up massive profits if tenants are not a happy or if the less well off- the non-VIPs in the game's language, cannot live in your tower? How do students define success? Apply game tasks to concrete thinking about their future. What kind of building would optimize the future environment they will be living and working in? Use the game as a launch pad for talking about development, community, success, and happiness. There are critical questions rarely thought about on more than a superficial level. The game can also be played alongside the game Landlord Go discussed below.
From developing and managing a single skyscraper to controlling a portfolio of valuable buildings Landlord Go (Reality Games, 2018) challenges players to build a real estate empire. Students can discover the world former President Donald J. Trump operated in as they buy property in their neighborhood or across the globe. As an augmented reality game (AR) Landlord to Go allows students to move about their home locale or the campus region where they attend school and assess property to buy. The game's sophisticated artificial intelligence and GPS feeds real time date into the game making the player's experience genuinely authentic (PocketGamer, 2020). In fact, when someone enters a real property that you own in the game world you earn virtual rent! As the developer's advertise, Landlord Go is "Monopoly for the Real World."
That is the virtue and the vice inherent to the game and its antecedents. Students will learn about economics, real estate, and monopolies, but monopolies, capitalism and American society are problematic neighbors, more like frenemies. Let me back up and say that the best way to approach this dynamic AR game begins with discussion of the Parker Brother's classic board game Monopoly (1938). Most students will have played this game with family and friends and if they have not urge or even require this- in social distancing safe times-game. Monopoly asks players to build a monopoly, but a monopoly violates the principles for free market capitalism, crushes competition, while ill serving the public. Yet, monopolies are a dominant force in the United States, now more than ever. Although not strictly speaking monopolies much of the American economy is strangulated by a few massive corporations in many different industries. Corporations buy up smaller businesses, expand their reach and stifle real competition. Look at Amazon, Facebook, Hilton or Marriott, Walmart, or Target. Small retail stores are knocked out of business, bookstores have virtually disappeared, and big box chain stores invade all cities, towns, and villages homogenizing once diverse and unique main streets. Students need to learn about the dominating power of huge corporations on the world economy and Landlord Go provides a perfect springboard for critical lessons in American history and economics.
For a start ask students who owns the local hotels- they will be surprised how many different hotel chains with slightly different branding can be traced back to mega corporations like Hilton and Marriott. Such a concentration of power inevitable supports the wealthy not the average citizen most students will become.
After discussion of Monopoly movee back and have students play the game Monopoly was modelled on The Landlord Game (self-published). This game designed by Elizabeth "Lizzie" Magie in 1903 presented a dual system of rules. One set stressed the drive toward monopoly and the other a desire for sharing wealth based on the single tax theory of Henry George. You have here a crucial historical lesson on how a woman, an early feminist and design pioneer, has been buried by history and replaced by Charles Darrow who stole her game and repackaged it before selling the copyright to Parker Brothers. A man displaces a woman, takes credit for her genius, and profits in money and fame. Even more striking for students will be the fashion in which a game designed to teach equality was co-opted and transformed into a game that teaches inequality. Sure enough since the Great Depression American society has gown increasing unequal. The few grow richer and richer- more rich than entire countries, and most of us tread water, while many drown. Many citizens still buy into this practice, as the American Way as the gulf of inequality growns wider and wider! The deepest value of Landlord to Go is the historical and economic lessons it provides a window into discussion and debate.
A superb on going casual game, Punch Club (Lazy Bear Studios, 2016) provides the player with an important third person perspective. You play a kickboxer working his way up the ranks. The third person point of view allows the player to manage the boxer, but also reflexively learn a good amount of self-management too. The player takes the boxer through legitimate tournaments and less legitimate ones. This is boxer is no Mike Tyson. He is a middle of the road trying to improve. To improve, you need to manage the boxer's training. Training involves lots of exercise and a good diet, but a good diet necessitates money and a so so boxer cannot live by his feet or fists. He needs a job. Nothing comes easy. The game's reflexive nature revolves around the player realizing the immense amount of hard work and effort being a professional athletic requires. Many students dream of becoming Floyd Mayweather or Connor McGregor, but the fantasy that success comes easy needs a reality check and this game gives students that valuable check.
As a player you cultivate the boxer's three skill areas: strength, agility, and stamina. Generally, only one or two skills can be maximized, and this teaches the need to focus on your strength while keeping some balance in your overall approach to the sport. Mohammed Ali had tremendous agility, George Foreman tremendous strength. Actual fights are controlled by the A.I, but the loss of player control has the virtue of stressing the player's need to prepare for the fight and not just manipulate kicks and punches that characterize most fighting games. Most performance competitions are won during many hours of preparation not the few hours of actual game play.
It is an immersive game with a fun story arc. The boxer witnessed his father's (also a kick boxer) murder, and he must track down the killers. It is a replay of the Daredevil origin story-how trauma motivates self-development. Speaking of Daredevil and comics, the game offers a wonderful pastiche of 1980s and '90s pop culture, including the title's take off on Fight Club (Fincher, 1999-film, Palahniuk, 1996-novel). For adults, the nostalgia aspect is fun, and for students tracking references can be a twist on Trivial Pursuit. Asking student to track down references produces a lesson in cultural history.
The game also offers a way to talk with students about sports management, a career area of interest today. The biggest virtue of the game; however, is precisely what many game reviewers dislike about the game such as this review in IGN,
Punch Club became a constant, demoralizing struggle that shattered my enthusiasm. I grew intensely bored, frustrated, and eventually bitter. Enduring the grind gradually got me out of my hole, but after 20 hours — the vast majority of which spent not fighting — with plenty more ahead, I'd have sooner started over and played differently from the beginning than finished my first playthrough. I decided to stop playing altogether (Dyer, 2018).
If you conceive of games as pure fantasy-full of nonstop action, such a complaint makes some sense, but if a game yields any genuine lessons, and this game does, then that lesson is the daily grind. The few exciting hours of a sporting event demands countless hours of preparation. Life is a fight. It is hard work. Escape and fantasy is easy. For pure entertainment, the game might lack some, though not much, but as educational value, the game unexpectedly delivers a real punch!
Dyer, Mitch. "Punch Club Review," IGN, Updated 24 November 2018, https://www.ign.com/articles/2016/01/15/punch-club-review/
"How Landlord Go uses real-world data to deliver the most authentic property simulation on the market." PocketGamer, 16 July 2020, www.pocketgamer.com/articles/083560/how-landlord-go-uses-real-world-data-to-deliver-the-most-authentic-property-simulation-on-the-market/
Authentic Field-Based Lessons Ideas
Have students spend half a shift volunteering at a local pizzeria. They can keep a journal observing the minute by minute activities. How many pizzas are served? How many are made at one time. What kind of pizzas are ordered and how are they cut? What kind of response do customers offer to workers? How long does a pizza remain in the oven? How long does it take to prepare one? What is the profit on a single pizza? How many pizzas are picked up and how many are delivered? What are the tips like? What happens if someone calls in sick? After the few hours on the job have students write about which skills they have observed would be valuable if they were to open their own small business someday. Although filed observations are critical in education schools, I think that they benefit all students in the upper grades and in many college programs.
Just as practicum skills are insufficiently used in high school and college so to are primary research methods, at least outside the natural sciences. Secondary research from books- and today reading entire books will be a limited reality- can be supplanted by teaching primary research methods like interviewing. Have students interview a local real estate developer or property manager. What decisions are made in terms of a building's height and square footage. Why are some retail outlets on some floors and not others? How are decisions made about types of stores or space to rent out? How does rent change based on floor number? What kind of amenities to tenants want? How do you balance worker satisfaction, customer satisfaction and profit?
Next, have students compare their findings with how they operated their Tiny Tower? Which businesses did the operate? Which floor did the place the business on? How often did they move employees around? What was their profit and how many employees were happy?
Finally, ask students to design their own tower using either paper and pencil or an appropriate computer program. How many floors will they build? What rent will they charge? Which business will they include and how will space be allocated? What about the aesthetics- color, decorations, carpets, paintings? This exercise presents design thinking at its best. Do not forget to have students think through the relationship of their building to the community. How does the building fit in with the community? Does the building displace some businesses? Do the tenants represent a different economic class than long term residents? Will the tower's employees be local, or will they be brought in? These discussions and inquires offer invaluable learning opportunities.
Conduct a contest with students to see who builds the biggest real estate empire. Use this activity as a prelude to a lesson on the history of monopolies in the U.S. including antitrust laws and President Theodore Roosevelts policies. Next ask students to identify current examples of government monopoly busting. Discuss why certain companies have not been identified as monopolies. Finally, ask students to conduct some field research in their home communities or a community near campus. Ask them to identify each of the major businesses, who owns them and where they are located. Students should go back through historical maps, archives and local historical societies and identify the stores and business in the same community 25 years ago and fifty years ago. They can write a historical account of the changes over this time, say from their grandparents time to their parents time to today. A last step might be for them to sketch out a community plan for 25 years in the future- what business will be present, who will own them, where will they be located and what will life be like in their community's future?
Ask students to translate what they have learned managing their kickboxer to a field they would like to enter someday, especially a field or hobby where they have autonomy in the sense of succeeding based upon their own personal performance. If they want to be an athlete, a cook, a musician etc., what must they do to maximize their chances of success? Have students sketch out a monthly schedule with goals, benchmarks for success, daily schedules for working out, practice, studying and nutrition. How does what you eat effect your stamina and so on? Even if the goal is to be a superior student this exercise has rich lessons to offer.
The Monopolists' Obsession, Fury and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game by Mary Pilon (Bloomsbury, 2015).
Next Up: Part 5 of the series will discuss 2 Augmented Reality casual games that get students out of the home and school buildings for outside learning.
*** If you want consultation, or professional development help with online learning, course design, game-based learning, games in the classroom, comics in the classroom, film, or Language Arts/Literature contact me at: davidseelow@gmail.com.
Purchase or recommend to your library our book Lessons Drawn: Essays on the Pedagogy of Comics and Graphic Novels (McFarland, 2019), a practical guide to classroom teaching with popular culture forms.
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Mary M. House is an active member of her community, in addition to serving on boards she is involved in her church and numerous local organizations.
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Polar Bear Pitching will be held again on the 12th and 13th of March in Oulu market square. The event is now looking for volunteers to help build and promote Polar Bear Pitching 2019. Volunteers are needed for example to host the event, do social media marketing and communications and to build the infrastructure for the event itself. We are also specially looking for a person, who is interested in creating themselves a global network of investors.
Polar Bear Pitching offers volunteers a unique chance to grow networks, get experience on your field and an opportunity to show your skills and to see from the organizing perspective, how to organize an event of global scale.
Volunteers can get into big and responsible roles which provide very convincing content to your CV. It's also possible to participate only as helping hands during the event days, get to know people and enjoy the atmosphere. Come to learn more about the volunteering opportunities in Polar Bear Pitching on the 11thof December in Tellus from 4 to 6 PM. You can find the event on Facebook.
Students can now get 5 credits by volunteering. This requires a plan of how much volunteering you will do and writing a learning diary of you experience.
Over the years, Polar Bear Pitching has grown from a local start up event to a massive show that enjoys global media attention year after year. This year there will also be side events in Norway and Germany. Hop on board to be part of one of the biggest spectacles in Oulu. We won't leave you cold.


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Q: Reverse Mean Value Theorem for convex functions 1)By "reverse" MVT I mean: eg. in d=1, for any $x\in \mathbb{R}$ there exists $a,b$ containing x s.t. for $f\in C^{1}$ we have $f'(x)=\frac{f(b)-f(a)}{b-a}$.
This fails for all functions that cross the real line eg. $f(x)=x^{3}$ fails at $x=0$. However, I think if the function is also convex and strictly positive, or convace and strictly negative, it works. Can we weaken it to locally convex?
2)How about some general formula connecting derivative with it's antiderivative i.e. for any $x\in \mathbb{R}$ there exists $a,b$ s.t. for $f\in C^{1}$ we have $f'(x)=G(f(a),f(b),r_{i})$, where $r_{i}\in \mathbb{R}$ are real numbers.
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A: For a locally convex function f, for any $x\in dom(f)$ there exists $(a,b)$ s.t. the tangent line at x lies below the graph of f(a,b).
Wlog $f(a)<f(b)$ and let $\theta=$slope of line connecting $f(a),f(b)$ and $\phi=$slope of the tangent line.
If $\theta>\phi$,we can lift the line vertically (preserving the slope), to a line that intersects the graphe at $\frac{f(x)+f(a)}{2}$. Because of the slope inequality, the new line will intersect the graph of f at two points: $f(c):=\frac{f(x)+f(a)}{2}$ and some other point f(d) below f(b).
Similarly, if $\theta<\phi$,we can lift the line vertically (preserving the slope), to a line that intersects at $\frac{f(x)+f(b)}{2}$.
Thus, $f'(x)$ can be expressed as $\frac{f(c)-f(d)}{c-d}$.


The Hawaii Supreme Court struck down the state Reapportionment Commission's plan Wednesday and ordered the panel to come up with new boundaries for state Senate and House districts based on Hawaii's permanent resident population. Star-Advertiser.
The Hawaii Supreme Court needed only hours to decide that the state's reapportionment plan is unconstitutional and must be re-done. Civil Beat.
The Hawaii Supreme Court has struck down as unconstitutional the state's final reapportionment plan, a decision that will likely grant the Big Island a fourth Senate seat and possibly an eighth House seat. Tribune-Herald.
The Hawaii Supreme Court ruled Wednesday the state reapportionment plan is unconstitutional. West Hawaii Today.
The Hawaii Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the new election maps for the state of Hawaii are unconstitutional. KITV4.
The Hawaii Supreme Court has ruled the recently redrawn voting district maps unconstitutional, saying the committee that made them must start over. KHON2.
The Abercrombie administration and state House and Senate leaders are awaiting today's forecast from the state Council on Revenues to see if projected revenue growth holds. Star-Advertiser.
State departments want to expand the budget by some $334.7 million, Budget and Finance Director Kalbert Young said in the first of a series of money briefings to lawmakers planned for this week and next. Hawaii Reporter.
The state capitol is starting to buzz again after a long recess, with staffers and legislators preparing for opening day in just two weeks. Hawaii Independent.
Former U.S. Rep. Ed Case has asked the Democratic Party of Hawaii to host a series of forums across the state where voters can compare him and U.S. Rep. Mazie Hirono side by side before the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in August. Star-Advertiser.
Civil Beat Poll: Hawaii Voters Support Limiting Political Donations. Civil Beat.
Two weeks after the state was warned to make progress on Race to the Top education reforms or risk losing a $75 million federal grant, there are no formal talks under way aimed at ending an ongoing labor dispute with the teachers union. Star-Advertiser.
A former teachers union executive predicted last summer that Hawaii's Race to the Top would be the biggest loser when contract negotiations went awry. Civil Beat.
Senate Education Chair Blasts School Bus Report. Civil Beat.
State Rep. Barbara Marumoto plans to introduce legislation this year that would enable officials to resume cargo inspections to prevent brown tree snakes from sneaking into Hawaii on planes and ships from Guam. Associated Press.
Hawaii is at-risk from the damaging brown tree snake from Guam. KITV4.
Verizon Wireless has upgraded its 3G wireless coverage in Hawaii with the addition of a new cell site on the Big Island, two new cell sites each on Kauai and Maui and three in urban Honolulu and Waikiki. Pacific Business News.
State roundup for January 5. Associated Press.
Volcanic haze smothers Oahu. Hawaii News Now.
Vog adds to Oahu's emergency room woes. KHON2.
Tufts of salad greens will soon be sprouting from a Kakaako rooftop garden as part of a project that supporters hope will help launch a wave of urban farming in Honolulu. Star-Advertiser.
Long-time investigative reporter Keoki Kerr will be joining Hawaii News Now on Jan. 16. Hawaii News Now.
The Big Island coffee industry has been operating without an official quarantine in place for more than a month now. Tribune-Herald.
Swimmers, snorkelers and surfers will soon have easier access to Laaloa Beach Park, also known as Magic Sands, thanks to action Wednesday by the Hawaii County Council. West Hawaii Today.
Big Island unemployment has steadily increased in the last two years … inching up to the 11 percent mark in East Hawai'i. The State Department of Human Services staff there was cut two years ago. Hawaii Public Radio.
During his "Greatest Infection of the Sea" presentation Wednesday at the West Hawaii Civic Center, Capt. Charles Moore explained what and where the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- "actually a plastic soup" -- is. West Hawaii Today.
Last month a bid to sunset the "Show Me the Water" ordinance failed, and Tuesday an attempt to amend it stalled following a visit by Mayor Alan Arakawa to the County Council Water Resources Committee. Maui News.
Iao Squatters Make First Court Appearance. Maui Now.
Maui Electric Co. customers could begin getting immediate savings with no upfront costs on power bills under a "Simply Solar" program being proposed by power utilities to the Public Utilities Commission. Maui News.
Rep. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawai'i, on Wednesday blamed her Republican peers in Congress for creating election-season gridlock at the expense of Americans who need jobs. Garden Island.
Federal and state officials are appealing to the public for help in identifying the people who killed four critically endangered Hawaiian monk seals since November, including the death of a juvenile male on Kauai that was found Monday with an object imbedded in its skull. Star-Advertiser.
A Hawaiian monk seal was found dead under suspicious circumstances on Kaua'i Monday, following the death of three other seals on Molokai in recent weeks, according to a press release Wednesday from the state Department of Land and Natural Resources. Garden Island.


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Two Heavy Hitters Team Up to Bring Efficiency to U.S. and China
Honeywell and Haier will cooperate to cut energy here, there and everywhere.
Katherine Tweed January 21, 2011
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Honeywell, one of the world's largest building management companies, and Haier Group, China's largest home appliance brand, are joining forces. The two global giants announced a memorandum of understanding on Friday to collaborate on developing high energy-efficiency solutions for everything from homes to mass transit.
From a broader perspective, the teaming of the two leaders is no surprise. Honeywell is already active in demand response and building controls, and has been scooping up smaller companies to broaden its offerings. There is a lot of opportunity for demand response in China, and surely market leaders like Honeywell would like a piece of that pie.
The companies will collaborate on intelligent and highly efficient appliances and heating solutions. They are also planning on new technology for building automation, home energy management and mass transit that is "more efficient and cleaner." We're not sure where the intersection of energy efficiency and cleanliness is, but this writer would welcome any such technology here in New York City.
Honeywell is also not alone in the China market gold rush. Recently, Johnson Controls was awarded an "Energy Saving Service Institution Record Certificate" that qualifies it to provide comprehensive building efficiency services in China.
China's latest Five-Year Plan requires the country's utilities, which are state-owned entities, to reduce energy sales volume by 0.3 percent a year through efficiency gains -- the equivalent of which could power one million U.S. homes for a year.
But this is not a one-sided agreement. Haier is just as interested as increasing its global footprint as Honeywell is looking to get deeper into China. Besides appliances, Haier is also looking to become a force in TVs, PCs and other electronics. "In addition to household appliances, Haier will develop high-performance and energy-efficient solutions in home furnishings, building automation, security systems, mass transit and other areas," Shariff Kan, president of Haier America, said in a statement. "Our agreement with Honeywell will allow us to explore solutions that mutually benefit Chinese and American consumers and enterprises." For example, Haier will use some of Honeywell's insulation technology to meet Energy Star requirements in the U.S.
The opportunities for synergy with both countries looking to cut emissions through efficiency are constantly growing -- and there will be more to come. Besides Johnson's Controls recent announcement, the U.S. Department of Energy also announced this week that building products manufacturer Saint-Gobain will join its U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center for Building Energy Efficiency.
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Retirement is a time to take it easy, catch up on activities you've wanted to take part in and enjoy time with friends and loved ones. However, necessary expenses are still a major part of life, even during retirement.
Learn about ways to turn your investments into regular income at a TIAA on-campus seminar, "Paying Yourself: Income Options in Retirement." At each workshop, a TIAA professional will provide an overview of different income options during retirement, identify tax implications and discuss the right time to withdraw your retirement funds. All ages are welcome, whether you are just getting started in your career or retiring in the next few years.
Read a quick recap of the basics of a retirement plan here, including withdrawals from a retirement account. Then, review your current CU retirement plan on the Benefit's site.
Breakout Room A+B 9:30 - 11:30 a.m.


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Ramping up Rochester's innovation capacity
February 26, 2017 General
A diverse business landscape is critical to Rochester becoming a true Destination Medical Center. It will take more than excellence in patient care for the DMC vision to succeed. Susan Windham-Bannister knows this well.
Windham-Bannister is a life sciences industry expert and president and CEO of Biomedical Growth Strategies. She has spent years working in areas like New York, Boston, and Maryland to help communities create environments that are enticing to startups and established businesses alike.
Windham-Bannister joined more than 35 stakeholders from across the state to share her experiences and provide insight on how our own community should go about setting priorities to ensure DMC's success.
"DMC is a very exciting project," she says. "I commend the vision and think it's spot-on for Rochester." But the challenge, according to Windham-Bannister, is determining the right formula of investments to achieve the initiative's goals. "Research is already taking place in Rochester," she says, but when you are trying to ramp up your innovation capacity to take you from research to commercialization, there are five factors to consider.
Culture. What's happening with the culture around your pipeline of translational research? How are you applying your findings to human health and well-being?
Entrepreneurship. Do you have a strong pipeline of people interested in starting new companies? How does your business culture support that? Windham-Bannister stressed the importance of this. "Large companies are looking for their next generation of products," she explains. "Having a community with a vibrant entrepreneurial environment is a major magnet for mature companies."
Workforce. Are you attracting and developing talent? "This must include more than medical workers," Windham-Bannister says, reinforcing DMC and Journey to Growth efforts to diversify the workforce in and around Rochester.
Enabling infrastructure. Are you creating environments where people can connect? Accelerators, convening spaces, and technology all support the innovative culture.
Ecosystem. Do you have one? Windham-Bannister says having an ecosystem that works together is critical. "It's tempting to see assets like health care and educational institutions as being connected," she says, "but you have to evaluate whether they coalesce into a true ecosystem."
Windham-Bannister also spent time with community leaders discussing the strengths and gaps that exist in Rochester. "There were great candor and willingness among the stakeholders who met to recognize your community's strengths but also acknowledge areas that need greater strengthening," she says. Windham-Bannister was impressed with the conversations that took place. "Not everyone is willing to hold up a mirror."
Windham-Bannister is excited about the initiative and anxious to return to Rochester to continue conversations.
"I compliment the community and legislature for launching DMC," she says. "It has a lot of opportunity for success, but I hope it extends beyond Rochester. Minneapolis and St. Paul have a rich ecosystem in medical devices. There are major companies and a lot of talent there that could be recruited to Rochester. I hope there is a realization that the cross-pollination between these two communities, which are geographically quite close."
Bannister also hopes to see a clear connectedness among DMC activities. "Most important for Rochester is seeing how the many developments happening fit together so they don't end up being just a series of disconnected activities."
She suggests continuing efforts to identify the key priorities that will make the initiative successful and address those priorities. "There is always a lot of demand and many things to be done in an initiative like DMC," she says, "but focusing on the right things is what catalyzes the activities and draws funding and interest from the private sector to achieve the goals you've set out to achieve."
Stakeholders and staff found the discussions with Bannister to be both productive and timely as DMC initiates next steps for Discovery Square and Heart of the City. DMC staff is currently in the process of synthesizing the information garnered during Bannister's visit and incorporating it into plans for Discovery Square.
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Archive library offers chance to find out if your ancestor was an East End suffragette
Published: 6:00 PM September 13, 2018 Updated: 8:51 AM October 14, 2020
Suffragettes sell their newspaper, The Woman's Dreadnaught, which was printed and published in Bow. Picture source: Tower Hamlets Archive - Credit: LBTH
A family history event is being staged to help anyone who thinks their ancestors may have been East End suffragettes fighting for votes for women more than 100 years ago.
Sylvia Pankhurst mural on wall of Morpeth Arms pub in Bow where she set up wartime distress centre for women in 1915. Picture source: Tower Hamlets Archive - Credit: LBTH
Talks are being held on Saturday at Tower Hamlets Archive library at Mile End during the morning to find out more about the campaign.
Stalls and displays are being put up and visitors can bring laptops or tablets to use the library's online family history resources.
Workshops run from 10am, followed by the East End History Club's drop-in session at 2pm exploring women's lives in the 20th century.
It is part of a series marking the centenary year of women's votes in 1918 that also tells the story of Sylvia Pankurst's East London Federation of Suffragettes which set up in Bow in 1912, first in a converted butcher's shop in the Old Ford Road, then a mission hall and a public house.
Sylvia Pankurst... suffragette leader who set up her campaign in London's East End. Picture source: Sylvia Pankhurst Trust - Credit: SPT
One highlight of the series is a Saturday garden party on September 22 from 12 noon to 5pm at the Clarion Estate next to the Lord Morpeth pub, where Pankurst established a cost-price community café and a 'distress' centre during the first World War.
The centre helped women struggling to pay the rent with their menfolk away at the Front or killed in action and was used as a meeting place, café and venue for jumble sales and a job exchange.
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The library in Bancroft Road is staging an exhibition until October 22, about projects like the co-operative toy factory, health clinic, and a nursery in the Morpeth which Pankhurst renamed the Mothers' Arms.
"This exhibition and public programme shows how important it is to continue the legacy of the suffragettes," Tower Hamlets Mayor John Biggs said. "We are proud of the East End's rich history of campaigning for the rights of women and the less privileged."
1915... Speech to crowd outside East London Federation of Suffragettes HQ in Old Ford Road. Picture source: Tower Hamlets Archive - Credit: LBTH
The exhibition funded by Heritage Lottery evokes the Suffragettes' headquarters in a former Baptist mission which was renamed 'The Women's Hall'. Objects and archive materials on display include a rare teddy bear made in the co-operative toy factory behind Roman Road that Pankhurst set up to give jobs to mothers struggling to make ends meet during the First World War when their husbands were abroad.
The suffragettes also published their own newspaper, The Woman's Dreadnought, using a local printer in the Roman Road.
Author Rachel Kolsky is also leading a guided tour on October 6 following in the footsteps of Sylvia Pankhurst.
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I have seriously been rolling this idea around in my head for close to a year. Last fall, I picked up a cart load of pumpkins from Hobby Lobby for 90% off the day after Thanksgiving. I wasn't sure exactly what I was going to do to the pumpkins, but I knew that I wanted a bunch of them in a variety of shapes and sizes....and who can walk away from 90% off? Believe me, I had to fight off many other people who were also interested in a cart load of fall merchandise!
I started with a collection of different pumpkins.....different sizes and shapes. I even had a couple big pumpkins in addition to these small ones.
Pumpkins are not naturally perfect and smooth, so before beginning the process of making your stems, you'll want to "distress" your pumpkin a bit. The pumpkins I used were made over a styrofoam base, so all I needed to do was press, punch, and poke various areas on the pumpkin to make them look a little imperfect. The distressing will really become more noticeable after the pumpkins are painted and antiqued.
To make the stem all you need to have is sisal rope, hot glue, cinnamon, and Mod Podge.
Cut some small strips of the sisal.
Separate the twisted rope into individual pieces or twists of two or three coils. Fray the ends and attach them onto the stem of the pumpkin with your hot glue gun.
Continue around the entire stem gluing the strips of sisal. I know it looks a little strange, but don't judge quite yet!
To form the stem, add a little glue into the center of the strips of sisal, attaching everything together. You don't need to glue the entire strip, but just every so often to secure the pieces. If you want the stem to bend or twist, just add a little more glue to fold the stem over.
Cut your stem off at the length you desire. To make the stem look a little more real, I left a few strands of the sisal longer than the stem like it was just ripped out of the pumpkin patch.
Coat the entire stem with Mod Podge, then cover it in cinnamon just as though you were glittering something. You don't need good cinnamon.....the version sold at the dollar store is perfect. Allow the Mod Podge to dry.
After the Mod Podge has dried, brush the excess cinnamon off of the stem and pumpkin. Then coat the entire stem again with Mod Podge. Do not cover it in cinnamon this time. Everything will become hard. Some of the cinnamon may get brushed off, but that is okay. Allow the stem to dry again.
When it is dry, you may want to use some fine grit sand paper to rough up the stem a bit exposing some of the sisal.
You may be happy with the look of your pumpkin now, but I still wanted to paint mine.
I'm loving the color combination of mustard, golden brown, burnt orange, and sienna this fall. They are such warm, earthy colors and like most fall shades, look amazing together. I decided that I would paint my pumpkins with chalk paint in these shades along with antique white.
All of the pumpkins were coated with three coats of paint. So that I could paint the entire pumpkin at one time, I used a hair dryer to dry the bottoms of the pumpkins between coats.
The dark wax settles into all the cracks and distressed areas you made when you started this project making the whole pumpkin look complete. I used a wax brush to put it on, but you can also use a rag. Then use a clean rag to wipe the excess wax off.
I experimented to discover whether it is easier to do the stem or paint first. I did it both ways and found that it really doesn't matter which way you do it. If you do the stem first, you do have to be careful when painting that you don't get paint on the stem. But other than that, it doesn't seem to make a difference.
I am honestly in love with these pumpkins and I can't wait to decorate with them. Whether they are mixed in an array of colors or just one hue, they look fabulous for fall.


Fall • Fillmore, CA 2013 Reeds and bare trees by the Sespe River in Fillmore, CA. Fall skies and Fall colors right before sunset.
Reeds and bare trees by the Sespe River in Fillmore, CA. Fall skies and Fall colors right before sunset.


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FDA issues lettuce alert after US E. coli outbreak
POTENTIALLY DEADLY:As there is no embargo on romaine lettuce, firms should improve their food control strategies, the administration said
Staff writer, with CNA
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday issued a yellow alert for romaine lettuce, after the US reported an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections, and warned that people should be aware of the potential risk of consuming the vegetable.
Following the example of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which warned US consumers on Tuesday not to eat romaine lettuce, the FDA issued a yellow alert, meaning "suspicious, but without immediate danger."
No cases of E. coli O157:H7 infection have been recorded in Taiwan in the past three years, the FDA said.
People should be more careful when consuming the vegetable and businesses should improve their food control systems, FDA Food Safety Division head Pan Chih-kuan (潘志寬) said, adding that 4,921 tonnes, or 98 percent, of Taiwan's imported romaine lettuce came from the US this year.
There is no ban on importing or selling romaine lettuce and Taiwan's customs inspections mainly focus on pesticide residue or heavy-metal content, Pan said.
E. coli can cause diarrhea, abdominal cramps and occasionally kidney failure, said Yang Chen-chang (楊振昌), director of the Division of Clinical Toxicology and Occupational Medicine at Taipei Veterans General Hospital.
E. coli O157:H7 is a potentially deadly form of the food-borne disease, National Taiwan University Hospital pediatrician Lee Ping-ing (李秉穎) said, adding that there have been outbreaks in Germany and Japan in the past.