"I want to be a pilot," says 10-year-old Brian Becerra (be-Sair-ra), who already knows he wants to join the Air Force when he grows up.
His 7-year-old sister, Angela, holds up a picture she's painted of smiley faces. "I want to be an artist," she says, all smiles herself.
The oldest Becerra child, 13-year-old Flavio, reclines on the living room floor of the house the Becerras bought in September. He's watching "MythBusters" on TV with his younger brother and sister. Flavio thinks someday he'd like to work with wild animals.
These are dreams the Becerra children might not have had if they had grown up in their parents' hometown of Guanajuato, Mexico, but they all live in Minnesota now, and the kids have learned about dreaming from their parents.
Their dad, Jose, a U.S. citizen, came to the United States 20 years ago and is working toward his journeyman's license. In the 1990s, Jose worked in a meat packing plant in Iowa. More recently, he worked in Minnesota as an asbestos remover, a job he felt stuck in because he had only gone to school through the 9th grade. Their mom, Carmen, a friendly woman with an engaging smile, left school in her Mexican hometown after third grade, but now her goal is to become a certified nursing assistant.
And the whole family can dare to have those dreams today because of Minnesota's Adult Basic Education (ABE) programs and because Jose and Carmen discovered Harmony Learning Center in Maplewood, an ABE program supported by the joint efforts of District 622 and the White Bear Lake and Mahtomedi school districts, using state and federal ABE funding.
After attending Harmony and taking classes in English and math, Jose and Carmen both graduated and received their GEDs in 2007. Then Jose began working to take the Accuplacer college placement test, which he passed.
Well, he didn't pass the first time, but Scott Helland, the ABE coordinator for District 622, pulled sample tests for Jose to work on.
"No way I could have done it without Harmony," says Jose, in his easy, gentle manner. "The first time I got 45 percent on both the math and comprehension tests." (Sixty-five percent is needed to pass.) "Scott always wanted to look out for us. He had (Ginger Cook) help me with my math.
"Without Harmony, I'd be stuck in my old job," he says, "and there's no future as an asbestos remover. I have a good job now, with a pension and insurance. At Harmony, they're always there for me and willing to look out for me."
"The Becerras came in to take ESL classes," says Helland. When they graduated, they spoke at the graduation, he explains, "and if they're thankful, they're thankful for their own hard work." Helland noticed the Becerras, he says, "Because they were working so doggone hard, you couldn't help but notice them."
Helland says many of Harmony's students come to improve their English and education, historically like every one of America's immigrant groups, "Each new group looks to education as their hope," he says, "and our ranks increase in economic hard times. The folks here are straight out of the history books — immigrants trying hard to give their kids a better life."
He explains that when the Becceras began at Harmony, their son Flavio was failing his math class. "After they got their GEDs, he went on to get As," says Helland. "They could help him (with his math). Education is for the whole family — it's a powerful factor." Jose has finished his apprenticeship in insulation and is working in a union job at the new Twins stadium. He'll start his second year of a four-year education in September on his way to his journeyman's license. He's continuing his education by working on his computer and reading skills in hopes that maybe someday he can go to college. "I always wanted to be a mechanic," he says. "I would like to learn about hybrid cars — maybe once the family is secure economically."
"We are sure that in order for us to assimilate we need to get a better education," says Carmen, "and we are very thankful there are places like Harmony where we can get an education."
"There is a better future with the help Harmony offers," says Jose, "for sure."
"I can't imagine what my life would be like if I couldn't read and I hadn't had an opportunity to get a good education," says Cytron-Hyson. "It's my responsibility to ensure others have as many opportunities as possible." He says that no matter what some may think, immigrants are hungry to learn English, and the ABE programs often have long waiting lists. He adds that, unfortunately, when most of us think of education, we think of early childhood, K-12 and higher education, "and low-skilled adults are often left out." One of his concerns is that, as boomers retire, we will see a shortage of skilled workers.
Carmen Becerra says she got her GED to set a good example for her children. "I also want them to know it's never too late to go back to school," she says. "I never went to school. Here I got the opportunity to get my GED. I couldn't have done that in Mexico." She says that Rita Bulger, her teacher at Harmony was a great support when she was working toward her GED. "She kept saying I could do it," says Carmen. "They are encouraging."
Carmen, who currently works out of her home researching contacts for a local business, wants to take the Certified Nursing Assistant program and test through the Red Cross so that she can work in a nursing home and eventually in a hospital.
Jose wants to become a journeyman ... and maybe someday a hybrid mechanic.
Jose and Carmen are dreaming of making a better life for themselves and their family. They're glad their kids are growing up in Minnesota so they can dream too.
— Jackie Dubbe can be reached at dupoint@aol.com.
Note: This article is available for use across the state. There are two versions of the article for submission to local newspapers, along with a template designed for use by ABE programs to add local program information. The photograph file is available by contacting ckinville@literacyminnesota.org.
One out of every 10 diplomas issued in Minnesota is a GED or adult high school diploma.
Minnesota's Department of Human Services reported that 42 percent of MFIP clients lack a high school diploma or equivalency. MFIP, the Minnesota Family Investment Program, is the state's program for low-income families with children.
The annual cost for one adult on MFIP is $4,392, and the cost for the average MFIP family was approximately $7,500 in state finances in 2003. During that year, 1,092 MFIP clients exited the welfare rolls saving about $8.1 million in one year for the state taxpayers.
A downturn in the economy leads to higher numbers of working adults seeking educational opportunities, increasing the ABE numbers.
A Minnesota resident without a high school diploma can expect to earn $16,640 annually. Once that resident obstains their GED or adult high school diploma, their annual earnings can increase 25 percent to $20,800 annually.
In the past three years, Minnesota Adult Basic Education programs issued nearly 20,000 GED and adult high school diplomas. It can be extrapolated that these GED graduates will earn more than $80 million more in taxable income in 2009 than if they remained without a diploma.
GED and ESL classes are free to learners.
An average of $610 is spent per adult enrollee in ABE services.


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.AUTHOR Rob Sewell

.DESCRIPTION Runs some t-sql to gather some information about requests from the sys.dm_exec_requests dmv to estimate the amount of time remaining for a statement which can be filtered by BACKUP,RESTORE,INDEX,DBCC,STATS commands

.COMPANYNAME

.COPYRIGHT

.TAGS SQL, Queries, Commands, Time, When Will SQL Complete

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.REQUIREDSCRIPTS

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.Synopsis
A quick function to estimate the completion time of a SQL Statement
.DESCRIPTION
Runs some t-sql to gather some information about requests from the sys.dm_exec_requests dmv to estimate the
amount of time remaining for a statement which can be filtered by BACKUP,RESTORE,INDEX,DBCC,STATS commands

.PARAMETER Server
The SQL Server to query

.PARAMETER CommandType

The type of command to filter for Backup, Restore, Index,DBCC,Stats
.PARAMETER OGV

Sends Results to Out-GridView

.EXAMPLE
When-WillThisSQLComplete -Server Fade2black

Returns SPID, Login Name,Domain, NTUserName,Database, %,START_TIME,STATUS,COMMAND,EST_COMP for all processes on Fade2Black
.EXAMPLE
When-WillThisSQLComplete -Server SQLServer1 -Commandtype Backup

Returns SPID, Login Name,Domain, NTUserName,Database, %,START_TIME,STATUS,COMMAND,EST_COMP for all processes where the command
includes Backup on SQLServer1

.EXAMPLE
When-WillThisSQLComplete -Server Fade2black -OGV

Returns SPID, Login Name,Domain, NTUserName,Database, %,START_TIME,STATUS,COMMAND,EST_COMP for all processes on Fade2Black
using Out-GridView
.NOTES
AUTHOR : Rob Sewell http://sqldbawithabeard.com

#>
function When-WillSQLComplete
{
param([string]$Server,
[ValidateSet("Backup", "Restore", "Index","DBCC","Stats")]
[string]$Commandtype,
[switch]$OGV
)
$BaseQuery = @"
USE MASTER
GO
SELECT
	DER.SESSION_ID as SPID,
	RTRIM(SP.Loginame) as 'Login Name',
	RTRIM(SP.nt_domain) as Domain,
	RTRIM(SP.nt_username) as NTUserName,
	'[' + CAST(DER.DATABASE_ID AS VARCHAR(10)) + '] ' + DB_NAME(DER.DATABASE_ID) AS [Database],
	DER.PERCENT_COMPLETE as '%', DER.START_TIME, DER.STATUS, DER.COMMAND,
	DATEADD(MS, DER.ESTIMATED_COMPLETION_TIME, GETDATE()) AS EST_COMP,
	DER.CPU_TIME
FROM SYS.DM_EXEC_REQUESTS DER
left join
sys.sysprocesses SP
on DER.Session_id = SP.spid
--Apply this Where Clause Filter if you need to check specific events
--such as Backups, Restores, Index et al.

"@
$BackupCMD = @"
WHERE COMMAND LIKE '%BACKUP%'
"@
$RestoreCMD = @"
WHERE COMMAND LIKE '%RESTORE%'
"@
$IndexCMD = @"
WHERE COMMAND LIKE '%INDEX%'
"@
$DBCCCMD = @"
WHERE COMMAND LIKE '%DBCC%'
"@
$StatsCMD = @"
WHERE COMMAND LIKE 'UPDATE STAT%'
"@
switch ($Commandtype)
{
Backup   {$query = $BaseQuery + $BackupCMD }
Restore  {$query = $BaseQuery + $RestoreCMD}
Index    {$query = $BaseQuery + $IndexCMD}
DBCC     {$query = $BaseQuery + $DBCCCMD}
Stats    {$query = $BaseQuery + $StatsCMD}
default  {$query = $BaseQuery }
}
try
{
$results = Invoke-Sqlcmd -ServerInstance $Server -Database master -Query $query
}
catch
{
Write-Warning "FAILED to gather information from $Server"
}
If($results)
{
if($OGV)
{
$results | Out-GridView
}
else
{
$results | Format-Table -AutoSize -Wrap
}
}
else
{
Write-Output "There were no results for the $Commandtype queries on $Server"
}
}

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Ivy Inez Joshua (geborene McQueen; * 25. Dezember 1924 in Grenada; † 1992 in Kingstown) war eine Politikerin (People's Political Party) und die erste Frau im House of Assembly von St. Vincent und den Grenadinen.

Leben
Ivy Inez McQueen wurde am 25. Dezember 1924 auf der Insel Grenada geboren. In Trinidad lernte sie Ebenezer Joshua (1908–1991) kennen. Das Paar heiratete 1943 in Britisch-Guayana. Zwei Jahre später kehrten sie nach Trinidad zurück, um dort für gewerkschaftliche Organisationen zu arbeiten, die Tubal Uriah Butler gegründet hatte. Im März 1951 wurden die Joshuas nach St. Vincent eingeladen, um in Ebenezers Heimat Arbeiterorganisationen mit aufzubauen.

Ivy Joshua gewann im September 1957 den Wahlkreis North Windward mit 2286 gegen 458 Stimmen. In den folgenden Wahlen 1961, 1966, 1967, 1972 und 1974 konnte sie diesen für die People's Political Party verteidigen. Parteichef war Joshuas Ehemann, der von 1961 bis 1967 als Chefminister regierte. Zu ihrer Popularität trug mit bei, dass sie 1962 als Politikerin den "turbulenten" Streik der Bentick-Zuckerfabrik anführte, bei dem die Arbeiter um Urlaubsgeld kämpften.

Ivy Joshua wurde 1960 zur Ministerin für Bildung und Wohnen ernannt. Nach den folgenden Wahlen wurde sie von 1961 bis 1964 Ministerin ohne Geschäftsbereich. Von 1972 bis 1974 diente sie als Parlamentarische Sekretärin. Nachdem die Koalition zerbrach, wurde 1974 Ivy Joshua Oppositionsführerin, während ihr Ehemann im Parlament die neue Koalition unterstützte. Fünf Jahre später verlor sie ihren Sitz gegen Peter R. Ballantyne von der St. Vincent Labour Party (SVLP).

Ivy Joshua starb 1992. "The Ivy Joshua Highway" wurde ihr zu Ehren genannt.

Weblinks
 caribbeanelections.com: Ivy Joshua. (englisch)
 en.wikipedia.org: Bild (Ebony, 1967)

Premierminister (St. Vincent und die Grenadinen)
Abgeordneter (St. Vincent und die Grenadinen)
Minister (St. Vincent und die Grenadinen)
Staatssekretär (St. Vincent und die Grenadinen)
Politiker (20. Jahrhundert)
Gewerkschafter (St. Vincent und die Grenadinen)
Grenader
Vincenter
Geboren 1924
Gestorben 1992
Frau

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


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class SlackBot():
    def __init__(self, clientClass, token, channels):
        self.client = clientClass(token=token)
        self.channels = channels

    def postMessage(self, channelIn, message):
        channel = None
        if channelIn and channelIn[0] == 'U':
            channel = channelIn

        if channelIn in self.channels:
            channel = self.channels[channelIn]

        if not channel:
            raise AssertionError(
                "Invalid channel: Channel must be a user ID or configured with a channel name")

        self.client.chat_postMessage(channel=channel, text=message)

    def getUsers(self):
        # Note: users.list only returns up to 500 users.  If this limit is exceeded,
        # pagination will need to be implemented.
        users = self.client.users_list()
        return users['members']

    def getUserByName(self, username):
        # Note: The Slack API does NOT provide a way to search for users and
        # recommends the below approach. This is not ideal, but will suffice
        # while we have a low user count in ABC slack.
        users = self.getUsers()
        for user in users:
            if username in [user['profile'][nameAttribute] for nameAttribute in [
                'real_name',
                'real_name_normalized',
                'display_name',
                'display_name_normalized',
            ]]:
                return user
        return None

    def formatMentionByName(self, username):
        user = self.getUserByName(username)
        if user:
            return '<@{}>'.format(user['id'])
        return None


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What's New in Intensive Care Medicine
Coma science: intensive care as the new frontier
Jan Claassen ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-5893-85311
Intensive Care Medicine volume 46, pages97–101(2020)Cite this article
Beginning in the middle of the last century, increasingly large numbers of comatose patients have survived life-threatening conditions thanks to the widespread use of mechanical ventilation. The chances of reasonable functional outcomes for survivors of acute brain injury rose over the following years, largely due to advances and standardization of critical care management and improvements in neurosurgical techniques. Neurocritical care physicians routinely manage patients with acute brain injury, who are frequently unconscious. This young specialty has spent the past couple of decades making large strides in harmonizing clinical practice, advancing societal representation, and developing a unique, large body of evidence for critical care physicians treating patients with neurological injury. Having established national and international societies that represent practitioners of neurocritical care, generating guidelines and practice statements, and establishing organized training with board certification, the field is now undergoing a scientific transformation. At this junction, an increasing number of research groups are focusing attention on understanding disorders of consciousness in acutely brain-injured patients. Techniques for this coma science endeavor are now available to provide fundamental insights into the biology of consciousness of the acutely injured brain.
These efforts have become of utmost clinical and ethical significance given the progress in general critical care. Medical advances have created a scenario, where the majority of comatose patients with acute brain injury die from withdrawal of life support rather than cardiopulmonary collapse. The decision to withdraw life support is made collaboratively with health-care proxies, often the closest family, and the physicians taking care of the patient. However, our ability to predict outcomes, including recovery of consciousness in patients with traumatic brain injury or other acute brain insults such as stroke or cardiac arrest, is poor [1]. Subsequently, it is not surprising that there is significant variation in the rates of withdrawal of care in comparable patients [2]. This uncertainty leads itself to the self-fulfilling prophecy of a poor outcome. With this in mind, it becomes imperative to better understand the mechanisms underlying coma and develop more accurate prognosticators and even treatments for coma. While arguably being one of the central goals for research in the neurocritical care sphere, this work is also becoming increasingly achievable. Coma science in critical care builds on a rich foundation of insights gained from studying loss of consciousness due to sleep, anesthesia, and chronic disorders of consciousness [3]. This work has resulted in mechanistic models that provide a framework to conceptualize, study and potentially treat impairments of consciousness in critical care [1]. We are now beginning to understand the dynamic, complex interactions between brain regions that are required for the conscious state [4].
Clinical examinations have been the gold standard to assess consciousness, but these assessments are poorly standardized in critical care. The Coma Recovery Scale-revised [5], developed on a cohort of patients undergoing brain injury rehabilitation, is the industry standard to quantify consciousness in a scientific context (Fig. 1a). This scale allows categorization of patients into prognostically relevant groups of coma, vegetative state (also known as unresponsive wakefulness syndrome), minimally conscious state without (minus) or with (plus) inconsistent command following, and consciousness. However, obtaining the Coma Recovery Scale-revised may be time consuming, creating challenges in a critical care setting. More importantly, static behavioral assessments alone face major practical challenges early after brain injury, as the examination often fluctuates due to delirium, neurological improvement or worsening, medication or metabolic effects, and seizures. Consciousness determination by behavioral scales typically relies on comprehension of the command and detection of a motor response. Unfortunately, either may be impaired in brain-injured patients irrespective of any impairment of consciousness. More sensitive measures of responsiveness such as differential electromyographic recordings are promising and may be more sensitive and objective than relying on visual inspection by the examiner [6].
Illustrations by Dr Vivian Q Yang
a Health-care provider administering the Coma Recovery Scale-revised assessment. b Assessment of functional integration of information within thalamocortical circuits following MRI-guided targeted stimulation of brain regions using transcranial magnetic stimulation. c Functional MRI scan with auditory commands presented to a patient in the MRI scanner via headphones. d EEG assessment testing auditory command following using headphones
Strategies beyond behavioral assessments can be broadly conceptualized around assessments of the brain at rest, when confronted with a stimulus, or interventional studies (Table 1). These techniques each have their advantages and disadvantages which need to be carefully considered when used in the dynamic, stimulus-filled, critical care environment. Some diagnostic tests such as MRI and EEG may already be collected as part of routine clinical care, and systematic post-processing of this existing data can yield more objective correlates with consciousness and improve current prognostic schemes [7, 8]. Advanced neuroimaging assessments may add to future paradigms. Diffusion tensor imaging as an example quantifies structural connectivity, which may be particularly beneficial in prognosticating diffuse brain injuries such as that following cardiac arrest [9]. Functionally connected brain regions may also be unmasked using resting state MRI [10] or coherence analysis of the EEG recorded at rest [8]. Currently used serum, plasma, cerebrospinal fluid, and brain interstitial fluid measures of the extent of brain injury do not measure consciousness, but may have a role in prognostication.
Table 1 Approaches to study consciousness in the acute brain injury setting
A significant body of literature has explored the brain's response to sensory stimuli in behaviorally unresponsive patients. Early adoptions included the development of mismatch negativity, contingent negative variation, and studying later components of evoked related potentials (i.e., P300 and N400). The ability to distinguish multiple layers of regularities in a stimulus may be particularly promising, as this may represent an auditory discrimination task and possibly a specific marker of conscious processing [11]. These event-related potentials can be obtained at the bedside in the critical care setting and relate to outcomes [12]. The impact of event-related cognitive processing on measures of the autonomic nervous system, such as heart rate variability, may provide a novel measure of residual cognitive processing [13]. This quantification of brain–body cross talk is uniquely attractive for the critical care setting, as continuous vital sign monitoring is abundantly available. In highly controlled settings, functional integration of information within thalamocortical circuits can be quantified with the perturbational complexity index (Fig. 1b) [14]. This measure is derived from high-density EEG recordings in response to stimulation of predefined brain regions using transcranial magnetic stimulation. However, the technical challenges in this approach prohibit its application in the critical care setting at this time.
Exploring brain responses to commands (active perturbation tasks), specifically in scenarios of asking behaviorally unresponsive patients to perform a motor command (i.e., "open and close your right hand"), has dramatically broadened our concepts of unresponsiveness. Up to 15% of acutely brain-injured unresponsive patients had brain activation to motor commands and those with the response had a much higher chance of good functional outcome 1 year after the injury [15]. These findings have collectively established a state in which behavior and brain response are dissociated. Patients in this state, called cognitive motor dissociation, do not demonstrate any behavioral responses to motor commands, but functional MRI (Fig. 1c) or EEG (Fig. 1d) is able to detect brain activation that is strikingly similar to that of behaviorally responsive patients. First demonstrated in a chronically unresponsive patient following brain trauma [16], it has since been replicated in the critical care setting using both EEG and MRI [15, 17]. It is unclear to what extent behaviorally unresponsive patients comprehend verbal commands, but the brain activation is uniquely different between the commands. Brain activation to a verbal motor command was found to be much more common in patients who had functional recovery 1 year after injury compared to patients who did not [15]. Combining imaging with EEG approaches is attractive as high-quality spatial and temporal information may be generated [17].
Therapeutic interventions with established targets have provided mechanistic insights into chronic disorders of consciousness and given hope for the development of treatments to directly support the recovery process [18]. Electrical stimulation of central thalamic nuclei [19] as well as dopaminergic activation with amantadine is linked to behavioral improvements in chronic disorders of consciousness [20]. Noninvasive, targeted stimulation using focused ultrasound may provide a therapeutic option, but also allow mechanistic investigations into the role of specific brain structures in disorders of consciousness [21]. Interventions will need to be measured not only by the impact on crude functional outcomes, but also include cognitive and quality of life measures.
The immediate, major challenge preventing scientific progress in this field is to overcome the therapeutic nihilism that unconscious brain-injured patients still face leading to the self-fulfilling prophecy of a poor outcome. Techniques that are low cost and easily applicable in the critical care setting are available and need to be further developed. Conceptually, bedside approaches are preferable early after the injury, as imaging techniques will require transport of critically ill patients which would be logistically challenging, expensive, and limited as it can not provide a dynamic, continuous assessment of a non-static patient examination early after brain injury. However, in the later subacute brain injury period, imaging modalities are promising to capture the extent and location of functional and structural disconnection in unresponsive patients.
Major collaborative efforts will be required to advance this field and meet the demands and needs of patients, families and physicians in this core area of critical care medicine. The international, multidisciplinary collaborative organized by the Neurocritical Care Society under the "Curing Coma" theme is a promising step in this direction. Efforts should be made to support and develop academic reward models that promote sharing of data and analytic code to promote collaborative research initiatives. Methodologic pitfalls should be openly discussed as the application of these techniques requires rigor in experimental design as well as computational analysis and interpretation of the data [22, 23]. Frameworks for data collection and analysis are being proposed and should be followed [24], and standardization and availability for interpretation require concerted efforts. Now is the time to advance the field of coma science which may yield more accurate assessments of the unresponsive acutely brain-injured patient, accurate prognostication of outcomes, and may even one day open communication channels to behaviorally unresponsive patients with cognitive motor dissociation [25]. Treatments to support recovery of consciousness may need to be individualized based on the specific location, extent and nature of the brain injury. This research has the potential to completely revolutionize management of acutely brain-injured patients, but at the same time may bring to surface ethical dilemmas that for a long time have been ignored. Accompanying the increasing availability of these techniques in clinical practice, a societal debate focusing on equity and societal burden needs to occur [1].
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JC was supported by a grant funding from the NIH R01 NS106014 and R03 NS112760, and the DANA Foundation.
Department of Neurology, Neurological Institute, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University, 177 Fort Washington Avenue, MHB 8 Center, Room 300, New York, NY, 10032, USA
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JC is a minority shareholder at iCE Neurosystems. None of the authors have significant conflicts of interest to report.
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Four Principles of Organizational Trust: How to Make Your Company Trustworthy
December 24, 2012 /0 Comments/in Leadership Skills, Trust Principles /by Charles H. Green
This week, as we get ready to say goodbye to 2012, we're going to be posting some of what we call "Golden Oldies," great posts from our Trust Matters vault. We hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday and wonderful New Year.
Trust, in case you hadn't noticed, has gotten "hot" lately. But much of it sounds very vague—soft, fluffy, nice-to-have, the buzzword du jour.
I'd like to do my part to make it real.
To me, that means breaking it down and making it sound; tapping into the strategy and mysticism, but also staying grounded in the tactical and the practical.
So let's review some context; then talk about four specific operating principles a business can hone in on to improve its trustworthiness.
Putting Trust into a Workable Context
I've suggested elsewhere that "trust" is too vague a term to work with. To do something practical, we need first to identify the trust realm: are we talking about personal trust, or business/organizational trust, or social/institutional trust?
The next question is about the trust role: are we working on being more trusting? Or more trustworthy? They are not the same thing. And "trust" is the result of them both interacting.
Building a Trustworthy Business
In the realm "personal" and the role "trustworthy," we can point to personal beliefs and behaviors as indicated in the Trust Quotient. But in business, trustworthiness is built through a set of daily operating principles. Trustworthiness is built from habitually behaving in accordance with a set of commonly shared beliefs about how to do business.
I suggest they can be boiled down to four.
1. A focus on the Other (client, customer, internal co-worker, boss, partner, subordinate) for the Other's sake, not just as a means to one's own ends. We often hear "client-focus," or "customer-centric." But these are terms all-too-often framed in terms of economic benefit to the person trying to be trusted.
2. A collaborative approach to relationships. Collaboration here means a willingness to work together, creating both joint goals and joint approaches to getting there.
3. A medium to long term relationship perspective, not a short-term transactional focus. Focus on relationships nurtures transactions; but focus on transactions chokes off relationships. The most profitable relationships for both parties are those where multiple transactions over time are assumed in the approach to each transaction.
4. A habit of being transparent in all one's dealings. Transparency has the great virtue of helping recall who said what to whom. It also increases credibility, and lowers self-orientation, by its willingness to keep no secrets.
Executing on the Trust Principles
What are the tools an organization has at its disposal to make itself more trustworthy? Any good change management consultant can rattle off the usual suspects, but for trustworthiness, the emphasis has to shift somewhat.
The usual change mantra includes a heavy dose of behaviors, metrics and incentives. Some of that works here, but only to a point.
For example, Principle 1, focus on the Other, is contradicted by too much extrinsic incentive aimed at leveraging self-interest–it undercuts focus on the Other. And Principle 3, relationship over transaction, forces metrics and rewards to a far longer timeframe than most change efforts employ.
Another great shibboleth of change is that it must be led from the CEO's office. But with trust, it ain't necessarily so. Trustworthiness is a great candidate for infectious disease change strategies; guerrilla trust strategies can work at the individual level, and individual players can lead. Behavior in accord with these principles cannot be coerced; the flipside is, it can be unilaterally engaged in.
The most powerful tools to create a trustworthy organization are things like language, recognition, story-telling, simply paying attention to the arenas where the principles apply—and the will to apply them. Role-modeling helps; some skill-building helps. But most of all, it is the willingness to notice the pervasive opportunities to work in accordance with this simple set of four principles.
Trustworthiness breeds trusting (the reverse is true too); the combination is what leads to trust. Which, by the way, is quite measurable in its impact on the bottom line.
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Q: Grabbing Locator Index Automatically I'm going to try to explain this the best I can without making it too complicated. Currently I have a program which automatically grabs an element's locator (id, css, xpath) when I click on an element on a page.
The problem is, the element's css (ID, class name, etc) that I am grabbing is not unique (I cannot change the website)
I know in chrome, when I type $$('#test'), it will bring me a list of locators with ID 'test'. From there I know I could manually find the index of the element. However I want to do this automatically.
My application is essentially a recorder which captures the element locators. I am capturing the element event through selenium webdriver, but I am unable to get the index of that. I know this is a little confusing, but any help would be greatly appreciated.
By the way, I cannot use xpath.
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Q: PostgreSQL and JDBC Prepared Statement Caching I've been reading that some of the newer JDBC Connection Pools (like Tomcat) do not support client side statement pooling. I already read that this is because most JDBC drivers maintain their own statement cache. However, I do not see this happening for PostgreSQL.
Am I correct on this? If so should I be using a connection pool that CAN cache prepared statements in order to get the best batched insert performance?
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A: Tomcat's JDBC connection pool provides a StatementCache. I don't know how to use it (with JPA) but it promises to "cache PreparedStatement and/or CallableStatement instances on a connection."
But for insert batches you probably don't need to re-use a PreparedStatement: you can use the addBatch method as shown in this example. Odd thing is though, that the official documentation says that "this method cannot be called on a PreparedStatement or CallableStatement". I guess you'll have to try it out to find out if that is true and as Craig Ringer comments: "PgJDBC just sends them individually anyway".
As for performance: that breaks down in client, server and driver/network traffic. Database servers generally learn what queries to expect from connections (which is also why re-using connections via a connection pool is a good idea). I believe the PostgreSQL database server will start to remember queries from a connection once the same  query occurs more than 5 times.
If the driver properly handles PreparedStatements that are re-used by the client, the driver can decide to only send the new data and not the whole query. This can have a significant positive performance effect for insert statements (and I believe that, among others, the JDBC driver for SQL Server does this).
If the client caches PreparedStatements (e.g. statement is only closed when the connection that created it is closed) it will help in not executing the same code (also from the driver) again and again. I.e. less initialization time and less garbage collection.
As example for an alternative to Tomcat's JDBC connection pool: I have used Yapool's SimpleQueryCache (example) with a MySQL database (and JDBC driver) in a little server component that fired about 15 different queries. During stress/load testing I was surprised by the relative low number for the maximum amount of connections required in the pool that did not impact the speed of the little server component (i.e. connections were borrowed from the pool for a relative short amount of time). So, at least in some situations, client side caching of statements can make a difference.
On a side node: if you use something like Hibernate a lot of optimalizations are done for you by Hibernate (under water) and there is a good chance that (statement) caching is already done for you.


Novel network paradigms such as delay tolerant network (DTN), vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) have recently emerged to accommodate new wireless network application scenarios. DTN, designed to support networks characterized by intermittent connectivity and long delay, has been widely embraced for ad hoc applications in extreme environments such as battlefield, disaster area, rural area, etc. VANET allows vehicles travelling on the roads to exchange data that can improve traffic safety and convenience. Despite the advances in operational standardizations of DTN and VANET, security and privacy remain as major problems to their deployments in practice. This motivates the author to study and resolve the unaddressed security and privacy issues in DTN and VANET in this dissertation. First, the author proposes SNDW to detect and localize wormhole attack in DTN. Existing works rely on high connectivity or end-to-end path information which are not available in DTN. In SNDW, infrastructure nodes are deployed to monitor the number of neighbors in the areas assigned to them. Since the attacker forwards beacons from one location to another, the number of neighbors around the wormhole endpoint increases. An infrastructure node within the wormhole's transmission range can detect a significant increase of neighbor counts, despite the low density and connectivity in DTN. Upon detection, it can alert the neighborhood about the attack and further pinpoint the wormhole locations. Second, the author proposes SDBG to detect collusion blackhole and greyhole attacks in DTN. Existing works could handle the attacks launched by individuals but fail to detect adversaries that cooperate to cheat the defense system. In SDBG, encounter record (ER) is created by a node to record the list of messages it sends and receives in an encounter with another node. Upon encounter, nodes exchange their recent ERs so that they can evaluate one another's behavior. Forwarding ratio metrics are defined to capture the attacker's features such as receiving messages more than forwarding and forwarding messages mostly generated by themselves. A node calculates the forwarding ratio metrics of the peer from its ERs to detect the individual attacker. However, adversaries might avoid being detected by colluding with one another to forge ERs that promote their forwarding ratio metrics. Observing that fake ERs are created with higher frequency and higher numbers of sent messages than normal ERs, the author designs a robust algorithm that filters fake ERs and detects colluding attackers. Third, the author proposes FDER to detect flooding attack in DTN without imposing strict rate-limit policy like previous works. Instead, burst-limit policy, which allows nodes to generate burst traffic in a short period, is introduced to accommodate the nodes' on-demand transmissions. Each node also uses ERs to infer a peer's new message transmission rate over time and the number of forwarded replicas per message, thereby detecting if the peer exceeds the thresholds of messages or replicas. Burst-limit policy provides flexibility to nodes with high-demand traffic but may affect the delivery performance of other nodes with lower-demand traffic. To ensure the performance fairness, the author designs a forwarding policy, in which nodes sending out new messages at high rate will have lower forwarding priority in the network. Finally, the author attempts to address the trade-off between trust management and privacy in VANET. Existing works only focus on trust or privacy separately or have not provided a satisfactory solution to both issues. The author proposes a secure and flexible framework, including two components, ALRS and ATMS, to enable vehicles to manage privacy and trust respectively. ALRS supports vehicles to recognize either identities or trust levels of other vehicles despite them updating the pseudonyms to protect their privacy. The linkability information is kept confidential from external attackers and unauthorized internal nodes using encryption and private set intersection technique. Besides, the linkability can be revoked easily to prevent nodes from being traced by other internal nodes. ATMS is a context-aware trust management scheme for nodes to make more informative evaluation of the received data, using the entity trust enabled by ALRS.


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The Forever War (1974) is a military science fiction novel by American author Joe Haldeman, telling the contemplative story about human soldiers fighting an interstellar war against an alien civilization known as the Taurans. It won the Nebula Award in 1975 and the Hugo and Locus awards in 1976. Forever Free (1999) and Forever Peace (1997) are, respectively, direct and thematic sequel novels. The novella A Separate War (1999) is another sequel of sorts, occurring simultaneously with the final portion of The Forever War. Informally, the novels comprise The Forever War series; the novel also inspired a comic book and a board game. The Forever War is the first title in the SF Masterworks series.

Plot summary

William Mandella is a physics student conscripted for an elite task force in the United Nations Exploratory Force being assembled for a war against the Taurans, an alien species discovered when they apparently attacked human colonists' ships. The UNEF ground troops are sent out for reconnaissance and revenge. The elite recruits have IQs of 150 and above, are highly educated, healthy, and fit. Training is gruelingfirst on Earth and later on a planet called "Charon" beyond Pluto (written before the discovery of the actual planetoid). Several of the recruits die during training due to the extreme environments and the use of live weapons. The new soldiers complete training and immediately depart for action via interconnected "collapsars" that allow ships to cover thousands of light-years in a split second. However, crucially, traveling to and from the collapsars at near-lightspeed has enormous relativistic time effects.

Their first encounter with Taurans, on a planet orbiting Epsilon Aurigae, triggers their post-hypnotic training, which causes them to massacre the Taurans despite their lack of resistance. This first expedition, beginning in 1997, lasts only two years from the soldiers' point of view, but due to time dilation, they return to Earth in 2024. During the expedition's second battle, the soldiers experience future shock first-hand, as the Taurans have much more advanced weaponry. Mandella, with fellow soldier and lover Marygay Potter, returns to civilian life, only to find humanity drastically changed. He and the other discharged soldiers have difficulty fitting into a society that has altered almost beyond their comprehension. The veterans learn that, to curb overpopulation, which led to class wars around the world caused by inequitable rationing, homosexuality has become officially encouraged by many of the world's nations. The world has become a very dangerous place due to mass unemployment and the easy availability of weapons. Alienated, Mandella and many other veterans re-enlist, despite the extremely high casualty rate and their recognition that the military is a soulless construct. Mandella and Potter receive promised postings as instructors on Luna, but upon arrival are immediately reassigned to a combat command.

Almost entirely through luck, Mandella survives four years of military service, while several centuries elapse for humanity in general. He soon becomes the objectively oldest surviving soldier in the war, attaining high rank through seniority rather than ambition. He and Potter (who is his last link with the Earth of his youth) are eventually given different assignments, meaning that even if they both survive the war they will likely never meet again due to time dilation. After briefly contemplating suicide, Mandella assumes the post of commanding officer of a "strike force", commanding soldiers who speak a language largely unrecognizable to him, whose ethnicity is now nearly uniform ('vaguely Polynesian' in appearance) and who are exclusively homosexual. He is disliked by his soldiers and he assumes this is because they had to learn 21st century English to communicate with him and other senior staff and because he is heterosexual.

Engaging in combat thousands of light years away from Earth, Mandella and his soldiers need to resort to medieval weapons to fight inside a stasis field which neutralizes all electromagnetic radiation in anything not covered with a protective coating. Upon return, the strike force learns this is the last battle of the war. Humanity has begun to clone itself, resulting in a new, collective species calling itself simply Man. Man is able to communicate with the Taurans, who are also clones. It is discovered that the war started due to a misunderstanding; the colony ships were lost to accidents and those on Earth with a vested interest in a new war used these disappearances as an excuse to begin the conflict. The futile, meaningless war, which had lasted for more than a thousand years, ends.

Man has established several colonies of old-style, heterosexual humans, just in case the evolutionary change proves to be a mistake. Mandella travels to one of these colonies (named "Middle Finger" in the definitive version of the novel) where he is reunited with Potter, who had been discharged much earlier and had taken trips in space to use time dilation to age at a much slower rate, hoping for Mandella's return. The epilogue is a news item from the year 3143 announcing the birth of a "fine baby boy" to Marygay Potter-Mandella.

Reception and interpretation
The novel is widely perceived to be a portrayal of the author's military service during the Vietnam War, and has been called an account of his war experiences written through a space opera filter. Other hints of the autobiographical nature of the work are the protagonist's surname, Mandella, which is a near-anagram of the author's surname; Mandella being a physics student, like Haldeman, as well as the name of the lead female character, Marygay Potter, which is nearly identical to Haldeman's wife's maiden name. If one accepts this reading of the book, the alienation experienced by the soldiers on returning to Earthhere caused by the time dilation effectbecomes a clear metaphor for the reception given to US troops returning to America from Vietnam, including the way in which the war ultimately proves useless and its result meaningless. He also subverts typical space opera clichés (such as the heroic soldier influencing battles through individual acts) and "demonstrates how absurd many of the old clichés look to someone who had seen real combat duty".

Connection to Starship Troopers
The Forever War is popularly thought to be a direct reply to Hugo award-winning future war novel Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein.  While Haldeman has stated that The Forever War is actually a result of his experiences in the Vietnam War, he has admitted to being influenced by Heinlein's work. Haldeman said that he disagreed with Starship Troopers because it "glorifies war" but added that "it's a very well-crafted novel and I believe Heinlein was honest with it".

The Forever War contains several parallels to Starship Troopers, including its setting and the powered armor that Heinlein's novel first popularized. Commentators have described it as a reaction to Heinlein's novel, a suggestion Haldeman denies; the two novels are very different in terms of their attitude towards the military. The Forever War does not depict war as a noble pursuit, with the sides clearly defined as good and evil; instead, the novel explores the dehumanizing effect of war, influenced by the real world context of the Vietnam War.

Heinlein wrote a letter to Haldeman, congratulating Haldeman on his Nebula Award; Haldeman has said that Heinlein's letter "meant more than the award itself". According to author Spider Robinson, Heinlein approached Haldeman at the awards banquet and said the book "may be the best future war story I've ever read!"

Editions
The Forever War was originally written as Haldeman's MFA thesis for the Iowa Writer's Workshop. It was first published as a serial in Analog Magazine before its first book publication in 1974. Since then, many editions of The Forever War have been published. Editions published prior to 1991 were abridged for space by the original editor (omitting the middle section, a novella titled You Can Never Go Back). These early paperback editions have "a white cover showing a man in a spacesuit with a sword, with symbolic clocks all around," according to the author, with alternatively the first hardcover edition featuring a large hourglass with planets falling through it.

The 1991 edition restored many expurgated sections, primarily dealing with the changes that befall human civilization over the course of William Mandella's life. This version's cover "has a futuristic soldier who looks like Robin Williams in a funny hat," as Haldeman notes, "But alas, not all of the changes got in, and the book has some internal contradictions because of things left over from the [earlier version]."

In 1997, Avon published the version that Haldeman called "definitive", with "everything restored" and "a less funny cover illustration." This version was republished twice, first in October 2001 as a hardback with a cover showing spaceships in battle over a planet, and again in September 2003, with the cover art depicting a device worn over the eye of a soldier.

In 1999, it was republished by Millennium, an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group, as part of the SF Masterworks series. It featured as the first novel re-printed in the series, and the cover shows a close-up of Marygay Potter with soldiers and spaceships in the background. This is the same version as the 1997 Avon publication and has the same Author's Note.

In 1999, Haldeman, at the request of Robert Silverberg, wrote Marygay's first-person account of her time of separation from Mandella. It included not only the military details but also the difficulty of coping as a lone heterosexual woman with a society where same-sex relations are the inflexible norm. The story was included in Silverberg's anthology Far Horizons (1999), and later was the title story in the collection of Haldeman stories A Separate War and Other Stories (2006). In his "Notes on the Stories" for that collection, Haldeman commented that "it was fun to write her story, both as a bridge to the sequel (Forever Free) and as an oblique commentary on The Forever War, twenty years later."

In 2006, an omnibus edition containing the books Forever War, Forever Free, and Forever Peace (under the title "Peace and War") was published by Gollancz. The cover depicts a futuristic gun barrel stuck into the ground with a smashed spacesuit helmet placed on top. The author's note at the start of the book describes the edition as containing the definitive versions.

The most recent print edition was released in 2009 () with an additional foreword by John Scalzi. The cover art depicts a soldier in a spacesuit in a jungle environment. Haldeman describes it as "the definitive version" in the author's note preceding the text of the novel.

An ebook version was released in July 2011 by Ridan Publishing and also contained the foreword by Scalzi and introductions by Haldeman and Robin Sullivan (President of Ridan Publishing). The cover art depicts a soldier in a war torn setting looking down at the helmet of a fallen comrade.

Adaptations

Stage play
Stuart Gordon adapted the novel for Chicago's Organic Theater Company in 1983, in part as a reaction to what Gordon considered the "ultra-sanitized video game" style Star Wars brought to science fiction. The play starred Bruce A. Young as William Mandella.

Game
Mayfair Games published a board game based on the novel in 1983.

Graphic novel

Belgian comic writer Marvano has, in cooperation with Haldeman, created a graphic novel trilogy of The Forever War. With some very minor changes and omissions to storyline and setting, it faithfully adapts the same themes in visual style. The series was translated into various languages, and had a follow-up trilogy connected to Forever Free.

Film
In 1988, Richard Edlund (who won Visual Effects Oscars for Star Wars, Empire, Raiders, Jedi) began to option the rights to the Forever War. In October 1994, he bought the rights to the property. In 2008, he optioned the rights to Ridley Scott who announced that, after a 25-year wait for the rights to become available, he was making a return to science fiction with a film adaptation of The Forever War. In March 2009, Scott stated that the film would be in 3D, citing James Cameron's Avatar as an inspiration for doing so. In the summer of 2010, Scott revealed that State of Play writer Matthew Michael Carnahan was currently on the fourth draft of a screenplay originally written by David Peoples.  As of May 2014, Haldeman stated he believed the project was on its seventh draft of the script. In May 2015, following the apparent expiration of a development agreement with 20th Century Fox and Scott Free, Warner Bros. won the rights to the novel and planned to develop the project with writer Jon Spaihts and with Channing Tatum in a starring role.

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Dr Pickavance added: Fish oils don't appear to have a direct impact on weight loss, but they may take the brakes off the detrimental effects of some of the processes triggered in the brain by high-fat diets. They seem to mimic the effects of calorie restrictive diets and including more oily fish or fish oil supplements in our diets could certainly be a positive step forward for those wanting to improve their general health.
Data from more than 180 research papers suggests fish oils could minimise the effects that junk food can have on the brain, a review by researchers at the University of Liverpool has shown.
The team at the University's Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease reviewed research from around the world to see whether there was sufficient data available to suggest that omega-3s had a role to play in aiding weight loss.
Research over the past 10 years has indicated that high-fat diets could disrupt neurogenesis, a process that generates new nerve cells, but diets rich in omega-3s could prevent these negative effects by stimulating the area of the brain that control feeding, learning and memory.
Data from 185 research papers revealed, however, that fish oils do not have a direct impact on this process in these areas of the brain, but are likely to play a significant role in stalling refined sugars and saturated fats' ability to inhibit the brain's control on the body's intake of food.
Dr Lucy Pickavance, from the University's Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease, explains: Body weight is influenced by many factors, and some of the most important of these are the nutrients we consume. Excessive intake of certain macronutrients, the refined sugars and saturated fats found in junk food, can lead to weight gain, disrupt metabolism and even affect mental processing.
These changes can be seen in the brain's structure, including its ability to generate new nerve cells, potentially linking obesity to neurodegenerative diseases. Research, however, has suggested that omega-3 fish oils can reverse or even prevent these effects. We wanted to investigate the literature on this topic to determine whether there is evidence to suggest that omega-3s might aid weight loss by stimulating particular brain processes.
Research papers showed that on high-fat diets hormones that are secreted from body tissues into the circulation after eating, and which normally protect neurons and stimulate their growth, are prevented from passing into the brain by increased circulation of inflammatory molecules and a type of fat called triglycerides.
Molecules that stimulate nerve growth are also reduced, but it appears, in studies with animal models, that omega-3s restore normal function by interfering with the production of these inflammatory molecules, suppressing triglycerides, and returning these nerve growth factors to normal.


Former FBI Director Louis Freeh nearly struck two cars and a motorcycle head-on at a high rate of speed, one of the drivers told police, the Burlington Free Press reports.
Van Coleman said the drivers took evasive action to avoid a collision after Freeh's SUV swerved into the left lane of Vermont 12.
Coleman told the Free Press that Freeh was "was doing about 60 to 65 miles per hour and was on the left side of the road." The speed limit was 50 mph.
Freeh's car swerved off the road and into a tree. He was seriously injured.
"His head was down, so I thought he had fallen asleep," Coleman said.
Posted: 9/10/14 at 10:31 AM under News Story.


Mr. Dassow, as CEO is responsible for our mechanical services throughout the entire United States. He brings a diverse background of facilities and real estate expertise and has an extensive background in running large divisions for national facility service organizations. Rick has an undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin Madison and a Masters in Business from DePaul University.
Mr. Widmer graduated from National Electronics Institute in 1968 and founded CMI Mechanical in 1980. He brings over forty years of HVAC and mechanical experience and after selling his company in 2001 now serves as the President of CMI Mechanical. Woody is factory certified on environmental systems such as Liebert, Datac, Stoltz, and Copeland and also holds numerous contractor and refrigeration licenses.
Ms. Davis started working for CMI Mechanical in 1990, and has spent her entire career in the HVAC industry. As Controller and CFO her responsibilities include oversight of all the disciplines of accounting including; billing, accounts payable, financial statements, general ledger, sales tax and other aspects of accounting. Regina, through a grant program, completed all college accounting courses while in high school. She graduated from NJC with Bachelor of Arts degree.
Early in his career Mr. Griffith founded a business providing HVAC, electrical and EMS services for the commercial high rise building industry in Dallas. From there, he moved on to a Director level positions for Kmart and Osage Casinos. Patrick has also provided FM consulting services for several big box retailers – one of which gained a 23% savings on a $200 million annual repair/expense account. Patrick recently partnered in the development of a new technology enabling secure Internet communication with any Modbus IOT – greatly reducing the costs of reading and writing these devices.
Growing up in the HVAC-R industry, Scott brings a diverse background of skills and experience. Scott has been with CMI Mechanical for over 15 years, and has extensive experience with all types of mechanical equipment including, split systems, cooling towers, chillers, boilers, VAV's, air handling units, and refrigeration systems. Scott's expertise spans various disciplines, including: design-build, HVAC-R installation, service, estimating, and project management. Scott is a licensed Journeyman, and holds a CFC card as well as HVAC, Boiler and Refrigeration Class A licenses.
Mr. Marrero grew up in the HVAC industry under the tutelage of his father. Antonio has 9 years of field experience and has hands on knowledge and service and repair skills with; roof top units, makeup air, heat pumps, boilers, VFD's, electrical, and wiring schematics. He holds a number of certifications from manufacturers with training on their equipment. Mr. Marrero holds a EPA/CFC license, mech 4 license, and strong working knowledge of web-based work management systems.
After more than a decade of high volume Call Center analytical experience, Mr. Cochrane joined the CMI team in 2016 and Brian brings a comprehensive operational skillset that includes Account Launch, Training, Development of Operational Metrics, Review of Analytics, and Process Improvement to our National Account team. Brian is passionate about the value of data, metrics, and information that can lead to creating tools and views in order to communicate opportunities for improvement across all levels of operation.


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A: Take a look at your data array... The very first object is an empty string. So, you're trying to send an objectForKey: message to it (believing that is a dictionary) and you get a crash. You should either remove your object or implement a logic that would try to inspect each object before trying to pull a value.


Lots have happened since my last message but what comes fresh to mind is my trip to the Hong Kong STEP Asia conference, which event happened right smack in the midst of the Hong Kong street protests. I had some scheduled meetings but not all attending made those meetings-quite understandably as taxis in Hong Kong were not able to make the usual routes because of road blocks. Thankfully, the conference went smoothly with all delegates thoroughly enjoying the STEP offering and certainly the great Hong Kong food during our stay there! I've just had a STEP Branch committee meeting and we're all hyped up to do an even better STEP Asia conference in Singapore in 2015.
Another thing which I discovered was that business calls on you when you travel and when you least expect it, like in the middle of a seminar! So you don't have to be in the office all day- tell that to your bosses. I was happily interrupted in Hong Kong with new business prospects, one of which was to on-board real estate into a new trust. Concerns with issues of punitive stamp duties payable for real estate settled into trusts were dealt with satisfactorily.
Coming round the corner is the STEP Global Conference in Miami (6th -7th Nov). My offer still stands that if I see any of you at this event, I'll buy you a drink. To make up for the long haul trip there, I await gleefully for any new business coming my way while travelling. Talk to you soon.
The MAS has issued a consultation paper on 21 July 2014 to invite feedback on proposed new legislation to the Securities and Futures Act (Cap. 289) and the Securities and Futures (Prescribed Specific Classes of Investors) Regulations 2005.
The STEP Singapore Committee has sent its feedback to the MAS, and are presently still in the process of providing further feedback to the MAS.
Decision making, mental capacity and undue influence: exploring the grey areas between capacity and incapacity?
A series of recent UK cases have explored that difficult space between decisions made by those who lack mental capacity and those who (perhaps) just have capacity but are in a situation where they cannot effectively make their own decisions because they are vulnerable as a result of coercion or the influence of relatives or friends who are seeking to force decision making on an individual. How, if at all, should the courts act to protect those who are not making their own free choices.
The Mental Capacity Act in Singapore is largely modelled on the UK Mental Capacity Act 2005. Under this Act capacity is a decision specific test and there is a presumption of capacity for adults. However a person who has an "impairment of the mind or brain" may lose capacity if the person, called P in the Act, cannot understand the information relevant to a decision, retain that information (possibly only for a short period), use or weigh the information to make a decision and then communicate that decision to others (see section 5 MCA).
What I like most about my job/experiences in the trust industry is ... I get a lot of job satisfaction from being able to help clients to address concerns that are close to their hearts. I enjoy the cross jurisdictional aspects of my work (and I don't mean the travelling.. :) ) and I like creating solutions that are not limited by product class or legal jurisdiction.
My golden rule is ... Be honest and compassionate.
The business expression I hate most is ... It cannot be done.
The following 2 write-ups are kindly contributed by the speakers Robert Foote, Partner -Walkers (Singapore) LLP, Richard Norridge - Head of Asia Private Wealth Practice, Herbert Smith Freehills further to a seminar on "Pitfalls of Family Trusts and Family Investment Holding Company/ Family Business Companies" conducted for STEP Singapore on 1 October 2014 (12-2pm) and chaired by Chee Fang Theng, Director of Pan Asia Law LLC.
In our experience and as a matter of BVI law whenever there are family shareholder disputes involving BVI holdings companies there is almost invariably a threat to issue a statutory unfair prejudice claim pursuant to section 184I of the BVI Business Companies Act or a threat to apply to appoint a liquidator of the company on what is known as the just and equitable ground pursuant to section 162 of the Insolvency Act 2003. Often those threats turn into Court proceedings.
As a London QC once commented to me: "If trusts are such a good idea, why are there so many trust litigators?" Picking up on the increasing number of high profile disputes, on 1 October 2014, I gave a talk to STEP Singapore members on family trust disputes, their common causes and ways of resolving them. Disputes come in many shapes and sizes, but they can be family disputes where trustees are simply caught in the middle, disputes directly against trustees or challenges to the trust fund brought by third parties. Common examples of this last type of dispute arise in the context of fraud, challenges to the trust's validity or divorce. In the divorce context, disputes often focus on whether trust assets are "matrimonial assets" to be divided between separating spouses.
The following write-up is kindly contributed by Paul Tracey - Consultant, Grosvenor Law, further to his seminar for STEP Singapore on 1 September 2014 chaired by Annette Sui, Managing Director and Head of Private Wealth Solutions, Southeast Asia, HSBC Private Bank.
An attack on a trust, by way of a claim asserting a superior proprietary right to trust assets than that enjoyed by a trustee or a trust's beneficiaries, necessarily presents a problem for the relevant trustee.
A claimant may, for example, claim that he or she had a legal or beneficial proprietary interest in the trust property preceding in time the creation of the legal and equitable rights that constitute the trust and then seek to assert a right to follow his or her earlier, alleged proprietary interest into the trust property.
The panel speakers will give the perspectives of Western and Asian families in creating their charitable legacy, as well as the potential use of Singapore to further such philanthropic intent.
• Choice between Grant making vs. self-administered charities?
• Singapore as the philanthropic hub - tax/legal considerations, incentives, infrastructure etc.


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//import es.usc.citius.hipster.examples.problem.NQueens;
//import es.usc.citius.lab.hipster.function.HeuristicFunction;
//import es.usc.citius.lab.hipster.function.TransitionFunction;
//import es.usc.citius.lab.hipster.node.Node;
//import es.usc.citius.lab.hipster.node.Transition;
//import es.usc.citius.hipster.algorithm.localsearch.HillClimbing;
//import org.junit.Test;
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//import java.util.*;
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//public class NQueensEHCTest {
//
//    @Test
//    public void testSearch8Queens() throws Exception {
//        // Transition: Interchange two positions randomly
//        final int size=8;
//        TransitionFunction<NQueens> tf = new TransitionFunction<NQueens>() {
//            @Override
//            public Iterable<? extends Transition<NQueens>> from(NQueens current) {
//                // Generate all possible movements of one queen
//                // There are size*(size-1) available movements
//                Set<NQueens> states = new HashSet<NQueens>();
//                for(int i=0; i < size; i++){
//                    for(int j=0; j < size; j++){
//                        // Change the queen at row i to column j
//                        // If i is already in j, then do not add the state
//                        if (current.getQueens()[i]!=j){
//                            int[] queens = Arrays.copyOf(current.getQueens(), size);
//                            queens[i]=j;
//                            states.add(new NQueens(queens));
//                        }
//                    }
//                }
//                return Transition.map(current, states);
//            }
//        };
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//        HeuristicFunction<NQueens, Integer> hf = new HeuristicFunction<NQueens, Integer>() {
//            @Override
//            public Integer estimate(NQueens state) {
//                return state.attackedQueens();
//            }
//        };
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//        NQueens initial = new NQueens(size);
//        HillClimbing<NQueens, Integer> ehc = new HillClimbing<NQueens, Integer>(initial, tf,hf);
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//        System.out.println("Initial state: ");
//        System.out.println(initial.toString());
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//        int iteration=0;
//        Integer best = ehc.getBestScore();
//        while(ehc.hasNext()){
//            iteration++;
//            Node<NQueens> node = ehc.next();
//            if (ehc.getBestScore() < best){
//                best = ehc.getBestScore();
//                System.out.println("New local minimum found with value " + best + " at iteration " + iteration);
//            }
//            int attacked = node.transition().to().attackedQueens();
//            if (attacked == 0){
//                System.out.println("Solution found: ");
//                System.out.println(node.transition().to().toString());
//                break;
//            }
//        }
//    }
//}


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La loi Bakajika est une loi congolaise (RDC) proposée par le député Bakajika Diyi Kamgombe Isaac-Gérard, votée par la Chambre des députés le  et promulguée sous forme d'Ordonnance-loi le  par le Lieutenant-Général Joseph-Désiré Mobutu. Elle sert à régler le régime juridique de la propriété foncière tel que la Constitution du  dispose dans l'article 43, alinéa 4 : « une loi nationale réglera souverainement le régime juridique des cessions et des concessions foncières faites avant le  ».

Cette Ordonnance-loi précise que « le sol et le sous-sol appartiennent à l'État congolais ». Ce qui a entraîné la méfiance des investisseurs étrangers, en particulier dans les domaines minier et agricole. Par peur d'attirer l'attention de l'État sur leurs possessions territoriales beaucoup de sociétés et de particuliers dissimulent leurs vrais profits.

La loi Bakajika visait à remettre de l'ordre dans le domaine foncier : durant l'époque coloniale, une part importante des meilleurs terres indigènes avaient été attribuées aux colons. La loi a donc attribué la propriété des terres rurales et a, de ce fait, exclu les communautés villageoises et rurales de leur patrimoine foncier.

À partir de 1973, la zaïrianisation a entraîné une confiscation des propriétés jadis réservées aux colons.

Bien que la loi spécifie clairement que le sol et sous-sol sont propriétés de l'État, la loi coutumière est encore présente dans beaucoup de régions.

Depuis l'adoption de la nouvelle Constitution en 2006, des craintes injustifiées sont apparues dans la population au sujet de l'article 9 de cette dernière ; pourtant cet article précise les propriétés de l'État, à savoir  « le sol, le sous-sol, les eaux, les forêts, les espaces aérien, fluvial, lacustre, maritime, la mer territoriale, le plateau continental. » Des opposants politiques pourraient faire courir le bruit d'une remise en cause de cette loi, sous la pression d'investisseurs étrangers.

Références

Politique en république démocratique du Congo
Juin 1966
1966 en droit
Loi du XXe siècle


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Pfizer Names Albert Bourla Group President; Vaccines, Oncology And Consumer Healthcare Business
by Jennifer Levin |
Susan Silbermann Named President And General Manager, Global Vaccines Business
By Mutual Agreement, Amy Schulman Steps down as General Counsel and member of Pfizer's Executive Leadership Team; Will Not Assume Role as Head of Vaccines, Oncology and Consumer Healthcare Business
Tuesday, December 17, 2013 - 9:00am EST
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) named Albert Bourla as Group President of the Vaccines, Oncology and Consumer Healthcare business effective January 1, 2014.
"Albert has 20 years of experience at Pfizer and has held senior global positions across a range of markets and disciplines within the company," said Ian Read, Pfizer Chairman and CEO. "He has a track record for delivering solid business results and most recently has been responsible for building a strong post-patent business."
Susan Silbermann is named President and General Manager, Global Vaccines business also effective January 1, 2014. "For the past year and a half Susan has led the vaccines portfolio within the Specialty Care business," said Mr. Read. "Her experience in key global markets that represent potential growth opportunities will greatly benefit the Vaccines business."
Amy Schulman and Pfizer have agreed to separate. As a result of that mutual agreement, Ms. Schulman will not be assuming the role of Group President of Vaccines, Oncology and Consumer Healthcare and is stepping down from the Company's Executive Leadership Team, including as General Counsel and Business Unit Lead for the Consumer Healthcare business unit. She will remain at the Company for a transition period. We thank Amy for the past five years of hard work and many contributions, and we wish her well in her future endeavors.
Doug Lankler, who was to become General Counsel on January 1, and Rady Johnson who was to become Chief Compliance and Risk Officer on January 1, both assume their new positions immediately.
On January 1, the company will begin operating with three commercial businesses -- the Global Innovative Pharmaceutical business, led by Geno Germano; the Global Established Pharmaceutical business, led by John Young; and the Vaccines, Oncology and Consumer Healthcare business led by Albert Bourla. The company remains on track to provide a 2014 baseline management view of profit and loss for each of these businesses, starting with the Q1 2014 quarterly results.
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GSK's Shingrix has generated blockbuster sales early in the launch, but there's a lot of remaining opportunity, an exec said at JPM.
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Merck snags FDA approval for Ebola vaccine following EU nod
Quickly after Merck's world-first Ebola vaccine approval in Europe, U.S. authorities licensed the shot.
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In an effort to stop an Ebola outbreak that has claimed 2,200 lives at the Rwanda border, J&J is shipping 200,000 doses of its vaccine to the country.
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Todd Fleck returns to the Lab boards in '55 and Over'
Spotlight on '55 and Over' director Stella Ruiz
Mike Dinko in cast of Lab's '55 and Over'
Opening for a limited, 3-performance run on May 26 at Lab Theater is a new play (which is actually still under development) by Zalman Velvel by the name of 55 and Over. It shines a stark light on severely burdened seniors, that is retired folks living exclusively on Social Security who shell out more than half of their income for rent. 55 and Over revolves around a 75-year-old by the name of Moe who's been evicted from his apartment because he opted for groceries and his expensive heart medication in lieu of paying his rent. That's when Moe's grandson shows up with his pregnant 17-year-old girlfriend Ariella for a visit!
Included in the cast of 55 and Over is Mike Dinko.
Two years ago, Mike was front-of-the-house manager at Lab Theater, but now he's one of the busiest actors in Southwest Florida. And over this period of time, his skills and talent as an actor have continued to improve by leaps and bounds. He was last seen on The Lab stage in Play On! where he played an actor in a very bad murder mystery who plays the role of murderous villain. Earlier this season, he was Dorilant in The Country Wife at Theatre Conspiracy and Lab Theater's production of Gore Vidal's The Best Man, where he played the role of an Army veteran who is brought to a political convention by one candidate to ruin the reputation of his adversary. Lab Theater audiences will also recall Dinko as the surly French waiter Claude in An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf, who longed for his young male trainee even though married (unhappily) to the restaurant's beautiful Jackie-O wannabe, played by Marta Sand. Mike's other acting credits include Dasher in The Eight: Reindeer Monologues, Theo Maske in Steve Martin's The Underpants, and as Mr. Kraler in The Diary of Anne Frank.
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