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Trump, in reality and perception, unchanged by presidency
Illustration: Lazaro Gamio / Axios
A wise man told us a year ago: "You know who never is going to change? A 70-year-old billionaire with his name on the building." How prescient!
Why it matters: It's striking how little President Trump — and perceptions of President Trump — have changed as 2017 comes to a close:
He started 2017 with about 40% of the country with him, and ends 2017 with about 40% of the country with him.
He started 2017 haunted by Russian interference in the election, and ends 2017 haunted by Russian interference in the election.
He started 2017 with elected Republicans skeptical but compliant, and ends 2017 with elected Republicans skeptical but compliant.
He started 2017 with virtually every elected Democrat disliking him, and ends 2017 with virtually every elected Democrat disliking him.
He started 2017 at war with the mainstream media, and ends 2017 at war with the mainstream media.
He started 2017 with accusations that he sexually harassed women, and ends 2017 with accusations that he sexually harassed women.
He started 2017 talking tough but doing little to China, and ends 2017 talking tough but doing little to China.
He started 2017 with a lot of top Republican talent not wanting to work for him, and ends 2017 with a lot of Republican top talent not wanting to work for him.
He started 2017 on Twitter, and most certainly will end 2017 on Twitter.
Be smart: This is the rerun presidency: Every day feels like the last day. So it's safe to assume that 2018 will feel a lot like — wait for it — 2017.
There are only two people who can change Trump: Trump himself, and Robert Mueller.
Between now and New Year's Day, Axios CEO Jim VandeHei and I will bring AM readers our year-end thoughts on the topics that matter most. Sign up here.


Dr. Scheller - Hand Care Argan Oil - 2.6 oz.
Dr. Scheller Hand Care Argan Oil is a rich, nourishing hand care that smooths and protects against premature, environmentally induced aging. With precious argan oil to smooth and firm the skin while fighting free radicals that cause premature aging. Dr. Scheller Hand Care Argan Oil uses soybean oil to protect and condition the skin so cracked and brittle skin belongs in the past. Vitamin E from olive oil improves skin's elasticity and is extremely pampering to the skin.
It encourages cell regeneration and protects against premature skin aging.
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Sri Sankara has packed into the Bhaja Govindam song the substance of all the Vedantic works that he wrote and he has set the truth of the union of devotion and knowledge to melodious music which delights the ear.
This book is an English rendering of Rajaji's Tamil book on Sri Sankara's famous Bhaja Govindam. Sri Sankara wrote a number of Vedantic works for imparting the knowledge of the Self. He composed a number of hymns to foster the sense of devotion in the hearts of men. One of these hymns is the famous "Bhaja Govindam".
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari is a distinguished founder member of the Bhavan. A great patriot, astute politician, thinker, visionary, a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi, he was a great statesman. A freedom fighter, he was also the Chief Minister of Madras, Governor of West Bengal, India's Home Minister and the first Indian Governor-General of Free India. Rajaji popularized books on Ramayan, Mahabharat, Bhagwad Gita ,Upanishads and several others by writing in his inimitable style which has appealed to millions of people. He wrote in English and Tamil, his mother tongue. He passed away in 1972 at the age of 94.


Between your couches, dining room chairs, armchairs, and love seats, you may have a lot of upholstered furniture throughout your house. This type of furniture does a great job at attracting dirt and grime. It's comfortable furniture, so it certainly gets its fair share of use, and sometimes stains are impossible to prevent. But that doesn't mean they are impossible to remove! With Complete Chem-Dry of Lake Orion, even the dirtiest, most stained furniture can look like new again! Our team of professional upholstery cleaners will clean the dust, germs, food crumbs, and all the other particles that have found their way into your upholstery.
Our upholstery cleaning process refreshes your furniture. We use a fast-drying process, allowing you to get back to using your furniture the same day. With a deep and thorough upholstery cleaning, it's clear how Chem-Dry cleans for your health like no one else.
Our exclusive Chem-Dry upholstery cleaning process, known as The Natural®, uses carbonated bubbles that penetrate the fabric, dissolve the stains and grime, and lift the pieces to the surface for removal. It is a non-toxic process that is safe for your family, pets, and furniture. Also, because we don't use any harsh soaps or detergents, you won't be left behind with sticky, dirt-attracting residue. This means your furniture will stay cleaner longer.
Our upholstered furniture cleaning services are powerful enough to defeat the deepest stains, gentle enough not to harm your furniture and safe for your entire family. Complete Chem-Dry of Lake Orion's toxin-free cleaning system leaves your upholstery as fresh as the day it was purchased, and actually helps it stay that way longer.


This old cemetery is a memorial to those who lost their lives on the S.S. Brother Jonathan, a wooden side-wheel steamer sunk on July 30, 1865 with 244 people on board, including crew, passengers and a traveling circus.
Brother Jonathan Cemetery is designated a California State Historical Landmark (#541) and is located at the corner of Ninth Street and South Pebble Beach Drive.
The cemetery doubles as a park and is a great place to fly kites, play baseball, and throw a frisbee.


Note: Currently, you need to set up your brand on the web at https://spark.adobe.com/sp/branding. But after set-up, you'll be able to create on the go with Spark's companion mobile apps.
Branded stories are here! Adobe Spark with premium features allows you to inject more creativity into your visual stories than ever before. Make your Posts, Pages, and Videos look and feel like your brand by simply adding your brand ingredients to your brand manager at spark.adobe.com and customizing branded assets until you land on a visual style that is uniquely you.
If you're a paid Creative Cloud user, this is automatically included in your plan. If you're new to Adobe Creative Cloud, you can still get started for free, but creating branded stories requires a membership, available right here on spark.adobe.com.
This article will take you through how these premium features work. Read on to learn how to create and manage your branded stories.
Get started by adding your brand ingredients with Spark's premium features. Click Add Brand from spark.adobe.com to get started.
If you don't have one, Spark will auto-generate a simple one for you based off your brand's name. You can also get creative by creating a simple logo in Spark Post, converting your signature into a png file, or simply adding a headshot. Don't worry you can always change this later.
Spark automatically detects the colors from your logo, but you can customize your look by cycling through the suggested combinations or inputting the hex values.
Typography can be complicated, but Spark makes it easy by categorizing fonts by style. Browse from classic, natural, loud, clean, and modern fonts to find something that you like. We've created font pairs in each of these categories to set your content up or success.
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Voila! With just those three simple choices, Spark makes your brand come to life with custom themes and templates for you.
Now that you've added your brand, we've created a content toolkit for you, filled with custom content templates and themes. Let's get you acquainted with your brand manager.
Twenty custom-made (and customizable) branded Spark Post templates in a variety of use-cases from business cards to social media covers to advertisements. You also have the ability to brand any Spark Post template on the Inspiration Wall.
Six matching themes in Spark Page and Spark Video. We've refreshed Spark themes for the modern digital storyteller. Spark Premium members can customize the themes further to stay on brand across web pages and videos.
From your brand ingredients Spark automatically places your logo and name in headers, footers, video stamps and outros so that your brand follows you, no matter how far and wide your content spreads.
Create any story from your brand manager. By default, your stories will contain your brand. Click the plus sign if you're ready to get going!
If you prefer to create on mobile, your branded Spark Post templates are available under the design filters (tap the wand icon in Spark Post for ios). Your branded Page and Video Themes will appear above the unbranded themes.
Just as the Inspiration Wall provides jumping off points for your graphics, your branded templates get you almost the way to a finished product. Select a template, edit your text, and cycle through color options. Once you've landed on a combination you like, you can save the customized design to create from going forward. Yay for efficiency!
We've done the hard work for you by creating three theme options: light, medium, and dark. Now you get to make them your own even more. From your brand manager, click into the ready-made themes to adjust color, type, backgrounds, and accents. Changes to these themes will apply to every project that uses the theme. Make changes once and see results everywhere.
If you have existing projects, it's easy to apply your brand to them. Simply select a branded theme and republish your content. Spark magic will take care of the rest.
New projects in Page and Video will carry your brand by default, but you can always select an unbranded theme if you'd like to create an unbranded project.
In Spark Post iOS, simply toggle off the brand setting that appears after you hit the plus button to create unbranded graphics. On the web, create TK.
You can turn off branded surfaces. Your projects will still retain your colors and fonts, but you can decide when and where your logo shows up.
You can add as many logos, colors, and fonts as you want to the system, but you have only one primary of each. Primary branded elements are used to auto-generate your brand templates and themes, but you can manually use any of your secondary elements in new or existing templates and themes. If you edit or replace any of the secondary elements, and project that uses these elements will be updated as well.
If you cancel your subscription, we will re-apply the Adobe Spark logo and apply an unbranded theme. But don't worry, your brand will be waiting for you if you change your mind.
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Q: Communicate with a single-user Ethernet-connected device — OK to use shared LAN? I have a workstation that has two network ports. One of them is required to connect the PC to a local area network. The other port is available to accommodate an Ethernet device that I (and nobody else) need to access. I have two options:

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*Leave the device on its default settings (which place it on a different subnet), configure the IPv4 settings for the second port to the same subnet, and connect the device to that port.

*Update the device's network settings to match the local area network's subnet and connect the device into a network port in the wall.
Will option #1 (connecting two devices directly with an Ethernet cable,
but no hub or switch) even work?
Are there any performance issues that I should be aware of when choosing one of these options?
What do you recommend?

A: Your option 2, where you connect the device to the network which uses
the first adapter, will make the device a part of the general network and
accessible to everyone, but it is by far the easiest option.
You will not be using the second network adapter in this case.
For option 1, where you connect directly two devices without a router
in-between, will likely need an
Ethernet crossover cable,
although the devices may be able to communicate with a normal cable,
as you can test.
You will also need to give the device and your computer's
matching network adapter static IP addresses on this new network,
and the devices will need to address each other by their IP address.

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Upscaling productivity by imbibing technology in procurement function | Fleming.
In today's times, businesses are focused on the implementation of digitization in their organization in order to enhance productivity, streamline processes, have clarity and transparency in the procurement function. With advent of e-commerce, e-procurement channels and taking businesses from local to global has put a lot pressure and responsibility on the function; causing it to undergo a metamorphosis of its own.
With support from International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) – UAE, CIPS – MENA & Next Level Purchasing Association, the 5th edition of Procurement Strategy Summit being held on the 11th & 12th of October 2017 in Dubai will explore the possibilities of digitization and how it can help to improve productivity along with profitable business strategies. The summit will feature presentations that will help to understand the cause & effect relationship with respect to the impact of VAT on trade within GCC as well as cross border trade. The participants will also get a chance to brainstorm on various key topics such as benchmarking the process through KPI's, standards and unification in diversity of functions, understanding effective contract management methods, the scope and limitation on implementation of blockchain along with various other sessions dedicated to gain insights into the landscape of procurement in the Middle East.
The event will host speakers from renowned organizations like First Abu Dhabi Bank – FAB, Siemens MEA, Johnson & Johnson, Tecom Group, OSN, Al-Futtaim Group, Khidmah along with Synertrade, Ivalua and Bravo Solutions- Tejari as Platinum Sponsor, Gold Sponsor & Event Partner respectively who will also be addressing key topics at the event.


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Waste Experts
Fire Protection Experts
Occupational Safety Experts
Dangerous Goods Experts
Water Conservation Experts
Immission Protection Experts
Laser Protection Experts
REACH Experts
Hazardous Incident Experts
Radiation Protection Experts
Company data protection officer
Stefan Hüsemann
Diplom-Ingenieur, Umweltgutachter
Tel: +49 (0)561 96996-24
Email: huesemann(at)bfu-ag.de
Tobias Porkristl
Tel:+49 (0)561 96996-15
Email: porkristl(at)bfu-ag.de
Optimisation of a company's waste system
A waste expert is a legal requirement for companies operating installations requiring a licence under the Bundes-Immissionsschutzgesetz (Federal Immission Control Act - BImSchG), i.e. installations in accordance with the 4th BImSchV. A waste adviser is responsible not only for monitoring the company's waste streams and ensuring that they are disposed of in a legally compliant manner, but also for continually working towards reducing waste quantities and hence disposal costs.
Handling hazardous wastes, in particular, requires the adviser not only to be highly qualified, but also highly reliable and responsible. The constant increase in legal requirements and growing demands on time required for task fulfilment are causing bottlenecks in companies.
Against this background, appointing an external waste expert is often not just a question of know-how, but is also simultaneously more attractive in economic terms. If you appoint an external waste expert from BfU AG, you will be assigned a contact person who is both qualified and undergoing constant further training and will provide you with individual support. We assume all the waste adviser's tasks, some of which are as follows:
Preparing the waste adviser's annual report
Providing ongoing monitoring and evaluation of waste streams
Maintenance of disposal certificates and record-keeping
Conducting disposer audits
Providing ongoing information about new processes that generate lower waste
Training employees, and raising their awareness, in respect of waste-related issues
Monitoring legal requirements and identifying a company's need for action
Your contact persons in our offices
Telefon: +49 (0)561 96996-24
E-Mail: huesemann(at)bfu-ag.de
Christian Schmidt
E-Mail: schmidt(at)bfu-ag.de
Dr. Antonia Goldner
Telefon: +49 (0)40 30238698-3
E-Mail: goldner(at)bfu-ag.de
Weinstadt
Hans-Ulrich Terme
E-Mail: terme(at)bfu-ag..de
Telefon: +49 (0)6441 29-2515
E-Mail: bender(at)bfu-ag.de
Axel Dreyer
Telefon: +49 (0)202 3171-3274
E-Mail: dreyer(at)bfu-ag.de
Limitation of liability risks through fire protection experts
Employers in Germany do not, in principle, have a statutory obligation to seek advice from a fire protection adviser in matters relating to fire protection.
The requirement to appoint a fire protection adviser arises, however, in some cases, from national building regulations. In particular, the Industrial Buildings Directive stipulates that fire protection experts need to be appointed for industrial buildings of a certain size in some cases. Companies with a certain floor area are obliged by the Model Industrial Buildings Directive - Model Directive on Structural Fire Protection in Industrial Buildings (German designation: MIndBauR) - to appoint a fire protection adviser.
Nevertheless, there is often an indirect requirement to appoint a fire protection adviser in the company. For example, in the case of new constructions or conversions of industrial or administrative buildings, a fire protection adviser is required in terms of a fire protection concept. Similarly, a property insurer's insurance regulations regularly make provision for a fire protection adviser. Failure to appoint may result in liability risks in the event of a fire.
Our fire protection experts can undertake the following functions:
Providing support for the officer in charge of fire protection within the company (employer, plant manager) in all matters relating to fire protection,
conducting fire protection inspections,
preparing fire protection ordinances,
participating in the training of employees, such as fire protection and evacuation assistants, authorized persons etc.,
participating in looking after fire protection equipment,
monitoring the test dates for fire protection equipment,
monitoring the usability of exit and escape routes,
determining fire and explosion hazards,
advising on the design of work processes and on the use of working materials,
collaborating with all other company experts (e.g. expert for occupational safety),
collaborating with the regulatory authority, the fire service and property insurers.
Nils Ludwig
E-Mail: ludwig(at)bfu-ag.de
Expert strain relief
Ensuring legal certainty and using appropriate safety technology is the task of our occupational safety experts. On the basis of an occupational safety concept, both the necessary documentation and the proof of an organisational structure for occupational health and safety can be provided in cooperation with our customers, depending on the support model (e.g. basic support, support plus or complete support).
Our module concept offers companies continuous and sustained support. This includes, in particular, support in respect of Risk Assessments in accordance with the Betriebssicherheitsverordnung (Ordinance on Industrial Safety - BetrSichV), the Arbeitsschutzgesetz (Occupational Health and Safety Act - ArbSchG) and the Gefahrstoffverordnung (Ordinance on Hazardous Substances - GefStoffV). We offer the following modules:
Modul 1: Licences and Legislation
Modul 2: Organisation
Modul 3: Instruction
Modul 4: Accidents, First Aid, Hazard Prevention
Modul 5: Workplace Monitoring
Modul 6: Work Equipment
Modul 7: Hazardous Substances
Modul 8: Explosion Prevention and Protection
Modul 9: Fire Protection
Modul 10: Office Workstations
Modul 11: Risk Assessments for Individual Workstations
Modul 12: Field Service
Each module includes module-specific documentation, which is supplemented by additional records made by the occupational safety expert. Action plans to be updated ensure that the system is up to date. These action plans record information on ongoing work, identified hazards and open items.
Marco Kühn
E-Mail: kuehn(at)bfu-ag.de
Transport of dangerous goods
Dangerous goods officers are obligatory in many companies. Whether employed as dangerous goods experts or as persons responsible who are involved in the transportation of dangerous goods (formerly, authorized person), they report directly to management and are responsible in the company for the implementation of, and compliance with, the dangerous goods regulations.
BfU Dr. Poppe AG provides on-site support to the responsible persons - through consultancy and training.
As an external service provider, BfU also undertakes these tasks completely - in a professional, uncomplicated and always up-to-date manner.
If you do not know whether you require a dangerous goods adviser or "authorized persons" for your company, call us or write to us!
We will check whether current regulations require you to appoint a dangerous goods adviser for your company. On request, we will prepare an individual quotation in respect of our services relating to the transport of dangerous goods.
Placing the dangerous goods adviser
Advising the company on activities in connection with the transport of dangerous goods
Verifying that the workers involved have sufficient training, carrying out instruction in accordance with Section 27 of the Gefahrgutverordnung Straße, Eisenbahn und Binnenschifffahrt (Regulation on the Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road, Rail or Inland Waterways - GGVSEB) in conjunction with Chapter 1.3 of ADR (formerly, training in accordance with Section 6 of the Gefahrgutbeauftragten-Verordnung (Dangerous Goods Adviser Regulation - GbV) for authorized persons)
Checking classification, packaging, carriage and storage conditions
Preparing detailed procedural instructions
Providing necessary documents, e.g. carriage documents, written instructions
Formulating optimum concepts for the company's management of dangerous goods
Introducing appropriate measures for preventing further occurrence of accidents and incidents
By official order, and as soon as they discharge a daily waste water quantity of 750 cubic metres, companies must appoint a water protection officer in accordance with requirements laid down in the Wasserhaushaltsgesetz (German Federal Water Act - WHG). A water protection officer's task is to support the company in complying with statutory regulations.
The water protection officer therefore bears a high level of responsibility in respect of legally certain waste water treatment and disposal. He needs not only to have undergone the corresponding initial training, but also to receive continuing training in order to be able to meet the requirements.
An external water conservation officer from BfU AG will enable you not only to conserve your own resources, but also to increase legal certainty and reduce your own risk. You will be assigned a contact person, who is both qualified and undergoing constant further training, to provide you with individual support. We assume all the water protection officer's tasks, some of which are as follows:
Preparing the water protection officer's annual report
Monitoring legal and company-specific requirements and identifying the company's need for action / preparing corresponding action plans
Monitoring and evaluating waste water streams
Providing information about new, environmentally friendly processes
Training employees, and raising their awareness, in relation to water protection
Karolin Froemel
E-Mail: froemel(at)bfu-ag.de
External specialists in environmental protection
Companies operating installations requiring a licence under the Bundes-Immissionsschutzgesetz (Federal Immission Control Act - BImSchG) are obliged to appoint one or more immission protection experts. Apart from companies operating installations listed in the 4.BImSchV (4th Ordinance for implementation of the Federal Immission Control Act), this can also affect other companies that have been obliged by authorities to make such an appointment.
The immission protection expert's function is to monitor the implementation of the statutory immission control requirements and to work towards improving environmental performance. This not only requires the adviser to be highly qualified in technical and legal terms, but also places demands on time resources. It therefore makes sense for many companies to have recourse to external advisers to save internal resources and to acquire additional know-how.
BfU AG has immission control officers with long-standing experience. Our employees also benefit from an ongoing exchange with our interdisciplinary team and can provide you with company-specific support or can even take over all the immission control officer's functions. This includes, among other things:
Preparing the immission control officer's annual report
Monitoring and evaluating emission measurements
Training employees, and raising their awareness, in respect of environmentally relevant issues / immission control
Protection of employees against laser radiation
The use of laser equipment is continually on the rise in production. Increasing requirements on production accuracy have brought about its introduction. For example, laser technology is becoming more and more established in the electronics and automobile industries, plastics technology and labelling technology.
New application areas for laser technology are, however, necessitating the use of more and more powerful laser equipment. This also increases requirements on its safe operation in companies. The legal basis for operating laser equipment and appointing laser protection experts is provided by the Verordnung zum Schutz der Beschäftigten vor Gefährdungen durch künstliche optische Strahlung (Ordinance on the Protection of Employees against Artificial Optical Radiation Hazards).
This ordinance stipulates that a laser protection adviser must be appointed if lasers of Classes 3R, 3B and 4 are operated.
The laser protection adviser undertakes the following functions:
Monitoring the operation of the laser equipment,
providing notifications of the laser equipment,
supporting the employer in respect of the safe operation and necessary protective measures (demarcation of laser areas, shielding against laser radiation, selecting suitable laser protection goggles),
instructing employees,
collaborating with the specialists for occupational safety,
authorities management including surveillance and regulatory authorities and employers' liability insurance associations.
Eduard Münich
E-Mail: muenich(at)bfu-ag.de
Hazardous substance management in accordance with the REACH Regulation
The REACH Regulation has been in force since 1 June 2007. Companies that import, manufacture, or are downstream users of, hazardous substances are affected by the REACH Regulation. Manufacturers, importers and users are expected to implement requirements under chemicals legislation correctly, focusing not only on data collection, but also on disseminating information in the supply chain.
Due to the continually increasing number of substance bans, restrictions on use and labelling obligations, companies need to ensure that their products comply with REACH. This necessitates extensive hazardous substance management as well as evaluation and analysis of data across the entire supply chain. The tasks related to REACH can be appropriately organized by a REACH adviser.
We offer the following levels of support through the REACH adviser:
Event-driven examination of the legal consequences resulting from changes in legislation (REACH, CLP and national transpositions)
Regularly examining substance restrictions in accordance with Annex XVII of the REACH Regulation (e.g. PAHs) and communicating the results
Regularly examining the Candidate List in accordance with Article 57 of the REACH Regulation (SVHC List) and carrying out the necessary measures
Providing assistance with possible authorization applications for SVHCs subject to authorization, as set out in Annex XIV of the REACH Regulation
Providing notifications to ECHA's Classification and Labelling (C&L) Inventory when substances are placed on the market
Providing notifications to the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR)
Providing assistance with possible registrations of pure substances
Providing assistance with the classification and labelling of substances and mixtures in accordance with hazardous substance legislation
Checking the plausibility of safety data sheets
Providing assistance with the preparation of safety data sheets for a company's own products
Examining extended safety data sheets and providing information to the supply chain if uses are not described or not described in full
Safety of installations in accordance with the Störfallverordnung (Hazardous Incident Ordinance)
The Bundes-Immissionsschutzgesetz (Federal Immission Control Act) stipulates that operators of installations requiring a licence must appoint a hazardous incident adviser if large quantities of dangerous working materials are present or may be present in their operating area. The regulatory authority must be notified of the hazardous incident adviser.
In principle, all installations mentioned in the Störfallverordnung (e.g. large storage facilities for aerosols or liquid gases or ammonia refrigerating systems) are affected.
The hazardous incident adviser advises the operator on all matters that may be of importance for the safety of the installation. In accordance with Section 58 b of the Bundes-Immissionsschutzgesetz, these include:
supporting senior managers in maintaining and improving the safety of the installation;
evaluating hazardous incidents and transferring protective measures to in-house operation,
monitoring the installations at regular intervals to ensure that they are being operated in accordance with regulations and in conformity with the law,
conducting hazardous incident audits,
informing the company about relevant amendments to the installation-specific statutory provisions,
providing information to the public in accordance with Section 11 of the Störfallverordnung,
communicating with authorities and providing assistance with official monitoring dates.
In addition, the hazardous incident adviser can contribute to preparing and refining the safety documentation required in accordance with the Störfallverordnung. This comprises, for example:
Preparing and updating the safety report,
preparing and updating the emergency plan,
implementing and further developing the safety management system,
updating fire and explosion protection concepts.
Responsible handling of radioactive substances
Many sub-areas in industry, trade and medicine are unimaginable without the use of radioactive substances. Radioactive substances are used in measuring equipment for non-destructive materials testing or measuring tasks like flow or fill level measurement. In addition, radioactive substances are used in preparations for medical diagnostics and therapy purposes.
As radiation can lead to acute injuries and serious diseases in people as well as causing changes to their genetic make-up, the use of radioactive substances is strictly regulated.
Companies that carry out activities involving radioactive substances (e.g. operation of equipment for generating ionizing rays, use of radioactive substances in measuring equipment) must, as a matter of principle, appoint radiation protection experts pursuant to the Strahlenschutzverordnung (Radiation Protection Ordinance).
Radiation protection experts must have the technical qualifications required in accordance with Section 30 of the Strahlenschutzverordnung.
The radiation protection adviser can undertake the following functions:
Providing instruction to persons employed in radiation protection areas,
planning and defining technical and organizational radiation protection measures (e.g. defining radiation protection areas),
preparing radiation protection instructions,
inspecting the operational reliability of the facilities, devices and equipment intended for radiation protection,
providing inventory management of radioactive preparations,
monitoring personal dosimeters (the wearing of dosimeters, regular change of films),
regular examination of the effectiveness of the protective devices and protection regulations,
authorities management, including surveillance and regulatory authorities and employers' liability insurance associations.
§ 4f of the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) regulates the conditions under which a company needs to appoint a data protection officer. This legal obligation needs to be fulfilled by many companies. In the event of violations against this obligation, sanctions can be imposed. However, companies are free to appoint an external data protection officer. Generally, this would bring significant advantages, as a data protection officer will be assigned specific competencies that might lead to operational disruptions if the position is filled by internal employees.
By appointing a data protection officer of the BfU AG, your company will benefit from a qualified and continuously trained contact person that will be happy to provide individual support. In particular, the following responsibilities will be taken by us:
Preparation of the annual report of the data protection officer
Performance of internal data protection audits or support during external data protection audits
Regular information on latest data protection developments relevant to your company
Training of staff members in the field of data protection topics
Monitoring of implementation of legal requirements and data protection compliance

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Bassjackers
DJ, Marlon Flohr, and producer, Ralph van Hilst, who together form Bassjackers, are perfectly in sync as a duo. Their opposing personalities – Marlon being the wild one rocking each and every stage they play and Ralph the more cool and collective preferring to shine behind the scene on the producer seat, are a perfect combination for this unique one dj-one producer collaboration.
The duo exploded onto the scene and in 2011 their dancefloor bomb "Mush Mush" was picked up by Tiësto and released on his label Musical Freedom. The track dominated the Beatport top 10 chart for over two months and was one of the biggest festival tracks of the year. This was a sign of things to come.
Since then, Bassjackers have reached massive new heights in their career with numerous chart-topping bangers and hit collaborations with the likes of Martin Garrix, Afrojack, KSHMR, Dyro, R3hab, and Showtek, to name a few, as well as remixes for A-list artists including Rihanna, Enrique Iglesias, Moby, and Ne-Yo. At the top of their game, Bassjackers continue to tear up stages worldwide and wow crowds along the way.


Organic Nectars raw cacao nibs are amazing as a supplement in smoothies or straight out of the bag. Slightly bitter, these unsweetened nibs are a great nutritious crunchy snack. And they're one of the world's greatest sources of magnesium. Cacao is increasingly being consumed for its nutritive and health enhancing properties as it has been in many cultures for thousands of years. Cacao beans (theobroma cacao/raw chocolate) are the source for all chocolate and cocoa products. Theobroma literally means food of the goods - so called from the goodness of the seeds and Mexican named the pounded seeds chocolate cacao is increasingly being consumed for its nutritive and health-enhancing properties, as it has been in many cultures for thousands of years. Cacao contains many properties that enhance physical and mental well-being, including an incredibly rich supply of magnesium. Other essential minerals present in Cacao are calcium, zinc, iron, copper and potassium. Cacao also contains more antioxidant flavonoids than red wine, green tea and blueberries.


I have not been able to post to the blog for a month! Others could see the blog, but I couldn't see it or post to it! Suffice it to say, AT&T and I are not going to be having tea together any time soon!
Stampin' Up is celebrating with their new Occasions Catalog and now through the end of the month is Sale-A-Bration. That means for every $50 in product purchase, you get to choose an item from the Sale-A-Bration catalog for free. Leave me a message is you would like to see a catalog or click on the link to my Stampin' Up blog in the upper righthand corner. There are links to the Occasions and Sale-A-Bration catalogs on that page.
I have several cards to share. The first one is made from the darling HONEYCOMB HAPPINESS stamp set, Birthday Bouquet Design Series Paper, and Honeycomb embellishments. The set also includes the cutest little Chick.
You can find this set on page 15 of the Sale-A-Bration catalogue. Thank you for visiting. I'll be back tomorrow with more samples. I would be honored if you would like to enter you email to be a blog follower!
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Allegheny Hist. Form. county publications Allegheny County (Pa.) Department of Public Works. Allegheny County Pennsylvania History of Formations & Subdivision. Pittsburgh, Pa.: Allegheny County (Pa.) Department of Public Works, 1920s?.
Government References SHRADEN
Text Erected from a part of Chartiers Township, by the Court of Quarter Sessions April 27th, 1894, at No. 34 September Sessions, 1893 -Miscellaneous Docket 11, page 227. Petition, Plan, etc., recorded May 8th, 1894, in Charter Book 21, pages 20, etc., Recorder's Office). Divided into three (3) Wards by the Court of Quarter Sessions, December 27th, 1904, at No. 1 March Sessions, 1903 -Miscellaneous Docket 16, page 440. Merged in the City of pittsburgh by the Court of Quarter SEssions, December 31st, 1906, at No. 40 June Sessions, 1906 Miscellaneous Docket 18, page 80, and was made the original 43rd ward of said city by Decree of said Court December 21st, 1907, at No. 11 December Sessions, 1907 -Miscellaneous Docket 18, page 396. Now part of the 20th Ward.
View New Borough Sheraden Borough 1894 Creation yes May 8, 1894
View Dissolution Sheraden Borough-Pittsburgh City 1907 Merger yes Nov 21, 1907


What could sound more Christmassy than lunch in a igloo? Well, as my brother is a December baby, I decided to book just this at Coppa Club for a birthday treat.
We had dined here before with other relatives, so I knew what to expect. However, the thrill of eating somewhere unexpected never really goes away! Coppa Club plays homage to the material in it's name and the restaurant itself is set around a central brass bar that is open on all sides – making it a great place for a buzzing family meal. There's always a great, cosy atmosphere which I find you can sometimes struggle to get. Plus, there's a fireplace, booths for extra privacy and an all important terrace for the warmer months.
Outside though is where the magic happens as each Winter, they place cosy round domed igloos on their terrace overlooking the Thames, and once you enter one I guarantee you'll never want to leave.
When we arrived, we were led to our igloo for the duration of our meal. Igloo's are bookable to up to eight people, and as there was only four of us, we had to share with other diners. The igloos are quite small, so you have to be ok with small spaces – and eating with strangers if there's less than eight of you! It was go lovely to be welcomed in from the cold to a warm dining space, and refreshing to see sheepskin blankets on the chairs for extra comfort.
The menu is small but I guarantee there's something for everyone, and the food unfussy and traditional with a modern twist. Think sourdough pizza's, healthy salads, homemade pastas and rich chocolate tortes. For my main I had the Penne Carbonara which was amazing, When it initially arrived it looked quite small, although I quickly came to realise is was quite rich and I didn't get to finish it all in the end, but it was delicious. My brother had Spinach, Beetroot, Ricotta Rotolo and my other brother had a Mushroom, Mozzarella, Parmesan and Pesto Pizza. My mum got stuck into the Coppa Club Burger. For dessert I had a Apple and Rhubarb crumble tart, and my mum and brother had warm Pecan Pies with honeycomb ice cream.
Dinner was followed by a walk along the Thames to burn off those calories and we managed to stumble upon a Christmas market on the opposite side of the water. Christmas by the River runs until January 3rd and showcases 68 independent traders offering homemade gifts and food from wooden German-styled chalets. It's completely free to wander around and the traders also feed into the beautiful Hays Galleria, which has been decorated festively for the season, complete with humongous Christmas Tree. All in all, a very festive way to celebrate a birthday!


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CHICAGO – Diablo Cody's directorial debut, "Paradise," now available everywhere On Demand and released this Friday in some markets theatrically, is an unmitigated disaster. It's the most tonally inconsistent film of 2013, a flick that fluctuates wildly from broad satire to manipulative drama to something altogether indescribably bad.
CHICAGO – Jane Campion's "Top of the Lake," premiering tonight on The Sundance Channel, is one of the best things you'll watch on TV this year. It's a stunning accomplishment that gets deeper, more complex, and more fascinating as it goes along. With spectacular work by Elisabeth Moss ("Mad Men") and typically fantastic turns from Peter Mullan & Holly Hunter, this is a must-see.
CHICAGO – There is an interesting trend in the financing of films, actual partisan organizations are fostering their points-of-view through the movies. This is nothing new in documentaries, but now it appears in a fictional film called "Won't Back Down," featuring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis.
CHICAGO – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film with our unique social giveaway technology, we have 50 pairs of movie passes up for grabs to the advance screening of the new drama "Won't Back Down" starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis!
CHICAGO – Few directors have ever kickstarted their career more confidently than Joel and Ethan Coen. And they did it with such an array of genre and subject matter from the gritty noir of "Blood Simple" to the subversive comedy of "Raising Arizona" to the gangster epic "Miller's Crossing" to the heavily-symbolic drama "Barton Fink" to the whimsical charmer "The Hudsucker Proxy" and head-first into one of the best movies ever made — "Fargo." Four of their first six films have been collected in the "Coen Brothers Collection" and while Fox was, very sadly, only able to send over one of them individually, we didn't want this stellar collection to go unmentioned.


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myth/folklore
Cloud Goddess
Painted this one with the Brushes app on my iPhone while at the Dentist this morning--started sketching in the waiting room.
Jul 16, 2009 4:58:16 PM | art, iPhone, myth/folklore, Sketching
Mermaid on my iPhone (Illustration Friday: drifting)
Painted this in Brushes on the iPhone over lunch today, a little over an hour, a lot of save and duplicates, but I like the way this ended up. I was planning to make the water a bit rougher, a little stormy, but...I ran out of time.
Jun 29, 2009 2:03:47 PM | art, iPhone, myth/folklore, Sketching, Under the sea
Had a great time at Boskone--my first Boskone on some panels, doing a reading and a signing. I had my reading Friday night at 10:30--I read chapter 1 from Sea Throne to an audience of five. Before that I took in the Graphic Novel (& comic) panel with Christopher Golden, John Langan, Stefan Petrucha, Alisa Kwitney Sheckley, Rene Walling. Also caught the YA panel with Chris Golden, who just seems like a cool guy who's done a lot of cool stuff--comics, ya, mainstream fantasy, horror, you name it.
Then it was off to the Uncanny Valley panel on the acceptence of human-like robots with Muriel Hykes, Robert Katz, Jim Kelly, Paul Melko, Allen Steele, and Charles Stross. Stross I think beat everyone else at good barbed make-you-think comments. Paul Melko (I started Walls of the Universe last Thursday) added humor--among other things--to an already fading Friday evening (Friday night seemed a bit subdued to me, as if everyone was tired from traveling, long day, etc. I know I'd been working all day, and left right for the con, didn't get home until after midnight).
Saturday started early. I had a 10 AM panel on Men Writing Women--it was me, Paul Melko, Joshua B. Palmatier, Alisa Kwitney Sheckley, and Joel Shepherd, with Paul Melko moderating. (I'm considering this my first real con panel appearance. I've been on a panel at UMass Lowell, done a couple readings and signings--Pandemonium Books and Water Street Books, but this Boskone is my first con as a full panelist. Really fun, BTW, even for us Introverts). Good questions on gender behavior, how to write as a female character--and whether the writer even thinks explicitly in those terms while writing. Skott and I spent the next hour talking to Alisa Kwitney Sheckley and Joel Shepherd (cool SF and fantasy writer from Australia in the US on an educational project with our Congress). Alisa (of Vertigo where she worked on Sandman--how cool is that!--and a bunch of other stuff) has a novel coming out next month: The Better to Hold You.
I was on the New Marketing Technologies panel at 12:00 talking about ebooks, podcasting web comics, creative commons licensing, and all the ways authors can sell their work and themselves using all the new tech out there, with Darlene Marshall, me, James Patrick Kelly, Dani Kollin, Eytan Kollin, Shane Tourtellotte. I'll take this moment to say that Darlene Marshall is one of the best moderators around--that and all the insight and experience she brought to this particular panel. Jim Kelly had a lot to say on this one--obviously--from ebooks to podcasting. Eytan and Dani Kollin, brothers and collaborative authors of the forthcoming The Unincorporated Man, had us laughing, and jumped in with a wealth of web marketing and book launch experience. (I'm really sorry I missed their Literary Beer, although I got a card from Dani just before that). Looking forward to reading their first novel.
I did get to Jeff Carver's literary beer, crowded but a lot of good talk around the table, on marketing and publishing. Jeff also came to my reading, Friday night, which was very cool--thanks, Jeff!
Great art show this year. I think having Irene Gallo and Stephen Martiniere as GoHs really brought out the artists. Dan Dos Santos, Donato Giancola, a bunch of others were all there.
At 3:00 PM I took in the Sketch to Finish panel with Dave Seeley, Dan Dos Santos, Donato Giancola, and Stephen Martiniere. This was an AMAZING panel, each artist running through and explaining progressive steps in their work. I've seen some of these presentations and videos online (probably linked from Irene Gallo's blog), but it was extra cool to have the artists there and filling in the details. I picked up a lot in this panel and the art panel I was on Sunday--things like using many more layers in Photoshop than I do now--Stephen Martiniere said he regularly used 50 and sometimes as many as a 100! I don't think I've ever done any digital work with more than twenty layers--and I thought that was excessive. I also loved Stephen's use of highlighting and methods for building a scene.
Sunday morning, bright an early, I was on the Clothing in SF and Fantasy Art panel with Alan F. Beck, Elaine Isaak, Margaret Organ-Kean, Ruth Sanderson. I think what made this one especially cool were the differences we brought to the panel. A couple of us were mainstream F&SF authors (me and Elaine Isaak), with three pro artists. I did some research and note taking before the panel. I thought this was going to be a tough one--turned out to be fun and enlightening. Not sure what the others throught of me advocating for natural origins in clothing. (With my own characters in Seaborn, I drew from marine life, fish scales, crab carapace armor, etc).
At noon, I was on another art panel, this time with the incomparable Stephen Martiniere, Dave Seeley and Alan Beck. This one had the unfortunate title, Drawing with a Mouse, but ended up as an overview of digital art, with advantages and disadvantages of the medium. Good questions in this one as well, even if it did occasionally plummet into strange technology and storage solutions discussions. For me, what was really weird was being on the panel with Irene Gallo in the audience. Yeah, I'm still stunned--yes, shocked and stunned.
Ended Boskone with a book signing at 2:00 PM with Ann Tonsor Zeddies. I signed a couple copies of Seaborn, and spent the rest of the time talking about web comics, art, and Japan.
Great con, missed a lot of authors this year. Hoping Boskone draws them all back next. (I know several people were sick for this one, so hoping we've cured all disease for Boskone 47!)
Feb 15, 2009 9:19:17 PM | Books, conventions, Cool, Current Affairs, graphic novel, myth/folklore, Podcasting, Publishing, reading, review, Science, Seaborn, sf, web comic, Web/Tech, Weblogs, Writing
A question about reading and filtering
I'm just thinking at the keyboard, and I'll say it: I think one of the most gratifying things for a writer is a reader who understands your characters.
I've been thinking about how people read books, and how we, in some cases, see the words, the characters, tropes, through our SF lenses or through our medieval fantasy spectacles. I think contemporary fantasy has had some trouble getting a footing--even with a third of the shelf space that now seems to be devoted to urban, contemporary fantasy, steampunk, and other forms of our genre that do not contain a single elf and aren't set in Medieval Europe (or similar world).
When I sent the first three chapters of Seaborn around to the workshop--at the time I was in the writing workshop Jeff Carver and Craig Shaw Gardner run every year here in Boston--nearly everyone thought it was SF. And when I said, "no, I'm writing fantasy," they said, "look, here's a woman scuba diving--how can you have scuba gear in a fantasy novel?"
I think it just makes reading it a little harder, and don't expect everyone who browses the F&SF shelves to get what you're trying to do.
If you're using tropes--common themes--like vampires, summoning demons, pirates, dragons, witches lighting candles, sorcerers chanting--all of which I love BTW (everyone knows I have a total thing for witches and demons), you're writing with some cultural (or popular) momentum. When you write about something a little off the genre map (in my case, humans who breathe underwater) or types and settings that just don't sit well with a lot of people, I think it makes everything--describing, categorizing, shelving, marketing your story, characters, and their motives that much more difficult.
Part of me wants to think that SF readers are happier--than fantasy readers--to accept something way off the mark, but I'm not sure about this. And I'm even less sure about SF readers when they read fantasy.
Feb 3, 2009 4:15:03 PM | Books, I wonder..., myth/folklore, reading, Seaborn, Writing
Andromache - journal sketch
Sketched this last night, pencil in my journal. I was planning to do some character studies of Andromache, but ended up running with a flatter stylized portrait. Click for the full view.
Dec 9, 2008 9:36:06 AM | art, graphic novel, myth/folklore, Seaborn, Sketching, Under the sea
Seaborn review
Fallen Angel reviews SEABORN. Good stuff, including the need to take notes: "...There is a lot going on in this book, that at times made me feel like I needed to take notes just to keep everything straight ..." And I'm glad my gender ambiguity plan is a success. The reviewer refers to me as "Ms. Howard."
Dec 2, 2008 2:29:46 PM | Books, Kassandra, myth/folklore, review, Seaborn, sf
Saltwater Witch - first five pages
Did some painting and repainting today, and then spent an hour in layout mode, arranging the first five pages of Saltwater Witch, using a separate layer for each element, art, overlaps, balloons, text. This has been really fun. There are a few language problems, and some of the panels aren't finished, but here they are anyway.
Click to see the full sized images:
...and couple pages from chapter 3, some crazy stuff going on here:
Nov 27, 2008 10:55:24 PM | art, Books, ebook, graphic novel, Kassandra, myth/folklore, Seaborn, Sketching, Under the sea, urban fantasy, worldbuilding, Writing
A Halloween Treat from Juno Books
Five frightening classic tales--all written by women--that should send a shiver or two down your spine.
FIVE CLASSIC GHOST STORIES: A HALLOWEEN TREAT FROM JUNO BOOKS includes "Let Loose" by Mary Cholmondeley (1890), "The Striding-Place" by Gertrude Atherton (1896), "The Lost Ghost" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1903), "Kerfol" by Edith Wharton (1916) and "Spunk" by Zora Neale Hurston (1925).
Download now: http://www.juno-books.com/Juno_ghost_stories.pdf
Oct 27, 2008 1:08:12 PM | Blogging, Books, CREEPY, Drop everything and read..., ebook, Interesting..., myth/folklore, reading, Seaborn
A couple pages
This is Saltwater Witch. Finished my first sketch of page two last night. Here are one, two, and four, no dialogue yet. Going to try to get a couple more completed this weekend.
Click the pics for the large view. Also available on my dA site in higher res.
Aug 21, 2008 11:59:38 AM | art, Kassandra, myth/folklore, Seaborn, Sketching, urban fantasy
Great review at Fantasy Literature.net
Love this...
"Seaborn is a unique fantasy; it's unlike anything else I've read. Chris Howard tells a compelling story of merpeople and of two women who struggle to become their own woman (or mermaid) in the face of opposition...Howard does a fine job of describing the beauty and danger of the sea, and the culture of the Seaborn. Their society is largely based upon ancient Greece, as is their magic. Chris Howard clearly knows a great deal about ancient Greek mythology and occultism...
It's unique, and never feels like a warmed-over version of anything else. It's for anyone who loves the sea, and anyone who likes stories about young women striving for independence and their own power..."
Read the full review here:
http://www.fantasyliterature.net/howardchris.html
Aug 2, 2008 3:25:49 PM | Ancient Greece, Cool, Kassandra, myth/folklore, review, Seaborn


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Q: python command line arguments and invalid syntax I'm trying to get a run from a code in github.
it has a command line argument like this:
if __name__ == "__main__":
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    parser.add_argument('-m', '--mode', help="Choose a net running mode: training, batch_testing or single_testing", required=True)
    Args = vars(parser.parse_args())

I want  to run the code by applying:
python Boost.py -m training

but I get this error:
  File "<ipython-input-2-7e83ffb380ee>", line 1
    python Boost.py -m training
           ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

A: Seems like you're trying the command line interface from .ipython session, so it is better to avoid.
import argparse
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('-m', '--mode', help="Choose a net running mode: training, batch_testing or single_testing", required=True)
Args = parser.parse_args()
print(Args.mode)

so it is better to use the above attached working python code then run python .\Boost.py -m hello
happy coding ..!


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"Legend" is a word that is often too lightly doled out, but today we proudly present an interview with a bonafide LEGEND. Art Laboe is a broadcasting icon who was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 2012. This honor was rightly bestowed as he was the first DJ to play Rock and Roll on the west coast airwaves, smashed color lines by presenting mixed race concerts and playlists, coined the term "Oldies but Goodies," invented the concept of the compilation album and continues to bring joy to generations of radio listeners.
At 87 years young, Art is a sprightly figure, holding one of the top rated slots in Southern California radio, one of the world's most important markets. He graces the airwaves six nights a week with his Art Laboe Connection program. The show's format is an exception amongst commercial radio, emphasizing a direct connection with the community. Throughout each show he takes dedications from listeners and sends their songs and kisses over the airwaves to loved ones, many of whom are incarcerated. His radio show is a pipeline through which the emotions and wishes of listeners are transmitted. The songs heard on the Art Laboe Connection are a refreshing and heartfelt break from the glossy buzz flooding much of the dial. While Art plays tried and trued favorites every show his playlist varies widely night to night based on to listener requests and his mood. On any given episode you're likely to hear rare doo-wop, R&B or sweet soul cuts played nowhere else.
We were honored that Art Laboe opened up his studio and schedule to graciously allow us this interview. Scholar and dublab board member Josh Kun sat down with Art at his Original Sound Studio on Sunset Boulevard to revisit the history of his illustrious career and explore the dynamic of his nightly connection with listeners cruising the California streets or listening close for the voice of a loved one.
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Enjoy this bonus outtake as Art gives a tutorial on how to replicate his famous radio kiss.
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Thanks to Joanna Morones at Original Sound for setting up this interview and being so warm and welcoming.
All photos by Zen Sekizawa. To view all of her photos from the session click here.
Date Recorded: July 11, 2012
Location: El Monte, Hollywood
Decades Featured: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s
Date Published: April 3, 2013
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The top 10 best Busta Rhymes songs
By: Kareem Gantt AXS Contributor May 2, 2016
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Busta Rhymes is a force in the hip-hop world that you just can't ignore. Beginning his career in 1989, he was given the name "Busta Rhymes" by Chuck D of Public Enemy, and the rapper (b. Trevor George Smith Jr.) has since gone on to promote his crazy style of internal and half rhyming to the top of the charts. As we continue to countdown the Top 10 songs of all time by music's biggest artists, here are Busta Rhyme's to 10 songs of all-time. Enter the madness at your own risk.
Busta Rhymes has such a distinctive voice in the hip-hop world. It was that voice that allowed him to create a track like "One," which would have been mundane by any other artist but was made special by the only hip-hop artist that could elevate this track to legendary status.
9. "Get Out!!"
The beat behind "Get Out!!" was what many will remember from this track. The beat kind of overshadowed the lyrics, which shouldn't be ignored because the flow is made of pure brilliance.
8. "As I Come Back"
By 2001, Busta Rhymes' was hitting his commercial stride, and it seemed like nobody could stop him. He made some timely hits during this era, but some that were awesome but was sort of overlooked, like "As I Come Back," which deserved to be a bigger hit due to the sheer energy of the track.
7. "Pass the Courvoisier, Part II"
There was a "Pass the Courvoisier part one, but it had nothing on the second installment of the track, which took it into the Billboard atmosphere and for great reason. It's smooth and full of energy at the same time. Oh, and the video is also a classic.
6. "It's a Party"
You could listen to this track all day long. But it will especially be great while you're getting ready to head to a party, which is what this track is all about. You would think that "It's a Party" would be high energy, but Busta used a lighter tone to bring in the same effectiveness, which was pure genius.
5. "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See"
Heading into the top five of Busta Rhymes' list, there was no way that it would be a valid one if "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See" wasn't here. It was such a classic in 1997 and no radio station passed up the opportunity to spin this track.
4. "Arab Money"
Sometimes we all need a little of that "Arab Money," and Busta Rhymes was getting gobs of it in this 2009 single. Yes, "Arab Money" sat Rhymes regress somewhat to the bragging that dominates southern rap, but then again, his brand of rap was kind of dated by this time, and to his credit, he made a track that became one of his best.
3. "I Know What You Want"
This was such a smooth track. The first time you hear it you be amazed that Busta Rhymes was behind this track. He did such a great job with "I Know What You Want," and it's easily one of his best.
2. "Make It Clap"
2002 was a banner year for Busta Rhymes. While he knew what women wanted, he also wanted everyone to "Make it Clap." This single was one of the largest of the year, and one that should be on hip-hop fans playlists.
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As great as the previous nine singles are in Busta Rhymes' legendary catalog, "Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check" will forever be the best track Busta has ever made, and it was both the energy and his lyrics that sets this track apart.
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As usual I made drawings. The first is rather academically dull, and the second more exciting and questioning. The second may be a prelude to an upcoming painting. I continually return to the theme of interaction between two figures. In this second drawing we see one man throwing a glass full of water on another.


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Danny Green discusses comfort level for James Harden, goals for Sixers
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March 29, 2022 11:53 am ET
CAMDEN, N.J. — The Philadelphia 76ers have played 14 games with James Harden since acquiring the superstar guard from the Brooklyn Nets in a deadline deal. In those 14 games, Harden is averaging 22.4 points, 9.9 assists, and 7.6 rebounds while shooting 41.5% from the floor and 34.8% from deep.
It has not been easy for Harden during these first 14 games as he tries to find his way within the offense. He has to continue to make adjustments around Joel Embiid, Tobias Harris, Tyrese Maxey and everybody else, and there have been bumps in the road.
As the team heads into the final eight games before the playoffs, Philadelphia wants to get everybody on the same page.
"I think he's pretty comfortable," said veteran Danny Green. "He's still learning a lot of the things that we do defensively. The philosophies, offensively, of where to find a spot and also Jo's spots in playing with him and also playing with different lineups, different rotations. Rotations have been different each night. We have different guys with them and sometimes 20 minutes with Georges (Niang) sometimes more minutes with Tobias or less minutes with Tobias, more minutes with Tyrese."
For Harden, Green and the rest of the Sixers, issues need to be worked out. Philadelphia doesn't exactly have the chemistry down pat yet, and that is the real focus for this team.
"We need some more minutes behind the wheel with the rotations of what the playoffs might look like," Green added. "I want to be more comfortable finding where I get more rhythm and where my spots and shots will be. Defensively, who I'm gonna be talking and rotating with and just figure out what our playoff rotations going to be. Obviously, that's going to change matchup to matchup. but just getting more minutes behind the wheel with the guys that I know that I'll be sharing the floor with the most during those times."
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Q: Maximum number of vectors with upper bound on pairwise inner products I have a collection $\{v_1,...,v_k\}$ of vectors in $\{\pm 1\}^n$ with the property that for all $i\neq j$ we have $\langle v_i, v_j \rangle \le c\log_2(n)$. I am looking for an upper bound on $k$ in terms of $n$.
I am aware that given instead unit vectors $v_i$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$, and the bound $\langle v_i, v_j\rangle \le c$ (for some $c$ independent of $n$), then $k$ can be exponentially large. So I expect the upper bound in my case to be polynomial, but I'd like the best bound I can get!
I'm finding it hard to get a reference for this although it must be well known. I have found upper bounds for the related problem where we instead have $|\langle v_i, v_j \rangle | \le \epsilon(n)$ (the 'almost orthogonal' case), but I haven't had any luck with this variant. Apologies if I'm missing an obvious reference.
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Kodlu helped me realise the connection with coding theory: letting $v_i=2u_i-1$ then we have a collection of binary vectors $u_i$, and since $\langle v_i,v_j\rangle = n-2d(u_i,u_j)$ (where $d$ is the Hamming distance), the upper bound
$$\langle v_i, v_j \rangle \le c\log n$$
implies that
$$ d(u_i,u_j) \ge n/2 - c\log(n)/2.$$
So my question is equivalent to asking for upper bounds on the size of a binary code of length $n$ with minimum distance $n/2 - c\log(n)/2.$

A: This is an interesting twist on the usual question.
Relevant results are due to Welch, Kabatianski, Levenshtein, Sidelnikov. Welch's applies to arbitrary vectors, real or complex. The others apply to vectors constructed from complex roots of unity of some finite order.
Welch's bound states (I will apply it to $\pm 1$ valued vectors).
Let $e\geq 1$ be an integer and let $a_1,\ldots,a_k$ be distinct vectors in $\mathbb{C}^n.$ Then the following inequalities hold (assuming $k\geq n$):
$$
\sum_{i=1}^k \sum_{j=1}^k \left| \langle a_i, a_j \rangle \right|^{2e} \geq \frac{\left(\sum_{i=1}^k \lVert a_i \rVert^{2e}\right)^2}{\binom{n+e-1}{e}},
$$
In this case $e=1,$ gives the nontrivial bound. Substituting $\langle a_i,a_j \rangle=c \log n$ for distinct pairs yields
$$
k n^2 + \binom{k}{2} (c \log n)^2 \geq \frac{k^2 n^2}{n} = k^2n
$$
or
$$
k n^2 + c'(k^2-k)(\log n)^2 \geq k^2n
$$
eventually giving the inequality $k\leq n+c' \log^2 n.$
Edit: As in the apt comment by @JukkaKohonen, one can double the number of vectors if the original bound is not on the absolute value. Thanks for all the other comments as well and sorry for the typos.
References:
V.M. Sidelnikov, On mutual correlation of sequences, Soviet Math Dokl. 12:197-201, 1971.
V.M. Sidelnikov, Cross correlation of sequences, Problemy Kybernitiki, 24:15-42, 1971 (in Russian)
Welch, L.R. Lower Bounds on the Maximum Cross Correlation of Signals. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 20 (3): 397–399, 1974.
Kabatianskii, G. A.; Levenshtein, V. I. Bounds for packings on the sphere and in space. (Russian) Problemy Peredači Informacii 14 (1978), no. 1, 3–25. (A version of this might be available in English translation, in Problems of Information Transmission)

A: Whilst kodlu gave a highly informative response to my question, I don't think it quite provided a direct answer, but following the references that were provided did, so I have accepted the answer.
The problem is that my bound is on the inner products $\langle v_i, v_j \rangle$ rather than their absolute values. While it does not seem like this should make a big difference (as Jukka said, this "probably would not make much difference"), it's not clear to me how to prove it. In fact, it does seem to make a bit of a difference to the best known bounds.
Kodlu proved that with the condition $|\langle v_i, v_j\rangle|\le \log n$ then we have the bound $$k\le n+c'\log^2 n.$$
But as far as I can tell, the best known bound with the condition $\langle v_i, v_j\rangle\le \log n$ is given by results of Krasikov and Litsyn on the maximum size of binary codes with a given minimum distance. Theorem 1 of their paper implies that $$k\le (1+o(1))n\log\log n$$ unless I'm misunderstanding. Kraskiov and Litsyn improve similar bounds due to Tietavainen and McEliece.
I'd be happy to know if I'm missing something obvious since I'd rather an upper bound of $O(n)$.
References:
I. Krasikov and S. Litsyn,  Linear  Programming  Bounds  for  Codes  of  Small  Size, Europ .  J .  Combinatorics  (1997)  18 ,  647 – 656
A.    Tietavainen ,    Bounds  for  binary  codes  just  outside  the  Plotkin  range ,   Inform .   Control ,  47  (1980) , 85 – 93
R .   J .    McEliece  and  H .   Rumsey ,   Jr .,    Sphere-packing  in  the  Hamming  metric ,   J .  Combin .  Theory ,  Ser .  A , (1973) ,   32 – 34


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Why Food Stamps Don't Promote Healthy Eating
From a small pilot program created by John F. Kennedy's first executive order in 1961, the food stamp program (now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) has grown to be the largest federal food assistance program. However, there have always been major questions about whether the hunger and nutrition goals of the program justify its design.
A good way to see the logic of SNAP supporters is to ask, "Why give poor people food stamps rather than money?" Some fear that low income recipients may "waste" the money for some other goods than food, and want to preclude that possibility. Agricultural and grocery interests piggy-back on the belief that food stamps will increase food demand more than giving recipients money, which promises them higher sales and profits. Politicians do the same, because they can assert greater effectiveness at reducing hunger with the funds.
Unfortunately, a major problem with that shared understanding is that money is fungible. A person can redirect money put to ones use to any other use as he or she chooses.
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Consider a numerical example. The average family SNAP benefit was recently reported as $256. But the vast majority of eligible families already spend more than that on food. Say that a family already spending $400 per month on food received $256 in SNAP benefits. Would it all go to food purchases? That would be very unlikely. In fact, it is possible that no SNAP dollars would be used to expand food purchases. A recipient who wanted to spend more on anything other than food, from alcohol to child care, could simply replace $256 in cash food purchases they are already making with SNAP resources, freeing up $256 in cash for whatever purpose the recipient wishes, just as if they were given cash directly.
Consequently, for the vast number of recipients, SNAP accomplishes the same thing as a cash program, except for requiring substantially higher administration costs. But that means the primary arguments for food stamps rest on a major analytical error.
That error is masked by the fact that SNAP benefits increase the effective incomes of recipients (by $256 a month in the example above). Since estimates of consumer behavior suggest that an increase of $1 of income would tend to increase food purchases by about 20 cents, the likely effect of an effective $256 increase in income would be just over $51 in added food purchases, with the rest going to other uses. However, SNAP supporters can then claim success in increasing low-income families' food purchases, when the exact same result would have occurred with cash assistance.
There are some low-income recipients, however, who are forced to buy more food than they would choose by the food stamp program (their SNAP allotment exceeds what they would have spent on food, even if they received the benefits as cash). These are disproportionately low-low-income families, because, with more limited incomes, they would buy less food, and they would get larger SNAP allotments. But while they can be pointed to as a greater success in inducing more food purchases, we must realize that to the extent food stamps increase food consumption compared to giving recipients money, they do so at the expense of other goods recipients judge to be even more important. And given the tight constraints on their consumption of almost everything, it is unsurprising that there is little evidence that poor families waste large amounts of income.
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Despite SNAP's $70-some billion annual price tag, backed by logically confused support and misleading evidence of increased food purchases, what does it do about hunger and nutrition, its main targets? After all, as Senator Hubert Humphrey claimed in a hearing over four decades ago, "The food stamp program plays a very critical role in enabling millions of low-income families to have a better diet." Unfortunately, a 2010 GAO report concluded that, "the literature is inconclusive regarding whether SNAP alleviates hunger and nutrition in low-income households." In other words, we get very little nutrition bang for a great many bucks.
Nutrition and hunger advocates have noticed SNAP's limited effectiveness in those dimensions and advocated changes in the system. However, despite their understanding that SNAP achieves far less than proponents claim, their suggested "reforms" also fail to incorporate a recognition of the fungibility of money.
This was made clear in a January 14 New York Times article by Anahad O'Connor, titled, "In the Shopping Cart of a Food Stamp Household: Lots of Soda." It was triggered by a November 2016 USDA report comparing the types of food bought by SNAP participants with those of non-participants. Attention was focused on three findings: for the SNAP recipients, soft drinks accounted for 5% of food purchases, "sweetened beverages" accounted for 9.3%, and a broad category of "junk foods," including sweetened beverages, desserts, salty snacks, candy and sugar accounted for 22.6%.
Nutrition and hunger advocates jumped on those numbers as apocalyptic, even though the USDA study itself cited national survey data showing "food purchases, consumption patterns, and dietary outcomes among SNAP participants and higher income households are more similar than different," echoed by their study results that non-SNAP consumers spent 4% rather than 5% on soft drinks, 7.1% rather than 9.3% on sweetened beverages, and 20% rather than 22.6% on junk foods. NYU professor Marion Nestle concluded they meant SNAP was "a multi-billion-dollar taxpayer subsidy of the soda industry." David Ludwig, of Boston Children's Hospital, concluded that "let's not use government benefits to pay for foods that are demonstrably going to undermine public health."
A reform such advocates, along with several city and state governments, commonly endorse is to ban purchases of sweetened sodas from SNAP eligibility. Others want to expand the ban to all sweetened drinks or all junk food. To date, such proposals have not gotten USDA approval, but many are trying to leverage the latest study findings into permission.
Reconsider our family already spending $400 per month on food, and then getting $256 in SNAP benefits. The percentages for those "unwelcome" categories would increase soda spending from $20 to $32.80, sweetened beverage spending from $37.20 to $61.01, and junk food spending from $90.40 to $148.26. The consequence is that even exempting the broadest category, SNAP's effect would still be the same as giving cash. $250 in allowed food (now paid for with SNAP benefits rather than cash) plus $148.26 in disallowed food (still paid for in cash) is less than the $400 cash previously spent on food. Incorporating the fungibility of money, the $256 in SNAP benefits still gives the family $256 more to spend any way it wants, despite the restriction.
For years, food stamps have been promoted with logically invalid arguments. Ignoring the fungibility of money has been an important component. SNAP supporters ignore the fungibility of money to overstate the increases in food consumption produced by SNAP, which also overstates the stimulative effect on agriculture and grocery interests (not to mention ignoring that the taxes imposed on others to fund SNAP will decrease their similar purchases). Further, any food consumption increases come at the expense of other consumption that consumers deem even more valuable. When we look beyond food purchases to effects on hunger and nutrition, however, clear benefits cannot be conclusively demonstrated. That justifies criticism of SNAP. Unfortunately, many critics make a similar mistake when they want "reforms" that would exclude unwelcome food from the program that will similarly leave the results essentially the same as if recipients received cash (except for much higher administrative costs, which would reduce the actual benefits received for a given program budget, harming recipients).
Money's fungibility undermines rationales for current SNAP policy, as well as proposed SNAP reforms. But it also undermines intended or promised effects of policies in several other areas, including housing subsidies, heating subsidies, bond financing of construction, state lotteries with proceeds dedicated to education, and foreign aid. Further, in a broader sense, such common failures to understand a very simple characteristic of money across many areas provide one more gaping set of holes in any trust that our "public servants" are expert enough to make us better off than we would make ourselves with our own resources.
Gary M. Galles is a professor of economics at Pepperdine University. He is the author of The Apostle of Peace: The Radical Mind of Leonard Read.
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Certified B Corporations are actually just a new type of organization that apply the strengths of business to solve systemic social and environmental issues. B Corps, unlike traditional corporations:
Meet comprehensive and transparent social and environmental performance standards
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Global Leadership Adventures is part of Terra Education, a certified B Corporation, and we acquired B Corp status because everything we stand for in our summer programs - from environmental conservation to social impact - are facets we believe our organization should also reflect.
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We became a B Corp in order to join a movement of other companies who hold values similar to ours and to raise awareness among the general public that there are businesses who are truly committed to solving the world's problems through their operations.
Our mission at GLA is to empower students to realize their potential to transform the world and their role in it. We believe that all people, especially young people, have the potential to be leaders and affect positive change.
Young people in particular tend to model to the behavior and ethics of those they surround themselves with, so in order for our community service projects in countries around the world to succeed at the hands of our students, we at GLA also need to sustain ethical leadership and a committment to grow our own community and environmental impacts.
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New items, like single-use plastic cutlery, are to be banned in England later this year.
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revenues the extraction of non-renewable resources can contribute to a provincial budget. As you learn more about Ontario, you may be surprised to learn that relative to Saskatchewan, Ontario has very poor system in place for recouping a fair share of the value of publicly owned minerals extracted by private mining companies.
While Saskatchewan retains 7% to 8 % percent of the value of uranium and potash in mining taxes, Ontario retains les than 2% of the value of minerals under the Mining Tax. A recent study by University of Calgary economists Chen and Mintz found that Ontario's effective tax rate on mining including corporate and sales tax payments was second lowest in Canada at only 2 % (Saskatchewan was 11%).
We have been raising the issue of this poor return to Ontarians for the minerals extracted from the province for a number of years and were pleased to see the 2012 report of the Drummond Commission and two successive budget speeches (2012 and 2013) make commitments to reviewing the Mining Tax. However, to date no review has been released. Over a year ago we met with staff of the Ministry of Finance working on the review. We recently received an update from the Ministry and were told that the actual study has not yet begun and that the approach for the review is still being developed!
In 2009 a review by Quebec's Auditor General found that half of the operating mines in Quebec were paying no taxes and those that paid were not paying very much. The report stimulated an important debate in Quebec and since 2009 Quebec has implemented a number of changes to its tax system that have improved the total revenues retained by the province.
We respectfully request that you use your authority as Auditor General for Ontario to undertake your own independent review of the Mining Tax and Royalty on Diamonds and evaluate whether Ontarians are getting a fair share of benefits for the extraction of our non-renewable resources. We also encourage you to examine the potential for investing non-renewable resource revenues rather than slotting them into general revenues. This has been done with great success in Norway.
A review is greatly needed given the well-justified calls for revenue sharing from First Nations and municipalities and the numerous proposed mining projects that are advancing across the province.
I would be happy to discuss our concerns and recommendations with you further if you wish.